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Did anyone watch the Democrat
DebateCircus? I started but jut couldn’t stomach it, I tried to record it so I t could hit the highlights, today but it didn’t record. I set the recorder early, about 5 and when I tuned in right after 8, it wasn’t recording, so, I hit the button again and the red dot showed up on the listing page. Then this morning, nothing! What’s up with that? Did they make it so you couldn’t watch, knowing that it was a Schitz Show?
On Drudge, they had a poll, “Who Won the Debate?” I wanted to participate but Trump wasn’t listed, so I moved along.
From what little I’ve seen this morning, it was Gawd Awful! And that is coming from the talking heads, on the Lamestream Media. -
I did something stupid yesterday, I replaced one of the fluorescent light fixtures, in the kitchen. The ballast was bad and it was so old, I just replaced the whole thing for about $28 bucks, I hated to waste the money, since I’m going to replace both of them with LED’s when I spruce up the kitchen, but that may be a while. I have a lot of stuff ahead of that.
You know how you have a project that looks real easy and turn-key, but goes to hell? Well, I got lucky and everything worked out perfect, took about 20 minutes to replace and wire up the lamp. It did help that this particular half of the kitchen is part of the original Shot-Gun house and had a wooden ceiling, under the sheetrock. I was trying to find out if the centers were 12″ or 16″ and got real confused until I realized that the ceiling was old pine. -
My #3, the fixture that I replaced was at least 35 years old and now the new one matches the other one exactly. The other one was replaced about 10 years ago.
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This is surprising! NOT!
Steven Spielberg’s 23-year-old daughter announces her new porn career.Hollywood commodifies women. It always has and, the #MeToo movement notwithstanding, it always will. Maybe, then, it shouldn’t be a surprise that on Wednesday news broke that Steven Spielberg’s 23-year-old daughter Mikaela is going to make it on her own commodifying herself as soft porn artist selling films highlighting her big breasts.
SIGH,….. 🙁
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1948 GMC Light and medium duty trucks roll down the Pontiac MI assembly line while conventional cab seat bottoms and tops dangle overhead on the “seat trolley”
Original GMC factory product image.
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Well, I’ve Kilt this thang,….my job is done here. 😉
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An initiative featuring the writings of black Americans will counter and rebut a New York Times Magazine project that “reframes” all of U.S. history around slavery and racism.
The Woodson Center last week announced the sponsorship of “1776,” a collection of essays and other material mostly written by black scholars and community and business leaders, among other backgrounds.
Their goal is to tell “the complete history of America and black Americans from 1776 to present.”
The “1776” initiative directly rebuts the so-called 1619 Project introduced in August by The New York Times Magazine. The purpose of the 1619 Project, according to an initial mission statement, is “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding.”
Article here.
Since I’ll have some free time over the next couple of days, I will start reading some of the essays over at 1776 Unites.
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Good chilly and dripping morning Hamsters. Nasty cold and damp 48 at 6, feels a lot colder than that marching to the barn to feed Jessica and then down to the road to see if the Chron was here. It was, but it has been late a couple of mornings within the past month. It also was not delivered two mornings this month. Must be a new carrier.
Turned the heat up after coming in from feeding Jessica and fetching the Chron. Couldn’t wait for the thermostat to set itself for daytime temp of 73 and so set it myself. There is just enough drizzle falling from the trees to make noises on the back porch cover every so often. This will not be a lovely day weather wise.
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TexMo says:
February 19, 2020 at 8:47 pm
Can we segway into discussions about colitis or Irritable Bowel Syndrome? I’m sure that is more interesting than the Dem debate too.Katfish says:
February 19, 2020 at 8:55 pm
#84 = YIKES!
(here’s hoping BC is already asleep PLEASE Lord!)I was asleep then, but I’M AWAKE NOW! Let’s see, where to start. . . .
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Morning gang. For those of you who don’t go back to the prior evening and read the late or early comments like you are supposed to before you start your day with the current OC, I’m bringing this one forward that I saw somewhere last night: “My fave – Bloomburg paid a billion dollars to get beat up by a dementia patient and a fake Indian.”
