Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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Mornin’ all.
“The Endgame….”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/the_endgame_for_the_destruction_of_the_united_states.html
I saw that, but haven’t had the stomach to read it yet this a.m. Hi there, Tex!
Mornin’ Ma’am. How’s the weather up your way?
One word – cold. Tomorrow we should add the word – snow.
We are having wonderful weather, I’m waiting around to see what it is this afternoon. We started off with snow yesterday morning then it warmed up, the sun came out, melted most of the snow yesterday afternoon, then we had rain that turned to sleet last night. Now this morning we have rain that keeps switching from rain to freezing rain to rain. Thunderstorms with hail is supposed to be on it’s way. One thing about Oklahoma if you don’t like the weather, just wait a few hours and it will change.
I’ll take the rain, we need it, I’ll even take the snow, but the ice I’d prefer not to see.
Today, [concern about] Marxism is out of vogue, and the Chinese are our friends and are lending us money in order for our government to continue to exist.
Scary if people really think that.
NBC Declares War On Christians
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/02/19/nbc-declares-war-on-christians/
Texas bill would block police from enforcing new federal gun laws
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/21/texas-lawmakers-seek-to-block-federal-gun-control/
The eyes of Texas are upon you. Love it
How about a little bit of Steyn this a.m.?
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341170/score-settled-science-mark-steyn
I read that last night. Mr. Steyn certainly does enjoy the ol’ Three Stooges poke in the eye routine when given the opportunity.
Gov. Perry sent a letter to Magpul – before CO Dems passed gun legislation.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/20/rick-perry-wants-colorado-gun-magazine-maker-to-move-to-texas/2/
John Kerry threatens to bore the world to death with excruciating first speech as Secretary of State
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100203362/john-kerry-threatens-to-bore-the-world-to-death-with-excruciating-first-speech-as-secretary-of-state/
Why should U.S. citizens be the only ones to suffer?
When will Imam Jawbone, the Earl of Skeet© send our esteemed SecState across the globe to begin the process. We already know.
Since the haughty John Kerry used his first speech to babble on about climate change, this makes sense. The new EPA and Energy chiefs are BIG warming shills.
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/20/obamas-picks-for-epa-energy-agencies-surfaces/
If any of your libtard friends start whining about the sequester, please share this with them.
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/02/20/thank-you-mr-president/
Mornin’ y’all! Friday-eve…
Mornin’ Miss Wee. Friday-eve indeed!
Ewwwwwww! That pic reminds me – I saw an article about our Lord of the Flies vacay with Reggie Love….. I’se afraid to read it….
Be brave. It’s for the team!
For those of you who have not done so, I would encourage you to read about “Silent Cal”. Arguably one of the best republican Presidents ever. While I haven’t read this new bio yet, I did read another recently and it was quite enlightening.
http://spectator.org/archives/2013/02/21/end-of-the-coolidge-joke
Corpse Found In LA Hotel’s Water Tank
Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank with water from a tank in which a young woman’s body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks, police said.
Elisa Lam’s corpse was found in the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank by a maintenance worker who was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low Tuesday.
“The water did have a funny taste,” Sabrina Baugh told CNN on Wednesday. She and her husband used the water for eight days.
“We never thought anything of it,” the British woman said. “We thought it was just the way it was here.”
What she described was not normal.
“The shower was awful,” she said. “When you turned the tap on, the water was coming black first for two seconds and then it was going back to normal.”
Gross.
Ick, wouldn’t the water or faucets smell too?
Yep….place is one of the lovely apartment buildings decorating Skid Row. And things have only gotten worse under Mayor (“We clean your toilets!”) Villaraigosa.
Admin, did you get my email yesterday?
Yep….you should be okie-dokie….
30 hours without a cigarette folks!
OK, so I’m using a “Blu” e cigarette now and then, but can’t take more than a couple of hits. Makes me dizzy!
In addition, stopping smoking has jacked with my daily meds.
