Good Morning All

And carry a big stick.

Gooooood Morning LGF!

/it's my Friday, where's the beers?

Morning hayseed, how's it going where you're at?

re: #2 BlueCanuck

It's still a little early for me

re: #2 BlueCanuck

And carry a big stick.

Gooooood Morning LGF!

/it's my Friday, where's the beers?

i drank'em since they were warm and might be going bad......

why don't you run to the store?

re: #4 hayseed

It's still a little early for me

hell, it's his fryday, he musta got paid!

re: #5 redc1c4

*mutter mutter mutter* Damn Cav troopers.

beer run I'll throw some money in

"Paging Tzippi and Olmert!"

Where the heck is a Teddy when we need him?!

:-(

How're things with you nice folks this morning?

re: #11 galloping granny

Misbehavn' as usual. How are you doing granny?

Morning Lizards!

Goooood morning, LGF!

hayseed! :-)

American Jewess In Jerusalem! :-)

galloping granny! :-)

rightside! :-)

re: #10 littleoldlady

Where the heck is a Teddy when we need him?!

:-(

i hear the wimmen folk in Canuckistan like flannel Teddies.....

/white smoke

re: #10 littleoldlady

I think they broke the mold and threw away the best materials.

re: #12 BlueCanuck

Misbehavn' as usual. How are you doing granny?

Achey this morning, Blue. Put in a pretty full day of hauling wood and burning brush and climbing the hill and setting up a new compost bin and all that jazz yesterday, before I went to Home Depot and spent a couple hours on my feet hunting up fencing. Really pointed up to me that I am not getting younger. . . . .

morning lol!

re: #14 littleoldlady

Goooood morning, LGF!

hayseed! :-)

American Jewess In Jerusalem! :-)

galloping granny! :-)

Did I miss the fruitcup again, littleoldlady?

re: #16 redc1c4

Keep your smoke, that ain't a rumour. It's troof!

/nicer than flannel sheets. They come with a heat source. ;)

Morning

re: #20 galloping granny

BlueCanuck has a secret stash in the 'fridge.

/be nice to him ;-)

storage! :-)

re: #23 littleoldlady

BlueCanuck has a secret stash in the 'fridge.

/be nice to him ;-)

storage! :-)

you misspelled "fermenting" %-)

re: #20 galloping granny

re: #23 littleoldlady

/passes galloping granny an unspiked fruitcup.

Enjoy. I keep fooling red with the decoys. :)

re: #24 redc1c4

you misspelled "fermenting" %-)

Speaking of, I discovered something I did not know yesterday. I'm seeding a mushroom bed. (In case you guys have not gotten the idea yet, I am making a pretty darned good attempt to turn every available inch of this 1.5+ acres into land that produces something edible. Maybe a little space for beauty. No bushes unless they have fruit/) So, the instructions for the mushroom spore start with cutting up some straw in pieces about 1 inch long, covering it with water and letting it stand for 3 days, stirring now and then. Yesterday I went to stir it early morning and discovered that it is fermenting. Apparently I am making moonshine in a bucket in the back yard. HAHAHA!

/Morning storage!

Has anyone seen this?

re: #25 BlueCanuck

re: #23 littleoldlady

/passes galloping granny an unspiked fruitcup.

Enjoy. I keep fooling red with the decoys. :)

Thank you very much :) Little makes a fine fruit cup.

Well, a Nazi fan was banned today.

Another borderline Nazi -and furibund atheist- was around that same thread, but he avoided the stick.
That was quite a thread.

About that (R): Poor guy didn't know that the Pope is Cath...
I mean, poor guy didn't know Hitler was a Nazi. :(

/he was taken for a ride, you see?

re: #26 galloping granny
Good Morning.

re: #27 rightside

Has anyone seen this?

Saw that a couple of days ago. Too bad they did not get a shot of the operators' face when this happened.

re: #29 MigueldowninMexico

Well, a Nazi fan was banned today.

Another borderline Nazi -and furibund atheist- was around that same thread, but he avoided the stick.
That was quite a thread.

About that (R): Poor guy didn't know that the Pope is Cath...
I mean, poor guy didn't know Hitler was a Nazi. :(

/he was taken for a ride, you see?

who was it?

Good morning, Lizards!

Its a typical April day here, on the other side of the Big Pond from you.
My apple trees have burst into flowers, and yesterday I planted a little cherry tree.
The autumn raspberries have new canes, the gooseberries are flowering - and I actually had to cut the grass yesterday for the first time this year!
I love spring, I do

re: #29 MigueldowninMexico

Well, a Nazi fan was banned today.

Another borderline Nazi -and furibund atheist- was around that same thread, but he avoided the stick.
That was quite a thread.

About that (R): Poor guy didn't know that the Pope is Cath...
I mean, poor guy didn't know Hitler was a Nazi. :(

/he was taken for a ride, you see?

Speaking of Miguel, the kiddo (11) asked me the other day "Is the Pope Catholic?" It was all I could do to keep a straight face. (It was a sincere question.)

re: #25 BlueCanuck

re: #23 littleoldlady

/passes galloping granny an unspiked fruitcup.

Enjoy. I keep fooling red with the decoys. :)

your song.

Miguelito! :-)

Somebody I know?

Wage jihad with sword and pen and ..

MANAMA, 24 April 2008 — While the global economic system rattled by the US subprime mortgage crisis, a distinguished speaker has said that ‘Islamic finance model’ is the only answer to this persistent economic turmoil.

Dr Mohammed Mahmud Awan, a leading scholar and Dean at Malaysia-based International Center for Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), told the participants of a conference in Manama that the current global economic crisis has opened many windows of opportunities for Islamic finance.

“This crisis is seen as a big opportunity for Islamic finance as it has the capacity and capability to bring stability to the market.”

[Link: www.arabnews.com...]

re: #33 yma o hyd

Good morning, Lizards!

Its a typical April day here, on the other side of the Big Pond from you.
My apple trees have burst into flowers, and yesterday I planted a little cherry tree.
The autumn raspberries have new canes, the gooseberries are flowering - and I actually had to cut the grass yesterday for the first time this year!
I love spring, I do

Me too! The first daffodil bloomed in time to greet me yesterday morning. There will be two tomorrow. I just finished ordering 10 gooseberry bushes and 6 red currants. We are about jumping up and down that we found space for them. Many states in the US you cannot have them anymore (some disease or other that has since been eliminated). No raspberries yet. Or blueberries. Still clearing out the scrub on the hill to make room for some of those.

Hello lizards,

Long time no post. Someone has told me about the following post that can't be linked to directly so I reproduce it below.
[Link: www.hurryupharry.bloghouse.net...]

Readers of Harry's Place will be familiar with the University College Union and its infamous activists' list. Well now they're at it again. No surprise there, of course. But this time some posters have excelled themselves in their bullying, bigotry and – it goes almost without saying – antisemitism.

Having read the emails circulating on this list what I can see is that some people (not necessarily even academics) are playing political football. Only here the referee, Matt (what's up?) Waddup, is making up the rules as he's going along.

In one of his *catchphrase* 'universally popular interventions' Waddup banned David Hirsh from posting on the list. Along with several other activists, Hirsh has been extremely effective in challenging the Union's proposed boycott of Israeli academics. It doesn't look as though he'll be allowed back on the list anytime soon and now people posting Hirsh's words and arguments are getting banned from the list as well.

As a sample of the toxic atmosphere, we have:

(1) Noel Douglas (programme leader in graphic design at the University of Bedfordshire) attacking a Jewish lecturer for having a 'basic lack of humanity when confronted with overwhelming evidence to the crimes of the Israeli State'.

The argument is that Jews divide into two types: the 'good' and the 'bad'.