I watched the Trump rally last night, and the contrast is similar to the difference between a Love Ya Blue football game and watching a chess match. It followed the normal format, the crowd was wild and crazy, and I’m just not tired of winning yet. I just can’t measure the effects of a Dem event since I can’t get into their heads and how they think enough to appreciate what they think is OK and what it not. I just have absolutely no appreciation for whatever it is they are talking about to start with.
OK travel day today. Got some rain out there to deal with, but hopefully I can handle that OK. I may defer leaving until I get a good grip on the forecast. Meanwhile, you all have a great day, and more later.
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Proof again that posts aren’t always read (and I’m guilty, too).
I posted “1776′ story a few days ago.
But later is better than never. Have at it, big boy!
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Between the tooth extraction horror stories and Democrap debate discussion, Shannon posted a bombshell story yesterday about Sheryl Atkisson and the governement spying on her. Rosenstain has been implicated.
I have yet to determine which of the three is the most horrifying.
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#11 El Gordo
Bloomburg paid a billion dollars to get beat up by a dementia patient and a fake Indian
Yup and Texpat had a good-Un!
#93 Texpat says:
February 19, 2020 at 10:10 pm
This is it.
James Taranto
✔@jamestaranto
Bloomberg wins the debate, assuming he can get everyone who watched it to sign an NDA.
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FWIW; Almost every time, I see any video, on-line, it starts with a Doomberg Ad. This morning is the first time I’ve seen one on TV, here in Alabama, ahead of Super Tuesday. AND, I’ve already seen several, it going to be a long haul…. SIGH!
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Just saw on Nextdoor that we have loose Huskies *hunting* pet cats and killing them.
Loose dogs are such an issue in this neighborhood. Either it’s neighbors who swear their fur babies are so gentle and friendly that they can run loose safely, or it’s lazy folks who dump their dogs because they don’t want to care for them any more and don’t want to take them to the shelter.
So, there are dogs that antagonize walkers (why I don’t walk the neighborhood any more) or kill other animals. I remember vividly watching a German Shepherd with a collar on circling around behind a walker to make an attack from behind. The man was scared and had his stick ready when I put my car between him and the animal. He was so grateful I showed up when I did.
I love animals. I love dogs. I just really love them behind fences.
But then, there were the three pit bulls who broke their fencing and mauled the mail carrier. 89 stitches worth before they were pulled off of her.
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You want diversity? I have it right here. 😉
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The man was scared and had his stick ready
My stick,…. and no, I’m not bothered by stray dogs. 😉
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Drizzle has finally stopped here, sky is lighter but still gray, chilly north wind still blows, and across the street a neighbor’s tree is green/yellow with new leaves and sways to the wind’s push. Thus behaves mid-winter in our neck of the woods. The “Wait 5 minutes….” saying is alive and well.
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Interesting book review from The New Yorker a few years back. I was looking up something about Riefenstahl when I found this.
Hitler had bypassed all the sanctioned Party hacks to hire Riefenstahl to direct her first official Nazi film, in 1933, and he had provided the title for the second, “Triumph of the Will,” so recently triumphant in Paris. He was deeply interested in movies, and screened them often in his home. Riefenstahl, ushered into an entrance hall, found herself watching a film in progress; she recognized Marlene Dietrich’s face before the Führer appeared and took her off for coffee on the terrace. Hitler’s choice of a Dietrich film might have seemed curious, since his ministers had long campaigned to destroy her reputation. Although she was the greatest movie star that Germany had ever produced, Dietrich refused to work in Germany. And it was no longer possible to pretend that her choices were not political. A few months before Riefenstahl’s visit, Dietrich announced that she had applied for American citizenship, posing for reporters outside the federal building in Los Angeles with one leg propped on the running board of her chauffeured Cadillac, and saying things like “America has been good to me.” The Nazi tabloid Der Stürmer informed its readers that Dietrich’s years among “the film Jews of Hollywood” had rendered her “wholly un-German”—which did not keep Hitler from very much wanting her back.
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My stick,…. and no, I’m not bothered by stray dogs.
