Forty-three years ago, 400,000 free spirits descended on a 600-acre dairy farm in Upstate New York for an “art and music fair”.
It was not all fun and games.
Living conditions were somewhat spartan.
Some things never change. They care for the environment, but only if they can force someone else to actually do the work or pay the tab.
“To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us isn’t too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it’s your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?”
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That looks like the way it will be again here soon, except these “events” will be dotting our countryside as we wonder whatever happened to out nation. Ever wonder who is really running the State Department (we know Hillary doesn’t possess the managerial skills)
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Twenty-nine years ago this week, Alicia, a compact yet powerful hurricane, drove straight up through San Luis Pass and slammed Houston hard. Glass was several feet deep on the downtown streets.
I was living in an apartment off Antoine near Little York with my new bride who was 6 months pregnant with our daughter. Alicia hit in the middle of the night and we lost all power and even water.
The only thing working, amazingly, were telephones and my mother called at about 3:00 AM to say she was trapped in her bedroom because one of the large trees in her yard had crashed through the roof.
I left my wife and headed the 56 miles west out 290 to Bellville through the tail end of Alicia to rescue my mother. When I arrived about 4:30, the Ottmer Bros. construction company were already cutting away the tree in the dark using truck headlights to light up the area. Austin County was hit hardest by hundreds of mini-tornadoes that passed 30 to 40 feet above the ground snapping off huge trees like matchsticks. The tree through my mother’s roof was actually the top 45 feet of a 75 foot high pine tree. -
G’Morning All
Forty-three years ago, 400,000 free spirits descended on a 600-acre dairy farm
and Dee and I were making wedding plans to get hitched in Corpus. I like my 1969 memories and pictures much better.
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Two weeks after Woodstock in 1969, Angus Wynne III, son of the founder of Six Flags, presided as empresario over the Texas International Pop Festival.
I was there with 4 friends. We rode up to Dallas in the August heat in a 1956 Cadillac Sedan de Ville with no AC.
The thing I remember most was everyone struggling to keep from getting dehydrated.
I recall Janis Joplin, Canned Heat and this amazing British band no one had ever heard of – Led Zeppelin. Santana played for what seemed like hours in their first gig in Texas.
But the band that brought heat-stricken crowd to its feet and really stole the show was Sam & Dave with their huge horn section (probably 2 dozen saxes, trumpets and trombones). They were electric, really powerful that Saturday night. -
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Good morning Hamsterville.
Off Antoine near LIttle York is now one of the worst crime and mayhem areas in Houston. It’s part of what’s called The Antoine Corridor.
I was living in Spring Branch when Alicia came through. Aside from being without electricity at home for 2-3 days, I experienced no ill effects. A lot of people at my company camped out at the office over that weekend, because it still had power. -
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I think Hurricane Alicia was also the event in Houston where the city trash department refused to pick up storm debris. That was back before there was an organized Heavy Trash pickup program. People who had limbs or even whole trees down on their property were hauling that debris out to the city’s esplanades and dumping it there. Houston looked like a giant trash pile for months. I can’t recall now how the mess finally did get cleaned up.
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The December after Alicia was one for the books. It was 14 degrees on Christmas Eve.
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#8 Shannon
My wife, 6 week old daughter and I had gone to our aunt and uncle’s home in Austin two days before Christmas. We left the diaper bag in the car overnight and when I walked out early the next morning, I stuck the steel key into the frozen trunklock of our Riviera and it snapped off like a toothpick. -
199th anniversary of the battle of Medina, crushing the first state of Texas. Spanish forces killed over 1100 Texas Republicans at a loss to their own of only 55.
In this cauldron of world events, José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara and Augustus William Magee,qqv abetted by the United States, organized an expedition to wrest Texas from Spain. Adopting a “Green Flag” for a banner, their Republican Army of the North crossed from the Neutral Ground in Louisiana into Texas on August 7, 1812, and soon captured Nacogdoches, Trinidad de Salcedo, La Bahía, where Magee died, and San Antonio, where a declaration of independence for the State of Texas under the Republic of Mexico was proclaimed on April 6, 1813. This, however, was short-lived, for Joaquín de Arredondo, commandant-general of the Provincias Internas, organized an army of 1,830 men and marched them early in August from Laredo toward San Antonio to quell the rebellion. In the meantime, Toledo deposed Gutiérrez and became the new commander of the republicans on August 4.
With a force of about 1,400 men composed of Anglos, Tejanos, Indians, and former royalists, Toledo, urged by Tejanos who wanted to spare San Antonio from the ravages of battle, chose to meet the enemy south of the city. -
I vaguely remember the freeze that year. I was not affected at all, but there were thousands of homes with water pipes in the attic that froze and broke. Some could be spottted by ice on the roof where water had spurted up from broken pipes, penetrating the roof decking. Those were houses where the people were away for the holidays and had made no provision for a neighbor to keep an eye on things.
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For those who like this kind of stuff, Grilled Cheese Recipes.
Personally I’m not sure if the halloumi grilled between watermelon counts as a sandwich, but to each their own.For us, nothing beats simplicity: butter, bread, cheese. But sometimes you want something a little fancier, so we did some digging to find you the most decadent and outrageous grilled cheese recipes on the internet.
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An interesting study on how not to do things.
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(AP) BOSTON – The world’s oldest commissioned warship will sail under its own power for just the second time in more than a century to commemorate the battle that won it the nickname “Old Ironsides.”
