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  1. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Bunch of slackers. First!

  2. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    “Films” sounds so pretentious, doncha think?

  3. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    When I was a kid, the family went to the drive in thee ay ter on Friday nights.
    🙂

  4. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    O/C theme:
    1) The street/sidewalk/floor of the warehouse is always friggen wet even on a blue sky day.
    2) THere will always be at least one stick of french bread in a bag of groceries
    3) All monsters have copious amounts of saliva dripping from teeth
    4) In a car chase scene there are tire marks mysteriously/coincindentally already on the pavement right where the chasing cars are about to drive.
    5) Good guys tires never wear out even though they do at least 30 burn outs a day
    6) In a spy movie there is always a parade for the good guy to escape into
    7) The camera focuses on the rear wheel when the car is speeding away even when the car is front wheel drive and burning out of course
    8) Serial killers leave clues to taunt the cops

  5. phil Avatar
    phil

    Man–Is there a better version than this?

  6. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Surprise brief heavy rain shower last night around 8:45 sent the TV into picture breakup mode and searching for signal. Since it was absolutely clear at nightfall and no rain was forecast we wondered what could be the problem. A peek out the window answered that. Picture came back on about 5 minutes later. Radar check showed two big blobs of heavy rain moving east, one far north of us. More popped up later in the evening around the area but not over us.
    Very pleasant 57 this morning and steady northerly breezes swirling leaves made a lovely beginning to a November day.
    Love the gift to Cruella DeVille Sebelius. She was not amused. Too bad. She does not amuse us.

  7. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I wanted to go sit outside this morning and soak up some sunshine and fresh air, but it was too cold. Now I’ve done my morning exercises, had a short ice-down, checked email, and ready to try again. It’s up to 70 now.

  8. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    How much more of this will it take before America’s Jews realize that the Ds in general and Obama in particular are not thier friend?

    HEADLINE: ‘Scandalous’: Israel fumes as US officials spill the beans on Syrian missile strike

    In a desperate attempt to deflect attention away from its numerous failures, this admin is willing to see the ME erupt in nuclear war, with Israel at ground zero.

  9. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It was lovely sitting outside in cool crisp air, leaves dropping to the patio, chatting with David and sipping ginger ale. I don’t think the rain gauge had been collected since the big rain on Wednesday, so there was still 3.5″ there. I pulled & discarded some ruellia and then got a few stems of johnson grass to take in for the cats. They can see me out the back windows and know when grass is coming in. So they meet me at the utility room door, mewing like little billy goats.
    Just finished a T/MW cheese sammich, with dill pickle slices and deli potato salad. Next up: a short nap and then get ready for the next exercise set.

  10. Sarge Avatar

    15 Shannon says:
    November 2, 2013 at 1:27 pm
    The Alinsky Republicans

    This is why I get so pizztoff at the self appointed pundits, sycophants, hangers on, paid consultants, and just plain idiots that claim we’re being traitorous, looking for “purity”, or don’t know what we’re doing politically so we should just shut up an let the adults do the work:

    The fight between the Conservative base and its establishment overseers isn’t about which side is more Conservative, and anyone who couches it that way is doing a tremendous disservice to how serious the fight we’re in truly is. This fight is about the very same thing this country was fought for well over 200 years ago.

  11. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Mrs Bonecrusher reminds us all that tonight we set the clocks back to get to real time again. Now the sun will be in the middle of the sky at noon again.

  12. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #15 Shannon
    Outstanding article.

  13. phil Avatar
    phil

    A new slogan for OBeelzebubamacare once the website returns from the ash heap.
    Give The Devil His Due or There Will Be Hell To Pay With Your Hellth Care

  14. phil Avatar
    phil

    Heh.
    Those are two gems Brother Squawk.

  15. squawkbox Avatar

    A new slogan for OBeelzebubamacare once the website returns from the ash heap.

    Brother Comrade Brother Phil
    Man the website don’t matter. Within the next year or two watch for a push for single payer. Bohenerco will be happy to lead the charge.

