Gooooood Moooorning LGF.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. The Who.

Hmmmm.....which of these is not like the others?

Morning BignJames. Slow day to day.

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.

Exactly!

Hiya, BC.....only here for a few more minutes myself.

re: #1 BlueCanuck

/puts on sunglasses

/YYYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Morning All

I guess I missed the fruit cups.

re: #6 laZardo

Not my first one. :)

/think I have had a couple.

re: #7 Fredlike

I think there may be a few on the buffet left. littleoldlady could teach an army cook about quantity.

/not to mention quality.

Yay! new morning thread freshness!

Morning Lizardia

Repost
Netflix alert-I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm just finishing watching a Woody Harrelson movie that is really good. It's a documentary called Nanking about the Japanese massacre there and an American surgeon and group of missionaries that tried to stop it.

Gotta head home from internship work. I leave you with a spinoff link.

/later guise

Manishma and Shalom from Arad. Nice and hot afternoon here and it feels great to be alive!

Night laZardo see you tomorrow.

*yawn*

But ... but ... but ... Change! And Hope! And PROGRESS!

Prophet or Ultra-rationally aware of the power of Irrationality.

From 1959: Compare to what's going on now!

re: #15 JamesTKirk

*yawn*

But ... but ... but ... Change! And Hope! And PROGRESS!

The only change I want is from a cashier. Hope is what springs eternal in the breast of men, not a political campaign. Progress is what I see when I make improvments in my life. Anything else is just pure snake oil and flim flam.

*YAWN*

Hey kids. Tornado watch here. OOOOh, scary. Blah Blah Blah. They're so full of crap.

Oh, wait! I hear a train coming up the street, let me go wave to the engineer.

Looks like India might just start to reduce their oil consumption:

India to raise fuel prices

Interesting thing here is that India subsidizes fuel heavily, so Indian consumers haven't seen the runup in prices that we have seen and thereby haven't had much in the way of a disincentive for higher consumption.

We should all hope that Asian demand growth for oil slows a bit so that prices drop. Until then they are unlikely to.

re: #18 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Nope. Watch is lifted. We did have a touchdown last night. In Roanoke VA, tornados are very very rare. I can remember two touchdowns in the [deleted] years I have lived here.

re: #15 JamesTKirk

*yawn*

But ... but ... but ... Change! And Hope! And PROGRESS!

Don't forget that we will be able to tell our grandchildren that last night was the *moment* that the seas stopped rising and the earth started to cool.

Moses just parted a sea : Obama is cooling down ALL of the oceans.

'Morning everybody! Has Hillary quit yet?

/I didn't think so...

Ayn Rand forever!

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.

— Irene Peter

Likewise,
Just because something is changed doesn't make it different.

Totalitarianism by any other name wouldn't smell any less.

Good morning, lizards. I know I'm late to the topic, but this fining of Brigitte Bardot for expressing her disgust of Muslim practices is, to say the least, ominous. The fine had a 15,000 euro price tag.

So what better way than to start the morning by throwing up a little in your mouth at this absurd, pusillanimous, dying-by-degrees little episode in Eurabian history?

HOPE - CHANGE - MALAISE

Charles is going to be most amused to see that AP cheerleader Nedra Pickler has basically anointed golden boy as Barack 'Icarus' Obama.

He truly is the anointed one, having now sprouted wings.

We have five months of shameless fawning ahead. Think the media idolatry has been bad so far? We haven't seen anything yet.

Good morning, all.
Do you ever feel like Howard Beale?
Wetwork.

re: #25 godfrey

Good morning, lizards. I know I'm late to the topic, but this fining of Brigitte Bardot for expressing her disgust of Muslim practices is, to say the least, ominous. The fine had a 15,000 euro price tag.

So what better way than to start the morning by throwing up a little in your mouth at this absurd, pusillanimous, dying-by-degrees little episode in Eurabian history?

Lets see Brigitte publishes her disgust of Islamic practices, while french Islamists publishes fatwas demanding death to infidel cartoonists and authors. Guess who got the fine, Brigitte of course!

Something for Ayn Rand, Goldfinger....

re: #29 loflyer

Well, if something like that was equally applied, it would be okay. But it seems like it only goes one way. Car-be-que anyone?

re: #29 loflyer

Lets see Brigitte publishes her disgust of Islamic practices, while french Islamists publishes fatwas demanding death to infidel cartoonists and authors. Guess who got the fine, Brigitte of course!

See? If she'd just issued death threats back there wouldn't have been any problem!

/Sheesh!

They threw water on the Wicked Witch, and stared slack-jawed when Hlllary didn't melt.