For the likes of Douglas 'good' Jews are those who support the boycott, who desire the destruction of the Jewish character of the Israeli state (this is marketed as the 'one state solution'). 'Good' Jews are likely to maintain the fiction that Israel is a unique evil on the planet, an exceptionalism of the highest order. Sometimes they can be dead as well – just to be on the safe side, because it's difficult to contradict someone from the grave. Hence Douglas's cynical invocation of the Holocaust to protect himself from charges of antisemitism (yes, much like the boycott-promoting Tom Hickey of the SWP) he has designed a 'Love Music Hate Racism Carnival' programme which includes tributes to Holocaust survivors).

'Bad' Jews on the other hand appear for Douglas and others to argue in bad faith: they use the charge of antisemitism to stifle debate about the Israeli occupation. This is a classic antisemitic motif – Jews lie and therefore cannot be trusted. 'Bad' Jews are also 'Zionists' because even if they criticize the Israeli occupation of the West Bank they nonetheless accept the existence of the state on pre-1967 borders. This is disingenuous as Norman Geras, Hirsh and others have repeatedly argued.

(2) Jonathan Rosenhead (Professor Emeritus at the London School of Economics) lambasting another Jewish lecturer and colleague at the LSE. Conveniently forgetting Union directives about bullying in the workplace, he reprimands for not attending branch meetings, contemptuously dismissing her voice in this debate. A characteristic feature of Rosenhead's posts are ad hominem attacks, which do not compensate for the intellectual poverty of his arguments.

(3) Haim Bresheeth (Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London) prefacing or ending every post with the formula that he speaks as a Jew as though this somehow protects him from criticism. Bresheeth has argued elsewhere that the 'lives of individuals, Jews and non Jews' were secondary to 'the Zionist enterprise in Palestine' and that is why the Zionists were involved in 'collaboration' with the Nazis 'over the death of almost a million Jews'. So that should be borne in mind when reading his latest hysterical outbursts;

'I want to confront this hypocrisy using anti-semitism as a rod against liberal and humanist critics of war crimes: I criticise Israel BECAUSE I am Jewish, because I am Israeli, because Nazi racists have killed my whole family and NO ONE DID ANYTHING TO STOP THEM!'

re: #32 storagemanager

who was it?

His nick was Ecclesiastes.

re: #34 galloping granny

Speaking of Miguel, the kiddo (11) asked me the other day "Is the Pope Catholic?" It was all I could do to keep a straight face. (It was a sincere question.)

Hahahahaha Granny.

/I imagine it was hard to be serious all along lol

Like Douglas, he is fond of levelling the charge that 'bad' Jews use antisemitism to shut down debate. But he also seems to be linking Zionism with the tragic murder of his family. If that is the case then I pity him and recommend he seek psychiatric treatment.
[Continued]

Like Douglas, he is fond of levelling the charge that 'bad' Jews use antisemitism to shut down debate. But he also seems to be linking Zionism with the tragic murder of his family. If that is the case then I pity him and recommend he seek psychiatric treatment.

(4) Keith Hammond (Lecturer in Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Glasgow). He repeatedly argues
'No one should be scared off by this "anti-Semitism" stuff'; 'Let the anti-Semitism slurs fly - it is not as though the tactic is new or unexpected.'

For Hammond antisemitism is little more than a 'tactic' used by "Zionists" in bad faith to silence debate. In the words of Motion 30, passed by the University College Union: 'criticism of Israel cannot be construed as anti-Semitic'. Those who warned of the consequences of this clause have proven to be prophets. Antisemitism on the activists' list is now not even an inconvenient truth, merely an irritating distraction.

The University College Union is supposedly an anti-racist organization. But the boycott motion on the Congress agenda goes against the legal advice of Lord Lester, that the boycott would be unlawful, and discriminatory in effect.

Given its obsession with Israel and the Palestinians, given the poisonous antisemitism that Union officials enable on the activists' list, is it any wonder that many rank and file members have come to despair of UCU?

re: #36 littleoldlady

Miguelito! :-)

Somebody I know?

Someone by the nick: Ecclesiastes.

GoV turned on Robert..but who will Pam stand by now?

And from the comments box of this article:

From: Noel Douglas

"let me make myself clear. I realise there is a 'left' within Israel
that is critical of the occupation but wishes to continue to see
Israel exist and have some form of two state solution, I presume this
is your position.

I think Israel and the Zionist project which drives it is
structurally driven to violence and oppression, aligned as it is with
US Imperialism and there, therefore can be no just peace without a
one secular state being created where Jews and Arabs live side by
side. I presume you think this is anti-semitic, despite there being a
rich tradition of anti-Zionist Judaism that would suggest otherwise.

Furthermore Israel's actions in the Occupied territories make a
Palestinian State unviable from the pock-marked landscape they are
left exist in.

So therefore to me, to support Israel, even if you think there is a
'good' Israel that can be separated from the 'bad' Israel, a
distinction which doesn't stand up to investigation of the evidence
of the *actual* actions of the Israeli State means that I would say
you implicitly support the dehumanisation of a whole people, the
Palestinians, therefore I think you lack some humanity and are being
wilfully blind.

At a deeper level, as Marxist and atheist, your beliefs are for me,
based not on reason but on a fairy tale called the 'Old Testament'
and this cannot be used to justify the ongoing situation as it
stands, my politics has in the main been taught to me by Jews who
were able to move beyond religion to take on a better explanatory
theory of the world, namely people like Trotsky, Luxemburg etc.

Finally the real victims of racism today, that is almost a par with
the anti-semtism of the 20/30s are not Jews, but Muslims and in my
experience those who attack me from the right by claiming I am anti-
semitic for wishing to see the end of the State of Israel, are rarely
to be seen actually confronting racism and Fascism on the streets and
where we live to make sure it cannot develop against anyone,
regardless of religion or lack of. I'm not suggesting that this fits
with your background as I don't know about that, but that is my
experience.

I prove my commitment to anti-semitism by action. Like, for instance,
the amount of work that I personally have put into the Love Music
Hate Racism carnival this weekend which will go further and have much
more effect in stopping the BNP and therefore stopping the growth of
anti-semitism than a thousand Engage websites and email to mailing
lists.

regards,
Noel [Douglas]"
(programme leader in graphic design at the University of Bedfordshire)

re: #31 galloping granny

I think that was a demonstration. Too many people standing around in expectation.

Also from the comments box of this article

"For a lecturer your grammar and sentence construction is pretty
appalling, your comment seems largely incoherent, but that's an aside.

I don't expect you to agree, what troubles me more is your basic lack of
humanity when confronted with overwhelming evidence to the crimes of the Israeli State.

I have no wish to see any Jews or anyone else harmed, I want a peaceful secular state in the Middle East where Jews and Arabs live side by side in peace like they used to, and in terms of my own political commitment I have been active against Racism and Fascism for years.

In fact I have just finished designing the 'Love Music Hate Racism'
Carnival Programme which includes tributes to Holocaust survivors, Leon Greenman and Henry Guterman who both sadly died this year. The Carnival, which will happen next Sunday in London, will be the largest show of anti-racist and anti-Fascist sentiment this country has shown for years. The Carnival's main aim is, of course, to stop the Fascist BNP from getting elected this May.

So I'm sorry to shatter your illusions but the charge of anti-semitism
just won't stand.

Best Wishes,
Noel Douglas
(programme leader in graphic design at the University of Bedfordshire)

Good morning, Lizards! I'm bit late this morning.

re: #27 rightside

Has anyone seen this?

A few days ago, four teen girls were inside of a car, in Mexico City, parked in front of a Hospital (so lucky for them). One of them started air-brushing her lap-top, when another one lit a cigarrette.
The ensuing explosion was incredible. Also incredible that the four or them came out of it in pretty good conditions -with the good luck of being taken inside the hospital immediately.
The took two of the girl's mom to the doctor and were waiting outside for her.
Video
Crazy things happen in a second at times.

re: #27 rightside

Has anyone seen this?

