That picture is TOO cute.

Good Saturday morning to everyone! What an awesome pic - where is Mom?

Good Saturday morning to all! What an awesome pic - Mom is probably exhausted.

I wonder what they taste like? Deep fried in a fluffy batter with a roumelade sauce and a side of onion rings and a Shiner Blonde? Or slow mesquite smoked covered in rasberry chipotle sauce and a Belgian raspberry ale.

Is this reason enough to find all the Republicans running for anything above the level of Dogcatcher, and support them with all your heart?

Rep. John Murtha said Friday he has started campaigning again for the position of House majority leader if the Democrats oust the Republicans in power in November.

In June, the Pennsylvania Democrat who has been the leading voice for pulling troops out of Iraq agreed to suspend his campaign for the position out of concern that it could divert from the party’s ability to gain the 15 House seats it would need to take control of the House.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/9/30/80719.shtml

Faster: Maybe they taste like chicken?

#2 faster
Ix-nay on the chipotle stuff… I’d have to go for the remoulade sauce, although smoking doesn’t sound too bad.

Anyone else but me think Mark Foley ought to be brought up on charges? Couldn’t even finish reading the smarmy dialogue betwixt he and the kid. “We track library books better than we do sexual predators,” Foley has said. What a moron.

Sounds like he was counting on that level of tracking continuing.

How’s about blackened in an iron skillet, covered with a Ponchetrain sauce with bits of crab and shrimps and crawfish?? And a side of fried okra. Maybe an ice cold Jax?

Or, served jerked covered in a coconut cream sauce, with black beans, boiled dumplings and some papaya. Down it with an ice cold Red Stripe.

Dang, I’m hungry… Gonna go make shirts and listen to my stomach growl!!

OK, so I don’t post very often. When I do, why won’t the search engine find my posts? Does LST actually think I can remember what story(s) I posted to? {free clue: No I cannot!}

Under my profile, why isn’t there a “my posts” option? Oh, and while I’m ranting, why no “spell check”?

This is an awesome picture - bet Mom is exhausted!

Panda recipes

Looks like the next morning after parties from my college days….in the 70’s…….what I remember of them…..they sure we’re fun….not that that’s
a bad thing………. course I’m not like that anymore…..but people sure seemed to smiled more back then, I think?

Just ruminating, but I digress.

It also brings to mind the saying by Ben Franklin, I think was, after signing the Declaration of Independence: ‘We must now hang together, or we will all surely hang seperately’. Still applies today.

#2: Fasternu; I agree, if God hadn’t meant for people to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat!!!

#3: BSue; While I share your concern, NO Republican state candidate will get my vote, except only Dan Patrick. Nor will Kay Baby(but then I haven’t voted for her the last 2 times; what about her plege only to run two terms, as I remeber?). They have performed so poorly, and treated their constituency with such open contempt a message has to be sent.

#6: FourAlarm; Of course he should! But Foley’s mistake was being in the wrong party: if he was Dim, he still be a member of Congress, would be on Oprah tomorrow, and announcing a book deal next week!

#8 Fasternu; sounds so good now I’ve got to make an IHOP run; and for a real man’s beer my fav is still Falstaff!!

#9 Mike S.; No idea on any of ‘em!!

!:

#11 mmmmmmmmm Panda on the hibachi

Ree-C

Thanks for honoring the panda pic to Jeremy. I was teasing him the other day about his obsession with panda concerns.

On the other hand the panda recipes had me thinking… I was a vegetarian for 15 years and WON’T look back now that I am a carnivore again.

It’s the weekend…do something that you like!

Faster: You made me go to the freezer and take out a chicken and start it defrosting! Here’s my not too fancy meal for tonight: A whole chicken, lightly sprinkled with rosemary, sitting on my “chicken sitter” with various spices, especially Badhia and beer inside the sitter, and placed in the smoker side of my grill, far back from the fire box as possible, slow smoked with soaked mesquite chips added from time to time in the fire box for approx. 3 hours. I try and keep smoker box heat between 250 and 275 degrees.

Fresh corn on the cob, shucks peeled back, silks removed, washed and shucks replaced back over cob. Soak in cold water for 15 minutes and place on the firebox side of the grill as is for approx. 10-12 minutes, turning once. Butter, salt and pepper to taste once served.

