It’s Friday! That alone is reason to smile! My favorite video, sure to bring a smile to everyone’s face, is Ethan:
Then there’s the official smirk:
And then there’s the now-famous Biden smile/laugh/snort during the debate.
Enjoy Ethan laughing. That kid’s about twelve now. I prefer to think of him as an ever-young, paper-ripping kid. When I’m down, I watch his video. He relaxes me and makes me laugh. Sometimes, I just need that.
Like after I see Biden in debate.
Let the debate debate begin.
Friday “Big Smile” Open Comments
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Well, let me be first today.
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And now my comments on the debate between BADen and Ryan, Joe you need to wipe that smirk off your face because you are not acting very presidential. The debate is something that was suppose to be serious but you thought it was a “laughing” matter about the problems that face this country.
The best part for me was when Ryan, in an attempt to answer Biden’s 47% smirk remark said people make comments that are taken out of context like the stupid gaffe’s Joe makes all the time on the campaign trail.
Can’t wait for the second presidential debate where Obummer will try to turn things around. He can’t as long as he doesn’t have his teleprompter. -
Well the lame stream media didn’t like uncle Joe’s performance; Chris Wallace, Gloria Booger, and Brit Hume.
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Last night after the debate, I quoted Tedtam on the LST staff back channel thread regarding women’s reaction to Biden attitude last night. I was curious to see this morning if other women had the same response.
2) Biden’s constant interrupting of Ryan was annoying as heck. It also reminds women of those men in their lives who’ve treated them the same way. I wanted to slap the crap out of the old man. I marveled at Ryan’s patience in dealing what seems like an old fart.
3) The demeaning smile also affected me the same way as #2. Every woman (and maybe a few men) have had some incident where some man treated her like a child. It may have been at age 10, or age 40, but those things stick with us. When I saw that smirk on Biden’s face, I took it as an attempt to demean Ryan’s eligibility for the office. Again, I wanted to slap the ever-lovin’ crap outta the man.Here is Mollie Hemingway, editor at Ricochet.com:
But allow me to revisit something I said during the debate:
Tonight, Joe Biden is embodying everything that women hate about talking with men.
I generally don’t get into “gender” discussions. They usually don’t interest me. But at some point in the live chat, I just pulled gender rank and let the men know that Biden’s demeanor was not going over well with the ladies.
The truth is that we’ve all been there — and that goes for women and men — where you’re having a conversation with someone awful. Maybe he’s drunk. Maybe he’s just a jerk or suffering from low self-esteem. But whatever the back story, the result is that he’s condescending, thinks he knows far more than he does and interrupts you when you’re making a point. It’s not enjoyable. -
Here’s another woman’s reaction. You may have heard of her.
Peggy Noonan:I have just realized the problem with the debate: it was the weird distance between style and content, and the degree to which Mr. Biden’s style poisoned his content.
In terms of content—the seriousness and strength of one’s positions and the ability to argue for them—the debate was probably a draw, with both candidates having strong moments. But in terms of style, Mr. Biden was so childishly manipulative that it will be surprising if independents and undecideds liked what they saw.
National Democrats keep confusing strength with aggression and command with sarcasm. Even the latter didn’t work for Mr. Biden. The things he said had the rhythm and smirk of sarcasm without the cutting substance. -
I’m weary of the “swing state” phenomenon. Remember the tortuous November in 2000 when we didn’t know who our next president would be for five weeks? Nothing would please me more than to NOT see the land of my birth being analyzed incessantly on election night as the talking heads wait for the vote counts to come in. It’s looking more and more like that may just be the case:
Take Tampa Bay, the battleground region that invariably mirrors statewide results. A month ago, Obama had a 4 percentage point lead in Tampa Bay. This week, Romney led by 8 percent, 52 to 44. In Central Florida, Romney now leads by 6 points.
Likewise, Obama’s lead among likely women voters in Florida fell from 15 percentage points last month to just 2 points, 49 percent for Obama and 47 percent for Romney.