Obama to his posse: Anyone got another bright idea? Anyone....?

re: #30 loflyer

Something for Ayn Rand, Goldfinger....

That hair and those boots/shoes- I want those shoes!

re: #33 DistantThunder

On the news, they mentioned a column that started "and he thought a little thing like winning would stop her"

re: #20 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Nope. Watch is lifted. We did have a touchdown last night. In Roanoke VA, tornados are very very rare. I can remember two touchdowns in the [deleted] years I have lived here.

My daughter just moved from lexington, VA last month.

re: #25 godfrey

Between her PETA connections and her neo-nazi FN connections I'm finding it more than a little difficult to scrape up even a modicum of concern for Bardot.

Some peoples speech needs to be stifled and the French are just the kind of folks to do the stifling.

FIRE!,
R

re: #34 madisonsfriend

That hair and those boots/shoes- I want those shoes!

They look ridiculous but they put on a heck of show. It was pouring rain when they performed the number!

re: #27 JammieWearingFool

I couldn't agree more. They will all fight over the chance to kneel before him, unzip, and [redacted] him.

re: #37 Render

I remember her from the early 60's when she was in her prime, and I didn't know about girls. I only knew she didn't wear much and couldn't act. The Euro's go to far in censoring speech on issues that many Euro's share the same views on. You get what you pay for, and that price is too high for me....

Good morning, lizards.

I think.

re: #41 Irish Rose

It's a great mornin' rose. How you?

So apropos Charles. Especially given this day of "Change".

I wonder if Obama will give us 99 cents for every extra tax dollar we give him after his failed policies are played out?

Best and worse of Aviation

Check out the cute blonde driving the A/C in the middle of the clip. Impressive, very impressive!

re: #39 rightside

I couldn't agree more. They will all fight over the chance to kneel before him, unzip, and [redacted] him.

The media motto, where Obama is concerned, is "Better Fellate than Never."

re: #42 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It's a great mornin' rose. How you?

A busy workday today and not feeling so hot.

Had some chocolate ice cream last night... gave me serious indigestion, and I lost nearly a whole night of sleep.

Ugh.

re: #43 steveoh

So apropos Charles. Especially given this day of "Change".

I wonder if Obama will give us 99 cents for every extra tax dollar we give him after his failed policies are played out?

And...of course not just look at where Jimmah Carter is today.

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.

Why is it,when I read that quote,that the first two words that came to mind were "Obama",and "Carter"?

re: #39 rightside

I couldn't agree more. They will all fight over the chance to kneel before him, unzip, and [redacted] him.

It's embarrassing. As if they're writing for Tiger Beat magazine. You'd be laughed out of journalism 101 with junk like that.

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

Don't you eva sleep, or did you have someone take over for you last night?

re: #44 loflyer

Svetlana Kapanina.

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

SMOKIN,
R

Time for me to log off folks. have your selves a great day, and see you on the next threads.

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

LOL, great one! upding.

re: #49 JammieWearingFool

Too bad they're not journalists.

Mornin' all. That picture on the previous thread is funny. Unlike the obamagasm that crowd of kool aid drinkers had last night. And, I think Bama hit it on the head. Two men who had no business being in or near the WH. At least Jimmuh had been a governor.

re: #49 JammieWearingFool

It's embarrassing. As if they're writing for Tiger Beat magazine. You'd be laughed out of journalism 101 with junk like that.

Don't count on it! With an internship at the ACLU or the UN/human rights commission in your resume, you will have no trouble finding employment in the MSM.

re: #50 Widow'smight

Don't you eva sleep, or did you have someone take over for you last night?

I was working very late, and took a little break in here. This is a one-man operation, which has both advantages and disadvantages.

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey
Heh. You get all the atta boys and all the oh shits.

re: #57 pingjockey

Heh. You get all the atta boys and all the oh shits.

I find the OSHit inspector comes around far too often.

re: #56 buzzsawmonkey

So was I, beginning of the month. Later in the month, I'll be asking for the folks in Manhattan to send me something. I'm getting too old for this.

re: #58 buzzsawmonkey
Mwahaha! Damn Charlie Crist is on Fox again. I swear Murdoch knows something.

BBL, guys! Classic Miami Vice

BTW, Steveoh put a very nicely thought-out post at 499 about Ma Sheehan, IMHO.

re: #49 JammieWearingFool

Tiger Beat- Tiger Beat- I luv Tiger Beat! Peter Blair Dennis Bernard Noone, The Monkees, The Dave Clark Five. They are all so groovy.
(I thought Tiger Beat was a magazine of the 60's- it isn't still around, is it? Does it still have stories about Herman's Hermits and the Monkees and the Fab Four and Chad and Jeremy?)

re: #63 madisonsfriend

Did you hear that awful news about Buddy Holly?

