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Abbott Wins in a Walk — great work! Hope this gets wide distribution.

Um, but, the Pelosi / sex doll poster? Really didn't need that. Did. Not.

This is so wrong.

If our military is preoccupied fighting Ebola, how ever will they be able to find time to fulfill their mission to end Anthropogenic Global Climate Disruption?

I could've waited. Of course Pete covers this in a later post.

Don't know where to put this, so I'll put it here.

Lots of folks worry about the next two years, and rightly so, of course, but I'm most concerned about the time between the election and the new Congress. How many more things can the tyrants undermine and destroy in those weeks?

But this is why I'm writing: The US soldiers, already sent over to Darkest Epidemia, unprotected and with no definite military mission, already practically had my eyeballs bleeding, with rage, not Ebola. But now I also see, Obama to Send National Guard to Liberia to Fight Ebola.

I liked the end of Prof. Jacobsen's article about the deer. It seems so broadly applicable.

STOP!
STOP IT!
FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, JUST STOP!

It'd be funny if it wasn't so awful, and costly. Okay, it's funny, anyway.

At Legal Insurrection, Perfesser Jacobson reports on Cornell U's idea of deer control, and the results.

"Little Iris is slowly learning to speak, whereas most children have already begun to speak at least a few words by age 2. Along with speech therapy, her parents gradually introduced her to painting, which is when they discovered her amazing talent."
—Dovas at Bored Panda

I would embed a pic of one of her paintings, but they're all large images.

So, instead, here's a link to my Daily Doodle from last Dec 30, proving that I can be just as good an abstract painter as an autistic 5yo. Well, okay, nearly as good. But, I can only do computer graphics; they didn't let me use real paint because I tend to put the working end of the brush in my mouth.

Seriously, she has some nice work.

The kids in that supermom poster appear to be playing "9-11."

chrissy: "He. Did. Not. Approve. Of. Me."

Oh, dear. May I presume you two worked that out, in due time?

A. Did you ever regret hitting "Post" the moment you did it? Yeah. Sorry, group. :)

2. Apparently PNG graphics don't embed like JPGs. Noted.

PP: "There was even one aging hippie grandfather with a ponytail halfway down his back sitting on the floor Indian style with a couple kids, no doubt to be as one with the universe on Indigenous Peoples’ Day."

(Looks around the room, clears throat)

Okay, look, this happens sometimes. Mistaken profiling.

Just because I forgot to get a haircut for, uh, okay, several years now, that doesn't make me a hippie.* Would you call some of those long-gray-pony-tailed bikers hippies? To be a valid hippie sighting, there must be a clear 2nd hippie indicator, such as braided beard beads or a faded "Vote McGovern" button. Just because I can still sit cross-legged on the floor, that doesn't count, and it doesn't mean I'm protesting for feather-Indians nor trying to do dot-Indian yoga. It's just so I'm at the kids' level — playing on the floor with the kids is more fun than sitting around griping with the grumps. Keeps me young. And I was only sitting in the play area, not *ew* the eating area, right?

Oh, wait, wait. Never mind all the foregoing. You said grandfather! I'm not (alas). Okay, so, um, that wasn't me. Yeah, those dirty aging hippies! Every time I see some guy with a gray pony tail, I shake my head and remark to the Mrs about the lack of self-respect in someone that age. What are they thinking?

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* Historical note, per Hippiepedia: There were only about a dozen actual "hippies," very nice, smart, clever, creative people, who were clean, wore colorful clothes, and enjoyed engaging in wacky street theater and punking the press. They all went on to work in the insurance industry about the time "hippie" entered the language — meaning, mentioned in Time Magazine. Every so-called hippie / dippie / yippie since then is just another dirty punk poor imitator. (Like all metal bands after Led Zeppelin.) But they say the true Hippie Spirit will never die. Cough cough. Holy smoke!

"In fact, one Oklahoma woman is 'absolutely offended' at her neighbors’ Halloween decorations"

Yes, it's true. Even here in Oklahoma, land of dry, deadpan, cowboy wit, we have many sad cases of humor-impairment. Please sign the petition to increase CDC money for sense-of-humor transplants for these sad, sick Regressives.

What was I, fourth, fifth, with a reply on traded-for-enemies?

Oot, oot, eet, eet

Mashes banana into screen

maddogg > "Whats the latest on the deserter we ransomed from Afghanistan? …"

I read recently that the "investigation" into, I suppose, his being a deserter, had been concluded. The conclusions were sealed, of course, until after the elections. I believe that's what I read.

Having muchos communication problems this morning. Browser crashy. minx.cc wouldn't reload for a long while. Karl and Edna, I know you're listening. Tell your NSA budddies to quit messing with my cell.

Weasel Zippers had this.

#NidalHasan lawyer: #FortHood shooter feels remorse that he "wasn't more effective." #KellyFile
8:42 PM - 13 Oct 2014

WHY is this traitor breathing?

Well, everything will be different once the Republicans take the Senate. Right?

Carol > "I sound like Mark Levin but I haven't listened to him since Wednesday."

Yeah, but I love it when you're on fire, roselady.

Morning, Glories!

Pets decided this was a good morning to start a circus, long before I was ready to get up, so, I'm up, and they're all outside. Now, I'm about half-way plowing through your magnificent comments du jour, while pondering the state of life.

The guy says,

"If there's two ways of taking what I said / did / looked like, and one of them is mean-spirited / critical / hurtful then, I meant the other one."

Goes the old saying which I probably picked up here.

To credit that "other one," of course, she must imagine an alternative possibility, which requires questioning one's perceptions and thus ignoring the seeming validation caused by the emotional surge in response to the perceptions. So, yeah, that happens all the time. Yup.

Caught up to #190. Thought I better comment lest there's another 190 after I refresh.

Thanks for the bg on Genghis, Maet. I only found my way here around Summer 2011, but I have been here long enough to know the real familial interaction, and affection, of the group (slugs horde in arm), and I sympathize. RIP, Genghis.

There was a link earlier today to G's last ONT. So, I read that. Don't have it on me, though.

“In a new world, a history was written,” said Obama’s proclamation, required by a 1934 Congressional Joint Resolution. “It tells the story of an idea – that all women and men are created equal – and a people’s struggle to fulfill it.

“And it is a history shared by Native Americans, one marred with long and shameful chapters of violence, disease, and deprivation,” Obama said.

—Weasel Zippers

Earlier today, on SOME site, I read quoted a great article by a "Native American, basically saying, without the Europeans, ancestors wouldn't be much advanced nor would they have the religion of our Father's love. Unfortunately, I cannot find it again. The perfect counterpoint to the Community Disorganizer in Chief's racist spew.

Before I read that, here's what I commented on Ace of Spades (always funny to quote oneself, but easier than re-writing) along those same lines:

Happy AmerIndian Cultural Uplift Day

Today, descendants of the tribes that occupied North America before Columbus enjoy all the benefits of the combined cultures of the whole world, most especially the health, wealth, and comfort from centuries of progress in the USA. Their ancestors would gladly trade the life they had for a modern middle-class American home and job.

And it all goes back to a captain who was bad at geographic math.

I got this interesting reply:

… the author of "Roots" (Alex Haley) was once asked during a program showing video of suffering in Africa if he wished that his ancestors had never been brought to this continent as slaves.

"And Alex Haley said, in a low, serious voice: 'Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it. Because there,' he pointed to the sad scene on the screen, 'would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there!'"

Yeah. "Violence, disease, and deprivation."

Also, at Legal Insurrection, Abbott’s campaign turned the negative reaction into their own campaign ad.

Gateway Pundit has a video you might want to add, as a staffer drags the chair of the man at the microphone across the stage.

You stay classy, Wendy.