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Reuters: Obama is 'Uber-Cool'

Media | Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:07:08 am PST

Bias? I don’t see any groveling, fawning bias, do you? Hawaiian ’shaka’ greeting comes natural to Obama.

The president-elect, looking uber-cool with his White Sox baseball cap on backwards, flipped the shaka to a crowd of about 30 people as he left a gym on a Marine Corps base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where he is vacationing.

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1 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:09:38am

I have a hand gesture for him too

2 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:09:49am

How very presidential.

3 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:09:50am

Uber? He is the "coolest" president evah!

4 jumpininhere  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:10:42am

Barf.

5 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:10:43am

re: #2 ArmyWife

How very presidential.

The backwards hat is a nice touch, as well. Perhaps he can get a set of the wonderful baggy pants too?

6 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:11:44am

The first comment below the article.

catchers in baseball wear hats in that fashion. usa needs more hitters and pitchers than catchers. berra was good, but mantle, dimaggio, williams, and the babe understood. repect is earned and not to be confused with imagery. leaders should be considerate of photo’s showing one catching rather than hitting or pitching. the usa needs……….?

Huh?

7 Jetpilot1101  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:12:19am

re: #5 Desert Dog

The backwards hat is a nice touch, as well. Perhaps he can get a set of the wonderful baggy pants too?

Or maybe he can show us the 5 layers of boxer shorts he's wearing underneath.

8 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:12:24am

He's fine if the press follows him to the gym, though.

9 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:12:53am

re: #6 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

They were still reeling from "uber" used in what was supposed to be an actual news article. It caused loss of coherency.

10 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:13:01am

Backward hat? Hey Barry, flash some gang signs.
Act like the President!

11 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:13:57am

What the hell is Charles doing up? Charles?...GO BACK TO BED! You need some sleep!

12 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:14:01am

re: #10 opnion

Backward hat? Hey Barry, flash some gang signs.
Act like the President!

Yo Be-atches, Here's yo State O the Hood Address

13 Pastorius  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:14:14am

I wonder if Obama has as much trouble with time and space as your average Islander as well?

That's a whole state full of perpetually stoned people.

14 Jetpilot1101  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:14:23am

Does he still smoke or did he quit that nasty habit? Working while still puffing on faggots wen you are done doesn't strike me as too healthy.

15 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:14:57am

Wow, this is one early thread!

16 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:08am

re: #11 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What the hell is Charles doing up? Charles?...GO BACK TO BED! You need some sleep!

Fruitcup for Charles.

17 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:18am

What gang would Obama belong to.

"The Pennsylvania Avenue Silly Ninnies"?

18 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:23am

re: #5 Desert Dog

My soon to be President thinks "Thug Chic" is an ok look. G-d help us all.

19 BaseballMom57  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:32am

re: #5 Desert Dog

The backwards hat is a nice touch, as well. Perhaps he can get a set of the wonderful baggy pants too?

Oh, but he turned the hat around to it's proper position before greeting the crowd!

I bet the Secret Service LOVE being on the Obama Detail. /S

("Hammer Time" actually DID pop into my head after I read your comment!)

20 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:36am

re: #8 Bloodnok

He's fine if the press follows him to the gym, though.

Just as long as the don't "waste that question" by asking something with actual substance.

21 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:36am

Are you okay, Charles? It's 5:15.

22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:54am

re: #14 Jetpilot1101

Takes talent to smoke while working out.

23 Jetpilot1101  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:15:59am

re: #18 ArmyWife

My soon to be President thinks "Thug Chic" is an ok look. G-d help us all.

Kanye West will be singing the national anthem at the inauguration.

24 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:16:29am

Good morning Lizards....

25 Jetpilot1101  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:16:44am

re: #24 doriangrey

Good morning Lizards....

Good morning!

26 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:16:53am

re: #20 Desert Dog

Just as long as they don't "waste that question" by asking something with actual substance.


pimf!

27 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:17:28am

re: #12 Desert Dog

Yo Be-atches, Here's yo State O the Hood Address

Will arrive with his posse? 'Word ya'll things be foshnizle"

28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:17:34am

re: #9 ArmyWife

You do know that now that "uber" has been used in a news article, those "hep cat kiddios" are going to come up with brand new "groovy" terminology.

29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:18:30am

Dorian!

30 Village Idiot's Apprentice  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:18:58am

Makes you wonder what the new Presidential Limo is going to be.

31 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:19:04am

re: #28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You do know that now that "uber" has been used in a news article, those "hep cat kiddios" are going to come up with brand new "groovy" terminology.

There must be a full scale panic at urbandictionary.com.

32 BaseballMom57  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:19:16am

Good morning all!

Brewing Caramel Truffle coffee this am....sounded decadent, so I thought I'd try it. I can smell it back here on the other end of the house, so I suppose it's done. BRB

33 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:19:31am

re: #6 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Please give our new President a chance and stop talking like idiots

This one is great, too. Talking?

34 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:19:39am

I want an adult to be president again.

35 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:20:01am

re: #25 Jetpilot1101

Good morning!

Morning Jetpilot1101

re: #29 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Dorian!

FBV......

36 P. Aaron  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:20:18am

Why can't this guy's press covereage be term limited?

37 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:21:17am

I wish I could find that article posted last night about CBBHO's chafing in the bubble. Anyone?

38 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:21:19am

re: #30 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Makes you wonder what the new Presidential Limo is going to be.

Spinning hubcaps ya'll.

39 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:21:38am

re: #28 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

We should beat them to the punch and come up with our own hip terminology because...because...because I don't know what else to do when the FREAKIN' PEOTUS LOOKS LIKE A POSTER BOY FOR GANSTA RAP!

40 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:21:45am

re: #30 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Makes you wonder what the new Presidential Limo is going to be.

A Pimpmobile? 22" ultra=low profile tires with chrome spinner rims?

41 Peacekeeper  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:22:02am

Gah.

42 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:22:14am

re: #33 ArmyWife

This one is great, too. Talking?

Sounds like they have not got the memo from the Office of the President-Elect that all that stuff he said during the primaries and the election was just a load of crap and that he is really an empty facade controlled by a corrupt the Chicago Machine? They should check in their "spam" folder

43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:22:55am

Pssst. Barack! Over here!

Bubble's getting smaller and smaller. People peekin' in your bubble.

Back and forth... fish in a fishbowl... back and forth.

Lion in a cage at the zoo... staring strangers everywhere... back and forth.

How you liking it so far?

Congratulations on your hard fought win.

44 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:04am

re: #37 MandyManners

I wish I could find that article posted last night about CBBHO's chafing in the bubble. Anyone?

Here ya go, kiddo.

45 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:12am

re: #30 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Makes you wonder what the new Presidential Limo is going to be.

I think this is it -- he can use it to get to the mainland from Hawaii...

46 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:18am

re: #39 ArmyWife

We should beat them to the punch and come up with our own hip terminology because...because...because I don't know what else to do when the FREAKIN' PEOTUS LOOKS LIKE A POSTER BOY FOR GANSTA RAP!

Well, he is a Chicago Gangster... ;O

47 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:34am

re: #37 MandyManners

here

48 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:39am

re: #37 MandyManners

I wish I could find that article posted last night about CBBHO's chafing in the bubble. Anyone?

Here it is.

49 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:56am

re: #37 MandyManners

That was me! I'll go find it! BRB!

50 BaseballMom57  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:58am

re: #30 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Makes you wonder what the new Presidential Limo is going to be.

The dudes on "Pimp My Ride" are already working on it. ETA - just in time for Inauguration Day.

51 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:23:59am

The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.

Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands of press coverage and beginning to chafe at boundaries that are only going to get smaller.

Obama even took the unusual step Friday morning of leaving behind the pool of reporters assigned to follow him, taking his daughters to a nearby water park without them. It was a breach of longstanding protocol between presidents (or presidents-elect) and the media, that a gaggle of reporters representing television, print and wire services is with his motorcade at all times.

Then when reporters finally caught up with Obama at Koko Marina Paradise Deli and he acknowledged them for one of few times since arriving in Hawaii last Saturday, he sounded resigned.

After ordering a tuna melt on 12-grain bread, Obama approached reporters and placed his hand on the shoulder of pool reporter Philip Rucker of The Washington Post, who was scribbling away in his notebook.

“You don't really need to write all that down,” Obama said.

All presidents and would-be presidents struggle with “the bubble” – the security detail and the always-there reporters that impose barriers to any spontaneous interaction with the outside world.

But Obama seems to be struggling particularly hard, particularly early.

SNIP


Hat-tip: Fat Bastard.

52 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:24:10am

Hawaiian ’shaka’ greeting comes natural to Obama.

Would that be Shaka Khan !?!?!

53 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:24:12am

re: #43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Pssst. Barack! Over here!

Bubble's getting smaller and smaller. People peekin' in your bubble.

Back and forth... fish in a fishbowl... back and forth.

Lion in a cage at the zoo... staring strangers everywhere... back and forth.

How you liking it so far?

Congratulations on your hard fought win.

Holy TFK, FBV.

Like that

54 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:24:29am

re: #49 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Someone else found it. Thanks!

55 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:24:58am

re: #44 Bloodnok

re: #47 ArmyWife

re: #48 rightymouse

Thanks!

I searched for "bubble".

56 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:25:17am

re: #52 sattv4u2

Hawaiian ’shaka’ greeting comes natural to Obama.

Would that be Shaka Khan !?!?!

Do you feel for him?

57 Jetpilot1101  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:25:25am

re: #30 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Makes you wonder what the new Presidential Limo is going to be.

