Dirty's, another Texas institution, just a little dirtier.
I went into Dirty Martin's Kum-Back Place (yes, that's it's name, with no irony) on Guadelupe St. near the U. of Texas in Austin earlier this year.This is one of our dislustrious Gov's favorite...
View ArticleTestimony Sunday - My Belief in Rick Perry
I live in Austin, Texas, it is Sunday and I am here to bear my testimony of my belief in the Texas Governor. So I walk to the front of the chapel and address the congregation.I testify that Governor...
View ArticleMormons not Christians? - Not relevant. Romney would be a bad President?...
This started out as a comment of Ravegerofworlds2's diary, Media Assuming Mormon Claims as Part of Christianity , but it has morphed into this, whatever this is. This diary can be summed up like...
View ArticleThe South is a losing strategy.
Imagine that. A Rethuglican winning the Party's Nomination without winning the south. If the south doesn't matter to the Republicans anymore, what significance does it have to the rest of the country?...
View ArticleMormons for Obama
Very short diary.I just went out and put a Mormons for Obama bumper sticker on my car. About two weeks ago, someone sharpied out the Obama-Biden '08 bumper sticker on my wife's car. (She is Catholic,...
View ArticleCivilian Consevation Corps - Breaking!
Hey Kossaks!Tune into Turner Classic Movies Right NOW!There is a 1930's short on esplaining the CCC. A Dramatization like a WWII Short. This is showing the History of the CCC, and How it gave 300,000...
View Article1st in Texas to vote.
I showed up at the precinct office today to vote. 1st early voting day in the Lone Star State. Big Tex RIP. Drove my son and his friend to school for early cross country practice. I arrived at the...
View ArticleElection Confidence Survey
How confident are you that Barack Obama will win this election? We work and GOTV, they listen to Rush. Are you confident or sinking into the hype? Do your own analysis and vote on how you think this...
View Article2016 GOP Debates start next Friday
The RNC just announced that its series of Presidential Debates for the 2016 nomination will kick off next Friday November 16, 2012. The first Debate will be held at the San Felipe Castle in Old San...
View ArticleRepublicans and cows
So this morning I am on the addictive Facebook, (which really insn't a book at all, and probably has done a lot to help destroy the book industry), and I come across one of those stupid posters with a...
View ArticleGet Yourself added to the NRA Enemies List. I just did.
Hello All of you seeking honor and renown. I just read Hunter's article on the NRA's Enemies List. So I thinks to myself, thinks I, "Could it be possible for lil' ol' me to get such an honor? Could...
View ArticleGOP laugher of a poll, Write In Winning!
So I log onto the most evil website is Amurika, our own beloved DailyKos this morning and I see an ad for "Sarah Palin for President? Take the Poll!" Flimmity flam ad stupidity, and being bored, I...
View ArticleObamacare and the Hanna, Wyoming conspiracy
So I am in Saltillo, Mexico at the moment, not sleeping. I am on the dreaded Facebook, and I come across a reference to this:More Obamacare Haters duped by satirePast the implant disguised as squiggly.
View ArticleNew Group - Mormons on Kos
OK OK OK, A total Oxymormon. This is for the few, the proudly liberal. Are there any liberal Mormons here? Any progressive ones? Anyone that is unabashedly leftist and lets people in your ward know...
View ArticleMormons on Kos - why
M.O.K. - This is what I was thinking when I started this group. This is for Progressive Mormons, the few, the proud. Don't care if you go to church or not, if you are, were, or will, might be a...
View ArticleMormons on Kos - why
M.O.K. - This is what I was thinking when I started this group. This is for Progressive Mormons, the few, the proud. Don't care if you go to church or not, if you are, were, or will, might be a...
View ArticleThe Responsible Firearm Owners Act
My proposal to help solve the problem of unintentional gun discharges, injuries in concealed carry classes, general gun fail screw ups and minors with guns and dead people where the killer says "gee,...
