Here’s some blasting testimony from someone who knows what he’s talking about, ‘cuz he’s living that regulatory and taxing dream that Obama loves.
I really don’t think I need to elaborate any further.
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Perry: “I Don’t Think You Have a Heart” If You Oppose In-State Tuition for Children of Illegal Immigrants
~Spits….
Mornin’ Gang
Scot!
Regarding last night’s debate and in-state tuition for illegals, I’m having trouble getting the difference up to the nearly one hundred thousand dollar level mentioned by some of the suits on stage. Texas A&M charges a difference of $513 per semester credit hour for resident versus non-resident tuition. I’m told 12 hours constitutes a full time student load. Anyone able to convert that into $100k over 4 years?
He was talking about UT, but I’m guessing that it would be ’bout the same as A&M. FWIW; The biggest check that I wrote to A&M was $7976.56 and that was for 15 hours. At that rate a 4 year degree would be about $63800, in state tuition of course.
Things are heating up for TBO.
Of course there are things that move faster than light!
Jobs from the Obama economy
Common sense from the current administration (assuming it existed in the first place)
TBO’s polling numbers
Weiner’s political future
The UT rate schedule is a piece of work divided up by college with three different classifications of non-resident. The rates vary from a low of $4,683 for a resident carrying 12 hours to a high of $17,824 for a “new non-resident” with the same load but in a different college. Maybe this is where the $100k figure was born but I shoulda thunk Perry would quote Aggie rates. But then, not much of what Mr. Perry said made sense.
On Drudge: Florida baseball player turns out to be an illegal alien. Comment in the link:
http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/sports/Nunez-Leaves-Marlins-on-Identity-Issue-130401963.html
(re: A previous discussion) I heard on the radio that the College Station city council voted to quit adding fluoride to the water. They decided the $42,000 a year they were spending was frivolous expense.
Who was the dim bulb chick to the left of Mr. Schiff? She’s part of the reason we’re in this mess.
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Yes. He was surprisingly bad in that debate.
#9 Shannon
Everyone knows water fluoridation is a conspiracy created by Alcoa (the world’s largest producer of fluoride waste) to get rid of their waste. The NWO/Bilderberger/Illuminati teamed up with Alcoa and the Prescott Bush/Adolf Hitler cabal because it was discovered that fluoride directly affected the “freedom center” of the human brain:
Oh, and Halliburton.
Halliburton is run by dentists ?
In 1960, half the kids in America were getting cavities and getting fillings. Due to the widespread flouridation of the water supply, childhood dental cavities had almost disappeared in the US by the end of the 1980s. Dentists were going broke.
New technologies and materials saved the profession and now every kid and young adult has some kind of cosmetic treatment, braces, caps, bonding, etc, etc.
I say it’s a conspiracy among all the Brazos Valley dentists to bring back bad teeth in the new generation.
Oh Texpat. They got to you too.
LOL
As I mentioned the other day, I was raised on well water and had my share of cavities, but my Daughter was raised here in Webster on MUD district water and got her first cavity when she was 19.
#13 Is the reduction in tooth decay due to the fluoride in the water or is it due to the fluoride in the toothpaste and greatly improved dental hygiene practices apart from the contaminated water?
#6 TT: from your linkie:
60 billionths of a second faster than the speed of light?? Could one reasonably assume that to be an instrumentation error even if it does occur consistently? How about shooting the neutrinos from the Cern Lab to the east coast of Russia and see if the difference is magnified? It appears to me that the measuring distance is way too short relative to the speed involved. What do you geeky types think of my position?
I was raised on well water. I’m now in my 50s and have never had a cavity. Both my sisters had lots of cavities. I always chalked it up to me drinking lots of milk and they didn’t. Now I don’t drink tap water, only beer.
The humble submarine cable makes our current technology possible.
I guess I wouldn’t do well in Antarctica. Or Mars.
I’ve never understood the conventional wisdom that said China would be the driving force to lead the West out of its Great Recession. The notion a nation so utterly dependent on the consumers of America and Europe could “lead” anywhere struck me as counterintuitive and backasswards.
From the Daily Capitalist:
Check out the charts at the link.
But don’t tell Thomas Friedman or James Fallows – it might ruin their fantasies.
Heh.
Children’s Health – HEALTH
Study Finds Tooth Decay Prevalent Among Alaska Native Children
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/23/study-finds-tooth-decay-prevalent-among-alaska-native-children/#ixzz1YmqFcvEr
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It was the toothpaste. Crest was the first.