  16. squawkbox Avatar

    Comrade Brother Phil
    I liked the Mae West one the best. Full disclosure: that one I stumbled on.

  17. squawkbox Avatar

    Holy crap Georgia is stomping a mud hole in the Flawidah Gadors, Someone call and check on Hamous.

  18. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Within the next year or two watch for a push for single payer.

    I htink that was the plan all along. Make the system hopelessly complicated and expensive so that it will crash, then claim that THE ONLY SOLUTION LEFT is to go single payer.

  19. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    “Mommy, mommy, what’s THAT book?” 😯
    (The story seems a little fishie but if true, sheesh. SCARRRRRRY!!!)
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/02/woman-says-she-was-fired-after-reporting-town-employees-having-sex-in-library/

  20. squawkbox Avatar

    Bones
    #27
    That is why I do not get upset/surprised about any of the revelations concerning this mess. That has always been the end game. Comrade Reagan made sure he warned us about the dangers of “socialized heathcare”

  21. squawkbox Avatar

    “Mommy, mommy, what’s THAT book?”

    I just can’t help myself
    By Dr Seuss

  22. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It looks like Phil may have an alter ego and commented on Darren’s #28:

    Ragnars ReposNov. 2, 2013 at 4:32pm
    OMG, disgusting! And they were in the non-friction section!
    I hear that makes a baby more intelligent.
    Let me bookmark that for ya.
    What do you expect her to do? He was impossible to put down.
    The civil servant got a little behind in his work.
    “It was a dark and stormy night…” “Oh, yes! Say it again!”
    F*** reading.
    Never judge a book by its porno.
    “The Skirt-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy!”

    Humorous :>)

  23. phil Avatar
    phil

    I like him much better as a bad guy.

    Yep. When Kojak wasn’t Kojak.

  24. phil Avatar
    phil

    31
    Geez…send her to the library and he eats the cover of her book.

  25. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    See, I told ya.

  26. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Is it still Halloween here?

  27. phil Avatar
    phil

    35
    Yes.
    Love those opening credits.

  28. Tedtam Avatar

    I went to the quilt show today, by myself. It’s much more fun with a compadre or two. It’s a good thing I already found this year’s Santa – the guy from whom I usually buy my Santa wasn’t there this year, and all the others were ugly or otherwise didn’t tickle my fancy.
    There was a real amusing exhibit of quilts using a cartoonish clown pattern – they all were of cows, but individualized with a humorous bent. A three headed cow with a sombrero, labeled “The Three Cowbelleros”. Another with a fruit hat, “Cowmen Miranda”. “Moo-dy Blues” was a blue cow. You get the idea. I got a good grin or two in that exhibit.
    They had another exhibit on quilts featuring Jerusalem, and another on France. I enjoyed the Jerusalem quilts and wall hangings, eh on France. As always, there were the stunners of composition and execution. I didn’t take my camera because I didn’t want to feel all depressed at my comparative incompetence afterwards.
    Hours of walking, perusing the vendor booths, trying not to buy stuff. I did get some Christmas presents for a few family members. I got a real interesting gift for Aggie Beau, but since I’ve already gotten his Christmas gifts, I may hold onto it for his birthday.
    A good day, but I must now make dinner and stuff.

  29. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I’m half-heartedly trying to put together my voting list for Tuesday.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    It didn’t take long at all for Ds in Virginia to call for slavery.

    HEADLINE: Virginia Democrat Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients
    You would think that when your party is buryingDIGGING [error in original text] a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn’t want to that hole get deeper faster. But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients. Forced by government decree, mind you.
    FYI last night at the Great Falls Grange debate, Democrat delegate candidate Kathleen Murphy said that since many doctors are not accepting medicaid and medicare patients, she advocates making it a legal requirement for those people to be accepted.
    She did not recognize that the payments are inadequate to cover the doctors’ costs. She also did not recognize there is a shortage of over 45,000 physicians now and that it is forecast to be 90,000 in a few years.
    Democrats appear to want to make physicians slaves of the state, but Democrats don’t admit they would just drive more doctors out of practice into retirement and other occupations.

