While myiq’s tending to family matters today, and he’s in our thoughts, just gonna put this here, this is an Open Thread and it’s pretty 😉
How beautiful is flyover country ? This …..
More information at the Exeter, Missoui Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch
Here’s a little story on how it’s done, high tech GPS is part of the secret:
Getting “lost” is part of the fun ? This family called 911 when they got “lost” …. and a happy, but maybe a little embarrassing, ending 🙂
Blog idea and a h/t to Keith Koffler’s White House Dossier
The Crawdad Hole 
WP used to be so much reblog friendlier, the little pic was my main pic, oh well….. Thanks for letting me play, the last thread was well over a hundred comments, so here we go ! Whatsa’s got? Bring it.
It’s weird that it does that…
PSA: For those of you on FB, come like our page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Crawdad-Hole/127399844071124?ref=hl
Where I come from the first step to making a corn maze is “Get drunk”.
Is that when you start seeing the Children?
Good grief….after the Shellie Hoax (link downstairs), I’m grabbing me some top shelf scotch tonight
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/09/14/The-Matthew-Shepard-Story-is-a-Lie
I think the movie narratives about Shepard are definitely full of crap. He was most certainly a meth user and possibly and occasional dealer. As for the rest, the men in prison for his murder have changed their stories multiple times. This could be the real story, but it’s not possible to tell anymore.
Whew. My son just moved to Colorado for his new job, FLOODS and DOOM, but he survived, with 2 year old twins the 2005 Florida Katrina/Rita/Wilma hurricanes that passed over his house, I told him he can surivive this too 🙂 So far, so good.
Are you sure your son doesn’t have some rain / storm god mad at him?
I was thinking the same thing!
Is the left really defending that there’s a need to PROMOTE WATER?
Yes. And taking high umbrage when anyone jokes at the silliness of it. It’s a serious issue! SERIOUS issue!
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/09/14/petition-underway-asking-obama-to-give-his-nobel-peace-prize-to-vladimir-putin/
petition underway asking backtrack to give his nobel peace prize to vladimir putin
If your kids get lost in the maze, do you have to go looking for them?
LOL, I did have a 911 call vid/audio on my blog, it amused me 😉 The family was fine.
File under: You learn something new every day.
Today I found out something I hadn’t known. I can blame my ignorance on a lot of things. I was a lefty. I was, at that time, in the midst of raising two children who were 15 months apart, so a bit distracted from world affairs other than MSM spin. But here’s what I didn’t know:
When the USSR fell, they pretty much gave up the Eastern bloc countries without much of a fight. The main reason they did that was because they had cut a deal with the USA via Reagan. The deal was that none of those countries would ever be allowed to join NATO. Russia was promised that there would remain a permanent neutral buffer between them and NATO. That NATO would not be on their doorstep, so to speak. That’s why they didn’t fight.
Bill Clinton reneged on that deal. He is the one who pushed and got many of the former Soviet satellites into NATO. Now, one can say that was a good move or a bad move, justified or unjustified. Or that the USSR wouldn’t have been able to fight even had they been so inclined. But one has to say, if one is honest, that it was a serious betrayal of the word of the United States. And yes, from Russia’s POV, that looks like aggression. Again, not saying right move or wrong, just noting the facts and how they would inevitably appear to Russia today. That the USA lied through its teeth, and cannot be trusted.
I did not know this until today. Now I do. Makes a few things re: Georgia, etc a bit clearer.
Russia has been invaded from the west on many occasions, most recently in 1941. The USSR suffered huge numbers of casualties in both world wars, a fact that is never mentioned in most U.s. history classes.
I’m not not trying to paint a picture of poor misunderstood Russia, because they have been incredibly brutal to their neighbors and their own citizens. But there is a reason that they mistrust America and western Europe. They have been invaded from the south and east as well.
You mean the world is not simple and binary? Whuuuh???
Here is another little know fact:
After Doolittle’s Raid on Tokyo in 1942 most of the 16 bomber crews flew to mainland China where they were helped by the Chinese and eventually returned to the U.S. An estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians were killed by the Japanese in the search for Doolittle’s men.
