Drink !

New episode of Lost tonight. No east coast spoilers please.

Just back off, so I can eat my waffle!

re: #2 Killgore Trout

New episode of Lost tonight. No east coast spoilers please.

I've never watched it so I don't care.

re: #4 song_and_dance_man

Still haven't watched an episode.

I am clean.

I just reread ULLER UPRISING by H. Beam Piper at Project Gutenburg.

The trolls are still showing up in the Robert Spencer thread, by the way...

Nothing is Easy:
Making a difference is what's hard.

My pithy saying for the evening

re: #7 Charles

Stand by to repel boarders!

re: #2 Killgore Trout

I stopped watching the show... simply lost interest.

pon raul!

re: #7 Charles

I'm surprised that "GoV calls for genocide" hasn't been a thread yet. Going easy on em?

re: #7 Charles

You have the grill fired up, I assume?

Denver '08 !

DRINK.

re: #11 lawhawk

They've almost lost me a few times but I'm sticking with it. It's pretty much the only show I go out of my way to watch.

re: #16 mikeinmd

indeed , it will be a show

What is this "Lost" that everyone speaks of?

re: #7 Charles

I love some of the emails you post sometimes. Got any more gems you wanna share ?

For those interested I posted a longer piece analyzing the release Mohammed al Dura footage from France 2.

It is pretty much an open and shut case: the boy's death was staged.

re: #14 Killgore Trout

I'm surprised that "GoV calls for genocide" hasn't been a thread yet. Going easy on em?

Don't worry, it will be.

re: #23 Charles

I keep expecting them to delete that post. I can't imagine they think that's a good thing to post.

Lawhawk
Good post on the girl with Cerebral Palsy getting puchout by the peace and love flower guy. Please follow up, if possible.

Good Evening Charles and all
Dont mean to sound stupid, but what is GoV? Havent heard of that yet

re: #21 buzzsawmonkey

and the amendment (forget the number) which granted women the right to vote.

18th amendment - no booze
19th amendment - women vote
Both bad ideas about a year apart.
(Looks around for MM)

re: #22 ayatollah ghilmeini

Dude... you really need to get your own blog! Or join someone else's as a guest poster.

WSJ is advising Americans to stock up on food....

Time to stock up on food

re: #7 Charles

The trolls are still showing up in the Robert Spencer thread, by the way...

Charles -

For whatever reasons, we (the West) have allowed "the trolls" to have an influence on world affairs since 1973/4. As I understand it, the original rationale was if they had money, they would become rational. Guess not.
That is all.

-S-

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Israeli Ambassador Calls Former President Carter 'Bigot'

NEW YORK — Israel's ambassador to the United Nations called former President Jimmy Carter "a bigot" for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, "went to the region with soiled hands and came back with bloody hands after shaking the hand of Khaled Mashaal, the leader of Hamas," Ambassador Dan Gillerman told reporters at a luncheon briefing Thursday.

re: #32 song_and_dance_man
LOL, Thanks, you almost got me, im dog tired.

re: #31 Maximu§

You know, I just perused that on Drudge.

What's your opinion?

WSJ sensationalizing a bit too much?

re: #14 Killgore Trout

I'm surprised that "GoV calls for genocide" hasn't been a thread yet. Going easy on em?

How about an ultimate death match thread with Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan, the Pope, GOV/WN, Terri Schivo, the Civil War, Waco, and stem cell research? Nobody leaves alive.

re: #31 Maximu§

I've been thinking that since I read about the Azerbaijani winter wheat harvest. Which was very bad. Heck, last fall, the Italians were facing dismaying prices for flour, never mind pasta.

Is this entirely politics that's causing this? How much is weather, how much is politics? In over 100 years, we haven't seen a food crisis that wasn't political.

What about this one? Because I am seriously concerned that by June, we may be looking at a real food crisis.

US gov cannot use the term "Islamic Terrorist"

[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com...]

re: #25 pat

The Sundries Shack has a bunch more on the assaulter - German Talis - Fruitcake with criminal intent.

re: #35 Sol Roth

sol -

For a "Diplomat' - Gillerman has BIG BAYTZIM - kinda like the John Bolton of Israel. May their tribe increase.

-S-

re: #34 buzzsawmonkey

EC--I think you're responding to a post of mine two threads back.

Thanks, though.

Two threads back? Geez, I'm skipping all over the place tonight.

re: #7 Charles

The trolls are still showing up in the Robert Spencer thread, by the way...

You finally blocked ENT. Not really a surprise, but Wow.

I got a really silly question:

How can you comment at Zomblog? All I see are three empty boxes at the top of the comment area, and all three are unlabeled.

When I try to comment I get an error.

re: #14 Killgore Trout

I'm surprised that "GoV calls for genocide" hasn't been a thread yet. Going easy on em?

