*snif* Makes you proud to be American.
Russians are a bunch of drunk crazy people.
Us In Two Minutes
by
Tags:
Comments
-
First!
Mornin’ Gang -
I think some of those are from reunions on my mom’s side.
-
TimTom 😀 -
Looks like some were from the State Which Shall Remain Nameless, But Looks Like America’s Junk.
IOW, a buncha “saltines”. -
I don’t know – I find it depressing that “the world” consists only of failures of one type or another. It would have been nice to see successes included.
Although the guy with the fireworks in his crotch was something. What it was, I’m not sure, but it was something. -
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
-
G’Morning All
Sánchez family founds Laredo
May 15, 1755
On this day in 1755, Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera y Garza founded Laredo with his family and several others. Sánchez was born near Monterrey, Nuevo León, in 1709. As a young man he served in the army and later ran a ranch in Coahuila. When José Vázquez Borrego established a ranch on the north bank of the Rio Grande in 1750, Sánchez started one on the south side within sight of the new settlement. He was residing there in 1754, when he petitioned José de Escandón for permission to found a town on the north bank of the river. Escandón eventually approved the request and appointed Sánchez captain and chief justice of the new settlement, to be named Laredo. Sánchez was almost singly responsible for maintaining the settlement on the north bank of the Rio Grande, and he held the offices of chief justice and alcalde with only brief intermissions until his death in January 1796.Eddy Arnold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=855MPlUl2h0
Marty Robbins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4JiXtZ16KQ
Eddy was good, but Marty nailed it. -
Although the guy with the fireworks in his crotch was something. What it was, I’m not sure, but it was something.
Seemed like a good idea at the time.
-
Found Laredo? I coulda tole ’em where it was.
-
My take on yesterday’s press conference:Carney: White House notified of IRS targeting tea party ‘several weeks ago’; Obama: I found out Friday.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a press conference Tuesday that the White House was notified about the IRS targeting tea party groups “several weeks ago.”
This means there is a letter in their office with a date and time stamp on it.This comes a day after President Obama said he found out about it from news reports on Friday of last week. During a press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday, President Obama was asked about the IRS scandal. He responded, ”I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday.”
Obama’s nose starts growing
Carney said later in the press conference that although the White House was notified “weeks ago” about the IRS investigation, neither he nor the president were notified individually.
Someone screaming in his earbud that he just called Obama a liar and he better do something about it.
Carey’s nose starts growing. -
Even the Politico is down on Obama
The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House.
Buy-in from all three D.C. stakeholders is an essential ingredient for a good old fashioned Washington pile-on — so get ready for bad stories and public scolding to pile-up.
Vernon Jordan, a close adviser to President Bill Clinton through his darkest days, told us: “It’s never all right if you’re the president. There is no smooth sailing. So now he has the turbulence, and this is the ultimate test of his leadership.” Jordan says Obama needs to do something dramatic on the IRS, and quick: “He needs to fire somebody. He needs action, not conversation.”
Obama’s aloof mien and holier-than-thou rhetoric have left him with little reservoir of good will, even among Democrats. And the press, after years of being accused of being soft on Obama while being berated by West Wing aides on matters big and small, now has every incentive to be as ruthless as can be.
This White House’s instinctive petulance, arrogance and defensiveness have all worked together to isolate Obama at a time when he most needs a support system. “It feel like they don’t know what they’re here to do,” a former senior Obama administration official said. “When there’s no narrative, stuff like this consumes you.”Much, much, much more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/dc-turns-on-obama-91386.html -
Little did we know how true-to-life this mash-up would become in just a few short months:
-
How many times do you have to do something before you can’t remember how many times you’ve done it?
-
But there was worse. For President Obama concluded his remarks as follows: “Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you…”
And that is nothing short of blasphemy. -
Attorney General Stedman needs to explain exactly why and, more importantly, how his minions managed to “seize” records from a private company apparently without any sort of warrant.
Also seems like there ought to be more than a few criminal prosecutions of some fairly senior IRS dudes. -
The following information is provided as a Public Service:
While it is OK to buy dehydrated camping meals made by bunnie hugging granola munchers at the local Sprouts, do not get the mouthwash.
You’re welcome. -
Hammie
I have a question for Planned Parenthood:
If a life is legally over when a heart stops beating, when does it legally begin? -
#16 Sarge
Get the travel-size Listerine at WalMart. It comes in 100ml bottles. -
#15 Pyro
I have noticed over the last 4+ years the standard answer of Obama and his entire Cabinet has been “I only learned it from the news at the same time you did.” That would indicate that this nation is adrift and rudderless, lost at sea. And judging from the state of the nation, that indication appears to be true. -
This is one reason why I am adamantly opposed to red light cameras.
