Mine all mine bwahahhhhaaaaaaaa....

LGF Spies... like those scary Israeli movers... someone call Pat Buchanan!

Blues skies...nothin' but blue skies from now on...

I just got back from the "Forest" - Dave Johnson's site - and I feel like I need to wash.

Arguing with some of those folks is like wrestling with a pig: you get dirty and sweaty and the pig enjoys it.

Wean oneself from LGF Spy?
Wean one's addiction why?
You should use it with an eye
And keep let the trolls cry.

If the US GDP shows a drop in production for the 2nd quarter, I'm blaming LGF's Spy.

cartoon for the hell of it.

toon

Only 8 days to the shortest day, then its all down hill to summer

re: #8 A Kiwi Infidel

Only 8 days to the shortest day, then its all down hill to summer

I was SO puzzled until I read your nic!

re: #9 goddessoftheclassroom

I was SO puzzled until I read your nic!

And you're a teacher, I am so pleased you worked that out

Thank God, an open thread. Now can someone help me with a technical problem that is bugging me:

You know the current Hitler (Downfall) meme on YouTube where people subtitle a scene from the film Downfall with whatever topic amuses them (Hillary dressing down her campaign managers, themes about soccer or ice hockey etc) well my problem is I'm technically illiterate so how do you do that? How do you get that clip from Downfall and put your own subtitles on it? I want to do it as a practical joke on a workmate. I have a mac with iMovie and iDVD. What do I do next? Please help.

re: #8 A Kiwi Infidel

Only 8 days to the shortest day, then its all down hill to summer

I think this'll be a lovely summer.

re: #8 A Kiwi Infidel

Only 8 days to the shortest day, then its all down hill to summer

Six months plus that for the shortest day here. While you are in darkness, we'll be basking in the glow of longer days. (And vice versa later on, but that's later on.)

re: #8 A Kiwi Infidel

From where I work, it's the longest day: the sun won't even set if I get sent to the wrong place (high arctic).

You Kiwis are always getting things turned around.

Just saw Malkin on Fox News refer to Michelle Obama as Barack's Bitter Half

heh

re: #8 A Kiwi Infidel

Only 8 days to the shortest day, then its all down hill to summer

That was a WHA--- moment. I forgot you're "down under".

re: #5 Honorary Yooper

Wean oneself from LGF Spy?
Wean one's addiction why?
You should use it with an eye
And keep let the trolls cry.

I saw that before you even hit enter

Spy vs. Spy

Man, those communists are smart:

HAVANA - The egalitarian wage system Fidel Castro spent decades building in Cuba is no longer viable, plagued by low pay, corruption and waste that can be eased by paying workers more for better work, a top labor official said in an interview published Wednesday.

Paying people more... if they produce better work... wow, the mind boggles!

re: #19 Occasional Reader

Man, those communists are smart:

Paying people more... if they produce better work... wow, the mind boggles!

That's so ... capitalistic...

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

re: #20 The Other Les

How will Hugo handle this disappointment and change in Cuban policy?

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

Frank who?

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

Can you spell putz?

Anybody find the Obamas as creepy as I do? Never mind rhetorical question.
Barry talks about healing the Planet & Michelle talks about healing our souls.
IT seems like a New Age brew of goblygook, mixed with Marxism,
racial anomosity, and anti Americanism.

re: #19 Occasional Reader

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

Is this the test you were talking about?

No. Next question, Charles.

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

Since I have no idea who that is, I definitely am not one of those people, if they exist.

re: #16 infidelia

That was a WHA--- moment. I forgot you're "down under".

Nup, its you who are "up-over"

Anyone have any idea what's wrong with my computer? When I hit "new comments" it refreshes to the top of the page. "Reply", "quote" or up-ding take me the home page. The format and "preview" buttons are inoperative. It's probably my machine and not LGF, but it becomes tedious to keep up with comments.

Well since this is an open thread. A place I volunteered on in a galaxy long ago . Ah youth, it's wasted on the young.
[Link: www.panoramio.com...]

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

My first though was "navel gazers"..........

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

is there an echo in my living room?

re: #28 Occasional Reader

Since I have no idea who that is, I definitely am not one of those people, if they exist.