I'm sure it will look like a Greyhound Bus.

58 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:25:31am

re: #30 Village Idiot's Apprentice A stretch escalade with some 22 inch spinners.

59 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:25:34am

re: #49 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That was me! I'll go find it! BRB!

Done!

60 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:26:01am

re: #52 sattv4u2

Hawaiian ’shaka’ greeting comes natural to Obama.

Would that be Shaka Khan !?!?!

We have to some Hawaiian friends, they do that "shaka" thing all the time. That does not bother me at all, it's kinda funny....of course, they are not the POTUS!

61 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:26:24am

re: #43 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Pssst. Barack! Over here!

Bubble's getting smaller and smaller. People peekin' in your bubble.

Back and forth... fish in a fishbowl... back and forth.

Lion in a cage at the zoo... staring strangers everywhere... back and forth.

How you liking it so far?

Congratulations on your hard fought win.

LOL!

62 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:26:24am

re: #53 Bloodnok

Holy TFK, FBV.

Like that

I just got chills. Thanks! TFK? Hardly. But thanks!

63 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:26:58am

re: #56 MandyManners

I DON'T think I love him.

64 Village Idiot's Apprentice  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:26:59am

re: #45 christheprofessor

ctp...
What the heck is that thing?

But yeh....it could come in handy for him now that he is embracing his Hawaian heritage.
Chicago..nope..never heard of the place.

65 Miss Trixie  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:27:03am

&#9834 &#9836 Good morning, {lizards!} &#9836 &#9834

Wow! Charles is up and at 'em early today.

How can anyone take Barrack "Despereaux" Obama seriously? He's going to be the next POTUS and he behaves like this?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

Seriously, it's embarassing.

66 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:27:08am

60 Minutes had a reprise of their interviews with the Gangsta Elect during the campaign & after.
They were & are so in the tank & have no shame.

67 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:27:54am

GWB exercises regularly and biked with Lance Armstrong. I don't remember any of this breathless nonsense coming reporters. Bias? You betcha. Silly star-struck bias.

68 Peacekeeper  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:28:00am

It could be worse...he could be married to Hillary.

69 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:29:31am

re: #65 Miss Trixie
Maybe he just set a new thread to auto open this AM not sure if he can do it like that or not tho.

70 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:30:04am

re: #67 rightymouse

GWB exercises regularly and biked with Lance Armstrong. I don't remember any of this breathless nonsense coming reporters. Bias? You betcha. Silly star-struck bias.

If W would have worn his hat backwords & gave a shout out to his homies, he would have had some cred.

71 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:30:08am

NOT to rain on everyone's parade (okay ,, so a little shower, maybe) but unless I'm missing something, in the photo, The One's little finger isn't extended a la "Hang Losse". His thumb looks to be pointing back to something. '
On the other hand, the backwards hat DOES look juvinile!

72 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:30:11am

re: #52 sattv4u2

Hawaiian ’shaka’ greeting comes natural to Obama.

Would that be Shaka Khan !?!?!

73 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:30:40am

re: #63 ArmyWife

I DON'T think I love him.

I just hope he doesn't fuck us up too badly.

74 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:05am

re: #68 Peacekeeper

It could be worse...he could be married to Hillary.

WAB is bad enough.

75 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:06am

re: #69 Rustler

I think he has an auto-thread function, but just runs with random Plan 9 quotes or sumthin. Think he has to be up for this. Of course he may be "Rock and Rolling All Night, and Part of Every Day."

76 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:15am

re: #73 MandyManners

I just hope he doesn't fuck us up too badly.

Your more optimistic than me!

77 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:31am

re: #34 MandyManners

I want an adult to be president again.

It's gunna be a looong wait.

78 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:36am

re: #73 MandyManners
January 21st Rod Blagojevich recieves a pretirial pardon.

79 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:52am

re: #64 Village Idiot's Apprentice

It's a combination low rider and boat... Perfect for a surfer Thug-in-Chief...

80 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:31:59am

re: #68 Peacekeeper

It could be worse...he could be married to Hillary.

How does that make it worse for Bill?

81 gregg  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:32:04am

re: #51 MandyManners

The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.

SNIP

Hat-tip: Fat Bastard.

I'm confused - I thought during the intense MSM vetting process of Obama, we learned that he did not like ice cream.

82 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:32:09am

re: #73 MandyManners

I just hope he doesn't fuck us up too badly.

ROTFLMAO.... with any luck he will turn out to be too incompetent to actually fuck anything up seriously. ;p

83 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:32:12am

re: #70 opnion

If W would have worn his hat backwords & gave a shout out to his homies, he would have had some cred.

Wearing a cowboy hat backwards?

84 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:32:50am

re: #76 Nevergiveup

Your more optimistic than me!

It comes and it goes.

85 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:32:54am

Looking at the picture, I am just sayin that it is tough to look all gansta with those ears.

86 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:33:04am

re: #81 gregg

I'm confused - I thought during the intense MSM vetting process of Obama, we learned that he did not like ice cream.

hankering for an ice cream cone

Is that code for a cigarette?

87 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:33:11am

re: #70 opnion

If W would have worn his hat backwords & gave a shout out to his homies, he would have had some cred.

Dunno. Something tells me they'd tut-tut and suggest he have a session with a shrink.

88 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:33:15am

re: #68 Peacekeeper
WAB is worse than Hillary I think.

89 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:33:47am
90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:34:03am

re: #83 MandyManners

Wearing a cowboy hat backwards?

That's why Amish kids aren't gangstas. You can't tell when they turn their hat's backwards.

91 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:34:06am

Last update - 13:02 29/12/2008

Top PA negotiator: No peace talks with Israel during Gaza assault

[Link: www.haaretz.com...]

This guy must be a comedian in his day job?

92 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:34:13am

re: #77 aboo-Hoo-Hoo

It's gunna be a looong wait.

1483 days, three hours, 26 minutes and about 15 seconds.

Hat-tip: a Lizard.

93 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:34:19am

re: #83 MandyManners

Wearing a cowboy hat backwards?

'Boy, Howdy"

94 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:34:27am

re: #78 Rustler

January 21st Rod Blagojevich recieves a pretirial pardon.

Ain't gonna' happen.

95 3 wood  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:34:51am

Maybe the President-Elect can put on some gang colors and flash some sings to the 'bro's in the hood like some punk NBA player showing off to the cameras.

And the MSM adoration is becoming a total joke.

96 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:35:20am

re: #67 rightymouse

He was chastised for being too obsessed with exercise! This is craziness.

I still don't get the "he's so gorgeous" thing with Obama, either and this obsession with wanting us to believe he has a fabulous body! Hot. Not hot.

97 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:35:36am

re: #81 gregg

I'm confused - I thought during the intense MSM vetting process of Obama, we learned that he did not like ice cream.

I can't keep track of the minutiae but, I seem to remember that.

98 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:35:46am

re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That's why Amish kids aren't gangstas. You can't tell when they turn their hat's backwards.

My senile Mother-in-law who lives with us was wearing her pants on backwards all day yesterday. Does that count?

99 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:35:47am

re: #94 MandyManners
Yeah I know It's just a wet dream of mine. I want to watch the bastard crash and burn fast so maybe we can have a 1 year pres before the Impeachment.

100 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:36:03am

re: #82 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO.... with any luck he will turn out to be too incompetent to actually fuck anything up seriously. ;p

A well-meaning idiot?

101 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:36:08am

re: #82 doriangrey

ROTFLMAO.... with any luck he will turn out to be too incompetent to actually fuck anything up seriously. ;p

I think he'll be competent enough to screw up very badly....combined with the nincompoops in the Congress...

What I want to see is the "reckoning hour"....the moment when the press turns on him like a rabid dog when he starts F*cking Up......I wonder if that time will ever come?

102 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:36:47am

re: #96 ArmyWife

Mark Wahlberg was in the scariest movie "I ever seen!"

103 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:37:35am

re: #88 Rustler

WAB is worse than Hillary I think.

WAB has not said she's gonna' change major policy.

BTW, was it just a rumor that WAB wants a salary for being First Lady?

104 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:02am

re: #96 ArmyWife Well if young American men can think all these human toothpicks like Kate Moss or whatever are hot, then Why can't American women Love the Walking Cancer Stick.

105 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:04am

re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That's why Amish kids aren't gangstas. You can't tell when they turn their hat's backwards.

Clop. Clop. Clop. BANG. Clop. Clop. Clop.

106 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:05am

re: #89 taxfreekiller

Of some note:

Went west on I-30 to Dallas, then south on I-35 to San Marcos on Christmas day after we fed the cows, from Greenville to Dallas passed 3 of the pickup's towing cars loaded down full of stuff and Mexicans going back south, on the longer section from Dallas to San Marcos, 15 of them
total of 18, we were on the highway 4 hrs. so looks like a major get out of town is going down, coming back we saw not one load coming north.

Thanks Barny Frank and Chris Dodd, you did more to move illegals out than the I.C.E. guys and the Border Patrol both.

Odd they chose Christmas day to leave. But does seem like we had four to 6 days of lots of going south going down.

Fear not, senor. They will come back when the jobs do.....the "Want Ads" section in the "Mexico Today" is thinner than the one up here.

107 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:23am

re: #103 MandyManners

WAB has not said she's gonna' change major policy.

BTW, was it just a rumor that WAB wants a salary for being First Lady?

And her particular talent is?

108 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:37am

re: #102 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Mark Wahlberg was in the scariest movie "I ever seen!"

