Missing Rush Limbaugh

Goooooooood morning, LGF!

Morning all - love the smell of fresh thread in the morning.

My first First! Had to get up at 4:20 am but my first First!

/420

Morning Lizards!

A guy was driving down a deserted road when he accidentally hit a pig. Nobody saw him do it so he kept on driving. A little ways on a policeman stopped the car. "I'm arresting you for leaving the scene of an accident". "How did you know?" the man asked. "The pig squealed."

wee, wee, wee, all the way home

re: #4 Rancher

My first First! Had to get up at 4:20 am but my first First!

/420

And if you comment on it, it will be your last you know :)

re: #4 Rancher

Watch out for that timing thing. People may get the wrong impression. ;)

/had "friends" explain the whole 420 mystique to me once.
//not to long ago either

re: #4 Rancher

^{_{Mazel tov! ;-)}}

Good Morning, everyone. In light of Carter's Ass Kiss in Demascus:
Diealogue with The Enemy, Pigman-Style

here's an email that I got from the parents of one of my son's soccer team members. He was diagnosed with Cancer last year and has been fighting the good fight. I removed his name, and his parent's names for obvious reasons. Just a reminder to keep things in perspective.

[redacted],

[redacted] returned to school on Monday and Cub Scouts on Tuesday. He came up to
us on Sunday and said "this is one of the worst days of my life." We
thought he was anxious about returning to school, but no, he said it was bad
"like the day before vacation." Monday was declared Hat Day for the school
by the principal. [redacted]'s desk was exactly like he left it, down to the
empty water bottles. Three new kids have been assigned to that classroom
since he left, but that teacher never touched his desk. He is tired by
bedtime, but gets stronger, literally, every day, but soccer is still a ways
off. Academically, he is making it his own business to catch up the few
lessons he is behind. He was doing long division at the dining room table
this morning.

To top it all off, his CT scan from Monday was negative, so his lung
infection has cleared up. That was our last lingering concern. Labs Monday
were great.

[redacted] started Maintenance Therapy Monday before last, and it is indeed a
tremendous improvement over what he has endured thus far. He will receive
oral chemo daily, IV chemo monthly, and chemo into his spine quarterly.
These are all medicines and procedures he tolerates well. [redacted] will attend
physical therapy for a short while as he builds his strength back up. He
will complete his cancer treatment on Thanksgiving Day, 2010. We are filled
with hope that [redacted] has put the worst of this behind him now.

(As an aside, [redacted] started Maintenance with a spinal tap. When the doctors
arrived to perform the procedure, they had in tow a young, third year med
student who they asked be allowed to observe. The hematology doctors and
nurses, all happened to be petite women. The third year med student was
about 6' 4" and 240 pounds. The procedure went fine and [redacted] tolerated it
well. Towards the end of the procedure, Mr. Medical Student told [redacted] he
was the bravest person he had ever seen. I glanced over at him and he was a
pale shade of green. As we understand it, he left the room and passed out.)
[redacted] is able to go where he wants and do what he wants, with a few
exceptions. We need to keep him away from obviously contagious people, be
careful of his time in the sun, and for now keep him out of lakes, rivers
and the ocean. Other than that, he is good to go.

We have been humbled by the prayers and love shown our entire family during
this time. It has helped more than we could ever express. We have been
awakened by the things we have seen at Duke, and pledge to never forget that
there are some terribly sick kids, and some desperately needy parents.

We expect that things will be smoother now, and that you will be able now to
make your own judgments about how [redacted] is doing. So if you don't hear from
us by email, please know that all is well.

Life is good.

[redacted] and [redacted]

He was asked about William Ayers? Sweet.

re: #11 BulgarWheat

I don't have any problems.

God bless your friend and his family.

a merger between Kadima and Labor

Oh for Petes sake...just give up! [Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #11 BulgarWheat
Too true goddessoftheclassroom, God bless those in real need.

re: #12 rancher

He was asked about William Ayers? Sweet.

yup and his answer was really a dodge, " I wqs 8 years old when these things happened."
Yo Barry, that wasn't the question. You hang with Ayers who is not a bit sorry. You had a strategy session at his house.
You can argue that you are victim of 'guilt through assosciation.", but anothr adage is "you judge a man by the company he keeps"

re: #14 storagemanager

Oh for Petes sake...just give up! [Link: www.jpost.com...]

with the aim of blocking Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu from becoming Israel's next prime minister

Go Netanyahu.

/Yahuuu!

The Democrats' "Fake-Out America" adviser, Berkeley linguistics professor George Lakoff, must be beside himself. Despite Lakoff's years spent training Democrats to "frame" their language to stop scaring Americans, B. Hussein Obama was caught on tape speaking candidly to other liberals in San Francisco last week.

One minute Obama was bowling in Pennsylvania with nice, ordinary people wearing "Beer Hunter" T-shirts, and the next thing you know, he was issuing a report on the psychological traits of normal Americans to rich liberals in San Francisco.

Obama informed the San Francisco plutocrats that these crazy working-class people are so bitter, they actually believe in God! And not just the 12-step meeting, higher power, "as you conceive him or her to be" kind of God. The regular, old-fashioned, almighty sort of "God."

As Obama put it: "(T)hey get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

[Link: frontpagemag.com...]

If you all haven't read that link about Obama's foodstamp claim, go do. Lying through his teeth. (And likely so was mama.)

re: #16 opnion

yup and his answer was really a dodge, " I wqs 8 years old when these things happened."
Yo Barry, that wasn't the question. You hang with Ayers who is not a bit sorry. You had a strategy session at his house.
You can argue that you are victim of 'guilt through assosciation.", but anothr adage is "you judge a man by the company he keeps"

Being eight years old when Charles Manson instigated a string of murders does not excuse developing a friendship with him 30 years later. Just exactly how stupid and foolish does he think the American people are? Supercilious ass!

Well, I wish I could stay and chat, but I must be going. Have a great day!

re: #20 galloping granny

Being eight years old when Charles Manson instigated a string of murders does not excuse developing a friendship with him 30 years later. Just exactly how stupid and foolish does he think the American people are? Supercilious ass!

Well said and yes the Obamas do think that we are stupid.

(IsraelNN.com) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday "satanic" foreign forces had failed in their bid to dominate the Middle East's energy resources and that they did not dare to threaten Iran, Reuters reported.

Addressing a military parade, Ahmadinejad said that the region could handle its own security without the U.S. and other foreign forces, although he did not actually name the United States.

"We saw that oppressive, arrogant ... and satanic powers planned, using a suspicious excuse to gain dominance over the world's energy reserves ..., brought their troops to our region," Ahmadinejad said at the annual ceremony. "Today they have failed," he said in the televised address. "The Iranian nation has reached a level that none of the world powers dare to threaten (it)," he added

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

{DRUDGE POLL}WHO WON THE DEM DEBATE IN PA?...

HILLARY CLINTON

39% 28,193
BARACK OBAMA

61% 44,972

Total Votes: 73,165

re: #22 opnion

The more I see of Obama the more shallow I think he is.

He apparently thinks religion is only necessary when things go wrong,

what a misunderstanding of human nature

he is to be pitied

I was at Osama’s house once. Our kids play together. He wasn’t abit sorry for 9/11, actually said he hadn’t done enough. I was eight when 9/11 happened so I didn’t really cair. “Going to the board meeting tonight?”, I asked. “Allah willing,” Osama said, “‘nother beer?”

Good morning lizards! Top of the morning to you all.

re: #24 storagemanager

{DRUDGE POLL}WHO WON THE DEM DEBATE IN PA?...

HILLARY CLINTON

39% 28,193
BARACK OBAMA

61% 44,972

Total Votes: 73,165

Hmm, do you think that if Barry does an axe murder on live TV that it could hurt his numbers?

re: #18 storagemanager

anti-trade sentiment

That’s what I found funny. He’s against NAFTA while he’s for it.

re: #24 storagemanager

{DRUDGE POLL}WHO WON THE DEM DEBATE IN PA?...

