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Google’s Earth (Day) Missing Something

Originally published April 23, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Google’s Earth (Day) Missing Something

So…yesterday was Earth Day. Typically I grit my teeth and do my best to ignore the whole thing. Why do we need a whole day dedicated to this subject? Aren’t we barraged with it everywhere we turn already? I thought I was doing just fine with “waste not, want not”, “use it up and wear […]

Filed Under: Featured, Happy Hour, Sustainable Development Tagged With: biodiversity, biological diversity, convention on biological diversity, google doodle, google earth day 2013, nafta, simulated reserve and corridor system, the wildlands project, un, united nations, us man and biosphere project

A Little Music to “Sequester” By

Originally published February 28, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

A Little Music to “Sequester” By

For those of you who dread the Kalends of March, repeat after me: 

Filed Under: Budget, Deficit, Featured, Federal, Government Spending, Happy Hour Tagged With: federal budget cuts, panic about sequester, panic about sequestration, results of the sequester, sequester, sequester March 1st, sequestration, sequestration cuts, spending after the sequester

The More The Plans Fail – A NATIONAL Alert System Test At 2pm CST Nov. 9

Originally published November 9, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

The More The Plans Fail – A NATIONAL Alert System Test At 2pm CST Nov. 9

This is a post – a really short post – do not be alarmed – there will not be that much reading to do  – do not pass go…do not collect $200 (I think that’s like, $20,000 adjusted for inflation, right?) Anyway… If this had been an actual article, it would actually include important and […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Happy Hour, In the News Tagged With: dhs, Emergency Alert System, federal emergency management agency, fema, government programs, national alert system, november 9 emergency alert system test, OKgrassroots, Oklahoma Insurance Department, PSA, public service announcement, sandra crosnoe, System Test, This is a Test, This is only a test

Linda’s Birthday Gift To You: A Little Sunday Sunshine

Originally published September 25, 2011, By Linda. Updated October 2, 2011. 1 Comment

Linda’s Birthday Gift To You: A Little Sunday Sunshine

Editor’s Note: To Linda’s birthday note, I’ve added a picture taken recently at Pioneers Park (by the pond, under columns from the old D.C. Treasury building). Please join with me in wishing our friend Linda a very happy birthday. Today’s my birthday, so I wrested my thoughts away from the gloom and doom of the […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour, We Propose A Toast Tagged With: blake ancient of days, creation story, friendship, genesis paintings, gin jukebox, Grassroots in Nebraska, happy birthday wishes, jive aces bring me sunshine, meaning of friendship, meaning of life

Wrong Tweeps All a Twitter About Obama Attack Watch #FAIL

Originally published September 20, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

Wrong Tweeps All a Twitter About Obama Attack Watch #FAIL

I think it’s fair to say that Linda hasn’t been all that impressed with some of the social media venues like Facebook and Twitter heretofore. But, in the last few weeks, she has found that Twitter does has have a few charms…now and then. I can see why Linda has taken notice. First it was […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour, In the News Tagged With: attack watch, attack watch twitter, attackwatch.com, barack obama for president, chicago politics, fight the smears, government spying, gunrunner, iowahawk, jeremiah wright, obama 2012, obama campaign, obama eating your peas, obama for america, obama gunrunner, operation gunrunner, rev. wright, spying on people, tweets at attack watch, twitter humor

Your Mama’s SO Ugly, She’s — DISABLED???

Originally published August 29, 2011, By Linda. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

Your Mama’s SO Ugly, She’s — DISABLED???

  “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, […]

Filed Under: Biometrics, Featured, Federal, Happy Hour, In the News Tagged With: ada, americans with disability act, appearance as disability, assessing ugliness, big government, disabling the ugly, economic theories, economics, eeoc, equal opportunity employment commission, facial recognition, facial recognition software, facial recognition technology applications, government equalization, government intrusion, government redistribution, harrison bergeron, kurt vonnegut, legal protections for appearance, life imitating art, limited government, nanny state, new york times, new york times editorial about ugliness, political correctness, science fiction, truth stranger than fiction, ugliness as a disability, ugly disability, university of texas economist

The Cat’s Away — Let’s PLAY!

Originally published August 27, 2011, By Linda. Updated November 16, 2012. 9 Comments

The Cat’s Away — Let’s PLAY!

Shelli is away this weekend, leaving me IN CHARGE here at the GiN joint. I recall the last time I was left in charge of something this important. My brother-in-law was getting married and asked me to take his extra set of car keys and hide his car in a parking garage near the reception […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour Tagged With: Al Haig, Al Haig I'm in charge, Alexander Haig, Alexander Haig in charge, day Reagan was shot, desiderata, deteriorata, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, gin, go placidly poem, grassroots, Grassroots in Nebraska, groom's car, Les Crane, National Lampoon, ne, nebr, nebraska, negrassroots, parody, popcorn, Secretary of State Al Haig, Secretary of State Alexander Haig, shelli dawdy, song parody, stubborn facts, Tea Party, tea party 2009, teaparty, wedding prank, wedding tricks

Short and Tweet: Iowa Blogger OWNS Obama, DC on Twitter, Mirth Ensues

Originally published August 21, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated March 9, 2012. 2 Comments

Short and Tweet: Iowa Blogger OWNS Obama, DC on Twitter, Mirth Ensues

  Linda’s article “Debt Ceiling: I Laugh Because I Must Not Cry, That is All!” at the end of June included an embedded video entitled “Eat the Rich”, which vividly illustrated how the class warfare cries for imposing higher taxes on “the rich” isn’t even close to the right approach to solving our increasing economic […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour Tagged With: back to school humor, budget control act of 2011, consequences of default, debt ceiling, debt limit, eat the rich, iowahawk, iowahawk's tweets, obama bus tour, obama foreign policy, obama new armored bus, obama nobel prize, political humor, shovel ready jobs, shovels and spoons, so you have a college diploma, tax the rich, twitter humor, unemployment numbers

Seem Like Instability & Chaos Ruling the World?

Originally published August 14, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

Seem Like Instability & Chaos Ruling the World?

For what seems like an extended period, headlines from around the globe seem to have been even more negative than usual. Close to home, we’ve  looming tax increases in Lincoln, people who’ve been flooded out of their homes for months in the region, droughts in the south, a nasty debt-ceiling debacle and subsequent credit downgrade, […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour, In the News, Videos Tagged With: consumer confidence, debt ceiling debate, ecclesiastes 1:9, ecclesiastes nothing new under the sun, ecclessiastes there is no new thing under the sun, england riots, historical perspective, kingston trio merry minuet, midwest floods, public opinion polls, rasmussen right direction or wrong track poll, texas droughts, the more things change the more they stay the same, u.k. riots, world wide instability

American Taxpayers: You Worked for Government Until Today

Originally published August 13, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated March 9, 2012. Leave a Comment

American Taxpayers: You Worked for Government Until Today

In the video, below, imagine that the chain gang is operated by government at the federal, state, and local levels and those workers are America’s taxpayers. If the calculations of one D.C. based tax reform advocacy group are correct, our analogy is not as over the top as it might seem. While many Americans are […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Happy Hour, In the News Tagged With: american taxpayers, americans for tax reform, breads and circuses, cost of government day, cost of government to people, cost of regulation, debt ceiling debate, deficit spending, federal state and local taxes, government debt, government spending, grover nordquist, high tax states, national debt, percentage of people who pay income tax, state local and federal spending by government, tax freedom day, taxes paid by americans, the tax foundation, u.s taxation policy

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