The USS Constitution, which was first launched in 1797, will be tugged from its berth in Boston Harbor on Sunday to the main deepwater pathway into the harbor. It will then set out to open seas for a 10-minute cruise.
The short trip marks the day two centuries ago when the Constitution bested the British frigate HMS Guerriere in a fierce battle during the War of 1812. It follows a three-year restoration project and is the first time the Constitution has been to sea on its own since its 200th birthday in 1997.
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Are you boring your husband to death?
There used to be a pill for that.
Advertising changes with society, I suspect these taglines wouldn’t do very well today.So the harder a wife works, the cuter she looks
Show her it’s a man’s world
The Chef does everything but cook, that’s what wives are for.
Don’t worry darling, you didn’t burn the beer – Schlitz
MARRIED? No reason to neglect stockings
What does douching with Demure have to do with your husband?
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During Alicia we were living in the same house that we’re in now and our power went off @ 2 AM and came back on @ 3:30 AM, never went out again. I figured it was because we were on the same grid as Humana Hospital, I can see it from the rec room on the second floor. Also there wasn’t much here except the then new Baybrook Mall. I small tornado came down our street and removed shingles from a few of the two story houses along with my 1 story with the loft. I only lost a streak about a yard wide most of the way across the front of the house. We removed the carpet the next day and I tarped the roof but we couldn’t get the sheet rock fixed until the end of November.
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Good morning Hamsters. Another 75 at 6, no ground mist, dappled shade, light breeze, and high hopes for rain later on.
Yes, 1983 was quite a year for weather. We were in our third year out here on the north bank of the Brazos at Richmond, had young trees planted in the yards around the house, seven huge old pecans and one struggling cedar elm in the pastures and saplings springing up everywhere. Had six horses in the barn including a young mare we had brought home the week before from Wisconsin. That was a two-day trip in considerable heat the farther south we came. How fortunate that Alicia waited until after we got home.
It was our first hurricane since we moved to Houston in 1969. Amazingly we only lost power for about 8 hours. Foolishly did not have a portable generator so no well water, but we did have filled bathtubs, garbage cans, and pasture tanks. The damagre was relatively minor considering the sustained winds for hours and bending trees of various sizes. Never lost phone service. A strong gust hit the carport in front of the barn just a short way behind the house that sheltered the horse trailer and hay and tore off half its roof, uprooting two large support posts, flinging them across the walkway from house to barn about 5 minutes after spouse had come back from the barn. Shudder, and then Thank you, Lord. A pair of young silver maples in the back yard bent almost to the ground in that same gust; one broke off about four feet up, and the other survived and is now 30+ years old. Lost shingles from the house roof and pieces of the patio cover, but otherwise it was just debris from the trees. We were fortunate.
And then there was the winter freeze at Christmas when so many folks were gone. Five days below freezing burst pipes in empty homes, flooded them, broke ceilings, ruined furnishings, lowered water pressure to dangerous levels throughout much of Houston. Spouse’s workplace on Gulf Freeway tried to conduct business and gave up after the first day or so, sent everyone home for the duration. Low water pressure kept restrooms barely functional only on the first floor; porta-potties in the parking lots were not a solution in below freezing temps. Those days off helped keep things going at home; the focus of the day, once ice was hammered in the barn buckets and tanks several times, became preparing for the night’s colder temps. Water hauled from the house to the barn, outdoor water had been shut off, lines drained for the duration. In the house, water was shut off before sundown and pipes drained, turned on after sun was up for a while. The low here was +9 one night. Good thing we had excellent attic insulation initially and had added more. And through a mixup during construction in which the wrong insulating siding was installed, we had the right stuff put over the wrong stuff and had a double layer. -
#14 texpat
I’ve never been keen on the Constitution sailing under her own power, the strain seems to be needless. She is pulled out and turned around every July 4th to balance the wave forces from being docked, that should be sufficient.
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#8 Shannon
The December after Alicia was one for the books. It was 14 degrees on Christmas Eve
When I got up on Christmas morning it was 10 deg in Clear Lake and the water pipes in the nort wall (kitchen) were frozen had water in the rest of the house. The wife was fussing about the water and around 11 AM I was in the living room and watched as the light globe over the sink fill up with water then pour into the sink. I said, “Baby the water is on”. I turned off the light which never pooped BTW, and turned off the water to the house. The next day a Handy Dan there was two lines 20 feet long and everybody had PVC pipe. Luckily it was an easy fix, a couple of feet of pipe in the attic. Down the street there’s a house just like ours and the pipes froze in the walls so it was a tad expensive to fix, of course they called a plumber and had to tear out some cabinets. My wife had them insured.
A couple of years later we had a hurricane near miss (High Island?) followed by a temps in the teens again. That is when I came up with ole Dave’s theory of heat distrubition, hot/ warm water = hurricane = cold winter. -
Oh and when I went out to turn off the water at the meter, I nticed water running under the garage door of the vacant house next door so I turned off the water for it also, I never did get in touch with the owner, he showed up two weeks later.
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The Islamic Society of Greater Houston is hosting a celebration for a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting.Eid Al-Fitr tomorrow at Reliant Stadium.
On Sunday at Reliant Arena, there will be undercover police roaming the crowds, officers on horseback, even some in a helicopter circling the premises. Not to mention scores of uniformed officers walking the property. The scene sounds something more like the kind of security measures for a presidential convoy.
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I guess the rib isn’t cracked, just mangled.
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Clearly a sign from on high to call Jesus.
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Doesn’t much matter I suppose, remedy for either: Wait for it to heal.
