Just in case anyone is feeling down or pessimistic about the future, it’s time to republish this graphic to remind everyone to be grateful for Divine Providence.
Tuesday Open Comments
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FIRSTICUS!
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Dang, you slipped that one past me, twern’t here @ 6:51, last time I checked.
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I have to say, that is a beautiful picture of her non-inauguration. It is both sad and amusing to watch the bitterness at this latest defeat consume her and her acolytes.
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Hillary’s inauguration, yup, and last week we had Nacho Day.
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Guess who showed up over yonder?
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Most scientists agree that the Holocene’s warmth was critical to the development of human civilization.
The Holocene was an ‘interglacial period,’ one of the rare intervals of warm climate that have occurred over the ice age cycles of the last million years.
The retreat of the glaciers opened a more expansive landscape for humans, and the higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere made for more productive agriculture, which allowed people to reduce their hunter-gathering activities and build permanent settlements.
The Holocene differed from other interglacial periods in several key ways, say the researchers.
For one, its climate was unusually stable, without the major cooling trend that is typical of the other interglacials.
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HEADLINE: The Facts Behind The Trump Tower Meeting Are Incriminating, But Not For Trump
There was lots of collusion, but it was between the LSM, DemoNazis, Felonia von Pantsuit, corrupt members of the intelligence community, Fusion GPS, Rooskies, and the former British spies. Prolly should throw in Perkins Coie law firm and others. When and if all the evidence finally comes out, it will show that the Ds were in it up to their eyeballs in an attempt to frame Trump. The penalty should be severe in order to deter this type of behavior in the future.
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I’d bet several here are familiar with THIS!
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#6 SD: It looks like the “CO 2leak” is what caused life as we know it to flourish.
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sub scripts – 1, Bonecrusher – 0
I sure do miss those buttons as my HTML skill set is lacking.
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Cold front passed through overnight. Today’s high only predicted to be a shivering 96 degrees, first time it’s not been well over a hunnert since May it seems. No rain of course. Overall, just more of the same today. I’ll report back later as things develop. Meanwhile, you all have a great one.
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Joe Arpaio is about to become the most unpopular man among conservatives in Arizona – and elsewhere.
After Arizona Senator Jeff Flake announced he was not running for reelection to the U.S. Senate, three prominent candidates entered the race. One is conservative Kelli Ward, a former state legislator who ran unsuccessfully for Senate against John McCain. A second candidate is former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who many do not believe is a serious candidate at age 86. The third well-known candidate in the race is Rep. Martha McSally, a liberal Republican who represents a Democratic leaning district in Arizona. The Arizona Daily Independent reports that John McCain is pushing her candidacy.
Ward appeared to be leading in the race until Arpaio jumped in. Now, the conservative base is split between Ward and Arpaio loyalists, giving McSally the lead. Arpaio is in third place. McSally is averaging 10 points ahead of Ward. Some Ward supporters are urging Arpaio to drop out of the race, but so far he has not. According to One News Now, “If Arpaio were removed from the equation, it’s likely that Ward could defeat McSally in the August 28 primary.”
The man is 86 years old and been the center of attention for decades. It’s time for him to do the right thing instead of inadvertently doing the bidding of John McCain.
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The man is
86 years oldriddled with brain cancer and been the center of attention for decades. It’s time for him to do the right thing instead of inadvertently doing the bidding ofJohn McCainNanzi Pelousi/ha satan.It works both ways.
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Morning, chickadees. And Hamsters. I’m having a yummy breakfast of oat flakes, cottage cheese with sliced banana and strawberries, washed down with a small glass of coconut water. Looking forward to the matinee movie.
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When our team of auditors at OpenTheBooks.com reviewed the most highly compensated employees at every level of government in Florida, we found more than 35,000 state and local government employees brought home six and seven-figure salaries, costing taxpayers $5.5 billion annually.
Since last year, the headcount of these high-compensated Florida government workers jumped by nearly 4,000 employees.
And Florida thinks this can go on forever ?
