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60 Minutes: Jihad.com

Sun, Mar 4, 2007 at 10:44:48 pm PST

CBS has posted the video of their 60 Minutes segment on the internet jihad, featuring Aaron Weisburd of Internet Haganah, at this page: Terrorists Take Recruitment Efforts Online.

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1 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 8:45:51pm

Thanks, Charles.

I've been waiting because I refuse to give cbs my business.

2 DesertSage  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 8:50:46pm

Custer's last stand?

3 pat  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 8:53:38pm

2 DesertSage
Still standing! Nite.

4 Irene NYC  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:03:04pm

Americans, including our government, have been unbelievably naive, stupid and arrogant about recognizing the effectiveness of the tools that the terrorists and jihadists have been using - the media, the internet, not to mention our very own institutions (judicial, educational, political, charitable, etc.).

If 9/11 didn't teach our leaders to understand what a small group of determined fighters can do, I don't know what will.

This CBS report is coming awfully late. Time to wake up folks!

5 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:05:10pm

The look on Scott Pelley's face when the General said "the press has no credentials here" was priceless. Yes Scott, they'll kill you too.

An actual good job by 60 Minutes.

6 Beagle  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:06:23pm

Uh... good journalism. It's been a while since I broke out those two words. Lots of information based on facts, pulling no punches due to religious sensitivity. Jihad is what it is, an appeal to "true Islam" for lots of people, especially the young. And they can do it using traditioinal Islamic sources. Robert Spencer must be saying "Told ya!"

Of course it's easy to get the same story from online jihadis at Wordpress or Blogspot. It's the worst-kept secret in the world, just publicly denied by nearly everyone paid to think about it in government, the media, and law enforcement. At least the military is training a new generation of officers to get it. I've seen jihadi literature online at military training centers. So that part of the story I've personally verified.

7 RadicalRon  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:12:53pm

Charles,

This is awfully close to a Flying Pig moment.

8 American Soldier  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:13:38pm

#2 DesertSage 3/4/2007 10:50PM PST

Custer's last stand?

My son asked if he was the only who thought someone named "Custer" should never be promoted above MAJ.

9 dead sea squirrel  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:15:11pm

Just watched it. Pretty damn good. No wonder the LLL's think it's a Bush ploy.

10 Cindy  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:18:17pm

Crossposting as an FYI/Archival purposes:

[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

11 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:19:34pm

Now that I've watched this report, I really can't figure out the kos idiots' problem.

/other than they're idiots.

12 American Soldier  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:21:16pm

#11 Sharmuta 3/4/2007 11:19PM PST

Now that I've watched this report, I really can't figure out the kos idiots' problem.

/other than they're idiots.


Now your gonna have to go into rehab.

13 Geepers  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:23:54pm

"How can a website convince someone to kill themselves?"

Wrong!

"How can a website convince someone to act out the dictates of the koran, and MURDER people?"

14 zombie  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:24:52pm

I think Aaron now holds the record as the most famous LGF commenter.

15 American Soldier  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:30:11pm

#14 zombie 3/4/2007 11:24PM PST

I think Aaron now holds the record as the most famous LGF commenter.

Probably the current leader on the fatwa board, too.

16 J.D.  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:35:44pm

Good heavens! Have you read the comments?

It's good work you do, Aaron. Thank you.

17 Highrise  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:38:23pm

11 Sharmuta

I can only chalk it up to mental disease on their part. I can't figure it out either.

18 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:41:44pm

UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister

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


You can't make this stuff up

19 Sharmuta  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:44:12pm

12 American Soldier

Now your gonna have to go into rehab.

As long as it's not with Britney.

17 Highrise

I can only chalk it up to mental disease on their part.

I think you're on to something...kositis?

20 Geepers  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:47:27pm

zombie (#14),

I think Aaron now holds the record as the most famous LGF commenter.

I think you need to amend that with, that we know of. ;-)

21 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:48:26pm

hmm...Lizard Lounge fall down, go boom

22 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:51:28pm

Jewels
I have a moonbat friend who not only believes in UFO's, he believes in a whole "Galaxy Federation" and I don't know how much drivel around that.
Moonbats are truly becoming insane. This guy is quite reasonable otherwise, which means he's becoming a schyzo; part of his world based in reality and another part in utterly non existing worlds.
It's like believing that science-fiction is real and making it part of your life. Incredible.

(I wanted to tell you this on the lounge, but I haven't been able to come back lol) I love Java.

23 Jewels (AKA Julian)  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:54:02pm

Lizard Lounge is back online

24 Spiny Norman  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:55:54pm

#21 Jewels (AKA Julian)

Hmm...Lizard Lounge fall down, go boom

What? Cops raid the joint? You knew that roulette wheel'd get you guys in trouble...

25 Geepers  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:56:35pm

J.D. (#16),

When you can't argue the facts, bang your shoe on the podium.

26 Geepers  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:58:03pm

Spiny Norman (#24),

LOL.

27 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:58:17pm

Spiny
LOL Come yourself and place a bet.

28 Confuzed  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:04:53pm

Our Lady Ann of the Sharp Tongue
(above referring to Coulter per another poster on other link)
Wonder what Ann would say?

I know what she wouldn't say, she wouldn't say "We just need dialog with these people."

Since we can't control the Internet, can we blame the inventor, Al Gore?

If not, it appears again, that ONE and only ONE 'religion' is causing all the problems.

29 J.D.  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:05:25pm

#25 Geepers

Did you read any of that?
There's just no hope for some of them. None at all.

It's kind of scary if you really think about it...

30 Spiny Norman  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:07:19pm

#27 MigueldowninMexico

LOL Come yourself and place a bet.

I was just catching up on Achewood before I hit the sack and I'm feeling a little snarky.

;^)

(Three or four shots of Longmorn helps, too...)

31 Geepers  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:10:09pm

J.D. (#29),

Yeah I did. That whole thing about "slapping some sense into them" comes to mind.

32 American Soldier  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:11:59pm

Late.
Later, all.

33 Spiny Norman  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:13:41pm

#25 Geepers

J.D. (#16),

When you can't argue the facts, bang your shoe on the podium.

Of course, no MSM news item comment thread is complete without the ubiquitous, "I'm not an anti-Semite, but . . ."

34 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:14:59pm

Spiny
LOL That's funny! And cheers! ;)

J.D.
They are scary. I know some people here who are completely out of their minds. They create alternate realities and live them. Just as an example, there are I don't know, perhaps five million people who think that the President of Mexico is someone who is NOT the President LOL Sounds funny but it's tragic. They even want the actual President dead.
They are scary.

35 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:16:04pm

Bye, American Soldier!

36 Geepers  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:21:16pm
Late.

True.

And book on Greek myth ain't reading itself.

'Night all.

Hold down the fort MigueldowninMexico.

37 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:23:12pm

Geepers
Good night and God bless you ;)

38 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:28:21pm

:-(

39 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:30:35pm

hello littleoldlady!
Why that face? Because of insomia?
{littleoldlady}

40 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:34:00pm

Miguelito! :-)

Nah. I'm here the usual time.

But everyone's abandoning ship...and I showered and everything!

41 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:39:00pm

littleoldlady
Ok then.
Hahahaha. You showered and all lol
Don't worry there will always be lizards around.
Besides, the lounge is not working well, so a few loungists might drop some comments ;)

42 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:41:31pm

Ho, ho! That explains your presence here! ;-)

My stupid little software problem from yesterday seems to have corrected itself today. Good thing, too. Because no way I could have fixed it myself. LOL.

43 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:42:31pm

littleoldlady
On top of that, I'm "one talkative Mexican" (ask Killian Bundy lol) so you can address me and get answers all the time. I'm from the chattering clases, you know? ;)

44 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:44:41pm

littleoldlady
I was busted :( lol
I was not on line yesterday so I didn't know about your problem, but I'm glad it's fixed whatever it was :)

45 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:46:16pm

"One talkative Mexican"

Well, if ever you need a sock puppet nic, there you go. :-)

46 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:50:27pm

Hahahaha littleoldlady. You're just right on! That'd be some nick hahaha.

People who want to talk will approach me and taciturn people will run away from me lol

/OTM
//hahahahaha

47 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:52:54pm

Mornin Lol, Miguel...everybody.

Lol, I haven't showered, that might be why the place cleared-out. The arrival of the great, one, unwashed mass. :-)

48 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:53:51pm

aboo
Hahahaha. You guys [bigoted word]s? lol
Hello there.

49 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 10:56:08pm

aboo-Hoo-Hoo! :-)

My nose is a bit stuffed up. And Miguel is too busy talking to notice.

Not to worry! ;-)

"the great, one, unwashed mass". LOL, that's good!

50 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:00:58pm

Anti-Putin riots in St. Petersburg. I don't know how far this can go, but it could put real pressure on Putin. I remember Garry Kasparov quite well, as a genius of chess, and I'm very glad of the stance he has taken lately.
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

51 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:05:53pm

Miguel,

The only ones challenging Putin are Bolsheviks and crooks.

I feel sorry for the Russians.

52 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:06:52pm

littleoldlady
Really? I didn't realized that. If that's the case you're so right: poor Russia.

53 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:11:24pm
On Friday, Mr. Kasparov, Mr. Kasyanov and Eduard Limonov, head of the National Bolshevik party, led a meeting of the United Civil Front opposition group in St. Petersburg. Mr. Limonov, whose party is aligned with the main liberal opposition, was arrested Saturday morning before the march. He said the group was close to nominating Mr. Kasyanov as its candidate for president in the 2008 elections.

Somebody posted the same story from a different source yesterday, I think. Kasyanov was identified with all sorts of shady business dealings.

Of course, that's kind of normal in Russia, isn't it?

54 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:11:51pm

Lol,

Please don't bring-up noses, sniveling...chest colds/virus'. There's a crud going-round here that's had me down almost 2 weeks, hell, I could go to Kos right-now and not smell a thing. It's really that bad. Nasty stuff.

55 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:14:43pm

littleoldlady
Thanks for the input. Yes things are going badly in Russia. Here I have an article of someone at odds with Putin being shot in the USA.

/Deflated in his hope to see Russia improve...

56 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:15:02pm

Shoot! Gorgot the link, sorry.
[Link: www.wtopnews.com...]

57 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:15:57pm

I also forgot it.

grrrrr

58 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:16:36pm
*hands aboo-Hoo-Hoo a box of tissues*

Is that what it is? I just thought because Daylight Savings Time is early this year, my Annual April Allergies kicked in early, too.

Sorry you're sick! :-(

59 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:20:00pm

littleoldlady
Are you on DST already? Here it is not until the first Sunday of April.

60 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:24:43pm

A website dedicated to "Set America free from dependency from oil" Interesting.
[Link: www.setamericafree.org...]

61 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:25:33pm

Miguel,

DST scheduled for March 11. Just in time for LGF Birthday Week. ;-) They say it will save energy. I dunno...

Re: The guy who was shot. I picture him in the ambulance on the way to the hospital yelling, "SEE?! I TOLD you so!"

62 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:30:02pm

Ugh...speaking of bugs, looks to be a rough market-day, the China-Asia Mkt Flu

Gunna have some testy folks, lots of'em, by days end. Doom & gloom, recession, depression, war, jihad...and of course it'll all be Bush's fault.

63 infidel4ever  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:33:46pm

#51 littleoldlady

Miguel,

The only ones challenging Putin are Bolsheviks and crooks.

I feel sorry for the Russians.

Don't feel sorry for the Russians. They are just another example of what happens when people don't stand up and fight for their freedom. The West would do well to learn that lesson.

64 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:38:18pm

littleoldlady
That's right! Just in time for LGF Birthday Week lol

About that guy in the ambulance, I assure you that he was happy to have been shot at and come out alive. He has a huge proof in his hands now, the "I told you!" thing.

65 Mike C.  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:42:26pm

Well, I posted this on several threads last evening, where it was pretty much ignored, but it's worth one more shot.

66 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:49:51pm

Mikey,

talloldman worked on lots of the old carriers at the Navy Yard, back when. I think the Kennedy, too. I'll have to ask him (in an hour or so ;-)

67 Mike C.  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:52:33pm

littleoldlady

I bet he did.

68 St. Pancake  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:54:24pm

Good morning!
"waving"

"Setting up coffee"

69 littleoldlady  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:55:29pm

*waves to St. Pancake!* :-)

70 MigueldowninMexico  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:58:16pm

St Pancake
Good morning! :)

71 St. Pancake  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:59:15pm

Monday, March 5, 2007
This day in history

1770 British troops fired on boys in Boston who had provoked them.
1781 British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burns Richmond VA
1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Fort Sumter
1895 French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, convicted of treason, publicly stripped of his rank; later declared innocent
1896 German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays
1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin state of siege
1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1933 Nazi Elections give control of the Reichstag
1933 Newly inaugurated President Franklin D. Roosevelt halts the trading of gold and declares a bank holiday.
1940 Katyn massacre resulting in the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs.
1943 In desperation due to war losses, fifteen and sixteen year olds are called up for military service in the German army.
1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" :D
1946 In Fulton, Missouri, Winston Churchill tells a crowd that "an iron curtain has descended on the Continent [of Europe]."
1953 Joseph Stalin dies disrupting plans for mass deportations of Russian Jews.
1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1968 Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
1972 President Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
1976 Cambodia is renamed "Democratic Kampuchea"
1984 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that cities have the right to display the Nativity scene as part of their Christmas display.

Good morning again
Fruitcup-------------------------------------->

Fresh coffee---------------->
Sweet rolls-------------------->
Yoghurt---------------------------->
Cathead biscuits---------------------------->

72 St. Pancake  Sun, Mar 4, 2007 11:59:45pm

Morning, Miguel!

73 Mike C.  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:00:30am

Good morning, dead thread.

74 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:01:40am

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

WOWSERS! Thanks for the great breakfast, St. Pancake! :-)

75 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:01:46am

#61 littleoldlady

DST scheduled for March 11

You mean the clocks "spring forward" one hour on March 11?

That's also spring break week around here.

Good morning, people.

76 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:02:45am

Set your own uniform policy, schools are told

Mr Justice Silber, a High Court judge, dismissed the girl's claims, saying the veil prevented teachers from seeing the girl's facial expressions - a vital part of effective classroom communication.
77 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:03:35am

Morning, Nonic

Oh, how I hate loosing an hour in March.

"grumble, grumble"

78 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:04:36am

Say, I had a really depressing thought.........

This is one of today's mass readings:

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

“Stop judging and you will not be judged.
Stop condemning and you will not be condemned.
Forgive and you will be forgiven.
Give and gifts will be given to you;
a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing,
will be poured into your lap.
For the measure with which you measure
will in return be measured out to you.”

Luke 6:36-38

What a kick in the head if that means the liberals actually have it right.

79 Mike C.  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:05:55am

Iowahawk had his shot, now it's Mark Steyn's turn.

80 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:07:24am

You are welcome, LoLady
It is Monday after all.
Unfortunatey, tis also the week prior to Spring Break, and the goobers will reflect that in their classroom performance this week.
Pressure to assimilate won't work, leader warns

Mr McCormack later told The Australian some Muslims exploited the West to "advance their own agendas".

He said the gap between Muslim and non-Muslim birthrates in Australia would only be exacerbated by immigration.



Kuwait seeks total ban on Israel

Poo.

81 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:09:19am

Good morning nonic! :-)

DST

82 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:11:48am

Great interview by Michelle Malkin of some Fox News guy. They make a scan of the Republican presidencial candidates (possible). [Link: hotair.com...]

St Pancake
Thanks for the fruitcup, just great ;)

Hi nonic :)

83 Tumulus11  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:12:23am

. Good morning wakeful minions!
Help yourselves to steaming hot Columbian coffee.
Check with St. Pancake regarding sweet rolls.
Fruit cup is on the sideboard. Confirm availability with littleoldlady.
Please remember that those who are tardy will not receive fruit cup.

84 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:13:56am

Tumulus
LOL!
Thanks for the fruitcup also.

Guess I have to offer cubas libres around lol

85 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:15:31am

Please remember that those who are tardy will not receive fruit cup.

Thanks for the update.

But, um...... Correct me if I am incorrect, but were you not tardy yourself?

Just sayin.......

86 Confuzed  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:16:40am

#80 St. Pancake - thank you very much, good links.

