From a website I stumbled across while hanging ten on the ‘net:
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. — Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. — Ransom K. Ferm
Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
The graduate with a Science degree asks, “Why does it work?” The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The graduate with a Liberal Arts degree asks, “Do you want fries with that?”
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. — A. Whitney Brown
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. — William James
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it – and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. — Mark Twain
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
668: The Neighbor of the Beast
Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps. — Emo Phillips
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. — F. P. Jones
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. — Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. — George Carlin
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. — John F. Kennedy
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. — Ashleigh Brilliant
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, “I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease”. Disraeli replied, “That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”
A slipping gear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what’s left of your unit. — In the August 1993 issue, page 9, of PS magazine, the Army’s magazine of preventive maintenance
G: “If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?” EB: “Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area.” — Somewhere in No Man’s Land, BA4
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. — Plutarch
The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad. — Salvador Dali
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, “Where have I gone wrong?” Then a voice says to me, “This is going to take more than one night.” — Charlie Brown, _Peanuts_ [Charles Schulz]
Calvin: People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. Hobbes: Isn’t the zipper on your pants supposed to be in the front?
Gus McCrae: Well we don’t rent pigs and I figure it’s better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is… he’s hard to stop
“The criminal mind, sir, is the Chippendale Chair.” Fearless Fosdick.
A huge tragedy has struck Bluegrass music; Earl Scruggs the most influential banjo player of all time has passed away.
RIP Earl Scruggs, you will be missed.
Tell your friends to stop fretting over high gasoline prices. Ali Naimi the Saudi Minister of Petroleum had this to say.
I typically read the Oil & Gas Journal on a weekly basis and everything I read there indicates that we have ample supply and decreasing demand. Having both of these indicators going in their current direction means we should not be seeing these prices going up, but rather down.
Reports of Rush’s demise premature, evidently.
/HotAir
Heh. Cowboys fans:
Other than providing ample raw material for satire, my interest in politics has waned to the point where even my cat cares more about it than I do. That’s fine, but I needed the scanner this morning and he told me I would have to wait until he’d finished faxing his congressman.
In honor of the passing of Earl Scruggs, I present this instrumental piece with his long time stage partner Lester Flatt.
Obama’s budget was rejected in the House as the joke it was.
So let’s review: JugEars submits a budget and can not get even a single D to vote for it and then he blames the congress as “do nothing”? Perhaps if he would remove his cranium from his rectum he may see things a little more clearly.
No, thank you – really, not no but h311 no.
G’Morning All
#3 Bones
You beat me to posting Scruggs. RIP Earl
Arguably his most famous:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_Y3mnj-8lA
‘beetle-kill lumber’? Maybe they can incorporate beetle kill loggers into one of those shows.
And one of my favorites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyhaXnR8yNY&feature=related
Betcha OBH is about as testy as a dog passing peach seeds right now.
Put Spike Lee in that peach seed line, too
#12 OTL: It was this song that caused me to love the banjo before I was 5. I wish I would have really raised H3!! about it then and gotten a banjo and some lessons then, it would have made learning much easier.
#16 OTL: Paying the penalty for grossly irresponsible actions; it’s about wissin time:>)
#17 Bones
Yea on that. I have bunches of his favorite. (I have a coupla CD’s I play on the highway. Sure makes the fly when you’re on the interstate
Start ‘em young
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Fraud-roils-UH-election-3442410.php
The Russians are skeptical about Obama being more flexible on missile defense after he’s re-elected..
They’re not confident of their ability to rig two presidential elections in one year.
Texpat,
From your #81 of yesterday.
Understandable and acceptable are two different things, but I was pointing out that the Democrat Party included some pretty diverse groups. Think about it.
Irish & Italian Catholics + Eastern European Immigrants versus Southern Dixiecrat Klukkers. I’ll bet the behind the doors party meetings were interesting. You do remember that at one time that the Dixiecrats held Catholics, Eastern Europeans, and Jews with the same high regard as they did blacks. I don’t condone it, but a lot of politicians were either KKK members or gave it tacit approval to get elected, which by the way wasn’t strickly a Southern or Democrat practice.
