The Conclave is set to begin this coming Tuesday. It’s time to set your brackets.
Weekend Sweet Sistine Open Comments
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Will it be covered by C-SPAN or ESPN?
In other news, Congressional approval ratings are still more favorable than those of the late Hugo Chavez, but they still have a way to go to catch up to the favorability ratings of colonscopies or cockroaches. I suppose that’s good news…http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/congress-viewed-more-favorably-hugo-chavez-barely-175646265–politics.html;_ylt=AsGd_IRxupNUbjjrSseuautsnwcF;_ylu=X3oDMTQyNGM3YjYyBG1pdANUaWNrZXQgTW9zYWljBHBrZwMxNjUxM2IzOC02ZWM3LTM3ZDItOGIxMS0zODA4MjUwOTFhMTEEcG9zAzEwBH -
Well if the Pope were to be decided here in the US we’d pick “John Onaiyekan” of course, gotta’ have diversity doncha’ know.
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Good morning, Hamsterville! I slept in this morning to help counteract the shock to the system when I lose an hour tomorrow.
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Now this is neat; Researchers: We may have found a fabled sunstone.
LONDON (AP) — A rough, whitish block recovered from an Elizabethan shipwreck may be a sunstone, the fabled crystal believed by some to have helped Vikings and other medieval seafarers navigate the high seas, researchers say.
In a paper published earlier this week, a Franco-British group argued that the Alderney Crystal — a chunk of Icelandic calcite found amid a 16th century wreck at the bottom of the English Channel — worked as a kind of solar compass, allowing sailors to determine the position of the sun even when it was hidden by heavy cloud, masked by fog, or below the horizon.
That’s because of a property known as birefringence, which splits light beams in a way that can reveal the direction of their source with a high degree of accuracy. Vikings may not have grasped the physics behind the phenomenon, but that wouldn’t present a problem.
“You don’t have to understand how it works,” said Albert Le Floch, of the University in Rennes in western France. “Using it is basically easy.”
Vikings were expert navigators — using the sun, stars, mountains and even migratory whales to help guide them across the sea — but some have wondered at their ability to travel the long stretches of open water between Greenland, Iceland, and Newfoundland in modern-day Canada. -
The real estate biz is cooking. Sweetie has 4 deals in the works and has two more clients looking, she has a showing this morning that already has 3 other people looking at it in the same scheduled time period. Homes are flying off the market especially in The Woodlands, one after another listings are getting offers one day, four days, three days after being put on the market. Low inventory is a problem and looks like bidding wars are near.
The Woodlands is particularly hot due to the Exxon Project, but it is affecting the entire Houston area. We have two road construction customers building the Grand Parkway between I10 (Katy) and 290 that are on tight schedules. An equipment supervisor told me the rush was because of the Exxon Project. -
Well the boy is all excited about installing “Tunes” in the Sea Ray. I had NO idea that you HAD to have “Tunes” when you wake-board, BUTT you do. He went to several places that $pecialize in boat$ and found that they’re real expen$ive!! Of course driving up in his Denali truck pulling a 21 Sea Ray was probably not a good plan. Anywho he has a good friend that knows a young guy that installs them, after a little bartering (tire/tunes) he’s getting a complete set up for about $1800. Two Tower Speakers, a Sub Woofer and, of course an Amp to drive them. He’s also upgrading the two decent factory speakers and adding two more, not sure what kind but they’re not Wet Sounds.
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Tell us about Exxon Project.
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#6 GJT, That is great news! I wonder if it’s turning around a little. My boy has a friend that just sold his house just across the street from him for $145K! He was hoping to get $135K but it sold in about 3 days!! It’s a Lennar energy star one story, built in 2005 and about 1900 square feet. That said, here on the other side of the tracks, (literally) in Clear Lake we still have several foreclosures.
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Tell us about Exxon Project.
Yes, what he said.
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Bill of Rights, we don’ need no stinkin’ Bill of Rights; Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights. Spits~
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Exxon Project.
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My headline for link in #11
Serial Liar Swears in Another Liar on Draft Constitution Without Bill of Rights and it Doesn’t Really Matter Because All the Liars in D.C. That Take Their Oaths Break Them Anyway So Why Swear Anyone in At All? -
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Of course the safety nazis do not differentiate between a chemical plant or refinery construction project and an office building, all the rules and restictions are the same. I was installing a beacon on a golf cart roof standing on a bucket – in the contractor parking lot mind you – and got warned about no safety harness or approved ladder. Geesh. -
I’m actually just getting my hiney moving. I worked late two nights ago. Up until after midnight last night, working on a baby shower gift due this coming weekend. About 4:00 a.m., my phone rings – Handsome Son had been stranded at a local bar since 1:15, waiting for a two truck to arrive. AAA let him down, and he was more than a little upset. DH and I got up and got dressed. Hubby went to get the tow bar in his work truck, and I went to join Handsome and keep him company until his Dad arrived. It was lightly drizzling when I arrived, now downpour, thank goodness. They took the car to the shop and I went home. It was probably well after five a.m. before we all got to sleep.