Obama’s once 11 point lead among likely independent voters had cascaded into a 13 point lead for Romney this week, 52 percent to 39 percent.
The poll found little change among Florida youngest voters, 18-34, or oldest voters, 65 and up. But those ages 35 to 64, who had been evenly divided a month ago, moved dramatically to the Republican nominee. Romney now has a nine point lead among voters age 35-49 and a 15 point lead among those between 50 and 64.
Especially ominous were the numbers for Hispanic voters, a demographic where the Obama campaign is banking on an advantage of at least 15 percentage points. The poll showed 44 percent of likely Hispanic voters favoring Obama and 46 for Romney, though the margin of error is higher with that smaller group of voters.
“We ran away from other countries in search of a more traditional United States,” said Coral Gables resident Mary Gonzalez, who immigrated from Venezuela. “I think with the current president, the United States moves to (the left). And with Romney, I believe he can return the United States to its traditional course.” -
Heh. From the Mollie Hemingway piece:
“Knock-knock”
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I’ve always felt a little uneasy with our HNP’s 2012 campaign slogan, “Forward”. Couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
“Forward” was a favorite term of Marxists. Think Lenin’s “Spring Forward” and Mao’s “Great Leap Forward.” When Lenin started his own underground newspaper in 1905, he called it Vperyod (Forward). “Forward” is still popular nomenclature for socialist publications.
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Ace has a couple of nuggets as well—-one I used on Facebook this morning its so good.
I re-watched it. It was like having an argument with your drunk, blowhard, dullwitted uncle at Thanksgiving. And your drunk blowhard dullwitted uncle, who is superior to you only in age, keeps asserting he’s right about everything by shouting “I WAS THERE!!!”
If Biden was trying to lock up the hyena vote, he succeeded wildly.
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#10 That’s pretty much how I characterized it last night.
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An excellent essay on being Obama.
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Hey Hammie: Where do we send our RCP maps and what is the prize for the winner?
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I’ll post details in the next few days.
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SD: Go here and scroll down to the Silver Arrow pellets; I think I called them silver jets before. These are the most accurate I have ever shot. If the pellets you are using now are alloy and are breaking the sound barrier, these may do the trick as they are likely heavier. With a projectile as small as a pellet, PLACEMENT IS EVERYTHING so a hundred FPS is no where near as important as being able to put them inside of a dime every time.
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I think I still have one of Headshaker’s LST Bears around the house somewhere. How ’bout that for a prize? 😉
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I already have a couple.
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What? Where are our Top 10 Comments about Biden’s performance last night?
If I get a chance later today, Ima see if there is footage or commentary about Biden in past debates — see if he has always laughed his head off like that. -
G’Morning All
My feelings on the debate
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No wonder every one is going crazy about Zumba.
Attempt to stop names release in Maine prostitution case
Published October 11, 2012
Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine – A lawyer for two alleged clients of a Maine woman accused of running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio in Kennebunk and secretly videotaped the encounters has filed a motion to block the release of names of the men suspected as her clients.
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Alexis Wright, 29, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 106 counts of prostitution, violation of privacy, tax evasion and other charges for allegedly providing sex for money at her fitness studio and a nearby office. The man police say was her business partner, 57-year-old Mark Strong Sr., pleaded not guilty to 59 counts of promotion of prostitution and violation of privacy. -
A Hungarian trying to save America, putting his money where his mouth is:
(CNN) – He’s not running for office. He’s not part of a super PAC. He’s not lobbying for or against any ballot measures.But billionaire Thomas Peterffy is spending millions on television ads this election season with one cautionary message: Avoid socialism.
“I grew up in a socialist country and I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement,” he says with a soft Hungarian accent in the ad. “The nation became poorer and poorer, and that’s what I see happening here.”
