We’ve all seen slow-motion video.
Also super slow-motion.
What about hyper slow-motion? Light travels the length of a Coke bottle in about 1 nanosecond. A rifle bullet slowed down by the same factor (1:10,000,000,000) would take a year vs. the few seconds in the video.
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I guess this is “leap” Wednesday or something. It’s nice to have 2 Wednesdays in the same week every now and then. I posted this late last night, but it’s so well done (the video, not my post) that I thought I would bring it forward today. It’s worth taking the time to watch the description of the administration’s ongoing effort to destroy our country.
Includes awesome video – take the time to watch.
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Is it Thursday yet?
Man, what a neat video.
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Is it Thursday yet?
Yup, it is now!
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Filming around corners? Just think, no more mirrors on my penny loafers.
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Looks like we may need to take a look at these laws allowing gays to have guns, no?
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Another dire signal of the impending Apocalypse:
The National Scrabble Association does not condone cheating. Also, the National Scrabble Association exists. One of the United States’ top young Scrabble talents was caught hiding blank tiles, and subsequently ejected, at the game’s national championship tournament in Florida. This was, apparently, “a big deal.” The executive director of the National Scrabble Association, John D. Williams, Jr., has said that this is the first recorded incidence of cheating at a national tournament. What a shame.
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In light of Jumpin’ Joe Biden’s condescending, racist message in Virginia (or was it NC?) earlier this week, I saw an op/ed writer use a new campaign slogan: “Obama-Biden: Hope and Chains”.
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Pallets, of course, are merely one cog in the global machine for moving things. But while shipping containers, for instance, have had their due, in Marc Levinson’s surprisingly illustrative book The Box (“the container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy”), pallets rest outside of our imagination, regarded as scrap wood sitting outside grocery stores or holding massive jars of olives at Costco. As one German article, translated via Google, put it: “How exciting can such a pile of boards be?”
And yet pallets are arguably as integral to globalization as containers. For an invisible object, they are everywhere: There are said to be billions circulating through global supply chain (2 billion in the United States alone). Some 80 percent of all U.S. commerce is carried on pallets. So widespread is their use that they account for, according to one estimate, more than 46 percent of total U.S. hardwood lumber production.And a look at how something so mundane, developed during wartime, can have a transformational effect on peacetime commerce later.
As one historian, quoted by Rick Le Blanc in Pallet Enterprise, notes, “the use of the forklift trucks and pallets was the most significant and revolutionary storage development of the war.” Tens of millions of pallets were employed—particularly in the Pacific campaigns, with their elongated supply lines. Looking to improve turnaround times for materials handling, a Navy Supply Corps officer named Norman Cahners—who would go on to found the publishing giant of the same name—invented the “four-way pallet.” This relatively minor refinement, which featured notches cut in the side so that forklifts could pick up pallets from any direction, doubled material-handling productivity per man. If there’s a Silver Star for optimization, it belongs to Cahners.
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The Obami just keep the hits coming…
The Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that promotes and finances sales of U.S. exports to foreign buyers, approved a $32 million loan guarantee on Aug. 2 for a Brazilian firm to purchase wind turbines from LM Wind Power. According to its website, LM Wind Power is headquartered in Denmark.
“Ex-Im Bank’s financing, which guarantees a Bank of America loan, will support approximately 250 permanent American jobs at the company’s Little Rock, Ark., and Grand Forks, N.D., manufacturing facilities,” the bank said in a release.
The company maintains a manufacturing presence in Arkansas and North Dakota—but the company laid off 234 of the Arkansas plant’s roughly 300 workers just two days after its loan was approved.I can attest to the truthfulness of this quote because of my firsthand experience with the Ex-Im Bank.
“The Export-Import Bank is a slush fund for corporate welfare that distorts trade flows and should be eliminated,” Barney Keller, spokesman for the conservative Club for Growth, said in a statement to the Free Beacon. “It’s a ticking time-bomb that has subsidized everything from Enron to Mexican drug cartels and it should be eliminated as soon as possible before it costs taxpayers.”
