Ah, for a frozen strawberry daiquiri...

Don't be 'fraid of Obomba!

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.

Hi Lizards, TGIF.

re: #1 goddessoftheclassroom

Ah, for a frozen strawberry daiquiri...

I'll take a Gatorade fruit punch, iced.

cheers

eon

I'll be testing some stuff in the comments, including deleting my own comments. So don't panic.

re: #3 Bobibutu

OMG, I wish I could fly out to CA for this--how wonderful of you to host such a lovely gathering!

re: #6 Charles

Is the number supposed to delete too?

Saw Joe Satriani last nite. It was loud but it was ever so cool. Stu Hamm on the Bass, Jeff Capitelli on the drums.

A beautiful thing.

re: #6 Charles

I'll be testing some stuff in the comments, including deleting my own comments. So don't panic.

Does that mean we can do Hitch-Hiker's jokes?

It's Friday, and I'm just tired enough to be silly.

/I'm dangerous when I'm silly.

cheers

eon

So where do they plan on doing this, in there own harbor. Sounds like riot on south Central LA Somali Pirates Threaten to Blow Up Hijacked Ship if No Ransom Is Paid

Happy friday lizards enjoy the weekend!

re: #11 eon

Does that mean we can do Hitch-Hiker's jokes?

It's Friday, and I'm just tired enough to be silly.

/I'm dangerous when I'm silly.

cheers

eon

I just laugh even more than usual.

Afternoon all. Happy Friday.

With McCain being so nice to 0bama, I've been trying to come up with a speech for him (/sarc), but this is as far as I've gotten.
I'll keep working on it

Friends, Americans, Countrymen, lend me your ears [can I say that?]

I come not to attack Obama, but to praise him.
The evil that men do lives long after they are elected; the good is oft interred with their voters.
So let it be with Obama.

re: #12 BBev

Especially when they could part out the tanks.

not so smart.

Fox: Nothing ground-shaking in Palin abuse-of-power "investigation".

re: #10 P. Aaron

Saw Joe Satriani last nite. It was loud but it was ever so cool. Stu Hamm on the Bass, Jeff Capitelli on the drums.

A beautiful thing.

oh crap! I love Joe..
His mom is a wonderful lady also

re: #11 eon

I can relate Charles, everyone deserves to be silly after a long week!

re: #12 BBev

So where do they plan on doing this, in there own harbor. Sounds like riot on south Central LA Somali Pirates Threaten to Blow Up Hijacked Ship if No Ransom Is Paid

Anyone hear more of the Iranian ship that had some kind of toxic material on board?

re: #21 Kosh's Shadow

Anyone hear more of the Iranian ship that had some kind of toxic material on board?

I saw a strange glow on the horizon last night.

re: #1 goddessoftheclassroom

Ah, for a frozen strawberry daiquiri...

I will join you, and have a Margarita

:D

re: #16 Kosh's Shadow

With McCain being so nice to 0bama, I've been trying to come up with a speech for him (/sarc), but this is as far as I've gotten.
I'll keep working on it

Friends, Americans, Countrymen, lend me your ears [can I say that?]

I come not to attack Obama, but to praise him.
The evil that men do lives long after they are elected; the good is oft interred with their voters.
So let it be with Obama.

EXCELLENT! I loved teaching Julius Caesar!

re: #12 BBev

So where do they plan on doing this, in there own harbor. Sounds like riot on south Central LA Somali Pirates Threaten to Blow Up Hijacked Ship if No Ransom Is Paid

The problem is, they can probably do by setting off part of the cargo.

/OK, I'm not silly now- this is dead f'n serious, especially for those 20 sailors those a-holes are holding hostage

cheers

eon

re: #24 goddessoftheclassroom

EXCELLENT! I loved teaching Julius Caesar!

Er, that should have been Julius Caesar; I meant the play, not the emperor...

"Fraudulent registration forms do not constitute voter fraud."
TP quote above makes me wonder what kind of cigarettes ACORN is passing around...

Holy crap, I got arrested and didn't even know it!

re: #21 Kosh's Shadow

Anyone hear more of the Iranian ship that had some kind of toxic material on board?

these Somalis shold be picked off one by one

/before the State dept brings them over here

we have enough workers at Swift Meats

re: #26 goddessoftheclassroom

Er, that should have been Julius Caesar; I meant the play, not the emperor...

Yeah. the real Caesar wouldn't have been caught dead praising an opponent.

re: #17 WrathofG-d

Especially when they could part out the tanks.

not so smart.

I wold not touch that tanker with a 100,000,000,000,000 etc. foot pole

re: #27 Mr Chompers

Yeah.. the cigarettes most likely contain some wacky tobacco!

Who ever posted:
The Democrats lied
My 401K Died

I'm still cleaning coffee off my macbook...
What a great bumper sticker that would be...LOL

It is like the quicksand in Princess Bride, comments vanish suddenly.

re: #33 Strike Hornet

Who ever posted:
The Democrats lied
My 401K Died

I'm still cleaning coffee off my macbook...
What a great bumper sticker that would be...LOL

CLASSIC.

re: #25 eon

The problem is, they can probably do by setting off part of the cargo.

/OK, I'm not silly now- this is dead f'n serious, especially for those 20 sailors those a-holes are holding hostage

cheers

eon

I don't think they will be selling anything from that ship.

re: #30 arethusa

Yeah. the real Caesar wouldn't have been caught dead praising an opponent.

Actually, that was Mark Antony's funeral oration. He brilliantly turns the mob against Brutus and the conspirators. Brutus was their tool.

Wait, that I reminds me of something...

I think it's ok for Republican candidates to assign financial faults to the Bush Admin and the Dem congress. I am a diehard GWB supporter, but I think he can take it.

We need a new college class. "Obama 101: From Alinsky to Orwell.

re: #31 BBev

Is this the glowing tanker, or the tanker with tanks?

Alright.. Who put too much air in the football?

And people got their undies in a knot over ' Math is hard'....

[Link: www.breitbart.tv...]

re: #24 goddessoftheclassroom

EXCELLENT! I loved teaching Julius Caesar!

Yes, taught it at the beginning of the year, well in November I think, I played Caesar and let the students "stab" me, joke was I wouldn't do it in June, by then they may have used real blades.

re: #39 WrathofG-d

Is this the glowing tanker, or the tanker with tanks?

Good point, I don't know.I thought it was the glowing tanker.

re: #27 Mr Chompers

"Fraudulent registration forms do not constitute voter fraud."
TP quote above makes me wonder what kind of cigarettes ACORN is passing around...

Sounds like the argument is.. it isn't a crime till a vote is cast.
hmmm?

re: #23 ploome hineni

I will join you, and have a Margarita

:D

Are you making 2 of those margaritas?

Another day of getting progressively more poor. Where is 3 wood? I need his advice. I am thinking of taking the $10 of savings that is left, throwing caution to wind and buying stock at these low, low fire sale rates. My plan is to take that $10 and become the next Rockefeller. Which stock shall it be?

re: #37 goddessoftheclassroom

Actually, that was Mark Antony's funeral oration. He brilliantly turns the mob against Brutus and the conspirators. Brutus was their tool.