Peterffy told CNN he expects to spend $5-$10 million on the ad buy, depending on its effectiveness. The spot will run on CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, and test markets in Ohio, Wisconsin, and possibly Florida.
The one-minute spot, which began airing Wednesday and will continue through Election Day, has no mention of any specific politician or lawmaker. It’s simply a plea for an end to what he sees as growing hostility to personal success – and to vote Republican. -
As far as the debate last night: In one breath BiteMe throws the intelligence community under the bus (lying through his false teeth in the process) adamantly declaring that the lies they told the public were the best intelligence they had at the time. In the next breath he boldly proclaims that the goat rapers in Iran are no where near being able to build a bomb because the intelligence says so. My question is: which izzit? Either the intelligence agencies are first class and are providing timely and accurate info or they are not. Perhaps it was a different agency in charge of Libya as opposed to Iran?
BiteMe concedes that Iran may have enough fissile material to build a bomb but that they do not have a device to put that fissile material in yet. I would think that their buddies in Russia would willingly provide that device to stick a finger in the eye of the idjits in charge in DC right now. -
Ooops.
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Another lib-feel-good program, recently expanded, is ripe with fraud and abuse. As it turns out, this also includes kickbacks.
HEADLINE:Carlos Slim, world’s richest man, gets richer supplying ‘Obamaphones’ to poor
A Mexican telecom mogul who holds the title of world’s richest man, and one of President Obama’s top donors are both getting even richer from the U.S. government program that supplies so-called “Obamaphones” to the poor.
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Every election season I harken back to my fondest wish from the “if I was KING” department.
Complete and TOTAL media blackout on election Day – no one allowed to broadcast one single syllable regarding the election until 7 pm in Hawaii……………………….it would be glorious! -
#30 TT: Enforce valid, state issued to proven citizens only, photo ID and tighten/strengthen the absentee ballot system and you have gone a long way to minimizing voter fraud. The only ones who are opposed to minimizing voter fraud are those who are engaged innit.
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And speaking of the privatization of Social Security (even if we weren’t) – does anyone have any data RE: how did Galveston government worker’s investments fare during 2008 – 2009 when the market was in the tank?
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Jonathan Tobin, senior online editor for Commentary magazine, lets loose on the coordinated attack by US mainline Christian churches on Israel.
As the Times of Israel and JTA report, the leaders of several of the leading American Protestant denominations and one small Catholic group have signed a letter calling for a congressional investigation whose purpose would be to end U.S. aid to Israel. The letter alleges that Israel is involved in crimes that violate U.S. law that should prevent the sending of aid or arms to the Jewish state. These charges are a tissue of deceptions, distortions and outright lies that are the product of Palestinian propaganda.
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The point here is that the letter, as well as the divestment activities of some of these churches, is nothing less than a declaration of war on the Jewish state. So long as these religious groups dedicate themselves to promoting libels against Israel, denouncing the security fence that has saved countless lives from Palestinian terrorism and seeks to isolate Israel and cut it off from its only ally and source of military aid, business as usual between them and American Jewry must end.
Major Jewish organizations are pulling out of participation in a national interfaith dialogue set for later this month. This is a major development caused by the letter demanding congressional investigations into Israel’s security policies with the goal of cutting off all foreign and military aid to that nation. This line has never been crossed before by these religious organizations.
The leaders of the Methodist, Presbyterian, American Baptist Churches and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America were among the most prominent signers. Of course, the reliably idiotic National Council of Churches weighed in as well as Barack Obama’s denomination, the United Church of Christ.
The Times of Israel has more here.
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It still sounds nice. Romney up by 7 in FLA.
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Along with photo ID for voting, I’d like to see some mechanism(s) to ensure that someone is not voting in multiple precincts, whether via traditional or absentee ballot and that absentee ballots are only given to legitimate voters.
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Biden lies. Duh. I knew that Ryan would have to fight Biden’s lies in the debate.