Way cool!
Morning all. A lovely day here in the Commonwealth. The azaleas are in full bloom.

re: #31 galloping granny

Saw that a couple of days ago. Too bad they did not get a shot of the operators' face when this happened.

Looks like a demonstration. Why are all those people hanging around in the rain unless they knew it was going to happen?

(Might even be a special effects shot. Imagine a giant practical tank car getting hit by a CGI element to be added later.)

re: #44 storagemanager

I read that this morning how sad

re: #39 Shemesh

Hello lizards,

Long time no post.

if all you're going to do is quote long blocks of bollocks you could stay gone..... IMHO, of course. %-)

HTH! HAND!

{Goddess!}

Re #47- I always wonder why the folks who fight against fascism and racism never ever mention communism. Are they proud of what Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot did?

I need a coffee pot that can feed itself.

re: #46 BlueCanuck

I think that was a demonstration. Too many people standing around in expectation.

Yeah. I agree. You don't draw a crowd like that in the rain unless they knew it was going to happen.

re: #51 Dar ul Harb

Looks like a demonstration. Why are all those people hanging around in the rain unless they knew it was going to happen?

(Might even be a special effects shot. Imagine a giant practical tank car getting hit by a CGI element to be added later.)

You are probably right.
/I appear to be off my ball this morning. Guess I better make coffee.

re: #2 BlueCanuck

And carry a big stick.

"Oh yeah? Well I speak LOUD! And I carry a BIGGER stick! And I use it, too!" -Yosemite Sam

re: #55 storagemanager

I need a coffee pot that can feed itself.

I always wanted one that came with an IV drip.

Shemesh! :-)

Good to see you!

re: #38 galloping granny

Me too! The first daffodil bloomed in time to greet me yesterday morning. There will be two tomorrow. I just finished ordering 10 gooseberry bushes and 6 red currants. We are about jumping up and down that we found space for them. Many states in the US you cannot have them anymore (some disease or other that has since been eliminated). No raspberries yet. Or blueberries. Still clearing out the scrub on the hill to make room for some of those.

Daffodils - aww, I keep forgetting to mention that theya re the national flower of Wales, we've got our own native species!
They grow wild on the west Coast of wales, and are usually flowering from about the last week of February.
Thats why we stick them into our lapels (fresh, natch!) on st David's Day, which is the day of the Patron saint of Wales, March 1st ...

I've only got a tiny patch of back yard, which I share with my dogs, so am quite restricted in what I can grow, especially as its facing North, and is damp and shady!

re: #55 storagemanager

I need a coffee pot that can feed itself.

Can you set yours up the night before? I do that that I just have to press the buttons in the morning.

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, a daughter of former Republican president Richard Nixon, is supporting Democrat Barack Obama's presidential bid.
Eisenhower has donated $2,300 to the Illinois senator's campaign, the maximum primary season donation allowed under federal campaign finance regulations.

The former first daughter isn't the only member of the Eisenhower family supporting Obama's White House run. In February, her sister-in-law Susan Eisenhower endorsed the Illinois senator in a Washington Post op-ed.

[Link: www.debbieschlussel.com...]

re: #61 yma o hyd

Daffodils - aww, I keep forgetting to mention that theya re the national flower of Wales, we've got our own native species!
They grow wild on the west Coast of wales, and are usually flowering from about the last week of February.
Thats why we stick them into our lapels (fresh, natch!) on st David's Day, which is the day of the Patron saint of Wales, March 1st ...

I've only got a tiny patch of back yard, which I share with my dogs, so am quite restricted in what I can grow, especially as its facing North, and is damp and shady!

What no leeks?

/grin

I do love daffodils.

re: #34 galloping granny

Speaking of Miguel, the kiddo (11) asked me the other day "Is the Pope Catholic?" It was all I could do to keep a straight face. (It was a sincere question.)

You can't ask "Is the Pope Italian?" anymore.

And we won't even speculate about what he does in the woods...

re: #61 yma o hyd

Daffodils - aww, I keep forgetting to mention that theya re the national flower of Wales, we've got our own native species!
They grow wild on the west Coast of wales, and are usually flowering from about the last week of February.
Thats why we stick them into our lapels (fresh, natch!) on st David's Day, which is the day of the Patron saint of Wales, March 1st ...

I've only got a tiny patch of back yard, which I share with my dogs, so am quite restricted in what I can grow, especially as its facing North, and is damp and shady!

Wales has a native daffodil? You learn something new every day. How does one get some? Can you buy them in the UK?

re: #63 storagemanager

I'll take "What would it take to make daddy roll over in his grave?" for $200, Alex.

re: #62 goddessoftheclassroom

Can you set yours up the night before? I do that that I just have to press the buttons in the morning.

We always forget...my wife was doing that for awhile.

re: #64 goddessoftheclassroom

What no leeks?

/grin

I do love daffodils.

Heh - leeks are smelly, and I prefer to eat them rather than stick them in my lapel!
I suppose men think ist more manly to have a leek on their coat than a daff, but hey, each to their own!

re: #50 Jim in Virginia

Morning Jim, I am in Va too!

re: #62 goddessoftheclassroom

Can you set yours up the night before? I do that that I just have to press the buttons in the morning.

Except that if you are a fresh ground nut like I am the coffee goes stale overnight. I used to have one of those thermal pots that will keep the coffee hot for hours. Worked several jobs at the time, so I would make coffee when I came in from one at midnight and stash it beside the bed with a cup so I only had to roll over when it was time to roust the girls.

re: #68 storagemanager

We always forget...my wife was doing that for awhile.

I went through a "blue" period this past winter where I felt so out of control. One thing I FORCED myself to do was set up breakfast--I do it right after supper. The discipline really helped me get a grip, and now I'm doing so much better.

My new goal is opening and disposing of mail as it arrives instead of letting it create a mountain...

A jeeze, a new friend just wrote to greet me in the name of the Lord and tell me all about how terrible it is that she has been unable to have a child for 11 years.

/spam filter getting a workout this morning!

re: #66 galloping granny

Wales has a native daffodil? You learn something new every day. How does one get some? Can you buy them in the UK?

No - they are a protected species and you'll get hauled before a court if you pinch the bulbs.
Same as bluebells and snwodrops - protected, and don't even think of digging up some for your garden.

There are loads of beautiful garden species, new ones are coming out every year.

re: #72 goddessoftheclassroom

I went through a "blue" period this past winter where I felt so out of control. One thing I FORCED myself to do was set up breakfast--I do it right after supper. The discipline really helped me get a grip, and now I'm doing so much better.

My new goal is opening and disposing of mail as it arrives instead of letting it create a mountain...

Goals are good.

Humph. And here I am trying to get rid of all my snowdrops.

/I should just ship 'em overseas.

re: #69 yma o hyd

Heh - leeks are smelly, and I prefer to eat them rather than stick them in my lapel!

"Leek? I'm not detecting any leek."
--Geordi LaForge, almost

re: #76 littleoldlady

Humph. And here I am trying to get rid of all my snowdrops.

/I should just ship 'em overseas.

{littleoldlady}! Since I was so late, I was sure I had missed you!

Don't you love the smell of hyacinths?

re: #49 MigueldowninMexico

I'm glad they survived. I can thus laugh at them unkindly and with contempt, with no guilt at all. Darwin Awards are still waiting ladies. Always waiting...

Morning everyone ^^

Hey American Jewess, haven't seen you around recently,. which could well be more down to me. I still owe you thanks from way back when, on the thread about Inherent Rights.

Many thanks [bows]

re: #72 goddessoftheclassroom

I went through a "blue" period this past winter where I felt so out of control. One thing I FORCED myself to do was set up breakfast--I do it right after supper. The discipline really helped me get a grip, and now I'm doing so much better.

