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I'm looking at govtrack.us to see how my congresscritter voted, but ... what is the budget bill just passed called or numbered??

Ouija Jamma: ...the power of books to inform is only equaled by the power of books to misinform.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. -Mark Twain

Packing & moving books is always weird ... no longer literature - gateway to knowledge and adventure - they are reduced to blocks... sorted by size and what fits into that space left in the box!

Sherry, nice to hear about the Tulsa library. As a kid, I used to spend a lot of time in the old B'ville library. Great place. Not so impressed with the modern one. I think there's a leftish trend to what's stocked & what's removed. And I'm too old-fash - so many square feet taken up with computers, video, non-book stuff. Something to be said for the old idea of non-public libraries.

Speaking of content v delivery system, and digital vs print: When the Urantia Book (bear with me) first started getting popular with enthusiastic young New Agers, their emphasis was not the Old Guard's idea of slow, personal proselytization of the message but rather trying to get lots of books out there. (This was before the online versions were available.)

Since many a gifted UB (if not most) ends up as couch-stabilizer or door-stop, that seemed kind-of silly to me. Hence, my comic strip about what might happen with an over-abundance of that original big, hefty (3.5#) hardback.

http://bit.ly/too-many-ubs

(Sorry, but, how often am I going to get a hook for that toon?)

OregonMuse: And you know, Monty is the cob who originally started the book thread.

Ah, no, I didn't know that. So, he gets a pass. :-)

A book thread on Thursday? Or is this the not-book thread? And not Doom? I'm so confused. But, then, I just got up and haven't had coffee yet. I'd better go back and warm up with the morning thread...

* fades *

Exciting news, music fans! (Too tired to bit.ly.)

http://www.blazingcatfur.ca/2015/12/16/

theyre-restoring-the-monkees-in-hd/

Remove line feeds if you want to.

Common Core has invited Terrence Howard to write their next-generation math books.

Hence, the truth of "This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one."

publius: Hell, in 5 years, the mandate may be 1qt per flush.

Following the lead of Britain banning cooking fire, our government will mandate that toilets must be no-flush, using instead a new, waterless technology... yet to be invented, but which will be found because government said so.

Guardy loo!

ONT? Is it that late already? Guess I won't watch that episode of Hopalong Cassady I've got cued up. Fun show, but... worst theme song ever!

From the Morning News Dump:
85 I suggested last night that if they zip tied kasichs hands he would be unable to speak
Posted by: ThunderB at December 16, 2015 09:51 AM

Relatedly, I give you:

Kung Fu Kasich - SUPERcuts! #264
from Washington Free Bacon (yum)
https://youtu.be/WPfLHNH1xUU

Now to read some content and comments.

Isn't this Islamism in the schools a tacit admission that it's not really a 'religion' at all?

Camel's hump? Looks like a shark fin.

Oh, wait, someone already did that one. Okay...

Why is the water yellow? EPA was here, of course.

Don't think anyone did that one, did they?

Vic: On this day in 1773 the Boston Tea Party occurred.

Has anybody made the obligatory "Vic led them" comment yet? I won't.

...disguised as Mohawk Indians...

How about the "cultural appropriation" complaint?

Morning, Glories! Guess I beat the art and/or dump threads... but barely, I expect.

All the comments are starting to blur together, so I guess I'll quit lurking and head for the hammock.

Good night, Gracies.

A paltry ONT...

What this old thing? It's just what I post when I don't care what I'm doing...
-"Violet" Maetenloch

Good evening, folks. All debated out? I just turned on the radio in time to hear the last few sentences by Trump. That was enough.

Today, Windows had a bunch of "important updates" for me. So, I checked them all. There was one "optional update" that I didn't look at - they're usually un-checked by default so I left it for later.

When I told it to start installing the updates, it began by trying to install Windows 10! That was the "optional" one, checked by default.

Sneaky bastids. Almost got me.

Everything here seems under control. Guess I'll check out now.

Good night, Gracies.

Pretty good new one from Pat Condell
We Want The Truth 5:06
...and we'll take it where we find it.

https://youtu.be/iHLcrfhwPtc

"...Donald Trump is a reaction. He's filling a vacuum that shouldn't be there in the first place and it wouldn't be there if America had a President worth the name. ..."