All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

— Mark Twain
BHO

A little ignorance is good. It just shows how much you still have to learn.

Twain rules.

Supernatural graffiti....
Allah Squash Leaves

re: #3 Killgore Trout

Twain rules.

Yes she does.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Obama in a nutshell.

re: #3 Killgore Trout
Indeed "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
And - one of my fav's " Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." LOL!

Oh, and never more appropriate for certain members of today's Democratic Party: "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Scary, isn't it?

I hope that the "success is sure" part of that turns out to be wrong.

“We have got to move away from these beautifully choreographed speeches which appeal to groups of voters who are unassailably in the Obama camp already,” said a non-staff adviser to Mr Obama. “What plays well with the educated liberal voter sometimes grates with the blue-collar folk, whom we need on our side if we are going to win.”

Well thank you Captain Obvious.

Democrats anxious for Obama to widen lead

Obama. Without a doubt.

Call back

"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises;"
Translation?
If it looks too good to be true, it usualy is?
then...
"and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."

If your expectation is to fail, most often you will?

— William Shakespeare

re: #9 meeshlr Well I'd guess that would depend on your definition of success, woulnd't it?

how tragically true

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

— Mark Twain

Sam sure knew his human nature. You can see the evidence this very day by watching people faint at BHO speeches.

re: #10 Geepers
Hey, hi Geepers! From your link (I love this quote):
“Obama obviously thinks very highly of himself,” says Juleanna Glover, an adviser to Mr McCain.

“Not everybody shares that view.”

UPDATE.....
SpaceX Falcon Flight Ends Prematurely During Ascent

The third attempt by SpaceX to launch its Falcon 1 rocket failed this evening several minutes into its flight.

The rocket lifted off around 11:35 pm PDT from SpaceX's Falcon 1 launch site at the Kwajalein Atoll, about 2,500 miles southwest of Hawaii.

A cause for the anomaly has not yet been identified.

A video of the launch and short flight of the rocket is provided below.

Looks like it never got past stage one.

re: #10 Geepers

Thing is, Obama's a one trick pony. Those beautifully choreographed speeches, which are nothing but a form of performance, are the only things he knows how to do well.

Ain't that the truth! I've got some ignorance; now if I could just get some confidence. Maybe my life would turn around.

Confidence Man

re: #10 Geepers

Well thank you Captain Obvious.

Democrats anxious for Obama to widen lead

Still working on rounding up those bitter guns and religion yahoos? Do the Obama people draw short straws for who has to go out to the unwashen?

How are the MSM going to explain away The Annointed One's upcoming poll slides?

Well, then, I've got ignorance covered. Or at least I think I do.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

— Mark Twain

The prayer of every adolescent preparing for a date.

re: #22 tommygum

Obviously they will blame the Mcain's campaigns blatant racism.

The left is going to implode when they lose yet another election.

re: #18 neocon hippie
Yep, again from Geepers link at #10
“Even on his worst day, Bill Clinton was able to signal that he understood voters’ concerns and that he felt their pain,” said Douglas Schoen, a Democratic consultant. “Obama has no trouble with the campaign stagecraft. But this isn’t Harvard, it’s the beer hall. He has to talk in language that people understand.”
And I think Barry has begun to believe in his own press clippings and I don't think he can pull off the beer hall bit - he is an elitist and - since hooking up with the Chicago Dem Machine and Tony Rezcko, has always been an elitist.

re: #22 tommygum

How are the MSM going to explain away The Annointed One's upcoming poll slides?

Racism.

Mark Twain visited the Holy Land. He reported that it was an underpopulated, undeveloped and poor wasteland. The Ottomans and Arabs had no problem with Jews immigrating until the Jews started to turn the Holy Land into something more productive. Then envy set in and then Jihad.

Islam is the religion of doing nothing and producing nothing, at least until one of your neighbors produces something. Then, all of a sudden, it is about destruction. It is the religion of nihilism. It is the ideology of envy and coveting what others have, then conquering it so you can destroy it and not feel bad about how inadequate you are.

realwest (#16),

Hey realwest.

Looks like the MSM is getting nervous. They've been running the full court press for Obama now for how long and the race is even?

But watch them not get it again and write even more asininely adoring articles about The One.

re: #28 Purple Prose

The Gaza greenhouses.

re: #25 pegcity

GMTA.

re: #21 lifeofthemind

Still working on rounding up those bitter guns and religion yahoos? Do the Obama people draw short straws for who has to go out to the unwashen?

Not to mention The Victory In Iraq.

re: #28 Purple Prose

In islam every man is a sultan, and lord knows sultans hated everyone else and wanted the entire world for themselves.

re: #29 Geepers

realwest (#16),

Hey realwest.

Looks like the MSM is getting nervous. They've been running the full court press for Obama now for how long and the race is even?

But watch them not get it again and write even more asininely adoring articles about The One.

It's fun watching them dig in quicksand.

Anyone read Twain's "Innocents Abroad"? When his tour gets to the "Holy Land", his description of how the land appears [early on in the muslim occupation] cleary shows how little the muslim population cared about the land -- kind of like Gaza does, today . . . without the technology.

re: #29 Geepers Yup, and watch Obama continue to believe in his press clippings, so to speak.
Many, many others have said this before, but I think it does bear repeating: Pride goeth before the fall - and I don't recall seeing anyone run for President in my lifetime (that's since Ike in 1952 for you youngin's out there) who had such Hubris as Obama - not even Kerry.

re: #36 realwest

Then bring on the fall.

As Obama as a three-dollar bill.

re: #30 tommygum

The Gaza greenhouses.

A before and after on those greenhouses: from greenhouses to terror tunnels. It's outdated, so things are even more "after" now.

[Link: hedgehogcentral.blogspot.com...]

I just got an eamil today saying that Obama has had only 143 days of when he filed for presidency. Only 143 days of experience in the senate and this qualifies him to run the country?

re: #38 MandyManners

Heh, got that one nailed perfectly.

re: #34 tommygum

It always amazes me that LGF is like 6 months ahead of the curve everytime.

I think once the media smells blood they will tear him to shreds, once its obvious he can't win they will turn on him in a flash.

If their is one thing the left knows well its self preservation. I think their is going to be a bloodletting after the election.

It is not going to be pretty.

re: #30 tommygum

The Gaza greenhouses.

