Blooming idiots.

I think I am going to puke.

OK, how much they gonna charge you?

The warm glow of patriotism.

theirs is a bleak little wrld.

You ever notice that the more some people complain about the state of the country (or anything for that matter), the less likely they are to offer a single usable idea about how to make things better?

Liberals are always so unhappy. They think they'll 'change' society and THEN they'll be happy. They don't realize their unhappiness doesn't come from society towards them but projected from them onto society.
What a miserable way to go through life.

Nice buzzkill. AP.

who's going to ride to the rescue?

gag me. Can we disband the AP yet? Oh and Boondock St. Bender, I luuurve your icon. (spike is so the man!)

Jimmy Carter, is that you?

Just more hate america BS!

We are still the go to nation. Everyone want us to help them and everyone wants to come here but they all hate us. I wonder how long till china is the big dog and everyone starts to hate them?

Driving through my neighborhood last night seeing all these American flags displayed in front of people's houses, shooting off fireworks to celebrate this wonderful nations birthday and these c**ksuckers write a piece of s**t like that.
F**k them!

I took seven (7) AP writers to produce this article!

The big local story is connection of the North span of the new 35W bridge.

re: #7 skree

Liberals are always so unhappy. They think they'll 'change' society and THEN they'll be happy. They don't realize their unhappiness doesn't come from society towards them but projected from them onto society.
What a miserable way to go through life.

It's like the people who think that if they buy the right thing or take the right pill, they'll be happy.

PIMF:
IT took seven ...

And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.

I dont worry about anyone riding to the rescue. I worry about who says they want to rescue me for my own good.

Clearly we're in need of a savior. Someone who can bring...CHANGE. I wonder who that might possibly be. It's a head scratcher for sure.

re: #13 itellu3times

I took seven (7) AP writers liars to produce this article piece of shit!

God, they make me ill.

re: #10 jaunte

Jimmy Carter, is that you?

For some reason I thought of 1979 when I read the AP quote.

And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.

Oh, yes. We are so helpless, we need the stage set for a Dear Leader to save us from ourselves!

Puke.

Here's the thing, ap- this nation was built by rugged individualists, and that's in our collective American DNA. If ANYONE is going to "save us" it's going to be us. Take your projectionist, obama stage setting and shove it.

Excuse me, but no one asked my opinion. How can the AP report on what we think when they don't ask us? For that matter, they've never asked me once for my opinion in any of their "what Americans think" pieces.

h, right. It's the AP. What's the point of facts when they have an agenda to push.

She needs a "good" vacation, somewhere in in North Waziristan, or better Saudi Arabia.

CALGARY - Canada's newest and largest mosque opened Saturday in Calgary, praised by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as an "architectural treasure."

Harper also strongly defended the Ahmadiyya community - an offshoot Muslim sect persecuted in some countries - for building a mosque that demonstrates "the true and benevolent face of Islam."

[Link: cnews.canoe.ca...]

"And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue."

I just bet they have someone in mind ... and maybe even a "what".

I have only one question, though. Where do they take these polls?
Downtown Berkeley?

OK, two questions. People actually pay crAP for this so-called "news"?

You know, we all went into the wrong business. We should be
punching out liberal and pinko "news" -- I bet we all said "naw,
you have to report facts." How were we to know you could just
make it all up? I could do entire crAP "page one" dross in my
sleep.

"Drug Use Blamed on Conservative Politics"
"Suicide Rates Go Up Under Bush"
"Science Reveals Socialism Is Best"

... I could go on but I charge $25 a word.

Ya know, I was just talking to my shrink about how bruised and battered my psyche was and how pessimistic I was feeling. We decided that more federal spending on stupid feel-good government programs and pulling out of Iraq was the answer to all my problems!

do I need a sarc tag?

re: #21 David IV of Georgia

Same here. Malaise! Everybody run, it's a rabbit!

re: #25 akak

[Link: cnews.canoe.ca...]

This must be the Saturday night puke thread!

Loser's All........................AP, CNN, NY Times, etc.

the AP speaks for all americans?

AP: Absolutely Pusillanimous

re: #31 pegcity

the AP speaks for all americans?

The AP speaks for all un-americans?
Yes.

BAAAAARRRF!

That soooo describes my Fourth!

I think the AP has been reading my diary.

re: #25 akak

meh i can deal with them, they are hated as much as jews by the rest of the muslim world.

re: #34 Plumed Basilisk

BAAAAARRRF!

Glad you made it to the puke thread!

re: #34 Plumed Basilisk

Allah hooey Ach Barf.

re: #26 PrairieWind

Would you believe that Dungeons & Dragons led to my conservative views.

re: #9 baxtrice

Thanks!most folks don't know who he is.

re: #38 tradewind

Allah hooey Ach Barf.

I don't know why but that made me LOL!

This is one American who is completely happy. I do not need anyone to rescue me.

I of course do not speak for all those lame sisters out there who never learned to man up.

Nice try, AP. This weekend is the first in many months that I have not felt like this guy, and it is due in no small part to the recent holiday.

Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.

Yeah, maybe the ineffectual, impotent crybabies are wondering this, but I know that I am the architect of my own destiny. I wait for no white-knight, politician-messiah to come to my 'rescue'.

re: #39 The Other Les

Would you believe that Dungeons & Dragons led to my conservative views.

How so? Long time gamer here.

re: #39 The Other Les

Would you believe that Dungeons & Dragons led to my conservative views.

You tried role playing a communist elf who thought government was the answer to the social ills between drows and elves and figured out that bureaucracies are inherently incompetent?

Could this be the opening plays of the full-court press by the MSM to get the Obamassiah anointed to his "divinely appointed" role?

re: #45 DeathtotheSwiss

You tried role playing a communist elf who thought government was the answer to the social ills between drows and elves and figured out that bureaucracies are inherently incompetent?

God came to him after a 3 day marathon of D & D.

re: #40 Boondock St. Bender

Thanks!most folks don't know who he is.

Bah! I heart me some Spike & Bebop--it's my favoritest anime!

re: #43 Slumbering Behemoth

Hear!Hear!

It must really suck to be a moonbat. Imaging getting up every mornng with that outlook? I'd drive into a bridge abutment in a week!

Whether things are going well or not, it is part of human nature to be dissatisfied with the present state of things, says Arthur Brooks, professor of business and government policy at Syracuse University and the author of "Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America — And How We Can Get More of It."