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This is funny. Milbank is claiming that Democrats have traditionally been shrinking violets when it comes to negative campaigning but now, just now, they’re giving Republicans a taste of their own medicine.
Yes, it’s ugly out there. But is this worse than four years ago, when Obama was accused by the GOP vice presidential nominee of “palling around with terrorists”?
But he did pal around with terrorists! That is an undeniable fact. Obama talks about it in his book. Oh wait. One of the terrorists ghost-wrote Obama’s book.
I always get a kick out of politicians and newsies whining about negative attack ads like it’s something recent. It’s certainly been that way all of my life, but really it’s been around forever:
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#8 texpat
While pallets are relatively cheap, they do have a cost. Companies are always looking for ways to drive excess cost out of their operations.
CHEP found a market niche to exploit from the intersection of pallets and cost reduction. Rather than saving money by cutting the cost of the labor and materials in pallets, CHEP went the other direction and made them much sturdier. This allowed them to be used longer and enabled them to be shared and pooled. Large retail chains and their suppliers essentially lease pallets from CHEP and transfer those costs (and custody of the pallets) among each other when they ship product.
Next time you’re in a grocery store and they have a big tub of melons or bottled drinks sitting in a standalone display, check out the pallet under it. If it’s blue, it’s almost certainly a CHEP pallet. -
#6 Texpat
I don’t think it’s a sign of the Apocalypse. The player caught cheating was a kid. Kids are notorious for their relatively undeveloped judgement skills. I’m thinking he probably didn’t plan his actions, just did it on the spur of the moment in an impulse.
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Iran prepares for its annual day of hate. By “annual day of hate” I mean a day actually set aside for hate, rather than just their run-of-the-mill hate-filled days.
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#12 WB
You obviously underestimate the grave philosophical ramifications of cheating at Scrabble.
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#11 WB
I see those blue CHEP pallets all the time, especially at Costco in the produce department.
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Was it still Wednesday when EG posted at 4:17 am? I’m not getting up early enough these days to experience 2 Wednesdays in one week.
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There are 2 articles on Drudge, one being the banner article, indicating that the “ditch the Dipstick” movement is gaining steam. One article mentions that legally, 06 Sept 2012 at the formal nomination process in the D convention, is the last day that “Bite-Me” could be replaced; not that this admin gives a rat’s patootie about legality.
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C’mon people! It’s for the children. We need to pass these $2.7B worth of bond elections so’s we can be a World Class City, you know, like Stockton, CA. No taxes will be raised while Mayor Porker is in office (the city won’t go bankrupt until she’s gone). Remember – drainage fees, increased permit fees, increased parking fees, all those are NOT taxes.
Houston voters will decide in November whether local governments can borrow more than $2.7 billion for schools, parks, libraries and public safety.
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But who exactly is being called a “hatchet-faced nutmeg dealer” ?
Contrary to what you might think, it wasn’t Wagonburner. Stephen Douglas called Abe Lincoln that.
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#1 El Gordo
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Remember Artur Davis, the AL congressman that supported Baracky in 2008 then recently switched parties?
Of course, there are different kinds of progress. There is the inconvenient fact that Obama has governed while black unemployment and the level of child hunger in the black community have risen to the highest rates in the modern era, and while educational achievement among African Americans continues to bottom out at appalling levels. This record is one that the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said last summer would lead blacks to march outside the White House if it had a different occupant.
The Obama message, implicitly, is that the conditions on the ground, including in the black community, are small, grudging details when weighed against the epic fact that a black man occupies the Oval Office. It’s a point of view. But that argument is too charged, too at odds with Obama’s official de-emphasis on race, to be made out loud and in the light of day. Better to work through the hidden-hand approach, through surrogates who create plausible deniability and through commentators who can be disavowed. Interesting that the Sixties-era figure whom the Obama reelect campaign conjures up is neither a Kennedy nor a King but that great hidden-hand stone thrower, Richard Nixon.He’s also speaking at the Republican Convention.