717 small-town, city, and village employees – including 26 municipal leaders out-earning every U.S. governor at $180,000. These managers include Ron Ferris (Palm Beach Gardens – $261,987); James Chisholm (Daytona Beach – $214,669); Christopher Russo (Sunny Isles Beach – $226,314); Alex Rey Panama (Miami Lakes – $189,800); Michael McNees (Melbourne – $184,085).
2,484 State of Florida employees – including $276,000 for Commissioner of Education Pamela Stewart; $218,925 each for Department of Children and Families Medical Executive Directors Josefina Baluga and Steve Brasington; and $199,999 for Department of Education Board of Governors Chancellor Marshall Criser.
3,195 teachers and school administrators – including chief academic officer Daniel Gohl ($196,001) in Broward County School District; minority achievement officer James Lawson ($181,120) in Orange County School District; and English and Journalism teacher James Johnson ($121,493) in St. Johns County School District.
13,305 college and university employees – The University of Florida paid out 3,234 six-figure salaries – the most of any university in the state. Their high earners included the Vice President of Health Affairs David Guzick ($1.2 million) and Director of the Graduate Tax Program Martin McMahon ($780,392).
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According to Newsweek, Virgin Galactic is far out pacing the competition in the race for speed, having already developed a plane that flies at twice the speed of light.
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Mr Potato Head sits on his Putin did it whoopee cushion as he prepares for his daily Newspeak Tv show.
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NASA needs to get in touch with those guys.
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#16 El Gordo 😀
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Imagine if they had an Equity Office!
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Like they don’t.
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Here’s the link to the rest of the story.
A Reminder That Newsweek Is Very, Very Bad News Site
This section is riddled with errors. David called attention to two of them, but I also count two others.
Stephen F. Austin was never a Confederate, “leader” or otherwise. He died in 1836, decades before the Civil War.
Austin did not found the city that bears his name. Again, it would have been difficult for him to found the Texas capital in 1839, three years after his death.
William Barton was also not a “Confederate leader.” He died in 1840.
Austin did not oppose banning slavery “in the Tejas province following the Texas Revolution,” given that Texas ceased to belong to Mexico “following” the revolution. For that matter, his pro-slavery advocacy mostly took place when Tejas was part of a Mexican state, not a province.
You generally don’t want more errors than paragraphs in your lede. But the cornucopia of wrongness follows this story from last week.
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Man, a New York to LA flight would happen quicker than you could flip a light switch!
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No further evidence required for diagnosis as delusional.
Bill Kristol, the former editor-in-chief of The Weekly Standard, is considering challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary.
Kristol, who is consistently one of the most vocal anti-Trump Republicans, has been considering a run for months, a source familiar with Kristol’s thinking told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Kristol, who remains an editor-at-large for the Standard, said he has no plans to run but declined to rule it out when asked by TheDCNF.
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This is hardball negotiation. Trump plays for keeps.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — American officials have taken the “highly unusual” step of rejecting Canada’s bid to take part in senior-level NAFTA talks between the U.S. and Mexico later this week, sources familiar with the trade negotiations said Monday.
One person said attempts by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland to get a seat at the table in Washington Thursday were either ignored, or spurned outright by the office of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
Another source said the request to be at the meeting was made in a low-key fashion “so as not to spark a diplomatic incident” and was followed by “a retreat to diplomatic silence.”
the reasons why,
Mexico’s President-Elect Lopez Obrador (AMLO) has changed the trade dynamic internally within NAFTA for two reasons: #1) because the agriculture sector is much more critical to Mexico than it is to Canada; and #2) AMLO acknowledges and accepts the NAFTA fatal flaw; his manufacturing economy is based on the assembly of imported parts – like Canada, Mexico doesn’t actually manufacture much (ex. no aluminum smelters).
In the big picture AMLO wants to advance the Mexican manufacturing base; expand the aggregate economic base; and also stop the corporate exploitation of the Mexican farm worker. In these objectives U.S. President Trump is more than willing to be a partner with President Lopez Obrador. Heck, President Trump would actually love to assist AMLO on that agenda; it is mutually beneficial.
