I think this is the first open thread of the day, IIRC?

twwwiiiiiiirrrrrrllllllllllllllllllllll

re: #1 Honorary Yooper

I think this is the first open thread of the day, IIRC?

"First?"

re: #1 Honorary Yooper

oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh

Ah, wide open threadiness. Beats working.

re: #5 joncelli

Ah, wide open threadiness. Beats working.

Tell me about it.

Thank you Charles for the change of scenery. That previous thread was hellish and unbecoming even by people who will stoop at nothing.

re: #5 joncelli

Ah, wide open threadiness. Beats working.

Few things don't.

Good morning, a lovely Tuesday and the Finance man is coming down for a visit, so we are skiving off and taking him out for a deer hunt. I mean, what better way to enjoy a work day.

re: #7 alegrias

Thank you Charles for the change of scenery. That previous thread was hellish and unbecoming even by people who will stoop at nothing.

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(I meant the "art" work of feverish minds)

re: #9 A Kiwi Infidel

Good morning, a lovely Tuesday and the Finance man is coming down for a visit, so we are skiving off and taking him out for a deer hunt. I mean, what better way to enjoy a work day.

How does one "skiv off"?

re: #5 joncelli

Ah, wide open threadiness. Beats working.

That it does. :-)

Obama's speech about Michelle is on Fox right now.

re: #11 MandyManners

Pronounced "sky-ve" and means to sneak off without telling the telephonist.

re: #13 galloping granny

Obama's speech about Michelle is on Fox right now.

Will they have some brie for Obama to go with his whine?

Three cheers for the American family farm--my hat is off to these hard-working people who feed half the world with efficiency & integrity. (Spent a working weekend doing manual labor with a shovel and have only good things to say to those who feed us fatty-Americans.)

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

re: #16 alegrias

Three cheers for the American family farm--my hat is off to these hard-working people who feed half the world with efficiency & integrity. (Spent a working weekend doing manual labor with a shovel and have only good things to say to those who feed us fatty-Americans.)

Just don't drive an SUV or have your thermostat set to 72, because the rest of the world that's being fed might not like it.

Is Obama's 57 state comment news to only me? I'm not seeing much on this?!

"And here is the paper that bears Ahmadinejad's signature on it as well as mine"

After all it is only a _tiny threat.

Although I have serious problems with the guy, I have to profess admiration for the way McCain has been dribbling Obama up and down the court the last couple of days. Obama talks a big game about bipartisanship, but if you poke him he starts spitting acid just like every other loony leftist politician. McCain spent years in a freaking Vietnamese torture camp, I don't think Obama exactly frightens him. It's going to be fun watching McCain abuse him while Obama clings to a giant waffle and begs everyone to switch the subject back to generalized "change".

Honest to god, the Democrats make fun of McCain's age and "senility" - but if Obama can't handle one ornery Vietnam war vet, how is he going to handle Iran?

re: #15 Honorary Yooper

Will they have some brie for Obama to go with his whine?

Nope, some stinky old english stilton.

re: #14 A Kiwi Infidel

Pronounced "sky-ve" and means to sneak off without telling the telephonist.

Thank you.

Now, what's a telephonist?

re: #19 Chingachgook

Is Obama's 57 state comment news to only me? I'm not seeing much on this?!

We kicked it around last week.

Obama's spokeman on Fox just called Libya's government "an administration" - then quickly changed it to "regime."

re: #19 Chingachgook

The organization of islamic states has 57 states.

re: #24 MandyManners

We kicked it around last week.

So we won't have Dick Nixon Obama's 57 states to kick around any more?

re: #23 MandyManners

If I'm reading this correctly, I think Kiwi is saying she blew off the rest of the day and didn't bother to tell the receptionist. Which sounds great, since it's nice and cool and breezy today here.

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

I think you're referring to what we call 'mail boxes' (where postal mail is delivered in suburbia). There are also Post Office Boxes.....where postal mail is delivered to patrons at the post office.

As far as I know, none have colored disks on them.....

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

Colored disks on what letter boxes? Mailboxes? If so, no. Mine's on the house.

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

No? Or, at least, I haven't noticed?

31 - That's Numberwang!

re: #23 MandyManners

Since we dont employ one, I have no idea.

re: #21 Diamond Bullet

Although I have serious problems with the guy, I have to profess admiration for the way McCain has been dribbling Obama up and down the court the last couple of days. Obama talks a big game about bipartisanship, but if you poke him he starts spitting acid just like every other loony leftist politician. McCain spent years in a freaking Vietnamese torture camp, I don't think Obama exactly frightens him. It's going to be fun watching McCain abuse him while Obama clings to a giant waffle and begs everyone to switch the subject back to generalized "change".

Honest to god, the Democrats make fun of McCain's age and "senility" - but if Obama can't handle one ornery Vietnam war vet, how is he going to handle Iran?

Extra Extra!

/read all about it (five jaw dropping links)

re: #28 joncelli

"Here" being Pennsylvania, of course, so it doesn't really follow from Kiwi's situation, which is, you know, in NZ. (I REALLY need a decent night's sleep.)

re: #27 Occasional Reader

So we won't have Dick Nixon Obama's 57 states to kick around any more?

Oh, we'll never give it up!

Lunch With a Liberal - True Story

College friend. Obama supporter.

Friend: " You know, Obama reminds me of John F. Kennedy".
Me: " I agree. "
Friend: " Oh, so you are voting for Obama? "
Me: " No. "
Friend: " Why not?"
Me: " Well, Kennedy's inexperience got us into the Bay of Pigs. He also brought the country closest in it's history to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, also based on his inexperience and Kruschev's sense he could be taken advantage of. "
Friend: " Well, Obama will have good advisors. "
Me: "Well, so did Kennedy. "

After that we spoke about family and the weather.

re: #26 Ojoe

The organization of islamic states has 57 states.

Plus two more!

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

/No - just chalk lines and x's occasionally show up unexpectedly.

re: #28 joncelli

If I'm reading this correctly, I think Kiwi is saying she blew off the rest of the day and didn't bother to tell the receptionist. Which sounds great, since it's nice and cool and breezy today here.

Thank you! That makes sense. It's been a while since I read Ngaio Marsh.

re: #30 Honorary Yooper

Mailbox or disk?

re: #43 A Kiwi Infidel

Mailbox or disk?

Mailbox. There's no colored disks on it.

re: #2 MandyManners

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Wow, that was awesome.

re: #35 Killian Bundy

I saw no links, just a great picture of a cat.

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

Nope. Some have small locks and single boxes have little flags you pop up if you want the mail man to stick up, but the post box design is pretty standard - dictated by the Post Office.

re: #38 offendi

Lunch With a Liberal - True Story

College friend. Obama supporter.

Friend: " You know, Obama reminds me of John F. Kennedy".
Me: " I agree. "
Friend: " Oh, so you are voting for Obama? "
Me: " No. "
Friend: " Why not?"
Me: " Well, Kennedy's inexperience got us into the Bay of Pigs. He also brought the country closest in it's history to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, also based on his inexperience and Kruschev's sense he could be taken advantage of. "
Friend: " Well, Obama will have good advisors. "
Me: "Well, so did Kennedy. "

After that we spoke about family and the weather.