Fresh salad with Romaine lettuce, radishes, celery, cucumber slices, chopped baby carrots, a few sliced black or green olives, finely chopped onion (optional), tomato wedges placed on top right before serving and a dash of Bahdia spice and celery salt. Toss and refrigerate until Chicken and corn is ready. HEB has a new caesar dressing by Cardini’s that’s very good!

“Pretty good” appetizers: Cream cheese or colby cheese stuffed medium to large jalapenos, a peeled raw shrimp on the outside, wrapped with bacon and stuck with a toothpick to hold it all in place. Place on grill directly over medium heat for ten minutes or so. Turn once during cooking. When bacon is done, so is everything else. I make about three of these per person 15-20 minutes or so before meal is ready. Yum!

While eating, you have got to be very carefull not to get any of the above on your forehead. You ask why?

Your tongue will beat your brains out trying to get to it!

The morning paper, 1885.

In most Texas towns the morning papers are delivered by mounted carrier boys. The residences of the subscribers are too far apart to enable a pedestrian carrier to make the rounds with the morning papers before their contents have gradually chrystallized into ancient history.
In Texas towns the private residences, owing to the largeness of the State, are not jammed up against each other as closely as an engaged couple taking a buggy ride on a lonely road. Moreover, pedestrianism in Texas, so a Texas Irishman remarked, is confined for the most part to equestrians and people who ride in street cars.
The carrier boy charges through the streets and around the suburbs with a calm deliberation of a fugitive greenhorn whose scalp hangs loosely on the back of his neck, and who is being closely pursued by a noble red man of the forest who wants to utilize it as a mural decoration for his dusky wigwam.
The carrier boy has an object in view when he imitates the cry of an untamed legislator from the far west, whose veracity has been impeached by a brother solon. The object of the carrier boy is to notify the subscriber he is coming, and his coming is like the coming of Jehu, the son of Nimshi, for he rideth furiously.
With a sudden jerk the carrier boy reins in his foaming steed–all Texas steeds know how to foam–at the front gate, and if he were any other that a Texas boy, instead of throwing the paper into the yard, the youth himself would be projected over the fence with the force of a steam wielded catapult.
The carrier boy has squeezed the moist morning journal into a hard lump of about the solidity of a boarding house biscuit, and just as the drowsy subscriber opens the front door, the carrier boy hits him in the eye with the deadly missile, and laughs a fiendish, mocking laugh, as he rides off. Instead of a single paragraph striking the subscriber’s eye at a glance, the entire paper, patent medicine advertisements and all, strike his eyes, a truly wonderful feat in journalism which is unknown to the profession outside the State of Texas.
If the carrier boy goes to Heaven after some exasperated patron of the paper has taken him on the wing with a shotgun, then Heaven is not the kind of seaside resort it is represented to be in the published advertisements.

From Alex Sweet’s Texas Siftings, May 9, 1885

#15 Malcolm
Sounds like a wonderful menu plan - only one bit of advice… if you’ve never tried cooking the corn on the cob WITHOUT removing the silks, may I suggest you try it? We remove any ratty shucks, and soak, then cook as you suggest. When it’s done, and you peel off the shucks, almost all of the silks come right off with them. It’s MUCH easier than trying to remove them without damaging the shucks!

#17 Malcolm…let’s have your address so we can all come over to consume all that cooking!

#20 vlou
I’m with you. We could then watch the Cards vs Brewers game on 26 without having to worry about cooking. Run to Malcolm’s and consume his yardbird, etc. then watch the Astros game ;0)

#18 Morning paper 2006. Not in my driveway.

Uh, Gto, not a good day to be bringing up “mounted carrier boys”. LOL.

Took note that Shakey’s day was made by Mark Foley. Too bad the issue is squashed before the headlines are dry and the elites and Dems could work up a good lather.

Hey Shakes, while your out there demanding we make a big deal of it, how about some crawfishing on the Valerie Plame fiasco you and yours were on a steady drumbeat about. And what about the constant daily tally the special prosecuter is running as we heard with Star. When is Fitzgerald gonna shut it down?

#21 I forgot to add the Brewers/Cards game starts at 12:30 - GO BREWERS!

#23 Apparently you didn’t read thoroughly, or you did and just didn’t get it.

Anyway, me and mine? You mean me and the rest of the rational, non-affiliated people who don’t have to tout the party line and kiss someone’s a$$ just to say I’m part of something?

