Goooooooooood morning, LGF!

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

— George Washington

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Wow...this is early. Must be time for me to go to bed.

I have nothing to say, other than that's an outstanding quote.

Good morning.

re: #2 RTLM

"I like whiskey thats why I don't drink it"
Robert E Lee

The only quote I have memorized.

The media here are fawning over Obama.
They are all asking that Hillary withdrows!
I don't get what do they profit in telling people who can not influence the actual vote this kind of things?
I guess to create a whole "ambience" positive to one and negative to the other.

So, Obama has been anointed by the msm here, and probably in many other countries.

I'm living the weirod situation -for me- to root for Hilllary lol

re: #6 x-ray

Been there, done that... vodka and rum...

The left in Mexico is badly divided now. Really badly, they are calling each other traitor, and and worse things.

And, in a similar weird situation I find myself rooting for one of the two camps in which the left has divided here.

Incredible...

Is the left dividing in two big opposing camps everywhere?
This is an interesting development.

re: #8 Karridine

Been there, done that... vodka and rum...

I figure I'm Ok with rum since he only said Whiskey.

re: #8 Karridine

What's the deal in Burma Karridine?

(the real deal)

i'm going to bed before it's light out...... (for once. %-)

L8r!

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. " Patton

{Happy Mother's Day}

I slightly misquoted Robert E Lee.

Should have been

"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. - Robert E. Lee

Doesn't change the meaning just I said it was a quote.

re: #11 RTLM

What's the deal in Burma Karridine?

(the real deal)

RTLM, we've been getting updates 3-4 times a day on national TV news channels... in a word? VERY BAD!

No potable water, no shelter from the elements (new front moving in as I type), thousands of now seriously-rotten human (and other) corpses posing a serious health threat; little (if any) food, no way to cook it if they have it...

Now the debacle part: the illegitimate Burmese government is stealing aid; what little is allowed out to the suffering Burmese is REPACKED or REMARKED as "From the Burmese Generals" so it takes an extra 2-days, MIN, to get there...

NO distribution teams have been allowed in to my knowledge; only a few hundred refugees have been allowed into Thailand; ALL private aid MUST BE HAND-CARRIED (read, SMUGGLED) into the nation by expat Burmese; relief efforts are being systematically STYMIED by the thugs in power...

Do you get this picture? FILTHY! reprehensible! terrible, and just right for any of several epidemics, raging through the survivors!

re: #13 Perry

Happy mother's day all you Mother's.

Belated since I needed Perry to remind me.

Burma on the Thai news now... still no allowed-in relief... King trying to soften their hearts or harden the junta's heads...

re: #16 x-ray

Nope, it still counts as on time. And thanks.

Okay, the Burmese govt IS accepting SOME relief aid, just not from America, Britain, China, others...

re: #15 Karridine

That was not bad enough Karridine. On top of all the destruction, death, suffering, graft, etc. etc THE JUNTA HELD A REFERENDUM TODAY. They didn't give a damn everybody is dying! They went ahead and HELD THE DAMN REFERENDUM!

What was the question in the referendum Karradine? To keep them longer in power or...?

re: #16 x-ray

Happy mother's day all you Mother's.

Belated since I needed Perry to remind me.

"That's okay. I'll sit in the dark"

/punchline to How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?

re: #21 littleoldlady

"That's okay. I'll sit in the dark"

/punchline to How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?

I adhere myself to wish a VERY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY to all moms ;)

13 year old steals dad's credit card to buy hookers.

It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

re: #17 Karridine

It's just heart-rending. The poor people are less than human in their illegitimate govt's eyes. I am praying some way can be found SOON to get aid in there.

re: #20 MigueldowninMexico

Dunno, Miguel.

TV showing vids of cargo planes from India offloading aid... pics of the near-total desolation in Burma... 500,000 displaced...

/looking over my shoulder while typing

re: #19 Karridine

Okay, the Burmese govt IS accepting SOME relief aid, just not from America, Britain, China, others...

I think their dead numbers are bull.

(500,000? - NOT)

re: #21 littleoldlady

"That's okay. I'll sit in the dark"

/punchline to How many Jewish mothers does it take to change a lightbulb?

I saw that one here adscribed to the "emos" those emotional kids.
They just sit in the dark and feel down about it ;)

re: #25 Karridine

Dunno, Miguel.

TV showing vids of cargo planes from India offloading aid... pics of the near-total desolation in Burma... 500,000 displaced...

/looking over my shoulder while typing

Thanks for the update! :)

Weather report, we're in for MORE rain... its a strong tropical depression IF not a small typhoon, going from east to west, will be hitting Burma in about 6 hours...

re: #29 Karridine

Weather report, we're in for MORE rain... its a strong tropical depression IF not a small typhoon, going from east to west, will be hitting Burma in about 6 hours...

Poor people :(

re: #26 RTLM

RTLM, 1,500,000 displaced... at least 100,000 dead... (and probably STILL IN THE OPEN, going ripe...) (says govt)

Some REAL object lessons here, for those who want to see them!

re: #18 Perry

Nope, it still counts as on time. And thanks.

Here maybe but Perry no the thanks is to you since now the first thing out of my mouth too the mothers that matter in my house will be Happy Mothers Day. As opposed too about noon when I usually see some reference that reminds me on tv:)

re: #30 MigueldowninMexico

Poor people :(

Another marxist country to go down the drain.

And people are trying right now to turn Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia into marxist countries.

Something's wrong with some people's minds.
Reality doesn't count. The ideal non-existen construction in their brains is more important.

re: #21 littleoldlady

None the guilt the men in their lives feel makes the light bulb change just happen.

re: #27 MigueldowninMexico

I saw that one here adscribed to the "emos" those emotional kids.
They just sit in the dark and feel down about it ;)

As opposed to Jewish mothers who are never as happy as when they are inflicting guilt.

;-)

...and in Thailand, school vacation ends tomorrow, and kids all over the nation go back to school...

Until Burma goes epidemic (typhus, dysentery, etc) it will slide off the Thai radar...

re: #36 Karridine

Aren't they experiencing a cholera outbreak right now?

re: #32 x-ray

Awww. She will be so pleased.