Wait, that I reminds me of something...

I know. I teach the original Caesar, in the original Latin. :-)

re: #24 goddessoftheclassroom

EXCELLENT! I loved teaching Julius Caesar!

Was he a good student?

re: #43 Charles

Careful, I think I heard some PETA troops in the hall whispering something about opening the cages.....

re: #36 BBev

I don't think they will be selling anything from that ship.

Agreed. They've made the classic pirate error of grabbing a prize they can't dispose of. Especially those 33 "tanks".

/in " " because for all we know, they're armored cars, or APCs, or something- most reporters don't know an MBT from a HumVee, even today

cheers

eon

re: #8 goddessoftheclassroom

OMG, I wish I could fly out to CA for this--how wonderful of you to host such a lovely gathering!

Why thank you. I wish you could as well.

It will be fun as well as a history lesson of Mt. Diablo and the Diablo Valley region for those who wish to partake of that aspect.

re: #27 Mr Chompers

"Fraudulent registration forms do not constitute voter fraud."
TP quote above makes me wonder what kind of cigarettes ACORN is passing around...

Who did I hear say:
That is like saying "Yes I committed a bank robbery but I only used a toy gun"...?

Was it Krauthammer?

re: #38 hazzyday

We need a new college class. "Obama 101: From Alinsky to OrwellWright.

Expanded the alphabet for ya!

re: #25 eon

This is insanity! A gang of naked savages hijacking ships and holding them to ransom.

It is a situation that has gone on for years and the Civilized World does nothing. This problem could be solved in one weekend, if we had the cojones to do what needs to be done.

re: #6 Charles

I'll be testing some stuff in the comments, including deleting my own comments. So don't panic.

Is it okay if I panic about everything else?

re: #50 MandyManners

Was he a good student?

Et tu, Mandy?

/I KNEW some lizard would jump on that; hence, my #26!

re: #55 Strike Hornet

Yes, I robbed that bank, but I haven't spent the money yet!

re: #6 Charles

I'll be ... deleting my own comments.

Oh, but I wish that Edgar would be so generous to us!

re: #12 BBev

So where do they plan on doing this, in there own harbor. Sounds like riot on south Central LA Somali Pirates Threaten to Blow Up Hijacked Ship if No Ransom Is Paid

Threatening to do something stupid like that, with the Russian Navy keeping watch over the situation, is probably not a very good idea. I'm thinking that they may use the sort of discretion that the Russians have been known for in previous hostage situations.

re: #60 ArmyWife

Yes, I robbed that bank, but I haven't spent the money yet!

Nice charles! POOF!

re: #50 MandyManners

Was he a good student?

Tended to epileptic fits and he would write in Latin, really pushed the dress code. Toga parties in HS are right out. Then there was his girl friend with the snake!

re: #26 goddessoftheclassroom

re: #24 goddessoftheclassroom

EXCELLENT! I loved teaching Julius Caesar!

Er, that should have been Julius Caesar; I meant the play, not the emperor...

I was about to say "Damn, you really are pretty OLD, aren't you?"

/ducks!

It's a Friday "Evening" thread on the East Coast that is seeing the Phillies kicking some Dodgers butt.

East Coast Rules!

Gas is finally below the "mendozza line" ($3.00/gallon) in South Central Penna. Mentally good for us hard-working, bill-paying Palin Republicans and also the Reagan Democrats. I'm sure Obama will meet next week with OPEC to make sure the $130 to $150 per barrel price comes back right before election day.

We had a *huge* court victory today on an important motion -- so important the boss called from his golf tourney in Oregon and said he's taking me to Vegas sometime -- so I've basically blown the day off playing Civ III. :-> Funny how capitalism works there.

re: #20 nobamadada

Welcome to LGF.

re: #40 unrealizedviewpoint

Alright.. Who put too much air in the football?

NotMe. Put too much in bicycle tire once. Just once.

re: #65 lifeofthemind

Tended to epileptic fits and he would write in Latin, really pushed the dress code. Toga parties in HS are right out. Then there was his girl friend with the snake!

Yeah, Cleo was a pain in the asp...

Anybody besides me think that Sarah Palin, a journalism major/former sportscaster, is doing a better job reporting on Obama than the MSM?

Thirty million dollars worth of Russian tanks are locked up on a pirate ship and another pirate ship has crazies dieing from some toxic Iranian leakage. We are supposed to be unhappy about this, Why?

Oops, got those sixes lined up in my #66 post. Hate when that happens!

re: #66 6pat6

I was about to say "Damn, you really are pretty OLD, aren't you?"

/ducks!

I'm glad YOU said that.

re: #66 6pat6

I was about to say "Damn, you really are pretty OLD, aren't you?"

/ducks!

That's what I was expecting from pre-Boomer Marine Brat!

reine.de.tout

I sent some recipes to you via another poster. :)

Are there some types of recipes you need more than others? I have quite a few.

7:45pm in Philly...anyone know if Sarah survived the Phiily fans at the Flyers game?
Yikes!

re: #69 abolitionist

Haha Thank you.

re: #52 eon

Agreed. They've made the classic pirate error of grabbing a prize they can't dispose of. Especially those 33 "tanks".

/in " " because for all we know, they're armored cars, or APCs, or something- most reporters don't know an MBT from a HumVee, even today

cheers

eon

They were T-72s. Nothing new has been disclosed on either ship except a pirate spokesman stating they wanted ransom money.

re: #75 goddessoftheclassroom

What can I say?

re: #71 arethusa

Yes.

re: #57 whiterasta

This is insanity! A gang of naked savages hijacking ships and holding them to ransom.

It is a situation that has gone on for years and the Civilized World does nothing. This problem could be solved in one weekend, if we had the cojones to do what needs to be done.

Have a friend in the oil biz. He worked/manged a rig offshore there. Periodically the goons would boat out to the rig and threaten. Over the side was thrown a bag of cash. Problem solved. Cost of doing business.

Same friend was kidnapped too. Another bag of cash. He's back in the States now.

The news you never see.

I get a little tired of hearing how McCain should bring up all the dirt on Obama and throw it around. Don't get me wrong, I think the dirt should be out there — but it is NOT McCain's job to bring it out. It is the job of the Frickin' MEDIA to do that, and they have demonstrated a marvelous ability to do so when Palin was involved while completely failing to vet the Obamanation and all his questionable associates, past actions, and persona.

The problem is not a lack of will by McCain, but a complete failure of the media to properly inform the American people. They are playing a role that borders dangerously close to treasonous.

Look what happens when McCain or Palin even slightly try to bring up these points. First, the Obamanation campaign denies everything and manufactures fictional dirt to throw back (and of course play the racism card many times a day). Look what they have done to attempt to destroy Palin. Next, the media ignores the real dirt on the Obamanation, minimizes it, or excuses it without checking or revealing the truth. Third, the media DO NOT ignore the dirt that the Obamanation group manufactures against McCain-Palin. And around and around it goes — and that benefits the McCain campaign how?

