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Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 8:37:55 pm PST

Our friends the Saudis, the main financiers of the global jihad, are putting major pressure on the US government to change our foreign policy: Saudis Push Bush Team On Peace Plan.

Washington - Saudi Arabia is stepping up efforts to make its peace initiative — based on a quick Israeli return to the 1967 borders and prompt establishment of a Palestinian state — a key plank in American foreign policy.

According to American and Arab diplomatic sources in Washington, the Saudis have been pressing for a more active role in attempting to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. One diplomat said that the Saudi push reflects the prevailing notion among the kingdom’s leaders that existing peace efforts directed by the United States are not bearing fruit and will not bring a swift conclusion to the conflict.

At the same time, sources said, some officials of the United States believe that an American embrace of the Saudi plan would increase Riyadh’s support for America’s approach to Iraq and Iran.

This week, Saudi officials raised the issue in meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to Riyadh. And last week, the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Prince Turki al-Faisal, pushed the matter in a meeting with leaders of the left-wing group Americans for Peace Now. Near the end of last year, the Saudis also conveyed their message to Vice President Dick Cheney and to senators who visited the region.

In addition to attempting to line up Israeli and American support, Saudi leaders have been assuring the Palestinians that they would have wide Arab support for a final deal with Israel, diplomatic sources said.

The Saudis have been the primary supporters of the Palestinian terror war against Israel, from its start. To treat them as honest “peace brokers” is some kind of nightmarish joke.

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1 pegcity  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:39:26pm

world war 3 is just around the corner

2 pat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:40:12pm

Condi, they want you in a burka!

3 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:43:26pm

I'm not worried, Nancy Pelosi has got this handled.

4 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:43:33pm

It should be made perfectly clear that our relations with SA are strictly business. Their x-change students should stay home.

5 Noam Sayin'  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:44:16pm

Nuts!

6 pegcity  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:44:54pm

So is supposed to increase Saudi lying in support of Iraq 1 billion percent, amazing.

7 MSMediaCritic  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:44:56pm

Mushroom cloud(s), coming soon.

8 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:47:31pm

Back to the old realism? Oil is under $50/barrel. Their spigots are up at least 3M bpd. Cheap oil is bad for Iran and bad for Hugo.

Bad part is Israel always pays a heavier price.

9 Earth2moonbat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:48:31pm

The Saudis are trying to strengthen Fatah, because Hamas is in bed with Iran. This isn't about Israel or Palestine, it's about WWIV, the war of the sunni axis and the shia axis, which is about to break loose in 5, 4, 3...

10 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:49:20pm

MSM's Word for the Day: Siege

College students flee a system under siege
[Link: www.sfgate.com...]

11 MSMediaCritic  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:49:31pm

e2m,

War already started. We're just too polite to notice it.

12 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:49:58pm
This week, Saudi officials raised the issue in meetings with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to Riyadh. And last week, the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Prince Turki al-Faisal, pushed the matter in a meeting with leaders of the left-wing group Americans for Peace Now. Near the end of last year, the Saudis also conveyed their message to Vice President Dick Cheney and to senators who visited the region.

Check out all those names.

What do all these names have in common?

(1) Condi Rice
(2) Americans for Peace Now
(3) Dick Cheney
(4) Mystery Senators

Slaves and Dhimmis of their Saudi overlords. Not a one can be trusted on anything except the sell out of America.

If you are Jewish and living in Israel right now take it from this American...we are both so screwed. Prepare to be thrown off the cliff to appease our 7th century "friends".

13 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:50:01pm
In addition to attempting to line up Israeli and American support, Saudi leaders have been assuring the Palestinians that they would have wide Arab support for a final deal solution with for Israel, diplomatic sources said.

Can't believe the editors missed that one.

14 Timbre  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:51:06pm

Wahabis funding Wahabis, Salafists, Jihadists, Takfirists...the numbers just keep growing. Even CNN had an article today about the number of radical Muslims in Britain. The article mentioned that a June 2006 poll for the Times of London indicated that 13% of Britain's estimated 1.3 million Muslims consider the July 7 London subway bombers to be martyrs. My calculator says that is 208,000 Jihadis in Britain!

15 Earth2moonbat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:51:52pm
Meanwhile, the Saudis are focusing their effort on convincing Hamas to accept the international community’s requirements that the militant group recognize Israel, renounce terrorism and accept previous agreements signed with Israel.

The deal is DOA. Back to sleep...

16 Daisy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:54:05pm

Well, now we know what the Saudis and the Lefties mean when they say "Peace": The total destruction of Israel.

17 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:54:08pm

OT: Judge Head has his on straight.

Officer facing court-martial denounces war
[Link: www.latimes.com...]

The nation's first Army officer to refuse deployment to Iraq urged the public in a statement Wednesday to "stop the war so that the death and sacrifices of American soldiers will not be in vain" after a major legal setback in his court-martial proceedings.

First Lt. Ehren Watada, who is based at Ft. Lewis near Seattle, faces six years in prison for failing to deploy to Iraq last year with his Stryker brigade and for criticizing President Bush and the war in statements to the media and at a peace convention.

The 28-year-old Honolulu native has argued that the war is illegal because Bush did not obtain proper authorization for it, and that Army rules and the Nuremberg principles adopted after World War II required Watada to disobey orders to participate.

On Tuesday, however, Lt. Col. John M. Head, the military judge in the case, rejected Watada's request to debate the legality of the war at his court-martial next month. Although Watada's attorney, Eric Seitz, had sought to open the question so the soldier could explain why he defied his deployment orders, Head ruled that the war's legality was a political question irrelevant to the charges at hand.

Head also rejected motions to dismiss charges of "conduct unbecoming an officer" related to Watada's criticism of Bush and the war.

18 Maximu§  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:54:31pm

Looks like our leaders have been bought off and whom do we turn to?

Maximu§
3/11 ACR

19 Earth2moonbat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:54:50pm
The plan calls for full recognition of the State of Israel and normalization with all Arab countries in return for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 border with slight border changes.

When Riyadh freezes over.

20 pdub  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:54:52pm

Until they allow me to enter S.A. with my Bible, and my Jewish Neighbor to enter with his Torah, there is no reason to give those corrupt despots anything more than the TRILLIONS of dollars that we have given them already for a product that we developed.

21 ploome hineni[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:55:40pm
22 Daisy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:56:48pm

#15 Earth2moonbat,

I'm not so sure .. that's what they're saying in English .. what are they saying in Arabic?

23 Earth2moonbat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:56:57pm
The version adopted by the Arab League also called for solving the Palestinian refugee problem based on United Nations Resolution 194, a resolution that Israel vehemently opposes, on the grounds that it would open the door to millions of Palestinians settling in Israel proper. Then-prime minister Ariel Sharon was dismissive of the Saudi initiative when it was first unveiled. But Olmert, in a November 27, 2006, speech, gave the first public sign that Israel’s view was shifting.

Oh, shit. Lose Olmert. Now.

24 ToxMan  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:57:33pm

peace, a temporary absence of war

WHILE EVERYONE RELOADS

25 lennysquiggy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:58:41pm

Ah yes, the Saudis... Let me see... They worship a mass murdering thug with sexual tastes that make Michael Jackson look like Pat Boone... and we're listening to them because of what exactly?

26 Earth2moonbat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:59:11pm
Following Olmert’s statement, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni also raised the possibility of turning to the plan as a basis for moving forward. All Israeli officials stressed the need to make changes in the plan, mainly on issues relating to Palestinian refugees’ right of return.

Uhhh...Did we learn anything from the retreat from Gaza?

27 Daisy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 6:59:42pm

#13 rabidsquirrel,

Hoping you've had yet another smoke free day.

28 Canadian Infidel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:00:37pm
world war 3 is just around the corner

The Saudis are trying to strengthen Fatah, because Hamas is in bed with Iran. This isn't about Israel or Palestine, it's about WWIV, the war of the sunni axis and the shia axis, which is about to break loose in 5, 4, 3...

I truly hope both of you are right and WWW3 does start. I'm getting sick of the waiting.

29 Daisy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:01:29pm

Night all.

30 So?  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:04:43pm

Charles wrote: The Saudis have been the main supporters of the Palestinian terror war against Israel, from its start. To treat them as honest “peace brokers” is some kind of nightmarish joke.

~~~

And look at the BBC Dospatch Uncover Reporter story...funding of these mosques and imams are done by whom? The Saudi. They are the true Puppet masters...Bush & Co. better wake up soon. Stop playing the oil game. WE have the technology, now all we need is the will.

31 Jack Reacher  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:06:11pm
...a quick Israeli return to the 1967 borders...

Would that be the borders before the first day, or after the sixth day? I'm just sayin.'

I wonder why they don't call them the 1948 borders? It would be more honest.

32 Ginn  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:07:14pm

The Liberals are busy dismantling our will.

Liberals, Proudly Destroying American Within For Over Forty Years

33 Aegius  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:07:35pm

In American foreign policy we stabbed our friends(Taiwan, Israel, Shah of Iran, King of Cambodia prior to Khmer Rouge) in the back on various occassions and placated our enemies(PLO, Sandinistas, gov. of Iran and now the Left wants us to placate the insurgency by pulling out.). Hence this is nothing new.

34 EtNorskTroll  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:08:33pm

They will cry "Peace! Peace!", but there will be none.

Destruction will come upon them swiftly.

1Th 5:3 - Show Context

~Norsk Troll

35 EtNorskTroll  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:09:24pm
#1 pegcity 1/18/2007 08:39PM PST

world war 3 is just around the corner

***Norsk Troll settles in with some popcorn***

36 venividivici  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:09:36pm

#28

I'm not so much sick of waiting so much as I'm afraid waiting does us no good and helps them, because of the aging of Western society. We're going to have to develop some serious weaponry if we're going to have a Western society of 40 year olds fight a Muslim society of 20 year olds.

37 mich-again  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:09:44pm

I think its all part of the plan to counter Iran. We concede A, B, and C to SA so they'll increases oil production and thus squeeze Iran into economic turmoil. Politics is ugly business. All you can hope is that your team is playing chess, not checkers.

So. how many still give BushCheneyRove Inc. the benefit of doubt in this epic war? I do. Only because I doubt anyone else could have done better in this mess and if you asked me who I'd rather have sitting in the oval office tonite, I don't know how I'd answer.

My best suggestion would be to make VDH the UN ambassador now that Bolton is gone. Please?

38 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:10:23pm

#27 Daisy:

Hoping you've had yet another smoke free day.

Yes I did. And thank you for remembering.

39 BingoBunny  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:11:17pm

67 borders isn't peace.. it's the front line they could never capture.. thats why Arabs want it.

40 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:15:00pm

OT
Redford lands left hook, criticizes Bush policy

[Link: www.hollywoodreporter.com...]

Robert Redford came out swinging at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival's opening news conference Thursday, attacking the Bush administration for its politics as strongly as he dismissed film buyers who want his fest to serve as a market.

"Anyone with a rational mind and a sense of decency is being positioned as a lefty by the extreme right," he said, responding to an attendee who asked whether he thought Sundance selections were politically oriented to the left. "I believe in the tenets of democracy, and when they get pushed, it pisses me off," he said.

Redford maintained that Sundance films always have been politically diverse but said that "in light of what's happened in the past six years, we haven't adhered to snuffing attempts from the administration. ... (Documentaries) have become more of a truth to power in an environment where lying is treated like a political asset."
"I'm left-handed," he joked. "I'm not a very moderate person."

Redford's remarks were in sharp contrast to his mild-mannered opening-day appearance last year, but politics are now very much on his mind. He was accompanied by festival director Geoffrey Gilmore and film director Brett Morgen as they introduced this year's opening-night film, Morgen's Vietnam War-era documentary "Chicago 10."

Redford was in town for only a day before heading off to work on "Lions for Lambs," which he will direct and star in as a professor with two students in the war in Afghanistan. The politically themed omnibus film, featuring Tom Cruise as a U.S. senator and Meryl Streep as an investigative journalist, is the first project for the new Cruise- and Paula Wagner-run United Artists.

/They're diverse, if that means Left, more Left and Moonbat Left.

41 thefrollickingmole  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:16:41pm

Im worried that i will be alive to see the utter destruction of israel in my lifetime. Does anyone have a "bright news" story about that nation of battlers?

Time to revive this scheme from the 30's and 40's I reckon.

"Following the Evian Conference, the London-based Freeland League (founded in 1935) proposed the purchase of seven million acres in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia (encompassing the properties of Connor, Durack and Doherty) as a farming settlement for a potential 50 000 refugees from Nazism. The League envisaged that a vanguard party of 500 to 600 ‘pioneers’ would construct homes, a power station, irrigation works, etc, pending the arrival of the main body of colonists.

Dr Isaac Nachman Steinberg (1888–1957) was sent out from London in 1939 to investigate the scheme’s feasibility and to enlist governmental and communal endorsement. A skilled emissary, he stayed in Australia throughout the war and later wrote a book on his experience, Australia: The Unpromised Land. Steinberg won the support of churches, leading newspapers, many prominent political and public figures (including Western Australian Premier J C Willcock) and a number of Jewish leaders.

The project came to nothing in the end, however, primarily because of concerns that the settlers would drift inevitably and in large numbers to the cities. Forty-seven per cent of the public opposed the scheme in a 1944 opinion poll and, in July of that year, Prime Minister Curtin formally rejected the proposal. Curtin’s decision had bipartisan political support."

What a missed opportunity for both Australia and the Jewish people.

The details are on this website about half way down the page.

[Link: www.naa.gov.au...]

42 Catttt  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:16:54pm

A Prayer for Israel - Psalm 83

Psalm 83
A song. A psalm of Asaph.

O God, do not keep silent;
be not quiet, O God, be not still.
See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.

With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you-
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
Even Assyria has joined them
to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.

Do to them as you did to Midian,
as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
who perished at Endor
and became like refuse on the ground.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
who said, "Let us take possession
of the pasturelands of God."

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
like chaff before the wind.
As fire consumes the forest
or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.

Cover their faces with shame
so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may they perish in disgrace.

Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—
that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

43 Ojoe  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:18:00pm

It infuriates me no end that the Bush family, oilmen all, cozy up to the Saudis.

This relationship has compromised our fight against (radical?) islam from day one.

Many things have compromised our response, but certainly the kissy-poo between the oilmen and the saudis has been a big part of it.

And how can the Bush administration realy get the American people's support and loyalty, compromised as the administration is? We are not all stupid & even if some of us cannot articulate it, we feel it, and are not inspired by our 'leaders'.

Of course, the democrats take advantage of this weakness too.

And I guess we are still not in the dire straits usually necessary to call forth a real leader.

Good night all, will check back in the AM.

44 ASD  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:19:36pm

#35 EtNorskTroll
I know It has to happen and there is no stopping it but ...is there butter for that popcorn?

45 freakagriep  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:21:28pm

Let's give the Saudis what they've been giving their enemies for so long. A slow, painful death.

46 republic  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:22:04pm

Scripture is being played out to perfection before our very eyes!

I hope and pray that all who will, get things right, with Him!

47 Jeff S.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:25:15pm

What about the status of the X? Is that still on the table?

And what of Iran's plans to launch an amphibious attack on Israel?

Condi must address these issues.

48 republic  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:26:25pm

#41 thefrollikingmole

Im worried that i will be alive to see the utter destruction of israel in my lifetime. Does anyone have a "bright news" story about that nation of battlers?

It has been written for over 5000 years, that things will look very bleak for Israel in the end times.

It has also been written that Israel will survive!

Hey, I'm just reporting, if anyone doesn't like it, they'll have to take it up with the Creator!

49 Aegius  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:26:49pm
#39 BingoBunny

67 borders isn't peace.. it's the front line they could never capture.. thats why Arabs want it.

This will be ignored as was the Saudi Peace Plan from a few years ago. Israel will balk at it. Still when Israel gives concessions, it just emboldens attacks against them.

50 So?  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:27:02pm

#32 Ginn 1/18/2007 09:07PM PST
The Liberals are busy dismantling our will.

Liberals, Proudly Destroying American Within For Over Forty Years

~~~

BS. The Bush family has been licking Saudi ass for 40 years!

51 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:27:30pm

Israel to Use 'Code' to Prevent 9/11 Attacks
[Link: www.newsmax.com...]

The "Code Positive" system uses a credit-card-sized device personally and exclusively issued to pilots that will enable them to identify themselves and assure security officials that they are in full control of their aircraft, according to Danny Shenar, who heads security at Israel's Transportation Ministry.

"Using this card, it will be possible to verify that the person flying the aircraft is indeed the person qualified to fly it," Shenar told Israel's Army Radio, according to Reuters.

"This system was developed to prevent aviation mega-terror over Israel, in the form of a plane coming through one of the borders and crashing into a target in Israel," he said. "The system should be operational by the end of the year."

Shenar added that it would be impossible for a hijacker to force a pilot to hand over identifying details, or otherwise pose as a legitimate member of the flight crew. "You can't bluff this system," he said.

An Israeli security official told Reuters that a deadline would be set for all airlines that travel to Israel to ensure their pilots had Code Positive.

"If they don't, their planes will not be allowed into our air space, and we will respond accordingly to any planes that don't turn back in time," the official said, referring to Israeli regulations allowing suspected enemy aircraft to be fired upon.

52 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:28:24pm
So. how many still give BushCheneyRove Inc. the benefit of doubt in this epic war? I do. Only because I doubt anyone else could have done better in this mess and if you asked me who I'd rather have sitting in the oval office tonite, I don't know how I'd answer.

You call the Saudis out. Tell them if they want to keep their oil fields then they better play by our rules. If not the oil fields fall to AmericaTM. If they scream about the injustice I point them to the 1,000s of dead Americans who lost their lives on 9-11. Then if the UN screams I point them to the 100,000s of dead around the world caused by Saudi Arabian money.

Life is a bitch. If we are the super power we claim to be...act like it. Most Americans would have agreed if Bush showed real leadership after 9-11. Alas he did not.

When are people going to hold those accountable for our dead! I guess oil prices are all that matter anymore. Those dead Americans are worth that. The Saudia Arabians are the reason we are in the mess. They have not been held to account. They are ones who are funding the Sunni in the Anbar province. They are the ones who funded the jihadi wars in Sudan and East Africa. They are the ones who are funding the majority of mosques in America and the west in general. They are the ones who wish to bring the 7th century back to life. Yes they are the ones who funded 9-11. Yet Bush does nothing. What does that tell you?

Makes me sick.

53 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:28:44pm
54 Nobody's Dhimmi  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:31:34pm

#53
I wonder, too.

55 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:31:51pm

#47
Xenophobic

56 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:32:41pm
57 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:33:21pm

#53 savage

Votes and power

58 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:34:50pm

#53 savage_nation

What do the libs gain by destroying this country?

Are you kidding me savage? You can't build a Socialist utopia when you have free market capitalism standing in your way.

59 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:35:58pm
60 Maine's Michael  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:37:19pm

Charles

is some kind of nightmarish joke.

Welcome to Jewish existence.

61 Nell  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:37:33pm

/Personal mad ranting and ravings on

Get rid of the combustion engine, and develop a different kind of cheap running machine. Forget about those stupid gas fuel thingabobs. No combustion engine, no Saudi oil. Surely, by now someone must have invented a different kind of energy source. Just image, causal like mentioning to the Saudis, 'we no longer need oil'. End of lot of problems. My daydream, ah, and it feels so good to think about the effects on the mid-east. ROFL.

/Personal ranting and rantings off

Not taking responsibility for speelling erors.

62 Da_Beerfreak  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:37:34pm
#53 savage_nation 1/18/2007 09:28PM PST

What do the libs gain by destroying this country? I've wondered about that for a very long time.

We are the major roadblock on the LLL's road to utopia, get rid of the US and the way to a better life lies open for all. (Didn't you get the memo?)

63 republic  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:39:58pm

#53 savage_nation

What do the libs gain by destroying this country? I've wondered about that for a very long time.

One word,

power

64 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:40:14pm
65 Jeff S.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:40:51pm
#55 cbinflux
#47
Xenophobic

It's amazing how a people can simultaneously be the world's most insecure people AND the most arrogant. Or maybe not so amazing.

/not a shrink

66 Killer Tomato  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:41:41pm

#62 Da_Beerfreak

(Didn't you get the memo?)


*looks frantically around desk*
Damn! I didn't get it either!

Well kiddies, it's snowing here, which means I'll have to get up early to shovel, clean the car off, and sit in nightmarish traffic because no one remembers how to drive in snow.

blech

G'night!

67 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:42:52pm
68 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:43:33pm

56 savage_nation 1/18/2007 09:32PM PST

It makes it loud and clear that King Abdullah or whoever is in charge in the KSA is the puppetmaster and George W. Bush is dancing at the end of the strings

.

Long live the King of the Saudis!

May he be most merciful to American dhimmis. Its good to know Pasha Georgie is leading us good dhimmis into the light of Allah and his prophet (peace be upon him) and our rightful place as his noble slaves.

:)

Lincoln is turning in his grave..

69 aaron's rantblog  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:43:57pm

To treat the Saudi-pensioned State Department as honest brokers is a joke.

Brand new animation, Condi Brown.

Throw those who'd dhimmify and murder us MORE concessions, Condi. Enjoy your life in this world because your perfidious soul won't enjoy the next.

70 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:44:02pm
#62 Da_Beerfreak 1/18/2007 09:37PM PST

#53 savage_nation 1/18/2007 09:28PM PST

What do the libs gain by destroying this country? I've wondered about that for a very long time.

We are the major roadblock on the LLL's road to utopia, get rid of the US and the way to a better life lies open for all. (Didn't you get the memo?)

The Democrats want the U.S. to lose in Iraq. If we lose in Iraq the Democrats get more power. That's their only motivation.

71 ORD neighbor  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:44:15pm

So where is the vaunted Jewish lobby on this? That's right, they could not lobby themselves through wet toilet paper if their lives depended on it.

72 aaron's rantblog  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:45:24pm

Dubya, wipe the oily Saudi smegma off your lip. It's unbecoming.

73 EtNorskTroll  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:46:58pm
#44 ASD 1/18/2007 09:19PM PST

#35 EtNorskTroll
I know It has to happen and there is no stopping it but ...is there butter for that popcorn?

Yep!

That...and Garlic salt, too!

Tell ya' what, ASD: Accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour and I'll save you a place at the dinner table in His Kingdom. We'll have all the popcorn one could eat!
You're gonna die anyway, right? Might as well be with the King afterwards...He's quite a funny Person. Very loving, too.

Just a thought...

~Norsk Troll

74 Maine's Michael  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:47:19pm

'We in America understand teh beneovlence that lies at the heart of Islam.'

-Condo-fucking-leeza

75 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:47:44pm
76 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:47:48pm
An MD-10 cargo jet equipped with Northrop Grumman's Guardian anti-missile system took off from Los Angeles International Airport on a commercial flight Tuesday, the company said.

The FedEx flight marked the start of operational testing and evaluation of the laser system designed to defend against shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles during takeoffs and landings.

Adapted from military technology, Guardian is designed to detect a missile launch and then direct a laser to the seeker system on the head of the missile and disrupt its guidance signals. The laser is not visible and is eye-safe, the company said.

"For the first time, we will be able to collect valuable logistics data while operating Guardian on aircraft in routine commercial service," said Robert L. DelBoca, vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman's Defensive Systems Division.

77 aaron's rantblog  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:49:46pm

#75 savage_nation
the coup starts with levelling Foggy Bottom and lynching everyone at State who appeases the ROP.

78 Da_Beerfreak  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:50:11pm
#70 RTLM 1/18/2007 09:44PM PST
#62 Da_Beerfreak 1/18/2007 09:37PM PST
#53 savage_nation 1/18/2007 09:28PM PST

What do the libs gain by destroying this country? I've wondered about that for a very long time.

We are the major roadblock on the LLL's road to utopia, get rid of the US and the way to a better life lies open for all. (Didn't you get the memo?)

The Democrats want the U.S. to lose in Iraq. If we lose in Iraq the Democrats get more power. That's their only motivation.

But what do they want all that power for?
So they can build their utopia. After all the rest of us are too dumb to know what is really good for us.

79 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:52:17pm
80 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:54:11pm
75 savage_nation 1/18/2007 09:47PM PST

I think it's time for a palace coup by the Joint Chiefs of Staff

No way...all the good ones have been purged already. Its called early retirement or Alaska.

81 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:55:21pm

Man Holed Up in Home After Tax Verdict

[Link: www.newsmax.com...]

A man who holed up in his house with armed supporters while being tried on tax evasion charges was convicted Thursday, along with his wife, of failing to pay federal income taxes for a decade.

Ed Brown has said he will defend himself against capture if necessary.

U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said Thursday that members of his staff continued talking by telephone with Brown and had no plans to confront him. Brown said he expected federal agents to swarm his property soon.

"Live free or die," he said in a telephone interview, quoting New Hampshire's motto. "What else can I say?"

/Good luck with that...

82 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:55:43pm
83 melinwy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:56:48pm

#51 cbinflux 1/18/2007 09:27PM PST

Israel to Use 'Code' to Prevent 9/11 Attacks
[Link: [Link: www.newsmax.com...]...]

lets hope they share this technology with us, we need this and more to protect ourselves.

As for the saudis, I say make them pay, surely there are ways we can put the squeeze on them? It can not be for oil, but I have no idea what other reasons there would be that we "bow" to them when we should be kicking a**

84 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 7:59:33pm

#12 kepler2007 1/18/2007 08:49PM PST

Check out all those names.

What do all these names have in common?

(1) Condi Rice
(2) Americans for Peace Now
(3) Dick Cheney
(4) Mystery Senators

Slaves and Dhimmis of their Saudi overlords. Not a one can be trusted on anything except the sell out of America.

If you are Jewish and living in Israel right now take it from this American...we are both so screwed. Prepare to be thrown off the cliff to appease our 7th century "friends".

Great comment! But it is ConDHIMMI Rice, ok? ;-)

-- gunjam

85 Sihlus  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:00:37pm

#76 cbinflux

Got a link to that?

86 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:00:58pm
87 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:03:50pm

This looks like a pretty interesting movie.

[Link: www.foxsearchlight.com...]

Navigate through the timeline...I almost forgot about the raid at Entebbe.

88 Aegius  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:04:36pm
#84 gunjam

#12 kepler2007 1/18/2007 08:49PM PST

Check out all those names.

What do all these names have in common?

(1) Condi Rice
(2) Americans for Peace Now
(3) Dick Cheney
(4) Mystery Senators

Slaves and Dhimmis of their Saudi overlords. Not a one can be trusted on anything except the sell out of America.

If you are Jewish and living in Israel right now take it from this American...we are both so screwed. Prepare to be thrown off the cliff to appease our 7th century "friends".

Great comment! But it is ConDHIMMI Rice, ok? ;-)

-- gunjam

People don't learn from history. War with Iran scares the crap out of me, but we might have to do it. Frankly the Bush admin. should have been broadcasting into Iran via the VOA pushing for a coup. Khomeini did a similar thing and he took over without firing a shot. The same thing could happen here. No need for war and the key to winning the war against Islamic fascism really is Iran and not Iraq.

89 Sihlus  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:04:43pm

#86 savage_nation

Truck 'em easy, brother. Greasy side down, shiny side up.

90 BignJames  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:06:57pm

#81 cbinflux 1/18/2007 09:55PM PST

Brown said he expected federal agents to swarm his property soon.

It's probably not his property anymore...expect eviction soon.

91 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:07:34pm

Great post, Charles. I, personally speaking, have HAD IT with "our friends, the Saudis!"

I have linked to this post here.

92 savage_nation[deleted]  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:08:09pm
93 Aegius  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:09:50pm
#91 gunjam

Great post, Charles. I, personally speaking, have HAD IT with "our friends, the Saudis!"

I have linked to this post here.

I'm sick of the Saudis too. We deal with them as we need their oil. That is why there have been proposals as to figure out how to end our dependency on their oil and then say good-bye to them.

I once proposed ethanol, but that may be too costly to transport.

94 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:10:06pm

#88 Aegius 1/18/2007 10:04PM PST

People don't learn from history. War with Iran scares the crap out of me, but we might have to do it. Frankly the Bush admin. should have been broadcasting into Iran via the VOA pushing for a coup. Khomeini did a similar thing and he took over without firing a shot. The same thing could happen here. No need for war and the key to winning the war against Islamic fascism really is Iran and not Iraq.

Well said. Well said! -- gunjam

95 hepcat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:10:34pm

Did anyone listen to the last hour on Michael Savage tonight as this subject was covered and talked about at length. I missed who Savage interviewed, but my guess is it was the author of the article.

96 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:12:32pm

#2 pat 1/18/2007 08:40PM PST

Condi, they want you in a burka!

Uh... it seems she is ALREADY in a burkha -- a burkha over her cerebral processes. The woman seemingly cannot think a thought independent of the State Department Arabists.

It is as though she is an automaton.

Truly disgusting waste of an otherwise brilliant intellect.

-- gunjam

97 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:13:54pm

Minnesota Muslim taxi drivers could face crackdown

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

/No, seriously, we mean it this time!

98 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:14:33pm

#95 hepcat 1/18/2007 10:10PM PST

Did anyone listen to the last hour on Michael Savage tonight as this subject was covered and talked about at length. I missed who Savage interviewed, but my guess is it was the author of the article.

No, unfortunately, I missed his final hour. But i heard part of hours one and two.

He was ON FIRE.

Savage is a NATIONAL TREASURE!

-- gunjam

99 new_tommy  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:15:11pm
And last week, the Saudi ambassador in Washington, Prince Turki al-Faisal, pushed the matter in a meeting with leaders of the left-wing group Americans for Peace Now.

More Jimmucidal maniacs.