Holy shit, they actually did that!?!

re: #44 CyanSnowHawk

Do you mean Et Norsk Troll?

Wow, I've missed a couple bannings! Ecclesiastes and Et Norsk Troll?

re: #47 Honorary Yooper

Yeah, it's a very long and rambling post just skip to the section titled "violence" for the really good stuff.

re: #42 Dr. Shalit

It's about time Israeli and American leaders call these idiots what they are, even if Dhimmi is a former U.S. Prez.

Interesting. They actually leave the topic open for their commentors. I'll bet some of the nuttier ones pop out of the woodwork shortly. Hell, that's the type of talk that will get one rightfully banned from here.

re: #46 song_and_dance_man

That's like saying frozen water isn't ice.

freaking pc fools.

"sadm" -

Newspeak Formulation -

Islamic Jihadist/Terrorist = "RATT - BAHSTID" Works for me.

-S-

re: #32 song_and_dance_man
As I found out last night it is not a European based blog, it is American.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

I thought I was going to throw up. I didn't get that far; I got the implications well before that section.

re: #53 snowcrash
Comment for capecoddah not song and dance man sorry!

re: #45 Honorary Yooper

I got a really silly question:

How can you comment at Zomblog? All I see are three empty boxes at the top of the comment area, and all three are unlabeled.

When I try to comment I get an error.

In the Leave a Reply section I see very light text in those three blocks,
Name, Email, Website URL

They may not be visible on some screens. My Notebook might have trouble with them, like it has with the Windoze scroll bars, which are often barely visible.

re: #51 Honorary Yooper

I'm reading Kratman's Caliphate; in his concluding essay, even Kratman (and he's advisedly referred to as "Genghis Kratman" in places) doesn't come close to advocating anything like that.

re: #44 CyanSnowHawk

You finally blocked ENT. Not really a surprise, but Wow.

what's Norse finally do...just the crib notes, please.

The beautiful dusk on the San Gabriel Mountains. Rx for politics.

re: #39 Dianna

I've been thinking that since I read about the Azerbaijani winter wheat harvest. Which was very bad. Heck, last fall, the Italians were facing dismaying prices for flour, never mind pasta.

Is this entirely politics that's causing this? How much is weather, how much is politics? In over 100 years, we haven't seen a food crisis that wasn't political.

What about this one? Because I am seriously concerned that by June, we may be looking at a real food crisis.

A great deal is political, in America and Europe, marginally productive winter wheat and soy land is in ethanol corn at incredibly energy inefficient expense. In CA rice is facing a water shortage. The Australian, Filipino, Thai rice harvest was bad because of weather. But Argentina and South Africa have implemented export tariffs that not only have shrunk acreage, but have kept surpluses off the world market. No one wants to eat the filth the goons of China foist on us (lawsuit in mail) because of corruption. Russia is a basket case for Ag. Zimbabwe, the bread basket of Africa, is in bad shape. India is inefficient and has no roads because the government is incompetent or corrupt. Italy has had a mediocre year for both rice and wheat. And America, the worlds wheat reserve is at a decade low with acreage diminishing. I all ready got my rice.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Yeah, it's a very long and rambling post just skip to the section titled "violence" for the really good stuff.

I'm reading it, Killgore. I don't believe it, but I'm reading it, and here it is in black and white. And that nut Sodra thinks the US isn't far behind.

re: #49 Killgore Trout
The "z" is back. The UC Berk thread.

re: #48 Dianna

Do you mean Et Norsk Troll?

Wow, I've missed a couple bannings! Ecclesiastes and Et Norsk Troll?

Yeah, that's him. He was always a little confrontational. I didn't read too far up thread, but he has a way of pushing Charles and probably went over the line one too many times.

re: #56 CyanSnowHawk

In the Leave a Reply section I see very light text in those three blocks,
Name, Email, Website URL

They may not be visible on some screens. My Notebook might have trouble with them, like it has with the Windoze scroll bars, which are often barely visible.

Thanks. That may explain why I can't leave a comment then. I was placing the email in the thrid box.

re: #62 EC Marm

Good news.

re: #60 pat

Thanks; I've been following the former Soviet stuff pretty closely, but I didn't know about South Africa. Zimbabwe...oh, dear, yes - what a plan! - kick the people who know what they're doing out and dump people who haven't the faintest clue on the land; that sounds like instant famine to me.

California confuses me, because I can't see how we're facing a drought. I live here; we had good rain, and a very good snow pack. There shouldn't be a drought!

re: #63 CyanSnowHawk

He's done it before. But I really thought he'd learned his lesson after the time-out last year.

Oh, well.