The Islamic Council of Victoria spokesman Waleed Aly warned against pressuring Muslims to assimilate, saying they would only resist such moves.

Our Lady Ann of the Sharp Tongue (Peace Be Upon Her) might say: "if you don't want to assimilate, you're free to leave and we'd encourage you to do so."

87 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:17:11am

#81 littleoldlady

Thanks.

Yesterday I got everybody's 2006 taxes done here (6 of us) and sent in my first quarterly payment for 2007. Was early on that, too.

Wanted to get the tax money out of my checking account since we had to do the FAFSA this week, too.

littleoldlady, you know about FAFSA, don't you?

88 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:17:35am

If St. Pancake persists with the expanded breakfast menu, I'm going to start selling tickets.

/all donations to meannastyteenager's College Fund are very much appreciated...

89 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:17:47am

Yes teacher, I saw Tumulus sneaking in throu' the back door! On top of that he/she sticked the tongue out at me!

/Can I have my B- changed to a B now? ;)

90 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:19:18am

#87 nonic,

I sure do, and if I could finish my own #$^%*% taxes, I could finish that form as well!

/everyone and everything is conspiring against me!
//where did I put that tinfoil hat?!

91 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:20:12am

Miguel
No Cuba Libre for me, please.
Would prefer a Mimosa.

Thanks!

92 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:21:10am

littleoldlady
Here [Link: www.shout.net...]

93 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:21:48am

89 MigueldowninMexico
Thanks for your news.
I will deal with that privately, out in the hallway.

Rules are rules....
Tardy, no fruitcup.
Period

94 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:21:57am

Mimosas for the teacher!

/Maybe I'll bet a B+ :)

95 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:22:48am

I'll get, not "I'll bet"
You don't bet with marks. Sorry.

96 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:24:33am

An A+ for Miguel

B- for LoLady, Nonic, and Confuzed.

A 100 for Mikey, as I do not know his mood currently.
:0

97 Tumulus11  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:25:21am

. [Steps in front of the sideboard while studying pocket watch]

' Hmmmm ... March Fifth .... time to do inventory.....Let's see now - one ...... two .......'

98 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:25:32am

86 Confuzed
YW

We have never seen such brazen immigrants before.

99 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:27:20am

littleoldlady
This model is GREAT! [Link: www.moonbattery.com...]

100 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:28:14am

99 MigueldowninMexico
Haha!

101 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:29:23am

Teacher!
An A+! Smooooch!

Runs home to show Fido his good mark...

102 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:29:36am

#92 Miguel,

Hey! I have a cousin who looks just like that! ;-)

St. Pancake,

B- ?! What did I do? :-(

103 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:30:44am

littleoldlady
Great idea!

Check out this site for slang terms for money.
Lizards for MNT

104 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:31:15am

Well, gang, I gotta go. Gotta “straighten up” a little and put a lot of things away.

I’m starting a new phase of life today, and I have to get ready.

For the first time ever, I have someone coming to clean my house.

This first visit they concentrate on scrubbing the bathrooms and the kitchen. After 30 years raising five sons, believe me, I’m looking forward to that, but I gotta get the counters all cleared off, you know?

I’ll tell ya tomorrow what it felt like to be a lady of leisure.

Bye.

105 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:32:32am

meannastyteenager feels that the only word for money she needs to know is GIMME.

106 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:33:06am

littleoldlady
B- ?! What did I do? :-(

Ummmm.
thinking, thinking.......
Appears teacher is playing favorites with male students?

"changing mark on LoLady's progress report to A-"

"accepting under the table bribe of chocolate from LoLady"

107 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:33:25am

Bye nonic, God bless you :)
Congrats for the new life ;)

108 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:34:09am

Good luck, Nonic!

"wishful thinking"
"sighing heavily"

109 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:34:52am

Looks like thang's in the Mullah Terrortories© may be heating-up just a tad: General vanishes; Mossad/CIA blamed.

Arab newspapers are hinting that the Mossad and/or the CIA could be behind the disappearance of an Iranian general, Ali Reza Askari, who was last seen February 7 in Istanbul....

Askari is a former general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and served in the cabinet of former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami.

110 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:35:03am

littleoldlady
LOL Your cousin can look scary?

111 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:39:35am

aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Interesting, and who the heck knows the truth?

112 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:42:18am

nonic,

The definition of a balabusta: She cleans before the cleaning lady gets there. ;-)

A- is certainly better than B- !
/here's your chocolate...

113 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:43:57am

"deftly grabbing chocolate"
running, before Miguel intervenes

114 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:44:51am

Strange story

Egypt: Young man seeking to meet Israeli consul arrested

The London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported that Mahmoud Khanafi has asked to meet with the consul in hope the consul could help him get a job in Israel, after all his attempts to find employment in Egypt failed. According to the security forces, the young man was mentally unstable and will remain in custody until his investigation is completed.

(Roee Nhmias)

115 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:48:23am

I brought my own chocolate bar, teacher ;)
Tin Larin is it. A cookie filled with peanut butter, covered with chocolate. Delicious :) [Link: www.nestle.com.mx...]

116 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:50:03am

From the St. Pancake Travel Bureau

Irish theme at Philadelphia Flower Show

Sounds very, very nice.

117 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:52:31am

MigueldowninMexico
Yummy, sounds wonderful. :)

"stealing some from Miguel"
"tossing two to LoLady"

running, running

118 windybon  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:54:31am

65 Mike C -

There were several commenters last night on the retirement of that great lady.

I know someone who served on her many years ago, and beams with pride every time he speaks of her. If the JFK was deployed to a specific area, you knew the US was ready for some serious business.

119 Mike C.  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:56:02am

# 118 windybon

I saw 2 - eon and one other. Here, I mean.

120 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:57:08am

I don't think I'm going to make it to the Flower Show. Way too busy. :-( I'm not in love with this year's theme anyway, unless the growing conditions are the same in Ireland as they are in Philadelphia.

I go to the show to get ideas for my garden.

121 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:58:19am

littleoldlady
True, true

Thinking of growing something new this year?

122 windybon  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:00:17am
71 St. Pancake -

1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty" :D

I grew up watching Pepe LePew, always one of my favorites, but I did not realize he had been around since 1945.

123 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:00:51am

St Pancake
LOL Be my guests ;)

124 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:01:53am

Ok, the Best Debt Clock in the USA has been improved. Very interesting. [Link: www.optimist123.com...]

125 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:02:27am

122 windybon
I always adored Pepe. Lol, he is wonderful.
Yeah, those guys have seemingly been around forever.

Bless 'em.

126 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:08:27am

St. Pancake,

Step 1 is to get something that will keep the deer away. (Ordered two products that should be shipped this week).

I'm focusing on the Spring garden since we are doing a(n early) graduation party in mid-May. Lots of foxglove, astilbe, maybe a couple of new azaleas, caladium...the usual vegetable/herb stuff.

I have a lot to do because we sort of let things go for a couple of years. :-(

127 St. Pancake  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:09:33am

126 littleoldlady
Good luck with the party. Geesh......
I warned you last year about Senior year finances.

128 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:11:25am

I'm about to rob a bank. (Like that woman-in-burkah did in Center City a while back. Wonder if they ever caught her...?)

129 littleoldlady  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:16:55am

Okay, now that I made myself nuts thinking about where the money's coming from, I guess I should get to work. ;-)

Good day, ALL!™

130 windybon  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:17:46am
131 MigueldowninMexico  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:33:40am

Ok I'm saying good-bye too. God bless everybody around :)

132 Goddessoftheclassroom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:40:07am

Good morning, Lizards.

133 Goddessoftheclassroom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 1:58:50am

Okay, I know there are more serious -life-and-death issues out there, but I'm seething now:

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Sienna Miller is talking about Pittsburgh again, this time in the London newspaper The Guardian. She told the newspaper she didn?t understand how people could be so upset about her comments.

"I understand the patriotism of that city, but really I don't think it was that big a deal. I had to meet the mayor live on TV and apologize. It was huge!" said Miller. "People are dying in Iraq and where is our focus, you know what I mean?"

Miller told Rolling Stone magazine how much she disliked Pittsburgh while filming the movie "Mysteries Of Pittsburgh" last fall.

She said she has a wonderful knack for putting her foot in her mouth -- the movie producers convinced her to apologize as damage control during the shoot.

Miss Miller, you insulted your hosts--that's why you needed to apologize. Should people stop saying "please" and "thank you" because "People are dying in Iraq and where is our focus, you know what I mean?"

The selfish, self-centeredness of Hollywood never ceases to astound me.

134 galloping granny  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:02:26am

MOrning Goddess. That selfish self-centeredness is unfortunately not limited to Hollywood. "Manners" seem to have gone the way of the wind. I can't tell you how tired I am of hearing all about some 16 year old twit's sex-life in the supermarket parking lot because of the cell phone chained to the ear.

135 waitaminnit  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:07:13am

Mornin'
Anything out there I can rant against ?
All the fruit cup is soggy. What the Hell is goin' on ?

136 The Other Les  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:26:08am

There is now a specifically made in France version of LAW & ORDER.

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

Are they just being snobbish or are they afraid of showing a judicial system that works most of the time?

137 illegal upchuck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:27:48am

Good Morning dead thread. Greetings from sunny middle Tennessee. 30 now going to 60 this afternoon. Had to take a break from the crappy weather in NoCentral Hellinois.

Good news everyone! I have succeeded in finding gainful employment. Start next Monday, so my (already sporadic) attendance will be even less frequent. Going to work in a cube farm for the first time, kinda looking forward to it. Regular hours, weekends off without having to wheedle them. Can't wait.

Somehow I've contracted "realwest syndrome." Found yesterday after some digging that the hard drive in my laptop is pooping out, so I'll be replacing that rather soon.

138 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:29:59am
139 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:36:13am
140 Dar ul Harb  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:37:45am

AP deceptive headline of the day:

Probe Opened Into British-Iraqi Raid

What? What did the British do wrong?

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's government opened a probe Monday into a British-Iraqi raid on a police intelligence headquarters in southern Iraq that captured an alleged death squad leader and found 30 prisoners with signs of torture.

The raid took place Sunday at the National Iraqi Intelligence Agency building in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Inside, troops discovered 30 prisoners with signs of torture and abuse, including one woman and two children, the British military said in a statement. It did not elaborate.

It's just not suprising anymore to see this sort of distortion coming from AP, and it always seems to be biased in an anti-coalition direction. Why is that?

As another example, this morning's story of the Baghdad bookmarket bomb blast by AP's Lauren Frayer ends with these comments:

South of Baghdad, a U.S.-Iraqi raid Sunday targeted rogue elements of al-Sadr's militia, the U.S. military said in a statement.

The military would not comment further, but a member of the Karbala provincial council, Hamid Kanoush, said his house was raided and his brother arrested. Kanoush also serves as a senior official in al-Sadr's political office in Karbala.

Five American helicopters hovered over his house as U.S. troops stormed inside, he said. They carried away his brother, Saad Kanoush, and destroyed furniture and pictures of al-Sadr.

Kanoush said he was not at home at the time, but that his family phoned him about the incident.

"I am a member of the provincial council and my activities are known by the public. If there a case against me, the Americans should have resorted to legal procedures, not terrorist acts against my family," Kanoush told The Associated Press.

Whether it's a local stringer or a Westerner writing the story, seems AP always has time to spread the anti-coalition propaganda.

Good morning, LGF!

141 elrushbuni  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:39:40am

"The enemies of freedom, using the gifts of freedom, to destroy freedom" -Oriana Fallaci

142 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:40:37am

Good Morning Lizards.

If you hear a blood curdling scream about 5 pm today, it will be me. I've got an appointment with my accountant to do my personal taxes at 4:30 today. I figure about 5 we will have a bottom line and I will see how much the damage is. Oh well, its only money.

Sports Note.

In the last few seconds of yesterday's North Carolina - Duke basketball tilt, with NC cruising to a 14 point win, duke guard Gerald Henderson smashed an elbow into Duke player Tyler Hansbrough's face during a scramble for a rebound, causing much blood to flow. It was a hit job that would have make one of the Hanson brothers from the movie Slapshot proud.,It was an obvious attempt to send a message with an intentionally hard foul at the end of a lost game. Henderson was ejected and will have to sit out the first game of the comiing ACC tournament.

In the post-game intervies, Duke coach Mike Kryzewski wished Hansbrough well, defended his player, and then to blamed NC. coach Williams for the injury by saying:

"The game was over before that," he said. "I mean the outcome of the game, let's put it that way. That's unfortunate, too, that those people were in the game in that play. Maybe this wouldn't have happened."

In other words, Hansbrough had it coming cause he was still in the game, according to Coach "K".

Now, I've been watching Duke's Coach "K" leave his starters in for years at the end of games when they were blowing the other teams out. I watched Bobby Hurley, Christian Laettner, and others repeatedly fatten their stats in 20 point blow outs against weaker opponents, and Coach "K" had no problem with that when it was his players running up the score. Well, what goes around comes around Kryzweski, and the viewing public saw you and your players get in the gutter yesterday. The BooYaa Network may kiss your rear-end all the time, but the rest of the ACC saw what you are really all about. Shame on you, and I don't want to hear you cry when one of your players gets lit up next time you run the score up on the cupcakes you play half the year to get a big win total.

If college players are the same today as they were in my era, Henderson better have his head on a swivel next time he gets on a court against North Carolina.

And I hope Duke gets beat by 40 points in their first tournament game.

143 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:44:14am

#137 upchuck

Good news everyone! I have succeeded in finding gainful employment. Start next Monday, so my (already sporadic) attendance will be even less frequent. Going to work in a cube farm for the first time, kinda looking forward to it. Regular hours, weekends off without having to wheedle them. Can't wait.

Congrats.

144 CrimsonFisted  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:50:02am
#14 zombie 3/4/2007 11:24PM PST

I think Aaron now holds the record as the most famous LGF commenter.


Joining late. Anyone know why?

145 MandyManners  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:52:01am

Ummmmmmmmmmm....

146 christheprofessor  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:53:42am

Good morning, all...

Frost on the grass this morning. Damn global warming!

147 The Other Les  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:54:00am

And then there was this professional screenwriter who went to a Left Coast writer's conference:

"I have a great idea for a movie," a woman said to me. "What's the market like for true stories about black lesbians in the 1880s?"

"I don't think studios are looking for scripts to fill that particular niche," I said, "but there's always a market for good stories that are told well."

"Oh," she said. "That's going to make it a lot harder to sell."


Groan...

148 MandyManners  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:54:38am

134 galloping granny

Don't look at me. I don't even own a cell phone.

149 m1j2bran  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:56:32am

I remember the JFK and it is sad to see the old ships leave active service.It's also a reminder that time does march on.I was on the Enterprise in the early 70's and remember seeing her in the yards.

150 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 2:59:44am

Illinois Governor is taking a big step towards socialism. Gov's plan: all insured in 3 years.

Gov. Blagojevich hopes every Illinois resident who lacks health insurance will voluntarily sign up for an affordable plan he announced Sunday.
But anyone who still doesn't have health insurance after three years would be required to get a policy, Deputy Gov. Sheila Nix said.

No one would go to jail. But uninsured residents probably would be fined, and "the likely collection would be through the tax system," Nix said.

Of course, if you are a socialistic lefty like Blagojevich, you have to work some income redistribution into the works:

Under Illinois Covered, all insurers who do business in Illinois would be required to offer an affordable, state-approved plan to any resident, regardless of the resident's health status.

Premiums would be free to residents living below the federal poverty level. The state would subsidize premiums for residents whose incomes are below 400 percent of the poverty level -- which comes to about $80,000 for a family of four.

Paid for how?

The $2.1 billion plan would be funded by a tax on employers who don't offer health insurance and by a new levy on business transactions called a gross receipts tax.


Look for Illinois employers to move out and start massive automation projects or contracting out work if this goes into law.

Lefties never learn.

151 galloping granny  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:01:16am
#148 MandyManners 3/5/2007 04:54AM PST

134 galloping granny

Don't look at me. I don't even own a cell phone.

Are you 16 Mandy? :) Didn't think we had any that young around here.

152 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:02:34am

3 wood,

I wondered to myself what Hansbrough was still doing in the game, but it didn't occur to me to blame him or Roy Williams for the flagrant foul. He was fortunate to be quickly ushered off the court, or I thought he was going to go after Henderson. The sight of you own blood can trigger fisticuffs.