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Wagonburner is a nutmeg pusher.
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Why, you could have knocked me over with a bull-dozer, neither the MF Jon Corzine, nor anyone else at the MFcompany, will be charged with any criminal wrongdoing for
stealingloosing over a BILLION DOLLARS of customer funds. The galling hubris of the Ds to accuse the Rs of engaging in crony capitalism is beyond words; the corruption of this admin makes the corruption of Clinton’s admin pale in comparison. This is by far the most corrupt admin and party America has ever suffered. -
#25 Sarge: How do you think BiteMe is gonna feel after the meeting with JugEars and Cankles?
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Seeing as how BiteMe is so, well, zaney, I wonder if he has a future in comedy, seeing as how his political career is finally finished.
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Depnds on what they talk about. Could be Iran and Isreal. Could be that Doll Hair just got voted off the island.
You’re right, Barry only has three weeks to dump Doll Hair. If he’s going to dump him it will be soon.
It does look like some polling may have come in.Yesterday, though, he gave two hard-hitting interviews to … People and Entertainment Tonight. In the first, he scoffed at the notion that Joe Biden meant anything racial when he told a Danville, Virginia crowd that “they goin’ to put y’all back in chains.” By the time Obama and the First Lady did the ET hit with reporter Nancy O’Dell, Obama softened his position to allow that Biden’s phrasing was “a distraction.”
I hope Joes isn’t too sick.
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Obama sez Biden’s “chains” remark was blown out of proportion.
President Barack Obama, breaking his public silence Wednesday on Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that a Mitt Romney victory will “put y’all back in chains,” dismissed the controversy over the comment and expressed full confidence in Biden.
He’s a goner.
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Don’t be surprised if Bite Me has a sudden urge to spend more time with his family or is experiencing declining health or it’s discovered that his dog has fleas or something anytime now.
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31 El Gordo says:
August 16, 2012 at 10:00 am
Don’t be surprised if Bite Me has a sudden urge to spend more time with his family or is experiencing declining health or it’s discovered that his dog has fleas or something anytime now.Not the dog thing.
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At my company, if your superior asks you to “meet me for breakfast”, you’re a goner.
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Why does Obammy STILL let Joe go out to speak in public? O is a slow learner.
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Good morning Hamsters. Made it down to 74 this morning at 6, ground mist all over but everything reasonably comfortable until about 7:30. Then it was air you can wear. Ugh. Downhill now to the end of August.
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#1 & #34 – it also landed over on HotAir………..
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#36: The more I hear about Jan Brewer the more I like her. She has a grasp of the problems facing her state and is taking the correct measures to tackle those problems. Unfortunately, she has to fight against 0 to accomplish the objective. I think there is presidential timber in that stand.
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Tossup states have been showing signs of moving in the direction of redness all this week. Even PA looks to be getting closer to tossup.
It must be a dilemma for Big Barry – “Keep the idiot on the ticket so I look good or replace him with Shrillary and then the village has a new idiot – me.” We should get Barry one of these. -
Don’t be dissin banjos.
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#39: I have always thought that once the coal miners realize that 0 is gonna put them out of work and devastate their state, they will vote against him regardless of what the union goons tell them. Ditto that for the Virginias. Wisconsin is definitely purple becoming red and perhaps Ohio as well. Fla will go for R&R as well, game over JugEars.
If 0 replaces HairPlugs, he will appear to be:
desperate because his numbers are falling
stupid and an arrogant jack-hole for not doing it 2 years ago
desperate to try and gain back the base of his party by replacing the dipstick with the one who should have been VP in the first place.
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Technically, the VP candidate is voted on just like the presidential candidate, at the convention. In recent conventions the candidate has been selected by “suspending the rules” so there’s no shenanigans. I wouldn’t be surprised if some folks make some noise at this year’s Dem convention.