"Very few Americans wake up in the morning and say, 'This is an unbelievable country. I'm going to go to the supermarket, and there's going to be food. When I go and vote, nobody's going to beat me up,'" he says. "We're horrible at appreciating the status quo. We're really good at appreciating positive changes."

THANK YOU!

Nothing like keeping a little perspective.

re: #28 jaunte

Same here. Malaise! Everybody run, it's a rabbit!

Brother Maynard, bring out the Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch!

re: #48 baxtrice

My ex. just got me the entire collection for fathers day.My little guys kept telling her dad wants bebop!

re: #47 VegasRick

God came to him after a 3 day marathon of D & D.

I'm glad you said that in the non-porn thread.

And yet they ignore........
Carry on my wayward son.....

[Link: web.israelinsider.com...]

re: #50 CapeCoddah

It must really suck to be a moonbat. Imaging getting up every mornng afternoon with that outlook? I'd drive with a flat tire into a bridge abutment in a week!

"America is sick. There is little hope. Pain awaits all who strive. Woe is me!" -- AP, Reuters, CNN

re: #52 FurryOldGuyJeans

.. And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen

re: #1 MandyManners

Blooming idiots.

Offspring of a lefty who jack off into a flower pot.

re: #57 Karridine

"America is sick. There is little hope. Pain awaits all who strive. Woe is me!" -- AP, Reuters, CNN

And that message is NOT ACCIDENTAL.

If we only had a democrat president all would be well.
sigh.
/

re: #41 VegasRick

Say it three times quickly, adding some lullulululus, and you'll know why....

re: #57 Karridine

"America is sick. There is little hope. Pain awaits all who strive. Woe is me!" -- AP, Reuters, CNN

Your forgot ABC, CBS, NBC, CBC, CNBC, and MSNBC (did I miss any?). ;)

re: #57 Karridine

"America is sick. There is little hope. Pain awaits all who strive. Woe is me!" -- AP, Reuters, CNN

Needs more bleeding from the eyes and gnashing of teeth.

re: #64 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

O! who can save us?

re: #57 Karridine

Good evening - morning Karridine!.. Just listen to Obama and he will lead you to the promised land..

/sarc

They are taking their leftist, victim mentality and projecting it on the entire country. That really pisses me off.

What's worse, is the sneaking suspicion that obama brand prozac is what the ap will think is the only cure.

re: #46 FurryOldGuyJeans

Could this be the opening plays of the full-court press by the MSM to get the Obamassiah anointed to his "divinely appointed" role?

Yep.

Damn,so this is how the dark ages start.ap is on their game.

/

Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.

Good Lord, just do yourselves in already! What a shitty life to lead as die hard leftist pessimists.

re: #53 Boondock St. Bender

What is it about ex's and Bebop? I've got a strange story about my ex and my love for Bebop? (plus the various ex's of the bebop characters..)

It's almost creepy.. :)

re: #58 jaunte

.. And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it." Amen

Isn't that from the Book of Armaments? Chapter, Verse? And oops, I am a heretic in that I said it was Grenades, plural. I must do penance. ;)

re: #65 jaunte

O! who can save us?

Here is the secret.

You can.

re: #63 FurryOldGuyJeans

My bad.

Americans’ unhappy birthday: ‘Too much wrong right now’.

I woke up happy yesterday. What's wrong with me?

re: #72 FurryOldGuyJeans

Isn't that from the Book of Armaments? Chapter, Verse? And oops, I am a heretic in that I said it was Grenades, plural. I must do penance. ;)

Wicked naughty evil FurryOldGuyJeans. Next thing you know, you're be setting alight the Grail shaped beacon.

re: #56 VegasRick

I stand humbly corrected.

"America is sick. There is little hope. Pain awaits all who strive. Woe is me!" -- AP, Reuters, CNN

So the answer is to elect Obama and put the nation into one giant clinical trial?

re: #75 David IV of Georgia

Redneck!

re: #73 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

You're right. O isn't the answer.

Re-ban the AP, PLEASE!

re: #74 Karridine

My bad.

There are such pesky little things known as facts, you know. We can't just make stuff up like the MSM does, now can we? ;)

re: #35 DeathtotheSwiss

I think the AP has been reading my diary.

Ha! A diary, indeed.

Dear Diary,

When is that dreamy hunk gonna sweep me off my feet and rescue me from my mundane existence? My psyche is all battered and bruised, and yesterday was my most unhappiest birthday of all! I didn't even get that gov't subsidized pony I was promised. It's so unfair!

Ineffectually yours,
Whiny AP Socialist

re: #44 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

How so? Long time gamer here.

I started reading up on the military history of the Middle Ages after hitting fourth level as a fighter.

At my feet rigth now is a box with my copies of THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu, THE ART OF WAR by Niccolo Machiavelli, and HOW TO MAKE WAR by James Dunnigan.

I wonder where the Hell this person lives, because, this is the first Fourth I've spent in Texas and it seemed like everybody in the entire county was celebrating. The base spent a crapload on fireworks, but over a dozen surrounding neighborhoods were shooting off dynamite into the sky from before the sun went down to well after I was in bed.

Saying that republicans and democrats, conservatives and liberals, all feel the same way is so clueless it's beyond disengenuous. My wife and mother-in-law are Democrats and guess who enjoyed the festivities alongside me and my young Anarchist two-year-old son! Whoever wrote this article is no doubt living in an echo-chamber, possibly doesn't know any conversvatives...possibly doesn't even know any actual Americans.

But I thought we conservatives were the unhappy ones, clinging to our Bibles, bigotry and guns.

re: #65 jaunte

O! who can save us?

Mighty Mouse.

re: #71 baxtrice

yeah,it was an incredibly well written and fleshed out series.lost love,friendship and redemption.

re: #76 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wicked naughty evil FurryOldGuyJeans. Next thing you know, you're be setting alight the Grail shaped beacon.

Just as long as you don't ask me to cut down the forest with a herring.

"It's only a flesh wound!"

To the AP, some PJ:
[Link: www.buildfreedom.com...]

re: #75 David IV of Georgia

you're not a moonbat.

re: #66 Dolphin

I-

I'm FILLED, Obama!

I'm FILLED with your SOCIAL REVISION!

I'm FILLED with your SOCIAL REVISIONISM which worked SO WELL in Chicago!

