They’ve discovered nine new species of tree-dwelling tarantula in Brazil.
I wonder if they could, you know, walk up here if they wanted?
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Last day for early voting. Beat the crowds and vote today. Make sure you hit the right button(s).
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If you are sent to NYC to help restore their electrical grid and are not a union worker, just turn around and go home
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/11/02/report-non-union-utility-crews-turned-away-from-nj-plus-background-on-the-ibew-protection-racket/ -
When I was a kid we lived in Hereford, Tx not for from Amarillo. My mom run up on a black tarantula while making a garden, skeered the heeby jeeby bejabbers out of me. And it ain’t got much better since.
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On his show last night, Mark Levin read I, Pencil My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read
I am a lead pencil—the ordinary wooden pencil familiar to all boys and girls and adults who can read and write
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Just as you cannot trace your family tree back very far, so is it impossible for me to name and explain all my antecedents. But I would like to suggest enough of them to impress upon you the richness and complexity of my background.
My family tree begins with what in fact is a tree, a cedar of straight grain that grows in Northern California and Oregon. Now contemplate all the saws and trucks and rope and the countless other gear used in harvesting and carting the cedar logs to the railroad siding. Think of all the persons and the numberless skills that went into their fabrication: the mining of ore, the making of steel and its refinement into saws, axes, motors; the growing of hemp and bringing it through all the stages to heavy and strong rope; the logging camps with their beds and mess halls, the cookery and the raising of all the foods. Why, untold thousands of persons had a hand in every cup of coffee the loggers drink!
The logs are shipped to a mill in San Leandro, California. Can you imagine the individuals who make flat cars and rails and railroad engines and who construct and install the communication systems incidental thereto? These legions are among my antecedents…..It goes on weaving through the life of a pencil and all the things and people that go into making it.
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Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica ?
Where do they go?
Wonder no more ! ! !
It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an extremely ordered and complex life. The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintain a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.
If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into, and buried.
The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:
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“Freeze a jolly good fellow.”
“Freeze a jolly good fellow.”
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Looks like plantiff’s attorney Mostyn Is getting rich off Hurricane Ike settlements with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. Check out the graph comparing the law firms involved in this type of work. -
#4 GJT, Here’s an oldie where Uncle Miltie tells a very similar pencil story.
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The Logic of Evolution —
“If an infinite number of rednecks riding in an infinite number of pickup trucks fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually produce all the world’s great literary works in Braille.” — Author unknown -
#9 I’ve heard of Tenaha’s antics many times in the past (and don’t get me started on Tulia TX.) It’s good that after years of officially sanctioned highway robbery, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
Without a doubt the most egregious case of asset forfeiture I’ve heard of (many go unreported) was in Detroit. A retired dude didn’t trust banks, and had a safe in his home that contained ~$100K$ in cash. He also had 3 grams of cannabis in the kitchen. He said that brownies helped his back pain. Naturally, the localthugspolice, acting without an investigation, on an unreliable tip from a criminal informant, got a rubber stamped search warrant, and dispatched a heavily armed squad for an early morning raid–On the private home of a 70+ old retiree. They broke down his door, scared his wife half to death, forced him to open the safe, and stole all his cash.
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#9 – WHOA – I’ve actually passed through Tenaha multiple times in the last several years – never saw anything resembling a roadblock or formal check point – I’m usually moving fairly fast through there – guess I’m lucky I never encountered any LEOs
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What’s the big deal? Friday is casual dress day, right?
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The indispensable Dave Wasserman at Cook Political Report has put together a detailed spreadsheet breaking down Virginia absentee voting by county. The bottom line: while, compared with four years ago, absentee voting is off just about 1 percent in generally Republican counties that went fLor John McCain in 2008 , it’s down nearly 14 percent in counties that went for Obama. Wasserman cautions that these numbers don’t necessarily spell doom for Obama. But they are a troubling early indicator.
The most heavily Democratic counties (which even went for John Kerry in 2004 even when he lost the state by a wide margin) have seen an 18 percent drop off compared to four years ago. Of the large counties in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC, which accounted for most of Obama’s margin, absentee voting is way off — 21 percent in Fairfax, for instance, and 20 percent in Arlington. -
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Biden should not receive Communion (emphasis mine)
Bishop Sheridan also indicated that the Church’s “social justice” teachings do not require Catholics to support government welfare programs. “I think we recognize that the government can and should do things for people, especially people who are in great need. But really the obligation is for us as individuals, as Catholics, as believers, to be charitable toward our neighbor.”
