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OK Squawkster, what day is it?
Mornin’ Gang -
Squawk? It ain’t noon yet.
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Speaking of the Squawkster, are the people just going to roll over and let our benevolent dictator completely shred the Constitution? Since his Obamadon’tcare it such a mess, he just changes the law,….27 times!……Constitution, we don’ need no stinking Constitution!
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If you’re looking to the House to make a bold move you can forget about it. Buckle-under Boehner strikes again.
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#4 Hamous, that was my point in #3, the republicans aren’t going to do anything.
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3 Super Dave says:
February 12, 2014 at 6:49 am
Speaking of the Squawkster, are the people just going to roll over and let our benevolent dictator completely shred the Constitution? Since his Obamadon’tcare it such a mess, he just changes the law,….27 times!……Constitution, we don’ need no stinking Constitution!
Oh and Impeachment comes from the House and which party is in charge there? Oh, I see it doesn’t matter.Senator Mike Lee explains some things here.
In order to establish standing, Lee told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in a phone interview, “You’ve got to show three things: you’ve got to show that the plaintiff has suffered an injury in fact–a concrete, particularized harm that’s fairly traceable to the conduct of the defendent, and it is capable of being redressed or remedied by the court.”
“It’s not immediately apparent to me who it is that would have standing to show that they would be injured by this,” Lee said. “The people directly affected by the employer mandate are employers. But I would imagine that the administration would argue, if sued on this by an employer…, ‘You can’t show you’ve been injured by this. We’re letting you off the hook.’”Simply put, if you can’t sue him, you can’t indict him criminally—which is what an Impeachment is. Gabriel Malor shows that there may be hope yet for a lawsuit, but as he mentions in a post on AoSHQ, its a long shot.
One possibility for a lawsuit where someone might actually have standing is if a member of Congress who voted for the law sues. A Supreme Court case from back during the struggle over the line item veto, Raines v. Byrd, also leaves open the possibility that any member of Congress might sue, but that’s a longer shot. As we just saw in the Perry decision, the Chief Justice and Justice Scalia aren’t all that keen on expanding the doctrine of standing.
What happens next? I really don’t know.Maetenloch at AoSHQ makes not of this (link not provided due to 3 link rule):
ObamaCare – It’s the ultimate wildcard of a law. Which allows the President to do anything. Or nothing. Whatever his whims and needs at the moment dictate. Sorta like the commerce clause except far more powerful since everything – including just keeping yourself alive – falls under its domain.
Those of us who supported George Bush’s “signing statements” in which he listed the Presidential prerogatives he was taking to ignore or refuse to implement certain parts of a law he was in the process of signing should be rethinking that level of support which we gave back then, as this is what Obama is leaning on. I know my level of support for anything Bush has diminished a very great deal in the past 6 years.
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5 Super Dave says:
February 12, 2014 at 7:05 am
#4 Hamous, that was my point in #3, the republicans aren’t going to do anything.As I was saying yesterday.
Its because they want it to happen. They only pretend not to so they can get elected.
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Good morning Hamsters. Frigid 34 and still windy, but the overcast kept a freeze at bay.
Kinfolk head off to Phoenix today to see friends, and the weather there will be warmer than it has been here. They have enjoyed ours despite the gloom and cold–to us–since it is at least 40 degrees warmer than home. And when they get back home, well we hope the brief vacation is enough to give them strength to survive the rest of winter. -
RE: John Boehner
Short of overthrowing the House Republican leadership (which won’t happen before the election), I don’t know what other kind of public censure could be more emasculating and embarrassing for a Speaker than to have 204 of your 232 Republican members vote against you in a roll call vote.
It was clearly a “will of the people vote” and while I don’t think the Republican caucus deserves any genuine accolades, I do give them credit for this vote even if many did it because they feared the voters more than Boehner/Cantor. -
I think the issue and question of impeachment is not based on signing statements or executive orders. I’ve glanced through the executive orders issued by Obama and Bush and most of them seem pretty innocuous. It’s more that the Obama administration is outright ignoring the law by arbitrarily delaying or changing laws duly passed by congress and signed by him. If the law was written with specific deadlines then the only way to legally change the deadlines is for Congress to amend the law. Ironically, several attempts to extend deadlines were made by the House and Democrats wailed that Republicans were trying to torpedo the law.