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If Obama picks Hillary, Palin gets an ‘I told you so,’ which I think would be a loss of face for ‘O. He gets to – and you heard here first, solve two problems at once. He dumps Joe for some lame reason and appoints the highly qualified Eric Holder as VP to remove him from Fast and Furious. Then he appoint Debbie Whats-her-name Shultz as AG and let’s her get all the blame for F&F.
The Rock and Roll campain – Romney and Ryan are going to have hayday no matter what happens.
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#39 Hammy
Literally LOL !!!
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#39: The pollster for Pa had to disclose this little tidbit on page 7 of the methodology in the guts of the poll results.
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data included in this release represent the responses of 681 Pennsylvania registered voters,
including 343 Democrats, 254 Republicans, and 84 registered as Independent/Other.Of the total number surveyed, they oversampled Ds by 13% (89 more Ds than Rs) and even with that advantage they only put 0 up by 5%. This was among registered voters as opposed to likely and extremely likely voters. Taking that bit of slight of hand into consideration puts PA in the R column.
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If PA goes red it’s all over.
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The Doll Hair Hope and Chains thing reminds me of when Micheal Jackson was having trouble with his contract.
He held a news conference and came right out and said that he thought the reason was the owner of the record company a racist, in pretty much those exact words.
I always imagined that somebody called him afterwards and said “You’re not supposed to come right out an SAY it. That makes you look bad.”
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#45 M42: I will neither confirm nor deny your statement ;>) We can look at “survive” in the metaphorical or literal or figurative sense and come away with different meanings. In this particular case more than one may be appropriate.
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#48: According to the posted schedule, Dipstick and JugEars are at lunch now. Given the sieve-like nature of this WH with regards to secrets, dya think we will know by drive-time this afternoon if HairPlugs has been replaced?
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43 Shannon says:
August 16, 2012 at 11:15 am
Phil Collins is an Alamo freak?Yah, I read some stuff about his collection and book a coupla weeks ago. From your link:
Jim Guimarin, a Collins associate and owner of The History Shop, also is a defendant in the suit. He said Jank has falsely accused him of theft before.
I beleive I’ve met this guy back in my militaria collecting days. If he’s the guy I’m thinking of, lets just say I’m not shocked by what I’m reading.
There’s a good deal of fraud and fakery in high end militaria, and Texiana is some of the highest in the high end. San Antonio seems to be home for a higher than normal share of folks ripping people off in everything from WW2 bomber jackets to Texas Revolution items. -
144 SuperDave (from yesterday)
I was high tech in my approach to grinding my xtals. I used comet cleanser. I have or had is the better term, a First Phone License. I never had cause to use it and the only reason that I got it was a certificate collecting phase in my life.
Two of my cousins and a few of my boyhood friends are hams and all worked in the Marine Radio business. We are all old geezers now and they have retired. Climbing up ship ladders to get to a radio-radar mast has long since lost its appeal for them. I had a third cousin who was a ham until he went SK (Silent Key). He went into the AM Radio business and for a time owned a 5000 watt station in a small East Texas Community. He gave me some pretty good advice: “Never take something you really enjoy and make it your business as it will rob all the pleasure from your hobby.”. I stayed out of the radio business.
He also advised me to flunk the Morse Code Test when I entered the Marines. I could easily copy 20 wpm (that is pretty fast). He joined the Marines about 2 years before me and became a field radio operator, which allowed him to “hump” his normal gear and a PRC-25.
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#52 Simple
Some Simple questions:
What does it mean exactly to go Silent Key? No more tapping out Morse code?
Is humping your “normal gear and a PRC-25” a good thing or a bad thing?
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TT, regarding your post about your sister last night: Is this the same sister that you take bugs to feed her chickens when you visit her? Where is she moving to?
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Is humping your “normal gear and a PRC-25″ a good thing or a bad thing?
What is a PRC-25?PRC-25 is the Viet Nam era portable radio, generally used at the platoon level. Its pronounced the way its spelled.
As to whether or not humping your “normal gear and a PRC-25″ a good thing or a bad thing,
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I loved the PRC-25.