Stressing the importance of these issues, Sheridan explained, “It would be very difficult for me to understand how, if there are two candidates quite far apart in their positions on these matters, I could vote for the one who consistently opposes these Church teachings, simply because he might be in favor of a few good things.”
Another bishop speaks out against ObamaThe Catholic snowball rolling downhill against Barack Obama is picking up speed and power in Illinois. A third member of the Roman Catholic clergy in the state has come forward to order his priests to read a letter to parishioners this Sunday explaining that politicians who support abortion rights also reject Jesus.
Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky was firm with his instructions for his priests:
By virtue of your vow of obedience to me as your Bishop, I require that this letter be personally read by each celebrating priest at each Weekend Mass … Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord … They are objectively guilty of grave sin.”Jenky warned his parish that Obama and a majority of U.S. senators would not reconsider the mandate in Obamacare that would require employers, including religious groups, to provide free birth control coverage in their health care plans: “This assault upon our religious freedom is simply without precedent in the American political and legal system.”
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I’m waiting for liberals, who had no problem with black preachers leading prayers from the pulpit for the election of Barack Obama, to start yelling “Separation of Church and State!!” over this audacity.
I remember pulling flyers for a local Democrat candidate off of cars, which were placed there during mass. I was there for a youth car wash and was outside when I noticed two blacks who were not members of our parish walking among the cars in the parking lot. When I saw what they were doing, I got someone to help me strip the cars of the flyers and confronted the couple. I told them “You may be able to do this at your church, but we’ll lose our tax exemption. Don’t do this anymore!” They just shrugged and walked off. We threw away all of their flyers. I’ve always raged at the openness of the campaigning from the pulpit in the black churches. I’ve always felt that other churches were being restrained. I remember when George Bush’s church had a complaint lodged against it, when he got up to give his Christian testimony, having nothing to do with politics.
It’s good to see the religious political monopoly being challenged. Either churches cannot mention politics at all, or all of them can. And we know the black churches won’t be stopped.
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What, no good stories from teaching church youth class this time?
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According to a new study by the liberal group Third Way, pollster assumptions in the swing states may be very, very wrong. While many pollsters — like CBS/NYT/Quinnipiac and PPP, just to name two — assume that the electorate model for Tuesday will be similar to 2008, the Third Way study on partisan registration in eight states shows something very, very different. In each of these states, Democratic registration has trailed that of independents and Republicans by significant amounts — and in six of the eight states, Democratic registration has declined, sometimes dramatically
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I don’t know who these celebrities are and hope I never do.
From American Digest
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#12 Katfish, Checkpoints are not in the mafia’s M.O. It would attract too much attention. Instead they discreetly pull people over for minor violations and proceed to bully them into a vehicle search by threatening incarceration. It doesn’t have to be drugs to give the thieves an excuse. Simply carrying a large sum of cash makes you a potential drug dealer. They need only suspect a connection between your money and any crime to enable them to legally steal it. They don’t have to convict, or even press charges for the “crime” in order to steal and keep your money. Since the majority of asset forfeiture robberies are civil cases, the victims of theft must prevail in a civil lawsuit against the government, and prove that their property was not connected to a crime that they may or may not have even been charged with. Yes, the laws were designed with “guilty until proven innocent” in mind. It’s hard to afford a lawsuit after the government steals your money. And it often takes a class action suit to stop the bandits with badges, as it did in this instance.
Also, your chances of making it through town with your basic civil liberties intact are far greater if you’re old and white. But a pony tail might trigger their attention, so it would be a good idea to tuck that bad boy under your hat when you’re passing through. -
#17 Shannon
What, no good stories from teaching church youth class this time?
I was running all day yesterday, from 5:00 am (well, 5:20, because I overslept a bit) all the way to last night around midnight. I did stop for about 20 minutes of shut eye before I went to mass last night, because I was about to drop on my feet.
As far as class goes, I am really, really enjoying this class this year. I have not one, but TWO students that are standing out. Usually, there’s just one. All of them are, for the most part, behaving well. Since it was Halloween, some of them didn’t show, which was expected, but I was pleasantly surprised by the number that did attend. We had a good class, one of my assistants brought candy for the kids, and I of course, threw the candy during the class, as per usual. It wasn’t until after the class was over that I was told that one of the kids had brought me some doughnuts. I’ve never had a student bring me “candy” for Halloween before! How sweet.