Hubby’s family had some good friends who divorced and moved on. Hubby lost touch with them for a while, and some years later ran into the husband, whom I’ll call “Joe”. Joe ended up living out in the country and had taken up jogging. There was a trailer trash dude whose trailer he had to run past who took great pleasure in setting his dog after Joe to attack. Joe managed to elude the dog time after time, but Trailer Trash’s loud guffawing at the chase each time indicated that it would never stop.
Joe told Hubby he decided to bring along a lead pipe one day, and sure enough, Trailer Trash sicced his dog on Joe. Joe allowed the dog to get close and when ready, swung the pipe on the dog’s skull and killed the dog. He didn’t want to, but the dog was vicious and would some day catch up to him. What Trailer Trash would do if that ever happened was anyone’s guess.
The guffawing stopped, and Joe never had a problem again with Trailer Trash.
I have a coupla golf clubs that I keep at the house, which I used to use when I walked. Now, I keep them near my doors, should the neighbors reappear with their vicious dogs.
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The first time I saw all the clowns on stage yesterday, the white House was in the background and I just busted out laughing, knowing that not a single one of them would ever set in the White House. The background changed a couple of times so I guess it was a huge TV screen.
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A Lead Pipe is good, very effective, when used judiciously. I like it. 😉
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I am ambulatory. Local anesthesia hasn’t worn off yet so I’m actually feeling fine for now.
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It’s 2/20/20.
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We had a big dog at the end of our block when I was a small boy. One of the other dads went down there one day with an aluminum baseball bat when he saw the dog was out of its yard. He wound up and swung hard. It sounded just like when you hit a baseball.
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I feel sorry for the dogs. They were taught to be mean, and/or the owners are irresponsible.
But we hafta protect ourselves, our kids, and our pets.
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Cats aren’t supposed to be loose either. Just sayin’…
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Conestoga wagons seen being transported through town on the way to Wittenberg Pasture in Cat Spring. The Salt Grass Trail Ride assembles there this weekend.
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Twothree things –Im sick, sick, sick of rain and mud
Thanks for putting Luv ya blue in my head for the rest of the day
We expect reports from TexMo on his studying- preferably when he’s feeling real good
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Preach it, bro.
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I am about to conclude my research that Hamous is Doug. Wait or is that Doug is Hamous?
Anyone here ever hear Hamous say “Now I have to get back to work” or “only pay for what you need”?
Or have you ever seen Hamous in a yellow shirt? Or attach his keys to his belt with a carabiner ? Maybe you have seen him in a tie with the top button of his shirt unbuttoned? How bout asleep on the plane with a blinder on?
Your help is greatly appreciated. I tell ya I am hot on the trail. I have never NEVER I tell ya seen Doug and Hamous together. That alone is strong evidence that Hammie = Doug
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Maybe you have seen him in a tie …
Lemmee stop you right there. When I turned 18 I made myself four promises, one of which was never have a job where I have to wear a necktie. If you can’t pay me to wear a tie chances are you won’t see me in one on my own time.
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I couldn’t vote for Bernie today. I had an important Sheriff’s race that I needed to vote in the Republican Primary.
I think Bernie will get most of the dimwit delegates, anyway.
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When I worked in Casablanca, the dress was business formal. Tie and jacket 5 days a week. I didn’t mind too much especially since the weather was more like SoCal than here.
Nowadays I wear a jacket and tie to church because I help with ushering and napkin holding for communion.
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I have never NEVER I tell ya seen Doug and Hamous together. That alone is strong evidence that Hammie = Doug
Using that logic, I have come to the conclusion that Squawk is actually Jennifer Lopez. Or Ru Paul. I haven’t decided.
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I haven’t researched some of the primary races for my precinct 134 yet.
Hubby depends on me to help him decide his votes. So much responsibility…
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Squawk as cross dresser is a pretty horrifying thought.
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Speaking of communion I held the napkin for our Deacon last Sunday. When we approach the chalice with the Body and Blood of Christ, we are supposed to cross our arms in front of our bodies precisely to keep from accidentally knocking the chalice out of the priest’s or deacon’s hands. Regardless people will still cross themselves or do a full metania.
Well it happened so quick I didn’t even “see” it happen. The next thing I know Deacon Juvenaly was cover all down the front of his vestments and a big pool spreading upon the ground.
