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YEE HAW I AM FIRST!!!
Hey everybody.
Say does anyone know how to get put on a list to become a precinct delegate/alternate if no one shows up to your meeting and you are otherwise busy toting election results to their appropriate destination at 7 PM?
Aw, just missed!
Matt I guess this 12 year old boy was also a “stupid pedestrian” and a worthless life? Are you brave enough to look his mother in the eyes and tell her that her son was worthless? When you look at your new born baby someday would you feel the same?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/side/5395882
AZ I read the article but it said they had no idea how old or the sex…..is there a follow up? I know your son is close to that age, but 12 year olds use drugs, belong to gangs, commit crimes and do stupid things. Trying to cross any freeway at night, is a stupid choice. If this was a 12 year old boy, and his mom made him…….she helped kill him. I don’t know the particulars. At 12 I would have known better, and so would you.
Thanks for the tips on removing salt from my experimental dish, Wino, Dave D and all. I’d make the white sauce DaveD, but this is low carb, so no flour, or milk. The can of oyster stew when you open it, is watery with oysters. Maybe that tater will do it.
Speaking of Wino, he attended my day labor watch, took pics and wrote a good article at his site. Of course, I complained I was in none of the pics, but he explained it was for my protection……Made sense to me.
AW where is your day labor watch site, if you can post the addy here?
John, it’s south of the corner of Stuebner Airline and Louetta, on Stuebner. There is a gas station, entrance to Wimbledon, and a strip center there. If you come by on any given day we are there, you can’t miss us. Flags, signs, etc. are up.
thanks I’ll do that, near Klien Memorial stadium?
It’s just down from Klein High school. There is a stoplight at the entrance to Wimbledon.
#3. No, it was tragic, but, like AIDS (also tragic), totally preventable, unless he was tossed into the traffic.
usborderwatch.com? thanks
#3 AZ
I am sorry it was a child
Less than a stupid pedestrian. He asked his friends to play “Dodge ball with the cars” several times before that losing game.
I agree with Matt. The are plenty of deaths that should be acknowledged as tragic. Soldiers killed in battle, Police Officers dying at the hands of illegal aliens, children dying at the hands of illegal aliens, fathers and mothers dying of a tragic accident or disease, people dying because some Islamofacists drives an airplane into our skyscrapers you get the picture.
But some nit wit of any age deliberately running into a moving lane of freeway traffic. Sorry they need to come out of the gene pool.
AZ, I guess you would say the child was underprivileged. His family couldn’t afford any toys for him to play with, so he decided to play dodgeball with cars on the freeway. The fact that he skipped school and tried to get his friends to play along makes him an idiot, not just being stupid. I feel sorry for his parents loss. Maybe they should have taught him not to play in the middle of the freeway.
#6 american woman, “but he explained it was for my protection……Made sense to me”. We fellow LST’ers are notorious stalkers doncha’ know ;=) BUTT anyone, anywhere in the world has access to this Blog, incredible aint it?
#16 Yes, DaveD it is truly incredible. So many interesting people, who share ideas, or disagree. It makes me learn something new every day. Also the internet must be such a blessing for shut-ins. They are not alone!
Here we go again:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5569471.html
A 79-year-old woman was injured after being mauled by a stray dog she cared for at her north Houston home Monday afternoon, neighbors and authorities said.
And you’ll never guess…
Neighbors described the dog as a pitbull. The dog had been hanging around the neighborhood for several days before the woman decided to take it in, residents said.
Hmmm… my blockquotes didn’t work. I’d better double check before submit button is clicked.
Does anyone have any comments on the HELLary ads on TV especially the one about how much she has done for Texas. I guess voting for legislative packages which include funding for all the states qualifies as helping this state. “Stretching the truth” is an art well developed by the campaigns.
Good morning all. Windy, cool(52), humidity dropping, rain clouds fleeing, blue sky to the NW, Mr. Sun shining through holes in the clouds. All in all a great start to the day. Thank you Lord. I shall try not to squander it.
In the house however things were off to a lesser start. One of the cats threw up breakfast (with hairball) on a rug in the garden room a little before 6, in the dark, and yours truly stepped on it and spread it a distance before discovery. Gratefully it was confined to the tile floor and two throw rugs, which have been washed and are hanging over the fence to dry. Hope this is not an omen. The cat is none the worse for wear and is eating (dry food) again. I am enjoying a cup of tea.
#1 Meglet, if you’re the Election Judge, you get to hold the meeting before you haul the ballots etc. to their appointed place. Since there are always so many more spaces than volunteers, at least in Galveston County, I allow people to put their names on a list during the voting day, and then vote them into the available spaces that night (after the people who show up in person, of course).