Gas price is down to 3.93 per gallon overnight... woo f*ing hoo.

I'm telling you, Congress needs to do something about the exhorbitant gas prices RIGHT NOW. If they don't get a grip on it - and soon - the American people are going to start responding with widespread violence (much of it aimed at public officials) instead of the standard bitching/moaning and moonlight gas thievery.

The guys that I really feel sorry for are the truckers, who have to fill up on diesel to earn a living... oi.

I left the thread last night at 12:36pm ET to go back to cleaning my carpets - so much easier when all the kids aren't running through the house. My son, 19, rouses himself to walk outside and call his girlfriend so he can get cell phone service.

Suddenly, some teen age punk drove by, got out of his Mustang, started calling my son names, and said, "You thought you'd get away with this Brett, (not my son's name)"more profanity - all the while slashing my son on his arm with some sharp object.

My son, 6'2", comes running in the house significant blood running down his arm telling me to call the police. Said he'd never seen this kid, 5'6" before in his life. Couldn't see that he had a knife. We got the bleeding under control and I did some first aid.

So we had NJ finest state police - one guy was a jerk - to investigate this bizarre attack. Of course they asked if it was some drug deal - my son is getting ready to go into the airforce and told them absolutely not. Even volunteer a drug test. They said no.

Very odd occurrence in our quaint secluded town in the Wharton forest in south Jersey.

Good morning -- hot one coming up today in Chambodia. 93 degrees for the high. Discussion "As You Like It" today in seminar. Before that, though, I have to go to the doctor for a check up and to make sure that my guts are all healed after my surgery.

How's everyone this morning?

re: #60 pingjockey

Mwahaha! Damn Charlie Crist is on Fox again. I swear Murdoch knows something.

Not Crist - please tell me John won't make this mistake.

re: #66 DistantThunder

Mistaken identity? Girlfriend issues?

The press is full of Hilary's obituaries already.

Guess they've bought into the "Obama won" story, long before the votes have been tallied.

Isn't this the exact situation that led to the problems in 2000? Though of course there it was the press shilling for Gore early.

re: #62 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

BTW, Steveoh put a very nicely thought-out post at 499 about Ma Sheehan, IMHO.

Is Ma Sheehan still running against Blinky?

re: #66 DistantThunder
Good Lord! Is he okay? We've had some disturbing incidences here. The Greater Wenatchee Valley area only has 40k or so population and it is becoming a weekly thing with some kids under 15 being told or asked to get into a vehicle with persons unknown.

re: #66 DistantThunder

Geeze, DT, is your son OK?
Do you have a lot of gang activity in your area? Sounds like a hit gone wrong to me.

Did he get a physical description of the perp, or a plate number on the vehicle?

re: #67 Lucius Septimius
Pretty fair here. You feeling okay?

re: #66 DistantThunder

I left the thread last night at 12:36pm ET to go back to cleaning my carpets - so much easier when all the kids aren't running through the house. My son, 19, rouses himself to walk outside and call his girlfriend so he can get cell phone service.

Suddenly, some teen age punk drove by, got out of his Mustang, started calling my son names, and said, "You thought you'd get away with this Brett, (not my son's name)"more profanity - all the while slashing my son on his arm with some sharp object.

My son, 6'2", comes running in the house significant blood running down his arm telling me to call the police. Said he'd never seen this kid, 5'6" before in his life. Couldn't see that he had a knife. We got the bleeding under control and I did some first aid.

So we had NJ finest state police - one guy was a jerk - to investigate this bizarre attack. Of course they asked if it was some drug deal - my son is getting ready to go into the airforce and told them absolutely not. Even volunteer a drug test. They said no.

Very odd occurrence in our quaint secluded town in the Wharton forest in south Jersey.

I'm so thankful it wasn't even worse. What a horrible, frightening experience.

Good morning, Lizards.

re: #69 Lucius Septimius

Mistaken identity? Girlfriend issues?

Definitely mistaken identity - girlfriend, Hmmmmm, the kid was short and fat - but maybe. The irony, is that Mr. DT was on his way home from Michigan, have done training for a law enforcement group, and bringing home his friend, who happens to have been a bounty hunter for 10 years.

It should be an interesting few days.

re: #64 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Did you hear that awful news about Buddy Holly?

The day the music died!

re: #74 pingjockey

Reasonably good, but it's only eight o'clock. I'm not looking forward to the doctor.

re: #76 DistantThunder

Definitely mistaken identity - girlfriend, Hmmmmm, the kid was short and fat - but maybe. The irony, is that Mr. DT was on his way home from Michigan, have done training for a law enforcement group, and bringing home his friend, who happens to have been a bounty hunter for 10 years.