McCain is right to steer away from these things. If the press and media fail in their responsibilities, then it is a job for 527 groups. I think (and hope) that they are going to unload on the Obamanation going forward after the final debate next week. Remember that the McCain campaign must hold its fire until close to the election, because the more time the opposition (including the MSM) has to discredit and sweep it all under the rug, the less effective it will be.

So if McCain doesn't start flinging mud during the debate next week, don't despair because I think it would be turned against him anyway. Yes, perhaps he will have to at least make reference to some of the main issues, but he should not allow himself to come off as mean, spiteful, possibly desperate in the eyes of ordinary Americans who just don't know the truth about Obama. He has to maintain the tactical high ground and arrange the battlefield for the killing stroke at the end.

Meanwhile, voters will really begin to focus on the issues in the last two weeks of the campaign, so those are going to be the important ones. Don't despair if McCain shows the courage and good judgment to stand above the mud slinging. That is not Presidential, it would not be productive, and the truth can come out in other ways than from the mouths of McCain and Palin. Again, it is really the job of the media and they have refused to serve their proper role in this.

Let us never forget that our nation's media, for the most part, are anti-American, which begs the question of just exactly what they do stand for? Well, they are part of the entertainment business, so they must be in it for the money. And yet, there must be more to it than that. Remember that in the days of the McCarthy hearings that many of those accused of being Communists were from the media and entertainment segments of our society. And, despite what you may have heard (from the media and entertainment segments in fact), many of the claims were based on fact. Yes, Virginia, there were Communists back in those days, and they were concentrated in the media and entertainment segments, and if they had been able to many of them would have acted to undermine the United States in whatever way they could. In those days, they supported the USSR. Today, I guess, they are fans of Palestinians, the Castro Brothers, and Venezualan thug-for-life Chavez among others. Pfah!

Today we have become so much inundated by PC thinking that the media and entertainment segments of our society are not afraid to openly declare themselves. They know there will be no new McCarthy hearings, for they are protected by PC armor. They are betrayers of their own country.

re: #77 Strike Hornet

7:45pm in Philly...anyone know if Sarah survived the Phiily fans at the Flyers game?
Yikes!

I think that's tomorrow night.

Where is Sharmuta?
I am starting to get very depressed here, it seems as if no matter WHAT that asshole obama does or associates with, NO ONE CARES!

re: #59 goddessoftheclassroom

Et tu, Mandy?

/I KNEW some lizard would jump on that; hence, my #26!

You certainly have a lot of gaul.

Open Bar! What'll ya have, Lizards?

All of you have a good weekend! I'm outa here.

re: #57 whiterasta

This is insanity! A gang of naked savages hijacking ships and holding them to ransom.

It is a situation that has gone on for years and the Civilized World does nothing. This problem could be solved in one weekend, if we had the cojones to do what needs to be done.

Strangely enough, France seems to be the only country that has tackled the pirates with military force, although the Russians and the USA are sending ships to start patrolling the corridor.

re: #86 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You certainly have a lot of gaul.

I was just being frank.

re: #87 Intrepid

Open Bar! What'll ya have, Lizards?

Kettle club soda please!

re: #76 rightymouse

reine.de.tout

I sent some recipes to you via another poster. :)

Are there some types of recipes you need more than others? I have quite a few.

We need a few salads - we have only 2.

Also, anything you have that's interesting and probably different from what people are accustomed to.

re: #79 Outrider

They were T-72s. Nothing new has been disclosed on either ship except a pirate spokesman stating they wanted ransom money.

Don't worry...The One wants to have "no preconditions talks" with the Pirates before he surrenders...

re: #79 Outrider

They were T-72s. Nothing new has been disclosed on either ship except a pirate spokesman stating they wanted ransom money.

Pirates have spokesmen?

/who knew!

re: #85 Typicalwhitey

Where is Sharmuta?
I am starting to get very depressed here, it seems as if no matter WHAT that asshole obama does or associates with, NO ONE CARES!

Don't despair, TW! Have faith!

{Typicalwhitey}

re: #54 Charles

Is this all in anticipation of Obamanation and the truth squads?

re: #90 goddessoftheclassroom

I was just being frank.

I know. You can't alp it.

re: #83 Ruthless

It's time for the blogs to step up to the plate and deliver the goods, mate.

re: #76 rightymouse

reine.de.tout

I sent some recipes to you via another poster. :)

Are there some types of recipes you need more than others? I have quite a few.

To clarify -I got one recipe for potato wedges, that's all.
that's yours?

from the Onion:

Obama Clinches 'Joe Cabernet Sauvignon' Vote

re: #77 Strike Hornet
":45pm in Philly...anyone know if Sarah survived the Phiily fans at the Flyers game?
Yikes!"

The game is tomorrow night. For the first time ever, I'll be tuning into the Comcast coverage of the game. (This Southern gal transplanted to Penna will never take a likin' to this game played on ice. Sorry Sarah. Baseball is the game of the Lower 48.)

re: #92 reine.de.tout

We need a few salads - we have only 2.

Also, anything you have that's interesting and probably different from what people are accustomed to.

No problem!

I sent a curried chicken salad recipe and I'll send some more for you.

Also sent some Thai recipes.

How are you doing in the soup/stew category?

re: #93 Strike Hornet

Don't worry...The One wants to have "no preconditions talks" with the Pirates before he surrenders...

Yeah, pirates are famed for their verbal skills. ;-)>

re: #97 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I know. You can't alp it.

You're always pict-ing on me!

What needs to be done to the pirates is to blow the dogshit out of their little boats next time they approach any ship, meaning that any transport ship or tanker transiting that area by necessity should have enough weapons available to sink a small vessel. If the pirates attack a warship of ANY nation, that ship has carte blanche to destroy that vessel without prejudice. Repeat as necessary. The little uncivilized bastards DO understand and respect force, if nothing else.

re: #91 nobamadada

Kettle club soda please!

Drink's up! (hope it's right!)

re: #83 Ruthless
I hope you're right. I only disagree on one point. I think Palin is very effective at dishing the dirt. Somebody has to be ruthless (besides you.)

re: #94 pink freud

Pirates have spokesmen?

/who knew!

up-ding...too funny

re: #93 Strike Hornet

Don't worry...The One wants to have "no preconditions talks" with the Pirates before he surrenders...

This is an interesting tactical situation for the SOP guys. I would not be surprised if the Russian assault and the thing is blown out of the water.

ISRAEL

Hamas bomb factory found in WEST BANK

Ok, I'm confused...how can there be "3 days of fighting" when it started by Arab riots on Yom Kippur (thursday) and ended on Friday? (notice who the emphasis is on in this Arab riot, and Jewish response)

LEBANON

Dog eat's dog as 2 Phakestinian Islamists are blow'd up in a "refugee" camp.

NEW YORK

Vote for Osama!

What the hell are we expecting Somalia to retaliate with, anyway?

re: #94 pink freud

Pirates have spokesmen?

/who knew!

Shoot. I wouldn't be surprised if they were incorporated. With corporate headquarters in Delaware of course. The CEO would probably be an old wall street financier.

re: #106 Intrepid

Drink's up! (hope it's right!)

What did you just start bar tending? Looks like some type of mojito

For Goddess, who called for it earlier!

re: #70 goddessoftheclassroom

Yeah, Cleo was a pain in the asp...