100 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:16:06pm
82 savage_nation 1/18/2007 09:55PM PST

#80 kepler2007

Aw crap!

Its called Bushites..

The followers of an insane cult within the Republican party. They worshop all and everything related to his highness Pasha George W. Bush. Nothing Bush can do is wrong and anyone who questions his lordship is called "A Bad American". A good Bushite is called a "Good American". Also anyone who says the problem is with Islam itself is called a "Islamophobe".

The only good thing is I have yet to be called a liberal. At least I can still hold my head high...however I have been called all the others even after I cited great quotes from Teddy Roosevelt about being critical of the president is the most patriotic thing an American can do when deserved. The Bushites then called Teddy disloyal and a bad American. Jeeze!

No wonder he left the Republican Party!

101 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:17:37pm

All right, enought of this. I think the question we all need to be asking is: Whrere the hell is the supertanker thread?

Charles, you got some 'splainin' to do...

102 aaron's rantblog  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:17:45pm

These boots are made for walkin'
So that's just what I'll do.
These boots are made for walkin'
And I'm gonna walk all over Jews

103 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:18:57pm

#101 Me

PIMF: Pretty sure I meant 'enough' not 'enought'.

I blame the bourbon.

104 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:20:23pm

#101 Me again:

Also, not sure about 'Whrere '. Think I might have meant 'where'.

Iron Fist rule obviously not in effect tonight.

105 hepcat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:21:30pm

#98 gunjam

On second thought, the interview was more on how the Saudis have influenced the State Dept. greatly and have a huge lobbying effort in place which is gaining support all over Washington DC.

106 MegaTroopX  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:22:06pm

I got left behind on the burkhini dead thread. Can I submit "Darwinian Bitchslaps O' Doom™" as a rotating title candidate?

107 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:24:29pm

#95 hepcat

I can't listen to Savage for long. He's an ARROGANT blowgut who is patently dishonest about his past.

108 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:25:24pm

Is the thread dead?

*gently nudges thread...no response*

Hellooo?

*gently shakes thread...again no response*

/reaches for defibrillator paddles...

109 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:26:12pm

#105 hepcat 1/18/2007 10:21PM PST

On second thought, the interview was more on how the Saudis have influenced the State Dept. greatly and have a huge lobbying effort in place which is gaining support all over Washington DC.

Okay... thank you... good to k now...

I guess that is above and beyond the nationwide web of saudi-financed, jihad-preaching wahhabist mosques, right?

nothing to see here... just move along.

-- gunjam

110 RickD  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:27:27pm

If the Saudis want peace they should make peace. The Pals have shown that they are unable or unwilling to make peace. If, has been suggested by pundits everywhere, making peace with Israel is extremely important to the "moderate" Arabs now then they should lead the way.

If the Saudis make peace then they can force the Pals to do so as well. I don't see the Pals moving first.

I won't be holding my breath.

111 gunjam  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:28:28pm

#107 cbinflux 1/18/2007 10:24PM PST

I can't listen to Savage for long. He's an ARROGANT blowgut who is patently dishonest about his past.

The LORD knows Michael Savage is far from perfect, but his is a genius virtually unrivalled in the media today.

-- gunjam

112 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:28:28pm

Flying Pigs!
Jailed Cleric must pay £1m legal aid bill, judge orders
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

Jailed Cleric must pay £1m legal aid bill, judge orders

* Accused of lying about his finances
* House will be sold to raise £300,000

Abu Hamza al-Masri, the preacher jailed last year for inciting murder, was ordered yesterday to pay his defence costs of more than £1 million.
The Islamic fundamentalist pleaded poverty, but a judge at the Old Bailey gave him only 21 days to pay the money after an action brought by the Legal Services Commission (LSC) to claw back funds granted to him in legal aid.

Lord Justice Hughes said that Abu Hamza may not be able to pay, but his judgment would allow the commission to seize his assets. Abu Hamza, 48, betrayed no emotion when the judge rejected his account of his financial circumstances as “inadequate and indeed false”.



[Link: images.thetimes.co.uk...]

113 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:30:12pm

#100 kepler2007

You're full of crap kepler!
I don't like everything Bush does, but I do think he's a decent person.

Am I a Bushite?

Is being a Bushite some kind of pejorative now?
Bush has made a lot of mistakes, but he has also done a lot of good things too. Need I remind you that we have NOT been attacked since 9/11?

Am I a Bushite?

Whatever Bush is, he's 100 times better than anything the Lefties have to offer! Would you have preferred Kerry?

Am I a Bushite?

You can take your "Bushite" crap and stick it up your ass!

114 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:31:22pm

#85 sihlus

Sorry, NewsMax.

115 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:33:26pm

#113 DesertSage:

You can take your "Bushite" crap and stick it up your ass!

At the very least 'Sage, give him the "Olbermann" treatment. You know you want to, and I haven't heard any Shakespeare quotes in a while...

116 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:36:38pm
84 gunjam 1/18/2007 09:59PM PST

Great comment! But it is ConDHIMMI Rice, ok? ;-)

No problem.. :)

As long as Bush is Pasha Bush or Pasha Georgie :)

88 Aegius 1/18/2007 10:04PM PST

People don't learn from history. War with Iran scares the crap out of me, but we might have to do it. Frankly the Bush admin. should have been broadcasting into Iran via the VOA pushing for a coup. Khomeini did a similar thing and he took over without firing a shot. The same thing could happen here. No need for war and the key to winning the war against Islamic fascism really is Iran and not Iraq.

I really wish it were that easy. I still think the best thing we can do is induce a civil war between Shia and Sunni. It will keep them busy with each other.

(1) Give us time to regroup and save the west from invasion.
(2) waste Jihadis that would be used against us non-muslims.
(3) Maybe it will reform Islam from within once they get tired of killing each other.
(4) Pulling out of Iraq gives us a free hand to deal with the Iranian nuclear program. As long as we stay we can't becuase we would lose Shia support. Lets kill Sadr (waste a few more) declare victory and get out.

The fact is we can't fix other countries problems until we can fix our own. Hell we can't even defend our own borders. What kind of war can we win if we can't even do that right. We need to get on a war footing for the long haul. Iraq is worth losing if it means winning the war against Islamic expansion. In the end it is only a small battle in a larger war. The first step is we have to name the enemy. Then how do we defeat the enemy. Bush has done neither. I view the enemy as Jihad and Sharia theology within Islam. I take a Robert Spencer view of things. I agree that this war does not even start until we get rid of the pc fear of naming names.

117 hepcat  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:36:54pm

#107 cbinflux
I somewhat agree. But Savage is hot and cold , but when he interviews, he usually gets some real good people. Today was that day. And lately he's had Aaron Klein reporting from Israel, who is excellent.

118 freedomplow  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:37:20pm

19. Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week to succeed?
Yes No (Don’t know)
16-17 Jan 07 63% 22 15
Democrats 51% 34 15
Republicans 79% 11 10
Independents 63% 19 17

pdf

119 yehoshua  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:37:56pm

Until the US declares war on Saudi Arabia, the so-called war on terror will remain a joke. Saudi Arabia remains the major dessiminator and supporter of terrorism, from London to Los Angeles.
It's a shame that Bush just doesn't get it.

120 karmic_inquisitor  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:37:59pm

OT: Thought Mac users here would like this pic

[Link: www.innoq.com...]

/Is it too early in the week for a drinking thread?

121 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:39:56pm

#120 karmic_inquisitor:

/Is it too early in the week for a drinking thread?

I can definitively answer that question. The answer is no, it is most definitely not too early, either in the day, or the week.

I like easy questions.

122 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:42:57pm

A drinking alone thread?

Anybody. Bueller? Bueller?

123 yehoshua  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:43:07pm

#107
I agree with you.
Michael Savage, born Michael Weiner, is a Jew who never speaks about his origins. For this reason, he is beneath contempt.

124 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:44:02pm

Dry Run in L.A. (video)

CNN LOS ANGELES, California - The Los Angeles Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating an incident involving an unidentified man who spilled a vial of mercury inside a subway station just before Christmas and then disappeared after reporting it to authorities.
A statement released by the task force Wednesday evening shows a picture of the man taken from a frame in a surveillance video. The caption reads: "Wanted for questioning in connection with unexplained activity."

The response time was 8 hours.

125 piehole  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:44:09pm

BREAKING NEWS...

Aide to al-Sadr Arrested

126 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:45:40pm

#124 RTLM:

The response time was 8 hours.

8 hours? For mercury?

Good to see they have their priorities straight.

127 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:47:34pm

**peeks at top of page. Shakes head**

Still no supertankers.

128 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:50:27pm

Listening to Johnny Cash..."Ragged Old Flag". Drinking bourbon. Not smoking.

Life, for the moment, is good.

129 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:50:31pm

#115 rabidsquirrel

LOL...if it keeps acting like an imbecile, then it will get the Shakespeare treatment.

130 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:50:55pm

And talking to myself. Can't forget that.

131 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:51:37pm

I was hoping for a beach with frost - been getting sub-freezing temps here lately in beach side OC

brrr dammit !

132 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:52:22pm

#129 DesertSage:

Hi Sage. Welcome back to the rabidsquirrel talks to himself thread. Alas, no supertankers tonight.

133 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:54:08pm

#131 RTLM

It was a lot warmer today. My oranges didn't freeze.

134 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:55:01pm

#131 RTLM:

I was hoping for a beach with frost - been getting sub-freezing temps here lately in beach side OC

brrr dammit !

Strange winter, it is. Here in Ohio we were just getting used to highs in the 50's when seasonal weather once again reared its ugly head.

Ohio is a funny place.

135 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:55:05pm

And rabidsquirrel, quit talking to yourself.

:')

136 kepler2007  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:57:26pm
113 DesertSage 1/18/2007 10:30PM PST

#100 kepler2007

You're full of crap kepler!
I don't like everything Bush does, but I do think he's a decent person.

Well good for him. Lots of decent people were not made to be president either.

Am I a Bushite?

Is being a Bushite some kind of pejorative now?
Bush has made a lot of mistakes, but he has also done a lot of good things too. Need I remind you that we have NOT been attacked since 9/11?

Well he should get a cookie!

Lets Review shall we...

(1) No Borders
(2) Port Deals with the enemy
(3) Osama and Friends still alive in Pakistan
(4) Nothing done about Pakistan aiding Osama and Taliban (and still doing it)
(5) Saudi Arabia funding Islamic expanson around the world and nothing done
(6) Bush allows 20,000 saudi students into country each year without vetting (fast tracking)
(7) Bush puts our troops in impossible situations with idiotic rules of engagement in Iraq. He does not allow our commanders to wage war as it was meant to be.
(8) Iranian Nuclear program
(9) North Korean Nuclear Program
(10) Slave trade continues in Sudan by Islamic madmen
(11) Puts pressure on Israel for stupid road map to no where
(12) gives money to Abbas and Fatah
(13) gives money to Islamic groups to overthrow Syrian government (Hello Georgie the group wants an Islamic government).
(14) Calls Islam a ROP
(15) Has sit downs with CAIR
(16) Does not name enemy
(17) Many more...


Am I a Bushite?

Whatever Bush is, he's 100 times better than anything the Lefties have to offer! Would you have preferred Kerry?

No argument from me. I am no democrate. Still there are things higher then GW. It called being American. Maybe he and you should figure that out. He is not a king. Also it would be nice to stop erecting the "Democrate straw man" for all this man's failures.

Am I a Bushite?

You can take your "Bushite" crap and stick it up your ass!

Notice the rage from the Bushite. No logic. No Plan. Just dam you!

137 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:57:40pm

#135 DesertSage:

And rabidsquirrel, quit talking to yourself.

You're just jealous cause the voices are talking to me :-)

138 Egfrow  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:58:20pm

Foriegn and Domestic enemies to boot. Here is our potential new president. Blocking the recording of his words: Let's here him talk more about government transparency.

Here more info on the Messiah.

139 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 8:59:23pm

#135
That's the bourbon talkin'.

140 American Soldier  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:02:12pm

#87 DesertSage 1/18/2007 10:03PM PST

This looks like a pretty interesting movie.

[Link: [Link: www.foxsearchlight.com...]...]

Navigate through the timeline...I almost forgot about the raid at Entebbe.

One of my vendors some years ago was a para who made the Entebbe trip.

141 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:04:19pm

#139 cbinflux:

That's the bourbon talkin'.

Nonsense. The bourbon talks in a distinctly evil voice. I was talking to the little gremlin on my shoulder. He's not evil, just "morally ambiguous".

142 Egfrow  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:05:17pm

Here is another stong source about Obama's moral values.

143 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:08:35pm

Here's what an averted terror attack looks like in Israel.
video - rated R

144 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:13:19pm

I guess it's about that time. The VIMH (voices in my head) and I need to be at work in about six hours, so I best be heading for bed.

'Nite all. Remember...it's Friday. At least one thing is right in the world.

145 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:14:43pm

141 rabidsquirrel

Awhile back I was 'under the whiskey bottle' (rye) myself and was unclear. My apologies. Have not met up with you since.

You LIke JCash?

Sunday Morning

146 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:17:25pm

#136 kepler2007

Well, it's back...so here goes-

Notice the rage from the Bushite. No logic. No Plan. Just dam you!

So I am a Bushite? And I build dams?

No rage her buddy. I just don't like being called names (yes, you're using Bushite as a pejorative) because I voted for someone and I want him to succeed.
You on the other hand want him to cut and run from Iraq so he can go and blow up Iran. I don't see things that way. I was a Marine, and once a Marine always a Marine. We started something in Iraq. No matter why we started it or who voted for it, we're there. As a Marine, I fight to the end...period! There can be only one victor...us! I don't care if we're there for ten years, I don't want to leave until that country is stable and can sustain itself...period! And that means if we have to kill every single son-of-a-bitch there and nobody's left to fight. At least it will be stable.
I don't give a flying fuck if the whole country says it's not worth it to stay there, I'll be the last motherfucker to condone leaving that Godforsaken place. If that makes me a Bushite, well then I guess I'm a Bushite. I could really give a shit less what you say. You're nothing but an irritating pimple to me.

147 Gothic  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:20:42pm

I started listening to Michael Savage, locally, in 1996. I just don't like the all-outburst, all the time schtick. I'm a Lee Rodgers, Rush Limbaugh fan. I'm rather glad Savage/Weiner had his contract dispute with KSFO and is now on another station.

As for sub-$50 oil, it's a Jewish plot! Fucking Jews. Seriously, that cuts my Zionist World Hegemony fund dividend. I need to buy a custom corset for my girlfriend and that costs $. Oh well, I 'spose I could sell my Bar Mitzvah kiddush cup...

148 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:22:26pm

#146 DesertSage

There can be only one victor...us! I don't care if we're there for ten years, I don't want to leave until that country is stable and can sustain itself...period!

Yes Sir!

149 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:23:40pm

Geeze, seems like there are a few nattering nabobs of negativity hanging out here nowadays. I wonder what some of you would have said about Roosevelt and Churchill doing business with Stalin to defeat Hitler. How about the decision by Roosevelt, to focus our resources on the European Theater instead of the Pacific Theater? The Japanese attacked us after all, not the Germans.

Mumble, mumble, sigh

150 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:28:05pm

#146 DesertSage
#148 Scotch


There can be only one victor...us! I don't care if we're there for ten years, I don't want to leave until that country is stable and can sustain itself...period!

Yes Sir!

Amen

What part of "This will be a long war" did they not understand?

151 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:29:40pm

#149 Bordm

Election day was a watershed day of negativity. Made me sick and it has not really stopped since.

Yes. Mumble, mumble, sigh...agreed

152 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:30:49pm
#145 Scotch
You LIke JCash?

Sunday Morning

Didn't hear the "Smell of Someone Fryin' Chicken" in those lyrics. I guess if you sing it enough times it goes on its own.

Man In Black

153 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:31:27pm

#150 Bordm

Bet they all tune in to american idol though...

154 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:33:45pm

#152 RTLM

Ah Cool!

Ring Of Fire:))

155 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:34:31pm

Al Wanker, "At the most, she should be flogged."

/What's good for the goose will get the gander killed.

156 DesertSage  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:35:27pm

Well, g'nite all.

If Kepler comes back, I'm sure one of you will take care of it.
It has a list of complaints, but it has no solutions. It's just like a Democrate [sic].

157 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:36:07pm

All right. The sleep thing isn't working. I'm back.

Scotch: Personally, I prefer this...

One Piece at a Time...

158 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:37:01pm

'Nite 'Sage. The thread is in good - if slightly inebriated - hands.

159 Dan G.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:38:45pm
What part of "This will be a long war" did they not understand?

But it doesn't have to be, we have the technology.

160 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:39:49pm

Over 1300 people on line. Speak up folks. I hate talking to myself. I'm not that interesting.

161 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:41:52pm

#159 Dan G:

But it doesn't have to be, we have the technology.

What is that supposed to mean?

/Don't say "nuke them"

162 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:44:16pm

#157 rabidsquirrel

One of my favorites!

Ohio? N, E, W or S?

163 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:48:40pm

#162 Scotch:

Ohio? N, E, W or S?

Southwest. Just south of Dayton.

164 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:48:57pm

#153 Scotch

Yeah, they have the patience to spend however many weeks watching some “reality” show or night time soap opera. But if a war is not concluded in a timely manner and to their satisfaction they want to cut and run. They want quick results for problems that have been going on for about a century or more. Make no mistake; we have reached the point in history where these issues must be resolved no matter the cost. I guess most of them never heard or read about the Hundred Years War, for example.

165 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:52:20pm

#164 Bordm:

Yeah, they have the patience to spend however many weeks watching some “reality” show or night time soap opera. But if a war is not concluded in a timely manner and to their satisfaction they want to cut and run. They want quick results for problems that have been going on for about a century or more. Make no mistake; we have reached the point in history where these issues must be resolved no matter the cost. I guess most of them never heard or read about the Hundred Years War, for example.

Actually, I'm surprised that they have enough patience to even wait a week between episodes of "24", or "American Idol", or whatever the hell America is watching these days. I swear, it seems that fully half of our adult populace is afflicted with ADD.

166 scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:54:09pm

#163 rabidsquirrel

Got family scattered all over sw ohio. Lived in cambridge until I was ten.


Folsom

167 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:56:15pm

#166 Scotch:

Between yourself, RTLM and me, I think we could institute an unofficial late night "Man in Black" thread.

168 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 9:58:35pm

164 Bordm

They know the guy that invented the 100mg carb before 'standard oil' bought him out.

Bet they can tell you all you wanna know about hollywood scum too.

They can also spout every isolationist theory known to man in about one minute of a world political discussion.

169 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:00:04pm

#159 Dan G.

But it doesn't have to be, we have the technology.

I'm not sure if the Trojans used that line defending Troy, but I'm pretty sure the Spanish generals uttered it when they launched the Armada against England. If I remember correctly Maxim said his gun would make war unthinkable or some such nonsense. The point is technology is not some kind of end all solution. If it was easy, some one would have already solved the problems. :-)

170 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:01:09pm

#167 rabidsquirrel

'Cash' all around for my friends

Give My Love To Rose

171 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:02:01pm
172 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:07:52pm

#171 rabidsquirrel

Got that album:))

How 'bout this?

173 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:08:30pm

All right gentlemen. It's been real. But now I really have to go to bed. Need to be at work in a little over 5 hours.

Scotch, RTLM, others...have a good one. 'Nite to all my scaly friends.

174 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:10:49pm

#172 Scotch:

Perfect song to end the night on. Thanks for sharing some damn fine tunes, my friend.

Buenos Noches.

175 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:10:52pm

173 rabidsquirrel

Dang. It's two there.

Midnight here

Count sheep or something;))

176 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:12:41pm

#175 Scotch:

Dang. It's two there.

ummm, it's three here. 3:12.

177 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:14:54pm

MSM Word for the Day: Siege

Australian Muslims feel under siege
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

SIEGE MENTALITY

Like many migrants in Sydney, Muslims have grouped together for support, living in a handful of southwestern suburbs. One is nicknamed "Little Lebanon" due to the proliferation of Arabic signs and Muslim women shoppers in hijabs and scarfs.

But this limited interaction between a small community and the rest of Australia has seen them categorized simply as Muslims, no matter where they were born. No other ethnic group, such as Vietnamese or Greek, is grouped by religion.

/Uh, what about "The NATION of Islam"?

178 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:15:44pm

176 rabidsquirrel

Doh!

Don't count too many sheep then...

179 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:17:13pm

Hell to be hung over at work on Friday

180 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:22:05pm

#179 RTLM:

Hell to be hung over at work on Friday

All right. Two things are readily apparent:

1) I haven't yet gone to bed.
2) I've been drinking heavily.

In regard to the second, you've inspired me. As I make a living in consulting - and given the fact that I'm between contracts right now (AF client) - I may just work from home this morning. After all, I was planning on working on the new contract proposal anyway later this morning (and taking off tomorrow afternoon). Does it really matter if I do it from the office or from home?

181 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:23:19pm

#168 Scotch

They can also spout every isolationist theory known to man in about one minute of a world political discussion.

Yeah, isolationism has worked out so well for us in the past. Why look at all the good it did between 1914 and 1918, oh er that’s a bad example. How when we did not get involved in Europe’s problems oh say..like when Hitler sent the Condor squadrons to Spain until the Japanese dragged us in after Pearl Harbor, that sure proved something about isolationism didn’t it? Oh that’s another bad example. Let’s see, the Barbary Pirates? Nope! Surely isolationism has worked at least once in history. I just can’t seem to think of a single example, must be my lack of edumacation (sic) or my lack of ability to spot nuances in the historical geopolitical theories spouted by modern day Chamberlains and Quislings.

182 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:24:22pm

#180 PIMF:

(and taking off tomorrow this afternoon).

At this time of the morning, it's occasionally difficult to remember what day it is. Bourbon makes it even harder.

183 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:26:17pm

#179 RTLM

Hell to be hung over at work on Friday

I'd much rather Friday than Monday.

184 Johnny 100 Pesos  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:33:55pm

Canada sends more oil to the US than Saudi Arabia does. Can we start dictating US foreign policy too?

185 scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:37:50pm

#181 Bordm

Agreed. Yup. Cannot add to that. But 'supposedly' smart people make those proposals every dang day.

/lives in lib land

Rabbid Squirrel

Waylon

Sorry you can't sleep.

/did some time at FFO

186 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:37:53pm

#184 Johnny 100 Pesos:


Canada sends more oil to the US than Saudi Arabia does. Can we start dictating US foreign policy too?

Not just yet. First, you have to start blowing shit up. Then, you have to "give" millions of dollars to our universities to establish "Nothern Studies" programs, hire former Foggy Bottom leeches as lobbyists, and fund Canadian centers of hate (mosque equivalents) in the US.

187 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:38:17pm
Our friends the Saudis, the main financiers of the global jihad,

Amen, Charles.

But to synthesize it even further, it all comes down to this:

Will the world chose,

1. Love and Light/the Divine, or

2. allah/satan?

The Divine will prevail. Period. And y'all can pontificate about strategy 'til the end of times but nothing will change it.

Love and the Divine are Check & Mate(ys).

188 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:39:38pm

#185 scotch:

Sorry you can't sleep.

Happens every time I quit smoking. #$#@#$# nicotine withdrawal is killing me.

Again.

189 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:40:51pm

#181 Bordm

nuances = loonylibland

/we are cavemen bordm! ;))

190 RTLM  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:41:28pm

Nite all - resuming the quest to sell a treadmill and pair of dumbbells to every human being in EDT upon wakefulness.

Here's a heavy read from American Thinker:
Soft People, Hard People

There is an immutable truth of human nature: When soft people clash with hard people, the soft are vanquished. That is, unless they become hard. Every time an action designed to preserve western civilization is taken or even proposed, a great internecine battle ensues. We capture combatants on the battlefield and then spend millions in legal fees debating whether to adjudicate their cases in civil or military courts. We rightly scrutinize Imams making a scene at an airport and then spend millions more arguing about so-called "racial profiling." And it's incessant. Every act nowadays, from singling out illegals for deportation and the suspicious for scrutiny to getting swatted by "Tigger" to a six-year-old boy giving a girl a peck on the cheek, is met with hand-wringing and a disproportionate reaction. And far too often litigation results, costing us valuable resources. They are laughing. Why do you think the Mexican government distributed literature instructing its citizens on how to best violate our southern border? Why did Islamists issue advice on how to play the victim card in the American legal system? They don't tolerate such under their dominion, but they know about our lawsuits, protests, pandering politicians and capitulating clergy. They know the game. They know us. And they don't really think we're barbaric or unjust.

They think we're weak and stupid.

191 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:41:53pm

Overwhelming Greed
Eastern promise turns to western delight

[Link: news.search.yahoo.com...]

When UBS, the Swiss bank, sold $750m worth of Sharia-compliant bonds for Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the Malaysian government’s investment arm, it was assumed that Muslim investors had bought most of the bonds.

Not so. Non-Islamic investors also scrambled to purchase the issue, which was the largest convertible bond issued in Asia in 2006.

192 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:43:36pm

For no apparent reason, I give you...

weebl and bob

193 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:44:43pm

Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads
[Link: www.cnn.com...]

At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you."

"We are the Muslims," said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. "We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad."
Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West.

"What are Muslims supposed to do when they are being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People don't make love; they kill each other," he said. (Audio slide show: Preying on Britain's young Muslims)

But in the same debate, held on the prestigious grounds of Dublin's Trinity College in October, many people in the crowd objected.

"These people, ladies and gentleman, have a good look at them. They actually believe if you kill women and children, you will go to heaven," said one young Muslim who waved his finger at the radicals.

"This is not ideology. It's a mental illness."

194 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:44:54pm

#184 Johnny 100 Pesos


Canada sends more oil to the US than Saudi Arabia does. Can we start dictating US foreign policy too?

Nah, If the Canuks get too uppity, we'll just sent the kids from South Park to deal with you, again. ;-)

195 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:46:42pm
'Blowing people up is quite cool'
Young Muslims are easy prey, Qadir told CNN, because they believe the British government crackdown has scapegoated them because of their religious beliefs. The youth also can empathize with those who castigate the Bush administration.

There are some who believe "blowing people up is quite cool," Qadir said.

Qadir asked them why that was justified.

"The answers that I got back is: When a bomb goes off in Baghdad or in Afghanistan and innocent women and children are killed over there, who cares for them? So if a bomb goes off in America or in London, what's wrong with that?" he said.

Qadir is trying to get mosque leaders, many still practicing the tribal traditions of Pakistan, to communicate with the younger generation. But he says it is an uphill battle when radicals like Choudary dominate the debate, getting their faces -- and their message -- out in the public.

"Our scholars ... are not coming out of their holes -- their mosques and their holes -- to engage with these people. They're frightened of that," Qadir said.

196 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:46:51pm

#194 Bordm:

Nah, If the Canuks get too uppity, we'll just sent the kids from South Park to deal with you, again. ;-)

Is our 51st state getting restive?

197 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:49:39pm

#190 RTLM

Damn straight thoughts and a damn good post.

Thank You.

198 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:49:42pm

The Right's Real 'Enemy at Home'
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

In the classic 1956 science-fiction film Forbidden Planet, Doc Ostrow discovers what destroyed the ancient, hyper-advanced civilization of the Krell: "monsters from the id." Having scaled the heights of civilized refinement, the Krell were brought down by the unexpected return of a more primitive and violent side of their psyches.

This might be how conservatives are beginning to feel about The Enemy at Home, a new book by one of their own, Dinesh D'Souza. According to the publisher's description of D'Souza's book:

Whenever Muslims charge that the war on terror is really a war against Islam, Americans hasten to assure them they are wrong. Yet as Dinesh D'Souza argues in this powerful and timely polemic, there really is a war against Islam...by the American cultural left, which for years has been vigorously exporting its domestic war against religion and traditional morality to the rest of the world...
Islamic anti-Americanism is not merely a reaction to US foreign policy but is also rooted in a revulsion against what Muslims perceive to be the atheism and moral depravity of American popular culture...

199 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:51:10pm

If the barrel price keeps falling, Canada and corn will be out-of-business again.

200 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:51:27pm

According to many prognosticaters from time immemorial, we have until 2012 until it all comes down.

It ain't gonna be pretty between now and then. Learn to grow food. Learn to save seeds. Learn to preserve foods..

And talk to the Divine.

201 Spiny Norman  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:53:01pm

#200 Sprite

According to many prognosticaters from time immemorial, we have until 2012 until it all comes down.

Dude, we're not Mayans.

202 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:55:25pm

#189 Scotch

Ugh like cave,
cave warm and dry,
oops, moonbats in cave,
Ugh can't find club,
ahaa, Ugh find club,
no more moonbats in cave,
Ahhh, cave warm and dry,
Ugh like cave!

203 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:57:18pm

Time's up here.

Hope rabbidsquirrel counted the last of the sheep hopping the fence.

Night all.

204 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:58:57pm

Teens Not Terrorists: Muslim Girls Get a Voice in Muslim Girl Magazine
[Link: ww1.prweb.com...]
[Link: prweb.com...]

American teen Muslim girls are much like teen girls everywhere – so says a recent nationwide study of Muslim girls aged 14-18 years. The study was conducted on behalf of Muslim Girl Magazine , a new bi-monthly glossy magazine launched this month to give 400,000 American Muslim teen girls a lively and uniquely relevant perspective on contemporary living.

Most representations of Muslims in the media are negative.

"Our study showed that these girls go to public school, watch a little too much television, read teen magazines, surf the Internet, use Google, enjoy YouTube, play video games, shop a lot, talk on the telephone and spend time just hanging out," says Faye Kennedy, VP at execuGo Media, the publisher that commissioned the study. "In short, they are pretty much like most other American teenagers." The study also highlighted some likely differences: for example, they get news at Al Jazeera, socialize at IslamiCity and count among their top hobbies, Qur’an study.

