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Nice red rubber ball ya got there mindful.
We could all get in a cyrkle and kick it around a bit.
Posted by: teej who wants a lab puppy at September 05, 2015 08:28 AM

Cyrkle! Ha! I get it.

I was concerned when I read that they'd taken the cop-shooter alive, but it was some comfort when I read the follow-up that he'd been subdued with four shotgun blasts to the chest plus a tazing. Assuming it's the guy, that's what you call a good start.

HR: (Oh, shit, are we still allowed to type 'fuck'? I've been away a few days.)

Thanks for the hook to hang this on:
News for Morons

An historian believes he may have found the earliest recorded use of the word "fuck" in the English language where its meaning carries a clear sexual connotation, hidden within court records from 1310, concerning a man named Roger Fuckebythenavele.

(Note: I substituted "uck" for "***" in that quote.)

-Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
(no I am not making that name up)
Independent, UK
http://bit.ly/first-f

c/o BlazingCatFur http://bit.ly/1J7hrBv
http://bit.ly/first-f

Vic's refugees in the USA map
http://bit.ly/1KNkQg9

The bands of heavier proportion in the West (Idaho to NM & the Dakotas) might be somewhat from the lower population density there, but it seems strange to be populating those areas with refugees when Agenda 21 is busily trying to empty those same wide open spaces....

Oklahoma could be a shade darker pink for my tastes.

Which is not a statement I'd think of making, normally.

The collapse of a crane at the Grand Mosque in Mecca was not a disaster but "a blessing in disguise" for the 107 people killed, according to a British Muslim leader.

-Adam Withnall, Independent UK
http://ind.pn/1QzXGZI

c/o Blazing Cat Fur http://bit.ly/1K98hGl

Okay, then...

...at the risk of sounding callous toward all those moderate muslims who speak out so often and so strongly against radical violence of their sect...

...moar blessings, please?

MTF: ...quietly mouthing the phrase "guilty...guilty...guilty" as voir dire starts....

More good suggestions I've passed along.

Last time I was voir dire'd, it was a medical malpractice case. They asked me what I thought about such things, and I rambled on about hot coffee spills and things like taking any case on its own merits, and otherwise showed I have thoughts and opinions.

Of course they booted me.

VIA: Remember, it's "If she floats, she's not a Witch, like we thought"

I've passed that along.

But, wait a minnit. I thought witches floated and if she drowns it means she's innocent.

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Vic - well, it's really County, not Federal. I don't think they don't make you sign away your will and morals at the door. Yet.

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A watched coffee pot takes forever to brew.
-Book of Morons 5:50

I'm not up alone in the early hours. Milady has been requested by the State to join in some kind of ceremony involving passing judgment on her fellow citizens so she's up earlier than usual.

The first rule of jury nullification is we don't talk about jury nullification.

Morning, Glories!

I knew I'd spelled Lewis Meyer's name wrong as soon as I hit post on my previous comment, so I did some research, and here's my book report.

Lewis Meyer ran the Lewis Meyer Bookstore on Brookside in Tulsa from 1935 to 1994. He hosted "Lewis Meyer's Bookshelf" on KOTV Tulsa for 42 years.

Located at one end of what used to be known as "The Strip", the Lewis Meyer Bookstore sits so unobtrusively next to the old Brook Theater that you'd have to hunt for it if you didn't know the place.

It's a small store crammed with thousands of books, from Chinese history, house repairing, karate and astrology to fiction, children's books, adults only books and inspirational books....

http://tulsatvmemories.com/meyer.html

A funny little man with a high-pitched voice and an infectious smile, he was far from standard television fare, as he sat at a desk, talking about books. He was extremely popular; when he reviewed a book, the local effect was like an Oprah endorsement.

He knew his wares and his customers. Milady and I bought many an esoteric volume there. When I was bogged down in an elaborately annotated three-volume study translation of the Bhagavad Gita, Lewis directed me to a slim pocket-sized translation by Yogi somebody, one of a whole set of little Gita books. That treasured volume resides on my main at-hand shelf. We always enjoyed chatting with Lewis and his lovely wife who frequently helped at the store. They were quite gracious.

