I think the left is in total meltdown mode.
So much fun to watch!

Funny, you don't LOOK warmish...

Via Lileks: Harry Reid says coal industry is lying, just like Hitler.

For those who want more info on why global warming is a big crock, you really should check out these great speeches by Bob Carter:

He speaks very well when it comes to these issues.

Is your new Schwinn OK? 'Cause I read where someone said you lost your bearings...

/

Hello?

re: #6 MandyManners

Hello?

Howdy!

Obama panders to this?

I would be so completely embarrassed to have people such as this supporting me.
Looks like 8th graders goofing off with their moms camera.

Gahhh!

re: #3 Occasional Reader

Via Lileks: Harry Reid says coal industry is lying, just like Hitler.

When Reid speaks, like the moonbat left, he projects.....

These people think we think like them, which is their first mistake, and the fatal one at that....

...more warm means more crops...

ldo

Ditto MandyManners! Large technical difficulties on last thread!

Just an open thread for a globally warmish kind of Tuesday afternoon...

Got the redneck answer for global warming, right here. A six pack cooler, some fans from a couple Tandy 1000's, and some ice cubes.

GREENACRES, Fla. -- A South Florida woman has been charged with theft and extortion, accused by police of kidnapping a family's cat and holding it for ransom in hopes of getting her dog returned.

SNIP

Heh. I think there are lizards poking around in the 5,000+ comment thread. Hamsters don't like that.

re: #13 MandyManners

GREENACRES, Fla. -- A South Florida woman has been charged with theft and extortion, accused by police of kidnapping a family's cat and holding it for ransom in hopes of getting her dog returned.

SNIP

That really DOES sound like a plot line from "Green Acres".

re: #13 MandyManners

GREENACRES, Fla. -- A South Florida woman has been charged with theft and extortion, accused by police of kidnapping a family's cat and holding it for ransom in hopes of getting her dog returned.

SNIP

Don't tell those British Muslims protesting the advertisements with the dogs about this one!

Where we ever let in on the joke about the longest thread?

Oh, thank goodness, we're back!

I kept staring at a "routine maintenance" message, and refreshing.

Dingy Reed's Hope for Change for Amerika: "Livin' in a 4^th World Country"

Beats me why anybody would opt for an impoverished life style... unless it's for everyone except mega-wealthy democrats and their pet politicians.

re: #3 Occasional Reader

I liked Lileks' idea: shut down Las Vegas.

Way off topic - But the only people I hear talking about McCains war record are liberals saying it should not be talked about.

Has anyone seen the new movie about Ghenghis Khan, "Mongol"?

My husband's take was funny - the flim-maker managed to have GK come across as Moses.

Another day at class, 20 minutes to go, just got our last break

re: #11 vapig

I was close to panic!

When are we going to have a registration thread? I want to log in a sock puppet.

re: #20 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Beats me why anybody would opt for an impoverished life style

I heard some liberal on C-SPAN last week saying, "it's not just that we're addicted to oil, it's that we're addicted to energy." They think that, as an affirmative value, we should use less energy - no matter how clean and cheap the source. In other words, they hold out poverty as a positive thing.

Cute but apparently evil black puppy.

Eat a pig.

re: #28 Occasional Reader

Everything was better when humans had to rub sticks together to make fire.

re: #23 ploome hineni

Because of Reid's idiot rant. It's on today's Bleat. Near the bottom

Some fun:

There’s only one sensible response: we have to shut down Las Vegas. Yes, I know, they get their power from hydro, but juice is fungible; the power that goes to light up Vegas could be used to take oil-fired plants off the grid. Closing down Vegas would reduce Nevada’s carbon footprint in other ways: a quarter of all tourists come from California, and I’d wager they drive. (Or drive to wager.) Thirty-six million visit Vegas each year – at least three million people a month arrive and depart from the airport on pollution-spewing fossil-fuel consuming planes.

Database server is acting a little weird. Had to restart it to try something -- still working on it.

re: #19 ploome hineni

Champagne! Gallons of it!

re: #22 donbmcd

Way off topic - But the only people I hear talking about McCains war record are liberals saying it should not be talked about.

Which, of course gives "others" the opportunity to do just that - talk about it to people who may never have known what a real hero he was.

My suggestion for a campaign slogan, in tribute to Bill Buckley:

No.
Think 3 foot letters.

Here in upstate NY that we've been using the down comforter most nights. Could the urge to use a comforter in July be just another odd result of global warming - or have the nights simply been pretty cool in the Catskills? Hmmmmm?

re: #31 Dianna

Shutting down the party scene at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas would also probably reduce STD transmission in this country by a good double-digit percentage.

re: #21 Dianna

Debt-Laden Casinos Squeezed by Slow-down - WSJ

The gambling slowdown that began early this year is taking a serious toll on Las Vegas, with banks, investors and private-equity funds growing as tightfisted as the consumers who are gambling less in the slumping economy.

Once believed to be recession-proof, casinos are proving to be highly vulnerable to the economic downturn, which is striking the industry at a bad time. Las Vegas is entering its lethargic summer season, and a boom-time frenzy of grand expansion plans and private-equity buyouts has left casinos laden with debt.

...

"This is the toughest environment we've faced," says Gary Loveman, chief executive of global gambling giant Harrah's Entertainment Inc., referring to the economic challenges roiling the entire industry.

re: #38 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Debt-Laden Casinos Squeezed by Slow-down - WSJ

Uh-oh. This means a lot of guys are going to wind up in shallow graves out in the desert.

(Or maybe I'm thinking of the old Vegas)

re: #32 Charles

Database server is acting a little weird. Had to restart it to try something -- still working on it.

The server's out of the room? That's why I haven't gotten my salad yet. How about the wine steward?

re: #37 Occasional Reader

CDC probably has good stats on that topic.

re: #28 Occasional Reader

I heard some liberal on C-SPAN last week saying, "it's not just that we're addicted to oil, it's that we're addicted to energy." They think that, as an affirmative value, we should use less energy - no matter how clean and cheap the source. In other words, they hold out poverty as a positive thing.

But they are trying to save energy. Why America is stuffed with lazy slugs and the Democrats try to provide them with good homes, yours.

re: #28 Occasional Reader

From personal experience... "Poverty Sucks!"

