No evolution threads today?

Obama solves the transportation energy issue!

re: #1 neocon hippie

No evolution threads today?

Open threads evolve.....

Shit yes. I like Hawaii.

re: #1 neocon hippie

I think the Dan Quayle quote was the evolution thread. Heh.

Hey, Olympics fans! Dog poop is thwarting Lithuania's chances at discus gold!

Who are we at war with in Iraq? Can't be the Iraqis, they're our ally.

Is the war over and they forgot to tell us?

obama is about as quified to be POTUS as dan quale or spiro agnew. but at least those two were VPOTUS. and created no lasting harm. unlike dhimmi carter.

OK Lizards...last Thursday I had the EGD procedure done and they found a single polyp, which they removed and sent to biopsy. Well I got the results back today and it is:

NEGATIVE...repeat, NEGATIVE!

So my stomach is good to go, and now I get to play Hurry Up and Wait with Aetna.

Thanks be to God!

Well, Sarge you see there was this...........

My home town.
[Link: grandcanyon.free.fr...]

re: #8 Macker

Thank God! Great news, sir!

re: #8 Macker

Good news. I'll bet that's a huge relief.

re: #8 Macker

OK Lizards...last Thursday I had the EGD procedure done and they found a single polyp, which they removed and sent to biopsy. Well I got the results back today and it is:

NEGATIVE...repeat, NEGATIVE!

So my stomach is good to go, and now I get to play Hurry Up and Wait with Aetna.

Thanks be to God!

Good news! Congratulations!

re: #8 Macker

OK Lizards...last Thursday I had the EGD procedure done and they found a single polyp, which they removed and sent to biopsy. Well I got the results back today and it is:

NEGATIVE...repeat, NEGATIVE!

So my stomach is good to go, and now I get to play Hurry Up and Wait with Aetna.

Thanks be to God!

Yep. And pass the chicken enchiladas. lol. Good to go.

re: #8 Macker

OK Lizards...last Thursday I had the EGD procedure done and they found a single polyp, which they removed and sent to biopsy. Well I got the results back today and it is:

NEGATIVE...repeat, NEGATIVE!

So my stomach is good to go, and now I get to play Hurry Up and Wait with Aetna.

Thanks be to God!

WOOT! Excellent.

re: #8 Macker

:D ! Good news!

McCain rallies bikers at Sturgis

An extremely energized Sen. McCain stressed energy independence during brief remarks before more than 20,000 motorcycle enthusiasts Monday night at the annual Sturgis motorcycle rally.

“This is my first time here but I recognize that sound. It’s the sound of freedom and thank you for it,” McCain said as hundreds of bikers revved their engines at a Salute to Veterans rally on the Buffalo Chip campgrounds. “I thank you all very much for that unique Sturgis welcome.”

/no Obama metrosexuals within 100 miles

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Truer words were never spoken.
/

re: #17 Killian Bundy

I have been to South Dakota a lot. I bet the range would be more like 500 miles.

We've been have trouble getting our latest foster placement to eat (14 mo old girl). She had a visit last with with her mother, and when sent a note asking what the little one was used to eating.

She comes home today with some food mom sent with her.
Cheetos and Fruit Loops.

No we aren't going to feed her that!

I hunt pheasant in South Dakota.

re: #20 jcm

Oh for God's sake!

re: #21 pat

Best habitat on earth...I think.

All of Dan Quayle's quotes have an existential truth. He is one of my favorites. Right up there with W C Fields, Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra, etc.

Congrats Macker, that is great news.

re: #17 Killian Bundy

McCain rallies bikers at Sturgis

/no Obama metrosexuals within 100 miles

Shovelheads unite!

re: #17 Killian Bundy

I had a chance to ride to Sturgis with some peeps, but that's way too long a ride for me, for a variety of reasons. That must have been pretty cool to hear all those bikes throttlin'!

re: #27 Cartman

I had a chance to ride to Sturgis with some peeps, but that's way too long a ride for me,

Lots of them trailer their bikes in. And then park the trailer at the hotel and ride the bikes into town. Thats what some of my friends did.

PS. Don't call them trailer queens. Not funny.

Obama and his 300 advisers would show up on Vespa scooters. With a few dozen semi trailers and diesel pushers full of media types following close behind.

re: #17 Killian Bundy

McCain rallies bikers at Sturgis

/no Obama metrosexuals within 100 miles

They were in the area but, they were quaking under their beds in their mommies' basements.

re: #28 Mich-again

Nah, this was an eight or nine day stampede ride. About 20 bikes headed there. Too much for me. ;)

re: #29 Mich-again

Obama and his 300 advisers would show up on Vespa scooters. With a few dozen semi trailers and diesel pushers full of media types following close behind.

Now there's a version of 300 I really don't need to see.

re: #20 jcm

We've been have trouble getting our latest foster placement to eat (14 mo old girl). She had a visit last with with her mother, and when sent a note asking what the little one was used to eating.

She comes home today with some food mom sent with her.
Cheetos and Fruit Loops.

No we aren't going to feed her that!

Good grief!

But was teh Muhammed born there?

/Inquiring minds want to know

re: #19 brainwizard73

I have been to South Dakota a lot. I bet the range would be more like 500 miles.

Depends. Was Tom Daschle in the state at the time?

/what a simpering ninny

The world's largest Confederate battle flag unfurled above the intersection of I-10 and I-4 in June

Tampa Confederate Veterans Memorial and its 139-foot flagpole features one of at least four giant "soldier's flags" flying over bumper-to-bumper interstates in Florida and Alabama. With more planned in Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, and possibly South Carolina, the interstate show of force, experts say, highlights the potential backlash from banning nostalgic symbols from the public square.

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

That might generate some debate.

re: #2 jcm

Obama solves the transportation energy issue!

I could not resist!

The Obama Bus

re: #8 Macker

Great news Macker!

re: #35 Palandine

How a state with so many good, hard working people could elect a guy that continually gave their money away to people who didn't earn it is totally beyond me...

I guess he looked good in a cowboy hat, or something.

Driving thru Tennessee yesterday we passed a "motorcycle campground." I never knew such things existed. Do the cycles bring their owners, or do they go there alone for vacation?

(Mandy, I said howdy to east Tennessee for you!)

