Fresh meat---at blazing speed

Greased Lightning!

Yeah, it's almost back to normal. This morning was hell.

A team of hamsters; kinda like a lo-cal Ben Hur?

Savage live talking about the elevator shaft death in SF.

Ha?

Funny, all the issues I've had I've chalked up to our crappy satellite connection on board ship...

Still has some glitches though. I got logged out when I jumped to this thread and had to log back in. Using Firefox 3.0.4

re: #5 bosforus

Savage live talking about the elevator shaft death in SF.

Don't you mean "the mysterious elevator shaft death of the "face" for the Pro-Israel movement in San Francisco"?

Big giant beautiful breasts!

Just wanted to get that out of the way early in the thread, now what are we talking about?

re: #9 WrathofG-d

Don't you mean "the mysterious elevator shaft death of the "face" for the Pro-Israel movement in San Francisco"?

Exactly.

Wow, this new server is slick as puppy poop!

re: #9 WrathofG-d

re: #11 bosforus

Nothing to see here, move along.
/MSM

Charles, did you know that all of the links in our past replies (before you made the change) are missing now?

That sounds so hot I'm wearing oven mitts just in case.

Thanks for all you do and provide for us Charles.
We are so grateful you have the wisdom and knowledge and the tools to make it work !

re: #11 bosforus

re: #13 jcm

Why don't one of you pull up a link on this. It should be reported and noone is doing it.

Hidy-Ho, Lizzards,

YAY FOR THE NEW SERVER! Let them cute lil' rodents be liberated!

re: #12 CapeCoddah

Wow, this new server is slick as puppy poop!

As slick as snot on a doorknob.

Like Hippy Carnes, the conspiracy theory guy in The Abyss, said about the SEAL plan to blow up the sunk US nuclear sub with one of it's own warheads:

"Slicker'n snot!"

re: #10 Kragar (proud to be kafir)

[Link: www.thelocal.se...]
BIG GIANT BREASTS!

so it looks like Nancy Pelosi and harry Reid (along with the Michigan governor) are going to bail out the big 3 auto makers.

Throwing goog money at a terrible union business model. No matter.
It's pay back time for the Democrat/Union marriage.

Supper's Ready

/abridged

goog = good.

re: #21 notutopia

[Link: www.thelocal.se...]
BIG GIANT BREASTS!

Reminds me of the skit at the end of one of the Austin Powers' movies where they kept using slang for breasts...

re: #21 notutopia

[Link: www.thelocal.se...]
BIG GIANT BREASTS!

Nationalized Heath Care.
One size fits all.

This is NOT the server I knew...

re: #14 Salamantis

Charles, did you know that all of the links in our past replies (before you made the change) are missing now?

Not sure what you mean -- example?

re: #22 FrogMarch

so it looks like Nancy Pelosi and harry Reid (along with the Michigan governor) are going to bail out the big 3 auto makers.

Throwing goog money at a terrible union business model. No matter.
It's pay back time for the Democrat/Union marriage.

BIG GIANT BREASTS! Sorry, Frog. Just had to get that out.
/

re: #19 Soona'

As slick as snot on a doorknob.

Ewww, now, I'm gonna have to go check all my doorknobs. My granddaughter has been here for a week with a nasty cold.

Tin foil hat time?

Doctor killed in mysterious elevator shaft fall

Police Inspector Matt Krimsky said Kliman apparently fell through an open elevator door on the seventh floor, although the building's manager insists the door must have been secured.

re: #17 WrathofG-d

re: #13 jcm

Why don't one of you pull up a link on this. It should be reported and noone is doing it.

Sure thing.
[Link: www.sfgate.com...]
Put the pieces together:
Dr. Kliman was an activist Jew.
He had been taking Arabic language classes on the 7th floor of the building in question.
Class had been canceled for that night but he showed up anyway, possibly because he wasn't told about the cancellation.
7 stories down an elevator shaft later.
Police Inspector Klimsky says,

"There is no indication of any foul play at this point, even though I've been getting calls from conspiracy theorists from everywhere, even someone who said they had information from a seance,"

I love the smell of new servers in an open thread..

I knew Charles' server. Charles' server was an persnickety and irritating friend of mine. Speedy, you're no Charles server.

You're better. Far better.

Let's keep you.

re: #32 bosforus

See, re: #31 Bubblehead II

The building management insists the doors where secured. If you know how, it's easy to pop elevator doors open.

If this bill passes, every kid could pass a test by saying "The Bible tells me so", not to mention allowing Satanists to do their pentagram thing.

"OKLAHOMA CITY - The first House bill filed for Oklahoma's 2009 legislative session is titled the "Religious Viewpoints Anti discrimination Act."

It would allow students to express religious viewpoints in the classroom or in assignments and would prevent students from being either penalized or rewarded for the religious content of their work.
The measure also would grant religious groups or clubs the same access to school facilities as secular groups and require school districts to adopt policies on student speakers that don't discriminate against religious viewpoints.
A lawmaker who opposes the bill warns that it could open the door for radical religious groups to demand equal time in Oklahoma schools."

re: #35 jcm

See, re: #31 Bubblehead II

The building management insists the doors where secured. If you know how, it's easy to pop elevator doors open.

Just brute force prying the doors open?

re: #30 CapeCoddah

Ewww, now, I'm gonna have to go check all my doorknobs. My granddaughter has been here for a week with a nasty cold.

Don't forget the toilet handles, faucets, and the fridge handle.

re: #36 avanti

If this bill passes, every kid could pass a test by saying "The Bible tells me so", not to mention allowing Satanists to do their pentagram thing.

"OKLAHOMA CITY - The first House bill filed for Oklahoma's 2009 legislative session is titled the "Religious Viewpoints Anti discrimination Act."

It would allow students to express religious viewpoints in the classroom or in assignments and would prevent students from being either penalized or rewarded for the religious content of their work.
The measure also would grant religious groups or clubs the same access to school facilities as secular groups and require school districts to adopt policies on student speakers that don't discriminate against religious viewpoints.
A lawmaker who opposes the bill warns that it could open the door for radical religious groups to demand equal time in Oklahoma schools."

My religion forbids me from demonstrating my master of a subject least I become prideful.

/no more homework no more tests.

re: #35 jcm

If you know how, it is easy to open them as well.