I congratulate you for not deploying your salad fork.

re: #40 Creeping Eruption

/No - just chalk lines and x's occasionally show up unexpectedly.

And, those bar codes on the back of highway signs.

re: #43 A Kiwi Infidel

Disk...sometimes people who have mailboxes close to the road put reflectors on the boxes so people don't accidentally clean the boxes out at night -- could that be what you mean?

re: #45 Ward Cleaver

Wow, that was awesome.

Tanks. It makes me dizzy.

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

Well, sure, I installed them there as signals to let the UN troops know which of my neighbors own firearms for them to confiscate.

So?

re: #47 galloping granny

Nope. Some have small locks and single boxes have little flags you pop up if you want the mail man to stick up, but the post box design is pretty standard - dictated by the Post Office.

Only the ones on the street have those flags though. Since mine is on the house, I have no flag for it.

Then there are mailslots that some people have in their doors.

re: #18 looking closely

Just don't drive an SUV or have your thermostat set to 72, because the rest of the world that's being fed might not like it.

* * *
Having survived the Carter years, and being a conservative, I actually don't like to overheat or over air condition my environment! This year I didn't even turn on the heat, though we've had cold days in the DC Metro area. My wool sweater collection is awesome!

And I prefer to walk when I can.

re: #50 joncelli

Disk...sometimes people who have mailboxes close to the road put reflectors on the boxes so people don't accidentally clean the boxes out at night -- could that be what you mean?

I think by cleaning them out what you mean is drive into them - as the town plow did to ours this winter.

I'm going to ignore for a minute that Barimmy Obarter,in the space of only a few hours, called Iran "tiny" and didn't pose a "serious threat". :

"Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

and then turned around and called Iran a "grave threat":

"Let me be absolutely clear: Iran is a grave threat."

I also found something else,in the same article,that I found hypocritical to the max:

If McCain is elected, Obama said, "We'll keep talking tough in Washington, while countries like Iran ignore our tough talk."

Wait a @#$% minute there Barimmy,isn't TALKING TOUGH the very policy you have been promoting as your foreign policy all along? Haven't those of us who remain sane,and remember the Jimmy Carter Appeasement Tour,been saying that tough talk don't mean $#!t to a terrorist? Now for the money question:

Why do you support TOUGH TALK as your own foreign policy and then condemn others for the same policy? If it will be a failure for McCain,how will doing the same thing be a success for you?

[Link: apnews.myway.com...]

re: #22 A Kiwi Infidel

Nope, some stinky old english stilton.

Stilton is far too good for him.

Try really stale, really cheap generic macaroni and cheese. The kind were the cheese reminds one of orange-yellow water....

re: #38 offendi

Lunch With a Liberal - True Story

College friend. Obama supporter.

Friend: " You know, Obama reminds me of John F. Kennedy".
Me: " I agree. "
Friend: " Oh, so you are voting for Obama? "
Me: " No. "
Friend: " Why not?"
Me: " Well, Kennedy's inexperience got us into the Bay of Pigs. He also brought the country closest in it's history to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, also based on his inexperience and Kruschev's sense he could be taken advantage of. "
Friend: " Well, Obama will have good advisors. "
Me: "Well, so did Kennedy. "

After that we spoke about family and the weather.

Will be forced into some mandatory family fun with the BF's family this weekend and I will be doing a lot of tongue biting.

The good news is the BF is on the right team....much to his moonbat father's chagrin.

BWAAAHAHAHAHA.

re: #50 joncelli

Disk...sometimes people who have mailboxes close to the road put reflectors on the boxes so people don't accidentally clean the boxes out at night -- could that be what you mean?

Deep in the heart of Appalachia, those reflective disks just help Bubba and his buddies aim better with either their shotguns or their baseball bats.

re: #25 galloping granny

Obama's spokeman on Fox just called Libya's government "an administration" - then quickly changed it to "regime."

* * *
Totalitarians R us! What's not to talk about! Without preconditions.

re: #52 Occasional Reader

Thanks, all, for prompt replies, I will consign this referred material to the shredder, as conspiracy theory.

re: #55 galloping granny

Yes, I mean slam into them. Neighbors lost a box that way.

I've been wondering something. When we were up in Sonoma for a wedding, it seemed to me that their "watch out for deer lepping merrily across the freeway" signs portrayed a rather rotund fellow, while Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties used a buck with a nice, tucked little belly.

Has anyone else noted this variation anywhere else?

re: #54 alegrias

Having survived the Carter years, and being a conservative, I actually don't like to overheat or over air condition my environment! This year I didn't even turn on the heat, though we've had cold days in the DC Metro area. My wool sweater collection is awesome!

And I prefer to walk when I can.

Lucky you then. It's far too cold in Chicago to avoid not turning on the heat. Well, you can leave it off, but your pipes'll freeze. I just keep it down near 62.

I just hope for a cooler summer where I can leave the AC off most of the time.

re: #25 galloping granny

Obama's spokeman on Fox just called Libya's government "an administration" - then quickly changed it to "regime."

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Kleptocracy would be more accurate.

re: #61 A Kiwi Infidel

Thanks, all, for prompt replies, I will consign this referred material to the shredder, as conspiracy theory.

Always happy to help. By the way... naturally, I've reported your post to UN Central Command. Black helicopters are being dispatched. Please stay by your computer.

re: #62 joncelli

Yes, I mean slam into them. Neighbors lost a box that way.

We were rather surprised to see ours ice skating down the road. We now have one big enough to put a small child into that is coal black and firmly attached to a 6x6 sunk in cement. I'll get one of those reflector disks on a whip before the plow comes around again.

re: #63 Dianna

Sometimes people put a red round reflector on the deer's nose. (Rudolph).

re: #61 A Kiwi Infidel

Thanks, all, for prompt replies, I will consign this referred material to the shredder, as conspiracy theory.

What was the conspiracy supposed to be?

re: #54 alegrias

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Having survived the Carter years, and being a conservative, I actually don't like to overheat or over air condition my environment! This year I didn't even turn on the heat, though we've had cold days in the DC Metro area. My wool sweater collection is awesome!

And I prefer to walk when I can.

well, doing things because they make sense for you is a far cry different from doing things because Obama wants to impress his friends in Davos with the lovely progressive (ie, coercive) laws he's signed.

re: #63 Dianna

When we were up in Sonoma for a wedding, it seemed to me that their "watch out for deer lepping merrily across the freeway" signs portrayed a rather rotund fellow, while Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties used a buck with a nice, tucked little belly.

Either style of sign is okay with me, as long as they have the obligatory bullet holes in them.

re: #38 offendi

Lunch With a Liberal - True Story

College friend. Obama supporter.

