Paging Mr. Obama . . .

re: #1 Wyatt Earp

How is your little one doing? Home yet or still at the hospital?

Our Founders Rock!

*cartwheels through the room and vaults into his chair*

10 10 9.5 10 10

Mmmm, Open Thread goodness...

re: #2 Desert Dog

How is your little one doing? Home yet or still at the hospital?

She's home! (Pics included.) Thanks for asking.

Powerful quote.

Today's Democrats, who imagine themselves to be the descendants of Jefferson, really hate hearing it.

Trust me... personal experience speaking loudly here.

re: #4 SurferDoc

Mmm, that new open thread smell.

re: #6 stevieray

Powerful quote.

Today's Democrats, who imagine themselves to be the descendants of Jefferson, really hate hearing it.

Trust me... personal experience speaking loudly here.

Jefferson wouldn't let today's Democrats clean his stables.

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

Fine looking family there, Wyatt. My little one is pushing 9 now, my oldest is already out of the house...

*stretches out* Ah, a nice warm thread with lots of leg room. I believe Thomas was correct. Having seen what a bloated government bureaucracy up here is capable of, I want mine as small as necessary.

re: #9 Desert Dog

Fine looking family there, Wyatt. My little one is pushing 9 now, my oldest is already out of the house...

Thanks! The wife and I realized that "Irish Twins" are much more demanding than we ever dreamed. A good kind of demanding, though.

We've got what it takes to take what you've got.

-The Obama Administration and the 111th congress.

As you will hear on the southern slopes of Mt. Everest, "शुभ रात्री, y'all."

re: #13 razorbacker

Do you have to load up the "Nepalese Language Characters" on your browser to post that? I didn't even know they had one for that. I don't make it to Nepal often enough, I guess.

Hello Night Lizards! It is cold and dark in Near Iowa tonite.

I can't sleep --what's your reason for being here?

How are you-all and what are we talking about?

re: #14 Desert Dog

Do you have to load up the "Nepalese Language Characters" on your browser to post that? I didn't even know they had one for that. I don't make it to Nepal often enough, I guess.

I was there twice last month. Rookie. :)

re: #14 Desert Dog

Do you have to load up the "Nepalese Language Characters" on your browser to post that? I didn't even know they had one for that. I don't make it to Nepal often enough, I guess.

Nope. Just cut and paste. But I use Opera. Highbrow sort, donchaknow?

www.break.com/usercontent/2007/6/Funny-Sleep-Compilation-309570.html

Anyone else feeling like this?

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

Congrats Wyatt!

Hiya ggt! It is cool and dark here in the Mojave Desert and I'm here because it's only 11:19.

Good night fellow lizards, I am getting the orders from headquarters that my posting for this evening has ended. Off to slumber time for me.

Great quote.

Hi, Blue! Save me some fruitcup?

re: #19 ggt

Congrats Wyatt!

Thanks! First girl (with my three sons). Life is good.

re: #23 Sharmuta

No problem. Are you out of here early to night?

/it will be beside red's stash of fixings and beer.
//going to have to find a new location for the fridge on of these years.

re: #20 SurferDoc

Why are you in the desert at 11:19pm. Shouldn't you be inside?

:0

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

She's home! (Pics included.) Thanks for asking.

Wow! Three big brothers to protect her- lucky girl. And beautiful too.

Congrats again.

re: #24 Wyatt Earp

3 older brothers, is she ever going to get to date?

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

She's home! (Pics included.) Thanks for asking.

Congrats, and what a pretty wife.

re: #27 Sharmuta

Wow! Three big brothers to protect her- lucky girl. And beautiful too.

Congrats again.

Thanks, Sharmuta! Even the 10-month old is protective. It's cool.

re: #28 ggt

Ab. So. Lutely. NOT!

re: #29 pat

Congrats, and what a pretty wife.

That gets an upding, since she is looking over my shoulder. :) Bottle time for Julia, so I must run. Good night, all!

re: #14 Desert Dog

The person who attempted to teach me to speak French finally threw her hands up in disgust and informed me that, "You better stick to the south of France with that cornpone accent."

It amused me. Which infuriated her even more. Which amused me more.

I lose friends that way.

'night, y'all.

re: #28 ggt

Ab. So. Lutely. NOT!

LOL

re: #26 ggt

Why are you in the desert at 11:19pm. Shouldn't you be inside?

:0

Are you outside in Near Iowa? ;)

re: #34 SurferDoc

LOL

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

She's home! (Pics included.) Thanks for asking.

Congra♀s, Wyatt ! ! !
Julia Elizabeth is beeyoootiful!

re: #35 ggt

LOL

Hehe!

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

She's home! (Pics included.) Thanks for asking.

She's gorgeous!

Can she say her name yet? **EARP**
;)

re: #5 Wyatt Earp

What a beautiful family you have! Congratulations.

re: #25 BlueCanuck

Yeah- leaving in a few, Hon.

re: #30 Wyatt Earp

That's awesome. I'm so happy for you. And at Christmas time, too. I can't think of a more wondrous time of year to have a little baby. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas!

re: #31 Wyatt Earp

That gets an upding, since she is looking over my shoulder. :) Bottle time for Julia, so I must run. Good night, all!

Nite. Pat knows beauty.

re: #20 SurferDoc

Brrr, it must be cold over the mountains in the mojave. Specially at this time.

re: #18 Wide Right

[Link: www.break.com...]