That is not the Frank Luntz that obambi knew.

re: #30 UFO TOFU

Anyone have any idea what's wrong with my computer? When I hit "new comments" it refreshes to the top of the page. "Reply", "quote" or up-ding take me the home page. The format and "preview" buttons are inoperative. It's probably my machine and not LGF, but it becomes tedious to keep up with comments.

That will happen if you have Javascript turned off. Check your browser settings...

re: #29 A Kiwi Infidel

re: #16 infidelia

That was a WHA--- moment. I forgot you're "down under".

Nup, its you who are "up-over"

Of course, neither of us is necessarily either, since there's no real "up" for the Earth.

re: #25 opnion

Anybody find the Obamas as creepy as I do? Never mind rhetorical question.
Barry talks about healing the Planet & Michelle talks about healing our souls.
IT seems like a New Age brew of goblygook, mixed with Marxism,
racial anomosity, and anti Americanism.

Obama's comment re his ability to heal the oceans is the single spookiest thing I have heard from anyone in my lifetime. Not to mention the most blasphemous.

re: #14 CanadianBacon

From where I work, it's the longest day: the sun won't even set if I get sent to the wrong place (high arctic).

You Kiwis are always getting things turned around.

We are not quite that close to the Antarctic, but it must must be fascinating to see that, the sun that never sets. BTW how are those endangered polar bears?

USAfrica online has an interesting picture on it.

I got kicked off LGF about 5 minutes ago. I thought maybe I had gone back in time to my early AOL days.

re: #37 Occasional Reader

unless you're in an airplane....

re: #25 opnion

Anybody find the Obamas as creepy as I do? Never mind rhetorical question.
Barry talks about healing the Planet & Michelle talks about healing our souls.
IT seems like a New Age brew of goblygook, mixed with Marxism,
racial anomosity, and anti Americanism.

If you saw all the gonzo New Age books these people buy all day long at the bookstore where I work it would make it easier to see how they got on some people's wavelengths.

re: #37 Occasional Reader

Ah ha, tell that to the Mullah who thinks the world is flat

When I watch a Frank Luntz group, especially of "undecided voters" I am reminded that statistically, half of Americans are below average.

And I prefer the term uninformed voter to undecided voter

re: #11 didache

i'd know how to do it in after effect. but there's got to be a simpler way.

re: #37 Occasional Reader

Of course, neither of us is necessarily either, since there's no real "up" for the Earth.

True enuf!

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

USAfrica online has an interesting picture on it.

That implies a constitutional problem I thinith?

re: #36 Charles

That will happen if you have Javascript turned off. Check your browser settings...

I have also seen this lately with Firefox. Which for some reason periodically also will not allow me to type an apostrophe. Rebooting the program seems to fix it.

Thanks Charles, will do.

What I really think is amazing is we have people from all over the world who found this home away from home, and on the majority of things, we have no problem finding common ground.

I haven't said it for awhile: THANKS CHARLES!

re: #38 galloping granny

Obama's comment re his ability to heal the oceans is the single spookiest thing I have heard from anyone in my lifetime. Not to mention the most blasphemous.

I have to agree with that. A Columnist writing today in the San Francisco Chronicle opined that Obama is a 'Light Worker"
He is a spirtual being that is not really one of us & will teach the world a new way of life!
What is going on?

re: #48 Nevergiveup

That implies a constitutional problem I thinith?

I thinith you are correct.

re: #39 A Kiwi Infidel

Doing great - I work with the conservation officers that do the counts: they say the populations in most areas of the Hudson's Bay area are growing and healthy. Good news doesn't travel so fast or so far.

re: #51 SusanL

What I really think is amazing is we have people from all over the world who found this home away from home, and on the majority of things, we have no problem finding common ground.

I haven't said it for awhile: THANKS CHARLES!

More than that, we become friends sincerely interested in each other's lives.

re: #38 galloping granny

Obama's comment re his ability to heal the oceans is the single spookiest thing I have heard from anyone in my lifetime. Not to mention the most blasphemous.

Imagine McCain saying something like that? They media would still be ranting on about it.

re: #8 A Kiwi Infidel

Only 8 days to the shortest day, then its all down hill to summer

Or in our case, eight days until the longest day, then it's all down hill to winter.

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

USAfrica online has an

"IT'S A COOKBOOK!"

re: #52 opnion

I have to agree with that. A Columnist writing today in the San Francisco Chronicle opined that Obama is a 'Light Worker"
He is a spirtual being that is not really one of us & will teach the world a new way of life!
What is going on?