-
This is an interesting take on how our culture of death has even infected our worship. Our inability to see tragedy for what it is:
Today the problem is even greater: Entertainment has apparently become many people’s primary purpose of existence. I doubt that it would surprise Pascal that the world has increased the size, scope, and comprehensiveness of distraction. It would not puzzle him that death has been reduced to little more than a comic-book cartoon in countless action movies or into a mere momentary setback in soap operas and sitcoms. Indeed, he would not find it perplexing that the bleak spiritual violence of mortality leaves no lasting mark on the bereaved in the surreal yet seductive world of popular entertainment.
But he might well be taken aback that the churches have so enthusiastically endorsed this project of distraction and diversion. This is what much of modern worship amounts to: distraction and diversion. Praise bands and songs of triumph seem designed in form and content to distract worshipers from life’s more difficult realities.
Even funerals, the one religious context where one might have assumed the reality of death would be unavoidable, have become the context for that most ghastly and incoherent of acts: the celebration of a life now ended. The Twenty-Third Psalm and “Abide with Me” were funeral staples for many years but not so much today. References to the valley of the shadow of death and the ebbing out of life’s little day, reminders both of our mortality and of God’s faithfulness even in the darkest of times, have been replaced as funeral favorites by “Wind Beneath My Wings” and “My Way.” The trickledown economics of worship as entertainment has reached even the last rites for the departed.When we no longer look at death as tragic (in the classical sense) it becomes easy for the president of the United States to ask God to bless the world’s largest abortuary. How cynical! I think it’s safe to say (and by “our” I mean “our country”) God is not on our side.
-
21 Hammie
I agree with everything you said, but you have to remember that God didn’t leave us, we left him. -
…but you have to remember that God didn’t leave us, we left him.
Yup.
-
21
I read that yesterday. Good piece.
Also, a blogger over at First Things advocated for mercy for Gosnell, causing mostly heated response, especially from the Old Testament-centered crowd. -
I sincerely hope that Gosnell makes it into Heaven.
That would mean that he saw the error of his ways, sincerely acknowledged those errors as grave, sincerely repented, and asked God for forgiveness.
This sentiment goes for everybody, no matter how “good” or “evil” they may have been while on this earth. I figure Heaven’s a pretty big place, with lotsa room and the more, the merrier. -
Y’all may remember the local pastor from last year that, during Lent, encouraged his members to get tattoos of the Stations of the Cross. That’s the kind of drip drip drip that leads to irrelevance. I don’t care if anyone gets a tattoo but what in the heck does that have to do with the Gospel? Are we so bored with life that we have to be entertained by such banality, even in church? If the recitation of the Passion isn’t tragic enough for you then you’ve probably missed the message. If it takes motocross on stage to get you to a worship service you’ve become a Christian caricature at Six Flags Over Jesus.
/rant off -
On a lighter note, if I had 20 grand lying around and nothing else to do with it I might buy one of these:
-
Utah congresscritter on fox news calling for a special prosecutor to look into the IRS. I say go for it.
Morning all. -
An interesting take on what’s going on…
I confess, when I woke up this morning, I half expected to find that Obama had confessed to being one of our lizard overlords, or made an offhand mention of the time he’d had the CIA price out a drone attack on Mitt Romney’s headquarters. Between Benghazi, the discovery that Kathleen Sebelius has been leaning on insurers to finance their Obamacare PR, uncovery of a freelance political inquisition by the IRS, and last night’s revelation that the Department of Justice had been trolling through the phone records of AP reporters, this has been the most scandalicious week in living memory. I mean, sure, none of it rises to the level of Watergate. But while the gravity may pale in comparison, the volume is breathtaking. So breathtaking that it’s tempting to think that the administration is doing this deliberately.
-
#5 TT, #8 OTL
Love your comments on fireworks boy. What he likely is now is sterile, and the world is spared his defective genes. 🙂
Good morning Hamsters. Light rain and gloomy in all directions. Started with 66 at 6 and have now achieved 69. A day of light rain would work for me after last Friday’s deluge.
Bring on the Select Committees in the House. Y’all hear, Speaker (for now) Boehner? -
#29 Texanadian
Maybe this is proof that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn occasionally. 🙂 -
That’s not much of a preview. How about a full side view?!
-
They’re holding us in suspense until the Sturgis Rally debut.
