That reminds me....I should check the Powerball numbers.

hope, and Change&trade

Ah. Good news and bad news. The bad news is that I didn't win. :-( The good news is nobody else did either. :-)

re: #3 littleoldlady

Ah. Good news and bad news. The bad news is that I didn't win. :-( The good news is nobody else did either. :-)

/snicker.

sounds like Hillary. If I can't get the Demo nomination, then neither can Obama!
(its like she's doing McCain's work for him)

re: #4 Hengineer

/snicker.

sounds like Hillary. If I can't get the Demo nomination, then neither can Obama!
(its like she's doing McCain's work for him)

She's secretly in love with good ol' Mc.
/Wants to try a real man in intimacy.

//Hope the lawyer from AK is not reading this...

So how did she do with O'Reilly last night?

/I watched this instead.

The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.

— William Shakespeare

And in Shakespeare's England, you need to sit on a waiting list for six months to even get that much medicine...

re: #5 MigueldowninMexico

She's secretly in love with good ol' Mc.
/Wants to try a real man in intimacy.

re: #6 littleoldlady

So how did she do with O'Reilly last night?

I really didn't need to see those two comments one after the other. Ew.

re: #7 JamesTKirk

And in Shakespeare's England, you need to sit on a waiting list for six months to even get that much medicine...

Things haven't changed much in the past 500 years either.

re: #6 littleoldlady

So how did she do with O'Reilly last night?

/I watched this instead.

Thanks for linking that!

re: #8 JamesTKirk

I really didn't need to see those two comments one after the other. Ew.

ROFL!

Morning

re: #8 JamesTKirk

I really didn't need to see those two comments one after the other. Ew.

Welcome to the early morning dog-and-pony show!

/what are you doing up up early?!

re: #5 MigueldowninMexico

Oye, Miguel....just the Mexicano I wanted to see.....

Yesterday's San Diego Union Tribune had a big color photo of a sand-colored Humvee and troops in desert camo with rifles and machine guns cordoning off a busy street in a hot, dry looking city on the front cover. I gave it a cursory glance and assumed the piture accompanied an article about the ongoing conflict in Iraq.

Then I read the accompanying article and realized that these were Mexican soldiers (the H&K G3 rifles should've given that away) cordoning off a street in Tijuana. The article even said that the governor and local officials were asking TV and radio stations to refrain from playing narcocorrido music.

Guess I was more dead on than I thought when I used the term narcoinsurgency....

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas-run television in Gaza broadcast a dastardly new version of Holocaust denial on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day – claiming the Jews carried out the genocide to rid themselves of the “disabled and handicapped” among them.

The show, billed as part of the Islamist terror group’s educational programming, conveyed the message that the Holocaust was actually a Zionist plot, aiming to both eliminate handicapped Jews and at the same time to make “the Jews seem persecuted” in order to “benefit from international sympathy.”

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

re: #1 littleoldlady

That reminds me....I should check the Powerball numbers.

I just did.

Drat!

re: #15 storagemanager

(IsraelNN.com) Hamas-run television in Gaza broadcast a dastardly new version of Holocaust denial on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day – claiming the Jews carried out the genocide to rid themselves of the “disabled and handicapped” among them.
The show, billed as part of the Islamist terror group’s educational programming, conveyed the message that the Holocaust was actually a Zionist plot, aiming to both eliminate handicapped Jews and at the same time to make “the Jews seem persecuted” in order to “benefit from international sympathy.”

Remember the 'good old days' when they hated Hitler for not killing enough Jews instead of denying the holocaust took place?

/Don't ever pay attention to what they have to say to us in English. Always listen to what they say to each other in Arabic

Good morning, Lizards!

re: #18 goddessoftheclassroom

Good morning, Lizards!

Good Morning.

Today is May Day.

There are those who still seek to establish a Communist state in America (with themselves holding the whip, of course) even though Communism has been proven to be toxic to human life.

Let us remember the victims of Communism and work to prevent any further destruction of lives and civilization.

From a hobby related site I subscribed to...

Everyone seems to be wondering why Muslim terrorists are so quick to commit suicide. Let's see now. . . .

No Jesus
No Christmas
No television
No cheerleaders
No baseball
No football
No hockey
No golf
No tailgate parties
No Wal-Mart
No Home Depot
No pork BBQ
No hot dogs
No burgers
No chocolate chip cookies
No lobster
No shellfish, or even frozen fish sticks
No gumbo
No jambalaya
No Beer
Rags for clothes and towels for hats.
Constant wailing from the guy next-door because he's sick and there are no doctors.
Constant wailing from the guy in the tower.
More than one wife.
You can't shave.
Your wives can't shave.
You can't shower to wash off the smell of donkey cooked over burning camel dung.
The women have to wear baggy dresses and veils at all times.
Your bride is picked by someone else.
She smells just like your donkey.
But your donkey has a better disposition.

Then they tell you that when you die it all gets better!
I mean, really, is there a mystery here?

goddess! :-)

re: #16 The Other Les

I just did.

Drat!

Hope.Springs.Eternal.

/that's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it...

re: #14 Fenway_Nation

Oye, Miguel....just the Mexicano I wanted to see.....

Yesterday's San Diego Union Tribune had a big color photo of a sand-colored Humvee and troops in desert camo with rifles and machine guns cordoning off a busy street in a hot, dry looking city on the front cover. I gave it a cursory glance and assumed the piture accompanied an article about the ongoing conflict in Iraq.

Then I read the accompanying article and realized that these were Mexican soldiers (the H&K G3 rifles should've given that away) cordoning off a street in Tijuana. The article even said that the governor and local officials were asking TV and radio stations to refrain from playing narcocorrido music.

Guess I was more dead on than I thought when I used the term narcoinsurgency....

Yes narcoinsurgency is a reality.
In that particular instance, there was a small war between two sides of the same drug cartel.
It's quite a struggle, but most of the deaths are of drug dealers, an odd thing.

re: #23 MigueldowninMexico

I get the impression that Calderon is treating this much more urgently than previous administrations there.

littleoldlady
That site you linked is VERY IMPRESSIVE.
Thanks.

