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Pete: "I know I usually post way more than anybody cares to look at..."

Ha! There may be some few videos I don't watch and some links I don't follow, but I appreciate your every post, links, vids, and commentary. Of what you post, more often than not, I read it here first.

Pathetically, though, I am the only one here who appreciates your work. Nobody else looks forward to your posts, nearly every day. Nope, nope. Just me. :D

The pix are appreciated, too!

Someone just saw that picture from the 9-11 KaBOOM thing, and asked, "Who is that?"

I said, "That's Michelle Obama."

Reply: "I thought that was a guy!"

I said, "Shh! Remember what happened to Joan Rivers!"

8O

Another "bathroom reader." Books, but not really "reads," usually acquired from the thrift store for two bits or less.

Momentum Builders - 228 Sure-Fire Ways To Get On a Roll… And Stay There! At least this one has an author, John Mason, "author of the bestsellers An Enemy Called Average and You Were Born an Original, Don't Die a Copy…," Honor Books, Tulsa.

So, opening at random, these sure-fire momentum-builders:

#171 Never be without an important goal.

(Uh-huh.)

#172 Regrets look back.
Worry looks around.
Faith looks up.

(Oooo. That's deep.)

#173 If you refuse to accept anything
but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

(And very often get nothing?)

Had enough? One more random page turn:

#120 Be a good finder.

#121 Have a low tolerance for idleness.

#122 Anonymous: Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch…

(whut? [Closes book])

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Previous bathroom reader review in last week's Book Thread
http://minx.cc:1080/?blog=86&post=351632

That pic up top is the worst photo of a library this thread has had yet. That's one of the modern no-books ones, I presume. What a mess.

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Beating the heat without A/C isn't hard if you can stay wet and in front of a fan.

Folks who lived 'round here in the Olde Dayes tell me, "We didn't have some guy on the radio telling us every five minutes how hot it was. We just sat with a lemonade under a shade tree."

Oklahoma, Summer of 1980, never went below 85 and most days above 100 for six weeks. No A/C in the house. We slept on the roof, got up with the sun, went to (air-conditioned) work early, came home at sunset. Survival mode.

Then we moved to Chicago for that Winter… in time for their coldest night ever on record. Heh.

I'm sitting there leaving comments in the morning thread, halfway through reading the thread, when I got this strange feeling... yup. New thread.

Must be past time to feed the four-footed protectors.

Okay. Carry on.

Hey, happy birthday, you old Lone Ranger you. Clayton Moore was one of the (all too few) people who taught me to stay on the side of the good guys. From all I read, he was honorable through and through.

Moore continued to appear in costume (and in shape to fit it) long after the series ended. Always in character, as he felt he owed it to the kids. When they made the first Lone Ranger movie, Moore was actually enjoined from wearing the mask. He continued, wearing dark sunglasses.

And a hat-tip to good guy Jay Silverheels, while I'm at it.

"The military is not happy with Obama sending them to Africa to fight Ebola."

It's the damned rules of engagement. Those Ebola terrorists rebels can't be treated with kid gloves. Also, a lack of what victory would look like, he joshed earnestly.

Morning, Glories.

Ricardo Kill: "Beautiful mountains, great skiing, elk, oil, Carlsbad Caverns,etc. NM is a great state."

All that and more is great… noting that none of the above activities necessarily involve actually dealing with… average New Mexicans.

Having lived there, it's a nice place to visit.

Milady Webworker makes the best Santa Fe style chili verde this side of Pecos!

"Reading these posts cements my belief that this country is done."

Bless your soul, has anyone thanked you yet for your concern?

Chillin the most: "A woman can critictze another woman without risking being a bully or sexist."

"She doesn't have a woman's heart."

:/

Solid real-world school-of-hard-knocks business experience in the real world.

Political sagacity and principled will, strength tempered by charm.

Wit and clout to knock down regulatory bureaucracies en masse, and roll back and flatten/simplify/eliminate federal taxes, liberating businesses, luring manufacturers, boosting employment. Encouraging energy and defense industries, especially.