That sounds like scientology stuff, or, just too much of the wacky backy

re: #54 CanadianBacon

I think the issue is less the news traveling and more the willingness to accept it.

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

Frank Luntz is dreamy....

Taking advantage of an open thread:

Hey Charles:
We just caught Dream Theater on one of their recent tour dates. John Petrucci was playing a flame-thrower, just killing us, but he made it look so easy--a sign of greatness. The boss got us front row VIP tickets, so we got to meet all the guys back stage after the concert.

re: #52 opnion

That's even creeprier than Obama causing the oceans to stop rising. Spiritual? You mean like Wright and the Pflegler (sp.) guy? That's really spiritual.

re: #57 Ward Cleaver

eight days until the longest day

We're invading France again?

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

USAfrica online has an interesting picture on it.

What do they know that we don't yet know?

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

USAfrica online has an

am listening to the news. kucinich's bill got shot down. they would save a lot of time if they'd just keep the articles of impeachment on the top shelf where he couldn't reach.

re: #48 Nevergiveup

That implies a constitutional problem I thinith?

Nah
Hussein Obama does not have to play by the rules made by Wh!te Slave Owners

re: #52 opnion

I have to agree with that. A Columnist writing today in the San Francisco Chronicle opined that Obama is a 'Light Worker"
He is a spirtual being that is not really one of us & will teach the world a new way of life!
What is going on?

Consider the source.

FOX's Brit Hume leading the the Jimbo Johnson story. Is it just me or is Brit Hume really Eyore?

Eyore used the phrase, "Throwing him under the bus"

re: #44 A Kiwi Infidel

Ah ha, tell that to the Mullah who thinks the world is flat

Thats why the will be able to push all of the Infidels off of the planet.
Calling the 12th Imam

re: #54 CanadianBacon

Yes, I had heard. And as you say, some people would prefer to distort completely ignore the twoof to further their own ends.

re: #48 Nevergiveup

That implies a constitutional problem I thinith?

My ex-husband was in the Air Force and my daughter was born in West Germany at Hahn AFB. Her birth certificate states that she is "an American Citizen born abroad".

If she were so inclined, I beleive she would qualify to run as POTUS, right?

I think that someone in power (hello Mr. McCain) needs to insist that Obambi produce proof that he is eligible to be president.

re: #60 A Kiwi Infidel

That sounds like scientology stuff, or, just too much of the wacky backy

The really bizzare part is that it was not a letter to the editr , but a regular columnist.

re: #71 Just Above Average

FOX's Brit Hume leading the the Jimbo Johnson story. Is it just me or is Brit Hume really Eyore?

Eyore used the phrase, "Throwing him under the bus"

I bow down before Mr. Hume. All Praise due Brit!

I was stuck in traffic today so I ended up listening to the Loofah Man's radio show. On it he warned fellow talking heads and republicans not to make Michelle Obama an issue in the election, claiming it would turn off independents.

This perplexes me, insofar as she would be First Lady she would be representing this country. Her opinions and views don't matter?

As for Loofah Man's position I recall he has been trying endlessly to get Obama on his program " for the folks". Guess that explains that.

re: #52 opnion

I have to agree with that. A Columnist writing today in the San Francisco Chronicle opined that Obama is a 'Light Worker"
He is a spirtual being that is not really one of us & will teach the world a new way of life!
What is going on?

That Lightworker bit is a few days old - might be the Chronicle is just now republishing that opinion piece from a few days back.

I'm not positive re what is going on, but I am positive about this: Barack Hussein Obama has never in his entire life done, said or written the first thing that makes him in any way the moral or intellectual superior of anyone, puts him in any position to teach anyone or, most importantly, qualifies him in any way at all to be the President of the United States of America. That he would even think that he is so qualified is pure hubris. And maybe a good old fashioned case of schizophrenia.

re: #75 Charles

Just a li'l test...

Duh Duh Duh ... Duuuummmmmmmmm.

re: #74 SusanL

My ex-husband was in the Air Force and my daughter was born in West Germany at Hahn AFB. Her birth certificate states that she is "an American Citizen born abroad".

If she were so inclined, I beleive she would qualify to run as POTUS, right?

