New thread smell

Woooo...another little button doodad to play with!

I felt a disturbance in the force- as though there were new icons crying out to be clicked.

Printer friendly?

}:)     [Will wonders never cease.  Thanks, Charles.]

TOUCHDOWN TITANS!

With 4 minutes left in the game, its:

Titans - 24
Jags - 14

Oh, this is marvelous, Charles!

re: #3 Sharmuta

I felt a disturbance in the force- as though there were new icons crying out to be clicked.

No, that was just me crying out to be clicked!

Big printer is ripping us off!

re: #8 Walter L. Newton

No, that was just me crying out to be clicked!

How'd the matinee show go, Walter?

Bought a Christmas tree tonight over at Sears. 299.99. Big sale from employees and friends...paid 152.00

Yeah baby!

The Towercam is kind of boring at the moment,
So here is the Old Faithful Geyser cam, refreshed every 30 seconds.

Hey, ya'll - I've finally crawled out from under the covers. I've been there since the election. LOL
I've lurked around here, but haven't had anything interesting to contribute but have enjoyed reading everyone's comments, as usual.

re: #12 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Bought a Christmas tree tonight over at Sears. 299.99. Big sale from employees and friends...paid 152.00

Yeah baby!

Oooh, 50% off! I like those kind of sales.

re: #11 Intrepid

How'd the matinee show go, Walter?

Reunion at the old folks home? Sunday afternoon theatre for the decaf coffee drinkers.

re: #8 Walter L. Newton

No, that was just me crying out to be clicked!

There's always self-clicking.

re: #16 taxfreekiller

Ouch!

re: #13 Ojoe

Looks like it is about to go off.

re: #16 taxfreekiller

Sears sales people picked it up on a Sears Charge Card for $49.99 from Wal/Mart.

ROFL!

Bad TFK, bad boy! :D

re: #18 Sharmuta

There's always self-clicking.

Oh baby!

Mmmm! I love that fresh button smell!

Question: Is there a mobile-friendly version of LGF?

re: #17 Walter L. Newton

Reunion at the old folks home? Sunday afternoon theatre for the decaf coffee drinkers.

Heh - harder job for the ushers, I reckon.

re: #24 Intrepid

Heh - harder job for the ushers, I reckon.

Nah, today's ushers have some GREAT Taiwanese-made battery-powered cattle prods for crowd control!

two minute warning
Titans 24
Jags 14

10-0!
yea! Baby

re: #26 rain of lead

two minute warning
Titans 24
Jags 14

10-0!
yea! Baby

Sorry, but BOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm a Colts and Giants fan!

re: #26 rain of lead

two minute warning
Titans 24
Jags 14

10-0!
yea! Baby

Heh heh heh...1st down too. I was a bit concerned at the end of the first half. The Titans were awful! But Jeff Fisher evidently did some butt munchin' in the locker room and they came out swinging.

How about that Justin Gage TD!

re: #23 Crusty

Mmmm! I love that fresh button smell!

Question: Is there a mobile-friendly version of LGF?

That would be great.

Hey, the print option works v. nicely.

gonna still be undefeated
and the Titans still ain't getting respect from the f'ing talking heads

WOOT! 10-0! Only 8 teams have done that in the history of the NFL.

re: #9 taxfreekiller

How mad they must be to try to pretend and lie the global warming lie.

Mad as mad hatters drinking zinc.

What promises has Obama made regarding global warming? I seem to recall he wants Cap and Trade. Is he going to sign the Kyoto Protocol?

Good evening, all. What are we gabbing about tonight?

arethusa (#30),

Works v. Nicely.

I missed that decision. Can you give me the gist of it?

;-)

re: #35 hermeneutics

Good evening, all. What are we gabbing about tonight?

Well, at least it ain't dog barf! :D

re: #31 rain of lead

gonna still be undefeated
and the Titans still ain't getting respect from the f'ing talking heads

Of course not - we're not in a glam city, doncha know? Just dumb hicks from Nashville. It is the home of "country music"..sniff sniff (nose in air)

That's ok - we'll just keep knockin' 'em down without the recognition.

re: #37 Karridine

Well, at least it ain't dog barf! :D

A big "HELLO" to you, Karr. I've missed reading your voice. How are you today?

re: #34 taxfreekiller

berry berry bad icon thingey clickey divise too also

You should've put up a "Spew Warning", TFK - I spewed iced tea everywhere.

Not to be outdone, German party picks it's first Turkish Leader.

[Link: www.iht.com...]

Hey, I'm reading backward and just got to Ojoe's Old Faithful Webcam. Looks like its building up pressure and is about to explode within the next minute or so. #13

Strangely snowless in the distant mountains.

Monday morning, sons off to school, wife at the green-market... very quiet here, with most of Thailand trying to gauge HOW SERIOUSLY DERANGED the world has become since Nov 5th, and IN WHAT WAYS...

re: #41 monkeytime

Not to be outdone, German party picks it's first Turkish Leader.

[Link: www.iht.com...]

The world has gone mad! Mad I say!

re: #36 Geepers

I missed that decision. Can you give me the gist of it?

I think the Court found it unconstitutional to bar click assisted functionality.

What the heck was that with the Pittsburg game? Looked like rugby at the end.

re: #35 hermeneutics

Hello, hermeneutics, how was your interview last week?

re: #43 Karridine

Monday morning, sons off to school, wife at the green-market... very quiet here, with most of Thailand trying to gauge HOW SERIOUSLY DERANGED the world has become since Nov 5th, and IN WHAT WAYS...

Oh, I forget that you're already into Monday. Nice to have a quiet moment at home, huh?

Do you have a strong ex-pat community with whom you can commiserate?

An amazing site.

Industrial robot writes entire Luther Bible in calligraphy. With pics and videos, showing the work up close.

re: #36 Geepers

arethusa (#30),

I missed that decision. Can you give me the gist of it?

;-)

Hee. Unfortunately I'm brain-dead after today so I'll let others come up with the humor.

The Towercam, with smokey air. San Gabriel Mountains, California, Pacific time zone.

re: #47 arethusa

Hello, hermeneutics, how was your interview last week?

