Happy St Patrick’s Day y’all.
Even though he’s the patron saint of Ireland, Patrick was a Scot.
St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world’s most popular saints.
Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461.
Along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine, the secular world shares our love of these saints. This is also a day when everyone’s Irish.
There are many legends and stories of St. Patrick, but this is his story.
Patrick was born around 385 in Scotland, probably Kilpatrick. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies.
Even though he’s a Scot, I’ll forgo the scotch tonight in favor of some Guiness and maybe a wee dram of Bushmill’s.
Texakanukian: Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Its don’t hassle a hungover mic day.
It’s 8:07 do you know where your moderator is?
😉
Happy Don’t Speak Loudly to a Hungover Mic Day!
mharper 42: I could not begin to describe my parents and the life they gave me. Think of the Cleavers times 10. I was not the beaver and have had shall we say an interesting life that has for some time been on track. What they did instill in me very young was the sense of what’s right, wrong and… Read more »
#102 texanadian
Have a great trip & let us know all about it afterwards. 70 years is an incredible long marriage, you’ve been blessed to have both parents in your life that long.
I try to live everyday and deal with everyone I meet like it might be my last.
T
texanadian #102;
I’m very happy you got some help to attend your own parent’s 70th anniversary. Lots of congradulations to them!
#102 Texanadian
Great story and, as Mike Richards would say, “make a deposit in your memory bank.”
making 102 #87, 93 excellent posts 91: Wishing you well Random act of kindness report: A friend on mine who works in Africa is in town so we met for an adult beverage. Chat gets to family and I mentioned that my parents are celebrating their 70th wedding anniverserary next weekend. Because of new job and other things, I would… Read more »
#95 Super Dave
No, actually, it made you look pretty sharp.
hunnerd
Aw c’mon, we can do without the stereotyping here, not every Injun has a casino. 😛
Prayers up WB.
#91 wagonburner, Prayers on the way for the “Grumpy Geezer” FWIW; I’m bettin’ he’s a fine gentleman.
91 WB
Texpat no doubt thought you were talking about me (grumpy geezer)
91 WB
Youbetcha
Texpat, your #50, I just got home and watched the video of the Flight of Pheonix, I mentioned it in my #52, but I had no idea what was in the video. I guess it made me look pretty stupid. 😉
It looks like Hitlery has had enough of the foul “O”. Clinton revealed her desire to leave yesterday in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, responding four times to his questions about whether she would accept a post during a potential second Obama administration with a single word: “No.”While the stakes in Libya could not be higher, the insider said… Read more »
Madison, Wisconsin blogger Ann Althouse and her husband, Meade, have received an unbelievable, threatening letter from a union punk in Madison.
I can’t print it here, but you do have to read it to believe it.
Oh, and the guy posted it to ScribD without hiding or removing his name.
Another sign of the times?
I know it’s petty, but it makes me smile a little.
Can I impose on you people to offer up a prayer or two for Grumpy Geezer (my pop), who has semi-emergency surgery scheduled for tomorrow am?
86
LOL
The Black Informant is a black, conservative blog based in Atlanta and run by John Brayboy since 2003. This was his reaction to the Surgeon General and the iodine fiasco. That’s funny. So does this mean do not listen to Federal authorities? (lol) Japan was BOMBED twice (Hiroshima and Nagasaki) with nuclear weapons and I do not recall any stories… Read more »
#83,
It’s Afresh. I use it in my top loader Maytag as well (and HE detergent).
#73 texanadian
Good shot! 🙂
The Bobo Song of the Day:
Poodle bites!
Ruger is introducing a new gun.
Its called the Union Gun.
It doesn’t work and you can’t fire it.
Re my 82, he has never mentioned a mold issue whatsoever. He is a custom home builder and had a mold issue in his master suite a/c system, it was over sized for the space and therefore did not exchange enough heat to remove all the moisture form the coils. His no late father-in-law mechanical engineer way over-spec ‘d it
83 I hear there is a special new product you have to run through a cycle every once in a while to remove the mold that forms because of the configuration.
#80 Texpat: I have never used a front loader but one of my clients has and he loves it. He is definitely NOT a greenie. He says that there is less damage to the clothes because gravity pulls the water through the clothes instead of the agitator pushing the clothes through the water. He states emphatically, he would never go… Read more »
Dem Congressman: Prohibit Giving Federal Funds To … FOX News
It’s about dang time. FOXNews takes is zeros and zeros of millions of tax payer dollars every year.
Well, if you have nothing to be angry about today, this ought to get your tail in a knot. And there are green tax goodies for manufacturing high-efficiency models—the kind that already give so many tax credits to Whirlpool, for example, that the company will avoid paying taxes on its $619 million profit in 2010. Amazingly, the consensus also includes… Read more »
I did a quick search on states where bestiality is NOT illegal and I discovered that the Supreme Court’s ruling against anti-sodomy laws subsequentially invalidated many anti-bestiality laws.
Is that good or bad? That is the bob question.
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Dunno.
But it looks like he’s afor bestiality because Joe Arpaio is agin it.
I mean after all, its just a different way to express love.
Quote of the Day:
– John Hinderaker at Powerline
Bob supports a civil union between Cindy, Tracy and their dog???
Just since yesterday, bluebonnets started popping in Independence, TX.
#72 Was it two gay bears wearing clown suits singing show tunes cutting their teeth on Wangs?
Bob: The government wouldn’t recognize the union of you and Hamous any more than it would recognize Cindy and Tracie’s. 🙂
That wasn’t the topic that started the conversation.
No, I’m only asking for a factual and valid case in favor of NOT recognizing Cindy and Tracie’s civil union (aka: contract; free association) and why government should treat them differently than it does you and me.
Can you do that?
I’m being asked to present a factual, valid case against bestiality and Pat Robertson’s the nutjob??? Okalie dokalie! We’re waaaaaay past the realm of the incredibly moronic and are now transiting the land of the lobotomized.
When Secretary of Defense Gates appeared before Congress the other day, he pleaded with members to raise the fees paid by retired military veterans for their health care under the Tricare program. John Lilyea is a writer and editor, retired career US Army Ranger and Iraq combat veteran who blogs at This Ain’t Hell. His reaction to Gates & Co.… Read more »
#64 Shannon
Thanks for the clarification. I’ve been out of touch with Texas news this week.
#66 Every mom’s dream errand 😀
Well, Lovely and I are off with some of her gal friends to look over options for fluffy white dresses. Ya’ll behave yourselves while I’m gone? /yeah, right
And I ain’t no Mick for a day.
A Scot? Sure!!!
To repeat wagon’s correct point…..yesterday the Texas legislature raided the rainy day fund of a couple of billion dollars with Perry’s blessing to fill a short fall in the current budget biennium which gets them through THIS OCTOBER. They are now working on the next biennial budget which is what they are supposed to be doing. Perry supposedly refuses to… Read more »
#40 OTL
Then give Gov Goodhair credit for responding correctly.
#60 That makes a whole lot more sense, an air starter. When I worked offshore, everything was started with air pressure. The Coffman starter just uses a charge instead of a big central tank.
#60 texpat , NEATO! I’ve never seen the innerds of the starter and it’s not exactly as I thought, but close.