Much of the Middle East was not a desert before the conquest of Islam. It wasn't magic. It was thousands of years of carefully developed irrigation systems. Anatolia (Turkey) was a productive region before the Byzantines were defeated at Manzikert. A thousand years later it is an arid waste. THe same thing happened to Palestine and several other regions. The climate is difficult and may have gotten worse over the last millennium but the major change was in the destructive conduct of Muhammad's followers toward critical infrastructure.

re: #10 Geepers

One correction:

“We have got to move away from these beautifully choreographed speeches which appeal to groups of voters who are unassailably in the Obama camp already,” said a non-staff adviser to Mr Obama. “What plays well with the educated miseducated liberal voter sometimes grates with the blue-collar folk, whom we need on our side if we are going to win.”

lifeofthemind (#21),

Still working on rounding up those bitter guns and religion yahoos?

Hey, hey you stupid people, vote for me, I'm great!

The Obama campaign says the remarks were taken out of context.

How many times have Barry's handlers had to say that? For someone who we're told speaks so eloquently he sure has a problem getting across what he's trying to say.

Or maybe it's that everyone understands exactly what he's saying.

“I think they played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along.” -- William Jefferson Clinton, in a telephone interview with WHYY’s Susan Phillips, 22nd April 2008.

But, according to BHO's campaign, it's us right-wing-nuts who are the racists.

projection noun: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else.

re: #5 stevieray

Yes she does.

Every Murder by Death fan knows that Lionel Twain was actually the Bounty paper towel lady, underneath the amazingly lifelike Truman Capote mask!

Sadly, whoever compiled these MbD quotes into a YouTube video left out the immortal tidbit:

MAGGIE SMITH: There's still one thing I don't understand -- why on earth would anyone want to steal a dead, naked body?

DAVID NIVEN: Well, darling, there are some people who would... [whispers in her ear]

MAGGIE SMITH: Oh, that's tacky. That's really tacky.

I loves Dame Maggie, I does.

Is it just me or do the rest of you think Obama really believes he is the"one"? It's' not only scary, but a bit creepy. Am I the only one who thinks this?

re: #35 least

Anyone read Twain's "Innocents Abroad"? When his tour gets to the "Holy Land", his description of how the land appears [early on in the muslim occupation] cleary shows how little the muslim population cared about the land -- kind of like Gaza does, today . . . without the technology.

Not early in the occupation. It took 1200 years to destroy it. Now they seem to be much more efficient.

re: #38 MandyManners
Hey Mandy! LOL! Thanks for that link - didja check out some of their other editorial cartoons?
Try July 30, 2008 for an excruciatingly funny/not at all funny cartoon.

re: #49 lifeofthemind

Some one gave them better technology to achieve it with.

/C4 and Semtex are what they call the crowning achievement of tech.

By the way I love "Murder by death." They don't bother to make movies like that anymore. Shame.

Time for some sleeps, see you on the morrow

re: #42 pegcity

It always amazes me that LGF is like 6 months ahead of the curve everytime.

Only one problem.

The election is in three months.

See y'all in the "re-education" camps ...

re: #48 nigella Nope, you ain't the only one.

re: #51 BlueCanuck

Some one gave them better technology to achieve it with.

/C4 and Semtex are what they call the crowning achievement of tech.

Semtex, good work the Czech's did even under communism. Getting that country liberated and safely in the West was a moral imperative after WW-II.

re: #38 MandyManners

What's the saying "As phony as a three dollar bill."? But the ears are big, which just makes him stand apart in an odd way. People don't like that.

I'm just saying.

re: #48 nigella

He gives me a really bad vibe, i don't like cult's of personality, after studying Mao and Hitler and Stalin they are always bad.

I don't like his symbol, i don't like that you don't see american flags at his rally only that awful O.

I remember another politician who started his own movement and replaced the flag with his symbol.

I don't like that people are holding this man as the answer to all their problems, like if only they we all submit to the higher power Obama and give up their free will mankind will all gather together and usher in an age of Utopia.

The whole thing is down right awful.

People don't understand why utopian socialism will not die, as long as people are not willing to take responsibility for their own lives this evil ideology will live on.

re: #55 Temujin

i live in canada, we already have them, they are called Human right's commisions.

Trust me it sucks walking on egg shells.

My favorite Broadway show is" Lease." Don't remember it? You know it's the one with the song"Everyone has aidsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaids." O.K.It's a parody in" Team America", but you get the picture.

re: #48 nigella

Is it just me or do the rest of you think Obama really believes he is the"one"? It's' not only scary, but a bit creepy. Am I the only one who thinks this?

I'm not convinced he really believes it. He'd have to be a complete idiot. I think the only chance for him to win is to keep up the farce and the out of control optimism. His team probably knows that too. It will however, turn out to be a losing strategy.

re: #48 nigella

Is it just me or do the rest of you think Obama really believes he is the"one"? It's' not only scary, but a bit creepy. Am I the only one who thinks this?

I'll take that a step further. I think he's heard voices in his head that tell him just exactly that. And he believes those voices are divinely inspired.

OT--just wanted to share our joy and happiness w/lizard friends--our oldest son was married last night--fabulous ceremony (outdoors in our 102 heat at 6 pm)- i danced my ass off at the reception--their exit song was "time warp"-lol-thx to lizaards suggestions, my dance with my son was-"you are the sunshine of my life"-hubby and i are exhausted--colo has been 100 plus the last few days and we have beenentertaining relatives and out of town friends for 5 days--one more small party tomorrow--kids leave for a week in belize--i begged and pleaded to accompany them--no dice! thx for sharing our joy--!

re: #54 ploome hineni

finding a cure for the aids virus is necessary so that people could again have unprotected and promiscuous sex?

what am I missing?
what am I missing?

People are already having "unprotected and promiscuous sex."

Ask zombie!

re: #62 nigella

"And that is the end of our story. And everyone's dead form AIDS."

re: #30 tommygum

The Gaza greenhouses.

Interesting. According to Al-Reuters, what's left of the Israeli greenhouses in Gaza are being sold to Egyptians, who are snapping them up because of their superiority to anything they have. The Gazans also seem to be hocking their expertise in the area. I suppose in a way it is positive. At least some Gazans are being entrepreneurial and selling Israeli greenhouses and their services to Egyptians who want them. On the other hand, one has to wonder, why didn't they just make it work in Gaza? I bet Hamas wants Gaza pretty much judenrein, which includes Jewish greenhouses, and, of course, they want to continue being failures since that is what Islamists are about. Success and prosperity would jeopardize the Islamist mission.

Islamism, or Islam itself, depending on your point of view, semantics and delicate questions of political correctness, is a hopeless farce of a religion. It is an ideology of world domination. But it's not just world domination. It's world destruction, because after conquering and destroying, the Islamists have no plan at all to build or do anything, except for erecting mosques, putting women in sacks and executing a lot of people. And once they achieve that goal, then they just start killing other Islamists.

Multiculturalism has to end. Islamism is one vote, one time and then a beheading. We must defend Western values, Christian and secular.

