Mornin’ AZ, EmmeK and all. It’s gonna’ be a hot one in South Texas. Be careful out there!
A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.
So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn’t notice her.
She said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.
The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor boy he knew.
She did this for the whole week.
As the boys walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy’s little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every
day all week. Finally he said to Timmy, “Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week? Do you know her?”
Timmy nonchalantly replied, “Yeah, I know who she is.”
The friend said, “Well, who is she?”
“That’s just Shirley Goodnest,” Timmy replied, “and her daughter Marcy.”
“Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?”
“Well,” Timmy explained, “every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, ‘cuz she worries about me so much.
“And in the Psalm, it says, ‘Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life’, so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it!”
Great morning to all of you…do take care of yourself in the heat of the day and drink lots and lots of water and stay indoors if you can and keep a cool head (in more ways than one). I plan to clean up the yard and pick my vegetables off the tomato and green pepper plants for my salad today and do some serious reading. Enjoy the weekend.
# 2, Malcolm. Great way to start the day with a good story.
The pic above sure looks inviting for shopping. I cannot fathom the current concept in shopping that pushes the so-called town center arrangement with stores facing small streets vs. the enclosed (and air conditioned) mall. First Colony Mall has gone to great expense to add that feature in its originally huge parking lots. I have not yet visited that section–too hot to go outside from store to store, as it usually is here for about 4 months of summer. And the rainy July certainly didn’t favor this arrangement either.
This same concept is being pushed up north–very trendy and very impractical in winter, which up there can be 5 months long. An enclosed mall in Madison, WI had the same renovation taking up a good share of its parking lot. Went there with kin to see what had happened to the place. Many more people in the enclosed mall than on the little streets outside, and this was July. And parking was a challenge. Somebody did some fast talking to the property owners in selling this idea.
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
Malcolm have a blessed weekend to you and everyone go out and enjoy the great weather. Take your Aquafina water bottle and fill it will you favorite water.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A CAR THAT WON’T PASS IMMISIONS TESTING? I NEED A NEW CAR AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TOO GIVE ME THE DOWNPAYMENT IF I HAVE THE RIGHT POLLUTING CAR.
Well time to take Jared for his horse riding lessons, wish they had an indoor A/C arena. Then its on to Downtown to Fish Gallery to spend more money for his sixth discus fish and gold nugget pleco. We set up a 110 gal. aquarium this week, it is excellent, like a big wide screen plasma screen.
Should I get flood insurance, have a 30 gal, a 55 gal., and now a 110 gallon?
What we do for our kids!
#11. I was behind one this week in Pasadena, the exhaust from it smelled like crap and I had the windows closed and the a/c on. Or maybe that was just the aroma from the refinery?
#11 Plonker
I heard a guy call in to a talkshow on Thursday evening, telling about a program for forklift energy efficiency. He was “given” nearly $10,000 credit toward the purchase of a new less-polluting, more efficient propane-powered forklift, in return for a forklift sitting on the back of his lot leaking oil, that he’d bought used for $3,500. Such a deal!
Under the headline “We Have No Hope” this incredibly prescient wag says (a front pager):
According to McClatchy Newspapers, Dick Cheney is on the precipice of convincing Bush to attack Iran. Diplomacy has gone nowhere because Cheney set a precondition that could not be met (stop enriching uranium before we negotiate over whether you should enrich uranium).
snip
Do you think the Democrats will be able to stop Bush if he decides to strike Iran? If you do, you have no idea what you’re talking about. It is an IGNORANT position to think that Democrats would even fight back against military strikes aimed at Iran, let alone effectively stop them. The Democrats WILL fold like a house of cards the minute the first bomb is in the air. They will rally around the flag like a bunch of trained Pavlovian dogs.
Got that?
If we attack Iran, it won’t be because they are building nukes.
It won’t be because they say they want to wipe Isreal off the map.
It won’t be because they provide weapons and training to Iraqi baby killers to kill american soldiers and Iraqi babies.
It will be because of the eeeEEEEEeeeevillllllll Dick Cheney.
Somebody please tell me again why we need to let these clowns win elections to advance the cause of Conservatism.
# 15 & 18
I remember reading about the hundreds of thousands if not millions that Williams Bros. received from Texas, our money, to purchase new equipment. Not a loan, it was free money. I am not in the construction business so I do not compete with Williams for work, but it would really burn my butt to have to bid against them on state construction jobs while their cost of equipment is also paid for by the state. Seems very unfair that they have their cost of equipment paid for by the customer, you and I, and also get paid for the service they provide.
Double dipping???? Who paid off who for this gift???
Isn’t this the weekend for no tax on school supplies? If so, don’t walk into Walmart unless you are heavily armed and are up to date on all your immunizations.
#21 Liz,
ROFLMAO. You are so right. It’s probably a good idea to avoid Walmart altogether, since we know what kind of people are drawn to that place. It’s really too bad because I use to love shopping there, but now I mainly go to Target.
SUPERIOR, Wis. - A 20-year-old man received probation after he was convicted of having sexual contact with a dead deer. The sentence also requires Bryan James Hathaway to be evaluated as a sex offender and treated at the Institute for Psychological and Sexual Health in Duluth, Minn.
What would happen if the American people quit smoking and driving??? Where would the tax dollars generated by those two things be replaced by. The government wants you to quit smoking but aren’t the tax dollars lost kind a high. And what about the gasoline tax????
Another fine example of illegals coming here to do the jobs Americans will not do:
LOS ANGELES - Nine Guatemalans were indicted for their roles in an alleged sex trafficking ring that lured young women to the United States with promises of good jobs and then forced them into prostitution, according to federal court records.
