King Herod’s Quarry Located September 24, 2007
Posted by daveintexas in History, Movies.trackback
The site he mined to provide stone for the Temple expansion in 19B.C., located on the site of a proposed school in a Jerusalem suburb.
They find such cool stuff in old places. In Texas the oldest thing we ever found was an abandoned dirt mine and the lid from the seat of an outhouse next to the Alamo.
Cross-posted at that other popular blog.
Why was he hunting stone? Doesn’t seem very sporting, even without cool looking camo shotguns.
In Texas the oldest thing we ever found was an abandoned dirt mine…
Wow! An abandoned dirt mine! What a rare find!
It’s not like there are hardly any dirt mines in Texas, no siree, not that many around (except every town, city and rural area in Texas).
and as for the lid from the seat of an outhouse next to the Alamo., that could 2 years old, it is San Antonio you are talking about.
Dave & lauraw, you’ve got a quality co-blogger at Ace’s: http://minx.cc/?post=241536
Yeah, I noticed that a little earlier today.
I’m just the hired help. I swear, he doesn’t even pay me a salary.
although he does make my stuff look funnier than it really is.
Ace’s site has become unreadable since he threw the doors wide open. I don’t bother with it anymore.
Ace’s site has become unreadable since he threw the doors wide open.
Those Open Blog posters such as LauraW and DaveinTX, post and write in the same vain as Ace does, thus they blend into the blog seamlessly. But since there has been a hodge-podge of different posters with different styles and subject matters, it is a lot harder to read.
I’ll rip into Gabriel in a few days. Maybe sooner if my mood is right. His mamby pamby pc wussness is annoying me.
We need to remind Ace that his blog is a Conservative-political blog with a dash of pop-culture and smidge of silliness (and a teensie bit of flying cars). It has definitely gone off track in the last few months.
lauraw and dave are not Open Bloggers. They are co-bloggers.
And they both better get their asses in gear and start posting good Conservative shit. Soon.
I think we’re all in a funk since the ’06 elections. But we better snap out of it before it’s too late.
Well, today is a little unusual in that he’s traveling, so he left the open blog thing up another day. He’s tried it, what, 3 weekends now?
It’s pretty much back to normal during the work week. I usually skim the OB stuff, even before that though, ace rarely did weekend posting.
There are 4 or 5 “co-bloggers”, people who can post any ol time, not just on a weekend open blog – lauraw, JackM (when he wants a date) and Slublog, they’ve been there a while, newbies Purple Avenger, Gabriel Malor, DrewM and me. ace picked me up on an option with a player to be named after AndrewR hung it up for a while.
I met Andrew in Boston, nice feller.
I sorta shoot for morning posts, since it usually is late morning before ace starts grinding it out, or whenever I see something noteworthy or goofy.
*ticks numbers off of my fingers* ok, maybe 6 or something. I don’t know, I’m a moron.
I don’t bother with it anymore.
Hey, thanks.
We had a nice AoS style Vegan War with over 200 comments on my post on Saturday.
I don’t think Ace is very “Conservative” as you would define it, Bart. He’s more “Conservative” than me (or Gabriel), but he’s nowhere near as “Conservative” as you are.
One trouble with the open blog format is that there are just too many posts. There’s little chance for much discussion on a topic before the next ten posts go up. There’s little opportunity for running jokes to emerge.
I define Conservative as anything anti-moonbat, sandy.
Hey, thanks.
Hey, different strokes for different folks. Taste is nothing personal.
Geoff is a hard man to please. (Trust me on this.)
Malor’s politics is secondary. He’s as boring as my dentist and his infrequent attempts at humor are just as painful.
My grammar is also secondary.
And he has shitty blog etiquette.
And he smells and doesn’t mow his grass.
Malor’s politics is secondary
I wouldn’t know because I don’t read his long, boring screeds.
Also, I suggested when the open blog thing first started, that maybe it would be a good idea if the open bloggers just kept it to one blog post an open blog day. Otherwise, we wind up with too many posts.
But nobody listens to me.
That’s the thing, Nice Deb—his posts aren’t even screedy. Unless reciting insurance policies is your idea of firebreathing advocacy.
Geoff is a hard man to please. (Trust me on this.)
Don’t use your teeth next time.
But nobody listens to me.
I listen to you Nice Deb, but then again I am a Minority
Cuffy, did you see that he called you he/she/it on the post, now?