Yeah, I feel that way about the last scene in "Boogie Nights" too...

109 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:39am

re: #96 ArmyWife

He was chastised for being too obsessed with exercise! This is craziness.

I still don't get the "he's so gorgeous" thing with Obama, either and this obsession with wanting us to believe he has a fabulous body! Hot. Not hot.


I'm with you on this one. And to me, Bush is HOT!

110 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:38:58am

re: #89 taxfreekiller

Maybe their AQ buddies have told them to get outta' Dodge.

111 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:00am

re: #105 MandyManners Gotta love Amish drive-bys.

112 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:04am

re: #105 MandyManners

Clop. Clop. Clop. BANG. Clop. Clop. Clop.

LOL ,,, a Trot By Shooting!

113 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:10am

re: #107 Nevergiveup

Wearing really ugly dresses.

114 Miss Trixie  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:13am

*frenzied media scrum at the beach*
*click!*flash!*click!*click!*flash!*flash!*

MrObamaMrObamaMrObamaMrObama!

*whispering aide to MrObama*

"Sir, the potato goes in the front of the shorts."

115 Gang of One  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:14am

re: #34 MandyManners

I want an adult to be president again.

Then we'll have to take away the vote from children.

116 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:25am

re: #101 Desert Dog

I think he'll be competent enough to screw up very badly....combined with the nincompoops in the Congress...

What I want to see is the "reckoning hour"....the moment when the press turns on him like a rabid dog when he starts F*cking Up......I wonder if that time will ever come?

Nope, they cant because the second they do they become racist evil attack dogs.

117 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:33am

Sad. America's oldest man, who happens to be black, saw the picture we are talking about...

SAN FRANCISCO – George Francis, the nation's oldest man, who lived through both world wars, man's first walk on the moon and the election of the first black president, has died. He was 112.

118 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:34am

re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That's why Amish kids aren't gangstas. You can't tell when they turn their hat's backwards.

They're angry, cause they have to watch TV in the dark.

119 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:39am

re: #107 Nevergiveup

And her particular talent is?

marrying smart

120 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:39am

re: #93 opnion

'Boy, Howdy"

With those ears, it's more like "Howdy-Doody"!

121 Gang of One  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:53am

Oh, good morning, everyone!

122 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:39:59am

re: #107 Nevergiveup

And her particular talent is?

Now, now, she is a fine woman and has many talents that she will use to serve her country with honor and dignity.....right?

123 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:40:04am

re: #107 Nevergiveup
Pouring ideas into the empty cup that is her husband.

124 BaseballMom57  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:40:08am

re: #90 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That's why Amish kids aren't gangstas. You can't tell when they turn their hat's backwards.

I LOVE the Amish. Had some of their homemade chicken soup at a quilt auction one time. I felt like a million dollars afterwards, and I wasn't even sick in the first place!

But FBV, THAT was funny!

125 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:40:33am

re: #119 sattv4u2

marrying smart

Well I'll give you marrying well, not so sure about smart?

126 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:41:02am

re: #118 opnion

They're angry, cause they have to watch TV in the dark.

And, its the same show all day everyday

127 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:41:20am

re: #122 Desert Dog

Now, now, she is a fine woman and has many talents that she will use to serve her country with honor and dignity.....right?

Sir, Yes Sir!
/

128 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:41:24am

re: #99 Rustler

Yeah I know It's just a wet dream of mine. I want to watch the bastard crash and burn fast so maybe we can have a 1 year pres before the Impeachment.

I just want the nation to focus on what's important.

129 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:41:44am

re: #107 Nevergiveup

And her particular talent is?

Keeping the President elect's balls in the freezer...

130 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:41:56am

re: #107 Nevergiveup

And her particular talent is?

Making waffles?

131 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:41:59am

re: #120 MandyManners

With those ears, it's more like "Howdy-Doody"!

He is sensitive about his ears. Hell, he's sensitive about everything.

132 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:02am
133 Miss Trixie  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:03am

{Mousey!} I didn't see you until just now.

Morning, toots! :D

134 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:05am

re: #127 Nevergiveup

Sir, Yes Sir!
/

this KoolAid is delicious, isn't it? I think I will have some more...sip sip sip...mmmm

135 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:08am

re: #114 Miss Trixie

*frenzied media scrum at the beach*
*click!*flash!*click!*click!*flash!*flash!*

MrObamaMrObamaMrObamaMrObama!

*whispering aide to MrObama*

"Sir, the potato goes in the front of the shorts."


LOLOL!

136 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:12am

re: #128 MandyManners

Our new president's physique?

137 JacksonTn  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:18am

Good Morning Lizards....

If someone had posted a photo of Obama with his baseball cap on backwards giving a hand gesture during the campaign they would surely have been called "racist" ...

I think he looks like a goofball ...and what's next ...his drawers will be hanging out ...geez ...

/can I get that ODS medication now ...

138 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:29am

re: #111 Rustler

Gotta love Amish drive-bys.

Especially the high-speed ones.

139 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:43am

re: #125 Nevergiveup

Well I'll give you marrying well, not so sure about smart?

She,s soon to be the 1st lady (with all the infuence that brings). She's raked in millions due to HIS contacts.

No matter how you cut it ,, that's SMART

140 BaseballMom57  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:42:45am

re: #105 MandyManners

Clop. Clop. Clop. BANG. Clop. Clop. Clop.

SPEW! Hot coffee! Ouch!

141 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:43:16am

re: #115 Gang of One

Then we'll have to take away the vote from children.

Or rid our dependence on the MFM.

142 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:43:23am

re: #133 Miss Trixie

{Mousey!} I didn't see you until just now.

Morning, toots! :D


Morning to you too, toots! :)

143 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:43:28am

re: #105 MandyManners

Clop. Clop. Clop. BANG. Clop. Clop. Clop.

Damn it, another Amish drive by shooting. Crime is up .7% in this neighborhood, we gotta do something!

144 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:43:49am

re: #136 ArmyWife
Watching the new president walking on hte beach gave me a hankering for some KFC.

145 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:44:16am
146 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:44:36am

re: #131 opnion

He is sensitive about his ears. Hell, he's sensitive about everything.

He should learn to be proud of them. Dumbo did.

147 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:44:50am
148 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:45:03am

re: #136 ArmyWife

Our new president's physique?

Yeah. That's it.

149 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:45:41am

re: #139 sattv4u2

She,s soon to be the 1st lady (with all the infuence that brings). She's raked in millions due to HIS contacts.

No matter how you cut it ,, that's SMART

Yeah, I know your right but it is to early in the morning to start drinking so I ain't gonna think about it any longer.

150 BaseballMom57  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:45:41am

re: #132 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Shouldn't have made a joke out of it. He was a tough old such n' such.

Wow. God rest his soul.

151 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:45:47am

re: #146 MandyManners

He should learn to be proud of them. Dumbo did.

Mabye he can fly if he flaps them? Now THAT would make him a cool President! A flying, shaka waving, basketball playing, hat on backwards President!

152 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:46:02am

re: #147 taxfreekiller

The "MSM" has been jilted by the big "O" hole already, they do not even know yet, but it will come to them soon, they will swoon, then a few will break ranks, then more, then Chis Mathews will claim in fact some one pissed on his leg. They will then go out and find a true commie tool and back him to dethrone the big "O" hole.

LOL!

153 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:46:12am

re: #147 taxfreekiller

"..then Chis Mathews will claim in fact some one pissed on his leg"


That made my morning. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

154 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:46:34am
155 opnion  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:47:08am

re: #137 JacksonTn

Good Morning Lizards....

If someone had posted a photo of Obama with his baseball cap on backwards giving a hand gesture during the campaign they would surely have been called "racist" ...

I think he looks like a goofball ...and what's next ...his drawers will be hanging out ...geez ...

/can I get that ODS medication now ...


Well sure, when the picture of him in African elder garb was puiblished it was considered racist & an attempt to paint him a a Muslim. The problem is that in Kenya that paricular garb is worn only by MUSLIM elders.

156 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:47:08am

re: #147 taxfreekiller

The "MSM" has been jilted by the big "O" hole already, they do not even know yet, but it will come to them soon, they will swoon, then a few will break ranks, then more, then Chis Mathews will claim in fact some one pissed on his leg. They will then go out and find a true commie tool and back him to dethrone the big "O" hole.

No, the tingly feeling will move up to where his legs end and it will be a pain, not a tingle

157 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:47:13am

re: #145 aboo-Hoo-Hoo

;-)

Like molasses in February.

158 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:47:18am

re: #151 Desert Dog
He can't fly on his own, but give him 30MPH winds and he becomes Michelles kite.

159 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:47:28am

re: #154 SteveC

We're saved!

Cynthia McKinney to the rescue!

Holy crap.

160 3 wood  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:48:01am

re: #101 Desert Dog

What I want to see is the "reckoning hour"....the moment when the press turns on him like a rabid dog when he starts F*cking Up......I wonder if that time will ever come?

I don't think that will ever happen. The great majority of the MSM is liberal and. I believe, socialist at heart. Socialists (and communists too) always respond to failure by insisting that socialism was not done enough and the solution is more socialism.

The MSM have sold their souls to get this guy elected. They worship at his feet. The worship of Obama is the one religion that the far left and the MSM finds acceptable.

He will be a hero in their eyes just cause he exists.

161 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:48:23am
162 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:48:32am

re: #160 3 wood

I don't think that will ever happen. The great majority of the MSM is liberal and. I believe, socialist at heart. Socialists (and communists too) always respond to failure by insisting that socialism was not done enough and the solution is more socialism.