Four of the defendants pleaded not guilty in January to sex trafficking charges in the case. A superseding indictment, unsealed Thursday, includes more serious allegations that five of the 12 victims were minors.
We have learned that Hillary Clinton has been studying images from the 2004 Presidential campaign in an attempt to learn the secret of what it takes to win,
After you take the photo, Squawk can do a photoshop comparison. Maybe the church is trying to get more men to come inside and listen to the sermon for the day.
Well, looks like Ron Paul’s supporters are at it again.
Ron Paul’s supporters are actively encouraging Iowa voters to take advantage of Mitt Romney’s offers of free transportation to the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames on Saturday and then, once they are there, to vote for Mr. Paul.
“Some say if Mitt is willing to bus Iowans to Ames for the straw poll, they should take him up on his offer!” says a flier in Iowa and on the Internet in advance of the straw poll for the Republican presidential candidates. The flier says that after riding the Romney bus to Ames, and allowing the Romney campaign to pay one’s $35 entry fee, Iowans should then carefully weigh their options and “they may decide to vote for Ron Paul.”
~snip~
But he conceded that infiltrating the Romney bus could certainly help Mr. Paul. It is his first visible attempt at converting his popularity online into success offline, which, alas, is where it counts.
Heh, heh! I see your little devious mind at work! And I wasn’t even going to mention the beard in response to #32. Yeah, she thought me to duck and run too!
A judge should just throw this out, if eating cheese was so life threatening to you would you blindly trust anyone not to add cheese to your hamburger or would you first check before biting into it. This is an example of what is wrong with our country, too many victims. No matter how many times I told the person when ordering, if it is that important I check it myself.
Neither nation will become anymore involved in Iraq, they are both much smarter than that.
I think you missed the point though, as Pakistan’s involvement in Afghanistan (creating and supporting the Taliban and forces killing coalition soldiers there) and their support for OBL/al-quaida (and his desire for nuclear weapons) has long been a serious threat to our nation’s security.
#29 Neocon, Don’t forget about that illegal that lined those 4 black kids up in the school and shot them in the head. He had several priors and they knew he was illegal. Now 3 kids are dead.
Where is the outcry from Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the others? /sorry, I REFUSE to call them Reverends.
ST - Just back from the pond and drowning a left over chicken - already dead and cooked - while trying to scare up some gators. (Not that we were gonna shoot them or nuthin’. Nuh uh…No way! Not us!)
It’s still hotter than Gilley’s ever was on a Saturday night out there. No breeze either. Be careful out there!
Now I’m gonnna say, back at ya. Which jobs won’t Americans do? The scum slave pimps? I’m glad Americans won’t do that. The young women, desperately seeking a better life, forced into slavery, forced to lie under men that have no conscience?
ST. I absolutely won’t forget. However. all these murders and many murders hereafter will not make these cities change their ways. They will continue to be “sanctuary cities” and crimes will continue to be made. This will not be stopped until the citizens arise in mass and demand change, which will probably not happen. Illegal aliens will continue to kill Americal citizens with the consent of American cities across the country until the American way of life is totally destroyed.
Bigjolly, you are full of DELETED to think I would condone women forced into sexual slavery under any circumstance. You have gone too far. You don’t know me, but several people at LST do. You are one sick puppy.
I didn’t think you would respond. How could you? It is a case of illegals arrested in a case of using illegals in a prostitution ring, some of which are minors. The whole point of my post is that these are jobs that illegals are doing that Americans won’t do.
Neo made a comment about an out of control illegal alien problem again, committing crimes against us legal citizens today, after the AMNESTY BILL FAILED, and you have to bring up something 5 months ago, to pick a fight and add drama? If I didn’t personally know you, I’d think you were a woman./always bringing up the past. We are known for that, don’t cha know? Men say that all the time.
I’ve learned to forgive and not sweat the small crap. After all, isn’t that what life is all about? What are you looking for? An apology?/ I really didn’t mean that to sound snarly…please forgive me BJ! I’m tarred!
You said, “another fine example of illegals doing the jobs Americans won’t do” and I asked you which of the two jobs in the article you linked to you wished that Americans would do. Well?
Or could it be that sometimes, our rhetoric is over the top on this issue?
This is why it is hard to really understand a person, because having a conversation is 20% words and 80% body language. I see where neocon is coming from, I also see where BigJ is coming from, in the sense that I am reading between the lines in both comments.
Let Illegal Immigrants have any job they want; screw American soverienty. Take whatever jobs you want. DELETED American borders. Sc**w American soverienty. Take over America any way you can, including language, especially the spanish language. Do not let anything stand in your way.
I’m not going to put any credence in a vote where the candidate pays people to do it and gives them a rides all across the state to the place where it’s done.
DELETE DELETE bigjolly! However, bigjolly DELETE, DELETE. That’ts pretty much how it is at LST. Commentators get red carpet treatment. In turn, commentetors get to treat poor DELETE DELETE the DELETE!
The Iowa straw poll is more af a guage of who is more organized.
I don’t think anyone has made a claim thatb Fre’d campaign is organized—in fact, it;s not even a “campaign” at all. If he’d done most of what needs be done to win that affair, he’d have been in violation of election laws.
The fact that he got any votes at all ought to scare the bejabbers out of some folks who put millions of dollars into it.
The folks that voted for Fred probably rode to the State Fair in Mitt Romney’s busses with the Ron Paul people.