What a card!
I suppose that’s what’s really grating me: I stick to Ace’s house rules, openblog one snippy little throwaway post, only to have it reposted by Gabe Tolstoy, entirely bleached of the minuscule amount of humor it originally contained. And then he chastises me for too short a post.
Unlike this one (sorry).
ND re 25: No, no. Mr. Dale Carnegie had that up before I even read his post the first time and started tangling.
Eh, don’t even worry about it, Cuffy. Go smoke a bowl or something.
By the way, you don’t live here in CA, do you?
Oh well, like I said…I don’t read his shit.
I admit that Gabe the Wonder Dog has irritated me for a while. But he went and really screwed the pooch today with his ILLEGAL Aliens post. He got into a legal argument with alexthechick, had his ass handed to him, but the most irritating part was other people directing questions and views at him which ignored like a condescending bitch.
It is Ace’s blog, and his decision to let the Gabe Dog post, I question his judgment, but then again it is his blog.
No, Sandy—Alabamistan.
Eh, I think Gabe just needs to warm up his tone and snip his posts a bit tighter before they go up on the site. As to Cuffy’s beef, yeah- it’s too damn easy to get snippy/defensive on the net, which is what Gabe did. Simply apologizing and making things right beats tapdancing and sparring every time.
Moreover, I hate bitchy gossip. Where anybody can see me doing it.
But hey, here’s something cute.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2007/08/21/topless.carwash.affl
they both better get their asses in gear and start posting good Conservative shit. Soon.
OK Boss. But not tonight. It’s Monday night. I’m bushwhacked, and tomorrow will be another busy day at work.
And hey, I have my customers, and Ace has his. The day he shows up to help me nudge this 130-lb. amp off the dolly and into a crate…well, you get the gist.
Tonight is Smoke on the Porch While Staring Into Darkness Night at Casa de los W’s.
No higher brain activity allowed. Or possible.
pope out
Gabriel has interesting things to say. The problem is that he says too much. And he’s redundant.
It hasn’t occured to him that he shouldn’t keep posting on a subject that gets a lukewarm or a negative response. Garbriel is under the impression that his audience is a bunch of Gabriel Malors. We’re actually a bunch of morons. He doesn’t know how to communicate with morons, too well.
I think my point was the same as Mr. M’s – the blog style has been lost. I really like Purple Avenger’s posts, for instance (I linked him several times on my blog), and I think he was really under-read. But his style isn’t very Ace-like, just as mine isn’t. GM had a few interesting posts on international law, but as a continuing author he’s better suited to a blog like JYB.
My other point was the same as ND’s – there’s just too much, especially with the Recent Comments thingy broke.
We had a nice AoS style Vegan War with over 200 comments on my post on Saturday.
My point wasn’t that the posts were bad, it’s that the blog-voice had been lost. And to underscore Nice Deb’s point – LauraW and I both found that thread via Mrs. Peel, not because it stood out at Ace’s.
had = has
Funny clip Laura!
May I just troll for pity? This is day 12 of a bad cold and cough that will not go away. Two days after I bragged to my dad that I hadn’t had a cold in years, it hit.
Mr. LS is out of town; we’ve seen each other 1 day in the past three seeks. Boo hoo. Whine.
Thank you.
crap. “weeks” not “seeks”
The day he shows up to help me nudge this 130-lb. amp off the dolly and into a crate
130 pounds??
*eyes roll back into my head*
You can tell me.. just the name on the box. Trace Elliot? Mesa?
*groooooooaaan*
This is what happens when you stop your regular smoking habit. Gawdam viruses think the coast is clear.
I hope you feel better soon. Vodka and Niquil is crazy delicious.
You’re right Pups. This happened after I severely curtailed the smoking. (Involuntarily)
If you check the internals on the blog, you’ll see that yours truly has a key to the Batcave. Ace gave me posting privledges when Ron Paul came to Iowa back in June, and I’ve tried to limit my posting to “Iowa-related political events”. Except for that post about the wire service article about Mexicans being pissy about US gun laws. That one pushed my hot button.
My opinion? If anyone is interested, I agree that “open blog” should be limited to one per customer per week, and you should try to bring your A-game to help keep Ace’s level of excellence up there. To me, that means no “cat-blogging” (unless you’re lauraw, or your cat can do some really interesting shit, like play scrabble or pick football pointspreads), no minor league local shit (unless you’re in Iowa, and minor league local shit impacts on presidential politics), and no pissing matches with co-open bloggers.