For Mother's Day, a quote attributed to George Washington:

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

re: #35 littleoldlady

As opposed to Jewish mothers who are never as happy as when they are inflicting guilt.

;-)

I get it hahahahahaha.

If you were more attentive, I wouldn't be here in the dark, but of course, nobody pays attention to an old useless woman...

/Rant on ;)

"Here is the situation: There are 800 families camped at the Baha'i Centre in Daidanaw. All these people have lost their homes, property, and
livelihood. They need to be sheltered, fed and given medical care.

Yesterday, the National Spiritual Assembly spend about $3,600 just on rice, oil, soap and other basic necessities to support all the people (both Baha'is and non-Baha'is).

The situation is DESPERATE! ....."

Just in by email
Appeal for voluntary contributions from the Baha'is of Thailand... all those 800 families are NOT Baha'is...

How sad Karridine...

re: #34 x-ray

Wow I had only seven seconds left for that response to not be lame:)

re: #37 BlueCanuck

Could be, Blue, I can't hear everything...

It's impossible to comprehend what's going on in Burma without actually being there.

re: #45 MigueldowninMexico

But having served in the Christmas Tsunami cleanup, tagging and bagging over 1,600 corpses, I have SOME idea, Miguel...

Burma is disintegrating, but the Junta is holding a referendum in the midst of it all (that was scheduled from before), a referendum that seem to solidify the power of the junta.

Aw, Man! Lightning coming in... I cannot afford a hit through the grid, thru my modem... BBIAW, Friends

Karridine,

Could this disaster be the generals dream come true ? Where they are using this catastrophy to "thin" a dissaffected population ? Not as brutal as Pol Pot's methods in the eyes of the world.

re: #46 Karridine

But having served in the Christmas Tsunami cleanup, tagging and bagging over 1,600 corpses, I have SOME idea, Miguel...

Oh yes, I'm sure you have a much better idea than I.

I say let's start an LGF betting pool, I mean it's obvious that the civil war in Lebanon will go on. The real question is when Hizbullah will decide to involve Israel in the fighting.

So I'll be hear collection bets, what say you?

re: #48 Karridine

Aw, Man! Lightning coming in... I cannot afford a hit through the grid, thru my modem... BBIAW, Friends

Bye! :)

Hola Amigo

Thanks for all the updates, Karridine.

/oy. oy. oy. :-(

re: #49 Sharku

Karridine,

Could this disaster be the generals dream come true ? Where they are using this catastrophy to "thin" a dissaffected population ? Not as brutal as Pol Pot's methods in the eyes of the world.

Hey shark, hello bro ;)
Far-fetched but I wouldn't put it past some marxist soldiers. They are capable of that.

Not to belittle what's going on in Burma but the morons here in the US will not connect this tragedy and their Governments warning and response too that of Katrina and New Orleans.

Biblical scale again then.

I'm sorry.

Happy Mother's Day to all the Lizard Moms out there.

Momma, don't let you babies grow up to be liberals!

not sure of what you are trying to say there x-ray

India gave Burma a 48 hr Cyclon warning.
And the government didn't do a thing.
Sounds like sharku is right.

re: #56 x-ray

Man.... Don't get to that global warming !@#$%& thing. If you ealy want to know the problem in south east Asia is the fact they can't grow weed any more. That's way they have no food and mud slides (Yes, hemp was the primary food source in that area).

re: #61 DJ Wahaba

Man.... Don't get to that global warming !@#$%& thing. If you ealy want to know the problem in south east Asia is the fact they can't grow weed any more. That's way they have no food and mud slides (Yes, hemp was the primary food source in that area).

That's what I call haute cuisine!

re: #60 MigueldowninMexico

India gave Burma a 48 hr Cyclon warning.
And the government didn't do a thing.
Sounds like sharku is right.

How so?

Seems to me that NO had like warning as Burma did prior to the storm hit. Like damage.

Did you misspeak?

(Sharku's challenge is misplaced)

re: #62 MigueldowninMexico

DING! ↑

;-)

re: #62 MigueldowninMexico

I bet their brownies were devine.

Good morning, Miguel!

re: #59 Sharku

not sure of what you are trying to say there x-ray

The people here in the US will not see the difference in how the Victims of Katrina were warned of the impending doom (get your ass out of there) and the speedy response in comparison to what the Burmese can expect.

I Thank god every day I wake up in the USA.

re: #64 littleoldlady

DING! %u2191

;-)

Back at ya!
Thanks ;)

re: #63 RTLM

How so?

Seems to me that NO had like warning as Burma did prior to the storm hit. Like damage.

Did you misspeak?

(Sharku's challenge is misplaced)

I was referring to the Burmese government.

re: #65 BulgarWheat

I bet their brownies were devine.

Good morning, Miguel!

Good morning Bulgar! :)

Im just saying that a disaster like this is tailor made for despotic regimes, It takes minds off issues (other than living), it "thins" disaffected mobs, the government can look like a hero (hence the repackaging the aid), and gives the government an "excuse" to clamp down even further. Its been done befor.

re: #70 Sharku

Im just saying that a disaster like this is tailor made for despotic regimes, It takes minds off issues (other than living), it "thins" disaffected mobs, the government can look like a hero (hence the repackaging the aid), and gives the government an "excuse" to clamp down even further. Its been done befor.

It is very possible. This case fits in there quite well.

Lots of bad weather this way comes. It looks like Missouri got hit very hard last night. Up to 18 dead in tornadoes.

Prayers for any and all affected.

re: #72 BulgarWheat

Lots of bad weather this way comes. It looks like Missouri got hit very hard last night. Up to 18 dead in tornadoes.

Prayers for any and all affected.

Seconded.

#72 and al gore blames global warming in 3....2....1

re: #74 Sharku

#72 and al gore blames global warming in 3....2....1

He already did.

re: #74 Sharku

AlGore,....may he bite the fart bubbles in my bathtub.....

It's not about global warming, it's about global governance.

I know that he blamed the cyclone on global warming

re: #61 DJ Wahaba

Man.... Don't get to that global warming !@#$%& thing. If you ealy want to know the problem in south east Asia is the fact they can't grow weed any more. That's way they have no food and mud slides (Yes, hemp was the primary food source in that area).

