You might be a redneck if:
1. You take your dog for a walk and you both use the same tree.
2. You can entertain yourself for more than 15 minutes with a fly swatter.
3. Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.
4. You burn your yard rather than mow it.
5. The Salvation Army declines your furniture.
6. You come back from the dump with more than you took.
7. You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.
8. Your grandmother has ‘ammo’ on her Christmas list.
9. You know how many bales of hay your car will hold.
10. You missed your 5th grade graduation because you were on jury duty.
This is an open thread.
The Crawdad Hole 
Actually, the Salvation Army is kind of picky about donations of furniture.
Absolutely. Once they turn their nose up you start putting things on the curb with a FREE sign taped on it. I put a child’s desk, an old monitor, a wonky TV, a box of kitchen junk, and an ugly patio/beach chair on the curb Friday. Every bit of it was long gone Saturday morning. I’m tired of surly collection point Goodwill workers. I’ll just throw it out there for someone else to use or sell.
We used to have an annual event they called Spring Clean-up Week but we called Okie Shopping Days. Anything you wanted to get rid of you just put it by the curb by Monday morning and the city would come by during the week and haul it to the dump for free.
If you got there before the city (or anyone else) you could take whatever you wanted. First come, first serve, you haul.
Now you have to take everything to “designed collection points” on Saturdays and only the city workers can keep what they want. Plus they get overtime.
The city here would probably like that but we don’t ask we just do it. The city does a general junk collection on Mondays but you have to call to request it by Friday afternoon. But this is a small city and people don’t ask permission. I saw junk put out on the curb with a sign put up after a garage sale that said “Free Crap”.
Years ago the county dump raised the prices sky-high so people started dumping crap on country roads. Then the county had to pay work crews to pick the stuff up and haul it to the dump.
The Law of Unintended Consequences in action.
FREECYCLE is wonderful ! put “it ” on the list , whatever it is is gone in a day ! And once you offer something , you can ask for items you may need ! Curb alerts are ok , too So pfffft Goodwill !
http://www.freecycle.org/
We had one group here that was accepting donations from people that didn’t even know they wanted to donate. The truck would show up while people were at work and select the donations, then sell them and keep the money.
like the Dalai Lama’s thought for this funky Friday…guess I might need to start prayin’ some…
A compassionate community will not be achieved only through prayer; I pray myself, but I accept its limitations. We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartedness can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond.
IIRC, all the 9/11 terrorists were Saudi nationals.
Only 15 of 19.
Oh goodie, Obama’s Truth Team is back on twitter 😀
http://twitchy.com/2013/08/01/snarknado-conservatives-welcome-presidents-reanimated-truth-team-back-to-twitter/
And don’t forget the “nudge squad”…..such nice little names for such devious undertakings!
Republicans should create the Fudge (Brancobama lying) Squad. Maybe photo shop a piece of fudge on his head instead of all the Pinocchio noses. I know it would look like something else, ahem, but that is the point.
Don’t NUDGE ME , Bro !!!
nudge off! or I’ll give you a nudgie!
My last big project in Santa Fe County is bearing lots of young fruit…
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/article_75b5cfa9-91c8-5708-b809-e1bba84fefd1.html
That is very cool. Good work.
that is great. did you have fun watching the kids learn ? you may have started the next great filmmaker on their way
Let’s hope so…especially independent films which is waht we were trying to stimulate…low budget, creative young filmmakers of all persuasions….northern NM is such an awesome place for that….only missing the ocean…but they can just CGI that nowadays….SF Studios is quite a landmark actually…..sits on a high outside of the city like some large, sacred megalith….in fact, the studio is designed so that when all of the buildings are completed there will be a long main boulevard oriented toward where the sun rises on the summer solstice and it will shine all along the boulevard on that day….very cool. But perhaps the most interesting aspect of it is that on one side is the County jail, and across the street is the State Penitentiary….there is really nothing else of commercial value that could have happened with this County owned property…..I used to refer to it as the “incarceration zone” but now I call it “Holy Wood”.
