Really cool video of a meteor flying by some unsuspecting Russkies.
Friday Meteoric Open Comments
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#1! Woo Hoo
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Wb
They said that meteor weighed 10 tons, exploded in the sky sending a shock wave that blew out windows and some people were injured.
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Hope that doesn’t happen here, all that afearedness and pandemonium and nobody for the vunables to sue or blame.
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G’Morning All
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Joke of the day award:
Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job
By Mike Lillis – 02/14/13 06:37 PM ET
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers’ jobs.
“I don’t think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “I think it’s necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded.”
The comments were made in the context of the looming sequester, which would force across-the-board cuts affecting most federal offices, including Congress. With lawmakers nowhere near a deal to avert those cuts, federal agencies are bracing for ways to absorb them with minimum damage to programs and personnel. -
White House releases film to prove Obama really shoots skeet and the photo wasn’t a publicity stunt.
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This link on Drudge has miscellaneous pix, but the best thing is a video showing the distant impact. It’s good the meteorite did not make a direct hit on that city.
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Think I’ll put on my tinfoil hat just in case…………..
Pretty sure that won’t help much.
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Dang, where have y’all been?
TGIF!!!
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#10 wagonburner
But if there’s one of them aplopacalypso’s and I survive………just sayin’ -
Adee, from yesterday; “Spouse and I are members.”
I became a member several years ago but haven’t taken the time to go see it. I got my dad a brick paver last year. I’m also a member of the WASP Meseum in Sweetwater and I’ve not been there yet either. -
#12 OletimerLin
I’m thinking the tinfoil would only keep the glob of grease that used to be you from contaminating the meteor. -
#8 OletimerLin 😀
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…and nobody for the vunables to sue or blame.
When has that ever stopped them. We already know the CNN anchor thinks global warming causes meteors. Damn that Bush!
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It looks like Dallas is getting a good neighbor.
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Another teacher that shouldn’t.
Professor Stephanie Wolfe criticized Fox News in her syllabus and told students they weren’t allowed to use Fox News as source material. It is reported that in the class guide, Wolfe told students, “The tagline Fox News makes me cringe.”
“Please do not subject me to this biased news station. I would almost rather you print off an article from The Onion,” Wolfe wrote [West Liberty University in West Virginia].Parents have complained, and the university doesn’t like her stance. WLUWV also made the point that she is a “temporary” teacher, just filling in for someone else.
As a teacher, to restrict ANY news source as research material doesn’t make sense. If it’s a crap source, the student should be able to determine that. The student should be able to defend their points, not just regurgitate sound bites.
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Not sure how to process this statement from TBO:
Barack Obama said Thursday that he’d like to get rid of pennies, as they cost more to make than they’re worth. He said, “Any time we’re spending money on something people aren’t going to use, that’s something that should change.”
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4 Shannon says:
February 15, 2013 at 8:19 am
Wb
They said that meteor weighed 10 tons, exploded in the sky sending a shock wave that blew out windows and some people were injured.
Yikes!Note to self:
Next time somebody says “Hey, come look at the meteor in the sky!” go hide in the bathtub. -
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I suppose it would depend upon the course of study, but it is apparent that a lot has changed since I was first in College. The professors did not accept indirectly attriibutable sources such as the Encylopedia Britannica. I suspect that they would have a fit over Wikipedia and Fox News today.
The gold standard was a directly attributable source and if it was opinion, then you had to identify it in your paper, which only happened on the Liberal Arts side of the campus. Engineering Papers had a higher and tougher standard. Opinion and “Belief” were not acceptable, but this made for some pretty dull reading.
Personally, I would not accept Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other video-blogsphere outlets as acceptable sources. They are good examples of bad examples though.
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It depends on the topic at hand. If you’re writing about recent events in the Middle East for example, then news outlets of one stripe or another are your only option, unless you plan on going there yourself.
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TBO shows his arrogance again:
This was really weird. Barack Obama thanked Pope Benedict XVI for “our work together” over these last four years. (What work?)
“On behalf of Americans everywhere, Michelle and I wish to extend our appreciation and prayers to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Michelle and I warmly remember our meeting with the Holy Father in 2009, and I have appreciated our work together over these last four years. The Church plays a critical role in the United States and the world, and I wish the best to those who will soon gather to choose His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI’s successor.”
Yeah, I ask the same question – WHAT work “together”? From where I sit, TBO’s done everything possible to undermine Catholic beliefs and authority.
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Simple, I see your point.
But if that were the standard, she should ban all news networks, not just Fox.
