One of the more difficult aspects of enjoying the more subtle aspects of the essence of barley malt (alternatively known as “Hebridean Mouthwash”) is pronouncing the particular variety you wish to sample.
The fine people at Esquire have enlisted the services of Brian Cox to help us out. (follow the link to hear them; I can only get the first to play here)
For the record, My favorites are (in order):
Laphroaig and Lagavulin (tie)
Ardbeg
The Highland scotches are ok; lowland are a little too light-bodied for me. The ones above are Islay scotches; I also like Campbelltown and the other island malts. There’s nothing like the medicinal quality of iodine combined with the body of kerosene, seasoned with a healthy dose of peat smoke.
Yum.
PS: If you’re ever in Houma, stay at the Holiday Inn. Their bartendresses don’t seem to know how big a “double” should be. Witness:
Three-and-a-half fingers. That’s a drink.
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I’m happy just to get anything with the word Glen in it ………….
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Headline on Fox:
Some businesses — including McDonald’s and the owner of Red Lobster — consider how best to avoid ObamaCare’s employer mandate, which is set to take effect in 2014.
Well, a good start would be to NOT do this:
But the McDonald’s Corp. PAC gave to four Texas Democrats and one Republican from 2011 to 2012 – Charles A. Gonzalez (D-San Antonio), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Dallas), Henry Cuellar (D-Laredo), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Houston)
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Top-o-the-marnin Hamoustonians™
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Only 15 minutes before the politics start, I’m game if ya’ll are.
I’m such a sucker for trolls 😉
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#2 – How ironic eh? “We’ll guaranTEE you minions have health insurance but OH™ by the way we’ll make all of you part time workers to getterdun”
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Music stuff from Uncle Joe @ “Off the Record”
October 13, 2012
UncUpdate B-day Graphic
Rhyming Paul Simon is 71.
Keyboardist Robert Lamm of Chicago is 69.
The Red Rocker, Sammy Hagar, who has also worked with Montrose and Van Halen, is 65.
UncUpdate On This Day Graphic
On this day in 1963, Beatlemania officially began when The Beatles appeared on the BBC’s Sunday Night at the Palladium TV show. Some 15 million people watched the program, while thousands more crowded the streets around the London theater to get a glimpse of the band.
On this day in 1965, The Beatles began recording “You Can Wear My Diamond Ring,” which quickly evolved into “Drive My Car.”
On this day in 1965, The Who recorded “My Generation” at Pye studios in London. When 20-year-old guitarist Pete Townshend first wrote the song, it was a slow bluesy number, but the faster the band played it, the more powerful it became.
On this day in 1968, John Lennon recorded “Julia,” the last song for the “White” album and the only solo recording he ever made for The Beatles.
On this day in 1973, “Ramblin’ Man” by the Allman Brothers Band peaked at #2 as “Free Ride” by the Edgar Winter Group topped out at #14 on the charts.
On this day in 1973, Aerosmith’s debut album entered the charts on a long journey to #21 and two million in sales.
On this day in 1978, Led Zeppelin began rehearsing for what became their last album, 1979’s “In Through The Out Door.”
On this day in 1979, Supertramp’s Top 10 bound “Take The Long Way Home” entered the singles charts as John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp’s “I Need A Lover” began its way to #28.
On this day in 1979, as Styx’s “Cornerstone” album began its run to #2 and two million in sales, AC/DC’s career defining “Highway To Hell” entered the charts on its way to a hard earned #47 .
On this day in 1994, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band’s “Greatest Hits” album was released. It eventually sold over six million copies.
On this day in 2007, the Foo Fighters’ “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace” album hit #3. -
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Good morning, Hamsterville! Comment on a Reuters article about Benghazi:
joinamerica2 wrote:
This isn’t that complicated. Barack Obama’s foreign policy is misguided and he has misread our enemies, abandoned our friends, forced out reliable peace partners (Mubarak for one) and damaged America’s safety and standing. Additionally, the Middle East is currently in absolute chaos thanks to Mr. Obama’s incompetence. It isn’t only Christopher Stevens who has died as a result of Mr. Obama’s miscalculations, there are many many others. And the reason the State Dept refused the request for additional security, is because granting it, would be to admit the failure of Obama’s policies. -
Sarge, from your #131 last night;
The arguments for Romney’s election were always framed as, “Well, IF he wins Florida and IF he wins Virginia and IF Hillary is an Al Qaida sleeper agent and IF Biden is caught in a Delaware hotel room with a Guatemalan pan flute band and a non-consenting farm animal…then maybe there’s a fraction of a chance.”
Heh. heh 😀
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I predict that RMoney will win the election with an electoral count in the range of 315-330. If this is actually the case or if RMoney wins by an even greater margin (electoral count and popular vote) will the LTNs including our resident trolls finally shut up, will there be a collective head explosion, will there be riots?
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In case you ever wondered what the far-right wingers look like to normal people…
Meanwhile at the bob42 compound, all Saturday domestic duties have been cancelled due to severe weather conditions on Galveston Island.Mostly sunny, a high of 84, and only a slight chance of rain.
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Well, it’s been a little over 18 years now that I’ve had to taste that firewater or any of its little brothers and sisters, but I still remember what it was like – and there towards the end it wasn’t any fun at all.
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if RMoney wins by an even greater margin (electoral count and popular vote) will the LTNs including our resident trolls finally shut up, will there be a collective head explosion, will there be riots?
They’ll blame Bush. Hell, they’re still whining that Gore won in 2000 and Rehnquist stole the election. Even if it turned out to be a Reagan-style electoral landslide they’d still be crying it was because of the Republican push for voter id laws. They are not capable of accepting responsibility for their own failures. It’s always someone else’s fault.
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This is a good link to the video of the big crash at Talledega
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They are not capable of accepting responsibility for their own failures.
It will be fun watching them squirm, kinda like a slug in salt.
