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Jive.
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Dry Clean Five Dollar.
And the signs never get old;
Despite the persistent lies of the President and his fellow extortionists on Capitol Hill, Commisar Sebelius of Health & Human Services has issued final rules for tax-payer funded abortions for all who want it under Obamacare.
Since last Friday, Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza have fired more than 130 rockets into civilian areas of Israel. The IDF has retaliated in self-defense, but this is how it is characterized in the American mainstream media.
Jeff Dunetz at Yid With Lid notes the following:
Whar’s thet Amy Walker talkin’ lak a pirate, matey?
6 texpat
From your link……
As described in the rule, the [abortion] surcharge can only be disclosed to the enrollee at the time of enrollment. Furthermore, insurance plans may only advertise the total cost of the premiums without disclosing that enrollees will be charged a $1 per month fee to pay directly subsidize abortions.”
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It’s time to hit the streets.
I am reminded how the Israelites had God’s favor, then lost it through their iniquities until they were sufficiently humbled and repented of their evil ways. At that point, they regained God’s favor and grew strong once again. This cycle repeats itself several times in the Old Testament.
Are we seeing something similar here?
These people must really like sex a lot.
They’re willing to kill babies for it.
G’Morning All
#2 thru #5
Yo Dang, GJT, you on uh roll just like mammy.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Justice-Department-rejects-Texas-voter-ID-law-3401087.php
If Perez is correct, that lack of state-issued photo ID is 20% more likely to disenfranchise minorities from their right to vote, why would we not also believe it would have a similar effect on their right to purchase a firearm, as specified on ATF’s Form 4473 requiring a driver’s license or “valid government issued photo identification,” and similar forms as proof of eligibility?
They can’t have it both ways. By their own admission and actions, they consider a requirement to produce official photo identification as discriminatory, with a significant statistical impact on the enfranchisement of minority rights.
I couldn’t repeat the Ebonics translation I requested. Hammy’s Grammy wouldn’t have allowed it. I would’ve been banned for life.
Obama’s Favorite Congressman Hangs With Commies (From Brietbart)
I can’t put into words how vile this is. I’m taking bets that the lame stream media will totally ignore it until it goed viral, then they will pooh-pooh it.
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/12/The%20Vetting%20Obamas%20Favorite%20Congressman%20Hangs%20At%20Communist%20Party%20HQ
Magic trick with a poignant story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPKpIuX3cY&feature=share
#15 OTL
Excellent point. It should also be pointed out the original gun control laws were conceived as a way to keep black Americans from being able to defend themselves.
The National Black Republican Association reports on the 2010 McDonald vs City of Chicago ruling:
#19 from your linkie:
Live and let live, or to phrase it a little differently don’t start no stuff and there won’t be any. The libs would have us call the police and wait for help (hoping that they will get there while we are still alive) instead of dispatching the evildoers forthwith.
O’Keefe exposes more no-photo-ID-required-to-vote silliness, this time in Vermont. He goes to a hotel, a bar, and city hall to contrast the need for photo ID.
I ordered Lovely’s bridal shower invitations yesterday. Got quite a deal from Cardstore.com. I input 32 names and addresses for her customized invitations. Ordered about 16 extra for hand delivery, lost/forgotten, etc. I got a volume discount for ordering more than 20 cards, which brought the cost down to 99 cents each. I chose to let the company print and mail the 32 for me for which I had addresses. The others will be delivered to my home. I went to RetailMeNot.com and found a promotional code that gave me an additional 30% off.
All told, including the postage, I paid around $33 for all of the invitations, including the addressing and postage to deliver them. Not too bad.
Now I have to clean the house. That will be considerably more difficult!
People everywhere will reach the breaking point in their struggle for freedom.
These brave Chinese citizens expelled their local Party leaders and their henchmen, the police, and then held off the People’s Liberation Army from entering their city for over two months. A few days ago, they held their own free elections for new leadership.
Sixty-six years ago, the people of Athens and Etowah in McMinn County, Tennessee staged an armed revolt, laid seige to the county courthouse to retrieve the ballot boxes in an election from a hugely corrupt local government.
Hallmark made a movie in 1995, An American Story, set in Texas, but based entirely on the events in the Battle of Athens.
From Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership:
A number of contemporary news articles are also reprinted at the JFPO site including an op-ed from Eleanor Roosevelt, an armed woman herself, who endorsed the actions taken by citizens in McMinn County.
Our current administration tried this but the trial balloon was quickly shot down.