The research confirmed Kennedy’s hunch: teen Muslim girls in America would love a lifestyle magazine that does what no other teen girl magazine has done for them – give them a means of enjoying contemporary life within the values they love. Over 90% of the panel, when shown the initial concept, indicated that they liked it, thought it was what they need, would read it and would recommend it to their friends.

Ausma Khan, PhD, writer, human rights lawyer and activist, liked the concept so much that she left a teaching position at Northwestern University to become Editor in Chief. "Most representations of Muslims in the media are negative," she says. "Muslim Girl Magazine challenges those perceptions by telling the stories of Muslim teens who are proud to be American and who contribute to American society in so many positive ways. This is a chance for their voices to be heard. Our editorial mandate is to ‘enlighten, celebrate and inspire’ them."

205 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:59:11pm

#202 Bordm

Ugh like cave, woman all mine!

Sleep well;))

206 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 10:59:58pm

#201 Spiny Norman:

That has got to be the most misinterpreted "prophecy" ever. It's not about the end of the world. For the Mayans, it was all about one cycle ending, and another beginning.

207 squarepeg  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:00:43pm

#201 spiny

Dude, we're not Mayans.

We don't have to be. The Mayans knew all about us, without even realizing it was us.

208 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:02:00pm

#203 scotch:


Hope rabbidsquirrel counted the last of the sheep hopping the fence.

Unfortunately, no. The bastards are sitting next to me, siphoning off sips of my bourbon. They must be unionized.

'Nite scotch!

209 Johnny 100 Pesos  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:02:00pm

#186:

Been there, done that. Only with us it is the French.

210 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:02:03pm

G'Nite Scotch

211 Scotch  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:04:15pm

Oooh. It's late and rabbidsquirrel has those sheep by the legs now;)))

/gonna be a helluva day tomorrow

//like I am much better*grin*

212 rabidsquirrel  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:05:50pm

#209 Johnny 100 Pesos:

Been there, done that. Only with us it is the French.

touché .

213 cbinflux  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:07:24pm

Georgia recruits recruiting
W.D. Mohammed Lady Caliphs muslim high school basketball

Sr from Oregon wrote:

Sickening and disturbing sight. Gorgeous black women pretending to be Arabs and Asians. Are we blacks destined to seek masters for our slave minds? Do these girls know that more Black people have been enslaved, oppressed, castrated, raped, poked and beaten in the name of Islam than any other religion? Do they know Muslim Arabs STARTED slavery of Black africans 2000 years before the atlantic slavery?

Do they know that Muhammed was slave owner who banned everything from beer drinking to ham salad sandwiches but ENCOURAGED slavery but accepting as `gifts' teenage Black girls whom he then `took'? have they heard about Juwariyah? Do they know that Muhamed ensnared a young black man; pretended to adopt him got him a wife and then took the boy' wife as his own?

Oh how I cry for ignorance of my people. If they want to worship some cruel God why not go back to our roots and worship AFRICAN gods?

214 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:14:17pm

#209 Johnny 100 Pesos


Only with us it is the French.

Hey don’t blame that problem on me! My ancestors migrated from Nova Scotia to Louisiana in the late 1700's, when the British kicked them out. I’ve lived in snow country and the swamp. I’ll take the swamp, I’d rather sweat then shiver any day!

215 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:14:29pm

#201 Spiny Norman,

It wasn't just the Mayans I refer to, Spiny.

squarepeg,

I do believe you know about what I speak.

216 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:20:12pm

G'night, Lizards Fair.

And if it all comes down...

and you haven't learned how to grow food, save seeds and preserve food, come to my house. I have.

My nic is blue for you.

217 Mike C.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:23:39pm

Mayans ? Damn, but these threads get strange sometimes.

218 Johnny 100 Pesos  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:25:43pm

#214 Bordm

I love the Cajuns, Canada's loss was America's gain. And whenever I hear someone calling the french surrender monkeys, I always think, say that to a Cajun, and he'll kick yer derrier.

Of course, folks like you are closer related to the French conquerers of Napoleons time, then to anyone in France today.

219 SteveC  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:27:59pm

This guy has to be off his meds:

Israeli nuke strike against Iran turned back

At least, I hope he is!

220 littleoldlady  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:31:34pm

Lucky for me I discovered my Inner Peasant years ago!

/now if I could just get the deer to stop walking away with my pepper plants...

221 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:32:06pm

#217 Mike C.

I suppose they do in your world. You did say you were an athiest?

I doubt you've saved seeds or any such thing, eh? End times, bah, eh? If you die...you're just dead, eh?

222 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:35:14pm

#220 lol,

You always make me laugh... :)

223 Mike C.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:40:27pm

# 221 Sprite

My comment was directed at the fact that Mayans are an unusual topic. If want a fight, go beat yourself up. Or at least find somebody that is interested.

Meanwhile, a response to the AMS decertification issue that blew up the other day (global warming.)

224 Bordm  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:43:12pm

#218 Johnny 100 Pesos

Er, my sir name is very unusual, one of my cousins located some of our relatives still in France. When he returned from “visiting” them, he proclaimed that our ancestors had obviously made the right decision in migrating. I have been known to call the French much worse then surrender monkeys. I'm a Texan! Er, American (of Acadian French ancestry).

225 Mike C.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:46:46pm

What eats bulldozers for lunch ?

A damned big machine, thats what.

226 Sprite  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:49:43pm

#223 Mike,

Where did you get the impression I wanted a fight? I was the one welcoming people to my house, and that included you.

The Mayans and prognosticators over the millenia have all dialed into the year 2012 for the end of what we know to be for this existence on Earth...and the beginning of a new world. But it has to do with God/the Divine, Mike C.

I am spiritual...and I gather from your posts that you are not. Nonetheless, please learn to grow food, save seeds and preserve food...

Or simply come to my house. And if you do, I won't be into fightin' you then, either.

227 Tweety  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:50:50pm

The Saudi scum setting themselves up as "peace" negotiators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in between rewarding the families of Palestinian suicide killers of Jewish civilians with wagon loads of cash and denying entry of Jews into Saudi Arabia?

You couln't make it up.

228 Mike C.  Thu, Jan 18, 2007 11:59:05pm

Two good posts with lots of links RE the PRC ASAT test over at Defense Tech.

229 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:00:12am

And good morning, dead thread.

230 Bordm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:01:04am

Cool, I'm watching "Naughty but Nice" on TCM, it was made in 1939 and Ronald Reagan in the cast.

231 littleoldlady  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:04:46am

OY!

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

232 Sprite  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:09:31am

May God tap you on your shoulder, Mike C. Don't worry, it's a very good thing.

That is my prayer.

Good night, ALL.

233 GNIDAthe#seCond  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:11:50am

Jordan acknowledges Israel lost summer war with Hizbullah and announces it wants to go nuclear, for peaceful purposes HERE... naturally...

234 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:14:21am

Episcopal knife fight.

I don't see how the diocese can lose this one in court.

235 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:34:25am
236 big L  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:36:35am

Mike C. thanks for the link.

237 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:40:55am

# 235 big L

Which one ?

238 littleoldlady  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:47:02am

Krauthammer one was great.

239 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:49:13am

littleoldlady

It sounds like a possibility to me, but then I'm no expert in such matters. If there's something wrong with the basic idea, somebody will have to explain it to me.

240 littleoldlady  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:54:44am

Mikey,

I have no clue what will or will not work in Iraq. What I like about the article is it at least puts forth another idea.

241 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:07:35am

#88 Aegious,

Frankly the Bush admin. should have been broadcasting into Iran via the VOA pushing for a coup. Khomeini did a similar thing and he took over without firing a shot. The same thing could happen here. No need for war and the key to winning the war against Islamic fascism really is Iran and not Iraq.

I think the Bush admin. is pushing for a coup in Iran, we have no clue what is going on in that regard because it would blow the operation if it is indeed going on. I agree, I think that is the preferred way. If it can't be done, or it fails we must go in and take care of Iran.

Iraq, Iran, saudi arabia, Syria etc.. etc.. They all need to be dealt with, but Islamic fascism is huge. I don't think there is one country that needs to be hit to solve the problem because there are too many countries/terrorist groups out there.
Regardless, I am glad Saddam is gone. At least we don't have to deal with him and have him as a threat right now on top of Dinner jacket.

Maybe the reason why we won't go after 'The jacket", and may wait until a nuke is set off, is because Bush is hogtied now by the libs thanks to the conservatives who wanted to 'show the GOP a lesson' and not vote. All the libs could do in the past is filibuster, now they will rule and the GOP will not filibuster. They will allow the libs to turn our country into a socialist country.

242 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:09:43am

Oh yeh, and I don't know which is worse, Socialism, communism or Islamofascism. Either way you look at it, all 3 of those are a real possibility for the U.S. when the libs seal their victory with Barrack obamma yo'mamma in 2008.

243 windybon  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:14:33am

A Fox News poll indicates: One-third of Dems apparently wish for the failure of an American military mission against al Qaeda, radical Islamist militias, and death squads, and for the slaughter in Baghdad to continue unabated. 15 percent of Dems aren't sure whether that's what they want. Via Powerline.

244 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:17:50am

Muslims outraged over 24

Muslims, where is your outrage over the arabs who started this war by killing Americans during the Clinton years? Why aren't you mad at them for giving you a bad reputation? Where is your outrage by some of these mosques that have been uncovered and how they speak of Christians and Jews? Because of that, we DO HAVE A FEAR of Muslims.. Sorry, but we don't know people's hearts and yes we will always have that doubt in the backs of our minds when we see arabs or muslims. I admit I do. I don't like even thinking that way about Muslims, and I am mad that these terrorists have caused me to take a double take when I see a Muslim somewhere. But it isn't because of 24! It is because of the Isalmofascits who have ruined it for you and for me!

245 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:20:10am

Windybon:

Now that is sobering, but not shocking.

246 Lance  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:23:06am

OT - Christian Amanpour is doing a two-parter on CNN called The War Within Saturday and Sunday night. The program examines Muslim extremism in Britain.

Maybe the tide is turning, and the mainstream news finally gets it. Within the last couple months Glenn Beck, Fox, the BBC, and now CNN proper have all aired shows dedicated to showing Muslim extremism. I'm most interested in watching to see if they interview "moderate" Muslims, and what these moderates have to say about the extremists. Tivo...set.

247 freetoken  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:24:00am

Wow, lots of angst here... over the reality of reality. Face it folks, you (as an American) are not independent of other nations' influence.

The US is a debtor nation with an incredible amount of IOU's held elsewhere... those "elsewhere"s all needing Saudi oil as much or more so than the US.

Furthermore, any talk of independence from Mid-east oil (at least in the near term) is just plain fantasy.

Welcome to the real world. There is a sign over the Statue of Liberty (perhaps you missed it.) It reads: "Welcome to the US, home of the world's best military, for hire, inquire within."

248 littleoldlady  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:28:31am
"Welcome to the US, home of the world's best military, most greedy politicians for hire, inquire within."

Fixed that for ya.

249 ibmkeyboard  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:30:15am
The prospect of "Star Wars" between China and the West loomed last night after Beijing used a ballistic missile to destroy a satellite in space. Chinese rocket blows up Weather satellite 4 foot wide...
It suggests that the Chinese have developed a major new capability that underscores the communist regime's desire to use its military might as well as burgeoning economic power to expand its influence.

And this:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to create a special committee Thursday in an effort to jump-start long-delayed government efforts to deal with global warming and produce a bill by Independence Day.

Hell,
Let the Chinese knock out our Satellites, and we won't have to worry about seeing the global warming weather patterns...

I feel so much safer with her in power..

250 Goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:30:34am

Good morning, Lizards.

251 Goddessoftheclassroom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:33:13am

#249 ibmkeyboard

That makes me furious.

First others tie our military's hands behind their backs; now they want to do the same to our economy.

252 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:34:02am

# 249 ibm

Check out the two top threads at Defense Tech.

253 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:34:33am

China is another reason we can't afford to have these defeatest libs in power.

I agree the world has watched how we have reacted to 9/11. They feared at first.. We were strong.. Now that the libs and the MSM have weakened us with their endless anti-war, anti-Bush rhetoric our enemies who have wanted to be the superpower are emboldened. China is one of them and believe me they will do anything, work with anyone to accomplish their goals. Russia, syria, N.Korea and Iran are in cohoots. I wonder if China may be in on something as well. Who knows. The point is that we are seen as VERY WEAK now and that is why I could see the mushroom cloud hitting sooner than later. I keep hoping not, but with the libs at the helm and if Obamma wins we are in trouble.

254 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:36:26am

ibmkeyboard,

EXCELLENT points.

255 mtriviso  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:38:12am

The Saudis are our friends. Really.

256 revka  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 1:48:14am

ibmkeyboard,
Oh yes and the libs have all the answers with make believe issues like global warming, since we caused it. That would be an easy one to fix, blame us and get rid of SUV's.. Yet they dont' have any answers to China, or Terrorism or anything of substance.
The libs solution is to share our power with China for crying out loud! They don't think it is 'fair' that we are a superpower.. ANd we put them in charge?

257 ibmkeyboard  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:00:01am

Mike and Revka and good morning lizards from the Global warmed Piedmont of NC Ice palace...
Mike

China has shown it can destroy a satellite in orbit. What could the U.S. do to stop Beijing, if it decided to attack an American orbiter next? Short answer: nothing.
it takes about 20 minutes to fire a ballistic missile into space, and have its "kill vehicle" strike a satellite at hypersonic speed -- over 15,000 miles per hour -- in low-earth orbit. That's far too quick for anything in the American arsenal to respond, in time. There's "no possibility of shielding" a relatively-fragile satellite against such a strike.


Mike I havent read all the info..But it mentions possible Laser
defense..But we should use that monies to stop Global warm...shit...

If the damn Chinese blow up my Dish Network I will kick some Chinese Ass...yo

258 bos  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:01:33am

House of Bush is owned by House of Saud? LGF is agreeing with Michael Moore's premise in F911.

259 ibmkeyboard  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:05:21am

Oh, and thanks to Mr. Bill Clinton for giving the funking Chinese this funking technology..

Was Bill a Democrat?

260 Jim in Virginia  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:05:26am

RIP Art Buchwald. His farewell column is in the dead tree media, I haven't found it online yet.

For some reason my mind keeps turning to food. I know I have not eaten all the eclairs I always wanted. In recent months, I have found it hard to go past the Cheesecake Factory without at least having one profiterole and a banana split.


For my money, his annual Thanksgiving column (with Kilometres Deboutish) is one of top ten pieces of American humor writing.

261 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:09:13am

# 260 JiV

I grew up reading his stuff, and think I even still have a few of his books around here somewhere.

262 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:10:33am
TEHRAN, Jan. 18 — Iran’s outspoken president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, appears to be under pressure from the highest authorities in Iran to end his involvement in its nuclear program, a sign that his political capital is declining as his country comes under increasing international pressure.

Just one month after the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear program, two hard-line newspapers, including one owned by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the president to stay out of all matters nuclear...


New York Times
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does appear to have other matters at hand.

263 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:13:12am

# 257 ibm

If the damn Chinese blow up my Dish Network I will kick some Chinese Ass...yo

Arr your channels are berong to us.

264 SpiritOf1683  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:14:14am

#36 venividivici

Isn't this what Mark Steyn's been on about in his columns, in articles like this [Link: www.suntimes.com...] and this [Link: www.suntimes.com...] ? 39% of Saudi Arabia's population is 15 or under, two thirds of Iran's population was born in 1979 or later, whilst the median age in the UK is 46, and expected to rise to 52 in the next 20 years - so half the population by 2027 (essentially the non-Muslim population) will be 52 or over. Its the same for other Western countries, so how can Dad's Army be expected to stand up to young virile Muslims - many of which already live here.

265 ibmkeyboard  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:15:09am

Hear, Hear,
Art Buchwald...RIP

His tennis game was legendary..LO

266 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:15:33am

BabbaZee alert:
Keffiyeh-gate: Was Matt Lauer Wearing a 'Palestinian Support Scarf' this Morning?
Posted by Mark Finkelstein on December 9, 2005 - 09:12.

Call it 'Keffiyeh-gate.'

Was Matt Lauer wearing a Palestinian support scarf this morning?

Alright, I can already hear some folks out there chuckling at the notion.

But before you dismiss this as the product of the over-active mind of an MSM-bias hunter, consider:


[Link: newsbusters.org...]

267 SpiritOf1683  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:17:05am

Correction to #264

The other link should have been:

[Link: www.opinionjournal.com...]

268 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:17:40am

#266 ec marm
I need a bigger picture - could be just an innocent hounds tooth check.

269 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:22:32am

ec marm - you suk, look at the date of that earlier post, idjit
Jan. 19, 2007 4:15 | Updated Jan. 19, 2007 4:18
US chain pulls 'anti-war' keffiyehs
By MICHAL LANDO, JERUSALEM POST CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK

Urban Outfitters, a popular American clothing store, on Thursday halted sales of a range of keffiyehs, the traditional Arab headdress, which it had been marketing this month as fashionable "anti-war woven scarves." A manager at an Urban Outfitters on 6th Avenue in New York City close to the West Village, who wished to remain anonymous, said the item had been the "number one selling scarf."

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

270 ibmkeyboard  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:24:39am

Mike C.
LOL

Dear,
We had 2000 channels last night and now the only funking thing I can get is CBS...Dan Rather Awards re-runs..

271 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:30:40am

ibm

2000 channels, and nothing on, I'm sure.

272 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:36:08am

#269 ec marm
no one at UO sent me a reply, LOL...

273 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:40:31am

Iranian Involvement in Afghanistan

By Muhammad Tahir

The Afghan media has published an increasing number of critical reports about Iran's secret contacts with insurgent groups in Afghanistan, specifically those groups fighting against the U.S. presence in the country. On September 5, for instance, the Pashto-language newspaper Weesa referred to unidentified local officials in Nimruz province who claimed that Tehran was financing and providing weaponry to Afghanistan's militant groups. In March 2006, the Afghan official news agency Bakhtar reported on the secret activities of Iranians, including officers belonging to the armed forces, in border towns inside Afghanistan. Bakhtar quoted a high-ranking Afghan border policeman in Herat province, General Mohammad Ayub Safi, saying that "in only the first quarter of this year [2006], more than 10 Iranian officials have been arrested in Herat who were allegedly involved in illegal activities." These developments show that Iran has been increasing its operations in Afghanistan in an effort to gain influence with the contending insurgent factions and to hasten the departure of U.S. troops from the country.

[SNIP]

274 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:42:27am

#268 BabbaZee

I need a bigger picture - could be just an innocent hounds tooth check.

I didn't look at the date of the post. Two cup rule violation. Here's a magnified view. It looks coordinated with the hat brim?

275 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:43:14am

Cue the scary music, me...


Angst-Ridden Germans Look for Answers -- And Find Them in the Koran

By Lutz Ackermann

The number of Muslim converts in Germany increased fourfold last year.
In terms of his appearance, Kai Lühr seems out of place. Lühr, who is kneeling between bearded men in white robes and bowing in the direction of Mecca, is clean-shaven and wearing jeans and a gray jacket. He might pass as a member of the Christian congregation next door, sent here to cultivate inter-faith dialogue. But he clearly knows the Islamic prayer ritual too well for that to be the case. He bends over and prays in Arabic: "Allah listens to him who praises Him. Our Lord, to You is due all praise." Lühr bends over, stands up again, takes another bow -- up and down, 33 times.

[HASAN CHOP, ZIEG HEIL]

276 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:44:46am
#275 BabbaZee 1/19/2007 04:43AM PST

Cue the scary music, me...


Angst-Ridden Germans Look for Answers -- And Find Them in the Koran

By Lutz Ackermann

The number of Muslim converts in Germany increased fourfold last year.
In terms of his appearance, Kai Lühr seems out of place. Lühr, who is kneeling between bearded men in white robes and bowing in the direction of Mecca, is clean-shaven and wearing jeans and a gray jacket. He might pass as a member of the Christian congregation next door, sent here to cultivate inter-faith dialogue. But he clearly knows the Islamic prayer ritual too well for that to be the case. He bends over and prays in Arabic: "Allah listens to him who praises Him. Our Lord, to You is due all praise." Lühr bends over, stands up again, takes another bow -- up and down, 33 times.

[HASAN CHOP, ZIEG HEIL]


Europe is doomed

277 3 wood  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:46:16am

Good Morning Lizards

Hey guys, al-Reuters claims to have journalistic standards now!
Here are Reuters standards for using photoshop in their photos.

To Recap:

ALLOWED:

• Cropping
• Adjustment of Levels to histogram limits
• Minor colour correction
• Sharpening at 300%, 0.3, 0
• Careful use of lasso tool
• Subtle use of burn tool
• Adjustment of highlights and shadows
• Eye dropper to check/set gray

NOT ALLOWED:

• Additions or deletions to image
• Cloning & Healing tool (except dust)
• Airbrush, brush, paint
• Selective area sharpening
• Excessive lightening/darkening
• Excessive colour tone change
• Auto levels
• Blurring
• Eraser tool
• Quick Mask
• In-camera sharpening
• In-camera saturation styles

I don't know that much about the craft, but is seems like there is plenty of room for shennanigans in the allowed limits. Then there's this:

SET-UPS/STAGING OF PICTURES

Reuters photographers, staff and freelance, must not stage or re-enact news events. They may not direct the subjects of their images or add, remove or move objects on a news assignment. Our news photography must depict reality. Any attempt to alter that reality constitutes fabrication and can lead to disciplinary action, including dismissal.

Photographers may direct the subjects of portraits, formal interviews and non-news feature images needed to illustrate a story. The caption must not mislead the reader into believing these images are spontaneous.

Yeah, riiight.

And I will be making a living posing for GC cover pictures and doing shampoo commercials next week, too. I think all the this boils down to Reuters saying, "don't get caught again".

278 littleoldlady  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:47:48am
Angst-Ridden Germans Look for Answers -- And Find Them in the Koran

Is that the same Koran that includes, "Kill the Jews!" ?

/didn't they already read that book?

279 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:48:19am

Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) -- At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you."

"We are the Muslims," said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. "We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad."


[Link: edition.cnn.com...]

Omar sounds like the moderate

280 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:49:36am

19 January 2007
"Intelligence Brief: Tensions Increase Between Iran and Saudi Arabia"

The latest political developments in the Middle East demonstrate the rising power of Iran. Tehran is involved in three primary conflicts in the Middle East. First, it has extensive ties with the Shi'a movement Hezbollah, which Iran uses as an instrument of leverage in Lebanon and as a tool to pressure Israel. Second, Iran is involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through its support of Hamas. Third, Iran's influence now extends into Iraq due to its relationship with the Iraqi Shi'a community. In addition to these three conflicts, Iran is also pursuing a controversial nuclear research program that could very likely be an attempt to acquire nuclear weapons in order to increase its regional power drastically.

During the past few years, Iran has worked to create alliances with both state and non-state actors who share the common goal of altering the political balance in the Middle East. As a result, Iran has formed alliances with Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and various factions in Iraq. It is incorrect to say that these are "Shi'a alliances." While the Shi'a component plays a large part in this coalition, it is not the core fundament. Hamas, for example, is a Sunni group and Syria is led by an Alawite family with a majority Sunni population. Instead, these actors have joined together due to the common interest of changing the present regional balance of power.


[CHOP]

The rising power of Iran has much to do with the toppling of Saddam who we used to use as a proxy to keep Iran at bay. These "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" diplobabbling non-solutions to terminal problems are untenable as it applies in the Muslim World.
NONE OF THEM ARE OUR FRIENDS
we have to FIGHT THIS OURSELVES,
not make dark alliances that we only have to come back in and destroy later on.
We have no time left for this bullshit now.
FUCK SAUDI ARABIA.

ARE YOU LISTENING, government scrollers?

281 Jim in Virginia  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:50:22am

3wood- what's next, guidelines for writers? "Don't make up stories or sources. "
Cropping pictures allows lots of leeway, but you should not have to tell a so-called jourunalist not to add or delete images from a photo.
This must be the "truthiness" thing.

282 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:51:20am

#274 ec marm
LOL
I saw the date but that doesn't matter to me, it's not that old...

I dont think it's an anti-war scarf, i think it's a houndstooth check.

283 TotallySirius  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:51:44am

Mark Malloch Brown helps ronry malignant dwarf rip off millions from UN.

This is going to be big.

I hope the wortheless anti-semitic,anti-american SOB gets put in the deepest,darkest hole in the nastiest prison on Earth.

284 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:51:54am

#278 littleoldlady
OY.
Everything old is new again.

285 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:52:25am

# 277 3 wood

Oh, I don't know. They got their collective asses handed to them on a platter, plus a sharp awakening to the fact that alterations leave traces that thousands, if not millions, of people can detect and publicize. I rather suspect they're serious. Not out of any drift towards lack of bias or ethical concerns, mind you, but just in order to save their phoney-baloney jobs.

286 Jim in Virginia  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:55:58am

Of course, you should not have to tell senior staff at Fortune 500 companies not to back date stock options, either.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket--mutter mutter mutter

/old fogey geezer mode off

287 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:56:47am

Public outrage could see human rights law scrapped, says Clarke
By JAmes Slack


Britain may quit the European Convention on Human Rights, says the former Home Secretary
Britain might quit the European Convention on Human Rights, Charles Clarke has said.

The former Home Secretary said there was public anger that the courts appeared to give the rights of terror suspects a "higher priority" than preventing possible bomb attacks.


[Link: www.dailymail.co.uk...]


The UK gets a clue.

288 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:59:08am

#276 Elric66

That prophet of doom shit of yours is tiresome.
I am certain there are millions in Europe
who feel exactly as we feel.

Luckily for us we are armed.
That is the only thing preventing a full blown
Europe situation here.
that and time,
we are careening down
the very same moral depravity hill
as Europe did as I type this.

BTW they will try to disarm us.

Go read your bible like I told you to!

;~p

289 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 2:59:14am

#277 3 wood 1/19/2007 04:46AM PST

Good Morning Lizards

Hey guys, al-Reuters claims to have journalistic standards now!
Here are Reuters standards for using photoshop in their photos.

To Recap:

ALLOWED:

• Cropping
• Adjustment of Levels to histogram limits
• Minor colour correction
• Sharpening at 300%, 0.3, 0
• Careful use of lasso tool
• Subtle use of burn tool
• Adjustment of highlights and shadows
• Eye dropper to check/set gray

Then nothing has changed. Except, don't get caught. It was sloppy use of the lasso tool that was so obvious! Any use of the lasso tool is BLATANT manipulation of the image.

290 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:00:19am

#283 TotallySirius 1/19/2007 04:51AM PST

Mark Malloch Brown helps ronry malignant dwarf rip off millions from UN.

This is going to be big.

yea like Oil For Food
which went NOWHERE
and how could it be bigger than that?

291 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:00:33am

Muslims protest reprised role as terrorists in Fox series '24'

Thursday, January 18, 2007

By WAYNE PARRY
ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLIFTON - Two years ago, Muslim groups protested when the plot of the hit Fox drama '24' cast Islamic terrorists as the villains who launched a stolen nuclear missile in an attack on America.

Now, after a one-year respite during which Russian separatists played the bad guys on the critically acclaimed series, Muslims are back in the evil spotlight. Unlike last time, when agent Jack Bauer saved the day, the terrorists this time have already succeeded in detonating a nuclear bomb in a Los Angeles suburb.


[Link: www.northjersey.com...]

Surprise, surprise

292 3 wood  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:01:15am

Dead-tree media continues to go down the drain. 289 launched by Time, Inc.

Of the 289 jobs eliminated, 117 are coming from the business side. Of the 172 editorial jobs being axed, the company hopes 86 will come from volunteers taking buyout packages -- while the other 86 are simply losing their posts.

Well, maybe the socialists and communists in the MSM are learning an important lesson. If you provide an awful product to your customers, they usually will buy a lot less of it and your competitors will benefit. Just keep up the left-wing bias, it's working so well for you now.

293 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:02:55am

Video: Matthews says we shouldn’t fight Iran to be “the big sh*t” in the Middle East

[Link: hotair.com...]


Where does MSNBC find these guys?

294 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:03:32am

Some good news for this AM.

(hat tip - bonz, AtS)

295 ibmkeyboard  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:04:05am

Babbazee,

But he clearly knows the Islamic prayer ritual too well for that to be the case. He bends over and prays in Arabic: "Allah listens to him who praises Him. Our Lord, to You is due all praise." Lühr bends over, stands up again, takes another bow -- up and down, 33 times.


If I am Islamsick, and get old, and cant get up and down 33 times, Does that make me an apostate?

Off with his freaking head,,
He cant pray anymore...Holy Allah, I need BenGay..

296 zulubaby  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:04:35am

So guess what ... I just happened to glance at the Jerusalem Post -- the real one, not online -- and the "anti-war" kaffiyeh story is front page, above the fold. I feel kinda proud of us :-)

297 Minion  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:05:15am

Wait til' Barack Hussein Obama becomes president.

298 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:05:43am

#295 ibmkeyboard
LOL
I'd never make it either.
Do they have rascal scooters for Allah?

299 TotallySirius  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:06:20am

Babba Babba Babba

I didn't say bigger than )OFF,I just said big.

I'm disappointed,you should see the difference betreen big and bigger.

Oh well,no biggie.

:-)

300 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:06:56am

In the Taqiyyalope department:

Arab Convert Arrested For Aiding Jihad Brother
by Ezra HaLevi

An Arab who converted to Judaism and moved from the PA to Haifa was indicted Thursday for conspiring with the enemy and contacting a foreign agent – his brother, an Islamic Jihad terrorist.