*rimshit*

re: #70 goddessoftheclassroom

Yeah, Cleo was a pain in the asp...

Last night Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile as Cleopatra and sank.

Attn: Lizards gamers
Portal: prelude is out and it's a free download. I think the voices are supposed to human but they used voice synthesizers so some of the humor gets a little lost but the game play is just like the original. A very good and challenging game.

re: #105 6pat6

What needs to be done to the pirates is to blow the dogshit out of their little boats next time they approach any ship, meaning that any transport ship or tanker transiting that area by necessity should have enough weapons available to sink a small vessel. If the pirates attack a warship of ANY nation, that ship has carte blanche to destroy that vessel without prejudice. Repeat as necessary. The little uncivilized bastards DO understand and respect force, if nothing else.

As I understand it, merchant vessels are prevented from arming themselves.

re: #112 Outrider

Shoot. I wouldn't be surprised if they were incorporated. With corporate headquarters in Delaware of course. The CEO would probably be an old wall street financier.

NGO's are their spokes- things.....

re: #104 goddessoftheclassroom

You're always pict-ing on me!

Today's merely the build-up. We'll see if you ides on Monday.

re: #113 nobamadada

What did you just start bar tending? Looks like some type of mojito

Nah, it's just got some bells and whistles to it....

/heh

re: #114 Intrepid

For Goddess, who called for it earlier!

MWAH!

for Intrepid

re: #121 Intrepid

Nah, it's just got some bells and whistles to it....

/heh

Hah..after this week at work anything will suffice!

re: #118 CyanSnowHawk

I'm pretty sure you are right, but if they have to transit that area without an escort, you do business elsewhere or do what's necessary to ensure the safety of the vessel and crew.

re: #77 Strike Hornet

The puck drop is tomorrow night and I have seats=;D

The Front Fell Off.

Funny.

re: #85 Typicalwhitey

Where is Sharmuta?
I am starting to get very depressed here, it seems as if no matter WHAT that asshole obama does or associates with, NO ONE CARES!

Typical ....... thought you might like this ........ we can survive

re: #111 6pat6

We are afraid of offending "muslims", it seems.

For the pirates, their Grog! (with a twist)

re: #85 Typicalwhitey

Where is Sharmuta?
I am starting to get very depressed here, it seems as if no matter WHAT that asshole obama does or associates with, NO ONE CARES!

WE CARE, and we are slowly getting the truth about the Oman out to the rest of the world. The acorns of doubt are planted and will begin sprouting in the electorate as Nov. 4 approaches. Be of good cheer, it's Friday!

re: #122 goddessoftheclassroom

MWAH!

for Intrepid

Hah!

re: #83 Ruthless

What you said.

re: #129 Intrepid

For the pirates, their Grog! (with a twist)

loflyer will never return from that link

I can see it now. In some bureaucratic mix up we send a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera company to invade Somalia. The natives panic and in a scene that would make sense to the Trekkie's who hide out in LGF they reject Islam and model their entire world view after the Doiley Carte repertoire.

re: #124 6pat6

I'm pretty sure you are right, but if they have to transit that area without an escort, you do business elsewhere or do what's necessary to ensure the safety of the vessel and crew.

Problem is, the shipping companies have been paying the ransoms. We all know where that leads.

re: #129 Intrepid

For the pirates, their Grog! (with a twist)

Yaaar, you made me break 'me promise! That's 'me kind of crew!

re: #126 Racer X

The Front Fell Off.

Funny.

Hilarious..BIGGIE...im a fan

re: #94 pink freud

Pirates have spokesmen?

/who knew!

Even piracy's gone corporate.

re: #57 whiterasta

This is insanity! A gang of naked savages hijacking ships and holding them to ransom.

It is a situation that has gone on for years and the Civilized World does nothing. This problem could be solved in one weekend, if we had the cojones to do what needs to be done.

I agree what is wrong with the world?

re: #83 Ruthless

Well, we'll see, won't we? Still no reason to admire john McCain. An effective politician would be able to go on the attack, like Palin has. Meanwhile, McCain continues to tango to the media's beat and his hip is about to go out.

re: #118 CyanSnowHawk

As I understand it, merchant vessels are prevented from arming themselves.

Now there is a maritime law that needs to be changed. A water cannon just isn't that effective against RPGs and AKs. Allow shipping lines to put on security forces. I bet Blackwater, USA could get a handle on piracy right quick.

re: #57 whiterasta

This is insanity! A gang of naked savages hijacking ships and holding them to ransom.

It is a situation that has gone on for years and the Civilized World does nothing. This problem could be solved in one weekend, if we had the cojones to do what needs to be done.

What we're seeing here is history repeating itself.

In every piracy outbreak in the past, going back to the Lukkan raiders who attacked Cyprus and the shipping of the Egyptian New Empire in the 14th -13th Centuries BC, piracy has always flourished in areas of high densities of oceangoing commerce where naval protection was weak or absent. Such "pirate paradises" invariably ended abruptly when they became enough of a threat to commerce to incur the wrath of one or more major naval powers of the day. The Lukkans were destroyed in the 12th Century BC by the Egyptians and Greeks- at which point some Greek city-states turned pirate themselves, until smashed in the 10th Century BC by the combined forces of other Greek city-states, the Phoenicians, and the Assyrians.
Piracy died out in the Med after that from the 5th Century BC to the 1st Century BC, due to the Greeks. When the Cilicians decided to "go a-roving" around that time (about 80 BC- 50 AD) they were promptly hammered by the Roman Empire, the 800-pound gorilla of naval powers of the day. (Yes, I know most "traditional" histories hold that Rome was not much of a naval power. We now known that in fact they were the biggest in the world back then.)

The pattern repeats throughout history. The "Spanish Main", the Barbary pirates, etc. All held sway over limited areas until they did enough damage to piss off one or more major sea powers- at which point, they were "terminated with extreme prejudice".

I suspect that the pirates of the Horn of Africa have reached that same point. They better hope their wills are made out. They'll probably be needing them soon.

cheers

eon

re: #125 Pepper

The puck drop is tomorrow night and I have seats=;D

Be sure to report back Pepper! This is a boom or bust situation they got her into IMO...could be ugly...the fights in the stands could be bigger than the fights on the ice...

re: #134 lifeofthemind

I can see it now. In some bureaucratic mix up we send a Gilbert and Sullivan Opera company to invade Somalia. The natives panic and in a scene that would make sense to the Trekkie's who hide out in LGF they reject Islam and model their entire world view after the Doiley Carte repertoire.

They are the very models of a modern Somali General?

re: #130 Kreuzueber Halbmond

WE CARE, and we are slowly getting the truth about the Oman out to the rest of the world. The acorns of doubt are planted and will begin sprouting in the electorate as Nov. 4 approaches. Be of good cheer, it's Friday!

You're right. Millions of us care. I care, my parents care as do many of my friends.

People are pissed off at the media and how they're covering for 0bama, Ayers, ACORN, and the dims.

re: #99 reine.de.tout

Has CTP given you his recipe for the best brownies ever? They really are you know.

