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Second!
There y’all are.
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Oh and I have a new hero, his name? MARK ROBER! If you missed Squawkster’s #59 yesterday, you HAVE to go back and watch the video!
The sad part is that he had the package stolen several times, but it did ruin some punks’ day and provide fine entertainment.
Oh and check Tedtam’s #63 also. In it they set the bomb to go off after 40 seconds, which was of course, way too long. I was surprised that they even caught him getting out of the car. -
SD. I don’t see how you could get around for very long without Lil’ Dawg in tow. You have a safe travel time too.
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The singularly disappointing Paul Ryan rode off into the sunset yesterday.
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HEADLINE: Rude Woman Demands Discount On A 50 Cent Christmas Ornament, Retail Worker Gets Revenge
Tis truly a delightful story, a schadenfreudalicous extravaganza.
h/t: ACE
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#3 El Gordo, yup, I don’t know how many times I’ve wondered where she was before remembering that she went on a Road Trip. And as much as she tries to deny it, she does loves my wife.
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#5 Bones, pure gold! That lady will have a nice Christmas story to share with her grandkids. I did notice that it was in north Alabama, I have family in Huntsville and Decatur. 😀
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Ann Coulter is on the warpath and justifiably so!
HEADLINE: GUTLESS PRESIDENT IN WALL-LESS COUNTRY
Trump really should veto the CR and force the issue. How izzit that the State Dept (presumably under the control of the POTUS) can send $10 Billion to the corruptocrats in Mexico, Honduras, etc. but somehow the POTUS, upholding his oath of office to protect and defend the country and constitution, can’t get half that amount to build a basic fortification to slow the invasion?
Our country is in the hands of those who wish us dead.
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Has everyone forgot Democrats will be running the show now? There will be no wall. Our anger should be placed squarely on the Republicans there right now, not Trump, not the Dems. They shoulda got it done when they ran everything, but they didn’t want to.
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Concrete being poured today! It was a down to the wire decision this morning with the rain yesterday and last night. If it didn’t happen today it would’ve been delayed two weeks. Wahoo!
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The GOOPEe party will be extinct right after the 2020 election.
Mark it down. 12/20/2018.
You can only be useless for so long.
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Morning, everyone. I for one am glad not to travel. Living in Houston for almost 40 years has beaten all desire to drive out of me. Nowadays, I can get just about everything I need without driving over 3 miles from home.
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The commentary in this piece is interesting: almost all are about how I quit my job and now make boatloads working from home. . . .
9 out of 12 comments: bot farms. -
#11 Phil: I think you may be correct: The GOP is dead and good riddance. Now it is time for the Constitution Party to make the scene.
Imagine a party that is dedicated to rooting out all Federal monkey business that is not specifically delegated to it. . . . . -
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Whadidya have for breakfast?
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We’ve been in a struggle with a lawyer hired through a trust firm to settle MIL’s estate/trust and get our new one set up. We were impressed with MIL’s trust paperwork and how well we were taken care of when she passed. They were quite helpful. We decided to follow her lead and get our own trust.
The lawyer who did her paperwork had just retired. We got the new guy. I think we were his first customers.
This lawyer is dumb as a box of rocks, legally speaking. Typographical errors. Less than adequate paperwork – even I, not a lawyer, knew what he first gave us wasn’t worth the dog poop my neighbor’s dogs leave on my lawn. We have been working/fighting/pleading/cajoling with him since February to get our stuff done properly. I’ve been correcting his stuff, sending back bullet points of the corrections and my questions, and he still sends us stuff that would be best used as bird cage lining.
We asked for another lawyer. We were told that this guy needed to finish his work. I was looking into hiring another lawyer to do the work, but Hubby didn’t want to fork out more money, since we already paid for this to be done once.
Deeds made out to the wrong name. Place markers in the text not being replaced with the information they were place holding for. Wrong addresses. Making our kids trustees, instead of inheriting as individuals. Questions about a date not being answered. Questions about an abbreviation meaning not being answered. Simple stuff. (Even the paralegal said it was “simple stuff”.)
If he’d only done it correctly the first, second, or third time, we wouldn’t have had to threaten to report him to the state bar for total and complete incompetence. We were told his wife was very ill and he was involved in a big trial. He couldn’t fit us in to properly handle our paperwork in a span of eleven months?