Are y’all now talking about the STRAW poll? Oh, puuuleeeze! Polls, schmolls…..Mitt Romney paying 2 million for a bogus voting poll, eeerr, election? Hopefully the vote is not like a trial: He who has the most money, wins!
ST says: he who get’s offa their lazy butts and votes in the election, wins!
Remember folks! Vote early, and vote often! Also, have someone else cast your poor, dead, Uncle Billie’s vote! Pick someone who knows who poor, dead, Uncle Billie would vote for!
#65 sargevining
Nat;
I’m not going to put any credence in a vote where the candidate pays people to do it and gives them a rides all across the state to the place where it’s done.
I thought about that too, then I thought about all the biker brothers riding in for Thompson, and Jimmy Carter and some other candidate that won the nomination living there for a while before the straw poll was taken. It must carry some weight and looks like a Ron Paul line to me. - - - Didn’t say I liked it.
The straw poll basically gives the press something political to talk about while Democrat Congressmen and Sneators spend thier vacation before passing important legislation traveling around complaining about the Iraqi parliament going on vacation before passing important legislation.
Gotta give the LST ladies credit for showing their strength and determination! These aren’t pearl wearing, foo foo sissy girls but women who know their worth, understand the facts and have earned the right to speak their mind.
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matthew 7:6).
I used to sneak and eat those little coctail pearl onions from the jar in the fridge when I was a kid. (My parents drank a lot of coctails - it was fashionable back then - but we kids were starving!)
ROFLMAO I keep forgetting about that reference. I thought it was hilarious when Spock was corrected by Kirk when he made the reference of LDS instead of LSD.
This was developed as an age test by Harvard University .
Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a
mistake. The average person over forty cannot do it!
1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is person cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down. Nite all.
She was really bombed,
And I was really blown away,
Until I asked her what she wanted,
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl onion.
She wanna pearl onions.
She wanna pearl onions.
The second flight out of Ames belongs to Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who manifestly did not spend nearly as much as third-place finisher Sam Brownback and who has been dogged by questions about his ability to harness his support.
Michael Farris, a Huckabee adviser who runs the Home School Legal Defense Fund, said Huckabee’s campaign has existed on a “shoe-string budget” so far. “But it just goes to show that he is the best communicator in this race.”
“Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies are believed to have leaked information to the Taliban and al Qaeda in the past, and appears to have done so again.”
“This is one of the reasons that we are worried about a major CONUS [Continental United States] attack…….If they evacuated their bases, they almost certainly did so out of fear of more than just the Pakistani army.”
And from inside the Pakistan National Assembly this past week…
“The PML’s Chaudhry Ijaz said the US had suffered an embarrassing defeat in Iraq and it now wanted to salvage its pride in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
“The MMA’s Maulana Chitrali said that Pakistan was an atomic power and would nuke the US if it attacked the Muslim holy places.”
“The MMA’s Dr Fareed Paracha said that Pakistan was suffering because its foreign policy was changed after 9/11 by “an indivdual”. “The only solution to this problem is regime change,” he added.”
I thought they were talking about the guy running the website in Israel that caused the weekend panic in NYC.
“Dirty rat behind dirty bomb scare”
I was wrong, but at least it made for some humour in my rainy afternoon….
“Raised by hippie parents, then turned to hate & radical Islam”
“He is the grandson of a Jewish doctor.”
“Gadahn’s father, born Phil Pearlman, was a psychedelic rocker and farmer. In a 1975 album titled “Relatively Clean Rivers,” he dreamed that Arabs and Jews would “get together” and melt their weapons into sprinklers, tractors and hoes.”
This is a fascinating column on a speech by Gingrich. Using the internet to bypass the traditional media is something I have encouraged and predicted will eventually occur. It will be interesting to see who does it successfully and first.
First, Sarkozy established 16 Internet channels that were like YouTube and rigorously avoided trying to communicate through the French media, which Gingrich defined as hostile to conservatives.
‘What (Sarkozy) said is, ‘If I can communicate with you, then the news media can watch our conversation,’ which is very different than having a conversation with the news media which (average people) watch,’ Gingrich said. “
This is a great posting from Warren Meyer at Coyote Blog. Global warming takes it on the chin. NASA is being forced to revise historical temperature data downward and the real scandal is they refuse to release their algorythyms and modeling data to show how they arrive at their conclusions. Any other scientific organization who did this would be ridiculed into obscurity. I’m sure it was the lead story on the nightly news. The scam being run on us is bordering on criminal:
” Climate scientist Michael Mann (famous for the hockey stick chart) once made the statement that the 1990’s were the warmest decade in a millennia and that “there is a 95 to 99% certainty that 1998 was the hottest year in the last one thousand years.” (By the way, Mann now denies he ever made this claim, though you can watch him say these exact words in the CBC documentary Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off).
Well, it turns out, according to the NASA GISS database, that 1998 was not even the hottest year of the last century. This is because many temperatures from recent decades that appeared to show substantial warming have been revised downwards. Here is how that happened (if you want to skip the story, make sure to look at the numbers at the bottom). ”
All’s I can say is that if I’m on a billboard, it’s probably a Wanted Poster with a 1 million $ reward! /you don’t know me. I’m in the witness relocation program!
If it’s not a wanted poster, then where can I pick up my check?
Texpat: I marked the article, so I can read everything later. The links in paragraph 5 will tell it all. I’ve been posting those websites for a month or 2 now. I think that the only accurate weather station is the one in Colorado so far.
One of those weather stations is located next to a tennis court, which gives off heat, therefor does not register properly.