    How izzit any thing other than slavery when you force doctors to treat patients and reimburse them at a rate below what it costs to treat them? What about freedom of association and freedom of choice? We all could see this one coming a mile away, but for it to happen so soon is amazing. The Ds are revealing themselves to be the authoritarian nutjobs they really are.

  31. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My own 85-y.o. GP, who has been my PCP for about 12 years, but whom I have used for over 30 years depending on where I lived in the Houston area, has announced his retirement on Jan 1, 2014. His letter to us says he has arranged for an association of docs to take over his practice. I assume that includes us Medicares. The association is mostly specialists but has only 1 Family Practice doc.
    Unfortunately, the new location is inconvenient for us. It would be OK for an annual checkup, but if you were sick, you would not want to travel way out west on the Katy Freeway. We stopped using the best veterinarian in Harris County after he moved only half that distance out the Katy Freeway, in favor of one who is almost as good but is close to us. It is simply too stressful to be driving forever when someone in the car is sick.

  32. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    How Chris Christie aka Pufferfish was vetted for Romney’s VP in 2012. Lots of inside baseball on this big goofball.
    Oh and 42!

  33. squawkbox Avatar

    Good morning Comrade Hambone people. Feeling really rough this morning,looks like a BP med adjustment is in the offing. Could not make it to church. I hate this. But I digress.
    Here is my contribution to adjusting your blood pressure……..
    DHS Adviser Tweets: America ‘an Islamic country’

    Mohamed Elibiary, a member of DHS’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), made the controversial claim on Thursday while arguing on Twitter.
    A Twitter user who identified himself as Tim Lee asked Elibiary to “show me just ONE example of an Islamic country where non Muslims are treated with equality.”
    Elibiary responded: “America and yes I do consider the United States of America an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution. Move On!”
    The online argument began after Elibiary accused America’s “right wing” of having an issue with Muslims and advised conservatives to “evolve.”
    Elibiary went on to say that “sociologically speaking” the Christian right is “similar” to the Muslim Brotherhood.

    So there ya go, now ya know.

  34. phil Avatar
    phil

    I believe we’ve arrived.

  35. Hamous Avatar

    It seems that on Thursday morning Pope Francis celebrated Mass ad orientem at the tomb of John Paul II. For those not hip with the Catholic jargon, this means that he said Mass facing away from the people and towards the altar/God. The practice is growing in popularity in many Roman Catholic parishes but remains highly controversial. For conservatives it represents a tentative return to the beauty of the Old Rite. For liberals, the act of turning one’s back on the people represents everything bad about the authoritarian, arcane bad old days of the pre-Kumbaya era. What next? Sermons about the devil?!
    ….
    Face the people, don’t face the people – all that matters is doctrinal orthodoxy and conducting the Mass in the right spirit.
    Of course, that won’t stop some of the guitar strumming liberals in the Church from getting very excited about this. They’ve been working darn hard for decades to introduce clown shoes and puppets to the Mass and they won’t go down without a fight. Or at least the angry shake of a tambourine…

  36. Tedtam Avatar

    I went back to church after having breakfast with Hubby and his mother this morning, which we usually do after attending mass on Sundays. There was a blood drive going on, so I went to make my donation. The Spanish mass probably half over, with the gospel proclaimed and the Liturgy of the Eucharist well in progress, and people were just arriving. And they’ll count that as “attending mass”. Even after I donated and mass was probably just minutes from letting out, a family was just arriving.
    In.cred.i.ble.

  37. phil Avatar
    phil

    What next? Sermons about the devil?!

    I hope so.

  38. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ll have to try that some time, being sure to time my arrival after the offering but before Communion.
    🙂

  39. Hamous Avatar

    #47 yabut did they miss the tambourine?

  40. squawkbox Avatar

    #47 yabut did they miss the tambourine?

    I swear you Catholics are so boring. Now us Protestants. We know how to have fun.

  41. Katfish Avatar

    #46 – no chit Brother!