Anyone else feeling like this?

¦O ^{_{ya-a-a-w-w-w-n-n-n}}

_{That last one was priceless!}

re: #42 eddiespaghetti

Brrr, it must be cold over the mountains in the mojave. Specially at this time.

I'm in the foothills of the Southern Sierras right now and it is 50 degrees. It is probably 15 degrees colder up in the mountains.

re: #43 LeePro

¦O ^{_{ya-a-a-w-w-w-n-n-n}}

That last one was priceless!

How does that one kid sleep with that bouncing ballish/land-mine-looking thing going?

re: #38 gmsc

She's gorgeous!

Can she say her name yet? **EARP**
;)

OMG!

ROTFLMAO
...LMAO
...LMAO

Damn!
I can't seem to stop LMAO ! ! !

re: #44 SurferDoc

Adiabatic lapse rate will tell you the temp if u know your current temp/alt and your alternate higher altitude/temp. Usually about 1 degree per 100 meters:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #45 gmsc

How does that one kid sleep with that bouncing ballish/land-mine-looking thing going?

It's a special talent that mysteriously returns after age 60.

Promise.

¦·o ^_zzz

_{* * *snort* * *}

_{oh... sorry!}

re: #48 LeePro

It's a special talent that mysteriously returns after age 60.

Promise.

¦·o ^_zzz

* * *snort* * *

oh... sorry!

So, I'll find out in half a lifetime?

We're from the government, and we're here to help.
How is everyone tonight?
Are we discussing anything important?
Or still engaged in mockery of Ms. Palin?

re: #47 eddiespaghetti

Adiabatic lapse rate will tell you the temp if u know your current temp/alt and your alternate higher altitude/temp. Usually about 1 degree per 100 meters:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Yahoo weather says 28 degrees at Kennedy Meadows--about 2000 meters above me. Close, eh?

re: #46 LeePro

OMG!

ROTFLMAO
...LMAO
...LMAO

Damn!
I can't seem to stop LMAO ! ! !

As Shel Silverstein always said, "Put something silly in the world that wasn't there before!"

Been up in the Spin-off links. Seems the anti-science crowd is honeing in on pasteurizing milk now.

I did a google and got Louis Pasteur and the Myth of Pasteurization

WTF?

* * * feverishly trying to do the math without the aid of calculator * * *

I'm 6 2/3 years past that. Does that mean I'm all used up?

/avatar is damn liar?

re: #54 LeePro

* * * feverishly trying to do the math without the aid of calculator * * *

I'm 6 2/3 years past that. Does that mean I'm all used up?

/avatar is damn liar?

Not even close!

re: #52 gmsc

As Shel Silverstein always said, "Put something silly in the world that wasn't there before!"

Ahhh. Shel. Magic!

great quote! love it. amen.

So, I go to weather.com to check the temperature outside my house (don't laugh-you've done it too!) and see, under the search box on the left: Weatherunderground.com.

WTF?

BTW, the weather outside my house is F--KING COLD!

re: #50 rawmuse

Dear Sir,

Future CIC Palin is out with the boats hauling some fine salmon tonight, and after that...dressing Moose kills! Please show proper respect.
(Besides, she promised to knit me some Muk-Luk's for baby Benjiman!)

Have a heart Man!

re: #54 LeePro

Heck no, my mom still runs circles around me. And she's older then you. :)

/and blind too.
//Hope I'm as spunky when I hit her age.

re: #58 ggt

Okay, you win. It's only -2° C here in the Great White North.

/at least we have snow on the ground right now.

re: #59 Nightwatch

Hey, pal, you won't find a bigger Palin supporter than me. I decided that other thread was just ordinary mockery.

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but the above quote is actually from Gerald Ford...yeah, that Gerald Ford.

Link

re: #58 ggt

So, I go to weather.com to check the temperature outside my house (don't laugh-you've done it too!) and see, under the search box on the left: Weatherunderground.com.

WTF?

BTW, the weather outside my house is F--KING COLD!

Shit! Your URL at the top says [Link: www[dot]wunderground[dot]com!...]

I use this one. All info comes from the Weather Channel and they have a cool Firefox addon!

Actually Gov. Palin is home baking cookies tonight. Next week is the annual Governor's Open House at the Governor's Mansion.

Everyone in town is welcome. She plans to have 30,000 cookies available.

I'll put a few in my pocket for all the Lizards.

Great quote, but it's misattributed. Oddly enough, it's from Gerald R. Ford.

[Link: www.bartleby.com...]

re: #15 ggt

With all due respect...seems we have a "new life brought" among the postings tonight,, THAT is a major UP-DING...if only I knew how to do that.

Here in Vegas, it's 280° K!

re: #51 SurferDoc

Damn, the laws of physics don't lie!

re: #61 BlueCanuck

we do too! We may have a white Christmas.

re: #69 eddiespaghetti

Damn, the laws of physics don't lie!

Nope, they sure don't!

re: #60 BlueCanuck

Heck no, my mom still runs circles around me. And she's older then you. :)

/and blind too.
//Hope I'm as spunky when I hit her age.

Good for her ! ! !

re: #63 stonemason

I was wondering, I have a copy of it taped to the monitor on my other computer. Perhaps Ford was quoting Jefferson?

re: #73 ggt

I was wondering, I have a copy of it taped to the monitor on my other computer. Perhaps Ford was quoting Jefferson?

