Nope, I don’t drink, I just work ungodly hours. I’ve been pushing into the wee hours now for several weeks, and the strain has caught up with me. I have a meeting I attend every Monday night, and I had the hardest time staying awake. Driving tends to perk me up, but when I got home I could barely stand. Walking upstairs was a challenge, as was getting to the bathroom and back. I think it took all of five seconds (maybe) for me to fall asleep when my head hit the pillow. I didn’t even hear Hubby’s alarm clock, nor did I wake up when he turned on lights and went through his morning routine. I could probably use another five hours of sleep.
I woke up late this morning, and I feel hung over. My head still isn’t right, and my eyes are having a hard time focusing. But the first thing I did after my morning ablutions was to look and see if the Couch was open.
Egads! My friends left out in the cold! So I stumble to the door, unlock it, and welcome you all in. Please pardon me while I get my breakfast and inject some caffeine. Another day begins.
FIRST!
Good Morning All
I notice that this is a stand alone sentence, thus not requiring any explanations or excuses.
(Sorry, I just couldn’t resist) I promise to go light on you the rest of the morning.
Take your sweetheart to Starbucks for Valentine’s Day.
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/call-boycott-starbucks-valentines-day-over-gun-policy
And why would one want a gun in a restaurant? Here’s one reason.
http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/298946/28/South-Carolina-Waffle-House-customer-shoots-kills-robbery-suspect
Romney has tried to paint Newt as an insignificant back-bencher in the Reagan Revolution.
That is simply inaccurate.
It’s nights like tonight that remind me why I’m glad that I don’t have a TV anymore.
Rand Paul’s statement at being detained by TSA:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/23/tsas-intrusions-undermine-security/
Yestersday’s explanation from Big Sis and gang. Notice they say they must pat “resolve” all irregularities” Now that Rand has been told that the have random alarms, and it seems to be true since his second trip thru did not alarm, What will Big Sis say in response? Her only choices now seem to be that they do random alarms or their equipment is shoddy and not dependable.
TSA has defended its treatment of Rand Paul, saying that its employees in Nashville followed its normal procedure with the senator, who has often sharply criticized the agency’s pat-downs before he refused one Monday morning.
http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/tsa/205813-white-house-sides-with-tsa-in-rand-paul-standoff
TT, thanks for thinking of us Hamsters and flinging open the doors for us, come rain or come shine; headache, lack of sleep, total exhaustion, whatever. Bravo!
#6 OTL: The “issue” could and should have easily and quickly been resolved by simply allowing him to be re-scanned. Because this most reasonable of actions was not taken, one can only conclude that simply passing the scan was not the objective of the TSA. This is clearly but one more log on the pyre of abuses that the TSA has committed and let’s not forget a couple of weeks ago where they stripped searched a couple of 80+ year old wimminzes in 2 different airports. This agency, along with the entire Fed system is completely out of control and drastic action is needed to jerk the jerks back in line. I seriously doubt that the Romneyrroid has the stones to take that kind of drastic action; at the same time, I seriously doubt that the Noootskie will hestitate. Neither Rick nor Ron will be a presidential factor in all probability that makes the choice for me much easier.
TT: Just take a wissin nap this morning and get caught up for crying out loud. How much that is going on in your world can’t wait for a couple of hours??
Crony capitalism at its worst under JugEars.
So it cost $3.00 more per bbl to ship via rail than pipe and Warren Buffet is long on railroads and long on JugEars access, and we are supposed to think that nothing out of the ordinary is going on.. . . . . .hmmm. What do you think will happen to that price when the Canadian tar sands kick into high gear and there is a dramatically increased demand for tank cars? Would a reasonably prudent person with a bare minimum of economics education assume that the price will go down, stay the same or go up when demand increases and supply lags behind?
