Why Shannon Suffers From Coulrophobia
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First!!!….Slackers, the possum is a nice touch.
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OK so the old
baghag votes for Obamacare and now wants to let people KEEP their health care? Didn’t she get the memo? Obamacare is working EXACTLY as planned, the idea all along was to destroy ALL private plans and go to single payer. Is it possible, and I mean this that she didn’t know? We all know how STUPID the por woman is. Of course Obama doesn’t give a damn about all the sorry a$$ democrats loosing the seats next time around as long as he gets his communist agenda through. The fiasco was to kick in this year so that the anointed one could get reelected before the mayhem started. Remember 435 members of the House and 1/3 (33) of the Senators are up in 2014. -
I just noticed that the thing in the pictures appears to be female, can’t tell about the possum though.
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Ack!
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#2 dave
Problem is that the insurance companies, contrary to what the Obama Admin managed to do, managed to put the three years to good use modifying their computer systems to meet the demands of the legislation (says something for private vs. Federal activities; also the private companies were/are liable for failure to meet the dictates of the legislation). Reversing those modifications would be time-consuming (requiring much more time than between now and the end of the year or even mid next year) and expensive (especially after having paid to make the current mandated mods).
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This all assumes that Bronco won’t veto or that it gets thru the House and Senate in the first place.
Of course he’ll veto it, remember the idea is to push through single payer.
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Obama’s Big Lie is destroying his credibility.
When I first saw the headline saying Bill Clinton was advising President Obama to “honor his commitment,” I had to laugh. The idea of Monica Lewinsky’s boyfriend as moral referee always cracks me up.
Then I got to wondering. Which commitment was Clinton talking about?
Is it the one Obama made to the Israeli people, that he had their backs and would never let Iran get a nuclear weapon? Or was it his promise to enforce a “red line” in Syria?
Or maybe it was Obama’s promise to “never rest” until we caught the terrorists who killed our ambassador and three other Americans in Libya?
Or was Clinton talking about the many times the president said he would “never rest” until every American who wanted a job had one?
Or maybe he was talking about the pledge to change the tone in Washington? Or to go through the budget “line by line” and cross out the waste driving up the deficit?
You get the picture — any of those whoppers would qualify. But, of course, Clinton was talking about the broken promise of the moment, the one where Obama vowed that “if you like your health insurance, you can keep it.” -
This might be why Di Fi is all in a tizzy.
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Didn’t she get the memo? Obamacare is working EXACTLY as planned, the idea all along was to destroy ALL private plans and go to single payer. Is it possible, and I mean this that she didn’t know?
The smart money is on her not only getting the memo, but in having a hand in writing it in the first place. Thinking of her as stupid is dangerous and naive.
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When you stop thinking of politicians as people who earnestly follow their convictions and instead view them as the actors they are, this drama that is unfolding before your eyes will begin to make considerably more sense.
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#4 – Aw cmon Brother – She’s kinda cute (if she’d just lose the danged possum)
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And these people vote.
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The good thing about having a possum as a pet is they don’t carry rabies.
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At least she’s not twerking or letting her tongue hang out.
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#13 hamous
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We’re having our annual benefits open enrollment next week. The company is switching from Blue Cross to Cigna. Last year, for the first time, we had a high-deductible/HSA option. I went with that and my monthly premium dropped by about 30%. This year my premium is dropping 69%. I don’t have info on how much of the premium the company pays but a $17/month insurance premium is pretty sweet.
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#15 😉 ba dum bum
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11 Katfish says:
November 13, 2013 at 7:31 am
#4 – Aw cmon Brother – She’s kinda cute (if she’d just lose the danged possum)I thought getting to it was the whole point.
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You said possum
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What are the deductibles & OOP max like?
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Absolute and irrefutable proof dogs are superior to cats. Subject is closed to further discussion.
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When I saw these Obamacare ads from Colorado yesterday, I thought they were bad parodies. Now, I realize they ARE FOR REAL.
Good grief.“Let’s get physical!” reads the ad, which encourages readers to visit doyougotinsurance.com. “OMG, he’s hot! Let’s hope he’s as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers. I got insurance.”
The ad, which is very real, adds the disclaimer, “The pill doesn’t protect you from STDs, condoms and common sense do that.”The ads are so tasteless even Planned Parenthood thought they were spoofs meant to deride Obamacare.