That little hole in the top of the right hand door (at least where I work) is a release mechanism for the doors. You just need the right tool to open them.

/getting my tin foil out

re: #38 Soona'

Don't forget the toilet handles, faucets, and the fridge handle.

Actually, between the baby and the Mastiff, I check below waist level for her, and everywhere else, including the ceilings for Mastiff drool.

re: #22 FrogMarch

Seriously, what happens when there is no place on the planet left to go to borrow for funding all these neat incentive bailouts for the US?
This is the most ridiculous guise of bailout bullcrap this country has ever undertook in our history. There is NO way we will ever have a balanced budget ever again in this country. Isn't anyone in the government even slightly concerned about the fact that WE the taxpayers don't have anymore money to give if we can't make more and that printing more noncollateralized fiat money is bankrupting us as a country!

re: #39 jcm

My religion forbids me from demonstrating my master of a subject least I become prideful.

/no more homework no more tests.

Its not charitable to display exactly how smart I am teacher, I am forbidden from participating.

Found a nice photo of this building where he died in the elevator shaft.
(One of three elevators in the building)
[Link: www.noehill.com...]

re: #37 bosforus

Just brute force prying the doors open?

Every elevator door has an emergency release, insert a small tool turn and locks release. A heavy piece of wire bent 90° will work just fine. Won't leave jimmy marks like prying them open.

Savage is sure getting worked up over this.

re: #32 bosforus

At this point there really is no actual evidence to jump to a conclusion, but I am going to jump to an assumption anyway.

It seems like foul play to me. He was supposedly well known for his role in the Pro-Israel movement in San Fran, and had been in scuffles with Anti-Israel people in the past.

This is random like Irv Rubin jumped to his own suicide head first in prison. (ie: ehhh...NOT!)

Examples:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Good luck with all that!

I know I've never been able to figure out why mod_deflate doesn’t want to compress our CSS and Javascript files, even though I’ve set Apache’s configuration file to (supposedly) compress everything but images and PDFs.

re: #37 bosforus

Why use brute force when you can just open the doors using the tool/key designed for just that purpose?

re: #26 jcm

If we all get the same size bosoms and guys get the same size slackstickers, we will all be happy and content and they'll be no need for competition.
ugh...

re: #29 Soona'

BIG GIANT BREASTS! Sorry, Frog. Just had to get that out.
/

Big fat fake breasts. As in - Congress shifting billions of dollars to auto companies that are already 6 billion per month in the hole becasue they make products people are embarrassed to buy (for the most part), upper management is bloated and useless, are encumbered by a nightmare joke union model that has proven to be the final death blow to an industry that cannot handle a single bad business quarter?

and now the democrats want to not only throw our money at the big three - calling it a "bridge loan" -(total bullshit - bridge loan refers to a real estate transaction) (It's a phat government loan that failing companies with failing business models will not pay back - instead they will come back for more- and Nancy and Co will say OK next time too.)... The democrats want to force non-unionized auto makers to unionize.

re: #51 notutopia

If we all get the same size bosoms and guys get the same size slackstickers, we will all be happy and content and they'll be no need for competition.
ugh...

Hey, wait a minute - if I can't have the big bosoms, how will they ever overlook the fact I'm homely?!

re: #53 hermit

Hey, wait a minute - if I can't have the big bosoms, how will they ever overlook the fact I'm homely?!

Oh wait, they don't...crap
/channeling Emily Latella -- "Nevermind."

re: #47 WrathofG-d

Yeah, as far as actual evidence goes, there is none yet. But it seems there's too much suspicion to be ignored.

re: #52 FrogMarch

and now the democrats want to not only throw our money at the big three - calling it a "bridge loan" -(total bullshit - bridge loan refers to a real estate transaction)

Only real estate? Really?

This elevator death is way too fishy. When elevators are out of service, there are signs everywhere. My boss's apartment building is having all of the elevators replaced as we speak. There are warning signs and red "crime scene" type tape over all of the doors. in one building, where kids are allowed, there are 3 bars welded up to about 6 ft. to keep everyone away from the doors also.

re: #53 hermit

Hey, wait a minute - if I can't have the big bosoms, how will they ever overlook the fact I'm homely?!

A little nip and tuck, and everyone will be beautiful.
/

re: #28 Charles

Charles, Earlier this morning, I noticed that many of the postings starting at number 101 which was my post, and subsequent postings were all duplicating starting at number 77.

I thought you were creating an instant 70's retro.
I enjoyed the 70's

re: #42 notutopia

Seriously, what happens when there is no place on the planet left to go to borrow for funding all these neat incentive bailouts for the US?
This is the most ridiculous guise of bailout bullcrap this country has ever undertook in our history. There is NO way we will ever have a balanced budget ever again in this country. Isn't anyone in the government even slightly concerned about the fact that WE the taxpayers don't have anymore money to give if we can't make more and that printing more noncollateralized fiat money is bankrupting us as a country!

Indeed.
We didn't get to vote on this. Instead --far left-wing socialist Nancy Pelosi is the decision maker. She must protect her union buddies - campaign contributors. (chapter 11 Bankruptcy would be the bet thing for GM)

I urge everyone to call or e-mail your congress person - and say NO to the auto/UNION bailout.

re: #55 bosforus

I only heard about this because someone who worked with him sent me an email. Has this made the news?

re: #32 bosforus

Dr. Kliman was an activist Jew.
He had been taking Arabic language classes on the 7th floor of the building in question.

Note to self: If you ever want to learn Arabic, get Rosetta Stone.

re: #58 jcm

Ahhh -- Aaaahhh -- Aaaahhh!
/channeling Sam Kinison

Bridge Loan

Not always only real estate...

re: #61 WrathofG-d

I only heard about this because someone who worked with him sent me an email. Has this made the news?

Michael Savage is talking about it right now - that's as big as it's gotten so far. He's trying to make it bigger.

re: #61 WrathofG-d

I only heard about this because someone who worked with him sent me an email. Has this made the news?

SFGate is calling it:
Doctor killed in mysterious elevator shaft fall

...not that I want to bail out the automakers...at all...

re: #65 bosforus

If the head of CAIR were found dead at the bottom of a empty elevator shaft in San Francisco after going to a Hebrew lesson lead by Israelis...do you think it would get more press?

re: #48 Salamantis

Examples:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

Yeah, there was a bug that left out a quotation mark from one of the HTML tag attributes. It's fixed now.

re: #67 J.D.