HILLARY CLINTON

39% 28,193
BARACK OBAMA

61% 44,972

Total Votes: 73,165

Drudge polls have less than no statistical significance. Remember the polls Charles used to run where all the RonPaul supporters would come rig the thing? Internet polls are self selecting. They mean absolutely nothing.

re: #19 galloping granny

If you all haven't read that link about Obama's foodstamp claim, go do. Lying through his teeth. (And likely so was mama.)

?

This is nothing to laugh at...he is killing our troops and getting away with it....

"Iranians are the most powerful nation of the world," said the president stressing that the power of the Iranian nation served peace and humanity.

He referred to Iranians as a "peace-loving and civilized people who would firmly support their armed forces to defend the country with all they have in reach.

The chief executive stressed that Iran's armed forces would forcefully respond to the slightest aggression against the Iranian nation.

"I am proud to announce today that the Iranian nation's power is of an extent that no major power can dare jeopardize the security and interests of the Iranian nation,"
President Ahmadinejad added that the faith, solidarity, strength and courage of the Iranian nation as well as their intelligent presence at the international scenes were indicatives of their power.

Stressing the significant role played by Iranians in international arena, the president said, "The expansionist powers made various plans and organized a military expedition into the region to dominate the world's energy resources and stop the spread of cultural and humanitarian values of the Islamic Revolution."
However, added President Ahmadinejad that the expansionist powers "are currently at the end of their way as the region and the world are ready for a big development."
He called on regional governments and nations to look at the existing circumstances more carefully and support independent nations.

The president promised that Tehran would help regional states in their efforts to promote security and peace in the region without the presence of foreigners and occupiers

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

Another wonderful story from Iraq especially for dog lovers. God bless our soldiers.

"Bitter," says Sen. Barack Obama, the man of hope and change, about those who live Pennsylvania, small towns and the Midwest.

"You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania," Barack Obama said two Sundays ago to the brie-and-chardonnay crowd at a fundraiser in San Francisco, "and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate, and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

I spent nearly 20 years living in the Midwest. I attended law school in Michigan, and moved to and lived in Ohio for another 15 years. I married a woman from Menominee, a small town in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Her strong, values-oriented, working-class parents produced a doctor and two computer engineers.

Yet people living on the East Coast and West Coast, and those with "superior education and breeding," often dismiss those living in the Midwestern and other states, especially small towns, as existing in "flyover country."

[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

US Rep. Joe Knollenberg of Michigan and his proposed CARTER Act H.R. 5816. CARTER stands for “Coordinated American Response to Extreme Radicals Act”. H.R. 5816 seeks to end all federal support for the Carter Center which has totaled $19 million since 2001. Let Carter draw on the mega-resources of his Arab and Islamist friends in the Middle East, who have already given him and the Center tens of millions of support.

As Kessler notes in this post, you should send a note to Congressman Knollenberg commending him for his actions and you might ask your Congressional representatives to sign on as a co-sponsor of the proposed legislation.

[Link: blog.americancongressfortruth.com...]

re: #32 guzziguy

?

In order to collect foodstamps you must have either a dependent child who lives with you or meet certain other conditions such as disability. Just going to college to get a PhD is not grounds for public financial support.

During the only time period in which there even was a Food Stamp program for Obama's mama to collect food stamps from, he was a teenager living with his grandparents - who worked. They could not have collected foodstamps for Obama and their income would have been counted towards food stamp eligibility if mama had said she was living with them.

Mama was a welfare cheat.

Winner of Democratic Debate?
John McCain.

At about 3:50 these Democrat focus groupers are asked how many would vote for John McCain if their candidate loses the Democratic nomination. D'oh!

[Link: mypetjawa.mu.nu...]

re: #33 storagemanager

Not laughing.

The president promised that Tehran would help regional states in their efforts to promote security and peace in the region...

Fortunately that scares the hell out of the regional states, so much so that when Israel hit that nuke sight in Syria we got nary a peep of protest from the Arab world. Not like the comics certainly.

re: #38 storagemanager

[Link: mypetjawa.mu.nu...]

Unfortunately the video I got stops at about 1:20

re: #37 galloping granny

I read the post and the comments. I think that Barack Hussein is talking through his hat.

/like he hasn't done that before.

re: #1 RancherThat's a nightmare!
Morning all.
Todays pearls before swine.

re: #41 BlueCanuck

I read the post and the comments. I think that Barack Hussein is talking through his hat.

/like he hasn't done that before.

I used to run a food pantry for the feds some years back. I could quote the food stamp regulations. This time, he is not just talking through his hat. He is lying, pure and simple. And if Mama collected food stamps claiming him as a dependent child, she was lying too. That'll get you 5 to 10 years in jail if your kid isn't running for President.

re: #11 BulgarWheat
Indeed, life is good. Thanks for that.

re: #40 galloping granny

Unfortunately the video I got stops at about 1:20

[Link: www.stoptheaclu.com...]

I wonder who twisted his arm off -

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas confirmed that plans to present two female Palestinian terrorists with a medal of honor have been withdrawn.

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

JEDDAH, 17 April 2008 — Officials at the Jeddah General Court confirmed yesterday that they are dealing with the case of a Turkish barber who is allegedly facing the death penalty after being tried for swearing at God.

The officials said they were unable to provide specific details of the case yesterday and advised Arab News to contact President of the Jeddah General Court Sheikh Rashid Al-Hazza’a, who is on leave, on Saturday.

Hani Al-Hajri, head of press relations at the court, also said he would only be able to provide details on Saturday.

According to the Turkish press, the barber, Sabri Bogday, had an argument with a neighbor, an Egyptian tailor, and was arrested by police after the tailor filed a complaint that he had sworn at God. Bogday has reportedly been in prison for 13 months, while his accuser has disappeared.

Whack his head off anyway. [Link: www.arabnews.com...]

Newsmax/Zogby Poll: They're Deadlocked in Pennsylvania
A new Newsmax/Zogby tracking poll of Pennsylvania's Democratic voters shows that presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a dead heat. Sen. Clinton once held a sizeable lead in the Keystone State.

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

Witnesses told a Senate committee on Tuesday that the risk of a nuclear attack on U.S. cities has grown in the past five years due to the spread of nuclear technology and the growth of a global terrorist movement.

The Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs looked at the horrific consequences of a nuclear strike by terrorists, and experts said more could be done to save lives, the Washington Post reported.

"I definitely conclude the threat is greater and is increasing every year with the march of technology," said Cham E. Dallas, director of the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia.

Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, the panel’s chairman, said: "The scenarios we discuss today are so hard for us to contemplate and so emotionally traumatic that it is tempting to push them aside. However, now is the time to have this difficult conversation, to ask the tough questions, then to get answers."

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

re: #46 galloping granny

I went to a Sbarros here last weekend and they had a picture of the founding couple on the walls. Even though I've never actually seen her face, the first thing that came into mind when I saw Mrs. Sbarro was... BabbaZee!?

re: #37 galloping granny

I thought you could just be poor or pretend to be.

re: #42 Jim in Virginia

Somehow it is blocked on my computer.

re: #26 Ojoe

The more I see of Obama the more shallow I think he is.

He apparently thinks religion is only necessary when things go wrong,

what a misunderstanding of human nature

he is to be pitied

First he is to be defeated, THEN he can be pitied.

re: #52 buzzsawmonkey

I guess that Obama'a Mama was the welfare queen that Ronald Reagan was talking about.

Once again, Ronaldus Magnus was correct.

gotta go, have to deal with a moronic minion. Have yourselves all a great spring day.

re: #51 madisonsfriend

I thought you could just be poor or pretend to be.

Oh no. Over the last ten years or so some states have loosened their eligibility requirements somewhat, but the basic guidelines are federal and at the time they were uniform. Just being poor even today is not enough. You must have dependent children, or a disability that leaves you with insufficient income. Some states (too many) also provide food stamps to ex-cons and drug addicts.

re: #32 guzziguy

?

Wait wait! Ok the claim may literally be wrong, but they are suffering now (He & Michelle)
Because of the cost of fuel, the cost of goods has increased significantly. Do you have any idea what the Obama's are now paying for brie & chablais? They feel their pain.

Here is the latest frightening development...
A Chinese ship carrying arms for the Mugabe regime docked in South Africa this week.
The Times reported:

An uncleared ship - suspected of carrying arms rumoured to be delivered to Zimbabwe - has docked at the Durban harbour, the National Ports authority said today.

