Hambone v3.0

Where’s The Wagonburner?

First, I apologize in advance for the (lack of) quality of the pictures below. My driver, let’s call him Leonard, thought he was the second coming of Parnelli Jones, so most of the pictures I took out the car window were redshifted. These were merely blurry:

Pallets!!!1!!11!!

Bucolic countryside buildings:

Bucolic countryside:

Bucolic local agriculture:

Lastly, a view out the window of my luxuriously swanky accommodations:

This is classic. I got this note under my door:

Search [my company] Becomes you tomorrow as hotel in 8:00 am here

Translation: “The driver will be here at 8:00am to take you to the plant.”

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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Mexico?
    Oh, and first.
    Mornin’ Gang

  2. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tanganyika.
    🙂

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Speaking of Tanganyika…..

  4. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    No
    and 🙄

  5. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    South Dallas or maybe Waco?

  6. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All
    Philippines?

  7. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    For those who don’t know what a ghillie suit is:
    http://simage1.sportsmansguide.com/adimgs/l/9/96121_ts.jpg
    The perp’s comment before the stunt:
    Here, hold my beer
    And the friend’s comment after the stunt:
    Seemed like a good idea at the time

    Sasquatch stunt takes a tragic turn on highway
    Posted: Monday, August 27, 2012 9:04 am | Updated: 8:34 pm, Mon Aug 27, 2012.
    By JIM MANN/Daily Inter Lake
    A man dressed in a military-style “Ghillie suit” who was attempting to provoke a Bigfoot sighting was struck by two vehicles and killed on U.S. 93 South of Kalispell Sunday night.
    “He was trying to make people think he was Sasquatch so people would call in a Sasquatch sighting,” Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider said. “You can’t make it up. I haven’t seen or heard of anything like this before. Obviously, his suit made it difficult for people to see him.”
    The Flathead County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell.
    Schneider said Tenley’s motivations were ascertained during interviews with friends who were not in the immediate area but were nearby when the man was struck at about 10:30 p.m.
    “Alcohol may have been a factor,” Schneider said. “Impairment is up in the air.”
    Tenley was on the southbound side of the highway, about a half mile south of the highway’s intersection with Rocky Point Road.
    “He was in the right-hand lane of travel and the vehicle was unable to avoid him and struck him,” Schneider said of the first vehicle driven by a 15-year-old girl from Somers.
    A second vehicle driven by a 17-year-old Somers girl also struck Tenley as he laid on the highway.
    Ghillie suits are commonly used by military snipers and some that are advertised on the Internet have a Bigfoot-like appearance.
    “This one was a store-bought version, just a commercial Ghillie suit that was pre-made,” Schneider said.
    Tenley was pronounced dead at the scene

    .

  8. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    No and no

  9. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #7 otl
    “Flathead county” seems highly appropriate.

  10. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    “Alcohol may have been a factor”

  11. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    WagonBurner
    I don’t know where you are, but I’m here passing gas working up to my daily constitutional

  12. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Somewhere in the former Soviet Union. Latvia or Estonia?

  13. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We were up at my BIL’s deer camp in Fairfield last weekend for our annual Boys Weekend Out this past weekend. They were telling the story of one of the cousins who is 6’5″ and kind of uncoordinated goofy stalking across one of the other hunter’s deer cam, an engineer type, 5’4″ non-humor fellow, like Sasquatch. Calls himself Scratchcrotch. LOL.

  14. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #12 sarge
    Nope

  15. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm–
    Taxi driver is driving a VW, so its gotta be Yerp summers.

  16. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Scotland?

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    The pictures remind of some kind of eastern European/former Soviet country.

  18. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #15 – 16 – Traffic appears to be on the RIGHT – that cancels out any country in the British Isles n’est ce pas?

  19. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    No
    No
    No
    Correct

  20. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    18 Katfish says:
    August 28, 2012 at 8:05 am
    #15 – 16 – Traffic appears to be on the RIGHT – that cancels out any country in the British Isles n’est ce pas?

    Dunno;
    If you look at the picture wth the pallets, you can see the white lnes on the road to the right of the pitcher taker—which puts the VW taxi in the left hand lane. It also appears the signs there are in Engrish.