Duke is going nowhere fast this year. They'll be a 5 or 6 seed at best come tournament time.

153 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:11:59am

Hey Cubs fans. New manager Piniella already getting the picture this team is not what you would call real good. Get ready for a long year.

The team's new manager has seen too much Cubs of old in the early going. And he got especially irate when a perfect opportunity to show off the new-look Cubs to a WGN-TV audience back home turned into a perfect storm of bad pitching, mediocre hitting and another ugly finish -- against the White Sox of all teams -- Sunday at HoHoKam Park.

So far, the Cubs ar "Oh fer" spring training and got beat 13 - 2 by the White Sox yesterday.

But Piniella seems to have figured out the source of the problem:

''Our pitchers aren't pitching well, and our hitters aren't hitting very well,'' he said. ''Outside of that, we're OK.''

''I'm talking about everything,'' Piniella said on what needs work. ''We walked people [Sunday], and right after walks come the big flies. The ball carries well in Arizona, but it seems like it's only carrying for the other side right now.''

Get used to it, Lou. It's been that way for about 100 years now.

154 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:19:43am

#152 Jammie

I wondered to myself what Hansbrough was still doing in the game,

NC State had some injuries on the bench and Hansbrough was just trying to finish the game out to give the bench a rest.

I have long felt Coach "K" is a two faced jerk. Yesterday showed it. Maybe the Eastern Seaboard Programing Network will stop kissing his fanny and ask him a hard question once in a blue moon in an interview. And color commentator Billy Packer was particulalry smarmy during the incident trying to explain it away.

It was a goon hit job, pure and simple.

155 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:20:01am

HEY ..here's something to piss everyone off!

The Faggot's Revised Bible.

First, it will piss the left off,
because I just said faggot .....
and second..... they will think:
.....how dare "our" faggots read that horrible Bible
because as you know they own they rights to the "oppressed underclasses"


Third, it will piss off the right, because
how dare those faggots mess with the Bible


And finally, it pisses me off, because it's a big fat fucking disgusting lie of the Whores of Gramscian Churchianity:

The free Bible download contains all the text of the King James Version, as well as a new book entitled God's New Law, which describes a prophecy from the year 2000 that forgives homosexuality and fornication. This new book is meant to inaugurate the rebirth of mankind and the acceptance of gay marriage in God's kingdom.

[SNIP]

Fleming acknowledges that no man is to add to the book of life but the Father, but that God heard the cry for help from the submissive, and sent another son and prophet to lead the gay community to freedom. Fleming contends this new Bible contains scripture that has been prescribed by God, (what, GOD is a friggin' General Practitioner now?) and that, while the Bible has been validated through the generations, only now does man have the chaperone of the Father in Heaven to add new testimony to its pages.

AGGHHHH!

Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

~ Very very famous ancient Jewish guy,
story related by Matthew, Chapter 5 17:20

/I think they should call it the "Andrew Sullivan Translation"

156 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:23:42am

#150 3 wood

Lefties never learn.em>

Nope. Scape-goat businesses and the owners, demand "fair share and equal" parts of their "illgotten" wealth, redistribute what you grab (while lining their own pockets) and recycle same acqusations and promises next election. Demonize/criminalize anyone who speaks out against the socialist political hiearchy or finds ways around the confiscatory laws.

Ayn Rand was a prophet.

157 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:23:43am

#139 taxfreekiller 3/5/2007 04:36AM PST

Ba Ba Zee,

More Democrats will sign on to the Ramos/Compena new trial, pardon, thing this week, the line in Las Vegas in not that good on Sutton staying out from under a very large bus sent from Washington DC.

Well ......that'll leave a mark.

Wolfe with Blisters.

Love it.

158 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:23:56am

3 wood,

OK, I didn't realize UNC was short on the bench. I had just tuned in near the end of of the broadcast. At that stage of the game, both teams should just be playing out hte clock, but that is a bitter rivalry.

Well, it's almost tournament time. I need to start looking at who I like.

159 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:24:04am

Good Morning Y'all from a COLD (30 degrees, going up to 60 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone this morning?

160 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:24:53am

#156 Buckeye Abroad

She didn't have to be a prophet, she saw it all happen right in front of her eyes.....All hail the October Revolution!

Good Morning.

161 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:25:53am

{REAL}

162 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:26:16am

#156 Buckeye Abroad - Good morning to y'all! Say, did you receive my e-mail from a couple of days ago?!

163 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:29:20am

#161 {BabbaZee} - Hey there you! How are you doing this cold morning?
We're doing ok, but my poor mom has to go all the way into Charlotte for some serious damn dental work today, then to the dentist for evaluation tomorrow and then the hospital on Thursday for a "minor" proceedure. Naturally I'm going with her for all of it, but life's been a little tense around here this past week or so.

164 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:29:51am

Hey Jammie. Did you see this? Cubs Zambrano guarantees Cubs will win the World Series this year.

Cubs ace Carlos Zambrano dominated for two innings in his spring debut Friday, then declared he will win the Cy Young Award he just missed winning last year.
''And besides that,'' he said, ''we will win the World Series, I guarantee you that.''

I think a drug test is in order for Zambrano

165 Miss Trixie  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:30:35am

♪ Good morning {LGF} ♪ Another Monday and we've received a little more snow this morning. My cardinals visited my feeders this weekend and I think I even caught a glimpse of an early bird - a robin! So it's all good.

{St. Pancake} Morning, toots.

166 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:32:01am

#163 realwest
Poor mom. But hey it's all fixable, so that's the good part!
And she has you to help her out.

167 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:33:08am

#158 Jammie

Well, it's almost tournament time. I need to start looking at who I like.

Take University of Illinois off of your short list. If they even make it in, they will be a one and done.

I don't think Wisconsin will go real far either.

168 MandyManners  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:33:14am

151 galloping granny

Are you 16 Mandy?

In my heart! (Now, if I just get my knees to go along with this.)

169 waitaminnit  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:33:34am

Well. Read some posts, got my blood pressure up 700 points, now it's time to leave.
See ya'll tomorrow.

170 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:33:48am

#165 {Miss Trixie} Good morning and a big ole *smootch* to you! Sorry you've still got snowy weather, but it's pretty damn cold down here, too!
How are you doing? Doesn't a Robin preage the coming of Spring?

171 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:34:10am
172 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:34:59am

Mandy ~ I don't own a cell phone either

173 MandyManners  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:36:54am

155 BabbaZee

How do these people reconcile with their actions with the last chapter of Revelation? We're not supposed to add to, or subtract from, the Word!

174 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:37:56am

Monday morning blood boil.

USAID Cash to Hamas Schools

I'm seething.

175 MandyManners  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:38:23am

172 BabbaZee

I had one during the divorce but, once it was final, I got rid of it as well as 275 lbs. of stupid man.

176 MandyManners  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:39:31am

173

Gak! It's early.

177 Lively  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:40:22am

Drudge is funny this morning.
Kentucky Fried Hillary

/she doesn't sound southern to me...sounds more like the Tatum O'Neal movie when she was a wild woman who didn't know English

178 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:40:25am

Ack! It's too early to type. And cold. Morning lizards.

179 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:40:51am

#160 BabbaZee

She didn't have to be a prophet, she saw it all happen right in front of her eyes.....All hail the October Revolution!

Yup. IIRC, the bolshiviks were a minority party during the time and siezed the initiative in typical brutish form.

#162 realwest

I did. Been traveling over the weekend and just catching up on my emails. Will reply tonight. Got into a nasty sunday afternoon verbal match with an irish lefty. Ugh. Scratch another house for future luncheon dates.

180 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:41:40am

#173 MandyManners

They know not what they do.

181 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:42:30am

Good Morning from the 7th circle of hell.

I see 3 wood is here trashing my beloved Cubbies. That is a sure sign of spring. :)

And what do you mean Wisconsin isn't going far this year?

182 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:42:43am

#177 Lively

That went over about as well as my sad attempts at a british accent.

183 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:43:41am

#179 Buckeye Abroad
Yup, and many of the the defeated menshoviks ended up being part of the founding of Israel.

184 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:44:54am

#177 Lively 3/5/2007 05:40AM PST


Drudge is funny this morning.
Kentucky Fried Hillary

OOOO I can't WAIT for friggin' Ebonics Hillary.

Yo.

185 songbird  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:45:20am

Good Morning, Lizards!

Another fun filled week of Grad work, compounded by a bad cold and the fact that my dear mother managed to break both wrists and her knee cap on Saturday.

/about ready to self medicate

186 BobbiLee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:46:23am

Good Morning everyone!
A little lizard joke:

A koala is sitting up a gum tree ... smoking a joint

when a little lizard walks past and looks up and says,

"Hey Koala ! What are you doing?"

The koala says:

"Smoking a joint, come up and have some."

So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they burn a few. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is 'dry' and is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.

A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and
helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard:

"What's the matter with you?"

The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.

The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into
the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting
finishing a joint, and he looks up and says "Hey you!"

So the koala looks down at him and says:

"Shiiiiiiiiiiit dude ... how much water did you drink?!"

187 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:47:13am

Hi there MandyManners, JammieWearingFool , 3-Wood and DonkeyJawz! How are y'all doing this morning (other than COLD for DonkeyJawz, I mean!)?
Hey 3- Wood - whaddya think of Pinella as a manager? I think he's pretty sharp, but it's gonna be hard to see it with the team the Cubbies have this year. Oh well, I'm sure Cubs fans will still find them loveable! LOL!

188 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:49:34am
189 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:50:04am

#183 BabbaZee

Yup, and many of the the defeated menshoviks ended up being part of the founding of Israel.

I didn't know that. Thanks for the knowledge. I thought the defeated ended up like Lev Bronstein.

190 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:50:08am

#179 Buckeye Abroad - Just verbal?!? LOL! I'm looking forward to your e-mail "tonight" - um, what time is it your time now?

191 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:51:08am

#185 songbird
She fell and tried to break the fall by sticking her hands out, huh?

Poor thing. Ow.

192 maddogg  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:51:35am

O.T.

Any guesses on how many grammies this one will win?

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

193 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:51:40am

#187 realwest

Mornin' to you too. It's cold, but I'm actually gonna have to work for a livin' this weekend. I'm loading up on caffeine before I load up and head out into the nose grinder. Someone alluded to daylight savings in an earlier post and scared the hell out of me. Thought I might have to fire myself should I be an hour late.

194 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:52:25am

#186 BobbiLee - ROTFLMAO! Thanks for the chuckle!
How are y'all this morning? And where are you from?

195 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:52:31am

#189 Buckeye Abroad
Some did, LOL

196 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:52:35am

This weekend? Rather this week. I do not wake up well.

197 Miss Trixie  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:52:45am

{realwest} Morning, darls *smooch* So sorry to hear about your mom and her dental problems. *momhugs*

#165 {Miss Trixie} Good morning and a big ole *smootch* to you! Sorry you've still got snowy weather, but it's pretty damn cold down here, too!
How are you doing? Doesn't a Robin preage the coming of Spring?

Yes, indeed it does and am I ready!

:D

{Babbalouey} Morning, toots and thanks!

:D

198 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:53:55am

#185 songbird - Yo - hey watch that there self-medicating thingy so early this morning, anyway! What happend to your mom anyway?

199 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:55:13am

Lively,

Call that Kentucky Fried Pantsuit. She'd talk jive like June Cleaver in Airplane if she felt it would get her a single vote.

Oh, and as for the Cubs, I said it a couple of weeks ago. I think they'll win at least 80 games and contend int he NL Central. Just a hunch.

If it doesn't pan out, forget I ever mentioned it. If it does work out, remember where you heard it first.

Not that any of it matters in the big scheme, as the New York Yankees will win at least 97 games and march to their 28th World Series title.

Or is it 27? I'm a bit fuzzy on the exact number right now. All I know is it's about three times as many as anyone else.

Throwing down the gauntlet to all you Sawx fans.

200 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:55:25am

#181 Mama

The Cubs are 0 and 4, they have an ERA of about 10 so far for spring training, they got about 100 errors already and they could not hit me.

I think Wisconsin will be an early out in the Tournament. The Big Ten was soft this year and Wisconsin played a bunch of teams named Mercer, Pacific, Gardner-Webb and Delaware State this year. Classic early out.

201 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:55:52am

#192 maddogg
None. It won't get any Oscars either, ;~p

202 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:55:59am

#193 DonkeyJawz - LOL! Well look at it this way: if you fired yourself, couldn't you sue yourself for wrongful discharge?!

203 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:56:53am

#185 songbird

compounded by a bad cold and the fact that my dear mother managed to break both wrists and her knee cap on Saturday

Sorry to hear that. Prayers go out to you and Mom.

204 Miss Trixie  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:57:26am

{Bobbilee} Welcome to LGF, toots. Where are you?

{songbird} Your poor mom! Will she has someone to assist her as she heals?

205 maddogg  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:58:28am

#201 BabbaZee

Good mornin' to ye! Yeah, thats the exact number I figger it'll get, and about the same exposure too.

206 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 3:58:45am

#199 Jammie

"Call that Kentucky Fried Pantsuit."

If it's the Hillary clip you're referring to, I thought it was more like a Kentucky Fried Pantload.

207 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:00:30am

#186 BobbiLee
Wake and Bake, Lizards.

/

208 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:00:35am

#202 realwest

"#193 DonkeyJawz - LOL! Well look at it this way: if you fired yourself, couldn't you sue yourself for wrongful discharge?!"

And if that doesn't get me caught in a vicious loop, I could always strike for higher wages and benefits.

209 BobbiLee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:01:47am

Hey realwest and Miss Trixie:

I'm a Virginia lizard-Chesterfield County branch.

210 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:01:48am

#185 songbird

I feel your pain. My daughter fell last week and shattered her leg. She has surgery tomorrow morning to repair it with a plate and 6 screws. I've been with here with her the whole time and I'm about ready to stick my head in the toaster.

And her computer sucks too.

211 ggt  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:02:21am

Good Morning Lizards! It's still cold and windy in the Very Far Western Parts of Chicago. The wind makes it feel much colder than it actually is.

Just signed on to say Hi & give Ed the weather report for my part of the world, may be back later.

Have a great morning all!

212 Dirk Diggler  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:02:42am
I see 3 wood is here trashing my beloved Cubbies. That is a sure sign of spring.

You'd do well to back a team that doesn't revel in losing. The Cubs will be in last place by May. Astros are going to win the Central since the Cards did nothing to retool their aging lineup.

213 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:02:47am

#205 maddogg
Good Morning oh ye dog of madness.

214 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:03:18am

3 wood-

I have a feeling that I'm going to hate Pinella. They should have gone with Girardi.

215 JammieWearingFool  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:04:14am

DonkeyJawz,

Pantsuit is my name for her, but I like that.

I notice some new arrivals her, you among them. Welcome aboard.

For those who weren't present Saturday night, there was some chump named kevo who lasted all of five comments before Charles whipped out the banning stick on him.

Now he was a pantload.

216 loflyer  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:05:33am

177 Lively, went to the link and cringed at hearing Hillary's fake southern accent combined with her grating voice. If she gets elected, then I will have to listen to her every damn day. That thought is enough for me to join the Obama band wagon.(just kidding) On a personal note, I fell and hurt my back yesterday, so I am taking the day off and resting. I will be surfing LGF to keep from being bored, I will keep my posts relevant. It looks like a beautiful day, and our temperature is already up to 38 degrees. I do not look forward to staying in all day.

217 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:05:57am

#212 Dirk the Delusional

You'd do well to back a team that doesn't revel in losing.

Bite your tongue, man. Die-Hard here. Been a fan since the days of Ernie Banks. Much to the detriment of my mental health.

Maybe THIS year! :)

Hey HEY!

218 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:06:29am

#215 Jammie

Thank you very much :) Wish I'da born witness to the Saturday Night Beatdown. With all those trolls at the gate, some of them are bound to get through from time to time.

219 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:06:50am

#187 realwest


whaddya think of Pinella as a manager? I think he's pretty sharp, but it's gonna be hard to see it with the team the Cubbies have this year. Oh well, I'm sure Cubs fans will still find them loveable! LOL!

Piniella's a good manager but he does not have much to work with here. Years of Dusty Baker making excuses and looking the other way has created a loser mentality on this club that will take several years to turn around. The Cubs minor league feeder system is barren, they have few talented young players, they picked up a few high priced free agents who now will likely just put up their feet and wait to cash paychecks.