Spokesman Ricky Bhikraj said the Chinese vessel had entered the port without clearance and had currently docked at the outer anchorage.

The ship -- called ’An Yue Jiang’ is suspected of carrying a consignment of arms allegedly headed for Zimbabwe.
Andrew from Zimbabwe adds this:

And at the Holiday Inn in Harare, 20 Zim army officers checked in...along with several Chinese soldiers in full ChiArmy dress with revolvers. I told you the Chinese are the new colonialists.

And President Busk had thi to say?...what?...nothing.... [Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]

re: #52 buzzsawmonkey

I don't know about Obama's and Obama's Mama's timeline, but foodstamps were indeed available to college students in the mid-late 1970s. I know; I lived on them for almost 2 years. I did not conceal either my occupation (student) or my income (minuscule, none of it from Mom & Dad), and there was nobody in the office that issued them who had any reason to grant me anything like a special favor. They asked questions; I answered them; they found me eligible; I ate.

It is my understanding that the eligibility requirements were significantly altered by the early 1980s, but at the time I received them, as a student, I did so legitimately.

Food stamps, it should be remembered, are only secondarily a welfare program for poor people. They were instituted originally as a price support for farmers; the recipients that got them were supposed to serve as a means for consuming some of the vast amount of food this country produces, and thus helping to shore up farm prices. That is why they could only be used for food, and not be used for such things as paper towels or toilet paper. That this farm subsidy actually fed people was almost incidental.

You might just have gotten lucky Buzz. There has been more than one person working in some welfare office somewhere that just gave lots of people a pass. You might also have collected in a state that allowed students to collect.

Even if Hawai'i was one of those few states at the time, the fact remains that at least one of two things is true:

1. Obama is lying when he states that his mother collected foodstamps for him

2. Mama lied to Welfare. He was living with his grandparents and their income would have counted towards household eligibility.

re: #29 opnion

Hmm, do you think that if Barry does an axe murder on live TV that it could hurt his numbers?

Only if it is puppies or kittens. Or puppies AND kittens.

Well, you won't have my fat arse to kick around all day. I have to go worky! Love what I do though. Don't pity me...trying to make Hill/Obam's hit list for next year.

re: #57 galloping granny

Oh no. Over the last ten years or so some states have loosened their eligibility requirements somewhat, but the basic guidelines are federal and at the time they were uniform. Just being poor even today is not enough. You must have dependent children, or a disability that leaves you with insufficient income. Some states (too many) also provide food stamps to ex-cons and drug addicts.

While we have a good income now, we had our income cut in half some years back. We ate inexpensively and probably more healthily than we do now. I have to be honest and say that I think because of my education and upbringing, I knew how to cook healthy meals inexpensively and buy cheaper but healthy products- dry beans, products in bulk, avoided processed, expensive junk, baked snacks/sweets, and we limited our "eating out" to occasional carry out like a $5 pizza that could feed the whole family. I know people say food stamps aren't much(of course, they are supposed to be an addition to other limited funds for food) but it seems a lot of the problem is how people use them- they won't go far if you are buying boxes of General Mill cereal and processed products.

re: #60 galloping granny

When Obama worked in Chicago, wasn't his main job helping folks to find the nearest government teat to suckle up to?

Good morning again Lizards!

Does this really surprise anyone?

re: #58 opnion

They will be tithing less than 10% again this year.

"For millions of Americans, charitable giving and tithing is an essential part of their lives," Obama said. "And in a country where 37 million citizens live in poverty, we should be encouraging charitable giving, not limiting it."

What is surprising, given the recent controversy over Obama's membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ, is how little the Obamas apparently gave to charity -- well short of the biblical 10% tithe for all seven years. In two of the years, the Obamas gave far less than 1% of their income to charity; in three of the years, they gave around 1% of their income to charity. Only in the last two years have they given substantially more as their income skyrocketed -- 4.7% in 2005 and 6.1% in 2006.

re: #63 madisonsfriend

While we have a good income now, we had our income cut in half some years back. We ate inexpensively and probably more healthily than we do now. I have to be honest and say that I think because of my education and upbringing, I knew how to cook healthy meals inexpensively and buy cheaper but healthy products- dry beans, products in bulk, avoided processed, expensive junk, baked snacks/sweets, and we limited our "eating out" to occasional carry out like a $5 pizza that could feed the whole family. I know people say food stamps aren't much(of course, they are supposed to be an addition to other limited funds for food) but it seems a lot of the problem is how people use them- they won't go far if you are buying boxes of General Mill cereal and processed products.

Without a doubt. Wether food stamps or cash, your grocery bill always stretches much further if you know how to cook from scratch & shop for bargains.

re: #65 rightside

Good morning again Lizards!

Does this really surprise anyone?

No, of course that is not a surprise. Meanwhile, parents themselves cannot enter their child's school in some places.

re: #65 rightside

Visiting a child-care facility and finding a stuffed toy that looks like this is reason enough to think twice.

re: #37 galloping granny

In order to collect foodstamps you must have either a dependent child who lives with you or meet certain other conditions such as disability. Just going to college to get a PhD is not grounds for public financial support.

During the only time period in which there even was a Food Stamp program for Obama's mama to collect food stamps from, he was a teenager living with his grandparents - who worked. They could not have collected foodstamps for Obama and their income would have been counted towards food stamp eligibility if mama had said she was living with them.

Mama was a welfare cheat.

Don't doubt it. Thanks for th clarification

re: #64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

When Obama worked in Chicago, wasn't his main job helping folks to find the nearest government teat to suckle up to?

I have understood his main job to be "community organizer" - which to me means rabble rouser, organizing political demonstrations and stuff like that. At least that is what the East Coast community groups that "organize" do.

re: #59 storagemanager

South AfricaZim weapons ship waits for OK 2008-4-17 08:24Durban - South Africa approved a transit permit this week for the shipment of tons of weapons and ammunition destined for Zimbabwe.
A Chinese ship with almost three million rounds of ammunitions for small arms and AK-47s, about 3 500 mortars and mortar launchers, as well as 1 500 rockets for rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) arrived in Durban Harbour on Monday shortly before the permit was issued.

According to a copy that Beeld has of the ship's cargo documentation, it was finalised on April 1, three days after Zimbabwe's election.

It was not known when the order for the weapons had been placed.

An inspection by the South African customs authority deemed this consignment "risky" and further shipment was halted for the moment.

According to the South African Revenue Service (SARS), who are responsible for customs control, the six containers in which the weapons had been packed would be inspected by SARS and police officials on Thursday to determine whether they were, indeed, suspect.

'A question of morality'

Part of the shipment apparently also was destined for "clients" in South Africa.

Arms-control experts said on Wednesday that there was technically probably nothing wrong with the weapons transaction between China and Zimbabwe, nor with the issuing of the transport permit.

Guy Lamb of the Institute for Security Studies said: "It's not a question of illegality, but rather of morality, in light of the tense situation in Zimbabwe, especially if it was to contribute to the situation exploding."

The weapons were supposed to be transported by road from Durban to Harare.

msBesides the transport permit issued by the National Conventional Ar Control Committee (NCACC), a clearance permit from the explosives department of the police is still needed before the shipment can be released.

Minister of Justice Mosiuoa Lekota and Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi, who is also the chairperson of the NCACC, or their directors-general usually issue these kinds of permits in consultation with the National Intelligence Service, the Secret Service and the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Mufamadi is also part of President Thabo Mbeki's mediation team handling the election crisis in Zimbabwe.

Noseweek's Martin Welz brought the shipment's arrival to the media's attention on Wednesday.

The Transnet port authority confirmed that the Chinese ship, the An Yue Jiang, anchored in Durban harbour on Tuesday after they had allowed it access in terms of certain protocols.

Not in actual harbour yet

However, when customs personnel examined the ship's manifesto and the documentation specifying the cargo they found, in collaboration with the police, that the cargo was a "potential risk" because there was something wrong with the documents.

According to SARS, the ship was not in the harbour, but within the boundaries of the harbour.

The ship was due to enter the harbour on Thursday after which the containers would be opened and all the contents would be inspected.

If the SARS officials saw anything suspicious in the consignment it would be referred to the Foreign Affairs Department.