My new goal is opening and disposing of mail as it arrives instead of letting it create a mountain...

I'm sorry to hear that you had such a bad time.
Routines are indeed excellent to get through that.

One good advice I was give is, to look at one's face in the mirror and say out loud 'I can, and I will!' , every morning.
Helped me ...

re: #74 yma o hyd

No - they are a protected species and you'll get hauled before a court if you pinch the bulbs.
Same as bluebells and snwodrops - protected, and don't even think of digging up some for your garden.

There are loads of beautiful garden species, new ones are coming out every year.

Ah, I see. We have flowers like that here too. Mostly native orchids. One company here in Vermont is doing tissue culture propagation of all of the American Lady Slippers, wild versions of which have become exceedingly rare. I would dearly love some, but they run $99 or so for just one little bulb.

re: #80 yma o hyd

I'm sorry to hear that you had such a bad time.
Routines are indeed excellent to get through that.

One good advice I was give is, to look at one's face in the mirror and say out loud 'I can, and I will!' , every morning.
Helped me ...

{yma o hyd}

Excellent advice. I kept saying out loud, "I can do this." I am thankful that my faith and friendships are strong enough to keep me going. I keep working on the concept, "Let go and let God," but I'm such a "fixer" that it's very hard for me.

re: #79 elydo

Ah yes the Darwin Awards. The best one I saw was the glorious trifecta. :)

re: #78 goddessoftheclassroom

goddess! :-)

A tad TOO heady-sweet for me, in groups. Not too bad as a single specimen.

I'm a honeysuckle girl, myself. ;-)

re: #5 redc1c4

i drank'em since they were warm and might be going bad......

why don't you run to the store?

Good Morning toe the Mighty Lizard Nation.
Hey whole your at the store getting beer, pick up some Fritos

re: #72 goddessoftheclassroom

My new goal is opening and disposing of mail as it arrives instead of letting it create a mountain...

But it's so much fun to pile them up, like leaves, and then run and jump into them.

re: #84 littleoldlady

goddess! :-)

A tad TOO heady-sweet for me, in groups. Not too bad as a single specimen.

I'm a honeysuckle girl, myself. ;-)

Oh, I LOVE honeysuckle! Such a summer smell.

Here's (yet another) confession of my weirdness eccentricity: I love the smell of cut grass and gasoline fumes.

re: #86 JamesTKirk

But it's so much fun to pile them up, like leaves, and then run and jump into them.

LOL!

Seriously though, when I get really down, I tend to avoid things I think will upset me, and I hate myself for my cowardice.

re: #83 BlueCanuck

Amusingly enough, one of the ones I most remember is the one directly above the trifecta in the list:

I don't want to ruin the surprise...

re: #81 galloping granny

Sounds fabulous!

There's nothing I love more than native wild flowers! it is wonderful to see them come up every year, and even better to go to the places where they are and check if they've come up yet.
We've found a whole handful of different species of Veronica (thats speedwell) just in the parks within walking distance.

re: #79 elydo

I'm glad they survived. I can thus laugh at them unkindly and with contempt, with no guilt at all. Darwin Awards are still waiting ladies. Always waiting...

Hahahaha good comment! lol

Oh dear. I am apparently in a sad way today. I just read this headline
Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries and mentally commented that I did not know they grew blackberries at the White House. . . . . . . . . .

re: #83 BlueCanuck

Ah yes the Darwin Awards. The best one I saw was the glorious trifecta. :)

That one ended with a bang.

I have to pick up mowers from the shop..32 miles round trip...I have to do it twice...what a day.

re: #92 galloping granny

Oh dear. I am apparently in a sad way today. I just read this headline
Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries and mentally commented that I did not know they grew blackberries at the White House. . . . . . . . . .

That's exactly what I thought from your post! Even sadder!

re: #87 goddessoftheclassroom

Oh, I LOVE honeysuckle! Such a summer smell.

Here's (yet another) confession of my weirdness eccentricity: I love the smell of cut grass and gasoline fumes.

And how is that weird?

re: #29 MigueldowninMexico

Well, a Nazi fan was banned today.

Another borderline Nazi -and furibund atheist- was around that same thread, but he avoided the stick.
That was quite a thread.

About that (R): Poor guy didn't know that the Pope is Cath...
I mean, poor guy didn't know Hitler was a Nazi. :(

/he was taken for a ride, you see?

Hey the Obama people say that "Guilt through Association" is unfair.
Just shows you how insipid their argument is.

re: #89 elydo

Amusingly enough, one of the ones I most remember is the one directly above the trifecta in the list:

I don't want to ruin the surprise...

"Apparently the alcohol absorbs more quickly through the capillary beds of the rectum, a fact exploited by many party animals."

Good thing I've never been to any of those parties.

re: #86 JamesTKirk

Yeah, but watch out for the paper cuts. :p

Gotta go, Lizards - lunch beckons, and after that the afternoon dog walk!

BBL

re: #97 opnion

Hey the Obama people say that "Guilt through Association" is unfair.
Just shows you how insipid their argument is.

What they mean is that "it's unfair when it's applied to us."

re: #88 goddessoftheclassroom

That's not cowardice, that's sensible self-preservation. There is a significant difference between the two. I'd class the opposite course of action as illogical, irrational and stupid. Illogical/irrational being a rather serious criticism from me.

Pride for pride's sake is sheer self-indulgence, and a form of weakness.

Fictional Darwin-To-Be

re: #101 JamesTKirk

What they mean is that "it's unfair when it's applied to us."

Yeah, they are rather selective.

re: #55 storagemanager

I need a coffee pot that can feed itself.

i need a scotch bottl that refills itself.....

/what time is it?

The U.S. military on Wednesday denied reports it is holding Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the number two under Saddam Hussein. "We are aware of media reports that Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri has been captured," the military told AFP in an email. "At this point, we can say that he is not in coalition custody

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

re: #97 opnion

Hey the Obama people say that "Guilt through Association" is unfair.
Just shows you how insipid their argument is.

In this case it was sooooo obvious.
Speak to a group that has a big picture of Hitler, with the 3rd Reich flag hanging from the wall, and all these nice men with swastikas armbands.
I mean guilt by association is almost guilt by partnership in this case-

re: #89 elydo

Yeah, I read that one awhile ago. *eeewwwww*

re: #105 redc1c4

i need a scotch bottl that refills itself.....

/what time is it?

And 72 virgins. Oh wait, that's a whole other thing.

re: #59 galloping granny

I always wanted one that came with an IV drip.

they make caffeine IV's.....

/specialty parenterals are a specialty

re: #83 BlueCanuck

Ah yes the Darwin Awards. The best one I saw was the glorious trifecta. :)

I love Darwin lol
She has a very weird sense of humor.
/Would you believe that?

re: #102 elydo

That's not cowardice, that's sensible self-preservation. There is a significant difference between the two. I'd class the opposite course of action as illogical, irrational and stupid. Illogical/irrational being a rather serious criticism from me.

Pride for pride's sake is sheer self-indulgence, and a form of weakness.

{elydo}

Goodness, I love this place!

Part of my personality is that I want to be liked. When someone is "mean" to me, I think it's my fault, and I want to "fix" the problem. My inlaws hurt me terribly by their treatment after their son's betrayal of me and our kids, and funny enough, I was more upset by their attitude than I was by my EH's.

