Dogs are much better than cats. This is reason #452,948,471 why:
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He does look like he’s smiling.
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You can’t put a poodle firmly in the dog category.
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You can’t put a poodle firmly in the dog category.
I don’t know, before they became designer dawgs they were fine bird dogs.That’s why they have the wierd hair cut, the fur was left on the upper body for warmth in the cold water and the hair on the legs was cut short so that they could swim good.
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O Lord, we were estranged before from paradise, because of eating from the tree. Therefore, lead us into it again by Thy Cross and by Thy Passion, my Savior and my God. Fortify us therein that we may fulfill our fast with becoming purity, and worship Thy divine Resurrection and Passover of salvation, by the intercessions of Thy Mother.
While Easter is only a couple of weeks away, today is the first day of Lent for the Orthodox Church. When I first converted, the large disparity in dates between Easter and Pascha bothered me, but it seems to get easier every year. Of course some years we are rewarded with a congruence of the calendars.
A little historical background:The aforementioned scriptural examples of fasting inspired Christians to imitate them, thus fasting quickly became part of the regular Christian experience. Evidently, the earliest Christian documents show that fasting in the first five centuries took different shapes and passed through various phases of transformation until it evolved into its current form today.
The practice of fasting in the first and second centuries took the shape of complete abstention from food for a day or two8. During the third century, fasting was extended to a full week in preparation for Pascha (Easter). By the fourth century, fasting had transformed in form and length and had evolved from a one week preparation for Pascha into a forty day fast9.
In the year 330, as indicated by St. Athanasius in his Festal Letters, Lent had expanded to forty days and had taken on the symbolism of Jesus’ fasting in the wilderness for forty days and forty nights.
Holy Week was instituted sometime after the dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher by Constantine (335), giving a total of seven weeks10 of fasting; forming “Lent” in its current shape.Why do we fast?
Fasting is not only abstaining from meat and dairy products, rather, fasting is to live in austerity and renounce the worldly pleasures. By doing so, and we become more able to feel compassionate with those who are in need, we will be able to save our resources and give back to the poor and hungry.
Fasting isn’t a virtue by itself. Fasting is a means to obtain virtues. We don’t fast because it gratifies God when we don’t eat for “the devil also never eats”16, neither do we fast because it gratifies God when we endure affliction and pain. Neither do we fast as an act of penance for our sins, because fasting is not a punishment; quite the opposite, fasting is a joyful act of love, through which we express our love, faith and obedience towards God.
Through fasting, we control our senses and our physical weakness from all that hinders the contemplation of God; and we become more free to commune with Him in prayer. St. Isaac the Syrian states: “Fasting, vigil and prayer are God’s holy pathway and the foundation of every virtue.”17
Fasting without prayer becomes a bodily punishment, a physical diet or a false ritual, and likewise prayer without fasting loses its power and misses its goal. Fasting without effort in virtue is wholly in vain, and likewise it is impossible to acquire virtues without fasting and prayer, for to acquire virtues is to reacquire the divine likeness of God18.
Great Lent is a time for self-examination and self-denial. It is a time renew and fortify our relationship with God and others through works of mercy, charity, visitation of the sick and assistance to the unfortunate. Lent is a time when we get closer to our family, relatives and friends. Lent is a time to reconcile hostility and hatred; a time to forgive and forget; a time for a new beginning.So whether Lent is almost complete or just starting out, may you continue to have the strength to keep your eye on Him.
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Good morning, Hamsters. When I have time, I’ll hunt up a pic of a smiling cat to refute that notion.
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Good morning Hamsters. Dampish 63 and overcast and misty, but at least it’s moisture.
Off the the dentist in a few minutes to replace the temporary crown that was installed last Wednesday morning and broke later that afternoon. At least half of it is still in place, but it has been a challenge to keep that from falling out. Soft food and chewing carefully on the opposite side so far has worked. What broke it was a lovely Dove dark chocolate piece in the shape of an Easter egg, one of the small ones. Suitably broken up on the “safe” side opposite the crown, a piece migrated over and did not give enough to keep the temporary from cracking and falling out. Fished out the broken piece and washed it to take to the dentist.
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Expect to find there was a lot more uproar about this when I get home this evening:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295082/Why-does-devil-The-Bible-look-exactly-like-President-Obama.html?ito=feeds-newsxml -
Significant Other and I did a B & B weekend. She’s stressing about having to sell her house and doing some work on it to get it ready. They ripped up her stone tile kitchen floor on Friday and floated the concrete in prep for a wood vinyl application, and she was having a hard time breathing with all the dust in the air, so I decided she needed to get outta there. We threw open all the windows, locked the place up, and headed down the road.