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#1 shamaal
The “Glen” scotches are almost all Highland (incl. Speyside). They are good, solid scotches, and tend toward the subtle.
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#12 EG: Ever since I went through the NAET allergy cleansing therapy, my urge for consuming alcohol has almost vanished. It used to be that I would drink a couple every night, now it is more like one beer every week or two. The urge is gone, now it is purely for the taste and I almost never even want to drink more than one.
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#14 Hamous
I doubt very much that things will change here. Folks will go back to whining about the RINOs they elected and rediscovering the principles they claim they once had.
Personally I like to see social progressives and fiscal conservatives elected, sadly many conservatives just want to elect Republicans.
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Calypso from the Pirates of the Caribbean sure cleans up real nice for the new Bond flick.
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IIRC, the single grain scotch category is another one of those peculiar English grammar categories that doesn’t mean what it says.
Single grains are not made from a single grain, they are made from multiple grains at a single distillery.
When I was a lad and reading comic books, the ads on the back marketed bags of “unsorted” pennies. Just think, one could find a mint 1909 vdb penny, or perhaps a 1943 copper. Fortunately, I never had enough scratch to send them the $1.99 plus S&H to receive my shot at numismatic glory.
Only later did I discover that “unsorted” meant that the conditions of the coins were so incredibly bad they could not be sorted into any categories, hence the name. -
sadly many conservatives just want to elect Republicans
Ever since the Democrats abandoned their roots, it’s all we really have. The libertarians tend to be a bunch of kooks, even though I have some sympathies for some of their positions.
The other problem is that social programs tend to be costly, without much in the way of positive return, so it becomes exceedingly difficult to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal – as liberal is currently defined (i.e. “progressive”) -
#21 wb
Yowsuh, she is a babe.
I don’t know if the movie’s any good, but the marketing campaign is ubiquitous.
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as liberal is currently defined (i.e. “progressive”)
More like moonbatschizzle crazy, commie influenced, and completely unhinged.
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Aah, right on cue. The public face of the Conservative party.
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G’Morning All
New Orleans Greys assemble in historic meeting
October 13, 1835
On this day in 1835, the New Orleans Greys, two companies of United States volunteers that served together in the Texas Revolution, were organized at a meeting held in the grand coffee room of Banks’s Arcade in New Orleans. Although the disasters at the Alamo and Goliad destroyed the Greys as military units, at least seven of them were present at the battle of San Jacinto. The Greys were one of the few volunteer units able to claim Bexar, the Alamo, San Patricio, Refugio, Coleto, Goliad, and San Jacinto as battle honors. -
Our biggest mistake 🙂
Voters overwhelmingly approve annexation
October 13, 1845
On this day in 1845, the voters of the Republic of Texas approved an ordinance to accept annexation by a vote of 4,245 to 257. They also adopted the proposed state constitution by a vote of 4,174 to 312. The annexation of Texas to the United States had been a topic of political and diplomatic discussions since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Although most Texans had been in favor of annexation and had voted for it as early as 1836, constitutional scruples, fear of war with Mexico, and the controversy of adding another slave state to the union prevented the acceptance of annexation by the United States until 1845. -
Ever since the Democrats abandoned their roots, it’s all we really have.
Perhaps, but folks are trying to elect a fellow who contributed to planned parenthood, created the model socialized health care system, and belongs to a “cult”. It’s good folks have an alternative to Democrats that they can embrace and fight for.
The “social programs” on the other hand have always been embraced by both parties as a way of funneling money into the states. Politicians of both parties realize this once they get in office. Cornyn fights just as hard for Medicare funding as Paul Ryan fights for stimulus funds. -
I lay this one at Obama’s feet for taking an unknown film clip and advertising to the whole world about it, popularizing the film and blaming America for the Embassy attack.
Al-Qaida leader urges holy war over Prophet film
Published: October 13, 2012
The Associated Press
CAIRO — The leader of al-Qaida has urged Muslims to wage holy war against the United States and Israel over a film that insulted Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.
Ayman al-Zawahri praised as “honest and zealous” demonstrators who breached the U.S Embassy in Cairo and attackers who stormed the U.S. “embassy” in Benghazi in violence linked to the film. The American ambassador and three others died in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in the Libyan city.
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Yes, if the President hadn’t played an excerpt on Egyptian television two days before the Ben Ghazi attacks. No one would have noticed it.
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Yup, this would be Obama’s people; Will The Election Results Cause Massive Riots To Erupt All Over America?
There is so much hate in America today, and this campaign is bringing a lot of it to the surface. It is even being reported that a bus driver told a 12-year-old boy that he should have been aborted because his family has a Romney campaign sign in their yard….
Belling read a letter from the 12-year-old boy’s mother, detailing the alleged abusive behavior by the bus driver.
Apparently, the Romney-Ryan yard sign bugs the bus driver and she’s been harassing the boy, making rude comments to him related to politics.
When the driver engaged the 12-year-old boy in a political conservation, he responded by saying that Obama is pro-abortion.
The bus driver allegedly said to the child, “Maybe your mom should have chosen abortion for you.”
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Is one of you people slicing onions in here again?
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Heh. As predicted, the rhetoric is becoming shriller with each passing day. This is fun.
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An elderly couple are seated in a booth in a diner, enjoying their dinner.
The husband leans over and asks his wife, “Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village tavern where you leaned against the back fence and I made love to you.”
Yes, she says, “I remember it well.”
OK, he says, “How about taking a stroll around there again and we can do it for old time’s sake?”
“Oh Jim, you old devil, that sounds like a crazy, but good idea!”
A police officer sitting in the next booth heard their conversation and, having a chuckle to himself, he thinks to himself, I’ve got to see these two old-timers having sex against a fence. I’ll just keep an eye on them so there’s no trouble. So he follows them.