The problem in Germany and in Government in general is that they spend too much money. Stop wasting money on social engineering and mindless bailouts – picking winners and losers- simply stick to what you are constitutionally required to do and nothing more, then watch the country prosper.
#16 TT
You mean the translator from Tim’s #2 link?
Jive
23 Texpat,
This is a very good article. I could not agree more.
Regards
Simple
24 Boney,
You could always move to Germany and run for office.
Simple
#28 Simple: No thanks, if I leave the USA I have another destination in mind.
If you are an Oil and Gas Journal subscriber, the article starting on page 32, of the 05Mar2012 issue is interesting, particularly the “Jekyll and Hyde” section on p. 34.
From that article:
The quote was from Barry Russell, President of the Independent Petroleum Association of America.
One could substitute the phrase private business for energy and the concept would still hold true. This has already happened in the financial sector as well as automotive.
Never, never, never, never, never.
Comments to my #31 link:
I’m just glad there are people willing to do this. Me? Never, never, never….
#31 – *shudder*
On a windy day it would really be a nightmare. On the other side of that phobia coin is climbing on hands and knees several hundred feet up a 3′ sanitary sewer pipe, been there and done that – no fun at all.
Sorta depends on whether said pipe is wet or dry, innit?
#35 This pipe was in use for over 30 years with 0 maintenance, one of the upstream entities was a slaughterhouse or some sort of meat processing facility. There was hard cake about 8″ thick on the bottom and tapering to 3″ on the top that had to be chipped out with an air chisel, the chips were removed via vacuum line. The cake formed a time capsule of sorts, there were virtually intact Wilkinson stainless steel safety razor blades, hypodermic needles, silverware, toys, all sorts of stuff encased in the cake. Even though the flow was shut off and diverted, it was always wet and had to be force ventilated to keep the H2S down to a minimum, and yes it stunk.
You can’t write this stuff:
#37 Have you noticed there really hasn’t been much seen of Biden since the fall or so. That kind of coincides with the R primary season really kicking off.
I wonder if there is any connection to that?
/sarc off
#37 – makes one (well THIS one) wonder if they’ve fallen on ‘hard times’?
Eatin low rent NY Strips?
no rib-eyes or T-bones? whattabunchawannaBES!!
#39 2″ thick Porterhouse :>)
Good afternoon Hamsters. No fog this morning, just humidity and 68 at 6, semi-mugly with condensation on the concrete surfaces and dew all over the rest of the outside world. The weekend generous rainfall has soaked in but left enough mud now to require a few warm days to dry. No gardening until late in the week, and before that a few more bushels of live oak leaves will need to be swept off patio, porch, and walkways. The rain of leaves might be winding down–I hope.
Spouse’s brother and wife arrive Thursday afternoon from Madison, and it looks as though they will enjoy some warm weather while here. The weather in Wisconsin in March is typically not marvelous, and there is always the likelihood of the St. Patrick’s Day week blizzard showing up. This usually coincides with the state high-school basketball tournament in Madison. So their choice of travel dates has method.
Must get back to organizing the guest room.
Awww, bless his heart. Arlen laments that Barry let him down. What did he expect from a man that threw his own granny under the bus?
Afternoon all, the trophy wife sent me this and I’d thought I’d share.
http://sorisomail.com/email/74298/como-se-danca-o-merengue.html
So his seniority is only a mere spector of it’s former self?
Snarlin’ Arlen was right, you know. He didn’t have to be there at that town hall meeting and by gawd, now he’s not. Win-Win, as I see it.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmm – anyone besides me wonder exactly WHO determines if a US Citizen is “dangerous” or not?
FBI Director Can’t Answer Basic Question About Due Process
oh WAIT silly ME! We’re worried about who pays for some female law students contraceptives!!
*no smiley*
Heh heh. Chron banned me.
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It’s about time.
Hammy — post here what you tried to post there, so we can see what a bad boy you were/tried to be.
I said something like this: Since Democrats are always prattling on about separation of church and state we could eliminate federal funding of Planned Parenthood based on that, since PP is their church where they offer up a bloody sacrifice on the altar of abortion.
Here’s the story I was commenting on.
I have a question that I hope someone here can answer for me:
We have a mixup in two meters on one of our properties. The B unit meter runs to our B unit, but it has the C unit address.
The C unit meter runs to C unit, but it has the B unit address.
I’ve called the power distributor and verified the meter numbers and ESI ID numbers. The addresses for the meters are backwards: the B meter has the C unit address, and vice versa.