...not that I want to bail out the automakers...at all...

Nor should we, at the very least until the UAW is busted. It is just pissing in the wind.

Report: School Cancels Traditional Christmas Play for Muslim Eid Celebrations

British parents looking to see their children in a traditional Christmas play are fuming after a school decided to cancel the performance because it conflicts with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper reported.

re: #56 J.D.

Only real estate? Really?

I think so. In any case - "Bridge loan" is the sugared-up DNC/MSM cover.
It's a way not to say " bail-out."

re: #70 CapeCoddah

Nor should we, at the very least until the UAW is busted. It is just pissing in the wind.

Agreed!

re: #68 WrathofG-d

If the head of CAIR were found dead at the bottom of a empty elevator shaft in San Francisco after going to a Hebrew lesson lead by Israelis...do you think it would get more press?

The elevator falling on him would make for some good

press

.

re: #68 WrathofG-d

If the head of CAIR were found dead at the bottom of a empty elevator shaft in San Francisco after going to a Hebrew lesson lead by Israelis...do you think it would get more press?

The elevator falling on him would make for some good press.
Gaa! Italics vs Quotes button round 386!

re: #68 WrathofG-d

Front page, above the fold and fingers pointing at an evil Zionist connection.

re: #61 WrathofG-d

I only heard about this because someone who worked with him sent me an email. Has this made the news?

Yes and Zombie gave us a heads-up Monday evening-ish.

re: #72 FrogMarch

I think so. In any case - "Bridge loan" is the sugared-up DNC/MSM cover.
It's a way not to say " bail-out."

A "Bridge Loan" is supposed to be paid back, and (in my case) came with LOTS of interest and fees...LOTS! Let's see what Blinky and the boys come up with...for their "friends"...ick

re: #55 bosforus

Yeah, as far as actual evidence goes, there is none yet. But it seems there's too much suspicion to be ignored.

I find it hard to believe he just did a Peter Pan right at the top of an elevator shaft.

re: #79 Alaska Kim

I find it hard to believe he just did a Peter Pan right at the top of an elevator shaft.

Very hard to believe.

re: #52 FrogMarch

Big fat fake breasts. As in - Congress shifting billions of dollars to auto companies that are already 6 billion per month in the hole becasue they make products people are embarrassed to buy (for the most part), upper management is bloated and useless, are encumbered by a nightmare joke union model that has proven to be the final death blow to an industry that cannot handle a single bad business quarter?

and now the democrats want to not only throw our money at the big three - calling it a "bridge loan" -(total bullshit - bridge loan refers to a real estate transaction) (It's a phat government loan that failing companies with failing business models will not pay back - instead they will come back for more- and Nancy and Co will say OK next time too.)... The democrats want to force non-unionized auto makers to unionize.

Actually, I think it's an all-or-nothing move to permanently disrupt capitalism in the US, so as to bring in sort of a new world order, internationally socialist banking system. It'll take numerous generations to correct what's already been sown if it's corrected at all.

re: #65 bosforus

Michael Savage is talking about it right now - that's as big as it's gotten so far. He's trying to make it bigger.

It is also on Drudge.

Won't go uninvestigated now.

re: #79 Alaska Kim

I find it hard to believe he just did a Peter Pan right at the top of an elevator shaft.

Same here - 7th floor - old building.

re: #53 hermit

If we all have BIG bosums, they won't be looking at our faces hermit.
: )

re: #71 Racer X

Report: School Cancels Traditional Christmas Play for Muslim Eid Celebrations
British parents looking to see their children in a traditional Christmas play are fuming after a school decided to cancel the performance because it conflicts with the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper reported.

Where is the outcry from the Christian Left? (I'm assuming there's at least SOME Democrats that sit in a pew on Sunday)

re: #42 notutopia

Seriously, what happens when there is no place on the planet left to go to borrow for funding all these neat incentive bailouts for the US?

And if that wasn't bad enough, we pay two bailouts a year to fight various chronic illnesses in the US. And in seven years - when Medicare part A funds run out - the government will only be able to pay 78 cents on the dollar for medical care.

Hospitals closing, Docs going out of business... we're all screwed if that happens.

We've got seven years, folks...

re: #80 J.D.
Hey there {J.D.} - who did a Peter Pan and where?!

re: #84 notutopia

If we all have BIG bosums, they won't be looking at our faces hermit.
: )

LOL - BTW your avatar give me the creepy feeling I'm being watched inside the hermit cave...LOL!

re: #69 Charles

Yeah, there was a bug that left out a quotation mark from one of the HTML tag attributes. It's fixed now.

Usually fast and good are mutually exclusionary; just ask women...;~)

But you're proving to be the exception...

Thanxabunch!

re: #82 karmic_inquisitor

It is also on Drudge.

Won't go uninvestigated now.

Drudge needs some help with terminology.

Drudge headline:
RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP TO CROSS PANAMA CANAL

From the article:
The destroyer Admiral Chabanenko...

re: #79 Alaska Kim

I find it hard to believe he just did a Peter Pan right at the top of an elevator shaft.

As do I. As do I.

re: #85 ornery elephant

Where is the outcry from the Christian Left? (I'm assuming there's at least SOME Democrats that sit in a pew on Sunday)

**whimper**

Islam wins.

re: #90 jcm
Hey jcm - how bad does your navy have to be to name a destroyer after an admiral?! LOL!

re: #91 bosforus

As do I. As do I.

I heard about this story this morning. They were talking about it in the lounge.

re: #66 jcm

Kliman, 38, lived near the temple in Oakland and was perhaps best known as co-founder of S.F. Voice for Israel, a 4-year-old organization that vociferously demonstrates on behalf of Israeli causes.

...

He had been taking Arabic language courses in the Sharon Building for three years and was last seen, investigators said, on the night of Nov. 25, when he went there to attend a class on the seventh floor.

Police Inspector Matt Krimsky said Kliman apparently fell through an open elevator door on the seventh floor, although the building's manager insists the door must have been secured.