View ArticleBuy ink for Obama's pen
For the first time, I have written President Obama at the White House.Here is what I wrote:Dear President Obama,Thank you for your diligent work of behalf of the American people over the last six...
View ArticleHelp me with a stupid question
I have a question about publishing to groups, I am a member of a few groups, and a moderator of one. Question: is it possible to publish just to a group? How is this done. I have read Kospaedia, and...
View ArticleRFRA's Mormons on Kos and General Conferecnce
I just posted this at Twin Mormons on FB after the moderator promoted the Go Fund Me for Memories Pizza in Indiana.If you have comments please do so . There are articles regarding RFRA's, Same Sex...
View ArticleROFL (the Responsible Owners of Firearms Act)
How about a Responsible Gun Owners Act? ( Or maybe Responsible Owners of Firearms Law, ROFL for short.) This law would be simple. Anyone gets to buy and own a firearm. As many as you want. When you...
View ArticleMr. Trump has made himself both the Sherrif of Nottingham and King John in...
Infrastructure investments with tax cuts for the rich means that the poor will pay for infrastructure investment. The profits of those investments will go to the rich who pay less tax on their...
View ArticleAre You In Austin For SXSW?
Hi, a local Austinite here, I am a firefighter in Austin. Would anyone that is in town for SXSW like to meet up? #sxswkosmeetup is the place to communicate. I am @mikel_borg or send me a message...
View ArticleHair Coming Off For Childhood Cancer. Support St. Baldricks!
www.stbaldricks.org/… Let’s raise money to fight childhood cancer. I am getting my head shaved this Saturday morning. Please go to my St. Baldrick’s page and donate. I will show my bald head here...
View ArticleThis cancer needs to be removed from the 2nd amendment.
I heard reporters say it didn't seem to be a terrorist attack. Of course it is a terrorist attack. 20 people dead dozens wounded. It is a terrorist attack by a white US male. Just because he doesn't...
View ArticleThis is the billboard I want to put up. In Austin Texas. Go Fund Me.
Today was enough. Now I am going to try and do something. Maybe I will need a lawyer, maybe not. I want to put up a billboard in Austin Texas that just says this: Donald Trump Traitor …. No...
View ArticleComparing Economic Growth by President
Comparing economic growth by president. Here is an interesting page to use when appropriate. (Whenever a red tries to claim that GOPer prezdents are better for bidness and the...
View ArticleResponse to accusation that Baby Boomers are lazy.
Dear Sir, up until about 1970 or so, and definitely ending with Presinot R.W. Reagan, a family could own a home and have a dignified life on one income, even a skilled laborers income. Reagan changed...
View ArticleRoad Trip. Loniest Road. Two retired firefighters take a look at America from...
Day- 1. I am a retired fire fighter. 32 years. My big brother,also a firefighter. He is named Greg. He just retired from a different city as a fire captain. He had worked on a few other places, but in...
View ArticleWe have started the great USA road trip US Hwy 50 coast to coast
Greg and I have officially started our US Hwy 50 Road trip. we got our feet wet in the Pacific ocean in San Francisco and picked oup a vial of sand form the beach to be deposited on the beach in Ocean...
View ArticleDay 2 on US Hwy 50 eastbound.Coast to coast road trip.
On the road with Greg. Fallon, Nevada for the night Value Inn. Today we went over Luther Pass. 7377 feet. Chains required which we didn't have. we bought chains off of another car which came from the...
View ArticleDay 3 Hwy 50 Road trip by two retired firefighter brothers
Day Three on our great American road trip on US Hwy 50. Starting today in Fallon, NV. First stop was Grimes Point Archeological site. Petroglyphs from @3000 to 8000 years old. Across the road is a...
View ArticleDay 4 on US Hwy 50. Lonliest road. Across Utah.
Day 4 started in Delta Utah. We leave town and are surrounded by several ranges of mountains. White Pine peak, at 10, 215 is in front of us and Delano Peak in the distance is 12,173. The scenery here...
View ArticleUS Hwy50 Road Trip. Day 5, Western Colorado.