  21. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    The free market at work. Kinda…

  22. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #20 – OR . the broken line visible “could be” that country’s version of RH shoulder or ‘fog line’ – based on color of pavement changing to what appears to be dirt
    AND – the last photo with bus – bus seems to be traveling left to right on that street (which implies RH side traffic (unless that thoroughfare is a one way) – AND the auto waiting for the bus to pass so it can enter traffic appears to be beside a solid yellow stripe on it’s left – also implying RH side traffic

  23. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    #20 – OR . the broken line visible “could be” that country’s version of RH shoulder or ‘fog line’ – based on color of pavement changing to what appears to be dirt
    AND – the last photo with bus – bus seems to be traveling left to right on that street (which implies RH side traffic (unless that thoroughfare is a one way) – AND the auto waiting for the bus to pass so it can enter traffic appears to be beside a solid yellow stripe on it’s left – also implying RH side traffic

    OR you could just look at the first picture with the driver of the VW clearly driving a left sided steering wheel car 😉

  24. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #23 – MASTER of obviousness!! 🙂

  25. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Sure seems like an awful lotta ‘sleuthin’ goin on when one considers the prize value…………………………….. 🙂

  26. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s not the prize at the end of the journey, it’s the journey…

  27. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Let’s narrow it down. Southern hemisphere?

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Are you in the postage stamp sized country, Luxembourg? That country is actually smaller than Harris County,TX.

  29. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #21 Bobo: That broad brush with which you are trying to paint 1/2 the country only has one bristle and no paint.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    HOw about going by continents, North or South America?

  31. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Rape would be nonexistent if we would end the irrational war on a plant.

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    PyroMan – Ireland?

  33. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    PyroMan – Ireland?

    Nope. They drive on the wrong side of the road.

  34. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #27 & #28
    Yes
    No

  35. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #31 Hammy

    Rape would be nonexistent if we would end the irrational war on a plant.

    Given the link given yesterday, not only would rape be nonexistent, we wouldn’t be burdened with quite so many college graduates as well.

  36. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Brazil.

  37. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If the irrational war on a plant were ended we would all instantly know where the wagonburner is at any given moment through the powers of telepathy.

  38. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Interesting, clever and efficient way to separate egg yolk from white.

  39. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Columbia?

  40. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #37
    Wouldn’t matter what country he’s in, we’d all be coexistin’.

  41. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Guyana

  42. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Answer to #30 please, South America??

  43. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Wrong again Hamous.

    Rape would be nonexistent if we would end the irrational war on a plant.

    No, but Akin might think it would cure homosexuality.
    (That one is fooling lots of folks today.)

  44. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    If the irrational war on a plant were ended we would all instantly know where the wagonburner is at any given moment through the powers of telepathy.

    Not really, We just wouldn’t care. Or we’d all be in the kitchen, scarfing potato chips and peanut butter.

  45. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    And while the peanut butter is out…

  46. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #44 TT

    we’d all be in the kitchen

    Pulling egg yolks up into plastic bottles.

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #45
    10. Yah, lube your old push mower with peanut butter and then find a nest of ants in your toolshed next weekend.
    9. However, I will try peanut butter on our cat who is being medicated with her food!
    7. Mousetrap bait – been there, done that. In a live trap, not a spine-snapper.
    1. Shave with it – Hmmm, let’s hear a report from the Hamster guys on this one.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tranquility Base, Moon?

  49. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Shave with it – Hmmm, let’s hear a report from the Hamster guys on this one.

    I never use shaving cream as I always shave in the shower, by touch, no mirror. With a full beard, shaving the neck only happens once or twice a week and that is done with soap, in the shower.

  50. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If the irrational war on a plant were ended we would no longer be constrained by the two gender duopoly. We would all be omni-sexual. Like the Bonobos. And Mary Gonzalez, but I repeat myself.

  51. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #36
    Sim (in the local lingo)
    Temp outside is 10C (50F).
    I’m in Caxias do Sul (approx 29* 11′ S x 51* 13′ W)

  52. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    I’m in Caxias do Sul

    I swear that was what I was going to say. I cheated a bit because I looked up locations for your company in Brazil and that was the only place I could find that looked like the pics.