The MSM have sold their souls to get this guy elected. They worship at his feet. The worship of Obama is the one religion that the far left and the MSM finds acceptable.

He will be a hero in their eyes just cause he exists.

Just keep dropping the bar lower and lower as needed, eh?

163 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:48:37am

re: #154 SteveC

We're saved!

Cynthia McKinney to the rescue!

Is she going alone or with Blairs' sister-in-law? They'd make some couple, or does McKinney hang with white people?

164 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:49:14am

re: #163 Nevergiveup

Is she going alone or with Blairs' sister-in-law? They'd make some couple, or does McKinney hang with white people?

Fire up the Bulldozer!

165 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:49:23am

It would be sad if it was true.

You all know by now that the situation in Gaza has gone from intolerable to even worse. A tiny open-air prison with 1.5 million inhabitants, created by border closings and a near total blockade, is now being bombed by the Isreali Army using US military equipment. The humanitarian disaster that accompanies any bombing is aggravated by the lack of equipment and supplies at the hospitals that are swamped by the wounded.

166 JacksonTn  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:49:58am

re: #158 Rustler

He can't fly on his own, but give him 30MPH winds and he becomes Michelles kite.

While channeling Sally Fields in her nuns habit ....

"They like me ....they really like me...."

167 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:50:13am

re: #151 Desert Dog

Mabye he can fly if he flaps them? Now THAT would make him a cool President! A flying, shaka waving, basketball playing, hat on backwards President!

Pass the brown acid!

168 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:50:24am

re: #154 SteveC

Is the boat stopping off to pick up Carter? This could be really interesting!

169 Miss Trixie  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:50:41am

re: #151 Desert Dog

Mabye he can fly if he flaps them? Now THAT would make him a cool President! A flying, shaka waving, basketball playing, hat on backwards President!

Not to mention bike-riding.

This guy's worse than Nuancy-Boy Jon Karie.

170 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:50:46am

re: #154 SteveC

We're saved!

Cynthia McKinney to the rescue!

TOMORROWS HEADLINE:
Fomer Presidential candidate and CongressWoman Cynthia McKinney witnesses first hand Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip

171 Lincolntf  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:51:02am

re: #161 SteveC

Good blog. I hadn't heard of Abu Tir, but if they really got the number 2 guy in Hamas, that's a welcome development.

172 Gang of One  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:51:28am

re: #165 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

FBV, these people are criminally stupid.

173 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:51:57am

re: #160 3 wood

The worship of Obama is the one religion that the far left and the MSM finds acceptable.

Actually, they have two religions -- the other being Global Warming/Save the Planet crap...

174 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:52:05am

re: #155 opnion

details, details.

175 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:52:08am

re: #154 SteveC

We're saved!

Cynthia McKinney to the rescue!

As a contrast, the person who SHOULD be our President (if the Democrats and Republicans hadn't spoiled the election) is actually DOING something. Cynthia McKinney is courageously taking part in a shipment of medical aid that will break through the siege of Gaza. She is onboard a ship leaving from Cyprus on a mission organized by Free Gaza, a group that has successfully defied the siege several times in the last five months.

LOL! The delusion is strong with this one.

176 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:52:54am

re: #168 ArmyWife

Is the boat stopping off to pick up Carter? This could be really interesting!

Now that would be a target rich environment ha?

177 Muadib  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:53:21am

Reuters busily uber-groveling at 0bama's feet. Pathetic.

178 Gang of One  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:53:26am

re: #175 MandyManners

As a contrast, the person who SHOULD be our President (if the Democrats and Republicans hadn't spoiled the election) is actually DOING something. Cynthia McKinney is courageously taking part in a shipment of medical aid that will break through the siege of Gaza. She is onboard a ship leaving from Cyprus on a mission organized by Free Gaza, a group that has successfully defied the siege several times in the last five months.

LOL! The delusion is strong with this one.

Israel's navy should sink it as a hostile's ship aiding and abetting the enemy.

179 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:53:36am

re: #170 sattv4u2

TOMORROWS HEADLINE:
Fomer Presidential candidate and CongressWoman Cynthia McKinney witnesses first hand Israeli atrocities in the Gaza Strip

It would be even better if the headline read.... The Late Former Presidential candidate and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney....

180 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:53:37am

re: #175 MandyManners

As a contrast, the person who SHOULD be our President (if the Democrats and Republicans hadn't spoiled the election) is actually DOING something. Cynthia McKinney is courageously taking part in a shipment of medical aid that will break through the siege of Gaza. She is onboard a ship leaving from Cyprus on a mission organized by Free Gaza, a group that has successfully defied the siege several times in the last five months.

LOL! The delusion is strong with this one.

Don't touch him! The stupidity rubs off!

181 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:53:44am

re: #165 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Funny they talk about all the aid needed when at the time they took over Gaza the greenhouses etc were pristine. The lack of maintenance or even basic care for these things is a large part of the lack of resources problem.

182 3 wood  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:54:02am

re: #162 Desert Dog

Just keep dropping the bar lower and lower as needed, eh?

Facts don't matter with these people.

They worship the idol they have created and they will not let it's image be damaged.

183 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:54:26am

re: #175 MandyManners

As a contrast, the person who SHOULD be our President (if the Democrats and Republicans hadn't spoiled the election) is actually DOING something. Cynthia McKinney is courageously taking part in a shipment of medical aid that will break through the siege of Gaza. She is onboard a ship leaving from Cyprus on a mission organized by Free Gaza, a group that has successfully defied the siege was deemed too unimportant for Israel to bother stopping several times in the last five months.

LOL! The delusion is strong with this one.

Fixed.

184 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:54:35am

re: #159 Bloodnok

Holy crap.

Save that shit!

It'll go great on an Obama Plate™ - limited to one per Dem askhole.

185 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:54:49am

Morning, Lizards.

What can I say? We have elected a resume'-lite, accomplishment-challenged, radical-"progressive" overaged gangsta-wannabee to the single most powerful office on this planet.

I'm torn between hoping he goes totally "gangsta" on us, launches a campaign to remake the U.S. in his own weird image (ala' Carter), and gets his party turfed out of control of Congress in '10 and himself laughed off the stage in '12, and hoping he tries to continue his "hide in a closet during votes" Senate tenure policy now that he's in the Big Chair, and winds up as an even bigger laughingstock than Bill Clinton did. The drawback to the latter is that Bill managed to hang on for eight years.

I'm not sure the world can take eight years of The Exalted One's policies.

/No, I'm not optimistic- based on having lived through JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Carter, and Mr. Bill, and studied the debacles' that were Wilson, Coolidge, Cleveland, and Hoover.

Of course, as a Monty Python fan, I at least should find the coming bizarreness ironically amusing. I am going to stock up on popcorn just in case.

cheers

eon

186 3 wood  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:54:58am

re: #173 christheprofessor

Actually, they have two religions -- the other being Global Warming/Save the Planet crap...

Good point, but I believe they would drop the global warming worship if they needed to to save Obama.

187 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:55:12am

re: #181 Rustler

The savages destroyed them first chance they got. I suppose that helped them save on maintenance costs, now that I think about it.

188 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:55:57am
189 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:56:07am

And then Obama posed with four babies.
/let them bring the little children to me, because I am a politician
/not to mention, The Messiah

190 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:56:30am

re: #175 MandyManners

A tiny open-air prison with 1.5 million inhabitants,

OH MY F*CKING GOD

Tha Gaza Strip should be one of THE most desired vacation spots IN THE WORLD. The beaches there are amazing. Resorts could be built there and the "Palastinians" would never again have to worry about jobs or money.

191 Miss Trixie  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:56:52am

re: #154 SteveC

We're saved!

Cynthia McKinney to the rescue!

And lookee who's also there:

and Sami al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera reporter and former detainee at Guantanamo.

This guy's rubbed shoulders with none other than Bilal Hussein and we must be reassured that clear, concise non-biased media reporting will result and win the day.

///////////

192 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:57:16am

re: #188 SteveC

Email Cynthia! She could hop aboard one of those buses and haul her fat arse right no in there.

193 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:57:44am

re: #178 Gang of One

Israel's navy should sink it as a hostile's ship aiding and abetting the enemy.

I don't see the Israeli's sinking a ship carrying a former presidential candidate.

194 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:57:49am

re: #188 SteveC

Egypt is letting trucks in.

So in other words, Iran is sending Hamas more guns rockets and suicide vests....

195 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:57:54am

re: #192 ArmyWife

ON in there. ON. ON.

196 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:58:12am

re: #180 SteveC

Don't touch him! The stupidity rubs off!

Not even with a 10-foot pole.

197 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:58:16am

re: #190 sattv4u2

A tiny open-air prison with 1.5 million inhabitants,

OH MY F*CKING GOD

Tha Gaza Strip should be one of THE most desired vacation spots IN THE WORLD. The beaches there are amazing. Resorts could be built there and the "Palastinians" would never again have to worry about jobs or money.

It ain't in their genes!

198 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:58:53am

re: #195 ArmyWife

ON in there Prancer. ON Dancer. ON Dasher and Vixen.

199 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:59:01am

re: #183 Bloodnok

That wasn't Ms Blair's sister's group?

200 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:59:33am

re: #186 3 wood

Good point, but I believe they would drop the global warming worship if they needed to to save Obama.

Agreed. If the Enlightened One abandons Global Warming, the media will to, as he will have shown it to be the farce it is.

However, he won't -- the entire Global Warming/Climate Change scam is meant to be the tool by which socialism is foisted upon us. He will embrace it in my opinion (though I've read otherwise)...