It's a Ford quote. It's regularly misattributed to Jefferson, Reagan and/or Goldwater.

re: #64 LeePro

Hey LeePro, how ya doin'?

re: #73 ggt

Not according to the sources I found on it. I only linked the Google, JimH linked Bartleby, and I have seen it elsewhere attributed to Ford after it was attributed to Goldwater. This is most definately a Gerald Ford quote.

(my family once took me to task for this and I looked into it a few years ago.)

re: #18 Wide Right

[Link: www.break.com...]

Anyone else feeling like this?

I wish I did. But I haven't in a very long time. At least without heavy medication

I thought it was Pres. Gerald Ford who said the above famous quote. Am I wrong?

re: #76 stonemason

thanks!

re: #62 rawmuse

No...NO...NNNOOO...so I have to go to POSTING SCHOOL NOW?

Really,, I need the auto sarc off/on/off/on moduale? Dictate my posts via an approved lizard-knowing rep? W T F...so Here, is this what you
want? I give up.

Good-bye

It's a Ford quote, not Jefferson's.

"Of course you can trust the government... just ask an Indian!"

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and that's usually enough"

"The wages of sin are actually pretty good. It's the retirement plan that stinks"
___
Some of my fave quotes.

re: #81 Rancher

It's a Ford quote, not Jefferson's.

Although once Jefferson heard, he kept taking credit for it.
;)

'Architect' of 9/11 to go on trial

On Monday morning, a heavily built man will be led from a concrete cell, whose slit window overlooks the Caribbean, by soldiers whose name tags have been removed from their uniforms and replaced with a Velcro strip reading: "I don't know."

He will be taken to a high security courtroom to sit beside four co-defendants and a glass wall - all that will separate him from 10 families who lost loved ones in the terrorist atrocities which he is accused of masterminding.

This moment will mark the onset of five days of trial hearings against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-styled architect of the September 11th attacks and once the number three in al-Qaeda's hierarchy. The guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the scene of the military tribunal, will be anonymous to prevent reprisal attacks on their families.

This moment will be filled with meaning for President George W Bush's Administration, which will have just 43 days left in power; for Barack Obama, who has vowed to close the camp, and for Alice Hoagland, who will sit behind the screen looking at the man responsible for the death of her son, Mark Bingham. He died on United Flight 93, which plunged into the Pennsylvania countryside as its passengers tried to take back the hijacked aircraft.

/let's get him hanged before Obama can pardon him

2 Indian citizens are now under arrest for having bought phone cards for the Mumbai terrorists. And looks like one of the two was a Police officer.

-15°C here.

/-21°C with wind chill

The Obama presidential coin must not be selling the way it's being advertised I mean if supplies are limited and all.

I've been having great fun watching the most bizarre movie on YouTube:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10

I've always heard it attributed to Jefferson.

/learn sumptin' new every day

re: #86 Killian Bundy

-15°C here.

/-21°C with wind chill

Thanks for the reminder! Time to watch "Fargo". BBL...

re: #85 Rancher

provided SIM cards? Isn't that the little, itty bitty, card with the smaller computer chip on a sticker? Did the SIM cards contain information?

Bank of America cut funds to a chicago factory and refused to allow the Factory to pay owed wages to the workers. Wasn't the bailout of bank to enable them to start loaning to businesses again.

re: #91 ggt Sim cards contain the phone number etc for the phone and are required for it to communicate with the cellular towers etc.

So the Sim cards had to have been activated or the phones wouldn't have worked. Sim cards are like the phones key and ID in one.

re: #92 Rancher

Bank of America cut funds to a chicago factory and refused to allow the Factory to pay owed wages to the workers. Wasn't the bailout of bank to enable them to start loaning to businesses again.

I hadn't heard about this, but I found it on Google News. Interesting . . .

OMG fox playing video of OJ joking about how he didn't mind friends stole his stuff because "I'd rather have friends steal it than let the Goldman's have it."

re: #88 gmsc

I've been having great fun watching the most bizarre movie on YouTube:

As in H.R PUFNSTUF?

/it was a lame kiddie show

re: #96 Rancher

OMG fox playing video of OJ joking about how he didn't mind friends stole his stuff because "I'd rather have friends steal it than let the Goldman's have it."

Not only has OJ been found guilty of kidnapping, but so has Boy George!

re: #97 Killian Bundy

As in H.R PUFNSTUF?

/it was a lame kiddie show

Yep - but I'd never before seen the movie that started it all.

I have fond memories of those Krofft shows.

/Never did care for Bigfoot & Wildboy, though

re: #75 ggt

Hey LeePro, how ya doin'?

:D You?
Sorry, got sidetracked on that quote. Will have to concede to StoneMason!

re: #99 gmsc

Yep - but I'd never before seen the movie that started it all./blockquote>

/the series came first in 1969

re: #97 Killian Bundy

As in H.R PUFNSTUF?

/it was a lame kiddie show

If you watch that movie long enough, you'll see Mama Cass Elliott do a song or two!

re: #76 stonemason

Hey, stonemason!
How's the NOT-smoking?

Me? 1 year, 5 weeks!

Haha the Washington Sign protesting the existance of God, devils etc was stolen and returned now has a new sign attached "tho shalt not steal" exodus 20.15

re: #101 Killian Bundy

/the series came first in 1969

re: #97 Killian Bundy

That's interesting.

As in H.R PUFNSTUF?