I was with my family a 8 months ago as many here know they are all moonbats. One of my brothers (we will call him Jake) was telling me that the America wants a President that is middle of the road and he gave me a long speech about it. Another brother ( I will call him Don) said that what America needs was Obama. Don is a socialist and I thought Jake was a moderate. Well I called Jake today and told him of a new job that I was offered today (4 times what he makes) and I said to him “well I guess you are going to vote for McCain and Don was going to vote for Obama” Jake told me WTF no way I’m voting for Obama, dumbfounded I asked who Don was voting for and he told me he was voting for McCain. So to make a long story short. I am soooooo confused!

re: #37 Occasional Reader

I wouldn't know.

re: #45 Dianna

I wouldn't know.

Correct response! Keep repeating that for the Grand Jury, and everything will be fine, I promise.

I am hardly a McCain fan but, Wesley Clark is a particularly ugly and smelly ass. The Democrat Party is uglier still for sending him out to do their bidding.

[/vote-no-Dems]

re: #40 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Sommeliers only come out if they think you know what you're talking about.

Is there anything to do in Vegas? I mean, besides get married.

Somewhat of a Media blackout on this Obama website.

Good site.

re: #43 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Amen!

Hear him/her!

re: #39 Occasional Reader

Uh-oh. This means a lot of guys are going to wind up in shallow graves out in the desert.

(Or maybe I'm thinking of the old Vegas)

You're probably correct. Only the wagering will be nearer to home... and much of it will be illegal in non-state sponsored sanctioned facilities.

re: #48 Dianna

Sommeliers only come out if they think you know what you're talking about.

Is that why I'm sitting here unnoticed?

re: #49 godfrey

actually there is great pinball museum

So I'm trying to familiarize myself with ancient Greek in preparation for my upcoming enrollment in college (we learn both ancient Greek and French there; it's a private liberal arts school that has a nigh-insurmountable reputation). It's pretty fun, the textbook is "An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach" by C.A.E. Luschnig.

Anyone else learning a new language? (Or at least the basics of one?)

re: #46 Occasional Reader

Thank you, Counselor! I will remember.

re: #36 Daisy

Here in upstate NY that we've been using the down comforter most nights. Could the urge to use a comforter in July be just another odd result of global warming - or have the nights simply been pretty cool in the Catskills? Hmmmmm?

I had to wear a jacket last night - In Virginia!

re: #30 godfrey

Everything was better when humans had to rub sticks together to make fire.

Now we rub two atoms together and "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

re: #49 godfrey

Is there anything to do in Vegas? I mean, besides get married.

They have a casino or two. (If you like that sort of thing.)

re: #49 godfrey

That I really wouldn't know. I was there for ComDex once, and managed to leave unmarried, with my money, and no unexplained lacunae in my memory.

re: #51 Dianna

Male. Old, Bald and over weight. Sorry 'bout that!

re: #3 Occasional Reader

Via Lileks: Harry Reid says coal industry is lying, just like Hitler.

What do you expect from the dimbulb from Searchlight?

re: #12 EC Marm

Got the redneck answer for global warming, right here. A six pack cooler, some fans from a couple Tandy 1000's, and some ice cubes.

[Link: newmedia.funnyjunk.com...]

/country boys can survive Global warming.

re: #53 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Are you a wine drinker?

re: #44 BBEV

My yellow-dog Democrat mother is not only rooting and voting for McCain. She's hunting for a bumper-sticker that reads "ANOTHER DEMOCRAT FOR MCCAIN".

re: #55 philosoteric

Anyone else learning a new language? (Or at least the basics of one?)

I plan to start Portugese once the current work madness dies down a bit.

re: #49 godfrey

Is there anything to do in Vegas? I mean, besides get married.

Sure, look up this Chick.

P.S. Her name is Mecca, so you might want to govern yourself accordingly.

re: #66 Occasional Reader

Flying down to Rio?

Ahh, the twirling dots are mesmerizing.

firefox 3

re: #28 Occasional Reader

I heard some liberal on C-SPAN last week saying, "it's not just that we're addicted to oil, it's that we're addicted to energy." They think that, as an affirmative value, we should use less energy - no matter how clean and cheap the source. In other words, they hold out poverty as a positive thing.

You are so correct. Pathologically enough, Moonbat poverty advocates feel guilty for having money. There is nothing .. absolutely nothing .. in this universe .. that could induce a sense of guilt within me ... for having money/property. Nothing.

re: #58 David IV of Georgia

i perfer to rub two humans together.

re: #49 godfrey

Is there anything to do in Vegas? I mean, besides get married.

From Doctor Strangelove

Major T. J. "King" Kong: Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days' concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

re: #61 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Doesn't take away from what you said, or my urge that all listen to you.

Indeed, poverty really sucks!

re: #66 Occasional Reader

I plan to start Portugese once the current work madness dies down a bit.

Been watching those Rosetta Stone commercials on TV?

re: #71 yochanan

i perfer to rub two humans together.

Ooooo yeah!

re: #70 Daisy

You are so correct. Pathologically enough, Moonbat poverty advocates feel guilty for having money. There is nothing .. absolutely nothing .. in this universe .. that could induce a sense of guilt within me ... for having money/property. Nothing.

Yet they go to third world countries and celebrate the traditions of the poverty stricken folks.

re: #48 Dianna

Sommeliers only come out if they think you know what you're talking about.

Never say, Pinto Noir.

re: #75 Ward Cleaver

Ooooo yeah!

Adriana Lima comes to mind.

re: #50 Allah al Fubar

Somewhat of a Media blackout on this Obama website.

Good site.

Awesome!

re: #73 Dianna

Doesn't take away from what you said, or my urge that all listen to you.

Indeed, poverty really sucks!

Or as someone once put it: Money isn't everything. But poverty isn't anything.

Gotta' go sling some hash. Later, Lizards.

It's only 89° here in Dallas, Texas.

Al you got some 'slainin' to do.
It should be about 100°F or more.

I may put on a sweater.

re: #78 Ward Cleaver

Adriana Lima comes to mind.

Never leaves mine...

re: #71 yochanan

I'm at work, but under other circumstances, that's my usual solution, too.

re: #74 Ward Cleaver

Been watching those Rosetta Stone commercials on TV?

I watch the spokeswoman's silicone cleavage.

re: #73 Dianna

Spaceba & Dosvidanya. I am off to my palatial datcha.

re: #55 philosoteric

So I'm trying to familiarize myself with ancient Greek in preparation for my upcoming enrollment in college (we learn both ancient Greek and French there; it's a private liberal arts school that has a nigh-insurmountable reputation). It's pretty fun, the textbook is "An Introduction to Ancient Greek: A Literary Approach" by C.A.E. Luschnig.

