Bigger In Texas

The Failing Charity Case NY Times delivers feel-good vignettes from Harvey-hit Houston, and I am delighted to see something to feel good about. I love the lead:

HOUSTON — This city sprawls over 600 square miles, an area so big that Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit could all fit within it simultaneously. 

How many Manhattans? Twenty six. Two New York Cities.

And that is only Lesser Houston:

The nine-county Houston metropolitan region, covering more than 10,000 square miles, is almost as large as the entire state of Massachusetts.

 

Comments

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Old thread!

[Captain Hate]

So does our GOPe congress get back to "work" tomorrow?

[narciso.]

Not as clueless as pillar, but that is a high bar:

http://nationalinterest.org/feature/here-what-chinese-scholars-think-about-the-north-korea-22145

[-peter]

26 Manhattans? I'd be down for the count after four...

more on violin history at the LUN

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

LOL, peter.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

Anyone know exactly what is happening here?

https://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-job-applicants-citing-top-secret-us-govern-1798733354

[Momto2]

Good morning all! Happy Labor day! I am doing well - 3 weeks down, 7 to go.

I hope Kev is ok. I don't get to read every post now, but I haven't seen a recent update.

" We’re always talking about ‘DREAMers’ yet never about American kids. What about their dreams?" President Trump

They want us to forget American kids and worry about these:

[Momto2]

So does our GOPe congress get back to "work" tomorrow?

My question CH is how can you tell?

[Frau Karl der Hammer]

Momto2 - Their office staffers will be moving about.

I hope you are moving about, too. Keep on with your solid recovery.

[Clarice Feldman]

Hope Irma misses NYC..It would be a shame if anything happened to the aleeady sinking NYT. As for the WaPo--here's their latest on the state of Trump's union:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-action-after-action-trump-appeals-primarily-to-his-dwindling-base/2017/09/03/a3ab9bf4-8f57-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?utm_term=.f2f20a35bf24

[Captain Hate]

Is Elmer Fudd Sessions taking extra nappy time during the last day of his August recess so he'll be rarin' to go to rein in the rogue FBI? Or has he recused himself from oversight responsibilities because he may have mentioned the agency during the campaign season?

[Captain Hate]

My question CH is how can you tell?

More Russian interference hearings.

[Threadkiller]

HOUSTON — This city sprawls over 600 square miles, an area so big that Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit could all fit within it simultaneously.

Makes the concept of "overpopulation" seem pretty far fetched.

[jimmyk]

Their office staffers will be moving about.

A reduced rate of connections to porn websites?

[jimmyk]

Hope Irma misses NYC..It would be a shame if anything happened to the aleeady sinking NYT.

Latest projections seem to have it moving toward Cuba, S. Florida, and then the Gulf. Hopefully weakened by then.

[Clarice Feldman]

Florida has very good hurricane preparations in place. NYC if the cone shifts?

[Threadkiller]

If Wikipedia and my math are correct. Houston area has 6.8 million people.

The combined population of Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit equals 22.6 million.

I wonder if the moderate baby killers know that there is this much room for Houston's population to grow?

Let them live!

[Clarice Feldman]

A note for Iggy:https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Environmental+Hysteria&view=detail&mid=F5F07D0DEBF0DC2F48C8F5F07D0DEBF0DC2F48C8&FORM=VIRE

[DebinGA]

IL is second only to #1 CA in Americans leaving their state (outmigration). TX is #1 destination for such folks (inmigration). FL is high in both inmigration and outmigration.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump

We are building our future with American hands, American labor, American iron, aluminum and steel. Happy #LaborDay!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DI5NSmXXkAAyUlV.jpg

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Adding "tiny" to the jpg up above made a really, really small picture. "Small" made it smaller, but not small enough to fit on the page. Hence the link.

[jimmyk]

Iowahawk as usual gets right to the heart of it:

Bill Prady‏ Verified account @billprady

The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens...for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

— Leviticus 19:34

David Burge‏ @iowahawkblog

Hot new progressive trend: promoting public policy based on quotes from Leviticus

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/904742347531067396

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

jimmyk,

That's the only time they read the Bible. Whenever there is an issue they go to a Concordance and look up every reference, so as to find something to club their opponents with.