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Poor Dumb WISS
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Some lunchtime reading: California – the schizophrenic state.
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I think it’s ok to say bastidge. Let’s find out. A-one and a-two…
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I did move on to one of these in the Reserves.
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#60 M42: Devastating snippet from your linkie:
California’s business climate already ranks near the bottom in most surveys. Its teachers are among the highest paid, on average, in the nation, but its public-school students consistently test near the bottom of the nation in both math and science.
The state’s public employees enjoy some of the nation’s most generous pensions and benefits, but California’s retirement systems are underfunded by about $300 billion. The state’s gas taxes — at over 49 cents per gallon — are among the highest in the nation, but its once-unmatched freeways, like 101 and 99, for long stretches have degenerated into potholed, clogged nightmares unchanged since the early 1960s.Highest paid, highest taxed, least performing, most dramatically underfunded. . . . .Liberalism at its best and destructive to the core.
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WH sticking with HairPlugs.
For now.
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Pallet recycling has been going on forever, I see them stacked 4 deep and 20′ high on backs of Toyota pickups all the time.
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Biden stays. Wonder if they will let him make any more speeches till after the election?
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BiteMe may have “an accident” just after the VP debate and not be available. That idea was taken from the comments section and refined a bit by me.
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I have noticed on several occasions that the stuff we break here gets spoken of on Limbaugh and Fox a day or two later – we’re on the cutting edge here – congrats to all for that.
You mean he talked about beauty, grace, and sheer athleticism?
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No, the war on pubic hair.
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Posterior orifice tattoos?
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Maybe Biden has pictures of the black jesus with a barnyard animal.
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August 16, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Biden now scheduled for an aneurism?Hmmmmm—–
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53 MHarper,
Silent Key or SK is usually sent at the tail end of a CW (morse code) “conversation” between two radio operators to signify the conversation is over and the sender’s station is going off the air. SK is sent as … -.- but the individual letters are sent as one with no pauses or gaps.
We us AR to signify that I have finished “talking” and I am turning the conversation over to you.
It is also a euphemisim in the radio world (especially hams) that an operator has died. Instead of saying that W5AAA (Joe) died, we say W5AAA went SK.
QST is the most popular American publication focused on Amateur Radio and they publish a monthly list of the recent SK’s. It is getting harder and harder to read the list for me as I recognize and know more of the guys on the list every year.
“Humping” your gear does have a coarse undertone, but Army Infantrymen and Marine Grunts used it to descibe the dance one does with a typical infantry loadout. The Radio Operators carry the standard load & ammunition, plus the radio with spare batteries. Normally the radio operator would have a 1911A1 as their T.O. weapon, but I can’t remember one that didn’t carry an M16. The M16 wasn’t all that heavy but the 400 rounds of ammo in magazines was no feather.
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#54 Mharper
TT, regarding your post about your sister last night: Is this the same sister that you take bugs to feed her chickens when you visit her? Where is she moving to?
Yes, it is. She’s moving into a condo with her youngest son, who has his own set of issues. She’ll be helping him in certain areas, and he’ll be helping her.
We hope.
I think she’s making a mistake, and that may be part of her sudden change in attitude. She’s very uncertain about this change, and feeling like she’s losing her independence is very, very hard on her. She had to put all that anger, confusion, and despair somewhere, and it looks like it’s landed on me. I’m trying very, very hard to be patient with her. She’s in a lot of pain. But I won’t accept her perception that I’m a cold-hearted, mercenary b*ch trying to kick her out of her home and take advantage of her. She and her husband made a lot of improvements to the property, usually without asking us, and some of which caused other problems (such as the brick patio area – it caused drainage problems next to the house, for which she blamed us).
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“Humping” your gear does have a coarse undertone,
I’ll be humping a ruck recreationally this weekend.
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58 Sarge,
You could also pick up the audio from some of the AFRTS TV relays; sometimes!
I loved the radio myself and it had a lot of versatility, but it was no better than the cheap $100 FRS walkie talkies that you can buy at sporting goods stores.