201 marinegrunt  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 5:59:37am

Mr "O" take your shaka and your scuzzy ass off my Marine Corps Base.

202 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:00:16am

re: #169 Miss Trixie

Not to mention bike-riding.

This guy's worse than Nuancy-Boy Jon Karie.

Can you imagine the field day the MSM would have had with a pic of GWB riding around on a bike with a flat tire? It would have been page 1, above the fold news for days.

203 aboo-Hoo-Hoo  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:00:22am

re: #178 Gang of One

Israel's navy should sink it as a hostile's ship aiding and abetting the enemy.

How about a short diversion...to say the Gulf of Aden...the coast of Somalia....

204 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:00:39am

re: #188 SteveC

Egypt is letting trucks in.

Is Hamas still keeping the wounded from being taken to Egypt?

205 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:01:27am

re: #190 sattv4u2

A tiny open-air prison with 1.5 million inhabitants,

OH MY F*CKING GOD

Tha Gaza Strip should be one of THE most desired vacation spots IN THE WORLD. The beaches there are amazing. Resorts could be built there and the "Palastinians" would never again have to worry about jobs or money.

The only money Hamas cares about buys guns and rocket parts.

206 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:01:33am

re: #201 marinegrunt

Mr "O" take your shaka and your scuzzy ass off my Marine Corps Base.

Indeed!
Is he staying on (inside) Kaneohe, or was he just using the gym?

207 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:01:40am

Well folks, time for this lizard to scuttle off to work... sigh, vacations disappear so quickly...

208 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:01:52am

re: #200 christheprofessor
"
If the Enlightened One abandons Global Warming
"

Never bite the hand that feeds ya !

209 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:01am

Good morning y'all - from a coolish (53 degrees going up to 61 degrees) overcast and rainy Charlotte!
How is everyone doing this morning?

210 MadJadBad  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:06am

Uber-cool? When a 45 year old poindexter acts like that it looks uber-dorky. I do not want my president to be Steve Urkle.

211 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:11am

re: #207 doriangrey

Well folks, time for this lizard to scuttle off to work... sigh, vacations disappear so quickly...

Morning!
Have a great day.

212 Gang of One  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:26am

re: #193 MandyManners

I don't see the Israeli's sinking a ship carrying a former presidential candidate.

Maybe then seizing it and charging the crew and passengers with espionage.

213 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:44am

re: #201 marinegrunt

Mr "O" take your shaka and your scuzzy ass off my Marine Corps Base.

Well, he is the soon-to-be Commander in Chief.

214 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:55am

re: #207 doriangrey

Be productive!

215 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:02:57am

re: #209 realwest

Good morning y'all - from a coolish (53 degrees going up to 61 degrees) overcast and rainy Charlotte!
How is everyone doing this morning?

Never did get your e-mail last night...

216 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:03:11am

re: #203 aboo-Hoo-Hoo

How about a short diversion...to say the Gulf of Aden...the coast of Somalia....

Now you're talking.

217 doriangrey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:03:34am

re: #211 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Morning!
Have a great day.

Morning PBMB.....

218 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:03:36am

re: #208 sattv4u2

"
If the Enlightened One abandons Global Warming
"

Never bite the hand that feeds ya !

Yup. Remember, the day he was elected was the day the oceans stopped rising...

219 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:03:41am

re: #206 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Indeed!
Is he staying on (inside) Kaneohe, or was he just using the gym?

He and his family are staying at a private, rented house.

220 FrogMarch  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:03:52am

Imagine Reuters saying the same thing about George Bush - or any Republican for that matter?
would never happen.

221 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:04:04am

re: #175 MandyManners

As a contrast, the person who SHOULD be our President (if the Democrats and Republicans hadn't spoiled the election) is actually DOING something. Cynthia McKinney is courageously taking part in a shipment of medical aid that will break through the siege of Gaza. She is onboard a ship leaving from Cyprus on a mission organized by Free Gaza, a group that has successfully defied the siege several times in the last five months.

LOL! The delusion is strong with this one.

I'll say- she thinks she's Eva Marie Saint in Exodus (d. Otto Preminger, 1965).

The irony of heading for Gaza by ship from Cyprus no doubt totally escapes the MSM, but I'm sure McKinney thinks it's all "symbolic".

/Not having one whit of understanding of why that sort of thing happened from 1946 to 1948, at all.

cheers

eon

222 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:04:12am

re: #213 MandyManners

And this has personally affected me. Mr. ArmyWife now says he is rethinking his retirement (in 18 months) because he doesn't want Barry to sign his certificate thingy they give retirees.

223 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:04:16am

re: #219 MandyManners

He and his family are staying at a private, rented house.

Ah ha. Thanks.

224 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:04:24am

re: #210 MadJadBad

Uber-cool? When a 45 year old poindexter acts like that it looks uber-dorky. I do not want my president to be Steve Urkle.

Post of the morning!

225 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:05:06am

re: #212 Gang of One

Maybe then seizing it and charging the crew and passengers with espionage.

I don't see them arresting a former presidential candidate, either. Maybe taking her into protective custody.

226 Miss Trixie  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:05:12am

re: #202 rightymouse

Can you imagine the field day the MSM would have had with a pic of GWB riding around on a bike with a flat tire? It would have been page 1, above the fold news for days.

Yup. Actually, I was waiting for The One to do something like this - he's soooo clueless.

227 Rustler  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:05:32am

re: #185 eon
Well resume light ran with a message against resume-supreme who had no message. I truely believe that had John had a message and gotten the message out he would have won. Instead he ran on an impressive service record.

228 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:05:32am

re: #194 doriangrey

So in other words, Iran is sending Hamas more guns rockets and suicide vests....

No food, medicine or clothing in them, I bet

229 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:06:04am

re: #221 eon

I'll say- she thinks she's Eva Marie Saint in Exodus (d. Otto Preminger, 1965).

The irony of heading for Gaza by ship from Cyprus no doubt totally escapes the MSM, but I'm sure McKinney thinks it's all "symbolic".

/Not having one whit of understanding of why that sort of thing happened from 1946 to 1948, at all.

cheers

eon

I doubt many know the history of Israel.

230 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:06:12am

re: #190 sattv4u2

Tha Gaza Strip should be one of THE most desired vacation spots IN THE WORLD. The beaches there are amazing. Resorts could be built there and the "Palastinians" would never again have to worry about jobs or money.

And risk losing their pathetic victim status with the world?

231 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:06:12am

This is quite nauseating. The other day I read a post on Yahoo! news that stated the Obama's were without power for 11 hours. This is what the MSM bought. Years of pointless stories about the One. Just wait until you get this headline: Obama has diarrhea.

232 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:06:28am

re: #215 doriangrey
Hey dorian - I don't understand that - cause I just hit reply to your e-mail, so my "e-mail" shoulda returned directly to the one you sent yours from - and it didn't come back to me, either!
Crap.

233 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:06:42am

Oops. Exodus, 1960, not 1965.

No idea how that happened, and pimf was no help.

More coffee, eon.

cheers

eon

234 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:06:52am

re: #222 ArmyWife

And this has personally affected me. Mr. ArmyWife now says he is rethinking his retirement (in 18 months) because he doesn't want Barry to sign his certificate thingy they give retirees.

He'd rather stay on in a military CBBHO might screw to the floor?

235 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:07:01am

re: #225 MandyManners

I don't see them arresting a former presidential candidate, either. Maybe taking her into protective custody a rubber room.

236 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:07:27am

The pictures are getting progressively worse.

Marvel as clean-clothed Pali firefighters extinguish a pile of freshly smoking dirt and rubble (I'm no fire chief but the post in the middle doesn't show much fire damage-looks like a regular condemned building to me.)

237 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:07:34am

Uh, hey y'all what the hell is a "shaka" anyway? Is that that index and pinky finger thingie that means essentially, don't worry be happy?!

238 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:07:55am

re: #231 NYCHardhat

This is quite nauseating. The other day I read a post on Yahoo! news that stated the Obama's were without power for 11 hours. This is what the MSM bought. Years of pointless stories about the One. Just wait until you get this headline: Obama has diarrhea.

I would've thought that a house rented by a future president would have back-up generators.

239 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:08:30am

re: #235 sattv4u2

That would work.

240 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:08:54am

I want to see my Uber-President body-surfing at Makapu`u!
*throb*
*salivate*
*leg tingle*

/

241 sbvft contributor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:08:56am

don't know if someone posted this already, but see this also:

He’s So Fine: CBS Early Show Explores ‘How Cool is “The Man” Obama?’

[Link: newsbusters.org...]

"On Friday morning’s The Early Show on CBS, viewers were treated to what almost seemed like a parody of Barack Obama’s mainstream media paparazzi fawning over the Democratic President-elect, as the show ran a report exploring the question of "How cool is Obama?" and co-hosts Harry Smith and Tracy Smith referred to Obama as "the man" and "the epitome of cool," respectively. Audio of the classic rock group the Chiffons singing "He’s So Fine" even played as the piece on Obama’s "coolness" began. Tracy Smith oozed as she plugged the segment: "We’re actually talking about how a lot of people think that President-elect Barack Obama is the epitome of cool. Look at that guy. Everything, I mean, even in a baseball cap. Don’t you think?" After Harry Smith referred to a New York Times article about the significance of Obama spending his childhood in Hawaii, Tracy Smith added: "That makes him even cooler.""

242 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:09:05am

re: #238 MandyManners

I would've thought that a house rented by a future president would have back-up generators.

