INK, Inc,

Gizmos    Ink Jet Printers Some years ago I carried on about the inkjet (and laser)  printer cartridge scam.  Since then I bought my current printer, a Canon IP 2700, because it was cheaper than buying refill cartridges for my HP.  I do very little printing anymore so the ink ought go a long way. It does not.  That suggests that Canon may be one of the manufacturers who have a "date expiration" chip.  Anyway, these failed reset it. Because the industry operates on a classic razor-and-blades business model—the printer itself isn't pricy, but ink and toner refills cost an exorbitant amount—printer manufacturers have a huge incentive to get you to replace your cartridges quickly. One way they do so is through technology: Rather than printing ever-fainter pages, many brands of printers are outfitted with sensors or software that try to predict when they'll run out of ink. Often, though, the printer's guess is off; all over the Web, people report that their printers die (38%) before their time. I tried refilling my own cartridges, but with horrid result.  For awhile I beat the system by buying refills from a third party ink refiller, but the last two times the cartridges ($30 for black and color - against $68 for small Canon) were crap.  I discovered by reading this that printer companies have put the most successful of these companies out of business for violating copyright law (by reading and reverse engineering their cartridge detectors).  Sounds like a Eric Holder thing, wot?  Those left operating, I guess, pose no competitive problem. Around 2008 Kodak introduced, and vigorously advertised,  a new Ink Jet printer  line.  Part of the spiel were low ink cartridge replacement cost, and longer lasting too.  This was possible because it's estimated that up to  38% of ink is left when the "programmed" printer  shuts them down.  Kodak didn't do that.  Then. Now, I'd buy one in a heartbeat, but evidently Kodak, too,  have  joined the scamming,  as witnessed by Kodak fixes I found. I always had good success with HP cheap printers, and there are tons of documentation about beating HP cartridge monitors, so that's the way I'll probably go.  It all just pisses me off though. But still not half as bad as Verizon do, who think it's my full time job to figure out how to get around their latest additions to an already f'kd up cable menu system, and table set box and router apparatus exchanges.  Grrrr.  Don't get me started.

Horry Fark!

What I See                         But, No.  Guess who and where?

Obama's Slip is Showing ...

Say, Rodge ..

I'm looking for a nice 'Obama's phony facade'  metaphor

Canadian Girls Gone Wild in the USA

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Deprived Canadian Girls Gone Wild in the USA

The GOP- Since 1996

Clip, Save, and Use

This Just In

Venezuela president seeks power to rule by decree Associated Press ^ | Oct 8, 2013 6:10 PM EDT Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has asked Congress to give him special decree-making powers that he says he needs to fight corruption and economic sabotage. The opposition says Maduro is simply following the playbook of his late mentor, Hugo Chávez, and U.S. Preisdent El Brocko. …

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Meet The Democrat Media Complex                         REMEMBER WHEN ...

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Metzger BUT WAIT There was this in 2010  Satellite Photos Support Testimony That Iraqi WMD Went to Syria The history books on this issue shouldn’t be written just yet. DonM - "I have seen the sat photos of Iraq and Syria but this narrative helps put it in perspective." Saddam's WMDs Posted  | 6/07/2010 and  this in 2008  IAEA Finds Uranium Traces at Syrian Blast Site   Ex-Official: Russia Moved Saddam's WMD  Saddam's WMD Posted  11/10/2008 .... and on and on, beginning in 2003 ... So,  if we knew, how come this will all be news to the media and the Democrat party today?  Hmmmmm?  Extrapolate

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Caddying for Pootie-Poo

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A Metziger Hat Dance

Barn Army News

A Letter from Coleslaw Don Barn Army Scout  Coleslaw Don  shares an object lesson with us.  He wrote that now he's retired,  he decided to touch-up some on his spread in Idaho.  "Things was going pretty good,  so I decided to throw a little party.  That was 5 moths ago, and, ... well, things kind of regressed."  The lesson is—obvious.  "You don't need to go constructing stuff in order to have a party. Save the lumber money for more beer and a few heifers." Don M's Spread

Dad's Meet and a Scooter

Two Things

Cookie Monstrosity

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Unbelievable, either way

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Soon, Drones May Be Able to Make Decisions on Their Own wOw! It's about time they broke out of the Liberal plantation and—Huh? Nevermind.

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A Trojan Boner

As seen ROLLOVER no SURPRISE!

Cold Blooded Incest

Apps & Gizmos                 “ New app helps Icelanders avoid accidental incest "It's not a good feeling when you realize the girl is your sister. People may think it's funny, but (the app) is a necessity." ”

Amazing- hoax or no.

