Gooooooooood morning, LGF!

Good morning, Lizards!

{littleoldlady}

Good Mornin'
Good Mornin'
It's great to stay up late!
Good Mornin'
Good Mornin' to you!

goddess! :-)

re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO SLEEP? Good heavens!

Well, the subject for the thread upstairs was disturbing. Here? Minty freshness.

re: #3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Good morning, FBV!

Miguel, put that link to the video up in the spinoffs! Everybody needs to watch that.

Yawn...nope, just got up...but stayed up late...and no matter what they say...it is not great to stay up late.

Good morning all, {goddess}, FBV.

/like seeing goddess, means almost time to go home. :)

re: #10 BlueCanuck

Good morning all, {goddess}, FBV.

/like seeing goddess, means almost time to go home. :)

Thanks--I think! :)

re: #9 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yawn...nope, just got up...but stayed up late...and no matter what they say...it is not great to stay up late.

True, I had much rather get up early. Nice to watch the sun come up on another day.

re: #5 goddessoftheclassroom

Goddess?

i liked this quote from the comments:

Jammer:

This is amazing.

The 2008 election was supposed to be a referendum on Iraq and the GOP, and a landslide for the Democrats.

Instead, it has become a referendum on black people and their mentality of militant victimhood. This mentality has clearly jumped the shark in an America where Asians are wealthier than whites, where Hispanics outnumber blacks, and where black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, etc. come here voluntarily and do well.

As a result, the chance of a Democrat winning is now under 50%.

Truly, truly amazing.

/yup: what he said......

yawn, another lizard crawls out of his sleeping shell and reaches for coffee.

damn, I'm glad I didn't have a flight booked this week. looks rough out there and not getting any better.

re: #13 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Goddess?

Anyone? What does expurgated mean? I don't have the energy to walk over to dictionary.com right now.

re: #17 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Anyone? What does expurgated mean? I don't have the energy to walk over to dictionary.com right now.

I believe it means to be severely edited.

re: #16 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yes? Do you have a sentence you need diagrammed or a work of literature you'd like explicated?

re: #14 redc1c4

i liked this quote from the comments:

Jammer:

This is amazing.

The 2008 election was supposed to be a referendum on Iraq and the GOP, and a landslide for the Democrats.

Instead, it has become a referendum on black people and their mentality of militant victimhood. This mentality has clearly jumped the shark in an America where Asians are wealthier than whites, where Hispanics outnumber blacks, and where black immigrants from Africa, the Caribbean, etc. come here voluntarily and do well.

As a result, the chance of a Democrat winning is now under 50%.

Truly, truly amazing.

/yup: what he said......

There are a couple of things about this whole militant black mess that I find downright astounding - not to mention disturbing. Most particularly, that the American black community would so deliberately go after the American Jewish community. It is in large part due to the actions and dedication of the American Jewish community that the black civil rights movement went anywhere in the first place. Talk about biting the hand. . . .

re: #18 BlueCanuck

I believe it means to be severely edited.

yup...

re: #19 goddessoftheclassroom

Yes? Do you have a sentence you need diagrammed or a work of literature you'd like explicated?

re: #17 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Anyone? What does expurgated mean? I don't have the energy to walk over to dictionary.com right now.

re: #18 BlueCanuck

I believe it means to be severely edited.

Redacted come to mind.

re: #23 galloping granny

Redacted come to mind.

Granny? What does Redacted mean?

re: #24 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Granny? What does Redacted mean?

Redacted is when the government gives you stuff under the Freedom of Information act and then they take a black marker to every other word in every other line.

re: #20 galloping granny

There are a couple of things about this whole militant black mess that I find downright astounding - not to mention disturbing. Most particularly, that the American black community would so deliberately go after the American Jewish community. It is in large part due to the actions and dedication of the American Jewish community that the black civil rights movement went anywhere in the first place. Talk about biting the hand. . . .

you may want to dial up your cynicism settings.... it's been brewing for years.

/never too cynical

re: #24 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Redacted: A liberally slanted hit-piece on Iraq that didn't make any money.

Next question.

re: #24 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Granny? What does Redacted mean?

Well I am not Granny, but redacted is where they will black out names or information that is of sensitive nature on a document before being released to the public.

re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Literally, it means "cleaned out"; a synonym is "censored"; "edited of the naughty bits."

So I went over to Dictionary.com

Expurgate:

1. to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable: Most children read an expurgated version of Grimms' fairy tales.
2. to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness.

Redacted

2. to make ready for publication; edit or revise.

re: #24 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Granny? What does Redacted mean?

censored, gitted, stripped of all relevant information,etc....

re: #8 galloping granny

Miguel, put that link to the video up in the spinoffs! Everybody needs to watch that.

Will do granny. Thanks :)

so...you think this Islam thing will catch on?

re: #30 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

So I went over to Dictionary.com
.

See - wasn't that simple?! You are SO lucky that Goddess and I did not give you the standard answer the kids hear :)

Ever have an acquaintance that you know by sight; but after a while you realize that you don't know their name, but now it is too late (embarrassing) to ask?

Some words are like that.

re: #35 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ever have an acquaintance that you know by sight; but after a while you realize that you don't know their name, but now it is too late (embarrassing) to ask?

Some words are like that.

Yes - far too often for me to even count. I am wonderful with faces but names to go with them often escape me. And I do know what you mean. I am afflicted with "aphasia" following a coma, so I often know exactly the word I want to use but I cannot get it out of my brain to save my life. It can be very, very frustrating.

I am very sick, so I'm skipping class today. I feel bad, though, because I've already missed some classes for NOT being sick.

I'm wondering why we're called a bunch of misogynists by Elton John for not liking Hillary. Can't I just not like someone's politics? And it's not as though she's a woman.

"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Inigo Montoya

re: #33 storagemanager

so...you think this Islam thing will catch on?

nope: pork bbq tastes too good......

Good morning everyone. Currently 57 degrees in the greater metropolitan Doraville area, looks to go up into the upper 70s today. Dogwood and Azaleas are in bloom; meanwhile I dreamed it was snowing last night, but it was only the pollen.

Having fun with dictionaries, eh?

re: #20 galloping granny

The Cult of Victimology does more to keep the black community down than any anything else going on in our modern society.

re: #37 Living4Him5534

I am very sick,........

you've got that right.....

re: #41 littleoldlady

I honestly thought that BHO would help it. Until the people who surround him started to talk. Meh.

re: #38 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means."
Inigo Montoya

I tell my students that all the time. My favorite common misusage is "empirical." As in "Roman empirical authority extended over the known world."