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Reply to No. 19: I didn’t make a “Top Ten” summary of Joe BADen’s comments and statements because I was tired as you can tell by the time I posted early this morning. And I do have a serious side at times but I definitely prefer the humor side. So anyway, here goes:
1) “Paul, I had to interrupt you because I can’t have you telling the truth to everybody.”
2) “Paul, you might think I’m laughing at you but it was all those funny gaffes that I thought about using tonight that got me.”
3) “Paul, I wasn’t laughing at your answers. I was thinking about the answers my boss gave last week that made me laugh.”
4) “Martha, Obummer said he was “too polite” so I’m not going to be presidential, I’m going to be as rude as I can tonight.”
5) “Martha, where is that “Big Bird” prop that I brought with me for this debate?”
6) “Martha, I don’t need no stinkin’ teleprompter because I lie just as well as the president.”
7) Biden: “The president told me if I failed tonight, he was going to throw me under the bus.”
8) Biden: “Look everybody, with a “smile” like this how could you possibly think that I would be lying to you.”
9) Biden thinking during the debate: “Since I’m a good Catholic, I’m going to have to go to the confessional and admit I told a bunch of lies tonight and ask for forgiveness.”
10) Biden thinking before the debate started: “Hell, by me showing up, I did a better job than my stupid boss did last week.”
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BiteMe’s performance last night reminded me why the D symbol is the JACKASS
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The EU wins the Nobel Peace Prize. I have no idea why. Did they learn to use deodorant this year or something? -Ben Domenech
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Fast and Furious whistleblower gets his termination papers in a Denny’s parking lot.
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#43: They are gonna hafta order a new supply of “its” because so many are gonna get broke off in so many backsides of ATF management over the GunWalker fiasco.
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#37 disenfranchiser
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#45: Me 2
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Hamous, from last night;
Joe reminds me of one of my uncles. He’s a lefty who’s lived off the gumbint for most of my life. Always had a get-rich-quick scheme that always ended in failure, usually taking someone else down with him. He literally “lives in a van down by the river”. Now he’s a grouchy old man that blames Republicans for his sorry lot in life.
Then,…
I used to try and argue with him but it was…well…like arguing with Bobo. Now I have fun. At fambly gatherings I walk up to whatever crowd he’s in and throw out some partisan political talking point to get things going then walk away and watch the melee begin.😀
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SD – It’s the simple pleasures in life I enjoy the most.
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#16 Bonecrusher, thanks, I’ve used some like that years ago, but right now If got the regular old pellets.
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#20 OletimerLIn 😀
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#47 Super Dave
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Well, it’s tightening up; Race to the White House.
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#52 Wagonburner, speaking of which, where is our resident Troll? He didn’t get sent to “Time Out” did he? 😉
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Granny Hammy’s “Time Outs” are LOONG!! Axe Bob. 😀
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CNBC sez that rising consumer sentiment could boost black jesus’ chance for reelection.
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YIKES
(not a good idea to brag of one’s super driving skills when a front tire blows out – when the bragging is done while riding down the interstate on 4 bald tires)
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More anecdotal evidence to back up Texpat’s observations in 5 & 6 – A coworker and I were discussing the debate at lunch. His girlfriend is a “low information voter” like Sarge’s SO (he had to tell her who was who). After a few minutes she exclaimed “I don’t like Biden! He’s rude and condescending! I hate it when people talk down to someone like they have all the answers.”
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#41 You’re close, Bite-me, reminded me of a braying jackass.All that was missing is a clown
Suit.
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#59: Limbaugh got a bunch of calls stating the same thing. That is kind of the general feel I am getting about the national mood concerning BiteMe.
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Move along, folks. No voter fraud here.
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#61 Pyro: Ya musta that missed while you were out of town when we spoke of it a couple of days ago.
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Of course it was all canceled out by this local chucklehead.
