I treated myself to a craft book at Half Price Books the other day, and I opened it up to begin reading the first chapter, which was a history of needlework. The authoress, Kate Welsh, started out her “not your mama’s stitching” with an interesting question:
What Upper Paleolithic invention arguably enabled humans to conquer the earth?
Thinking about human domination in general, my first thoughts were things like “the wheel,” “metals,” “fire,” etc. Nope, she says, the answer may very well be — string.
String (not just sinew) allowed these humans to develop from a nomadic to agricultural society because it had so many uses. They could make snares and nets out of string, allowing them to “hunt” from afar. It enabled them to develop tools like the bow and arrow. String could lash together poles to make rafts or shelter. They learned to fish. Using string for hunting was a force multiplier in their efforts to gather food.
Even better, string would be woven to make fabric, allowing them to make lightweight containers for carrying food or other items, and for storage. They were able to hoard food, allowing them to survive lean times. (Although they could make rawhide bags with hide and sinew as well, though the leather bags would be heavier than the fabric bags.) They could make slings to hold babies, allowing the mothers to have both hands free for activities like, say, berry picking..
I found it an interesting topic for musing. What kind of man (or woman) in 40,000 B.C. was the first to look at a plant and think “I MUST take the leaves off that thing and strip the fibers out of it, then twist them together into one long string, and then tie stuff together with it!” I look at a plant and say “ooh, how pretty” or “oh, crap, a caterpillar!” And what other items that we take for granted today would have been just as important?
It is the small things that allow us to be the top of the food chain today. We owe our current level of existence to someone who could look past the greenery to see the cordage.
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I can’t sleep firsties
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Mankind is fortunate it wasn’t me who preceded them, we’d still be running around nekkid pooping in the woods.
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Mankind is unfortunate it wasn’t me who preceded them, we’d be running around in Speedos pooping in the woods.
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Gotta take my Mom in Houston here in about an hour. She has to get a dopplar study on her aorta. I’d appreciate a prayer for her if y’all would. This has been an ongoing concern for a couple years and at her age…….well ya know.
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“Quest for Fire”
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I look at a plant and say “ooh, how pretty”
that’s on account of yer a wimmin.
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You got it Squawkster, prayers on the way.
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Prayers up Squawkie.
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Squawkster kneemail is UP! (for you having to commute also Pahdnah)
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Prayers for squack-mommy
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Y’all don’t fergit, Duck Dynasty Christmas special tonight ! ‘Tis the season, be jovial !
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#11 – I know a lot of folks that tell me I “must” watch that show – I’ve tried………….just aint funny at this desk
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#4: Kneemail up.
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re: O/C topic: The first string was vines. I think when the vines started to dry they found fibers and started looking at other plants that may have fibers and then they found flax. In there somewhere they started to spin animal hair into yarn.
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Note to self: DO NOT hire French construction company to do anything.
HEADLINE: 18th-century French chateau razed ‘by mistake’
PARIS (AP) — Residents of a sleepy French village in Bordeaux have been left dumbfounded after discovering their local 18th-century chateau was completely bulldozed “by mistake.”
The mayor’s office in Yvrac said Wednesday that workers who were hired to renovate the grand 13,000-square-meter (140,000-square-foot) manor and raze a small building on the same estate in southwest France mixed them up. -
texpat needs to head on over to this place on Route 71 in Spring Lake Heights.
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Good morning Hamsters. A prayer for Squawkie’s Mom and one for her loved ones.
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Pinellas County school locked down because a student threatened to take temperature readings.
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#18 – holeeeeeSCHMIDT (you forgot to say “we are DOOMED” if THAT is any semblance of a wissin priority?)
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There’s nothing unusual here.
I always use nitroglycerin to light the Chanukkah menorah.
From Technion University, the center of the universe for Geekdom in Israel.
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Prayers for your Mom, Squawk.
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#18 WB
I think the guys are going over there just to meet the owner. There are not many natural blondes around here or ones that pretty. Jersey is the world capital for really bad blonde dye jobs. -
really bad blonde dye jobs
and orange spray tans
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#22 – The burning question at this desk is:
“Does the inventor of the game ‘Mousetrap’ get any royalties?” 🙂 -
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Kneemail up for yo momma, Squawk.