Hemp Being a primary food source can mean one of 2 things.
1 I smoke hemp an I'm hungry
2 I use hemp rope to build traps for animals I'm gonna eat.

re: #77 Sharku

There is some dispute about that, actually. Yes, I know people here are not really interested in defended Al, but his supposed statement was, upon further analysis, really taken out of order (even more than out of context.)

re: #62 MigueldowninMexico

And you know what? This time we can really blame The Great Satan for that... YES.... Finally we can give gilt to America ;)

re: #72 BulgarWheat

Prayers for them and all that are dealing with natures wrath.

If he did or didnt, doesnt make no nevermind, he is an asshole, and will always be an asshole. :)

re: #78 x-ray

Really, Hemp seeds were the main source of minerals and vitamins to the people there. Think about it: what does the name BanglaDesh means? The land of the grass people.

re: #80 DJ Wahaba

And you know what? This time we can really blame The Great Satan for that... YES.... Finally we can give gilt to America ;)

Why?

re: #84 MigueldowninMexico

Left me confused too....

re: #85 freetoken

What's this, an early morning drinking thread or what? I don't get it either.

re: #84 MigueldowninMexico

... but I am easily confused by entries here now and then... I think the fruitcup was spiked...

re: #85 freetoken

Left me confused too....

LOL

Hahaha Bulgar.

re: #87 freetoken

... but I am easily confused by entries here now and then... I think the fruitcup was spiked...

It's all red's fault!

re: #86 BulgarWheat

What's this, an early morning drinking thread or what? I don't get it either.

I think its in the 'or what' category -

re: #89 MigueldowninMexico

all the same, I think I'll enjoy a little Sunday morning hemp break. Blue laws don't cover that and I'm doing my part to help out third world countries on top of it.

heh!

re: #87 freetoken

Go ahead. Blame the Jew!

So... now we have Hamastan, Fatahstan, and Hezbollahstan.

re: #84 MigueldowninMexico

Because after WW2 the US financed the construction of the UN on the condition that it will fight her anti drug campaign and destroy all weed production (following the law from 1937 I think). Same thing happened in Italy: the south was the main European hemp growing ground for textile and after the war all work was brought to a halt

re: #83 DJ Wahaba

If hemp were the grain of choice for food it would be a more universal food crop.

If it had more tolerance to cold history would talk about the great hemp famine.

If it was a great food source in warm climates Asians wouldn't eat rice.

Governments exert power but a government without people is useless.

Put that in your bong and smoke it.

I'm zoning here.

/not good.

Good day, ALL!™

I suspect our last US President's words will contrast sharply with President Washington's.

re: #92 BulgarWheat

all the same, I think I'll enjoy a little Sunday morning hemp break. Blue laws don't cover that and I'm doing my part to help out third world countries on top of it.

heh!

/Inhale!
lol ;)

re: #95 DJ Wahaba

DJ, the government didn't give a flip about weed until William Randolph Hearst began his crusade against the holy weed. They had other fish to fry, so to speak.

re: #96 x-ray

If you understand so much in nutrition than you'll know that minerals and vitamins don't take you a long way without carbohydrates, that's why you need rice. and yes the effects of not growing grass in that area influences over other crops as well because of the mud slides created because there's nothing to hold the ground together

re: #97 littleoldlady

I'm zoning here.

/not good.

Good day, ALL!™

Have a great day, littleoldlady! :)

re: #101 DJ Wahaba

If you understand so much in nutrition than you'll know that minerals and vitamins don't take you a long way without carbohydrates, that's why you need rice. and yes the effects of not growing grass in that area influences over other crops as well because of the mud slides created because there's nothing to hold the ground together

I get it now. Thanks :)

Momma
Can I smoke my taco?
;)

re: #104 MigueldowninMexico

being Mother's day you should know she'd tell you not to play with matches. am I right or am I right?

re: #104 MigueldowninMexico

I was going to say.... never mind:-)

re: #105 BulgarWheat

being Mother's day you should know she'd tell you not to play with matches. am I right or am I right?

Very right!
Hahahahaha

re: #106 Roger

I was going to say.... never mind:-)

Thanks for refraining yourself lol

This thread is grinding down to a halt. We need us some good old fashioned BabbaZee fire and brim stone gospel to kick this up a notch or two.

As custodian of the Royal Bong, I summon thee, BabbaZee!

re: #100 BulgarWheat

DJ, the government didn't give a flip about weed until William Randolph Hearst began his crusade against the holy weed. They had other fish to fry, so to speak.

Good one, I know about the story that it became illegal because Du Pont invented the Nylon fiber and bribed the American government to pass the tax law of 1937 so the could dominate the textile industry (which makes sense considering the propaganda film of the US government from 1942 "Hemp for Victory", youtube it).

/crickets....................................

Nope, no super-natural powers here.

ABORTION

DARWIN.

There, this will pump it up a little, I guess lol

Time for me to go, mighty lizards!
Good bye and God bless all :)

re: #101 DJ Wahaba

If you understand so much in nutrition than you'll know that minerals and vitamins don't take you a long way without carbohydrates, that's why you need rice. and yes the effects of not growing grass in that area influences over other crops as well because of the mud slides created because there's nothing to hold the ground together

Any grass keeps a hillside from sliding. Hemp was useful for it's stalk that one could make rope from before WWII. Now we have better materials for rope and better crops for food.

If hemp were all you say it is the people growing it in the 3rd world would be eating those seeds before they sent us the leaves. I've picked too many seeds for that too be true.

re: #112 MigueldowninMexico

Oh sure... hit and run why don't you...

along this open thread:

heavy Blade Runner clip

re: #112 MigueldowninMexico

ABORTION

DARWIN.

There, this will pump it up a little, I guess lol

Time for me to go, mighty lizards!
Good bye and God bless all :)

I'm trying to have the last wordpoem on the previous thread.

Good morning lizardim. Dare I ask what might be new?

re: #113 x-ray

FLOWERS MAN... we smoke the buds, the flowers not the leaves

Ralph Stanley...Glory Land

re: #117 galloping granny

Good morning granny, don't really know what's new. Just the usual group of early morning reprobates

re: #117 galloping granny

Good morning. This is the early morning hemp/bong thread. I attempted to summon BabbaZee, to no avail.

re: #121 BulgarWheat

You just don't have the juju.