I think that someone in power (hello Mr. McCain) needs to insist that Obambi produce proof that he is eligible to be president.

Yes.

re: #76 opnion

The really bizzare part is that it was not a letter to the editr , but a regular columnist.

It's not bizarre if in San Francisco.....

re: #75 Charles

Just a li'l test...

Damn
I didn't study

re: #61 Athos

I think the issue is less the news traveling and more the willingness to accept it.

'struth.

I work with the locals on the Arctic shores and they say their parents tell stories of previous warm/cold cycles, of times when the bears were like rabbits (big, man-eating rabbits, but you get the picture) and of times when they were scarce. Hell, the old-school Inuk hunted the same animals as the bears and needed the ice to access the seals too - they were pretty good observers of "climate change" and long before it became fashionable.

But what do they know - hell, they even wear FUR.

re: #72 opnion

Thats why the will be able to push all of the Infidels off of the planet.
Calling the 12th Imam

So, we have the biggest bus of all. The planet.......

re: #75 Charles

Just a li'l test...

We're sick of your little "testies"!

Wait, that came out all wrong.

re: #75 Charles

Just a li'l test...

Did we pass?

re: #40 NJDhockeyfan

USAfrica online has an interesting picture on it.

Somebody found that birth certificate.

re: #74 SusanL

I was told by some loons today that he doesn;t need to prove where he was born. Not important.

dude, I seriously Love Brit Hume. Only real newsman out there right now.

re: #74 SusanL

My ex-husband was in the Air Force and my daughter was born in West Germany at Hahn AFB. Her birth certificate states that she is "an American Citizen born abroad".

If she were so inclined, I beleive she would qualify to run as POTUS, right?

I think that someone in power (hello Mr. McCain) needs to insist that Obambi produce proof that he is eligible to be president.

Yes because she was born to American citizens in the Military serving abroad. When is she filing?

re: #76 opnion

The really bizzare part is that it was not a letter to the editr , but a regular columnist.fruitloop

re: #75 Charles

Just a li'l test...

Is a #3 pencil okay?

re: #77 Nevergiveup

Allah Praise?
//

Sorry to be so behind the times but what happened to the"report" option?

re: #83 LeftJustAintRight

Damn
I didn't study

That's why you need to review every day!

re: #56 unrealizedviewpoint

Imagine McCain saying something like that? They media would still be ranting on about it.

Rant? They would insure that the guys in white coats came and hauled him away!

Hope! Change!

re: #67 infidelia

Whoa... "Kenyan born?"!

They will walk that back, but it does make you wonder.

re: #76 opnion

The really bizzare part is that it was not a letter to the editr , but a regular columnist.

That's pretty much New Ager boilerplate kind of stuff. Next someone will claim he was an Indigo Child.

A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on
a tour.

Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by
plane.. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his
passport in his carry on.

'You have been to France before, monsieur?' the customs officer
asked sarcastically.

Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.

'Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.'

The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show
it.'

'Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on
arrival in France!'

The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
quietly explained. 'Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on
D-D ay in '44 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any
Frenchmen
to show it to.'

re: #74 SusanL

My ex-husband was in the Air Force and my daughter was born in West Germany at Hahn AFB. Her birth certificate states that she is "an American Citizen born abroad".

If she were so inclined, I beleive she would qualify to run as POTUS, right?

I think that someone in power (hello Mr. McCain) needs to insist that Obambi produce proof that he is eligible to be president.

I think it would be fun just because i might be so irritating to BHO. Anything to piss him off. Might even be good for his kids to know where daddy really came from

re: #95 paint-right

Sorry to be so behind the times but what happened to the"report" option?

The exclamation point is it now

Man goes for a ride on an airplane to take pictures, jumps from plane without a parachute while taking pictures of himself.

Video.

I had better go.

Catch y'all later

From the media bias file, the Senate Republican's attempt to open the outer shelf to oil exploration was shot down today by Democrats in committee. Neither CNN nor MSNBC bothered to report this on either their web home pages or business pages (FOX did).

But MSNBC did have this pearl of unbiased "journalism" via the AP:

WASHINGTON - Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming.

GOP senators shoved aside the Democratic proposal, arguing that punishing Big Oil won’t do a thing to lower the $4-a-gallon-price of gasoline that is sending economic waves across the country. High prices at the pump are threatening everything from summer vacations to Meals on Wheels deliveries to the elderly.