Friend: " You know, Obama reminds me of John F. Kennedy".
Me: " I agree. "
Friend: " Oh, so you are voting for Obama? "
Me: " No. "
Friend: " Why not?"
Me: " Well, Kennedy's inexperience got us into the Bay of Pigs. He also brought the country closest in it's history to a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, also based on his inexperience and Kruschev's sense he could be taken advantage of. "
Friend: " Well, Obama will have good advisors. "
Me: "Well, so did Kennedy. "

After that we spoke about family and the weather.

* * *

And Kennedy sent military advisors to VIETNAM.

re: #70 buzzsawmonkey

extra bad joke

re: #64 Honorary Yooper

Lucky you then. It's far too cold in Chicago to avoid not turning on the heat. Well, you can leave it off, but your pipes'll freeze. I just keep it down near 62.

I just hope for a cooler summer where I can leave the AC off most of the time.

I wouldn't give AC house room for a couple of reasons, not least of which is allergies. My dad keeps his car so air conditioned it is like riding in a nitrogen freezer. Then you get out of the car and 80 feels like 280. No thanks!

re: #21 Diamond Bullet

Obama also can't handle Fox News, surely he can't handle Ahmydinnerjacket if he can't take a few questions from Chris Wallace.

re: #68 Ojoe

I've seen that, and also little target circles just behind the shoulder.

re: #57 David IV of Georgia

Stilton is far too good for him.

Try really stale, really cheap generic macaroni and cheese. The kind were the cheese reminds one of orange-yellow water....

As young fellas we would practice our sniper skills on wild goats. The old billy goats really stank, like I mean a pong that could stop a bull elephant at 30 paces. I cannot eat goats cheese as there is alway a hint of this smell, even as you bring the cheese up to the mouth, you catch a hint of the smell, and then nearly throw up.........

Where did door to door solicitors get the idea that ringing my door bell rapidly 5 times and then immediately giving 12 or so forceful knocks on my hollow core thin skinned wood front door, would make me want to do anything else but kick the solicitor right between the legs rapidly 5 times then immediately give a dozen or so forceful knocks on their forehead.

Then I would loudly proclaim, “the lights are on, but nobody is home”, a**hole, and no I don’t want any.

Rant off.

I hated wearing sweaters and having the heat on 68 when I was a kid and I sure as you-now-what am not going through that again just because Barry says so.

re: #1 Honorary Yooper

I think this is the first open thread of the day, IIRC?

Hey! He said 'First'! :P

re: #63 Dianna

I've been wondering something. When we were up in Sonoma for a wedding, it seemed to me that their "watch out for deer lepping merrily across the freeway" signs portrayed a rather rotund fellow, while Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties used a buck with a nice, tucked little belly.

Has anyone else noted this variation anywhere else?

Beats me. All I can tell you is that I was in my earl 30s before I figured out that the deer didn't know to cross where the sign was instead of the highway department knowing where the deer trails cross the road.

re: #48 MandyManners

I congratulate you for not deploying your salad fork.

Since it was sushi it would have been a chopstick.

re: #46 Dianna

I saw no links, just a great picture of a cat.

My bad.

/Obama hates cats

re: #72 Occasional Reader

Either style of sign is okay with me, as long as they have the obligatory bullet holes in them.

We must be kin.

re: #72 Occasional Reader

Last month, driving up 280, I saw a "watch out for deer lepping merrily" sign flattened, with a deer staring down at it.

re: #73 alegrias

Yes, responsible for the Vietnam War too!

re: #84 offendi

Since it was sushi it would have been a chopstick.

Bigger hole. Splinters, too.

So, about that comment by Huckabee at the NRA on Friday. Anyone else grateful that the Obama camp spent so much time on the 'appeasement' issue that they didn't have the effort to stir up anything against Huckabee. I don't think anyone's talked about it since Friday.

Time to head out and check out Inifdelia's handiwork at the local Whole Foods.

Have a good night, LN!

re: #87 Dianna

Last month, driving up 280, I saw a "watch out for deer lepping merrily" sign flattened, with a deer staring down at it.

Did it actually say "deer leeping merrily"? Wow. I gotta' get out to California some time.

re: #72 Occasional Reader

Either style of sign is okay with me, as long as they have the obligatory bullet holes in them.

No, you don't want to warn the deer that someone's hunting for them.

The moose signs near us have the moose standing there and looking at the car, like the car can be stopped by its gaze.

re: #81 loppyd

I hated wearing sweaters and having the heat on 68 when I was a kid and I sure as you-now-what am not going through that again just because Barry says so.

I don't mind keeping the thermostat on about 64. If we turn it much higher than that the bedrooms are so hot upstairs that it is nearly unbearable and we freeze out in the schoolroom anyway. So we keep the thermostat lowish and fill in with a space heater that costs very little to run. Nice compromise, since we have oil heat.

re: #90 bosforus

So, about that comment by Huckabee at the NRA on Friday. Anyone else grateful that the Obama camp spent so much time on the 'appeasement' issue that they didn't have the effort to stir up anything against Huckabee. I don't think anyone's talked about it since Friday.

Tim Russert played it for Huckabee while he was on Meet the Press and Huckabee apologized.

Now I'm really gone.

Later, taters!

Oh, this is rich. The Obama began wearing a flag pin again at the request of some veterans. LMAO!

re: #80 DownRightMeanAmerican

Where did door to door solicitors get the idea that ringing my door bell rapidly 5 times and then immediately giving 12 or so forceful knocks on my hollow core thin skinned wood front door, would make me want to do anything else but kick the solicitor right between the legs rapidly 5 times then immediately give a dozen or so forceful knocks on their forehead.

Then I would loudly proclaim, “the lights are on, but nobody is home”, a**hole, and no I don’t want any.

Rant off.

Just open the door slowly and sweetly ask if he/she has ever seen Silence of the Lambs, then promptly invite them in for a glass of Chianti. You will probably finish your sentence to a rapidly retreating back.

Was it 40 Years Ago, Today?

In a previous thread, someone was talking about social programs that actually reduced freedom. Interesting quote "In 1965, Democrats held more than two-thirds of both chambers of Congress." I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.

re: #66 Occasional Reader

Always happy to help. By the way... naturally, I've reported your post to UN Central Command. Black helicopters are being dispatched. Please stay by your computer.

Well that would be nice. Our airforce certainly needs some new hardware. If you could get some assigned to NZ on a permanent basis, I think would be happier.

re: #94 galloping granny

I don't mind keeping the thermostat on about 64. If we turn it much higher than that the bedrooms are so hot upstairs that it is nearly unbearable and we freeze out in the schoolroom anyway. So we keep the thermostat lowish and fill in with a space heater that costs very little to run. Nice compromise, since we have oil heat.

I grew up in a house built in the late 1700's. It was freezing no matter where you went! LOL

Gone, baby gone.

BYE

re: #80 DownRightMeanAmerican

Where did door to door solicitors get the idea that ringing my door bell rapidly 5 times and then immediately giving 12 or so forceful knocks on my hollow core thin skinned wood front door, would make me want to do anything else but kick the solicitor right between the legs rapidly 5 times then immediately give a dozen or so forceful knocks on their forehead.

Then I would loudly proclaim, “the lights are on, but nobody is home”, a**hole, and no I don’t want any.