The State Republican Convention is in Houston this year, so no travel involved if you get promoted from your Senate District to the State level (and usually there there are more slots than willing volunteers).
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
Morning Adee…
Its good to see our young repubs/conservatives so interested in politics.
Thanks for the info AW, I’ve signed-up and my hats on the way.
I live in Ft Bend Cty, the dems here are crowing about early turnout….somehow they wrongly have extrapolated this into a win. Its a long way to Nov.
This is a fascinating video montage of actresses from the earliest days of film to the present. It illustrates our perception and ideal of the beauty of the feminine face has changed little, if at all.
http://glumbert.com/wii/view.php?name=womenfilm
H/T: Ann Althouse
Speaking of voting: Yesterday, Handsome Son and I were in his ARD meeting for his special needs (he’s improved, thank goodness, but still has a way to go). The spec ed coordinator, when she realized that HS turns 18 next September, kept hammering at him to VOTE as soon as he was able.
I corrected her - I told her that my children have been “voting” since they were about two years old. When they were little, I’d hold them up in the voting booth and tell them how to punch out the chads (and not a preggo or hanging among them). They would even put the ballot in the box for me.
Yes, my children know how to vote. Take THAT, Floridians!
Where’s KentBook? AW looks so lonely posting without him.
#25 texpat, that was cool.
Smacktie
AW ain’t lonely. She has a bunch of us with her in spirit.
This looks interesting - opinions?
http://www.goooh.com/Learn.aspx
#27
Smacktle
You are here posting with her. You aren’t good enough?
Monday - mean dogs; Tuesday - Ron Paul; what could Wednesday possibly hold? Liberal media, perhaps?
#29 Dov
Screw spirit. I want some flesh!
To quote southerntragedy, “Oh, boo-freakin’ hoo. You want some provalone, swiss, or cheddar with that whine?”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8692.html
Finger-pointing, frustration in Clinton camp.
#32 you peeking at the agenda again….?
#34 Dave
It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the selfsame media who built up these two posers is now proclaimed to be the instrument of their loss? Hillary can dish it out, but, ooooooooooooooooh, it’s painful when the shoe is on the other foot!
/weeping not
#32
Wendesday is known as hump day. Perhaps more Panda Love stories?
It is amazing how the Clinton people are claiming the liberal media is mistreating them and their candidate, HELLary. Hey, they didn’t call CNN, the “Clinton News Network” for nothing back then. It’s just unfortunate for HELLary that they found a better, more likable person in “BO”. Let’s face it the Clinton campaign couldn’t package “HELLary” good enough to sell the American public. Name recognition was definitely not good enough, you still have to be buyable.
Instead of Panda stories lets talk about belittling your husband in front of hundreds of strangers. I thought throwing ashtrays at the president was bad I wonder what this White House would be like. Between her statement of “the First time I am truly Proud of my country” to putting her husband down I don’t know which is worse.
/sarc, in case you couldn’t tell
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-05-29-1878328712_x.htm
I posted this on the Peden thread, should be here.
O.K. Did I hear that right?!?! On the way to the Credit Union I heard Mike Richards Saying that Pete Olsen, (my guy) was no good, and Shelly, Sekula, Rodriguez,
Keaton, Rylander, Gibbs was a Conservative this and that!?!? I can’t believe he’s endorsing HER! I always thought that he was TRUE conservative and a Christian, did I miss something? He is either very mistaken, (highly unlikely), or he has been bought with money/appointment. I hope I’m wrong.
Dave D.,
You heard correctly. I was quite surprised but if there is one thing I know, Mike didn’t get bought with money or an appointment. All I can think is that he truly believes it.
I was having a conversation with Mike Richards just last week, and this subject came up.
Without revealing any confidences, I think it’s fair to say that Mike’s opinion is that SSG is a fine person, takes positions he shares, and is a good “team player” who has earned the opportunity to be supported by the rest of the “team”.
#41 BigJolly, THAT was my first thought, but He is VERY Smart, did the fact that she was female have anything to do with it? I hope you’re right but if she wind he’ll have a lot of S’plainin to do.
#42 David, YES, but WHICH team, the Republican’s at the top or the Conservative base? She has EARNED NOTHING!!!! Dang, Mike should know better, is he NOT a Conservative, just a water carrier? I know that he was once in the Taxes House/Senate.
