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Shot by Dan in a shop window along Salem Avenue.
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Maybe this explains some of the posts we occasionally see on this blog.
http://www.splcenter.org/home/2013/spring/the-year-in-hate-and-extremism
Hate and extremism = opinions that Democrats disagree with
All civilized people I know, Henry, disagree with hate & extremism irregardless of their political affiliations.
Dan, My SIL took a pic of that same thing, last Saturday. He had my grandson go in the shop and stand behind it though, so you see his body with that head. My daughter posted the pic on Facebook and someone asked if that’s supposed to be Liza Minelli.
Debbie, your SIL kindly sent his pic to me over the weekend. I had to explain to him that I’d shot my own the weekend before! Great minds think alike, I reckon.
Or maybe not-so-great ones . . .
Great minds that are a little twisted, Dan.
Hate and extremism = opinions that Democrats disagree with
Henry I’m confused by your post. I’m not sure how either could be seen as opinions taken totally out of any context that you did not provide. Politically I look at the Tea Party to be the embodiment of both. Someone like a Todd Akin who espoused “legitimate rape” in my opinion and by any standard moral benchmark showed not only hatred towards women but and extremist point of view. But this is just me, so since you provided no frame of reference, I ask what are you talking about?
Oops, sorry!
RWer stunt videographer James O’Keefe agrees to pay $100,000 and apologize to ACORN employee O’Keefe victimized.
BTW, had forgotten to tell folks that I’m sort of kind of halfway through Lent vowing to post less on Dan’s blog, although I’m most certainly not going to go though the inconvenience of giving it up entirely because there might be times when I’m certain that none of you can live without my infinite wisdom. Or I just need some attention.
Republican Party fixes blame for Obama’s 2012 victory.
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The problem wasn’t that the election was stolen.
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The problem wasn’t the 47 percent.
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Or Romney’s curious refusal to release tax returns.
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Or a lack of voter buy in to Romney’s vision.
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Or the way Hispanic and black voters voted.
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IT WAS MSNBC’S FAULT!
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LOL. Good luck in 2016, guys.
Speaking of ACORN.
Unbelievable!
Dan Casey | March 8, 2013 at 2:28 pm
A prime example that you can’t fix stupid Dan.
Bill O’Reilly?
It’s been a tough month for the economy. DJIA at new record levels. 246000 new private sector jobs in February (-10000 jobs cut in the public sector) compared to 780000 jobs lost in February 2009 when Obama first took office,
unemployment drops to lowest level in five years, construction jobs up
48000 last month, housing sales robust, Things just keep getting worse and worse. Obama is just destroying our free enterprise economy. It’s a good thing we have a Republican House of Representatives to hold things down
or we might really be destroying the economy by growing it even more.
“Unbelievable!”
Frank, Frank, Frank…
ronniemay dear, there is no such word as “irregardless”….must be a democrat
The suicide drills continue:
http://news.yahoo.com/2016-republican-primary-officially-begun-220000910.html
Still, the concept of McDonnell as a viable candidate for President causes me to break out in uncontrollable fits of laughter.
Did anyone see the “Big Bang Theory” episode where Howard decided if the robot arm he created worked great at massaging his shoulder, it would work great on another part of his anatomy?
Regarding your link in comment #12 Dan, IMO there are some things that people should not tell the world. Obviously some folks disagree with me.
pammala dear see the information below. While it is a non-standard form, read especially the last sentence.
ir·re·gard·less
[ir-i-gahrd-lis] Show IPA
adverb Nonstandard.
regardless.
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Origin:
1910–15; ir-2 (probably after irrespective ) + regardless
Can be confused: irregardless, regardless (see usage note at the current entry).
Usage note
Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis.
Someone at the RT really goofed with the Black Dawg Salvage story in the paper today. The back page continuation from the front page story was almost all a verbatim repeat. It was a fun story, but somebody really screwed up.
Another fine example of how guns are the solution…
Man Shoots Dead Host of Sportsman Channel Show Before Killing Himself
WHITEFISH, Mont. — Police in northwestern Montana say a man shot and killed the host of the Sportsman Channel show “A Rifleman’s Journal” while the TV personality was visiting the shooter’s wife.
Whitefish police say 41-year-old Wayne Bengston then beat his wife, took his 2-year-old son to a relative’s house, and drove to his home in West Glacier where he apparently killed himself.”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/08/man-shoots-dead-host-of-sportsman-channel-show-before-killing-himself/
I’m not sure which is funnier: pammala, of all people, lecturing anyone on grammar, or the fact that she was so wrong about it.
And since it’s “freaky Friday” a little story about Catholics…
“US Catholics support gay marriage by a larger margin than ordinary Americans despite Church teachings that forbid it, a new poll out Friday has found.”
“The Quinnipiac University poll found 54 percent of Catholics support same-sex marriage while just 38 percent are opposed, compared to a 47-43 percent margin among all American voters.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/08/catholic-support-marriage-equality-by-larger-margin-than-the-rest-of-america/
Wanted: Candidates for police officer positions in San Juan, Puerto Rico. No non-Christians will be hired.
Speaking of police officers…oopsy.