That’s great stuff. Congrats!
I call it “Holy Wood”.
As in “Oh god, oh god, OH GOD!”?
Nice.
Our whole diplomatic entourage is nothing but bundlers….whatever happened to foreign service diplomats?
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/01/obama-nominates-three-more-top-fundraisers-to-top-diplomatic-posts/
The Master doesn’t require diplomats to accomplish his foreign relations goals. Bowing to strong men only requires stout knees.
Bob pokes tingles:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/lawmakers_their_aides_and_federal_employees_exempt_themselves_from_obamacare_costs.html
obamacare costs for everybody but congresscritters
they stuck us with it, but not themselves
Some animals are more equal than others.
Asshats.
I agree with you Mary. 🙂
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/08/common_cores_data_mining_trojan_horse.html
another little sneaky thing from the backtrack bunch.
common cause data mines the kids
Sick fuck:
I hope they send his ass to see Allah.
I can’t believe how nice we’re treating him. Resigned his commission? Then stop paying him !
honk
I hope the victims finally get some kind of justice both from finding him guilty of acts of terror and treason and from the dept of crime that called it workplace violence rather then an act of terror. These people deserve the benefits that they were cheated out of getting dating from the time of the attack
Smithsonian IS NOT trying to obtain Teh Hoodie:
http://dcist.com/2013/08/smithsonian_says_its_not_trying_to.php
Though I thought it would look adorable next to the Seinfeld Puffy Shirt.
That is reassuring , it has no business being there , or anywhere except some garbage dump or an incinerator.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/08/02/wounded-vets-get-track-chairs-thanks-to-donations-from-fox-news-viewers/
something good
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/08/boom%E2%86%92-top-house-republican-hiding-benghazi-survivors-is-obstruction-and-illegal-under-the-statutes-video/
hiding Benghazi survivors is obstruction and illegal under the statutes
Charlie Rangel: Tea Party Is ‘Same Group’ Of ‘White Crackers’ Who Fought Civil Rights
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/charlie-rangel-tea-party-is-same-group-of
should anyone tell him it was the democrats that fought against civil rights
It wouldn’t do any good. He can’t hear anyone. He’s insane and only listens to himself.
This zombie half-truth again? 🙄
The two corporate parties swapped many of their traditional constituencies since the 1950s.
The kind of Dems who fought against civil rights defected to the GOP after the GOP instituted the “Southern Strategy” under Goldwater and, more successfully, Nixon and beyond.
media.com/blog/supended-agency-leader-says-veterans-were-denied-preference-by-accident/?singlepage=true
this bunch as refined stupid into an art form
When even Craigslist won’t help with staffing problems……
http://washingtonexaminer.com/a-brave-baltimore-teacher-speaks-the-truth-about-schools-students/article/2533752
heads will explode over this
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/315267-house-votes-to-block-irs-enforcement-of-obamacare
this will be interesting to watch
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/could-gop-president-gut-obamacare-unilaterally_742468.html?nopager=1
could a future president gut obamacare unilaterally?
http://therightscoop.com/bill-whittle-sarah-palin-was-right/
Bill Whittle —Sarah Palin was right
@RBPundit & some of his followers are threatening to block me for criticizing Rubio. 🙄
I followed @RBPundit for a long time. It was only today I discovered he’s a dick.
Honk!
Such babies.
RBPundit is a fool not be concerned about Rubio unless of course he’s the GOP version of Tingles.
And did RBPundit just change his header for you? “RINO, apparently.” I didn’t see the header prior to his conspiracy theory that PUMAs are out to get 2016 GOP candidates… 😆
He does seem emotionally attached to Rubio.
My fave:
“If you see a sign that says, SAY NO TO CRACK, and it reminds you to pull your jeans up…you might be a redneck.”
have a funky Friday…
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