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#16 / #19, Pretty much same here except we’re sticking w/ BCBS. I don’t know deductibles / OOP max. off the top of my head, but I did the math back before I switched over and concluded that even with higher deductibles / OOP max.compared to the old PPO deal, the lower premiums and pre-tax HSA acct. more than made up for it. Plus, the company kicks in some on the HSA acct. to sweeten the deal. Our enrollment period starts 11/18 so I need to re-evaluate and make sure it’s still the best deal for my family, but I think it is going to be.
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It’s hard to see how a fluffy, purring cat in my lap would be much improved by knowing a thousand words or wanting to herd lambs. 🙂
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#21, Sadly, yup. Even the domain name appeals to the lack of education that runs rampant among us, let alone the content of the site:
doyougotinsurance.com
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What are the deductibles & OOP max like?
Deductible $2500
OOP Max $4000
Everything is 90% after deductible. Preventive care 100% and deductible waived. -
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this here, but we found out about a week ago that our 85-y.o. GP is retiring on Dec 31. Unclear whether Medicare patients like us will have a problem continuing to see the specialists we have long-standing relation with: colonoscopy every 3 yrs for me and the orthopedic surgeon; cardiologist for him.
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69 Shannon says:
November 12, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Aw, they’ll never elect an Indian.Maybe Fauxcahontas will disavow her alleged heritage.
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I don’t mind the clown makeup
I don’t mind the mohawk
I don’t even mind the marsupial
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#29: Constipated for 51 days?!? When the dam breaks you could give birth to a whole new civilization. It will prolly feel like giving birth to a roll of barbed wire.
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Apparently if you are the editor and contributing editor of “Guns and Ammo” ……. thou shalt not say anything that even hints at gun regulation. (PDF Copy of the article in question)
Metcalf’s back-page column was headlined “Let’s Talk About Limits,”and cautiously argued that gun enthusiasts should not oppose basic limits on firearm ownership. Metcalf made the obvious point that all freedoms protected by the Constitution are regulated in some way, and that gun owners should stop acting as if any regulation whatsoever amounts to the “infringement” mentioned in the Second Amendment. “I don’t think requiring 16 hours of training to qualify for a concealed carry permit is infringement in and of itself,” Metcalf concluded. “But that’s just me.”
Metcalf done been let go for that opinion.
Grant Cunningham, a gun trainer in Oregon, called the column a “sorry apologist screed” and accused Guns & Ammo of betraying the cause. “This is a major, mainstream industry magazine, one read by a big percentage of the gun owning public. Its prominent editor has given a large amount of space to agree with some of the most common anti-gun talking points.” Cunningham added that the magazine “should start to repair the damage to the community by immediately and clearly distancing themselves from the opinions expressed and reaffirming their support for the Second Amendment.”
Read the PDF if you can but I think the guy was wayyyyy off base when he implied that the phrase “well regulated militia” meant regulating firearms. Critics were spot on when they made the observation that the words are taken out of context and missed the part of “shall not be infringed”.
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When the 2nd was written, “the militia” was any and all able bodied men (we can now include wimminzes)” They used their own personal weapons, which were used for hunting and personal defense when not in war. The idea of citizen soldiers evolved a bit and the guns a militia would use necessarily include weapons not normally used for hunting, like a short barreled shotgun for example. Other examples would be full auto rifles and carbines. Essentially anything a common soldier would/could reasonably wield in war time is supposed to be protected by the 2nd amendment, as this would be required by a citizen soldier. This started to change in the Great Depression with several Supreme Court decisions. I would suggest that all read this online book for some more details. The book is a good read, although there are some “salty and risque” sections.
The real issue is that we refuse to properly punish those individuals who misuse firearms, and place the blame on the inanimate object instead of the irresponsible/criminal human causing the problem.
Let’s be graphic for a moment: If I hit you in the head with a sledge hammer or shoot you in the head with a shotgun you will still be just as dead, or to quote Hitlery “what difference does it make?” No one would even consider a license for a sledge hammer, so why for a firearm? The behavior is what needs to be addressed and not the implement. -
Further to #33: Why izzit that those who wish to restrict law abiding citizens the right to own the firearms of their choice are usually the very same one who scream bloody murder when those who misuse firearms face ultimate “rehabilitation” with lethal injection? Interestingly enough they are also the same ones who will insist on the wimminzes “right” to murder their unborn chirrenzes right up to the moment of delivery and in some cases up to a year after delivery, yet they can not imagine that the death penalty is acceptable for those who rape and murder adults.