There’s a table full of boys that sit at the front of the room, and they tend to talk. I threw markers at them twice, and then my bouncer went and sat close to them, making it obvious why he was there. In the middle of a sentence, I noticed one of the boys moving his stuff to another table. “Moving someone?” I asked the bouncer. “Yes, ma’am,” he said. The talking stopped. I love my helpers!
Toward the end of class, we got into a discussion of the Shroud of Turin. Boy Wonder of the class had actually heard about the 3D imaging from the shroud. I wish I could find that last book I bought on the topic – I learned a lot from it, and I’d like to share it with him. -
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There will be a poll taken next Tuesday that will settle the issue and hopefully let the talking heads take a much needed vacation for us.
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I took my Momma shopping yesterday. It’s so hard to get her out of her room, and I was tickled pink when I arrived. I was running a bit late, as I had to get something for Hubby on my way to her nursing home. I walked by her room so I could sign her out, and she was in her chair, in the doorway, with her purse in her lap and her engine revving. I tried very hard not to rush the shopping; that’s one reason she prefers to go with another of my sisters. I’m always thinking about what I have to do next and she likes to take her time. I can understand – being confined to half of a room would be impossible for me to tolerate, and even though she refuses to budge from her bed, I can only imagine how liberating it is to escape for a while.
I only wanted to strangle her three times while we were shopping. The blessings of her being almost blind and deaf is that I can “air strangle” above her head or mumble to myself and she doesn’t know. Then I can smile and continue discussing the pros and cons of laxatives with her as we truck around the store. -
From Shannon’s #9
Barry Washington, the deputy city marshal who made the stop, took $6,160 as well as two vehicles — one Rivera was driving and another he was towing — on the premise that Rivera, 30, and his companion were in possession of a criminal instrument, records show.
Krowski said the charge was based on the unproven notion that the vehicle Rivera was towing, a Volkswagen beetle, had a secret compartment.
Washington, a former Texas state trooper, testified in his deposition that he believed all the stops were legitimate and that God had directed him to disrupt drug trafficking on U.S. Highway 59.Are you kidding me ?!
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#2 EG: I just heard Gallagher on am 1070 speak that very issue. This is yet another albatross that needs to be hung around the neck of the D-terdnozzles politicians.
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Mia Love leads incumbent Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) by double digits in the race to represent Utah’s newly drawn 4th congressional district, according to a new poll.
Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, is ahead of Matheson 52-40 percent in a Salt Lake Tribune poll released overnight. The two candidates have been locked in a hotly contested and expensive contest that comes with a price tag of at least $10 million. Earlier polls indicated that the race looked to be a nail-biter.That’s after data showing 9% of the Republicans crossing over to vote for the Democrat.
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Notable military endorsements:
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There will be a poll taken next Tuesday that will settle the issue and hopefully let the talking heads take a much needed vacation for us.
And us take a much needed vacation from them.
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We all know that George Lucas made big bucks selling his empire to Disney. It appears that he did so to avoid the outrageous tax bite that is coming 01Jan2013. Perhaps RMoney will be able to browbeat the senate, should it remain in D hands, to remove that burden from the economy.
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…and hopefully let the talking heads take a much needed vacation for us.
Fat chance. They’ll spend the next four years trying to figure out how all the pollsters got things so terribly wrong. They’ll also parade out the usual race hustlers angrily announcing that the election proved how racist America really is for not re-electing the first black president.
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…and hopefully let the talking heads take a much needed vacation for us.
They will spend all their energy blathering on about how the election was stolen and that the Romney presidency is illegitimate, the same thing they did to Bush for 8 friggen years.
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…and hopefully let the talking heads take a much needed vacation for us.
They can’t just stop talking. Then they’ll just be…heads. And heads roll.
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I will never, ever forget turning on the TV to see Peter Jennings telling the nation they just had a hissy-fit like a bunch of 2 year olds after the election in 1994.
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I will never, ever forget hearing Peter Jennings reporting on 9/11, making the snide comment after reporting that President Bush was “in a plane, somewhere over the United States”: “Well, I guess everyone has to be somewhere.”
I will never forgive him for making that comment. Bush wasn’t being cowardly. The president is required to be in a plane, safe, where he can gather information and give orders, in times of catastrophe like that. I don’t think the Secret Service gave him much of an option. -
CNN is in full spin mode with the new unemployment numbers:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Sometimes, an increase in the unemployment rate is good news for the economy. October was one of those months.