Is was you calling futbol, ja?

Squeeze!

art is everywhere I don't need no stinking art gallery

Son, Control the Skies

All politics is agency theory

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[...] Agency theory also explains why elected officials and voters do what they do. Some will argue re-election is the primary goal of an elected official. Others will argue the main goal of the office holder is to serve the needs of constituents. Elected officials will say they cannot serve the needs of constituents unless the voters put them back in office, but voters won’t re-elect someone who ignores their wishes. Here’s an example. In August, 80 GOP members of Congress sent what is now called a “suicide pact” to House Speaker John Boehner urging the de-funding of Obamacare, even if that meant tying it to the continuing appropriations bill and forcing a partial shutdown of the government. Rep. Blake Farenthold from Corpus Christi was one of them. “Listen, we’ve got to use what few leverage points we have in a divided government, and the continuing resolution is one of them,” he said This goes a long way to understanding why President Obama continues to say he will not negotiate on the Affordable Care Act. Mr. Obama will never again face voters, so finding a solution that is in their best interests is no longer in his. Add to that the fact that everyone now calls the act Obamacare. Hard-core politicians will not break the current political impasse for the reasons just laid out. Only someone willing to put aside personal ambition or legacy will come up with a workable solution. [Fullness] Like most discussions about the CR "crisis," this one is rooted in the idea that because the founders designed spirited debate into the system, this is normal give and take.   Where clear thinking leaders on both sides will come to an accommodation worthy of a great nation.  They choose to ignore, or haven't a clue, that we are engaged in a great ideological civil war, testing whether  our nation, or any nation so conceived and dedicated to accommodating  a megalomaniac's grand design can long endure. This cannot end well in the short term.  Long term victory will go the most fervently dedicated.    And who control  the sky.

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Chop Chop

Making Toothpicks

We had three very large oak trees that were showing signs of decay.   Limbs fell during every storm; some quite large,and some landing atop one of our cars. Of greatest concern was the one tilting precariously toward a neighbor's house; thoughts of liable ran through our heads.  So, finally, after consulting experts, and then satisfying  myriad  county regulations that allowed us to cut trees on our private property, we went about it.  It took three days. As it happened, almost immediately the sound of chainsaws began, I happened across a picture of a tree sculpture.  Whoa!  In an instant I saw Ronald Reagan seventy feet in the air, where people from miles around could be reminded of his greatness.  I've done small wood carvings before, mostly on furniture projects, and have the tools.  How hard could it be? The VIDEO

How to draw boobies

 TODAY'S PSA

Unplugged

Redskins Forever

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What does this have to do with the First Amendment?  President Barack Obama says he would "think about changing" the Washington Redskins' name if The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..; Schenck v. United States1919 he owned the football team as he waded into the controversy involving a word many consider offensive to Native Americans. Obama, in an interview with The Associated Press, said team names such as the Redskins offend "a sizable group of people." He said that while fans get attached to the names, nostalgia may not be a good enough reason to keep them in place. I occasionally make an effort, especially after Sunday Mass, to love my enemies, but when it comes to Clownbama I'd   have to masquerade as the village idiot.  I really do see Obama as a psycho who HAS invaded my home, and at gun-point  forced us to hand over our titles of deed and wealth—and then— for good measure,  raped my wife and children (3 boys and a girl all), and on the way out reminded us- "I won the election." So, you see,  it's impossible;  but I do what I can.  In this Redskins case, I have just two words.  First Amendment.  I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire The United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, seems to be the genesis for what have become outrages against  First Amendment,  like "Hate Speech" laws.   I would argue that the court was wrong in 1919,  because it involved  the distribution of  flyers opposing the draft during World War I.  Clear and Present Danger?  I don't think so; I see free speech.  Plus, note that Holmes expressed the caveat "falsely" shouting fire in a theater ... . Anyway, Liberals have latched onto  that "Fire in the Theater" euphemism to enact "Hate Speech decided by whom?" laws.    The dangers are  obvious, and inherent.  At the heart of the professional anti-Redsikin rabble's argument  is a suggestion that calling a team  The Redskins is as offensive as calling them The Niggers.  I hardly see the social parallel, but that's no never mind.  I have a First Amendment right to call anybody, anything,  that does not infer libel or slander, whether it upsets you or not.   Voltaire's "..I'll defend your right to say it  ... "  was ubiquitously taught  when I was schooled, but now?   If enough people feel the same way about The Redskins as do the savage left, they can call them the Reds, or any g'damn thing they like.  But ban Redskins legally?  What Voltaire said. Sheesh! STFU Barry.

