One year ago today, President Passion Fingers and his faithful minion Joe “Hair Plugs” Biden announced Recovery Summer to great fanfare.
One year and a trillion dollars later, has anything substantial actually changed?
Other than our debt?
Friday Dude, Where’s My Recovery? Open Comments
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264 responses to “Friday Dude, Where’s My Recovery? Open Comments”
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has anything substantial actually changed?
Yep, it’s gotten worse.
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has anything substantial actually changed?
Yep, it’s gotten worse.
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Oh, and good morning to you all! I’ve watered the garden, taken out my “freezer trash” (the stuff I stash there so I won’t have fly larvae crawling all over the trash can on trash day), taken out the recycle bin (since Handsome failed to do so last night).
I worked last night, so the dishes still haven’t been done. I thought Handsome would do it….
….but that’s what I get for thinking, I suppose.
I might get ’em done around lunchtime. I have some urgent items to clear this morning.
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Oh, and good morning to you all! I’ve watered the garden, taken out my “freezer trash” (the stuff I stash there so I won’t have fly larvae crawling all over the trash can on trash day), taken out the recycle bin (since Handsome failed to do so last night).
I worked last night, so the dishes still haven’t been done. I thought Handsome would do it….
….but that’s what I get for thinking, I suppose.
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A step in the right direction.
A broad bipartisan majority of the Senate voted Thursday to end more than three decades of federal subsidies for ethanol, signaling that other long-sacrosanct programs could be at risk as Democrats and Republicans negotiate a sweeping deficit-reduction deal.
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A step in the right direction.
A broad bipartisan majority of the Senate voted Thursday to end more than three decades of federal subsidies for ethanol, signaling that other long-sacrosanct programs could be at risk as Democrats and Republicans negotiate a sweeping deficit-reduction deal.
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Live hard, die young, and leave a shriveled-up corpse.
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Rock stars then and now.
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The blue line on the chart shows gummint spending in billions of dollars. The red line shows nonfarm employment in thousands of dollars. Is that a typo or do we express employment in terms of dollars instead of the number of jobs? This is on the internet so it must be correct and it is from the Federal Reserve Bank and Cato Institute so it must be accurate, right? Just curious and a glorious good morning to all.
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The blue line on the chart shows gummint spending in billions of dollars. The red line shows nonfarm employment in thousands of dollars. Is that a typo or do we express employment in terms of dollars instead of the number of jobs? This is on the internet so it must be correct and it is from the Federal Reserve Bank and Cato Institute so it must be accurate, right? Just curious and a glorious good morning to all.
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I’m guessing typo on the right-hand scale.
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I’m guessing typo on the right-hand scale.
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Do an imaginary “best fit” line through the blue (total government spending) and you’ll note that the slope (rate of change) hasn’t really changed from 2006 onward. While I agree that the Obama administration has really “wee-wee’d up” the recovery, government spending rate of increase is not unique to his tenure. It’s that ramp in spending that’s the problem, and it’s that ramp which will cause the coming crash.
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Do an imaginary “best fit” line through the blue (total government spending) and you’ll note that the slope (rate of change) hasn’t really changed from 2006 onward. While I agree that the Obama administration has really “wee-wee’d up” the recovery, government spending rate of increase is not unique to his tenure. It’s that ramp in spending that’s the problem, and it’s that ramp which will cause the coming crash.
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Ted,
I work for a Dow30 Company (CAT) and we are doing ok. We are hiring and our stock has performed well since the crash of 2009. Not everything is doom and gloom.
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Ted,
I work for a Dow30 Company (CAT) and we are doing ok. We are hiring and our stock has performed well since the crash of 2009. Not everything is doom and gloom.
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3 Sarge,
Amen brother!!
Simple
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3 Sarge,
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The first ATM was introduced in December 1972 so how could the red line retain an upward trend until ’08. Another typo?
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The first ATM was introduced in December 1972 so how could the red line retain an upward trend until ’08. Another typo?
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One little problem with killing the ethanol subsidies is they didn’t kill the EPA mandate to blend gasoline. Consequently ethanol used in blends will cost more. Guess who’s going to pay.
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One little problem with killing the ethanol subsidies is they didn’t kill the EPA mandate to blend gasoline. Consequently ethanol used in blends will cost more. Guess who’s going to pay.
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Off to a slow start this morning, Hamsters. Guess the effect of the full moon has faded or maybe yesterday’s record-setting Hambone frenzy wore everyone out.
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Off to a slow start this morning, Hamsters. Guess the effect of the full moon has faded or maybe yesterday’s record-setting Hambone frenzy wore everyone out.
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One little problem with killing the ethanol subsidies is they didn’t kill the EPA mandate to blend gasoline. Consequently ethanol used in blends will cost more. Guess who’s going to pay.
People who will notice now.
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One little problem with killing the ethanol subsidies is they didn’t kill the EPA mandate to blend gasoline. Consequently ethanol used in blends will cost more. Guess who’s going to pay.
People who will notice now.
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I’m still convinced that rabies are not transmitted through mice bites. But there is evidence they are transmitted through beer and sports events. But, during rabid moments of human behavior, there can be courage.
Courage in Canada: Tiny Women Fight Back Rioting Men Trying to Overturn Car
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I’m still convinced that rabies are not transmitted through mice bites. But there is evidence they are transmitted through beer and sports events. But, during rabid moments of human behavior, there can be courage.
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chanter #10;
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Let me just say —-
It’s not pleasant getting stuck in a back-stabbing match between two of our vendors.
Back to your regular activities.
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Let me just say —-
It’s not pleasant getting stuck in a back-stabbing match between two of our vendors.
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Checked last night’s total (258!) and found your tip about the public library, thanks Simple!
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Checked last night’s total (258!) and found your tip about the public library, thanks Simple!
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Gearwar claims that he isn’t interested in setting off a firestorm or engaging in the infamous church versus state debate. The former student said he had simply hoped his words would help others. According to the Free Press, he told the audience:
“I have always dreamed of speaking about God in front of my school as the valedictorian,” he said in his speech. “This was the message God gave to me, and I am not allowed to share it with you even though it is my testimony, the most important change my life has ever experienced, and the one thing that I stand for no matter what.”
Since the incident, the entire text of the speech has been published by The Rutland Herald. Among the likely controversial words is the following:
I wouldn’t be standing before you without the blessings God has given me through my tough situations. He is the reason I am the man I am today, made new through Jesus death on the cross.
The latest in the nation’s official atheistic position.
High School Tells Valedictorian He Can‘t Say How ’God Had Changed His Life’
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Gearwar claims that he isn’t interested in setting off a firestorm or engaging in the infamous church versus state debate. The former student said he had simply hoped his words would help others. According to the Free Press, he told the audience:
“I have always dreamed of speaking about God in front of my school as the valedictorian,” he said in his speech. “This was the message God gave to me, and I am not allowed to share it with you even though it is my testimony, the most important change my life has ever experienced, and the one thing that I stand for no matter what.”
Since the incident, the entire text of the speech has been published by The Rutland Herald. Among the likely controversial words is the following:
I wouldn’t be standing before you without the blessings God has given me through my tough situations. He is the reason I am the man I am today, made new through Jesus death on the cross.
The latest in the nation’s official atheistic position.
High School Tells Valedictorian He Can‘t Say How ’God Had Changed His Life’ -
Good morning Hamsters. Gruesomely mugly 79 at 6, air you could wear and leave a small wake to mark your passage. Ugh2 Not a breath stirring, but later the breeze woke up and is a satisfactory presence now.
