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 RetweetAt Least They Spelled My Name Right

Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 9:16:57 pm PST

Uh... it’s always nice to be recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the web’s top bloggers.

But apparently that recognition doesn’t extend to actually being... recognized. Who the heck is this in their picture? In Pictures: The Web Celeb 25 - Forbes.com.

Gotta love it.

UPDATE at 1/23/07 9:47:08 pm:

The picture came from a moonbat’s blog, above a nasty comment about me ... and it’s actually Martin Peretz, owner of the New Republic: Welcome to Pottersville: Assclowns of the Week #44: Primary Colors Edition. (Scroll down.)

Ironic enough?

UPDATE at 1/24/07 7:57:39 am:

The moonbat who runs the hate blog linked above has noticed the traffic from LGF, and has spewed some more venom in my direction. For some reason these guys seem to think calling me “Chuckie” is the height of derisive wit.

UPDATE at 1/24/07 8:19:19 am:

I received an email this morning from a Forbes editor apologizing for the mistake; I’ll be sending them a photo of myself to replace Martin Peretz.

UPDATE at 1/24/07 10:45:40 am:

The photo has now been replaced with someone who looks like a young Leonardo DiCaprio. Ahem.

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1 RedWhiteAndJew  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:18:48pm

Pay no attention to the lizard king behind the curtain.

2 lowandslow  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:20:11pm

Get a lawyer, that's just wrong.

3 Teacake!  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:20:12pm

LOL! Just like media to not check the facts.

4 GNIDAthe#seCond  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:20:36pm

a dybbuk...?

5 Teacake!  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:20:44pm

wonder who that dude is and if he knows about this. lol

6 Earth2moonbat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:20:48pm

Oops...

7 zulubaby  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:21:48pm

Wow, nice write-up though! Mazel tov, Charles!

8 lowandslow  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:21:54pm

I think I spotted that guy once going through the Denver airport, hmmm, I wonder.

9 Earth2moonbat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:22:03pm

If a picture is worth 1000 words, this is less than 1% correct.

10 GNIDAthe#seCond  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:22:33pm

Smells like a LLL smear campaign... /yawn

11 RedWhiteAndJew  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:22:52pm

Look on the bright side, Charles. Now it'll be this poor schlub's head grafted onto Eva Braun's body.

12 Salem  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:23:45pm

The Nutty Professor!

13 FigJam  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:24:08pm

That looks like one of those celebrity DUI mug shots from "The Smoking Gun"...

14 strandedsf  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:24:21pm

I dunno. Looks like an aging modern dancer.

15 Beagle  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:24:34pm

Woody Allen - Warren Beatty hybrid? That's just wrong!

16 Geepers  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:25:10pm

Continuously, continually.

Whatever.

So what? Accuracy is stupid.

17 Pastorius  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:25:40pm

Wow, Charles. Blogging has really taken a lot out of you in the past year. You look like shit.

18 armytramp  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:25:52pm

Charles is way cuter and I know because I have seen him naked.


Just kidding.

19 Stuck in california  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:26:16pm

Is THAT Stinky Beaumont?

20 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:26:17pm

The list is totally [expletive deleted] up too.

/they don't have the slightest clue as to what's what in the blogoshere, let alone a raging clue

21 Earth2moonbat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:26:27pm

Actually, that guy does look kinda like a "lounge lizard". Can't you just picture the white patent leather shoes? Maybe that's what they were thinking...

22 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:26:50pm

Who the hell is that guy?

He doesn't look anything like Eva Braun.

23 strandedsf  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:27:33pm

On second thought, it has to be a conspiracy, Charles. You are SO MUCH better looking than that guy.

24 piglet-u93  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:27:41pm

Somebody should warn this guy about the ROP. He's definitely not as good looking but that has not been known to help infidels one bit.

25 hepcat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:27:50pm

Oh there's lot's more Chas. Johnsons here:
[Link: images.google.com...]
but only one LGF here:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

26 RedWhiteAndJew  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:27:58pm
Woody Allen - Warren Beatty hybrid? That's just wrong!

Oh...no...image...stuck...in...psyche...

...must...flush...brain...with...Manischewitz...

27 Earth2moonbat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:28:05pm

#20 Killian Bundy

That's it. They need a clue so raging, it shoots clue goo.

28 Pastorius  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:28:07pm

I think it's Donald Fagen.

29 Salem  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:28:10pm

Glaven!

30 Pawn of The Oppressor  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:28:14pm

Arab Press Mode/

HE LOOKS LIKE A JOO! LGF is clearly a Zionist conspiracy set up by the Mossad at the direction of the Americans to steal people's oil and violate Arab Honor.

/Arab Press Mode

31 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:28:57pm

The hell?! How did Zunigas get into the top five?

32 NomadOfNorad  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:29:20pm

My guess is, that's probably a stock picture of some other guy who happens to have the same name as our head lizard guy. Oops! :-D

33 strandedsf  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:29:23pm

#16 Geepers

Continuously, continually...

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

RW Emerson

34 Earth2moonbat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:29:25pm

Eewww...clue goo...

35 yah  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:29:47pm

Where on earth did they get that photo?

36 Kohenan The Barbarian  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:30:11pm

Its Milton Berle in a Police mug shot soon after arrest when booked for assaulting Imgine Coca in the face with MAKEUP!

37 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:30:16pm
When not crusading against left-wing "idiotarians" and "moonbats," Johnson is also well known as a jazz guitarist, having played on 29 albums with artists including Stanley Clarke and Al Jarreau.

A well-known jazz guitarist? But the [un]reality based community assures everyone that Charles is a "failed musician".

Oh, yeah...and a fascist.

38 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:31:26pm

Seriously, somebody needs to be fired at Forbes. That is a serious blunder.

I have inside information about an incident at a newspaper in which the pictures were switched between two different stories that ran on the same day. One was a story about a successful local businesswoman. Another was a story about the police vice squad doing a sweep of local hookers, with one of the prostitutes being interviewed.

Pictures switched. Think about it.

The local businesswoman sued the paper and settled out of court for a rather large sum. Defamation of character, etc. All fired. And they deserved it.
Needless to say, several heads rolled: editor, proofreader, etc.

39 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:31:58pm

C'mon Lizardiods, have any of you ever seen Charles without his pony-tail wig and contacts? If I were him I would wind up looking like Yahoo Serious.
Maybe that is a picture of zombie.

40 rabidsquirrel  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:32:31pm

#9 Earth2moonbat:

If a picture is worth 1000 words, this is less than 1% correct.

Hey, cut them some slack. They're not allowed to Photoshop pictures anymore. Now they're forced to use real pictures, even if they happen to be of the wrong guy.

41 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:33:48pm
All fired. And they deserved it.
Needless to say, several heads rolled: editor, proofreader, etc.


=


Needless to say, several heads rolled: editor, proofreader, etc. All fired. And they deserved it.

Whole sentence order got switched in my story about things getting switched. Craziness!

42 pat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:34:18pm

No wonder you are not married! You'd have to be in the big bucks looking like that./

43 shug  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:34:19pm

My God, It's nodroG

44 NomadOfNorad  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:34:32pm

#33 strandedsf

Just remember boys and girls:

Foolish little minds are consistent among hobgoblins... and newspaper reporters. :-D

45 new_tommy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:34:45pm

I thought Charles looked like Eva Braun? I've been deceived!

46 NY Nana  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:34:46pm

Charles

At least they got your bike right.

47 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:35:19pm

Found it.

/it's somewhere on this blog

48 zulubaby  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:35:38pm
#31 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds 1/23/2007 09:28PM PST

The hell?! How did Zunigas get into the top five?

He appeals to the masses of barking moonbats.

49 MrBuddwing  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:36:47pm

The photo apparently came from a blog called : welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com/, but I'll be darned if I can find it on the site.

50 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:37:01pm
#39 mbruce
Maybe that is a picture of zombie.

No no no. This is a picture of zombie.

Notice the cute lizard I put on my shoulder!

51 macofromoc  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:37:06pm

and on National Pie Day too...


[Link: www.piecouncil.org...]

52 Geepers  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:37:08pm

Hitler, Eva Braun.

Same difference.

Exactly the same.

53 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:38:01pm

I'd demand a retraction!

54 Earth2moonbat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:38:28pm

#46 NY Nana

I thought this was Charles' bike.

55 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:39:48pm

#48 zulubaby

And that's about it. Outside DailyKos, he's a virtual unknown. What's his record these days in "endorsing" candidates? 0-22 or somethin' like that?

56 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:41:09pm
#32 NomadOfNorad
My guess is, that's probably a stock picture of some other guy who happens to have the same name as our head lizard guy.

You may not have been around here long enough to know that having an extremely common name is the Lizard Master's main form of protection! It's basically impossible to find him because there are over 200 Charles Johnsons in LA alone, not counting the innumerable C. Johnsons and Charles Johnsons in other cities incorporated in the LA area.

Safety through commonness!

A while ago some moonbat tried to stalk Charles and posted the info for what she thought was the correct Charles Johnson. Instead, she ended up stalking a random other dude with the same name! Illegal and comical at the same time.

57 cicero05  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:41:47pm

Shouldn't you be holding some numbers under your chin?

58 mseltzer  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:44:03pm

At least they didn't caption it "Where's Osama?"

59 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:44:28pm
#47 Killian Bundy
Found it.

/it's somewhere on this blog

Good find!

Charles, Killian found the actual person in the picture. See comment #47 above. He runs a blog called "Welcome to Pottersville."

60 NomadOfNorad  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:44:57pm

#56 zombie

I did not know that!

LOL!

62 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:46:10pm
Martin Peretz

Marty Peretz has been editor-in-chief of The New Republic since 1974. Simultaneously he has kept up his teaching at Harvard University, where he has been a part-time lecturer in Social Studies since joining The New Republic. Peretz received his B.A. degree from Brandeis University and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Peretz holds the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Bard College (1982), Coe College (1983), Long Island University (1988), Brandeis University (1989), Hebrew College (1990), Chicago Theological Seminary (1994), and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1987). In 1982, he was awarded the Jerusalem Medal. He also holds the Medal of Distinction of the University of Missouri's School of Journalism and the National Magazine Award for Outstanding Achievement in Essays and Criticisms of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Peretz is co-founder and was co-chairman of the Board of TheStreet.com, a publicly traded company on the NASDAQ, and he remains a Director. The NASDAQ has a 20% interest in The Marker, a financial e-mail publication of Ha'aretz. He is chairman of the Board of the Digital Learning Group, and e-publisher of college textbooks and also of Enews.com, a magazine subscription website. He has served for several decades as a director of 11 mutual funds in the Dreyfus-Mellon Group. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of the Bank Leumi of New York and the Carmel Container Corporation. He was a co-founder of Leukosite, a biotechnology and pharmaceutical company, which, after it became a public company, was merged into Millennium Pharmaceuticals.

63 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:46:34pm

It's Marty Peretz. :) I bet someone already posted that.

64 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:47:08pm
65 Promethea  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:47:46pm

Charles . . .

You look awful. Better get on that bike and get some exercise and a ponytail.

66 Eric Blair  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:47:51pm
67 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:48:33pm

We are good.

Charles, you are - needless to say, but I will - much better looking that this guy.

68 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:48:57pm

zombie if that is really you I will propose right now and fund all of your nefarious/righteous activities henceforth.
My dog may not be pleased to lose his place on pillow #2, but he will have to learn to cope.

69 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:49:06pm
#61 J.D.

You nailed it! It's Martin Peretz!
(Scroll down.)

A Jooo no less!

70 pat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:49:07pm

#50 zombie

Zombie is ...well. Flat chested!

71 pat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:50:27pm

JD. I am truly impressed. :)

72 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:50:29pm
73 ChenZhen  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:51:13pm

Maybe a different Charles Johnson

74 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:51:29pm

Goodness. Forbes listed a liar as No. 1 and Kos as No. 4?

Forbes, you suck.

75 Promethea  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:52:02pm

#56 zombie . . .

Safety through commonness!

Me too! I rely on my ordinary looks. No one would ever know that they were dealing with a total f***g bitch lizardoid.

76 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:52:17pm

Martin Peretz thread!

[Link: www.littlegreenfootballs.com...]

77 Salem  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:52:20pm

You know I wanted to say he looked Jewish, but I felt uneasy about how that sounds.

78 Abu Bin Squid  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:52:56pm

He looks so gay* he makes Paul Shaffer look macho.

*Not that there's anything wrong with that!

79 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:53:18pm

The amazing Lizard Nation in action!
In like 15 minutes the mystery is solved , how long did the knucklehead Forbes editors spend on this story?
My God, have all of the Media outside of the blogosphere become absolute craftless maroons?

80 republic  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:53:33pm

#68 mbruce

zombie if that is really you I will propose right now and fund all of your nefarious/righteous activities henceforth.
My dog may not be pleased to lose his place on pillow #2, but he will have to learn to cope.

I haven't laughed this hard for a while!

You owe me a new keyboard!

:D

zombie has got to love that!

81 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:53:35pm

Got lucky.
:D

[Link: www.busybusybusy.com...]
He has a high opinion of Jimmy Carter...

82 ChenZhen  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:53:52pm

damn it's almost like some weird test

83 NY Nana  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:54:17pm

#42 E2m

That was Charles' bike til he loaned it to Peewee, who wouldn't return it, so Charles had to get the other one.

84 republic  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:54:27pm

#79 mbruce

My God, have all of the Media outside of the blogosphere become absolute craftless maroons?

Years ago.

85 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:55:05pm
86 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:55:18pm

#82 ChenZhen

And, wouldn't you know it, I flunked miserably.

87 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:56:07pm

#70, what can I say, I do like my women a little weak in the beam,) I wish I can remember what movie that line came from)

88 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:56:13pm
47 Killian Bundy 1/23/2007 09:35PM PST

Found it.

/it's somewhere on this blog

That was good. How did you find it?

89 Render  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:56:21pm

#72 J.D.

oh man, I remember that thread...

...and the Marty Peretz quote about the usage of capitol letters implying the writer was playing hockey with a warped puck.

My paranoia meter broke that day...

DON'T
READ
THIS,
R

90 goodbye_natalie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:58:00pm

Web's Top Flogger

Before

And After

91 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:59:11pm

#90 goodbye_natalie

Thanks for the warning! Somebody pass the eye bleach!

92 strandedsf  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:59:23pm

#61 JD:

You're a genius. Great sleuthing!

As for Marty Peretz, how's this for LGF synchronicity. He's one of the rich JOOOS that Wesley Clark was whining about to Arianna (rich neocons who pull Bush's strings). Charles had an earlier post tonight on this very topic: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2411 9_Yglesias_Defends_Wesley_Clarks_Zionist_Conspirac y&only

Peretz, as the owner of the New Republic, gives Jonathan Chait a forum in which to slam Matthew Yglesias' moonbat anti-semitism. Which irks the moonbats to no end.

93 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:59:24pm

Damn, Forbes is lazy.

Here's how it all went down:

Charles posted a thread about Martin Peretz at the New Republic slamming DailyKos. A lefty blogger who runs "Welcome to Pottersville" posted about Charles' thread, and used a picture of Marty Peretz to illustrate his post. The name "Martin Peretz" is ABOVE the picture, but directly BELOW the picture is a discussion of Charles.

Some idiot at Forbes saw that and mistakenly thought the picture was of Charles.

An idiot who, by the way, shouldn't be working there much longer.

Lazy and amateurish.

94 Geepers  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:59:36pm

Just click on the "hot body" pics of #22 Kevin "I tricked those dumb-ass Marines into killing an Iraqi terrorists so I could get a full time gig" Sites at #21 or #22 Mark Lisanti.


Charles, If I didn't know better I'd think that the editors at Forbes were intentionally tying to make you look like a aged neocon ass wipe.

Oh right, ... they'll claim innocence via rank incompetence .

Never mind.

Inaccuracy, inacuracy?

Whatever.

Forbes is import. And he has a lot of money.

Kiss Forbes' ass. He'll give you a hot body picture.

95 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 7:59:43pm

#47 Killian
Yeah! How did you find it?

96 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:00:08pm

Who will be the first to do flash vid of the second pic in #90? with the fluttering eyeballs from hell.
My God that is a scary pic!

97 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:00:11pm
#88 Cattt

That was good. How did you find it?

Brute force.

/just plowed through the Charles Johnson images until it finally showed up, way, way down the results ladder

98 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:01:02pm

To be thorough:

The thread on Pottersville with the photo (which Charles has already posted above) is here.

99 republic  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:01:20pm

Good night all good and faithful Lizards and Papa Lizard.

GOD Bless our brave troops and their families!

I don't ever take for granted, for a second, the very freedoms that you are all serving and sacrificing for!

What I owe you all, I can't repay!

My thoughts and prayers are with you and yours!

GOD Bless President Bush!

"Never Forget"

100 strandedsf  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:03:07pm

#85 Catt,

Sorry, I don't agree. I think this flick is much cuter:

http://haganah.org.il/hmedia/07may04-charles.jpg

101 goodbye_natalie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:03:41pm
102 pat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:03:43pm

I see Bush wants to sell out the nation again with open borders and piss on American Labor.
[Link: insider.washingtontimes.com...]

103 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:03:49pm

90 goodbye_natalie

Dang! You really needed to post a warning!

104 Geepers  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:04:10pm

Actually Charles is an "Ass clown"

And I picked "ass wipe".

Whatever.

105 Eric Blair  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:04:19pm

...and it looks like the Pottersville blog cropped this photo from Columbia University's paper.

106 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:05:10pm
#85 Cattt
They should use this picture. :)

Excellent catch, Cattt! That really is Charles, on the right, back when he was known as one of the best guitarists in the US!

Never seen that picture until now.

He looks like a member of Steppenwolf, though!

Ahhh, the '70s.

107 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:06:04pm

#97 Killian Bundy
Hmmm. I tried that but I got bored before I got there.

Nice going.

108 Salem  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:06:09pm

G'night republic..

109 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:07:48pm

Well, fellow zoids, off to bed, got a big audition tomorrow and need my beauty sleep ( yeah,like one night of slumber would help) A couple of "man on the street" type spots where I get to acccost people with a crew in tow, hope I break the 'ol leg and all,ay what?

110 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:09:30pm

mbruce, you used to be a male stripper?

Good luck with your audition!

111 Uncle Joe  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:10:58pm

"The picture came from a moonbat’s blog, above a nasty comment about me..."

LOL, well that makes it obvious the type of blogs those at Forbes and most big media outlets actually READ.

Disgusting.

112 ChenZhen  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:11:27pm

Yea zombie, you'd think they'd at least contact the people and ask them for a pic. 25 emails is not a lot.

113 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:11:37pm

97 Killian Bundy

Good work. We couldn't have identified him otherwise.

I started to do that but got hung up. I kept getting interested in other Charles Johnsons.

114 jimmytheclaw  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:12:08pm

WTF

115 cbinflux  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:12:44pm

Shiplord's post re: the Wisconsin company denying comfort to our GI's never made it to a Thread..?
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Here's a reply received from a local radio station:

On WISN's morning show, "Early Spin", the hosts ripped this company a new one for about 15-minutes.

As you might guess, the company is hiding-out on this issue. We are contemplating actually going over there after the show, and knocking on their door, and having a face-to-face with whomever answers (but I'm guessing that no one would answer).

We plan on updating the situation on Tuesday morning, sometime between 6am-8:30am Central. You can hear the show in real time via our Internet audio stream. [Link: www.newstalk1130.com...]

Thanks-

Bott
JerryBott2@clearchannel.com

I was traveling, but I hope they did visit these slugs and let their neighbors know what they're all about!

116 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:12:48pm

#110, that was just a joke I wrote years ago,self-deprecating but true in a certain sense, white-man overbite dancing style and all. That is all I have to say about that.

117 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:13:24pm

Remember about a year ago - Time had some screw up involving the wrong moon, or the wrong flag - or both?

It wasn't fixed that night, because these people at Time (and probably at Forbes too) all stop working and go home at night, apparently. Silly people.

118 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:13:51pm

Charles, the photo of "you" (i.e Martin Peretz) was taken by Joe Pineiro of the Columbia University Record.

Do you think Forbes asked for permission? Obviously not, since they don't even know whom it depicts.

That's a big boo-boo for a for-profit mainstream publication. Joe could get them in hot water for using his photo without permission or attribution.

119 jimmytheclaw  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:15:24pm

#25 hepcat 1/23/2007 09:27PM PST

Oh there's lot's more Chas. Johnsons here:
[Link: images.google.com...]
but only one LGF here:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]


omfg some of those are priceless

120 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:15:50pm

I see they used the same old picture of Kos everyone's used for years, posing against that rusty wall.

121 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:16:15pm

Damn zombie, you sure do know how to work these little buttons and tubes, sooo glad you are on our side fer cryin out loud!

122 jbinnout  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:16:31pm

I knew immediately that couldn't be
Charles. No way that guy could ride a bike uphill, 49 miles, into a facsist headwind.

123 LuckyDog  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:17:40pm

What a HOOT! I love this site. To all you lizards who keep me in stiches, my eternal gratitude. And to the King Lizard Charles, I sing your praises - no matter what you look like.

124 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:18:04pm

#116 mbruce
Interesting...

125 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:20:41pm

115 cbinflux

I almost e-mailed a link to that to my group at work, to remind them (although they already know this, it doesn't hurt to remind them) to be extra nice to our troops who e-mail us, keeping in mind that many of them are in harm's way and perhaps a wee bit stressed. Troops actually find it easier to e-mail us than to call, even though we have a collect number they can call, so we get a lot of e-mails from them.

126 Havoc  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:21:00pm

Dang but there are
A LOT of people

claiming to be Charles Johnson

127 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:21:06pm

I just noticed that zombie and I both became zoids on 6/15/04. a certain Karma ensues...
I sure hope that zombie reeally is a girl, but then again maybe I've been living in SF,CA too long...

128 RTLM  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:22:10pm
129 NY Nana  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:23:48pm

#115 cbinflux

Notice this, from the article:

Registrant:
Faisal Khetani
PO Box 270693
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53227
United States
Registered through: Teknon Domains
Domain Name: DISCOUNT-MATS.COM
Created on: 23-Mar-05
Expires on: 23-Mar-08
Last Updated on: 03-Mar-06

Administrative Contact:
sportsfitness@gmail.Khetani, Faisal com
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
United States
(414) 543-9634

Technical Contact:
Khetani, Faisal sportsfitness@gmail.com
3259 S.106th Street
West Allis, Wisconsin 53227
United States
(414) 543-9634

130 Geepers  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:24:38pm

zombie (#118),

Geez, you don't really actually expect the editor of Forbes to type in all of the letters "C H A R L E S J O H N S O N" into a search engine do you?


WHAT ARE YOU, SOME SORT OF NAZI? ! ! 1 ? 1 ! !

131 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:25:27pm

Whoah! Just noticed that J.D. also became a Lizard in good standing on the same day, trying to recall what the impetus was for the registration on that particular day. 6/15/04

132 jimmytheclaw  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:25:57pm

fake but accurate picture at least it aint shopped

133 Egfrow  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:26:07pm

Google Trends for LGF.

134 Catttt  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:27:04pm

Hmmm. I see that Mr. Peretz married an heiress. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

135 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:27:38pm

#131 mbruce
I was sort of grandfathered in.

136 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:30:23pm
#131 mbruce

trying to recall what the impetus was for the registration on that particular day. 6/15/04

I think that's the date registration started.

/everyone here before then got that date

137 Geepers  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:31:46pm

J.D. says:

I was sort of grandfathered in.

You are sort of the pinnacle for us all.

138 Spiny Norman  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:32:48pm

#56 zombie

You may not have been around here long enough to know that having an extremely common name is the Lizard Master's main form of protection! It's basically impossible to find him because there are over 200 Charles Johnsons in LA alone, not counting the innumerable C. Johnsons and Charles Johnsons in other cities incorporated in the LA area.

Safety through commonness!

A while ago some moonbat tried to stalk Charles and posted the info for what she thought was the correct Charles Johnson. Instead, she ended up stalking a random other dude with the same name! Illegal and comical at the same time.

The random other Charles Johnson turned out to be a befuddled and "unamused" black dude in Compton, didn't he? Or was that someone's joke?

139 freedomplow  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:33:07pm

OT

U.S. stages 2nd air strike in Somalia

A U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship staged an airstrike against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia on Monday, the second such attack this month, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

140 Havoc  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:34:59pm

Hey Zombie

Hey girl (grad student & part time stripper)

or is it Sir ?Professor of Engineering ?

In any event, was up in your beloved "Final Retreat" country, checking out the old mines and Rock Quarries and we shot off, about half a case of Shotgun Shells killing these things all Sunday Afternoon.

No not online ... in real time with real clays, real guns real people.

Some guys with rifles brought out an old TV set up a firing squad and "let 'er have it". Kind of red neck-ish.

I loved it actually, the small arms and the Shotgun pellet damage kind of reminds of certain Hezbo-ulance photos.

141 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:35:32pm

Man, just checked my own profile and realized I haven't even cracked 3K in over 3 years. I guess I have been away for a good while.

142 cbinflux  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:36:07pm

NY Nana
If one does a whois on the ISP and writes to them -- they will deny it. I swear, it happens everytime that I report one of these cockroaches. The isp will send bot-bolierplate, eventually reply by human, but ALWAYS deny that they provide service to the creeps.

143 pat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:36:42pm

Bush called on his border sellout again. (Surprise). This time a Mex-American.
[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

144 Spiny Norman  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:36:51pm

#133 Egfrow

Google Trends for LGF.

Rathergate/Memogate and Reuters Fauxtography produced rather dramatic spikes, didn't they?

145 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:37:15pm
#68 mbruce
zombie if that is really you I will propose right now and fund all of your nefarious/righteous activities henceforth.

#127 mbruce
I sure hope that zombie reeally is a girl

I'm really am sorry to say, mbruce, that I can't confirm your hopes and desires one way or the other!

Sorry to toy with your emotions like that, but it's price we must all pay for this dang online anonymity!

Really, it's better this way. Because, in reality, I may look like this!

Let's just stick with the fantasies, shall we?

146 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:38:41pm

#145 zombie

Dear God, I'm BLIND!

147 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:39:06pm

#137 Geepers
Riiight.
I just have one question, as a friend.

Are you too post to drunk?

148 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:39:09pm

Thanks all for the zoidified history.
I think I found this site right after 9/11 and have been an annoying denizen ever since.
The home of the brightest,most irreverent and sincere peeps on this thing we call the net.
I bought 4 t-shirts on the first offering and still wear them proudly much to the dismay of the little moonbats by the bay!

149 kbilly  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:39:23pm

Looks like your one Dean Martini away from a heart attack. LOL!

150 J.D.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:39:49pm

#145 zombie
I knew better...