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The worm will turn next year v. Ohio State

Humanity,The                                         Maryland Coach RANDY 'EDSEL'

When playing ball with girls

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When playing ball with girls rejewwy

Barack BTFSPLK

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What Huff-n-Puff Post Saw What I See                               A self absorbed, criminally incompetent PUTZ Ron Metzger caught my fancy with this

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Many go fishing all their lives ... .

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"Many go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after." - Henry David Thoreau Oh-oh.  Something in my eye again ... As I approach my twilight years, I am struck by the inevitability that the party must end. And one clear, cold morning after I'm gone, my spouse will awaken in the warmth of our bedroom and be struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't "anymore." No more hugs, no more special moments to celebrate together, no more phone calls just to chat, no more "just 5 minutes more." Sometimes, what we care about the most gets all used up and goes away, never to return before we can say good-bye, or say "I love you." So while we have it, its best we love it, care for it, fix it when it's broken and heal it when it's sick. This is true for marriage.....and old cars, and children with bad report cards, and dogs with bad hips, and aging parents and grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep -- like a best friend who moved away or a son-in-law after divorce. There are just some things that make us happy, no matter what. Life is important, like people we know who are special. And so, we keep them close! Suppose one morning you never wake up, do all your friends know how you really feel? The important thing is to let every one of your friends know your true feelings, even if you think they don't love you back. So, just in case I'm gone tomorrow, please rest assured, I voted against that asshole, Obama, both times! cuzzin ricky

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Family Fun Fight is FUN

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The Coming Boner Cave

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YALTA In Our Time On Monday afternoon, about eight hours before the government shutdown began, House Speaker John Boehner was asked whether he would consider passing a "clean" continuing resolution -- that is, a measure to fund the government without attachments that defund, delay, or limit Obamacare. "Is the clean CR off the table?" asked a reporter. "Is that not going to happen?" "That's not going to happen," said Boehner. Fast forward to 1:15 a.m. Tuesday - Boehner and House GOP leaders walked to the microphones and held a news conference that lasted all of 73 seconds. After Boehner's opening statement, a reporter asked, "Will you permit a vote on a clean CR?" Boehner's response, in its entirety: "We are hoping that the Senate will take our offer to go to conference and let us resolve our differences." Boehner said nothing about "not going to happen" or "don't see that happening." Instead, he sidestepped the "clean" resolution question entirely. [Full] And this moves inexorably forward to its natural, predictable, and even scripted? outcome. Settled behind closed doors in a conference of Senate Democrats and copacetic House GOP.  Obamacare will officially be welded into our law book; never, ever, to be removed. Ever. This is the signature moment that sends us down the road to serfdom.  You know what?  I'm at the ideal age.  Old enough that age will outstrip medicine's ability to prolong it anyway, but still spry enough to heft an M-1 if things perk-up in the next few years.

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The GOLD choice

“ "For plan year 2014, Members of Congress and designated congressional staff will choose from 112 options in the Gold Metal tier on the DC SHOP," CAO said in a fact sheet that was emailed to Congress. Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) called attention to this requirement in a House floor speech Thursday, in which he said the policy shows more favoritism toward members of Congress and their staff. "We all … have to go and get the gold policy. Not the bronze, not the silver, the gold policy from the exchange. That's the only one we can get (and be subsidized)" he said. "You see, bronze and silver's only good enough for everyone else in the country. For members of Congress and members of the Senate and their staff, it's gold or nothing." Harris said allowing members to be subsidized for only buying gold-level coverage is probably why many members don't want to eliminate the subsidy for Congress, something Republicans have been pushing. "That's why this fight has been for a clean CR. No one wants to remove that exemption," he said. [full] Harris is the only Republican in Maryland's congressional delegation.  picture via Metziger Hat Dance ”

When Garfield Talks ...

GREEN CRAP We Stand By It as a Theatrical Work GARFIELD ON THE OIL CRISIS YOU GOTTA LOVE GARFIELD 'S EXPLANATION -- TOO CUTE & ALSO TOO TRUE!!!     A lot of folks can't understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in our country. ~~~ Well, there's a very simple answer. ~~~ Nobody bothered to check the oil. ~~~ We just didn't know we were getting low. ~~~ The reason for that is purely geographical. ~~~ Our OIL is located in: ~~~ ALASKA ~~~ California ~~~ Coastal Florida ~~~ Coastal Louisiana ~~~ Coastal Alabama ~~~~ Coastal Mississippi ~~~~ Coastal Texas ~~~ North Dakota ~~~ Wyoming ~~~ Colorado ~~~ Kansas ~~~ Oklahoma ~~~ Pennsylvania ~~~ And Texas ~~~ We are loaded with oil, so WTF?   ~~~ Our dipstick is located in the White House! ~~~ Any   Questions?   NO?   Didn't think So.    Commander Ellis

Girls Poo?