There's pretty selective about when they quote Scripture, however. I notice they ignore the passages calling homosexuality a sin or pointing out how precious the life of a child is.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

http://salvationarmynorth.org/2015/12/my-pillow-founder-opens-up-about-addiction/

This is a really nice story.

[Captain Hate]

Now that things aren't getting insanely worse in Houston, what is the real honest story on Joel Osteen and his church?

[Janet the expert 🚬]

Who is John Galt?‏ @Eddv123 1h1 hour ago
Replying to @iowahawkblog

Thought we only legislated based on poems on the Statue of Liberty.

[glasater]

Think I've mentioned this here before but I remember reading awhile back that the entire population of the world could fit into the state of Texas.

It is big! :-)

[Janet the expert 🚬]

I'm no fan of Osteen, but I could not stand the bashing.
I dropped people on FB because of it.

Who was gonna take care of the people that came in? Were members of the church taking care of their own families?
Any chance there would be suing if something happened to people coming in?

It is ridiculous to pick out one organization & bash them.
Did Target stores open up & let people camp there?
Did Nordstrom at Houston Galleria open up to let people stay there?

[jimmyk]

glasater, if I have the numbers right, putting the entire world population into Texas would result in a density of 27,000 people per square mile. The density of Manhattan is about 67,000 per square mile.

So it works, but you might not like all of your neighbors. :)

[Captain Hate]

Yes, Janet; he seems like a target the MFM would love to gin up some hate about.

[Old Lurker]

M22 "So does our GOPe congress get back to "work" tomorrow?

My question CH is how can you tell?"

Answer: The quality of your life will resume its downward trajectory.

[narciso]

like twain said, back in the gilded age, your life and property will not be safe, when the legislature is in session, that was 140 some years ago.

[glasater]

Thanks, JimmyK! If my neighbors were JOMmers all would be well :-)

[Janet the expert 🚬]

How about organizations of the left?
Were they open, taking in people & letting them sleep & stay over there?
Abortion clinics, all University buildings, all government buildings (libraries, auditoriums, etc.)?

How about any art museums? Did they open their doors & house & feed & treat hurricane victims?

There is a Sierra Club chapter in Houston - http://www.sierraclub.org/texas/houston

Did they open their doors? The Sierra Club has bajillions of dollars.

[GUS]

Janet, it's not by accident. The Full Commie is organized. Religion and virtue, decency and moral values. All are targeted and under assault. I've seen several JOM'ers make statements in DEFENSE of Joel Osteen and his Church. Mr Osteen has nothing to DEFEND, he was targeted because he is HIGH PROFILE, and because the VALUES he PORTRAYS, is OPPOSITE of FULL COMMIE VALUES. I don't know Joel Osteen, but his CONGREGATION follow Ostee, Jesus Christ, and Tradional Values.

Has THE FULL COMMIE attacked GEORGE SOROS yet?

[Jim Eagle]

Mrs. JiB got out the big ladder and marched it down to the apple trees. She picked a full bushel and I am getting ready to make a couple of pie crusts . Nothing like a home grown and made apple pie, especially a la mode. Or, with a slice of aged cheddar on top:) [For all of you who remember that discussion].

The new generation of rivals are at it in Norton, MA at the Dell Championship. Back in the day it was Nicklaus, Palmer, Trevino, Watson, and Player. Now its Spieth, Johnson, Thomas, Rahm and Day. But at 47, Lefty can still play with them.

Some superb golf. Of course, when you are hitting wedges in to the par 4's, you can generate superb golf.

[Captain Hate]

The Horde weighs in:

I don't think Osteen is malicious. I just think he's a dimwit with a pretty face. Justin Trudeau at a pulpit.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo

Agree. He is a sincere, shallow, not-too-bright happy person, with the largest megachurch in the country who knows nothing about his own religion. I envy him, but I don't wish ill on him.

He tells that 1 stupid corny joke - very effective.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at September 04, 2017 02:50 PM (/qEW2)

[-peter]

j-i-b, thank you for inviting me to see Frederic's scrimmage the other day. Lately on typepad at least two thirds of my posts disappear so communication becomes somewhat haphazard. I had other commitments Saturday morning but could not make it, but glad that Frederic got into the scrimmage and played well.

