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Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:18:42 am PDT
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Palandine 4/18/08 3:22:52 am reply quote |
Earthquake! Woke me out of bed in St. Louis 40 minutes ago. My first one. It was a 5.4 about 120 miles away.
Eek, I'm not even out of bed and the day's full of bad omens...
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obscured by clouds 4/18/08 3:23:25 am reply quote |
I was just awoken by an earthquake, here in Louisville, Kentucky. About half an hour ago. 5.2 on the richter. It was apparently the New Madrid Fault.
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 3:23:47 am reply quote |
No, no bludgeons. We all use firearms.
/less blood splatters due to range
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obscured by clouds 4/18/08 3:26:06 am reply quote |
The New Madrid fault made the Mississippi River run backwards in 1812, creating Reelfoot Lake.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:27:21 am reply quote |
Good morning, Lizards. A late start for me--my Baby Lizard didn't get back from DC until 11:30 last night.
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redc1c4 4/18/08 3:29:08 am reply quote |
re: #2 Palandine
Earthquake! Woke me out of bed in St. Louis 40 minutes ago. My first one. It was a 5.4 about 120 miles away.
Eek, I'm not even out of bed and the day's full of bad omens...
5.4 from 120 miles away and you woke up?
/amazed
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redc1c4 4/18/08 3:30:33 am reply quote |
re: #4 obscured by clouds
same as the St Louis one, or different?
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Palandine 4/18/08 3:30:46 am reply quote |
This one was pretty far east, probably the Wabash fault rather than the New Madrid. Considering how hard it hook here, I'm a little more concerned with how bad it'll be if the New Madrid Fault goes
/Palandine lives in an unreinforced brick building.
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obscured by clouds 4/18/08 3:31:32 am reply quote |
re: #7 song_and_dance_man
Earthquakes? been there done that.
I take it you're from Indonesia (/). Here in Kentucky people don't think about earthquakes like they should but they're a lurking menace, especially in the far western part of the state. I'm sure Palladine knows all about the New Madrid fault.
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Palandine 4/18/08 3:31:37 am reply quote |
re: #9 redc1c4
5.4 from 120 miles away and you woke up?
/amazed
The bed was shaking! It was like something out of The Exorcist.
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 3:31:42 am reply quote |
re: #12 Palandine
Time to start stocking the emergency supplies then.
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Honorary Yooper 4/18/08 3:33:09 am reply quote |
re: #9 redc1c4
5.4 from 120 miles away and you woke up?
/amazed
Not really. The geology east of the Rockies is pretty stable, and the surface, S, and P waves can travel great distances while maintaining their energy. It was felt over 230 miles away in Chicago and shook chandliers.
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redc1c4 4/18/08 3:33:33 am reply quote |
re: #12 Palandine
This one was pretty far east, probably the Wabash fault rather than the New Madrid. Considering how hard it hook here, I'm a little more concerned with how bad it'll be if the New Madrid Fault goes
/Palandine lives in an unreinforced brick building.
i'd move......
CA native
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rightside 4/18/08 3:34:23 am reply quote |
re: #18 Honorary Yooper
...away in Chicago and shook chandliers.
Nice alliteration!
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Palandine 4/18/08 3:34:30 am reply quote |
re: #16 BlueCanuck
Time to start stocking the emergency supplies then.
Oh, I've got the preparedness stuff squared away. I wasn't scared when it happened, more like "WTH?," but now I'm a little woozy. Oh well, life goes on...
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redc1c4 4/18/08 3:35:03 am reply quote |
re: #18 Honorary Yooper
Not really. The geology east of the Rockies is pretty stable, and the surface, S, and P waves can travel great distances while maintaining their energy. It was felt over 230 miles away in Chicago and shook chandliers.
then it's gonna suck back there when the next 1811 one hits.....
all that masonry and no gas valves, just for two problems.
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redc1c4 4/18/08 3:35:41 am reply quote |
re: #22 savage_nation
Me too. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley.
which is where i live these days.
/grew up in Central LA, more or less.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:36:04 am reply quote |
re: #20 savage_nation
HI, Savage Nation!
What we need to get clear is that religious observances must comply with the law of the land.
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obscured by clouds 4/18/08 3:36:14 am reply quote |
re: #10 redc1c4
same as the St Louis one, or different?
It would have to be the same one. If it is the Wabash fault, as Palandine is reporting, I've never even heard of it.
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The Other Les 4/18/08 3:38:08 am reply quote |
re: #28 goddessoftheclassroom
HI, Savage Nation!
What we need to get clear is that religious observances must comply with the law of the land.
Just don't tell that to the followers of the Big Mo'.
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Taqyia2Me 4/18/08 3:38:11 am reply quote |
5.4 here in Spfd IL.
Saw former Ambassador Dennis Ross speak last nite at Univ of Il at Spfd.
Except for his 'blame Bush first' tone, he had a couple realistic things to say...one being that it is a huge mistake for Carter to be meeting with Hamas.
Don't know if there is a connection between the Ross speech and the shaker....
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Honorary Yooper 4/18/08 3:38:15 am reply quote |
re: #29 obscured by clouds
It would have to be the same one. If it is the Wabash fault, as Palandine is reporting, I've never even heard of it.
The Wabash fault's been active in the past with 5.3s and less. There was a 5 or so near Lawrenceville back in the late 1980s.
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Palandine 4/18/08 3:38:19 am reply quote |
Eh, not going to move, plus, this is St. Louis we're talking about. Not a lot that's not unreinforced brick or masonry. Plus, it's only a two-story building. Creepy, though--I just developed some more respect for our California lizards.
Oh well, since I'm up, I'm off to work. Take care, folks.
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obscured by clouds 4/18/08 3:39:10 am reply quote |
re: #25 redc1c4
then it's gonna suck back there when the next 1811 one hits.....
all that masonry and no gas valves, just for two problems.
There was a 5.3 quake here in 1968. This one was a 5.4. Back in 1811 the New Madrid quake rang church bells in Boston. It was epicentered in Missouri.
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DeathtotheSwiss 4/18/08 3:39:16 am reply quote |
What a crazy day this is. My wife has family in Illinois too. Hope everyone is okay.
[Link: www.chron.com...]
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The Other Les 4/18/08 3:40:19 am reply quote |
re: #37 savage_nation
And pedophiles need to be put in prison for multiple life terms....
Where they will only get to read Ted Rall cartoons.
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redc1c4 4/18/08 3:41:21 am reply quote |
re: #35 Palandine
Eh, not going to move, plus, this is St. Louis we're talking about. Not a lot that's not unreinforced brick or masonry. Plus, it's only a two-story building. Creepy, though--I just developed some more respect for our California lizards.
Oh well, since I'm up, I'm off to work. Take care, folks.
then it will only crush you a little when it kills you. you may even still be able to have an open casket funeral, unless of course it's a mass casualty disaster......
bricks are for BBQ's & walkways.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:41:21 am reply quote |
re: #31 The Other Les
Just don't tell that to the followers of the Big Mo'.
That's exactly my point.
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 3:41:31 am reply quote |
Good night red.
/just remember me if one day you have an instant snowbank in your front yard. ;)
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kdogg73 4/18/08 3:41:40 am reply quote |
Woke my wife and I up in Dayton, Ohio. But we sleep on the second floor of an 1880s balloon-frame house, so I'm sure that amplified it. Never experienced a quake before.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:44:19 am reply quote |
re: #46 savage_nation
Now thats cruel and unusual punishment...
Bring it on, baby!
Seriously, I wonder how damaged these girls are mentally....
At the very least, they've been living in such an isolated bubble that adapting to "real life" is going to be so hard. They've been indoctrinated to think of the "outside" as evil.
And what about the boys? Think of how they've been brougt up to view women.
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Honorary Yooper 4/18/08 3:45:34 am reply quote |
Hey roberth, quit being a dip an dinging down the news.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:46:42 am reply quote |
re: #49 savage_nation
I hear the boys were basically put out to stud. Breeders for the sect. Thats pretty bad....
Oh, that's horrible--I hadn't heard that.
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The Other Les 4/18/08 3:47:23 am reply quote |
Liberals are being stupid, again.
[Link: images.ucomics.com...]
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rightside 4/18/08 3:49:16 am reply quote |
re: #51 The Other Les
Liberals are being stupid, again.
[Link: images.ucomics.com...]
5 years of this, over and over again... What useless turds they are...
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Taqyia2Me 4/18/08 3:49:35 am reply quote |
re: #50 goddessoftheclassroom
Oh, that's horrible--I hadn't heard that.
That book written by Carolyn Jessop, 'Escape', a girl who escaped the sect with her 8 children, said that a lot of the boys are sent packing at an early age.
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galloping granny 4/18/08 3:49:44 am reply quote |
re: #51 The Other Les
Liberals are
beingstupid,again.[Link: images.ucomics.com...]
Fixed that for you.
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The Other Les 4/18/08 3:50:38 am reply quote |
re: #53 savage_nation
I'll try to find the link to that info for you
Here's a bunch of links.
[Link: www.rickross.com...]
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Jim in Virginia 4/18/08 3:51:16 am reply quote |
re: #25 redc1c4
then it's gonna suck back there when the next 1811 one hits.....
all that masonry and no gas valves, just for two problems.
The next big New Madrid, we'll lose half the Mississippi bridges between Memphis and St Louis, and a whole lot of pipelines.
(How does gasoline get from Texas to New Jersey?)
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 3:52:38 am reply quote |
re: #51 The Other Les
Good morning Les. Don't know if you caught it or not. Remember the new rule of highly effective pirates? There were actually two new rules in the gag. Rule #4 has never been posted either. :)
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cheesehead 4/18/08 3:53:51 am reply quote |
Quake felt here in Milwaukee, WI. Shook for 15-20 seconds.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:54:28 am reply quote |
re: #54 Taqyia2Me
That book written by Carolyn Jessop, 'Escape', a girl who escaped the sect with her 8 children, said that a lot of the boys are sent packing at an early age.
If a bunch of adults want to live together, that's their business, but only one marriage for a man and a woman would be legal; the others can be whatever they want to call them.
Raising children communally is weird to me, but as long as the kids are healthy, again, none of my business.
HOWEVER, when children--under the age of consent--are coerced by the adults in their lives to enter into sexual relationships (actually, anyone coerced), that IS my business because as part of a community, I defend the rights of innocents.
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The Other Les 4/18/08 3:54:52 am reply quote |
re: #59 BlueCanuck
Good morning Les. Don't know if you caught it or not. Remember the new rule of highly effective pirates? There were actually two new rules in the gag. Rule #4 has never been posted either. :)
I didn't catch it. Darn.
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galloping granny 4/18/08 3:55:26 am reply quote |
Somebody just posted this link -
That has got to be one of the best things I have seen in a LONG time. You must go see this. Sure would make a great thread Charles!
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 3:56:45 am reply quote |
re: #63 The Other Les
Heh, heh. I know. One of my friends has the list and he failed to catch it as well.
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goddessoftheclassroom 4/18/08 3:58:33 am reply quote |
re: #64 galloping granny
Somebody just posted this link - [Link: youtube.com...]
That has got to be one of the best things I have seen in a LONG time. You must go see this. Sure would make a great thread Charles!
OMG. I had to watch that before leaving, VERY powerful. And scary.
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The Other Les 4/18/08 3:58:39 am reply quote |
re: #62 goddessoftheclassroom
If a bunch of adults want to live together, that's their business, but only one marriage for a man and a woman would be legal; the others can be whatever they want to call them.
Raising children communally is weird to me, but as long as the kids are healthy, again, none of my business.
HOWEVER, when children--under the age of consent--are coerced by the adults in their lives to enter into sexual relationships (actually, anyone coerced), that IS my business because as part of a community, I defend the rights of innocents.
But they are only following God's commands, so they claim.
I used to think that God didn't speak to criminals. But upon further thought I would have to say that God does speak to criminals, but the criminals aren't listening.
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galloping granny 4/18/08 4:01:28 am reply quote |
re: #67 goddessoftheclassroom
OMG. I had to watch that before leaving, VERY powerful. And scary.
re: #69 savage_nation
Man, that is spot on!
Isn't it? Somebody spent a lot of thought & energy on this!
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:02:04 am reply quote |
Morning all. 47 degrees in the misty dawn of Chamblee; supposed to get up to 77 today. Beautiful spring day, aside from the pollen. Everybody but me has a cold, so I get to listen to a symphony of sniffling, hacking, coughing, and sneezing.
What's the good word this morning?
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rightside 4/18/08 4:04:33 am reply quote |
re: #64 galloping granny
That was awesome! thanks for sharing.
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galloping granny 4/18/08 4:05:41 am reply quote |
Gotta go get ready to head out for Boston as soon as I swallow the last of the coffee, but Yale is now saying that the AbortionGirl "really didn't do those things" - she is engaged in "performance art" - and of course the disgusting display will go ahead as planned.
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
To invent such a tale as part of a "performance" makes her even more of a lunatic as far as I'm concerned. She is really seriously disturbed.
