The Dem candidate for the US house in Omaha is Denise Powell. Her pitch is that she is a “pissed off mom” who will stand up to Trump. That’s it.
Last week she posted a video on social media that she reads “fairy smut” in order to cope with the horribleness of Trump. She urged her followers to do the same.
I had never heard of “fairy smut” until the NY Post ran this story.
None of the local media has reported this newsworthy story. I contacted both the OWH and leftwing Nebraska Examiner to have them report the story. They refuse.
So, if a Dem candidate says something very stupid that reveals her mental instability and the media doesn’t report it, did it really happen?
Decades ago a GOP candidate for Senate, David Karnes, said America needed fewer farmers. He lost.
I already had a low opinion of the media, but this really takes the cake.
I turned 80 today. Our sons and their families are coming in this weekend to help celebrate. Wife and I “pre-celebrated” with a tour of archeological sites in Greece and Türkiye, including the ruins of Troy.
BTW, it turns out that “Türkiye” means “land of the Turks.” Seems reasonable to me.
I ordered and received a new flagpole. Much heavier duty then one I had- that blew down in a storm. So needs a bigger hole in the ground. It's also 10' taller. Was going to pull the old concrete out and mount the new mounting sleeve there. Then looked up at the power line, and decided I wanted it 5 or so feet further away. So got out my trusty post hole digger and started a hole. Got about 8" down and hit a rock. Moved the soil away and discovered- not a rock. A pipe, 3 or 4" diameter. About 8' from the road. We have no underground utilities here. No natural gas lines, no buried telecommunications cables, no buried electrical lines- and 8" is way too shallow for anything liquid. And- we don't have municipal water anyhow. Or fire hydrants. I've worked at a number of facilities and the rule is- if you're digging and hit a pipe, cable, or conduit- 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷! Just stop, and call in someone who either has an underground utility map or the tools to trace it. Don't go further, don't try to follow it along by digging carefully, let the experts do their job.
So I called 811- the number here for this kind of thing. They'll be out by Tuesday to investigate. Since there shouldn't be anything there, I suspect they'll tell me I can go ahead and break it or whatever. I could actually put my backhoe to use! But I'm not going to do that until I'm cleared for it. Just in case...
I tuned into the Karolína Muchová v. Coco Wimbleton match and thought my sound had gone. Oh silly me, I had accessed a GB broadcast and wasn't forced to hear the non-stop chatter that i usually get on US TV networks.
Fact that MS NOW - ..er... I mean.. BS NOW - are obsessing over the "White Nationalists!" who were marching around DC with faces hidden behind their silly white masks and khakis - -- provides clues as to who they really are.
I just read all of our host's new format instructions. It seems we are unruly, and the responsibilities of moderation are onerous. I'm getting better at remembering not to do the HTML tag thing, but I apologize in advance for any slipups.
What about links? I myself seldom use hotlinks but they are another way for things to go awry.
Viktor Marx is the joke candidate running for governor with an R behind his name. He will face Phil Weiser (D) - who is horrible in every way but he will win.
"Fact that MS NOW - ..er... I mean.. BS NOW - are obsessing over the "White Nationalists!" who were marching around DC with faces hidden behind their silly white masks and khakis - -- provides clues as to who they really are"
Well if history is any guide, they're a bunch of leftist members of the Lincoln Pedophile Project (TM)...
In Wisconsin, state assembly transurrectionist socialist candidate "Katrina" Deville has one of her staffers and fellow transurrectionist gadfly "Teha" Delaurelle post on social for eveyone to "kill your local republican. " Hong -fsr left socialist candidate for governor has follwed their account.
The Wisconsin Democrat party has said absolutely nothing (why so quiet Ben Wikler? To busy trying to cover up convicted sex predator Adam Westbrook?)
The far left papers-Captial Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Post-Crescent, Sheyboygen Press, Green Bay Gazette- all of them are ignoring the story. Of course pink slime States Newsroom fake "news" outlet Wisconsin Examiner has nothing to say.
Congrats Mike. Hope you feel better about that number than Trump did.