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When the 2nd was written, “the militia” was any and all able bodied men (we can now include wimminzes)” They used their own personal weapons, which were used for hunting and personal defense when not in war. The idea of citizen soldiers evolved a bit and the guns a militia would use necessarily include weapons not normally used for hunting, like a short barreled shotgun for example. Other examples would be full auto rifles and carbines.
This is not necessarily true. The guns the British were going to Lexington and Concord to confiscate were militia arms provided by the Crown. Technically, they were going to re-claim their own property. The guns initially brought to the New World were either Crown weapons or those bought by the commercial backers of the individual colonies being established and issued to a group of chosen men for defense of the colony. The evolution came when it became rapidly apparent that private ownership of firearms was necessary for individual self defense and gathering of food in the New World, and it was much more economical than the Crown or commercial colonizers buying weapons and giving them to individuals. It recognized that the most effective means of defending any person was to arm the individual, not rely on a selected group of men. It really had nothing to do with defense of a village or colony. That is the true spirit of the 2nd Amendment.
Essentially anything a common soldier would/could reasonably wield in war time is supposed to be protected by the 2nd amendment, as this would be required by a citizen soldier. This started to change in the Great Depression with several Supreme Court decisions. I would suggest that all read this online book for some more details. The book is a good read, although there are some “salty and risque” sections.
That was the interpretation of SCOTUS in the 1930’s when laws and regulations were promulgated to limit personal ownership of machine guns, cannon, and other destructive devices. It essentially states that any weapon an individual soldier might carry is legal for citizens to own. It also noted that machine guns and short barreled rifles and shotguns were considered as being limited in issue in the military, and can thus ownership of such weapons can be regulated by the State. It established the concept that while citizens may own operational machine guns, they may not own operational battleships, submarines, or aircraft that require a large logistical infrastructure to support and a crew to operate.
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The behavior is what needs to be addressed and not the implement.
Which requires laws. So laws governing the use of said implement must be created to govern the proper use as defined by whom? The problem is we already have laws governing behaviors that are not or are arbitrarily enforced. Like you said, I do not see any laws specifically addressing the use of a sledge hammer.
In my way of thinking there is only one restriction on gun ownership that I believe is necessary. I am an advocate of mandatory firearms training. I am completely against background checks because that law affects only law abiding citizens and is rife with the possibility of abuse by our gubment. I am against concealed carry laws. Again this is a law that affects law abiding folks. The second amendment gives me the right to carry. Anyone with a CCL that has been pulled over for speeding will tell you the FIRST thing that DPS officer asks for is your CCL and to be shown the firearm then he asks for the other documentation. -
The guns the British were going to Lexington and Concord to confiscate were militia arms provided by the Crown. Technically, they were going to re-claim their own property. The guns initially brought to the New World were either Crown weapons or those bought by the commercial etc etc etc
Thanks Sarge, I did not know that or even think to ponder that reality 🙂
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It also noted that machine guns and short barreled rifles and shotguns were considered as being limited in issue in the military, and can thus ownership of such weapons can be regulated by the State. It established the concept that while citizens may own operational machine guns,
Short barreled shotguns were extremely effective for protection in close quarters or to defend against stagecoach attack. The full auto weapons were growing in popularity and were issued in increasing numbers. The tax of $200 for a full auto was, at the time, so outrageously high relative to the cost of a full auto weapon ($50 or so) that is was effectively a ban. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and this tax in particular was intended to destroy.
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#20 😀
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Richard Cohen wrote about the Trayvon thing. I get that he is left of center, yet, much of what is stated in his column is routinely dismissed and/or ignored by the left. Much of what is stated is absolute fact like this:
Where is the politician who will own up to the painful complexity of the problem and acknowledge the widespread fear of crime committed by young black males? This does not mean that raw racism has disappeared, and some judgments are not the product of invidious stereotyping. It does mean, though, that the public knows young black males commit a disproportionate amount of crime. In New York City, blacks make up a quarter of the population, yet they represent 78 percent of all shooting suspects — almost all of them young men. We know them from the nightly news.