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jzm 4/18/08 4:06:17 am reply quote |
I lived in S.California from 1980 to 1992 and now live in Farmington, Mo and a earthquake woke me up this morning...people here on the St. Louis local news channel are freaking out! lol
It was a 5.4, I've been through worse than this one!
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:07:48 am reply quote |
re: #78 savage_nation
He sure is. Manchurian Candidate.....
Without the mom.
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galloping granny 4/18/08 4:09:16 am reply quote |
re: #73 savage_nation
Just noticed this down in the comments -
The Cardboard Messiah
they added Obama to the end but I think Cardboard Messiah really is all the name Barrack Hussein Obama needs.
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:13:16 am reply quote |
re: #81 galloping granny
Just noticed this down in the comments -
The Cardboard Messiah
they added Obama to the end but I think Cardboard Messiah really is all the name Barrack Hussein Obama needs.
I like this one:
O wow. Obama has lots of stupid sheep
Yes this country is loaded to the gills with
stupid sheep drunk on Hopium
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Bubblehead II 4/18/08 4:13:23 am reply quote |
re: #82 galloping granny
Creepy, but true. When are people going to wake up and realize this guy is dangerous?
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:14:25 am reply quote |
re: #81 galloping granny
Too bad buzz isn't around -- cardboard Messiah would be a great title for a song.
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:18:29 am reply quote |
re: #84 Bubblehead II
Creepy, but true. When are people going to wake up and realize this guy is dangerous?
Some people never will. Ferraro had it right -- peoplw are willing to make endless excuses for him on account of his skin color. Taranto commented on this in BotW yesterday:
For the first time ever, the Democratic Party seems poised to choose an African-American presidential nominee. As Barack Obama is discovering, politics at the national level entails intense scrutiny and criticism. Predictably, however, some Obama supporters have been accusing his detractors of racism--especially when they criticize his "spiritual mentor," a practitioner of "black liberation theology."In a Los Angeles Times op-ed piece, one David K. Shipler goes further. He explains how racism supposedly works in post-civil-rights America:
In a country so changed that a biracial man who is considered black has a shot at the presidency, the subterranean biases are much less discernible now than when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. They are subtle, unacknowledged and unacceptable in polite company. But they lurk below, lending resonance to the criticisms of Obama. Black professionals know the double standard. They are often labeled negatively for traits deemed positive in whites: A white is assertive, a black is aggressive; a white is resolute, a black is pushy; a white is candid, a black is abrasive; a white is independent, a black is not a team player. Prejudice is a shape shifter, adapting to acceptable forms.But it also turns out that adjectives are the equivalent of their most offensive synonyms. Thus calling Obama elitist is actually a racial slur:
"Elitist" is another word for "arrogant," which is another word for "uppity," that old calumny applied to blacks who stood up for themselves.You can see how the Shipler method works. Did you say Obama was inexperienced? "Inexperienced" is another word for "young," and a young male is a boy. You just called Obama "boy," you racist! Here's another example:
Casting Obama as "out of touch" plays harmoniously with the traditional notion of blacks as "others" at the edge of the mainstream, separate from the whole. Despite his ability to articulate the frustration and yearning of broad segments of Americans, his "otherness" has been highlighted effectively by right-wingers who harp on his Kenyan father and spread false rumors that he's a clandestine Muslim.Wait a minute! Did Shipler just say "articulate"? Granted, he's using it as a verb and not an adjective, but surely he knows that it is invidious to describe a black person as "articulate" because it implies that blacks are usually inarticulate.
The Obama campaign has set in motion a fascinating dynamic. On the one hand, some of his fellow Democrats, especially Bill Clinton, have been willing to attack him in expressly racial terms. On the other hand, we have someone making the case in a semi-major newspaper that adjectives are the white man's tool of oppression and that anyone who modifies Obama is a racist.
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The Other Les 4/18/08 4:19:12 am reply quote |
BO doesn't belong in the White House, He belongs in the nuthouse.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:21:03 am reply quote |
re: #14 Palandine
The bed was shaking! It was like something out of The Exorcist.
Did you surmount the fear of earthquakes?
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:21:10 am reply quote |
re: #87 The Other Les
BO doesn't belong in the White House, He belongs in the nuthouse.
Don't refer to Obamassiah as "BO." That implies he stinks, which implies because he's black he is unclean. Racist!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:22:49 am reply quote |
re: #88 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
just woke up. and hung over. and in a hotel. and had a really bad day yesterday. but at least I was not awakened by an earthquake or obama!
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:23:49 am reply quote |
re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
just woke up. and hung over. and in a hotel. and had a really bad day yesterday. but at least I was not awakened by an earthquake or obama!
The operative question is: other than a hotel, do you know where you are and how you got there?
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Jim in Virginia 4/18/08 4:24:48 am reply quote |
re: #86 Lucius Septimius
WTF? White people aren't ever called abrasive or pushy?
I hope 3wood shows up- he is near epicenter of the Midwest quake.
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Jim in Virginia 4/18/08 4:25:21 am reply quote |
re: #91 Lucius Septimius
The operative question is: other than a hotel, do you know where you are and how you got there?
And who you are with?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:25:28 am reply quote |
re: #79 Lucius Septimius
Without the mom.
He doesn't have a mother?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:26:39 am reply quote |
re: #91 Lucius Septimius
The operative question is: other than a hotel, do you know where you are and how you got there?
I said it! In a hotel. Please do not ask city or state. Oh yeah, Beckley WV.
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Bubblehead II 4/18/08 4:26:51 am reply quote |
re: #86 Lucius Septimius
Interesting. Orwellian newspeak at its finest.
Well I have to go. Mondays suck, exspecially when they fall on a Friday.
L8R Lizards
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red satellite 4/18/08 4:27:22 am reply quote |
Hamas LOVES OBAMA! (There's a wakeup call for you America)
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:27:40 am reply quote |
re: #93 Jim in Virginia
And who you are with?
She's so skinny, you can't see her.
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:28:36 am reply quote |
re: #94 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
He doesn't have a mother?
She passed away - no one to do the Angela Landsbury part.
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 4:28:37 am reply quote |
re: #98 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Better hope it's the wife, or you could be in real trouble.
/unless she has a husband then you are doomed.
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 4:29:17 am reply quote |
re: #99 storagemanager
Good morning storage. What's on the seethe list this morning?
/besides the usual
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:29:50 am reply quote |
re: #98 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
She's so skinny, you can't see her.
I don't like those kind -- too many pointy bits.
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Jim in Virginia 4/18/08 4:30:01 am reply quote |
re: #95 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I said it! In a hotel. Please do not ask city or state. Oh yeah, Beckley WV.
I'm so sorry.
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:30:15 am reply quote |
Hmmmmm ... that's odd. The cursor doesn't appear in the comment box.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:30:57 am reply quote |
re: #101 BlueCanuck
Doomed! Doomed I tell you! Can't seem to surmount my feeling of dread of this day.
Hello. I must be going.
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:31:03 am reply quote |
re: #95 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
But you do know how you got there, right?
I hate waking up in a hotel in some other place wondering how I got there.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:31:57 am reply quote |
re: #103 Lucius Septimius
I don't like those kind -- too many pointy bits.
Some pointy bits are nice though.
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Lucius Septimius 4/18/08 4:32:48 am reply quote |
re: #108 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Some pointy bits are nice though.
True, provided they're not too sharp.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:33:17 am reply quote |
re: #107 Lucius Septimius
I used to travel so much more than this. I got to the point where I was like a rock-star. Instead of taped to a microphone, the name of the town I was in was written on a notepad on the nightstand.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian 4/18/08 4:34:43 am reply quote |
re: #111 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Thanks for the reminder.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 4:34:51 am reply quote |
Pakistan Foreign Minister told the Parliament on Friday that no American official has been placed to have access to the country's National Command Authority (NCA).Local media has reported that the US State Department has sought the accreditation of an official to be posted at the American embassy here with the NCA, the body that controls Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
"Pakistan will not permit this," Qureshi told the National Assembly, lower house of the parliament.
The opposition lawmaker raised the issued on a `call attention notice' and sought the government response to reports about the placement of a permanent American official at the US embassy in Pakistan to deal with Pakistan's nuclear issues who would have direct access to the National Command Authority.
"Pakistan has received no request in this regard," Qureshi said.
The Foreign Minister said that Pakistan's nuclear program is secure and in safe hands.
He said there is no need of any concern of this nature and Pakistan follows its independent foreign policy
[Link: www2.irna.com...]
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 4:37:13 am reply quote |
re: #109 Lucius Septimius
Yeah, like the elbows. Almost had a puctured lung. :)
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Jim in Virginia 4/18/08 4:37:36 am reply quote |
re: #113 storagemanager
An official denial. So the story must be true.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 4:39:32 am reply quote |
re: #115 Jim in Virginia
An official denial. So the story must be true.
Who knows with Pakistan...lies are the policy.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 4:41:25 am reply quote |
Barack Obama's campaign said yesterday it is "flattered" that Hamas' endorsement of the Illinois senator compared him to John F. Kennedy, though it objects to any diplomatic contact with the terrorist group."I like John Kennedy too," said chief Obama strategist David Axelrod. "That's about the only thing we have in common with this gentleman from Hamas. We all agree that John Kennedy was a great president, and it's flattering when anybody says that Barack Obama would follow in his footsteps."
Axelrod was reacting to comments earlier this week from Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, who said Hamas "hopes" Obama will win the presidential elections and "change" America's foreign policy.
[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]
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sparrowlake 4/18/08 4:44:02 am reply quote |
Good morning lizards.
Looks like it's gonna be one fine day.
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sparrowlake 4/18/08 4:47:51 am reply quote |
re: #118 storagemanager
"We all agree that John Kennedy was a great president, and it's flattering when anybody says that Barack Obama would follow in his footsteps"
Axelrod was reacting to comments earlier this week from Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip
Anybody?
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The Other Les 4/18/08 4:49:27 am reply quote |
re: #120 sparrowlake
Anybody?
He'll never get to do Marilyn.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 4:51:12 am reply quote |
CROWN POINT, Indiana (AP) - Indiana 55 has reopened after a truckload of human feces spilled onto the roadway in northwestern Indiana's Crown Point.
The driver told police he was hauling treated human feces from a water recycling plant in Portage when the load spilled about 10:30 a.m. Thursday.The Lake County hazardous materials response team came to clean up the mess, along with the Crown Point Fire Department and Indiana State Police.
The northbound and southbound lanes of the highway were closed during the cleanup.
The Indiana Department of Transportation cited the driver for an unsecured load. [Link: www.breitbart.com...]
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo 4/18/08 4:51:18 am reply quote |
Iran, Turkey sign security MOU and if we think we might have developing problems there... There's The New Deal in Pakistan but don't worry, US says terrorists running around free in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas.
Duh...
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storagemanager 4/18/08 4:52:35 am reply quote |
Video footage of a terrorist training camp in northwestern Pakistan run by the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). The video shows the production and testing of explosives, and the recruitment of young children as fighters. On May 25, 2005, the U.S. State Department announced the designation of the IJU as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT). The IJU is a breakaway faction of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and was responsible for bombings in July 2004 at the U.S. and Israeli embassies in the Uzbek capital Tashkent. According an official statement from the State Department, "The Islamic Jihad [Union] continues to target Americans and U.S. facilities overseas and is a dangerous threat to U.S. interests."
[Link: counterterrorismblog.org...]
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edinbud 4/18/08 4:54:12 am reply quote |
BBC Newsnight 18Apr - Abu Izzadeen, Anjem Choudary
I've tried to capture the stream but nothing seems to work. It will only be available for another few hours.
Anjem Choudary sings the usual song, plus new video of Muslim airport security employee describing his policy on checking baggage:
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
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rightside 4/18/08 4:54:49 am reply quote |
re: #122 storagemanager
What a crappy way to start the day.
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BlueCanuck 4/18/08 4:58:16 am reply quote |
Well good night lizards. Time for me to go home and curl up on my warm rock. And today it's going to be very warm.
/wooo hooo.
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3 wood 4/18/08 4:59:29 am reply quote |
Good Morning Lizards:
Well, another day, another whopper from Slick Willie:
Bill Clinton: No 'Whining' from Hillary
ABC News' Sarah Amos Reports: Former President Bill Clinton says he didn't see his wife "whining" when she's taken some tough political shots on the presidential campaign trail.
"When I watched that debate last night, I got kinda tickled," the former President said at an American Legion Hall event in St. Mary's, Pennsylvania, "After the [debate], her opponents', oh, the people working were saying, 'Oh this is so negative, why are they doing this.' Well they've been beatin' up on her for 15 months. I didn't hear her whining when he said she was untruthful in Iowa or called her the senator from Punjab."
"And, you know, they said some pretty rough things about me, too. But you know, this is a contact sport. If you don't want to play, keep your uniform off," Clinton told a loudly cheering crowd.
