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Oh, thought this was the news dump. I apparently shoulda taken that left at Cape Canaveral.

I've noticed that my comments frequently echo what's already been said, as we've all seen now and then, but I tend to be slow so it happens to me a lot. Today, I pulled a quote (Israelis shot first) from an article, but before I posted, I searched on keyword "breaking" (the ceasefire) to see if anyone else had mentioned it. Nope. Posted my comment, and discover that in the meantime someone had made the same comment.

So, as I always say, "Oot! Oot! Eet! Eet!" (Mashes banana into keyboard.)

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Did we have a Concerned Troll and then someone socking that name? Because, I don't usually track hashtags. If one is going to sock a troll, some slight but obvious variation of the name should be requisite. I might get confused. That would be a bad thing.

cth: “Actually, ARMATURE was also a bingo”

And also yours? Okay, then, going back to being impressed.

When I think about it, I realize when I was playing Scrabble, and our favorite word game Jotto, I was playing against siblings 3, 6, and 9 years older than I. Vocabulary, and spelling, were important to me early on!

One thing I notice with your online Scrabble is automated scorekeeping. I’ve attempted to write an online Jotto game (long ago, there’s probably one online now), partly to play online, of course, but mostly because it’s too easy to give a wrong letter-match count on a word and not realize it until you’re several rounds farther along and the game is spoiled.

I actually was working on a whole suite of games, including Real Chinese Checkers (lots of triangles math in that one), which could be played online and have a common chat interface. The game stuff I nailed pretty well. It was the online commuications protocols I never mastered. Frustrating, because I had to hand-build in my 1990s software what is built-in to modern (Net age) programming software. And now, I’m so old and out of the loops, I’ll probably never upgrade, get that deeply into programming again, and so will never get to play Real Chinese Checkers over the Net. Just sit here moving my virtual marbles around by myself until I lose them…

Gabe links to ABC

"I am prepared to fly back to the region tomorrow if I have to, or the next day or the next, in order to pursue the prospects if this doesn't work," he [Kerry] added, just hours before Israel began shelling Gaza again, formally breaking the ceasefire....

F u, ABC. U2 Gabe, just for linking to ABC.

And, Morning, Glories.

I tried. I really tried to read the post. But it's tired and I'm late.

1 play with kitty
2 get dewclaw hooked in little finger vein
3 bleed profusely
4 apply cayenne pepper, emergency coagulant
5 accidentally rub eyes...oops!

I had to really sit down and take off my socks to see how you got to 140. 50 for using all tiles leaves 90, meaning triple word scores are cumulative? (10 * 3) * 3 = 90? If we ever did that in my yoot, I don't remember, but we probably just counted (10 * 3) + (10 * 3) = 60. Ah, my misspent yoot.

I was firstmost impressed that there appeared to have been two instances of all seven tiles being played, until I figured someone just stuck an AR in front of MATURE, right?

You almost get my poor, old, atrophied game brain cells chugging again. Said brain needs an oil change and new tires, at minimum, but it used to run okay except for chess, where it would always run off the road in the fifth inning.

Ever played JOTTO? All my best memories of my siblings are about playing JOTTO.

Laurie David's Cervix: "'...Iron Dome's ability to protect Israelis from periodic rocket attacks so far will never remove the strife and discontent that has produced the motivation to ruthlessly fire them in the first place.'"

So true. Only the obliteration of the source of the strife and discontent will have a long term effect. The Israelis appear to have begun that process; I hope they can complete it.

Oh, wait, perhaps I take a different meaning from this than what Prof Fromage meant?

Last night as I tried to read while dozing off, I thought I read that Lois Lerner wanted to move to England!

Lois Lerner, Lindsey Lohan, Lois Lane, Lana Lang, Lori Lemaris, Leisuresuit Larry. I could never keep them straight.

Re-inquiry from last thread: I haven't seen a Panzerashorn sig beneath a righteous rant in a while. Have I just missed 'em?

I haven't seen a Panzerashorn sig beneath a righteous rant in a while. Have I just missed 'em, or do we have an AWOL regular?

Lincolntf: "Hate to see a single Israeli soldier hurt, and urban warfare with these sewer rats won't be pretty, but I am hoping for a measure of finality, and a 'ground war' seems to be the only path forward."

I've been getting the distinct impression - not just optimism, I deem - that the Israelis are thinking just what you say. Enough is enough is finally too much.