  53. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Sweetie’s son (17) is apparently a John Lennon fan, and pretty good with photo editing. Frankly, I don’t see much of a resemblance.

  54. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    If the irrational war on a plant were ended everyone would look like Sheldon Cooper and sing like Yoko Ono.

  55. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Yoko doesn’t sing. She screaches.

  56. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    If I sang like yoko, I’d have a larynxectomy.

  57. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    If the irrational war on a plant were ended…
    -Chuck Norris would cry.
    -The Texans would win the Super Bowl.
    -Sarah Palin would say something intelligent.
    -Cindy and Tracie would get married, with Rick Santorum celebrating the mass.
    -Rick Perry’s hair would spontaneously combust.
    -Obama would show his long form birth certificate.
    -Romney would release his tax returns.
    -Akin would get his foot out of his mouth.
    -Fox News would be honest.
    -Hammie would stop predicting irrational things that would happen.

  58. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    -Bobo wouldn’t be so bromidic.

  59. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I took some mail out to the mailbox, and on the way back I stopped to look at my papaya plantation that has spontaneously sprouted in the garden bed next to the house.
    I don’t know where they came from – I did not intentionally plant them there. I had spread a flower seed mix in that bed, so maybe some idiot thought that papaya trees were “flowers”. They had pretty leaves, and for the first year or so I was trying to figure out what kind of flower they were. Since I had planted flower seeds, I kept trying to put them into that category, until a friend said “papaya”. Then it clicked. They do have pretty leaves, so I left them.
    The three or four grew to eight. I think they spread through their dadgum roots. I pulled a bunch of the babies (anything 3′ or less is a “baby”). I left the others, because they are pretty and because I wouldn’t mind having a papaya every now and then. Several of them are fruiting. I let about six of them stay, and they’re getting rather tall, 8 feet or so.
    So I stood there at the porch, looking at these trees, and I realized that they were shading out everything else, and that I had one growing right next to the foundation. I decided this was enough. I pulled two of the 8 footers out (one had two papayas growing on it), and several of the babies. I now have four large trees. I’m debating on taking it down to two.
    Their days may be numbered.

  60. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    That’s one fruit I cannot stomach. They smell like vomit to me.

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, if I ever want to mess with you, I can serve you mayo and papaya.
    /stifling evil laugh

  62. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    eeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

  63. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Not necessarily together! That would be too gross.
    Nope, I’d sneak the mayo in a well-designed sammich, and then maybe a tropical fruit salad for dessert – with papaya.
    /stifling evil laugh

  64. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Oh, and Hammy, if it makes you feel better, papaya trees are easy to take out. The 8 footers required a little effort, but they have almost no root system. I had to bend them back and forth a bit to loosen the tuberous roots, and then pull hard but carefully (that’s how I stressed my back last week, trying to pull other weeds). The little ones are one-handers.
    Compared to the 10 foot weeds on Mirkwood, which I was unable to pull last week, these trees are nuthin’.
    So if you don’t like papaya, you can easily get rid of them.

  65. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    NWS bows to political pressure, finally decides that Isaac must be a hurricane. Now get ready for the death, mayhem, and destruction – including replays of Katrina if this one isn’t bad enough.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #52 Hammy
    This “win” reeks of insider trading/knowledge, since the hoi polloi of Hamsterville do not know the name of WB’s company. Let’s see if we can get Congress to mount an investigation of this shady deal. Harrummpphh.

  67. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    GOP Establishment scheming to take away the conservative voice in the party, just after super secret meetings in Houston this past weekend ……..coincidence?
    /I’m kidding, I’m kidding

  68. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Well, if y’all had been keeping track, he’s been to Brazil before. No insider information needed.

  69. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Women protesting the RNC Convention it Tampa wear vagina costumes and hold up signs that say “Respect Women!”
    I’ll say that again.
    Women protesting the RNC Convention it Tampa wear vagina costumes and hold up signs that say “Respect Women!”

  70. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well the camel finally hangs his, err, her head in shame.