[narciso]

yes, his father was the preacher, he went to oral Roberts university, but his field was communications not divinity, it's like tapioca for the soul,

[Frau Karl der Hammer]

Clarice @ 12:44 - Great 30 minutes and worth sharing.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

I remain convinced the only reason they went after Osteen was that they couldn't find anything substantial to criticize Trmp over (hence Melania's shoes and the empathy discussion) so they went after the biggest non-leftist target in Houston.

They couldn't go after the black democrat mayor. They couldn't attack Abbott, who was doing a great job and on TV almost 24-7. No way were they going after athletes os stadiums.

Hence, Joel Osteen. Their thinking was "Trump supporters are Christians so Osteen is worth attacking."

The truly are nasty people.

[JimNorCal]

Boston Herald reports "North Korea has threatened to launch an electromagnetic pulse attack that could shut down the United States’ power grid — causing months of blackouts that could bring society to a halt, with rampant crime and social chaos."

I day, take 'em at their word.

[Threadkiller]

Amnesty didn’t die because of Senator Ted Cruz or anything he did or didn’t do.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/04/reminder-just-how-close-was-the-2014-amnesty-vote-heres-the-back-story/#more-138152

#Canuck&Jive

[GUS]

Yeah!!! I think FULL COMMIE LIBTARDS should focus on how "Pretty" Leotardo DiCraptardio is.
I'd ask WTF is WRONG with these people, but I KNOW what is wrong with them.
SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM, means more FREE SHIT, and an IKEA GOLD CARD. Anything that stands in the way of THEIR HAPPINESS and FULFILLMENT at YOUR COST is BAD. What has JOEL OSTEEN done, that bothers them???

[Extraneus]

Their thinking was "Trump supporters are Christians so Osteen is worth attacking."

Hive insects don't need instructions to know who to swarm.

[GUS]

THE FULL COMMIE attacks it's ENEMIES.
The MFM is THE FULL COMMIE.
THE MFM attacks anyone who isn't THE FULL COMMIE.

THE FULL COMMIE TRANSITIVE PROPERTY.

[Jim Eagle]

I day, take 'em at their word.

JimNorCal,

The NORK's are the asian phony Texan, "all hat no cattle", when it comes to EMP. I don't believe they have minituarized their H-bomb tech to fit an ICBM warhead either, regardless of the level of Persian technology.

That is why I wonder if we aren't planning a targeted EMP attack using our own real technology via cruise missles and other surgical delivery systems. We have cloaking technologies deployed in a lot of our priority installations but not the grid. But then the retaliation centers are all cloaked so its a stupid move on his part.

I think the next 72 hours will show either China putting down the sword on Un's neck or Mattis unleashes a special kind of hell.

[Clarice Feldman]

jimmyk, I hadn't seen your Iowahawk quote. Ran across it a few minutes ago, laughed out loud and posted it on FB. My goodness, how he is the master of twitter.He does more with 140 characters than most pundits do with a shitload of pages.

[Clarice Feldman]

How much electrical capacity does N Korea have any way outside of the palace and nuclear installations. From the night views, it looks like they barely have candles.

[Clarice Feldman]

I wonder if Bill Prady typed that with bacon in his mouth?

[GUS]

Hello Clarice!! Good timing!. I just arrived home from vacation in Colorado. I also just read your pieces. FANTASTIC. I cannot imagine the ABUSE you will take from THE FULL COMMIE. You were SPOT ON, and your SUBJECT MATTER took some guts to publish.
God Bless you my dear. I'm having a KAISER ROLL in your honor later today.

[Captain Hate]

Obviously taking down those Confederate monuments solved everything:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/alabama-offensive-coordinators-son-shot-and-killed-in-disturbing-incident/ar-AArh4Wt?OCID=ansmsnnews11

[matt, deplore me if you must]

The problem with an EMP attack on North Korea is that the People's computer will fail, denying Dear Leader his porn fix.

Otherwise, the country will continue on with its ca. 1900 power grid and slave labor.

South Korea would bear the brunt of such an attack.

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

EMP not for their chandeliers in Un's palace but to wipe their I4C and launch processes. Blowing out the candles is a collateral issue.