Shelley’s proved she was in way over her head by her brief stay in DC filling out Tom DeLay’s term. The departure of congressional staff because of her “imperial” behavior, which she spun as she let them go not that they quit, raised all sorts of red flags. Then her foolish insistence on an investigation into deletion of info from the office computers as “retaliation” came back to bite her bigtime when the investigation found no malice nor culpability. Was astounded by Mike’s endorsement of her.
Agree with Dave D, she has earned nothing, and Dist. 22 deserves conservative representation by an adult, not a tantrum thrower. I supported Pete Olson for the nomination with my vote.
Mike Richards is a conservative. (I can’t believe I’m actually having to write that sentence.) He just has a different approach to deciding these issues.
I don’t share his opinion on this, but I recognize that he’s making his decision for what he sees as thoughtful and principled reasons.
But David, didn’t you get the memo? In order for someone to be conservative, they have to agree with every conservatives position on every issue and oppose every issue that any conservative opposes.
Now for something totally different! Cleaning up the gene pool? Darwin award? You decide.
http://www.miamiherald.com/466/story/432881.html
# 48
That is definitely stooopid
That is asking to die.
AW
You caused it with one of your posts.
Normally at lunch I do a good healthy lunch.
I came to work with a craving for lunch. Peanut Butter and Jelly samitches. They were good.
Dov I have to admit peanut butter is one of my most favorite foods. Because I eat low carb, I buy the peanut butter that is just squashed peanuts with no added sugar, but.. I find a use for it on many things, including a spoon lol
#38 Isn’t this just wild. The media has turned on Bill and Hill, and they are shell shocked. Too funny.
Smacktle….I was unaware you were worried about my degree of loneliness. Let me assure you, when I post here with ya’all……. I am never lonely. I am provided with info, laughs, and all kinds of stuff.
# 30 tedtam
That was very interesting. Time to boot all of em out.
Tedtam, your #30 is really interesting. I wish the guys would do a complete story on this. ( hint hint)
As to Mike Richards supporting Shelly…..he probably feels he knows her better and trusts her. Big mistake lol
#22 KRogers, it doesn’t work that way for me because I am working a different precinct than the one I live in. I was randomly selected last go round by the only two people who showed up to our precinct meeting (she said oh look this girl lives in our neighborhood too she looks fun and wrote my name down) and there were only three of us at district so we all got to go to state. I am hoping to go to state this year as well (one day I hope to go to national, that would be like so freaking awesome to do just one time). The only problem is I forgot her name and I don’t know if she still lives in the area or if she will be at the meeting to write my name down.
Check out the “open letter to stupid pedestrians”, thread, most of us were deleted. I guess we’ve been BAAD. Dang, I think that they were up there this AM.
56
I’m still laughing at it
54 Posts and 20 Deletes and I have gone back to see what blabbable was talking about as for praying for me.
#26 tedtam, it’s none of my business but can you tell me what ARD is? I’ve not heard of that particular alphabet acronym.
Dov I just checked it out…….. I fear the “sword” is coming soon…… run for the hills.
This is for all those cross over voters going to vote in the Dem primary. Take your voter registration card with you when you vote so they can stamp it so you can caucus after the polls close on 3-4-08. They get to vote twice, keep Hillary alive in Texas….
http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2697
AW and Dave
Did you see where David stepped in and shut that thread down. You can post on almost any thread on LST but not that one.
I still can’t see why blabbable to it to jump on me. I said nothing offensive and was not deleted one time.
An ARD usually reviews the IEP. There, that should explain it, LOL. ARD means Admission, Review, Dismissal.
http://www.cfisd.net/dept2/curricu/speced/ard.htm
IEP is Individualized Education Program
http://www.ed.gov/parents/needs/speced/iepguide/index.html
Dov, Dov, one must take him with a grain of salt always. Just ignore. It happens on any given day to one of us. It was your turn.
63 I’m laughing about it. He had to be smoking some good stuff.
Yeah Dov, whatever he had we want some too eh.
#58 Dave
An ARD - as mentioned previously - refers to a Admission, Review, Dismissal meeting that all children who received special services or who meet the requirements as learning disabled must have at least once a year. Either the child is being admitted into the system, being dismissed from the system, or his/her Individual Educational Program (IEP) is being reviewed and updated as the child (hopefully) progresses. My son is considered learning disabled because as a young child, he had frequent ear infections and in between infections retained fluid in his ear. It was difficult to know when he had an infection as he rarely ran a fever or pulled on his ears, the two most common indicators. Even in between infections, when he had retained fluid (it turns out his adenoids were blocking his eustachian tubes, keeping them from draining properly), we had no indicators. This made him effectively partially deaf during the formative years for language - the first seven years of his life. PE tubes helped, but there were still gaps in between where he could not hear. This means his language development is significantly behind his age group, as well causing deficits in reading and oral comprehension - he just doesn’t process language well. At seven years, he was speaking infrequent three word sentences, and was put in special program after special program.
