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Well, if the sleeves cover MO's thigh-like upper arms, I'm all for spending more, even from the public coffers. Compare with the picture below (MO with a crowd of oppressed slave-women of Islam), where she exhibits her (can't help myself) right to bare arms.

Not sure of the validity of this, but an interesting take on cascading effects, from Sundance at Conservative Treehouse.

http://bit.ly/1BiryGP

...So when you see the shark attacks this past weekend at Oak Island North Carolina you have a convergence of issues:
•The overfishing of their food source, tuna.
• The migration along the coast April - August.
• A Fishing Pier with bait and food source nearby putting scent in the water.
• Swimmers in the immediate vicinity, on body boards giving the appearance/profile of a food source...

Oh, yeah. Did a 2016 election poster yesterday that I know you'll all enjoy and want to print off and post in your front windows.

http://bit.ly/trump-graham-2016

Re Vic's dinosaur-climate link http://fxn.ws/1MKpCHv: science reporting remains as good as ever:

"...These fires occurred every few dozen years and would reach temperatures up to 1112 degrees Fahrenheit. While these conditions suited smaller carnivorous dinosaurs...."

Those little asbestos-skinned dinos were really tough.

In Smallvillle America in the late 1950s, early 1960s, we were among the last taught well by locally-managed public schools. We pledged to "one nation, under God," every morning (although the "under God" part was still kind-of new back then). Yet (although I didn't realize it for decades), education was already in decline, compared to a generation earlier.

Posted by: mindful webworker - in search of coffee at June 17, 2015 06:35 AM (VDCWC)

I have a book of essays by the late scholar Jacques Barzun. He was writing about the decline of the public schools back in the 1950's and early '60's.

Barzun, who died at the age of 103 a few years ago, graduated at the head of his class at Columbia in 1927 - when he was 19. His French parents sent him to America because they thought an American education was far superior to the French system, particularly after WWI. Barzun became a US citizen and a distinguished scholar, who spent most of his life teaching at Columbia.

It's probably a mercy that he didn't live to see Mattress Girl illustrating to the world just how far Columbia has sunk.

Vic: ...Evidently some kind of altercation occurred between Gowdy and Issa on the Blumenthal testimony...

Closed-door hearing Issa tried to crash and Gowdy threw him out. Shrug over that, but I liked the description in the article I read, of a confrontation between the two in the hall later. Issa "stormed off" after "throwing a coke can in the trash." Oh wow! The most exciting action in Congress in years.

I kinda like Gowdy.

The ONT got rained outl?

Morning Vic, et al.

Vic: ...On this day in 1963 the United States Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools....

I've always said, with prayer in public schools, the problem is not the prayer part, it's the public part.

In Smallvillle America in the late 1950s, early 1960s, we were among the last taught well by locally-managed public schools. We pledged to "one nation, under God," every morning (although the "under God" part was still kind-of new back then). Yet (although I didn't realize it for decades), education was already in decline, compared to a generation earlier.

May the Spirit of Truth teach all God's kids.

Morning, Glories!

Er… "Sleeveless"?

(Stares at pics of Michelle de-planing.)

I see sleeves. Three-quarter-length, looks like.

Maybe she paid extra for sleeves?

Sure like your work. Inspiring.

Here's a variation inspired by the Moron horde at Ace.
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/jeb-2016-ole.jpg

"...now researchers can study whether the gene affects dementias, Parkinson’s, mad-cow, and other neuro conditions...."

Dementias like, for example, shooting oneself in the foot. Repeatedly. To see how it feels.

Patty: you have no idea what they go through on a daily basis in those jobs.

No kidding. Recently, my cousin's been in nursing care, and having medication-caused mental problems, and I pity the caretakers she's been yelling and struggling with.

If Helloooo Nude Nurse is as reported (only watched the video), sounds like a sudden brain-glitch, like those reporters who suddenly start spouting gobbledygook. IANADr, but maybe a stroke-type thing?

Of course, a nurse could be exposed to anything from a mind-affecting virus to, um, drugs of course.

Or maybe it's all a patient's fantasy. "Dear Penthouse, I never thought something like this could happen to a bedridden person like me, but...."

I liked mindful webworker's take on it this morning:

http://mindfulwebworks.com/ radical/jeb-2016-ole.jpg

(remove the space after .com/)

2016 campaign slogans - the lameness

Rubio: More "conservative" than either of Arizona's Senators!

Spilling over from last thread, I tweaked the image slightly so the balls on the sombrero stand out from the J.

And added credit to the Moron horde collectively.

http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/jeb-2016-ole.jpg

I'll say it: There's more balls on that sombrero than in the entire Republican Congress! [rimshot]

That is fucking hilarious, mindful!
Someone needs to get that trending in Twatter postmaster.
Send it to the Ewok.

That was easy.

http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/jeb-2016-ole.jpg

vigfx supplement: Hmm is anyone else having problems with the images on this blog loading?

Images are showing up in comments just as they always do. As does spam.

Also, the conspicuous absence of the word "Bush...."

That's what I noticed.

So, we're shaping up to have

"Hillary!" vs "Jeb!" the battle of the exclamation points.

Because if it was "Clinton" vs "Bush," everyone would see this for what it is.

Morning, Glories.

OSP: I hope she didn't accuse him of going out and killing a deer to cover his lies about drunken driving. Sounds like the relationship was strained enough already. A real lady would "apologize" you-know-how.

Emphatic proof, though, by golly. Powerful. For me, expressions of unwarranted distrust and suspicion can be heavily triggering, excuse the term; has to do with my upbringing. I could see, in the right adrenal-pumped circumstances... okay, I'd probably never go so far as to plunk a deer's head on the kitchen table... wow.

Milady hit a fawn just recently,* and our old faithful Nissan Quest now has just the damage you describe, fender, hood. Had the same when I couldn't dodge a doe, years ago, in the sturdy old Econoline, including moving the side panel so the passenger door couldn't open very far. If his wife had known anything about crashes, she might've seen the truth just looking at the damage.

(* Fortunately, Milady slowed & dodged as much as she could, and she was unharmed. Fawn actually seemed to endure, too, and bounded off, saved by modern "soft" cars.)

Time for me to bound off into the day. Bonus diaz, mi Americos. Vaya con Dios.

Oldsailors Poet: Anybody want to hear a redneck OSP story? it only takes one vote of yes and I promise extreme entertainment.

* starts to raise hand and say "I would"... *

* notices there's a book thread up *

* wanders away *