Rant off.

Well, if a salesman walked up our driveway, through the locked gate with the "Beware of the dog" sign and rang the bell, I think the barking would be enough to convince him to leave.
If he didn't, the sight of two dogs looking at him through the window might.

re: #83 MandyManners

The deer do seem to be in the habit of ignoring the signs, yes.

Not as badly, though, as the eagle I nearly hit in the Klamath River country. It came crashing down on the road in front of me, and I barely stopped in time.

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

No, but twenty years ago I delivered communications equipment and mainframes to locations in abandoned mines in the Appalachian Mountains where the only directions I had after meeting a contact at a loading dock was a series of grossly rounded off distances and a list of color coded disks that marked each turn on the path to my destination.

re: #86 MandyManners

We must be kin.

That said, while I favor bullet holes in the signs, I could never bring myself to shoot a deer.

re: #85 Killian Bundy

My bad.

/Obama hates cats

Now I know that I'll never vote for him. He's a liberal appeaser who hates cats. Loser.

re: #100 toomanysnax

A bit on the self absorbed side isn't he?

This thought just occurred to me:

McCain: I've been through shit you people wouldn't believe.

Obama: Our peace loving socialist brothers would never...blah...blah...blah...

McCain: Told you so.

re: #58 loppyd

Why bite your tongue? A drink or two can certainly get things going.

BTW, my friend from college was an anarchist when we were going to school and loved the radical professors' courses the most. Logical progression to Obama supporter considering Ayers?

I've got a question (or several) for those of you who have, or at least have seen. e-book readers. They're still awfully pricey for what you get, but I really like the idea of 200 books on an SD chip ... that would free up a lot of space here, and save quite a bit in hardback prices, even at discount. I'm currently leaning toward the HanLin eReader, since it handles the most formats, but I've not made a solid decision.

Do the available titles make it worth getting one at all? (I mostly read SF/Fantasy for fiction, and I think I'd do better to keep my references in paper editions.)

Are they as easy to use as the ads and folks at "Daily Pundit" claim?

Does e-paper really look like paper? I have a hard time reading back-lit material for really long things, but I can read real paper all day, so this is important.

More later, probably, as I get input here!

-- Ann

re: #88 offendi

Yes, responsible for the Vietnam War too!

Kennedy? Surely you jest.

re: #100 toomanysnax

"Half-breed"? WTF?

re: #95 loppyd

Tim Russert played it for Huckabee while he was on Meet the Press and Huckabee apologized.

Now I'm really gone.

Later, taters!

Thanks for the update. But it still seems like it didn't pick up much traction, which is fine by me, since crying about Bush all weekend only brought more attention to Obama's ludicrous foreign policy stance. It was a win-win weekend, I suppose.

re: #105 Occasional Reader

That said, while I favor bullet holes in the signs, I could never bring myself to shoot a deer.

They are entirely too hard to eat while alive. That is what I have found.

re: #87 Dianna

Last month, driving up 280, I saw a "watch out for deer lepping merrily" sign flattened, with a deer staring down at it.

That's a photo-worthy moment. Too bad you didn't have a camera.

re: #100 toomanysnax

I'm about half-way through O'Bama's first book. I'm past the part where he's tired of getting high and past the part where he goes to visit his favorite Communist "Frank" and at the part where he is learning about the Nation of Islam. This guy is creepier than any of the press make out. Have any of you lizards read this thing? Does it have a happy ending? Is there a point to all the words other than a half-breed trying to decide which racial team to play on? Wierd!

The happy ending will be when he loses the election by a landslide and retires to Iran, where his wife can be proud of wearing a bag.

re: #103 Dianna

The deer do seem to be in the habit of ignoring the signs, yes.

Not as badly, though, as the eagle I nearly hit in the Klamath River country. It came crashing down on the road in front of me, and I barely stopped in time.

Stupid animals encroaching on our civilization.

re: #106 cygnus

Now I know that I'll never vote for him. He's a liberal appeaser who hates cats. Loser.

And he doesn't have a dog.

/think about that

re: #80 DownRightMeanAmerican

That's a hell of a visual. ROFLOL!

re: #87 Dianna

I saw a "watch out for deer lepping merrily" sign

Sounds like a LOLDEER sign.

I CAN HAZ LEPPING MERRILY?!

re: #92 MandyManners

No, that's my characterization. The deer silhouette is usually portrayed as if it is leaping, and (to my eye) the angle of the antlered head looks awfully cheerful to me. So I don't call it a "deer crossing" sign, but a deer lepping merrily sign.

re: #105 Occasional Reader

That said, while I favor bullet holes in the signs, I could never bring myself to shoot a deer.

I don't know if I could. Well, if that was my source of protein, I could.

Bruce Ramsey at the Seattle Times is still digging.

May 17, 2008 4:00 PM
"Appeasement," again
Posted by Bruce Ramsey
My previous post having inflamed a few hundred people, I'll try another tack. Forget the Munich conference. My point is really not about that anyway. It is about "appeasement" as a political label to prevent a conversation in the present.

I grew up facing the prospect of nuclear death from the Russians, and also the specter of world Communism. Well, we talked to the Russians. It didn't solve everything, but it did lead to a nuclear test ban, and a red telephone, and a few useful things. And finally, Communism went away.

I lived through the time when China was "Red China," and we didn't talk to it. Well, Richard Nixon opened the door. It was a good thing. It didn't settle everything with China, but it lowered tensions. The Chinese government, dictatorial as it was, was not totally unreasonable--and over the years it has become somewhat more reasonable. We have businesses there, and academics there, and tourists there, and thousands of Chinese students here. Talking to China, and trading with it, was a good idea.

It is said we can't talk to terrorists. Get beyond the "terrorist" label, which is another device for barring communication. You have to ask: do these people represent the political aspirations of a large group? if they do, you'd better talk to them, because they're not going away. Find out what they want. You don't have to knuckle under. But talk. Hear them out. Have them hear you out.

There is a whole Internet jeering section that considers this a weakling's argument. Gotta be tough. Don't give an inch. They also seem to think the United States is surrounded, beleaguered, encircled, vulnerable and insecure. I see a nation that is a dominant superpower that might profit greatly if it listened more.

Forget what I said!

Okay, Brucey baby, "But talk. Hear them out. Have them hear you out." Just what do we talk about, death by bomb or knife, does a dhimmi have property rights, does wife need a burka or just a scarf, what the rate of jizya is?

Tool, utter useless tool.

Dr. Sanity is going on a blogging hiatus:

"However, I need a break from all the daily insanity. Unfortunately, I am suffering from "blogger burnout", and consequently my level of enthusiasm for blogging has declined. Add to that some significant personal and professional issues; as well as the fact that there are several other major writing projects I have been putting off for a long time now and would like to begin/finish--well, it was either take a long vacation, or quit the blogging rat race entirely."

re: #114 OldLineTexan

They are entirely too hard to eat while alive. That is what I have found.