Our resident hawks swoop low through the pastures and yards searching for breakfast. An incognito night visitor has graduated from digging in the lawn to digging up several flowerbeds lately, likely looking for grubs; and since the flowers and lawn are watered the digging is easy compared to the cement-hard pastures. This requires replanting several areas of beds. Every morning. An armadillo is the likely perp. They are built to dig. Sigh.
Might have to start a nightly armadillo hunt as we have in past dry summers. This means spouse gets up several times at night, several night in a row, dressed in pjs and boots, to search the yard with flashlight and venerable .22 rifle in hand. In the early years out here successful hunts ended with a parade across the back pasture, spouse carrying the deceased on a manure fork and me (in my nightgown) leading the way with large flashlight to the fenceline where the departed was launched into the empty lot on the other side. The horses would be watching out their stall windows, and the barn cats followed the parade. Turkey buzzards usually showed up in a day or two, and that would be that within a week. In later years we skipped the nocturnal parade and cleaned up things the next morning, as the neighborhood was getting built up.
Can’t do that now, as the lot next door is now our good neighbors’ horse pasture. So it must be placing the body in the to-be-burned pile of branches and leaves–whenever we might get enough rain to make that feasible. The buzzards will take care of things long before that.
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Good morning Hamsters. Gruesomely mugly 79 at 6, air you could wear and leave a small wake to mark your passage. Ugh2 Not a breath stirring, but later the breeze woke up and is a satisfactory presence now.
Our resident hawks swoop low through the pastures and yards searching for breakfast. An incognito night visitor has graduated from digging in the lawn to digging up several flowerbeds lately, likely looking for grubs; and since the flowers and lawn are watered the digging is easy compared to the cement-hard pastures. This requires replanting several areas of beds. Every morning. An armadillo is the likely perp. They are built to dig. Sigh.
Might have to start a nightly armadillo hunt as we have in past dry summers. This means spouse gets up several times at night, several night in a row, dressed in pjs and boots, to search the yard with flashlight and venerable .22 rifle in hand. In the early years out here successful hunts ended with a parade across the back pasture, spouse carrying the deceased on a manure fork and me (in my nightgown) leading the way with large flashlight to the fenceline where the departed was launched into the empty lot on the other side. The horses would be watching out their stall windows, and the barn cats followed the parade. Turkey buzzards usually showed up in a day or two, and that would be that within a week. In later years we skipped the nocturnal parade and cleaned up things the next morning, as the neighborhood was getting built up.
Can’t do that now, as the lot next door is now our good neighbors’ horse pasture. So it must be placing the body in the to-be-burned pile of branches and leaves–whenever we might get enough rain to make that feasible. The buzzards will take care of things long before that. -
Consequently ethanol used in blends will cost more. Guess who’s going to pay.
Same people who are paying now.
The ethanol will actually cost less. There’s the price paid for the ethanol now, which will rise. There’s the hidden costs paid for by tax dollars. I’d bet the ranch that the hidden costs now are greater (by far) than the difference between the price now vs. later.
Also, the subsidies are for ethanol produced using fermentation. Most ethanol used in fuels, etc. is manufactured in actual chemical plants using some sort of natural gas/petroleum derivative as a feed.
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Consequently ethanol used in blends will cost more. Guess who’s going to pay.
Same people who are paying now.
The ethanol will actually cost less. There’s the price paid for the ethanol now, which will rise. There’s the hidden costs paid for by tax dollars. I’d bet the ranch that the hidden costs now are greater (by far) than the difference between the price now vs. later.
Also, the subsidies are for ethanol produced using fermentation. Most ethanol used in fuels, etc. is manufactured in actual chemical plants using some sort of natural gas/petroleum derivative as a feed. -
Was Huma Abedin — wife of Anthony Weiner and deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton — unaware that her mother was reported as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood? Did Western media miss what has been revealed in several Arab newspapers and left secret in American government circles?
Al-Liwa Al-Arabi (translated here) claims to have leaked an extensive list, partially published by Al-Jazeera and several other major Arab newspapers, that includes Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin, in the Brotherhood’s secret women’s division — known as the Muslim Sisterhood or International Women’s Organization (IWO).
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But there is more. Also confirmed by Arab sources is that Huma Abedin has a brother who works at Oxford University named Hassan Abedin. Oxford, which has long been infiltrated by Islamists who founded the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), has Huma’s brother listed as a fellow and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members on the Board — including al-Qaeda associate Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi. Both have been listed as OCIS trustees. Naseef continues to serve as Board chairman.
Who knew.
It is sacrilege in Islam for Huma’s mother to accept the reality that her daughter is married to a Jew. Yet neither Saleha nor Huma’s brother Hassan denounces her marriage to Weiner, especially when it was considered null and void by some of the highest authorities on Islamic Sharia rulings.
Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood should promote Huma’s marriage and use it as a humanitarian example of teir tolerance and diversity?
Hillary Clinton signed a document less than one month prior to her trip to Saudi Arabia with Huma that lifted the ban on Tariq Ramadan, allowing him entry into the United States. (Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna, and has ties to Islamic terrorist groups.) The Clinton family played a key role in promoting Fethullah Gülen, the extremely powerful Turkish imam and notorious Islamist conspirator, as he fled Turkey for the United States after attempting to overthrow Turkey’s secular government. (He was indicted on this charge in 2000.) In 2008, the former president heaped praise on Gülen, giving him a clean slate. Gülen has been given refuge and has even had sermons aired on Turkish television during which he explained to his followers how to best seize power from the Turkish government:
You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers… until the conditions are ripe….Until that time, any step taken would be too early — like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside [emphasis added].
Gülen expressed this sentiment in another sermon as well:
The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do [emphasis added].
Serving with Huma’s brother as an Oxford Centre trustee is Abdullah Gül, Turkey’s president himself. He considers himself a follower of Fethullah Gülen, according to Wikileaks.
Hmmmmm….
Revealed: Weiner’s In-Laws’ Secret Muslim Brotherhood Connections
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Was Huma Abedin — wife of Anthony Weiner and deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton — unaware that her mother was reported as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood? Did Western media miss what has been revealed in several Arab newspapers and left secret in American government circles?
Al-Liwa Al-Arabi (translated here) claims to have leaked an extensive list, partially published by Al-Jazeera and several other major Arab newspapers, that includes Huma’s mother, Saleha Abedin, in the Brotherhood’s secret women’s division — known as the Muslim Sisterhood or International Women’s Organization (IWO).(snip)
But there is more. Also confirmed by Arab sources is that Huma Abedin has a brother who works at Oxford University named Hassan Abedin. Oxford, which has long been infiltrated by Islamists who founded the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), has Huma’s brother listed as a fellow and partner with a number of Muslim Brotherhood members on the Board — including al-Qaeda associate Omar Naseef and the notorious Muslim Brotherhood leader Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi. Both have been listed as OCIS trustees. Naseef continues to serve as Board chairman.
Who knew.
It is sacrilege in Islam for Huma’s mother to accept the reality that her daughter is married to a Jew. Yet neither Saleha nor Huma’s brother Hassan denounces her marriage to Weiner, especially when it was considered null and void by some of the highest authorities on Islamic Sharia rulings.
Perhaps the Muslim Brotherhood should promote Huma’s marriage and use it as a humanitarian example of teir tolerance and diversity?