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I wish I had a solution to this problem. If I were a young black male and were stopped just on account of my appearance, I would feel violated. If the police are abusing their authority and using race as the only reason, that has got to stop. But if they ignore race, then they are fools and ought to go into another line of work.The precise argument can be made about profiling 15-35 year old males of Mid Eastern decent, it is foolish in the extreme to ignore that 90+% of all terroristic acts are committed by this tiny group.
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Short barreled shotguns were extremely effective for protection in close quarters or to defend against stagecoach attack. The full auto weapons were growing in popularity and were issued in increasing numbers. The tax of $200 for a full auto was, at the time, so outrageously high relative to the cost of a full auto weapon ($50 or so) that is was effectively a ban. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and this tax in particular was intended to destroy.
Read the online book to which I linked above and get a different perspective.Most of the things I have been invited to read online have been better off left unread.
There was no effective ban on machine guns in this country as a result of the tax. If there were we wouldn’t have over 488,000 machine guns in private hands that we do today, and that number keeps growing. You just don’t get to 488,000 of anything if there was an effective prohibition on owning it for 40 of the last 80 years. -
Thanks Sarge, I did not know that or even think to ponder that reality 🙂
My pleasure.
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In my way of thinking there is only one restriction on gun ownership that I believe is necessary. I am an advocate of mandatory firearms training. I am completely against background checks because that law affects only law abiding citizens and is rife with the possibility of abuse by our gubment. I am against concealed carry laws. Again this is a law that affects law abiding folks. The second amendment gives me the right to carry. Anyone with a CCL that has been pulled over for speeding will tell you the FIRST thing that DPS officer asks for is your CCL and to be shown the firearm then he asks for the other documentation.
I am a bit opposite against that. I don not believe in mandatory training as a condition of ownership, just as I am opposed to mandatory training for ownership of an automobile. Operating a firearm is not rocket surgery. If Paw Paw can teach you how to drive on the tractor or the old pick-up, you can own a car. If you want to take it on the road, you have to pass a test to show that what Paw Paw taught you was right. Same thing applies to gun ownership. If you want to buy one to defend your family in your home, you should be able to walk into a store and do it. If you want to conceal it and walk around the mall, you should pass a test to get a license.
I am, however, in favor of background checks, provided they are done within certain limits. We do need to insure that guns are not in the hands of those who would abuse their use, and this would include the mentally unstable and known felons. However, they should be restricted to handguns and records of what weapon was sold and to whom should be destroyed so that they cannot be used as a means through which the government can conduct gun confiscation or identify actual gun owners.
I don’t want the government to know if or how many guns I own for the same reason i don;t want criminals to. -
Interestingly this itme came in my email this very morning:
A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin ..
Allow me to restate that number: 600,000!
Over the last several months, Wisconsin ‘s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.
(That’s more men under arms than in Iran . More than France and Germany combined. )
These men, deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms,
and NO ONE WAS KILLED.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and
Michigan ‘s 700,000 hunters, ALL OF WHOM HAVE RETURNED HOME SAFELY.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the
hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states.
It’s millions more.
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America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower!
Hunting… it’s not just a way to fill the freezer.
It’s a matter of national security.
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That’s why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed.
Food for thought, when next we consider gun control,whether you agree with it or not.
Overall it’s true, so if we disregard some assumptions that hunters
don’t possess the same skills as soldiers, the question would still remain…
What army of 2 million would want to face 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million armed citizens???
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Good afternoon Hamsters, Chilly 37 at 6, and an overnight breeze kept us from having a light freeze. That might be remedied tonight if the wind dies down. Currently 52 and breezy, and that breeze has teeth. Standing in sunshine helps a lot, but clothing layers are mandatory unless one enjoys slowly being overcome by hypothermia.
Our silver maple that had outlived the customary 30 years here was taken down this morning. Silver maple’s southern range ends at Oklahoma City, and ours was 36 or 37 estimating how old it was when we planted it. As kind Hamsters suggested this summer, make something from its wood as a keepsake. That will be done thanks to our delightful neighbor behind us whose avocation is woodworking.