[Link: www.reuters.com...]

re: #61 pegcity

Ahhh.

When will they resume their attack on Mark Steyn? Or have they already?

Cartman, As creepy as this is I think he really believes he is the chosen one,. If not or he is totally delusional .Either way he is frightening.

re: #70 Temujin

The canadian people got pretty pissed off and Harper pretty much said that if they get a majority their pulling the plug on the whole thing.

The majority were not on the muslims side to say the least

re: #65 Cartman

I'll take that a step further. I think he's heard voices in his head that tell him just exactly that. And he believes those voices are divinely inspired.

He may believe it but it is equally likely that he is in on the gag. The difference between Obama and The Great McGinty is that BHO isn't an honest dupe. He's as greasy a politician as Chicago can produce. Watch the movie, trust me it is worth it.

re: #71 ploome hineni

i saw zombies report--got a little tingle somewhere--NOT!

re: #54 ploome hineni
Hey ploome - I posted that story in a spinoff link somewhere this week but, iirc it was from Rueters. And the woman in charge of CARE in the article I linked to goes on to further to add the ugly fact that something like Black women are 23 times more likely to contract Aids, because they fear violence in the reactions of their partners to a suggested use of condoms.
So in addition to being just WRONG, they also rather blithley, it seemed to me, marked Black women as "willing" victims of Black Male sexual predators.
Just fucking unbelievable.
CBS (your link) apparently didn't want to publish her remarks, but, iirc she used to be the head of the Black AIDS Institute before leaving to take the job as head of CARE. Wish I could find the damn link, but I KNOW I put it in the spinoff links and said the same thing then.

and so to bed

/pepys

Sorry for the extra"or". You get the picture.

re: #54 ploome hineni

Promiscuous unprotected sex, yes, but don't forget rampant drug use also.

re: #71 ploome hineni

Ugly old creeps need love sex too ...

re: #62 nigella

My favorite Broadway show is" Lease." Don't remember it? You know it's the one with the song"Everyone has aidsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaids." O.K.It's a parody in" Team America", but you get the picture.

Fuck yeah!

Good quote.

re: #67 Temujin

People are already having "unprotected and promiscuous sex."

Ask zombie!

And it was just reported today that the gay and bisexual community now accounts for over 50% of newly reported HIV/AIDS instances. Also, it was discovered on top of that, that there has been an historic underreporting of these cases at an additional 4o%. I think Zombie's mind-boggling expose tells us all we need to know as to why this is happening.

re: #73 pegcity

I can't wait for Stephane Dion to pull the plug on the current government than do a face plant in the election race.

/of course Toronto will still be painted a Liberal red.

nigella (#48),

Is it just me or do the rest of you think Obama really believes he is the"one"? It's' not only scary, but a bit creepy. Am I the only one who thinks this?

Nope.

Barry's surrounded by so many peolpe telling him how great he is that he's staring to believe it.

And as I've said before, the press has done him a terrible disservice by lobbing him nothing but softballs. It's left him completely unprepared for game time. When he finally gets to the plate he's not even going to see the fastballs go by.

Who will he blame?

re: #66 mikeymom

G*d bless!

Well y'all it's been grand but I'm really beat and gotta get some sleep!
I hope you all have a GREAT EVENING/EARLY MORNING and that I get the chance to see you down the road!

Goodnight, all.

re: #71 ploome hineni

I couldn;t look

ugly nekkid old geezers with 20lb scrotums ruin my day

Sheeesh, ploome. he took out the nuts and has a Scrotum Inflator. That is considered medical science in SF.

Caption contest.

/I can fly!

re: #85 ploome hineni

the pld farts with the man boobs and bulging tummies--ewwwww!

re: #84 BlueCanuck

I wish they just declared their own smug little country.

I remember having my cousins over and they would go on and on about toronto, i stopped him and said "wow you must be so proud that you were born in toronto, it must have been such an accomplishment"

re: #85 ploome hineni

Thank you very much for that image. I had already bleached out the report I saw. :p

/I only had the guts to see the blurred one though.

re: #47 Throbert McGee

Great movie. Haven't seen it in years, though.

Hey ploome.

re: #75 mikeymom

i saw zombies report--got a little tingle somewhere--NOT!

I'll bet Chrissy-poo got more than just a tingle.

re: #93 ploome hineni

drug use has affected my memory

:P

If you can remember the 60s, you weren't there.

re: #91 Killian Bundy

Caption contest.

/I can fly!

/I swear the fish was this big. :)

re: #85 ploome hineni

Gavin Newsome and Nancy Pelosi must be so proud ...

/gag

re: #88 tommygum

thanks-- im still crying happy tears--everyone was amazed that i didnt come out with big honking sobs during the ceremony-LOL

re: #96 stevieray

The Great Peter Sellers

re: #71 ploome hineni

I couldn;t look

ugly nekkid old geezers with 20lb scrotums ruin my day

I started to watch the "uncut" (pardon the pun) version, and actually found myself getting physically ill. I had to give it the boot about half way through.

mikeymom,

Congrats! Best wishes to the newlyweds.

Obama is proving himself a coward and a simpleton. He will be in good company in DC.

re: #91 Killian Bundy

Caption contest

Hold on, give me a minute. I'm curing cancer as we speak.

re: #106 Geepers

ty geepers

re: #107 ploome hineni

I was a 90's kid. Only I wasn't hip, rad or cool. ):

/ate my vegetables and was good at math. it was that bad

Yeah, The headlines scream" 40% more have aids in American then was though."What should a person say about this. Please don't get me wrong, some innocents get aids from birth from infected mothers so God bless and protect them. That being said the number of them is minute. The largest contributors to this disease is ,I'm sorry, un-protected gay sex.Not to be "politically" correct, but either change your lifestyle or use precautions.

re: #91 Killian Bundy

Caption contest.

/I can fly!

Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish Everybody did?

nigella (#48),

Is it just me or do the rest of you think Obama really believes he is the"one"? It's' not only scary, but a bit creepy. Am I the only one who thinks this?

Nope.

re: #83 Cartman

And it was just reported today that the gay and bisexual community now accounts for over 50% of newly reported HIV/AIDS instances. Also, it was discovered on top of that, that there has been an historic underreporting of these cases at an additional 4o%. I think Zombie's mind-boggling expose tells us all we need to know as to why this is happening.

AIDS has always been a gay and junkie disease. And I've said so since the late 1980's. Before it got all politicked up, schools used to go into pretty good facts about how it can be transmitted, and how it cannot. Those were igneous facts, unlike the metamorphic ones to which students are now treated, transmuted by the powerful forces of political correctness and leftist agendas.
It is disconcerting how many things I remember which now never happened. I fear for my country, as we have seen this before in the Soviet Union. Or, maybe we didn't, Comrade.

re: #91 Killian Bundy

Caption contest

"Wait a minute. I'm getting a message from Him."

pimf "thought"

re: #115 MajorPribluda

when i was a kid Aids commericals went something like "i drank and then had sex with a woman and got aids" never don't have unprotected gay sex, or don't share your dirty heroin needles.