Aloha lizards! I love Hawaii! We are so lucky it is part of the USA. Paradise:)

re: #33 MandyManners

Good grief!

The things you learn being a foster parent.

re: #20 jcm

We've been have trouble getting our latest foster placement to eat (14 mo old girl). She had a visit last with with her mother, and when sent a note asking what the little one was used to eating.

She comes home today with some food mom sent with her.
Cheetos and Fruit Loops.

No we aren't going to feed her that!

I don't have kids, so this advice is worth exactly what youre paying for it.

Maybe try her on some really mild cheddar or some other cheese and tell her it's like cheetos. Same with fruit instead of fruit loops.

Still, I had nieces and nephews who aparently survived for years while refusing to eat anything but chicken fingers and Kraft dinner...

re: #20 jcm

We've been have trouble getting our latest foster placement to eat (14 mo old girl). She had a visit last with with her mother, and when sent a note asking what the little one was used to eating.

She comes home today with some food mom sent with her.
Cheetos and Fruit Loops.

No we aren't going to feed her that!

She won't starve herself. She'll eat when she's good and hungry.

Just discovered this artist, enjoy

Francis Dunnery Too Much Saturn

I have to cut the Democrats the tiniest bit of slack. After all, Republicans let Dan Quayle get within a heartbeat of the Presidency.

Behead those who insult Cheetos.

I once had a SO with two little ones. All they ever wanted to eat were hot dogs, ramen noodels and cereal.

...err...noodles

re: #48 Cartman

I once had a SO with two little ones. All they ever wanted to eat were hot dogs, ramen noodels and cereal.

My 15 year old still rates ramen noodles as one of her favorite foods!

re: #46 Tigger2005

Alright, so Barack gets a pass for his VP slot. Cool. I mean, it makes sense since Barack is so experienced and seasoned...he can afford to have a VP that is two weeks removed from saying

"Uh, would you like fries with that?"

re: #44 songbird

She won't starve herself. She'll eat when she's good and hungry.

We've found some things, a chicken apple sausage she like, carrot slice cooked firm. It's amusing in some ways, we try a bunch of things and and assume since she's not malnourished mom had some clue. She's eating more, and yes we don't cater to finicky eaters, you eat what's served.

re: #44 songbird

My kids think ketchup and frozen waffles are food groups...so hang tough and it will be alright.

re: #40 wolfie

Driving thru Tennessee yesterday we passed a "motorcycle campground." I never knew such things existed. Do the cycles bring their owners, or do they go there alone for vacation?

(Mandy, I said howdy to east Tennessee for you!)

*smoochie*

The thread-opening quote could have had Obama's name under it and I would have believed it.

re: #50 songbird

My 15 year old still rates ramen noodles as one of her favorite foods!

/pasta flavored sodium

re: #43 Palandine

I don't have kids, so this advice is worth exactly what youre paying for it.

Maybe try her on some really mild cheddar or some other cheese and tell her it's like cheetos. Same with fruit instead of fruit loops.

Still, I had nieces and nephews who aparently survived for years while refusing to eat anything but chicken fingers and Kraft dinner...

She's doing well, but we'd never have guessed at that stuff.

re: #52 jcm

We've found some things, a chicken apple sausage she like, carrot slice cooked firm. It's amusing in some ways, we try a bunch of things and and assume since she's not malnourished mom had some clue. She's eating more, and yes we don't cater to finicky eaters, you eat what's served.

You are very creative with the food! I hope she does well in your household, but any child would do pretty well in a Lizard household.

re: #56 Killian Bundy

sodium flavored pasta

re: #48 Cartman

I once had a SO with two little ones. All they ever wanted to eat were hot dogs, ramen noodels and cereal.

It sounds like a comedy bit, but when I was a kid in the 70s, if I didn't like what was on the plate, that was too bad. Either eat it or go hungry.

Then, mom becamse grandma, and there's this generation of kids who say "I don't LIKE that." My mom would then cook them something else.

Hey! That wasn't the deal when I was a kid! :)

re: #55 otcconan

Watch Out. If Biden is the VP, he might steal the line for later use...

re: #51 brainwizard73

Alright, so Barack gets a pass for his VP slot. Cool. I mean, it makes sense since Barack is so experienced and seasoned...he can afford to have a VP that is two weeks removed from saying

"Uh, would you like fries with that?"

Well, I did say just the tiniest bit of slack. Like, just enough to hang themselves with.

re: #53 brainwizard73

My kids think ketchup and frozen waffles are food groups...so hang tough and it will be alright.

She eats a LOT more than ramen! I insist she gets a decent balanced diet (except when she's buying her own food at band camp)

re: #43 Palandine

I don't have kids, so this advice is worth exactly what youre paying for it.

Maybe try her on some really mild cheddar or some other cheese and tell her it's like cheetos. Same with fruit instead of fruit loops.

Still, I had nieces and nephews who aparently survived for years while refusing to eat anything but chicken fingers and Kraft dinner...

My youngest brother only ate cream of wheat (breakfast, lunch & dinner) til he was 7 years old.

re: #40 wolfie

Driving thru Tennessee yesterday we passed a "motorcycle campground." I never knew such things existed. Do the cycles bring their owners, or do they go there alone for vacation?

(Mandy, I said howdy to east Tennessee for you!)

TIME OUT MOTORCYCLE CAMPING TRAILER 2002

Aafia Siddiqui, who the FBI had sought for several years for terrorism, faces federal charges of attempted murder and assault of a U.S. officer and U.S. employees, federal authorities said.

Afghan police arrested Siddiqui outside the Ghazni governor's compound where they found bomb-making instructions, excerpts from the "Anarchist's Arsenal," papers with descriptions of U.S. landmarks and substances sealed in bottles and glass jars

The 36-year-old Siddiqui is an American-educated Pakistani neuroscientist and a suspected member of al Qaeda. If convicted, she faces a maximum of 20 years on each charge.

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

One less.

re: #32 Mars Needs Neocons

Jeremiah Wright addresses the crowd at Sturgis saying G*Damn AmeriKKKa! Vote for Obama!

/

re: #47 faraway

Behead those who insult Cheetos Cheesy Poofs.

