Yep, it's early for Labor Day, but I might just be out for Dove season then...little buggers can make almost 60 mph, and they have only two bites of meat on them, but there are a LOT of them this year. Last week, there were dove and bobwhite quail EVERYWHERE we traveled East of the Cascades. I have the perfect gun for them, an antique L.C. Smith SxS 12, full & modified, and even though it is 97 years old, it has true-steel barrels, not Damascus, and will easily handle the low-base loads I hunt small birds with. In fact, it handles high-brass heavy duck loads just fine as well.
This weekend, I'm off to the High Cascades to attend a wedding. It will be the marriage of my best buddy's step-daughter. I've known her since 1985, and watched her grow up, from a precocious little girl who used to share her Mom's bathtub with my youngest (now Doctor) daughter, after playing outside and getting all muddy. Those were the days when my buddy was courting his second wife, a recent widow.
Heather grew up alongside my Erin, in the same day-care, in the same schools, and they went to the University of Oregon together to learn how to be liberals. Erin came out Cum Laude in Pre-Med and Microbiology, and Heather came out Cum Laude in Architecture. Both stayed on for a fifth year, Erin to get a business major added to her degree, and Heather to get her Diploma in Architecture, which takes graduate-level work.
Erin takes broken people and puts them back together in the ER, and Heather takes the dreams of companies for new office buildings, and breaks them, putting them back together with greater efficiency and better form to promote greater productivity and reduced cost.
Heather is an outdoor person, so she is getting hitched at a High Cascades resort which caters to sportsmen and women in all seasons. Photos may follow. I'm dragging Petey the Pop-Up camper up the mountain to serve as overflow lodging, and I have cooked a Chili for her Chili Contest:
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Without further ado, off to the Thuds.
Thud the First:
NBC News. They announced that they are covering exactly ONE hour of the GOP Convention on three nights. Said something about advertising revenue. OK, then they expect much better revenue from the (D)onk Convention a week later? They admitted that they will be covering much more of that Convention. Can you say In The Tank for Obama? I knew you could. This old fart thinks that if the press is going to shill for a political agenda, they ought to either admit it or quit it. Maybe, in the Second Republic, the next Constitution might actually figure out how to have a free AND non-partisan press.
Thud the Second: The Obama Administration, again. This time, they had their shill claim that Obama has "created more jobs than Ronald Reagan did", and is therefore, better for business. OK, if you buy that stinking pile of manure as the Truth, I have eleven, soon to be twelve bridges that I own here in Portland, and will make you a package deal, very cheap... Lessee here, what was the population of the USA back then as compared to now? What was the definition of a "created job" then as compared to now (hint: today, a "job" is today considered one half of one FTE (full time equivalent) for one month (15 days of work). In other words, seventy hours of work is a full-time job under Obama! This was the definition we were shown in the fine print back when the "shovel-ready" crap was being shoveled our way. I seem to recall, but can't find it, that the old Federal definition of a FTE was 2080 hours of work in a calendar year, and half-time (one half of one FTE) was 1040 hours. At least, that was what the last big Federal Jobs Program, CETA, was based on. Of course, all this begs the questions such as: government jobs vs. private jobs; creating jobs while stifling more than you create (with regulations), etc, etc, ad nauseam.
Thud the Third:
Mittens gets this one. The current best estimate of the GOP's electoral votes has the number at 191, with 79 more needed to guarantee a Romney win. So what does the Stupid Party do? They promise to fit a plank into their platform that calls for an abortion ban. Last time this issue was polled, I seem to recall that well over 60% of voters supported the Roe vs. Wade decision guaranteeing a woman's right to choose to abort or not. This issue is a loser for the GOP, because when push comes to shove in the voting booths in November, GOP voters are going to vote for Mittens whether that plank is there or not, but the tiny number of swing voters, those who are expected to swing this obviously-close election, might just see that plank as a sufficient negative not to pull the GOP lever. The GOP loads up it's gun, once again, and points it right at it's own foot. BTW, that THUD! you hear in November will be the Constitution taking it's last fall.
Thud Three-A, Bonus Thud: With the above turd stinking up it's pocket, it says here that Romney wants to get back to the Economy, stupid. Starting a hormone-fired fight within the GOP over Biblical issues isn't the way to do it, Mittens.
Thud the Fourth: Minor thud here, but wastes of resources gravels my butt. About 6 weeks ago, I sent Mittens a donation of $50. My spouse also sent him some $$$. Together, we get around 3-5 appeals per day in the mail. Mittens won't use window envelopes, so I have to shred the pre-printed forms in each appeal, the appeal letter AND the envelope from each one (my security program has as it's cornerstone that nothing with our names on it goes into the trash).
Thud the Fifth: Dregs of Sass-siety Edition: The porno industry is again facing a delay in filming caused by actors with STDs. This has happened before. In similar news, there is now a reported skin infection which can be gotten in tattoo parlors. Who could have guessed THAT? God may keep you healthy, but the Devil has a large bag of disease to take you, body AND soul. Forget that at your peril.
That will be all, readers. Enjoy your weekend.
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Posted by: 2012canadagoosejakker.eu | October 23, 2012 at 04:43