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Don’t remember ever realizing that Alicia and that winter were the same year.
In ’83 I was single and lived in an apartment near Hobby, with Alicia coming I figured it’d be better to go to my parents house in Spring Branch. They didn’t get any damage, but we went 3 miserable days without power, and of course in those days you went to go buy water and such after the storm, which there was none.
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#12 Grilled cheese, I liked them all except the watermelon, the one made with
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Also in ’83 I worked in the oilfield, the night of Alicia I had a mechanic out on a customer drilling rig near the ship channel, he called during the night saying it was getting a bit stormy but they weren’t shutting down, what should he do? I called the drilling superintendent, his non-response response was There’s a storm out there? This mechanic happened to be one of the company’s VP’s son. His dad started from the bottom on the wash rack in the 50’s and was typical old oilfield (it hasn’t changed much) and you did what it took to get the job done, but still, this was his son and his safety was in my hands!
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Shannon: Ifn your rib is only cracked you need to be real careful over the next week or so to give it a chance to heal and not break all the way through. Ibuprofen helps with the pain and inflammation as does ice (no more than 20 minutes at a time), DO NOT USE HEAT! Heat will make the pain and inflammation worse and slow the healing process.
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#27 con’t
I was in that same drilling superintendent’s office several months later and I saw they’d had belt buckles made that read I worked through Alicia, I tried to get one for my guy but he wouldn’t give me one, saying He didn’t work through it! -
’83 and ’89 were the two nasty winters in the eighties.
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It looks like maybe some basic economics is starting to rear its ugly head at NBC.
NBC insiders tell me The Tonight Show went through ”downsizing” today and that 20 staffers lost their jobs. Others tell me the number is more like 25, and producers were forced to take pay cuts or lose their jobs. I’ve also learned that Jay Leno took what is being described as a “tremendous” pay cut to “save as many people’s jobs as he could”.
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The Tonight Show has been and still is a cash cow for NBC. So what happened to merit the downsizing? “I don’t think ad sales are off. I just think the people who bought this company, Comcast, wants to go through everything at NBC and get their money back,” an NBC insider tells me. ”It’s hard to go through those kinds of cuts. It’s more a network issue than a late-night issue.Izzit actually possible that a trace sanity is starting to bubble to the surface at NBC? Will it have any effect what-so-ever on the content of the news department? Not holding my breath on that one.
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#12 shamaal
I saw not one mention of the word “microwave”.
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#18 Shamaal
I’ve never been keen on the Constitution sailing under her own power, the strain seems to be needless.
Yeah, I agree.
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Prof Glenn Reynolds today linked to this article I had saved from over a year ago.
We should never again hear anyone declare that Marilyn Monroe was a size 12, a size 14 or any other stand-in for full-figured, zaftig or plump. Fifteen thousand people have now seen dramatic evidence to the contrary. Monroe was, in fact, teeny-tiny.
The 15,000 were the visitors who turned out over eight days to oooh and aaah at the preview exhibit for the June 18 auction of Debbie Reynolds’s extraordinary collection of Hollywood costumes, props and other memorabilia.Virginia Postrel de-mythologizing golden era Hollywood film stars as being Rubenesque and voluptuous. Many of the female stars were smaller and more petite than most of the stars today.
In fact, the average waist measurement of the four Monroe dresses was a mere 22 inches, according to Lisa Urban, the Hollywood consultant who dressed the mannequins and took measurements for me. Even Monroe’s bust was a modest 34 inches.
That’s not an anecdote. That’s data.
The other actresses’ costumes provided further context. “It’s like half a person,” marveled a visitor at the sight of Claudette Colbert’s gold-lame “Cleopatra” gown (waist 18 inches). “That waist is the size of my thigh,” said a tall, slim man, looking at Carole Lombard’s dress from “No Man of Her Own” (a slight exaggeration — it was 21 inches). Approaching Katharine Hepburn’s “Mary of Scotland” costumes, a plump woman declared with a mixture of envy and disgust, “Another skinny one.” -
Dilbert demonstrates how NOT to remove someone from your employment roles.
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Gettin’ dark and windy here at the Dome. I had to rush out and get the laundry off the line. I hear thunder, but the wind has died down. I’ll bet it’s gonna circle around us.
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Do we need a plumber? The blog seems to be clogged up today. That’s no way to get started on a weekend thread.
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Watching an old Bonanza episode, and I just heard the Mexican sheriff tell a Cartwright: “When a man believes that all men of a race are bad, because one man of that race is bad – that man is a fool.”
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Thunder overhead. I guess it’s not circling around, after all. I guess Momma’s clothes and visit will have to wait.
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Biden’s staff caught editing pool reports to “protect Biden from himself”.
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OK, you ain’t gonna believe this $#i!, I went down to the boat shed and hooked up my repaired “Smart Charger” and it came on and smoke boiled out of it, so I unplugged it real quick and went out to my truck and got my Fluke Multimeter and checked the voltage at the plug 230 VAC!!! CRAP!! So now I know that the boat shed kilt my Lil “Smart Charger”. I went and got one of the flunky’s that worked there and made him look at my meter so he couldn’t fix the problem and say there was nothing wrong with it. I asked him if they were going to pay for my $60.00 charger and he said probably not because it was the electrician’s fault. Pass the buck! So I told him that was BS and there were other storage places and then he said that he’d talk to the owner and see if he could me a month rent free $160, I told him I could live with that. Then I went on to ‘Splain that SOMEONE had to put the neutral (white) wire on a breaker! The stupidest electrician on the planet wouldn’t do that!