I appreciate the compliment.

Here’s one for Daniel James (but I know he’s already read it):

The Senate just finished passing the U.S. House of Representative’s fence bill.

It will now go to President Bush who has promised to sign it.

This is a stand-alone bill. It was not bundled with any compromises, any increases in immigration, any new guestworker visas or any amnesty.

It deals only with making our southern border more secure and to further impede the flow of illegal workers and dependents.

Senators who voted against the fence:

*Akaka (D-HI)
*Bingaman (D-NM)
*Cantwell (D-WA)
*Chafee (R-RI)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold ( D-WI)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
*Lieberman (D-CT)
*Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)

*up for re-election

Both Cornyn and Hutchison voted yea. Of all the names on the nay list, only one Republican.

Interesting™.

#26
Dude

And who would have guessed the name? Unbelievable.

#26 Chafee is a twit. From a state the size of Harris county, I bet he doesn;t have 400,000 ilegals like we do.

I mentioned that I don’t like to see fuel prices as low as they are. Here’s another reason (in addition to my professional reason) that I feel that way. Cheaper isn’t always better.

#26

Wonder what the fine print says…”to begin construction in 2010″….”with doors every 20′”….”funds to be appropiated beginning 2011″.

Good point SC. I don’t know for sure though. Sometimes when I hear the real numbers of illegals that some northern states have it really surprises me. Like I said though, RI I don’t know about specifically. One that I know has a big problem is Illinois:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/01/immigrant.day/index.html

#29
Dude

How can they do that without going thru Bush/Cheney, they are in charge of prices right?

Yeah, that may well be true GJT. Gotta start somewhere though.

Does RI even have 400,000 people in it?

#32,

Muawahahahahahah!!! That’s simply not true Tim. Nudge nudge, wink wink.

8^)

#34 1,076,189 2005 census

#33

Yeah I know and I’m all for it, just don’t trust ‘em. Sure seems they are hearing us, thats good.

Immigration Impact:
Rhode Island

State Population (2004 CB estimate) 1,080,632
Population Increase 1990-2000 44,855
Foreign-Born Population 124,800
Percent Foreign-Born 11.6%
Illegal Resident Population 16,0001
2025 Population Projection 1,141,000

All numbers are from the U.S. Census Bureau unless otherwise noted. Additional Census Bureau, INS, and other immigration-related data are available for Rhode Island.

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_research449e

How come it is Republican sausage smokers have to resign when Democrat sausage smokers get book deals and apperances on Larry King?

Republican sausage smokers= Fired!
Democrat sausage smokers= Your hired!

Articles like this one, written before the bill’s passage, make me wonder if the fences will ever get built. Surely, someone else is likely to file another suit because of the effects the fences, “24 hour a day bright lighting,” etc may have on the ecosystem.

The additional double fencing the U.S. House of Representatives wants to build along the international line would cause wilderness to disappear and irreparably harm environments with plants and animals unique to the border, a Star investigation found.
Constructing fences — and the roads needed to build them — denudes huge swaths of land and affects migratory patterns of jaguars, wolves, bobcats and other animals. Improperly built fences can damage ecosystems with erosion, too.
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/dailystar/147968

I would love to tell the eco-idiots quoted in this article that a fence, and/or lights are going to do nothing to the ecosystem compared to the detonation of a nuclear device smuggled in across said border. But, heck, what do peoples’ lives mean in the balance of ecology? Some of these people would likely love to see people banned from the face of the Earth, never thinking that would also include themselves.

But, heck, what do peoples’ lives mean in the balance of ecology?

Geez BSue, I thought you had your priorities straight.

Save the Whales [insert favorite animal here]!!!

I wonder how many loons we’ll see chaining themselves to trees and such. It is pretty scary thinking about how long the tree-huggers could tie this up in court with frivolous lawsuits.

Whats the difference between a border fence hurting the ecology and several million ilegals trampling the countryside leaving trash, excrement, and bodies all over the place?

#19 BSue:
I never tried it that way before (until today) thanks for the hint!
#20 vlou: I’d love to have you but I only have one yard bird. We’ll be thinking about you! (:-0)
BTW, It’s smoking really good right now. If you were within a couple of miles of Egypt, Texas you probably could see the smoke and smell it too! One of my neighbors has already tried to invite himself!!!