151 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:41:18pm
#131 mbruce
Whoah! Just noticed that J.D. also became a Lizard in good standing on the same day, trying to recall what the impetus was for the registration on that particular day. 6/15/04

Uh, EVERYBODY who was an LGFer prior to June 15, 2004 is registered on that day. That's the day Charles first enforced registration. Before that, it was a free-for-all! All of us existing LGFers were registered on the same day.

Remember?

152 Da_Beerfreak  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:41:21pm
#131 mbruce 1/23/2007 10:25PM PST

Whoah! Just noticed that J.D. also became a Lizard in good standing on the same day, trying to recall what the impetus was for the registration on that particular day. 6/15/04

That was the very first day of registration, it was the beginning of the end of unregistered comments.

153 pat  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:42:14pm

JD, nite.

154 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:43:15pm

Ah, I remember the days before registration. The memories of the great troll roasts will keep me warm for a lifetime.

155 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:44:08pm
#138 Spiny Norman

The random other Charles Johnson turned out to be a befuddled and "unamused" black dude in Compton, didn't he? Or was that someone's joke?

No, I think you are correct. It was a black dude, maybe not from Compton, but from somewhere around south-central, or that vicinity.

Hope he gave the moonbats what-for if they ever mistakenly contacted him directly!

156 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:48:53pm

145 zombie

I really didn't want to go to sleep tonight anyway.

/reaching for a sharp stick to poke out my eyes

157 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:49:37pm

#154
Ah, I remember the days before registration. The memories of the great troll roasts will keep me warm for a lifetime.

Zoid mythology at its best!
There is an epic tale here,there is no doubt,"The Cronicles of Lizards" will thrill the chilluns of the future.

158 Havoc  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:50:33pm

#145 zombie

If that's you I think they'll have to redesign the Bechtel Building at U.C. where you teach

The main weight bearing columns weren't designed for that much punishment.

However, I did see a picture of your mom on the Vietnam FAC site, and dang you look alot like her.

159 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:50:58pm
#140 Havoc
In any event, was up in your beloved "Final Retreat" country, checking out the old mines and Rock Quarries and we shot off, about half a case of Shotgun Shells killing these things all Sunday Afternoon.

No not online ... in real time with real clays, real guns real people.

Some guys with rifles brought out an old TV set up a firing squad and "let 'er have it". Kind of red neck-ish.

Hey, America needs redneck sharpshooters! Remember the real-life story of Sergeant York? A hillbilly country boy who could knock the eyebrows off a caterpillar at a hundred yards; was drafted in WWI and laid the Jerries low! I may not be one myself, but when push comes to shove, it would be the rednecks with guns that would save this country!

I loved it actually, the small arms and the Shotgun pellet damage kind of reminds of certain Hezbo-ulance photos.

One day, hoepfully, I'll get back to updating that ambulance page! I got your email suggestions (aloing with thousands of others) -- but I'm so overwhelmed I keep putting it off.

160 jimmytheclaw  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:54:06pm

#145 zombie 1/23/2007 10:37PM PST


aieee my eyes i'll stick with earlier picture

161 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:54:33pm

zombster, it is the internet after all , I could be lesbo-lizard girl OR big-girth-boy, it matters not,the fantasy is an aspect that we go with when applicable.
However,here it is Joe Friday mode Babe/Fat[F@*%
Just the facts maam,just the facts!

162 zulubaby  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:54:38pm

If You're Going to Boycott Israel, Do It Right

OK. So I understand that you are ticked off at Israel, and in love with the Palestinians.

That's fine with me, as long as you have truly weighed up all the facts.

So, you want to boycott Israel?

I'll be sorry to miss you, but if you are doing it - do it properly.

Let me help you.

Make sure that you do not have tablets, drops, lotions, etc., made by Abic or Teva.

It may mean that you will suffer from colds and flu this winter but, hey, that's a small price for you to pay in your campaign against Israel, isn't it?

While we are on the subject of your Israeli boycott, and the medical contributions to the world made by Israeli doctors and scientists, how about telling your pals to boycott the following...

An Israeli company has developed a simple blood test that distinguishes between mild and more severe cases of Multiple Sclerosis.

So, if you know anyone suffering from MS, tell them to ignore the Israeli patent that may, more accurately, diagnose their symptoms.

An Israeli-made device helps restore the use of paralysed hands. This device electrically stimulates the hand muscles, providing hope to millions of stroke sufferers and victims of spinal injuries.

If you wish to remove this hope of a better quality of life to these people, go ahead and boycott Israel.

Young children with breathing problems will soon be sleeping more soundly, thanks to a new Israeli device called the Child Hood.

This innovation replaces the inhalation mask with an improved drug delivery system that provides relief for child and parent.

Please tell anxious mothers that they shouldn't use this device because of your passionate cause.

These are just a few examples of how people have benefitted medically from the Israeli know-how you wish to block.

Boycotts often affect research.

A new research center in Israel hopes to throw light on brain disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease.

The Joseph Sangol Neuroscience Center in the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer Hospital aims to bring thousands of scientists and doctors to focus on brain research.

A researcher at Israel's Ben Gurion University has succeeded in creating human monoclonal antibodies which can neutralise the highly contageous smallpox virus without inducing the dangerous side effects of the exisiting vaccine.

Two Israelis received the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Doctors Ciechanover and Hershko's research and discovery of one of the human cells most important cyclical processes will lead the way to DNA repair, control of newly produced proteins, and immune defense systems.

The Movement Disorder Surgery program at Israel's Hadassah Medical Center has successfully eliminated the physical manifestations of Parkinson's disease in a select group of patients with a deep brain stimulation technique.

For women who undergo hysterectomies each year for the treatment of uterine fibroids, the development in Israel of the ExAblate 2000 System is a welcome breakthrough, offering a non-invasive alternative to surgery.

Israel is developing a nose drop that will provide a five year flu vaccine.

These are just a few of the projects that you can help stop with your Israeli boycott.

But let's not get too obsessed with medical research, there are other ways you can make a personal sacrifice with your anti-Israel boycott.

Most of Windows operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.

So, set a personal example. Throw away your computer!

The Pentium NMX Chip technology was designed at Intel in Israel.

Both the Pentium 4 microprocessor and the Centrium processor were entirely designed, developed, and produced in Israel.

Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.

The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 in Israel by four young Israeli whiz kids.

Read the rest, it's a great article.

163 cbinflux  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:55:39pm

Jewish Sons

A Jewish businessman in Chicago sent his son to Israel for a year to absorb the culture.

When the son returned, he said, "Papa, I had a great time in Israel , and by the way, I converted to Christianity."

"Oy vey," said the father, "what have I done?"

So he took his problem to his best friend. "Ike" he said, "I sent my son to Israel, and he came home a Christian. What can I do?"

"Funny you should ask," said Ike. "I, too, sent my son to Israel, and he also came home a Christian. Perhaps we should go see the Rabbi."

They explained their problem to the rabbi. "Funny you should ask," said the Rabbi. "I, too sent my son to Israel, and he also came home a Christian. What is happening to our young people?!"

Then they prayed, telling God about their sons, and asking Him what they should do. As they finished their prayers, a voice came booming from the Heavens:

"Funny you should ask," said the voice. "I, too, sent my son to Israel . . ."

164 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:56:01pm

#157 mbruce

Zoid mythology at its best!
There is an epic tale here,there is no doubt,"The Cronicles of Lizards" will thrill the chilluns of the future.

Back in my day, we didn't have your fancy Cluebat. We had a Rock of Truth to bludgeon them to death with. And we didn't have your fancy registration to keep'em out, either. I once had to take one on with only a single link to slay the beast with. And we walked 12 miles, in the snow, uphill all the way, to post one line of text in binary!

165 new_tommy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:56:26pm

OT.

Speaking of some funny pictures, Sandmonkey has some ones from Lebanon that are pretty hilarious. I particularly like the Aoun supporter who poses for the cameras in jumping over a flaming heap of tires that he created! Fauxtography lives on!

166 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:58:17pm

For those who missed it, my putative self-portrait in comment #145 was to counteract the earlier, possibly more accurate, self-portrait I posted in comment #50, with the lizard I put on my shoulder.

Or someone's shoulder.

167 cbinflux  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 8:59:23pm

Another third-shift thread that will be missed..?
Australia investigates 'al-Qaeda' threat to paper
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

SYDNEY (AFP) - A man claiming to be an al-Qaeda operative has threatened to blow up the offices of an Arabic-language newspaper in Australia and kill its editor-in-chief, the target of the threat has said.

Police and intelligence officers have reportedly launched an investigation into threats against the offices of al-Furat, which has published articles supporting the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

"We never thought that ... a man would be carrying threats on behalf of al-Qaeda in Australia," the paper's Iraqi-born editor-in-chief Hussein Khoshnow told the Australian Associated Press.

/The Queen should have warned them.

168 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:00:36pm

#164, adn it is peeps like you that keep me up way past my bedtime because of your hilarity!
God I love this site! Proud to be an American and a Lizard Minion!

169 mbruce  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:04:07pm

OK, that's it, the dog has warmed up my side of the bed so I have to kick his hairy little butt over and take over the toasty spot before he starts to lick my pillow.
G.nite all.

170 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:05:39pm

164 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

And, you liked it!

171 Chyron  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:06:45pm

When about to print a photo of someone in your magazine, isn't it standard to request a photo from the person you're depicting?

Do they even TRY to appear like journalists anymore?

172 big L  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:07:53pm

Like Peretz Hilton, Celeb blogger?
/heh

173 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:09:19pm

166 zombie

Thank you. It'll help erase the image of the blob.

174 flamingtoad  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:10:55pm

OMG...Charles is my high school bowling coach

175 Havoc  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:11:05pm

zombie #159

Yeah well

What goes up must ...

that is What goes up ...

must ... come down ,

And wind up in a Reuters photo claiming "Zionist killers",

PS - Zombie, What nights are you working again ?

176 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:12:34pm

Why did Webb drag up his family's military history? To prove he supports the troops?

177 flamingtoad  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:13:24pm

OMG...Zombie is my high school biology teacher!

178 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:14:22pm

#170 MandyManners

Darn tootin. 'course, then the Nodrog came and darkness fell across LGF. Then we figured out the light had gone out and had to draw straws to see who got to replace it.

179 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:17:03pm
#175 Havoc
PS - Zombie, What nights are you working again ?

I told you already: I moved over to Centerfolds last year. Better tips! And those Lusty Lady skanks are all -- well, skanks!

I try to have a little class, at least.

180 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:17:57pm

#178 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

nodroG could suck the hydrogen out of the sun!

(Or, is that a golf ball through a garden hose?)

181 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:20:23pm
#178 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Darn tootin. 'course, then the Nodrog came and darkness fell across LGF. Then we figured out the light had gone out

Oh, I don't know if it's as bad as all that.

/I'm not an old-timer, but I've still seen some pretty awesome trollapaloozas in my time here

182 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:20:57pm

179 zombie

Cool! Now I have an excellent link to replace those Victoria Secret shots when a flame war gets going here.

183 MandyManners  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:23:31pm

Good night, lizards!

184 Havoc  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:23:58pm

zombie #175

yeah I saw your Mom's picture on my great uncles flight locker ...

I agree ... you're too good for the Lusty Lady,

So's your Mom ... but don't do any of those Girl Girl Numbers with her ... O.K. ?

185 iam7545  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:27:04pm

Charles - that is about the funniest thing that I have read in months. I mean does that mug look like it could ride a bicycle 100+ miles a weekend at high rates of speed? LOL

186 thabo  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:35:54pm

#25 Hepcat

Hey Charles I didn't know you wuz black.

link

187 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:36:11pm
188 Cheerleader  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:55:50pm

Sounds tasty!

189 zombie  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 9:57:59pm
#187 Killian Bundy

I've travelled to France many times, and horse meat butcher shops used to be quite common over there. They were indicated by a bronze-colored horsehead in front. But they always used to be for the lower-class French, as horse meat had acquired a kind of unsavory reputation.

According to the article, it's making a comeback amongst the elite and pretentious "foodies."

Crazy.

To steal a line from the Simpsons:

"I'm a 'level five' vegan -- I don't eat anything that casts a shadow."

190 Cheerleader  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:00:07pm

Un bon steak cheval, des frites, un peu de vin...c'est si bon!

191 Cheerleader  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:01:22pm

Il ne faut pas oublier les chicons, aussi!

192 Orbit Rain  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:19:43pm

retards

193 Ledger1  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:20:56pm

It’s a classic round-robin smear campaign. Smear Charles with Marty Peretz’s picture. Then get Forbes to fall for the smear. Then Charles, Marty Peretz and Forbes can fight it out.

194 psaturn  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:27:29pm

Sorry...Horse Meat is NOT Kosher and thus I will not eat it.

Just the fact that horses had history of trichinosis in the past like pork just gives you clue...

195 littleoldlady  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:29:28pm

Nah. No fighting. The Peretz picture was captioned. This was most likely an honest, albeit incredibly stupid, mistake, perpetrated by some illiterate intern.

Next month Forbes will print (is it in the print version?) a correction and Charles will get double the publicity.

196 Outrider  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:37:51pm

Anyone see the head Koz Kid photo?

Funny. He looks almost exactly as I had pictured him.

197 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:39:49pm
#195 littleoldlady

This was most likely an honest, albeit incredibly stupid, mistake, perpetrated by some illiterate intern.

Don't be so sure.

/I had to dig way, way deep into Google images to find that website, I think it was deliberate

198 Clemente  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:45:24pm

#38 zombie -

Re. the newspaper snafu you describe - I guess we could reasonably speculate where a few of those idiots eventually found employment...

I wonder where they'll turn up next - NYT, CBS, Reuters or AP? Or maybe the next Clinton campaign?

199 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:45:55pm
#196 Outrider

Anyone see the head Koz Kid photo?

And Kos finishes ahead of Drudge and lonelygirl (a fake) comes in first? Go figure.

/okay, so Drudge isn't even a blog, but it still goes to show that whoever wrote the article is a total idiot without any type of clue, let alone a raging clue

200 littleoldlady  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:48:25pm

Killian,

How easy is it to find pictures of Charles?

But even if you are right, I suspect the remedy is the same.

(You're an attorney, right?)

201 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 10:56:01pm
#200 littleoldlady

How easy is it to find pictures of Charles?

Um, first page of Google images or maybe actually ask him?

But even if you are right, I suspect the remedy is the same.

/that doesn't make it any less of a moonbaticus smear

202 littleoldlady  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:02:59pm

Why was I under the impression that Forbes was a conservative publication?

/am I wrong?

203 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:06:27pm

Hey y'all ! We've got a New Savior ! Really.

204 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:07:54pm

WOW Charles...
ya look like shit.
LOL!

Asses.

/This poor guy doesn't know what he's in for now, crowds of moonbats screaming EVA at him, jihadis giving him the death eye...poor bastid

205 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:08:02pm

Democrats' silence on jihad is deadly

Eight Democrats, eight would-be commanders-in-chief -- all running for president in a time of war. So which of them, on getting into the race, had this to say about the nature of the enemy confronting us?

"We are engaged in a war against an axis of Islamists, extremists, and terrorists. It is an axis of evil. It has headquarters in Tehran and Waziristan. But because of the unconventional nature of this war, it also has headquarters in cities throughout Europe and Asia and Africa and the United States of America, in cells that operate in the shadows but are prepared to strike us again as they did on September 11th, 2001.

"The enemy we are fighting is . . . totalitarian. It is inhumane. It has a violent ideology and a goal of expansionism and totalitarianism. It threatens our security, our values, our way of life as seriously, in my opinion, as fascism and communism did in the last century."

Can't match that assessment of the global jihad with the Democratic candidate who uttered it? Don't feel bad; it was a trick question. Those words were actually spoken by Senator Joseph Lieberman at a forum on Iraq this month. Lieberman shared the podium with GOP colleague John McCain, who was no less blunt in his evaluation of the war and its stakes.

/the jihadis stay focused as Hillary postures and triangulates

206 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:14:50pm
#202 littleoldlady

am I wrong?

Let me put it this way, whoever associated that picture with Charles Johnson obviously got it from the blog referenced.

/read the blog for yourself, it's even further off the moonbaticus scale than FireDogLake

207 humanity  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:15:42pm

Charles, A old indian saying says...

beauty is dependent on age... but good heart remains beautiful for always...

it hardly matter for us, how you look.. or how you dress... but the main thing is how you analyze with you good motive...

unfortunately a lot of christians think that Islam is at a stage where christanity was during crusade age! they give this excuse, but they forget a wide differance... that where a stuggle occured inside christian world to make chritsian world (now west) liberal and modern... the struggle in Islam is to bring caliphet back and to move whole Human civilization back to 10th century(basic concept of whabis)...

Perhaps there are very few, who understand the threat whole world is facing... and i salute that intellactual inside you ... where you have provided a new dimension to us against the Baised Brainwashing coorporation (BBC), Main Stream Propoganda media, and corrupted political correctness... perhaps we will hear you name in history book in future too... after winning this fight on terror and radicals, and librating world out of Moonbats... who want to throw whole earth into burning hell of 10th century...

About this issue, the only this i want to say is, "if its your foto... then get new one with sexy looks... post it across net, so Media has no problem in locating your snaps... " remember these snaps also has to find its place in future, when War on terror will be included in history books :)

and if its not your foto, then sue the News paper company...

208 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:21:29pm
#207 humanity

Say, have you been drinking?

/that comment was a beauty, eh?

209 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:21:43pm

#203 Mike C

Oh.
Mah.
GAWD!

210 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:22:56pm

Are they planning on praying in Tom's name?

211 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:26:27pm

# 210 BZ

Boy, the value of his autograph is really going to skyrocket.

212 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:29:56pm

Buhddist Jihad?

Burmese junta plans to wipe-out Christians: report

Mungpi
Mizzima News

January 22, 2007 - The Burmese military regime is bent on wiping out Christianity from the country by using a range of tactics, says a report to be released on Tuesday.

The report, titled "Carrying the Cross: The military regime's campaign of restriction, discrimination and persecution against Christians in Burma," details the junta's systematic plan to drive out Christians from the country.

The report, to be launched at a meeting of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma on Tuesday, cites a document, allegedly received from Burma's Ministry of Religious Affairs, with the headline "Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma."

The document, shown to Mizzima, contains point by point instructions on how to drive Christians out of Burma with the first point stating, "There shall be no home where the Christian religion is practiced."

The 17-point document orders imprisonment of anyone preaching or evangelizing the Christian religion stating," If anyone discovers Christians evangelizing in the country side they are to report it to the authorities and those caught evangelizing will be put in prison."

The report claims that the campaign against the Christians, who constitute about six percent of the population, is part of a wider campaign by the regime, to create a uniform society in which the race and language is Burmese and religion Buddhism - which the report argues is a "distorted and perverted" form of Buddhism.

"Citizens who do not conform to the regime's version of these face potentially serious consequences," the report said.

[CHOP!]

213 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:30:01pm

Meanwhile, back in the world of advanced weapons technology (the real kind, not the Iranian kind), this is interesting.

214 littleoldlady  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:31:02pm

I thought we were supposed to pray to Bob...?

215 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:31:27pm
#211 Mike C.

Boy, the value of his autograph is really going to skyrocket.

/and John Travolta's got to be absolutely pissed, he's gonna need some extra time with the E-Meter

216 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:34:42pm

OPEC Unloading Treasuries at Record Pace

With crude oil prices dropping and bond yields consequently rising, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries are unloading Treasuries at the fastest pace in more than three years.

The Treasury Department reports that exporters including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela sold 9.4 percent, or $10.1 billion, of their U.S. government debt securities in the three months ended in November.

The sale marks a reversal since OPEC countries have increased their holdings of U.S. government bonds by 70 percent in the past 17 months, Treasury data show.

According to Bloomberg.com, the OPEC nations last sold Treasuries for three consecutive months in June 2003.

Research from Pacific Investment Management Co. shows oil producing countries have exceeded Asian central banks as the largest pool of global savings, accumulating an estimated $500 billion just in 2006.

[SNIP]

217 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:38:15pm

Obligatory paeontology link.

Odd one, though.

218 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:39:31pm

Er, "Paleontology", that is.

219 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:46:57pm
220 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:47:36pm

[CLUNK]

221 littleoldlady  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:52:48pm

Since when do we do "obligatory" here?

/Look! Look! You put BabbaZee to sleep!
//you could bottle it and sell that stuff, you know
///I WOULD BUY IT!

222 Killian Bundy  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:55:54pm
#219 Mike C.

Obligatory link on basic economic facts.

What, you mean the Bonkeys are going to take away Big Oil's incentive to explore?

/probably doesn't matter much, they took away the really juicy exploration options decades ago

223 Mike C.  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:56:35pm

All right then - how about a nice slam of the NYT for global warming alarmism ?

224 BabbaZee  Tue, Jan 23, 2007 11:57:50pm
225 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:00:18am

K B

Not really. Those unilateral and retroactive changes in lease royalties directly affects that new ultra-deep discovery trend. Brilliant idea, Donkos.

And with that, good morning, dead thread.

226 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:00:19am

The Vietnam history you haven't heard

Mark Moyar - Jan 22, 2007

QUANTICO, VA. - With ever-increasing frequency, Americans are told that Iraq is another Vietnam, usually by those accusing the Bush administration of miring the United States in a hopeless war. For most who make this comparison, the Vietnam War was an act of hubris, fought for no good reason and in alliance with cowards. But new historical research shows this conventional interpretation of Vietnam to be deeply flawed. The analogy, therefore, must be rethought.

Three journalists handed down the standard version of the Vietnam War in three bestselling tomes. The first two, David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest" (1972) and Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam: A History," (1983) each sold more than 1 million copies, while the third, Neil Sheehan's "A Bright Shining Lie" (1988), received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

These books have profoundly influenced almost everything else that has been written about the Vietnam War. Because of the iconic status of these journalists and the political inclinations of the intelligentsia, the three books received few serious challenges – prior to the publication last summer of my "Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965."

[SNIP]

227 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:04:31am
#223 Mike C.

All right then - how about a nice slam of the NYT for global warming alarmism ?

Excuse me, but that flies directly in the face of Bonkey science. Don't you know that Al Gore's up for the Best Documentary award this year?

/you best watch yourself before you end up in a park, dead under a tree, with a gun in your non-shooting hand

228 littleoldlady  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:05:40am

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Make your own damn breakfast!

229 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:08:11am
#225 Mike C.

Not really. Those unilateral and retroactive changes in lease royalties directly affects that new ultra-deep discovery trend.

Point taken.

/still, you have to admit, they've been forced to go ultra-deep, while more accessible recources are just sitting there

230 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:08:52am

# 227 K B

They'll have to find me first.

231 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:09:30am

Tom Cruise will save us!

232 littleoldlady  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:10:44am

Can he make fruitcup?

233 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:10:56am

he IS fruitcup.

234 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:11:41am

with extra bananas...

235 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:12:15am

Here's some cheese, for Mike C...and all Lizards Fair.

236 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:12:41am

# 229 K B

In some cases. But the ultr-deep trend has been evolving for years, as the drilling and rig technology advances at an astounding rate. I remember when "deep water" meant anything over 300'. Now rigs are building to drill in 10-15,000'. Simply unreal.

237 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:14:18am

# 233/4 BZ

Double-heh.

238 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:15:32am

Another dead horse beaten into a molecular film.

239 littleoldlady  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:18:50am

Oh, please!

Killian already made me nauseous upthread with the dead horse...

240 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:21:23am
#236 Mike C.

In some cases. But the ultr-deep trend has been evolving for years, as the drilling and rig technology advances at an astounding rate. I remember when "deep water" meant anything over 300'. Now rigs are building to drill in 10-15,000'. Simply unreal.

One thing I've noticed recently is that almost any stock that's associated with drilling platforms seems to have a huge upside in terms of 12 month price target.

/I already own NE, don't want to get overexposed in the sector, but looking at DO and other drillers/platform providers

241 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:24:08am

I think Tom Cruise is actually the Mahdi.
I can prove it with geometric logic.

/strawberry inquisition

242 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:25:10am

Rudeness...the Club...

My last effort to connect with people who don't care to connect at all...because they only care about their own.

I did try.

Sweet night.

243 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:25:36am

WTF was that?

244 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:26:14am

# 240 K B

The rigs are booked through 2008 already.

245 littleoldlady  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:28:58am

We were supposed to eat the cheese.

Ooopsie! Sorry, Sprite.

Thank you very much for the cheese.

246 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:32:33am

Moe! Larry! the Cheese!

/they didn't have the cheese clip so you'll have to settle for oysters.

247 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:34:05am

coffee time
be back later

248 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:39:01am
#242 Sprite

Rudeness...the Club...

My last effort to connect with people who don't care to connect at all...because they only care about their own.

I apologize, thank you for your kind offering. What do you want to discuss, anything goes on the dead thread?

/as a stock market investor, I was distarcted by trying to pick Mike C.'s brain, for he is a hand's on oil sector authority

249 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:41:15am

Heh.

250 littleoldlady  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:42:36am

251 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:44:39am

CAIR is rushing to judgment in the case of 3 Palestinian students who were allegedly beaten up by football players at Guilford College Saturday morning. 3 players were arrested and charged with assault and "ethnic intimidation" (you know, like shooting up the El Al counter at LAX or bombing a Jewish pizza joint) .

Guilford president Kent Chabotar promises a reasonable sounding investigation:

"“We need to get all the facts from every perspective and let the judicial process to (sic) take its course as expeditiously as possible."

CAIR does not agree, they have already rejected the local investigation and decided to call in the FBI (this is their in-house newswire, PRN):

"A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called on the FBI to investigate a group assault on three Palestinian students in North Carolina
as a possible hate crime.
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the students were allegedly assaulted by 'at least 15 members' of the Guilford College football team. During the attack, the assailants reportedly called the students 'terrorists' and 'sand n**gers. Two of the victims suffered severe injuries."

"Terrorist" is now a racial slur, I suppose.
It does look bad for the drunken jocks, though Guilford officials say that some of the 15 present were apparently trying to break up the altercation.

The lack of an instantaneous denunciation of the miscreants by the peacenik president (this is a Quaker college) may be a flying pig moment or it may signify that he knows something we don't and is hedging.

252 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:48:27am

WTF was that, Babba? I guess you don't recall when I told you I loved 99.9% of your posts. Nor did it matter and nor did you bother to remember.

Well, I've been lambasted for being spiritual..and called a moby in my first days here.

I've been slammed for calling out lizards for posting under multiple names...leaving their friends behind, who worried about them in the process,

and for delighting in trolling,

and for speaking about people behind their backs,

and for failing to welcome newbies into the fold,

and for failing to be kind..

And in return, I was supposedly the cause of the Fruit Cup Wars..and was called all kinds of names, innuendos...a 'whino'...someone who needed professional help, etc.

