Most things are decidedly worse when Russians get involved. As PJ O’Rourke once said: “Communism is bad – especially if there are Russians in it.”
Manufacturing? The Lada. Glorious tractor factory #5.
Winter? Siberia.
Music? Ummmmm……
Tchaikovsky. Prokofiev. Rimsky-Korsakov. Among others.
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True The Vote is suing in the Mississippi Republican Establishment voting fraud case.
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The conductor in the video must have taken lessons from Joe Cocker.
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Shannon says:
JULY 3, 2014 AT 5:21 AM
True The Vote is suing in the Mississippi Republican Establishment voting fraud case.
Such irony.Well.
Both Candidates in the race were elected by Democrats—– -
Lets examine the choice that the National Republican Senate Campaign Committee has given the voters of Mississippi. Keep in mind that the ultimate goal of these geniuses is to NOT lose any seats this year and gain a few so that they can achieve a majority in the Senate
~Both candidates on the ballot are beholden to the same constituency for their presence on that ballot.
~Both have promised to vote for largess for that constituency from the Treasury.
~Both have promised to bring pork in general to the State.
~Both have a record on Abortion attractive to Conservatives
~Both have been endorsed by the NRA
~ One has accepted money from Micheal Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Lobby.
~That same candidate has labeled a significant portion of the electorate as racists in campaign literature paid for, in part (because money is fungible), by the NRSC.
So.
If you’re a Conservative in MS, do you stay home or, if you don’t, which candidate do you vote for? -
SAWS (San Antonio Water System) broke ground Wednesday on a desalination plant in southern Bexar County that officials project to one day be the largest inland facility in the nation. It will produce 12 million gallons of drinkable water a day — good for 40,000 households — once it starts up in October 2016.
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Wichita Falls will be out of water soon. A relative of one of my best friends works for the Wichita Falls water system.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20140627-drought-stricken-wichita-falls-gets-state-s-ok-to-reuse-wastewater.ece -
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Pyro, I am stunned to see a 42 minute video as our wake-up call from The Couch. Good morning anyway.
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It’s classical music (a symphonic poem). It’s supposed to be long.
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Yeah, I have a long history with highbrow stuff. But I don’t do classical music for breakfast.
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Highbrow stuff.
That costs Thirddy bux. -
Thuddy bux? for classical music?
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So what are we talkin’ here… like dogs playin’ poker or sumthin’? Sounds outta my league.
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draggin this forward from last night (Y’all musta crashed early)
Mebbe Sarge can help us better understand (with his prior personal knowledge of Ft. Sill and all…………… 🙂 )
Ummmmmmmmm I thought “fences do not work”?Ft. Sill is one of three facilities established to house an influx of illegal immigrant children flooding the U.S.-Mexico border. Nearly two-thirds of the 52,000 UACs apprehended by authorities this year come from Central American countries.
GOP Rep. denied access to facility housing unaccompanied migrant children
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Let’s see….feet of head…uh…..uh….
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Israel pounded 15 targets in the Gaza Strip overnight — including rocket-launching sites and weapons warehouses — in response to the rocket fire, the Israeli military said.
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#17 Shannon
Let’s see….feet of head…uh…..uh….
You talkin’ the desal plant or Ft. Sill?
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Hubby had a stressful day yesterday, so after running my afternoon errands, I made sure to come home and cook him dinner and sit with him for a while. I didn’t get to my workout until about 9:00 pm. I did some weights (carefully, as my shoulder is still iffy) and a 5K on the treadmill. I didn’t get home until about 11:00 pm. I realized that crazy lawsuit customer had filed a complaint with our licensing board and it needed a response, as our deadline is rapidly approaching for a response. I was waiting on an answer from the TSBPE on a question I had, but they haven’t responded, so I went ahead and drafted up a 3 page response to the myriad of false claims he made in his complaint.
I ran it by our 2 lawyers this morning. The collections guy has actually talked to our customer on the phone – when the customer called him to give him grief – and has informed me that he thinks the guy is “mentally unstable”. In the return email giving me his blessing to send off my response to the TSBPE, he again described him with a word that means “mentally unstable” and informed me that I may have grounds to sue crazy customer for defamation, and we may have grounds to sue on behalf of our company as well for several things.
The lawyer is really feeling for me and my pain. Nice guy. He made my weekend! We may own a quarter million dollar house by the time this is all over….