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On the front page of our local fishwrap, in the article about the Katy frwy expansion it spoke of the distance between points inside the loop and west as follows:
from Washington to Hwy 6 is 23 miles and from Taylor to Barker Cypress is 19 miles.
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#63: The correct thing for the Rs to do is to rhetorically burn that guy at the stake with the following commentary: We have absolutely no tolerance for voter fraud on either side. Do you Ds have the same commitment? If yes, then prove it by supporting photo ID and a strengthening of the absentee ballot process.
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I remember one night when it was about 325 miles from the Coliseum downtown to West Belt on the Katy Freeway.
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I remember when Hwy 6 was right next to the end of the world.
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Hannity is putting forward a plausible case that BiteMe’s cheese is slipping offa his cracker.
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#69: I think I have all of those
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This is starting to look a lot like mine.
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Hannity is putting forward a plausible case that BiteMe’s cheese is slipping offa his cracker.
Hannity is our Biden. He’s a few cans shy of a six-pack.
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Sarge – yep, mine, too.
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I put on Medved on 1070 AM. Some days, Hannity’s screamers and screaming are just too much for me to handle. The cable guy came by – he’s a talk radio listener, too, so we discussed that for a while – and our cable connection is back up, so I’m back in the office listening to Hannity.
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TBO’s in big, big trouble now. There’s a rapper who’s come out of the closet for Romney.
That black monolithic voting block is getting a few more cracks in it. It’s one thing for a “Clueless” female star to state her opinion, but a rapper? How can you call a rapper “not black enough”?
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Another Hollywood actor speaks out. Way to go, Gary!
Last week at the Las Vegas Cine Fest, the host of the evening, John BlahblahSomebody, was going on and on, trying to be a comedian and failing miserably… and out of nowhere he threw in a couple snipes at Conservatives… as expected … but then this John character said the following, “Aw who cares – Republicans don’t belong in the arts anyway.”
General agreement and laughter.
And I’m loaded for bear. I’m livid … but hey, it’s Hollwood, it’s Vegas, let it go, right?
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Suddenly, I’m onstage with my co-star, Erin Gray, and Erin is addressing the crowd, thanking the producers and director and what a thrill, etc … and she beckons me to say something. And I lean forward and thank the director for casting me, speak briefly about the wonders of filming a mystical-themed film on Mt. Shasta… and then I pause a beat … and I say the following:
“Listen, I won’t belabor this but … I just want to say I hear Republicans take a lot of crap in this biz, and most of it’s pretty unfounded. I’m a Republican, this film was made by Republicans, and it’s Republicans that keep this country free so that we don’t have to make movies the government tells us we have to make. And John…where are ya…? John,… Clint Eastwood called and he doesn’t know who you are either!”
The Ooohs and groans and laughs drowned out whatever applause was there as we took our seats and Erin giggled to me, “I can’t believe you said that!”
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Speaking of Medved:
I watched the proceedings on a big screen together with 250 listeners from the Seattle flagship station for my radio show. In the discussion afterward, one of the women present said that Biden made her cringe by reminding her precisely of her abusive ex-husband. Another 23-year-old came up to me afterward and emphatically agreed, saying she had just left her own abusive relationship and that watching Biden’s antics gave her the creeps in the same way that her former boyfriend’s dismissive snickering always made her feel inadequate.
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I put on Medved on 1070 AM. Some days, Hannity’s screamers and screaming are just too much for me to handle. The cable guy came by – he’s a talk radio listener, too, so we discussed that for a while – and our cable connection is back up, so I’m back in the office listening to Hannity.
At 4:00, I’ll change back to 700. Hopefully, “the gang” will be on, and not just Baker.I go to I Heart Radio to 650 AM and listen to Dennis Miller.
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Belligerent loud mouthed violent hoochie mamma gets smacked by bus driver, video here
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If Barrack obama had a smart mouth sister who rode a bus, she would resemble this woman.
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You know it’s been one of those days when i’ve listened to no talk radio.
It’s been a Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Bob Seger kind of day.