The elderly couple walks haltingly along, leaning on each other for support aided by walking sticks. Finally, they get to the back of the tavern and make their way to the fence The old lady lifts her skirt and the old man drops his trousers. As she leans against the fence, the old man moves in.. Then suddenly they erupt into the most furious sex that the policeman has ever seen. This goes on for about ten minutes while both are making loud noises and moaning and screaming. Finally, they both collapse, panting on the ground.
The policeman is amazed. He thinks he has learned something about life and old age that he didn’t know.
After about half an hour of lying on the ground recovering, the old couple struggle to their feet and put their clothes back on. The policeman, is still watching and thinks to himself, this is truly amazing, I’ve got to ask them what their secret is.
So, as the couple passes, he says to them, “Excuse me, but that was something else. You must’ve had a fantastic sex life together. Is there some sort of secret to this?”
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#33 Super Dave
You can strongly disagree with someone without being mean and without being hateful.
As hard as it is believe I can only be responsible for my actions and any decorum I possess on my end of the couch. Oddly enough, I believe the same as true of the other denizens.
More like moonbatschizzle crazy, commie influenced, and completely unhinged.
I’m sure a simple check over the past few weeks, will I identify the which political philosophy on the couch embraces vitriol aver substance. 😉
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“Is one of you people slicing onions in here again?”
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Speaking of sex
Dear Wife,
I’m writing you this letter to tell you that I’m leaving you forever. I’ve been a good man to you for 7 years & I have nothing to show for it. These last 2 weeks have been hell. … Your boss called to tell me that you quit your job today & that was the last straw. Last week, you came home & didn’t even notice I had a new haircut, had cooked your favorite meal & even wore a brand new pair of silk boxers. You ate in 2 minutes, & went straight to sleep after watching all of your soaps. You don’t tell me you love me anymore; you don’t want sex or anything that connects us as husband & wife. Either you’re cheating on me or you don’t love me anymore; whatever the case, I’m gone.
Your EX-Husband
P.S. don’t try to find me. Your SISTER & I are moving away to West Virginia together! Have a great life!
Dear Ex-Husband
Nothing has made my day more than receiving your letter. It’s true you & I have been married for 7 years, although a good man is a far cry from what you’ve been. I watch my soaps so much because they drown out your constant whining & griping Too bad that doesn’t work. I DID notice when you got a hair cut last week, but the 1st thing that came to mind was ‘You look just like a girl!’ Since my mother raised me not to say anything if you can’t say something nice, I didn’t comment. And when you cooked my favorite meal, you must have gotten me confused with MY SISTER, because I stopped eating pork 7 years ago. About those new silk boxers: I turned away from you because the $49.99 price tag was still on them, & I prayed it was a coincidence that my sister had just borrowed $50 from me that morning. After all of this, I still loved you & felt we could work it out. So when I hit the lotto for 10 million dollars, I quit my job & bought us 2 tickets to Jamaica But when I got home you were gone.. Everything happens for a reason, I guess. I hope you have the fulfilling life you always wanted. My lawyer said that the letter you wrote ensures you won’t get a dime from me. So take care.
Signed, Your Ex-Wife, Rich As Hell & Free!
P.S. I don’t know if I ever told you this, but my sister Carla was born Carl. I hope that’s not a problem. -
Another good idea involving hamsters that mysteriously goes wrong; I’m sure because of the President’s socialistic agenda.
Man in a giant hamster wheel sinks on voyage across Irish Sea.Human hamster Chris Todd admitted defeat in his attempt to cross the Irish Sea as bad weather sank his giant metal water wheel.
A webwit comments
” …the idea came to him while he was rowing across a lake. ”
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#34 Pyro
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Another paragraph from the Ricochet article Sarge linked to last night:
You can see their gyros tumbling as they slew from Big Bird to abortion to “Mitt Romney is a lying liar liarpants McLiar” to the walking disaster that is Stephanie Cutter every time she opens her mouth to the remarkable, bizarre interview the Three Divas (Axelrod, Plouffe and Messina, obviously) gave Mark Halperin this week. Their campaign is out of control, and they know it.
We’re seeing the same thing here. I’m seeing it among my “progressive” friends on facebook (the few who haven’t “unfriended” me because I don’t worship their Nubian savior). We haven’t heard “Mitt Romney is a stupid doodie head!” yet but you know it’s coming.
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We haven’t heard “Mitt Romney is a stupid doodie head!” yet but you know it’s coming.
Apparently you missed the Republican primaries. 😉
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#43 shamaal
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I understand that it can be habit forming.
CCTV footage of a ‘nun’ caught on camera stealing beer from a US convenience store is going viral online.
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Sham, you can try to hide your insanity with smooth words and insincerity but it doesn’t fly. Your message is as hateful as ever, the message of the Ds at whose altar you worship, is of death and destruction. One can not lift any body up by stepping on another. The Ds seem to think that by demonizing the successful, they can lift those who choose not to apply themselves. It is they who always want to blame others for their own failings and the Bengazi debacle is just the latest example. A real man would say that I failed to upgrade the security at that facility, my failure is compounded with the knowledge that there have been over 200 incidents in Bengazi over the last year and I still chose to do nothing. A real leader would not miss over half of his security briefings, particularly when things are so unstable in the world. We do not have a real man or a genuine leader as president at this time. You refuse to recognize that reality and you hurl garbage at those who do. This makes you part of the problem and everybody here recognizes that. Has it ever crossed you mind that NO ONE FREAKING LIKES YOU HERE? Have you ever wondered why?
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Speaking of mullets, one more reason why America is such a great country, despite protestations by the Anti-American crowd.
It has long been a controversial fashion – but now debate on the merits of the mullet has been reignited after a Morley man claims he was ejected from one of Perth’s newest bars because of his hairstyle.
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Sniff sniff – Do I detect the odor of a setup?
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No. I swear! After I posted my 42 I googled the phrase and that popped up. Also note it was created over a month ago. I ain’t got that much patience or attention span.
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Remember when Tom Delay tried to wiggle out of that money laundering charge because payment was in the form of a check instead of cash?
