TWIRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.

re: #1 MandyManners

Well that's better than HURLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

What kind of cheese? Venezulean Beaver Cheese?

Perhaps they were cut short

Mummified Dinosaurs aside, is this a laughing matter?

We certainly have enough whine to go with that cheese.

Groove is in the Thread

Cheese Shop

Drinks up!

Repost.

A Nigerian couple who immigrated to Austin a decade ago thought they had finally made it in America. On May 7, they closed on their first home in the States, buying a $283,000 Cedar Park house that had been headed for foreclosure.

It seemed like a good deal to Bobo and Joy Dickson. They did everything right, they thought. They got a mortgage lender, signed the papers, had the title put in their name .

But on May 14, they came home from work at their janitorial services company to find that all their furniture, family heirlooms, personal photos, clothes, even their daughter's piggybank, had disappeared.

After filing a theft report with the Cedar Park Police Department, the Dicksons were given the news. In a mix-up over whether the home was still facing foreclosure, Field Asset Services was hired to drill open the doors and seize the belongings.

Last week, Bobo Dickson, who owns the janitorial services company, said the family felt "violated. ... My family has gone through a lot, especially the kids, (who are 7 and 3). I don't have an answer to give them that would comfort them."

Cedar Park police officials said Field Asset Services told them that it carried out orders from a mortgage firm and that the Dicksons' belongings had been donated to area thrift shops. But a search of such shops turned up nothing.

SNIP

I chanced upon a chance to please
when chance served up a piece of cheese
by chance, it pleased
but then I sneezed
and had no chance to sneeze the cheese.

/famous lady poetess, Ima Pote

WHO CUT THE CHEESE

Thank G-d.

re: #12 yochanan

Stinking Bishop!

Hmmm, Logan's Run or Zardoz? Which to watch?

re: #10 MandyManners

And I thought I had "issues"!

THE LINE ON THE LEFT IS FOR GOV'T CHEESE

re: #10 MandyManners

That is just horrible. Those poor people. Hopefully, someone in their vicinity will be generous and hospitable.

re: #17 yochanan Of course the line is on the Left - Lefty only wants free stuff! (h/t Desert Sage)

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Logan's Run. Gotta be stoned to watch Zardoz!

re: #16 LoFlyer

And I thought I had "issues"!

I hope this story stays around for a long time and that people reach out to this hard-working immigrant couple that pursued the American dream only to see it turn into a nightmare.

Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own

Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.

“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.

With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.

The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.

Jeff Strabone of Brooklyn now signs credit card receipts with his newly assumed middle name, while Dan O’Maley of Washington, D.C., jiggered his e-mail account so his name would appear as “D. Hussein O’Maley.” Alex Enderle made the switch online along with several other Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, and now friends greet him that way in person, too.

CHANGE!

When I was in Paris a few years ago I met up with an old family friend who showed me around the markets. At one of the cheese stalls she picked up a chunk of cheese and sniffed it. She held it out to me and said, "It smells like the feet of angels."
That's as close to cheese poetry I can muster.

re: #18 hermeneutics

That is just horrible. Those poor people. Hopefully, someone in their vicinity will be generous and hospitable.

I hope those responsible get the shit sued out of them.

How you wanna' bet that those who cleared out the house stole the good stuff and that's why it cannot be found in charity shops?

re: #20 Macker

Logan's Run. Gotta be stoned to watch Zardoz!

More boobs in Zardoz.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

re: #12 yochanan

WHO CUT THE CHEESE

Silent, but deadly!

There is no cheese haiku?

re: #17 yochanan

THE LINE ON THE LEFT IS FOR GOV'T CHEESE

I'll have the welfare cheese on rye.

re: #22 NJDhockeyfan

Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own

CHANGE!

Her middle name is "Stupid" in my book.

re: #28 CyanSnowHawk

I'll have the welfare cheese on rye.

Can I have some corned beef on mine?

re: #10 MandyManners

Repost.

A Nigerian couple who immigrated to Austin a decade ago thought they had finally made it in America. On May 7, they closed on their first home in the States, buying a $283,000 Cedar Park house that had been headed for foreclosure.

It seemed like a good deal to Bobo and Joy Dickson. They did everything right, they thought. They got a mortgage lender, signed the papers, had the title put in their name .

But on May 14, they came home from work at their janitorial services company to find that all their furniture, family heirlooms, personal photos, clothes, even their daughter's piggybank, had disappeared.

After filing a theft report with the Cedar Park Police Department, the Dicksons were given the news. In a mix-up over whether the home was still facing foreclosure, Field Asset Services was hired to drill open the doors and seize the belongings.

Last week, Bobo Dickson, who owns the janitorial services company, said the family felt "violated. ... My family has gone through a lot, especially the kids, (who are 7 and 3). I don't have an answer to give them that would comfort them."

Cedar Park police officials said Field Asset Services told them that it carried out orders from a mortgage firm and that the Dicksons' belongings had been donated to area thrift shops. But a search of such shops turned up nothing.

SNIP

Nice folks there at field asses services. Grand theft is grand theft, the question is, who gets the bill in civil court?

re: #3 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Venezulean Beaver Cheese?

/that's conjuring up a pretty disgusting mental image using any definition of beaver

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Hmmm, Logan's Run or Zardoz? Which to watch?

Just finished Goodfellas.

"You think I'm funny? Funny how? You think I'm a clown?"

re: #3 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

What kind of cheese? Venezulean Beaver Cheese?

Dare I ask?

(Also, why did I get "logged off" by switching from the last thread to this one... weird.)

re: #29 MandyManners

Only one thing left for them to do:
أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله

re: #27 Sharmuta

python cheese sketch lives on
sniffing paris angel feet
wensleydale anyone?

How do you get on welfare anyway? I am really getting tired of the cute chicks, better dressed than I, and driving BMW's using WIC cards at the grocery store.....

re: #10 MandyManners
Hey Mandy - in your link, the EMC Mortgage Corp - the one's responsible for the "mix-up" said they'd make it up to the Dicksons with monetary damages.
But the Dicksons had discovered that: "all their furniture, family heirlooms, personal photos, clothes, even their daughter's piggybank, had disappeared."
How the hell are the Dicksons supposed to put a dollar value on family heirlooms, photographs and the like, much less erase the feelings of being violated when their property was illegally seized and stolen from them? And where the fuck is their property?
This is an extremely upsetting story and I hope EMC gets kicked in the nuts - literally speaking - by the court.