The law consequently would determine if the ship or the cargo should be seized.

Lamb said it was strange for a shipment of weapons for Zimbabwe to be sent via Durban because the Mozambican harbour town, Beira, had always been used for the shipment of Zimbabwe's military equipment which was then sent by train to Harare.

This route was the shortest, fastest route from a port to Harare.

SA playing neutral role

Abuse at an Islamic jail..Muslims abusing Muslims...impossible ..lies!

Physical abuse of prisoners by their wardens at a Jordan jail was the cause of riots this week that led to the deaths of three inmates, a human rights group said on Wednesday.

"Mistreatment and beatings of inmates by some policemen at the Muaqqar prison led to the rioting" on Monday, the National Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) said in a strongly worded report after visiting the facility on Tuesday.

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

re: #73 Erik The Red

SA playing neutral role

Lamb said the shipment's timing was reason for great concern and one which the South African authorities needed to consider.

He thought that the debacle potentially could badly undermine the mediation process in Zimbabwe, in which South Africa was supposed to play a cardinal, neutral role.

The ministries of defence and foreign affairs referred all enquiries to Mufamadi's office, but no comment was available at the time of going to press.

re: #73 Erik The Red

...SARS?

A suicide bomber struck a funeral in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing 49 mourners in the latest attack in a region where al Qaeda militants have regrouped, police said.

The attack was one of the deadliest in Iraq for months and underscored the ability of militants to wreak havoc despite overall falls in violence.

Police said more than 50 people had been wounded when the bomber detonated a suicide vest in a Sunni Arab village near the town of Adhaim in Diyala province during the funeral of two members of a U.S.-backed neighborhood security unit.

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

re: #76 laZardo

South African Revenue Service

Jews and other in the pro-Israel community who have serious misgivings about Senator Obama's stand on Israel's security aren't crazy. Obama supporters minimize the concerns about the candidates choice of Israel- bashing advisors, unscripted statements calling for more painful concessions by Israel (while it is undergoing the pain of daily attacks on its civilains), and affinity for Israel haters. They claim that some neurotically paranoid, war-mongering, and biased Jews are reacting only to his name-Hussein.

Now we know that we are not the only ones who interpret Obama's record and rhetoric as anti-Israel. Hamas, the terrorist organization whose charter commits it to the violent destruction of all Jews and Islamic dominion over every inch of the Middle East, agrees that Obama is their man.

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]

re: #33 storagemanager

"The expansionist powers made various plans and organized a military expedition into the region to dominate the world's energy resources and stop the spread of cultural and humanitarian values of the Islamic Revolution."

You got that part right, ShortShit.

re: #33 storagemanager

"I am proud to announce today that the Iranian nation's power is of an extent that no major power can dare jeopardize the security and interests of the Iranian nation,"

I'm glad that Baghdad Bob the Saddam era Iraqi _(mis)Information Minister has been able to find work.

re: #81 MandyManners

Humanitarian values of the Islamic Revolution?

/can't find a bigger oxymoron than that...

re: #72 buzzsawmonkey

I may, as you say, have gotten lucky--either as regards the overall regulations in effect at the time, the state regulations at the time, or even a sympathetic worker in the office, though my recollection of the office (thankfully, dim now) does not suggest that the latter was the case.

I suspect that the eligibility requirements are very different from what they were 30+ years ago. Certainly when a friend of mine a few years ago was going through a very rough patch and decided to see if she could qualify for food stamps she was given so many hoops to jump through she decided the hell with it.

Looking back on my own experience with the public dole, I have to say that I am on the one hand grateful that the program was available during that utterly miserable time in my life, yet on the other hand suspect that had it not been there I might have come up with a more creative solution to the difficulties I was undergoing. Even if it had meant that I had to interrupt my course of study it might well have been better in the long run.

People should not be allowed to starve. But institutionalizing poverty maintenance creates a floor which kills initiative.

Buzz, the eligibility requirements really have not changed much over time. Neither, BTW, has the dollar amount a recipient receives. The big do-over you referred to earlier changed the program from the one that you probably remember where once a month you took your money down and bought food stamps worth far more money to the outright grant of food stamps that we have today. Other than that, there have been various rulings that have actually loosened the requirements - allowing the homeless to collect food stamps is one of those. At one time you had to have a permanent address that was not a postal box in order to collect.

The hoops you have to jump through are notorious. I have never quite decided if they are deliberately onerous to discourage people (if you do all this stuff then you must really need the help) or if they are a deliberate attempt to demean & demoralize people. And of course they are sometimes pretty arbitrary and unfair. Many a person has jumped through all those hoops to find that they make just a single $1 too much a month to receive any help.

One interesting thing about the Food Stamp program is that in the early 60's when it was first proposed the then-Surgeon General of the United States testified to Congress that the diet the program was based on was one that should be used by adults only in an emergency and then only for a few months and should never be used by a child. That was ignored and Food Stamps today are based on that same diet. As I recall, it is the Dachau diet plus some minimal amount. You can read all about it in Hunger in New England, published by Harvard School of Public Health in the 70's. (VERY hard to lay hands on a copy.)

Mind Crime! In France it's illegal to point out the obvious.

go Bardot!

Mornin' kids! How about that debate last night, huh?

Good morning Lizards...........

re: #82 guzziguy

I'm glad that Baghdad Bob the Saddam era Iraqi _(mis)Information Minister has been able to find work.

Do you see anyone stopping it?...Please name the country..I may have missed it.

re: #85 FrogMarch

OPERATION: Mind Crime!

re: #63 madisonsfriend

We've been in a financial slump for years -- our combined income has been dropping for four years straight as the cost of living in our area has soared (currently at about 140% of national average -- so much for the south being affordable). We've learned to be very frugal -- being vegetarians helps, though even there, I'm always amazed at the way that vegetarian foods tend to get gold-plated. Lifestyles of the rich and meatless, I guess. That said, if you cook and don't rely on convenience food, you can eat healthier for much less.

OTOH, don't get me started on milk prices. I'm thinking I need to get a cow.

re: #50 laZardo

I went to a Sbarros here last weekend and they had a picture of the founding couple on the walls. Even though I've never actually seen her face, the first thing that came into mind when I saw Mrs. Sbarro was... BabbaZee!?

Post a pic of her and I'll tell you if there's any resemblance

lol

Via American Thinker, via S&L, re: Barry's mom getting Food Stamps.

[Barack Obama] was born in 1961 but his mother could not get food stamps then because a) she was married and b) they were not available then.

Then [Barack Senior] moved to a foreign country. I don't think that we were sending food stamps to foreign nations.

When she moved back in 1965, food stamps were not available in Hawaii in 1965.

In 1967, she married the second time and moved to Jakarta. Nope, no food stamps then.

By the time she moved back once again, he was living with his grandparents who had jobs and food stamps were not being handed out like Halloween candy in those years.

re: #89 BabbaZee

OPERATION: Mind Crime!

Heh heh heh what a way to start the morning... ((BabbaZee))

Good thing American troops died to free Afghanistan of the Taliban

---- KABUL (AFP) — An Afghan legislative committee has drafted a bill seeking to introduce Taliban-style Islamic morality codes banning women from wearing make-up in public and forbidding young boys from wearing female fashions.

The draft, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, needs approval by both chambers of the Islamist-dominated parliament and President Hamid Karzai signature to become a law.

"Women and girls are obliged to not wear make-up, wear suitable dresses and observe hijab (veil) while at work or classrooms," said one article of the draft.

It also aims to ban women dancers performing during concerts and other public events as well as on television.

Men and young boys must avoid wearing bracelets, necklaces, "feminist dresses," and hair-bands, the draft reads.

The proposals also demand an end to dog and bird-fighting, pigeon-flying, billiards and video games, all past times favoured by many Afghans.

[Link: www.weaselzippers.net...]

re: #90 Lucius Septimius

When it costs $20 to get two lbs of butter and a half gallon of milk we are in deep shit

re: #89 BabbaZee

Ain't that the truth...

re: #84 galloping granny

the Dachau diet plus some minimal amount.

