And mowing.

BBL

Is anyone else NOW wondering if lookin' for those WMD's in Iraq, instead of just taking care of biz in the Afghan, was such a good idea?

I'm Impress! Haven't seen anyone use badinage for some time.

I read too fast and thought "badinage" was "bondage."

And slimy toves. Don't forget those.

re: #3 JammieWearingFool

I'm Impress! Haven't seen anyone use badinage for some time.

I was going to say the same about persiflage! Persiflage is the lagan of "flotsam, jetsam, and lagan."

An open thread for persiflage, badinage, and japery...

And frippery! Gotta have the frippery!

re: #4 arethusa

I read too fast and thought "badinage" was "bondage."

Yeah right. We know where your mind is! : )

re: #2 Gonzolives

I'm sure the troops really enjoyed all the time they spent in Hazmat gear.

BarkaLounger quarterbacking that call from here, I can imagine the 'fallout' if the troops would have keeled over by the score for the not-looking routine.

Good afternoon/evening all.

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.

Hope this link works. In any case, looks like OPEC is feeling the pinch and wants to do something collaborative to bring oil prices back up.

Your text to link...

re: #9 Cap'n DOC

NO WAY was I pokin' fun at the groundpounders.

But who in hell thought we'd be in the economic mess we're now?

Damn.

How come the post number is grey now?

re: #11 Russkilitlover

Hope this link works. In any case, looks like OPEC is feeling the pinch and wants to do something collaborative to bring oil prices back up.

Your text to link...

I saw gas for $2.72 a gallon yesterday.

re: #10 Bobibutu

Wish I could, but that's a quite a hike for me. I do love that area, though.

Claire McCaskill is possibly even more annoying than Nancy Pelosi. Thoughts?

re: #2 Gonzolives

Who says they're gone? In fact, who says that they have not been found? We don't know what's really been found in the ground over there. /

heh heh.

The post numbers are different, bigger and gray.

Some guy at a Joe Biden event introduced him as "the next Vice President of the United States, John McCain!". IDIOT.

Charles -

Please advise - will you let me use Hebrew Script should I wish to post it? I am now fasting with regard to food/drink. I choose to FEAST in the world of the mind. Please advise.

-S-

re: #16 arethusa

Neither are ladies I'd listen to for a long time. The junior senator from MO though, sounds like a party hack more than Pelosi does.

re: #16 arethusa

Claire McCaskill is possibly even more annoying than Nancy Pelosi. Thoughts?

I cannot stand her.
I am in Missouri and cannot understand how she was elected.
Her husband is a BIG user of offshore accounts, they are as crooked as they come.

persiflage, badinage, and japery....

At first I thought those were some new lizards and felt a little jealous.

re: #16 arethusa

Completley agree. I wish Romney had decked her. To me, she always looks like she is trying to eat me through the TV screen. Especially in the pic in the link.

re: #19 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Some guy at a Joe Biden event introduced him as "the next Vice President of the United States, John McCain!". IDIOT.

"OMD" -

Make a Movie of it - Call it "Color Me Stu-Pid-Id-Did." That is all.

-S-

re: #15 calcajun

Wish I could, but that's a quite a hike for me. I do love that area, though.

We really have it all. From drive-by shootings to the SF Ballet. Something for everyone in the Bay Area.

re: #16 arethusa

Claire McCaskill is possibly even more annoying than Nancy Pelosi. Thoughts?

She's my sorry-ass Senator. I can't believe she beat Jim Talent in 2006. When I went to bed Talent had a 150,000 vote lead and I thought no problem, he'll be re-elected easily. I woke up and saw McCaskill had won by 100K votes, because votes from St. Louis and Kansas City were slow to be counted. I blamed ACORN then, and I haven't changed my mind.

re: #16 arethusa

Claire McCaskill is possibly even more annoying than Nancy Pelosi. Thoughts?