I wonder how many loons we’ll see chaining themselves to trees and such.

Like this guy?

#44 Hammie, looks like that protest did a lot of good.

Hamous,

Heh! That guy is nothing if not tenacious.

#39: CheeseySOB: Nice point, but I already said that in #14. Glad to know you concur, though!

#42 SC: Very good point, but you should know by now that the neosocs don’t let relevant points enter the discussion; they have an agenda to impose!!

43 Malcolm - Going to my daughters who lives off Honea Egypt. If I see smoke I’m coming over.

Hammie, I thought you were suppose to chain yourself to the tree BEFORE it’s cut down! Yep - the best and the brightest - NOT!

@47 Yeah, I know. It was a rhetorical question.

Going to work on the car now. Looks nice out. Later y’all.

Pujols looked as out as the day is long! Don’t tell me that the umps are Cards fans…

Some red meat for the animal rights type people.

My name used to be blue. How do I change it back to blue…….uh….Mike

#48 Butch: Don’t see how many folks can miss it!
I suppose I could start the appetizers a little early.(?)

She lives in Crown Oaks…..are you near there?

My prediction is the fence will not get built. They voted to build it, but did they vote to fund it? If they were serious, they would start building it right now.

After the election, they will forget all about it and it will be business as usual.

Vicente Fox, well he no likey the fence, so Slick Jethro Dubbed-Ya will cave again. “Gee, Me so sorry Senor Fox, let me cipher for you”

These guys are playing the shell game again.

For six years nothing but an invasion never before seen in the history of this country and it still continues as we blog. Now all of a sudden and at the witching hour, they want to build a fence.

Call me cynical because I am. When it comes to the current crop of sellouts and Oathbreakers we have in office today, everything they do can be bought, bribed or sold, including the soul of America.

They have already proven that because America has very little soul left.

To this crop of snake-oil salesman, America is a giant garage and everything is for sale.

Hey Butch,

After you log in, go to “Site Admin” (below Bert and Ernie) and enter a website you want to be associated with your name. That’ll make you blue (but happy) again.

#49 BSue, he didn’t get the memo.

Let’s see if it worked Dude……

#59 Butch - your name turned blue but your linky no clicky

HeeHee……now I feel so much a part of ya’ll.

Now….if I could only afford High Speed……

Hmmnnnn…..I’ll change the link another time….right now I’m off to find my dad’s will….somewhere in his house. He moved it from the strong box and left a pair of socks in there instead. I don’t want to get old. If that’s all I do when I’m old though I’ll take it. Ya’ll have a great rest of the week-end.

#62 Butch, some of the links are bogus but send a message.

#62 Butch

Look for his will in his sock drawer or the clothes dryer.

#64 Mom - you’ve got a point. Maybe it’s a clue!

I had an Aunt who, as she got older suffered from senile dementia. She was convinced her grandkids were stealing her money. So she hid it and promptly forgot where she hid it thereby reinforcing her belief about the grandkids. She’s gone now but we still find $20 bills in strange places like stacked in between dinner plates.

Hamous,
That is so reminiscent of my aunts, who lived together. My poor cousin, when faced with doing some repairs to the house, whilst our “old maid aunt” was in the hospital, had a treasure hunt. And when she and the kids got through hunting through every piled up magazine and book in the unused rooms found enough money in $10-$50 bills to pay for the new flooring, paint, etc. She also found her mother’s jewelry neatly rolled up in a bread sack safely resting on the chair rail in the diningroom, behind the buffet.

DJ, This is for you…I will be there Saturday, even though I have to work. Am bringing my Trans Texas Corridor sign, so everyone, please feel free to imput signage for me! Katfish, please tell you Bama Belle happy be-lated birthday. Meant to sign on yesterday, but not enough hours in the day.

If anyone wants to go to this, please let me know. I don’t want to go by myself. Heard Houston is a SPOOKY town!

LET YOUR VOTE BE HEARD RALLY
U.S. Border Watch asks you to join us to speak to our elected
officials. We demand action from our leaders to protect and defend the
sovereignty and freedom of the United States of America. Hear about
the Texas Trans Corridor, Border Security and other facts of interest.
Date: October 7th, 2006
Place: Mexican Consulate (4507 San Jacinto Houston TX)
Time: Rally 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Speakers will include several politicians and American Patriots.
Learn about the candidates that are running for office. We will also
have reports from the September border operations. We will have a
large covered area. Bring your chairs, flags, signs and American pride.