Morning folks - I was looking forward to the fist tulip today, but we had a frost overnight and this morning the three tulips that were about to bloom are all bent over. I'm hoping they'll recover . . . . . . three of my prettiest.

Morning all.
Way too much work going on. Other than that life is good.
We have the good fortune to be designing a data center for the state owned (well, actually, it's a family business) oil company in a very large, sandy, unnamed Middle Eastern country.
We're spending their money as fast as we can.

re: #26 galloping granny

Morning folks - I was looking forward to the fist tulip today, but we had a frost overnight and this morning the three tulips that were about to bloom are all bent over. I'm hoping they'll recover . . . . . . three of my prettiest.

Global warming climate change.

I've had a wonderful evenignBut it wasn;t this one.

Ack, I need more coffee. That was supposed to be,
Apropos of nothing, a Groucho Marx quote.

I've had a wonderful evening. But it wasn't this one.

re: #28 Jim in Virginia

Global warming climate change.

Funny how all that global warming leads to frozen tulips, isn't it? And isn't some ski resort well on the way to breaking 1000 feet of snow for the year?

re: #26 galloping granny

Morning folks - I was looking forward to the fist tulip today, but we had a frost overnight and this morning the three tulips that were about to bloom are all bent over. I'm hoping they'll recover . . . . . . three of my prettiest.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

re: #25 MigueldowninMexico

Miguel,

It was a very interesting show, attempting to answer the question, "How is it that nobody knew?" I learned a lot.

re: #32 goddessoftheclassroom

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you!

Thanks! At least the tomatoes were not forgotten outside overnight. That would have been a tragedy - too late to start more and have them ready to go into the ground.

re: #31 galloping granny

Funny how all that global warming leads to frozen tulips, isn't it? And isn't some ski resort well on the way to breaking 1000 feet of snow for the year?

Well, increased winter precipitation is one outcome of a warmer atmosphere, because the atmosphere will be able to hold more water vapor (and thus there would be more to condense out.)

However, any given day or season is just weather. As is repeatedly stated, climate is the overall, or long term nature of the Earth, not the daily changes.

I must confess that I didn't watch the whole video.

It's also not not safe for work or gentle sensibilities.

[Link: dirtyharrysplace.com...]

re: #23 MigueldowninMexico

Miguel - I've not been to TJ in several years, but recently I was thinking of going down there... but then all of this news of the "narco" wars keep popping up, which has been discouraging me.

So I too wonder if it is really as bad as the news up here is making it sound, and whether an old white guy like me would survive.... I'm not so fast at ducking bullets anymore.

{MIGUEL!}

Hopium!

re: #29 Jim in Virginia

lol!

re: #38 BabbaZee

{MIGUEL!}

Hopium!

You mean the Hopiate of the masses...

re: #33 littleoldlady

Miguel,

It was a very interesting show, attempting to answer the question, "How is it that nobody knew?" I learned a lot.

Thanks again for those links!

re: #40 Fenway_Nation

You mean the Hopiate of the masses...

No I like Hopium. I meant hopium.

Obammunism: The Hopium of the Asses!

Of course Hopiate works too , even better, if you want to stick nearer the original

I just like the sound of hopium
;~}

re: #37 freetoken

Miguel - I've not been to TJ in several years, but recently I was thinking of going down there... but then all of this news of the "narco" wars keep popping up, which has been discouraging me.

So I too wonder if it is really as bad as the news up here is making it sound, and whether an old white guy like me would survive.... I'm not so fast at ducking bullets anymore.

It seems things are hot now, because there's a war going on between different sides of "the Tijuana Cartel".
Better stay clear of TJ for a while, I'd say ;)

re: #38 BabbaZee

{MIGUEL!}

Hopium!

{BABBA}
Yes, I'm hoptimist ;)

re: #42 BabbaZee

Hopium sounds like some kind of radioactive material in my books.

/plutonium, neptunium, francium, einsteinium. . . . . .
//watch out for that earth shattering Ka-Booom

Whew! I was about to have a fit. I thought I made a HUGE mistake in my checking account and had far less money than I thought. Praise be, I had just deducted the same amount twice.

I know that in the great scheme of things, this is trivial, but in my private universe, this would have been a Very Bad Thing.

re: #42 BabbaZee

I like misspelling scepter.

Heil, Babba!

Gotta get the mini-wheats ready for school and drag a rusty razor across me grizzled face. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr mateys!

KRAKOW/JERUSALEM (EJP)--“I have mixed feelings and ermotions,” says Leibl Zisman, a 77-year-old Auschwitz survivor, who will take part on Thursday in the ‘March of the Living’ for the first time in his life.

"As a 14-year-old boy I was deported from the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto in Lithuania to Auschwitz and I made the death march in the winter of 1944-1945 before being liberated by US soldiers," he told EJP.

Zisman, who is living in New York, is among tens of thousands people, including many youngsters, from around the world, who traveled to Poland to take part in the annual March of the Living ceremony.

The ceremony, to be led by Israel’s chief of staff Brigadier General Gabi Ashkenazi, starts at 1:00 pm and is to trace the 3-kilometer voyage from the concentration camp at Auschwitz to the adjacent complex at Birkenau where Jews were systematically murdered in giant gas chambers.

The symbolic march is held in commemoration of the death marches that took place when the Nazis began emptying the camps and forcing prisoners to walk hundreds of kilometres in freezing weather with little food. Thousands died and those who lagged behind or fell were shot.

As Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary, the Auschwitz ceremony will be led by Israel’s chief of staff, Brigadier General Gabi Ashkenazi

[Link: www.ejpress.org...]

re: #45 BlueCanuck

Hopium sounds like some kind of radioactive material in my books.

/plutonium, neptunium, francium, einsteinium. . . . . .
//watch out for that earth shattering Ka-Booom

Excatly why I liked it , the incendiary quality
lol

I wanna see the flowers bloom
don't wanna go kaboom kaboom
but nevertheless....

re: #47 BulgarWheat

ARRRRRR!
Heil Five!

re: #44 MigueldowninMexico

Hoptimists Untie!

