Great news coming out of Iraq this morning proving once again that the President just needs to keep changing generals till he finds the right one. The AP (al-qaeda propagandists),of course, shows their bias, loud and clear, in the title but this is good news. Even as deaths plunge the AP remain convinced the US will lose

Deaths in Iraq Plunge, but Will It Last?

U.S. military deaths plunged in May to the lowest monthly level in more than four years and civilian casualties were down sharply, too, as Iraqi forces assumed the lead in offensives in three cities and a truce with Shiite extremists took hold.

But many Iraqis as well as U.S. officials and private security analysts are uncertain whether the current lull signals a long-term trend or is simply a breathing spell like so many others before.

And in a completely unrelated note.

French minister's visit shows new stance on Iraq

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met Iraq's president on Saturday during a visit officials said showed Paris's renewed commitment to a country whose 2003 invasion by U.S.-led troops it strongly opposed.
[snip]
Kouchner discussed the possibility of French companies investing in Iraq at the meeting with the Iraqi officials in Nassiriya, said Abdul Hussein Dawod, spokesman for the provincial governor.

I knew we could count on the French to back us up as soon as there was almost no danger and money to be made. Thanks,for the help mon amie. The US could have used it five years ago but better late than never.

A whole day of acoustic music, with friends, wine, stuff, friends and friends...

re: #2 RTLM

A little early in the year for this piece, but a good one to play.

Freedomophilia IS NOT Islamophobia.

Good morning lizards and lizardettes. Is there fruit cup yet? I'll put the coffee and tea on.

re: #2 RTLM

I love that song. I've spent most of my life on the lakes and know how dangerous it is out there.

The Alamo... important because it slowed the Mexican advance on its way to capture New Orleans, and with New Orleans, the whole Mississippi-Missouri watershed of 17 (would become) states...

The Alamo was THAT important... I missed that little detail in my youth, only picked it up a few years ago...

Does Hillary have an Alamo she can put in Obama's path?

re: #4 BlueCanuck

Well then, how about this.

Summer Time Dream

re: #7 Neo Con since 9-11

Awe inspiring aren't they. Spent some time up in Sault Ste Marie, Canada version once in the summer and once in the winter. Seeing two sides of the lake give you a whole appreciation for the song. One bone of contention with the words. Superior wasn't called Gitchee Gumey(sp), that was the name for the monster/witch that lived in the lake. There's a rock on the lake in Lake Superior provincial park that has a pictograph of the first voyage across the lake to settle the north shore. Hmmm, might be online some where. Be right back going to yahoo. ;)

re: #8 Karridine

Does Hillary have an Alamo she can put in Obama's path?

IMO the Democrats seriously underestimated the anger they have unleashed among a large segment of women voters.

/how 'bout them Alamos?

re: #9 Bubblehead II
thank you, still like that hometown boy. :)
re: #10 BlueCanuck

Okay got it Agawa rock pictographs.

/and that last link shows that I misremembered some stuff from my youth. Oops.

The Alamo

/revisionist history

Sunday Brunch.
I'm planning on having Waffles a la Trinity Church...
/To denounce or not to denounce

Has anyone noticed Obama's post political, new age campaign which would change the world seems to have degenerated into politics as usual. The guy 1st threw his pastor, then his mother and now the whole church under the bus. I hope for his sake it has 4 wheel drive otherwise it ain't gettin' over the pile of crap he's stuffing under it...

re: #14 El Anti-Idiotario

And God forbid he's elected.
He will throw the US under the bus too.

re: #11 littleoldlady

Ma'am, I just watched that YouTUBE of Harriet Christian... "I'm white, but I can't say 'You're black"? I've suddenly become a second-class citizen!"

/IF they channel the anger, soon... Yes'm, she was ANGRY! and articulate, despite the anger, and intelligent, Little Olde!

That gaffe could well be Obama's Alamo, and that makes Denver his San Jacinto ...

re: #10 BlueCanuck

When I lived on the Canadian side of the great lakes we had to deal with incredibly subfreezing temps, harsh winds and heavy snowfall. On the Ohio side we had subfreezing temperatures, incredibly harsh winds, and daily snowfall. I don't know why ahyone would sail in that.

With the disenfranchisement of half the MI and FL voters, the protests are already starting. Video at Recreate '68 from Powerline. "What do we want? COUNT OUR VOTES! When do we want it! NOW!

Denver should be fun to watch.

Oh yeah, the above article at Powerline says Obama has offered Hillary the position of health-care-czar if she'll drop out of the presidential race. You can't make this stuff up.

I denouce waffles. Pancake are the real hope for America. And the change needed so we don't have 4 more years of Geogrge Bush.

re: #19 snopercod

Really, Snoper! I think Obamassiah is running scared!

/time will tell

re: #17 Karridine

Let's stick with the movie analogies. ;-)

They created a Sophie's Choice. If they deny Obama the nomination the blacks will walk away. If Hillary doesn't get it, a percentage of women will be ticked enough to vote for McCain.

I believe they're calculating that the women will return someday, while the blacks would be lost forever.

Obama is churchless, going into Sunday.

/the God competition must be intense

re: #19 snopercod

With the disenfranchisement of half the MI and FL voters, the protests are already starting. Video at Recreate '68 from Powerline. "What do we want? COUNT OUR VOTES! When do we want it! NOW!

Denver should be fun to watch.

Oh yeah, the above article at Powerline says Obama has offered Hillary the position of health-care-czar if she'll drop out of the presidential race. You can't make this stuff up.

Denver is gonna be the only TV, besides sports, I will watch this year

re: #22 littleoldlady

Canny.
Insightful...

Back in 30...

re: #16 El Anti-Idiotario

And God forbid he's elected.
He will throw the US under the bus too.

Having read that Europeans are in favour of BHO (quelle surprise as they say in France). I am somewhat perplexed. Can this man of straw actually win? Surely when they eventually decide the Democrat candidate, and the real campaign begins, he will be exposed as a total lightweight? It reminds me of those dark days in 1978. Did the Democrats learn nothing from the Carter years?

re: #27 Call me Infidel

Having read that Europeans are in favour of BHO (quelle surprise as they say in France). I am somewhat perplexed. Can this man of straw actually win? Surely when they eventually decide the Democrat candidate, and the real campaign begins, he will be exposed as a total lightweight? It reminds me of those dark days in 1978. Did the Democrats learn nothing from the Carter years?