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Obama hates the poor.
Fiscal cliff impact on Texas state budget:
Title 1 grants to schools … $100.8 million… 1,386 education jobs lost; 254,704 fewer students served; 422 fewer schools receive grants
Special education grants … $80.7 million… 974 jobs no longer supported by federal funding
Head Start … $43.8 million… 1,463 Head Start jobs lost and 7,022 fewer children served
Child care and development block grant … $18.9 million 6,580 fewer children receive child care subsidies
Improving teacher quality state grants … $18.5 million… 19,518 fewer teachers, serving 284,182 students receive professional development
State grants for career, technical education … $11.5 million… 155,876 fewer students receive education and skills for high-demand jobs
Substance abuse prevention/treatment … $10.5 million… 4,893 fewer admissions to treatment programs -
#29 Shannon
I recently saw a video on how the tax system hurts the poor the most – I’ll have to rummage around and see if I can find it. I think it’s a Bill Whittle Afterburner….
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Best quote of the week:
A woman called into Mark Levin’s show last night and suggested we call Boehner and tell him to ask Pelosi if he can borrow a testicle since he doesn’t seem to have any of his own. -
Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more
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I’d love to change the world
But I don’t know what to doBuy ’em a Coke.
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Mao says: “Two words: ‘concentration camps’ “
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Best line I’ve seen today:
Krauthammer: ‘Easy to win elections when you give away candy that you borrowed from the Chinese’ -
Buy ‘em a Coke.
I don’t want to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
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Why do we insist on treating the Egyptians as a civilized people (in the western sense) when they behave like this?
HEADLINE: ‘Men don’t have to worry about being caught’: Sex mobs target Egypt’s women
Updated at 7:48 a.m. ET: CAIRO – Walaa Al Momtaz doesn’t leave her home for up to five days at a time. The neatly veiled 22-year-old misses her friends at City University, where she studies English and German, but what she faces upon leaving her house defeats her.
Men and boys constantly harass and threaten Al Momtaz on the bus, on the street and at the university.
“Every day men talk to me in a bad way, laugh at me and say things about what I am wearing,” she told NBC News. On a recent bus trip, a man stuck his hand through a gap in the seat to touch her.
Al Momtaz has gotten off relatively lightly.
On Nov 25, Al-Ahram state newspaper reported three women were sexually assaulted during anti-Morsi demonstrations by hundreds of men.Expecting rational civilized behavior from this bunch requires an active suspension of disbelief.
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G’Morning All
Prayers to you Squawk.
Big win for the good guys
Short Version:Texans assault Mexican garrison at Béxar
December 05, 1835
On this day in 1835, the Texas revolutionary army began its assault on the Mexican garrison at San Antonio de Béxar. Ben Milam and William Gordon Cooke gathered more than 300 volunteers to attack the town in two columns, while Edward Burleson and another 400 men forced Mexican general Martín Perfecto de Cos to keep his 570 men divided between the town and the Alamo. The battle ended with the surrender of the Mexican army on December 9. Texas casualties numbered 30 to 35, while Mexican losses totaled about 150; the difference reflected in part the greater accuracy of the Texans’ rifles. Most of the Texas volunteers went home after the battle, which left San Antonio and all of Texas under their control. -
Big win for the good guys
Detailed Version:The siege of Bexar (San Antonio) became the first major campaign of the Texas Revolution. From October until early December 1835 an army of Texan volunteers laid siege to a Mexican army in San Antonio de Béxar. After a Texas force drove off Mexican troops at Gonzales on October 2, the Texan army grew to 300 men and elected Stephen F. Austin commander to bring unity out of discord. The Texans advanced on October 12 toward San Antonio, where Gen. Martín Perfecto de Cos recently had concentrated Mexican forces numbering 650 men. Cos fortified the town plazas west of the San Antonio River and the Alamo, a former mission east of the stream.