I'm FILLED with your SOCIAL REVISION of Bottom Lines from the taxed-pockets of We, the People to the Gilded Accounts of Few, Developers!

/Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Debt, I will fear no weevil, for Obama fulfills! Obama FILLS ME WITH IT. Obama is FULL OF IT!

re: #89 FurryOldGuyJeans

Just as long as you don't ask me to cut down the forest with a herring.
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Oh? Please?

re: #83 Slumbering Behemoth

You've been reading my diary as well!

Lasso Jimmy Carter hold him down and smother him with kisses. that will fix the American psyche.

Previously:
AP: Everything seemingly is spinning out of control!

re: #88 Boondock St. Bender

and don't forget Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV!

I keep hoping the creator of Bebop will give us the prequel, but hopefully it won't be like what Lucas did with his prequels.

re: #76 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wicked naughty evil FurryOldGuyJeans. Next thing you know, you're be setting alight the Grail shaped beacon.

I once ran MPATHG as a D & D adventure. I had a lot of sadistic fun with the fake grails.

Always ask....
Which way are the rafts heading.

re: #85 DeathtotheSwiss

I wonder where the Hell this person lives, because, this is the first Fourth I've spent in Texas and it seemed like everybody in the entire county was celebrating. The base spent a crapload on fireworks, but over a dozen surrounding neighborhoods were shooting off dynamite into the sky from before the sun went down to well after I was in bed.

Saying that republicans and democrats, conservatives and liberals, all feel the same way is so clueless it's beyond disengenuous. My wife and mother-in-law are Democrats and guess who enjoyed the festivities alongside me and my young Anarchist two-year-old son! Whoever wrote this article is no doubt living in an echo-chamber, possibly doesn't know any conversvatives...possibly doesn't even know any actual Americans.

If anyone ever starts a war in Texas on July 4th, no one will notice. I like the fireworks that shake the ground and windows myself. Probably homemade pipebombs. Spent many a July 5th deaf as a child.

Charles, the defendants in the Holy Land case are asking Federal judge Jorge Solis (Bush 41 appointee) to dismiss the case again:

Holy Land defendants ask judge to dismiss terrorism financing case

Attorneys for the five Holy Land Foundation defendants scheduled for retrial in September have asked a judge to dismiss the terrorism financing case, accusing federal prosecutors of misconduct for allowing nonevidentiary materials into the jury room.

They say that those materials – a mixture of government case overviews and unadmitted wiretaps and reports – created a rift among jurors that unfairly forced last fall's mistrial after 19 days of deliberations, according to court papers.

Prosecutors admit that their staff inadvertently put demonstrative exhibits and some unadmitted materials in the jury room. But the government argues that those materials did not cause the mistrial, and that such a mistake is not reason enough to dismiss the case.

re: #87 The Other Les

O! who can save us?

He's got the ears.

It sounds like AP has been reading and copying the material put out by the Nazis when they were rousing the German public to put the Nazis into power. Alles mus anders sein! (Everything must change!)
AP is blowing the trumpets for the Messiah of Change!

In this case, however, the candidate that AP is touting, the candidate of change, seems to be the King of Flip-Flops, the candidate who has drastically changed his positions. Was the Flip-Flop King wearing a mask when he advocated positions on the Left, or is he wearing a mask now, during the 4 or 5 months of his general election campaign when he pretends to be a centrist. When he says "this has always been my position", he is clearly lying, because he could not have been on the Left and in the Center simultaneously, and his positions have changed as his targeted audience changed. What he have is a candidate who is a fraud and is not who he pretends to be (he was either lying then or he is lying now). And we have the AP that shills for this fraud.

Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going.

Sounds to me like they used Mapquest.

WHY did I click the link to that damnable AP article?! I was so HAPPY! Life was going so WELL! Now I'm simply MISERABLE!

/just doing my part to make AP's day
/may I vomit now?

re: #98 The Other Les

I once ran MPATHG as a D & D adventure. I had a lot of sadistic fun with the fake grails.

Did the same thing. Magic Coconuts of Speed. Squirells with 100 hp and a Vorpal attack. Druids objecting to the King's "Fireball Fun in the Forest" vacation promotion.

re: #97 baxtrice

That would be horrible!(lucasing the prequals)but,yes there is more to tell.even jet,faye,edward and ein after the last episode.what happened to them?

So according to AP, should I change my name to MiserableWantsToGoBackToHisCountryAmerican?

/screw AP! I love America! It is the best!

3 more days to the Myrtle Beach vacation. Woo hoo!

Oh, I forgot, this thread is supposed to be a pity party. soooorry.

re: #28 jaunte

Same here. Malaise! Everybody run, it's a rabbit!

There, fixed that for ya!

Perhaps America needs therapy with Dr. Dennis Leary.

*Language Warning, but hilarious*

re: #91 Boondock St. Bender

you're not a moonbat.

Phew. I'm glad that's been cleared up.

re: #108 PatrioticNaturalizedAmerican

So according to AP, should I change my name to MiserableWantsToGoBackToHisCountryAmerican?

/screw AP! I love America! It is the best!

I guess I should change my name to TooLazyToPreviewHisCommentsAmerican

re: #103 EE

Obama is starting to remind me of Sir Robin.

re: #19 VegasRick

It took seven (7) AP writers liars to produce this article piece of shit!

Oh now, isn't that awfully judgemental? I mean, if things are improving all the time and not getting worse, can't we say something nice about it? AP writers have feelings too, you know.
/sarc

"This is the best of all possible worlds!" says the optimist.
"I'm afraid so," agrees the pessimist.

re: #85 DeathtotheSwiss

Maybe the author is in a Baghdad hotel, out of stringers, and needs to make up something else for their boss.

re: #112 David IV of Georgia

always happy to be of service.

re: #86 brakes

But I thought we conservatives were the unhappy ones, clinging to our Bibles, bigotry and guns.

And strangely, amid all our fear and suspicion, we're having more babies than the angst-ridden ecologically sensitive liberals.

Maybe we really are happier and more hopeful?

re: #105 pre-Boomer Marine brat

WHY did I click the link to that damnable AP article?! I was so HAPPY! Life was going so WELL! Now I'm simply MISERABLE!

/just doing my part to make AP's day
/may I vomit now?

For you my friend: [Link: www.livescience.com...]

And this article: Rush to get 38 Mil a year
Should put THEIR depression a little more in perspective.