Granny
Done ;)

re: #41 littleoldlady

The Cult of Victimology does more to keep the black community down than any anything else going on in our modern society.

It's more than a cult; it's a full blown religion with its own scriptures, creeds, rituals, and rites.

re: #37 Living4Him5534

I am very sick, so I'm skipping class today. I feel bad, though, because I've already missed some classes for NOT being sick.

I'm wondering why we're called a bunch of misogynists by Elton John for not liking Hillary. Can't I just not like someone's politics? And it's not as though she's a woman.

Elton John does not know the meaning of the word "misogynist." A misogynist is someone who hates ALL women, not someone who does not like one particular woman. And how does Elton explain the huge numbers of WOMEN who would not vote for Hillary under any circumstances - except possibly if her opponent was Barrack Obama?

re: #44 Lucius Septimius

I tell my students that all the time. My favorite common misusage is "empirical." As in "Roman empirical authority extended over the known world."

'Scuse me for a sec...running back over to the dictionary.

re: #40 Lucius Septimius

The scary thing is that some of us are almost walking dictionaries. :)

/or we had a good public school education.

re: #44 Lucius Septimius

I tell my students that all the time. My favorite common misusage is "empirical." As in "Roman empirical authority extended over the known world."

Would have thought the same thing. Hmmm.

re: #43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I honestly thought that BHO would help it. Until the people who surround him started to talk. Meh.

did you type that with a straight face?

he's the epitome of the "victim"...... wealthy, successful and powerful, but still a victim. vote for me.......

re: #49 BlueCanuck

The scary thing is that some of us are almost walking dictionaries. :)

/or we had a good public school education.

My excuse is that I had a mother who was an English major.

re: #46 Lucius Septimius

From the founder of Black Liberation Theology:

James Cone defines the theology as thus:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love."

link: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

It's worse than I could have ever imagined, Lucius.

re: #49 BlueCanuck

The scary thing is that some of us are almost walking dictionaries. :)

/or we had a good public school education.

Thank you for that. So often public education is condemned out of hand.

The man that stood in New York in 2001 is dead...who is this guy?...where did he come from

?....(IsraelNN.com) The Western Wall has been deemed too controversial a place for US President George W. Bush to visit. He is opting instead for Masada – where Jewish rebels committed mass suicide

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

re: #54 goddessoftheclassroom

Thank you for that. So often public education is condemned out of hand.

No problem. Part of the precieved problem is the slants and biases coming from the teachers. Which in turn are slanted and biased by their university and college teachers.

/viscious circle.

Good Morning {Everyone}. I posted this last night on the virus thread but thought I should repost before I head to the hospital today.

Mom (BenZacharia's [dad ] wife for those who may not know of our relationship) is having her kidney removed this morning. To make things more complicated instead of going in the through her back to remove the kidney they are going in through the front and removing a rib. We are asking that everyone pray for a successful and uneventful surgery today as well as a speedy and uncomplicated recovery.

re: #53 littleoldlady

From the founder of Black Liberation Theology:

James Cone defines the theology as thus:

link: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

It's worse than I could have ever imagined, Lucius.

Yes. It is the old prince of liars pretending to be G_d again.

/anyone but me having problems with LGF crashing and burning?

What in the heck was that?!

re: #55 storagemanager

The Western Wall has been deemed too controversial a place for US President George W. Bush to visit. He is opting instead for Masada – where Jewish rebels committed mass suicide

OH! The (frikken') IRONY!

Morning, storage. :-)

re: #57 BenZ's Bat

Another prayer floats up.

Yes, I keep getting "Problems loading page" message.

/I thought it was a hint to get going...

re: #56 BlueCanuck

No problem. Part of the precieved problem is the slants and biases coming from the teachers. Which in turn are slanted and biased by their university and college teachers.

/viscious circle.

Agreed. There was a time that a public education in the US was meaningful and thorough. Unfortunately those days are gone. Sure there are good schools and dedicated teachers like Goddess (and one of mydaughters), but all too often they are few and far between.

re: #53 littleoldlady

From the founder of Black Liberation Theology:

James Cone defines the theology as thus:

link: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

It's worse than I could have ever imagined, Lucius.

It's pretty bad. Folks at "white" seminaries are forced to read that stuff as well. I saw a reading list for one class at a Methodist seminary completely devoted to that crap, along with a book explaining how Blacks can't be racist.

Was it something I said?

re: #55 storagemanager

Masada was a really good tv min-series made in the early 80's.

re: #51 redc1c4

did you type that with a straight face?

he's the epitome of the "victim"...... wealthy, successful and powerful, but still a victim. vote for me.......

Another pitfall is knowing a word but not how to pronounce it. My best friend and I were studying for an AP European history test and making up questions for each other. She asked me [I'm spelling this the way she said it], "What was the eppa-tome of (something)? I panicked--I had clue what an eppa-tome was. She said, "Of course you do," and showed me the page of the text, I burst out laughing, and I have NEVER let her forget it.

re: #57 BenZ's Bat

Oh my!

{wifffeee, BenZ, BenZ's Bat, and your sister!}

LGF was out for about seven minutes :p

re: #57 BenZ's Bat

Prayers going up -- give them our best, and you take care of yourself.

re: #55 storagemanager

The man that stood in New York in 2001 is dead...who is this guy?...where did he come from

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

I don't know storage. I can pinpoint almost the very day that the guy we see standing in the oval office these days arrived in town (during the most recent war between Israel & Lebanon). It has seemed ever since to me that Bush is really just a shadow president, a puppet filling up the chair while somebody else pulls the strings and makes the decisions.

re: #57 BenZ's Bat

Good Morning {Everyone}. I posted this last night on the virus thread but thought I should repost before I head to the hospital today.

Mom (BenZacharia's [dad ] wife for those who may not know of our relationship) is having her kidney removed this morning. To make things more complicated instead of going in the through her back to remove the kidney they are going in through the front and removing a rib. We are asking that everyone pray for a successful and uneventful surgery today as well as a speedy and uncomplicated recovery.

You r mom and your family have been on the Lizard Prayer List, and I thank you for reminding us that today is THE day. I'll be sending up prayers every hour.

re: #57 BenZ's Bat

Count on my prayers, BenZ
{BenZ and the whole family}

"Iran's peaceful nuclear program and the concern of the Western powers over development of a bomb by Iran is nothing but an excuse as they are not afraid of terrorism. They, themselves, are the root cause of terrorism," the president reiterated.