Nope if you drink and have sex with a woman you will get aids.

The biggest source of AIDS are the pools. I know, I read it on the internet!

/involves many memes and internet social avatar spamming. >_>

re: #115 MajorPribluda

AIDS has always been a gay and junkie disease.

Tell that to the straight women in Africa that have been infected.

re: #43 lifeofthemind

Much of the Middle East was not a desert before the conquest of Islam. It wasn't magic. It was thousands of years of carefully developed irrigation systems. Anatolia (Turkey) was a productive region before the Byzantines were defeated at Manzikert. A thousand years later it is an arid waste. THe same thing happened to Palestine and several other regions. The climate is difficult and may have gotten worse over the last millennium but the major change was in the destructive conduct of Muhammad's followers toward critical infrastructure.

The deserts of Afghanistan used to be irrigated fields of crops. But when Genghis Khan forbade anybody to live in a place for 1,000 years, he also enforced it

From the re: #54 ploome hineni

it is evidence of a population segment unwilling to do what it takes, that is CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR, so that the epidemic would die out

From the comments at the CBS article linked by ploome:

Unfortunately, homophobia - both societal and internal - plays a huge factor in transmission of HIV.

AAAARGGH. Suffice to say, it isn't "homophobia" or low self-esteem or crystal meth abuse that actually transmits HIV among gay/bi men; it's buttseckxs. (Surprise!)

re: #119 pegcity

I actually saw a commercial where the victim had shared a needle and got it. That was many years ago though. Probably wouldn't air now a days.

/take this PC crap and flush twice please.

Racer, I forgot to add prostitutes. In Africa men are prone to use prostitutes in addition to their wives. Thus the high incidence of aids in Africa.

re: #122 MajorPribluda

IIRC the Israelis have figured out ways to make the desert bloom?

/checking

re: #3 Killgore Trout

Twain rules.

Have you ever played the game who would I like to meet in history and have a drink or two with? For me:

1. Anton Checkhov
2. Winston Churchill
3. Mark Twain
4. Maxmim Gorky

The last would be a rousing debate between democracy and the will of manl

My offering of music for the night.

/Always have been a fan of the cello.

Of course the use of shared needles doesn't help either. Any way you look at it deviant behavior is the main cause of the aids disease.

a personal story--around 1988--in the height of the aids scare, my hubby had a mole removed from his leg. 3 days later, his dermotolgist called him at work AT WORK!-told him it was malignant, karopsi sarcoma and to go see another dr. well, i had read enought to know that karposis was aids related and called the dr to say--bullshit! he was soo rude and said--well , ya never know! my lab never makes errors! after many followups,and much anxiety, hubby was cleared!

re: #123 Throbert McGee

Anyone who opposes unprotected, promiscuous, anonymous anal sex between "consenting adults" is clearly homophobic.

QED.

re: #128 Russkilitlover

Have you ever played the game who would I like to meet in history and have a drink or two with? For me:

1. Anton Checkhov
2. Winston Churchill
3. Mark Twain
4. Maxmim Gorky

The last would be a rousing debate between democracy and the will of manl

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Sun Tzu
3. Julius Cesar
4. Archimedes.

Learn from the feet of the masters.

re: #133 BlueCanuck

not in history--but charles johnson, realwest, mandy manners,

re: #132 Temujin

Don't forget the drug addiction and non stop partying.

I worked with a lot of gay people at my old job. My boss was fired for doing coke at work and my co worker mike almost needed a liver transplant.

Never seen such insane reckless addiction. The entire thing was just weird, they all went around screwing eachother without a care in the world.

re: #128 Russkilitlover

Have you ever played the game who would I like to meet in history and have a drink or two with?

Does Adriana Lima count as "history"?

Mikeymom, I also would like to meet some of you lizards. Great group. Probably Winston Churchill, other than you lizoids, would be who I would like to meet.

re: #136 Occasional Reader

OR- since mandy isnt here--SMACK!

re: #126 nigella

Racer, I forgot to add prostitutes. In Africa men are prone to use prostitutes in addition to their wives. Thus the high incidence of aids in Africa.

And they are also increasingly having sex "on the downlow". Discrete homosexual encounters by otherwise straight male participants. For some inexplicable reason, these men don't at all see these encounters as "homosexual". They're just lettin' off steam, so to speak. As I said, a lot of human sexual behaviour is often beyond reason or comprehension.

re: #135 pegcity

Live fast. Die young. Leave a pretty corpse.

re: #91 Killian Bundy

Caption contest.

!

I tippy-tippy-toe through my garden
where all the pretty flowers dwell
And as I tippy-toe through my garden
I love to just stand and smellll....

/hat tip: Old "I Love Lucy" episode

re: #137 ploome hineni

OMG and what were the results!

re: #66 mikeymom

Congrats! What a great day. You've given him the tools for life and now he needs to act upon them. Cautious times for you but EXCITING times for your son and his bride. May they have a lovely life together.

Oh, and may they vote "correctly" for "the children" in November!

Cartman, yeah, I forgot their fascination with what we would consider " homosexual" encounters. Kinda think it is a sort of "macho" thing. as weird as that sounds, their perception of women is so low, they seem to think male encounters are more "manly." Sick, I think.

re: #141 Temujin

i guess when you could care less about reproducing and having offspring and your entire existence revolves around satisfying your own desires it makes you act recklessly.

re: #125 ploome hineni

..did you introduce us to these kittens?

No, I believe you can blame/credit "V the K" of Caption This! fame for popularizing those kitties...

re: #140 Cartman

Discrete homosexual encounters

You (probably) mean "discreet".

re: #122 MajorPribluda

The deserts of Afghanistan used to be irrigated fields of crops. But when Genghis Khan forbade anybody to live in a place for 1,000 years, he also enforced it

There has always been tension between the pastoralists and the agriculturists. Think of our own Western folklore of Cattlemen vs, Sodbusters, as in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. In the Middle East periodically herding populations would grow, face collapse and invade the plains. This goes back thousands of years to the period of Gilgamesh. Islam is the religion of the non-urban herders and traders. This makes it almost unique. Judaism and Christianity are wedded to urban moral and legal codes. The rules and values of Islam, particularly in regard to irrigation works, are at best indifferent. The survival of these systems in Egypt may be due to several factors including the large Christian community and the fecundity of the Nile.

re: #136 Occasional Reader

Does Adriana Lima count as "history"?