Feels like I’ve got narcolepsy. Gotta cut the doses back gradually or I won’t be trustin my self to drive.
But hey, I can deal with that! No smoking, less meds…that works.
YOU CAN DO IT!
Yes I can…and I’m gonna!
Yay! Keep it up!
You can do it, kelly! I quit over 20 years ago. At the time I was smoking 3 packs a day, but I quit cold turkey and was able to finally make it stick. Every time you crave a cigarette, remind yourself that the urge will pass if you can just wait a few minutes. The whole quitting thing sucked big time for a long time (I dreamed about smoking for at least a year). I didn’t feel great (they used to tell us that we would feel wonderful without our cigs), I felt awful. Still, it’s worth it, so Yeah to you kelly!
Kudos to ya Pat. That must have taken awesome willpower.
Yea!! way to go ck !!
Wishing you great success in your endeavor!
22 hours and hanging in there…from previous quits I know day 3, then day 7 is the toughest…thanks for your support every one….no choice, gotta do it, forever, this time
22 *more* hours…i think…hell…I”ve lost count, and perhaps that’s a good thing….I just know I don’t smell like firewood.
You go girl!!! How ’bout checking in here every time the cravings get bad, and let one of us try to talk you down? (Promise I won’t post gross pics of lung tissue, but how ’bout a silly smilie? )
My mother-in-law quit at age 80 after sneaking behind the barn at age 14 for a smoke and smoking those lung renching Lucky Strikes with no filter. She thought filters took away the taste. When my son was born he as an infant would really fussed when she held him because of the nicotine smell on her clothes, breath, etc. She stopped cold turkey and lived another 13 years enjoying her grandson but also keeping the 1/2 pack of the unsmoked Lucky Strikes in her buffet becoming so stale that she knew that taking a drag on one of them would make her sick. She did it so can you. Please, please be strong enough to beat the nicotine habit. I worked as a Respiratory Therapist in the hospital setting and saw the end result of 20, 30, 40 pack years of a cigarette habit; it was not pretty. And you know something, cajunkelly, all those patients that I treated never, never said they were soooo glad they started to smoke. Good luck and I will say a prayer for you that you will be strong through this trial.
My aunt quit cold turkey as well after smoking since she was probably in her young teens. I couldn’t believe it when she did it. She was in her 60s I think and was a heavy, heavy smoker.
Her three sisters (my mother was in there) never cared to quit. I used to say that you could dangle, in one hand, my mom’s children over a cliff and in the oher hand you could dangle her pack of cigarettes. She’d have worked to save the cigarettes first.
I loathe cigarettes but fought, what little I could, against those that wanted to ban cigarette smoking in businesses. I felt, and still do, that a business owner has the right to run their business as they see fit.
*other*, of course.
I agree with you about the rights of business owners. It should be up them, and up to the customers to decide whether or not they will patronize the business.
Saw one of their print ads somewhere today. You is in high cotton with those fancy things. Good luck. Just don’t preach to us heathens who do not have the willpower.
Puddy don’t preach…..she did, however, sneak into your desk drawer and….
In acouple years I prolly wouldn’t know the difference!
I promise…no preachin….DH is trying to quit with me, but ya see, I kinda sprung it on him…just said “honey I’m quittin day after tomorrow…and he didn’t have the mental ramp up time.
To his credit, he’s using the Blu e cigarettes more than he’s using the regular ones, and won’t smoke the regular ones near me…..he steps away.
What’s amazing is that it’s only been 2 days for me and…not even a small cough this morning….
I’ve always said no amount of preachin is gonna stop a person though…they have to reach a certain point mentally.
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130218/ARTICLE/130219566/2416
FL has record tourism year(2012), IMO the powers that be will not let anything jeopardize tourism. Race riots,,no way will that be allowed.