He continued, "What they are afraid of is a country which has raised against them in a world under their domination."
The president warned big powers against moving against the will of the Iranian nation, stressing, "If they continued their opposition to the will of the Iranian nation, they would receive a crushing response from the brave Iranian people."

[Link: www2.irna.com...]

re: #67 goddessoftheclassroom

The word for today in one of my classes is "coprophagous." It appeared in a quote in our reading for Tuesday (which no one read) on decadence in Fin de Siecle France. They asked me what it meant, and I said that one was worth the trip to the dictionary.

I can't wait to see their response today.

re: #69 MigueldowninMexico

LGF was out for about seven minutes :p

I always imagine (Star Trek-like) red alerts going off in Charles' bedroom when something like that happens during his nitey nite time.

re: #67 goddessoftheclassroom

epitome(giving a shot at phonetic) eh-pit-omee

/factor in a Canadian accent as well.

re: #76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I always imagine (Star Trek-like) red alerts going off in Charles' bedroom when something like that happens during his nitey nite time.

LOL!
That was funny.

re: #75 Lucius Septimius

The word for today in one of my classes is "coprophagous." It appeared in a quote in our reading for Tuesday (which no one read) on decadence in Fin de Siecle France. They asked me what it meant, and I said that one was worth the trip to the dictionary.

I can't wait to see their response today.

I bet some with be grinning...

re: #75 Lucius Septimius

Dammit! coprophagous trodding off...

re: #67 goddessoftheclassroom

Another pitfall is knowing a word but not how to pronounce it. My best friend and I were studying for an AP European history test and making up questions for each other. She asked me [I'm spelling this the way she said it], "What was the eppa-tome of (something)? I panicked--I had clue what an eppa-tome was. She said, "Of course you do," and showed me the page of the text, I burst out laughing, and I have NEVER let her forget it.

Your friend must be a good reader and acquired much of her vocabulary through the written word. That kind of mispronunciation is pretty common among those types. The kiddo comes out with some real doozies these days.

And I will have to admit to thinking that hors de'ouvres was pronounce "horse de overs" well into adulthood, LOL. (I speak Spanish and German but not French. French was the language my parents used when they did not want me to understand what they were talking about.)

re: #76 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I always imagine (Star Trek-like) red alerts going off in Charles' bedroom when something like that happens during his nitey nite time.

More like Obi Wan staggering as he hears the voices of thousands of Lizards screaming in terror.

Good morning, lizards.

Interesting thoughts on EU, Sarkozy, NATO.

Have a wonderful day!

re: #80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Dammit! coprophagous trodding off...

eeewwwww.

re: #84 goddessoftheclassroom

Have a wonderful day!

You too goddess :)

re: #85 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

eeewwwww.

LOL

re: #81 galloping granny

French was the language my parents used when they did not want me to understand what they were talking about.)

In our house, that would be German. I only speak French to the kids when I want to annoy them.

re: #85 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

eeewwwww.

As I said, it's worth the trip.

So if you tell someone to "be coprophagous and expire" you are telling them to...

re: #81 galloping granny

I best mispronounciation was in front of my dad. I was reading a newspaper article out loud and read the town name Temagami as Tem-a-gami. When my dad finished howling in laughter he told me the correct pronounciation was Te-mahhh-ga-mi.

/never lived that one down.

re: #88 Lucius Septimius

In our house, that would be German. I only speak French to the kids when I want to annoy them.

It can be amusing to annoy them, can't it?

Define "mos".

re: #92 galloping granny

It can be amusing to annoy them, can't it?

Some days, I live for it.

re: #91 BlueCanuck

Good Lord, I was there. Beautiful lakes! My favorite was Obabika. I paddled down the Wawiagama, nearly rammed a moose, and camped on this beautiful rock on the south shore. Some of the best days of my life.

Ok, time for me to go.
Prayers go up specially for BenZ and family today.
Good bye lizards, God bless all :)

re: #85 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hmmm I have a feeling it has something to do with obesity.

/recognize some of the syllables in there.

re: #91 BlueCanuck

I best mispronounciation was in front of my dad. I was reading a newspaper article out loud and read the town name Temagami as Tem-a-gami. When my dad finished howling in laughter he told me the correct pronounciation was Te-mahhh-ga-mi.

/never lived that one down.

I would have pronounced it the way you did too. Down here we get a huge charge out of "furriners" who drop in seeking directions to Wore-chester (with or without a shire.) Of course it is really Wooos-stir. There is a new Latina chef on the Food Network that cannot pronounce Worcestershire (as in the sauce) to save her life - she uses it in about every show and invariably gives it 3 or 4 very incorrect whirls and then ends up throwing up her hands in disgust as spitting out "that woosy stuff!" SO funny!

re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

So if you tell someone to "be coprophagous and expire" you are telling them to...

Precisely. Though perhaps it might sound better as "embrace caprophagy and thence morbidity."

Also useful is this phrase from Latin for All Occasions: "Stercorum pro cerebres habes"

President Bush is afraid to go to the western wall...Iran is killing our troops...making a nuke and threatening the world......it's all the way thru the looking glass Alice.

re: #95 godfrey

Yes, northern Ontario can be gorgeous. I just don't recommend swimming in the lakes and rivers. Did it once at the end of the summer near Cochrane. I nearly walked on water getting out I was moving that fast.

Nice pics of Obabika and pike fishing

re: #97 BlueCanuck

Not corpulent. Silly.

re: #98 galloping granny

Now honestly -- who actually sounds out the final "r" in Worcester?

re: #100 storagemanager

President Bush is afraid to go to the western wall...Iran is killing our troops...making a nuke and threatening the world......it's all the way thru the looking glass Alice.

Now what is that verse I'm thinking of, the one that goes "whoever blesses Israel. . . . . "?

re: #99 Lucius Septimius

Just saved that to favorites.

re: #97 BlueCanuck

Hmmm I have a feeling it has something to do with obesity.

/recognize some of the syllables in there.

No, but that interpretation does increase the "eeeeewwwww" factor.

re: #104 Lucius Septimius

Now honestly -- who actually sounds out the final "r" in Worcester?

People who live to the west of Worcester pronounce the R. Those who live to the east of Worcester speak with a Bahstan accent while they ah pahking the cah in havad yad.

re: #108 galloping granny

People who live to the west of Worcester pronounce the R. Those who live to the east of Worcester speak with a Bahstan accent while they ah pahking the cah in havad yad.