[daddy]

my mind flashes back to the very day in the early 60's, sitting at a lunch counter in the Quarrier Diner reading the paper, the headline in the Daily Mail was "JFK Budget first ever to break $100 Billion" and I marveled at how damn much cash that was.

Posted by: Old Lurker

Quarrier Diner

[narciso]

You are not to abuse the stranger, take advantage of him, heck isn't that the point of the fortune 500 today.

Sadly Lopez obrador is in the lead inn the presidential race, He is their cotbyn.

[GUS]

Matt. Something MUST BE DONE. We knew that when Senorita Okie Doke, pretended to be President. 8 years went by, and in those 8 years. OKIE DOKE, paid and ENCOURAGED VIOLENT DICTATORS and MULLAHS. OBAMA is the COMPLETE FUCK UP, BUT, the IRAN, CUBA, VENEZUELA, N.KOREA love affair and malfeasance, is BEYOND EPIC. This is NOT, Paulie Ryan, kicking the can down the road. The END GAME is SERIOUS.
OKIE DOKE von KENYA, is the biggest LOSER/CLOWN in modern HISTORY.
Unfortunately, we MUST ACT NOW. The CONVERSE is WORSE than any other RISK.

[Jim Eagle]

OL & daddy,

Was it a Greek owned diner? On Long Island all the diners are owned by greek families. I get breakfast the Peconic Diner in Riverhead after dropping Frederick off for morning practices. Can't beat it.

Our local Sip 'n Soda is greek family owned also. Funny how the Greeks got into big menu restaurants, the Koreans own all the dry cleaners and the Paki's & Indians the 7/11's.

[GUS]

Daddy, you have gotten so VERY GOOD at JOM SATIRE, that I can recognize....YOUR WORK.... within a paragraph. Once I sense it's DADDY, I scroll to the bottom and in doing so, I see more DADDY PROOF.
You have become quite AWESOME at your second calling!!!!
Good to see you always friend.

[Jim Eagle]

matt,

You can target EMP. Would not affect SK at all.

[Clarice Feldman]

Gee, Gus, I'm blushing. The only thing that will get me back on the ground after that compliment is is you share that Kaiser roll with me--hand some over. XOXO

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Grandson took me to Metro Diner for lunch today. The original is in Florida and this one has been open about a year. There are now 4 in Indianapolis:

https://metrodiner.com/

The food was very good, but a bit pricey because the portions are huge. Otherwise, pretty decent place. My only objection was that it was way cold in there, so when I finished I went outside to wait while Nate paid, something I wouldn't usually do.

[Clarice Feldman]

JIB--looks like a good chance the dune on our property will be washed away again--sigh-https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/04/hurricane-expert-dr-ryan-maue-on-irma-plausible-track-worst-case-scenario/

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Regarding his presence on the sidelines (I think that is correct for football), he said it was awesome. He got to meet Lee Corso. Also said the best part was the flyover at the beginning.

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

-peter and I living on Long Island are probably world recognized experts on diners. Also the folks in Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island. But for some reason we seem to have one in every hamlet and town.

You will know it is a good diner if the menu is more than twenty pages and weighs 5#'s. Also, if it has blintzes for breakfast and hash. Steak and eggs is a staple.

Does Metro Diner have a case at the register where you can buy whole cakes and pies? If not, tell them to get with the program:)

[Old Lurker]

Daddy!

Wonderful find at 4:22. That be the place!

No JiB, not Greeks. By the time I came along the twin diners were gone and had been replaced by the Art Deco style building shown toward the bottom of the pics at your link. Same family, the G'daughter of which was in my class at HS. And she was one nice lookin girl, she was. As mentioned in some of that link, that street did become the nice shopping street in the 40s & 50s with other nice deco buildings for several blocks.

The town of course is now in the tank, less than half the size it was when I was a kid.

Now here is the really small world. A few years ago one of the cable tv car channels had a show touring the collections of fat cat collectors and their over the top houses. So I'm watching, drinking an adult beverage, and one of the collections was housed on the lower level of a big CA place, and the setting was made to be a small town street front with the cars parked in front of the storefronts. I'm looking at it and say "that looks real familiar to me...it almost looks like Quarrier Street where I grew up. Then the camera moved to one store front which included the interior as well and lo and behold, it was the Blossom Dairy where I would have lunch on days I was not at the Quarrier Diner one block closer to HS.