Possibly. It depends on your geography. The whole country is subjected to repeated does of the Pelosi pill, which renders the verdict of maximum annoyance to be in her favor. I will admit that McCaskill can certainly compete in depth of obnoxiousness, if not in breadth.

re: #20 Dr. Shalit

Is it already sundown for you, Doc? G'mar chatimah tovah.

re: #22 Typicalwhitey

I cannot stand her.
I am in Missouri and cannot understand how she was elected.
Her husband is a BIG user of offshore accounts, they are as crooked as they come.

And yet she is everywhere. The Dems must be grooming her for something...are any of the Senate party leadership positions open after the election?

re: #18 snowcrash

The post numbers are different, bigger and gray.

Every time I check in something looks different. At least I know it's not me.

re: #24 NC State of Mind

[Link: www.nationalledger.com...]

Somebody said, You should see what she did to the chair.

Thank you, WriterMom!

Mesmerizing!

Has anybody played with the google 2001 index? They brought back their oldest index for their 10th birthday - just now had a chance to look at it.

I've been looking up all kinds of interesting stuff (O) that dropped off the radar, and seems to be going down the memory hole at this very moment.

Like this one where the One and Ayers are on a panel (crossing paths) for an event that Michelle organized regarding children that kill...

A lot of other ones on web.archive.org that used to be there and aren't anymore! Not much of an archive is it?

re: #26 Bobibutu

Ah, but my hometown has that beat. New Orleans has better food and drive- through daiquiri shops!

re: #13 Typicalwhitey

How come the post number is grey now?

We're Charles' guinea pigs today, I think. Lots of experimenting with new looks and such.

re: #14 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I saw gas for $2.72 a gallon yesterday.

Wow! I'm still seeing $3.57 here in So. California.

Another reason to add to the "Poll Hammer"

(At the bottom, No. 6)

Polls are BS because:

1. Polls are public; there are at least the pollster and the respondent & more may be listening in & influencing the respondent. The ballot is private.

2. Polls questions can be worded in tricky ways, the ballot is simple.

3. Polls can be used to manipulate & thus the motivation of the pollster may be suspect. The ballot has no similar motivation.

4. You can lie to a pollster, you cannot lie to the ballot.

5. Polls come to you, lazy or not; but you have to get up off your ass to go vote.

6. Only God knows the future.

re: #33 MandyManners
[Link: www.torontoffc.ca...]
more my type

re: #22 Typicalwhitey

I cannot stand her.
I am in Missouri and cannot understand how she was elected.
Her husband is a BIG user of offshore accounts, they are as crooked as they come.

TW-

Her hubby is a big nursing home owner here in Missouri, and some of the homes he owned were indicted for Medicaid fraud and unsafe conditions and fined thousands of dollars.

re: #2 Gonzolives

Is anyone else NOW wondering if lookin' for those WMD's in Iraq, instead of just taking care of biz in the Afghan, was such a good idea?

if you spent more time on strategy and less on tactics, you'd know why that question is foolish.

(and if you were a pro, you'd stuydy logistics instead of either. %-)

should I mention the markets?

re: #14 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

I saw gas for $2.72 a gallon yesterday.

T. Boone Pickens, in an interview with Glenn Beck a couple of months ago:

"The price of oil will steadily continue to rise, and by Christmas will hit $150 per barrel. We'll never see the days of $100 per barrel oil again."

Stick with the windmills, T.

#2 Gonzolives

Yeah I wish Saddam was still around

re: #37 Russkilitlover

You are getting ripped off!

I filled up two days ago and paid 2.89

re: #12 Gonzolives

NO WAY was I pokin' fun at the groundpounders.

But who in hell thought we'd be in the economic mess we're now?

Damn.

they are not linked. HTH.

11B (used to be, anyway. %-)

re: #44 DisgustingOratory

#2 Gonzolives

Yeah I wish Saddam was still around

/

re: #40 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

TW-

Her hubby is a big nursing home owner here in Missouri, and some of the homes he owned were indicted for Medicaid fraud and unsafe conditions and fined thousands of dollars.

Yeah I know
I am in Missouri too!

re: #44 DisgustingOratory

#2 Gonzolives

Yeah I wish Saddam was still around

And his kids.