If Bob Barr doesn't take votes out of McCain, we are fine. it is the SCOUSA I worry about

re: #18 Neo Con since 9-11

It takes a real special kind of person.

/they're called fanatics for a reason.

Don't know if this was posted earlier, but the ACLU seems to be interested in what preparations the Denver PD is making for the convention.

ACLU sues Denver seeking disclosure of DNC-related purchases of police equipment

re: #30 Bubblehead II

Don't know if this was posted earlier, but the ACLU seems to be interested in what preparations the Denver PD is making for the convention.

ACLU sues Denver seeking disclosure of DNC-related purchases of police equipment

I HATE THE ACLU! commies.

re: #24 Cannadian Club Akbar

Denver is gonna be the only TV, besides sports, I will watch this year

The selection is getting pretty bleak, isn't it? It reminds me of what my grandfather told me about the newspapers, "The funnies are the only section that makes any sense."

The Shuttle launch countdown on NASA TV was good, and they'll be doing lots of amazing stuff up there later in the week.

re: #29 BlueCanuck

That's why I love that song. Those guy would go into the lakes in the middle of storms that would throw us kidsten meter inland

Good morning everyone!

How do I work the Top Ten Comments?

When I click on it, I just get LGF front page all over again.

//Can't find my LGF Owner's Manual.

re: #32 snopercod

The selection is getting pretty bleak, isn't it? It reminds me of what my grandfather told me about the newspapers, "The funnies are the only section that makes any sense."

The Shuttle launch countdown on NASA TV was good, and they'll be doing lots of amazing stuff up there later in the week.

Wasteland. But ya, I love NASA, but I can see launches from my house.

Time for a laugh
There are lots of different kinds of sex when you get married. For example, when you are newlyweds, you have kitchen sex--the passion is so intense you can't wait to go to the bedroom, it's right here right now, might be on the kitchen counter or the dining room table.
Next, there is bedroom sex. This is after a number of years of marriage, maybe a kid or 2, and you are limited to Saturday morning cartoons hour in the privacy of your own bedroom.

After that comes hall sex. That is when you have been married a LONGGGGGGGGGGG time and you pass each other in the hall, and your spouse says, "F*** you." And you reply, "No, F*** YOU."

re: #36 LeftJustAintRight

sometimes the hall sex comes quicker. :)

Obama was for the church before he was against it

re: #37 BlueCanuck

And sometimes hall sex is better
LOL

Is hall sex what we voters are having with our candidates?

/seems like it.

re: #37 BlueCanuck

sometimes the hall sex comes quicker. :)

Maybe we should take out the garbage faster?

But, get me a beer isn't any faster.

re: #40 gettinby

Is hall sex what we voters are having with our candidates?

/seems like it.

Ummm, no. This is a family blog right? :)

re: #43 BlueCanuck

This is like the comic " Family Circle"
/please tell me that's not still around

re: #27 Call me Infidel

For the Europeans, the Obama candidacy represents a win-win situation. If Obama wins the election, the Europeans get a fellow socialist in the White House. But if he loses, it will only confirm their sneering contempt for racist, backwards, Bible-thumping reactionery America. You see? The Europeans couldn't be happier!

Well time to go, work beckons. See you all tomorrow morning.

L8R

re: #44 Cannadian Club Akbar

This is like the comic " Family Circle"
/please tell me that's not still around

It is still around but I don't know for how much longer. The artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, died about a week ago.

re: #45 Kenneth

Hello? Gun carrying? gez.

re: #1 Neo Con since 9-11

I knew we could count on the French to back us up as soon as there was almost no danger and money to be made. Thanks,for the help mon amie. The US could have used it five years ago but better late than never.

That'a a keeper!

When homo sapians first walked upright

caveman and cavewoman were in their cave and all of a sudden the cavewoman stands upright and walks around
"What the hell are you doing?" caveman asks

"Im walking upright"

"Thats amazing, look while your up can you get me a beer?"

re: #43 BlueCanuck

Ummm, no. This is a family blog right? :)

LOL

Oops! You're right.

/now where did I put that family of mine?

re: #47 wahabicorridor

It is still around but I don't know for how much longer. The artist, whose name escapes me at the moment, died about a week ago.

I used to read it. To bad about the artist.

re: #48 Cannadian Club Akbar

Thanks, I missed that one. We should add "Islamophobe" too..

BTW, what's with all the Hosers up so early on a Sunday morning?

re: #47 wahabicorridor

Actually, I think it was his wife who died.

wahabi! :-)

re: #53 Kenneth

What's a hoser?

re: #54 littleoldlady

Thelma Keane.

re: #54 littleoldlady

Actually, I think it was his wife who died.

wahabi! :-)

hello darlin! I thought Thelma died a few years ago? hmmmm.........

re: #53 Kenneth

We hosers are up early to go to church, clean our guns, um, wait, I am just drinking. Not sure about the others. Back to you Ken.
/just saying

re: #55 gettinby

"Hosers" is a term of endearment/abuse between Canadians. Origin, the team that lost the hockey game has to stay and hose the rink.

re: #53 Kenneth
My excuse is that I am working the night shift.
re: #55 gettinby
A Canadian term.

Obama poster:

[Link: www.pentdego.com...]

re: #57 wahabicorridor

Guess not.

/I can never remember who (famous) died already either...

I have a question.

How stupid are those people at Trinity Church? After the Wright videos surfaced, they bring in ANOTHER nut case and film him.

I just shake my head.

re: #19 snopercod

With the disenfranchisement of half the MI and FL voters, the protests are already starting. Video at Recreate '68 from Powerline. "What do we want? COUNT OUR VOTES! When do we want it! NOW!

Denver should be fun to watch.

Oh yeah, the above article at Powerline says Obama has offered Hillary the position of health-care-czar if she'll drop out of the presidential race. You can't make this stuff up.

Even scarier, I'd heard it suggested he guarantee her a seat on the Supreme Court.

re: #59 Kenneth

re: #60 BlueCanuck

What a great term!

Hmmm....we need to find a clean-up job for the losing candidate.