I survived. Actually, I did pretty well but they were VERY mean to me. Perhaps it is the way of academe. Picture this: A small room. In the center of the room is a 20x8 foot table. When I entered the room, everyone rose. They introduced themselves to me by the last names – Prof. Baker, etc. – and then sat down in turn. The last two to introduce themselves were the president of the school and the dean.

Then they told me to sit down on the far end of the table, facing the president/dean. On the sides of the table were about 12 professors. I felt little and childlike.

They barraged me with questions. At first, I was scared. Then, frankly, I got mad. I shot back. I think they were surprised. I told them exactly what I thought.

re: #49 hermeneutics

No, although the English-speaking community here numbers more than 65,000

That's a pretty good-sized city within a city, but no cohesion, we're actually pretty hard-working folks or RETIRED hard-working folks...

/and a smattering of moonbatz

re: #53 hermeneutics

I survived. Actually, I did pretty well but they were VERY mean to me. Perhaps it is the way of academe. Picture this: A small room. In the center of the room is a 20x8 foot table. When I entered the room, everyone rose. They introduced themselves to me by the last names � Prof. Baker, etc. � and then sat down in turn. The last two to introduce themselves were the president of the school and the dean.

Then they told me to sit down on the far end of the table, facing the president/dean. On the sides of the table were about 12 professors. I felt little and childlike.

They barraged me with questions. At first, I was scared. Then, frankly, I got mad. I shot back. I think they were surprised. I told them exactly what I thought.

Still out of work, huh.
/

re: #46 Intrepid

What the heck was that with the Pittsburg game? Looked like rugby at the end.

what the heck was with that Eagles game?

re: #53 hermeneutics

. . .

Then they told me to sit down on the far end of the table, facing the president/dean. On the sides of the table were about 12 professors. I felt little and childlike.

They barraged me with questions. At first, I was scared. Then, frankly, I got mad. I shot back. I think they were surprised. I told them exactly what I thought.

sounds like you did OK.

that interview set-up is designed specifically to intimidate people.

re: #55 Walter L. Newton

Still out of work, huh.
/

No, not really. Just waiting to see if this new job materializes. We'll see.

re: #58 hermeneutics

No, not really. Just waiting to see if this new job materializes. We'll see.

I was just joking. I'm the same way, I just can't play along to far. If they want an honest employee, they will get it. If they want a ass kisser, I don't even want to work for them.

The date for all troops to leave Iraq will be December 31, 2011

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

I'm outta here - Hope each of you has a great week.

re: #53 hermeneutics

Sounds like orals + defense + every nightmarish job interview + general hellaciousness combined. Fingers crossed!

All Blacks 22 - Ireland 3
Kiwi league 32 - England 22

A good weekend for the Kiwis

re: #60 Walter L. Newton

I was just joking. I'm the same way, I just can't play along to far. If they want an honest employee, they will get it. If they want a ass kisser, I don't even want to work for them.

Yea, Walter. I'm rather tactful -- I prefer tactful to ass kisser :) -- and careful about what I say, but this was over-the-top, bordering on hazing.

For a quiet gal, I got feisty -- I prefer fiesty to pissed.

re: #61 monkeytime

The date for all troops to leave Iraq will be December 31, 2011

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

UGH - I'm going for a walk . . . . . , need to clear my head after reading this!

re: #61 monkeytime

The date for all troops to leave Iraq will be December 31, 2011

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

Good thing they came to an agreement now.

re: #48 taxfreekiller

All the King of Lies O'holes have the Global Warming fraud tattooed on their commie butts cheeks, then when out and about the rub butts and spread the germ's to other bat shit crazy commie lusters of lies .

Obama is the king of lies and shove a lie in front of him after a 30 min bull horn teleprompter goofy line of shit, he will sign it in your blood.

TFK, yous bin drinkin?

re: #63 arethusa

Sounds like orals + defense + every nightmarish job interview + general hellaciousness combined. Fingers crossed!

It was worse than my defense, actually. Perhaps, at this point, it matters more to me.

re: #43 Karridine

Well, I'd say that we've become seriously derranged, but I doubt even the Obamessiah himself knows what that really means for the next few years. Obama, Pelosie, and Reid (oh, my!) are going to be the real movers and shakers for the next two years, and there's not a lot of sanity to spare between the three of them.

I do know that the gun shops all over the country are doing record business. Me and the Girlfriend went to one yesterday, and it was packed. Standing lines for the range, and at the counters. They hadn't ran out completely when I was there, but we've still got about two months for that to happen.

hey, Ojoe ... the sun is setting at Old Faithful. I didn't see an eruption, though. Almost black now.

re: #45 Sharmuta

I think the Court found it unconstitutional to bar click assisted functionality.

In her dissenting opinion Justice Ginsburg noted:

"If an internet user finds it necessary to click certain additional functions of a website, then these users obviously do not appreciate the basic functions of the site. They have such improvements as "Strike through", "Bold", "Italics", "Quote", and "Link" - what more could a typical website user want? It is simply unbridled website opulence, and it ill serves the greater internet good."

re: #10 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Big printer is ripping us off!

Big ripper is printing and so forth.

re: #61 monkeytime

The date for all troops to leave Iraq will be December 31, 2011

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

al-Qaeda HQ, Cavedark, Pakistan.
"Ahmed, we have been building troops and equipment for YEARS now, and will attack on Dec 25, 2011! Kill the few remaining kffir, and stain their 'Christmas' with blood so crimson as to take DECADES to wash away! Ah ha ha ha ha!'

[Link: www.reuters.com...]

Dinnerjacket's days might be numbered. Now the headline I want to see...."Iran elects Jewish President!"

Ojoe, I think it erupted! [Link: www.nps.gov...]

It's been suggested that I should start my own blog.
Since it's easy these days, it would seem like a slam-dunk but I've always been satisfied just to post my musings here and once in a while at places like Rantburg.
A lot more people see it here, but there is also a lot more to see from other posters. I would have a blog to myself, but I have to wonder if anyone would come there.
At this point, I'll probably give it a shot, emphasizing my ideas about media warfare. I've just about decided on "Media Beast" as a name, with "The war against the media-industrial complex" as a theme.

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

re: #61 monkeytime

The date for all troops to leave Iraq will be December 31, 2011

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

Obama's bill if passed would have mandated all combat troops out by March 31, 2008.

re: #56 outsidephilly

what the heck was with that Eagles game?

Tied, right? First tie since 2002, I think the announcer guy said.

re: #70 Iron Fist

I hear you, Fist!

re: #70 Iron Fist

Well, I'd say that we've become seriously derranged, but I doubt even the Obamessiah himself knows what that really means for the next few years. Obama, Pelosie, and Reid (oh, my!) are going to be the real movers and shakers for the next two years, and there's not a lot of sanity to spare between the three of them.

I do know that the gun shops all over the country are doing record business. Me and the Girlfriend went to one yesterday, and it was packed. Standing lines for the range, and at the counters. They hadn't ran out completely when I was there, but we've still got about two months for that to happen.

I bought the newest member of my family, Boris the SKS, 3 days after the election. Sadly, I'm also looking at long-term storage methods, you know, just for my information.

New Jeff Dunham special on Comedy Central.

I like the little flickers or dots of light at the base of Old Faithful. Any idea what makes whose little lights? Do you think they emerge from the hot, boiling areas?

re: #74 Karridine

I don't know whether to LOL or COL (cry out loud)!

afternoon folks

re: #84 winston06

afternoon folks

You must be on the west coast -- Good evening, Winston.

re: #75 monkeytime

[Link: www.reuters.com...]

Dinnerjacket's days might be numbered. Now the headline I want to see...."Iran elects Jewish President!"

I always think it's crazy when the crime relates to "deemed insulting the Koran." Who is this Koran guy anyway and why is he is so easily insulted?

Now it's the '49 borders....

[Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]

Fjordman compiled all of his long winded blog posts into a book. $50.
/Not kidding

re: #71 hermeneutics

Hermy, in a setup like that, when they allow you to sit down, you saunter to the end of the table, smiling broadly, and MOVE YOUR CHAIR further away, about 2 meters, sit down smartly, beaming, and let them begin!

/you've just displayed leadership, disruption and tact, in a politically-acceptable way!

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

It's been suggested that I should start my own blog.
Since it's easy these days, it would seem like a slam-dunk but I've always been satisfied just to post my musings here and once in a while at places like Rantburg.
A lot more people see it here, but there is also a lot more to see from other posters. I would have a blog to myself, but I have to wonder if anyone would come there.
At this point, I'll probably give it a shot, emphasizing my ideas about media warfare. I've just about decided on "Media Beast" as a name, with "The war against the media-industrial complex" as a theme.

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

Do it. I've got a grand total of like 10 readers, but if nothing else, it's a place where you can be yourself without anyone calling you an asshole. Well, they can, but you can always ban 'em. Heh, mine is an evil laugh. :)

re: #23 Crusty

Question: Is there a mobile-friendly version of LGF?

Mobile would be very cool! Though at the moment I use my phone's RSS reader which works pretty well. No comments though - or any indication at all that an open thread has started :-(
Charles, I like the print doodah...I was wondering, did you consider just using an alternative CSS sheet for printing? (Wouldn't work on the homepage obviously...)

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

It's been suggested that I should start my own blog.
Since it's easy these days, it would seem like a slam-dunk but I've always been satisfied just to post my musings here and once in a while at places like Rantburg.
A lot more people see it here, but there is also a lot more to see from other posters. I would have a blog to myself, but I have to wonder if anyone would come there.
At this point, I'll probably give it a shot, emphasizing my ideas about media warfare. I've just about decided on "Media Beast" as a name, with "The war against the media-industrial complex" as a theme.

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

No ideas, but let me know when you do, I'll throw you in the sidebar.

re: #88 Killgore Trout

Fjordman compiled all of his long winded blog posts into a book. $50.
/Not kidding

Wait a while and you can catch it at a yard sale for a quarter. It would be a great non-pharmaceutical sleep aid.

re: #87 Thanos

Now it's the '49 borders....

[Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]

As we know, deep down the arabs will not even accept that. They want all the land.

They will not get it!

re: #89 Karridine

Hermy, in a setup like that, when they allow you to sit down, you saunter to the end of the table, smiling broadly, and MOVE YOUR CHAIR further away, about 2 meters, sit down smartly, beaming, and let them begin!

/you've just displayed leadership, disruption and tact, in a politically-acceptable way!

That's both hysterical and ridiculous, Karr. I actually WANT the job. Anyway, the table was too big for the room and I was at the end, about three feet from the wall.

re: #90 Palandine

Asshole.

Evening, lizards. :D

My beloved Stampeders are going to the Grey Cup!

Yeee-hawwwwwwwwwww! :D

NASA information said I should be able to see the shuttle tonight, so I've just come back in but didn't see anything. Well, I saw a couple of things, but they weren't moving so I assume they aren't the shuttle.

Daughter thinks I'm crazy.

Shucks.

re: #88 Killgore Trout

Fjordman compiled all of his long winded blog posts into a book. $50.
/Not kidding

I'll give him $50 zimbabwean.

re: #16 taxfreekiller

Sears sales people picked it up on a Sears Charge Card for $49.99 from Wal/Mart.

And Wal-Mart bought it on credit from China.

Time for dinner ... bbl

re: #12 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Bought a Christmas tree tonight over at Sears. 299.99. Big sale from employees and friends...paid 152.00

Yeah baby!

A $300 Christmas tree?!?

Buwaahaahaahaa!

*snort*

Fools and their money. So quickly parted.

re: #72 Intrepid

In her dissenting opinion Justice Ginsburg noted:

"If an internet user finds it necessary to click certain additional functions of a website, then these users obviously do not appreciate the basic functions of the site. They have such improvements as "Strike through", "Bold", "Italics", "Quote", and "Link" - what more could a typical website user want? It is simply unbridled website opulence, and it ill serves the greater internet good."