Since Orthodox truly believe this is Jesus, you can’t just spray bleach, wipe with paper towels and call it a day. The alter boys did an excellent job cleaning up. The towels will most likely be burned. Whichever solution (peroxide or vinegar) the Deacon uses to clean his vestments, will have to be returned to the earth.
I saw the Deacon after Liturgy in the parking lot presumably after he had put his vestments in his vehicle. I told him that no matter what his day could only get better from there.
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Squawk’s speedo pics are pretty horrifying.
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Doug is such a wormy little guy. There isn’t a makeup artist on the planet that could transform the studly Hammie into that.
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Lemmee stop you right there. When I turned 18 I made myself four promises, one of which was never have a job where I have to wear a necktie. If you can’t pay me to wear a tie chances are you won’t see me in one on my own time.
Uhuh……. trying to throw me off the trail.
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Shannon , Texmo
Squawk as cross dresser is a pretty horrifying thought.
I make purple spandex X-men uniforms look good.
Squawk’s speedo pics are pretty horrifying.
Yabbut the residuals for Speedo advertising are great. It’s not a sacrifice it is an art.
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Squawk
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how about Cornholio?
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Just a typical day in Harris County.
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Roger Stone sentenced to 40 months.
CEO of Arkancide Inc is still free.
Slick Lolita Express Willy still free.
aDAm the Schiffty Schitter still free.
Natzi Phlegmlosi still free.
Comey island hot dog still free.
Walter dagnabit Brennan still free.
Clapper on Clapper off still free.
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Do I know this Doug?
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Doug and his emu are spokespersons for some insurance company. The ads are ubiquitous on broadcast television.
And more annoying than you can imagine.
They probably don’t run on Possum Rescue TV.
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All the Doug and emu ads you could possibly want to see:
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This guy, Dean Gerard Winters, reportedly makes $1 million dollars a year spending a few weeks out of the year making Mr. Mayhem commercials for Allstate Insurance.
He wears a tie.
I don’t mind wearing a tie. I would enthusiastically wear a tie everyday for that kind of money. Besides, I can’t imagine a more fun job than being Mr. Mayhem.
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I hated the mayhem ads, at first.
They’ve gotten better.
The mother-in-law one is great:
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Never saw this one before:
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The last good commercial was the Pace Picante Sauce “get a rope” commercial.
it’s been downhill ever since the ad agencies became infiltrated with snowflakes and social just us losers.
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Liberty Mutual, D&M Leasing, and Daniel Dean Land Clearing spend so much on advertising that it seems impossible to me that they could be on the legit side of business. Advertising is not cheap, so how can they advertise so much and still be price competitive on their products? They can’t.
Advantage Auto Glass is over $100/windshield less expensive than Safelite – for the exact same product. Safelite spends a huge amount on advertising and Advantage spends $0.
I don’t understand the logic behind irritating your potential customers by flooding the airwaves with stupid, insulting, annoying, BS commercials all for the pleasure of charging you much more for their product; it just never made any sense to me. If you badger me to buy your product, I will go somewhere else when the time comes.
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#50 Shannonigans
They probably don’t run on Possum Rescue TV.
Ok, well, I only watch one show, and I fast-forward for any commercials.
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Well, thanks, now I know who Doug is, AND he is the most annoying SOB that ever advertised anything! I’ll NEVER buy whatever insurance he’s selling.
Dean Gerard Winters, on the other hand is hilarious!The mother-in-law one is great:
Yup, but the Dawg is better and say what you will, but Tina Fey is HOT!….Yes I said it,…so shoot me. 😀
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#52
Ok, now I’ve briefly seen your Doug. I already knew about the emu. I’d say the emu looks more like Hammy than Doug does.
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Attention K Mart Shoppers! It is now official, Monsoon Season has arrived in south Alabama!….That is all……..
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#s 54 & 59 – My personal FAVORITE mayhem……
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My #61, the little pond has been full for weeks, if the rain slacks off, I’ll go down and see if the water is running out of the spillway now. Big pond is 3/4 full, this after the serious drought in September, dropped it to about 1/4.