I expect to see the Cubs sold within a year or so, I also expect to see Piniella managing elsewhere in the not too distant future. He will make it a matter of GM Hendry getting rid of the loser players or him, so Hendry will get rid of him. Losing is tolerated in on the north side. I guarantee 3 million people will show up at Wrigley to watch a bad team this year. Prior and Woods will be hurt again, the league will have caught up to lrfty starter Rich Hill (He does not have much stuff that I can see), and Zambrano can't do it all by himself. Their bullpen is improved, but I don't think that will matter much.

220 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:07:57am

#190 realwest

Just verbal?!?

I have a thick skin and he's 60. He's lives in Cambridge, MA, and was back for a few days. Apparently he is a real pot stirrer within the family. Told him its hard to take anyone living in Cambridge, originally from a mono-ethnic country like Irleand, serious on racism. He also thought only white people can be racist -- just imploded from there. Tpyical lefty-- he hates "evil" America, but loves living there. After he couldn't back up his opinions he ended the discussion on "we will never agree philisophically so should just stop now."

Six hour time difference (1500 hrs here).

221 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:08:41am

Morning Mama

222 BobbiLee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:09:09am

#207
OMG, Babba, that is hysterical. How perfect!

223 ibmkeyboard  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:09:54am

3 Wood

The Cubs will be in the playoffs.
Just put your money on that.


/2067

224 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:09:59am

#222 BobbiLee
LOL I may be forced to buy one, haha

225 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:10:11am

#219 3 wood

Your killing my buzz, man.

226 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:11:17am

#221 BabbaZee

Morning Babba. Want a muffin?

227 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:12:19am

Waveland Avenue.

Nuff said.

228 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:12:30am
229 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:12:37am

I was gonna ask if anyone on LGF saw Internet Haganah on '60 Minutes' last night, but I guess someone did.

230 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:13:55am

#181 Mama

Sorry about your daughters leg. Tough deal, that.

Girardi will have a hard time ever getting a managing gig again. Did you see the story I posted last week about Girardi helping a opposition pitcher get his pitching motion fixed last year in the middle of the pennant race? You just don't do that.

The Cubs have to develop a decent minor league feeder system. They have no talent in their system. If you and little winger join me for a Peoria Chiefs game this summer (Cubs class A affiliate), you will see what I mean. You may get to see Prior and Woods pitch here, anyway.

231 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:14:47am

#228 Babba

You are a mystical magical woman - HA!

What ?- can you pull rabbits out of your hat as well? LOL!

232 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:15:53am

#209 BobbiLee -duh, ignoramous (and lazy to boot) here, but whereabouts in Virginia is Chesterfield County?
We got lizards in Alexandria, Shennadoah valley and down around Richmond, too!

233 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:16:16am

#231 mama winger

[BLINK!]

234 Miss Trixie  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:17:49am

{DonkeyJawz}

'blockquote.If it's the Hillary clip you're referring to, I thought it was more like a Kentucky Fried Pantload.

Pass the Windex, please.

{mamawinger} Good morning. Your poor daughter.

BobbiLee

I'm a Virginia lizard-Chesterfield County branch.

Hmm. I'm not familiar with that county but I have lived in Reston and visited several others counties.

I miss Virginia.

235 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:17:54am

#230 3 wood

You may get to see Prior and Woods pitch here, anyway.

ACK! Yesterday we were watching the game, placing bets on how long before Wood gets a boo-boo. I went with 3 games, tops.

236 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:19:24am

#231 Mama

#228 Babba

You are a mystical magical woman - HA!

Hey, let Babba manage the Cubs.


#225 Mama

#219 3 wood

Your killing my buzz, man.

So let me tell you about the World Championship the White Sox won in 2005...

237 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:19:47am

#233 Babba

I hate my daughter's computer. This is what I get when I try to open your link:

Due to restrictions set in the Web Site Filter, you cannot open this Web page

/ Bunch of communists

238 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:21:19am

#210 {mama winger} Geez, shattered her leg? And your poor dog's problems and to top it all off you're a Cubs fan?!
I be sending some prayers up right now!
On a somewhat more serious note, I did read about you're dog's problems and am glad, at least, that there's some sorta treatment available (I assume blood transfusions?)for her. And I am really sorry to hear about your daughter; what was she doing that she shattered her leg so bad they need to use a plate and six screws?
Very seriously - I sure wish you and yours all the best and will be sending up prayers for y'all!

239 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:21:53am

#236 3 wood

salt in the wound, friend. salt in the wound.

:)

240 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:21:53am

#237 mama winger
Try it here

241 BobbiLee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:22:16am

Mama Winger,

I'm very sorry about your daughter's injury. I hope she heals quickly. Is she keeping her spirits up? I am glad that you have a computer handy so you are not entirely disconnected from the outside world.

Please send her my best!

242 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:22:48am

#240 Babba

Nope. Still communists.

243 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:22:50am

Currently, Drudge front page has a link to the queen and all her phoniness. Go check it out or click below.

Clinton panders with fake accent.

244 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:23:19am

#234 Miss Trixie

:D Thank you, I get off a good one now and again.
As per you Virginians, my sis is a milwife living in Virginia Beach, although I have no clue what county that would be. I found her house on Google Earth though. She didn't tell me she had a swimming pool.

245 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:23:57am

#242 mama winger
whores!

246 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:25:52am

#220 Buckeye Abroad - Um, does that mean you're in Ireland now?! Good thing for him you've got a thick skin, man of sixty ought not be running his mouth unless he's prepared for some serious hospital time!
I do hope you'll get my e-mail and write to me; I called the number back later in the day after you called me and got some kinda recorded voice message in German and since I can't speak German, didn't leave a message! LOL!

247 ibmkeyboard  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:25:54am
The Oracle of Omaha, as Buffett is known, stands to make a tidy profit on his investment which he bought for $572 million. The stake was worth 1.23 trillion won ($1.31 billion) as of its Wednesday's closing share price, despite having slumped 5 percent that day as part of a rout of global stock markets.
South Korean public markets were closed on Thursday for a public holiday.
An official at POSCO told Reuters it did not know when Berkshire bought shares in its company.


I bet Buffett could sell them the Brooklyn Dodgers.

248 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:26:00am

#235 mama

Yesterday we were watching the game,

How did 13 - 2 work for you?

249 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:26:47am

#241 Bobbilee

Thank you for your kind thoughts!

My daughter is in a Master's Degree program for Nursing right now, and is in the middle of her Clinical Studies, which means a lot of hospital training. She is freaking out that she is missing important stuff. She is a MAJOR Type A personality - very driven and extremely ambitious. She is not taking this whole experience, er, well.

We take a lot of deep breaths and nod and smile . :)

Reading the Book of Job has also come in handy.

250 Silhouette  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:27:01am

#243 FrogMarch

Clinton panders with fake accent.

Maybe she was drunk. I've found that the more I drink, the thicker my accent gets.

/giving the phony the benefit of a doubt

251 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:28:54am

Bear Hug

The Israeli daily Haaretz quotes Shimon Peres, Israel ’s dovish vice-prime minister whose fine sensors never stopped detecting a desire for peace in Yasser Arafat, as saying “The United Nations is aware that weapons-smuggling from Syria to Hezbollah is continuing. Israel must exert pressure on Moscow so it stops supplying the Syrians with weapons.”

Peres’s statement comes just as Syria, reports Haaretz, “is close to concluding a large deal with Russia to procure thousands of advanced anti-tank missiles for the Syrian army.” This is particularly ominous since in last summer’s war, Hezbollah used Russian-supplied, Syrian-transferred antitank missiles against Israeli tanks, in some cases penetrating the armor of Israel’s highly touted Merkava Mark IV.

Although a subsequent study by the Israel Defense Forces found that only a small number of tanks were damaged, some of them minimally, by the missiles, Hezbollah and its many Middle Eastern admirers and spectators gained a psychological boost from the exploit.

After the war a high-level Israeli delegation showed the evidence of Hezbollah’s use of the missiles to Russian officials. Russia seemed to take heed and promised to reconsider its upcoming arms deals with Syria so the weapons would not again end up in Hezbollah’s hands. The problem is that Russia was lying and cheating.


[SNIP]

252 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:29:11am

#248 3 wood

How did 13 - 2 work for you?

It's pretty early in the season for me to have to come down there and beat you up.

253 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:30:45am

#250 Silhouette and
#243 FrogMarch
If you want to give her the benefit of the doubt, remember that she lived and worked in Arkansas, which is arguably part of the South; it's where she started her
criminal career with the Rose Law firm while Slick Willie was govenor.

254 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:32:04am

#250 Silhouette

Maybe she was drunk. I've found that the more I drink, the thicker my accent gets.

Reminds me of the title of an old Joe Walsh album, The Smoker You Are The Player You Get.


By the way everybody, don't be surprised if the market takes another pounding today.

255 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:33:05am

#246 realwest

Um, does that mean you're in Ireland now?!

I was until about 7am CET.

Have gun, will travel. ;)

256 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:33:43am

#249 mama winger - "Reading the Book of Job has also come in handy."
Yup, nothing quite so comforting as reading up on the family tree!

257 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:34:45am

#252 Mama

258 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:35:06am

Good Morning One & All!

Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend.

259 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:37:12am

3 wood
The Smoker You Are The Player You Get.

Holy Flashback batman!
But It's "the smoker you drink the player you get"

260 Alouette  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:37:56am

Dear Lizards!

This is a test. This is only a test. You may think that Alouette is able to access LGF, but this is only because I unplugged my router and connected this one computer directly to the Internet.

So it is not Comcast that is blocking my access to LGF, there is something going on in the Netgear router.

If anyone has any suggestions please EMAIL at the email address in my Lizard profile, because I'm re-connecting the router.

261 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:39:29am

What's a router?

262 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:40:09am

#258 {loppyd} Morning loppyd! How are you this beautiful, albeit COLD morning?

263 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:40:10am

253 Realwest

Sure, but Ms Clinton doesn’t talk that way when she's in front her New York doners or her Hollywood pals, now does she?

That there is sum ridiculous pandering if I evah heard it.


... and her voice. I forgot to add: warning post 243 might make your ears bleed. eeeeee.


250 Silhouette

You're too kind!

264 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:41:14am

Silhouette

Maybe she was drunk. I've found that the more I drink, the thicker my accent gets.

Me too. After a couple of beehs, my Bawston speak gets way thickah. Wicked freakin pissah.

265 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:42:03am

{Head Loppy D!}

266 3 wood  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:42:30am

#257 me

I just did a smiley face. Got edited.

Also, the Joe Walsh album I mentioned earlier was The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get. It came out when I was in college.

For some reason, my recall of those years is a bit spotty.

267 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:42:44am

I try very hard not to listen when Shrillary "speaks".....

It's like nails on a chalkboard.

268 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:43:28am

Good morning from Virginia ya'll. Go Cubbies!


Maryland Lawmakers To Consider Muslim Embalming Exemption

Members of the Maryland General Assembly could vote later this session on a measure aimed at boosting the number of Muslims in the funeral industry.

A bill, approved by the House Health and Government Operations committee would provide an embalming exemption for Muslims learning the funeral trade.

Muslims traditionally bury their dead within hours. While the remains are ritually washed, they are not embalmed. That's led to a shortage of mortuaries staffed by trained Islamic personnel. Islamic law bans the practice of embalming.

Current Maryland law does not acknowledge the difference between Christian and Muslim burials. Applicants for morticians' licenses in the state are required to embalm and perform cosmetic work on at least 20 dead bodies during their apprenticeships.

269 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:44:56am
270 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:45:15am

{realwest}

Good Morning to you! I'm groovy. It's cold here, but it's going to be downright frigid tomorrow. March is the worst month in New England, IMHO.

How's by you?

271 Dirk Diggler  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:45:43am

loppyd,

Hope everyone had a relaxing weekend.

Good morning Loppyd. I had a brutal 3 hour Krav Maga test on Saturday so a relaxing weekend wasn't in the cards.

272 Killgore Trout  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:45:53am

What happened to the Digg tags? Were we banned or is there a boycott?

273 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:45:56am

Good Morning all.

it is Monday... and therefore evil.

274 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:46:43am

Hillary was born and raised in one of the whitest and wealthiest of the Chicago suburbs. Yesterday when I was listening to her speak, her drawling vowel sounds and the dropping of her consonants sickened me in its manipulation.

Does she think she is fooling anybody? Even the Dems at the DNC blog weren't buying it.

275 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:48:02am

#271 Dirk Diggler
How did you do?

276 lawhawk  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:48:39am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. We're about to get hit with an unseasonably cold snap here - 20 degrees below normal if not more. Bad wind chills too. So, bundle up out there. Global warming will getcha!*

*was Al Gore in here or is it suddenly a whole lot colder?

277 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:50:10am

#269 WriterMom - I shoulda stopped when I saw your link was to the Arab American News, but noooo I had to go read the damn thing.
What an asshat. What's worse is that "Ray Hanania was named the Best Ethnic American Columnist for 2006/2007". [emphasis added, realwest].
That was indeed irritating, to put it mildly.

278 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:50:29am

276 lawhawk

old country song... forget the artist:

"Is it cold in here.... or is it just you?"

279 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:50:45am

Dirk Diggler

Krav Maga

I must admit I had to Google that. Good for you! Looks extremely demanding on the bod. Did you pass the test?

280 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:51:30am

#269 WriterMom
Boker Tov

281 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:51:31am

Killgore, there is still a digg this and a newsvine and reddit button also.

282 Daisy  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:53:02am

#269 Writer Mom,

That article brings "irritating" to a new level! Ray Hanania must have just come off one of Imam Siraj Wahaj's tapes: "Always Tell the Truth! Sometimes". What lies.

283 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:53:37am

#270 loppyd - I woudn't be surprised, March was always a bitch in NYC, too.
But I'm not used to this 30 degree swing in temperature like we've been having down here; 30 degrees when I got out of bed, going up to 60 some odd degrees during the afternoon. Damn, at least if it's really cold and stays that way for a while your body can try to adjust; hell I can't even figure out what to wear when we go off to the doctor today!

284 ELITE  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:53:45am

The spawn of the Goracle.

Video here.

hat tip instapinch

285 DonkeyJawz  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:54:24am

#281 Kilgore Trout

Probably the bury brigade took it far enough to have it removed?
If you scroll down far enough on the front page, you'll still see digg tags on other posts.

286 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:54:45am

Morning, lizards.

I went to the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago yesterday, and on the way home I realized: they have exhibits on western hemisphere cultures, tribal Africa, Tibet, Pacific Islands, all kinds of societies that were "pre-industrialized" (i.e., not Europe) when the museum was founded in the 1890s....nothing about traditional Arabic, Middle Eastern, or Muslim cultures. I found the omission curious.

After all the beadwork from around the world, I was hoping to see some burqas.

287 squarepeg  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:54:56am

#177 Lively

You sure that wasn't Jodie Foster?

But anyway, the link from Drudge didn't even get the worst of it! She carried on about religion and worship, tried to compare herself and MLK ("He [God] wouldn't hev brawt me this far just to layve may"), and joked gently about how she's a Methodist and she has a "mee-ixed marriage."

I was ready to throw my radio out the window last night listening to her. I live-blogged a transcript on another thread.

288 Killgore Trout  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:55:37am

#281 WriterMom
Some of them are missing on the front page, but I notice that the digg site is down at the momoent. Maybe that has something to do with it.

289 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:56:02am

#286 Heather

I LOVE the Field Museum! I bet it was cold along the lakeshore there yesterday.

290 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:56:24am

realwest

layers are key.

291 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:57:36am

#274 mama winger - I suspect she thought she'd get away with it; as I mentioned in my #253 above, she spent a bunch of years in Arkansas and I'd have expected her to fake it better than that.

292 Dirk Diggler  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:57:46am
How did you do?

I passed with flying colors. I've run marathons that weren't as grueling as Krav tests, and Saturday was no exception. In addition to the grueling physical demands the test requires, the instructors are always screwing with you and telling you that you are going to fail, that you're no good, and deliberately having endless side conversations during the hardest drills.

Oh and during the test I was battling a strained calf muscle and a stomach virus. Endorphins are a wonderful thing.