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Sarge – you taking that gear anywhere near the gate?
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This Media Matters guy better watch out – I would never call a Navy Seal “gutless”.
Media Matters senior fellow Eric Boehlert said on Thursday that a group of former Navy SEALS “don’t have guts” after the special forces operators launched a media campaign condemning the Obama administration’s national security leaks.
“#kindalame former Navy SEALs don’t have guts to admit they’re running a GOP, anti-Obama campaign; http://nyti.ms/N2nYYj ” Boehlert wrote on Twitter Thursday morning.Response:
“We’re clearly not gutless. We’re in the public right now, completely out there,” Taylor said.
“Everything’s out there. It’s interesting how the left is trying to frame this as a partisan issue. I don’t care what party people are from within our group,” Taylor said. “This issue is about national security leaks.”
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Another quote from the SEAL story:
“Boehlert is such a straight up Obama boot licker that he actually smears former Navy SEALs who don’t like the fact that President Obama’s administration is leaking sensitive information that could put current SEALs in danger,” reads a reaction post on The Right Sphere, a conservative blog.
Sonny Bunch, managing editor for the Washington Free Beacon, wrote on Twitter, ”Dear God: All I ask before I die is that you let me witness Eric Boehlert call a Navy SEAL a coward to his face.”Yeah, me too.
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Members of the Castro Country Club, an LGBT addiction recovery group, say the new pastor of Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church told them they could not hold their third annual Harvest Feast fundraiser on the premises if drag queens were to participate.
Forget the drag queen angle for a moment. Are there people addicted to LGBTs? ‘Cause that would certainly explain a lot of what I hear here.
And although church Business Manager Michael Poma acknowledged that Pastor Brian Costello did tell members of the Castro Country Club that they could not hold their event if drag queens were scheduled to attend, Poma said he quickly reversed his decision.
“Father Brian wasn’t educated about the importance of drag queens in the gay community,” Poma said. “Once it was explained to him, he said they were welcome to attend as long as their behavior was church-appropriate.”I would love to hear that explanation. “No drag queens??? Why, it would be like a day without sunshine!” But how in the world could you make the behavior of drag queens “church-appropriate”? Unless, of course, it’s Bobo’s CotR. Certainly couldn’t be Catholic Church-appropriate.
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Oh. Here’s the line:
Wesolek said there have been several events on the premises that were not “church-appropriate.” The San Francisco Gay Softball League allegedly held an event consisting of men stripping and simulating sex acts.
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Dinesh D’Souza temporarily becomes George Obama’s “brother”.
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#74 Simple
an operator has died
Yep, that’s why I asked — the phrase does have an ominous tone.
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#75 TT
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She couldn’t find anyone to take them, so they were taken back to the feed store. She just gave them back. I’m sure the roosters were killed, and the hens – since they were already proven layers – were resold.
I would have taken them, but I don’t have the time to mess with them, nor a coop in which to keep them. Out here, if they don’t have a safe place, the racoons, possums, rats, or hawks will end up getting them. -
That reminds me – I have to run out and get some painter’s tape. Back soon.
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78 Tedtam says:
August 16, 2012 at 2:49 pm
Sarge – you taking that gear anywhere near the gate?Lone Star Trail, 9 miles north of Montgomery
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Father Brian wasn’t educated about the importance of drag queens in the gay community
Musta missed that class at the Seminary.
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RE: Eric Boehlert
I want everybody to just take a look at this bunch of creeps.
This is a photo collection of the Huffington Post / Gentlemen’s Quarterly party thrown in Austin 4 years ago during the hardcore Leftist Netroots Nation Convention there.
Third photo down: Eric Boehlert – I’m sure he would start crying like a 3 year old if confronted by a real Navy Seal.
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PMSNBC crackhead Toure makes outrageous racial claim against Romney:
HEADLINE:MSNBC’s Touré: Romney Engaging In The ‘Niggerization’ Of Obama
More evidence of derangement syndrome. It is still August, neither party has had their convention, and already the mud and slime slinging from the left has descended to this level. By the end of October we may all have to wear rainsuits 24/7 just to stay clean.