Question: Does the ESI ID number go with the meter, or with the junction? If we flip the meters and relabel the panels to match, which our electrician can do, are we screwing up the relationship between ESI ID, meter, and street address? The electrician thinks that flipping the meters and relabeling will solve our problem. I just don’t want to make the problem worse.
Inquiring minds NEED to know. My research so far has not turned up the answer I need. All I can find is “call your provider to get your ESIID” or “it can be found on your bill”.
Hmmm. You must not have them Smart Meters if they don’t even know their own addresses.
We recently did some rewiring…it was all straight before then.
#50 Hams
There were many blocked comments. Did you try again and again and again, or are there a bunch of people who would comment on an abortion story in such a way as to get blocked?
I am a bit surprised the HouChron would block something not profane on its web site.
#54 Marper
Profanity is in the eye of the beholder. Making statements against abortion might be considered profanity in some circles.
I called Centerpoint – the ESI ID is assigned at the offices of the provider, not in the panel box. We should be able to flip the meters, relabel the panel boxes, and get things straightened out.
Whew!
I was only one. My comment was up and had several responses for most of the day. It just got removed recently. I’m guessing that those with blood on their hands went crazy on the “Report abuse” button. I have other comments still up.
It really is a religion for progressives. They even have “rites”. 1st Communion is getting your first birth control prescription (or condoms). Confirmation is when you get (or pay for your girlfriend’s) first abortion.
Random thoughts from the inimitable Frank J. Fleming, author of Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything and founder of the website, IMAO.us.
The most dangerous man on TV won’t be coming back.
Anyone who emulates this guy in a survival situation is doomed.
#43 texanadian
Great video.
Proving once again dogs are superior to cats and a significant number of human beings.
#43 Tex
That dog has more rhythm than Hubby.
Ooops.
More of that hard-nosed investigative journalism.
Oh, it seems this was one of those special arrangements. She needed tuition money and he needed…uh, well, let’s just hope he paid for her contraception.
I can think of worse ways of going.
At least the sex wasn’t at the top of a transmission tower.
Then they’d BOTH have died from cardiac arrest.
#64 Tedtam
You can rest assured this all came as a shock to The Oregonian editor’s wife and kids.
#57 Hammy
Are you posting as “HorseWithAHam”? And how’s about “FullgutBucket”? Izzat anyone we know?
Just funnin’ ya. I saw some comments from “hamous”.
Wow.
Bruce Lee was good for a reason.
#60 Texpat
From your #58 link:
But in TexCan’s #43 video, those seemed to be Hispanics, and they taught that dog not only to walk on its hind legs, it was wearing a skirt and doing the Cha-Cha.
Interpol busts the internet file-sharing mogul, Kim Dotcom, in New Zealand on US federal criminal warrants and now it seems a bunch of federal officials and Department of Justice employees have, you guessed it, MegaUpload accounts !
Mystery solved.
and this,
Tedtam, sounds like you unplugged the meters and plugged them back in the wrong meter cans. That usually means cutting off their tags which annoys them rather a lot.
#70 Texpat
I believe that was discussed over the weekend.
Those thieves – got clean away, they did!
#71 GTO
We had to rewire some of the units when we had to install new poles on the property. Along with the new poles came some new meter boxes and such. Somewhere along the line, when TNMP came out to install the meters, they got switched or sumpin’. Our electrician says he can switch the meters back without a problem.
Shamaal – message from bobo
Tedtam, the power company meter crews install the meters. They mixed them up. If your electrician knows the area service rep, I can see that happening with a phone call.
#74 Hammy
Why you gotta be their go-between? Don’t they meet up on TrollsRUs.org?
After surfing the internet for days to locate the perfect Valentine’s Day oven for for Mrs. Shamaal, I sent her up to the GE repair place to pick up a brand new $40 element to replace the burnt out one. The minimum wait for a new oven is 2 – 3 weeks and Mrs. Shamaal can’t go go that long without her DiGiorno.
Prices for the same oven model ranged from $1200 for the cheapest one on the internet to $1600 to special order at the local stores. The cheap one on the internet wanted money now and 4 weeks to reply if it was available. One observation – Texas stores and coffers are taking a beating from out of state sellers.
Tell BoBo thanks for the info and I’ll check it out this week. Also, he can ignore Ms Harper, ever since that house fell on her sister, she has been insufferable.
Amy Walker is also very cute and has smile to light up any room.