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Hwy 6 was the end of the world.
Katfish and I used to venture out there past the dam.
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Now you hafta drive out past Hempstead if’n ya wanna shoot up stop signs.
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#67 – ONLY ONE night like that? You ARE slippin Brother! 🙂
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Another nice oldie I heard today.
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#84 – one of the few things we WEREN’T playin with back then was guns………. *snikker*
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LOVE me some Seger – not as much of an oldie but darn sure a goodie
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A quick search for evidence that Biden ever laughed his fool head off in a debate before turned up no particular case. He was captured on video smiling broadly when debating Sarah Palin. I think Slow Joe may have been coached during his debate prep to try to humiliate Ryan. Sorta backfired with many viewers, it seems.
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Well it’s good to be missed, things at work are going at
hyperridiculous speed and I often don’t have thewitswherewithal to post my usual well-thought out comments. 😉
However I am glad to report that Sheila Jackson Lee no longer is the sole proprietor of the Americans in Space dunce cap.
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*Glares at SD* 🙂
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But have no fear, the Republican members on the House Science committee not only know that women have secret defences against rape, but also all that doppler shift malarkey and an expanding universe are “lies straight from the pit of Hell”
“All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.”
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An occasional visit by reality into the Republican alternate universe is not SD’s fault, I really was too pooped to post.
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An interesting piece of trivia about the missing White House cornerstone. Those Freemasons really knew how to party.
There is no doubt that on the afternoon of Oct. 13, 1792, a group of Freemasons marched from Georgetown to the site of what is now the White House and laid a cornerstone. That evening, though, by about the 11th toast–this one to “the fair daughters of America”–the congenial gathering of Freemasons at Georgetown’s Fountain Inn had begun to grow a bit hazy about where they had laid that particular stone earlier in the day.
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Queenie’s “can we see the flag on Mars?” dunce cap is safe and secure. Apollo 7 was indeed the first manned Apollo mission and Oct. 11 was the 44th anniversary.
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The rest of us had considered Alan Shepard’s flight on May 5, 1961 as America’s first manned flight, but what do we know?
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all of a sudden there was this stench . . . . .
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I’m sorry, that’s me.
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Oh sure, you may have Ted Nugent, Kid Rock and Lindsay Lohan; but we have the force ……….
Actor Mark Hamill, Luke Skywalker forever in our hearts, has not been shy about his mistrust of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Last week he made headlines when he tweeted: “I’ve never seen a candidate for President lie more than Romney.He lies effortlessly, shamelessly.This snake oil salesman must be defeated!!!”
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Gotta love it. You know “progressives” are desperate when they’re comparing a grammatical mistake on twitter with confusing two planetoid objects that are 140,000,000 miles apart, one that man has landed on and one that they haven’t.
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It’s cool, Shammy. Gotta git yer jollies where you can.
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Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission.
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Speaking of whiney babies ………….
Jack Welch doesn’t like the economists laughing at his conspiracy theories …………Welch said he will no longer contribute to Fortune following critical coverage of the former CEO of General Electric, saying he would get better “traction” elsewhere. On Friday, Welch suggested that the Obama administration, calling them “these Chicago guys,” had manipulated the monthly jobs report in order to make the economy look better than it actually is just weeks before the election. Welch has been battered by criticism since making the suggestion on Twitter.
However he has found friends at
FoxWall Street Journal. See, when the press makes fun of you they are acting like the Soviets and the Communist Chinese, who are well known for their progressive attitude towards freedom of the press.Imagine a country where challenging the ruling authorities—questioning, say, a piece of data released by central headquarters—would result in mobs of administration sympathizers claiming you should feel “embarrassed” and labeling you a fool, or worse. Soviet Russia perhaps? Communist China? Nope, that would be the United States right now, when a person (like me, for instance) suggests that a certain government datum (like the September unemployment rate of 7.8%) doesn’t make sense.
