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Grunt: "Still in OK?"

In Oklahoma for the duration, Lord willing. As for Santa Fe stories… if I can remember anything that's not too paintful, maybe, sometime.

Did I mention this already? I don't think so.

The Democrats, those smart, tech-savvy elites, decided they needed to bolster their chances in the election by starting a new hashtag on Twitter. Building on the "Yes We Can!" theme, these geniuses thought they could best promote Democrat achievements with

#YesWeDid

Oh, yes they did! With their myopic self-assurance, they were never any good at looking at unforeseen consequences. And this hashtag had some. Some selections from Pundit Press's selections:

#YesWeDid watch our President wear Mom jeans
— RocketSurgeryBlonde (@SthrnRepBlond) October 27, 2014

#yeswedid spend $50,000 on an IRS Star Trek Parody http://t.co/jhymiG0aRW
— Shore Skeptic (@Aunt_Barb_NJ) October 27, 2014

#YesWeDid ignore the little people who voted for us so we could play with the fabulously wealthy in Hollywood, the Cape & the golf courses.
— ML (@lamourpourlavie) October 27, 2014

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Gotta go see what Halloween decorations Pete has put up now.

Hug Lady! (c/o Mockarena at Chicks on the Right)

Those people who stumble around, oblivious to their surroundings, staring at their cell phones… Now, there's help! The Cure for Phone Zombies. It's real!

Looks like Pete's back from his nap. Hey, what's in all these open tabs?

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Over on Conservative Treehouse, commenter maryfrommarin two items:

Not Just Doctors, Scotland Bill Would Allow ANYONE to Do an Assisted Suicide.

Oh, yay.

Scotland's assisted suicide bill is an offence to our human dignity — worth a read to the end.

Pete: "Make no mistake….the two months of the lame duck will be bloody and terrifying."

I'm truly concerned about these elections, because things look sort-of good for the Republicans, and that's not enough. It wasn't with Romney-Ryan. Republicans may take the Senate, but will republicanism? The RINO-Socialists alliance thinks they're on the fast road to totally winning, that the Constitutionalists and government limiters are on the ropes. Yet, all their machinations are unraveling, for those with eyes to see; open borders? disease and murder. Universal health care? disease and murder. Diplomacy will charm everyone? ISIS, Putin, Red China…

Will enough people wake up enough to all this in time? Let's look at the schoolchildren's education, media, and general culture.

Uh-oh.

Okay, that was a bit of a Santa Fe ramble, eh? Such stories I’ve got from those days, don’t get me started! Lovely place filled with good people and lots of loons. (We were among the latter, I’m afraid, but we had much help from the former.)

Ages ago, in the mid-1970s, Milady and I had the mixed fortune of living in Santa Fe for a couple of years. There were several restaurants right around the Mission that we used to go to, and per Google Maps some still seem to be there.

Do you know about Santa Fe's Loretto Chapel? Short walk from the Mission. When folks left the East and headed down the long, long road which was the Santa Fe Trail, when you finally got to Santa Fe, there was "the Church at the End of the Trail." (And you'd get right down on your knees in gratitude for having survived the journey, I'm sure!) Nice little place. Lovely spiral "miracle" staircase built by a Mysterious Itinerant Carpenter. I've done some woodwork, and I am in awe of this staircase.

One of the coolest things, the very keystone over the front door has some Hebrew marking… I just asked Milady if that was right, and she said she didn't recall anything about that. Which is funny, because she's the one with the steel trap memory and I'm the one who can't recall what I had for dinner last night. [Some ixquick searching later] Okay, I had my churches confused. (It's only been, what, thirty-eight years since we lived there? Old neurons are stirred by Google street-cam images, though. "It all starts to come back to me.")

Just a little further up the road, again, is The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (per NMCatholic blog article) has a "keystone brick arch… above the main entrance… [with] a carved triangle with the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew," reportedly in Bishop Lamy's appreciation for the contribution of a wealthy Jew for the completion of the church. Here's someone's photo of the keystone.

Uh-oh. Will this post with three links? (Pushing the envelope, I yam.)

That looks just like the house I grew up in.

I miss our butler, Lurch.

I skipped the Liberian Arts Doom thread. Did I miss anything vital?