It should be an interesting few days.

Interesting is one word ... just hope he's ok.

When does he report for duty?

re: #63 madisonsfriend

Tiger Beat- Tiger Beat- I luv Tiger Beat! Peter Blair Dennis Bernard Noone, The Monkees, The Dave Clark Five. They are all so groovy.
(I thought Tiger Beat was a magazine of the 60's- it isn't still around, is it? Does it still have stories about Herman's Hermits and the Monkees and the Fab Four and Chad and Jeremy?)

I have no idea. I just use that name as symbol of teeny-bopper idolatry.

Last I saw it was at the end of Stripes when they had John Candy on the cover.

re: #78 Lucius Septimius

Reasonably good, but it's only eight o'clock. I'm not looking forward to the doctor.

I hope all is well or getting better.

{Lucius Septimus}

re: #75 goddessoftheclassroom

Morning goddess, are you done with the school year? Mine are done next week. But, since they didn't want to cooperate with the old man 2 of them are going to summer school for a month for reading! Mwahaha!

From yesterday's BOTW (last item)

The Associated Press reports from Crow Agency, Mont., on one of the final campaign events of the 2008 primary season:

The purification ceremony isn't an everyday ritual of U.S. presidential politics.

The newly named Awe Kooda Bilaxpak Kuuxshish--better known as Barack Obama--faced east, the symbolic source of new life. His adopted Crow father, Hartford Black Eagle, prayed over him.

Afterward, they walked arm-in-arm with Black Eagle's wife, Mary, to a podium, where Obama promised to live up to the meaning of his new name: "One Who Helps People Throughout the Land."

No doubt the Republican Attack Machine will insist on calling him Awe Kooda Bilaxpak Hussein Kuuxshish.

snark, snark.

re: #72 pingjockey

Good Lord! Is he okay? We've had some disturbing incidences here. The Greater Wenatchee Valley area only has 40k or so population and it is becoming a weekly thing with some kids under 15 being told or asked to get into a vehicle with persons unknown.

Yeah, the cops thought that it was just like finger nail slashes, but the 5 cuts were very clean, and it was way too much blood for finger nails - there was blood all over my sink. So I have to check today to make sure his tetanus is up to date.

Sunday we had son, age 9, step on a rusty nail at a friend's, so we are on 10 days of antibiotics with that -

Always happens that Mr. DT is conveniently out of town for the drama.

re: #81 goddessoftheclassroom

Everything's pretty much on hold at the moment -- not really any better, but no worse either. Or at least I think.

re: #78 Lucius Septimius

Reasonably good, but it's only eight o'clock. I'm not looking forward to the doctor.

I hope it goes well and you continue to get better.

re: #78 Lucius Septimius
Think positive thoughts man! Channeling Donald Southerland in Kellys Heroes.

re: #79 Lucius Septimius

Interesting is one word ... just hope he's ok.

When does he report for duty?

He's getting some health things cleared up first. I had just picked him up from another friend's house who returned Sat from Afghanistan. He said it is really, really boring in A-stan - they mostly patrol - nothing much happening.

re: #45 buzzsawmonkey

Funny, but "fellate" isn't in my 1960 Webster's New World Dictionary. Affricate is in there, though.

re: #87 pingjockey

LOL! I love that movie.

He was apparently horribly sick with a fever throughout that whole movie.

re: #84 DistantThunder
That was happening with me for a while, go out of town, the fridge died, next trip the dog almost died. Got so bad I was scared to go over an hour away from the house!

re: #91 pingjockey

That was happening with me for a while, go out of town, the fridge died, next trip the dog almost died. Got so bad I was scared to go over an hour away from the house!

It's got to be some cosmic law that the bad stuff happens when you're down by one - like gravity.

re: #90 Lucius Septimius
Really. Saw a funny one the other night. Second Hand Lions. Michael Caine trying to talk with a Texas accent was a hoot.

Sorry lizards... very little time to visit this morning.
I have to get ready for work.

/right after I have my second helping of cranky flakes

re: #92 DistantThunder
Yep. The better half was getting paranoid. Especially if I was off to Portland or someplace here in Wa. state that was way out in the boonies.

re: #33 DistantThunder

They threw water on the Wicked Witch, and stared slack-jawed when Hlllary didn't melt.

Obama to his posse: Anyone got another bright idea? Anyone....?

LOL!

re: #82 pingjockey

Morning goddess, are you done with the school year? Mine are done next week. But, since they didn't want to cooperate with the old man 2 of them are going to summer school for a month for reading! Mwahaha!