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Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission.
Not withstanding Apollo 1, yes Hummus, it was.
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I love google bombs.
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Yeah baby, this is gonna be a fun few weeks coming up. I think I should buy stock in straws.
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Well let’s be fair, it’s not like I tediously point out Governor Romney’s positions on issues.
I mean let’s face it, if Governor Romney contributed to Planned Parenthood, started a socialistic health plan or belonged to a cult; conservatives would still vote for him because he is not Obama.
It must be nice to have philosophies that change with political parties. 😉
There used to be a name for folks like that ………… began with the letter R
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CRAP!…. Slowly opens the door and peeks in to discover that Ole’ Dave has screwed up, let the Genie outta’ the bottle. Sorry, Katfish. 🙁
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#109 – Hey we’d actually enjoy a Genie!
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Damn. When Shammy arrives, he arrives loaded with a sack of crap and motorized flinger.
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Just got back from frying catfish and hush puppies with my sister and Dad at their Elks Lodge. Haven’t seen them in a while. Dad just had surgery, one of the goals was to remove a cancerous tumor from his bladder. It was non-invasive, and the docs think they got it all. They can’t do anything more for his back, however, unless he wants to lose weight and take up therapy.
My dad is grossly overweight, has been for most of his life, and can’t stop eating. It’s a serious addiction for him. He’s in his late 70’s, and I don’t see him changing any time soon. He’s been a chain smoker since he was 13, and frankly, if anything was going to take him down early, it would have been the cigarettes. As it is, his lungs just recently got bad enough that he occasionally has to use oxygen. His blood tests show no diabetes, no cholesterol problems, nothing that you might expect to find from someone in his physical condition. As he says, he is “in good shape for the shape I’m in.”
But I haven’t seen him since his surgery. He’s doing well. With Sis and I helping out, he didn’t have to get up out of his chair often, though he did often enough.
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Brave souls. I can’t even imagine what this was like. God bless them for trying to defend their church.
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#112 Tedtam, man it’s been a while since I’ve had fried catfish and hush puppies, makes my mouth water.
As for your Dad, Bless him, he has his three score and ten so I’d just let him be and do what he wants. My daddy died three mounths before his 79 th birthday and was healthy as a horse 5′ 10″ and 185 Lbs before he got cancer @ 77 and slowly wasted away. When he was 65 he could do the work of most any 20 year old.
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BTW; Back in another life, I worked at a TV repair shop in south Alabama during my high school years. We had several wholesale distributors that we bought electronic parts from; one was GE, one RCA and the other Sylvania. Each one was always trying to get the most business from us, so they’d all do different things to try to get our business. In my book the winner was the GE bunch, because every year they’d invite us to a catfish fry at a small hole-in- the-wall-place on the Chattahoochee River near Columbia Alabama. They only served catfish that were netted in the river by the commercial fishermen that were too small to sell, “Little Squealers” they called them, blue cats about 6”-8” long gutted and fried whole. You paid one price and they brought out plates of catfish, French fries, hush puppies, sliced Vidalia onions and dill pickles! It just don’t get no better than that! Dang Dammit I wish that you could still food like that! 😉
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Not to belittle those that intentionally eat bottom feeding fish, but I’d put up a walleye or perch fry at the local tavern or Catholic Church in Wisconsin against any Friday affair involving the consumption of bullheads.
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My #115, They didn’t mind if a 16 year old Red Haired kid had a beer,…but only one. 😉
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Not to belittle those that intentionally eat bottom feeding fish, but I’d put up a walleye or perch fry at the local tavern or Catholic Church in Wisconsin against any Friday affair involving the consumption of bullheads.
I’ve had walleye and it’s some of the best eating that there is, tastes just like a fresh water
breamperch but we had blue gills and shell crackers and blue cats in Alabama but NO walleye. I had it for the first time in 2002 when I went to the twin cities, good stuff for sure.
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or mullet
The fish or the hair style?