I'm surprised Hollywood starlets aren't clamoring to get on foodstamps.

re: #93 doriangrey

{DORIAN!}

re: #89 BabbaZee

Queensryche?

re: #99 rightside

Queensryche?

Yup....

re: #98 BabbaZee

{DORIAN!}

Ah yes, the song that launched their careers.......

re: #95 BabbaZee

When it costs $20 to get two lbs of butter and a half gallon of milk we are in deep shit

OUCH! You are paying that much for 2 pounds of butter and a half gallon of milk? I bought butter last week 2/$5 on sale. Milk is still under $5 a gallon here. And if I wanted Kate's Handmade butter that is still under $5 too.

Let's see how many kids we can get crying here ... one's gone off, likely to set another one off. Mom leaves for the morning and all hell breaks loose.

re: #96 laZardo

Ain't that the truth...

I do believe in Love.

re: #64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

When Obama worked in Chicago, wasn't his main job helping folks to find the nearest government teat to suckle up to?

Yes it was. Now the deliteful Michelle leads Community Outreach for the University of Chicago Medical Center. The goal is to steer indigents away from the U of C to to the County Hospital. A regular Evita

re: #102 galloping granny

OUCH! You are paying that much for 2 pounds of butter and a half gallon of milk? I bought butter last week 2/$5 on sale. Milk is still under $5 a gallon here. And if I wanted Kate's Handmade butter that is still under $5 too.

How much for Kate?

re: #102 galloping granny

OUCH! You are paying that much for 2 pounds of butter and a half gallon of milk? I bought butter last week 2/$5 on sale. Milk is still under $5 a gallon here. And if I wanted Kate's Handmade butter that is still under $5 too.

I can only buy butter on sale.
It is $4.99 LB regularly

and milk is near $5 per Half Gallon

re: #100 doriangrey

Yup....

Morning dorian, and I think they were one of the most under rated bands of all time.

re: #81 MandyManners

"The expansionist powers made various plans and organized a military expedition into the region to dominate the world's energy resources and stop the spread of cultural and humanitarian values of the Islamic Revolution."

Doesn't the Islamic Revolution need to have some "cultural and humanitarian values" before we can stop them?

re: #101 doriangrey

He has such a great voice

re: #97 Lucius Septimius

I'm surprised Hollywood starlets aren't clamoring to get on foodstamps.

Wouldn't do them any good. The "diet" does not come with the foodstamps. It is just the basis for the "average market basket" cost that is used to calculate food stamp dollar amounts.

Sadrist leaders asserted they refuse to hand over Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi army’s weapons to the Iraqi government or dissolve it except if Shiite top clerics gave directives to do that

.....

Muqtada al-Sadr would not dissolve al-Mahdi army unless the Iraqi government implements his conditions; establishing a justice state in Iraq, forming a technocrat government , the matter that could not be done with U.S. forces present in the country,” al-Marwani said.
“al-Sadr’s main demand is the withdrawal of the foreign occupation from Iraq or at least putting a timetable to pullout troops,” he explained.
For his part, Azheer al-Koufi, al-Mahdi army leader, expressed refusal to dissolve al-Mahdi army underling to the paper “the presence of al-Mahdi army guarantees the presence of Muqtada al-Sadr in the Iraqi arena.”
“Al-Mahdi army is stronger than the U.S.-made Iraqi army itself,” he underlined

Before someone jumps in...without U.S. air support he would have won...face it. [Link: www.aswataliraq.info...]

re: #104 BabbaZee

Well, it does take a while to get used to the smell.

Mornin' Babs!

re: #98 BabbaZee

{DORIAN!}

Back in the early 80's my brother went up to Seattle on business and when he came home he had a cassette he bought in a bar from at the time an unknown Seattle band... Yup you know it was Queensryche, the tape had four songs on it. Take hold of the Flame was one of them.

re: #108 rightside

Morning dorian, and I think they were one of the most under rated bands of all time.

They were good

This from al-Reuters:
Shana was covering events in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for Reuters on a day of intense violence when 16 other Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were also killed.

Uh...a poor PALESTINIAN camerman hanging out with Hamas. Killed.
It's all Israel's fault.

Of course, not dutifully reported is Shana was imbedded with Hamas. Hamas has just AMBUSHED and killed 3 Israeli soldiers. And Israel, RIGHTFULLY, decides to respond. And we get "...and three Israeli soldiers were also killed."

re: #113 laZardo

Bah
I love you.

Smell that , kid.

re: #114 JamesTKirk

Mornin' Babs!

LOL!

/sad but true

re: #104 BabbaZee

One of my favorite albums of all time. I needed that this morning.

Speaking of living and eating frugally...

My first year as a doctoral student, I had a whopping $8,700 stipend. I lived within that. I didn't run my air conditioning, and I at an assload (no pun intended) of 4 for a dollar frozen burritos. I got by. My checking account balance actually went up.

What really chapped my ass, though, was standing in line one day with the cheapest cut of meat I could find in my little basket while some dolt in front of me went through with, literally, a cart full of high dollar items (filet mignon, fresh shrimp) and paid for it all with food stamps.

I don't begrudge helping those who cannot help themselves, but I do draw the line at people abusing the system.

Reminds me of the time I watched an elderly lady leave a free food bank with a cart full of free food and put it into the trunk of a brand new Cadillac.

re: #103 Lucius Septimius

Let's see how many kids we can get crying here ... one's gone off, likely to set another one off. Mom leaves for the morning and all hell breaks loose.

Ignore them if there's no blood and it will stop

lol

re: #108 rightside

Morning dorian, and I think they were one of the most under rated bands of all time.

They are a great band no doubt about it, but they violated one of the cardinal rules of Rock and Roll, which is why they are so under-rated... They filled their music with politics...

CTP

Junkies sell their food stamps to people all the time
That was probably not a direct recipient of the food stamps but someone who bought them half price from an addict

re: #111 galloping granny

Wouldn't do them any good. The "diet" does not come with the foodstamps. It is just the basis for the "average market basket" cost that is used to calculate food stamp dollar amounts.

Years ago I remember studying how that was calculated. It is somewhat bizarre, and while you could feed people off of it, it takes a great degree of creativity.

re: #123 doriangrey

They are a great band no doubt about it, but they violated one of the cardinal rules of Rock and Roll, which is why they are so under-rated... They filled their music with politics...

AMEN

But the inadvertently made a very prophetic CD with WARNING

re: #120 Lucius Septimius

One of my favorite albums of all time. I needed that this morning.

{Lucius}

re: #83 laZardo

Humanitarian values of the Islamic Revolution?

/can't find a bigger oxymoron than that...

What're the cultural values? Blowing up Buddhas and banning song birds?

re: #124 BabbaZee

That would not surprise me at all...

Afghanistan the shining light of success

..."The court proceedings are carried out behind closed doors, without the presence of defence attorneys, and often without the presentation of any proof on the part of the public prosecutor," said Wadir Safi, a jurist and law professor at the University of Kabul.

"In essence, we can say that justice in our country does not work and the accused do not enjoy any form of guarantee."

These charges have been rejected by Rashed, who said that "all death sentences have been issued on the basis of Islamic law and confirmed by all three petitions provided for under current legislation."

[Link: www.adnkronos.com...]

re: #127 BabbaZee

{Lucius}

LOL!

re: #110 BabbaZee

He has such a great voice

Yup, Geoff Tate ranks right up there with Bruce Dickinson and Pat Benatar. Classically trained in the operatic vocal style.

re: #128 MandyManners

You forgot mutilating female gentalia

re: #109 JamesTKirk

Doesn't the Islamic Revolution need to have some "cultural and humanitarian values" before we can stop them?

Yogurt has more culture than Islam.

re: #131 Lucius Septimius

LOL!

Short answer: probably not.

{Babba!}

re: #129 christheprofessor

I used to see it all the time

re: #49 storagemanager

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

Morning, Lizards.

Morning, Storage.

This pretty much confirms the conclusions I've reached in recent months. The threat is a lot more serious than "just" the potential for the jihadis to acquire a working MILSPEC weapon from a third party.

First of all, if you have the necessary core material, making a crude but effective A-bomb just isn't that hard. "Little Boy", the Hiroshima uranium "gun bomb" was little more than a piece of steel pipe with a sphere of U-235 at one end, a cone of it at the other, and (I kid you not) six bags of smokeless rifle powder to slam cone into sphere. The "safety" feature consisted of not putting the powder bags in until the Enola Gay was in the air and approaching the Japanese coast.