I like the concept of “open blog”, but I’m afraid that the real-world execution of the concept may be flawed.
LD, I have many containers of pure proven cold-killers in my downstairs freezer (homemade REAL soup).
Let me know. It’s nothing to ship a couple.
I like the concept of “open blog”, but I’m afraid that the real-world execution of the concept may be flawed.
It is a not flawed idea, per se, it is as anything else: Garbage In, Garbage Out. Too many cooks ruin the stew.
If most of the open bloggers had a style similar to Ace’s, Dave’s or the Mean Cat Blogger Laura, then the blog would be a lot more cohesive.
In addition as others have pointed out, open blogging leads to too many posts per day, and the comment threads don’t flow.
(perking up)
Soup? Are you sure it’s not too much trouble?
(tummy rumble)
needin the amp info here if you please.
*OMFG*
What? What are you all looking at. It’s a ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY POUND AMP. My effin Hartke 410 doesn’t weight that much.
homina homina homina
homemade REAL soup
Which brings to mind the question: How many cats do you have left now Laura?
K, my 2 cents b/c what the hell, I can
I read Ace’s but don’t end to post. From my take Gabriel seems to lack the ability to take new/different perspectives, ponder them, and incorporate or refute. He posts things which are fairly controversial and can’t be bothered to examine anyone else’s opinion to see if his needs to be amended.
And yeah, there are way too dang many posts over there on occasion.
Hmm, that end=tend.
…and can’t be bothered to examine anyone else’s opinion to see if his needs to be amended.
Or to put it in Mr Minority’s terms: Gabe appears to be a sanctimonious bitch.
When he first started posted, I felt sorry for what I thought was undeserved harassment of Gabe, I have since changed my view, because I have a low tolerance to sanctimonious bitches.
that end=tend.</i.
Well since you asked nicely, I’ll tend your end.
Damn! I hate it when I forget to close my tag!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamp
I’ll buy sanctimonious, but I think I would have gone w/ ass instead of bitch. Just a personal preference there, think sanctimonious ass flows better
LD: Sick folk don’t have the energy to cook what they really require to get better.
I’m sure I have your email addy, but save me the trouble of digging, I know it’s been awhile since we spoke: laurawtips ATgmail DOTcom.
Dave: I’m sorry! It’s already soft-packed and ready to go into the outer packaging. No idea what it is. It’s all the same to me. Big n’ heavy.
Mr. M: Truth be told, I’m not all that fond of cats. Another AOSHQ joke that kind of grew.
Oh, and the amp doesn’t weigh that much by itself. Softpack prolly added 20 lbs.
Laura would you please feed Dave’s obsession before his head explodes and makes a big mess in here
Totally random, I love The Walrus and The Carpenter by Lewis Carroll.
Wow, lauraw must be psychic. That or I need to quit trying to post on multiple blogs at once.
*collapses in a pile of disappointment and bitter heartache*
but, a 100 pound guitar amp is so unusual, most guitar rigs are 40 pounds, tops…
I GOTS TO KNOW
You can open it up. It’s just sitting there, waiting to be appreciated.
You could do that, for me.
A Mesaboog Mk III weighs 112, if I recall correctly. It’s got a magnet as big as my ass.
My friends,
@ 35, that’s exactly why I posted the link – I knew it would get lost, and I knew that the handful of folks who read my site would enjoy it. I typically only scan the open blog posts myself. I think Ace’s general policy of keeping it to weekends only may work, and help keep the site from being destroyed the way protein wisdom was. I do like several of the openbloggers, but if people try to imitate Ace as everyone tried, and failed, to imitate Jeff @ PW, well, not for me, my friends! Not for me!
Oh, and LD, I’m sorry you are feeling poorly and are also lonely.
Talk to lauraw. She can help you heal up and open that friggin softpack and put me some fuckin knowledge..
I’m a mess, aren’t I?
A Mesaboog Mk III weighs 112
Mine, a combo, didn’t weigh that much.But, it was pretty f-ing heavy. I had another speaker cab for it and added together it was a bit more than that. Oh, and LOUD.
My Hot Rod Deville isn’t much lighter. Definitely feels heavier than the Twin.
poor Lipstick
I feel your pain. From way over here.