Handsome left a few minutes ago to join his father and fix his car. HS told me he thinks it’s the spark plugs. I think it’s cool that he and his father have their love of VWs to bond over. -
Crickets. Naptime.
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My son got my hot rod/car racing blood but somewhere along the line I went wrong and he went to the dark side. Import cars and drifting. Uck. So we didn’t have a connect until recently he axed what about building a 350 small block Chevy and put it in a Nissan 240 drift car. I said I’m in.
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Tim, is drifting what we do when we just drive to get where we need to be? And a drift car is what we do our drifting in?
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Has Drudge been driven off the innanet? It has no headlines, only the links to pundits.
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Drifting off is what I do most of these days. 😀
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…………….don’t see anything unusual on Drudge
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#19 – Drifting
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I highly encourage everyone here to read this online book.
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#23 Katfishy
don’t see anything unusual on Drudge
I saved a snapshot to prove it was devoid of articles for a while. 🙂 Saw it was populated again later on.
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Katfish – were you the one with the inversion table? I’m looking at buying one (I figure it’ll pay for itself if I can avoid more doctor appointments). I’m seeing some with infrared therapy and heat therapy built in. Would this be worthwhile? What brand/model do you have? And do you really get a better unit for more money? I’d think that as long as you were inverted, it wouldn’t matter how many bells and whistles (or dollars) were thrown in.
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#27 – Yes Ma’am dats me
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Any recommendations on these?
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I want to get one that Hubby could use, also. He’s much bigger than I am, so I have to make sure it can handle his weight. I don’t know that he will, but if it helps me, he might try it. He has almost chronic back pain, due to the type of work he does.
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TT: There were a few on the page you linked in #29 that seem good to me. What you want is one that will keep your hips flexed as you invert; like sitting in a chair while upside down. if it is all in a straight line as opposed to a 90 degree turn between your abdomen and thighs it will tend to pinch vertebras and cause other issues. If the hips are flexed the lumbar spine is straight as opposed to curved like it is when standing. You do not need to be completely pointed head down in order to get benefits, 45 degrees down and conscious muscle relaxation is gentler and safer.
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I think I’ll talk to Hubby about the $184 Ironman. The reviews all mentioned how sturdy the frame was, and it comes with the lumbar support. From what I saw, the Teeter required you to buy the lumbar bridge separately. I like the Teeter’s “breathable” back support, and I like the accupressure nodes that can be bought, but I don’t think they’re worth the extra $200.
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Bathroom graffiti.
And not one “Jesse loves Lisa” in the group. My faves? The Kirk reference and “The Grout Recession”.
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Wish I had a grilled-cheese.
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Just wondering – is a Conclave the opposite of a Convlex?
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Three contracts written yesterday, one accepted already. My lady is a rockin’ and rollin’, yeah baby! One couple from Alabama, one from San Antonio and one from Louisiana. She had another from College Station but they can’t get financing until they sell their house.
Sweetie did an open house yesterday in Bridgeland on a model home, Three offers were made on it inside of 2 hours, and her people got it! -
My Sweetie is working so hard I did dinner last night, made braised baby back ribs with roasted red taters and pinto beans. No tofu ’round here! I used this recipe for the ribs, I did my own rub but used the braising liquid, it was a huge hit.
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Bathroom graffiti.
LOL. Those ain’t from the mens room I can tell ya that. I keep up with the union, non-union feuds and the sexual activities of the foremans on the jobsite port-a-can walls.
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#s 29 – 32: I’ve never tried any of the other units nor had I heard previously about a sitting position being a better option structurally speaking…….
I DO recommend seeking out a store so you can go try one out before you buy – in Denver where I bought mine the store was “The Better Back Store” -
Well the rain just made it to Clear Lake, pretty dark out there.
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We still have free movie channels after going with Uverse. Last night we watched the HBO movie Game Change about Sarah Palin and the 2008 McCain campaign. Whatever you think of Palin, if she were anywhere near as dense as the movie portrayed, she’d never got out of junior high much less become mayor and governor. Sickening. Sad thing is, most of it I’m sure came from supposedly our side.