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A federal court says this is unconstitutional:
The reasoning is because the state rejected the opposition’s plates. I say issue a “Choose Death” or “Choose Abortion” plate to even things out.
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I feel badly every time I pass up a Girl Scout selling cookies, but I won’t support them any more. It seems I’m not the only one, as American Heritage Girls seems to be on the rise.
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Good morning, Hamsters. Another dismal cold day, but I’ll take it. Do have to get out in it this morning, taking 2 cats in for annual checkups.
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#9 – Tex – I’ve concluded that the Speaker has already made his deal with a K Street firm and is no longer interested in what the Republicans may think of his decisions. He’s looking ahead for his own self interests when he may have to play both sides of the street for real money, so why bother to start any fights right now. What an absolute disgrace, but most of us knew he was like that before he was elected Speaker. Even the usually reliable Pete Olson didn’t vote with him this time – what’s up with that? Is there an election looming in the near future or something?
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Good to see you are alive and kicking, EG.
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Able to kick with both legs now days. Those replacement joints really do work well after you get them broken in.
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10 Hamous says:
February 12, 2014 at 7:59 am
I think the issue and question of impeachment is not based on signing statements or executive orders. I’ve glanced through the executive orders issued by Obama and Bush and most of them seem pretty innocuous. It’s more that the Obama administration is outright ignoring the law by arbitrarily delaying or changing laws duly passed by congress and signed by him. If the law was written with specific deadlines then the only way to legally change the deadlines is for Congress to amend the law. Ironically, several attempts to extend deadlines were made by the House and Democrats wailed that Republicans were trying to torpedo the law.Bush’s signing statements said the same things: “I’m going to ignore this or that part of this or that law.”
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The issue here is far beyond signing statements (which should be done away with as their intent is equivalent to a line-item veto, which the SC ruled as unconstitutional).
Bronco signed Healthulus with gusto, essentially claiming it was the best legal document since the Code of Hammurabi. What is happening now is that he and his administration are delaying enforcement of key aspects of the law – that they fought to include – because they are unworkable and have become a severe political liability. Furthermore, various agencies are implementing regulations that are clearly and explicitly disallowed in the legislation.
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When Presidential Executive Orders really were out of control:
Theodore Roosevelt – 1,081
William Howard Taft – 724
Woodrow Wilson – 1,803
Warren G. Harding – 522
Calvin Coolidge – 1,203
Herbert Hoover – 968
Franklin D. Roosevelt – 3,522
Harry S. Truman – 907
Reagan – 381
Clinton – 364
Bush II – 291
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Bush’s signing statements said the same things: “I’m going to ignore this or that part of this or that law.”
Give me some examples.
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For those here on the couch who really like distilled spirits and have a desire to make their own, this website is very interesting. The linked page dives off into the chemistry of esters and acetates and how to convert back to ethanol or separate off. The chemistry should be of particular interest to our host.
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I talked to my boy last night and he never ceases to amaze me. He and several other south side managers have borrowed the keys to the corporate Falcon 50 and are heading to Nawlin’s on Monday. I told him that I flew in a Falcon 50 once but not as a passenger, I was checking out the autopilot. FWIW; It belonged to Schlumberger.
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I think sodium bicarb is going to be indiscriminate when it comes to esters. Ethyl acetate is bad tasting but if you remove all the esters you’re basically left with grain alcohol. Esters are what give brewed and distilled spirits their unique flavor. If you have a process that produces a good flavor in your spirits, just keep that process. All I would worry about at that point was that there was no methanol. That stuff makes you go blind.
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It’s kinda’ neat having a Chemist on the staff. 😉
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There shouldn’t be any methanol, because the yeast doesn’t make it.