Ah. Venezuelan Beaver Cheese

re: #32 Killian Bundy

/that's conjuring up a pretty disgusting mental image using any definition of beaver

Cindy Sheehan comes to mind

re: #22 NJDhockeyfan

ohfortheloveofpete.

re: #22 NJDhockeyfan

Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own

CHANGE!

The Obam,a blog is chock full of posters with "Hussein" as a middle name. We pointed that out here a while back. Hey everyone Look at me! I'm Mich-Hussein-again. Woo hoo!

What a bunch of dumbasses.

Remember, blessed are the cheesemakers.

Well, praise be to Bacchus and Priapus (two of my favoritest pagan gods) that the open thread is open. It's kind of eerie, to me, that the Chesterton quote references "cheese," though... considering my recent, bird-flipping departure from Discarded Lies, where "cheese" is a frequent in-joke and from time to time even a thread topic.

re: #34 Occasional Reader

Dare I ask?

(Also, why did I get "logged off" by switching from the last thread to this one... weird.)

Monty Python, see #8

And happens to me all the time, I have to log into almost every thread seperately.

And I went with Zardoz

re: #36 jaunte

Nice!

Please, this is the New America with the open borders. Call it by it's proper name : Queso

Just to be clear...

The Hanson Brothers will never change their names.

Very sleepy suddenly. Nighty-night, Lizards.

Next time we hear about police brutality, think about this as a relativity common type of behavior in Russia. Actually, it is somewhat funny, but at the same time, what a dick.

re: #26 solomonpanting

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Silent, but deadly!

Naw, you're going deaf.

re: #34 Occasional Reader Same thing happens to me when I use the thread link at the upper right side of the page, but not at the lower right side of the page just above the comment section.
And I don't know why, either.

re: #43 Kosh's Shadow

Remember, blessed are the cheesemakers.

Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.

Good nighty, Mandy

re: #49 MandyManners

Very sleepy suddenly. Nighty-night, Lizards.

Sleep tight, Mandy!

Good night, Mandy!

The mouse loves his cheese
Swiss, Munster and Brie will do
Cheddar is better

re: #49 MandyManners

g'night

Dammit. Where's my Cheesey Poofs?

This explains part of it...

“I am sick of Republicans pronouncing Barack Obama’s name like it was some sort of cuss word,” Mr. Strabone wrote in a manifesto titled “We Are All Hussein” that he posted on his own blog and on dailykos.com.

heh.

re: #49 MandyManners

Weet dreams!

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Hmmm, Logan's Run or Zardoz? Which to watch?

For weirdness and nudity go with Zardoz.

re: #60 NJDhockeyfan

This explains part of it...

we are all Hussein .

Love,
Saddam

re: #62 The Other Les

For weirdness and nudity go with Zardoz.

Nudity won!

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

EVEN arabs can be good people like those who saved jews in europe.

re: #51 JeremyR

Naw, you're going deaf.

That's what my wife tells me, when I hear her.
:)

re: #20 Macker

Logan's Run. Gotta be stoned to watch Zardoz!

I wasn't.

But then I usually have jobs that require drug testing...

re: #48 NJDhockeyfan

Damn you all to hell!

/I just went to post that

Obama plays word association game in TV interview

My word:

Bus

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

25 years ago, a friend of mine whipped out that welfare cheese line when we were playing a wargame (OGRE/GEV). Everybody in the room lost it, and one did the spit-take to end all spit-takes. The little cardboard counters floated gracefully away across the map on a river of Hawaiian Punch.

Have a great night every one

re: #45 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Monty Python, see #8

And happens to me all the time, I have to log into almost every thread seperately.

And I went with Zardoz

I think the ending is prescient of the Caliphate overrunning decadent Europe..

re: #69 SasquatchOnSteroids

Obama plays word association game in TV interview

My word:

Bus

Soros l Daddy

re: #66 solomonpanting

That's what my wife tells me, when I hear her.
:)

Mine doesn't talk to me any more, just pantomines then walks off in a huff.

re: #52 realwest

Oh! I nearly forgot! Earlier today Typicalwhitey asked any lizards on the night shift to say hello to you from him! Soooo:
HELLO TO YOU !......from Typicalwhitey

re: #69 SasquatchOnSteroids

Obama plays word association game in TV interview

My word:

Bus

Mine: "grandma"

re: #73 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

yep, that's a good one.

Attn: Foodies
If you like cheese but are disappointed with the selection of Kraft Singles and bland Swiss at your local market I suggest you check out Irish Dubliner. It's pretty widely available and reasonably priced.

re: #60 NJDhockeyfan Hey there! Um, wasn't there a guy who's name was also Hussein who was a dictator in some ME country and committed Genocide against his own citizens, invaded a neighboring country and then got his ass roundly kicked by the US - and Coalition
forces and ultimately wound up swinging from a rope around his neck?

Wonder if that's not the real Hussein who's name their taking? Change? Hope? Anything and push anyone under the bus just for the chance to get power....hmmmmmmmmmm.
Well, I guess that means we can now all refer to him as Barack Hussein Obama!

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Nudity won!

But, but... Jenny Agutter!

re: #76 Occasional Reader

Mine: "grandma"

I think that's the answer to my word.

re: #74 JeremyR

Mine doesn't talk to me any more, just pantomines then walks off in a huff.

Now that speaks volumes.

re: #70 CyanSnowHawk

25 years ago, a friend of mine whipped out that welfare cheese line when we were playing a wargame (OGRE/GEV). Everybody in the room lost it, and one did the spit-take to end all spit-takes. The little cardboard counters floated gracefully away across the map on a river of Hawaiian Punch.

Groan.

(Still have my original Orge/GEV sets.)

re: #44 Throbert McGee

considering my recent, bird-flipping departure from...

We have all had bird flipping departures before. Some of us every day on the road. Not me of course, I'm the guy grooving to Electric Six in the slow lane going the speed limit wondering why everyone in the other lanes are in such a hurry.

re: #79 realwest

Hey there! Um, wasn't there a guy who's name was also Hussein who was a dictator in some ME country and committed Genocide against his own citizens, invaded a neighboring country and then got his ass roundly kicked by the US - and Coalition
forces and ultimately wound up swinging from a rope around his neck?

Wonder if that's not the real Hussein who's name their taking? Change? Hope? Anything and push anyone under the bus just for the chance to get power....hmmmmmmmmmm.
Well, I guess that means we can now all refer to him as Barack Hussein Obama!

I got a job today and I did not put 'Hussein' on the application.

re: #65 yochanan

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

EVEN arabs can be good people like those who saved jews in europe.

