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In the interest of finding something other than the latest political circus (which I’m sure will be discussed in detail shortly), I bring you something different and cool (pun intended) to look at.
Here’s someone with a lot of time on his hands:

…the imprints were made by alien lifeforms leaving behind remarkable patterns for us to gaze at.
Instead, they are the work of a lone artist who has spent up to ten hours a day trudging around a French ski resort.
The intricate patterns are huge – some span the equivalent size of six football pitches.
They are created by British artist Simon Beck while wearing snowshoes and come in a range of designs from snowflakes and spirals to cubes and more abstract creations.
Each pattern is crafted by Mr Beck alone in the skiing town of Les Arcs, in the French Alps, where he lives during winter.
And he uses an orienteering compass to create the perfect geometric designs.


I do admire the artistic nature of this man’s art. It requires vision, patience, and a lot of work. How does he take potty breaks? Won’t he disturb the beauty of his designs if there’s a line of running steps to the nearest “relief center”? 😉

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  1. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    Anyone with THAT MUCH free time needs to come clean out my gutters!
    TGIF!

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well I’m glad that the Cornvention Crap is over, last night, for the FIRST time all week they tried to appeal to the middle of the road voter, I guess that they figured that the last night wpuld be the most watched?
    Mornin’ Gang

  3. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Benzion to appear on KSEV at 7am.

  4. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Edd Hendee is on KSEV this morning. Yea. Oh, and Good Morning Hamsters.
    Still smiling about Cardinal Dolan’s benediction at the DNC last night. Glad I tuned in to see/hear it. 🙂

  5. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    I’m speechless this morning.

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    You know how sometimes with a short work week you anticipate the short work week and you build it into your inner work week timer so the work week ends up not being short at all? Well I did that, and I’m upset about it. It should be Saturday or Sunday by now.

  7. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Joe South has died.

  8. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    No rave reviews of the dnc speeches last night are to be found on Drudge this morning. That’s good.

  9. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Cardinal Dolan probably ruffled a few feathers with this prayer.

  10. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Kind of surprising that after Bill Clinton’s rather rousing erformance, Barry comes out with a nothingburger for a speech. He basically said the same thing he’s been saying for the past two years, and he never mentioned Obamacare in his list of “acheivements.”
    Barry had to come out with a real firecracker to distract attention away from the really, really, really bad optics of thousands of Democrats booingGod and Isreal, the Establishment “deeming” that the two issues had passed even though it was plain that they hadn’t, and he had to out perform Clinton so that he would not appear as a cheap imitation. He failed on both counts.

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Found on Drudge:

    DNC DELEGATES: LET’S BAN CORPORATE PROFITS!
    By: David Harsanyi
    9/6/2012 11:31 AM
    Are you surprised?
    At the Democratic National Convention, where one speaker after the next swears they love free enterprise, delegates and attendees (maybe some media, who knows?) were asked by Peter Schiff, posing as a anti-corporate activist, if they would support capping or banning corporate profit.
    Well, there seems to be plenty of enthusiasm for the idea in Charlotte this week — and not from the fringe. “We deliberately avoided speaking with the occupy protestors camping outside in tents to get a more “mainstream” Democratic perspective,” writes Schiff.
    And remember, it’s the Tea Party that’s supposed to be radical.

    There is a video at the linked site.

  12. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I saw that video yesterday. To their credit, many of them said “cap profits” and not “ban profits”. Not that it makes much difference to me as a capitalist, but at least some of them realized that a certain level of profits are necessary.
    Kind of the difference between a dim bulb and a burned out bulb.

  13. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    “To an enormous degree, this convention is a vindication of the clientelism thesis Jay Cost posits in his excellent book, Spoiled Rotten. Short version: Beginning with FDR, the Democratic party began to assemble its coalition not through ideology but through spoils. So it brought disparate groups together and gradually became a collection of client groups more than a coherent ideological enterprise. The DNC explicitly broke people into 14 communities. And the convention’s over-arching catch phrase was, “We’re all in this together.” But it struck me that the subtext of that–maybe even the text–was that the “we” here isn’t “Americans.” It’s the “14 communities.” It’s the client groups. The message this convention was sending, I’d argue, was that We need to band together to keep our spoils. That’s why the first few hours of each night, before the prime-time broadcasts began, were devoted to subjects such as abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, unions, immigration, etc.”
    http://jonathanlast.com/2012/09/06/dnc-day-3-notes/

  14. phil Avatar
    phil

    Unhinged lunatic lefty delegate threatens Romney. If I didn’t know better, I’d say she’s this guy reincarnated.