Anyone else learning a new language? (Or at least the basics of one?)

I was learning French, but I stopped drinking booze and lost my accent.

Walter in Golden, Co.

re: #64 Dianna

Are you a wine drinker wannabe-connoisseur?

(modified the question)
Used to be, ages ago. The past few years I've taken to keeping a box wine in the fridge. It's crap, but it lasts awhile.

re: #77 debutaunt

Never say, Pinto Noir.

ROFL!

'slainin' ='splainin'

I'm listening to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds.

re: #77 debutaunt

Never say, Pinto Noir.

Waiter! Bring us some fresh wine! None of that old stuff!

(And get these snails off my plate! You would think that in a fancy restaurant, at these prices, you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can't even see the food! Now take those away and bring us those melted cheese sandwich appetizers you talked me out of!)

Before I get ready to go, I once again extend (to anyone who hasn't already heard about it) an invitation to a lizard gathering in San Jose, to take place on July 26th.

If you would like to attend, please drop me an email. Details will be sent out after the Glorious Fourth weekend.

I won't be asking for hard RSVPs until much later in the month, so don't feel that getting put on the info list obligates you in any way.

re: #73 Dianna

Doesn't take away from what you said, or my urge that all listen to you.

Indeed, poverty really sucks!

Poverty is really not that bad. At least, it wouldn't be for those of us who have already lived that life. Having grown up in shelters and in foster care, it's really not that bad. What you need is family. And food. Food a/k/a beans, rice, ground beef, basic fruits and veggies.

Always remember this: Beans are your friend.

re: #57 vapig

"I had to wear a jacket last night - In Virginia!"

And yet, the Moonbats in Virginia who also put jackets on last evening .. and their comrades under comforters in NY ... still operate under the delusion of global warming as dangerous! Some people simply cannot bear happiness.

re: #89 pre-Boomer Marine brat

(modified the question)
Used to be, ages ago. The past few years I've taken to keeping a box wine in the fridge. It's crap, but it lasts awhile.

because I'm feeling like being nice:

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com...]

{pre-Boomer Marine brat}

Good evening, Lizards!

re: #87 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Spaceba & Dosvidanya.

Do svedanya!

re: #49 godfrey

Is there anything to do in Vegas? I mean, besides get married.

You could shoot a machine gun.

re: #85 buzzsawmonkey

Will you STOP with the logic?> Sheesh.....

re: #92 Occasional Reader

Waiter! Bring us some fresh wine! None of that old stuff!

(And get these snails off my plate! You would think that in a fancy restaurant, at these prices, you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can't even see the food! Now take those away and bring us those melted cheese sandwich appetizers you talked me out of!)

HAHAHAH - The disgusting garlic smell - get it away from me!

re: #89 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The sommelier is frightened, then.

re: #77 debutaunt

Never say, Pinto Noir.

Now try to remember, the French are our allies, this week.

The call people sewers, as in mon-sewer. No wonder they get into fights!

re: #89 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The past few years I've taken to keeping a box wine in the fridge. It's crap, but it lasts awhile.

Box wine... no, no, no, Boomer, don't do it, life is too short.

If you want wine to last a while, pick up a Wine Pump from your favorite liquor store; you can drink part of a bottle, pump out the air, it lasts for days or weeks, just fine.

re: #77 debutaunt

Never say, Pinto Noir.

Unless, of course, you are at a Mexican resturant:
I want some of that frijoles niegro stuff with some beans.

re: #70 Daisy

You are so correct. Pathologically enough, Moonbat poverty advocates feel guilty for having money. There is nothing .. absolutely nothing .. in this universe .. that could induce a sense of guilt within me ... for having money/property. Nothing.

All that guilt just makes it easier to take from you, my dear. This sent to me by a friend this morning:

***********

A Condensed Version of History

Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were
the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups:
1. Liberals, and
2. Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered, it required grain and that was the beginningof agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor the aluminum can had been invented yet, so while our early ancestors were sitting around waiting forthem to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is now known as the Conservative movement. Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching, and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement.

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as girlie-men. Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy, group hugs, and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.

Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare. Another interesting evolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men.

Most social workers, personal injury lawyers, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, athletes, Marines, and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own
companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing They like to govern the producers and decide what to do with the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America . They crept in after the Wild West was tamed and created a business of trying to get something for nothing.

Here ends today's lesson in world history: It should be noted that a Liberal may have a momentary urge to angrily respond to the above before forwarding it.

A Conservative will simply laugh and be so convinced of the absolute truth of this history that it will be forwarded immediately to other true believers and to more liberals just to piss them off. And there you have it. Let your next action reveal your true self.

re: #55 philosoteric

Anyone else learning a new language? (Or at least the basics of one?)

I stopped at "C". Learned about six others prior to that.

re: #82 David IV of Georgia

It's only 89° here in Dallas, Texas.

Al you got some 'slainin' to do.
It should be about 100°F or more.

I may put on a sweater.

It ain't exactly the summer of 1980. I remember that one. Forty-one straight days of 100 or more for a high, and days where it was 100 at 10am, and 100 at 10pm. Man, that summer sucked. Global Warming!

re: #96 goddessoftheclassroom

because I'm feeling like being nice:

[Link: icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com.. .]

{pre-Boomer Marine brat}

Good evening, Lizards!

URP!
NO ... don't open the link ... don't trust her ... NOOOO!

re: #102 lifeofthemind

Now try to remember, the French are our allies, this week.

The call people sewers, as in mon-sewer. No wonder they get into fights!

Steve Martin pointed out that they have a different word for everything.

re: #86 Kosh's Shadow

I watch the spokeswoman's silicone cleavage.

Yeah!

re: #94 Allah al Fubar

I went through a bad patch in the early 90's, when I was practicing practical botany. I'd already gotten sick of rice and beans back in college.

The good thing is, and I'm proud of it, my animals were always fed, even if I wasn't eating.

re: #76 DistantThunder

Yet they go to third world countries and celebrate the traditions of the poverty stricken folks.

I've noticed that Moonbats vastly prefer celebrating 3rd world traditions in the comfort of their - ever so guiltily green - living rooms. But, maybe that's just where I live. :)

re: #109 debutaunt

Steve Martin pointed out that they have a different word for everything.

I want a shoe with cheese on it, and force it down my throat.

Charles,

I tried to post this to the links, but it said: Does not appear to be a valid URL.