Yes. A brave and wise man. God bless him.

re: #22 NJDhockeyfan

Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
CHANGE!

I'm telling y'all, BHO is fast becoming the Ron Paul of the left. The Crazies and The Stupids are flocking to him like sheep. He has become the Messiah of The Dumb.

re: #80 CyanSnowHawk

But, but... Jenny Agutter!

It was a close one, but Charlotte Rampling came out slightly ahead tonight.

putting up NO/ bama stickers in chi town wonder how long they will stay up

re: #71 winston06

Have a great night every one

Thanks, winston! You too!

re: #78 Killgore Trout

but are disappointed with the selection of Kraft Singles and bland Swiss at your local market

Eh? I have a stunning variety of cheeses available within a one mile radius of my home. You could call where I live... Cheesesland.

re: #80 CyanSnowHawk

My 16 year old son has absconded with my copy of Logan's Run, and won't admit it.

Here are two pages of pics from last weekend's Solstice Parade in Santa Barbara, California (of course).

As proof of our existence in a divine comedy, maybe?

Santa Barbara Solstice Parade 2008

re: #75 wolfie Why thank you wolfie, that's most kind of you!

Vote for me and you can have all the cheese you need for free.

re: #85 NJDhockeyfan
HEY! That's great news! Who is the job with - is it BoA? Whatcha gonna do in the new job? That really is GREAT NEWS!
Mazel Tov!

re: #88 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

It was a close one, but Charlotte Rampling came out slightly ahead tonight.

Thoughts For The Day

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[Link: lesbates.blogspot.com...]

re: #95 Lightworker

Vote for me and you can have all the cheese you need for free.

Love the jacket.

re: #91 Occasional Reader

Eh? I have a stunning variety of cheeses available within a one mile radius of my home. You could call where I live... Cheesesland.

Wisconsin?

re: #93 slokat

The world's largest tin foil hat?

re: #82 solomonpanting

Now that speaks volumes.

I've found a good reply to her antics is to shout "Hey, I'm not deaf yet". that usually gets me the bird.

re: #78 Killgore Trout
I buy Kraft singles for my neighbors dog.

re: #78 Killgore Trout

Attn: Foodies
If you like cheese but are disappointed with the selection of Kraft Singles and bland Swiss at your local market I suggest you check out Irish Dubliner. It's pretty widely available and reasonably priced.

Oh yes, that is some tasty cheese. It's so yeasty and bready it tastes almost like beer (which is somehow appropriate for an Irish cheese!).

The cats like it, also. The first time I ate it they actually stalked me.

re: #91 Occasional Reader

Most of the mainstream have a terrible selection of cheeses. I think it's just the American pallet. Here in Oregon, Tillamook is revered for it's cheese but it's just crappy American Cheese and bland Swiss.

re: #92 jaunte

My 16 year old son has absconded with my copy of Logan's Run, and won't admit it.

Tell him stalk actresses his own age.

I still got a crush on Brook Shields.

re: #98 SasquatchOnSteroids
Thanks, dry clean is a bitch though.

re: #93 slokat

Fantastic!

Hmmmm......a cowboy and a devil? Bush and Cheney !

Someday a tourist from another planet (not necessarily an alien) with come to Earth looking for the town of Cheeseburg, the legendary home of the cheeseburger.

re: #96 realwest

HEY! That's great news! Who is the job with - is it BoA? Whatcha gonna do in the new job? That really is GREAT NEWS!
Mazel Tov!

Thanks! No BoA. They haven't even interviewed me yet. I'm supposed to have a 30 minute interview over the phone Wednesday. I'm going to tell them they took too long.

Two of my mortgage clients work at one of the biggest car dealerships in the area. They bragged about me at the manager's meeting yesterday then called me and said I was hired as soon as I walked in the door. Now I'm a car salesman.

:)

re: #103 Pawn of the Oppressor

One of my favorite meals is Dubliner cheese, wine, baguette, and fresh figs. A little Patte and it's a real plowman's lunch.

re: #44 Throbert McGee

What happened with the DL crowd? I haven't been around much lately, so I'm sorry if you've already explained. Maybe you could link to an earlier comment where you tell the story.

And what was up with some of them wanting somebody (can't remember who) to sue Charles? (Lawrence Auster maybe?)

re: #109 NJDhockeyfan
A car salesman? New or "Previously Owned?" And the brand of car you sell is.................?!?

Hankerin'

re: #104 Killgore Trout

not the extra sharp cheddar!

The Lizard Lounge is a bitch tonight, it wants to open in the same window as the LGF bog.

Open the lounge in a new browser window, and prepare to be prepared.

re: #101 JeremyR

I've found a good reply to her antics is to shout "Hey, I'm not deaf yet". that usually gets me the bird.

Ahhh! To be young and in love.....

Sounbd like WWIII outside, the Countrary stampeders are shooting a few fireworks.

why would cheese have a halal label?

It's not FAS' first time to remove things from a private home by mistake.

[Link: www.corank.com...]

Good night for sure.

Oh, Kilgore, don't you want some arugula with that pate'?

what the hell is arugula?

re: #110 Killgore Trout

One of my favorite meals is Dubliner cheese, wine, baguette, and fresh figs. A little Patte and it's a real plowman's lunch.

Do you follow proper etiquette and raise your pinkies on both hands when you eat that, dude? ;)

re: #123 yochanan

what the hell is arugula?

I think it's fancy lettuce.

re: #118 solomonpanting

Ahhh! To be young and in love.....

No kidding! my wife and I total 96 years.

"Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge."

Really? She has never met a Muslim? She met 19 Muslims on 9/11/2001. She saw on the TV how Muslims danced and rejoiced and passed out candy. She has most likely watched videos of Muslims shouting 'allahu akbar' as they chopped off heads. She has seen Muslim women dressed in black sheets, faceless, sexless, invisible. She's heard of mommy's little mujahid from Orange County.

If she takes the time to find out, she'll discover that Islam prohibits Muslims from being friends with her, but authorizes Muslims to cut off her head if she refuses to convert to Islam or pay jizya.

Here's another good reason not to vote for Barack Obama: morons like Emily may decide to convert to Islam out of support for Obamessiah. We know what recent converts to Islam have done; the last thing we need is a bunch of Obamite converts running around chopping off heads and blowing people up. Dems are unstable enough as it is.

re: #123 yochanan It's a weed with aspirations!

re: #107 wolfie

you must have clicked through to my page 4 placeholder?