293 Daisy  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:58:37am

#274 mama,

She's been up to that taqiyya by morphed accent for quite awhile ... Maybe you've seen this? If not, it's one take (among many)
[Link: www.dallasobserver.com...]

294 BobbiLee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:58:40am

Hey realwest,

Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. My stupid mouse decided to quit, and I had to re-boot. I swear my PC system is so old I'm holding it together with duck tape(or is it duct tape?).

Anyway, Chesterfield Co. is just southwest of Richmond. My mailing address is Richmond, but I don't have to pay the high taxes!

Mama Winger,
Your daughter must be about to pull her hair out!

295 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:58:59am
296 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:59:12am

#283 realwest

hell I can't even figure out what to wear when we go off to the doctor today!


Layers. :)

People mock my hoodie until the cold front moves in over lunch...

297 squarepeg  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:59:35am

#269 WriterMom

Thanks! :/

Brilliant article. The writer cites one case in support and reveals that the sentence for an honor killing in Syria is THREE MONTHS, then carries on at length about the Assyrian Christian in Chicago who killed his family for dissing him. Proof positive that it's common among Christians and Jews everywhere!

298 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 4:59:51am

#292 Dirk Diggler 3/5/2007 06:57AM PST

the instructors are always screwing with you and telling you that you are going to fail, that you're no good, and deliberately having endless side conversations during the hardest drills.

LOLOL, OF course, silly....it's a Jewish thing...

299 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:00:25am

Real I think you should wear a muted chiffon

300 Miss Trixie  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:01:25am

realwest, darls.

Damn, at least if it's really cold and stays that way for a while your body can try to adjust; hell I can't even figure out what to wear when we go off to the doctor today!


First pants, THEN shoes.

:P

301 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:01:34am

#290 loppyd - layers are key? It's gonna be around 40 degrees when we leave and get into the 60's while we're out then back down to the upper 20's tonight. How can you layer for that? Start with cut-offs and a tee, add a sweater, jeans and light jacket, then the LL Bean Parka?!
I hate to waddle when I walk! LOL!

302 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:02:52am

Dirk Diggler

Good for you! I am impressed.

And here I was all proud that the BF and I walked to the breakfast joint on Saturday. LOL

303 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:01am
304 Kenneth  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:04am

Good morning e verybody. Possible good news,
Unconfirmed report indicates Bagdadi captured in Salahadin province

Iraqi security forces are reporting that Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of al-Qaeda's political front organization the Islamic State of Iraq, has been captured in the northern city of Duluiya in Salahadin province, according to Deutsche Presse-Agentur. The report has not been confirmed by the U.S. military at this time.
305 squarepeg  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:15am

#269 Writer Mom

Oh, and this gem at the foot of the article:

Ray Hanania was named the Best Ethnic American Columnist for 2006/2007 by the New America Media.

306 friarstale  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:28am

good morning all
here's an interpretation of "Yallah Ya Nasrallah" in English
[Link: cruxy.com...]

Huff-Po is all agog about the F-Word today
[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

307 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:32am

#289 mama winger

It was fairly enjoyable. I parked under Soldier Field and skipped the walk by the lakefront because it was windy.

My day was made by a trio of teenage gangbangers in full regalia making fun of the ritual dance costumes of the New Hebrides. Textbook irony. :)

308 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:48am

268 njdhockey I'd guess that wouldn't be good from a public health standpoint. Perhaps that isn't a problem in desert climates where you don't have lots of ground water flowing around, and where you don't have enough real soil to carry nasty microorganisms. Maryland has both issues, so unpreserved corpses.....um, sounds like a bad idea to me.

309 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:51am

TFK

Someone had best send them a link that proves the S.P.P. does not exist so they do not go off half cocked any more.


How about this one
and
this one

310 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:03:55am

274 Mama Winger

Hillary was born and raised in one of the whitest and wealthiest of the Chicago suburbs. Yesterday when I was listening to her speak, her drawling vowel sounds and the dropping of her consonants sickened me in its manipulation.

Precisely

311 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:06:15am

realwest

llightweight pants, t-shirt, lightweight button down shirt, windbreaker....

or you could just go with the chiffon number that Babba suggested.

312 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:06:39am

#297 squarepeg

reveals that the sentence for an honor killing in Syria is THREE MONTHS

That settles it. I'm doing all my honor killing in Syria from now on.

/

313 Ben Hur  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:07:36am
314 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:07:56am
315 Daisy  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:08:13am

#284 Elite,

Oh. My. Heavens. I do believe we have seen the operative interior element that makes all Moonbats fly - that little Darth Vader in the making is revealing the god in the Moonbat machine - And what an unmitigatedly spoiled little monstrosity of a godlette that Moonbrat is ... ugh ugh and ugh again.

316 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:08:25am

310 FrogMarch

she kind of takes all of the worst interpretations of Pauls "All things to all people" and rolls them into one fake act.

317 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:09:17am

Wow. I just watched that CBS clip. I like that general. HE GETS IT. Neat.

318 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:09:44am

lol

319 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:10:02am
320 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:10:48am

The future looks bleak for the children of Islam...

A children's programme on Hizbollah TV: A ten-year old daughter of a suicide bomber comes on and says: "I have often prayed for my father to be martyred. I am very happy that God heard my prayers ([Link: www.manartv.com.lb...]

Agence France-Presse (AFP). The mother of a suicide bomber: "I am very happy my son was martyred. I had said goodbye to him before he left for his mission and I wished him success. I am thankful to God that he heard my prayers ([Link: www.afp.com...]

Is it human for a ten-year old to actually celebrate the death of her father? Is it human for a mother to actually rejoice at the loss of her son? Only in a society that glamorises death (and not life). Only when one is brought up in a 'culture of death'. Only where twisted logic is indoctrinated as the ultimate truth.

In Pakistan, ten thousand madrassahs prepare two million martyrs a year. On top of that, 198,166 primary, middle and secondary schools are working hard at manufacturing 27 million closet martyrs. As if that wasn't enough, the martial state of the Islamic Republic steps in and puts on display its destructive nuclear potential -- Chagai and replicas of missiles -- on all major street intersections. Walk into any classroom of any government-run school and ninety-five per cent of what's on display is martyrs (with the exception of Jinnah, Iqbal and Sir Syed). What we have thus managed to create is an ideal 'culture of death'; a whole society of death worshippers.

Here's the official curriculum document for classes K-V, National Bureau of Curriculum and Textbooks, Federal Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan (1995): "At the completion of Class-V, the child should be able to: Make speeches on jihad and shahadat; India's evil designs against Pakistan; acknowledge and identify forces that may be working against Pakistan [pg 154]." The document further instructs teachers: "To judge their spirits while making speeches on jihad….." Another prescribed 'learning outcome' is to "recognise the importance of jihad in every sphere of life." Textbooks prescribed by the Punjab Textbook Board eulogise "jihad and shahadat" and routinely urge students to "become mujahids and martyrs". Middle school textbooks have long been urging children to be "willing to die as martyrs for Islam."

source

321 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:11:00am

#292 Dirk Diggler

I think you were having a conversation with my mother, not some silly, sissy Krav Maga test.

322 Kenneth  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:11:49am

Ah hah!Iraq Mystery Weapon Identified

March 4, 2007: The mystery weapon picture that's been showing up around the net, appears to be something that began in Chechnya... and evolved into a new design for firing RPG rockets. The U.S. Army has come to call the mystery weapon the C5K, and it sports a scope. The C5K is a misnomer, and refers to another improvised weapon (a launcher for an unguided aircraft rocket, the S-5K, a 8.8 pound, 55mm projectile). These mystery weapons are made in small quantities, in workshops set up for that purpose. Things like this are intended to provide an easier-to-handle launcher for RPG rockets. The Chechens began the current round of warfare with the Russians in the 1990s, and many of their innovations spread to other Islamic terrorist groups. The Sunni Arabs of Iraq are a well educated lot, and know for resourcefulness and improvisation. Saddams secret police were known to have links with the Chechens, and apparently exchanged ideas. The improvised weapons are often more impressive in terms of appearance than in performance. But that is a common failing of Islamic terrorists.
323 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:12:00am

Good morning, all. :) It looks so lovely and peaceful and sunny from MY window......how is the rest of the world doing? :)

324 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:12:16am

309 babbazee Um, I'm not quite sure those links were what tfk was talking about LOL very nice

325 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:12:42am

#280 BabbaZee

GA! I can't open your jewhadi tunes...got another format?

326 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:14:53am

#320 NJD

Is it human for a ten-year old to actually celebrate the death of her father? Is it human for a mother to actually rejoice at the loss of her son? Only in a society that glamorises death (and not life). Only when one is brought up in a 'culture of death'. Only where twisted logic is indoctrinated as the ultimate truth.

The biggest lie that Satan tells is that death is preferable to life. This is not just an idea prevalent in islamic cultures - it has invaded our own, although in a subtler form. Still, it is the endgame of the evil one.

327 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:15:08am

#268 NJDhockeyfan

Islamic law bans the practice of embalming.

I hope that the Maryland lawmakers are considering more than just political correctness.

I read someplace recently that there's becoming a major problem with traditional "shroud burials" (no coffin) by muslims in Europe because the practice started and is suited to the dry, sandy, warm earth of most muslim countries, and not the damp, loamy, cool earth of Europe -- and the US.

328 Daisy  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:15:23am

#320 Hockey Fan,

As it does for American children .. hold your nose tight and go see: #284 Elite .. One can almost hear the background noise of the Moonbat parents moaning to their collective children: "Please like me .. I'll do anything you want .. just LIKE me .. please"

Put that together w/the destroyed children of Islam and the impossible becomes true .. it becomes even bleaker.

329 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:15:29am

#311 {loppyd} but I don't have the shoes for Chiffon!

330 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:15:38am

WriterMom

I think you were having a conversation with my mother, not some silly, sissy Krav Maga test.

I just choked on my coffee. LOL

331 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:15:41am

321 WriterMom

trade you. I get ignored.

"Hey... I filled out my application stuff for college to go back and finish my degree."

"I made chicken for dinner."

...

332 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:16:10am

322 Kenneth Yes, I saw that too. So do you think Putin is helping Chechen terrorists get to Iran (and thus Iraq)? It would kill two birds with one stone for him.

333 Silhouette  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:16:42am

#320 NJD hockey

At the completion of Class-V, the child should be able to: Make speeches on jihad and shahadat; India's evil designs against Pakistan; acknowledge and identify forces that may be working against Pakistan [pg 154]." The document further instructs teachers: "To judge their spirits while making speeches on jihad….." Another prescribed 'learning outcome' is to "recognise the importance of jihad in every sphere of life."

Ah, the No Child Left Alive curriculum.

334 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:17:10am

Morning Ma and funky

Writermom
DAMN the commie computers! Damn them all to HELL!

335 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:17:57am

#320 NDJ

I'm with mamma winger on this. The death cult has totally inverted human history. Even animals will RESIST attempts to push it off a cliff. Animals will kill other animals who threaten their young. Parents have always sacrificed themselves for the lives of their children. The death cult is satanic-turns everything on its head. NO OTHER HUMANS EMBRACE AND WORSHIP DEATH.

336 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:17:59am

#329 realwest

I don't have the shoes for Chiffon!

See if Dirk Diggler will let you borrow his.

337 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:19:17am

327 nonic Hey, see my #308. Any chance you remember where you read that?

Something screams "Environmental Impact Report"

I sure hope any Maryland lizards get on the phone. Oh, and VA, DE, and PA lizards too, especially any who are on well water.

338 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:19:35am

#331 LanceKates - Hey good morning Lance! How're you doing this morning?

339 vxbush  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:19:49am

Greetings, saluts, and "Oh-why-is-it-Monday" looks to all. Taxes completed yesterday with much blood, sweat, and tears. Work this week will be bad; it's a given.

So hanging out here is the sweetest idea of the day.

340 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:21:04am

338 realwest

we're alive, how're things on your end?

341 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:23:24am

#336 mama winger - Whaddaya mean ask Dirk - didn't you read what kind of shape he's in?! Besides, since you passed on my #238 to you, I'll be seeking my advice elsewhere, thank you.
*sniffles, was just trying to be nice and get scrolled over*!

342 red satellite  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:24:22am

Another pearl from VDH: Memory and Conflict in Iraq

343 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:24:47am

#268 NJDhockey
#308 funky

Exactly. Please see my #327.

344 lawhawk  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:25:24am

OT:

Does anyone have an update on the situation with Charles Rust-Tierney? You know, the guy who was arrested on child porn charges? Former chapter president of the ACLU down in Virginia?

You mean you haven't heard? Curious, isn't it.

Well, turns out that child porn doesnt' quite begin covering what he was into. Watching sexual assaults of pre-pubescent girls and even infants and toddlers.

Yet, there's a virtual media blackout on the story. If this was a politician, especially with an R next to the name, it would be a top story. Yet, the former head of an ACLU chapter gets a pass? Most curious - given that the ACLU routinely goes out of its way to defend the rights of NAMBLA and other organizations to engage in sexual assaults of minors on free speech/religious grounds despite it being illegal in all states. You'd think the juxtaposition of the criminal act and the position would make for a good story, but again, curious.

345 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:25:41am

why conservative thinking is so much better than dried up liberal nonsense:

Senate Democrats want to give Transportation Security Administration employees collective-bargaining power. Apparently their solution to recent TSA failures is to make incompetent employees even harder to fire. Last October, TSA screeners at Newark Airport failed 20 of 22 undercover security tests in a week (though many dangerous sets of tweezers were confiscated). The Democrats’ plan to grant TSA employees broad new protections would only make matters worse. Firing unionized federal workers is so difficult that the inept ones stick around forever. Such inflexibility should not be imposed on the agency tasked with protecting Americans from airplane hijackings. If the Republicans were doing this kind of favor for one of their biggest campaign contributors, the Democrats would be screaming about the “culture of corruption.” Now that the majority’s on the other foot, we’re supposed to believe that this sop to organized labor is merely part of the Democrats’ historic concern for the working man. We’ll believe that . . . when tweezers fly.

Corrupt Democrats want to protect bad employees

346 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:26:17am

Poster Timbre posted, on a lower thread, this.....does anybody know how important this sheikh is, how widespread was the following of his instruction, in this past election?

347 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:26:24am

#340 LanceKates uh, we're alive but mom's in some considerable pain and has three doctor, dentist type appointments and two proceedures (one today and one in the hospital Thursday) this week, so we be a little more tense than usual today.
Hey, don't mean to bug you, but when do you think you'll hear back from those colleges you wrote to?

348 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:26:32am

realwest

I don't have the shoes for Chiffon!

Tragic.

349 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:26:45am

Governor: Ohioans have paid too high a price to welcome refugees

Gov. Ted Strickland [D] on Wednesday had a message for President Bush: any plan to relocate thousands of refugees uprooted by the Iraq war to the U.S. shouldn't include Ohio.

The compassionate democrat speaks. Why do you hate brown people in need Ted? Considering the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants already in Ohio, whats 7,000 (legal) Iraqi refugees going to do?

And Ohio choose this twat over Ken Blackwell? Suckers.

350 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:27:38am
351 RadicalRon  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:28:14am

Awesome view of LA this morning. Pic updated every 2 minutes.

352 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:28:16am

REALWEST ! OH NO!

I missed your #238! OH - and it's so sweet, too! I feel terrible - it is so kind of you to be thinking of me and my bleeding dog and my broken daughter and ...... oh dear!

Come here and let mama give you a big hug! MWAH!

353 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:28:18am
354 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:29:23am

#349 Buckeye Abroad
I think Indiana would be happy to take legal Iraqis over illegal others.

There's an article like this in the Indy Star every other day.

355 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:29:50am

Good morning.

I see Dirk Diggler is trying to pass off his weekend "rough boy" encounters as "Krav Maga tests" again. Some things never change.

356 FrogMarch  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:29:55am

316 Lance

she kind of takes all of the worst interpretations of Pauls "All things to all people" and rolls them into one fake act.

Yes indeed she does. Well put.

357 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:30:16am

#210 mama winger
Oh, mama winger, I'm so sorry about your daughter! ):

358 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:30:21am

#352 mama winger - LOL! Well okay, but only cause you insisted on the hug! LOL, I knew you musta just missed it, but am still curious as to how your daughter did such incredible damage to her leg. Didn't kick that there computer, did she?!

359 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:30:32am

shroud burial in Germany:

[Link: www.spiegel.de...]