  15. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    G’Morning All

    Instead, they are the work of a lone artist who has spent up to ten hours a day trudging around a French ski resort.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFPzVp3MvFg

  16. OletimerLin Avatar
    OletimerLin

    Dang, we didn’t make the top ten.

    America’s 10 Most Polluted States
    By Jen Alic | Thu, 06 September 2012 22:45 | 2
    Benefit From the Latest Energy Trends and Investment Opportunities before the mainstream media and investing public are aware they even exist. The Free Oilprice.com Energy Intelligence Report gives you this and much more. Click here to find out more.
    Do you know where you live? Half of all industrial toxic air pollution comes from power plants and 6,700 power plants and heavy industries are responsible for 80% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Coal- and oil-fired power plants contribute 44% of all toxic air pollution. Toxic mercury and emissions from the country’s electricity sector are estimated to cause tens of thousands of premature deaths, heart attacks, asthma cases and chronic bronchitis every year.
    While there are varying lists of America’s most toxic, we’ll focus on the latest top 10 list from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which ranks states in terms of overall industrial pollution, along with reporting from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
    Many of the US’ most toxic states have seen a reduction of pollution over the past several years, but a federal court of appeals ruling to scrap an EPA regulation on “Cross-State Air Pollution”, designed to reduce air pollution carried from one state to another. Power plants had been expecting this ruling to be approved for over a year, and had adjusted their practices accordingly. The immediate reaction to the federal court’s scrapping of the rule resulted in a queuing up of power plants to abandon preparations for this compliance. Likewise, the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics standards (MATs), designed to cut mercury air pollution beginning in 2015 by 79% from 2010 levels failed in the Senate in June.
    So where are we now? Well, we’re stuck with this list of states that are the most toxic, and while much progress has been made, the list is likely to contain the usual suspects next year and fewer improvements on pollution.
    Number 1: Ohio
    Number 2: Pennsylvania
    Number 3: Florida
    Number 4: Kentucky
    Number 5: Maryland
    Number 6: Indiana
    Number 7: Michigan
    Number 8: West Virginia
    Number 9: Georgia
    Number 10: North Carolina

    Details Here:
    http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Americas-10-Most-Polluted-States.html

  17. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    This cracked me up.
    Hubby used to sleep walk. He still talks in his sleep. Once, when he was working for another plumber and with a Spanish speaking coworker, he yelled out in his sleep one night, “Raul! Tu listo!?” One night, when I couldn’t sleep, I caught him mumbling, so I decided to have some fun.
    Hubby: “mmmbble”
    Me: “What?”
    H: “I need your help.”
    M: “What do you need my help with?”
    H: “Cutting and moving these pipes.”
    M: “Whose pipes?”
    H: “The lady’s.”
    M: “What lady?”
    H: “This lady.”
    M: “Which lady?”
    H: “The lady who lives here.”
    M: “Where are we?”
    H: “Here! WHERE WE ARE!” (He actually came close to yelling this at me)
    M: “Oh, sorry! Where are we?”
    H: “Here! In Morgan’s Point!” (he’s really getting exasperated with me by now)
    M: “Why do we have to cut and move her pipes?”
    H: “Her landlord wants them moved or something.”
    M: “Oh, well, I’m really tired right now. Can I help you tomorrow?”
    H: “Okay.” (rolls over, conversation is finished)
    The next morning, I walked into the dining room, where he was eating, and asked him “What lady do you know if Morgan’s Point?” His face went white. “What do you know about Morgan’s Point?” I thought holy crap, I’ve found something here.
    It turns out that he had a plumbing job in Seabrook, and saw Morgan’s Point on the map. He’d heard the name, but never really knew where it was, and so it stuck in his head. He could not understand why I was asking about the place the day after he noted the location.
    Hubby knows he can’t keep secrets from me now. And I have a shovel and a machete, and I know how to use them.