The school year has finished, but I have to finish moving to a new class room.

I got a call from an angry parent who was "trying to understand how her son failed." I patiently went over EVERYTHING with her, including how I passed him last quarter because he started working harder but his average was three percentage points under the minimum pass grade. Anyway, my patience evaporated when she said, "Maybe if he got to work work with computers instead of just sitting at a desk in your class the whole period..."

I was white-hot furious. I told her that we acted out Romeo and Juliet, but her son CHOSE to do nothing but sit in his seat. I closed the discussion at that point.

I can take being called strict, old-fashioned, demanding, even sarcastic, but I will not stand for being called boring,

Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.

Interesting quote.
Does anone have any idea who Irene Peter is?
And before you say, "Do you know how to Google" ... try it yourself!

Even the talking heads on Fox keep talking about a obamarama/beast ticket. I don't think that is gonna happen. Neither of them want to share the spotlight with anyone.

re: #99 pingjockey

Even the talking heads on Fox keep talking about a obamarama/beast ticket. I don't think that is gonna happen. Neither of them want to share the spotlight with anyone.

I think BO would be found dead at the bottom of a staircase if he ran on such a ticket- and I think he knows that...

re: #97 goddessoftheclassroom
Hehe! I like old fashioned, strict teachers. I like that you got upset being called boring. I taught navy electronics for three years and the biggest challenge, I thought anyway, was keeping their attention. Especially after lunch!

re: #95 pingjockey

Yep. The better half was getting paranoid. Especially if I was off to Portland or someplace here in Wa. state that was way out in the boonies.

Morning ping...ROTFLMAO.... All of Washington State is way out in the boonies..........

re: #102 doriangrey
Ha! Not as bad as going to ...Jamul.

re: #100 CIA Reject

I think BO would be found dead at the bottom of a staircase if he ran on such a ticket- and I think he knows that...

..and sprawled with limbs at grotesquely skewed angles.

re: #33 DistantThunder

Those toes have not curled up and slid under the house yet!

re: #104 DistantThunder
Nah, that is too obvious. The beast will get a voodoo doll!

re: #105 rightside

Those toes have not curled up and slid under the house yet!

I won't even believe it when I read it in the NYT's - only when it's officially here at LGF.

Church of England accused of censoring debate on Islam

A meeting of the Church's "parliament" was due to discuss whether clergy should be doing more to convert British Muslims to Christianity.

The sensitive issue was highlighted last week by a senior bishop who accused Church leaders of failing to reach out to other faiths, and warned that radical Islam is filling a gap in society caused by the decline of traditional Christian values.

But now the Church has put off the debate on recruiting Muslims until next February at the earliest and will discuss the promotion of churches as tourist attractions instead.

Heh.

re: #104 DistantThunder

..and sprawled with limbs at grotesquely skewed angles.

"D*mndest case 'a suicide I ever did see..."

/Sheriff Billy-Bob.

Morning dorian

Obama, HIllary, Bill and the Democrats - all deserve each other.

re: #93 pingjockey

I liked that movie, especially how they'd shoot from the front porch to try and scare away the salesman, who persisted anyhow.

re: #110 rightside

Morning dorian

Good morning rightside............

So is this election going to be the biggest no brainer or what. Don't care if it is the Obama and Mama ticket, McCain would have to drop F- bombs to lose this thing.

re: #101 pingjockey

Hehe! I like old fashioned, strict teachers. I like that you got upset being called boring. I taught navy electronics for three years and the biggest challenge, I thought anyway, was keeping their attention. Especially after lunch!

{pingjockey}

One of the best moments of the year is reading what my students write in my yearbook. The comment that brought tears to my eyes was from a girl who wrote, "You made me fall in love with English."

re: #108 Killgore Trout

Man that conversion should be their main job at this point.

That, and bringing nominal Christians back.

re: #109 CIA Reject

"D*mndest case 'a suicide I ever did see..."

/Sheriff Billy-Bob.

Gotta get the teeth (Mr DT's friend started this business of fake gross teeth when he graduated from dental school - made millions.)

They're called - Billy-Bob teeth or (British teeth - either way.)

Socialize dentistry !

re: #111 DistantThunder

Unfortunately, the damn sheeple who are following these demagogues may have us out numbered.

re: #118 pingjockey

Unfortunately, the damn sheeple who are following these demagogues may have us out numbered.

Yep. We have to start creating our own commercials for conservative principals on the blogosphere.

Via Ace. who calls this the "Best Essay on Iraq You'll Read This Month."

[Link: online.wsj.com...]