And I still stand by my statement – a student should be able to defend what he writes about, including being able to justify the sources used. If a news network were “second hand,” then the student should be able to support the corroborating sources. It’s all something that needs to be learned, that ability to discern truth from lies, statistics from damned statistics. -
#17 TT: This is one of the most salient points made in your linked article:
At the end of 2010, in a special session, the Illinois Legislature passed a 67% hike in its corporate and personal income tax. The state is struggling with a structural deficit and its credit rating was recently lowered. The state now has the worst credit rating in the country. A number of businesses have floated the idea of leaving the state. A move by State Farm, however, would devastate the downstate economy.
Free people vote with their feet and wallets. Start being abusive in your taxation and people will relocate to a more friendly environment. The idiotic clueless libs can not seem to understand this basic fact. As a case in point, the blind former gov of NY stated, after Limbaugh left as a result of the latest tax increase, that if that was all that it took to get Limbaugh out of NY he would have raised taxes sooner. The revenue that has been subsequently lost to NY as a result of people leaving NY due to punitive taxes does not seem to enter the intellectual equation.
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I suspect that they would have a fit over Wikipedia and Fox News today.
Of course they would. Yet they would readily accept sources from ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC and probably even al Gorezeera, because they are all part of the “Progressive” government/media/higher education propaganda machine. We see the collusion on a daily basis. A recent example is Sen. Rubio’s “career-ending” drink of water being plastered all over the news while Sen. Menendez’s diddling of underage Dominican prostitutes is not even mentioned. There are demonstrably hundreds of similar cases where so-called news outlets cover for “progressives”. As Brother Phil routinely points out, they are clearly soul mates to Goebbels media. They don’t even try and hide it anymore.
Personally, I would not accept Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, or any of the other video-blogsphere outlets as acceptable sources.
You’ve been bamboozled. Of all the cable news networks, only Fox (and I’m speaking of the hard news reporters, not the screaming commentators) routinely asks the hard questions, regardless of who’s in power.
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#28 Tedtam
OCD people are fun to mess with.
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Lovely has a friend who has a thing about odd numbers. You want to drive her crazy, give her three of something.
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#25 TT
our work together
Bronco prolly thinks the Pope reports to him.
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I’m planning bean tacos tonight. I’m cooking the beans now, I have lots of (cheap) bell peppers frozen and waiting to go, lotsa onion, sour cream — I may have to run out and get some guacamole. That’ll make Hubby happy. Oh, and I have my Southwest Sauce from HEB. Won’t make my tacos without it. Love that stuff. Hubby doesn’t like breakfast for dinner, so I can’t fix pancakes or eggs tonight. (I guess that’s his OCD bit. I made pancakes for dinner one night – we used to do that all the time growing up – and he almost freaked out on me. He just could not comprehend it.)
I have some eggs boiled up, maybe have some egg salad sammich for lunch.
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So you can’t eat meat for 40 days? Is that how it works?
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#33 TT: Try pan searing some fish and adding that to the tacos; fish tacos are wonderful and healthy to boot.
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Ted Cruz es una montaña inamovible
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I have a hankerin’ for a thick juicy pan seared rib-eye for supper tonight, side of brussels sprouts and some rice. I think I’ll have that ready for the Beautiful Mrs. Bonecrusher when she gets home.
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#28 TT
The OCD “defects” in that list are startling when you notice them, but in real life, I guess most people don’t see them. -
Pushback against the “living wage”.
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Next week…adventures in tofu! 😉
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So you can’t eat meat for 40 days? Is that how it works?
Catholics abstain from eating meat (animals with four legs and fur) on Fridays during Lent. We also abstain and fast on Ash Wednesday & Good Friday.
It can get kind of strange – you can’t have a burger, but you can have the seafood platter.
I’ve tried (unsuccessfully) to get Yellow Hair to go for hot dogs on Fridays on the grounds that pig lips and snouts are not actual meat, but she’s not buying it. -
Next week…adventures in tofu! 😉
Finally got it peeled off the ceiling?
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For those of you who haven’t heard, Washington State just passed both laws – gay marriage and legalized marijuana. The fact that gay marriage and marijuana were legalized on the same day makes perfect biblical sense because Leviticus 20:13 says “If a man lies with another man they should be stoned.” We just hadn’t interpreted it correctly before. -David Virtue
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Breakfast for dinner is one of my favorites. Whatsa matter with that boy?
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I’m still looking for the Wolfthorn print ad, from the company that advertises “fixing your mansmell problems”. Haven’t found it, but this is cute.