I am re-posting this from Hamous’ thread yesterday because I think it is important that everyone see it:
texpat Says:
August 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
We need to congratulate Republicans Jeb Hensarling, of northeast Texas and Mac Thornberry, of the Panhandle, for scoring perfect 100% scores on the 2007 RePork Card report by the Club For Growth:
” The Club for Growth has compiled a RePORK Card of all members’ votes on all 50 anti-pork amendments (see below). ‘Taxpayers have a right to know which congressmen stand up for them and which stand up for the special interests,’ said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. ‘Unfortunately, the Club for Growth RePORK Card shows that most congressmen care more about lining their buddies’ pockets than they care about protecting American taxpayers.’ ”
The Club For Growth rated all US House members on how they voted on the 50 amendments offered to curtail or eliminate pork in the House spending. ONE, JUST ONE amendment passed. See how they voted here:
Giuliani’s explanation further angered his ground zero critics, prompting several to issue a statement demanding an apology.
“He is such a liar, because the only time he was down there was for photo ops with celebrities, with politicians, with diplomats,” said deputy fire chief Jimmy Riches, who spent months digging for his firefighter son.
“On 9/11 all he did was run. He got that soot on him, and I don’t think he’s taken a shower since.”
Wow, I won a chicken dinner. Is that Popeye’s chicken, I love Popeye’s chicken? :))))
Off to church now will see y’all later. This sinus problem is killing me this week.
Wow, I won a chicken dinner. Is that Popeye’s chicken, I love Popeye’s chicken? :))))
Off to church now will see y’all later. This sinus problem is killing me this week.
Dam;
Looks like I should have made that joke after all.
Good Morning everyone,
enjoy a great sunny weekend!
Mornin’ AZ, EmmeK and all. It’s gonna’ be a hot one in South Texas. Be careful out there!
A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.
So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn’t notice her.
She said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.
The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor boy he knew.
She did this for the whole week.
As the boys walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy’s little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every
day all week. Finally he said to Timmy, “Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week? Do you know her?”
Timmy nonchalantly replied, “Yeah, I know who she is.”
The friend said, “Well, who is she?”
“That’s just Shirley Goodnest,” Timmy replied, “and her daughter Marcy.”
“Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us?”
“Well,” Timmy explained, “every night my Mom makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, ‘cuz she worries about me so much.
“And in the Psalm, it says, ‘Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life’, so I guess I’ll just have to get used to it!”
#3 - I promise you Art Linkletter couldn’t have done any better on his old show with kids!
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Mornin Blogospherians™
Top O’ the Mornin’ to You too!
Great morning to all of you…do take care of yourself in the heat of the day and drink lots and lots of water and stay indoors if you can and keep a cool head (in more ways than one). I plan to clean up the yard and pick my vegetables off the tomato and green pepper plants for my salad today and do some serious reading. Enjoy the weekend.
# 2, Malcolm. Great way to start the day with a good story.
The pic above sure looks inviting for shopping. I cannot fathom the current concept in shopping that pushes the so-called town center arrangement with stores facing small streets vs. the enclosed (and air conditioned) mall. First Colony Mall has gone to great expense to add that feature in its originally huge parking lots. I have not yet visited that section–too hot to go outside from store to store, as it usually is here for about 4 months of summer. And the rainy July certainly didn’t favor this arrangement either.
This same concept is being pushed up north–very trendy and very impractical in winter, which up there can be 5 months long. An enclosed mall in Madison, WI had the same renovation taking up a good share of its parking lot. Went there with kin to see what had happened to the place. Many more people in the enclosed mall than on the little streets outside, and this was July. And parking was a challenge. Somebody did some fast talking to the property owners in selling this idea.
Just returned from an hour at the Y and stopped off at Panera Bakery and dropped some money.
I thought some of you would find this article interesting:
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9619083
It raises this question:
Is the conservative base losing its power and influence in the Republican party?
Washington is concerned about the world’s only Islamic nuclear weapons.
“U.S. assessing Pakistan nukes if Musharraf falls”
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/10/pakistan.nuclear/
And for good reason.
“Who’s Hiding Osama Bin Laden?”
http://www.albionmonitor.com/0303a/binladenhide.html
Mrs Bhutto is coming to Pakistan according to the WSJ
This is extremely good news you may see Pakistan and India get involved in both Adghanistan and Iraq
Lets hope
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
Malcolm have a blessed weekend to you and everyone go out and enjoy the great weather. Take your Aquafina water bottle and fill it will you favorite water.
DOES ANYONE HAVE A CAR THAT WON’T PASS IMMISIONS TESTING? I NEED A NEW CAR AND THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TOO GIVE ME THE DOWNPAYMENT IF I HAVE THE RIGHT POLLUTING CAR.
Well time to take Jared for his horse riding lessons, wish they had an indoor A/C arena. Then its on to Downtown to Fish Gallery to spend more money for his sixth discus fish and gold nugget pleco. We set up a 110 gal. aquarium this week, it is excellent, like a big wide screen plasma screen.
Should I get flood insurance, have a 30 gal, a 55 gal., and now a 110 gallon?
What we do for our kids!
#11. I was behind one this week in Pasadena, the exhaust from it smelled like crap and I had the windows closed and the a/c on. Or maybe that was just the aroma from the refinery?
#12 They don’t call it Stinkadena for nuttin’…
Southeast Houston (including Stinkadena) can be smelled as far away as Columbus if the wind’s right……….