You know what sucks? Whenever I get someone sick, they always get better before I do. When I had the chicken pox, I got my sister sick, but I was sick for two weeks and she was sick for about two days, and was already up and about long before I could stir from my bed of pain. I resent that. I figure if I get you sick, you should be sick at least as long as I was. It’s only fair.
ok, I gotta study. big test Wednesday.
Why do I feel that Dave is being opportunistic?
You know what sucks?
Yeah, when your daughter sneezes on you and two days later, you can’t move because you have a f*&king cold now. But I can’t take it out on her. She’s too dang cute.
yeah, I think it was Bill Cosby who said kids always want to kiss you when they have that “glazed donut face”.
Sorry your feelin poopy (can I say poopy?) Lipstick.
Lauraw’s soup will be great. But also consider…
Juice! Juice! Juice!
Water. Water. Water.
Sleep… sleep….sleep.
An old buddy of mine swore that the best way to get over anything was to drink a six-pack and go to sleep and then you’d feel great when(ever) you woke up….never tried that one.
Sometimes, I feel as though I am living through one of his routines when I have to “debate” with her over whether or not she should eat 5 cookies at one time.
I have to “debate” with her over whether or not she should eat 5 cookies at one time.
Heck, Mrs. Geezer has that debate with me all the time.
For what it’s worth, Gabriel did not get his ass kicked by AlextheChick. He was making a proper distinction between “standing” to sue and substantive legal rights. Standing can be a complex and technical subject, but it is certainly true that you can have standing, but not a substantive right to enforce. (It’s also true that you can have standing and a substantive right, but no remedy. Heh.)
Also, please note that the 14th Amendment guarantees due process of law to “any person,” not just to citizens and legal residents. This is why, for example the Army, at great expense, holds prisoners at Gitmo and the CIA uses secret prisons on foreign soil. They are trying to stay outside the jurisdictional reach of U.S. courts. If terrorists were held at a CIA prison on U.S. soil, legal rights would attach (e.g., trial by a jury of their peers) and they would have standing to sue about stuff like prison conditions.
Thus, Gabriel was technically correct in suggesting that the Nicaraguan plaintiff (mentioned in the article he linked) was being treated as less than a person, and he was not being farfetched as suggested by Alex.
I don’t think Gabriel explained any of this very well (certainly not in the post), and you can say what you will about his tone, but he was making a valid legal point. Similarly, his observation about the discussion amongst the Blount County Commission was dead on:
This is just settled constitutional law, and not a public policy issue as suggested by Alex.
If brevity is the soul of wit, clarity is its collarbone.
Or pinky toe.
It’s something.
He’s still a dick.
Well, he still has a point, so you should call him a pointy dick.
Bunk.
Over at AOSHQ, Entropy is still questioning how an illegal alien who should be deported can have standing, and demanding a SCOTUS citation on the subject. Here’s my attempt to sort it out (PEDANTIC LECTURE WARNING):
Oh who could beat you up?
Well, nobody, given my crimefighting skilz. It was just a hypothetical example.
Michael,
I understanding (considering I am an Engineer and don’t chase ambulances for a living) what you are saying, but as I said in my comment to that post, common sense would say: grant her the protection she seeks, and then deport her and hubby’s asses if they are here illegally.
And are you saying that any “person”, whether they are here illegally or legally have the right to the due process of American law? But in my handy little pocket Constitution (that I carry in my computer bag) the 14th Amendment says: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof…” It doesn’t mention persons here ILLEGALLY at all. So what gives?
And are you saying that any “person”, whether they are here illegally or legally have the right to the due process of American law?
Yes.
But in my handy little pocket Constitution . .
Pull that sucker back out of your computer bag (geek!) and read the next sentence. The framers were very specific about this. The “privileges and immunities” clause applies only to citizens; the due process clause protects “any person.” They clearly intended that the U.S. would guarantee due process to persons within its jurisdiction who are not citizens, and our courts have enforced this guarantee. Thus, for example, the police cannot arrest illegal aliens and summarily throw them into jail without a trial.
The first sentence, which you were quoting, is the definition of citizenship. It does not grant any rights.
(geek!)
(shyster!)
I bow down to the oh “knowledgeable one” and admit that I didn’t read far enough, and stand corrected.
To continue the 14th Amendment:
“…nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;…”
He’s still a dick.
btw, I was talking about King Herrod.
What?