LOL!

re: #69 eschew_obfuscation

Follow the trail from here, there is a link in the latest article.

www.thegoldenreport.com

re: #104 Ackomanyuki

Sounds like the black helicopters have another pickup to make. (When you hear the rotors, sit very still.)

re: #116 galloping granny

I must mention as part of my question that I got a used paperback on Amazon for $1.00 plus postage. The first buyer paid the royalty.

re: #119 Killian Bundy

And he doesn't have a dog.

/think about that

re: #100 toomanysnax

Wierd!

I also think it's weird that the word 'weird' doesn't follow the "'i' before 'e' except after c and and when sounding like 'a'" rule. Any etymologists out there?

re: #114 OldLineTexan

They are entirely too hard to eat while alive. That is what I have found.

Ah, wise words from the Texan Sage

re: #122 Dianna

No, that's my characterization. The deer silhouette is usually portrayed as if it is leaping, and (to my eye) the angle of the antlered head looks awfully cheerful to me. So I don't call it a "deer crossing" sign, but a deer lepping merrily sign.

Coooooooool!

re: #17 A Kiwi Infidel

I have been reading some stuff which borders on "conspiracy theory" but I would be interested to know if you peoples have coloured disks on your letter boxes?

Have blue and red reflective disks.

Gives the drunk drivers and aiming point.

re: #100 toomanysnax

Buh-bye.

re: #89 MandyManners

That's not nice, but perhaps appropriate.

As a product of American meritocracy I am unfamiliar with salad fork/martial art etiquette. Perhaps a Letticia Baldridge course is in order?

re: #102 Kosh's Shadow

Well, if a salesman walked up our driveway, through the locked gate with the "Beware of the dog" sign and rang the bell, I think the barking would be enough to convince him to leave.
If he didn't, the sight of two dogs looking at him through the window might.

I purposely don't let the dog (a large golden) out back when they knock like I do when friends and family visit. As soon as I open the door she goes nuts barking and trying to get at them so bad it's hard to hold her back. Little do they know she really just wants to play and wouldn't hurt a fly -- but the look they get (and the backing away slowly) is priceless.

re: #104 Ackomanyuki

You've been reading Von Neumann's War? Or you know people even more paranoid than some of my friends during the Clinton administration?

re: #110 Empire1

It's been a while, but there were a lot of cheap ebooks at Fictionwise, and Baen Books has a free ebook library.

re: #132 bosforus

I also think it's weird that the word 'weird' doesn't follow the "'i' before 'e' except after c and and when sounding like 'a'" rule. Any etymologists out there?

My neighbor weighed in on that once - but never figured it out.

re: #124 jcm

Get beyond the "terrorist" label, which is another device for barring communication.

The stupid is strong with this one.

re: #110 Empire1

If I could afford it I would get a Kindle -- Amazon keeps adding titles and you're bound to get the fantasy/SF titles you're looking for eventually (I read mostly that too -- it would be great to get A Storm of Swords, etc. in a more portable form). The downside to the Kindle is obsolescence -- what happens to all this reading material 10 years from now?

re: #125 turn

Dr. Sanity is going on a blogging hiatus:

"However, I need a break from all the daily insanity. Unfortunately, I am suffering from "blogger burnout", and consequently my level of enthusiasm for blogging has declined. Add to that some significant personal and professional issues; as well as the fact that there are several other major writing projects I have been putting off for a long time now and would like to begin/finish--well, it was either take a long vacation, or quit the blogging rat race entirely."

I hope she has a nice break!

re: #118 MandyManners

Stupid animals encroaching on our civilization.

"Stupid wildlife! Serves 'em right!"

-H. Simpson

re: #129 joncelli

Sounds like the black helicopters have another pickup to make. (When you hear the rotors, sit very still underneath your foil wrap.)

re: #110 Empire1

I've got a question (or several) for those of you who have, or at least have seen. e-book readers. They're still awfully pricey for what you get, but I really like the idea of 200 books on an SD chip ... that would free up a lot of space here, and save quite a bit in hardback prices, even at discount. I'm currently leaning toward the HanLin eReader, since it handles the most formats, but I've not made a solid decision.

Do the available titles make it worth getting one at all? (I mostly read SF/Fantasy for fiction, and I think I'd do better to keep my references in paper editions.)

Are they as easy to use as the ads and folks at "Daily Pundit" claim?

Does e-paper really look like paper? I have a hard time reading back-lit material for really long things, but I can read real paper all day, so this is important.

More later, probably, as I get input here!

-- Ann

I've used etexts for a couple of decades now, usually for educational purposes. Project Gutenberg has a huge selection available. eText readers have come and gone over the last decade or so and I'm not buying. The main reason is that I read about 20X faster with paper (which I can take into the tub) than I can on any screen - which is hard on my eyes.

One other problem: you might have 200 books on a chip, but only your specific ebook reader will read them, as there is no universal format. So, the minute something newer, better and tredier comes along, as it will in a couple of years, everything you "own" is now useless, just like out of date software.

re: #135 jcm

You do?

re: #125 turn

Dr. Sanity is going on a blogging hiatus:

"However, I need a break from all the daily insanity. Unfortunately, I am suffering from "blogger burnout", and consequently my level of enthusiasm for blogging has declined. Add to that some significant personal and professional issues; as well as the fact that there are several other major writing projects I have been putting off for a long time now and would like to begin/finish--well, it was either take a long vacation, or quit the blogging rat race entirely."

AAARRGGGGHHHHH! I LOVE that site! I hope it's a short one. I may need some therapy myself if she stays away for too long.

re: #137 offendi

That's not nice, but perhaps appropriate.

As a product of American meritocracy I am unfamiliar with salad fork/martial art etiquette. Perhaps a Letticia Baldridge course is in order?

Smile when stabbing.

re: #142 MandyManners

The stupid is strong with this one.

LOL!

re: #100 toomanysnax

I'm about half-way through O'Bama's first book. I'm past the part where he's tired of getting high and past the part where he goes to visit his favorite Communist "Frank" and at the part where he is learning about the Nation of Islam. This guy is creepier than any of the press make out. Have any of you lizards read this thing? Does it have a happy ending? Is there a point to all the words other than a half-breed trying to decide which racial team to play on? Wierd!

I read as much as I could stand. He is full of self pity and his wife seems to have real anger issues.
The whole idea of Reverend Wright was for Obama to find his male African American identity. Good choice!

re: #136 Occasional Reader

Buh-bye.

I'd ding it down a dozen times if I could.

re: #115 cygnus

I had my treo, but it's hard to get a picture from a car doing 85.

re: #148 A Kiwi Infidel

You do?

Red and Blue. It's for the 3-D effect you get when you cross your eyes. For drunks.

/joke

re: #105 Occasional Reader

That said, while I favor bullet holes in the signs, I could never bring myself to shoot a deer.

Shooting deer in neither barbaric nor "unkind" - especially if you intend to use the animal as food. Here in New England if we did not allow deer hunting the herds would grow so big that huge numbers would end up dying of starvation each winter. Most of the US has a similar problem.

Heard they found blood in Ted Kennedy's arteries.

re: #145 Occasional Reader

"Stupid wildlife! Serves 'em right!"