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This group could set up a permanent office in the DC area and keep busy.
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I think that is because Pope Francis comes out of South America, where it is probably routine.
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#9 ElvoStalin: Izzit possible that they may simply drill down to heavily laden salt water formation in the area and pump it from there and bypass all the necessary expense of pipe and right of way?
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Good ol Texas wisdom with respect to Jihadis:
Rattlesnake Logic
After the Boston bombing the news media has spent days and weeks trying to determine why these men did what they did.
They want to know what America did to make these brothers
so angry with us. They want to know why these men were not
arrested before they did something so terrible.
The media is in a tizzy about this new era of homegrown radicals,
and about why they could live among us and still hate us.
A friend of mine from Texas explained it all to me:
Here in west Texas I have rattlesnakes on my place, living among us.
I have killed a rattlesnake on the front porch. I have killed a
rattlesnake
on the back porch. I have killed rattlesnakes in the barn, in the
shop
and on the driveway. In fact, I kill every rattlesnake I
encounter.
I kill rattlesnakes because I know a rattlesnake will bite me and inject
me with poison. I dont stop to wonder why a rattlesnake will bite
me;
I know it will bite me because it’s a rattlesnake and that’s what
rattlesnakes do.
1. I dont try to reason with a rattlesnake…I just kill it.
2. I dont try to get to know the rattlesnake better so I can find a way to
live
with the rattlesnakes and convince them not to bite me. I just kill
them.
3. I dont quiz a rattlesnake to see it I can find out where the other
snakes are,
because (a) it wont tell me, and (b) I already know they live on my
place.
So, I just kill the rattlesnake and move on to the next one.
4. I dont look for ways I might be able to change the rattlesnake to a
non-poisonous rat snake…I just kill it.
Oh, and on occasion, I accidentally kill a rat snake because I thought it
was
a rattlesnake at the time. Also, I know, for every rattlesnake I
kill, two more
are lurking out there in the brush.
In my lifetime I will never be able to rid my place of rattlesnakes.
Do I fear them? No!
Do I respect what they can do to me? Yes!
And because of that respect I give them the fair justice they
deserve….
I kill them…
Maybe as a country we should start giving more thought to the fact that
these jihadists’ are just like rattlesnakes, and act accordingly!
I love this country; it’s the damn government I’m afraid of! -
Every unbaptized person who chooses to become Catholic goes through a process that involves exorcisms. They’re not Hollywood “exorcisms” but they happen routinely.
During the celebration of the Holy Mass on the Third, Fourth and Fifth Sundays of Lent, the Church assembly celebrates the scrutinies with the elect. These rituals mark the final preparation of the “catechumens” (those not baptized) to receive the Sacraments of initiation. These scrutinies include exorcism prayers for deliverance from sin, evil and evil influences in order to strengthen the faithful to the Word of God. During the exorcisms, the elect kneel in humility as the community prays for them.
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Fly Rocinante, fly!!!
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Ann Coulter rags on the soccer-queers again.
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Talk about a bad day at work.
Harold McCluskey, then 64, was working in the room when a chemical reaction caused a glass glove box to explode. He was exposed to the highest dose of radiation from the chemical element americium ever recorded — 500 times the occupational standard.
Hanford, located in central Washington state, made plutonium for nuclear weapons for decades. The room was used to recover radioactive americium, a byproduct of plutonium.
Covered with blood, McCluskey was dragged from the room and put into an ambulance headed for the decontamination center. Because he was too hot to handle, he was removed by remote control and transported to a steel-and-concrete isolation tank. -
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We started our holiday weekend early with hot dogs for lunch, followed by apple pie and Blue Bell Vanilla Bean ice cream. Man, I am stuffed.
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34 – I saw that comparison and thought the same thing.
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#30 Shannon: I wish I were clairvoyant, in truth, I am cheap and I just looked at the cost factors. That being said, I can’t believe that the socialist scumbag Julian Castro didn’t insist on piping the water out of Matagorda Bay.
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Quick 4th of July history lesson.
Paul Revere’s first ride to warn Colonists about the British coming to confiscate weapons and powder resulted in an armed action against the Crown—and no, it wasn’t to Lexington and Concord in April of 1775.
