i'm actually apprehensive

Welcome New Lizards.

Clean up the shells, buy a round, and your golden.

PIMF. You're golden.

/Hawk tucks head under wing.

Charles, you're no longer explicitly showing that registration is Open?

Just to say, I wouldn't expect a lot of mention of Ayers tonight in the debate unless someone asks a direct question about him. Hopefully, McCain will at least talk about Fannie and Freddie.

and welcome, new lizards!

Nothing on right now but an empty set with a few people meandering around and a soundtrack of random indecipherable background chatter.

When Obama hits the stage and begins speaking we'll be treated to an empty suit and a soundtrack of random indecipherable chatter.

McCain needs a little pep talk.

Rocky: Adrian, is there anything I can do for you. Just name it

Adrian : Yes, there is one thing you can do for me.

Rocky : What/

Adrian : Win.....Win...........Win

Mickey : What are we waitin fer !

Cue Gonna Fly Now

I'm in!

/I know... old joke

How many hatchlings are coming from Levin's show?

I've been trying to confine my drinking to the weekends, but a debate thread and the possibility of fresh troll meat -- very tempting.

re: #10 doppelganglander

I've been trying to confine my drinking to the weekends, but a debate thread and the possibility of fresh troll meat -- very tempting.

...not to mention the markets' meltdown.

OPEN REGISTRATION ON A DEBATE NIGHT?

MADNESS!

I will be watching the debate in a bar tonight, hopefully surrounded by other republicans. Yes, right here in Manhattan.

Wish me luck! :)

I think Ayers and Wright have been farmed out to Sarah. McCain will be all over the economy and whatever he wants to talk about. Brokaw will be a non-event. Only vague references to Ayers from McCain... it's going to be the town hall format McCain's been begging for and I predict a very big win for John tonight. Tonight it's do or die and he knows it. The momentum must swing his way starting tonight and if he survives the pace he's going to set he'll live to be 100.

Debate music: Link Wray's "Rumble"

Could not find frequency. Please try again.

re: #10 doppelganglander

I've been trying to confine my drinking to the weekends, but a debate thread and the possibility of fresh troll meat -- very tempting.

What's the drink word/action this time? "John is right"? Interruptions by Obama? Lies by Obama?

Evenin all! Man, I'm praying hard for Mac to kick ass tonight...it all hinges on tonight...if he messes up, then I think it's all over. It's only 30ish days till the election and unless the RNC has a tape of BO having a wide stance moment in some random men's room somewhere (and even that might not do the trick) then the odds of Mac winning on election day are slim.

Sorry for the run on sentence.

In other news, I finally got to see the SNL skit...work blocks some of the vids, and it's scary how dead on right they were.

Funny, in a macabre sort of way.

I heard a report the other day on Fox news that Belmont University won the right to host the debate by, among a list of other qualifications, dropping their no liquor on campus policy so that the media could be provided with a bar tent.
I wonder if that's an absolut requirement.

"it's the economy, stupid"

we will here Obama talk about spending hundreds of billions, right?

(and why not, since we're spending it bailing out wall street, only that's not really what it's about, or is it? like obama or mccain is going to clarify that)

I just hope McCain has something constructive to say, and not just shoot blame and accusations all over the place - no matter how true.

I know it's a month too early but ABC, NBC, and CBS have projected Barack Obama to be the winner of the Presidential election. Usually, they wait until some of the polls have been counted on the evening of the election, but they figure why wait? They sure are efficient.

/sarc

Does C_SPAN use hamsters or gerbils. Or enslaved lizards? ;-)

This feed seems to be working pretty smoothly.

re: #15 Moe Katz

Debate music: Link Wray's "Rumble"

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Hi Mr. Katz. And how is your early evening going?

Has McCain begun to fight as yesterday`s rally suggests or will he continue down the path to his defeat...we can only hope for the McCain who gave the "fight with me speech" at the convention to resurface.

Charles- Is it just a coincidence that registration is open after Mark Levin's plug? Or was it open before it?

I did like the Tina Fay line, "for all you joe sixpacks doing the drinking game, 'Maverick!'"

re: #21 calvin coolidge

I know it's a month too early but ABC, NBC, and CBS have projected Barack Obama to be the winner of the Presidential election. Usually, they wait until some of the polls have been counted on the evening of the election, but they figure why wait? They sure are efficient.

/sarc

Based on exit polls from Ohio!

re: #18 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

The original SNL skit or the new skit?

Mac better leave Gentleman Johnny at home tonight. I want to see him turn this debate in to the Jerry Friggin' Springer Show! If I don't see a chair flying in His Changeness' general direction during Mac's opening statement I'm tuning out.

re: #11 noshariaincanada

...not to mention the markets' meltdown.

Honestly, that hasn't affected me because we're basically broke. But I can drink to drown the sorrows of others.

re: #24 Walter L. Newton

Hi Mr. Katz. And how is your early evening going?

Greetings Mr. Newton. I'm procrastinating on some important work I have open on my other desk. I am ashamed of myself. And how are you tonight?

Pretty slick!

ok.
Thimble...check
liquor.....check

Take a shot every time obambi says um, uh or aaannnddd.

ANyone got one of those clicker counters?
I would like to know how many times he say uh or um!

re: #29 arethusa

The original SNL skit or the new skit?

Well I watched it on Hot Air and it had the "these people should be shot" line, so I'm thinking, the original.

Since this debate is on the economy, I'm not sure how McCain is going to manage any references to Ayer-head.

re: #30 MJBrutus

Mac better leave Gentleman Johnny at home tonight. I want to see him turn this debate in to the Jerry Friggin' Springer Show! If I don't see a chair flying in His Changeness' general direction during Mac's opening statement I'm tuning out.

Don't forget the midgets. Gotta have the midgets. Oh and the flashing women...gotta have those too.

So who determines who gets to sit in the town hall seats? Is it anything like jury selection?