The Northern and MidWest Kluckkers tended to be (gasp!) Republicans. The KKK in the North embraced Prohibition as well as their other toxic beliefs. Indeed, I believe the Indiana State government was controlled by the Klan or their Republican minions in the late twenties and early thirties.
My own parents were German Catholic Immigrants to this country and they were Yellow Dog Democrats. I remember all too well my Pops complaining about some of the Texas Democrats were “sheep in wolves” clothing. He thought they should have been Republicans.
As it turned out …he lived to see some of them jump ship to the other side.
BTW, on the Obamacare thing:
No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words “no” and “not” employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights. — EDMUND A. OPITZ
#23: You have touched on something really significant; limited government. The Founders recognized that some government was necessary but by the very nature of humans in positions of power, the scope, reach and power of the government had to be chained down to stay with certain realms otherwise it would become the untenable mess we have today. One of the worst avenues through which the government has been allowed to illegally grow is through the unreasonable, illogical, and contextually inaccurate rendering of the Commerce Clause. The other avenue is the ridiculous concept that the Constitution is a living and breathing document that magically changes with the times. This is more accurately described as changing with the whims of a morally corrupt judge who refuses to read and understand what the Constitution actually says and means according to those who wrote it.
Earl, Gary & Randy singing an Elton John song. Accompanied by my grandfather’s cousin, The Kissimmee Kid, Vassar Clements.
Dickey Betts and the Kissimmee Kid playing Kissimmee Kid:
Read Ann Coulter’s response to the NonFoxNetworks regarding the Trayvon thing.
I must retract my complaint directed at ATT about slow downloads on 3s iPhone.
If you have the same problem, go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.
Voila!
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I can now harass gto, gjt and Customs Boy with normal frequency.
I may just have to wander over to North Dakota for a while…
“The result: unheard-of wages for able-bodied men willing to live and work in this modern Wild West. Got a commercial driver’s license? You can make six figures. Unskilled labor pulls in $18 an hour, and the job often includes lodging and all the mancamp food you can eat. That’s like making $70,000 a year — for unskilled labor. Kel, a driver for Flint Energy in his 50s, told me he spent only $60 in three weeks.”
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Lovely came over this morning to help me prep for my retreat. While here, I modeled the three potential Mother of the Bride dresses I found. The blue one is going to be the rehearsal dinner and back-up reception dress. The other two, more formal, dresses are harder to decide. One is pale lavender-pink, with a formal crushed satin scoop collar, and the other is a more vibrant purplish color with an sewn-in overlay with beading. The pink one is cooler and seems more formal, but everyone seems to like the style and color of the darker one on me.
I guess I take the beautiful pinky one back. Dang, it’s a hard choice. We looked for weeks for a MOB dress and couldn’t find a single one. Then, in one day, I find three possibles that are almost impossible to choose from.
That’s what happens when I go shopping without Lovely. Shopping is just harder.
Here’s a sassy little number for you:
What are those things hanging down, breast warmers?
Has anyone ever identified a Shannon normal frequency?
#34 – hehehehehe – not even ONCE since oh………………1968
#30
If’n I’d of been single, I would have jumped on going to work in Iraq. 150K minimum. Course that’s butler salary for Texpat.
Catching up a bit…
The other day Katfish mentioned the leftover hydraulic hammering in his head.
I’ve tried to tell him to quit buying that cheapo tequila.
Holy crap.
I spent the first few hours of my day in the yard. I amended one one of my veggie beds that was supposed to be comprised of “compost” material, but turned out to be more sand than anything. I removed almost half of the dirt and put my compost material in it, then planted some white squash and beans. I left some space for future plantings. The other bed was hoed and weeded, the put in a half row white globe onions and a half row of Italian onion seeds from Aggie Beau last Christmas. Lovely showed up as I started moving dirt from the Mirkwood pile, so I stopped to show her what she could do to help me prep for my retreat. I moved a few more loads of dirt and decided I needed to get to shower, model dresses, then get to work.