/

re: #24 NC State of Mind

"NC-SoM" -

Actually, were she to get with the program, McCaskill could be the female Harry Truman. Unfortunately, she prefers to be Miss Farbissener (Sourpuss for all 'y'all that speak English,) a/la Austin Powers.

-S-

re: #42 noshariaincanada

should I mention the markets?

Yes, I like whole foods, but just try to find a jar of mayonnaise there.

Cannot fail to forget farrago! On that note, what kind of insane executive orders are we likely to see from thw Obamanaut on day one? I seem to remember gays rights was Clinton's first one?

re: #17 calcajun

Who says they're gone? In fact, who says that they have not been found? We don't know what's really been found in the ground over there. /

heh heh.

i'd look in Syria.....
(Zahal would help! %-)

re: #35 calcajun

Ah, but my hometown has that beat. New Orleans has better food and drive- through daiquiri shops!

;-)

This is just too, too funny.
And hopefully, not a sign of things to come.

re: #49 rightymouse

And a Shredder.

/

re: #51 uncle_monkey

Yes, I like whole foods, but just try to find a jar of mayonnaise there.

in keeping w/ your non-sequitur, I should mention mayonnaise can be used to remove hard-to-remove adhesive labels....

re: #37 Russkilitlover

Wow! I'm still seeing $3.57 here in So. California.

Here are gas prices around the country.

Zoom in to see prices by state, county, city, block.

Really cool!

re: #19 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Some guy at a Joe Biden event introduced him as "the next Vice President of the United States, John McCain!". IDIOT.

Obama today at a rally in Indiana was talking about Evan Bayh, and he said something to the effect of "We know an ACORN doesn't fall far from the tree, because Senator Bayh's father, Birch Bayh, served your state well...."

Isn't that supposed to be "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"?

He's got ACORN on the mind....heh.

Nervous, is he?

re: #40 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

TW-

Her hubby is a big nursing home owner here in Missouri, and some of the homes he owned were indicted for Medicaid fraud and unsafe conditions and fined thousands of dollars.

________________________________
And can you imagine the fraud and waste that will result in the health industry if Obama mandates government health-nanny state policies.

re: #57 noshariaincanada

in keeping w/ your non-sequitur, I should mention mayonnaise can be used to remove hard-to-remove adhesive labels....

And they taste so much better once they're off.

re: #56 Cap'n DOC

And a Shredder.

/

Kiddy prisons and rape rooms..

/

re: #41 redc1c4

We sure let Saddam know we were coming for months, man it does not take a genius to figure that he very probably sent the WMD out of the country.

Not only that, after we went into Iraq, Jordan foiled an attempted terror attack from Syria that the Jordanians claim would have killed 20,000.

One can draw some conclusions;

One might be that the "global test" takes way too long.

re: #55 reine.de.tout

re: #35 calcajun

Ah, but my hometown has that beat. New Orleans has better food and drive- through daiquiri shops!

and william "cold cash" jefferson

Here's the video of Biden being introduced as the next VP of the USA John McCain

good afternoon every one

re: #55 reine.de.tout

ouch, hahaha

re: #23 yah

persiflage, badinage, and japery....

At first I thought those were some new lizards and felt a little jealous.

Michelle Obama has already started measuring the japeries in the White House, doncha know.

;-)

Generally I hate change, but I do like the new, smaller default size of the comment-typing box. As for the rest of the changes, they always end up in the "good" column, but usually take some getting used to. Like about 5 minutes, then I can't remember what's different.

/was that persiflageous?

re: #62 rightymouse

I wonder what happened to the gold sinks?

I am beginning to know how Hillary Clinton felt...Obama could run his car into ten bystanders in a drunken rage and it would be reported as...ten reckless racist collide with Obama motorcade in attempt to assasinate democratic hopeful!

re: #64 NC State of Mind

He's gonna change it....and rearrange it....Obama's gonna change the world.

did you watch it?

re: #66 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

Here's the video of Biden being introduced as the next VP of the USA John McCain

Well, Biden did want a Kerry-McCain ticket in 2004.

re: #60 right_on_target

________________________________
And can you imagine the fraud and waste that will result in the health industry if Obama mandates government health-nanny state policies.