Anything from yesterday is history.

Hiya OR! How are ya?

re: #121 Racer X

Tell that to the straight women in Africa that have been infected.

Statistically, that's not many. Vaginal intercourse is at least an order of magnitude less effective at spreading AIDS than anal. All male homosexual intercourse is anal, and let us say (dispute this if you wish) that anal intercourse is a very small percent of male/female intercourse. What's more, I think we may safely ignore (for epidemiological and statistical purposes, not personal ones!) the transmission from females to males.

Ignoring IV drug abuse, AIDS is spread almost exclusively by anal intercourse, and only homosexual men can function as a vector in this regard. Women can get it, but can rarely pass it on. No vector, no outbreak.

In directing resources to combat AIDS, the establishment would have been far better-advised to have focused on the actual vectors, not the political ones. Heterosexual intercourse is not the vector which sustains the outbreak, which is an epidemic among gays and to a lesser extent, drug-users, and which is a bogeyman in the straight and clean community. After twenty years of leftist horseshit about how most of my friends and probably I would be dead ten years ago, anbd ow not only am I fine, ut I don't even *know* anybody who has contracted OR died of AIDS--I was right and the lefties were wrong. Again.

re: #146 pegcity

Bingo!

re: #28 Purple Prose

parallel postings!

re: #150 Russkilitlover

Anything from yesterday is history.

Hiya OR! How are ya?

Still coughing up a lung, since yesterday (although somewhat better). I really need to start smoking, so I can quit smoking.

Sorry, I don't want to insult any lizards who ar gay. Your sexual orientation is none of my business. My only request is that you don't make it my business by forcing it on me with special laws elevating your "lifestyle."

re: #133 BlueCanuck

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
2. Sun Tzu
3. Julius Cesar
4. Archimedes.

Learn from the feet of the masters.

Yes! I can dig that. For me it's Archimedes, Thales, Aristotle, Newton, Shakespeare, and the most beautiful woman in history, whomever she may be. That's the short list.

re: #156 nigella

Sorry, I don't want to insult any lizards who ar gay. Your sexual orientation is none of my business. My only request is that you don't make it my business by forcing it on me with special laws elevating your "lifestyle."

If you have to blame the anthropomorphic variety, blame the furries, not the scalies. (;

re: #131 mikeymom

a personal story--around 1988--in the height of the aids scare, my hubby had a mole removed from his leg. 3 days later, his dermotolgist called him at work AT WORK!-told him it was malignant, karopsi sarcoma and to go see another dr. well, i had read enought to know that karposis was aids related and called the dr to say--bullshit! he was soo rude and said--well , ya never know! my lab never makes errors! after many followups,and much anxiety, hubby was cleared!

Ha! I had a bit of a yeast infection - guys don't even ask - and my female
Dr asked me about my hubby and my sex history. So sad that this has to be contemplated. I used some yoghurt and problem solved. Thanks, Doc.

re: #148 Occasional Reader

You (probably) mean "discreet".

Yeah, that's probably what I meant. Do I get a point subtracted from my post? Sheesh.

re: #144 Russkilitlover

lolol--funny you should say that--C is an architect and has worked in boulder, co and unfortunatly has absorbed the lib culture there. our other son S who is more blue collar,motorcycle ridin' long hair electician is growing more right wing conservative every day!

PIMF" are". Forgive my spelling tonight. I had two of my grandkids today and I am pooped!

re: #161 Cartman

Yeah, that's probably what I meant. Do I get a point subtracted from my post? Sheesh.

Just trying to be relentlessly helpful.

Whew. I have so few thoughts, yet so little to say. BBL.

re: #127 laZardo

IIRC the Israelis have figured out ways to make the desert bloom?

/checking

Quite right. However, I'll not chide Genghis Khan because his thousand-year plan only succeeded for eight-hundred years. The Nazis (spit!) got less than a decade.

re: #156 nigella

What i think is the creepiest is hollywood putting straight up gay kids in movies now, like the movie School of Rock.

I found it beyond creepy that their is this little flamboyant homosexual kid who's like 10.

Why is hollywood sexualizing 10 year old's and making them gay on top of that.

re: #156 nigella

who was that directed to if i may ask?

re: #165 pat

Whew. I have so few thoughts, yet so little to say. BBL.

I was on a rugby squad in college, and our motto was "We may be small, but we're slow!".

The three people from history I'd like to meet and have a drink with:

1) Mohammed
2) Karl Marx
3) Adolf Hitler

Of course, I'd mix the drinks.

re: #172 Occasional Reader

I don't know whether to call you evil or genius. :)

re: #133 BlueCanuck

Napolean? LOSER! (holds up thumb and forefinger against forehead). yeah, let's ask him about taking Moscow! For all his military prowess, he certainly had a number of Waterloo's in his record!

re: #172 Occasional Reader

Given Hitler's strict abstinence from alcohol, you might not need to mix anything. (;

Good night.

re: #174 Russkilitlover

He's french, they tend not to dwell on their failures. I mean so what if they can't win a war, they um helped make the concorde, that was cool right?

re: #176 Occasional Reader

G'night to ye.

re: #172 Occasional Reader

You could play the bad guy. Yes, Mr. Mohammed, Marx and Hitler, I've laced your drink with a deadly poison. All three of you will be dead by morning. Bwahhahahahaha.

re: #169 pegcity

What i think is the creepiest is hollywood putting straight up gay kids in movies now, like the movie School of Rock.

I found it beyond creepy that their is this little flamboyant homosexual kid who's like 10.

Why is hollywood sexualizing 10 year old's and making them gay on top of that.

Two possible answers. I give more than the competition.

1. Producers are serious businessmen who view all talent as commodities to be used for extracting cash from an audience they have contempt for.

2. Producers got into the business because they are only some level active or sublimated degenerates who are either using their positions to recruit victims or who are projecting and acting out their own sexual fantasies.

re: #160 Russkilitlover

I used some yoghurt and problem solved.

Wait, you "used" some yog... never mind.

re: #174 Russkilitlover

Ah, it's not his battles I would talk about. It's about his study of logistics.

re: #179 Archimedes

Yeah but then they'd probably whine to the state department and mossad would have to give them the antidote.

re: #155 Occasional Reader

Still coughing up a lung, since yesterday (although somewhat better). I really need to start smoking, so I can quit smoking.

Ain't it ironic. Non smokers cough and smokers live in hubris - believe me, I know.