\Run Afoul   Chris

Obama Mt. Rushmore Shut-down

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T-Mann

Death of "Innocent"

Le Cam de billets   La mort de "Innocent"

How can I live longer, Rodge?

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Today's Health PSA How to Live Longer A little steam engine had a long train of cars to pull. She went along very well till she came to a steep hill. But then, no matter how hard she tried, she could not move the long train of cars. She pulled and she pulled. She puffed and she puffed. She backed and started off again. Choo! Choo! But no! the cars would not go up the hill. At last she left the train and started up the track alone. Do you think she had stopped working? No, indeed! She was going for help. "Surely I can find someone to help me," she thought. Over the hill and up the track went the little steam engine. Choo, choo! Choo, choo! Choo, choo! Choo! Pretty soon she saw a big steam engine standing on a side track. He looked very big and strong. ,,, (continued) You're welcome

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Gummint Shutdown Follies

The Real Pity?  Government Is NOT Shut down Tom Mann sent me a special edition of his daily bike ride photographs of our nation's capitol.  Here are a few, and what I saw in them.  Of course the only governmet our keepers will shut down are things that will have an immediate impact on voters,  generating news items the media can use to lay proper blame.

Lake Eerie

Maybe if it was a dog ... A guy and his girlfriend took a picture of his cat because it kept hissing at the patio doors one night for no reason - He put the photo onto his PC and noticed the image of a small girl in the window! - They don’t have any children, and the house is very old - Here's a veritable Lake Eerie of similar "phenomena."  Do I believe this is real?  No.  Do I disbelieve it?  No. I'm neutral about any single example of the genre, but as a collection they do comport with my growing fascination with string theory and alternative universes.  Also, we had a neighbor lady who tape recorded ghostly voices.  I listened to them, and a local TV News program sent a crew and they were drop dead amazed.  So, yeah.  And there's this mind blower that nobody has been able to explain..

There's a pony on a hill ...

There's a pony on a hill ... “ Pockets of Reagan Optimism Still Exist As seen ”

Filthy Habits

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You can cross her off my list, after putting that filthy thing in her mouth.  I would not fancy kissing any woman who would lick that filthy cock.  Chickens are the filthiest  barnyard animals by a wide margin.

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Stuff

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Stuff Well ain't this a pussy? Obamacare Fines to be Seized From Bank Accounts? Brilliant move by Obama, actually, if,  as I suspect, his promise to" remake America"  includes the destruction of personal wealth>  And since he has created an entitlement economy, he'll need your money .  All of it.   I imagine I'm not the only person reading the tea leaves, and preparing to convert savings accounts into other "negotiable"  instruments.  I mean, wtf?  What are banks paying me in interest right now?  Practically zip.  But, if other people start thinking like me  and taking cash out of circulation, then BANG!  Business will suffocate for lack of capital,  and we know what the Obamas do with business in trouble don't we.  They seize them.  The old road to serfdom.  If I was really really smart, I'd do what cuzzin ricky did and move the hell to South America, living cheap, but well. I would in a heartbeat, but not without MoSup and my grandkids.  And if I'm honest, and didn't have family ties, I wouldn't leave anyway.  I'd be storing a cache of stuff in a some hill country I know and getting ready for Red Dawn II. Just kidding. You know I'm right.

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Primary the hell out of them!

"Here's A Tally Of Which House Republicans Are Ready To Fund The Government, No Strings Attached"