Not an issue in Chicago. If the graft isn’t greater than $5K no bribe has occurred, they have their standards.An appeals court has reversed the bribery conviction of a Chicago zoning inspector on grounds the value of two $600 payoffs he received weren’t high enough.
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I’m sure a simple check over the past few weeks, will I identify the which political philosophy on the couch embraces vitriol aver substance.
Like this nicety from your #98 on Friday’s OC?
I stepped in a pile of bonecrusher on the way in. I’ll have to find an El Gordo to scrape it off my shoe with.
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Another advertising offset to defray the cost of moving the Shuttle in Los Angeles. A Toyota Tundra is moving the shuttle a quarter mile.
A San Antonio-built 2012 Tundra CrewMax half-ton pickup was slated to haul the 170,000-pound spacecraft for nearly a quarter-mile over the Interstate 405 on the Manchester Boulevard bridge.
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#49 shamaal
I guess they’d throw this guy right out.
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That’s what made me think of it. 😉
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Brother Phil, it is better for one’s enjoyment of the Couch experience, to just scroll past anything with too many foreign-looking a’s in it. -
Awright!! A Hammy mullet towfer!
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I like the halo around his head, sort of makes it deified.
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Hummus, your wish has come true!
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Well the battery in my 4-wheeler has died “Grave Yard Dead”. On Thursday I was going to drive it to the edge of the neighborhood and gas it up at the Valero station but when I hit the starter it just went clunk and the LCD display went black. I gave it about half choke and pumped the throttle once and yanked the recoil starter and she fired up on the first pull. The display came back but would cut out if I revved it up,..huh?! I put my meter on it and it was reading about 3.5 volts and going down to 2.5 when I gunned it. That meant that the battery was shot! When I got back from getting gas I hooked up my smart charger and it read 25% then 50%, 75% then 100% all in about 2 seconds, further confirming it had NO capacity. I left the charger on it and this morning the battery read 12.75 volts and went to 3.7 volts when I turned on the key. I put an ammeter in series with it to see if anything was draining it while it was sitting idle, and it looks good. Well according to their website the Discount Auto Store on Hiway 3 has one in stock,… $75!?! Oh well, the factory battery is 135 CCA and this one is 200 CCA, dang they’re wimpy. Well I’m off to the Auto store. Later
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The gift that keeps on giving. Thanks, Squawk.
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#61 Fantastic! I truly hope y’all continue with this.
15% real unemployment
23 million Americans out of work
Gas approaching $4.00/gallon
$16+ trillion dollars in debt
4 straight years of $1+ trillion dollar annual deficits
1% GDP growth
Religious liberties overridden by executive fiat
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They took their inspiration from the Million Man March, a gathering led by rights advocate Louis Farrakhan in Washington in 1995 to promote civil rights.
Now there’s a role model for Big Bird and the Democrats! Sometimes the truth slips out, despite all the smoke and mirrors.
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I knew you’d like that!
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Its close enough to Halloween for a scary story.
I don’t think that will happen as I firmly beleive NH, PA, OH, MI, & WI will go for Reomney in the end and, apparently, one vote from ME.
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I asked the question about is there going to be riots if RMoney wins? The info wars website asked the same questions and reposted from twitchy lots of threats to riot if RMoney wins. If the election is close, I figure that there will be riots, if it is a blowout, electorally and popularly then prolly not.
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I never really understood numerology, but I hear it’s big in the alternate universe, so this may be significant.
The Des Moines Register reports that Laila Fitzgerald weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces when she was born. She came into the world on Thursday, which, numerically speaking, was 10/11/12. She arrived, militarily speaking, at 1314, which would be 1:14 p.m. for civilians.
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Well that was easy, but $pen$ive, $79.85 with $6.00 core and the $5.00 off card that I got there a while back. For the folks that aren’t familiar with motorcycles/atvs the battery comes dry and you have to add the electrolyte, KatFish knows what I’m talking about. I’ve not owned a motorcycle in quite some time but, back in the day the electrolyte came in a cardboard box that was lined with plastic and had a flexible tube that you used to fill each cell. Of course you wound up pouring acid all over everything and hoping that some of it made it into the battery. Now the acid comes in a neat 6 bottle package, that is capped with foil. So you flip it over and stab it on the battery which punctures the foil and fills the cells, it even came with a pin to prick the bottom of the bottles so it would fill better. After letting the battery “breathe” for an hour I’ll plug it with the rubber caps and charge it up. NEATO 😀
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Well Iguess that you can still get batteries like the old days.
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#64 Hamous, you know that they can’t handle the truth!
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I am proud to announce that the low temperature at the compound last night was 77 degrees.
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All I gots to do is look at the compass I calibrated last nite. Declination for this lat/long is already computed. Compass will always show true North within acceptable parameters of land navigation for everywhere I might go within a couple hundred miles.
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Retribution darkly wrought, long knives quietly drawn in the shadows beyong the palace walls…
The latest quarrel began when Clinton heard that Obama was behaving so cocky about his first debate against Mitt Romney that he wasn’t taking his debate prep seriously. Out of concern, Clinton had an aide call the White House and say that the former president would be more than happy to give the current president some pointers and advice on how to get the best of Romney.
Clinton waited several days for a response, but none was forthcoming. According to my sources, the former president was dumbfounded that Obama had ignored his offer, and his hurt feelings quickly boiled over into anger.
“Bill thought that he and Obama were on friendly terms after the convention,” one source told me. “He couldn’t believe that the White House didn’t even extend him the courtesy of a return phone call. He concluded that Obama’s arrogance knows no bounds.”and,
Finally, I’m told that Bill is playing with various doomsday scenarios, up to and including the idea that Hillary should consider resigning over the issue if the Obama team tries to use her as a scapegoat. That seems unlikely to happen. But if relations between Obama’s White House and Hillary’s State Department rupture publicly over the growing Benghazi scandal, that could damage the Democratic ticket and dim Obama’s chances for re-election.