By the time the Texans camped along Salado Creek east of San Antonio in mid-October their numbers had grown to over 400 men, including James Bowie and Juan N. Seguín,qqv who brought with him a company of Mexican Texans. Bowie and James W. Fannin, Jr., led an advance to the missions below San Antonio in late October, while Cos brought in 100 reinforcement men. On October 25 the democratic Texans conducted a debate over strategy. Sam Houston, who had come from the Consultation government, urged delay for training and for cannons to bombard the fortifications. Austin and others won support to continue efforts at capturing San Antonio.
From San Francisco de la Espada Mission on October 27, Austin sent Bowie and Fannin forward to Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña Mission with ninety men to locate a position nearer the town for the army. There on the foggy morning of the twenty-eighth Cos sent Col. Domingo de Ugartechea with 275 men to attack the advance force. The Texans drove off the assault from a position along the bank of the San Antonio River, inflicting over fifty casualties and capturing one cannon. Austin arrived after the battle of Concepción to urge an attack on San Antonio but found little support among his officers.
Cos then resumed defensive positions in San Antonio and the Alamo, while the Texans established camps on the river above and below the town and grew to an army of 600 with reinforcements from East Texas led by Thomas J. Rusk. After discussion among the Texan officers produced little support for an attack, some volunteers went home for winter clothes and equipment. Yet the arrival of more East Texans in early November offset the departures.
Texas and Mexican cavalry skirmished from time to time as the Texans scouted to capture Mexican supplies and to warn of any reinforcements for Cos. After a lack of early success, William Barret Travis led the capture of 300 Mexican mules and horses grazing beyond the Medina River on November 8. Four days later Ugartechea left San Antonio with a small cavalry force to direct the march of reinforcements from below the Rio Grande. Austin sent cavalry to intercept him, but the Mexican troops evaded them. Both armies suffered morale problems as a result of colder weather and limited supplies.
When three companies with over a hundred men arrived from the United States in mid-November, Austin again planned an attack. Officers still expressed doubts, however, and it was called off. Austin then left to assume diplomatic duties in the United States. The Texas troops selected Edward Burleson as their new leader.
When Erastus (Deaf) Smithqv reported approaching Mexican cavalry on November 26, Burleson ordered out troops to cut them off. Skirmishing followed near Alazán Creek west of town, with attack and counterattack by both sides. Finally the Mexican troops withdrew into San Antonio. The engagement became known as the Grass Fight because captured Mexican supply animals carried fodder for horses rather than the rumored pay for Mexican soldiers.
Because of limited supplies and approaching winter, Burleson considered withdrawing to Goliad at the beginning of December. Information on Mexican defenses from Texans who were allowed to leave San Antonio led to new attack plans. But fears that the Mexican army had learned of the assault brought a near breakup of the Texan army. When a Mexican officer surrendered with news of declining Mexican morale, Benjamin R. Milam and William Gordon Cookeqqv gathered more than 300 volunteers to attack the town, while Burleson and another 400 men scouted, protected the camp and supplies, and forced Cos to keep his 570 men divided between the town and the Alamo.
James C. Neill distracted the Mexican forces with artillery fire on the Alamo before dawn on December 5, while Milam and Francis W. Johnson led two divisions in a surprise attack that seized the Veramendi and Garza houses north of the plaza in San Antonio. Mexican cannon and musket fire kept the Texans from advancing farther during the day and silenced one of their cannons.
That night and the next day the Texans destroyed some buildings close to them and dug trenches to connect the houses they occupied. On the seventh the Texans captured another nearby house, but Milam died from a sharpshooter’s bullet. Johnson then directed another night attack that seized the Navarro house. On December 8 Ugartechea returned with over 600 reinforcements, but only 170 were experienced soldiers. Untrained conscripts formed the other 450 men, who brought with them few supplies. Burleson sent 100 men into town to join the Texan force that captured the buildings of Zambrano Row in hand-to-hand fighting. Cos ordered his cavalry to threaten the Texan camp, but they found it well defended. That night Cooke with two companies seized the priest’s house on the main plaza, but they seemed cut off from the Texas army.
When Cos sought to concentrate his troops at the Alamo, four companies of his cavalry rode away rather than continue the struggle. Cos then asked for surrender terms on the morning of December 9. Burleson accepted the surrender of most Mexican equipment and weapons, but allowed Cos and his men to retire southward because neither army had supplies to sustain a large group of prisoners.