What would Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion have said if, on the day that he declared the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, he had known that six decades thence Israel would be encircled by its enemies, hopelessly outnumbered and fighting for its existence? He would surely have said: so what’s new?

Next week, on 8 May, Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of that declaration. With every decade that it clocks up, people ask the same question: will Israel still be there for the next one? It is indeed astonishing that it has not only survived but is flourishing. Its situation as a permanently embattled nation is unique. On the day after Ben-Gurion declared its independence, six Arab armies invaded and tried to wipe it out. With the current exception of Egypt and Jordan, the Arab and Muslim world has been trying ever since.

Israel is the only country whose creation was approved by the UN; yet it is the only country whose legitimacy is called into question. It is the only country which the world requires to compromise with its Palestinian Arab attackers and accede to their demands, even while they are firing rockets at its schools and houses and blowing up its citizens. It is the only country which continues to provide electricity and basic services to those attackers and routinely treats thousands of Palestinians in its own hospitals, even those who have Israeli blood on their hands. And yet it is the only country which, in the court of public opinion, is condemned for behaving ‘disproportionately’ when it uses targeted military means to defend itself, and is accused of causing the very ‘Nazi’ or ‘apartheid’ atrocities of which it itself is the victim.

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

The rebellion against civilization:
The menace of the Under Man
1922

Science!

/

Lord
Help them all
For they know not WTF is coming.

Hawaiian Seperatists have taken over the Governmental Palace and are keeping hostages

[Link: www.hawaiireporter.com...]

Iran could be just months away from fully mastering nuclear technology, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Thursday, citing intelligence estimates. "The Iranians could cross the technological line within a relatively short time, within months, before the end of the year," he told army radio.

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

Here's two other books by the venerable Scientist Stoddard

The New World of Islam, 1921

The rising tide of color against white world-supremacy, 1920

re: #54 Jewels (AKA Julian)

Hawaiian "nationalists?"

GOD help us all

Where do the mutts apply?

Woof.

Iran complained to the United Nations on Wednesday about U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's comment the United States could "totally obliterate" Iran in retaliation for a nuclear strike against Israel.

Iran's deputy ambassador to the United Nations sent a letter to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the president of the Security Council expressing Iran's condemnation of "such a provocative, unwarranted and irresponsible statement."

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

re: #58 storagemanager

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

Pot calls kettle Jewish
Film at 11

re: #57 BabbaZee

In the back with the rest of the Haolis(sp?).

re: #49 BabbaZee
Let's Drop the Bg One Now

re: #60 BlueCanuck

In the back with the rest of the Haolis(sp?).

sigh

oy

[Link: www.hawaiireporter.com...]

[Link: www.hawaiireporter.com...]

re: #61 Jim in Virginia

Never saw that one before!

re: #51 BabbaZee

Hoptimists Untie!

Hahahahahaha.

A campaign to protect domestic workers from abuse and exploitation challenges employers to ‘Put Yourself in Her Shoes’. (HRW)

Lebanese employers, placement agencies, and the Lebanese authorities should improve the treatment of domestic workers by ensuring fair contracts, timely payment of wages, and a weekly day’s leave, Human Rights Watch said today, on the eve of Labor Day.

Human Rights Watch is launching a campaign to highlight the often invisible abuses that many women who are domestic workers suffer in Lebanon.
An estimated 200,000 domestic workers, primarily from Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and Ethiopia, play an essential role in a large number of Lebanese households, yet remain unprotected by labor laws and are subject to exploitation and frequent abuse by employers and agencies.

“This Labor Day reminds us of the important contributions these women make to this country,” said Nadim Houry, researcher at Human Rights Watch. “They not only pick up the slack in many households in Lebanon, but also help support their own families left behind. While some employers treat domestic workers with respect, many fail to provide minimum standards of decent working conditions, such as adequate food, living accommodations, and regular payment.”

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

James Brown Vs The Devil

The government declared its last call for the May Day demonstrations: 'No leeway will be made!' Following this statement trade union representatives express their determination: 'We will be in Taksim with 500,000 people, with carnations in our hands!' Meanwhile, police forces have started taking measures in and around Taksim Square

[Link: www.turkishdailynews.com.tr...]

re: #59 BabbaZee

{Babba}...Mama Winger's greyhound died on Monday. Thought you'd want to know.

re: #69 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

{Babba}...Mama Winger's greyhound died on Monday. Thought you'd want to know.

Thanks for letter me know. How sad. Was it unexpected, or was the poor thing failing?

Darkness is death's ignorance and the devil's time
~ James Brown

The government of Pakistan has given cash compensation to more than 500 people for the Taliban fighters killed or wounded during the military operation in the tribal district of South Waziristan. The military operation was launched in 2004. The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Jasarat reported that over 500 individuals were given about 200 million Pakistani Rupees.

According to the report, the local Emir of Taliban in South Waziristan Mullah Nazir and about 150 senior Taliban fighters, affected by the military operation, have been given an undisclosed big amount. The report quoted an unnamed official as saying that 50,000 Rupees were given for minor injuries, 250,000 Rupees for serious injuries and 500,000 Rupees to the relatives of those who died in the operation.

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

Jewels
Long time no see!
I hope you're doing fine :)

re: #69 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

hiya my fatty boomballatee
yes I know sweetie thanks

Pray for the children..............

HUBLI: An honour killing can't possibly be worse than this. Caste — the common factor in most such incidents in northern India — was absent here. The only 'crime' 18-year-old Rekha Gokavi had committed was to love a boy belonging to a poor family. Rekha was clobbered and burnt alive by her father and uncle.The outrage, which occurred on April 22 in Chikkasavanur, a tiny village in Gadag district about 80 km from here, came to light only on Tuesday. Gadag police superintendent D Roopa informed TOI that Rekha, a high school dropout, was in love with Narasanagowda Patil (22). The families were opposed to the match. Both belonged to the Reddy community.

[Link: www.stophonourkillings.com...]

