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Oh, sure, I leave a hello and a comment on the morning thread and BenK dumps on me. Who am I, Willow?

Morning, again, Glories!

Morning, Glories. I've read up to comment #50 so far, but thought I'd bark hello.

Re #9: "...according to the U.N.'s point man on human rights in North Korea, that is not too far off the mark, though he stressed no one is advocating a military option to force regime change."

They will ask Kim nicely to step down and go on trial? Offer him candy and flowers and an MSNBC TV show?

I thought I had emptied my bucket of links, but when I scraped the bottom, I found this, c/o Chicks on the Right:

Yum yum! Eat 'em up, kids!

Okay, with that, I'm done.

BTW, I was thinking about you, Pete, when hearing about the snow.

The resemblance is uncanny! (c/o IOTWreport)

I Look Like Barack Obama

My favorite headline of the day, from Weasel Zippers:
Staten Island Groundhog Survives Brush With Death Thanks To Plexiglass Box Protecting Him From NYC Mayor De Blasio

Runner-up headline, also from Weasel Zippers:
Pope Urges Men Not To Be So “Macho” … Obama Seen Nodding In Approval

(Zip writes: "I’ll admit I probably wouldn’t have posted this story, just wanted to write the headline.")

I don't give a flying hoot (apologies to Hoot) about the UN, and most "heritage" or "historic" designations just make it hard for property owners to modify their own property; therefore, nomination as a UN World Heritage Site of the local oddity called the Price Tower doesn't get me real excited. It's already got other historic designations.

But it does give me a chance to link to some videos about the Price Tower and talk about it. It's about four years younger than I am, so it was new and a big deal when I was a kid. Still a landmark in the old home burb. Can't miss it. My grade school was just across the street from it, before they destroyed that venerable educational edifice to build an obscenity called the Communist Community Center. Do I digress?

Oklahoma Stories: Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper, Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma by OETA (Edu. TV) is a good look at its history. They don't mention that this "skyscraper" was originally intended for Chicago, and was scaled down considerably for Mr. Price's commission. So I always heard.

Here's some guy's walk-through of his room in the Price Tower Inn (not much walking involved), with views overlooking downtown Bottlesburg. My favorite bit of the narrative: "Lots of churches around here." Yes. Or as Frank Zappa sang, "churches… churches… and liquor stores! Do I digress?

There's a spacious first-floor exhibit area. I was only inside the tower part once; went to somebody's office for some reason, must've been pre-high school. As a wanna-be architect once upon a time, I found the building fascinating. The whole place is designed on 30-60-90 triangles (as was explained to us one day by the Principal of the Jr HS, when subbing for our Latin teacher), and that's echoed in the floor tiles and such. I'd always heard Wright's buildings were small — low doorways and such — because he was short. Don't know about that, but I'd believe the whole thing was done on something less than full scale after I rode up in the smallest elevator I've ever been in. Claustrophobia is one of my kryptonites. Never needed to go back.

It's clear I'm stuck closer to 1611 than the modern age.

Polish Soldier Names His New Son After U.S. Soldier Who Gave His Life To Save Him In Afghanistan
Staten Island Live c/o Weasel Zippers

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Myles was very excited. He'd just found a $20 bill in the parking lot. He'd started thinking of what he could spend it on.

"I kind of wanted to get a video game, but then I decided not to," Myles says.

He changed his mind when he saw the guy in uniform….

CBS News

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Acosta told Daily Mail that “25-30 cars had already passed him by without stopping,” until he was finally picked up by a goodhearted Samaritan in a little blue Volkswagen Beetle.

Little did he know, the Beetle belonged to President of Uruguay, Jose Mujica, and his wife, Sen. Lucia Topolansky.

IJ Review c/o Weasel Zippers

Is that ValJar quote real? I mean, it's no surprise other than that it's so expressly clear. Still, hadn't seen that before.

But, as John McCain might ask, what have we to fear from Islam?

There have now been over 25,000 reported deadly Islamic terrorist attacks since the 9-11 attacks.
Gateway Pundit drawing from religionofpeace.com

America is Being Delivered Directly Into the Hands of Its Enemies
Canada Free Press

The Muslim Brotherhood Takeover of the Obama Administration
thecommonsenseshow

Just a little light reading I picked up over the weekend.