&#9834 &#9836 Evening, {lizards} &#9836 &#9834

re: #87 Intrepid

Open Bar! What'll ya have, Lizards?

I'll have one of these here Mint Juleps, thankey.

/Cripes! What a hell week!

//Make it a double ... :D

re: #138 MandyManners

Hi Mandy!

That was an interesting gas-pump story on the last thread.

I do believe that dinner with you would be imminently memorable. :-)

re: #139 BBev

What's wrong with the world? Lord Have Mercy, don't even get me started.

We have become weak and infected with the disease of P.C. (Spit)

re: #118 CyanSnowHawk

Small arms are allowed and during WWII armed Naval detachments manned guns on merchants. Pirates are by definition unlawful combatants. They are "against all flags" and may be destroyed when encountered.

While I agree that McCain can not allow his rallies to come off as hatefests, I completely disagree with his fatherly like scolding to his crowd today. I think he might have been better off saying...My friends, I understand your anger, and you are most definately entitled to it. But as a party we have always been able to show our dissatisfaction with the facts. Enough of the personal attacks, we seem to be becoming the other party when we do that. Let us show America that, as a community, we will always state the truth and we will back up our anger with the facts. And the facts are......
I am not impressed with his speeches today.

re: #126 Racer X

The Front Fell Off.

Funny.

lol

different environment,
a wave hit it.
ha.

re: #147 Miss Trixie

♪ ♬ Evening, {lizards} ♬ ♪

I'll have one of these here Mint Juleps, thankey.

/Cripes! What a hell week!

//Make it a double ... :D

Double?...With this past week at work, I say make it a triple!

Here's a post on the Hillary Clinton Forum that might give us all some insight on the polling numbers.

Depends on the questions that are asked!

Why on earth is that conspiracy nutjob Oliver Stone running ads for his whacked hit piece on W on Fox News Channel...Not exactly a friendly audience for him or his BDS...

re: #142 eon

What we're seeing here is history repeating itself.

In every piracy outbreak in the past, going back to the Lukkan raiders who attacked Cyprus and the shipping of the Egyptian New Empire in the 14th -13th Centuries BC, piracy has always flourished in areas of high densities of oceangoing commerce where naval protection was weak or absent. Such "pirate paradises" invariably ended abruptly when they became enough of a threat to commerce to incur the wrath of one or more major naval powers of the day. The Lukkans were destroyed in the 12th Century BC by the Egyptians and Greeks- at which point some Greek city-states turned pirate themselves, until smashed in the 10th Century BC by the combined forces of other Greek city-states, the Phoenicians, and the Assyrians.
Piracy died out in the Med after that from the 5th Century BC to the 1st Century BC, due to the Greeks. When the Cilicians decided to "go a-roving" around that time (about 80 BC- 50 AD) they were promptly hammered by the Roman Empire, the 800-pound gorilla of naval powers of the day. (Yes, I know most "traditional" histories hold that Rome was not much of a naval power. We now known that in fact they were the biggest in the world back then.)

The pattern repeats throughout history. The "Spanish Main", the Barbary pirates, etc. All held sway over limited areas until they did enough damage to piss off one or more major sea powers- at which point, they were "terminated with extreme prejudice".

I suspect that the pirates of the Horn of Africa have reached that same point. They better hope their wills are made out. They'll probably be needing them soon.

cheers

eon

This piracy could of been stopped a year ago, but no western nation is prepared to land troops, destroy the pirate bases, and be absolutely crucified by western media. Unless of course a ship full of elite journalists instead of lowly hard working Merchie sailors.

re: #95 Intrepid

Don't despair, TW! Have faith!

{Typicalwhitey}

Thanks!

I seem to be working my ass off to help get him elected and I feel like David against Goliath (MSM)
I have never been so involved politically and felt that so much was riding on it.
I do not understand why people don't get that Obama surrounds himself with radicals.
His wife, his pastor, Ayers, Farrakahn, Rezko, Phleger (sp)
Can anyone tell me of ONE person that he is closely associated with that isn't either a radical or a criminal?

re: #150 lifeofthemind

Small arms are allowed and during WWII armed Naval detachments manned guns on merchants. Pirates are by definition unlawful combatants. They are "against all flags" and may be destroyed when encountered.

One minor problem is most tankers, freighters, and cargo ships just don't have room for the extra room required for a security force and most merchant sailors just aren't soldiers capable of engaging in a fight to the death scenario.

re: #155 Strike Hornet

Proves how out of touch with the real world he is.

re: #146 The Shadow Do

Has CTP given you his recipe for the best brownies ever? They really are you know.

Oh yes and I've made them twice! Absolutely addictive that'll they'll make you lie down and scream.

Warning! You may see things get really whacked out in the comments section. We're yanking up the floorboards again.

If things get weird, reload.

re: #146 The Shadow Do

No, he has not.

re: #148 pink freud

Hi Mandy!

That was an interesting gas-pump story on the last thread.

I do believe that dinner with you would be imminently memorable. :-)

There's nothing quite like walking across a gas station parking lot in nothing but my undies and bra. I wonder if the other customers are still talking about it.

re: #147 Miss Trixie

♪ ♬ Evening, {lizards} ♬ ♪

I'll have one of these here Mint Juleps, thankey.

/Cripes! What a hell week!

//Make it a double ... :D

Looks like you're already set, Miss Trixie! Since you brought your own, no bar tab for you!

(plus you brought nice music with ya)

re: #149 whiterasta

What's wrong with the world? Lord Have Mercy, don't even get me started.

We have become weak and infected with the disease of P.C. (Spit)

Ya. that was kind of a rhetorical question

re: #161 Charles

Warning! You may see things get really whacked out in the comments section. We're yanking up the floorboards again.

If things get weird, reload.

Thanks for the heads up Charles!

re: #102 rightymouse

No problem!

I sent a curried chicken salad recipe and I'll send some more for you.

Also sent some Thai recipes.

How are you doing in the soup/stew category?

We're OK there, but again, if you have something different and interesting - send it on!

re: #143 Strike Hornet

Be sure to report back Pepper! This is a boom or bust situation they got her into IMO...could be ugly...the fights in the stands could be bigger than the fights on the ice...

I have faith in Philly fans. Back in 2001, during intermission at a Flyers game, the big TV had Bush's post-9/11 speech on. When the next period started and they turned Bush off, the fans booed "let him speak!" And they did.

re: #163 MandyManners

There's nothing quite like walking across a gas station parking lot in nothing but my undies and bra. I wonder if the other customers are still talking about it.

Yep. You're my hero.

re: #153 nobamadada

Double?...With this past week at work, I say make it a triple!

Yay! Sheers!

*hic*

:P

re: #156 LoFlyer

This piracy could of been stopped a year ago, but no western nation is prepared to land troops, destroy the pirate bases, and be absolutely crucified by western media. Unless of course a ship full of elite journalists instead of lowly hard working Merchie sailors.

Now, there's an idea.

Nah. The pirates would pay us to take them back.

re: #154 Intrepid

Here's a post on the Hillary Clinton Forum that might give us all some insight on the polling numbers.

Depends on the questions that are asked!

Very interesting indeed. Anyway to get the samples of polling questions in other states?

re: #170 Miss Trixie

Yay! Sheers!