Doing Okay Miguel: I have a day job now just up. a bit early. This nonsense in Hawaii has got me annoyed at this point

re: #76 Jewels (AKA Julian)

Doing Okay Miguel: I have a day job now just up. a bit early. This nonsense in Hawaii has got me annoyed at this point

I understand you being annoyed.
Now the liberals want to take Hawaii apart from the USA.
Ugh

I'm glad you're doing ok!

My begonias are actually still alive. That's a big step forward for me, possibly the world's worst horticulturist.

My girlfriend should be landing just about now. Driver will whisk her ino the city where I have fresh coffee, fresh croissants and fresh flowers waiting.

re: #70 goddessoftheclassroom

Totally unexpected. She is crushed. Just got here {goddess} should have known you'd be here too.

[Link: www.globalincidentmap.com...]

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

re: #78 Pro-Bush Canuck

{PBC}

How are you this morning?

G'night Miguel.
HOPIUM!

Later Miguel, see you next time.

1918. In The Science of Power, Benjamin Kidd wrote, "The main cause of those deep diving differences which separate peoples and nationalities and classes from each other and which prevent or stultify collective effort in all its most powerful forms... could all be swept away if civilization put before itself the will to impose on the young the ideal of subordination to the common aims of organized humanity... So to impose it has become the chief end of education in the future. ... Give us the Young and we will create a new mind and new earth in a single generation."

Kidd goes onto quote Masonic Carbonari leader Guiseppe Mazzini (1805-1872): "Your task is to form the universal family.... Education, this is the great word which sums up our whole doctrine. [From Mazzini's On the Duties of Man]. According to Dennis Cuddy, Kidd emphasizes Mazzini message that "education is addressed through emotion to the moral faculties in the young and instruction to the intellectual (faculties)." "Power centres in emotion."2 Cuddy, page 14

LINK
Do you begin to smell the Hopium, Masses?

We are over 100 years late to this party.

But I catch on quick
and I carry a big stick

re: #86 BabbaZee

Sometimes it's never too late. This party is going to rock the world.

re: #88 BlueCanuck

Sometimes it's never too late. This party is going to rock the world.

Amen

re: #82 BabbaZee

I'm great. Sunny day here in Toronto. Air is crisp and clear 40-odd storeys in the air.

1987. Among the notable members of the Study Commission on Global Education were (then) Governor Bill Clinton, AFT president Albert Shanker, Professor John Goodlad, CFAT (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) president Ernest Boyer, and Frank Newman, president of the Education Commission of the States. Together, they prepared a report titled The United States Prepares for Its Future: Global Perspectives in Education. The Rockefeller, Ford and Exxon Foundations helped fund this report. In the Foreword, New Ager Harlan Cleveland, author of The Third Try at World Order, wrote:

"A dozen years ago... teaching and learning 'in global perspective' was still exotic doctrine, threatening the orthodoxies of those who still thought of American citizenship as an amalgam of American history, American geography, American lifestyles and American ideas.... It now seems almost conventional to speak of American citizenship in the same breath with international interdependence and the planetary environment."13

HOPIUM!

Well that was my better half calling from the limo. She's 10 minutes away. So I have to go and treat her to a wonderful day.

Talk later, Lizards.

re: #90 Pro-Bush Canuck

Isn't it great no smog out there yet. Unfortunately I have a ground floor view at the moment.

re: #90 Pro-Bush Canuck

any new news?

The Clintons and the "Third Way"

There is an explanation of THIRD WAY in one of my old posts here

Behold she comes on a white centrist trojan horse

Born in Frankfurt in 1925 to a religious family, Yehuda and his parents lived in Germany until 1936. "When it became very difficult to live there," he said, "we moved to Holland in 1937, giving us three years of vacation - until the Germans captured Holland in three days, and everything began again. I remember a German standing atop a tank and I came out to see and he yelled out, 'Here come the Jews, they're beginning to come out' - this was a sign that everything was starting all over again..."

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

I am not insane all you excellent Festi!

2002 (April 29): President George W. Bush added his support to this massive network by signing an Executive Order titled, "President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health." It established a commission which bound the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education and Labor together in a common quest for "the desired outcomes of mental health care, which are to attain each individual's maximum level of employment, self-care, interpersonal relationships, and community participation."19 See Legalizing Mind Control

LINK

Pope Benedict XVI received visiting head of Iran's Islamic Culture and Relations Organization Mehdi Mostafavi on Thursday who presented a precious copy of Muslims holy book, the Quran, to the 81-year-old pontiff.

Mostafavi is currently in Italy heading a high-ranking delegation to attend an inter-faith dialogue with the Catholic Church in Vatican.

Appreciating Mostafavi for the valuable gift, the pope said that the holy Quran was so dear to him.

He stressed that the contemporary world was in dire need of faith and wisdom as the tow major factors that could help people face their challenges.

The pope also expressed hope that bilateral relations and cooperation be further promoted between Iran and Vatican.

Mostafavi, for his part, voiced Tehran's readiness to promote bilateral cooperation with Vatican in the fields of cultural and religious activities.

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

BRAVE NEW WORLD

/I liked the old one better

Appreciating Mostafavi for the valuable gift, the pope said that the holy Quran was so dear to him.

Appreciating Mostafavi for the valuable gift, the pope said that the holy Quran was so dear to him.

Appreciating Mostafavi for the valuable gift, the pope said that the holy Quran was so dear to him.

He should have smacked the MFer in the face with the filthy tome

re: #100 BabbaZee

Saw the movie, read the book. An interesting counterpoint to "1984".

/read them both one summer for fun.

"the desired outcomes of mental health care, which are to attain each individual's maximum level of employment, self-care, interpersonal relationships, and community participation."

I'm bound for the gulag if I live long enough.

re: #103 BlueCanuck

freaking thing is almost prophecy

re: #105 BabbaZee

freaking thing is almost prophecy

Who is to say it is not.

re: #105 BabbaZee

Isn't it. They replace the G-d of the Bible with Henry Ford. Making him god of the modern world. Charing Cross road, now Charing Tee road, etc. . . . .