/and neither do I so I won't even boter trying.

Good morning, Lizards. I used to have a bookmark for a map of the world showing all the lizard locations that were logged in. I seem to have lost it. Anyone got the link?

re: #122 BlueCanuck

Yep, I've lost my juju and don't even get me started about what happened to my mojo.

Lizards... Watch this one... A flying Pig Film from the past

re: #123 KathyP

Good morning, Lizards. I used to have a bookmark for a map of the world showing all the lizard locations that were logged in. I seem to have lost it. Anyone got the link?

I think that was done away with to protect the locations of some lizards.

re: #118 DJ Wahaba

FLOWERS MAN... we smoke the buds, the flowers not the leaves

Oh well that tells me allot you are wealthy. I must subside on smoking the leaves eating hamburger, sirloin, hot dogs and breads. You have the opulence of smoking only the flowers and eating caviar, smoked salmon and fillet mignon. You get the leisure too have the great conscience of looking after the poor of the world an I am stuck with clinging too G_d, guns and survival.

Is it dead?

re: #128 galloping granny

pert near

re: #128 galloping granny

re: #129 BulgarWheat

The thread ain't dead yet.

/but I am almost ready to give up the . . . .

re: #130 BlueCanuck

re: #129 BulgarWheat

The thread ain't dead yet.

/but I am almost ready to give up the . . . .

...ghost?

re: #130 BlueCanuck

ah, leave us hanging in suspense. I like it.

re: #130 BlueCanuck

re: #129 BulgarWheat

The thread ain't dead yet.

/but I am almost ready to give up the . . . .

Getting there myself. Sun is shining so the second I finish the coffee I have to go try to get two 75 pound sacks of cow poo compost out of the trunk and then dig 16 holes for my currant and gooseberry bushes.

re: #133 galloping granny

We've got rain on the way. I think I'll trim and shave my goatee off as a Mother's day present to my wife. I think that and bringing her a cup of coffee in bed would be the ticket this morning.

re: #127 x-ray

That just tell me you understand squat about weed, because the only thing you get from smoking the leaves is hypoxia and migraine, they don't contain THC (unless you smoking hydro and than I'll be saying the same about you).

re: #133 galloping granny

Oh as you sow so shall you reap:)

re: #134 BulgarWheat

I thought marriage meant to have an all year pass...

Emmylou Harris and Ricky Skaggs Hello Stranger

re: #137 DJ Wahaba

almost 20 years and that has never been my experience. there is no PASS

Signing off by blogging day... but let's go out with a couple of oldie but goodies (in honor of the thread downstairs)...

re: #135 DJ Wahaba

That just tell me you understand squat about weed, because the only thing you get from smoking the leaves is hypoxia and migraine, they don't contain THC (unless you smoking hydro and than I'll be saying the same about you).

I think you have shown my weakness in the knowledge of the smoking of weed. I bow now to your supremacy.

As a food crop I'll stand on what i've posted

re: #141 x-ray

I think you have shown my weakness in the knowledge of the smoking of weed. I bow now to your supremacy.

As a food crop I'll stand on what i've posted

KNOW THY ENEMY
Who said it? My motto in this field and others

must be a bong break

And only wanted to know whose with me on the LGF Casino idea for bets on the beginning of the War in Lebanon 3

re: #143 hayseed

must be a bong break

I think they use a Chillum in Asia

re: #142 DJ Wahaba

KNOW THY ENEMY
Who said it? My motto in this field and others

Looking for this maybe, Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
Know Thine Enemy

All your bong are belong to me anyway .

Roger (#106),

I was going to say.... never mind:-)

Tact: thinking twice before saying nothing.

re: #147 BabbaZee

Babba! I've got the royal bong handy

Mornin Babba

re: #147 BabbaZee

All your bong are belong to me anyway .

You'll have to get it from my unconscious and stoned hands

re: #151 DJ Wahaba

Sirius

is that you?

Morning - Hayseed - Bulgar - Geepers..... everyone

re: #146 x-ray

Looking for this maybe, Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
Know Thine Enemy

Come on I linked to a site I thought might give some ammo why no response?

Antwerp: Let's give empty churches to Muslims

British Airways Scraps Beef from Menus to avoid offending hindus

In cattle class, no cattle products.

re: #156 Shug

British Airways Scraps Beef from Menus to avoid offending hindus

In cattle class, no cattle products.

but can you get one of them thar bangers

BabbaZee (#155),

Antwerp: Let's cut our own throats so they won't get their hands dirty.

re: #158 Geepers

BabbaZee (#155),

Antwerp: Let's cut our own throats so they won't get their hands dirty.

Perfect translation into Realitese, Geepers

re: #156 Shug

heh, now that's funny!

What up?

re: #155 BabbaZee

Antwerp: Let's give empty churches to Muslims

You know what's the problem with giving them those churches... Once a mosque is established the ground upon it stands becomes the property of the Muslim nation forever. But it doesn't matter because Belgium is on the "right tracks" to become the first muslim country in Europe.

re: #161 storagemanager

storage!

Good Morning all, especially mother Lizards.
I hope that you gave a great Mothers Day!

re: #156 Shug

British Airways Scraps Beef from Menus to avoid offending hindus

In cattle class, no cattle products.

The thing they don't get is all the food they serve is offensive.

re: #157 hayseed

but can you get one of them thar bangers

only in the mile high club

re: #166 Shug

you're on a roll this morning.

/no pun intended

re: #162 DJ Wahaba

You know what's the problem with giving them those churches... Once a mosque is established the ground upon it stands becomes the property of the Muslim nation forever. But it doesn't matter because Belgium is on the "right tracks" to become the first muslim country in Europe.

No..that would be Kosovo

re: #162 DJ Wahaba

Once a mosque is established the ground upon it stands becomes the property of the Muslim nation forever. But it doesn't matter because Belgium is on the "right tracks" to become the first muslim country in Europe.

Sad but true.

re: #169 BabbaZee

Babba.....I got the "I hate you......" scream from the 13 year old mini-wheat last night. 13 year old girls are about as stable as nitro.