Now that's interesting.

I've always been fascinated with accents and dialects.

re: #21 redc1c4

...severely edited...
yup...

Try: "Edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate."

In other words, bowdlerized, castrated or emasculated... in the literary sense, hence earning Whitman's marked disdain.

re: #109 Lucius Septimius

Lucius, I copied and pasted "Stercorum pro cerebres habes" into dictionary.com and they corrected the spelling to "Stercorum pro cerebro habes". Weird.

re: #104 Lucius Septimius

I do, just to annoy the locals. I also make a point of Anglicizing foreign names. There's nothing more grating than someone parading their phonetic savoir faire just to show how cultured they are. As if English were not itself "culture."

re: #112 godfrey

"Say, that's a great poster on your wall... Chee Gweevurra?"

/klang! thudd...

re: #109 Lucius Septimius

Lucius, have you ever heard a y'atty New Orleans accent? Sounds like a French version of Brooklyn, and there's a reason for that: the locals (who spoke French) were taught English by nuns ... from Brooklyn. The accent stuck, and has persisted.

Good morning all - all though it's afternoon here in Scandinavia

Am I the only one who gets frustrated whenever the morons gets away with comparing members of the huge cult of Islam to Jewish victims under Nazi rule ?!?!

For those of you who has not yet understood history here is a first look at how the Nazi's and Islam embraced each other:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS81ot0UXN4

Look, listen & learn - before it's to late!

re: #113 Karridine

Well, yes. But how about the Duc d'Orsay, with massive emphasis on the French "u" and "r"?

re: #115 mich_in_denmark

Good morning all - all though it's afternoon here in Scandinavia

Am I the only one who gets frustrated whenever the morons gets away with comparing members of the huge cult of Islam to Jewish victims under Nazi rule ?!?!

For those of you who has not yet understood history here is a first look at how the Nazi's and Islam embraced each other:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS81ot0UXN4

Look, listen & learn - before it's to late!

Your link,didn't take...and your preaching to the choir.

Good Morning Lizards.

Current weather forecasts project snow showers here over the weekend.

Al Gore can go jump in a lake

re: #115 mich_in_denmark

Good morning all - all though it's afternoon here in Scandinavia

Am I the only one who gets frustrated whenever the morons gets away with comparing members of the huge cult of Islam to Jewish victims under Nazi rule ?!?!

For those of you who has not yet understood history here is a first look at how the Nazi's and Islam embraced each other:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS81ot0UXN4

Look, listen & learn - before it's to late!

Sounds very, very familiar, doesn't it? How are things in one of my favorite countries other than my own today?

re: #118 3 wood

I don't know exactly where you are from, but where I am I expect at least one April snow storm. And it has been late.

/worried that this nice weather is actually our February thaw. :)

Lucius...under the "hidden insults in Latin" banner

Latin:
Stercorum pro cerebro habes.

What you say it means:
That's certainly food for thought.

What it really means:
You have sh*t for brains.

re: #118 3 wood

Good Morning Lizards.

Current weather forecasts project snow showers here over the weekend.

Al Gore can go jump in a lake

I still have a 3 foot pile of global warming beside the garage that has not yet melted. Albore is welcome to come shovel it. I would suggest he jump in a lake, but around here he would break his ass on the ice if he tried it.

LMAO...no of course he didn't..that would be Iran..........

Baghdad, Apr 8, (VOI) - Leading figure in Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Jalal el-Din al-Saghier, said on Tuesday that dissolving the al-Mahdi army is Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s responsibility, asserting that top Shiite Cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has nothing to do with this militia as al-Sadr did not consult the SIIC when he established it.

[Link: www.aswataliraq.info...]

And how are we doing this evening on the road to oblivion?

re: #118 3 wood

Mornin' Wood.

re: #52 galloping granny

Same here. She was an Associate Prof of English @ UGA.

When I used words like ain't and the word "like" like we did this, like, we did that. it used to drive her nuts.

re: #126 BulgarWheat

Same here. She was an Associate Prof of English @ UGA.

When I used words like ain't and the word "like" like we did this, like, we did that. it used to drive her nuts.

And of course you did just to do that. Right? Right?

/giving mothers gray hairs is what children are for.

re: #126 BulgarWheat

Same here. She was an Associate Prof of English @ UGA.

When I used words like ain't and the word "like" like we did this, like, we did that. it used to drive her nuts.

And do not forget the can I v. may I controversy. (That one I have tortured my own children with!)

re: #126 BulgarWheat

You know, we ain't gonna, like, you know, go there.

re: #118 3 wood
Are you enjoying the Irish music?
Lucius- ever hear a Virginia tidewater accent? I asked for directions and was told to turn right on Rote 17.

re: #128 galloping granny

And do not forget the can I v. may I controversy. (That one I have tortured my own children with!)

I can hear it now, "I don't know. Can you?" groan.

"Ah yes, I remember it well."

Wake Up, Minnesota!
This is a bigger problem than cabbies who won't pick up infidels......
[Link: www.startribune.com...]

My concern is that Iran, which has little real interest in Latin America in a substantive way, is positioning its favorite quasi-state actor, Hezbollah, around the region in order to be prepared to strike the United States, should it deem such a strike necessary or desirable.

An overlap between the FARC and Hezbollah would provide more in terms of training and capacity enhancement, to the FARC. It is hard to imagine that, on the ground, unregenerate Marxists and committed Islamists, would get along very well.

[Link: www.douglasfarah.com...]

#117

Ouuups - sorry about that.

I did not try to offend you or any other LGF members

I was simply trying to target all of those people who read LGF as a source of information - hoping for those still at sleep to wake up

The real link is:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS81ot0UXN4

Have a good day storagemanager - I believe we're in the same choir :-)

gotta run along Lizards! Getting the mini-wheats off to school.

re: #132 tradewind

Can someone explain to me why, when I click on this link, I go to the page and the article appears to be written in blue, with a 2pt font? Totally illegible.

re: #136 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Same thing happened when I clicked this link on Drudge.

re: #134 mich_in_denmark

#117

Ouuups - sorry about that.

I did not try to offend you or any other LGF members

I was simply trying to target all of those people who read LGF as a source of information - hoping for those still at sleep to wake up

The real link is:

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS81ot0UXN4

Have a good day storagemanager - I believe we're in the same choir :-)

I'am sorry...was not trying to be rude...have a great day.