I'm afraid I don't like what LGF is becoming. It appears that it is turning into a more anti-Christian site than Kos, Fark, or SlashDot. It looks to me that every other article is about how evolution is true, therefor Christians are wrong, and "Evil Christians want to teach our kids The Bible!".

First, nearly all Christians believe evolution, so you're posting 25% of your articles to hammer .1% of Christians (but offending a much larger percentage!)

Next, the excuse that certain laws MAY be used to teach kids religion is the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT that libs use when they say "The PATRIOT Act MIGHT be used to take away our rights, so it must be thrown out." Both arguments are equally wrong as they are the same argument. Of course, the correct response is to wait until a law is abused before going against it and you punish the abuses to the fullest extent of the law. Then you fix whatever loophole allowed the abuse. Any law can be abused, but that doesn't mean that all laws should be overturned.

Maybe I should turn in my Little Green Card and call it a day. If I wanted to be called a "Flat-Earther" for going to church on Sunday morning, I could post on slashdot. I don't expect that kind of uncalled-for, untrue, and bigoted attack coming from people I thought were on my side.

I'm going to bed now. Good night all.

O.K # 123, it's the fancy stuff Obama was complaining about that was so expensive at Whole Foods, to those gun toting Religion clinging yokels. It's some sort of lettuce. Sorry I can't spell it right.

re: #112 realwest

A car salesman? New or "Previously Owned?" And the brand of car you sell is.................?!?

Toyota. The worst salesmen there make $60k. I know I'm capable of making much more. I want to bring mom home from work and this seems like the right place to do it.

I got concerned about BoA when I read this yesterday.

re: #104 Killgore Trout

I think it's just the American pallet

The pallet the cheese was delivered on?

And as for the American palate, the French (for instance) have been worried about being overtaken by American cuisine for a good quarter century now.

re: #89 yochanan

Good luck with that.

Chicagoan m'self. When I'm in a crowd of libs, I pretend I'm on my cell phone, and I say to my straw man "Are you kidding? That dude is dumber than Barack Obama". The gasps are deafening.

re: #124 Cartman Hey my friend, how are you doing tonight?
*cough* e-mail *cough*

re: #126 JeremyR

No kidding! my wife and I total 96 years.

What?! You're 76 and your wife is 20? You craddle-robber, you.

re: #131 ArcherB

Well, your 344 posts willl be sorely missed.

re: #131 ArcherB

If I wanted to be called a "Flat-Earther" for going to church on Sunday morning

If you can find a place where Charles Johnson has done that, I will mail you a $100 bill.

re: #128 carray

"Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge."

Really? She has never met a Muslim? She met 19 Muslims on 9/11/2001. She saw on the TV how Muslims danced and rejoiced and passed out candy. She has most likely watched videos of Muslims shouting 'allahu akbar' as they chopped off heads. She has seen Muslim women dressed in black sheets, faceless, sexless, invisible. She's heard of mommy's little mujahid from Orange County.

If she takes the time to find out, she'll discover that Islam prohibits Muslims from being friends with her, but authorizes Muslims to cut off her head if she refuses to convert to Islam or pay jizya.

Here's another good reason not to vote for Barack Obama: morons like Emily may decide to convert to Islam out of support for Obamessiah. We know what recent converts to Islam have done; the last thing we need is a bunch of Obamite converts running around chopping off heads and blowing people up. Dems are unstable enough as it is.

That could result in walking Obama dynamite.

I THINK that I shall never sees
A poem lovely as cheese.

re: #130 slokat

you must have clicked through to my page 4 placeholder?

Yes, I did!
Great stuff! Colorful, to say the least!

re: #20 Macker

Logan's Run. Gotta be stoned to watch Zardoz!

Even being stoned doesn't help.

re: #124 Cartman

Nope , I pick the figs off the tree out front, eat with my hands, and rinse off with the hose before I go back in the house.

re: #131 ArcherB

I'm afraid I don't like what LGF is becoming. It appears that it is turning into a more anti-Christian site than Kos, Fark, or SlashDot. It looks to me that every other article is about how evolution is true, therefor Christians are wrong, and "Evil Christians want to teach our kids The Bible!".

Dude - Where did this come from? You're on the wrong thread.

I've seen numerous accusations that there is an "anti-Christian" bent on some of the threads, but very little real faith-bashing at all.

No one said Christians are wrong.

But many of us do not want public school teachers teaching some version of Christianity or any other faith during science classes.

That's it in a nutshell.

re: #123 yochanan

what the hell is arugula?

It's a variation of the Yahtze, which as we all know, is a Russian Tank.

re: #121 MandyManners

re: #110 Killgore Trout

You guys are STILL here ? You were here when I left work an hour ago !

(oh,, wait,,, I was here then too, and now I'm here AGAIN ,,, umm,, nevahmind)

[Link: www.bartleby.com...]

A SLAVE named Androcles once escaped from his master and fled to the forest. As he was wandering about there he came upon a Lion lying down moaning and groaning. At first he turned to flee, but finding that the Lion did not pursue him, he turned back and went up to him. As he came near, the Lion put out his paw, which was all swollen and bleeding, and Androcles found that a huge thorn had got into it, and was causing all the pain. He pulled out the thorn and bound up the paw of the Lion, who was soon able to rise and lick the hand of Androcles like a dog. Then the Lion took Androcles to his cave, and every day used to bring him meat from which to live. But shortly afterwards both Androcles and the Lion were captured, and the slave was sentenced to be thrown to the Lion, after the latter had been kept without food for several days. The Emperor and all his Court came to see the spectacle, and Androcles was led out into the middle of the arena. Soon the Lion was let loose from his den, and rushed bounding and roaring towards his victim. But as soon as he came near to Androcles he recognised his friend, and fawned upon him, and licked his hands like a friendly dog. The Emperor, surprised at this, summoned Androcles to him, who told him the whole story. Whereupon the slave was pardoned and freed, and the Lion let loose to his native forest.
“GRATITUDE IS THE SIGN OF NOBLE SOULS.”

re: #137 realwest

LOL. I know, I know! I am the biggest POS when it comes to e-mail, R-Dubs! I've had better days, but just happy to be here, my friend. You?

re: #138 solomonpanting

What?! You're 76 and your wife is 20? You craddle-robber, you.

LOL! I go for sixteen year olds!

