Well, finally, I own my “new” home (for as long as I continue to make payments to the bank, pay the taxes, and keep my homeowners insurance in force). Floyd the Kubota has left his temporary home at my sister’s place, and is now settled in where he’ll hopefully have many happy years of service (in fact, Floyd spent the night where none of our other vehicles have spent any time in the past year or so – in a garage). There is much work to do before we can even begin to think about moving in over there, but at least phase one is complete. Naturally, now that there’s work to do, it’s turned pretty damn cold (with a few snow fluffies in the air, even). Fortunately, things are supposed to warm up a bit over the weekend and next week. I’ve gotta get the fence put up so I can take the dogs out there with me. Oh well, time to get my shit together and head out.
Congratulations on buying Floyd a garage and the dogs a place to roam! :pup:
Congratulations pj and RG!
:banana: :banana: :banana:
Interestingly enough, I’m headed today to OKC to close on a house in the city! It was built in 1920. Mr. FK gets in Sunday for 2 weeks and then he returns to the sandbox. Hope he likes the house – he’s never seen it! :omg:
Ha Ha on Juan Williams.
Serves him right as he and those other conventional media “villagers” all deserved to be kicked out on their asses.
Floyd the Barber is like the typical media villager, always “tut-tutting” when Andy’s boy Opie gets himself in trouble.
Congratulations PJ and RG. Enjoy that new house.
Okat, congratulations to you, too. I hope Mr. FK and the dogs are pleased as well.
In the wake of news that Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recently contacted Anita Hill, the woman behind a sexual harassment scandal that almost derailed the Justice during his confirmation hearings, Thomas’s ex-girlfriend is now seeking to enter the fray with serious new allegations about his demeanor in the years before the Hill controversy. In an interview with the Washington Post, Lillian McEwen says Hill’s allegations fit a pattern:
“He was always actively watching the women he worked with to see if they could be potential partners,” McEwen told the Post, adding that he was particularly “partial to women with large breasts” and even would ask woman about their bra size.
“He was obsessed with porn,”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/22/lillian-mcewan-clarence-thomas-ex-girlfriend_n_772302.html
I’m sure Clarence is not pleased with what his wingnut wife has wrought.
fuck uncle tom!
And uncle John
I have no sympathy for Juan Williams but I thought NPR was in the wrong firing him both for hypocritical and political reasons.
First, he’s been openly appearing on Fux for awhile as a commentaor under contract to make comments. Why did NPR allow him to be under contract with another media in the first place? Like Cokie the Whore who’s allowed to say asanine things on NPR, why wouldn’t Juan have the same right?
Besides, maron has said virtually the same thing in his act(that’s the hypocrisy part for all of us tut tutting.
Politically, it was stupid. Now all the rethugs are going to have their heads explode while they defund NPR. And guess who will go along with it?
Obama
And though NPR is widely seen as publicly funded, the majority of its funding does not come (even indirectly) from taxpayers. NPR doesn’t receive direct federal funding for operations – the largest chunk of its money comes from program fees and station dues, as NPR’s finances page lays out.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20020383-503544.html
Stop trying to confuse us with facts, Sue.
because he is a :billcat:
McDonald’s figure Joan Kroc gave NPR a $200 Million Gift a few years back.