They really hate the sound of the word No!

"The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life ... A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors... Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."
~ George Orwell, 1984

Oligarchy (Greek Oligarkhia) is a form of government where political power effectively rests with a small elite segment of society (whether distinguished by wealth, family or military powers). The word oligarchy is from the Greek words for "few" (oligon) and "rule" (arkho). Compare with autocracy (rule by one person) and democracy (rule by the majority).

Who Says Rednecks Are Dumb?

"Hello, is this the sheriff's office?"

"Yes. What can I do for you?"

"I'm calling to report 'bout my neighbor Virgil Smith. He's
hidin' marijuana inside his firewood! Don't quite know how
he gets it inside them logs, but he's hidin' it there."

"Thank you very much for the call, sir."

The next day, the sheriff's deputies descend on Virgil's
house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept.
Using axes, they bust open every piece of wood, but find no
marijuana. They sneer at Virgil and leave. Shortly, the
phone rings at Virgil's house.

"Hey, Virgil! This here's Floyd. Did the sheriff come?"

"Yeah!"

"Did they chop your firewood?"

"Yep!"

Israel will eventually have to act, as Lebanon turns into Iranian colony

Alex Fishman Published: 05.11.08, 10:01 / Israel Opinion

The weekend’s events in Lebanon are a painful reminder that in a year Iran will be officially situated on our northern border. We need to get used to it.

Barring any surprises, in the next parliamentary elections Lebanon will fall into the hands of Hizbullah and turn into an Iranian colony. We are only minor players in this story. This isn’t 1982, and we have no desire or ability to intervene. We also don’t have powerful allies in Lebanon, so we can’t do anything.

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

re: #170 BulgarWheat

Babba.....I got the "I hate you......" scream from the 13 year old mini-wheat last night. 13 year old girls are about as stable as nitro.

They really hate the sound of the word No!

I don't envy you, LOL!

re: #174 BabbaZee

Just part of the job. Heh!

(IsraelNN.com) Lebanese officials claimed Sunday that Israeli Air Force warplanes flew over southern Lebanon.

According to the DPA news agency, the officials complained that the IAF flyover was a violation of Lebanese airspace.

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

Bulgar, I get my "I Hate You" quotient filled by intellectual spiritual and emotional 13 year olds right here.

LOL

re: #177 BabbaZee

Bulgar, I get my "I Hate You" quotient filled by intellectual spiritual and emotional 13 year olds right here.

LOL

Bigot!

re: #177 BabbaZee

Yeah, ain't that the truth!

Plenty to go around.

re: #173 storagemanager

I really hope the govermente in Israel will decide to react soon, in spring time, because the last time was terrible, so hot in south Lebanon in Augost.

re: #170 BulgarWheat

Babba.....I got the "I hate you......" scream from the 13 year old mini-wheat last night. 13 year old girls are about as stable as nitro.

They really hate the sound of the word No!

Wanna hear Granny's technique for dealing with 13 year old girls (I raised a whole passle of them!)

18 dead in Missouri, Oklahoma after new round of tornadoes

[Link: www.breitbart.com...]

re: #181 galloping granny

Let it rip, Granny.

/class is in session

re: #170 BulgarWheat

Babba.....I got the "I hate you......" scream from the 13 year old mini-wheat last night. 13 year old girls are about as stable as nitro.

They really hate the sound of the word No!

my daughter and I both survived those years. it was really tough at times. she finally figured it out when she started college and working part time. now when ever she leaves the house she says I love you daddy and gives me a peck on the cheek,life is good

re: #184 hayseed

I'm not very thin skinned. I think that's one of the things that she hates.

heh!

As I point out to her (got the quote from someone here), No is not the first word in a negotiation. It just means NO.

A little bad news for you enthusiastic McCain supporters and reluctant supporters (like me).
Fox just did a piece om McCain/Fiengold, the part about legislators not jumping on corporate jets.
There is an exclusion for family member aircraft, you know like if your wife owns the Budweiser Distributorship that owns the jet.

Happy Mother's Day to all LGF mothers, adoptive mothers, pregnant mothers-to-be, step-mothers, foster mothers, de facto mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, great-great-grandmothers, den mothers, mother hens, mother tigers, Mama Bears, and any and all women (and sometimes men) who provide a young-un with nurturing love and support. Have a nice day, people. :-)

Vote McCain then puke...ain't life grand?

re: #178 storagemanager

Storage!

re: #181 galloping granny

Wanna hear Granny's technique for dealing with 13 year old girls (I raised a whole passle of them!)

LOL
My 8 year old will not be like other 13 year old girls
She will never date boys that I don't approve of
She will be kind and respectful to her parents forever
And she will never dress like a hooker

/I hope

Babba...I was teasing you...

re: #188 storagemanager

Vote McCain then puke...ain't life grand?

You just nailed it.The choices are 'Hear no evil, See no evil & just evil."

ALGIERS, Algeria, May 9 (Compass Direct News) – An Algerian Christian detained five days for carrying a Bible and personal Bible study books was handed a 300-euro (US$460) fine and a one-year suspended prison sentence last week, an Algerian church leader said.

Last Tuesday (April 29) a court in Djilfa, 150 miles south of Algiers, charged the 33-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity with “printing, storing and distributing” illegal religious material. A written copy of the verdict has yet to be issued.

The Protestant, who requested anonymity for security reasons, told fellow Christians in his home city of Tiaret that police pressured him to return to Islam while in custody.

The conviction is the latest in a wave of detentions and court cases against Algeria’s Protestants and Catholics. Since January police and provincial officials have ordered the closure of up to half of the country’s 50 estimated Protestant congregations.

[Link: www.compassdirect.org...]

re: #191 storagemanager

LOL I know

re: #192 opnion

You just nailed it.The choices are 'Hear no evil, See no evil & just evil."

The Evil of Three Lessers.

Cyclone related:

Saw an news story that interviews a man in Burma as he laments the dead bodies floating by. When asked why he and his (remaining) neighbors don't do anything about them, he replies that it is the government's responsibility. I kid you not.