There, fixed that for ya!

re: #67 Mich-again

Jeremiah Wright addresses the crowd at Sturgis saying G*Damn AmeriKKKa! Vote for Obama!

/

So he'd be the dude with all the freaky jewelry leading the Persians in this version?

re: #66 faraway

Big Bad America, letting Muslimahas educate themselves, i can see why they hate America.

When we were kids, and my folks would take us out to eat, my sister would order pancakes every time.

re: #59 pegcity

sodium flavored pasta

Um, no, it's the other way around, look at the packaging.

/one serving contains 800+ mg of sodium, a decidedly unhealthy dosage of salt

re: #69 Mars Needs Neocons

Rev. Wright never struck me as being metrosexual.

re: #65 jcm

TIME OUT MOTORCYCLE CAMPING TRAILER 2002

Pretty nifty, but the price is high for what you're getting...

re: #58 songbird

You are very creative with the food! I hope she does well in your household, but any child would do pretty well in a Lizard household.

My wife has wheat, dairy and sugar intolerances. Two munckins are lactose intolerant. So we've by necessity become creative.

I wonder how many people actually know that the Off Shore Drilling ban not standing ban but need to be renewed every year! This current drilling ban expires in September. The Dems are going to slip it into another bill to it can be renewed again after the break. This is why they are stalling the vote.

re: #62 Tigger2005

Just that Quayle's qualifications dwarf Obamas.

Quayle had 8 years Senator before VP compared to 3, soon to be 4, years for Obama before becoming President.

Quayle was in the House for four years before becoming a Senator. Obama? *crickets*

Quayle also had some private sector experience in the family publishing business. Obama has, as far as I can tell, zero private sector experience.

Quayle "misspelled" potato...Obama thinks there are 57 states...

Uh, someone is getting the better of this. The ref may have to stop the fight!

re: #47 faraway

Behead those who insult Cheetos.

I like Cheetos....
But not around the kids....

re: #67 Mich-again

Jeremiah Wright addresses the crowd at Sturgis saying G*Damn AmeriKKKa! Vote for Obama!

/

To quote the late, great Jimi Hendrix -

Tire tracks, all across your back

I can see you had your fun

re: #69 Mars Needs Neocons

So he'd be the dude with all the freaky jewelry leading the Persians in this version?

Don't confuse the Mullahs with the Persians. The Mullahs are Azeri Turks. I'm guessing given a genuine democratic election, the Persians would dump the Islamic Kleptocracy.

re: #67 Mich-again

Wright wouldn't be granted a visa to visit South Dakota.

re: #73 Macker

Rev. Wright never struck me as being metrosexual.

True, but I find it hard to believe that Xerxes was either. By all accounts he was pretty successful as a warlord and leader. Something else Wright isn't.

re: #76 Egfrow

I wonder how many people actually know that the Off Shore Drilling ban not standing ban but need to be renewed every year! This current drilling ban expires in September. The Dems are going to slip it into another bill to it can be renewed again after the break. This is why they are stalling the vote.

They are stalling until after the election, and then they will reinstate the ban in January. If any drilling rights are granted in the meantime, they will find a pretext to stop it down the road.

A new poll by The Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University shows him [Lord Obama] leading McCain by 10 points, 47 to 37 percent, among white low-income workers.

[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

Boy, they wasted their money on that poll. Hard to believe that one, there pardner.

re: #65 jcm

Wow. I never would have guessed you could haul all that w/ a motorcycle. A queen sized bed, no less. That's fantastic!

re: #81 brainwizard73

Wright wouldn't be granted a visa to visit South Dakota.

LOL! persona non grata.

re: #80 Mich-again

Don't confuse the Mullahs with the Persians. The Mullahs are Azeri Turks. I'm guessing given a genuine democratic election, the Persians would dump the Islamic Kleptocracy.

I have the impression they would also. I firmly believe Persia for Persians.

re: #85 wolfie

Wow. I never would have guessed you could haul all that w/ a motorcycle. A queen sized bed, no less. That's fantastic!

Saw one when we went camping last month. Pair of Goldwings come in, one pulling the tent trailer, he other hand a trailer with all the gear.

re: #87 Mars Needs Neocons

Iran is only about 1/2 Persians but they are the largest of the many ethnic groups.

re: #82 Mars Needs Neocons

True, but I find it hard to believe that Xerxes was either. By all accounts he was pretty successful as a warlord and leader. Something else Wright isn't.

In addition to 300, I also have on DVD The 300 Spartans, the original 1962 epic. It portrayed Xerxes as (how I would term it) "kingly" and even as bad as he was, he wasn't so decadent. Hell, when he was making out with his allied queen, the kisses and embraces were always chaste.
Just goes to show how films were made way back when.

re: #90 Macker

In addition to 300, I also have on DVD The 300 Spartans, the original 1962 epic. It portrayed Xerxes as (how I would term it) "kingly" and even as bad as he was, he wasn't so decadent. Hell, when he was making out with his allied queen, the kisses and embraces were always chaste.
Just goes to show how films were made way back when.

No joke.
I've just been reading up on Xerxes online, and it seems he really did well until he accepted bad advice, and still managed to mostly recover from even that setback.

re: #91 Mars Needs Neocons

No joke.
I've just been reading up on Xerxes online, and it seems he really did well until he accepted bad advice, and still managed to mostly recover from even that setback.

He didn't seem to be decadent. But, having the Hellespont whipped 30 times was a bit weird.

Did y'all notice the phallic obambi thread had over 1100 posts but not a one from our friends who come out for the ID/DI threads? Strange, almost like one issue voters.

re: #66 faraway
Hi there! Perhaps one of the most significant lines in that article was "Afghan police arrested Siddiqui".
Given her importance, might it be that the Paki ISI isn't all that it's cracked up to be?

re: #93 pingjockey

Did y'all notice the phallic obambi thread had over 1100 posts but not a one from our friends who come out for the ID/DI threads? Strange, almost like one issue voters.

The only troll I saw slither by today was JMV, but I've heard something about another one, don't know if its from today or not though.

re: #93 pingjockey

You think there is a connection between ID and Obama/phallic issues?

Something there?

re: #93 pingjockey

Did y'all notice the phallic obambi thread had over 1100 posts but not a one from our friends who come out for the ID/DI threads? Strange, almost like one issue voters.