TRANS TEXAS CORRIDOR:
COMING THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU!
BIGGEST LAND GRAB IN THE HISTORY!

umm, tried to post 2 times….where could they be?

I’ll wait. (jepordy theme music playing)

Isn’t it amazing what kind of news makes headlines as Congress takes a recess to start campaigning in this election year? I mean all kinds of “good to hear” stuff…too coincidental in an election year that they decided all of a sudden to approve to build a fence at a portion of the border….hummmm Be aware of who is running for re-election…vote them out.

Jeff Cirillo’s 1000 hit just scored 2 runs for the Brewers. I’ve never rooted so hard for a non-Astros team!

Hamous, you said this yesterday:

The last Republican I remember involved in a sexual pecadillo was Bob Packwood. When’s the last time you heard about him. 20 years ago. Why? Because he was run out of town on a rail!

Suggest you refresh your memory at this link:

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

The “Party of God”? Interesting™

Armchair subversive… Strom Thurmond… and you wonder why we shake OUR heads.

#72 - Headshaker

Are you now an expert on what I remember? You are rapidly losing ANY credibility when your sources use Ted Bundy as evidence to how bad Republicans are. And then there is this balderdash:

Republican Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children in Iraqi prisons in order to humiliate their parents into providing information about the anti-American insurgency.

Really Shakey, quit while you’re behind.

Hamish,

1. Those were your words I posted.

2. Are you saying that the list is wrong?

The last Republican I remember involved in a sexual pecadillo was Bob Packwood.

And that is a FACTUAL statement.

And yes, the list is wrong. Do you really believe Rumsfeld authorized the rape of children? Are you expecting me to put stock in a list that contains Tim McVeigh and Ted Bundy as examples of how bad Republicans are. You can’t be serious. Come back to me when you have a list from at least a remotely respected news organization, even a liberal one. Like this one from CNN:

In addition to the senator’s own problems surrounding the 1969 drowning death of Mary Jo Kopechne in Chappaquiddick, Mass., one of Kennedy’s nephews was embroiled in a high-profile sex scandal: William Kennedy Smith was acquitted of raping a Florida woman in 1991.

If Congress passes judgment on the president’s misdeeds, it could also face criticism that in the past it has not meted out tough enough punishment when members go astray.

In 1976, Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio (1949-76), allegedly put his mistress, Elizabeth Ray, on the payroll even though she admitted she lacked any secretarial skills. Hays, the powerful chairman of the House Administration Committee and chairman of the then-Democratic National Congressional Committee, was forced to resign from Congress.

Wilbur Mills, D-Ark. (1939-77), chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, had a publicized affair with striptease dancer Fanne Fox. In December 1974, Mills resigned his chairmanship, sought treatment for alcoholism and announced he would not seek re-election in 1976.

Also in 1976, several House members were embroiled in scandal. An aide to John Young, D-Texas (1957-79), said she was kept on his payroll primarily to have sex with him. Joe D. Waggonner Jr., D-La. (1961-79), was arrested and released on charges of soliciting a police decoy posing as a prostitute. Allan T. Howe, D-Utah (1975-77), was convicted for soliciting two policewomen posing as prostitutes. The House took no action.

That kind of tolerance for sexual misdeeds began to change in the 1980s as Congress started recommending stronger punishment for untoward conduct. The House censured Daniel B. Crane, R-Ill. (1979-85), and Gerry E. Studds, D-Mass. (1973-97), in 1983 for sexual misconduct with teenage pages. Crane had sex with a 17-year-old female page, and Studds had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old male page, who may have been 16 when the affair began.

The House ethics committee had recommended a reprimand for the two, the least severe form of punishment the House can impose. But after an outcry that the penalty was too mild, the punishment was upgraded to a censure on the House floor.

In October 1989, the House ethics committee sent a letter of reproval to Rep. Jim Bates, D-Calif. (1983-91), for sexually harassing women on his staff.

That year, the Senate denied the Cabinet post of Defense secretary to former Sen. John G. Tower, R-Texas (1961-85), who faced allegations of womanizing.