The Japanese were brutal, sadistic, warlike people for so many centuries. Not a peep out of them since WWII.
There are three basic versions of US history. There is the officially approved version that most of us learned in K-12 classes where America can do no wrong. Then there is the Howard Zinn/leftwing version where Amerikkka has done nothing right. For the most part both versions are factually correct, but both versions are also incomplete.
The last version is the truth. More precisely, it’s the whole truth.
Amen, Klown. Of course, if you are under 40, the “evil white people oppressive raping colonialist” Zinn version is all you ever learned. A correction from the sanitized version WAS needed. The problem is, we just got the flip side of a lie. The truth is more complicated.
That is why I take issue with the concept of American exceptionalism because it is based on the traditional version of US history.
If by exceptionalism you mean “USA is always the good guy”, then no. I always took it to mean the exceptional ideals we were founded upon, which we used to at least *try* to live up to most of the time.
The government has denied many things they say never happened. Case in point is the “Battle of Los Angeles” in February, 1942.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles
This was a “false alarm”. And yet at the time one of my classmates living on the far southern outskirts of LA missed school the next day because the Army had quarantined them that morning after his dad reported that overnight part of the wooden tail section of a plane had fallen into their back yard.
This had occurred at about the same time my dad, an air raid warden, saw something high in the sky get illuminated in the searchlights and then seem to catch fire and explode, with fiery pieces pinwheeling to earth. But it was probably just hysteria.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/09/14/securing-syrias-weapons-may-require-us-troops.html?comp=7000023317828&rank=1
securing Syria’s weapons may require US troops on the ground.
my question will they be allowed to carry weapons or will it be open season on them from the al qaeda groups backtrack just gave arms?
Over and out….
OUCH.
Posted on facebook:
To those who keep trying to crow that the Syrian deal is a great triumph for Obama, and that he’s the one in charge and driving this thing: you are woefully ill-informed. Educate yourself. Putin made the President of the United States look like a feckless rank amateur on the world stage. He played Obama like a fiddle.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/09/13/how_putin_turned_moscow_back_into_a_middle_east_powerhouse
The non-US media doesn’t cover for Obama.
and Putin’s a guy who gassed his own people in a Moscow theater.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis
Ace has the coolest picture. I do not know how to bring it over
al catpone
Bill got old.
Has anyone read about this blog post yet? A mother is being pilloried for telling teenage girls they shouldn’t post sexy pictures of themselves on social media.
http://givenbreath.com/2013/09/03/fyi-if-youre-a-teenage-girl/
I was stuck watching The View on Friday(doctor’s office) an actor by the name of Isaiah Washington was on to promote a film about the DC sniper and walters asked him about his absence from the spotlight and the fallout from a homophobic slur he had uttered while a regular on Grey’s Anatomy. No tough questions. No apology. wah wah said its over with and has been resolved. Wonder if that coven would offer Dean the same latitude.
I have no words. Obama is trying to ruin this country. THIS is who is going to be the new Undersecretary of the United States Navy. Please read her stellar qualifications. **headdesk**
He’s just fucking handing out jobs to cronies like plums, with no regard for the work that needs to be done. Okay, he’s done that from the start. But I thought even he might draw the line at our military. Evidently not. Have I mentioned how much I loathe this man?
http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/2013/09/so-you-need-new-bob-work.html
I want women in a higher management positions, but I expect that woman to be able to do the job.and do it damn well. Have the qualifications and not be a place holder.
Backtrack seems to pick the worse people to fill needed jobs
In which Mark Steyn eviscerates Obama:
http://nationalreview.com/article/358480/american-ineffectualism-mark-steyn
Vermin in the White House? Really? Who woulda thought?
http://www.nationaljournal.com/whitehouse/bugged-obama-s-roach-problem-20130913
I woulda, but I used to be a pest control tech. Tom Delay owned a pest control company and when he first came to Congress he discovered that the Capitol was infested with roaches too.
They’re old buildings that can never be shut down long enough to properly treat them. Think of the logistics and security nightmares of trying to perform pest control at the White House.
Isn’t DC built over swampland?
And getting bigger by the day. shock: