Misty water color memories................

Looks like smog to me.

re: #1 Typicalwhitey

Misty water color memories................

Oh, great, like there wasn't enough Streisand exposure today.

So I'm packing my bags for the misty mountains....

From out of the mist emerges...

... the Republicans' electoral hopes for this November!

Not as bad as a white out, kind of pretty in mellow way...I love fog as along as I am not driving or flying in it....

play misty for me

What? No supertanker? Gotta be out there someplace...

Misty Mountain Hop.

Found this onDummie Funnies. They are reaching full meltdown and calling for what sounds like treason if they lose the elections.

It's Biden. Mist his train.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

That isn't mist.

That is the hot, humid air condensing as it rapidly escapes the mouths of hapless Obamatons who are screaming"McCain is a liar!" as loud as they can.

I love mist. You have to get up early here in my part of SoCal to get any, though.

The way the Daily Cuss Kids are going to feel after losing 3 in a row!

re: #8 so?

play misty for me

Coming up!

Hmmm.. I see the Fed moving to take AIG over with a bailout of $85 billion.

The future is hazy...

Astounding, the lack of even a veneer of coverage in the media. Obama’s ties to subversive radicals run deep:

…
…Barack Obama is an integral part of a web of radical activists, whose roots go back to a clandestine Communist Party network in Hawaii centering upon his erstwhile mentor the late black poet Frank Marshall Davis, an agent of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
…
…Obama was introduced to Davis by his grandfather Stanley Dunham, who considered Davis a ‘strong black male figure’ and thought he exerted a ‘positive’ and significant influence over Obama during his high school years. In her view, Davis was just such a black role model for the young Obama and gave him ‘a sense of believing that change can happen’ through ‘living in a diverse world’.

The problem was that Davis believed ‘change’ could best be achieved through Stalinism.
…
It appears that Davis continued to be a mentor to Obama into young manhood. In Dreams from my Father, Obama relates how, just before he went to college at 18, he was warned by ‘Frank’ not to forget his ‘people’ and not to ‘start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit’.
…
Despite this close early relationship with a role model and mentor who happened to be a Communist agitator and radical black activist, such matters might nevertheless have raised few eyebrows if Obama’s politics had matured with age. But he appears to have continued along this same radical trajectory – as his 20-year membership of the black power-promoting Trinity United Church of Christ would suggest. A dossier by Cliff Kincaid documents how in 1995 Senator Alice Palmer presented Barack Obama as her chosen successor and protege to a group of extreme left-wingers: William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Dr Quentin Young. These were to play a significant role in Obama’s life and career.

More from Melanie Phillips here.

How do birds know where they are going in weather like that?

re: #18 LoFlyer

Coming up!

see my #13 the new and improved version

Seems like the game plan this week was to accuse McCain of using racist "code words". It just seems odd that several at the same time (Sibelius, Time magazine to name a couple) just happened to start flogging that horse.

Need a good laugh?

You have come to the right place.

Kat DeLuna "singing" the National Anthem

It gets really good around 1:08.

Mist and low clouds, great just walking about in it. So quiet and spooky. Love low cloud shots.

Heartland Mist...

Missed the American heartlands and hit the fringe elements!

re: #21 Sharmuta

How do birds know where they are going in weather like that?

nightvision goggles

re: #14 experiencedtraveller

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Or teach a man to fish and he sits in a boat and drinks beer all day.

Wonderful photo...looks peaceful...quiet...

CHEMTRAILS! CHEMTRAILS! CHEMTRAILS! CHEMTRAILS!

THEY HIDE THE BLACK HELICOPTERS VERY WELL!

re: #11 livefreeor die

Found this onDummie Funnies. They are reaching full meltdown and calling for what sounds like treason if they lose the elections.

G-d bless the DUmmies. They just can't understand why people think that the leftists in this country have nothing going for them. I was thinking of donating a few extra dollars to the GOP. This just sealed the deal for me. Watching DUmmies blow up in front of our eyes is so worth any amount.

Democrats accuse locals of being racist toward Obama

YOUNGSTOWN — With the Republican presidential and vice presidential nominees in the Mahoning Valley today for a rally, two local Democratic state legislators said they believe a main reason polls show a tight race is because of racist voters.

“Race — that’s the only reason people in the Valley won’t vote for him,” said state Rep. Thomas Letson of Warren, D-64th, about Barack Obama, his party’s presidential nominee. “There are 1,000 reasons to vote for Obama and one reason why you won’t — race.”

/that's going to go over well

$28,500.00 a plate, $2000.00 for the show. Huh.

How did they come up with that price?

Looks like "The Arrowhead Project" blew a fuse. Uh-oh.

/Stephen King reference

And now, in contrast to the flat and musty view at the top of the thread, here is the sunset on the San Gabriel Mountains of California, for Sept. 16, A.D. 2008 or 5768 if you prefer.

BBIAB

re: #22 so?

see my #13 the new and improved version

You beat me to it...I never particulary liked "Misty". This is more my style.

re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

$28,500.00 a plate, $2000.00 for the show. Huh.

How did they come up with that price?

I think $31,000 would have been viewed as elitist. Got to keep it reasonable.

re: #33 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I've been thinking about this all day. If there is such concern for "the poor" why don't Dems donate 36% or so of campaign funds to the poor.

re: #38 NC State of Mind

I think $31,000 would have been viewed as elitist. Got to keep it reasonable.