Let’s not forget about this little tidbit from the article:
What happens to the sacred environment when a derailment happens and those tank cars rupture and spill that foul substance on the pristine prairie?? Isn’t is well known that the safest, most economical way to ship liquids is via pipeline? Let’s not forget that using rail involves burning diesel fuel and that contributes to gore-bull warming right, oh, wait, I forgot, its OK when the Ds are running the show but ifn an R wanted to do it it would cause at least a 10degree increase in the mean global temps.
#9 Bone
1) Daily schedules that must be in by a certain time
2) IRS – they hate it when their taxes don’t come in on time
I took a nap yesterday afternoon because I was so exhausted. I’m one of those people who just – don’t – sleep during the day. It’s hard for me to nap. I slept for almost 1½ hours. It perked me up for about 30 minutes.
Although, I will admit that seeing this shocked me into a higher level of awareness this morning.
I MUST send Lovely the link so she can reconsider her wedding gown choice. /sarc off
PS: I wonder what on earth inspired the elephant under the skirt. /shaking head
#12 TT: FREAKING YIKES!! Most of those people look like they are on the way to a haloween party. I would love to see the foul Debbie Wasserman Schultz model this one for her next interview.
How to get the schizzle beat out of you in 3 seconds or less.
#12 & #14 – Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the veil is kinda overkill I’ll agree
MEGASNIKKER™
#12 TT
Woo hoo! See-through wedding “gown” with high-top tennies, tres elegant, n’est-ce pas?
#15 Bones
Is this supposed to be TT’s fashion link? Or did it stick to you?
It is called “fashion” but the one I linked to in #15 as well as all the rest more accurately fell into the category of “wissin absurd”.
Just started raining 249 and the beltway.
A bit of interesting news from our northern neighbors courtesy of
http://mjperry.blogspot.com/
This is a way cool machine. A 5-axis CNC woodcarver/engraver really opens the realm of creativity.
Re the link in #12. Not sure why anyone would want one but the Michelle Obama costume, pic #2, is pretty realistic.
#19 Bones
Well, unfortunately, one can’t link to a specific image in the lineup. I wanted to pinpoint 2 images I thought especially insane, but they both had the same saved URL as image #1.
#12 is a Conehead female with muttonchop whiskers!
#80 is a model wearing bubble-wrap!
I whipped through the whole series and any of them with a male model would risk serious bodily harm if caught wearing that nonsense in the real world.
#23 Goat: The headline for the piece was:
I state that to call any of that crapola “fashion or beautiful” is to seriously mis-use the words. I will grant that to use the word “Daring” to describe that may be close as in “daring to call it fashion.” Perhaps if daring is simply a code word in the “fashion” industry for “really stoopid crap”, then it all kind of makes sense.
#24 M42: I was not aware that specific images could not be isolated. The one I was referring to with my ‘beat the schizzle’ comment was the guy wearing the frog hat.
Your frog hat is #33. That outfit would have ‘em swooning in the Montrose. Nothing says gay like red pants.
Who reads the writin’? I jest look at the pictures.
The one I want DWS in is #14, that way no one will have to listen to her yappy lies.
An interesting article on how Scott Walker’s reforms are going.
http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_1_scott-walker.html
#30 Texanadian: Where is the public outcry when the union controlled monopoly on health insurance was challenged that suddenly there was hundreds of millions of dollars to be saved by virtue of competition? Where did all that excess money go, who got rich on the deal? The corruption that was revealed by that simple ‘sudden savings’ should be enough to trigger RICO investigations.
This is the operative section of the linked article that should be able to trigger RICO statutes:
Hundreds of millions of dollars over how many years?? Where did all that excess money go? Why hasn’t a full accounting of all the moneys been demanded? When will the Rs start playing real hardball against these totally corrupt unions and correctly apply the RICO statutes?
It should also be noted that within 24 hours of Mittens calling for Newt to release his contract with Freddie Mac, Newt put it on the web. Mittens tried to intimate that Newt was a lobbyist.
Decide for yourself.
At the same time, Mittens called for Gingrich to release the House Ethics Report. Apparently his grasp of both the issue and how government works is somewhat lacking.