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If I had an ATV like Super Dave, I’d mount one of these on the front.
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IIRC, we’ve heard tales of the long knives being drawn since before the 2008 election.
Some tales of intrigue and internecine squabbling never get old.
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It’s not a secret that I don’t participate in other forums or social media, I barely have time to post coherently here. And while it’s fun to call each other trolls, be aware there are real trolls out there, particularly on a forum called Reddit.
Warning, graphic language. It takes a lot to rile up ped o files and apparently this guy knows how to push the right buttons.Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on Gchat, that I had uncovered his identity as the notorious internet troll Violentacrez (pronounced Violent-Acres).
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For those wanting to pick up a few pointers on avoiding taxes.
How does a private-equity kingpin worth at least $250 million pay a lower tax rate – just 14 percent – than many teachers and firemen? By exploiting tax loopholes that favor the rich and hiding his money in the world’s most notorious havens for tax cheats. That’s what Mitt Romney has done, according to his 2010 and 2011 tax returns, a trove of secret Bain Capital documents unearthed by Gawker, and exposés by Bloomberg and Vanity Fair. “The bottom line,” says Rebecca Wilkins, senior counsel at Citizens for Tax Justice, “is that these are ways to reduce your taxes that are only available to rich people.”
Note: evading taxes is illegal, avoiding taxes is not.
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This could take some time ……………………………
Navy investigates drunken sailor complaints
The Royal Canadian Navy is investigating after more than a dozen incidents involving drunken sailors from a number of countries were reported to police in the Florida Keys, according to a statement released by the navy.Oh what to do, what to do …………………………………..
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All together now:
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I barely have time to post coherently here.
There are those who would maintain that you don’t. 😉
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I’m a legend in my own mind. 😉
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Yep.
They’re starting to recycle their old attacks.
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Shamaal is getting nervous so to assuage his tremors and vapors.
A little Saturday night boogie woogie by a guy, Neville Dickie, who looks just like your English Lit 101 prof, way, way back when…
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#93 Texpat, man that was great, if that don’t get your toes a tappin’ I don’t know what will.
Well I got the 4-wheeler buttoned up and added a plug to the battery so I could plug in the smart charger if need be, and got the cobwebs outta’ the motor.
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OK, now for the stupidest headline ever; Do black people support Obama because he’s black?
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama.
Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he’s black? If race is just one factor in blacks’ support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks’ support for Obama be compared with white voters who may favor his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, because he’s white?
Stacey Dash, who also has Mexican heritage, is best known for the 1995 film “Clueless” and the recent cable-TV drama “Single Ladies.” On Twitter, she was called “jigaboo,” “traitor,” “house nigger” and worse after posting, “Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future.”
The theme of the insults: A black woman would have to be stupid, subservient or both to choose a white Republican over the first black president.OK so I’ve been told that Obama is our first “Post Racial President”,…humm something musta’ went wrong?!?!
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#96 YUP! If I disagree with our HNP, I’m a racist! 🙁
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Ring ring ring ring Obama Phone
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I can’t believe Super Dave didn’t react to my #81.
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I came home from a day out, and pulled out the sax. I played a few pages of scales and my lip started to go. Played the love theme from “Romeo and Juliet,” struggling to keep the air from escaping.
Man, it’s gonna take some time to get the ol’ lips back in shape.
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They’re starting to recycle their old attacks.
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Shamaal is getting nervous so to assuage his tremors and vapors.
Thank you for the kind words, but don’t try to lay no boogie woogie on the king of rock and roll.
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#102 Texpat, sorry but I didn’t scroll back up when I posted my #94. Dang I need one of those things. I’ve been thinking about building some sort of Tesla coil all of my adult life, being that electronics is my field, but I never got around to it. One thing that I have in common with the guy that made the gun is that I’ve always figured that I’d use a fly-back transformer to make the high voltage. The fly-back is the horizontal output of any CRT device and it puts out anywhere from 12KV, B&W to 24-32KV, color. I was surprised that he had so much trouble burning things up because the fly-back makes a lot of voltage, very little current. ❓
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Played the love theme from “Romeo and Juliet,” struggling to keep the air from escaping.
I understand Freebird’s really popular among the NASCAR set
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The description sounded like a fly-back along with a voltage multiplier. It may have been the flybacks he was smoking.
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I’d be ecstatic to have half her talent and/or half her looks.
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#110 TT
I am surprised to hear you say such a thing. When I think of all the things you are into — time-consuming, serious endeavors — and yet you are finding a little more time and a little more energy to relearn your saxophone.
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The word funk as applied in the music world initially referred to a strong odor.
That’s what I thought it meant. In any world.
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Free Association time
tedtam -> sax -> stan getz ->The Girl from Ipanema
Although a mesmerizing song, I never understood how a vocalist with such a flat untrained voice actually was chosen.The next task was to find someone to sing those English lyrics. There is some dispute as to how it was decided, but Joao’s wife, Astrid, was selected to sing because, although she never sang professionally, she had a soft sexy voice, she could hold a tune, and at least she could pronounce the English words.
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It is interesting to note that because she was a non-professional and, therefore, not under any contract, Astrid Gilberto was never paid for this recording. She did not receive one red cent, nor, I guess, was she entitled to any payment. This recording did launch her successful career as a singer, but still, you’d think she should get something for being the vocalist for one of the most popular songs of all time. -
Oh, BTW, Lovely is working on a cookie recipe for a baking contest. She has to use a certain brand of chocolate (it’s a promotion for the chocolate manufacturer) and a few other specified ingredients, but then it’s up to her to create a cookie masterpiece. I listened to her ideas, and then made a suggestion that she thinks will be a marvelous addition to the end product.
Take a guess.
G’head.
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It’ll work as long as she doesn’t use a toaster and a microwave.
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Oh, and I’m still working through Clancy’s “Dead or Alive”. He continues to blast Obama through his Ed Kealty character. And i continue to chuckle.