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#44 Shannon
I can’t get him to play games, either. Just wasn’t raised that way. His family would get in the car and drive if they had down time. Even today, when my family or friends play something, he’ll go watch TV or just sit and watch. -
I never knew what this week in my back yard was called. It was curly dock.
Now, I can call it dinner.
Them, and all those wild sunflowers that are popping up. I knew the sunflower head tasted like artichoke, but I wasn’t sure about the rest of the plant. -
#42 WB
Finally got it peeled off the ceiling?
I’m debating about using it to chock a door open or to turn it into a pan-scrubbing pad.
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Even cows won’t eat curly dock.
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You can get curly dock just outside the Main Gate at Fort Sill.
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Yabbut is it good for dinner?
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According to the website, young leaves are best. If using older leaves, they need to be boiled well. Curly dock is toxic to farm animals, probably because of the oxalic acid which needs to be removed – too much can cause gastric problems and kidney stones. The stems are supposed to be usable, too.
Last year, I cooked some sow thistle leaves. Hint: use lots of seasoning.
I figger, if they’re gonna grow in my yard (especially as I move Mirkwood dirt around), I may as well benefit from them. -
Any dang teacher worth his or her salt teaches young skulls full of mush HOW to think not WHAT to think……………
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Self moderated
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#50 Sarge
You can get curly dock just outside the Main Gate at Fort Sill.
Yabbut, can you cure it with penicillin?
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Yah. But that just adds to the twenny bux.
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Who is the girl
wearing nothing but a smile
and a towel in the picture
on the billboard in the field
near the big old highway
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Ted Cruz es un macho barco que navega un camino recto.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=61B6F25E-F19E-44FA-BFE0-1630417A2497 -
“Though I am now retiring to a life of prayer, I will always be close to all of you, and I am sure all of you will be close to me, even though I remain hidden to the world.”
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Pull out the tissues. The teachers’ union got voted out of a public school when the parents took advantage of a “parent trigger” law to take over their failing school.
The Los Angeles Board of Education signed off on a parent-led plan to turn a failing public school over to a private charter company this week — the city’s first use of the controversial “parent trigger” law.
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The Los Angeles-area teachers union, which strongly opposes parent trigger, released a statement criticizing the board’s decision.
“We believe parents do not want a private charter corporation to take over 24th Street Elementary, which is exactly what is happening … as a result of Parent Trigger,” the statement read.The parents didn’t want it? Then why is it happening? Why did they work so long on the charter paperwork?
Translation from unionspeak:
“We are bitterly disappointed that these ign’ant parents don’ unnerstan’ what we’s trying to do heah with the chillens. We knows better than these parents what the kids need. The parents aren’t trained to indoctrinate, I mean, eddicate, their own chillens. They should just step back. We’s mo’ impo’tant than they are. And if they fire us, who’s gonna pay our pensions? Where’s that Organizing for America application?” -
DA14 done come and gone.
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John F’ing Kerry warns that Israel may lose foreign aid if sequestration kicks in.
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NASA was live-streaming from an observatory in Eastern Australia. It was totally underwhelming. Just a small, short but moving streak of light.
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While the harshest punishment, hanging and drawing and quartering, is often thought of as peculiar to England, it was more common in the Papal States. The last to be killed that way in England were some Jacobite officers in 1745. The sentence was imposed on several Chartist rioters in 1839 but they were given the option of transportation to Australia, which they accepted. When the pope regained possession of the Papal States in 1814, hanging, drawing and quartering was imposed eleven times until it ended in 1817. For particularly heinous crimes, crushing the head with a mallet, the “mazzatello” continued until 1870.
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From Twitchy, on the meteor explosion:
I hereby call on the government to pass a complete and total ban on assault meteors and make America a meteor free zone. Thatll work, right?
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I see someone has joined a new personality cult.
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Further to my #62: Today on his program Limbaugh stated that even if the sequester kicks in, there will be no actual cuts in spending (in the real world) only reductions in the rate of growth.
I would like to see an immediate real-world freeze on gov’t spending at current levels to start, then cut (real world) 10% per year until the budget balances, then go another 10% and let the difference go towards paying/retiring the debt.
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#60 – Hiphip HOORAY for those diligent parents!!!!!!!!!!
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Rabbie calls the NY Mayor on the carpet:
I am an Orthodox rabbi who lives in New Jersey but works in New York City. Approximately half of my waking life is lived under your laws and jurisdiction. Like everyone who lives or works in New York City, I have the right, even the obligation, to confront some of your policies regarding so-called “gun control”.
Why do I place the phrase “gun control” in quotes? Because this innocuous-sounding phrase, this expression that sounds like common sense, is in reality a dangerous bit of semantic trickery.