Hi there {littleoldlady}!

re: #65 gettinby

re: #60 BlueCanuck

What a great term!

Hmmm....we need to find a clean-up job for the losing candidate.

But where will we find an Augean stable task?

/no hoses issued

re: #64 right_wing2

Because it would be outright chauvinist to offer her the VP slot.

/good evening, y'all.

re: #66 gettinby

gettinby! :-)

Hey!

/sorry...I'm trying to mulri-task here and as per usual failing miserably!

off to get the newspapers - BBL

...and I need a new keyboard, too.

mulri-task?!
/oy
//I give up!

Good day, ALL!™

re: #71 littleoldlady

{LOL}

/no srsly, that's the acronym.

re: #67 BlueCanuck

But where will we find an Augean stable task?

/no hoses issued

Heh.

That Hercules was quite a guy. (I don't think we have any candidates bright enough to come up with any real PLAN that would work. They, instead, would nationalize the stables and let the undocumented workers clean them.)

My baby brother, when he was a baby (about 3 or 4 yo), named himself Hercules; but he pronounced it Hercuckles. Anytime someone would ask him his name..."Hercuckles!" LOL

bye littleoldlady, see you tomorrow.

re: #71 littleoldlady

Bye littleoldlady.

re: #73 gettinby

Well Heracles wasn't a politician, he had to deal with a politician though. That was why he won and completed his seven tasks. Innovative thinking and not constrained by certain mindset.

(Author unknown)
Age old question,
BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN McCAIN:
My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other side of the road.

HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me...

DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH: We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.

COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.

MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.

DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.

re: #16 El Anti-Idiotario

I truly believe there is no way he is going to win the general election. This is all just an exercise in futility for the Dems. I am just enjoying watching the freak show and waiting for that Tuesday.

cont.

JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth? That's why they call it the 'other side'. Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side'. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.

GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the
chicken tell, for the first time, the heartwarming story of how it
experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.

ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.

JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace..

BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral part of the Chicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never cra... #@&&^(C%

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken ?

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?

AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?

DICK CHENEY:
Where's my gun?

AL SHARPTON:
Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens

re: #78 AndyMacOP

I truly believe there is no way he is going to win the general election. This is all just an exercise in futility for the Dems. I am just enjoying watching the freak show and waiting for that Tuesday.

Yea it is such a sure thing McCain can enjoy 'purifying' his party some more.

/

re: #34 gettinby

Good morning everyone!

How do I work the Top Ten Comments?

When I click on it, I just get LGF front page all over again.

//Can't find my LGF Owner's Manual.

See the 'Tech Note - Top 10' posted yesterday for instructions. I just click on the list and it drops down. . . same thing to close the list - click on the list and it collapses.

re: #64 right_wing2

Even scarier, I'd heard it suggested he guarantee her a seat on the Supreme Court.

Inserting an icepick into my brain now. Awwwwk!

re: #76 BlueCanuck

Very true.

Thanks.

re: #81 Susan2

Thanks!

Happy Sunday.

It used to be Christianity's job, but there is a new Messiah in town.

re: #85 Dar ul Harbarian

Assuage: The New Malaise.

You Might be a racist If - top 10-

10 - This is the first time in your adult life you are proud to be an american
9 - You think there are 57 states
8 - You don't remember your pastors sermons.
7 - The only values you can remember are from your Grandfather
6- You're upset if anyone disagrees with you
5- You're upset when someone mention's getting a job and paying taxes
4 - You only respect the Flag if someone's looking
3 - You're a bitter middle class person who clings to their guns and their faith
2 - You think being a uniter means being bi-racial
1 - You get angry when someone mentions your middle Name in referance

re: #13 Killian Bundy

The Alamo

/revisionist history

From Wikipedia

El Degüello is a bugle call of Moorish origin notable in its use by the Mexican Army during the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. According to James A. Michener's book Texas, the original meaning of the Degüello call was an appeal to an enemy to surrender or else they would die by the sword. General Antonio López de Santa Anna of the Mexican Army used it to signify that no quarter would be given to the enemy.

According to various English-Spanish dictionaries, El Degüello means no mercy. The literal translation is slit-throat. Michener's book translates it as The Beheading.

Another great contiribution to Western culture from the Religion of Peace.

re: #87 yochanan

racist? More like doofus. without 3.

re: #85 Dar ul Harbarian

Happy Sunday.

It used to be Christianity's job, but there is a new Messiah in town.

"Dar" -

Yeah, the OBAMA Poster - Where Proletkult Meets Andy Warhol.

-S-

re: #87 yochanan

You Might be a racist If - top 10-

10 - This is the first time in your adult life you are proud to be an american
9 - You think there are 57 states
8 - You don't remember your pastors sermons.
7 - The only values you can remember are from your Grandfather
6- You're upset if anyone disagrees with you
5- You're upset when someone mention's getting a job and paying taxes
4 - You only respect the Flag if someone's looking
3 - You're a bitter middle class person who clings to their guns and their faith
2 - You think being a uniter means being bi-racial
1 - You get angry when someone mentions your middle Name in referance

[Link: blogs.wsj.com...]

Here is another one for you. Don't ever tell me that Barry doesn't get high...he must have been really gooned for this one.

re: #88 Dar ul Harbarian

Right, Dar-ul. And its not 'revisionist history' so much as 'poetic license'...

Davy COULD have played that... and the movie's inclusion of that piece of stuff gets people talking about Islamic beheading, temporarily adopted by Mexicans in THEIR futile efforts against the democratic, freedom-loving world...

Another poster

re: #93 Dar ul Harbarian

Oh, Dah, Comrade Dar-ul! The proletariat will respond to this man of socialist wisdom, and racial value! The poster harkens back to the best of the Soviet era!

re: #93 Dar ul Harbarian

Another poster

Globalist McCain should have his Proletkult poster.

In a similar, rather jugular, vein... here's the Zee's take on Gimme Hope, Obama!
Scroll down a wee tad...

What a mess the Democrat party has become.
The Obama supporters are giving each other high 2&1/2's.
The Hillary supporters are going to start chanting "Remember 2000".
Denver will be a sight to behold.

re: #97 mikeinmd

You PRACTICING the Art of Understatement?

Just got back from a wedding and sitting next to 2 Obama "supporters". They don't know why.