Now that was just too weird, and the TV show did not reveal the owner, but just said he was a small town kid who hit the big time, and when his hometown was on the skids, he bought up the street he grew up on and moved it to CA.

Took only a few clicks to find the kid was Chairman/Founder of Cisco, and he sat in front of me in math classes from Jr. HS on, and our families had been friends for several generations.

Your 4:22 touched all of those buttons for me!

[GUS]

Clarice!! If that dirty BEEEYOTCH Irma, does in your DUNE. The Gus Estate in "VERY" SUBURBAN Oconomowoc, has frontage at your disposal!!!
KAISER ROLLS are part of the B and B menu.
Clarice! Surely you REMEMBER.....MRS GREBE's!??
My lake is clean and 80 degrees!!

[GUS]

Jack!!! After all of these years, I am thrilled at WHO, your young son Frederick has become.
You and I have shared things along the way, and it seems to me, that BOTH of our SONS', are following a path, designed by US, and the LORD.
My son, is now a JUNIOR at MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL. He has lettered in FOOTBALL and TRAP SHOOTING. His Educational, Catholic, Jesuit and Faith based experience is beyond ANYTHING, I could have imagined. My son is glib, intelligent and he is CHALLENGED every day. I'm SURE, you are on the same page, with me.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

Great nostalgia for you and thanks for sharing. Are you on the island?

Boy, last day of summer here and it shows. Lots of easy parking. No one in the Village. Schools start tomorrow. The drive west is bumper to bumper. Praise the Lord and pass the wine. Vendange starts next week in most vineyards.

What I like about Jim Justice, he is trying to restore West "by God" Virginia to the great state for tourism and fun. Many a white water adventure and backpacking there. Love the state.

Plus Charles

[Jim Eagle]

...plus Charlestown races.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jack,

Metro Diner isn't what I consider a real diner, even if it was featured on Guy Fiere's show. It has some of the trappings of a diner (varied and large menu) and serves a lot of diner classics (breakfast all day, burgers, fired chicken).

However, the specials today were a blackened chicken quesadilla and some sort of spiced chicken salad. The portions are too big and you can't order a la carte. No pastries or cakes in a case, and it seems that they keep it to cold in order to hasten turnover. It was very crowded and we had to wait half an hour to be seated.

There actually is a real diner about a block south and west of me on a major street. They cater to the students so have a lot of cheapo eats. Menu like you described and old stand-alone building. No cases of baked goods, though.

[Captain Hate]

hence Melania's shoes

I think it's hilarious that Vogue sics their androgynous model of Wes Craven's version of Raggedy Ann to make catty comments on an honestly gorgeous First Lady doing First Lady things. Meanwhile ex Preznit Cock Curious and his Jeremiah Wright Downlow Dating Service beard go on a prolonged series of separate vacations like that's a normal thing.

I'm sure I'm not the only person noticing this.

[daddy]

Earthquake!

Just a small one, tho:) Didn't even wake the dogs.

[Jim Eagle]

Clarice,

Doubt it will be the same. We just got done restoring the dunes and all the sea turtle nests have been dug out. We should be safe. Mrs. JiB not going back until after Frederick's first game this week and next. Looks to me SC and NC more of a target then us on LI and in the NE.

But please, Lord, keep it east and away from the Gulf.

[Old Lurker]

Yes, still on island, Jack. Till mid October. I was thinking about why you get all the big dollar cars and we don't. Then I realized you can't get them on Gulfstreams and the owners ain't about to drive them to the ferry and come over on the slow boats. But it would be a hoot, since the max speed on the Island is 45 and then only on one street for a few miles.

[maryrose]

JIB:
My husband and I have done whitewater rafting on the New River and the Gauley.
Hope to go again this year.
Clarice:
Outstanding article and great comments.!
I also read the Conrad Black piece and the Canadian and US stories are interesting.

[Captain Hate]

I went to a summer camp in West Virginia one summer where Charleston was the closest place of any size. It was really out in the sticks.