  18. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #17 TT
    Now that’s a great description. 🙂

  19. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Yes, it’s from The Onion…

    CHARLOTTE, NC—With the savage roar of the heathen Democratic horde rising all around him, President Barack Obama delivered an incendiary speech to close his party’s national convention Thursday night, commanding the ultraprogressive minions in attendance to help him “destroy Jesus and usher in a new age of liberal darkness that shall reign o’er the earth for a thousand years.”
    – – –
    “My fellow Americans and godless infidels, I command you to join me as we cast an endless pall of far-left evil across the hills and valleys of our nation!” Obama bellowed from the stage, as thousands in attendance moaned in compliance and gyrated their hips and groins in a lascivious dance. “Together, as a barbarian people forged by the wicked flames of irreligiosity and united by visions of a liberal dystopia, we will rise up as one to scorch the earth with boundless amorality.”

    Hmmm… A thousand years of darkness… Where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, Revelation, Reagan, and Chuck Norris.

  20. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #17 TT:

    Hubby knows he can’t keep secrets from me now.

    As a former sleepwalker and sometimes sleep talker, I would take being questioned during sleep a gross invasion of privacy. In other words, TOTALLY UNCOOL! If you want to speak with your hubby do it while he is awake, tying to pry info out of him when he is sleeping is just flat wrong.

  21. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    #20 I think the coolness factor is up to Tedtam and her hubby to decide.

  22. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Almost all people in this country pronouce one 11 letter word incorrectly.
    What word is it?

  23. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #20 Boney
    I know that whatever he says in his sleep is likely to be flawed information – he’s in a dream state, for cripes’ sake! It is fun to play with his head, though.

  24. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    incorrectly

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #22 Sarge:
    incorrectly

  26. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #23 TT:

    I know that whatever he says in his sleep is likely to be flawed information

    That is a very significant factor, another being that the bed is supposed to be the place where one can completely relax in safety. If one of the partners never knew if he were gonna be questioned, that sanctuary would be lost as well as the trust associated with it.
    I would put questioning someone in their sleep in the same category (but not severity) as drugging a girl’s drink so that I can take advantage of her.

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    OH, and Hubby laughed when I told him what had happened.
    I will say, that was the longest sleep conversation I’ve had with him.

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Perhaps I am particularly sensitive to the sanctuary aspect of the bed seeing as how I periodically have suffered from sleep disorders:
    Insomnia as a kid and now
    nightmares as a kid
    sleepwalking as a kid
    sleep talking
    Only in the past couple of months has the insomnia been a minimal issue. It was a big friggin deal for over 30 years. Tell me that you could be cavalier about sleep if you never slept more than 2 hours at a stretch for 3 decades! Even now, if I can sleep 4-5 hours without waking up it is a rarity.
    Seeing as how this is my particular circumstance, one may understand how I have little tolerance for someone “jacking with me” when I am trying to sleep.

  29. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    Interesting polling in Colorado:
    -Obama: 46%
    -Romney: 44%
    -Cannabis: 47%
    Smoke the Vote!

  30. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Bonecrusher
    As a fellow insomniac (though not as bad a case as yours), I understand about someone interrupting my sleep. Only once have I (kinda) woken Hubby up while conversing with him, and most of the conversation fizzle after my first attempt to talk to him, as he mumbles most of the time or just rolls over.
    If I woke him up, I’d stop.
    I sympathize, though. As much as I need my sleep, if someone were interrupting it, I’d take his face right off.

  31. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    TT: I have almost stopped consuming alcohol all together as it really messes with my sleep. If I ever have to stand guard duty, the trick is for me to drink 3 beers and then take the 2nd watch, I’ll sleep during the first watch and then wake up and after that sleep is almost impossible.
    Taking the OTC sleep aides only works for one night and I refuse to get a script because I do not want to be dependent on drugs for something that should happen naturally.
    What works is regular hours, getting out of bed in the morning, and staying awake through the day. You have prolly noticed that it is rare to see me post anything after about 8pm, particularly during the week. I try to be in bed by 8:30 – 9 and during the week I am up at 4:45am.

  32. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Should you judge a man by the quality of his exes?

  33. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #32 EG: Depending on the number, I guess it would be reasonable.