Diametrically, in Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has doubled-down on the retention of the fatal flaw and does not want an expanded domestic manufacturing base. The enviro-nuts of his base just will not support it. Therefore, Canada is loggerheads with the United States because Canada is demanding to retain their NAFTA access to the U.S. market, and simultaneously retain their ability to broker imported Chinese goods.
President Lopez Obrador may be a socialist, but he’s an older, cagey operator with at least a grip on reality.
Justin Trudeau is just a silly, pretentious boy surrounded by toadies and sycophants eager to advance their own, personal agendas.
HT: Kate at Small Dead Animals
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I knew “Beam me up Scotty” would become reality in my lifetime, I just knew it.
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a plane that flies at twice the speed of light.
I want one.
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Just happened to be driving by a farmer’s market in Lafayette and noticed a sign out front on the marquee: GREEN PEANUTS. Ima pick some up on the way out today. Fresh boiled peanuts for Hamous tonight!
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Warp Factor two, Mr Scott.
I canna duit Captain Branson, if we take her past Warp Factor one, she’ll shake herself apart!
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Houston’s own Kathleen McKinley is banned from Twitter:
I’ve always tried to be very civil, so I never imagined I would be suspended for anything. Imagine my surprise on Friday morning when I clicked on Twitter and was informed that my account had been locked for “violating our rules against hateful conduct.” They sent me to a page that demanded my phone number — which I had never given before, and did not want to then, but that was the only way to get back on.
Then I was directed to a page to delete my two tweets, one from a year ago, and the other from a month ago. The page stated, “You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.” As you can see in my two tweets pictured below, I did none of those things. Stating, in a civil manner, why I disagree with transgender troops is in no way a threat or harassment.
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Oh no. Someone suspended her Twitter account. What a shame. The world will end tonight. Suck it up Buttercup. I’ll admit that I do follow the Prescient on Twatter, but I can’t imagine caring what anyone else has to say enough to want to hear about it. Good grief. The left controls all the media, that’s a fact, and by participating, you only enhance their revenues. Most people posting stuff out there for general consumption (exclusive of the astute minds associated with the couch of course) don’t realize that no one else cares what they think, who they don’t like, or how unfair life is. If I knew who Kathleen McKinley is, I would shun her from now own for acting like a spoiled brat. Kick Twatter in the nuts and leave, don’t sit around whining about it.
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I got a call from Southern Tragedy, a little bit ago, I’ve not seen or talked to her in a long time. She’s doing fine and says to tell y’all hey.
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Man, some boiled P-Nuts would be fine.
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We’re getting a good rain out here at the Rocket Ranch.
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Bring some boudin, SD can whup us up a faincy supper! I’ll buy the beer!
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Democrat candidate exposes Republican opponent as a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica”.
http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/30/virginia-house-candidate-says-shes-expos
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Democrat candidate exposes Republican opponent as a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica”.
Bigfoot is a Russian Spy who meddles in elections.–FIB agent Crenshaw exposed him.
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Can’t wait to see what pops up in y’alls google feed now.
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This seems like a rewrite of the article I posted and we discussed awhile back.
Oh, the open office. A trendy design concept. What it looks like: No walls, a clean sweep of open desk surface populated by laptop-tapping employees, supposedly communicating and collaborating like never before. What it feels like: A fishbowl, a nude beach, a factory floor, a large room filled with stressed employees desperately trying to block each other out with headphones. Employers still love the idea of the open office, because it’s cheap, stylish, maximizes real estate and enables constant surveillance of employees. But the evidence continues to stack up against the actual benefits. It turns out the much-vaunted collaboration that is supposed to arise in an open office environment doesn’t happen; in fact, just the opposite occurs.