The "Fat Man" Nagasaki plutonium bomb was technically a bit more sophisticated, but in the end was little more involved to build. Without going into details I'd rather not give to the adverse party, I would say that anyone who had the necessary materials (Pu-239/240 plus the rest of the bits) could build a similar bomb if they had a four-year degree in engineering and a decent physics background. (I have neither one, and I understand the procedures from a purely practical POV.) Tom Clancy covered this ground in The Sum of All Fears, and came to the same conclusion. like it or not, the nuclear cat is out of the bag, and has been literally for decades.

Note that neither bomb would be "one point safe", as Wretchard says. In fact, it is impossible to make a Hiroshima-type device "one point safe" (chance of accidental detonation 1 in 100,000). (This is why such weapons are no longer inventoried by the U.S., UK, or France.) However, to the jihadis, this would not be relevant for the following reasons;

1. Their belief system conditions them to regard everything as the expressed will of their deity. As such, if a "jihadi bomb" intended for, say, Paris, were to detonate when bumped or dropped while being smuggled into France through Marseilles, their conclusion would be "it was the Will of Allah- obviously, that city was far more evil than Paris."
Even an "own goal" ( a detonation in their own home turf) would be rationalized in this way- any Muslim killed by same would simply be a "martyr". And of course, they would instantly blame Israel and the U.S. for a "barbarous attack on innocents"- with our own home-grown "progressives" and MSM rallying around to support them on the grounds that it has to be our fault, because "everyone knows that jihadis can't build an A-bomb".

This puts the jihadis in the position of playing the cruel childhood coin-flip "joke" that goes, "heads, I win- tails, you lose" on a strategic scale. From their POV, there's no downside.

2. Most of the complex fusing and time-delay control systems of a MILSPEC bomb are not necessary for their purposes. All they need is a button to be pushed (or a deadman switch to be released) at the proper time by a volunteer "martyr". Who becomes the ultimate "suicide" (homicide) bomber in their warped worldview.

Add in the fact that fissionable material is all too easily available from very questionable sources (Nigerian Yellowcake, anyone?), and the "window of opportunity" for a jihadi nuclear attack- or a series of same- is much wider than anyone could have anticipated even a decade ago.

(Unless of course they were writers like Clancy, Martin Caidin, H. Beam Piper, etc., who were considering the possibility of such things going back to the 1950s.)

Sorry for the length of this "drive-by" post, but this is an important subject- that our leaders have so far failed to take seriously.

Have a great day, Lizards.

cheers

eon

re: #132 doriangrey

Yup, Geoff Tate ranks right up there with Bruce Dickinson and Pat Benatar. Classically trained in the operatic vocal style.

I used to call him Baby Halford!

lol

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We need to collect thousands of signatures which we will then send onto SEC, Dept of Justice, FBI, CSP, US Treasury Dept and any and all other relevant agencies.
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re: #121 christheprofessor

What really chapped my ass, though, was standing in line one day with the cheapest cut of meat I could find in my little basket while some dolt in front of me went through with, literally, a cart full of high dollar items (filet mignon, fresh shrimp) and paid for it all with food stamps.

When we were first married and I was making almost no money, I took a part time job bagging groceries on the weekends at a local grocery to make ends meet. I would see person after person come in buying real expensive food with food stamps (i.e., my tax dollars).

Then they would pull out a $20 and buy lottery tickets and cigarettes.

Jammie, if you are out there, you got mail.

Have to go teach a class now.

Later.

re: #134 MandyManners

I think they mean "Humanitarian" in the same sense as "Vegetarian," that is to say, they devour humanity in the same way that goats devour the bedding plants.

re: #121 christheprofessor

Speaking of living and eating frugally...

My first year as a doctoral student, I had a whopping $8,700 stipend. I lived within that. I didn't run my air conditioning, and I at an assload (no pun intended) of 4 for a dollar frozen burritos. I got by. My checking account balance actually went up.

What really chapped my ass, though, was standing in line one day with the cheapest cut of meat I could find in my little basket while some dolt in front of me went through with, literally, a cart full of high dollar items (filet mignon, fresh shrimp) and paid for it all with food stamps.

I don't begrudge helping those who cannot help themselves, but I do draw the line at people abusing the system.

Reminds me of the time I watched an elderly lady leave a free food bank with a cart full of free food and put it into the trunk of a brand new Cadillac.

I don't automatically freak when I see people with foodstamps who have overloaded carts. The smartest way to shop when you have limited funds is to make just one shopping trip.

As far as the old lady, I used to have a client who did that - her, her hubbie and their disabled son. Brand new Caddie. I could not refuse her food from the food pantry though, because the guidelines said that all social security recipients were eligible. No matter how much money they had in the bank. Absolutely infuriated me one day they stood in line bragging about their recent (as in just got back) cruise to the Bahamas, while I was having to give mothers with small children food that I knew would not be close to enough, no matter how I stretched what I could give them.

re: #135 Lucius Septimius

Short answer: probably not.

You underestimate you.....
;~}

re: #137 eon

Those were experts speaking..I will defer to them...but thanks.

re: #133 BabbaZee

You forgot mutilating female gentalia

I did. Yes, I did. Some things are just too much this early in the a.m. with about four hours of sleep.

re: #142 galloping granny

The smartest way to shop when you have limited funds is to make just one shopping trip.

Once every 6 weeks for me or so

re: #133 BabbaZee

And murdering female relatives for "honor."

re: #136 BabbaZee

I used to see it all the time

I like to think the the elderly lady with the cart full of free food in the Caddy was actually going to distribute it to the real poor. My father, through the Lion's Club, does that -- each week they go to Food Lion and buy a bunch of about-to-expire stuff at a significant discount, then give it to the poor around the town.

re: #145 MandyManners

Some things are just too much this early in the a.m. with about four hours of sleep.

That's my "normal" state , lol . Too much, on no sleep.

re: #148 christheprofessor

I was thinking the same thing

re: #116 BabbaZee

They were good

Still are in my book. Love Silent Lucidity!

re: #138 BabbaZee

I used to call him Baby Halford!

lol

Oh dear.... comparing Geoff Tate to a former roadie who got lucky, might as well compare him to AC/DC's former Limo driver Brian Jones......... Shame on you BabbaZee.... lol...lol...lol...

re: #121 christheprofessor

Yowza. And my parents want me to get my bachelor's degree here before taking "specialized" courses in the States?

/so much for financial aid...

re: #124 BabbaZee

CTP

Junkies sell their food stamps to people all the time
That was probably not a direct recipient of the food stamps but someone who bought them half price from an addict

One of the good things in most states these days is that people do not get paper Food Stamps. They get a card like an ATM card. You can't sell the card (very hard to get another) and you cannot draw out the food stamp money in cash.

re: #137 eon

little boy had a fuse that had to be screwed in. that was the safety

/jus saying I must have read a different book

re: #147 laZardo

....and mothers pouring gallons of their children's blood into Moloch's gaping yaw

re: #154 galloping granny

One of the good things in most states these days is that people do not get paper Food Stamps. They get a card like an ATM card. You can't sell the card (very hard to get another) and you cannot draw out the food stamp money in cash.

Oh that's good!

re: #118 BabbaZee

Well, you know what they say about loving someone...

re: #123 doriangrey

They are a great band no doubt about it, but they violated one of the cardinal rules of Rock and Roll, which is why they are so under-rated... They filled their music with politics...

Empire anyone?

Oops -- I set off an email storm at work.

re: #155 hayseed

little boy had a fuse that had to be screwed in. that was the safety

/jus saying I must have read a different book

The gun powder was the fuse...

re: #152 doriangrey

Oh dear.... comparing Geoff Tate to a former roadie who got lucky, might as well compare him to AC/DC's former Limo driver Brian Jones......... Shame on you BabbaZee.... lol...lol...lol...

Dare not impugn the vocal skills of the very gay Rob Halford!
LOL!

re: #160 Lucius Septimius

Oops -- I set off an email storm at work.