"Like" is an interesting case. I watched it take root in my friends' usage where I lived around 1980. First, it was often a signal that said, 'what comes next is a performance of what I'm talking about.'

So he said, I'm never going out with you again, and I was like, Whatever!

Or it's a signal that what comes next is to be understood in the subjunctive mood, replacing "as if":

It was like he was totally ignoring me! (pout)

Its overuse in both cases indicates some sort of infirmity.

re: #111 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It's right -- should be "cerebro." Sorry; not enough coffee yet.

re: #140 Lucius Septimius

Pretty cool anyway.

Yet another disturbance in the force. Damned zombies.

What on earth is up with LGF this morning? That is the fourth time in an hour I have had to start all over with a new tab to load the page!

re: #139 godfrey

Well, it is, like, the backbone of the language of the Valley Girl. (;

re: #143 galloping granny

I just spent 10 minutes writing a post with links and it bombed out.

I'm not wasting my time like this.

Later.

re: #143 galloping granny

Actually it's been happening all night. I think Charles will need to recheck his code solution from last night.

re: #146 BlueCanuck

Actually it's been happening all night. I think Charles will need to recheck his code solution from last night.

That or there is actually a DOS attack of some sort going on. There aren't enough of us on to make the server loggy.

re: #139 godfrey

"Like" is an interesting case. I watched it take root in my friends' usage where I lived around 1980. First, it was often a signal that said, 'what comes next is a performance of what I'm talking about.'

Its overuse in both cases indicates some sort of infirmity.

In the first case it's Subjunctive I (indirect speech, optative in Greek) and in the second case Subjunctive II (conditional).

The infirmity is using an adverb rather than a form of the verb to indicate mood or voice.

re: #143 galloping granny

The moonbats are eating away at the pillars, perhaps?

/or maybe too much guano choking the intakes

Gotta go grade. Later all.

I don't suppose any of you happen to have Italian cookbooks around? I'm looking for a specific one and cannot find the thing. . .

[Link: ssl.catalog.com...]

Lucius, look at this when you get some time. Pretty funny.

re: #143 galloping granny

What on earth is up with LGF this morning? That is the fourth time in an hour I have had to start all over with a new tab to load the page!

Unseen forces don't like the truth being told...lol

Well lizards time for me to crawl off for the day. Have yourselves a good one.

re: #130 Jim in Virginia

Yes, thank you very much. It's in our rotation on our family room CD player.

I am not giving up..I will post and repost...whatever it takes.

re: #156 storagemanager

I am not giving up..I will post and repost...whatever it takes.

Giving up on what storage?

I guess it is dead..kick it...did it move?

This was in my in-box this morning:

Dear Valued Comcast Customer:

You may have experienced some Internet issues this past Saturday, and I want to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you and your family.

We detected an issue early Saturday morning that resulted in some customers having problems connecting to certain Web sites. We are staffed 24/7 and, as a result, we were able to quickly dispatch our engineering teams who identified and fully corrected the problem by early afternoon.

We know you look to Comcast to deliver high-quality service, and it is our commitment to do so. We have implemented additional preventive measures to help safeguard against a situation like this reoccurring.

Once again, please accept my sincere apology. Thank you for being a Comcast customer. We truly do value your business and appreciate your understanding.

Sincerely,

I thought I had picked up a nasty computer virus. Both LGF and Drudge 'timed out' for hours. I've been having problems again this morning...

re: #157 galloping granny

Giving up on what storage?

Trying to post...and being thrown out...lol

re: #159 ec marm

This was in my in-box this morning:

I thought I had picked up a nasty computer virus. Both LGF and Drudge 'timed out' for hours. I've been having problems again this morning...

Except I don't have Comcast and I'm having problems today. I did not over the weekend.

Good morning lizards!

What have we become?

I mean, really?

re: #162 rightside

Good morning lizards!

What have we become?

I mean, really?

And don't forget the 3rd graders who plotted to kill their teacher and the eighth grade girls that beat another girl so badly over nothing that she will not be returning to public school.

Civilization is literally disintegrating before our very eyes. Common courtesy is gone with the wind, the message of No Tolerance is read loud and clear as No Tolerance for Anything, and heaven forbid that anyone on earth, anytime, anywhere, should be "dissed" for anything. Respect me or I will beat you to death/cut off your head!

Good mornin' ya'all from the OSU Medical Center. Wifffeee has just been wheeled off to have a rib and a kidney removed. "Rib 'n kidney, it's what's for dinner."

re: #164 BenZacharia

Good mornin' ya'all from the OSU Medical Center. Wifffeee has just been wheeled off to have a rib and a kidney removed. "Rib 'n kidney, it's what's for dinner."

Ben..prayers for you and the family.

re: #130 Jim in Virginia

Many years ago I had a customer on Guinea Neck (not far from Rote 17) who had a sign in his yard reading "For Wood". It took me a while to figger out that he was spelling it the way it was (properly) pronounced among the Guineamen.

re: #164 BenZacharia

Good mornin' ya'all from the OSU Medical Center. Wifffeee has just been wheeled off to have a rib and a kidney removed. "Rib 'n kidney, it's what's for dinner."

We're all praying for her long since. Hang in there.

BBIAM, gonna find a public street to burn a butt. No smokin' on Hospital grounds, just baby grindin'.

re: #164 BenZacharia

Hang in there Ben Z, here's hoping for good health for that beautiful woman of yours, and strength for you to keep going.

Supposed to be real nice here, hope the sun shines on you too.

re: #163 galloping granny

And these are the people I'm growing up around.

Anyone got a drink to ease the pain?

Will the Jimmy Carter Terrorist Appeasement Tour be an "expurgated" tour or will it be a full blown love fest with Carter kissing up to as many terrorists as possible...as usual? Someone needs to find a old photo from the 70's of a bus load of hippies,put Carter in the picture,and place a good slogan on the side. Something like "I regret I have but one country to give away to terrorists",or something that is fitting for Carter. I know one thing,after reading some of the comments of REAL men like Bolton,there is a LOT of people that feel the same way about Carter as many of us do.

No one respects an appeaser,especially the bully you are trying to appease. They just laugh you off as a coward and continue to do as they will seeing you haven't the guts to stop them anyway. Anyone who has ever had to face up to a bully knows that. It's high time liberals learned that lesson but I fear they never will learn it. For them to learn it,they would have to stand up to the bully first. I don't see that happening any time soon,and certainly not with Carter.