Can you help?

[Link: www.city-journal.org...]

Obama's boys of summer

Klonsky, whose disgust for mainstream politics led him to launch a new, Maoist Communist Party in the 1970s, today supports Barack Obama so enthusiastically that until recently he was blogging on the Illinois senator’s campaign website. And boycotting this November’s election, Klonsky maintains, would be a “tragic mistake.” He notes that Barack Obama isn’t Hubert Humphrey, 2008 isn’t 1968, and the strong movement he served back then is “relatively weak” now. “My own support for Obama is not a reflection of a radically changed attitude toward the Democratic Party,” Klonsky recently explained to me. “Rather, it’s a recognition that the Obama campaign has become a rallying point for young activists and offers hope for rebuilding the civil rights and antiwar coalitions that have potential to become a real critical force in society.”

Michael Klonsky is hardly the only ’68 radical supporting Obama this year. In 1968, when Mark Rudd organized the student strike that shut down Columbia University, the SDS chapter that he chaired ridiculed Kennedy and McCarthy as “McKennedy,” claimed that “neither peace candidate offers an alternative to the war policies of Lyndon Johnson,” and suggested “sabotage” as an alternative to voting. Rudd succeeded Klonsky as national SDS leader, presiding over the organization’s metamorphosis into Weatherman and performing “a liaison function” for the plot to bomb a Fort Dix soldiers’ dance that instead killed three Weathermen, including two of Rudd’s Columbia SDS colleagues. Today, Rudd renounces bombs, embraces ballots—and supports Obama. “Probably the biggest difference between Columbia SDS people in 1968 and in 2008 is forty years,” Rudd explained in an e-mail. “Most of us have lived with compromise our whole lives. As kids we were raving idealists who thought that ‘The elections don’t mean shit’ was a slogan that meant something to somebody. It didn’t.”

Then there’s Carl Davidson, who was one of SDS’s three elected national officers in 1968, when the organization first urged young people to refrain from voting.

A must read, a must (heart), and a must send to all your sane acquaintances.

re: #112 Daisy

I've noticed that Moonbats vastly prefer celebrating 3rd world traditions in the comfort of their - ever so guiltily green - living rooms. But, maybe that's just where I live. :)

Like bonging?

re: #96 goddessoftheclassroom

Great! Cute as H*ll! Thanks!
MWAH!

re: #113 Ward Cleaver

I want a shoe with cheese on it, and force it down my throat.

Laughing is so good for my abs!

Written by an Australian Dentist....and too good to delete....

To Kill an American

You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a
report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer
of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let
everyone know what an American is . So they would know when they found
one. (Good one, mate!)

'An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican,
African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian,
or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native
Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.
In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan The only
difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will
answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to
speak for the government and for God.

An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the
world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
Independence , which recognizes the God given right of each person to
the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every
other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in
return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans
came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their
country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any
other nation to the poor in Afghanistan Americans welcome the best of
everything...the best products, the best books, the best music, the best
food, the best services. But they also welcome the least.

The national symbol of America , The Statue of Liberty , welcomes your
tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the
homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America

Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September
11, 2001 earning a better life for their families. It's been told that
the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30 different
countries, cultures, and first languages, including those that aided and
abetted the terrorists.

So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did. So did
General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other blood-thirsty
tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you would just be killing
yourself . Because Americans are not a particular people from a
particular place. They are the embodiment of the human spirit of
freedom. Everyone who holds to that spirit, everywhere, is an American.

Please keep this going!
Pass this around the World ?
Then pass it around again.
It says it all, for all of us
Please do not just delete.
Pass it on first.
Thanks!

re: #105 Russkilitlover

:) !

re: #102 lifeofthemind

I want some redneck charcoal barbecued dead cow. None of that frenchie-girly snails and frogs legs.

And I want a real shower in real running water. I don't want to cover up my man-stink with eau de cologne.

Girls don't like men who stink.

re: #87 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Spaceba & Dosvidanya.
I am off to my palatial datcha.

It ... rhymes?

Drinking borscht? Don't get none on ya.

re: #106 EC Marm

I stopped at "C". Learned about six others prior to that.

Now that's a new language. Portugese not so much.

re: #97 Dianna 7/01/08 3:25:07 pm

re: #87 Conservative in Liberal Hands

Spaceba & Dosvidanya.

Do svedanya!

Zdrave!*

^{*Before you correct me, it's Bulgarian.}

re: #103 Occasional Reader

Box wine... no, no, no, Boomer, don't do it, life is too short.

If you want wine to last a while, pick up a Wine Pump from your favorite liquor store; you can drink part of a bottle, pump out the air, it lasts for days or weeks, just fine.

Want the horrible truth?
Yes, I've got one.

/lazy, no excuse

Somewhere on a radio show in the past week or so, I heard the end of a brief discussion about Canada drilling for oil 10 miles outside of ANWAR. Radio person referred to this as 'drinking our milkshake." Anyone else have info?

I saw this mow-ron on MSNBC this morning (don't ask), names Bob Herbert. Wrote an op-ed today in the Slimes. What a joke.

I actually heard him ask why politicians are listening to the generals in the field about Iraq. He called it ridiculous. I'm gonna go look for the video.

Here's the op ed if you can stand it, it's a mess :

‘Oh Happy Day’

I'm posting it because it pissed me off so bad, I just didn't have time to post it at work.

BBIAB.

re: #115 Ward Cleaver

Like bonging?

Uh huh .. accompanied by some World Music and plenty of World Food while draped in the latest ethnic World Clothing. So entheogenic of them.

re: #47 P. Aaron

I am hardly a McCain fan but, Wesley Clark is a particularly ugly and smelly ass. The Democrat Party is uglier still for sending him out to do their bidding.

[/vote-no-Dems]

Clark is a Cretin. He almost ignited WWIII in the Balkans commanding a British officer to attack Russians. His order was disobyed.
This does give Obama a chance to look like a statesman, denouncing Clark syaing what they told him to say.
I do hope that peopse take offense.

re: #127 Daisy

Uh huh .. accompanied by some World Music and plenty of World Food while draped in the latest ethnic World Clothing. So entheogenic of them.

I... kinda like "world music". There, I said it.

(We all have terrible secrets, like Boomer's box wine)

re: #105 Russkilitlover

A Condensed Version of History
...
Conservatives drink domestic beer, mostly Bud.
...

In the beginning, there were hot lumps.

I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I try to drink ... Guiness.