I have finally accepted that THEY have the problem, and that since the clearly don't care about having me in their life, I can do without them in mine. The kids can see them whenever they want to, but they haven't wanted to--and the inlaws will not lower themselves to call me to ask me to see them.

re: #107 MigueldowninMexico

In this case it was sooooo obvious.
Speak to a group that has a big picture of Hitler, with the 3rd Reich flag hanging from the wall, and all these nice men with swastikas armbands.
I mean guilt by association is almost guilt by partnership in this case-

True, the guy sounded like an idiot, especially when you see the picture that you are referring to.
All that I am saying is that it is fair game to whack Barry for attending that racist church for 20 years.

re: #107 MigueldowninMexico

In this case it was sooooo obvious.
Speak to a group that has a big picture of Hitler, with the 3rd Reich flag hanging from the wall, and all these nice men with swastikas armbands.
I mean guilt by association is almost guilt by partnership in this case-

But big pictures of Che are just fine 'n dandy.

re: #113 opnion

True, the guy sounded like an idiot, especially when you see the picture that you are referring to.
All that I am saying is that it is fair game to whack Barry for attending that racist church for 20 years.

Saying he didn't know they were nazis.
Pure taquiyya, my friend. Pure taquiyya.

re: #112 goddessoftheclassroom
Sometimes it is best to just walk away...I learned that last year.

re: #113 opnion

Yeah, we're equal opportunity whackers in this place.

/wait that don't sound right for some reason?

Lizards, gotta go.Five hour drive ahead of me. I will do anything to avoid the airport.
Remember, "No fun ,of any kind", (Dean Wormer)

re: #115 MigueldowninMexico

Oh yes, of course Obama is guilty!
Not by association, by enabling, covering, abiding, and so on.

re: #117 BlueCanuck

Yeah, we're equal opportunity whackers in this place.

/wait that don't sound right for some reason?

Oh no, not another penis thread...

re: #118 opnion

Lizards, gotta go.Five hour drive ahead of me. I will do anything to avoid the airport.
Remember, "No fun ,of any kind", (Dean Wormer)

{opnion}

I've got to go, too. Take care, y'all!

re: #114 JamesTKirk

But big pictures of Che are just fine 'n dandy.

Remember: a false messiah can get away with murder ;)

re: #114 JamesTKirk

But big pictures of Che are just fine 'n dandy.

Remember Fawlty Towers?

re: #122 MigueldowninMexico

Remember: a false messiah can get away with murder ;)

A nice spot to attack Israel from..thank you!..

Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Thursday confirmed for the first time reports in the Arab media claiming that Israel had agreed to implement full withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria. In an interview with the Qatari daily Al Watan the Syrian president conveyed that the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had informed him that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had agreed to cede the Golan for peace

[Link: www.albawaba.com...]

re: #120 JamesTKirk

Almost had one on the dead thread ←. But we nipped it real quick.

/I can't stop myself.

re: #112 goddessoftheclassroom

[nods] A healthier attitude. It's a shame that being able to say "Fuck it" and place yourself first, in any number of situations, is such a hard thing to do for the people who need to do it the most. It's doubly unfair that such people are usually stereotyped as pushovers, so when they start making an effort to stand up for themselves the 'abnormal' behaviour makes people react more strongly to their saying "No" than someone with a reputation for being unhelpful in the first place.

I don't really get a lot of aspects of human nature or society on an instinctive level, but observation and experience can occasionally make up the lack, and often provides me with a unique view. It doesn't, however, typically give me more respect for many of those aspects.

/Aspie

re: #112 goddessoftheclassroom

{elydo}

Goodness, I love this place!

Part of my personality is that I want to be liked. When someone is "mean" to me, I think it's my fault, and I want to "fix" the problem. My inlaws hurt me terribly by their treatment after their son's betrayal of me and our kids, and funny enough, I was more upset by their attitude than I was by my EH's.

I have finally accepted that THEY have the problem, and that since the clearly don't care about having me in their life, I can do without them in mine. The kids can see them whenever they want to, but they haven't wanted to--and the inlaws will not lower themselves to call me to ask me to see them.

That is so sad Goddess. Heartbreaking for your kids, if not now then down the road a piece.

re: #127 elydo

Annnnnd she's gone...

/Must type faster

re: #112 goddessoftheclassroom

{elydo}

Goodness, I love this place!

Part of my personality is that I want to be liked. When someone is "mean" to me, I think it's my fault, and I want to "fix" the problem. My inlaws hurt me terribly by their treatment after their son's betrayal of me and our kids, and funny enough, I was more upset by their attitude than I was by my EH's.

I have finally accepted that THEY have the problem, and that since the clearly don't care about having me in their life, I can do without them in mine. The kids can see them whenever they want to, but they haven't wanted to--and the inlaws will not lower themselves to call me to ask me to see them.

and so you're ahead on points.... now all you have to do is decide to be happy and let them suck eggs.

joke'em if they can't take a ....

/JMHO, of course

[Link: img212.imageshack.us...]

re: #125 storagemanager

A nice spot to attack Israel from..thank you!..

[Link: www.albawaba.com...]

Dear G_d! You have GOT to be kidding me! Olmert is absolutely insane!

re: #118 opnion

Lizards, gotta go.Five hour drive ahead of me. I will do anything to avoid the airport.
Remember, "No fun ,of any kind", (Dean Wormer)

"Bite me."

/the rules lost. %-)

Good morning, all...

This is kinda cool -- "said to be the earliest photographic portrait of a person" (from 1939).

Democrats in Turkey favor Obama over Clinton
With presidential hopefuls Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama still fighting for the Democratic nomination»»

[Link: www.todayszaman.com...]

re: #120 JamesTKirk

Oh no, not another penis thread...

yer just dickin us around, right?

re: #134 christheprofessor

Good morning, all...

This is kinda cool -- "said to be the earliest photographic portrait of a person" (from 1939).

Chris, join me in another cup of coffee. The picture was taken in 1839.

re: #132 galloping granny

Dear G_d! You have GOT to be kidding me! Olmert is absolutely insane!

Can they declare him unfit for office due to mental incompetency?

re: #138 JamesTKirk

It would set a precedent, and soon we would be out of presidents.

re: #124 JamesTKirk

[Link: youtube.com...]

Thanks! Great song!
I could easily fall in love with Renee, she's beautiful ;)

re: #135 storagemanager

[Link: www.todayszaman.com...]

Why do we give a rat's behind what "democrats" anywhere except those registered to vote in the United States of America think about the potential nominee?

re: #138 JamesTKirk

Can they declare him unfit for office due to mental incompetency?

I am dumbfounded that they have done nothing to get rid of him as yet.

re: #134 christheprofessor

doh! that should read "from 1839"...

think i oughta go to bed before HRH's alarm goes off.....

L8r, y'all.

/CHANGE!

/drink!

re: #137 galloping granny

Heh. Just caught that myself (hell, I've seen photo portraits of Zirkle's favorite leader from before 1939)....

re: #144 redc1c4

See you next time red. Stay sober safe.

Ok I have to go now.
Good bye and God bless all :)

24/04/2008: "Girls’ schools have also become a target. At least six schools were attacked in the Darra Adam Khel area, about 35km south of Peshawar, in 2008, badly affecting girls’ education, with parents terrified to send their daughters to school." (IRIN Asia)

Driving across Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), which lies along the country’s western border with Afghanistan, more and more often, in the bazaars of small towns such as Kohat, Bannu or Tank, ruined buildings stand desolately, resembling a scene of war.

Now such scenes are also becoming more commonplace in Peshawar, NWFP’s provincial capital and a city of over two million people: Most of the affected buildings are shops that once sold music CDs, video or DVD films, or housed tailoring businesses.
All have been targeted by militants who hold “Western entertainment”, or the stitching of women’s clothes by male tailors, a violation of religious principles.

Earlier this month, for example, militants targeted three shops selling CDs on the busy Kohat Road in Peshawar, using homemade explosives to damage them and force their closure. “Fortunately no one was injured this time, but who knows what militants can do next,” Firdaus Ahmed, a nearby shopkeeper, said.

Girls’ schools have also become a target. At least six schools were attacked in the Darra Adam Khel area, about 35km south of Peshawar, in 2008, badly affecting girls’ education, with parents terrified to send their daughters to school

[Link: www.wluml.org...]