When the devil is getting 38 million dollars a year to continue making the "angels" life Hell, one tends to question his/her own faith

It comes down to whether happiness is intrinsic or extrinsic. When a person is committed to ideals, such as duty (including family, friends, work, community) and honor, and lives his or her life accordingly, there is deep fulfillment and contentment.

NO ONE can "make" another person happy. Contribute mightily to happiness, yes, but happiness is an individual responsibility.

Not sure what foreign-drivel idiot wrote that article - how do they make this stuff up is it that easy to make such large generalizations and not be taken to task to prove what you say is true?

But this American is Proud to be American and will never forget 9.11

Always have been and always will be to live in the freest and safest (thanks to our brave patriotic citizen volunteer army) country on Earth

So the AP and its foreign and american writers get a clue!

Do the 1200 Soldiers who took a pledge, on the 4th, of re-enlisting in the army in Saddam Hussein's (Not Obama Hussein Barak) ex-palace fit into this AP drivel.

Check out the wires for some great pictures of that event - aamzing!

Osama Hussein Barak will rot in Hell not in America!

Vote Republican ticket!

Robin Williams Peace plan for America.
[Link: www.sodahead.com...]

Once I tried clinging to my fireworks, but my hands got sore.

re: #120 goddessoftheclassroom

It comes down to whether happiness is intrinsic or extrinsic. When a person is committed to ideals, such as duty (including family, friends, work, community) and honor, and lives his or her life accordingly, there is deep fulfillment and contentment.

NO ONE can "make" another person happy. Contribute mightily to happiness, yes, but happiness is an individual responsibility.

Makers and Takers: Why Conservatives Work Harder, Feel Happier, Have Closer Families, Take Fewer Drugs, Give More Generously, Value Honesty More, Are Less ... Even Hug Their Children More Than Liberals

Subtitle of article,

"Vote Democrat and we'll leave you alone."

re: #120 goddessoftheclassroom

NO ONE can "make" another person happy. Contribute mightily to happiness, yes, but happiness is an individual responsibility.

I agree. Happiness comes from within. And another old saying is true as well. Misery loves company.

Heard the story on AP radio today. Implied the Obamessiah would bring free fuel and pay for no work.

re: #107 Boondock St. Bender

*crosses fingers* I we get more -- I want to know what happened.

The nation’s psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable or struggling, Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.

Just one counter example here, but I love my life, love my country, and resent anyone who thinks I need them to "rescue" me from either.

re: #114 Mich-again

Obama is starting to remind me of Sir Robin.

The Ballad of Brave Sir Robin

Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot.
He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin!
He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways,
Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin!
He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp,
Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken;
To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away;
And his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin!

His head smashed in and his heart cut out
And his liver removed and his bowels unplugged
And his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off
And his pen--

Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat,
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

He is packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering up
And chickening out and pissing off home,
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge...

Unfair, unbalanced, and written by a committee to the tune of "It Sucks to Be Us."

Infinitely more sense and historical perspective from Victor Davis Hanson.

re: #127 pat

Heard the story on AP radio today. Implied the Obamessiah would bring free fuel and pay for no work.

Old Soviet joke:
I pretend to work as long as the State pretends to pay me.

re: #75 David IV of Georgia

I woke up happy yesterday. What's wrong with me?

For the first time in a long while, so did I. I guess I just get giddy when celebrating the birth of my nation. I had a great time, and I didn't even light any fireworks.

WTF? Why is my America so different from AP's America? Something's going on here, the MSM is gearing up for the election and articles like this will reach a crescendo just before election day. Poor John McCain won't know what hit him.

re: #130 David IV of Georgia

What is your name?

Barack Obama

What is your quest?

To become President.

What is your policy on Iraq?

Run. WAIT! AAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEE!

Um, Wow. Where the hell to begin to say what is wrong with that, uh, article. The only people who are that depressed about the US are democrats and liberals.

That is not news, it belongs in the opinion section, or better yet the trash. I wonder how many papers will run that.

re: #134 Paul

WTF? Why is my America so different from AP's America? Something's going on here, the MSM is gearing up for the election and articles like this will reach a crescendo just before election day. Poor John McCain won't know what hit him.

We should invade AP's America before it starts to spread.

re: #134 Paul

WTF? Why is my America so different from AP's America? Something's going on here, the MSM is gearing up for the election and articles like this will reach a crescendo just before election day. Poor John McCain won't know what hit him.

Lefties compare reality to their utopia, and find doom and gloom.

On the right we look at reality, and say it could be worse, but I will make it better.

This makes me so mad!
I can't get through the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem without choking up. It happens every time- I struggle to regain my composure.
This is the greatest country in the world by far.
We are blessed with such great abundance in every way.
I thank heaven above to have been born in the United States of America.

re: #140 jcm

G'night. Off to watch the movie.

re: #134 Paul

But thankfully, most people who would be influenced by that barrage for Barack can barely read, and don't do a lot of it unless it involves instructions for cashing in some government entitlement .

This reminds me of when the liberals say the rest of the world hates us.....well....yes.....the liberals of the world hates us and it intensifies the longer a Republican is in office. The longer democrats/liberals are out of power (the presidency) the more helpless they feel. This has nothing to do with how "democrats and Republicans alike feel" this has to do with the desperation of the left.

Hope these people don't hold their breath waiting for the rescue. Better to look at the mirror and see who is available for help.

And despite the $4+ a gallon gasoline, the biggest problem we face on the economic front is the rule of the power of suggestion. These people have been harping for the last 7 years how horrible the economy is. Eventually, if you beat the drum long enough, you get the glass wall to shatter. Economy is part mental. If you think you can make it, then you will.

I am not diminishing the fact some people out there are suffering....they are. What I am saying is they have to get involved in changing the situation. I remember years ago when the steel mills moved out of parts of the country and people sat around for months drawing unemployment and crying woe is me. I always wondered why they just didn't move to where there were jobs. Maybe not doing what they did, but drawing a salary anyway. Always easier to get a job if you have a job.

The nation’s psyche is battered and bruised, the sense of pessimism palpable. Young or old, Republican or Democrat, economically stable or struggling, Americans are questioning where they are and where they are going. And they wonder who or what might ride to their rescue.

Hey AP, the Daily Kos does not represent America.

Who the hell are the Optimist club? Are they as optimistic as the UN Human Rights Commission supports human rights?

re: #138 DeathtotheSwiss

We should invade AP's America before it starts to spread.