Oh and I have newfound respect for the charger because I brought it home and opened it up and could find no sign of something burned although you could smell it. I guess that the primary of the transformer just heated up. I plugged it in and it seemed to work so I put it on my truck to check it out and it works just fine. 😉 -
Well someone is getting rain, I keep hearing the electrical activity on my AM radio, listening to Rush on 560 KLVI. No rain here, it clouded up and thundered a little but no rain yet.
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We didn’t get much, just a few minutes of medium heavy rain. The thunder is still in earshot, but further away. Most of it did blow over. Maybe it softened the dirt pile a little bit. It was hard diggin’ yesterday.
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It is raining in Glorious Copperfield.
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Why does the Social Security admin need 174,000 rounds of 357 hollow point ammo? It is against the Geneva Convention to use hollow points against the enemy, but for some obscure reason it is standard training ammo to use here against civilians? This was first broken on the site which shall not be named, now Fox has picked up on it and the agency admits that it has placed the order. The order works out to close to 600 rounds per agent.
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#46 Boney
The order works out to close to 600 rounds per agent.
Dang, those must be some hard-to-kill agents! I wouldn’t think it’d take more’n a round or two.
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The Geneva Convention prohibits the use of hollow point bullets as they are too deadly and make too big a mess. So while our military cannot use them against our sworn enemies, those who are charged with serving and protecting us can use them on the citizens of this country.
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Minnesota is righting a wrong.
Nearly 150 years after Gov. Alexander Ramsey called for the extermination or removal of the Dakota people from Minnesota, his modern-day successor on Thursday denounced his strong words.
“I am appalled by Governor Ramsey’s words and by his encouragement of vigilante violence against innocent people; and I repudiate them,” Gov. Mark Dayton said in a statement released Thursday. “The viciousness and violence, which were commonplace 150 years ago in Minnesota, are not accepted or allowed now.” -
Mercy we got some boomin’ and soakin’ goin’ on up in here!
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LOL, I’m so used to the trolling it took me five minutes of trying to figure out what Governor Romney had to do with Minnesota/Dakotas skirmishes. Then I saw it was Governor Ramsey. 😀
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So it won’t be up to the women from now on.
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Stumbled upon this one:
A Greek and Italian were arguing over who had the superior culture.
The Greek says, “We have the Parthenon.”
Arching his eyebrows, the Italian replies, “We have the Coliseum.”
The Greek retorts, “We Greeks gave birth to advanced mathematics”
The Italian, nodding agreement, says, “But we built the Roman Empire.”
And so on and so on until the Greek comes up with what he thinks will end the discussion. With a flourish of finality he says, “We invented sex!”
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#54: Those two arguing over which culture is greater, particularly in this day and age is like, quoting Crocodile Dundee, “two fleas arguing over which one owns the dog they are riding on.”
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Rain here about 6:30, a whole quarter inch but accompanied by sound effects sufficient to have expected considerably more. Guess it was a glancing blow. Radar shows more seems on the way in an hour or so. No complaints as we need it in whatever quantity falls.
The new barn roof is complete except for the trim at the far end over the back doors, and that had to be special ordered to cover a larger gap than there should have been left when the original builders mismeasured the total roof length as constructed and did not bring enough panels. They fudged it by decreasing the panel overlap about midway down the center aisle and squeaked by so the panels barely covered to the end. Upshot was leaks eventually developed in some spots where they had done that. New roof panels overlap properly, and special orders are not a problem for the current folks. They have found some strange arrangements in the original construction and have worked diligently to correct them. We plan to have the outside walls replaced in fall or spring, and everybody wonders what construction horrors will be exposed then. -
Your evening grin.
I don’t know which is my favorite – the star thing, the blank page, or the youtube question.
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🙂 Some funny stuff there. Star thing gets my vote
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In other news… You may have noticed that everytime Obama visits a business or factory within weeks it shuts down. Now we have this
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#58 texanadian:
There are times when I’m not sure I want to admit to being human. . . . . .
The scary thing is that these are the people who are screaming about the voter ID laws.
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While housewives would love this, I’m sure that bachelors would benefit the most.
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If I had my way, not only would you have to show ID, you’d have to take an IQ test before you could vote.
At a minimum they should be able to identify who their current representitive is or be able to identify candidates. Uninformed voters who just vote the ticket because they are dems or repubs are just messing the system up. If you don’t have a clue you should not be marking a ballot.
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Where is everybody? Well we had quite a light show roll through here around 4 AM, we got 1 3/4″ in about 30 minutes, it was all over in an hour. Yup I’ll take it.
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Well I was first for Sunday. 😉
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BEALLSVILLE, Ohio
Seventy-plus men walked out of the ground, overalls and hardhats covered in coal dust, and onto the risers of a stage built for a Mitt Romney speech.
To onlookers, mostly press and staffers, the image was stunning.
To the 2,600 family members gathered in the gravel parking lot or under tents, eating hot dogs and drinking pop, it was a moment of immense pride.
This is what we do, said Tim Wiles: “We make things. We provide energy for the state, food for our families, and businesses are sustained around the county because they make money from us.”
The 54-year-old miner added, after listening to Romney: “This election is his and Paul Ryan’s for the taking. They need to be bold and remind people of what we stand for, that we are the backbone of this country.”
“America still is that competitive frontier,” said Josh Kinney, 32, standing beside him.The photo at the link is telling.