Pegcity, I agree, with four grandkids under five I worry what they are subjected to. Luckily, my children and their spouses are pretty Conservative and they pay attention to what their Children watch. My first begins Kindergarten this year and I shudder to think what he will be taught. My daughter is really hands-on so it should be fine. Just the same I shouldn't have to worry what they learn. Sad situation in public education.

re: #172 Occasional Reader

The three people from history I'd like to meet and have a drink with:

1) Mohammed
2) Karl Marx
3) Adolf Hitler

Of course, I'd mix the drinks.

OR : don't forget

a) Lenin
b) Stalin
c) Pol Pot

and others (too numerous to mention)

A bartender's work is never done ...

re: #129 BlueCanuck

Always have been a fan of the cello.

/haku

re: #163 nigella

PIMF" are". Forgive my spelling tonight. I had two of my grandkids today and I am pooped!

Was that by natural birth, or Oedipal section?

re: #183 pegcity

Damn, there is always a glitch. Still working on the perfect plan.

re: #162 mikeymom

Ya just never know! Darnedest things happen when "youts" begin to mature!

re: #185 nigella

Expect your kids to be exposed to a lot of ecoprop and "world cultural festivities." >__>

re: #185 nigella

Who the hell know's what their taught these days. I shudder to think of the level of PC crap in kids classrooms.

Kids should not have to be taught being gay is right or wrong. Why do schools need to teach kids about homsexuality at all. It's not up to schools to decide what is acceptable and what's not.

re: #66 mikeymom

Sounds like you had a fabulous weekend. Again, congrats to the kids!

Mrs Garrison Explaining Evolution

Yes, it is offensive.

_{But funny as hell.}

re: #181 Racer X

Wait, you "used" some yog... never mind.

Don't ask, but anyone with a yeast infection will know what Imtalkin about!

Mickeymom, Just wanted to let any lizard know I don't care what you do in the privacy of your bedroom. Sexual preference does not belong as some sort of law.Live and let live I say. I don't however believe the Sacrament of Marriage should be allowed for gay couples.Just what I believe. I don't think marriage is a "right."I do think couples should be allowed to visit their partners, leave what they want to them, etc. Just not marriage.

BBL, Gonna check out Zombie's big expose'. I haven't been on for more than a minute or two since it was still huish-hush!

re: #194 Racer X

/still rofl'ing

So, narrow it down to one. You have 4 hours with this person. Who from history (meaning anyone from yesterday and back) would you want to spend time with and what most would you want to know?

re: #197 MajorPribluda

Don't forget to don the hazmat suit! LOL

re: #196 nigella

What's interesting is that gays fought so long and nasty in Canada to get gay marriage, and now that they have it none of them are even getting married.

Their marriage rate is so low it makes it pretty obvious the whole thing was a matter of sticking it to the Man.

re: #192 pegcity

Why do schools need to teach kids about homosexuality at all.

No doubt they were motivated by their howling successes in teaching history ... and economics.

Must hit bed, dials going red, battery light on, systems failing.

re: #202 Temujin

LOL

re: #202 Temujin

My kids would not step foot in a public school. They are nothing but left wing indoctrination centers.

re: #199 Russkilitlover

One person? Four hours? I change my choice to Sir Issac Newton. The father of modern physics and Calculus.

re: #206 BlueCanuck

how about Einstein.

re: #199 Russkilitlover

So, narrow it down to one. You have 4 hours with this person. Who from history (meaning anyone from yesterday and back) would you want to spend time with and what most would you want to know?

4 hours?

Maggie. From my 8th grade math class.

re: #207 pegcity

Another good choice. But I think Newton is an interesting character in history and science.

re: #208 ploome hineni

he was a bore

very conventional, second marriage to his cousin, probably because she was a good housekeeper

No, he was studying the theory of relative titty.

re: #208 ploome hineni

Howard Hughes would have been a good conversation, before he want insane that is.

re: #207 pegcity

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” ~ Albert Einstein

re: #131 mikeymom

a personal story--around 1988--in the height of the aids scare, my hubby had a mole removed from his leg. 3 days later, his dermotolgist called him at work AT WORK!-told him it was malignant, karopsi sarcoma and to go see another dr.

Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS) fun facts: This opportunistic disease is now known to be caused by one of the herpes viruses -- specifically, human herpes virus 8 (HHV8). People infected with HHV8 normally show no symptoms as long as their immune system is working; as with some of the other herpes viruses, a healthy immune system is able to keep HHV8 in check without actually clearing it from the body.

Unlike HIV, which is often transmitted sexually via infected semen, HHV8 seems more likely to be vectored by saliva (considered a low-risk bodily fluid as far as HIV goes).

I put this on tonight's first open thread, which died shortly thereafter, but I find it an interesting, if sad, glimpse into my city.**

**Interesting trivia fact: Escape From New York was filmed in North St. Louis, because early 1980s New York didn't have enoug urban decay.
***************
Speaking of things that have disappeared, this is a fascinating site. It's a series of photo essays of extraordinary architecture that was destroyed in St. Louis to make way for "progress." Amazing, heartbreaking stuff.

The main page [Link: [Link: www.builtstlouis.net...]...] also inludes buildings that are threatened and those that have been saved.

I'm a big fan of urban exploration. I can't do it myself, because of the risk of misdemeanor trespass convictions (my job frowns on doing anything even mildly illegal). Still, I'm fascinated by the detritus left behind in some of these old wrecks.*

*It goes without saying that scavengers, thieves, and idiot grafitti taggers are in no way urban explorers.

re: #206 BlueCanuck

One person? Four hours? I change my choice to Sir Issac Newton. The father of modern physics and Calculus.

What would you want to ask them?

re: #213 ploome hineni

I am with you on that, curious about my family. Celebrity wise, maybe Churchill.

re: #213 ploome hineni

I would like to spend some time, with my great great great great grandparents

who were they?

how did they live?

where did they come from?

Do you know anything about them? How far back can you go?

Young Lizards of today. Spend time with mom/pop/grandparents open the conversation and ask them to talk, - my guess? you won't be disappointed.

re: #215 Throbert McGee

OMG, that is so scary. My brother in law is a surgeon and attends all of the medical conventions, etc. Some of them theorize that AIDS could one day become airborn. Can you imagine?

I would love to spend my four hours with Anton Checkhov and ask him how he could be so empathetic and compassionate about his fellow man when he saw all the debasement that man could be. How could he write so touchingly about such unlovable characters. There's genius there that all of us should wish to touch.

re: #222 ploome hineni

I have my parents love letters from before I was born. They are tied up with a ribbon. So wonderful to have something like that.

re: #224 ploome hineni

my maternal great gradfather came from southern Russia,

and my paternal side came from Austria

but as a Jew, the location of my ancestors depended on the whim of the Prince in charge, so remotely, it is difficult to say

LOL! My mom's relatives came from "eastern Europe." My mom used to say that our ethnicity came from whomever was in power at the time! I'm so Heinze 57 that if you add my southwestern upbringing, I'm up to about Heinze 75!

re: #71 ploome hineni

I couldn;t look

ugly nekkid old geezers with 20lb scrotums ruin my day

Too long for rotating title? :)

I reckon the San Francisco emergency rooms have amazing experience with removing those metal rings those idiots wear around their scrotes to give the illusion of size.

re: #226 ploome hineni

Indeed. Those are the sweetest letters. It was WWII time.