In 1990, an ethics investigation of Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., led to a reprimand for his relationship with a male prostitute.

Faced with allegations of sexual misconduct, including reports that he had fondled a Capitol elevator operator, Republican Rep. Donald E. “Buz” Lukens of Ohio resigned from Congress in 1990.

http://www2.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/02/cq/investigation.html

Ahem;

The only people I know of who claim to be the “Party of God” is Hezbollah.

Shakey;

Unlike some of then other guys, I really DO hope you keep this up. There are abut 10,000 unique visitors to LST every day, and a percentage of them will go thorugh the Open Comments.

Once these fence sitters see that your definition of a “Double Standard” in the Republican Party is that they get rid of guys like this at the first opportunity, rather than “complain” about them, and then we are able to compare the “Single Standard of the Democrat Party is that they keep electing their miscreants over and over, it’s the cheapest campiagn stuff the Conservatives can get in this state.

Hint: There’s a reason why we don’t hear “Culture of Corruption” so much any more. It’s because guys like us were able to point out the same hypocrasy of Democrats (and you) on that issue as well.

#55 “Blue” Butch:
Not too far. Just south of FM 1488 in Westwood

8 Billion Dollar a month!
What about it?
$8 billion A MONTH we are spending on Iraq and nothing to show for except death and destruction.
We don’t need $ 8 billion A MONTH for that , infact, we don’t need even 8 cents for death destruction.
$ 8 billion A MONTH can build so many colleges and universities in this country that every one who wants a higher education can easily get it.
$ 8 billion A MONTH can build so many hospitals in this country that every citizen can have his own private bed equipped with state of the art equipments.
$ 8 billion A MONTH can build so many asylums that all those who took us to this wrethced war can be accomodated together with their families should they desire.
$ 8 billion A MONTH can compell this writer( Me, ofcourse) to take an early retirement and you can bet your farm on this statement.

Oh, they forgot Mel Reynolds. In addition to 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lying to the FEC, the former Illinois congressman had sex with an under-aged subordinate, won clemency from Bill Clinton, who had sex with a subordinate, then was hired by a clergyman (Jesse Jackson) who had sex and fathered a child with a subordinate. Reynold’s job with Jackson’s Rainbow/Push Coalition? A freakin’ youth counselor!

Here’s another legitimate list:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/congress.htm

39 SOB
Now there is a reason to join the party which is hired as opposed to fired.

# 72 Headshaker
Are you suggesting that the link you provided should be used as ‘Gold standard’ for the conservative party? Why not, I see quite an accomplishment there.

ROFLMAO!! Back when Strom Thurman was young enough to have sex it was normal to have relations with a 15 yr old!

And I saw Nixon on there, Watergate wouldn’t even make MSNBC news today.

Folks, Monday evening, my time, I will be conducting another interview. I hope to have the corresponding article published before midnight, which should be Monday morning, 11:00 am, Houston time.

I think you will find this one much more interesting than the last. Stay tuned.

Looking forward to it Wino.

Wino, same here.

Wino, where are you at now?

I’m in my hotel room in Singapore waiting for the sun to rise. I don’t sleep well on trips, so tend to get up between 3 am and 5 am… It’s about 5 am now.

And if you were to click on my name, no its not just another cross dressing Republican, its my wife!

/slips nickel into LST coin slot for shameful self promotion

Hey, GJT!

You’ve got good taste. Pity your wife doesn’t… Why’d she marry an ugly cuss like you, anyway?

Ha!

It’s been a long time since I took government in school, but, can someone tell me when the Senate got the right to appropriate money for anything? I thought that was left to the House and the House alone.

#93 JRB

The way I remember it, the financial bills have to START in the house, but they have to be agreed upon by the Senate.

At least that’s the way it was written. The Congress has effed up everything so badly in the last 200-odd years, I’m thinking anyone with a passport probably has the authorization to give government money away. The only stipulation is that the money must go to a person or project completely undeserving of the funds, and who will do nothing legal or ethical with them.

At least, that’s the way it works in practice.

#93 JRB

If you’re referring to the fence, that did not appropriate funds. After the election, surely the Senate will deny funding, like they did the last time they voted “for” the fence, but against the funding of it.

Not really one of Florida’s Finest

I am a supporter of the police, in every sense of the word, but being an officer of the law does not guarantee intelligence. Darwin works in not-so-mysterious ways.