Where have we heard this kind of thing before:

But local law still won't allow shroud burial, so Ahorn Grieneisen's department for Muslim burials, Ikinci Bahar, falls back on a fatwa released in 1985 by scholars in Mecca. The legal ruling argues that Islam "has nothing against" burial in an unadorned wooden coffin. Ilka Petersen says shroud burial is a long Islamic tradition, but not Koranic law: "In the Koran it says, let yourself be buried wherever you die -- everywhere is God's acre."
360 flyover_templar  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:31:41am

Hmm I just checked out the t-shirt section of LGF and noticed all the XXL-XXXL shirts are sold out.

Maybe more a little more lizard exercise, and fewer fruit cups are in order.

/FT

361 BabbaZee  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:31:55am

Ma Sands


bbl

362 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:32:46am

#337 funky

Any chance you remember where you read that?

No. Sorry. But I remember that there was talk of some kind of waxy residue/byproduct that builds up on an untreated, unboxed corpse in European soil and delays decomposition, even for decades.

The article was really about, as I recall, the preference of many muslims in Europe to have their remains shipped back to "the old country" for burial. Partly for traditional and "homesickness" (for lack of a better word), and partly because of cost. I think they said it was cheaper to ship a body back than to bury it. And partly because of these "shroud burials."

I'll poke around and see if I can figure out where I saw this.

363 yochanan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:33:12am

The C-BS piece is interesting but you should go down and read the comments some are fascist/neo nazi and some arabist or muslim. very important for people to see.

364 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:33:15am

#358 realwest

She fell on the ice in her driveway last week! This damnable weather! She was going to school and fell, and couldn't get up. Fortunately she had her cell phone and called me. I rushed over - about a 15 minute drive - and found her screaming in a snowdrift. She has a bad break and will have surgery tomorrow.

My dog has hemophilia - we diagnosed it over the weekend. She will require ongoing transfusions,.

My life sucks. :)

365 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:33:34am

Frosty windshield on my 2007 Chevrolet Impala this morning.

Al-Ghour NYC Global Warming Cooling Watch


-24ºC at 7 am in New York City tomorrow.. (Well, at an elevation of about 1500 meters above sea level. Still, that is freakish. Morning lows below 10ºF, close to zero North and West away from the urban and sea warmed areas, daytime highs tomorrow probably below 20ºF. That's chilly in NYC in January, and, again, freakish in March.

Per 6Z GFS, but at this short term, all the models agreee.


Note the 6Z GFS tries to keep Wednesday's snow storm just South of NYC, with the city only getting 2 inches (5 cm) of snow, as compared to Atlantic City with 5 inches. (13 cm).


Canadian also just drops an inch or two on NYC Wednesday.


Some disagreement on the weekend, with the Canadian maybe warm enough and wet enough in the Northeast for some flooding as the inland snow pack melts and rivers jam with ice.

New 12Z NAM has single digit lows NYC and Long Island Wednesday morning, but again, not enough snow to cancel school.


But I haven't given up hope.

SPC has no risk areas identified for the next week as far as tornadoes go.

366 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:34:10am

#355 Occasional Reader - Morning O.R.! Hey, take it easy on Dirk woulda please! I need to see if he's got a pair of shoes I can borrow - the fashion mavens out here think I should layer myself in chiffon and I don't have the shoes for it! LOL!

367 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:34:23am

#343 nonic

I wonder where the UN human rights commission stands on this.

368 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:34:48am

#344 lawhawk

People who mess with children aren't safe around me. You should send additional info on that both to Charles and to Hot Air.

369 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:34:57am

349 buckeye Actually, good on him. Why would he want 7,000 shiites or sunnis moved to Ohio?

Don't tell me you think we will selectively evacuate religious minorities?

370 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:35:13am

344 lawhawk

That is disgusting...

You reap what you sow.

371 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:36:43am
372 RadicalRon  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:36:53am

nonic & funky - the history channel had a program on this about three months ago. I cant remember the name, but you might try going to their site and reading the descriptions of the vids they have for sale. It will most likely be repeated in the upcoming months.

373 americanpundit  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:37:11am

flyover_templar, for me too.

374 shug  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:37:38am

If Al gore is the goracle.......what does that make tipper?
The boracle?

Is Monica Lewsnski the oralacle?

375 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:39:19am

347 realwest

that's too bad, never easy to see a loved one hurting. Hope all goes well with her visits and procedures and such.

as for the colleges, I don't know. I got a response from the endowment department (or whatever it is called) saying that my endowment app is held up waiting for "Admissions Acceptance"

so it looks like we're waiting to see if I'm a student. They have my transcripts, and friday afternoon they had not input them yet, so I'll call tomorrow to make sure that was done. (Don't want to call them every day and annoy)

376 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:39:40am

344 lawhawk Thanks for the update. I wondered the same thing last week and asked if anybody had heard any new stuff.

I thought Bill O'Reilly would be all over this story because he always claims he is out to expose the ACLU and child predators. I don't watch TV news, so I have no idea if he's covered it, but I assumed he would.

/Et tu Bill?

377 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:39:44am

#364 mama winger - Auugh! That is bad news! And your life doesn't suck, if it did she'd a broken both legs and wouldn't have even a crappy 'puter for you to work on!
Best wishes and prayers going up for you and your daughter.

378 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:41:08am

#364 mama winger
Well, for the first time (almost :) I am grateful for the invention of the cell phone!
And besides....we all love you, doesn't that count for something.....? :)
A kiss and a hug for your daughter --if it won't hurt her.....

379 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:41:08am

360 flyover

hey, i've worked hard to get DOWN to where a 2x t-shirt would fit me!

380 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:41:17am

Activist claims racial profile: "Treated like terrorist"

An anti-war protester at the 2004 Democratic National Convention has lodged a federal lawsuit against U.S. Secret Service and the Boston Police Department, charging he was treated like a terrorist because of his skin color.

Puleeze.

381 Ben Hur  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:41:41am
Is Monica Lewsnski the oralacle?

She'll forever be, "that fat chick in a thong that filled in for a Big Mac" to me.

382 RadicalRon  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:43:18am
#364 mama wingerMy life sucks. :)

Go over to Digganistan and take down a couple of Koslings. That'll take your mind off of things for a bit. Great fun and you just might see E2m and a few others there, too. :-)

383 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:43:22am

{mama winger}

I am so sorry to hear that your daughter got hurt.

Hopefully she'll be back on her feet soon.

384 Ben Hur  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:43:36am
charging he was treated like a terrorist because of his skin color

I guess the guy is a racist.

385 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:43:51am

#347 realwest
(....and, a kiss and a hug for your Mom too, if it won't hurt her.... :)

386 NoSubmission  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:44:12am

344 lawhawk

Does anyone have an update on the situation with Charles Rust-Tierney? You know, the guy who was arrested on child porn charges? Former chapter president of the ACLU down in Virginia?

O'Reilly was the only MSM that I know of who mentioned that video a week or so back. Too sick for words..

387 realwest  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:44:14am

#375 LanceKates - Thanks and I think you're right about not being annoying and calling every day. OTOH, it in fact is the squeeking wheel that get's the attention, especially these days of no people telephone "menu's".
Kind of a tightrope you need to walk there.
If you haven't heard in another week, however, I'd start sqeeking if I was you!

Anyway, got to go get ready to take Mom out to doc now, hope I get to speak to y'all later on and I hope y'all have a GREAT DAY!
and in the inimitable words of Obi-wan, Play Nice!

388 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:44:16am

356 FrogMarch

you and I know that... but we are just yelling into the wind.

too many of the voters in the united states really don't care.

389 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:44:41am

#337 funky
#362 nonic

No, I couldn't find it.

But I did find this....... First Muslim cemetery opens in Alaska

390 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:45:12am

realwest

Best of luck to Mama realwest at her appt.

391 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:45:22am

#366 realwest:

the fashion mavens out here think I should layer myself in chiffon

Bad advice. Remember the old outdoorsman saying: "Chiffon kills."

392 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:45:32am

362 nonic I think that spiegel article is the same one you saw :-)

393 mama winger  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:47:02am

Thanks everyone ! YOur kind words help me enormously! I need to do some caretaking chores - hope to be back in a bit.

Realwest - you're a good son to your mom. She is lucky to have you. I wish her the best.

see ya's later

394 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:47:04am

#354 HeatherRadish

There's an article like this in the Indy Star every other day.

Burn them out.

395 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:47:21am

379 Lance GOOD JOB...keep it up!

396 Miss Trixie  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:47:52am

{loppyd} Hiya, toots.

Shah is seeking to be awarded unspecified financial damages for his alleged misery.

Oh, YEAH. Nothing like demanding a paycheque to assuage your own FEELINGS of alienation and self-proclaimed victimhood courtesy of the hard working taxpayer.

Fargin' a**hat.

397 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:48:23am

#344 lawhawk:

Well, turns out that child porn doesnt' quite begin covering what he was into. Watching sexual assaults of pre-pubescent girls and even infants and toddlers.

I think it's incredibly intolerant of you to attempt to judge him based on his alternative lifestyle.

/need I

398 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:48:41am

Ben Hur

Though not charged, Shah claims authorities accused him of acting suspiciously - a point he doesn’t exactly dispute, but also doesn’t spell out.

I bet this doesn't make it past summary judgment.

399 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:48:50am

364 mama winger

*hug*

400 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:49:41am

mama winger--

Yikes, sorry to hear about your daughter's travails (not to mention your dog's). I guess... things can only start looking up?

401 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:50:21am
The new designated section makes Anchorage a more attractive place for Muslims to settle, Khan said.

Not to mention when Ramadan is in the winter, you only have to fast for three hours.

/June might be a problem...

402 Rednek  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:50:30am

Dicks at the WaPo

It's Not Just Walter Reed

By Anne Hull and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, March 5, 2007; A01


The official reaction to the revelations at Walter Reed has been swift, and it has exposed the potential political costs of ignoring Oliva's 24.3 million comrades -- America's veterans -- many of whom are among the last standing supporters of the Iraq war.

Arrogant pricks at the WaPo, aren't they?

403 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:50:48am

395 funky

heh, thanks. Friday we had the ceremony promoting me up a rank in martial arts. Have the certificate at home and a color copy here at work on my file cabinet.

404 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:51:16am

Oh-OT: If anyone spots Dustoff-507, please tell him that I have a message for him from a "lurking" lizard regarding his friend's child who is sick. Someone contacted me through e-mail, and said they had a child that had some similar symptoms. I promised that I would try to get the message to him. I thought that it was so nice for a lurker to go to that much trouble to send a message (not sure why through me, though).

405 Dirk Diggler  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:51:31am

OR,

"I see Dirk Diggler is trying to pass off his weekend "rough boy" encounters as "Krav Maga tests" again. Some things never change."

I see another LGFer is projecting his repressed sexual desires on to me. You need to ditch the beard you have now and hook up with Murqtaad. Maybe run off to Massachusetts and get married.

I'm sure you'd make a lovely bride.

406 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:54:02am

M'sia Wants Stereotyping Of Terrorism With Islam To Stop

JAKARTA, March 5 (Bernama) -- Malaysia wants the inclination of the West and their media to stereotype terrorism with Islam to stop and be eliminated immediately to prevent a jaundiced perception by the world of the majority of Muslims who have never supported terrorism.

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said the use of terms by Western leaders and media such as "Islamic terrorists", "Islamic extremists" and "establishing an Islamic caliphate" hurt the feelings of peace-loving Muslims.

"Similarly `Islamic jihadists', which in Islam gives a very good and positive connotation of a struggle for good or positive purpose, has been misused and misinterpreted," he told a press conference at the end of the first day of the Sub-Regional Ministerial Conference on Efforts Against Terrorism here today.

Now THAT is funny.

Maybe if they stop bombing/head chopping in the name of Islam....well...nevermind.

407 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:54:50am

realwest, now that you're a man of the south, it's time to invest in seersucker

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

it's much more pratical than chiffon :-)

408 Murqtaad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:55:17am

Im curious to know if they let Dirk take the test in his ridiculously short, jean cut-offs? (think of the gay cop from Reno 911)

409 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:55:46am

#405 Dirk:

I'm sure you'd make a lovely bride.

Nah, I'd definitely look pretty lousy in chiffon. (or whatever the hell bride's getups are made of)

410 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:56:05am

397 OR

heh. Bad OR... Bad.

411 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:56:24am

Dirk Diggler

Maybe run off to Massachusetts and get married.

I will host the reception!

412 Murqtaad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:57:44am

Dirk,

I see another LGFer is projecting his repressed sexual desires on to me. You need to ditch the beard you have now and hook up with Murqtaad. Maybe run off to Massachusetts and get married.

OR doesn't need to ditch the beard, I dig em.

/This coming from a guy who spent 3+ hours grappling with other sweaty men. Project much, Dirk?

413 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:57:47am

#409 Occasional Reader

Nah, I'd definitely look pretty lousy in chiffon. (or whatever the hell bride's getups are made of)

Polyester satin, unless you want to invest the $$$ for silk. :P

414 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:58:02am

RE: Muslims and embalming.


Actually, assuming my corpse isn't to be buried within 10 feet of the top of a potable water source/reservoir, and withing about a thousand feet of a drinking water well, I'd prefer not to be embalmed. You guys ever caclulate the transit time of a contaminant in a reservoir using the D'Arcy equation? We're talking slow, slower than the rate of natural decay in an aerobic environment, and there shouldn't be anything like MBTE, heavy metals or aromatic hydrocarbons in enough quantity in my body to fould the taste of the ground water


Having my blood drained and replaced with embalming fluid doesn't sound right. Unless I was near death, and they started feeding me Long Island Ice Teas to get the process started.


I think I'd prefer to decay the natural way, and in a bio-degradable coffin, I'd assume the aerobic bacteria would break me down pretty efficiently long before I could contaminate the ground water.

415 Earth2moonbat  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:58:11am

#404 WriterMom

His nic is blue in this post, if you want to contact him.

416 Globular Cluster  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:58:24am

Phenomenal ass-kicking by Hannity:

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

417 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:58:39am

402 rednek WOW where to start?

1. Just because the Wa Post reporters and democrat leadership put politics above the human warfighters certainly doesn't mean the rest of US citizens do.

2. How weird must it be to live with the "politics are the alpha and omega of life" worldview?

3. Lots of us still support the Iraq war. What we don't support is the fact that our leadership has gone wobbly starting in about 2003. Instapundit did a great post on this topic a couple of days ago. I'm going to look for it.

418 Buckeye Abroad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 5:59:31am

#369 funky chicken

Why would he want 7,000 shiites or sunnis moved to Ohio?

Didn't say what religions they were, but I would imagine many are also iraqi Assyrian christians.

Besides, there are plenty of muslim iraqis fighting with US forces at their own, and family's, risk. I don't think we should abandon allies. Especially when a democrat governor, who claims to be a minister, wants to play political theater at others expense.

Throughout his service as a minister, a psychologist, a professor and a Member of Congress, Ted has worked to exemplify those simple, powerful words ... “And what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?”—Micah 6:8

Another hypocrite.

419 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:01:05am

#392 funky

Yes, it is. :-) How clever of you to find it. How did you do that?

420 Murqtaad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:01:17am

loppy,

I will host the reception!

Oh, we'lll have such fun. We can play "It's Raining Men"

421 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:01:20am

402 rednek

I wonder if, late at night, when the editors and journalists are trying to sleep.... when that little voice whispers in their ear, if they realize that the freedoms afforded because of our way of life and our fighting men and women, are the only reasons why they're alive, despite their condemnation of anything the administration does.

Do they think they would have been afforded the same freedoms under Hitler's rule? or in Iran or N. Korea?

422 lawhawk  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:01:49am

#402 rednek:

It wouldn't be so shameful and sad if the WaPo bothered to read through their own archives and those of other news outlets. The situation at military medical institutions has been awful for decades. Ditto for the VA. Things have improved some of late, but it is still nowhere near what it should be.

Oh, and yet government health care is held up as the paragon of virtue that we should all be treated to govt care, despite the repeated showing that such care is inferior to private health care systems.

Everyone has access to health care, but the question is affordability and the govt interference has repeatedly made the costs of health care more expensive, without making it better.

423 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:03:13am

#413 Heather:

Polyester satin, unless you want to invest the $$$ for silk.