Much of Texas groundwater naturally contains half the amount of fluoride recommended anyway.
Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children’s ice cream!…You know when fluoridation first began?…1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It’s incredibly obvious, isn’t it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way a hard-core Commie works.
– Gen. Jack Ripper
SD: Where did yer missus get raised and what is her dental condition? Ifn she has never had a cavity or darned few, it could be that yer daughter got the missuses superior tooth genes.
I never touch the stuff. Don’t you people know what fish do in that stuff?
btw – Scotch nullifies the “fish activity”.
I-I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love…Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I-I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake. But I do deny them my essence.
– Gen. Jack Ripper
Obama speechifies in front of a bridge between Cincinnati Ohio and Covington Kentucky as a prime example of a project that would be perfect for Porkulus II. A couple of things might put a damper on his rationale:
1. The bridge has been scheduled for expansion for several years already
2. The project is already/only at the “Public Comment” phase
3. The earliest work could likely start would be in 2015
4. The work would likely not be completed until 2022
5. He sez it desperately needs rebuilding, except it is in good shape – it is simply a bottleneck and doesn’t have the traffic capacity needed for current loads
The Maasai Tracker
This is a really great post about individual freedom enabled by capitalism bypassing the impoverishing oppression of leftist, dictatorial governments. I remember reading a while back how getting cellphones had transformed the lives of farmers in west Africa because they set up informal networks to communicate who was paying the best prices for their crops. Prior to that, farmers simply loaded up their produce, went into the nearest city and were at the mercy of whatever the first local broker wanted to pay.
Great photos at the link, too.
And note that the author says the Masai tribesmen like Americans much more than Europeans because they tip far better. After observing the way Euros treat most people in third world countries over the years, I suspect they also like Americans because we don’t treat them like inferior peasants.
I think mooooooooooooooooooooooochelle the jet thief has finally met her match in the lack of class department.
Headline:
The 4 letter c-word on a necklace in a church?!?!
Click on the linkie and check out her really tasteless attire as well.
So Gaia’s in on it too?
Some of the players on the Cincinnati Bungles are apparently closet libertarians.
My wife was raised right across the creek from me, she to was raised on well water. Although I’ve had some cavities, I was blessed with very good teeth and still have all of them except for an extra snaggle tooth that was on top of another one. My wife has “soft teeth” and has had four root canals, daughter has very good teeth son not so much. My daughter takes after me and the boy after his mom. When my daughter was small she looked like my sister and my boy looks a lot like my wife’s oldest brother.
Hambone, “Now I don’t drink tap water, only beer.”
I resemble that remark
Lawrence Russell Brewer, who killed James Byrd by dragging him, caused the end of a tradition.
The world’s a better place without him on it.
#30 I don’t think it’s possible to offend the Brazilians. Nowhere else on earth will you find such debauchery. Well, maybe San Francisco.
#36 – You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Actually, aren’t parts of Bangkok pretty “questionable”?
#37 StarWars episode IV (a.k.a the first one to hit the screens) just prior to entering the bar.
Linkie for #38.
(waves hand)
This is not the blog you’re looking for.
Well alrighty, then. We won’t recognize you back.
#18 Bones
I think the best physics research centers like CERN have had the equipment to accurately measure incredibly small distances and time spans for decades now.
The biggest problem as I see it is that the more accurately you measure something’s velocity (speed, direction), the less you know about where, exactly, it is. The process of measuring something also perturbs it somewhat as well. In the case of a neutrino, which is really tiny, has no charge, very little (if any) mass, and very, very weakly interacts with other matter would seem to make this effect even more pronounced.
Those CERN guys (and guyettes) are pretty smart, though.
Ireland records its first-ever drummer death in the case of a 76-year old man.
re my #18: Dramatically increasing the distance is the rough equivalent of a big increase in sample size for statistics. The bigger the sample the more accurate your answer tends to be.
#45 Bones
Yeah, we follow that, but CERN is full of genius-level scientists. They know all that.
37 WB,
I have seen things at the Soi Cowboy that defy description.
Simple
The inbred morons calling themselves Palestinians are claiming the Israelis are ethnically cleansing? Heh. That’s a good one. Nice that they (and apparently the world media) have forgotten about all the Jews in Muslim countries that were forcibly removed. Enough of this. Kick all “Palestinians” in the West Bank and Gaza into Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Those are their ancestral homelands anyway.
#48 couchmaster: I say the day after they declare statehood, give them one week to clear out, any left will be treated like the cockroaches they are.