Researchers from Harvard Business School and Harvard University examined interpersonal collaborations between workers in multinational companies that were transforming their headquarters to open office plans. The same workers were studied for eight weeks in their previous traditional office environment and eight weeks in the new open office space.
and this is not surprising,
For women, it may be even worse. A study of 1,000 employees in UK open offices, conducted by Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Bedfordshire, found that women in particular disliked the trendy open office. They were more sensitive to noise than their male coworkers and “women felt under surveillance” more than men, said Christina Schwabenland, one of the co-authors of the paper, which was published in the journal Gender, Work and Organizations. “They felt pressure in terms of the clothes they were wearing, and uncomfortable if they wanted privacy.”
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Nice boat.
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Those five propellers on that boat are pretty cool.
Voith Schneider propulsion system:
http://voith.com/corp-en/drives-transmissions/voith-schneider-propeller-vsp.html
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Saw Eq2, after watching about 10 drecky previews, none of which I would go see if you paid me to. Matinee in an empty multiplex is fabulous. Even more fab was the 0.9″ of rain we got while at the movie.
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You’re supposed to supply a Sarge-quality review of the film.
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Yeah.
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Criminy, I’m got reviews of Adult Entertainment from 45 years ago on my plate, too
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It was pitiful to be us two older people, getting up out of our extreme stadium seating, in very dim light, hobbling along the row to the steep aisle, then clutching the rail and feeling our way down. I think there were 4 other patrons watching our movie, and they all left immediately at The End. We like to watch the credits, and seems like it’s normal to turn the lights way up when the screen and the speakers go dead.
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I’ll say some things about EQ2 later, I’m running past my naptime already.
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Oh no, you didn’t go to
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I go to the cheapie theater in Pearland. Back when the kids were young, we could all go to a matinee for under $11. They are still the cheapest movies in town.
Keep your Tinseltown and fancy places. I’m going for the movie, not the ambiance. Though I was very grateful when they started banning unaccompanied minors. Those brats running around were a real PITA. Especially when they came in from skateboarding outside and were all hyped up.
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I ain’t going for ambiance, I’m going for the recliner!
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Hubby’s aunt is in town, now having completed her doctor visits.
She has a habit of tinkering with stuff in the home of wherever she is staying. This is the same one who’s kids ripped off MIL for many thousands of dollars, then wanted first pick of MIL’s stuff for their homes – while also ripping off their mother (aunt) by taking her SS money, “loaning” aunt her own money for gas.
We told aunt that her kids were getting NOTHING from us. As far as we were concerned, they’d already gotten everything they were going to get, and since they were all working decent jobs, they could buy their own damn furniture and stuff. She was supposed to get all of MIL’s craft stuff and she ended up stuffing everything she could lay her hands on in “her pile”. I had to take things out that she wasn’t entitled to have nor had we agreed to give her. (I think she was wissed off over her greedy kids issue.) Then she didn’t make arrangements to haul that huge pile of stuff and her little car broke down. We ended up disposing of it all. We haven’t talked since she left.
Aunt is going to dinner with us. We haven’t invited her to stay; she didn’t ask and we thought she was going to drive back to deep East Texas with one of her daughters. It sounds like she’s alone, and I have a suspicion she thinks she might be bunking with us for the night. We haven’t cleared a space for her.
This could be awkward.
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I’m going for the movie, not the ambiance.
I ain’t going for the ambience, I’m going for the recliner!
I ain’t going. Period.
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This country quit producing people who knew how to conduct themselves in a theater
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This country quit producing people who knew how to conduct themselves in a theater twenty five years ago.
This country quit producing people who knew how to conduct themselves in
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The President is speaking at a rally in Tampa here shortly. I get a kick out of watching these things, even as predictable as they are. He’s a natural politician and doesn’t hold back much when he has an opinion. My baseball team is on the west coast and doesn’t start until 9PM, so this is a good option to pass the time.
#54, #55 – I’d like to think that I had a major influence in teaching the younger folk how to misbehave in public. Just one of my many contributions to society.
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Who tripped over the power cord last night?
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OMG I was all alone and this…. this creature kept staring at me from the screen! It was awful!
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