/it was a lame kiddie show

Well, the Kroffts still seem to be influencing pop culture to this day!

What is the tattoo on his head?

So apparently a Christmas tree is bad the bible is bad unless they(atheists/Anti Christmas folks) want to quote it.

re: #106 ggt
Looks like a 6 pointed star I refuse to say Star of David in this case.

mind bleach warning

re: #108 Rancher

yeah, I was wondering. . . .

re: #107 Rancher

So apparently a Christmas tree is bad the bible is bad unless they(atheists/Anti Christmas folks) want to quote it.

It could be that they're trying to show the hypocrisy of someone stealing something in order to protect Christmas.

When I heard about the sign, I thought the atheist group should've put a Bible quote, actually. Quoting Jeremah 10:1-4 right next to a Christmas tree could've at least made people think more than the sign they put up.

Oh I got the irony of the theft etc. Just find it funny they went to the bible for their quote since they oppose religious writings at state buildings.

re: #106 ggt

What is the tattoo on his head?

/is putting Boy George in prison punishment or a reward?

re: #111 gmsc

I like that.

re: #113 Killian Bundy

LOL

Lock him up with Rosie O'donnell perferably in gittmo or someplace outside the US.

I hope Israel grants sanctuary or citizenship for Moesha's nanny.

re: #88 gmsc

I've been having great fun watching the most bizarre movie on YouTube:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8
Part 9
Part 10

I didn't know that Nancy Pelosi was in the movies before she went into politics...

re: #118 Dustyvet

I didn't know that Nancy Pelosi was in the movies before she went into politics...

Nah, Nancy Pelosi wouldn't need the makeup to focus attention on her eyes.

(I've never been able to find out, does Pelosi have exophthalmia?)

re: #109 ggt

mind bleach warning

Morning Lizards on the LNDT. Why do I always click on the links knowing fully well I am oing to regret it?

Pearl Harbor

/never forget

re: #121 Killian Bundy

Pearl Harbor

/never forget

Interesting, that Dec. 7th was also a Sunday.

Trivia question: What was the only U.S. state bombed by the Japanese in World War II?

re: #123 gmsc

Washington?

re: #103 LeePro

re: #76 stonemason

Hey, stonemason!
How's the NOT-smoking?

Me? 1 year, 5 weeks!

Stonemason? ? ? You still here?

re: #123 gmsc

Trivia question: What was the only U.S. state bombed by the Japanese in World War II?

Killed a couple of people that found an unexploded balloon bomb.

/it was Washington or Oregon, can't remember which

re: #123 gmsc

California.

I believe it was Washington-one of the baloon borne bombs.

re: #127 clear vision

California.

/no, they shelled that from a submarine

re: #123 gmsc

Trivia question: What was the only U.S. state bombed by the Japanese in World War II?

Tricky.
Hawaii, but was only territory then, not a state!

re: #124 BignJames

Washington?

re: #126 Killian Bundy

Killed a couple of people that found an unexploded balloon bomb.

/it was Washington or Oregon, can't remember which

re: #127 clear vision

California.

Only one of you guessed it correctly - it's Oregon!

re: #129 Killian Bundy

Killed a ferris wheel.

re: #129 Killian Bundy

Washington, Oregon, California -- what's the difference?

/from the Midwest

weet dreams all!

re: #131 gmsc

Only one of you guessed it correctly - it's Oregon!

WOW!
Never knew that!

nice quote

Thomas Jefferson also once said:

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it's true principles.

what's up, night lizards

Weren't some peeps in California killed by a Japanese sub's deck gun? seems I remember reading about it; the sub was sunk shortly afterwards by a patrolling destroyer.

re: #130 LeePro

Tricky.
Hawaii, but was only territory then, not a state!

Most people answer "Hawaii" right away when I asked that, and then I usually have to remind them that Hawaii was bombed 18 years before it became a U.S. state!

God Bless America.

re: #121 Killian Bundy

Pearl Harbor

/never forget

According to 0bama, only one bomb fell on Pearl Harbor!

re: #140 gmsc

According to 0bama, only one bomb fell on Pearl Harbor!

How oh how did this clown become president Of the USA?

re: #123 gmsc

Not True: most of the western states were hit by Jap (can I say that) balloon bombs. If you look at the Smithsonian review of this subject, Japanese bombs KILLED people from Oregon (the only case, 5 dead), but the bombs hit over a dozen states. The subject was not put in public review, it was censored...

re: #140 gmsc

He had a few gaffes like that. But thinking we had 60 states, had to have been his worst. I've seen the number of stars change in the flag, and was always aware of how many states we had.

re: #137 Pietr

Weren't some peeps in California killed by a Japanese sub's deck gun? seems I remember reading about it; the sub was sunk shortly afterwards by a patrolling destroyer.

The Japanese did come out of submarine and shell an oil field in Ellwood City (near Santa Barbara), California in 1942.

re: #142 eddiespaghetti

Not True: most of the western states were hit by Jap (can I say that) balloon bombs. If you look at the Smithsonian review of this subject, Japanese bombs KILLED people from Oregon (the only case, 5 dead), but the bombs hit over a dozen states. The subject was not put in public review, it was censored...

I should say "bombed by Japanese aircraft" to be more specific. Sorry.

re: #138 gmsc

wow...
Thought Firefox blow-up awhile ago musta' disappeared me. Couldn't get back on here for a while. Had to reboot twice.

Goin'a bed anyway...
'Nite, {Lizards}!