Live and learn, for all of us.

re: #60 pat

A great deal is political, in America and Europe, marginally productive winter wheat and soy land is in ethanol corn at incredibly energy inefficient expense. In CA rice is facing a water shortage. The Australian, Filipino, Thai rice harvest was bad because of weather. But Argentina and South Africa have implemented export tariffs that not only have shrunk acreage, but have kept surpluses off the world market. No one wants to eat the filth the goons of China foist on us (lawsuit in mail) because of corruption. Russia is a basket case for Ag. Zimbabwe, the bread basket of Africa, is in bad shape. India is inefficient and has no roads because the government is incompetent or corrupt. Italy has had a mediocre year for both rice and wheat. And America, the worlds wheat reserve is at a decade low with acreage diminishing. I all ready got my rice.

Holy crap that sounds bleak! Hey, aren`t you the preparedness poster?

re: #46 song_and_dance_man

...freaking pc fools.

There are no bouncers. There are crowd control engineers.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Killgore, where on the page am I looking?

It's an open thread, so I think I'll repost something I came up with last night and dropped into a thread this morning.

With apologies to Sweet.

Clinton Blitz

Are you ready, Howard? Aha.
Nancy? Yeah!
Chuck? OK.
Alright, fellas, let's go!

Oh it's been getting so hard
Campaigning with the things you do to me, aha
My dreams are getting so strange
I'd see Senators Barack and Hillary
I see a man named Barack
As a matter of fact his ego is as big as the sun
And a girl in the corner lets no one ignore her
'Cause she thinks she's the electable one

Oh, yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was frightening
And the Dems were all seething, and they all started grieving

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man named Barack said
Everyone attack and it turned into a Clinton blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz

They're reaching out for something
She hasn't got the delegates she needs
He softly says she's no good
She claims that he is just to young to lead, aha
Now the man named Barack
Is ready to crack as he raises his hands to the sky
And the girl in the corner is New York's Senator
She could beat him with a wink of her eye

Oh yeah, it was electric, so frightfully hectic
With the delegates voting, so those two would stop posing

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man named Barack said
Everyone attack and it turned into a Clinton blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz

Oh, yeah, it was like lightning, everybody was fighting
And the Dems were all seething, and they all started leaving

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
And the man named Barack said
Everyone attack and it turned into a Clinton blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya, it'll turn into a Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz
Clinton blitz

It's it's a Clinton blitz
It's it's a Clinton blitz
It's it's a Clinton blitz
yeah, it's a Clinton blitz

re: #48 Dianna

Do you mean Et Norsk Troll?

Wow, I've missed a couple bannings! Ecclesiastes and Et Norsk Troll?

Ecclesiastes? Good! Scumbag troll antisemite trying to disguise itself as evangelical.

re: #65 Killgore Trout

Good news.

Yeah, I wasn't happy with that Spencer thread at all. I don't think I was any more ankle bitting, annoying, rhetorical, or engaged in hyperbole more than usual.

re: #62 EC Marm

The "z" is back. The UC Berk thread.

good.

re: #70 formercorpsman

Killgore, where on the page am I looking?

Just go to the next thread, Charles has it linked.

re: #75 Honorary Yooper

Thank you.

re: #2 Killgore Trout

New episode of Lost tonight. No east coast spoilers please.

DARTH IS LUKE'S FATHER!

re: #60 pat

Very good summary, Pat.

And here in Thailand, Thai thugs are night-stealing complete FIELDS (multi-tons!) of rice from other farmers... that and today's blustery, drenching typhoon have driven and are continuing to drive food prices UP!

re: #37 formercorpsman

You know, I just perused that on Drudge.

What's your opinion?

WSJ sensationalizing a bit too much?

It's just to avoid a price rise of 10% a year or thereabouts, not that there will be riots or even shortages. I'd rather have mine fresh, thank you.

Of COURSE food prices are going up, because $100 oil is still working its way through the system. Real inflation this year may be three times what the government admits. Thank goodness for falling real-estate values, right? But that won't last - BECAUSE of the oil prices.

They call dis a system?

re: #39 Dianna

Apparently, drought has wrecked some crop harvests world-wide, including Oz. Heard we should expect oil price to double within four years. Why not end the 1/3 of US corn designated for ethanol production? And then there are those people who are now hoarding. Apparently west coasters are making a run on rice. And Filipinos here shipping rice back home to needy relatives who can't even get it at any price. And Indians with a dot and Chinese are moving up financially and thus eating better.

This blog does a great job controlling trolls. Some sites seem overrun with nasty trolls though. Wonder what prevents likes of nodrog from registering here again using a different PC?