Hi Folks,
I’ve been out of pocket and I have no idea what ya’ll are talking about but, I’m having Red beans and rice for supper. Put the beans on about an hour ago, they’ll be ready by about 7 PM. I have the rice ready to start and the corn bread is in a #10 cast iron skillet ready to go on the gas grill as soon as it heats up. The Chapel Hill sausage with jalapeños will be the last thing that I cook.
I’m sitting out here on the deck with the boy’s lap-top receiving the wireless network, watching the three hummers fighting over the feeder. Their biggest problem is the flowers that taste better than the feeder that are way too many to police. So they stay real busy. Ain’t life great! Only in AMERICA! Think about it! Hug the kids, kiss the wife, and put your baby in the garage!! Not mine, heard it on the radio.
DAMN I WONDER WHAT THE POOR FOLKS ARE UP TO!!

Wino, I may be wrong but I predict they got the message. With only two years til the next election, they’ll fund it this time.

Is Octamist a word?

Read the link… I don’t think any comment is really necessary.

#96 - Wino, being a native Floridian, as much as I hate to admit it, there was another Florida law enforcement officer that shot himself in the leg while demonstrating gun safety a few years ago. I think he was FBI.

#98 hamous

I hope you are right. If they keep this kind of stuff up for two years, things might actually get better, and I’ll not feel so bad when I vote for them.

Yes… I will vote for Kay Baby and John Cornhole, regardless, because “Rep Pelosi, Speaker of the House,” “Rep Murtha, Speaker of the House,” and “Committee Chairman Rangel” are more repugnant to me than the alternatives.

Perry, though has some high-steppin’ to do before I’d vote for him. Repeal the Business Income Tax, Repudiate the Trans-Texas Crony Payback and Foreign Aid Project convincingly, and call the Lege back into session with the admonition, “You ain’t leavin’ till the appraisal cap is acceptable to Wino,” and he’ll have a slight chance of getting my vote.

But I’d have to believe he did it because he meant it, not because he thought he’d lose the election if he didn’t do it.

Wino, You a long way from home, dude. Hope things go well for you and make it back safe. My wife Stormy has been to KL and that was both her best and worst trip. She has been to Paris a couple times and to Japan…Her first earthquake! Got to watch the pool slosh from her hotel window.

Gators won (man, I wish they played the Hogs malcolm and Hogfan!) and my alma mater Houston is leading Miami. If they can pull it off they’ll be 5-0. The trifecta would be the Astros winning tonight to stay alive.

#100 hamous

He was DEA, and I’ve got the video if you want it. I’ll have my ‘puter with me next bhh I make, and I’ll be happy to give it to you.

Moments before the gun discharges into his leg (Glock 9 mm), he says, “I’m the only one professional enough in here to have a gun.”

#101 - Perry was in Houston promising $10 mil for crime fighting this week. What a whore.

#105 hamous

I saw it… I didn’t even comment on the gratuitous electioneering it proved.

#102 marc

I’ve been to 53 different countries. If I don’t leave the airport, I don’t count it.

I’ve seen earthquakes in Naples (that’s a significant disaster waiting to happen, again; 20K lost in one temblor when I was there, in Pozzuoli, north of Naples).

I’ve eaten so many animals that I’d prolly eat rat, as long as the locals ate it first.

I’ve been teased in Korea. They called me “electric telephone pole,” which I’m fairly certain is not the correct translation (denotation correct, connotation incorrect). I’m pretty sure there is a sexual connotation there, and maybe the title of a porno movie.

I’ve had Spaniards ask me if I rode horses, only to laugh and say, “I don’t. I ride women.” In Spanish, it must be much funnier than it is on LST.

Nope. I love other cultures and the people there. I’ve traveled more than 99.99% of people, if not more, and will continue to do so as long as I’m able.

Bahrain next month, then I get a whole two months off. I also get to go to places like Muleshoe, Texas, and Pampa, Texas, and Oak Creek, Wisconsin, but you gotta see everywhere to really appreciate Houston and the Good Ol’ USA.

HELLO,…HELLO,…Tap, Tap, Tap, Is this damn thang on? It sure seems like it is,…Oh well, time to start the corn bread.
Later Dudes,
I can’t seem to shake that bastard at the family reunion thing.
I’m red headed, but I’m not a step child.