The rise, to 7.9% from 7.8% in September, was due to more people entering the job market. Many of those who had stopped searching for work were encouraged enough by the economy to start looking once again.It’s only good news for the economy if those people that start looking for jobs again actually find jobs.
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Saw yesterday where the Las Vegas newspaper editorial ripped Obama a new one.
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the new unemployment numbers:
These figures do not include New York or New Jersey. There will be a surprise upwasd adjustment in a couple of days.
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Did you know that firearms can act on their own?
“It is very important to us to tax guns because we know that guns are the sources of the incredible violence we have in our neighborhoods,” Cook County (Chicago) Board President Toni Preckwinkle told a news conference. She said 29 percent of guns used in crimes in Chicago were purchased legally in suburban Cook County.
I didn’t know that the guns are the source of the problem; silly me thought that people were.
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Don’t feel alone, Simple Simon. This girl’s tired of Bronco Bamma and Mitt Romney too.
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Was thinking about the Democrats ad starring a college girl who says voting for president is like a girl losing her virginity. She says it must be with someone special who understands women.
Anybody who needs eight years to turn things around doesn’t understand women.
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Helicopter gunner with sense of humor. (Be sure to read the caption under the photo.)
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Ain’t nobody understands wimmins.
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The rise, to 7.9% from 7.8% in September, was due to more people entering the job market. Many of those who had stopped searching for work were encouraged enough by the economy to start looking once again.
How many are not being counted because they have exhausted their unemployment benefits and have fallen through the cracks? What are the first time jobless claims?
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I don’t know the name of Barry’s FEMA dude in NYC is, but he’s doing a heckuva job.
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43 wagonburner says:
Ain’t nobody understands wimmins.Back in the 1950’s the lie of the year contest winner went to “Once there was a man that understood women.”
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Breaking news. New element discovered
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#42 OTL: I just sent that link to my Brother in Law who was a door gunner in Viet Nam.
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#46 – But NO mention of the desperate straits folks are in out on Staten Island?
BloomBURGLAR seems to think there are plenty of massive generators to make sure the ding dang NYC Marathon goes on as planned while Staten Island languishes in the cold & darkness?
Staten Island pleads for help: “We are going to die!”The good news is that New York City has the generators that could help. The bad news? They’re already assigned to a much more critical task than saving the lives of 90-year-old people:
As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24/7 in Central Park — to juice a media tent for Sunday’s New York City Marathon.
And a third “backup” unit sits idle, in case one of the generators fails.
The three diesel-powered generators crank out 800 kilowatts — enough to power 400 homes in ravaged areas like Staten Island, the Rockaways and downtown Manhattan.
If you’re wondering why New York City is still holding the annual marathon, it’s because Mayor Michael Bloomberg insists that the show must go on:
Mayor Bloomberg today insisted the New York City Marathon should go on as scheduled, even as huge swaths of Gotham remain in ruins and with no electricity. -
The coercive truth about Bobo and his Dick Nazi friends:
In the area of marriage and family, there is no doubt but that the increasing proliferation of so-called non-discrimination laws, civil unions, and same-sex marriage has resulted in the denial of religious liberty. Just ask Catholic Charities, which, since 2006, has chosen to get out of the adoption business in Boston, Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Illinois rather than be forced to place children with same-sex parents as required by the laws of those jurisdictions.
In New Mexico, a husband and wife photography business was fined over $6,600 for refusing, on religious grounds, to photograph a lesbian commitment ceremony. Although New Mexico has neither same-sex marriage nor civil unions, the state’s Human Rights Commission held that the couple violated the state’s non-discrimination laws that cover sexual orientation, and refused even to consider the couple’s religious liberty claims. That case is currently at the New Mexico Supreme Court after losing in two lower courts, and I’m hopeful that ADF is going to pull out a victory there.
In New Jersey, a United Methodist facility known as Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association was similarly charged with violating the state’s non-discrimination laws for refusing to host a civil union ceremony in its beachfront pavilion in 2007. That case is still ongoing, but part of a state tax exemption was also revoked from the facility for its action. Take note of the tax exemption issue. If same-sex marriage becomes the law of the land by edict of the Supreme Court next year, watch to see what happens down the road to the 501(c)(3) exemptions of those organizations whose beliefs and practices contradict the new reality.
In Vermont, Illinois, Hawaii and elsewhere, bed and breakfast inns run by people of faith have been targeted for discrimination complaints and lawsuits because the owners have refused to rent rooms or facilities for civil union or same-sex marriage events. -
Testing a cat for water resistance commercial. This is better than any Superbowl commercial ever made.