*hic*

:P

Cheeeers!

re: #158 Outrider

One minor problem is most tankers, freighters, and cargo ships just don't have room for the extra room required for a security force and most merchant sailors just aren't soldiers capable of engaging in a fight to the death scenario.

You can go to Black five and they will be happy to provide firepower and security for a nominal fee. No one seems interested....

re: #157 Typicalwhitey

Thanks!

I seem to be working my ass off to help get him elected and I feel like David against Goliath (MSM)
I have never been so involved politically and felt that so much was riding on it.
I do not understand why people don't get that Obama surrounds himself with radicals.
His wife, his pastor, Ayers, Farrakahn, Rezko, Phleger (sp)
Can anyone tell me of ONE person that he is closely associated with that isn't either a radical or a criminal?

His daughters?

re: #161 Charles

Warning! You may see things get really whacked out in the comments section. We're yanking up the floorboards again.

If things get weird, reload.

Damn. Never can tell what is hiding under those floorboards. EA Poe wrote about that one time. ;-)>

re: #167 reine.de.tout

We're OK there, but again, if you have something different and interesting - send it on!

Will do!

re: #169 pink freud

Yep. You're my hero.

*blush*

I'm just glad it was in the 70s.

re: #171 MandyManners

Now, there's an idea.

Nah. The pirates would pay us to take them back.

Haaar!

re: #157 Typicalwhitey

Thanks!

I seem to be working my ass off to help get him elected and I feel like David against Goliath (MSM)
I have never been so involved politically and felt that so much was riding on it.
I do not understand why people don't get that Obama surrounds himself with radicals.
His wife, his pastor, Ayers, Farrakahn, Rezko, Phleger (sp)
Can anyone tell me of ONE person that he is closely associated with that isn't either a radical or a criminal?

Not only that, but can anybody give one example of an accomplishment?

Keep it up, TW! You're fighting the good fight, even when those around you falter.

re: #160 Miss Trixie

Oh yes and I've made them twice! Absolutely addictive that'll they'll make you lie down and scream.

I didn't scream but I did emit a low moaning sound...

re: #167 reine.de.tout

We're OK there, but again, if you have something different and interesting - send it on!

Did I send my egg-goop recipe?

re: #143 Strike Hornet

No worries......hockey fans in Philly are more polite. I am wondering about the nonpaying customers surrounding the arena. Philadelphia is a well known conservative town. I'm glad I have VIP parking pass to a gated area=;)

I might even take a camera.

re: #163 MandyManners

There's nothing quite like walking across a gas station parking lot in nothing but my undies and bra. I wonder if the other customers are still talking about it.

Do you have Pic's of that :-)

re: #157 Typicalwhitey

Thanks!
I do not understand why people don't get that Obama surrounds himself with radicals.
His wife, his pastor, Ayers, Farrakahn, Rezko, Phleger (sp)
Can anyone tell me of ONE person that he is closely associated with that isn't either a radical or a criminal?

It would seem that roughly half of America either doesn't care...or doesn't mind.

{ { {rightymousie} } Hiya, toots! Join me in a *hic* Mint Julep? I brought a LOT ... :D

re: #156 LoFlyer

Where's Pompey the Great when you need him?

(Hey, we started the thread off with Caesar.)

c'mon Lidge, c'mon...

re: #162 reine.de.tout

No, he has not.

He must!

re: #181 The Shadow Do

I didn't scream but I did emit a low moaning sound...

So did one of the customers at the gas station today.

Is this the Friday night drinking thread?

/bit long, but a classic.

re: #182 MandyManners

Did I send my egg-goop recipe?

Egg goop...sounds interesting.

re: #158 Outrider

One minor problem is most tankers, freighters, and cargo ships just don't have room for the extra room required for a security force and most merchant sailors just aren't soldiers capable of engaging in a fight to the death scenario.

Are you kidding me? Some of the toughest SOBs around are in the merchant marine. And we're not talking about having to fend off well-armed vessels. Most pirates are in Zodiacs--which won't float very well when sprayed down with 7.62mm fire. Some small arms on tankers and some rudimentary drills will suffice to fend off the small pesky pirates.

re: #92 reine.de.tout

We need a few salads - we have only 2.

Also, anything you have that's interesting and probably different from what people are accustomed to.

Well there is a reason I haven't submitted to you yet..
My mother who passed away this year on Valentines day..and way to young..She passed away from Cancer..Her mommy passed away from breast cancer when my mom was 8 yrs. old.
Years ago she was playing a womens golf outing at, I think..blackpage in NY.
Somehow she got the real recipe for waldolf salad in NYC..Every year our family enjoyed and DEMANDED waldolf salad for thankgiving and Christmas dinners.
I called my sister-in-law and she has a copy of it and promised to give it to me this next week..Sorry about the delay...I also wanted to do this in her memory..she never gave up the recipe..I'm going to submit some pictures of her hold up a Championship trophy with her most beautiful smile...
My mother was a great athlete and a great cook...and a wonderful mentor.. I'll never forget when i was like 10 years old and she was playing ball with the whole neighborhood..being our baseball pitcher..I threw a temper tandrum..She pulled me aside..grabbed me by the struff and got in my face and said ' No child of mine will ever be a bad sport..do you understand me?' I mean ..hoo scary...I took that to heart and my children live by that...( else i kick ass)

re: #184 BBev

Do you have Pic's of that :-)

Surveillance cameras.

re: #181 The Shadow Do

I didn't scream but I did emit a low moaning sound...

I'll have whatever you had.

re: #191 nobamadada

Egg goop...sounds interesting.

Based on a roux.

re: #173 nobamadada

Cheeeers!

*clink*clink*

To Fridays!

*clink*clink*

*dainty sip*

re: #144 CyanSnowHawk

They are the very models of a modern Somali General?

This could save the crucial fancy costume business during the coming slump

re: #184 BBev

Do you have Pic's of that :-)

Somehow I picture red pumps ..... ?

/it's your nature, Mandy!
/sorry, I had to ask.

*BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!*

re: #189 MandyManners

Haha!

re: #169 pink freud

Yep. You're my hero.

Thank God you didn't say that Mandy "completes" you.///////////

re: #118 CyanSnowHawk

As I understand it, merchant vessels are prevented from arming themselves.

Correct. under maritime law (bless the politicians' pointy little heads) even small arms are verboten on merchant ships.

That said, it's quite common for ships sailing in such hostile waters (off Somalia, around Indonesia, etc.) to hire "special security forces", have (unmanifested) weapons on board, or both.

/But you didn't hear it from me.

cheers

eon

re: #187 arethusa

Where's Pompey the Great when you need him?

(Hey, we started the thread off with Caesar.)

c'mon Lidge, c'mon...

Yaar, and it will probably end with the USN coming to the rescue, and the SEALS taking major casualties.

re: #163 MandyManners

There's nothing quite like walking across a gas station parking lot in nothing but my undies and bra. I wonder if the other customers are still talking about it.

Please at least tell me you had a matching set on....if not the good stuff.

/heh

Oppsie - 'scuse ME!

re: #200 Miss Trixie

*BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

{Trixie}

?Charles,
what have you put under the floorboards.