I will continue to support LGF in all ways, nonetheless.

253 Mike C.'s Sock Puppet  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:56:40am

I'm going to claim victimhood status and sue everybody (or at least get government grants) if these cracks at sock puppets continue.

254 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:57:36am

WHERE ARE MY CRANKY FLAKES!

/and they better be extra urinated, damn it!

255 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 12:58:01am

Just got here.
Gosh Sprite, can I help you. Cheese is good, long as it's Colby.
Guilt trip , anyone ?
HOWDY ALL.
Misanthropes unite.
There, b'gad.

256 Jim in Virginia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:00:07am

Mornig lizards.
Hey the front page photo is actually a picture of zombie, no?
Fox News: Ahmadinejad says

The United States is incapable of inflicting "serious damage" on Iran

The guy really is crazy.

257 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:00:54am

Give me a minute to respond - I gotta open a new box of "Heh"s first.

258 humanity  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:01:05am

#208 Killian Bundy

I am not drunk, but I am in love,

Its the magic of those eyes, which i have seen last night... dont know how she looks, as i just noticed those beautiful eyes... check yourself .. if you can find some info about this women.. she is the one on extreme right

259 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:02:37am

# 256 JiV

Completely diconnected from reality.

260 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:05:49am

Imadinnerjacket says:

The United States is incapable of inflicting "serious damage" on Iran

This statement has arrived almost at the same time as word that our new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is coming to a mineshaft or a cave complex near you, Ahmed.
This is a bomb, not a nuclear bomb, but it weighs 30,000 (thirty thousand) friggin' pounds.

261 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:09:37am

# 260 Shiplord

I've been reading about that one. Woof !

262 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:09:42am
#258 humanity

I am not drunk, but I am in love

Its the magic of those eyes, which i have seen last night... dont know how she looks, as i just noticed those beautiful eyes... check yourself .. if you can find some info about this women.. she is the one on extreme right,

/small world, I posted the original, un-cropped/unmanipulated photograph (LGF comment search: islamic photography) at least two months ago, if I find my original post, will you quit LGF?

263 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:09:43am

Hey, little ol'lady.
I will fix my own breakfast. 3 egg omlet containing chopped cotto salami, chopped yellow and red peppers, shredded sharp cheddar cheese, and topped off with salsa sauce.
Hey Spritey- if ya like, I'll fix one for ya.;)

264 littleoldlady  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:12:42am

waitaminnit,

There, ya see? You don't do so badly on your own! :-)

/eating chocolate

265 Jim in Virginia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:13:40am

Anybody want blueberries?

266 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:14:03am

216 BabbaZee

Sounds like they're referring to one of the actions called for as part of the completely ignored economic/resource component of this war. Obviously, the idea is to break the economic powerhouse of the US - UBL and others have talked about it at length.

Terrorists in Iraq are wanting to be paid ransom in Euro's, they're also asking those countries sympathetic to their cause to dump US investments and switch to investments outside the US. The rise in the equities markets in Turkey, Egypt and Fraudi-land have all been the result of governments shifting money out of US treasuries into their own markets. A 'Quran.com Bubble'. The second the money holders get nervous, their markets implode as the capital escapes - back into the US where there's both safety and growth. There's no growth in Euroland and unless you manage to become part of the temporary and ever changing landscape of the 'in-crowd' in Russia or China, investment is a heavily controlled game like russian roulette - insider or outsider, eventually you get passed the automatic with one-round chambered, hammer-cocked. 'Shoot Yourself,' is the name of this new game.

At some point, (not to point any fingers or name any names)those sleeping will likely wake-up to the epiphany of, 'Hey...this is a real World War! Why didn't someone tell me?'

267 Jim in Virginia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:14:56am

Or gato tacos?

268 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:15:33am

Some good news from news.co.au:

AC-130 gunships have hit the Somali jihadists again.

"The US launched an air strike two weeks ago against what it called al-Qaeda operatives among the fleeing Islamist ranks..." (emphasis added)

Translation: "Of course, we enlightened Australian media luminaries know that this is just the barbarous seppos' excuse for indulging in their usual practice of shooting up innocent pilgrims and kittens and baby ducks just for the hell of it."

AC-130 Spectre: When it absolutely, positively has to be killed overnight.

269 Jim in Virginia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:18:33am

Re the SOTU- Bush didnt say "Islamofascism" but he pretty much defined our enemies as Muslims, both Shia and Sunni. I didn't hear "religion of peace", either.

270 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:23:03am

# 268 Shiplord

AC-130 Spectre: When it absolutely, positively has to be killed overnight.

Very good.

271 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:25:01am

#267 Jim...
Gato tacos ?
Ohhh.
Harharhar-gasp-harharhar
Use the hindquarters-cooked
It's the Cats Ass

272 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:26:18am

Good Morning Lizards

First, concerning the topic of the thread, the sloppy work of Forbes, given the fauxtography and Ratergate memos in the media, I see this as par for the course.

The reference to jazz guitar reminds me of what an instructor once told me about live performing and making mistakes on stage. He said, "remember, if you hit one wrong note, it's your "version" of the tune, if you hit two then it's "innovation", if you hit 3 or more it's jazz.

273 humanity  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:28:47am

#212 BabbaZee

Budhist Jihad or return of Nazis... check this out...
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

and this too...
[Link: translate.google.com...]

this will help you realize the big picture... anyways Muslim world also has a big role in creating this problem...

so what really is the big problem? was it evil Hindus or evil West...

In fact, the problem betraying...
We had given the power of indian subcontinent in hands of Gandhi... a Neo Nazi supporting Amin Al Husseini...

this has its side effect, that the shit left behind from nazi era is now returning back...

the Hindus who helped British against Nazis are tagged as radicalist in modern india... the world is suffering those mistakes... the left tried to hide them whole, but today we know where right is supporting other countries too like Israel and so on, and has move further with globalization... left is struck with caliphet, kingdoms and Mohammedians propoganda...

the problem is that left got this power by condeming hinduism and christanity... ignoring the fact that when they blame religion for this... it was also religion which saved them... Hindus participated due to religious teaching forgiving hate against British... which hardly any indian think today, as they are feeded with a propoganda of great Hitler... the Vatican which was saving jews in world war 2 is blamed to be radical due to facist and Nazi connection in older times... though they have done a lot to overcome the mistake. even churchil has annoced in his speech to boost british against Nazis... "do our childern have to search a new God.." . the religion goes wrong, when one struck with one prophet... though all religion says god is one (including hinduism, against the odd with exist)... . the Question is who is making mistakes from last 60 yrs now? who is helping in speading the fog spread through Middleeast? perhaps the only solution i see for this problem is to bridge east and west... and the to Question the role of radical islam in it...

Uh oh, the Burma insurgency also goes through india... but on small scale... and the links with Pakistan ISI is well assured in building this using bangladesh help... ignoring that moderate muslims are also vactim of it...

274 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:29:49am
275 humanity  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:30:15am

#262 Killian Bundy

no... i will make muslims to quit the stupidness...

time for food...
mahlzeit

276 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:30:18am

#263 waitaminnit,

Thank you...you're kind. Sounds delicious!

[btw, re your #255...not trying to make anyone feel guilty...just trying to make LGF a more welcoming blog.]

277 Goddessoftheclassroom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:34:05am

Good morning, Lizards.

278 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:36:38am

#267 Jim

"gatos tacos"

How disgusting. Please, show more consideration for the tender-minded. Call it "roof rabbit."

Btw, I tried some monkey/pepper stew once. This was in Vietnam when I was out with some buds. The proprietor of a grog shop offered it to us and we initially refused in disgust. He then claimed that it was a VC monkey, terrorist cadre no less. That made it OK, so we gave it a try. Monkey stew is pretty good eating as long as one of the hands doesn't come up in your spoon.

279 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:36:38am

#272
Ya know, somehow I just can't understand the attraction of noise they call "Jazz". Disconnected notes and phrases repeated ad nauseum until I want to go listen to the bleating of a flock of sheep to soothe my ears. And to top it off, you usually hear some twit afterward say "How innovative. The chords-the chords-OH-OH-OH."

280 Jim in Virginia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:38:13am

Mike C- with all the advances in drilling technology, you'd think they could figure out how to drill offshore from California or Florida.

281 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:38:45am
#275 humanity

no... i will make muslims to quit the stupidness...

Fair enough.

/please do LGF a favor and take a hard look at your capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure, etc., just sayin', you'll lose the competition with TFK

282 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:40:45am

# 279 waitaminnit

If Charles spots that, you could qualify for the "Banned of Brothers."

Even though I agree wholeheartedly. Oops - did I type that out load ?

283 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:40:57am

#274
"The Hillary Spot"?
That anything connected to the "G"...
Oops. Won't go any farther.

284 Goddessoftheclassroom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:43:04am

#282 Mike C.

All kidding aside, Mike, Charles displays was true tolerance is about: accepting the tastes of others, even when he thinks they're obviously wrong, as long as they don't threaten anyone.

285 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:48:07am

# 284 Gotc

Now you know I was kidding. Maybe.

286 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:48:43am

#282 MikeC
Dooode. "Banned". Moi. Gad.
Letter to Charles..
The Great Lizardness, Sir.
I have ridden your blog here like a ladybug on your bicycle the past few years, and enjoyed it most heartily ! But , for the love of God, Sir, Please don't make me listen to jazz.It hurts, it hurts.
Thankee in your Lizardness
:0

287 Goddessoftheclassroom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:50:08am

Mike C.
About being banned or hating jazz?

Some styles, more towards the swing sound, I adore; the atonic stuff is just noise to me--I like to say that I don't have the proper appreciation for it; it makes me sound more polite.

Have a great day!

288 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 1:52:22am

# 286 waitaminnit

Glad I didn't have a mouthful of anything when I read that.

289 abu_garcia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:00:21am

#180 MandyManners

#178 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

nodroG could suck the hydrogen out of the sun!

(Or, is that a golf ball through a garden hose?)

I thought it was the chrome off a trailer hitch.

290 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:01:53am

#288 MikeC
;)

291 abu_garcia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:05:53am

#203 Mike C. Is this for real?

The religion's founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, claimed that extra terrestrial beings were sent to planet Earth by intergalactic ruler Xenu, who then blew up the aliens with hydrogen bombs in a volcano.
292 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:06:50am

# 289 a_g

Variants -

Suck-start a Harley

Suck-start a 57 Chevy.

293 waitaminnit  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:06:53am

Well...
It has been fun Folks, but time for this Huskey to got to be hitched up to the Days dogsled.
P.S.
Try to be less sensitive .
Cats Ass Tacos-harharhar

294 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:09:06am

# 291 a_g

Absolutely real.

295 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:10:59am

# 291 a_g Addendum

His sci-fi sucked, too.

296 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:16:27am

#281 Killian

Dang, Guy...

Don't YOU know that humanity's first language isn't English? That's what I mean about a kinder, gentler LGF. And please, all of you, STOP speaking about tfk behind his back!

#283 waitaminnit,

Please educate your brethren about the "G" spot. Everyone would benefit. :)

G'night, Lizards Fair.

297 humanity  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:20:23am

#291 abu_garcia
a religion based on science friction... hmm let me think... is that scientology...

so how they pray... oh alpha rays. oh beta particles & oh gamma ray emiter... u provided the guidance to a kufir einstein in developing atomic theory & atomic bomb... guide us to in developing hydrogen bombs for removing the seed & inflence of aliens from this words...

heil duality thery...

:p

#281 Killian Bundy
sorry for grammatical mistakes... i need a trip to britain or to US to fix my stinking english under german influence:)

298 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:24:47am

Some days you couldn't sell a Sense of Humor around here for a quarter if you included a free new luxury car with every purchase.

299 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:25:09am
#296 Sprite

And please, all of you, STOP speaking about tfk behind his back!

You must be joking. Who talks about TFK behind his back? And who cares?

/TFK doesn't need you to defend him

300 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:26:44am

#295 Mike

Actually Battlefield:Earth wasn't bad.

The book, not that botched abortion of a movie with John Travolta.

301 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:27:08am

Remedication...

#296

STAT!

302 abu_garcia  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:27:28am

#294

Absolutely real.

Wow! I've never really paid any attention to scientology, I know heard about the E-meters, "clears", and such, but that's beyond moonbat nuts.

303 revka  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:28:35am

Yeh Yhimmy.. We shouldn't be afraid.. Here is the latest on Drudge this morning from Imadinnerjacket..

What is wrong with us? Do we not see this man is serious and is planning our destruction along with Israel?

Are we going to leave it up to the libs to take care of it?

Saddam wasn't as bold and he needed to go down, but this pig is TELLING US WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE SOON.. What more do we need?

Probably because the libs have made Iraq a vietnam, then maybe Bush isn't going to be as forthright as he was this time. I hope not, cuz we can't wait until this guy gets nukes.

Thanks a lot libs, you will assure our destruction some day.. Happy politiking for 08'.

304 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:29:36am

# 300 TS

I thought it was juvenile, and that's when I was a juvenile.

305 Killian Bundy  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:29:40am
#297 humanity

sorry for grammatical mistakes... i need a trip to britain or to US to fix my stinking english under german influence:)

Well, let's start with proper capitalization.

/we'll work on the rest later

306 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:32:59am

#278 shiplord

Monkey stew is pretty good eating as long as one of the hands doesn't come up in your spoon.

This is not the sentence you want to read first thing upon waking.

307 Ackomanyuki  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:33:48am

...And we should all learn German verb conjugation and noun agreement.

308 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:36:08am
#289 abu_garcia

I thought it was the chrome off a trailer hitch.

Well, then there's that.

309 Ackomanyuki  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:37:00am

PIMF
Pro Noun Agreement

310 revka  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:37:08am

Mike C, and waitaminute,
Sheesh.. Jazz and blues are the cores of music. I mean, they are like diamonds compared to Zarconia.. Jazz has some great legends, great musicians.

It takes A LOT more talent to be a Jazz musician than it does Rock or any other vein of music, well maybe classical music is an exception. Rock and roll drummers say it is great to learn Jazz drumming as it is much harder and if you can learn that, you can become a great drummer.

When I was a singer jazz singing was the most challenging, especially when it came to scat. You just have to have it in you. I used to have a lot of Jazz tapes/albums, but kind of got more into politics and talk radio over the years, but am thinking about going back.

O.K. that is my soap box for today! ;-)

311 BostonPatriot  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:37:55am

Kos beat out Drudge?

Politics aside, that's just stupid.

312 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:37:59am

# 307 Ackomayuki

Mark Twain had some thoughts on that subject. I think you'll find them in "A Tramp Abroad."

313 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:38:07am

#279 waitaminnit

Ya know, somehow I just can't understand the attraction of noise they call "Jazz". Disconnected notes and phrases repeated ad nauseum

I was at a gig one time when the fiddle player completely lost track of the melody of a tune called Tamlin (popular Irish step dancing tune), which we were playing in Em. Almost everybody else in the group just stopped playing when that happened, but I kept on playing, flat picking the scale notes randomly in that key until the fiddle player got the melody back together. After we got done, some of them turned to me and told me that was a great jazz solo I did.

I don't know "good jazz", but when I want to fake playing jazz, I just play scales randomly in that key.

Good morning Mike, how are you today?

314 storagemanager  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:38:28am
North Korea is helping Iran to prepare an underground nuclear test similar to the one Pyongyang carried out last year.

Under the terms of a new understanding between the two countries, the North Koreans have agreed to share all the data and information they received from their successful test last October with Teheran's nuclear scientists

History will show President Bush was right...But where will we be? [Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

315 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:38:44am

Punctuation? and monkey hands? at this hour?

Gakkk

I need coffee

316 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:38:46am

#304 Mike

It has been many moons since I read it but I remember being entertained.

That's why I read sci-fi and not "classical" lit,the classics are fucking boooring.

War and Peace,Moby Dick,It Takes a Village,Crashing the Gates...ZZZ

I thought it was juvenile, and that's when I was a juvenile.

...and what has changed?

;-)

317 anthean  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:39:12am

Sorry to post an off topic thought, but the Daily Telegraph is reporting that North Korea is helping Iran prepare a nuclear weapons test--presumeably, not imminent. See: http:\www.telegraph.co.uk

318 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:39:47am

#313 3 wood

I just heard the judge is letting Tank Johnson go to the Super Bowl.

I guess he did not want to be the hanging judge.

319 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:40:19am

# 310 revka

Gaack.

320 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:40:48am

Good Mornin' Y'All.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

This equation should be taught in all math classes!

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint it goes like this:

What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 8 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

and
K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But,

A-T-T-I -T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%

AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.

A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.

321 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:41:41am

BTW I didn't know Charles was this ugly. That's a pity.

322 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:45:23am

# 313 3 wood

Not bad. You ?

TGoP liked your comment RE what the music instructor told you, BTW.

# 316 TS

...and what has changed?

Okay, okay - score one for TS. But I was reading through all of Verne and Wells back then. And Poe. No comparison.

323 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:46:54am

#318 mama

Yeah I heard. I'd have made the jerk stay home and stew in his own juices. The guy has a history of making really dumb decisions, and going down to South Beach is not what I would call a good idea at this time. Something tells me he will get in trouble down there.

And Johnson is not even all that good. If you watch him on the D-line, he gets stuffed and pushed out of his gap 2 out of every 3 snaps.

Hey, I mentioned the other day but I think you left, if you and maybe Little Winger are going to come down to Peoria to see the Chiefs some time this season, let me know and I'll meet you guys there if I'm free. I'd like to say Hi, shake Little Wingers hand and buy him a brewski or 3.

324 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:47:41am
325 storagemanager  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:47:43am

The real moonbats...Asefi:

Israel Seeks to Fuel Ethnic War in Muslim World

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran's Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Hamid Reza Asefi warned that the Zionist regime of Israel is seeking to sow discord and foment ethnic war among Muslims, and called on Muslim clerics to inform nations of Tel Aviv's crafty plot

[Link: www.farsnews.com...]

326 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:47:52am

#322 Mike C
Did you see my post yesterday about Little Winger? Seems he made the aquaintance of a pretty lady in Thailand. Only it turned out upon further examination not to be a lady at all. :)

327 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:49:30am

#299 Killian,

Who cares?

I do. I'm sure tfk does, too.

#301 TotallySirius

I'm curious about you. Sending prayers.

You're into Battlefield Earth and denigrating me?

LOL

And might I add FU to your own 'remeds'.

328 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:50:16am

#207 humanity

You're all right.
:D

329 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:50:22am

#323 3 wood

Hey, I mentioned the other day but I think you left, if you and maybe Little Winger are going to come down to Peoria to see the Chiefs some time this season, let me know and I'll meet you guys there if I'm free. I'd like to say Hi, shake Little Wingers hand and buy him a brewski or 3.

What a lovely invitation! Thank you ! Let me see if we can work that in sometime this summer. It would be wonderful to go to a game with you! I'll let you know, 3 wood.

330 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:52:00am

#322 Mike

I knew you'd appreciate that. :-)

I know what you mean though.

I'd already read Tolkein,Verne,Wells,Asimov and Clarke by the time I was in high school.

BTW Asimov and Clarke are too dry for me,except for Asimov's old detective stories.

331 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:55:45am

#322 Mike C.

Not bad.

Concerning jazz, I was at a festival in Kentucky earlier this month. These things always have a "talent night" where the instructors each get 10 minutes on stage to play 2 tunes and hawk their CD's and music books. One of them went up and played random notes and arpeggios for all 10 minutes on a hammer dulcimer, and I was unable to identify a melody at all. When he got done he said it was a jazz version of some gypsy tune. There was a polite applause, but you could tell the audience of mainly musicians were left wondering "Huh"?

I guess my ear is just not sophisticated enough to get jazz.

332 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:56:16am

326 mama winger

Maybe a smile this morning.

333 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:58:17am
#327 Sprite

And might I add FU to your own 'remeds'.

Is FU some sort of new-age herbal medicine?

334 Buckeye Abroad  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:58:20am

The European Commissioner for Communications, Margot Wallström, has a message go send.

"The EU Lacks a Story"

I actually impressed "Spiegel" even confirmed the following.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: If I may, that sounds like more Brussels lip-service. Real civic participation is not part of the EU design.

Wallströms rebuttals are all fluff with no substance, but I thought this one was typical:

Wallström: When I started my job two years ago, I decided very early against the superficial -- let's call it American -- way: Make up a slogan, double the advertising budget and come up with a nice campaign. I prefer the more difficult path of actually changing structures. If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.

The disparging "superficial=American" comment aside, she never hints at what structures needs changing and exactly how does "communication" as a legal foundation assists in making the EU more democratic. What drivel.

Apparently EU skeptism is not tolerated and needs to be combated within the borders.

Wallström: I hope that the education ministers make progress in their talks on civic education. We want to establish a college, where teachers can go for inspiration on teaching European issues. ... There will never be an obligatory core curriculum, since that is the responsibility of individual member states. But we do want to foster the exchange of best practices among teachers. Every member state has realized that in order to fight Euro-skepticism, one has to start with the children.

Indeed. When parents today have to flee the country because the committed the crime of home schooling, I can see the EU is quite serious about fighting skepticism at the roots.

335 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:58:58am

# 326 mama winger

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

336 mama winger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 2:59:00am

#332 Mandy

HAhaha! Would you believe I woke up with that song in my head this morning ?! And when I relayed the story to my daughter last night, she said "Just like LOLA!" :0

Hi ho Hi ho - it's off to work I go - see y'all later!

338 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:00:40am

#327 Sprite

How did I denigrate you?

How does "not bad"="into"?

Are you calling me out?

Perhaps you should pray for your deficient sense of humor.

339 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:01:53am

#334 Buckeye Abroad

The ban on homeschooling is a hold-over from Hitler. Gee. Who'd have thunk it?

340 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:02:29am

# 331 3 wood

I'm not certain "sophisticated' is the correct word.

# 333 MandyManners

9 out of 10 Net Nannies recommend it !

341 Dar ul Harb  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:03:42am

Oh, you can call me Charles...

Or, you can call me Charlie...

Or, you can call me "Icarus"...

Or, you can call me Martin

Or, you can call me Marty...

...but you doesn't have to call me Johnson.

(pop culture reference here, for you hatchlings)

Good morning, LGF!

342 storagemanager  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:03:50am

IRAN: AUTHORITIES BAN STUDENTS' PUBLICATION




Tehran, 24 Jan. (AKI) - Iranian authorities have banned

the magazine Farhang mobarezeh (the culture of fight), a leading students' publication. Ali Gholizadeh, the editor in chief of the students' magazine with the university of Shahroud, in northwestern Iran, will also have to stand trial on charges of having offended the state's top authorities. Last week, magistrates in Tehran banned another publication, Tame Azadi (the taste of freedom) edited by the students of Tehran's Amir Kabir university.

Students with the Amir Kabir university protested against president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a visit he paid to the university last December, accusing him of being a dictator.

Hitlers Germany...Maos China...funny how somethings never change.. [Link: www.adnki.com...]

343 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:04:56am

#341 Dar

I didn't know anyone remembered Raymond J. Johnson.

344 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:04:58am

#333 MandyManners,

Yeah...it's a salve...a balm, for people who are rude and apparently don't know any better.

Did you read his missive to me? Would be good if you did.

345 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:06:08am

334 Buckeye Abroad

With Britain joining, hasn't EU accomplished without guns what Hitler could not do?

Every member state has realized that in order to fight Euro-skepticism, one has to start with the children.

The more I think on that, the more scared I get for Europeans. Lil' Kim would be proud.

346 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:06:10am

I see a Bad Whine rising...
I see trouble on the way...

(With apologies to CCC.)

347 Whak A Mullah  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:07:21am

# 320 JD

B-r-o-w-n-n-o-s-i-n-g

2+18+15+23+14+14+15+19+9+14+7

Will put you over the top at 150%

348 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:08:17am

Byt he way. I watched the Democratic response to the Presidents speech last night. Webb is a total smart ass, and he offered no specifics, just did the Kerry shuffle of "we will do things smarter". I see that the Dem's are keeping th o their strategy of offering no solutions themselves, only throw rocks and claim to be smarter.

By the way, if you watch the stock market, any company with the word "ethanol" the name is skyrocketing right now, whether or not they can actually produce any. Be careful investing out there. Last I heard, ethanol is actually a net loser on energy, it takes more to produce it than it contains. How about we let some more drilling occur around the US instead for a while? I love how the left won't let any more drilling or refining happen, but then they yell about our importing fuel. It's what I call the "Magic Wand Theory" of making public policy.

349 Dar ul Harb  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:08:28am

#118, zom

Copyright infringement, even.

I'm impress.

(Distributed lizardoid intelligence beats Forbes intern intelligence every time. Bwahahaha!)

350 storagemanager  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:08:56am
Christians working with local authorities, churches and inter-ethnic peace committees aided in the release of 102 black slaves in the Sudanese-state of Aweil last week.




The rescue which was widely reported by UK-based charity Christian Solidarity International (CSI), Tuesday, said that the captives were mainly boys and young men captured by government-sponsored Arab-Muslim militias

Black slaves with Muslim overlords...not a word from msm or the dems...yes they watch over the little guy...as long as he is Muslim. [Link: english.gospelherald.com...]

351 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:09:28am

A movie quotation strikes me as appropriate to the moment...

"Me, me, me, mine, mine, mine, now, now, now."

Dustin Hofman as Captain James Hook in the movie "Hook."

352 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:12:26am
...By separating his discussion of the War on Terror from the war in Iraq, Bush did something important: He gave Democrats a means of expressing their support for the most critical struggle of our time - for demonstrating that, at least theoretically, we are all on the same page when it comes to fighting Islamic extremists who wish to do America great harm.

This may be dismaying to many of us who believe that Democrats and liberals pay lip service to the War on Terror while expressing opposition time and again to the means necessary to fight that war - in their opposition to the Patriot Act, electronic countermeasures like eavesdropping and the monitoring of monetary transactions and the like.

But you fight a war with the country you have, and Democrats hold majorities now in the House and Senate. It is better for the country that we at least appear to be of one mind on the War on Terror, and Bush and his team did that by structuring his speech as we did.

Democrats in the Congress made one tactical mistake last night. Turning to Iraq, the president said, "Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned and our own security at risk. Ladies and gentlemen: On this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle. So let us find our resolve, and turn events toward victory."

For the past few weeks, war critics have responded with disbelief at the accusation that they don't seek victory in Iraq. Commentator Juan Williams, for example, said on Fox News Sunday that "I think everybody wants it to succeed who believes in the idea that we are over there and our people are at stake - I don't think there's any question."

Bush seemed to back that view when he said to all sides in the debate, "Whatever you voted for, you did not vote for failure."

And yet when the president spoke of turning "toward victory," at least half the elected officials in the chamber neither applauded nor stood. The clear suggestion is that they don't wish to turn events toward victory.