Invade Minneapolis?

re: #127 pat

Heard the story on AP radio today. Implied the Obamessiah would bring free fuel and pay for no work.

He will tax that filthy rich upper 3% to benefit the filthy poor 97%. Call him Baby Huey (Long).

I was fealing down being stuck in a hotel for the past 5 weeks hoping around the country. But overall I'm in good health and making my Amercian Dream become a reality one day at a time working hard and looking for a future Mrs. Idle Drifter to love. Damn it enough with the doom and gloom. America kicks ass!

Just my two cents.

re: #136 mglazer

Dude! WTF?!?

re: #134 Paul

WTF? Why is my America so different from AP's America? Something's going on here, the MSM is gearing up for the election and articles like this will reach a crescendo just before election day. Poor John McCain won't know what hit him.

The Dems keep saying there are 2 Americas, the AP apparently just listens to one of them.

In the "who's suprised" news today;

Hamas Suspends Prisoner Exchange Talks With Israel

The Hamas declaration to suspend the prisoner exchange talks came after Israel decided to keep cargo crossing points with the Gaza Strip closed - in retaliation for continued rocket attacks by Palestinian militants against southern Israel.

The talks are supposed to lead to freedom for Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit, who was seized from his Gaza border post two years ago by Palestinian militants. Egypt has been brokering talks that would see Schalit freed in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners that Israel holds.

Start executing one terrorist every day until Schalit is released. If they run out, the IDF should target a Hamas building daily and level every structure with a 100 meters until he is let go.

Zombie,

Seen this at MIT?

[Link: hacks.mit.edu...]

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

Dude! WTF?!?

I might be wrong about him being a troll, he's been registered since 2004. But, the few comments he has made since January of this year are all very perplexing. I dunno...this last one really hit me wrong.

You must be a superman to work for the AP! Apparently their writers can divine not only the innermost thoughts and feelings of individuals, but of entire nations!

That AP article, in its entirety, appeared in today's Milwaukee Journal, not that it curtailed anyone's celebration. The liberal Journal is, of course, completely in the tank for Obama.

re: #129 nikis-knight

I resent the very use of the word 'rescue'. It implies weakness, helplessness, and confused befuddlement that I do not want attributed to me. Whenever I read a book or watch a movie I identify with the rescue-er not the rescue-ee. I don't need rescuing.

Please! DON'T QUOTE THE TROLLS!

re: #160 Sharmuta

Please! DON'T QUOTE THE TROLLS!

How will people know why we're insulting them then?

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

Dude! WTF?!?

It seems someone violated the Iron Fist Rule.

re: #134 Paul

WTF? Why is my America so different from AP's America? Something's going on here, the MSM is gearing up for the election and articles like this will reach a crescendo just before election day. Poor John McCain won't know what hit him.

Most Americans are too happy to get their news from AP.

‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

Manji said scientists at the Razi Vaccine and Serum Research Institute in Iran had bought 215 vervet monkeys from him this year but he had become suspicious about their true motive, although he was still trading with them. They had “spent a lot of money” on getting the monkeys, even sending over scientists to check on each consignment.

“Iran is very secretive,” said Manji, who has been exporting monkeys for 22 years. “They said it [the monkeys] was for ‘our country’, for vaccine. [They said] ‘We don’t buy vaccine from anywhere; we prepare our own vaccine’.

“But I think they use it for something else. You know why? Because they don’t go on kilos. Iran wants [monkeys weighing] 1.5kg to 2.5kg, [but] 1.5kg for vaccine is not possible.”

Rubibira indicated that finding out what the Iranians wanted the monkeys for would be difficult. “They cannot say, you know. They are secretive. They wouldn’t tell the truth.”

Avatar test (definitely not OT).

re: #161 DeathtotheSwiss

How will people know why we're insulting them then?

They can scroll up

re: #161 DeathtotheSwiss

just leads to alot of deletions later,and stinky goes through alot more trash bags.

re: #161 DeathtotheSwiss

Because all you're doing is getting yourself deleted when they're that bad.

re: #165 Josephine

nice.

re: #165 Josephine

nice!

re: #164 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

Oh, no.

michelle o wrote that.
that buffoon is not describing me.
i had a wonder independence day. i counted my blessings all day long.
god bless america.
everyone in the world dreams of coming here.

re: #165 Josephine

I love it!

re: #165 Josephine

Avatar test (definitely not OT).

Awesome!

Kragar, Sharmuta, Boondock,

Points taken. Will heed your advice from now on.

Hot Air Headlines....
British hermits: the growing lure of the solitary life

"I love it," she explains, from the unplastered interior of her home, which smells of stone and damp and where everything in sight is functional and worn. "It means I can fart and belch as I like. I can wander round in my pyjamas, make as much mess as I like, go to bed when I want, and there are no arguments."

Yeah!

Something is seriously wrong with the AP. It is not random, and when they were even worse a while back, they would post these sort of stories without listing an author
Fairly recently, Charles showed an AP story with some unusually out-of-context verbiage. What Charles did not say was that three, count em, three AP authors had similar stories with the exact same wording embedded in them. Then as I was searching, the stories seemed to come up with less hits. The AP is not what it paints itself to be, or it is being used by somebody who knows how to game the system.

re: #171 MandyManners

is dinnerjacket gonna mate with them?

re: #175 DeathtotheSwiss

Kragar, Sharmuta, Boondock,

Points taken. Will heed your advice from now on.

same here

You should have maintained the boycott.

re: #176 Killgore Trout

Hot Air Headlines....
British hermits: the growing lure of the solitary life

Yeah!

And she'll never have to worry about breeding!

re: #165 Josephine

Avatar test (definitely not OT).

Just Perfect ! :)

From the AP story:
"I could cry," she responds when asked how things are.

"We used to have more money than we knew what to do with..."

Don't you want to dry your eyes? If you were to believe this tripe, you'd be so sad because in this great country was someone lucky enough to be recently swimming in cash-money, but, geez who's fault might it be--a few years later it'd been all pissed away. Hope! Change! B-Ho will fix it rock bottom guaranteed that if at some point in time you are firing on all cylinders, it will never go away. We-e-e-e! I can't wait! The AP has figured out that there's a new sheriff in town, and he gonna make life sweet for you, me, and everyone. Must...vote...Obama....must...vote...Obam-a-a-a-ah .

re: #176 Killgore Trout

ummm...i can do the same thing,(not that i do)but i live in an apt.

re: #164 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

that's terribly Tom Clancyish...

re: #164 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

Right out of a Clancy novel.

re: #178 Boondock St. Bender

is dinnerjacket gonna mate with them?