But the kid, at nine years old, told me in the car (during Brown’s re-election campaign) to turn down the morning talk show (we listened in the car together, the kids and I) where the discussion had been focusing on the black bloc vote for Brown, even though he’d been a poor mayor. “Don’t they get it?” he asked, “you vote for the PERSON, not the COLOR!”
Out of the mouths of babes…
And now…I must prepare to watch my Handsome Son play his next playoff game against Lamar. HS is a little cocky, since they’ve beaten Lamar before. I think that winning over Strake Jesuit really is going to make them more comfortable as they progress through the playoffs, but I’ve always warned him not to get tooooooo complacent!
And this time, I’m remembering my school shirt!
meglet
Did you read that thread ?
Oh Tedtam, I wish every child had a mom as good as you. It’s sad they don’t. I don’t know why, but I just want to give you a hug!
Here is a fun test to see if you are more ” dixie” or northern. My score was strongly dixie…… and is disconcerting since I am from Illinois.
http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/yankee_dixie_quiz.html
aw
73% Dixie and I would never have guessed it
I am shutting this place down and headed home.
#66 tedtam, thanks, both my young-uns had tubes in their ears at least once, my Baby Girl twice, so I know all about that. I’m surprised that it was not noticed, but I guess if you see little or no symptoms how would anyone know? Well I’m sure he’ll be just fine because he has a great Mom and I’m sure, a great Dad. My Huntin’ buddy’s son had his umbilical cord wrapped around his head at birth and suffered minor distress to the brain. He was always a little slow but worked hard and with encouragement he is now an electrician apprentice, doing quite well. I never had doubts and always tried to treat him like everyone else, so did his Dad, but his Mom, Bless her, coddled and some times berated him, she is a teacher and was just doing her best and she helped him a lot. Good luck and Bless Ya’ll.
American Woman, that test is messed up — on several questions, the correct answer is missing!
The proper pronunciation is bah-yoo.
It’s a poboy!
Wrapping!
The hell it’s not. That’s a doodle bug, just as sure as God made little green apples.
Scoring Hi Dixie is a bad thing?
The pronunciation of the word “bayou” by-oh, ask Hank, and that little bug is a “pill” for the blind-man.
88% dixie fer moi!
#74 Matt……. Now darn it……… that’s a rolly polly!
73% Dixie and I am about to go out and shoot something since malcolm made 88%, me being a native Texan.
Matt,doodle bug doesn’t have a hard shell like a roly poly bug
emme, ya know you have to make sure it’s an edible you can cook for dinnah lol
tedtam, on the way to H.E.B. I thought about my post for you and realized that I compared your son to a boy that I’ve known since he was 3 years old. The child I knew had minor brain damage because of low blood flow during birth; your son had problems learning because he couldn’t hear well when he was a baby. I was comparing apples to oranges, I know that the child that I saw grow up had a lower than average I.Q. Your son could be average, above average, or a genius, I don’t know. The point is that his problem with learning has to do with his hearing problem, not intelligence. I’m usually fairly articulate about most things, but I shouldn’t have assumed that he was a slow learner. I read once that ½ of everything that a person knows, they learn before they’re 6 years old, I don’t know if that is true, but it sure seems plausible. Think about it, you come into this world knowing nothing, not even how to motivate, much less communicate, you have your senses, smell, the most powerful one, you know your Mom by smell only days after you are born, you can hear, but you have no idea what you are hearing, and touch and sight. When a newborn looks out at the world, he/she sees everything up-side down, because the eye is a lens just like a camera, and if you don’t know this watch a new born, to 6 months old, reach for a mobile, they have no idea where it’s at, by grabbing at it and hit and miss, their brain learns to automatically flip things over so you can then learn to crawl/walk. You of course, never remember an up-side down world because by the time that you become aware of the world around you, your brain has figured this out. BTW; If a person can look at this scenario and NOT know that there is a God, then I have no idea what planet that they’re from. Anywho, to make a short story long, and DAYAAM, I’ve done that, I wanted to apologize if I misspoke. I’ll go back to my corner and flagellate myself with a wet noodle.
Matt, emmekelly, & american woman are right! Dayaam man, are Coon-a$$es that misguided! ;=)
Matt is right, that test is messed up,
I took a look and has seen this thing represented as valid before. Wherever you are from, just do what you do, some fresh-educated, reconstructed college kid devised that test, and it has little if any correlation with Dixie or the South, this test is an amusing parlor game.