"...with respect to our rights, and the acts of the British government contravening those rights, there was but one opinion on this side of the water. All American Whigs thought alike on these subjects. When forced, therefore, to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification. This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of, not merely to say things which had never been said before; but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. Neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing, it was intended to be an expression of the American mind, and to give to that expression the proper tone and spirit called for by the occasion. All its authority rests then on the harmonizing sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversation, in letters, printed essays, or in the elementary books of public right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney, &c. ..."

- Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Henry Lee (May 8, 1825)

As we can see most clearly from the author of our most important text as a nation, "change" was not on the Founders' minds.

re: #145 gmsc

Clive Cussler referenced it in one of his Dirk Pitt novels, I think. Probably why it stuck in my head.

re: #143 Pietr

He had a few gaffes like that. But thinking we had 60 states, had to have been his worst. I've seen the number of stars change in the flag, and was always aware of how many states we had.

Watch the whole video - almost all of his election gaffes are there - 10 minutes worth!

re: #147 LeePro

wow...
Thought Firefox blow-up awhile ago musta' disappeared me. Couldn't get back on here for a while. Had to reboot twice.

Goin'a bed anyway...
'Nite, {Lizards}!

Good night, LeePro!

Weet dreams!

re: #141 Erik The Red

How oh how did this clown become president Of the USA?

/that's easy, he got 100% of the moron vote

re: #146 gmsc

Cite please.

re: #152 Killian Bundy

Have seen that. Don't know whether to lmao or curl up and ball my eyes out.

re: #146 gmsc

Cause the answer is clearly Alaska.

re: #153 eddiespaghetti

Cite please.

/see #131

Night {LeePro} weet dreams.

re: #155 eddiespaghetti

Cause the answer is clearly Alaska.

That too.

/Dutch Harbor

re: #158 Killian Bundy

That ONLY, I believe. Japs balloon bombed over a dozen western states, never "bombed" (via a physical jap bomber) any other state...

Clearly they bombed Dutch Harbor, and Adak.

So do I win the trivia question?

re: #159 eddiespaghetti

That ONLY, I believe. Japs balloon bombed over a dozen western states, never "bombed" (via a physical jap bomber) any other state...

Clearly they bombed Dutch Harbor, and Adak.

/look at gmsc's #131

re: #159 eddiespaghetti

Alaska wasn't a state.

re: #162 BignJames

Alaska wasn't a state.

/ooh, tecnicality

re: #161 Killian Bundy

Oregon is not correct.

Barak Malvolio's The Twelve Nights of Congress
(the marshmallow free version)

One the 1st night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Your hostage 401k

One the 2nd night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

One the 3rd night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

On the 4th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums,
And your hostage 401k

On the 5th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Five stolen dreams, Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs,
Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

On the 6th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Six homes evicting, Five stolen dreams, Four junk bonds,
Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

On the 7th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Seven bailouts floating, Six homes evicting, Five stolen dreams,
Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums,
And your hostage 401k

On the 8th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Eight pockets picking, Seven bailouts floating, Six homes evicting,
Five stolen dreams, Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs,
Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

On the 9th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Nine bankers dancing, Eight pockets picking, Seven bailouts floating,
Six homes evicting, Five stolen dreams, Four junk bonds,
Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

On the 10th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Ten checks a-kiting, Nine bankers dancing, Eight pockets picking,
Seven bailouts floating, Six homes evicting, Five stolen dreams,
Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums,
And your hostage 401k

On the 11th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Eleven panderers pandering, Ten checks a-kiting, Nine bankers dancing,
Eight pockets picking, Seven bailouts floating, Six homes evicting,
Five stolen dreams, Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs,
Two welfare bums, And your hostage 401k

On the 12th night of Congress, The Baboons gave to me
Twelve lobbyist lobbing, Eleven panderers pandering,
Ten checks a-kiting, Nine bankers dancing, Eight pockets picking,
Seven bailouts floating, Six homes evicting, Five stolen dreams,
Four junk bonds, Three broke heirs, Two welfare bums,
And your hostage 401k!

[B]arak
[O]bama's
[H]ope
[I]s
[C]hanging
[A]merica!

re: #152 Killian Bundy

/that's easy, he got 100% of the moron vote

I would have to say that it was a coalition of Depraved-Americans, Stupid-Americans, Ignorant-Americans, Deceased-Americans, and Imaginary-Americans.

No Japanese Aircraft ever attacked Oregon.

OK, you got me that Alaska was not a state (at the time), but this is very lawyer-ly. (shame on you) And they did attack Adak and Dutch Harbor in the state currently considered Alaska.

re: #167 eddiespaghetti

Fujita's Attack

re: #166 The Other Les

I would have to say that it was a coalition of Depraved-Americans, Stupid-Americans, Ignorant-Americans, Deceased-Americans, and Imaginary-Americans.

Is an illegal alien an imaginary American? Or is that Michael Moore?

//g'nite folks ...

re: #164 eddiespaghetti

Oregon is not correct.

Did you watch the video?

In the predawn darkness of September 9, 1942, the Japanese submarine I-25 surfaced off the southern coast of Oregon near Cape Blanco. The Japanese crew quickly assembled a small modified Zero (Glen) floatplane and launched pilot Nobuo Fujita and his observer Shoji Okuda into the foggy skies above.

The Japanese mission was to "strike terror into the hearts of the American people" by starting devastating forest fires and diverting much-needed resources from fighting the war. The bombings could also force the United States Navy to retreat from the Pacific to protect the West Coast.

Fujita flew his plane to the southeast and dropped two 170 lb. thermite incendiary bombs on Wheeler ridge near Mt. Emily (19-miles east of Brookings). This was the first aerial bombing raid of the United States mainland by a foreign power. Fires were started by the resulting explosions but were quickly extinguished by forest service personnel.

/Oregon seem to have turned the bombing site into a tourist attraction

Submission. You were correct, did not know that Oregon (as well as Alaska) was physically bombed by a Japanese bomber...

Learned something!

re: #163 Killian Bundy

/ooh, tecnicality

aka fact

re: #169 blackpajamas

Is an illegal alien an imaginary American? Or is that Michael Moore?

//g'nite folks ...

I'd call him an Illegal-American.

(ducks)

re: #163 Killian Bundy

/ooh, tecnicality

The technicality is part of the fun of asking the question! Many people hear "U.S. State", and immediately think, "Hawaii, of course!". Neither Hawaii nor Alaska became a state until 1959.

Wow...those "How Obama Got Elected" videos...

re: #174 gmsc

Here's a great way to get a couple of free drinks in a bar. On December 21st walk into your favourite watering hole and bet one of your drinking buddies it's not the shortest day of the year. When they take you up on it just go, there's twenty four hours in this day just like the rest.

/make sure to leave your coat on if you need to beat a hasty exit.

re: #174 gmsc

Touche!

Now, all the Japanese bombing of the U.S. mainland only killed six people.

/having a picnic in Oregon

re: #178 Killian Bundy

Discovery Channel had a special on Japanese balloon bombs (and the child manufacturing of them) the other day.

Watching Kill Bill 2.

/world's best cat fight ever

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

re: #150 gmsc

Watch the whole video - almost all of his election gaffes are there - 10 minutes worth!

Excellent video. What a wonnerful worl' then...Why do you think YouTube has disabled comments on this Obama video?

re: #178 Killian Bundy

Now, all the Japanese bombing of the U.S. mainland only killed six people.

/having a picnic in Oregon

The original idea behind the Japanese attacks on the West Coast was to start forest fires and other disasters that would divert and destroy resources that would otherwise go to the war effort.

More fun facts about Oregon here

re: #181 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Thank you! Yum!

gmsc! :-)

re: #182 Smilla

Excellent video. What a wonnerful worl' then...Why do you think YouTube has disabled comments on this Obama video?

They didn't. I did when I posted that video. I'd rather not have to deal with the inevitable negative comments that would get posted on there ("You're just racist!", etc.)

Iron fist out, g-night!

re: #187 eddiespaghetti

Iron fist out, g-night!

Good night!

Just grabbing fruitcup and running, eh?

re: #186 gmsc

Good idea. They're as tiresome as the anti-Palin tirades.

re: #182 Smilla

Probably because the anti BO moonbat comments would have the Secret Service and FBI demanding Youtube release all subscriber info, so they could identify possible threats.

re: #185 littleoldlady

gmsc! :-)

How was it last night, since the hamsters seemed to slow down on last night's thread?

re: #190 Pietr

Of course! That's the fairness doctrine, right?

re: #186 gmsc

I guessed wrong, I see...:>(

re: #193 Pietr

Works either way!

Fruit-cup? Need a formal xplanation, seen it here off hand, but don't know the formal definition...

re: #191 gmsc

I missed that. I got sucked into Harry Potter Weekend on the Family channel.

Slow threads aren't helping my children slow computer, which is making some gawdawful noises this morning.

:-(

re: #196 littleoldlady

I missed that. I got sucked into Harry Potter Weekend on the Family channel.

Slow threads aren't helping my children slow computer, which is making some gawdawful noises this morning.

:-(

Uh-oh. You might want to get your hard drive checked. That's usually what's making the most noise if there's a problem.

re: #196 littleoldlady

I think I like Order of the Phoenix best - how about you?

re: #196 littleoldlady

are the noises coming from the front, or rear of the PC; and is it a desk top?

eddiespaghetti! :-)

Formal definition of fruitcup:

Fruit. In a cup.
Shows up here at 5 am EST just about every day.
You eat it.
Or you don't.

re: #195 eddiespaghetti

Fruit-cup? Need a formal xplanation, seen it here off hand, but don't know the formal definition...

The nightly dead thread officially starts at 2:00 a.m. Pacific time.

/littleoldlady marks the event by serving virtual fruitcup

re: #197 gmsc

RUH ROH! :-(

re: #199 Pietr

are the noises coming from the front, or rear of the PC; and is it a desk top?

Pietr! :-)

I think it's the front. It's literally creaking. It's a tower.

re: #201 Killian Bundy

And we are in the Lizards virtual Mansion, so you go to the kitchen for that. We hatchlings will probably be assigned coffee duties soon...LOL.

re: #198 Smilla

Smilla! :-)

Until yesterday I'd only ever seen the first Harry Potter movie.

/we actually own a few more but I never got to watch them.
//daughter hid them from me ;-)

They're showing one or two more tonight, but I'm not sure Order of the Phoenix is on the list.

re: #202 littleoldlady

GMSC nailed it then-it is probably the Hard Drive with a bad bearing. If you can get it in to replace it before it siezes up, the tech can probably salvage your data to a new hard drive. A noise at the rear would have been the Power Supply fan.

re: #202 littleoldlady

RUH ROH! :-(

I think it's the front. It's literally creaking. It's a tower.

