Have fun today, Texas Mom to Many…in Texas, and here.
“You can leave your hat on!” — here’s a photo of your dancing telegram. Isn’t that zoon there in the middle?:
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Happy Birthday, Tex-sis!!
Howdy,mom Tracy!You and Zoon and the chaps have good one.
Ellis County Courthouse,Waxahachie,Texas
http://troyh.us/photos/Texas%20Courthouses/05375%20Ellis%20County%20Courthouse%20in%20Waxahachie.jpg
Utterly magnificent…Richardson Romanesque leavened by Andalusian Moorish.Makes me want to cry.
Six Pence None The Richer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc
Thanks for paying attention.
http://www.threedonia.com/archives/57513
I like this one lots, too, Scott M.
The Thunder on the Right
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/25/santorum-rand-paul-lead-abortion-opposition-march-for-life/
Who’s laughing about Ron Paul now?Heh.
2016 now.
I won’t go for 2016 for him largely because I tend to be against Senators becoming President. (Lincoln was the exception)
But I’m glad he is marching for life.
Lincoln was never a senator. Just a congressman.
Forgot. He only ran for Senate.
So, are there any exeptions?
Take your pick.
I see your point.
Comments,Jimmy?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/01/ballot-integrity-in-the-state-of-washington.php
As Captain Renault would say, I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to find that voter fraud is going on here! Our illustrious Governor Gregoire remains in office, despite winning reelection through a fraudulent recount that included thousands of felons and dead people voting for her. Of course, since she’s a Democrat, the media covers her ass and the state GOP has zero power to do anything about it, so to be a Democrat here basically means no competition at all.
As for the automatic ballot mailing, that’s the first I’ve heard of it, but it doesn’t surprise me. All voting in the state is done by mail, they don’t even have voting booths. The idea being that it saves on election costs, and it’s easier for homebound people to vote by mail. But it also means there’s more opportunity to take advantage of the system through voter fraud.
Caravaggio,”The Calling of St. Matthew”
http://musiqdragonfly.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/caravaggio-the-calling-of-saint-matthew.jpg
What I love about this painting…the expression of the tax farmer Matthew,his finger pointed at his chest:”Me?”
The Sistine Chapel..the Delphic Sybil
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XyT5QoDnf3U/S9ef4Ls2VAI/AAAAAAAADq8/yrCC7mDllbM/s1600/sibyl.jpg
Licorice,love it or hate it
http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Homemade-Black-Licorice
Love it…beats the f out of cilantro.
I have an easier receipe for liquorice. Pernod on ice, with a splash of water.
Delicious. If one were to drink four (or was it five?) at one sitting, one might have a rather psychedelic experience. Or so I have heard. Or so I was told.
When I want licorice … give me Ouzo.
Ya know, Matt, there was a reason we called Pernod “Paranoid” when I was in Germany in the USAF!
That’s what I’m talkin’ ’bout (or so I have heard. Or so I was told).
That must be why I feel like Toulouse Lautrec when I drink it … waddling around the wimens.
Ms. Lawson loves cilantro. It’s what’s for dinner.
You can’t make good Mexican food without cilantro. And I love good Mexican food.
You will find it here:Julios Cafe Corona.
I had good homemade Mexican (pollo en mole) made by a lovely woman raised in Mexico whom I visited over the MLK weekend and who lives in South Texas (about 20 minutes from Brownsville). … Mmmm … tasty … And she’s a lovely, lovely woman … more on that later …
My favorite dish is pollo en mole poblano. And we’re all orejas to hear about your pollo en the mole (spelled with an “m”).
I’m partial to Peruvian aji sauce on my pollo. Do you have a La Granja restaurant out there? $5 for a quarter chicken, black beans, rice, a soft drink, all the aji sauce you can shake a drumstick at, and an INS nightmare in the kitchen.
To each his own…ugh.
Have you ever had that Australian soft licorice, Scott? It’s freaking awesome. The only place I’ve been able to find it is Trader Joe’s, but it’s probably available in other places, too.