The elevator in that shaft was out of order at the time, building manager Brad Bernheim said. By design, doors to a malfunctioning elevator are clamped shut and can be opened only by a mechanic, said Erika Monterroza, spokeswoman for Cal/OSHA.

...

(ed- Oh Brother:)
However, Penny Rosenwasser, a national board member of Jewish Voice for Peace who found herself on the opposite side of picket lines from Kliman protesting Israel's actions in Palestinian lands, said she found the notion impossible to believe.

"I can't imagine anyone I know doing something like that," she said.

...

The Arabic class Kliman came to attend on the last night of his life had been canceled, but he apparently didn't know that, said close friend Marshall Schwartz.

"He wanted to learn more about the language, and liked studying there," Schwartz said. Kliman thought of himself as pro-Israel but not anti-Arab, he added, and had even dated an instructor at the language program in the past.

Managers of the program that runs the classes, Pacific Arabic Resources, declined to comment Tuesday.
(NOTE: I don't have time to "search" each person, name, connection, etc., but I imagine it could be interesting to see where these people/this company pops up around the webs)

***
(NOTE: This next two statements should confuse the haters)
As a passionate vegetarian, Kliman dined regularly with the group Vegi-Jews in San Francisco. As an alternative transportation advocate, he participated in Critical Mass and similar bicycle protests in St. Louis and San Francisco
..
And as a single gay man, Kliman campaigned against Proposition 8, the state constitutional amendment that voters approved Nov. 4 to ban same-sex marriage.

re: #87 realwest

Hey there {J.D.} - who did a Peter Pan and where?!

{realwest}!
See...[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

How ya doin'?

re: #60 FrogMarch

Why is it so horrible that they file bankruptcy? They'll just start all over.
Why do we have to pay for this bailout/loan/umbrella/tent...
This country is going to END in bankruptcy if we continue this course of action on bailing out every failing industry that decides it needs revamping or reworking or retooling.

re: #79 Alaska Kim

I find it hard to believe he just did a Peter Pan right at the top of an elevator shaft.

I find it downright impossible to believe.

re: #53 hermit

Hey, wait a minute - if I can't have the big bosoms, how will they ever overlook the fact I'm homely?!

How's your head? I like ladies who have a really nice set of brains. Add a great smile and we have a winnah!

re: #81 Soona'

Actually, I think it's an all-or-nothing move to permanently disrupt capitalism in the US, so as to bring in sort of a new world order, internationally socialist banking system. It'll take numerous generations to correct what's already been sown if it's corrected at all.

Democrat big wigs will always talk about taking a vacation in France and admiring the fast trains and publicly owned gas/electric/airline/telephone/automobile companies. That and the socialized medicine (where doctors and pilots who get paid a lot and work very little go on strikes). To the American tourist, Paris looks so nice and pretty that socialism doesn't seem onerous.

The elites calling the shots from Nob Hill want America to be France Deux.

re: #97 notutopia

Why is it so horrible that they file bankruptcy? They'll just start all over.
Why do we have to pay for this bailout/loan/umbrella/tent...
This country is going to END in bankruptcy if we continue this course of action on bailing out every failing industry that decides it needs revamping or reworking or retooling.

Right on the money. (So to speak)

re: #97 notutopia

Where does it ever end?

re: #99 SteveC

How's your head? I like ladies who have a really nice set of brains. Add a great smile and we have a winnah!

As in Sarah Palin?!

I started jury duty on 24 Nov (yep, Thanksgiving week), and got picked for a civil trial Monday that's supposed to last through Friday. I can't say anything much about it until it's over, but so far this is the longest and most irritating week I've ever lived through, including my two hospital stays for cancer and a stroke.

What's worse, it's just as bad for Mr. Empire, 'cause my vision hasn't recovered well enough from the stroke, so he has to take me up to the courthouse, then go back to Dover in the evening to pick me up. That's a roughly hour and a half round trip every time, and today he had to make it 3 times; we were originally scheduled to get off around noon, then told to come back at two, for a two-hour afternoon session.

The two good things are a nice jury group and a bailiff who is unfailingly cheerful and goes out of her way to be helpful. The rest of the experience sucks green bananas.

Legal lizards, a question, please. Is there some way for us to make our high opinion of our bailiff a part of her record? People like our Kim deserve recognition, and we'd like to see that she gets it.

re: #93 realwest

Hey jcm - how bad does your navy have to be to name a destroyer after an admiral?! LOL!

Most of our destroyers are named after battles or CMH winners. Frigates the same thing, some admirals there.

re: #96 J.D.
Ah! Thanks for that!
I'm doing ok, but I missed my usual 2 hour nap today cause I, once again, screwed up my medication schedule.
I swear, I need an assistant just to remind me when to take what meds! LOL!
How are ya?

This mean old world
Runs on sex and gasoline.

We’re still digging through our speedy new web server and finding things to edit or optimize; at the moment I’m trying to figure out why mod_deflate doesn’t want to compress our CSS and Javascript files, even though I’ve set Apache’s configuration file to (supposedly) compress everything but images and PDFs. It’s working on the PHP and HTML files so I know it’s compiled in there and enabled.

Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP.

re: #104 Empire1

I started jury duty on 24 Nov (yep, Thanksgiving week), and got picked for a civil trial Monday that's supposed to last through Friday. I can't say anything much about it until it's over, but so far this is the longest and most irritating week I've ever lived through, including my two hospital stays for cancer and a stroke.

What's worse, it's just as bad for Mr. Empire, 'cause my vision hasn't recovered well enough from the stroke, so he has to take me up to the courthouse, then go back to Dover in the evening to pick me up. That's a roughly hour and a half round trip every time, and today he had to make it 3 times; we were originally scheduled to get off around noon, then told to come back at two, for a two-hour afternoon session.

The two good things are a nice jury group and a bailiff who is unfailingly cheerful and goes out of her way to be helpful. The rest of the experience sucks green bananas.

Legal lizards, a question, please. Is there some way for us to make our high opinion of our bailiff a part of her record? People like our Kim deserve recognition, and we'd like to see that she gets it.

I am not a lawyer, but I would suggest a letter to the head of bailiffs.

re: #99 SteveC

How's your head? I like ladies who have a really nice set of brains. Add a great smile and we have a winnah!