Those photos make it look like the sun is rising over Picnic Point, which is west of where you are. Imagine the rethinking we’d have to do if the sun really did start rising in the west.
I'm pondering on the 1/2 +7 rule. This is the rule that says it is OK for a man to sexually pursue a younger woman, provided that her age is half of his, plus seven. There are evident reasons, why a young woman and an older man might make a good mating couple. And indeed, I think that the rule assumes at least the possibility of marriage.
But this makes me wonder. Obviously, there is a cultural approval of same-age couplings, despite the possible advantages of an age difference. It occurred to me, that this might be a result of schooling practices; in American public schools, adolescents are grouped by age.
But this made me wonder, what about Romeo and Juliet? Did they attend Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, like I did? Probably not. So, where did they meet? This young Capulet, and her beloved Montague? Why weren't they channeled into acceptable marriages? How did they even come to know each other?
Maybe they met at church? "And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show. And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night? "I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
There are imponderable mysteries in Romeo and Juliet. And there are imponderable mysteries in Ode to Billy Joe. Perhaps "impenetrable" would be a better term than imponderable.
You know, a bunch of boys don't put a frog down the back of another boy. They put the frog down the back of somebody's little sister. And a few years later, one of them marries her. Unless he jumps off a bridge.
Peachy notes Viktor Marx is the joke candidate running for Colorado governor with an R behind his name. Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx won the GOP primary for governor on Thursday, inching past a state senator who had the establishment’s backing.
He has said his abusive stepfather effectively forced Viktor, at 7 years old, to kill a man. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who finished behind the unlucky winner, thanked her supporters and volunteers in a statement Thursday evening, signing off by saying, “I’m still proud of the campaign we ran … and, for the record, I still haven’t killed anyone.”
I recall, when I was 11, which would have been 1965, we went back to Iowa to visit my parents' families. One day, I went out riding on the hay truck, with some little cousin my own age. We were riding up on top of the bales of hay, while a crew of teenage boys were tossing bales up onto the truck with baling hooks. They were talking about the riots down to Cairo, on the Mississippi, which they attributed to Xers.
Sitting up on top of the hay truck, and listening to all this, I told my little cousin that "They shouldn't use that word!". Like Althouse, I had somehow come to imagine that America and black people would get along just fine, if only no one ever used that word!. I suppose we should also eschew italics. Then, indeed, the World may slowly come to a point of perfection.
My young cousin, who could not have been any older than I was, appraised the 18-year-olds tossing bales onto the truck behind us, who seemed like giants to me, and said "None a them has ever even seen a Xer". Girls grow up faster than boys do.
And yes, reflecting on the matter in later years, I came to realize that I had fallen completely and irrevocably in love with her, at that precise moment. Like the moment when you inhale a single particle of some virus. You exhale, and go on with your life, but it is not the same. You are not the same.
I went to Iowa again, in 2020, with my wife and children. It was a family reunion, so she may have been present, but if so, I didn't know. I don't remember her name, or whose daughter she was. As my life winds down, I have taken a certain solace in the Bhuddist view, that there is a wheel. There are many women I loved, and wanted to marry, at one time or another. But I also feel that marriage is for a lifetime. So, if a lifetime is just one turn of the wheel, then perhaps those loves are still possible. Our souls may meet again. No? But there is also a certain satisfaction, in having made one good life, with one good woman. Thus far.
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The Dem candidate for the US house in Omaha is Denise Powell. Her pitch is that she is a “pissed off mom” who will stand up to Trump. That’s it.
Last week she posted a video on social media that she reads “fairy smut” in order to cope with the horribleness of Trump. She urged her followers to do the same.
I had never heard of “fairy smut” until the NY Post ran this story.
None of the local media has reported this newsworthy story. I contacted both the OWH and leftwing Nebraska Examiner to have them report the story. They refuse.
So, if a Dem candidate says something very stupid that reveals her mental instability and the media doesn’t report it, did it really happen?
Decades ago a GOP candidate for Senate, David Karnes, said America needed fewer farmers. He lost.
I already had a low opinion of the media, but this really takes the cake.
Smut is Tums spelled backwards. Does that help?
#3 is watercolory.