  34. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #13 Shannon, great article.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    32
    Depends on which qualities to which you refer.

  36. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #17 Tedtam 😀

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Clint Eastwood says his convention appearance was “mission accomplished”.

  38. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Noonan: The Democrats’ Soft Extremism. Obama is out of ideas, and Clinton’s speech was unworthy of him.

    Barack Obama is deeply overexposed and often boring. He never seems to be saying what he’s thinking. His speech Thursday was weirdly anticlimactic. There’s too much buildup, the crowd was tired, it all felt flat. He was somber, and his message was essentially banal: We’ve done better than you think. Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
    There were many straw men. There were phrases like “the shadow of a shuttered steel mill,” which he considers writerly. But they sound empty and practiced now, like something you’ve heard in a commercial or an advertising campaign.
    It was stale and empty. He’s out of juice.

  39. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Heh,…
    Convention irony: Ford signs raised during Granholm’s bailout rant.

    The Democratic National Convention had its share of mixed messages, but none quite as stark as during former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s cheerleading of President Obama’s $80 billion auto bailout gobbled up by General Motors and Chrysler, but sneered at by Ford which had taken measures years before avoid bankruptcy.
    As she waved her arms Thursday night and declared that Obama’s “cavalry…saved the American auto industry,” some in the audience held up fans stamped with the Ford logo. Not Chevy, not Dodge, but Ford, ironically.
    The reason: Ford distributed fans at both the Democratic and Republican conventions “to drive home the message that American manufacturing is critical to the U.S. economy,” said a spokeswoman.

  40. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Dave been done kilt tha blog. 🙁

  41. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    He never seems to be saying what he’s thinking.

    She nails it.
    He’s an unserious, shallow liar, going through the motions.

  42. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Things getting realer in the Greater Middle East/Southwest Asia.

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #37 SD
    Great writeup about Eastwood’s 10 mins at the RNC!

  44. Katfish Avatar
    Katfish

    #37 – OUT freakin STANDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  45. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Granholm’s bailout rant.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Campaign 2012: Burke vs. Hobbes?

  47. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The comments were very interesting, especially the several arguing about Ayn Rand. Thanks for posting.

  48. bob42 Avatar
    bob42

    re: Mission Accomplished? Or simply a man, an opinion, and a chair.

    “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people,” Eastwood told The Pine Cone this week. “Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know. I may have irritated a lot of the lefties, but I was aiming for people in the middle.”

    I reckon we’ll have to wait and see what the VMG really thinks.

  49. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    According to Intrade, Obama got zip (or even a bit less) for a post-convention bounce.
    The ratio of shares being offered to those being bid is 150:1, i.e. there are 150 shares for sale for every 1 being asked for.

  50. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m too busy to view it now, but saw that Glenn Beck has posted some info on Mormonism. I’ll look at it when I can.
    http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/09/06/polygamy-magic-underwear-people-on-bikes-glenn-discusses-mormon-myths-in-theblaze-tv-special/

  51. CbR Avatar
    CbR

    texpat – hunker down!!!
    This from one of the FB weather sites I follow.

    A major, high-impact severe weather outbreak is anticipated for much of the Northeast United States and Mid-Atlantic region on Saturday. Frankly, the potential is quite reminiscent of a southern plains outbreak and is extremely concerning since folks up there are not accustomed to this level of severe weather. Strong tornadoes and straight-line winds over 85 MPH with a derecho are quite possible if not likely on Saturday. This includes metropolitan areas like Atlantic City, Philadelphia, New York City, and that’s just the beginning. If you have family or friends up in the affected areas, you need to let them know to watch the weather tomorrow. Take a minute and see the threat graphics for tomorrow at http://www.texasstormchasers.com/?p=9219

  52. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I wish Darren would poke his head back in.
    Having spent some time in Salt Lake City recently, I have a couple of Mormon-related questions.

  53. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Passed along in FB.

  54. Robert M Avatar
    Robert M

    Was it just me or did I hear some of the liberal reporters say that no president has ever been reelected with unemployment at 8%? I thought it was 7%? Maybe Obummer needs all the help he can get.
    And to answer that idiot Harry “I’m Not All There” Reid’s demand for Romney’s tax statements, why doesn’t Romney just give him copies with everything redacted except for the amount he actually paid in taxes?