It could be that they think the war is already lost. More likely, they simply hate the war and the president and didn't want to appear to offer any support for either.

But that does call into question the party's commitment to success in Iraq, and opens it up to legitimate criticism about its refusal to even offer an alternative means to victory.

Right now that seems like a safe bet to them. Let us hope, for the sake of the country's future, that their bet isn't so safe. ...


DUBYA'S NEW VOICE
By JOHN PODHORETZ

353 storagemanager  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:14:58am
But Islam and our media want us to hit the snooze button again. When we see ominous Arabic writing (and for now, all Arabic writing is ominous -- sorry), we’re supposed to think “Oh, it just says ‘I’m a little teapot.’” In fact, intelligence shouldn’t even be intercepting Arabic conversations, because the talkers are merely discussing recycling programs or calling themselves teapots.

It’s all reminiscent of a Twilight Zone episode titled “To Serve Man,” in which aliens descend upon the earth and allay the fears of a panicked populace. The head alien assures the humans that his people come in peace and their purpose is “to serve man.” He carries around with him a book of the same title, To Serve Man.

In the end, we discover that this is a cookbook. The aliens are here to eat us.

[Link: frontpagemag.com...]

354 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:15:39am

#348 3 wood

Ethanol is indeed a net energy loss.

Even if they switched to solar stills,there is still a net loss(transportation is energy intensive)

The moonbats still see it as the ultimate cure-all for our energy needs.

355 ec marm  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:16:35am

Morning all! Including cranky ones...

One of the first applicants for the recently enacted “Guest Worker” program, Juan Doe, proudly displays his identification card. Juan is gainfully employed as a floor sweeper in the Critical Records Storage section of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, New Mexico. Juan has been on the job for nearly two weeks and according to his supervisor is “Unbelievably efficient, I never knew we had so much wasted space on the shelves.”


[Link: paleo.wordpress.com...]
/might be worth a quick laugh

356 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:17:48am

TotallySirius,

Your #301 to me was funny?

When?

Wish we were face to face. I know you never would have said such a thing.

BAH.

357 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:17:52am

#339 Mandy

The ban on homeschooling is a hold-over from Hitler. Gee. Who'd have thunk it?

We home schooled all 3 daughters through high school. Daughter #1 is graduating this spring from a major University with honors, while also working 20 to 30 hours a week all during that time, and getting her license to quote insurance in most states in the country in the process.

Daughter #2 is in her first year of college (yes, we are paying two tuitions at the same time, shudder), finished high school a year early, and so far she is just waltzing through her studies with straight A's and is astonished how poorly prepared for college some of her classmates are.

Daughter #3 is in her second year of high school, doing well, and will probably start taking a class or two at a local junior college this year after she turns 16.

While home schooling is not for everybody, where it works some entities see it as a threat.

358 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:18:59am

Hydrogen isn't any better than ethanol.

IMO its worse.

First you have to produce it,electrolysis is the best we have right now and it is very inefficient.

Then you have to compress hydrogen,then transport it.

Nuclear produced electricity is the best energy bargain IMHO.

359 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:21:52am

#346 Mike C.

Here's some cheese for your whine. You're so into that, it appears...

360 Dar ul Harb  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:22:42am

#343, Totally Sirius

I didn't know anyone remembered Raymond J. Johnson.

I prefer Navin Johnson, actually.

361 abolitionist  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:23:10am

#317 anthean

Daily Telegraph is reporting that North Korea is helping Iran prepare a nuclear weapons test--presumeably, not imminent.

Morning dead threads are sort of "open". Hope you don't mind if I refine your link a bit, as the subject matter is important:
N Korea helping Iran with nuclear testing

362 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:23:15am

#354 TS

Thanks, that confirms what I had heard.

363 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:24:10am

# 348 3 wood and # 354 TS

The last USDA report puts ethanol (from corn) at 160 %. A lot of people think those numbers are too optimistic (myself included), but it does appear to have a positive energy balance. That's not really the basic problem. Actually, there are a number of basic problems. One real stumper is the fact that, using 3-year average per acre yields for corn, we would need to plant an area 120 % the size of the entire US just to replace gasoline (not including other oil fuel products.) Another is that corn is one of the most soil-destructive crops we grow. And it requires huge amounts on nitrates, which go right into your groundwater. You really don't want your water supply to have a lot of nitrates in it. On top of that, ethanol absorbs water like crazy, meaning it is difficult to transport via pipeline over long distances without requiring additional treatment at the end of the line.

Now if ongoing research can find an economical production method for so-called cellulosic ethanol, we might have a winner. Time will tell.

364 abolitionist  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:24:55am

Hope that link works --just noticed the "sessionid" thin ini it.

365 goodbye_natalie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:25:01am

#348 3Wood,

By the way, if you watch the stock market, any company with the word "ethanol" the name is skyrocketing right now, whether or not they can actually produce any.

I try to help my wife investing because she's so conservative in nature and never pays attention to business. She told me back in 2002 that she wanted to buy some Archer Daniels Midland because they "might feed the world" like on TV. I laughed at her and told her it was a dog with fleas. She bought it anyway much to my chagrin just to make me mad for laughing at her.

Guess what is the best investment we've had the last year couple of years? Better than any energy producer we own.

My wife, the genius...

Fortunately, I don't think she even recognizes what it has done. I keep humbly silent to myself.

366 JammieWearingFool  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:26:31am

Morning all,

A quicky driveby, as I'm off to meetings. I had nightmare about a giant blinking plastic head last night. I may never recover.

GOP Wants Berger Lie Detector Test.

Good luck with that.

Time to Chat? No Thanks.

I'd rather talk to myself. I'm much more interesting. Besides, I always agree with myself.

Democrats Silent on Jihad

Why would they criticize the folks they're fighting for?

367 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:27:20am

Good Morning Y'all from a damn COLD (31 degrees) and cloudy Charlotte!
Hope Y'all are doing fine this morning!

368 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:28:22am

#393 Mike

On top of that, ethanol absorbs water like crazy, meaning it is difficult to transport via pipeline over long distances without requiring additional treatment at the end of the line.

Thanks for the expert feedback. I was not aware of the water absorbing problem. I can see where that greatly complicates transit and bringing the product to the market. Significant transportation costs there.

I wonder if there would be also a problem of the ethanol absorbing moisture when in the car fuel tank?

369 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:28:39am

Gotta go get some HOT brekkie and coffee in me, BBIAW!

370 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:28:57am

# 358 TS

Hydrogen is much worse than ethanol - it's clearly a net energy loser.

371 FrogMarch  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:32:19am

Is there some reason Forbes hasn't corrected this?

has any one complained?

372 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:32:59am

#368 3 wood

Ethanol is incredibly hygroscopic.

It will suck moisture right out of the air,condensation from the atmosphere inside of a gas tank would be a problem.

I just don't see how they could use ETOH in the humid southern US.

373 ec marm  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:33:02am

#363 Mike C.
Thanks for putting the real story about ethanol up. Somehow that "truth" about ethanol being a net energy loser is quickly becoming one of those urban legends. I also saw an article recently about a better fermentation process that is going to increase the yield. Switchgrass IIRC is also being touted as easier on the soil and a higher yield than corn.

374 Carl B  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:34:38am

Congrats on the recognition! Sad to say, but "your" photo doesn't make much difference when #1 Jessica Lee Rose (Lonelygirl15) and #16 Xeni Jardin are pictured in the same story...

375 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:36:22am

# 359 Sprite

Okay, no more sarcasm. Just straight talk.

Get a grip. Your only topic of commenting recently has been yourself and percieved slights to yourself. That's been the case for weeks. Maybe months. If you want the issue dropped, try dropping it yourself. You were the one who cranked it up again this AM. (If anybody want to check that, just scroll up.)

And, although it's only my opinion, you might try dropping the Net Nanny mode and spending your time searching the day's posts for references to yourself. Just how vain is that ?

Oh, and when most lizards sign off, they actually do sign off.

Most people here do not hold grudges. I'm quite certain that once you get off this self-centered kick, people will be perfectly willing to engage you in all sorts on conversation. I would.

376 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:36:56am

Mark Lisanti looks at least as bad.

377 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:37:43am

#365 gn

When I was in Grad School, I was on a project 2 year where we developed various investment instrument selection models using various financial ratios and tested them via computer simulation with actual stock market performance numbers. As a control, we set up one model where we pinned the NYSE pages on a cork board and threw darts to pick stocks. Guess which model had the highest capital gains over the time of our study? The darts.

378 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:38:47am

357 3 wood

I cannot imagine a government so intrusive on the family that it outlaws schooling a kid at home. Its purpose is glaringly obvious: indoctrination into a statist regime.

379 LSD  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:39:05am

National Association of "Muslim American Women" files for Department of Justice investigation of "Jewish Lobby"

The National Association of Muslim American Women (NAMAW) filed a formal complaint with the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, and also with the Executive Office for the United States Attorneys at the US Department of Justice. The complaint alleges that as a result of misleading and false information provided to US law enforcement agencies, the media and also to various governmental bodies, various Jewish organizations and individuals have sought to create an environment in the US that is hostile towards US Muslims, resulting in the deprivation, and violation of Muslim civil liberties and civil rights.

The complaint lists the American-Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), American Jewish Committee (AJC), Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish Congress B'nai B'rith, the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, and individuals such as Daniel Pipes, Steven Emerson, Rita Katz, Steven Schwartz, Evan Kohlman, and others.

In its complaint, the National Association of Muslim American Women (NAMAW) says, "Jewish organizations and activists in the US may have created enemies lists that include the names of Muslims, Arabs, white nationalists organizations, and others that they have targeted as threats to, or enemies of the state of Israel." The complaint also says that NAMAW believes that "these Jewish organizations and activists have used their financial resources and also their formidable political influence to purposefully poison public opinion against Muslims, Arabs and Islam in an attempt to demonize and vilify the same for political purposes, and also to create an environment conducive to the deprivation and violation of Muslim and Arab constitutional rights, and especially the repression of Muslim religious and political freedoms, and free speech."

The complaint consists of five pages of accusation, supported by more than 100 pages of supporting documentation extracted from transcripts of Congressional testimonies, articles, and public statements. NAMAW along with alleging that Jewish organizations and activists sought to demonize, and vilify Muslims, Arabs, and Islam, says that these same people may have also committed perjury in testimonies provided to the US Congress. The group claims that Jewish organizations and activists may have purposely given false impressions, and made false statements aimed at misleading the media, policy makers, law enforcement, and various government agencies. They believe that these false statements led to an aggressive campaign in the US to suppress Muslim rights. The complaint also says that NAMAW suspects that the Jewish campaign against Muslims and Islam in the US, has been ongoing for more than 10 years.

The group asks the Department of Justice to investigate its claims, and to work with the Muslim community to dispel myths and lies that have demonized Muslims, Arabs and Islam. They are also requesting that the DOJ develop and implement programs aimed at healing US society of the harsh racial and religious polarization resulting from what they believe is an ongoing and criminal hate campaign against Muslims, Arabs and Islam.

380 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:39:24am

From the looks of this report,ETOH has net energy output of anywhere from -33% to +25% of production energy.

Hunh?

381 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:39:36am

#359 Sprite

Geeez, relax...

382 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:40:09am

Neil Diamond is 66 years old today. Maybe we can have a special "Coming to America" birthday thread for the third hardest working man in show biz.

383 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:40:11am
384 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:42:12am

# 373 ec marm

Yup, that's the "cellulosic" type of process I was referring to. All still in the lab research phase, but one of those processes might actually work some day. There's a proper place to invest government funding, not subsidizing inefficient corn-based ethanol.

That won't be a complete solution, due to factors TS just pointed out. But it could actually be a help, not a hindrance. And that's coming from an old oil guy.

385 stephen2  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:44:14am
if significant amounts of water are present in a fuel tank with gasoline that contains ethanol, the water will be drawn into the fuel until the saturation point is reached for the three-component mixture of water + gasoline + ethanol. Beyond this level of water, phase separation could cause most of the ethanol and water to separate from the bulk fuel and drop to the bottom of the tank,


from Mercury Marine

386 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:44:59am

379 LSD

Now, that's chutzpah!

387 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:45:57am

#380 TS

Depends on the standard deviation. If that is within 3 standard deviations, no problem. If that is within one standard deviation, problem.

388 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:46:02am

# 380 TS

Good one. I already have that stored on my laptop from a year or two ago.

389 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:46:32am

383 ploome hineni

Why just 18?! Why doesn't every House Republican demand it?

390 goodbye_natalie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:47:08am

#377 3Wood,

When I was in Grad School, I was on a project 2 year where we developed various investment instrument selection models using various financial ratios and tested them via computer simulation with actual stock market performance numbers. As a control, we set up one model where we pinned the NYSE pages on a cork board and threw darts to pick stocks. Guess which model had the highest capital gains over the time of our study? The darts.

LOL. I laugh even harder because that must have been the standard study back in the 1980s MBA program. We actually did something different, though. We took that genius Tom Peter's (he of many books sold and dubious outcomes) recommendations and threw darts. They came out basically the same over a 3-4 month period. You guys probably were better dart throwers.

You and I ought to get together and write a book about some of the horseshiite taught at many business graduate schools. As 20 something students, we ate much of it up at the time. It was only later that we realized much of it was bunk.

391 FrogMarch  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:47:49am

274 Mike C

Don’t worry, The Stepford Candidate (thanks to Jammie for that one) will try to sell her lies to an eager to be lied-to public, but the truth always floats to the top.

Kyoto bombed because it would have punished the US and made the US wholly accountable for all emisions, -- and let China, the world’s #1 polluter, off the hook entirely. Bill Clinton and his congress knew it, and voted 95-0 against Kyoto.

The DNC left-wing media will try to spin this for idiots, but like I said, they can only lie so long.

392 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:48:54am

Welll Mike C.

Right on. Straight talk for once!

You've been *so rude* I don't know where to begin.

My comments - that apparently you don't approve of, have concerned my complaints I listed above, up thread, and only one concerns me. There are over 100K readers/lurkers/not yet registered yet Lizards here. I have pointed out some sad reasons why they don't speak.

YOu created some War...some "fruit cup was driven off the dead thread"... a lie! And tried to create a brouhaha.

YOu have denigrated me over and over again.

I'll step up when you step down. I'm sick of it.

393 ec marm  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:51:49am

#380 TotallySirius
The bottom line of the report in your link is this:

Corn ethanol is energy efficient, as indicated by an energy ratio of 1.24, that is, for every Btu dedicated to producing ethanol, there is a 24-percent energy gain.


Not astounding gain, but every btu produced in the U.S.A. is one less that need not be imported from "friends" and sworn enemies.

394 goodbye_natalie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:51:58am

Okay, everybody go back to bed for a few minutes and get up on the right side.

395 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:53:03am

#390 gn

Yeah, that's when I was in Grad School. Remember back then, they thought that Japan had all the answers and if we could just emulate them better me might figure out how to run things here. While the Japanese did have some good ideas (like just-in-time delivery to lower inventory costs), they certainly did not have a monopoly on intelligence and managment apptitude. Remember "Quality Circles"? Remember Management by Objectives? As a junior manager in my 20's then, I got put through all that crap. What a waste of time.

396 storagemanager  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:53:52am

Can't Can't we all just get along...uh can we?...I love that line.

397 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:54:18am

#372 TotallySirius

Ethanol is incredibly hygroscopic.

This has been demonstrated to be a major problem. Water-logged ethanol is also heavier than gasoline. This results in the ethanol-water component separating and settleing to the bottom of the gas tank. As a habit, most people re-fill their tank before it's bone dry (obviously). This leads to a continuing change in gasoline/ethanol/water ratio in your tank. The result is poor engine performance, higher emissions, and serious damage to the engine when the water eventually gets sucked in.

Ethanol fuel is still a bad idea.

398 P_G_S  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:57:08am

You are one SEXY Beast!

399 Totally Berserk  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 3:59:33am

Didja read the caption on Comrade Markos?

. . . Moulitsas' influence extends far beyond the Web itself--he is often credited with helping Ned Lamont beat incumbent U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman in a 2006 Connecticut Democratic party primary.

So what do you have to say for yourself, Senator Lamont?

BWAHAHAHAHA!

400 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:01:14am

BIG MIKE C. IS RIPPING US OFF!

401 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:02:06am

#252 Sprite
A sense of humor would really help...
No one was trying to hurt you.

402 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:02:06am

# 392 Sprite

YOu created some War...some "fruit cup was driven off the dead thread"... a lie! And tried to create a brouhaha.

That was a joke, and people with a sense of humor took it as one. Try to develop a sense of humor.

YOu have denigrated me over and over again.

Only since you've decided to make whining your life's work. Please. At best it's undignified.

I'll step up when you step down. I'm sick of it.

Feel free to leave anytime. Or learn to use that scroll wheel, as I have advised previously. I ain't going anywhere.

Here's a thought - try joining in an ongoing discussion on a topic other than yourself. Or go completely nuts, post a link and start a topic of your own. If you take the latter route, don't whine if every gem you post does not start a conversation. I hit maybe 25 % on my best days, like damned near everybody else here. I don't cry about it. Like I said, most hereabouts don't hold grudges. When you post something of interest, I'm sure others will be glad to engage you in conversation. As I said previously, I would. There is no need for you to feel isolated, unless it's your own choice.

403 goodbye_natalie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:02:47am

#395 3Wood,

Remember "Quality Circles"? Remember Management by Objectives? As a junior manager in my 20's then, I got put through all that crap. What a waste of time.

Oh man, do I remember that. I think I've still got the book because I had to go through all that Total Quality Management crap. That old crewcut actually came to CITGO (B-4 Chavez) and burned our company for I don't know how many thousands of dollars in books and fees.

Best I could tell, in 3 days of boring lecture this is what I learned: (1) The Golden Rule, (2) basic statistical analysis, and (3) worry about trends - not peaks and valleys.

The popular "business plan" when I graduated in 1982 was "goal program orientation" or some horseshiite like that. I always said that if I could stay around long enough, everything would come full circle and we could start the entire process over again. Maybe you and I could coin a new business sounding phrase and bilk millions out of a gullible corporate America?

404 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:02:48am

#389 MandyManners

The letter was signed by all Republican members of Congress.


Lawmakers Want Polygraph of Berger Over Stolen 9/11 Documents

405 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:02:54am
Ethanol is incredibly homophobic.

The things you learn from this blog...

406 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:02:58am

Mike C
ooo
That may be the one and only time we ever will say basically the same thing at the same time!

407 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:03:57am

By the way, I just got a phone call form a friend who owns a small but publicly traded brokerage firm. He said that with all the irrational buying going on already today for anything with the word "ethanol" in it, he's thinking of changing his brokerage firm name to add the word "ethanol". He just got a big buy orders for a firm that has no ethanol producing capability, has not yet ever turned a profit, but has the word "ethanol" somewhere on the firms first page of their website.

and so it goes...

408 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:04:04am

#273 humanity
Thanks for the links and the post

409 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:04:09am

Video: Wes Clark calls for talks, Ahmadinejad calls for destruction of America

Here he is complaining that George Bush is more interested in threatening Iran than talking to them. Oh, and in other news, Ahmadinejad said today that the U.S. and Israel will soon be destroyed:

[Link: hotair.com...]


What world do these guys live in?

410 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:04:35am

PloooOOOoooOOOoooOOOooo(cough, hack, gasp) OOOooome!

411 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:05:29am

It looks to me like energy output:input ratio is highly dependant on ethanol content of the "mother liquor".

The faster the fermentation and higher % ETOH,the higher the efficiency of the distillation process.

However...

The paper I linked to (ETOH BTU output efficiency) does not appear to take transportation of finished product into consideration.

412 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:08:24am

I send PK's Extenda-Ploome to Ploome too...
;~P

413 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:08:47am

OK, not a lot of snow next few days for BOS or NYC, but hey, Friday morning low temps near 0ºF? That rocks!

414 goodbye_natalie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:09:42am

I'm too lazy to look but whoever stated "nuclear" is the best bet, I've got to agree.

Twenty+ years in the petroleum industry I haven't seen anything comparable in utility. Just launch the waste into space over Iran (they won't know the difference if it happens to not make it).

415 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:09:54am

Babbbaaa

Ganjihad!

416 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:10:23am

# 399 T B

Good one !

# 400 Peacekeeper

Well, I'm sure as hell trying ! I do believe I have another opportunity to rape Mother Gaia and swindle the masses out of money.

417 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:11:59am

#415 TotallySirius
JEWLULULULULULULULULLULULULUUU!

418 Carl B  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:12:12am

#379 LSD

National Association of "Muslim American Women" files for Department of Justice investigation of "Jewish Lobby"

Wow! The truth really hurts these people, doen't it? It is almost comical, given the pervasive lies the entire muslim/arab world relentlessly hurls at Israel and Jews.

419 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:12:22am
420 ec marm  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:12:30am

#411 TotallySirius

The paper I linked to (ETOH BTU output efficiency) does not appear to take transportation of finished product into consideration.

Yes, but look at it this way: If you drive to the bank today, you can trade 1.00 bills for 1.24 - Would you really be worried about how much gasoline your car used to drive you there and back? :~)

421 FrogMarch  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:13:16am

The left are always whining about the fear-mongering coming from the right.

Wasn't Jim Webb's speech total fear-mongering? I thought it was.

ooo - the sky is falling and we need the democrats to save us with their welfare programs!

422 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:13:38am

# 406 BZ

It's a probabilistic universe.

423 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:13:41am

Nuclear is the best energy alternative.

Even the waste is useful,it can be sealed for all eternity in a ceramic matrix and the waste heat can be recovered.

Many years ago Popular Science had an article about a physicist who found a way to make a refridgerator sized device that could produce enough electricity for several houses...by using nuclear waste.

424 Dirk Diggler  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:13:49am

3wood,

Yeah, that's when I was in Grad School. Remember back then, they thought that Japan had all the answers and if we could just emulate them better me might figure out how to run things here.

The more things change the more they stay the same. Now China supposedly has all the answers and America's only purpose in the 21st century is to kowtow and pull the rickshaws of their oriental masters.

425 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:14:22am
426 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:14:32am

404 J.D.

I reckon I should learn to read, eh?

427 edr  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:14:37am

Hmmm.

Holy C**P!

I'd demand a retraction by Forbes. What? They couldn't be bothered to actually contact you?

428 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:14:38am

Ethanol from corn is a farm state pork project boondoggle. It is essentially energy neutral, the growing, harvesting and processing of the corn to alcohol uses as much energy as the ethanol contains.

On the other hand, my new 2007 Chevy Impala is E-85 compatible. It even comes with a little fuel range comparison for gas vs. E-85. You can go about 75% as far on a tank of E-85 as gasoline. Ethanol isn't very energy dense. But since the EPA demands that Houston use oxygenated fuel for smog issues, the local gasoline is already 10% ethanol. So at least my car is suffering less damage to vital engine parts from the ethanol than the cars not designed for it.

BTW, sugar cane would be a different story for energy efficiency re: ethanol. Sugar is incredibly cheap, except to please a few very wealthy cane growers in Florida exhorbitant tarriffs are slapped on imported sugar and cane.

429 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:14:46am
430 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:14:53am

#407 3 wood -Morning to ya! Gee, I wonder if the use of the word "Ethanol" is going to rival the use of "Dot Com" for a while?! You know, you don't really produce anything of value, or provide a service, but you've managed to lose money for a few years in a row (which is not hard to do, trust me!) and people will buy your company cause it's name is something something.com?!
;>'

431 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:15:14am

#420 EC

Yes I would, especially if it cost me 30 cents to get to the bank.

432 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:15:53am

#426 MandyManners
So much to read...so little time...
:D

433 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:16:35am

Brother Carter and Brother Clinton's Baptist Revival
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 24, 2007

Exasperated by the persistent conservatism of their own Southern Baptist Convention, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are trying to organize an alternative organization for liberal Baptists.

"This is a historic event for the Baptists in this country and perhaps for Christianity," Carter enthusiastically announced to reporters earlier this month. "Our goal is to have a major demonstration of harmony and a common commitment to honor the goals of Jesus Christ. We want to be all-inclusive, and we call on all Baptists to share those goals and join us."


[Link: www.frontpagemag.com...]

Its almost comical

434 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:16:59am

# 423 TS

Nuclear is the best energy alternative.

Actually, at the moment, it's the ONLY alternative. Pity we can't implement it.

435 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:17:07am

♪ Good morning {LGF} ♪ It's -15°C (4.9°F) with the wind chill it feels more like -22°C (-7.6°F) but at least it's bright and sunny.

*blink*blink*
*blink*blink*

:D

436 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:17:10am

#425 ploome hineni
Never take a knife to a gunfight...
~ My daddy, Jewfro Bodine

437 Pro-Bush Canuck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:18:54am

Five Komodo Dragons Born of Virgin Mother in England

Could one of these be our long-awaited Lizard King?!?

438 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:18:58am

#266 aboo-Hoo-Hoo 1/24/2007 03:14AM PST


216 BabbaZee

Sounds like they're referring to one of the actions called for as part of the completely ignored economic/resource component of this war. Obviously, the idea is to break the economic powerhouse of the US - UBL and others have talked about it at length.

yes a legitimate part of jihad as they see it is financial...which was one of the reasons for choosing the WTC as a target

439 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:19:22am

#401 BabbaZee - Morning Babba! How are you this morning?

440 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:19:40am

#437 Pro-Bush Canuck
LOL now we can have our own Lizard Eschatology.

441 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:20:09am

Yo Real!
not the best day but not the worst either!

442 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:20:52am

Good Morning Everyone?

443 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:21:51am

#434 Mike

Indeed,the silent spring crowd still has too much power.

We may end up returning to dung fires to cook our dinners but we can't use eeevil nuclear power.

444 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:22:43am

# 434 Addendum

Damn. I'll have to retract that statement. There are also a number of proven economical new technologies to utilize coal resources, ranging from high-efficiency, low emmision power plants to gasification plants. Of course, we can't implement any of those, either.

445 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:23:17am

#442 phoenixgirl

Good Morning Everyone?


ya sure, it's close enough for rock and roll!

446 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:23:42am

428 Ed

I was reading an article a short time back that said using corn for ethanol was bad for livestock producers because it raised the cost of feed. Is it true?

447 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:23:58am

good morning lizards!

re: ethanol.

Many of you already know hubby and I work with agricultural interests so we've been watching this for some time.

Ethanol production is going to completey distort ag markets and is going to hit all of us in our wallets.

More corn for ethanol production means the price of corn needed for livestock feed goes up, which means the price of meat goes up.

More corn for ethanol production means the price of corn used for corn syrup goes up. You cannot imagine all the stuff corn syrup is used in but just start with sodas.