-H. Simpson

Living southwest of Denver really opened my eyes. Where tasty deer go, so do the predators.

re: #147 galloping granny

I've stayed away from the "secure" ebooks at Fictionwise, and gotten the "multiformat" ones. Every time I've wanted to, it let me re-download the book in another format, without buying it again.

This morning at 8:30AM, I put a pork butt on the grill and smoked the delectable thing for 9 hours over oak wine-barrel chips. When the time was right, I chopped it up and smothered it with Spicy BBQ Sauce from [Link: www.henryssmokehouse.com...] Eat your heart out, all you Muslims.

re: #144 MandyManners

I get the impression this is pretty serious, she may not return at all and I will really miss her posts with clinical explanations for the behavior of the deranged left.

TTFN - Time to walk the black lab.

re: #143 joncelli

If I could afford it I would get a Kindle -- Amazon keeps adding titles and you're bound to get the fantasy/SF titles you're looking for eventually (I read mostly that too -- it would be great to get A Storm of Swords, etc. in a more portable form). The downside to the Kindle is obsolescence -- what happens to all this reading material 10 years from now?

Three tops.

re: #121 Occasional Reader

The sign's design is not my fault.

I suppose my odd sense of humor is, though.

re: #156 galloping granny

Shooting deer in neither barbaric nor "unkind" - especially if you intend to use the animal as food. Here in New England if we did not allow deer hunting the herds would grow so big that huge numbers would end up dying of starvation each winter. Most of the US has a similar problem.

I'm not arguing with you, just saying *I* couldn't bring myself to do it (unless I had to in order to eat, or feed my family... or, self-defense against Attack Deer, I suppose).

re: #162 buzzsawmonkey

The pre-daters on eHarmony are also looking for tasty dears.

HA! One reason why I will steer clear of that place when I get back to dating.

Mmm. Deer.

re: #159 Kosh's Shadow

I've stayed away from the "secure" ebooks at Fictionwise, and gotten the "multiformat" ones. Every time I've wanted to, it let me re-download the book in another format, without buying it again.

For now. Give it a bit to become popular and you won't see that happen any more than you can trade in your DVDs for BluRay discs.

re: #106 cygnus

Now I know that I'll never vote for him. He's a liberal appeaser who hates cats. Loser.

Wasn't The Mummy afraid of cats, too? Hmmm.....

re: #160 snopercod

This morning at 8:30AM, I put a pork butt on the grill and smoked the delectable thing for 9 hours over oak wine-barrel chips. When the time was right, I chopped it up and smothered it with Spicy BBQ Sauce from [Link: www.henryssmokehouse.com...] Eat your heart out, all you Muslims.

Smoked the pork ribs yesterday with mesquite - tasty!

re: #100 toomanysnax

Way wrong. I'm not blocking you because I don't see any history of this in your other comments. Another incident will do it, though.

re: #157 toomanysnax

Heard they found blood in Ted Kennedy's arteries.

Time for a ... naaah ... I'd better not. It would be too obvious.

re: #139 Dianna

Von Neumann's War?

re: #164 Dianna

The sign's design is not my fault.

What we're asking about is the "lepping" misspelling. That was on the sign? Or it's just your own typo?

re: #166 Creeping Eruption

The post is gone.

re: #166 Creeping Eruption

Don't quote deletable posts, it makes more work for Stinky.

re: #157 toomanysnax

I think we have a moratorium on Kennedy levity. Not sure, but that's the way it seems to me.

re: #166 Creeping Eruption

UNCOOL! Get lost

It's gone.

re: #165 Occasional Reader

I'm not arguing with you, just saying *I* couldn't bring myself to do it (unless I had to in order to eat, or feed my family... or, self-defense against Attack Deer, I suppose).

Most of the hunters that I know hunt specifically to feed their families and to keep up their skills in case they ever have to hunt to feed their families.

re: #119 Killian Bundy

And he doesn't have a dog.

/think about that

Yeah, I noticed that no dog. There is a major religion that hates dogs.
Wait a minute, you don't think..........? Nah

Kennedy "levity"? Isn't that some kind of oxymoron?

re: #148 A Kiwi Infidel

You do?

This kind of thing.
When we moved in our box was a target.
Putting 'em on only made it worse.
Took 'em off only have to replace once a year now.

re: #172 Charles

Way wrong. I'm not blocking you because I don't see any history of this in your other comments. Another incident will do it, though.

It was okay until he got to the last part.

re: #128 A Kiwi Infidel

Follow the trail from here, there is a link in the latest article.

www.thegoldenreport.com

Wow....those people have cornered the market on tin-foil hats!

Re: #172--

I'M BEGINNING TO SUSPECT THAT "STINKY BEAUMONT" AND "CHARLES JOHNSON" ARE THE SAME PERSON!

/cue X-Files theme music

re: #80 DownRightMeanAmerican

Where did door to door solicitors get the idea that ringing my door bell rapidly 5 times and then immediately giving 12 or so forceful knocks on my hollow core thin skinned wood front door, would make me want to do anything else but kick the solicitor right between the legs rapidly 5 times then immediately give a dozen or so forceful knocks on their forehead.

Then I would loudly proclaim, “the lights are on, but nobody is home”, a**hole, and no I don’t want any.

Rant off.

I took my doorbell off. Anyone wants me calls me first and tells me they are coming over. Plus I have a web-cam that shows me who is at my front door. That way I avoid being gang-saved by the Jehovah's.

re: #118 MandyManners

Stupid animals encroaching on our civilization.

Democrats?

re: #177 CyanSnowHawk

Don't quote deletable posts, it makes more work for Stinky.

You are right. My bad. Douche-bags like that usually don't even know what they did wrong unless you point it out. - Won't happen again.

re: #186 Occasional Reader

Stinky Beaumont sounds like a flatpicking champion from Kansas.

re: #97 Creeping Eruption

I had full metal jacket playing, so I had a different mind set, but that is one good idea. I think I can slurp like Doctor lector though.

re: #102 Kosh's Shadow

Living on a postage stamp So Cal circa 1970 1,400 square foot home on a enormous 5,000 square foot lot, if I put up a fence I would have to knock a big hole in the garage just so my truck would fit in the driveway.

Charles, please delete my No. 112, too. I quoted a bit of it. Sorry to be a bother.

re: #168 godfrey

Mmm. Deer.

Yes, indeed, hopefully

re: #127 buzzsawmonkey

Liberals look backwards with longing to the Kennedy era, during which they viewd the US as Camelot.

Liberals look forward with longing to an Obama presidency, under which his appeasement of the Islamists will turn the US into a camel lot.

Too funny...while pathetically true.

re: #192 MandyManners

Charles, please delete my No. 112, too. I quoted a bit of it. Sorry to be a bother.

#116's got it too.

re: #188 Russkilitlover

Democrats?

Let's not confuse the noble deer and bald eagles with Democrats, please.

re: #189 Creeping Eruption

You are right. My bad. Douche-bags like that usually don't even know what they did wrong unless you point it out. - Won't happen again.