US Hwy50 Road Trip. Western Colorado Today commences from Green River Utah. We lookd to get off of IH70/US50 asap. 1100 miles.There were two or three old pieces of 50 that we found, that got us into...
View ArticleRoad Trip USHwy 50. Day 6. On into Kansas w/two firefighter brothers
Up a bit earlier today and exit Salida, Colo. (Hey! A bilingual pun!) After about 90 minutes we leave behind the mountains. Into Eastern Colorado, the one tourists don’t expect. Levelling out around...
View ArticleDay 7 Hwy 50 Road Trip Dodge City to Kansas City, with BBQ.
Arrive in Dodge City and hotel has pool, sauna, hot tub. I use all 3, Greg is not interested in swimming. Dodge City Brewery Greg gets a flight and I well,…. sip. Some of each. I’m not a drinker but...
View ArticleDay 8 Hwy 50 Road Trip Kansas City to St. Louis. Food, prisons, hills and...
Possibly the best known BBQ in the USA, and Calvin Trillin said maybe the best single restaurant in the world, Arthur Bryant’s is in Kansas City. Ribs, very excellent….. But, not quite done enough,...
View ArticleRoad Trip Day 9 Road Trip US Hwy 50. Two Brothers. St.Louis to Loogootee...
After the Cards Dodgers game, we hit the rack. The morning we slept in until almost 11. That ended up making us short of catching the Cincinati game. Too bad. I remember 7th grade and my English...
View ArticleRoad Trip Day 10. Indiana to Athens Ohio. Farms, Hills again. Meeting a...
We breakfast in Loogootee.John F. Kennedy Street. LoogooteeI love writing that name. Very good. We hit the road for a long drive today finishing Indiana and most of Ohio. We missed the Reds game. Boo....
View ArticleDay 11 Road Trip US Hwy 50. Athens OH to Annapolis Maryland. Across the...
There’s a girl in the heart of Maryland, with a heart that belongs to me…. One of my favorite songs and songwriters. He also did a great baseball song, A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request.xxYouTube...
View ArticleDay 12 Road Trip. Annapolis to Ocean City. We get our feet wet.
Well, girls and boys. The road does end. Right at the beach. The Atlantic Ocean. And we got there. Sand exchange, wet feet, and a selfie. With side trips, right at 3500 miles. We had a geat deal at...
View ArticleDo you like to vote?
What is at stake in the Trump affair is our right to vote and have our vote count. What he attempted to do in 2016 with debatable efficiency but ultimate success was to look at a situation where he...
View ArticleGiving Covid Shots
Part The First.Back in January of this year our retired firefighter page posts a call asking retired FF’s to volunteer to give Covid injections. It was to be done under the local city public health...
View ArticleI gave jabs, it just got revenge.
Hi Kosworld,I am a retired firefighter living just outside of Austin, Texas. I retired in 2017. My EMT license was still good in March of 2021 when a request went out for retired firefighters to help...
View ArticleWhat are you listening to right now?
Sweet Georgia Brown - Eldar DjangirovThis kicks ass.Just Because.What are you listening to right now?
View ArticleCarlson did not get fired for lying. Nor for telling the truth.
Carlson got fired for the cost caused by the leaking of the texts. Pxxxxxy Svvvvvvvs (My friend since 2nd grade.) (This is a response to a question my friend asked.)Which was: Why is it we hate Tucker...
View ArticleThey Threw Him Out The Window, The Second Story Window. (Well, the 3500th...
Prigozin just took a giant leap for mankind. Seems Putin still runs things over there. Putin has turned murder into performance art. He let Prigozhin think he was getting away with his whining about...
View ArticleAn appeal to a Trump lover.
I have been on Facebook this evening and came across a woman who said she loved Trump. This is my response to her. You hate communists but you love that fascist? Traitor, seditionist, tax cheat,...
View ArticleGoose and Gander.
So Trump wants absolute immunity because he used to be President.That would give the same power immediately to Biden. Donny should find himself trying to campaign from Guantanamo and having all his...
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