The demand for corn destined for ethanol production means that farmers who currently grow things like wheat and soy will instead grow corn because the profit margin is higher. Less wheat and soy means the prices for wheat and soy go up.

I saw some stats a few months ago that said even if the entire state of Nebraska was given over to corn for ethanol, we still couldn't meet demand.

Here is my morning contribution to the NYT fucks up again folder.

This isn't the first time the Times has misled its readers about climate change in high latitudes. On Aug. 19, 2000, based upon reports from a cruise ship floating at the North Pole, they reported that "the last time scientists can be certain that the Pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago."
This isn't the first time the Times has misled its readers about climate change in high latitudes. On Aug. 19, 2000, based upon reports from a cruise ship floating at the North Pole, they reported that "the last time scientists can be certain that the Pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago."
This isn't the first time the Times has misled its readers about climate change in high latitudes. On Aug. 19, 2000, based upon reports from a cruise ship floating at the North Pole, they reported that "the last time scientists can be certain that the Pole was awash in water was more than 50 million years ago."

The report received top, Page One billing. But in fact, during the end of summer there's often some open water at very high latitudes. So 10 days later, on Aug. 29, buried on Page D-3, the Times admitted it had misstated the true condition of polar ice and that an ice-free North Pole is hardly unprecedented.
Yet, in the same issue, the newspaper again misled, saying, "The data scientists are now studying reveal substantial evidence that on average Arctic temperatures in winter have risen 11 degrees [F] over the past 30 years." It claimed its statement was based upon a recent paper published in the journal Climatic Change by University of Colorado's Mark Serreze. The average winter rise in Mr. Serreze's paper is 2.7 degrees F. The Times never even retracted its fourfold exaggeration of Arctic warming. Nor did they say there was only one very small area in the Arctic where there was an 11-degree rise.

448 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:24:15am

#430 realwest

It's astounding how many people buy stock in companies that they have no idea what they produce or when, if ever, they made a dime in profit. I saw some tech stock the other day that was priced at 63 times earnings. That's right, I said 63 times earnings. For those not familiar with the art of stock analysis, A P/E of 63 times earnings is a bad thing. Usually, much above 20 times earnings you look at it with great skepticism.

449 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:25:13am

#444 Mike

I have to retract my #443

To the silent spring crowd,there is only one thing more eeevil than nuclear power...coal!

450 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:25:28am

Gallery of snoozers.

[Link: hotair.com...]

451 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:26:09am

# 443 TS

Yes, and tens of millions dead from malaria to their credit.

452 jehu  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:26:46am

433 Elric

Exasperated by the persistent conservatism of their own Southern Baptist Convention, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are trying to organize an alternative organization for liberal Baptists.

Always such dumbasses. This organization already exists, it is called "Presbytarians."

453 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:26:50am

So I was reading my Koran the other day...

454 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:27:38am

{realwest} Morning, sunshine *smooch* Keeping warm, darls?

{Babbalouey} Hiya, toots.

{Peace TCG™} Morning, mister.

455 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:27:43am

Almost forgot to post some morning music.

Here's some Jethro Tull...

The old Rocker wore his hair too long,
wore his trouser cuffs too tight.
Unfashionable to the end --- drank his ale too light.
Death's head belt buckle --- yesterday's dreams ---
the transport caf' prophet of doom.
Ringing no change in his double-sewn seams
in his post-war-babe gloom.

Now he's too old to Rock'n'Roll but he's too young to die.

He once owned a Harley Davidson and a Triumph Bonneville.
Counted his friends in burned-out spark plugs
and prays that he always will.
But he's the last of the blue blood greaser boys
all of his mates are doing time:
married with three kids up by the ring road
sold their souls straight down the line.
And some of them own little sports cars
and meet at the tennis club do's.
For drinks on a Sunday --- work on Monday.
They've thrown away their blue suede shoes.

Now they're too old to Rock'n'Roll and they're too young to die.

So the old Rocker gets out his bike
to make a ton before he takes his leave.
Up on the A1 by Scotch Corner
just like it used to be.
And as he flies --- tears in his eyes ---
his wind-whipped words echo the final take
and he hits the trunk road doing around 120
with no room left to brake.

And he was too old to Rock'n'Roll but he was too young to die.
No, you're never too old to Rock'n'Roll if you're too young to die.

456 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:28:12am

Raining a lot in Eastern Texas. I suspect the brighter colors out near Junction may be due to sleet, which is more reflective than rain. (So is hail, WSR-88D Doppler radar will overestimate rainfall when hail is falling, although there are algorithms to detect hail.)


No sleet reports out near Junction or Kerrville, but the surface temp is only 4ºC, so the sleet could be melting just before reaching the ground.

457 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:28:13am

morning [trixicus maximus}

458 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:28:58am

morning grayp

459 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:29:04am

#452 jehu 1/24/2007 06:26AM PST

433 Elric

Exasperated by the persistent conservatism of their own Southern Baptist Convention, former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton are trying to organize an alternative organization for liberal Baptists.

Always such dumbasses. This organization already exists, it is called "Presbytarians."


Are you saying that they arent knowledgable on religion? :-)

460 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:29:09am

#448 3 wood Yup. While my knowledge of economics is fairly limited, I can't imagine people buying stock even at a 20 times earnings without knowing what the company actually does to earn money, much less in a company that has NEVER made a profit.
Course, I live from paycheck to paycheck, so I tend to watch my spending very closely!

461 Sprite  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:29:17am

#402 Mike

Only since you've decided to make whining your life's work. Please. At best it's undignified.

I'll step up when you step down. I'm sick of it.

Feel free to leave anytime. Or learn to use that scroll wheel, as I have advised previously. I ain't going anywhere.

Really, you're too kind. Like I said.

462 jehu  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:29:27am

451 Mike C

Yes, and tens of millions dead from malaria to their credit.

They are not dead white liberals...so doesn't count.

463 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:29:40am

Sirius I haven't heard that song in a looong time!

464 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:29:48am

Trixlicate!

465 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:31:28am

#447 grayp

...So, the fact the recent Greenland story ignored the historical record and the refereed scientific literature is nothing new. On reporting about polar climate, the Gray Lady has a consistent record of hiding parts of the truth that are inconvenient to whatever story it is trying to sell.


No!

466 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:32:01am

The Dems solution for Iraq.


[Link: www.townhall.com...]

467 Dirk Diggler  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:32:03am
To the silent spring crowd,there is only one thing more eeevil than nuclear power...coal!

Wrong. DDT is the most evilest substance on the planet.

468 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:32:21am

#445 BabbaZee

Thanks! just catching up on the thread. My husbands ears perked up when he heard the music!

469 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:33:07am

#454 {Miss Trixie} Morning and *smootch* back atcha - yes, I'm doing what I can to keep warm. It's not quite enough for me to be warm, but at least I no longer feel cold and that's a start!
How are you doing blinky sweetie on this fine morning?

470 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:33:10am

I'm in an odd mood today,might be the sinus' congestion.

:-)

So here's some Emerson,Lake and Palmer...

He had white horses
And ladies by the score
All dressed in satin
And waiting by the door

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

White lace and feathers
They made up his bed
A gold covered mattress
On which he was laid

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

He went to fight wars
For his country and his king
Of his honor and his glory
The people would sing

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

A bullet had found him
His blood ran as he cried
No money could save him
So he laid down and he died

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was
Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

471 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:33:37am

Og goody! Fox reporting North Carolina Bar Association has filed NEW ethics charges against Mike Nifong.

I hope the guy goes to jail.

472 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:33:38am

447 grayp

That's what I read. It's not gonna' hit just livestock producers but every aspect of our agricultural industry. The law of unintended consequences at work?

473 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:34:11am

Keep it up Sirius, I haven't heard that one in forever either!
go for 3 ...

474 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:35:25am

{grayp} Morning, darls.

*big hug to the both of you and an extry one for Molly*

475 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:35:36am

Hail prediction with the WSR-88D is not an exact science:


2.4.5 Hail
The vertically integrated liquid water (VIL) product has long been used by forecasters for estimating severe thunderstorm potential and hail threat. But the utility of VIL varies day to day depending on airmass characteristics. At times tall thunderstorms with large VIL do not produce large hail, while on other days short thunderstorms with small VIL may produce large hail. Forecasters are faced with determining a "threshold value" or a "VIL of the day". Amburn and Wolf (1997) avoid the problem with a parameter that is thought to be independent of airmass. They compute a "VIL density" which is the WSR-88D VIL value divided by the storm's height. A scatter plot of echo top versus VIL shows fairly good separation between severe hail and nonsevere hail cases. The number of severe hail events increased dramatically for VIL density values 3.5 g m-3.

Billet et al. (1997) performed regression analysis with the VIL parameter and environmental variables to predict hail size and the probability of severe hail (> 19 mm). The dataset consisted of 145 events (131 with hail) at radar ranges of 23 to 167 km. A preliminary analysis had winnowed an original list of 18 variables to the VIL parameter, the 850-hPa temperature, the freezing level height, and the mean storm-relative wind in the layer from the surface to 2 km. The natural logarithm of the hail diameter was the dependent parameter. Because a test with an independent dataset revealed that only 25% of the variance in hail size was explained, the relationship was considered to be of questionable value. The probability of large hail was then investigated with the same independent variables. The derived relationship showed fair correspondence between the forecast and observed probability of severe hail. Critical success scores were 0.56 to 0.59, POD's were 0.64 to 0.80, and FAR's varied from 0.11 to 0.35 for threshold probabilities of 40 to 60%. Other studies attempting to "forecast" large hail are in progress at the National Weather Service offices in North Little Rock (Section 3.5.4.2) and Salt Lake City (Section 3.5.5.3).

In response to user complaints that the current hail detection algorithm "over warned", NSSL reexamined algorithm performance at four diverse locations (Section 3.4.2.4). Results did not uncover a significant over warning problem but have led to a slight modification of the POSH equation to compensate for radar site elevation differences..

Bauer-Messmer and Waldvogel (1997) argue that radar echoes signify that precipitation particles are already present in storms and hence provide lead times for hail occurrence which are at best 20 min or so. To improve lead times these authors incorporate visual and infrared observations from earth satellites. Visual images provided an estimate of the cloud's optical thickness, and infrared images were used to estimate storm tops. Radar data provided ground truth. [Previous studies with hail pads in Switzerland indicated that reflectivity > 55 dBZ correlated well with hailfalls.] Hail storm severity was determined by integrating the areal coverage of > 55 dBZ echo over time. Severe hail storms associated with storm clusters having integrated areas > 40 km2. The assumption that each cloud cluster in the visible images produced hail gave a probability of detection (POD) of 100% but a false alarm rate (FAR) of 81%. Hence ~20% of designated clusters produced hail. Subsequent experiments sought to reduce the FAR by adding other parameters to the decision process. An experiment in which time continuity over three successive satellite images was required yielded a POD of 84% and a FAR of 66%. Still other experiments examined the predictive potential of the convective available potential energy, the bulk Richardson number, and wind shear. POD's for severe hail were usually 100%, but FAR's remained high.


To be continued

476 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:35:40am

Continued from above

Takayama et al. (1997) discuss a close association between hail and the generation of downbursts. The weight of the hail, evaporation, and melting were thought to increase the negative buoyancy and enhance the strength of the downbursts. Techniques for detecting hail with polarimetric radar are described in Section 2.10.


477 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:35:53am

Coal is bad
Nuclear is bad
Cars belonging to other people are bad.
Oil is bad
Hydroelectric dams are bad
Cattle are bad
Pesticides are bad
Profitable industry is bad
Religion is bad
War is bad
Economic growth is bad
Economic non growth is bad
People are bad
More people are bad


What is good?

Television is good
MP3 players are good
Hippies are good
Partying is good

478 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:35:58am

#471 grayp 1/24/2007 06:33AM PST

Og goody! Fox reporting North Carolina Bar Association has filed NEW ethics charges against Mike Nifong.

I hope the guy goes to jail.


And royally sued

479 Chyron  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:37:25am
#231 BabbaZee 1/24/2007 02:09AM PST

Tom Cruise will save us!

Well he is the Christ of Scientology.

480 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:37:37am

#447 grayp - Morning to y'all! Geez, I guess you have to read the Gray Lady for business and I feel for you, honestly I do! Other than reading the NYT, how are ya this morning?

481 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:37:43am

Now for another odd tune from the distant past...

By Black Oak Arkansas...

CHORUS

Yeah they call me yeah Hot n Nasty
Yeah they call me uh Mister Fancy
Yeah when you ball me
Yeah you're hot n nasty
Oh when you ball me
You're Miss Fancy
Right

When I come a knockin' at your door
Let me in and I'll tell you some more
No two men are ever the same
And they tell me
Jim Dandy is my name

CHORUS

They say Jim Dandy is my name
They say Jim Dandy is my name
Always to blame
Always to blame
And always just the same
Yeah Hot N Nasty

CHORUS

Hot N Nasty

482 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:38:46am

# 462 jehu

True.

483 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:38:46am

#481 TotallySirius
Mazel Tov ~ you did it, LOL

484 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:38:49am

453 Peacekeeper

No infidels in a fox hole!

485 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:39:09am

and I used to have boots just like that

486 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:39:38am

The trifecta is complete!

487 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:40:00am
Tallest Building on West Coast [John Derbyshire]

The President mentioned a terrorist plot against "the tallest building on the West Coast." Several readers clued me in.

"Derb—-In interrogating Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, architect of 9/11, he claimed that there was going to be a second wave of attacks, the Library Tower** in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower were targets. KSM is claimed to be the uncle of Ramsy Yousef, who masterminded the '93 attack. There is some evidence that neither one is who they say they are, and that both identities were created by Iraqi intelligence in the early 90's. (which reads a little like a conspiracy nutball website, but is surprisingly reasonable)."


Never thought I would see a link to spiritoftruth on NRO.

488 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:40:08am

He was mr spandex show-my-peenie before David Lee Roth LOL

489 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:41:05am

469 realwest

There's still plenty of cold weather left to justify slik longjohns from L.L. Bean!

490 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:41:48am

Imprisoned agent's wife:
President is a hypocrite
Calls State of the Union speech 'total sellout of the United States of America to Mexico'

Posted: January 24, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


Monica Ramos, the wife of one of two U.S. Border Patrol agents imprisoned last week for wounding an escaping drug smuggler, attended the State of the Union speech in person last night – and was sharply critical of President Bush, calling him a hypocrite and worse.

Ramos, wife of Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos, attended the event as a guest of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean began prison sentences last week, of 11 and 12 years respectively, for their actions in the shooting and wounding of a Mexican drug smuggler who was granted full immunity to testify against them.

At the conclusion of the speech, Ramos, emotional and in tears, told WND in an exclusive interview, that she considered President Bush's speech compete hypocrisy.

"How could President Bush say that he wanted to secure our borders and that he would double the size of the Border Patrol when my husband is in prison," she asked WND. "Ignacio was trying to secure our border from drug smugglers. And what do we get? I have to show my children their father in prison in chains and I have to explain to them that the president of the United States is a liar."

WND waited nearly an hour after the speech was concluded to be able to speak with a clearly emotionally upset Monica Ramos.

"President Bush can say all he wants that the solution to border security is new infrastructure and technology," Ramos told WND, "but as long as my husband is in jail the American people should know that President Bush doesn't mean a word he says."

(Story continues below)


[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]


So sad but I do agree with her

491 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:42:21am
492 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:42:32am

Now that they have forced us to use natural gas, they're suing to block new facilities for importing it because it fouls the air?
AQMD: Natural gas will foul air

493 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:43:00am

# 477 Peacekeeper

Partying is good

Well, kinda hard to argue against that one, anyway. Even a blind squirrel...

494 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:43:07am

EU expecting role in Israel's security
Top diplomatic sources say secret talks held on handing West Bank to Abbas

---
Posted: January 24, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com


JERUSALEM – The European Union is in the process of expanding its offices in Israel, including in the Palestinian areas, in anticipation of an increased security role here following what European diplomatic officials say is new momentum regarding an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.
The West Bank borders Jerusalem and is within rocket-firing range of Tel Aviv and Israel's international airport.

EU sources in Israel tell WND their offices here are taking on new staffers to deal with matters of security, public relations, diplomacy and regional coordination. They say they expect an increased work load due to behind-the-scenes diplomatic initiatives they state may result in an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank.

(Story continues below)

[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

Another reason to hate Olmert

495 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:43:41am

The solution is a standardized mid-sized civilian nuclear power plant based on the Navy tested, (3 decades with an excellent record of safety and reliability) A4W/A1G 550 Mw reactor plant that powers the Nimitz (CVN-68) class carriers.

496 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:44:15am

#488 Babba

He was mr spandex show-my-peenie before David Lee Roth LOL

James (Jim Dandy) Magrum

497 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:44:33am

#489 MandyManners - Not that again, LOL! What, do you get commissions from L.L. Bean for the sale of those things?!
:D

498 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:44:36am

#445 babba

That tune is fairly actually easy to play on guitar. It's pretty much an old blues riff, that runs on the 5th string from the bottom (usually tuned to A, then jumps down to the 4th string (usually tuned to D), then back up to the 5th string. Page just played it real fast. A lot of Led Zeppilin stuff is either Blue Grass G runs or blues riffs, played real fast.

Have you ever heard Robert Johnsons epic recordings? You hear a lot of stuff on there made famous decades later by rock musicians. That's where Clapton got Crossroads.

499 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:44:41am

Good morning lizards.

500 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:45:03am

500?

501 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:45:21am

Yesss!

502 Pro-Bush Canuck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:45:33am

#447 grayp

Not just Ethanol. After last night's State of the Union I would swear that Bush and the Republicans have been abducted and replaced by stealth leftist replicas.

Bush's economic pronouncements are increasingly out of tough with reality. America is becoming like Canada, where politicians routinely lie to a deluded, brainwashed public in order to pacify their fears about fabricated leftist crises like apocalyptic man-made global warming.

Bush evinces so much economic illiteracy it is shocking. He seems to believe that making cars and buildings more efficient will cut energy use, when any Economics 101 student knows that making something more efficient--cheaper--simply means people will use more of it, not less. The US automobile fleet is vastly more fuel-efficient than it was 30 years ago, yet the per-capita consumption of gasoline is far higher.

Hopefully American politicians will adopt the flipside of the Canadian "green" political propaganda strategy: talk big, do nothing. Bush as Ah-nuld and other "republicans" can talk all they want about asinine energy strategies, as long as they don't try to actually implement them.

503 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:45:51am

#490 Elric66
Did you see this?

Since the paper broke the story in August, three jurors have come forward to say they were coerced into finding the agents guilty.

Wife of convicted Border Agent to attend State of the Union

504 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:45:56am
#498 3 wood
Have you ever heard Robert Johnsons epic recordings?


Yes, I know... I am an amateur musicologist and an old timey blueswoman from way back, LOL

505 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:46:10am

#476 Ed

Takayama et al. (1997) discuss a close association between hail and the generation of downbursts.

Really? That's very interesting (once you're into agriculture, the weather gets real important).

There's no online link, but if you guys can get your mitts on a dead tree version of today's WSJ, Holman Jenkins has an interesting piece on globular worming and energy policy. Some snippets:

-How much are we going to spend to have no impact on global warming and why?

-However, to the extend that global warming becomes an excuse to shovel more subsidies and protectionist favors at the corn ehtanol industry, neither energy security nor carbon reduction would be served.

-Unfortunately, because a carbon tax would lead to a direct (rather than surreptitious) increase in the cost of gasoline, the path of enlightment will not be the path of politics. Of one other thing you can also be sure - the impact on climate change of any policy issuing from Washington will be nil.

Hello Miss Trixie, good morning realwest! Molly the Beagle is currently performing her guard duties on the landing by the front door.

506 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:46:28am

Yo ward.

507 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:46:54am

#499, 500, 501 Ward Cleaver

Good Morning! It is the little things isn't it!

508 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:47:15am

The tide is really going out on Bush. Last night my wife was negative on him. By the time you alienate her demographic, you know he has to be in trouble.

509 Rune  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:47:16am

#256 Jim in Virginia
The United States is incapable of inflicting "serious damage" on Iran

Also in the news:

Falling fuel costs probably not a coincidence, oil traders say

Oil traders and others believe that the Saudi decision to let the price of oil tumble has more to do with Iran than economics.
Their belief has been reinforced in recent days as the Saudi oil minister has steadfastly refused calls for a special meeting of OPEC and announced that the nation is going to increase its production, which will send the price down even farther.

Moreover, the traders believe the Saudis are not doing this alone, that the other Sunni-dominated oil producing countries and the U.S. are working together, believing it will hurt majority-Shiite Iran economically and create a domestic crisis for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose popularity at home is on the wane. The traders also believe (with good reason) that the U.S. is trying to tighten the screws on Iran financially at the same time the Saudis are reducing the Islamic Republic’s oil revenues.

[...]

Meanhwhile, the Bush administration is only too happy to see Ahmadinejad's deteriorating domestic situation — and to let the Saudis further turn the screws. Moreover, administration officials are hinting they will be applying financial pressures to complement the Saudis.


Long term, traders say that the Iranian oil will become even more expensive, if not impossible, to extract because Iran does not have access to up-to-date exploration and drilling equipment. Only two countries, the U.S. and Canada, manufacture the equipment needed for the job and they simply do not sell to Iran. Iranian attempts to get the Japanese to sell some of their equipment — not the same quality as the North American equipment but adequate — failed when the U.S. pressured the Japanese.

Are Saudis waging an oil-price war on Iran?

- while I think, that eventually the Iranians will cast off the yoke of the idiotic mullahs and allign themselves with the west and that the apartheid Saudis will stay firmly mired in the 7th century, it's good to see the current Iranian regime suffer. Now squirm Ahmadinejad because it's only going to get worse.

510 J6  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:48:31am

so much learning to do from one thread...

If our lizard king were to choose litigation wouldn't that forfeit the internet anonymity that keeps him safe in the secret mountain hideout?

I wonder if that's one of the hidden objectives of these kind of posts on other sites, to draw Charles out in anger and then be able to target him personally.

I thought the moonbat's post pulling from 2004 was a bit humorous in it's age...I used to think girls had cooties, wanna still point that out to people?

/girls DON'T have cooties

511 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:48:44am

#498 3 wood - "That's where Clapton got Crossroads." Indeed he did, but he also paid tribute to Robert Johnson for Crossroads and some others on Clapton's boxed set.
Sort of a shame, to me anyway, that a lot of currently popular or recently popular musicians don't acknowledge their debt to their predecessors.

512 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:49:30am

realwest

#454 {Miss Trixie} Morning and *smootch* back atcha - yes, I'm doing what I can to keep warm. It's not quite enough for me to be warm, but at least I no longer feel cold and that's a start!
How are you doing blinky sweetie on this fine morning?

I'm feeling just fine today, thanks for asking. However, the ladies around me are dropping like flies from some kind of bug going around. It hasn't touched me - yet.

*knock on wood*
*cross my heart*
*say a little prayer*

:)

513 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:49:35am

493 Mike C.

Even a blind squirrel...

Can find his nuts?

514 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:49:39am
515 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:49:47am

#503 UFO TOFU

The Web site says the linky no worky. Here is an updated link:

Imprisoned agent's wife attends speech

516 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:49:54am

Coal is cool as well. Especially the super-mondo big 'Mike and the Steam Shovel' looking drag lines strip mining near Buffalo, about halfway between DFW and HOU on I-45. And right near there, Anadarko and Marathon are drilling for natural gas.


Those drag lines are super-mondo cool looking.

517 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:50:22am
#503 UFO TOFU 1/24/2007 06:45AM PST

#490 Elric66
Did you see this?


Since the paper broke the story in August, three jurors have come forward to say they were coerced into finding the agents guilty.
Wife of convicted Border Agent to attend State of the Union


As shameful as it was, it wouldnt surprsie me. Bush is determined to go down hated on both sides before he leaves office.

518 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:50:43am

#507 phoenixgirl

Pathetic, isn't it?

519 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:51:25am

Good morning, Babs. How you doin', hon?

520 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:51:29am

For the Zionist blueswoman...BabbaZeee

From the genius of J.J.Cale...

Crazy mama, where you been so long
Crazy mama, where you been so long
Youve been hiding out, I know thats true
Crazy mama, I sure need you
Crazy mama, where you been so long
Standing on the corner, looking for you, baby
Standing on the corner, looking for you, baby
Lord mercy, I can not see, crazy mama coming back to me
Crazy mama, where you been so long

521 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:51:48am

ANTHRACITE IS NOT THE ANSWER!

522 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:51:54am

#528 Ward Cleaver

Not at all! It's cool!

523 jehu  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:52:29am

I know there were threads on Bush's speech last night. I thought his Iraq presentation is about as clear and rational as you can get, not over-hyped, but very clear, what we are facing. His domestic agenda I think is weak. When he proposed cutting gas consumption by 20% in ten years? I just think that is such a little vision for this country, and what he constantly does wrong politically...domestically

Bush thinks too small. He could do like Kennedy did and capture the focus of the nation (NASA) to declare we will be energy independent in 10 years. Everything in the mix, nuclear, solar, geo-thermal, hydrogen technology, clean coal.

My thinking is if you co-opt the argument and first declare "we will be energy independent...even an exporter of energy in 10 years," then you take the focus off the objections about drilling in Anwar, or the Coasts, or about using Coal.

You get a general, and excited consensus by Americans to be "energy independent." And that means free of M.E. oil ticks. When he does these 20% ideas, then he captures no attention, he leaves the argument to those that will pick apart any program, any proposal.

524 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:52:48am

#487 J.D.

There is some evidence that neither one is who they say they are, and that both identities were created by Iraqi intelligence in the early 90's. (which reads a little like a conspiracy nutball website, but is surprisingly reasonable)."

I've forgotten the name of the book, but it was Laurie Mylroie (sp?) that first floated that idea. After Kuwait was liberated, we found some documents that the Iraqis left behind that certainly point to that possibility.

525 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:53:07am

Good Morning, All!

Airline boots Bay State parents with temperamental tot

Good for AirTran! Of course the parents are outraged...

526 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:53:24am

Ward Cleaver
PIMF.
Thanks.

527 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:54:17am
528 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:54:43am

Damn that's funny. Has anyone figured out who the guy in the pic is yet?

529 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:55:12am

#519 Ward Cleaver
I live to fight another day!
FREEDOM!
LOL!

#520 TotallySirius
dig it. When I was in a band this was one of my big numbers LOL

531 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:55:20am

#516 Ed...

Near Buffalo? Wow, that's where the Braniff Lockheed Electra crashed in 1959.

Ed, is Chesapeake Energy running ads down there? They're running tons of them here in DFW, about their Barnett Shale exploration. Last night there was an ad about how they won the rights to drill at DFW Airport. IIRC (I could be wrong, or they could be wrong), the ad said it was the last big unexplored area in the Barnett Shale.