I have to learn to read the posts I quote more carefully.
Twice now I've missed the slur on first reading, and replied.

However, I have taken to "replying" instead of quoting when the context is obvious enough, or not necessary.

re: #192 MandyManners

I can't even make sense of what he wrote from your #112.

re: #182 godfrey

Kennedy "levity"? Isn't that some kind of oxymoron?

Not in my opinion. Why do you think so?

re: #186 Occasional Reader

Re: #172--

I'M BEGINNING TO SUSPECT THAT "STINKY BEAUMONT" AND "CHARLES JOHNSON" ARE THE SAME PERSON!

/cue X-Files theme music

How would he get any sleep?

(Unless he really is a lizardroid from the planet Aidemydni.)

re: #190 godfrey

Stinky Beaumont sounds like a flatpicking champion from Kansas.

"Kansas"? Oh, you mean one of those "states in the middle"...

/channeling BHO

re: #77 Pshawalaw

Obama also can't handle Fox News, surely he can't handle Ahmydinnerjacket if he can't take a few questions from Chris Wallace.

This a point McCain needs to debate him about.

re: #195 bosforus

#116's got it too.

Yup. Mandy and I must both be napping at the keyboard this afternoon. That kind of trash doesn't usually elude both of us.

You know, if you head west on Interstate 10 from L.A., sooner or later you go through Beaumont, CA. The name of the next town is Banning.

re: #124 jcm

There is a whole Internet jeering section that considers this a weakling's argument. Gotta be tough. Don't give an inch. They also seem to think the United States is surrounded, beleaguered, encircled, vulnerable and insecure. I see a nation that is a dominant superpower that might profit greatly if it listened more.

I don't think he means profit, I think he means "become more socialist like I'd like it to."

re: #127 buzzsawmonkey

Liberals look backwards with longing to the Kennedy era, during which they viewd the US as Camelot.

It was only TWO frigging years! Just what did Kennedy do that is so revered today? Cripes, I that the whole Kennedy adoration thing.

re: #197 Kosh's Shadow

I have to learn to read the posts I quote more carefully.
Twice now I've missed the slur on first reading, and replied.

However, I have taken to "replying" instead of quoting when the context is obvious enough, or not necessary.

I mostly hate it when people reply instead of quoting, because I then end up having to scroll back and forth up the thread.

re: #199 OldLineTexan

Not in my opinion. Why do you think so?

I think he means there's nothing "light" about Ted Kennedy.

(and yes, I wish him a speedy recovery, followed by retirement from public life and a conservative elected in his place)

re: #184 Ward Cleaver

I dinged afore noting that also.I've seen worse slip through.

Ooops, that would be east...

re: #183 jcm

This kind of thing.
When we moved in our box was a target.
Putting 'em on only made it worse.
Took 'em off only have to replace once a year now.

then you will get a real kick out of this, see post #128, follow link

re: #204 wrenchwench

Now that calls for the Twilight Zone music. (Doodledoodle, doodldoodle.)

re: #186 Occasional Reader

I don;t think so... Charles is much more handsome and Stinky is... well stinky - but lovable.

re: #203 galloping granny

Yup. Mandy and I must both be napping at the keyboard this afternoon. That kind of trash doesn't usually elude both of us.

The comment rubbed me the wrong way but I'm a horrible judge of what should and shouldn't be banned so I usually just keep my mouth shut.

half - breed

Okay, I get it, good for the seventies.

/not so much anymore

re: #207 galloping granny

I mostly hate it when people reply instead of quoting

We have been requested by Senior Management to do just that in referencing a deletable post, so that Stinky does not have to delete multiple posts.

re: #174 Ackomanyuki

I think it was just released in paperback. It's by John Ringo and Dr. Travis. I liked it quite well.

One character in it has a lot of stuff delivered to an abandoned mine.

re: #199 OldLineTexan

The distinguished Senator from Massachusetts can rather tip the old scale, what?

re: #201 Occasional Reader

He probably thinks bluegrassers clap on the one and the three. Show 'em how it's done, Bryan Sutton.

re: #185 eschew_obfuscation

Yes, I thought that, but it always pays to check.

re: #204 wrenchwench

Yes, between Redlands and Joshua Tree.

BBL!

re: #214 bosforus

The comment rubbed me the wrong way but I'm a horrible judge of what should and shouldn't be banned so I usually just keep my mouth shut.

Trust your instincts on something like that.

re: #200 The Other Les

How would he get any sleep?

(Unless he really is a lizardroid from the planet Aidemydni.)

Are you sure he sleeps? "Stiny Beaumont" could be the anglicised version of what his Aidemydni name is, and "Charles Johnson" is just a cover to make people think he and Stinky are two different beings.

re: #216 Occasional Reader

We have been requested by Senior Management to do just that in referencing a deletable post, so that Stinky does not have to delete multiple posts.

True - however, I missed the deletable bit buried in the last sentence.

Time to head home, Lizards. See you tonight.

How brave of Google. They traced and gave up an Indian dissident to the government for offending a politician.

re: #171 jamgarr

Mesquite sounds good. I used to use that when I lived out West. I'll have to try and locate a source for it here in NC. Hickory trees are like weeds here , though (grin). Wanna' trade?

re: #207 galloping granny

I mostly hate it when people reply instead of quoting, because I then end up having to scroll back and forth up the thread.

That's why I quote usually, but sometimes, I miss the slur and my brilliant commentary gets deleted too.

Like this time, on how Obama's book ends.
I said the happy ending comes when he loses by a landslide and retires to Iran.

re: #205 nikis-knight

I don't think he means profit, I think he means "become more socialist like I'd like it to."

Ding, Ding.
He writes in a town with a Lenin Statue, that thinks Patty Murray is Senate material, and that Jim McDermott is a voice of reason.

re: #223 Honorary Yooper

and "Charles Johnson" is just a cover

Definitely. We're supposed to think "Charles Johnson" is a real name?! I suppose his address is "123 Fake Street", right?!

/

re: #228 Kosh's Shadow

I'm glad you are not referring to any other "happy endings." That would not be a book I would be interested in reading.

re: #222 Creeping Eruption

Trust your instincts on something like that.

[burying my head in shame]
Not really, I just wanted an excuse to link to that picture.

re: #226 Cognito

How brave of Google. They traced and gave up an Indian dissident to the government for offending a politician.

I don't like Google. They do this in China too. I don't see them rushing to track down the jihadis who post snuff videos on YouTube (owned by Google) though, do you?

re: #230 Occasional Reader

Definitely. We're supposed to think "Charles Johnson" is a real name?! I suppose his address is "123 Fake Street", right?!

/

Nope. 2121 N. Jump St.

re: #175 Occasional Reader

I spent far too much of my 20's among the Irish. The Irish do not leap, they lep. Thus, lepping.

The deer, as I said, looks awfully cheerful. I think it's lepping about, not leaping.

/I'm digging in deeper, aren't I?

re: #196 MandyManners

Let's not confuse the noble deer and bald eagles with Democrats, please.