It is to laugh.

...Democratic women are feeling metaphorically battered by the Obama campaign. "Healing The Wounds Of Democrats' Sexism," as the Boston Globe headline put it, will not be easy. Geraldine Ferraro is among many prominent Democrat ladies putting up their own money for a study from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard to determine whether Sen. Clinton's presidential hopes fell victim to party and media sexism.

How else to explain why their gal got clobbered by a pretty boy with a resume you could print on the back of his driver's license, a Rolodex apparently limited to neosegregationist race-baiters, campus Marxist terrorists and indicted fraudsters, and a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.

"On this Memorial Day," said Barack Obama last Monday, "as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes – and I see many of them in the audience here today."

Hey, why not? In Obama's Cook County, Ill., many fallen heroes from the Spanish-American War still show up in the voting booths come November. It's not unreasonable for some of them to turn up at an Obama campaign rally, too.

Steyn just has a way with words...
Mark Steyn: Sexism, not Obama, beat Hillary

re: #98 Karridine

You PRACTICING the Art of Understatement?

I've downplayed "The Hype" ever since the XFL let me down.

re: #99 J.D.

a rhetorical surefootedness that makes Dan Quayle look like Socrates.

Socrates is overrated. He had a great PR guy in Plato, but the real reason he drank the hemlock is because he wife was a harridan, his kids were irredemable reprobates and he had neverending debts.

Why is the drop-down menu gone?

Good Morning all y'all - from a warm (71 degrees, going up to 87 degrees) bright and sunny Charlotte!

How is everyone this fine morning?

obama said 57 states maybe he plans on making canadian prov. into states and just let the mask down early.

My Obama poster.

Good morning. Lovely day here in central Ohio.

Israel deports 'Lebanese patriot' accused of spying

Nasim Nisr's deportation to Lebanon on Sunday is being viewed by many as a prelude to a possible prisoner swap between Israel and Lebanon.

In return for Nisr's release, Hezbollah handed over a brown coffin containing the remains of Israeli soldiers killed during a 2006 war between the two sides.

Now I'm starting to get that slow burn....ARRRGGGG.
Where's my Maalox.

As a long time golfer I thought I'd seen every gimmick, gadget, training aid, stroke saver under the sun.

But I was wrong.

re: #101 wahabicorridor

Who knew?

re: #103 realwest

All y'all? You sound like me!
Doing well down here. You sound like someone who got up on the right side of the bed...as per usual...

Just heard on Fox News that those poor, benighted souls who still smoke cigarettes in NYC will, effective Tuesday, be paying $8.50 per pack*. But not to worry - and please disregard the AMA's statement that the amount of nicotine in cig's has been amped way up by the manufacturers and is as hard to quit as is heroin, NYC's Mayor Bloomberg says anyone can quit - he did!

*Of course, women, children and Minorities will be hardest hit by this new increase in taxation on cig's.

re: #104 yochanan

obama said 57 states maybe he plans on making canadian prov. into states and just let the mask down early.

No offense, but no thanks. I like my Canadian I.D. :)

re: #78 AndyMacOP

I truly believe there is no way he is going to win the general election. This is all just an exercise in futility for the Dems. I am just enjoying watching the freak show and waiting for that Tuesday.

I agree. I was just thinking about that and wondering why the Dems would want to have him as their candidate. I think that already having a majority in the House and Senate, and possibly gaining even more seats in November, they really don't care if they lose.
Sort of like the overserved gambler with plenty of money already on the table that makes a long shot bet. Even if he loses he still has plenty of chips left if he loses one hand.

re: #103 realwest

Morning, real. Yeah, looks like it's going to be a nice day.
How have ya been ?

Good morning real!

Here's another Obama poster for your wall

re: #108 onslow ROTFLMAO! Just another example (Obama being exhibit #1) of how Women are discriminated against in this country!
LOL!

re: #103 realwest

Hi ya real! It's going to be hot and muggy here today. The Fat Beagle is being a pain in the butt. 'I want this, now I want that, THERE'S A SQUIRREL IN THE YARD I HAVE TO KILL RIGHT NOW".

sigh.

re: #108 onslow

As a long time golfer I thought I'd seen every gimmick, gadget, training aid, stroke saver under the sun.

But I was wrong.

So, do you have to take another club out of your bag if you carry one of those?

re: #108 onslow

And what's wrong with a empty water/pop bottle?

/does the same trick.

re: #110 realwest

Just heard on Fox News that those poor, benighted souls who still smoke cigarettes in NYC will, effective Tuesday, be paying $8.50 per pack*.

How to create a black market and lose revenue. Econ 101 for socialists.

re: #109 J.D. Hey, hi thre {J.D.}! Don't know why, but getting up in the morning (well, actually WAKING UP in the morning!) grabbing a cup of coffee and chatting with the fine folks on LGF always puts a smile on my face!
How are you doing this morning - are you back home yet?

re: #113 mikeinmd
Good moring back atcha! I'm doing ok today, thanks!
How's about yourself? How are you doing today?

re: #7 Neo Con since 9-11

My dad's side of the family all worked on the Lakes - my dad only for a season or two. My uncle was on the Daniel J. Morrell when it went down in 1966.

re: #114 Kenneth Good morning Kenneth! I've seen that poster all over the 'net since Obama quit his church (*snort* *giggle*) yesterday! And I have to be honest with you, I still don't get it!

re: #120 realwest

{realwest}, you must be a morning person, too. It is the BEST time of my day. And this is one gorgeous day! I am home!

re: #110 realwest

Just heard on Fox News that those poor, benighted souls who still smoke cigarettes in NYC will, effective Tuesday, be paying $8.50 per pack*. But not to worry - and please disregard the AMA's statement that the amount of nicotine in cig's has been amped way up by the manufacturers and is as hard to quit as is heroin, NYC's Mayor Bloomberg says anyone can quit - he did!

*Of course, women, children and Minorities will be hardest hit by this new increase in taxation on cig's.

They forget Proverbs 31:

6 Give beer to those who are perishing,
wine to those who are in anguish;

7 let them drink and forget their poverty
and remember their misery no more.

You know, for all the typically bitter.

[Link: www.mymms.com...]