This about the same whining woman who complained about being ganged up on by the guys. This about the same woman who complained about being "manhandled" every night by Deocratic party whore/shill/carnival barker Chris Matthews. This about the same woman who blamed all their problems of the "vast right wing conspiracy".
I also found it funny for Slick to talk about taking you uniform off. Mighty odd for a guy known for not keeping his pants on around the office help.
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sparrowlake 4/18/08 5:01:07 am reply quote |
re: #127 rightside
What a crappy way to start the day.
a real bummer
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lawhawk 4/18/08 5:02:10 am reply quote |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. The new US embassy in Baghdad is finally ready to open, and MSNBC calls it fortress America. It definitely isn't an inviting structure, but that's done on purpose as rules were drawn up after the embassy bombings to make their facilities more secure against various kinds of attacks.
The aesthetic principles are secondary to security measures.
And Zawahiri has emerged from his cave to once again declare that the US has lost Iraq and that Iraq is the most important battleground. Well, he's batting .500. He's wrong about the US losing Iraq - the only ones losing are al Qaeda and their fellow jihadis who can't get rid of US forces and who have seen the local population turn against the jihadis precisely because of suicide bombings and violence against fellow Muslims. He is right that Iraq is the central battlefield - because if al Qaeda can't win there, they can't win anywhere.
It's because of this that the spike in suicide bombings, a possible attempt to recreate Tet, will fail, not because of media coverage which generally spikes as the violence does, but because the locals have seen what the jihadis have done and will not tolerate the violence any longer. This may also be the death throes of the jihadis in Iraq - where the remnants are pushed to desperate measures to maintain any relevance at all.
The spike in suicide bombings also appears to show that Zawahiri isn't exactly able to provide leadership over the Iraqi al Qaeda contingent because it wasn't long ago that Zawahiri said that the suicide bombing missions were becoming counterproductive, which is evident because the Sunni Awakening would not have happened if al Qaeda had not started attacking Sunnis who were formerly open to the idea of working with al Qaeda for not being sufficiently Islamist enough.
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opnion 4/18/08 5:02:54 am reply quote |
re: #4 obscured by clouds
I was just awoken by an earthquake, here in Louisville, Kentucky. About half an hour ago. 5.2 on the richter. It was apparently the New Madrid Fault.
Some years back I read an article by a seismologist, claiming that, the potential destruction from the New Madrid fault was greater than the San Andreas.
I don't know if he is a majority of one.
Anyone see it?Oh , And Good Morning.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:04:33 am reply quote |
...better turn yourself around...
This is WLGF
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:07:39 am reply quote |
re: #120 sparrowlake
Anybody?
I have concluded that Kennedy was actually a weak President. Once you put charisma aside, you see that his foeign policy was mostly inept and he was viewed as a light-weight by Congress, almost incapable of getting any legislation through.
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:09:33 am reply quote |
re: #122 storagemanager
Somehow, that happening in Indiana does not surprise me.
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Jim in Virginia 4/18/08 5:11:21 am reply quote |
3wood, tell us about the quake in your neck of the woods.
Kennedy only became a god because he was assassinated. There's no way to tell what he would have done or how history would judge him had he lived. That's not a very appealing role model.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:11:26 am reply quote |
re: #139 BabbaZee
This might perk you up.......
Gadhafi further stated "...given that we are both producers of gas and oil, we will work together to defend our interests."Energy deals and proposals featured prominently during Putin's visit. Libya is believed to hold the largest oil reserves in Africa, having also the fourth largest reserves of natural gas.
Reportedly, Gadhafi told Putin that he favors the idea of a gas OPEC, a notion that Russia appears to share with Iran and Venezuela, and which one day may do to the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market what OPEC has done to oil. Furthermore, the two leaders discussed cooperation in the field of nuclear energy. Policy makers in Washington are fuming and biting their nails – "bad Vlad" is apparently outfoxing them yet again.
[Link: www.metimes.com...]
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rightside 4/18/08 5:11:58 am reply quote |
re: #111 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
What do you think the odds are, that someone in the comments will blame Bush?
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:13:47 am reply quote |
re: #144 Render
When you've got a bad reputation, you can do anything you want to.
MORNIN
BABS,
R
A ha HA!
{Render}
;~}
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:15:19 am reply quote |
re: #141 storagemanager
Enter the King of the North....
/Good thing I know the playbook, or I'd be flipping out about now.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:15:27 am reply quote |
NEW YORK (EJP)---In an annual rite of spring, white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups across the United States are planning to hold events to commemorate the April 20 birthday of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish group fighting anti-semitism in the world, said.
Many of the planned Hitler birthday gatherings coincide with the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins on April 19, ADL added.
Will GOV cover it? [Link: www.ejpress.org...]
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:15:45 am reply quote |
re: #146 rightside
Which one? LOL
The cute one of course..............lol...lol...lol...
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Miss Trixie 4/18/08 5:17:04 am reply quote |
♪ ♬ Good morning, Lizards! ♬ ♪
It's 52°F going all the way up to 75°F for this afternoon under clear, sparkly and sunny skies.
Yes!
:D
What snoo?
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:18:05 am reply quote |
Oh, this is funny.
Mugage now blames Britian for Zimbabwe's problems:
Mugabe denounces Britain in post-poll speech
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe bitterly attacked former colonial ruler Britain on Friday in his first major speech since disputed elections, saying London was paying the population to turn against him.
Mugabe, 84, told 15,000 cheering supporters in a fiery address to mark independence day: "Down with the British. Down with thieves who want to steal our country."
In a stream of insults against Britain, Mugabe added: "Today they are like thieves fronting their lackeys among us, which they give money to confuse our people."
This from the guy who destroyed his country by stealing farms and other assets from productive people and doled them out to his buddies. This from the guy who promised free healthcare and education to everybody (sound familiar?) and then printed money to pay for it, thus causing 100,000% a year inflation.
Hey Mugabe, who you crapping?
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:18:36 am reply quote |
re: #148 BabbaZee
Enter the King of the North....
/Good thing I know the playbook, or I'd be flipping out about now.
Dont be afraid and do not fear...
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:20:11 am reply quote |
Don't eat at McDonald's on South West Marine Drive in Vancouver.Listen. I love McDonald's, both for their food and for what they stand for philosophically. I thought that Super Size Me was a piece of anti-capitalist, anti-beef propaganda.
But when you're in Vancouver, skip the McDonald's on Marine Drive.
That's because the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that one of the employees there has a human right not to wash her hands when working in their kitchen.
[Link: www.newenglishreview.org...]
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:20:11 am reply quote |
re: #140 Jim in Virginia
3wood, tell us about the quake in your neck of the woods.
I slept through it. First I knew of the quake was when I got up this morning and heard about it in the radio. Once I go to sleep, I'm out like I got pole-axed.
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eon 4/18/08 5:21:14 am reply quote |
re: #132 opnion
Morning, Lizards.
I woke up about 0530 here in beautiful downtown Lancaster, OH (SE of the state capital, recently renamed Co-Dum-bus), because the house definitely vibrated a bit.
Of course, at that moment, an 18-wheeler on the street outside was engaged in a serious braking maneuver due to an idiot with a loud exhaust who apparently darted out of the local stop n' go right in front of him.
So I'm not sure it was the 5.4 that was responsible.
cheers
eon
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:21:23 am reply quote |
Police have carried out a controlled explosion this morning after a man was arrested under the Terrorism Act.A spokesman for Avon and Somerset police said about 30 people were evacuated from their homes in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, at around 2am.
A 19-year-old from the area was yesterday arrested in connection with the investigation, which also involved Scotland Yard's Counter Terrorism Command.
He is now being questioned at an undisclosed police station.
Officers would not reveal what sort of materials were blown up but said they had now been sent off for analysis
[Link: www.newenglishreview.org...]
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:22:49 am reply quote |
re: #153 doriangrey
I have zero fear... I have total access to the script.... to the shield and to the sword.... but a hard rain's gonna fall nevertheless.
{Dorian}
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:23:43 am reply quote |
re: #157 3 wood
I slept through it. First I knew of the quake was when I got up this morning and heard about it in the radio. Once I go to sleep, I'm out like I got pole-axed.
What quake? I am out of it....
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:24:37 am reply quote |
re: #154 BabbaZee
Good Morning Babba, Sparrow, and Jim.
TGIF
My standard for Friday morning
Friday, I'm in Love
The Cure
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:25:27 am reply quote |
And I'll tell it
and think it
and speak it
and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain
so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:26:13 am reply quote |
re: #160 BabbaZee
I have zero fear... I have total access to the script.... to the shield and to the sword.... but a hard rain's gonna fall nevertheless.
{Dorian}
(BabbaZee) good to know you are keeping watch....
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lawhawk 4/18/08 5:26:16 am reply quote |
re: #132 opnion
The New Madrid faultline potentially affects a far greater number of people than a quake along the San Andreas - a much larger geographic area would be hit by a quake on the New Madrid fault than one on the CA faults.
It's quite possible that also takes into account that buildings in the New Madrid fault aren't quite as quake tolerant as they should be - again contributing to potential harm.
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lawhawk 4/18/08 5:27:20 am reply quote |
re: #152 3 wood
Well, Sarkozy blames global warming for the situation in Darfur...
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sparrowlake 4/18/08 5:27:41 am reply quote |
re: #134 BabbaZee
Good morning Babba.
Enjoy this sunny day.
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edinbud 4/18/08 5:28:36 am reply quote |
'Non-Muslim' father banned from London pool
"A father has described his anger after he and his son were refused entry to their local swimming pool because they weren't Muslims.
...
“I arrived at the pool to discover that they were holding what staff described to me as 'Muslim men-only swimming’,” he said."
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
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Pullus Iulius 4/18/08 5:28:58 am reply quote |
So much for the bail-bond system: Terror absconder hands himself in. From the piece: The guilty men were all members of an extreme Islamist group known as Al-Muhajiroun. It has since been banned. I'd suggest banning all organizations that start with "Al", except maybe AlAnon.
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:32:04 am reply quote |
re: #162 BabbaZee
Hey Babba, thought you might like this.
Here is the latest tune I'm working on, called Elk River Blues.
I learned it from appalachain musician Don Pedi of near Asheville, who actually learned it straight from the fiddle player of originated it, the late Ernie Carpenter.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:34:41 am reply quote |
re: #175 3 wood
I always love me some yidl mitn fidl
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 5:35:53 am reply quote |
"No, no this isn't a travesty! "
"What do you mean?"
" From now on, if any muslim complains about bias we can point to the day we threw the jewish guy off of a plane"
" Hmm, diversity. I like it."
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:37:38 am reply quote |
re: #177 Peacekeeper
"No, no this isn't a travesty! "
"What do you mean?"
" From now on, if any muslim complains about bias we can point to the day we threw the jewish guy off of a plane"
" Hmm, diversity. I like it."
I wonder if that was done purposefully on his part to make a point
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:38:13 am reply quote |
re: #178 rightside
Morning rightside, cliffs notes for those of us without Rush accounts?
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:39:10 am reply quote |
re: #164 exlnghrn
Just an FYI:
Posting phone #'s is verboten here
you can post a link to where the number is but don't post the # directly here
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rightside 4/18/08 5:39:20 am reply quote |
re: #180 doriangrey
My apologies...didn't realize that..let me find another link for y'all.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:39:27 am reply quote |
A deputy from the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) has submitted a proposal to Parliament to return May Day to its status as an official holiday in Turkey, not held since the military coup of 1980...................
Kafkas stressed that May 1 is an important date for the international workers’ movement. However, he said in Turkey, due to past conflicts that have arisen on May Day, it is seen by many as a day of conflict, sadness and blood. The deputy noted that rights are not brought to people on a platter anywhere in the world, adding that rights can only be obtained by persistence and joint struggle
[Link: www.todayszaman.com...]
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exlnghrn 4/18/08 5:40:22 am reply quote |
Oops, sorry, when I cut and pasted the story, the reporter's name and number was included.
re: #181 BabbaZee
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 5:40:59 am reply quote |
Papyrus becoming even more obsolete:
TOKYO - Bend it, write on it, read it — just don't try to fold it into a paper plane. Electronic paper is Japan's answer to rising raw material costs, depleted resources and booming demand for printed matter from emerging markets such as China and India.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:42:23 am reply quote |
re: #184 Endangered in MASS
Very very good, love it....
BTW
Have you seen No Direction Home?
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:42:27 am reply quote |
Iranian police will confront women in private offices, or even socialising in cafes, whose dress is deemed improper, as part of a continued morality crackdown, Tehran’s police chief said today. (Sapa-AFP via WUNRN)Police have been enforcing the crackdown for the past year and its morality patrol officers have handed tens of thousands of warnings to women on Tehran’s streets.
Including offices and cafes - which so far have not been targeted - would mark a major expansion of the drive.
“As part of the campaign to increase security in society, the police in the capital will soon act against bad veiling in private companies, cafes, internet cafes and restaurants,” Commander Ahmad Reza Radan said.“The police will deal strictly against those who do not respect the law,” he said, according to the Mehr news agency.