Hillary Clinton signed a document less than one month prior to her trip to Saudi Arabia with Huma that lifted the ban on Tariq Ramadan, allowing him entry into the United States. (Ramadan is the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna, and has ties to Islamic terrorist groups.) The Clinton family played a key role in promoting Fethullah Gülen, the extremely powerful Turkish imam and notorious Islamist conspirator, as he fled Turkey for the United States after attempting to overthrow Turkey’s secular government. (He was indicted on this charge in 2000.) In 2008, the former president heaped praise on Gülen, giving him a clean slate. Gülen has been given refuge and has even had sermons aired on Turkish television during which he explained to his followers how to best seize power from the Turkish government:
You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers… until the conditions are ripe….Until that time, any step taken would be too early — like breaking an egg without waiting the full forty days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside [emphasis added].
Gülen expressed this sentiment in another sermon as well:
The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web; and we teach those who do [emphasis added].
Serving with Huma’s brother as an Oxford Centre trustee is Abdullah Gül, Turkey’s president himself. He considers himself a follower of Fethullah Gülen, according to Wikileaks.
Hmmmmm….
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#7 Doooooode:
When I look at the chart I see the line point up as soon an Nanzi Pelousi takes over as SOH. Looking at a longer window would be helpful as well as having GDP on the chart, perhaps a line depicting govt spending as a percent of GDP over the last 40 years or so. -
#7 Doooooode:
When I look at the chart I see the line point up as soon an Nanzi Pelousi takes over as SOH. Looking at a longer window would be helpful as well as having GDP on the chart, perhaps a line depicting govt spending as a percent of GDP over the last 40 years or so. -
Adee
Time to repeat a funny armadillo story.A group of South American buyers came by to look at some polled Brahman heifers. At the end of the meeting one of them noticed a dead dillo nearby. Through the interpreter, he asked questions about it and was surprised to find out my wife had dispatched the intruder…. And with a single shot, no less.
She told him, “This is Texas. We don’t waste more than one bullet on an armadillo.”I asked her if she had disclosed she was butt nekkid when she did it.
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Adee
Time to repeat a funny armadillo story.
A group of South American buyers came by to look at some polled Brahman heifers. At the end of the meeting one of them noticed a dead dillo nearby. Through the interpreter, he asked questions about it and was surprised to find out my wife had dispatched the intruder…. And with a single shot, no less.
She told him, “This is Texas. We don’t waste more than one bullet on an armadillo.”
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Did you see my link yesterday? Two men were trying to protect a business’ windows, and one of them was beaten for pushing away some of the rioters.
These “rioters” turn my stomach. Spoiled brats, all of them.
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Did you see my link yesterday? Two men were trying to protect a business’ windows, and one of them was beaten for pushing away some of the rioters.
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Same people who are paying now.
I know that. But it will be more visible to the consumer when they see it added to the price of gasoline rather than taken out of the mass of tax dollars. I’m not advocating for ethanol subsidies, I’m advocating repeal of the EPA mandates.
Most ethanol used in fuels, etc. is manufactured in actual chemical plants using some sort of natural gas/petroleum derivative as a feed.
I don’t think that’s right. Where is all the ethanol from subsidies going?
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Same people who are paying now.
I know that. But it will be more visible to the consumer when they see it added to the price of gasoline rather than taken out of the mass of tax dollars. I’m not advocating for ethanol subsidies, I’m advocating repeal of the EPA mandates.
Most ethanol used in fuels, etc. is manufactured in actual chemical plants using some sort of natural gas/petroleum derivative as a feed.
I don’t think that’s right. Where is all the ethanol from subsidies going?
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#23 Shannon
Do you live out in the country too? At least in Adee’s story, they were wearing their PJs when they went out to shoot an armadillo at night. -
#23 Shannon
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Seems like I recall Shannon lives next to a midget nudist colony, or something like that 😉
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Seems like I recall Shannon lives next to a midget nudist colony, or something like that 😉
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#22 Boney,
I was speaking to the overall trend, which has a pretty consistent slope from ’06 to current. The uptick that you note took place before Nazi Pelousy actually took office. Just eyeballing it, it would align roughly with October / November ’06 time frame. I agree that I would like to see the time axis expanded. All the way back to 1960 would be helpful in identifying govt. spending habits.
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#22 Boney,
I was speaking to the overall trend, which has a pretty consistent slope from ’06 to current. The uptick that you note took place before Nazi Pelousy actually took office. Just eyeballing it, it would align roughly with October / November ’06 time frame. I agree that I would like to see the time axis expanded. All the way back to 1960 would be helpful in identifying govt. spending habits. -
Always remember when dealing with graphs / statistics that correlation doesn’t automatically equal causation. That one will bit you in the arse…. cough cough… man made global warming believers.
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Always remember when dealing with graphs / statistics that correlation doesn’t automatically equal causation. That one will bit you in the arse…. cough cough… man made global warming believers.
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All is right on track as far as Dear Leader is concerned. His ongoing effort to break the Nation continues successfully. All is well in Obamaville.
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All is right on track as far as Dear Leader is concerned. His ongoing effort to break the Nation continues successfully. All is well in Obamaville.
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Used to live in the country. But by city folks standards, I still do.
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Used to live in the country. But by city folks standards, I still do.
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Here is some red meat to spice things up.
Look what this bunch of liberals want to do about illegals.Simple
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Here is some red meat to spice things up.
Look what this bunch of liberals want to do about illegals.
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#32 It’s because they started allowing those evil Catholic sacraments into their churches! They are now just pawns for the whore of Babylon.
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#32 It’s because they started allowing those evil Catholic sacraments into their churches! They are now just pawns for the whore of Babylon.
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That’s a pretty good standard, though. If you engage in neckkid dillo hunting, you live in the country.
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That’s a pretty good standard, though. If you engage in neckkid dillo hunting, you live in the country.
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34 I only hunt the naked dillos! The ones that are smart enough to dress look too pitiful when you shoot them.
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I don’t think that’s right. Where is all the ethanol from subsidies going?
I may have misstated what I meant. Most ethanol used in fuels and industrial applications is manufactured, not fermented. After it’s made, it’s pretty much fungible – there’s not a whole lot of difference between one ethanol molecule and another.
I would bet that pharma grade ethanol is manufactured, since you can only get up to about 95% ethanol through distillation alone. Ditto ethanol used in feeds to other processes. Some gin is made with manufactured ethanol. If you’re going to burn it as a fuel, the purity standards are lower.
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I don’t think that’s right. Where is all the ethanol from subsidies going?
I may have misstated what I meant. Most ethanol used in fuels and industrial applications is manufactured, not fermented. After it’s made, it’s pretty much fungible – there’s not a whole lot of difference between one ethanol molecule and another.
I would bet that pharma grade ethanol is manufactured, since you can only get up to about 95% ethanol through distillation alone. Ditto ethanol used in feeds to other processes. Some gin is made with manufactured ethanol. If you’re going to burn it as a fuel, the purity standards are lower. -
The story was Mrs. Shannon was tired of being awakened in the middle of the night by the same armadillo banging around and under the floor joists of the old pier and beam house on the ranch. One night, she had just enough, jumped out of bed buck naked, grabbed the varmint gun on the way out the door and sent the evil intruder straight to hell with one shot.
It’s an official chapter in our family history book now.
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The story was Mrs. Shannon was tired of being awakened in the middle of the night by the same armadillo banging around and under the floor joists of the old pier and beam house on the ranch. One night, she had just enough, jumped out of bed buck naked, grabbed the varmint gun on the way out the door and sent the evil intruder straight to hell with one shot.