-
They had me at the motor.
-
#s 33 & 34 – Hammy…………….as MANY times as Indian has been “almost resurrected” – the smart choice would be to stick with HD (and I aint got nothing against Indians – they are gorgeous rides)
I’d say that this time around since it’s Victory/Polaris doing the resurrection maybe the Indian will stick around a while -
33 Shannon says:
May 15, 2013 at 10:15 am
That’s not much of a preview. How about a full side view?!
34 Hamous says:
May 15, 2013 at 10:25 am
They’re holding us in suspense until the Sturgis Rally debut.I got inside connections…..
http://www.totalmotorcycle.com/motorcycles/2013models/2013-Indian-ChiefClassic.htm -
But the preview was of the 2014.
-
Consultants.
The Republicans sure know how to pick ’em. -
An Indian will turn the head of even the most haughty HDer.
🙂 -
#36 There have been a lot of failed resurrections, that’s for sure. Back in 1974 my dad bought my six year old baby sister an Indian mini-bike. I think it was Italian-made.
I do think Polaris can pull it off. This new one looks like it’s coming in quite a bit lower in price than a comparable Harley. If they can maintain good quality, which they should have a lot of experience at, it should succeed.
Back to the mini-bike. That thing sat under a shed at the old homestead for years and years. At some point someone must have thrown it away. Last year some time I was watching Pawn Stars and someone brought in a rusty, beat-up Indian mini-bike just like it, in about the same condition as my sister’s. They bought it for a couple grand and sold it for a couple more grand. -
Also, there have been some chronic quality control problems at HD the last few years. Certainly not to the level of the AMF years but I’d think twice about buying anything post-2008 or so.
-
#12 hamous
Here’s another:
-
Found this on #30’s link; Hooters girl impresses golfers with textbook swing.
Might not have been JUST the swing. 😀 -
Why izzzit necessary to keep posting pics of the jugeared sob?? The only pic i want to see of him [redacted]
Blogmonkey sez: Um, I’m not sure where exactly the line is, but that’s pretty danged close. -
#45 SD: Impressive indeed.
Have I ever mentioned how much I detrst having to ise the touch screen on a phone to blog .. -
#46: Point taken, chastisement accepted.
-
Someone go in there and wake up Mharp.
Can’t be sleeping till noon just cause you’re retired. Sheesh. -
Might be time for a refresher:
These rules are a work in progress and will be updated as needed.
- Blog Monkey will not tolerate any discussion, however framed, that involves calling, wishing, praying, or hoping for the death of any person in this country (unless, having been convicted by a jury of their peers, they are on death row). You are certainly free to do that in the privacy of your own home but it will not stand here. If you haven’t guessed, this is a violation of etiquette Blog Monkey considers very grave.
- Please refrain from calling each other idiot, dense, moron, dumbass, blah, blah, blah. Just because someone has a different opinion from you doesn’t mean they’re stupid. Misguided maybe, but not an idiot. Heck, they may even be an idiot (not that anyone here is) but this is not the forum to publicly announce it. They usually speak for themselves without any help. And just because someone may support (or not support) a particular politician you find the devil incarnate does not mean they are Satan’s spawn. So please, let’s argue and debate our opinions and points. They may even get heated at times. But let’s not lower ourselves down to the level of Scottish soccer fans.
- The fewer scatological references you use, the happier Blog Monkey is.
- Shannon’s Corollary: The ubiquitous use of “FIFY” has lead to the acronym being placed on the auto-ban list, along with the various vulgar slang names for your naughty parts.
- This is a request, and I’m not invoking Blog Monkey Infallibility, but I would like to ask you all to refrain from linking to any story on infowars.com or prisonplanet.com or any site associated with Alex “Rabies” Jones. I’m not going to delete any links and I will not strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger. I just ask that you don’t link to that maniac. If a story is legitimate there should be multiple sites to choose from. If there are not then it’s probably one of the multitude of conspiracy theories that ooze out of the lyssaviritic brain of Jones.
- Blog Monkey reserves the right to delete, without explanation, any comment or commentor engaging in what the Blog Monkey deems as the author exhibiting symptoms of Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder. Hambone is not a treatment center and Blog Monkey is not a liscensed psychiatrist. If you forget to take your meds, maybe you shouldn’t be blogging.
-
I went out early this morning to meet a customer to pick up a check. Got a little turned around, and on my way back, got rear ended by a very sweet, young lady on her way to work. (None of the guys here would hesitate to ask for a date, if eligible. She was very pretty.) She mentioned that she’d been asking her father to change her tires, and I guess he will now! She just couldn’t grip the road in the rain and slid right into the rear of my car.