The hard drive is the only constantly moving part in your boxen, and it's spinning really fast.

/I would seriously think about replacing it ASAP

Good morning littleoldlady. Thank you for the fruitcup.

/got distracted at work talking politics and economics with someone.

re: #206 Killian Bundy

The hard drive is the only constantly moving part in your boxen, and it's spinning really fast.

/okay, besides the fans, but they don't contain data

re: #207 BlueCanuck

Good morning littleoldlady. Thank you for the fruitcup.

/got distracted at work talking politics and economics with someone.

Thanks for fruitcuo lol.
Blue how was your outing yesterday?

BlueCanuck! :-)

re: #204 littleoldlady

There's a good satire on politically correct education in that one but I don't want to give anything away. Enjoy!

/like your serving of cute!

re: #209 Erik The Red

Thanks for fruitcuo lol.
Blue how was your outing yesterday?

cup.

I would like to replace this computer altogether, but pas d'argent at the moment, and I'm thinking better deals in January.

/Old Bessie just needs to hold on a few more weeks and long enough for me to get my info out of her
//I really shouldn't say this out loud. They can hear. They know...

re: #213 littleoldlady

Back up everything to an external drive.

re: #209 Erik The Red

Thanks for fruitcuo lol.
Blue how was your outing yesterday?

Cold, and interesting. Got a bunch of video's pictures, and an essay out of the deal. Clicking my nic will take you to my Live Journal where it's all posted.

Erik! :-)

re: #211 Smilla

I've read all the books - two or more times! Except the last one which I didn't like nearly as much as the others.

"Cute" courtesy of Slumbering Behemoth.

/IIRC. Only one cup so far...

re: #213 littleoldlady

I would like to replace this computer altogether, but pas d'argent at the moment, and I'm thinking better deals in January.

/Old Bessie just needs to hold on a few more weeks and long enough for me to get my info out of her
//I really shouldn't say this out loud. They can hear. They know...

Get a cheap external HD and back up tomorrow. Trust me I have had 2 HD break and did not do regular back ups. Not nice.

re: #214 BignJames

BignJames! :-)

Oh! Good idea! Especially since the CD thingie isn't working anymore...

re: #213 littleoldlady

Dell has some good sales on right now, between 3 and 6 hundred, with shipping possibly free. Check at [Link: www.dell.com...] But buying a Hard drive, could be done for 30 to 60 bucks, if you shop around. Bearings are tricky; they can run noisy for a long time, or seize up tomorrow.

Erik,

Yeah. I know. Or I should know better.

A couple of years ago I had the hard drive go on both my daughter's PC and my mac at the same time. The mac was fixed, 95% recovered, and back in service in 2 days. The data from the PC was mostly lost, and it was twice a$ much a$ it cost me to fix the mac to find that out!

re: #213 littleoldlady

I would like to replace this computer altogether, but pas d'argent at the moment, and I'm thinking better deals in January.

/Old Bessie just needs to hold on a few more weeks and long enough for me to get my info out of her
//I really shouldn't say this out loud. They can hear. They know...

Definitely make sure you back up everything important from the drive, like immediately. If it crashes/fails/seizes, there's no guarantee you'll get anything off of it.

/if Old Bessie makes it, buy PCmover with your new boxen, it flawlessly transfers all your files and settings so that when you fire up your new boxen, it's exactly like the old boxen

re: #221 Killian Bundy

But, Killian! I don't WANT it to be exactly like the old box!

/I want BETTER. ;-)

re: #218 littleoldlady

BignJames! :-)

Oh! Good idea! Especially since the CD thingie isn't working anymore...

/Acomdata external drives are what Geek Squad sells and they're very good

re: #222 littleoldlady

But, Killian! I don't WANT it to be exactly like the old box!

/I want BETTER. ;-)

/but you want to turn it on and have everything in the same place, with the same look and feel, right?

Did any one watch the De la Hoya and Pacquiao fight? I have it on pvr and know the result(fucking radio). Is it still worth watching?

Moving from the 1940's (earlier, we were talking about the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7th, 1941, and WWII) to the 1950's, we may be about to lose popular 50's pinup Bettie Page:

Bettie Page is ailing

1950's poster girl and avatar for modern Goth beauty, Bettie Page, the alt pinup who was famous for her pale complexion, curvaceous and leggy frame and unique raven hairstyle is reportedly ailing after a heart attack, her agent to the AP on Friday.

"She's critically ill," Mark Roesler of CMG Worldwide told The Associated Press.
Ms. Page, 85, was admitted to hospital and there for the last three weeks with pneumonia and was about to be released when she had the heart attack Tuesday.

The AP reports Ms. Page was transferred to another hospital's ICU in Los Angeles, where she remains.

Reportedly a "family friend," Todd Mueller, told the AP that Page was in a coma. Her manager confirmed this and said nothing further.

Bettie Page was born April 22, 1923 in Nashville, Tennessee. She appeared taller in photos than her actual 5' 51/2" height, and has naturally black hair. During her modeling heyday, the non-smoking photogenic muse possessed measurements: 36 - 24 - 35, and during her life was a teacher and secretary.
In October of 1950, Bettie met Jerry Tibbs, a policeman and photography hobbyist, on a beach at Coney Island according to the memoir, Bettie Page: Queen of Hearts by Jim Silke. Tibbs offered to take pictures for her portfolio at his studio, and Bettie's career blossomed from the exposure.