#11 Plonker
I heard a guy call in to a talkshow on Thursday evening, telling about a program for forklift energy efficiency. He was “given” nearly $10,000 credit toward the purchase of a new less-polluting, more efficient propane-powered forklift, in return for a forklift sitting on the back of his lot leaking oil, that he’d bought used for $3,500. Such a deal!
#14 Katfish
I’d say that they can be smelled as far away as Columbus is the wind’s WRONG! :0)
Who doesn’t love an unhinged Liberal Rant?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/we-have-no-hope_b_59929.html
Under the headline “We Have No Hope” this incredibly prescient wag says (a front pager):
Got that?
If we attack Iran, it won’t be because they are building nukes.
It won’t be because they say they want to wipe Isreal off the map.
It won’t be because they provide weapons and training to Iraqi baby killers to kill american soldiers and Iraqi babies.
It will be because of the eeeEEEEEeeeevillllllll Dick Cheney.
Somebody please tell me again why we need to let these clowns win elections to advance the cause of Conservatism.
#15
BSue
Hey lady. Same way Williams Bros suddenly got all new trucks and equipment, all POS before.
If we could just convince these people the open borders cause global warming and put the IRS in charge, hmmmm.
Pic;
Ooooh…… shiny floor! Pedro the janitor deserved that minimum wage raise! Now go shopping so he can get it…
# 15 & 18
I remember reading about the hundreds of thousands if not millions that Williams Bros. received from Texas, our money, to purchase new equipment. Not a loan, it was free money. I am not in the construction business so I do not compete with Williams for work, but it would really burn my butt to have to bid against them on state construction jobs while their cost of equipment is also paid for by the state. Seems very unfair that they have their cost of equipment paid for by the customer, you and I, and also get paid for the service they provide.
Double dipping???? Who paid off who for this gift???
Isn’t this the weekend for no tax on school supplies? If so, don’t walk into Walmart unless you are heavily armed and are up to date on all your immunizations.
#21 Liz,
ROFLMAO. You are so right. It’s probably a good idea to avoid Walmart altogether, since we know what kind of people are drawn to that place. It’s really too bad because I use to love shopping there, but now I mainly go to Target.
Annual Sales Tax Holiday August 17 through 19
#23 Thanks for the head’s up Squawk.
Remember the guy who killed the horse to have sex with it? Heee’s back! Seems like he’s a roadkill Romeo now:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17726206/
Then we have THIS guy in Seattle, Washington:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20217346
Is that how you milk a goat?
And this guy died:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002384648_farm16m.html
What the heck?
#25 There are some SICK and EVIL pervs in this world. Nuthin’ shocks me any more… Disgusts me? Yes. Shock? No.
What would happen if the American people quit smoking and driving??? Where would the tax dollars generated by those two things be replaced by. The government wants you to quit smoking but aren’t the tax dollars lost kind a high. And what about the gasoline tax????
Jackiepoo Murtha gets a phone call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BtKtk3oOTY
Another fine example of illegals coming here to do the jobs Americans will not do:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070810/ap_on_re_us/forced_prostitution_1
We have learned that Hillary Clinton has been studying images from the 2004 Presidential campaign in an attempt to learn the secret of what it takes to win,
We had two choices in 2004, between:
A. http://www.thatsweird.net/picture14.shtml
or
B. http://www.thatsweird.net/picture26.shtml
We elected A.
After reviewing the images Hillary is adopting a new strategy:
http://www.kantor.com/blog/images/Withfriendslikethese_7B34/hillaryreacts7.jpg
http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/blog/blog_images/hillaryOddFace.jpg
http://a3.vox.com/6a00d414291430685e00d4142a9bf3685e-320
If you are driving south on 2978 there is a sign for a church right before 2920 that has the spittin image of southerntragedy on it.
#30 Take a pic of it Smackie!
ST looks like Jesus?
#30
Smacktle
After you take the photo, Squawk can do a photoshop comparison. Maybe the church is trying to get more men to come inside and listen to the sermon for the day.
Well, looks like Ron Paul’s supporters are at it again.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/paul-camp-may-catch-romneys-bus/
Emme,
At least it was a church. I would be worried if it was a bar or a t-joint!
#35
neocon
So true. Maybe those places are out back behind the church.
/Ducking and running like ST taught me to!
Emme,
Heh, heh! I see your little devious mind at work! And I wasn’t even going to mention the beard in response to #32. Yeah, she thought me to duck and run too!
/d & r’ing
Good thing y’all can duck-n-run, cuz I wuz thinking, “Gals! Are you gonna catch heck when she gets off work!”
Elizabeth, I was just thinkin’ bout that! But Emme started it! Not me, Not me! Uh, oh, am I in trouble?
A judge should just throw this out, if eating cheese was so life threatening to you would you blindly trust anyone not to add cheese to your hamburger or would you first check before biting into it. This is an example of what is wrong with our country, too many victims. No matter how many times I told the person when ordering, if it is that important I check it myself.
http://www.dailymail.com/story/News/2007081043/Man-says-hold-the-cheese-claims-McDonalds-didnt-sues-for-10-million/
#9 -
Neither nation will become anymore involved in Iraq, they are both much smarter than that.
I think you missed the point though, as Pakistan’s involvement in Afghanistan (creating and supporting the Taliban and forces killing coalition soldiers there) and their support for OBL/al-quaida (and his desire for nuclear weapons) has long been a serious threat to our nation’s security.
Hey! I heard y’all! I’ve got names and numbers!
Sarge, I don’t look like Jesus anymore. Remember, I shaved the beard off a while back ago.
Actually we had to close down early today. A transformer blew around 2:45P so we left. Darn GWB and Global warming! /back to sweating outside.
#29 Neocon, Don’t forget about that illegal that lined those 4 black kids up in the school and shot them in the head. He had several priors and they knew he was illegal. Now 3 kids are dead.
Where is the outcry from Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the others? /sorry, I REFUSE to call them Reverends.
ST - Just back from the pond and drowning a left over chicken - already dead and cooked - while trying to scare up some gators. (Not that we were gonna shoot them or nuthin’. Nuh uh…No way! Not us!)
It’s still hotter than Gilley’s ever was on a Saturday night out there. No breeze either. Be careful out there!
Neo, re: your #29
You once told me you were surprised at my sexist attitude.
Now I’m gonnna say, back at ya. Which jobs won’t Americans do? The scum slave pimps? I’m glad Americans won’t do that. The young women, desperately seeking a better life, forced into slavery, forced to lie under men that have no conscience?
Never thought I’d hear that from you.
Hammy - check your e-mail!
ST. I absolutely won’t forget. However. all these murders and many murders hereafter will not make these cities change their ways. They will continue to be “sanctuary cities” and crimes will continue to be made. This will not be stopped until the citizens arise in mass and demand change, which will probably not happen. Illegal aliens will continue to kill Americal citizens with the consent of American cities across the country until the American way of life is totally destroyed.
Bigjolly, you are full of DELETED to think I would condone women forced into sexual slavery under any circumstance. You have gone too far. You don’t know me, but several people at LST do. You are one sick puppy.
Hey, you are the one that said it, not me.
#50
Said what? That illegals were arrested in a plot that determined that they were using illegals in a prostituion ring?
Bigjolly,
I didn’t think you would respond. How could you? It is a case of illegals arrested in a case of using illegals in a prostitution ring, some of which are minors. The whole point of my post is that these are jobs that illegals are doing that Americans won’t do.
Oh, for the love of heaven, BJ:
Neo made a comment about an out of control illegal alien problem again, committing crimes against us legal citizens today, after the AMNESTY BILL FAILED, and you have to bring up something 5 months ago, to pick a fight and add drama? If I didn’t personally know you, I’d think you were a woman./always bringing up the past. We are known for that, don’t cha know? Men say that all the time.
I’ve learned to forgive and not sweat the small crap. After all, isn’t that what life is all about? What are you looking for? An apology?/ I really didn’t mean that to sound snarly…please forgive me BJ! I’m tarred!
You said, “another fine example of illegals doing the jobs Americans won’t do” and I asked you which of the two jobs in the article you linked to you wished that Americans would do. Well?
Or could it be that sometimes, our rhetoric is over the top on this issue?
Don’t need an apology. I recognized that what I said at the time was wrong and corrected my writing.
And you can sound as snarly as you want to, dear.
This is why it is hard to really understand a person, because having a conversation is 20% words and 80% body language. I see where neocon is coming from, I also see where BigJ is coming from, in the sense that I am reading between the lines in both comments.
#54
Let Illegal Immigrants have any job they want; screw American soverienty. Take whatever jobs you want. DELETED American borders. Sc**w American soverienty. Take over America any way you can, including language, especially the spanish language. Do not let anything stand in your way.
Any candidate coming behind the Honorable Doctor Ron Paul should quit.
Mitt Romney
4516
31.5%
Mike Huckabee
2587
18.1%
Sam Brownback
2192
15.3%
Tom Tancredo
1961
13.7%
Ron Paul
1305
9.1%
Tommy Thompson
1039
7.3%
Fred Thompson
203
1.4%
Rudy Giuliani
183
1.3%
Duncan Hunter
174
1.2%
John McCain
101
1.0%
John Cox
41
0.1%
14,302 Total Votes
26,000 Total Tickets Sold,
Hoooie. I check for now posts and it is a jungle in here. Snarls, Throat biting and ripping…Yup, been a hot weekend so far.
Hey, how’s about that fast Freddie guy?
Fred Thompson
203
1.4%
And I had my heart set on John Cox. What’s in the hell’s the world coming to?
Does anybody mean people like this? San Freak Sicko has lost their freakin’ minds!
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/cover081007a.htm
Rastus’, Weasels eat my flesh, come to mind…
Uhh yeah, especially at that time that I really CRAVE chocolate!
marc, come sip on some ice tea on the porch swing w/ me. Bring Stormy too…
BJ—put the stir stick down and back slowly away from that pot—-
Nat;
I’m not going to put any credence in a vote where the candidate pays people to do it and gives them a rides all across the state to the place where it’s done.
#63
Elizabeth
Is there mint in that tea or is it a Long Island tea?
I will take a LI tea.
It would probably be better then this Dr. Pepper I have right now.
DELETE DELETE bigjolly! However, bigjolly DELETE, DELETE. That’ts pretty much how it is at LST. Commentators get red carpet treatment. In turn, commentetors get to treat poor DELETE DELETE the DELETE!
The Iowa straw poll is more af a guage of who is more organized.
I don’t think anyone has made a claim thatb Fre’d campaign is organized—in fact, it;s not even a “campaign” at all. If he’d done most of what needs be done to win that affair, he’d have been in violation of election laws.
The fact that he got any votes at all ought to scare the bejabbers out of some folks who put millions of dollars into it.
The folks that voted for Fred probably rode to the State Fair in Mitt Romney’s busses with the Ron Paul people.
Are y’all now talking about the STRAW poll? Oh, puuuleeeze! Polls, schmolls…..Mitt Romney paying 2 million for a bogus voting poll, eeerr, election? Hopefully the vote is not like a trial: He who has the most money, wins!