/consumption for the masses, drugs for the drones.

Mine PloooooOooOOoOooOomE!

re: #109 BlueCanuck

Our Ford!

re: #108 galloping granny

Not me lady

lol

For many years now, every time I arrive at Auschwitz, I get the same feeling. It appears to me that it wasn’t me who was here during this incredibly dark period, but rather, someone else whose story I heard at some point in life.

Even when I write a personal story from my past I have a feeling that I’m not talking about myself. However, this sense dissipates shortly thereafter, and again I remember well that it is indeed I who was here. I was the one who went through all the horrors. I was the one who survived against all odds – and certainly in contradiction to the Germans’ plans.

For many years now I’ve been asking myself the same question. How could apparent human beings, who managed a completely normal private life, carry out the horrors that could not be described in words? How could they be so cruel?

For many years now I’ve been thinking about those Germans who worked at Auschwitz and at other extermination camps. How could it be that every evening the officers returned to their villas outside the camp, kissed their wife and kids, and sat down for dinner with their family? How did they stroke their cat and play with their dog – as I saw with my own eyes many times when I passed by them on my way to doing more hard labor.

In the morning, these officers went back to their job: The extermination of thousands of Jews.

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

re: #112 BabbaZee

Was that you what hid my spectacles this morning?

Morning Lizards,

Home sick again today, can't seem to shake this cold..

Ah I'm back! We're in Djibouti, and since I'm the Duty Engineer tonight, I think I'm just about the only one on board right now (in the engine dep't anyway).

re: #115 chief long name

yea LOL
sorry

Good morning all. Looks to be a beautiful day on the outer edge of the "City too busy to hate but does it anyway." High around 80, a few fluffy clouds and a pleasant breeze.

Babba! Thanks for the updates yesterday; I sent a brief response. I was in meetings all day yesterday. It was a busy and somewhat stressful day.

How's everyone today?

re: #117 Hengineer

Shake Djibouti!

More on the Hawaii Palace Take Over

[Link: www.hawaiireporter.com...]

re: #119 Lucius Septimius

{Lucius}

Everything old is new again.
And not in a good way.

LOL

re: #101 BabbaZee

I dint know you stuttered...

re: #120 BabbaZee

Shake Djibouti!

/snicker

As I remind you I can't watch youtube, I'm at least grateful you're pronouncing it right (Ja-booty).

I keep looking around for Djiboutis and Djiboobies, too.

re: #125 Hengineer

/snicker

As I remind you I can't watch youtube, I'm at least grateful you're pronouncing it right (Ja-booty).

I keep looking around for Djiboutis and Djiboobies, too.

why can't you watch YouTube?

re: #117 Hengineer

Hey, Hengineer!

Shake shake shake,
shake shake shake,
shake Djibouti

re: #126 ploome hineni

cool

you are on a ship?

Yea, as some of the lizards know already, I'm on the USNS Kanawha, a fleet replenishment oiler that is on deployment in the Indian Ocean ready to support the US Navy's mission to thwart pirates off the coast of Africa.

re: #125 Hengineer

Here try this

re: #128 rightside

Hey, Hengineer!

Shake shake shake,
shake shake shake,
shake Djibouti

Babba beat you to it! =-P

re: #128 rightside

You just too slow son

lol

re: #124 chief long name

Yea, me and Moses.
Bad tempers too.

LOL

re: #127 galloping granny

why can't you watch YouTube?

IP Blocked from US Navy ship servers, probably for bandwidth.

/communist internet.

Later folks, the night has come to an end and I must crawl back into my cave. Have fun.

/curse you evil day star.
//night shift lament.

re: #129 Hengineer

Yea, as some of the lizards know already, I'm on the USNS Kanawha, a fleet replenishment oiler that is on deployment in the Indian Ocean ready to support the US Navy's mission to thwart pirates off the coast of Africa.

Seems to me that thwarting pirates off the coast of Africa was one of the very first missions of the US Navy. Two hundred years later we're still at it. . .

re: #132 BabbaZee

Yeah,

My first time...cut me some slack

re: #130 BabbaZee

just letting you know its at least loading, but have patience pretty lady, it might pop up to let me watch or it might spit back "you capitalist pig wanting more bandwidth! No more pie for you!"

re: #134 Hengineer

IP Blocked from US Navy ship servers, probably for bandwidth.

/communist internet.

I would bet more likely so folks aren't accidentally uploading things they shouldn't. . .

re: #132 BabbaZee

You just too slow son

lol

You have to get up really early to beat Babbala!

GOOD MORNING, LIZARDS! What else is shakin' besides Djibouti and southern California?

re: #137 galloping granny

Seems to me that thwarting pirates off the coast of Africa was one of the very first missions of the US Navy. Two hundred years later we're still at it. . .

yea, but different coast. That was north/western. This is Eastern.

re: #138 rightside

Okeedokee

Slack.

{rightside}

Russia’s dominance in oil and natural gas is now being used “to project hegemony over its neighbors, from the Far East (energy-starved China and Japan) to Europe in the west, and attempting to control transit (pipeline) countries such as Ukraine and Belarus.” Communism, Soviet-style, is back in power in Russia under Putin while America “has been helplessly watching Russia’s re-emergence.”

At the heart of this new threat to America’s role in the world is oil and natural gas. Unless Americans begin to understand the geopolitics of energy—and soon—a lifestyle we have taken for granted is going to be severely impacted.

This explains why we have 160,000 troops in Iraq in a vain attempt to have some sway over its oil industry, why we have carrier groups parked just off the Persian Gulf fearing a nuclear-armed Iran, and why we will sell Saudi Arabia any military hardware it wants while continuing to guarantee the sovereignty of oil sheikdoms like Kuwait and the UAE.

What it does not explain is why our government has done everything in its power to thwart the exploration, discovery, and extraction of our own energy assets.

[Link: www.newmediajournal.us...]

re: #139 Hengineer

I like pie!