Texas casualties numbered thirty to thirty-five, while Mexican losses, primarily in the Morelos Infantry Battalion, which defended San Antonio, totaled about 150; the difference reflected the greater accuracy of the Texans’ rifles. Most of the Texas volunteers went home after the battle, which left San Antonio and all of Texas under their control.
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“Dusky Deamon” Bill Pickett born in Travis County
December 05, 1870
On this day in 1870, black rodeo cowboy Bill Pickett was born to former slaves Thomas Jefferson and Mary Virginia Elizabeth (Gilbert) Pickett. He was the second of thirteen children. He became a cowboy after completing the fifth grade. After observing dogs subduing huge steers by biting their upper lips, the young Pickett found he could do the same thing. In 1888 he performed at the first fair in Taylor, his family’s new hometown. The Pickett brothers established a horse-breaking business in Taylor, where Will was also a member of the national guard and a deacon of the Baptist church. There, in December 1890, he married Maggie Turner.As the “Dusky Deamon,” Pickett performed at rodeos and fairs throughout Texas and the West. Capitalizing on his fame, he contracted in 1905 to perform at the 101 Ranch in Oklahoma. By 1907 he had become a full-time employee of the ranch, where he worked as a cowboy and performed with the 101 Ranch Wild West Show. He entertained millions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America, and England, and was featured in several motion pictures, the first black cowboy star. Pickett died in 1932 after being kicked in the head by a horse. His friend Will Rogers commented on his radio show: “Bill Pickett never had an enemy, even the steers wouldn’t hurt old Bill.” In 1972 Pickett became the first black honoree in the National Rodeo Hall of Fame. In 1994 the United States Post Office issued a stamp in his honor, though the stamp accidentally showed one of Pickett’s brothers. -
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RE: Yesterday’s thread about Texas attracting business and the NY Times trashing us for it. With business like this going on, they can keep on trashing us.
Williams Tower deal pegged at about $420 million
By Nancy Sarnoff
The Williams Tower at 2800 Post Oak is expected to be added to Invesco’s sizable real estate portfolio.
Invesco Real Estate has been selected as the buyer for Houston’s iconic Williams Tower, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The transaction is expected to be one of the biggest property sales in the Houston real estate market.
“Houston has certainly been an outperformer this year versus other markets in the country,” said Dan Fasulo, managing director of Real Capital Analytics, a New York-based real estate research firm.
The lure has been job growth – largely related to the energy industry – creating the need for office space.
Houston has seen a series of other large office transactions recently.
In August, Hines sold the two-building Shell Plaza complex for $550 million.
In another downtown sale, an affiliate of New York-based W.P. Carey Inc. purchased the 40-story KBR Tower from Brookfield Office Properties and KBR.
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I just realized that tonight is a class night. Good thing I have my lessons all planned out ahead of time.
Unless my DRE changes my schedule. >:-(
I worked until after 2:00 am, and my brain actually feels tender this morning, like it was grated. I hope I feel better by class time. If not, they’d better behave.
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Who saw this coming? “Detroit councilwoman to Obama: We voted for you, now bail us out.”
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Modus operandi: quid pro quo
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Tissue alert.
What a cool kid! On both sides of the wrestling match. -
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I have enough daily reminders of this country’s exploding illiteracy rate without watching it for entertainment on TV. -
Coming from a former Shaker St. resident. 😀
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Just got back form Houston………. Now we wait for the Dopplar result. Thanks for the prayers
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Another reason to mock France and their men:
French men not as “manly” as they used to be
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RIP Dave Brubeck
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Piers Morgan has added a new nickname to his long list: Musket
Here’s the original smackdown.
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And lest I forget it is time for my traditional Merry Christmas song 😉
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#50 Squawkie
Hope you get a good report from that radar check on your mom.
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RIP Dave, you were the best.
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Boone and Crockett bucks fighting at La Escalera Ranch, Seymour, TX, November 20, 2012
I have seen many bucks fight in my hunting lifetime, but never like this.
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#52 Hamous
Brubeck won just about every music award that could be granted in the world. A lot of the post-war innovations in jazz came from him. He was also a notable classical composer. -
“What’s wrong with it?”