Was listening to local talk radio this am. A little while ago, Dave Bing, the mayor of Detroit, was talking about the Emergency Manager that is anticipated to be installed very soon by the State. Bing says it is absolutely necessary, but he anticipates “rioting in the streets”, and made a reference to the 1967 riots, which “didn’t help at all”. Malik Shabazz (NBPP) threatened a couple of months ago that there would be riots in the streets if the state took over the City of Detroit. We will see. I think the mayor is trying to forewarn the citizens.
Paula “All In” Broadwell’s promotion to lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves has been revoked (at least temporarily):
http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/20/first-on-cnn-paula-broadwell-military-promotion-revoked/?hpt=hp_t2
Unemployed mother-of-11 is keeping horse
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9880720/Unemployed-mother-of-11-is-keeping-horse.html
If they haven’t already, I’m sure some of her “children” will be starting families of their own.
200 pounds per months is approx. $305!
Email of the day…..
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Pocket Taser Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.
A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Taser for their anniversary submitted this:
Last weekend I saw something at Larry’s Pistol & Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Taser.
I bought the device and brought it home
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn’t be all that bad with only two AAA batteries, right?
There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh & blood moving target.
I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and then thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.
Am I wrong?
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and Taser in another.
The directions said that:
a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant;
a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; and
a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.
All the while I’m looking at this little device measuring about 5″ long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA batteries); pretty cute really, and thinking to myself, ‘no possible way!’
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I’ll do my best.
I’m sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side so as to say, ‘ Don ‘t do it stupid,’ reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny lil ole thing couldn’t hurt all that bad.. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.
I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and…
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. WHAT THE… !!!
I’m pretty sure Hulk Hogan ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again. I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs! The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.
Note:
If you ever feel compelled to ‘mug’ yourself with a Taser,
one note of caution:
There is NO such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor!
A three second burst would be considered conservative!
A minute or so later (I can’t be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape.
•My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace.
•The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was.
•My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching.
•My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.
•I had no control over the drooling.
•Apparently I had filled my shorts, but was too numb to know for sure, and my sense of smell was gone.
•I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head, which I believe came from my hair.
•
PS: My wife can’t stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift and now regularly threatens me with it!
…how much is the taser?
I dunno, but I’ma get one, Hub!
Me too!!!
Ok I’m laughing so hard i fell off the chair. just sent the email to DH requesting 1 for my bday
That is nearly as funny as some kind of cream someone posted about the other day!
Oh, no. THAT one will live on …. in infamy!!
Just noticed the avatar change. Nice touch! Just like in hollyweird – sometimes any pub is good pub!!!
Wrong! Tomorrow is the real birthday of the father of our country. Unfortunately, I’m too stoopid to know what gravatar will do to moi. Perhaps we shall find cake and bacon for breakfast to celebrate! And ya’s can always repost the infamous link!!
Yes, cake and bacon do sound good.
Yep……we’re still laughin’ Tex.
If minimum wage is increased most likely so will union wages:
Unions to see benefit from higher minimum wage
“Labor unions often peg their negotiated wages to the minimum wage. Increases in the minimum wage can therefore trigger new wage negotiations or immediate pay hikes for unionized employees”
“Collective bargaining agreements with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) mandate that ‘[w]henever the federal legal minimum wage is increased, minimum wage [in the agreement] shall be increased so that each will be at least fifteen (15%) percent higher than such legal minimum wage.’”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/18/unions-to-see-benefit-from-higher-minimum-wage/#ixzz2LZG2HqXU
That’s why the unions always push for the minimum wage increase.
Exactly – ALWAYS a prog move, to increase minimum wage.
Ad Rem was the first person to officially welcome me to CTH. She was so kind and welcoming and so this is for her:
How do you address a cat?
You’ve heard of several kinds of cat
And my opinion now is that
You should need no interpreter
To understand our character
You’ve learned enough to take the view
That cats are very much like you
You’ve seen us both at work and games
And learnt about our proper names
Our habits and our habitat
But how would you ad-dress a cat?