Yes- further down she continues:

"This brazen opulence creates a sub-culture of internet sites with far less click assisted functionality, in willful defiance of the clickability clause of the federal code 56 section 9 and growing the click gap between Working and Nicely."

re: #12 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Just sold my 9 foot Christmas Tree at a garage sale. The loss created a huge space in my guest room.

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

If unpopular, you use a little time posting cogent, well-thought opinions for very few people.

If popular, you use a LOT OF TIME posting and defending well-thought opinions with a lot of people.

Two kinds of difficult. Yer choice, Shiplord

re: #94 A Kiwi Infidel

As we know, deep down the arabs will not even accept that. They want all the land.

They will not get it!

If Israel were a third world country they wouldn't want it. They have the mindset that Israel is the success it is because of the magical real estate, not the engineers and other people who built it.

re: #88 Killgore Trout

Fjordman compiled all of his long winded blog posts into a book. $50.
/Not kidding

Lord help us.

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

Some people have encouraged me to start my own blog. And some very fine lizards have invited me to write for their blogs. I had the same thought as you. I have a bigger audience here in the comments section of LGF.

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

It's been suggested that I should start my own blog.
. . .
Questions? Comments? Ideas?

I have a blog.
I posted to it regularly for, gee, a month.
I haven't even visited it for several weeks.

If you have some sort of theme to it, it will probably be something you will go back to regularly. I don't have a theme, other than it's just a place I can think out loud and post some pix - basically, a diary of life.

re: #102 razorbacker

A $300 Christmas tree?!?

Buwaahaahaahaa!

*snort*

Fools and their money. So quickly parted.

We will cut down a pine that we grew from seed. Free.

re: #99 A Kiwi Infidel

I'll give him $50 zimbabwean.

Doesn't that work out to about negative 5 billion?

re: #96 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Asshole.

*Applies the whammy*

Darn it, doesn't work on other blogs.

Plus, I know you don't mean it, FBV. Here, have some veal. ;)

The German Green Party has chosen the son of Turkish immigrants as their leader. What really strikes me, though, is that going by the news reports, the Greens choose two leaders, one male and one female?

/Imagine if the Democrats had done that this year.

re: #88 Killgore Trout

Oh I am so going to my blog and printing, printing, printing. I will then jog on over to cafe press and will be back in a jif with a link to purchase my fabulousness for $49.99. Y'all just sit tight, OK?
///

re: #88 Killgore Trout

Is it on the bargain table yet? Maybe a BOGO with Pelosi's book?

re: #102 razorbacker

A $300 Christmas tree?!?

Buwaahaahaahaa!

*snort*

Fools and their money. So quickly parted.

Truly. If I had $150 to spend, I'd buy something worthwhile, like the Hasbro super-detailed Millennium Falcon.

re: #65 hermeneutics

Yea, Walter. I'm rather tactful -- I prefer tactful to ass kisser :) -- and careful about what I say, but this was over-the-top, bordering on hazing.

For a quiet gal, I got feisty -- I prefer fiesty to pissed.

Congratulations, hermie...when someone wants to intimidate you, refuse to be intimidated.

I was deposed by (unfriendly) lawyers once, long ago. It was actually quite enjoyable...a mental swordfight. Same set-up, except eight to two (my lawyer was sitting next to me).

re: #108 Sharmuta

My guess is he hired a "vanity press" to publish it. It probably cost him lots of money.

re: #87 Thanos

Now it's the '49 borders....

[Link: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com...]

Excuse my ignorance, Thanos, but from looking at the map I can't see the difference between the "1949" borders and the pre-1967 borders. Can you enlighten me?

re: #119 Killgore Trout

Would it be wrong if I hope it fails miserably?

re: #104 Cathypop

I don't know why but about 3 years ago I bought a pre-lit tree at the after after after sale for about $25. It has colored lights. I don't care for colored lights. Its never been out of the box, but it was such a good deal. I am such a sorry something.

re: #100 Tigger2005

And Wal-Mart bought it on credit from China.

Daughter told me yesterday that Wal-Mart's profit for the last quarter was 3.14 billion.

Profit. For the quarter.

Not too shabby for a bunch of rubes from the hills of Arkansas.

re: #120 Cato the Elder

Let me see if I can dig up the Horowitz flash presentation, it's better than me 'splaining.

re: #121 Sharmuta

No.

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

It's been suggested that I should start my own blog.
Since it's easy these days, it would seem like a slam-dunk but I've always been satisfied just to post my musings here and once in a while at places like Rantburg.
A lot more people see it here, but there is also a lot more to see from other posters. I would have a blog to myself, but I have to wonder if anyone would come there.
At this point, I'll probably give it a shot, emphasizing my ideas about media warfare. I've just about decided on "Media Beast" as a name, with "The war against the media-industrial complex" as a theme.

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

They say 1000 blogs bloomed on November 5th in the aftermath of the Election. I picked "snark to the deserving" as my theme.

Go for it.

re: #81 Palandine

Jeff Dunham is cool. I'd go see him if I had the oppertunity, and I'm not particularly a fan of comedy in general.

As for the rest, I highly doubt that the people who are lining up to buy guns today are doing so with the intent of turning them in next year if the Democrats decide that they should. I hope they take not of this, and act accordingly.

re: #119 Killgore Trout

My guess is he hired a "vanity press" to publish it. It probably cost him lots of money.

There are some places, like CafePress, or Lulu.com - one can upload a book, and it isn't printed until it's ordered. So it costs the author or whoever nothing, really, to set it up - and they give you a link to post to try to make your sales.

It's what I will use for the LGF cookbook, an update for which is here.

re: #107 Basho

If Israel were a third world country they wouldn't want it. They have the mindset that Israel is the success it is because of the magical real estate, not the engineers and other people who built it.