Assaf Ben-David, born Hussam Hafez Mahmoud Suafta, converted to Judaism and left the PA-controlled village of Tubas, near Shechem once he received Israeli citizenship.

He recently returned to Islam after living for years as a Hareidi-religious Jew and is accused of trying to pass materials for manufacturing explosives to his brother Salah, a member of the Islamic Jihad terrorist group.

Salah was killed on December 20th during an IDF arrest operation in Tubas before he could receive the nitric acid from his brother, according to the indictment.

301 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:06:58am

President Bush Would Consider Pardoning Border Agents Convicted of Shooting Drug Runner

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush left open the possibility of a pardon for two U.S. Border Patrol agents serving federal prison sentences for shooting a Mexican drug dealer as he fled and covering up the crime.

Bush said "there's a process for pardons" and the case has to work its way through the system. In an interview with KFOX-TV in El Paso, Texas, Bush said the White House will review the case, and he urged people to "take a sober look at the case."


While you're at it, secure the border too.

302 3 wood  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:07:27am

#281 jiv

I think it boils down to "don't get caught again".

#285 Mike

Well, there is always hope. As you can see in my #292, time is learning some of those lessons as well.

#289 ec

I don't use those tools anyway, so I will bow to more expert opinion, such as yourself.

303 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:07:43am

Good morning, fellow [lizards]!

Some good news for this AM.

That was a nice story.

304 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:08:23am

ACLU Sues Virginia Bar Owner Over Ban on Dreadlocks, Cornrows
Thursday, January 18, 2007

E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY VERSION
VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia — The American Civil Liberties Union is suing a bar owner over his policy of barring people who wear their hair in cornrows, dreadlocks or twists.

In a federal lawsuit, the Virginia chapter of the ACLU says the Kokoamos Island Bar, Grill and Yacht Club's policy amounts to racial discrimination because it singles out hairstyles usually worn by black customers.


[Link: www.foxnews.com...]


Seems the ACLU is racially profiling hair styles.

305 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:09:35am

#299 TotallySirius
What I see is that my government is a bunch of compliciots who did dick with Oil For Food and kept going to the UN with their hat in their hand and fellating our enemies, despite Norm Colemans efforts, and I believe they will do dick with this too.

306 zulubaby  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:10:33am

Babbaaa, LOL! I was just telling my family about you -- or more specifically, your e-mail to Urban Outfitters. You go, babba mamma!

307 TotallySirius  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:11:41am

#305 Babba

I agree,but it will get a lot of airtime(most likely conservative talk shows) before fading to obscurity,just like OFF.

308 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:13:04am

# 303 traveler

It was, wasn't it ?

309 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:13:25am

Maliki doesn't deserve a "surge"
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, January 19, 2007


WASHINGTON -- If we were allied with an Iraqi government that, however weak, was truly national -- cross-confessional and dedicated to fighting a two-front war against Baathist insurgents and Shiite militias -- a surge of American troops, together with a change of counterinsurgency strategy, would have a good chance of succeeding. Unfortunately, the Iraqi political process has given us Nouri al-Maliki and his Shiite coalition.

Its beginning was inauspicious. Months of wrangling produced a coalition of the three major Shiite religious parties, including that of Moqtada al-Sadr. Given Maliki's legitimacy as the first democratically elected leader of Iraq, however, he was owed a grace period of, say, six months to show whether he could indeed act as a national leader.

By November, his six months were up and the verdict was clear: He could not. His government is hopelessly sectarian. It protects Sadr, as we saw dramatically when Maliki ordered the lifting of U.S. barricades set up around Sadr City in search of a notorious death squad leader. It is enmeshed with Iran, as we saw when Maliki's government forced us to release Iranian agents found in the compound of one of his coalition partners.

310 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:15:59am

#306 zulubaby
ha!
They were probably like ...what kind of maniac Americans do you know?
LOL!

311 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:16:13am

Blog is wonky

312 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:16:25am

Jim in Virginia
Buchwald's Farewell Column, Written to Be Released at Death

GOODBYE, MY FRIENDS
By Art Buchwald

Tribune Media Services

Several of my friends have persuaded me to write this final column, which is something they claim I shouldn't leave without doing.

There comes a time when you start adding up all the pluses and minuses of your life. In my case I'd like to add up all the great tennis games I played and all of the great players I overcame with my now famous "lob." I will always believe that my tennis game was one of the greatest of all time. Even Kay Graham, who couldn't stand being on the other side of the net from me, in the end forgave me.

I can't cover all the subjects I want to in one final column, but I would just like to say what a great pleasure it has been knowing all of you and being a part of your lives. Each of you has, in your own way, contributed to my life.

Now, to get down to the business at hand, I have had many choices concerning how I wanted to go. Most of them are very civilized, particularly hospice care. A hospice makes it very easy for you when you decide to go.

What's interesting is that everybody has his or her own opinion as to how you should go out. All my loved ones became very upset because they thought I should brave it out -- which meant more dialysis.

But here is the most important thing: This has been my decision. And it's a healthy one.

The person who was the most supportive at the end was my doctor, Mike Newman. Members of my family, while they didn't want me to go, were supportive, too. But I'm putting it down on paper, so there should be no question the decision was mine. ...

313 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:17:15am

#307 TotallySirius

Not goo enough. The UN should be off our soil, out of our land, they are the Arab League in a light blue polyester suit.

314 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:17:34am

lost my D

315 zulubaby  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:18:07am

Babba, if you knew my family and how meshugah we all are, you would never say such a thing! Everyone else is very ... mild, compared ;-)

P.S. We're all Americans too.

316 zulubaby  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:18:51am

Be back later -- kisses.

317 TotallySirius  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:19:05am

#313 Babba

Amen,that building should be demolished and as a tribute, the ground there should be salted so nothing will ever grow there again.

318 sandbox  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:19:53am

If the Olmert gov't falls and a more right wing coalition comes back to power in Israel, that will hopefully put an end to Israel giving up more land for now. Further, Netanyahu back in power may even serve to rally other countries against the Radical Islamist threat.

319 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:21:33am

# 312 J.D.

Wow.

320 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:21:52am

Good Morning Y'all from a cloudy, cool (38 degrees, going up to 54 degrees) Charlotte! How is everyone today?

Oh, BTW, Christheprofessor contacted me and said
the hard drive on his lap top crashed and a techie is supposed to come and fix it soon - that's what he uses for LGF. Anyway he says "hi" to Y'all and he'll be back as soon as he can.

321 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:23:27am

#311 {BabbaZee} Morning Babba! Hope you're feeling ok today. Please check your e-mail when you get a chance.

322 3 wood  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:24:04am

#293 elric

An arrogant, pompous, left-wing shill, that's who.

323 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:25:22am

#319 Mike C.
He was tough, huh?

#320 {realwest}
Do you rarely check your e-mail, much like moi?
;-)

324 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:26:12am

#294 Mike C.
Great story!

325 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:26:18am

#312 { J.D.} Morning to y'all! Hope you are doing well today.
Wow, that was some column he wrote - a very nice and concise explanation of why he chose a hospice and a thanks to everyone. I'm gonna miss his columns.
RIP Art and condolences to your family.

326 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:26:52am

BabbaZee
No reply? You'd think that a reply to an email with a picture of an infidel being eviscerated* by an 'anti-war' woven scarf wearing muslim would just roll off their keyboards? :~)

* big word of the day!

327 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:27:51am

#322 3 wood 1/19/2007 05:24AM PST

#293 elric

An arrogant, pompous, left-wing shill, that's who.

They do have Chris Tucker and he seems really sane. But Olby and Matthews? Geesh. They do give hotair a lot of business though. LOL

328 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:28:24am

# 323 J.D.

Art Buchwald in the WaPo and that Vaughn Meader (sp ?) comedy album RE the Kennedys were my first introductions to political satire.

329 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:29:12am

#323 J.D. - Huh? I'm almost compulsive about checking my e-mail (I'm expecting word any day now from that fella in Nigeria) why do you ask? I haven't received anything from you recently.

330 sandbox  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:29:13am

I sincerely hope that if and when we see Benjamin Netanyau come back (for the second time) as Israeli Prime Minister that he will motivate other political leaders in the democratic countries to speak up about the radical islamist threat. There is constant talk in the demcratic west that we need a new Winston Churchill--presumably to lead the UK or the USA--but who's to say that the courage and motivation can't come from some of the smaller countries, like the Prime Minister of Denmark or the Prime Minister of Israel.

331 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:32:35am

EC
Eviscerated is one of my favorite words LOL
I am the gutless wonder,
eviscerated,
yet animated
bwaha


{YOREAL}
go it


SHABBAT SHALOM to your family Shaka JEWLU

Sirius
I dedicate this to the UN

332 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:32:43am

#329 realwest
Day before yesterday I answered your e-mail which came last week before I left for a funeral. No big deal at all.

333 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:32:46am

Good moring all,

My take on this report about Saudi pressure is for "Arab Piece Plan": it's consistent with Jamil Bakr's Iraqi Study Group report, which isn't surprising since it was the Saudi's who dictated those sections dealing with Israel & Palestine (sic).

Just a question, when the Arab leaders call for a retuen to the 1967 borders, are they also calling for the return to the situation of 1967 which led to war? The Saudis are peddling the Big Lie that the Middle East would see peace if only they returned to the "peaceful" era of 1967, before the aggressor Israel "occupied' the Palestinian (sic) territories. Before the 6 Day War, the Arab armies had mobilized along Israel's strategically weak borders, UN "peacekeeping" forces were sent packing from the Sinai by the Egyptians, Arab radio & papers spewed a constant propaganda of the impending destruction of Israel, PLO terrorists raided Israel from the West Bank, the Egyptian airforce was over-flying Israel, while the Syrians fired the occassional artilery salvo into the farms & villages of northern Israel. All this before the Zionists had "occupied" the West Bank and Gaza.

Is that the peace the are talking about?

334 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:32:59am

#328 Mike C.

Art Buchwald in the WaPo and that Vaughn Meader (sp ?) comedy album RE the Kennedys were my first introductions to political satire.

OMG, I can still remember parts of that album to this day. "I'll have the Eastern side of your Western sandwich," and the water skiing bit were fantastic. I wore that album out.

335 DistantThunder  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:34:58am

Remember the Islamict slaughter at the Vienna and Rome airports in 1973 - big bloodbath - 16 murdered - 99 wounded. It was the FATAH party - abu masens - and arafart's crowd.

Primtitive barbarians...

336 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:35:16am

VATICAN: POPE ASKS TURKEY TO GIVE CHURCH LEGAL STATUS


Vatican City, 19 Jan. (AKI) - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday called on Turkey to give the Catholic Church legal status as a recognised religious institution. The pope made the remark during a meeting with Turkey's new ambassador to the Holy See, Moammer Dogan Akdur. "In enjoying the freedom of religion which the Turkish constitution grants to all believers, the Catholic Church hopes it can benefit from a recognised judicial statute," Benedict said.

[Link: www.adnki.com...]

Good luck with that

337 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:35:32am

#328 Mike C.

...that Vaughn Meader (sp ?) comedy album RE the Kennedys...


I totally missed that one. Hmmm...

338 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:37:58am

#333 {Kenneth}
Good Morning,
apparently you are only half evil at 333... :~P

and...

"Arab Piece Plan"?

Exactly correct.

339 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:37:59am
...that Vaughn Meader (sp ?) comedy album RE the Kennedys...

I remember hearing about that album -- an instant classic. I haven't heard anything but a snippet when "Jackie" wants to say something to President Kennedy and she starts speaking French, and he says "In English, please"...

I would like to track that down somewhere. I was born during the Kennedy Administration. Was taking a nap in my crib when he was shot. (which, of course, immediately eliminated me as a suspect)

340 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:38:15am

Muslims take aim at hit series 24

From correspondents in Los Angeles
January 19, 2007 02:22pm


THE hit US television show 24 has come under fire from a Muslim group which has accused the program's makers of fuelling anti-Muslim prejudice with its latest storyline.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said 24's season premiere, in which Islamic terrorists detonated a nuclear bomb near Los Angeles, risked stoking racial hatred.

The criticism was swiftly rejected by the show's network Fox Broadcasting, which said the series did not single out ethnic groups to be villains.

"The raw emotional impact of fictional scenes that include widespread death and destruction in America may adversely affect the public's attitude toward civil liberties, religious freedom and interfaith relations," CAIR said.

"The program's repeated association of acts of terrorism with Islam will only serve to increase anti-Muslim prejudice in our society."

[Link: www.news.com.au...]


Geee why would anyone associate terrorism with Islam?

341 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:39:00am
"The program's repeated association of acts of terrorism with Islam will only serve to increase anti-Muslim prejudice in our society."

My word, they think we're stupid.

342 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:39:39am

J.D.
Somebody still has excerpts from the album:

343 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:39:47am

Mark Steyn maintains his sense of humor even at 1 AM.
RE: FRANCE TO STEYN - BACK AT YA [Mark Steyn]

Kathryn posted on this story on rising French fertility rates the other day and interpreted it as a refutation of my book. Apparently, Mimi and Fifi and Yvette and Solange are lying back and thinking of la belle France, and in doing so telling Steyn to stick a croissant in his escargot and smoke it.

Au contraire, I think France’s rising fertility rate is confirmation of my thesis – that native Europeans have given up breeding and Islam is inheriting the Continent by default. If that’s the case, then as Muslims increase as a percentage of the population so that country’s fertility rate will improve.

Do Muslims generally correlate with healthy birth rates in Europe? Yes. The only nations on the continent breeding at replacement rate are Turkey, Azerbaijan and Albania.

Do significant minorities of Muslims improve fertility rates? Yes. Of all those Continental nations below replacement-rate fertility, the top breeders are the Macedonians, whose population is 30% Muslim, which happens to be the largest Muslim minority in a European nation. [I’ve excluded war-ravaged Bosnia from the analysis, as, pace Derbyshire, rubble causes (statistical) trouble.]

Well, okay, forget Macedonia and stick to western Europe.

Which country has the healthiest fertility rate? France.

Which country has the most Muslims? France.

Which country has the second healthiest fertility rate on the western end of the Continent? Denmark.

Which country has the second largest proportion of Muslims? Denmark.

Get the picture? Take France and its neighbors and rank them in order of healthiest fertility rates (2005 official Eurostat figures):

1) France
2) Netherlands
3) Belgium
4) Switzerland
5) Austria
6) Germany
7) Italy
8) Spain

Now rank them in order of highest proportion of Muslims (no central source, but compiled from national data, European Muslim groups, UN and State Dept figures):

1) France
2) Netherlands
3) Belgium
4) Switzerland
5) Austria
6) Germany
7) Italy
8) Spain

Hmm.

01/18 01:01 AM

344 Kirly  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:40:10am
345 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:40:17am

#341 traveler 1/19/2007 05:39AM PST

"The program's repeated association of acts of terrorism with Islam will only serve to increase anti-Muslim prejudice in our society."
My word, they think we're stupid.

Can you blame them with all the dhimmification going on in the West?

346 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:40:42am

#332 {J.D.} - Sorry, I didn't receive it. So how are ya today?

347 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:41:21am

Comedy Albums I wore out as a kid:

Bill Cosby's "Wonderfulness"
and the "2000 year old man" Mel Brooks/Carl Reiner

348 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:42:26am

Hmmm Fox TV news announced that Obarak attended a Muslim seminary for four years while he was living with his father in Indonesia. Am I the only person out here who didn't know that before?

349 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:42:29am

# 334 ec marm

No. It was..

Prime minister of E. Germany - "If (prime minister of W. Germany) has a western sandwich, then I want an eastern sandwich !"

JFK - "uh, sir, there's no such thing as an eastern sandwich."

Prime minister of E. Germany - "Then I want the eastern half of his western sandwich !"

Then there was Fidel...

"I want a chicken sandwich - with a live chicken !"

When was that, 1961 ? I still have the album.

350 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:42:53am

Good morning to all,

Well, we had about an inch of snow this morning, but things are clearing up. It will be cold this weekend, but then again, it is winter.

All sorts of goodies this morning.

We have a media quagmire at Time Inc, where big layoffs are causing all sorts of consternation at one of the driveby media's biggest entities. I suggest the newly unemployed start blogging.

As I noted yesterday, some of the global warming quacks want to put people on trial, Nuremberg-style, if you don't play along with the crowd and buy into the myth that we're all going to melt. Now some climatologists are fighting back and it's becoming a global warming smackdown. I'm loving it.

Elsewhere, an al-Sadr aide has been arrested in Baghdad while Mookie draws up his will. I hope he has it notarized soon, as I'm hoping he'll soon assume room temperature.

Meanwhile, over in Iran, they're facing an economic meltdown, but the populace may not be ready to overthrow the Khomeinists. Twenty-eight years of brainwashing is difficult to undo.

351 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:44:43am
#343 J.D. 1/19/2007 05:39AM PST

Mark Steyn maintains his sense of humor even at 1 AM.
RE: FRANCE TO STEYN - BACK AT YA [Mark Steyn]


Pretty sad when your enemy is outbreeding you on your home soil.

352 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:45:58am

304 Elric-

I know the ACLU are anti-American POS, but I can't see any reason for a bar banning cornrows and dreadlocks except as an attempt to keep Black people out of the bar without being too blatant about it.

Now, if Kokomos wanted to remodel itself as a private members only club, I believe the constitutional right to freedom of association would permit it to make rules that would effectively keep it whites only, but a public establishment banning black hairstyles probably doesn't cut it.

353 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:47:50am

BZ

What ? No "What it was was football" by Andy Griffith or "Buttoned-Down Mind" by Bob Newheart ?

I still have those, too.

354 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:47:50am

#348 realwest
I knew it but I am not sure if you are the only one who did not LOL
I have a HUGE Obama file

355 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:49:38am

#344 Kirly - Morning to ya! Great post and a GREAT story at the link you provided, thanks a lot!

356 Dirk Diggler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:49:41am

Good morning dead thread carrion!

TWC's Heidi Cullen has pissed on a bees nest with her recent comments about decertifying meteorlogists who don't buy into the eco-doom cultists "Global Warming" scenario.

James Spann: The Weather Channel Mess

I have been in operational meteorology since 1978, and I know dozens and dozens of broadcast meteorologists all over the country. Our big job: look at a large volume of raw data and come up with a public weather forecast for the next seven days. I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can’t find them. Here are the basic facts you need to know:

*Billions of dollars of grant money is flowing into the pockets of those on the man-made global warming bandwagon. No man-made global warming, the money dries up. This is big money, make no mistake about it. Always follow the money trail and it tells a story. Even the lady at “The Weather Channel” probably gets paid good money for a prime time show on climate change. No man-made global warming, no show, and no salary. Nothing wrong with making money at all, but when money becomes the motivation for a scientific conclusion, then we have a problem. For many, global warming is a big cash grab.

*The climate of this planet has been changing since God put the planet here. It will always change, and the warming in the last 10 years is not much difference than the warming we saw in the 1930s and other decades. And, lets not forget we are at the end of the ice age in which ice covered most of North America and Northern Europe.

If you don’t like to listen to me, find another meteorologist with no tie to grant money for research on the subject. I would not listen to anyone that is a politician, a journalist, or someone in science who is generating revenue from this issue.

Amen. My apologies if this link has already been posted a gazillion times.

357 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:49:48am

#353 Mike C.

What is was, was football was HYSTERICAL
I did have that ... just forgot till you said it

Newhart I did not have

358 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:50:05am

#352 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades 1/19/2007 05:45AM PST

304 Elric-

I know the ACLU are anti-American POS, but I can't see any reason for a bar banning cornrows and dreadlocks except as an attempt to keep Black people out of the bar without being too blatant about it.

I was justing pointing out their racial profiling hypcrisy. Just like when they tried to get bag searching on subways banned while they search bags in their headquarters. Or how they are against prayer in school but Muslim month is ok in public schools. I think the hair ban is wrong too.

359 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:50:59am

# 352 Ed

Does seem kinda stupid, doesn't it ?

BZ

Oh, and Cosby's "Why is there air ?"

360 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:51:23am

#353 Mike C. - Morning to y'all. Those are two of my all time comedy albums - the What It Was Was Football still makes me ROTFLMAO!

361 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:51:38am
362 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:51:57am

#342 ec marm
That's pretty funny! Thanks for the link to it.

#346 & #348 {realwest}
Other than the new stitches in my mouth, doing pretty well. So glad to be home!
Oh, and don't feel alone. I didn't know that about Obama either until yesterday. Hillary's people are getting the word out. Who's fault will it be this time (if things don't go her way) if she can't blame the "vast right wing conspiracy"?

#351 Elric66
It sure is. Have you read America Alone?

363 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:52:44am

♪ Good morning {LGF} ♪ It's a snowy kind of day, not too chilly, my hands are actually warming up and it's Friday!

:D

364 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:52:51am

PIMF to my #360 "favorite" comedy albums.
sigh.

365 ec marm  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:53:30am

#352 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades

I know the ACLU are anti-American POS, but I can't see any reason for a bar banning cornrows and dreadlocks except as an attempt to keep Black people out of the bar without being too blatant about it.

Sorry, but all I can think of when I see the word cornrows is this. I can't think of any reason any bar owner would want to take a chance on keeping her out.

366 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:53:53am

Turkish-Armenian writer shot dead

The Turkish-Armenian writer and journalist Hrant Dink has been shot dead, Turkish media report.
Dink, the high-profile editor of newspaper Agos, was shot three times outside its offices in Istanbul, the paper said.

Dink was one of the writers who had been prosecuted under Turkey's strict laws against "insulting Turkishness".

He was given a six-month suspended sentence in October 2005 after writing about the Armenian "genocide" of 1915.

Hundreds of thousands of Armenians died at the time, in what many Armenians say was a systematic massacre at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

Turkey denies any genocide, saying the deaths were a part of World War I.

Dink, 53, had received threats from nationalists who viewed him as a traitor, the Associated Press news agency reported.

He was a public figure in Turkey - one of its most prominent Armenian voices.

Mentioning the Armenian Genocide is "insulting to Turkishness", but assassination of critics? Not so much...

...and Turkey is held up as the model of modern secular Islam

367 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:54:28am

#362 J.D. 1/19/2007 05:51AM PST

#351 Elric66
It sure is. Have you read America Alone?


Not yet but its on my list. Ive heard a lot of lizards praise the book. Im reading "Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" right now

368 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:54:38am

# 357 BZ

Newhart I did not have

Oh, dear. The bits about Abraham Lincoln's press agent, the Wright brothers' business agent and the submarine captain are true classics. Still roll-on-the-floor funny today.

369 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:56:05am

#359 Mike C.

why is there air, LOL!

/ I really have to buy these albums again

370 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:56:08am

Barak Obama and 4 years in a madrassa


So, is Barak a closet Muslim (possible) or an apostate from Islam (more likely, and meaning he could be declared worthy of death at any time by an Islamic edict).

I suspect he isn't religious at all. I've read he supported full term partial birth abortions vigorously while an Illinois solon, and while I suppose people of faith can have legitimate disagreement about whether a 10 week old fetus is a human, I don't believe any person can believe in God and accept the notion of some version of "Thou Shalt Not Do Murder" and think its ok to have a perfectly viable baby travel 90% of the way out of the mother, than stick a pair of scissors into the base of the skull and vacuum the brains.


Barak would do well to try to keep his Muslim father, step-father, and his four years of Koran memorization in the Indonesian madrassa quiet, because calling attention to it increases the risks to his life from devout Muslims.

371 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:56:40am

Speaking of all of those old comedy albums --

I remember that Restoration Hardware used to have frames that were custom fit to album sizes, so you could frame your old favorite albums. I thought that was a great idea -- to make them pop art.

First "pop art"...then,...antiques

372 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:57:53am

#350 JWF
Have you seen this?
Inconvenient Truths for Al Gore

373 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:57:55am

#365 ec marm
You do realize that he engineered both her and Linda Evans to try to look like Ursula Andress...sick.

374 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:58:05am

Yo, realwest.

375 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:58:22am

Am I the only one that is having problems posting?

376 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 3:59:59am

#375 {BabbaZee} - I'm not having an problems posting. Maybe it's your cable/dish? What's the weather like up by you?

377 yehoshua  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:00:06am

Bush still doesn't get it.
All his bold talk about fighting terror means nothing as long as Saudi Arabia continues to finance radical Islam from London to Los Angels. Nuke Iran and nuke Saudi Arabia along with it.

378 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:00:37am

{realwest} Morning *smooch*

{Babazee} Hiya, toots.

{Jammie} My eyes! My eyes! And I just had brekkie, too.

:P

379 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:01:06am

Real every time I post it goes to connection timed out and then half the time the post appears anyway
It's snowing here but I am not having problems on any other sites
WIEROD

i just tried to post this 3 X

#371 traveler
I used to sell the glass to the guy that makes those frames

380 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:01:36am

VDH nails another one.

Next time the lefties whine that we need to do something, nobody will be listening.

George C. Looney, he's talking to you.

381 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:02:22am

What Did Gandhi Do?
One-sided pacifist.

By David Lewis Schaefer

n the weeks leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, American college campuses were plastered with posters asking “What Would Gandhi Do?” The implication, of course, was that the U.S. should emulate the tactics of the celebrated Hindu pacifist who successfully led the movement for Indian independence from Britain.


[Link: www.nationalreview.com...]

Interesting piece on the pacifist's hero.

382 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:02:26am

# 371 traveler

A number of vendors sell album cover frames. Problem is, all my old album covers are scuffed all to hell and gone.

I do have a framed 78 in the living room. And some sheet music as well. Done by a then very famous relative (not ancestor). Gifts from TGoP a few years back. Couldn't frame the original piano roll she also got me.

383 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:04:07am
384 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:05:05am

Radicals vs. moderates: British Muslims at crossroads

DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) -- At a recent debate over the battle for Islamic ideals in England, a British-born Muslim stood before the crowd and said Prophet Mohammed's message to nonbelievers is: "I come to slaughter all of you."

"We are the Muslims," said Omar Brooks, an extremist also known as Abu Izzadeen. "We drink the blood of the enemy, and we can face them anywhere. That is Islam and that is jihad."
Anjem Choudary, the public face of Islamist extremism in Britain, added that Muslims have no choice but to take the fight to the West.

"What are Muslims supposed to do when they are being killed in the streets in Afghanistan and Baghdad and Palestine? Do they not have the same rights to defend themselves? In war, people die. People don't make love; they kill each other," he said. (Audio slide show: Preying on Britain's young Muslims)

But in the same debate, held on the prestigious grounds of Dublin's Trinity College in October, many people in the crowd objected.

"These people, ladies and gentleman, have a good look at them. They actually believe if you kill women and children, you will go to heaven," said one young Muslim who waved his finger at the radicals.

"This is not ideology. It's a mental illness."

It's good to see some "moderates" arguing back against the radicals, but what of the arguments they put forward? Are "radical" Muslims really just mentally ill? Clearly, their beliefs, however evil, are an ideology. Can the "moderates" convincingly refute the "radicals" by reference to the core beliefs of Islam and the Koran?

385 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:05:09am

Dirk Diggler-

Dr. William Gray of the Colorado State University who has shown considerable skill in predicting hurricane season activity has turned over primary responsibilities on that project to one of his post-doctoral assistants, because he wants to concentrate on studying any possible links between human induced carbon emissions and global warming.

So far, Dr. Gray has found nothing that suggests the current warming episode is anything but completely natural, like many episodes of climate change in the past.

Nothing to do with meteorology, but as a student in geology classes mapping road cuts West of Austin in the Creataceous Edwards, it is clear that sea level changes on a regular basis.

Anyway, if I had to weigh the credibility of a Weather Channel shill, who judging by her appearance, hasn't been in the field more than 10 or 15 years, and whose undergraduate major was Near-Eastern Religion (ie, Islamic studies), against a man with 50 years experience in the field, I'll choose Dr. Gray every time.

386 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:05:41am

Fiery Australian cleric claims jihad remarks were misunderstood

SYDNEY, Australia: A radical Australian cleric who sparked outrage by encouraging children to sacrifice their lives for Islam has claimed his remarks were misinterpreted, as Muslim leaders were divided Friday in their reaction to the outspoken cleric.

Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in western Sydney, was swiftly condemned Thursday by government leaders across Australia over a series of video lectures, in which he urged children to become "soldiers defending Islam" and sacrifice their lives for Allah.

[Link: www.iht.com...]


Sure it was

387 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:05:42am

#381 Elric66
See yesterdays dead thread Ploome posted a great article RE: Ghandi and I posted Orwell on Ghandi.

388 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:06:08am

#378 {Miss Trixie} *smootch* right back atcha!
Did you say it's snowing by you? Are you expecting much of that stuff?

389 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:06:54am

#377 yehoshua
It may come to that.

390 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:07:51am

#380 JWF
I was just about to post a link to VDH's new column.

...However imperfect, however flawed, however improperly explained our efforts in Iraq were, they nevertheless represented a costly American about-face to offer something in the Middle East other than theocracy or dictatorship — something we are not likely to see again in our lifetime.

Democrats and liberals should likewise realize that for all their hatred of George Bush and the partisan points to be gained by coddling up to the libertarian and paleo-conservative Right, George Bush’s embrace of freedom was far closer to their own past rhetoric than almost any Republican administration in history. And such an effort to foster democracy was in the long run smart as well, since ultimately a free Iraq would be the worst nightmare of the Islamic jihadists — as we read repeatedly in the rantings of Dr. Zawahiri.

In short, the next Democratic president who wishes to do something about the genocide in Darfur or another mass murderer in the Middle East, will find no support from Republicans, or — in no small part due to liberals’ slurs against the war they voted for — from the country at large.