It’s an official chapter in our family history book now. -
The story was Mrs. Shannon was tired of being awakened in the middle of the night by the same armadillo banging around and under the floor joists of the old pier and beam house on the ranch. One night, she had just enough, jumped out of bed buck naked, because that lazy good-for-nuthin’ lout of a husband wouldn’t do anything, grabbed the varmint gun on the way out the door and sent the evil intruder straight to hell with one shot.
yer welcome
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The story was Mrs. Shannon was tired of being awakened in the middle of the night by the same armadillo banging around and under the floor joists of the old pier and beam house on the ranch. One night, she had just enough, jumped out of bed buck naked, because that lazy good-for-nuthin’ lout of a husband wouldn’t do anything, grabbed the varmint gun on the way out the door and sent the evil intruder straight to hell with one shot.
yer welcome
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My armadillo story: I had a buddy from Missouri come down to go on a canoe trip on the Colorado between Smithville and Columbus. First night we were camping I walked out in the woods to relieve myself and heard the tell-tale sound of a ‘dillo rooting around in the leaf litter. As most folks from the South know, they’re real easy to catch because they’re essentially blind and deaf. So I walked over and grabbed him by the tail and took him back to the campfire where everyone was sitting and held him right in front of my Missouri buddy’s face. I suppose if you’re not familiar with them they look kind of menacing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a human being jump so high and so fast in my life.
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My armadillo story: I had a buddy from Missouri come down to go on a canoe trip on the Colorado between Smithville and Columbus. First night we were camping I walked out in the woods to relieve myself and heard the tell-tale sound of a ‘dillo rooting around in the leaf litter. As most folks from the South know, they’re real easy to catch because they’re essentially blind and deaf. So I walked over and grabbed him by the tail and took him back to the campfire where everyone was sitting and held him right in front of my Missouri buddy’s face. I suppose if you’re not familiar with them they look kind of menacing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a human being jump so high and so fast in my life.
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Did he scream like a kindergarten girl?
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Did he scream like a kindergarten girl?
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Most ethanol used in fuels and industrial applications is manufactured, not fermented.
I still don’t think that’s right for fuels. The whole corn-to-ethanol boondoggle runs on blending it with gasoline. That’s why agribusiness was pushing for a 15% mandate from the feds. There would be no demand for the quantities of ethanol from corn were it not for its use as fuel. It’s also why we have obscene tariffs on Brazilian ethanol.
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Most ethanol used in fuels and industrial applications is manufactured, not fermented.
I still don’t think that’s right for fuels. The whole corn-to-ethanol boondoggle runs on blending it with gasoline. That’s why agribusiness was pushing for a 15% mandate from the feds. There would be no demand for the quantities of ethanol from corn were it not for its use as fuel. It’s also why we have obscene tariffs on Brazilian ethanol.
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Did he scream like a kindergarten girl?
Didn’t make a sound, just jumped up and back about 10 feet in a split second.
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Did he scream like a kindergarten girl?
Didn’t make a sound, just jumped up and back about 10 feet in a split second.
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Making a quick round trip to La Grange via Round Top and Burton.
The parched brown pastures provide contrast for the stunning electric purple Blue Belle flowers.
And the ouisache is green. 🙁
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Making a quick round trip to La Grange via Round Top and Burton.
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Seems like I recall Shannon lives next to a midget nudist colony, or something like that
So Shannon’s wife is a midget nudist? Perhaps I shouldn’t be so scared after all. 🙂
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Seems like I recall Shannon lives next to a midget nudist colony, or something like that
So Shannon’s wife is a midget nudist? Perhaps I shouldn’t be so scared after all. 🙂
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My armadillo story is about friends who lived out in the country north of Austin. One of the kids had found an abandoned/orphan baby armadillo on their farm and the family adopted it as a house pet. They fed it cat food and it used a cat litter box. Mom of the family didn’t initially like the little critter much because dillos aren’t fuzzy and as cute as most baby mammals. But she warmed to it after a few months when it taught itself how to “walk” up the small gap between her bed post and the wall, and slept on her bed at night.
Me, I was ambivalent holding it — it’s not furry but it is warm even through the “shell”. Just feels so different from the usual pet animal.
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My armadillo story is about friends who lived out in the country north of Austin. One of the kids had found an abandoned/orphan baby armadillo on their farm and the family adopted it as a house pet. They fed it cat food and it used a cat litter box. Mom of the family didn’t initially like the little critter much because dillos aren’t fuzzy and as cute as most baby mammals. But she warmed to it after a few months when it taught itself how to “walk” up the small gap between her bed post and the wall, and slept on her bed at night.
Me, I was ambivalent holding it — it’s not furry but it is warm even through the “shell”. Just feels so different from the usual pet animal. -
Tedtam #24;
Read the post, but did not link. 🙁
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Tedtam #24;
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#41 hamous
You might be right.How do they knock the last bit of water out of it?
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#41 hamous
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Obama losses to generic Republican.
PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-four percent of registered voters say they are more likely to vote for “the Republican Party’s candidate” and 39% for Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, according to Gallup’s June update. The current five-percentage-point edge for the generic Republican is not a statistically significant lead, and neither side has held a meaningful lead at any point thus far in 2011.
Mornin’Afternoon Gang -
Obama losses to generic Republican.
PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-four percent of registered voters say they are more likely to vote for “the Republican Party’s candidate” and 39% for Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election, according to Gallup’s June update. The current five-percentage-point edge for the generic Republican is not a statistically significant lead, and neither side has held a meaningful lead at any point thus far in 2011.
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Its as bad as we’ve ever seen it, Texpat.
Some areas have already attained 50 year record drought, not having had appreciable rain since October.
Some never quit feeding, coming out of Winter…. That is if they had the hay.
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Its as bad as we’ve ever seen it, Texpat.
Some areas have already attained 50 year record drought, not having had appreciable rain since October.
Some never quit feeding, coming out of Winter…. That is if they had the hay.
Unprecedented cattle sell off. Many of the old timers wont be back in the game, this time. -
It’s good to be the queen. Mayor decrees lower drainage fee for Houstonians starting in July.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7614510.html
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It’s good to be the queen. Mayor decrees lower drainage fee for Houstonians starting in July.
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Now it would be good to have something falling from the sky that needs to drain away…
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Now it would be good to have something falling from the sky that needs to drain away…
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#52 Mharper
Now it would be good to have something falling from the sky that needs to drain away…
It may take a day or two to start draining. First, it’s gotta fill all those cracks in my backyard.
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#52 Mharper
Now it would be good to have something falling from the sky that needs to drain away…
It may take a day or two to start draining. First, it’s gotta fill all those cracks in my backyard.
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Some of those cracks are ankle-breakers.
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Some of those cracks are ankle-breakers.
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I just looked at Drudge’s front page. I swear, every time I look at Qaddafi/Kadafy/Quaddafi, I am reminded of some aging 1980’s rocker.
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I just looked at Drudge’s front page. I swear, every time I look at Qaddafi/Kadafy/Quaddafi, I am reminded of some aging 1980’s rocker.
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How do they knock the last bit of water out of it?
Molecular sieve would be my guess.
I read an op-ed last year about how some of the Caribbean Islands (not subject to the ethanol tariff) were buying Brazilian ethanol, dehydrating it, and selling it to us.
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How do they knock the last bit of water out of it?
Molecular sieve would be my guess.