Keepin' it real!

re: #32 Killian Bundy

Democrats accuse locals of being racist toward Obama

/that's going to go over well

I wish the local papers would run with it.

I hope that isn't Stephen King's mist.

that might take care of the poor : P

Charles -

Nice picture, here on the "Right Coast" we call it FOG.

-S-

re: #21 Sharmuta

How do birds know where they are going in weather like that?

They fly by braille.

It can be a little bumpy.

The fog comes
On little cat feet
It sits looking over the harbor and city
On silent haunches
And then, moves on

re: #24 loppyd

Need a good laugh?

You have come to the right place.

Kat DeLuna "singing" the National Anthem

It gets really good around 1:08.

I was asked to sing the National Anthem years ago for the local hockey team. I was practicing a jazzed up version, and a regular version. Asked my son which he preferred.

He answered with probably the greatest answer ever given regarding this song. He said...

"Well, Dad. It is the National Anthem."

That was it.

re: #1 Typicalwhitey
i love her voice, very sad she finds a need to share her politics.

re: #40 USA

Keepin' it real!

racist!

re: #45 Syrah

Boooo, hisssss. That's just plain awful.

/taking lessons from buzzsawmonkey?

Misty

re: #42 Tigger2005

Thought it made a helluva movie.

re: #19 lawhawk

Hmmm.. I see the Fed moving to take AIG over with a bailout of $85 billion.

The future is hazy...

Look at the bright side, we're almost done.

/the only "too big to fail" company left to bail out is GM

re: #32 Killian Bundy

“Race — that’s the only reason people in the Valley won’t vote for him,” said state Rep. Thomas Letson of Warren, D-64th, about Barack Obama, his party’s presidential nominee. “There are 1,000 reasons to vote for Obama and one reason why you won’t — race.”

Thats not going to go over well at the Hot Dog Shoppe on East Market.

The mist of May is in the gloaming.

Has the federal government really said it's gonna' bail out AIG?

duh West Market. Wrong side of the tracks.

re: #50 BlueCanuck

Boooo, hisssss. That's just plain awful.

/taking lessons from buzzsawmonkey?

Yes I am.

/Pelicans are the worst. They are a really big bird. Getting hit by one of those things is like getting hit by a car.

re: #28 Quintus_Arius

Or teach a man to fish and he sits in a boat and drinks beer all day.

Leisure is a necessity both for growth in goodness and for the pursuit of political activity.

re: #32 Killian Bundy

Democrats accuse locals of being racist toward Obama

/that's going to go over well

I hope the Dems keep it up. People will soon realize that if we elect Obama, its gonna be four years of that crap. Support his policies or you're a racist.

re: #56 MandyManners wondering what our shares are worth?

re: #56 MandyManners

Actually, they are using your money to do it, . . .

re: #56 MandyManners

Has the federal government really said it's gonna' bail out AIG?

/it's a done deal

re: #49 NC State of Mind

racist!

No, just a plagerist.

re: #24 loppyd

Need a good laugh?

You have come to the right place.

Kat DeLuna "singing" the National Anthem

It gets really good around 1:08.

Good googly-moogly that was awful! She got boo'd at the end, too!

Of course. That's the only reason why I'M not voting for him, because he's black!

.........get freakin' real.

No mist as sunset approaches on the WA Coast.

re: #60 stevieray

Support his policies or you're a racist.

Exactly. The racism accusations won't stop if he gets elected. They will accelerate.

The mist drifts slowly towards the Beverly Hilton and the Obamanation ...

Oh, this is good:

The second event will be at the Regent Beverly Wilshire and will cost $2,500 per ticket. Barbra Streisand will provide entertainment, presumably singing.

Presumably! LOL

re: #69 itellu3times

The mist drifts slowly towards the Beverly Hilton and the Obamanation ...

Oh, this is good:

Presumably! LOL

Thank God, she's not doing a striptease.

re: #66 TheMatrix31

Of course. That's the only reason why I'M not voting for him, because he's black!

.........get freakin' real.

I'm not voting for him because of color....
the color RED!

re: #68 Mich-again
right, and the charges are now being leveled against Republicans , as if it would be a usual occurance for a Republican to vote for a ultra liberal.

The last thing I would want to do after shelling out 2 grr for dinner is to listen to people who make me want to hurl.

re: #71 jcm

I'm not voting for him because of color....
the color RED!

Great bumper sticker

I'm not voting for Obama
Because he's RED

re: #56 MandyManners

Mandy, posted something for you in the last thread. Seems like just when I post up goes another thread. I can't keep up. Hope your dog return went well.

And if you don't vote for him just watch. You'll be real real sorry.

re: #72 willowone

IIRC the Democratic mayor of Youngstown OH would not back Jenghis John Kerry in '04 and endorsed GWB.

The fog mist creeps in on little cat feet...

re: #65 Intrepid

Good googly-moogly that was awful! She got boo'd at the end, too!

There was a letter to the editor locally about how appalled a mother was that the "National Anthem Singer" was booed at one of the games I sang.

My first name rhymes with "boo" when a bunch of people shout it out.

Made my freakin' century!

But, enough about me.

re: #56 MandyManners

Not gonna. Did. Plunked down $85 billion and said, you're not going to fail.

Now, here's where things get interesting. A bunch of banks were busy trying to put together a $75 billion bailout, but when S&P and Moody's downgraded AIG, the deal fell through. The feds stepped in, figuring that the choice was to either let it go to bankruptcy or to save the company.

They opted to save the company.

re: #25 BlueCanuck

Mist and low clouds, great just walking about in it. So quiet and spooky. Love low cloud shots.

I love this sort of weather in the fall too. It feels.....fallish.

Like a dusk to the night that is winter.

Jon Corzine (D- Wall Street) sat on the Senate Banking Committee that killed the bill for Financial Regulatory Reform.

re: #77 Mich-again that would be considered sensible, haha, look at all the corporations that left OH with huge taxes.

re: #74 Tigger2005

I'm not voting for Obama
Because he's R☭D

Let's hope the supertanker capitans aren't sending text messages in that fog

Erasmus Hall should revoke Babas HS diploma, she is such an idiot.

re: #69 itellu3times

Barbra Streisand will provide entertainment, presumably singing.
Presumably! LOL

Hey, you never know, maybe she'll be doing differential equations.

Or showing off her renowned knowledge of Shakespeare.

The last rosy rays on the granite peaks, in 10 mins, it will all be blue.

re: #81 Sharmuta

I love this sort of weather in the fall too. It feels.....fallish.

Like a dusk to the night that is winter.

Almost 7pm in Seattle, and still 79°

Hopefully Barbara Streisand remembers to put on some makeup if she is going to be on stage after dinner.

re: #55 lifeofthemind

The mist of May is in the gloaming.

Love the word "gloaming". So descriptive.

re: #81 Sharmuta

I love the sun and rain in the summer, along with a good T-storm. But there's something about fall rain and fog, and winter snowstorms with big fluffy flakes. Sometimes I live for weather.

re: #82 Mich-again

Jon Corzine (D- Wall Street) sat on the Senate Banking Committee that killed the bill for Financial Regulatory Reform.

Pelosi wants to have hearings regarding Wall Street. I'm quite certain she would never have an investigation regarding Fannie and Freddie. That might mean calling in some Democrats to defend themselves.

I love a foggy day, and lots of beers

re: #92 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Love the word "gloaming". So descriptive.

I had a poem published in the college artsy fartsy magazine that used that word.

re: #3 livefreeor die

Oh, great, like there wasn't enough Streisand exposure today.

Ewww, exposed Streisand... brain bleach, brain bleach!

re: #87 Occasional Reader

Maybe with a little luck,she will forget the lyrics,stagger off stage and pass out behind the curtain with the cowardly lion!

re: #92 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

gloaming in Italian

crespuglio

re: #91 Mich-again

Hopefully Barbara Streisand remembers to put on some makeup if she is going to be on stage after dinner.

Gah Gah GAH

ahhhh relief

mist, glass of wine, good book, heaven.

re: #91 Mich-again

Hopefully Barbara Streisand remembers to put on some makeup if she is going to be on stage after dinner.

Yikes! That is one scary picture.

re: #85 Shug

Let's hope the supertanker capitans aren't sending text messages in that fog

Imagining if that train driver really was texting, and they find the message, "OMG, missed signal, BFN ..."

Never heard a bad word about Cyd Charisse. Except that she sets the standard to high for the girls I meet in real life. Accoeding to the wiki her birth name was Ellice Finklea and she was from Texas.

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIST!

Chief Hamas aide assassinated in Syria

THE chief aide to supreme Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal was last week hauled from his car and assassinated north of Damascus, Syrian opposition groups have claimed.

Hisham al-Labadani was slain in broad daylight by unknown gunmen in the city of Homs, according to the Freedom Party of Syria, which runs an opposition political forum from exile in the US.

The Syrian Government has not commented on the claims, and routinely imposes strict silence around the inner workings of state and most controversies that effect it. Hamas has also stayed silent. However, the opposition group said reports from inside Syria confirmed that Labadani had been slain.

/touchdown, crowd goes wild!

re: #95 Dahveed

Pelosi wants to have hearings regarding Wall Street. I'm quite certain she would never have an investigation regarding Fannie and Freddie. That might mean calling in some Democrats to defend themselves.

Do you get the feeling Nancy isn't quite sure what "Wall Street" is?

"It's a, um, place with, like, lots of money, and it's really bad!"

Such a nice calm photograph. Are those bikers coming down the road, though? The two separate blobs on the right look like motorcycles...

Hooray for my first post ever on LGF...

re: #98 caboose

Ewww, exposed Streisand... brain bleach, brain bleach!

/this one's even better

For those who are interested, here are high-res pictures of Hurricane Ike destruction.

Hurricane Ike Base Map Index Page

re: #107 Killian Bundy

Dogmoush clan? Hizbollah? AQ,

Hamas aint got no friends anymore.

re: #95 Dahveed The newspapers and TV here in Bangkok are in full reassure mode, saying the problems in America won't have MUCH impact on Thailand, as there are stringent measures in effect, and la dee dah, and et cetera ad infinitum, Dahveed...

And The Mob finally admitted they could stand their own stench no longer, and they abandoned Government House, where they'd illegally occupied it for the past 5 weeks, leaving behind a double-football field of muck, mud and tons of crap!

Normal traffic MIGHT be restored by Friday, but I'm not holding my breath!

re: #95 Dahveed

Pelosi wants to have hearings regarding Wall Street. I'm quite certain she would never have an investigation regarding Fannie and Freddie. That might mean calling in some Democrats to defend themselves.

Proving she is an idiot. Once hearings start the Republicans can get all the links into the record, she can't stop them from dragging in the Freddie Fannie debacle and why the subprime loans were forced through by the Democrats.

re: #93 BlueCanuck

There's something melancholy about fog in the fall- like a mourning for the lost summer that was. Fog and autumn just seem to go together for me.

re: #106 Salem

THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIST!

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGG*skruch*urgl.............

Fog always reminds me of San Francisco.

Beautiful place. Great people. Good friends. Pustulent politics.

/three out of four ain't bad

Sometimes I miss that place.

re: #91 Mich-again

We all age. I hate the un-glamour shots.

My wife would die before going out without make-up and stuff.

I have to be at Church at 8:15am. Last Sunday I woke up at 7:49am. Looked at her and said, "Is it Sunday?" She said yes.

I was at Church at 8:10. Wife got there at 10:15.

It's good to be a boy.

re: #110 davinvalkri

Such a nice calm photograph. Are those bikers coming down the road, though? The two separate blobs on the right look like motorcycles...

Hooray for my first post ever on LGF...

Welcome to lizardoidness. :D

Change you can believe in.

h/t vodka

re: #103 newsjunkie_ky Reminds ME of Cidny the Scary, Mother of Son Lost in Iraq...

/my memory does NOT want to remember that woman; God bless her son

re: #111 Killian Bundy

Ah geez. That picture made me puke burp.

re: #110 davinvalkri

Such a nice calm photograph. Are those bikers coming down the road, though? The two separate blobs on the right look like motorcycles...

Hooray for my first post ever on LGF...

Welcome.

Buy us all a round and tell us what brought you here.

re: #110 davinvalkri

Such a nice calm photograph. Are those bikers coming down the road, though? The two separate blobs on the right look like motorcycles...

Hooray for my first post ever on LGF...

Welcome, put your shells in the bin in the corner. Take a moment to get you legs, then get behind the bar and set up a round.

re: #56 MandyManners

Mandy, IIRC hearing the news break between the hour, I'm pretty sure it was coming in the form of government loans.

Orthopaedics is my area of knowledge, so I defer to those who know more about this.

Albeit, I am trying to become more knowledgable about macroeconomics, I do recall Lee Iacocca getting a similar deal, and actually repaying the loans early, and with the interest.

Hey Charles - Love the John Hiatt. If I had to listen to only one artist, ever, might very well be him.

OT, dog lover's will love this one.Escape-dog!

Since this is a photo thread, here's a question. I'm looking to buy a new tele lens... looking at the Tamron 28-300 XR Di LD VC to replace my current Sigma 28-300 lens. Most of my recent photos have been using that Sigma lens combined with a Rebel XTi. Nice results, but think the image stabilization would help make good pictures even better and improve low light situations and crispness of photos. Anyone have any experience with the lens?

re: #105 lifeofthemind

Never heard a bad word about Cyd Charisse. Except that she sets the standard to high for the girls I meet in real life. Accoeding to the wiki her birth name was Ellice Finklea and she was from Texas.

I've met one of Cyd's grandkids.
Nice guy, works in the music industry.

Bridge loan to AIG announced.

Told you so.

OK - I guess it was a no brainer.

See #20 blue sky
More:

...
While Obama’s meteoric rise is hailed by blinkered liberals as heralding a brave new world of openness and transparency, not to mention peace and love, radicals see it rather differently. After Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucus CPUSA supporter Frank Chapman wrote to the People’s Weekly:

Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.’

Not surprisingly, therefore, this underground ‘mole’ has been backed to the hilt by American Communists. In 2004, the Chicago Communist Party backed his successful campaign for the Senate...

re: #122 Carridine
sisters separated at birth.

Autumn Fires

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

Robert Louis Stevens

re: #109 Occasional Reader

"It's a, um, place with, like, lots of money, and it's really bad!"

And so are those people that like guns and religion, too!

/in Wicked Witch of the West voice

re: #110 davinvalkri

Well hello there fresh Lizard. You've got a little eggshell on your cheek.

No... to the left. Yeah. You got it.

re: #95 Dahveed

Corzine is busy trying to kill the NJ economy. He doesn't quite have time to answer those hearings...

re: #128 LoFlyer

OT, dog lover's will love this one.Escape-dog!

I see nuuuthing, I know nuuuthingggg!

re: #111 Killian Bundy

/this one's even better

ulp... ! ...eyeballs, meet Mr. Fork...

re: #138 jcm

I see nuuuthing, I know nuuuthingggg!

That was one determined dog! I hope he made it...

"Of magic doors, there is this...you do not see them, even as you are passing through..."

This is a quote from a picture that I bought for 25 cents at a garage sale nearly twenty years ago, and has been hanging in our boys bathroom for the last 17 years...

thought it appropriate, the picture shows a stand of trees, with mist all around. Have always loved that pic...

Is it really my money or, does the Fed print their money based on nothing other than ephmeral promises?

GIMME' BACK THE GOLD STANDARD.

re: #116 Sharmuta

There's something melancholy about fog in the fall- like a mourning for the lost summer that was. Fog and autumn just seem to go together for me.

What i find most remarkable about the mist and the fog is how it brings a sense of quietness with it.

Also, if you are alone, it will make that aloneness more noticeable, just as it will also make you more aware of your companions if any have ventured into the fog with you.

It simplifies.

bbl

Or, maybe not.

re: #128 LoFlyer

OT, dog lover's will love this one.Escape-dog!

the other dogs are, like,... damn.

re: #131 Catttt

Bridge loan to AIG announced.

Told you so.

OK - I guess it was a no brainer.

New Bridge to Nowhere.

re: #115 lifeofthemind

Proving she is an idiot. Once hearings start the Republicans can get all the links into the record, she can't stop them from dragging in the Freddie Fannie debacle and why the subprime loans were forced through by the Democrats.

What's worse is that she and that moron Harry Reid will be Speaker of the House and Majority Leader for at least another two years. These two have done everything possible to prove that they are idiots, and nobody notices enough to do anything about it.

re: #134 Ojoe

Autumn Fires

In the other gardens
And all up the vale,
From the autumn bonfires
See the smoke trail!

Pleasant summer over
And all the summer flowers,
The red fire blazes,
The grey smoke towers.

Sing a song of seasons!
Something bright in all!
Flowers in the summer,
Fires in the fall!

Robert Louis Stevens

Perfect- thank you!

re: #57 Mich-again

duh West Market. Wrong side of the tracks.

You know way too much about that. How come? (I still make trips to the Hot Dog Shoppe when I'm home). Letson was my attorney years ago before he was a state rep, and he was an idiot back then. I'm going to make sure a lot of people see that article.

re: #128 LoFlyer

That. Is. The. Coolest. Thing. Ever.

re: #143 MandyManners

nothing other than ephmeral promises

The Full Faith and Credit of the United States..

re: #19 lawhawk

Hmmm.. I see the Fed moving to take AIG over with a bailout of $85 billion.

The future is hazy...

lawhawk -

I see Hank Greenberg coming back like Steve Jobs and putting the company back on track. After all - he was thrown out on an Elliot Spitzer attempted Shake-Down. Hank fought him - probably should have paid the "Parking Ticket." The investments in sub-prime started AFTER he left.

-S-

re: #143 MandyManners

Is it really my money or, does the Fed print their money based on nothing other than ephmeral promises?

GIMME' BACK THE GOLD STANDARD.

You really don't want that. Trust me.

re: #69 itellu3times

The mist drifts slowly towards the Beverly Hilton and the Obamanation ...

Oh, this is good:

Presumably! LOL

Oy g-d. Could you imagine that one stripping?

re: #146 MandyManners

Or, maybe not.

[singing] "How can we miss you,
If you won't go ahhhh-waaayyyy-eeee?"

re: #109 Occasional Reader

She really epitomizes the word dumb. As she rants and raves about this "Wall Street" place, her stock broker just shakes his head. Nancy, Nancy, Nancy - how do you think you were able to buy part of T. Boone Pickens' Wind Selling Scheme Company? At the counter of Wind Companies R Us? Just where do you think your bazillions are kept, under a mattress labeled "Pelosi" in the basement of the bank?

re: #144 Syrah

What i find most remarkable about the mist and the fog is how it brings a sense of quietness with it.

Also, if you are alone, it will make that aloneness more noticeable, just as it will also make you more aware of your companions if any have ventured into the fog with you.

It simplifies.

Yes- I've noticed the silence that comes with a fog. I like it.

re: #141 LoFlyer

That was one determined dog! I hope he made it...

That it was, but I'll save impressed for when he jumps a motorcycle across the border.
//

re: #149 Dahveed

What's worse is that she and that moron Harry Reid will be Speaker of the House and Majority Leader for at least another two years. These two have done everything possible to prove that they are idiots, and nobody notices enough to do anything about it.

THe dream would be that McCain and Lieberman pull in support for a centrist revolution, bring 10 Dems over and lose a couple of rotten Republicans like Stevens of AK.

Heh. Who needs Babs? McCain does his own singing.

Make sure everyone goes up to comment #107 and give a big, big upding.

:D

re: #134 Ojoe

Autumn Fires

Robert Louis Stevens

Oh yeah?!

LES sanglots longs
Des violons
De l’automne
Blessent mon cœur
D’une langueur
Monotone.

Tout suffocant
Et blême, quand
Sonne l’heure,
Je me souviens
Des jours anciens
Et je pleure;

Et je m’en vais
Au vent mauvais
Qui m’emporte
Deçà, delà,
Pareil à la
Feuille morte.

[depressive lot, those Frenchies]

re: #159 ArmyWife

I have been trying to absorb as much of this Fannie/Freddie information leading back to Gorelick, and the Clinton administration.

I have only read a couple of opinions, but if there is any truth behind what it seems to be, she may want to go on another book signing venture.

re: #151 ciaospirit

You know way too much about that. How come?

My wife's family all resides in and around Warren. We were just there last month at the Hot Dog Shoppe. We stay in the high rent district in Howland when we visit. Always a great time.

re: #91 Mich-again

Hopefully Barbara Streisand remembers to put on some makeup if she is going to be on stage after dinner.

James Brolin has to actually hit that thing and listen to it speak. I just can't imagine.

re: #149 Dahveed

What's worse is that she and that moron Harry Reid will be Speaker of the House and Majority Leader for at least another two years. These two have done everything possible to prove that they are idiots, and nobody notices enough to do anything about it.

I'd say that with a below 9% approval rating, most Americans have been paying great attention.

re: #128 LoFlyer

OT, dog lover's will love this one.Escape-dog!

I am getting a dog. And I want that one!

This kinda tickles me...

Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator

If I had been born to Sarah Palin, my name would be "Knife Pile Palin".

re: #168 Mich-again

My wife's family all resides in and around Warren. We were just there last month at the Hot Dog Shoppe. We stay in the high rent district in Howland when we visit. Always a great time.

Too funny. I was just there a month ago.

C-17 crew lands after-dark landing in Antarctica

9/12/2008 - PEGASUS ICE RUNWAY, Antarctica (AFPN) -- A C-17 Globemaster III aircrew from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., performed the first known after-dark landing in Antarctica using night vision goggles here Sept.
11.

The McChord aircrew, consisting of active duty Airmen from the 62nd Airlift Wing and Reservists from the 446th Airlift Wing, verified the C-17's capability to access McMurdo Station, Antarctica, by landing here in complete darkness using night vision technology in combination with reflective cones.

The mission was flown as part of Operation Deep Freeze, which is commanded by U.S. Pacific Command's Joint Task Force Support Forces Antarctica. Headquartered at Hickam AFB, Hawaii, and led by 13th Air Force, JTF SFA's mission is to provide air- and sealift support to the National Science Foundation and U.S. Antarctic Program.

There is no sunlight in Antarctica for several months of the year, from around late March to the middle of August. The night vision goggle concept will make it easier and safer for C-17 aircrews to get into Antarctica any time of the year.

re: #166 Occasional Reader

It's that time of the year. Here's some Eva.

re: #170 republic

I'd say that with a below 9% approval rating, most Americans have been paying great attention.

Not enough to kick them out of office. Besides Nancy has blamed the president for Congress' low ratings.
Democrats are never responsible. It's everyone else's fault.

Fog of war story? Enough, Walid Shoebat: Why is Sean Hannity's Fake Terrorist Harassing Me?

Years ago, when I first heard of Walid Shoebat--the man who claims to have been a Palestinian Islamic terrorist--I liked his story. Since then, I praised him in more than one entry on this site. That was a mistake.
[snip]
Recently, Shoebat spoke at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Supposedly, they did a background check on him. But what they should have done was a psychiatric evaluation. Vouching for him was Steven Emerson, who is another similar story and a phony, sad to say (but that's a topic for another day). Birds of a feather.
[snip]
So how do I know that "Sandra Medina" a/k/a "Aga Tangola" is Walid Shoebat? Well, he and his son sent me e-mails, under their real names when they wanted me to post a well-written letter the son wrote, using the exact obscure screen name and an almost identical e-mail address three years ago. I feel bad about involving his son, who seems genuine and like a good kid (so I am redacting his first name), but enough is enough:

BTW, Shoebat and Emerson were interviewees in Obsession.

I have to wonder how much expertise Ms Schlussel has applied to deciphering info from the email headers, and whether some of the email she believes was from Showbat might have had other origins.

re: #171 Dahveed

I am getting a dog. And I want that one!

LOVE IT. haha!

re: #169 Truck Monkey

You know, I used to think at one point he was a good actor.

He then made a "happy 911 day" comment on some radio show, and that bastard could be picked apart by buzzards for all I care.

re: #166 Occasional Reader

Is that Baudelaire?

re: #177 Dahveed

Not enough to kick them out of office. Besides Nancy has blamed the president for Congress' low ratings.
Democrats are never responsible. It's everyone else's fault.

Like a kid - "Look what Bush made me do!"

re: #175 jcm

C-17 crew lands after-dark landing in Antarctica

Clearly, this is part of the US government's secret plan to steal the technology of the Elder Things.

re: #182 Ward Cleaver

Like a kid - "Look what Bush made me do!"

It's Bush Derangement Syndrome at its most obvious.

re: #181 goddessoftheclassroom

Is that Baudelaire?

Paul Verlaine.

re: #107 Killian Bundy

Chief Hamas aide assassinated in Syria

/touchdown, crowd goes wild!

Not exactly a Hellfire, but we'll take it.

re: #95 Dahveed

Pelosi wants to have hearings regarding Wall Street. I'm quite certain she would never have an investigation regarding Fannie and Freddie. That might mean calling in some Democrats to defend themselves.

She thinks the dog and pony show will cost the Republicans elections and serve as a distraction from how much the Democrats have screwed up. The reality is that the average person sees this horsecrap for the stalinist stupidity that is and succeed only in lowering the already dirt low ratings for congress...

re: #119 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Speak for yourself. I have refused to age. I just will not do it. At 37, I get carded regularly. I am mistaken for being my 17 year old daughter's sister. She doesn't always view that as a positive, especially when its a little boyfriend asking how old her "sister" is, but she will thank me for these genes in the future!

One day I am going to wake up and reality will have bitten me in the posterior. Until then, and without guilt, I shall lie about my age at every opportunity. But not to teenaged boys, no worries there - in case there was a question - ewwww -

re: #100 Ojoe
Anyone remember Taylor Caldwell's novels? She used the word 'crepuscular' a lot. Not a pretty word, but 'crespuglio' is downright melodic!

re: #183 Occasional Reader

Clearly, this is part of the US government's secret plan to steal the technology of the Elder Things.

Wicked cool. It's always been 130s that land down there. Something new.

re: #178 abolitionist

PIMF: Showbat Shoebat

re: #188 ArmyWife

Hey! Calm Down! I said, "It's good to be a boy!".

Do not go gentle into that good night, etc...

re: #167 formercorpsman

We could write a new book for her and sponsor the tour - for the greater good and all...

re: #176 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It's that time of the year. Here's some Eva.

What? No dings? Did anyone even listen?!

re: #177 Dahveed

Not enough to kick them out of office. Besides Nancy has blamed the president for Congress' low ratings.
Democrats are never responsible. It's everyone else's fault.

Denial is the first sign of *problems* I hear...

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

Wicked cool. It's always been 130s that land down there. Something new.

And C-130 were only used this time of year in emergencies, C-17 support year round!

re: #166 Occasional Reader

Tout suffocant

ROFLMAO

re: #187 anotherindyfilmguy

She thinks the dog and pony show will cost the Republicans elections and serve as a distraction from how much the Democrats have screwed up. The reality is that the average person sees this horsecrap for the stalinist stupidity that is and succeed only in lowering the already dirt low ratings for congress...

Do you think? I want to agree with you, but I think that most people have very little understanding of Wall Street that they assume all of this is the result of blatant greed. All too often they see reports of CEOs getting multi-million payouts, they hear of layoffs and outsourcing to India, and factory closings. Economics and finance is a tricky thing and people just assume greed is what causes the problems.

re: #194 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What? No dings? Did anyone even listen?!

No need. I've seen her at Blues Alley in DC several times before her untimely death. Voice of an angel she has.

re: #189 Knitwit

Italian is usually beautiful.

Charles the V (holy Roman emperor) said:

I speak French to other men.

I speak Spanish to God.

I speak Italian to women.

I speak German to my horse.

re: #196 jcm

And C-130 were only used this time of year in emergencies, C-17 support year round!

You call, we haul!

I just started watching Bucket List. Should I continue watching?

re: #192 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Its all good! I am calm - for me. I raise my glass to your wife's 2 hour getting ready routine and say "To us, sister! And the men that put up with our crr, um, long hair drying time!"

re: #199 Truck Monkey

No need. I've seen her at Blues Alley in DC several times before her untimely death. Voice of an angel she has.

You saw Eva live? Really? Did you understand at the time what you were seeing? Really, I am serious.

You are one lucky monkey.

re: #198 Dahveed

Do you think? I want to agree with you, but I think that most people have very little understanding of Wall Street that they assume all of this is the result of blatant greed. All too often they see reports of CEOs getting multi-million payouts, they hear of layoffs and outsourcing to India, and factory closings. Economics and finance is a tricky thing and people just assume greed is what causes the problems.

Perhaps I should say "average non rabidly moonbatticus" instead... on the other hand it's like believing the POTUS directly did X, Y or Z to cause the current situation, like Katrina... it's a witch hunt/fishing expedition and will self implode somewhere along the way... the only consolation is that it's being attempted by the least competent of the opposition...

re: #202 cliffster

I just started watching Bucket List. Should I continue watching?

Nope.

re: #202 cliffster

I just started watching Bucket List. Should I continue watching?

I didn't care for it.

re: #202 cliffster

I just started watching Bucket List. Should I continue watching?

I'd watch The Shining instead. But thats just me.

re: #166 Occasional Reader

Beautiful. Thank you!

re: #156 Occasional Reader

You really don't want that. Trust me.

"O-R" -

Thank You. I look at it this way - If GOLD is UP - Bad for the US. Last time GOLD was at/near current prices was in 1980. About $825/oz. In 1980 Dollars at its peak. Factoring in inflation, the dollar is probably 100%+ stronger now than then. Don't know about you - I do NOT pine for the days of the Carter Administration. Pres. Carter was right about the idea of alternative energy subsidy, and (ducking large brickbats) adoption of the Metric System as at least an alternative - and LITTLE ELSE.

-S-

re: #202 cliffster

I just started watching Bucket List. Should I continue watching?

Two great actors, stooping to feed from the money trough.

re: #177 Dahveed

Not enough to kick them out of office. Besides Nancy has blamed the president for Congress' low ratings.
Democrats are never responsible. It's everyone else's fault.

Nancy Pelalegosi can blame whoever she wants, the American people know it's her fault, as well as her corrupt colleagues in Congress.

re: #198 Dahveed

The message of Union's state wide. Oh it has nothing to do with the ridiculous work rules that make efficient operation a fantasy, or refusal to have pay based on merit ensuring the group works to the lowest common denominator, or the fact they spend more time working out ways to avoid work rather than just doing it. Nope, its those greedy CEOs that drive these companies to China.

re: #204 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Way to leave me hangin' there.

re: #166 Occasional Reader

[depressive lot, those Frenchies]

Well, that frenchman

If you haven't watched the "McCain sings Striesand" video up in the linkys, it is freakin' hysterical. He actually sings Streisand. I like a guy who doesn't take himself too serious. I'd almost like it to be his next political ad!

re: #198 Dahveed

Do you think? I want to agree with you, but I think that most people have very little understanding of Wall Street that they assume all of this is the result of blatant greed. All too often they see reports of CEOs getting multi-million payouts, they hear of layoffs and outsourcing to India, and factory closings. Economics and finance is a tricky thing and people just assume greed is what causes the problems.

Read and then unload on me please.

[Link: solari.com...]

re: #128 LoFlyer

OT, dog lover's will love this one.Escape-dog!

LOL! I'm glad my Golden Retriever puppy was sleeping when I watched that, I don't want him getting any ideas! He's a good dog tho, I have Epilepsy:
Paws With A Cause

Have a good night, everybody. I'm going to call the toll-free number and order an Italian course from Rosetta Stone.

re: #219 Knitwit

Bravo !

re: #201 Ward Cleaver

You call, we haul!

God - I loved flying in those things and choppers - noise + adrenalin. Yee ha!

Moonrise, I believe, over the San Gabriel Mountains, California.

re: #110 davinvalkri

Welcome, new little Lizzard! :)

re: #176 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It's that time of the year. Here's some Eva.

FBV that was beautiful.

re: #217 Bobibutu

Certainly there was greed and business practices of some of the mortgage lenders were less than savory. But I take away from the article that the Clinton Administration, the people that were supposed to protect the lower and middle income wage earners, did just the opposite. Banks were conservative with the money they lent. The Community Reinvestment Act reforms passed in 1995 put banks on the defensive. They were shaken down by "community activists" to lend to poorer neighborhoods. Without the reforms the Clintons wanted, perhaps some of this could have been averted.

re: #225 Dahveed

Yep. And then that broke the dam. After that and the flood of M3 from Easy Alan, they loaned money to anything that could put an x on a piece of paper.

re: #225 Dahveed

Certainly there was greed and business practices of some of the mortgage lenders were less than savory. But I take away from the article that the Clinton Administration, the people that were supposed to protect the lower and middle income wage earners, did just the opposite. Banks were conservative with the money they lent. The Community Reinvestment Act reforms passed in 1995 put banks on the defensive. They were shaken down by "community activists" to lend to poorer neighborhoods. Without the reforms the Clintons wanted, perhaps some of this could have been averted.

Heh - da fix was in. Dig deeper.

By the way Charles, how were you able to get a picture of 0bamas vision for the "Future of America" like that?

re: #6 buzzsawmonkey

It's the fog! The swirling fog of Obama rhetoric, enfolding us all!

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance... :)

People are going to pay all that money at an Obama fundraiser and then have to listen to boring Barbara again.For that kind of money they should have someone who is funny so they can at least get a laugh out of the evening.

re: #227 Bobibutu

Heh - da fix was in. Dig deeper.

You will have to help me. I'm not sure where you are going.

Its coming true, the large hadron collider, the Mist, the end

re: #231 Dahveed

You will have to help me. I'm not sure where you are going.

[Link: solari.com...]

This Gal knows and points out where the bones are buried.

re: #231 Dahveed

You will have to help me. I'm not sure where you are going.

Carter and Clinton were extortionists ... well that is strong ... however look where we are now al la Iran and the present "Bubble" that is bursting in the financial markets.

Who made money on their and their appointees efforts?

Follow the money.

re: #202 cliffster

I just started watching Bucket List. Should I continue watching?

It was mildly enjoyable. It is meaningful if you are near death. Since we are all future dead people, maybe you will like it.

re: #233 Bobibutu

[Link: solari.com...]

This Gal knows and points out where the bones are buried.

She and Ron Paul seem to be rather close. So you'll pardon me if I'm a bit skeptical.

I was a little down today, due to a bad economic past few days, and also the pushback since the Gibson interview -- so I think this is a fitting photograph for me.

I hope tomorrow the rainclouds will have disappeared. :)

Breathtaking. The perfect moment. Thanks, Charles.

re: #24 loppyd

oh lord, I sang The Star Spangled Banner in front of the Shreveport Sports better than that and there were only 3000 people there. Got a Standing O too. Oh well, we know she won't be asked to do it again.

re: #236 Dahveed

She and Ron Paul seem to be rather close. So you'll pardon me if I'm a bit skeptical.

Fair enough - but RP did not get to where she was in the niti griti of the rough and tumble. She made it on action and confrontation (al la Sarahcuda) not on rhetoric.

re: #235 rawmuse

Since we are all future dead people

Linky?

re: #111 Killian Bundy

/this one's even better

Jeez, physically, she's just an old woman. That's not the problem.

Who is this "Fannie Mae" I keep hearing everyone talking about. Wasn't she on the "Beverly Hillbillies"?

Sorry to ask: What happened to the Jihadist holding the hippie/liberal next to the football at the top of the main page?
Please don't tell me it's been gone for awhile.
I miss Cox and Forkum.

bad manners yesterday,

Morning Goddess,

re: #221 Bobibutu

Then my friend, you would have been in heaven back in the day when the "HOTEL-3's" thundered off of the decks of ships of the line.
The crews would get really nervous if there WASN'T at least 3-5 gallons
of hydraulic fluid running down the sides of airframe and the louder it sounded and the more it vibrated meant a smooth running helo as far as they were concerned.

re: #111 Killian Bundy

/this one's even better

O. M. G.

I just cannot believe that is real. Beverly Hills is crawling with plastic surgeons. She can afford one. Or twelve.

Looks like my town yesterday - except I walked the dog in the hills and watched the windmills rather than going down to the coast ...

The photo brought back memories of one summer morning,mid 1960s, leaving Charleston Harbor aboard the USS Boston.
It was this close to a Nuke Sub that we came to in that fog.
Close...you look at the picture and the seawall...that close. Luckily we were
going parallel to one another.

re: #100 Ojoe

Actually I mis-spelled it, it is

crepuscolo.

Nice picture ! :-)