The Democratic energy package would have imposed a 25 percent tax on any “unreasonable” profits of the five largest U.S. oil companies, which together made $36 billion during the first three months of the year. It also would have given the government more power to address oil market speculation, opened the way for antitrust actions against countries belonging to the OPEC oil cartel, and made energy price gouging a federal crime.

re: #95 paint-right

Sorry to be so behind the times but what happened to the"report" option?

it's now the exclamation point icon.

re: #80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Duh Duh Duh ... Duuuummmmmmmmm.

Yeah, I got a sinister vibe from that too... planning some dexterous tricks, Charles?

re: #78 offendi

I was stuck in traffic today so I ended up listening to the Loofah Man's radio show. On it he warned fellow talking heads and republicans not to make Michelle Obama an issue in the election, claiming it would turn off independents.

This perplexes me, insofar as she would be First Lady she would be representing this country. Her opinions and views don't matter?

As for Loofah Man's position I recall he has been trying endlessly to get Obama on his program " for the folks". Guess that explains that.

The Obama campaign had been pushing this for some while now. More recently they have given Michelle O her very own campaign staff just like hubby's. I suspect to try to keep her mouth shut. First Lady material the gal is not.

re: #78 offendi

I like O'Reilly. Think he's pretty straight. Know that's not popular here, but it's the truth.

I agreen with him on this issue. Leave Mrs. O and Mrs. M out of it. Let the two slug it out without racist crap to muddy the picture any more than it is muddled.

She'll say a few more stupid things. But, don't give the independents reasons to run away from McCain in search of higher ground.

re: #79 galloping granny

That Lightworker bit is a few days old - might be the Chronicle is just now republishing that opinion piece from a few days back.

I'm not positive re what is going on, but I am positive about this: Barack Hussein Obama has never in his entire life done, said or written the first thing that makes him in any way the moral or intellectual superior of anyone, puts him in any position to teach anyone or, most importantly, qualifies him in any way at all to be the President of the United States of America. That he would even think that he is so qualified is pure hubris. And maybe a good old fashioned case of schizophrenia.

Would a celestial being vist Earth & Hook up with Reverend Wright?

re: #95 paint-right

Sorry to be so behind the times but what happened to the"report" option?

Gone. Nobody ever says anything in need of reporting anymore.

re: #95 paint-right

Sorry to be so behind the times but what happened to the"report" option?

That is the exclamation point next to the heart now.

re: #109 galloping granny

The Obama campaign had been pushing this for some while now. More recently they have given Michelle O her very own campaign staff just like hubby's. I suspect to try to keep her mouth shut. First Lady material the gal is not.

First, she has to be a lady...

re: #52 opnion

I have to agree with that. A Columnist writing today in the San Francisco Chronicle opined that Obama is a 'Light Worker"
He is a spirtual being that is not really one of us & will teach the world a new way of life!
What is going on?

I'm an "SP" - a suppressive person. One who criticizes Scientology.

re: #91 Nevergiveup

She isn't old enough, only 26. She would never pass muster with either side. Too independent, she thinks they are all crooks. But, she won't vote for Obama, she thinks he is crazy.

re: #114 goddessoftheclassroom

First, she has to be a lady...

Amen.

re: #104 NJDhockeyfan

Man goes for a ride on an airplane to take pictures, jumps from plane without a parachute while taking pictures of himself.

Video.

Shit, I hope he wasn't a registered Republican?

re: #111 opnion

Would a celestial being vist Earth & Hook up with Reverend Wright?

Perhaps. But if a celestial being visited earth and hooked up with Wright, I would know for sure that it was the wrong kind of celestial being and one that I wanted nothing to do with.

"By their fruit you will know them."

re: #68 varmint

am listening to the news. kucinich's bill got shot down. they would save a lot of time if they'd just keep the articles of impeachment on the top shelf where he couldn't reach.

Someone would only get a ladder for him and show him how to use it.

re: #21 Charles

Are there really people out there who care about Frank Luntz and his focus groups?

Less Frank Lutz, more Lionel Hutz.

re: #116 SusanL

She isn't old enough, only 26. She would never pass muster with either side. Too independent, she thinks they are all crooks. But, she won't vote for Obama, she thinks he is crazy.

As do all of my daughters - youngest is about the same age.