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"Mass arrests are the only answer."

That's right! Call the FBI... oh, um, Homeland Security... er, the Justice Dept...?

Ghostbusters?

When there's something strange
In your govern-ment
Who ya gonna call

The io9 link is worse than a Daily Caller page, on my cell. Nothing loaded but parts of menus.

And so another day begins.

Morning, Glories! Thanky Hapsgiving Week!

Definitely the all-time greatest "paw in the cookie jar" video. The whole staring at the camera while s-l-o-w-l-y closing the drawer looked straight out of some old cartoon (Chuck Jones).

Lived in Santa Fe, tried to do a thing in the wilds above Pecos that didn't work, but we spent some nice nights camping up there and exploring the mountaintops. Don't know about that biker fellow, but it's easy enough to get lost and freeze to death, if the wildlife and the "characters" don't gitcha.

pillt141: "Are we still talking guns?"

Unintentional, perhaps, but that may be one of the funniest questions I've read on AoS!

"No, and were not talking bewbies, either!"

Troll du jour is lame. Soros is not paying minimum wage.

DAY 746 - 717 to go
^
This has become easier to tolerate since passing the halfway point. I know it's not really accelerating pin the downhill, but feels like it.

Temps up in NE Okla. Might even forego the long juans today.

Astrid Silva? Isn't that the popular health food store stuff that can turn your skin blue?

Morning, Glories!

Slow start for a Saturday? Okay by me - I'm moving slowly this morning, too.

krakatoa earns new nickname: krakadawn.

Pete: "Wild turkeys… very difficult to hunt"

In a previous life, Milady and I were four-wheeling 'way up in the mountains above Pecos, NM, weaving through the woods on a narrow road, when right across our windshield flew a huge wild turkey, wings and tail outstretched. My first thought (besides "WOW!") was, yeah, I could see hungry hunters being glad to bag one of those babies!

PETA asks Obama daughters to help end ‘offensive turkey pardon’

End the pardon? So, wring its neck then? Turkey for dinner!

"Sounds like Boehner is coming up with a presser"??

/Al Sharktongue

Is that like hocking up a loogie?

(Julie Andrews overdub
Words, words, words,
I'm so sick of words...

"When did TFG find God?"

Every day in the mirror.

Morning, Glories!

Not really trying.

I was Cronkited.

Relatedly, much thanks to the horde knowledge and perspective in helping with my de-programming.
Posted by: mindful webworker - another nacherel-born Native American! at November 20, 2014 10:13 AM (4r9zp)

Realize that your parents were Cronkited also. My parents were conservatives who, however, had a huge dose of Roosevelt government propaganda, since they had grown up during the depression, lived and fought in WWII and then felt that Social Security, Medicare, etc. were all programs they had PAID into and therefore were ENTITLED to, because they had worked for those benefits.
In those days, we had what, four or five channels max on the one TV in the house, and the news on the radio came on at noon and six pm. Cronkite told us what we "needed' to hear and only super special things in Congress were shown in a special news bulletin. Except for Kennedy's assassination which was shown extensively.

The only time you saw actual photos of Vietnam, riots, etc. was in Time magazine at the barber shop or newstand.

Winslow Homer, "Cloud Shadows" (1890)

Not the original title. Changed because people kept asking what that stuff was on the beach.

Relatedly, much thanks to the horde knowledge and perspective in helping with my de-programming.

Posted by: mindful webworker - another nacherel-born Native American! at November 20, 2014 10:13 AM (4r9zp)

Whereas I grew up with blazingly liberal parents and attended public schools in NoVa.

Washington Nearsider: "I don't remember what happened, so I rely on the reports I can read. They are - almost invariably - written by the media..."

I am still un-learning what I "knew" about Viet Nam, Reagan, Nixon, and so much else.

I was born in a GOP home - had my pic taken with Goldwater - grew up in a strong GOP community. I was never "liberal," was raised to respect the Constitution and the rule of law, hated Communism and was always proud of my country, yet still the infiltrators and propagadists warped my understanding, and my very cognitive processes. I was Cronkited.

Relatedly, much thanks to the horde knowledge and perspective in helping with my de-programming.

rickb223: closer to home, IYKWIMAIKTYD.

AIWTIDN!

(and I wish that I did not)

"Ace has a fever and has been coughing up flimflam so he will have to stay in debunk today."

Heh, Good one. Also, I figured who that was before I got to the nic, Seamus. It's your "style."