He added that police would also be acting against “satan-worshipping” groups but did not give further details.
The length and severity of the crackdown has been unprecedented in the Islamic republic in recent years. Vans of the moral police are still a common sight in Tehran’s main squares as officials monitor
[Link: www.wluml.org...]
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:43:20 am reply quote |
re: #185 exlnghrn
Oops, sorry, when I cut and pasted the story, the reporter's name and number was included.
Yea I figured as much. It'll probably get deleted so you might wanna repost without the # & e mail addy in a few minutes
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 5:43:27 am reply quote |
re: #188 BabbaZee
What is this No Direction Home that you speak of?
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exlnghrn 4/18/08 5:44:52 am reply quote |
Ok, reposted WITHOUT the reporter's info....
Man found in Lady Bird Lake was teacher, FBI target
Police said that victim, who taught at a Southwest Austin middle school, may have committed suicide.
By Tony Plohetski, Sue Banerjee
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Friday, April 18, 2008
Austin police said Thursday that they are leaning toward a ruling of suicide in the death of a middle school teacher and activist whose body was found Wednesday in Lady Bird Lake with his hands and legs bound and tape over his eyes.
Police identified Riad Hamad, 55, at a news conference Thursday and said the binding of his limbs and the placement of the tape was consistent with Hamad having done it himself.
Austin police homicide Sgt. Joe Chacon said family members told investigators that the Clint Small Jr. Middle School teacher had "several stressors" in his life and had talked about possibly killing himself. Police said that they think Hamad walked from his car to the lake, based on evidence they gathered at the scene.
"The car was found on the south shoreline with no signs of mysterious activity," Chacon said.
Police said that they found Hamad's car along Lady Bird Lake on Tuesday and searched but did not find him.
Joggers found Hamad's body about 2 p.m. Wednesday near Comal Street and Nash Hernandez Sr. Road. Investigators said they found no signs of trauma or a struggle.
Debbie Russell, president of the local American Civil Liberties Union chapter, sent an e-mail Thursday to dozens of activists throughout the city saying that Hamad's death had been ruled a homicide. Russell said in a later interview that she wrote that e-mail after she thought she had heard media reports that Hamad had been killed.
She said in the e-mail that Hamad had recently been under investigation by the FBI — federal officials confirmed the investigation — and described him as "NOT a terrorist but a peaceworker." Hamad was serving as an official for the Austin chapter of the Palestine Children's Welfare Fund.
FBI spokesman Erik Vasys said that Hamad had been a "person of interest" in a criminal investigation but that he could not elaborate.
Austin police said Hamad's family reported him missing Monday. Family members released a statement Thursday saying that he disappeared after going to pick up a prescription at a local pharmacy.
Hamad's body was taken to the Travis County medical examiner's office for an autopsy. The office did not respond to an open records request Thursday for information about the case and would not confirm that Hamad's body was there.
According to the family's statement, which was released through an attorney, Hamad was a University of Texas graduate and had taught in the Austin school district for a decade.
The family's statement described him as a "peace activist who worked tirelessly on behalf of those less fortunate than him and was loved and admired by many members of the local, as well as international community."
"Mr. Hamad's family and friends are obviously devastated over their loss," the statement said.
Hamad had taught at Austin Community College but was fired in June 1998 after officials said he violated the school's nondiscrimination policy by making "sexist and off-colored jokes" in class, school officials said.
Small Middle School Principal Sheila Anderson sent a letter to parents at the Southwest Austin school Thursday informing them of Hamad's death and saying that grief counselors were available for students and teachers.
"Mr. Hamad was a longtime and valued member of the Small Middle School faculty, and his love and passion for education touched us all," Anderson said in the letter.
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 5:46:21 am reply quote |
These are the only scientists in history who have consistently espoused an it-can't-be-done attitude. Politics has nothing to do with it of course, it's just that they know it's impossible.
“The program offers no prospect of defending the United States from a real-world missile attack and undermines efforts to eliminate the real nuclear threats to the United States,” Lisbeth Gronlund, a senior scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, told lawmakers at a House oversight hearing on the missile defense program, according to prepared testimony. Gronlund’s group has long expressed skepticism about missile defense.
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:47:09 am reply quote |
re: #187 rightside
Hmmm, that's a bit odd, god forbid however that doctors and nurses have a sense of humor...
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:47:09 am reply quote |
Armed with a fool's courage, we are playing the waiting game. If the AKP doesn't change its attitude, the red button will be pushed and the “destruct Turkey strategy” will take over.
[Link: www.turkishdailynews.com.tr...]
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:49:34 am reply quote |
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:49:46 am reply quote |
A man in an asylum center was attacked by his 23 year old neighbor for having alcohol in his fridge. The two men shared a kitchen in one of the immigration service's houses in Halmstad. One day when the victim came home from work, his neighbor broke into his room and attacked him with a knife. "You are not a proper Muslim. I will kill you," he threatened.The reason was that the man - also a Muslim - had some beer in the fridge. The man fled from the apartment, and when he came back he found his room vandalized and destroyed with detergent.
To the court the 23 year old declared that he wanted to clean away the evil from the room.
Good Muslims kill... [Link: islamineurope.blogspot.com...]
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storagemanager 4/18/08 5:51:09 am reply quote |
Afghanistan: Muslim so Full of Islam he Explodes Upon Entering Mosque....
Sadly killing 15.... [Link: www.weaselzippers.net...]
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eon 4/18/08 5:51:14 am reply quote |
re: #193 Peacekeeper
Isn't the Union of Concerned Scientists the group that's been reflexively hostile to everything from nuclear power to drilling in ANWR, as well?
And aren't they the ones who used to have the spokesman with the goatee who was constantly on TV railing against everything, claiming to be an expert on everything, but who could never adequately explain exactly what he had a Ph.D in?
cheers
eon
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 5:52:32 am reply quote |
re: #199 storagemanager
To the court the 23 year old declared that he wanted to clean away the evil from the room.
What do you use on evil? It leaves some tough stains.
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 5:54:01 am reply quote |
re: #203 BabbaZee
Homer mode-on, "Mmmmmmmmm! Omelet..........."
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opnion 4/18/08 5:54:45 am reply quote |
Barry Obama Is whining & whining. He & his campaign do not like the way that he was questioned in the debate. Wuss!
He in the past has described himself as, you ready, "A hardened street fighter of rough & tumble Chicago politics"Honest to God!
Street fighter ? Puuuleze .he was a gofer for Jessee Jackson & then Emile Jones in the Illiinois Senate.
Yo Barry , your parents did not meet at the Selma march& trust me if you locked me in a room for a week to try to describe you, I would not think of "street fighter"
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:55:30 am reply quote |
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lawhawk 4/18/08 5:56:24 am reply quote |
Once again, Hizbullah is busy trying to undermine the Lebanese government. They think they're above the law - and with their large number of terror minions - they have managed to carve out no-go areas. That would include South Beirut (to say nothing of South Lebanon) - despite the UN resolutions calling for their disarmament.
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eon 4/18/08 5:56:34 am reply quote |
re: #207 opnion
Agreed.
Now, "narcissistic immature god-wannabee" has a nice ring to it, in his case.
cheers
eon
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3 wood 4/18/08 5:56:48 am reply quote |
re: #176 BabbaZee
I like it.
Don't understand a word of it (much like listening to my teeanger talk), but I like it.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 5:57:11 am reply quote |
re: #202 eon
And aren't they the ones who used to have the spokesman with the goatee who was constantly on TV railing against everything, claiming to be an expert on everything, but who could never adequately explain exactly what he had a Ph.D in?
For some, it really does stand for Piled Higher and Deeper...
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:57:35 am reply quote |
re: #211 BabbaZee
ROTFLMAO.............Wrong Homer..... DOH..........
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 5:57:44 am reply quote |
re: #207 opnion
I hate to say it, and I'm not proud of it, but Barry was the little kid at school I used to take lunch money from. Still is.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:57:45 am reply quote |
re: #210 lawhawk
despite the UN resolutions calling for their disarmament
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
ahh ya killin' me !
Beware the strongly worded letter
followed immediately by the comfy chair!
wink wink
nudge
nudge
say no more
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realwest 4/18/08 5:57:48 am reply quote |
Good Morning y'all - from a pleasant (54 degrees, going up to 82 degrees), bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone this fine morning?
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 5:57:54 am reply quote |
re: #215 doriangrey
ROTFLMAO.............Wrong Homer..... DOH..........
;~}
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 5:57:55 am reply quote |
re: #202 eon
Yeah. Imagine these guys if they had been around longer:
" that so called aeroplane cannot fly, this research can only destablize the battleship owning nations"
"a vaccine for Polio? Rubbish! What would happen to our crutch industry?"
" Manhattan Project? What will Hitler say when he hears about it?"
"Jet engine? nice gadget but you can't build a plane without propellers."
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opnion 4/18/08 5:58:15 am reply quote |
re: #212 eon
Agreed.
Now, "narcissistic immature god-wannabee" has a nice ring to it, in his case.
cheers
eon
"god-wannabee",That my friend is beautiful word smithing.
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doriangrey 4/18/08 5:58:41 am reply quote |
re: #218 realwest
Good Morning y'all - from a pleasant (54 degrees, going up to 82 degrees), bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone this fine morning?
Morning realwest.......Hope you are feeling well this morning.......
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maddogg 4/18/08 5:58:57 am reply quote |
The left pimping of the Global Warming hoax never ceases. This month Time Magazine Takes its share of the pimp pie, and trivializes Iwo Jima in the bargain. This is why I haven't opened a copy of Time since I was in high school, and that was a while ago....
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 5:59:46 am reply quote |
re: #224 maddogg
I saw that. Despicable, just despicable
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realwest 4/18/08 6:00:09 am reply quote |
re: #222 doriangrey Good morning dorain! Yeah, I'm feeling ok today, hows about yourself?
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opnion 4/18/08 6:00:17 am reply quote |
re: #216 BulgarWheat
I hate to say it, and I'm not proud of it, but Barry was the little kid at school I used to take lunch money from. Still is.
And that could actually be part of the problem with him.
He always sounds silly when he plays the macho card.
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eon 4/18/08 6:00:41 am reply quote |
re: #214 christheprofessor
For some, it really does stand for Piled Higher and Deeper...
I had a few like that in college.
My favorite was the Stochastic Logic prof (a replacement after the department head had to bow out due to major surgery), who said that "Logic has no application to reality".
My response was, "I'm sure that will come as a hellish surprise to Aristotle."
He didn't get it.
cheers
eon
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doriangrey 4/18/08 6:00:54 am reply quote |
Well off to the salt mine with this Lizard for one more day this week........Got to call the insurance adjuster today, seems they are finally starting to get ready to fix my poor vette.......After only seven months.....
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:00:57 am reply quote |
re: #229 opnion
kinda like Michael Jackson with his song "Bad"
used to laugh my ass off at that one!
still do.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 6:01:01 am reply quote |
I guess Iran is next...maybe they will keep him...........
.After meeting with leaders of the anti-Semitic Hamas terrorist organization in Cairo Jimmy Carter traveled to Syria today to meet with the leader of Hamas.
The AP reported:
Jimmy Carter has arrived in Syria where he is due to meet the political leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas group.The former U.S. president's visit comes a day after he met several Hamas leaders in Egypt and said he had asked them to stop rocket attacks into Israel.
Carter also is scheduled to meet Friday with Syrian President Bashar Assad before holding talks with Hamas' exiled political chief Khaled Mashaal. He also plans to meet with Syrian businessmen.
[Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]
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realwest 4/18/08 6:01:21 am reply quote |
re: #223 BulgarWheat
Hey howdy pardner! How are you and the mini-wheats doing this fine day? Is it as purty up by you as it is down here?
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lawhawk 4/18/08 6:01:34 am reply quote |
re: #208 BabbaZee
That's not the worst of Jimmy's latest offenses. His very meeting with Hamas is. It's an affront to everyone who has suffered at the hands of Hamas terrorists, including many Americans. Carter is an affront to anyone who knows that Hamas is a group that needs to be put down like a rabid dog, not negotiated with.
They are not a group that will make concessions or negotiate in good faith. Carter is a useful idiot for Hamas, especially when he opens his yapper and starts spouting Palestinian propaganda.
There's also Carter's comments about Israel killing 30-40 Palestinians for every Israeli killed - as though it's a disproportionate response. Sorry, but in war, there's no such thing as disproportionate force. You use the force needed to bring victory - and even there, Israel has pulled its punches.
There isn't a problem with obtaining food in Gaza - and whatever issues there are can be solved by Hamas taking less of its customary cut of whatever comes into Gaza. In fact, Gaza's woes can be solved by getting rid of Hamas altogether, but all too many Gazans support what Hamas is doing.
More here.
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rightside 4/18/08 6:02:13 am reply quote |
re: #218 realwest
Morning real! Doing great for Friday. You?