Yes, we may see thousands killed, displaced, and maimed if the United States flees from Iraq. And that tremor in the foundations of American power may embolden everyone from Hugo Chavez to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

But that is only the half of it.

Leaving Iraq prematurely will also damage the credibility of the Democratic party, the reputation of American ground forces, and the idealism of American foreign policy — just those principles that the critics of the war oddly claim they will be saving by fleeing.


Read the whole thing.

391 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:08:38am

Thanks Babba - I loved the Honeymooners! Kackie Gleason was comedy GOLD!

:D

392 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:09:21am

In case any of y'all missed it in my #320, CtP has had problems posting on LGF cause his laptop hard drive crashed on him (musta been the ice) but he says "hi" to all and will be back on as soon as he can.
Gotta run walk and do some quick chores, BBIAM.

393 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:09:44am

Trixie I can recite all 39 episodes verbatim LOL

394 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:12:04am

#384 Kenneth
You can't use logic to talk someone out of something they did not use logic to get into in the first place
so I say no, the moderates will have no affect on the jihad.

395 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:12:24am

EEEP! Jakie Gleason!

realwest

Did you say it's snowing by you? Are you expecting much of that stuff?

Not much, darls, and even though I detest winter it's real pretty to see the city under a blanket of clean white snow. S'long as the temps remain mild (around the 20s) I'm grateful.

What snoo?

396 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:13:40am

Oh crap.

I give up.

Typos and cold hands are the norm apparently.

397 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:14:37am

Good morning LGF friends! It is winter here on the Wisconsin Illinois border. My greyhound was looking for a suitable place to
pee this morning, and her feet kept sliding on the ice. She is built for desert living, not this stuff. I had to put her coat on, with snood.

398 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:17:41am
The Saudis have been the primary supporters of the Palestinian terror war against Israel, from its start. To treat them as honest “peace brokers” is some kind of nightmarish joke.
399 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:19:51am

#398 BabbaZee 1/19/2007 06:17AM PST

The Saudis have been the primary supporters of the Palestinian terror war against Israel, from its start. To treat them as honest “peace brokers” is some kind of nightmarish joke.

How can they be honest when they dont even recognize one party?

400 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:20:06am

Ah, that's what I like, short chores! LOL! Anyway, from the "this could be interesting file":

Main Aide of Muqtada Al-Sadr Arrested
BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested one of Muqtada al-Sadr's top aides Friday in Baghdad, his office said, as pressure increased on the radical Shiite cleric's militia ahead of a planned security crackdown in the capital.

Al-Sadr said in an interview with an Italian newspaper published Friday that the crackdown had already begun and that 400 of his men had been arrested. La Repubblica also quoted him as saying he fears for his life and stays constantly on the move.

The raid came as Defense Secretary Robert Gates began his second trip to Iraq in less than a month, arriving in the southern city of Basra to consult with British and other allied commanders.

Sheik Abdul-Hadi al-Darraji, al-Sadr's media director in Baghdad, was captured and his personal guard was killed, according to another senior al-Sadr aide.

"We strongly condemn this cowardly act," said Sheik Abdul-Zahra al-Suweiadi.

The U.S. military said special Iraqi army forces operating with coalition advisers captured a high-level, illegal armed group leader in Baladiyat, an eastern neighborhood near al-Sadr's stronghold. It did not identify the detainee, but said two other suspects were detained by Iraqi forces for further questioning.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has pledged to crack down on Shiite militias as well as Sunni insurgents in a planned security operation. His reluctance to confront the Mahdi Army of al-Sadr, his political backer, has led to the failure of previous efforts to stem sectarian violence in Baghdad.

In the interview with La Repubblica, al-Sadr said his militias would not fight back during the Muslim holy month of Muharram, saying it was against the faith to kill at that time.

[Link: enews.earthlink.net...]

401 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:20:58am

mama winger

To warm you up a bit, click on the link in # 294.

402 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:20:59am

BabbaZee

#371 traveler
I used to sell the glass to the guy that makes those frames

Cool!

Mike C

Mine are scuffed, too. I think it makes them more interesting. Only problem I have is deciding which side of the album to show --

403 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:21:02am

{mamawinger} Morning, darls.

I love Greyhounds for their elegance and beauty. A friend of mine and his wife in Calgary rescue/adopt hounds that cannot race anymore and they are just gorgeous.

I love the snood.

:)

404 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:21:24am

Abdullah to Haaretz: Jordan will develop nuclear power
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent

Jordan aspires to develop nuclear power for peaceful purposes and believes that unless all sides move quickly toward a peace settlement in the region, the recent confrontation in Lebanon is only a hint of disasters to come.

Is this a reaction to the Iranian nuclear program?

Do you see a clear link between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iranian nuclear threat and the threat of terrorism?

"Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

"If we start moving the process forward, then there's less reason for engagement on the Palestinian issue.

"But, the rules have changed on the nuclear subject throughout the whole region. Where I think Jordan was saying, 'we'd like to have a nuclear-free zone in the area,' after this summer, everybody's going for nuclear programs.

"The Egyptians are looking for a nuclear program. The GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council] are looking at one, and we are actually looking at nuclear power for peaceful and energy purposes. We've been discussing it with the West.

"I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction."

How stupid does he think we are? Asked about the growing influence of Iran, and the effect of the Iranian nuclear program, he says now everybody wants their own nuclear programs. For peace. Energy, medical isotopes and stuff like that. There is only one word for that: bullshit. Jordan, Saudi, Egypt and the rest of them want nuclear weapons.

405 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:23:13am

#397 mama winger - LOL! Tell the truth, doesn't she look, well, embarrassed when you dress her like that?
Anyway, good morining to y'all!

406 akak  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:23:32am

surging now, oh wait a minute it's not really a surge

wrong word, troops rotate please

407 storagemanager  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:23:37am
Iranian Nation not Intimidated by Sanctions

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said that the Iranian nation is not fearful of sanctions and insists on its natural and inalienable right to access nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

Islam claims they do not worship the moon god...then why are so many Muslims named after pagan gods that first came from Babylon?...

Hadad in Ugarit
In the mythological tablets found in Ugarit (especially the Baal cycle) the name hd (theoretically vocalized as Haddu) occurs, usually normalized as Hadad in translations and discussions. Hadad is mostly called by the title b‘l (theoretically vocalized as Ba‘l) 'Lord', or as ‘lyn (‘Aliyan) 'Most strong, Victorious' or as ‘Aliyan Ba‘l. Ba‘l is often normalized to Ba‘al or to Baal in translations and discussion
408 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:24:02am

Good Morning and Happy Friday!

Ladies, help me out here.

Who in their right mind would pick Peyton over Tom?

409 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:24:22am

#403 Miss Trixie

We adopted ours from the nearby racetrack 5 years ago. She was a Class A racer, and had won someone a lot of money (not me). She tore a tendon though and retired at age 4. Our good fortune. There is no sweeter nor gentler pet. Elegant - very much so. But dumber than a bag of hair. :)


#401 Mike C

Checking . . .

410 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:24:28am

# 402 traveler

A caged gerbil literally ate the cover to my copy of the second Led Zepplin album. Really. Some idiot left it sticking into it's cage and he just chewed it to tiny pieces.

411 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:24:54am

mama winger

great pic of the pooch!

412 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:25:03am

#399 Elric66
The whole thing is whoredom

413 Right Side  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:25:15am

#253 revka:

I agree the world has watched how we have reacted to 9/11. They feared at first.. We were strong.. Now that the libs and the MSM have weakened us with their endless anti-war, anti-Bush rhetoric


I'll say it again:

Bush is the Commander-in-Chief of a nation at war in Iraq. America's failure to win the peace in Iraq is entirely his responsibility. Which he himself acknowledged in his recent speech to the nation.

The left did NOT cause us to lose in Iraq. Rather, it was the disaster in Iraq that has newly empowered the Left. If the war in Iraq had been a big success, the GOP would have won the November 2006 election in a landslide.

And the disaster in Iraq was caused by basic strategic errors made by the Bush Administration back in late 2001, back when Bush still enjoyed tremendous across-the-board political support in this country. The very week after 9-11, Wolfowitz and Cheney started lobbying Bush to go to war against Saddam. In retrospect, that was stupid.

414 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:27:24am

#408 {loppyd} Good morning to you! How are ya doing this morning...this Friday morning?!

415 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:27:34am
416 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:28:59am
417 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:29:04am

#401 Mike C

GREAT story! God bless 'em... I am sending it to along to all my friends and family! I hope that made the local evening news. I think I'll send it to the local stations too.
Thanks!

418 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:29:10am

{loppyd} Hiya, toots. BF treating you fine?

mama


But dumber than a bag of hair.

Seriously? I always had the impression they were quite intelligent.

419 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:29:25am

Yo Loppy and Mama W and whoever else is here

420 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:29:33am

Right Side (#413),

I think you're supposed to start those posts with:

"I voted for Bush and am a staunch Republican, but ...

421 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:29:53am

#385 Ed of many names...

Anyway, if I had to weigh the credibility of a Weather Channel shill, who judging by her appearance, hasn't been in the field more than 10 or 15 years, and whose undergraduate major was Near-Eastern Religion (ie, Islamic studies), against a man with 50 years experience in the field, I'll choose Dr. Gray every time.



I always thought The Weather Channel was where weathergirls had to go if they were pregnant. Kind of a home for expectant mothers.

422 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:30:24am

#415 ploome hineni - Morning ploome! An endorsement from the right reverand Jackson is almost as much of a kiss of death as an endorsement from Kos!

423 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:30:48am

Jesse Jackson: 'All of my heart leans toward Barack'

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rev. Jesse Jackson, a leader in the African-American community and two-time presidential candidate, told CNN Thursday he is all but certain to endorse Sen. Barack Obama's, D-Illinois, likely bid for the White House.

"All of my heart leans toward Barack," Jackson said. "He is a next-door neighbor literally. I think he's an extension of our struggle to make this a more perfect union."

"I will talk to all of them, but my inclinations are really toward Barack," he added.

Jackson also spoke highly of others seeking or likely to seek the Democratic nomination, and said Obama cannot take the African-American base of the party for granted.