For some of the very best reporting on the elections in the Rust, Steel & Coal Belt of Ohio and Pennsylvania, I recommend following Salena Zito, the reporter here, at the Pittsburgh Tribune. -
Heh, Stumbling around in the link for # 65, I found THIS. 😀
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If Mitt takes Ohio, that means he prolly takes PA as well. In that event, Flarda is in the R column as well as NC, TRANSLANTION: Game over.
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I find it interesting that our government demonizes this guy and he is in a world of hurt simply for telling the truth:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/ecuador/9485736/Julian-Assange-defies-British-Government-to-make-statement-from-balcony-of-Ecuadorian-embassy.html
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The power went out at 3 pm yesterday in my neighborhood and didn’t come back on til 9 last night. We have 2 big limbs down in the yard but it’s raining again now, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to start cleanup. Those limbs came down during the afternoon thunderstorm and after it passed, we went out to see if they were crushing anything underneath. I did have one small loquat tree that took quite a hit, but after freeing it and helping it stand back up, it looks like it will survive. Those downed limbs look like they were twisted off, and they landed some distance away from the remaining stobs which are 40 feet up the trunks they were pulled off of. That was some wind.
With the power out, we went out for supper and then drove around a bit. Most houses just had small debris in the yards, but we saw a huge pine tree a block from our house that was simply snapped off about 40 feet up. The remaining trunk would make one heck of a totem pole, if the owner wanted to look for a stump carver, and the HOA would not object. (I’m no longer a Nazi myself.) -
Good morning Hamsters. Cool 73 at 6, dank and overcast all night and another quarter inch in the gauge. What a welcome break. More rain lurks around the area, so we hope some drifts over us. In the dead of summer with unrelenting heat and humidity, a cloudy day or two with rain is heavenly.
I had occasion to briefly speak with Congressman Pete Olson on Friday and asked him if the Chick-fil-A effect is fully understood in DC. Yes it is. At least on our side. 🙂 Anyone on the dark side would have to be totally brain dead not to have a glimmer. -
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As you wake, remember that God is the first one waiting to talk with you. Good morning, Lord. Let’s have a grand and wonderful day.
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LQQking at the radar, the rain has mostly moved offshore except a blob from the Sabine River to Lake Charles, It is raing on the west/northwest side. Some along I-10, and I think it’s raining at KatFish’s place right now. None in Richmond but mharper42 may be getting some rain. And now, back to your regular programing,…. 😉
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Ted Cruz is on Meet The Depressed!
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This would make a heck of a movie.
John Selman kills John Wesley Hardin
August 19, 1895
On this day in 1895, Constable John Selman killed the notorious John Wesley Hardin in a gunfight at El Paso’s Acme Saloon. Hardin was born in 1853 in Bonham and revealed a violent personality at an early age. In 1867 he stabbed another youth in a schoolyard squabble, and at age fifteen he shot and killed a black man during an argument. In the fall of 1868 he claimed to have killed three Union soldiers, and within a year another soldier. He killed at least ten others as he made his way up the Chisholm Trail, and then four more upon returning to Gonzales County. After Texas Rangers captured him in Pensacola, Florida, in 1877, he was tried for murder, convicted, and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. While in prison he studied law, and after being pardoned in 1894 he was admitted to the bar and practiced law in Gonzales County and then in El Paso. In the latter city he took as a lover the wife of one of his clients, and when the husband found out about the affair, Hardin hired a number of law officials to kill him. Selman, an Arkansas native born in 1839, was one of the hired killers, and may have killed Hardin because Hardin had not paid him. Selman was tried for Hardin’s murder but released when the trial ended in a hung jury; he died, aptly enough, in a gunfight in 1896. Hardin and Selman are both buried in El Paso’s Concordia Cemetery. -
Hillary won’t take the VP and now they put a short leash on Joe. Sounds like desparation to me.
The Obama campaign will send Joe Biden to three safe blue states next week, a move indicating the campaign may fear the effect of the vice president’s increasingly frequent gaffes.
Last week, in the critical swing state of Virgina, whose 13 electoral votes President Barack Obama must secure to win reelection, Biden was a headline-making machine.
In Danville, a city with a past history of racial strife, Biden told a half-black audience that Republicans were “gonna put y’all back in chains.” He also forgot that he was in Virginia, rejoicing, “We can win North Caolina again.” He mocked a sign-language interpreter, forgot what century he was in.
A local bakery refused to serve Biden because the owner was upset with Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comments. He was denounced by former Virginia Gov. Doug Wilder. His staffers were accused of trying to manipulate pool reports, and even the friendly mainstream media turned on him. As the week ended, speculation intensified about whether Obama considered replacing him with Hillary Clinton.
On Tuesday, Biden will travel to Minnesota. Obama leads by an average of 10.5 points, according to the Real Clear Politics (RCP) average of polls.
On Wednesday, Biden will travel to Michigan, where Obama leads by an average of 7.7 points in the RCP average.
And on Friday, Biden will travel to New York, where Obama leads by 25.5 points in the RCP average. -
I poured out an inch from the rain gauge at 6am.
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Pretty impressive.
Those guys weren’t paid to show up and bussed in.That was my FIRST thought, and West Virginia, although a small state will also vote overwhelmingly for Ryan/Romney,……..Ryan/Romney, did I type that? Freudian slip? 😉
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Took a look at the forecast for the rest of the day, and the current wide-area radar, and have abandoned all my plans for today. If the rain slacks up at all, I’ll go out and empty the rain gauge. Otherwise, I’m just restin’ up and working Sudoku puzzles today.