Well, they could have started with Gaza. They were gifted a thriving industrial real-estate there, and they trashed it. You can only imagine what they will do if they get any land that includes the fruit of Israeli labour.

re: #122 ArmyWife

Grand kids are grown and a pre-lit tree is great. Especially since my husband is gone

re: #129 A Kiwi Infidel

Exactly...

bbl

re: #125 Killgore Trout

Cool. I wouldn't pay a nickel to read his tripe.

re: #123 razorbacker

Daughter told me yesterday that Wal-Mart's profit for the last quarter was 3.14 billion.

Profit. For the quarter.

Not too shabby for a bunch of rubes from the hills of Arkansas.

Wal-Mart's stock was declining for a while, but I think it will go back up, or maybe it already has. Gas prices have gone down, but still, it's one-stop, inexpensive shopping.

re: #111 A Kiwi Infidel

We will cut down a pine that we grew from seed. Free.

We are of the cedar sect, ourselves, but acknowledge our pine brethern as not quite damned.

re: #97 Miss Trixie

Evening, lizards. :D

My beloved Stampeders are going to the Grey Cup!

Yeee-hawwwwwwwwwww! :D

As a Saskatchewan resident, I should be very sad but, really, I don't care either way so congrats!

And I like the new button!

re: #103 Sharmuta

Yes- further down she continues:

"This brazen opulence creates a sub-culture of internet sites with far less click assisted functionality, in willful defiance of the clickability clause of the federal code 56 section 9 and growing the click gap between Working and Nicely."

Gracious God! Is she SERIOUS?

This is some rancid bile, indeed, to sneer self-righteously at (Charles' LGF) "brazen opulence" in favor of minimally-funcional (read: technically-inept) websites... "dumb down, uniform DOWN" is what I hear!

/the Michael Moore/Michael Jordan analogy comes to mind, wherein EVEN IF WE CRIPPLE Jordan, we will NOT BRING Moore UP to a level anywhere NEAR Jordan!

re: #52 Ojoe

The Towercam, with smokey air. San Gabriel Mountains, California, Pacific time zone.

Red River, NM

re: #117 Tigger2005

Truly. If I had $150 to spend, I'd buy something worthwhile, like the Hasbro super-detailed Millennium Falcon.

I want the Lego version. I really do.

re: #130 Cathypop

I have one with white lights, too. Did I mention my husband is Jewish? I love to decorate though. I am the never been to jail Martha Stewart.

I don't want to pay $300 for a tree. I guess we will just have to have Festivus this year.

re: #138 Karridine

I think, as a user, my right to click as I see fit should not be infringed!

re: #136 razorbacker

We are of the cedar sect, ourselves, but acknowledge our pine brethern as not quite damned.

We sprucers will see you both in Purgatory.

re: #129 A Kiwi Infidel

When the Palestinians were handed some of the settlement lands, they promptly destroyed all of the fully-functioning greenhouses. So stupid.

Of course, the basil, garlic, ginger, and cilantro that I purchase frozen are "products of Israel." I'd be sad to not have the products but I wouldn't buy them if they were "products of Palestine."

I read the following over at Bloomberg:

A group of companies including Textron Inc., Nissan Motor Co. and American Electric Power Co. is pressing the Federal Reserve to expand purchases of commercial paper to include them.

Nissan Motor Company? Are we planning on bailing out the whole freaking world?

re: #136 razorbacker

I'm a maple screaming "oppression!"

re: #119 Killgore Trout

My guess is he hired a "vanity press" to publish it. It probably cost him lots of money.

Published by BJ Books

BJ books. LOL.

re: #121 Sharmuta

Would it be wrong if I hope it fails miserably?

Schadenfjreude

re: #141 ArmyWife

This year I am putting up the pre -lit tree and the train will be running underneath in honor of my husband.

0bama on 60 Minutes already lowering his expectations. We won't expect miracles now, he says. Does that mean I'm not getting my unicorn?

re: #134 Tigger2005

Wal-Mart's stock was declining for a while, but I think it will go back up, or maybe it already has. Gas prices have gone down, but still, it's one-stop, inexpensive shopping.

The stock has been problematic ever since they became part of the Dow 30.

You have to be sure you factor in any splits, also.

re: #140 OldLineTexan

I want the Lego version. I really do.

This is what this fanboy wants for Christmas.

It's s**wing out :-(

re: #152 Sharmuta

0bama on 60 Minutes already lowering his expectations. We won't expect miracles now, he says. Does that mean I'm not getting my unicorn?

We're all getting a jackass with a toilet plunger strapped to his head.

It's like the last Narnia book, except it sucks.

re: #144 OldLineTexan

We sprucers will see you both in Purgatory.

We have a miniature pink tree purchased on sale at Michael's. Where does that put me? In my defense, I have two daughters who LOVE pink.

re: #128 reine.de.tout

There are some places, like CafePress, or Lulu.com - one can upload a book, and it isn't printed until it's ordered. So it costs the author or whoever nothing, really, to set it up - and they give you a link to post to try to make your sales.

Ah, that's cool. When I was in grad school some of the students (and a lot of the crappy professors) would hire a vanity press to get the bragging rights of having published a book. It was really expensive. Technology is fantastic.

re: #154 Tigger2005
Oh I am definetly begging Santa for this!

re: #103 Sharmuta

Writing the majority opinion was Justice Scalia:

"Hell, let internet sites add all the functions they want. It's a free damned country".

And in a separate dissenting opinion, Justice Stevens wrote:

"Why, when I was but a young lawyer, we had to look things up in actual paper files! We walked down stairs (no fancy elevators for us!) into the basement to find our cases, which were packed into huge gray metal file cabinets!

"What is a "click" again?"

re: #154 Tigger2005

This is what this fanboy wants for Christmas.

I was around when it came out the first time. Very collectible.

Large.

re: #155 sngnsgt

It's s**wing out :-(

Gore, you magnificent bastard!

re: #144 OldLineTexan

We sprucers will see you both in Purgatory.

Heathen. You prolly crack your soft-boiled eggs on the big end, too.

re: #137 meeshlr

As a Saskatchewan resident, I should be very sad but, really, I don't care either way so congrats!

And I like the new button!