  42. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    When I was a little kid maybe 8, paternal grandmother lived across the street from what the adults in the family called a Holy Roller church. Seems maybe they had evening services on an unusual night, not Sunday or Wednesday, and little kids like me enjoyed being at Grandma’s that night. We would sneak across the street, and try to peep in the windows of the small building to watch the people making music, dancing, parading around the small room, and carrying on in ways that were not seen in Baptist churches. I can’t say that I am proud of that memory.

  43. Tedtam Avatar

    I remember asking Hubby, when he was just my beau, if he had a problem with me being Catholic. “Y’all drink, you dance – it’s okay with me,” was his response.

  44. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    HERE’S a Catholic ready to dance after a couple of beers.

  45. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Elibiary responded: “America and yes I do consider the United States of America an Islamic country with an Islamically compliant constitution. Move On!”

    Holy denial!!! 😯

    Elibiary went on to say that “sociologically speaking” the Christian right is “similar” to the Muslim Brotherhood.

    But didn’t the supremely stupid one, the boss of all the bosses, Barack Obama say that the Muslim Brotherhood is just like any other political organization?

  46. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #42;
    From your link this is actually pretty funny:

    Within a month, the vetters had assembled preliminary research books on the 11, which Romney perused and then rendered his short list: Christie (Pufferfish), Pawlenty (Lakefish), Portman (Filet o Fish), Rubio (Pescado) and Ryan (Fishconsin).

    🙂

  47. Tedtam Avatar

    I came home from donating blood and decided to spend some time outside in this wonderful weather. I weeded my small asparagus bed (found a friendly toad, who was kind enough not to jump on me), picked up a lot of deadfall, which will be helpful when I start the fire for barbecue tonight, and grabbed my shovel to fill in the hole that tried to eat me last Wednesday.
    My menfolk obviously didn’t think it was important to fill it in.
    Me: “Dang, that hole is dangerous! I could have broken a leg or thrown my back out, not to mention what a hole full of water would do to my electronics! And heaven help us if Lovely and Aggie Beau show up and trip with Lil Sunshine!”
    Menfolk: “Oh, you fell? You’re not not hurt? Not dead? What’s for dinner?”

  48. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #57: Eventually enough people are going to realize that what we have been told by the elitist SOBs that the radical extreme version of Islam that is responsible for all the terror, is actually mainstream Islam and openly supported in wissin near every mosque in the USA, let alone in the world.

  49. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Piggy backing on mharper’s post:

    Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, 2012 Republican presidential Mitt Romney defended New Jersey governor Chris Christie, whom it was reported last week was vetted and turned down by the Romney campaign for vice president. “Chris could easily become our nominee and save our party and help get this nation on the right track again,” Romney said of Christie. “They don’t come better than Chris Christie.”
    Romney said that his concerns about Christie in 2012 no longer applied: “I know in a campaign people drudge up all the old stuff again, but he’s already dealt with it. His health is very solid, very good. There’s not an issue there….He’s a very popular governor in a very blue state. That’s the kind of popularity and the kind of track record the Republican party needs if we’re going to take back the White House.”

    Oh dear.

    Romney didn’t endorse Christie outright, instead saying, “It’s kind of early to say who is the most electable and who would be the favorite candidate. But you look at Chris Christie and say that’s a very impressive guy with a great track record, with a demonstrated ability to work across the aisle….It’s a pretty compelling story. And there’s some other very compelling stories: Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio. I mean, there is a long list of very capable people, but Chris Christie stands out as one of the very strongest lights of the Republican Party.”

    Oh dear oh dear;

    Romney also fought back against the idea that the most conservative candidate should win the Republican nomination. “I just happen to think you want to combine conservatism with the ability to get elected,” he said.

    I fundamentally agree but Christie’s style of blending conservatism and popularism? (Oh dear oh dear oh dear)
    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/03/Romney-Christie-save-country
    And then…

    Romney was asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” whether Texas Sen. Cruz is a “potential light.”
    Romney said he’s not going to disqualify anybody. But he made clear that he had given the names of those he thought were “the most effective in becoming elected.”
    Cruz led the GOP effort to shut down the government in an effort to dismantle Obama’s health care law.

    Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear.
    http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2013/11/03/romney-leaves-cruz-off-his-list-of-2016-gop-stars-n1735457

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I’ve been mad at the Lutheran church ever since they dropped the “opening parade”.

  51. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Bonecrusher #60;
    That could well be (and I’m afraid you’re on to something) but for the time being, it needs be clear that our Constitution is NOT compatible with the ideals of Islamic states.

  52. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #59;

    Menfolk: “Oh, you fell? You’re not not hurt? Not dead? What’s for dinner?”

    Now THAT’S pragmatic thinking. 😉

  53. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Tedtam;
    in the back yard yesterday Janisen showed Aedhun how to slowly drop his foot into a hole. So he’d put some grass into the hole and then drop his foot in there to step on it. It was too cute.

  54. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    29 Seagull
    That old 1961 LPA (Long Playing Album) is making the rounds lately and a lot of people are quoting Ronald Reagan’s comments about Socialism, which in this case was Medicare. RR was working as a public spokesman for the AMA at the time. The AMA opposed Medicare then. Most doctors hate the hoops they have to jump thru when filing claims, but in fairness they also complain about Aetna.
    Ronald Reagan went on to later deny correct his 1961 statements during debates with Jimmy Carter. Reagan stated that he was really in favor of a rival Medicare proposal at the time. (Had to be against it before he could be for it.)
    President Ronald Reagan must have had an epiphany by 1980 as he did not touch Medicare during the 1980 – 1982 era of “Reagan Cuts”. Indeed, by 1984 Ronald Reagan pushed thru Medicare limitations on clinics and hospitals that were largely the same as ones proposed by President Jimmy Carter.
    Simple

  55. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    tickle my fancy

    hussy

  56. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #41 mh42
    I think I’m seeing part of yer prollem.
    Driving to a vet when someone’s sick is not likely to be fully helpful.

  57. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Ah yes, the ever-helpful Pyromaniac has opened my eyes once again.
    😀

  58. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Seeing how Fishconsin has behaved since the loss by Romney/Ryan, I have a hard time remembering how much I liked him last year.

  59. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Today Mr. and Mrs. Bonecrusher celebrated their 19th lap around the sun as man and wife. This, after a longish 4 month courtship. I am quite possibly the most blessed man on the planet.
    That is all.

  60. Hamous Avatar

    Dr. Emanuel is the chief architect of Obamacare and they’re now sending him out to change minds and win hearts. If he’s their savior Obamacare is in deep doo doo.

  61. squawkbox Avatar

    Simp

    That old 1961 LPA (Long Playing Album) is making the rounds lately and a lot of people are quoting Ronald Reagan’s comments about Socialism

    Oh I get it. So what he said about the socialism side of government run healthcare is not true. Well hell then what are we bitching about. Bring on the Obamacare I’ll be perusing the website as soon as i cancel my private insurance.

  62. Tedtam Avatar

    Congrats to the Crushers of Bones, all participants in the blessings thereof.

  63. squawkbox Avatar

    Reagan was a closet communist. He was just urinated off cause the Rooskies did not give him a cut of their pie.
    Reagan wore a “Che” nightshirt.
    Reagan insured that he smoked the same Cubans as Fidel.
    Reagan really hated captialism

  64. Tedtam Avatar

    I’ve got chicken and ribs on the pit. I have made tater salad and cole slaw, both of which are in the fridge. My sister told me about using poppy seed dressing on the cole slaw, and now it’s all I put on it. Handsome Son tends to take my psd for his salads, and sometimes it’s hard to find that particular flavor. So, today, for the first time, I made it from scratch. If I’d known it was so easy, I’d’a started making it a long time ago. I get to make it more glycemic friendly at home, too.
    So, when Hubby comes home, he’ll have dinner ready. I’ve even washed all the dishes, too.
    But I won’t be bringing him a beer nor a sammich. I’m putting my feet up for now.
    Oh, and Lovely has strep. She won’t be eating anything anytime soon, from what I’ve heard. I’ve volunteered to go up and help out for a while, if needed. She’s trying to care for a 3 month old while trying to hold down food and keep herself hydrated. It’s gotta be tough.