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:02:25 am reply quote |
re: #235 realwest
real, it's flat-out gaaaaaaageous here in Raleigh.
the mini-wheats are all doing fine.
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doriangrey 4/18/08 6:03:04 am reply quote |
re: #228 realwest
Good morning dorain! Yeah, I'm feeling ok today, hows about yourself?
Actually feeling optimistic today, the insurance company finally wants to send an adjuster out to estimate what it's going to cost to fix my Corvette. It's only taken them seven months to get this far, hell they might even get around to fixing it by next year...
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opnion 4/18/08 6:03:07 am reply quote |
re: #232 BulgarWheat
kinda like Michael Jackson with his song "Bad"
used to laugh my ass off at that one!
still do.
Yeah & that song "Billie Jean" ,hell I knew he didn't do her.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:03:22 am reply quote |
re: #225 Miss Trixie
ah, good morning gorgeous *smooch* - I hope you're well today and have plenty of sinshine up there in the frozen north! LOL!
You and Lil Miss ready to go out and terrorize the 'hood?!
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:03:58 am reply quote |
re: #194 BabbaZee
It's coming back to me....
There is a place in music history for those that booed Electric Bob. Next door ,in world history, is Neville Chamberlain,Margaret Sanger,and Al Gore.
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Miss Trixie 4/18/08 6:04:32 am reply quote |
Babba - breaking a few eggs? Try these ones.
{realwest} *smooooooch* Good morning, luv. If I was any finer I'd be twins! How about your very own self? Your mom ok?
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:04:37 am reply quote |
Babba
there is only one Homer and Matt Groening is his prophet.
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:05:37 am reply quote |
re: #224 maddogg
hoax never ceases Speaking of hoaxes, John McCain has mentioned his vice president running mate might be Mitt Romney. His campaign mentions it might be Mitt Romney.
Then all of a sudden a 16 year old unidentified girl at a polygamist ranch calls Texas authorities and says she is being abuse by a man that lives in Colorado city who says he has never been to the ranch.. Hmmmmm.
With all this bad religion news running the fiber optic wires how could John McCain pick Romney for a running mate?
democrat jihad.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:06:18 am reply quote |
re: #230 eon
I was fortunate in that I had very few moonbat profs in college. That said, I've worked with a moonbuttload of 'em since then...
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realwest 4/18/08 6:06:29 am reply quote |
re: #227 3 wood Glad to hear my friend; Mom is doing ok today, thanks kindly for asking!
Hey are you and yours ok? Fox just announce an earthquake somewhere near Louisville. Ky., and said it was felt all around Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana!?
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:06:53 am reply quote |
re: #247 Peacekeeper
PK, you just picked up the first Fatwa of the day.
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opnion 4/18/08 6:07:29 am reply quote |
re: #247 Peacekeeper
Babba
there is only one Homer and Matt Groening is his prophet.
I don't know, Homer is just hard to describe.Ya know he gives me hope & ya know he wants change. And most of all, he makes my leg tingle. Doh!
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realwest 4/18/08 6:08:07 am reply quote |
re: #232 BulgarWheat Yeah, but ya know that was a helluva song to dance to - and Billie Jean!
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eon 4/18/08 6:09:05 am reply quote |
re: #220 Peacekeeper
Yeah. Imagine these guys if they had been around longer:
" that so called aeroplane cannot fly, this research can only destablize the battleship owning nations"
"a vaccine for Polio? Rubbish! What would happen to our crutch industry?"
" Manhattan Project? What will Hitler say when he hears about it?"
"Jet engine? nice gadget but you can't build a plane without propellers."
In the manuscript of Modern Arms and Free Men (1949) , Vannevar Bush predicted that it would be at least twenty years before the USSR had an atom bomb.
The "Joe One" blast went off while the book was in galleys. To say that it was revised hastily would be an understatement.
And of course, there was the New York Times editorial commenting that an advocate of putting an unmanned rocket probe on the Moon was an idiot because "everyone knows" that rockets can't work in space because they require air to "push against". They went on to say that, "the author of this pamphlet seems to lack the knowledge ladled out every day in our public schools."
The year was 1927. The author in question, of a Smithsonian pamphlet titled A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes, was Dr. Robert H. Goddard.
By the way, the Grey Lady did print a retraction. On 21 July, 1969, the day Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon.
cheers
eon
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realwest 4/18/08 6:10:06 am reply quote |
re: #238 rightside Same here rightside. I am, however, hoping that WLGF will play "BillieJean" by MJ although that is not a hint! lol!
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:10:39 am reply quote |
re: #236 lawhawk
Amen.
I do not say much on this subject because my thoughts are not postable here
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maddogg 4/18/08 6:10:46 am reply quote |
re: #248 ibmkeyboard
That group in Texas had long been disowned by the Official Mormon Church, I believe. I don't think Mitt will suffer for it. They were a cult more than any religious group. Did you notice how all the women wear the same dress? Made me think of the burqa.
So, the question is: Does a cult resemble Islam, or is Islam a cult?
/rhetorical question, we already know the answer.
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hayseed 4/18/08 6:10:56 am reply quote |
re: #250 realwest
now i know why my insurance co. dropped my earthquake policy 2 years ago..hmmmmmm
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Widow'smight 4/18/08 6:12:47 am reply quote |
re: #258 realwest
Here's a story to get your blood working early Real, Time is going the Bimbo Limbo here I guess.
[Link: www.businessandmedia.org...]
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realwest 4/18/08 6:13:06 am reply quote |
re: #254 BabbaZee Hey {Babba} love Weird Al! Not as much as "BillieJean"" by MJ, but still pretty damn good! LOL!
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:13:46 am reply quote |
re: #244 Endangered in MASS
He was no ones political musical spiritual literary or any other wise lap dog
and they hated him for it
he belonged to no ~ isms political or religious
he belongs to GOD
I love him in the same sort of way that I love Blake
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storagemanager 4/18/08 6:13:50 am reply quote |
"The philosophy of the Islamic political system's existences, briefly speaking, is that the world Muslims must be the strongest nation in the world, to an extent that no power would be able of defeating them."
He added, "All the same, such a great power is not permitted to oppress any other nation the slightest bit."
Jannati said, "In not too remote a future, we need to achieve a status that our armed forces would be more competent than the entire armies in the world and their military equipment would be the strongest possible, so that no one would even dream of violating the territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic."
He emphasized, "We need to be able to safeguard not only the territory of the Islamic Republic, but also the rights of the entire oppressed Muslims throughout the world, and to let the world Muslims know they have a strong supporter behind them."
[Link: www2.irna.com...]
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:14:29 am reply quote |
re: #248 ibmkeyboard
Amazing, I was just thinking the same thing.
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:15:05 am reply quote |
re: #237 realwest
Morning. Thoughts on the Sox vs. Yanks? Mike Mussina needs to develop a career ending injury to spare himself further embarrassment. He's had too good a career.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:15:42 am reply quote |
re: #256 christheprofessor Hello CtP! Yep, looks like another beautiful day in the neigborhood of North Carolina, alright!
Hey, if you go for a stroll with Lightning, please take your video camera, that's one truly photogenic
dog!
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3 wood 4/18/08 6:16:10 am reply quote |
re: #250 realwest
Hey are you and yours ok? Fox just announce an earthquake somewhere near Louisville. Ky., and said it was felt all around Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Indiana!?
We are fine, slept right through it. Thanks for asking.
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eon 4/18/08 6:16:25 am reply quote |
re: #260 maddogg
That group in Texas had long been disowned by the Official Mormon Church, I believe. I don't think Mitt will suffer for it. They were a cult more than any religious group. Did you notice how all the women wear the same dress? Made me think of the burqa.
So, the question is: Does a cult resemble Islam, or is Islam a cult?
/rhetorical question, we already know the answer.
I define a cult as "Any 'religious' group that demands that you do things that are stupid, self-destructive, dangerous, or anti-social on the grounds that it is 'the will of the godhead'."
Heaven's Gate, Jonestown, and this bunch all fit that definition.
I'm sure that going splodeydope also qualifies as well.
Not to mention seething, raging, rioting, burning, looting, killing, etc., etc., so on and so forth.
cheers
eon
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:16:29 am reply quote |
re: #260 maddogg
That group in Texas had long been disowned by the Official Mormon Church, I believe. I don't think Mitt will suffer for it. They were a cult more than any religious group. Did you notice how all the women wear the same dress? Made me think of the burqa.
So, the question is: Does a cult resemble Islam, or is Islam a cult?
At least some of the hair looks good... Sorry?
But everyday it is the fumblist CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in the news.
Or MORMON rejects.
I think the media is trying to warn McCain.
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DistantThunder 4/18/08 6:16:30 am reply quote |
High oil demand in China is driving up the price - so I am making a new pledge: No more Chinese cr@p. No doodads, no thingies, no whatchamacallits.
Also - word from a blogger that there is no food on the shelves in Argentina where he lives. People are breaking into homes for food - .....
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:17:24 am reply quote |
re: #265 realwest
Hey {Babba} love Weird Al! Not as much as "BillieJean"" by MJ, but still pretty damn good! LOL!
You, the man who bitched when I spun the Bee Gees once,
want me to spin that friggin' song?
Ya crackin' me up!
/I hate that song.
Sorry {real}
you'll have to post it yourself if you want it
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DistantThunder 4/18/08 6:17:30 am reply quote |
re: #273 ibmkeyboard
At least some of the hair looks good... Sorry?
But everyday it is the fumblist CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in the news.
Or MORMON rejects.I think the media is trying to warn McCain.
Fundamentalist Church
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:17:37 am reply quote |
re: #266 BabbaZee
Nice turn of a phrase. One ding up.
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:19:04 am reply quote |
re: #260 maddogg
That group in Texas had long been disowned by the Official Mormon Church, I believe. I don't think Mitt will suffer for it. They were a cult more than any religious group.
Now read this from MSNBC that is up today:
At issue was an attempt by the state of Texas to strip the parents of custody and place the children in foster homes because of evidence they were being physically and sexually abused by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon splinter group suspected of forcing underage girls into marriage with older men.
Obfuscation is an art.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:19:36 am reply quote |
re: #261 hayseed Morning hayseed! Are you and yours ok? Didn't get much news from Fox (they were too busy videotapping the Pope's plane taxi from the pad to the runway and playing Bush's address to the Amercian Catholic League (I think that's the right name).
For that matter, has mama winger checked in, Geepers, 1stSGT(Ret), BenZ and a whole HOST of lizards in the affected states?
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:20:27 am reply quote |
re: #268 Peacekeeper
Amazing, I was just thinking the same thing.
GREAT MINDS....uh.
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:21:04 am reply quote |
re: #256 christheprofessor
that's a nice puppy. the new neighbors have a 2 year old golden retriever. My 8 year old son has absolutely fallen in love with that dog.
a boy and his dog, it's a magical thing.
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DistantThunder 4/18/08 6:21:11 am reply quote |
re: #276 DistantThunder
Fundamentalist Church
They stole the name, and made up their own rules - if anyone in the Main LDS church is even found to have sympathy with them - those sympathizers are excommunicated. It's a zero tolerance policy for anyone sympathizing with polygamists. It's a policy that Islam should adopt if they were serious about extremists.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:21:28 am reply quote |
re: #278 Peacekeeper
Obfuscation is an art.
The Language of Deception
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:22:02 am reply quote |
re: #276 DistantThunder
Fundamentalist Church
fumblists. duh.
ha.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:22:07 am reply quote |
re: #270 realwest
Will do. Actually, the vids I sent were taken with my cell-phone. I'm in the market for a nice digital camera with vid capability, though...
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3 wood 4/18/08 6:22:32 am reply quote |
re: #269 Endangered in MASS
Morning. Thoughts on the Sox vs. Yanks? Mike Mussina needs to develop a career ending injury to spare himself further embarrassment. He's had too good a career.
He does not have it anymore.
By the way, I saw osme of C.C. Sabathia of Cleveland pitching last night. for any Cleveland Idianas fans out there, it's going to be a loooooong year with Sabathia. C.C. has what we Chicagoans call "Luol Deng" disease.
Deng is the Chicago Bulls basketball player who was supposed to be the cornerstone of the team this year. Well, Deng was in a contract renegotiation year, and instead of hustling all year to get a good contract, he came out pissed off that the management was not just throwing money at him, so he dogged it all year and screwed the team up but good. Helped get 2 coaches fired.
Same thing with Sabathia. He's okay, I see no signs of injury. He just does not give a dang and is just half-assing it out there.
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:22:50 am reply quote |
re: #276 DistantThunder
The editor says make sure you put MORMONS and CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in every article. That is what will fixate in the subconcious, not sect or splinter or renegade.
Professional agit prop. there are no coincidences in media or politics.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:23:00 am reply quote |
re: #264 Widow'smight Ah it would have, but I saw it yesterday in the news and all I can say if FUCK TIME MAGAZINE!
And green ain't EVER gonna replace the Red, White and Blue!
Hey, how are you doing this fine morning?