We stayed at a relatively new place in Navasota called the Red Velvet Inn, a moderately priced place that B & B snobs would likely eschew, but just fine for pedestrain peasants like us. It was pleasant and affordable, easily reached from the highway, and close to what passes for downtown in Navasota. Its in a restored 1880’s home right on LaSalle street. Restoration is not the proper word as the house was pretty much gutted and everything inside was replaced, but they kept the Victorian feel and decor and the workmanship was done so well that one’s initial impression is that its all original. Since everything in Navasota is pretty much like everything in Rosenberg—within earshot of a train coming through town—they had taken care to add extra insulation and a double layer of sheetrock to the exterior walls, rendering it effectively soundproof.
We were lucky in that we had the place all to ourselves, the only other tenant canceling at the last minute. The proprietor lady was nice and breakfast was nothing fancy, just scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and yogurt with berries, but the important thing was that we spent a stress free evening in pleasant surroundings and we didn’t have to make the bed or clean the dishes.
Next morning was a trip to the Antique Rose Emporium and then the trip home through Brenham, down 36 to lunch at Newton’s Bakery in Bellville, then out 529 too hook onto 359 and a stop at Enchanted Garden before getting back to S.O.’s house. -
Sarge, that sounds like a very nice time. I’m glad you and S.O. were able to relax.
Now, I, on the other hand, will be starting in on training new Office Help today. That should be fun! -
Sarge,
If you took the short cut on William Penn Road and FM 390E to Independence, I spend a large part of my time running up and down that road. -
So why don’t other flailing states, like California, simply imitate Texas’ policies to get back on the path to prosperity? Perry says it comes down to a “simple but nonetheless true” psychological experiment.
“When you give a monkey the choice between an addictive drug and food, it will starve to death,” the governor said. “These citizens are addicted to government largesse, to the point of seeing their states come apart.”
Pointing to California as an example, Perry said the state’s residents were given the opportunity to stop out-of-control spending and taxation, but instead voted to raise taxes even higher on themselves in the November 2012 elections.
“I will suggest to you, it is the addiction to government promises, government programs, government largesse, that will be the demise of a great state like California,” he added. “I’m greatly fearful of it, but I’m afraid that’s the truth.”And that does not bode well for the nation as a whole. Too many addicted monkeys vote.
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At precisely one second after midnight, on March 1, Woonsocket would experience its monthly financial windfall — nearly $2 million from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. Federal money would be electronically transferred to the broke residents of a nearly bankrupt town, where it would flow first into grocery stores and then on to food companies, employees and banks, beginning the monthly cycle that has helped Woonsocket survive.
Three years into an economic recovery, this is the lasting scar of collapse: a federal program that began as a last resort for a few million hungry people has grown into an economic lifeline for entire towns. Spending on SNAP has doubled in the past four years and tripled in the past decade, surpassing $78 billion last year. A record 47 million Americans receive the benefit — including 13,752 in Woonsocket, one-third of the town’s population, -
10 Shannon says:
March 18, 2013 at 8:17 am
Sarge,
If you took the short cut on William Penn Road and FM 390E to Independence, I spend a large part of my time running up and down that road.Nah, took the coward’s way out on 105 to 50. Last time I took that trip was in 1998 and it was the opposite direction. Even in the country, enough can change in 15 years to confuse a city boy.
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I did hear a rumor that Hamous was sighted at CPAC giving a speech on the importance of not giving up on trying to elect Conservatives to reverse the direction this country is taking.
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And for those of you with a penchant for bumper stickers, here’s one.
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G’Morning All
If that poodle were a cat, I’d say the main course was canaries. -
# 4 TexMo
O Lord, we were estranged before from paradise, because of eating from the tree.
Could that be symbolic of living off the government?
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The perfect protein conversion system
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Food, under the scanning electron microscope.
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The latest scam on computer viruses is your computer locks up and there is a message that the Dept of Homeland Security has locked your computer and to unlock you need to fill out the form and send $300 to wherever. . . .then your system is unlocked until the next time. M42 prolly knows all about this, mayhaps she could fill in some blanks.
This very thing hit the geologist’s home computer this weekend. -
$1 = 0.77€
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It’s coming folks.