I had DIL come over a few days ago, because we’d been notified that we had their deed ready. Finally. They ****REALLY*** need their deed ASAP.
She was in the office when I opened up the document, only to realize that not only had he not fixed it, it was now totally effed up from top to bottom. I was so infuriated and frustrated that I was throwing things, crying, and screaming about the imbecile I was dealing with. DIL started hugging me and told me to just breathe.
We’re now facing end of year deadlines and issues. Our threat and complaints to his employers have now forced him to hire a paralegal. This guy has already called me 3 times this morning, in addition to reviewing emails, to get our stuff done. “Is it okay if I call you today?” “If you want me to stand on my head and recite the Constitution to get this done, you got it!” It’s nice to know someone is finally working on getting this done.
This paralegal has a job for life, if he continues working for this lawyer. How this lawyer got his degree, Hubby and I cannot figure out.
Here’s to hoping that today is the last day we have to deal with this guy. I just want to go file the new deeds asap and get this over with. It’ll be the best Christmas present I’ll get this year.
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This lawyer is dumb as a box of rocks, legally speaking.
I had no idea that would be a legal term. 😛
What a mess, no matter how close you watch for mistakes, there is going to be some little gem dropped in there to cause your kids grief one day.
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This lawyer is dumb as a box of rocks, legally speaking.
Perhaps I should have stated it this way:
In his chosen field of real estate law, this guy is a freaking idiot.
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Just fielded another phone call from the paralegal. Dang, the questions he asks make sense. He’s answering my questions. Asking for legitimate information. Giving me direction on how best to move forward with the new deeds.
What a relief! Here’s to hoping the documents are correct.
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“He who is without oil,
shall throw the first rod”
Compressions 8.7:1 -
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Rush just said President Trump has said he won’t sign the CR delivered to him. The onus to put border security in it falls to the Senate and back to the House to approve such a change before it can go back to President Trump. If’n there’s no $$$ for the wall, it is not just President Trump’s refusal to sign the thing, it shall be a veto he invokes.
So will everybody moaning and groaning about President Trump being weak-kneed and a terrible disappointment please go stand in a corner for the rest of the day with no potty breaks until sundown.
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Rush just said he’s gotten word from the President that either there will be $$$ for border security (presumably the wall) or he will veto the CR bill. No fancy fake promises that never are fulfilled in situations like this as weak-kneed Pubby reps have previously been gotten away with.
Now the House Speaker will try to add a $5B amendment for $$$ for a border wall and flip it to the Senate. If’n the Senate doesn’t agree, he will not sign anything without $5B for the wall.
You can hear the cheering from all over the country right now. Elected reps take note, we the people mean business.
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That’s what I call a “come to Jesus meeting”.
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But I really gotta potty.
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Well, I guess these former owners of bump stocks won’t have to worry about complying with this gruberment-imposed turn-in-or-else ultimatum.
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They called and said the concrete looks great.
But it is 1.5 degrees off perpendicular.
But I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it.
Not much.
I mean, don’t worry about it.
No one will ever notice it but you.
Really…it’s no big deal.
You’ll be fine.
(Here, drink this.)
It’ll be great.
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In 80 feet you won’t notice it much at all.
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Hey, look at that hawk up there.
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Listen, if you keep standing there looking at it, it’s just going to get worse and you’ll never get to sleep tonight.
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When GJT drops that ball bearing on the floor and it rolls all the way to the other end of the house.
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#20 – Dang that fella could open his own boot store with that hide!
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Look, in five years after the landscaping grows up, you’ll never see it.
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It was crooked anyway, might as well be slanted.
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Hey good thing about a home on wheels, there are jack screws!
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#26 GJT
Umm, keep your knees together. It’s only about another hour to sundown. 😉
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Mattis resigns citing his differences with Trump over how to treat Allies.
Not good for Trump.
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OK who tripped over the power cord?
GJT – you string extension cords from here or whut? 🙂
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Did an upgrade and it broke a bunch of plugins. I’m in the process of removing 10 years worth of broken plugins. Only one I see that makes a difference is the quicktag buttons above. Original plugin had not been updated in 7 years and finally broke the system.
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Well, the paralegal has accomplished in one day what idiot lawyer couldn’t do in months.