  65. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Squawkster, please think of your blood pressure.

  66. squawkbox Avatar

    Squawkster, please think of your blood pressure.

    🙂
    Not to worry. That little outburst did not even register.

  67. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Reagan was a pot-smoking heroin-shooting Marxist union goon.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Nothing like getting lost down a rabbit trail on the internet. I just spent two hours learning the history of the Gypsies, more properly referred to as the Roma.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I feel like it is ten o’clock and past bedtime.
    I suppose instead of four AM, I’ll be wide awake at three.

  70. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    That’s nothing.
    Try 13-hour jet lag.

  71. squawkbox Avatar

    Try 13-hour jet lag.

    Ohhhhh nooooo that is almost as bad as a tuhkillyuh hang over.

  72. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    It does feel late tonight. I’m going to do my last exercise set for the day and then conk out. Night to all in Hamsterville.

  73. Tedtam Avatar

    Texans have started off well.

  74. squawkbox Avatar

    Yeah they did. I am actually enjoying this game. I can handle a loss, but it is nice to see them have a chance to actually compete.

  75. Tedtam Avatar

    Hubby is starting to snore. That means I can steal the remote and turn the volume down. He has to have it full blast. I hate appliances that yell at me.

  76. Sarge Avatar

    Romney also fought back against the idea that the most conservative candidate should win the Republican nomination. “I just happen to think you want to combine conservatism with the ability to get elected,” he said.

    Translation:
    “As an Establishment Republican, I don’t want a Conservative to win, so I’m going to make believe one can’t.”

  77. squawkbox Avatar

    “I just happen to think you want to combine conservatism with the ability to get elected,” he said.

    In other words if you are conservative vote for what we give you and then get your caboose back into the garage.

  78. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Bonecrusher #72;

    Today Mr. and Mrs. Bonecrusher celebrated their 19th lap around the sun as man and wife.

    Obviously you don’t mean years but that you’re in a really hot relationship with your wife. 😉
    Congratulations!!!

  79. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    In other words if you are conservative vote for what we give you and then get your caboose back into the garage.

    That’s how George W. did it. Romney was continuing it.
    Oh dear oh dear oh dear.

  80. squawkbox Avatar

    You are kidding Darren. Puhleassse tell me you are kidding.

    I fundamentally agree but Christie’s style of blending conservatism and popularism? (Oh dear oh dear oh dear)

    Conservatism and populism are two trains of thought that are diametrically opposed. They cannot coexist. And Christie is not a conservative. His fight with the unions was a personal thing between him and the union bosses. A power fight nothing more.

  81. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Reagan was a pot-smoking heroin-shooting Marxist union goon.

    And Ted Cruz is the next Ronald Reagan!!!

  82. squawkbox Avatar

    George W was not a conservative. W was more JF Kennedyesque than anything else.

  83. Tedtam Avatar

    Just saw Matt Schaub. He doesn’t look very happy at what’s happening with Keenum.

  84. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I never read the book Niki did and we’re both very excited to go see Ender’s Game.

    Unlike most of those who will flock to theaters to see the film, I have never read the book. It has always been on my bucket list, but instead I saw this as a novice. I went with a friend who read the book when it was first published, and he seemed satisfied with the adaptation. The film telescopes a lot of the book, as a film must do to fit into the two-hour format (unless your name is Peter Jackson, whose trailers nearly run two hours), but I was assured that the film retains the spirit and characterization in the novel.
    If so, it’s easy to see why Ender’s Game won such acclaim. In a future rendered bleak by a previous alien invasion, humanity has united around a single purpose: to make sure the aliens can never do it again. A military dictatorship runs the planet, and they decide that the only strategy to defeat the swarming alien attacks are to use exceptional children who can process complex data more efficiently. The moral ambiguities of this decision become acute at various points, but more surprising is the question of whether Ender Wiggin and his cohorts have been told the truth about the aliens — and which side is fighting for survival.