"It will be a feisty, competitive campaign," he said. "I don't think it will be hostile, or nasty, but it will be a very competitive campaign."

~~~

And half of my pancreas says you are heartless so what the fuck does it all mean, Jesse, huh?

424 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:30:56am

The left, and their allies in the MSM, did contribute to the situation in Iraq. By running stories, weeks on end, about abu Ghraib and every mistake made in Iraq, by ignoring everything that went right there, by running endless stories designed to lower the American people's support for the war, and then cheerfully trumpeting the results of their propaganda, the Left gave hope and encouragement to the enemy, the Ba'athists, al Qaeda, and now the Iranian supported Shia militias.


There are mistakes in every war. The modern Left and MSM would have flooded American airwaves with images of dead soldiers and Marines at Normandy and Iwo Jima, if World War 2 were fought today, and the modern day Senator Kennedy and Congressman Murtha would be screaming for a negotiated truce with Hitler and Tojo.

425 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:30:58am

#405 realwest

#397 mama winger - LOL! Tell the truth, doesn't she look, well, embarrassed when you dress her like that?

LOL! She's way too dumb to get embarrassed.

426 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:32:25am
427 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:33:04am

#420 Geepers

I voted for Bush and I am not now nor never was a staunch member of any political or religious indoctrination society.

Should I start my posts with that?
;~p

428 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:33:19am

#420 Geepers

I think you're supposed to start those posts with:
"I voted for Bush and am a staunch Republican, but ...

LOL. I thought the same thing.

429 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:33:32am

There are some babes on the Weather Channel, but 'Dr' Heidi Cullen isn't one of them.

430 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:33:34am
431 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:33:50am

Ploome, LOL

I didnt see your post

432 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:33:58am
433 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:34:37am

#418 Miss Trixie

But dumber than a bag of hair.

Seriously? I always had the impression they were quite intelligent.

Yeah, well - not so much. :) The books will tell you that, but I have never met a greyhound who had the remotest clue. Seriously challenged in the brains department.


But we tell ours "If you're pretty, you don't have to be smart".
The Feminist Manifesto gone haywire. :)

434 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:35:15am

mama I have a "special ed kitty" LOL

435 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:35:21am

{realwest}

I'm just duckey! Looking forward to a fun weekend.

How about you, handsome?

436 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:35:24am

So long as Jesse Jackson doesn't burden us with where he's sticking his moneymaker these days, I can ignore where he puts his heart.

He can shove it up his greedy, shakedownin' ass for all I care.

/sorry for unbidden images of J.Jackson's ass

437 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:36:26am
438 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:36:53am

PlllOOOoOoOooOMMMEEE

ya
I am

Special ed poster

439 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:37:10am

{Miss Trixie}

Good Morning, Sunshine.

BF treats me like a queen. I'm so very lucky. :D

440 phoenixgirl  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:37:38am

#381 elric66

Quote from Gandhi

“if the Jewish mind could be prepared” for such suffering, even a massacre of all German Jews “could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy,” since “to the God-fearing, death has no terror.”

I get that people, good people, even great people are flawed because they are...people. That being said, Gandhi may have done some good in his life, but in my book, he is a bad person.
I hate this phrase, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day!"

441 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:37:41am

UFO frenzy ignited by Air Force officer
Others report strange phenomenon, digital expert views possible 'pilot'

---
Posted: January 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Joe Kovacs
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Zoomed image of mysterious orange light seen Jan. 9 near Van Buren, Ark. (photo: Col. Brian Fields, USAF, ret.)

A retired Air Force colonel who photographed mysterious, colorful lights hovering over western Arkansas last week has ignited a frenzy of interest in unexplained airborne phenomena, as WND has received numerous reports of similar sightings across the U.S., while a digital expert has filtered the pictures to reveal startling images of what he says could be the "pilot" of the unidentified craft.

"I believe these lights were not of this world, and I feel a duty and responsibility to come forward," said Col. Brian Fields, who spent nearly 32 years in the military piloting F-16 fighter jets. "I have no idea what they were."


[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

There here :-)

442 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:37:49am

{Babba}!

IIRC your cat is sans tail, no?

443 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:38:05am

#426 ploome

I can't remember exactly which company I bought it from, but it was an online company which I just found by Googling "greyhound coats snoods". However, they are designed specifically for the greyhound body, so the coats especially may not fit other breeds, as the body type is somewhat unusual. The snoods are also made for the elongated neck.

444 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:38:17am

Ghandi Shmandi, right Loppy?

445 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:38:53am
446 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:39:35am

#435 loppyd - Glad to hear it! I'm doing ok and looking forward to the weekend, but when you're retired, weekend's just aren't what they used to be!
And thanks for the "handsome" whether you meant it or not (no, no I'm not "needy", why would you say that?! LOL!)

447 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:39:37am

Babba

That's right. LOL!

448 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:39:41am
#440 phoenixgirl 1/19/2007 06:37AM PST

#381 elric66

Quote from Gandhi

“if the Jewish mind could be prepared” for such suffering, even a massacre of all German Jews “could be turned into a day of thanksgiving and joy,” since “to the God-fearing, death has no terror.”

I get that people, good people, even great people are flawed because they are...people. That being said, Gandhi may have done some good in his life, but in my book, he is a bad person.
I hate this phrase, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day!"

He wasnt the saint the pacifists make him out to be.

449 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:39:51am
450 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:40:23am

mama

But we tell ours "If you're pretty, you don't have to be smart".

HAHAHA! At the age of six, I used to watch my eldest sister tell herself that in the bathroom mirror every morning.

451 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:40:49am

Good Morning Everybody!

{hugs} and [mangrunts] to all!

Oh my crap, I've got to get the heat in my van fixed, I'm frozen to the bone.

452 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:41:19am

Morning ploome.

453 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:41:41am
454 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:41:45am

#434 BabbaZee

mama I have a "special ed kitty" LOL

You too? Although in all fairness I would have to say my one bad cat is more DSM IV material then special ed.

He sees dead people.

455 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:41:52am

It's always fun to watch the Saudis respond to the Egyptians and Syrian overtures. They don't want to lose their spot at the table, so they go ahead and make pronouncements that are sillier than the ones preceding them from Egypt or Syria. Egypt is in a better position since they actually do recognize Israel and have a peace deal in place. Saudi Arabia doesn't. Syria hopes it did (though they'll deny that to the last and would use any peace deal to funnel the economic windfall into its proxy forces in Lebanon).

Pushing the Palestinians to make a peace that the Palestinians themselves don't want makes no sense whatsoever. Negotiating 101. You need to have some common ground between the parties to conduct negotations that have a chance for success. What's the common ground between Hamas and Israel? That they hate each other? Hamas seeks Israel's annihilation and will do anything and everything in its power to do so yesterday. Fatah is only marginally better since they hope to destroy Israel tomorrow. That's how Fatah gets tagged as moderate.

Neither recognizes Israel's right to exist - and Hamas wont even utter Israel's name except as to point out the focus and target of their attacks.

456 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:42:43am

#442 loppyd
Yes. The last one was a manx too but she was a genius.
Max is so sweet, the most gentle cat I have ever owned, but dumb as a stump.

457 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:43:24am

#454 mama winger
LOL they ALL see stuff we do not see, that I am certain of.

458 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:43:48am

#453 ploome

NO NUDE HOUNDS! I love it!

459 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:44:13am
460 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:44:27am

OT:
Columbia University is about ready to identify seven students who crashed a debate at the university on border security.

Columbia University has identified seven students who could face disciplinary charges for rushing the stage and preventing the leader of an anti-illegal immigrant group from giving a speech on campus last October.

Six students were informed last month they face penalties for disrupting the Oct. 4 speech of Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist, who was forced to leave the stage after the incident.

Columbia spokesman Robert Hornsby said yesterday a seventh student was recently identified.

It is unclear if any more students could face disciplinary action.

Columbia's student newspaper, The Spectator, yesterday published a Jan. 7 letter received by one of the students.

"I have received a complaint from a member of the University that you may have engaged in conduct that violation sections . . . of the Rules of University Conduct by participating in a demonstration," the letter from the Office of Rules Administrator said.

461 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:44:32am

Mama Winger, that is a cat I have to say I'd love to see.

Morning, everyone. It is definitely hot chocolate time in the midwest.

463 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:45:42am

lawhawk (#455),

They don't want to lose their spot at the table, so they go ahead and make pronouncements that are sillier than the ones preceding them from Egypt or Syria.

But it that any reason to not run around in circles flailing your arms screaming "the end is near, the end is near"?

464 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:46:04am

Mama
I once had a dog that was a cross between a doberman and a greyhound and MAN WAS HE SHTOOOPID

465 Dirk Diggler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:46:08am

BZ,

I voted for Bush and I am not now nor never was a staunch member of any political or religious indoctrination society.

I am. I voted for Bush and I am a member of a uber secretive, world devouring Catholic brotherhood known as Lax Catolica.

Opus Dei's got nothing on us. We're so secretive that we don't attend church regularly, follow church teachings, or receive sacraments.

466 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:46:38am

Morning All!

I'm a little pissed. There was an editorial in our local paper that was extremely anti-Bush. I'd like to respond to it, but I'd like your help. Do you guys mind if I post it here for comments from my fellow Lizards?

467 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:46:59am

I used to kind of snicker at dog owners who 'dressed' their pets. I shouldn't have. Greyhounds have ZERO percent body fat, and no hair to speak of, They are a desert animal and cannot take the cold. They whiver uncontollably below 32 degrees. Clothing is essential for northern outdoor climates.


In case anyone thought I was kooky. :) LOL!

468 traveler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:47:15am

#465 Dirk Diggler

LOL

469 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:47:35am

{Elric} Morning.

"I have no idea what they were."

Hi-tech buzzing and flying prayer mats ?

{ploome} Morning, darls.

I have a fat little yorkie..and a dancing toy poodle

How fat is fat? Mine is 6lbs but I don't have a dancing toy poodle.

{cos} Morning, dahlink. It's Friday!

470 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:47:56am

#464 Babba

It's those tiny little narrow skulls. No place to put any gray matter.

471 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:48:09am

#466 Aladin Sane
Good morning darling.
I say, post it.

472 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:48:45am

#442 loppyd

your cat is sans tail

ROFL. That is like-the polite way of saying, BABBAZEE HAS A CRAZY NO-TAIL DEMON CAT.

473 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:48:53am

Hi ED,

Thanks for the NFC weather update, any predictions on the outcome of the game?

Hi Babba,

I have one serious mental case of a dog, half yellow lab and half who knows what, got her at a shelter for Christmas '05 for the family. Big time stooopid.

474 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:49:03am

Morning, Miss Trixie. I'm warming up water now for hot chocolate. I'm betting you need some up there, too. :-)

475 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:49:34am

# 463 Geepers

When in trouble
or in doubt,
run in circles,
scream and shout.

476 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:49:37am

Mama LOL
Dunno about that
I have some pretty damn geniusfied crows out back and their skulls are no bigger than a golfball

477 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:49:39am

My advance apologies for this:

Markey caught in wrangling on global warming

Markey (Chavez's best buddy next to Joe Kennedy) is a POS hack.

478 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:50:45am

Hiya Miss Trixie!

Friday indeed! And to boot I get to look forward to a week in Vegas next week!

479 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:51:29am

#465 Dirk

I voted for Bush and I am a member of a uber secretive, world devouring Catholic brotherhood known as Lax Catolica.

Opus Dei's got nothing on us. We're so secretive that we don't attend church regularly, follow church teachings, or receive sacraments.


Hahahaha! Lost some coffee on that one!

480 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:51:51am

Babba,

Here's the first part [spit]

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."That's a line from Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film "Apocalypse Now," spoken wistfully by Robert Duvall, playing Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, as he surveys a conquered village strewn with freshly killed Vietnamese.

That was Hollywood and this is now, but after Wednesday night it makes you wonder if our own Commander in Chief just might enjoy the smell of IED's (improvised explosive devices).

He wants to deploy just over 20,000 extra troops to Iraq. That's a lot of arms and legs just waiting to be ripped off, a lot of flesh to be fried, a lot of organs to be filleted. You'd better believe that Iraqi insurgents are now all a-flutter, hurriedly making more IED's for maiming and killing in the name of Allah.

Aside from the more than 3,000 U.S. military deaths since the latest war in Iraq began, more than 22,800 have been wounded in action, and it looks like those numbers could merely be the tip of the iceberg. Walter Reed Army Medical Center had better be stocking up on bandages, bone saws and beds, and while they're at it, maybe building another wing onto the place too.

It's not like Congress is going to do anything to stop this escalation. Most of them bought into Bush's lies about going to war in the first place; they certainly can't be expected to come to their senses and do the right thing now, even though some seem to be voicing such sentiments.

"Matter of fact, I have to say, Madame Secretary, that I think this speech given last night by the president represents the most dangerous policy blunder in this country since Vietnam, if it's carried out," U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican from Nebraska, told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday. "I will resist it."

Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, the House Armed Services Committee chair, said he thinks sending an extra 20,000 soldiers to Baghdad is "three and a half years too late and several hundred thousand troops short" to win this thing.

While elected officials make grand proclamations, forgotten are those whose opinions on the war evidently do not count "” the American citizens.

According to a new AP-Ipsos poll, 70 percent of U.S. citizens oppose sending more troops into the quagmire, and only 35 percent still think it was right to even wage this war to begin with (a new low, down from two-thirds two years ago who thought it was the right thing to do).

"As a 'Nam combat veteran, I wonder when will we ever learn?" wrote Al Lockwood on a New York Times reader message board after the president's speech.

But the thoughts of mere voters don't matter to Bush and his cronies. They're content to apologize today for past mistakes too numerous to count, and too preoccupied with moving on in order to make more mistakes tomorrow.

The dichotomy between the bring 'em home and bring 'em on philosophies is striking.

One of the only accomplishments that has occurred out of this embarrassing mess in Iraq is a disintegration into civil war, which in turn has re-energized terrorist organizations and factions. Thousands of Iraqis are now dead, and even those who have lived to participate in so-called elections were told how to vote by either the U.S. occupation forces (who have hand-picked the candidates) or by those threatening them and their loved ones.

Daily bombings, sporadic utility services, and few solid plans for infrastructure improvements have helped to spur chaos.

Is it any wonder that many of them, along with many in other countries, see us as nothing but occupiers rather than freedom fighters?)

481 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:51:58am

#466 Aladin Sane - Morning! Nah, go ahead, we'll help you bitch it up or tone it down, whichever!

482 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:52:31am

Mike C. (#475),

lol.

483 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:53:07am

Yah well
the fabulous alternative postulated here
is stick your fingers in your ears
and shake your head back and forth
and scream
I CANT HEAR YOU
ICANT HEAR YOU
NYAH NYAH NYAH
I CANT HEAR YOU
ALL IS WELL
DO NOT DISSENT AT ALL AGAINST ANYTHING BUSHY
I CANT HEAR YOU


/Somewhere in the middle of both silly performances lies sanity.

484 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:53:27am

Here's the rest [double spit]

Amidst all of this turmoil and bull---, the war in Afghanistan continues to be placed on the back burner, despite the fact that it's the only one of these two wars that has any legitimacy.

Remember Osama Bin Laden, the fearless leader of Al Queda? Bush rarely, if ever, mentions him in public anymore, but Osama and his gang were the ones responsible for Sept. 11 "” not Saddam, lest we forget or deny this (as many are still inclined to do).

Bin Laden is still hiding out somewhere, elusive but just as powerful and deadly as he's ever been.

In the meantime, maybe those in Washington had better set aside a nearby piece of land to build another memorial honoring the thousands more they intend to send to their deaths for bogus reasons. Maybe they could also polish the steps of our nation's capital in preparation for the protests and demonstrations that are bound to, and should, occur.

Will four civilians have to die in Ohio before this administration opens its eyes to the wrong it's perpetrating?

Singer/songwriter John Mayer may be satisfied with "waiting on the world to change" until the next generation "rules the population," but it's doubtful the general public will have that much patience, particularly if it continues to see even more psychologically damaged veterans, more amputees and more 21-gun salutes at funerals of the young dead.

"Some day this war's gonna end," said Kilgore, as if that were a crying shame. Too bad that doesn't hold true for the war in Iraq, as long as Bush is in office.

485 maddogg  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:53:27am

O/T
Hey! Tomorrow is Islamic New Year!

(Whooptyfrikkindoo)

486 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:53:56am

#477 loppyd

...Dingell had announced hearings on global warming before Pelosi moved to create the new committee, though environmentalists regard him with deep skepticism because of his ties to the auto industry. His wife, Deborah, is a top lobbyist for General Motors. ...


No problem there. Nope. None at all.

487 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:54:29am

Babba

I'm allergic to cats so I've never felt the love...the only cat we ever had was like a miniature panther. He stalked us in our own home.

He got the needle after he attacked my brother who still has a rather pronounced scar on his arm.

488 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:54:55am

#472 WriterMom
Bwahahaha, Zionist Hobby Center mascot.
The crazy no tail demon cat

489 windybon  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:55:37am

I saw gas at $1.78 on my way to work this morning in NE KS.

490 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:55:53am

Has Reggie Bush ever played in the snow?


Were the Bears smart enough not to install heating pipes under the turf at Soldier Field so the field can get icy and slippery?

How many times did New England win games (the Raiders come to mind) because their old stadium didn't have heated turf. Anybody know if the new field does?


Inside the dome (death to the dome!) Peyton should have the advantage of dry artificial turf and a field he is familiar with, and a friendly crowd, and thus the Colts should win. But it is hard to give them the nod. The Patriots have won the big game in clutch situations (like last week) many times, and Manning has never won the big game.


Of course, he can still win the AFC and go to the Super Bowl, and display a lack of big game ability in front of half a billion people around the world in Miami.

491 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:57:23am

Aladin

Yeah, that Bush dude, he's just awful. How terrible that he totally agreed with Clinton, Gore, Kennedy, and others about how evil and bad Hussein was.

But they were only willing to say so in the 1990's. And the UN, too.

Geebers. Could we be any more short-sighted in that article?

492 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:57:42am

Aladin,

Thanks for posting that, having your blood boil is a great way to shake off this midwestern freeze.

493 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:58:27am

The Colts will never rise to the level of true Buffalo Bills futility until they can lose a Super Bowl on an Adam Vinatieri wide right missed FG as time runs out.

494 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:58:39am

#480 Aladin Sane - I wait for the second part of the editorial, but have to run and do some chores in a few minutes. The very first thought that popped into my mind after reading part one was: So what do you want to do about it and what impact will that have on Iraq, Iran, Syria and indeed the entire ME. Second thought was: remember the "purple fingers"? Iraqi's demonstrated how much they do want a democratic form of government and THAT'S WHEN the "freedom fighters" from Tunisia, Syria, Iran, etc. started killing Iraqi's leading to talk of a civil war.

495 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:58:55am

{vxbush} Hiya, toots.

Morning, Miss Trixie. I'm warming up water now for hot chocolate. I'm betting you need some up there, too. :-)

Thanks! Here's my monster mug *clunk*
and I've got mini-marshmallows for both of us to enjoy

Skol!
*clink*clink*

/wearing a chocolate 'stache
//grins at vxbush

496 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:58:57am

Aladin I am reading it now

497 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:59:05am

# 482 Geepers

Remembering the run-up to last August 22nd here.

498 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:59:25am

Aladin Sane (#484),

Wow, that letter is chock full of all kinds of kooky.

It doesn't deserve a serious response.

499 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:59:30am

My first take on the editorial is that the cost of victory shouldn't have anything to do with whether the cause is just. WWII comes to mind.

My second is that comparing Iraq to Viet-Nam is bullshit, because we could have won in Viet Nam had not the liberals and the media portrayed victory as defeat...

500 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:59:35am

windybon,

Gas is $1.77 in my little town of Morrison IL at Casey's

501 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 4:59:53am

#493 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades 1/19/2007 06:58AM PST

The Colts will never rise to the level of true Buffalo Bills futility until they can lose a Super Bowl on an Adam Vinatieri wide right missed FG as time runs out.


Bills did get to the Super Bowl 4 years in a row at least. Colts cant even get there. Not a fan of either team.

502 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:00:53am

#465 Dirk Diggler 1/19/2007 06:46AM PST

I am. I voted for Bush and I am a member of a uber secretive, world devouring Catholic brotherhood known as Lax Catolica.

Opus Dei's got nothing on us. We're so secretive that we don't attend church regularly, follow church teachings, or receive sacraments.

LOL!
SHHH!
You want them all to know?

503 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:01:21am

Yo Coz
Yo Maddog


/back to aladin's article

504 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:02:35am

Miss Trixie

COCOA ACKBAR!

/in honor of Lopps

Aladin

The bigger concern might be this: You can do a sentence-by-sentence refutation of that editorial, but would they print it? How much space do they usually allow for letters? I have known some papers that are willing to post citizen editorials, but rarely.

505 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:03:18am

Mike C

Sorry but we had a BLAST the night of 8/22, I deejayed Pseudo-Armageddon, and then Sirius took over when I went to sleep.

VERY
FUN
THREAD.

We should have armageddon more often.

506 mama winger  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:03:43am

Well, I have to go drive an hour to lay on a couch and tell my therapist how much my mother drove me crazy over the holidays.

He's heard it all before. I should just put it on a continuous loop. But I enjoy the drive and his company, and he makes a good pot of coffee. So off I go to get shrunk. See y'all later. :)

507 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:03:47am

Good Morning all.

*grin*

What's the word?

508 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:03:47am

Do we have any Lizards from Las Vegas?

In the very rare extreme situation someone is wondering why coz hasn't posted all next week is cause I'll be there at a business tradeshow.

509 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:03:56am
“Just as sending more U.S. troops isn’t the solution to defeating terrorists in Iraq,” said Sen. Hagel, “more Republican senators won’t accomplish the party’s legislative goals here. Each additional GOP senator simply antagonizes the majority party and makes the Senate a worse quagmire than it already is.”

Hagel Bill Would Cap GOP Senator Numbers

510 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:04:04am

#493 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades
"The Colts will never rise to the level of true Buffalo Bills futility until they can lose a Super Bowl on an Adam Vinatieri wide right missed FG as time runs out."
Which was, IMHO, the most exciting Super Bowl ever (lifelong Giant's fan here, remembering the sinking feeling I had when Simms went down for the season with broken ankle)!

511 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:04:23am

504 vxbush

but would they print it?

Agreed. It's just hard to see crap like this published and not want to respond to it.

512 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:04:53am

Aladin
that thing is six kinds of crazy.
Geepers is right, it doesnt even deserve a response

He wants to deploy just over 20,000 extra troops to Iraq. That's a lot of arms and legs just waiting to be ripped off, a lot of flesh to be fried, a lot of organs to be filleted.

Did mel gibson write this?

LOL

~ the bearer of filetted organs

513 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:04:54am

506 mama

take care and good luck.

514 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:05:51am
world devouring Catholic brotherhood known as Lax Catolica

world-devouring Catholic laxatives? Wha?

[still woozy from last night's Grappa]

515 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:05:54am

Aladin you still have my e-mail address?
if you do send me a mail and I'll write a rebuttal, LOL
No one will like it and it wont get printed but I'll write it ha

516 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:06:17am

509 Geepers

Hagel Bill Would Cap GOP Senator Numbers

Too funny!

517 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:08:34am

{LIZARDS}!

Whazzup?

518 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:08:39am

Babba,
I just sent an email to the address I have for you.
Lemme know if you get it.

519 Mike C.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:08:57am

# 505 BZ

Uh, I seem to remember some serious heat over all the mystic crapola. And some major-league back-peddling.

# 507 LK

The word is "didactic."

Time for a store run.

520 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:09:04am
521 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:09:42am

Hey Obi-wan.

522 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:10:09am

What I Saw in Iraq
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, January 17, 2007


Read Article & Comments (229) Trackbacks(2) Post Your Comments

Last week, I embedded with U.S. Army troops at Forward Operating Base Justice in northern Baghdad. Outside the wire, we toured the slums and met with neighborhood leaders inching toward self-sufficiency in al Salam. We sipped chai with a sheikh who condemned terrorists on all sides. We watched residents bicker over a civil affairs blanket drop in Khadamiyah. We sat with slimy Mahdi Army apologists in Hurriya. We stopped by a Sunni insurgent enclave, which soldiers I patrolled with dubbed a "sniperville," in al Adil.

There's nothing glamorous or romantic about these missions. No one will make a movie about our men and women in uniform engaged in the tedious, painstaking business of moving Iraq toward stability and governability. But if the war is to be won -- if security is to be established and the foundations of a civil society bolstered -- this is ground zero. The troops I met ask only three things of their fellow Americans back home: time, patience and understanding of the enormous complexities on the ground.

[Link: www.townhall.com...]


The MSM could use a journalist like her.

523 6patrick6  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:10:12am

The Saudis are freakin' evil personified.

524 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:10:18am

#518 Aladin Sane
What newspaper printed the thing?

525 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:10:40am

Mike C
not from me you didnt
all I said was the guy thinks he is going to bring the Mahdi back
and that it is possible he had something planned based on all his speeches
I never said the end of the world was nigh on 8/22
I do not believe in prognostications of doom

526 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:10:52am

Hi, Lance.

527 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:11:00am

Aladin you got it right

528 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:11:32am

519 Mike C

have a good one, get me some Mt. Dew.

529 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:12:00am

BZ, I greatly admire you in all respects, but I think this editorial does need a response.

While we lizards are very careful to analyze what we read, I think there are still significant numbers of people who simply ingest what the news and papers say and accept them uncritically. Yes, the paper could censor the article (using their leftist arguments against them), but I think the effort should still be made.

There is much that is wrong in the article, as everyone here can realize, but maybe if Aladin only chooses one or two key things to tear down, it might be enough to draw the rest of the editorial into question.

530 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:12:03am
The Colts will never rise to the level of true Buffalo Bills futility

"Oh, and who do you want to win the Superbowl this year?"

"I don't care. But not the Bills. They'll never win a Superbowl, not as long as I'm alive."

--The Cigarette Smoking Man, The X-Files, Season 4

(spoken during a meeting of the secret committee that controls the world)

531 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:12:06am

{OBI-WAN}

532 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:12:14am

Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades

I believe there is a radiant heating system under the turf at Gillette.

The Colts did not score a single touchdown in their game against Baltimore last week. Had it not been for Adam V, the outcome could have been much different. But then again, McNair was Gawd Awful in that game so who knows?

IMHO, this won't be a QB matchup as much as a RB/DB matchup. Our secondary has some holes so that is scary, but the Colts D has had a tough time stopping the run. The last two weeks they have improved some, though.

BUT LOOK! Was that Rodney Harrison who was spotted at Gillette yesterday? Hmmm.

533 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:12:26am

524 J.D.

What newspaper printed the thing?

Our local paper here in NW Ohio. The writer is on staff there.

534 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:12:59am

Babba,

I think several of us would like to see your reply,

i know i would!

535 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:13:25am

#529 vxbush
I'm going to write one
be back

536 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:13:25am

#520 BZ:

How can you be so Callas?

537 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:14:00am

#531 {BabbaZeee}!

Big smooch!

538 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:14:39am

#413 Right Side

And the disaster in Iraq was caused by basic strategic errors made by the Bush Administration back in late 2001, back when Bush still enjoyed tremendous across-the-board political support in this country. The very week after 9-11, Wolfowitz and Cheney started lobbying Bush to go to war against Saddam. In retrospect, that was stupid.

Billy Goat Gruff says, "Beware the troll under the bridge!"

539 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:14:44am

Boneless Wonders
Meet the spineless members of Congress.
by William Kristol
01/22/2007, Volume 012, Issue 18


"I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder.' My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye, and I have waited 50 years to see The Boneless Wonder--sitting on the Treasury Bench."

--Winston Churchill, January 28, 1931,
in the House of Commons, referring to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

Today, Boneless Wonders sit on the benches of both parties in Congress. More are to be found on the Democratic side of the aisle than the Republican. But the herd of Boneless Wonders these days is a bipartisan one. Let's see if we can describe their thinking.

[Link: www.weeklystandard.com...]

540 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:15:11am

535 BZ

When Aladin gets it, he should probably handle it with ten-foot tongs and full heat shielding.

541 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:15:22am

Occasional Reader (#530),

I don't remember that.

I do remember the Vikings Destroyer satellite launch though.

542 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:15:36am

{Obi-wan}!

Happy Friday!

543 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:15:44am

LoppyD- They put heat under the turf at Gillette? They don't remember how they beat the Oakland Raiders? The additional home field advantage of a convicted felon on work release plowing the field for their field goals only?

They might as well play in a retractable roof stadium with no personality ala Phoenix or Houston.

544 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:16:04am

Good morning all! It's Friday!

545 Black George Bush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:16:32am

Morning Gang!

546 Ben Hur  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:16:58am

Babba!

Click on this link and look at my comment on 'talkback'.

US chain pulls 'anti-war' keffiyehs

It's comment #2

547 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:17:04am

I'm sensing that Ed isn't a big fan of domes.

Ed?

548 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:17:17am
There's nothing glamorous or romantic about these missions. No one will make a movie about our men and women in uniform engaged in the tedious, painstaking business of moving Iraq toward stability and governability.

Reminds me of a conversation I overheard last night (while drinking that hammer-to-the-forehead Grappa). It seemed like a first or second date, I think; the guy was an Army officer, the girl was a sort of inside-the-Beltway, NPR-listening type.

Her: So, if it sucks so much to be in Iraq, why are you looking forward to going back?

Him: Well, the guys I trained, the guys I'm responsible for, are there.

Her: Oh... so it's, like, a camraderie thing.

Him: [pause] Ah, it's more than that.

(pssst it's called "sense of duty", babe)

549 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:17:56am

#542 {LOPPS}!

Get ready for another Brilliant Brady performance. Don't think anything can stop them.

550 realwest  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:18:27am

Well all, it's been grand, as usual, but gotta go do some chores now - hope to see y'all later!

Hope everyone has a GREAT day!

551 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:18:36am

#547 vxbush 1/19/2007 07:17AM PST

I'm sensing that Ed isn't a big fan of domes.

Ed?


Im not either. Football should be played in the elements.

552 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:18:39am

Fading Fidel

Suffer, dude.

553 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:18:44am

Can somebody please tell me what the hell those things painted on the field, near the sidelines, at Foxboro? They look like a cross between a tomahawk and a vernier caliper, with sparks coming out of them.

I asked a friend (a Pats fan) that lives in Mass., and he didn't know.

554 maddogg  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:19:03am

#503 Most High and Exhaulted BabbaZee!

Good Morning! And happy camel bangin' Islamic New Year!

(heres hoping you are well)

555 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:19:30am

I don't like domed stadiums, either.

556 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:19:38am

551 Elric66

Even if those elements include freezing rain, sleet, and hail?

557 ploome hineni[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:19:43am
558 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:19:51am

Fitzgerald: Carter: Morally vicious, morally unacceptable

Jimmy Carter believes all kinds of things. He believes that the 1949 Armistice Lines became permanent borders, even though they never did -- because the Arabs kept refusing the Israeli offer to make them so. And he appeared to know the truth back in 1974, but has forgotten it in the intervening years.

[Link: www.jihadwatch.org...]


Seems Carter has stirred up a hornets nest. LOL

559 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:20:37am

Aladin
the thing is so poorly written and so full of trite phrases it is hard to attack it seriously. It's like a lefty computer on crack auto-generated it.

560 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:20:56am

#556 vxbush

Even if those elements include freezing rain, sleet, and hail?

Hell yeah!

561 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:21:03am
#556 vxbush 1/19/2007 07:19AM PST

551 Elric66

Even if those elements include freezing rain, sleet, and hail?


Yep

562 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:21:04am

#553 Ward Cleaver

IIRC, those are Patriot Logos.

563 Ayatollah Ghilmeini  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:21:29am

A most succinct and clearminded defense of Bush's decision to take down Saddam.

564 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:21:29am

#541 Geepers:

I don't remember that.

I misquoted somewhat. Here's the correct quote:

Agent #2: I'm working on next month's Oscar nominations. Any preferences?

Cancer Man: I couldn't care less. What I don't want to see is the Bills winning the Superbowl. As long as I'm alive that doesn't happen.

565 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:22:08am

#556 vxbush 1/19/2007 07:19AM PST

551 Elric66

Even if those elements include freezing rain, sleet, and hail?

But I doubt Atlanta and New Orleans would ever have that problem.

566 Aladin Sane  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:22:13am

559 BabbaZee

the thing is so poorly written and so full of trite phrases it is hard to attack it seriously. It's like a lefty computer on crack auto-generated it.

Thanks anyway. I'll sign off now and see what I can do with it.

Later and Thanks all!

567 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:22:17am

Ploome LOL

Be back

working on it...

568 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:22:22am

coz

I'll be there at a business tradeshow.

Riiight.
*nudge*nudge*
*wink*wink*

:P

569 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:22:40am

557 ploome

Hm. Aladin, you better add lead lining to your heat suit there. Just to be on the safe side.

570 Dirk Diggler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:24:00am

OR,

[still woozy from last night's Grappa]

Sorry to hear you're Grappa-ling with a hangover.

571 mglazer  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:24:44am

Eco Freaks and 9.11

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Think Liberal Ideology is harmless?

572 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:25:08am

Miss Trixie

LOL!

How's the World of Concrete sound, fun. eh?

573 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:25:10am

Oh, and Miss Trixie, I forgot--

Thanks for the marshmellows. They are the perfect touch.

/slurping my 20 oz. hot chocolate now

574 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:25:12am

Why does every Cowboy fan remember the Thanksgiving game between against the Miami Dolphins about 14 years ago? Sure, Leon Lett making a boneheaded play that cost the Cowboys a win is part of it, but what made that game special was that they had left a hole in the roof of the dome at Texas Stadium so God could watch his team play, which also let in the sleet and snow.


Football is meant to be played in the elements. It is a mans game, quarterbacks playing with metal rods inserted in their pinky finger and still taking snaps under center (DeBerg), men with mud, and blood, on their uniforms. Cowboys and Packers in sub-zero (Farenheit) cold, playing with bare arms. Fog, snow, rain, sleet, frigid cold or incredible early September Texas heat and humidity.


Domes suck, and all else being equal, I always hope domes teams lose.

575 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:26:01am

[BGB]

Hey, dude! The Man still keeping you down?

576 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:26:03am

Occasional Reader (#),

LOL. Too funny. I thought you were just making up a gag.

577 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:26:25am

#562 Obi-Wan

They sure don't look like what's on the helmets. Nope.

578 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:26:25am

Sunni Insurgent Group Asserts It Killed American
Ohio Woman, 3 Guards Died in Ambush on Convoy in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Jan. 18 -- A Sunni insurgent group linked to the group al-Qaeda in Iraq asserted responsibility Thursday for the killing of an Ohio woman working in Baghdad who died Wednesday after her convoy was attacked, according to a posting on a Web site used by some Sunni groups.

Andrea "Andi" Parhamovich, 28, of Perry, Ohio, who worked for the nonprofit National Democratic Institute, was killed along with three non-American security workers, according to a statement released by the institute. ...

579 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:26:34am

#546 Ben Hur
[blush] !

580 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:26:44am

Dirk, my Italian's a little rusty but I think I've learned that "grappa" is the Italian word for "anti-freeze".

581 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:28:11am

548 OR

Fox news has some poll just out. over half of those polled are against the surge in troops, but over half of those polled think that Americans are too impatient, and over half of those polled support the War on Terror.

the general consensus among the Fox News people was that there is a lack of confidence in the Administration and those in charge of this War in Iraq.

but what NONE of them said is my belief: the frustration is rooted in our soldier's inability to identify, fight and kill our enemy... whereever he or she may be.

None of this "Wait for them to shoot at you"... or "Don't shoot back into a mosque"

apparently we HAVEN'T learned from past wars.

582 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:29:06am

#577 Ward Cleaver

Then you got me. I have no idea either.

583 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:29:07am

#578 J.D.

The brave jihadis managed to kill a 28 year-old woman. They must be so very proud of themselves.

[spit, twice]

584 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:29:37am