I noticed after my shower that it got a lot more cloudy. I’m glad I got the veggie beds in this morning. We’re already getting some rain and it’s gettin’ darker out there.
And BTW, Wagonburner—
I’ll wear that dress after you do. Deal?
Sounds like a libertarian apartment.
Too flashy for me to pull off.
Or bob420′s house:>)
#42 – WB oh PSHAW – that poofy gettup is YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Especially the dalmatian stole.
After three+ years of putting up with the numerous deficiencies and quirks of my ‘dumb’ phone, I finally got an iPhone and am very impressed with its functionality and ease of use. Most of all, I like the voice recognition personal assistant, “Siri.”
Me: What are you wearing?
Siri: Alumininosilicate glass and stainless steel. Nice, huh?
Me: What are you wearing?
Siri: Why do people keep asking me that?
Me: What are you wearing?
Siri: I think you need a different personal assistant.
Me: Where can I find some Marijuana?
(I’ll be back in about half an hour…)
I refused to upgrade to a iP4.
I need a a personal assistant with legs.
I think the pink pumps are what definitely scream PYRO!
I’m still hangin tough with this
Blackberryer Crackberry……………..I held firm until Verizon gave me the semi smart Crackberry FREE & I’m committed to the same scenario for a smart phone someday…………..FREE or no thank ya!#11
Hey, Bones, was it the “composting toilet” that got you so riled up and negative about the tiny house?
Actually, I’m surprised if that isn’t illegal. Oh wait — is this in Flarda?
#47 Shannon, is there a problem with the iP4? Also…
Don’t get me started on the stories I could tell about my awesome weekend in Amarillo!
#49 Katfish, I’ve had several free phones that were worth the price. The iP4 was the first time I paid for one. It’s only been a couple of months, but I’m pleased so far.
#50: It is the lack of space that drives me nuts. With that little bit of space, EVERYTHING must be put away as soon as it is used, there is no place to spread out a project, a puzzle or practically a newspaper. My biggest frustration with woodworking is that I always have to move a bunch of stuff just to get started and nothing can be in its place and still be usable. The space of their home would make a good woodshop if there was nothing else in there and it was not used for any other purpose.
As far as the “toilet” goes, no problemo as long as there is a place close by to dump and frequently.
#33 Tim
That’s a faux fur capelet, you bozo.
#38 Sarge
You locked out of the Hammock Forum? Or just me?
I came across an article where a guy was composting using a bucket. He put a layer of whatever fiber he was using between “sits”. He said there was no smell, and he had a separate composting pile for his own waste. As long as you process the liquids separately from the solids, he said there was no problem. His neighbor was totally unaware of what made his compost pile so “special”. The urine he diluted 10:1 with water and put it right on his plants.
He said he hadn’t flushed a toilet in his house in years.
Oooops. Its a post in the donating member section.
Lets try this
#57
Whoa, I’d rather be wherever the photog was, than where the kayakers are.
#58: Me too.
George Mason University law professor, David Bernstein, collected some recent responses by members of Congress on the constitutional authority of the House and Senate to pass legislation, specifically the Obamacare bill.
Good grief.
It’s comforting to know the country is in such good hands. I listened to Michael Medved interview Arlen Specter this week about legislation in general and the Obamacare bill. What was most striking was his apparent indifference to the constitutionality of anything he ever did in DC. The Founding documents seemed to represent nothing more than an irritating obstacle to whatever his goals might have been. It was pathetic.
#60 Texpat, there’s nothing new there. The Controlled Dangerous Substances Act, PATRIOT Act, and DOMA are three that pop to the top of my brain without need for thought. Schlesinger’s The Imperial Presidency comes to mind as a backdrop to the current state of affairs. Since then, we’ve seen a willingness from every executive branch administration to not mind at all when the legislative branch oversteps its constitutional bounds (as long as it’s the agenda they support, of course.)