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That was an example of her opinion. For an example of her reporting look here.“President Obama has increased investments in the research and development of clean coal technology, and employment in the mining industry hit a 15-year high in 2011,” the campaign said in a statement. “This record stands in stark contrast to Mitt Romney’s. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney spoke out against coal jobs, saying that a coal-fired plant ‘kills people.’ ”
And no the miners weren’t trucked in they worked there. He held his rally at the American Energy Corp. AEC/Murray is closing a strip mining operation after dumping slurry into Belmont County streams and spending $6M to clean it up. Many on the miners on stage are being laid off as a result of the closure.
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Actually those were Ohio miners.
Just saying.
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Shannon, I do not share my fun jobs with anyone! My husband looked at me like I was crazy yesterday when I remarked what good exercise it was going to be cleaning up that mess.
As always with a limb down, I’ll be debating whether it’s worthwhile to oil up my girly-weight electric chain saw, or just do the cuts with a hand saw. -
It just gets better and better for demagoguery.
Both Romney and Ryan are speaking at the Values Voters Summit in September.
A smorgasbord of moonbats, loonies and knuckleheads. I believe representatives from all the major hate groups are here; Tony Perkins is such a multitasker. I don’t see Corsi or Farah. I wouldn’t expect to see Grover Norquist either, now that he’s been outed as a Muslim Brotherhood infiltrator intent on overthrowing America and setting up an Islamic Republic. Even Ron Paul seems to be avoiding these guys. -
#85 mharper42, Awe shucks, I was going to bring my 20″ 33 CC Gumby Dammit chain saw over. The day after hurricane Ike I got my chain saw and my neighbor across the street and I cleaned up the broken limbs from his Arizona Ash and the gal’s next door to him, her hubby was in Saudi Arabia. Over the next week or two, I drove all over the neighborhood and helped folks clean up. That was the most fun that I’d had in some time, went through three chains. 😉
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Snub our crazy aunt at your own risk.
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Tedtam has her fun projects, I have mine!
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Luckily for Mr. Mitchell the state of Georgia has no laws on the books regarding spanking the monkey. The way they stretched his image to match the column space, he looks like Robin Williams.
A Georgia Health Sciences University lab tech was jailed this week after he was found intoxicated with his pants down in a campus locker room, a GHSU spokeswoman said Friday. Two lab monkeys were found outside their cages, authorities said.
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mh42 & her “little girly” chainsaw.
How super dave see his chainsaw:
What it really looks like:
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#91 Pyr4o
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#86 Sham:
It just gets better and better for demagoguery.
As opposed to those people with no values that you embrace?
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Well ah reckon I can toss out a weather slice – after welcoming 2 new little BACA HEROES into the family up in Conroe yesterday we chose westbound on 1488 in hopes of avoiding some of the boomers that were embedded further south traversing west to east – the current goal being Las Fuentes in Magnolia for some nachos and a cold beverage or 2 – we darn near ‘made it’ in dry fashion – but after crossing FM149 we hit ‘the wall’ as a pocket of the southern storms had expended northward – those last 3 miles felt like they lasted an hour as we slowed down to 30 or so (!) and could only see the center line stripes swimming by – as we sat on the patio in ‘drip dry’ mode the waitress shared how they had a lightning strike less than 50 feet from the back of their building that blew off a large chunk of an oak tree as evidenced by scattered fresh wood chunks all over their side yard.
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#93 Alberto Gordo
Feel free to embrace their values [Tony Perkins], we got the innernets now.
FWIW, the Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) have principles also.We believe in the traditional family as the basic unit of human society and morality, and we oppose all efforts by the state and other powers to weaken the structure of the American family through toleration of sexual licentiousness, homosexuality and other perversions, mixture of the races, pornography in all forms, and subversion of the authority of parents.
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Ogden Nash was born a hundred and ten years ago today.
Some favorite poemsCommon Sense
Why did the Lord give us agility,
If not to evade responsibility?
The Cow
The cow is of bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other is milk.
The Fly
The Lord in His wisdom made the fly,
And then forgot to tell us why.
The Dog
The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state that the dog is full of love.
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Rain gauge report for near NW Houston last 24 hrs: 1.1 yesterday (the “storm”) + 2.4 so far today = 3.5″ — not bad at all.
#94 Katfish – Glad you and your crew made it through the rough weather. Ya know, I would not want to be in the vacinity, much less a mere 50 feet away from a lightning strike on a big tree. -
One more Nash Poem from One From One Leaves Two
Abracadabra, thus we learn
The more you create, the less you earn.
The less you earn, the more you’re given,
The less you lead, the more you’re driven,
The more destroyed, the more they feed,
The more you pay, the more they need,
The more you earn, the less you keep,
And now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Lord my soul to take
If the tax-collector hasn’t got it before I wake.Off to work the oil and space mines
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44 mharper42 says:
August 17, 2012 at 10:41 am
#36 Sarge
The hikers were wonderful to rescue that beautiful dog. The dog was wonderful to remain so calm while being carried down a mountainside by complete strangers.
Just one more question and then I’m off for a dental appt: what exactly is “eno” ?I just got back from sleeping in one Friday and Saturday nights Its a brand name of a middle priced Hammock, short for Eagles Nest Outfitters.
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100!!!
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Sarge, did you get weathered on, and if so, did your gear keep you dry? Was your dog on this trip?