Dave D
A story of another person’s successful struggle to overcome extraordinary adversity is not apples to oranges. I’m glad for them both, and their good friends and parents.
Only way to determine someone is a bonafide “Dixie-lander.”
We say “fixin’ to…” - no one else does.
“I am fixin’ to make supper…”
“He is fixin’ to go fishin’…”
etc…
Speaking of doodle bugs, when my kids were little, both sets of grandparents were in Alabama, I couldn’t get them over here very often so I always tried to make at least 4 trips a year in the Family Truckster,(Chevy custom van), home so that my kids would know their GrandPa and GrandMa’s. On one trip I took my boy out to my Grandmothers Barn, (she passed away in 1966 and the old home place that I now own is where she lived), we doodled for doodle bugs in the same sandy dirt that I doodled when I was a kid. One year, when we went to Panama City Beach, as we did every year, we brought back some white sand and stopped off in Alabama, as we usually did, either coming or going. Dusty and I went down to the barn and got three doodle bugs and put them in jars with the sand and kept them until they became adults and morphed into a critter with wings. It sure was fun getting Fire Ants, (the Ba$tards) and dropping them in the funnel and watching the Ant Lion flick dirt up until he got the ant. After he sucked all the juices out of the ant he would throw the empty shell out of the hole and I’d discard them.
If any of this seems strange to the new comers, remember, I’m the guy that brought home a Possum, Armadildo, Snapping Turtle and a Water Snake to show the kids. I even brought home a baby, (3 foot long), Timber Rattler one time and milked it for the young-uns, I turned them all loose of course. When I found the rattler, I didn’t know for sure what he was; by his head, I knew that he was a “Pit Viper” he also shook his tail and it looked like it a button on it, but no rattles. A hognose snake will also do this and looks a little like a rattler but doesn’t have the triangular, Pit Viper head. The only Pit Vipers in the US are the Rattlers the Copperheads and the Water Moccasin. This snake was 3 feet long and solid black, I knew that a 3 foot long Moccasin would be as big as your fore arm, this snake was no bigger than a hoe handle. A copperhead only gets about 2 or maybe 3 feet long and would be pretty fat, so this HAD to be a baby rattler, but what kind? It had fangs that were about ¼ of an inch long and we got at lease 50 CC’s of venom. Later on I called Texas A&M and they said that it had to be a Timber Rattler because the babies can be solid black, the guy that I talked to was surprised that I found this one in Clear Lake, and so was I. I told him that he was near a flooded drainage ditch and he could be looking for food after all the rain. I found the female snapping turtle in my front yard after one of our monsoons. Sadly she wound up in some turtle soup, not sure how that happened. ;=)
I’m betting Liz is one of the “GRITS” Girls raised in the south.
Where can I get a already compiled voting record for Glenn Hegar and John Zerwas? I want to see how they voted on the TranTexas Corridor, the new Business tax, drivers license for illegals and other anti-conservative venues.
Tell Me
#85 Liz I was fixin’ to say that….
http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm
OK I finally took the test and got 79%, although It seemed a little weird, I not sure if all Southerners would do well. Some of my answers were all of the US?
It’s a parlor game, it ain’t real.
Man, have Ya’ll been outside, it’s perfectly fair, not a cloud in the sky and chilly, I’ve not checked the weather but, I’D say we may be in the 50’s tonight in Clear Lake.
Had to take the small back-up dog out and watch her closely, because she is in season, AGAIN! Dang Dammit, it seems like every 2 months we do this. We can always tell because the Chihuahua that used to live next door shows up at the door step. He lives about 1/2 mile away now. A while I took him home and got to talking to Chris and stayed about 20 minutes and drove back home and the little guy was waiting for me of the front steps. He’s the funniest thing because he is less than half the size of my dog, and he is in love with her. He gives it his best shot but can’t seem to get quite enough altitude. Like a lot of Small dogs, he slightly out of proportion,…how can I put this? P.G. Version; he may be 5 lbs, soaking wet, but he has a fifth leg. Just can’t figure out how to get it up where it’s needed.
The wife has about decided to take her to the Vet, and it’s probably the best thing.
Is it just me, or is Dave a little “Long-Winded” today! SHEEZE, I think I’ll go find me some vittles. Later
#88
luv2
I found this on G Hegar…
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=49274
This is on J Zerwas…
http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=56718
# 86 Dave D
You owe me a keyboard. And a monitor too. Too funny
There went the rodeo.
The rodeo went south. And the illegals’s raised their heads
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5571677.html