Open registration and a debate! Hope the hatchlings stay on for the thread. It is a very easy way to get over any posting jitters.

re: #34 Typicalwhitey

Take a shot every time obambi says um, uh or aaannnddd.

Are you trying to give lizards alcohol poisoning?

I wonder if "Pony Tail Guy" will make an appearance tonight?

Registration open: Sock puppets, please form a line on the left.

re: #21 calvin coolidge

I know it's a month too early but ABC, NBC, and CBS have projected Barack Obama to be the winner of the Presidential election. Usually, they wait until some of the polls have been counted on the evening of the election, but they figure why wait? They sure are efficient.

/sarc

Dick Morris said that if he was running Obama's campaign he'd be worried that Obama is peaking too early.

re: #36 Walter L. Newton

Since this debate is on the economy, I'm not sure how McCain is going to manage any references to Ayer-head.

Well lets see.
How about the mismanagement of the millions that obama was in charge of giving out?
How about a list of people who recieved it who were friends, bundlers or family of obama?

I'm sad that I have a night class and have to watch the debate on TiVo...

re: #36 Walter L. Newton

Since this debate is on the economy, I'm not sure how McCain is going to manage any references to Ayer-head.

It's not specifically on the economy...it's on what members of the audience and Brokaw ask, which can be anything. So, yeah, it may be on the economy.../

The last debate is specifically on the economy (but I still think they need to ask foreign policy questions then to make up for the first debate.)

re: #17 arethusa

What's the drink word/action this time? "John is right"? Interruptions by Obama? Lies by Obama?

Good question! How about every time Obama says "Now, now, now that's just not so" and makes a downward patting motion with his hand? And of course, for Mac the old favorite "Senator Obama doesn't seem to understand."

I don't know if a debate in light of today's financial events could make me feel any better no matter who wins!

Sigh

re: #41 CyanSnowHawk

Are you trying to give lizards alcohol poisoning?

Hey! I said THIMBLE! LOL

re: #34 Typicalwhitey

ok.
Thimble...check
liquor.....check

Take a shot every time obambi says um, uh or aaannnddd.

ANyone got one of those clicker counters?
I would like to know how many times he say uh or um!

Call 911 if typicalwhitey takes a drink everytime Obama says ummmm.
Typical! turn the sound down when he talks!

Any chance we hit comment 6 million tonight?

McCain needs to speak about ZerObama's and Ayers squandering $100 million dollars on failed socialist educational programs.
That is Baracks only executive experience.
A FAILURE!
Think what will happen to your taxes under this collectivist.
NObama!

re: #50 Typicalwhitey

Hey! I said THIMBLE! LOL

I know.

re: #17 arethusa

What's the drink word/action this time? "John is right"? Interruptions by Obama? Lies by Obama?

Interruptions, I think.

My dream debate.

Question: Sen. Obama why didn't you support Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae reform when Sen McCain co-sponsored a reform bill in 2006?

Obama: Er, ahh, umm.....

McCain: I yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from Illinois.

Why wasn't I invited to this debate?

re: #1 noshariaincanada

i'm actually apprehensive

I know exactly how you feel. I'm kind of afraid to watch the debate in case McCain completely blows it.

Then again...
Maybe this *thimbleful* idea might help...

re: #23 Charles

This feed seems to be working pretty smoothly.

Not for me it ain't.

re: #52 snowcrash

Any chance we hit comment 6 million tonight?

We're about 6000 short.

i will be watching the debate in a bar tonight with other republicans right here in the battleground state of Nevada,, will catch up with you all later

welcome newbies,, have fun --- sorry i will miss out on the fun!

let's go Senator,, kick some obammass tonight!

re: #13 eastvillageinfidel

I will be watching the debate in a bar tonight, hopefully surrounded by other republicans. Yes, right here in Manhattan.

Wish me luck! :)

re: #46 TheMatrix31

I'm sad that I have a night class and have to watch the debate on TiVo...

I'd TiVo your class and watch the debate, Matrix.

re: #55 Fat Jolly Penguin

Interruptions, I think.

Or maybe every time he looks down his nose at McCain. I hate it when he does that.

re: #52 snowcrash

Any chance we hit comment 6 million tonight?

We're on pace for hitting it tomorrow, but this is a debate night.

Wonder if the Dems will pack the audience like they did at the CNN Bush-Kerry townhall?

So the monster lied about Ayers. And it was a stupid lie. That's because this monster is a stupid liar. Apparently, if the opinion polls are right, that's what America's looking for, now. It would also seem American wants a socialist president with no discernible practical or leadership experience. A venal hypocrite who would be a crypto-muslim if he believed in any god other than himself, which he does not. If the polls are right, America appears ready to close up shop, set it on fire, and lock itself in. If that happens, I see little alternative but to wait out the inevitable collapse. Unless we win. Once again, if the polls are right, and with all our enemies arrayed before us, John McCain has nothing more to lose tonight. Let's hope he goes for the victory, then, and good fortune to him and our nation.

re: #12 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

OPEN REGISTRATION ON A DEBATE NIGHT?

MADNESS!

cats and dogs will be getting married.

I kinda feel McCain might be at a disadvantage unless he is answering a question about military service. Just saw this poll claiming Obama is seen as more 'compassionate' by 8-10 points... and a majority of the questions will be about 'the econonomy, stupid.'

Hmm.. what if someone asked Obama how many buildings we would bomb in 70s if given the option...

Well, anyway, in the meantime NASA just got some nice photos of Mercury for the first time in 30 years...

[Link: www.nasa.gov...]

re: #52 snowcrash

Any chance we hit comment 6 million tonight?

We are about 5,000 comments away, so I'd say sure, it's possible.

re: #68 Eowyn2

cats and dogs will be getting married.

Snowballs will be freezing in hell.

Terrorists will be allowed by a judge into the US. Oh, wait...

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

hey did anyone else hear mark levin's opening monologue,
he said a big thanks to LGF and proceeded to play the audio of the cnn report abt. b.o. and ayers.
all the real facts.
i was listening to the radio in the barn and had to run in and post this.
wow , yay.

During the debate I think McCain should do an "accidental on purpose" Freudian slip---some to the effect of;

"Well I disagree with Senator Odinga that blah blah blah"

And act like he said "Senator Obama"

We can dream can't we.

re: #63 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I'd TiVo your class and watch the debate, Matrix.

That would be great!

goddess are you here?

I am saying a prayer that Senator McCain turns it around tonight and wins the election.
Do you think he should be added to our list?

anyway, the comments are on Left about it being Ayres Past, you know silly youth and all, but the comment about would he do it again

So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? ''I don't want to discount the possibility,'' he said

[Link: query.nytimes.com...]

re: #66 pat

Wonder if the Dems will pack the audience like they did at the CNN Bush-Kerry townhall?

will watch debate for food.

re: #69 LockeStockandBarrel

Fantastic pictures. This one is my new wallpaper.

re: #69 LockeStockandBarrel

I kinda feel McCain might be at a disadvantage unless he is answering a question about military service. Just saw this poll claiming Obama is seen as more 'compassionate' by 8-10 points... and a majority of the questions will be about 'the econonomy, stupid.'

Hmm.. what if someone asked Obama how many buildings we would bomb in 70s if given the option...

Well, anyway, in the meantime NASA just got some nice photos of Mercury for the first time in 30 years...

[Link: www.nasa.gov...]

He's aging well.

Potential Drinking Words Of the Night:

Earmark = Double Shot of Whiskey
Wall Street = Shot of Whiskey
Spend or Spendin = Sip of Beer

Registration?!?! Damn, I gotta get some supper in my stomach before the kiddies start making the rounds with the pitchers.

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

Registration has missed you, too. Welcome.

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

Welcome aboard bb!

Ooooh, now thay show us the Media Filing Center. Nice!

Before anyone asks -- I can't identify the six millionth comment automatically because the ID numbers are not consecutive, but I'll let everyone know which comment it was within a day or so.

McCain needs to knock it out of the park tonight. He needs to stop playing the nice guy and hammer Obama and expose his weaknesses.

re: #67 Pullus Iulius

So the monster lied about Ayers. And it was a stupid lie. That's because this monster is a stupid liar. Apparently, if the opinion polls are right, that's what America's looking for, now. It would also seem American wants a socialist president with no discernible practical or leadership experience. A venal hypocrite who would be a crypto-muslim if he believed in any god other than himself, which he does not. If the polls are right, America appears ready to close up shop, set it on fire, and lock itself in. If that happens, I see little alternative but to wait out the inevitable collapse. Unless we win. Once again, if the polls are right, and with all our enemies arrayed before us, John McCain has nothing more to lose tonight. Let's hope he goes for the victory, then, and good fortune to him and our nation.

There's a great article about this over at American Thinker:
Romanticizing Obama

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

And we are glad to have you here. Now, go get me a drink!

re: #13 eastvillageinfidel

I will be watching the debate in a bar tonight, hopefully surrounded by other republicans. Yes, right here in Manhattan.

Wish me luck! :)

hey {eastvillageinfidel},
get back to us and let us know how it goes. i heard earlier that sarah got 90,000 people at a rally in fla. hooray.

re: #51 HoosierHoops

Call 911 if typicalwhitey takes a drink everytime Obama says ummmm.
Typical! turn the sound down when he talks!

Full shot everytime he says " I have ALWAYS SAID...."

(I peeked at my profit sharing today. Down 10k this week, 26k since sept 1)

But I am still the luckiest most fortunate sob that I know and as my mom always told me......money? it's just green wrinkly paper!

obama is a compASSionate LIAR
re: #69 LockeStockandBarrel

I kinda feel McCain might be at a disadvantage unless he is answering a question about military service. Just saw this poll claiming Obama is seen as more 'compassionate' by 8-10 points... and a majority of the questions will be about 'the econonomy, stupid.'

Hmm.. what if someone asked Obama how many buildings we would bomb in 70s if given the option...

Well, anyway, in the meantime NASA just got some nice photos of Mercury for the first time in 30 years...

[Link: www.nasa.gov...]

re: #72 bryanbrigade

Welcome!

re: #73 nyc redneck

hey did anyone else hear mark levin's opening monologue,
he said a big thanks to LGF and proceeded to play the audio of the cnn report abt. b.o. and ayers.
all the real facts.
i was listening to the radio in the barn and had to run in and post this.
wow , yay.

theres a tree in Brooklyn and a barn in NYC? Whod a thunk it.

Lurker no more; shells are swept up and the first round is on me. As for McCain, I've known a few Navy pilots in my time in the service, they tend to be mission oriented and don't take prisoners. Obama is a target-rich environment.

re: #14 princetrumpet

I think Ayers and Wright have been farmed out to Sarah. McCain will be all over the economy and whatever he wants to talk about. Brokaw will be a non-event. Only vague references to Ayers from McCain... it's going to be the town hall format McCain's been begging for and I predict a very big win for John tonight. Tonight it's do or die and he knows it. The momentum must swing his way starting tonight and if he survives the pace he's going to set he'll live to be 100.

What is the audience make up? They'll be asking the questions.

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

Welcome Bryan To LGF...ahem..you're sitting in my seat...
Enjoy the debate tonight here...

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

I could use a backrub........

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

Welcome aboard!

*cheers*
/Thimbles up...

re: #69 LockeStockandBarrel

Well, anyway, in the meantime NASA just got some nice photos of Mercury for the first time in 30 years...

www.nasa.gov

Very cool! Thanks for the link to the pics. :)

re: #96 Outrider

What is the audience make up? They'll be asking the questions.

Supposedly independent voters picked by an independent firm (a pollster?).

It's really a giant focus group, I think.

Watch for McCain to get under obambi's skin.

It's gonna happen tonight!

re: #96 Outrider

What is the audience make up? They'll be asking the questions.

Since it's a media event, do you need three guesses, or will one be sufficient?

re: #95 majic1

Welcome.
Which branch? Navy?

(VA212, mid-60s)

re: #95 majic1

Lurker no more; shells are swept up and the first round is on me. As for McCain, I've known a few Navy pilots in my time in the service, they tend to be mission oriented and don't take prisoners. Obama is a target-rich environment.

Silly, you're not supposed to dump the drinks on yourself. Hand them over nicely. NOW

welcom

re: #103 Typicalwhitey

Watch for McCain to get under obambi's skin.

It's gonna happen tonight!

Considering how thin it is, that should take, oh, 30 seconds.

If the debate turns toward the economy McCain needs to pound the Obama Fannie Mae connection hard.

re: #104 ploome hineni

open registration?

can I squeeze in, please

oooops

excuse me@

sorry!

excuse me.........oh did I step on your toe?

well, get out of the way

move over

stop pushing

am I in?

am I in?

?

No Cuts

re: #86 Charles

Before anyone asks -- I can't identify the six millionth comment automatically because the ID numbers are not consecutive, but I'll let everyone know which comment it was within a day or so.

Charles you're such a crap programmer, that should be an easy thing to do and here you are begging out of it.

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re: #91 Typicalwhitey

Full shot everytime he says " I have ALWAYS SAID...."

(I peeked at my profit sharing today. Down 10k this week, 26k since sept 1)

But I am still the luckiest most fortunate sob that I know and as my mom always told me......money? it's just green wrinkly paper!

I feel the same way, mainly becuase I have nothing to loose. I keep about a 2000 dollar buffer in the bank, basicly enough to cover a few months of bills, and other than that, it's one small paycheck a month under 1500 dollars.

I don't have anything for retirement, so nothing can go down or bye-bye. And, at 55, if things really goes down the tubes, maybe I'll stop paying taxes, and by the time I'm 60, I can get three hots and a cot in some white collar prison, with cable TV.

re: #98 Typicalwhitey

I could use a backrub........

Hey, cut out propositioning the jailbait!

Anyone able to guess which news outlet had the byline for this:

_{Corsi's best-selling book, released earlier in the U.S., claims the Illinois senator is a dangerous, radical candidate for president and includes innuendoes and false rumors — that he was raised a Muslim and attended a radical black church.}

_{Obama is a Christian who attended Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and his campaign picks apart the book's claims on the Web site FightTheSmears.com.}

/It's Mainstream Media, so it can't be biased or propaganda/

re: #110 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Considering how thin it is, that should take, oh, 30 seconds.

;)

Love your nic btw.
You in the ozarks?
We got a cabin at Sunrise Beach.

it is getting slow here

re: #94 Eowyn2

theres a tree in Brooklyn and a barn in NYC? Whod a thunk it.

LOL, i'm out of town at this moment. no barns in town, on my block.
tho i think there was a working farm in harlem until recently.

I just posted this on the last thread before I realized this one was up. Thomas Sowell is a brilliant man. HE should run for President.
[Link: www.jewishworldreview.com...]

re: #109 ploome hineni

a sailor?

I love sailors

*standing up, waving frantically*

The radio Michael Savage was going on all pissy & negative about McCain & the debate tonight, so I turned the defeatist off.

Had never heard this before until listening to Rush this afternoon....

What do Osama Bin Laden and Barack Hussien Obama have in common?

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They both know someone who has bombed the Pentagon.

What a guy for a presidential candidate.

Welcome noobs and non-already-been-banned-just-for-fun-sockpuppets!

Be excellent to each other.

re: #6 solomonpanting

Nothing on right now but an empty set with a few people meandering around and a soundtrack of random indecipherable background chatter.

When Obama hits the stage and begins speaking we'll be treated to an empty suit and a soundtrack of random indecipherable chatter.

EMPTY SEAT OR EMPTY SUIT any difference?

re: #109 ploome hineni

a sailor?

I love sailors

Woohoo! LOL

re: #90 nyc redneck

I'll give you the full report! Hopefully I won't need bail money. :)

re: #115 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Hey, cut out propositioning the jailbait!

Hey ya brat!
I actually threw my back out yesterday and am walking around like I have a stick up my.....you know what!
I feel as stupid as I look right now LOL

re: #91 Typicalwhitey

Full shot everytime he says " I have ALWAYS SAID...."

(I peeked at my profit sharing today. Down 10k this week, 26k since sept 1)

But I am still the luckiest most fortunate sob that I know and as my mom always told me......money? it's just green wrinkly paper!

Unfortunately, it's that "green wrinkly paper" that merchants, mortgage companies, utility companies and employees all want and without which little happens. ;-)>

I find the empty auditorium to be only ever so slightly less captivating than Obama

Lizard meet/party - Lizards and mates.

Sunday 26th of Oct. 11 am - 3 pm

Walnut Creek, CA 94595

25 miles East of San Francisco.

Locals and Nomads welcome.

BYOB and a pot luck if you wish.

Bring what ever food you wish to cook.

World class kitchen available. BBQ grills. Picnic area.

BBQ briquettes provided.

Heated swimming pool. Bring your suits. Changing rooms etc. available.

We have the ground floor of a 1930s Mansion/museum and outdoor patio reserved.

If it rains we have indoors - if not we have both.

My Halloween treat and thanks to LGF - so no cost to you.

Email for directions and location - secure, private, gated/guarded community.

Plenty of parking ... 100+.

For those that are paranoid & suspicious this is a leftist setup - 6 of us have already met once in SF.

RawMuse hosted that one.

We all like each other.

I volunteered to host the next meet.

This is it.

Sowell is the best...just picked up his book Economic Facts and Fallacies, like prophetic...did he see the future?

re: #113 CyanSnowHawk

Charles you're such a crap programmer, that should be an easy thing to do and here you are begging out of it.

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I sure was glad to get to know you ... while you were here.
*grin*

re: #128 eastvillageinfidel

I'll give you the full report! Hopefully I won't need bail money. :)

uh oh.
what are you implying? ;)

re: #116 David IV of Georgia

I saw that particular sack of **** on FoxNews .com this morning. Sickening.

re: #102 arethusa

Supposedly independent voters picked by an independent firm (a pollster?).

It's really a giant focus group, I think.

It will be a well selected group of peoples of various shades and physical characteristics.

It will be like the Palin debate. They asked the old white guy where he was from "Idaho" the younger Native American female (could have been hispanic) who also thought Palin did well was not asked about her home.

how about a drinking thread?

re: #129 Typicalwhitey

Hey ya brat! I actually threw my back out yesterday and am walking around like I have a stick up my.....you know what! I feel as stupid as I look right now LOL

Wow, what a bummer. Sit down, relax. :)

re: #117 Typicalwhitey

;)

Love your nic btw.
You in the ozarks?
We got a cabin at Sunrise Beach.

Cool! Yep, I live just outside Springfield. We once bought a boat from Wilbus Marine in Sunshine Beach about 20 years- We had a cabin in Camdenton. BTW, O/T, I saw gas at $2.72 a gallon earlier today.

re: #138 gop_patriot

I saw that particular sack of **** on FoxNews .com this morning. Sickening.

But they didn't write the article...

re: #130 Outrider

Yeah don't I know it!
Small business owner here lol.
Kids healthy, dogs are frisky, hubbys working.
Could be a helluva lot worse ;)

re: #137 ploome hineni

well, come sit beside me then

we can watch the show together

:D

Ploome you are a scamp today!

re: #123 musicman

May have this one in here:

What the DIFFERENCE between Obama and Osama?

Just a little bs.

re: #136 nyc redneck

Just teasing, I promise to stick to beer. ;)

i think mccain is going to box his ears
oooops, not supposed to mention his ears.

re: #119 nyc redneck

LOL, i'm out of town at this moment. no barns in town, on my block.
tho i think there was a working farm in harlem until recently.

community organized

re: #105 Pullus Iulius

Since it's a media event, do you need three guesses, or will one be sufficient?

Nah. I already knew the answer. I'm guessing the question fell under "What is a rhetorical question for 20, Alex"

re: #143 David IV of Georgia

But they didn't write the article...

AP wasn't it?

lurk......lurk......lurk

Thank you, Charles, for letting me in (finally).

No sock puppets hanging around me, I hope! Drinks are on me, gang - belly up to the bar.

Allow please my humble postings to this hallowed forum. Excuse please my poor English, I am new hatchling posting for first time.

I would prefer to see Sarah Palin debate Obama.

re: #134 bryanbrigade

Sowell is the best...just picked up his book Economic Facts and Fallacies, like prophetic...did he see the future?

He was skeptical about the distribution of income issue, and I think he was wrong about that.

Got nuttin ta say, so will shaddap. Go Big John!

re: #123 musicman

What do Barack Obama and John McCain have in common?

They both spent their 20's surrounded by communists!

I still don't understand the questions. Tom Brokass says he is going through them to see which ones he will ask. I was hoping they would come from the audience on the spot.

Unfortunately, the rains have stopped here in Nashville. The Obama headquarters across the street is having a big debate party and I was hoping the storms would continue so they could not the smoking lounge outside. The parking lot is packed.

re: #142 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Cool! Yep, I live just outside Springfield. We once bought a boat from Wilbus Marine in Sunshine Beach about 20 years- We had a cabin in Camdenton. BTW, O/T, I saw gas at $2.72 a gallon earlier today.

Awesome!
My granddad...who is 102 and lives in his own home, thank you very much, bought the place in 1962 for 3000 dollars!
It has about 300' of lake frontage.
Lucky for us!

Fred Barnes says it doesn't matter what the audience asks, Brokaw will choose questions and can substitute his own. So nothing about abortion, immigration, gun control, etc.

re: #129 Typicalwhitey

Hey ya brat!
I actually threw my back out yesterday and am walking around like I have a stick up my.....you know what!
I feel as stupid as I look right now LOL

OUCH! I take it back (NO pun intended, believe it or not.)

I have problems at times with the lower back muscles. I'm not a medication-taker by any stretch, but I DO keep meds on hand for the back, JIC. Wound up in the ER about 15 years ago.

Take it very easy. Get well soon.

Economics is confusing... people just scratch their heads, shrug, and vote for the Sociali- I mean Democrats.

There's only one guy who could swiftly turn the election around for John McCain right now - but he's a Russian.

any takers?

re: #148 nyc redneck

i think mccain is going to box his ears
oooops, not supposed to mention his ears.

you're a cartilagist.

re: #152 Cast Iron Magnolia

lurk......lurk......lurk

Thank you, Charles, for letting me in (finally).

No sock puppets hanging around me, I hope! Drinks are on me, gang - belly up to the bar.

mint julips?

re: #91 Typicalwhitey

Full shot everytime he says " I have ALWAYS SAID...."

(I peeked at my profit sharing today. Down 10k this week, 26k since sept 1)

But I am still the luckiest most fortunate sob that I know and as my mom always told me......money? it's just green wrinkly paper!

ouch! that hasta hurt! But i LOVE your attitude!

re: #132 shug

I find the empty auditorium to be only ever so slightly less captivating than Obama

Reminds me of Obama's suit.

re: #152 Cast Iron Magnolia

lurk......lurk......lurk

Thank you, Charles, for letting me in (finally).

No sock puppets hanging around me, I hope! Drinks are on me, gang - belly up to the bar.

Welcome..I'll have a bud light while you're up...

re: #124 gop_patriot

Welcome noobs and non-already-been-banned-just-for-fun-soc kpuppets!

Be excellent to each other.

You ever been to FS Augsburg?

re: #158 JacksonTn

I still don't understand the questions. Tom Brokass says he is going through them to see which ones he will ask. I was hoping they would come from the audience on the spot.

Most of them will. There will be about 20 all told, Brokaw picks 6-7 from emails.

re: #137 ploome hineni

well, come sit beside me then

we can watch the show together

:D

*pitterpat pitterpat*
*unmanly SWOOOOON*
THUD!

re: #147 eastvillageinfidel

Just teasing, I promise to stick to beer. ;)

wise decision.
i wish i could be in a rowdy bar w/ some pro-america people watching the debate.

re: #159 Typicalwhitey

and that is where the next lizard union will be?

re: #95 majic1

Lurker no more; shells are swept up and the first round is on me. As for McCain, I've known a few Navy pilots in my time in the service, they tend to be mission oriented and don't take prisoners. Obama is a target-rich environment.

Welcome aboard Majic!

re: #160 pat

Fred Barnes says it doesn't matter what the audience asks, Brokaw will choose questions and can substitute his own. So nothing about abortion, immigration, gun control, etc.

Hell no! No questions 'bout gun control, that might hurt zero.

re: #145 Typicalwhitey

Ploome you are a scamp today!

heh ... I think she's already on the FNDT

re: #31 doppelganglander

Honestly, that hasn't affected me because we're basically broke. But I can drink to drown the sorrows of others.

at least you can still afford to drink!

re: #152 Cast Iron Magnolia

lurk......lurk......lurk

Thank you, Charles, for letting me in (finally).

No sock puppets hanging around me, I hope! Drinks are on me, gang - belly up to the bar.

I'll have a Diet Dr. Pepper on ice. Can't stand it straight from the can.

Oh please, how many people in the audience will be undecided? I think they should be given a lie detector test on live TV before they submit a question and declare themselves undecided. I would like to see that!

re: #165 Wishing

ouch! that hasta hurt! But i LOVE your attitude!

As my Dad says...ya ain't lost nuthin' unless you sell!
Got a decade or two until I need it, the market always comes back!

re: #157 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

What do Barack Obama and John McCain have in common?

They both spent their 20's surrounded by communists!

Ooooh, I'll have to send that one to Rush!

re: #168 Outrider

You ever been to FS Augsburg?

No, I didn't even know what that was, and had to look it up. :X Sorry!

Why do you ask?

re: #106 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Cold War Naval Aircrewman, helo and fixed-wing ASW aircraft. Pick a spot on the East Coast and I most likely was there at some time. Brings a tear to my eye that Putin is dragging his relics across the pond to Chavez-land.

Debate prediction: the headline on FOX 5 minutes after will read, "Both Obama, McCain camps claim victory."

now what word should we take a drink on? hope, change, it's all bush's fault, or maybe ayers

re: #157 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

That's gold.

re: #164 Eowyn2

Mint Julep comin' right up, made especially for you.

Hi! I'm new, but have been reading LGF and lurking here a long time. This blog is addicting!

re: #185 yochanan

now what word should we take a drink on? hope, change, it's all bush's fault, or maybe ayers

If you want to get drunk
"Change"

If you are a teetotaler
"ayers"

The Killa From Wasilla digs the knife a little dipper into Barry today in Jacksonville.

Palin: "but wait a minute there, you mean to tell me that he didn't know that he had launched his own career in the living room of a domestic terrorist?"

Zing!

Note the crowd chanting "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!"

The new phone book is here! The new phone book is here!
I'm been waiting to type this for a while now so here goes. HELLO FELLOW LIZARDS!

mccain is good in this venue. he will do well.
obama is just hoping that less than half of his utterances will be uh- uhs.

re: #188 Cast Iron Magnolia

Mint Julep comin' right up, made especially for you.

I'd rather have one of the New Orleans frozen hurricanes. damn those are good.

re: #188 Cast Iron Magnolia

Mint Julep comin' right up, made especially for you.

I hate to even ask such a dumb question but are you from the south?
Click on my avatar if you are.

re: #76 Typicalwhitey

I am saying a prayer that Senator McCain turns it around tonight and wins the election.

Above is the reason that I read conservative blogs- we support people and pray that they do well. We are not angry deranged leftists who wish for very bad things to happen to people we dislike.

Big upding to you Typicawhitey!

Then only thing I want to see AFTER tonights debate, a huge Obama like blob, crying and sniveling in a heap on the stage.

re: #194 ploome hineni

I am still at the office

still have to pick uo doggies frm the groomer

and

I really do not drink liquor..makes me sleepy
and boring

You are lucky.
Booze makes me friendly....too friendly ;)

Dear Senator Obama,

May thy knife chip and shatter.

re: #192 New Hampshire Dad

welcome

re: #178 musicman

I'll have a Diet Dr. Pepper on ice. Can't stand it straight from the can.

DP over ice? At your elbow. Now where'd I put HoosierHoops Bud Lite?

oh no, it's dark.
i gotta run out and put the paint away.

McCain should stare directly into the camera and ask the American people: "Should some one be allowed to work in the capital if they are friends with a terrorist who bombed the capital?" Then he should turn to obama and ask him the same question.

re: #182 gop_patriot

No, I didn't even know what that was, and had to look it up. :X Sorry!

Why do you ask?

The remark, "Be excellent to each other." reminded me of an Army unit back there in the early 90s. I had never heard that phrase used by anyone except there. Just curious. Thanks for responding.

I'm in! I'm IN!

Months it took, but I'm in. In I am.

Lizard milk I sip from the lizard teat, for I am in.

I'm outta here
happy debate night everyone

re: #192 New Hampshire Dad

The new phone book is here! The new phone book is here!
I'm been waiting to type this for a while now so here goes. HELLO FELLOW LIZARDS!

Hello New Hampshire Dad and welcome!

Waving to you from Boston's North Shore!

re: #151 gop_patriot

AP wasn't it?

Indeed. I was astonished at how blatantly they asserted their opinions as facts and wholly dismissed the author's claims as baseless.

re: #189 welshgirl

Hi! I'm new, but have been reading LGF and lurking here a long time. This blog is addicting!

Welcome aboard!

re: #184 arethusa

Debate prediction: the headline on FOX 5 minutes after will read, "Both Obama, McCain camps claim victory."

Are you sure that there isn't a headline on MSNBC right now that says "Obama claims victory in second debate"?

re: #189 welshgirl

Hi! I'm new, but have been reading LGF and lurking here a long time. This blog is addicting!

Welcome, and yes , it certainly is.

re: #197 shibumi

Thank you!
I am in a great mood tonight and I am feeling that the good Senator is going to do extremely well!

re: #206 Gorgonzola

I'm just glad you're not brie

re: #183 majic1

Cold War Naval Aircrewman, helo and fixed-wing ASW aircraft. Pick a spot on the East Coast and I most likely was there at some time. Brings a tear to my eye that Putin is dragging his relics across the pond to Chavez-land.

Yep.
West coast, ATN, "charter member" in the Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club
There's plenty of ex-military in here.

Incidentally, John McCain is redeem his whole campaign tonight.

He just has to tell the truth.

Dear John McCain-

Please tie in energy to the economy- how Americans need cheap, American energy now, and how this will help our economy. Because you have an energy plan, and barry doesn't. Please make sure to discuss the fiscal responsibility of Washington as Americans everywhere are sick of Congress spending like drunken sailors. Turn the economy issues towards energy and fiscal restraint, and Americans will be moved to your ticket. We want cheap gas. We want a responsible Washington. Thank you, and good luck, Sir.

Sincerely, Sharmuta

RIGHT NOW I THINK THE A.I.G. CEO'S SHOULD BE HORSE WIPPED.

re: #189 welshgirl

Hi! I'm new, but have been reading LGF and lurking here a long time. This blog is addicting!

Welcome!

And yes, it is addicting. But there are worse habits! :~)

re: #210 ploome hineni

eggzacly...I am thinking of sending my investment genius a preent, given what he has been going through this week

what should I send him?

Is he good looking?

/what?

re: #206 Gorgonzola

I'm in! I'm IN!

Months it took, but I'm in. In I am.

Lizard milk I sip from the lizard teat, for I am in.

Welcome aboard.

What does Lizard milk taste like, anyway?

re: #202 Cast Iron Magnolia

DP over ice? At your elbow. Now where'd I put HoosierHoops Bud Lite?

Cheers!

re: #192 New Hampshire Dad

The new phone book is here! The new phone book is here!
I'm been waiting to type this for a while now so here goes. HELLO FELLOW LIZARDS!

Welcome!

re: #193 nyc redneck

mccain is good in this venue. he will do well.
obama is just hoping that less than half of his utterances will be uh- uhs.

There is no teleprompter is there?

re: #217 Gorgonzola

Incidentally, John McCain is redeem his whole campaign tonight.

He just has to tell the truth.

Where are you from Gorgon?

re: #191 loppyd

The Killa From Wasilla digs the knife a little dipper into Barry today in Jacksonville.

Palin: "but wait a minute there, you mean to tell me that he didn't know that he had launched his own career in the living room of a domestic terrorist?"

Zing!

Note the crowd chanting "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!"

"John McCain has it and Barack Obama doesn't!"

re: #223 loppyd

Welcome aboard.

What does Lizard milk taste like, anyway?

Ambrosia.

re: #72 bryanbrigade

And I am SO happy to finally get in! I have missed registration moments for the past 12 months!

I have been trying (albeit not too diligently) for about 4 years. Now I wonder if I have anything to say.

re: #210 ploome hineni

eggzacly...I am thinking of sending my investment genius a preent, given what he has been going through this week

what should I send him?

Scotch

re: #227 Wishing

There is no teleprompter is there?

NOOOOOOO!

Gee, years I read and almost didn't believe my eyes, Register, but here I am. I'm verklept.

Nothing to say for once, but you just wait.

re: #189 welshgirl

Hi! I'm new, but have been reading LGF and lurking here a long time. This blog is addicting!

Well hi Welshgirl. And does your lovely name have something to do with your location?

I'm Very apprehensive. Not sure I can watch this. Of course jumping up and down and yelling at the TV would probably burn a few excess calories.

re: #194 ploome hineni

I am still at the office

still have to pick uo doggies frm the groomer

and

I really do not drink liquor..makes me sleepy
and boring

*chuckle* I didn't know (and I too seldom drink)
up thread, you sounded ... effervescent.

Holy Crap! I finally made an open registration....and mom said I'd never amount to much......

My prediction of the opening question from Tom Brokaw:

"Senator McCain, the people here at this Townhall meeting have seen your campaign really ramp up the negative ads along with the personal attacks on Senator Obama. And just in the past two days, you and Governor Palin have sought to question Senator Obama's patriotism by trying to associate him with Bill Ayers' terrorist activities when Barack Obama was only 8 years old! What this audience wants to know is this: are you going to answer the big questions in front of this country tonight or are you going to resort to petty attacks on Senator Obama's character?
Are you going to try and place blame for this economic crisis or are you going to explain to all of us how you will fix it like Senator Obama has been doing all week long.

re: #219 yochanan

RIGHT NOW I THINK THE A.I.G. CEO'S SHOULD BE HORSE WIPPED.

Your tax dollars at work.

re: #206 Gorgonzola

I'm in! I'm IN!

Months it took, but I'm in. In I am.

Lizard milk I sip from the lizard teat, for I am in.

Well I don't know about lizard milk..but the cheese is to die for..

re: #196 Typicalwhitey
Yes, I am - Mississippi. And you?

re: #231 coachbob

I have been trying (albeit not too diligently) for about 4 years. Now I wonder if I have anything to say.

Start small, do something like call Cognito a dufus.

re: #209 David IV of Georgia

Hi there!