The sort of disruption you’re seeing in Cyprus, with outright confiscation of bank deposits and brokerage accounts, especially retirement assets such as 401ks and IRAs.
Here.
In America.
Within two years.
How do I know?
Because the precedent has already been set, and you, the common American, sat for it.You allowed the GM bailout to take place where the seniority of bondholders was ignored and they were screwed while the UAW was made whole.
You allowed Obamacare to be passed with the Congress denoting it was a “fine” rather than a Tax, because Congress knew that a direct, unapportioned tax was unconstitutional — and then you sat again when Judge Roberts of the USSC rewrote Obamacare to be that very same unconstitutional direct Tax.
You allowed John “I’m a traitorous jackass” McCain to suspend his campaign to make sure TARP passed, then you cheered both him and Obama for shoving that piece of crap legislation down Congressional throats, and just two weeks later you returned nearly all of the people who voted for it to office.
You still allow people like John Boehner to make the following sort of statement without showing up outside his office and home and refusing to leave until he resigns in disgrace:House Speaker John Boehner broke from some Republicans on Sunday when he agreed with President Obama and other Democrats who say the country does not have an immediate debt crisis.
“We do not have an immediate debt crisis,”
the Ohio Republican said on ABC’s “This Week.”
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The NAZI offensive against all that is not in lockstep with JugEars continues.
HEADLINE: Bribery Allegations Surfaced Against WSJ in China
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The U.S. government, meanwhile, is nearing the end of a broader investigation of the Journal’s owner News Corp NWSA -0.53% . stemming from allegations of phone hacking and bribery at U.K. tabloids, among other issues, according to people familiar with the case.
During the course of that broader probe, the Justice Department approached News Corp.’s outside counsel in early 2012 and said it had received information from a person it described as a whistleblower who claimed one or more Journal employees had provided gifts to Chinese government officials in exchange for information, according to people familiar with the case.
News Corp. and the Journal don’t know the identity of the informant, company officials say, and government officials wouldn’t discuss such details. It isn’t clear whether the person worked inside the Journal and whether the informant provided names of alleged bribers.There is a charge that a gift was given (no indication if it was a set of cuff links, a nudie magazine, a friendly sheep or a sack full of cash) no one has been identified BUT BY GOLLY, THE DOJ IS GONNA INVESTIGATE! They can’t seem to come up with anything on fast and furious (along with its siblings), they won’t allow any Benghazi survivors be interviewed by anyone outside the admin, etc. This is starting to look like an unwarranted attack on one of the few newspapers in the country that does not skew hard left by the most leftist admin in US history.
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Whoa are we gonna have to call Headshaker to wake up this blog? 🙂
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You can’t put a poodle firmly in the dog category.
I don’t know, before they became designer dawgs they were fine bird dogs.
If a man becomes a metrosexual, he’s not much of a man anymore. 😀
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Uncle Si on Duck Dynasty got mad at his retriever for not retrieving. He went dog shopping and got a poodle.
Coupla days later they went duck hunting and the others naturally gave him extreme grief.
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New Office Help just left. He only has minimal brain leakage. I went easy on him.
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TT check your email.
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#27 crazy aunt
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#28 BC
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#29 WB
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#30: Just re-sent from another ‘puter
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32 Shannon says:
March 18, 2013 at 2:41 pm
Be careful with whom you shake hands.It’s fair to say there are victims on both sides of the penis-snatching equation.
A. Penis-snatching. Isn’t that an oxymoron or something?
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HEADLINE:No more Stephanopoulos? RNC wants role in picking 2016 primary debate moderators
When conservatives complain about the harm that the endless debate schedule had on the 2012 Republican primary candidates, the conversation often turns to the hosts and the moderators.
Why are Republican candidates letting someone like ABC’s George Stephanopoulos — a former aide to Democrat Bill Clinton — ask them “gotcha questions” during a GOP primary?
Why are GOP presidential hopefuls agreeing to meet for a debate hosted by an outlet like MSNBC, a cable network that has increasingly grown hostile to Republicans as it self-identifies as a liberal news network?Why izzit only now that the Rs have figured out that if they don’t object to the moderator they are gonna get shellacked? I would like to see 3 prez debates (after the primaries) and 2 vp debates with Limbaugh as the moderator for at least one prez debate. That the RNC actually agreed to the moderators this last go around is reason enough to flush the lot of the leadership committee like the terds they are.
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#25 GJT
If a man becomes a metrosexual, he’s not much of a man anymore.