You're giving us Neanderthals a bad name.
Knock it off!
Okay?

///

re: #99 SteveC

How's your head? I like ladies who have a really nice set of brains. Add a great smile and we have a winnah!

Yeah...without the brains to drive it, a Ferrari-hott body might as well be the bastard child of an electric blanket and a blow-up doll. Brainy chicks know how to use what they got, whatever that might be.

Gotta run...
BBL

re: #103 Alaska Kim

As in Sarah Palin?!

No, Sarah's already got a First Dude. He probably doesn't like to share. I'm searching for my own First Lady, too.

re: #17 WrathofG-d

is there a story written or is it all verbal so far?
I dont get sound. need written word.

re: #99 SteveC

How's your head? I like ladies who have a really nice set of brains. Add a great smile and we have a winnah!

Let's just leave it at -- there are myriad reasons I'm a hermit.
I believe it was Descartes ex-girlfriend who said, "I think, therefore I'm single."

re: #106 realwest

Ah, the meds...

I'm doing well!
Golf game is improving, too!

re: #93 realwest

Ummm. If I remember correctly there is a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyer as well as a Spruance class type as well.

re: #97 notutopia
You don't understand. Obama owes the UAW more than any other single group (that we know about, anyway) - they not only gave him tons of money, but also managed to turn some 85,000 workers out to work for him sending mailings and the like. Big 3 go to bankruptcy and the Judge has the right to re-write the labor contracts.
Still and all, this bailout is already something like 9 BILLIN DOLLARS more than it was a week or so ago.
Wonder if the head of GM still gets $23 million a year in compensation?!

re: #115 hermit

Let's just leave it at -- there are myriad reasons I'm a hermit.
I believe it was Descartes ex-girlfriend who said, "I think, therefore I'm single."

LOL!
Are you my brother?

re: #85 ornery elephant

Where is the outcry from the Christian Left? (I'm assuming there's at least SOME Democrats that sit in a pew on Sunday)

It is right there with their outcries over India using truth serum drugs on terrorists (which was recently added to the list of "crimes" that Gitmo authorities have been accused of).

re: #119 J.D.

LOL!
Are you my brother?

No, Luke. I'm your sister.
Hahahahahaha

re: #118 realwest

$23,000,000 a year?

re: #100 karmic_inquisitor
Except for where nuclear power is concerned. IRRC, France gets 70+% of all of it's electrical power from nukes.

re: #114 Eowyn2

Article here & see my 95

~I'm sure Irv Rubin just slit his own throat and hoped the rail in prison too.

re: #121 hermit
That was a pretty good imitation of my brother...

re: #118 realwest

You don't understand. Obama owes the UAW more than any other single group (that we know about, anyway) - they not only gave him tons of money, but also managed to turn some 85,000 workers out to work for him sending mailings and the like. Big 3 go to bankruptcy and the Judge has the right to re-write the labor contracts.
Still and all, this bailout is already something like 9 BILLIN DOLLARS more than it was a week or so ago.
Wonder if the head of GM still gets $23 million a year in compensation?!

That is what needs to happen. Bust the union. The judge would have to hire bodyguards, though, or he may find himself at the bottom of an elevator shaft...accidentally, of course.

re: #100 karmic_inquisitor

Democrat big wigs will always talk about taking a vacation in France and admiring the fast trains and publicly owned gas/electric/airline/telephone/automobile companies. That and the socialized medicine (where doctors and pilots who get paid a lot and work very little go on strikes). To the American tourist, Paris looks so nice and pretty that socialism doesn't seem onerous.

The elites calling the shots from Nob Hill want America to be France Deux.

My sister went to France to teach a financial seminar. She said that the French financial system is pathetic. 2 hours to work, 2 hours for lunch and then, sometimes, 2 hours of work again. Nobody can open a new business without major gvmt interference and there is no competition. none. same prices and merchandise everywhere.

re: #126 CapeCoddah

'course.

re: #97 notutopia

Why is it so horrible that they file bankruptcy? They'll just start all over.
Why do we have to pay for this bailout/loan/umbrella/tent...
This country is going to END in bankruptcy if we continue this course of action on bailing out every failing industry that decides it needs revamping or reworking or retooling.

I say with confidence - The only reason the democrats are giving in to the feeding frenzy - is the UNIONS. The bailout is to protect the unions and the horrible union business model.

Why, two seconds after the democrats won - did the auto industry fat cats come groveling for money?

re: #115 hermit

Let's just leave it at -- there are myriad reasons I'm a hermit.
I believe it was Descartes ex-girlfriend who said, "I think, therefore I'm single."

can I use that?

re: #125 J.D.

That was a pretty good imitation of my brother...

Yeah? of mine, too. Probably where I got it! Nah, buddy, I've got 2 big clues for you I'm not your brother...

re: #121 hermit

No, Luke. I'm your sister.
Hahahahahaha

The Force is strong in this one!

re: #116 J.D.
Golf game? It was fricking 28 degrees here in the Southland at 9:00AM today - where'd you say you live again?! LOL!

re: #86 SteveC

Steve, This is hitting my home as I speak.
Both my husband and I are medical professionals.
I retired two years ago.
My husband ( a MD and a hospital employee) and his entire dept. were notified that they we being let go (Thanksgiving he was given notice, he's the Medical Director by the way) to outsource them to an independent contractor which will end up costing the facility almost twice what their current budget allots.
This was purportedly necessary according to the hospital, to meet the fiscal budget reports for medicare ( to keep the costs low) and to enable the hospital to keep it's public bond rating high enough to not cause default on it.
This is happening in many rural Health care facilities around the nation.
I envision us returning to metropolitan hospital systems and the public will just have to go to the local doc in a box for minor emergencies. Everything else they will have to drive to the urban centers for healthcare.
Hope those cardiac MI and CVA's make it there in the 20 minute for their SK.
NOT SARC!

re: #83 Bobibutu

Same here - 7th floor - old building.

A Jewish kid in Williamsburg fell 10 stories to his death when the elevator doors opened to an empty shaft.

re: #115 hermit

Let's just leave it at -- there are myriad reasons I'm a hermit.
I believe it was Descartes ex-girlfriend who said, "I think, therefore I'm single."