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Angry cat.
Priceless!
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Rush just played audio of Biden
“There has never been a single day in the last 4 years that I have been proud to be Obama’s vice president.”
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Stay classy, Connecticut:
Angry residents pelted utility crews with eggs as they tried to restore power in Bridgeport, Conn., after the mayor claimed the local power company had “shortchanged” the state’s largest city as it tries to recover from superstorm Sandy.
United Illuminating workers reported eggs and other objects being thrown at them a day after Mayor Bill Finch said the utility was taking care of wealthy suburbs while his constituents suffered. The unrest caused United Illuminating to pull its workers out until the city agreed to provide police protection.
“Citizens began throwing things at the crews,” Michael West, a spokesman for United Illuminating, told FoxNews.com. “It started to get pretty hairy. They did not feel safe.”In my barrio, we brought the utility crews water, gatorade, food, etc. when they were here helping us after Ike. I’m sure it was similar throughout the Houston area. It never would have occurred to me that someone would start throwing eggs at the very people trying to help us.
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#6 #7 Shannon
Thanks for looking into my question last night about Texans for Lawsuit Reform. From your link, “Steve Mostyn, a major Democratic donor” seems like a strange bedfellow for a talker on a predominantly right-wing radio staion like KNTH 1070. But if you go to KNTH Sunday schedule and click on the Mark McCaig Show, it takes you straight to
http://www.stoptlr.com/ which proclaimsThe Most Powerful Political Group in Texas Has Become
a Danger to the Conservative Cause!with headlines like:
TLR Throws Even More Money At Democrats
November 2nd, 2012, by Mark McCaigSo McCaig works for Mostyn, a Democrat donor, but criticizes TLR as a Democrat donor? Something doesn’t add up or smell right.
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The rest of the story on instapundit. Don’t call us we’ll call you – Bloomberg
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#58 Hammy
It never would have occurred to me that someone would start throwing eggs at the very people trying to help us.
Those wascally vunnables and their sense of entitlement, ya just never know when they will up an’ riot, burn down the housing project they live in, or shoot at firemen trying to save the burning project.
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#60TexCan
Those middle class people stuck on Staten Island don’t seem very self-sufficient either. Some that died there were probably in the mandatory storm-surge evacuation zone. Why are these people b!tching about needing food and water, didn’t they know how to stock up before the storm? Hurricane Sandy was heading their way for a week before it hit. To the woman whose house came apart: You were apprehensive enough to head for higher ground before the storm hit, but didn’t take your irreplaceable treasures with you?
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#63 Mharper
Sympathy, yes, but there are lessons to be learned from these disasters.
Specifically, that ultimately we are all responsible for ourselves, and we can depend on no one else. If there is someone else to help us in times of trouble, great But preparations should be made as if no one will be there.
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Got this in an email from Lovely Daughter:
You know what they say… Kids say the darndest things. As a parent, I am reminded of that daily. Like when Noah last week said, “If there was ever a monster under my bed, I would just grab it and squeeze the poop out of him until he left.”
Ummm…
Anyway, in an attempt to feel like a normal parent, I asked you on the SDL Facebook Page what the funniest thing was that you’ve ever heard a kid say. Here are a few of your answers.
“Mom,…did you know that S#*T is poop?”…with a very puzzled look. 🙂 LOL
“Daddy, when I get big I guess I’m just going to have my babies on the floor because I don’t know where the hospital is.”
When I had my oldest at the doctors for her first visit there was a little girl about 4 years old also in the office. She came over to see the baby with her mother. She asked her mother if they could go get a baby. Her mother asked “where could we go to get a baby?” to which the little girl thought for a moment and then, you could see the light bulb light up I swear, she exclaims “Wal Mart! You can get anything at Wal Mart!”
We were driving down the road and siren’s passed us. My then 3 year old son said “Either someone is hurt or the President is in town.”After having given birth three days prior, we were standing in the Costco checkout when my 5 year old suddenly blurts out “Mommy, how’s your vagina feeling today?”. I burst out laughing, but the checkout woman turned bright red.
9 year old daughter fooling around on her crutches and fell on her face. she jumped up, embarrassed, and says “I guess this conclusively proves that i cannot fly.”
My four year old daughter to the cashier, “Did you know that Daddy is Mommy’s cousin?” A quick whisper of ‘husband’ cleared up the situation, but I wanted to DIE! lol
My2 year old son: “UGH, this stupid seat belt!!” My 4 year old daughter: “you kiss your mother with that mouth??”