That Edgar Allen Poe story 'beating heart' scared me.

re: #145 jetprop

You're right. Millions of us care. I care, my parents care as do many of my friends.

People are pissed off at the media and how they're covering for 0bama, Ayers, ACORN, and the dims.

Being pissed at the left is the price we pay for being "normal". So to sum up, be pissed off, smile, have a drink, and vote the idiots out of office, often.

re: #154 Intrepid

Here's a post on the Hillary Clinton Forum that might give us all some insight on the polling numbers.

Depends on the questions that are asked!

HOLY CR*P!
That's postively explosive!

Well, that didn't take long.

WOW! McCain: Don't be scared of Obama as president

A man in the audience stood up and told McCain he's "scared" of an Obama presidency and who he'd select for the Supreme Court.

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain said as the crowd booed and shouted "Come on, John!"

"If I didn't think I'd be a heck of a lot better, I wouldn't be running for president of the united states."

/the video can't be far behind, I already saw it on the NBC Nightly News

re: #189 MandyManners

So did one of the customers at the gas station today.

That was me.

re: #169 pink freud

Yep. You're my hero.

She's mine, too.

But ya know, gasoline can burn your skin, if it's on for too long, so I don't see that she had much of a choice.

*pop* ffffizzzzz

Ahhh...

So, what's the topic? Is there an election going on somewhere?

re: #196 MandyManners

Based on a roux.

Eggs? In roux? Do tell. We cajuns know so little of this "roux" of which you speak.////

Seriously, what's cooking.

re: #202 calcajun

I've been meaning to ask you, calcajun ....are you from Cajun country?

/Lafayette here
/pure D, to the bone :-)

re: #196 MandyManners

Based on a roux.

Ahh, flower and cooking fat... sounds delicious.

re: #154 Intrepid

Here's a post on the Hillary Clinton Forum that might give us all some insight on the polling numbers.

Depends on the questions that are asked!

Interesting. Rush was saying [paraphrased] the polls are what they are to make us fell demoralized.

I'm home a lot on my days off and if the landline rings, I let the answering machine pick it up, before answering~to avoid telemarketers. I wonder how many people aren't picking up when pollsters call?

re: #154 Intrepid

Here's a post on the Hillary Clinton Forum that might give us all some insight on the polling numbers.

Depends on the questions that are asked!

Intrepid, put that in the spinoffs, with a terse explanation of what it is for a title

re: #192 calcajun

Are you kidding me? Some of the toughest SOBs around are in the merchant marine. And we're not talking about having to fend off well-armed vessels. Most pirates are in Zodiacs--which won't float very well when sprayed down with 7.62mm fire. Some small arms on tankers and some rudimentary drills will suffice to fend off the small pesky pirates.

I realize that. I've seen and dealt with merchant mariners from around the world at various ports of call myself. Although usually not with automatic weapons and RPGs in a bar.
The mother boat with many more of those smaller boats is close by. And most countries, as well as shipping companies don't want to incur the problems that arise from a battle at sea.

re: #193 HoosierHoops

Well there is a reason I haven't submitted to you yet..
My mother who passed away this year on Valentines day..and way to young..She passed away from Cancer..Her mommy passed away from breast cancer when my mom was 8 yrs. old.
Years ago she was playing a womens golf outing at, I think..blackpage in NY.
Somehow she got the real recipe for waldolf salad in NYC..Every year our family enjoyed and DEMANDED waldolf salad for thankgiving and Christmas dinners.
I called my sister-in-law and she has a copy of it and promised to give it to me this next week..Sorry about the delay...I also wanted to do this in her memory..she never gave up the recipe..I'm going to submit some pictures of her hold up a Championship trophy with her most beautiful smile...
My mother was a great athlete and a great cook...and a wonderful mentor.. I'll never forget when i was like 10 years old and she was playing ball with the whole neighborhood..being our baseball pitcher..I threw a temper tandrum..She pulled me aside..grabbed me by the struff and got in my face and said ' No child of mine will ever be a bad sport..do you understand me?' I mean ..hoo scary...I took that to heart and my children live by that...( else i kick ass)

I barely remember when I was like three and a half years old, and I threw a temper tantrum in the grocery store and my mother walloped the living hell out of me. Thanks Mom!

re: #172 calcajun

Very interesting indeed. Anyway to get the samples of polling questions in other states?

Dunno - but if they're doing that in that lady's state, then they're doing it in others. And interpreting the results of the questions instead of outright asking who the ones being polled are voting for.

That would totally discount the PUMAs, and other democrats (and anti-war repubs) who are voting for McCain.

re: #195 rightymouse

I'll have whatever you had.

CTP magic brownies. Here, have one!

Charles,
Whenever I click the "Plus" thingy, I sometimes see two or three upticks as a result - is this just me? I've adjusted the mouse click, but still having probs.
Don't want to bother you, but just wanted you to know I may be messing things up around here. Geez, I'm gonna get kicked out my first week!

One worry I have is that if Obomba is elected, and he becomes mired in all the scandals of the Dems and his own, the media will try to make blacks feel like they are being isolated and punished along with him. And if no scandals stick to him, then the same pressure will be applied for anyone who merely voices opposition to Obomba policies. Basically, Dems will dance through all their legislation (at least for two years) and step up to the mike afterward to spit on the Republicans whether they fought against a bill or not -ala Nancy Pelosi-, and anyone who has a problem with it will be thus condemned as a racist, criminal and potential genocidal devil.

I hope I'm just deluded there, because that doesn't sound like it's going to do anyone involved any good. But what we've seen up to now looks to be on course to it.

re: #199 pink freud

Somehow I picture red pumps ..... ?

/it's your nature, Mandy!
/sorry, I had to ask.

Born loafers.

Hello everyone. My son-in-law returned from his 2nd tour in Iraq last Saturday. We left Sunday morning to go down to Oceanside to welcome him home. It was a great reunion. My husband makes the best barbecued ribs on the planet. He has a secret family recipe for marinating. I got to see my grandkids and visit with everyone else who showed up too. Of course there is always a fly in the ointment isn't there? My niece came with her son who is two years old. He seems to be a bully already. When he wants a toy the other kids have he grabs them around the throat with the crook of his arm and knocks them down so he can have it. His mother is oblivious. She lets him run loose. At one point he was trying to wrench the baby gate off the stairs and I told him to stop, get down from there, you don't need to go upstairs. He turned around and glared at me and continued to muscle the gate. His mother was right there and did nothing. I went over and removed from the stairs. He started crying and ran to his mother. His mother said, "Oh my poor baby." I don't think the kid ever heard the word NO before.

re: #224 Cast Iron Magnolia

Charles,
Whenever I click the "Plus" thingy, I sometimes see two or three upticks as a result - is this just me? I've adjusted the mouse click, but still having probs.
Don't want to bother you, but just wanted you to know I may be messing things up around here. Geez, I'm gonna get kicked out my first week!

It's just uploading all other updings with yours. I think...