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We have a friend with an inversion table. I may go to his house and try it out.
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Krugman is proving again what a left-wing butt-kisser he is.
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Debbie Wasserman Skank is on Meet The Depressed,…How disgusting. 😥
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We have a friend with an inversion table. I may go to his house and try it out.
Right now, I’d try just about anything.Nope,….I’ll not say it, slowly backing out….. 😉
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Hambone’s favorite, Krugman is on now, he’s a legend in his own mind. 🙁
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German Engineering. I want one for my Kubota!
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inversion table
I don’t do math.
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My plan for today involves drifting to the PetSmart in Cypress where one of my pet charities, Purr-Paws Rescue, is showing some of their rehabs today. One is a special interest of mine, a young female who was recued from BARC. Now, to their credit, BARC did contact PPRI back in January and tell them about the blind stray kitten to see if they wanted to work on her. PPRI named her Marissa and started a fund for her rehab. One eye was congenitally shriveled and has been removed. The other has some scarring on the cornea but she does have vision through it. She had a plethora of other health problems that have all been corrected while Marissa was in foster care.
Today is her first outing to see if someone comes for her. I am going to see her, but certainly not to adopt. We are now too old to adopt any kittens since I have doubts that we could outlive them. I just want to see her and pet her. Then I expect whoever does adopt her will post pix as Marissa grows up in her new home. -
#47 Man that is neat, I need one for the fish pond. I like the way it automatically goes around the steel posts.
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Now this is interesting; Bombshell Obama Vetting: 1979 Newspaper Article By Valerie Jarrett’s Father-In-Law.
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THe German engineering and construction is incredible. If they were not so outnumbered and out-resourced by the USA, all of yurp would be speaking German now.
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Good morning (after daylight saving time change messes everything up) Hamsters.
Woo-hoo, at last we were in range of some decent rain, got 0.2″ as the front flew through.
Temp at 5 sun time was 67 and soon diving to 51 ahead of the front; currently has crawled back to 53 under rather leaden gray skies. Were we farther north they would be snow skies. The weather service forecast appears to be revised downward on the temps with this front. Mayhap we have not yet seen the last frost out here in the sticks.
Tree and grass pollens are gratefully washed out of the air for a bit, but gazillions more live oak leaves are down everywhere–again. Well, sweeping the driveway, sidewalk, and porches makes for good if boring exercise.
Today is made for indoor chores that have been put off too long. We have a box of documents that are to be shredded that have been gathering for months. Shredding is pretty much mindless donkey work after stuffed files have been culled and the space is needed for new stuff. Saving vet bills for horses who died several years ago is absurd. 🙂 -
THis fits right in with my #25 and I am very happy to see it.
HEADLINE: UPDATE: Number Of U.S. Gun Makers Refusing Sales To Gov’t In ‘Firearms Equality Movement’ Triples In Two Weeks
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Saving vet bills for horses who died several years ago is absurd.
As is repair tickets for cars you no longer own.
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We are in de-cluttering mode to get ready for painting and putting the house on the market. It is ridiculous the stuff one can collect in 12 yrs. The trash people will be grateful when we are done and Goodwill highly disappointed. 😀 -
#56 GJT
Presume that means many/most discards do not meet your requirements to donate to Goodwill?
As for the number of contracts your spouse is currently working on, it is wonderful that none of the buyers is coming from California. Texas needs to vet every immingrant from California. 🙂 We do have standards…. -
We have a friend with an inversion table. I may go to his house and try it out.
Right now, I’d try just about anything.Nope,….I’ll not say it, slowly backing out….. 😉
I will.
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#58 I knew you would. 😀
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I agree. Only Californians that have been vet certified as neutered/spayed should be allowed past the state line.
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Ms. Adee
We have been keeping the Goodwill people as busy as the trash guys. A chest and some shelves have been sitting in the garage waiting for promised pick up for a garage sale. If it ain’t picked this week, off to Goodwill they go.
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Mission accomplished, I held and petted little rescue kitty Marissa.
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did it puke on you?
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did it look up at you with its one good eye?
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Tried my friend’s inversion table. I’m getting one. I looked on Craigslist and there are several posted, but one is way up in Spring and the others that I’ve looked at may not be strong enough for Hubby.
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#63, #64
No. Yes.
Did everything but purr for me. This was her first public outing since her rescue. She is shy with strangers, so mostly had her face buried in my shoulder as I was petting her. -
I can’t figure out if she’s delusional or preparing to take her comedy show on the road:
Obama’s been very bipartisan
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Watching old shows again. Just finished two Adam-12 episodes in between washing dishes and trying to keep the barbecue fire going. (I’ll never make a good pyromaniac.) Now, there’s a Dragnet episode, and they just had a crossover between the shows. The Adam-12 officers were at the scene of a bank robbery when the Dragnet officers showed up.
