it is a far far better thing that I do..

Fears first.

Good evening.

Appetite, fear, and vanity.
And the greatest of these is vanity.

It's a great night for baseball!

The real persuaders are our appetites...

I had pork tenderloin for dinner. Yummy.

At last! An Overnighter!

re: #3 Typicalwhitey
Good evening right back at you. Just getting here myself. So glad to read that your crops survived the storm.

I got an appetite for Cheetos.

Silence! I keeeeeeeel you!

re: #4 wolfie

I disagree. Fear the shoverbot.

Absurd as it may seem, I'm now plowing through the hundreds of emails I got in 2006 about my "Reuters Photo Fraud" page -- yes, replying to people two years after it's too late -- and updating my essay here and there. I just opened an email I got on August 18, 2006, laughed aloud, and made this little addition at the very bottom of the page, in the "Additional Links" section:

Not a link, but a funny final footnote nonetheless: zombietime reader Philip S. points out that if you rearrange the letters of

"Adnan Hajj from inside Reuters, Inc."

you get

"Man 'errs' for jihad; End an injustice!"

I only wish I had opened that email sooner!

In honor of that last thread, I am watching "Saving Private Ryan"

How many people are hungry for CHANGE?

Careful what you wish for....

re: #10 wolfie
Ooops. That was in response to:

re: #5 psyop

It's a great night for baseball!

re: #8 Pvt Bin Jammin

Thank you!
Survived and actually thriving.
That was the scariest storm I have ever been through in my life.
Thanks for thinking of me.

re: #13 rawmuse

LOL!

Good I was waiting for this. I already posted this downthread, but feel it should be done again.

Since Google is now participating in eliminating anti-obama blogs it might be a good idea to move on to a different homepage. Google IG has been indispensible for me up till now, but now Netvibes does the same thing, and more, with more features.

Don't fear the reaper.

re: #15 wolfie

Ooops. That was in response to:

re: #5 psyop

*hangs head in shame*

re: #9 George guy

I got an appetite for Cheetos.

Right now I'm chowing down on kimchee.

MMMM-mmm good! Incendiary!

re: #16 Typicalwhitey
Great news.
Just caught a little bit of the national news. It appears a lot of folks weren't so lucky. :(

"Sarge, if your mother saw you do that, she'd be very upset"
"I thought YOU were my mother"

Great lines.

re: #8 Pvt Bin Jammin

I thought you were at the War Council?

Hi Lizards! I'm glad to be home! I had a great weekend in Canada, with my son and his six little offsprings.

Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

The drug, called lodamin, was improved in one of the last experiments overseen by Dr. Judah Folkman, a cancer researcher who died in January. Folkman pioneered the idea of angiogenesis therapy -- starving tumors by preventing them from growing blood supplies.

Lodamin is an angiogenesis inhibitor that Folkman's team has been working to perfect for 20 years. Writing in the journal Nature Biotechnology, his colleagues say they developed a formulation that works as a pill, without side-effects.

Science!

Man I gotta quit going on kos.
It is getting me depressed.

re: #26 NJDhockeyfan

re: #3 Typicalwhitey

Good evening.

are you from Kansas?

re: #5 psyop

It's a great night for baseball!

Unless the Mariners are playing.

re: #28 joecitizen

Chance!

The stuff of movies!

re: #24 DesertSage
Nope, we didn't have a quorum. LOL
We decided not to go if you weren't going.

re: #29 ploome hineni

Missouri.

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

That reminds me, I'm gonna get lunch at the local mall foodcourt. It'll get me change for the light rail ticket. (:

re: #18 Mars Needs Neocons

why do you want a homepage?

re: #27 Typicalwhitey

Man I gotta quit going on kos.
It is getting me depressed.

It's Dante's Inferno, redux.

OK, this rises to levels beyond absurd.

The Europeans just had their soccer championships. Spain beat Germany 1 - 0.

AP/Yahoo has a photo and caption illustrating this news story.

What could it be? A goal being scored? Fans in Spain cheering?