Hi there, fellow Canucksicle! I've always loved the Sask 'riders and their fan base is one of the best in the CFL - too bad they didn't go all the way this year. The pesky Eskies folded up like a cheap tent against the Alouettes and the Calgary/Lions games was an incredible dogfight right to the bloody end. I can't wait to see the game next Sunday.

re: #146 buzzsawmonkey

Ding-Ding-Ding!

/Strong Possibility Department

re: #65 hermeneutics

Yea, Walter. I'm rather tactful -- I prefer tactful to ass kisser :) -- and careful about what I say, but this was over-the-top, bordering on hazing.

For a quiet gal, I got feisty -- I prefer fiesty to pissed.

Better to be pissed off than pissed on, though. ;)

re: #157 meeshlr

We have a miniature pink tree purchased on sale at Michael's. Where does that put me? In my defense, I have two daughters who LOVE pink.

Since trees are NOT pink, it is not a tree, and therefore counts neither for nor against you.

re: #161 OldLineTexan

I was around when it came out the first time. Very collectible.

Large.

I had it. I had a ton of the old Kenner stuff.

I gave most of it away.

Sooooo stupid.

re: #14 Cast Iron Magnolia

Glad to see you're back at the keyboard. We missed ya!

re: #163 razorbacker

Heathen. You prolly crack your soft-boiled eggs on the big end, too.

Soft-boiled eggs are haram. Hard-boiled or nothing!

re: #170 OldLineTexan

Soft-boiled eggs are haram. Hard-boiled or nothing!

Aren't eggs aborted chickens?

re: #167 OldLineTexan

Seriously tacky

re: #168 Tigger2005

I had it. I had a ton of the old Kenner stuff.

I gave most of it away.

Sooooo stupid.

So buy one. Why not? The money will soon be useless. And you could almost live in the box.

re: #162 OldLineTexan

That big fibber, I got his global warming BS right 'ere!

re: #160 Intrepid

In a rare statement from Justice Thomas:

"The functionality of a web site is only limited by it's intelligent design, or lack thereof, by it's Creator."

;p

re: #160 Intrepid

Intrepid, thank you. I missed the whole 'Luddite' theme, my first reading...

re: #173 Cathypop

Seriously tacky

Moi? Or the pink tree? Maybe both? Guilty!

re: #168 Tigger2005

Youshould see my husbands den. Very crowded with star wars

re: #172 Walter L. Newton

Aren't eggs aborted chickens?

Nope.

re: #172 Walter L. Newton

I thought they were unfertilized eggs? At least I'd like to think so.

re: #178 OldLineTexan

Both! Guilty!

re: #181 snowcrash

I thought they were unfertilized eggs? At least I'd like to think so.

Yes, they are. Unless you harvest them incorrectly, or the candling machine went awry.

re: #181 snowcrash

I thought they were unfertilized eggs? At least I'd like to think so.

Yes, but would they ever be anything else than a baby chicken?

re: #151 Cathypop

I am sorry about your loss. I am glad you do something happy in his memory. I hope that doesn't come across as trite - I lost my sister 3 1/2 years ago to cancer, and the holidays are, at times, quite hard for me. When I get blue about it, I hear her voice say "I love Christmas and our screwed up family, so you just stop right NOW". She would say that, I know she would. So anyway, I try to do things happy in her honor - not only at the holidays, but on July 4th (the day she passed), we go run (or walk or bike, she was a runner) in the morning, and then eat a big breakfast of her favorite things.

re: #170 OldLineTexan

Soft-boiled eggs are haram. Hard-boiled or nothing!

How on earth do you manage to dip the corner of your toast into the yolk?

Ya might as well just eat corn flakes or something.

And breakfast is what? The most important meal of the day!

re: #157 meeshlr

My sister has a white one she puts on her porch.

re: #182 Cathypop

Both! Guilty!

But I can still come over and play Star Wars, right?

/zoom! zap! pow! aaargghhh! take that!

re: #9 taxfreekiller

How mad they must be to try to pretend and lie the global warming lie.

Mad as mad hatters drinking zinc.

Not so much mad as stupid and greedy.

Al Gore stands to make millions if he can sell the GW BS.

re: #181 snowcrash

I thought they were unfertilized eggs? At least I'd like to think so.

Never heard of balut, I gather.

re: #184 Walter L. Newton

Yes, but would they ever be anything else than a baby chicken?

They're more akin to hen menstruation.

Sorry, but there it is.

re: #184 Walter L. Newton

Yes, but would they ever be anything else than a baby chicken?

As a zygote, no.

/unless you is one of those Jurassic Park fellers, squirtin' dino DNA inter eggs and such

re: #186 razorbacker

How on earth do you manage to dip the corner of your toast into the yolk?

Ya might as well just eat corn flakes or something.

And breakfast is what? The most important meal of the day!

It's called sunny-side up, the actual way that God intended eggs to be cooked for breakfast.

//////

re: #185 ArmyWife

His birthday was July 6th. Same as George Bush. As a good friend told me "Death Sucks"

re: #190 FurryOldGuyJeans

Never heard of balut, I gather.

I think I'm sorry I brought this up!

re: #179 Cathypop

Youshould see my husbands den. Very crowded with star wars

Coz when it gets too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
I close my eyes and I count to ten
Hope its over when I open them
I want the things that I had before
Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again

/Everclear

re: #195 Walter L. Newton

I think I'm sorry I brought this up!

No backsies now! ;)

Jimmie Johnson scores a NASCAR Three-Peat. Pretty impressive.

re: #197 FurryOldGuyJeans

No backsies now! ;)

Any one for some fish!

re: #188 OldLineTexan

How did you know I did that? It is so much fun!

re: #190 FurryOldGuyJeans

Never heard of balut, I gather.

If you can buy a dozen balut eggs at Kroger, LMK.

re: #199 Walter L. Newton

Any one for some fish!

Fish is fine where I am (Seattle area), and I don't mean that fast food fish either. *BLEH*

re: #196 Tigger2005

Thanks!

re: #112 Tigger2005

Doesn't that work out to about negative 5 billion?

Yes, he owes me.

re: #200 Cathypop

How did you know I did that? It is so much fun!