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Well when I got up this morning my alarm clock had reset itself to DST, I’d forgot that it could do that. In the kitchen I have an “atomic clock” that checks with WWV every hour and resets itself as needed. It usually only does this at night because WWV is out of Boulder Colorado and is short wave, it broadcasts on 2.5, 5, 10, 15 and 20 MHz so it carries much better after dark.
FWIW; Chanel 8 and most of the PBS affiliates broadcast a sync pulse that was originally used by TVs & VVCRS to determine what time it is. This is much like the “Elevator Music” that was broadcast on local FM stations back in the 50’s & 60’s.
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I have one of those clocks that sets itself automatically.
It used to be 20 minutes ahead.
Now it’s 35 minutes ahead.
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‘Bout my # 69, back in another life I used to work at a remote Radar site @ Eglin AFB in north Florida, we were situated on the highest hill in the center of the range, just north of Range 72. We had a computer tied to our MSQ 77 tracking radar so that we would be in sync with A-3 down on Santa Rosa Island, everything that we recorded was at the exact time as them “IREG” is what it’s called. We had a receiver that picked up WWV in Colorado and we had to dail in a XX microsecond delay ( I can’t remember the exact number) to take into the fact that the signal traveling at 186,000 miles a second took a certain amount of time to get from Colorado to Florida.
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Google is my friend, this was my station, (PPI tracking) @ MSQ 77. 😀
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69 Super Dave,
Have you ever dialed in WWV (Fort Collins, Co.) on 10 or 15 mhz and heard the much
weaker WWVH (Hawaii) coming in on the same frequency? I have heard the WWVH coming in on long path DX (circling the globe via the not-so-short path). There is a slight delay in the time pulses due to the travel time of the radio wave via long path.
Two sunspot cycles ago I was working 20 meters phone late one night (about 14.3 mhz) and had a long three way conversation with two other ham operators. One was in Australia and the other was in Britain. This probably does not amaze the juvenile internet chatroom denizens, but to me it was pretty amazing considering our signals were being ducted via the atmosphere.
Oh well…time to go off and bore someone else with my sea strories.
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We have a self-setting clock that occasionally jumps the rails and thinks it’s in a different time zone. Other than that, it is pretty convenient.
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Since I clicked on Katfishy’s Couch link for Teeter tables earlier today, every web page I go to has right-edge ads for Teeter tables. The last time I had this happen to me, David had emailed me to a link for a microwave we were thinking about buying. After I had looked at it, I saw edge ads for Panasonic microwaves constantly for 2 weeks. David says it is cookies that make this happen, but I’m too lazy to look that up.
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#75 Iron Mary,….. you too?! Every dang thing I click on, Drudge, E Mail, Wall Street, etc there is an ad for one of them dang thangs! CRAP!!!
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From a friend:
George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to earth.
Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he is finished, the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so Putin writes him a check.
Next, Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for 30 minutes. When she is finished, the devil informs her that the cost is 6 million dollars, so she writes him a check.
Finally, George Bush gets his turn and talks for 4 hours. When he is finished, the devil informs him that the cost is $5.00.
When Putin hears this, he goes ballistic and asks the devil why Bush got to call the USA so cheaply.
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Google is not only your friend but your shadow too.
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#75 – MH. There’s a little free program out there called C-Cleaner (the C stands for “Crap”) that I run every few days. It takes out all the cookies, history, and other junk that can slow down and clog the pipes of your computer. You will have to re-login and enter passwords to those sites which may have been doing it on autopilot, but that’s easy enough. It will get rid of those pesky recurring ads and replace them with some new ads.
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On another front, it appears that the Rove faction of the Republican party is bound and determined to destroy the party by pushing the Tea type conservatives out. They either fail to realize that the reason the R’s control the House is due to the Tea party conservatives. So either they don’t want to control the House at all or they are in cahoots with the Obama team to destroy the party. Either way, now’s the time to duke it out. Let’s just have an all out Republican blood letting and try to reorganize by election time. This Dem lite business is just too much to stomach.
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My punch line would be…
When Putin hears this, he goes ballistic and asks the devil why Bush got to call the USA so cheaply.
The devil smiles and replies, “Well RINO Bush put the USA in purgatory with little chance of penance or reconciliation and since the great deceiver Der Obummahrer took over, the country has gone straight to hell, so it’s a local call.”
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