GO CHICAGO WHITE SOX!

re: #116 wahabicorridor
Morning wahabi! So let me get this straight - would this be the Fat Beagle's anthem?

re: #121 realwest

Good. Taking the boy to Kings Dominion near Richmond for a couple of days. Leaving this PM. His birthday is Monday and it'll be a nice mini vacation.

Apologies if you've already seen this in Obama bus thread 2...

Hugh Hewitt recently did a wonderful takedown of Obama's rhetorical style which you really ought to listen to. It's funny, but also extremely incisive. Bottom line: most of the time Obama has no idea what he's talking about.

Go here. The clip you want is number 29, hour 2 of the May 20 show (clip number 28, which is hour 3, is titled 'Obama audio' but it's clip 29, 'Dean Barnett', that you want).

The essence of Hugh's analysis starts at around 7 minutes and lasts about 3 minutes, but you should listen from the start to get the context, and listen to the rest of the hour, and hour 3, if you have the time.

Someone with more time and expertise than me needs to put this on YouTube, with a slideshow of shots from Obama rallies.

re: #119 wahabicorridor
Oh yeah, the Mafia - which of course doesn't exist - is just drooling over this; as are the Indians on the Reservations on Long Island and Connecticut - wow, first we get casinos and now this, what a goldmine!

re: #127 realwest

real, I'm on dial-up here. No videos for moi!

Prohibition was a smashing American success.

re: #111 BlueCanuck

No offense, but no thanks. I like my Canadian I.D. :)

AND YOU THINK HE IS GOING TO GIVE YOU A CHOICE?
EVIL LAUGH HEHEHEHE

re: #133 yochanan

Well you know us TWP's. . . . . . .

re: #134 BlueCanuck

Well you know us TWP's. . . . . . .

You, too?

Here we go. 'Tis the season.

Atlantic season's first storm moves across Yucatan

re: #120 realwest

Hey, hi thre {J.D.}! Don't know why, but getting up in the morning (well, actually WAKING UP in the morning!) grabbing a cup of coffee and chatting with the fine folks on LGF always puts a smile on my face!
How are you doing this morning - are you back home yet?

Ditto here. Funny how that works. I'm kind of waiting for the snark attack here when Russert chats with McClellan.

re: #125 Roger Hi Roger!
Yup, I'm waiting (probably in vain) for someone to propose to the good Mayor, that all wine, beer and "Spirits" be taxed at the same level as Cigs - after all, I'm sure that the AMA has said alcohol consumption - or, more accurately, OVER consumption - causes as much if not more health care problems (and thereby increases the costs of health care) as much as cig's do and, in fact, if you count all those poor folks who are killed by drunk drivers - even in NYC - alcohol should be taxed higher than cig's to preserve life and limb (and make more tax money for NYC which is what this is all about). I mean what the hell, the good Mayor has already banned smoking in Bars, why not increase the price of a shot of booze by - oh, I dunno - $3.00 a shot and beer $1.50 per glass?

re: #129 English

Sea of Galilee speech! lol!

re: #128 mikeinmd
Um, what's Kings Dominion and how old will he be?

re: #137 Mich-again

Gosh, it's been forever since I've watched Meet the DePressed...

re: #117 J.D.

At the moment the USGA is silent, but give them time.

re: #140 realwest

Theme park / 11.

re: #138 realwest

Don't forget the cheeseburger tax! Being overweight is a health risk too.

re: #118 BlueCanuck

Old school here-trees.

re: #145 onslow

Old school here-trees.

Are you from Kentucky?

Barry rails against SUV's and then leaves each rally in 3 SUV's!

re: #134 BlueCanuck

Well you know us TWP's. . . . . . .

YOU ME YOU GOT N.T.W.P'S?
(northern typical white people)

re: #147 Roger

Barry rails against SUV's and then leaves each rally in 3 SUV's!

And your point is? ? ?

BlueCanuck

Well you know us TWP's. . . . . . .

I am a TWPWAG*

*Thank God and all those responsible for the 2nd.

Barry? Say it in German; it will get the emPHAsis on your chosen sylLAble.

re: #146 J.D.

Nope, first time I saw it was in Boston, Athens of America.

re: #138 {realwest}

Hell...paying taxes gives me a LOT of health problems (stress, heartburn, etc.)

You wait and see. They'll come up with a taxtax (taxing the taxes).

re: #131 wahabicorridor
How's about radio? :[Link: www.imeem.com...]

re: #147 Roger

Barry rails against SUV's and then leaves each rally in 3 SUV's!

Well, it WAS 5, but with all that throwing he's been doing lately, no need for the other 2. In Barryspeak, that's a carbon footprint reduction.

re: #135 J.D.

re: #148 yochanan

yeppers, and since we can't own handguns we are quite good with the long rifles. :)

/once you get out of the city EVERYONE practically knows how to shoot, unoffical sport where I come from.

re: #153 gettinby

Hell...paying taxes gives me a LOT of health problems (stress, heartburn, etc.)

You wait and see. They'll come up with a taxtax (taxing the taxes).

Now there's a damn fine idea!

re: #153 gettinby

You wait and see. They'll come up with a taxtax (taxing the taxes).

Too late. The Warner/Lieberman carbon trade bill is worse - it creates a government controlled market for a commodity that will be made deliberately scarce.

re: #144 Mich-again
D'OH! (smacks self on forehead) How could I forget the Obesity tax?!? LOL!
Mayor Bloomberg is a PUTZ - a rich one, but still - a PUTZ!

re: #153 gettinby

We have (had?) it here in Canada. A good and services tax on top of the fuel tax already factored in at the pump.

re: #114 Kenneth

I made mine... because I think his pro-abortion position is extreme and think it's been overlooked in the political arena:

Barcak Hussein Obama

re: #153 gettinby

You wait and see. They'll come up with a taxtax (taxing the taxes).

They already do that. You pay taxes on your wages and then pay more taxes every time you spend whats left.

re: #158 wahabicorridor

Too late. The Warner/Lieberman carbon trade bill is worse - it creates a government controlled market for a commodity that will be made deliberately scarce.