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#70 – My indy shop has ceased keepin ‘pre-cooked’ batteries – the unknown shelf life prior to my shop getting delivery is deeply suspect at best – they’ve gone back to fill em & charge em…………………….although I read the best battery ‘deal’ (for a Harley anyways) is to buy ‘seconds’ from Dekka (who supplies HD with their sale units)
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#108 – just WOW!
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Yes, these people get to vote too. This lady thinks the deer crossing signs on highways in populated areas should be move so the deer will cross in less dangerous areas.
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FWIW, North Dakota has not voted for a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson in 1964.
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G’Sunday Morning All
Happy Birthday Ike.Future general and president born in Denison
October 14, 1890
On this day in 1890, Dwight David Eisenhower, general of the army and thirty-fourth president of the United States, was born in a two-story frame house in Denison, Texas. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Abilene, Kansas. -
Real virus! Don’t click on these links!
“Mitt Romney almost president” – Fake CNN alert leads to Blackhole malware attack
Filed Under: Celebrities, Featured, Malware, Spam, Vulnerability
Creative Commons photo of Mitt Romney courtesy of Austen Hufford’s Flickr photostreamYesterday, at approximately 13:00 UTC, SophosLabs began receiving the first malicious emails targeting those interested in the upcoming United States presidential election.
It’s not really surprising considering the surge in malicious activity we saw during the 2008 presidential election. It even continued for several months after President Obama was elected, probably because the lure worked so well.
The subject line for this spam campaign reads “CNN Breaking News – Mitt Romney Almost President”.
When opened it appears to be a CNN news alert with today’s top stories including the leading “More than 60 percent of votes will be in favor of Mitt Romney.”http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/11/romney-president-cnn-alert-blackhol/
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Oops. Where’s the Wagonburner?
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We might be getting some rain soon.
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Delbert McClinton, Starting A Rumor.
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#125 – Did anyone accuse the caller of being a democrat? I fail to see the connection. Come to think of it, I guess there might be some connection in there somewhere between an otherwise complete idiot and someone who would vote for a democrat. I glad your keen eye was able to spot that connection so quickly.
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#133 El Gordo 😀
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Well Felix Baumgartner is on his way.
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#137 SD: Live link for the event
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The balloon is at 65,000 feet, beyond the Armstrong Line, where the pressure is so low that if a human was exposed to that lack of pressure all of his precious bodily fluids would boil away.
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Mercy, some boomin’ and shakin’ goin’ on up in here this morning. Just now got power back on. Did get some car racing in last night before it let loose this morning. Nanny nanny boo boo.
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Went with no innernet or data signal for 2 whole hours. We was secluded from the world all by ourselves! Brrrr, scary!
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#138, 28.3 % O2 ?!
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#142: I guess they wanna be able to have him pre-loaded with O2 in case there is a problem. The target altitude should be reached by 12:45 or so.
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http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/13/lets-get-fiscal/
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Looking at the Lat Lon, he’s about 50 miles east of Roswell.
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He’s not going up as fast as he was a little while ago. Just crossed 85,000 feet.
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#144 😀 Loved the chair.
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Eagerly awaiting Shawwow’s comments
Also from InstapunditSo today’s little furor is some ass at a Romney rally who worked his way around, right in front of the press, and showed off a pretty obviously racist shirt. Now, as Stacy McCain has pointed out, there’s good reason to think the was a troll, a false-flag operation. We’ve been seeing them, organized and disorganized, since the first Tea Party demonstrations — remember “Crash the Tea Party“?
But you know what? Forget that. I’m tired of idiots trying to make one asshole in the back row of a Romney rally the issue. You want to talk racism? Well, let’s talk about this:
It was Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Democrat, who founded the Ku Klux Klan.
Woodrow Wilson segregated Federal Buildings and jobs after 50 years of integration under largely Republican administrations.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted Jim Crow Laws.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that instituted “separate but equal”.
It was the Democrat Party in the South that supported the Ku Klux Klan.
It was George Wallace and the Democrat Party in the South that said “Segregation Forever”.http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/10/13/a-rant-on-supposed-racism/
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now at 95,000 feet. He is gonna get there before 12:45.
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FWIW; It’s on the Discovery Channel.
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Past 102K free fall record set in 1960.
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Dang, I’ve got errands to run but now I’m stuck watching the jump.
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Past 113740 highest manned ballon flight record set in 1961.
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Thanks#149 was Bones, I think?!?!
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SuperDave started it.
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I think they started to vent the balloon too soon. He is losing altitude.
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Geronimo!!! 😉
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I don’t think that he broke the sound barrier. 🙁
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Landed on his feet!!
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He is a true gentleman as he pulled his drogue shoot prior to eclipsing Kittinger’s free fall record.
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He was spinning at altitude and that may have slowed him down enough that he didn’t break the sound barrier. He still has several records though! 😀
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The man has titanium testicles
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#162 SD: I saw on the stat counter, that he was at around 714 mph.
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A new spin on “hit the ground running”! Wowza.
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The man has titanium testicles
I think that they had to modify the pilot seat and put a 5 gallon bucket under it. 😉
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Pretty cool.
( i was thanking for the tip on Discovery Channel live coverage, 150).
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I just got a text from Lil’ Sister, wearing her “I built my Business Mr President” tee shirt, that said;
The face of a 60 yr old business woman who just had her biggest estate sale ever!!! $42K IN 2 days. Hard work. Long days. A son/partner with incredible knowledge on fair market value and the history of any item. All = SUCCESS. Had a great weekend.
Nana/shorty😀
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#162 SD: I saw on the stat counter, that he was at around 714 mph.
I hope so! I’ll be glad to “stand corrected”. 😉
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Alan Sheperd reached an altitude of 116 miles, btw.
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re my #161: What a great way to say “Thank You” to Kittinger by not eclipsing his record. The man was not greedy, a true gentleman.