I've been married once, and I'll be buried once - and once is enough for either experience. Although I do support marriage as an institution - to the point that I believe that anyone who seriously considers doing it should be institutionalized for their own protection...

/

re: #97 notutopia

I would also add - the democrat party is not interested in bailing out non-unionized business. They can file for bankruptcy. .
(Ironically - non-unionized business can often withstand economic downturns.)

re: #117 Bubblehead II
Yeah, but those are classes of destroyers - this is one destroyer in the Russian Navy and not the "lead ship" in a line or class of Destroyers.

re: #134 realwest

64° right now...it was a beautiful day...
I know...you don't wanna hear about it...lol

re: #118 realwest

You don't understand. Obama owes the UAW more than any other single group (that we know about, anyway) - they not only gave him tons of money, but also managed to turn some 85,000 workers out to work for him sending mailings and the like. Big 3 go to bankruptcy and the Judge has the right to re-write the labor contracts.
Still and all, this bailout is already something like 9 BILLIN DOLLARS more than it was a week or so ago.
Wonder if the head of GM still gets $23 million a year in compensation?!

I think the GM CEO agreed to be paid $1 next year in place of the $23 million. Rumor has it that the U.A.W. immediately filed a grievance for $22,999,999.00 for back wages for members who were docked pay for showing up late on the day after football games.

/okay,legpull

re: #131 Eowyn2

can I use that?

Oh hell yah. It ain't mine. I stole it from a stand-up along the way. I think it was that gal who ended up playing Roseanne's sister on tv, not sure...

re: #104 Empire1 Uh, given your medical condition and all, couldn't you have gotten out of performing jury duty?

re: #123 realwest

Except for where nuclear power is concerned. IRRC, France gets 70+% of all of it's electrical power from nukes.

Yes - and they don't mind. The French have a general faith in the competence of different professionals in their work culture. You will like this - I told a lawyer joke there once and only got puzzled looks!

Sadly, they have a state owned television media, so much of the opinion making there is outsourced largely to the government itself.

re: #104 Empire1
PS - y'all could give a note to the Judge after the trial is over and sentence passed.

re: #100 karmic_inquisitor

Democrat big wigs will always talk about taking a vacation in France and admiring the fast trains and publicly owned gas/electric/airline/telephone/automobile companies. That and the socialized medicine (where doctors and pilots who get paid a lot and work very little go on strikes). To the American tourist, Paris looks so nice and pretty that socialism doesn't seem onerous.

The elites calling the shots from Nob Hill want America to be France Deux.

What so many Americans don't realize is that the moment the O takes office and the Democrat congress convenes, the US we once knew and loved will no longer be. It may not all happen the next day, but little by little they'll surrender this nation's sovereinty to the highest socialist bidder. Any opposition to this scenario will have to be started soon, because, I'm afraid, their momentum is building fast.

re: #137 Salamantis

Although I do support marriage as an institution -

Ahh yes, an institution and you have to be committed to get into it...hmmm?

He DATED an instructor of the Arab language class?
I just heard on Savage that he was GAY!
So, he dated a Muslim man?
Maybe this was an ''honor killing."

re: #134 realwest

Golf game? It was fricking 28 degrees here in the Southland at 9:00AM today - where'd you say you live again?! LOL!

For the very hearty there is the ...

Bering Sea Ice Classic just outside of Nome.

Bering Sea Ice Golf Classic: Third Saturday of March. Six hole course played on the frozen Bering Sea with bright orange golf balls. Par is 41. Cash prizes for best scores. $50 entry fee includes a t-shirt, hat, golf balls, tees (old shotgun shells), snake bite remedies (small bottles of vodka) and a certificate of completion. This is a fund-raiser for the Bering Sea Lions Club, Box 326, Nome, AK.

re: #127 Eowyn2

My sister went to France to teach a financial seminar. She said that the French financial system is pathetic. 2 hours to work, 2 hours for lunch and then, sometimes, 2 hours of work again. Nobody can open a new business without major gvmt interference and there is no competition. none. same prices and merchandise everywhere.

Ahhh yes - I miss the long lunches. WIne at lunch with your coworkers was common.

I will say that many folks do work late.

re: #111 Salamantis
Uh, Sal, women with " a Ferrari-hott body" know how to use what they have, too.

re: #109 CapeCoddah

I am not a lawyer, but I would suggest a letter to the head of bailiffs.

We'd like to make it something official, and from all of us, but if that's not possible, I'm already planning that as an individual thing.

re: #149 mean Gene

He DATED an instructor of the Arab language class?
I just heard on Savage that he was GAY!
So, he dated a Muslim man?
Maybe this was an ''honor killing."

Interesting point. I provide a link above (in 95) to the organization he was taking the classes from. I would love for some LGF'rs to do some research. I would but don't have the time.

re: #136 Alouette

A Jewish kid in Williamsburg fell 10 stories to his death when the elevator doors opened to an empty shaft.

That's how they got rid of Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law. Works every time!

re: #148 hermit

Ahh yes, an institution and you have to be committed to get into it...hmmm?

Nice double entendre...though probably not as nice as your other double, if your self-description is any clue...;~)

BBL

re: #95 WrathofG-d

My 149 was meant to link to this comment.
Sorry, I clicked when I should have clacked.

re: #153 Empire1

We'd like to make it something official, and from all of us, but if that's not possible, I'm already planning that as an individual thing.

Actually, 12 individual letters would be a nice addition to her file. That kind of thing gets you promoted.

re: #124 WrathofG-d

pathetic excuse for a police force if they really believe that this is an accident. He's on the 7th floor for a class in Arabic, and falls down the shaft of an elevator that is out of order but whose doors automatically open when he pushes the button?

how convenient.

re: #141 ornery elephant

I think the GM CEO agreed to be paid $1 next year in place of the $23 million. Rumor has it that the U.A.W. immediately filed a grievance for $22,999,999.00 for back wages for members who were docked pay for showing up late on the day after football games.

/okay,legpull

I *knew* you were jerkin' us around! Who'd watch the Detroit Lions for four quarters?

re: #122 J.D.
Yeppers - that's what was said at the first congressional hearings on a bailout of the Big 3.
Right after the Big 3 admitted they are losing Billions of bucks a month!

re: #138 FrogMarch

That's just it...the hard working non unionized businesses don't go bankrupt!

re: #139 realwest

True, but we don't name all our Nimitz class carriers after Admirals either. The decision to name a ship after an individual is a sign of respect for that individual. I:E The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

re: #163 SteveC

I *knew* you were jerkin' us around! Who'd watch the Detroit Lions for four quarters?

Good point!

re: #126 CapeCoddah
Yep, but I tell ya what - they (all three of 'em) need to change the top management and boards of directors too. Yes the unions have had a lot to do with the Big 3's downfall, but management didn't exactly help much, either.

Local news blurb radio guy just referred to Obama as Mr. Obama (since he technically has no title right no). Love it.

re: #162 Eowyn2

how did he get UP to the seventh floor?
how many elevators in the building?

re: #147 Soona'

Hye 'Soona...*WHACK*...I'm sorry, but you needed that. The election was not a landslide and we are still here as Americans who know exactly who our employees in DC are. You stay right here, have a glass of wine, and get away from that little Eeyore in your head,...okay?

/sorry, but you're a good kid and I felt that was necessary...

Good morning greetings from Father's Day in Thailand...

/the king's birth-date, and the king is 'father' to the Thais... except those
Pukes Against Democracy... they have no fathers...

re: #164 realwest

$1,916,666.67/month for running a failing company.
Whatta deal!

re: #166 buzzsawmonkey

You're great at these things. Did you see my link in 95 to the organization he was taking his Arabic language classes from? They give names of teachers, and other information. I would be very interested in knowing what one can find when they do some research on them (and the organization)

re: #152 realwest

Uh, Sal, women with " a Ferrari-hott body" know how to use what they have, too.

Even if they have no brains? I like creativity, sophistication, innovation, and a level of knowledge and experience...

Btw; I'm not claiming that hott bodies and bright brains are mutually exclusive...I have dated plenty of ladies who had both. Actually, that's a pretty good description of my preferences.

re: #172 hermit

ummm.. that was -- Hey Soona'...PIMF!

re: #155 WrathofG-d

Interesting point. I provide a link above (in 95) to the organization he was taking the classes from. I would love for some LGF'rs to do some research. I would but don't have the time.

Just look at that link...not one non-Muslim on the list.
I wonder which guy he dated.
Noureddine Amari?
Nasser Riyadh?
Maher Sabry?
or
Hashim Salih?

re: #167 Bubblehead II

True, but we don't name all our Nimitz class carriers after Admirals either. The decision to name a ship after an individual is a sign of respect for that individual. I:E The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

Then explain the Jimmy Carter.

/One bubblehead to another.

re: #177 Iron Fist

I wonder if the Obamessiah is starting to feel some "buyer's remorse" for having won the Presidency? Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. It may get you.

Well, if my mother-in-law was moving into the White House with me, I might just have to skip it!

re: #144 karmic_inquisitor
Oh,

Sadly, they have a state owned television media, so much of the opinion making there is outsourced largely to the government itself.

other than the ownership bit, you mean like our MSM?!

/One bubblehead couple to another.

IMPORTANT - if you're following the elevator shaft death or Dr. Kliman.
Inspector from SFgate article on Savage now!
[Link: www.streamaudio.com...]

re: #180 USCMSNE

Then explain the Jimmy Carter.

/One bubblehead to another.

The smaller vessels in the Navy are boats, Carter got a boat, Reagan got a Ship.

re: #146 Iron Fist
Screw all that - does it mean we have to eat snails too?! And pretend we like 'em?!?

re: #180 USCMSNE

Then explain the Jimmy Carter.

Out of sight, out of mind?

re: #150 Bobibutu
OK, well if I really liked golf I'd watch that - on my TV!

re: #169 realwest

Yep, but I tell ya what - they (all three of 'em) need to change the top management and boards of directors too. Yes the unions have had a lot to do with the Big 3's downfall, but management didn't exactly help much, either.

Agreed, everything needs to change. These same managers want us to put all this money in their hands, when they have done nothing but run 3 mainstay companies into the ground. I wont give my 18 year old 20 bucks, because she will waste it. Send them all packing, force them into bankruptcy, bust the union, and start over. Take a class with the Toyota people in common sense business practices. Unions were fantastic, a literal lifesaver when they came into being. Their usefulness has come to an end. With OSHA and thousands of other federal and state oversight laws, unions are no longer anything but masked gunman holding people and companies at gunpoint for the right to work and the right to do business.

re: #179 mean Gene
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re: #181 buzzsawmonkey

Oh that's simple. Just say you can't find them.

:)

re: #180 USCMSNE

You gotta be fucking kidding me!

Unfortunately he isn't.

Who where the FUCKING MORONS that allowed this to happen?

re: #167 Bubblehead II
Uh, yeah but what's that got to do with what I was talking about? At least we named the carrier after one of our greatest Presidents - who the hell ever heard of Admiral whatisname anyway?

re: #108 USCMSNE

Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the VC he could end up MIA, and then we'd all be put out in KP.

If you're a P-V-T, your duty
Is to salute to L-I-E-U-T
But if you brush the L-I-E-U-T
The M-P makes you K-P on the Q-T

re: #184 rightside

/ fuck you :-)

re: #198 Iron Fist

They had to rename the USS Benedict Arnold something, and it just seemed to fit!

Why? Was the USS Aaron Burr taken?

re: #143 realwest

Uh, given your medical condition and all, couldn't you have gotten out of performing jury duty?

Nope. I'm capable of normal daily function, except for driving (and legally capable of that, since I just got my driver's license renewal two weeks prior to jury duty; I simply won't drive, because even though I passed the vision test, neither Mr. Empire nor I consider it good enough to maneuver a large station wagon through heavy city traffic).

This state hates to excuse anyone, so unless you're moribund or the sole proprietor of a small business, you gotta go in.

Going up to the new post

re: #174 J.D.
Yeah! Hell I'd do it for half of that. Actually I'd do it for one month's worth of that pay - and probably wouldn't do a worse job!

re: #205 realwest

Hey, not so fast...I'm first in line! I'll bet I could run it into the ground just as well as he did, if I had to.

re: #197 realwest

The Russian people and military. How many of them have heard or remember Nimitz?

re: #180 USCMSNE
Hey, what does your nic stand for? I mean, I get the USN part, but what's the MSNE?!?

re: #189 SteveC

Out of sight, out of mind?

re: #202 buzzsawmonkey

Naming a submarine after Jimmy Carter makes sense; he was pretty much submerged and out of his depth during his entire presidency.

re: #198 Iron Fist

They had to rename the USS Benedict Arnold something, and it just seemed to fit!

re: #195 Bubblehead II

You gotta be fucking kidding me!