Penis threads have a mind of there own.

re: #96 brainwizard73

Dickheads of the world unite?!

re: #97 jcm
Boob threads are better.

re: #98 pingjockey

Dickheads of the world unite untied?!

Just seemed more fitting for some reason.

re: #93 pingjockey

Did y'all notice the phallic obambi thread had over 1100 posts but not a one from our friends who come out for the ID/DI threads? Strange, almost like one issue voters.

There seem to be those on both sides of that "issue" that never post on any other thread topics but that one.

re: #98 pingjockey

Dickheads of the world unite?!

Isn't that the motto on Obama's seal?

re: #82 Mars Needs Neocons

I think Wright was a marine.

re: #94 realwest
Well, of course there is also this gem: "However, Amnesty International included her on a June 2007 list as someone for whom there was "evidence of secret detention by the United States and whose fate and whereabouts remain unknown."
Guess what AI - we know where she is now.

re: #100 Mars Needs Neocons
Whahaha! Snort, choke, gasp. Dammit man that was my last Kokanee!

re: #99 pingjockey

Here, here!

re: #101 Cartman

There seem to be those on both sides of that "issue" that never post on any other thread topics but that one.

And lets not forget the dingalingadingdowners that only hit those threads and dingdown everything that they don't have the balls to speak up and argue.

re: #101 Cartman
Spot on.

re: #93 pingjockey
Hey there pingjockey - un, any of the friends you'd care to identify that didn't come out to play?

re: #103 Archimedes

I think Wright was a marine.

If he was that's just sad. The marine corp should really find someway to deal with idiots like him and Murtha.

I was in the Army and Air Force, and we had too many idiots to deal with, but I would think the marines have a higher standard.

/Just giving you USMC'ers some shit.

re: #97 jcm
Hold on to your hat, the Ms scored 11 runs in one inning.

re: #101 Cartman

There seem to be those on both sides of that "issue" that never post on any other thread topics but that one.

And do nothing but gripe there's nothing else to talk about.

re: #107 Mars Needs Neocons And the dingledowners who won't come to one of those threads while their live, but wait - sometimes days - before posting there.

re: #111 pingjockey

Hold on to your hat, the Ms scored 11 runs in one inning.

Somebody put something in the water bottles?
That about matches the output all season.

re: #112 jcm LOL! Good one my friend!

re: #113 realwest

And the dingledowners who won't come to one of those threads while their live, but wait - sometimes days - before posting there.

Lurking dingalings.

re: #113 realwest
Oh yeah. Never understood that. Must give their little egos a stroking.

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons Uh, no disrespect intended, but it's
"idiots like him and John Fucking Murtha." Hope you don't mind that I fixed that for ya!

re: #118 realwest

Uh, no disrespect intended, but it's
"idiots like him and John Fucking Murtha." Hope you don't mind that I fixed that for ya!

Oh shit I forgot his middle name again. Thanks for watching my back.

re: #111 pingjockey

Hold on to your hat, the Ms scored 11 runs in one inning.

Darn it will you also rans in the American League get out of the way of the real teams that have a chance to do more than serve as as farm club for Boston and the Yankees?

re: #20 jcm

We've been have trouble getting our latest foster placement to eat (14 mo old girl). She had a visit last with with her mother, and when sent a note asking what the little one was used to eating.

She comes home today with some food mom sent with her.
Cheetos and Fruit Loops.

No we aren't going to feed her that!

Hate hearing this...and I am sure you will figure something out. I know this sounds bad......but at least she was getting fed something!

re: #114 jcm

Time to drug test the starting line up.

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons

If he was that's just sad. The marine corp should really find someway to deal with idiots like him and Murtha.

Well, no large group is going to be without its duds. By-and-large you can be assured that a Marine will be someone worthy of respect and often more than that.

I was in the Army and Air Force, and we had too many idiots to deal with, but I would think the marines have a higher standard.

/Just giving you USMC'ers some shit.

Both Army and Air Force? Is that common?

re: #118 realwest
Murtha name should always be "John Fucking Murtha" Just like Jon halp uz Kary.

What did the neo-Nazi British skinhead say when he discovered he was actually Jewish?

Oi vey!

re: #120 brainwizard73
I know. I hate the fuckin' yankees.

re: #123 Archimedes

Both Army and Air Force? Is that common?

I am a rare crossover. Army Guard to Full Air Force. You wouldn't believe the number of people in the AF who would get all confused when they saw my prior service ribbon. I even had a Colonel ask me what the hell it was.

re: #75 jcm

My wife has wheat, dairy and sugar intolerances. Two munckins are lactose intolerant. So we've by necessity become creative.

Maybe keep some of those fruit loops around and use them as a reward when she does eat something else.

re: #60 Palandine

It sounds like a comedy bit, but when I was a kid in the 70s, if I didn't like what was on the plate, that was too bad. Either eat it or go hungry.

Then, mom becamse grandma, and there's this generation of kids who say "I don't LIKE that." My mom would then cook them something else.

Hey! That wasn't the deal when I was a kid! :)

Heh. I hear that a lot from my kids. I was total hard-assed granola when they were little and if I hadn't cooked it from scratch they didn't get it. No cold cereal at all, no sugar. Now I am a little too easygoing. You have to choose your battles with kids.

In other news....

If one looks at the Lake Charles radar loop, it appears as if Edouard is taking a bit of a northern nudge... perhaps it will come ashore closer to Port Arthur than Houston.

re: #117 pingjockey
I seriously don't get it. I mean, wouldn't their egos be stroked even more if they came out and stated their position and got some support for it from others?
Otherwise it seems to me to like someone talking in a closed room of which he/she is the sole occupant.
Oh and btw, didja see my comment #109?

re: #132 realwest

I seriously don't get it. I mean, wouldn't their egos be stroked even more if they came out and stated their position and got some support for it from others?
Otherwise it seems to me to like someone talking in a closed room of which he/she is the sole occupant.
Oh and btw, didja see my comment #109?

Some people are only comfortable in an echo chamber, if they feel there will be any criticism of their genius they keep silent.

re: #75 jcm
What do you all eat? I'm sorry. If I couldn't have cheese and milk, along with sugar in my coffee, it could get real ugly. real fast.

re: #126 zombie

;)

re: #131 freetoken

In other news....