Dream on, my naive friend:

Spain wins Euro Championship

Palestinians watch a live projection of the Euro 2008 European Soccer Championships final between Germany and Spain on a section of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida, near Bethlehem, Sunday, June 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

No, there is no bias in the media. None whatsoever!

re: #27 Typicalwhitey

Man I gotta quit going on kos.
It is getting me depressed.

Yep, I'm gonna quit going there too!

Wait a minute.....I never went there to begin with.
_Hmmmmm

re: #33 Typicalwhitey

Missouri.

:-0

attaboid is looking for a white date from Kansas

lol

re: #26 NJDhockeyfan

Accidental fungus leads to promising cancer drug

Science!

Penicillin was an accident. Contaminated agar plates. Had been a long standing problem. Till Fleming noted no bacteria grew near the penicillin and ask why, instead of starting over like everyone else had before.

re: #38 DesertSage

Who are you on there?!?!

re: #33 Typicalwhitey

Missouri.

You starting to dry out?

re: #32 Pvt Bin Jammin

My bike is still on my truck. I'm waiting for my son to unload it.

re: #39 ploome hineni

I would have to ask my husband if it's ok....

re: #30 jcm

Touche...

They did just sweep the Padres, however...

re: #43 DesertSage
Do you think it's anything serious?

re: #42 jcm

Yes, thank you!
Worked on fence all day today.

re: #44 Typicalwhitey

I would have to ask my husband if it's ok....

details,schmetails..

re: #41 Typicalwhitey

Who are you on there?!?!

I should have used my sarcasm tag.

re: #49 DesertSage

I should have used my sarcasm tag.

No! Don't do it!

At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is, so to speak, His name written in us…It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely.

Thomas Merton.

Now, this point is inaccessible to the blandishments of which Eric Hoffer speaks; let's try to get there.

re: #46 Pvt Bin Jammin

Do you think it's anything serious?

I don't think it's serious, but I need to fix it before next weekend.

re: #35 ploome hineni

why do you want a homepage?

I just want a nice handy start page when I bring up firefox. One that lists everything I check each day all in one spot so I don't have to chase them all over the web. The fact it has a public page wasn't real important to me, though maybe it will help someone visiting it get educated on reality.

I was using google/ig to keep everything together but can't support them in any way any more.

RSS ticker is ok but it gets bogged down with the sheer number of things I like to check.

have a great night lads

re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

How many people are hungry for CHANGE?

Careful what you wish for....

Saw an Obamaton out shopping yesterday with a big "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN" on her shirt. Or was it "Hope we can believe in"? And then there were at least two cars with Obama '08 stickers, one of which spoofed the "Got Milk?" ad, by saying "Got Hope?". This sticker was across the trunk lid from "01-29-09 Bush's last day!".

It must be blissful to be so dumb as to think that the Messiah has come, that his ascension has a date attached to it, and that all will be right with the world if you just believe.

In the old days, they called that "religion", not "politics".

re: #49 DesertSage

Seriously it gets depressing.
To think that those type of people very possibly could be choosing the next President.

re: #37 zombie

Good grief.

re: #45 psyop

Touche...

They did just sweep the Padres, however...

I still listen on the radio... hoping...

re: #37 zombie

Soccer?

Yawn.

I tried to watch - I really did. Some of those games were so boring I fell asleep.

re: #47 Typicalwhitey

Yes, thank you!
Worked on fence all day today.

Good to hear.

re: #53 Mars Needs Neocons

Have you tried the add-on called Speed Dial? I created my own home page with it, and it's pretty slick.

17 injured by live ammo at open day

FOUR people including a child were in a critical condition today after live bullets were used instead of blanks during a French special forces open day, army and regional officials said.

Seventeen people were injured in total.

Fifteen civilians and two soldiers were injured in the incident, of which the details remained unclear, involving a demonstration by members of a marines parachute regiment of hostage liberation exercises, a regional authority, Bernard Lemaire, said.