I was remarkably calm. After checking that she was okay, we exchanged information and then I ended up in her car, talking, while we tried to figure out which jurisdiction we were in. Nope, not Houston – they sent us to Harris County. Nope, not HC – they sent us to Pearland. Pearland sent a cop, but it turns out that since we were northbound instead of westbound, we were on the wrong side of the ditch. He called Ft. Bend, who sent someone out – from Rosenberg! We had quite a lot of time to spend together while waiting for the official shield to show up. I had grabbed my embroidery before I left, so I had something to do while waiting.
Before she left my car, she admired my embroidery and I brought her up to date on the scandals and the scandalous lack of news coverage. She was absolutely clueless on any of the key words: Gosnell, Benghazi, AP, IRS. I also gave her a list of web sites and radio stations, should she decide to become better informed.
Converting the clueless, one fender bender at a time. -
Heh.
“Texas on paper looks good,” Herbstreit said. “Until I see it, it’s hard for me to buy in.
“This has been going on for three years now. Until you see this team play with a bit of a chip on its shoulder and play with an attitude, it’s going to be the same old, same old. But maybe they’re tired of being made fun of and their head coach being made fun of and maybe they’re ready to do something about it.” -
The left column of Drudge has a USNWR story worth reading.
-
Top of tje column sen dems first encouraged then criticize irs for harasment of C groups.
-
“This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents
-
Here is an academic study of stupid people that I found insightful. Conclusion is that there is no getting away from them.
http://cantrip.org/stupidity.html -
#49 Shans
Can’t be sleeping till noon just cause you’re retired. Sheesh.
Just because they had my lunch yesterday doesn’t mean I’m retired yet. That was scheduled for the convenience of the developers, who wanted to spend some time on a debugging problem with one of the guests, before he embarks today on a 2-month trip to the UK.
I lost 3 hrs of testing time because of the lunch, now trying to make up for it and still finish on schedule by Friday. Don’t expect to turn in my hardware and my badge until Monday or Tuesday. -
But maybe they’re tired of being made fun of and their head coach being made fun of and maybe they’re ready to do something about it.
Hope not too much.
It’s fun making fun of them and making them whine. -
All things considered, I prefer Nixon to Obama.
-
I understand that Baier, naturally enough, would have preferred to have Sessions and Rubio on together. And I am reliably informed that Sen. Sessions wanted to appear with Sen. Rubio for a genuine (and if possible, an extended) true point-counterpoint discussion. Unfortunately, Rubio would not agree to appear with Sessions.
If Rubio is confident he can successfully defend his legislation he should be able to do it in a discussion. His refusal presents two possible issues:
1. He can’t defend it, in which case it shouldn’t pass.
2. He can’t debate well enough to defend it, in which case he should abandon any aspirations of running for president. -
Maybe Sessions has cooties.
-
It might be just another scam, but its being reported that Billy Sol Estes has died
-
Will no one rid me of these turbulent teabaggers?
Did you know Mocha jesus is descended from Henry II? -
Now, Karber has decided to help “rebrand” the retailer, by launching the #FitchTheHomeless campaign. He went to local thrift stores, bought all of the Abercrombie & Fitch clothes he could find and headed to Skid Row, where he gave the clothes to homeless people. He’s now encouraging others to do the same—find Abercrombie & Fitch clothing, give it to the needy and Tweet about it with the hashtag. His goal? To make Abercrombie & Fitch “The World’s No. 1 Brand of Homeless Apparel” …
I’ve never liked the company. This is the best use for their clothes that I can think of. That, and being used by my Hubby to clean his sewer cable.
-
Just saw this on FB:
Obama’s loyal fans will follow him straight to Hell. And when they get there, they’ll blame the heat on global warming caused by the Republicans.
-
We live in something of a meritocracy, and our rulers believe they are by far the most enlightened and well-informed people who ever lived. For that reason they feel entitled to make the aspirations of the present day, or what they consider such, the compulsory standard for public life. They view the claim that there are principles that transcend those aspirations as the sort of thing that led to 9/11, and treat the past as worth considering only as something to escape from or a foreshadowing of the glories of the present.
Nonetheless, a variety of conditions, from the state of education and the arts to that of political discussion, makes it evident that Western society is growing less and less able to think clearly and effectively. That’s a big problem, and one that’s hard to deal with, because it is difficult to cure oneself of mindlessness. Still, we should do our best to understand what’s going on.