If one looks at the Lake Charles radar loop, it appears as if Edouard is taking a bit of a northern nudge... perhaps it will come ashore closer to Port Arthur than Houston.

I'll decide when I'm good and ready.

I don't want to argue
I don't want to debate
I don't want to hear about what kinds of food you hate
You won't get no dessert till you clean up your plate, so eat it!

re: #121 Inquisitive

Hate hearing this...and I am sure you will figure something out. I know this sounds bad......but at least she was getting fed something!

This ones was left home alone while mom was getting drunk. When cops found mom, mom picked a fight with the cops. As things go, not neglected continuously, clean and nourished, not abused. So she's in pretty good shape compared to some of the kids we see.

Germany hails 'bullet-proof bra'

It is being dubbed the new "bullet-proof bra", a new kind of Wonderbra which could help save the lives of thousands of women police officers here in Germany.

It may sound like a joke, but this is a serious matter - the policewoman who came up with the idea said normal bras can be dangerous when worn in combination with a bullet-proof vest.

"The impact of a bullet can push the metal and plastic bits of the bra into an officer's body, causing serious injury," said Carmen Kibat, an adviser on equal opportunities for the Hamburg-based Bundespolizei - Germany's federal police force.

"I always thought normal bras posed a safety risk and I wanted to change that," she said.

/German engineering

re: #128 Mars Needs Neocons

I am a rare crossover. Army Guard to Full Air Force. You wouldn't believe the number of people in the AF who would get all confused when they saw my prior service ribbon. I even had a Colonel ask me what the hell it was.

Definitely something to write home about. Did you do it because you wanted to fly? That's something that would motivate me.

re: #132 realwest
I did, but I'd have to go back and look. The only one that springs to mind is "George Slivers", I know there are more but the nics are eluding me right now.

re: #134 pingjockey

What do you all eat? I'm sorry. If I couldn't have cheese and milk, along with sugar in my coffee, it could get real ugly. real fast.

Cook everything from scratch, there is alternatives to everything. Bean, rice, corn flour, goat milk and cheese. It cost a little more and we spend a lot of time in the kitchen and don't eat out often.

re: #135 wolfie

;)

Maybe "Oi! Oi! Oi! vey" would be a funnier punchline?

re: #133 Mars Needs Neocons LOL! I think I prefer that, almost, to their coming out on a live one and "exhibiting their genius!"

re: #136 Edouard

I'll decide when I'm good and ready.

Damn it. Bush should have finished the border fence.

re: #140 Archimedes

Definitely something to write home about. Did you do it because you wanted to fly? That's something that would motivate me.

Nope, bad eyes, and no degree at that time. As weird as it seems, I got sick of the temporary military thing interrupting my life and decided that full service would be better. Air Force just seemed to be a different tack, a little more "civilian" than full army.

re: #138 jcm

This ones was left home alone while mom was getting drunk. When cops found mom, mom picked a fight with the cops. As things go, not neglected continuously, clean and nourished, not abused. So she's in pretty good shape compared to some of the kids we see.

That's good to hear....don't know where you are from, how long do they usually stay in the system there. We usually go from two to three years at the least.

re: #144 realwest

LOL! I think I prefer that, almost, to their coming out on a live one and "exhibiting their genius!"

no joke

re: #142 jcm
I wouldn't think eating out would be an option. Girl at my work was allergic to gluten(sp) isn't that in wheat? All I know is she had to be damn careful with her food.

re: #141 pingjockey
Oh yeah, George Silvers. That's enough my friend, please don't bother to look for any more, I just thought you had a few in mind when you wrote that!

A friend of mine is very allergic to fresh fruit. She can eat it cooked or dried, but not fresh.

re: #150 realwest
I did but CRS disease jumped up and grabbed my brain!

Not happy!

/I keel you!

re: #153 Killian Bundy
"Welcome to Wal-Mart. Git yer shit and git out".

Question:

A couple of days ago I posted the URL of a site that tracks the loss and preservation of beautiful architecture in St. Louis. That site brought to my attention a company that is making the situation worse:

1. They buy abandoned, and sometimes occupied buildings always in areas already suffering great financial hardship.
2. If they are occupied, they evict the residents.
3. They do not board up their properties, allowing the architecture to deteriorate and providing areas for crime and homeless squatters.
4. They do not maintain the yards of these buildings, forcing the City to do so.
5. They sell the houses back and forth between their shell companies, massively inflating the on-paper value of these properties.
6. They either allow or are in collusion with brick smugglers--people who break buildings and then pallet up the beautiful red brick for shipment to other cities.

The company, Blairmont, won't say what their goal is--the thought it that they eventually want to create a large upper class "village" in the area as they did with Winghaven, but no one knows for sure,and they will not speak to anyone.

These folks are worse than slumlords--they are deliberately destroying poor neighborhoods and creating enviornments for crime.

Here's the problem--looking at the owner's campaign donation record, he gives primarily to Republicans, although some democrats are in there.

How would you suggest going about informing these campaigns that they may not want this guy's filthy money?

Detailed instructions for bathing a cat:
[Link: www.yuckles.com...]

re: #147 Inquisitive

That's good to hear....don't know where you are from, how long do they usually stay in the system there. We usually go from two to three years at the least.

The boys were in the system a little over 3 years before we adopted them, the girl less than a year, she was abandoned at the hospital and mom signed the releases pretty quickly.

3 years seems pretty average. But the WA system tries too hard IMHO to reunite children with parents, returning the kids several times to see if the parents can make it. At 2 years per cycle the kids are teenagers before the State gives up on the parents.

The system in WA is broke badly, and with the (D)s in charge getting worse fast.

re: #146 Mars Needs Neocons" Air Force just seemed to be a different tack, a little more "civilian" than full army."
Well OF COURSE the Air Force seems less "military".
When they build an AF Base ( a new one I mean, or refurbish an older one) the first thing they do is put in Officers, NCO and EM barracks. Then they build the Officers, NCO and EM Clubs. Then they put in a control tower while they also build hangers and of course the Golf Course.
Then they ask for more money to build the runways!

re: #155 Palandine

Start with the local pols and go from there.

re: #149 pingjockey

I wouldn't think eating out would be an option. Girl at my work was allergic to gluten(sp) isn't that in wheat? All I know is she had to be damn careful with her food.