I read an op-ed last year about how some of the Caribbean Islands (not subject to the ethanol tariff) were buying Brazilian ethanol, dehydrating it, and selling it to us. -
Very nice. Pleased to see Cornyn’s name attached to this. I do give credit where due.
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Very nice. Pleased to see Cornyn’s name attached to this. I do give credit where due.
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#55 crazy aunt
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#55 crazy aunt
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“…Shannon lives next to a midget nudist colony…”
Yeah, and the guy who heads it up raises miniature ponies, too! And he has a little miniature truck he rides around the Belleville area in!
I think his handle is Cbr!
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“…Shannon lives next to a midget nudist colony…”
Yeah, and the guy who heads it up raises miniature ponies, too! And he has a little miniature truck he rides around the Belleville area in!
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He even has a house band.
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He even has a house band.
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You leave him alone.
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You leave him alone.
He simply raises horses low enuff for him to get his foot in the stirrup. -
In all the years we’ve lived in the countryside across from Richmond, we’ve encountered numerous armadillos in the area. In the early 80s, one deceased critter was on the side of FM 359, on his back, with an empty bottle of Lone Star on his belly and grasped with front feet. It was there for several days, and Lord knows how many wrecks it nearly caused.
Armadillos were behind 5 doors when the Lord handed out brains, and they don’t see well either. Maybe that’s why they’re born in batches of 4. The little ones are kinda cute. We have no ill will toward them unless they’re tearing up the yard and flowers. They have to live too. Just not in our yard, please.
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In all the years we’ve lived in the countryside across from Richmond, we’ve encountered numerous armadillos in the area. In the early 80s, one deceased critter was on the side of FM 359, on his back, with an empty bottle of Lone Star on his belly and grasped with front feet. It was there for several days, and Lord knows how many wrecks it nearly caused.
Armadillos were behind 5 doors when the Lord handed out brains, and they don’t see well either. Maybe that’s why they’re born in batches of 4. The little ones are kinda cute. We have no ill will toward them unless they’re tearing up the yard and flowers. They have to live too. Just not in our yard, please. -
Shannon,
In our warehouse is my copy of this book. You ought to read it if you can find it.
Review
“Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab you and hold you from the first to the last page.” -Dee Brown, author of the New York Times bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.Product Description
To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man’s biggest enemy is one he can’t control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable “help” of federal aid programs, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again-if it ever rains again. -
Shannon,
In our warehouse is my copy of this book. You ought to read it if you can find it.
The Time It Never RainedReview
“Elmer Kelton does not write Westerns. He writes fine novels set in the West. Here a reader meets flesh-and-blood people of an earlier time, in a story that will grab you and hold you from the first to the last page.” -Dee Brown, author of the New York Times bestseller Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.Product Description
To the ranchers and farmers of 1950s Texas, man’s biggest enemy is one he can’t control. With their entire livelihood pegged on the chance of a wet year or a dry year, drought has the ability to crush their whole enterprise, to determine who stands and who falls, and to take food out of the mouths of the workers and their families. To Charlie Flagg, an honest, decent, and cantankerous rancher, the drought of the early 1950s is a foe that he must fight on his own grounds. Refusing the questionable “help” of federal aid programs, Charlie and his family struggle to make the ranch survive until the time it rains again-if it ever rains again. -
But she warmed to it after a few months when it taught itself how to “walk” up the small gap between her bed post and the wall, and slept on her bed at night.
They may be cute but I’d think twice before I let one of the little boogers crawl up in my bed.
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But she warmed to it after a few months when it taught itself how to “walk” up the small gap between her bed post and the wall, and slept on her bed at night.
They may be cute but I’d think twice before I let one of the little boogers crawl up in my bed.
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I’ve read it. At least twice. Feels like we’re living it now.
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I’ve read it. At least twice. Feels like we’re living it now.
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Gloves only. I promise ya. -
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Gloves only. I promise ya. -
LowRents, Shannon – Thanks. At my age I proudly plead GUILTY on all counts.
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LowRents, Shannon – Thanks. At my age I proudly plead GUILTY on all counts.
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You should have nude midget barrel racing on your pygmy ponies. I’d pay to see that!
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You should have nude midget barrel racing on your pygmy ponies. I’d pay to see that!
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#68 haymouse – Will take that under advisement. Been looking at a way to diversify the ranch and that just may be the ticket to my millions. There even could be a royality in it for you and your suggestion should it pan out.
Recon I’ll havta hunt up Old Pipe Smoker and give him a cut also since he has a lock on them nekkid midget folks
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#68 haymouse – Will take that under advisement. Been looking at a way to diversify the ranch and that just may be the ticket to my millions. There even could be a royality in it for you and your suggestion should it pan out.
Recon I’ll havta hunt up Old Pipe Smoker and give him a cut also since he has a lock on them nekkid midget folks -
In Argentina, the common relative to our nine-banded armadillo is the Southern Long-Nosed Armadillo or Dasypus Hybridus with its six bands.
A former business partner of mine is from Argentina and he spent summers working on his uncle’s cattle ranch in Patagonia. One of their gaucho delicacies is to catch these armadillos, put them in a big barrel filled with grain and let them eat like crazy for 30 days. It purges their system and cleans them out.
The they kill it, gut it, chop off the tail, head and feet. They bind the carcass shell with with wire and place it in a bed of hot coals dug into the ground. They let them cook overnight, take them out and serve them the next day.
When I asked my friend, Ruben, what it tastes like, he said, without smiling or batting an eye, “Why, just like chicken, my friend.”
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In Argentina, the common relative to our nine-banded armadillo is the Southern Long-Nosed Armadillo or Dasypus Hybridus with its six bands.
A former business partner of mine is from Argentina and he spent summers working on his uncle’s cattle ranch in Patagonia. One of their gaucho delicacies is to catch these armadillos, put them in a big barrel filled with grain and let them eat like crazy for 30 days. It purges their system and cleans them out.
The they kill it, gut it, chop off the tail, head and feet. They bind the carcass shell with with wire and place it in a bed of hot coals dug into the ground. They let them cook overnight, take them out and serve them the next day.
When I asked my friend, Ruben, what it tastes like, he said, without smiling or batting an eye, “Why, just like chicken, my friend.” -
You should have nude midget barrel racing on your pygmy ponies.
He should raise dental floss, too.
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You should have nude midget barrel racing on your pygmy ponies.
He should raise dental floss, too.
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#68. Me too!
Especially if they were battered in extra virgin olive oil!
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#68. Me too!
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I can see the disgusted look already on IWHarper69’s face as she Shakes her Head slowly from side to side!
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I can see the disgusted look already on IWHarper69’s face as she Shakes her Head slowly from side to side!
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The author of the book I cite in #63 is the renowned novelist from San Angelo, Elmer Kelton. Shannon and I had an uncle in there who was a prominent rancher and who was voted by his fellow cattle and sheep men to represent them when President Eisenhower came to view the six year long drought in Texas in January of 1957.
Elmer Kelton was there in the group as a young local reporter.
The back story is that the local ranchers decided to pick the finest local mohair available and have it woven into heavy fabric from which to make Ike a beautiful camel colored overcoat. Eisenhower wore it that day as he toured the local devastation with our uncle, Earl Byrd. The bad luck scandal was our uncle was helping the President climb through a barbed wire fence on his ranch when Ike caught the fabric on a barb and tore the brand new coat.
You can see Elmer Kelton’s reminisce about that event in the article he wrote for Texas Monthly’s 1986 Sesquicentennial Issue.