  55. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Just met Lovely for lunch. We got back to her car, and it was deader’n a doornail. I used to carry her on my AAA account, but when she became engaged, she dropped off, as per Aggie Beau’s suggestion. Fortunately, my account is active, and a battery guy was there within an hour, and tested her battery and charging system. Everything was working except the battery. (According the tag, it was time for it to die.) He sold her a new one for $97 and had us back on the road toot sweet. Lovely was on the phone with AB, telling him about the battery, and he was checking prices, but given her deadline (she’s on her way here now, so I can drop her off at the airport) and such, it wasn’t worth wasting her afternoon trying to find and get to a cheaper battery.
    It’s a good thing she was with her Momma, and not some friend without that magic card!

  56. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #52 Shannon

    …I have a couple of Mormon-related questions.

    As in, why does there seem to be a dentist/orthodontist for every three people in Salt Lake City ? I swear they have more dental clinics than gas stations or convenience stores.

  57. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Good for this guy!
    Way to hustle! Congratulations on landing a job!

  58. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    #56 Texpat

    As in, why does there seem to be a dentist/orthodontist for every three people in Salt Lake City ? I swear they have more dental clinics than gas stations or convenience stores.

    Are there a lot of transplants from England in the area? /removing tongue from cheek

  59. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is the all time best “Obama empty chair” photo yet.
    The caption is: “That will teach him to send back my bust !”
    (Notice the bullet hole in the back of the chair.)

  60. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #55 TT: Mrs Bonecrusher was single for quite a while before we got married. Mother asked her once if she was worried about a flat tire or something. The response was priceless, “heck no, I have a cell phone and AAA so no problem.”
    Have I mentioned lately how much I love that woman?

  61. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Hubby used to be adamant that he would take care of whatever car problem I would have. Over the years, though, I came to realize that he would not always be available, especially if I had things to do, like today. Fortunately, I upped my membership to include 100 mile tows just before Lovely broke down between Houston and San Antonio. Hubby talked about going to get her, but life events prevented it. Lovely decided to call for a tow. By the time the driver parked her at her dorm parking lot, it was a 104 mile tow – so she owed $16.
    The engine problem was not a simple one that could have been fixed on the road side. She eventually got it towed to a local mechanic and got it fixed. If Hubby had gotten to her (after hours on a hot roadside), he would still have to drive her to her dorm, tow the car back home, fix it for her, and then figure out how to connect the car and driver again. For him to tow her would have been an all-day affair.
    That one event alone paid for the membership for several years.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    58 TT
    Heh. Interestingly enough, here’s the ancestral breakdown for Salt Lake City:

    Ancestries: English (20.8%), German (10.8%), Irish (6.7%), Danish (4.3%), Scottish (4.3%), United States (4.3%).

  63. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #57 Tedtam
    We observed distributing a resume in a public area last October in Naples on our trip. The gentleman was dressed in what I presume was his best suit, handing out copies in the large square downtown, adjacent to the main business district. It is surrounded by public buildings and seemed to be a place visited by all sorts of people coming and going (besides tourists like us). Regrettably it is likely that Italy is in worse financial condition now that it was then.
    It was also the place we encountered the street musician with the mechanical monkey and tape player who got our attention by playing The Yellow Rose of Texas. I gave him several euros. He played it again before our tour group left the square, but I didn’t donate more the second time. We were not wearing anything emblematic of Texas, so it was just coincidence. 🙂

  64. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    We are great believers in AAA and have been members for 42 years. The extended towing provision is well worth it, though we haven’t had to use it–yet.

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Okay Darren, if you are listening….
    Following a wedding in Western Utah, we stayed in Salt Lake City (SLC) for a couple of days. That first night we were weary, hungry and wandering around for what seemed like hours looking for a restaurant. We drove through commercial and residential neighborhoods. Had we been in Houston, we would have passed by forty restaurants. I ended up getting a Wendy’s burger. Texpat (on a no carb diet for now, ate a Slim Jim!)
    I did some research. Amarillo has a comparable population. Amarillo has 250 restaurants. SLC has 150.
    We were just wondering if there is some Mormon dogma that precludes eating out?
    We also noted a lack of gas stations and my research shows a similar Amarillo/SLC ratio. I tried to find a supermarket ratio but couldn’t come up with numbers I had any confidence in. But, anecdotally, it also seemed like there was a lack of grocery stores.
    Just wondering………
    Thanks.