A basic part of the problem is that the kind of meritocracy we have leads to stupidity. Its effect is that local and subordinate groupings are deprived of talent and respect, and the leadership at the top becomes unable to think or function outside established understandings…. -
You gotta be an old mofo to remember Billy Sol Estes.
🙂 -
Bing wants out of Detroit leadership:
Bing tried to turn around a city that has been losing population and sinking into an ever-deeper economic hole for decades, with a City Council resistant to his plans for radical changes to save Detroit
I’m not real sure, but I think part of the problem can be found in that sentence somewheres.
-
Dayaam, Tedtam been done kilt tha blog.
-
I won’t be much help to keep tha blog alive tonight. Man I’m tarred.
-
I’m starting some embroidery projects now. Maybe if crocheted a kilt, or embroidered one and made it pretty, the kilt won’t be so dangerous to the blog.
-
Like one of these, maybe.
-
Instructions for crocheting a kilt are here.
-
President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking political casualty thus far in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks.
-
67 Shannon says:
May 15, 2013 at 2:49 pm
You gotta be an old mofo to remember Billy Sol Estes.My remembrances of Billy Sol are from my adolescence. I always marveled at the brazeness of the kind corruption that would cause law enforcement officers to conclude that a man shot five times with a single shot bolt action rifle committed suicide.
73 Tedtam says:
May 15, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Instructions for crocheting a kilt are here.As we in the Brotherood of the Hammock and Kilt say:
“Pics or it didn’t happen.”
Can you make that in camo? -
Maybe if crocheted a kilt, or embroidered one and made it pretty
You’d prolly turn the sporran into a snood.
-
Can you say IDIOT,….Yup I knew you could.
-
‘VERY FRIGHTENING’: PROMINENT CATHOLIC PROF. CLAIMS IRS AUDITED HER AFTER SPEAKING OUT AGAINST OBAMA AND DEMANDED TO KNOW WHO WAS PAYING HER
But the circumstances surrounding the irregular nature of the experience don’t end there. Hendershott noted it was particularly surprising that she, alone, was audited. Her husband, who brings in the vast majority of the family’s income, was not included in the IRS’s inquiry — even though the Hendershotts always files jointly.
So when the agent explained that she would need to come alone and in person to discuss her “business” activity in July of 2010, the professor was perplexed.
“[The IRS agent] didn’t even let me decide when it would be good for me … He didn’t want my husband to come,” she said of the meeting, which was held at an IRS office in New Haven, Connecticut.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/15/exclusive-prominent-catholic-prof-claims-irs-audited-her-after-speaking-out-against-obama-and-demanded-to-know-who-was-paying-her/
The process was a grueling one, including many questions that Hendershott felt were political in nature. Numerous records were requested before the in-person meeting, as well as during and after.
“Every question had to do with bank deposits we made. Every single question,” she said. “What is this money? And I didn’t know a lot of it. We had to go to our bank and get deposits back. We had to get records showing where the money came from.”
While asking about the deposits, the agent wanted to know if the monies came from groups and, if so, more about who the organizations were.
The mention of groups, Hendershott notes, is particularly interesting, as she had been writing for numerous Catholic outlets and organizations at the time. In addition to Catholic World Report and the Catholic Advocate, she also penned op-eds for the Wall Street Journal. Many of these writings were critical of President Barack Obama and his policies. -
The young lady who rear ended me today called. Among other things we discussed, she thanked me for the websites that I provided to her. “It’s amazing!” she said,”All that stuff going on and everybody just goes on with their lives!” She was fascinated with what she discovered today.
Well, she’s not a no-information voter now. -
I wonder if this will go very far
I can’t figure out if he’s saying that the FBI tapped the House of Representatives, or that when they tap journalists phones or sieze thier phone records, the necessarily will get info on what congress critters they talk to.
One’s a bombshell, the other is just a good point. -
#79 TT
Wow! As you said, saving the country one rear-ender at a time. Wish we could clone you. -
#78 – More like INFURIATING (IMHO)……………I cannot imagine the Husband allowing his Bride to run that unconstitutional gauntlet alone?
*spits* -
You’re an inspiration, Ms. Tedtam.
-
#79 – Well PLAYED MsTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (wanna hire out as a recruiter for BACA?) 🙂
-
I cannot imagine the Husband allowing his Bride to run that unconstitutional gauntlet alone?
He likely had no choice.
The IRS is worse than the phone cops and the mattress label police. -
#85 – So Solly – we ALL have choices – they apparently chose to live in fear
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.