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Your weekly warning that maybe you will get pissed by stuff posted here.  The faint of heart or straight ballot voters are hereby notified that there may be provocative material ahead.  

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"Control Your Kids - Not Our Guns"  Saw this on a car last week.  Like the kid flipping us off.  And on a similar note, I see Starbucks and McDonalds are leading a national effort to ban plastic straws.  Don't worry, though, assault rifles are still good to go.

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Nice rusty old delivery van in front of a restaurant in St. Pete.



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Ever notice in Westerns the guy walks into a bar and orders a whiskey?  He reaches into his vest pocket to grab a coin and its always just the right amount.  No change, never two coins, its always just a coin.



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Found at the beach.  Hmmm. 


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Local Wal-Mart provided an interesting pic - surely the highlight of my visit.  Poor truck driver misjudged the entrance and got hung-up on the walkway girding.  I hate it when that happens.


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You can't throw a dead cat (hey, beats soccer) around here without hitting a lizard.   Found one of their eggs outside the place here at Sinkhole Estates aka Death Valley.  I decided to sit on it and see what hatched.  Sadly, my plan went awry.

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Update on Whizzbang, aka, Dumbstruck the Wonder Pup

Whizzy now weighs 20 pounds and gets spayed on the 20th.  She is 80% housebroken, sheds like a catalpa tree, and still has sharp puppy nails.



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"Maybe he'll go away if we don't answer the door."


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For the first half of your life everyone tells you what to do; for the second half, they tell you what you should have done.

Richard Needham

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An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will eat him last.

Winston Churchill

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The moon passed between earth and NASA's Deep SPace Climate Observatory, allowing the satellite to capture this seriously cool photograph.


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Saw this guy on my early walk.  Finally, signs of intelligent life in Florida.




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Mrs. Wombie sent some thunderboomer vids to me.  Doncha love those great summer storms?
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"Turning, and turning...the world we knew...all gone.



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And finally, on a  lighter note...






An Atlanta Braves fan trying to beat the Freeze at Suntrust Stadium.  

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