  66. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Just guesses: the people of SLC ride bikes and grow their own food!

  67. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    And another rock band bristles at Republicans Fox News lifting their song.

    R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” was used in the Fox News coverage of the Democratic National Convention last night. R.E.M. today, through its music publisher, Warner-Tamerlane Music, demanded that Fox News cease and desist from continuing its unlicensed and unauthorized use of the song. Michael Stipe said, “We have little or no respect for their puff adder brand of reportage. Our music does not belong there.”

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Continuing….
    We also drove through the “downtown hotel district” that night and were so surprised to find no surrounding restaurants. We later heard from anothed traveler that there was a half block of five, count ’em five, restaurants in that area that we had missed.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I saw nary a one bicycle rider in that town. It’s pretty hilly, nestled into the side of the mountains.

  70. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #67 shamaal

  71. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Yeah, another band annoyed at misappropriation of their intellectual property to support a political philosophy they do not agree with.
    But they do invite guys who’s songs they do approve of.

  72. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Whoops! Forgot to give credit where it is due. That would be Ted Nugent

  73. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    I see non-seasonally adjusted unemployment is down to 8.2%
    It’s getting better.

  74. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Maryland state delegate exposed for attempting to stifle free speech of a football player. On state letterhead stationary no less.

    Maryland politician and minister Emmett C. Burns Jr., in a letter obtained by Yahoo! Sports on Thursday, has demanded that the Baltimore Ravens halt linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo from publicly expressing his support for gay marriage.

  75. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    You just gotta’ love the Democrats, they are truly a CLASSY bunch!
    “Tonight I’m not going to show my ass”

    Provocative pop star Madonna revealed more than skin when she pulled off her top at her New York concert Thursday — showing off black letters on her lower back spelling “OBAMA.”
    “Tonight I’m not going to show my ass,” she said, according to US media.”I’m going to show my feelings. How’s that for living dangerously?”
    Photos of the singer — standing with her back to the 40,000-strong Yankee Stadium crowd in a black bra with the letters painted below — were immediately tweeted by concertgoers.

    Not wishing to be rude or anything, BUTT our resident Troll IS ONE OF THESE PEOPLE! 🙁

  76. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK,….”incorrectly”, do I win a prize?

  77. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Madonna’s earnings in 2010 were $58M.
    I assure you none of the folks on this blog are one of “those people”.

  78. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #65 Shannon

    Texpat (on a no carb diet for now, ate a Slim Jim!)

    I hit my goal of 180 lbs. today, going from 213 to 180 in 76 days.
    I figure I can lose 2 more pounds in 2 weeks when I shift into a more normal diet. I weighed 178 when I arrived here 10 years ago.

  79. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    OK, I’ve not scrolled past the noon hour, BUTT, TGIF!!! What a Loong Dang week, off Monday, minor catastrophe on Tuesday so I didn’t make it to work, this has happened to me a total of 3 times in the 27 years that I’ve been employed @ the Rocket Ranch. Our Big Amplifier blew up about two weeks ago and I can’t fix it because we don’t have a lot of the schematics needed to figure it out, proprietary information doncha’ know. So we jury rigged one of the small shakers to do the job and have ran 2 tests on it. At 2:00 today one of the two amplifiers driving the shaker went south with only ONE RUN left! So I leaped out there and had the thing repaired by 2:35 and we finished by 3:45. 😀
    That said, when I got home Huntin’ Buddy had the 12 foot trailer loaded up with his 4 wheeler, new deer stand, old work bench, our new side porch (5’X12’ pallet that his Hardy Plank came on) and other misc stuff and he had the ramps on the front so all I had to do was drive my 4 wheeler up onto the trailer. We’re heading up to the deer lease tomorrow to mow and cut firewood and are spending the night, Saturday night low 60’, we’ll take it.
    YUP Life is GOOOD! 😀

  80. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Well, this could get Bobo running in circles.