When I make beer, we often add calcium carbonate or some similar salt to mimic the water that a particular brewery uses. It sounds like that should help with this process. We use the equivalent of a couple of tablespoons per 20l.
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The legislative branch of our federal government was conceived as the ascendant and most powerful of the three because it embodied the express will and noble desires of all the people.
The executive had specific, practical and enumerated powers and responsibilities while the judiciary was imagined as the counseling, mediating check and least powerful of the three.
Currently, the weakest is Congress and has been that way for decades. The executive, the White House, Democrat or Republican, will always be the most aggressive in seizing power wherever Congress recedes and leaves a vacuum. -
Sometimes I really wish I was a judge.
A Portland catering company is being sued for $518,000 by a former employee who alleges her coworkers would not stop referring to her as a woman even after she asked them to stop, reports The Oregonian.
Valeria Jones, the lawsuit’s plaintiff, identifies herself as “gender neutral,” according to the suit. When she applied to work at the Bon Appetit Management Company, a corporate catering service, she says she purposely left the boxes beside “male” and female” on the application form unchecked, but the company never mentioned the omission. -
20 Hamous says:
February 12, 2014 at 11:19 amBush’s signing statements said the same things: “I’m going to ignore this or that part of this or that law.”
Give me some examples.
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There shouldn’t be any methanol, because the yeast doesn’t make it.
It comes from enzymes present in some things you ferment, not from the yeast.
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This is a list of Bush’s EOs. Like Texpat said they are typically minor items to smooth out the operation of the Executive Branch. Used in this manner they are a good thing. Any attempt to use them otherwise is an abuse of power.
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Most of those in which he chose to ignore specific parts the law that was passed was in the form of statements like this one:
Finally, this legislation contains certain provisions similar to those found in prior appropriations bills passed by the Congress that might be construed to be inconsistent with my Constitutional responsibilities. To avoid such potential infirmities, the executive branch will interpret and construe such provisions in the same manner as I have previously stated in regard to similar provisions.
He did not list specifically what he construed as being “inconsistent with his constitutional authority”.
Obama is doing the same thing. he says he has constitutional authority to ignore certain parts of certain laws. Its important to note that Bush did not establish the practice, it goes back as far as Madison. -
#29 Ah.
But it’s typically a very tiny amount – assuming you use the correct inputs (malts, sugars, must, honey, etc.).
Down toward the bottom of the article, one of his buddies talks about the non-specific activity of the sodium bicarbonate & other salts. Pretty interesting.
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31 TexMo says:
February 12, 2014 at 12:35 pm
This is a list of Bush’s EOs. Like Texpat said they are typically minor items to smooth out the operation of the Executive Branch. Used in this manner they are a good thing. Any attempt to use them otherwise is an abuse of power.I am making a distinction between Executive Orders and a President ignoring certain portions of certain laws that he thinks undermines his ‘constitutional authority.”
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Here are about 250 of them.
So all 250 of them (your link doesn’t take me to any signing statements, btw) are examples of Bush unconstitutionally changing or ignoring duly passed and enacted laws?
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I am making a distinction between Executive Orders and a President ignoring certain portions of certain laws that he thinks undermines his ‘constitutional authority.”
OK I see what you are getting at. Help me out on a question I have about O-care. I keep hearing on the news that Obama is making changes to O-care. How exactly is he accomplishing this. I could not find any executive orders to that effect and signing orders are written at the time the prez signs the bill into law. What mechanism is Obama utilizing to extend the employer mandate per se?
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I see my name used in vain above 🙂
Ya think we are not passed the tipping point? I caught a moment of Limb rushbaugh for a moment and he said……..
With all that Obama is doing that is illegal and no one knows how to stop it….
Obama could say in 2016 that he cannot leave this country in the hands of the Republicans.
He was speaking of the possibility that the “R”s could have a huge sweep in 2014
He then said (Asking a question)
Could Obama attempt to suspend the election of 2016.