And on this issue I would get my first LGF deleted if I wrote what I think of it.

re: #147 Roger WOW!
Now I know Barry is the Messiah - who else could ride in three SUV's at the same time! LOL!
/

re: #153 gettinby
{gettnby} Hey Ya know I loves ya, but DON'T GIVE 'EM ANYMORE IDEAS, would ya please?!?!

re: #163 Roger

I never thought I'd miss Newt Gingrich - but on this issue I think he'd be a warrior.

re: #164 realwest

WOW!
Now I know Barry is the Messiah - who else could ride in three SUV's at the same time! LOL!
/

Well one for his ego. . . . . .

re: #159 realwest

Once the Government takes over Health Care and realizes how expensive it is to keep old people alive they will start handing out free cigarettes and booze.

re: #164 realwest

lol!

Gotta go break my fast. See ya.

re: #160 BlueCanuck

you pay vat tax when you buy postage stamps in canada so it is a tax on a tax as in the british empire you used to be able to use postage stamps to pay smaller taxes. if you look on old british empire stamps it says 'postage and revanue' on the stamps.

I know this is out of left field, but did you know that when you book on Delta, you can calculate the carbon emissions for that flight and donate to The Conservation Fund?

re: #166 wahabicorridor

Unfortunately Newt sat with Pelosi on a TV commercial in lock step with that crap.

Good morning from NW Florida, 80 degrees and only 8:30 am!

I watched the DNC discussions (had to work and missed the debate portion) on C-SPAN yesterday. The husband (Dem) is none too happy about the decision and felt that it was unfair to Florida voters to get the same status as Michigan.

I thought during the am session it was interesting that all 4 of the Dems who removed themselves from the Michigan ballot signed affidavits... and that this was ignored when the rules committee made their decision.

I'm looking forward to some in depth articles on what occurred yesterday.

re: #162 Mich-again
Ding Ding Ding - give that man a Seegar! (or for you spelling "purists" out there, Cigar!). Yep, that $8.50 per pack of cigs will of course come out of your after tax income or maybe you're 401-K!
But you're right in another way (although very similar) sales taxes. In North Carolina our sales tax is 8.5% on everything you buy, no matter the cost (well, actually, I think it's on anything over a buck, but what the hell can you buy for less than a dollar these days?)!

If anyone is keeping bookmarks of Obama links, seekeroftruth just posted a link in the spinoffs you might want. gatewaypundit is reporting on one Trita Parsi who may be an agent of Iran and apparently has links to Obama.

Good morning Realwest, hope you're doing okay.

re: #171 J.D. Um, whatcha mean "you"? Huh?!

J.D. (#99),

Steyn most definitely has a way of making you laugh, but it's his ability to deliver it in a wider critique of serious issues that makes him a genius.

re: #171 J.D.

That's interesting. I would ask if Al does this, but Delta ?
Delta's for the masses, the lower class, the FL/MI notsosuperdelegates.

re: #178 realwest

Um, whatcha mean "you"? Huh?!

Correction: ...when one books...

Better?

re: #172 Roger

Unfortunately Newt sat with Pelosi on a TV commercial in lock step with that crap.

Here's my read on that. You can't influence the game if you refuse to sit at the table, so he's gonna sit. Newt's pushing clean coal, IIRC.

re: #173 The AlbatrossWell I didn't, wouldn't ever watch it, but it does seem to me that the DNC just handed Florida and probably Michigan (although with Dearbistorn you can't be sure) to the Repub's in November.

I would sure like to see the Obama connection with the Columbia University Prof/Former PLO activist go viral. That the man was instrumental in getting Ahmejinedad his speaking engagement was too much to be believed.

re: #158 wahabicorridor

Too late. The Warner/Lieberman carbon trade bill is worse - it creates a government controlled market for a commodity that will be made deliberately scarce.

Awhile ago, it was "fading." Is it back on?

/see?! My heartburn is starting up again.

Does this mean that Joe Lieberman is NOT the kind of democrat that I (as a quasi-conservative) should support?

/Can't trust anyone anymore.

re: #176 wahabicorridor
Hey wahabi - did ya see my #154?

re: #174 realwest

I think it's on anything over a buck, but what the hell can you buy for less than a dollar these days?

They could sell single cigarettes for $1.00!

re: #177 The Albatross
Good morining my friend, yeah I'm doing ok this morning, how's about you? How are you doing today?

Off topic.... it's the first day of Hurricane season... woo hoo. Here's hoping we have a quiet season in the Gulf of Mexico.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

who knew she had more 'baitzium' the olmert

re: #179 Geepers

J.D. (#99),

Steyn most definitely has a way of making you laugh, but it's his ability to deliver it in a wider critique of serious issues that makes him a genius.

You can say that again!

How's it going Geeps?

re: #180 mikeinmd

That's interesting. I would ask if Al does this, but Delta ?
Delta's for the masses, the lower class, the FL/MI notsosuperdelegates.

I was surprised. I mean...we trust these people with our lives!

re: #179 Geepers Hey good morning, Geepers! How are you today?

re: #181 J.D. MUCH!
Thanks! LOL!

re: #191 The Albatross

Off topic.... it's the first day of Hurricane season... woo hoo. Here's hoping we have a quiet season in the Gulf of Mexico.

...again!

re: #184 realwest

It was very interesting to view, with a couple "oh no they didn't" moments. One of the most interesting was during the Michigan discussion when it was mentioned briefly that there was an effort to vote "uncommitted" on local radio and that a couple of the candidates handed out hand bills encouraging Dem voters to vote uncommitted... Obama was mentioned.

But not surprisingly, unless it came up in the debate, there were no further questions and they let it pass.

Good morning Geeps!

re: #196 realwest

MUCH!
Thanks! LOL!

My pleasure, professor!

re: #187 gettinby

Is it back on?

Not until after the election. Nuthin' is getting done in this town except maybe to fix the screw-up in the Farm Bill.

I don't know what's up with Lieberman. I can only hope that Imhoff beaths the both of them like rented mules.

realwest - check yer mail

re: #198 The Albatross

When Harold Ickes said that Hillary reserved the right to take the delegate fight to the credentials committee that was a threat for a floor fight in Denver. Buy stock in popcorn.

re: #160 BlueCanuck

We have (had?) it here in Canada. A good and services tax on top of the fuel tax already factored in at the pump.

re: #162 Mich-again

They already do that. You pay taxes on your wages and then pay more taxes every time you spend whats left.

re: #165 realwest

{gettnby} Hey Ya know I loves ya, but DON'T GIVE 'EM ANYMORE IDEAS, would ya please?!?!