One of those three is a very patriotic group.

re: #228 Kosh's Shadow

That's why I quote usually, but sometimes, I miss the slur and my brilliant commentary gets deleted too.

Like this time, on how Obama's book ends.
I said the happy ending comes when he loses by a landslide and retires to Iran.

I don' know about that. Isn't Bary a Suni?

re: #233 galloping granny

I don't like Google. They do this in China too. I don't see them rushing to track down the jihadis who post snuff videos on YouTube (owned by Google) though, do you?

It's indefensible. They said, "But the government subpoenaed us!"

Well, you know what? Sometimes subpoenas are meant to be ignored.

re: #187 rawmuse

I took my doorbell off. Anyone wants me calls me first and tells me they are coming over. Plus I have a web-cam that shows me who is at my front door. That way I avoid being gang-saved by the Jehovah's.

"gang-saved" -- I love it! Good one.

re: #217 Dianna

Thanks,

I just looked at a quick review. John Ringo, I've heard of, never read.

No tinfoil needed on data storage redundancy for alphabets.

re: #187 rawmuse

Daughter rang me at work yesterday. She was at home on her day off. The JW's were walking up the neighbours driveway. "what do I do if they come here and knock on the door?"

"Are the dogs* out?"

"Yes"

"then dont worry"

* Stella, 8 year german shepherd bitch, Ringo 18month german shepherd dog, 42 kilos, barks loudly

... I have the Cubs' magic number at 117 and the [White] Sox at 118. Is it too early to start running one of those cheap graphic countdown devices? Look, if the main news section can run delegate counts since the Iowa Caucuses, then the Sports section should have its own countdown gizmo, too, sweetie.

By Steve Rosenbloom, columnist for the Chicago Tribune

re: #127 buzzsawmonkey

Liberals look backwards with longing to the Kennedy era, during which they viewd the US as Camelot.

Camelot fell. Maybe it's the fall they really want to repeat.

re: #236 nikis-knight

re: #196 MandyManners

Let's not confuse the noble deer and bald eagles with Democrats, please.

One of those three is a very patriotic group.

Yep, bald eagles are very patriotic. On the other hand, never question a Dem's patriotism even if he/she is working with the enemy.

re: #223 Honorary Yooper

Are you sure he sleeps? "Stiny Beaumont" could be the anglicised version of what his Aidemydni name is, and "Charles Johnson" is just a cover to make people think he and Stinky are two different beings.

Oh, I get it......"Charles Johnson" is Stinky' sock puppet!

re: #239 MellyMel

"gang-saved" -- I love it! Good one.

Don't you notice they show up in groups of five or six?

re: #227 snopercod

Mesquite sounds good. I used to use that when I lived out West. I'll have to try and locate a source for it here in NC. Hickory trees are like weeds here , though (grin). Wanna' trade?

Hickory is probably my favorite. Apple's good too. My mesquite comes from the grocery store.

re: #143 joncelli

If I could afford it I would get a Kindle -- Amazon keeps adding titles and you're bound to get the fantasy/SF titles you're looking for eventually (I read mostly that too -- it would be great to get A Storm of Swords, etc. in a more portable form). The downside to the Kindle is obsolescence -- what happens to all this reading material 10 years from now?

The Kindle is tempting for those reasons, but it's $400, and only handles 3 formats -- though one is Amazon's proprietary AZW (which I admit bugs me no end -- I want to buy a book and read it the way I can do on paper, not have to worry about who published it and what reader that publisher will let it be seen on.)

-- Ann

re: #196 MandyManners

Let's not confuse the noble deer and bald eagles with Democrats, please.

My bad and a thousand apologies to the entire animal kingdom. I should have said Liberals, anyway. There are some non-moonbat Dems and I sure do hope they come out in droves to vote Repub this Nov.

re: #63 Dianna

I've been wondering something. When we were up in Sonoma for a wedding, it seemed to me that their "watch out for deer lepping merrily across the freeway" signs portrayed a rather rotund fellow, while Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties used a buck with a nice, tucked little belly.

Has anyone else noted this variation anywhere else?

Someone up Napa way might be giving some 'beer-bellies to Bambi?

re: #246 rawmuse

No more than three in the 'burbs.

I must say, at least they haven't found my new place, yet. I generally give the Mormon kids some water or 7-up if they come by during the summer, though I won't let them tell me about their religion or give me any reading material.

re: #246 rawmuse

Don't you notice they show up in groups of five or six?

Oh yeah -- and they keep coming back. Last time I answered the door I told them we were Jewish and not converting (and pointed to the mezuzah). (Small lie, my husband is Jewish I am not). The next time they came, he answered the door and they told him I asked them to come back. Creeping me out really.

re: #111 OldLineTexan

No jest.

However Kennedy was clearly not responsible for the debacle it became afterward.

HE'S
DEAD
JIM,
R

re: #187 rawmuse

Why that’s no fun, them JW’s can be a real hoot. I think they are on to me, they keep sending me the really old ones and I don’t have the heart to challenge them.

re: #250 debutaunt

Considering that the couple deer I did see in Sonoma looked like they could stand to go on a low-carb diet, the signs are very representative.

re: #254 MellyMel

Oh yeah -- and they keep coming back. Last time I answered the door I told them we were Jewish and not converting (and pointed to the mezuzah). (Small lie, my husband is Jewish I am not). The next time they came, he answered the door and they told him I asked them to come back. Creeping me out really.

Tell them the next time they come back you will call the police. Or answer the door naked. Either way, you won't see them again.

re: #147 galloping granny

One other problem: you might have 200 books on a chip, but only your specific ebook reader will read them, as there is no universal format. So, the minute something newer, better and tredier comes along, as it will in a couple of years, everything you "own" is now useless, just like out of date software.

::groan:: Yes, one of the reasons I'm reluctant, despite the convenience. I've still got books published before I was born that are easily readable (an antique Bible I got my mother, then got back when she died, for instance). But things I put on a 3.5" disk are unreadable now without an expensive transfer to CD ...

-- Ann

re: #257 Dianna

Considering that the couple deer I did see in Sonoma looked like they could stand to go on a low-carb diet, the signs are very representative.

Don't worry, President Obama will convince those deer that they can't just eat as much as they want, and expect other countries to say, "that's okay".

re: #253 buzzsawmonkey

They think Obama is King Arthur, when he's really Mordred.

And Hillary is Morgana, I think I said the other day.

re: #243 itellu3times

Camelot fell. Maybe it's the fall they really want to repeat.

And it fell through betrayal from within. Camelot. It's really not such a good label.

re: #229 jcm

Ding, Ding.
He writes in a town with a Lenin Statue, that thinks Patty Murray is Senate material, and that Jim McDermott is a voice of treason.

Fixed it for him. (according to a recent spin-off link, anyway.)

re: #262 Russkilitlover

And it fell through betrayal from within. Camelot. It's really not such a good label.

Watch out for any French guys in Obama's inner circle.

re: #258 galloping granny

Granny, "Naked at the door?"

I thought I was the only one who had done that... Made some very determined solicitor (sales not legal) very, very nervous, too.