Archer, please stay. None here are anti-Christian.Far from it. The intelligent design theory is a tough one.I'm not sure myself where to go with it. You are among friends.

re: #133 NJDhockeyfan
Ah yeah, I read that too - though apparently the overwhelming majority of job cuts will be on the Country-wide side of things!
I actually wondered if that news was gonna affect your interview - but apparently not. Have you thought at all about at least seeing what BoA has to say/offer? I only ask cause I've got two friends who are car salesman and both make between $75k and $90k a year, but they don't get any benefits - no health insurance, life insurance, paid vacations and stuff.

re: #123 yochanan

what the hell is arugula?

it is a tasty spicy salad green. it fell out of favor yrs. ago but was 'rediscovered' by the elitist food eaters in the '80's and now is the must have ingredient in a sald.
it is easy to grow and makes in a afew wks of planting. i grow it and love it. tho i do put it in the specialty greens area of the garden so the lettuce won't get an inferiority complex.
it is quite hardy and can winter over in mild climates and will reseed itself.
i am annoyed that jerks like b.o. and jon cary have 'cabbaged' onto to arugula. forget them. just eat it and enjoy it,

re: #145 Killgore Trout

Nope , I pick the figs off the tree out front, eat with my hands, and rinse off with the hose before I go back in the house.

Good man. I was gettin' worried about ya there for a minute.

re: #126 JeremyR

No kidding! my wife and I total 96 years.

I told my wife (who is 52) that when she hits 100, I'm trading her in for 5 - 20's

re: #140 Occasional Reader

If you can find a place where Charles Johnson has done that, I will mail you a $100 bill.

Perhaps he was refering to various commenters?

re: #151 JeremyR

LOL! I go for sixteen year olds!

Ruh-roh.

re: #131 ArcherB

First, nearly all Christians believe evolution

I think you're misinformed. Maybe Killgore can put up some links, but since you've gone to bed, I doubt it's necessary. As to the rest of your post- I think you're looking to be a victim, frankly. None of that has occurred.

re: #155 Cartman

I'm simple, not fancy, just different.

*sigh*

[Link: www.bartleby.com...]
ONCE when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. “Pardon, O King,” cried the little Mouse: “forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?” The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him, that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, and the hunters, who desired to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a waggon to carry him on. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight in which the Lion was, sent up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bound the King of the Beasts. “Was I not right?” said the little Mouse.
“LITTLE FRIENDS MAY PROVE GREAT FRIENDS.”

re: #161 Sharmuta

*sigh*

remodeling?

Saudis pour billions into 'City of Knowledge' on holy site

The KEC project's backers hope that Medina's rich past will attract Muslim scientists as well as companies wanting to do business with the Arab and Muslim world, bolstering development on all fronts.

Okey dokey.

re: #130 slokat

Hey. Are you from Santa Barbara? Is UC Santa B a whacko place?
My daughter has reason to at least consider it for college....(full ride, long story.)
Not likely, since it's on the other side of the country, but...................

re: #44 Throbert McGee

Well, praise be to Bacchus and Priapus (two of my favoritest pagan gods) .

Gods? Or indulgences? Or am I making a distinction without a difference?

re: #156 sattv4u2

I told my wife (who is 52) that when she hits 100, I'm trading her in for 5 - 20's

LOL. I'm still doing better then my dad, Mom is 88, and I'm her youngest. What does that make him if I'm 80?

re: #93 slokat

I loved the images, Slo. Thanks for showing them to us!

Sorta a hybrid of pagan mystery religion and Mardi Gras (once Christian, but no more.) Truly bizarre.

Good night, folks.

re: #131 ArcherB

I'm afraid I don't like what LGF is becoming. It appears that it is turning into a more anti-Christian site than Kos, Fark, or SlashDot....

[snip]

....First, nearly all Christians believe evolution, so you're posting 25% of your articles to hammer .1% of Christians....

Bzzzzt! Logic failure! Logic failure! Abort whining! Abort whining!

re: #161 Sharmuta

*sigh*

laughing out loud.

re: #158 solomonpanting

Ruh-roh.

See my 167, besides, they are legal here, and not tired old bar flies.

Actually, my wife comes from a family of cradle robbing women.

Charles!
Tisk tisk!
I find your use of a dash next to the name of the person the quote is attributed to to be an insult to mine (and other readers) intelligence! It quite surely is a result of the Communist hegemony's influence upon typography!

re: #153 realwest

Ah yeah, I read that too - though apparently the overwhelming majority of job cuts will be on the Country-wide side of things!
I actually wondered if that news was gonna affect your interview - but apparently not. Have you thought at all about at least seeing what BoA has to say/offer? I only ask cause I've got two friends who are car salesman and both make between $75k and $90k a year, but they don't get any benefits - no health insurance, life insurance, paid vacations and stuff.

This place has all those benefits and more. The owner is great. On top of the commissions he has quarterly competitions. The last one has 9 salesman going to Cancun in October. This quarter he's giving away $5000 watches.

re: #167 JeremyR

LOL. I'm still doing better then my dad, Mom is 88, and I'm her youngest. What does that make him if I'm 80?

puts you into the Guiness Book of World Records

You're 80, your Mom is 88, you were concieved when your Mom was 7 !?!?!?!?!

Wolfie, I am a Californian, Santa Barbara is one of the most liberal, places in Ca. If your daughter has any other place to go, do it.Private is better. That being said it isn't the worst State University. Probably UC Santa Cruz. Santa Barbara is an extremely wealthy liberal area. At least it's safer.

re: #135 Occasional Reader Oh, I'm ROTFLMAO here! I guess I have rather pedestrian taste in foods but wth is
this (from your link):

"At the same time the United States was snubbed when American chefs--who walked off with most of the top awards at the last two international Culinary Olympics--were excluded from a three-day conference called "The World's First Gastronomic Summit Meeting." The reason, explained organizer Henri Gault, a French food critic who last year lost a libel suit to a New York restaurant, was that the United States has a "less important" cuisine than such "top-rated" countries as France, Italy and China have."
International Culinary Olympics?!? What?
I think the French, as usual, are relying too much on a reputation that may have been desereved a few generations ago, but not now - just as with French wines.
But thanks for the informative article and the laughs!

re: #174 sattv4u2

puts you into the Guiness Book of World Records

You're 80, your Mom is 88, you were concieved when your Mom was 7 !?!?!?!?!

No, she was 41, I just didn't age as well as she has.

re: #8 Killgore Trout

Cheese Shop

KT - I can't believe you came up with that one in only 8. Classic!

The Aussie Sleeps Tonight

Falstaff : Heavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!