Morning, Glories.

Watched the Reagan speech tonight.

Read the post. Enthralling. Got to the end and there was just 1 comment. The price of parsing the post. I coulda been, oh, somewhere in the first ten, anyway. @@

Lion. In bed. "...in retrospect it was a dangerous idea..." HOLY H3LL, y'THINK?!?

"I like this team-up. It's got legs." -Doc Hopper

Well, here's "Tough," by Arlene from Israel on Noisy Room. She quotes Psaki more extensively and has the link to the government statement.

"The US is on the wrong side with regard to this entire matter. Not surprising, but exceedingly distressing."

Can't help you out. One thing about Pete's computer. His repair guy said he took out infected virus ware and put in Avast. That's what I use, and it seems to be highly recommended. It does slow things down, frantically checking every email and download, especially on my decades-old XP computer, but it works. Perhaps after it has better scoped out Pete's system, it will run more smoothly. And I say that completely off the top of my head with absolutely no reason to think it might be so. Virusware is all a mystery to me. Used to use McAfee for years. Now I use Avast. That's all I know.

Computers are still, really, in that age where you had to get the crank and walk around to the front of the flivver, and always be ready to be your own mechanic. Yet somehow they've been sold to everybody as self-driving monorail cars.

I blame programmers. All of them.

Still dangerous to leave the Democrat plantation.

Corey Brooks, a South Side pastor featured in an ad endorsing Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner, says he’s moved his family from his home while police investigate an overnight burglary of his church, as well as threatening derogatory phone calls he received which claim he’ll be beaten for being Rauner’s “puppet.”

On Saturday, Brooks rushed to the New Beginnings Church of Chicago after a maintenance employee found the church’s back doors shattered and an estimated $8,000 stolen from a glass charity box, meant to build a community center across from the church.

Tina Sfondeles / Chicago Sun-Times
c/o Weasel Zippers

Okay, can't keep track, but I don't think this got mentioned here. My source for this is a comment on Ace of Spades, so I don't know anything else about it except what he said:

Washington confirmed that a Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli troops was a U.S. citizen. Orwa Hammad, 17, was killed as he was about to hurl a petrol bomb at Israeli motorists. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the U.S. "expresses its deepest condolences to the family of a U.S. citizen minor who was killed by the Israeli Defense Forces."

You remember how the US expressed its deepest condolences to the family of the baby killed at the wailing wall the other day, right? and the family of the teenager, one of the three kidnapped? Those other Americans?

"US citizen minor killed by the Israeli DEFENSE FORCES DOING THEIR JOB!"

Were I a hatin' kinda guy, the likes of Psaki would be a cause.

Plants Can Tell When They’re Being Eaten reads the headline.

"We’ve been hearing for decades about the complex intelligence of plants…" the article begins.

Oh, please! That plants have evolved defense mechanisms doesn't mean they "can tell" anything nor have "intelligence." (Okay, author went on to explain "intelligence" is "imprecise." Y'think??)

Next we'll be scolded by People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetables.

"Books can be written (and have been) about the legality of involuntary confinement in the face of a public health crisis, but this blog post may serve as highly generalized primer for the curious."
—Bryan Jacoutot at Legal Insurrection

Kellita Whisnant has owned Mama Ti's African Kitchen in Brooklyn Park, Minn. for three years. Now that confirmed cases of Ebola have reached U.S. soil, she says business is down by about 50 percent. …[forced her] to cover up part of her sign and reconsider her Liberian-themed menu.

“This African name that brought people in before, is now hurting me…. We get the jokes, the ridicule."

Good Evening, folks. A few random links to share.
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NRA, GOP, easily mistaken for one another. Right?

“I went by the first two ladies, and they didn’t say anything. And then the next lady, she said ‘sir, you’re going to have to take off your hat,’” Cobb recalled in an interview with The Daily Caller.

“What are you talking about?” Cobb said he replied.

Cobb, who is a veteran, says he looked down the voting line and saw another man with a hat on. “What’s the difference between his hat and mine?” Cobb asked.

That’s when workers told him that his NRA hat was perceived as being associated with the GOP and that he couldn’t wear it near the voting booth.

Fox News [has video] c/o Daily Caller c/o Weasel Zippers