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#53 Texpat
The Mayhem insurance actor also played a boy friend of Detective Olivia Benson on L&O: SVU. Don’t know if he’s still in the cast. I quit watching the show after I had a gutful of the increasingly lefty scripts. IOW, some years ago.
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#62 Katfish HA!! I knew that one before I clicked! 😉
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Dang I missed 2:20PM on 2/20/20
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Yanknow, if that mayhem dude is making a million bux a year filming those commercials a couple weeks out of the year, I betcha he only wears a tie a couple weeks out of the year…..
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64 mharper42
Yes, I’m well aware of Winters’ career.
I’ve just about burned out on Mariska Hargitay and her ongoing #MeToo campaign. It’s boring and irritating.
I still watch the original Law & Order reruns, but the one I really miss is Law & Order: Criminal Intent with Vincent D’Onofrio. The guy is a genius, brilliant actor, famously difficult to work with and a raving, deranged left winger. I still love his character and the extraordinary writing and plot lines of that show.
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67 Sarge
I bet there is a lot more to his contract than just filming a few times a year. He probably is obligated to do promotional and internal company appearances and events.
Also, most people don’t realize actors in television series have to do a lot of PR work with the sponsors of their shows. There’s a lot more to being an actor in a series than just showing up on the set and saying your lines.
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#25 – Just to complete the thought, you could say that it is 02/20/2020; or you could write it the other way 20/02/2020. Anyway you look at it, there lots of 2’s and 0’s. And I think the mother ship landed little over 3 years ago and spewed stupid pills over vast swaths of this country; which in turn were consumed by and hosted to adulthood by about half the population. They are now identified mostly by party affiliation.
In other news, I arrived safely in SS after another more or less uneventful trip from Big D. I’m happy to report that Texas received a nice rain over the past few days, and while it has not iced over, it should further a bountiful crop of bluebonnets in the coming months.
And, all my doors were still locked, my stuff was all still in place, so I escaped the burglars once again. Now enjoying nice sunshine, but still cool at just under 50 degrees with a brisk northerly wind. More later.
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#68 – TP Criminal Intent is still around on several cable outlets.
That’s the only one that never really garnered my regular viewership.
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Lord knows that I have waay too many golf clubs,…wait! Naw, not really, but I was digging around in the big armoire, trying to find a particular little 1022, #2 Iron and it occurred to me that ifin’ the boy hadn’t moved off to Kalifornia and left half of his clubs with me, this wouldn’t be such a problem,…well not too much, anyway.
I’ll tell you what though, if I can get the smallbathroomphone booth, remade into a normal bathroom, I’ll get me another armoire and that will help. And if you’re wondering, to make the phone booth into a bathroom, I’ll have to move the door to my office about 4 feet…..Confusing, isn’t it? -
My goodness, I just stumbled across the old S-99 what a beautiful piece of work.
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Trump nominates a poofter for DNI and Dems are freaking out. They should all be branded as homophobes relentlessly.
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I ran across this little video on Ace, and if you want to see just how emotionally moving it was to him, go read the story. Spoiler alert: MAGA hats on pigeons in Las Vegas prior to primary. Ace was moved to tears and forced to quote Moochelle O it was so powerfully moving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikTBDgnxg4&feature=emb_logo
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Well, at least I now know what a poofter is. Kinda wish I hadn’t looked it up.
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Lol. I had to go see what you saw. The urban dictionary was at the top of the list. Kinda wish I hadn’t looked either.
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Some times there are strange connections bringing unrelated events together that make you wonder….
This morning I received an email from the head of the Bluebonnet Equine Humane Society from which we adopted dear Ruby almost two years ago. The organization celebrates its 15th anniversary this year and is having a party and special edition news of its success in rescue/placing horses in those years. She asked us to send a picture of Ruby (full name Poppie’s Ruby) for the program.
I replied with the sad news of losing companion Ruby so soon after losing Contessa on January 7th. Fortunately spouse had taken a picture of Ruby in the pasture before she became so ill (liver stopped functioning) and while she still looked beautiful, so we do have one of her to send. The intention is to show pictures of rescues successfully brought back to health as necessary and placed in good homes over those 15 years. And where they are now with pictures.