A couple of observations:

(1) The horrible events could overwhelm anyone, that is understandable, and if I had to dispose of bodies bloating in the sun, I would probably toss my cookies every 10 minutes. Still, leaving bodies lying around has to be understood to be unhealthy. Right? Self-reliance anyone? If the choice is I have to dispose of bodies to help protect my family versus wait for them all to get a disease-isn't the answer sad, but obvious?

(2) The Hurricane Katrina "It's-the-government's-fault" bit only works in any way if your government actually cares about you...I have all the evidence I need to suggest that the junta in Burma cares only about themselves, their families and their pets. Unlike the people in New Orleans, these people in Burma are really "on thier own".

These people don't need aid. They don't need packages. They need a combination of George Washington/the 101st Airborne/and the First Marine Division to save them.

When I came across this article it made me sick and damn mad. Our finest and bravest deserve better than this.

It has since been rectified but that doesn't undo the insensitivities done.

Seattle Times

The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of U.S. service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended Friday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.

The facililty, in an industrial park near Dover Air Force Base, has cremated about 200 service members, manager David Bose said Friday night. It uses separate crematories a few feet apart to cremate humans and animals, he added.

Pentagon officials said they do not think any humans were cremated in the pet crematory. "We have absolutely no evidence whatsoever at this point that any human remains were at all ever mistreated," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said late Friday.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates found "the site and signage insensitive and entirely inappropriate for the dignified treatment of our fallen," Morrell said. "The families of the fallen have the secretary's deepest apology," he said.

The revelation came to light when an Army officer who works at the Pentagon traveled to Delaware on Thursday to attend the cremation of a military comrade.

Offended to discover that the facility was labeled as a pet crematory, the officer sent an e-mail late Thursday to superiors at the Pentagon that included a photograph of the signage

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

re: #195 BabbaZee

The Evil of Three Lessers.

Yeah, between a rock & a hard place

re: #188 storagemanager

Vote McCain then puke...ain't life grand?

Puke and Rally!

Science: ''God Particle'' to Be Found Soon?

SNIP

Nobel laureate Leon Lederman has dubbed the theoretical boson “the God particle” because its discovery could unify understanding of particle physics and help humans “know the mind of God.” Higgs told reporters he is hoping to receive confirmation of his theory by the time he turns 80 in May 2009.

SNIP

storagemanager 5/11/08 5:26:53 am reply quote report 0

(IsraelNN.com) Lebanese officials claimed Sunday that Israeli Air Force warplanes flew over southern Lebanon.
According to the DPA news agency, the officials complained that the IAF flyover was a violation of Lebanese airspace.

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

The Islamic Republic of Lebanon is the enemy...not just Hezbafucz's

I guess that makes Lederman a Big OT too

re: #187 nonic

Happy Mother's Day to all LGF mothers, adoptive mothers, pregnant mothers-to-be, step-mothers, foster mothers, de facto mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, great-great-grandmothers, den mothers, mother hens, mother tigers, Mama Bears, and any and all women (and sometimes men) who provide a young-un with nurturing love and support. Have a nice day, people. :-)

Club Muthas too

lol

this thread has stopped and started more times than a drive through midtown Manhattan today.

Good morning lizards. HAPPY MOTHERS DAY (or are they all getting breakfast in bed this morning?)

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY LIZARDLAND!

What will my 9 kids give me?

Which one of the four Adopt-A-Highway signs pictured above was removed because some people found it offensive?

Although the KKK sign troubled many people, the ACLU fought for the Klan's rights and won.

Tha Nazi Party signs, put up at a cost to taxpayers of $500, merely "draws ire".

The NAMBLA sign "is a matter of personal taste and has nothing to do with legality." (A subsequent report opens the possibility that NAMBLA did not itself apply to adopt the highway, but a prankster put the NAMBLA name on the application. So these signs apparently came down on a technicality.)

However, a group that advocates enforcement of immigration laws must be silenced

[Link: tammybruce.com...]

BTW ........ all you so smarts....

let Antwerp be your object lesson.

Work to destroy Christianity in your land
and you will have Islam take it's place.

Smart!

Hey Babba......

.Ben Stein has a dangerous idea. His idea is that professors and teachers who express skepticism about Darwinism are likely to find themselves not granted tenure, castigated and ridiculed, and disqualified from the opportunity to have research papers published.

Stein documents this in his new movie "Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed." As you would expect, it is drawing highly critical reviews from the usual suspects. One agitated reviewer on a blog said the movie was filled with half-truths and outright lies. It would be interesting to see what this same source had to say about the latest documentary movies promoted by Al Gore and Michael Moore.
Having reviewed the movie myself, it appeared that Stein was trying to make the case for academic freedom, not attempted to convert anyone to a particular ideological position. Stein, in fact, never makes it known what particular beliefs he holds personally, he merely makes it known that he is disgusted by the idea that someone could lose their job over honest doubts about Darwinism.

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

re: #183 BulgarWheat

Let it rip, Granny.

/class is in session

Well first off, you need to teach her to find NO all by herself rather than play the evil beast. Thus Granny's Twenty Questions -

*Why do you want to do that?
*How does that benefit you? Harm you?
*Is it legal? Could you get into trouble with the law?
*How does that make you feel?
*Is there something else that might happen?
*How would that make you feel?
Rinse and repeat the two directly above until you have covered all possibilities - and make HER come up with the options. Don't offer any help or criticism. Just ask the questions.
*If she gets stuck, then politely ask a "could _____ happen?" question
*Could someone get hurt? (physically or emotionally)
*How would that make you feel?
Feel free to add anything you like.
End up with "What do you think is the best/smartest/wisest thing to do?"

Very annoying to them. Extremely effective and gives them the decision making tools to take into adulthood.

Note that once you have given her the right to make the decision, you cannot take it back if you don't like the decision she makes.

Thus, you will want to set some hard and fast rules that are not to be broken under any cirumstances. Things like no tatoos, no green hair and no smoking.

Granny's First Law of Curfews: Don't!

If you think back to when you were a kid/teen, you might recall that the very first thing you did, the thing you would move heaven and earth to do was that which was forbidden. This especially applies to curfews. By setting up a rule (and curfews always seem to be the parent's rule) you are begging to have it broken. And remember that there is not the first thing you can do after curfew that you can't do just as easily as before curfew.