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Texpat – When I was a kid, Sunday afternoon at our house was jazz/blues time. My pops had Brubeck’s Time Out LP and it was always in the rotation. I’ve still got that LP.
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How’s the construction coming? Got any sort of deadline when the room addition has to be finished?
Thanks for asking and since you are a lady and I respect womminz folkz I will keep my comments confined to your question. This will reduce the likelihood of a plethora of obscene pejoratives evacuating from my pie hole.
Things are slow right now. Had to fire the so called genious that came so highly recommended and whom I thought I knew well. Soooo there is a Mexican fellow I know and have seen his work that has agreed to complete some of the larger projects left to do. Hopefully by the first of the year we will have it ready for paint and then move in. -
This is a must read column. I profiled Joel Kotkin on Lone Star Times and featured his columns frequently.
Blue State Suicide Pact at newgeography.comWith their enthusiastic backing of President Obama and the Democratic Party on Election Day, the bluest parts of America may have embraced a program utterly at odds with their economic self-interest. The almost uniform support of blue states’ congressional representatives for the administration’s campaign for tax “fairness” represents a kind of bizarre economic suicide pact.
and,
The people whose wallets will be drained in the new war on “the rich” are high-earning, but hardly plutocratic professionals like engineers, doctors, lawyers, small business owners and the like. Once seen as the bastion of the middle class, and exemplars of upward mobility, these people are emerging as the modern day “kulaks,” the affluent peasants ruthlessly targeted by Stalin in the early 1930s.
and this,
The contrast in prices is even greater between metropolitan areas. The highest prices — and thus largest mortgages — are in the deep blue havens of San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. If the mortgage interest deduction is capped for loans, say, over $300,000, homeowners in these cities will suffer far more than in key red state cities like Dallas or Houston, where homes are at least half the price.
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#59 Shannon
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#59 Shannon
This has been an unusually educational day on The Couch. First lice DNA and now electronics growing tin whiskers. -
#61 Squawks
Sorry to hear the room isn’t going as fast as you hoped. You never can rely on a contractor, you know that. Hope you are able to toast the imminent move-in on New Years Eve (if y’all do New Years Eve). -
Just got back from loading some rat bait boxes at one of our units. It happens to be a small unit right next to a large drainage ditch. Rats are a problem, and we’re about to lose a tenant. There’s more of them than there are of we, dang it. The tenant had a cat, but it accidentally took a car ride and never came back. They’re looking for another kitty.
I told the lady at the chemical place that as bad as these rats are, the ones we really have to watch out for are the two legged critters in DC.
Now, I have to make a bank run – putting money in, temporarily – and then it will be time to head for the church to begin getting ready for class.
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Akimbo arms sounds like a judo move.
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Those must be tin whiskers on Squawk.
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Okay. She’s gone. FOOD FIGHT!!!
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It’s better to have your arms akimbo rather than cattywampus.
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Let’s go wrap her house.
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Paint a giant Obama logo on her house.
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Paint a giant
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Put one of these in her front yard
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HOw about a giant one of these.
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Surprise.
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#54 Squawkster
And lest I forget it is time for my traditional Merry Christmas song
I could have swore it was; Ring Out The Solstice bells. 😀
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#84 Shannon, Yup he’s my favorite
“closet liberal”transplanted yankee, he claims to be conservative but has no problem with check points. I listened from 4:00 to 4:45 and he chastised anyone that disagreed with him. He got REAL upset when a lady said something about the Gestapo. Look, I don’t like drunk drivers but I don’t think that the check points are Constitutional, stopping law abiding folks for no reason is just wrong. But then we’ve just about lost the Constitution anyway,…….SIGH 🙁 -
#64 Shannon,…. 😀
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Well I just sat down here and the lil’ psychotic dawg is in my lap looking at me with those big ole brown eyes, letting me know that it’s time for her walk, later. 😉
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Actually, it is quite legal to stop folks for a Driver’s License check. This is often used in Texas as a work around to get past the ban on sobriety checks.
38 States currently have functioning sobriety checks that have gotten past Constitutional challenges.
Me….I am in favor of roadside summary execution of Drunk Drivers when they cause significant injuries or the death of others. Ms Simple tells me that my position is a little extreme, but I had to bury someone I loved because of a @#@#$%# drunk driver.