Enuf said.

re: #111 Dianna

I went through a bad patch in the early 90's, when I was practicing practical botany. I'd already gotten sick of rice and beans back in college.

The good thing is, and I'm proud of it, my animals were always fed, even if I wasn't eating.

Amen to that. I lived in a rooming house and had a small dog which was better fed than I was. Well, one day the landlord came knocking and I was at work, and she sees my little overweight dog in the room and confiscated her. Accused me of abuse. She locked me out for a week, so I ate pears and loaves of bread that sold for .20 back then. I had the vet send a letter to the po-lice and voilah. I get my dog back, my stuff back, my food back, my blow dryer back. I was like a country song playing backwards.

Bye for now Lizards. Off to make something or other wonderful for dinner. :)

From the other thread:

Kos=Blue Trash

re: #92 Occasional Reader

Waiter! Bring us some fresh wine! None of that old stuff!

(And get these snails off my plate! You would think that in a fancy restaurant, at these prices, you could keep the snails off the food! There are so many snails there you can't even see the food! Now take those away and bring us those melted cheese sandwich appetizers you talked me out of!)

One of the funniest scenes ever in a movie.

re: #123 David IV of Georgia

Thought it looked off for Russian. Though as thoroughly awful as my Russian is...well.

re: #129 Occasional Reader

I... kinda like "world music". There, I said it.

(We all have terrible secrets, like Boomer's box wine)

Me too. The World Music that is :) not the Box Wine - or, for that matter, the bong.

re: #120 Whiterasta

I want some redneck charcoal barbecued dead cow. None of that frenchie-girly snails and frogs legs.

And I want a real shower in real running water. I don't want to cover up my man-stink with eau de cologne.

Girls don't like men who stink.

You aren't up for Es-Car-Goats? Sounds tough enough, don't it?

re: #134 opnion

One of the funniest scenes ever in a movie.

Movie? What movie? I just wrote that now, extemporaneously!

/

Goodnight, people!

re: #65 MandyManners

I'll make one for her if it helps

I don't question Obama's patriotism, I question his courage to confront evil, whether at home or abroad.

re: #77 debutaunt

Never say, Pinto Noir.

They'll serve you a wrecked Ford.

re: #137 lifeofthemind

You aren't up for Es-Car-Goats? Sounds tough enough, don't it?

The es-car-goats can be good, if cooked and served correctly.

/spoken by an American that might well be eating rice and beans in the near future, and not necessarily regretting the future.

re: #4 bryantms

"Consensus" is a political term, not a scientific one.

I watched this series a few months ago. Still excellent.

re: #136 Daisy

Me too. The World Music that is :) not the Box Wine - or, for that matter, the bong.

At least I've NEVER used a bong, or anything in that genre.

/sobbing in disgrace over having revealed the HORRIBLE box wine

re: #142 CyanSnowHawk

They'll serve you a wreckedblackened Ford.

(kind of a creole dish... and suprisingly easy to make, just whack the thing on the rear)

re: #141 DistantThunder

I don't question Obama's patriotism, I question his courage to confront evil, whether at home or abroad.

I continue to question his Country of Birth. And, you should do the same. Hawaii produces Birth Certificates. Why not the messiah's?

I just saw on the tv this morning that the restaurant that I proposed to my wife in was struck by lightning and burned to the ground yesterday.
The High School I attended burned to the ground. The Church I was married in is now a gymnasium. The reception hall we had our wedding reception in burned to the ground.

re: #128 opnion

Clark is a Cretin. He almost ignited WWIII in the Balkans commanding a British officer to attack Russians. His order was disobyed.
This does give Obama a chance to look like a statesman, denouncing Clark syaing what they told him to say.
I do hope that peopse take offense.

At the risk of repeating. When an operator like Clark gives Obama a chance to make a set piece condemning talk of patriotism and allowing the media to set limits on the message and how it can be shaped or debated -
I smell a set up!

re: #147 buzzsawmonkey

I posted this the other day, but in this week leading up to the Fourth of July, it is worth posting again:

The Man Without a Country, by Edward Everett Hale

If you have never read this story, read it.

If you have not read it for a while, renew your acquaintance with it.

I LOVE this story! It's part of a unit I designed combining American literature and American history. Sigh. I'll probably never get to teach it...

re: #149 EC Marm

I just saw on the tv this morning that the restaurant that I proposed to my wife in was struck by lightning and burned to the ground yesterday.
The High School I attended burned to the ground. The Church I was married in is now a gymnasium. The reception hall we had our wedding reception in burned to the ground.

I just want to say one thing: Stay the hell away from me.

re: #130 itellu3times

In the beginning, there were hot lumps.

I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I try to drink ... Guiness.

Enuf said.

I have to agree with Eric Idle: "American beer is like making love in a canoe......it's fucking close to water."

re: #153 Russkilitlover

I have to agree with Eric Idle: "American beer is like making love in a canoe......it's fucking close to water."

I though that was Watneys.

re: #149 EC Marm

I just saw on the tv this morning that the restaurant that I proposed to my wife in was struck by lightning and burned to the ground yesterday.
The High School I attended burned to the ground. The Church I was married in is now a gymnasium. The reception hall we had our wedding reception in burned to the ground.

Please don't move next door to me.
No offense meant. Life can look like that sometimes.

re: #152 Occasional Reader

I just want to say one thing: Stay the hell away from me.

I betcha EC's the reason the server's been flaky.

re: #145 pre-Boomer Marine brat

"/sobbing in disgrace over having revealed the HORRIBLE box wine."

Okay, before cooking something fabulous for dinner .. here's one of my guilty pleasures - for your eyes only pre-Boomer Marine brat: I love strawberry flavored Twizzlers.

re: #149 EC Marm

I just saw on the tv this morning that the restaurant that I proposed to my wife in was struck by lightning and burned to the ground yesterday.
The High School I attended burned to the ground. The Church I was married in is now a gymnasium. The reception hall we had our wedding reception in burned to the ground.

Hopefully a blessing, read.

re: #152 Occasional Reader

This is a fast crowd.

re: #153 Russkilitlover

I have to agree with Eric Idle: "American beer is like making love in a canoe......it's fucking close to water."

Not this again.

That observation about American beer is 20 years out of date (at least).

Drink three or four of these, and tell me it's fucking close to water (if you can even get the words out after that).

re: #158 Daisy

"/sobbing in disgrace over having revealed the HORRIBLE box wine."