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At 300,000 meters/per second (speed of light) is the increase from 17 kilometers (length of Large Hadron Accelerator at Cern) to a couple of thousand kilometers that significant.
This is not the first time that “faster than light” particles with rest masses greater than zero have been found. The inherent inaccuracy of the whole system makes such a measurement possible, but if true it would be a show stopper.
Simple
#50 Simple: I think you may have left a couple of key words out of your first paragraph. My position is that, due to the inherent inaccuracy of the instruments and the relatively short distance from Cern to the spot in Italy (723 kilometers), a big increase in the distance will reduce the instrument inaccuracy factor. 60 billionths of a second is such a short space of time that, IMHO, the instrumentation limits significantly reduce the confidence of the “earth shattering” results.
from the inbox:
If you were to fire the neutrino stream straight down and measure when they emerge from the ground at the antipodal point to CERN, you would get the maximum separation (thus maximum baseline distance). By doing this, you then run into the difficulty of ensuring the clocks are sufficiently synchronized to allow measurements with such tight tolerance.
The Earth is approx 13,000km in diameter. Light takes about 43ms to travel that far (speed of light is 300,000km/sec). The difference the CERN guys measured was 60ns over a time of about 2.4ms. Assuming a linear proportionality, you would expect a difference of about 1,100 ns (1.1 microseconds) through the whole planet. I don’t know how difficult it would be to synchronize clocks sufficiently across that distance to be able to detect a difference down to a few nanoseconds.
To much math… how about some Will Rogers.
The wagonburner’s corollary:
The most reliable way to make a small fortune in commodities is to start with a large fortune.
Samples’ corollary:
There’s more’n one way to skin a cat, but they tend to be pretty riled up by the third or fourth try.
I shopped HEB quite happily when I lived in Corpus a long time ago. Never lived close to any HEB in Houston until current home. It was a ghetto HEB and I only went there one time, soon after we bought this house 15 yrs ago. The whole store smelled like sour milk. It had a stench that seemed to be soaked into the floor, walls, ceilings and fixtures. Gar!
#56 Mharper
For me, it was the local Fiesta. I won’t shop in any store where I can smell the meat department from the front door.
Amen
The HEB in Brenham is okay. It’s an older store (without the stupid diagonal design).
It beats going to Walmart, any day.
I can attest to the fact that HEB Stores have a new design. Did one in Pearsall earlier this year. Got a near clone going to Gonzales on my desk now.
Another squad is working on the “HEB of the Future” going summers in Santone.
HEB been veddy veddy good to me.
Sarge
Are they sticking with that ridiculous aisle configuration, or do you only see structural plans?
From what I can see, the one in Gonzalez is laid out like the Katy Kroger on Grand Parkway, and similar to the HEB in Richmond at Grand Parkway and 59.
I understand the retailing theory behind the squirrelly aisle configuration, but they need to do some research on the “Katfish Syndrome”. I think they would be surprised at how many people refuse to shop in the stores with that design. Those West side HEBs are magnificent, but I’m with Katfish. I won’t put up with it. I’ll go down the street to a higher priced store to avoid it.
I sure do miss this guy.
Magnum opus, fer sure
BTW—Saw Willis Allan Ramsey at the Mucky Duck a couple months ago, Shake Russel last month, and Junior Brown weekend before last.
Willis Allan Ramsey was my favorite songwriter back in the golden days of Texas music. He hooked up with Leon Russell, who ripped him off and burned him badly. Ramsey retreated back to East Texas and nobody heard from him for many years. I was really glad to see him step back into the spotlight.
He actually spoke warmly of Leon. Sang a song he wrote with him about some fishing place he owned in Arkansas. Lives in Colorado now, I think. His wife was the opening act.
Let’s just say that it was the kind of act that a doting husband would let a wife who is a lot less talented than she thinks she is do.
If I hadn’t wanted to hear Angel Eyes and Northeast Texas Women, I’d have walked out after finishing the Shepperd’s Pie.
No Muskrat Love, though. I understand he refuses to do it after the Captain and Tenille turned it into a “pop classic.”
Back in about 1974-75, I knew a girl who was close friends with Townes. She called me up and said he was playing at the Old Quarter so let’s go down to see him.
We’ve got a table near the mike and Townes is late, as usual, and well on his way to being drunk. He plays a great first set, though, and immediately calls for a pitcher of beer from the waitress.
My friend, Bitsy, and I get up to walk over to Van Zandt just as the waitress hands him a full pitcher of beer. Bitsy introduces me and Townes and he picked that moment to lose his balance, fall towards me and dump the entire pitcher of beer down my front.