Thucydides' take on "hope"

"Hope, danger's comforter, may be indulged in by those who have abundant resources, if not without loss at all events without ruin; but its nature is to be extravagant, and those who go so far as to put their all upon the venture see it in its true colors only when they are ruined"

Peloponnesian War, 5.103

re: #140 galloping granny

I would bet more likely so folks aren't accidentally uploading things they shouldn't. . .

yea probably.

My little sister made it on one of those "music videos" done by an air detachment. look up Shania Twain's "That Don't Impress me much" on youtube, and look for the women of the Ronald Reagan version.

Apparently they all got in trouble "officially" because they showed the "door" to reactor. The office and classrooms don't matter, that they showed the "do not enter" door to reactor, a bunch of big wigs got all upset.

re: #143 BabbaZee

moonbats taking over the Hawaiian governmental palace. not much else

Good Morning Lizards.

Cougar Shot in Chicago came from South Dakota.

The 124-pound cougar that ended up in Roscoe Village last month may have started its life nearly 1,000 miles away in South Dakota. And the big cat -- the first cougar found in Cook County since at least 1855 -- definitely passed through southern Wisconsin as it wandered toward Chicago.

DNA testing shows the young male cougar shot by police April 14 is the same animal that was chased out of an abandoned barn near Milton, Wis., in January, Cook County officials said Wednesday.

Apparently this big cat wandered across several states, looking for a mate:

While more testing will be done to try to pinpoint the cat's origins, it's clear the cougar -- estimated to be about 2 years old -- traveled a long way in unfamiliar territory in its short life.

The reason? The young cat likely was forced out of the region where he was born by older, dominant males -- and took to the road to search for a mate.

"He kept moving because there were no females," said Bruce Patterson, curator of mammals at the Field Museum. "They have to keep moving until they find lady cougars."

I think he was headed for the meat markets on Rush Street.

re: #145 BabbaZee

Socialism is your friend! (or how you should all like pie!)

re: #149 3 wood

Good Morning Lizards.

Cougar Shot in Chicago came from South Dakota.

I think he was headed for the meat markets on Rush Street.

If he was looking for *lady cougars* he should have gone to Hollyweird.....

Hey

I just got called a fascist via e-mail
by a disgruntled banned poster.

WOO HOO

first time today!

re: #145 BabbaZee

Y'know, my six year old saw that and immediately started singing the "Badger" song. He's seen it once and already has the cursed thing memorized.

re: #150 Hengineer

So the next time some right-wing extemist asks if you're a socialist, just smile and say, "I like pie".

laughing!

re: #149 3 wood

Note - for those not familar with Rush Street in Chicago, this is an area of many bars where people go to find, ummm, companionship.

re: #153 Lucius Septimius

Y'know, my six year old saw that and immediately started singing the "Badger" song. He's seen it once and already has the cursed thing memorized.

I used to teach my little sister this way
I would make up asinine songs, wear hats, act like an ass, and reduce everything to just a few words

it's why they can recall "rap" so well too

re: #152 BabbaZee

Hey

I just got called a fascist via e-mail
by a disgruntled banned poster.

WOO HOO

first time today!

YOU got called a fascist? Somebody better dig up a dictionary.

re: #155 3 wood

eww!

re: #152 BabbaZee

Hey

I just got called a fascist via e-mail
by a disgruntled banned poster.

WOO HOO

first time today!

Today? is that a regular occurence?

re: #153 Lucius Septimius

Have you seen the llama song?

re: #157 galloping granny

YOU got called a fascist? Somebody better dig up a dictionary.

I have been called a Fascist AND a Commie since the anti-jihad conference thing.

Oy - make up yer minds assholes

re: #150 Hengineer

Socialism is your friend! (or how you should all like pie!)

That is great -- I just sent it to all my economist friends.

re: #159 rightside

Today? is that a regular occurence?

Not regular but not irregular either

re: #160 Hengineer

um....no....

re: #163 BabbaZee

You know you are over the target, when you start taking a lot of flak...

re: #152 BabbaZee

I just got called a fascist via e-mail
by a disgruntled banned poster.

WOO HOO

first time today!

I'm sure you will grieve long winter evenings over that.

re: #161 BabbaZee

I have been called a Fascist AND a Commie since the anti-jihad conference thing.

Oy - make up yer minds assholes

well to those that are so left wing, even communists are right wing, I guess some communists can be fascists.

Either way, to be serious, you can be communist AND fascist. Fascism/anarchism is on an up/down scale while liberalism and conservatism is left/right.

Hell all the communists used fascism to get what they wanted anyway (We're the politburo, so I will do what is best for you because I am the politburo, so I have the right).

re: #151 Grammy Cracker

Cougar came a long way, Grammy.

re: #166 3 wood

I'm sure you will grieve long winter evenings over that.

Are you kiddin'? She'll probably frame it and hang it on the wall!

/badge of honor!

re: #164 Lucius Septimius

um....no....

ooh ooh i'll find it!

How about the peanut butter jelly time banana?

re: #159 rightside

Today? is that a regular occurence?

Babba has what you might call a fan club, of sorts.

re: #156 BabbaZee

My dad used to make up silly songs all the time; I do it, and now he does. It's a family tradition

re: #161 BabbaZee

I have been called a Fascist AND a Commie since the anti-jihad conference thing.

Oy - make up yer minds assholes

I've been called the embodiment of all evil on Earth.

re: #168 BabbaZee

Cougar came a long way, Grammy.

Haven't heard this one in a long time! :>)

/fond memories

re: #167 Hengineer

LOL
Problem is when you beyond the categories
everyone tries to claim you as their own

On religion they are even more confused and angry at me

BWAHA

re: #171 3 wood

Babba has what you might call a fan club, of sorts.

LOL!

re: #137 galloping granny

Seems to me that thwarting pirates off the coast of Africa was one of the very first missions of the US Navy. Two hundred years later we're still at it. . .

BACK THEN THEY WERE MUSLIMS TOO.

re: #168 BabbaZee

You play everything I grew up listening to...amazing

Problem is when you STEP beyond the categories
everyone tries to claim you as their own

lost a word

Charles,

Do you now or will you deliver LGF for Amazon's Kindle?

re: #178 rightside

We are probably near the same age

re: #171 3 wood

Babba has what you might call a fan banned club, of sorts.