The land going to my son – that deed is finished. There are typos in MIL’s name, and in her trust name, but that’s how it’s filed with the taxing authorities so we’re leaving it that way. She never took the time to file a correction. (I discovered 3 address and name errors in our new deeds, too. Filed those forms tout suite!
He’s dropping the original legal description from previous deeds into the 2 parcels in El Paso, instead of the tax assessors abbreviated format. I just feel better if all the legal descriptions are the same. He’s also adding my name in the section listing our trust name. Since Texas is a community property state, it wasn’t necessary to have both names, but I’d feel a lot better, so he’s making that change.
Other than one other tiny typo, that’s it.
That ground shaking y’all are feeling? It’s not an earthquake. It’s me, doing my happy dance.
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Excuse me, should be “tout de suite”. And some other typos. But I see no edit button.
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Quicktags are
back
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I knew those emojis were going to bring trouble—-
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OK who tripped over the power cord?
GJT – you string extension cords from here or whut?
Ididndonuthin
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Of course with all the wind today, power went out but before it did all kinda popping and cracking was going on so you know, so, the wife figures I did something wrong, had to of, until…she finds out the neighbors experienced the same thing. But be proud KF, you and a woman agree. I am to blame. 😛
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Although it was dark when I got home, shined the headlights out over the yard and threw a ball bearing out on the raised clay pad and concrete runners, and it didn’t even budge. So there, dead level.
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Where’s my edit button??!!
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Ah. Sad doggie commercial time of the year. I think they left some a them same doggies out in the cold from last year. Sad!
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So is everything back to normal? I usually lose a big hunk of my day between 3 and 8 pm. In a pinch, I can keep going without a nap, but 6:00 to 6:42 pm is rarely to be trifled with. And then I has to eat, ya know? Well, salad and a show.
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WE HAVE DEEDS! I approved the last changes and told the poor guy to go home. I told him he gave me the best Christmas present anyone could have given me this year. He chuckled and said he was glad he could help.
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So now it is up to our eRep Senate.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/422387-house-passes-stopgap-bill-with-5b-in-wall-funding
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I’d be surprised if all of the pubbies don’t vote yea.
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All Dems will vote nay
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but 6:00 to 6:42 pm is rarely to be trifled with.
Why 6:42 MH42?
Why not 6:43, 6:44 or 6:45?WhatdidYuh have for desert?
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Edit button is incognito.
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Plugin got unplugged?
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No edit button next to date and time?
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No sir.
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And my garage door won’t open either since you removed the plugins.
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#55 phil
WhatdidYuh have for desert?
I had Monahans Sandhills for desert.
For dessert, I had some caramel-coated popcorn.
Hubs ate all the plain popcorn and all the cheesy popcorn from a holiday tin. Today, I gave up and told him he can have the rest of the caramel-flavored too. He had some major dental work a couple months ago and only recently has been able to chomp down on absolutely anything. Popcorn is a victory.
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He also just got a new blood pressure med. His cardiologist took him off of 3 BP meds he took for years, replaced with just this one, and he is feeling much better. Winning!
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I had Monahans Sandhills for desert
So did I. For dezert it was Monahans Sandhills sans the camel?
Heh I miss the edit button already.
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Hey it’s back with a countdown.
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I liked the open ended edit button.
I’ve posted things in the past and an hour or two later I read it again and say, The Hell?
How did I miss dat?Now the Grammar Gestapo is there.
Ready to pounce.
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New plugin. I think you have 5 minutes. That’ll have to do for tonight.
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I still don’t have any edit cccctrloooooooo…
Ok I see it now.
Save/Cancel/Delete
What if I made so many typos I could NOT get it corrected in 5 minutes??
Aaaiiieee
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5 minutes for the edEat button is good enough for me.
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Five minutes is perfect. Thanks!
Five minutes yet? Nope
How bout now? Nope 4 minutes
Ok this is plenty.
Oh what a kind leader!
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So you can delete your own comments now?
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The timer is annoying.
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Looks like YES, can delete own comments — during that 5 mins after clicking Post.
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I still lack edit controls.
Now I have to manage my thoughts as they flow.
Bummer.
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Ah, I see the countdown clock.
Kind of a doomsday device, methinks.
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