The Fowler brother’s 1906 ‘The King’s English’ is worth the read. Belongs on the shelf next to Strunk & White’s. Forgot who wrote ‘Transitive Vampire’ and ‘The Well Tempered Sentence’ but those should be required as well.
All three here. Operators standing by !
Police say several other buggies fled the scene.
It’s rare we get multiple
trollsmisleading posts from texpat, so let’s respond one at a time.#6 texpat
Apparently these folks believe the common conservative is unable to read legislation by themselves and requires the services of “a knowledgeable pro-life source on Capitol Hill” to translate for them Incidently note that the final rule referenced contains comments and response, hence the large file.
Feel free to do a search on the word abortion to support or refute my comments.
You get the idea, no where is there a mention of a $1 surcharge.
#79 Texpat
I think Texpat may be on commission with Amazon.
He queued me up a book that I bought last year, but I haven’t had time to start reading it yet. Prolly have to wait till I am 100% retired. I can barely handle what all I am doing now. I am content to note in amazement how Tedtam darts around, leaving contrails.
#7 texpat
Even the ossified one accidently snagged a story as the reporting commenced on Friday . Some of these stories even mention why the hostilities started, the Israeli assassination or incoming missiles depending on the source. I confess to not reading the FFFFFFFox or MSNBC articles, it’s like getting your news from doonesbury without the well written satire.
However, when the narrative is biased reporting, I guess headlines serve as the first casualty of the truth.
Even Amazon wanted to sell me an oven! (wait 4-6 weeks).
I guess I’m a really p-poor progressive, I never had a birth control prescription nor bought condoms and never bought any girlfriends or wives an abortion. Actually I only dated good Roman Catholic girls. I guess things really are different in Wisconsin, the home of Fighting Bob LaFollette.
Like all progressives I strive to eliminate the need for abortions instead of merely settling to make them illegal.
Careful examination of the fact concerning Israel and the pals will reveal that Israel only fires when fired upon; they respond to hostilities they do not instigate them. If the pals wanted peace they could have it today, just stop trying to kill Israelis and viola, peace.
I know it’s the equivalent of cutting off a foot from the bottom off a blanket, sewing it on the top, and thinking your blanket is a foot longer, but I sure do like when we “spring forward”.
I think we ought to “fall back” 30 minutes this fall and just quit with the semiannual time change crap once and for all.
I’m a fiddle man myself.
I had another adjective in mind concerning you.
#88 wb
“This is Barack Obama stealing an hour of my life and distributing it to poor people”
I was in a little country store somewhere in Arkansas near the Louisiana border the summer of 1980. I asked the proprietor what time it was and he snarled back “You want God’s time or LBJ’s time?”
He also had two large paintings hanging on his wall – one of Jesus and the other was Lou Holtz. The smart-ass hippie dog I was working with asked him “Which one do you worship the most?” We got threw out of the store. Heh heh. Good times. Every time I see this scene in OBWAT I think of that day.
4 state senators and a governor to be recalled in Wisconsin, those folks are pretty stirred up.
Yawn.
#93 Who pays for the cost of the re-election ifn non of the targets get recalled? Do the tax-payers simply have to take it in the shorts so the union-orifices can get their jollies off?
#37 tt
I agree:
Real salt of the Earth, that man is.
#92 Hambone, that reminds me of when I was in high school and worked at the TV Shop in south Alabamy. In the years that I did that I went inside of dang near everyone’s home, from the rich store owners to the country folks and of course the blacks. So I have a question, name for me what the blacks displayed in their living rooms, sometimes tacked to their walls? There were ALWAYS 2-4 items in EVERY house and they were always the same.
P.S. I may have mentioned this on LST.
MLK, JFK and Jesus?
Dang I missed this, forgive me if someone else has covered it.
Ron Paul won his first delegate ever during the primary in the US Virgin Islands, I believe they still drive on the left there. Of course there were the usual shenanigans whenever Republicans and ballot boxes are in the same proximity, but still, a win’s a win!
Every black person’s house I went into back then had, besides the obligatory picture of MLK, a giant wooden fork and spoon.
OK have Y’all seen the Mayflower commercial with the 40′ tall puppet? WTF is that all about, I have no idea what that means. Just stupid! Oh and they moved me from Savannah Ga Wichita and they SUX!! But, United moved me down here and they were even worse. At least United had a tractor not a 427 Chebby with a 5 speed and a split rear end! Musta’ been a hell of a trip from Savannah to St Louis, (first drop off) then to Kansas City and on to Wichita.
I remember those, it weren’t just black folk. It was part of some Tiki fashion fad in the 60′s.