When I was a kid we had a shortage of little girls to be “flower girl” in weddings in our family, so my parents more or less volunteered me for a few of the ceremonies. At one wedding, I was all dressed up and holding my basket of flowers- more or less waiting for my cue when the wedding coordinator came up and began to try to go through what I was supposed to do. I held my hand up to her and said “Back off lady, I’m a professional.” My mom was fighting back the laughter.
My son was playing with his newly discovered manhood in the bath once and excitedly said “mommy I have an apple! No, I have TWO apples!”
We took my 2 year old niece to the grocery store. She was SO excited to see the new Ritz Bits crackers she had seen in a commercial. Unfortunately, the words that she uttered LOUDLY and repeatedly were not Ritz Bits but ‘Rich B*tch, Rich B*tch!’
A car cut a friend off as we were driving down the street and he said, “Jesus Christ!!” My son, about 4 at the time, sat straight up looking all around asking, “WHERE??WHERE??” We still laugh about that! My baby is 17 now!
My then three year old Blake charged over to his Grandpa, who was falling asleep in his recliner and exclaimed, “Grampa, don’t give up!”
I told my 2 year old daughter one morning after breakfast that she smelled like bananas. She took a long thoughtful sniff of me and said, “Mommy, you smell like a unicorn.” Best compliment of my life.
My son, at 3, asked me if his penis would get bigger. i told him that yes, as his body grew, his penis would also. he said, very matter-of-factly, “Yay.” and i nearly fell out of my chair laughing.
We fostered two children, one for 14 months and the other for 22 months. After they returned home, we had new neighbors who asked our 5 year old son if he had any brothers and sisters and he said, “Yes, but we selled them.”
My 4 year old sang “Jimmy crapped corn” for the longest time.
My three year old was in line for the bathroom at the fair and she yelled at the top of her lungs “oh no! There was a tsunami in my underpants!!!”
In the room with all the moms and dads and kids right before going on stage for the children’s church Christmas pageant, referencing the movie “Space Balls”…right when the whole room got silent for the prayer… my 4 year old son said “I’m surrounded by A$$holes!”
My 4 year old Ewan said “me and daddy stand up to wee but mummies and girls sit down so they can text on their phones.”
5 year old son, “when will Daddy be home?” Me, “I don’t know.” Son, “google it!”
When my three year old was asked if she and her twin brother were identical, she replied, “No, my brother has a penis.”
My daughter (4) to my son (3) “Don’t touch your penis!” My son’s reply “I have too. That’s how it gets its power!”
4 year old Jaidyn: “Diarrhea? Is that like when you think you have to fart, but you accidentally poop your pants instead?”
4 year old nephew “Mommy, come look at my pooh! It’s green like your eyes!”
I’m a K-5 music teacher, and recently had triplets! After Christmas break, I decided to share my news with students. I told my third graders that I was have triplets, three babies. I had one little boy seem really confused by the whole idea. He came over and said, “three!? Where ya getting the other two?!” I told him that all three were in my belly. He sat down, slapped his hand on his forehead and sighed, “People can fit three in there? Holy cow!”
My son who is 4 said he was getting a Prius. My 5 year old said “brother you can’t drive! Why do u need a car?”, he responded with…”well mom doesn’t know how to drive either and she has a car!!!”.
I forgot to buy milk for about two days every time I was out…on day 3 I remembered,put it in the fridge…i guess my little 5yr girl was impressed..that night she opened the fridge and shrieked “jesus christ we have milk” she is almost 15 and we still laugh about it.
Easter of 2010 we told my little guy that after his nap we were going to have an easter egg hunt and he said, “I get the Shot Gun”.
When someone told my 4 year old he was so cute then asked if she could take him home he responded witha huge smile “Do you live by McDonalds?” -
#63 & #64 – Although I’m confident there are “some” folks that were unprepared – what could someone that DID “stock up” do if the entire home where they stockpiled supplies is now washed away?
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#55 Wagonburner, Shannon is not a bigot. He’s just easily misled, and tends to paint broadly.
The coercive truth about Bobo and his Dick Nazi friends:
Not too surprisingly, I’m more familiar with his examples than he is.
Catholic Charities was not at all forced to do anything. They are no longer able to fund ~40% of their bigotry with tax payer dollars. If Catholics had given as much to that charity as they did CA’s Prop 8 propaganda advertising, they could fully fund CC for several years in those four sites. Religious freedom gives people the right to value politics over people, but it gives no one the special right to public funding.