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Chickens – reminded me of my sister, who –
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If you get lost in the maze, just throw up a flare and I’ll come and get you out. 😉
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Texpat and wagonburner, speaking of pallets, I got to drive our forklift today, something I seldom do because I’m the boss and I’m ‘sposed to let one of my 6 guys do it, but we had two guys out sick and one on vacation, one in class and two working on a test. Anywho, I have a forklift driving license so I had to go down to another building and repossess a blast shield that they grabbed out of our community warehouse. It was fun for a change but I’m a little rusty in the tight corners, I have two guys that are amazing on a forklift, they can cut 90 deg and stab it on the shelf in one try. We have a lot of equipment and vibration fixtures on pallets stored in shelves about 5 high and a few years ago we bought a whole bunch of blue plastic pallets that are made out of ole milk jugs, I don’t know if they’re the same ones that wagonburner mentioned but they are light and strong.
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mharper42
Was it still Wednesday when EG posted at 4:17 am? I’m not getting up early enough these days to experience 2 Wednesdays in one week.
I don’t know if you got an answer but when I got here about 6 AM the Thread read; “Wednesdays Hyper Slow-Motion Video Open Comments” a few minutes later it was fixed. 😉
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#52 Simple
He gave me some pretty good advice: “Never take something you really enjoy and make it your business as it will rob all the pleasure from your hobby.”. I stayed out of the radio business.
That is interesting because when I worked as a bench technician repairing avionics’ gear, everything from AM Xcievers, Nav receivers which are AM/FM, ADF AM 200 KHz to 1700 KHz, glide slope about 300 MHz, transponders 1030,1090 MHz, DMEs 800 to 1100 MHz and radar X band 9300 Mhz. I had pilots with too much time on their hands who were HAMS and they’d come up to me and say; I’m sure (or) bet that you’re a HAM” and I’d say well, no, after working all day on difficult repairs why in the he!! Would I want to go home repeat the process? 😉
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CHEP pallets are wood, but use 4×4’s instead of 2×4’s. They stencil their logo on the side.
Many companies use plastic pallets for internal shipments – think Walmart or Academy shipping mixed-pallets from their dist. centers to stores. Not only are they light and strong, but they nest inside each other so they take about a quarter the volume.
CHEP is between companies, plastic internal.
btw – most big companies hate pallets. They have to pay people to haul them off. -
“Never take something you really enjoy and make it your business as it will rob all the pleasure from your hobby.”
Yeah, those pro golfers and NASCAR drivers must be miserable. 🙂
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#99 Shannon
…pro golfers and NASCAR drivers must be miserable.
…and engineers, chefs, inventors, beer meisters, artists, drillers, pilots, boat captains, carpenters, attorneys, authors, playwrights, ad infinitum…
Yeah, I don’t buy that advice either. Pretty silly, if you ask me.
I would guess, if you asked them, close to 100% of the folks making a living by living out their passion each day would tell you they are happy as hell. -
#93 – but but but didja already use all the painter’s tape you discovered in HS’s room?
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Either Katfish has a pheeeenominal memory, or he took notes on Tedtam’s effort to clean up her son’s room.
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Intriguing headline on DRUDGE from a grammatical standpoint
COPS: Priest chases boy down street in underwear…
Had to read the story to discover who was wearing the underwear. I’m not sure how to rewrite it though
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Bill Maher to perform here on Sunday. I don’t particularly like his type of humor, however it’s clear that there are people here that do.
Maybe Biden has pictures of the black jesus with a barnyard animal.
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We had to buy some more blue tape to make sure we had enough. And after a while, the tape becomes unusable, and I’m not sure how old the tape was that I found in Handsome’s room. -
I rarely get to use the tape more than once myself. It’s darned near impossible to get it back on the roll.
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And the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled these guys as a hate group?
“Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement.”
— Robert Knight, FRC director of cultural studies, and Frank York, 1999
“[Homosexuality] … embodies a deep-seated hatred against true religion.”
— Steven Schwalm, FRC senior writer and analyst, in “Desecrating Corpus Christi,” 1999
“One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets’ of a new sexual order.”
-1999 FRC pamphlet, Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex with Boys.
“[T]he evidence indicates that disproportionate numbers of gay men seek adolescent males or boys as sexual partners.”
— Timothy Dailey, senior research fellow, “Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse,” 2002
“While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem.”
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I showed Handsome the video above. Hubby kind of huffed and made some comment about it being impossible to take a picture of light moving. I showed him the video, and he still didn’t want to believe it.
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CRAP, daughter called a little before 7:00 to tell me how much fun that they had at the Condo @ PC Beach, this week and that they were leaving a day early (Friday) to head to Beaumont so her hubby could talk to his grandpa, because hubby’s great uncle died and grandpa wanted to talk to him about his will. FWIW; Hubby’s grandpa taught him everything he knows about hunting, fishing and the outdoors. Anywho, daughter and I got to talking politics and as usual we went off on several tangents and when the smoke cleared and we said our good bye’s I looked at my phone and we talked for an hour and fifty nine minutes!! DAYAAM! That’s got to be a record! I wouldn’t take anything for that gal,….Did I ever tell you that life is GOOD!
I guess that I should add that since my daddy died in 2000, my baby girl is my FAVORITE person to talk politics with, she is way more informed than anyone in my family or any of my friends! The fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. 😉 -
#108 TT
What I liked about the coke bottle video was how easy it was to understand. I had heard of femto-photography before, but did not understand the “seeing around corners” aspect until I saw how it works — on this video! -
#108 Tedtam, We had a random shock test today that involed an outside company, (not NASA) and I showed a couple of the engineers the video and they, like me couldn’t believe it! BUTT they knew what they were seeing, something that couldn’t be faked! We were all in awe. I mentioned the part about the “bullet”, that is, if you watched the same video with a bullet traveling at about 3000 feet per second it take you 1 YEAR to see it!! You can’t make this crap up! 😉
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I showed Handsome the video above. Hubby kind of huffed and made some comment about it being impossible to
take a picture of light moving.ever fly a heavier than air machine. I showed him the video, and he still didn’t want to believe it. -
I showed Handsome the video above. Hubby kind of huffed and made some comment about it being impossible to
take a picture of light movinggo faster than the speed of sound. I showed him the video, and he still didn’t want to believe it. -
Julia Trigg Crawford had her pre-trial hearing last Friday regarding whether TransCanada can seize her land for their pipeline. A decision whether to proceed to trial could be returned this week.
Crawford is one of the last holdouts among some 850 Texas landowners who signed agreements with the company to allow the pipeline on their land. During the negotiations with landowners, the company filed over a hundred eminent domain claims in Texas, pressuring some landowners to sign easements.
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But you said that construction of the pipeline had already started because the black jesus approved it.
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107 shamaal says:
August 16, 2012 at 9:43 pm
And the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled these guys as a hate group?I see you got the same talking points memo the folks on the other blogs and Facebook I go to.
You know what Hate is?
Hate is when you point a gun at a man, say “I don’t like you’re politics.” and then pull the trigger.
I disagree with the FRC, but I don’t see Hate like that. Their motivation is to provide a better life for people. I disagree with thier conclusions and statements, but I recognize that their motivation as being anything but Hate.
Just as I don’t think that people who support Welfare without work desire to create a dependency class, but believe they are just wrong abut the way they go about trying to help the poor. -
And the SPLC lost all redibility when the labled the American Legion as a Hate Group beause of thier position on Illegal Immigration.
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You know what else Hate is?
Making up excuses for the guy who points a gun at a man, says “I don’t like you’re politics.” and then pulls the trigger. -
How about a heart warming puppy rescue featuring my favorite outdoor sleep shelter.
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