Because I am almost 46, going on 9. I have GI Joes, but I have some 12" Star Wars figures on display over the TV in the game room.

There's nothing like it!

re: #193 OldLineTexan

It's called sunny-side up, the actual way that God intended eggs to be cooked for breakfast.

//////

Now I know good and well that you're actually from somewhere in the north, prolly Topeka or some place.

It's basted. In pig fat lard. In a big ol black cast iron spider. With bisquit-bread. And white gravy with the pork chop crumbles left in.

*y'all will have to excuse me. I suddenly feel a mite peckish.*

re: #138 Karridine

Um... it's... a joke. You know that, right?

re: #184 Walter L. Newton

Yes, but would they ever be anything else than a baby chicken?

Layer hens are kept from roosters - hence, no baby chickens in the eggs.

Layer hens, in the prime of their egg-laying time, can produce a couple eggs per day, but for a short time. Most times they drop one egg every 23 1/2 hours.

We worked in mass-production layer houses from the time I was 8 until I was 15.

Just got back from my local blockbuster and saw LOTS of this DVD for sale ($19.99):

Barack Obama - Who is this man?

re: #207 razorbacker

Now I know good and well that you're actually from somewhere in the north, prolly Topeka or some place.

It's basted. In pig fat lard. In a big ol black cast iron spider. With bisquit-bread. And white gravy with the pork chop crumbles left in.

*y'all will have to excuse me. I suddenly feel a mite peckish.*

Despite the insult, I'm coming with you....

/slobbering

re: #205 OldLineTexan

Because I am almost 46

Sweet Jebus! Does anyone live that long?!

My name is Karl Glocken,
and this is a ship of fools.

I'm a fool. And you'll meet
more fools as we go along.

This tub is packed with them.

Emancipated ladies. Ballplayers.

Lovers. Dog lovers.

Ladies of joy. Tolerant Jews.

Dwarfs. All kinds.

And who knows,
if you look closely enough...

...you may even find yourself
onboard.

[Link: [Link: www.netflix.com...]...]

They don't make movies like this anymore.

re: #205 OldLineTexan

Because I am almost 46, going on 9. I have GI Joes, but I have some 12" Star Wars figures on display over the TV in the game room.

I still have some of my original figures, plus a Don Post Studios Darth Vader mask.

re: #212 Occasional Reader

Sweet Jebus! Does anyone live that long?!

My hair, alas, did not make it.

re: #191 Occasional Reader

Well this just says "Ham and Cheese Omelet" now doesn't it?

re: #212 Occasional Reader

Sweet Jebus! Does anyone live that long?!

Would someone being nigh on 50 give ya palpitations?

re: #145 meeshlr

When the Palestinians were handed some of the settlement lands, they promptly destroyed all of the fully-functioning greenhouses. So stupid.

Of course, the basil, garlic, ginger, and cilantro that I purchase frozen are "products of Israel." I'd be sad to not have the products but I wouldn't buy them if they were "products of Palestine."

Exactly.

Mind you, you will never see any produce sitting on supermarket shelves labelled "product of Palestine"

The only product we will see from "Palestine" will be continuing hatred, bloodshed, death and destruction.

re: #176 Sharmuta

LOL! Heh - we got the Court sussed out, alright.

:-)

re: #210 FurryOldGuyJeans

Just got back from my local blockbuster and saw LOTS of this DVD for sale ($19.99):

Wonder if it's a whitewash, or asks serious questions.

re: #205 OldLineTexan

I got Super Man, Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Re-Boot, The Thing....You name it it is in this room and it will stay this way forever.
I cal it "Olsons Zone"

re: #210 FurryOldGuyJeans

Just got back from my local blockbuster and saw LOTS of this DVD for sale ($19.99):

Barack Obama - Who is this man?

NOW they ask...

Cato - having a devil of time finding the presentation, but it's essentially details on West Bank, Golan Heights, Shebaa Farms, & Gaza. Abbas & the Syrians come out slightly better by saying 49 instead of 67.

re: #221 Cathypop

I got Super Man, Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Re-Boot, The Thing....You name it it is in this room and it will stay this way forever.
I cal it "Olsons Zone"

The minute I am gone, there will be one hell of a garage sale.

Hence, it is all going to the grandkids as soon as they are old enough not to eat it. ;)

FREE!

re: #220 Tigger2005

Wonder if it's a whitewash, or asks serious questions.

There was nothing on the back label of the DVD case insert, and the cover had just the title and one of Obama's halo pics, so what you think? ;)

re: #210 FurryOldGuyJeans

Just got back from my local blockbuster and saw LOTS of this DVD for sale ($19.99):

Barack Obama - Who is this man?

I saw the Obama movie years ago.

re: #224 OldLineTexan
They triend but I refused.

re: #208 Occasional Reader

Um... it's... a joke. You know that, right?

OR, I'm slow on the uptake, but in light of SO MANY laughably bizarre pronouncements by erstwhile 'sane' people of the Demo-Lib persuasion, I sometimes respond to a 'joke' as if it were the Al Franken of Logical Funnies...

/clear 'nuff? :D

re: #212 Occasional Reader

Sweet Jebus! Does anyone live that long?!

I am 53, thats over HALF A CENTURY OLD!

re: #221 Cathypop

I got Super Man, Star Wars, Star Trek, Star Gate, Re-Boot, The Thing....You name it it is in this room and it will stay this way forever.
I cal it "Olsons Zone"

And you're a chick? ... I think I love you.

re: #209 Intrepid

Layer hens are kept from roosters - hence, no baby chickens in the eggs.

Layer hens, in the prime of their egg-laying time, can produce a couple eggs per day, but for a short time. Most times they drop one egg every 23 1/2 hours.

We worked in mass-production layer houses from the time I was 8 until I was 15.

I get mine from the neighbor-lady, who does not segregate her hens from the rooster. You are advised to break the egg into a bowl, first, because some of them will have that "speck".

re: #70 Iron Fist

It's getting downright difficult to find brass cased .50/round .308 on the web.
Most of the ammo web sites are drying up. Any suggestions for sources?

re: #230 A Kiwi Infidel

I am 53, thats over HALF A CENTURY OLD!