  71. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Wagonburner is not in Kansas any more. 🙂

  72. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #69 Sarge: Yanno, I don’t think I am going out on a limb when I say that the overwhelming majority of R men think more of their wimminzes as a whole, than just the vagina.

  73. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    But for libs, persons are not considered as their whole. They are dissected by genitalia, use thereof, color, ethinicity, etc.
    So, women dressing up as female private parts exposes (no pun intended) how they see people. Of course, to understand how we see those people who dress as vaginas, we’d have to turn them around, about the same elevation.

  74. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am resisting my juvenile urge to comment on TT’s #73 post.

  75. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    But are those LBGT or P vaginas? And isn’t the very fact they are vaginas perpetuating the binary gender myth disseminated by the two gender duopoly? Coexist or else! We wouldn’t need dancing vaginas if it weren’t for the irrational war on a stupid plant.

  76. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I don’t know for sure, but I’m guessing that use of the stupid plant may a factor in the decision to give us dancing vaginas.

  77. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    lol… Have you clowns been in my stash again?
    Don’t make me get my vagina suit. Really, you don’t want to see me dance!

  78. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    We’ve seen you dance.

  79. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Why do the Code Pink hos always look like rode-hard-and-put-away-wet bull dykes?
    /rhetorical question
    No man wants to see the real thing. That’s why they feel the urge to degrade themselves in public.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Beware Moderate Mormon Mafia run by Mr. Leavitt

  81. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Those things that they were wearing in the Dancing V’s video kind of looked like dried apricots, wrong color but dried up non the less.

  82. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #69 Sarge
    In the link comments…

    The gals are right. They should take their vaginas to the Democrat National Convention. That’s where they’ll find all the pricks.

  83. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #81 Bones

    dried up non the less

    A couple of them were definitely puckered.
    🙂

  84. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    As opposed to the GLOH.

  85. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    O’Keefe has been restricted from flying to Tampa, but he will still do his presentation.
    You can’t hold a good man down.

  86. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    as far as hurricanes go, the storm system that just left the west coast of Africa has the counter clockwise rotation and is moving very quickly.

  87. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Political correctness runs amuck – right over a little kid.
    Sometimes the idiocy makes me just want to cry.

  88. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #85 TT: Dya think that a D operative performing a similar stunt in an R building would get the same punishment? If yes, then they should hafta arrest most of the LSM “journalists”.

  89. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #87 TT: From the comments:

    He should change his sign name to the middle finger. This is just ridiculous nonsense.

    I concur, sort of .

  90. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #86 –

    has the counter clockwise rotation

    not sure why that is remarkable as ALL the storms in the Northern Hemisphere do……….

  91. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    But it has begun spinning. You know, like the LSM when faced with the truth.

  92. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #90 Katfish: That is not at all true. Not all storms rotate and some rotate in a clockwise fashion. For example check the link provided and look to the north of the last one that came off of Africa, it is spinning clockwise. The only ones that develop into a hurricane in the northern hemisphere have a counter clockwise rotation.

  93. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Hooters in Tampa welcomes Joe “Mensa” Biden.

  94. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #92 – I reckon this is “just semantics” BC…………..what just left the African coast is currently just an amorphus mass of individual storm cells – if it gets any ‘cyclonic’ organization to it whatsoever it will be counterclockwise………….. the exception aka an “anticyclone” (that I know of and notable for central HIGH pressure as opposed to LOW) is noted below:

    An anticyclone (that is, opposite to a cyclone) is a weather phenomenon defined by the United States’ National Weather Service’s glossary as “[a] large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere”

    anticyclone

  95. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    not sure why that is remarkable as ALL the storms in the Northern Hemisphere do……….

    I guess the critical word “cyclonic” was left out of your statement. There are lots of storms that are not cyclonic and some, as you note in your #94 actually spin in a clockwise direction. Those anticyclones, I think, are also referred to as derechos, and one hit the eastern portion of the US about 4-6 weeks ago.
    If it is a storm with no visible circulation or clockwise circulation, it does not really raise my interest as those don’t form hurricanes.