I hate Fridays.

585 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:29:43am

Apparently, the NFL has told Jerry Jones the Cowboys will never host a Super Bowl until they move into a dome.

That is sick, and hypocritical.


They've played Super Bowls in outdoor stadiums in Palo Alto, and its as likely to be heavy rain and mid 40s (ºF, about 6ºC) in NorCal in late January or early February as not. The average Dallas late January day has better weather than that.


And if it rains while Michael Jackson or his mammarial enhanced sister or Celine Deion or Prince or one of the Simpson sisters of 'Up with People' lip syncs during the Pepsi half time show, so freaking what?


Play the frikkin Super Bowl at lambeau or Soldier Field or the Meadowlands, I say!

586 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:29:45am

#548 Occasional Reader

It seemed like a first or second date, I think; the guy was an Army officer, the girl was a sort of inside-the-Beltway, NPR-listening type.

I suppose he trying to do to her, what the left has been doing to the country for years?

Is there any other kind of Grappa?

587 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:30:50am

{lance} Morning, Sparky.

{Obi-Wan} Morning, mister.

{BGB} Hello, dahlink.

Elric

Im not either. Football should be played in the elements.

AbsoLUTEly! I've seen some of the best games in snow, sleet and rain.

588 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:30:55am

Nobody should compare the Colts to the Buffalo Bills. The Colts have already won a Super Bowl.

Granted, it was XXXVI years ago and they were in Baltimore.

And they beat the punkass Cowboys.

589 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:31:03am

#574 Ed...

The Ice Bowl game between the Cowboys and the Packers, Jan. 1, 1967.

'Nuff said.

590 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:31:52am

585 Ed

I agree. There is nothing wrong with holding a superbowl in an outdoor stadium.

people have, for the most part, become pansies.

591 Dirk Diggler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:32:02am

Hey at least the Bills made the Super Bowl all those years. The Houston Oilers could never get out of the first round of the playoffs. And they never just lost, they made dubious history. Thank G*d they moved to Tennessee.

Watching them flounder in the postseason was more painful than swallowing razor blades.

592 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:32:31am

#585 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades 1/19/2007 07:29AM PST

Apparently, the NFL has told Jerry Jones the Cowboys will never host a Super Bowl until they move into a dome.

That is sick, and hypocritical.

But its ok to play in extreme humidity in Miami.

593 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:32:54am

#587 {Miss Trixie}!

How ya doing, beautiful?

594 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:33:09am

#586 Kenneth:

I suppose he trying to do to her, what the left has been doing to the country for years?

He seemed very much the gentleman, in fact. And he was fielding her well-meaning but clueless questions with astonishing patience.

595 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:33:25am

If you can afford $500 or more (much more) for a Super Bowl ticket, you can afford to buy a seat cushion to keep your butt off the frozen seat, and a warm coat.

596 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:33:45am

#538 kenneth

Sorry you couldn't come to lunch. It was fun. And there were two, new lizards there-a husband and wife team...

597 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:34:03am

J.D. (#578),

Brave jihadis aren't they?

And they're proud of it.

598 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:34:04am

News from the Afstan front:

January 17, 2007: Afghan troops found a major Taliban ammo dump near the Pakistani border. Not only that, but it was a mobile supply operation, for it consisted of 40 pickup trucks, all loaded with weapons and ammo, hidden in caves. Most had been placed there quite recently. In Helmland, a senior Taliban combat commander was also captured by British commandos, but his name was not released.

January 16, 2007: One of the chief Taliban spokesmen, Muhammad Hanif, was captured in eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban depend on media savvy guys like this to get their message out and play the media, mainly the Western media. Losing Hanif will hurt, as he was very effective.

January 15, 2007: Noting the many Taliban movements, even in Winter, U.S. commanders fear that the Taliban are going to try, once more, to take Kandahar (the traditional Taliban "capital") in the Spring. Other NATO commanders disagree, pointing out that the Taliban took a major beating when they tried this last year, and give no indication of having learned anything, or changed their tactics. The Americans are more suspicious, and are hustling to try and find out of the Taliban have, indeed, come up with any surprises.

I bet the Canadians in Afstan are itching for the Taliban to launch the much ballyhooed "Spring Offensive". The jihadis will be slaughtered. Again.

599 jehu  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:34:07am

I wonder if anyone else senses a growing change about our awareness of Islam in Western Countries. Just finished watching the last two episodes of 24. Say what you want but a mushroom cloud over a L.A. suburb all done by people with Islamic/Arabic names...millions of Americans watched that image. Later I channel surfed and CNN was playing an interview by Christiane Amanpour with some asshat Imam in London, blunt questions, blunt answers...Sharia law was/is the goal. Showed regular Britons speaking out and none too happy about the antics of the RoP.

Course Amanpour also went in search of the mythical "modrate," Muslim to "balance," the jihadist view. I hope she found some in the Unicorn Preserve...I changed the channel.

Add to that Glen Beck, and more and more MSM reporting about radical Islam. The growing access to MSM of the likes of Mark Steyn and others. Maybe, just maybe we are witnessing the beginning of a seachange, and even the idiot Lefties realize they have a "cut along the dotted line," tatoo on their necks as well as "Right Wing Christian Fundamentalists."

600 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:34:16am

587 Miss Trixie

Good Morning!

*grin*

601 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:34:18am

RE: Aladin:


Our writer here has a serious originality problem.
The entire rant is derivative of the leftist party line.
The phrases employed are trite, over-used and unoriginal
which leaves the reader asking himself if this guy
has ever had a thought that was not spoon fed to him by his ideological masters.

Likely he is well educated and is a devotee of Chomsky and Said, and perhaps Mel Gibson, too, judging from all the body parts he has strewn all over his work.

Yes there are problems with Iraq, but the problems are because of people like our esteemed author, who is apparently deeply emotionally invested in the idea of America as the Great Satan and Viet Nam as the model for every conflict.

The Left has thwarted the efforts in Iraq at every opportunity using the same playbook they used to thwart the efforts in Viet Nam, so this guy should be very happy, he is getting exactly what he and his "cronies" have worked towards.

Maybe he should convert to Islam, ideologically speaking they seem to have much in common. He seems to be very enamored with the idea of body parts strewn everywhere, which would make him a very good Shahid.

What he says here is a whole lot of leftist talking points mixed up with six kinds of ignorant and crazy.
Much sound and fury signifying NOTHING.

The fact that you ran this poorly written piece of derivative dribble makes me wonder about the integrity of your editorial staff.

602 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:34:35am

It figures Dirk Diggler would be an Oilers fan. I'm sure he likes the Packers, too.

603 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:35:41am

#601 BZ:

Likely he is well educated and is a devotee of Chomsky and Said

I'd strongly suggest inserting scare quotes around the phrase "well educated" in this context!

604 easy  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:35:51am

U.S. official: Chinese test missile obliterates satellite

I think this is probably a bad thing.

605 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:36:10am

#599 jehu

This one's for you-The Second Holocaust Approaching.

606 Black George Bush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:36:50am

#575 Obi-wan
Morning! And yes, Lance is still keeping me down :0

607 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:36:55am
#599 jehu 1/19/2007 07:34AM PST


Well its getting harder and harder for the left to keep giving Islam a free pass. Sooner or later, they will run out of excuses.

608 j-damn  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:37:24am
They do have Chris Tucker and he seems really sane. But Olby and Matthews? Geesh. They do give hotair a lot of business though. LOL

PMSNBC has Chris Tucker now? I guess he and Jackie Chan must be on the outs, eh?

609 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:38:03am

Ed,

One of the messiest Super Bowls was IX between the Steelers and Vikings at the Rice Bowl. Miserable conditions that day, although it was on astroturf.

They're building a $1 billion palace to replace Giants Stadium, but some some strange reason aren't putting a retractable roof on it, which would guarantee a SB for New Jersey, as well as more FInal Fours, which are now held only in domed stadia.

610 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:38:40am

594 Occasional Reader

He seemed very much the gentleman, in fact.

I heard they still exist. In the US military, no less? Go figure. I would lack his patience.

611 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:38:44am

#603 Occasional Reader
LOL, yes ...

612 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:39:02am

Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades

I think it went down in 2004...

I'll never forget that playoff game against Oakland or the
Superbowl that followed.

613 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:39:18am

Hi WriterMom

did you get a chance to visit that Hebrew website?

614 Black George Bush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:39:21am

Hey Miss Trixie, how is going this morning babe?

615 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:39:21am

#606 BGB

LOL!

We'll have to talk to him about that.

616 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:39:37am

606 BGB

you're in luck... all the snow we're getting, I may not be able to oppress you again until at least Wed or Thurstday.

Minorities get an extended Holiday from my Oppression.

live it up well!

617 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:40:03am

Miss UniBrow is SHOCKED! SHOCKED!

Amanpour: Brit radicals shock me

618 Poitiers-Lepanto  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:40:35am

#599 Jehu

I wonder if anyone else senses a growing change about our awareness of Islam in Western Countries.

Yesterday I happened to think somehow something along the trend of your post...It's just a feeling.
Like the feeling you have one hour before dawn, something tells you that the new day is coming...it is still night but a bird sings...

Shomer... "Come back, ask again..."

619 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:40:35am
How's the World of Concrete sound, fun. eh?

*thump*

620 vxbush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:40:50am

590 Lance

pansies

Yup, that's me. I'm a happy pansy. I'm much happier being above 98 degrees in body temperature. Freezing my butt off is not my idea of fun.

Give me Bermuda.

621 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:40:54am

#583 OR
#597 Geepers
I guess now, the question is will CNN make it available on pay per view?

622 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:41:24am

Well, I think I figured it out. The "thing" on the sidelines at Gillette Stadium is the stadium logo:

Gillette Stadium has a large number of features that make it unique to the New England heritage. These features include the bridge and 12-story high lighthouse that will sit atop the Bank of America entrance and welcome visitors to the stadium. Plazas, allowing guests to meet and enjoy the atmosphere, surround the stadium. The parking lots, containing over 16,500 parking spaces, are designed and built to ensure all guests park in a purpose-built, well-lit environment with safety being the No. 1 concern.

It's a crappy depiction of a bridge and 12-story lighthouse, IMHO.

623 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:41:28am

#471 BabbaZee

The David Bowie made our budgie dance and sing.

624 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:41:54am

#613 coz

No-could you post the linky again? I'll take a peek now. Funny you should mention this on post 613. That's the number of mitzvot there are in the Torah.

JEWLEPATHY! BOOGAH BOOGAH!

626 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:42:18am

#622 Me

Oh yeah, a linky:

Here

627 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:42:34am

609 JWF

though there is still pretty much a guarentee that neither the Jets nor the Giants will be in any superbowl held there.

I don't always understand the logic.

"If we build a really expensive stadium, the players will suddenly become MVPs."

Oh well, things can change... look at the Browns. (Who are apparently likely to get Adrian Pederson from the Sooners)

628 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:42:36am

#617 BabbaZee 1/19/2007 07:40AM PST

Miss UniBrow is SHOCKED! SHOCKED!

Amanpour: Brit radicals shock me


What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today's generation of young Muslims in Britain. Whether extreme or mainstream, they are angry about the war, angry that their country so devotedly follows U.S. foreign policy, angry at what they see as a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.

Im not shocked she blamed the US and Iraq war for it.

629 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:42:51am
630 Poitiers-Lepanto  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:42:59am

#599 Jehu

even the idiot Lefties realize they have a "cut along the dotted line," tattoo on their necks as well as "Right Wing Christian Fundamentalists."

...


LOL !

631 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:43:03am

Ward Cleaver and Obi-wan

It is a lighthouse!

632 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:43:10am

#623 zenbone

"Let's Dance"?

/put on your red shoes and dance the blues

633 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:43:11am

OR, Dirk, Ward, ED, et al

Understand! The location of The Super Bowl has NOTHING to do with the weather. It's because of TELEVISION! TV does not want to have to battle the elements when presenting the major sports event of the year. Especially when they are charging $1,000,000 per minute for commercial time. It also has to do with the high rollers that come to all the pre- and post-game parties.

634 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:43:29am

#617 BZ:

Of course, CNN/Miss Amanpour are quick to identify the real culprits here:

What struck us most was how deeply the Iraq war has radicalized today's generation of young Muslims in Britain.

See, they normally were just peaceful, live-and-let-live humanists. Until that damn Bush and his war came along.

Whether extreme or mainstream, they are angry about the war, angry that their country so devotedly follows U.S. foreign policy, angry at what they see as a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.

Gosh, I wonder who gave them that idea?

635 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:43:44am

620 vxbush

but you're cute, so it doesn't count.

*hands you chocolate*

636 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:43:46am

Judah

This guy needs my letter, LOL

1. Kefiyah not a 'terrorist scarf'
Jeff
01/19/2007 04:47

It is sad that urban outfiters pulled it's line of kefiyas. They are traditional garb of many Arab cultures, pulling them off the shelves because a few hyper-Zionists saw them as symbols of terrorism is highly offensive. It is an equation of all Arab culture as violent. Pulling the kefiyas off the shelf was a morally lazy decision to avoid taking a stand against racism.

637 Ben Hur  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:44:10am

British Muslims Get Their Soapbox

Television


Radical Islam in Britain will also be featured tomorrow night on "CNN: Special Investigations Unit," a new series which sounds like something involving David Caruso, designer sunglasses, and murdered fashion models. In fact, this episode, "The War Within," stars Christiane Amanpour, and while it would be going too far to call it an unflinching look at Muslim extremism, it does at least look at it. But let's not give Ms. Amanpour, arguably the most famous female journalist in the world, too much credit. Oriana Fallaci lamented before her death last year that she had come so late to the most important story of her lifetime. She was talking about the growth of Islamic radicalism in Europe, and she was referring to its beginnings in the 1970s.

Now in 2007, we have Ms. Amanpour, chicly turned out in dark glasses and a long dark coat, announcing at the outset that London, which has been not only her home but also her "refuge" from conflicts overseas, is itself embattled, a site of conflict and suicide bombings and fear. Unfortunately, little history or context for the eruption of this problem is provided. A massive, highly politicized Muslim population is just suddenly there, in Britain. There is no reference to the fatwa against author Salman Rushdie in 1989, when there was widespread rioting by British Muslims, let alone to the notorious 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech by the maverick Conservative politician Enoch Powell, in which the issue of immigration was placed dramatically on the front burner of English politics before being swiftly removed for the next three decades.

Ms. Amanpour appears to interview a wide range of people, Muslim and non-Muslim, but this is somewhat illusory. She interviews a fair number of Muslims and a couple of non-Muslims, primarily Alan Craig, a Christian city councillor opposed to the football stadium-size "mega-mosque" being planned for East London. (To him she says: A lot of this sounds like, I'm sorry to say, white middle class fear, and anger, of Muslims right now.")

What she doesn't do is interview other British immigrants about the Muslim situation. Indians, say. There are a lot of them in Britain, and I suspect they would be quite articulate on the subject. Or Chinese. Or Russians. Or West Indians. Or — you name it. All these people are kept in the background, part of Britain's "rich multicultural fabric," to be heard from on a more convenient occasion. Instead, the equation becomes either British whites versus British Muslims, or radical Muslims versus moderate Muslims, with white people looking on. Consciously or not, the effect is misleading and subtly racist — against white Britons.

OT and needs a thread:

Ben Hur's Birthday.

638 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:44:34am

WriterMom

Boogah Boogah indeed!

Ancient Hebrew Language

let me know if it works

639 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:45:01am

#634 Occasional Reader
GOD how I hate that ugly wench. WHORE OF THE CALIPHATE!

640 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:47:03am

#633 Obi-wan:

OR,

You talkin' to me? Actually I'm pretty much utterly indifferent about the Superbowl, and the NFL in general.

641 jehu  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:47:05am

Elric66

Just read that also. So...I wonder what radicalized the 19 assholes that flew planes into buildings on 9/11? Stupid jerk Amanpour. Some part of me wants Islam to be in charge just for ONE year, so assholes like here can wear a burlap bag, and be whipped by the religious police when they foget to cover up an ankle. Be the end of women drivers also.

642 Ledger1  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:48:24am

Saudi oil money is killing our guys and hurting our country. If that extra trip to the mall has to be cut - so be it.

I for one, will stop buying about 20% of my usually gasoline bill each month. That should cover the approximate amount of oil shipped from Saudi Arabia to the US.

643 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:48:27am

And the Pats logo is referred to as the Flying Elvis in these parts...

I prefer the old school logo, Pat the Patriot.

644 j-damn  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:48:29am
Bin Laden is still hiding out somewhere, elusive but just as powerful and deadly as he's ever been.

Just as deadly, huh...I must have missed this month's skyscraper collapse.

Will four civilians have to die in Ohio before this administration opens its eyes to the wrong it's perpetrating?

It should have been more than four, hippie--what do you expect when you set fire to buildings and riot? Candy & flowers?

645 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:48:39am

Obi-Wan, BGB

I'm doing just fine, thanks for asking. Just waiting for the winter to finally melt away and spring to arrive.

Shopping for groceries last night and I wanted to buy some basil. They are sold in plastic tubes containing a few tired and slimy stems with sad little leaves. Blech. I'm growing my own this year including parsley and thyme.

What snoo?

646 NoSubmission  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:49:02am

617 BabbaZee


Miss UniBrow is SHOCKED! SHOCKED!

Amanpour: Brit radicals shock me

Funny how none of us were..
And she's a "journalist"?
heh!

Good morning Babba!

and Happy Birthday Ben Hur!

647 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:49:18am

#637 Ben Hur
Happy Birthday!

648 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:49:28am

#639 BabbaZee

They don't have whores. Just temporary wives.

649 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:50:18am

#638 coz

ME LIKEY!

Actually, what's interesting is that they have included "ayin" in two sections. The gutteral "ayin" was not really used by the European Jews, and was pretty much disregarded. Only Yemenite Jews pronounce it properly, and they also pronounce the "chet" properly, too-gutteral, not a full "CH".

650 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:50:41am

OR and Babba

You talkin' about Christiana I'mawhore?

She's got donkey teeth.

651 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:50:56am

Katie Couric has a "blog"!

In this case, Katie complained on behalf of the "feminist movement" that while she was thrilled to attend a recent briefing at the White House with other top network anchors, she wanted more females at the table. Once again, America is so far behind nations like Rwanda and Sweden. (Yes, that's in there.)

Damn. Even for a journalist, that's dumb.

And CBS wonders why her ratings are in the toilet?

Katie Couric, Feminist Blogger: America Should Be More Like Rwanda

652 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:51:37am

WriterMom,

I'm sorry I missed the lunch too. Alas, my employer frowns on me taking 3 hour breaks in the middle of the day. Oh, the humiliation! I think I should seeth.

Funny times!

653 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:03am
654 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:07am

#641 jehu 1/19/2007 07:47AM PST

Elric66

Just read that also. So...I wonder what radicalized the 19 assholes that flew planes into buildings on 9/11? Stupid jerk Amanpour. Some part of me wants Islam to be in charge just for ONE year, so assholes like here can wear a burlap bag, and be whipped by the religious police when they foget to cover up an ankle. Be the end of women drivers also.

Just remeber, its never Islam's fault, always the West. I wonder if she even asked herself why would a Brit native born would symapthize with Arabs over his countrymen.

655 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:12am

#651 Geepers

I guess she forgot to put her "smart glasses" on before she started blogging.

656 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:19am

I'll bet $10,000 that the "weather woman" who wants all meteorologists decertified if they claim they don't buy into the man-made global warming has pulled a straight Dim congressional ticket for the past 25 years.

You ask me, the lib Dims rank right there in maximizing hypocrisy with the Mullahs.

657 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:36am

Lopp, LOL

658 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:53am
Gramscian whores temporary wives of the caliphate.

That's better.

659 seejanemom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:52:55am

Every damn country in the world wants us on the hook to the UN or some "world authority". The Saudi can drink their f*cking oil for all I care.

Just give me 40 acres, some goats and I'll drink and drive.

The Daily Moonbat sharp stick in the eye...
PSEUDO-SCIENCE KILLS MILLIONS. And it will again, if we believe The Algor-rithm of Global Warming

660 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:53:49am

Yep Jamie the Budgie definitely likes Bowie.

661 gamegrid  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:53:53am

Saudi Arabia sucks, period.

I am totally a free-market capitalist type of guy. But when there are influences that mess with a market that do not make it totally free... the government probably should do something about it to even things up. It isn't as much about regulation/government control as much as it is simply about being right.

Our people of America generally understand Saudi Arabia is a supposed ally, and that supposed ally had the majority of the terrorists from 9/11 strike us. Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi.

The majority of Americans understand that Saudi Arabia does not have religious freedom and are very barbaric in the 7th century islamic sense...and their government hangs on by a thread and is one overthrow away from becoming a sunni version of Iran...but worse. Saudi Arabia preaches some of the most intolerant Islam that exists in the world...right next to Pakistan...both allies. (And Afghanitstan: But at least we are attempting to de-talibanize them...it will take a hundred years to do it.)

But we deal with them for oil...as cheap of oil as we can get it. Politicians are bought and paid for by some of the largest companies on the Fortune 500. If you notice, some of the ones at the very top of 500 are oil companies and they are very, very rich.

There is no question that our leadership is going in the opposite direction as the people. This Saudi issue, illegal immigration (by the way...if you are illegal and you're mexican, you're cool. if you're illegal and you're from the middle east, you're a terrorist. To me, all illegals are illegal: Get them out.) and a host of other issues...

You can find appeasment on all levels. This is not free market capitalism but the abuse of very large and powerful companies manipulating the government to do their bidding. It is a freakin' shame. We should never do business with the Saudi Arabia's of the world...and even extend that to other countries that are willing to do business with them. We have truly sold our soul to the devil in Saudi Arabia.

662 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:53:57am

#648 Earth2moonbat
I divorce thee
I divorce thee
I divorce thee
You Persian Shoe
I divorce thee
SPIT

LOL

663 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:54:05am

Well I just figured out why I can't get in touch with a client.

He's in jail. Again.

As Babba would say, how shtooopid can you get.

[sigh - updating file to reflect incarceration status]

664 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:54:07am

#650 loppyd,

You talkin' about Christiana I'mawhore?

She's got donkey teeth.

LOL. Why didn't you also mention she chews her cud?

665 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:54:22am

CNN: Special Investigation Unit
THE WAR WITHIN

There's a feedback section.
:D

666 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:54:56am

LIZARD SURVEY:

Remember I had a Nasty Nazi "Christian" "Peacekeeper" Teams colleague. Well, I got a notice that she has been to and come back from "Palestine" and is giving a seminar...Should I attend?

667 Black George Bush  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:55:27am

#645 Miss Trixie
Im just over here working hard, and watching the Democrats come into thier full Neville Chamberland.

668 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:55:31am
669 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:55:37am

#652 kenneth

I hear ya, dude.

670 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:55:53am

651 Geepers

That's right... when I think "Human Progress" I definatly think Rwanda... what with all the disease and poor development... and, of course, all their international pull they have to strive for good.

and Africa in General.

So advanced, culturally... with squatting villages, rampant violent warefare from one village to another, cannibalism, slavery, governments run by drug cartels...

Yes, America sure could learn from continents like Africa, and countries like Rwanda...

671 NoSubmission  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:56:22am

BZ and WriterMom
Shaping up to be a gorgeous day here.

Gotta get some work done. Be back soon.

/big plans behind-the-scenes. big.

672 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:56:25am

He loves it!

His name was always Buddy
And he'd shrug and ask to stay
She'd sigh like Twig the Wonder Kid
And turn her face away

673 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:56:36am

people give Bush a hard time, but considering their are tends of millions, at least, Muslims who want us dead, there has been no domestic terrorism in the US since 9-11 and possibly the anthrax attacks that followed immediately after.


While there have been a few cases of sudden jihad syndrome (SJS) amongst Egyptian limo drivers at El Al ticket counters and Iranian SUV drivers on college campi and misunderstood Muslim youth, displaying the courage of Allah's Apostle (May bees Piss Upon Him) in targetting only the woman in a Seattle Jewish center, there have been no organized terror attacks.


Maybe the Patriot Act, and fighting Islamofacism in Afghanistan andIraq instead of the US is actually working out.

674 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:56:46am

#666 (Ooooh) WriterMom

Not unless you have some blood pressure medicine handy.

675 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:56:48am

Miss Trixie

Everything is going great.

We're living happily ever after.

676 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:57:05am

#671 NoSub

I am SO excited about those plans. Heh heh...

677 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:57:10am

Happy Birthday Ben Hur.

678 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:57:32am

#666 WriterMom 1/19/2007 07:54AM PST

LIZARD SURVEY:

Remember I had a Nasty Nazi "Christian" "Peacekeeper" Teams colleague. Well, I got a notice that she has been to and come back from "Palestine" and is giving a seminar...Should I attend?


Yes. Ask her hard questions

679 jehu  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:57:48am

WriterMom

Thanks for the link. Personally it will NOT work out like Ahamadenijad thinks. My read about Armageddon is that a serious attempt is made to wipe out the Jews "one last time," and it all reverses at that point. Not to get too mystical, but I think God is allowing the hatred against Him to manifest in the earth as first a hatred to the Jew, and secondly a hatred to the Christian.

And that is not to say those groups are super special or something...it is a chosing of God to illustrate something. Simply put, God just tells the universe "these are my people." This provokes all disobedient spirits, whether angels or the spirits that are in men to organize all to attack those groups.

Anyone find a better explanation why America and Israel are the two most hated countries on earth, and all the forces of evil aim their arrows (ultimately) at these two nations, I would like to hear it. It explains a lot to me why both the Left (remnants of communism) and Islam, which on the surface have NOTHING in common, find nothing but common ground in their same hatreds.

680 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:57:58am

WriterMom

Do you remember my post last week about the word for woman/mom being "strong water"?

Thats the site I got that from.

I think there is some fascinating insight on the meanings of words based on the picture association of the letters that make up the word and their relationship to each other. In English a word means just the word, but in the ancient Hebrew each letter tells a story about that word.

It will take a ton of study though as you would also have to understand the culture and lifestyle of the originators of that alphabet.

681 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:25am

#662 BabbaZee

You Persian Shoe

You don't have to get personal.

682 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:26am

#663 loppyd

Are there no phones in jail?

Actually I would like it if my clients would go to jail from time to time. It would make scheduling so much easier.

683 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:28am

#671 NoS

/big plans behind-the-scenes. big.

I can't wait!

684 Who Watches the Watchmen?  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:44am

Comic relief:
Kucinich to chair domestic reform panel

Federal agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, the Federal Communications Commission and the Labor Department should expect calls from his office. Internet access, water quality, health care, media concentration and government treatment of American Indians are other areas Kucinich plans to scrutinize.

What is he, the Central Scrutinizer? And internet access is now a basic human right?

VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT PROPOSES PAN-REGIONAL RADIO SUR TO COMPLEMENT TELESUR

Chavez's multistate radio station will be along the same lines as his attempts to extend to all of South America the projects undergirding the political and economic steps he has been taking inside Venezuela. It will be a continuation of his plan for controlling the media in his country and reducing in some way the influence of those allied with opposition sectors.

Why does this sound so familiar? Sorry, no linky, but I did find this story, also with a familiar theme:

Venezuela's National Assembly has given initial approval to a bill granting the president the power to bypass congress and rule by decree for 18 months.

It's time to pull the troops out of Iraq. We will be needing them closer to home.

685 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:49am

Coz I like that Hebrew link, thanks

686 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:50am

I am not actually of the opinion that Amanpour is ugly. She's no Adriana Lima, mind you, but I wouldn't all her ugly.

687 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:58:51am

#666 WriterMom,

Remember I had a Nasty Nazi "Christian" "Peacekeeper" Teams colleague.

LOL. With that post number, I figure that's is the Lord's way of saying sure - be all ears in the midst of the wolves.

688 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:59:05am

678 Elric

hard questions like "Should the Jews be allowed to exist as free in Israel, or should they be pushed into the sea as hamas and Hezbollah have suggested?"

689 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:59:11am

#674 Ward Cleaver

LOL. Notice that was a 666 post.

690 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:59:19am

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENHUR!

:D

691 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:59:35am

#663 loppyd

A real slow learner, eh?

692 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 5:59:45am

Looks like the magic line of snow/sleet versus rain runs very near I-44.


Will Wichita Falls and OKC get 6 to 10 inches of snow (or a little less if more sleet than snow), or just a cold rain.


What drama, what tension.


Dallas, just a cold rain. Sorry.

693 Ayatollah Ghilmeini  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:00:02am

If you really wanted to change things:

- you would not have any UN troops in south Lebanon for Hezbollah to hide behind. Pull the UN and Lebanese Army out and leave Hezbollah to the mercies of the IDF should they provoke a war.

- you would arrest any Hamas leader who ventures out of the territories.

- you would block all funds and anything but medicine, food and water (skip the electricity) to the PA until they recognize Israel, reform their media and education system and unconditionally release Gilad Shalit.

- you would remind Democrats that the US meatgrindered tens of thousands of US troops in securing the WWII victory through ridiculous and what were theen and are considered now pointless battles: Anzio, Monte Casino, Metz and the Hurtgen Forrest each saw many times the entire casualty count in the war to date. Ill planned, with bad intelligence and a pigheaded disregard for human life, these battles were wasteful slaughters. But these were nothing compared to the air campaign. Tens of thousands of planes and fliers were sent in USAF bombing runs that were so perilous a bomber crew, if by some miracle, surviving 25 missions, was released from further combat flights. Post war analysis determined that the fliers should not have been able to survive at all; the missions' overall effect on German war production was barely worth the effort. US respect for human life, both our own, even enemy, has been a remarkable decency that no Democrat ever mentions.

- you would go for the gold and arrest that little ogre Moqtada al Sadr and put his little ass on ice for 15 years or by rights we should cut him up and mail him back to his masters in Iran.

- you would hand Damascus a list of terrorist infestations in Syria and demand they hand over every Saddam supporter and terrorist on their territory in 48 hours or be bombed into the stone age; they send every trace of anything Iranian back to Iran, seal their border with Iraq and pull every agent out of Lebanon under the same penalty. Assad would defecate in his shorts AND comply.

- Tell Iran that each escalation in their nuclear program will see a concomitant increase in sanctions until they agree to Internationally supervised dismantlement.

- your would see President Bush reach out to the Iranian people and say: "you have cried out Kush Bush, well, Bush is here." And watch the Mullahs head for the hills.

- And if you really want to change things your would state the obvious. We are mighty; if we will it, we can do anything. All we need is to see things clearly and settle on policies that help the nation for now and the long term future. To run from Iraq when we can break the bastards and turn Iraq into an al Qaeda and Iranian humiliating catastrophes, now that is victory. With or without the Democrats' puling, mewling, weaseling, craven fecklessness, Bush should square his shoulders to the wind and fight to win.

694 NoSubmission  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:00:08am

wardcleaver and writermom

oh.. if computer screens could talk...

695 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:00:16am
696 Dr. Manhattan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:00:19am

Armenian journalist has been slain by a turkish nationalist.

On the subject of the Armenians, i saw a lovely film the other day. It was extremely avant garde, but all the same it moved me to tears. An incredible piece of art really. It was made in 1968, and the author of it was sent to the gulag, because he was gay (he didnt die in there though, he died in the late 1980s free as a bird in the west).

Well the movie is called Sayat Nova, as its original title; it is known here as The Color of Pomegranates.

I heartily recommend it to you if you like art cinema and can find a copy.

/wiki sayat nova, he was a great poet and musician

697 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:00:43am

#687 goodbye_natalie

COSIMIC JEWHADI JINX!

698 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:00:59am

#666 WriterMom 1/19/2007 07:54AM PST

Remember to pack the Nekama Troll Hammer.

699 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:01:49am

692 Ed

can you pull some strings and get OKC just cold rain?

followed by temps in the 40s?

Thanks, in advance.

700 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:01:52am

Babba

Im glad to share something useful.

I get so much from you guys and then usually all i got to offer is some mindless stuff about, well, nothing really.

701 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:02:03am

#671 NoSubmission
GO BOUDICA!

702 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:02:09am

I was so pissed hearing Russ Feingold say yesterday that Bush had "returned to the law" and shut down the "illegal program".

I agree with Hugh Hewitt. The Bush administration sucks at communications, and doesn't have a clue about PR.

703 Iron Fist[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:02:32am
704 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:02:36am
#688 LanceKates 1/19/2007 07:59AM PST

678 Elric

hard questions like "Should the Jews be allowed to exist as free in Israel, or should they be pushed into the sea as hamas and Hezbollah have suggested?"

Easy question for us but hard for them because it corners them into exposing them for what they are. Why do you think Carter is dodging all debates?

705 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:02:46am

#686 OR,

I am not actually of the opinion that Amanpour is ugly. She's no Adriana Lima, mind you, but I wouldn't all her ugly.

I think it's that sand-blow, leatherface that does her in. I've seen 70 year old Bedoiuns with a softer complexion.

706 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:02:47am

WriterMom (#655),

Maybe that's the problem, maybe Katie believe her "smart glasses" actually make her smart.

707 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:03:03am

talk about mindless and useless stuff,

i have posts at both #500 and #700

708 Miss Trixie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:03:39am

BGB

Im just over here working hard, and watching the Democrats come into thier full Neville Chamberland.

Sad, ain't it?

709 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:04:07am

Amanpour is on the low side of the Bell Curve in the looks department. I mean, she is within 1 standard deviation, but she is on the less attractive side of the curve.


Of course, Arab-American /Marxist journalist Helen Thomas is more than 2 standard deviations to the left.

710 J.D.  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:04:07am
711 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:04:17am

#699 Lance

Good luck, Lance. As it stands right now, we might dodge a bullet and just get rain tomorrow. North and west of DFW, ice.

712 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:04:37am

zenbone

They have phones, but I'm sure he could care less about his stupid disctrict court case at this point. He's got bigger problems now.

713 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:04:43am
714 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:05:34am

#709 Ed...

Of course, Arab-American /Marxist journalist Helen Thomas is more than 2 standard deviations to the left.

Hell, she's off the scale, to the left.

715 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:06:19am

Anyway, Amanpour was able to land Clinton administration State Department spokeseunuch Jamie Rubin as a husband.


I hope she didn't hurt him too badly on their wedding night.

716 Dr. Manhattan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:06:35am

#703

A world war against muslims and islam? No thank you please. Advocating that stuff is loon, pal. That's how they think.

717 EE  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:06:41am

The Saudi Land-for-Lies plan involves Israel making Judea and Samaria judenrein. This fits right in with their master plan, because all of Saudi Arabia is judenrein. Jews not only cannot own land in Saudi Arabia, and cannot become citizens of Saudi Arabia, but they are not even legally allowed to enter the country.

The Saudi Land-for-Lies plan also requires Israel to award a "right of return", which would allow millions of Arabs who were not born in Israel to flood into Israel. This would create a great civil war in Israel, and produce terrorism on a scale that would make the terror intifada -- Intifada II -- seem like a picnic. The Muslim birthrate is superior, so it would not be long before Israel became an Arab state.

It is not necessary to pay the Saudis with Israeli concessions in order for them to be wary of the Persian Prong that extends from Iran, goes through Shiite Iraq, into Alawite-ruled Syria, and into Hizballah-dominated Lebanon. They are wary of the Persian Prong anyway; we don't have to pay them with Israeli land or Israeli blood for them to be aware of their own interests in being wary of the Persian Prong.

The Saudi-Wahhabis are the main force for the jihadization of the Muslim masses, in which they use their petrodollars to spread their version of Islam spewing hatred toward the kafir, and hailing jihad as the pillar of Islam. We don't have to punish our friends to reward our enemies for radicalizing the Muslim world with hatred toward the kafir and being enthralled with jihad.

718 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:06:49am
719 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:07:06am

#699 Lance,

692 Ed

can you pull some strings and get OKC just cold rain?

followed by temps in the 40s?

Thanks, in advance.

Me too! I spent 4+ hours yesterday "chipping" about 4" of frozen tundra from one-half of my driveway. On top of that, it's so damn heavy, that is starting to bend my gutters. And now we get 10" of wet snow?

If Al Gore were in the neighborhood, he'd be holding a hair dryer over my gutters. What a schmuck.

720 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:07:10am

#703 IF:

We ought to give them a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.

Ah, no. War "against" a billion people? No.

721 jehu  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:07:20am

O.R. 686

I am not actually of the opinion that Amanpour is ugly. She's no Adriana Lima, mind you, but I wouldn't all her ugly.

I wouldn't call her anything, in fear that she might start panting and wag her tail.

/rimshot!

722 rockman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:07:24am

A "Palestinian State" could not live in peace even with itself.
They are indelibly imprinted with the psychotic obsessions of Haj Amin al Husseini and his descendent Arafat.
What good can come of that?