Oh no!

re: #158 laZardo

Well, you know what they say about loving someone...

Ya, I know what they say about love...

If an expert with eyes only clearance...speaks that we are in danger..I listen..I am stupid that way.

re: #141 Lucius Septimius

I think they mean "Humanitarian" in the same sense as "Vegetarian," that is to say, they devour humanity in the same way that goats devour the bedding plants.

I just wonder when their nuclear cultural and humanitarian values are gonna' be unleashed.

re: #158 laZardo

Bullshit.
And Fuck Sting too, while we are at it.

LOVE!

/lol

re: #162 BabbaZee

Dare not impugn the vocal skills of the very gay Rob Halford!
LOL!

ROTFLMAO... or his leatherisk fashion sense....

re: #164 doriangrey

NAZARETH!

If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

re: #168 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO... or his leatherisk fashion sense....

LOL!
I was the only one for years who knew he was gay and people would get so mad at me, LOL
I was like - dudes, LOOK at him!
WTF is wrong with you all?

re: #167 BabbaZee

George Harrison?

Well, we know who that sort of music leads back to...

re: #169 BabbaZee

NAZARETH!

If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

Agreed! Scotland Forever!

re: #140 3 wood

I've never been more embarrassed than when I was home from school one time and my able-bodied brother pulled out food stamps to pay for our chili fixin's in line in front of the person who live a few houses down from us, who knew damn well that my brother was just a worthless PoS who refused to shoulder his responsibilities.

re: #171 laZardo

George Harrison?

Well, we know who that sort of music leads back to...

BBLLLLLEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAACCCCCCHHHHHHGHHGGGGHHHHHHH HHH!

re: #149 BabbaZee

That's my "normal" state , lol . Too much, on no sleep.

This was unusual for me, and I don't like it very much. I'll be up to my ass in alligators later today and I'm just too pooped to care.

Morning Lizards. Don't know if this has been put up yet, but it looks like a ray of sanity has broken through in Hollywierd.

Television Star Exits Scientology

This is what he has to say: "Scientology is destructive and a rip-off."

He also says: "It’s very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution. I think it stunts your evolution. If Scientology is real, then something’s f---ed up."

Video up on You Tube

I'm used to seeing the snow at the north end of a front and the rain at the south. Looking at the radar map right now, it's snowing in New Mexico and raining in Iowa from the same system. Here in Pennsylvania today it's going to be bitter(peace be unto Prophet Obama), but nice, 72 degrees for the high.

re: #169 BabbaZee

NAZARETH!

If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

Oh dear what would Phil say to that....

re: #142 galloping granny

Did the government ever consider publishing a cook book to show people how to cook simple foods within their means?

re: #163 BabbaZee

All I did was point out an error in scheduling a meeting; now everyone's jumping in claiming that the meeting was scheduled to 'silence' certain parties. Oh brother.

New Delhi, April 16 : India's intelligence agency has warned Delhi Police of five Chinese nationals who may cause disruption to the Olympic torch relay Thursday, senior police officials said Wednesday.

"We have received specific inputs from Intelligence Bureau (IB) and officials have been put on high alert," said a senior police official.

According to intelligence inputs, five Chinese nationals - Mohammad Abdullah, Abdul Khalid, Umar Aziz, Yousaf Sattar and Abdullah Daoud - have crossed Nepal border and are at present in the national capital.

I wonder if they are Muslim? [Link: www.newkerala.com...]

re: #142 galloping granny

It wasn't so much the cart full as the high dollar items. She actually had filet mignon and shrimp in there...

re: #175 MandyManners

This was unusual for me, and I don't like it very much. I'll be up to my ass in alligators later today and I'm just too pooped to care.

Well, if you poop on the alligators when they crawl up there, maybe they'll leave you alone.

re: #170 BabbaZee

LOL!
I was the only one for years who knew he was gay and people would get so mad at me, LOL
I was like - dudes, LOOK at him!
WTF is wrong with you all?

Yup.... He had practically everyone fooled with his Uber-Butch image....

re: #177 ec marm

I'm used to seeing the snow at the north end of a front and the rain at the south. Looking at the radar map right now, it's snowing in New Mexico and raining in Iowa from the same system. Here in Pennsylvania today it's going to be bitter(peace be unto Prophet Obama), but nice, 72 degrees for the high.

Vermont too. Gorgeous day, already 40 and going up to 72.

re: #174 Lucius Septimius

Exactly.

re: #162 BabbaZee

Dare not impugn the vocal skills of the very gay Rob Halford!
LOL!

Now, that'll get me going.

re: #176 Bubblehead II

Thank Anonymous.

/seriously, even Islam doesn't require $3,000 to know the "deep inner truth"...

re: #153 laZardo

Well, that was almost two decades ago. I got by. Lived in an apartment that was about the size of my living room is now...

re: #181 storagemanager

I wonder if they are Muslim? [Link: www.newkerala.com...]

Na, they're obviously just south Asian.........

re: #179 MandyManners

Did the government ever consider publishing a cook book to show people how to cook simple foods within their means?

They did. You can probably still get it. Problem is, though, that it doesn't really teach you anything at all if you do not know how to cook and the recipes are frankly NASTY. Nothing at all that the average person would either serve or want to eat. And not all that nutritionally either.

Not to mention that it is out of date. What was once cheap, like hot dogs, is now over the moon and vice versa.

re: #165 storagemanager

Have I thanked you for the link to Women Living under Muslim Law yet? If not, THANK YOU!

CAIRO, Egypt - Hamas officials said Wednesday that Jimmy Carter's meetings with leaders of the Palestinian militant group will boost its legitimacy despite criticism by Israel and the U.S. government of the former president's personal peace mission.

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

re: #188 laZardo

No, just your soul/life

re: #192 MandyManners

Have I thanked you for the link to Women Living under Muslim Law yet? If not, THANK YOU!

You did...but twice is nice..lol

re: #187 MandyManners

Now, that'll get me going.

You want something to get you going? Try this...

re: #171 laZardo

Don't lump poor George in with that commie trash

lol

re: #169 BabbaZee

NAZARETH!

If it's not Scottish, it's CRAP!

My favorite Nazareth.

You really wanna' mess with me?

re: #180 Lucius Septimius

Sometimes academe really sucks...

re: #184 doriangrey

I guess they never visited Christopher Street, and I had

LOL

re: #177 ec marm

Good morning, EC Marm!

re: #198 MandyManners

My favorite Nazareth.

You really wanna' mess with me?

Excellent!

re: #185 galloping granny

Y'all have a beautiful, bitter day. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of clingers-to-religion down at the ballpark today, to see the Pope. I guess they're bitter, too.
/We are bitter - This I know.
For O-Ba-Ma tells me so...

re: #199 christheprofessor

Sometimes academe really sucks...

Ain't that the truth. My toddlers are more mature than my colleagues much of the time.

A 23-year-old German Muslim went on trial Thursday for stabbing a rabbi in Frankfurt, telling a court that he felt threatened by the rabbi and had acted in self-defense.

Defendant Sajed Aziz testified that the Frankfurt-based rabbi, Zalman Gurevitch, approached him in a threatening manner on a street in the city in September. He said he reacted by pulling a knife and stabbing the rabbi, but did not intend to kill him. Prosecutors have said the rabbi told authorities at the

time of the attack that his assailant said, "I'll kill you, you (expletive) Jew," Then pulled out a knife with a

and stabbed him in the stomach. (AP)

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

re: #180 Lucius Septimius

All I did was point out an error in scheduling a meeting; now everyone's jumping in claiming that the meeting was scheduled to 'silence' certain parties. Oh brother.

Buy a bunch of binkies and pass them around.

The Long Run

/quite the journey for Joe

re: #196 doriangrey

You want something to get you going? Try this...

Voodoo!

One day I will tell you my Blackfoot stories

LOL!

re: #183 Lucius Septimius

Well, if you poop on the alligators when they crawl up there, maybe they'll leave you alone.

Just poop.

re: #202 BabbaZee

Excellent!

Heh heh she's getting the spirit of this....