I wish I knew more about my father's side. They always said they were Slovenian but my grandfather's papers say Austrian. I think he ran to the US from over there to avoid being in the Prussian army.

re: #225 Pvt Bin Jammin

I have my parents love letters from before I was born. They are tied up with a ribbon. So wonderful to have something like that.

Must be a Hawaii thing. Same here. Also my fathers letters to my Grandmother as he crossed Europe with Patton.

re: #232 pat

Wow. My sister has these little tiny letters from Mom's brother when he was crossing over to Europe. They are reduced, put on film or something. What a treasure. I hope all of our kids/grandkids treasure them as well.

Just realized it's almost 11:30 and I have to be up and in a pool for laps by 7:00 am. 'Night, all. "Tomorrow's another day!" (Scarlette O'Hara!)

re: #234 Russkilitlover

Nite, have a good day tomorrow.

re: #199 Russkilitlover

So, narrow it down to one. You have 4 hours with this person. Who from history (meaning anyone from yesterday and back) would you want to spend time with and what most would you want to know?

Benjamin Franklin.

We'd talk about everything, from how he thinks a country should be run to how one lives an exceptional life.

re: #233 Pvt Bin Jammin

Wow. My sister has these little tiny letters from Mom's brother when he was crossing over to Europe. They are reduced, put on film or something. What a treasure. I hope all of our kids/grandkids treasure them as well.

Mine are in the storage loft. Hmmm.

re: #237 pat

Mine are in the cedar chest in the room I'm sitting in right now. Don't get me started. I might be up all night....haven't looked at that stuff for about ten years.

re: #199 Russkilitlover

So, narrow it down to one. You have 4 hours with this person. Who from history (meaning anyone from yesterday and back) would you want to spend time with and what most would you want to know?

Winston Churchill, hands down. I would want to explore his overall worldview, especially his ideas about science, religion and the role they play in human affairs.

Btw, as I mentioned on LGF a few years ago, I actually did meet Mr. Churchill but I was only 7 years old at the time (1957) and he didn't have time to say much.

re: #239 shiplord kirel

He is my pick too. You're at least lucky enough to have met him. This world needs another Churchill.

re: #199 Russkilitlover

So, narrow it down to one. You have 4 hours with this person. Who from history (meaning anyone from yesterday and back) would you want to spend time with and what most would you want to know?

Reagan. I would love his insights into the current economy and political situation. I would love to hear his positive, comforting, honest voice. I would love to listen to a man of true eloquence, who didn't necessarily parse every word with an eye to polls, the way The Symbol does.

I'd spend at least an hour, though, asking him about his relative weakness on Islamic terrorism. Why did we leave after the Beirut bombing? Why didn't we start exporting freedom to that part of the world earlier? In addition to fending off the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, what would he have done, if he had to do it over again, to stop the rise of the Taliban?

I am out, lizards, always good to see everybody. Going to Dodger stadium tomorrow, not exactly my favorite thing, but we are going there with a 90 year old for her birthday. It will be great! Take care, everyone.

re: #241 Palandine

LOL Now I am jealous because I picked Churchill. I'd love to have some time with Reagan and maybe even Margaret Thatcher.

re: #240 Pvt Bin Jammin

He is my pick too. You're at least lucky enough to have met him. This world needs another Churchill.

Indeed. "Hero and statesman for the ages," as another lizardoid once called him (can't remember which one).
It is a reflection upon our times that academic charlatans, media gadflies, and other low forms of life revel in vilifying him for his flaws and misjudgments.
He was right when it counted, though, with the fate of the world in the balance.

American author John Gunther made a truly prophetic statement about Churchill in his 1937 bestseller, Inside Europe. Churchill got a couple of paragraphs in the section on British politicians, Gunther noting that he was out of power and generally regarded as a washed up has-been. "And yet," says Gunther, "(Churchill) may yet step forth to lead Britain in her hour of greatest need."
Send chills down your spine? Mine too.

re: #217 Russkilitlover

What would you want to ask them?

Good question. I think I would start with what inspired him to create Calculus, about his experience as the Lord Treasurer, and his opinions of some of the modern science that came about because of his studies. Also share a few drinks and just get to know the man as a man.

/sorry it took to long to answer this been a little busy.

re: #43 lifeofthemind

In the case of "Palestine" you have to admit that Rome gave the environmental disaster a very strong push first.

re: #121 Racer X

Tell that to the straight women in Africa that have been infected.

re: #151 MajorPribluda

Statistically, that's not many. Vaginal intercourse is at least an order of magnitude less effective at spreading AIDS than anal. All male homosexual intercourse is anal, and let us say (dispute this if you wish) that anal intercourse is a very small percent of male/female intercourse. What's more, I think we may safely ignore (for epidemiological and statistical purposes, not personal ones!) the transmission from females to males.

Ignoring IV drug abuse, AIDS is spread almost exclusively by anal intercourse, and only homosexual men can function as a vector in this regard. Women can get it, but can rarely pass it on. No vector, no outbreak.

In directing resources to combat AIDS, the establishment would have been far better-advised to have focused on the actual vectors, not the political ones. Heterosexual intercourse is not the vector which sustains the outbreak, which is an epidemic among gays and to a lesser extent, drug-users, and which is a bogeyman in the straight and clean community. After twenty years of leftist horseshit about how most of my friends and probably I would be dead ten years ago, anbd ow not only am I fine, ut I don't even *know* anybody who has contracted OR died of AIDS--I was right and the lefties were wrong. Again.

Major Pribluda, don't know where you got this info. Try doing a search for Botswana + AIDS.

re: #236 Edouard

Benjamin Franklin.

We'd talk about everything, from how he thinks a country should be run to how one lives an exceptional life.

Sometimes people over look how brilliant Franklin was. He was a great scientist (he's in physics texts for the law of electrostatic induction), a great inventor (bifocals, Franklin stove), and a great statesman, among other things.

Jefferson himself was impressive as an intellectual, a writer, a statesman, a developer of proper government, an architect, an amateur scientist and inventor. He penned the DOI, which I believe is the greatest political document in history, because it sets out rights.

These are also men who created America and were passionate about freedom and rights and defended it with every fiber of their beings.