Unfortunately he isn't.

Who where the FUCKING MORONS that allowed this to happen?

Actually, I always though it was a bit of poetic justice to name the specific boat they did after him. Somehow, I doubt Carter is pleased to have that boat bear his name.

re: #207 Bubblehead II

The Russian people and military. How many of them have heard or remember Nimitz?

Admiral Nimitz had a summer cottage near me. When I do a tour with clients, I always point out his house. Half the time, I get blank stares. You would be surprised how many people are totally ignorant of who this hero is. BTW, his daughter still owns the house, and she is a lovely person.

re: #196 buzzsawmonkey

Yea sounds about right. I know where you are coming from.

Charles, this is so much faster now!
Yea!

re: #191 CapeCoddah

Agreed, everything needs to change. These same managers want us to put all this money in their hands, when they have done nothing but run 3 mainstay companies into the ground. I wont give my 18 year old 20 bucks, because she will waste it. Send them all packing, force them into bankruptcy, bust the union, and start over. Take a class with the Toyota people in common sense business practices. Unions were fantastic, a literal lifesaver when they came into being. Their usefulness has come to an end. With OSHA and thousands of other federal and state oversight laws, unions are no longer anything but masked gunman holding people and companies at gunpoint for the right to work and the right to do business.

This is a very thorough comment. The problem, of course, is that it is about one group of insiders helping another. Otherwise they could just allow the bankruptcy process to happen. After all, the equipment and trained employees still exist. The CEO's and board directors should be fired and fined. If there is no legal avenue for that then they should make one.

How many times does Jack Bauer say 'thank-you" in each episode.

Of course he was murdered. No question about it.

re: #207 Bubblehead II
Well I reckon that any Russian who was at least 12 or more years old during WWII heard of Nimitz.

Going to next thread!

re: #178 hermit

ummm.. that was -- Hey Soona'...PIMF!

The "WHACK" is taken with a smiling grimmace (ouch, shit!). I hope you're right. I know I'll try to do my part in preventing us being put on the world's auction block.

Any Canadians here? I understand Prime Minister Harper was going to address your nation tonight. What did he say? Did he fire the Governor General, or did the opposite happen?

re: #145 realwest

PS - y'all could give a note to the Judge after the trial is over and sentence passed.

Good idea! I'll try to work something up that I can take in for everyone to sign. Thanks! Good work like hers deserves recognition.

re: #161 CapeCoddah

Actually, 12 individual letters would be a nice addition to her file. That kind of thing gets you promoted.

I'll mention that, but having organized group things before, I'm afraid most folks would forget or not bother, so I'm inclined to stick with the kind of note Realwest mentioned. I doubt there'd be a way to get it included in the trial record, like a jury note after the verdict, or I'd go for that.

re: #71 Racer X

i'm glad the parents are fuming. it shows the brits are getting sick of islam pushing aside their traditions. it's ridiculous to continue this capitulation to the rop. britain, stand up. push back. stop the madness.
put on the christmas play.

re: #177 Iron Fist

I wonder if the Obamessiah is starting to feel some "buyer's remorse" for having won the Presidency? Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for. It may get you.

someone posted last wk. that the O is like a dog who finally caught the car and now doesn't know what to do.

re: #167 Bubblehead II

True, but we don't name all our Nimitz class carriers after Admirals either. The decision to name a ship after an individual is a sign of respect for that individual. I:E The USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

We're getting ready to turn the USS George H W Bush (CVN 77) over to the Navy next month. It's sitting about 500 feet from my office door at work right now.

re: #224 blues fan

The bow is made out of recycled steel from the WTC if I remember correctly.

re: #225 Bubblehead II

The bow is made out of recycled steel from the WTC if I remember correctly.

That would be the USS New York, which is a San Antonio-class of amphibious transport dock ships.

re: #103 Alaska Kim

As in Sarah Palin?!

AK Kim -

"...you betcha..." - AND - she is more than that - "J" School graduate, Sportscaster, Businesswoman, Mayor of He Town and Governor of her state apart from being a MOM of five (5) children - WORKS FOR ME!

-S-

OK, I drafted up a note I'll take in tomorrow. If the rest like my wording, I'll type in up nomorrow night and get signatures Friday to give the judge after the verdict.

Thanks to all who helped work this out!

re: #203 Empire1

Nope. I'm capable of normal daily function, except for driving (and legally capable of that, since I just got my driver's license renewal two weeks prior to jury duty; I simply won't drive, because even though I passed the vision test, neither Mr. Empire nor I consider it good enough to maneuver a large station wagon through heavy city traffic).

This state hates to excuse anyone, so unless you're moribund or the sole proprietor of a small business, you gotta go in.

I wouldn't mind jury duty. They call me a couple times of year, but the defense attorneys keep tossing me out. ;-)>

re: #229 Outrider

I wouldn't mind jury duty. They call me a couple times of year, but the defense attorneys keep tossing me out. ;-)>

LOL! Any idea why?

re: #230 Empire1

LOL! Any idea why?

none. I've never been questioned. They just point and say I can go.

re: #231 Outrider

none. I've never been questioned. They just point and say I can go.

Durn, not a lot of help. You must look intimidating or something, then --- kinda hard for a 5' 2" chubby female to manage. ::sigh::

re: #232 Empire1

Durn, not a lot of help. You must look intimidating or something, then --- kinda hard for a 5' 2" chubby female to manage. ::sigh::

I don't think so. ;-)>

re: #233 Outrider

I don't think so. ;-)>

Wulll ... from that picture, you'd intimidate ME! Of course, I'm a bit of a wimp, unless someone I care for is being threatened -- in which case I turn into a short, fat, buzzsaw!

re: #233 Outrider

Oh, I've bookmarked your blog, and plan to visit regularly after this jury duty is done. It looks most interesting!

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Charles, you did a wonderful job getting this up and going just fine. Thanks so much.