  96. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Every rotating low pressure system in the northern hemisphere will spin counter-clockwise. None will spin clockwise. Ever.

  97. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #95 – hence my semantical comment – you rarely (if EVER) hear the weather channel note “a new area of HIGH pressure just left the African coast”

  98. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    A derecho is not associated with an anti-cyclone or high pressure system. It’s simply the straight (hence “derecho”) line winds associated with a line of thunderstorms.

  99. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Calm weather and dry conditions are the hallmarks of an anticyclone — a weather phenomenon which most people probably know better as a “high pressure area.” These zones of generally tranquil conditions are created by dry air masses.

    Anticyclone
    SO – if it AINT rotating – it might be “stormy” but it aint a storm in the classic cyclonic sense
    clockwise – fair weather
    HENCE – counterclockwise (Northern Hemisphere) is the rotation of ALL low pressure based storms

  100. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Pardon my blatant lack of specificity 🙂
    OH and *cien!*

  101. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Not to be confused with Jorge Derecho.

  102. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Sr. Jorge mató el blog.

  103. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When the Northern Hemisphere flushed toilet water and low pressure systems start turning clockwise, we inna heap o’ trouble.

  104. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Mr George bruises the blog?

  105. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If the irrational war on a plant were ended we would all instantly know where the wagonburner is at any given moment through the powers of telepathy.

    Not really, We just wouldn’t care. Or we’d all be in the kitchen, scarfing potato chips and peanut butter.

    From what I recall, Cap’n crunch & Froot Loops were de rigeur.

  106. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Recall?

  107. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    9. However, I will try peanut butter on our cat who is being medicated with her food!

    Stick a dab on her chin or between her eyes. Drives ’em nuts.
    For dogs, put some between their lower lip & gums, like Skoal. Their tongues don’t go that direction. It’s hilarious. Best part is they’ll come back for more because they love PB.

  108. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    106 Tedtam
    Used to work with some stoners in my yoot.
    I keep it legal.

  109. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Heh

  110. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    From RickG

  111. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Isaac churns toward NOLA but is a slow monster 400 miles across, carrying rain and storm surges that could possibly rival Ike and Allison rolled into one if it slows much once it crosses the coastline. Not a pretty marriage to contemplate at all. From the Channel 11 videos in and around NOLA at 6, things are getting nasty fast, and too many folks are foolishly out in it on the now submerged shore of Lake Ponchartrain. Allison was only a tropical storm. 🙁

  112. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Arrrgh. Yet another lazy liberal offspring from moronic parents trying to be important. Just spend your daddy’s money and leave the real world to the grown-ups.

  113. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I’m watching the Convention and even though Fox & CNN (Communist News Network) were reporting on it, when I sat down in my recliner around 6:45 they both were reporting on the storm, which makes sense BTW, so I flipped over to Ch 8, PBS and they were covering it live. I know, they’re Communists also but at least I got to see a speech by a lady that was running for Lt Governor of Delaware. She was great! A small business owner that started a business in their kitchen and now employs 70 people. True Americans, NOT Obama leeches.

  114. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Obama leaches

    You mean Obama is leaching into the local water supply?
    I would have thought the libs were somehow a bunch of leeches that gain their sustenance from the efforts of their hosts.
    😉 been a while…

  115. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #112 hamous

    My earliest memories there are of skipping stones with my father and drinking unpasteurized milk.

    I have no idea whether any milk I ever drank was unpasteurized. I do know that the milk we bought in the AAFES commissary when we lived in Turkey was reconstituted from the dehydrated milk produced by actual American by-golly cows living in the U. S. of A.
    I don’t recall whether we actually noticed the difference, because we either used ample quantities of Nestle Qwik or poured it on our Frosted Flakes (they’re Grrrrrrreat!).

  116. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Note the sign does not say “Bologna on toast stuck in a microwave”.
    Actually, bologna is a very misunderstood lunch “meat”. Bologna omelets are actually really good for breakfast.

  117. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    This is good; The Reform Governors Who Led the Way.