#50 Hamous. Well done, sir. A badge of honor to be banned by the Chron.
Don’t remember the wooden hardware but they did have some wierd crap in the BOQ’s @ Fort Rucker,…those dudes had some gawd awful stereo systems also! Oh and this was mostly white guys.
The longest warship in the world, and incidentally my home for two WestPacs, the USS Enterprise is on her final deployment. She returns in December, then gets towed to Washington to be scrapped.
A fine picture of the bow, you can see the solitary torpedo tube between the hawesholes and the catapult bridle arresters.
#81 shamaal
I emailed the author of the article asking for documentation. I’ll let you know.
I don’t have time at the moment to wade through 644 pages of absurd authoritarian b***sh*t.
Hmmmmm …………… and yet you believe un-named people with an agenda who do.
It only took me 10 minutes using the search function and the term abortion. I’ll cruise on over to Wing Nut Daily and the FreeRepublic for the follow-up.
#96 shamaal
Oh, you must be talking about John Podesta, the man who runs your source, Center for American Progress.
A few of his friends…
George Soros, Hillary, Willie Jeff, John Kerry, Durbin, Morton Halperin, Patrick Leahy, Dukakis, Tom Daschle – a bunch of disgusting old gasbags. But they’re very rich and powerful off the backs of the American people.
Podesta’s running for President?
Crap, now I gotta look up Center for American Progress.
#105 Shamaal, I worked with a guy from Uvalde that was an avionics guy with a squadron out of NASJAX and his second tour was on the then new, Enterprise and he was deployed to Cuba for the missle crisis. His first tour was the Coral Sea, I think, don’t remember the third. Saddly he passed away a few years ago at only 66.
#108 texpat
From our friends at Wikipedia:
Boring
I’ve published my sources before
Drudge
Drudge Links:
CNN
Daily Kos
Huffington Post
Dave Barry
And I read the Chronicle, apparently along with Hamous, and the New Yorker: I preferred Tina Brown.
Speaking of Swift Boat Johnny, he and Bazooka Joe Biden held a fundraiser at Johnny and Cruella’s house. Joey had this to say:
Unlike Joe, I guess. A true man of the people.
Dang. I thought maybe I was at least lower middle class. I must be in abject poverty.
Great ship, I never regretted a moment. I kick myself that during two cruises I only shot one roll of film. It just didn’t dawn on me that their were folks someday who’d be interested in F4 catapult shots in afterburner. Nobody cares about Mk82s, Rockeyes and other pieces of ordnance that were a part of daily life.
The most boring parts were the times spent stateside cold-iron. No flight deck or combat pay. boring carrier qualifications eating C-Rats. But once on the line on Yankee Station, we ruled.
#112 Hamous
I believe that was the topic of tedtam’s #37 and my snark in #96.
Try and keep up
#112 Hambone, I saw this earlier today and you just can’t make this crap up. BUTT the folks that will vote for these clowns
can’twon’t see the hypocrisy……SighI think it is now well-established that no one here reads every post every day.
Shamaal, were you a black shoe or an airedale? My buddy was with a Vigilante squadron.
I’ve had grass-fed beef in Calgary, much superior to grain fed. I’ve eaten something that had truffles, maybe potatoes, don’t recall what …….. maybe chocolate?
It could happen we enjoy the same meal
But it is pretty much a lead pipe cinch I don’t know no owners of a NASCAR team or football teams. If so I’d brag about it too.
And you guys keep trying to elect these clowns.
I do.
Airedale, ships company. V-2 division – Catapults, Arresting Gear, Pilot Landing Aids Television/Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System (PLAT/Lens) – Green Shirts.
Your friend was in service when the A5 Vigilantes were still around, probably VAH7 squadron. That was the Navy’s nuclear attack plane to replace the A3 Whales.
By my day, 1971, the attack versions were converted to reconnaissance versions. RA5C Vigilantes were the prettiest planes on the flight deck and in the air. Maintenance nightmares relying on relay logic to operate.
Looks like Santorum picks up Mississippi and Alabama.
Mittens shoulda et more cheese grits.
Or possum grits and hog jowls.
Or fatback and collard greens.
Al Gore won the Democratic primary for Mississippi Senator.
I’m offended, I’m hurt! Not that I have anything against Germany.
Perhaps if he had mentioned he knows the owner of Coca Cola ……….
Or more of Lisa’s hotcakes.
Wrong troll garden.
Oops!
MsTT! your ‘muse’ musta found it’s way over to HotAir!
to wit: