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

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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.

I don't care if Obama carries 57 states, as long as none of them are the 50 which are part of the US.

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.

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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.

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."

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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?

If Edwards ends up as Obama's running mate, and Obama changes his mind about negotiating with rogue regimes, he can always borrow some of Edwards' preconditioner.

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.

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And Kennedy sent military advisors to VIETNAM.

re: #70 buzzsawmonkey

extra bad joke

re: #74 Ojoe

extra bad joke

Yes indeed.

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.