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"So now we have doggie refugees."

I'll wager the dogs were not let in without thorough disease checks!

Ironically. Our something.

VNN: "10 States are looking at ending the shitty Daylight Savings Time scam"

No kidding? That is good news! Gonna contact my state rep and governor and encourage them to have Okla join the movement. Now that it seems to be a real thing, not just a kook's crusade as it has been for decades!

Vic: "...evidence for the man found hanging does not support a lynching and is most likely suicide..."

I figured suicide as soon as I read, "last seen leaving a casino." Presuming he lost.

Locally, a fellow leaving a casino was kidnapped. But, he won.

Morning, Glories!

Thanks for the post, Krak - a picture of Spring Fever

The different things Pete has posted here are of such variety, comparing them is like comparing pineapples to hand grenades, but the one I would nominate for best of the day is the Common Core Math one. That wet cat pic is the perfect illustration for that "math" problem.

This might also amuse you.

"Right now, lurking in your radio, is something so…so hideous…so backward….that it threatens to destroy gender equality as we know it.…"
—Amy Miller at Legal Insurrection

Dear Future Husband by Meghan Trainor

"a lot of people order it that way."

Holy cow, that's surreal they would answer that way.

Bacon only. That's the new BLT under His Royal Jug-earedness

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Meanwhile, back in the real world, here is a trio of links I found over at Chicks on the Right that I thought I'd forward. Be warned that, taken together, they may make a serious assault on your lachrymal glands.

Some things I can't stand to read. I read the quotes on CotR page but didn't click through. Article here.
"…I argued that we should make an attempt to resuscitate him, to get him breathing. The resident doctor told me, 'This is an abortion. We have no right to interfere.'…"

Blind Devotion. Nine minute film.

Ninety-Nine Balloons — "He lived for 99 days, with his parents documenting each day of his life and compiling it in this short video…"

Frank: "You now look like your grandmother."

Heh.

Watched the Beatnik Makeover clip last night, then this morning found this related item:

"Lego has often been seen as a brand on the front lines of making playtime a gender-neutral place for kids.

"But moms are outraged about its latest 'column' in Lego Magazine, dubbed 'Emma’s Beauty Tips,' that shows little girls what face shape they have and what haircuts would look best with that face shape...."

http://www.businessinsider.com/lego-magazine-emmas-beauty-tips-2015-3#ix...

The horror!

There's 60+ comments here already and nobody summoned the folks from the last thread (that I noticed)?

Hah! They deserve to be abandoned!

(Note that, whereas moments ago I was one of Them, now that I'm one of Us, I scoff at Them. Scoff Scoff!)

Wandered off to read some articles Ben linked. I don't think I finished any of them. Partway through the Starbux article, I'm thinking, I don't go to Starbux, I don't care about Starbux, I'm so uninterested, I'm not even amused watching them shoot themselves in the foot. Why am I reading this article? Closed tab.

Funny thing. When I go off to read the soft articles, analyses, opinions, at other sites, it really makes me appreciate this site, posters, and also quite importantly the commentariat. I really appreciate the debates, the informed opinions and clear argumentation that so many folks have here (when not drunk or fapping).

I believe the format, trying to stay conversational and concise in comments, also helps folks to focus on the point. If I'm five paragraphs into an article and I still don't know where the author's going, I start thinking about what comments on Ace I'm missing.

ONLY SIX HUNDRED DAYS until the election... then a bunch more...

Somehow that's not as exciting as it sounded at first...

Morning, Glories!

Arose late, just getting caught up. Must be Spring Fever.

Just finished reading the Vic News Network report on the ONT. I think it's hilarious that the last item is Vic reporting that this morning thread is up. Classic timing.

What's left that's worth reading?

What has the Republican Party done for me lately? At the US level, not a lot. I was glad they invited Bibi to talk, at least. My reps mostly vote right, FWIW.

At the state levels, some states, quite a lot is happening, internally, and in opposition to Federal tyranny.

So we got a Republican majority, barely, in the Senate and kept the House. Both majorities have to be increased, but the main thing now is to continue to increase the Constitutional Conservatives until they are a majority among the Republicans. Then it works.

Progress sure is infuriatingly slow, isn't it? Helps to all row in the same general direction.

Time to feed pets and get some stuff done. Pardon my ranting this morning. Probably just this rainy weather. Tomorrow will be better.

Cloyd Freud: "No. Control of the Republican Party cannot be changed."