Bleh.

I now need to take what's left of my paycheck after taxes and drive to the store in the vehicle that I paid taxes on using fuel that is multi-taxed to buy some Tagemet plus sales tax.

/We're outta control here!

re: #189 Mich-again
Ha! Tobacco stores (i.e., where they sell newspapers, soda pop, and porno mags to cover the fact that they're selling - gasp - tobacco products -) have been selling cigarettes 5 at a time in NYC for at least 4 years now!

Car bomb explodes near Iranian embassy in Iraq

Near the IRANIAN embassy ? Interesting.

Also in the article :

Also on Sunday, a U.S. military helicopter crashed south of Baghdad, wounding two American soldiers, the military said.

Nothing else, just this. Pray they're OK.

re: #202 Mich-again

Is there any creedence to the hand bill stuff? Was there a concerted effort to encourage voters to vote "uncommitted"

[Link: www.tampabay.com...]

yanks won GET OVER IT

re: #204 realwest

Loosies !

re: #204 realwest

have been selling cigarettes 5 at a time in NYC for at least 4 years now!

Thats illegal no? I thought they had to be sold with the tax stamp intact.

re: #192 yochanan WOOT! She sounds like the exactly right person to take Olmert's job: ""Tzipi was not an office girl," said an acquaintance. "She was a clever woman with an IQ of 150. She blended in well in European capitals, working with male agents, most of them ex-commandos, taking out Arab terrorists."

re: #202 Mich-again

I'd like to see her fight it.

There is nothing I like more sometimes than some good popcorn...

Good morning lizards! 58 degrees, sunny and warm with blue skies here along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Word this morning from my USMC son, the Nimitz is due to arrive NAS North Island at 10am this Tuesday (the 3rd).

It sure feels good to have him coming in off deployment!

I do have a small favor to ask of lizardom... I'm not able to travel out to San Diego to greet the ship and join in the homecoming celebration, but I'm wondering if there might be a lizard in the area who could go down to NAS for me with a name placard and flag to welcome my son home for me?

I'd ask the patriot guard to attend but I can't remember who the contact person is?

Morning J.D., realwest, The Albatross and all the rest of the Lizard kingdom.

re: #203 gettinby

The last study I read said that about 55% of a Canadians income went to taxes every year. That included income, property, sales, and any other form of tax you stumbled over.

re: #195 ploome hineni

57 members of the OIC

This from their charter:

Under the Charter, the Organization aims to:

1. Strengthen:

* Islamic solidarity among Member States;
* Cooperation in the political, economic, social, cultural and scientific fields:
* The struggle of all Muslim people to safeguard their dignity, independence and national rights.

2. Coordinate action to:

* Safeguard the Holy Places;
* Support the struggle of the Palestinian people and assist them in recovering their rights and liberating their occupied territories.

re: #206 The Albatross

Well there was very little line crossing by the Republicans because that was way back when Mitt was still in it. It was a pretty dumb election by the Dems. IIRC there was Hillary, Kuchinich, and Uncommitted.

re: #210 realwest

WOOT! She sounds like the exactly right person to take Olmert's job:

Better than Bibi?

re: #201 wahabicorridor
I did, now please check yours!

re: #219 realwest

Realwest, I'd check MY email, but I'd be better off just wishing you all the best, and preparing my household for Monday morning, seeing as its 2100 here...

Shocking Steyn stuff... "living in a rape society worldwide....'

re: #210 realwest

Your kidding right?

re: #208 mikeinmd

re: #209 Mich-again

Yep, loosies and nope - they buy them without a tax stamp on them (you can figure out how) and then quickly unpack 'em and sell 'em in 5 cig plastic baggies. Or at least they used to back in the day when I lived there (i.e., three years ago).

Sunrise on the San Gabriels
Italian Breakfast. You might want more ...

Don't quit, Hillary!

re: #215 BlueCanuck

Pretty pathetic, isn't it.

I'm searching for the same type of study that would apply to the US.

/not doing too well at it either.

re: #218 wahabicorridor
Read the JP article that was provided by yochanan in his #192!

re: #213 irish rose

Hey there!

That's good news.

There are a few San Diegan LGFers, but I don't recall their nics.

re: #219 realwest

loading now...............

re: #221 akak NO, I'm not - why would you think I am? Are you a fan of Olmert or his policies?

Hamas Parliatarians Appealing to the French to bring an end to the Israeli imposed blockade in Gaza

How is "Tzipi" pronounced? Zipee?

re: #226 gettinby
re: #213 irish rose

How's about rw in Sandiego - I'm pretty sure she lives out that way! And iirc, Rose, you met her when you went out to see your son off on his first trip, didn't you?

The Iraqi Upturn Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war.

...If the positive trends continue, proponents of withdrawing most U.S. troops, such as Mr. Obama, might be able to responsibly carry out further pullouts next year. Still, the likely Democratic nominee needs a plan for Iraq based on sustaining an improving situation, rather than abandoning a failed enterprise. That will mean tying withdrawals to the evolution of the Iraqi army and government, rather than an arbitrary timetable; Iraq's 2009 elections will be crucial. It also should mean providing enough troops and air power to continue backing up Iraqi army operations such as those in Basra and Sadr City. When Mr. Obama floated his strategy for Iraq last year, the United States appeared doomed to defeat. Now he needs a plan for success.

re: #228 realwest

Olmert, are you kidding again?

Veterans share their stories, urge an end to the war in Iraq

By LISA STIFFLER
P-I REPORTER

One former soldier recounted an interrogation of an Iraqi by his fellow combatants so brutal he likened it to "a frat house gang rape."

Another was still troubled not by his close brushes with death, but by the times he nearly shot innocent Iraqi civilians.

And a third was exasperated and puzzled by being asked to fulfill what he called "ridiculous" orders to harass Iraqi residents and was discouraged to help those in distress. He called the war "immoral and absurd."

All came together Saturday afternoon at Seattle's Town Hall to share their troubling and sometimes graphic war stories in the hopes that they will inspire and motivate a largely silent public to call for an end to the military occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

No names.
No units.
No service dates.
No dates of incidents.
*spit*

The bus runs over Obama's own ...