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The author of the book I cite in #63 is the renowned novelist from San Angelo, Elmer Kelton. Shannon and I had an uncle in there who was a prominent rancher and who was voted by his fellow cattle and sheep men to represent them when President Eisenhower came to view the six year long drought in Texas in January of 1957.
Elmer Kelton was there in the group as a young local reporter.
The back story is that the local ranchers decided to pick the finest local mohair available and have it woven into heavy fabric from which to make Ike a beautiful camel colored overcoat. Eisenhower wore it that day as he toured the local devastation with our uncle, Earl Byrd. The bad luck scandal was our uncle was helping the President climb through a barbed wire fence on his ranch when Ike caught the fabric on a barb and tore the brand new coat.
You can see Elmer Kelton’s reminisce about that event in the article he wrote for Texas Monthly’s 1986 Sesquicentennial Issue.
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Well;
You just knew this was gonna happen, didn’t you?
A Houston federal judge today invalidated last November’s referendum that ended the red-light camera program, a ruling that has sent city leaders back to square one.
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City Attorney David Feldman said he would discuss the city’s options with Mayor Annise Parker and the city council, but acknowledged one possibility was to restore the camera system.
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Well;
You just knew this was gonna happen, didn’t you?A Houston federal judge today invalidated last November’s referendum that ended the red-light camera program, a ruling that has sent city leaders back to square one.
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City Attorney David Feldman said he would discuss the city’s options with Mayor Annise Parker and the city council, but acknowledged one possibility was to restore the camera system. -
Y’all just had to do it….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJN_uWaVRfo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Y’all just had to do it….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJN_uWaVRfo&feature=youtube_gdata_player -
I haven’t kept up with the traffic camera issue.
Does anybody have any idea the grounds on which the City of Houston could file a suit over this referendum in a federal court ?
It doesn’t seem to me a dispute that should be argued in a federal venue in the first place.
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I haven’t kept up with the traffic camera issue.
Does anybody have any idea the grounds on which the City of Houston could file a suit over this referendum in a federal court ?
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Last two days, references to:
1) Al “Big Lobby” Zolli
2) EPJ
3) HeadShaker
4) Cbr
5) Old Pipe SmokerGuaranteed, it was a full moon!
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Last two days, references to:
1) Al “Big Lobby” Zolli
2) EPJ
3) HeadShaker
4) Cbr
5) Old Pipe Smoker
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There may be some hope:
Our confidence continues to increase in favor of a major pattern change by the middle to latter part of next week as strong upper level high pressure quickly weakens and is replaced by lower pressure at the surface and aloft. Recall that it’s been this upper level high that’s been virtually parked over the area during the past several months bringing record hot and dry weather.
Rain chances are forecast to start increasing next Tuesday, with the best chance for more widespread shower and thunderstorm activity commencing on Wednesday through the following weekend. Even though the pattern change is still several days in the future, and it’s a little too early to predict how much rain may fall, this is the type of flow pattern which could bring locally heavy rainfall to the region.
In addition, some of the longer range computer models are hinting at a weak tropical low developing over the western Gulf during the middle to latter part of next week which could focus even more rain up toward the Texas Coast, if it materializes. Conditions appear to be becoming a little more favorable and at this time we can’t rule out a slight possibility when you also consider water temperatures over the Gulf are quite warm and well beyond the threshold for tropical development.
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There may be some hope:
Our confidence continues to increase in favor of a major pattern change by the middle to latter part of next week as strong upper level high pressure quickly weakens and is replaced by lower pressure at the surface and aloft. Recall that it’s been this upper level high that’s been virtually parked over the area during the past several months bringing record hot and dry weather.
Rain chances are forecast to start increasing next Tuesday, with the best chance for more widespread shower and thunderstorm activity commencing on Wednesday through the following weekend. Even though the pattern change is still several days in the future, and it’s a little too early to predict how much rain may fall, this is the type of flow pattern which could bring locally heavy rainfall to the region.
In addition, some of the longer range computer models are hinting at a weak tropical low developing over the western Gulf during the middle to latter part of next week which could focus even more rain up toward the Texas Coast, if it materializes. Conditions appear to be becoming a little more favorable and at this time we can’t rule out a slight possibility when you also consider water temperatures over the Gulf are quite warm and well beyond the threshold for tropical development. -
#76. Best I can tell by what I’ve seen occasionally in my dryer the last several years, young women are using that stuff for underwear too!
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#76. Best I can tell by what I’ve seen occasionally in my dryer the last several years, young women are using that stuff for underwear too!
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Tehran is obviously monitoring Hamous.org and its recent publication of Hamousian hair fashions of the past.
From James Robbins at the Washington Times:
As Iran attempts to become a nuclear power with global reach, at home the Ayatollahs are mounting a fashion offensive. In an effort to blunt the “invasion” of western culture, Iran has implemented a “moral security plan” that bans men from wearing necklaces, short pants, and “glamorous hairstyles” such as ponytails and the mullet. 70,000 “morality police” have been deployed in Tehran and other cities to enforce the edict.
It’s hard to understand why the Islamic Republic considers gold chains and mullets to be key emblems of western culture, but when you add the pre-existing ban on disco dancing it is clear that Iran has declared total war on the 1970s. They just never got over the Carter administration.
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Tehran is obviously monitoring Hamous.org and its recent publication of Hamousian hair fashions of the past.
From James Robbins at the Washington Times:As Iran attempts to become a nuclear power with global reach, at home the Ayatollahs are mounting a fashion offensive. In an effort to blunt the “invasion” of western culture, Iran has implemented a “moral security plan” that bans men from wearing necklaces, short pants, and “glamorous hairstyles” such as ponytails and the mullet. 70,000 “morality police” have been deployed in Tehran and other cities to enforce the edict.
It’s hard to understand why the Islamic Republic considers gold chains and mullets to be key emblems of western culture, but when you add the pre-existing ban on disco dancing it is clear that Iran has declared total war on the 1970s. They just never got over the Carter administration. -
#78 Watch out. There are a couple of people on your list that are “preemptively banned”.
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#78 Watch out. There are a couple of people on your list that are “preemptively banned”.
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“Guilt by association?”
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“Guilt by association?”
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The full moon insanity is an interesting one.
After fifty years of nursing the wife doesn’t need a calendar.
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The full moon insanity is an interesting one.
After fifty years of nursing the wife doesn’t need a calendar.
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#83 No, they’re just guilty of idiocy and I’d rather not tempt them over. I don’t suffer fools gladly.
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#83 No, they’re just guilty of idiocy and I’d rather not tempt them over. I don’t suffer fools gladly.
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You should have nude midget barrel racing on your pygmy ponies. I’d pay to see that!
perv
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You should have nude midget barrel racing on your pygmy ponies. I’d pay to see that!
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#64 Hammy
I’d think twice before I let one of the little boogers crawl up in my bed.
Well, my friend is still alive and kicking at age 82. She did not get leprosy from her son’s pet armadillo all those years ago. She attempted Mount Everest in her 70s but did not reach the summit. She visited Machu Pichu for her 80th birthday. I can’t say that I hope to be that active in my old age, but it’s encouraging to know a few who are.
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#64 Hammy
I’d think twice before I let one of the little boogers crawl up in my bed.
Well, my friend is still alive and kicking at age 82. She did not get leprosy from her son’s pet armadillo all those years ago. She attempted Mount Everest in her 70s but did not reach the summit. She visited Machu Pichu for her 80th birthday. I can’t say that I hope to be that active in my old age, but it’s encouraging to know a few who are.