/fixed it... LOL

Morning all. It's already 68 with a 30MPH wind out of the south. I think the weather frogs guess of only 20% chance of storms is a bit low.

re: #173 The Other Les

I've been called the embodiment of all evil on Earth.

Hey! we must be related!

re: #181 BabbaZee

44 here

re: #172 Lucius Septimius

My dad used to make up silly songs all the time; I do it, and now he does. It's a family tradition

Why am I not suprised, LOL!

BabbaZee #56

The rising tide of color against white world-supremacy, 1920.

In 2008:

The Rev. Jeremiah White and his hootin' and hollerin' congregation have told me, as a white man, I am the enemy.

So be it...

re: #185 rightside

44 here

We are exactly the same age

re: #187 TexasAC

BabbaZee #56

The rising tide of color against white world-supremacy, 1920.

In 2008:

The Rev. Jeremiah White and his hootin' and hollerin' congregation have told me, as a white man, I am the enemy.

So be it...

Yup.

re: #177 yochanan

BACK THEN THEY WERE MUSLIMS TOO.

yes indeedy.

Damned Barbary pirates, claimed they had the right to do it because we were all infidels as well.

I took on a hill and I won!

re: #188 BabbaZee

Aug 63..

re: #177 yochanan

BACK THEN THEY WERE MUSLIMS TOO.

Yup, they sure were. In some of the same spots too.

"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli" or Somalia as the case may be.

re: #165 rightside

Praise the Lord and pass the ammo!

re: #187 TexasAC

BabbaZee #56

The rising tide of color against white world-supremacy, 1920.

In 2008:

The Rev. Jeremiah White and his hootin' and hollerin' congregation have told me, as a white man, I am the enemy.

So be it...

And that is just exactly what they said to every white person in this country - including those who nod sagely in the background.

re: #182 Grammy Cracker

I think some of the socks are still around.

Mornin' all. What is with the birthday stuff? Is there a lizard having a b-day today? If so, Happy Birthday!

re: #190 Hengineer

yes indeedy.

Damned Barbary pirates, claimed they had the right to do it because we were all infidels as well.

I'm reading Michael Oren's book Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East. Good stuff.

re: #192 rightside

Aug 63..

Got me beat by a month -- September '63.

re: #192 rightside

It was a very good year

LOLOLOLOL

STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

re: #197 3 wood

I think some of the socks are still around.

No doubt!

re: #200 Lucius Septimius
Kids! Jan. '59.

re: #199 MandyManners

That is a good book. I got it for my mom -- she loved it.

How're you?

re: #191 storagemanager

Mazel Storage

re: #196 galloping granny

And that is just exactly what they said to every white person in this country - including those who nod sagely in the background.

You must've read John McWhorter's "Winning the Race". It's an interesting read, and your "white people nodding sagely" is right out of his book.

He basically says that white liberals who created the welfare program didn't do it to help blacks, they did it to feel good about themselves, and the open-ended welfare program is more or less what destroyed the inner-city poor black communities.

re: #197 3 wood

I think some of the socks are still around.

Wash day!

Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:56:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Priya.Venkatesan@Dartmouth.EDU To: “WRIT.005.17.18-WI08%u2033:;, Priya.Venkatesan@Dartmouth.EDU

Subject: WRIT.005.17.18-WI08: Possible lawsuit

Dear former class members of Science, Technology and Society: I tried to send an email through my server but got undelivered messages. I regret to inform you that I am pursuing a lawsuit in which I am accusing some of you (whom shall go unmentioned in this email) of violating Title VII of anti-federal [SIC] discrimination laws. The feeling that I am getting from the outside world is that Dartmouth is considered a bigoted place, so this may not be news and I may be successful in this lawsuit. I am also writing a book detailing my experiences as your instructor, which will “name names” so to speak. I have all of your evaluations and these will be reproduced in the book.

Have a nice day.

Priya

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

re: #206 Hengineer

Even more insidious than that

it is real racism

they NEED an oppressed under class as their CONVEYANCE

re: #203 pingjockey

When Real gets her he can call YOU a kid
;~}
LOL

re: #208 storagemanager

Ain't higher edumecation wonnerful!

re: #195 BabbaZee

I agree!

re: #204 Lucius Septimius

unnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Hengy -

He basically says that white liberals who created the welfare program didn't do it to help blacks, they did it to feel good about themselves, and the open-ended welfare program is more or less what destroyed the inner-city poor black communities.

For the PAMPHLET TAKER
your description in the post is correct.

For the PAMPHLET MAKER
it is a matter of conscious oppression sold as liberalism

re: #210 BabbaZee
Mwahaha! The 14 yr. old wanted to box the old man the other day. Oops! Old and and dirty tricks beat youth and enthusiasm every time.

re: #168 BabbaZee

Cougar came a long way, Grammy.

TWO OR FOUR LEGGED ONE?

re: #212 rightside

Never heard that before

PIMF=old age and dirty tricks. Gaah. More coffee!

re: #216 yochanan

lol

Don't know if this was linke dyet, but you can never get enough good news.

Another terrorist scumbag bites the dust.

Leader of al-Qaida in Somalia reportedly dies in airstrike

The American military launched an airstrike Thursday targeting the head of al-Qaida in Somalia, a U.S. defense official said. The head of an Islamic insurgent group said the attack killed its leader.

Islamist leader Aden Hashi Ayro, believed to be the head of al-Qaida in Somalia, was killed when the airstrike struck his house in the central Somali town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles north of Mogadishu, said Sheik Muqtar Robow, a spokesman for the Islamic al-Shabab militia.

No word yet if Rev. Wright (Obama's spiritual leader) will officiate at the funeral.

re: #200 Lucius Septimius

lol, I don't think it's a race! You have me by a month!

re: #209 BabbaZee

Even more insidious than that

it is real racism

they NEED an oppressed under class as their CONVEYANCE

Exactly. Hell even those who claim to argue "for" blacks, by pointing the finger at all these outside sources, are showing how racist they are by implying that poor blacks can't help themselves.