I cannot imagine that Obama's involvement in anti-Bibi politics would have any effect other than the strengthening of sympathy for Likud.

I just keep readin', readin', readin' those comments, but I can't seem to get to the end. So, appropo of nothin'...

Morning, Glories.

Pithy comments galore would I have posted, had I not been busy reading.

And cold fingers, too. They said it would be 15°F this morning. Ha ha they were wrong again. It's 10°F. And only somewhat warmer inside the barn where we live. Space heater under the desk at least keeps my knees warm.

Going up to almost 40 later though, and 50s tomorrow. Tough winter, eh? Ooooooo-klahoma...

Back to readin'. Carry on, as always.

The Bibi-Sitter ad with English subtitles here:
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=23211

h/t noisyroom.net

Still slowly plowing my way through M. Twain's autobiography, complete and authoritative edition, volume 1. I may not read much, or fast, but I sure enjoy it. As I may have said before, I run across bits I'd like to quote here, but for full effect, I'd have to quote a prohibitive number of paragraphs.

I was just reading Twain's description of getting caught swearing by his bride of ten years. Hilarious. Had to read it aloud to Milady.

"I dreaded the day when she should discover that I was but a whited sepulchre partly freighted with suppressed language."

J.J. Sefton: "I hate to disappoint you and the fellow hordelings, but I am not strictly kosher."

*gasp*

Starting the month with grievously shattered illusions.

Bacon?

/re-lurk

Our Surrenderer-in-Chief makes things more dangerous? Shock!

Some tabs I have had open for a minute or a few days relate, somewhat:
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U.S. Generals Expose Hillary’s Illicit Involvement in Benghazi

The war could have been avoided. Gaddafi was ready to abdicate but Secretary Clinton and the White House preferred instead to arm al Qaeda militias and force him out of office. By that time, everyone knew Benghazi was home to Al Qaeda in Libya.

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Absence of White House Strategy Makes ISIS, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan Wars Unwinnable

“[We need to] come out from our reactive crouch and take a firm, strategic stance in defense of our values,” retired Marine Gen. Jim Mattis said to Congress Tuesday morning.

“America needs a refreshed national security strategy,” he added, saying that it must look beyond the string of crisis “currently consuming the executive branch.”

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Former Top Pentagon Spy: President Obama Is Paralyzed By Radical Islam"

“There is no substitute, none, for American power,” the general said, to occasional cheers and ultimately a standing ovation from a crowd of special operators and intelligence officers at a Washington industry conference.

He also slammed the administration for refusing to use the term “Islamic militants” in its description of ISIS and al Qaeda.

“You cannot defeat an enemy you do not admit exists,” Flynn said.

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Last 2 items c/o warnewsupdates.blogspot.com

Lunch Ladies say: Michelle O’s rules driving kids to junk food
EAGnews c/o IOTWreport

“USDA data shows that since the new rules were implemented, 1.4 million fewer children choose school lunch each day,” according to the release. “Declining student participation reduces meal program revenue for schools already stressed by higher food and labor costs under the new regulations." … First lady Michelle Obama, for one, has vowed to fight for the current federal school food restrictions “until the bitter end.”

Bitter indeed.

Squeaking of Sarah Palin, Milady and I finished watching Undefeated last night. (Finished, I say, as it took us about three sittings in our crazy life.) Good flick. Gave me back some of the respect for Palin that had become abraded from hanging out here.

Undefeated (for $3) on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/EcIRbdVgm5k

Dr. Varno: "Please tell me people in Vermont aren't all this stupid: http://tinyurl.com/q7aul2m"

Oh, dear. That's sad. When Dan Quayle said that they speak Latin in Latin America, he was being a true representative of the people.

(He never did, per Snopes.)
http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/quayle.asp

Lizzy: "Like in Sugar without the -ar."

Shoog? Okay, thanks. I yam slightly less culturally naive.

Yes, I'm that pathetic, useless person out of touch with popular culture that Ace talks about.