I have,but I don’t remember the brand.
Happy Birthday, Tracy! Hope the kids pamper you in appreciation for changing all those Pampers.
And I hope the chirren give you lots of hugs in appreciation for changing all those Huggies.
I hope they cloth her for boiling all those cloths.
Happy Birthday Tracy! Hope the sun comes out for you later in the day!
Happy Birthday Tracy!
Happy Birthday Tracy. May God grant you many years!
I arrived in SoCal last evening and found the Suns and Sunettes were working, so I went to see Les Misérables. Someone here said to bring lots of Kleenex, Kit I think. He was right. It was a gully washer. I was grateful for the comic relief from Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen which allowed me to reclaim my composure.
I wish I had remembered that advice when I saw it. I could barely contain myself at the end.
The play/movie is a liturgy almost… many of the songs are outright prayers… Bring Him Home may be the greatest song ever written and the way Alfie Boe sings it … well it’s just not fair.
Very true that! Magnificent!
Oui! C’est trez magnifique
“If I die, let him live. Bring him home.”
The source of my salvation in nine words. Christianity 101. Amen.
Happy Birthday, Tracy! Rest, relax, look at that above Magic Mike picture — repeat as necessary.
Happy birthday, Tracy! Hope the yutes give you a break today.
Happy Birthday, Tracy.
Happy Birthday Tracy!
Bobby Jindal’s latest speech at the RNC Winter Committee. Its quite good.
http://www.c-span.org/Events/Gov-Jindal-R-LA-Speaks-at-RNC-Winter-Meeting/10737437547/
Transcript: http://washingtonexaminer.com/full-text-bobby-jindals-dynamite-speech-to-the-republican-national-committee-in-charlotte/article/2519682
I like what he says.
He borrows from the Hollande quote and says “We must not become the party of austerity. We must be the party of growth” but means a very different thing. Throughout the speech he points out that by making it about bigger vs. smaller governement we remain focused on the idea of government as a central part of society. In other words, we fight on the Dems’ turf.
“We have fallen into a trap of believing that the world revolves around Washington, and that the economy is based there. If we keep believing that, government will grow so big that it will take us all down with it.”
I like this: “The Democrats promise to be the party of “more from government,” but they are actually the party of less. They are the party of economic contraction, austerity and less from the economy. The Republican Party is the party of “more,” the party that creates “more from the economy.””
And this:
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So you ask, what does that future look like? How do we win this argument?
For starters, we have to recalibrate the compass of conservatism. Now, I’ve been very clear. We don’t need to change what we believe as conservatives – our principles are timeless.
But we do need to re-orient our focus to the place where conservatism thrives – in the real world beyond the Washington Beltway. We must lay out the contrast between liberalism’s top-down government solutions and our Bottom-Up real world philosophy.
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What do you think?
Comparing the levels of economic growth under tax-cutting administrations with that of tax-raising ones would be a good start.
Even then, you are focusing on Washington.
I don’t think that is a start. ITs a great point to bring up but it must start even deeper.
Policies must grow priniples that are well-articulated.
I feel like I’m beating a dead horse but Reagan knew how, and its not hard. Lawyers, teachers, etc. do it very well. Take big ideas and make them digestible.
“In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we’ve been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?”
Here’s the latest on gun control, noting that there is quite a lot of democraqtic resistance to messing with it. Harry Reid is sitting full square in the middle of a wringer. Very interesting read!
http://news.yahoo.com/democrats-may-stand-obamas-way-gun-measures-134432125–politics.html
Happy and blessed Birthday to you Tracy! Enjoy your special day!!!
Here’s your special birthday song!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-28jAoTPFw
Happy birthday Tracy! I hope it’s filled with love and laughs to last the whole year ’round!
Happy birthday, Tracy.
Tracy! I almost missed it! I hope you are having a wonderful birthday and you will have a blessed year!
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Oh my! Permission denied. Where do I send my membership dues?
Happy Birthday, Tracy!