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Just finished reading several articles. All the way through, no less!

Thanks for the links, BenK, today and always.

What would y'all have done if you realized the deck wasn't shuffled?

This is the only rock where the Son of God became Jesus of Nazareth. Boy, were all the neighboring planets envious about that one!

It's twenty-one years this Spring since we moved the family from Chicago to Oklahoma. The last thing I did right in this life, apparently, but at least we did that, and I've never had any reason to regret it.

I'm excited that Carol is talking about moving to Texas. We can always use more Morons in Oklahoma, but Texas is okay, too.

I'd hardly be the first to point out that the proof that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that they keep our planet isolated, quarantined, and kept out of contact.

Prime Directive is a bit better obeyed in the Halls of Heaven than onboard the USS Enterprise space ships. Still, now and then, they let a prophet slip through, if we'll listen. And no, I don't mean Moo ha med.

YMMV

STUDY: 'Megadroughts' Lasting Decades Likely For Western US In Coming Years (Drudge)

Because we're so good at predicting upcoming weather, short or long term, I figure "western US" should prepare for flooding.

"Good save Judd from this administration???"

Now that I'm up, dressed, fed a little, and look back at my initial message ... wtf?

God save us from this administration - is that so hard, autoincorrect?

Morning, Glories!

Friday the 13th come on a Friday this month?

It's my lucky day!

God bless the US Marines and Good save Judd from this administration.

The image of Rangle going mano-a-mano with Bibi reminded me of a scene from Blast from the Past (iMDB), which Milady and I just re-watched recently. Here's Charlie (Cliff) and Netenyahu (Adam/Brendan Fraser).

Circa (Insert Year Here) at February 12, 2015 08:10 AM (659DL)

I was impressed just by the list of problems, before I got to the rant. Excellent rant.

Citizen X: "Annoying Office-mate thinks it makes her sound smart, too."

Another graduate of the Joe "Fire Two Blasts" Biden School of Sounding (Literally) Schmardt.

Fritz- anything on two legs with a vagina.

Legs? Optional.

So, the new tablet continues to puzzle me. Plugged in overnight, it still has the red light of charging and won't power up. Again. Wish I knew if it's a tech problem or an operator failure. Just as I was getting used to having it around...!

My hacker days are long over; I don't wanna mess with tech; I just want it to work!

I waited in the ONT... for this?? MSNBC + Hillary... get a room already.

Morning, Glories. Vic? You there?

I did by candy hearts yesterday and dark chocolate M&Ms. For those of us who indulge in such things. For Milady Valentine, dark chocolate bars. Same ones she ha s all year round, but it's what she likes.

Pete, something I've been mulling since I read this yesterday. Hope you will take it in the utterly friendly if ribbing tone intended.

I'm not offended, for myself or anyone else, but some words are "speed bumps" for me. I was reading along, right with you, when I hit "There was a darky…."

In my upbringing, back in the middle of the last century, one used the term "Negro," not that other "n-word" (argh- I hate yielding to the language police, no matter how usual it is). People who used that other "n-word" were either low-class, bigoted, or both. But, as far as I remember, the d-word was not just similarly disrespectful, it was practically obsolete. Like pickaninny. Or maybe it was more of a further-down-South thing than where I grew up? Anyway, I rarely heard it; old-timers and old movies.

So, as I say, hitting "…a darky…" was a bit of a speed bump… for half a moment… until I read the rest of it: "…named Phallus…."

[The sad trombone of failure sounds] Nope, nope, sorry, if you're going as "Phallus," you don't get any respect on any other point. No how. That's worse than darky. Speed bump removed.

♥

I'm a slow reader, which is only a good thing when I hit speed bumps.

Need new shock absorbers, anyway. ⅏?

Looks like there's a news hook for one of my earliest video webwork efforts, 2012 May 18.

Obama's Gay Marriage Flip Flops (30 sec)
Obama was for the idea before he was against it before he was sort-of for it before he needed to be for it again.
http://bit.ly/16T7lZP

So, I had to meet a guy about a thing at a place. In place at thing, but where is guy?

The Republican Party is a house divided. Some are trying to rebuild it as it should be.

Being from a state and district of the more Constitutional rebuilders group, it's hard to say give up on them completely. Yet.

Morning, Glories!

I gotta go see a guy about a thing already. Then I get to see the dentist. Is this Monday?

Almost all of our cats over the past two decades came to us, mostly dumped in the country and grateful to be taken in, some born here in unpreventable litters. Great affection for each and every one of the dozens we've cared for.

We have had outdoor-only cats, but none has been strictly indoor. We've had cats come home with battle scars, one with a broken leg, a few out of the dozens that didn't come home. Owls & hawks, possum & raccoon, cat stupidity - they've got enemies aplenty in the Outside. One dear feral cat (outdoor only) I thought I heard (can still hear) his death-scream, over the wall in the woods. I notice the ones that stay up close to the house and don't wander far afield tend to live longer with fewer scars. All quite Darwinian. I can see keeping the shedding little disease balls out of the house, but can't imagine confining a cat to the indoors. In the city, sure, but not with all this country around us.

I suppose we were lax in proper concern for diseases, though, or, just added that threat to the whole stew of threats in living. Whether brought in by pets or met directly in the yard, the outside abounds with that which is out to kill us. I shrug, scratch, and go on, but some folks even get phobic about the outdoors, I've heard. Like "Islamophobia," begs the question, are you still paranoid if they really are out to get you?

That Brian Wiliams Downfall parody was excellent, also, at working with the spoken dialog.

Captions weren't unreadably long (except maybe the initial one); cleverly kept... pace... with... speech; the short argument between Adolf and the other guy about which movie was well paced; and at some point, Adolf says something like "fert raht" and the caption is "rat farts" (IIRC).

Sometimes folks just don't quite get the feel of Downfall parody technique, got the idea but not the art of; but this one got it.

/stopping before this becomes an Ace-long review

Ben Shapiro - Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority on Truth Revolt