ST says: he who get’s offa their lazy butts and votes in the election, wins!
Remember folks! Vote early, and vote often! Also, have someone else cast your poor, dead, Uncle Billie’s vote! Pick someone who knows who poor, dead, Uncle Billie would vote for!
#65
Sarge
Me either,IMO too many people and MSM put way to much credence in it.
Gawd it was quiet here all day, and then…
???
Anybody know why they put these things on at the Iowa State Fair?
Because that’s the real reason these people go, and the real reason they want the ride on the bus.
It’s got more to do with putting blue ribbons on pigs than it does in electing politicans to get rid of pork.
Gee, last week it was the Ragbrai across America, next week, picking out our future President.
Anybody ever hear about the Ragbrai? It’s a bicycle ride across Iowa.
I’ve got plenty of stories about Iowa.
http://www.main.com/~plummer/ragbrai.htm
Don’t thank me, for some free, live, entertainment. Just consider it a gift from me, to you!
I thought about that too, then I thought about all the biker brothers riding in for Thompson, and Jimmy Carter and some other candidate that won the nomination living there for a while before the straw poll was taken. It must carry some weight and looks like a Ron Paul line to me. - - - Didn’t say I liked it.
Ragbrai across Iowa, not America! /darn it!
Iowa wasn’t even a factor until Jimmy Carter won.
The straw poll basically gives the press something political to talk about while Democrat Congressmen and Sneators spend thier vacation before passing important legislation traveling around complaining about the Iraqi parliament going on vacation before passing important legislation.
Ya, saw Krauthammer he said about the same, butt
it does make some happy and some sad and, really, that’s what it’s all about.
Gotta give the LST ladies credit for showing their strength and determination! These aren’t pearl wearing, foo foo sissy girls but women who know their worth, understand the facts and have earned the right to speak their mind.
Yup, no pearls.
Nat - try diamonds.
I heard you’re not supposed to throw them before swine–
or something like that
pearl onions
#82
Sarge
Here you go on pearls and swine…..
The Principle: Casting Pearls Before Swine
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, and do not throw pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matthew 7:6).
There’s a joke with pearl onions in it—but I can’t make it here—-
#83
Squawk
Now those are good to eat.
#86 Especially w. peas - not that Sarge will ever know that again if he ever makes another swine remark in reference to women….
#76 ST
I saw you on that billboard…deny it!
Why does ZZ top come into my head when I read “pearl onions”.
hey–
It was in reference to the PEARLS
Pearl onions?… ZZ top?
#89 Dunno. A late night munchie episode from the 70’s mebbe?
#88
Smacktle
That sounds like a throwdown, ST tell him to prove that you are on that billboard.
/Ducking and running like ST taught me to!
No;
But Emme is getting dang close to one of those jokes I can’t make
#91 and #92
I never said that I made sense when I started thinking of things. Maybe it was one of those LDS ( Spock and Star Trek reference) flashbacks.
I used to sneak and eat those little coctail pearl onions from the jar in the fridge when I was a kid. (My parents drank a lot of coctails - it was fashionable back then - but we kids were starving!)
Still love those little pickled pearl onions!
WOW!
There were Mormons on the Enterpise?
#97
Sarge
ROFLMAO I keep forgetting about that reference. I thought it was hilarious when Spock was corrected by Kirk when he made the reference of LDS instead of LSD.
Just in from Harvard……..
This was developed as an age test by Harvard University .
Take your time and see if you can read each line aloud without a
mistake. The average person over forty cannot do it!
1. This is this cat.
2. This is is cat.
3. This is how cat.
4. This is to cat.
5. This is keep cat.
6. This is an cat.
7. This is old cat.
8. This is person cat.
9. This is busy cat.
10. This is for cat.
11. This is forty cat.
12. This is seconds cat.
Now go back and read the third word in each line from the top down. Nite all.
She was really bombed,
And I was really blown away,
Until I asked her what she wanted,
And this is what she had to say:
A pearl onion.
She wanna pearl onions.
She wanna pearl onions.
Y’all do realize Neo and ST are somewhere now planning and plotting your untimely demise…
I know nuthin’! Didn’t see or hear a thing!
I thought you were talking about the episode where it was revealed that Spock had a year’s supply of food in his coffee table—-
The second flight out of Ames belongs to Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, who manifestly did not spend nearly as much as third-place finisher Sam Brownback and who has been dogged by questions about his ability to harness his support.
Michael Farris, a Huckabee adviser who runs the Home School Legal Defense Fund, said Huckabee’s campaign has existed on a “shoe-string budget” so far. “But it just goes to show that he is the best communicator in this race.”
Sen. Brownback spent about $600,000, a Republican who consults with his campaign said.
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/
How am I supposed to know any of this is funny?
Liz,
if it werent so late, you bet.
Sheesh Sarge could have a break too.
This old Fart with the new fancy keyboard is shutt’n down.
God bless Folks. Sunday comes.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Jolly, put Mizz Kelley on the C.O.W. post!
More trouble everyday, as Frank Z would say….
“Pakistan’s military and intelligence agencies are believed to have leaked information to the Taliban and al Qaeda in the past, and appears to have done so again.”
“This is one of the reasons that we are worried about a major CONUS [Continental United States] attack…….If they evacuated their bases, they almost certainly did so out of fear of more than just the Pakistani army.”
http://billroggio.com/archives/2007/08/pakistan_concern_ove.php
And from inside the Pakistan National Assembly this past week…
“The PML’s Chaudhry Ijaz said the US had suffered an embarrassing defeat in Iraq and it now wanted to salvage its pride in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
“The MMA’s Maulana Chitrali said that Pakistan was an atomic power and would nuke the US if it attacked the Muslim holy places.”