Four of the 17 were seriously injured, with two described as critical following "incomprehensible'' scenes at the barracks near Carcassone, in the country's south-west.

According to local authorities, five children were among the injured.

Five helicopters, 11 firefighters' first-aid vehicles and two ambulances rushed to the scene to help the injured.

One soldier had been detained, although no explanation was immediately forthcoming for why the wrong ammunition was loaded into weapons.

/l'oops

re: #56 Typicalwhitey

Here, this will cheer you up.
Spiders On Drugs

re: #37 zombie

It was on my Doritos bag today as an advertisement.

"Daniel Zoughbie 2007 Brick awards"

There is more.

re: #61 Cartman

Have you tried the add-on called Speed Dial? I created my own home page with it, and it's pretty slick.

Not familiar with it. I'll take a look. But I am impressed with Netvibes ease of use and expandability.

re: #62 Killian Bundy
/They are undoubtedly saving their blanks for war.

Seriously, that's terrible.

re: #64 formercorpsman

[Link: www.danielpipes.org...]

re: #63 DesertSage

Haha!

re: #44 Typicalwhitey

I would have to ask my husband if it's ok....

sure, why not

:P

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

I Corinthians 13: 4-7.
]

re: #59 Racer X

Soccer?

Yawn.

I tried to watch - I really did. Some of those games were so boring I fell asleep.

I am ashamed to say this, so please don't tell anyone.
Mr Wolf and I never let our kids play soccer because WE don't like to watch it.

re: #13 rawmuse

In honor of that last thread, I am watching "Saving Private Ryan"

I make it a point to watch the first ten minutes on every June 6th. Curiously, I find myself more affected by the anniversary as time goes on, not less.

I sometimes worry that we may not have that kind of pure courage in us anymore. The guts to stand at the front of that boat, look up at the gates of Mordor, and say "Let's go!"

I started watching the Discovery channel NASA missions program today (I had recorded it last week, hadn't got around to watching it) and it occurred to me that it's entirely possible that the high point of American achievement was the mid-1960s, give or take a few years. Since then we have better tech and more toys, but has anything really gotten better?

The lady roommate said things were much better for women now. I suppose so.

re: #27 Typicalwhitey

Man I gotta quit going on kos.
It is getting me depressed.

I even quit trying to stir up trouble over there with my account. Although I did throw them into a tizzy when I posted a few comments with the username "SaintPancake". They didn't like that one bit.

re: #53 Mars Needs Neocons

'favorites' don;t do it?

i haven't seen hardly any b.o. bumper stickers here in the city.
i saw one last wk. on the west side hwy.
and only 2 posters in windows. maybe it's a little early.

re: #73 CyanSnowHawk

I even quit trying to stir up trouble over there with my account. Although I did throw them into a tizzy when I posted a few comments with the username "SaintPancake". They didn't like that one bit.

ROFLMAO!

You saying the kos kids lack a refined sense of humor?

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 13:13.

re: #45 psyop

Touche...

They did just sweep the Padres, however...

That's not exactly difficult this year.

re: #74 ploome hineni

'favorites' don;t do it?

nope. I need a snapshot of what's going on in everything I look at all at once.

Sometimes I only have a couple minutes to check things and if all my headlines are right there I can see what I want to check and what I can skip.

re: #77 MandyManners

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 13:13.

I prefer securities

a nice large portfolio

re: #72 Pawn of the Oppressor

I would seriously dispute what the lady roommate says.

re: #79 Mars Needs Neocons

nope. I need a snapshot of what's going on in everything I look at all at once.

Sometimes I only have a couple minutes to check things and if all my headlines are right there I can see what I want to check and what I can skip.

lol

re: #79 Mars Needs Neocons

nope. I need a snapshot of what's going on in everything I look at all at once.

Sometimes I only have a couple minutes to check things and if all my headlines are right there I can see what I want to check and what I can skip.

Besides, my favorites (bookmarks) are a mess, close to a thousand links.

re: #80 ploome hineni

I prefer securities

a nice large portfolio

Take care, ploome!

re: #57 wolfie

Good grief.