A school district in New York has put a program to put armed officers in schools on hold after a policeman’s handgun went off at Highland High School.
At a Wednesday meeting with parents, Highland Central School District and police officials explained that Officer Sean McCutcheon had been suspended after his Glock .45-caliber pistol “accidentally discharged” in a school hallway at around 1:38 p.m. on Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/bpq65cz
Dan Casey | March 8, 2013 at 7:13 pm
I’m not sure which is funnier: pammala, of all people, lecturing anyone on grammar, or the fact that she was so wrong about it.
Right. The 7/11 night clerk who doesn’t know how to capitalize, punctuate,
or spell, lecturing the college president on English usage is ricking fudiculous.
Debbie,
I also noticed that. I guess there is no such thing as proof-reading by newspapers anymore. Everything is electronic, I suspect.
Who cares what the end-product is at the Roanoke Times?
Nobody, it appears. They are too busy managing the process of improving blogs for non-paying customers, and making sure other non-paying customers get weekly or bi-weekly coupons delivered to their driveways (even two, if you have two driveways…). Go figure.
“The 7/11 night clerk who doesn’t know how to capitalize, punctuate,
or spell, lecturing…on (nonstandard) usage”
7/11′s very premise is standardization; heck, they even standardize hotdogs, so nonstandard usage must indeed seem subversive to pammala.
Don’t expect everyone on here to agree or accept the information in the link below. After all it is from the White House. Nonetheless, I’m tired of hearing that the President hasn’t presented a plan to cut spending and avoid the sequester. Read ‘em and weep fellow bloggers.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/02/21/balanced-plan-avert-sequester-and-reduce-deficit
P.S. I realize all portions of my post are not grammatically correct.
Wonder if pammalalala spelled everything correctly on the applications for free medications she had to fill out for her mom?
Ron May | March 8, 2013 at 9:45 pm
Don’t expect everyone on here to agree or accept the information in the link below. After all it is from the White House. Nonetheless, I’m tired of hearing that the President hasn’t presented a plan to cut spending and avoid the sequester. Read ‘em and weep fellow bloggers.
\Ah but Ron, that’s not a plan, at least according to the Senators and Reps who haven’t bothered to read it because they depend upon their leaders
to keep them informed. At least two of the Republican Senators who went to dinner with the President the other night commented afterwards that they were not aware of the Presidents offer on the changed CPI index on social security because their “leaders” had never told them about it. On e wonders why they are paying staff and what is wrong with reading the offer for themselves and forming their own opinion.
And I’ll lay you ten to one that the whiners and complainers and Obama
haters here have never bothered to read it either.( ButI’m not Romney.I won’t bet you ten thousand dollars.)
Warren | March 8, 2013 at 9:00 pm
“The 7/11 night clerk who doesn’t know how to capitalize, punctuate,
or spell, lecturing…on (nonstandard) usage”
7/11′s very premise is standardization; heck, they even standardize hotdogs, so nonstandard usage must indeed seem subversive to pammala”
Warren, if that were true then every single one of her own posts would be “subversive”.
Sorry, Frank, but I’m not joining in on the no one at the Roanoke Times cares chorus.
Aw, heck, Debbie, I never thought you’d join the chorus!
Who knows, maybe they ALL care about the quality of their print product. However, it wasn’t like a repeated word, or a misspelled word, for goodness sake! Who does the checking on things like you pointed out…which was the repetition of a whole half of an article?
An organzation is only as strong as it’s weakest link, and in the RT’s example of this Sunday, somebody needs to fix something.
From Frank
“An organzation is only as strong as it’s weakest link, and in the RT’s example of this Sunday, somebody needs to fix something”
Too bad they can’t edit your stuff Frank. Then we might get something that’s
readable and makes sense.
I love lectures from Frank. They’re always about as entertaining as listening to the Happy Hooker ramble on about chastity. . .
Dan Casey | March 9, 2013 at 7:30 pm
I love lectures from Frank. They’re always about as entertaining as listening to the Happy Hooker ramble on about chastity
Or reading the list of parts on a piece of ready to assemble furniture. Or having a root canal.
“An organzation is only as strong as it’s weakest link”
If that’s the case of this blog, I’d say we’re screwed.
well, gee, looks like a couple of folks might have learned something about organizational management this evening…at no charge!
Hey Frank, did you see the correction piece about that story in the paper yesterday?
I agree about a root canal, Wayne. I had one a few months ago, I was so bored after a while that I wanted to scream. This blog has the same effect sometimes.
No! I only read the sports section, pickles, zits, and the family circus yesterday, and am just getting to the main section now. I look forward to it.
By the way, where did they hide it, is it in the corrections section?
It’s not hidden. It’s at the bottom on the second page, just like it always is.
“No! I only read the sports section, pickles, zits, and the family circus yesterday, and am just getting to the main section now.”
Slow reader = slow learner
Debbie, thanks.
Gee, so the problem was that “a jumble caused a portion of the article to be OMITTED”, rather than “a jumble caused a portion of the article to be DUPLICATED”. I suspect that the answer is both.
Why does the RTs feel so compelled to speak only in half-truths? Hmmmm.
Frank, why do you worry so much about things that don’t amount to a hill of beans, as the old saying goes.