532 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:55:29am

#523 jehu 1/24/2007 06:52AM PST


A Manhatten project to be free of foreign energy would sell well on both sides.

533 Van Impe  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:55:47am

It's true the Palestinians are cavemen!

SOUTH HEBRON HILLS, West Bank (Reuters) - Home sweet home for Suleiman Hawamdeh, a 73-year-old father of 10, is a deep cave in a barren West Bank hillside separated by a barbed-wire fence from a modern Jewish settlement.

Hawamdeh and 120 other Palestinians inhabit the cluster of caves known locally as Quina Foq, which straddles the so-called "Green Line" that separated the Jewish state and the West Bank before the 1967 Middle East war.

They draw their water from wells and gather wood for cooking much like their ancestors, who first settled here during Ottoman rule more than a century ago.

The cave dwellers share a satellite dish and a television set, which is powered a few hours each night by a car battery.

Israeli authorities prevent them from building on the land, and the barbed-wire fence, which separates Quina Foq from the Jewish settlement of Shani, limits their access to a nearby forested area where wood for cooking is plentiful.

Hawamdeh and other residents complain about the Israeli restrictions, but say they live in these caves by choice and have no intention of leaving.

Reuters

534 ec marm  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:55:59am

#510 J6 1/24/2007

/girls DON'T have cooties


Link, please?

535 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:56:03am

Good Morning Troop !

Back east for a couple of days to close on the sale of the house in NY.

I've been busy and miss these discussions.

536 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:56:11am

Boker Tov all.

Oy! Imagine that guy in biking tights!

537 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:56:33am

Sure to be of interest to history geeks:

The Egyptians' use of the magic spell demonstrates the close relations they had at the time with the Canaanites. While Egyptians considered their culture and religion superior to that of their neighbors to the north, they were willing to do anything to protect the mummies of their kings from the poisonous snakes.

Believing that some snakes spoke the Semitic language of the Canaanites, Egyptians included the magic spells in inscriptions on two sides of the sarcophagus in an effort to ward them off.

"Come, come to my house," reads one section in the Semitic language that is supposed to be the snake's mother speaking, trying to lure him out of the tomb. In another passage, the snake is addressed as if he is a lover with "Turn aside, O my beloved."

The Egyptian and Semitic sections are each an integral part of the magic spell and neither can stand alone, Steiner said. For this reason, the Egyptian experts could not fully understand parts of the religious texts until Steiner got involved.

The Semitic language of these texts that have now been deciphered was a very archaic form of the languages later known as Phoenician and Hebrew, Steiner said.

538 lrdgrizzly  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:56:47am

Charles I think you need to protest. That guy is one ugly dude!

539 Buck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:57:00am

#385 stephen2

You are quoting an article about motors on BOATS?

Of course water is a problem.

In cars, when you have a bit water in your line, a shot of ethanol helps clear it out.

In cold climates, condensation in gas tanks are common, and everyone knows the solution.

Boats? Not relevant IMO.

540 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:57:18am

RECON!

541 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:57:28am

How cliche does it get?

I just realized I'm sitting here in my pajama bottoms and my LGF t-shirt.

Bwa hahahahahaha

542 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:57:35am

#528 Killgore Trout

It's Marty Peretz of The New Republic.

/read the update

543 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:58:20am

#536 Ben Hur
Morning Judah, no, please, don't make me imagine that guy in man tights.

544 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:58:21am

#536 Ben Hur

Didja have to? I haven't had breakfast yet.

545 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:58:39am

497 realwest

No. I just like knowing all my buddies are nice and toasty.

546 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:59:18am

#530 Occasional Reader
I may have to move to Australia...

547 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:59:31am

RECON!

Moving? :(
Well at least you've threatened me for the last time!

548 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 4:59:35am

Babba Zee, How is your health?
The air in Montana is clean and free.

I've slimmed down to 198lbs. and have never felt better in my life.

549 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:00:07am

#502 Pro-Bush Canuck

There is some evidence that neither one is who they say they are, and that both identities were created by Iraqi intelligence in the early 90's. (which reads a little like a conspiracy nutball website, but is surprisingly reasonable)."

It's Eisenhower's fault. He got the interstate highway system going. What's the standard political answer to gridlock?

Build more roads.

:D

Rune, yes indeed the Saudis are waging a price war against Iran. Ralph Peters called it a couple weeks ago.

/he ends up being right about stuff way to often!

550 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:00:21am

For those who thought the computer interface in Minority Report was great, how would you like the real thing?

[Link: www.defensetech.org...]

The video is just out of this world.

(Hat tip: HotAir.com)

551 mad_scientist  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:00:28am

This is odd. It seems that a couple of PETA members are being charged with creulty with animals. Basically they are being charged with taking the animals from the pound playing like they were trying to find them a good home, moving them to another location, killing them, then tossing the cats and dogs into a garbage bag, and disposing it into a dumpster.

The prosecutions says...

they were taking animals on the promise of finding them homes and secretly killing them.

PETA says,

A PETA spokeswoman, Kathy Guillermo, said PETA never wanted to get into the business of euthanizing animals. But she said the group couldn't ignore the horrible conditions in animal shelters around Norfolk and in northeastern North Carolina. The group now euthanizes thousands of animals a year.

"Euthanasia is a better alternative to sitting in a stinking pound," Guillermo said.

Wow, these people really love animals...they love them so much, they just have to kill them...the left is crazy.

552 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:01:02am

#548 USMC RECON
Howdy, handsome...
My health comes and goes...but I plan to endure to the end!

553 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:01:24am

Babbazee, 3wood

I'm not a HUGE jazz fan, however, Cheryl Fisher stopped me dead in my tracks the first time I listened to her. Scroll down and listen to "Devil May Care", it gave me goosebumps, to be sure.

554 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:01:30am

RECON, How's the climate compare to these parts? Man am I sick of mud.

555 mad_scientist  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:01:32am

Oh, here is the link to the article on the PETA members refered to in my #551

556 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:01:43am

#524 grayp
Probably this...

The War Against America
Saddam Hussein and the World Trade Center Attacks:
A Study of Revenge

557 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:02:02am

#534 ec marm:

/girls DON'T have cooties

Link, please?

Now that made me laugh.

558 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:02:14am

#547 Peacekeeper,

I'm making the move to Montana permanent.

I have some "doctor" from Vermont willing to pay a rediculous price for the NY place and i'll use the money to buy more land.

/I don't threaten.

/I do.

559 Enraged_Badger  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:02:32am

Hello all from the UK!

Further proof (as if we needed it) that lefties are digging their own graves. Can't they see that the very people they promote want them dead? Still, the Guardian, has to have a podcast that Islamophonic (Hip and halal)

Sickening (I only bothered to listen to a minute of this trip, in which a woman burbled about it being by Muslims for Muslims, but all hip and still blaming the evil Zionist-Crusader-Pigs for why poor muslims are getting harassed for wanting to blow up people in the UK...)

560 jehu  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:02:48am

Hey RECON, welcome back for awhile.

561 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:02:50am

#542 Ward Cleaver
Ah, thanks. Coffee kicking in now.

562 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:03:29am

{RECON}

My mountain man!

How is life in Big Sky country?

563 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:03:52am

#551, #555 mad_scientist

mad_scientist, is that a new story? I remember a story like that from a couple of years ago, and it seems to me it was in NC.

564 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:04:21am

Looks like Michael Nifuck's ticket to fame and glory is going to end up being his ticket to prison...disbarment at best.

More charges filed against Duke rape case DA

Couldn't happen to a bigger asshat...

565 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:04:34am

RECON still hasn't been eaten by bears?

566 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:04:44am

No, I saw the Chesapeake ads when I was in DFW area two weeks ago.


Not sure why they are running ads.

A company called Dale is offering a 20% royalty and a $400 bonus for my sisters less than half acre in Euless- they are leasing up the whole subdivision and will drill directionally.


I think Chesapeake overpaid, offering DFW airport $180 million plus a 25% royalty. Gas prices will have to firm up for that to work.


Luckily, the second half of the winter for most of the US should be brutal, and with the El Niño weakening quickly, 2007 could be an active season for more lost and sunken oil rigs.

567 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:04:56am

Peacekeeper,

The Bitteroots are covered with snow. The temps are not unlike nortern Ny. The lows ,when they occur,are colder and the wind is fun. The averages temps are pretty familiar.

568 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:05:39am
#559 Enraged_Badger 1/24/2007 07:02AM PST

Further proof (as if we needed it) that lefties are digging their own graves. Can't they see that the very people they promote want them dead? Still, the Guardian, has to have a podcast that Islamophonic (Hip and halal)


The left are digging ALL our graves, not just theirs.

569 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:06:04am

#511 realwest

Sort of a shame, to me anyway, that a lot of currently popular or recently popular musicians don't acknowledge their debt to their predecessors.

Yeah, Clapton is one of the few to give credit back. Muddy Waters (who I actually got to meet and see play on Maxwell St. in Chicago before he died), Robert Johnson, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry as well as others have been major sources of material for contemprorary rock musicians. The Stones took a lot of stuff from Muddy Waters. Remember the Steve Miller Band? His nickname in the business was "Stealin' Steve" cause he took so much stuff from people, changed it enough to not get sued, and ran with it. Compare the main riff in "Big Old Jet Air Liner" by Miller to Claptons main riff in Crossroads, and see what I mean. First time I heard the Miller tune I thought for the first few seconds it was somebody else's version of Crossroads.

570 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:06:11am

#551mad_scientist

the culture of death!

571 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:06:24am

RECON:
I think I told you, by I had a Doctor build his McMansion in a swamp down the road last season. He installed his own street light ( the only one for five miles of road) and now speeds past his neighbors raising dust and never once introducing himself.

572 Dustoff-507  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:06:44am

#497 Realwest

Buddy when it comes to Mandy. You never know what she will throw at you. (-: LOL

573 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:06:53am

Recon, it's good to see you online again.

/raises the Coca-cola in your direction

574 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:07:08am

#558 RECON:

I'm making the move to Montana permanent.

Well if that doesn't call for some Frank Zappa, then I don't know what does.

575 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:07:24am

#535 USMC RECON - Hey RECON - good to hear from you again and glad to hear Montana's treating you so well!
But if you can't use internet from Montana and are moving there permanently, how are we ever going to hear from you again?!

576 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:08:16am

#574 Occasional Reader
hey ~ that was my post.
wah. ;~P

577 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:08:42am

RECON you'll have to get a satelite dish, no question. Maybe one powered by steam from burning buffalo chips.

578 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:09:03am

#566 Ed...

Thanks Ed. The dollar amout Chesapeake gave in the DFW ad was $200mil. Why are they overpaying? Are they nuts?

When we went to eat Christmas dinner at my SiLs near Rhome, we saw at least half a dozens rigs in operation (and tons more producing wells). One was right on 114, just east of South County Line Rd, the guys working on Christmas day.

579 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:09:48am
580 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:10:09am

Ed, what/where is that picture of the damaged rig?

581 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:10:30am

Has anybody sent money to the Duncan Hunter for President Exploratory Committee like I requested yesterday?


A real conservative, dedicated to strong border and immigration policy, strong on defense, Ranger in Viet Nam, has a son serving in Iraq.

582 CowardKerry  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:10:30am

That dude looks light in the loafers, are they trying to say something Charles?

583 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:10:46am

#574 Occasional Reader

Frank Zappa - Montana

584 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:10:57am

Goood mornin'! :) World's still spinnin'...we still have a chance... :)

585 m  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:11:23am

USMC RECON! ! ! !

586 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:11:24am

#579 BabbaZee
I'm too slow this morning.
;)

587 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:11:42am
They draw their water from wells and gather wood for cooking much like their ancestors, who first settled here during Ottoman rule more than a century ago.

FLYING PIG!

FAINTING GOAT!

Shoot all settlers!

/al-Guardian

588 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:12:04am

Hello recon! I hear Montana is gorgeous. Lucky you.

Enraged_Badger, I don't know how you can stand it. We used to have a Saudi family next door that made the mistake of harassing Molly the Beagle.

I made their lives a living hell for the next two years until they left.

589 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:12:12am

With a pair of heavy duty

Zircon entrusted tweazers

590 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:12:42am

TotallySirius

Looks like Michael Nifuck's ticket to fame and glory is going to end up being his ticket to prison...disbarment at best.

He is despicable and should be removed from office while the Bar completes their investigation.

I'd venture to guess that the City of Durham's insurance company has set aside reserves for the almost certain lawsuits that will be brought against it by the (wrongly) accused.

591 realwest  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:12:51am

Well, it's been grand, as usual, but I have to go do some chores now. RECON, please find some way to stay in touch, OK?
Hope Y'all have a fine day!

592 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:12:53am

#523 jehu

When he does these 20% ideas, then he captures no attention, he leaves the argument to those that will pick apart any program, any proposal.

I think he has just run out of steam. He strikes me as being exhausted.

593 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:14:04am

Greets and saluts from the cold NYC metro area. Gonna be sunny today, but temps are going to head into global warming territory tomorrow and Friday. By global warming, I mean extremely cold, which as anyone knows is a sign of global warming.

I've got additional thoughts on the speech last night posted, and think that there's plenty to discuss that doesn't relate to how many times Pelosi blinked, or how many times the Democrats had to think before standing and clapping on whether they wanted the US to win the war in Iraq. On second thought - that latter point is worth discussion. Plenty of discussion in fact.

Why did it seem like pulling teeth for Democrats to stand and applaud when Bush called for victory in Iraq? Can we accept any other outcome? Should we accept any other outcome? What are the consequences of failure? Cutting and running? Redeployment (same difference)?

Oh, and Mike Nifong is going to be putting those lawyers he just retained through the ringer - they're going to be kept busy for a good long time to come as more ethics charges were announced by the State Bar. Ouch.

594 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:14:50am

Now don't tell the BBC.

They're too busy covering a reality tv show.

One of the contestants said that it's too bad slavery was banned and the Beeb is on the attack.

So don't tell them that slavery didn't start nor end with white Euro/Americans.

Christians Aid in Rescue of 102 Sudanese Slaves

Now...about those sexually abused child camel jockey slaves...

595 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:15:00am

TOE update...
Physicists Develop Test for 'String Theory'

For decades, scientists have taken issue with “string theory”—a theory of the universe which contends that the fundamental forces and matter of nature can be reduced to tiny one-dimensional filaments called strings—because it does not make predictions that can be tested.
...
But researchers... have now developed an important test for this controversial “theory of everything.”

Described in a paper that will appear in the January 26 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters, their test involves measurements of how elusive high-energy particles scatter during particle collisions. Most physicists believe those collisions will be observable at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, a subatomic particle collider scheduled to be operating later this year at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, or CERN.


Y'all ready for an eleven dimensional universe?

596 3 wood  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:15:06am

#535 RECON

Welcome back. I thought some black bear had nailed your pelt to the wall by now.

597 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:15:38am

LGF, I love it when you talk energy to me !

No, seriously. A fair place to hash things out. Many participants have knowledge, one way or another. A legitimate discussion of an important topic.

But that doesn't excuse me from producing dinner or running errands. Chicken fajitas tonight ? I'll have to see. But I can't see if I don't go, so I'll catch everybody on the live threads.

598 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:17:12am

#590 loppyd

Coach Kryzywitz is going to have to win March Madness so Duke can have enough cash to pay the inevitable lawsuits

The professors that signed that paper are going to be held to the fire also.

...as they should,kneejerk asshats.

599 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:17:54am

#586 Killgore Trout
I just happen to have that bookmarked was why, LOL

600 Mike C.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:18:05am

# 595 K T

Okay, I had to step back in for that one. Excellent ! 11 dimensions ? Bring 'em on !

601 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:19:58am

Well lookie here...

Bibi was in Beantown yesterday.

“Iran is a radical regime that is susceptible to economic pressures,” said former Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu, in Boston yesterday to urge Massachusetts and other states to pull economic investments from companies doing business with Iran.


“This is a regime where there is talk of imagining a world without America and without Israel,” Netanyahu said. “They talk openly about a new Holocaust, as they deny (the existence of) the first Holocaust.”

602 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:20:11am

#593 lawhawk

Nifong ought to be real popular in prison. They'll have to segregate him from practically everyone.

603 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:00am

Quantum Haiku~

Superstrings,String theory
Supersymmetryand Branes
Theory of everything

604 mad_scientist  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:16am

#563 Ward Cleaver

Saw the story linked on Drudge today. The article didnt say as to when they were arrested, only that jury selection has begun.

Could have happened a while back and it is just now getting the trial process in motion...but it is a new story for me, I havent heard this before.

605 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:22am

I have a question about this Nifong thing. I understand that he's subject to ethics charges from the Bar, but can he be actually be sued by the Duke students he charged? I thought prosecutors have some sort of immunity against charges being brought against them in their professional capacity.

606 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:26am
Y'all ready for an eleven dimensional universe?

Kilgore
Students of Torah, Sefer Yetzirah, Zohar and the Bahir have known this for centuries, we have been waiting for y'all to catch up
;~P

607 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:29am

#601 loppyd 1/24/2007 07:19AM PST

Well lookie here...

Bibi was in Beantown yesterday.

Bibi is the man. Olmert needs to go so Bibi can save Israel.

608 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:41am

Via Atlas

There is no war on terror in the UK, says DPP January 24, 2007 - The Times

Sir Ken Macdonald said that it should be an article of faith that crimes of terrorism are dealt with by the criminal justice system.

There is no “war on terror” on the streets of Britain, the country’s most senior criminal prosecutor said yesterday.

Those responsible for atrocities like the July 7 bombings in London were not “soldiers” in a war, but “deluded, narcissistic inadequates” who should be dealt with by the criminal justice system, Sir Ken Macdonald, the Director of Public Prosecutions, added.

He gave warning against allowing the threat of terrorism to trigger a “fear-driven and inappropriate” security response which damaged Britain’s traditions of freedom.

In what will be seen as a criticism of government measures such as control orders for terror suspects, Sir Ken called for a “culture of legislative restraint” in passing terror laws. Sir Ken’s comments to the Criminal Bar Association put him at odds with Tony Blair and the Home Secretary, John Reid, who have justified tighter security laws on the grounds of the threat posed to Britain by a new kind of terror.

Instead of viewing the problem of terrorism as a “war” threatening the very life of the nation, it should be dealt with as an issue of law enforcement, added Sir Ken, who leads prosecutors in England and Wales as head of the Crown Prosecution Service. One of the “primary purposes” of the violent attacks carried out by supporters of international Islamist terror was to tempt countries like Britain to “abandon our values”.

No.

They want you to convert or die.

609 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:22:43am

TotallySirius

The professors that signed that paper are going to be held to the fire also.

...as they should,kneejerk asshats.

Their latest statement is just as pathetic. "Well maybe no rape occured, but at least this raised awareness to the issue that this happens all the time..." blah freaking blah.

Can you say Tawana Bradley?

610 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:23:25am

603 TotallySirius

Wow. Nicely done. Most of my haiku involves my cat. :-)

611 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:23:29am
Can you say Tawana Bradley?

Do I HAVE to?

612 songbird  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:23:37am

I've not read all the posts, but the erroneous pic is not there anymore.

613 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:23:56am
#605 grayp 1/24/2007 07:22AM PST

I have a question about this Nifong thing. I understand that he's subject to ethics charges from the Bar, but can he be actually be sued by the Duke students he charged? I thought prosecutors have some sort of immunity against charges being brought against them in their professional capacity.

I guess we will see. The players have a good case against him.

614 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:25:05am

#612 songbird
Interesting.

615 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:25:08am

#609 loppyd

Can you say Tawana Bradley?

Believe it or not,that was my thought when the story first broke.

616 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:25:16am

Tawana Brawley.

617 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:25:45am
#608 Ben Hur 1/24/2007 07:22AM PST

Via Atlas

There is no war on terror in the UK, says DPP January 24, 2007 - The Times


Actually he is right but not for the reasons he gives. Terror is a method, not the enemy. We know who the enemy is but are afraid to admit to it. So we PC it by calling it a war on terror.

618 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:25:55am

grayp

The city will be sued. I don't know whether he can be named individually as well as it varies by state. There is usually a municipality statute that prevents it.

He will most definitely be called as a witness though.

619 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:26:12am

616 Ward

That naturally leads to...
Tawana Bra-less.
/rim shot

620 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:26:43am

#612 songbird

Yeah it is.

621 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:27:12am

Songbird, do you mean at Forbes?

622 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:27:13am

Ward Cleaver

oops.

:)

623 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:28:02am

#606 BabbaZee
religion and science? That's unpossible!
Now if we could just straighten out this evolution/creation thing...

624 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:28:29am

Ward

oopsies :)

625 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:28:30am

The Brits have a thing or two to learn from the Afgans.

Afghans thwart suicide attack on U.S. base in Kabul

Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, January 18, 2007


Two Afghans thwarted a would-be suicide bomber from attacking a U.S. base in Kabul on Tuesday, according to a news release from Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.

The incident happened when a driver tried to ram a vehicle filled with explosives through the front gate of Camp Phoenix, the news release says.
Realizing this was a terrorist attack, an Afghan security officer and an interpreter on the scene were able to stop the driver from detonating the explosives, said a Task Force Phoenix spokeswoman in the news release.

“With the assistance of the U.S. Security forces, they dragged the terrorist from the vehicle where U.S. security force soldiers then detained him,” said 1st Lt. Cathrin Fraker.

U.S. and Afghan forces then cordoned off the area, and the bomb later went off as Explosive Ordnance Technicians tried to disarm it, the news release says.

“If it wasn’t for the quick actions of the local nationals working for the U.S. Forces, several lives would have been lost,” said Col. David B. Enyeart, the deputy Task Force commander.

626 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:28:33am
627 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:01am

TS' Grand Unification Theory:

In the beginning

God created the Heavens and the Earth.

628 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:19am

"I'm not a liar, I'm not crazy."

--Tawana Brawley


It just goes to show you; sometimes people say things that aren't actually true.

629 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:21am

Is anyone else getting a delay with posts?

Or is it just me being impatient?

630 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:41am

Hey, they've got Charles's shadow up on the Web site now. Cool.

631 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:41am

#623 Killgore Trout
It's easy, they are not mutually exclusive.
Done!

632 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:49am

...then God let Darwin take over.

633 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:52am

{USMC RECON} Well. Lookee here what the cat drug in!

:D

Good to see you!

634 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:55am

#595 Killgore Trout

TOE update...

Very cool news. Until recently the general opinion was that no aspect of string theory could be tested. Recent theoretical work suggests that W-boson interactions, could provide a test or limit to certain versions of string theory. The experiments won't prove string theory true, but they might prove some versions of ST false.

635 Pro-Bush Canuck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:29:58am

#523 jehu

His domestic agenda I think is weak. When he proposed cutting gas consumption by 20% in ten years? I just think that is such a little vision for this country

I agree, it is a "little vision". Cutting gasoline usage by 20% is ludicrous, if not dangerous.

Gasoline usage should increase by 50% in 10 years.

Actually in a perfect world I would prefer another fuel source (nuclear?) but whatever the source America should be using 10 times as much energy by 2050 as she does now.

There is such widespread, profound ignorance about energy on both the left and right that it scares the heck out of me.

Energy use is directly correlated with wealth and well-being.

The more you use, the wealthier you are as a society. That's what wealth IS.

Those who would restrict energy usage in the US are on a mission to destroy America, whether through right-wing ignorance or left-wing depravity, it matters not. We should aim to use 1,000,000 times as much energy by 2100 as we do today. Obviously that will not be from such a primitive source as hydrocarbons. It will come from sources like space-based solar collectors or whatever (the details do not matter, as long as it is abundant, clean and cheap).

Energy usage is GOOD. The more we use, the healthier, wealthier and stronger we become. Restricting energy is VERY BAD, worse than wasting energy (which is also bad).

There is no surer way to lose to Islam than to head down the self-destructive path now so seductively played out before us by the evil left, and the ignorant, backward right.

636 songbird  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:30:14am

Yes, Ward and all, the ugly pic is gone from forbes and now there is an anonymous silhouette of a man at a computer.

637 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:30:52am

Lopps, it's just you. ;-)

638 Globular Cluster  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:31:13am

Looks like the Duke Rape DA has withheld DNA evidence -- what a scum. Poor kids. And Charles -- you do look an awful lot like Martin Peretz.

639 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:31:25am
In the beginning

God created the Heavens and the Earth.

This made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered as a bad move.

--HGTTG

640 Carolina Girl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:31:25am

#140 Havoc

You mean...you went shooting and you didn't take ME or my 20-gauge?

641 tfc3rid  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:31:39am

Interesting SOTU address. Read it this morining but did not watch it at all. Sounds like the President once again made an attempt to teach the American public about the threat we are facing. Will they get it? Doubtful...

A little disappointed in the health care initiatives, 'comprehensive immigration reform' and the acknowledgement (sort of) that global warming is a major, manmade problem.
Those points are very liberal and constitute playing a bit into the Dems court (bipartisanship).

Overall, I think the President did a good job. He's got a very difficult situation and I could not see anyone else doing this at this point in history.

642 redstateredneck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:31:51am

{RECON}! ! !
Yep, you gotta do something about getting internet out there on the ranch. We can't do without you on a permanent basis!
How's Ajax?

643 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:31:55am

THe pic is gone. Charles the Ghost.

Netherlands: Comedian should be killed

Ewout Jansen is a Dutch comedian. As part of his show he makes fun of Muslims, which brings about different negative reactions - from abuse from the audience to storming the podium. Jansen says many times Moroccan kids shout at him that he should be killed.

University paper Folia decided to get an official reaction from the Muslim community and therefore turned to Assoenna Mosque (Sonat Mosque) in Amsterdam.

In an interview, a spokesman for the mosque said that Jansen should be killed "according to Islam" because of the jokes he makes. If I understand the interview correctly, he also said Jansen should be sued and that if the judge doesn't do anything, then the Muslims should take care of it. The spokesman also said that Van Gogh had been warned of the fate that awaited him.

Assoenna Mosque claims that the person interviewed is not an official representative of the mosque and was just passing through. [BUT OF COURSE! - bh] Folia, on the other hand, claims they talked to an interpreter named Mr. Kabli and that the mosque brought him to be interviewed. He spoke in the presence of several mosque leaders. The mosque's imam, Mohammed Bouljhaf, was also present during the interview, but left halfway through, before the comments were made.

I had tried looking up more information about Assoenna mosque and to find out whether there is a Mr. Kabli there, but did not find anything at all.

644 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:32:14am

Recon, you're not anywhere near Libby, are you? Not a good place. Vermiculite (asbestos) city.

645 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:32:59am

#629 loppyd
Relax.

646 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:33:02am

#634 Kenneth

I thought the Higgs boson,W and Z particle research proved Einstein's unified field theory.