Here's an Obama move to watch for tonight, via Best of the Web Today:

"In politics one often hears the charge of hypocrisy: My opponent criticizes me for X, but he has done Y, which is just as bad or worse. Obama's argument here, though, is roughly opposite in form. He concedes that McCain is above reproach on this particular subject and therefore demands that McCain treat him as if he were beyond reproach."
[Link: online.wsj.com...]

re: #206 Gorgonzola

I'm in! I'm IN!

Months it took, but I'm in. In I am.

Lizard milk I sip from the lizard teat, for I am in.

Don't we have a Gorgon Zola, too?

re: #223 loppyd

Welcome aboard.

What does Lizard milk taste like, anyway?

Judging from the usual crowd, Boilermakers:

Ingredients:

* 2 oz Whiskey
* 10 oz Beer

Mixing instructions:

Fill shot glass with whiskey. Drop full shot glass into mug o' beer. Drink immediately, enjoy.

Barack Obama's Lost Years
by Stanley Kurtz
08/11/2008

[...]

This brings us to what is perhaps the most striking result of our tour through Obama's Springfield days. Conventional wisdom has it that John McCain holds a political advantage over Obama on war and foreign policy issues, while Obama is favored to handle the economy. Yet Obama's economic experience is largely limited to social welfare spending. Indeed, precisely because of his penchant for spending, Obama's fingerprints are all over Illinois's burgeoning fiscal crisis.

The Illinois state budget has been in an ever-widening crisis since 2001. In an April 2007 report, a committee of top Chicago business leaders warned that the state was "headed toward fiscal implosion." Illinois's unfunded pension debt is the highest in the nation, while Illinois is sixth in the nation in per capita tax-supported debt. Yet the Illinois General Assembly-now controlled by Obama's Democratic allies-churns out at will exactly the sort of spending programs Obama pushed for, with only partial success, under the Republicans. The result is a fast-growing gap between revenues and expenditures (unimpeded by the statutory requirement of a balanced budget), rising fears of fiscal meltdown, finger-pointing, and political gridlock.

A watershed moment in Illinois's fiscal decline came in 2002, when crashing receipts and Democratic reluctance to enact spending cuts forced Republican governor George Ryan to call a special legislative session. While Ryan railed at legislators for refusing to rein in an out-of-control budget, the Chicago Tribune spoke ominously of an "all-consuming state budget crisis." Unwilling to cut back on social welfare spending, Obama's chief partner and political mentor, senate Democratic leader Emil Jones, came up with the idea of borrowing against the proceeds of a windfall tobacco lawsuit settlement due to the state.

This idea sent the editorial pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Chicago Tribune into a tizzy. Editorialists hammered cut-averse legislators for "chickening out," for making use of "tricked-up numbers," for a "cowardly abdication of responsibility," and for sacrificing the state's bond rating to "short-term political gains." As critics repeatedly pointed out, borrowing against a onetime tobacco settlement-instead of balancing the budget with regular revenues-would be a recipe for long-term fiscal disaster.

What was Obama doing while all this was going on? He was promoting the tobacco securitization plan in his Hyde Park Herald column, railing against the governor in the Defender for balancing the budget "on the back of the poor," and voting to override cuts in treasured programs like bilingual education. Actually, far from "balancing the budget on the backs of the poor," the governor had trimmed evenly across all the state's most expensive programs. In the end, Ryan did force a number of cuts, yet the resistance of Obama and his allies took a toll. When, just a year later, Democrats added control of the governorship and state senate to their existing control of the house, they revealed that the state deficit had reached $5 billion-far larger than most had feared. Since then it's been a swift downhill tumble toward fiscal implosion for Illinois. Now ruling, the Democrats have continued their profligate ways, pushing the state's budget woes to new heights.

Illinois's fate may foreshadow the nation's. Obama's small and carefully targeted spending bills were expressly designed to win passage by a Republican-controlled state senate. But if Obama takes the presidency with a Democratic Congress at his back, we'll likely see a grand-scale version of the fiscal mayhem Obama and his colleagues brought to Illinois.

Lizard milk? Lizards aren't mammals.

re: #127 gop_patriot

Woohoo! LOL

I love a Marine!

re: #239 reags

Holy Crap! I finally made an open registration....and mom said I'd never amount to much......

LMAO!
GREAT first post, you made me laugh out loud!

re: #205 Outrider

Well, we always said it because of the movie "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" that came out back when I was in college in the 80s. :D One of those super silly but funny movies, extremely quotable.

I clicked on your avatar, you're retired Army? Thank you for your service!

re: #233 Typicalwhitey

NOOOOOOO!

Is that certainty I hear?
/

re: #212 shibumi

Are you sure that there isn't a headline on MSNBC right now that says "Obama claims victory in second debate"?

Probably...hey, when do the "who won the debate polls?" start. They always start before the debate.

re: #166 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Reminds me of Obama's suit.

Or his brain.

re: #211 HoosierHoops

Welcome aboard!

re: #256 Wishing

Is that certainty I hear?
/

Hell yes!
No prompter because they don't know what the questions will be!

re: #239 reags

Holy Crap! I finally made an open registration....and mom said I'd never amount to much......

ROFL!

re: #244 CyanSnowHawk

Start small, do something like call Cognito a dufus.

Rimshot!

Thanks to all for the welcome! I must be heading home from the office, up the basement stairs to the waiting arms of my family. Boy, it's good to be here!

re: #243 Cast Iron Magnolia

butting in -- which general part of the state?
Just curious.

Wow, we have a good bunch of hatchlings here tonight. Anyone for speed dating?

re: #245 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Hi there!

Which of us will convince the other to look outside first?

re: #214 Typicalwhitey

Thank you!
I am in a great mood tonight and I am feeling that the good Senator is going to do extremely well!

You're welcome. :)
I certainly hope he does well!

(even if he does not, NOT voting for Teleprompter Jesus!)

re: #15 Moe Katz