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Is anyone else getting phone calls from women who say they are with the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, wanting to ask questions about immunization in the household? I tell them I don’t answer questions asked by strangers on the phone and hang up. Got 4 of these calls so far, in about a week’s time.
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#91 wagonburner 😀
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Oh and as God is my witness; I’ve NEVER owned an electric chain saw or an electric weed eater or an electric hedge trimmer!
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Another example of the direction your thuggish government is headed. Of course, no risk to anyone here, so why be concerned about it, huh?
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August 19, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Sarge, did you get weathered on, and if so, did your gear keep you dry? Was your dog on this trip?Friday it rained on us around 3:30, but thankfully after I had set up the tarp and hammock. When I set up the tarp, I did it so I could have a “view” but after about 5 minutes I started to get some splash in so I had to go reset the guy lines. In other words, I had to go get wet so I could stay dry.
Rained for about 30-45 minutes, and it was a pleasatn, but damp, nap. Nothing like the sound of rain on a tarp in the deep woods, espeiall when you know none of it is going to run under you bak and make the floor of the tent all icky and sticky.
I baked biscuits for Supper and breakfast. Supper’s was onion and cheese biscuits like the kind Red Lobster makles. For Breakfast I made biscuits and gravy with srmabled eggs and bacon. And Scout like the biscuits too. He was a real trooper and did a six mile hike on Saturday without complaint.
We did get rained on all last night after going to bed, but with few problems.
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Bad linky for the “view”
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#104 Dave
And I am just as proud of ALL my yard tools being electric! Now I am sure that someone will make an inference, so let me add that NONE of my personal tools are. -
My friend, Jeff, decided to take the big boat, the Trojan 37 footer out since it has been trapped in the marina all summer because they can’t seem to get the marina dredging done.
The high tide at 11 AM was going to be high enough for us to get out and in today for about 90 minutes. We took the boat up under the George Washington Bridge and then south down the Hudson to the 79th Street marina in Manhattan.
Just as we docked and tied up at 1:00, the USAF Thunderbirds flew low over us, in Delta Formation, up the Hudson to mark the opening of Air Force Week in NYC. They had just kicked in the afterburners after passing the USS Intrepid docked down the river. -
I bought a small battery powered hedge trimmer because my bad back won’t let me do it manually anymore.
What a waste of money.
And my weedeater is electric too. Works great. And starts EVERY TIME. -
I’ve only used the weedeater once this year anyway.
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This is the coolest thing I’ve read in a while.
David Zincavage links to the story:This young tech blogger dude sits down in a coffee shop in Portland to catch up on his email and do a little blogging on his Macbook Air, when an incredibly ancient geezer comes along and starts up a conversation about Apple computers.
The old guy doesn’t approve of Apple’s iPad approach: all consuming, no programming, no creating, no doing anything which hasn’t ever been done before. The young guy asks the old geezer what he ever did that hadn’t been done before, and the old guy replies: “I invented the first computer.”“Wait”, I said, pausing at his last sentence ”What was that quote again?”
“Nothing is withheld from us what we have conceived to do.”
That’s good, who said that?
God did.
What?
God said it and there were only two people who believed it, you know who?
Nope, who?
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so let me add that NONE of my personal tools are
Dang.
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#105 El Gordo:
Brandon’s comments included observations that 9-11 was done by the government. . ., the War on Terror is a lie, Americans are killing innocent people in the ME, the current federal banking system is corrupt and unfeasible to Americans, and that the George Bush’s family rapes little children
I would say that all of these claims have enough circumstantial evidence behind them to warrant a serious independent investigation, and even if they didn’t, there is no law against “conspiracy theory”, at least not yet…I would say that any article by someone who is willing to give credence to such a collection of idiocy is suspect in the whole.
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Finished our first day of Faith Formation registration for the comping year. We registered for several different programs and levels, one being RCIA, for people who don’t fit into our regular faith program.
One mother who came in was told by me (through an interpreter) that her 21 year old needed to go through RCIA. FOUR TIMES. And she still had to go to the cashier and then the RCIA registration table before she finally accepted the decision.
Holee crap, some people are difficult.
BUT, on the other hand, some of my previous students came to help out and we were very happy to see each other again. Some of them are just so cute. -
I left the house about 9:15 this morning headed to Austin on I-10, so that I could deliver a desk to my daughter, HeartCrusher. I got back about 1/2 hour ago via 290. There are just a few pines left that are visible from 71 in the lost pines forest in Bastrop. They really look lost now. The wide spread destruction was somewhat depressing with lots of black and brown pillars of testament to the fires last year.
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#112 Texpat, not to nit-pick but I think that the first computer was the “Difference Engine” built by Charles Babbage in the early 1800’s…. I know you’re talking about the modern electronic version. 😉
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#108 mharper42
#104 Dave
And I am just as proud of ALL my yard tools being electric!Yabut, I don’t have an extension cord long enough to reach from my house in Clear Lake to Center Texas where my deer lease is, that said, I hate extension cords and have NEVER found an electric chain saw or other outdoor device that had enough horsepower to do the job correctly. I have cut down an oak tree with a 34″ diameter trunk with my 20″ chain saw. It’s not easy to do BTW.
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#110 Shannon
Round Up is my friend.
You trim your hedges with Round Up?
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I find it interesting that our government demonizes this guy and he is in a world of hurt simply for telling the truth
I don’t think he’s been charged or indicted with anything in this country. What about Bradley Manning? Is he a hero? He told the truth. For that matter, Julius and Ethyl Rosenberg told the truth too. Are they heroes?