Morning Lizards..........

re: #164 BenZacharia

But those who suffer he delivers in their suffering;
he speaks to them in their affliction.
~Job 36:15

Give Mrs. Z all my love and prayers

Mass deportations coming for jailed illegal immigrants

The U.S. Homeland Security department has launched an ambitious nationwide effort that would cost $2 billion to $3 billion a year to identify and deport the estimated 300,000 to 450,000 illegal immigrants locked up each year in jails and prisons.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation was denounced by immigrant rights groups and received cautiously by those favoring tighter enforcement.

''We can do something few law enforcement agencies can do: Not only ensure criminals are off the streets, but ensure they are removed from the country," said ICE spokesman Tim Counts. ''Removing hundreds of thousands of criminals from the country is sure to have a positive impact on community safety."

/and they're actually building the fence too, what's going on?

With the Masters starting today, here is my take.

If Tiger Woods is within 3 strokes of the lead on Saturday night, those in front of him will collapse on Sunday and Woods will win by 2. Mickelson will be a non-factor, he's won 2 of them, he does not care much anymore.

When I was a kid I heard about the "Nicklaus effect", where Jack Nicklaus had the other players so scared that if Jack was within shouting distance of the lead on Saturday night, you could hear the players conceding the tournament to Jack while talking in the clubhouse that night, and the practice range would be empty except for Nicklaus. Last night ESPN2 ran some highlight films of Master's tournaments from the 60's and 70's and you could see it. The next day you could see the other players laying up on par 5's and lag putting, playing for second place. Nicklaus himself said once that the only player who scared him during his heyday was Trevino, cause Lee was not about to concede Jack anything, had lots of game and was always coming after Jack.

Much the same thing is happening today with Woods, except I do not see a "Trevino" out there with the guts to challenge Woods. No doubt about it, Woods is the best out there today, but part of it is nobody much wants to challenge him either. They are all very happy playing for the second place check.

So watch for Woods to be within 3 shots of the lead on Saturday night. If he is, the other players will fold like a cheap tent and he will win going away.

re: #163 galloping granny

How true. All we do is continue to raise our teens so that they are respectful, productive members of society. Like fighting against a ripcurrent, but must be done.

re: #164 BenZacharia

Prayers to you and yours.

re: #164 BenZacharia

Our thoughts and prayers with be with you and yours today.

re: #174 Killian Bundy

Mass deportations coming for jailed illegal immigrants

/and they're actually building the fence too, what's going on?

Don't believe it till you see it done, It's an election year trick....

re: #164 BenZacharia

Prayers for your wife's safe return for her procedure

re: #69 MigueldowninMexico

I know! I had a tough time dealing with that but it came back just in time for me not to have withdrawal.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday set Iran its latest mission of wiping out the "corrupt world leadership," and said sanctions and threats were nothing but scraps of paper.

"The Iranian nation will not give up until the corrupt leadership in the world has been obliterated," Ahmadinejad said in the Shiite holy city of Mashhad, northeast Iran, quoted by the Fars news agency.

"Our foes should know that threats, sanctions, and political and economic pressures can not force our nation to back down," he added.

Ahmadinejad outlined two goals for the Islamic republic and its people.

"We have two missions, to build Islamic Iran and to exert an effort to change the leadership in the world. We have to carry out both (missions) as well as we can," he said.

Laugh at him,ignore him...until you see the cloud...oops too late. [Link: www.alarabiya.net...]

re: #174 Killian Bundy

Maybe they're preparing for a real alien invasion.

/slide the ticker one by one...

re: #174 Killian Bundy

Mass deportations coming for jailed illegal immigrants

/and they're actually building the fence too, what's going on?

Maybe they are beginning to fear a backlash. Besides, when the economy was doing well and the dollar was strong it was fairly easy to fool people with the "jobs Americans won't do" crap. Now that the dollar is sinking towards not worth the paper it is printed on, prices are shooting up and jobs are not as easy to come by as they once were, there are far fewer jobs that "Americans won't do" - at least not Americans that like to eat.

And let us not forget that the Democrats in all of their wisdom completely dismantled any safety net for most Americans under the guise of "Welfare reform." G_d help you if you lose your job, because you sure won't be able to eat much on food stamps.

re: #163 galloping granny

Civilization is literally disintegrating before our very eyes.

For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.
~ Matthew 24:21

Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken.
~Luke 21:26

The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.
~ 1 John 2:17

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
~ John 3:19

If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.
~ John 15: 18 -19

re: #183 laZardo

Maybe they're preparing for a real alien invasion.

/slide the ticker one by one...

nope, its just the American version of a Potemkin village, as soon as the election is over it all disappears like a puff of smoke in the breeze...

re: #186 doriangrey

I love a man who knows what a Potemkin Village is.

;~}

Must be selling a lot of depends......

A move by Indonesian massage parlors to padlock female workers' trousers to prevent prostitution has caused outrage here, with one minister branding it an "insult" to women, reports said Thursday.

Minister Meutia Fardia Hatta Swasono reacted angrily to reports of locks being fitted to the trousers of female staff in a small town in Indonesia, where massage parlors are often used as a front for prostitution.

"It's not the right way to prevent promiscuity. It insults women as if they are the ones in the wrong," Swasono, the minister for women's empowerment, told the Jakarta Post.

[Link: www.alarabiya.net...]

re: #173 BabbaZee

{Babba} you just get here. I miss you when you're not here.

re: #185 BabbaZee

Civilization is literally disintegrating before our very eyes.

I was thinking that very thing!

/How's things this morning Babba?

re: #189 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

damned punctuation.......here?

re: #184 galloping granny

Maybe they are beginning to fear a backlash. Besides, when the economy was doing well and the dollar was strong it was fairly easy to fool people with the "jobs Americans won't do" crap. Now that the dollar is sinking towards not worth the paper it is printed on, prices are shooting up and jobs are not as easy to come by as they once were, there are far fewer jobs that "Americans won't do" - at least not Americans that like to eat.

And let us not forget that the Democrats in all of their wisdom completely dismantled any safety net for most Americans under the guise of "Welfare reform." G_d help you if you lose your job, because you sure won't be able to eat much on food stamps.

No, it's nothing more than the smoke and mirrors that our government has been blowing up American citizens asses for the last 60 or 70 years... As soon as the election is over its back to raping the American tax payer like usual.

re: #189 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

{Hiya Veggie!}
I missed you yesterday !

re: #185 BabbaZee

{Babba}

re: #190 galloping granny

/How's things this morning Babba?