It was published and available for public consumption in 1997, and put on the web shortly after.
Here its is.
I should be noted that Newt was completely exonerated of all charges, somthing Mittens failed to mention in his Iowa ads, and continues to forget to mention.
I hadn’t thought of RICO, but it sure looks like the school districts were getting robbed through a joint venture of the unions and the insurance companies. Unions = corruption, simple.
Just picked this up at a silly website I won’t link to.
You know, they made a movie about just this kind of thing.
What was the movie, Sarge?
Good afternoon Hamsters. Have been doing all the errands this morning before any serioius rain shows up. Prime trip was to the feed store for grain for the mares, as the bins are almost empty in the barn. That was accomplished without incident and only a few sprinkles fell briefly, but the sky to the west was getting darker. Increasing static on the radio means a peek at the radar is a good idea. Rain is in the area in varying intensity, but so far it has missed us. The main event is yet to come later tonight and tomorrow.
The debris from the last monsoon that surrounded culverts behind our pasture has been removed just in time for possibly another one tomorrow. We’re grateful for the rain, but a bit more spread out would be better.
Wisconsin’s Grandsons of Liberty are getting great help from Main Street Patriots’ True The Vote expertise in vetting voter registration rolls to vet the recall election petition signatures for Governor Scott Walker, the Lt. Governor, and four state senators. Sam Malone interviewed a Grandsons representative on his morning show today. Seems True The Vote has a sophisticated vetting computer program that can be adapted for Wisconsin’s purposes and will save a tremendous amount of time in checking the purported 1 million signatures turned in. The Unionistas and Progressives in Wisconsin are not happy about that I’m sure. Poor babies. May they learn not to mess with Texas when Texas lends a helping hand.
I think it was called “Teh Moobie”
#37 mharper42, Sure sounds like Atlas Shrugged
#36 Sarge: Linkie no workie.
A little light moment.
Looks like Bloomberg has pulled it.
Same story here.
How I felt last night.
For those who are trying their best to be amused at the SOTU speech tonight:
Bingo Card 1
Bingo Card 2
Or, for the more intrepid among us, or those who try to forget what TBO says:
The SOTU drinking game
Actually, the drinking game can be amended to:
Every time he lies, drink.
You’ll be toasted within ten minutes. Or less.
And be sure to drink at home. Confiscate visitors’ keys prior to the speech. Be ready to have a huge sleepover if a gang comes to celebrate the SOTU with you. Be responsible.
Because they’re all going to be drunk. Watch Obama responsibly.
Fortunately, I am in a foreign land. I will be driving across a sizable chunk of said foreign land when The One We’ve Been Waiting For is speechifying.
My liver is safe.
10 Boney,
Buy some Berkshire Hathaway stock and go to the next shareholder’s meeting. Air you
complaints with him there.
Yes…I own some BRK(A) and BRK(B) and by the way, Berkshire Hathaway owns several pipeline systems.
Simple
#47 Homer:
Pyro that is a serious breach of linguistic ethics and honesty. A far more reasonable description would be: ‘a vomitous stream of lies, mischaracterizations and pie-in-the-sky BS.’
Barf Kitty is completely back to normal. She’s pestering me and getting into my lap, and begging with that light touch of the paw on my arm and those big eyes of hers.
We haven’t nicknamed her “PP cat” for nothing. Pitiful and Pathetic.
And slightly adorable.
#48 Simple: Once again you have missed the freaking point. This was a payoff to Buffet for his support. It is freaking crooked as a dog’s hind leg, just as loaning Petrobras money shortly after Soros invested in Petrobras thus netting him a huge payoff. This is outright crooked corruption in the highest office in the land. Soros, Buffet and JugEars belong in jail for bribery; how much more evidence do you need? Alcee Hastings was removed from the bench for accepting a bribe in exchange for a favorable ruling; can’t you see how much worse this is? This is the absolute worst of crony
capitalismcorruption, there is no capitalism in it, simple corruption and bribery.If I were to invest in the Berkshire companies, knowing the crooked deals involved, (and make no mistake, the XL pipeline rejection was CROOKED and the country will suffer for it) I become a party to the corruption -NO THANKS.