Have a good one Miguel.

re: #148 storagemanager

That culture is starting to remind me of the Kzinti from Nivens Known Space stories. Where they bred all intelligence out of their females. Wonder it this is what they are trying to attempt.

re: #148 storagemanager

They need assistance from the Japanese. From what I've seen in their TV shows, it's not safe to mess with Japanese schoolgirls.

re: #145 christheprofessor

Heh. Just caught that myself (hell, I've seen photo portraits of Zirkle's favorite leader from before 1939)....

Ever spent any time wandering through the collection of old portraits and photos owned by the Library of Congress? Bunches of them are online. Wonderful teaching tool if you happen to teach US history - or photography/technology.

re: #70 rightside

Morning Jim, I am in Va too!

I wandered off to shower and get the klds up. Where in VA?

re: #134 christheprofessor

Good morning, all...

This is kinda cool -- "said to be the earliest photographic portrait of a person" (from 1939).

Loved that comment:

Little does he know that the funny box he is staring into is connected to the Inter-Net!

Reminds me of the quote that Peter Jackson used to exhort his cast with during the years-long ordeal of making the Lord Of The Rings trilogy: "Pain is temporary. Film is forever."

"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less."

-Robert E. Lee

re: #141 galloping granny

I've heard some places consider Rat's butts an aphrodesiac (sp?), almost as special as Rhino horns.

I read it in that Ali Babwa paper.

Another Glorius Day on tap here in Pa Dutch land.

re: #152 galloping granny

Ever spent any time wandering through the collection of old portraits and photos owned by the Library of Congress? Bunches of them are online. Wonderful teaching tool if you happen to teach US history - or photography/technology.

No, but that's a thought. I think that's where the folks who run Shorpy get a lot of theirs...

re: #154 Dar ul Harb

Yes, I thought that was funny, as well. I've always wondered what it would be like for, say, George Washington or other folks of that era to come back today and see what the country is like (from a technological, not a political, standpoint).

re: #155 4wheel

"Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less."

-Robert E. Lee

owning a human being and dehumanizing them was his duty.

Olmert is seeking a prize that even Djimmah Carter cannot aspire to, the total destruction of Israel by a self loathing Jew. I cannot believe the Israeli Parliament would ever ratify such a treaty. I cannot believe that once this news breaks that Shas, the Religious Party would continue as a partner in Olmerde's government. We all see what happened when Israel gave up the significant Sinai peninsula thanks to Djimmah Carter. But Israel could live without Sinai, but the Golan, with Iranian overlorded Syria in control with Iranian missiles there, and with just a piece of paper proclaiming peace in our time, is insane.
Why Syria did not immediately agree to call Olmerde's bluff is beyond me.
BTW on another topic, did you hear on IMUS, today that Obamanation is saying 'If you are tough you don't have to talk tough', like Hillary, that People will know you are tough without you having to talk tough.

Except for the fact Barack, that since you are perceived to be weaker than a pansy (flower not any gay reference) any tough talk from you would be welcome. Indeed, even IMUS said PLLLLEEEEEASE OBAMA say something TOUGH.
All to no avail.

re: #120 JamesTKirk

Oh no, not another penis thread...

Dating rituals have changed since my youth.
Drunk midshipman accused of sex assault

A week before the incident, Calvanico sent the woman a digital photograph of his penis via his cellphone. The Navy charges that the act constituted "conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman."

The woman did not deny that she requested the photograph. "I knew what I was getting," she said.

I used to send chocolate and flowers.

re: #161 Jim in Virginia

I used to send chocolate and flowers.

How do you send that via cell phone?

re: #161 Jim in Virginia

Ugh, kids these days.

re: #162 JamesTKirk

You should know, just properly adjust the transtator.

/yes I am a geek.

O.K...How long before the world will see?..........

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, will visit Pakistan for a few hours next week, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry reported.

According to the report, Ahmadinejad will meet state leaders to discuss political and financial relations between the two countries. (AFP)

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

Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called his fellow countries in the region to “increase awareness of enemies scheming to eradicate them.”

Ahmadinejad said in a meeting held with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem that : “Americans as well as their allies are facing doom.” The Syrian Foreign Minister praised the Palestinian’s resistance to the Israeli siege over Gaza. (Dudi Cohen

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

re: #164 BlueCanuck

Is that how they got their spuds to those colonies on different planets?

re: #167 Widow'smight

Is that how they got their spuds to those colonies on different planets?

A "trans-tater" is Mr. Potato Head in drag...

re: #162 JamesTKirk

Or use your phone to call a delivery company. Technically it could still be considered 'using' your phone to send them.

re: #167 Widow'smight

^{_{shhh, it's a Starfleet secret}}

re: #163 BlueCanuck

Ugh, kids these days.

We've become geezers.

re: #171 Jim in Virginia

As my younger friends say "That's because you're OLD".

/need to beat them some more with my cane

re: #168 JamesTKirk

Maybe they got changed when their particles were flying around, or maybe they mixed with the Tribbles.

re: #171 Jim in Virginia

We've become geezers.

I am a bit younger, so I used to send chocolate penises.

long time lurker here, has spring arrived in the US yet?

...writing from Sydney, Australia.

All the autumn leaves are starting to change here now.

re: #175 Crux Australis

Spring in some parts, winter in others still. Your location will vary.

re: #170 BlueCanuck

^{_{shhh, it's a Starfleet secret}}

Except for those Iotians. McCoy left his communicator with them, and soon they'll be coming to get a piece of our action.

re: #177 JamesTKirk

Well he always proclaimed he was just a country doctor. . . . .

re: #178 BlueCanuck

Well he always proclaimed he was just a country doctor. . . . .

And not an engineer, or a bricklayer, or ...

Off to work. Play safe. Don't take any wooden nickels or chocolate penises.

I always have to keep in mind when listening to an American broadcast to change the seasons around.

Summer=Winter
Autumn=Spring

re: #179 JamesTKirk

And not an engineer, or a bricklayer, or ...

or a miracle worker.
That's where Obama was needed.

re: #180 Jim in Virginia

Off to work. Play safe. Don't take any wooden nickels or chocolate penises.

Off to work? I've been here almost two hours already!

(Not that I'm doing a whole lot of actual work at the moment, mind you...)

re: #171 Jim in Virginia

As they'd say around here,

Zees kits nadaze Zink Zey no evryzink but zey no Nutzink.

A Pa Dutch farmer and a Texas rancher were talking about their properties one day. Texas Rancher says "Yep I can hop in my pickup truck and drive all day and never reach the other end of my land." Dutchie farmer says, "Zats funny, I vuns hat a truck like zat too".

re: #161 Jim in Virginia

I used to send chocolate and flowers.

She may have asked him to send her a picture of his penis, but where did he get off thinking that meant that she wanted to have sex?
(?)

Babbazee can't get in... Who locked the LGF door?

How do Americans handle the long electoral process?

In Australia the Prime Minister calls the election (after a certain length of time has elapsed) and it is all over in six weeks. Some states have fixed 4 year terms though.

It would drive me crazy to sit through 15 months? of campaigning in Australia.

re: #186 JamesTKirk

Babbazee can't get in... Who locked the LGF door?

Probably red on his way out. You know him and his mischef.

re: #186 JamesTKirk

Babbazee can't get in... Who locked the LGF door?

She forgot the Zionist password?

re: #187 Crux Australis

How do Americans handle the long electoral process?

Alcohol and lots of it. And no matter who wins, that's also the recipe for the next four years.

re: #189 storagemanager

She forgot the Zionist password?

I wonder if she's the only one having trouble getting in? Posting seems slow this morning... I'm having no trouble keeping up with LGF and my email and a few other sites simultaneously.

re: #190 JamesTKirk

Alcohol and lots of it. And no matter who wins, that's also the recipe for the next four years.