Okay, before cooking something fabulous for dinner .. here's one of my guilty pleasures - for your eyes only pre-Boomer Marine brat: I love strawberry flavored Twizzlers.

So... where do you stand on black twizzlers?

re: #164 Allah al Fubar

Black licorice. Yum.

re: #130 itellu3times

In the beginning, there were hot lumps.

Read me, Dr. Memory. Excuse me. I will rephrase that as a question: Read me, Dr. Memory?
/had to go way back in time for that.

re: #138 Occasional Reader

Movie? What movie? I just wrote that now, extemporaneously!

/

Well then I congratulate you. Ya know what would help?
Tell Marie, not to look.

re: #166 Pullus Iulius

Read me, Dr. Memory. Excuse me. I will rephrase that as a question: Read me, Dr. Memory?
/had to go way back in time for that.

Thank you, barney!

re: #161 Occasional Reader

Not this again.

That observation about American beer is 20 years out of date (at least).

Drink three or four of these, and tell me it's fucking close to water (if you can even get the words out after that).

I actually heard it 30+ years ago when Monty Python came to the Hollywood Bowl. I know, it's old, but it's still funny.....

I thing (sic) I have mentioned in the past that lightning struck less than 50 feet from my front door and obliterated five 80 foot tall poplars on my property? I feel like this guy sometimes.

re: #169 Russkilitlover

I actually heard it 30+ years ago when Monty Python came to the Hollywood Bowl. I know, it's old, but it's still funny.....

Speaking of James Lileks (mentioned previously), he does have this to say in today's Daily Bleat:

The picture is from West Seventh in St. Paul – a guy sitting by an abandoned brewery complete with post-apocalyptic shredded add. You can tell it’s beer, because it says “taste” and “tradition,” two things American beers like to tout. They have one or the other, usually.

re: #164 Allah al Fubar

So... where do you stand on black twizzlers?

Now in America we take a broad bi-partisan approach to these issues. Allowing all the evidence to accumulate and each to make their choice without regard to race, creed, place of national origin or color. You may eat your chosen confection and if it of a certain color we just ask you to use the cheap seats. I thank you.

re: #105 Russkilitlover

A Condensed Version of History

That was fantastice. I'm going to send that to Jake.

re: #150 lifeofthemind

At the risk of repeating. When an operator like Clark gives Obama a chance to make a set piece condemning talk of patriotism and allowing the media to set limits on the message and how it can be shaped or debated -
I smell a set up!

Has to be. Obama is surrounded by Axlerod & other smarmy professionals. It is a strategy, no doubt.

Later. (maybe)

re: #32 Charles

Database server is acting a little weird. Had to restart it to try something -- still working on it.

Too many people unable to resist clicking on the 5,000 post thread?

I see over at worldnetdaily they are reporting the prolitariot is putting the champagne on ice at the obama campaign site. Also the "Jedi Knights of America" gotta be good for the cause.

I believe the problem has been resolved. Could have been a stuck frammistat.

re: #86 Kosh's Shadow

I watch the spokeswoman's silicone cleavage.

She's not biodegradable? BOOOOOO!

re: #179 Charles

What was it stuck on, 78 degrees?

re: #175 opnion

Has to be. Obama is surrounded by Axlerod & other smarmy professionals. It is a strategy, no doubt.

Axlerod? Is he the 'lynchpin' of the Obama campaign?

linch·pin or lynch·pin Audio Help (lĭnch'pĭn') Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A locking pin inserted in the end of a shaft, as in an axle, to prevent a wheel from slipping off.

/ Bill O'Reilly mode off

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

am not really sure the story behind this, all i know is that there is construction work going on in Mecca to expand the Mecca mosque, and this building collapsed at the wrong time

Didn't the Bin Laden family do the last round of improvements to the Great Mosque?

for a globally warmish kind of Tuesday afternoon

Actually, though I would not call it cool, it's definitely below average down here in Alabama.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

Didn't the Bin Laden family do the last round of improvements to the Great Mosque?

Wait till the troofers get a hold of this one.

re: #179 Charles

That controls the Frammis Rod, of course. I studied them back in Collage in the '70's

For the molecular biology inclined:

Crossed (evolutionary) signals?

What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with each other.

According to a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, these findings help confirm choanoflagellates' role as an evolutionary link between single-celled and multi-celled organisms. They also contend that these insights into the organism's genome may mean that the proteins used to help cells communicate may have other roles as well.

/is this where I am supposed to insert "Science!"?

Hahahah!

My cousin sent that pic to me lol

re: #183 Killgore Trout
I don't know, but it sure looks to my eye like a truck bomb exploded in front of that building.

re: #182 EC Marm

So if we get them to fire Axelrod will the wheels come off the bus?

re: #187 freetoken

For the molecular biology inclined:

Crossed (evolutionary) signals?

/is this where I am supposed to insert "Science!"?

Pretty damned complex for pond scum.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

That must have hurt.

re: #130 itellu3times

In the beginning, there were hot lumps.

I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I try to drink ... Guiness.

Enuf said.

It takes a real man/woman to drink the nectar of the Irish. Most people call it disgusting, bitter, and vile. Therefore it's no sissy import beer.

re: #189 EC Marm

From the middle clip it looks like it might be part of the mosque complex but there's no way to tell for sure. It also might be years old.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

Didn't the Bin Laden family do the last round of improvements to the Great Mosque?

MECCA, Saudi Arabia: Rescue workers still hoped Friday to find survivors from a four-story building that collapsed in Islam's holiest city, killing at least 53 people and marring the start of the annual gathering of millions of pilgrims.

re: #192 Charles

Inch allah. G-d's will.

Less barbarians of the earth to breed. (And consume my oil.)

re: #194 buzzsawmonkey

That has to be selective breeding, the elimination of the weak and stupid, in preference to the strong and intelligent.

Funny how evolution hasnt sorted this dilemma out earlier

re: #194 buzzsawmonkey

I guess that fellah with the elefante` was like the old joke, he was that poor monkey, trying to put the cork back in!

re: #198 A Kiwi Infidel

That has to be selective breeding, the elimination of the weak and stupid, in preference to the strong and intelligent.

Funny how evolution hasnt sorted this dilemma out earlier

We should therefore be in awe of EC Marm, given all that he's survived.

re: #196 jcm

The building that collapsed, Lulu'at al-Khair, is just 200 feet (60 meters) from the Grand Mosque.

Wow, that's close. I'll bet it was the Bin Laden family construction company.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

Didn't the Bin Laden family do the last round of improvements to the Great Mosque?