Shades of Poe.
#39, #40
Aha, subtle clues always shoot right over my head.
#53 TT: That is something that should happen more often. The “compensation” for jurors in Harris County must be addressed.
1) Start off with free parking in the building
2) Increase the stipend to $50.00 for showing up and make it $100/day thereafter + they have to provide lunch and Kosher if necessary.
As it is now, it costs $.50 to show up for jury duty if you drive once you pay for parking and that does not count the fuel you burn to get there.
These simple steps will cause many to actually serve as the time spent actually puts some money in the pocket. $100/day does not cover what many make when at work but it does take some of the sting out.
I remember reading several months ago that if Obammy nixed the pipeline, there were railroads right there at our northern border that could carry the crude to the Gulf Coast. Do not remember ever seeing Buffett’s name mentioned in that context.
#55 Bones
I disagree, jury service should not be paid beyond the current token $6 which might cover parking. (Most people donate that $6 back to the system at the end of the tour.) I don’t know that bored unemployeed folks like the “slacker” make good jurors. If you are empaneled at lunch time, you will be fed at the court’s expense. I don’t like being called for jury duty, either, but I do it because I take the “duty” part seriously.
#58 M42: The duty is serious. The people always have the option of donating the fee back. To cost someone a day of work and make them pay for parking for “serving” on a jury, is abusive. When the $6 or 7 stipend was introduced that would pay for lunch and parking and maybe a beer on the way home; now it actually costs over and above the day lost at work which is simply fundamentally wrong.
#6 otl
I’ve been thinking. Does this apply to the detention of Rand Paul?
Another bully gets his comeuppance.
Man, the white shirt guy was a lot more patient that I would have been. Not like I would have won a confrontation, but I would not have waited that long to do something. Since I’m a girl, I probably would have screamed loud and long to get a teacher to come running.
Or kicked him in the nuts.
There’s a contest going on over at AoSHQ that can be played here:
Fill in the blank: “I’d rather watch __________________ than the State of the Union.”
As in:
I’d rather watch Barney Frank take a sponge bath than the State of the Union.
“I’d rather watch __________________ than the State of the Union.”
1) My husband clip his toenails.
2) Reruns of (insert name of horrible TV show here)
3) paint dry (an oldie but….well, an oldie)
4) my husband clean out the garage
5) an orderly clean out an emesis basin (or bedpan)
6) my son actually clean his bathroom
7) a bully get the crap beaten out of him
Gotta go to a meeting – can’t add any more at this time
I’d rather watch paint dry…
I’d rather watch “King Lear” put on by a 1st grade class…
I’d rather watch Tavis Smiley…
I’d rather watch “Mike & Molly”…
I’d rather watch fund raising breaks on PBS…
I’d rather watch Spanish variety shows on Comcast channel 3…
shannon #4;
Excellent post. Looks like both Newt and Mitt have easy responses to give one to the other.
Sarge;
Your link says he was retained as a consultant. The question is the nature of his consultation. Did Newt, for example, advise Fannie t osupport certain policies and then influence legislators to support legislation which would bennefit Fannie from supporting the policies he said they should supprt? If so, that’sa lobbist effort. I heard on Hewitt tonight that Newt did admit to Mitt that a lobbyist was hired and I read somewhere last night that Newt Newt reported directly to that lobbyist.
Newt didn’t mention it either. So how can he be expected to deal with Iran.
TT;
NO!!! I do not want any of my fellow hamsters dying from alcohol overload. Obama just isn’t worth it.
TT #53;
Heh. “Shades of Poe” is a perfect title.