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

Funny story.

Most of us here are convinced a lot of the young guys out here partying and driving exotics are rented. So to prove that thought, Frederick one day pulled up to a Ferrari on Hill St. coming into the village and asked the guy waiting at the light how much Hertz charges a day for the ride.

I only wish I could have had a magic camera on his bike to record that reaction.:)

[Old Lurker]

Maryrose...New River & Gauley...well within cruising range for the 16yo me. Gas was 35 cents.

[Old Lurker]

Frederick is da man!

[daddy]

Your 4:22 touched all of those buttons for me!

Cool, OL!

Also some neat WW2 History as I started scrolling through the pages of that link. I was hoping you'd get a kick out of it and I'm glad you did. I want the 60 cent T-Bone steak slathered in a half dozen fried oysters for an extra 30 cents. Also thought it interesting that the link says that Diner's were traditionally off limits to women and mainly for men. I suppose that makes sense in the day, so interesting to see how the owners went out of their way to encourage women to come on it---"THE LADIES INVITED."

And great story about Mister Cisco and the hot granddaughter!

[Old Lurker]

JiB "the young guys out here partying and driving exotics are rented"

This is where Jack slipped in a real funny, or else the engineer in him skipped the class on diagramming sentences. If you had said "young gals" it would be more obvious, but these days it is all for sale.

[Captain Hate]

Welp I found the summer camp; did you know about this, OL?

http://www.peterkin.org/

[Clarice Feldman]

Psst , Daddy, I'm not srure you really want to touch all of OL's buttons.

[Jim Eagle]

maryrose,

When I lived in DC/MD area I went to the World canoe and kayak championships on the Savage River in Western Maryland. Spectaular.

For some reason the eastern Europeans are the world's best in that event.

Love New River. Ah to be young and daring again.

The Homestead is great but nothing beats The Greenbrier. Nothing.

[GUS]

Capn', I've noticed that EON'S long LIBTARD outlets, have always SNARKED that THEIR ....really cool, I was a PUNK before YOU were a PUNK, attitudes, were ALWAYS, NOT BEFORE, YOU, were a PUNK. These MISFITS, believe being a MISFIT, is EQUAL to being in SOME WAY RELEVANT or ART!! Having TATTOO'S, being ANTI FA, RAGING AGAINST THE MACHINE........IT'S A JOKE. It's the remnants of having some REAL CAUSE!!!
What the American LEFT has become, is RAGING AGAINST NOTHING. Wanting FREE SHIT, and being PAT ON THE BACK for being a NE'ER DO WELL, is the CURRENCY of the CHILDREN of LOSER MOM'S and DAD'S.

I spent the last 4 PLUS days, at the UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY. MY BELOVED NIECE is a FRESHMAN CADET. SHE IS WHAT AMERICA REALLY STANDS FOR. I chuckled a couple of times speaking with My 2 lil bro's, their wives and kids, calling THE U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY............FLY OVER COUNTRY.
I met DOZENS of CADETS and their FAMILIES.
As I left my Hotel room, yesterday, the car parked next to mine...had Wisconsin plates.
I chatted with MOM and DAD....FROM ....Williams Bay Wisconsin. Their son Nicholas Robison, was, just like my NIECE Hannah.... a new Cadet. Nick went to Williams Bay H.S, QUITE NEAR Henry. My Niece went to H.S. in LONDON. We bonded and are friends now.
One last thing. As the USAF FALCON'S FOOTBALL TEAM ran onto the field. They ALL, ran to the distant (South) end zone. Each and every one of them, knelt down and PRAYED, individually on their own. I have ZERO idea who THEIR....GOD....is......BUT APPARENTLY........THEY DO.

What a WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.

My NIECE, is a USAF FRESHMAN CADET. I could not POSSIBLY, be MORE PROUD.

[Old Lurker]

Daddy, the back story on Ladies Invited, and the reason the twin diners were replaced with that two story deco building with the curtains drawn on the second floor windows, was that WV had no liquor by the drink, but private clubs could pour it a glass at a time. Quick thinkers discovered they could have a private club, charge $5 per year in dues, and have one heck of a bar business. Dad's law office was on that same street, and there were maybe four such clubs on that block. If you needed a lawyer or a judge or both, you knew where to find them.