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73 Lawrence says:
June 17, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I can see the disgusted look already on IWHarper69′s face as she Shakes her Head slowly from side to side!Not disgust, befuddlement. Am I being associated with the Head-Shaker dude some way?
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73 Lawrence says:
June 17, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I can see the disgusted look already on IWHarper69′s face as she Shakes her Head slowly from side to side!Not disgust, befuddlement. Am I being associated with the Head-Shaker dude some way?
He rarely posts but I like his avatar because he looks like a secret agent. -
Editorial in praise of Joe Straus
Consider the source, and what they find praise worthy—–
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Editorial in praise of Joe Straus
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Shannon #84;
Every whiner, kook and rear orifice will call or show up like clockwork.
Which one was I yesterday?
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Shannon #84;
Every whiner, kook and rear orifice will call or show up like clockwork.
Which one was I yesterday?
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#88. Maybe the adolescent sexual inuendo doesn’t affect you like I thought!
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#88. Maybe the adolescent sexual inuendo doesn’t affect you like I thought!
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#85. I’m with you.
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#85. I’m with you.
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By the east Asian office of the American ad agency, Ogilvy.
One of the best commercials I have ever seen.
HT: Gerard VanderLeun
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By the east Asian office of the American ad agency, Ogilvy.
One of the best commercials I have ever seen.
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Machu Pichu at age 80.
That’s pretty damn inspiring.
I removed that from the bucket list five years ago.
I’m down to hoping I can survive a round trip to Jersey to give Texpat a piece of my mind.Happy Fathers Day, you worthless bunch of reprobates.
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Machu Pichu at age 80.
That’s pretty damn inspiring.
I removed that from the bucket list five years ago.
I’m down to hoping I can survive a round trip to Jersey to give Texpat a piece of my mind.
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A gift for Hamous.
What is Science?
Put most simply, science is a way of dealing with the world around us. It is a way of baffling the uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. It is a way of achieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction. Science represents mankind’s deepest aspirations – aspirations to power, to wealth, to the satisfaction of sheer animal lusts.
The cornerstone of modern science is the scientific method. Scientists first formulate hypotheses, or predictions, about nature. Then they perform experiments to test their hypotheses. There are two forms of scientific method, the inductive and the deductive.
and
Science for Everyone
Sound simple? It is.
Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science.
Today, all that has changed: a dim, incoherent knowledge of science is available to anyone. Popular science books, magazines and computer programs – with their simple, fatuous and misleading prose, their garish illustrations, their flimsy modern production values – have brought science within the reach of anyone who can afford their inflated prices or who can mooch off someone else.
Indeed, today a myriad of sources are available to explain science facts that science itself has never dreamed of.
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A gift for Hamous.
What is Science?
Put most simply, science is a way of dealing with the world around us. It is a way of baffling the uninitiated with incomprehensible jargon. It is a way of obtaining fat government grants. It is a way of achieving mastery over the physical world by threatening it with destruction. Science represents mankind’s deepest aspirations – aspirations to power, to wealth, to the satisfaction of sheer animal lusts.
The cornerstone of modern science is the scientific method. Scientists first formulate hypotheses, or predictions, about nature. Then they perform experiments to test their hypotheses. There are two forms of scientific method, the inductive and the deductive.and
Science for Everyone
Sound simple? It is.
Once, when the secrets of science were the jealously guarded property of a small priesthood, the common man had no hope of mastering their arcane complexities. Years of study in musty classrooms were prerequisite to obtaining even a dim, incoherent knowledge of science.
Today, all that has changed: a dim, incoherent knowledge of science is available to anyone. Popular science books, magazines and computer programs – with their simple, fatuous and misleading prose, their garish illustrations, their flimsy modern production values – have brought science within the reach of anyone who can afford their inflated prices or who can mooch off someone else.
Indeed, today a myriad of sources are available to explain science facts that science itself has never dreamed of. -
#93 Texpat Man that was great! And “One of the best commercials I have ever seen.”
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#93 Texpat Man that was great! And “One of the best commercials I have ever seen.”
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#93 Texpat
Too awesome. Too, too awesome.
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#93 Texpat
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Okay – say it with me, gang!
SHOCKER!
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#91 Lawrence
Maybe the adolescent sexual inuendo doesn’t affect you like I thought!
Click. Check. Click.
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#91 Lawrence
Maybe the adolescent sexual inuendo doesn’t affect you like I thought!
Click. Check. Click.
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100!
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100!
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And 100
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And 100
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Dang it.
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Dang it.
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#93 – Great Catch Seenyore Texpat!
That vid was widely enjoyed on multiple motorcycle boards I frequent – not everyone understands WHY dogs MUST hang their heads out of the windows of moving automobiles the way we 2-wheeled addicts do…………………
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#93 – Great Catch Seenyore Texpat!
That vid was widely enjoyed on multiple motorcycle boards I frequent – not everyone understands WHY dogs MUST hang their heads out of the windows of moving automobiles the way we 2-wheeled addicts do………………… -
#93;
Cool, COOL, COOL commercial, Texpat.
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mharper;
And after you tried to give he a heads up yesterday. I am man. I am scum. 🙁
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mharper;
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Happy Fathers Day, you worthless bunch of reprobates.
Is Father’s Day coming up? Yikes, I didn’t know.
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Happy Fathers Day, you worthless bunch of reprobates.
Is Father’s Day coming up? Yikes, I didn’t know.
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That’s right, last month I learned it’ll be on the 19th of june.
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That’s right, last month I learned it’ll be on the 19th of june.
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#93 Texpat
I enjoyed the unusual commercial, but I don’t understand what the dream is. One guy with a picture of a woman, another guy with a picture of a man. So they are reliving a bit of their youth on the motorcycle road trip. But what is the dream?
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#93 Texpat
I enjoyed the unusual commercial, but I don’t understand what the dream is. One guy with a picture of a woman, another guy with a picture of a man. So they are reliving a bit of their youth on the motorcycle road trip. But what is the dream? -
#105 Darren
S’okay, you won it fair and square!
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Rosalina Gonzales had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of injury to a child for what prosecutors had described as a “pretty simple, straightforward spanking case.” They noted she didn’t use a belt or leave any bruises, just some red marks.
The federal government rides again to the rescue…NOT.
“You don’t spank children today,” said Judge Jose Longoria. “In the old days, maybe we got spanked, but there was a different quarrel. You don’t spank children.”
Shall I now plead the 5th when ased if I’ve ever spanked my kinds and left red marks?
Judge has harsh words for Mom before sentencing her for spanking her kid
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#105 Darren
S’okay, you won it fair and square!
/(Scum can’t help bein’ scum… Harrummph.) -
Rosalina Gonzales had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of injury to a child for what prosecutors had described as a “pretty simple, straightforward spanking case.” They noted she didn’t use a belt or leave any bruises, just some red marks.
The federal government rides again to the rescue…NOT.
“You don’t spank children today,” said Judge Jose Longoria. “In the old days, maybe we got spanked, but there was a different quarrel. You don’t spank children.”
Shall I now plead the 5th when ased if I’ve ever spanked my kinds and left red marks?
Judge has harsh words for Mom before sentencing her for spanking her kid -
mharper #108;
So they are reliving a bit of their youth on the motorcycle road trip. But what is the dream?
I think you just answered your own question.
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mharper #108;
So they are reliving a bit of their youth on the motorcycle road trip. But what is the dream?