(e.g., some arguments McWhorter says are just plain wrong: factories moving away, middle class blacks moving out of the ghetto into the 'burbs represents good role models leaving, etc...: Apparently blacks just can't help their situation because all the jobs have moved away, and all the good role models have moved out, so they just sit there and wallow....)

What's funny about all that, is he points out in ANOTHER book, how the author interviewed 3 young black women who moved to another state because they had better welfare benefits! If they can't move to get a better job, they how can they move to get better welfare benefits? (and let's not get into the Dust Bowl Migration, those people were poor, they had no money, no livelihood, but they were WHITE, so they were expected to follow the jobs).

re: #207 Lucius Septimius

Hey Lucius, how's things by you?

My dog had minor surgery on her leg last week...this morning she took out the stitches..oh bother..wife taking her to vet.

re: #213 MandyManners

sorry to hear that, I think.

C'mon over. Beer's in the fridge and me and the boys are listening to Hank jr. this morning.

re: #188 BabbaZee

Youngins! Zee kits nadaz zink zay noa evryzing,but zay noa nazink.

for you young lady before I have to get mini-mom on the bus.

re: #220 3 wood
High tech is a bitch ain't it hadji.

By the way, Jammie, if you are out there, you got mail.

re: #225 Lucius Septimius

sorry to hear that, I think.

C'mon over. Beer's in the fridge and me and the boys are listening to Hank jr. this morning.

I'm going back to bed once I get The Kid to school.

PIMF..that I always forget about.

re: #224 storagemanager

Sorry to hear that Storage. I had a dog some years ago that had knee surgery. Tough to recover fromt hat.

re: #223 3 wood

Uneven. Classes over; exams on the horizon and I've got piles of papers to grade and "assessment" crap to wade through in the next couple of days. My colleagues are grumpy and engaged in open rebellion against the president -- I'm not joking.

re: #214 BabbaZee

Hengy -

For the PAMPHLET TAKER
your description in the post is correct.

For the PAMPHLET MAKER
it is a matter of conscious oppression sold as liberalism

Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America

re: #232 Lucius Septimius

Uneven. Classes over; exams on the horizon and I've got piles of papers to grade and "assessment" crap to wade through in the next couple of days. My colleagues are grumpy and engaged in open rebellion against the president -- I'm not joking.

Do we need to send in troops?

re: #232 Lucius Septimius
Change! Revolution is in the air!

re: #152 BabbaZee

Hey

I just got called a fascist via e-mail
by a disgruntled banned poster.

WOO HOO

first time today!

Was it the troll who labeled my as Goebbles?

Good morning, all...

Back by popular demand (well, not really), my lame joke from last night, in case you missed it:

What did the farmer say when he walked in on his brown chicken having sex with his brown cow in the barn?
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(sung to best pr0n theme tune): Brown chicken, brown cow...

re: #227 pingjockey

High tech is a bitch ain't it hadji.

I like to think that the last thing that scum heard was a high pitched whine, signifying that it was "Uh-Oh time".

re: #234 MandyManners

Perhaps. We'll see.

re: #235 pingjockey

Change! Revolution is in the air!

And I'm up on the barricades waving the black flag.

re: #222 Hengineer

I know you can't get you tube there but when you can get it you have to see this guy

re: #232 Lucius Septimius

Likewise. And if that isn't bad enough -- I have an all-day accreditation meeting next week.

I'm thinking I need to remove the loaded .38 I keep handy...

re: #226 Widow'smight

{widow}
mwah

re: #238 3 wood
Yep, now he's getting his 72 Madeline Albright clones as his just reward.

Dang dog chews everything..even her own stitches

re: #240 BabbaZee

thanks for the heads up, I'll email myself that link.

re: #236 BulgarWheat

Was it the troll who labeled my as Goebbles?

LOL
I'm not sure....
I don't even remember who that was.

HEIL!

re: #239 Lucius Septimius
Hahahaha! Is it high school or college?

re: #245 Hengineer

They will try to kill that man.

re: #246 BabbaZee

wah Heil yeah it coulda been.

re: #245 Hengineer

be careful out there, Laddy. There be pirates in them waters...........arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

re: #246 BabbaZee

Well, it is nice to be loved by a banned slime ball!

re: #232 Lucius Septimius

Uneven. Classes over; exams on the horizon and I've got piles of papers to grade and "assessment" crap to wade through in the next couple of days. My colleagues are grumpy and engaged in open rebellion against the president -- I'm not joking.

Understood. I deal witht he same stuff.

I told some of my collegues the other day that if they spent as much time doing their jobs as they do standing around ripping the Dept Chairs and University President, a whole lot of their problems would evaporate. It was not well received.

Academics must be about the most unproductive, complaining bunch of whiners I've ever dealt with.

BTW Herr Goebbels, that other maniac is still down on a week old thread talking shit about me too
LOLOLOLOLOL

re: #251 pingjockey

Well, it is nice to be loved by a banned slime ball!

Not really.
LOL!

re: #253 BabbaZee
It must be boring in moms basement.

re: #241 christheprofessor

Likewise. And if that isn't bad enough -- I have an all-day accreditation meeting next week.

I'm thinking I need to remove the loaded .38 I keep handy...

I've got one of those next week; the assessment stuff is the preliminary. I think I've got some kind of meeting every day between now and graduation.

I keep thinking I should bring my 16 gauge pump action with me and just lay it on the table in front of me during the meetings.

re: #253 BabbaZee

BTW Herr Goebbels, that other maniac is still down on a week old thread talking shit about me too
LOLOLOLOLOL

Doesn't it stick to the roof of his mouth?

re: #253 BabbaZee

when they care enough to send the very best..............!

re: #237 christheprofessor

OK
I'm a fascist moron.
I don't get it.

re: #247 pingjockey

college

re: #250 BulgarWheat

be careful out there, Laddy. There be pirates in them waters...........arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Awl thenk ya kindly sir!

re: #258 BulgarWheat

when they care enough to send the very best..............!

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