“Gun control” actually (and historically) means letting government, whether benign or ruthlessly evil, disarm certain sectors of society and allow others to remain armed. It means letting the government know where every gun owner lives and the number and types of firearms that he or she owns. It means putting the authority to decide who has the right to defend him or herself with a firearm into the hands of a government bureaucrat.
The honest definition of “gun control” is actually “victim disarmament”. Because the person with the gun will always control the person without the gun. Without the personal firearm as an “equalizer”, the stronger will always control the weaker. (Please see this “Genocide Chart” )Here’s his genocide chart. (Scroll down)
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I had to work late last night, so today is officially Valentines day for our family. I’m cooking for wife and daughter tonight – so something special:
Surf and Turf mixed grill with Giant Prawns, Scallops and petite NY Strip
Crab Sauce Bernaise
Garlic Roasted Fingerling Potatoes
Sauteed Green Beans with ginger/soy glaze
Strawberry Layer cake with Italian Lemon cream Icing
and best of all. . . .
an evening spend snuggling with the most beautiful woman in the world!
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#70 – Go Rabbi GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#71 – wow whatta FEAST!
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The seafood is giant but the beef is petite?
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an evening spend snuggling with the most beautiful woman in the world!
My wife is going to your house?
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#71 FA: Well done sir. I must correct you on something; THE most beautifulest woman in the world is gonna be at my house eating a rib-eye.
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Well, I don’t have anyone to speak up for me, so I think I’m going to run to the grocery store before the lines get too bad, then I might go dig in the back yard while the weather is good. I think I need some fresh air and exercise.
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TT: How is LD doing? Morning sickness gone, weight staying under control, cheerful disposition? One of my 4 sisters said that she felt the best in her life when she was pregnant, all 4 times.
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Well done sir. I must correct you on something; THE most beautifulest woman in the world is gonna be at my house eating a rib-eye.
What the heck? My wifes going to your house for dinner then Fat Alberts for cuddles?
She got some splainin to do when she gets home. 🙁
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February 15, 2013 at 4:00 pm
#74 Sarge:
Only because a regular size Texas steak doesn’t leave room on the plate for anything else!Yahbut. Dude.
Its not only petite, its a New York steak.
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I’m going over to the most beautiful woman in the world’s house for dinner tonite.
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It is somehow heartening to see all these menfolk scufflin’ over who has the most beautiful woman in his life. I think they are all correct!
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I’m confused. 🙁
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February 15, 2013 at 4:22 pm
I’m confused.
Guess I’ll go hang out with my buddy Jack Daniels.You could end up with the most beautiful woman in the world that way. At least until morning.
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JD and 20 bux?
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I’m having lox & bagels & cream cheese in honor of your petit New York steak.
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petit New York steak.
AKA a small snack.
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Now they are scuffling over the size of their steaks.
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And now for how I feel.
This is the only video online of Alvin Crow and the Pleasant Valley Boys doing this song. Sorry for the poor A/V. They’re playing at the Broken Spoke, one of my old haunts.
Herb Steiner, the legendary steel player, wrote the song and almost never gets credited.
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HEADLINE:’Long-simmering’ tension at South High leads to ‘all-out brawl’
Does anyone but me see something wrong with this sentence in the story?
She also said ‘boys were hitting girls’ and that some people were lying on the floor, with their hands over their heads, in surrender.… The fight, students say, was the result of long-simmering tensions between the 8 percent of students who are Somali Americans and the 20 percent who are African Americans.”
1st gen immigrants can, IMHO, use the hyphenated form, the term African American is nothing but meaningless pc stupidity. I actually heard she-jack refer to cuban african americans once- lunacy!
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Ohhh, the tragedy, excuse me while I cry a few crocodile tears.. . . . . . WaPo lays off 54 people!
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Dinner with the MOST BEAUTIFULEST Mrs. Bonecrusher was wonderful. Shabbat Shalom, Y’all!
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These guys have been pulling your leg.
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I went outside and tackled one side of Mirkwood which has been covered by giant ragweed, wild berries, and curly dock. I managed to dig up quite a few of those weeds, hoping to disrupt the growing cycle of some of them. At the very least, I’m hoping that I’ve knocked ’em back enough so that we can mow more of the area this year.
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I did some outdoor work today too, and planning more for tomorrow. Although it may be noon before it is warm enough to enjoy being outside.
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Black college prof creates Trayvon Martin Award for Social Justice.
http://reagancoalition.com/articles/2013/20130215004-trayvon-anti.html?A=2
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#92 – GOOD one big Brother!
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Cruz is wissing off the status quo holders.
Good for him.
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