“no jail would hold them long, and no jury would find them guilty.” -
A cowboy lullaby for a warm summer afternoon
And as the moon rises he sits by his fire, thinking about women and glasses of beer.
And closing his eyes as the doggies retire, he sings out a song which is soft but it’s clear -
39 CFree
He failed to attack….when he could have.
A Republican disease embraced by the establishment.
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37 – don’t be giving Castro ideas about taking water out of my fishing spots! Course, it was a little windy this past weekend so not real good. I’d go for you talking him into taking all of the nasty seaweed lining the coast.
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Forty-four years ago.
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This is appropriate for the Fourth of July.
In 2008, the Congressional Research Service was asked by Congress to write a report on the various federal laws passed throughout our history regarding the American flag. It is a 17 page PDF and should be saved for future reference.
The United States Flag:
Federal Law Relating to Display
and Associated Questions
Here is a sample covering flags sewn into Daisy Duke shorts, halter tops, etc.The Flag Code addresses the impropriety of using the flag as an article of personal adornment, a design on items of temporary use, and item of clothing.48 The evident purpose of these suggested restraints is to limit the commercial or common usage of the flag and, thus, maintain its dignity. The 1976 amendments to the Code recognized the wearing of a flag patch or pin on the left side (near the heart) of uniforms of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations.
49 The Code also states that the flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. 50 While wearing the colors may be in poor taste and offensive to many, it is important to remember that the Flag Code is intended as a guide to be followed on a purely voluntary basis to insure proper respect for the flag. It is, at least, questionable whether statutes placing civil or criminal penalties on the wearing of clothing bearing or resembling a flag could be constitutionally enforced in light of Supreme Court decisions in the area of flag desecration.
In the past, the Supreme Court has held that states may restrict use of pictures of the flag on commercial products.52 There is a federal criminal prohibition on the use of the flag for advertising purposes in the District of Columbia.53 While commercial speech does not receive the full protection of the First Amendment,54 the status of these statutes and cases can not be taken for granted in light of Eichman and Johnson. -
I just had my tires spin balanced and rotated (for free mind you) at Discount Tire on Hwy 6 just south of 529. In and out in less than 15 minutes, a new record :>)
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Forty-four years ago.
Good grief.no kidding eh Brother!
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It has been threatening to rain here in Glorious Copperfield for about an hour; so far the threats have been idle.
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I woke up from a long nap to thunder and light rain, and Doppler shows a lot more apparently headed my way. I’ll definitely take it.
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Congratulations, Texas.
Look who the newest legal immigrant is…
Via Twitter:David Burge @iowahawkblog
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Sellers just accepted my offer on a house in Texas. #BOOOOOOOOM
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This is funny.
Dana Perino ✔ @DanaPerino
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@iowahawkblog will you be changing your name?
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Yes, to “IllinoisCanKissMyAssAndMyTaxesGoodbye.” RT @DanaPerino @iowahawkblog will you be changing your name?
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#49 – AAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE!
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Kangaroo going down nicely, thank you.
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Won’t he have to be TexasHawk? Can’t we insist he be TexasHawk? -
……….thinkin TexHawk rings better………..
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IllinoisCanKissMyAssAndMyTaxesGoodbyeHawk is okay.
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Kangaroo with a slightly-overseasoned-with-black-pepper roast beef and potatoes, carrots, onions and zucchini is quite tasty.
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it’s gettin all uppity up in Bellville tonight, c’mon.
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It’s been right there in front of your faces all this time.
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#57 shannon
Sittin’ on the patio enjoying the coolness with some Hebridean Holy Water. -
60 wb
Tipping my glass and nodding my head your way.
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“I love the smell of napalm in the morning”
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#57 Shannon
Now I wish I had ever thought of adding zucchini to the veggies nestled in around a pot roast – back in the olden times when I cooked. Intriguing. -
“Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.”
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Might as well shut down the blog.
Texpat wins. -
Texpat
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If Joan says so then it is so don’t you know. -
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Well, of course.
It is understood crazy Jewish women know all kinds of top secret, scary things. -
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Zucchini is the low-life roommate of eggplant.
Hand in hand they insinuate themselves into our lives and onto our tables…the styrofoam peanuts of the culinary world.
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The first time I ever had zucchini (as a young adult!!!) — I had no idea what it was. I guessed it might be some type of gourd.
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