I watch old shows like the Rifleman

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

General Petraeus piece from the AP.

Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) is being a dork as usual.... :b

= = =

As this is the open thread, I thought this would be a good news item to post. I've already emailed the link to the site, but I thought it'd be good for us to discuss.

CENTCOM. I think it's cool. :) One of Bush's better choices.

It's not just her -- it took the page three times and 2 reloads to load for me. Last night I couldn't get it to load at all for some reason.

(crosses fingers and presses "post")

re: #187 Crux Australis

In Australia the Prime Minister calls the erection

Geez, I hope our president doesn't have to get involved in such trivial things, and can concentrate on stopping Iran and saving Polar Bears. But then again, maybe that's why Billy bob Clinton needed Monica to help him.

re: #194 Lucius Septimius

Realwest had problems last night as well. Me thinks it may be a localized condition, or problems with ISP's.

In Australia things are looking grim.

Labor (think Democrats) are in control of every state legislature and the House of Representatives in the Federal parliament and come July the Senate.

Not happy!

re: #195 Widow'smight

STOP IT, STOP IT! Must we have another penis thread so soon.

/I know it's too late.

re: #187 Crux Australis

How do Americans handle the long electoral process?

In Australia the Prime Minister calls the election (after a certain length of time has elapsed) and it is all over in six weeks. Some states have fixed 4 year terms though.

It would drive me crazy to sit through 15 months? of campaigning in Australia.

It wasn't always this way.

re: #159 storagemanager

owning a human being and dehumanizing them was his duty.

For a person who quotes the bible so often I find this a very odd statement.

re: #196 BlueCanuck

Now it seems to be working better ... hmmm.

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

re: #200 doriangrey

For a person who quotes the bible so often I find this a very odd statement.

Why...because I am not a fan of Robert E. Lee or the slave owning South?

Time to jet, see you all next week.

/poof

re: #198 BlueCanuck

STOP IT, STOP IT! Must we have another penis thread so soon.

/I know it's too late.

Shouldn't we have a boob thread, just to be fair and alternate?

IAEA Says Iran Agrees to Clarify Nuclear Activity in May just like Iran said they would clear up nuclear issues with IAEA by late February and before that it was November...and before that...

Mornin folks...are we havin fun yet? The Mullah's are.

re: #92 galloping granny

Oh dear. I am apparently in a sad way today. I just read this headline
Secret Service Catch Mexican Official Nabbing White House BlackBerries and mentally commented that I did not know they grew blackberries at the White House. . . . . . . . . .

Well, he can always come back to the United States as an Illegal (ugh)...That said, I'm glad they caught the son of a bitch.
Oh, and GOOD MORNING LIZARDS!

re: #201 Lucius Septimius

Now it seems to be working better ... hmmm.

Well there goes your liberal academia street cred... What liberal ever pointed to something working better.... Anything working better?

re: #198 BlueCanuck

We should play some music to change the course. How bout some Aerosmith "10 inch" or sumpin.

OOps, the ladies have arrived, we'll return to our regularly scheduled program. See any Bees loaded up with Pollen?

Good Morning Lizards.

Well, somebody reminded the Chicago White Sox that they are the Chicago White Sox and not the 1927 Yankees. Last night they made an over-the-hill, rag armed, junk throwing Mike Mussina look like Tom Seaver in his prime.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

By the way folks, please find a few minutes today to send up some prayers/good thoughts for real west. Our friend/LGF contributor has an important meeting with the doctors today.

Thinking of you, real...

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Now, will someone with incredible idiocy in the brain tell me to SHUT THE FUCK UP? It's not always about YOU.

*minor rant over*

SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's not always about YOU.

I really liked the Rove article that was on WSJ this morning (I see Jim posted it above). I particularly liked this quote:

And what of the reborn Adlai Stevenson? Mr. Obama is befuddled and angry about the national reaction to what are clearly accepted, even commonplace truths in San Francisco and Hyde Park. How could anyone take offense at the observation that people in small-town and rural American are "bitter" and therefore "cling" to their guns and their faith, as well as their xenophobia? Why would anyone raise questions about a public figure who, for only 20 years, attended a church and developed a close personal relationship with its preacher who says AIDS was created by our government as a genocidal tool to be used against people of color, who declared America's chickens came home to roost on 9/11, and wants God to damn America? Mr. Obama has a weakness among blue-collar working class voters for a reason.

Of course he and his handlers have completely convinced themselves that any opposition to him must be racial. Taranto did a pretty thorough debunking of that based on the numbers from PA on BotW yesterday. Still, they will always have race as an excuse. Pathetic, or at least it would be if it were not such a potent tool for stirring up hatred and resentment among the hoi polloi.

Barry can talk about "bitterness" since he is such a master at creating it.

Who's on first?

re: #214 JamesTKirk

LOL!

re: #62 goddessoftheclassroom

Can you set yours up the night before? I do that that I just have to press the buttons in the morning.

goddess-

Set up everything EXCEPT the coffee. Scoop it in when ready. More/better taste that way.

-S-

re: #203 storagemanager

Why...because I am not a fan of Robert E. Lee or the slave owning South?

Would you discard everything done or said or written by Thomas Jefferson because he also lived in Virginia and owned slaves?

If so, your attitude is the same preached by that hate-filled "reverend" Wright so beloved by Obama: nothing good could ever possibly have come from slave owners who once lived in the United States of KKKA so throw it all out! Discard the Declaration of Independence because the man who wrote it owned slaves.

The NORTH was not too far removed from slavery itself, tolerated and even encouraged a factory system that was little different than outright slavery - one that "employed" 3 year olds to repair broken threads inside the huge looms - and profited mightily off the labors of those in the South. There are NO clean hands.

re: #217 MandyManners

LOL!

I aim to please.

re: #220 JamesTKirk

I aim to please.

You succeed.

re: #203 storagemanager

Why...because I am not a fan of Robert E. Lee or the slave owning South?

Has nothing to do with Robert E. Lee, and everything to do with the biblical stance on slavery. Personally I like throwing stones at Thomas Jefferson for both owning slaves and siring them, the man kept his own children as slaves...

The point though is that Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson both acted well within the moral standards outlined in the bible. The simple truth is that slavery was not considered to be a morally evil practice by those mentioned in or those who wrote the bible. Condemning those in the past for acting according to the moral standards of their day is, well its an act of moral relativism.

Man Steals Wallet of ROTC Student Having Seizure Outside Bus Station

HUMAN SCUM......

KDFW: Surveillance video shows a man approaching the student, who was wearing desert fatigues and flailing on the sidewalk. The man then pulls a wallet from the the student's back pocket.

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re: #213 MandyManners

*minor rant over*

Somebody needs a stiff one, but it's not five o'clock yet? I got the answer here. Zoom in on the picture, I think it's cute.

re: #219 galloping granny

Thomas Jefferson Did not join a group that broke away from the union and caused more American deaths then any war in history.

re: #224 ec marm

Somebody needs a stiff one, but it's not five o'clock yet? I got the answer here. Zoom in on the picture, I think it's cute.

It *is* cute! Very cute.

re: #224 ec marm

Somebody needs a stiff one

Look, we really are trying to keep this from becoming a penis thread, but you're not helping.

Good morning Lizards.... been working crazy hours and having some med side effects. Found out my last day of employment is the 9th of May.... but go in this morning to observe a class of developmentally disabled (cognitive age 4-5 years old). I am being considered for a life trainer/teaching position! Pay is crap but so is the Y's... since when does that stop me?

Cross your fingers for me this morning!

Gotta' go slop the hogs and feed the chickens.