I don’t see that changing.
The food has always made me sick.
Are you sure you want to be eating there?
Coincidentally, there’s a Tiny Home builder in Deland that has some pretty neat houses. I could see buying/building one if you had some property out in the country somewhere and needed a weekend shelter. Full time? Nah.
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Agreed.
And, besides, I don’t do washaterias.
Ifn I was gonna live in a space that small it would have to be on a boat and anything less than 120′ is still way to wissin small.
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But I guess I could find a personal assistant with legs who can operate a washboard.
Via Felicia Cravens.
To find the Republican Establishment and how it works, you only need to go down the road a little bit.
There’s a guy in Texas who is building more than just good looking trailer houses. No two are alike.
His look neat and are made from 99% salvaged material.
Idiot. You built a frikkn hut with a bucket as a toilet.
Filed under “Dude” @ Hot Air:
Yeah…”dude”!
Man claims attack by lion, saved by a bear
Well, I’m speechless! Meet the real-life Barbies
Gee Ya’ think?! Nope that horse has not only left the barn, but the barn has burned down… Scary,…
She was JUST making her rounds, doing her job. Postal worker was paid to deliver packages of marijuana.
Oh, and I didn’t mention where this took place.
You can’t make this CRAP up. Godfather To Propose $7 Billion to provide 30,000 jobs?!?!
I know that I’m a product of public schools, BUTT wouldn’t that be about $233,000 per job created?!
Beam me up Scotty!!
#72 I reckon I’m gonna have to find me a new courier. It shouldn’t be too hard. The innovative free market always finds a way.
OK from the land of Fruits and nuts; San Francisco Subway customers lose $5 footlong deal.
The San Francisco city council are IDIOTS!!!….Spits
#70 Darren: I’m sure that momma bear saw the cougar as an ongoing threat to her cub and knew that the man was not. She saw the cougar engaged and was going to kill it if possible to spare the future threat to the cub.
Pithy thayings Thursday ……….
I’ve always liked:
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels turning drive you crazy
I heard that one from a girl in Winslow, Arizona …………….
I’ve always been fond of the Churchill anecdote quoted here previously:
Daniel Doherty gave two reasons Rubio endorsed Romney.
I’m behind Rubio’s thinking.
In Defense of Marco Rubio’s Endorsement
Bonecrusher;
That’s what mamma bears do. We need to be more like mamma bears (civilly).
The House passed a nother 90-Day extension to the transportation bill today, the Senate approved by voice vote and it is on to the President. This is the 9th extension and renewss the 11.8 cent federal tax on gasoline. I was kinda hoping that this was a tax that the Republicans wouln’t support, but they are the majority in the House.
The President is expected to sign.
Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Board (GAB) is expected to certify that enough people have petitioned to recall the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and four state Senators starting in early May. Potential candidates have 10 days to get their nomination petitions together, if more than one candidate from a party files, then the May date is a primary and the recall vote moves to June. The recallees are automatically on the ballot unless they quit.
FLOTUS has a Twitter page?
Super Dave #71;
That is deeply concerning.
Roseanne Tweets Address of Zimmerman’s Parents – UPDATE: Barr Threatens to Go To House
First Spike Lee and now Roseanne Barr. Liberals are ignorant and dangerous.
I was always curious where Barbara Eden ended up.
\Waves down a geezer bus\
Teen Gets Assault Charge For Brutal Soccer Attack
I like the first post.
Go ahead, show the second post.
Perhaps I should be paying more attention to the society pages.
#63 Hammy
It wasn’t the tiny house that I wondered about the legality thereof… it was the DIY toilet.
Interesting article here surmising just who killed Obamacare. The conclusion? Bloggers, particularly The Volokh Conspiracy.
Shamaal#87;
You could have. And i’ve been known to say here that posters at Breitbart do go off the hinge somethimes but frankly, I find that second post much more sarcastic than racial.
This close to 100 and ya’ll quit. slackers
And its mornin, too