The Martini. Stylish. Sophisticated. Elegant. Classic.
As the linked article notes, the Martini is not only not for the young, it is not for amateurs. There are likely hundreds of recipes for this elixir. There are wretched concoctions of vodka and some sort of sweet liqueur. These are known to Martini enthusiasts as abominations, simple drinks for simple tastes.
Then there are the Martini Officinalis. These mixtures of fine gin and dry vermouth into which one marinates one or more olives are close to the water of life (Scotch) in their simple complexity (or is it complex simplicity?).
The best Martinis are ice cold mixtures of 3 or 4 parts of a good, dry gin. I prefer Tanqueray Number Ten or Bombay Sapphire. The gin should be mixed in a shaker full of ice with one part of a good dry vermouth. I like Noilly Prat the most, but Cinzano will do in a pinch.
Once the ingredients are loaded into the shaker, shake that sucker for all you’re worth. You will want to wrap a towel around the shaker, especially a metal one, because it will get really, really cold. Strain into a Martini glass and plunk a couple of olives into it. Garlic stuffed ones are best, but plain pimiento stuffed are acceptable. Try to use good, really big ones; they will represent your vegetable servings for the evening.
Drink it before it warms up too much.
Just be careful. Martinis can go down real easy and the cold masks their strength.
Oh, leave the vodka in the cabinet. You’ll need it for the Bloody Mary’s in the morning. Trust me.
Martinis are not for amateurs.
Wednesday Martini Open Comments
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Shaken, not stirred.
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Let’s approach this from a different angle. Not the 2nd Amendment but the 1st Amendment. The one that comes before the 2nd. You have a right to march into your employer’s office first thing in the morning and tell him what a lowdown, scum-sucking, monkey-diddling, POS he really is (or what a lying, unconstant succubus she really is). The 1st Amendment guarantees you that right. It doesn’t extend to guaranteeing you a job when you finish, and you’ll probably be escorted out the door immediately. Were your rights violated? Only a fool would think so.
How is the 2nd Amendment and its application any different? Your employer has a policy of no guns on private company property. You accept this policy as a condition of your employment, then violate it and get fired. You still have your 2nd Amendment rights, you just don’t have a job, but the 2nd Amendment doesn’t guarantee you a job.
In the first case, you have taken an affirmative action to exercise your right to call your boss an SOB. You did so within the confines of his property, none of which (including your desk and computer) are controlled or owned by you. He can throw you out of his office and off his property, but he can’t go through your pockets and remove items without Due Process (such as suspecting you are stealing and having enough credible evidence that a police officer can claim just cause to do so or obtain a warrant), nor could he sieze your personal Lap Top and search it for the same reason. Even inside his office, he has no right to search you without your permission (unless you have previously signed a waiver). The only way he could get that done is through offices of the State using Due process based on credible evidence, even if you have a Snickers bar hidden in your pocket and he thinks they cause obesity in poor children and has banned them from his property.
In the case of a gun in your car, it is inside your car, which is every bit as much your property as your clothing is, and thus obtains the same rights. Only credible evidence that an actual crime has been committed can cause him to search the car and remove items, and even then he must use offices of the State to do it.
Thirdly, your boss cannot fire you because he thinks you might stroll into your office and call him names. He has to wait until you actually do it. Prior Restraint of your rights is prohibitted. Thus, he cannot keep you from having a gun in your car because of something you might do, unless he has credible evidence that you might do it AND that it presents a clear and present danger to his person or property, or that an item is inherently dangerous in and of itself without any human interaction. To stretch the point a bit for illustration, he might think 20 gallons of gasoline sitting in his parking lot presents a clear and present danger, but its not a credible one if its in your gas tank.
That’s the basis of the argument that the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st Amendment in cases where the two might collide. When two rights collide, we have two choices on how to resolve the collision. One is to litigate through the courts, the other is to seek the opinion of the majority, then interpret that into law. As a lover of Liberty, I prefer using the ballot box to decide these things.
This issue was so uncontroversial among the electorate that in this session of the Lege it passed 30 to 1 in the Senate and via voice vote in the House. The only real controversy surrounding the issue among the electorate is that it did not pass in the last session of the Lege, which is one of the reasons Joe Straus has consistently scored low among Gun Rights Advocacy groups.
Today, everybody who plans on heading to the deer lease on Fridays after work rejoice because they no longer have to go home to get thier guns before heading out because their boss is a Liberl terd nozzle who thinks the mere presence of the gun presents a danger. No longer do they have to choose between exercising the right endowed on them by thier Creator to posess the means to defend themselves or losing thier job. At the same time, the locations where the presensce of a gun could credibly be dangerous, refineries where an explosion brought about by an accidental discharge might occur, have been exempted and the employers there can ban them from thier employee’s vehicles. And Liberal terd nozzles who think guns are dangerous just because they exist can still keep customers out of their restaurant parking lots with the proper signs—and go out of business once the boycott notices get circulated.
Everybody wins. Except the property owners who think their property rights trump the rights of gun owners just because they don’t like guns.
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Let’s approach this from a different angle. Not the 2nd Amendment but the 1st Amendment. The one that comes before the 2nd. You have a right to march into your employer’s office first thing in the morning and tell him what a lowdown, scum-sucking, monkey-diddling, POS he really is (or what a lying, unconstant succubus she really is). The 1st Amendment guarantees you that right. It doesn’t extend to guaranteeing you a job when you finish, and you’ll probably be escorted out the door immediately. Were your rights violated? Only a fool would think so.
How is the 2nd Amendment and its application any different? Your employer has a policy of no guns on private company property. You accept this policy as a condition of your employment, then violate it and get fired. You still have your 2nd Amendment rights, you just don’t have a job, but the 2nd Amendment doesn’t guarantee you a job.In the first case, you have taken an affirmative action to exercise your right to call your boss an SOB. You did so within the confines of his property, none of which (including your desk and computer) are controlled or owned by you. He can throw you out of his office and off his property, but he can’t go through your pockets and remove items without Due Process (such as suspecting you are stealing and having enough credible evidence that a police officer can claim just cause to do so or obtain a warrant), nor could he sieze your personal Lap Top and search it for the same reason. Even inside his office, he has no right to search you without your permission (unless you have previously signed a waiver). The only way he could get that done is through offices of the State using Due process based on credible evidence, even if you have a Snickers bar hidden in your pocket and he thinks they cause obesity in poor children and has banned them from his property.
In the case of a gun in your car, it is inside your car, which is every bit as much your property as your clothing is, and thus obtains the same rights. Only credible evidence that an actual crime has been committed can cause him to search the car and remove items, and even then he must use offices of the State to do it.
Thirdly, your boss cannot fire you because he thinks you might stroll into your office and call him names. He has to wait until you actually do it. Prior Restraint of your rights is prohibitted. Thus, he cannot keep you from having a gun in your car because of something you might do, unless he has credible evidence that you might do it AND that it presents a clear and present danger to his person or property, or that an item is inherently dangerous in and of itself without any human interaction. To stretch the point a bit for illustration, he might think 20 gallons of gasoline sitting in his parking lot presents a clear and present danger, but its not a credible one if its in your gas tank.
That’s the basis of the argument that the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st Amendment in cases where the two might collide. When two rights collide, we have two choices on how to resolve the collision. One is to litigate through the courts, the other is to seek the opinion of the majority, then interpret that into law. As a lover of Liberty, I prefer using the ballot box to decide these things.
This issue was so uncontroversial among the electorate that in this session of the Lege it passed 30 to 1 in the Senate and via voice vote in the House. The only real controversy surrounding the issue among the electorate is that it did not pass in the last session of the Lege, which is one of the reasons Joe Straus has consistently scored low among Gun Rights Advocacy groups.
Today, everybody who plans on heading to the deer lease on Fridays after work rejoice because they no longer have to go home to get thier guns before heading out because their boss is a Liberl terd nozzle who thinks the mere presence of the gun presents a danger. No longer do they have to choose between exercising the right endowed on them by thier Creator to posess the means to defend themselves or losing thier job. At the same time, the locations where the presensce of a gun could credibly be dangerous, refineries where an explosion brought about by an accidental discharge might occur, have been exempted and the employers there can ban them from thier employee’s vehicles. And Liberal terd nozzles who think guns are dangerous just because they exist can still keep customers out of their restaurant parking lots with the proper signs—and go out of business once the boycott notices get circulated.
Everybody wins. Except the property owners who think their property rights trump the rights of gun owners just because they don’t like guns. -
And don’t worry, I’ve taken an unpopular stance on an issue or two round here.
I promise not to remind people that you have taken the unpopular stance on this one every freakin day for the next five weeks, or use it when I’m on the losing end of a discussion to rally people to my side.
I’ll discuss every issue on merits alone, and limit discussion to my opinion and the facts on which I base it.
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And don’t worry, I’ve taken an unpopular stance on an issue or two round here.
I promise not to remind people that you have taken the unpopular stance on this one every freakin day for the next five weeks, or use it when I’m on the losing end of a discussion to rally people to my side.
I’ll discuss every issue on merits alone, and limit discussion to my opinion and the facts on which I base it. -
Vodka martinis for me: slightly dirty made w/ Tito’s or Dripping Springs. No pretentious vodka required. I use no vermouth.
I never could acquire a taste for gin. It tastes too perfumey to me. Mrs. Dude likes gin and tonic though. She goes for the Bombay Sapphire.
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Vodka martinis for me: slightly dirty made w/ Tito’s or Dripping Springs. No pretentious vodka required. I use no vermouth.
I never could acquire a taste for gin. It tastes too perfumey to me. Mrs. Dude likes gin and tonic though. She goes for the Bombay Sapphire. -
That would be a vodkatini. The weak cousin.
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That would be a vodkatini. The weak cousin.
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Why has my pinkie risen and won’t go down? How did the thea-tah schedule get on my screen?
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Why has my pinkie risen and won’t go down? How did the thea-tah schedule get on my screen?
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Too many little blue pills?
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Too many little blue pills?
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What do I do after 4 hours? Maybe some Boones Farm will help.
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What do I do after 4 hours? Maybe some Boones Farm will help.
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In the first case, you have taken an affirmative action to exercise your right to call your boss an SOB.
And in the second case, you’ve taken an affirmative action to drive onto another’s private property who has explicitly excluded guns. No difference.
Thirdly, your boss cannot fire you because he thinks you might stroll into your office and call him names.
That wasn’t even in my argument so I don’t even know what point you’re making. Red herring.
That’s the basis of the argument that the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st Amendment in cases where the two might collide.
That would be an honorable basis, except the legislature has included arbitrary exceptions in the law, which pretty much wipes out any claim to sacrosanctity.
I’ll discuss every issue on merits alone, and limit discussion to my opinion and the facts on which I base it.
So when you pulled the chicken hawk card and called everyone wussies you were just being “meritorious”.
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In the first case, you have taken an affirmative action to exercise your right to call your boss an SOB.
And in the second case, you’ve taken an affirmative action to drive onto another’s private property who has explicitly excluded guns. No difference.
Thirdly, your boss cannot fire you because he thinks you might stroll into your office and call him names.
That wasn’t even in my argument so I don’t even know what point you’re making. Red herring.
That’s the basis of the argument that the 2nd Amendment trumps the 1st Amendment in cases where the two might collide.
That would be an honorable basis, except the legislature has included arbitrary exceptions in the law, which pretty much wipes out any claim to sacrosanctity.
I’ll discuss every issue on merits alone, and limit discussion to my opinion and the facts on which I base it.
So when you pulled the chicken hawk card and called everyone wussies you were just being “meritorious”.
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5 star Barbancourt and Topo Chico with lime. Vodka tastes like medicine, gin has no taste at all.
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5 star Barbancourt and Topo Chico with lime. Vodka tastes like medicine, gin has no taste at all.
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I wonder if that Greek protest dog will show up today.
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I wonder if that Greek protest dog will show up today.
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Illinois Scrambles as Sears Looks for an Exit
Two weeks ago, I noted that our cross-border friends in Illinois had an economic mess on their hands. Unemployment’s high and the budget is out of whack. But tax increases rather than budget cuts constitute the fiscal front line in Illinois: taxes on Internet sales, and tax hikes on income, on wealth-creating enterprises, and on enterprisers that make Illinois prosper.
The result? A schizophrenic tax and tax-break policy that has business looking for the exits. The latest: Sears.
Hey! Lets raise taxes. If anybody tries to leave the state, lets give them tax breaks to keep them here. That way, we only raise taxes on people who don’t have enought money to hire lobbyists.
Except that, those people will leave the state, and we will have to give them tax breaks to keep them here, too.
So lets raise taxes on everybody else too.
They can’t all go Galt on us.
Can they?
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Illinois Scrambles as Sears Looks for an Exit
Two weeks ago, I noted that our cross-border friends in Illinois had an economic mess on their hands. Unemployment’s high and the budget is out of whack. But tax increases rather than budget cuts constitute the fiscal front line in Illinois: taxes on Internet sales, and tax hikes on income, on wealth-creating enterprises, and on enterprisers that make Illinois prosper.
The result? A schizophrenic tax and tax-break policy that has business looking for the exits. The latest: Sears.Hey! Lets raise taxes. If anybody tries to leave the state, lets give them tax breaks to keep them here. That way, we only raise taxes on people who don’t have enought money to hire lobbyists.
Except that, those people will leave the state, and we will have to give them tax breaks to keep them here, too.
So lets raise taxes on everybody else too.
They can’t all go Galt on us.
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G’Morning all:
On Constitutional Rights, or how management trumps the Constitution.
I’m relaying this information from 50 years in corporate employment, rising to Global Divisional Manager in 4 separate Fortune 100 and 500 corporations. This info doesn’t apply to Mom and Pop companies or individual hand shake employment, that is strictly what you shook hands on.When you go to work at a corporation, you sign a Contract Of Employment. In it there are a couple of standard phrases that will stand up in court:
“Employed at the convenience of the Corporation”. They can find it “inconvenient” to continue your employment for anything from wearing a purple shirt to passing gas in the conference room. This would include having a weapon on premises if so stated in the company policy.
“Occasional search and investigation of person and personal property.” This protects them from unreasonable search and seizure.
So, sorry guys, but if you signed that contract, you gave up your Rights in advance.
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G’Morning all:
On Constitutional Rights, or how management trumps the Constitution.
I’m relaying this information from 50 years in corporate employment, rising to Global Divisional Manager in 4 separate Fortune 100 and 500 corporations. This info doesn’t apply to Mom and Pop companies or individual hand shake employment, that is strictly what you shook hands on.
When you go to work at a corporation, you sign a Contract Of Employment. In it there are a couple of standard phrases that will stand up in court:
“Employed at the convenience of the Corporation”. They can find it “inconvenient” to continue your employment for anything from wearing a purple shirt to passing gas in the conference room. This would include having a weapon on premises if so stated in the company policy.
“Occasional search and investigation of person and personal property.” This protects them from unreasonable search and seizure.
So, sorry guys, but if you signed that contract, you gave up your Rights in advance. -
Who do the Republican VOTERS want? (Not the 3 P’s: politicians, press and pundits)
UTICA, NY – Herman Cain trails only Chris Christie as the top choice among Republican primary voters in the race for the 2012 Presidential nomination.
Mitt Romney ranks fourth, but voters see him as the most likely nominee by a wide margin over the rest of a 13-person field.
One-half of GOP voters say they would never vote for Donald Trump, and more than 30% say they would never vote for Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul.
These results are from an IBOPE Zogby interactive poll of 1,377 Republican primary voters conducted from May 6-9.
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Who do the Republican VOTERS want? (Not the 3 P’s: politicians, press and pundits)
UTICA, NY – Herman Cain trails only Chris Christie as the top choice among Republican primary voters in the race for the 2012 Presidential nomination.
Mitt Romney ranks fourth, but voters see him as the most likely nominee by a wide margin over the rest of a 13-person field.
One-half of GOP voters say they would never vote for Donald Trump, and more than 30% say they would never vote for Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul.
These results are from an IBOPE Zogby interactive poll of 1,377 Republican primary voters conducted from May 6-9. -
#12 Sarge, from your link, don’t forget Caterpillar, with 23,000, jobs Sears has 6,200 in Illinois.
Caterpillar, a Fortune 500 company that employs 23,000 workers in Illinois, currently finds itself dealing with a new tax increase in an already over-taxed state. Their CEO, Doug Oberhelman, sent a warning shot on March 21st with a letter to Illinois’ new Democrat Governor Pat Quinn:
“I want to stay here,” Oberhelman wrote. “But as the leader of this business, I have to do what’s right for Caterpillar when making decisions about where to invest. The direction that this state is headed in is not favorable to business, and I’d like to work with you to change that.”
The “direction” Oberhelman refers to is the economic sinkhole that Governor Pat Quinn recently plunged Illinois deeper into by raising taxes on employers by 30%. Overnight, Illinois went from having the 21st highest overall corporate tax rate in America to the 3rd.
Nope they’ll NEVER learn.
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#12 Sarge, from your link, don’t forget Caterpillar, with 23,000, jobs Sears has 6,200 in Illinois.
Caterpillar, a Fortune 500 company that employs 23,000 workers in Illinois, currently finds itself dealing with a new tax increase in an already over-taxed state. Their CEO, Doug Oberhelman, sent a warning shot on March 21st with a letter to Illinois’ new Democrat Governor Pat Quinn:
“I want to stay here,” Oberhelman wrote. “But as the leader of this business, I have to do what’s right for Caterpillar when making decisions about where to invest. The direction that this state is headed in is not favorable to business, and I’d like to work with you to change that.”
The “direction” Oberhelman refers to is the economic sinkhole that Governor Pat Quinn recently plunged Illinois deeper into by raising taxes on employers by 30%. Overnight, Illinois went from having the 21st highest overall corporate tax rate in America to the 3rd.Nope they’ll NEVER learn.
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Radical Muslims staged an angry memorial service for Osama bin Laden. They’re angry at the U.S. for killing him.
But they’re furious at Kate Middleton for refusing to promise to obey her husband.
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Radical Muslims staged an angry memorial service for Osama bin Laden. They’re angry at the U.S. for killing him.
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Obama went to Ft. Campbell to shake hands with the U.S. Navy SEAL who shot Bin Laden.
He had to go to him, the seal is in the brig til he can prove he didn’t act out of prejudice against Muslims.
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Obama went to Ft. Campbell to shake hands with the U.S. Navy SEAL who shot Bin Laden.
He had to go to him, the seal is in the brig til he can prove he didn’t act out of prejudice against Muslims. -
The FBI lab matched Osama bin Laden’s DNA. They said there was only one chance in eleven quadrillion it wasn’t him.
That’s more than enough for an L.A. jury to acquit you of murdering your wife.
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The FBI lab matched Osama bin Laden’s DNA. They said there was only one chance in eleven quadrillion it wasn’t him.
That’s more than enough for an L.A. jury to acquit you of murdering your wife. -
The stranded whales in Florida reminded me of this oldie:
The science class was discussing whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.
A little girl said that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
The teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah”.
“What if Jonah went to hell?”
“Then you ask him.”
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The stranded whales in Florida reminded me of this oldie:
The science class was discussing whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.
A little girl said that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
The teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, “When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah”.
“What if Jonah went to hell?”
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All hands on di … I mean deck! Navy reverses itself on performing same sex marriages. I was wondering how they were going to get around DOMA. I know Holder is no longer going to do his freaking job and defend the constitutionality of the law but it is still law. I found this interesting:
The military dust-up comes against the backdrop of the Obama administration’s decision in February to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. Attorney General Eric Holder said at the time that President Obama concluded that the law was unconstitutional.
The hubris of this communist. Since when does the president get to decide the constitutionality of laws? 2012 can’t come soon enough.
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All hands on di … I mean deck! Navy reverses itself on performing same sex marriages. I was wondering how they were going to get around DOMA. I know Holder is no longer going to do his freaking job and defend the constitutionality of the law but it is still law. I found this interesting:
The military dust-up comes against the backdrop of the Obama administration’s decision in February to no longer defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. Attorney General Eric Holder said at the time that President Obama concluded that the law was unconstitutional.
The hubris of this communist. Since when does the president get to decide the constitutionality of laws? 2012 can’t come soon enough.
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While talking about school, kids and God:
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what she was drawing.
“God.”
“But no one knows what God looks like.”
“They will in a minute.”
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While talking about school, kids and God:
A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what she was drawing.
“God.”
“But no one knows what God looks like.”
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#20 Hamous
Don’t forget that he also decided that the Federal Judge was wrong on the Constitutionality of Obamacare and is going ahead and instituting it anyway.
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#20 Hamous
Don’t forget that he also decided that the Federal Judge was wrong on the Constitutionality of Obamacare and is going ahead and instituting it anyway. -
Glad I don’t have to do that anymore.
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Glad I don’t have to do that anymore.
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Charlie Sheen Vs Pizza Hut under Obama’s watch:
Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?
Hi, I’d like to place an order.
I must have your NIDN first.
My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it’s 6102049998-45-54610.
Thank you Mr. Sheen. I see you live at 1742 Malibu Beach, and the phone number is 494-2366. Your cell number is 266-2566. Email address is [email protected]. Which number are you calling from?
Huh? I’m at home. Where’d you get all this information?
We’re wired into the HSS.
The HSS, what is that?
The Homeland Security System. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time.
O.K., I’d like to order a couple of your All Meat Special pizzas.
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Whaddya mean?
Your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you’ve got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won’t allow such an unhealthy choice.
What?!?! What do you recommend, then?
You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza.I’m sure you’ll like it.
What makes you think I’d like something like that?
Well, you checked out ‘Gourmet Soybean Recipes’ from your local library last week, sir. That’s why I made the suggestion.
All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then
That should be plenty for you, your four girlfriends. Your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99.
Lemme give you my credit card number.
I’m sorry sir, but I’m afraid you’ll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit.
I’ll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here.
That won’t work either, sir. Your checking account is overdrawn also.
Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I’ll have the cash ready. How long will it take?
We’re running a little behind, sir. It’ll be about 45 minutes. If you’re in a hurry you might want to pick’em up while you’re out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward.
How do you know I ride a cycle?
It says here you’re in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo’ed. But your Harley’s paid for and you just filled the tank yesterday.
Well, I’ll be a #%#^^&$%^$@#
I’d advise watching your language, sir. You’ve already got a July 4, 2005, conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here in September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a judge. Is this your first pizza since getting sober?
(silence)
Will there be anything else, sir?
Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke.
I’m sorry sir, but the New Constitution prohibits this. Thank you for calling Pizza Hut.
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Charlie Sheen Vs Pizza Hut under Obama’s watch:
Thank you for calling Pizza Hut. May I have your national ID number?
Hi, I’d like to place an order.
I must have your NIDN first.
My National ID Number, yeah, hold on, eh, it’s 6102049998-45-54610.
Thank you Mr. Sheen. I see you live at 1742 Malibu Beach, and the phone number is 494-2366. Your cell number is 266-2566. Email address is [email protected]. Which number are you calling from?
Huh? I’m at home. Where’d you get all this information?
We’re wired into the HSS.
The HSS, what is that?
The Homeland Security System. This will add only 15 seconds to your ordering time.
O.K., I’d like to order a couple of your All Meat Special pizzas.
I don’t think that’s a good idea.
Whaddya mean?
Your medical records and commode sensors indicate that you’ve got very high blood pressure and extremely high cholesterol. Your National Health Care provider won’t allow such an unhealthy choice.
What?!?! What do you recommend, then?
You might try our low-fat Soybean Pizza.I’m sure you’ll like it.
What makes you think I’d like something like that?
Well, you checked out ‘Gourmet Soybean Recipes’ from your local library last week, sir. That’s why I made the suggestion.
All right, all right. Give me two family-sized ones, then
That should be plenty for you, your four girlfriends. Your 2 dogs can finish the crusts, sir. Your total is $49.99.
Lemme give you my credit card number.
I’m sorry sir, but I’m afraid you’ll have to pay in cash. Your credit card balance is over its limit.
I’ll run over to the ATM and get some cash before your driver gets here.
That won’t work either, sir. Your checking account is overdrawn also.
Never mind! Just send the pizzas. I’ll have the cash ready. How long will it take?
We’re running a little behind, sir. It’ll be about 45 minutes. If you’re in a hurry you might want to pick’em up while you’re out getting the cash, but then, carrying pizzas on a motorcycle can be a little awkward.
How do you know I ride a cycle?
It says here you’re in arrears on your car payments, so your car got repo’ed. But your Harley’s paid for and you just filled the tank yesterday.
Well, I’ll be a #%#^^&$%^$@#
I’d advise watching your language, sir. You’ve already got a July 4, 2005, conviction for cussing out a cop and another one I see here in September for contempt at your hearing for cussing at a judge. Is this your first pizza since getting sober?
(silence)
Will there be anything else, sir?
Yes, I have a coupon for a free 2 liter of Coke.
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#20 Hambone I saw that this morning on Drudge and it got me to wondering, suppose you’re a preacher/priest/rabbi and you were directed by your CO to perform a gay marriage, this is assuming that it became the Navy’s policy, if you refused citing your religious beliefs, could/would you be facing a court-martial?
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#20 Hambone I saw that this morning on Drudge and it got me to wondering, suppose you’re a preacher/priest/rabbi and you were directed by your CO to perform a gay marriage, this is assuming that it became the Navy’s policy, if you refused citing your religious beliefs, could/would you be facing a court-martial?
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#25 Super Dave
Sure thing, assuming it’s a lawful order. Doesn’t mean he would be convicted, though. He could probably get off with conscientious objector.
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#25 Super Dave
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Who is Theo Kaht? I got an FB Message from him this morning, referencing contact Tedtam.
Is this Bob42??
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Who is Theo Kaht? I got an FB Message from him this morning, referencing contact Tedtam.
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Omar bin Laden is mad that we whacked his old man and is threatening to sue.
He’s also upset about how his old man’s body was tossed overboard.
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Omar bin Laden is mad that we whacked his old man and is threatening to sue.
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We can now relax about Pakistan’s hurt feelings over the raid. We’re sending our best guy.
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We can now relax about Pakistan’s hurt feelings over the raid. We’re sending our best guy.
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Dude answers an ad for a dinner invitation. Subsequently, he finds that the menu includes fava beans and a lovely chianti.
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Dude answers an ad for a dinner invitation. Subsequently, he finds that the menu includes fava beans and a lovely chianti.
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Mharper
Yep, Theo is Bob42.
Burn that friend request pronto.
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It sounds like Bob is getting lonely.
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It sounds like Bob is getting lonely.
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I guess this confirms that “Theo” continues to read this site…
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I guess this confirms that “Theo” continues to read this site…
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Cancelled and reposted
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Cancelled and reposted
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Whoops, try again
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Whoops, try again
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You go, girls!
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Tonight is my last faith formation class for the year. I have to get my evaluation forms (I think I’m the only teacher that does this), EOY benchmark tests, and game sets ready. I need to be there early to get the sodas ready and then get the pizza.
Should I tell them I’ll be in the dunking booth on Sunday? I lack scuba gear, and knowing my kids…I’ll be spending more time in the water than out.
Oh, and I need to remember to pack those messages that I stayed up so late on…
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Tonight is my last faith formation class for the year. I have to get my evaluation forms (I think I’m the only teacher that does this), EOY benchmark tests, and game sets ready. I need to be there early to get the sodas ready and then get the pizza.
Should I tell them I’ll be in the dunking booth on Sunday? I lack scuba gear, and knowing my kids…I’ll be spending more time in the water than out.
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Let’s not taunt. If you’d like to discuss former members please take it to a back channel.
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Let’s not taunt. If you’d like to discuss former members please take it to a back channel.
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In the five months after Houston voters forced city officials to turn off a camera surveillance system that fined motorists for running red lights, traffic accidents at those 50 intersections with 70 cameras have decreased 16 percent, according to recently released data.
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In the five months after Houston voters forced city officials to turn off a camera surveillance system that fined motorists for running red lights, traffic accidents at those 50 intersections with 70 cameras have decreased 16 percent, according to recently released data.
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Good synopsis of the Conservative view of the results of the current session of the Lege.
First, it’s noteworthy the liberal and moderate media members accustomed to framing the legislative conversation are trying to brand this a right-wing-hijacked session. This is by no means true. Their attempt to mischaracterize this session is the same thing liberals do with hand-picked “conservatives”, kept nearby to take bad positions in news articles.
True conservatives, defined as session-season fighters for all campaign-season principles, are usually spoken of disrespectfully, and characterized as recklessly ‘fringe’ by the media. This is because they actually threaten to achieve conservative outcomes, the thing our liberal media opposes.
Media-favorite “conservatives” are always middlers; they’re pushed by the media as conservative authorities to try to make real conservatives look ‘fringe’. After campaign season, these “conservatives” forget half the things they supposedly stand for, just like the good ol’ boys expect them to.
We’ll start seeing the Liberals labeling what’s been done as “Right Wing”, and the squishes and Establishment cheerleaders bragging about what a productive session we’ve had.
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There have been plenty of bad outcomes and non-outcomes this session that a conservative leadership could address, if given the chance. Through moderate leadership’s self-defeating framing of the issue, conservatives lost the first fight of the session when the Rainy Day Fund was tapped for $3 billion. Internet voter registration passed, making voter fraud even easier. Improving the funding formula for public education was defeated in two different ways. Hiring freeze amendments died. A new bureaucracy was created in the puppy mill bill. TWIA reform is running out of time. Illegal immigrants still get their college educations subsidized at state schools, as if they were from a tax-paying Texas citizen household. Spending caps are languishing in the Senate. There is a Senate 2/3 rule that needs to die for good. Voice votes need to be outlawed in the Senate. School choice is nowhere to be seen. Insurance over-regulation is in desperate need of reform. The list could go on and on and on.
This has not been a right-wing session. It has been a much better session than usual.
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Good synopsis of the Conservative view of the results of the current session of the Lege.
First, it’s noteworthy the liberal and moderate media members accustomed to framing the legislative conversation are trying to brand this a right-wing-hijacked session. This is by no means true. Their attempt to mischaracterize this session is the same thing liberals do with hand-picked “conservatives”, kept nearby to take bad positions in news articles.
True conservatives, defined as session-season fighters for all campaign-season principles, are usually spoken of disrespectfully, and characterized as recklessly ‘fringe’ by the media. This is because they actually threaten to achieve conservative outcomes, the thing our liberal media opposes.
Media-favorite “conservatives” are always middlers; they’re pushed by the media as conservative authorities to try to make real conservatives look ‘fringe’. After campaign season, these “conservatives” forget half the things they supposedly stand for, just like the good ol’ boys expect them to.We’ll start seeing the Liberals labeling what’s been done as “Right Wing”, and the squishes and Establishment cheerleaders bragging about what a productive session we’ve had.
ButThere have been plenty of bad outcomes and non-outcomes this session that a conservative leadership could address, if given the chance. Through moderate leadership’s self-defeating framing of the issue, conservatives lost the first fight of the session when the Rainy Day Fund was tapped for $3 billion. Internet voter registration passed, making voter fraud even easier. Improving the funding formula for public education was defeated in two different ways. Hiring freeze amendments died. A new bureaucracy was created in the puppy mill bill. TWIA reform is running out of time. Illegal immigrants still get their college educations subsidized at state schools, as if they were from a tax-paying Texas citizen household. Spending caps are languishing in the Senate. There is a Senate 2/3 rule that needs to die for good. Voice votes need to be outlawed in the Senate. School choice is nowhere to be seen. Insurance over-regulation is in desperate need of reform. The list could go on and on and on.
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#39 hamous
I’ve seen a couple of studies that found that the easiest, cheapest, and best way to reduce accidents at a traffic light-controlled intersection is to simply increase the duration of the yellow light by between 1/2 and 3/4 of a second. For the really bad ones, they also make sure all lights are red for 1/4 to 1/2 second on each change (i.e. one light doesn’t immediately turn green when the cross-light turns red). -
#39 hamous
I’ve seen a couple of studies that found that the easiest, cheapest, and best way to reduce accidents at a traffic light-controlled intersection is to simply increase the duration of the yellow light by between 1/2 and 3/4 of a second. For the really bad ones, they also make sure all lights are red for 1/4 to 1/2 second on each change (i.e. one light doesn’t immediately turn green when the cross-light turns red). -
The weak cousin.
I gotcher weak cousin, perfume-boy!
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The weak cousin.
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I shall henceforth never taunt anyone, here or elsewhere.
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I shall henceforth never taunt anyone, here or elsewhere.
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“Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!”
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“Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!”
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mharper – No one has really violated any of my draconian rules and I don’t have a problem with taunting per se, as long as the tauntee has an opportunity to reciprotaunt. In this case that ain’t gonna happen so the best thing to do is to just let it go.
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mharper – No one has really violated any of my draconian rules and I don’t have a problem with taunting per se, as long as the tauntee has an opportunity to reciprotaunt. In this case that ain’t gonna happen so the best thing to do is to just let it go.
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hamous is a poopy-head
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hamous is a poopy-head
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#36 TT:
Women with balls.
Would that be like one of those “transmission” types?
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#36 TT:
Women with balls.
Would that be like one of those “transmission” types?
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Queen TT: How did Miss Bag O Chips rate your class and what are her plans for the future, other than getting pregnant out of wedlock?
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Queen TT: How did Miss Bag O Chips rate your class and what are her plans for the future, other than getting pregnant out of wedlock?
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#47 Pyro:
hamous is a poopy-head
At the tender age of about 3.5, one of my nephews called his mother (my sister) a diaper head, needless to say that got lots of laughs around the dinner table:>)
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#47 Pyro:
hamous is a poopy-head
At the tender age of about 3.5, one of my nephews called his mother (my sister) a diaper head, needless to say that got lots of laughs around the dinner table:>)
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Hendricks is a nice gin and makes excellent martinis. And I agree with WB. There’s only one martini and it involves gin and vermouth. The only variables are the ratio of those two ingredients and the quantity of olives and optionally olive juice you add. His 3-1 ratio is a little too wet and vermouthy for my liking but to each his own. I prefer mine with only about a half a capfull of vermouth.
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Hendricks is a nice gin and makes excellent martinis. And I agree with WB. There’s only one martini and it involves gin and vermouth. The only variables are the ratio of those two ingredients and the quantity of olives and optionally olive juice you add. His 3-1 ratio is a little too wet and vermouthy for my liking but to each his own. I prefer mine with only about a half a capfull of vermouth.
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Having four visiting family members, my wife was very busy, so I offered to go to the store for her to get some needed items, which included light bulbs, paper towels, trash bags, detergent and Clorox. So off I went.
I scurried around the store, gathered up my goodies and headed for the checkout counter, only to be blocked in the narrow aisle by a young man who appeared to be about sixteen-years-old. I wasn’t in a hurry, so I patiently waited for the boy to realize that I was there. This was when he waved his hands excitedly in the air and declared in a loud voice, “Mommy, I’m over here.”
It was obvious now, he was mentally challenged and also startled as he turned and saw me standing so close to him, waiting to squeeze by. His eyes widened and surprise exploded on his face as I said, “Hey Buddy, what’s your name?”
“My name is Denny and I’m shopping with my mother,” he responded proudly.
“Wow,” I said, “that’s a cool name; I wish my name was Denny, but my name is Steve.”
“Steve, like Stevarino?” he asked.
“Yes,” I answered. “How old are you Denny?”
“How old am I now, Mommy?” he asked his mother as she slowly came over from the next aisle.
“You’re fifteen-years-old Denny; now be a good boy and let the man pass by.”
I acknowledged her and continued to talk to Denny for several more minutes about summer, bicycles and school. I watched his brown eyes dance with excitement, because he was the center of someone’s attention. He then abruptly turned and headed toward the toy section.
Denny’s mom had a puzzled look on her face and thanked me for taking the time to talk with her son. She told me that most people wouldn’t even look at him, much less talk to him.
I told her that it was my pleasure and then I said something I have no idea where it came from, other than by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. I told her that there are plenty of red, yellow, and pink roses in God’s Garden; however, “Blue Roses” are very rare and should be appreciated for their beauty and distinctiveness. You see, Denny is a Blue Rose and if someone doesn’t stop and smell that rose with their heart and touch that rose with their kindness, then they’ve missed a blessing from God.
She was silent for a second, then with a tear in her eye she asked, “Who are you?”
Without thinking I said, “Oh, I’m probably just a dandelion, but I sure love living in God’s garden.”
She reached out, squeezed my hand and said, “God bless you!” and then I had tears in my eyes.
May I suggest, the next time you see a BLUE ROSE, don’t turn your head and walk off. Take the time to smile and say Hello. Why? Because, by the grace of GOD, this mother or father could be you. This could be your child, grandchild, niece or nephew. What a difference a moment can mean to that person or their family.
From an old dandelion!
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
“People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel!” ANON.
If this story blesses you today Please consider sharing it with others.
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Having four visiting family members, my wife was very busy, so I offered to go to the store for her to get some needed items, which included light bulbs, paper towels, trash bags, detergent and Clorox. So off I went.
I scurried around the store, gathered up my goodies and headed for the checkout counter, only to be blocked in the narrow aisle by a young man who appeared to be about sixteen-years-old. I wasn’t in a hurry, so I patiently waited for the boy to realize that I was there. This was when he waved his hands excitedly in the air and declared in a loud voice, “Mommy, I’m over here.”
It was obvious now, he was mentally challenged and also startled as he turned and saw me standing so close to him, waiting to squeeze by. His eyes widened and surprise exploded on his face as I said, “Hey Buddy, what’s your name?”
“My name is Denny and I’m shopping with my mother,” he responded proudly.
“Wow,” I said, “that’s a cool name; I wish my name was Denny, but my name is Steve.”
“Steve, like Stevarino?” he asked.
“Yes,” I answered. “How old are you Denny?”
“How old am I now, Mommy?” he asked his mother as she slowly came over from the next aisle.
“You’re fifteen-years-old Denny; now be a good boy and let the man pass by.”
I acknowledged her and continued to talk to Denny for several more minutes about summer, bicycles and school. I watched his brown eyes dance with excitement, because he was the center of someone’s attention. He then abruptly turned and headed toward the toy section.
Denny’s mom had a puzzled look on her face and thanked me for taking the time to talk with her son. She told me that most people wouldn’t even look at him, much less talk to him.
I told her that it was my pleasure and then I said something I have no idea where it came from, other than by the prompting of the Holy Spirit. I told her that there are plenty of red, yellow, and pink roses in God’s Garden; however, “Blue Roses” are very rare and should be appreciated for their beauty and distinctiveness. You see, Denny is a Blue Rose and if someone doesn’t stop and smell that rose with their heart and touch that rose with their kindness, then they’ve missed a blessing from God.
She was silent for a second, then with a tear in her eye she asked, “Who are you?”
Without thinking I said, “Oh, I’m probably just a dandelion, but I sure love living in God’s garden.”
She reached out, squeezed my hand and said, “God bless you!” and then I had tears in my eyes.
May I suggest, the next time you see a BLUE ROSE, don’t turn your head and walk off. Take the time to smile and say Hello. Why? Because, by the grace of GOD, this mother or father could be you. This could be your child, grandchild, niece or nephew. What a difference a moment can mean to that person or their family.
From an old dandelion!
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
“People will forget what you said, People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel!” ANON.
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#44 Mharper
I shall henceforth never taunt anyone, here or elsewhere.
Speak for yourself, sister. I reserve the right to taunt. Of course, I usually do it in the privacy of my alone times, ‘cuz I suck at fist fights.
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#44 Mharper
I shall henceforth never taunt anyone, here or elsewhere.
Speak for yourself, sister. I reserve the right to taunt. Of course, I usually do it in the privacy of my alone times, ‘cuz I suck at fist fights.
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Boney – the evals are to be done tonight. I always wait until the last class. I don’t doubt that they’ll be honest with me – that is one thing I’ve been good at, making my students feel comfortable talking with me. I’m sure I’ll get their real feelings and some good constructive feedback.
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Boney – the evals are to be done tonight. I always wait until the last class. I don’t doubt that they’ll be honest with me – that is one thing I’ve been good at, making my students feel comfortable talking with me. I’m sure I’ll get their real feelings and some good constructive feedback.
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There’s only one martini and it involves gin and vermouth.
I take back any remarks I may have made about you being a philistine.
You’re still a poopy-head. 😉
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There’s only one martini and it involves gin and vermouth.
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There’s only one martini and it involves gin and vermouth.
Ah my Dearly Departed Pop (God rest you Pop!) would agree but only partially. He liked is ‘Tinis “extra DRY” – i.e. keep the gin (Beefeater’s in his case) in the freezer – no need to assault that wondrous liquid with melting ice to achieve the chill! Pour your desired measure in a martini glass………….THEN somewhere in the house briefly remove the cap of the vermouth bottle and QUICKLY replace it (before too many vapors escape! hahahahahaha)
add an olive (or occasionally an onion) and VOILA!!
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#51 –
There’s only one martini and it involves gin and vermouth.
Ah my Dearly Departed Pop (God rest you Pop!) would agree but only partially. He liked is ‘Tinis “extra DRY” – i.e. keep the gin (Beefeater’s in his case) in the freezer – no need to assault that wondrous liquid with melting ice to achieve the chill! Pour your desired measure in a martini glass………….THEN somewhere in the house briefly remove the cap of the vermouth bottle and QUICKLY replace it (before too many vapors escape! hahahahahaha)
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I want to get a bottle of Holland gin. It’s made slightly differently than the usual London dry gin. It’s supposed to be maltier and have a different herbal balance. Has anyone here tried any/what’s a good brand?
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I want to get a bottle of Holland gin. It’s made slightly differently than the usual London dry gin. It’s supposed to be maltier and have a different herbal balance. Has anyone here tried any/what’s a good brand?
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Topo Chico with lime
I missed that this morning. I don’t drink a lot of hard liquor but gin and lime Topo Chico on a summer afternoon is refreshing. Never tried it with rum but I may have to check it out.
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Topo Chico with lime
I missed that this morning. I don’t drink a lot of hard liquor but gin and lime Topo Chico on a summer afternoon is refreshing. Never tried it with rum but I may have to check it out.
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Guy goes into a bar, tells the bartender “I’d like an extra, extra, extra, extra dry martini please!”
Bartender gives him the evil eye, and says “Look, pal — I don’t want to hear this ‘extra, extra, read all about it’ crap! You just tell me exactly how to make it, and I’ll do it”.
Guy says, “OK, that’s what I wanted to hear. So put some gin and ice in that large glass, stir it up until it’s good and cold, and pour it into a chilled martini glass.”
Barkeep follows the directions, & says “That’s it? That was sure easy.”
Guy says “Wait, you’re not done yet! Now hold the glass up to your lips and just WHISPER ‘vermouth!”
Bartender rolls his eyes, does what he’s told, offers the martini to the customer, who carefully takes a sip.
Barkeep says sarcastically “Well, is that dry enough for ya, pal?”
Guy sniffs, says with a sneer — ” Loudmouth”
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Guy goes into a bar, tells the bartender “I’d like an extra, extra, extra, extra dry martini please!”
Bartender gives him the evil eye, and says “Look, pal — I don’t want to hear this ‘extra, extra, read all about it’ crap! You just tell me exactly how to make it, and I’ll do it”.
Guy says, “OK, that’s what I wanted to hear. So put some gin and ice in that large glass, stir it up until it’s good and cold, and pour it into a chilled martini glass.”
Barkeep follows the directions, & says “That’s it? That was sure easy.”
Guy says “Wait, you’re not done yet! Now hold the glass up to your lips and just WHISPER ‘vermouth!”
Bartender rolls his eyes, does what he’s told, offers the martini to the customer, who carefully takes a sip.
Barkeep says sarcastically “Well, is that dry enough for ya, pal?”
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Try the minutemaid blueberry pomegranate juice and mix about equal parts with rum; yummy and good for you too as you “get all likkerd-up”.
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Try the minutemaid blueberry pomegranate juice and mix about equal parts with rum; yummy and good for you too as you “get all likkerd-up”.
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Good morning Hamsters. Overcast and a reasonably cool but sticky 74 to start at 6. However the Sun has barely made an entrance through the clouds, and it is a breezy 78 on the front porch currently. A few sprinkles visited an hour ago and left polka dots on the concrete. Now this is a lot more than the pathetic sprinkles several days ago–the kind you could count every drop as it fell. Please, Lord, let the weather wizards be right about tomorrow and Friday.
Dear Bonecrusher, your kindness stores up treasure in heaven. That young Blue Rose is surely headed to live with the Lord when He calls him home. And He looks with favor at the Rose’s Mom for her devotion and spirit. Bless and keep them both.
Loved your comparison to flowers in a garden. Makes me reach for a tissue, as I had a first cousin, Franny, who was most probably Mongoloid with a club foot to boot, born in the mid 1930s. Her parents declined medical advice and removed her from an institution to live at home with them from the time she was 4. Her younger sister was born normal and grew mature beyond her years for sharing the home. Franny died a few years ago at age 71. Her widowed Mom carefully prepared care for her against the day that Mom passed away first. She did, but by then Franny was happily living in a private facility nearby, much like our Brookwood. Her sister lived out of town but had kin of other residents keep her informed of Franny’s situation as well as regular reports from facility staff and unannounced visits.
Most memorable for spouse and me was having Franny attend our wedding with her family; her sister was my bridesmatron. We told his parents in advance that she would be coming, and they discreetly informed relatives beforehand. No problem. And Franny loved weddings.
Sadly, several years later another cousin did not want Franny at her wedding and said so. The family did not attend and were deeply hurt. That hurt lasted years. And to this day that cousin makes excuses for her decision. I find my best comment is that there was no problem at all at our wedding. Beyond that I bite my tongue. Hard.
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Good morning Hamsters. Overcast and a reasonably cool but sticky 74 to start at 6. However the Sun has barely made an entrance through the clouds, and it is a breezy 78 on the front porch currently. A few sprinkles visited an hour ago and left polka dots on the concrete. Now this is a lot more than the pathetic sprinkles several days ago–the kind you could count every drop as it fell. Please, Lord, let the weather wizards be right about tomorrow and Friday.
Dear Bonecrusher, your kindness stores up treasure in heaven. That young Blue Rose is surely headed to live with the Lord when He calls him home. And He looks with favor at the Rose’s Mom for her devotion and spirit. Bless and keep them both.
Loved your comparison to flowers in a garden. Makes me reach for a tissue, as I had a first cousin, Franny, who was most probably Mongoloid with a club foot to boot, born in the mid 1930s. Her parents declined medical advice and removed her from an institution to live at home with them from the time she was 4. Her younger sister was born normal and grew mature beyond her years for sharing the home. Franny died a few years ago at age 71. Her widowed Mom carefully prepared care for her against the day that Mom passed away first. She did, but by then Franny was happily living in a private facility nearby, much like our Brookwood. Her sister lived out of town but had kin of other residents keep her informed of Franny’s situation as well as regular reports from facility staff and unannounced visits.
Most memorable for spouse and me was having Franny attend our wedding with her family; her sister was my bridesmatron. We told his parents in advance that she would be coming, and they discreetly informed relatives beforehand. No problem. And Franny loved weddings.
Sadly, several years later another cousin did not want Franny at her wedding and said so. The family did not attend and were deeply hurt. That hurt lasted years. And to this day that cousin makes excuses for her decision. I find my best comment is that there was no problem at all at our wedding. Beyond that I bite my tongue. Hard. -
#61 Adee:
Dear Bonecrusher, your kindness stores up treasure in heaven.
I wish I could take credit for that, but alas, the message was sent to me and I deemed it worthy to share. I figure if I had to call myself a plant in HIS garden, I am nothing more than crab grass
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#61 Adee:
Dear Bonecrusher, your kindness stores up treasure in heaven.
I wish I could take credit for that, but alas, the message was sent to me and I deemed it worthy to share. I figure if I had to call myself a plant in HIS garden, I am nothing more than crab grass
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hamous is a poopy-head
Poopy-heads really resent you lumping Hamous in with them.
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hamous is a poopy-head
Poopy-heads really resent you lumping Hamous in with them.
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Topo Chico with lime
Over crushed ice with a dash of gin. Not that I have ever tried that.
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Topo Chico with lime
Over crushed ice with a dash of gin. Not that I have ever tried that.
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Mharper42 several days ago inquired if I used Facebook. I don’t have a FB page and I don’t visit others as friends. Simply a matter of the less than solid privacy FB offers. Too many leaks and to few corks.
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Back when I was drinkin’, and when I was not in the mod for a cervesa frio on a hot summer’s day, I would sometimes make up a Pimm’s Cup, although the cucmber is supposed to be sliced and put into the drink, unlike the sissy garnish shown in that pic.
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Back when I was drinkin’, and when I was not in the mod for a cervesa frio on a hot summer’s day, I would sometimes make up a Pimm’s Cup, although the cucmber is supposed to be sliced and put into the drink, unlike the sissy garnish shown in that pic.
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#45 Dooooooooooooooooooooode:
Ya mose tagot the linkie-thingie: -
#45 Dooooooooooooooooooooode:
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Heard of potato and pumpkin cannons? I want one of these.
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Heard of potato and pumpkin cannons? I want one of these.
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‘Cutting the cheese’ cuts bus rides for Canal Winchester students. 😉
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‘Cutting the cheese’ cuts bus rides for Canal Winchester students. 😉
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Topo Chico with gin/lime.
You sick freaks.
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Topo Chico with gin/lime.
You sick freaks.
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#68 Squawkster Heard of potato and pumpkin cannons? I want one of these.
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#68 Squawkster Heard of potato and pumpkin cannons? I want one of these.
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Despite orgasm being a near-universal human phenomenon, we still don’t know all that much about it. “The amount of speculation versus actual data on both the function and value of orgasm is remarkable,”
BTW I would volunteer to help, but BSue won’t let me. 😉
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Despite orgasm being a near-universal human phenomenon, we still don’t know all that much about it. “The amount of speculation versus actual data on both the function and value of orgasm is remarkable,”
BTW I would volunteer to help, but BSue won’t let me. 😉
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Super Dave
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Super Dave
Nope something called a vortex cannon. Ya knock stuff down with what looks like a super charged high powered smoke ring. -
#68 – Much-O cool-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#68 – Much-O cool-O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I’ve been reading where folks from California have been coming to Texas to find out why we’re doing so much better than they are.
I think they could have done better if they stayed home and just read the newspaper.
According to a city report on lifeguard pay for the calendar year 2010, of the 14 full-time lifeguards, 13 collected more than $120,000 in total compensation; one lifeguard collected $98,160.65. More than half the lifeguards collected more than $150,000 for 2010 with the two highest-paid collecting $211,451 and $203,481 in total compensation, respectively. Even excluding benefits like health care and pension, more than half the lifeguards receive a total salary, including overtime pay, exceeding $100,000. And they also receive an annual allowance of $400 for “Sun Protection.” Many work four days a week, 10 hours a day.
And the crux of biskit?
Currently, Newport Beach has 13 full-time lifeguards and hires about 210 seasonal and part-time “tower” guards, Newport Beach City Manager David Kiff told us. Lifeguards are organized as part of the fire department. The Lifeguard Management Association represents the 13 full-time, salaried employees in collective bargaining with the city whereas the Association of Newport Beach Ocean Lifeguards represents the part-time, seasonal lifeguards. “We have negotiated very fair and very reasonable salaries in conjunction with comparable positions and other cities up and down the coast,” Brent Jacobsen, president of the Lifeguard Management Association, said in defense lifeguard pay in Newport Beach. “Lifeguard salaries here are well within the norm of other city employees.”
Unionized Life Guards.
What a concept.
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I’ve been reading where folks from California have been coming to Texas to find out why we’re doing so much better than they are.
I think they could have done better if they stayed home and just read the newspaper.According to a city report on lifeguard pay for the calendar year 2010, of the 14 full-time lifeguards, 13 collected more than $120,000 in total compensation; one lifeguard collected $98,160.65. More than half the lifeguards collected more than $150,000 for 2010 with the two highest-paid collecting $211,451 and $203,481 in total compensation, respectively. Even excluding benefits like health care and pension, more than half the lifeguards receive a total salary, including overtime pay, exceeding $100,000. And they also receive an annual allowance of $400 for “Sun Protection.” Many work four days a week, 10 hours a day.
And the crux of biskit?
Currently, Newport Beach has 13 full-time lifeguards and hires about 210 seasonal and part-time “tower” guards, Newport Beach City Manager David Kiff told us. Lifeguards are organized as part of the fire department. The Lifeguard Management Association represents the 13 full-time, salaried employees in collective bargaining with the city whereas the Association of Newport Beach Ocean Lifeguards represents the part-time, seasonal lifeguards. “We have negotiated very fair and very reasonable salaries in conjunction with comparable positions and other cities up and down the coast,” Brent Jacobsen, president of the Lifeguard Management Association, said in defense lifeguard pay in Newport Beach. “Lifeguard salaries here are well within the norm of other city employees.”
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Many parents simply do not take their kids out into public if the child has a mental or physical disability. I have had too many instances to walk the halls of Texas Children’s Hospital and I have always been amazed at what I can see. The sad truth is that you almost never see some of those children in public.
The only outward sign that my daughter had a medical condition was a feeding tube threaded into her nose. The majority of people would just openly stare, but on rare occasions someone would stop and talk to her and to us.
My wife and I both always try to stop and smell the blue roses. Their fortitude, courage, and capacity to love and empathize are truly amazing.
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Many parents simply do not take their kids out into public if the child has a mental or physical disability. I have had too many instances to walk the halls of Texas Children’s Hospital and I have always been amazed at what I can see. The sad truth is that you almost never see some of those children in public.
The only outward sign that my daughter had a medical condition was a feeding tube threaded into her nose. The majority of people would just openly stare, but on rare occasions someone would stop and talk to her and to us.
My wife and I both always try to stop and smell the blue roses. Their fortitude, courage, and capacity to love and empathize are truly amazing. -
Lovely Daughter is on the road, heading towards
homeher new apartment.And so begins a new chapter in her life.
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Lovely Daughter is on the road, heading towards
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This is just wrong on soooooo many levels
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This is just wrong on soooooo many levels
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From Sarge’s link in 76.
the county annual median household income is $71,735.
In other words they pay the lifeguard 40% more than the median household income. A typical household these days consists of two wage earners so that means these lifeguards are making out like bandits.
And the left will frame this in terms of worker’s rights and earning a living wage. I frame it in terms of bilking the taxpayer.
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From Sarge’s link in 76.
the county annual median household income is $71,735.
In other words they pay the lifeguard 40% more than the median household income. A typical household these days consists of two wage earners so that means these lifeguards are making out like bandits.
And the left will frame this in terms of worker’s rights and earning a living wage. I frame it in terms of bilking the taxpayer. -
Especially for Hammy RE his favorite condiment:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110511&name=Rhymes_with_Orange
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Especially for Hammy RE his favorite condiment:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20110511&name=Rhymes_with_Orange -
#68 Mondo cool! I would like to see a scaled up and tuned version (mounted on a navy ship) or perhaps even a hand held device; now that would be really cool.
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#68 Mondo cool! I would like to see a scaled up and tuned version (mounted on a navy ship) or perhaps even a hand held device; now that would be really cool.
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#74 Squawk: Unibrow warning
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#74 Squawk: Unibrow warning
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#52 Bones
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#52 Bones
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What’s that hon? I can’t understand you. Sounds like your choking on something.
When Andrew Linn first met Dr. Andrew Coates, an associate professor of surgery at University Medical Center, he was conscious – and trying to use his cell phone, which Coates said surprised him, considering he had a pole through his head.
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What’s that hon? I can’t understand you. Sounds like your choking on something.
When Andrew Linn first met Dr. Andrew Coates, an associate professor of surgery at University Medical Center, he was conscious – and trying to use his cell phone, which Coates said surprised him, considering he had a pole through his head.
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I’m Not paying attention, so if this has already been linked ….Never Mind.
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I’m Not paying attention, so if this has already been linked ….Never Mind.
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#86 Mharper: It had a similar effect on me. I have 2 very intelligent, physically strong and attractive children, and was blessed with 21 nieces and nephews. Out of all those kids, one is not quite right (asburgers syndrome) and another had hidden emotional pain and he ended it all (permanently); the rest are happy healthy intelligent and strong. My parents have a great grandchild who is about 1 now, so life is good.
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#86 Mharper: It had a similar effect on me. I have 2 very intelligent, physically strong and attractive children, and was blessed with 21 nieces and nephews. Out of all those kids, one is not quite right (asburgers syndrome) and another had hidden emotional pain and he ended it all (permanently); the rest are happy healthy intelligent and strong. My parents have a great grandchild who is about 1 now, so life is good.
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#87 Hamous: Hey man, stop talking so loud, I have a splitting headache.
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#87 Hamous: Hey man, stop talking so loud, I have a splitting headache.
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#88 SD: Another POS rapper goes to the WH; what’s the big deal yanno, birds of a feather. . . . . . . . . . . smoke crack together.
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#88 SD: Another POS rapper goes to the WH; what’s the big deal yanno, birds of a feather. . . . . . . . . . . smoke crack together.
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This is prolly one of the best Leslie Nielsen bits ever!
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This is prolly one of the best Leslie Nielsen bits ever!
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Do you find yourself worrying about the end of the world? Are your scouring the web at work and fear your boss is gonna take notice? Is your home life just not the same since joined all those mailing lists about end of times? Well worry bo more.
Here is handy little service who will email you when the world is going to end. Take back your life. today.
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Do you find yourself worrying about the end of the world? Are your scouring the web at work and fear your boss is gonna take notice? Is your home life just not the same since joined all those mailing lists about end of times? Well worry bo more.
Here is handy little service who will email you when the world is going to end. Take back your life. today. -
#’s 52 & 86 – Oh LORDY me too yall! *sniffle*
Part & parcel of why many of us bikers wear sunglasses I guaranTOLD you!
I will PASS that one ON to my BACA Sisters and Brothers!
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#’s 52 & 86 – Oh LORDY me too yall! *sniffle*
Part & parcel of why many of us bikers wear sunglasses I guaranTOLD you!
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What is more annoying than me arguing with Sarge? Probably this.
/I made it 46.3 seconds
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What is more annoying than me arguing with Sarge? Probably this.
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#97 Cain’t see it. Blocked by the proxy server.
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#97 Cain’t see it. Blocked by the proxy server.
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Don’t read this just prior to eating.
Crap. I mean, literally, CRAP!
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Don’t read this just prior to eating.
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Am I here for #100?
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Am I here for #100?
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But Yogi, I don’t think the HOA is gonna like it.
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But Yogi, I don’t think the HOA is gonna like it.
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#95 Squawk
I liked the comment:I love the glittery styrofoam star!
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#95 Squawk
I liked the comment:I love the glittery styrofoam star!
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#101 Squawk
I don’t think the HOA is gonna like it.
As Katfish might say: “GuaranTOLD ya mine won’t like it!”
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#101 Squawk
I don’t think the HOA is gonna like it.
As Katfish might say: “GuaranTOLD ya mine won’t like it!”
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The Brits did a better job of showing Harry Reid’s black eye and arm in a sling:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386066/I-dont-want-Senator-Harry-Reid-shudders-away-morbid-Bin-Laden-death-photo.html?ito=feeds-newsxmlthan Drudge’s photo & link, where the shiner is obvious, but not mentioned in the story.
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The Brits did a better job of showing Harry Reid’s black eye and arm in a sling:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386066/I-dont-want-Senator-Harry-Reid-shudders-away-morbid-Bin-Laden-death-photo.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
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Here is something neat. Interactive 3D solars system scope.
One of them things I wish had been around when my kids lived at home.
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Here is something neat. Interactive 3D solars system scope.
One of them things I wish had been around when my kids lived at home.
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I just heard thunder! Thunder! And earlier, I actually felt a few drops of wetness as I exited a store! Wet stuff from the sky!
It’s about time that Bush turned on his weather machine!
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I just heard thunder! Thunder! And earlier, I actually felt a few drops of wetness as I exited a store! Wet stuff from the sky!
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#79 – Be of good CHEER Mom!
You prepared your young Lady well and she will fare well because of it!
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#79 – Be of good CHEER Mom!
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Y’all must be spending domestic time and away from the computer . . . . . . .goood on you!