    Credit Barack Obama for the revival of GOP fortunes. Voter backlash to the president’s liberal policies gave Republicans the House in 2010, but the more immediate effects were in the states. Of the 29 current Republican governors, 21 have taken office since 2010. Midterm voters also gave the GOP unified control of 26 state legislatures, providing their newly elected leaders the firepower to pursue their reform agendas.
    A crisis situation also provided opportunity. For all the talk of Washington rushing headlong toward a fiscal cliff, the states have already arrived there. Years of overspending and accounting gimmicks to paper over growing state pension and health costs have collided with the economic downturn and a sudden drop-off of federal stimulus funds.
    “The fiscal reality hit the states sooner, and hard, because—unlike Washington—they have to balance their budgets,” says Jonathan Williams, director of tax and fiscal policy at the American Legislative Exchange Council. “The problems were simply too big to ignore anymore, and it set the stage for reforms that not long ago weren’t even on the table.”
    Nowhere have the changes been more striking than in the budget and structural reforms enacted by Mr. Christie (who took office in 2010) and Mr. Walker (who hit the ground running in January 2011). Their high-profile wins over state legislatures and unions were the first signs of reformist Republican governors taking on the public entitlements that are crowding out more vital budget priorities.

    FWIW; This is what ADULTS do, the spoiled “Man Child” will not, cannot, EVER understand this! 🙁

  118. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    My mother even planted a ring of white birch trees around the property for protection.

    Protection from what?

  119. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #114 wagonburner, CRAP, you always catch my mistakes, Ms Adee, who is a much better wordsmith than you or I, at least gives me a break. That said, don’t you just know that she cringes when she reads so of the crap that we all post. 😉

  120. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    In the late ’70s, when Manhattanites like Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger were turning Montauk and East Hampton into an epicurean Shangri-La for the Studio 54 crowd, my parents, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, were looking to become amateur dairy farmers.

    I had no idea his parents were John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

    Sean Lennon is a musician.

    Knock me over with a feather. I thought he was a weak, poor imitation of one.
    /everyone knows George was the musician

  121. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #116 wagonburner,

    Actually, bologna is a very misunderstood lunch “meat”. Bologna omelets are actually really good for breakfast.

    Why did that remind me of a SONG that I last heard 40 yeras ago?
    To be fair, I had NOO idea what the song was called or who sang it, BUTT Google is my friend! Took a few tries, but I found it. 😉

  122. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #116 Pyro
    Fried baloney sammich sounds like jail food.

  123. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #118 Hammy

    Protection from what?

    Bad juju.

  124. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    What she said.

  125. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Fried baloney sammich sounds like jail food.

    Yummy jail food.

  126. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    FWIW; I love bologna, the wife hates it, she grew up poor and had fried bologna for breakfast sometimes.
    OK, here is a good sammich, 1 slice of bologina, 1 slice of salami, ’bout 6 small slices of pepperoni, a slice of sharp cheeder cheese, a few jalapenos on rye bread with Kraft mayo and honey mustard. Good eatin’ right there. 😉

  127. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Before I moved to Taxes I’d NEVER heard of the most God-Awful sammich spread EVER! BUTT, apparently it’s popular in east texas. 😉

  128. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Fried baloney sammiches only need mustard and pickles.
    And you gotta cut a radius in the meat so it’ll lay flat. No bubbly baloney here.
    Save that for Obama.

  129. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Mama tried to get fancy and sneak in olive loaf instead of bologna every once in a while. Nasty stuff.

  130. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Artur Davis is ripping TBO a new one. Good for him!

  131. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    cut a radius in the meat

    Oooh…
    Lissen to science girl over here.

  132. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m very impressed with Mr. Davis.
    Now we get to listen to the lefty harpies again. It’s times like this that I wish I had cable. Maybe I could watch the convention on Fox or something. Watching Gwen Ifill and her ilk make their comments defending Obama and big government had both Hubby and me yelling from our comfy couch.

  133. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    #113 Super Dave

    … at least I got to see a speech by a lady that was running for Lt Governor of Delaware. She was great! A small business owner that started a business in their kitchen and now employs 70 people. True Americans, NOT Obama leeches.