Ya’ know you’re more right than you may realize. I don’t know a lot about Poodles but they were bred in Germany as water retrievers, then after the Queen of England received a dog from China, (sometime in the 1800’s, I think) a lot the middle class Europeans became fans of “Designer Dogs” they of course picked the pretty or unusual ones. The Poodle became one of the favorites and by the mid 20 th century a lot of their skills were bred out of them as almost nobody hunted with them anymore. 😉
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Oh and my #37, I was going to Google the Queen Dawgs and Poodle, BUTT I don’t have time. I have a little black dawg, in my lap staring up at me with those big brown eyes, yup it’s time for our walk.
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Fruther to my #36: When we have the R convention in Aug or Sept, the Ds usually have thiers much earlier and can use the time between to wage war to which the Rs can not respond. How about have 4 super tuesdays, one a month each one with greater weight electorally, that end in May with the convention at the beginning of June. the first should be a total of 10% of the delegates, then 20 then 30 then 40. Draw the states at random to achieve the percentages and stop letting the race be overly influenced by Iowa and New Friggen Hampshire.
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The islimist Morsi in Egypt may not be long in power.
EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian Security Officials In Israel To Discuss Security, Diplomacy
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Some analysts suggest that further Hamas activity in Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood support for the group, and moves by the Egyptian army to thwart the threat should be read against growing strain between Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government and Egyptian security forces. The army’s signals indicate they intend to continue to see their role as a stabilizing force loyal to Egypt. The Tower conveyed speculations earlier this week that Morsi’s failure to garner political legitimacy or restore economic stability was impacting his domestic standing. The Egyptian military has begun holding meetings without him present, and military sources have made sure to leak the news of those meetings to Egyptian media. -
From #7
Expect to find there was a lot more uproar about this when I get home this evening:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295082/Why-does-devil-The-Bible-look-exactly-like-President-Obama.html?ito=feeds-newsxmlMy headline would’ve been…
Well Hell–If The Shoe Fits -
I don’t know a lot about Poodles but…..
Good, I was beginin’ to worry.
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#41 Phil
The hoodie devil looks like an older, debauched Bronco to me, but all the production team says No Way. -
#42 Tim 😀
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The poodle bites! –Frank Zappa
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Well it LQQKs like someone Kilt the blog, I ain’t saying who, H3!! I don’t even know who it was, but I’ll rattle on about the weekend. First of all it sounds like Sarge put some memories in the ole memory bank, well done sir. Texmo is getting into the lent mode. Crazy Aunt is hangin’. That said, we had a great weekend up to the deer camp, found the bridge as we left it leaning against a big oak on the creek bank so all we had to do was throw it across the creek. We installed our new
dance floorfront porch made out of two pieces of bowling lanes salvaged from the old Clear Lake Bowling Alley on Bay Area.They were 3 1/2 feet wide by 12 feet long and 2 inches thick, the porch is 16 X 12 so it almost covered the whole thing. BTW those Dayaam thangs were heavy! I was real glad that my son-in-law and his brother were there to help put them in place and get them level. My 160 lb huntin’ buddy and I loaded them onto the trailer and it dang near kilt us. We cut and hauled a small trailer load of wood, and made a big fire with one of Sarge’s hollow tree trunks. FWIW; It was 2 feet in diameter and 3 foot tall with a small 6″ hole down the center.
We had a great time on the 4X4’s, we’ve had a lot of rain so there was water everywhere, I needed four wheel drive for the first time ever and had water over the running boards. We moved my old stand and two other ones and planted some game mix seeds. We shot son-in-laws’ 30-30 my Para 1911 45 ACP, my old 44 and a ruger MK II 22. Had burgers and beer chicken. Yup, Life is Good! 😉 -
I might add that on Saturday the high was 81, low 54.
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TT, how about an update on OH #1 with the broken ankle, sounds like she is gone now, did they hold open the new job for her? And OH #2 is male, where’d he turn up from?
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Hey Wagon
Check yer email. I sent ya a little something from my twisted little mind. Also that is my new email addy. i killed the other one. -
Good morning.
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We can do this.
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He’d delete the blog.
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#53 😀
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Dave, the next time you have a weekend like that can I be your adopted son?
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#55 TexMo, The simple things are the best aren’t they.
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Sounds like the answer was no.
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Someone call Tedtam’s house and see if she is trapped upsidedown in her new teeter table.
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Tuesday’s up.
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