-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, Scene V

/take that, G.K.C. !

re: #131 ArcherB

I'm afraid I don't like what LGF is becoming. It appears that it is turning into a more anti-Christian site than Kos, Fark, or SlashDot. It looks to me that every other article is about how evolution is true, therefor Christians are wrong, and "Evil Christians want to teach our kids The Bible!"..

Most of us anti-religion people aren't against Christianity. I recognize it, even without divinity, to be the best of the bunch. Though, I don't want anyone teaching my son things that require faith when evidence and reason will do.

First, nearly all Christians believe evolution, so you're posting 25% of your articles to hammer .1% of Christians (but offending a much larger percentage!)

That .1% is pretty damn vocal. And again, I apologize if I offend a perfectly reasonable christian. I think those agnostics and atheists who go out of their way to offend the faithful are perhaps a little jealous.

Maybe I should turn in my Little Green Card and call it a day. If I wanted to be called a "Flat-Earther" for going to church on Sunday morning, I could post on slashdot. I don't expect that kind of uncalled-for, untrue, and bigoted attack coming from people I thought were on my side.

I'm going to bed now. Good night all.

Good night, and so far nobody has been called names for being religious. Although I have been known to vehemently frown towards literalists.

re: #150 Cartman I'm doing ok, but would sure like to get an e-mail from ya!

How are you doing tonight realwest?

re: #134 ploome hineni

i understand the problem of gelitin being from animal product such as pork, but muslims can have milk and meat together. so i wondered about halal on dairy.

i used to work in a kosher butcher shop and we did have some moderate muslims who bought from us. and they would buy kosher marshmellows as well.

re: #175 nigella

Thanks! I was afraid that might be true.....both the affluence and the leftism, a distressing combination.

re: #61 Sharmuta

I'm sophmorishly waiting for you to have a typo when saying that.

re: #165 wolfie

I'm from San Luis Obispo, but have done a lot of work in SB over the years. The university is solid, but it's right on the beach, so it attracts a good share of party students.

re: #173 NJDhockeyfan

This quarter he's giving away $5000 watches.

I would be very interesting in getting one. Assuming I could turn around and hock it, quickly.

(What do $5000 watches DO, again?)

re: #188 Occasional Reader

I would be very interesting in getting one. Assuming I could turn around and hock it, quickly.

(What do $5000 watches DO, again?)

Same thing a $20 dollar watch does.

re: #165 wolfie

Hey. Are you from Santa Barbara? Is UC Santa B a whacko place?
My daughter has reason to at least consider it for college....(full ride, long story.)
Not likely, since it's on the other side of the country, but...................

Wolfie,
Think twice about letting your girl go to UCSB. Its a beautiful campus in a nice area and has a few good programs worth pursuing (music), but it will be a huge stretch for a homeschooled, Christian girl. Having said that, I sent my daugher to Pepperdine (south of UCSB in Malibu) and, in spite of the gross materialism and valley talk, she's getting a great education.

re: #186 Dan G.

I'm sophmorishly waiting for you to have a typo when saying that.

Actually, that's how it all started, many moons ago.

i frankly don't give a hoot about I.D. the whole subject will not effect me at all.

i choose for personal reasons not to debate religion.

To be fair to Cabot, if they were going for a Kosher label, they were probably at least 90 percent of the way to a Halal label. Many mass-market foods that go for the Kosher label go for Halal as well, because the requirements are extremely similar.

re: #189 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Same thing a $20 dollar watch does.

I probably wouldn't wear a $5000 watch. I'd be too afraid of breaking it.

re: #183 Typicalwhitey
Hey hi! Wolfie was kind enough to pass along your message to me earlier! I'm doing ok, though getting ready for bed soon! How are you doing this evening?

re: #193 RememberSekhmet?

kosher is stricter than halal

re: #182 realwest

Working on it as we speak.

re: #163 sattv4u2

remodeling?

head, meet wall. The best part about banging your head against a brick wall is when you stop.

Wolfie, you're welcome. I have friends who had kids attend there, and also have friends living there. I guess it isn't the worst re- liberalism, and coming to California isn't all that bad. I would suggest Santa Clara University(Catholic) or even St Mary's College. My daughter attended St. Mary's and it was great. I'm sure there are many others.

re: #190 hermeneutics

Wolfie,
Think twice about letting your girl go to UCSB. Its a beautiful campus in a nice area and has a few good programs worth pursuing (music), but it will be a huge stretch for a homeschooled, Christian girl. Having said that, I sent my daugher to Pepperdine (south of UCSB in Malibu) and, in spite of the gross materialism and valley talk, she's getting a great education.

My best friend (best man) and also BIL went to UCSB. Party reputation definitely earned but also good engineering and marine science programs.

re: #192 yochanan

i frankly don't give a hoot about I.D. the whole subject will not effect me at all.

i choose for personal reasons not to debate religion.

The whole point of this blog is to debate a certain religion, and whether its radical adherents are retarded, mad, or both.

re: #187 slokat

I'm from San Luis Obispo, but have done a lot of work in SB over the years. The university is solid, but it's right on the beach, so it attracts a good share of party students.

Aaah! I should have thought of that! (We have the brochures showing the campus etc and it does look beautiful!)
Hmmmm.......so far we've got partying, big bucks, and moonbats!

re: #194 NJDhockeyfan

I probably wouldn't wear a $5000 watch. I'd be too afraid of breaking it.

I can think of better uses for $5000 bucks. Hell, I havent even owned a watch for the last 10 years.

re: #192 yochanan

i frankly don't give a hoot about I.D. the whole subject will not effect me at all.

ID is important sometimes. My 24 y/o son and I were in a bar a few nights ago, and they wouldn't let him drink because he didn't have his ID.

i bet velveeta is halal

re: #193 RememberSekhmet?

To be fair to Cabot, if they were going for a Kosher label, they were probably at least 90 percent of the way to a Halal label. Many mass-market foods that go for the Kosher label go for Halal as well, because the requirements are extremely similar.

Halal is kosher for hate groupies.

re: #202 wolfie

so far we've got partying, big bucks, and moonbats!

And very good science programs.

Wolfie, Pepperdine is an grea tchoice. Ken Starr was the head there. Not sure if he still is. My Daughters best friend attended Pepperdine. Great school.

re: #196 yochanan

Right, so if you are already going for kosher, may as well pick up halal while you're at it.

re: #201 JeremyR

the problem with islam is the jihadist terrorists, sufi muslims for the most part don't belive in violent jihad.

without the terrorism i personly could careless about islam.

PIMF: great

Who Moved My Cheese?