Middle eastern, and oriental can be wheat gluten free. But yes we are very careful.

re: #155 Palandine
Document, document, document, then send it to the campaigns. Call, be a nuisance.

Good night all, you naughty lizards have kept me up past my bedtime.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
Ronald Reagan

re: #158 realwest

" Air Force just seemed to be a different tack, a little more "civilian" than full army."
Well OF COURSE the Air Force seems less "military".
When they build an AF Base ( a new one I mean, or refurbish an older one) the first thing they do is put in Officers, NCO and EM barracks. Then they build the Officers, NCO and EM Clubs. Then they put in a control tower while they also build hangers and of course the Golf Course.
Then they ask for more money to build the runways!

LOL, I thought that was because they were government.

You want it bad, be a cop in the AF. We were still the last ones living in WW2 era dorms in Germany. We were always the last to receive anything. Hell we were the only ones on our base that had to deploy to the sandbox wearing Forest Camo.

re: #162 jcm
Night. God, I miss that man.

re: #158 realwest

" Air Force just seemed to be a different tack, a little more "civilian" than full army."
Well OF COURSE the Air Force seems less "military".
When they build an AF Base ( a new one I mean, or refurbish an older one) the first thing they do is put in Officers, NCO and EM barracks. Then they build the Officers, NCO and EM Clubs. Then they put in a control tower while they also build hangers and of course the Golf Course.
Then they ask for more money to build the runways!

Well we are smarter, we deserve all that.
We figured out how to send the officers off to fight!

/really gone now.

re: #165 jcm

Except for a Colonel I knew. Never could quite make it to the drop site.

Night lizards. A little reading, then lights out. See y'all in the am.

I still can't log in, unless I click the contact link and log on through the new page that comes up. This is really weird. Doesn't matter if I reload, reboot, toss my cookies, etc.... anyone else have similar issues?

re: #46 Tigger2005

I have to cut the Democrats the tiniest bit of slack. After all, Republicans let Dan Quayle get within a heartbeat of the Presidency.

Excuse me but ALGORE was not only a heartbeat away for eight years and one impeachment tied Senate vote when he voted to stay the VP, but a few more floridians and ALGORE would have been (shudder) President.

VP Quayle was a good VP just a poor speaker.

re: #169 ASU86PE

Excuse me but ALGORE was not only a heartbeat away for eight years and one impeachment tied Senate vote when he voted to stay the VP, but a few more floridians and ALGORE would have been (shudder) President.

VP Quayle was a good VP just a poor speaker.

And by all accounts a very intelligent person who just occasionally lost the link between brain and tongue.

At least he didn't try to spell Hawaii.

re: #163 Mars Needs Neocons You were deployed to the Sandbox with Forest Cammo?! What? Are you serious? I mean, I always loved the AF when I was a groundpounder for the obvious reasons, but always thought you guys got the best of everything "new" and of course the Marines got the best of everything last!
But MP duty is really tough - didja ever pine away for your old National Guard Exerpience or were you an MP then, too?

re: #157 jcm

The boys were in the system a little over 3 years before we adopted them, the girl less than a year, she was abandoned at the hospital and mom signed the releases pretty quickly.

3 years seems pretty average. But the WA system tries too hard IMHO to reunite children with parents, returning the kids several times to see if the parents can make it. At 2 years per cycle the kids are teenagers before the State gives up on the parents.
The system in WA is broke badly, and with the (D)s in charge getting worse fast.

That is BAD and the damage it does to the children to be moved in and out of these homes. We don't have that happen around our area, parents don't finish case plan, no reunification, though we have had children stay in the system as long as up to 8 years and some times they age out before permanent homes/adoption can be done. Usually it is because they can't find/settle on who will take them, especially when there is a large sibling group. They usually get separated into several homes, especially when there is 2 or 3 different dads involved.

re: #172 realwest

You were deployed to the Sandbox with Forest Cammo?! What? Are you serious? I mean, I always loved the AF when I was a groundpounder for the obvious reasons, but always thought you guys got the best of everything "new" and of course the Marines got the best of everything last!
But MP duty is really tough - didja ever pine away for your old National Guard Exerpience or were you an MP then, too?

Yep, we got sent with forest greens. I actually made a joke (which was stolen by an a-10 pilot who was near by and he sent it to Readers Digest and won!) That to hide we just had to stand around a glass of water and pretend to be an oasis.

We cops got everything later.

Actually I was a Powder Monkey on an artillery crew, so no I never did miss it.

re: #168 slokat

I am really, really buzzed right now. LOL, but I was in internet hell recently. Dump anything related to Norton, dump anything related to internet explorer and you might be alright. I love my firefox.

Nite....Iron Fist rules applies to me.

Love all of you lizards.

re: #175 Pvt Bin Jammin
LOL! Good evening PBJ and Goodnight to you, too!

re: #175 Pvt Bin Jammin

Already no Norton been on Firefox for years - have made no changes to my computer... just suddenly can't use the usual login.

re: #176 realwest

Love you, too. Feel better. I hope you demand an earlier appt.

Nite.

We finally got Deserts a couple days into it, but I still wound up having to rely on the "local economy" to get some desert boots.

Oopps - forgot to add 'night PBJ!

re: #177 slokat

Wish I could help you. What a bummer.
Nite.

re: #169 ASU86PE
" but a few more floridians Tennesseans and...."
No lie, if Gore had carried his HOME STATE he'd a been POTUS. Geez, that's a really scary thought.
Gore as POTUS after 9/11. Shudder.

re: #182 realwest

I forget just how close we came to this eternally

re: #110 Mars Needs Neocons

If he was that's just sad. The marine corp should really find someway to deal with idiots like him and Murtha.

I was in the Army and Air Force, and we had too many idiots to deal with, but I would think the marines have a higher standard.

/Just giving you USMC'ers some shit.

The USMC just produces a better quality of assholes.

sheesh - even my sockpuppet has the same login problem...

re: #183 ASU86PE ROFL!
Indeed - OTOH, he woulnd't have had time to do whatever the hell he did to win the Nobel Prize!