He already has.

My first clue as I trudged through the doorway of my dilapidated house following my firing at work was that the cat had lost all his fur. I went to turn on the light, and nothing still happened, as it had not for the past seven years. My neighbor was dead in my backyard. Apparently he had been fighting with the dog over the final drops of water in his bowl...the dog's, not the neighbor's.

/flushes pity pot

This whole thing has to be put in to prospective. The left is doing everything it can to push America into a depression, to make the whole country beholden to them. I blame the currant oil prices on George Soros and his ilk and the housing situation that only took them 5 years to push into the minds of the public. The left surly knows what they are doing and are doing everything they can to make America look like a shit hole.

re: #185 joecitizen

that's terribly Tom Clancyish...

re: #186 jcm

Right out of a Clancy novel.

To the very second.

Its gotta suck being a newspaper reporter nowadays... never fun to be in a dying industry.

re: #184 Boondock St. Bender

ummm...i can do the same thing,(not that i do)but i live in an apt.

Marketing is selling someone something they already have and can use for free but don't know they want. If you can sell someone an idea, you are a master salesman.

Viva la capitalism!

re: #187 MandyManners

you have to warn before you do that!(almost choked)lol

re: #187 MandyManners

He already has.

Aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwkkkkk! :O

re: #176 Killgore Trout

Hot Air Headlines....
British hermits: the growing lure of the solitary life
Yeah!

Just so it has bandwidth.

But for me, signing off for the night. Please imagine a flag waving and the Star Spangled Banner playing, and then a nice test pattern.

re: #195 itellu3times

Wow, I remember those things.

re: #190 MandyManners

To the very second.

cool...mebbe I'll hit the lotto tonight and go sell hotdogs on the beach in Costa Rica...

re: #122 CapeCoddah

Robin Williams Peace plan for America.
[Link: www.sodahead.com...]

Holy crap! I didn't know he had that in him. I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise, though, as I heard that he has gone over seas several times to entertain the troops, and on his own dime as well.

re: #185 joecitizen

GET OUT OF MY MIND!

;-)

re: #196 Killgore Trout

hear that tone...

re: #199 jcm

GET OUT OF MY MIND!

;-)

kismet,baby

Thanks, all, for your positive comments re. my avatar!

It's a vintage postcard that I just had to buy; I love it. My husband did the technical work.

re: #186 jcm

re: #185 joecitizen

It is right out the Tom Clancy Novel, I wish I would remember which one. I think its the one after "Debt of Honor" and it was almost repeated in Rainbow Six with a group of corporate funded eco-terrorists bent on cleansing the world of the human race except for their little part of the world.

From President Reagan's farewell address: "Because we’re a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours."

re: #200 jaunte

400 hertz. I know it well.

re: #201 joecitizen

Someone has been reading Dune.

/Fear is the mind killer.

re: #139 DeathtotheSwiss

Fucking trolls...someone bring out the troll hammer.

mglazer isn't a troll (he's been around for a long time), but that is an odd post.

Want to see the Tour de France?

re: #205 Killgore Trout

Slightly below "A."

re: #207 Ward Cleaver

Some of us drink.

re: #207 Ward Cleaver

i guess we all have bad days..lord knows i do.

re: #195 itellu3times

Just so it has bandwidth.

But for me, signing off for the night. Please imagine a flag waving and the Star Spangled Banner playing, and then a nice test pattern.

When LGF goes down from time to time, instead of a page saying the server is down or whatever, put up a test pattern instead.

re: #190 MandyManners

To the very second.

iirc in the novel, middle easterners used a Christian nun to breed Ebola. Clancy also penned a the idea of flying commercial jets into buildings.

re: #209 Roentgen

Yeah but you can always get an A 440 from a dial tone. Very handy.

re: #189 BBev

This whole thing has to be put in to prospective. The left is doing everything it can to push America into a depression, to make the whole country beholden to them. I blame the currant oil prices on George Soros and his ilk and the housing situation that only took them 5 years to push into the minds of the public. The left surly knows what they are doing and are doing everything they can to make America look like a shit hole.

I'll quibble with you on this...not the left, the leaders of the left. And I doubt they want the country to get THAT bad, just bad enough that the average American will be affected...not bad enough that it'll affect their lives in any meaningful way. Leftist idealogists and leaders share the common: End justifies the means tripe that allows Michael Moores and Pelosis to tell full-on lies, smear their enemies and basically just do anything they can to destroy the opposition so that they can go on and start fixing Americans. The left actually wants to reform the citizens, not the government but the regular people who actually enjoyed the recent Fourth of July celebration.

400Hz:

re: #212 NJDhockeyfan

That's a good idea.

I suppose it's no coincidence that this AP piece comes to my attention at the same time this film is on the T.V.

re: #213 MacGregor

yes he did,i remember he was on tv the morning after 9/11.

re: #203 Idle Drifter

re: #185 joecitizen

It is right out the Tom Clancy Novel, I wish I would remember which one. I think its the one after "Debt of Honor" and it was almost repeated in Rainbow Six with a group of corporate funded eco-terrorists bent on cleansing the world of the human race except for their little part of the world.

Executive Orders.

re: #212 NJDhockeyfan

When LGF goes down from time to time, instead of a page saying the server is down or whatever, put up a test pattern instead.

Perhaps that fancy graphics site Charles found to try and place websites on an east-west, colorized continuum.

Or this month's Rolling Stone cover with the Hussein-whore on the cover, all airbrushed and whatnot.

re: #213 MacGregor

So did Stephen King in The Running Man.

It was a dark and stormy night. For this, I blamed George Bush. What was worse, my internet was acting up, and I knew it was the illegal wire tapping that was the cause. There was no joy to be found in this town, mainly because everyone is unhappy in their pitiful, meaningless jobs just to support the everything else in their life. It's hard to keep up with the Jones, and I blame Republicans. Sure, there's gas in their tanks and food on the table, but no one is happy with just that. They want more, and if it weren't for Bush and his meddling neo-cons, we could get away with it too.

re: #223 Sharmuta

Heh.

re: #188 Timbre

What is this?

re: #220 jcm

Thank you. Excellent book, though parts of its fiction may become fact.