    The link has a trailer which is a must see.
    Film review: Ender’s Game

  85. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    George W was not a conservative.

    EXACTLY!

  86. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    You are kidding Darren. Puhleassse tell me you are kidding.

    I fundamentally agree but Christie’s style of blending conservatism and popularism? (Oh dear oh dear oh dear)

    Reagan did it. Nearly gain all the states the second go around.

  87. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    At this point, if Ted Cruz joins the presidential race my support is sealed and if he does I want him to win. He can’t do that if he’s unpopular.

  88. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    And Christie is not a conservative. His fight with the unions was a personal thing between him and the union bosses. A power fight nothing more.

    Which is why I said this:

    but Christie’s style of blending conservatism and popularism?

  89. Tedtam Avatar

    Kubiak has collapsed! This doesn’t look good….they have a stretcher waiting to take him off the field.

  90. squawkbox Avatar

    No Reagan did not. Reagan’s message was the greatness of America and our opportunities in a FREE America. He governed with what he was given. If I was elected I would not mess with Medicare or social security either.

  91. squawkbox Avatar

    Christie’s style of conservatism is liberal populism. There is nothing conservative about him. NOTHING

  92. Tedtam Avatar

    Kubiak has been wheeled off the field. He was talking, but did not open his eyes and could not sit up, and was in pain.
    Heart attack??

  93. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    No Reagan did not. Reagan’s message was the greatness of America and our opportunities in a FREE America. He governed with what he was given. If I was elected I would not mess with Medicare or social security either.

    True Reagan stood for all of that and he addressed it in a way which allowed people to see his conservatism as the best way government may address their concerns. He went grassroots and learned of the concerns the “people at the bottom” had and spoke as to what he’d bring to government if elected. By the end of his first term, his way to govern played out so well that his popularity soared. His speeches on America’s greatness alone would not have done that.

  94. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    TT #102; 105;
    That does not sound good. 🙁

  95. Tedtam Avatar

    Wade Phillips is saying this is a precautionary trip to the hospital.
    yeah, right.
    Wade will coach the rest of the game. It will be interesting to see how the Texans deal with this – do they lose their momentum? Or will they be determined to “win one for the Gipper”?

  96. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    If I was elected I would not mess with Medicare or social security either.

    I would. Probably why I’ll never get elected.
    Besides, if you ran would you promote folks to “skip the box”? I’ll make the signs. 😉

  97. Sarge Avatar

    “I just happen to think you want to combine conservatism with the ability to get elected,” he said.

    “I just think that we need to run another Republican like me, because it worked so well last time.”

  98. Sarge Avatar

    “I just happen to think you want to combine conservatism with the ability to get elected,” he said.

    “Ted Cruz can’t win, so we should run Fatso.”

  99. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So my wife reminds me that Kubiak’s cousin Dan, a member of the Texas House, died at 60 from cardiovascular disease.
    Then she informs me she dated him.
    After Twenty-five years.

  100. squawkbox Avatar

    Darren
    Reagan’s rise to power began in the mid 1950’s with policy speeches that centered on conservatism and business. He stayed with those principals as far as the house and senate would let him.
    Yeah I promote skip the box and vote for me
    /out

  101. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Yeah I promote skip the box and vote for me

    Done. Instead of skipping the box, vote for Squawk.

    Reagan’s rise to power began in the mid 1950′s with policy speeches that centered on conservatism and business. He stayed with those principals as far as the house and senate would let him.

    That’s my understanding
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR5BfQ4rEqQ
    Also, my understanding is that he toured factories and listened to the blue collar workers as to what was on their minds. If Reagan didn’t become popular enough at the bottom level he would not have succeeded in becoming president. The GOP certainly would not have helped him.

  102. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Well obviously the coach is not the problem. Hope Koobs is ok.

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