Look what govt oversight has done to our economy

Do you want them in charge of your HEALTHCARE?

What do Obama and Osama have in common?.....

They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

re: #70 wrenchwench

Generally I hate change

Perhaps you are part cat.

re: #71 Cap'n DOC

I wonder what happened to the gold sinks?

You mean the ones the Husseins had in their palaces while people rotted in the streets? Those gold sinks?

re: #73 reine.de.tout

did you watch it?

Yes. Just joking that the video could be an example of the type of 'change' we get-since we don't have any specifics on what kind it'll be.

re: #57 noshariaincanada

in keeping w/ your non-sequitur, I should mention mayonnaise can be used to remove hard-to-remove adhesive labels....

Really? That's good to know. I seem to always end up with the thing that has the stickiest label. . .

re: #52 spirochete

Cannot fail to forget farrago! On that note, what kind of insane executive orders are we likely to see from thw Obamanaut on day one? I seem to remember gays rights was Clinton's first one?

they won't have any "o"s.... Bush's people will take them off all the keyboards...... %-)

/

re: #13 Typicalwhitey

How come the post number is grey now?

It's a technique to lull us.

re: #48 Typicalwhitey

Yeah I know
I am in Missouri too!

Ok, do you all pronounce it "MissourI" or "MissourA"?

re: #37 Russkilitlover

Wow! I'm still seeing $3.57 here in So. California.

"R.K.L" -

All 'y'all live in the California Southland, your state requires a "Boutique Blend" of Gasoline - Purportedly to reduce emissions. Get rid of the "Boutique Blend" and your fuel costs go DOWN dramatically - mine go down marginally, and we ALL as fellow Americans benefit. That is all.

-S-

re: #77 Ojoe

Perhaps you are part cat.

I've had my two cats, Presta and Schrader, for a year and a half now, and they seem to think I am some kind of a cat.

re: #78 rightymouse

My nephew stayed in one of the palaces, I have a pic of him in a fedora and shoulder holster that belonged to Sadaam.
He found CASES of crystol champagne
I believe they were a grand a bottle

re: #79 NC State of Mind

Yes. Just joking that the video could be an example of the type of 'change' we get-since we don't have any specifics on what kind it'll be.

ah, true. I'm dense.

re: #49 rightymouse

And his kids.

/

Those two wacky and fun-loving boys, Uday and Qusay.

/RIP NOT

re: #80 reine.de.tout

Really? That's good to know. I seem to always end up with the thing that has the stickiest label. . .

I never tried it myself, but I read about it - I'd love to know if it really works - the reason I don't know is there's almost never any mayo in our household, oddly enough.

re: #83 Intrepid

Ok, do you all pronounce it "MissourI" or "MissourA"?

MissourE

re: #13 Typicalwhitey

How come the post number is grey now?

Maybe, it is like a navy ship, haze grey.

And underway?

re: #39 willowone

[Link:

re: #84 Dr. Shalit

"R.K.L" -

All 'y'all live in the California Southland, your state requires a "Boutique Blend" of Gasoline - Purportedly to reduce emissions. Get rid of the "Boutique Blend" and your fuel costs go DOWN dramatically - mine go down marginally, and we ALL as fellow Americans benefit. That is all.

-S-

Glenn Beck was talking about a new Toyota plant that was scheduled to be constructed in California. It was either the plant itself of the cars it would produce did not meet California's environmental regulations and could not be built. And it was Toyota!

PBS is running a poll which asked the question is Sarah Palin qualified to serve as Vice-President.

Don't know if they ever ran one asking if Obama is qualified to serve as President but doubtful since it is PBS.

Please vote:

[Link: www.pbs.org...]

Hey all y'all - did Charles announce (formally) whether or not we HAVE gone over the 6 million mark in comments and who the commenter was with the 6 millionth comment?!

re: #85 wrenchwench

I've had my two cats, Presta and Schrader, for a year and a half now, and they seem to think I am some kind of a cat.