Later, Lizards.

re: #159 storagemanager

You should really brush up on your history. Another name for the "Civil War" is "The war of Northern Aggression". There's a reason for that. Slavery was and is wrong, but it has little, if anything, to do with why Robert E. Lee was a general in the confederate army. Maybe he did own slaves. Maybe he didn't. The quote is still true.

re: #225 storagemanager

Thomas Jefferson Did not join a group that broke away from the union and caused more American deaths then any war in history.

He did join a group that broke away from the Union Jack.

re: #225 storagemanager

Thomas Jefferson Did not join a group that broke away from the union and caused more American deaths then any war in history.

No, he just kept his OWN CHILDREN IN CHAINS....

re: #230 4wheel

You should really brush up on your history. Another name for the "Civil War" is "The war of Northern Aggression". There's a reason for that. Slavery was and is wrong, but it has little, if anything, to do with why Robert E. Lee was a general in the confederate army. Maybe he did own slaves. Maybe he didn't. The quote is still true.

It was called the rebel army for a reason.

re: #211 MandyManners

Wait a minute, are you ill? You're supposed to be rinsing & repeating "RUDY!"

re: #231 JamesTKirk

He did join a group that broke away from the Union Jack.

Not an army killed Americamn troops...Jack

re: #232 doriangrey

No, he just kept his OWN CHILDREN IN CHAINS....

That has never been proven. Somebody in the Jefferson family had sex with slaves, as shown by the DNA link between the Jeffersons and Hemings descendents today, but there's know way of knowing which Jefferson it was.

re: #233 storagemanager

It was called the rebel army for a reason.

History is always written by the victor. George Washington likewise lead a rebel army.

The south was wrong then...and the Democracks are wrong now...same spirit behind both.

re: #224 ec marm

Somebody needs a stiff one, but it's not five o'clock yet? I got the answer here. Zoom in on the picture, I think it's cute.

Always a Five O'Clock World!

re: #237 doriangrey

History is always written by the victor. George Washington likewise lead a rebel army.

If you can not see the deferents..we have nothing in common.

Good Morning again Lizards,

I am at work and youtubeless!

JamesTKirk, I got the thrust of your posts!

U.N. Slams Hizbullah as a Continuing Challenge to Lebanon

Hizbullah Slams U.S., U.N.

Situation normal on the Lebanese front, they're definitely moving right along.

re: #225 storagemanager

Thomas Jefferson Did not join a group that broke away from the union and caused more American deaths then any war in history.

Didn't he? Just exactly what do you think the Revolution was? There were an awful lot of Americans born and bred here that died in the Revolution who were not on the side of the Founding Fathers. And a whole bunch more whose left for England or Canada. Many of the English folks in Nova Scotia have roots in what is now the US.

The War between the States, as the Civil War is also known, was not ever primarily about slavery. It was about state's rights, about whether state law or federal was/should be paramount, whether joining the union (as states were still doing then) also gave the implicit right to withdraw from the Union. Those questions STILL are not solved. Witness the actions of Berkeley or states like Vermont directly contravening US drug laws to purchase pharmaceuticals in Canada for use by Vermont residents.

Robert E. Lee was the descendent of Lighthorse Harry, a true hero of the Revolution. Every single US soldier from any war who is buried at Arlington is buried at Robert E. Lee's home. His wife was the stepdaughter of George Washington. Lee was one of the finest generals this nation has ever produced - as well as one of the most respected by soldiers on both sides and one of the most beloved. Universally, not just below the Mason-Dixon.

Who the HELL are YOU to disparage him or all the rest of the "slaveowners" who fought and died for YOU and YOUR fucking rights?!

Fighting a war to be free of bondage...and fighting a war to keep your slaves...there is a clear line.

re: #239 Macker

Always a Five O'Clock World

I always enjoyed Drew Carey but the time was always bad for me to watch.

re: #228 The Albatross

Cross your fingers for me this morning!

You got it.

Maybe because I see our country so divided today...is the reason I am bitter...

re: #240 storagemanager

If you can not see the deferents..we have nothing in common.

ok..this I gotta read. Storage, ya know i love ya, but you're not gonna try and say it was the slavery thing, are you? The issue that started the Civil War was cessession(sp?), not slavery.....

re: #224 ec marm

Somebody needs a stiff one, but it's not five o'clock yet? I got the answer here. Zoom in on the picture, I think it's cute.

Damn, not another penis thread...

re: #233 storagemanager

Yes it was. Because they rebelled against the Northern aggression. Did you have a point?

Anyone watching fox and friends right now?

Some radio host Mike Papantanio said something along the lines of, "well a lot of people think President Bush has a learning disability."

I'm proud of the fox and friends crew for shaming him right away...saying "you should be ashamed of yourself...that's not right...this isn't your radio show, etc."

What a putz.

If it was not about slavery...then why Jim Crow?

re: #252 storagemanager

If it was not about slavery...then why Jim Crow?

Most of what are termed the Jim Crow laws were a direct reaction by the Southern states to Reconstruction. And BTW, most blacks who were denied the right to vote in the South were not denied because they were black, they were denied because they were illiterate. Illiterates were denied the right to vote in Northern states too. They just happened to mostly be poor whites.

If it was not about slavery...why the KKK?

Why did it not end until the 1960's?...and the democracks are still using a form of slavery.

re: #160 eaglewingz08

Olmert is seeking a prize that even Djimmah Carter cannot aspire to, the total destruction of Israel by a self loathing Jew. I cannot believe the Israeli Parliament would ever ratify such a treaty. I cannot believe that once this news breaks that Shas, the Religious Party would continue as a partner in Olmerde's government. We all see what happened when Israel gave up the significant Sinai peninsula thanks to Djimmah Carter. But Israel could live without Sinai, but the Golan, with Iranian overlorded Syria in control with Iranian missiles there, and with just a piece of paper proclaiming peace in our time, is insane.
Why Syria did not immediately agree to call Olmerde's bluff is beyond me.

Israel and Egypt have not fought since, and many thousands of Israelis travel to Egypt regularly for those cheap and risky Sinai holiday specials. It is peace, though not fully normalized relations by any means.
Yes the Golan Heights is a different kettle of fish due to the strategic considerations. However, I would hope that if Syria were to bite at this offer then Israeli withdrawal from the Golan would be contingent on a substantial ongoing Israeli or American military/security presence on the Heights.
BTW, IMO for you to call Olmert a self-loathing Jew who desires the total destruction of Israel makes you, not him, sound like a self-loathing Jew. I have seen this type of hyperbole here before and it makes me sick to see the spewing of such garbage against the head of the democratic government of the State of Israel.
But don't misunderstand me - if Shas brings down the government over this, that will be fine with me because it will be a legitimate Israeli political act, and will likely result in Netanyahu replacing Olmert.

re: #236 JamesTKirk

That has never been proven. Somebody in the Jefferson family had sex with slaves, as shown by the DNA link between the Jeffersons and Hemings descendents today, but there's know way of knowing which Jefferson it was.

Sorry Jim, but that is pathetic. all of Jefferson's brothers were already dead by the time Madison Jefferson was born.

re: #254 storagemanager

If it was not about slavery...why the KKK?

WTF? What in the HELL does a racist organization (it wasn't originally) to the OFFICIAL reason for the call for cessesion? They were rebels after the fact...I'm not following you're convoluted thinking here...

Speaking on Larry King Live last night, first daughter Jenna Bush, who appeared alongside first lady Laura Bush, confessed that she's not sure if she'll vote for the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Sen. John McCain, and even left open the possibility that she'd support either Sen. Barack Obama or Sen. Hillary Clinton.
KING: Do you have a favorite between the two, the two Democrats?

LAURA BUSH: My favorite is the Republican.

KING (pointing to Jenna): Yours too, I would imagine.

JENNA BUSH: I don't know.

KING: A-ha! Are you open to...

JENNA BUSH: Yeah, of course. I mean, who isn't open to learning about the candidates and I'm sure that everybody's like that.

[Link: www.examiner.com...]