Limb Rushbaugh then moved along as he does. In context he was talking about how the Republicans at this time are stymied as to what to do all the while Rush said unequicobly
DEFUND the programs (Obamacare). in the same breath he criticized the “R”s for not having the stomach to take such steps because they do not have the heart to do the right thing. Yes he acknowledged the Dems own the Senate but they have not even offered up the fight.
Yanno for years I (and Hammie and Texpat and Benzene and etal) have always poo pooed anyone that suggested Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush would cancel elections as just so much conspiracy whacknutz theorists. Now I am not so sure that it could not happen.
It is time to worry.
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Damn, something else that’ll make you go blind.
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Another guy also adds potassium permanganate. Any idea what that might do?
It’s a very strong oxidizer so basically the same thing only much more rigorously. It will oxidize anything and everything that is oxidizable, including alcohol. Seems counterproductive to me.
One of the “experiments” I used to perform for new employees was to take about a tablespoon of potassium permanganate and pour about a tablespoon of glycerin (glycerol) on top of it. After a few seconds you start to see a reaction. A few seconds more and it ignites and spews purple sparkling flames a few feet into the air. -
What mechanism is Obama utilizing to extend the employer mandate per se?
Near as I can tell, just by a wave of his hand from on high. He hasn’t used executive orders or signing statements.
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Obama could say in 2016 that he cannot leave this country in the hands of the Republicans.
To be blunt, I hope he does. Maybe that would wake up the masses of morons that voted for this commie bastige.
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He hasn’t used executive orders or signing statements.
Thus avoiding as much of a paper trail……………………..
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So all 250 of them (your link doesn’t take me to any signing statements, btw) are examples of Bush unconstitutionally changing or ignoring duly passed and enacted laws?
That was the answer to the search criteria the Presidential Project website gave for finding Presidential Statements quoting his application of “my Consitutional Authority”. The next post I made was all written signing statements (he made several oral ones as well), and the last one I posted quoted one specific law using the general statement he made for most of them.
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OK I see what you are getting at. Help me out on a question I have about O-care. I keep hearing on the news that Obama is making changes to O-care. How exactly is he accomplishing this. I could not find any executive orders to that effect and signing orders are written at the time the prez signs the bill into law. What mechanism is Obama utilizing to extend the employer mandate per se?
He is directing the relevant Department or Agency to disregard implementation. In the case of the O’care stuff, he is specifically directing the IRS that they not require the monthly reports required by the law that employers must give to certify that they have insured all of thier employees.
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That Obama would attempt a coup is ridiculous.
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FWIW, I agree that Obama is being lawless. I am just pointing out that he’s not the first to do so, and that it does not constitute grounds for impeachment as the precedent is long standing and well established.
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The more egregious malfeasance is the IRS changing the regulations independent of Congress as Texpat pointed out yesterday.
There is criminality in several actions of the IRS in the past 6 years. Prosecutions are in order, Lois Lerner is only at the top of the list, and doing so might bring out criminality in the Executive. -
There’s a difference between “I cannot enforce provision x of this law, because Congress has withheld funding (or equally legitimate reason)” and “I’m not going to enforce provision y of this law because I disagree with it” and “I’m not going to enforce provision z of this law because it will be very bad for me politically because it’s linked directly to me personally”.
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from the page to which I linked on #21
Working back a bit, where did all that ethyl acetate come from? Well, we all know about vinegar (acetic acid, a fatty acid), and that a ‘dirty’ ferment or a bruiser of a fast yeast can result in quite a bit of that. What may not be generally known is that fatty acids react with alcohols to form esters, and acetic acid and ethanol get together to form ethyl acetate which is . you’ve guessed it . an ester with the composition C2H5.COOH
So now we add baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) to try turn all that that ethyl acetate, which started out as vinegar, into booze. Why bicarb? Well, although it’s an acid salt of carbonic acid, it turns out that in an aqueous solution it’s alkaline, due to hydrolysis. The Na.HCO3 disassociates to form Na+ and HCO3- ions, and the H+ ions from the water (H.OH) combine with the HCO3- ions to form undisassociated carbonic acid H2CO3. This leaves heaps of Na+ and OH- (hydroxyl) ions mooching around . and those two together spell sodium hydroxide . a strong base. So what happens when these ions bump into ethyl acetate? The sodium ion grabs hold of the COOH bit to form NA.COOH, sodium acetate, and the hydroxyl ion grabs the C2H5 bit to form good old C2H5.OH, booze!