#3 is very Monet-like.
I turned 80 today. Our sons and their families are coming in this weekend to help celebrate. Wife and I “pre-celebrated” with a tour of archeological sites in Greece and Türkiye, including the ruins of Troy.
BTW, it turns out that “Türkiye” means “land of the Turks.” Seems reasonable to me.
Nice. #1 is tits.
Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called.
""Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called."
Does this mean we should extend the same courtesy to Italia, Deutschland, Belge, Nederland, Norge, Osterreich, Espana, and Magyarorszag?
I ordered and received a new flagpole. Much heavier duty then one I had- that blew down in a storm. So needs a bigger hole in the ground. It's also 10' taller. Was going to pull the old concrete out and mount the new mounting sleeve there. Then looked up at the power line, and decided I wanted it 5 or so feet further away. So got out my trusty post hole digger and started a hole. Got about 8" down and hit a rock. Moved the soil away and discovered- not a rock. A pipe, 3 or 4" diameter. About 8' from the road. We have no underground utilities here. No natural gas lines, no buried telecommunications cables, no buried electrical lines- and 8" is way too shallow for anything liquid. And- we don't have municipal water anyhow. Or fire hydrants. I've worked at a number of facilities and the rule is- if you're digging and hit a pipe, cable, or conduit- 𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑷! Just stop, and call in someone who either has an underground utility map or the tools to trace it. Don't go further, don't try to follow it along by digging carefully, let the experts do their job.
So I called 811- the number here for this kind of thing. They'll be out by Tuesday to investigate. Since there shouldn't be anything there, I suspect they'll tell me I can go ahead and break it or whatever. I could actually put my backhoe to use! But I'm not going to do that until I'm cleared for it. Just in case...
Happy Birthday, Big Mike.
Actually names are not important. No turks were injured by calling Turkey "Turkey" for 500 years.
Ignorant Rubes call japan "Japan". Cool, broad-minded people call them 日本
I tuned into the Karolína Muchová v. Coco Wimbleton match and thought my sound had gone. Oh silly me, I had accessed a GB broadcast and wasn't forced to hear the non-stop chatter that i usually get on US TV networks.
What a relief.
Also, watch the world cup on Spanish Speaking channels if you can. Far superior to the crap you get on Fox.
Happy 80th Big Mike. Epic!
Happy birthday big mike
Congratulations, Big Mike! And you seem to be still going strong.
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9 year old Contestant: C-U-N…
Moderator: Please No Jesus Stop!
Fact that MS NOW - ..er... I mean.. BS NOW - are obsessing over the "White Nationalists!" who were marching around DC with faces hidden behind their silly white masks and khakis - --
provides clues as to who they really are.
Happy Birthday Big Mike!
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Happy birthday BM.
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Happy Birthday Big Mike. May you keep fighting the good fight for many years to come!
Happy birthday, Big Mike! Many happy returns!
I just read all of our host's new format instructions. It seems we are unruly, and the responsibilities of moderation are onerous. I'm getting better at remembering not to do the HTML tag thing, but I apologize in advance for any slipups.
What about links? I myself seldom use hotlinks but they are another way for things to go awry.
And also Happy Birthday Big Mike.
Re. Türkiye - Names are important. We should respect what people and countries want to be called.
This message needs to be delivered to all the Latin Americans and smug NPR watchers who sneer that "America is a CONTINENT, not a country!"
Viktor Marx is the joke candidate running for governor with an R behind his name. He will face Phil Weiser (D) - who is horrible in every way but he will win.
Peachy+2 said
"Fact that MS NOW - ..er... I mean.. BS NOW - are obsessing over the "White Nationalists!" who were marching around DC with faces hidden behind their silly white masks and khakis - --
provides clues as to who they really are"
Well if history is any guide, they're a bunch of leftist members of the Lincoln Pedophile Project (TM)...
Ask KKKak-he would know. They're his employers.
Dave Begley-
You think that is bad?
In Wisconsin, state assembly transurrectionist socialist candidate "Katrina" Deville has one of her staffers and fellow transurrectionist gadfly "Teha" Delaurelle post on social for eveyone to "kill your local republican. " Hong -fsr left socialist candidate for governor has follwed their account.