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My #118,…..OK, for the Uneducated a perch and bream are the same thing. A blue gill or shell cracker are both breams.
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Never could get used to the taste of catfish, along with sucker or carp. Can’t really complain about any angler eating their catch though.
We used to catch northerns (pike) all the time and have a freezer full for dinner, but it is tough to beat walleye. -
Bream, as I recall were classed with sunfish, blue gills, punkinseeds, crappies, and other panfish; all tasty. Never heard of shell crackers ….
Perch is a different fish altogether, FWIW walleyes are a type of perch.
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Speaking of bait, Goldenrod flies are prevalent up north probably some climate thing. Anyway, we would collect those for use as bait and use them to jig for panfish along with mousies.
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In Texas shell crackers are called red ears, because of the lip on their gills that looks like a red ear, in the old south they’re called “shell crackers” because of their teeth that they use to crack open mussel shells. U R welcome. 😉
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I’ve seen them up north but not in any great quantities, although any fish that eats zebra mussels should be encouraged.
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The interwebs are a wonderful thing. I just got a fancy new electronic compass/watch/thermometer that records the high and low temps for any 24 hour period so that I can get lost more effciently and kn ow what the time and temperature is while waiting for rescue.
It has a feature that allows you to input declination and the compass will take that into account—so the North shown on the compass is true north wihtout having to do any complicated addition or subtraction and trying to remember which one is for declination East, and which is for West. In the olden days when packs were made out of canvas and jackets made of wool, you got your declination from the margin of the map you’re using, or an almanac or other reference book. But I don’t have either here at the compound. It took all of five minutes for me to find a nifty calculator that uses zip codes to give it to you. -
Via Ace:
Iowahawk: Biden Did What He Had To Do Last Night: Audition For a 5 PM Slot on MSNBC In January.
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Some folks appear to be political policy critics, while others were clearly more qualified to be theater critics.
I didn’t watch it, but the photographs reminded me of the Skipper and Gilligan
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#115 – SD these folks will come pretty close – check em out if you have not!
Pine Tree Lodge
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I just peeked in to see what was going on only to discover there’s pigeon excrement all over the blog.
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When edifices – particularly political edifices built around the myth and personality of one man – collapse, they collapse suddenly. The center does not hold. The man dragged from the spider hole isn’t a dictator, he’s a prisoner. The Master of the Universe hedge fund manager who’s really just a Ponzi schemer gets booked at Rikers like the rest of ’em. The spell cast by power, once broken, is hard to restore.
(And no, I’m not comparing Obama to infamous war criminals. I’m examining the way people view organizations centered on a leader, not on an idea, and why they’re ultimately fragile.)
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They know how much they lost after the last debate. They know how many millions of television advertising dollars were flushed down the drain as Obama broke down in the last debate and as Mitt Romney introduced himself to the country. They know how, after the debate, Romney surged to a lead or a tie in the swing states. They know that there are a handful of states now that were solidly in Obama’s camp that are wavering, teetering and suddenly uncertain.
Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Michigan have moved in the RCP averages from “Leans Obama” to “Toss-up”… today’s polls are about to move a number of other states into the “Lean Romney” column. Florida will likely move there in the coming days. It’s not just the swing states, and they know it.
The swing states matter, but when any of the states of Obama’s “Blue Wall” flips in the polls to “Lean Romney,” the cascade effect will be psychologically devastating. For months, there were two underlying predicates for an Obama victory: first, that Obama was inevitable, and second, that Mitt Romney’s path to 270 electoral votes was narrow and highly constrained.
Today, it’s Obama’s path that seems to be narrowing.
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Obama: Filmmaker behind anti-Islam film that sparked Mideast violence is ‘shadowy character’
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-filmmaker-behind-anti-islam-film-sparked-mideast-010013733.html
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Their panic tastes delicious.
Tasty indeed.
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Keep whistling, the noise is deafening. 😉
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