I do respect you viewpoint; I just disagree with it.
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#90 Simple Simon, well just say that you and do agree on something;
Me….I am in favor of roadside summary execution of Drunk Drivers when they cause significant injuries or the death of others.
Amen, I do agree with you on that statement. 😉
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Liberty is the twelfth thing on his list when considering legislation. -
Dan Patrick, the drunk with power militant moderate.
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SIGH
Chemistry homework puts Seminole High on lockdown, deputies say
Yup FloridaSEMINOLE — It started as a simple chemistry assignment.
Students were to bring to class an item representing an element of the periodic table. Some brought aluminum foil, salt and water.
But some brought sodium, lithium and even mercury.
(In thermometers)As a precaution, a teacher called the principal, who called authorities.
Within minutes, fully equipped hazmat investigators and firefighters bore down on the building. School officials rummaged through the bookbags and lockers of the 125 students assigned the project.
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Bonecrusher, I don’t think that you were about on Monday, but check out my #39 and Hambones # 48, I think that you might be interested in them. 😉
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As far as summary judgement goes, how about the immediate confiscation of the vehicle when an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT gets in a car wreck with out insurance to cover the damage he caused? This should be followed by immediate incarceration followed by deportation to Tierra Del Fuego.
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#96 SD: I was here, just barely as I was feeling mighty poorly. That is one fine buck. Where was the shot placed, how far away, what caliber was used (30-06?) how far did he run after being hit? Details man, we gotta have the stats.
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Well, I guess I’ll tee one up for the big hunnert. . . . . . .whozit gonna be?
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#98 Bonecrusher, He was hit 2″ behind his left shoulder, lung shot, he was moving and the boy saw him at about 70 yards just inside the thick brush, he braced the rifle and waited until the buck came out in to a small opening but didn’t have time to shoot so he followed him and once more he missed his chance and now he’s thinking that he’s blown it, then on the last opening he put the scope on the bucks shoulder and fired quickly, the deer ran 10 yards and collapsed, grave yard dead. We stepped it off and it was 87 yards, the 30-06 entered his left side right behind the shoulder and distroyed his right shoulder leaving a silver dollar sized exit hole. Oh and it was 5:10 PM and the big buck wouldn’t have been there if not for the “Doe P” that I put out and boys rattling of a set of antlers.
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Oh,….and hunnerd! I was typing when Bones posted. 😉
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I don’t know about deportation, but at the very least a vehicle that has no registration, no proof of insurance, or an inspection sticker that has expired past the 30 day grace period should be towed and impounded. The driver would have to produce registration and proof of insurance before it could leave impound. This was actually the practice a couple of decades ago, but the numbers of unlicensed and uninsured drivers is staggering.
My guess is that there are not sufficent tow trucks and impound lots to handle all of the violators and that is why we are where we are now. Keep in mind that a lot of the drivers will elect to leave their old junkers in impound because the impound fees will quickly add up to more than the vehicle is worth.
I would also point out that it is not only illegals that drive without licenses or proof of insurance.
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#100 SD: NOw that is how to tell a story about deer killin:>) Sounds like the heart got missed, didja get to eat it for dinner?
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#104, I have the heart on ice along with the backstrap, FWIW; This deer was at least 5 years old maybe 6-7, lots of grey on his face, we didn’t save his jaw because by the time we got him skinned we couldn’t get his mouth open without damaging the hide on his face, (the boy is getting the head mounted). Anywho, he had the biggest heart that I’ve ever seen on a deer, as big as a domestic hog or a people.
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Channel 8 has a special concert with Mick Jagger & Muddy Waters from 1981 on now.
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Ronnie Wood & Keith Richard just joined in.
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I’m back.
I’ve seen the “suggestions” for my home and yard.
I am not pleased. I will be less pleased if I wake up in the morning and find, in the early morning light, any or all of the aforementioned additions to my property.
/commencing stern glare again
Dang, that’s hard on the eyebrows.
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I am not pleased
That’s on account of yer a wimmin.
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That’s a wrap folks.
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Nitey nite, Hamsterville!
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