The Great Ace made his own post vanish. Penn & Teller baffled.
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FLOTUS @FLOTUS 33m
Due to Congress's failure to pass legislation to fund the government, updates to this account will be limited. #Shutdown
Putting barriers out at the WW2 memorial, replacing website front pages, press releases on what's shut down, MO tweets about how MO can't tweet....
This shutdown sure does seem to take a lot of work!
Not really sure but I guess this is O/T. 
I'm sitting here looking at a CableOne slide explaining why they dropped CNN and TCM and other Turner channels. (Higher fees, falling ratings.)
So sad! 
oh, I see my comment was already covered at least twice. Of course. Little gets past the early morning horde.
::Oot Oot Eet Eet smacks keyboard with fist::
"What's more, if the government shutdown wasn't taking up all the space, the front page of every major daily in the country would have had an above-the-fold story on how the Obamacare exchanges aren't actually working as planned...."
Doubt it. Heard a little Radio Network News last night, first time in a while, and yes top story was shutdown, but you could hardly hear that over the knob-gobbling subtexts of the Democrat Party Media.
Observation from the heart of flyover country, for those stuck in the Beast.
So, thirty-nine years ago, this Chicago girl I met at college says she's coming to visit me in Oklahoma. Oct 1, she's going to arrive at 7 in the morning in Ponca City on the train.
Passenger trains stop in Oklahoma? I had no idea. And why Ponca City? Why didn't they stop in Tulsa? Sheesh! I'd never even been to Ponca City. Wasn't sure where it was.
So I drove over to pick her up, at seven in the morning, at the train station, in Ponca City.
Well, skip forward a little bit, and three kids and thirty-nine years later, that girl and I have a hotel room with a hot tub for the night.
Cheers!
Bureau of Fabricated Statistics study shows huge positive climate impact from government shutdown, starting with all those bureaucrats not traveling to work. Save the polar bears!
Just a thought I had during breakfast. Be sure to pass it along to all your progressive penpals.
"Do you know what IDLE stands for?"
"Indolent lesions of epithelial origin."
"Do you know why they chose that name?"
"Because somebody really wanted it to spell out 'IDLE.'"
Before I dive into that big ol' sumptuous-looking post above, and the usual slew, spew, and stew of deviant clever and insightful comments, or whatever I can get to of all that before being overcome by the mists of Morpheus, let me just say...
I'm not on the top ten lists! Thank you, thank you, to all those commentier and sockier than I.
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My only giftule of Sunday gratitude for teh horde is a You Tube playlist of critters! Blame rdbrewer, whose sidebar vidlink list got me started, and several of which links I gratefully appropriated.
Spirit of Gregariousness - Trans-species service, loyalty, and play. (No, it's clean, you pervs.) Clicky nic-link leads to embed at mndflwbwrks. About half an hour total viewing, but might need to be taken in small doses. 
That featured weapon... is that one of those AR-15 shotguns I've read about?
By the way, the pic is badly formatted on the comments page. Looks okay in the front page preview and the by-itself post page, though, and this seems 'way late for it not to be fixed, so maybe it's me?
"The blog is not your mommy's nipple."
Weighing replies.
A. My mom is 93. Don't go there.
B. Blog! Nom! Nom! Nom!
Can't decide.
Larry Linville bdy. Here's to the actor who brought us 'ferret-face.'
It can be fun to act the villain. Always think of Marg. Hamilton's having enjoyed giving us the scene-chewing Wicked Witch.
But to play the weasel, that's special work. (You hope you're not typecast!) Frank was not always despicable, sometimes could even be sympathetic, and his last scene as Hot Lips flew away was poignant.
I salute your endurance and willingness to give us the fool, Mr Linville.
For my inner kid who thrilled to Glenn's ride and Armstrong's mooncast, this should be so exciting a time in space exploration. But I find it hard to enjoy given the context of our corrupted state of the nation. Peacetime advances are hard to appreciate during war.
Thanks, as always (anyway :/ ) Rocket Rickl, for the reports. Will enjoy out of context.
If I were the morning thread, I'd want to be posted about now.
hint hint
G'morn, straggling overnighters & early risers.
today is National Drink Beer Day...
Oh, if only I had known in advance!
...never come within 10' of human lips
Posted by: Purp at September 28, 2013 10:54 AM
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Thanks 
for abetting my translator microbes!
This post betrays a penetrating point of citricity and salty, chalky, peppery seemingly crystalline mineral impingements kaleidoscopically deployed.
So did my coffee this morning. Or maybe I forgot to use a filter.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 28, 2013 09:54 AM (WjLUf)
::Adds 'yutzik' to vocabulary collection.::
...What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Posted by: Jones in CO
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Thanks, Jones.
And every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands...
willow- get off my lawn.
The Beverly Hillbillies
Posted by: nothinglefttolose
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Heh. I first read it, hearing Buddy Ebsen's drawl.
Al Capp (bdy) & Beverly Hillbillies in one thread. Once hillbillies was a popular class of humor, now unacceptable. Like blackface.
Did I hear there's some new show in the genre, though, something about backwoods hunters or fishermen or something...?