Cheap concrete - how mafialike.

re: #197 WhiteRasta

Oh so now it's your oil!?!? Let me see the bill of sale!

re: #183 Killgore Trout

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

Didn't the Bin Laden family do the last round of improvements to the Great Mosque?

That is terrible. There have been enough crane collapses in NY that we can't claim to be God's gift on construction infallibility. Standards in the 3rd world are notoriously poor and inspectors are famously corrupt. I am afraid that those standards may be getting imported into the West. On a security note we should remember that the Chechens used cover as construction workers to smuggle weapons into the school they seized in Beslan. We should keep a close eye on the construction industry and it's workers.

re: #204 lifeofthemind

Correction: Standards in the 3rd world New York City are notoriously poor and inspectors are famously corrupt.

re: #194 buzzsawmonkey

Bonnie and Paul were ripped off. Honorable Mention? They deserved better!

Perhaps a film?

re: #203 sojerofgod

Dude: We discovered it. We figured out what to do with it. We figured out how to refine it, process it and how to get it out of the ground.

We consume it and we pay for it. The barbarians sat on it for ten thousand years and never had a clue.

It's our oil.

re: #208 buzzsawmonkey

Thanks, but sorry no.

I don't travel left of the McMason McDixon line, unless I'm going to London to see the Queen.
Then I only layover until they get the engines started again on the jet.

re: #192 Charles

That must have hurt.

Thats going to leave a stain.

re: #195 Killgore Trout
When the video starts it look like the facade has been blown away on the bottom couple of stories. Extensive black charring on the walls. A big circular hole gouged in the second floor.
Either that or the sloppiest contractors in Mecca. Wouldn't that be something?

re: #194 buzzsawmonkey

I just love both 3rd place, as well as the winner!

Both lend a whole new meaning to the shit hitting the fan!

re: #55 philosoteric

Anyone else learning a new language? (Or at least the basics of one?)

I'm continuously learning and forgetting Japanese.
Wakarimasen!

re: #209 WhiteRasta

So.... Lets go kill all the a-rabs, enslave their women, and take their oil by force? Sounds like a plan straight from DailyKos's imaginings of what they think conservatives want to do.

Of course if the women are young and shapely we might..... Oh never mind!

re: #215 buzzsawmonkey

Heh, now I must insert an emphatic no! to that one. Someday I may travel to the BA as a stupid tourist, but probably just stay for lunch or something.

re: #213 EC Marm

The last clip is from a different angle shows them using firehoses.

Michelle Malkin linked to these beautiful photos at Soldier's Angels - Germany"

Trust

re: #209 WhiteRasta

Whoever can claim legitimate title to it, it sure isn't the House of Saud and the Wahabi mafia. The oil region is the Eastern province. That was a Nestorian christian community converted by force by the army of Mohammed. It later became a Shi'a dominated district under the nominal authority of the Ottoman Caliphate. The Saudis conquered the district during the 20th century shortly before oil was discovered.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

Looks like they were trying to pull the building with those bulldozers, but probably took more structure than they should have and the whole thing came down on them.

Unfortunately, all too common in the 3d World.

re: #198 A Kiwi Infidel

That has to be selective breeding, the elimination of the weak and stupid, in preference to the strong and intelligent less weak and not quite as stupid.

Fixed that for ya'.

Funny how evolution hasnt sorted this dilemma out earlier

It's still working on it. Keep in mind, the stupid moonbats you see in zombies pictures still have a lifespan of nearly 80 years (your mileage may vary). Check back in an Eon or two and humans might be noticeably less stupid.

re: #213 EC Marm

They were probably in the process of taking the building down and were going to pull it with those bulldozers. They probably damaged too much of the structure prepping it, leading to the collapse before they were prepared.

re: #213 EC Marm

I count about 20 people in front of the building as it collapses. Maybe there were more inside?

In another more unfortunate video, I've got some updates on that video showing hospital workers ignoring the woman in distress who dies on video from someone who worked inside Kings County for a period of time and was amazed that something like this didn't happen a long time ago.

re: #224 lawhawk

They were probably in the process of taking the building down and were going to pull it with those bulldozers. They probably damaged too much of the structure prepping it, leading to the collapse before they were prepared.

Oh, premature demolition. That can happen to anyone, don't let it worry you.

re: #226 lawhawk

In another more unfortunate video, I've got some updates on that video showing hospital workers ignoring the woman in distress who dies on video from someone who worked inside Kings County for a period of time and was amazed that something like this didn't happen a long time ago.

Baldwin video?

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

Soon to collapse into the center of the earth, more like.

re: #193 BlueCanuck

It takes a real man/woman to drink the nectar of the Irish. Most people call it disgusting, bitter, and vile. Therefore it's no sissy import beer.

Wot?

Guiness stout, it's like drinking a molasses-covered pound cake!

re: #230 itellu3times

Wot?

Guiness stout, it's like drinking a molasses-covered pound cake!

Mmm! Pound Cake!

"So.... Lets go kill all the a-rabs, enslave their women, and take their oil by force? Sounds like a plan straight from DailyKos's imaginings of what they think conservatives want to do.

Of course if the women are young and shapely we might..... Oh never mind!"

We might WHAT ! What might we do with the young shapley a-rab girls?

I like this thread more and more every day!

re: #228 Lively

Damnit. Wrong link.

Here's the correct link.

re: #229 godfrey

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

Soon to collapse into the center of the earth, more like.

The sun, moon, and stars, the celestial spheres spin around it, too, I surmise.

The more I use LGF Spy, the cooler it becomes. Thanks for another great innovative feature, Charles.

re: #230 itellu3times

Or the stuff they scraped out of the bottom of the barrel once they poured off the real beer!

re: #224 lawhawk

They were probably in the process of taking the building down and were going to pull it with those bulldozers. They probably damaged too much of the structure prepping it, leading to the collapse before they were prepared.

That kind of makes sense. Too many people standing around for it to be 'controlled'. It looks emptied. If it had caught fire an empty steel/cement structure is going to take a long time to weaken enough to collapse. I see rounded cement columns, some broken. Some smoke at right side which seems to be under the building.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

collapsing building in Mecca kills several people

Didn't the Bin Laden family do the last round of improvements to the Great Mosque?

This could have been an inside job. Rosie?

re: #230 itellu3times

Hey, I agree with you on that. But the looks I have gotten from some friends is great. I discovered an added benefit of Guiness when they came out with the cans. I could leave a four pack in a buddies fridge and show up three months later and they would still be there. Slightly dusty but good.