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DistantThunder 4/18/08 6:23:24 am reply quote |
re: #248 ibmkeyboard
hoax never ceases Speaking of hoaxes, John McCain has mentioned his vice president running mate might be Mitt Romney. His campaign mentions it might be Mitt Romney.
Then all of a sudden a 16 year old unidentified girl at a polygamist ranch calls Texas authorities and says she is being abuse by a man that lives in Colorado city who says he has never been to the ranch.. Hmmmmm.With all this bad religion news running the fiber optic wires how could John McCain pick Romney for a running mate?
democrat jihad.
Can't find the girl - and it's the "wrong guy" named in the suit. Why aren't they tracing the phone records? I smell a Democrat skunk.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:24:10 am reply quote |
re: #282 BulgarWheat
Thanks. She's a sweetheart.
My neighbors have a 10 month old GR that is 93 lbs already. It's actually lighter in color than a yellow lab or Lightning. Problem is, it has no discipline whatsoever -- almost knocked me over yesterday when it jumped up on me.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:24:30 am reply quote |
re: #281 Endangered in MASS
I wore this single out when I was a kid
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maddogg 4/18/08 6:24:34 am reply quote |
re: #273 ibmkeyboard
I think the media is trying to warn McCain.
Do you really think that? I mean, given the media's track record with conservatives......oops......McCain isn't a conservative....mebbe your right.
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sjm_888 4/18/08 6:24:53 am reply quote |
re: #45 kdogg73
Woke my wife and I up in Dayton, Ohio. But we sleep on the second floor of an 1880s balloon-frame house, so I'm sure that amplified it. Never experienced a quake before.
I'm here in Dayton area also, but I didn't feel it while sleeping but the dog did. She peed in the house for the first time in years. Poor thing.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:25:03 am reply quote |
re: #273 ibmkeyboard
Hey, good morning to you! How are y'all doing today?
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:25:47 am reply quote |
Good Morning Lizard Nation!
What's the good word on this beautiful day?
My stepfather is doing much better. Moving back out of ICU this morning. Infection location was determined and he is responding well to antibiotics. Thanks again for all of your kind words and prayers.
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OldLineTexan 4/18/08 6:25:59 am reply quote |
re: #288 Peacekeeper
The editor says make sure you put MORMONS and CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in every article. That is what will fixate in the subconcious, not sect or splinter or renegade.
Professional agit prop. there are no coincidences in media or politics.
They are failing with the local news in Houston and Fox, then, because all have assiduously avoided either label, substituting the "c" word (cult) that is usually employed right before the FBI and ATF burn the place down.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:26:27 am reply quote |
re: #288 Peacekeeper
The editor says make sure you put MORMONS and CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in every article. That is what will fixate in the subconcious, not sect or splinter or renegade.
Professional agit prop. there are no coincidences in media or politics.
But never mention Islam
[REDACTED]
A man of indeterminate ethnic origin and unknown religious beliefs beheaded a third grade teacher today in Nameyourstan
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DistantThunder 4/18/08 6:26:49 am reply quote |
re: #278 Peacekeeper
Obfuscation is an art.
If I set up my own convent and ran sex orgies out of it - would the media refer to it as a renegade catholic splinter group?
Maybe we can start a group that is pro-life, pro-gun, low tax, small government - and call it a renegade democrat splinter group.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:27:14 am reply quote |
re: #297 loppyd
Great news, glad it's going well...
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realwest 4/18/08 6:27:15 am reply quote |
re: #275 BabbaZee Well thank you so very much!
Let's see ya play Dylan's "License to Kill" (I'd settle for Tom Petty's version). But the Bee Gees? GACK!
Next thing you know you'll start one of those Bosox fans calling for "Massachusetts" or something!
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:27:15 am reply quote |
re: #278 Peacekeeper
Obfuscation is an art.
and i have to vote the Clintons as great artists.
Even got me looking at their daughter dressed in tight ass jeans..
Sorry!
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hayseed 4/18/08 6:27:49 am reply quote |
re: #279 realwest
I'm in SW Ohio...some folks say they felt it,not me
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OldLineTexan 4/18/08 6:28:01 am reply quote |
re: #300 DistantThunder
If I set up my own convent and ran sex orgies out of it - would the media refer to it as a renegade catholic splinter group?
Maybe we can start a group that is pro-life, pro-gun, low tax, small government - and call it a renegade democrat splinter group.
It will be labelled a "militia" and soon become 90% Federal plants.
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opnion 4/18/08 6:28:46 am reply quote |
re: #245 BulgarWheat
well, maybe he, um, you know, watched or something.
GACK!
Oh man,what a thought. Did his nose fall off yet?
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:29:30 am reply quote |
re: #302 realwest
Sorry the WLGF request line is busy.
Please hold.....
This is Radio Dictatorship!
BWAHAHAHAHA
/
{Real}
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:29:39 am reply quote |
re: #301 christheprofessor
Great news, glad it's going well...
Thanks {CTP}!
How's the pup?
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:30:07 am reply quote |
re: #298 OldLineTexan
They are failing with the local news in Houston and Fox, then, because all have assiduously avoided either label, substituting the "c" word (cult) that is usually employed right before the FBI and ATF burn the place down.
noticed that also.
Like they were hoping the FBI would kill 200 children attacking the compound.
News for a year!
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:30:13 am reply quote |
re: #292 christheprofessor
For Easter, my son bought one of those enormous bones at the grocery store. About 2.5 ft. long.
The dog loves it and proudly carries it around the yard.
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opnion 4/18/08 6:30:19 am reply quote |
re: #297 loppyd
Good Morning Lizard Nation!
What's the good word on this beautiful day?
My stepfather is doing much better. Moving back out of ICU this morning. Infection location was determined and he is responding well to antibiotics. Thanks again for all of your kind words and prayers.
Thats great. Looks like we are both Sox fans, just different colors.
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maddogg 4/18/08 6:30:53 am reply quote |
re: #278 Peacekeeper
For some reason the quote button will not work for me.
They did qualify the group as renegade. I think that is fair. And I don't see how it reflects on Mitt in any direct way. Anybody can call themselves Mormon, but if the official church won't recognize that, it just ain't so.
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:31:02 am reply quote |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Today and for the next several weeks we will be reporting on the story of a Mormon splinter group in Texas. As you know any religious group is a dangerous, reactionary threat to new socialist man. therefore we will be sure to insert prominently the words MORMON and CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in every article and caption.
This is much like our campaigns on Catholicism where Priest Sex abuse must be mentioned in every article, as well as their failure to ordain women and homosexuals. Catholics and the Pope only get a pass when they speak against the war or the death penalty, but if a homosexual was being executed I would expect you to mention that normally the Catholic Church condemns it.
Anyone who still has questions should refer to the Isreali template, the very model of thought directing and suggestive emotive language.
good Day.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:31:05 am reply quote |
re: #297 loppyd Hey {loppyd} that's some GREAT NEWS! I'm so glad to hear it!
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:33:09 am reply quote |
re: #264 Widow'smight
Here's a story to get your blood working early Real, Time is going the Bimbo Limbo here I guess.
[Link: www.businessandmedia.org...]
I'd like to buy one of those rags, just so I could burn it, and add a little CO2 to the atmosphere.
Fuck those weasels at TIME, trivializing the sacrifice of the brave Marines on Iwo Jima.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:33:09 am reply quote |
re: #310 {loppyd}
The pup's great, thanks. Chewing a rawhide on the couch beside me as I type this...
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:33:16 am reply quote |
re: #302 {realwest}
Well thank you so very much!
Let's see ya play Dylan's "License to Kill" (I'd settle for Tom Petty's version). But the Bee Gees? GACK!
Next thing you know you'll start one of those Bosox fans calling for "Massachusetts" or something!
MMMMMMWAAAAAAAH!
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VegasRick 4/18/08 6:33:18 am reply quote |
re: #318 Peacekeeper
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Today and for the next several weeks we will be reporting on the story of a Mormon splinter group in Texas. As you know any religious group is a dangerous, reactionary threat to new socialist man. therefore we will be sure to insert prominently the words MORMON and CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS in every article and caption.
This is much like our campaigns on Catholicism where Priest Sex abuse must be mentioned in every article, as well as their failure to ordain women and homosexuals. Catholics and the Pope only get a pass when they speak against the war or the death penalty, but if a homosexual was being executed I would expect you to mention that normally the Catholic Church condemns it.
Anyone who still has questions should refer to the Isreali template, the very model of thought directing and suggestive emotive language.
good Day.
Turn to page 97z for updates on Islam. Morning all!
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:33:30 am reply quote |
re: #320 Peacekeeper
Precisely Babba. You get a cookie!
From the Pope?
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:33:45 am reply quote |
re: #317 maddogg
Maddog is resisting treatment. What do we say to him?
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:34:08 am reply quote |
re: #293 BabbaZee
Pre disco they were very good with thoughtful lyrics and tight harmonies.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:34:17 am reply quote |
re: #304 hayseed I'm glad to hear that - I don't even know how "big" the earthquake was, but they show'd a map of the mid-west and the circles seemed to cover Illinois, Wis.,
Ohio, Ky, Indiana and even part of Iowa!
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:34:18 am reply quote |
re: #317 maddogg
They did qualify the group as renegade. I think that is fair. And I don't see how it reflects on Mitt in any direct way. Anybody can call themselves Mormon, but if the official church won't recognize that, it just ain't so.
I know that and you know that,
but there are 40 million sheep in this country that don't.
Baaaaaa.
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:34:44 am reply quote |
re: #314 opnion
Thats great. Looks like we are both Sox fans, just different colors.
I bet you look great in black. :~)
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realwest 4/18/08 6:35:13 am reply quote |
re: #305 OldLineTexan
Well, long as them Fed plants pony up thier dues...!
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:35:14 am reply quote |
re: #313 BulgarWheat
Heh, Lightning's got a relatively large one, as you could see in my avatar. My guess is that if she had a bone like you describe, it would live outside and would be gone in no time (between the huge Golden that lives next door and the even bigger Black Lab that lives next to it)...
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:35:53 am reply quote |
re: #308 loppyd
{Babba}
The first 45 I ever owned was probably one of the Monkees'. I still have 20 or so, including Hair by The Cowsills, and D.O.A. by Bloodrock (a special extended edition that was played on KLIF, The Mighty 1190, here in Dallas.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:36:09 am reply quote |
re: #327 Endangered in MASS
Very distinctive and unique.
Excellent songwriters too
Basically the Australian Beach Boys.
Even their disco stuff is better than most of what was contemporary to it.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:36:20 am reply quote |
re: #306 Ward Cleaver
Good morning Ward! Hope all is well with you and all the members of the Cleaver household!
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:36:29 am reply quote |
Fuck those weasels at TIME, trivializing the sacrifice of the brave Marines on Iwo Jima.
a good MARINE fucking.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:36:44 am reply quote |
re: #334 loppyd
That is so much cooler than mine. LOL
I got a first class education in musical cool
and for that I am grateful
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:37:31 am reply quote |
re: #339 realwest
Good morning Ward! Hope all is well with you and all the members of the Cleaver household!
Yes, everything good here. Got about an inch of rain last night as the storms rolled through.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:37:46 am reply quote |
re: #335 Ward Cleaver
Hair is on the gold and blue MGM label with the stylized lion in the upper left......right?
I can still see all my singles in my head
may they rest in peace
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eon 4/18/08 6:38:06 am reply quote |
re: #274 DistantThunder
High oil demand in China is driving up the price - so I am making a new pledge: No more Chinese cr@p. No doodads, no thingies, no whatchamacallits.
Also - word from a blogger that there is no food on the shelves in Argentina where he lives. People are breaking into homes for food - .....
China- would love to flood the US with cheap consumer goods (electronics, etc.) because they need the money, as well as to undercut their two biggest (and longer-established in the markets) regional competitors, Japan and South Korea. The cheap dollar is putting them between a rock and a hard place, as the yuan's value relative to it is making US goods cheaper there, and Chinese goods more expensive here.
The situation is not helped by the fact that in 2005, the U.S. government banned the Chinese Norinco combine from selling their goods in the U.S. over the product piracy issue. While considered mainly an arms maker, Norinco is actually more like Mitsubishi plus Sony- they market a lot of things in different categories through their subsidiaries, and all of it is now banned from our markets.
Argentina- Is going through the inevitable consequences of two and a half decades of socialist/Communist rule after the Falklands War. The "progressive" types who have run the country since 1983 have about as much idea of how an agrarian country is managed as Mugabe in Zimbabwe does, and the results have been roughly the same.
Argentina, which prior to 1990 was a net exporter of farm products, is now a major importer of same, and has essentially run out of money to pay for any of it in spite of taxes that make New York's look like Nevada's. As one commentator down there put it, "Farmers can't do their jobs when you make them spend all day in 'Political Awareness' indoctrination classes".
The socialists have tried to run Argentina about like Mao tried to run China- and are finding out the hard way that it works even worse with a smaller population and economic base.