DANG! You old fart, you! ;)

re: #217 FurryOldGuyJeans

Would someone being nigh on 50 give ya palpitations?

Oh, come on, now you're just funnin' me.

Man, it's a good thing I'm only 25!

(And yet it's amazing how I graduated high school in 1983... zygote prodigy, so I was)

re: #141 ArmyWife

I have one with white lights, too. Did I mention my husband is Jewish? I love to decorate though. I am the never been to jail Martha Stewart.

I use to be too, until I heard Martha say that people should just suck it in or suck it up or some kind of elitist remark about extra taxes. Now I'm just me who likes to decorate. No comparisons please! She doesn't OWN decorating, no matter what she thinks. And to think I felt sorry for her when she went to jail!

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel

It's been suggested that I should start my own blog.
Since it's easy these days, it would seem like a slam-dunk but I've always been satisfied just to post my musings here and once in a while at places like Rantburg.
A lot more people see it here, but there is also a lot more to see from other posters. I would have a blog to myself, but I have to wonder if anyone would come there.
At this point, I'll probably give it a shot, emphasizing my ideas about media warfare. I've just about decided on "Media Beast" as a name, with "The war against the media-industrial complex" as a theme.

Questions? Comments? Ideas?

Do it! Someone will always show up. I've had mine up for about two months and am happy with the results. I have no idea what the average number of visitors each day should be, but consider any number a bonus. ;-)>

But, it is very satisfying to post ~your~ thoughts and perspective each day. Especially when you know you aren't posting at the tail end of a dead thread. *smile*

Was Jerusalem's Aksa Mosque built over the remains of a Byzantine church?

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #231 Tigger2005

I am an oditiy! And proud of it!
That is why Olson and I were together for 28 years.

re: #234 FurryOldGuyJeans

DANG! You old fart, you! ;)

[Link: www.baldock34.freeserve.co.uk...]

Cato, this is not the one I was thinking of, but it will have to do, it's dinner time here, back a bit later:

[Link: www.israelinsider.com...]

re: #234 FurryOldGuyJeans

DANG! You old fart, you! ;)

Sadly, as my wife will testify, the emphasis is all too frequently on that word "fart"

re: #234 FurryOldGuyJeans

He is not OLD!

re: #235 Occasional Reader

QUARTER OF A CENTURY, THAT IS ONE CENTURY

re: #242 A Kiwi Infidel

Sadly, as my wife will testify, the emphasis is all too frequently on that word "fart"

smell my 240

re: #234 FurryOldGuyJeans

I seriously remember when I thought 37 was old. Here I am - 37. What the heck happened? I have really good genes (thank you, thank you, thank you Mom!) so I am still able to claim younger. One day, however, gravity is going to come along and bite me in the a** (literally!). I will weep that day. Or eat brownies without guilt...now that I think about this a bit more, maybe no so bad?

re: #227 solomonpanting

I saw the Obama movie years ago.

They really need to do a film like Millhouse on Obama. His history, everything he's tried to sweep under the rug (or throw under the bus)....

re: #240 So?

[Link: www.baldock34.freeserve.co.uk...]

Oh cool! Another one to add to my collection! Thanks.

re: #208 Occasional Reader

Um... it's... a joke. You know that, right?

You mock the left's attempt to regulate clickability now... you just wait, Mister!

re: #246 ArmyWife

When you hit 50 people are no longer old at 65. They are still young

re: #249 Sharmuta

Its ok, Sharm. Re-education camps days at the spa will have courses all on what is and is not mockable in polite company.

Hey!

You children get outta my yard afore I sets the dawg loose on ya.

*Dadblamed young whippersnappers. Gallavanting around in their hopped-up ottomobiles wearing their raccoon coats. Country's going to hell in a handbasket, you mark my words.*

re: #246 ArmyWife

I seriously remember when I thought 37 was old. Here I am - 37. What the heck happened? I have really good genes (thank you, thank you, thank you Mom!) so I am still able to claim younger. One day, however, gravity is going to come along and bite me in the a** (literally!). I will weep that day. Or eat brownies without guilt...now that I think about this a bit more, maybe no so bad?

Keep in mind that the alternative to growing old is depressing.

re: #88 Killgore Trout

Fjordman compiled all of his long winded blog posts into a book. $50.
/Not kidding

Blogging with secret bigotry for years.. $20/month for internet access.
Putting your crap into a book.. $1000's in publishing fees.
Using the book for toilet paper....$50
Metaphorical gratification.... Priceless!

re: #251 ArmyWife

Its ok, Sharm. Re-education camps days at the spa will have courses all on what is and is not mockable in polite company.

But we gotta fight for our right to clicky.

I was watching something earlier on the USA cable network, when an ad came on with a reverential voice intoning: "Yes we can. The Barack Obama story. Order yours now from the NBC store." (NBC owns USA, I believe.)

/Sort of makes you feel bad for all those NBC staffers that worked so hard preparing the corresponding McCain DVD in case he won.

re: #252 razorbacker

Hey!

You children get outta my yard afore I sets the dawg loose on ya.

*Dadblamed young whippersnappers. Gallavanting around in their hopped-up ottomobiles wearing their raccoon coats. Country's going to hell in a handbasket, you mark my words.*

Okey-dokey pops! 23 skidoo!

re: #253 Steffan

Keep in mind that the alternative to growing old is depressing.

Whatever happened to "live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse"?

re: #251 ArmyWife

Its ok, Sharm. Re-education camps days at the spa will have courses all on what is and is not mockable in polite company.

Exactly, what I was saying in #229, Army!

re: #249 Sharmuta

You mock the left's attempt to regulate clickability now... you just wait, Mister!

I'll give up my clickability when the pry it from my cold, dead hands.

re: #247 Steffan

They really need to do a film like Millhouse on Obama. His history, everything he's tried to sweep under the rug (or throw under the bus)....

It'll be cold day in LA before an anti-Obama film is produced.