Just working from old memories,I may be mistaken.

647 redstateredneck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:33:42am

Globular Cluster

And Charles -- you do look an awful lot like Martin Peretz


Shit like that'll get you banned.
:D

648 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:33:52am

Occasional Reader

"I'm not a liar, I'm not crazy."

Not stupid either. She and her family took the money they received from supporters ($300,000 large) and ran to Virginia.

649 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:34:16am

#643 Ben Hur

University paper Folia decided to get an official reaction from the Muslim community and therefore turned to Assoenna Mosque (Sonat Mosque) in Amsterdam.

What does Assoenna mean? A goat's bunghole?

650 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:34:18am

#643 Ben Hur 1/24/2007 07:31AM PST

THe pic is gone. Charles the Ghost.

Netherlands: Comedian should be killed

Ewout Jansen is a Dutch comedian. As part of his show he makes fun of Muslims, which brings about different negative reactions - from abuse from the audience to storming the podium. Jansen says many times Moroccan kids shout at him that he should be killed.


Isnt multiculturalism wonderful? :-)

651 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:34:30am

#605 grayp
I don't know if it's a state law or what, but here in CA a friend of mine was building a fleet body shop and felt like he was being personally harrassed by the city. He found some law where if he could prove a government employee was using their position of power for a personal vendetta, that employee surrendered their immunity from legal action. The threat of that was all it took for the city to play nicely. I sure hope that's the case here.

652 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:35:02am

I've never been in Montana, but I think the low humidity would kill me, skin and nasal wise.

653 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:35:02am

#625 Pro-Bush Canuck:

If we succeed in cutting our energy use enough, then we, too, could look like North Korea at night! Now there's a goal that we can all share.

654 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:35:12am

617 Elric66

Terror is a method, not the enemy.

oh, & I suppose you didn't agree with FDR declaring war on carrier launched torpedo bombers & blitzkriegs?

(Warning: the preceding comment contains sarcasm and historical irony, not intended for some viewers.)

655 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:35:50am

#649 Ward Cleaver
maybe it's asmodeus' cousin?

656 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:35:56am

Whoa. Has anybody seen this? This is about the Scooter Libby trial.

I have no doubt that reporters will line up to learn whether David Gregory (a) was interviewed by Fitzgerald (apparently not, see MORE); (b) received a leak from Ari Fleischer, and (c) lied on the "Tim Russert Show" on Oct 29, 2005. Unless, of course, the media covers for their own, which is what will happen here.

I am going to post this to highlight the Gregory discrepancy, then see the rest of the Wells statement to see where he went with this. But *IF* Gregory is lying, can Andrea and Russert be as clean as the snow?

via Glenn

I was watching MSNBC yesterday when they came up with a 'breaking news' thing. Apparently Fitzgerald claims Libby destroyed a document from Cheney telling him to leak Plame's name and CIA connection.

So Jonathan Alter, asshat extrodinaire comes on, accepting every word as gospel and procliams Cheney will go down as the worst vice president ever except for maybe Agnew.

Fitzgerald needs to go too.

657 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:36:41am

Hey, we already know the answer to the question of the universe...

658 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:36:49am
#654 Kenneth 1/24/2007 07:35AM PST

617 Elric66

Terror is a method, not the enemy.

oh, & I suppose you didn't agree with FDR declaring war on carrier launched torpedo bombers & blitzkriegs?


No, I didnt agree with it. :-)

659 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:37:04am

I just overheard the following:

~Will you have to go?

~I hope not. Texas and Oklahoma are one giant lump of nothing.

Northeast snobbery at its finest.

660 goodbye_natalie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:37:20am

The Pelosi Pucker

Some of the comments are priceless...

661 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:37:21am

I have an Assoenna between my buttocks.

/apologies

662 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:38:11am

#657 vx

42 !

663 carbon footprint  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:38:13am

Has anyone here has ever heard of Liberal Larry and his blog called Blame Bush? It is often hilarious, and yes, he is the King of Sarcasm.

664 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:38:50am

Site hacked by Internet Arm of Jihad:

TotallyCrap. A NSFW site.

"Islam is superior. You will draw your punishment.
George W Bush (1946-...) 2007
Fucked USA"

665 carbon footprint  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:39:32am

has
PIMF

666 Pro-Bush Canuck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:39:36am

#653 Occasional Reader

Exactly!

This incrediby dangerous "green" virus is about a billion times as lethal to America as Osama bin Laden. If Republicans start agreeing to force totalitarian energy policies on the American public (as the Europeans are dabbling with) then God help us all.

Our goal should be to use as much energy as humanly possible. We should use it efficiently (not waste it), but we should never, ever try to strangle the very lifeblood of a free, prosperous society as the greens advoctate.

If atheism is anti-American, greenism is anti-Human.

667 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:39:44am

I had to do a cross-section in my structural geology class of a section of the Sawtooth Mountains. Take a USGS map, with surface beds, strikes and dips. The library copies we could check out have the actual professional geologist constructed cross-section cut out.


Blind thrust faults, windows, the whole wazoo there.

Speaking of geology, Anadarko started drilling about 10 years ago big time near Buffalo. I wonder if they're surface logging wasn't responsible for discovering the coal beds there that are being strip mined now.

668 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:39:49am

#646 TotallySirius

I thought the Higgs boson,W and Z particle research proved Einstein's unified field theory.

The Higgs boson has not yet been discovered (although many expect it will when the LHC starts running. Einstein never arrived at a complete unified field theory, & I'm not clear what relation W & Z bosons would have to it.

669 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:40:23am

Considering how they reacted in Denmark, I wonder how they missed this atrocity

670 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:40:46am
#663 carbon footprint 1/24/2007 07:38AM PST

Has anyone here has ever heard of Liberal Larry and his blog called Blame Bush? It is often hilarious, and yes, he is the King of Sarcasm.


Looks similar to thepeoplescube. :-)

671 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:41:10am

662 Totally Sirius

Yes! For correctly answering the question of the universe, you have won an all-expenses paid trip to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

(Taxes and tip are the responsibility of the winner. Don't forget your towel.)

672 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:41:13am

#623 Killgore Trout

"Now if we could just straighten out this evolution/creation thing..."


It's simple...they're both simply a matter of believing... :)

673 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:41:46am

#662 TS:

42 !

Bah. 13!

674 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:42:00am

loppyd

A teacher from my ol' high school found Tawana in da bag.

675 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:42:44am

(LGF)

Thanks all.
I now have electricty,the real kind,.
I paid to have a line run underground from the road ,3 miles , to the house and will set up the 'puter once I move.
I purchased 4 more horses and I am leasing out 1,000 acres to a rancer to graze his cattle.

Ajax is now 5 years old so I went and got a new male and female Rottie.
The male,Xeres ,and the female ,Dianna, are now 6 mos. old and learning well.

I had thye "Family" up for the Chriatmas holidays. Joia is a beautiful young lady. Devon is doing well in his job and LaTisha is due next month.

once I get everything settled ,I plan on buying an additional 2,000 acres which abuts my property. If I can get the Montana Wildlife people to agree, I'm going to start a small herd of Buffalo.
I never realized how much work is involved in running a ranch. I've hired a new housekeeper and 2 ranch hands.

I'll make sure to stay in touch.

676 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:42:48am

OH, and regarding the SOTUS:

Shepard Smith is an alien.

677 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:42:59am
678 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:43:22am

#636 songbird

Yes, Ward and all, the ugly pic is gone from forbes and now there is an anonymous silhouette of a man at a computer.

Whoa. Now they've got a picture of ME up there?

679 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:43:55am

#666 Canuck:

If atheism is anti-American

You know, we were getting along so well there for a minute or so.

680 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:44:44am

#595 Killgore Trout


It seems there are more proposed tests of string theory:

This past December, Joanne Hewett, Thomas Rizzo and student Ben Lillie published an article in Physical Review Letters which shows theoretically how to measure the number of dimensions that comprise the universe. By determining how many dimensions exist, Hewett, Lillie and Rizzo hope to either confirm or repudiate critical string theory under specific conditions.

The first three dimensions, length, height and width, are familiar to all of us. The fourth dimension is time. But what are the extra dimensions? "Imagine a tightrope stretched between skyscrapers," says Hewett. "If you are watching an acrobat walk across it — the tightrope looks like a line. But if you are watching an ant walk on the tightrope, you can see that the tightrope is thick and round." The extra dimensions postulated in string theory are like the tightrope with an ant on it; they are too small to see unless you get really, really close.

Hewett, Lillie and Rizzo found that if so called micro-black holes, which are smaller than the nucleus of an atom, exist, they can be used to determine the number of extra dimensions. If scientists were to smash two high energy protons together they could theoretically make such a micro-black hole. Such a collision could happen at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will become operational next year. Once created, the micro-black hole decays quickly and emits over a dozen different kinds of particles such as electrons, neutrinos and photons, which are easy to detect. Using the predicted decay properties of the black hole into neutrinos, Hewett, Lillie and Rizzo solved complex equations to determine if our universe has 10, 11, or more dimensions — perhaps too many dimensions to be explained by critical string theory.

More technically, the analysis applies to models of extra dimensions where micro-black holes can be formed with a size smaller than the curvature of the additional dimensions and where the fundamental particles which make up our universe do not reside in the extra dimensions. These micro-black holes must also exist at an energy scale which can be probed at the LHC. Under those very specific conditions, the test holds. These conditions are possible within string theory, but need not be present.

"The computations were so massive, we had to make extreme use of the Babar UNIX farm*," said Rizzo.

Of course, string theory hasn't been tested yet — experimental evidence is necessary. Additionally, Hewett, Lillie and Rizzo’s analysis can only disprove critical string theory; it cannot prove it.

"If they see black holes at the LHC, they’ll definitely do this analysis," says Hewett. "This would tell us about the fundamental nature of the universe."

*extreme use of the Babar UNIX farm! (new rotating title for LGF?)

681 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:44:44am

#653 O.R

I was reading this article a few weeks ago by a journalist who had been in North Korea for a long time, and wrote a book about how weird it was once he was out of there. He talked about how when you first get there, they take you on some kind of weird tour of the Great Leader's sites-where he was born, his favourite park, etc..and you have to of course be very solemn about it. Then, he talks about his tour guide saying 'there are no disabled people in North Korea'. They are all just perfect, you know? No disabled people-imagine that.

(shudder)

682 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:44:57am

Ridiculous, a google image search gives you pictures of Charles.
They suck.

683 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:44:58am

#668 Kenneth

IIRC Ws and Zs are massive particles that carry the electro-weak force(unified from electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force)

also IIRC the Higgs boson theoretically carries the unified strong,weak and electro forces

684 carbon footprint  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:45:46am

#670 Elric66
Thank you. ThePeoplesCube is now bookmarked.

685 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:46:12am
686 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:46:13am

#666 PBC

greenism is anti-Human

Amen. Earth worshippers are friends of Stan. It's idolatry.

687 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:46:16am

Babba

Journalists are the laziest people on earth.

688 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:47:30am

Hey there Mr. OR, Merry F**king Christmas!

689 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:47:54am

#675 USMC RECON

Manly ranch talk! Swoon!

690 TotallySirius  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:48:13am

#671 vx

So long

...and thanks for all the fish.

691 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:48:33am

#687 Ben Hur
I thought that was DMV employees...
:~P

692 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:49:29am

#684 carbon footprint 1/24/2007 07:45AM PST

#670 Elric66
Thank you. ThePeoplesCube is now bookmarked.

No problem. Hilarious satire :-)

693 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:49:33am

#682 BabbaZee

They suck.

Wassamatterwichooo? Why so polite, and dainty this morning.

694 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:50:15am

#693 WriterMom
LOL!
Tired, I guess...

695 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:50:22am

#681 WriterMom:

his tour guide saying 'there are no disabled people in North Korea'

Perhaps John Kerry made them all rise and walk, like he could have done for Chrisopher Reeve, if only we had been smart enough to elect him President?

696 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:50:22am

RECON

The only man we know who, when he says he is going out for fast food means he is running down a deer in the woods.
Though I suppose you got Elk now too.

697 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:50:35am

#608 Ben Hur

warning against allowing the threat of terrorism to trigger a “fear-driven and inappropriate” security response

Always hilarious that those who fight back against terrorists are labeled as being terrified, but never those that surrender to terrorists' demands.

/I'm not terrified. I'm stone-cold angry.

698 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:50:41am
#686 WriterMom 1/24/2007 07:46AM PST

#666 PBC

greenism is anti-Human

Amen. Earth worshippers are friends of Stan. It's idolatry

.

So that would mean the Muslims would hate the Greenies. :-)

699 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:51:05am

#688 P to the K

ROFL!

700 EtNorskTroll  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:51:26am

Fake...

...but accurate.

Eh...whatdya' expect from the MSM, Charles?

I mean, seriously:

What did you expect?!?

I'm surprised it doesn't have horns and a tail on it.

~Norsk Troll

701 grayp  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:51:39am

Ben Hur

Journalists are the laziest people on earth.

Also the most self-centered. I spent 3 years at USA Today. Ended up despising all of them.

702 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:52:22am

OT Those in Arizona, Matt Drudge on KFYI, "nearly famous Barry Young Show" I got through to "babinsky" to thank him for the LGF traffic on the UK imam tapes.

703 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:52:29am

#681 WriterMom

his tour guide saying 'there are no disabled people in North Korea'. They are all just perfect, you know? No disabled people-imagine that.

It's true, there are no disabled people in North Korea and no birth defects either, because the State kills them.

704 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:53:12am

#695 O.R

Indeed.

705 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:53:20am

#688 PK: You ain't teaching me nothin I didn't knowed already. I was listening to "Mr. Hankey's Holiday Classics" while crawling up I-95 the Saturday before Christmas.

706 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:53:37am

#644 Ward Cleaver,

Ward , Ilve north and west of Dillon. Libby is approx. 200 miles north west of me.
Writer MOM, Ranch talk, yopu should see me in jeans,chaps and my Stetson.

The locals (30 miles away ) think I'm a regular Jeremiah Johnson.

707 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:53:40am
Manly ranch talk! Swoon!

I feel so...
.
.
.
.
.
Inadequate.

708 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:54:17am

Iranian President Derides U.S. Threats
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -

The United States is incapable of inflicting "serious damage" on Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, as a second U.S. aircraft carrier group steamed toward the Gulf as a warning from Washington for Iran to back down in its attempts to dominate the region.

Sadly, he is right

709 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:54:17am

Judah you are my rhinestone jewboy.

710 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:54:31am

You are.

711 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:54:44am

#703 kenneth

I know. That was my (shudder) up there ^ ^ ^ . The NorKs brag about their eugenics program.

712 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:55:43am

Ben Hur

Eeeew.

Wasn't she covered in this?

(about 10 seconds in)

713 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:56:27am

Sigh. And here I am, with my pasty-white face from the glow of computer monitors all around me, Coke cans collecting in the recycling bin, chocolate wrappers all around me.

Man, I live the good life sometimes. :D

714 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:56:35am

Man arrested for links to Islamic terrorism
24 January 2007

BARCELONA — A Moroccan man was arrested on Wednesday for alleged links to an Islamic terrorist organisation.

Abdellatif Nekkavi alleged sent cash to help the 'yihad' in Iraq.

The operation, which is ongoing, has involved raids on a number of addresses in the Badalona area of Barcelona.

It is the latest arrest in an operation against alleged sympathisers who are sending money and false documenation to help the insurgency against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.


[Link: www.expatica.com...]


Spain ran away from Iraq, why are jihadists still in Spain?

715 redstateredneck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:56:39am

Recon

Writer MOM, Ranch talk, yopu should see me in jeans,chaps and my Stetson.


Be still my heart...you're gonna have all the ladies on the thread swooning!
;-)

716 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:57:14am

#708 Elric66

Derides? Death threats and insults and the press focuses on the insults.

717 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:57:19am

#686 WriterMom

It's idolatry.


You seem to think that's a bad thing. Next you're going to tell me that polythiesm is bad? If I had to guess, I'd say and idoliter or a polythiest has a better chance at getting through the Pearly Gates™ than an athiest. At least they worship something.

718 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:57:28am

Lebanon Goes to Paris III: High Stakes in France and Beirut

On January 25, Lebanon will participate in Paris III, the third international donor conference for Lebanon convened by French president Jacques Chirac since February 2001. The top agenda items are grants and soft loans for Lebanon and the economic reform plan of Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora. For Siniora and his "March 14" ruling coalition, the success of the conference -- i.e., international commitments to provide billions to Lebanon -- is exceedingly important, as the government is coming under increasing pressure from the Hizballah-led opposition. Indeed, this week, the opposition upped the ante in its continuing effort to topple the Siniora government, closing key Lebanese arteries, including the highways into Beirut and the airport road. If Paris III is broadly perceived as "successful," it will strengthen Siniora and demonstrate that the March 14 coalition can govern and advance key Lebanese interests without Hizballah participation in government. Should international donors not prove particularly generous, the momentum will shift toward the opposition

719 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:57:29am

I feel so...
inar...
inar...
inar...
inar...
inar...
inarticulate...

720 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:57:38am

#706 USMC Recon

LOL! I bet you're quite a sight for sore eyes. But remember-I'm "3M": married, mortgaged Mom.

#707 Ben Hur

You're a JEW WARRIOR. That's also sexy, don't worry, boychik.

721 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:58:27am

WriterMom

I'm with you!

Picturing Marlboro Man types...

722 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:58:43am
yopu should see me in jeans,chaps and my Stetson.

Bah, we've got plenty of guys like that right here on the East Coast.

723 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:58:47am

PeaceKeeper,
On the ranch I have Elk, Mule deer,Black Bear and the occasional Grizzley.

I've taken 2 cow elk this year for the larder. I've left the herd bull and sattilites alone for the year ./Next year I think I'll take one of the sattilite bulls out of the herd. When I do my rides around the valleys next to the one the house is in ,I count the elk herd to be well over 100.

724 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:58:51am

I hope Forbes uses the LGF Watch "Mr. Spock" photoshop of Charles as Eva Braun in a polka dot dress that accompanies the "Little Green Footballs/late German Facists" quiz.

Or at least the photoshop of 'Charles in a Dunce Hat' being lectured about how Islamophobia is wrong.

725 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:59:05am

{LIZARDS}!

Good to see everyone.

726 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 5:59:28am
#716 Silhouette 1/24/2007 07:57AM PST

#708 Elric66

Derides? Death threats and insults and the press focuses on the insults.

[Link: www.lasvegassun.com...]


Our press isnt interested in death threats against our nation. Forgot the link

727 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:00am

That guy at Pottersville has a potty mouth.

728 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:13am

Nobody offering joy and praise on Neil Diamond's 66th birthday?

729 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:26am

Any Sasquatch?

730 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:28am
Writer MOM, Ranch talk, yopu should see me in jeans,chaps and my Stetson.

*thump*

731 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:35am

681 WriterMom

No disabled people? What does the government do? Kill diabled babies at birth? Kill those who become disabled later in life?

732 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:37am

Obi-wan!

[Dex-like hug with four arms]

733 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:00:55am

Iran: Israel, US will soon die


Ahmadinejad: Be assured that the US and Israel will soon end lives

Yaakov Lappin Published: 01.23.07, 22:24

Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report.

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad… assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives," the Iranian president was quoted as saying.

"Sparking discord among Muslims, especially between the Shiites and Sunnis, is a plot hatched by the Zionists and the US for dominating regional nations and looting their resources," Ahmadinejad added, according to the report.

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]


We all know that Sunnis and Shiites got along until the US and Israel got involved.

734 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:01:14am

#656 grayp:

Don't read too much into anything the lawyers say during opening or closing arguments - especially the defense. All they are supposed to do is throw doubt on the prosecutor's case, which is pretty thin to begin with.

If Fitzgerald was as sure as he was of nefarious acts by Cheney he could have gotten him for obstruction of justice, but that couldn't happen either - so he instead makes accusations (designed to sway the jury down the road if and when he's called as a witness). No Fitzmas to be sure, but there was an interesting tidbit about David Gregory getting details of Plame before July 13, which would put the Fitzmas timeline in doubt.

re: Global Warming, energy usage, etc.
This is one really cool site that lets you plot various activities and metrics against each other - including CO2 emissions vs. economic vitality.

735 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:01:15am

#731 MandyManners
yup. Eugenics is a staple of tyranny.

736 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:01:29am

OK. OK.

737 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:01:56am

Sounds like it is as close to Heaven as you can get without dying.

738 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:02:04am

We don't have grizzly but I think I saw a bunny and a squirrel.

739 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:02:41am

#732 {vxbush}

Oooff! That felt good!


Do it again.

740 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:02:47am
741 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:03:27am

#683 TotallySirius

IIRC Ws and Zs are massive particles that carry the electro-weak force(unified from electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force)

The electroweak interaction was defined by Sheldon Glashow, Abdus Salam, and Steven Weinberg (shared Nobel Prize in 1979). The Higgs boson is theorized to be what causes particles to have mass.

742 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:03:35am

#717 Killgore Trout

"If I had to guess, I'd say and idoliter or a polythiest has a better chance at getting through the Pearly Gates™ than an athiest. At least they worship something."


Gotcha...? :) (...atheists don't believe there are any such gates...:)

743 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:04:14am

#731 MandyManners

I believe so. No disabled people meaning there is extensive pre-natal genetic screening programs and lots of children are aborted, some are euthanized, and others are dumped into state institutions-never to be seen in public.

744 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:04:18am

#708 Elric:

Sadly, he is right

The US Armed Forces are "incapable of inflicting damage" on Iran? Say what?

745 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:04:20am

OR

I saw one of them nekkid in a pron mag once. The biker dude.

I was 10. My neighbor and I found the mag under her parents' bed. I was horrified.

746 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:04:25am

Recon, has a bear chased you through the cabin yet, while you're being laughed at by Will Geer?

/remembering jeremiah johnson

747 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:04:44am

Babba

I sound just like that!

748 Just_A_Grunt  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:05:28am

I went to the Forbes list and they have removed any picture associated with Charles now. I am sure Reuters or AP can supply one.

749 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:05:31am

#730 Miss Trixie

Was that you fainting? LOL!

I'll bring you a cup of cold water, bubbaleh...

750 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:05:31am

#742 Ma Sands
If there are gates i don't think I'll be able to sneak in anyways.

751 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:05:58am

#729
PK, Only me.

You are a mind reader, I've named the ranch "Heaven's Gate"

752 vxbush  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:06:07am

Obi-wan

Sorry, no can do. Work is a calling. :-(

753 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:06:07am

Judah, LOL!
We keep you alive to serve this ship!

754 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:06:11am

#744 Occasional Reader 1/24/2007 08:04AM PST

#708 Elric:

Sadly, he is right

The US Armed Forces are "incapable of inflicting damage" on Iran? Say what?


Oh I think we have the capability. I dont think we have the will. Two different things.

755 loppyd  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:06:21am

RECON

It's great to hear you are so happy with your move!

Life is a strange and lovely ride...

{RECON}

756 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:07:01am

688 Peacekeeper

Another reason I love LGF.

757 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:07:02am

#740 {BabbaZeee}!

You found my voiceover!

758 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:07:08am

#745 loppyd:

I saw one of them nekkid in a pron mag once.

It was probably titled "Jeremiah's Johnson".

(just going with the flow here)

759 Miss Trixie  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:07:48am

Silhouette

We don't have grizzly but I think I saw a bunny and a squirrel.

Pass the Windex, please.

760 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:08:05am

Gallup Poll Finds Islam, Democracy Not Incompatible

"There is a support for, in principle, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion," she said. "There is also an admiration of liberty and freedom of expression in the West. So, in principle there is support for these concepts and these values."

At the same time, Gallup found that in countries, such as Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan and Bangladesh, a majority of the people asked said sharia, or Muslim law, should be the only source of legislation. In four other countries, a majority said sharia must be a source of law, although not the only source.

761 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:10:11am
762 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:10:19am

#676 Ben Hur

Last night, Shep was acting as the voice of the left.

763 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:10:31am

Occasional Reader,

Now that's what I really miss about this place.

No bears chasing through the lodge but I have to make sure the trash is in the metal dumpster or they will come to "feed".

764 ctrlL  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:10:43am

Good morning, 'Chuckie' -
What's the old line about publicity of any kind being beneficial ? They are just green with envy.

You made quite a formidable list in Forbes.

Congratulations !

765 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:11:01am

Isn't it so lonely in Montana that the cowboys and sheperds turn gay in pup tents?


Get back to the Adirondacks. Nice, safe mountains, without gay cowboys.

-9º with light snow ending at Saranac Lake.

That sounds cold, but it isn't, 'cause that is Celcius.

The -21ºC Friday morning will be brisk, and invigorating.


And no gay cowboys.

766 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:11:13am

USMC RECON

Good to see you again.

Color my football green with envy.

767 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:11:25am

#754:

The US Armed Forces are "incapable of inflicting damage" on Iran? Say what?

Oh I think we have the capability. I dont think we have the will. Two different things.

Funny, but the US has had the capability of inflicting damage on every spot on the planet for more than 60 years. Perhaps you'd like to talk to the Imperial Japanese about what the US did to the Japanese fleet and homeland during World War II. Or maybe talk to the residents of WWII Dresden.

The US capabilities are even more fearsome now than they were in WWII. What is different is the willpower to unleash that force or to demand unconditional surrender. Do not confuse the two (the capability and the will to use it). That could be your fatal mistake.

768 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:11:34am

#750 Killgore Trout
Nope...you're right...can't sneak in --gotta go in all proud & humble... :) --He is the God of foolishness, you know... :)
I Cor. 1:25

769 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:12:11am

Koreans are very into bloodlines. Just ask Hines Ward. Bi-Racial Koreans have a 70-80% dropout rate. Koreans are taught about the purity of their single bloodline (which kinda sucks if you're be-racial).

I know I know, the US/Israel are racists, not the many societies that have no experience with minorities.

My bad.

770 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:12:58am
No bears chasing through the lodge but I have to make sure the trash is in the metal dumpster or they will come to "feed".

Same thing in the City, only they call them Alcoholic bears.

771 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:13:19am

Re: Chaps & stetson, USMC Recon is the one on the far left.

772 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:13:43am

#761 taxfreekiller
Absolutely.
Amen.


Then will the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God) shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears [to hear] be listening, and let him consider and perceive and understand by hearing.

~ Matthew 13:43 (Amplified Bible)

773 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:13:53am

#767 lawhawk 1/24/2007 08:11AM PST

#754:

The US Armed Forces are "incapable of inflicting damage" on Iran? Say what?

Oh I think we have the capability. I dont think we have the will. Two different things.

Funny, but the US has had the capability of inflicting damage on every spot on the planet for more than 60 years. Perhaps you'd like to talk to the Imperial Japanese about what the US did to the Japanese fleet and homeland during World War II. Or maybe talk to the residents of WWII Dresden.