Lewis also authored some small volumes. Abebooks appears to have a good collection, including Off the Sauce, Meyer's frank, witty and stark recollection of his battles with the bottle.
http://bit.ly/ab-lewis-meyer

Amazon has two of his books for a penny, Preposterous Papa (about his father) in softcover, The Tipsy Witch & other fairy tales in hardcover. If I did this link correctly, it should show you the Meyer page on Amazon, with credit link to Ace (though what credit he gets for a penny purchase, I can't imagine):
bit.ly/amaz-lewis-meyer

I wonder where in the catacombs my copies of Meyer's books are...?

Hey, Peace of Mind on Cherry St. I've been there.

Been a long time. Looks cozy, but smelled of incense, as I recall.

Suddenly, I miss ol' Louis Meyer's bookstore on Peoria. And Louis.

Bruce: Time for a croissant run!

Grab me a chocolate one, 'kay?

Hmmm.

...an engineer from the Bin Laden Group says that there was no technical fault responsible for yesterday's crane collapse in Mecca. He insists that the tragedy can only be described as an act of Allah.

(Don't have a prime source for this; quoting Baron Bodissey at Gates of Vienna.)

http://bit.ly/1Nx9uNK

Sefton, Happy New Year? Again already?

It's the Year of the Sheep this time, right?

* waves to Vic * Good to see you, even without the news.

Morning, Glories! Page up 2 hrs and I can still get in under 100 (if I hurry)? Must be Sunday morning.

Here, some Sunday Funnies c/o Reaganite Republican
http://bit.ly/rr-2015-09-13

Stringer Davis: it's not the notion of Godhead that has changed, but the concept of fatherhood. Oh, and Judgment.

Like the aforementioned Twain quote. When humanity was young, it laughed at how stupid God was. But when humanity matured, it was amazed how God had matured, too. (Something like that.)

About the idea of God the Father, 'nother story time.

~~

Taxi ride in Chicago. Got the impression the cabbie was "Islamic," or raised that way, whatever he was by then. (This was long before 9/11, btw.)

We somehow got to talking about God, and I managed at some point to say something about God as Father. Driver scowled and angrily said, "If he's anything like my father...!" So much said in so few words, there. Sad.

But, we had talked about the cabbie's son, whose picture was on the dashboard. He was so proud of the boy. Last thing, as I'm paying, I managed to say something like, "Not like the father you remember having. Like the father you want to be for your son."

I got no "I'll think about it" on that one. He just drove off.

Seed-planting, even when we'll never know (in this life) what the effort yielded.

TheQuietMan: ...When I was 18 my father knew absolutely nothing....

Mark Twain, IIRC

Stringer Davis: evangelizing atheists first posit a hairy-thunderer god and call that impossible...

Pretty much always, when someone describes the God they don't believe in, I have to agree, I wouldn't believe in that God, either.

-storytime-

Father of a friend once got into talking religion with me, out of the blue. He had come to America after WW2 with ten bucks in his pocket and a tattoo number on his arm, and built up quite a good business.

He told me that he had been taught that God sat up there on that big throne, with the book of Judgment, and if you ever did anything wrong, just once, you were doomed to hell.

Whoa.

I don't remember exactly what I said, but somehow I was inSpired to suggest that there was another idea of God that "a fellow" talked about two thousand years ago - that portrayed God as Father not Tyrant. Talked about forgiveness and stuff. I think I did. I was on auto-pilot.

I'll never forget his reply, though. From a glib, shallow-seeming businessman came this startling sincere reply.

"I'll think about that, (mindful), I really will."

Wow.

I hope he did.

--

afk - pet feedin' time

I forgot: Dude posts the date as August and 134 comments and no one's noticed.

Huh. How 'bout that. Ha ha.

After a while, one learns not just to not read the post, but to not even read the headline. Just delays one's getting to the comments quicker.

Stringer Davis: And, saved by the nic closers. Take that, Barrel.

* Barrel points to its eye, then at you *