Allegorical, Who Moved My Cheese? features four characters; two mice, "Sniff" and "Scurry", and two little people, miniature humans in essence, "Hem" and "Haw", live in a maze, a representation of one's environment, and look for cheese, representative of happiness and success. Initially without cheese, each group, the mice and humans paired off, travel the lengthy corridor searching for cheese. One day both groups happen upon a cheese-filled corridor in "Cheese Station C". Content with their find, the humans establish routines around their daily intake of cheese slowly becoming arrogant in the process.

(more. . .)

/ch ch change!

re: #208 nigella

Wolfie, Pepperdine is an grea tchoice. Ken Starr was the head there. Not sure if he still is. My Daughters best friend attended Pepperdine. Great school.

He's Dean of the law school.

Wolfie, What other schools is she considering? What is her potential major?

re: #210 yochanan

the problem with islam is the jihadist terrorists, sufi muslims for the most part don't belive in violent jihad.

without the terrorism i personly could careless about islam.

Unfortunately, with it, we are the bunny in the cross hairs.

re: #209 RememberSekhmet?

it is a marketing decision for most companies to put a kosher seal on there products.

re: #165 wolfie

Hey. Are you from Santa Barbara? Is UC Santa B a whacko place?
My daughter has reason to at least consider it for college....(full ride, long story.)
Not likely, since it's on the other side of the country, but...................

On the plus side, Santa Barbara has Woody's Bodacious Barbecue, the best BBQ place I've ever eaten at.
[Link: www.woodysbbq.com...]

we are not debating theology with islam

if we looked at it from only a theological point of view with nothing in the practice area such as islmo fascism but only in theology that would raise completly other kinds of issues.

re: #197 Cartman Hey, great! I am gonna go to sleep really soon, but you should feel free to take your time, I can always read it in the morning! No pressure from me (well, ok, a little pressure, but not much!).

re: #165 wolfie

Santa Barbara has its full share of wackos -- but there are most certainly many conservatives there, although they are outnumbered.

Santa Barbara is also a hub for the Young America's Foundation, since it is the home of the newly remodeled Reagan Ranch Center. Of course, Reagan's Rancho del Cielo sits peacefully in the hills north of Santa Barbara. Encourage her if she is so inclined to find a way to connect up with these excellent & motivated young people.

heh heh heh. An image of what happens when my GF enters a cheese shop. :)

/yes she's a self admitted cheese addict.

re: #195 realwest

We had one wicked lighting and rainstorm last night!
Been to a b day party today.
I seem to always be arriving as you are leaving lol

LGF is a great place, where else can you discuss Colleges, Intelligent design, and barbeque all in one place?

re: #212 2SoonOld2LateSmart

I liked that book. I also remember liking 'I am the Cheese' when I read it, but I was about 11 so I don't remember it that well.
I've been on an Italian cheese kick lately with taleggio being the current favorite.

How a Marine gets his cheese.

re: #222 nigella

And handguns. Don't forget handguns.

re: #190 hermeneutics

Wolfie,
Think twice about letting your girl go to UCSB. Its a beautiful campus in a nice area and has a few good programs worth pursuing (music), but it will be a huge stretch for a homeschooled, Christian girl. Having said that, I sent my daugher to Pepperdine (south of UCSB in Malibu) and, in spite of the gross materialism and valley talk, she's getting a great education.

Yeah. The only reason it's even on the radar is because of the pretty brochures, a decent academic reputation, and the full ride they're offering her. Oh? Did I mention the pretty brochures?!
She was homeschooled 8 yrs then went to a Catholic HS, where she is one of the most conservative kids! I can't see her fitting in at UVA or Wm and Mary, much less a UC school!

huh? what does it mean when someone's "football" disappears?

Yeah, I forgot hand guns and more importantly cheese!

....see #222

it isn't theological reasons but political issues that put jews and christians on the same side at this point against islam in the past it wasn't always the case.

islamo fascism aka jihadist terrorism is the issue.

...second time tonight I saw this happen.... (is it me?)

re: #231 WindHorse

What did you see?

re: #208 nigella

Wolfie, Pepperdine is an grea tchoice. Ken Starr was the head there. Not sure if he still is. My Daughters best friend attended Pepperdine. Great school.

Yes, I've heard that it is a very good school and the sort of place where a conservative would not feel totally out of place.
Hermeneutics said her daughter went there!

I saw nigella's green football disappear...

G.K Chesteron was a rabid anti-semite and should not be quoted here.

Thomas Aquinas College may be a good fit for her. In California, though. Travel costs add up.

I told my daughter that she HAD to be at least six hours from home ... but no more than 16 driving hours away.

re: #231 WindHorse

...second time tonight I saw this happen.... (is it me?)

yes, too bad pretty sure it's not a good sign...

re: #237 slokat

I think you are correct.

Wolfie, you are a wise parent! Sounds like your daughter has a good background to rely on. Great job! There is hope for the next generation with a parent like you. I'm pretty proud of our two Children also. Both are conservative, responsible citizens, and parents.

re: #234 WindHorse

I saw nigella's green football disappear...

She doesn't have a football. It's an avatar. Some kind of dog, though the pic is too small to tell.

re: #234 WindHorse

I saw nigella's green football disappear...

All I see is an avatar with a picture of what looks like a dog.

re: #220 BlueCanuck

That's just wrong after over 200 comments to have a similar a thought and get beat by 3 posts.

I disappeared? Can't believe I would be banned?

I'm gonna turn in, y'all. Weet Dreams!

I saw a football (I thought) and then it was gone. Look at #222.

re: #233 wolfie

Yes, I've heard that it is a very good school and the sort of place where a conservative would not feel totally out of place.
Hermeneutics said her daughter went there!

Yup, she's still there.

Pepperdine is about 50K a year. But Peppers, like other colleges, has scholarship money that is NOT need based. It can be done. (Her first year, no grants/scholarships. Her second year, 20K in scholarships. Her third year, 35K in scholarships.)

Windhorse. That is my avatar. It's an English Setter, my dog Nigel. That's a relief, I thought I was kicked out!

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

— G.K. Chesterton

re: #235 yehoshua

G.K Chesteron was a rabid anti-semite and should not be quoted here.

Really? I didn't know that. Link?

Interesting that Charles had a creationism thread, and then the very next thread had a quote from G.K. Chesterton, one of the leading Christian writers from a century ago!