I remember commenting about the next example Shannon offers back on LST. My opinion hasn’t changed. I think the New Mexico small business regulations are excessive across the board, and that the state agency exceeded their authoritah. So here we agree. The instance Shannon mentions would have been different had the business backed out of a signed contract, but that was not the case.
Which brings us to New Jersey (btw, this case is no longer “ongoing.”) Years ago the Methodists wanted to rent out their Ocean Grove facility to the public, for profit, but also wanted special tax treatments.In his written decision, Judge Solomon A. Metzger of the Office of Administrative Law found that in March 2007, when Paster and Bernstein filled out a reservation form, the pavilion was a public accommodation. The judge determined that the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association breached its agreement to make the pavilion available to the public on an equal basis. The association was also required to make the pavilion public in exchange for a state tax exemption it received that requires equal access on a non-discriminatory basis. Metzger also noted that while the association is free to practice its mission without government oversight, it had never attached any religious ministry to the wedding venue until it received Paster and Bernstein’s application.
If they want to practice faith based bigotry in determining who they will or will not lease their property to, they are free to do so. Treating that investment property like any other in regard to taxes does not affect their religious freedom one bit.
If the Bob Newhart show was still on the air, I wonder how they would treat this one. 🙂In Vermont, Illinois, Hawaii and elsewhere, bed and breakfast inns run by people of faith have been targeted for discrimination complaints and lawsuits because the owners have refused to rent rooms or facilities for civil union or same-sex marriage events.
Let me put it like this:
In Vermont, Illinois, Hawaii and elsewhere, bed and breakfast inns run by people of faith have been targeted for discrimination complaints and lawsuits because the owners have refused to rent rooms or facilities for interracial marriage events. -
Man, the president’s media toadies are really trying hard. Some of the polls out today have the LLMD ahead considerably more than all previous polls in the last couple of weeks. Why? They’re based on a Democrat turnout higher than in 2008.
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Boy, you’re rolling out all of your idiotic straw men this week trying to defend the Cult Bobolicious Dick Nazi Tallywacker Troopers.
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#66 Katfish
Life and storms are unpredictable. That said, if I lived in the mandatory evacuation zone, I would not stockpile there and stay there. -
#69 (heh…)
Even Cindy and Tracie would laugh at that litany of irrational delusional alliterative ilogic. Good job. Maybe you could write for Limbaugh. -
When my rabbi cancels Shabbot services, you know things are serious up here.
I drove to his house early this morning to make sure he was okay, but he wasn’t home and there was no power in the whole end of the town he lives in. There’s no power or heat at our synagogue either.
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faith based bigotry
you are a dick nazi crap eating dog. Do the phrases “freedom of association” and “private business” mean anything to you, how about “freedom to freely practice their faith as one sees fit”? If the government tells me that I have to do something that my well documented faith prohibits, like condoning dick-nazism for example, this violates my freedom to practice my faith and associate with those of my choice. The gov’t is forcing its will and those of the vocal minority on me – how the wiss is that not simply gross bigotry on the other side?
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Let’s escape Tallywacker Trooper’s heterophobic authoritarian rants for a bit and listen to Emmylou and Sam Bush sing a little Gram Parsons/Chris Hillman.
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Dear Bonecrusher,
Nowhere amid your latest childish potty mouthed insulting arrogant self righteous rant is found any evidence that you or anyone else has had their religious freedom taken away. Grow up.
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RE: Power and generators on Staten Island
Three gensets rated to 800 KW are not going to really help in this situation. You can’t hookup to the distribution system and all of the sudden light up 400 houses. The most dangerous thing would be to electrify miles of downed cable. People would be electrocuted by the score.
Truckloads of small generators and clean fuel would be the best thing, but think of the logistics. How are you going to keep track of them ?
How do you get them back ?
How do you keep the Bonnano and Gambino families from stealing and reselling the generators ?
People will need miles and miles of extension cords and, most of all, instruction on how to use the gensets without suffocating themselves with carbon monoxide.
Setting up temporary shelters as has been done in Haiti, Central America and Southeast Asia with beds, showers, heating, clean clothing, medical attention and food is really the best solution in the short term.
They should enforce an absolute evacuation to shelters at that point.
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How ’bout Sam Bush singing WAR
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#70 –
Life and storms are unpredictable
100% agreed – and also why I say HELP first / scold later
NONE of us knows what we did not know until we learned…………… -
#76 – wise words Brother!
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Lets take a trip around Texas.