But hang around a bit! What happens to all that sodium carbonate [NaCO3] that was left behind when the baking soda disassociated? Well, it’s quite handy because it too disassociates in an aqueous solution to form more carbonic acid and lye, with an excess of hydroxyl ions floating around [Na.CO3 + 2H.OH = H2CO3 + Na.OH + 2OH-]. Now this deals to any excess acidity you might have, the OH- ions grabbing acid H+ ions to form water. Not only do you get more Na.OH for conversion of acetate to booze, but the solution is buffered to a pH of just over neutral 7.
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My money is in listening to those who have achieved very good conversion of the bulk if the ethyl acetate by giving it a week or so to work before distilling.All of the chemistry is fasciniating to me, even though I can’t quite calculate it, I understand the concepts. ONe of the things that they spoke of on the show Moonshiners, is that going slowly in the distillation process (they all use pot stills) yeilds a better product. Using that same logic with the sodium bicarb, letting it do its thing for a week or two makes sense.
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That was just one one statement I linked to.
Again, most of them took this form, which does not refer to funding at all:Finally, this legislation contains certain provisions similar to those found in prior appropriations bills passed by the Congress that might be construed to be inconsistent with my Constitutional responsibilities. To avoid such potential infirmities, the executive branch will interpret and construe such provisions in the same manner as I have previously stated in regard to similar provisions.
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That Obama would attempt a coup is ridiculous.
Really?
I have lost count of all things I used to say not in our country that has already happened in our country.
I thought after Hillcare got beat back that it would 50 years before it raised its ugly head again but here we are
I never believed we would see God kicked out as much as he has, now /military priests and pastors are being threatened
I never thought I would see “openly gay’ folks in the military
I never thought I would see the muslims accomodated in the military with the accpetance of head gear and beards
I never thought I would see the level of spying we are seeing now
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There is no level to which the usurper in chief would not stoop. Does anybody remember the trial balloon that got floated about nationalizing all the IRAs to protect them from loss? Trust us, we are going to protect your IRA just like we protect your Social Security moneys.
That they would even consider seizing all the IRAs takes every “they would never do that” off the table. I stated at the beginning of his 1st term that he may be the last elected president we ever have as he is not likely to willingly leave office after his time is up. -
Wendy Davis trades pink sneakers for flip-plops
Wendy Davis said Tuesday that she would have supported a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, if the law adequately deferred to a woman and her doctor.
Davis, a Fort Worth senator and the likely Democratic nominee for governor, told The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board that less than one-half of 1 percent of Texas abortions occur after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Most of those were in cases where fetal abnormalities were evident or there were grave risks to the health of the woman.http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/02/12/wendy-davis-sure-id-support-a-ban-on-abortions-after-20-weeks/
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squack’s gettin’ all paranoid again.
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squack’s gettin’ all paranoid again.
I have double and tripled up on the tin foil lining in the house
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I’m ready by gawwwwddduuuhhhh
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Interesting back n forth about Tea Party ‘Prez favorites’……………
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Little did we know that bunsonburner has joined the pack of paranoids.
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but i gotta say….. WAY TO GO BUNSoN
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#54:
So, Wendy Davis doesn’t do her homework, doesn’t understand the law she became famous for opposing, but now says she would support part of that law.
What are Texans supposed to make of Wendy Davis now?