Good golly, I have moved around this planet much of my life and I have to say I am always so very glad to be home in the good ol USA. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed many of the places I have lived and will treasure the memories but this country with all the good and bad is still, the BEST place on earth to live. IMHO

I think many of us have taken so much for granted, we have become spoiled and frankly, whiny.

we have so many advantages that far too many people only dream of....it kills me, when in the grand scheme of things, people can be so shallow.

I am thankful for having had the opportunity to live abroad for several years while my children were in their teens. They can now appreciate all that they have and all that they can be as a citizen of the US.

re: #219 Boondock St. Bender

yes he did,i remember he was on tv the morning after 9/11.

He must have been shocked to see his ideas turned into ingredients of unrestricted warfare against us. Or maybe not.

re: #223 Sharmuta

That's 99% of College level Intro to Creative Writing submissions.

re: #215 DeathtotheSwiss

I hear ya. But we are not just dealing with the American left we are dealing with European left also and more then that we are also dealing with middle eastern governments that would love to take us down a few pegs.

re: #213 MacGregor

iirc in the novel, middle easterners used a Christian nun to breed Ebola. Clancy also penned a the idea of flying commercial jets into buildings.

Remember this?

re: #223 Sharmuta

Tell it like it is, Toots.

re: #230 BBev

Agreed whole-heartedly, this is where the term "useful-idiot" comes into play so perfectly.

re: #164 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

‘Germ warfare’ fear over African monkeys taken to Iran

I'm trying to remember a novel I read several years ago that dealt with something similar. Terrorist used monkeys to extract the Ebola virus and developed a method to make the virus airborne by the use of aerosol cans. The plan was place the cans malls, convention centers and stadium throughout the US and let the virus spread.

I can't remember the book or who wrote it, but it definitely made you think and scared the crap out me. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

re: #227 kawfytawk

Good golly, I have moved around this planet much of my life and I have to say I am always so very glad to be home in the good ol USA. Don't get me wrong, I have enjoyed many of the places I have lived and will treasure the memories but this country with all the good and bad is still, the BEST place on earth to live. IMHO

I think many of us have taken so much for granted, we have become spoiled and frankly, whiny.
we have so many advantages that far too many people only dream of....it kills me, when in the grand scheme of things, people can be so shallow.

I am thankful for having had the opportunity to live abroad for several years while my children were in their teens. They can now appreciate all that they have and all that they can be as a citizen of the US.

Our family has also been lucky enough to be abroad much of our time. Your view is from a high place, and clear.

re: #227 kawfytawk

Bravo!

"There are so many things you have to do to survive now," says Larue Lawson of Forest Park, Ill. "It used to be just clothes on your back, food on the table and a roof over your head. Now, it's everything.

"I wish it was just simpler."

Lawson, mind you, is all of 16 years old.

AP expects to get paid for crap like that?

yeah, well this is a bit of This Week's Parshat Hashavua via email from my senior Rabbi;

Yet the years since the terrorist attack on 9/11 have given us more to think about in terms of what the United States represents in the world. Rather than being respected as a beacon of liberty and freedom, many now see us as indiscriminate bullies who will use any and all means to get our way. In our fight against terrorism we tore a country apart which we know, despite its despotic rule, had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. We sacrificed not only our own men and women, but untold number of innocent civilians, causing continuing havoc throughout the country. We have imprisoned hundreds of suspected terrorists at Guantanemo and other secret detention sites, claiming they have no international Geneva Convention guarantees and have no rights of due process. We would probably have no sympathy for those interned, except for the knowledge that a not insignificant number seemingly were not engaged in terrorist activities. We were horrified by the published photos of the treatment of inmates at Abu Graib and probably would not have believed the claims had photos not been proudly taken of the acts whose purpose was simply to humiliate. And aware of the challenge that terrorists and their horrendous acts present, we are enormously troubled by the permission of those who act in our name to employ torture in their interrogations. This despite the claims by many authorities that acts of torture do not produce the information sought.

We remain proud Americans, but we know that the liberties that have been revealed in recent years do not conform with our notion of what our nation must stand for. We are engaged in the process of choosing a new leader of our nation. As we think to the future we look to a president who will renew our pride and promise to rid us of policies that undermine that pride. We will listen carefully over the next few months until election day in order to choose national leaders who will lead us in a better direction, to put us back on an honorable course.

I invite you to visit [Link: www.nrcat.org...] where you can view a national religious petition urging our government to reject the use of terrorism. I urge you to read it and decide for yourself if this reflects your values.

And he complains how political fundamentalists are.... projects JUST a little bit on this issue and a few others as well but then what leftard doesn't....maybe he'll move on when the Messiah is elected.

re: #227 kawfytawk

If this country is so bad why do so many people want to come here?

re: #234 jorline

I think someone mentioned it before, I'm pretty sure this is Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

We got through this.
And we got through this.

And our country was the better for it.

And AP can just stuff it.

re: #231 NJDhockeyfan

Hadn't seen that before. Good find.

re: #234 jorline

I'm trying to remember a novel I read several years ago that dealt with something similar. Terrorist used monkeys to extract the Ebola virus and developed a method to make the virus airborne by the use of aerosol cans. The plan was place the cans malls, convention centers and stadium throughout the US and let the virus spread.

I can't remember the book or who wrote it, but it definitely made you think and scared the crap out me. Does this ring a bell with anyone?

It was breed in humans come to think of it.

re: #237 David Simon

AP expects to get paid for crap like that?

It's like an Onion article.

re: #239 NJDhockeyfan

that's what I keep asking!

re: #237 David Simon

Make it simpler, Lawson. You can.

re: #238 spidly

Will you be responding to his message?

re: #233 DeathtotheSwiss

Agreed whole-heartedly, this is where the term "useful-idiot" comes into play so perfectly.

Amen

re: #242 MacGregor

Hadn't seen that before. Good find.

I remember when that happened. Reston is just north of me. Whenever someone mentions Reston I always think about the Ebola monkeys.

EE (#103),

In this case, however, the candidate that AP is touting, the candidate of change, seems to be the King of Flip-Flops,

Or is he?

A Clarification
A Message to American Voters
By Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)

My Fellow Americans:

You may have read recent news reports that suggest I have modified my position regarding the redeployment of American military personnel in Iraq. Unfortunately, these reports have been the source of much confusion and anxiety among the millions of voters who have supported my campaign, and I would like to take this opportunity to address their concerns.