That is a high compliment, from a cat. My cat refuses to acknowledge me as anything other than a being with opposable thumbs and hence the ability to feed her.

re: #43 Intrepid

T. Boone Pickens, in an interview with Glenn Beck a couple of months ago:

"The price of oil will steadily continue to rise, and by Christmas will hit $150 per barrel. We'll never see the days of $100 per barrel oil again."

Stick with the windmills, T.

Yeah, and we don't hear the libs in DC or Bill O'Reilly screaming about price-fixing or oil speculators anymore, do we?
Let market forces work. Just leave it be, and it'll correct itself, which is what should have been done with the subprime mess, but notice it's always the ones who CAUSED the problem who tell us not to worry, they'll fix it!
Boortz said it best- That's like calling the arsonist to put the fire he set.

You guys will NOT believe what I just heard from my parents regarding my little brother, who's ten years old.

So he has this friend named Isaac, who's also ten. Isaac comes over to play, and as soon as he comes in, he notices my dad watching Fox News. He proclaims, "Oh, I have to say I'm disappointed, why are you all watching this Nazi channel?"

My Dad, obviously shocked, goes "What?" Mind you, we're Armenian, so my Dad's English isn't 100% perfect. My Dad was like, "Who brainwashed you with that trash, your parents? Or the TV?" The kid had no response.

I told my Dad I never want to see that kid in my house again, or around my little brother.

This, coupled with the "Bush's Last Day" widget that I found on my same little brother's Mac really piss me off. We were going to eat one night and I noticed that he had a "Bush's Last Day" countdown on his computer. I ask him, "Uh, what the hell is this?" and said that I never want to see that on his computer again, and if I did see it one more time, that the whole computer is going to trash. I told him to remove it IMMEDIATELY.

I asked him where he got it from and he said from his cousin, who is thirteen. This cousin's family is so entrenched in the posh LA, Probama bullshit, which is unbelievable considering my Uncle is a multi-millionaire "disenfranchised" Republican.

I swear, I don't even know what to say anymore.

re: #73 reine.de.tout

re: #64 NC State of Mind

from Odingas site : we are on the side of the future and ODM is the only agent of change and hope. ( sound familiar?)
[Link: www.raila07.com...]

re: #85 wrenchwench

You are outnumbered.

WE have 2 cats & 4 people in the family & the orange cat thinks he's human. His sister is just a weird cat though.

re: #55 reine.de.tout

This is just too, too funny.
And hopefully, not a sign of things to come.

funny as hell............. you should put it in the links.

re: #95 realwest

Hey all y'all - did Charles announce (formally) whether or not we HAVE gone over the 6 million mark in comments and who the commenter was with the 6 millionth comment?!

Yep... had a thread on it, too.

re: #59 Intrepid

Obama today at a rally in Indiana was talking about Evan Bayh, and he said something to the effect of "We know an ACORN doesn't fall far from the tree, because Senator Bayh's father, Birch Bayh, served your state well...."

Isn't that supposed to be "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"?

He's got ACORN on the mind....heh.

Nervous, is he?

LOL, hafta find video of that!

re: #94 MJ

A fountain of pee on PBS.

re: #94 MJ I just voted, but it's not a PBS website that I could tell it was instead a NOW website and a NOW poll.

re: #95 realwest

Hey all y'all - did Charles announce (formally) whether or not we HAVE gone over the 6 million mark in comments and who the commenter was with the 6 millionth comment?!

Yeah, we did, it's on the front page, some threads down.

re: #86 Typicalwhitey

My nephew stayed in one of the palaces, I have a pic of him in a fedora and shoulder holster that belonged to Sadaam.
He found CASES of crystol champagne
I believe they were a grand a bottle

Those Hussein men sure knew how to live it up.
Cristal is ghastly expensive champagne. Not even sure it's worth it and not sure I want to buy any to know for sure.

re: #77 Ojoe

Perhaps you are part cat.

Ojoe -

In my life I have "kept" cats. As they are NOT dumb animals, seems they have an instinct to find comfort - HOW and When and Where they can.

-S-

re: #67 winston06
Oh winston! You were so close to #6mil.