The US capabilities are even more fearsome now than they were in WWII. What is different is the willpower to unleash that force or to demand unconditional surrender. Do not confuse the two (the capability and the will to use it). That could be your fatal mistake.

Doesnt matter how much power you have if you arent willing to use it to protect your security. Like I said, we have the capability but not the will.

774 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:14:03am

735 BabbaZee

Is there proof? I'm not doubting it but, my mind just boggles.

775 Friend of USA  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:15:23am

A bit off topic but I think it is worth it,

House Democrats Pass Minimum Wage Law That Still Exempts Samoa From Minimum Wage

Read the whole thing at Say Anything


...Don't you think that might explain in part why why Pelosi was blinking so much?

776 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:15:27am

#743 WriterMom

Somehow I can't see NK having the money or technology for intensive pre-natal genetic screening. I imagine the children are killed at birth. But I'm just guessing.

777 jehu  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:15:34am

Pro-Bush 635

There is such widespread, profound ignorance about energy on both the left and right that it scares the heck out of me.

Energy use is directly correlated with wealth and well-being.

I saw a graph years ago, where it showed cost of energy graphed to economic growth. Both lines followed each other very closely. They showed various countries. It was obvious that the wealth of America was directly related to abundant cheap energy for well over 100 years. The Left through activism seeks to destroy American wealth (and therby dominance), and the right are many times stupid, as you pointed out. I watched those senators hi-fiving the ethanol bull crap last night, most of them Pubs. Stupid morons, as has been pointed out, ethanol production in this country is a zero sum game, maybe even a negative.

778 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:16:01am

#774 MandyManners
That eugenics is a staple of tyranny or that NK is killing off the "non-perfect"?

779 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:16:04am

#761 taxfreekiller
One who can write that last line, knows his Bible.... :)

780 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:16:30am

743 WriterMom

I never cease to be stunned by the depth of human depravity. What if the woman does not want all that testing? Gee. What a bunch of anti-choice assholes.

781 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:17:08am

Howdy Ma

782 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:18:02am

Jehu, Mike C.
Then there was the guy who developed a method of tapping limitless, cheap energy from radioactive coal...

783 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:18:13am

Babba!

I wasn't kidding (that much).

Have a voice over seminar tonight!

784 aishel  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:18:50am

Forbes took the picture down.

785 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:19:56am

#783 Ben Hur
a veritable renaissance man, you are...

786 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:20:28am

#768 Ma Sands

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;


Huh, I'm glad God has a silly side.

787 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:20:31am

#771 Kenneth,
I don't have blonde hair.

788 Mad Al-Jaffee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:21:12am

OT - here's the most disgusting thing I've read on DU in a while - a discussion about how great Randi Rhodes is:

[Link: www.democraticunderground.com...]

The most telling post has a picture of the poster wearing a Che t-shirt, posing with Rhodes at Camp Casey.

789 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:21:31am

#754 Elric:

Oh I think we have the capability. I dont think we have the will. Two different things.

We took down two oppressive regimes in 18 months after 9/11.

Are we doing enough? No. But... "no will"? Hardly.

790 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:21:35am

Yet

791 jamgarr  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:22:06am

For some reason these guys seem to think calling me “Chuckie” is the height of derisive wit.

Actually, Chuckie (Chucky) can be rather endearing:

The Ballad of Chucky J (updated)

There once were a biker named Chuck
A seaworthy blogger with pluck
He gathered a crew
Minions like me and you
And set sail with a kiss fer good luck
Stormy waters he ventured to cruise
Armed with right and but nothing to lose
"Keep their feet to the fire!"
He'd preach to the choir
And keep a weather eye on all breaking news
There were times when the lubbers did moan
At the truth they were bein' a shown
With a fire in their eyes
They would claim he told lies
But the transgressions they knew were their own
After time the crew gathered in force
It be the result of right thinking - of course
(And a little night raid
on scurvy Rather he paid)
Which shined light on his reasoned discourse
And al-Reuters, too, has seen his panache
Its Photoshop lies now be known
So take note newsie lads
When ye' think to do bad
Ye' will reap everything that ye've sown

Now the blogosphere scans his horizon
For they know that he ain't compromisin'
Al-Jazeera and CAIR
Know they'd best be aware
He exposes their lies as they're risin'

And at Yahoo they search for his thoughts
(When they're not looking for beaver shots)
As for Koz and the Huff
They be searched quite enough
By the dullards and socialist sots

So if its safe harbor ye seek
Just troll for a day or a week
Ye surely will find
A rummy fine mind
Just beware - his blog's not for the weak!

792 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:22:12am

Telegraph: North Korea helping Iran to prepare for nuke test


[Link: hotair.com...]


Arent they part of the axil of evil?

793 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:22:27am
794 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:22:53am

#776 Silhouette

Somehow I can't see NK having the money or technology for intensive pre-natal genetic screening. I imagine the children are killed at birth. But I'm just guessing.

Cheap & quick prenatal ultrasound testing is common in Asia. In China, many people use ultrasound to screen for males. Females are aborted. China is now facing a huge bachelor crisis: not enough females to marry all the unwed males.

In NoKo, the state uses abortion if a defect is found. If a defect or dissability is discovered only after birth, the infant is killed then. This has been reported on by medical teams visiting the Hermit Kingdom.

And some people snicker when Bush called Kim evil...

795 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:22:56am
UPDATE at 1/24/07 8:19:19 am:

I received an email this morning from a Forbes editor apologizing for the mistake; I’ll be sending them a photo of myself to replace Martin Peretz.


Send them this Charles Johnson
Wavy Gravy!

796 redstateredneck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:23:12am

Ugh...I googled disabled babies North Korea.
They kill the "racially impure", as well as those with disabilities.
link

797 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:23:52am

#788 Mad Al-Jaffee

That place is a fruit stand.

798 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:23:54am

#788 Mad Al-Jaffee
Impostress Slut!
There can be only one Randy Rhoads.

799 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:24:04am

#781 BabbaZee
Hi. :)
Has anyone mentioned the equation "E=oT- to the 4th power" , in the energy discussion? :)

800 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:24:34am

#797 Me

DU, that is.

/a fruit stand

801 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:25:06am
[Jeremiah RECON is being forced by the Flathead chief to marry an Indian girl]
Jeremiah Johnson RECON: Del Gue, I don't think this is a good idea.
Del Gue: He may be a Christian and talk white; but he's still an Indian and his rules is his rules. Now, when this is over you can talk her to Fort Hawley and trade her, but you will get married my friend. Besides, maybe she ain't half bad.

Hey RECON! Good to "see" you again.

Watch yerself pilgrim.

:D

802 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:25:24am
#789 Occasional Reader 1/24/2007 08:21AM PST

#754 Elric:

Oh I think we have the capability. I dont think we have the will. Two different things.

We took down two oppressive regimes in 18 months after 9/11.

Are we doing enough? No. But... "no will"? Hardly.


House and Senate are different. So is the mood of the country. America doesnt have the stomach for long wars. NK allready got nukes and we didnt stop it. Iran will probaly get them too because no one has the will to stop them. I really do hope that I am wrong and we do bomb the crap out of them but the signs just arent there.

803 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:25:25am

793 ploome hineni

Good for you!

804 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:25:34am
I’ll be sending them a photo of myself to replace Martin Peretz

Charles, send this one.

805 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:25:42am

Fun from learnbodylanguage dot org

Proof that Pelosi is a liar

Lying is not easy
...This heighten tension may cause the eyes to increase blink rate also.

Or maybe it's W?

... there may be more than normal mispronunciations and stutters.
806 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:25:46am

#795 Killgore Trout

I want me some of them shades.

807 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:26:46am

796 redstateredneck

Makes me wish we'd gone into North Korea instead of Iraq.

808 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:27:16am

#801 newmelleman

That Indian woman was pretty hot, IMHO.

/i saw that movie when i was 13

809 carbon footprint  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:27:59am

Air (Err) America and Randi Rhodes are getting sued by CACI.

810 Peacekeeper  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:28:47am

Finally they've corrected their photo:
Charles "Chucky" Johnson

811 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:29:24am

#808 Ward

Concur!

812 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:30:52am
813 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:30:59am

#810 PK

Wow, that must have been right after a ride up the coast.

814 Ma Sands  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:31:20am

#786 Killgore Trout

"...I'm glad God has a silly side."


Yup...that's my only hope...heehee :)

815 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:31:27am

Chirac Nixes Engagement with Syria

French President Jacques Chirac spoke today in a televised session with three journalists, including LBC's Marcel Ghanem (aired on LBC and Future TV). He was asked why he does not engage Syria. His response (my on-the-spot translation of some excerpts):

I have great respect for the Syrian people. But experience has taught me that the current Syrian leadership, who are a minority of the Syrian people, it's difficult to believe them.

Those few in Europe who did go to talk to the Syrian leadership were very disappointed. They got absolutely nothing.

This has been Chirac's position, and indeed that of the Quay as well (contrary to the illusions of Syria's cheerleaders).

I was recently at a hearing on Syria at the EU Parliament, where I spoke to several EU officials. One official told me that in France, support for Lebanon is "across the board" (and not just Chirac, as many cheerleaders like to think). He also repeated what Chirac said (which is something I've said before, re: the British envoy Scheinwald, the German FM Steinmeier, and even US Sen. Bill Nelson) that the Europeans who went to talk to Assad got "absolutely nothing." No surprise there, as I've written numerous times before.

He also added that it was very clear that all this riff-raff now in Lebanon is aimed at one thing: scuttling the international tribunal. Again, no surprise there.

Geesh, even Chirac gets it!

816 BabbaZee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:31:51am

#799 Ma Sands
Not a clue, I haven't been reading all of that discussion

817 phoenixgirl  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:31:52am

#788 MAJ

So was that guy talking about CACI or the UN?

818 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:32:02am

#811 newmelleman

Of course I was 13 then.

819 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:32:43am

Wife of imam tells of persistent abuse
His representatives say her story is full of lies and is one-sided

By Jason Bergreen
and Jessica Ravitz
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 01/23/2007 02:17:59 AM MST


Click photo to enlargeShuaib-ud Din«1»Apparently angry with how his dinner was prepared, Imam Shuaib-ud Din on Jan. 2 punched and kicked his wife and beat her head against a freezer until the door broke, the woman alleged in a petition for a protective order.
The next day, the imam - the recently fired religious leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Salt Lake - threw a kitchen knife at her and threatened to kill her, according to a petition for a temporary protective order filed last week by Ayesha Siddiqa Din.


[Link: www.sltrib.com...]

But Islam has great respect for women, right?

820 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:33:15am
821 pat  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:34:10am

Lucianne is reporting that Nifong is being charged with Withholding Evidence

822 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:34:40am
823 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:35:14am

USMC RECON
Weren't you from New York? Damn, I can't get this commercial out of my head.

824 Ward Cleaver  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:35:23am

#811 newmelleman

That was the only movie she ever made:

Delle Bolton

Check out the message board stuff on her IMDb page. She's from Houston, and may be living in Calif. now.

825 The Pulchritudinous Patriot  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:35:52am

#760 Killgoretrout

Gallup Poll Finds Islam, Democracy Not Incompatible


No! Really?

826 Elric66  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:36:10am

#822 taxfreekiller 1/24/2007 08:34AM PST

#819

what she says has no standing, only one woman
she must have a second to make it legal and real

She should know better than that. Geesh.


004.034
YUSUFALI: Men are the protectors and maintainers of women, because Allah has given the one more (strength) than the other, and because they support them from their means. Therefore the righteous women are devoutly obedient, and guard in (the husband's) absence what Allah would have them guard. As to those women on whose part ye fear disloyalty and ill-conduct, admonish them (first), (Next), refuse to share their beds, (And last) beat them (lightly); but if they return to obedience, seek not against them Means (of annoyance): For Allah is Most High, great (above you all).

PICKTHAL: Men are in charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other, and because they spend of their property (for the support of women). So good women are the obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah hath guarded. As for those from whom ye fear rebellion, admonish them and banish them to beds apart, and scourge them. Then if they obey you, seek not a way against them. Lo! Allah is ever High, Exalted, Great.

SHAKIR: Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion, admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.

827 ploome hineni[deleted]  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:36:10am
828 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:38:21am

#823 UFO,
Yep. I am selling my house in Chasm Falls ,NY.


Originally I'm from New Jersey.

Now I'm just an old cow hand.

829 Ben Hur  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:38:31am

Is it not Year of the Pig, according to the Chinese Calendar?

830 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:40:39am

#794 Kenneth

There are ultrasounds and then there is intensive genetic testing. It was those defects that don't show up with u/s that I was thinking about.

I was looking at the birth rates for China yesterday, the population, and the boy/girl ratio.

They've had the 1 child policy since the 70s, which if completely obeyed would halve the population (in theory, eventually). I was surprised to see the birth rate was still something like 1.76 per woman. I wonder if this is all attributable to the allowance for some rural families to have 2. Certainly much of China is rural so that is probably not an insignificant exception.

But even though this rate is below replacement rate (2.1), the population of China is still growing every year.

They promise they are going to 'work on' the abortion of so many girls, starting with economic incentives and outlawing gender-based abortion. The ratio wasn't as bad as I had thought. For some reason, I feared it would be like 3:1, but it was reported at CIA factbook as 1.12:1 (normal is 1.07:1)

831 MandyManners  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:41:05am

796 redstateredneck

Ooooh. Pure evil. I'm in such a foul mood after reading the first page that I don't know how I'll get out of it. Lil' Kim is giving Hitler a run for his money on depravity.

832 ggt  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:42:28am

Good Morning Lizards! It is bright and cold in the Very Far Western Parts of Chicagoland. The stuff melts during the day and freezes at night. Standard January weather.

Is this the DDT?

833 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:42:44am

#828 USMC RECON

Any chance of a Montana meet-up and barbecue in the future?

834 redstateredneck  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:44:27am

MandyManners

Lil' Kim is giving Hitler a run for his money on depravity.


You got that right; pure evil.

835 Dar ul Harb  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:44:29am

UPDATE at 1/24/07 8:19:19 am:

I received an email this morning from a Forbes editor apologizing for the mistake; I’ll be sending them a photo of myself to replace Martin Peretz.

"Funny, he doesn't look Jewish in this one..."

836 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:45:11am

#833 Obi-wan:

In Montana, wildlife barbecues you.

/channeling Yakov Smirnov

837 EtNorskTroll  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:47:37am
#796 redstateredneck 1/24/2007 08:23AM PST

Ugh...I googled disabled babies North Korea.
They kill the "racially impure", as well as those with disabilities.
link


Ahhh, yes: Eugenics.

Thank you Charles Darwin!
/sarc off

Hitler loved the "survival of the fittest" theory, as well.

Goes to show what ahteists are REALLY capable of, once they are done accusing Christians of comitting atrocities.

Shows that they are like ever other man on this planet, huh...?

~Norsk Troll

838 ggt  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:48:26am

I don't get to stay and play long. I have to take one of the dogs to the vet. Cat vexed her or something.

I'll be back after while. Keep the lights on for me.

839 Kenneth  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:50:29am

#830 Silhouette

I would think the Koreans would only use cheap ultrasound to pre-screen. The "problem" can easily be identified & "corrected" at birth. Did you read the article about abortions in Korea sombody linked to above? What a horrible, horrible, evil state!

The Chinses ratio may seem only slightly off the norm, but that ratio is for the population over all, while the ratio at the "marriageable age" is much higher. And given the huge total population of China, the result is 50 million more males than females. It must suck being a young man in China trying to score on a Saturday night.

840 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:52:01am

#839 Kenneth

At least it gives the ugly girls a shot.

841 Occasional Reader  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:52:15am

Blaming Nazi eugenics on Darwin makes about as much sense as blaming the North Korean nuclear program on Einstein.

842 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:52:54am

Ward

Check out the message board stuff on her IMDb page. She's from Houston, and may be living in Calif. now.

You drive, I'll buy the beer & we can split the gas bill!

:D

NMM

843 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 6:57:17am

USMC RECON
My best to you, sometimes life is good.

Later all, gotta run. Todays public service announcement.

844 Mad Al-Jaffee  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:06:46am

North Korea: I know you are, but what am I?

[Link: www.kcna.co.jp...]

845 lurking faith  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:10:06am

Sprite

Hi!

Can I make a suggestion? Your posts would be a lot easier to understand if you would use the Quote function to distinguish other people's words from yours. (Just highlight/select the quoted text, then click on "Quote.")

And try not to worry about tfk. His spelling and grammar border on the unfathomable - and, not being a blind fool, he knows that as well as any of us - but we are, by and large, quite fond of him, and I believe he's aware of that, too.

846 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:14:44am

"Pet"

Don't fret precious I'm here, step away from the window
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come

Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble

Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you, like I do, like I do
Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do.

Just stay with me, safe and ignorant,
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeyman come
Count the bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble

Head down, go to sleep to the rhythm of the war drums

I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons

I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason

I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They're one in the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

Swayin to the rhythm of the new world order and
Count the bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums

The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming

Keep your head down, go to sleep, to the rhythm of a war drums

Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
Hold you and protect you from the other ones
The evil ones
Don't love you son,
Go back to sleep

847 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:16:24am

Hello!

{[{DDT}]}

848 J.D.  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:17:25am
849 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:18:46am

#847 Minnesota Ronin

Good to see you.

Where ya been?

850 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:22:20am

Obi-wan

Good to see you as well!

Where have I been... well, unemployed and without a computer!

:D

851 lancekates  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:22:22am

wait... Charles and LGF are ranked 20th, but KOS is ranked 3rd?

what the crust?

Good morning all. leaving in a bit, got a few things to do.

talk to all'y'all later.

852 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:25:55am

Hiya [Lance]!

Bye [Lance]!

853 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:31:08am

#850 MR

That explains it.

What kind of work are you out of?

854 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:31:28am

*sleeping alligators*

855 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:32:55am
What kind of work are you out of?

Call center/Telecom

856 Havoc  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:36:43am

#640 Carolina Girl

Hey there !

It was fun watchin the local kids shoot up an old TV. Think I'll take one next time.

O.K. next time I'll pick up an old $25 TV from Goodwill and a barely runs $75 Buick as targets I'll call email you and flyboy.

(You have to pay for towing and disposal of the Buick after howevah)

Do you have an "Improved Cylinder Choke" on that 20 guage capable of handling Slugs

857 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 7:40:09am

#855 MR

I hear Google is opening up a new center in NC employing 600 people.

Any chance of prying you out of MN?

858 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:02:02am
What kind of work are you out of?

Call center/Telecom

Gosh, I hope you won't have to move to India or anything!

:P

j/k I got a definite feeling you'll land on your feet.

859 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:01:38am

Well that sucked... I was booted off for a bit!

Any chance of prying you out of MN?

Not with the little one... If it was just me, perhaps... But I gotta keep him close to family.

Gosh, I hope you won't have to move to India or anything!

I hope not as well... I hate the food!

:D

860 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:04:01am

#859 MR

Well, we'll keep you in our prayers that you find the job you were meant for very soon.

What have you got against curry powder?

861 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:04:31am

NMM or Obi-Wan:

Where is everyone else today?

Have they even been around?

862 USMC RECON  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:05:29am

#833 Obi-Wan

Once I get everything at the ranch set,I'm going to invite people up. I have 6 bedrooms in the lodge and 3 in the guest house. The rest will have to sleep outside.

863 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:05:44am

Obi

Thanks you for your thoughts!

What have you got against curry powder?

It's just not my brand.

864 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:06:33am

[RECON]

How ya doin?

865 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:06:52am

redstate was here, no m, Miss Trixie is usually only down here in the mornings, RECON made a long overdue appearance, UFO was here, Lance is working only a half day today I think, haven't seen Widow or Frax yet.

866 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:08:16am

If you bring a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue, it'll guarantee you a bed.

867 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:08:26am

NMM

Well that sucks.

I miss the old days of a packed basement!

868 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:09:24am

#862 USMC RECON

Sleeping outside suits me OK. Mrs. Obi-wan needs a roof. Sounds like a beautiful place.

Don't go too fast. It's not like you're on a schedule or anything.

869 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:10:55am

[RONIN]

Long time no see.

870 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:13:04am

[Heathen]!

Long time no see is right! How are ya?

871 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:13:18am

865 nmm

redstate was here, no m, Miss Trixie is usually only down here in the mornings, RECON made a long overdue appearance, UFO was here, Lance is working only a half day today I think, haven't seen Widow or Frax yet.

Ehem...

872 ggt  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:14:05am

Lizards! Back from the vet and off onto another errand.

Wish I could stay.

Have a great day!

873 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:16:08am

C-ya ggt!

874 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:18:08am

I guess I'll see how the job thing goes... I applied to 12 jobs today through Monster, so, now comes the waiting game!

875 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:18:12am

870 ronin

Long time no see is right! How are ya?


No complaints. Enjoying the job actually. I didn't read upthread very far, if I understand correctly the reason you are posting today is because you have no job? Good luck finding a new job. Hopefully you'll get one where you can stay on the DDT all day like the good ole days.
"as one door closes another opens" I don't know who said that but it usually applies to career changes. :)

876 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:21:08am

dangit...my last post got swallowed up. Probably some leftist plot. I'll see if this one makes it through.

877 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:21:23am
Ehem...

Only the Heathen Knows
*dark laughter*

[Heathen]


I applied to 12 jobs today through Monster, so, now comes the waiting game

Cast a wide net as they say...the more apps the better!

878 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:22:30am

ahhh there it is. It just showed up 3 minutes late is all. weird!

879 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:23:30am
Good luck finding a new job. Hopefully you'll get one where you can stay on the DDT all day like the good ole days.

Hell Yeah!

Now that would be the hotness!

880 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:23:54am

#878 TH

Happens to me all the time.

881 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:24:08am

874 Ronin

I applied to 12 jobs today through Monster,


Thats how I got this job. good old monster.com and extremely targeted resume.

882 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:25:24am

#879 MR

When life hands you lemons, break out the salt and the tequilla and invite me over!

883 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:26:12am
Cast a wide net as they say...the more apps the better!

That's what I'm hoping to do!

Well, I actually applied for another one, but that was just for fun. I applied to the job that I got fired from just so that someone has to take the time to review it and say no. HAHAHAHA! ! !

884 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:27:45am
Thats how I got this job. good old monster.com and extremely targeted resume.

Oh, it's extremely targeted.

:D

885 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:28:26am

I

applied to the job that I got fired from just so that someone has to take the time to review it and say no. HAHAHAHA! ! !

They don't have it filled yet? That was quite a while back if I recall...tells you something about the outfit I suppose. You will be better off elsewhere.

886 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:28:32am
When life hands you lemons, break out the salt and the tequilla and invite me over!

Right on!

887 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:28:37am

Last startup I went on was in Gulfport,MS the guys there told me that the job market is exploding. Skilled labor is in high demand and the employers have to pay good wages because its easy to find a new job.
How do you feel about Mississippi?

888 UFO TOFU  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:28:55am

At last, the mystery of all those dead chickens in China has been solved.

889 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:30:09am

Mississippi Ronin has a nice ring to it.

890 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:30:56am
They don't have it filled yet? That was quite a while back if I recall...tells you something about the outfit I suppose. You will be better off elsewhere.

No, they filled it. And then canned the person who filled it!

891 WriterMom  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:31:06am

#882 Obi-Wan

That is so sweet. I'll make some Hard Lemonade. LOL!

892 Texas Heathen  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:33:23am

Ihtgbtwn
bbl
Good seeing you again Ronin.

893 Silhouette  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:33:29am

#839 Kenneth

The Chinses ratio may seem only slightly off the norm, but that ratio is for the population over all,

Actually, the ratio of 1.12:1 boy/girl was at birth.

China
at birth: 1.12 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.13 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female
total population: 1.06 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

Compare to the US:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 1 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.72 male(s)/female
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

If "at birth" and "under 15" ratios in China are 1.12-1.13 to 1, that doesn't indicate the ratio would be that different at marriagable age. Assuming 1.125 males:1 female at 18 (and it is possible China reported incorrect numbers) it looks like 9 guys for every 8 gals, which isn't that dire of a shortage. (Unless you're that 9th guy, I guess.)

Enough stats. I boring myself. ;-)

894 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:34:02am
How do you feel about Mississippi?

It's fine. Unfortunately I'm not looking to relocate... Otherwise it sounds like a hell of a spot to be. I just don't wanna take the Lil' Ronin away from family.

895 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:35:10am

Good seeing you as well [Heathen]

Take care and I'll catch you later

896 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:35:18am

#891 WriterMom

I'll be right over!

Love lemons. Love tequilla.

Hold the salt.

897 newmelleman  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:37:12am

Ronin

Ever hear this one? When they get around to firing your old supervisor, this would be his/her themesong.

:D

nah nah nah nah
nah nah nah nah
da da da da
da da da da

da da da da
da da da da
da da da da
da da da da

I work at burger king making flame broiled whoppers
I wear paper hats
Would you like an apple pie with that?
Would you like an apple pie with that?

Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done

I gotta run
I gotta run
I gotta run
I gotta run

Don't bob for fries in hot fat
it really hurts bad
and so do skin grafts
Would you like an apple pie with that?
Would you like an apple pie with that?

Where is the bell?
Wait for the bell
Can't hear the bell
Where is the bell?

Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done

I work at burger king making flame broiled whoppers
I wear paper hats
Would you like an apple pie with that?
Would you like an apple pie with that?

Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done
Ding fries are done
Diiing friiies aaare dooone

Lyrics go with a x-mas tune but I can't think of its name right now (carol of the bells?).

898 firegeezer  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:38:02am

Moonbat Potter has 9 comments so far (8 of them from LGF'ers) and this thread is approaching 900. MP must be sooo proud.

899 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:39:07am

#894 MR

I went to a dozen schools in as many countries growing up. Didn't hurt me a bit. Gave me a much more well-rounded education and an appreciation for my country I couldn't have gotten any other way.

Staying close to family is fine. But there's a lot to be said for broadening one's horizons.

900 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:39:37am

NMM

That would be her themesong, and I love that song! They play it up here on the radio from time to time.

Although I wonder if it might be too good for her?

:D

901 Overlord  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:42:49am
#898 firegeezer 1/24/2007 10:38AM PST

Moonbat Potter has 9 comments so far (8 of them from LGF'ers) and this thread is approaching 900. MP must be sooo proud.

Say what now?

902 Minnesota Ronin  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:44:25am
Staying close to family is fine. But there's a lot to be said for broadening one's horizons.

Very true. But, he's only 9 months old right now, so moving with just him and I would not be an ideal situation just yet. In my opinion anyway.

:D

903 Overlord  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:47:21am
firegeezer


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904 Obi-wan  Wed, Jan 24, 2007 8:47:46am