  81. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I’m looking for information regarding the timeline of John the Baptist and Jesus. I’ve been looking at some info on the ‘net, and it seems that since the Gospels focus on meanings instead of chronology, it’s a little hard to pin down.
    Specifically, how long after John was baptized did Jesus find out? Disciples took John’s body (nobody knows what happened to his head) and buried it, then went and told Jesus. I’m guessing at most a few weeks, at least a few days.
    And was it Nazareth that the miracle of the loaves and fishes occurred? The Bible says home town, so I’m assuming Nazareth, even though he was born in Bethlehem.

  82. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    It doesn’t answer your question -and for what it’s worth- one source (a book
    I happen to be reading right now) offers the following timeline
    AD 26 John the Baptist ministry begins
    Jesus baptized
    Jesus begins ministry
    AD 27. Wedding at Cana
    The woman at the well
    AD 27/28. John the Baptist imprisoned
    AD 28 Jesus gives Sermon on the Mount
    AD 28/29 John the Baptist Dies
    AD 29 Jesus feeds 5000 people

  83. phil Avatar
    phil

    Slick Willie’s DNC speech in a nutshell.

  84. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #55 Tedtam

    Just met Lovely for lunch. We got back to her car, and it was deader’n a doornail. I used to carry her on my AAA account,

    When daughter turned 16, I got her a 1998 Z 28, a cell phone and added her to my AAA card.
    She is 27, been married for a little over two years and she is STILL on my AAA card. The reason? I just never got around to removing her from the list. I’ll have to ask her what she thinks about this. 😉

  85. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #83 Phil 😀

  86. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well, I’m about miss the Twilight Zone, later Gang.

  87. phil Avatar
    phil

    A song about the average demonscat voter.

  88. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    demonscat?
    Heh.

  89. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Night-all, it was a rough week. Somebody get the Couch ready for Saturday morning, mebbe 9 a.m., I hope.

  90. phil Avatar
    phil

    90

  91. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I see non-seasonally adjusted unemployment is down to 8.2%

    Lucky for TOWBWF lotsa people have left the workforce.
    Otherwise unemployment (U3) would be well above 10%. U6 is in the mid teens as it is.
    How proud you must be of Dear Leader (from behind).
    Bless his heart.

  92. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Why wagonburner, you may be right.
    Raw unemployment is 8.2% and U-6 is 14.6%.
    Quelle Horreur!
    How did the other guys do when they had it?
    Oh, I see. U3 was 8.5% and U-6 was 15.4%?!? (January 2009)
    I know, I know, unemployment, recession, and the murder of capitalism are unimportant when committed by Republicans.
    No wonder GW isn’t talked about.
    Folks hold the Democrats to a higher standard.
    I guess being the adults is our cross to bear. 😉
    And people want to put their act back in the center ring?

  93. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I love Drudge’s front page.

  94. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I should work to Pandora more often.

  95. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Madonna’s not really my style, but whatever floats your boat.

  96. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Shammy, you’re such a joker!
    I was talking participation rate. You can participate in whatever you want, you cad, you!
    I’m heading out. Gotta shower and get some sleep. Hubby and I are spending time together tomorrow. /happy dance

  97. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    Oh, sorry! My mistake. I’m such a scamp. 😉
    On the off chance that you are really interested in this stuff, this is this month’s BLS Employment Situation.
    The table that Drudge pulls his information from is Table A. The information is based upon telephone surveys.
    There were 243,566,000 people in the general population
    Of these 154,645,000 were considered employable
    Of these 142,101,000 were employed and 12,544,000 were unemployed
    The remaining 88,921,000 are not considered employable, the biggest bulk are retirees and children.
    If you have some time peruse the rest of the report, there are interesting facts buried in these things that can be cherry picked and spun. I also have the one from January 2009 which is where I draw from when describing conditions four years ago.
    FWIW, Table A-15 is an alternate method of determining numbers using actual collected data. These are the famous U-3 and U-6 numbers folks talk about.
    Have a good night.

  98. El Gordo Avatar
    El Gordo

    Got tired of waiting, so “First.”

  99. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Here’s a setup for a wraparound 100…

  100. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    I guess this could count as zero ………………

  101. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Starting out with 75 at 6, still, not overly humid. A light breeze flutters in and out later. We await the coming front with great anticipation. 🙂

  102. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Tap, tap, tap

  103. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Weekend thread now open.

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