No curfew. (Also no going out on school nights except in exceptional circumstances.) Make HER set her curfew each and every time she goes out. It is just normal common courtesy to tell the people you live or work with where you are going, how you can be reached and what time you will return. Part of being an adult. So, let her say when she will be home, with the understanding that she has to give you an exact address/phone number/itinerary and be home within 5 minutes of the time that she stated (unless she is in the ER.) Make sure she knows that periodically you might check and there will be hell to pay if she isn't where she says she will be, with the people she said she would be with. Walk in at minute number 6 late without a phone call and you are grounded 1 day for every minute you are late.

You might also explain that her eventual access to the family automobile is highly dependent on her performance @ the rules. Muck up and you might not drive till you are old. By the time she actually can drive, this will pretty much be a habit she will follow.

One other thing -

13 year old girls are extremely hormonal. Think PMS. Try to keep her away from artificial flavors, colors and sugar (honey & maple are fine) as much as you can. Those things seem to make already bad matters worse.

The NAMBLA sign "is a matter of personal taste and has nothing to do with legality."

OH!
It is a matter of personal taste to have sex with minors? It is no longer illegal?
I see.

BAD MFing world, Jack.

re: #209 storagemanager

I was just reading that LOL

re: #184 hayseed

After they get a job, pay bills, have to clean and wash, etc. They finally figure out Mom and dad did all that stuff, plus drive them around, feed them, take them cool places and still have time to kiss their boo-boos.

Then they know where their bread's buttered. I always tell my girls their boyfriends are too skinny, to which I get "Dad, not every guy's built like you". I make sure the knuckleheads they bring over are certain of that.

Happy Mother's day to all you ones God Crafted like a fine piece of Pottery. To all of us he just "Built", be nice, so the former doesn't turn on ya.

re: #209 storagemanager

We basically have a meaningless tautology of circular reasoning on our hands.

re: #208 BabbaZee

BTW ........ all you so smarts....

let Antwerp be your object lesson.

Work to destroy Christianity in your land
and you will have Islam take it's place.

Smart!

I'll give you an Amen for that. Every time I see people here encouraging Christians to flee Lebanon I think the same thing. When they are gone, what hope is left for that country?

I am ashamed to say I ran the gauntlet on the last Expelled thread.... after following the comments on the last 3 or 4.

re: #208 BabbaZee

BTW ........ all you so smarts....

let Antwerp be your object lesson.

Work to destroy Christianity in your land
and you will have Islam take it's place.

Smart!

Caliphate...Tom Kratman

re: #208 BabbaZee

Work to destroy Christianity in your land

The Democrats and Liberals have been doing this in the US for 40 years
It only took 20 years to get a foothold in the schools
Now it is everywhere
And now a Racist Muslim POTUS

Coincidence ?
I think not

re: #215 EC Marm

I'll give you an Amen for that. Every time I see people here encouraging Christians to flee Lebanon I think the same thing. When they are gone, what hope is left for that country?

Exactly

re: #186 opnion

A little bad news for you enthusiastic McCain supporters and reluctant supporters (like me).
Fox just did a piece om McCain/Fiengold, the part about legislators not jumping on corporate jets.
There is an exclusion for family member aircraft, you know like if your wife owns the Budweiser Distributorship that owns the jet.

Why is this bad news? It would be ludicrous to expect that John McCain or Jon Carry, who is married to the Heinz 57 heiress, (or any of the rest) not fly in the spouse's jet. That is hardly the same as accepting gifts (read bribes) from corporations that are totally unconnected to the legislator in question.

re: #218 LeftJustAintRight

Gramscis LONG MARCH

re: #217 storagemanager

Caliphate...Tom Kratman

I honestly don't need to read it.
I already know, and have for at least 6 years.

re: #222 BabbaZee

Yes we all know what's happening in Europe will probably happen. The scary part of the story is what happened/s to the United States of America.

re: #216 The Albatross

I am ashamed to say I ran the gauntlet on the last Expelled thread.... after following the comments on the last 3 or 4.

On this week's episode of

I know you are, But what am I.....

re: #222 BabbaZee

I honestly don't need to read it.
I already know, and have for at least 6 years.

I told my wife last night...when you read a book...and think about it a week later...it is a good book.

re: #223 BlueCanuck

Yes we all know what's happening in Europe will probably happen. The scary part of the story is what happened/s to the United States of America.

I have been screaming that Europe is the object lesson for years here.

A few people think I am less crazy now LOL
but still, the majority still think I am insane.

re: #225 storagemanager

I told my wife last night...when you read a book...and think about it a week later...it is a good book.

mmhmm true

re: #218 LeftJustAintRight

KGB standard thinking was it should only take 15 years to change the culture in a full on assault

re: #226 BabbaZee

I have been screaming that Europe is the object lesson for years here.

A few people think I am less crazy now LOL
but still, the majority still think I am insane.

Kind of like benchmarking in the corporate world?

re: #226 BabbaZee

the majority still think I am insane.

Same here
Wear it like a badge of honor
I do

re: #187 nonic

.....and spiritual ones, too? :)

re: #190 LeftJustAintRight

LOL
My 8 year old will not be like other 13 year old girls
She will never date boys that I don't approve of
She will be kind and respectful to her parents forever
And she will never dress like a hooker

/I hope

I managed most of that with mine. See Granny's 20 Questions - works wonders for hooker clothes. I did not hear I hate you very often. And I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut about boys I did not especially approve of. Teens that sense you are trying to pick their boyfriend/girlfriend for them will cling even more strongly to the boy in question that even all us Typical White People do to our guns and religion. Boyfriend disapproval is almost guaranteed to cause problems. Hide it well.

I also managed to keep them from smoking. Having clear memories of the TV flying out the front door, they were never quite sure about my promise to surgically remove any fingers I found holding cigarettes.

Actually I thought I had an interesting couple of points... about modern science and creation/theology being compatable historically before Darwin. That the two are incompatable to direct scientific thoughts was false.

re: #229 akak

I guess so yes

re: #230 LeftJustAintRight

me too LOL
I have long experience with the badge

re: #234 BabbaZee

I guess so yes

Happy Mothers Day Babbazee & all LGF moms.