Is it news worthy? Yeah I know, rhetorical question.

243 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:09:11am

re: #237 realwest

Uh, hey y'all what the hell is a "shaka" anyway? Is that that index and pinky finger thingie that means essentially, don't worry be happy?!

The article has a photograph.

244 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:09:11am

re: #237 realwest

Uh, hey y'all what the hell is a "shaka" anyway? Is that that index and pinky finger thingie that means essentially, don't worry be happy?!

Think it's a surfer sign for "hang loose".

245 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:09:28am

re: #234 MandyManners

I didn't say it was logical! Perhaps that will make it bad enough that he won't care about the signature. We have 2 friends that had their retirement packages denied and are now packing up for Afghanistan.

(the signature really isn't the issue. The Army is his life and he doesn't want to think about not being in it, he is just trying to figure out how to say just that!)

246 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:09:48am

re: #238 MandyManners

It did.

247 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:09:52am

re: #237 realwest

Uh, hey y'all what the hell is a "shaka" anyway? Is that that index and pinky finger thingie that means essentially, don't worry be happy?!

Yes, but as I pointed out earlier, his pinky doesn't look extended in the photo (IMHO) So either the editor attached the wrong photo to the story, or the writer didn't know what the Shaka symbol really looked like

248 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:10:05am

re: #236 Bloodnok

The pictures are getting progressively worse.

Marvel as clean-clothed Pali firefighters extinguish a pile of freshly smoking dirt and rubble (I'm no fire chief but the post in the middle doesn't show much fire damage-looks like a regular condemned building to me.)

Looks like a total fake to me.

249 marinegrunt  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:10:18am

re: #213 MandyManners

Well, he is the soon-to-be Commander in Chief.

The Marine Corps already have a Commander in Chief, he goes by the title of Commandant Of The Marine Corps.

250 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:10:18am

re: #236 Bloodnok

The pictures are getting progressively worse.

Marvel as clean-clothed Pali firefighters extinguish a pile of freshly smoking dirt and rubble (I'm no fire chief but the post in the middle doesn't show much fire damage-looks like a regular condemned building to me.)

Is that the same guy posing the other day, pointing off to some imaginary spot?

251 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:10:28am

re: #240 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I want to see my Uber-President body-surfing at Makapu`u!
*throb*
*salivate*
*leg tingle*

/

How ya' doin' this morning, Chrissy?

252 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:10:43am

re: #231 NYCHardhat
OY! NO - that's waay TMI! LOL! And I can't believe that the future POTUS would stay anywhere where they don't have back up generators; last time I was in Oahu they were mandatory for the big hotels.
God, we're gonna have a President Putz.

253 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:10:58am

re: #236 Bloodnok

The pictures are getting progressively worse.

Marvel as clean-clothed Pali firefighters extinguish a pile of freshly smoking dirt and rubble (I'm no fire chief but the post in the middle doesn't show much fire damage-looks like a regular condemned building to me.)

You're right. There wasn't any fire to speak of in there.

254 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:11:22am

re: #249 marinegrunt

The Marine Corps already have a Commander in Chief, he goes by the title of Commandant Of The Marine Corps.

sorry, but HIS superior is the POTUS

(don't blame me,,,, talk to the Founding Fathers! )

255 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:11:39am

re: #253 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You're right. There wasn't any fire to speak of in there.

But the dust was awful! Allergies. Whew!

256 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:11:45am

re: #242 NYCHardhat

Is it news worthy? Yeah I know, rhetorical question.

We might not have known that the island was without power if CBBHO had not been there.

257 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:12:10am

re: #252 realwest

OY! NO - that's waay TMI! LOL! And I can't believe that the future POTUS would stay anywhere where they don't have back up generators; last time I was in Oahu they were mandatory for the big hotels.
God, we're gonna have a President Putz.

Just wait when this guy gets a shoe thrown at him. It will be considered an assassination attempt.

258 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:12:11am

re: #251 MandyManners

How ya' doin' this morning, Chrissy?

*palpitate* !

259 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:12:45am

re: #256 MandyManners

We might not have known that the island was without power if CBBHO had not been there.

You're good.

260 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:12:47am

re: #245 ArmyWife

I didn't say it was logical! Perhaps that will make it bad enough that he won't care about the signature. We have 2 friends that had their retirement packages denied and are now packing up for Afghanistan.

(the signature really isn't the issue. The Army is his life and he doesn't want to think about not being in it, he is just trying to figure out how to say just that!)

If he retires, can the Army re-up him involuntarily for two years?

261 abolitionist[deleted]  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:13:04am
262 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:13:16am

re: #246 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

It did.

I didn't know that.

263 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:13:56am

re: #249 marinegrunt

The Marine Corps already have a Commander in Chief, he goes by the title of Commandant Of The Marine Corps.

Ummmmm...I was talking about the president who does outrank the Commandant.

264 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:14:34am

re: #243 MandyManners
Yea I know that but "The hand gesture, also a common greeting in surfer culture, consists of curling the three middle fingers and extending the thumb and little finger." and he ain't sticking out his pinky finger, in fact at best he looks like he's trying to hitchhike - how the fuck cool is that?
Not cool at all.
Not even a bit.
Like I said , President Putz.

265 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:14:44am

Way to go, self. Piss off a Marine this early.

266 christheprofessor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:14:57am

re: #257 NYCHardhat

Just wait when this guy gets a shoe thrown at him. It will be considered an assassination attempt.

Only if Richard Reid throws it at him...

267 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:14:58am

re: #260 MandyManners

I don't really know, I'd have to ask him.

268 Desert Dog  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:15:04am

re: #236 Bloodnok

The pictures are getting progressively worse.

Marvel as clean-clothed Pali firefighters extinguish a pile of freshly smoking dirt and rubble (I'm no fire chief but the post in the middle doesn't show much fire damage-looks like a regular condemned building to me.)

This the guy on the hose, the same dude as Pointer?

269 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:15:28am

re: #259 NYCHardhat

It might've been a blurb in the LAT if he wasn't there.

270 FrogMarch  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:15:39am

re: #240 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I want to see my Uber-President body-surfing at Makapu`u!
*throb*
*salivate*
*leg tingle*

/

He's our president beef cake. And the world loves us because our media love him.

271 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:16:11am

re: #245 ArmyWife
Yeah, I know guys who quit after like 18 years when Bush I was elected cause they wanted their discharge signed by Ronnie!

272 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:16:11am

re: #270 FrogMarch

except all those people who still want us dead.

273 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:16:36am

re: #231 NYCHardhat

This is quite nauseating. The other day I read a post on Yahoo! news that stated the Obama's were without power for 11 hours. This is what the MSM bought. Years of pointless stories about the One. Just wait until you get this headline: Obama has diarrhea.

This morning utility company crews from here in Ohio are heading for the Detroit area, along with crews from four other states, because about 200,000+ customers are out due to high winds plus heavy snows and ice over the weekend.

Meanwhile, in related news, the environmentalists are rallying to force The One to divert the funding for his "infrastructure renewal" jobs program to "green" projects. They want windmills and solar cells and light rail and electric buses- any money spent on roads (for those eeevill gas-guzzlers and semis) and improving conventional electrical power generation and delivery (which involves actually generating electricity) is a "threat to Holy Mother Gaia" and will not be permitted.

Look for The One next year to be telling people in the Great Lakes states that power failures are all their fault for "not conserving enough".

/Channeling "Grayout" Davis

cheers

eon

274 HoosierHoops  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:16:38am

Good Morning Lizards!
How is everyone this fine day?

275 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:17:15am

re: #267 ArmyWife

I don't really know, I'd have to ask him.

I remember when dickhead was about to retire he was re-upped. But, he speaks Arabic fluently.

276 midwestgak  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:17:16am

Good Morning Lizards. Everyone ready for the New Year in Obamaland?

277 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:17:32am

re: #253 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You're right. There wasn't any fire to speak of in there.

Here's another pic of the same fire. My guess is burning newspaper.

278 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:17:32am

re: #271 realwest

That's funny. He will be 37 when he gets his 20, so if staying in is what he wants, we will manage. I just hope The One doesn't make it intolerable.

279 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:17:53am

re: #247 sattv4u2
Ah, GMTA! How are you doing this morning?

280 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:18:09am

re: #274 HoosierHoops

Kinda a frisky group this morning Hoops. My Cowboys died yesterday. Which is okay, because THEY SUCK!

281 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:18:36am

re: #272 ArmyWife

except all those people who still want us dead.

Maybe we should challenge their leaders to a surfing contest!

282 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:18:55am

Will the White House kitchen now serve poi?

Will we see 0Bambi doing a hula at a pig-roast in the Rose Garden come spring?

Will he give his State of the Union messages with a feather cape around his shoulders?

283 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:00am

re: #273 eon

I suggest a new tactic. Since the world seems to be heading in a cooling trend, why don't we declare all the algore efforts a BIG HUGE SUCCESS so he can quite already.

284 HoosierHoops  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:31am

re: #280 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Kinda a frisky group this morning Hoops. My Cowboys died yesterday. Which is okay, because THEY SUCK!

Cowboys looked like they just gave up.. Even the Lions played hard every Sunday...

285 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:36am

re: #279 realwest

Ah, GMTA! How are you doing this morning?

exhausted ,,,, leaving here within 30 minutes.

HOME
BED
SLEEP
DREAM.

Wake up, shower and come back for another fun filled 12 hours!

286 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:36am

re: #273 eon

This morning utility company crews from here in Ohio are heading for the Detroit area, along with crews from four other states, because about 200,000+ customers are out due to high winds plus heavy snows and ice over the weekend.