Needless to say, it was a memorable night. Townes did manage to make it through a long second set in spite of his condition.
I don’t quite follow the aisle/zigzag comments about new HEB stores. I haven’t been in a new one and the old ghetto store was shut down long ago. The building belongs to Harris County probation services the last 5-6 years. I think I was in the building for a city council district meeting or some such 4-5 years ago and it was unrecognizable inside.
Texpat – I know a lady named Bitsy. I wonder if it could be the same one.
But now that the video’s been removed, you got a lot of elaboration to do.
#71 Hamous
Uh, I’ve answered this one in a private email to you.
I can’t change the names to protect the innocent because there weren’t any innocents – we were all guilty as hell.
Sure you can. When at their house, just say that you don’t like their food. You’ll get an automatic disinvite to ever enter into their house again. Now, skankiness at a church, that’s another story.
Yup, as well as, “you must be cautious”.
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Green eyed monster, here.
70′mharp
You’re just going to have to take our word for it. It’s the grocery store design from he||.
Mharp might never find her way out of there.
That’s happened everywhere else in the world that has tried the sort of scheme Obamacare folows, so why would we be exempt from experiencing the same results?
Patients to wait longer for care under new health law, think tank says
mharper;
I shop at HEB all the time though it’s a small store, not a superstore which might make a difference to shoppers. Though from time to time I make my way to an HEB superstore and really did not mind shopping there.
#77
Aww, yall just gotta just grin and bear it, make your way to the fabulous meat selections or specials on crawfish or king crab legs, make it through each aisle to get free samples of all kinda good grub and get to the bread section where you find the only fresh Texas Toast in town and then figure out how to get to the check out lines and yer good.
#77 Shannon
Bet Iron Mary Cash would — or just bust her way out through the floral department.
Darren, please do not misunderstand. I was not denigrating HEB overall, just one run-down store that has since closed up shop since my one experience with it 15 years ago. All that other stuff about new store layouts was news to me.
So was Rick Perry’s no heart statement his Howard Dean moment?
King Obumma asks his faithful sheepers DYLM then tells them to help him pass his gobs of jobs bill.
This is an interesting view on the GM-UAW deal. I usually consider this site a joke but they should have the inside track on this one.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/sep2011/auto-s23.shtml
WB,
Thanks for correcting my math. I am embarassed and will break my slide rule across my knee in shame. Normally, I would express C as 3.0EE8 meters/sec. Using m instead of km is how one overshoots a Mars landing.
I was posting at the same time I was listening to the world’s most boring teleconference. I should have known. I am too old to multi-task. (i.e. sleep and post)
Simple
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No, his Howard Dean moment was when he stuttered thru a lame attempt at humor while trying to nail Romney for flip flops.
And even that doesn’t qualify as a HD moment.
But you get the feeling there’s one just around the corner.
He’s really sucked in these debates, but then, I’ve never liked the guy, so my opinion is shaded.
Bettencourt says Palin will be in by the end of the month.
I’m beginning to get this sick feeling that the R’s really are going to figure out a way to lose to the worst incumbent in history.
#87
I don’t know, I didn’t see the debate but the more I hear the You Have No Heart replay, the madder I get. Bush got away with Campassionant Conservatism but I don’t think it would play again.
I would give one helluva lot to have an HEB in my neighborhood. I don’t care how they run the aisles.
You complainers down there are a bunch of spoiled sissies.
You cannot believe what passes for a supermarket around here. They are the worst I have ever seen anywhere in America.
In fact, that applies to just about any retail business you can imagine – from gas stations to department stores to drugstores. Most people in Texas have no clue they are the so lucky to have the best run retail outlets, probably in the world.
Netanyahu Slams U.N. as ‘Theater of the Absurd’
Netanyahu is a man who knows the international issues and knows how to address them. Funny how in the first video that one ofthe Jordanian delagates seemed to have a headache during Natenyahu’s speech.
mharper #82;
Actually I interpreted your post as defending HEB. I was backing you up.
I got your back, mharper.
Yup, outside America you’ll come across pigs hanging outside covered with flies. I’ve seen it myself. I never bought meat from such a place but I ate in many people’s homes and no doubt that they bought their meat from such places. Just made sure the meat was well cooked.
I got one of those little brothers too.
Shannon;
That could happen but Perry or Romney would defeat Obama. Even in their low moments (Romney didn’t do particularly well neither in the last debate) they’d outshine Obama in any debate. In my opinion that’s especially true for Romney.
#93 GJT
Heh.