Got a recent e-mail from Kenya asserting that Obama is a racist and Muslim working with his cousin there, Raila. Anyone know if BHO full name is really Barack Hussein Muhammed Obama? Anyway the letter claims US media is covering for Obama? Say it ain't so. Could the likes of Olberdork and Sissy Matthews really be in tank for the Messiah? From what I've seen much of media thinks Gibson and Stephanoupolis were way biased against BHO. Oh, and there are claims that not one mosque in Kenya has been burned, but that hundreds of churches were burned down, some with people inside them, burned alive. I know little was ever said in US media about those Muslim riots all over France and have to wonder what the truth is in Kenya and with Obama.

re: #66 Dianna

Yeah. The Sacramento rice fields which supply all of America, including Hawaii, Micronesia, and Polynesia with the highest quality medium grain, is in the very sensitive famine belt. And there are other enviro concerns that mandate the rivers must flow.

re: #81 pat

I mean SALMON belt. BTW these enviro concerns are real, not BS.

re: #82 pat

I mean SALMON belt. BTW these enviro concerns are real, not BS.

The problem is the state has water concerns, heck, all of the world is having fresh water concerns, with population, industrialization, and maybe a touch of "climate change" all contributing. Rice takes a LOT of water, cut back rice cultivation even 20%, and you can run all the cities in California for another ten years. But can't they plant more rice down south, or somewhere, it's not exactly rocket science.

Go Habs Go!

re: #80 madmax517

Apparently, drought has wrecked some crop harvests world-wide, including Oz. Heard we should expect oil price to double within four years.

Only if the dollar gets that weak, the real price of oil should stabilize below $100 when the Canada oil sands and other new sources come online. But for us in the US, yes, the dollar could get that weak. We'll see.

Apparently west coasters are making a run on rice. And Filipinos here shipping rice back home to needy relatives who can't even get it at any price.

That's gotta be nutz, buying rice at retail and paying retail shipping costs.

This blog does a great job controlling trolls. Some sites seem overrun with nasty trolls though. Wonder what prevents likes of nodrog from registering here again using a different PC?

It's a marvelous technology, goes by the name of Charles.

I was going to post a bright sunny happy pic, but this thread isn't going that way.

Here's a stark one, almost bleak.

Taken in a vain effort to help calm me down, while my son was driving at 70mph up I-5 in the rain, a couple of months back, somewhere south of Portland; on the way to my Mother-in Law's Funeral.

oretrees - or looks like a desolate European landscaoe

good evening lizards

This is a perfect example of why Michael Ramirez deserved the Pulitzer.

It should be borne in mind that Obama chose to be Black.

He could have said, “Hey, my father was Kenyan, my mother is white, I’m an American.” None of his ancestors, none of his experience, had anything to do with Black America.

Instead, he chose, evidently at Occidental, to embrace it, for reasons which can only be construed as cynical and careerist. Clearly, he chose well.

re: #2 Killgore Trout

(It was a killer, too...... the best one all season. And I can't help it, I do love Sayid, so I just tell myself he's Hirsan Ali's brother, or somethin').
Now if Abu Mazen could just get this rumor started amongst the Hamaserati..........could demoralize 'em in a weekend.
:)
[Link: uk.reuters.com...]

re: #91 MikeySDCA

To be fair (no pun intended), he really didn't have a lot of practical choice on the face of it, regardless of his mother's ethnicity.

Hello, everyone. Has this been posted yet for discussion?

U.S.: SYRIAN NUCLEAR REACTOR WAS CLOSE TO COMPLETION

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Until Israel whacked it in September.

re: #94 merav

Son of Osirak strikes again. (Yay).
I saw the pictures this afternoon, and it looked pretty damned complete to me ....not that I have a clue what a functioning Syrian nuke plant/missile site would actually look like.
What does Jimmy Carter say? Let him inspect the site, because if it was in fact a baby milk factory, Carter will be sure to suss that out.

re: #95 tradewind

tradewind, hi. Jimmy Carter should definitely be consulted. He'll want to meet with the Syrian nuke czar, help them get that project back on track. Maybe he'll manage to arrange an e-meeting with Abdominable-bob and Meshaal, make sure they're all on board. Since they're all so harmless and good-natured.

Yikes!

There's been another bridge closing here in Minnesota.

Update—after an especially warm spring day, MN-DOT inspectors discovered that one set of bridge bearings had once again reached its stop bracket. The stop bracket limits how far the bearing can slide, and it prevents the bridge from sliding off of the pier and falling into the water. Once the span hit the stop bracket, forces from the heating and cooling of the span apparently pushed the problem pier two inches further out of plumb. It also caused some bolts on the structure to shear off. As a result, MN-DOT closed the bridge at 10AM on Friday, April 25, 2008.

boo!

re: #57 Dianna

Tell me how the story comes out, Dianne.

;)