I think you just answered your own question.
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Is that it? Man, I would not want to relive a lot of my youth. If I had it all to do over, there would be a lot of changes.
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Is that it? Man, I would not want to relive a lot of my youth. If I had it all to do over, there would be a lot of changes.
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IRS Accidentally Deposits $110,000 in Man’s Bank Account, Then Arrests Him!
Los Angeles prosecutors say the man failed to notify authorities of the error and charged him with one felony count of grand theft by misappropriation of lost property. The man could face up to four years in jail if convicted.
The man offered to return to the woman the $65,000 that was left over and make monthly payments on the rest but she rejected the offer as she wanted the monthly payments to be higher.
The elderly woman has the right to press charges but Stephen McDow goes to jail, how high a monthly payment will she be receiving from him?
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IRS Accidentally Deposits $110,000 in Man’s Bank Account, Then Arrests Him!
Los Angeles prosecutors say the man failed to notify authorities of the error and charged him with one felony count of grand theft by misappropriation of lost property. The man could face up to four years in jail if convicted.
The man offered to return to the woman the $65,000 that was left over and make monthly payments on the rest but she rejected the offer as she wanted the monthly payments to be higher.The elderly woman has the right to press charges but Stephen McDow goes to jail, how high a monthly payment will she be receiving from him?
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mharper #112;
Obviously they had something special to relive. also, in my view, if living means to always get checkups and to take your pills, what’s it worth living? At times it’s better to live for something than to just live.
That’s my take.
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mharper #112;
Obviously they had something special to relive. also, in my view, if living means to always get checkups and to take your pills, what’s it worth living? At times it’s better to live for something than to just live.
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A second and serious reason for not picking up and smooching armadillos is they also can carry rabies. 🙁
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A second and serious reason for not picking up and smooching armadillos is they also can carry rabies. 🙁
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#108 mharper42
To answer your question:
Each one of us, every human being, as demonstrated in the video, has a reason to live. It is the both the subject of and product of our will, the will to live, that is.
I read this book 15 years ago and it was one of a handful that changed my life.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel
Read it.
It does not matter what your religious beliefs or lack thereof might be.
A brief review:
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl’s imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called “Logotherapy in a Nutshell,” describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity’s life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man’s deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl’s logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl’s personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. “Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is,” Frankl writes. “After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
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#108 mharper42
To answer your question:
Each one of us, every human being, as demonstrated in the video, has a reason to live. It is the both the subject of and product of our will, the will to live, that is.
I read this book 15 years ago and it was one of a handful that changed my life.
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel
Read it.
It does not matter what your religious beliefs or lack thereof might be.
A brief review:Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl is among the most influential works of psychiatric literature since Freud. The book begins with a lengthy, austere, and deeply moving personal essay about Frankl’s imprisonment in Auschwitz and other concentration camps for five years, and his struggle during this time to find reasons to live. The second part of the book, called “Logotherapy in a Nutshell,” describes the psychotherapeutic method that Frankl pioneered as a result of his experiences in the concentration camps. Freud believed that sexual instincts and urges were the driving force of humanity’s life; Frankl, by contrast, believes that man’s deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. Frankl’s logotherapy, therefore, is much more compatible with Western religions than Freudian psychotherapy. This is a fascinating, sophisticated, and very human book. At times, Frankl’s personal and professional discourses merge into a style of tremendous power. “Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is,” Frankl writes. “After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
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Now that her face is on the internet, I hope she gets banned from any future games.
What a wiss.
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Now that her face is on the internet, I hope she gets banned from any future games.
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#117 Tedtam,….GET A ROPE!!! 👿
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#117 Tedtam,….GET A ROPE!!! 👿
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Is it QE3 yet?
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Is it QE3 yet?
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#116 Texpat
Since you had the book linked up for me on Amazon, I went ahead and ordered it.
It seems to me that everyone who commented (in sufficient detail) saw something different in the Dream commercial.
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#116 Texpat
Since you had the book linked up for me on Amazon, I went ahead and ordered it.
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Is it QE3 yet?
The cruise ship?
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Is it QE3 yet?
The cruise ship?
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#121 – I believe QE3 may be a reference to the next massive BAILOUT
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#121 – I believe QE3 may be a reference to the next massive BAILOUT
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#120 mwharper42
Very good. The best 7 bucks you could ever spend on your life.
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#120 mwharper42
Very good. The best 7 bucks you could ever spend on your life. -
Gars are worth this much?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7614483.html
I know where some of the 8′ fish still swim. I wonder, after this article, how much longer they will be there. That they are such easy bow fishing targets is my guess on the decline. They are supposed to be excellent fare. Never tried one, cut the back open and remove the ‘backstraps’ is what have been told.
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Gars are worth this much?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7614483.html
I know where some of the 8′ fish still swim. I wonder, after this article, how much longer they will be there. That they are such easy bow fishing targets is my guess on the decline. They are supposed to be excellent fare. Never tried one, cut the back open and remove the ‘backstraps’ is what have been told. -
Is it QE3 yet?
The cruise ship?“Quantitative Easing II” AKA, printing counterfeit money, that is money that is backed up by NOTHING!
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Is it QE3 yet?
The cruise ship?“Quantitative Easing II” AKA, printing counterfeit money, that is money that is backed up by NOTHING!
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OK to HE!! with block qoutes!
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OK to HE!! with block qoutes!
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#126 Dave
OK to HE!! with block qoutes!Dave, my friend:
Put the FIRST b-quote at the beginning of
what you want to mark, and then put
the SECOND b-quote at
the end of it.
See if that will work for you.
🙂
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#126 Dave
OK to HE!! with block qoutes!
Dave, my friend:Put the FIRST b-quote at the beginning of
what you want to mark, and then put
the SECOND b-quote at
the end of it.
See if that will work for you.
🙂
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G’night Hamsters. Not sure if spouse is up to armadillo patrol tonight. He’s had a long day. Maybe we can con Mariposa into keeping watch and alerting us if one shows up. Not likely, sigh.
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G’night Hamsters. Not sure if spouse is up to armadillo patrol tonight. He’s had a long day. Maybe we can con Mariposa into keeping watch and alerting us if one shows up. Not likely, sigh.
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I’ll probably post this again tomorrow – it’s that good.
If you are a father and can read this without weeping, you’re a lot better father than I am.
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I’ll probably post this again tomorrow – it’s that good.
If you are a father and can read this without weeping, you’re a lot better father than I am. -
FA,
I don’t know if that struck me the way it did because I’m up before my boy and his friend, waiting to see them off to Summer camp, or if it would have had the same effect anyway. But as to this:
If you are a father and can read this without weeping, you’re a lot better father than I am.
I think it’s fair to say I’m no Atticus Finch either. Anyway, happy Father’s Day and please do repost that so that everyone gets a chance to read it.
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FA,
I don’t know if that struck me the way it did because I’m up before my boy and his friend, waiting to see them off to Summer camp, or if it would have had the same effect anyway. But as to this:If you are a father and can read this without weeping, you’re a lot better father than I am.
I think it’s fair to say I’m no Atticus Finch either. Anyway, happy Father’s Day and please do repost that so that everyone gets a chance to read it.
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#129 – Simply outSTANDING!
*sniffle*
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#129 – Simply outSTANDING!
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#129 Fat Albert: OUTSTANDING!
Dang it! I think I got something in my eye. -
#129 Fat Albert: OUTSTANDING!
Dang it! I think I got something in my eye.
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