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Vic: "...if we know where they are at why are we not killing them in job lots?"

I had that same thought when I read about this yesterday... and every time I read about their convoys.

Someone isn't trying to win.

Morning, Glories!

"…comparing Cruz’s 2016 bid to Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign. … 'So, that’s the Ted Cruz message, "extremism is good."'…"

Wow. That there is poster material. I think we need "Extremist" tee-shirts and badges.

I remember Gov. Moonbeam back before he was a zombie. Or at least, before he became so obviously a zombie, anyway.

Pete, I read about your snow from a Chicago suburbanite on Ace this morning. Reported this to Milady and said, I am so glad we don't live in Chicago anymore! I was out puttering in the yard today; temperatures up in the 70s. The cloudy, cool-ish past several days just made today seem perfect.

Hang in there. You'll get Spring. The sun is creeping North faster than the glaciers are creeping South. Probably.

It's not always easy to make light of the world's most dangerous community organizer, but I'm starting to think of the things he comes out with as being utterly laughable, Joe Bidenisms, a regular game of "What did the Clown in Chief say today?" Dark humor, to be sure.

Get this! Obama says voting should be mandatory! Hahahahaha! What a maroon.

Julie as fun with this.

"That's the problem with this country: Not enough uninformed people voting!"

"…(of record*)…"

Heh.

Hey, here's this, not because this is my ticket (although I'd vote for it), but because I just liked the picture so much.

Appears on a shiny new webwork, where BTW I linked to here (which may cause some sort of infinite feedback loop which destroys the interwebz).

I know this is a couple days late, but thanks for posting this.

Evocative song, still. Also probably one of those with the highest "misunderstood lyrics."

Neo-Neocon had a nice tribute to Left Banke.

Hi! Missed the Cruz thread. Don't know if any one already mentioned something like this.

Now That Ted Cruz has Declared His Candidacy-
You Ever Seen the Guy's Resume?
-Reaganite Republican

http://bit.ly/Cruz-exp

Morning, Glories!

Thanks for the news jolts, Vic.

And congratulations on being #1 commenter. At least you have some excuse. (Still, 70 posts/day....)

bob: "Remember when they tried 'New Math'…"

I was in 9th Grade, IIRC, when they initiated New Math. Having a good grounding in "old" math, I could understand what they were getting at, and had some idea what they were trying to do, but I thought it was silly and useless and would surely be totally confusing to those who didn't have such a good basic grounding. Hey, I was right about something! (Once, long ago.)

I haven't mentioned my brother-in-law's books for quite a while. Jack Clark, Chicago cab driver and novelist; straight out of central casting. His first "Nick Acropolis" story was Westerfield's Chain. Big city stories.

Also, with my late sainted mother-in-law, her stories about her life, Private Path, and On the Home Front."

The link below should take you to the Amazon page for Jack. I have added "?tag=aoshq-20" to the Amazon URL; I hope that's all that's needed to tie the link to Ace, in case of purchase.

http://bit.ly/jack-clark

"It's kind of scary how easy it was to for someone to create a malignant social movement virtually out of thin air, and how quickly it took on a life of its own."

The Obama fan club took note.

I just found, on the kitchen table, that Milady has purchased Manischewitz Shabbat Candles.

I don't know why she bought them. We've never purchased Shabbatt candles before that I know of.

My only concern would be if my bacon supply is threatened.

I see we went Car Thread in under 100.

Vic's news was strangely not filling at all this morning.

I woke up so late the sun was up.

Got dressed and, before anything, just because I could, I went out and took a walk. Wore a vest - still slightly cool out - but didn't button it.

Two fawns near the house did not take off immediately as GoodDog and I approached, but eventually darted away, to expose the rest of the group hiding in the west yard.

Heavy but low fog rising in the woods beyond the pasture.

And that one bird is insane.

So...

Morning, Glories.

Palin/Cruz 2016

BTW, Milady says to compliment you on your Spring background.

bob: "It’s hard to boycott a business I never patronize!"

This is a problem for me on boycotting many things. I'd have to start to stop.

While under the right circumstances, I will drink practically any swill, I've been a coffee connooser (not quite snob, though, I hope) since before there was a Starbux. Theirs is just not a flavor I savor.

Great collection of posters + video on their silly social fail. Nice work.

Oh. Troika. Back when I played, we could only use English. Youse guyses apparently use just any old thing that sounds like a word. (ha ha) Ooo. Dowel would be a good Jotto word.

http://www.engrish.com/wp-content/uploads//2015/03/Flied-Garlic.jpg

Just ran across this over at the Reaganite Republican.

This illustrates the contention that, better than abandoning the Republican party, purge it.

http://bit.ly/purge-GOP

"...I thought this week we could address..."
"...It might also be helpful for us to discuss..."

Now, see, that's where my AADD kicks in and I start to think, this post may have too much in it. Then I scrolled down to see just how much it did have in it!

Not tl;dr. Just... wow, I'm-a-gonna have to take my time to digest it. Being a slow-witted flyover country illiterate and all.

Y'couldn't've just summarized up top, like, column one is a list of second-Amendment friendly candidates, column two being others who don't comprehend these words in this order: "shall not be infringed"?

Lived in Santa Fe for a couple of years in the latter 1970s. Lived outside of Taos for a while ("extended vacation") when daughter was little; twin sons were conceived there. Milady and I really were into-it New Mexicans, for a little while, long ago.

We still import Chile Verde which Milady cooks up; that spicy dish is a regular part of our diet, the only real vestige of our Santa Fe days. Besides the boys.

New Mexico really is the "land of enchantment." It can enchant you right out of your good intentions, horse sense, and life savings if you're not careful. Only place I ever dealt with a gen-u-wine con artist; he ended up in prison right after failing to fleece us, but after ripping off a bunch of other people. And he was not all that uncommon a character, although most "pilgrim robbers" are more subtle and legal about it, like the guy who tried to sue me for a half million dollars.

Beautiful country, though. Never got out in that enough.

If New Mexico were socially and politically more like Oklahoma than Berkeley, it could be a good place to live. Maybe if you live in the eastern part of the state, snugged up to Texas and Oklahoma? Most of that is pretty empty desert, though. Pretty. But empty desert.

Chicago Jesus (shredded chi): "the pilealted woodpecker is what got me into birding when I saw my first one years ago."

Two mornings ago, I watched as a pileated was hammering on a pecan trunk, about ten feet of the ground. Squirrel ran down the trunk and perked around at the woodpecker. Woody flared his wings and Rocky quickly ran back. Beautiful sight, that big bird all puffed up!

Pileateds used to be really rare around here. Now they're regulars. Last year I thought I saw a bunch of young'n's like fresh from the nest.