Anti-Semite or not, Christian or not, quote-worthy or not -- I will say that his Father Brown mystery stories are (in my opinion) the best mystery series of all time. Even better than Sherlock Holmes, or Sam Spade/Continental Op.

....weird, when I refreshed the screen, nigella's avatar is still there.

huh... weirod

re: #247 nigella

You're not really here nigella.

re: #242 Metal Man

GMTA, but your's was the one I was looking for. :)

re: #250 DesertSage

You're not really here nigella.

Put down that drink, Sage. Now look again. See her?

re: #247 nigella

Yeah, it's really just a wierod dream.

re: #250 DesertSage

You're not really here nigella.

...we were all trying to be polite & not mention that little fact

re: #252 hermeneutics

Put down that drink, Sage. Now look again. See her?

I see her dog....

re: #255 DesertSage

I see her dog....

Close enough.

sorry ever'body.... must be my eyes playing tricks on me.

weirod.

re: #247 nigella

Windhorse. That is my avatar. It's an English Setter, my dog Nigel. That's a relief, I thought I was kicked out!

It looks like Alf.

re: #213 hermeneutics

He's Dean of the law school.

Wolfie, What other schools is she considering? What is her potential major?

She's been doing the summer search thing. The four schools she has liked best are Hope, Hillsdale, Davidson, and Sewanee.

Hmmm, here's something interesting:

Chesterton's alleged 'anti-Semitism'

The question of G.K. Chesterton's 'anti-semitism' has been thoroughly discussed in many biographies and journals. Chesterton certainly made anti-Jewish remarks, which today's G.K. Chesterton Institute has no wish to condone or defend. These remarks, however, need to be undertood in their social and historical context, not in order to whitewash Chesterton, but to see how they do not invalidate his entire intellectual or spiritual legacy.

Above all they need to be read in the light of important statements he made repudiating anti-semitism towards the end of his life (he died in 1936, i.e. before the Second World War). As Kevin L. Morris writes in his C.T.S. booklet G.K. Chesterton (1994), Chesterton's prejudice was largely political in nature, bound up with his opposition to plutocracy and the 'sleaze' of his day, in which several prominent Jewish figures were implicated at the time:

'far from being a racist, he ridiculed racism, had Jewish friends, admired individual Jews, valued the Jewish faith, wanted the Jews to have the dignity of a Jewish nation-state, and, with the rise of Nazi Germany, denounced the persecution of the Jews.' 'I am quite ready to believe now,' he said, 'that Belloc and I will die defending the last Jew in Europe'.

In the biography Gilbert (Jonathan Cape, 1989, pp. 209-11), Michael Coren noted Chesterton's profound literary and personal friendship with the Jewish writer Israel Zangwill (not, by the way, his only such friendship), his cordial meetings with Jewish leaders in Jerusalem, and the important statement by the Wiener Library (London's archive on anti-semitism and Holocaust history) that Chesterton was never seriously anti-semitic: 'he was not an enemy, and when the real testing time came along he showed what side he was on.'

For its part, the G.K. Chesterton Institute wishes to build on the positive legacy of Chesterton and the writers associated with him, purifying that legacy of the mistakes of judgment that afflict imperfect and inconsistent men and women embroiled in the controversies and ethos of their day. Anti-semitism is incompatible with the Christian religion, a religion that G.K. Chesterton did more than most to defend, explain and represent in a life and writings that many Jews have loved as well as Christians.

re: #257 WindHorse

How much have you had to drink tonight..........

What are we drinkin?

*hic*

Whiskey and Vitamin Water here.

re: #258 NJDhockeyfan

It looks like Alf.

I was just going to post the same comment!

Wolffie, it's true Private Colleges seem to have a lot more money available, which isn't only need based. My Daughter got pretty good scholarships for Saint Mary's College.The tuition was more than public Colleges, but the class sizes were small, and she graduated in four years without a problem. Not so in the public schools. The classes are huge, and it is difficult to graduate in four years.

re: #219 Edouard

Duly noted ! Thanks !

re: #260 zombie

Zombie been meaning to thank you for all your pictures of the wacky left.
I get a huge laugh out of them!

re: #131 ArcherB

I'm afraid I don't like what LGF is becoming. It appears that it is turning into a more anti-Christian site than Kos, Fark, or SlashDot.

First, ArcherB, let me introduce myself: I am a man and I greatly admire other men's penises. So great is this admiration that I have been known to give other men's penises shelter in my hands or in my mouth, to keep them warm and safe from the rain. (But I believe, however, that penises are much too nice to go anywhere near the smelly and bacteria-ridden "what-what" zone.)

Now, several months ago, Charles linked to a photo-essay by the esteemed zombie, which recorded some really disgusting public behaviors by men who value penises just as highly as I do, but whose values I do not otherwise share.

Zombie's photo-essay caused quite a sensation, and there were some limpwristed sissyfags who said that by publishing or re-publishing these images, people like Zombie and Charles and Michelle Malkin and others were being "anti-gay" and promoting "homophobia."

However, I myself was not among these whiners, because for all my personal failings, I was blessed by God with a massive pair.

My recommendation to you, then, is that you should attempt to grow at least a smallish pair yourself, and desist from whining about terribly difficult it is to be a Christian on LGF. Christians in China have it rough; you, however, display signs of being just a limpwristed sissyfag.

Having said all that... I think that ArcherB does make an excellent point here:

Next, the excuse that certain laws MAY be used to teach kids religion is the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT that libs use when they say "The PATRIOT Act MIGHT be used to take away our rights, so it must be thrown out."

To put it another way, Charles should avoid getting too overwrought about "stealth creationism" laws being a slippery slope to theocracy, just as he wishes that liberals would avoid getting overwrought about the Patriot Act being the first step on a slippery slope to fascist totalitarianism.

(And I'm not saying that Charles has been hysterical or overwrought; I'm just saying that ArcherB is entirely correct to remind Charles that he shouldn't exaggerate the threat posed by IDers.)

re: #248 zombie

Really? I didn't know that. Link?

Interesting that Charles had a creationism thread, and then the very next thread had a quote from G.K. Chesterton, one of the leading Christian writers from a century ago!

Anti-Semite or not, Christian or not, quote-worthy or not -- I will say that his Father Brown mystery stories are (in my opinion) the best mystery series of all time. Even better than Sherlock Holmes, or Sam Spade/Continental Op.

His book on eugenics and evils would interest you, Z., if you haven't already read it.

re: #266 Typicalwhitey

Zombie been meaning to thank you for all your pictures of the wacky left.
I get a huge laugh out of them!

Get a load of this one.