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Y’all must be spending domestic time and away from the computer . . . . . . .goood on you!
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Rained in near northwest Houston at around 6:15. And the ground is still wet. What a rush!
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Rained in near northwest Houston at around 6:15. And the ground is still wet. What a rush!
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Water is actually running down the valleys of my roof and making noise here in the barrio. The roads are wet even underneath the live oaks. I think I even hear cries of joy from the grass.
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Water is actually running down the valleys of my roof and making noise here in the barrio. The roads are wet even underneath the live oaks. I think I even hear cries of joy from the grass.
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105 SeaGull
Thanks…good link.
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We’ve had a couple of spits enough to put polka dots on the concrete within the past couple of hours, but otherwise only a heavy mist that vanished all too soon. The sky looks soooo promising. Saw a brief shower when dining at a restaurant a few miles from here. Does that count if it fell on our car and we carried to drops home? Please, Lord, keep it coming.
Mharper42 and Hamous, I can hear your yards rejoicing way out here. Would love to share the wealth.
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We’ve had a couple of spits enough to put polka dots on the concrete within the past couple of hours, but otherwise only a heavy mist that vanished all too soon. The sky looks soooo promising. Saw a brief shower when dining at a restaurant a few miles from here. Does that count if it fell on our car and we carried to drops home? Please, Lord, keep it coming.
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#112 Man, how on earth did those kids keep from rolling on the floor laughing???
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#112 Man, how on earth did those kids keep from rolling on the floor laughing???
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77 TexMo
Ms. Simple and I are raising our legally blind granddaughter who also has Asbergers Syndrome. She goes to physical therapy twice a week and I too feel blessed when I see the children who are in far worse shape. I also see the eyes of the parents and it is hard to tell which life has more sorrow.
Food for thought for all of you!! Especially the weasels wanting to cut medicaid support to the families who need it the most.
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77 TexMo
Ms. Simple and I are raising our legally blind granddaughter who also has Asbergers Syndrome. She goes to physical therapy twice a week and I too feel blessed when I see the children who are in far worse shape. I also see the eyes of the parents and it is hard to tell which life has more sorrow.
Food for thought for all of you!! Especially the weasels wanting to cut medicaid support to the families who need it the most.
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Hammie here is the wiki on that “song”.
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Hammie here is the wiki on that “song”.
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Bonecrusher #52;
I just emailed that story to family. Very nice. I know they’ll like it.
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Bonecrusher #52;
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#113 Adee
I am surprised you didn’t get some from the same system I did. I was looking at it on weather radar and the animation flow showed it coming from southwest of Sugar Land. Actually, I was thinking at the time that you were probably getting rain too. I didn’t think to select a broader view at that time. Maybe you’ll get some tonight or tomorrow, there are still showers moving through the area.
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#113 Adee
I am surprised you didn’t get some from the same system I did. I was looking at it on weather radar and the animation flow showed it coming from southwest of Sugar Land. Actually, I was thinking at the time that you were probably getting rain too. I didn’t think to select a broader view at that time. Maybe you’ll get some tonight or tomorrow, there are still showers moving through the area. -
This about sums it up for me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2WhctlRHYLanguage caution.
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This about sums it up for me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2WhctlRHY
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#119 EG
Woo hoo!
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#119 EG
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Farrgin’ iceholes!
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Farrgin’ iceholes!
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Especially the weasels wanting to cut medicaid support to the families who need it the most.
Which weasels are those? What’s their plan?
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Especially the weasels wanting to cut medicaid support to the families who need it the most.
Which weasels are those? What’s their plan?
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I am completely ok with cutting Medicaid to those freeloaders who are scamming the system. Were it not for them, there would be way more than enough for those people who really need the help and who I am more than happy to support.
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I am completely ok with cutting Medicaid to those freeloaders who are scamming the system. Were it not for them, there would be way more than enough for those people who really need the help and who I am more than happy to support.
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Especially the weasels wanting to cut medicaid support to the families who need it the most.
Which weasels are those? What’s their plan?
I was hoping someone would ask!
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#122 –
Especially the weasels wanting to cut medicaid support to the families who need it the most.
Which weasels are those? What’s their plan?
I was hoping someone would ask!
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The only good news we can find is that the uninsured rate has dropped to 2% today from 6% in 2006. Yet four out of five of the newly insured receive low- or no-cost coverage from the government. The subsidies will cost at least $830 million in 2011 and are growing, conservatively measured, at 5.1% a year. Total state health-care spending as a share of the budget has grown from about 16% in the 1980s to 30% in 2006 to 40% today. The national state average is about 25%.
The safety-net fund that was supposed to be unwound, well, wasn’t. Uncompensated hospital care rose 5% from 2008 to 2009, and 15% from 2009 to 2010, hitting $475 million (though the state only paid out $405 million). “Avoidable” use of emergency rooms—that is, for routine care like a sore throat—increased 9% between 2004 and 2008. Meanwhile, unsubsidized insurance premiums for individuals and small businesses have climbed to among the highest in the nation.
Like Mr. Obama’s reform, RomneyCare was predicated on the illusion that insurance would be less expensive if everyone were covered. Even if this theory were plausible, it is not true in Massachusetts today. So as costs continue to climb, Mr. Romney’s Democratic successor now wants to create a central board of political appointees to decide how much doctors and hospitals should be paid for thousands of services.
Excluding the concluding paragraph, this article is an excellent take on Romney care.
via HotAir
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The only good news we can find is that the uninsured rate has dropped to 2% today from 6% in 2006. Yet four out of five of the newly insured receive low- or no-cost coverage from the government. The subsidies will cost at least $830 million in 2011 and are growing, conservatively measured, at 5.1% a year. Total state health-care spending as a share of the budget has grown from about 16% in the 1980s to 30% in 2006 to 40% today. The national state average is about 25%.
The safety-net fund that was supposed to be unwound, well, wasn’t. Uncompensated hospital care rose 5% from 2008 to 2009, and 15% from 2009 to 2010, hitting $475 million (though the state only paid out $405 million). “Avoidable” use of emergency rooms—that is, for routine care like a sore throat—increased 9% between 2004 and 2008. Meanwhile, unsubsidized insurance premiums for individuals and small businesses have climbed to among the highest in the nation.
Like Mr. Obama’s reform, RomneyCare was predicated on the illusion that insurance would be less expensive if everyone were covered. Even if this theory were plausible, it is not true in Massachusetts today. So as costs continue to climb, Mr. Romney’s Democratic successor now wants to create a central board of political appointees to decide how much doctors and hospitals should be paid for thousands of services.Excluding the concluding paragraph, this article is an excellent take on Romney care.
via HotAir
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I’m no expert on such matters — though I’ve talked to several about this — but even a casual World War II buff can understand that the shelf life of actionable intelligence would be extended if we hadn’t told the whole world, and al-Qaeda in particular, that we had it.
It’s a bit like racing to the microphones to announce you’ve stolen the other team’s playbook before you’ve had a chance to use the information in the big game.
But that’s exactly what President Obama did. He raced to spill the beans. The man couldn’t even wait until morning. At just after 9:45 p.m., the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, informed the media: “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.”
(snip)
Yes, killing Osama bin Laden would have been a big secret that would have been hard to keep for long. Certainly, Pakistan would grow agitated if we simply said nothing about the incursion, though sweating the Janus-faced Pakistanis with silence for a couple of days might yield its own intelligence rewards. In other words, even waiting 24 hours might generate some interesting “chatter.” The Pakistanis working with al-Qaeda certainly would have been the first to spread the news that bin Laden was dead or captured.
More evidence that the Obama administration is very stupid.
UPDATE: Here’s the link: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266873/why-hurry-jonah-goldberg
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I’m no expert on such matters — though I’ve talked to several about this — but even a casual World War II buff can understand that the shelf life of actionable intelligence would be extended if we hadn’t told the whole world, and al-Qaeda in particular, that we had it.
It’s a bit like racing to the microphones to announce you’ve stolen the other team’s playbook before you’ve had a chance to use the information in the big game.
But that’s exactly what President Obama did. He raced to spill the beans. The man couldn’t even wait until morning. At just after 9:45 p.m., the White House communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, informed the media: “POTUS to address the nation tonight at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time.”(snip)
Yes, killing Osama bin Laden would have been a big secret that would have been hard to keep for long. Certainly, Pakistan would grow agitated if we simply said nothing about the incursion, though sweating the Janus-faced Pakistanis with silence for a couple of days might yield its own intelligence rewards. In other words, even waiting 24 hours might generate some interesting “chatter.” The Pakistanis working with al-Qaeda certainly would have been the first to spread the news that bin Laden was dead or captured.
More evidence that the Obama administration is very stupid.
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UPDATE: Here’s the link: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/266873/why-hurry-jonah-goldberg
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