So first, your memory I’ll jog
And say: A cat is not a dog
Now dogs pretend they like to fight
They often bark, more seldom bite
But yet a dog is, on the whole
What you would call a simple soul
The usual dog about the town
Is much inclined to play the clown
And far from showing too much pride
Is frequently undignified
He’s such an easygoing lout
He’ll answer any hail or shout
The usual dog about the town
Is inclined to play the clown
Again I must remind you that
A dog’s a dog, a cat’s a cat
With cats, some say one rule is true
Don’t speak ’til you are spoken to
Myself I do not hold with that
I say you should ad-dress a cat
But always bear in mind that he
Resents familiarity
You bow, and taking off your hat
Ad-dress him in this form: “O’ cat!”
Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream
And you might now and then supply
Some caviar, or Strassburg pie
Some potted grouse or salmon paste
He’s sure to have his personal taste
And so in time you reach your aim
And call him by his name
So this is this, and that is that
And there’s how you ad-dress a cat
A cat’s entitled to expect
These evidences of respect
So this is this, and that is that
And there’s how you ad-dress a cat
Now, for Rumpole2 and Ad Rem
And last the Unseen and Mystery Cat – SunDance
Thank you so much Ottawa for the kind words and poetry. You’ve found the ideal vehicle to describe the delicate tastes and sensibilities that is teh puddy…LOL. I remember welcoming you to the Treehouse ….and I also remember telling you I wish we had a couple hundred more peeps just like you too! Well, I’m still waiting for that extra 200….so far you’re the perfect one and only Ottawa!
while I posted on you cool cats
– I’m like the words of T.S. Eliot above … more of a dog personality, a simple soul, a clown, FREQUENTLY undignified, and easy going. I love the people at the Treehouse. We believe it or not are a Think Tank .. and I think The Treepers do a pretty damn good job too !!!
as for me ….
p.s. I’ve had two cats but not at the same time. Both Siamese. I was going with a guy that was kind of a Beatles (group) lover and he was with me when I picked the cat up. We agreed that the first female name mentioned in a song on the radio on the ride home would be what we’d call her. Named her Eleanor. All our friends thought the song was Eleanor Rigby … but it was the Turtles song Eleanor that came on the radio that day.
The next cat naming was the result of a disagreement between my father and I. Again, on the way home with a friend I turned on the radio and the song that came up was Lola by the Kinks. I brought the cat home and showed my father. He said, what’s her name? I said Lola. He said, she doesn’t look like a Lola. She looks like a Trixie. I said … noooo … not Trixie. He said, yes … it’s plain as day she’s a Trixie. I said, well I’m calling her Lola. He said, that’s fine, but I’m callin her Trixie. So we just combined and she ended up being our little Lola Trixie.
They were both sweet cats and I will never forget their love and devotion … ever.
p.s.s. re: Lola .. I told my boss the next day how I arrived at the name Lola, and he said to me… “You named your cat after a Transvestite ?!”
LOLOL….a transvestite kitteh??? Would you believe I went to school with the guys from the Turtles…then called Mark Voman and Howard Kaplan? Howard and I sang the duet (“You’ll Never Walk Alone”) at the end of “Carousel” for our senior program. Nicest and shiest guy in the world.. Mark, on the other hand, was a total jerk. Almost got our senior class graduation postponed by staging a pie fight on the senior lawn. Memories…….
Well, funny you mention You’ll Never Walk Alone. 8th Grade graduation. A beloved teacher had for months prior worked with all of the full graduating class chorus, as well as working with smaller groups of 2 (duet) and 3, of which I was part. 3 gals called the Silver Bells. Anyway, that teacher died the night before graduation. When we arrived at school in the am we all learned the news and were devasted. One of the numbers for full class was You’ll Never Walk Alone, and many of the students had to walk off stage cause they could not continue to sing … so yes, Memories fer sure. Nice to share with you Ad rem. On another note, I too went to school with kind of a famous group … The Ides of March … Vehicle. Ottawa sings … I’m your vehicle baby, I’ll take you anywhere you want to go …
So you had the Turtles and I had the Ides of March. Who woulda thought huh.