I live to tell the tale....
and it's gonna crack 60 degrees today!
I'll take it!

Sorry folks. I think it has been disintegrating since the fall of Adam and Eve. Nothing new here.

&#9834 &#9836 Good morning, Lizards! &#9836 &#9834

Granny - what are you looking for? Italian recipes?

re: #187 BabbaZee

I love a man who knows what a Potemkin Village is.

;~}

Heh heh Leningrad Cowboys, one of the few good things to come out of Russia... Yea, I know what a Potemkin Village, and I know when someone is trying to lead me through one as well...

re: #185 BabbaZee

And people like me were born just in time to watch it collapse upon our heads.

/seriously, needs a drink. Has smokes but no lighter.

re: #194 3 wood

{3 wood!}

BTW thanks for all your patience with my questions yesterday.

re: #195 BabbaZee

Yesterday someone mentioned "bong"...hence? You were mentioned. Twas truly funny.

This pisses me off!

I was walking my daughter to kindergarten at her school, when I saw one of the staff at the school wearing the "broadfall trousers" of the beloved Navy crackerjack uniform, as her civilian clothing. Let's just say I gave her a piece of my mind! I never saw here wear them again.

re: #195 BabbaZee

I live to tell the tale....
and it's gonna crack 60 degrees today!
I'll take it!

Forecast says 59F here - I'm hoping! Maybe I'll crawl up the hill and see if I can get a rototiller up there yet. Or maybe I'll go get a humongous sheet of black plastic and speed things up a notch.

re: #196 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sorry folks. I think it has been disintegrating since the fall of Adam and Eve. Nothing new here.

Very true, Aristotle wrote a very interesting diatribe complaining about it something like three thousand years ago. Funny how reading what he wrote it sounds like he was talking about what is happening today.

re: #202 rightside

MFer.

re: #199 laZardo

And people like me were born just in time to watch it collapse upon our heads.

/seriously, needs a drink. Has smokes but no lighter.

{La Z}
Hey....
you can watch
or you can fight....
buck up,
and join the remnant.
Choose!

re: #203 galloping granny

Or maybe I'll go get a humongous sheet of black plastic and speed things up a notch.

lolololol

re: #201 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yesterday someone mentioned "bong"...hence? You were mentioned. Twas truly funny.

LOLOLOL

clap clap

Bring the Royal Bong forthwith, Igor!

re: #196 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sorry folks. I think it has been disintegrating since the fall of Adam and Eve. Nothing new here.

Totally true.

There is NOTHING new under the sun.
Nothing.

re: #202 rightside

This pisses me off!

I was walking my daughter to kindergarten at her school, when I saw one of the staff at the school wearing the "broadfall trousers" of the beloved Navy crackerjack uniform, as her civilian clothing. Let's just say I gave her a piece of my mind! I never saw here wear them again.

Heh heh heh sounds exactly the way my dad would have reacted, (him 27 years in the USN). Me on the other hand (provided she were young and attractive) I probably would have found it sexy... lol...lol...lol...

re: #202 rightside

saw some pimply faced kid at the mall about 20 years ago. He was wearing a beret with my old unit flash. I tore it off of his head, handed it to him and told him if he wanted to wear that beret, he'd have to earn it.

Little punks in field jackets with patches piss me off too.

BTW there is a new poster called "Sacred Plants" with a holy leaf avatar.

It is NOT me
lol

re: #211 BulgarWheat

That musta skeered the shit outta the poor kid
lol

re: #212 BabbaZee

Babba!

re: #198 doriangrey

{dorian!}

re: #211 BulgarWheat

saw some pimply faced kid at the mall about 20 years ago. He was wearing a beret with my old unit flash. I tore it off of his head, handed it to him and told him if he wanted to wear that beret, he'd have to earn it.

Little punks in field jackets with patches piss me off too.

heh heh heh, me thinks some of you ex-military guys wear your skivies just a little to tight... :O

re: #213 BabbaZee

It was not all that long after I got out of the Army. My traffic curse was "F'n Civilians"

Heh! Took a while to reacclimate to the civilian world.

re: #206 BabbaZee

Lemme put on a helmet and I'll see you in the morning. (:

re: #216 doriangrey

Civilians prancing around in Military uniforms is insulting. The uniform should be respected.

re: #199 laZardo

And people like me were born just in time to watch it collapse upon our heads.

/seriously, needs a drink. Has smokes but no lighter.

No, people like me were born just in time to see it collapse on our heads. And we remember when the world was not this way at all!

I happen to collect cookbooks. One of my recent acquisitions has been some Time-Life cookbooks of the world series from the early 70's or the late 60's. Yesterday I was laying around on my heating pad reading the one that covers Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Bali, etc. There are hundreds of pictures in the book - and not a hijab or a veil in sight. Not even in pictures where the author clearly states that the picture was taken in a muslim community. No all white uniforms, no women/girls covered head to toe and most especially no fear apparent on the part of the author as he traveled around the area.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't go to places like Indonesia or the south of Thailand these days. I would love to see the pyramids before they are blown to kingdom come, but I suspect I'll just make do with pictures - even if I had the money I wouldn't even consider going anywhere in the Middle East other than Israel.

re: #185 BabbaZee

Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!

re: #214 BulgarWheat

{BULGARITY!}

Our breed does not matriculate very well

LOL

Good Morning, Lizards! It's good to be home. Those of you in Chicagoland will be happy to know I left a trail of *economic stimulus* behind.... Enjoy!

How are we all this fine day?

re: #219 BulgarWheat

Civilians prancing around in Military uniforms is insulting. The uniform should be respected.

It is also still against the law - especially if there is any type of insignia on the item.

IIII'm baaack... and I brought the bats with me.

re: #222 BabbaZee

{BULGARITY!}

Our feral breed does not matriculate very well

LOL

heh!

re: #218 laZardo

Lemme put on a helmet and I'll see you in the morning. (:

Now that's what I wanna hear LOL

re: #217 BulgarWheat

It was not all that long after I got out of the Army. My traffic curse was "F'n Civilians"

Heh! Took a while to reacclimate to the civilian world.