/then there were the other friends who enjoyed it as much as I did.

re: #226 lawhawk

In another more unfortunate video, I've got some updates on that video showing hospital workers ignoring the woman in distress who dies on video from someone who worked inside Kings County for a period of time and was amazed that something like this didn't happen a long time ago.

I saw this last night. Apparently at a mental health unit. The first thing I wondered was, do they have to deal with a bunch of people faking seizures or throwing tantrums in that manner? It could explain the complacency shown. Cry wolf enough and even dedicated professionals might become jaded enough to do that. And then I read about the many complaints about the care at that facility, and suddenly it looked very, very bad.

re: #217 sojerofgod

Are you serious? Where did I say about enslaving the muslims? And raping their women?

Fuckwit.

re: #233 lawhawk

Damnit. Wrong link.

Here's the correct link.

Thanks for the link.

And Obama wants to turn all health care Universal which means all of us will face this.

Medicare is going broke, so he wants to form another version of Medicare for us younger folk.

Get ready for more of these videos in more hospitals.

Obama Throws Fist Bump Under The Bus

[Link: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...]

re: #232 donbmcd

We don't have to "enslave their women." That is their way of thinking, a goal they would expect because it is they want to do to our society. Our goal should be to liberate their women, like everyone else. When the women there, not "their women", are free to go with any man they choose or none they will be free. I think we should have told the locals that we were going to defend our values because their values had created a dangerous pest hole that threatened the world. We should have told them that a 18 year old girl should be able to walk in a string bikini wearing her mother's jewelry from Mosul to Basra. If anybody so much as offered a hostile gesture to her we would kill them. Like Lord Napier on the practice of suttee we should have made our values so clear that we were respected. Then the people would have become as safe and free and ready to join the civilized world as the post WW-II Europeans are.

re: #238 Lively

I think the guy in the white robe got close to the building but then makes it out alive. As soon as he hears the first crack, he turns and runs. The camera shakes a lot and we lose view, but he appears to make it to the perimeter. Could still be killed by shattering debris, but he's clearly on the edge of surviving it.

re: #233 lawhawk

Damnit. Wrong link.

Here's the correct link.

The doctor has been fired? Only fired?

How about indictment for manslaughter? His license taken away, and HIM put out on the frickin' street to root through trash cans or starve?

re: #36 Daisy
How far upstate in upstate NY?

re: #243 TexasYeehadist

Change! Quick! Hopefully, no one notices!

re: #88 Walter L. Newton

I'm from Boston, so does English count as a second language?

OT. If the actors go on strike like the writers did, will the quality of acting increase in the monumental way the writing did?

Hey, K-Trout! Are you still there?
The kids were gone tonight so I made that fish recipe you posted a couple of times....the one w/ curry sauce. YUM !
(I made it w/ mahi-mahi instead of tilapia. No big diff, I'm sure.)

re: #244 buzzsawmonkey

If the Democrats get in, the wonders of this sort of health care will be available to all. Whether they like it or not.

I was at the DMV this week. Some lgfer recently compared intergalactic universal health care to the DMV so I paid close attention. The building was air conditioned to a nice crisp 65 degrees on a 75 degree day outside. The waiting area was about half full. I arrived at 10:00 am. The line was moving pretty quickly. Then a senior citizen bus pulled up and a 75 year old (at least) woman got off. One of the three state employees taking care of my concern got up and escorted her to the seat at the front of the line. She was obviously too weak to drive. She said something about needing a license for identifications then said, "[deleted] t o w e l heads". I kid you not. Well after that the line slowed, then stopped at 10:30. It was apparently break time, and only one clerk was working. This went on like this until 11:00 when the two others returned to work. I had to go through a couple minutes of the "motor voter" touch screen questionaire and the picture they took of me was straight from a police line-up. All in all, I'd rate the experience about a C-.

re: #149 EC Marm

Please don't stand next to us in the lounge!

Met a woman tonight who's family has owned a tobacco farm in Canada for many, many years. She told me that they haven't yet received "permission" from the government to grow their crop next year. I guess tobacco ain't that popular north of the border these days.

Go government! They can try and save you from everything except, well, government.

re: #5 wrenchwench

Is your new Schwinn OK? 'Cause I read where someone said you lost your bearings...

/

You got me nervous, so I took off the handlebars and headset and removed the O-ring to get into the races, and you know what, no problem. Plenty of bearings in there.

Was a little dry though, so I applied a little grease.

re: #94 Allah al Fubar

Poverty is really not that bad. At least, it wouldn't be for those of us who have already lived that life. Having grown up in shelters and in foster care, it's really not that bad. What you need is family. And food. Food a/k/a beans, rice, ground beef, basic fruits and veggies.

Always remember this: Beans are your friend.

I learned a lot from living in poverty. First, I wouldn't change it for the world -- it made me who I am today -- I love not being materialistic and appreciating the little things (like food and heat). Second, I don't want to go back.

To this day, I remember what it was like and I feel tremendously for those who currently live in it. So for me, poverty was in many ways a blessing, but for a lot of people it just really does suck.

/just my 2 cents

re: #253 buzzsawmonkey

There have been any number of despotic regimes that have been overthrown in the last 80 years. Why the brigands known as the House of Saud, put into place by the now-defunct British Empire following WWI, should be considered sacrosanct is beyond me.

The King of Saudi Arabia acts as the Guardian of the Two Shrines (Mecca and Medina), but the House of Saud has no legitimacy in that role. Abdul Aziz ibn Saud usurped the title when he appointed himself king and founded the present Saudi dynasty.

The Hashemite line is the historical holder of the title and the authority, even under the Ottomans. Nowadays, that's the King of Jordan.

Obama wants to 'expand' Bush's Faith Based Initiatives. That means he wants give more tax money to Rev. Wright and people like Farrakhan. That's exactly what this means. The Dems want to create a constituency of churches where the Dems are seen as the benefactors and the sugar boys, and the churches respond by steering their congregants to the party on election day.

This so-called Faith Based approach where the government uses churches to "fight poverty" is one of the most dangerous things in public life in this country today. It creates monsters. It turns the church into an arm of government beholden to whichever party 'expands' the sugar bowl.

It turns the separation of church and state on its head.

[Link: www.csmonitor.com...]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CANADA!

141 years of putting up with you yanks!

re: #262 Luigi