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#109 Texpat, I always liked Trojans because they gave you a lot of bang for your buck, so it’s a 37′ so it has 2 engines, gas or diesel? The APU would be either Onan or Yanmar, I think? I’ve been away form big boats for a long time, and Yes 37′ is a big boat to me, 12′ to 15′ beam.
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#113 Pyro
From Rosie the Riveter to just another Couch hussy, all in one day.
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#107 Sarge
It took a while to sink in but I finally snapped to what your “Good view” reminded me of. Have you been on Squawk’s FB lately, the one under his real name? It is filled with pix of his own feet, taken in various places they have carried him.
Scout is a good looking dog. Is he a golden retriever? Hopefully he gets something to eat besides your baggie biscuits, right? -
#123 mharper42
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Assange and Manning are not whistleblowers. They are espionage agents (both) and stooge traitor (Manning).
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I never was mowimg in the dark.
The severe pain didn’t show up until later when I commented about it.
It’s sore but much improved.
The round up comment had nothing to do with hedge trimming. Round up replaces weedeating around here. -
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Help! I’m being transported to a FEMA Camp in a black helicopter!! -
Aren’t you glad your mother made you wear clean underwear this morning?
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I must point out that wagonburner did his homework regarding the axe lady. Her last name is indeed Harper so the mistaken identity is understandable..
Apparently the only difference [between our Ms Harper and Maine’s Ms. Harper] is the tatoo of bobwar or christmas tree lights. -
#126 Mharper
RCIA – Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults
It’s faith formation training for children to adults, 7 years and older, who have not yet been baptized. If they’ve been baptized and are of school age, we insert them into our regular FF classes. If they’re adults, baptized, but need another sacrament, such as confirmation or First Communion, they go through RCIA. -
So the woman who didn’t speak English wanted her grown son to skip that step?
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I think she wanted her son into the school program. She kept asking, I think, hoping for the answer she wanted from someone.
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#128 Shannon
It’s sore but much improved.
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#121 SD
This 30 year old Trojan is in exceptional shape. My friend bought it from the original owner who lived in Philadelphia, but kept her moored on the South Jersey shore all these years. The old man had lost his wife, his favorite dog and had begun to lose his memory to Alzheimers. He was about 80, but the boat represented the last of the three things he loved most in his life – his wife, his dog and his boat.
I can’t swear to the order of priority in which those three might have fallen.
It took my friend over a year to buy the boat because the old man kept backing out before the close each time. It was sad for it was the last beloved thing in his life.
Anyway….
It’s twin Chrysler 360 gasoline engines with an Onan genset for Auxiliary Power Unit.
The boat was babied for most of its life so Jeff got a good deal at $11,000. I’d say he’s spent about $30,000 over the last 2 years on it.
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Texpat, Twin Chryslers? Dayaam they were real popular back in the 60’s and 70’s, as were the 351 and 426 Fords but they fell out of favor because the Chevy’s were so dang cheap and GM always backed their’s up. FWIW; 30 years ago, I was real big into boats and I never knew that they were still using Chryslers, hey, I learn something new every day.
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#138 SD
Plenty of folks around the country spending 250K to 350K to get the same ride, Dave.
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#139 Texpat, just shows to go ya’ that I’ve not been keeping up. That said, I paid $25K for my 2007, 21′ Sea Ray, with the 220 HP, 305 Chevy motor and the wake board tower, I can buy the same boat today new for about $40K!
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#130 Shamaal
Aren’t you glad your mother made you wear clean underwear this morning?
You never know whom you’ll meet at the FEMA camp.The only women one might meet in a FEMA camp look like Rachel Maddow or Rosie O’Donnell. I suppose the suicide rates among the heterosexuals there are quite high.
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I want to go on record to say that I was never at Woodstock not matter what you may have heard.
Well you’re about the only of the flower child’s of age in the 60’s that doesn’t claim to have been there. 😀
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#136 Squawk
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The FBI probed a late-night swim in the Sea of Galilee that involved drinking, numerous GOP freshmen lawmakers, top leadership staff – and one nude member of Congress, according to more than a dozen sources, including eyewitnesses.
Oh wait, there’s an excuse
Many of the lawmakers who ventured into the lake said they did so because of the religious significance of the waters. Others said they were simply cooling off after a long day. Several privately admitted that alcohol may have played a role in why some of those present decided to jump in.
Wilbur Mills and Fanny Fox only got caught in the tidal pool and he lost his job.
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Had meant to comment earlier on the last picture of the opening sequence on Woodstock
at the head of today’s thread of the couple who own the farm. They are standing in front of their now fetid miasma of totally trashed property, and they are inexplicably smiling like Cheshire cats. Or else the druggy haze hasn’t worn off yet. Good grief. -
You are correct, that is Max Yasgur. When the permits were being discussed at the Bethel town board he addressed rhe board:
“I hear you are considering changing the zoning law to prevent the festival. I hear you don’t like the look of the kids who are working at the site. I hear you don’t like their lifestyle. I hear you don’t like they are against the war and that they say so very loudly. . . I don’t particularly like the looks of some of those kids either. I don’t particularly like their lifestyle, especially the drugs and free love. And I don’t like what some of them are saying about our government. However, if I know my American history, tens of thousands of Americans in uniform gave their lives in war after war just so those kids would have the freedom to do exactly what they are doing. That’s what this Country is all about and I am not going to let you throw them out of our Town just because you don’t like their dress or their hair or the way they live or what they believe. This is America and they are going to have their festival.
To some, he’s a hero.
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