Wendy Davis has either become thoroughly confused on what she really believes, has no core beliefs and does not really know very much, or she is just trying to confuse all of Texas with all of these absurd, near daily position changes.She is the perfect D(bag) candidate, she lies, has no moral center, and continually flipflops on every significant issue, depending on which way the wind is blowing. Now she is using the John “Horseface” Kerry tactic: “I was in favor of that bill after I fillibustered in opposition to it”
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Sarge reducing his digital print while hiking. WTG Sarge. 🙂
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#60: He only has to use those after eating Mexican food; he learnt that the foil would keep from getting holes burnt through his pants.
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Bbbbbbbut she’s for open carry!!!
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One of the “experiments” I used to perform for new employees was to take about a tablespoon of potassium permanganate and pour about a tablespoon of glycerin (glycerol) on top of it. After a few seconds you start to see a reaction. A few seconds more and it ignites and spews purple sparkling flames a few feet into the air.
Says the Safety Manager at XYZ Company. 😀
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65 Hamous says:
February 12, 2014 at 2:55 pm
Bbbbbbbut she’s for open carry!!!Yahbut her Daddy never was a bomber pilot.
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Hey, I did it out in the parking lot away from anything combustible. Besides, I wasn’t safety manager then 😉
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Home sick today and just watched a program about Norwegian politician Viknud Quisling.
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Yahbut her Daddy never was a bomber pilot.
But her mammy’s name was Virginia Cornstubble. That’s gotta count for something, right?
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But her mammy’s name was Virginia Cornstubble. That’s gotta count for something, right?
It might, although it sounds like one of them female problems to me.
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I didn’t know he was still alive.
He’s not. 😉
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I didn’t know Mickey Rooney was alive, either. He was in Leno’s audience the other night.
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The wheels of Justice turn ever so…..
Prosecutors in the federal corruption case alleged Nagin took bribes worth more than $500,000 through various criminal acts, starting before Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005 and continuing through the storm’s recovery. Nagin was indicted in January 2013 on charges he took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and accepted loads of free granite for his family business, in exchange for promoting the interests of a New Orleans businessman….
It took nine years to get this sleazebag and convict him.
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“Where’s your wife?”
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He’s not. 😉
ba dum bum
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I guess I missed this story when it first occurred. By what authority does the EPA have a right to redraw state boundaries?
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#78 hamous
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#80 I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure the EPA doesn’t have that authority.
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Racist Alabama politician says he doesn’t like people in mixed marriages.
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As a general rule, if someone like Harry Reid agrees with you, or praises your actions, some very serious questions should race through your mind. What did I do wrong? How did I get to this point? Do I really want to be here? Who am I? Did I just have a stroke? Am I on candid camera?
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#67 SD
Says the Safety Manager at XYZ Company. 😀
When I was in my early 20’s, I worked as a lab tech at a chemical plant in Austin. It made organic peroxides, which are accelerants for polymerization, and are extremely flammable. (I think I mentioned this job on The Couch once before and engendered a big argument about whether the underground warehouses would actually work to plan — only the exposed roof would blow sky high.)
In order to impress that flammability on new employees, a pound of benzoyl peroxide was ignited out in the yard. The resulting plume of smoke elicited calls from neighbors out in the countryside north of town. -
Sustaining Peak Orwell.
This started under Bush II and continued under Obama.
There are no words sufficient…What happened next was the real shame. Instead of admitting to the error, high-ranking President Barack Obama administration officials spent years covering it up. Attorney General Eric Holder, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and a litany of other government officials claimed repeatedly that disclosing the reason Ibrahim was detained, or even acknowledging that she’d been placed on a watch list, would cause serious damage to the U.S. national security. Again and again they asserted the so-called “state secrets privilege” to block the 48-year-old woman’s lawsuit, which sought only to clear her name.
Ibrahim was a Stanford University doctoral student in architecture and design from Malaysia and was headed to Hawaii to give a paper on affordable housing. Wheelchair-bound after just having a hysterectomy, she was handcuffed, detained for hours at San Francisco International Airport and denied her pain medication until paramedics arrived in 2005. She was eventually released and allowed to fly to her home country of Malaysia.