Course all of us woulda been screwed.

Well I've gotta get some sleep - so 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: #8 Macker

OK Lizards...last Thursday I had the EGD procedure done and they found a single polyp, which they removed and sent to biopsy. Well I got the results back today and it is:

NEGATIVE...repeat, NEGATIVE!

So my stomach is good to go, and now I get to play Hurry Up and Wait with Aetna.

Thanks be to God!

w00t!

Well, I have to go to sleep too. I have a job interview tight and oily in the morning.

re: #184 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The USMC just produces a better quality of assholes.

since when?

/white smoke

re: #168 slokat

I still can't log in, unless I click the contact link and log on through the new page that comes up. This is really weird. Doesn't matter if I reload, reboot, toss my cookies, etc.... anyone else have similar issues?

i try never to toss my cookies..... it makes a mess and wastes booze too.

/plus it tastes bad %-)

re: #53 brainwizard73

My kids think ketchup and frozen waffles are food groups...so hang tough and it will be alright.

.........Why can't they just eat their waffles?

"'My people are the people of the dessert,' said T. E. Lawrence, picking
up his fork."
(Was painted in big letters on the side of a building in Pasadena many
years ago -- not sure if it is still there.)

...not sure if it was the cause, but my link address for LGF ended with - /weblog/weblog.php

Removing the /weblog.php gets me a page that lets me login. (unfortunately it loads slower)

Hey Red! haven't run into you for awhile.

My son graduates on Friday from Mercedes school, we'll be going down to Rancho Cucamonga and hauling back his tools, etc.

re: #155 Palandine

That is a classic problem... outside interests have no sense of community, even though a locale may already have a working community (even if it is struggling.)

Ultimately, the current owners of the smaller properties (which are desired to be accumulated by the outside developer) have take the responsibility to not sell. However, if they need the $$$ will they be able to say "no"?

Ultimately money talks... and frankly trying any scheme to prevent this probably ends in worse outcomes. However, it is really sad that the outside company lets the properties run down so much that the area may become unsafe (on top of being unsightly.)

Doesn't your town/city bill the owner if the city has to come out and take care of the property? Perhaps you should go to your town's next meeting and complain?

re: #107 Mars Needs Neocons

And lets not forget the dingalingadingdowners that only hit those threads and dingdown everything that they don't have the balls to speak up and argue.

Not totally true, at least that's what I witnessed last night while I had the LGF Spy thingy on (fascinating thing, innit?) -- downdinging also appeals to some folks who can't bear the thought that someone actually opposes to their position . . . no matter how long ago it might have been (Unlearned scum! Take that [ downding ].

I had turned my attention to a book I was perusing and, out of the corner of my eye I saw a flurry of activity on the Spy -- I watched as two of the most prolific posters on evo/ID threads were zooming through old, cold evo/ID threads and downdinging like crazy (about once every 4 seconds or so). Now these are guys who won't hesitate to slam you while a thread is alive, but kicking the bones of a dead thread -- dang! That's just . . .
I guess that's their way of saying, "I really, really disagree with you"
heh

Later Lizzy's and Lizzards.

Cynthia McKinney is to Michelle Obama as...

Discuss.

re: #8 Macker

Glad to hear you are doing well!

Some one needs to tune up this thread.

And properly inflate the tired ...

/

re: #7 yochanan

obama is about as quified to be POTUS as dan quale or spiro agnew. but at least those two were VPOTUS. and created no lasting harm. unlike dhimmi carter.

Don't be dissin' my man Spiro. He coined a phrase describing the MSM that is as true now as it was in 1972: "The Nattering Nabobs of Negativism."

NIXON NOW MORE THAN EVER!

Tricky Dick's a friend forever!

Re: man who says he is too fat to execute. I think it is not true. Let us bet on it.

re: #198 aaron's rantblog

Cynthia McKinney is to Michelle Obama as...

Discuss.

you're racist.

/discussion over.

%-)

re: #198 aaron's rantblog

Cynthia McKinney is to Michelle Obama as...

Discuss.

Have you ever seen the two of them together?

Just sayin'

re: #203 pat

Re: man who says he is too fat to execute. I think it is not true. Let us bet on it.

Was his victim too alive to die?

Just up the dosage and be done with it.

Lady Nancy Astor : “Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your tea !”
Winston Churchill : “Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it !”

( Anecdotal )

Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert said this exchange was more likely to have occurred between Lady Astor and Churchill’s good friend F. E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead, a notorious acerbic wit. But both Consuelo Vanderbilt (The Glitter and the Gold) and Christopher Sykes (Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor) say the riposte was by Churchill. The argument was rendered moot when Fred Shapiro, in The Yale Book of Quotations, tracked the origins of the phrase to a joke line from a 1900 edition of The Chicago Tribune.

{ This note taken from The Churchill Centre ( [Link: www.winstonchurchill.org...] ) ;
[Link: www.winstonchurchill.org...] }

/Chicago. Just can't get away from it ...

Morning all, looks like I came onto the thread in the midst of its death throes. How y'all been doing.

/grammar lessons from LeePro. :)

re: #208 BlueCanuck

Morning all, looks like I came onto the thread in the midst of its death throes. How y'all been doing.

/grammar lessons from LeePro. :)

still cooking dead animal parts.... still drinking beer, still fixin fruitcup.

/the more things change, the more they satay the same. %-)

re: #209 redc1c4

I hear you. Still stuck at a desk, still dreaming big dreams. :)

/at least I have chosen to walk more and get exercise.

re: #208 BlueCanuck
Good morning, BlueC .

Having a problem keeping my eyes open.

Judging from your avatar, you've solved that problem ...

re: #210 BlueCanuck

I hear you. Still stuck at a desk, still dreaming big dreams. :)

/at least I have chosen to walk more and get exercise.

so you can live longer and suffer more.....

i sometimes wonder about your decision tree, but then again, given the winters there, damage is to be expected. %-)

how's the new girlfriend coming along?

/back on another horse

re: #208 BlueCanuck

Where do you stand on thread Euthanasia?

re: #211 Temujin

Heh, yeah. I figured it was time to CHANGE my avatar. One of the pictures I took this weekend.