723 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:07:51am

#681 Earth2moonbat

BWAHAHA even better - the Persian BOOT
I'm getting some. LOL

724 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:08:27am

#713 BabbaZee

Loves it immediately!

One of my favourites too.

BTW, the name is Jamie Polonaise (my daughter gave the name).

725 Ayatollah Ghilmeini  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:08:39am

Bush may have pulled off a huge win::

At meetings in Berlin, the North Koreans may have agreed to give up their nukes- first step, shutting down their reactor.

Rice is quoted as saying the Chinese had some helpful "ideas." Which means that China finally realized that North Korea was too unstabilizing to the region, that it was in everyonee's interest, even the North Koreans, to end this farce.

We will have to see if this is true. If it does turn out to be true: its two down and 1.5 to go!

Bush might well be on the verge of breaking the entiore axis of evil. Did I mention that this would further isolate Iran?

Believe in the Victory!

726 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:08:43am

#718 loppyd
LOL
i hate to tell you what my father used to call her

727 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:09:36am

#720 Occasional Reader 1/19/2007 08:07AM PST

#703 IF:

We ought to give them a worldwide war against Muslims and Islam.

Ah, no. War "against" a billion people? No.


I guess that would mean we should never go to war with China even if China goes to war with us.

728 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:10:09am

Obi-Wan

Other than a small handful, they don't want to learn anything other than how to beat the rap.

729 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:10:11am

#726 Babs

Tell us! We want to know!

730 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:10:42am

#724 zenbone 1/19/2007 08:08AM PST

Another for Budgie Jamie Polonaise


Funny my cat definitely has musical preferences too.

731 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:10:52am

Have to agree that I think it would be much smarter to "pick a fight" with a couple of thousand terrorists running around Sadr city and see how that goes before we declare all out war on Islam.

I'm not in the mood to fight the neighbor down the street quit yet. He's too shell shocked from the ice storm to put up much of a fight anyway.

732 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:10:59am

704 Elric

yup.

hard to maintain "Kill All of the Jews and Christians" when you're trying to push "We are a Religion of Peace"

and since the Hezbos are the legit government of the Pallies, by election, that means the Pallies follow the same ideas as the Hezbos... so they can't even dodge with "Well, that is just a small radical group..."

733 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:11:26am

Ward
it's too filthy to post, even for me, she of the trucker mouth.
LOL!

734 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:11:54am

Sorry, crossed my Terrorist groups starting with H.

meant Hamas, not hezbos.

735 loppyd  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:12:18am

Babba

I bet it's not PG-13.

736 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:12:24am

#725 AG

B-b-b-b-b-but: Quagmire in Iraq!

/msm, dems

737 EE  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:12:30am

#703
I disagree with you. We don't need to create new enemies, we have enough already. There is no need for a war against Islam and a war against Muslims. That kind of sentiment just plays into the hands of the radicals who claim that America is at war with Islam and at war with all Muslims. We tell our Muslim allies that that is nonsense, and our government means it. No need to support the propaganda of Al Qaida.

738 BabbaZee  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:13:06am

Loppy, it's triple X LOL

739 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:13:08am

#732 LanceKates 1/19/2007 08:10AM PST

704 Elric

yup.

hard to maintain "Kill All of the Jews and Christians" when you're trying to push "We are a Religion of Peace"

and since the Hezbos are the legit government of the Pallies, by election, that means the Pallies follow the same ideas as the Hezbos... so they can't even dodge with "Well, that is just a small radical group..."


But they voted for Hamas because Fatah was so corrupt, not because they advocate the destruction of Israel. SARC

740 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:13:11am

#709 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades

Of course, Arab-American /Marxist journalist Helen Thomas is more than 2 standard deviations to the left.

Ever heard of 6-sigma?

741 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:13:14am

#733 Babs

You can use asterisks, dashes, etc.

Come on! You know you want to post it!

742 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:13:15am
Amanpour is on the low side of the Bell Curve in the looks department.

Hm... well, maybe I'm the odd man out here, but actually I think she's above average. I think a lot of that is being carefully and expensively prepped/primped, but still, on the whole I don't find her unattractive.

Helen Thomas, OTOH, warps space and time itself with her cosmos-devouring ugliness.

743 goodbye_natalie  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:13:44am

Well, Mrs. Natalie is on her way home from Houston to Tulsa right now and we haven't seen her since the 1st of January. I'm pumped and my daughters are joyous so I must go.

Have a nice weekend LGF...and stay warm.

744 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:14:17am

#666 WriterMom

WriterMom get's the number of the Beast!

I saw that notice too. Makes me sooo proud I could spit! By all means go and heckle. You're fed up with your job anyway aren't you?

745 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:14:36am

#730 BabbaZee

This one made him very pensive.

But then when the CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES part came on he started flying around and around the room.

This is hilarious.

746 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:15:03am

#740 E2m

9.99999?

I remember that quality stuff. Will Willoughby, Deming, Juran, etc.

747 Poitiers-Lepanto  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:15:12am

#716

A world war against muslims and islam? No thank you please. Advocating that stuff is loon, pal. That's how they think.

That's why I love LGF.
There is always the occasion for a good laugh.
This character wakes up in the middle of a world war, turns and hits the snooze button.

And to whom he says LOON ? To Iron Fist !

This is way too funny !

wrongblog wrongblog wrongblog wrongblog

748 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:15:27am

711 Ward

I don't have plans for the weekend, so I'll be fine (The Curse of being a single hermit finally pays off)

I'm only wondering about Monday.

Its been too many weeks without overtime for me. heh.

Though, I did file my taxes last night and am getting a nice refund.

749 Iron Fist[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:16:10am
750 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:16:26am

Anybody here watching Nashville Star?

/i like that anastasia brown

751 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:16:54am

It's hard to believe that Helen Thomas and Pamela Anderson are the same species much less the same gender.

Methinks she's a space alien.

752 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:17:11am

#747 Poitiers-Lepanto

This character wakes up in the middle of a world war, turns and hits the snooze button.

That is a brilliant image.

753 jehu  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:17:29am

O.R. 742

Hm... well, maybe I'm the odd man out here, but actually I think she's above average. I think a lot of that is being carefully and expensively prepped/primped, but still, on the whole I don't find her unattractiv

Thats it! You're gay. "Not that there is anything wrong with that."

754 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:18:12am

#749 Iron Fist 1/19/2007 08:16AM PST

#720 Occasional Reader,

A billion is only a statistic.

[/Stalin]

I think if we put it to them that bluntly the billion might just decide that they don't want to be in a war against us. Islam is at war with the West to the best of its ability. The only reason we don't have large scale combat is that the Muslim nations can't field armies that last for large scale combat.

Thats why there is a demographic time bomb in Europe. They cant defeat us by military means so they will just outbreed us and take over that way. Europe will be the first.

755 Dirk Diggler  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:18:28am

Christiane Amanpour looks like Lilly Tomlin to me.

756 Kenneth  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:18:35am

Interesting observation from a Jordanian dissident:

I believe the rot is so deep that redemption of violent Islamic radicals will not come about by being nice to them; they need to fail in their utopian dreams of an Islamic Empire and to realize that they have failed before they can be defeated. For the time being, I can live with the Jordanians harassing me, as long as they harass and intimidate those other bearded fellows.

757 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:18:39am

#723 BabbaZee

The Persian boot is superb fighting boot, although steel toes are not an option, the upturned toe gives added protection to the toes. The heel is double thick to give good ankle support and I recommend ankle laces or a buckle for fighting in the Persian boot.

Whisky Tango Foxtrot?

758 phoenixgirl  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:18:53am

#748 Lancekates

that ain't no refund brother, that's the gov. rendering unto you what you overpaid in forced withholding while making money on it!

759 Iron Fist[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:19:59am
760 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:20:26am

719 goodbye

Yup, I tried that too, since it was in the high 30's for half the day here... got half th driveway chipped off, the rest was still too hard to even bust up. and our neighborhood streets still have not been touched once, so it is going to be a half foot to a foot of snow on top of 3 inches of solid ice.

I promise you that I didn't bring this with me when I moved from MN.

761 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:22:19am

739 Elric

Always easier to deal with corrupt than with radical.

corrupt have a monitary price.

762 Poitiers-Lepanto  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:22:57am

#754 Elric66

That's why there is a demographic time bomb in Europe. They cant defeat us by military means so they will just outbreed us and take over that way. Europe will be the first.

That's the ULTIMATE "make love not war".

But for some reason this joke doesn't make me laugh...

763 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:23:48am

I am in no mood to explain why it's a bad idea for the US government to declare "war on Muslims". If you can't figure that out, there's no use explaining.

So anyway, back to the relative pulchritude of news talking heads. I still miss Willow Bay.

764 lawhawk  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:24:00am

#585 ed of many names:

Considering that some of the most famous football games were played in harsh weather (Ice Bowl, Fog Bowl, etc.), that Lambeau Field got its mystique because it was the Frozen tundra, and that the NFL plays games in everything short of a blizzard (and I think a few were in conditions close to that), saying that city X will not get a Bowl unless they have a dome is nothing short of pandering to those few cities that have invested in domes or are warm weather climates.

To think that Foxboro, NYC, Philly (with its brand new field), Pittsburgh (with its new field), etc. can't get the big game is nonsensical policymaking at its best. They worry about how the media and fans might have issues getting to the games or how it looks - but those concerns don't stop them from playing every other game up to the Super Bowl in whatever climate, dome or no dome.

This is one policy that has got to go.

765 Poitiers-Lepanto  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:25:11am

#752 Zenbone

This character wakes up in the middle of a world war, turns and hits the snooze button.
That is a brilliant image.

Thanks, but unluckily it is the exact diagnosis for half of the Free World.

766 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:26:03am

Amanpour is fuggers.

767 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:26:10am
#761 LanceKates 1/19/2007 08:22AM PST

739 Elric

Always easier to deal with corrupt than with radical.

corrupt have a monitary price.


Or the Palis could have formed a 3rd party that is not corrupt or had ties to terror

768 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:26:24am

758 Phoenix

wasn't forced. I gladly pay taxes, and gladly give a free loan to uncle sam (Mostly to keep from paying the irs come april)

There are deductions that I COULD take, i am sure, especially for what I give in charitable donations, between money and items every year.

but I don't mind paying taxes... even though i have ethical issues with income tax and would prefer a national sales tax (to help people save more, if nothing else)... I still live in the greatest country in the world... and, temporarily run by Dems or not, it is MY homeland and my love.

769 Killer Tomato  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:26:45am

#572 coz

The World of Concrete?
hoo baby - some of the stories I've heard about the 'shenanigans' that take place... well, it's probably the reason that around here, only those at the top of the food chain get to go.
(I'm not kidding)

770 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:27:05am

#766 WriterMom

Is that a Canadian term? What does it mean?

771 Elric66  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:27:45am
#762 Poitiers-Lepanto 1/19/2007 08:22AM PST

#754 Elric66

That's why there is a demographic time bomb in Europe. They cant defeat us by military means so they will just outbreed us and take over that way. Europe will be the first.

That's the ULTIMATE "make love not war".

But for some reason this joke doesn't make me laugh...


The joke is on us because we let it happen even knowing the history of Islam.

772 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:28:54am

767 Elric

they did, but the people support the killing of Israel, so who'd vote for it?

*shrug*

I'm sure there are some pallies living there that really would just like to see peace, and don't mind and Israel for a neighbor if the killing and bombing would just stop.

but they are kept quiet, under threat of death... by the terrorists

773 Occasional Reader  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:28:56am

Amanpour is prettier than Lou Dobbs, anyway.

774 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:29:01am

Iron Fist (#759),

War is not terrible to them, and they have grown quite fond of it.

It is time we disabused them of that notion.

Why?

Militarily they throw themselves into the pit willingly and futilely.

We should encourage them to continue to believe in their invincibility.

775 phoenixgirl  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:31:24am

#737 EE

um, you're kidding right? did you watch the videos of the imams in the UK? do you read the articles Charles puts on this site? Are you aware of what the scuzlim goal is? Are you aware that they lie to non moslems as a rule? do you know who hit the World Trade Center?

776 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:32:08am

#773 OR

AHA! We knew you were gay!

/Not that there's anything wrong with that.

777 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:34:04am

#765 Poitiers-Lepanto

Islamic fascists.

The all merciful.

ZZZ

778 coz  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:34:05am

#769 Killer Tomato

For real?

Where is around here, for you? Do you go, or does someone from your company, I'd like to meet somebody.

We're at booth S12756 EBE Technologies

779 WriterMom  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:34:21am

#770 Obi-Wan

Fugly=F'ng Ugly, or fuggers...

For more information: See Go Fug Yourself

780 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:35:34am

#775 phoenixgirl

Do you know who hit the World Trade Center?

It was the Jews from Haliburton. Everybody knows that. I mean, like duh.

781 Earth2moonbat  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:37:19am

779 WriterMom

Go Fug Yourself

Uhhh Charles. Wakey, wakey. It's time for a new thread...

782 zenbone  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:38:51am

#780 Earth2moonbat

Haliburton Ontario?

I didn't know that there was a significant Jewish population there.

783 Iron Fist[deleted]  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:41:25am
784 phoenixgirl  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:43:15am

#781 e2m

that was at 8:13

785 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:50:05am

Ok, about to leave for lunch all.

play nice, or we'll all have to leave the sandbox.

786 Jennincarolina  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:50:25am

Oh, my...I keep reading that WE are at "WAR". The only "war" that we are in at this time, is a war against terrorism. Terrorism all over the world, not just in Iraq. In the Iraqi situation, we are in the rebuilding stage. Most Military actions there are in support mode. We are backing the Iraqi Army as needed. Most of our efforts are going toward rebuilding. Granted, we can't stay there for an indefinite amount of time, however, we need to stay there until the job is done right and the Iraqi people are in a position to protect themselves against various threats.

787 Kirly  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:52:57am

#355 Realwest

#344 Kirly - Morning to ya! Great post and a GREAT story at the link you provided, thanks a lot!

morning to you too Realwest!

you should join us in the lounge in the evenings. Great fun. Lot's of sillyness. Lot's of interesting conversations too.

Kirly

788 kepler2007  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 6:57:14am
"No rage her buddy. I just don't like being called names (yes, you're using Bushite as a pejorative) because I voted for someone and I want him to succeed."

So did I but that does not mean I am going to follow the fool off the cliff.


You on the other hand want him to cut and run from Iraq so he can go and blow up Iran. I don't see things that way. I was a Marine, and once a Marine always a Marine. We started something in Iraq. No matter why we started it or who voted for it, we're there. As a Marine, I fight to the end...period!

Bullshit! You fight to win not die in pointless failure! If you are a marine then you never were taught that.

There can be only one victor...us! I don't care if we're there for ten years, I don't want to leave until that country is stable and can sustain itself...period!

Beyond stupid. Islam is never going to allow that sir. Read their bloody books. Read the bloody Koran. Unless you want to convert them to some less dangerous faith then you are not going to be there 10 years but 100s. Democracy and Islam don't mix. Unless you are willing to kill the clerics. You think GW has the balls for that.

And that means if we have to kill every single son-of-a-bitch there and nobody's left to fight. At least it will be stable.

Yes...Then why does bush force marines to hand toys to children and mindless patrols of Samera. Great strategy. Yes lets let the Iranians get a nuke for the sake of Iraq. Ok Marine! Let me ask you this would you rather be in Western Pakistan killing Taliban and killing Osama's boys OR perhaps in Saudia Arabia securing the oil fields for America in revenge for 9-11 then bungling around trying to civilize and uncivilized people. It appears you would rather keep charging in Iraq with no hope success.

I don't give a flying fuck if the whole country says it's not worth it to stay there, I'll be the last motherfucker to condone leaving that Godforsaken place.

I want to win dam war and you want to lose it with pride. Like our idiot president. Please I don't give rats ass if you are a marine or not. I have history on my side. I read their Koran and Hadiths. Have read the book of our enemy. The war is with Islamic expansion. We are being invaded by muslims hell bent or destroying our civilization. Go to Dearborn! Go to Detroit! Go to Paris! Go Britain! What has the president done about that. Name the enemy! God how hard is that! Too hard for Bush alas!


Sir we are in a would war and it is a religious war. You think staying in Iraq is going to lead to victory? Tell me why! Come give me a reason why this will work. If we leave the Shia and Sunni will kill each other. That sir is good strategy. Muslims fighting each other is good for us non-muslims. You instead want to give money and help them not fight each other so that they can fight us. You know were all the money is going right.

Smart!

If that makes me a Bushite, well then I guess I'm a Bushite. I could really give a shit less what you say. You're nothing but an irritating pimple to me."

I don't give shit how many medals you have on your chest. Keep defending the man who keeps us from going after the real problem: Islam. Keep defending the man who is allowing our civilization to be destroyed from within. You sir are a Bushite. You have no defense!

789 Obi-wan  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 7:04:45am

Later, Lizards!


Play nice.

790 Geepers  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 7:12:59am

kepler2007 (#788),

That was long.

791 kepler2007  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 7:23:29am

The Bushites are as deranged as progressive liberals. They lack the ability to reason and read. They instead hold to fruitless expeditions and never name the enemy. Most of all no critism of President Bush is allowed and when something bad happens they sting up some democrat straw man and say see...its all the dems fault. Sorry I don't buy it anymore. Bush has to take responsibility for his failures. If he can't name the enemy he can not fight this war with any hope of victory.

He does not understand Islam and its 1300+ year jihad war against the world. Iraq is not the place to fight that war. The people who put forth the "honeypot plan" are fooling themselves. There are better ways to kill our enemies then standing around in Iraq and getting into street battles with them. Its called divide and conquer.

Bushites are dangerous for another reason: They defend a man who is defending Saudi Arabia. The killers of 1,000s of Americans. So to me that makes you also a defender of those killers. You have my contempt. My loyality is for those dead not for the dip from Crawford. I will not be happy until they are avenged. Anything that stands in the way of their justice (Moonbats or Bushites) will always have my contempt.

792 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:06:08am

This thread can't be dead...CLEAR! ! !

793 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:12:45am

Cool high-tech rescue: [Link: cbs4denver.com...]

794 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:24:24am

LGF just mentioned on Rush!

795 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:28:50am

Ok, back.

apparently I didn't miss too much...

what'd Rush say about us?

796 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:33:00am

Rush said:

"lancekates for pres 2016!"

797 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:35:59am

796 frax

so the mind control ray I have going through his Mac computer are beginning to work!

*evil laugh*

I mean... you didn't see this. Eat at Joe's!

798 _remembertonyc  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:36:31am

If the saudis are so interested in brokering a peace deal between the Israelis and the generic arab-nomads known as the palestinians, here's how they can convince me of their seriousness as "honest brokers."

The saudi king can travel to israel, meet with Olmert and Bush, sign a peace deal with israel, and tell the arab world that it's time to accept that israel is here to stay.

(Not holding breath)

799 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:40:09am
800 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:42:15am

#797 lance
He actually mentioned the mosque in the basketball arena post. Rush also did some stuff from Drudge also. Funny how if i get some CPU time in and then listen to the show. Alot of the news I seen already. But I must admit that Rush did turn me on to Drudge.

BTW HAPPY FRIDAY DDT!

801 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:42:24am

798 remember

eh, no government matters over there. the religious groups have far too much fanatical power.

even if the government signed such a thing, and BELIEVED it, there is nothing to keep the religious groups from still doing it.

802 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:44:37am

Hey frax, I think your kids need one of these.

803 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:44:44am

UFO

That old highway you linked to yesterday, how long has it been unused? do you know?

804 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:46:42am

800 frax

I forget how I originally found Drudge. now I only occassionaly go there, as it has kind of turned 'pop culture'... especially when it gets to any golden globe or academy award shows.

eh... things change. always do.

I quoted futurama yesterday in something you'd like. I found a fleshed out quote, here it is:

First:

Al Gore: To my left, you'll recognize Gary Gygax, inventor of Dungeons & Dragons.
Gary Gygax: Greetings it's a...
[rolls dice]
Gary Gygax: ... pleasure to meet you.

and:

[Al Gore is playing Dungeons & Dragons]
Al Gore: I'm a 10th level Vice President.

805 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:49:02am

799 UFO

from your link:

"The agents were convicted last spring on multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon and violating Aldrete-Davila's civil rights. "

That last bit still drives me insane. What civil rights does someone have under our consititution if they're not supposed to be here?

806 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:53:30am

Two Drudge links:

first: Dems, who had indeed said that Iran was a threat, and that we should go after iran instead of Iraq are now apparently hoping that the sheep forgot that because... Dems wish to bar US action in Iran.

second, filed under "AAARRRGGGHHH!"

Pelosi to set up 'Global Warming' panel

snip: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to create a special committee Thursday in an effort to jump-start long-delayed government efforts to deal with global warming and produce a bill by Independence Day. "

*sigh*

807 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:54:51am

#802 UFO

Yikes ... they would have to get my off it first.

808 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:57:40am

Happy Friday, {Frax}!
I'm up on my desk doin' the happy dance!
:D

809 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:58:31am

Sheesh lack of typing makes frax a sloppy commenter.

810 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 8:59:28am

You always were a sloppy commenter!
;-)
But that's part of your charm!

811 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:01:34am

#808 {red}

I'm up on my desk doin' the happy dance!

With a perfectly good floor to ceiling pole down here in the basement.

812 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:01:37am

frax
I couldn't say for sure, it's sort of been an evolution. Parts of it were abandoned for a straighter highway, one section was abandoned due to repeated landslides, and in a couple of places the old highway still provides access to homes adjacent to newer sections of the highway. I used to go shooting several miles to the left (west) of the aerial photograph. Not too far from our shooting area you could see this.

813 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:07:04am

#804 lance
LOL

10th lvl vp. (cursed permanently with feeblemind)

#810 red
Heh
You should see me after a adult beverages

814 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:08:30am

frax
This is probably way TMI, but here is how the highway looks currently.

815 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:08:55am

Gotta run the housekeeper home.
BRB

816 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:12:13am

#812 UFO

Is that an earthen damn?

817 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:14:22am

Lance
It's unfortunate, but those Border Patrol agents did themselves no favor by attempting to recover their shell casings. Even so, the drug smugglers along the border are noted for their ruthless violence. I find it hard to believe a Mexican national transporting 700 lbs. of weed wouldn't have some sort of protection.

818 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:15:52am

813 frax

LOL... that's great...

819 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:17:13am

#814 UFO

well the new road certainly has some pretty vistas.

820 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:17:52am

#816 frax
Yep. When it was completed we sent two buses zigzagging up on side and down the other shuttling various dignitaries in for a ceremony.

821 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:21:49am

817 UFO

I don't know that collecting spent shells is worth 12 years in a non-protected federal prison.

if they aren't pardoned, I don't expect them to survive.

and an illegal has no civil rights protection under the constitution.

in fact, the part that creeps me out, is that the prosecution had to go FIND this guy so that they could press their charges...

who was REALLY behind this lawsuit?

822 GreenSoccer  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:23:32am

They should say "alleged peace plan". Considering that Abbas said to turn the guns on Israel, and considering that Debka said Syria is enlarging its army, the pressure on Israel to give back the Golan Heights and other territory, as far as I am concerned, is all part of a larger plan to hit Israel on all sides in a repeat of 1967. So they might as well get as much territory back before the war and especially since the territory is strategic which is why it was taken to begin with.

823 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:25:12am

#820 UFO

That's too cool. It has to be one of the largest of it's kind?
How long did it take to fill up?

824 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:28:02am

what is this Rush is talking about?

legislation that makes it illegal to spank a child less than 3 years old?

*mutters something unprintable*

825 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:29:34am

LOL... Rush is doing one of those faux ads, and the guy teaching the family how to spank their kid is from the "Oklahoma Legislature"

"spanking has also shown to be a great form of cardiovascular exercise"

LOL... excellent.

826 wrenchwench  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:33:55am

#817 UFO TOFU

I agree.

We do need to pick our battles. Maybe we should start worrying about this border agent.

The agent took six of the seven people into custody without incident but then started fighting with Dominguez Rivera. The agent, who thought his life was in danger, shot and killed the man, the Border Patrol said previously.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Mexico's Foreign Relations Department condemned the shooting, and on Tuesday, the Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the incident.

Cochise County and the FBI are investigating the shooting.

An autopsy of Dominguez Rivera was conducted Wednesday, but results were not been released.

The agent is on paid administrative leave while the case is pending.

827 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:34:44am

Well, looks like Tarzan is no longer just a work of fiction... though apparently gender-crossed.

828 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:35:57am

#824 lance

I have an old piece of garden hose that I use on my kids. Sometimes I grab the wrong end and they get a few scratches from the brass connecter.

/sarc (for those who need it)

829 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:39:33am

#827 lance

I'm not even going to click... Just 'cause I mentioned Drudge... and it's light blue I know what it is. LOL

830 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:41:26am

826 wrenchwench

What good Americans want from a border agent. (Point of humor, the picture is from an article talking about how wrong it is to have that wall)

What the Mexican government wants from a border agent.

831 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:43:06am

828 frax

heh.. I was spanked. often. I'm still alive.

829 frax

what a creepy story, huh?

832 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:50:20am

wrenchwench

Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Mexico's Foreign Relations Department condemned the shooting, and on Tuesday, the Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the incident.


I don't know why that quote fries me so badly. Fighting with an armed law officer is usually a suicide wish. I wish Bush would condemn Calderon for not encouraging economic reforms that would result in living and working in Mexico more attractive to it's citizens.

Gotta run a couple of loads of kids home. BBIAB.
In the mean-time, this looks like a rush (sorry Lance).

833 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 9:54:06am

832 UFO

that one loaded... and I'd have done more than scream... i'd need a change of clothing.

834 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:00:42am

#831 lance

My mom would rattle the drawer that the wooden spoons where in. She would get complete silence at the kitchen table. O' course if we got in trouble out side the kitchen we most likely got slapped heh. I've found that pressure points are enough of physical punishment (so far anyway) that I need to use. Usally when Chase is getting escorted to his Time Out chair or his room.

Yeah that story was totally messsed up. It is hard to imagine how other places can be so impoverished.

835 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:03:15am

834 frax

I got belts. most of the time, I had to go get the belt.

now THAT is punishment.

I remember once, I thought i'd be smart and put a magezine in my pants to soften the strikes.

turns out, paper sounds different than child butt.

I got extra spankings for that.

836 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:04:48am

Bye UFO

837 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:08:21am

Hey'all!

Weekend in T minus 1:52
(for me anyway)

Huzzah!

838 wrenchwench  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:12:40am

UFO and Lance,

We got a new radio station here recently, which is a big deal because there aren't too many options here in the sticks. Unfortunately, they have played this song every other day:

Who's gonna build your wall
Tom Russell

I got 800 miles of bolted border
Right outside my door
There's minutemen in little pickup trucks
Who declared their own dang war
Now the government wants to build a barrier like ol' berlin, 8 feet tall

But if Uncle Sam sends the illegals home
Who's gonna build the wall

and it goes on in that vein.. here's the most offensive part

We've got fundamentalist muslims
We've got fundamentalist jew
We've got fundamentalist Christian
That'll blow the whole thing up for you

So, no new radio station for me, I guess. My blood pressure was fine where it was.

My computer doesn't handle the long threads so well. Thanks for the feedback, see ya on the short threads!

839 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:16:25am

838 wrenchwench

Boy... those christians sure have a history of random indiscriminate bombing... like when that one christians guy... *thinks* what was his name?... *ponders* Oh, guess there wasn't one.

840 GreenSoccer  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:18:38am

824 LanceKates

Some screwball dem liberal female from Silicon Valley, CA has introduced a bill in California that would make spanking a child under 3 a misdemeanor with up to a year in jail. If you live in California and don't want to see this happen, email the governor. Even if you live outside the state of California, google governor of California and click on the 'contact the governor 'button at the bottom of the page and email him.
[Link: gov.ca.gov...]
You can also read about it by going to Google news and putting in as your search terms "spanking and California" and the story will come. There are lots of articles: Scripps News:
up.[Link: www.scrippsnews.com...]
I see it says $1,000 or 1 year in jail therefore rich parents would pay the fine and poor parents would go to jail and who knows what happens to the babies...Is this their way of solving a deficit? I wonder what the ethnic/racial "minority" figures would look like after a couple of years of enforcement.

841 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:20:36am

Grrr... had a post get eaten.

Hiya NMM

842 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:21:07am

84 Greensoccer

what this is going to lead to is people ratting on neighbors.

and it is going to be, I would bet my bottom dollar, childless people who will rat on parents...

other people with children will help catch your kid so you can spank them in the mall.

843 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:36:19am

wrenchwench
from your link:

About the Immigration Here & There Project
A product of the Medill News Service, ImmHT provides a cross-national perspective on immigration, enhancing exposure to world affairs for Americans, providing public space to air compelling stories about diaspora populations, and serving as a repository of facts and figures in an arena of often misleading information.


That cracked me up!
:D

844 Orbit Rain  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 10:40:49am

"lair of the odeus neanderthal"...That was the title when I read this post

"To treat them as honest “peace brokers” is some kind of nightmarish joke."

They have their internal strife, beliefs, followings...for real...I don't I can pain them all with one fell stroke...Apocalyptic reformation isn't a brainwashing peculiar to one religion...it's not even confined to religion...I should tend to compare them to those things I myself have witnessed from people...I could dare mention a name, best to say it was ages ago...in a place far away...but I'd be lying...people who scheme that the end is near and your eternal soul is in dire need of preparation for your judgment, soon to come...I imagine those anti-rational types run amuck over there. But not everywhere...not *all* of them...

ptl

(*cough* *couch*)

which leaves me wondering
...
There are already lines drawn, fences up, representatives elected...yeah...they're gangs, murderous gangs against other murderous gangs (sounds like history, old news, tribes, races clans families, countries) and yes, we've seen this before. They want money from the world, they have to trade peace in exchange. To get peqace they must trade peace to get it. If they want war, they'll keep getting war.

"“We are telling the Americans that the process killed the peace,”"

no...people shooting rockets destroy the peace, people killing people destroys the peace...if a child breaks his father's rule, is it the rule that broke the peace or the child?...but I digress...I realize there are some who will only be persuaded by you al Saud who will throw some blame around...so that you can "broker" peace..."there is no need for a gradual approach" The is no "gradual" when pulling a trigger. Who is pulling a trigger, who is planting a bomb, who is paying whom?

"The Saudi calls for moderation have thus far been rejected by Hamas."

We can keep playing diplospeak or we can keep shooting...brothers...deal or no deal, war begets war.

"All Israeli officials stressed the need to make changes in the plan, mainly on issues relating to Palestinian refugees’ right of return."

Palestinians have put themselves in their box, with the help of the Arab world.

“the refugee issue has to be part of the tradeoff once the negotiations begin"

...no, it doesn't...otherwise we might as well start redrawing the Ottoman Empire...again...I don't think so. The Palestinians have their state already.

845 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:02:43am

WOO HOO!

a little girl went missing from the panhandle of Oklahoma. had an amber alert out for her today.

The police found her in New Mexico, when she jumped out of her abductor's suv while he was getting gas.

good news.

846 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:04:32am

Lance
That is good news. I heard about the alert earlier when I was in the car. Good thing the kid was spunky enough to save herself.

847 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:06:57am

846 redstate

yup indeed.

now, I hope someone finds this kidnapper... then roughes them up a bit, then calls the cops and reports that they found them.

'What happened to him?"

*kidnapper struggles against ropes and gag, as blood trickles down their face*

"They... uh... tripped and fell on my steel toe boots. a few dozen times."

848 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:08:13am

If I had known parenting would cut into my computer time ;-) folks I have to get going. Maybe I can check in later this evening. If not have a fun weekend.

Bye {DDT womens} [DDT men]

849 fraxinus americana  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:10:44am

oh one more thing hopefully I'll have some Flickr updates soon.

{LGF}

850 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:10:51am

take care frax.

851 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:35:12am

OK, checking back in.

Is rsrn still dancing on her desk or did somebody replace it with a pole?

Anyone seen m this week?

NMM

852 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:36:38am

Dave Ramsey about to be on Neil Cavuto's shows in a few minutes.

listen here to catch Dave Ramsey's show.

853 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:36:57am

I'm off the desk~my knee gave out.
m has been awol all week, to the best of my knowledge.

854 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:37:12am

851 nmm

haven't seen m all week. miss her, I do.

855 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:38:05am

m's last comment was on the 16th.

856 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:40:47am

I just sent her an email telling her that we're all wondering if she's o.k.

857 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:43:17am

#856 rsrn

me too.

858 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:43:57am

I can when i get home.. and I'll use a stern font.

859 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:44:50am
I'm off the desk~my knee gave out.

Perhaps a little mud...or maybe jell-o would help?

:D

860 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:49:54am

"Don't worry Tommy, you still got the best arm in the neighborhood"

Don't know why but I do like those Peyton Manning commercials, lord knows he makes enough money on football though.

NMM

"They said mooo-vers"

861 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:50:30am

Geez, I thought driving a bus was rough.

redstate
Your knee is going to get better, isn't it?

862 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:51:49am

Lets see, only 140 posts to make the K-spot...in ten minutes.

*carry the ought, 10 guzzinta...*

guess not.

863 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:54:19am

#861 UFO

Some of those pics almost made me feel queezy...I'da been a puddle had I been on one of those ships.

NMM

864 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:55:00am

TOFU

Your knee is going to get better, isn't it?


damifino.
I was supposed to go back to the orthopedic doc last week, but he canceled my appointment because he was sick. I haven't rescheduled it yet.

865 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:55:02am

If you Image-Google "Only in Mississippi" this is one of the first hits.

Hey, it's Friday.

866 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:57:24am

TOFU

Geez, I thought driving a bus was rough.


Dang! Talk about yer' perfect storm!

867 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 11:58:10am

NMM's right, we're not gonna make the k-spot, but here's some cool fountains anyway.

868 newmelleman  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:00:26pm

Time to hit it. I bid all of you skanks and inbred *ssholes a fond adieu.

Or fondue, whatever.

Have a great weekend!

NMM

869 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:01:30pm

Are you knockin' Mississippi?

870 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:02:38pm

Take care NMM

one hour to go.

871 redstateredneck  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:02:43pm

G'night, {nmm}
I'm outta here, too, {Y'all} be sweet!

872 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:03:08pm

Danny from the "Mammas and the Pappas" died.

873 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:04:52pm

Later NMM, you forgot "Nutjob scumbags"!

redstate
Someone from California has no business dissing any other state in the Union.

874 UFO TOFU  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:08:04pm
one hour to go.


Rub it in Lance, three to go for me. Speaking of which, I need to get busy. Have a good weekend Lance.
Later redstate.

875 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:09:38pm

take care UFO.

876 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:12:14pm

UFO gone
Redstate gone
frax gone
NMM gone
m MIA
...

*sits at the bar sipping rum*

877 GreenSoccer  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:23:55pm

842 Lancekates

Hopefully the gov will veto the bill. Polls have already shown that the majority doesn't want it. I don't know how many people get around to emailing the governor on issues like this.

878 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:26:34pm

877 GreenSoccer

or how many emails are paid attention to.

the governor doesn't read the emails... his staff does, and even then, emails are filtered, so many may not even get through.

at most, a governor would have his staff say "There have been emails from people saying that this bill is a bad idea."

which will hardly offset the whiny liberal bleeding heart talking about how horrible child abuse it...

I can see it passing as easily as I can see him vetoing it.

since it is not an election year, he doesn't need to take a stand.

879 LanceKates  Fri, Jan 19, 2007 12:30:10pm

heh.. talk radio guy was interviewing some 'reverand' who was saying that Bush tortured and killed people in his illegal war on terror.

when the radio guy stopped him and told him that the editorials and books he was trying to quote were supposition and opinion and conje