LOL….aren’t we the shizzel! We moved in rarefied air back in the day Ottawa.
Well one thing for dang sure is true…
A dog is smart enough to know outside is the place for the loo.
(can NOT abide the smell of cat pee inside a house…when we bought this one I took a black light and went all over it…even in closets….cat pee glows in black light)
When I got this email, I thought of you!
*Think about this after you read it…not ONE THING politically incorrect
in what the Cajun Taxi driver says! He just speaks the truth!*
*An Arab Muslim enters a taxi cab in Houma, Louisiana…
Once he is seated, he asks the Cajun taxi driver to turn off the radio,
because he must not hear music as decreed by his religion. And, in the time
of the Prophet there was no music, especially Western music, which is music
of the infidels. And, there was CERTAINLY no radio.
So the taxi driver politely switches off the radio, pulls over to the curb,
gets out and opens the back door. The Arab asks him, “What are you DOING,
man?!”
The Cajun answers, “In da time of da Prophet dere weren’t no taxis. So you
get ya ass out and wait fa a camel!”
**Gotta LOVE dem Cajuns!*
P
Perfect!!
Got this email from the NRA today. Call if the spirit moves you!
There are 20 U.S. senators, in particular, who hold the fate of your freedom in their hands.
These senators represent states where gun ownership is respected and our Second Amendment freedoms are revered.
But right now, they’re facing huge pressure from the gun ban lobby and Barack Obama to support Obama’s extreme gun control agenda!
So please, call each of the senators below and tell them to vote NO on any gun ban…NO on any magazine ban…NO on criminalizing private firearm transfers…and NO on any gun registration scheme.
Sen. Max Baucus 202-224-2651
Sen. Mark Begich 202-224-3004
Sen. Susan Collins 202-224-2523
Sen. Joe Donnelly 202-224-4814
Sen. Kay Hagan 202-224-6342
Sen. Martin Heinrich 202-224-5521
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp 202-224-2043
Sen. Tim Johnson 202-224-5842
Sen. Tim Kaine 202-224-4024
Sen. Angus King 202-224-5344
Sen. Mary Landrieu 202-224-5824
Sen. Joe Manchin 202-224-3954
Sen. Claire McCaskill 202-224-6154
Sen. Mark Pryor 202-224-2353
Sen. Harry Reid 202-224-3542
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen 202-224-2841
Sen. Jon Tester 202-224-2644
Sen. Mark Udall 202-224-5941
Sen. Tom Udall 202-224-6621
Sen. Mark Warner 202-224-2023
Spread your calls out over several days if you need to.
And remember: It doesn’t matter if you do not live in these senators’ states – YOU NEED TO CALL THEM. After all, the votes they cast will affect you no matter where you live!
Thank you for your hard work and dedication to winning this battle. Now is not the time to let up! Call each of these 20 senators as soon as you can.
By working together, we can defeat the Obama gun ban agenda and save the Second Amendment!!!
Chris
Chris W. Cox
Executive Director
http://www.NRAILA.org
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/02/21/With-Biden-Present-Connecticut-Governor-Takes-Gun-Control-Into-His-Own-Hands
Gov Malloy can not control his own son who has been arrested several times, the latest in an armed robbery but he has the nerve to impose restrictions & spit on the Constitution by infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens of CT. Hopefully this move will wake up enough 2nd Amendment lovers (I know they are here) and CT will finally vote him & the other libs out and retake the state.
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Son-of-ex-mayor-sentenced-to-probation-in-283325.php
Very interesting – I am not a Catholic, but found this article fascinating!
http://www.irishexaminerusa.com/mt/2013/02/19/pope_benedict_xvi_retirement_n.html