It dawns on me they can henceforth spin every news story in the world the same way. Just keep the TV news projected on that section of The Wall at all times, and then instead of reporting on any particular news event, they can simply report on the Palestianians' reactions to it, while simultaneously making us all feed sad about the wall.

Examples:

-------------------------

Palestinians watch with excitement as the Mars Rover discovers life on the surface of the Red Planet, as images of the strange Martian creatures are projected on the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida, near Bethlehem.

...or...

Palestinian watch Lindsay Lohan as she is dragged off to jail for punching a photographer, in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida, near Bethlehem.

...or...

Palestinians can barely keep awake, stupefied with boredom as they camp in front of our cameras for the 34th consecutive day to watch a kitten being rescued from a tree in Poughkeepsie, New York, the scene being projected as usual on the evil Separation Wall of Doom in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida, near Bethlehem.

re: #79 Mars Needs Neocons

Maybe I'll try to post a screenshot of my Speed Dial desktop on Photobucket and link to it here. Then you can get an idea of how it works.

re: #84 MandyManners

Take care, ploome!

:D

soulmates come and go

portfolio stays

re: #82 ploome hineni

lol

I know, pretty bad huh.

I even bring things up (especially lgf) four or five times a day on my pda/phone in order to catch what's been going on.

I'm thinking of signing up for a datajack input, but no one offers the surgery yet.
/

I'm still waiting for Hillary to drop that one last major bombshell. If Barry won't name her VP (and pay off her debts) look for the payback. Its coming. Dead gay lover, secret deal with Soros, something nasty.

One-woman peace tour scoots through Seattle

The 2008 Peace Scooter tour was in Seattle this weekend. But there weren't hundreds of scooters or people.
There was just one young lady - and just one scooter.

Her name is Alix Bryan, and she wants peace - for herself and for you.

"Well I wanted to put peace on the map," she says.

So she is literally driving around the nation, in the shape of a peace sign.

If I did a one man 2nd Amend March through Seattle, what would the headline say?

re: #62 Killian Bundy

l'oops indeed. Heads are gonna roll up several levels of the chain of command for that one. Several of them will likely be prosecuted.

re: #88 Mars Needs Neocons

actually

staying away from the computer makes me feel more relaxed

Although I don't normally like to plug my own blog on this site, I thought that I would upload my birth certificate from Hawaii for comparison to Obama's. I did block out a few of my personal items, but it does show the front and back.

[Link: experimentumcrucis.blogspot.com...]

re: #85 zombie

:D
We're laughing now, but................
It's obviously getting closer and closer to that all the time.

re: #80 ploome hineni
I prefer securities

LOL That reminds me of the time my sister in law asked our daughter what she wanted for Christmas and the daughter answered with, "a CD would be nice". They didn't have a compact disc player yet and seriously thought she wanted a Certificate of Deposit.

re: #63 DesertSage

Here, this will cheer you up.

re: #75 nyc redneck

i haven't seen hardly any b.o. bumper stickers here in the city.
i saw one last wk. on the west side hwy.
and only 2 posters in windows. maybe it's a little early.

I haven't seen a Hillary sign or sticker in four months. And I've NEVER seen a McCain sticker. Around here, it's 100% Obama, all the time. There are at least 25 Obama signs on my block alone.

re: #90 jcm

One-woman peace tour scoots through Seattle

If I did a one man 2nd Amend March through Seattle, what would the headline say?

Gun nut creates panic, children being counseled!

re: #97 zombie

And nothing for Mama Moonbat? Gasp!

re: #93 lone_wolf_in_illinois

Although I don't normally like to plug my own blog on this site, I thought that I would upload my birth certificate from Hawaii for comparison to Obama's. I did block out a few of my personal items, but it does show the front and back.

[Link: experimentumcrucis.blogspot.com...]