She sued, seeking to learn if she was on the no-fly list and to clear her name. Her case ping-ponged across the legal landscape for years as the government tried everything it could to have the lawsuit tossed.
The woman was even barred a return flight for her own trial. So was one of her daughters, a U.S. born American citizen, who witnessed her mother’s humiliation at the San Francisco airport. -
Police were dispatched this morning to respond to an altercation at a Starbucks in West Hollywood involving some familiar faces. A barista at the coffee house was apparently confronted by Bieber when he refused to serve the pop star because he wasn’t wearing a shirt. “He came in with no shirt on and his pants hanging down and underwear showing and tried to order a caramel apple machiatto.”, said Joey Goldsmith, the Starbucks barista, “I just told him he would have to put a shirt on if he wanted to order.” That’s when Bieber snapped. According to the police report Bieber started cussing at the barista and threatening to have his bodyguard, “kick his ass”.
Fortunately for Goldsmith, LA Clippers star Blake Griffin had been enjoying a drink at a table when he witnessed the altercation and stepped in. Witnesses at the scene reported that Griffin tried to calm Bieber but the Biebs wasn’t having any of it.
There was more yelling, and some pushing and that’s when Griffin smacked Bieber, knocking him to the floor. “He smacked the s**t out of him” said one witness, “then I saw Justin stumble out of the door looking like he was crying.”
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Update: Bummer. Looks like it didn’t really happen. Oh well. I still like Griffin.
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#88 from your linkie:
What I’m wondering is what was Bieber doing in WeHo? It’s the gay capitol of the Los Angeles area.
Come out, come out, whoever you are….Justin.I’m guessing he wanted to hang out with some “men”.
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What’s a Bieber?
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Someone mentioned manure yesterday and it brought to mind a recent event.
There is a talk host named Oh’Really?
A faux conservative whose name rhymes with silly
But on Super Bowl day
Serpent tongue ventured his way
And he opined with the King of Malarkey
The pundits thought oh boy what a treat
That Oh’Really? would bind Cloven Hoof”s deceit
But viewers knew right from the start
That they’d be kept in the dark
Cuz when two phonies meet
Truth’s Chum in shark’s teeth
Yet many viewers stayed tuned in
Hoping a Fox Babe would soon walk in
And pull up a stool so many could drool
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#91 🙂
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IMHO sheer profundity!
These words were penned with exactly the sort of Government which would create ObamaCare in mind:Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Marching orders from Messrs Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, Hancock, Rush, Nelson, et al.
Great moments in state exchange success: CO director put on leave after fraud indictment -
http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/12/mcconnell-cornyn-help-advance-debt-ceiling-increase-in-senate/
Cornyn’s fellow Texas Sen. Ted Cruz had a similarly negative reaction to passing the bill without any conditions, and he filibustered it, requiring 60 votes to advance it to a final vote. Senate leaders kept the vote open for an hour, trying to secure enough Republican votes to advance it to a final vote.
When those votes could not be found, McConnell and Cornyn stepped in to cast the necessary votes. Ultimately, 12 Republicans voted in favor of advancing the bill, but according to The Hill, a number of them appeared to switch their votes at the end. The final vote to advance the bill was 67-31.The only YES vote we care about in Texas is Cornyn’s.
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Sheesh, I just found out it seems Cornpone did it again: voted YES to break Cruz’s filbuster, i.e. YEA on cloture, then NAY on the frigging debt ceiling bill itself. Now he is claiming on his FB that he is wonderful cuz he voted NO.
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I’m ashamed that Cornyn
iswas a Texan
GrannyHammy would ban me forever if I typed what I think of the rat bastidge -
Just to make things worse, McConnell and Cornyn are now blaming Cruz for exposing them as the two-faced, lying bastards that they are. Go Ted Go.
No wonder newspapers in Houston, San Antonio, and Ft. Worth (and probably others) are endorsing Cornyn for re-election. He’s their kind of guy.
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