From age 12 through HS, I worked on a parking lot Dad owned, and that view of "The Ott Building" was exactly the view from my "office" all those years.

[maryrose]

OL:
I remember gas at 99 cents and the trip for us is about 5 hours to West Virginia.
My niece is doing her residency in Kentucky.
Hope to see her soon as well.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Surprised no one mentioned the epic collapse of the Texas A&M football team last night. Very painful to watch!!

[Jim Eagle]

OL,

I knew immediately that Sister Theresa May in Heaven just let out an invective when I mangled that sentance in my hurry to post:)

Spieth giving up his 2 point lead once again in the FedEx. Thomas by 2 going in to the last 3 holes.

I don't think anyone over 30 will ever win a tournament again until those two turn 30.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Captain Hate,

I am sure Laura Bush is a lovely person, but she's about my size and shape and has never learned basic fashion stuff, like if you have a short neck and a full bust do NOT wear round collars, but choose v-necks.

I often thought that designers made her look dowdy on purpose. My clue was that when I occasionally saw her in jeans and a shirt, she looked much slimmer and younger.

I am not a fashion maven but my sister, who has worked in fashion retail all her life, taught me quite a bit. I am able to look presentable without spending a fortune thanks to her advice.

Those Vogue harpies think that we plebes don't remember that Melania was on the cover of their magazine when she married Trump. I happen to remember these details.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/5266930/thumbs/o-MELANIA-TRUMP-900.jpg?6

I also remember that guests included Oprah, Katie Couric and Matt Lauer, Shaquille O'Neil, Prince Charles, Conrad Black, and the Clintons.

Trump has never hidden his guest list, but you can bet a lot of the guests have. At least Trump's not a phony.

[Old Lurker]

OK Cap'n... Each summer, the Bishop of WV, whose mountain summer house was on the grounds of Peterkin, would come to the closing bonfire at the end of the summer and award a few campers "Who had grown in wisdom and grace" a signed Book of Common Prayer (when it was one).

I got it Summer of 1960 and it holds a place of honor in my study to this day.

[pagar, a bacon, ham and sausage supporter]

"OXFAM reported that during Obama’s terms, 95% of the wealth created went to the top 1% of the world’s wealthy." And Supposedly they claim to care about income inequality.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/09/how_president_obama_shrank_americas_consumer_dollar.html

[Jim Eagle]

MM,

The Trump roledex is his own CIA and FBI. He uses the hypocrisy factor a lot. And I do not feel sorry when he uses it against the phonies who begged for money or his endorsement.

[Captain Hate]

Sounds like a great time, Gus. Speaking of little brothers, mine found Mrs H and me a place in Ocean City for next to nothing during October 10-12 when our youngest daughter plans on camping in Assateague.

[Old Lurker]

Jack "The Homestead is great but nothing beats The Greenbrier. Nothing."

Jack, I learned to ski before I could drive at the Homestead. And my Dad taught me to drink Scotch, and my Mother, Bourbon, in the Greenbriar's Old White Club even before I was, gasp, 21.

[Man Tran]

Just lit the fires on a 747-400 heading to Frankfurt. On our way to cruise the Danube from Budapest east (or south) to the Black Sea.

[Miss Marple the Deplorable]

Jack,

Prime example was when he had Lindsey Graham's cell phone number and read it out.

You just know he has had his own intelligence gathering methods since he first got started? How could he not? His success depended on knowing who knew who, who was powerful and who was all show, etc.

And as he got more and more hotels, clubs, and casinos, he picked up stuff from employees.

Boy, the press is really clueless. My youngest sister pointed this out back in the primaries, and she's simply a surgical nurse at a Midwest hospital who didn't know much about politics or government.

[Captain Hate]

OL, that's around the time I was there. I still have my Book of Common Prayer as evidence that there was a time when the religion stood for something good and of eternal value and not a bunch of trendy crap.

TLG, I started watching the game when the score was 44-31 and Gus Johnson quickly filled me in on the significance of the comeback. I ended up cheering for the Aggies to hold on but that, obviously, didn't happen.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Do you mean John Chambers, OL?