Privatize trains, mail, education, medicine, banks, and on and on, the whole socialist takeover that's been going on for years.

Leadership to rally the nation to new patriotic heights in support of all these actions until the opposition drowns in a chorus of Star Spangled Banner.

Rebuild a fighting military, and be ready to wage war to victory on multiple fronts; just in case. Fortify our borders like our lives depended on it, and enforce immigration laws strictly.

Put every communist and co-conspirator in government and media from the last twenty years on trial for tyranny before competent and patriotic judges. (Twenty years? Make it back to pre-Jane Fonda in NVN.)

Face the reality of winning the war on mass terror organizations that threaten us, whether in the Middle East, Mexico, or Chicago, at whatever cost.

Is that really too much to ask in a candidate?

NYT link is paywalled, and I didn't find it free via quick search.

How's my guv'ner Fallin rate?

"...anagrams. ... 'palindrome'."

HAHAHA + DUH + ARRGH! My brain actually blanked on the word, and when "anagram" came to me, I went with it without a thought (obviously). Thanks for the correction. Sheesh!

Or, no, autocorrect, yeah, that was it. (Wait, I'm on cousin's notebook and it doesn't have autocorrect.)

Is a palindrome actually a special form of anagram, considering the letters don't look rearranged, nor form a different phrase when reversed?

Milady Webworker tried to gift a blouse to an acquaintance a day or two ago, expensive brand I guess. Acquaintance insisted on trying to pay her for it, until Milady explained she'd picked it up at the thrift store.

I did use gift as a verb. My 1950s inner grammarian denounces myself. My 21st Century slob doesn't care.

Y'all keep on commenting while I fix the four-footed brigade a bite to eat, and maybe myself. Seriously, don't wait for me, I'll catch up. Probably.

Day 676 with 787 to go, you say?

676 and 787 are both numerical anagrams.

[Dreyfuss voice] "This means something!"

Yawn without covering your mouth, a bug flies in.

That was good enough for our post-ghosts, pre-pervert upbringing. Ah, progress!

Morning, Glories. Socks and pants and for the second day in a row a long-sleeve flannel shirt. But I hear the cold wave is passing and I can remove all those again soon.

Banhammering deletes comments. Deleting comments shifts subsequent comment numbers. Referencing earlier comments by number is therefore potentially ineffective and even confusing.

Referencing comments by quoting back the entire "Posted by" line is effective, but a bit more tedious to search out the referenced comment.

You CAN use the perma-link, but you can't just click it to find what comment it goes to. You have to add ":1080" manually to the perma-link in the address bar for it to work these days. If you add the :1080 to the link in your comment, though, it works... until the port problem is fixed, after which the link will not. In any case, none of these links is natively live.

I read somewhere once that SOME day, technology will advance to where blog comments could have a live link! Or, even, you know, threading! (Optionally switchable, please. I *like* the unthreaded format.) Won't that be keen!

Hat tip to whoever wielded Mjolner today.

@JohnTant: "Oh, the trool gets down on his knees in the closet alright, but it sure ain't to pray."

I realized that, uh, that aspect was evident as I wrote it.

Left it for you anyway. You're welcome.

Berserker-Dragonheads Division: "You left out the part about placing the gun barrel under the chin."

I thought Ace covered that alternative suggestion well the other day.

Morning, Glories.

De-lurking to note that the trool is trooly trite. I picked up on who it was in the first half-sentence of every troolish comment, and easily skipped the rest.

This is, plainly, the same hectoring individual, every day. Would that there were active banhammering cobs (how dare they have any other life but policing the comments here!) to knock the trool out on every comment. Don't have a real answer, just that vague wish.

To the trool, I'd say: Go into your closet, get down on your knees, and, with all the sincerity your insincere little black heart can muster, beg the Spirit of Truth to guide you into all truth. Go on, I dare you. (Don't forget the sincerity part; might take a couple tries.)