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Jacoby Jones takin’ it to the house! Took a kick off return for a touchdown against Dallas, the guy might not be so bad after all. 😀
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How high
top speed in free fall
time of free fall
If, in fact he did break the sound barrier, what did it feel and sound like?
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Alan Sheperd reached an altitude of 116 miles, btw.
Yup, but he wasn’t the second man in space, and Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first man in space, that title would go to Joe Kittinger.
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I saw that T-shirt picture the other day, but considered the source and ignored it. Unlike your source, some of us are able to actually apply critical thinking skills to stuff we read on the innernets. I am of course referring to your source getting punked by a site with the banner “News that’s Almost Reliable” claiming that the GOP is outlawing tampons.
So now that we have established his credibility as a news source let’s examine his “facts”. The key phrase is “It was the Democrat Party in the South………………………” According to your source it was southerners responsible for this great evil, yada, yada, yada. I can’t speak for southerners, but I’d be offended by generalizations of this sort. Not mentioned in his pile of prevaricating poop is that it was a southern democrat who forced the legislation through, Lyndon Baines Johnson supported by 7 southern democrats in the House.
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Of course dems favored it 100%
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the “Southern Bloc” of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[10] Said Russell: “We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states.”[11
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#176, WOW, just wow!?!? I know better but this is beyond the pale, FACTS be damned, can you say “obfuscate”?!?!
DAYAAM, you can do better than that. 🙁
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Ummmmmmmmmm, no they didn’t.
The Senate vote was 73 to 27: 46 democrats and 27 republicans voted for it and 21 democrats and 6 republicans voted against it.
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Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies. RIP, Yes I know that he was a RINO.
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As for the first successful vote for cloture since 1923, the vote was 71 – 29 with 44 democrats and 23 republicans voting for it and 23 democrats and 5 republicans against it.
It’s pretty much a matter of public record.
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press conference about the record breaking jump going on now here.
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top speed 833.9 MPH, Mach 1.24
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Men in space is one of those easy to understand concepts that falls apart under scrutiny when applied against standards. Generally speaking the certifying body is the FAI and they set the boundary of space at the Karman Line, about 62 miles. USAF hands out astronaut wings for flights above 50 miles. Yuri Gagarin jumped out of his capsule at around 23 miles.
None of this detracts from the acts of Kittinger or his successors balloonists. Some day I’ll tell you about the fight to have the brave souls aboard Challenger designated as astronauts. There are those in the aerospace community who take this stuff seriously. Baumgartner’s exceeding the sound barrier is a significant achievement and no mean feat.
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Kittinger just said he would like to give a special one fingered salute to all those who said he would fly apart once he crossed the sound barrier.
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#185 Bonecrusher; So much for the “Demon in the Sky” 😉
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Sprinkling rain here in Clear Lake.
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This video demonstrates the shallow nature and lack of respect that the usurper in the WH has for the military. It makes a pretty convincing case of treason by JugEars.
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#187 SD: That demon in the sky is a little “kitten”, standing in the wake of men like Yeager and Baumgartner.
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As a result of today, will those same suits now be standard equipment for all future space travel? If a space vehicle is damaged getting into orbit, we now know that it is highly unlikely to survive re-entry, will what we learned today provide the ultimate bail-out option and prevent loss of life like what happened on the shuttle?
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Yeah but Sheperd did it blindfolded with his hands tied behind his back.
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Hubby is fixing part of our powder bath wall that he had taken out as part of our prep for our next electrical inspection. I had an idea this morning, and he’s going to do it.
Some of you have seen my “Wall of Wit and Wisdom”. We’re adding some blackboard space, so visitors can add their own words, and I can leave messages for my men, too.
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Aggie Beau has arranged a skydiving trip for her.
From 128,000 feet?! 😉
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It must be the football game today. My cable connection is much slower than usual.
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Ah, Shammy messed up my set-up.
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Interesting.
The miners were pulled out of the mine at 11:00 to attend the event without pay. According to Rob Moore – Murray COO/CFO, speaking on the mysterious radio station, “attendance was mandatory but no one was forced” around 6:00 mark.
I can’t speak for the mining industry, but I know what mandatory means in the Navy, aerospace and petroleum industries.
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Shammy, I still think you’re wrong. I believe the miners. It’s their jobs on the line.
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Oh, Shammy.
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Incorrigible is not the word. I can think of a few others, but to get truly creative and completely accurate wording, I can consult Webster’s. Unfortunately, I am actually trying to get some work done here, and the dictionary is not big enough to fit on my desk.
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The Florida State Board of Education sez that black kids are stupid.
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500 lying ass miners sign a letter.
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If the miners signed a letter saying that attendance wasn’t mandatory they would be lying, they haven’t and they aren’t.
If the miners signed a letter that said they were paid whether or not they attended they’d be lying, they weren’t and they aren’t.“attendance was mandatory but no one was forced”
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Why izzit that some PDFs take for-wissin’-ever to print? /silently banging my head on the desk
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I didn’t realize the situation was getting this dire.
“The audience for conservative talk radio is still there,” PATTIZ declared, but noted that the RUSH LIMBAUGH-SANDRA FLUKE controversy was used by MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA and others with a political agenda against talk radio; he recounted how advertisers (many of whom were unaware they were advertising on talk radio at all) were targeted and a “tremendous chunk of advertising revenue… was wiped out.” He said that the result was a loss of revenue for all talk radio, adding that media companies’ debt load is placing “intense” pressure on the creative end of the business. “Those rules are changing” because servicing debt is more important to the business than the quality of the content, PATTIZ said. He criticized the practice of giving programming away online for free or “peanuts,” saying that he is “going to try to do something about it.”
I found this part was particularly interesting
(many of whom were unaware they were advertising on talk radio at all)
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Jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft is not a natural act.