[Link: edition.cnn.com...]

NOW THAT'S A VAGINA MONOLOGUE

re: #231 realwest

Yes I did, but I think she lives about 45 minutes away.

re: #233 akak OK, WTF are you about? I said I thought she'd be a better PM than Olmert and you asked if I'm kidding and I said NO I'M NOT KIDDING - what is it you're having comprehension problems with this morning?
I LIKE the idea of a person with an IQ of about 150+ who worked in Mossad chasing down and killing Palistinian terrorists who'd already killed many Israeli's.
You know, a PM who has experience in something Israel seems to have forgotten how to do lately - fight their enemies until their enemies are no more.

Scott McClellan on Meet the Press right now.

Good morning LGF friends :)

re: #239 mama winger

Happy Sunday to you.

re: #218 wahabicorridor

Better than Bibi?

More immediate, If Olmert goes she is probably in - Like Gordon Brown replacing Tony Blair - an election would be required to get Netanyahu the PM' spot.

-S-

Pews you can lose [Mark Steyn]

As one of the early trailblazers for the Rev Wright put it, greater love hath no man than to lay down his friends for his life. In among all the usual presidential ditching of inconvenient associations, I can't think of anything to compare with Obama's dumping of Trinity. It's like Jimmy Carter renouncing his Baptist Church in Plains, Ga - although Carter never went so far as to title his campaign-launch promotional book after one of his preacher's sermons. Perhaps it's closer to Howard Dean quitting the Episcopal Church in Burlington, Vt over its objection to a proposed bike path - although even that arcane theological dispute seems more principled than Obama's wholesale abandonment of Trinity, its congregation, and the man who married him and was entrusted with the spiritual education of his children.

Over at Powerline, Paul Mirengoff says: "Obama left Trinity Church for the same reason he joined it — political opportunism." Faith-wise, Obama would seem to be closer to Dean than Carter - an essentially secular figure whose genuflections to religion were driven more by political expediency. In Governor Dean's case, this involved flying down to Georgia in the last primary campaign to appear with President Carter at church in Plains. A little obvious but it was just for one desperate Sunday morning when the numbers were wobbling. Senator Obama has 20 years of Sunday mornings: in effect, he's asking the media to give him a pass on unloading virtually his entire adult life. He's demanding an industrial-strength version of Herblock's famous "one free shave" to Nixon - in this case, a full head-to-toe depilation.

Will the media give it to him and continue the fawning iconography? Or will Bob Herbert, Joe Klein, Garry Wills and the other bobbysoxers resent being made to look like saps over their this-is-the-greatest-speech-since-Gettysburg hooey and confront the fraudulent nature of the image they've promoted so assiduously?

Gee, that's a tough one...

Watching Universal Studios going up in flames.
The vaults have been hit already.

re: #237 Irish Rose Well that's closer than any other LGFer I know and I don't think North Island is a big deal trip for her - the least you could do would be to ask - the worst that'll happen is she'll say she can't do it!

re: #239 mama winger

Scott McClellan on Meet the Press right now.

Good morning LGF friends :)

Morning, I won't watch that. That whole affair is just...
you know.

re: #244 realwest

OK, I'll pop her an email later this afternoon :).

re: #238 realwest

wtf is your problem asshole?

I asked a question, have another drink or coffee or whatever put you in a pisshead mood.

re: #239 mama winger
Hey {mama}! WTH are you doing watching ole Scotty for anyway? We've had threads out here linking Scotty's statements to Ari Fliescher about how his Publisher - owned by Soros - had him "punch up" his manuscript and threads or comments made by folks who said other publishers that Scotty's agent approached have said this final version of the book was radically different than what was submitted to them.
I wouldn't waste 1 second of my precious life listening to that .................. guy.

Gotta run! Have a great day!

re: #248 realwest

Tim Russert is actually challenging him pretty hard - I like to see him squirm :)

How are you this morning, friend?

re: #247 akak Well aren't you special.
You asked me a question about whether or not I was serious about her being a better PM than Olmert and I said yes.
Then you asked me "Really?" and I asked that.
Then you call me an asshole?
GAZE

re: #250 mama winger
Well according to Akak I'm in a pisshead mood, but if you ask all the other Lizards out here, I'm actually in a pretty good mood!
How are you doing today (other than watching Russert (are you sure it's Tim Russert?) giving Scotty a tough time)?

How is Tzipi pronounced? Zipee? Accent on first syllable?

re: #252 realwest

Well according to Akak I'm in a pisshead mood, but if you ask all the other Lizards out here, I'm actually in a pretty good mood!
How are you doing today (other than watching Russert (are you sure it's Tim Russert?) giving Scotty a tough time)?

Yeah - he is challenging him point by point. Pretty funny.

re: #250 mama winger

Tim Russert's got something to prove after his soft touch with Obama during the Dem debates. Getting a fair amout of criticism from his peers.

re: #227 wahabicorridor
Has it finished loading yet?! I'm sorry, I forgot that music takes a while to load on Dial-Up no matter what the source; thought doing away with the graphics of a YouTube would speed it up!

re: #255 The Albatross

Tim Russert's got something to prove after his soft touch with Obama during the Dem debates. Getting a fair amout of criticism from his peers.

Some of his questions clearly come from his own biases regarding Presdent Bush, but they manage to put old Scotty on the spot as well.

Dear Senator Obama,

....

Of course, we're not perfect. We lack some of the features to which your family has become accustomed. For example, our pastors never talk about political candidates from the pulpit. There's not a whole lot of angry screaming -- in fact, none. No preacher here has ever called down God's condemnation upon our native land.

....

re: #255 The Albatross
Huh, I didn't hear about Russert getting some criticism from his peers for his softball throws to Obama. Are you sure it's his peers who were so critical?

re: #258 FrogMarch

That's a great letter.

re: #253 MandyManners

How is Tzipi pronounced? Zipee? Accent on first syllable?

Tzipi (TSĒ-pē ...)

From somewhere in this site .

Barack may want to think about this spiritual advisor ,um, until the day after Denver.
He's might just need him.

Reverend Rough Stuff.

re: #258 FrogMarch Wished I coulda dinged you up 10 for that one; great letter.
Hope Obama can get someone to read it for him and then prepare his answer for him to read!