Momma's little jewel -- wish I could find a better recording than this, but, oh well, the scratches and "close and play" sound bring back memories.

re: #189 christheprofessor

Guess I'd better ramp up my savings efforts then. >___>

re: #197 BabbaZee

It was Yoko's fault, not John's.

re: #185 galloping granny

Vermont too. Gorgeous day, already 40 and going up to 72.

It's topsy turvy. Time to open the windows and let some heat in. It hasn't been bad the past week, though. Without oil heat, the house has been running in a range of 63 to 70 degrees. Lots of sunshine.

re: #180 Lucius Septimius

All I did was point out an error in scheduling a meeting; now everyone's jumping in claiming that the meeting was scheduled to 'silence' certain parties. Oh brother.

mass victimization mentality hysteria

re: #203 Pullus Iulius

Y'all have a beautiful, bitter day. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of clingers-to-religion down at the ballpark today, to see the Pope. I guess they're bitter, too.
/We are bitter - This I know.
For O-Ba-Ma tells me so...

Very cute! Despite the beautiful day, I will be spending nearly all of mine potting up several hundred tomato plants :)

I have a few unanswered questions about ObamaX:
1. How did he pay for Columbia?
2. How did he pay for Harvard Law?
3. How did he survive as a "community organizer" and pay for student loans, etc.

re: #176 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards. Don't know if this has been put up yet, but it looks like a ray of sanity has broken through in Hollywierd.

Television Star Exits Scientology

This is what he has to say: "Scientology is destructive and a rip-off."

He also says: "It’s very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution. I think it stunts your evolution. If Scientology is real, then something’s f---ed up."

Video up on You Tube

Jason Beghe! Nummy-num-num.

re: #208 BabbaZee

Voodoo!

One day I will tell you my Blackfoot stories

LOL!

Looking forward to it.........

Mornin' lizards

Good.

Morning.

Lizards.

&#9834

*thump*

re: #179 MandyManners

My Beloved Phil!

/may his name live forever

re: #209 MandyManners

Just poop.

heh.

re: #218 doriangrey

Quite amusing LOL

re: #212 laZardo

Guess I'd better ramp up my savings efforts then. >___>

re: #197 BabbaZee

It was Yoko's fault, not John's.

Bah, he LET her put the ring in his nose.
Commie Weakling!

re: #179 MandyManners

Did the government ever consider publishing a cook book to show people how to cook simple foods within their means?

Speaking of cookbooks... Check out this site: Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project. It's got a bunch of old cookbooks in both .pdf and html format.

re: #214 BabbaZee

mass victimization mentality hysteria

That's a lot more generous than I'm feeling at the moment.

re: #191 galloping granny

They did. You can probably still get it. Problem is, though, that it doesn't really teach you anything at all if you do not know how to cook and the recipes are frankly NASTY. Nothing at all that the average person would either serve or want to eat. And not all that nutritionally either.

Not to mention that it is out of date. What was once cheap, like hot dogs, is now over the moon and vice versa.

Maybe a new one should be written. Would the vegetarians/vegans take it over, though? Would sections on halal food be required?

re: #213 ec marm

It's topsy turvy. Time to open the windows and let some heat in. It hasn't been bad the past week, though. Without oil heat, the house has been running in a range of 63 to 70 degrees. Lots of sunshine.

We've been keeping our heat on about 64 all winter anyway and I spent about a $100 and as many hours weatherizing last fall. It made a huge difference in the amount of oil we used - cut it by half or more - but the price increases did away with any savings. Had 150 gallons delivered two days ago and the bill was $599.85

re: #204 Lucius Septimius

Ain't that the truth. My toddlers are more mature than my colleagues much of the time.

In my experience, the most arrogant, nasty folks are the weakest intellectually. They try to put their colleagues and students down to build themselves up.

re: #107 BabbaZee

Wow, just read that.

I am very fortunate to have use of our commissary here for groceries. Thanks to all the fellow lizards that help in that!

re: #176 Bubblehead II

Good for him whoever he is

re: #195 storagemanager

You did...but twice is nice..lol

It's very interesting, and hopeful.

re: #201 MandyManners

Good morning, EC Marm!

Hey, Good Morning.

re: #230 rightside

It's scary actually.
I have no income, on disability now, and I was not eligible for food stamps etc becasue I had a 401K from the job I worked for 15 years...

But I also can't get that money out to use it without loosing half of it

I am sorry I even did it now

re: #225 christheprofessor

Speaking of cookbooks... Check out this site: Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project. It's got a bunch of old cookbooks in both .pdf and html format.

I have some of those old cookbooks in real life. That has long been one of my favorite sites. Duke I think it is has more.

re: #196 doriangrey

You want something to get you going? Try this...

Now, that takes me back to my youth!

re: #226 Lucius Septimius

That's a lot more generous than I'm feeling at the moment.

I love it when you are spleenical

re: #235 galloping granny

I have tons of old cook books I love them

re: #212 laZardo

Do it, dude (dudette?).

My philosophy about education and braces was: in X years, I'm going to be that much older. I can be degree-less and have crooked teeth, or I can have a degree and straight teeth, but the time is going to pass either way. Might as well improve myself as the time goes by.

re: #224 BabbaZee

Yoko was no gentle flower. =_=

re: #202 BabbaZee

Excellent!

Made a mistake the other day and let the song play on the radio when The Kid was in the car. I must be insane.

re: #229 christheprofessor

In my experience, the most arrogant, nasty folks are the weakest intellectually. They try to put their colleagues and students down to build themselves up.

Yep. The "Axis of Mediocrity." Moreover, getting consumed by departmental politics is a hell of a lot easier than taking your research and teaching seriously.

re: #237 BabbaZee

I love it when you are spleenical

I've got enough spleen for the both of us.

re: #211 Lucius Septimius

hymn for the dudes!

Well off to the salt mine with this lizard.......... Must go give the terrorists money again. I'm not to thrilled with the $0.68 per gallon in taxes I'm paying either. $55.00 to fill up my tank Tuesday and the tax portion of that was $10.00.... Grrrrrrrrr

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio — An Ohio middle school teacher says he won't obey an order to remove a Bible from view of students.

John Freshwater said Wednesday he agreed to remove a collage from his classroom that included the Ten Commandments, but that asking him to remove the Bible on his desk goes too far.

Officials with the Mount Vernon School District say they don't oppose religion but are required by the U.S. Constitution not to promote or favor any set of religious beliefs.

Freshwater says being forced to keep the Bible out of sight would infringe on his rights.

Mount Vernon is about 40 miles northeast of Columbus.

If it was a Koran..nothing would be said. [Link: www.foxnews.com...]

re: #240 laZardo

Yoko was no gentle flower. =_=

She was not even a flower.
More like a lichen

re: #238 BabbaZee

I have tons of old cook books I love them

Me too. And I keep buying more. I guess my two favorites are the just -post WWII Joy of Cooking (mother only, daughter was not working on it then) in the blue & black plaid cover and a baking book put out by one of the baking companies.

re: #235 galloping granny

I have some of those old cookbooks in real life. That has long been one of my favorite sites. Duke I think it is has more.

Cool. I have a bunch of my mother's old cookbooks as well...

re: #243 Lucius Septimius

I've got enough spleen for the both of us.

Of this I am certain!

re: #221 BabbaZee

My Beloved Phil!

/may his name live forever

Another one I've not heard in ages! Awesome bass.

re: #247 BabbaZee

She was not even a flower.
More like a lichen

Yoko

re: #222 Lucius Septimius

Where's my giant puppet?

re: #239 christheprofessor

Dude. (:

Seriously though, at least Transportation Design is a worthwhile major compared to the stuff that other people my age like to take up...if you know what I mean.

/plus, I really need to fix that crossbite...

re: #244 BabbaZee

hymn for the dudes!

Speaking of dudes........

re: #217 MandyManners

The only question now is how long is it going to be before they (CoS) sue him for defamation? They are just as well versed or even better at, Leagal Jihad than Cair is.

A questions to the Lizards:

Was Obama some kind of 'freelance' community organizer?

Was he associated with a 'recognized' organization?

What did he actually accomplish as a community organizer?

And, to repeat a Lizard, how did he pay his student loans as a community organizer?

Who was paying him or was he living on food stamps?

How long was he a community organizer?

Get Back

/ain't Yoko's fault that John hasn't a clue and George has to turn his amp on