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And I dreamed of a rose in a Spanish garden
And I kissed you as I placed it in your hair
And if I’m ever on my feet again I will
I will run all the way just to meet you there
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And then up the road to
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Life and storms are unpredictable
When in doubt, learn.
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The horrors that are escalating in NY and NJ appear to be on course to make Katrina look second rate regarding the sheer numbers of humans suffering and property destruction. Where are the governors? National Guard? Choke collars for the unions that are making things orders of magnitude worse? FEMA is AWOL mentally as well as physically apparently. And what a contrast with Texas and other states offering shelter and aid to tens of thousands fleeing Katrina’s rage.
Please keep us informed, Texpat.
Must conclude that voter turnout in Sandy’s sphere of desctruction will be smaller than otherwise anticipated in normal conditions. Sandy was an October surprise if not the October surprise that nobody planned. -
Ms Shannon knows that when Emmylou calls, I’ll have to go.
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It’s Bush’s fault ’cause he hates Yankees.
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I don’t wanna hear a love song
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The young Rodney Crowell in #94 reminded me of this song. It’s like it was written for our HNP.
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But I ain’t gonna quit until I’m laid in my tomb
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Breaking news…
Under an avalanche of criticism, Mikey Bloomberg just canceled the NYC Marathon.
and in more interesting news,
Open carry law for Oklahomans went into effect yesterday.
No statistics available available for how many Okies shot themselves in the ear trying to answer their smartphones. -
#75 bob42
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#89 Shannon
I saw Emmylou on an episode of Cesar Milan’s Dog Whisperer a couple of years ago. He went out to her place in the country and she was walking around in a tight T-shirt, Daisy Duke cutoffs and no makeup.
Ahem…just wow.
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Would love to have been within earshot of Bloomberg’s office when nixing the marathon was being discussed. What a tone deaf idiot he is. When is he up for re-election? Does New York not have some tar, feathers, and a few rails lying around? Good grief.
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102 Adee
I guess someone with half a brain informed the mayor that all available resources should be dispatched to storm recovery and safety. And if there is anyone or anything leftover, they should be offered to other affected communities.
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#102 Adee
The only big name egging on Bloomberg to have the marathon was Giuliani. Rudy ran the NYC Marathon two months after 9/11, but I think the circumstances were a bit different then.
The heat coming down on Bloomberg was tremendous and I suspect the worst of it was from sources we’ll never see such as his own NYPD and NYFD. -
Well, I’ve played the music halls and bars,
Had fancy clothes and big fine cars:
Things a country boy can’t use,
Dixieland I sure miss you.
Got the Highway Forty blues. -
Bonnie plays the green pill bottle slide as she and John Lee sing I’m In the Mood.
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Thank heavens somebody got through his thick skull. Maybe he should take a stress pill and wash it down with original-formula Coke. 🙂
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Lousiana Ladies, wild und schön,
lassen keinen Mann, lassen kein Glas stehn!
Lousiana Ladies, schön und wild,
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Wass nichts der denn?
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Schweinhund!
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pig dog?
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So NBC is broadcasting a benefit concert with all the lefty stars. Funny, I don’t remember one ever happening after Ike. Don’t remember one ever happening in 2004 when Florida got struck by four major hurricanes. Don’t remember one ever happening in 2005 for Hurricanes Rita and Wilma.
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In 1969 pigdog was the worst insult. -
Would it re-animate the blog if I started posting pictures of Michelle’s Little Eye?
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Happy vision for the evening, it is Jan 21, 2013 and Bronco Bama is no longer president and Harry Reid is no longer Senate Majority leader.
Nite all. -
Late Nite not with that Der Obummhurer propagandist Daveed Letterman.
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Watching Fox….
Senators Graham and Chambliss obtain access to the Benghazi suspect being held in Tunisia.
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Good late evening Hamsters. It appears everyone is off doing something else tonight so I’ll say g’night.
But it is most interesting that Sens. Graham and Chambliss are able to contact the Benghazi suspect in custody in Tunisia when the entire Executive Branch has fumbled blindly around in grand incompetence. Can bet that a Romney administration will not let the investigation wither. -
Does everyone here have a flush toilet? The ACS Community survey wants to know.
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I was unaware the American Cheese Society needed toilets.
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The American Cheese Society needs cheese.
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I once had a straight flush.
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#122 – Dang man you out on a job site?
preppin and packin up here to go welcome another new young HERO into the BACA family……………….
Happy Satiddy Yall! -
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No. The old ticker woke me up.
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