The Wisconsin Democrat party has said absolutely nothing (why so quiet Ben Wikler? To busy trying to cover up convicted sex predator Adam Westbrook?)
The far left papers-Captial Times, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, Post-Crescent, Sheyboygen Press, Green Bay Gazette- all of them are ignoring the story. Of course pink slime States Newsroom fake "news" outlet Wisconsin Examiner has nothing to say.
Congrats Mike. Hope you feel better about that number than Trump did.
Those photos make it look like the sun is rising over Picnic Point, which is west of where you are. Imagine the rethinking we’d have to do if the sun really did start rising in the west.
I'm pondering on the 1/2 +7 rule. This is the rule that says it is OK for a man to sexually pursue a younger woman, provided that her age is half of his, plus seven.
There are evident reasons, why a young woman and an older man might make a good mating couple. And indeed, I think that the rule assumes at least the possibility of marriage.
But this makes me wonder. Obviously, there is a cultural approval of same-age couplings, despite the possible advantages of an age difference. It occurred to me, that this might be a result of schooling practices; in American public schools, adolescents are grouped by age.
But this made me wonder, what about Romeo and Juliet? Did they attend Thomas Jefferson Junior High School, like I did? Probably not. So, where did they meet? This young Capulet, and her beloved Montague? Why weren't they channeled into acceptable marriages? How did they even come to know each other?
Maybe they met at church?
"And brother said he recollected when he, and Tom, and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show.
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece-a apple pie; you know, it don't seem right
I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge
And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge."
There are imponderable mysteries in Romeo and Juliet. And there are imponderable mysteries in Ode to Billy Joe. Perhaps "impenetrable" would be a better term than imponderable.
You know, a bunch of boys don't put a frog down the back of another boy. They put the frog down the back of somebody's little sister. And a few years later, one of them marries her. Unless he jumps off a bridge.
Peachy notes Viktor Marx is the joke candidate running for Colorado governor with an R behind his name. Marine Corps veteran Victor Marx won the GOP primary for governor on Thursday, inching past a state senator who had the establishment’s backing.
He has said his abusive stepfather effectively forced Viktor, at 7 years old, to kill a man. Barbara Kirkmeyer, who finished behind the unlucky winner, thanked her supporters and volunteers in a statement Thursday evening, signing off by saying, “I’m still proud of the campaign we ran … and, for the record, I still haven’t killed anyone.”
I recall, when I was 11, which would have been 1965, we went back to Iowa to visit my parents' families. One day, I went out riding on the hay truck, with some little cousin my own age. We were riding up on top of the bales of hay, while a crew of teenage boys were tossing bales up onto the truck with baling hooks. They were talking about the riots down to Cairo, on the Mississippi, which they attributed to Xers.
Sitting up on top of the hay truck, and listening to all this, I told my little cousin that "They shouldn't use that word!". Like Althouse, I had somehow come to imagine that America and black people would get along just fine, if only no one ever used that word!. I suppose we should also eschew italics. Then, indeed, the World may slowly come to a point of perfection.
My young cousin, who could not have been any older than I was, appraised the 18-year-olds tossing bales onto the truck behind us, who seemed like giants to me, and said "None a them has ever even seen a Xer".
Girls grow up faster than boys do.
And yes, reflecting on the matter in later years, I came to realize that I had fallen completely and irrevocably in love with her, at that precise moment. Like the moment when you inhale a single particle of some virus. You exhale, and go on with your life, but it is not the same. You are not the same.
I went to Iowa again, in 2020, with my wife and children. It was a family reunion, so she may have been present, but if so, I didn't know. I don't remember her name, or whose daughter she was.
As my life winds down, I have taken a certain solace in the Bhuddist view, that there is a wheel. There are many women I loved, and wanted to marry, at one time or another. But I also feel that marriage is for a lifetime. So, if a lifetime is just one turn of the wheel, then perhaps those loves are still possible. Our souls may meet again. No?
But there is also a certain satisfaction, in having made one good life, with one good woman. Thus far.
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