Meanwhile, in related news, the environmentalists are rallying to force The One to divert the funding for his "infrastructure renewal" jobs program to "green" projects. They want windmills and solar cells and light rail and electric buses- any money spent on roads (for those eeevill gas-guzzlers and semis) and improving conventional electrical power generation and delivery (which involves actually generating electricity) is a "threat to Holy Mother Gaia" and will not be permitted.

Look for The One next year to be telling people in the Great Lakes states that power failures are all their fault for "not conserving enough".

/Channeling "Grayout" Davis

cheers

eon

I see no silver lining in the cloud that is the Obama administration.

287 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:57am

re: #204 MandyManners

Is Hamas still keeping the wounded from being taken to Egypt?

Some of the Twitter users are saying that the wounded are being taken out through Egyptian checkpoints, but I haven't found a news source for it. After all, you can say anything you want on Twitter, just keep it below 140 characters.

/Twitters "SteveC is a little green man"

288 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:58am

UN: At least 57 Palestinian civilians killed since start of operation[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

Hum, 57 in UN/Palestinian talk correlates into what actually?

289 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:19:58am

re: #281 MandyManners

They are all dressed so much better than The One. Sigh.

290 FrogMarch  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:20:16am

re: #272 ArmyWife

except all those people who still want us dead.

Once they witness the grandeur of president beef cake, beloved by all who leg tingle, their hatred and desire to kill us will melt away.
/Just wait until Obama has an opportunity to have a conversion with them.

291 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:20:22am

re: #268 Desert Dog
Hey Desert Dog - sure looks like him! Maybe he has a twin - or someone working in the photo department
at Getty or Reuters (or maybe Getty and Reuters used the same photographer?)?!

292 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:20:30am

re: #280 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Kinda a frisky group this morning Hoops. My Cowboys died yesterday. Which is okay, because THEY SUCK!

hey ,, how do you think I feel. The Patriots WON, have 11 WINS and didn't get into the playoffs!

293 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:20:36am

re: #288 Nevergiveup

.5

294 IgofAntioch  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:20:41am

How old is this guy? 15? We need an adult president!

295 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:20:50am

re: #280 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Kinda a frisky group this morning Hoops. My Cowboys died yesterday. Which is okay, because THEY SUCK!

I think the coach of the Browns is gonna be fired. They suck too.

296 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:21:02am

re: #284 HoosierHoops

I'd defend my Cowboys if I felt they deserved it.

297 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:21:37am

re: #292 sattv4u2

Go figure.

298 marinegrunt  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:21:39am

re: #265 MandyManners

No Mandy, you could never piss off this old Grunt, after all you have a soft spot for those calendar "Beef Cake Jarheads"

299 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:21:39am

re: #241 sbvft contributor

don't know if someone posted this already, but see this also:

He’s So Fine: CBS Early Show Explores ‘How Cool is “The Man” Obama?’

[Link: newsbusters.org...]

"On Friday morning’s The Early Show on CBS, viewers were treated to what almost seemed like a parody of Barack Obama’s mainstream media paparazzi fawning over the Democratic President-elect, as the show ran a report exploring the question of "How cool is Obama?" and co-hosts Harry Smith and Tracy Smith referred to Obama as "the man" and "the epitome of cool," respectively. Audio of the classic rock group the Chiffons singing "He’s So Fine" even played as the piece on Obama’s "coolness" began. Tracy Smith oozed as she plugged the segment: "We’re actually talking about how a lot of people think that President-elect Barack Obama is the epitome of cool. Look at that guy. Everything, I mean, even in a baseball cap. Don’t you think?" After Harry Smith referred to a New York Times article about the significance of Obama spending his childhood in Hawaii, Tracy Smith added: "That makes him even cooler.""

One more reason I do not watch CBS News. I used to like CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt, but today I find it unwatchable as well. (Is it even still on the air since Kuralt's passing?)

Today, CBS "News" is essentially E! Entertainment for the factually challenged.

cheers

eon

300 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:21:58am

re: #295 rightymouse

I think the coach of the Browns is gonna be fired. They suck too.

Both GM and Coach were fired (I thought.)

301 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:22:08am

re: #278 ArmyWife
Me too! But it depends on what your hubby does in the Army that'll make a difference in how he get treated.

302 hermit  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:22:08am

Goodmorningeverybody!

Quick drive-by 'cause I just found THIS: Cooliris 1.9 when I went to update Cooliris Previews. So basically, I have a wicked new toy! If you have FireFox - go check this out.

Well, I'm off to play! Blessings on you all!

303 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:22:11am

re: #275 MandyManners

We have cute nick names for each other, too!

(Just kidding, I know who you mean)

304 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:22:34am

re: #300 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Both GM and Coach were fired (I thought.)


That was what I heard, but haven't checked yet.

305 lifeofthemind  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:22:55am

re: #154 SteveC

We're saved!

Cynthia McKinney to the rescue!

Accidents happen

306 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:22:56am

re: #282 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Will the White House kitchen now serve poi?

Will we see 0Bambi doing a hula at a pig-roast in the Rose Garden come spring?

Will he give his State of the Union messages with a feather cape around his shoulders?

No to the hula but, this would not be the first administration that brought the president's home-state's cuisine to the table.

307 abolitionist  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:23:10am

re: #261 abolitionist

Oops. Charles, I overlooked an email thingy there. Please delete if appropriate. My apologies.

308 HoosierHoops  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:23:12am

re: #292 sattv4u2

hey ,, how do you think I feel. The Patriots WON, have 11 WINS and didn't get into the playoffs!

Some stories just have sweet storybook endings...

309 Jimmah  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:23:30am

Here's Bush looking uber-cool.

Ah those were the days when Americans could be proud of their commander in chief....

310 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:23:32am

re: #287 SteveC

Some of the Twitter users are saying that the wounded are being taken out through Egyptian checkpoints, but I haven't found a news source for it. After all, you can say anything you want on Twitter, just keep it below 140 characters.

/Twitters "SteveC is a little green man"

What's a Twitter?

311 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:23:41am

re: #288 Nevergiveup

Hum, 57 in UN/Palestinian talk correlates into what actually?

Means they were ordinary Hamas fighters -- NOT members of the al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas' combat force).

312 kcladderman  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:24:00am

re: #277 Bloodnok

Here's another pic of the same fire. My guess is burning newspaper.

Yes it definitely appears to be a small debris fire in an unburnt building. Could have been a pile of trash or something that was already there that they lit for the picture. My question is there are definitely buildings being destroyed by the Israelis. Why stage a picture like this? Do the real targets show something they don't want the rest of the world to see.

313 lawhawk  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:24:05am

Obama's uber cool wearing a White Sox cap? Really? The White Sox are cool?

Could have fooled me.

314 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:24:05am

re: #274 HoosierHoops
Good morning Hoops!
You're fired. As my union rep with dorian, I mean. He actually DID play guitar for a band that won a Platinum album! Dorian could make a fortune for me I could help dorian make a fortune!

315 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:24:11am

re: #301 realwest

He is a medic by MOS, currently a 1SG and has been told by "higher ups" he is being watched for "future opportunities upon his next promotion" whatever that means (cue ominous music).

316 Super-ego  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:24:34am

Did half the country elect Obama because they were star struck? I think so. This article is very telling of our current cultures view on an "image." The cultures "self-esteem" is determined by how good one looks in the mirror wearing a material possession.

Does the current culture even know the difference between self-confidence and self-esteem? IMHO, they do not.

317 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:25:07am

re: #289 ArmyWife

They are all dressed so much better than The One. Sigh.

He does have a good body to dress--tall and fairly lean.

318 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:25:09am

re: #288 Nevergiveup
I think the UN translation device says: two.

319 rightymouse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:25:41am

re: #241 sbvft contributor

don't know if someone posted this already, but see this also:

He’s So Fine: CBS Early Show Explores ‘How Cool is “The Man” Obama?’

[Link: newsbusters.org...]

"On Friday morning’s The Early Show on CBS, viewers were treated to what almost seemed like a parody of Barack Obama’s mainstream media paparazzi fawning over the Democratic President-elect, as the show ran a report exploring the question of "How cool is Obama?" and co-hosts Harry Smith and Tracy Smith referred to Obama as "the man" and "the epitome of cool," respectively. Audio of the classic rock group the Chiffons singing "He’s So Fine" even played as the piece on Obama’s "coolness" began. Tracy Smith oozed as she plugged the segment: "We’re actually talking about how a lot of people think that President-elect Barack Obama is the epitome of cool. Look at that guy. Everything, I mean, even in a baseball cap. Don’t you think?" After Harry Smith referred to a New York Times article about the significance of Obama spending his childhood in Hawaii, Tracy Smith added: "That makes him even cooler.""


I thought the word 'cool' was mostly used by kids on tests when they don't understand the question, let alone know the answer. Something like: Question: "What is unique about the ameoba" Answer: "It's totally cool".

320 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:25:53am

re: #298 marinegrunt

No Mandy, you could never piss off this old Grunt, after all you have a soft spot for those calendar "Beef Cake Jarheads"

Oh, you put a big grin on my face this early! Thank you!

321 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:25:59am

re: #308 HoosierHoops

Some stories just have sweet storybook endings...

hey ,,, i'm proud of them. They were decimated by the injury bug this year. They lost one of the 5 best players in the league (Brady) for the entire year. They lost their starting and primary back-up running back for most of the year. They lost their starting free safety and a staring corberback for the year. They lost their most verstatle defensive player for the year. They started 42 different players!