I look for an abrupt change in management in Argentina in the next couple of years. Unless, of course, the Caudillos take a page from their predecessors' book, and look for somebody to invade.
This could explain why they are making belligerent noises toward Chile'. And why the Chilean' Army is buying surplus Leopard 1 tanks from NATO countries as fast as they can be refurbished by Thyssen-Henschel in Germany.
cheers
eon
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:38:10 am reply quote |
re: #322 christheprofessor
Happy to hear it....
Everything has been so screwed up our puppy plans had to be put on hold temporarily...
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realwest 4/18/08 6:38:20 am reply quote |
re: #309 BabbaZee This be Pirate WLGF playing some GOOD tunes for y'all
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:38:26 am reply quote |
re: #315 BabbaZee
The cape and top hat got a lot of mileage on it.
I love that song.
I loved '50's doo wop when I was 12.My favorite ..
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opnion 4/18/08 6:39:03 am reply quote |
re: #330 loppyd
I bet you look great in black. :~)
We want to party like it's 2005!
I have been to Fenway, real Americana.
Best ballpark food form the street vendors outside.
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OldLineTexan 4/18/08 6:39:15 am reply quote |
re: #332 realwest
Well, long as them Fed plants pony up thier dues...!
I think it was the "Rattlesnake" militia (going on poor memory) a few years ago where the vast majority of the group were "undercover" LEOs of one stripe or another.
Probably a good way to keep them off the streets and lower the local crime right. Like a midnight basketball program, except only for government officials.
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:39:33 am reply quote |
re: #297 loppyd
Good Morning Lizard Nation!
What's the good word on this beautiful day?
My stepfather is doing much better. Moving back out of ICU this morning. Infection location was determined and he is responding well to antibiotics. Thanks again for all of your kind words and prayers.
Great news, Lopps. Woo-hoo!
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:40:04 am reply quote |
re: #346 loppyd
Happy to hear it....
Everything has been so screwed up our puppy plans had to be put on hold temporarily...
Hate to hear that! There's a puppy out there that needs a good home. Get on it! ;)
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:40:09 am reply quote |
re: #335 Ward Cleaver
The first 45 I ever owned was probably one of the Monkees'. I still have 20 or so, including Hair by The Cowsills, and D.O.A. by Bloodrock (a special extended edition that was played on KLIF, The Mighty 1190, here in Dallas.
Did you know that Michael Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper (AKA Whiteout)?
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opnion 4/18/08 6:40:22 am reply quote |
re: #340 ibmkeyboard
Fuck those weasels at TIME, trivializing the sacrifice of the brave Marines on Iwo Jima.
a good MARINE fucking.
What did they say about the Marines at Iwo Jima?
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:40:56 am reply quote |
re: #349 opnion
We want to party like it's 2005!
I have been to Fenway, real Americana.
Best ballpark food form the street vendors outside.
I lovingly refer to it as Street Meat.....
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redstateredneck 4/18/08 6:41:44 am reply quote |
re: #313 BulgarWheat
For Easter, my son bought one of those enormous bones at the grocery store. About 2.5 ft. long.
The dog loves it and proudly carries it around the yard.
Sadie Mae had one of those. Liked to drove her crazy burying it and then digging it up.
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:41:49 am reply quote |
re: #344 BabbaZee
Hair is on the gold and blue MGM label with the stylized lion in the upper left......right?
I can still see all my singles in my head
may they rest in peace
Yup, and I still have it. I also have Crystal Blue Persuasion by Tommy James & The Shondells.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:42:04 am reply quote |
re: #323 loppyd Well I ain't gonna spoil what's an otherwise great day for you - besides I don't have any song of the NEW YORK GIANTS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SUPER BOWL TEAM!
lol!
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:42:46 am reply quote |
re: #354 loppyd
Did you know that Michael Nesmith's mother invented Liquid Paper (AKA Whiteout)?
Yes, her name was Graham. She lived here in Dallas.
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beblebrox 4/18/08 6:42:53 am reply quote |
re: #286 christheprofessor
if you are in the market for a good digital camera take a look at the Samsung NV20. I really like mine. it's 12.1 Mega Pixel, with 6 hours of 30 frame per second video recording capacity. the controls are a bit weird to get used to at first, but once you do, you'll never like a different layout. they are kind of set up like a fighter jet control system with multiple buttons on 2 sides of the rear LCD.
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:43:13 am reply quote |
re: #323 loppyd
This wasn't too bad....
I hope you don't think less of me... But I did indeed post a link to Mass by the Bee Gees upthread..
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:43:26 am reply quote |
re: #358 Ward Cleaver
I lost all my vinyl in a fire in 1988
it was a friggin' tragedy
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opnion 4/18/08 6:43:39 am reply quote |
re: #356 loppyd
I lovingly refer to it as Street Meat.....
As I recall it beats ball park food.I believe that I had an Italian Beef sandwich. That is a Chicago specialty, so maybe it was sausage.
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right wing zephyr 4/18/08 6:43:42 am reply quote |
re: #326 Peacekeeper
Maddog is resisting treatment. What do we say to him?
ECT then apply treatment.
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paxnhymn 4/18/08 6:44:15 am reply quote |
(yawn)
first (yawn) cup a joe....
somebody gimme the cliff notes on the thread, will ya?
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:44:55 am reply quote |
re: #363 Endangered in MASS
One of my favorite "lost pop hits"
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:46:15 am reply quote |
Here's the line up for stories tonight:
We lead with jimmy Carter in the mideast on a controversial peace plan, segue into the latest Isreali strikes and the 5 teenagers killed by IDF missiles. be sure to include the obligatory shot of a sobbing palestinian woman. What? A toddler with his legs blown off? GREAT! Wait, was this a jewish kid? You report that as one resident of Sderot wounded-got it? We go to break and run the viagra add, followed by the cholesterol drugs, followed by the adult diapers, then back with John McCain campaigning in Florida. Segue into Mitt Romney as possible running mate, then go to the Mormon child sex abuse trials in texas-put the disclaimer in but make sure you use the word MORMON over and over-and run run the video with those little house on the prairie stepford wives. Then go with Pope in New York and follow it with survivors of sex abuse still angry at the Catholic Church...
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redstateredneck 4/18/08 6:46:17 am reply quote |
re: #364 BabbaZee
I lost all my vinyl in a fire in 1988
it was a friggin' tragedy
OMG, me too, only my fire was in 1976.
:-(
I feel your pain, {Babba}!
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:47:02 am reply quote |
re: #362 beblebrox
if you are in the market for a good digital camera take a look at the Samsung NV20. I really like mine. it's 12.1 Mega Pixel, with 6 hours of 30 frame per second video recording capacity. the controls are a bit weird to get used to at first, but once you do, you'll never like a different layout. they are kind of set up like a fighter jet control system with multiple buttons on 2 sides of the rear LCD.
Good Lord, how much is one of those?
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:47:03 am reply quote |
re: #362 beblebrox
Thanks for the heads-up. Will take a look at it.
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beblebrox 4/18/08 6:47:12 am reply quote |
BTW the weirdest thing happened last night. One of my dogs (the one in my avatar) went completely crazy. he spent over an hour running around the coffee table as fast as he could chasing absolutely nothing. when i got to work this morning several people said their dogs were nuts also. We are in Pittsburgh. we are all speculating if they could detect the Illinois earthquake coming.
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redstateredneck 4/18/08 6:47:14 am reply quote |
re: #358 Ward Cleaver
Yup, and I still have it. I also have Crystal Blue Persuasion by Tommy James & The Shondells.
I was the coolest kid in town because the juke box for the local swimming pool spent the winters in my basement.
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:47:21 am reply quote |
re: #361 Ward Cleaver
Yes, her name was Graham. She lived here in Dallas.
I will have to start calling you Cliff Claven. LOL
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Karridine 4/18/08 6:47:35 am reply quote |
re: #336 loppyd
OT... but weird, this question...
When you imagine people reading your nick here, do you hear Lop-pid or Loppie-Dee?
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maddogg 4/18/08 6:47:43 am reply quote |
re: #372 ibmkeyboard
You know, I keep thinking the American people will wake up, but it seems it will take a nuclear alarm clock to do the job.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:47:47 am reply quote |
re: #372 ibmkeyboard
{Keyboardicus}
Time - He's waiting in the wings
He speaks of senseless things
His script is you and me boys
Time - He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy
Time - In Quaaludes and red wine
Demanding Billy Dolls
And other friends of mine
Take your time
The sniper in the brain, regurgitating drain
Incestuous and vain,
and many other last names
I look at my watch it say 9:25 and I think
"Oh God I'm still alive"
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redstateredneck 4/18/08 6:48:13 am reply quote |
re: #361 Ward Cleaver
Yes, her name was Graham. She lived here in Dallas.
Was it Michael that discovered sniffing the liquid paper thinner would cop you a buzz?
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:48:14 am reply quote |
re: #365 opnion
As I recall it beats ball park food.I believe that I had an Italian Beef sandwich. That is a Chicago specialty, so maybe it was sausage.
It had to have been.....
Man I want one now!
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opnion 4/18/08 6:49:10 am reply quote |
re: #367 Ward Cleaver
Oh man,that is a despicable photo & cover picture by Time.
Those guys got a taste of hell on that island and did not suffer, bleed & die to plant a freaking tree.
This Global Warming has now entered the realm of lunacy.
Today Normandy would be delayed for an environmental impact study, after which the funding would be refusecd.
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ggt 4/18/08 6:49:25 am reply quote |
Good Morning Lizards! It's overcast and warmish in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland this morning.
No, I did not feel the earthquake.
How are you-all this morning and what are we talking about?
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:49:26 am reply quote |
re: #380 Karridine
OT... but weird, this question...
When you imagine people reading your nick here, do you hear Lop-pid or Loppie-Dee?
LOL!
Loppie-Dee....
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beblebrox 4/18/08 6:49:36 am reply quote |
re: #375 Ward Cleaver
Good Lord, how much is one of those?
i paid about $350 for mine.
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:49:39 am reply quote |
re: #378 redstateredneck
I was the coolest kid in town because the juke box for the local swimming pool spent the winters in my basement.
It musta been fun getting it in and out of the basement!
/bump, bump, bumpre: #379 loppyd
I will have to start calling you Cliff Claven. LOL
Well, I'm a native Dallasite, so I know these things.
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maddogg 4/18/08 6:49:49 am reply quote |
re: #373 Peacekeeper
Here's the line up for stories tonight:
We lead with jimmy Carter in the mideast on a controversial peace plan, segue into the latest Isreali strikes and the 5 teenagers killed by IDF missiles. be sure to include the obligatory shot of a sobbing palestinian woman. What? A toddler with his legs blown off? GREAT! Wait, was this a jewish kid? You report that as one resident of Sderot wounded-got it? We go to break and run the viagra add, followed by the cholesterol drugs, followed by the adult diapers, then back with John McCain campaigning in Florida. Segue into Mitt Romney as possible running mate, then go to the Mormon child sex abuse trials in texas-put the disclaimer in but make sure you use the word MORMON over and over-and run run the video with those little house on the prairie stepford wives. Then go with Pope in New York and follow it with survivors of sex abuse still angry at the Catholic Church...
You Cops have a knack for deciphering evil thought....:)
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ibmkeyboard 4/18/08 6:49:56 am reply quote |
The New York Times Company, the parent of The New York Times, posted a $335,000 loss in the first quarter — one of the worst periods the company and the newspaper industry have seen — falling far short of both analysts’ expectations and its $23.9 million profit in the quarter a year earlier.The company did break even on a per-share basis, compared with the average analyst forecast of earnings of 14 cents, down from 17 cents in the first quarter of 2007.
The company’s main source of revenue, newspaper advertising in print and online, fell 10.6 percent, the sharpest drop in memory, as the industry suffers the twin blows of an economic downturn and the continuing long-term shift of readers and advertisers to the Internet.
going down.
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laZardo 4/18/08 6:50:50 am reply quote |
Good evening from a lizard slowly losing his sanity having to deal with people like this!
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bolivar 4/18/08 6:51:00 am reply quote |
re: #218 realwest
Hey Realwest was down in your neck of the woods last Friday - Rutherfordton to be exact. Beautiful country - loved it. I can easily see why people move down there to retire. Very laid back and peaceful. Coming from Rhode Island I also liked the fact it was further along and blossoms were blooming and it was very colorful.
you live in a great area
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:51:03 am reply quote |
re: #391 maddogg
My dad, of the NYPD, used to say to me:
Cops are just criminals on the right sight of written law.
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:51:11 am reply quote |
re: #338 BabbaZee
Cool. If Janice did it, it must be good.
Like Elvis, Frank Sinatra and the other great performers who did not write their own stuff they all had a savant like ability to pick a song another had written that was perfect for them and make it theirs.
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storagemanager 4/18/08 6:51:13 am reply quote |
The largest Islamic organization in the country, the Islamic Committee of Spain, has welcomed this initiative, taking into account that 70 percent of those in Spanish jails are Muslims, who number around 54,000.
[Link: www.dicd.gov.ae...]