I'm getting sick and tired of my Father talking with his DEM friends about how the economy is all screwy because of Bush...Some people are just soo ignorant!

re: #168 arethusa

I have faith in Philly fans. Back in 2001, during intermission at a Flyers game, the big TV had Bush's post-9/11 speech on. When the next period started and they turned Bush off, the fans booed "let him speak!" And they did.

I just remember Philly fans booing and throwing snowballs at Santa Claus during halftime at an Eagles game...tough crowd....

re: #223 The Shadow Do

CTP magic brownies. Here, have one!

Trust CtP to have a brownie recipe that makes people moan. :)

re: #163 MandyManners

There's nothing quite like walking across a gas station parking lot in nothing but my undies and bra. I wonder if the other customers are still talking about it.

*THUD*

re: #205 Intrepid

Please at least tell me you had a matching set on....if not the good stuff.

/heh

Matching black with lace. At least I didn't go commando today.

re: #213 reine.de.tout

She's mine, too.

But ya know, gasoline can burn your skin, if it's on for too long, so I don't see that she had much of a choice.

Hi Reine! I passed (I think!)!

Yes, I know ....but Mandy, of all people ......I just loved the way she handled it. Would I have that much nerve? ....I don't think so.

/inspiration though

re: #218 jetprop

Nice article. If that gets someone or two or three to corroborate, that'd be good.

re: #120 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Today's merely the build-up. We'll see if you ides on Monday.

re: #208 ibmkeyboard

?Charles,
what have you put under the floorboards.

That Edgar Allen Poe story 'beating heart' scared me.

"TRUE! Nervous! Very, very nervous I was and still am, but why do you say I am mad?"

That's from memory, BTW!

re: #200 Miss Trixie

*BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!*

You're cut off.

re: #155 Strike Hornet

Why on earth is that conspiracy nutjob Oliver Stone running ads for his whacked hit piece on W on Fox News Channel...Not exactly a friendly audience for him or his BDS...

It's called "rubbing it in". "In your face." It's all part of the leftist psyop to demoralize us and Murdoch is happy to take their dough.

re: #224 Cast Iron Magnolia

Charles,
Whenever I click the "Plus" thingy, I sometimes see two or three upticks as a result - is this just me? I've adjusted the mouse click, but still having probs.
Don't want to bother you, but just wanted you to know I may be messing things up around here. Geez, I'm gonna get kicked out my first week!

No, that just means that other people have hit the button too, somewhere out there on the internet, in the time between when you loaded the page and when you clicked the dinger.

re: #216 pink freud

I've been meaning to ask you, calcajun ....are you from Cajun country?

/Lafayette here
/pure D, to the bone :-)

Born at Southern Baptist Hospital in NOLA and lived in Metairie till the late 80's. Most of the family is still there.

Can get seafood and other goodies, but miss doberge cake from Gambino's and spumoni from Brocato's most of all.

re: #158 Outrider

One minor problem is most tankers, freighters, and cargo ships just don't have room for the extra room required for a security force and most merchant sailors just aren't soldiers capable of engaging in a fight to the death scenario.

The limited number of guns are for the ships master and his Mates, not for the crew, they are not expected to be combatants, not paid, trained or equiped to be, no merchant can afford to pay for a defense force, Insurance might subsidize but that is seen as a naval function, detachments or escorts.

re: #233 MandyManners

Matching black with lace. At least I didn't go commando today.

Haha! TOO FUNNY!

We do love you Mandy, even us rarely-posters.

Drumroll please . . .

McCain: "You Do Not Have To Be Scared" of Obama as President

/what the [expletive deleted] is he trying to do, lobby for an Obama Cabinet position?

re: #212 The Shadow Do

That was me.

*snicker*

re: #211 Killian Bundy

Well, that didn't take long.

WOW! McCain: Don't be scared of Obama as president

/the video can't be far behind, I already saw it on the NBC Nightly News

::sighs::

re: #227 Eyes of Blue

Hello everyone. My son-in-law returned from his 2nd tour in Iraq last Saturday. We left Sunday morning to go down to Oceanside to welcome him home. It was a great reunion. My husband makes the best barbecued ribs on the planet. He has a secret family recipe for marinating. I got to see my grandkids and visit with everyone else who showed up too. Of course there is always a fly in the ointment isn't there? My niece came with her son who is two years old. He seems to be a bully already. When he wants a toy the other kids have he grabs them around the throat with the crook of his arm and knocks them down so he can have it. His mother is oblivious. She lets him run loose. At one point he was trying to wrench the baby gate off the stairs and I told him to stop, get down from there, you don't need to go upstairs. He turned around and glared at me and continued to muscle the gate. His mother was right there and did nothing. I went over and removed from the stairs. He started crying and ran to his mother. His mother said, "Oh my poor baby." I don't think the kid ever heard the word NO before.

Just wait until he shows up in my class room in 9th grade...

BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

re: #220 Outrider

But if there are no pirate survivors, there was no battle. Besides, I don't think they'll be inclined to bitch too much if there are any survivors.

re: #213 reine.de.tout

She's mine, too.

But ya know, gasoline can burn your skin, if it's on for too long, so I don't see that she had much of a choice.

That's what really got to me. The clerks didn't give a flying flip.

Mandy can we get you into the McCain campaign to deliver a few well-placed WHAP!s now and then?

re: #243 Killian Bundy

Drumroll please . . .

McCain: "You Do Not Have To Be Scared" of Obama as President

/what the [expletive deleted] is he trying to do, lobby for an Obama Cabinet position?

Who knows? He might fit right in.

re: #207 rightymouse

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

{Trixie}

Hon, I am completely baked and trying to sluff off the accumulated stress from a hell week. Short-staffed this week on account of the Crisis Chick - again - so it fell to me to fill in.

Perhaps it's time to look around if I might fit into a different directorate .. must give that some serious thought...

*sip*

*gargle*

:D

re: #211 Killian Bundy

"I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States," McCain said as the crowd booed and shouted "Come on, John!"

You gotta be shitting me?

If this is true,
I might go to Canada before he closes the borders.

re: #240 calcajun

Born at Southern Baptist Hospital in NOLA and lived in Metairie till the late 80's. Most of the family is still there.

Can get seafood and other goodies, but miss doberge cake from Gambino's and spumoni from Brocato's most of all.

Ever ride the Zephyr? ......

re: #227 Eyes of Blue

Hello everyone. My son-in-law returned from his 2nd tour in Iraq last Saturday. We left Sunday morning to go down to Oceanside to welcome him home. It was a great reunion. My husband makes the best barbecued ribs on the planet. He has a secret family recipe for marinating. I got to see my grandkids and visit with everyone else who showed up too. Of course there is always a fly in the ointment isn't there? My niece came with her son who is two years old. He seems to be a bully already. When he wants a toy the other kids have he grabs them around the throat with the crook of his arm and knocks them down so he can have it. His mother is oblivious. She lets him run loose. At one point he was trying to wrench the baby gate off the stairs and I told him to stop, get down from there, you don't need to go upstairs. He turned around and glared at me and continued to muscle the gate. His mother was right there and did nothing. I went over and removed from the stairs. He started crying and ran to his mother. His mother said, "Oh my poor baby." I don't think the kid ever heard the word NO before.

 future Dem. voter.