Oh, well, right, okay then, can't argue with such persuasive logic. Abandon ship.

o_O

Cato: "There's nothing we can do to save the Republican party from the people that control it."

See, now, that's what I was talking about. I appreciate the sentiment, really, but I still feel compelled to say, "Thank you for your concern."

Nothing? Nothing at all to save the party that fielded Goldwater and Reagan? Nothing to save the party that has been growing in Constitutional Conservatives?

That's what they'd like you to believe. It's working.

Reagan said something like liberty is always only one generation away from extinction. Building up is not as easy as tearing down, yet we could already be on a trajectory to restore principle to the Republican Party and the nation. This makes the RINOs all the more evident, and infuriating, but we should be confident that they and their supporters are on the way out nonetheless. Control of the party can be changed.

Person last thread who asked, where he lives, Dems rule, so how would a 3rd party fare any better? is close to the right idea. If a viable 3rd party of principle is possible, I'm there. It's not. Meanwhile, I'll vote R, thanks. YMMV.

Cato: "The only alternate party on the ballot in my part of Texas is Libertarian. All of these Constitution, Conservative, and whatever parties I hear about apparently don't have any presence here."

It's been many years, maybe decades, since the Libertarians got on the ballot here in Oklahoma - they tightened up the rules to protect the two-party tyranny. The LP just can't get the signatures.

But then, we don't need a third party in Oklahoma. Our Republican elected officials aren't all totally un-squishy, but they're hard as granite compared to most of the nation, apparently. Our local rep, Jim Bridenstein, may not be a Tom Cotton, but he votes right. I know our Senators could be better, but so far Lankford hasn't proved as RINO as I feared he would be. Let's be sure and undermine the new Conservatives, and undermine those many blacks I see trying to get their fellows off the Democrat plantation, by deserting the Republicans!

I feel bad for all you folks who live where the Republican party is all RINOs and DIABLOs. Why don't you get better Republican candidates instead of abandoning the party? (He asks, smiling and blinking.)

Morning, Glories!

votermom: "I have ready a stack of snickers to fling at any cranky bloggers and COBs and I'm not afraid to use them."

From what I've read so far, I hope you brought plenty!

Buncha griping concern-heads with the solid convictions of a Glenn Beck.

Aw, forgive me. I just woke up p.o'd at quitters and lameasses in general.

The All Male Ballet Dancers Photo Close-Ups Edition

Maet, Maet, Maet...

Never have I made it through an ONT so quickly, with so little looked at, nor clicked on, nor read. Even those ONTs that were just pictures.

I'll... stop there. Not complaining. Honest. Really!

Good night, Gracies!

And, just, good night!

Okay, in the interest of complete accuracy…

"The merry-go-round has recently been rehabbed," I wrote above.

Not yet. Just yesterday I found a news photo of where the carousel was, and will be, but currently isn't. Sad and bleak, but they expect it will be back before the park opens for the summer.

I'm not sure if I fully conveyed the picture on the Kiddie Park, btw. As the name suggests, everything is small scale for the small fry, including the ticket prices. The little boats ride, the little airplane ride, the little autos ride, the little cages ride, all making their little circles. The little choo-choo that follows tracks outside the kiddie park fence and circles the larger park was magical to me as a very young'n. Not exactly a high-speed bullet train, you could fall off of it and hardly have to run to catch up and get back on. Not that I ever did…!

The "real" amusement park was Bell's, down in Tulsa. We'd get down there rarely. Best was when the State Fair was held next door. Bell's was forced out of business by the city several years ago. They hoped to reopen elsewhere, but it hasn't happened.

Back when crowds were pretty much safe. There were always a few greasers and thugs, but you never felt mobbed. Today… well, I'm no fan of large clots of humanity in any case. Excepting the Kiddie Park!

Squeaking of race, here's a good article in Hillsdale College's Imprimus

Race Relations and Law Enforcement
by Jason L. Riley, Editorial Board Member, Wall Street Journal

…Underprivileged blacks have become playthings for intellectuals and politicians who care more about revelling in their good intentions or winning votes than advocating behaviors and attitudes that have allowed other groups to get ahead. Meanwhile, the civil rights movement has become an industry that does little more than monetize white guilt. Martin Luther King and his contemporaries demanded black self-improvement despite the abundant and overt racism of their day. King’s self-styled successors, living in an era when public policy bends over backwards to accommodate blacks, insist that blacks cannot be held responsible for their plight so long as someone, somewhere in white America, is still prejudiced.…