By comparison we have a bunch of third rate dorks at the highest levels of office today.

re: #244 shiplord kirel

He was the best! I need eight hours, not four.LOL As I noted above, I want to talk to a few people.

Good Night. I am out.

re: #201 pegcity

What's interesting is that gays fought so long and nasty in Canada to get gay marriage, and now that they have it none of them are even getting married.

Their marriage rate is so low it makes it pretty obvious the whole thing was a matter of sticking it to the Man.

So to speak.

re: #69 Purple Prose

Actually there were those in Gaza who did want to make it work but they didn't know how to use the technology the Jews had developed(apparently there was a lot the workers hadn't picked up and/or the folks running things didn't want to let the former workers--who by the way are suing the expelleees, destitute as they are, for unjust termination--keep their jobs)and couldn't hold off the hordes of yahoos descending to destroy the greenhouses. I don't know exactly where to find it now, but there was actually an extremely chutzpahdik request for the Jewish expellees to return(unpaid, no security guaranteed of course) and show the PTB's how to raise the insect-free produce they were famous for in the aforementioned greenhouses. Naturally, there were no takers.

Heads up to SoCal lizards:

ANTI-AMERICAN PROTESTERS HOLD HIROSHIMA DAY EVENT

Hiroshima Day remembrance. In California, Moonbats will be ragging on America again for defeating Japanese fascism. Corner of Seal Beach Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway. Sunday, August 3, 2008. Counters are needed. From 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM.

I suggest we declare August 6th (the actual anniversary) a national holiday of thanksgiving for peace, freedom, and victory.

re: #248 Archimedes

I remember watching 1776 in school. It gave me a real appreciation for the fortitude and strength of character that our founding fathers exhibited.

IT'S ALIVE!

Good morining little blessing. How's things in your neck of the woods?

re: #201 pegcity

What's interesting is that gays fought so long and nasty in Canada to get gay marriage, and now that they have it none of them are even getting married.

Their marriage rate is so low it makes it pretty obvious the whole thing was a matter of sticking it to the Man.

Wow! That totally confirms a comment I made four months ago, concerning the legalization of gay marriage in California::

Actually, the truth is this: there will be a big flurry of about 5,000 gay couples getting married at first, with much media coveragde and fanfare...and then gay marriages will slow to a tiny trickle or only a few every month.

I know a LOT of gay people. (In fact, probably the majority of people I know are gay.) And I can't think of a single one that would have the slightest interest in getting married.

The whole thing is just one of those "prove a point" issues. Like flag-burning. Across America every day, how many people burn an American flag every week? One? Two? Totally unimportant. And yet it became a huge "free speech" issue. Same applies to gay marriage. A few will get married, and no one will really notice or care.

And the world keeps turning.

Morning zombie. How's the "Up the Alley" report holding out?

re: #254 BlueCanuck

Not bad.

Little One pulled a hot glue gun down from the table, which fell on to her eye.
Thank Goodness her eye is ok but she has a slight burn on her eyelid and a clump of glue on her lashes. She'll be ok.

She just started walking and moves so fast. Sometimes no matter how careful you are, things happen.

What's by you?

Zombie! : )
Everyone's talking about your post.

One of my favorites:
In the matter of slavish imitation, man is the monkey's superior all the time. The average man is destitute of independence of opinion. He is not interested in contriving a opinion of his own, by study and reflection, but is only anxious to find out what his neighbor's opinion is and slavishly adopt it.— Mark Twain

re: #257 little blessing

Things are getting a little interesting. Still don't know how to classify things the girlfriend or ex girlfriend. May have to sit down with her and hammer some stuff out. She told me today that she "toned things down because it was getting too intense".

/I frightened her. :D

re: #259 BlueCanuck

Does that mean that she didn't want the relationship to get serious?

re: #260 little blessing

I think so. One of the things that will have to be hammered out. Also make sure I don't over step myself and do something wrong and poison the waters.

re: #261 BlueCanuck

Well, good luck with it all. I hope it works out to your satisfaction.

/You crazy woman! When you get a good one hold on and don't let go!

re: #262 little blessing

Thanks. I think she was right too. I won't be letting go if she wants me. At the worst, I will have a good female friend.

re: #263 BlueCanuck

I'm confused.

Are you saying she was right in the fact that it was getting serious and that there is something wrong with that?

My message was to her. There are plenty of guys who want to have fun but few normal ones who want to settle down. If she truly likes you she shouldn't let you go. Especially since you value her as an individual and not as an accessory.

re: #264 little blessing

I think she was right about the intensity. She was probably right about the need to step back and breathe a bit. A lot of things in my life were being neglected that have to be done. So I will see how things go.

re: #252 shiplord kirel

Heads up to SoCal lizards:

ANTI-AMERICAN PROTESTERS HOLD HIROSHIMA DAY EVENT

I suggest we declare August 6th (the actual anniversary) a national holiday of thanksgiving for peace, freedom, and victory.

i'd go, just because, but i'm busy getting ready for the "National Night Out" event my local Blockwatcher group is doing...

bu the by: any Lizards in driving range of the SE SFV are cordially invited.
there will be boocoo food, and a chili cook off. email is active

re: #259 BlueCanuck

Things are getting a little interesting. Still don't know how to classify things the girlfriend or ex girlfriend. May have to sit down with her and hammer some stuff out. She told me today that she "toned things down because it was getting too intense".

/I frightened her. :D

wait until she meets me.... %-)

re: #252 shiplord kirel

Heads up to SoCal lizards:

ANTI-AMERICAN PROTESTERS HOLD HIROSHIMA DAY EVENT

I suggest we declare August 6th (the actual anniversary) a national holiday of thanksgiving for peace, freedom, and victory.

Every year the mayor of Hiroshima offers an official Peace Declaration.

Last years (2007) official Peace Declaration by the mayor of Hiroshima.

The original (1947) Peace Declaration by the then mayor of Hiroshima.

Subtle but noticeable changes.

re: #267 redc1c4

wait until she meets me.... %-)

Never going to happen. Nuh uh.

/heck sometimes you even scare me. :)

re: #212 pegcity

Howard Hughes would have been a good conversation, before he want insane that is.

Howard Hughes was a classic case of pain management failure. they took him off opioids, due to the stigma and restrictions on them, and put him on barbiturates, with the predictable psychological side effects from long term use.

/quote from HH6, resident pharmacist

re: #269 BlueCanuck

Never going to happen. Nuh uh.

/heck sometimes you even scare me. :)

but think of how good i'll make you look! %-)

re: #262 little blessing

Well, good luck with it all. I hope it works out to your satisfaction.

/You crazy woman! When you get a good one hold on and don't let go!

maybe she found a good one and that's why she's dumping good ol' red lite?

/white smoke %-)

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