Page then appeared in magazines such as Eyeful and Titter for publisher Robert Harrison. She also modeled in New York for Irving Klaw's Movie Star News outfit where she also did bondage/fetish photos, becoming his most popular model and also would go to Florida to pose for Bunny Yeager, a famous pin-up photographer, leading to many of her iconic surf and beach shots.
Ms. Page spent decades away from the public eye, and during that time battled with mental illness and became a born-again Christian.

re: #226 gmsc

Moving from the 1940's (earlier, we were talking about the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7th, 1941, and WWII) to the 1950's, we may be about to lose popular 50's pinup Bettie Page:

Bettie Page is ailing

Here's a picture of Bettie Page taken in 2003, when she was 80.

re: #224 Killian Bundy

Does that mean I need to get another computer with XP Pro?

/I think TigerDirect offers DOWNGRADES for folks like me...

re: #227 gmsc

Here's a picture of Bettie Page taken in 2003, when she was 80.

PIMF.

Oh, before I forget.

*puts a fruitcup in the fridge for Sharmuta*

Can't slack off you know. :)

re: #230 BlueCanuck

Oh, before I forget.

*puts a fruitcup in the fridge for Sharmuta*

Can't slack off you know. :)

Updinged for being a good guy and a gentleman!

re: #229 gmsc

THAT'S 80!?!

/I need the name of her plastic surgeon! STAT!

re: #231 gmsc

Even when I get bad, I am still a gentleman about it. Called proper upbringing.

Where's Sharmuta?

re: #228 littleoldlady

Does that mean I need to get another computer with XP Pro?

Not at all.

PCmover is the only migration utility that moves programs, files, and settings from your old PC to your new PC. Simply install PCmover on both your old and new computers and go! PCmover will determine which programs, files, and settings need to be moved, and when the transfer is complete, your new computer will have the personality and functionality of your old PC plus all of its own pre-installed software. Works with almost any Windows operating system, from Windows 95 to Vista.

/I wouldn't recommend it if I hadn't used it

Google rules. I never heard of her before.
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re: #233 BlueCanuck

Even when I get bad, I am still a gentleman about it. Called proper upbringing.

Updinging because of your upbringing?
:-D

re: #234 littleoldlady

She took off early. Didn't say why, but asked for me to save some fruitcup for her. Probably went to bed at a decent time.

re: #236 Erik The Red

Google rules. I never heard of her before.
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In the 1950's, if you had any idea of who she was, you probably were a person who wasn't considered proper company. Her pictures seem tame and cute today, but they were absolutely scandalous by 1950's standards!

Good morning...good night!

Cup-n-run...q

re: #238 BlueCanuck

Probably went to bed at a decent time.

THE NERVE!

;-)

re: #236 Erik The Red

Google rules. I never heard of her before.
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3

Turn Google Safesearch off, and then search for her name again!
;)

re: #235 Killian Bundy

How do you interconnect the 2 for the transfer? Maybe I could salvage some data from my Laptop and an old homemade system! That'd be nice...:>)

re: #239 gmsc

I only linked to the more tamer ones. I can imagine that in the 50"s some of her photo's were seen as pure p0rn.

...and now, we jump over the '60s, and go right to the 1970's.

Are you ready for another update on a classic oldie?

Get ready for the brand new 2009 AMC Gremlin!

re: #243 Pietr

How do you interconnect the 2 for the transfer? Maybe I could salvage some data from my Laptop and an old homemade system! That'd be nice...:>)

/USB cord, provided in the box

re: #245 gmsc

Wonder if that door is as big as it was on the old one? When you opened the drivers side, you better make CERTAIN there was no traffic coming...LOL.

re: #245 gmsc

Does that mean they are going to remake the "Waynes World" movies now?

re: #247 Pietr

Wonder if that door is as big as it was on the old one? When you opened the drivers side, you better make CERTAIN there was no traffic coming...LOL.

A brilliant door design equaled only be the DeLorean, which you couldn't get out of if there were people parked too close on either side of you!

re: #246 Killian Bundy

Real good info-upding! My laptop used XP Pro3, and the ANCIENT system used Win 98. Definitely worth knowing, so I copied and saved the info. Thanks.
Oops, forget ancient system...no usb port. would need the old serial interface cable to dopy files from it. :>(

re: #248 BlueCanuck

Does that mean they are going to remake the "Waynes World" movies now?

Maybe, but remakes are never quite as good as you hope. Can you imagine this as a new arrangement for the "Bohemian Rhapsody" scene?

re: #250 Pietr

Real good info-upding! My laptop used XP Pro3, and the ANCIENT system used Win 98. Definitely worth knowing, so I copied and saved the info. Thanks.
Oops, forget ancient system...no usb port. would need the old serial interface cable to dopy files from it. :>(

/as a matter of fact, I used PCmover to migrate from 98 to XP and it worked perfectly, right down to the desktop wallpaper

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Still getting hammered in the ID thread. How low can he go. Fighting with Rancher and Salamantis.

re: #253 Erik The Red

*sigh* Some people just don't know when to give up.

Well, it's time I say good night to all!

I'm getting sleeepy.

And remember the words of Mama Cass Elliott: "It's not so bad to be different!"

Night gmsc. Weet dreams and stay warm.

re: #255 gmsc

Nite gmsc. DLTBBB