Interesting, very interesting......

re: #86 Cartman

Maybe I'll try to post a screenshot of my Speed Dial desktop on Photobucket and link to it here. Then you can get an idea of how it works.

Cool, just installed it. I'll check how it works when I restart firefox. Did you look at the link I left to my netvibes screen?

re: #97 zombie

3 McCain signs on my block, including my own. Not bad for SF.

re: #85 zombie

Drooling in agony at the extended boredom inflicted on them by the images on the Apartheid Wall, Jordyptian refugees calling themselves "Palestinian" writhe and moan, asking for permission to go potty or otherwise relieve themselves of their self-imposed idiocy coupled with media demands that they prostrate themselves before the only remaining barrier between themselves and Humans With a Life!

/LMAO, Zomboid!

re: #92 ploome hineni

actually

staying away from the computer makes me feel more relaxed

I'm the opposite, the computer relaxes me after the stresses of the day and kids.

re: #98 Cartman

Gun nut creates panic, children being counseled!

ROLF! Yep....

re: #99 Macker

And nothing for Mama Moonbat? Gasp!

Well, I don't live in her district!

But I was talking about presidential signs only. It's a blizzard of Obama Blue in these parts.

Rare is the house without Obama paraphernalia.

re: #90 jcm

re: #76 jcm

ROFLMAO!

You saying the kos kids lack a refined sense of humor?

None at all, apparently. Within minutes I had turned an entire thread against me. I could see the purple in their faces. I wish I had a sock puppet at the time, I could have give some of them heart attacks.

re: #99 Macker

And nothing for Mama Moonbat? Gasp!

I pass by her "campaign HQ" every day on Mission St. in San Francisco. From my vantage point on the express bus, it looks like an empty storefront plastered over with her campaign posters, and little else.

re: #102 rawmuse

3 McCain signs on my block, including my own. Not bad for SF.

Wow! Mindbending. I won't ask specifics, but you must live in a very unusual corner of The City!

OT

so last week I was at Cedar Sinai in LA for a test, and had to fill out some form

one question was to state my ethnicity

the choice was :

hispanic or non hispanic

if you can imagine that

and that is in a Jewish Hospital, with mezuzah on every doorpost

The quotation from up top:

The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders. — Eric Hoffer

But, oh, when you yourself are aware of such, and coach your own self to beware! :)

re: #106 zombie

Well, I don't live in her district!

But I was talking about presidential signs only. It's a blizzard of Obama Blue in these parts.

Rare is the house without Obama paraphernalia propaganda.

There fixed.

re: #103 Carridine

Not bad! That's probably already reality, behind the scenes.

Their entire society in one big stage set for Grievance Theater.

re: #89 Racer X

Been saying that for awhile.
She only suspended her campaign...she did not quit...not yet.

re: #90 jcm

One-woman peace tour scoots through Seattle

If I did a one man 2nd Amend March through Seattle, what would the headline say?

After covering that, they should send a crew over to the one legged man ass kicking contest......I bet that is more exciting.

re: #116 Desert Dog

After covering that, they should send a crew over to the one legged man ass kicking contest......I bet that is more exciting.

And they wonder why some think the media is biased.

Drudge reports that NYT will be running story on hunt for Bin Laden in Pakistan including internal disputes and discussions in White House. Also mentions Special ops and forces going in undercover. I read the international page that has it tonight. No wonder the WH is pissed over this. Proving once again that NYT=anti-American traitor.

Weirdly, since my brief stay here in the U.S. I've probably noticed more Ron Paul stickers/paraphernalia/graffiti than any other political signage. Perhaps I'm just more perceptive to displays of pure insanity..?

re: #110 zombie

I live adjacent to McLaren Park. Pretty blue collar out here.

I was in greater metropolitan Blacksburg, VA today. I only saw 3 Obama stickers on the campus of Va Tech. One was on a Mercedes & had a faculty sticker. There was a McCain sticker on a Ford Focus w/ a student sticker and one on an old Toyota w/ a staff sticker.

Too early to draw conclusions, I think!