Well, nothing much has happened here on the north bank of the Brazos at Richmond regarding rain other than a couple of interludes of light mist. But the fog sneaking up from the coast will surely blanket our area before any storms show up overnight. In anticipation of some nasty stuff coming through or nearby, similar to the monsoon two weeks ago, we’ve removed smaller items from the front and back porches and the patio to safer places. Next- door neighbors had their substantial patio furniture flung into their pool by that storm. Better to move a few things than have missiles launched.
Not watching the State of the Union Show nor the GOP rebuttal. Was somebody picking names out of a phone book for that?
There will be sufficient post mortems in the blogs and on the radio tomorrow.
Like Newt in Shannon’s #4, it looks like Romney bucked the establishment. Probably cuz he doesn’t smoke cigars like they do.
Marco Rubio: Mitt Romney is no Charlie Crist
Rubio: “Not only do I want to vote for Romney in the Forida primaries, I can and WILL vote for Romney in the Florida primaries”. That should balance out Sarah Palin’s South Carolina comment.
51 Boney,
I don’t think Berkshire Hathaway will go out of business if BNSF does not get to haul Canadian Shale/Tarsand Oil Extracts. B-H has every right to lobby for business; it does not mean that they will get it.
My company sells reciprocating engines and gas turbines. We are an industry leader in lean burn Low-NOx technology and yes everytime the NOx & CO limits are tightened we will benefit.
We are not out there lobbying for stricter controls, but only a poor businessman would not prepare for change and opportunity. I am in favor of the pipeline. My company will sell a lot of the equipment used to build and operate the pipeline, but if it falls thru…do we punish everyone else. I’ll hedge my bets and own stock in B-H and my company.
Every major corporation and special interest group in this country floods the Super Pacs with money in an effort to influence who will be President next. They all want something or some favor. What else is new?
Simple
From Drudge:
WHO’S GREEDY? Obama Gave 1% to Charity, Romney Gave 15%
And:
Mitt Romney gave millions to charity. Joe Biden gave $369.
Phew, conservatives can now rest easy knowing that Romney released his tax returns.
70 Darren,
We must of woken up this morning in bizzaro land. It is an amazing cast of characters lining to support Rommney and Gingrich.
I look at the supporters and just scratch my head.
Simple
“I’d rather watch __________________ than the State of the Union.”
1–HSN
2–Nothing
3–Brent Musburger call a game
4–Geraldo do an Al Capone’s Vault Part II
5–Stupid commercials –is there any other kind?
6–Kevin Trudeau infomercial
7–Don Lapre infomercial–RIP Don
8–My dog puke on the carpet
9– Someone else’s dog puke on my carpet
10–The MSDNC Spitter–which would be like someone else’s dog puking on my carpet
#72 Darren
You quote a Faux news article?!
The article compares Obama’s contributions from 2001 to 2004 and compares it to Romney’s 2010 to 2011.
While it is expected that these clowns will pull your leg, folks don’t have to wave theirs about so.
That’s it. I had enough.
The Atlanta Jewish Times editor who wrote an inflammatory article regarding the President, Mossad and other flights of fancy has resigned. I’m not sure what the lesson learned is.
“Call me eeeeew.”
Who says Polish Viola players do not have a sense of humor?
Apple did good last year, a record setting $43B of revenue last quarter.
Ron Paul picks up another supporter.
I caught Mitch Daniels GOP Response speech and it was good. He isn’t charismatic but he’s a good speaker and the ideas were sound and clearly expressed. It was almost Reaganesque, actually.
Here’s the text of Daniel’s speech.
Simple #73;
I know. I have that affect on people.
Shamaal;
So, what should have been the percentage of obama’s charitable contributions? 2%, 3%, push it to the extreme 4%? for a Liberal, that may be asking way too much.
GJT #76;
That looks like Squawk’s TV.
Chinese Soldiers Pass Around LIVE GRENADE In Military Training Exercise
As they said on Hot Air, ‘Dude”. Personally, I’ll stick to hot potato.