/drink.

re: #210 BlueCanuck

I hear you. Still stuck at a desk, still dreaming big dreams. :)

Dream as big as you want to.................

re: #213 Fenway_Nation

Thread assisted suicide?

re: #212 redc1c4

I want to live forever. But I want to do it well. So exercise is important I believe. Got at least another 50 years in me so I want to make the most of them. As for the GF, same one, slower pace. And no titles.

/yeah a sucker for punishment, but she's a keeper.

re: #213 Fenway_Nation

Where do you stand on thread Euthanasia?

if the families can afford it, and the kid wants to do a cultural exchange to Asia, who cares? it might do them some good to learn that all this green propaganda about living simpler, etc, results in being uncomfortable.

/fewer moonbats in the long run, maybe.

re: #216 Temujin

Thread assisted suicide?

That would take the form of me talking Red Sox baseball without loppyd or remembertonyc present.

re: #214 BlueCanuck

I got CPR/FA, and a Defib standing by. There is HOPE. :)

/trying to get red drunker so he will forget about fruitcup.

/DRINK.

Soo...

Just based on his internet quotes, is Dan Quayle better evidence of evolution through natural selection, or intelligent design?

/ducks twice & runs away...

re: #221 Clemente

/Tosses grenade spread in Clementes direction.

Duck and dodge that. :)

re: #217 BlueCanuck

I want to live forever. But I want to do it well. So exercise is important I believe. Got at least another 50 years in me so I want to make the most of them. As for the GF, same one, slower pace. And no titles.

/yeah a sucker for punishment, but she's a keeper.

get married: you won't live forever, but it'll seem that way.

Q: why do husbands usually die before their wives?
A: because they can.

married men don't live longer than single men: it just seems that way.

re: #220 BlueCanuck

Hope's for dopes !

McCain 2008 !

test

re: #224 Temujin

Hope's for dopes !

McCain 2008 !

he's the least offensive Democrat running.

re: #221 Clemente

re: #222 BlueCanuck

See? This is where a little white smoke would've paid dividends....

re: #225 zombie

test

ping

re: #225 zombie

test

pass

/ucsc

re: #225 zombie

And me without my #2 pencil

Hmmm...Ajax doesn't seem to work on iPhones!

re: #226 redc1c4

he's the least offensive Democrat running.

Fixed that 4 ya ...

re: #227 Fenway_Nation

That's why it was a grenade spread. No amount of smoke will help with that.

/there is no such thing as overkill. There's only open fire and reload.

re: #225 zombie

test

Morning, Z !

What's the password ?

re: #231 zombie

You have one of the newer ones? Send in a complaint to Apple.

re: #227 Fenway_Nation

re: #222 BlueCanuck

See? This is where a little white smoke would've paid dividends....

right useful stuff, i garrontee!

re: #234 Temujin

Morning, Z !

What's the password ?

Took me a while to figure it out! I had to guess my own wireless network password. I hadn't needed it in so long, I had forgotten!

re: #235 BlueCanuck

You have one of the newer ones? Send in a complaint to Apple.

No. An antique one.

I'm typing this on my computer. I'm not used to how the iPhone types! And none of the LGF features (like quote, reply, new comments, etc.) work.

re: #237 zombie

I have more passwords than a dog has fleas ...

now i'm typing this on my iPhone!

re: #233 BlueCanuck

That's why it was a grenade spread. No amount of smoke will help with that.

/there is no such thing as overkill. There's only open fire and reload.

/155 & 203 open sheaf: HE quick & WP time w/MLRS DP/ICM on the same grid.

you might need an umbrella....... steel rain is coming.

woo-hoo!

re: #241 zombie

I might get myself one of those tools eventually. But for now I will just carry my pack and electronics that I have accumulated for the nonce.

/laptop, palm zire, digital camera, cell phone. . . . . . .

re: #241 zombie

Does it take really cool pictures, too ?

Hello, zombie, how are you?

Just fine.

Woo-hoo!

Talkin' to myself through space.

re: #246 zombie

re: #247 zombie

I think it's time for you to find a saner locale. SF has you starting to talk to yourself. :)

/see what it's done to red?

//white smoke

re: #245 Temujin

Does it take really cool pictures, too ?

Haven't tried that yet. Doubtful. Nothing can replace my Moonbatcam 3000!

re: #232 Temujin

Fixed that 4 ya ...

not sure that's true. i really don't like Mc Lame, but the other options are demonstrably *much* worse..... i'm not going to research all the conservative Dems, but it's possible that there is someone there who i would find preferable to him, not that they are in the running.

of the 3 douche bags, he's the least offensive, which is faint praise to be "leader of the free world"

re: #242 redc1c4

/155 & 203 open sheaf: HE quick & WP time w/MLRS DP/ICM on the same grid.

you might need an umbrella....... steel rain is coming.

Wups... opened another dang barrel o' whupass...

Zombie: don't listen to BC. Sanity is way over-rated!

/Trust me on this ...

OK, I've reached my maximum for tech experimentation for one night. Ten minutes is all I can handle!

re: #253 Clemente

Yeah, you have to be careful on these threads. We don't play well with certain topics. We are rather nice other wise.

/keep it on topic or on good stuff.

re: #252 redc1c4

Don't think you got what I was trying to imply.

Guess it depends on the definition of the word "running!"

/Mebbe we could take take up a collection, get him one a those electric wheelchairs ...

re: #2 jcm

Obama is snake oil salesman.

If he though cars could run on snake oil he would have tried to sell it as such.

As some posters have noted, Nuclear Power is a promising alternative. But, will take time and persuasion of the people to implement.

In the final analysis, America get most of it energy from fossil fuel. It’s contains a huge amount of power per gallon and is relatively easy to transport. It will take years to wean America off of fossil fuel. So, drilling for it is a good solution.

But, the dems don’t want that to happen – at least until the election is over.

They remember HW Bush became a “one-term” President because of a declining economy and they want to repeat that in this election.

Here is serious post on energy consumption of “green” electric cars v. gas cars. It points out much more power is contained is gasoline compared to an electric cars and the economic factors.

See: post #641

re: #258 Ledger1

Yeah, that's the big problem with most alternative methods for powering our economy. Until they come up with better fuel cells, better batteries, and better methods of storing ANY energy. Petroleum delivers the biggest bang for the buck.