I replied about Ruby’s decline and passing only a few days ago, and that she’s buried in the pasture near Contessa. I’m sure that news will be terribly sad, but we do have a picture we can send. It will be a nice remembrance of her, but I don’t know just how she will manage the news, though it is true that Ruby is still here with us so perhaps it is best that nothing further need be said.
Fortunately Jessica seems to be coping with being alone now since the trio across the fence regularly visit with her. So the companion to the companion is doing well thus far. We are not going to look for another horse now.
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Rock on, ICE.
ICE agents arrested two illegal aliens in a courthouse in Northern California, defying a state law that says they needed a warrant from a judge to do so.
ICE flouted a new state law that requires the warrant before arresting an illegal on courthouse grounds. After the predictable outcry from courthouse officials and others, ICE calmly gave their rationale.
Los Angeles Times:
ICE said in a statement that California’s law doesn’t supersede federal law and “will not govern the conduct of federal officers acting pursuant to duly enacted laws passed by Congress that provide the authority to make administrative arrests of removable aliens inside the United States.”
“Our officers will not have their hands tied by sanctuary rules when enforcing immigration laws to remove criminal aliens from our communities,” David Jennings, ICE’s field office director in San Francisco, said in the statement.In other words, ICE is telling critics to go climb a tree.
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TexMo
Squawk’s speedo pics are pretty horrifying.
Not to worry amigo. I have retired the speedo and the posting of that LST icon in pictures.
BSue was highly disappointed to see it go away so I framed it and it is hanging behind the couch.
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I told ya’ll since I saw my shadow 0n 02/02/20 there’d be 6 more weeks of winter.
six ways and weeks to groundhog day pal.
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From over on HotAir.com…………
Filthy streets: LA has 16 porta potties for 36,000 homeless people
SO…………..presuming a 24 hour day (which cant happen as the porta lets are removed nightly)…………….MY Comment:
16 porta-lets for 36,000 for 24 hours comes to just under 94 people per can per hour………THAT comes to 38.4 SECONDS per potty user in any given hour……….not feasible even if everyone only urinates!
Can we say completely UNsustainable?
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I wonder if unca Shanny says phil like Ned Ryerson.?.
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#78 & #79
Somewhere around my house I have a 30+ year old Book of Utterly Gross Jokes that I aquired as a boy. It is so un- politically correct I doubt it would be published today. In any case there is a joke about that particular sound effect being part of the punchline.
Because I do not wish to face the ire of Texpat for being overly vulgar with the wimmins present on the couch I shall refrain from offering up the joke in all its glory.
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What we need is a little Laugh In
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Oh my.
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Heh. FMJ is one of the few Kubrick films I could watch.
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Oh crap.
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Milo was hanging out at the Roger Stone trial.
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#93
That is great news. Milo is quite a character, but I’m glad to see he stands up for his friends.
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If Texpat is the only thing standing between us and bathroom humor, I hope he lives a long life.
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Me too.
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I have never understood the alleged humor in toilet and bathroom jokes.
Any appeal to being funny pretty much faded after about the 4th grade.
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I forgot to comment this morning, how much I liked the “milking cow” cartoon, especially after I had confirmed the critter was modeled after the Wall Street statue.
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Ninety Nine?! Teeing her up,…. Edited, didn’t know that mharper would slide in under the wire.
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Hunnerd
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Netflix has Monty Python starting with episode 1. Dang they were good.
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Tweet of the Century
Steve Scalise
@SteveScalise
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I can think of an example..
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.Keith Ellison
@keithellison
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I have never seen @BernieSanders supporters being unusually mean or rude. Can someone send me an example of a “Bernie Bro” being bad. Also, are we holding all candidates responsible for the behavior of some of their supporters? Waiting to hear. -
Long day. Night all.
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#103
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Jake from State Farm got a pigment upgrade.
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Yeah, I noticed that.
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Adam West is on Perry Mason tonight.
/insert Batman theme here
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Should I change insurance companies?
Nah. I may change if my rates keep going up, though. I tried to get them to explain to me how, when I buy a new truck my rates go up, but as the truck gets older they don’t go down.
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