    That would be Sher Valenzuela

    Valenzuela’s company received roughly $17 million in federal loans and contracts and she’s openly encouraged other business owners to rely on taxpayer funding, Media Matters reported Thursday.
    “But where do I start?” Valenzuela wrote in a presentation to a group of women entrepreneurs at a Delaware business conference earlier this year. “With your BIGGEST secret weapon!” the presentation read. “You start with the no cost/low-cost resources that you, the taxpayer, have already paid for.”

    Be sure to catch her presentation where she encourages folks to take advantage of the small minority owned business contract provisions created by the federal government.
    The sad thing is that she is a success story, and could just as well be speaking at the Democrat convention as a poster child for government provided seed money.

  134. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #131 WB
    /facepalm

  135. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I just watched Artur Davis’s speech and was impressed. Now Nick Haley is on. She started with the same Immigrant’s View of America that Jindal did 4 yrs ago but she is a much better speaker than he was.
    (I think TT beat me to it, praising Davis.)

  136. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m watching the Fox News stream on
    http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-live-republican-national-convention-2012/

  137. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    It’s hard to stream the computer when I’m cooking dinner. Now I have to wash dishes. I’m stuck with PBS.
    wissit

  138. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Drudge claims to have the Chris Christie speech transcript. It reads pretty good.
    It’s all about Christie and bipartisanship, Romney gets mentioned near the end.

  139. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Cooking at 9 pm??

  140. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Cooking’s over, but the dishes are still waiting for me.
    And rather impatiently, too.

  141. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I’m stuck with PBS.

    Man I can’t keep up with these wimmin prollems.

  142. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Remember that stirring speech in Ohio a couple weeks ago in Ohio? The one with the miners.
    They’re speaking to the media now, it was mandatory to attend and they gave up a day’s pay.

    Earlier this month, Mitt Romney was welcomed for a campaign event at the Century Mine in Beallsville, Ohio, by hundreds of coal workers and their families. Now many of the mine’s workers are saying they were forced to give up a day-worth of pay to attend the event, and they feared they might be fired if they didn’t, according to local news radio WWVA.
    The claims have been mostly denied by Rob Moore, Chief Financial Officer of Murray Energy Company, which owns the mine. He acknowledges that workers weren’t paid that day but says no one was made to attend the event. Well, kind of.

    Mein Gott! It’s great to have the innernet.

  143. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    141
    🙂

  144. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s like they never heard of watching the highlights later on…

  145. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Remember that stirring speech in Ohio a couple weeks ago in Ohio?

    Wuzzat the one in Ohio?

  146. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I thought it was Oiho?

  147. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    No, that’s the 56th state.

  148. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Aah ……………… You remember it!
    It was in Ohio I think. 😉

  149. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    One of those islands that might tip over if you put an army base on it?

  150. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Romney may not be standing up for the Republican platorm, but the Westboro Baptist Church most certainly is!

    A group of anti-GOP protesters clashed outside of the Republican National Convention with a group of Kansas-based church members who often picket soldiers’ funerals.
    Tampa police said on its Twitter feed that officers in riot gear separated the two groups for safety reasons on Tuesday.

  151. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Not that I’ve been paying much attention, but has the question been axed or answered – Have the levees been fixed?

  152. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Did Ann Romney really expound on how Mitt Romney overcame crushing wealth to become the Republican nominee? 😉

  153. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    If you don’t stop winking at me……

  154. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    #151 GJT
    Yes, the levees were fixed to the tune of $15B.
    If they were fixed right and hold, it was because of President Bush, if they fail it is President Obama’s fault. 😉

  155. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well I know the money was sent, that don’t answer the question.

  156. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    We won’t know until the storm has passed and yes the levees were rebuilt and a $500M pumping station put in. 😉

  157. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    How the Texas convention delegates voted
    1 vote uncommitted
    1 vote Buddy Roemer
    1 vote Jon Huntsman
    1 vote Michele Bachmann
    1 vote Rick Santorum
    20 votes Ron Paul
    130 votes Mitt Romney

  158. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well I guess Governor Jindal did a good job then. 😉

  159. Hamous Avatar
    Hamous

    Ahhh. It’s all making sense now 😉

  160. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    It’s consensual science!

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