Old Blue Lips

Oh My found in the basement

Listen to them all

Breast Foolery

Rorschach Tests I Have Failed miserably

Merrily

There they go again

“ The Once and Future Cave-in In a nutshell, here's how Democrats "won" the last three major budget show-downs with Republicans, and what promises another cave-in. 1990 1995         2011 The Trigger Bush-41 invokes his "Read My Lips-No New Taxes" campaign promise.  Refuses to sign Democrat budget w/ tax increase.  Led by Speaker Gingrich, congress presents budget that cuts taxes and spending.                New Teaparty  congress moves to undo Obama's radical legislation.  Democrat Response AFSCME assures Democrats that the union will scream bloody murder if Bush shuts down government. The culprit. George Bush who was forced by his own advisers to cave.  AFSCME assures Clinton that the  union will keep silent if he calls Newt's bluff and shuts-down government.  The culprit: Newt Gingrich. Only informed citizens hate Clinton's guts. AFSCME assures Democrats  that the  union will keep silent if they call the GOP's bluff and shuts-down government. The culprit: "right-wing teaparty fanatics who hold the House captive. President's popularity What Gulf War? Who cares? Newt Gingrich is the anti-Christ Zero, at home and abroad, but who cares?  Media Response  MEDIA interviews with disappointed school groups who weren't able to see the dinosaur, and vendors whose lives are shattered because hot dog sales have tanked clog the airwaves. MEDIA interviews with disappointed school groups who weren't able to see the dinosaur, and vendors whose lives are shattered because hot dog sales have tanked clog the airwaves. MEDIA interviews with disappointed school groups who weren't able to see the dinosaur, and vendors whose lives are shattered because hot dog sales have tanked clog the airwaves. Patriot  Media WSJ Editorial Page WSJ Editorial Page, Rush Limbaugh, FreeRepublic.com  The Internets; talk radio, Blogs, FOX NEWS Result Republican cave-in Republican cave-in Republican cave-in  (accepts phony budget cuts) When disgraced ex-President Bill Clinton told   President Obama to "call the GOP's 'bluff' in the budget stalemate—well, if you didn't know before, you knew then what to expect.  I had been hopeful that the media presence of  Fox News reporting factually, and the internet would   trump the  Democrat Media Complex.  But, oh no.   Well, that's not entirely true.  What we've seen happen is  the DMC  continue to simply ignore reality,  and report what they like, creating a bodyguard of lies that appeal to the low-information voter in this bizarre new political universe.  Truth to them is what they perceive it to be. As we speak, Speaker Boner is plotting another cave-in that will pass muster with the teaparty faction who control the House.  We will lose. Why?  Vichy Republicans will not come to grips with the reality that they are at with another evil empire requiring the use of nuclear weaponry if necessary.   ”

FULL STRAIGHT JACKET

LIARS and Other Democrats                   "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell.  TRKOF&S “ Is This Man Insane? I don’t believe America has ever seen such a thing. The leader of the free world just followed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s honest, visionary, and serious U.N. speech with a speech of his own in the Rose Garden. More like it, President Obama just recorded essentially an infomercial on the disastrous Obamacare rollout. In a speech full of unserious claims and low-level false accusations against those who disagree with his liberal, unworkable policies, this president engaged in doublespeak without even blinking. It was unreal. What a difference in leadership style and substance we witnessed today on U.S. soil. The two speeches said it all. A Warrior unifying his nation and their allies, and a Community Organizer un-organizing and dividing his own. Obama just proclaimed all our predictions about Obamacare were wrong. The economy is doing great, he claimed, though he dare not direct that to the millions of people who are being kicked to part-time employment, to bankrupt cities, to shuttered Main Street businesses, and to conscientious taxpayers suffocating under a $17 trillion debt. Obama just claimed for the umpteenth time there will be no health care rationing (aka “death panels”), but apparently Howard Dean, Paul Krugman, and Obama’s own former director of Medicare and Medicaid (and anyone who read the IPAB section of the monstrous bill) didn’t get the memo on that one. Obama just claimed that the last government “shutdown” in 1996 hurt the economy, when in fact he knows the stock market boomed. I guess he thinks he can furlough reality too. He’s also claiming that he cut deficits in half. In what alternate universe? And if that’s the case, then why does he insist on yet another enormous debt ceiling increase? The White House is now condescendingly comparing Obamacare’s numerous “glitches” to Apple software updates. The difference is we can CHOOSE to buy Apple products; no one forces us. Obviously the comparison is ridiculously unserious as we find out the harsh, life-changing punishments this new arm of the IRS will hit us with if we don’t buy Obama’s forced product. Among so many other distorted things, Obama just declared that “Obamacare is open for business” – well, aside from all the “glitches” I guess. His infomercial sent people to broken websites and a hotline that seems permanently on hold. And this same bureaucracy will now be in charge of our health care, which is 1/6th of our economy. Nah, surely nothing could go wrong with that. [More -Sarah Palin] Skoonj Point and Match ”

11 Lovely Things

\11 Wonderful Things Is she brewing 'Feminine Sacks' tea?   Or Broth?