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:51:14 am reply quote |
re: #377 beblebrox
BTW the weirdest thing happened last night. One of my dogs (the one in my avatar) went completely crazy. he spent over an hour running around the coffee table as fast as he could chasing absolutely nothing. when i got to work this morning several people said their dogs were nuts also. We are in Pittsburgh. we are all speculating if they could detect the Illinois earthquake coming.
I'll bet it was that. Animals do strange things before and during quakes.
Are you a Steelers fan, BTW? I like Hugh Hewitt, but I hate the way he disses the Steelers, and Steeler fans.
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paxnhymn 4/18/08 6:51:19 am reply quote |
from the Time article...
“I think since I’ve been back at the magazine, I have felt that one of the things that’s needed in journalism is that you have to have a point of view about things,” Stengel said. “You can’t always just say ‘on the one hand, on the other’ and you decide. People trust us to make decisions. We’re experts in what we do. So I thought, you know what, if we really feel strongly about something let's just say so.”
my answer: No you don't you stupid f*ck! You area an effing REPORTER..YOU REPORT! People...that's us...don't trust you to do shit! Hell we can't even trust you to do your job...REPORT...correctly anymore! We don't give a rat's ass about what you think! Who the hell are you Richard Stengal?
This is why circulation of these rags is at an all-time low...idiots like this guy!
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eon 4/18/08 6:51:27 am reply quote |
re: #372 ibmkeyboard
Agree 100%. With you, not them.
Absolutely shameful. As if Time knows, or cares.
The only way that rag comes into my house in future will be enroute to recycling. It certainly won't come via my spending money on it.
My guess is, a lot of USMC customers are already cancelling their subscriptions. And Time asked for it.
/maybe a trend will start
cheers
eon
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paxnhymn 4/18/08 6:52:27 am reply quote |
re: #394 loppyd
{pax}
Good Morning, Sunshine!
hey there girlie-girl! Glad your Paw-n-law is doin' better.
{lopps}
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Widow'smight 4/18/08 6:52:35 am reply quote |
re: #289 realwest
I'm wonderful you adopted Southerner. Today will be a perfect day up here, 80 with narry a cloud in the sky. My yard is looking mighty fine right now and the trees are getting their leafs.
Next weekend, we're driving out to Pittsburgh to hang with my 19 year old at college, and will watch the Phillies play there.
Can we get a politicain with balls to announce to the world that we need to tap some more of the estimated 1 trillion Barrels of oil we have in this country? Maybe because I'm a small town, white, gun totin',bible reading, illegal alien not-fond of, typical white PA person who's not enlightened as the current crop of Greenies, BUT ....
Seems to me if we'd reduce imports by 5 %, the price would plummet 20% or more.
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:52:45 am reply quote |
re: #392 ibmkeyboard
um, think ol' Sulzy's got a clue that the American people understand all too well that the ol' gray whore has peddling journalistic crack to America all this time?
no?
Later NYT's. You won't be missed.
Time can't be too far behind them.
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realwest 4/18/08 6:52:50 am reply quote |
re: #348 Endangered in MASS Whoa, maybe you're taste in music isn't as bad as I thought when I hit #281!
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paxnhymn 4/18/08 6:53:12 am reply quote |
re: #405 paxnhymn
hey there girlie-girl! Glad your Paw-n-law is doin' better.
{lopps}
it was in-law, or was it stepfather? Please forgive...
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maddogg 4/18/08 6:53:13 am reply quote |
re: #395 laZardo
Good evening from a lizard slowly losing his sanity having to deal with people like this!
Excerpt from 1984?
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:53:22 am reply quote |
re: #403 eon
Agree 100%. With you, not them.
Absolutely shameful. As if Time knows, or cares.
The only way that rag comes into my house in future will be enroute to recycling. It certainly won't come via my spending money on it.
My guess is, a lot of USMC customers are already cancelling their subscriptions. And Time asked for it.
/maybe a trend will start
cheers
eon
I hope it's the beginning of the end for that pathetic rag.
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Honorary Yooper 4/18/08 6:53:52 am reply quote |
re: #328 realwest
I'm glad to hear that - I don't even know how "big" the earthquake was, but they show'd a map of the mid-west and the circles seemed to cover Illinois, Wis.,
Ohio, Ky, Indiana and even part of Iowa!
Real, the geology east of the Rocky Mountains allows earthquakes to be felt over a vast area. Because the geology of the Plains, Midwest, and East is so stable, waves from even a smaller quake can travel long distances. For example, the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes could be felt in Boston, where they rang church bells, and Philadelphia, where they topple chimneys.
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BulgarWheat 4/18/08 6:53:59 am reply quote |
re: #395 laZardo
two words, LaZardo,......Clue Bat use it early and use it often.
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:54:06 am reply quote |
re: #397 BabbaZee
My dad, of the NYPD, used to say to me:
Cops are just criminals on the right sight of written law.
that's a little harsh, you're not a fanatic are you?
Many cops like to fight and throw their weight around, sure. Many male gynecologist want to help women, not handle vaginas all day.
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christheprofessor 4/18/08 6:54:10 am reply quote |
re: #379 loppyd
I will have to start calling you Cliff Claven. LOL
Heh. I was at my favorite watering hole the other day, and the hottie bartender was fixing me a Baja Crush (orange vodka, triple-sec, fresh-sqeezed orange juice, and a touch of sprite, over ice). There was a can of WD-40 on the counter (they had just sprayed a squeeky door hinge). So, I asked her (after making sure she wasn't putting it in my drink) if she wanted to see a Cliff Claven bar moment (I was going to tell her that the "WD" stands for "water displacement").
She didn't get the reference... :(
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storagemanager 4/18/08 6:54:13 am reply quote |
Yemen's conservatives are still in control.After a heated debate in parliament this month, Yemeni women's rights advocates lost their battle to ban female circumcision, according to a report in the Yemen Times.
The parliament in recent days voted against a bill that would have outlawed female genital mutilation, a practice that is believed to affect almost 25% of Yemeni women.
[Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]
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Karridine 4/18/08 6:54:14 am reply quote |
re: #392 ibmkeyboard
Ahhhh! Sweeet Music!
Music to MY EARS!
"Dying, the Times is dying,
as it panders and lies,
it severs all ties
to LIFE...
New Yoke Times is crying,
smearing its lies,
hearing its cries,
LIFE is leaving...
The gray lazy is trying
all it can, but dying
wasn't its plan,
without LIFE!
***
Composed by Hardy Harharr
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loppyd 4/18/08 6:54:15 am reply quote |
re: #405 paxnhymn
hey there girlie-girl! Glad your Paw-n-law is doin' better.
{lopps}
Thank you!
It's my step-paw, though. No paw-n-law yet...
/runs screaming from barrage of questions
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3 wood 4/18/08 6:54:17 am reply quote |
re: #314 opnion
Thats great. Looks like we are both Sox fans, just different colors.
Question:
When is Ozzie going to figure out that you can't use Jenks 3 nights in a row?
If I can figure that out watching Jenks throw from my couch, you'd think Ozzie could se it fromthe dugout.
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ggt 4/18/08 6:54:19 am reply quote |
re: #401 Ward Cleaver
Drive time news this am said that lots of animals reacted 20-30 minutes before the quake happened. I have no idea if mine did --I was blissfully sleeping.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:54:29 am reply quote |
re: #399 Endangered in MASS
All part of having that ear,
Billie Holiday & also Dylan did this too
till he learned how to write his own songs of course
which miraculously took him about 2 seconds
in normal human being time
lol
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BGB! 4/18/08 6:55:04 am reply quote |
morning all! Check this out :o
Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover
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opnion 4/18/08 6:55:55 am reply quote |
re: #409 loppyd
That's a peppah steak.
Thats what I had at Fenway. Soooo good!
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Ward Cleaver 4/18/08 6:56:11 am reply quote |
re: #420 loppyd
Thank you!
It's my step-paw, though. No paw-n-law yet...
/runs screaming from barrage of questions
I was gonna say...
/when's that boy gonna pop the question?
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Endangered in MASS 4/18/08 6:56:16 am reply quote |
re: #388 loppyd
Did you hear Mumbles on Howie last night.
He was reading to kids at a school. He couldn't even read a story meant for 1st graders and have it be understood.
In the first sentance he calls a Koala Bear a Cola Bear, twice. It got worse from there...
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storagemanager 4/18/08 6:56:48 am reply quote |
Homeless Man Discovers Top-Secret Blueprints For New World Trade Center - With Video
"It's a good thing Osama wasn't walking through SoHo yesterday morning. Experts said the detailed, floor-by-floor schematics contain enough detail for terrorists to plot a devastating attack. An expert in explosives, demolition or biological weapons certainly could glean enough here to develop a game plan," he said. "You can see where all the concrete walls are, where the emergency stairwells are
[Link: patdollard.com...]
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beblebrox 4/18/08 6:56:50 am reply quote |
re: #401 Ward Cleaver
Why of course. The Stillers are the penultimate expression of football in it's purest form. :)
regardless of political standpoint, i question anyone who disses the steelers.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:56:57 am reply quote |
re: #416 Peacekeeper
that's a little harsh, you're not a fanatic are you?
Many cops like to fight and throw their weight around, sure. Many male gynecologist want to help women, not handle vaginas all day.
He didn't mean it that way
He meant it in terms of the instincts necessary to play either part
But he privately had no love for many of his fellow officers, that I could tell you, and those are the kind he despised
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Vergeltung 4/18/08 6:57:27 am reply quote |
re: #416 Peacekeeper
that's a little harsh, you're not a fanatic are you?
Many cops like to fight and throw their weight around, sure. Many male gynecologist want to help women, not handle vaginas all day.
yeah, that statement was just silly. I worked with POs for 6+ years as an Asst. DA, and my grandfather retired as Asst. Chief Inspector in Brooklyn South; most POs are fine human beings, doing a dangerous job.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:58:17 am reply quote |
re: #437 Vergeltung
yeah, that statement was just silly. I worked with POs for 6+ years as an Asst. DA, and my grandfather retired as Asst. Chief Inspector in Brooklyn South; most POs are fine human beings, doing a dangerous job.
See my 435
they way you took it
is not the meaning he was getting at
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realwest 4/18/08 6:58:19 am reply quote |
re: #387 ggt Hey {ggt} glad to hear your earthquake news (or lack of same!)! I'm still concerned about Wisconsin though.
Anyone hear from mama winger lately?
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redstateredneck 4/18/08 6:58:21 am reply quote |
re: #430 loppyd
I think I just ate soap.
BBIAM
Did you say a dirty word?
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Occasional Reader 4/18/08 6:58:22 am reply quote |
re: #435 BabbaZee
But he privately had no love for many of his fellow officers, that I could tell you, and those are the kind he despised
Was this pre or post Knapp Commission?
And good morning.
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opnion 4/18/08 6:58:36 am reply quote |
re: #428 BGB!
morning all! Check this out :o
Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover
Ya know these guys are all bona fide heroes. We are losing them daily.
The adults are leaving the building. At this point in their lives to see their efforts trivialized for a tree is beneath contempt.
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Kosh's Shadow 4/18/08 6:59:33 am reply quote |
re: #406 Widow'smight
Seems to me if we'd reduce imports by 5 %, the price would plummet 20% or more.
Unless the Saudis decided to cut production to keep the supply down.
While Congress is busy blaming the oil companies, they price is driven by speculators on the futures market (Soros screwing with our economy to get his wholly-owned Dhimmicrap party elected, maybe?) and the law of supply and demand.
But if the US had more domestic supply, at least the money would stay in the US instead of paying for jihad-exporting madrassas.
So here is where Congress could help, by allowing drilling and building refineries.
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BabbaZee 4/18/08 6:59:50 am reply quote |
re: #443 Occasional Reader
Was this pre or post Knapp Commission?
And good morning.
Both but FAR MORE after
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Peacekeeper 4/18/08 6:59:53 am reply quote |
re: #435 BabbaZee
I can agree with that. The higher they go the more they can bend the law into something evil. Just look at Prosecutors like the one at Duke...
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loppyd 4/18/08 7:00:07 am reply quote |
re: #442 redstateredneck
Did you say a dirty word?
GAH!
No, I made oatmeal in a little tupperware thing that someone didn't rinse all of the soap off and by the third bite I was gagging.
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beblebrox 4/18/08 7:00:17 am reply quote |
re: #375 Ward Cleaver
and you know it kills me. about 2 1/2 years before I paid close to $2000 for a Nikon F5 film camera, and now film is just about dead as a means of image acquisition.
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Occasional Reader 4/18/08 7:00:38 am reply quote |
re: #417 christheprofessor
I was at my favorite watering hole the other day, and the hottie bartender was fixing me a Baja Crush (orange vodka, triple-sec, fresh-sqeezed orange juice, and a touch of sprite, over ice).
The hottie bartender might pay more attention to you if you ordered a MAN'S drink, fer chrissake.
:P
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redstateredneck 4/18/08 7:00:43 am |