I never served a day in my life, but I own a US Navy Pilots flight jacket, a Marine Corp Captains blouse (with Lt and Capt bars) and a Navy foul weather Jacket. As a navy brat who suffered through 20 years of living under the loving grace of the United States Navy I believe I have earned the right to wear them any damn time I please, and if you dont like it tough shit...

re: #220 galloping granny

At least you remember "better" times. Me and my generation, well, these times are all we know. And we depend upon the history books (if you know what I mean) to get in touch with times back then.

Which would explain a lot of our multi-culti tolerance.

At least your generation (if I assume the "granny" moniker is correct) will die out soon, so you'll hopefully be spared the worst.

re: #224 galloping granny

Yes, it is. Thanks for pointing that out.

I will enforce the Law of the Lizards!

Bwwwhhhhaaaaaa!

Hiya Grammy

re: #226 BulgarWheat

AHAHHA!

re: #210 doriangrey

Oh, she was young and attractive, but not after I reduced her to tears.

Wearing military uniforms (or parts thereof) as a "fashion" statement is a slap in the face to those of us who served, and disrespectful.

re: #229 laZardo

We will teach you proper history, lol

I knew this day would finally come.

Where someone actually found a use for the word 'expurgated' in a sentence.

I want to put the genie back in the bottle .. but i'm so wanting now to find a sentence with antidisestablishmentarianism in it.

/blustering bunny

re: #228 doriangrey

uh, 20 years as a military brat? Do they hold back military brats or something? Is that like school?

/sarc

and

Louis: Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!

re: #39 redc1c4

nope: pork bbq tastes too good......

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon.

Oh man

Dingos oite moi post!

re: #221 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

LOLOLOLOLOL!

I am the Key Master.

re: #237 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love that part! So much BS made up on the fly! LOL

And that is why that hadith, in which Muhammad foretells the taking first of Constantinople, and then of Rome, is so important. The first part came true, reason the Muslim masses – why not the second? They have been helped, rather than hindered, by the Vatican policy of appeasement of Islam -- the Koran-kissing in Damascus, the protection of the gun-running PLO operative Hilarion Cappucci (himself a Melkite Catholic, and thus not exactly an obvious candidate for Vatican solicitude), the anti-Israel sentiments expressed by Vatican operatives on every conceivable, and inconceivable, occasion -- has only helped Europe to let down its guard, to fail to understand the tenets of Islam, the dangers posed by the demographic invasion, and by all the acts which further, rather than hinder, that invasion – including active encouragement of mosque-building in the ancient centers of western Christendom. And the Vatican, and Christians everywhere, and Western civilization, even in its post-Christian aspects (for the skeptics, the freethinkers, the children of Spinoza and Hume, will suffer from Islam as much as, and possibly even more than, any believer).

[Link: www.newenglishreview.org...]

re: #240 rightside

I love that part! So much BS made up on the fly! LOL

Researchers have determined that 78 & 3/4% of all statistics are made up on the spot. ;-)

re: #233 rightside

Oh, she was young and attractive, but not after I reduced her to tears.

Wearing military uniforms (or parts thereof) as a "fashion" statement is a slap in the face to those of us who served, and disrespectful.

Like I said, some of you guys wear your skivies way to tight. We live in a country where 30 percent of the population thinks of the Military as baby killers, and you are going to bitchslap some girl for wearing part of a uniform. And then you wonder why 30 percent of the country thinks of you guys as baby killers?

re: #236 BulgarWheat

uh, 20 years as a military brat? Do they hold back military brats or something? Is that like school?

/sarc

Dont be an ass, He was in the military when I was born. Not everyone runs away from home the first chance they get.

Report: Western Wall Too 'Controversial' For Bush Visit

You MFer.

re: #231 BabbaZee

Hiya Grammy

BABBA! Love the song; hadn't heard it for a long time. Thanks!

re: #243 doriangrey

dorian

the /sarc tag was to demonstrate that I was joking around with you. While I think your point that you "earned" it is off the mark, I wasn't going to make a big deal about it. I've got my loose drawers on now. How 'bout you go get yours.

Well this lizard has to slither off to work again...

re: #245 Grammy Cracker

Love the song

Ahh the WLGF Musical Jewdometer is fully functional today then

lol

Oh no ~ don't fight please

re: #243 doriangrey

Dont be an ass, He was in the military when I was born. Not everyone runs away from home the first chance they get.

Has it dawned on you that perhaps your attitude is insulting, rather than his behind the times?

Just because it has become common to insult the military does not give you any right to do it (even if you were a military brat), to wear a uniform you have no legal right to, or to insist that a veteran that DID earn the uniform accept insult with equanimity.

re: #242 Squirrelguy

Researchers have determined that 78 & 3/4% of all statistics are made up on the spot. ;-)

ahhaaaaaa

Statistics shmatistics.

If Moses worried about statistics
we would have died out in Egypt.

re: #244 BabbaZee

Report: Western Wall Too 'Controversial' For Bush Visit

Uh Huh and the 'eastern wall " far too dangerous. But nobody talks about that.

re: #244 BabbaZee

Report: Western Wall Too 'Controversial' For Bush Visit

You MFer.

GWB needs to ask Laura where he left his gonads.

/IMHO

Blessed are the Cheesmakers!

re: #253 Grammy Cracker

Don't get me going.
lol

re: #249 BabbaZee

no fights. just a small disagreement. chillin now.

re: #244 BabbaZee

Report: Western Wall Too 'Controversial' For Bush Visit

You MFer.

It wasn't too dangerous or controversial for Senator John McCain - who visited the Wall in a kippeh without body armor. (And apparently no Secret Service either!)

re: #252 Peacekeeper

{PK!}

re: #255 BabbaZee

Don't get me going.
lol

I don't think I could ever take any credit for that. It appears to have started long before I got here.... LOL

/and we are all grateful, BTW

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama says if elected president he won't require that his appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff support allowing gays to serve openly in the military.
The Democratic presidential front-runner favors repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, which was instituted during the Clinton administration. He said his priority for the Joint Chiefs will be that they make decisions to strengthen the military and keep the country safe, not their position on the policy.

"I would never make this a litmus test for the Joint Chiefs of Staff," Obama said in an interview with The Advocate, a gay newsmagazine.

"But I think there's increasing recognition within the Armed Forces that this is a counterproductive strategy," he said. "We're spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified gays or lesbians out of our military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab-language capabilities that we desperately need. That doesn't make us more safe."

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

re: #257 galloping granny

Good for him.

GWB did it once upon a time too, before Stan ate his soul.

re: #240 rightside

I love that part! So much BS made up on the fly! LOL

Love that line.