He attended the dissection and told the tree folks what he would like to save of it. Most of it is good hardwood unblemished by the attacks of fungus over the years that were killing the tree by degrees. He and his son will move the logs to his yard where he has a covered area for storing the wood to dry and will shortly have a small sawmill to make boards of it and two huge pecan trees from his yard that were taken down this summer.
The stump is yet to be ground up–another company does that–and the yard in that spot is so much brighter that shade-loving plants won’t do well in the beds there now. The lawn will perk up too. Plans are to build a gazebo over the spot to fill the void. Have always wanted a gazebo. 🙂
By the way, this is the neighbor who lost his wife last March. He is a delightful gentleman for whom the glass is half full. We have lunch or dinner out with him about every couple of weeks. -
Americans told President Obama in 2012, “If you like your popularity, you can keep it.”
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Adee,
Behind city hall in Hempstead is a small park where the Watermelon Festival is held.
Texpat and I built the gazebo, which is a real cutie with a curved roof and a lot of gingerbread.
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Blog killed for over an hour and counting. Beat that, squawkie.
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My knee exercises were supervised today by a PT who is also a masseur, so I was subjected to new levels of sadism. We stopped at the sandwich shop I used to patronize on my way back from my one-day-a-week at the office; I devoured a tuna salad sammich, then conked out. Now I am out into the cold for an event at the butterfly garden I helped plan over the last 2 years. Check y’all later.
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Quite possibly the most glaring example of delusional “progressive” balderdash ever to use up electrons in the innerwebs:
If you feel it’s urgent to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, then deep in your heart you also support Obamacare.
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Duck Dynasty Chia Pets.
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Want irony?
There is a civil war brewing in both parties, centered around the same issue: Obamacare and how crappy it is. -
Sarge
I am a bit opposite against that. I don not believe in mandatory training as a condition of ownership, just as I am opposed to mandatory training for ownership of an automobile.
Yeah I can understand yer point in light of gubment knowledge of who has what. For me it is a safety issue.
Operating a firearm is not rocket surgery.
CIRCUMCISED
If you want to buy one to defend your family in your home, you should be able to walk into a store and do it.In this last round of a rush to get a handgun I saw a whole bunch of people rush to get weapons I KNOW they cannot handle. Many of the purchases were people who have never even thought about owning a weapon and they got all freaked out “Oh crap I gotta get a gun cause Obama is gonna take them all”. Fact of the matter is they didn’t even take time to go to a shooting range to at least familiarize themselves with their brand new bang bang. IMO a recipe for disaster. But by gosh they got themselves a Desert Beagle to defend their homes with.
I would be the last to deny them the privilege I would just like to see all them have some cursory knowledge of what their bang bang is gonna do and how to at least point and shoot the dang thing at the right target. Just sayin -
Shannon
#48Blog killed for over an hour and counting. Beat that, squawkie.
Really? 🙂
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Desert beagle.
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And I just took a longer look at the two girls in the latest open comments pics yesterday and today. Is it me or do they look more like young boys than girls?
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And I just took a longer look at the two girls in the latest open comments pics yesterday and today. Is it me or do they look more like young boys than girls?
Nope, it’s not you. 😉
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Man I am glad to know that Super Dave. I was getting worried bout m’self
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I was looking at Lyle Lovett’s schedule. He’s spending most of the rest of winter on the West coast and Ontario. Most gigs are listed as “Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt Solo Acoustic”.
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In today’s pic, that shoulder looks pretty feminine. But the hand is questionable.
I say there’s a 50/50 chance it’s not a woman.
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#47 Shannon
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OK, so I heard Wuss Blister talking to the horse faced gal on TV and she was saying that a lot of democrats were not happy with Obama care and were worried about 2014. Then instead of stating the real cause of the frustration, they pretended that the folks were mad that they couldn’t get onto the website! They never mentioned that 95% of them were mad that they were loosing their insurance and the new coverage was much more expensive!
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What was the timeframe and circumstance for the gazebo? Was the donation to memorialize something or someone?
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Ann Coulter with some stats on government medical fraud.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/to-speak-to-a-nigerian-prince-about-your-health-care-press-1-now -
Cry me a river.
Not.
They get what they deserve, the animals. Karma’s a female dog. -
What hands? All I see is her possum.
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Heading to bed now, and the thermometer reads 36 in the back yard. Brrr. Maybe a light frost by morning. G’night all.
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