Let me be crystal clear: if elected president, my first act will be to call for the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq. I have always been consistent and forthright in this position, and I want to reassure my supporters that my recent statement backtracking from it was just some bullshit my staff came up with to tack to the center for the general election. To win this election, it will be critical to appeal to the dwindling but stubborn group of idiots who cling to fantasies of American "victory" in this tragic disaster. It's an unfortunate part of the complicated game of presidential politics, but let's face it: I can't stop this war if I'm not in the White House. However, you should know by now that whatever I may say from now until November, once elected I will immediately pull the rug from these gullible pro-war rubes.

Or will I? As is obvious to all but the most deluded HuffPo retard, the surge in Iraq has produced dramatic improvements in security throughout Iraq, and the roots of a stable pro-American democracy. We have the terrorists on the run, and it would obviously be crazy for us to pull our troops from the region just as we are on the verge of victory. And it is equally obvious that everything I said in the previous paragraph was designed to placate the naive hipster moonbats I brilliantly exploited to destroy the Clintons. (You're welcome.) Now that the nomination is in the bag, I am finally free to stake out my genuine pro-victory Iraq position, and have a good laugh while the dKos morons screech like a bunch of apoplectic howler monkeys. Let's face it: at the rate I'm heading right on national security, I'll be raining nukes on Tehran by February.

See what I mean? That previous paragraph should be a signal to all of you in the progressive community just how committed I am to an immediate troop withdrawal. If that's the kind of shameless bellicose jingoism it takes to temporarily fool the neocons and extra-chromosome Jebus tards, I will do it. Just as I was willing to wear the stupid flag lapel pin to satisfy their lust for empty "patriotic" symbolism. But deep in your heart you know my real goal: to end this war, and atone to the world for the 28 nightmare years of Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Bush fascism. Imagine the looks on the multinational plutocrats' faces when I sign the bill that nationalizes their stupid oil industry!

...

re: #239 NJDhockeyfan

If this country is so bad why do so many people want to come here?

How many people promised us they would leave the U.S., even if only temporarily to Canada, should Bush be re-elected. Promised us. None left. Not the celebrities, not my co-workers and most of all--not the Klueless Kos Kids.

re: #240 DeathtotheSwiss

I think someone mentioned it before, I'm pretty sure this is Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy.

Thanks, scared the shit out of me. I remember thinking, why give someone whacked-out ideas.

re: #244 DeathtotheSwiss

It's like an Onion article.

Precisely what I was thinking as I read it.

re: #239 NJDhockeyfan

See that's the benchmark. You can tell the type of place it is by either the mass exodus or the people willing to risk their lives on a homemade boat just to get there.

I simply have not seen an exodus from the USA....when I do....thats when I can get depressed.

re: #231 NJDhockeyfan

Remember this?

Boy, I do. And if you think the AP presents a scary story of the economy, just let them get hold of anything that might threaten the life of one individual in a trillion. The case was huge about the monkeys...but then faded faster then my summer tan.

/liberals believe you don't have to die and that someone out there is cheating you with death. Everything they do is a promise to you that death is avoidable and when it occurs, you can sue just about anyone.

O Beautiful....

I think that one's been attributed to George Carlin as well.

Snopes.com is your friend!

re: #122 CapeCoddah

Robin Williams Peace plan for America.
[Link: www.sodahead.com...]

The sun shines on us every day.
The atmosphere brings rain.
Gravity keeps us anchored.

What pray tell, is there to bemoan?

jorline (#234),

The Cobra Event

By Richard Preston.

good night friends. A day at the lake can zap all the energy right out of ya :O)

re: #198 Slumbering Behemoth

Holy crap! I didn't know he had that in him. I guess it shouldn't be too much of a surprise, though, as I heard that he has gone over seas several times to entertain the troops, and on his own dime as well.

I don't think that's an actual Robin Williams quote. I've seen it attributed to George Carlin as well. Probably something written anonymously that got comedians' names attached to it, like that e-mail that claimed Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers were badass special forces soldiers.

I'd check Snopes.com, but too lazy to do it right now...lol

OT: My dad is back in college getting his teaching degree. He's a heavy-hitting right-winger from back in the day, big-time Catholic too, we argue about gay marriage and evolution mainly. Good fun.

He was working on a project about the Patriot Act and wanted my take on it. Here's what I told him:

"The Patriot Act has not affected me in the slightest bit."

I have not changed anything about my use of free speech, nor will I regardless of law, since 9/11. If anything I have become more vocal about things I believe in. If I was an anti-Bush anarchist who continuously libeled and slandered the military as well as the country...I could still say the same. Nothing is more pathetic than a rebel fighting against an imaginary war.

re: #261 Tigger2005

that e-mail that claimed Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers were badass special forces soldiers

Are you trying to say they weren't? But he was a Captain!

re: #247 jaunte

Will you be responding to his message?

nope. probably just bitch to the junior Rabbi and go see if the M.O. congregation think Yom Kippur is about something other than global warming, abortion, and fighting the secret fundamentalist agenda.

balls.

re: #228 MacGregor

I'm sure he was,he's written so many nightmare scenarios for his books.almost as if they were warnings of what could happen.

re: #234 jorline

Tom Clancy, re: #252 jorline

Thanks, scared the shit out of me. I remember thinking, why give someone whacked-out ideas.

I think it was actually Executive Orders by Tom Clancy. I read it while I was home sick in bed from accidentally eating some vile fungus-it was an interactive novel.

re: #226 Idle Drifter

Thank you. Excellent book, though parts of its fiction may become fact.

That was the thing with Clancy, he kept it right on the edge of plausible.

re: #262 DeathtotheSwiss

Fighting imaginary wars is how they fill up the time the rest of us spend working for a living.

re: #254 kawfytawk

See that's the benchmark. You can tell the type of place it is by either the mass exodus or the people willing to risk their lives on a homemade boat just to get there.

I simply have not seen an exodus from the USA....when I do....thats when I can get depressed.

Well, unless it's liberals finally staying true to their vows to move to Canada or France if the Republican candidate is elected.

re: #264 spidly

Well, if you change your mind, you could send him this link, and ask him if it would be right to stand aside, knowing what was happening:
[Link: www.thesmokinggun.com...]