“The MMA’s Dr Fareed Paracha said that Pakistan was suffering because its foreign policy was changed after 9/11 by “an indivdual”. “The only solution to this problem is regime change,” he added.”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C08%5C09%5Cstory_9-8-2007_pg7_14
No wonder the White House is concerned about who controls the codes to the world’s only “Islamic bombs”.
I thought they were talking about the guy running the website in Israel that caused the weekend panic in NYC.
“Dirty rat behind dirty bomb scare”
I was wrong, but at least it made for some humour in my rainy afternoon….
“Raised by hippie parents, then turned to hate & radical Islam”
“He is the grandson of a Jewish doctor.”
“Gadahn’s father, born Phil Pearlman, was a psychedelic rocker and farmer. In a 1975 album titled “Relatively Clean Rivers,” he dreamed that Arabs and Jews would “get together” and melt their weapons into sprinklers, tractors and hoes.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/08/12/2007-08-12_dirty_rat_behind_dirty_bomb_scare.html
Be sure to seek out that LP….
http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=4032105935
This is a fascinating column on a speech by Gingrich. Using the internet to bypass the traditional media is something I have encouraged and predicted will eventually occur. It will be interesting to see who does it successfully and first.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/raasch/2007-08-09-raasch_N.htm
” Sarkozy, he said, did two important things.
First, Sarkozy established 16 Internet channels that were like YouTube and rigorously avoided trying to communicate through the French media, which Gingrich defined as hostile to conservatives.
‘What (Sarkozy) said is, ‘If I can communicate with you, then the news media can watch our conversation,’ which is very different than having a conversation with the news media which (average people) watch,’ Gingrich said. “
This is a great posting from Warren Meyer at Coyote Blog. Global warming takes it on the chin. NASA is being forced to revise historical temperature data downward and the real scandal is they refuse to release their algorythyms and modeling data to show how they arrive at their conclusions. Any other scientific organization who did this would be ridiculed into obscurity. I’m sure it was the lead story on the nightly news. The scam being run on us is bordering on criminal:
” Climate scientist Michael Mann (famous for the hockey stick chart) once made the statement that the 1990’s were the warmest decade in a millennia and that “there is a 95 to 99% certainty that 1998 was the hottest year in the last one thousand years.” (By the way, Mann now denies he ever made this claim, though you can watch him say these exact words in the CBC documentary Global Warming: Doomsday Called Off).
Well, it turns out, according to the NASA GISS database, that 1998 was not even the hottest year of the last century. This is because many temperatures from recent decades that appeared to show substantial warming have been revised downwards. Here is how that happened (if you want to skip the story, make sure to look at the numbers at the bottom). ”
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2007/08/official-us-cli.html
All’s I can say is that if I’m on a billboard, it’s probably a Wanted Poster with a 1 million $ reward! /you don’t know me. I’m in the witness relocation program!
If it’s not a wanted poster, then where can I pick up my check?
Have a great day!
Texpat: I marked the article, so I can read everything later. The links in paragraph 5 will tell it all. I’ve been posting those websites for a month or 2 now. I think that the only accurate weather station is the one in Colorado so far.
One of those weather stations is located next to a tennis court, which gives off heat, therefor does not register properly.
Thanks texpat!
I am re-posting this from Hamous’ thread yesterday because I think it is important that everyone see it:
texpat Says:
August 11th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
We need to congratulate Republicans Jeb Hensarling, of northeast Texas and Mac Thornberry, of the Panhandle, for scoring perfect 100% scores on the 2007 RePork Card report by the Club For Growth:
” The Club for Growth has compiled a RePORK Card of all members’ votes on all 50 anti-pork amendments (see below). ‘Taxpayers have a right to know which congressmen stand up for them and which stand up for the special interests,’ said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. ‘Unfortunately, the Club for Growth RePORK Card shows that most congressmen care more about lining their buddies’ pockets than they care about protecting American taxpayers.’ ”
The Club For Growth rated all US House members on how they voted on the 50 amendments offered to curtail or eliminate pork in the House spending. ONE, JUST ONE amendment passed. See how they voted here:
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2007/08/the_2007_club_for_growth_repor.php
also:
” Sixteen congressmen scored a perfect 100%, voting for all 50 anti-pork amendments. They are all Republicans.
The average Republican score was 43%. The average Democratic score was 2%. “
Get this guy out of here already. He is a fraud.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/10/AR2007081001405.html?hpid=sec-politics
Giuliani’s explanation further angered his ground zero critics, prompting several to issue a statement demanding an apology.
“He is such a liar, because the only time he was down there was for photo ops with celebrities, with politicians, with diplomats,” said deputy fire chief Jimmy Riches, who spent months digging for his firefighter son.
“On 9/11 all he did was run. He got that soot on him, and I don’t think he’s taken a shower since.”
Hammy - only stopping in before I go back to church. Did you get my e-mail yesterday?
I’ll check back later.
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
#107
Matt
Wow, I won a chicken dinner. Is that Popeye’s chicken, I love Popeye’s chicken? :))))
Off to church now will see y’all later. This sinus problem is killing me this week.
#112
ST
They sent the check to the address the government gave them when you entered the witness protection program.
*Megasnikker*
Wonder how many people looked at the big painting/statue/wall mounting thingie of Jesus in church this morning and thought of ST?
Dam;
Looks like I should have made that joke after all.