Two of the more wonderful things about OR's girlfriend:

1) She is from Unspecified Country To The South of Here, where "we really don't do the whole engagement right deal". So that's several thousand bucks saved right there.

2) Her attitude toward wedding attire is simply "for everyone to be comfortable".

424 Dustoff-507  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:03:30am

#404 witermom

I'm here...

The child's cond has worsen, He has cancer through out his lower intestins.


Thanks for asking though. (-:

425 Kenneth  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:03:35am

#332 funky chicken

So do you think Putin is helping Chechen terrorists get to Iran (and thus Iraq)? It would kill two birds with one stone for him.

Interesting speculation... plenty of Chechens have been captures or killed in Afghanistan & Iraq. The jihadi network moves fighters around & they probably use a number of channels to do that. The shortest routes from Chechnya to either Iraq or Afghanistan passes through Iran.

As to whether Russia is enouraging or even helping the Chechen rebels go south, I haven't heard any evidence that they are. But I wouldn't put it past them.

426 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:03:53am

414 Ed. That works in the desert climate. Unfortunately, if you are put 6 feet under in Maryland you are likely dealing with the anaerobic bacteria...a nastier crowd, shall we say.

Cremation?

427 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:03:54am

Winters a trial for Maine's nudists


BANGOR -- They say they like being naked because it feels free, uncomplicated. But for members of the Dirigo Naturist Association, a nude recreation club known until this month as Bare Nekkid Mainers, finding places to take it all off has been anything but easy.
428 jehu  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:04:29am

Chiffon, Gay Marriage? Damnit! What has happened to LGF?

Seriously now...very funny movie "Wild Hogs" Goes immediately to the top, bypasses all the angst-driven asshat Hollywood tripe. This has been happening for decades now. Top grossing films are family friendly apolitical films. But Hollywood keeps trying to stuff crap movies, killer/slasher, human torture, political message movies on us, then give them awards, when nobody wants to see those movies.

One gripe is how f'ing many animated pixel cartoon movies are they gonna make? Hollywood is too stupid to write good scripts? Or have decent actors? So they make endless cartoons? Is their audience all ten years old?

429 HeatherRadish  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:04:42am
430 SaneInMN  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:05:07am

402...

Most Democrats, and 100% of the Left, could give a rats-ass about the care wonded vets receive. They simply see this as yet another dagger to stab the Bush Administration with, nothing more. The same reporter who broke this story (actually, Michelle Malkin and others have been blogging about the bureacratic nightmare that Walter Reed has become for years) at the Post (Dana Priest) also devulged classified intel regarding the transportation of captured terrorists, the existence of European prisons that housed said prisoners, and even the markings on CIA aircraft that were used to transport these prisoners. She is a traitor, and yet this whore will be a Pulitzer for this story.

431 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:05:08am

427 loppyd

see? cold weather CAN be a blessing! (for y'all, not them)

432 Dustoff-507  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:05:51am

Morning all... just came by for a second to say hello. Busy day at work.

Hope all are doing well for a Monday.

Realwest. Sorry to hear about your mom. Hope she springs back soon.

433 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:06:28am

414 Ed. However, you are right if they put you in a pine box. The problem is that the muslims may be objecting to the pine box too.

But local law still won't allow shroud burial, so Ahorn Grieneisen's department for Muslim burials, Ikinci Bahar, falls back on a fatwa released in 1985 by scholars in Mecca. The legal ruling argues that Islam "has nothing against" burial in an unadorned wooden coffin. Ilka Petersen says shroud burial is a long Islamic tradition, but not Koranic law: "In the Koran it says, let yourself be buried wherever you die -- everywhere is God's acre."

I just see the veil debate here, and so many other muslim "tolerance" issues reflected here...they always follow the same pattern.

434 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:06:54am

430 Sane

yup... and they're running out of stories and time... with the Democrat Congress doing null, there's not much for them to report. (and you can bet they're not going to report that the new Dem Congress is doing nothing at all but wasting time and money acting like royalty)

435 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:07:06am

Lance

They brought their fun inside. To a bowling alley.

So many jokes coming to mind....

436 m  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:07:37am

428 jehu~ I dunno 'bout you, but I'd rather see Shrek than Sarandon any day of the week.

437 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:08:01am

#432 Dustoff-507
Will you give your friend's child a kiss from me? I am weeping....oh, how sad..... ):

438 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:08:04am

Dustoff

WriterMom is looking for you! She has a contact with info re. the cancer your friend's son has been diagnosed with.

439 loflyer  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:09:07am

377 FunkyC, Bill did cover it, I do not have the link, but I got to it from several links in the original post of the story in this thread. Bill was ragging the media over the lack of coverage of the story. He has a point. This is another typical AP/Reuters tactic of non-reporting of anything that makes liberals look bad. I think I have the media tapped in the US. Like the ACLU, AP/Reuters is totally infiltrated and integrated to the left wing ideology of selective information of news that anything that makes the right or the US military or Bush look bad. If it makes the left look bad, then it becomes a non-issue and will not be reported. I think AP/Reuters were the actual inventors of Diggs infamous bury button.

440 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:09:19am

Some interesting and of course funny notes from Lileks on the whole (bad) idea of "planned cities".

Cities, being designed by a variety of forces instead of one, tend to represent what people want. When one top-down agency designs A City, they end up with the '39 World's Fair vision of the future, Democracity:

[photo]

Imagine the eminent domaining that went into creating that place.

And when it comes to planned cities, I've got one word for you: Brasilia. A city planned from scratch. And nobody actually wants to live there.

Lileks also either makes or repeats a hilarious typo, when quoting Professor Lib KnowItall on why our cities need to be better planned to address the needs of the downtrodden:

“We’ve been doing work with homeless teenage mothers,” he says. “In wondering how to make things better –“

[...]

“ – I asked if the problem was housing or train or transportation They said it was all of those. They can’t get from affordable hosing to day care to a job and back again...

I'd say the affordable hosing perhaps was the reason for their present, difficult situation.

441 Ben Hur  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:09:32am

Random thought:

Vet hospitals Dem life jacket?

442 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:09:59am

438 loppyd

that's just a wrong mental image.

even pretty people shouldn't bowl nude.

443 Earth2moonbat  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:10:06am

#426 funky chicken

It doesn't matter where you're buried, as long as there's enough moisture, your intestinal bacteria will eat you from the inside out. You don't need to add any from the outside.

444 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:10:18am

#414 Ed

I think I'd prefer to decay the natural way, and in a bio-degradable coffin,

Okay. That's called "green burial," and it's a concept that's spreading. Saw an article on that about a year ago regarding a cemetary in Vermont (where else?).

I like that idea, too. But it requires bigger pieces of ground allocated to each burial and some restrictions regarding nearby water sources.

Actually, if you live in the country (as I used to), you have a well and a septic field where wastes (including from the toilet) are leached into the soil. As long as you have the right type of soil and the right distance, it's doable.

445 Dustoff-507  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:10:20am

Writermom.....

Send me E-mail at (mukilteo95@comcast.net)

Thank you.

446 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:10:29am

UK charges less than half of terrorism detainees

LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of all those arrested under anti-terrorism legislation since the September 11 2001 attacks have been released without any charge, official government figures showed on Monday.

Home Office data revealed that 1,126 people had been held under security laws between the 9/11 attacks and the end of 2006, with another 40 detained as part of anti-terrorism operations.

Of these, 652 were released without charge.

No details were given of the ethnic background of those arrested but Muslim groups have long argued that their community has been unfairly targeted since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.

They will see them again after the next terror attack.

447 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:11:48am

Ben Hur

Partially inflated life jacket...

448 Earth2moonbat  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:12:55am

#435 loppyd

So many jokes coming to mind....

I wonder if scrotumus maximus belongs to that club? Might be a convienient place to store the bowling ball........

449 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:13:36am

Actually, I know its against Catholic law, and would gross out the survivors, but if they fed my corpse to a wood chipper at the end of the oddly named 'Galveston Pleasure Pier', hopefully when the water was at its August maximum of 32º (90ºF), so I could serve as chum for the red fish and sharks, and then have a fishing tournament with free beer, well, I can't imagine a cooler way to be disposed of.

450 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:13:45am

Lance

Yep. Bad visuals. Very bad. :)

451 Kenneth  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:14:12am

Syria threatens to kill Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon

The regime apparently has threatened the Saudi Ambassador in Beirut Abdel Rahman Khoja could be assassinated. The warning was coupled with a Syrian intelligence report sent to the Saudis pointing to two fundamentalist organizations targeting Khoja, one of which was (naturally!) "Jund al-Sham."

Such is the transparency of the Syrian regime. Presented as a "goodwill message," it is in fact a direct threat to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador using the Syrian regime's favorite tool (whenever they are in need for a "fundamentalist organization" -- like, say, to attack the US embassy in Damascus, etc.) Jund al-Sham! It's really priceless, and a testament to the Syrian regime's ingenuity...

This is all Assad's clumsy effort to coerce the Saudis into acquiescence...

I repeat: the Assad regime only has -- and only knows -- terrorism. That's it. That's all they have. These are not -- and can never be -- "constructive players." Take away terrorism, and they're left with nothing. That's why they are going all out to torpedo the international tribunal.

452 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:14:14am

#415 E2M

Thanks very much for that. I've just forwarded the e-mail.

453 Earth2moonbat  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:15:14am

#444 nonic

But not with formaldehyde embalming fluid.

454 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:15:41am

#445 Dustoff-507

Hi. Wow! What a coincidence. I just forwarded the e-mail to you, because E2M found your address for me. So it's en route to you now. It says subject line "From WriterMom, LGF" in the header.

455 Ed Mahmoud abu al Qahool Martyr Brigades  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:15:46am

National Geographic has a sneering article this month about Orlando, its strip malls, and all the uncultured white people that live there. Thank goodness, however, some Hispanics are finally starting to move there so maybe it won't be a cultural wasteland forever.

456 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:16:16am

440 OR

many CA cities have huge Planned Developments that span many hundreds of acres (sometimes thousands).... parts of the Port of Oakland, LA, San Fran, Sacremento, all up and down the coast... even some that span across jurisdiction boundaries.

All it REALLY does is create a mess of paperwork that ends up getting lost by the municipality... and creates alot of messy grey area where governmental wheels get 'greased' (i.e. bribes)

457 WriterMom  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:16:27am

{loppyd}

458 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:16:41am

Here's Instapundit on political thoughts and the Iraq war:

And that goes to my big problem. I supported the invasion of Iraq because I saw it as a move toward shaking up the entire Middle East. But as I've noted before, we seemed to exhaust our momentum as soon as Baghdad fell. (It's almost enough to make you believe the Weekly World News theory, mentioned here before, that the invasion was really all about capturing a crashed alien spaceship. Well, no, but it does have a degree of explanatory power . . . .) The cost of toppling Saddam wasn't nearly as bad as some had feared, and even with the cost of reconstruction added in it might well be worth it if the result was the toppling or moderation of Arab and Islamist despots. But the Bush Administration seemed to lose all momentum in that direction and without that larger payoff I'm not sure it was worth it. That's not a reason to cut and run now: We're there, and we owe it to the Iraqis, and our troops, to make it a success. But where I was wrong in March of 2003 was in seeing the toppling of Saddam as the beginning, rather than the end, of the stage of post-9/11 history that started with the rout of the Taliban. In other posts, I've quoted Talleyrand to the effect that "you can do anything with bayonets, except sit on them," and that's what we've done. Was that the plan all along? It's hard for me to believe, but if someone had told me that was the plan in March of 2003 I'd have been much less supportive of going into Iraq.

[Link: instapundit.com...]

459 loppyd  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:17:07am

Earth2moonbat

I wonder if scrotumus maximus belongs to that club? Might be a convienient place to store the bowling ball........

"hey, are those your balls or mine?"

460 Dirk Diggler  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:19:02am

I saw Zodiac this weekend. The movie got bad reviews (mostly because it's length, the movie is 3 hours long), but I thought it was really good.

A smart, suspenseful thriller with an excellent script and solid acting.

461 Dustoff-507  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:19:05am

#454 Writermom


So it's en route to you now. It says subject line "From WriterMom, LGF" in the header.

I know, surprise... (-:

I gave you my e-mail at home @ post #445.

Please use that.

Thank you.

462 americanpundit  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:22:09am

Maliki Angered by Raid. Here's a quote:

The raid took place Sunday at the National Iraqi Intelligence Agency building in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Inside, troops discovered 30 prisoners with signs of torture and abuse, including one woman and two children, the British military said in a statement. It did not elaborate.

An alleged death squad leader was captured along with four other suspected militiamen, Maj. David Gell, a British military spokesman, said Monday.

"They were suspected of serious criminal activity, including kidnap, torture, murder and involvement in roadside bomb attacks on multinational forces and civilians," Gell said.
....

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered an investigation into the raid and vowed to punish "those who carried out this illegal and irresponsible act," his office said in a statement late Sunday.

Government officials were in Basra on Monday to begin an investigation, a spokesman said.

"We have a committee that is in Basra now and it has started work to uncover the circumstances of the incident," said Ali al-Dabbagh, a government spokesman.

More than 200 British troops were involved in the raid, along with an unknown number of Iraqi forces, Gell said.

British and Iraqi forces stormed the building without warning, and "the method of entry ... was appropriately robust," the statement said.

To me, this sounds like he wants to punish the British for raiding a death squad leader's residence, where 30 tortured people were found. The death squad leader, being responsible for mlti-national army deaths. Am I mistaken?

He's angered at this, but not US troops being killed?

463 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:22:36am

435 m Toy Story and Monsters, Inc were good too!

E2M yucky....but it doesn't happen in Germany, apparently. read the spiegel article I had upthread.

464 OtisMyMan  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:22:54am

BobbiLee Is this ABC BobbiLee formerly of Monument A ?

465 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:22:57am

461 Dustoff

any dolts stuck up in a mountain today?

466 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:24:51am

462 americapundit Yes, Mr Maliki isn't on our side. Rumsfeld let slip he didn't like Maliki at a press conference right before the Nov. election. It sealed the deal that he was gone after the election in my mind anyway.

467 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:27:12am

And, of course, as happens here in DC every two years like clockwork, I got called for jury duty. [sigh]

Yes, yes, I know, it's a tremendous civic responsibility, etc. But what it means in practice is that you spend the day sitting in the big draft juror pool room, while they run the PBS Jazz series - as they've done since at least 2001 - on t.v.'s you can't turn off, hoping you won't get called to spend a week deciding some whiplash case.

468 Murqtaad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:29:23am
“We’ve been doing work with homeless teenage mothers,” he says. “In wondering how to make things better –“

Use a rubber and stay in school girls. And stay away from us boys.

469 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:29:27am

467 OR

I have yet, once, to be called for jury duty.

ever.

470 Ben Hur  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:30:09am

First I thought it was Chalabi

But now

Is Maliki Iran's Eli Cohen?

471 Dustoff-507  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:30:27am

#465 Lancekates

any dolts stuck up in a mountain today?


LOL... not this week. Well I better shut my mouth or?

472 m  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:30:57am

#469 LanceKates

:(

Cause they keep making me go in your place! (apparently)

:(

473 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:31:09am

#456 Lance:

many CA cities have huge Planned Developments that span many hundreds of acres

Of course, every city involves some level of design, and there is such a thing as good design. E.g., Central Park was literally built by the hands of man, and it's a wonderful thing. Design goes bad when it assumes that every aspect of human life in a city needs to be planned in advance by Those Who Know Better. Good urban design provides simply the parameters for individual human creativity to adapt to what people actually want, as opposed to what they're told they should want.

474 Bob's Kid  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:31:37am
"Hey... I filled out my application stuff for college to go back and finish my degree."

"I made chicken for dinner."

Well, we will just have to fuss over you here, then.

I say WAY TO GO, LANCE. Knock 'em dead, baby!

/had a lot of practice at this sort of thing...last 2 kids graduate in May!

475 got milk?  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:32:07am

animated pixel cartoon movies & decent actors

I never knew Paul Newman wasn't a decent actor.

476 nonic  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:32:27am

#453 Earth

But not with formaldehyde embalming fluid.

Right.

There is something icky about the way they replace the blood with formaldehyde. Many years ago an embalmer showed me the room and explained to me that they force the blood out by pumping the fluid in. And as far as I know, the blood goes straight into the public sewer system.