I bet Magic Johnson Would Disagree

Stunning passersby, billboards have sprung up around Southern California declaring, “HIV is a gay disease,” adding the tag line “Own It; End It.”

The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday that the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, which paid for the billboards, has declared war on the fact that populations of homosexual men are slacking off in their vigilance against HIV and AIDS.

The campaign, which is also running in magazines, is a 180-degree turn from the years of politicking against stereotyping homosexuals as those most likely to become infected.

Some here might agree with the article title (my brother did, in the 1980’s), but this is a real problem.

Regardless what the Bible says, and what one does in the privacy of his bedroom or Congressional Office, AIDS is a real, world-wide problem, and gays are not treating it as such anymore. Medical advances have lessened its immediate impact (very few diagnosed in the 1980’s are alive today, but many diagnosed in the 1990’s are controlling their infection with “cocktails”), but the losses to our economy, lives, and livelihood cannot be denied.

HIV and AIDS are still a problem. The most affected, the gay community, needs to stand up to its spread, rather than bow down (pun not intended) to its spread (again, pun not intended).

Squawk, if you’re there, please restore my post. It is pertinent, and probably discussion and thought-provoking.

HAL is awake and working today.

I give up! My last post was also deleted.
Almost time to eat!
Later, Dudes

Thanks, Squawk.

Well;

I’ve been ghosting through the usual moonbat websites and blogs for a an hour now, and find that sheky gets his info and the link to that website on them.

The left is all atwitter, basically saying that Conservatism is a mental disease and all Republicans are pedophiles.

How sad and lame.

They can’t get the Amerocan people with them on thier issues. THeir showcase candidate Littel Neddy Lamont is going to get his hat ahded to him. The price of gas is going down, the economy is up, and most people in this country think it’s dangerous to put them in charge of National Defense.

So, do they defend thier core values?

Do they tell us what they would do different?

do they tell us what thier plan is?

Nope…they call Republicans Child Molesters.

You know, I’m willing to bet that if I sat down and took enough time, I could come up with a pretty impressive list of plumbers arrested or convicted of being Child Molesters.

It would probably be easy to get a long list of teachers, youth group leaders, camp counselors, and day care providers whove had similar convictions.

In fact, I bet you could pick any profession, philosophy, race, gender, nationality…whatever…and come up with a list of child molesters within that sub group.

But there is only one organization that supports and defends child molesters.

Google ACLU NAMBLA and you’ll find out what I’m talking about.

And if there is a left wing organization, I think that the ACLU fits that description pretty durn well.

#99 WTF?
You can have 7 girlfriends. You are a stud. You marry them and your an idiot.

Wino, You got that right. We will do some more travel overseas once things calm down, if they ever do. The airlines have totally over-reacted the last couple of years. In the US I will choose to drive if possible. We may be driving to SC again rather than flying like last time.

You obviously like what you do. And that is good.

I enjoy waking up and sitting on the front porch in the woods, watching hummingbird wars, a couple or three generations of red birds, chickadees, titmeece, brown thrashers, Inca doves, mourning doves, and all of the flyby rare ones.

I don’t miss the long flights, the long work hours, and the lack of any appreciation for my contributions to my company when it mattered.

/note to self-do not buy Conoco gas

#113 SOB

…and may have recently wed an eighth.

He’s even stupider… I mean “more of a bigamist”… than one might think.

#112 Sarge

I’ve been ghosting through the usual moonbat websites and blogs for a an hour now…

Don’t forget to wash your hands, run a virus check on your hard drive, and go to confession.

I thank you for your sacrifice. Aside from the police, fire fighters, and brave SSAM’s your dedication supports and protects us more than most.

You might want to get a delousing agent, too.

Wino,
These bigamist arent too bright. Has anyone told them to marry one and screw around with the 20 others? There is always a work around.

If youve seen some of those Mormon chicks you know why they have a hard time finding a guy. They need to double and triple up when they do find a sucker.

#117 SOB

The only problem is, when I read about the “sucker,” he’s getting the 17-or-so not-legally-married brides to pull SSI, WIC, and other government program checks to support her “fatherless” children.

Who’s the sucker, really? Him, or the US taxpayer?

Wino;

It’s amazing…the commenters on those sites say the same things shakey does…they just don’t claim to be non-paritisan

Interesting…