This has all been a big game of coup-counting to the primitives who don't care for life or family as civilized people do. Like the bird taunting the cat who gets too close, lunch will be served.

This is not an age when such distractions can be allowed. Bigger things are coming and the eagle is tied up.

Drudge headline in full, my emphasis added:

UN SEEKS TO INTERVENE IN CRISIS...
'Refugee' status would force USA to grant asylum...

What is this "force" the UN is going to wield over the USA?

I wish I could say that was laughable. But Barhack Hinsane Obergdahl will probably invite them.

Why is the UN still taking up valuable United States real estate, when it could be somewhere reasonable, like, say, Bhagdad? It can be cut along with all our alphabet bureaucracies.

Morning, Glories. Got a match?

Archie Comics to commit suicide over fourth-string gay.

Isn't this, in so many ways, the story of the LaughingStock Media and the SCoaMF?

At least there's not a lot of question about who is Chelsea's mom:

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/4244816640/hCBF30FFA/

That Marine tank?

Obviously based on the souped-up "Batmobile" in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns comic/graphic novel.

BTW, the animated version cut some of the worst, but was still painfully faithful to the source.

Five out of the last ten comments being mine, I was going to try to shut up until I scrolled off the list, at least, but I ran into a post about cow tipping I thought you'd enjoy.

Cow Tipping vs Smart Car Tipping: the science is now settled by Pamalinsky at The People's Cube.

[Something for a Sunday morning. We're camping on the slopes of Mount Gilboa, September 27AD, only in the third month of the public work. The Master has been teaching the apostles about the importance, in prayer, of personal attitude, versus rote phrasing.The boys are like, "yeah, yeah, but" - ah, the early days.]

But the apostles were not yet satisfied; they desired Jesus to give them a model prayer which they could teach the new disciples. After listening to this discourse on prayer, James Zebedee said: "Very good, Master, but we do not desire a form of prayer for ourselves so much as for the newer believers who so frequently beseech us, 'Teach us how acceptably to pray to the Father in heaven.'"

When James had finished speaking, Jesus said: "If, then, you still desire such a prayer, I would present the one which I taught my brothers and sisters in Nazareth":

Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come; your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our bread for tomorrow;
Refresh our souls with the water of life.
And forgive us every one our debts
As we also have forgiven our debtors.
Save us in temptation, deliver us from evil,
And increasingly make us perfect like yourself.

Texas Is Wrathy
Governor Says He Will Protect the Border

Austin, Tex. - "If I am compelled to take the situation in hand, I will do so vigorously. This state is bearing the burden of expense and suspense and the present federal policy towards this state is an outrage. Definite action should [be] taken by the federal government and protection given by garrisons of troops or the government should advise us that nothing will be done and let us look out for ourselves. We will not hesitate to protect our people if we can be advised that the federal government will not do so."

Bartlesville (Okla) Daily Enterprise
Thursday, February 20, 1913
c/o The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Note that date.

Copy of full article here:
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/texas-is-wrathy

Oh, yeah. On the subject of a Texas Governor imploring the federal government regarding maintaining the border:

Texas Is Wrathy
Governor Says He Will Protect the Border

Austin, Tex. - "If I am compelled to take the situation in hand, I will do so vigorously. This state is bearing the burden of expense and suspense and the present federal policy towards this state is an outrage. Definite action should [be] taken by the federal government and protection given by garrisons of troops or the government should advise us that nothing will be done and let us look out for ourselves. We will not hesitate to protect our people if we can be advised that the federal government will not do so."

Bartlesville (Okla) Daily Enterprise
Thursday, February 20, 1913
c/o The Gateway to Oklahoma History

I slipped this into Ace and at least one person, maybe more, missed that date. 101 years ago.

"Wrathy."

Copy of original article on my website, with link to Ok Hist site.

In the other photo of Laughing Boy, the psycho looks even more hysterical, and Perry looks like he’s chewing glass. Stilton makes good use of it, and another Perry-Obama photo at Hope ‘n’ Change Cartoons. I’d embed a pic from there but as I recall from some attempt many moons back, that’s not in my commenter’s powers.

I know some people may read kinda fast. I do. Keeping up beats comprehension, right? I notice the punchline was kind of subtle, so in case it slipped by some, the Governor's statement in "Texas is Wrathy" is from 101 years ago.