Back in 1987 I was sent to Edwards AFB to test the “Crew Escape Pole” which was a supposed safety escape mechanism that was good for about 5 minutes of the launch window. Anywho, I was there from the end of January until the first of March. This was a joint effort with NASA, the Air force and Navy divers from China Lake. My job was data acquisition for the accelerometers and strain gauges mounted on the pseudo Crew Escape Pole. We flew pretty much every day in a C-141 Starlifter and the Navy guys would tie off to the pole and jump out. There were 6-8 jumpers most under 22 years old, one kid made his 100th jump during this time. One kid had a streamer and pulled his auxiliary chute. But the old timer of the bunch was much older and had been in the navy for almost 30 years, had over 3500 jumps and had at least one altitude record jumping out of a Navy plane at over 35000 feet. Someone asked him why would you would jump out of a perfectly good airplane and he said “if there were a such a thing as a perfectly good airplane, parachutes would never have been invented” 😀
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Man it was humid at the Bayou City Arts Festival. We bailed around 1300 just as it started to rain. A large number and variety of artists. One painting I particularly liked was unfortunately out of my budget. Looked nice though, three lions sleeping in a tree. I’ve got two blank spots in the foyer just waiting for the right piece. I had a Possobon in mind at one time but he never swang back through here. A Mon Seul Desir tapestry from the unicorn collection would be nice on the opposite wall, but I never got back to Brussels to pick one up.
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#220 Shamaal, help me out, the aircraft that the Navy Chief jumped out of at high altitude was a heavy Carrier based Navy Bomber with a crew of 3 or 4 maybe? It had a wind deflector behind the nose gear so that the crew could bail out the bottom. I was thinking that it was an A-5 Vigilante but could it be a Douglas A-3 Skywarrior? I’m not up on Navy planes but I had a buddy that was an Airedale and the plane that the Chief jumped out of was one that was in his squadron when he was based at Sanford Fl.
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My #118, Not wishing to be a Smart A$$ but one of our pilots was “Jackie Parker” the next assignment that she had after our tests was off to Fighter School, she was the first female Air Force Fighter Pilot.
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I’m not sure of the Navy Chief jumping out, but I can tell you what I know about the craft involved, wikipedia provides assistance.
The A5 vigilante had two positions pilot and Bombardier/Navigator – both officers, that ejected upward through the canopy. I only see one enlisted fellow, AE1 Stringer, on the A-5 ejection website. A potential confusion factor is that the A5 started out designated as an A3 until the USAF/Navy reconciliation in 62.
The Navy A3 Skywarrior, we called them whales, did not have ejection seats, you jumped with a parachute out a hatch in the belly, I don’t know if it was through the bomb bay or not, I didn’t pay much attention to the planes other than to keep out of their way on the flight deck. Crew complement depended on role, we flew tankers and cargo so there was two officers and a flight crewman who was enlisted, possibly your chief. There were also black A3 staffed with enlisted crows in the bomb bay. That would be another candidate.
Both planes had heavy squadrons (RVAH XX) in Sanford Florida.
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#223 Thanks, it had to be the Skywarrior, my buddy was in Sanford in the early 60’s and was in Cuba for the Bay of Pigs, served on the Coral Sea & the Enterprise (first nuclear powered carrier). He was with me in Califorina so he knew exactly what the Navy dude was talking about, I had no idea that they had a plane that you could jump out of the bottom. FWIW: It wasn’t a bomb-bay, it was a door that dropped don in the airstream so that you could bail out without being killed.
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I remember Jackie Parker, off to a rough start as I recall.
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Oh and I said Navy Chief, not being a military type, I think that is what he was called, or an E-9, maybe? HELL, he was 40+ years old.
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#225, Yup, I do remember that, one of our guys kept up in touch with her up through the late 1990’s, otherwise I’d never have known about that.
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Anyone from E-7 up is addressed as Chief in casual conversation. Technically they are
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One other thing, I’ve not seen or talked to Jackie Parker for over 25 years and when I knew her she was a Captain I think, 30 something, 5′ 2″ maybe and just as sweet as she could be.
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Texans mojo out for the night, it looks like.
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Bonecrusher, if you’re still about;
Although he broke the sound barrier, the highest manned-balloon flight record and became the man to jump from the highest altitude, he failed to break Kittinger’s 5 minute and 35 second longest free fall record. Baumgartner’s was timed at 4 minutes and 20 seconds in free fall.
He said he opened his parachute at 5,000 feet because that was the plan.
“I was putting everything out there, and hope for the best and if we left one record for Joe – hey, it’s fine,” he said when asked if he intentionally left the record for Kittinger to hold. “We needed Joe Kittinger to help us break his own record and that tells the story of how difficult it was and how smart they were in the 60’s. He is 84 years old, and he is still so bright and intelligent and enthusiastic.”YUP, A Gentleman he is. 😀
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Wait a minute
There are people who take this stuff seriously ?!?A group of scrappy spectators stole the show during a Lingerie Football League match-up between the Saskatoon Sirens and Regina Rage in Canada — with a 25-second clip of the indoor football fisticuffs posted to YouTube on Wednesday.
I understand a statement from the LFL Commissioner’s office will be issued shortly. It is expected to be brief; and possibly edible.
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OMG, these people are serious. I thought this was an advertising gimmick like the Bud Bowl.
Check out the flea flicker at the 30:30 mark.
And the whacko organizations like Focus on Family are whining about teletubbies and gays getting married?
I want to hear Mitt’s position on this. 😉 -
Green Bay wins 42 to 24
Mrs. Shamaal’s ecstatic. She’s still pissed at Dallas from the 60’s. -
Leaving the Bayou City Arts Festival today I was shunted all over downtown due to street closures. Turns out it’s the Our Lady of Fatima Marian Day Procession.
I thought the liberals and gays had put a halt on this religion in the public square stuff.
Just another crack in the alternate universe I guess. -
Congrats to Packers, despite their adversity they came to prove something. Texans players are gonna have to learn to deal with being the hunted, they did not handle it well..
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