Babba...one of the best parts of the book...reading about a moonbat getting slapped in the face with reality.

re: #232 galloping granny

Boyfriend disapproval is almost guaranteed to cause problems. Hide it well.

Thanks for the lesson
I will remember that

re: #226 BabbaZee

Didn't Joe Cocker sign a song about you?

When your morality is based upon a group-tank worldview with Islamic and Socialist views in the mix, what can be expected.

I'll keep mine based in the one who watches over Israel.

It is a beautiful day here, time to cut grass AGAIN!

good morning, Lizards
Happy Mother's day to all moms

here's chapter 12 of Candide
[Link: www.cruxy.com...]

it's part 2 of the Old Woman's Story
and tells of her captivity among the Muslims of North Africa and beyond, as she is sold from one to another

Voltaire spares no religion or nationality in Candide from his biting satire.
Along with chapter 11, [Link: www.cruxy.com...]
which is part 1 of the Old Woman's Story, we see that not much has changed since the time of Voltaire, since it is still legal in Sharia to posess an infidel woman with the power of the right hand

I was suprised re: Hezbollah and Lebanon with the Syria response. I don't think it bodes well if/when things heat up this summer.

re: #233 The Albatross

Actually I thought I had an interesting couple of points... about modern science and creation/theology being compatable historically before Darwin. That the two are incompatable to direct scientific thoughts was false.

IMO neither side cares about the truth in this fight

What they care about are their personal identity politics and their political and religious agendas and I include many of the so called scientists in the religious agenda category... Militant atheism is a religion of it's own

Scope Monkey Trial 2008 is a fight about CONTROL of the world view of the culture, not about "science" or truth.

It is about controlling the terms and definitions that create the world view of the people.

Recent congressional hearings about the destruction, by Israel's air force, of a Syrian-North Korean nuclear facility, has shed light on the mutually-beneficial nature of US-Israel relations. The September 2007 Israeli military operation in Syria has dealt a setback to the Syria-North Korea-Iran-Hezbollah axis, while advancing US and Israeli interests. It has bolstered US posture of deterrence, has extended US' strategic arm and has provided the US with vital information to penetrate Russian air defense systems, which are also employed by Iran. It has refuted the claim that US-Israel relations have been shaped by political expediency.

Former Secretary of State and NATO Supreme Commander, General (ret.) Al Haig refers to Israel as the largest, cost-effective, combat-experienced US aircraft carrier that does not require US personnel, cannot be sunk and is located in a most critical region for US national security interests.

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

What will Obama and Michelle do when one of the daughters brings home a Typical White Guy ?

re: #232 galloping granny

The older girls have finally figured out that even though they see their boyfriends (when they have one) as some wonderful, cool guy, Dad still ain't gonna like them. They've got to earn that, and that'll probably be the hardest job they've had in their short lives.

re: #239 Widow'smight

{widow!}

re: #242 BabbaZee

Yes, I can agree with that completely but I'd like to think there's room at the table for both because both have merit.

re: #237 storagemanager

Babba...one of the best parts of the book...reading about a moonbat getting slapped in the face with reality.

Fantasy is nice LOL

re: #247 The Albatross

Yes, I can agree with that completely but I'd like to think there's room at the table for both because both have merit.

In a righteous world there would be.

There should be no "dispute" to begin with.

The dispute itself telegraphs it's intent

Zelin complained that NATO F-15, F-16 and F-22 fighter jets regularly “attack” Russian bombers over the Arctic Ocean.

Russian Air Force chief Col.-Gen.Zelin

re: #248 BabbaZee

Fantasy is nice LOL

Many moonbats will slapped in the face..in the coming month's..just like 9-11

re: #250 akak

Yeah? How many have been splashed?

re: #236 akak

Happy Mothers Day Babbazee & all LGF moms.

{akak}

I am no one's mother.
And I can never be now, parts all gone.

This disturbed me deeply until about 4 years ago, when it suddenly dawned on me that GOD must love me very much.

LOL

re: #251 storagemanager

Many moonbats will slapped in the face..in the coming month's..just like 9-11

We can only hope

re: #251 storagemanager

Many moonbats will slapped in the face..in the coming month's..just like 9-11

I take zero joy in that

"Israel will not tolerate a nuclear weapon in the hands of people who say openly, explicitly and publicly that they want to wipe Israel off the map. Why should we?" Olmert asked.

talk is cheap. [Link: www.newsmax.com...]

re: #253 BabbaZee

Babba, you slight yourself! You a a spiritual mother to many.

love ya :)

In a righteous world there would be.

Thanks. You are a smart and wise, while I on the other hand am a mere smart ass and wise ass. *grin*

re: #255 BabbaZee

I take zero joy in that

Me either...it is just a fact.

re: #219 BabbaZee

re: #215 EC Marm

I'll give you an Amen for that. Every time I see people here encouraging Christians to flee Lebanon I think the same thing. When they are gone, what hope is left for that country?

Exactly

It is sort of like the politics that goes on in a workplace. People encourage others to leave, to protest, to make demands, knowing that when a person leaves, their chances of improving or moving up are greatly increased. So the islamists try to make the Christians or Jews as miserable as possible, threaten their existence, block transport, set fires, fire bullets in the air, all with the intent of chasing others away. Western civilizations open the doors to those fleeing the chaos. The islamists win. Bad behavior is rewarded.

re: #257 Ma Sands

{ma}

thanks

re: #260 EC Marm

It is sort of like the politics that goes on in a workplace. People encourage others to leave, to protest, to make demands, knowing that when a person leaves, their chances of improving or moving up are greatly increased. So the islamists try to make the Christians or Jews as miserable as possible, threaten their existence, block transport, set fires, fire bullets in the air, all with the intent of chasing others away. Western civilizations open the doors to those fleeing the chaos. The islamists win. Bad behavior is rewarded.

Common scenario.
Happening everywhere at once.

re: #258 The Albatross

In a righteous world there would be.

Thanks. You are a smart and wise, while I on the other hand am a mere smart ass and wise ass. *grin*

{MWAH}

This morning I saw Carridine (or is it K?) and his take on Burma and the junta using the disaster there to consolodate power. The misery and human suffering are just awful. It is so so sad, I have various friends here with family there.