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Wandered over to PoliNation to see what they've got. Top item? The Time covers, h/t to AoS.

http://polination.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/keeping-american-liberals-stu...

Polling:
What undermined your faith in Government the most?.... : Bigby's Shadow Puppet Hands
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Nixon's "Secret Plan to End the Viet Nam War."

Oh, 'the most'? I thought you said 'first'.

My favorite Drudgism currently:

REPORT: White House Full of Vermin...

Who would've guessed!?

And speaking of, doesn't Holder just look like Dr Moreau's rat experiment!?

My money's on the bird ftw.

Did I read too quickly or was this not up (down?) to the usual Doomy standard? Maybe it's that the Doom bar is so high now.

O'course my ADHD brain is still stuck back at "...National Review Online in 20061...."

I see doom on the horizon. Monty Doom.

Instead of admitting the mistake, they go ahead and charge the man with disorderly conduct/causing alarm with a gun.
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This is SOP for LE now. "I'm here. I'm gonna arrest somebody!"

basically not a legislator in the normal sense, doesn't have an idea that he's going to Congress to create coalitions suck up, make alliances sell out, and he is going to pass a lot of legislation make government bigger...

Translators microbes applied.

David Copperfield (real name: David Kotkin)
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I would've thought The Amazing Kotkin would be a great magician's stage name. Better, anyway.

We have a battery operated chainsaw. It's the biggest piece of crap we've ever owned. -NCKate
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Years ago, against my better judgement, I bought rechargeable-battery-powered weed-eater/edger and hedge trimmer. Cheap enough I thought worth the experiment. Figured, as backups when I didn't want to fiddle with gascans, etc. It was everything you'd expect.

They did the job... until they didn't. On both, you know that thing about delivering steady power? No. When the batteries are fully charged, okay, but power soon drops off, so you're re-charging a not-drained battery and the life gets shorter... Charger did not drain before recharging. (I think I have all that right.) So, battery-powered yard tools? No. But mainly, little vital cheap plastic parts broke. All in all, they were barely better than anticipated, when they worked, but, yeah, crap.

Anybody need a bunch of proprietary rechargable batteries? Charger included. I'll throw in a couple proprietary spools of weed eater line...

PS The Old Reliable corded hedge trimmer must be in its fifth decade. Like the Montgomery Ward waffle iron the Mrs & I bought when we first got together, it just keeps on working.

"...can not split off from a State and form a new one, or even merge into a neighboring State. Those kinds of changes MUST be approved by Congress and that just ain't going to happen."

Yeah! It's not like it is ever the right of the people to alter or abolish their form of government.

A good old late-Summer Oklahoma thunderstorm rolled in around 3:30 I guess. I was nodding in and out, petting and reassuring the scaredy dog, when close to 5am, one of the loudest thunderclaps I ever heard hit; probably the bolt struck real close by. So, I was up.

Then I got caught up reading electric car debates from the ONT and forgot to keep checking for this. Hello.

Did you know Oklahomans have over a thousand words for 'rain'? Many of them are even printable in a family blog.

News flash: I did not make the top 10 or the top 10. This may be all.

Well, to return to our friend on the street in San Francisco, he wore a black shirt of good quality, obviously costly. His shirt was open to the third button - no jacket or neck tie, naturally, and no undershirt, The effect intending to reveal a manly chest. But the chest looked rather peaked to me; there wasn't a hair on it. The slacks revealed no familiarity with a pressing iron, and the white shoes, also of good quality, had been deliberately beat up, from which I concluded he was a beatnik who probably lived in a garage and spouted existentialist glumness, taking a dim view of the world in general.
- Norman Vincent Peale, Enthusiasm Makes the Difference, 1967

prayer supplement

Comfort for the families of the dead and for the hundreds missing in Colorado's floods.

And while some deaths from "acts of God" will always be with us, I pray humanity learns better how to respect & live with the extremes of Nature.

Syria has moved 20 trucks worth of equipment and material used for the manufacturing of chemical weapons into neighboring Iraq, the Lebanese daily Al-Mustaqbal reported on Sunday. (from Drudge)

Say, that's kinda ironic, isn't it.

Texas restricts private drone use - encourages LE warrantless spying. (on Drudge) Legislators chanted "Drones! Drones! Drones!" to argue for its passage.

Texas, we hardly knew ya.

I mean, come on, I'm a Christian anda Jewish carpenter is my boss, there's just no escaping them.
Posted by: Conservative Crank
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(can't resist...)

What a coincidence! My boss is a Jewish Carpenter, too. Specilizes in yokes.

(heh - Spellcheck had to be taught 'yokes'.)

let's try w/o tinyurl and use my old one
http://is.gd/SU9XrL
Posted by: Vic
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Oh! BIG kitty!

Just finished feeding our pets. Glad I don't have to budget for that one.

Sunday prayer service

The philosopher Morrison argued, "You cannot petition the Lord with prayer." And it is presumptuous, even superstitious, to presume that mortal supplications might change the will of the Almighty. Whatever we need, God already knows. Whatever we ask for, God's already answered. If prayer has purpose, it is not to motivate the Almighty, but to bring our minds closer to his will.

Yet, just as God has given us hands and minds to alter our physical environment, perhaps we have some power over what you might call our spiritual environment. However it might work, let us pray to our heavenly parent, please bring healing to our world. Inspires our great nation to rediscover truth and justice. Protect our family, our moron congregation. Give healing where you can, and strength where healing is not possible, to those who need it.

I'm new at this and I didn't keep notes this week. Help me remember. Carol T's brother needs our prayers. Also I'm bad at who's who. The daughter with the infection. The additional incurable ailment. The new little baby. Those who have lost loved ones. The tumor. And Mrs mindful's health, if I may.

God help heal & deal with the little things, too, like, soften Vic's driveway. Keep our fury righteous and focused. Bless our hosts with liberty to continue this sometimes-important work, and all the little commenters at sea.

Thanks for keeping the USA out of Syria this week; keep it up. Thanks for the stage of this fascinating planet, for life, opportunity, and each other to love. Jesus, please pass this along with judicious editing and forgive any mortal irreverency.

Tried to look at fatcat. Alas, tinyurl is down for me, again. Wtf is up w that? 502 Gateway errors