When my father was buried in 2000, the undertaker told me that as long as the body was protected from water seeping into the coffin -- which it should be, since NJ requires waterproof concrete vaults surrounding the watertight wood coffin -- the body would stay relatively undecomposed for 50 years.

I find that creepy.

477 americanpundit  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:32:55am

funky chicken , Thanks. That's what I thought. I couldn't believe what I read, so wanted to make sure others saw the same thing I did.

478 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:33:11am

462 americapundit Recall that back in October 2006 Maliki made us disband roadblocks in and around Sadr City, and that he gave political cover to Sadrites as well.

And just last week or so I posted translated articles where Sadrites were fussing to the Iraqi press about the pressure we have put on Maliki as part of the surge and more aggressive combat stance we are using.

It sounds like Maliki thinks the Brits are going to be easier for him to push around in his attempts to help his shiite friends than the US for a while.

Go General Petreus....clean up as much of that place as you can before the accursed meetings with Iran and Syria...

those meeting have been called by Maliki, based on the Bakerite Iraq Study Group, most likely.

479 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:33:19am

#462 americanpundit, #466 funky chicken

Yes, but.....Maliki promised! --does he now get some sort of effective reprimand, for not supporting surge tactics.....?

480 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:33:45am

#468 Murqtaad:

And stay away from us boys.

Hey, these girls need affordable hosing!

481 Kenneth  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:35:49am

#462 americanpundit

Maliki Angered by Raid.

Maliki is angry because the US are going after ALL of the militias & terrorist groups, including Maliki's faction.

This raid is a very good sign that the US means it this time. No punches will be pulled, no hands-off deals. I hope we see more stuff like this.

482 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:37:11am

471 Dustoff

well, a small vacation from risking your neck to ensure the safety of people who voluntarily do stupid things because they are, deep down, stupid and insecure and addicted to adrenaline.

472 m

well, share the love, I WANT to go!

473 OR

No matter how well a city is designed, if it includes 'affordable housing' (which normally means apartments or townhomes that are crappy), the poor will always 'redesign' the area, dropping the value and the safety.

474 Bob's Kid

heh, thanks. here is the main place that I GET some sort of support. sometimes it feels as though I am expected to fail. (which I hope is just in my head)

483 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:37:33am

477 americanpundit Here's Ralph Peters from a USA Today editorial last Nov. (yes, Peters is confused sometimes, but on this stuff he's pretty good. I might reject his conclusions, but his facts are facts).

Then, last month, as Iraq's prime minister seconded al-Sadr's demand that our troops free a death-squad mastermind they had captured, I knew a fateful page had turned. A week later, al-Maliki forbade additional U.S. military raids in Sadr City, the radical mullah's Baghdad stronghold. On Tuesday, al-Maliki insisted that our troops remove roadblocks set up to help find a kidnapped U.S. soldier. Iraq's prime minister has made his choice. We're not it. It's time to face reality. Only Iraqis can save Iraq now — and they appear intent on destroying it. Après nous, le deluge.

Iraq could have turned out differently. It didn't. And we must be honest about it. We owe that much to our troops. They don't face the mere forfeiture of a few congressional seats but the loss of their lives. Our military is now being employed for political purposes. It's unworthy of our nation.

484 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:39:09am

Oops link: [Link: blogs.usatoday.com...]

I believe the assinine and insulting picture was the brainchild of some USA Today editor as I doubt Lt. Col. Peters would have chosen it.

485 right wing zephyr  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:39:12am

Hey all you Lizards!

Did anyone every really think Malaki was our bestest friend?

And Good Mid-Morning to you!

486 loflyer  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:39:50am

Why do I get the feeling that Maliki is the problem instead of the solution. Only one bombing in four days, things are getting better, and If Maliki has an ounce of sense then he will stand aside and let the US and the coalition forces clean up his mess.

487 Just_A_Grunt  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:40:16am

Warning angry Buddhists!

Monk commanded to leave Norcross temple
Unholy deed: When Nam Van Nguyen broke his vow of chastity, members of the Minh Dao Vietnamese Buddhist Temple filed suit to get him removed.

Granted nobody got stoned to death, or hung but gosh durn it they definetly took a hard line against the monk.

488 Bob's Kid  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:42:15am
heh, thanks. here is the main place that I GET some sort of support. sometimes it feels as though I am expected to fail. (which I hope is just in my head)

Well, if they do actually think that (and shame on them if they do) just prove them wrong, baby. That's the absolute best revenge ever.

Told ya so feels sweet.

Bell's run, got to go teach 'em stuff.

489 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:42:20am

479 Ma Sands LOL um, let's see now....

No.

Actually, I think Tony Blair gave him a reward in advance by saying the Brits will leave.

Or that was Maliki's (mistaken) interpretation of Blair's announcement.

I honestly don't think the muslims can help themselves....as soon as they think things are going their way, they overreach and step in it. This tendency on their part may save us all, if enough US citizens figure it out.

490 Occasional Reader  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:42:55am

Re: embalming and all that--

Not an issue for me. My plan is that moments before I die, I'll be crygenically frozen, with orders to be unfrozen only when John Kerry (or some successor) is elected President, at which time the lame will walk and the dead will be reborn.

491 Murqtaad  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:42:57am

OR,

Hey, these girls need affordable hosing!

I just happen to hose for free. I like to call it my Hose for Hoes program.

492 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:44:21am

476 nonic

so, pump a body full of chemicals and encase it in cement and such so that it WON'T decompose, but through a hissy fit when someone uses a styrofoam cup becaue it doesn't decompose fast enough?

people are a fickle thing.

when I lived up in MN, the garbage company would not take yard waste (leaves, grass, etc) because it 'filled up the landfill' too quickly.

but.... grass and leaves mixed in with normal garbage actually SPEED UP the decomposition rate, which would increase the life of a landfill.

However, searching for intelligence in government often makes one feel like Diogenes

493 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:45:25am

485 right wing zephyr GW Bush? Condoleeza Rice? Gen. Abizaid?

I doubt Gen. Petreus had any such illusions, judging by what's been happening over there lately.

I only hope Gen. Petreus and his guys/gals can roll and get a lot accomplished before Maliki's Iran/Syria/US conference gives the terrorists their badly-needed hudna.

494 pegcity  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:46:15am

So its a scheme to highjack islam itself, and ya lost me CBS.

Nice try.

They will never learn will they until they have a rusty blade on their throats.

Thanks Aaron

495 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:46:39am

490 OR LOL AMEN BROTHER

496 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:47:19am

#489 funky chicken
Well, send the General a message, in case he's not thought of it himself. :)

497 americanpundit  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:51:34am

So, basically we're in a Catch-22? Say al-Maliki leaves office. The next guy could be worse. Oy.

498 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:03:50am

497 americanpundit. We made a huge mistake when we decided to push "democracy" before the populace was ready or committed to being one nation rather than a bunch of splintered vicious terrorist groups.

It kind of reminds me of the modern "constructivist" model of education where teachers aren't supposed to tell students what to do and how to do it in the classroom, they are just supposed to create a "learning environment" and then let the kids figure out things for themselves.

The constructivists have held the high ground in ed. schools for decades and have pretty well drummed out any supporters of what they call "direct instruction."

It seems the Iraqis needed several years of tough direct instruction, but didn't get it.

499 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:08:16am

#498 funky chicken
Two things:
I think my high-school-teacher son breaks your mold all over the place. :)
and
Do you think those people, with all the perpetually "un-ready-on-purpose" fellows within that culture, would --no, could --ever be ready? Wow.

500 right wing zephyr  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:09:52am

#493 funky chicken:

exactly right. although, I think the Execs probably knew better, their hands are mostly tied by a very effective MSM (now the 4th branch of US government).

It's a shame about those drooling masses and the strong effect the Left has on them.

501 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:15:19am

499 Ma Sands honestly? No, I doubt they'd ever be great citizens of a kum-bay-ah united Iraq. But I think a few years of something like Gen. MacArthur did in Japan would have given it a shot.

I didn't say all teachers are constructivists. It's just that most of the (vocal and media savvy anyway) profs in ed schools are....and when I was teaching I had to go to a few in-service crapfests where they tried to celebrate constructivism, etc.

It's one reason I'm not teaching any more. My "educational philosophy" just wasn't a good fit with my administration.

502 funky chicken  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:17:45am

492 LK can't disagree with any of that :-) That's why I support cremation, or the Ed Mahmoud approach to interrment, whichever the individual prefers....Ed's sounds like a fun way to hold the funeral actually.

503 Ma Sands  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 7:24:14am

#501 funky chicken
So, you are a teacher? You know, it does say, more is expected of a teacher than of anyone else...... :)
But, I cannot think that NO where would there not be a good spot for your obvious skills!

504 newmelleman  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 9:18:44am

Is it dead?

/won't re-fresh

505 newmelleman  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 9:22:58am
Is it dead?


Apparently not, so perhaps I'm the only one here. Don't leave me all alone in the DDT with all this beer.....

Wait.

nevermind.

506 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 9:24:25am

not wholly dead.

just having a frustrating day in which information from the city doesn't match ALL the rest of the information i have for a site.... and I believe the city.

this jacks up 2 files.

507 newmelleman  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:09:21am

Lance - when I hit "post this comment" replying to you I got the dreaded 'page cannot be found' message. Been getting it all day long here. In summary....I feel your pain.

508 razorbacker  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:16:50am

The things you find whilst looking for something else...a beauty contestant who may actually have a clue what will lead to "world peace".

It takes all kinds to make a world, and ain't that grand.

509 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:20:20am

507 nmm

I'm getting that too. some higher oppression is at work here... even oppressing The Man.

I have all the info in at the college, just waiting for acceptance. going to call tomorrow if I don't hear anything tonight (Just called Friday, don't want to 'over-call')

510 newmelleman  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:42:13am

#509 Lance

Any chance they gave you a PIN # and password to their system? A lot of schools do that so students can check the status of things on their own.

511 UFO TOFU  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:42:52am

Thread seems kind of dead today. Anyway, if you don't live in California, count your blessings:
Brain-dead senator reverses position on bill he co-authored, still brain-dead.

Says AP: "The surprise move came after fellow Republicans questioned the measure's $285 million cost and inclusion of children of illegal immigrants. In a press release, Dutton said that thousands of Californians had asked him "what I was thinking" over the past 48 hours. Although he defended the savings account idea as a way for Republicans to help individuals become self-sufficient, Dutton said he could not support the bill because of the state's deteriorating fiscal stability."


Giving people money helps them become self-sufficient?

512 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:44:42am

510 nmm

nah, haven't been accepted yet, and I haven't received a Student ID.

I did get a letter from the endowment department, stating that my application for scholarship and such is on hold waiting "Acceptance of Applciation" or something like that.

513 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:49:40am

Couldn't y'all hear me at the door trying to get it? ? ?
I tell's ya', it's terrible being locked out of the DDT. I leave for Daytona tomorrow, so this may be my last contact with you for a week! Taking the laptop and the broadband card, but I don't know how well it will work with so many people using cells.
What's up, anyway.
nmm
Loved the finger joke!

514 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 10:58:46am

511 UFO

so a Republican (in CA) added to a bill a savings account of some sort (with all federal/State dollars) for children of illegals?

now, let me preface my next remark with the following: I don't believe that if a pregnant lady comes here illegally (or a lady here illegally who becomes pregnant) and manages to give birth before she is (rightfully) deported, the kid is automatically a US citizen. At least 1 (preferably both) parents should be a Citizen, natural or immigrant.... perhaps with dual citizenship if the child's parents are LEGAL immigrants who haven't achieved citizenship status (so if they change their mind, or don't become a citizen, they can go back to their home country)....

now the statement: Why are we taking care of the illegal immigrants? if they are breaking the law by coming here, why are they being rewarded by our government through such entitlement programs? it is bad enough that companies hire them! maybe I should start selling drugs on the streets, and apply for Small Business grants from the federal government to do so! Why do i think that my idea would fail?

Why is it that only American Citizens have to obey the laws? And why is it that WE are the one punished by such programs, when people who break the law by BEING in this counry are given benefits that their ILLEGAL status should not allow?

515 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:00:14am

513 redstate

hey redstate

Hope you have fun at the racetrack. Don't flash your boobs on camera, unless you write "LGF Rules!" across your chest.

516 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:00:22am

You're preachin' to the choir, Lance.

517 UFO TOFU  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:01:28am

I seem to recall redstate posting an anecdote about a real redneck acquaintance taking a vacation to a Bass Pro Shop. No, her going to a raceway for a week is not at all the same thing...
;)

518 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:02:36am

dang, over 5k visitors... what's the deal? heh.

519 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:03:25am

Lance
There'll be so many boobs being shown at Bike Week, no one would probably even notice mine!

520 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:04:24am

517 UFO

you mean her weeklong trip to a racetrack to watch cars take a bunch of left turns?

*winks at redstate*

521 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:07:07am

519 redstate

Hey, we know who to look for!

522 UFO TOFU  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:08:20am

Lance
Didn't someone here once say "My boob fell in my beer" (probably trying to jumpstart the thread)? Probably posting from a racetrack.

523 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:08:49am

Not cars this time, Lance. SuperBikes.
[Link: www.amasuperbike.com...]
linky thing no worky

524 newmelleman  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:09:40am

"There'll be so many boobs being shown at Bike Week, no one would probably even notice mine!"

They're like snowflakes darlin'. Each (pair) is different from another.

:D

525 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:16:49am

522 UFO

lol, I think so. and it could have been!

523 redstate
Superbike? like and super-motocross thing? Interesting. i wish they'd mix those with harley style street bikes. you race around on your harley then, at the finish line, you get in a bar-brawl on the track. guy who knocks out the most other guys wins.

524 nmm
Exactly! (so i've heard)

526 m  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:20:41am

Hey! They crash every now and then too!

Whassup y'all?

527 UFO TOFU  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:20:46am
There'll be so many boobs being shown at Bike Week


Will you be posting pictures of the, um, race?

528 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:21:52am

Superbikes.
They run on the big tri-oval track that the cars race on (at speeds around 200 mph) plus there are twisties through the infield that they run through, too.

529 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:23:18am

526 m

hey m. how have you been?

530 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:26:35am

{m}!

531 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:28:42am

{TOFU}
Those girls at Bike Week are patriotic, too.

532 m  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:31:36am

Hey Lance :)
I'm doing pretty good~ not quite as good as Redstate apparently :D

533 UFO TOFU  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:33:32am

Here's some cool caves. And some unusual tanks.
Have to go run the high school delinquents home. Later.

534 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:34:33am

532 m

good. been looking for one of those necklaces for a friend of mine.

535 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 11:48:57am
536 redstateredneck  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:06:05pm

I'm glad that there's all this attention being brought to the sorry state of veteran's hospitals, but hellooooo, this didn't just happen. They've been terrible for years.

537 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:15:20pm

536 redstate

the VA system, as a whole, was really dumped in the toilet during the Clinton Era. They BOAST raising the spending on the VA, but the demand grew so much that the rise in funding didn't come close to meeting what was needed.

My dad was in the VA up in MN, and everything was done on a computer. When he came to OK, everything was done on a computer (same system even), but they don't communicate... he had to reenroll for the VA and go through the ENTIRE process again... they don't share information from one state to another.

The VA clinics and hospitals are overrun and understaffed. the one in okc takes care of over 250k vets.... and it is ALWAYS busy.

unfortunately, politicians only care about our vets enough to do photo ops for reelection. Otherwise, unless there is a personal connection (i.e. family member, friend's family member) they really don't seem to care at all, by their actions.

We ask for them to go and fight for our way of life, but our government would rather dump funding into savings accounts and welfare programs for illegal immigrants than making sure these volunteers have at least the same care level as a regular hospital.

really upsets me. Go to a VA clinic sometime during the day and just walk around and see the vets there, Mr. Politician in DC. no press, no staff... just go there yourself. Don't introduce yourself to anyone, don't make a show of who you are. Because, mr. politician, you are just an empty suit in a room full of men and women who served to ensure that you could live free to make your money off of the government tit.

go see the result of your work, Washington DC.... then talk about funding social security for illegal immigrants.... or education programs for people who already hate school enough to drop out early... or special funding for explatory committees to determine the nature of the wording needed for a draft of your next 'bindless resolution'

538 LanceKates  Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:44:00pm

Kind of shakey LGF today... have a good evening all... htis one is FINALLY over.


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