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Ooo, there's half-a-dozen whitetail right in front of the house. Should I sit here and admire the pretty little grazing tick-spreading disease bags, or let their playmate the dog out for some exercise? Decisions, decisions.

AACK! YUCKK! Vic's #13 link to Benghazi panel has auto-play ad. Fortunately, I found the mute button before it awakened Milady.

I hate it when I open a tab in the background and a few seconds later some salesman is yelling at me. I'm on the tablet. On the desktop, I keep the javascript and plug-ins turned off, but on that browser I have buttons to make js/plug-ins on/off easier. Not on the tablet. Opera sure did get degraded after v12!

Morning thread! Vic news! Balance is restored to the world!

Morning (again), Glories!

lessee... no morning thread... I dont see any Vic news... what is this, Saturday?

Morning, Glories! Temperatures suppose to climb to the70s today. You may find me later lying in a sunbeam, trying to warm the old bones up. February on Oklahoma!

Grunt: "I’ll go back and revise backward…"

Wait, I think I saw Prof. Brown explain this in Back to the Future. You've already created one alternate timeline, but if you go back and try to change it back, we'll be trapped in … um … it made sense when Prof. Brown explained it …

Wait… did you change your message? Makes my reply kinda orphaned. Funny that.

Looking at my open tabs, I see I have three dozen news stories open. None of them "Fun Friday" type. Even at three links a comment, that would take… um… [counts on fingers, takes off shoes and socks, counts on toes] …a dozen comments. Hmm. Let me see if there's any really worth linking.

Hmmm. Well, there's some good stuff. But, y'know what? Me & Milady gonna watch some vid. Might add some later. [slips out side gate]

Wait, you don't mean Archie was gay in the comic strip? (Is there still an Archie comic strip?)

I don't really read comics anymore, but I have some newsfeed subscriptions to comics-related sites, so I find out about exotic developments like Superman's new power.

I knew Archie comics had introduced some other character as gay in the comic books. And they had some "alternate universe" sequence ("Dark Riverdale" - I made that up) where Archie was killed protecting the gay kid from a gun nut. But I had not heard that they said the old horndog skirt-chaser was gay. Un-possible.

Now, Reggie, I can see him "experimenting…"

I re-Pete: I am not Reggie.

Those are some interesting harps!

Always liked the harp. My aunt, who lived across the street from us when I was a kid, had a beautiful harp that I could too-rarely mess with. I recall that we were at a "spiritual harp" concert when Milady first felt our firstborn-to-be start kicking. Vigorously, as I recall. Not sure if it was on the beat.

I was also a fan of Harpo's and Chico's musicianship. Always amazing to watch their faces - Harpo especially - as the goofy clown mask is replaced by a serious concentration, and beautiful playing. Then, bang, end of tune, they're the wacky guys again.

Wonder if you've seen Harpo in this 1957 Irwin Allen feature? Harpo in color.

Wow… this is completely different than Autistic man builds feline fun house

Thinking about remodeling a couple of rooms, I thought to make catwalks around the ceilings, ways for them to get up there. Never quite got to that project. We had more cats back then. Now, I'm thinking, maybe I'll put a cat door in the front door.

I don' wanna be Reggie. Reggie's a creep. Who else is left? I'll be 3rd string, anything but Reggie. The inventor kid, was his name Dilbert? Maybe Jughead's dog? I'm not smart handsome enough to be Moose…

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On that farmstand sign? I think they missppeelled "peas."

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After the sandal-ized cowboy boots (egad!), the chicken-foot heels were almost a relief of normalcy, by contrast.

Morning, Glories.

Just plowed through the morning threads' chatter. No Vic. I don't feel informed or sufficiently outraged.

Sometimes the persistence of the troll impresses me. I'm the kind of not-in-your-face person that might leave a party at the slightest hint that I was unwelcome, so it's hard for me to imagine willingly going "where everybody hates your name." ♫

For a while, the variety of the troll was also something to admire. Putting on a different mask, playing a different angle every day, that takes some thought. Almost entertaining, like our fake trolls, e.g. Cloggenstein. Almost. At first.

But, eventually, they all start sounding the monotonous same, under the surface - or on the surface. Reading along through the comments, having already caught the troll's theme du jour, I can detect a troll comment within half a sentence; my eyes fall to the handle for confirmation, and then I skip it and move on. Mostly, the quantity of disruption quickly outweighs any entertainment value. Even Clog can be irritating on a bad day.

Occasionally, there's even a twinge of pity for the pathetic mentality behind trolling. But then I skip it and move on.

Jane, the Regressives "NEVER come right out and admit their goal" is certainly true, and that's the very reason I wondered about the Jarrett quote's validity right off the bat. The early date suggested young Val might not yet have learned to be so politic (see: Michelle Obama's college thesis for — rough — comparison), but the ValJar quote was suspiciously specific, like the "using freedom of religion against them" part.

However, I wonder what you want from Pete here, what you're augering for in your complaint. D'ya think the graphic should be removed now, so all the subsequent discussion about it points back to something that'd be missing?

It's not like Pete is arguing for its authenticity; when I questioned it, he acknowledged his source and that he hadn't done any further digging. Like he said, he passes things along, friendly fashion; don't expect the layers of fact-checking you get at CNN, MSNBC or the WSJ. [Pardon me while I recover from exhausting, side-splitting laughter.]

Furthermore, we've kicked the graphic around in comments, discussed its validity, or lack thereof, and joked, darkly, about its (to paraphrase Dan Rather) "maybe false, but valid" message. This honest discussion surely testifies to PoliNation's "credibility."

Just to be on the safe side, for the record, I'd better add, I'm pretty sure the Lincoln quote I posted wasn't 100% accurate.

Great as it is to think of the King riding into battle at the head of his troops, consensus among the folks who sound like they know what they're talking about over at Ace was that although the King had fighter pilot experience, you really have to stay in practice on those things, and he probably hasn't. Moreover, after the bombing, the Jordanian jets did a fly-by over the home town of the incinerated pilot, while the King was making a condolence visit there. That's what I heard, anyway.

I also heard the Jordanians used napalm. Returning fire for fire; they take their eye for an eye seriously over there.

I'm a-gonna take your opening remarks as explanation rather than apology, Pete, because, you bring the hot fun almost daily, nothing to apologize for. Even technically — you do what you do, and it gets us your links and comments. Sufficiency.

The ValJar quote is an example. You report, we kick it around and are motivated to try to find out whether it's valid. As has been said, though, it's too believable.

Shh. Don't tell anyone about the new thread.

Comment #3 was so long, at first glance I thought there were 10 comments already.

The New Crusades begin with the effort to re-capture the White House....

Thanks, TangoNine.

Staying married was a no-brainer for me, 'cause I know I would never find anyone else who could stand me. So I tread carefully. No "thick thigh" comments from me!

And, she makes the world's greatest sandwiches.

Holy cow, it's our wedding anniversary. Glad I remembered before Milady awoke.

How many years is it since 1980? Thirty-five? It's a good beginning.

(Doesn't include the six years we stupidly spent shacking up engaged.)

Posted by: mindful webworker - couple-privileged at February 05, 2015 09:13 AM (XtR0g)

wow. congrats. For just surviving that long. round of applause!

Holy cow, it's our wedding anniversary. Glad I remembered before Milady awoke.

How many years is it since 1980? Thirty-five? It's a good beginning.

(Doesn't include the six years we stupidly spent shacking up engaged.)