322 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:25:59am

This is how The Republic falls, with a White Sox hat and a uber-cool President.

323 kcladderman  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:26:21am

re: #284 HoosierHoops

Cowboys looked like they just gave up.. Even the Lions played hard every Sunday...

Yea seeing the picture of Romo looking so sad after the game all I could think about was, cheer up you are a millionaire who sleeps with Jessica Simpson how bad could it really be.

324 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:26:23am

re: #285 sattv4u2
LOL! Yeah, I DO feel for ya; 12 hour shift jobs can't be fun after, oh, say the first or second shift!

325 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:26:29am

re: #308 HoosierHoops

re: #321 sattv4u2

hey ,,, i'm proud of them. They were decimated by the injury bug this year. They lost one of the 5 best players in the league (Brady) for the entire year. They lost their starting and primary back-up running back for most of the year. They lost their starting free safety and a staring corberback for the year. They lost their most verstatle defensive player for the year. They started 42 different players!

AND ,, if they had beaten the Colts (which they should have) they would have been in!

326 HoosierHoops  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:26:41am

re: #314 realwest

Good morning Hoops!
You're fired. As my union rep with dorian, I mean. He actually DID play guitar for a band that won a Platinum album! Dorian could make a fortune for me I could help dorian make a fortune!

Yea.. The whole thing is you can't fired me for another 2 years when we have elections again..
I appreciate your dues..Now get out of my office!
:)

327 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:26:45am

re: #303 ArmyWife

We have cute nick names for each other, too!

(Just kidding, I know who you mean)

You should've heard some of the stuff I called him during the divorce. It'd curl your hair.

328 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:27:24am

re: #283 ArmyWife

I suggest a new tactic. Since the world seems to be heading in a cooling trend, why don't we declare all the algore efforts a BIG HUGE SUCCESS so he can quite already.

I'd thought about it, too. (After all, "declaring victory" and getting out is a standard progressive gambit.) But since the goal of the hysteria (whether about "global warming " now or a "coming Ice Age" three decades ago) is the destruction of Western civilization, the abolishment of technology (except for the enlightened elite') and the reduction of most survivors to serfs in agrarian socialist, Bronze Age-level communes (on the elites' feudal estates), I don't see it happening until they can pull the plug on the rest of us. Literally.

/Myself, I'm studying up on how to live "off the grid"- just in case I wake up one morning and the "grid" isn't there any more, as it were.

cheers

eon

329 midwestgak  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:27:25am

re: #321 sattv4u2

hey ,,, i'm proud of them. They were decimated by the injury bug this year. They lost one of the 5 best players in the league (Brady) for the entire year. They lost their starting and primary back-up running back for most of the year. They lost their starting free safety and a staring corberback for the year. They lost their most verstatle defensive player for the year. They started 42 different players!

Hey satt - reminds me of the Bears a few years back.

330 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:27:28am

re: #323 kcladderman

Have you ever heard Jessica Simpson attempt to communicate?

331 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:27:49am

re: #306 MandyManners

No to the hula but, this would not be the first administration that brought the president's home-state's cuisine to the table.

Oh, I'm aware of that.

Have you ever tasted poi? Works well in various masonry construction applications. Is also the next-step-up beyond waterboarding.

332 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:28:04am

There are also a ton of different pictures fromdifferent angles of explosions near that single house with seemingly no road going to or from it. If that house wasn't there that might be a good spot for an artillery range. Could more than one cameraman have "gotten lucky" by being there for that shot?

333 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:28:47am

re: #330 ArmyWife

Have you ever heard Jessica Simpson attempt to communicate?

I woul;dn't mind hearing her moaning! (but I'll pass on the 'pillow talk")

BAD SATT ,,, BAD BAD BAD

334 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:28:53am

re: #310 MandyManners

What's a Twitter?


[Link: www.twitter.com....]

superfast (supersmall!) messaging system that you can run off the web or a cell phone. Timewaster, basically. Supposedly the Muambi attackers communicated with twitter.

335 gregg  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:29:07am

re: #201 marinegrunt

Mr "O" take your shaka and your scuzzy ass off my Marine Corps Base.

You would think that the $5 million compound where he's vacationing would have its own gym. I wonder if it's all for show?

336 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:29:10am

re: #296 Fat Bastard Vegetarian What? I mean I heard Romo had a fever and all before the game which is why he played so poorly.
Doesn't explain why the 'Boy's defense played so poorly, though.

337 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:29:16am

re: #317 MandyManners

He does have a good body to dress--tall and fairly lean.

Which means he'd look good on the pages of the Victoria's Secret catalog.

338 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:29:20am

re: #323 kcladderman

Yea seeing the picture of Romo looking so sad after the game all I could think about was, cheer up you are a millionaire who sleeps with Jessica Simpson how bad could it really be.

Read an article this morning, he collapsed in the showers (his back has been giving him problems). OK, then. Tony, if you can't play, please sit down.

It is heroic to play through an injury and lead your team to victory.
It is stupid to play through an injury and lead your team into the jaws of hell.

339 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:29:31am

re: #335 gregg

ya think?

340 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:29:42am

re: #331 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Oh, I'm aware of that.

Have you ever tasted poi? Works well in various masonry construction applications. Is also the next-step-up beyond waterboarding.

Anything like grits?

341 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:30:05am

re: #333 sattv4u2

*whack*

342 kcladderman  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:30:18am

re: #330 ArmyWife

Have you ever seen Jessica Simpson in a bikini?
/

343 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:30:22am

re: #340 MandyManners

Hey! Grits are GREAT. Just don't put sugar on them (ewww). Butter, salt and pepper.

344 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:30:29am

re: #338 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Read an article this morning, he collapsed in the showers (his back has been giving him problems). OK, then. Tony, if you can't play, please sit down.

It is heroic to play through an injury and lead your team to victory.
It is stupid to play through an injury and lead your team into the jaws of hell.

I've got $20 says that "collapse" was "helped" by an irate teammate!

345 HoosierHoops  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:30:54am

re: #325 sattv4u2

re: #321 sattv4u2


AND ,, if they had beaten the Colts (which they should have) they would have been in!


Maybe now you get to feel the tears of despair after the Pat's beat the Colts year after year...
Really though.. It's not fair a 11 win team sits at home.

346 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:00am

re: #334 SteveC

www.twitter.com.

superfast (supersmall!) messaging system that you can run off the web or a cell phone. Timewaster, basically. Supposedly the Muambi attackers communicated with twitter.

I wonder if the live one was communicating by "twitcher" right after he was caught.

347 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:00am

re: #344 sattv4u2

I've got $20 says that "collapse" was "helped" by an irate teammate!

Not takin' that bet.

348 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:12am
349 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:17am

re: #299 eon
Hi eon! The same is true for ALL the morning shows; even Fox and Friends - which features one smart woman and two men both of whom are dumber than bricks - is the same way - well, maybe not so fawning over President Elect Putz, but the same thing.
Cheers!

350 sbvft contributor  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:37am

re: #330 ArmyWife

Have you ever heard Jessica Simpson attempt to communicate?

"Communicate"? Have you heard her singing?

351 lifeofthemind  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:37am

I can understand BHO being allowed to visit the base dining room as the base commander's guest but given that he is a private citizen why is he being allowed to use the base gym? For the next three weeks he has no legal right to do so, he isn't even a Senator.

352 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:37am

re: #337 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Which means he'd look good on the pages of the Victoria's Secret catalog.

CBBHO's a cross-dresser?!

353 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:44am

re: #312 kcladderman

Yes it definitely appears to be a small debris fire in an unburnt building. Could have been a pile of trash or something that was already there that they lit for the picture. My question is there are definitely buildings being destroyed by the Israelis. Why stage a picture like this? Do the real targets show something they don't want the rest of the world to see.

Thanks! I might be a bit trigger happy on the fauxtography conspiracies this morning.

354 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:45am

re: #345 HoosierHoops

Maybe now you get to feel the tears of despair after the Pat's beat the Colts year after year...
Really though.. It's not fair a 11 win team sits at home.

well , in retrospect it is, seeeing one of the losses was against the Chargers

355 Irish Rose  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:46am

What are the qualitities that give a man or a woman Presidential stature?

Not apparently, a 71-year old man who survived five years of internment in a prison camp with a broken body, 23 years of military service, 16 years of public service in Washington and a lifetime of service to this country.

No, these were not the qualities that aging liberal socialist hippies and hip young voting Americans were looking for in our President and next CIC.

No indeed. What Americans wanted:

Great pecs
A golden, sunkissed beach bod
A cool dude with a sculpted, athletic pysique who (according to our press corps) looks orgasmic in tight jeans
A hip brotha who shoots hoops, uses street slang, knows how to manipulate the system, and wears his baseball caps on backwards

He has less than one year experience as a junior senator, absolutely no experience working with foreign goverments and no military experience whatsoever that would qualify him to be our commander in chief, but hey... priorities!

If you voted for this man, wasted your vote or didn't vote at all you deserve exactly what you're going to get for the next four years.

356 USBeast  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:31:51am

Oh God. We are saddled with a president who can't even wear a baseball cap properly. Will someone please tell him that, if you are not a catcher or a welder, wearing your cap backwards does not make you look cool. It makes you look like an idiot.

357 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:15am

re: #302 hermit
Hi hermit - bye hermit!

358 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:17am

re: #343 ArmyWife

Hey! Grits are GREAT. Just don't put sugar on them (ewww). Butter, salt and pepper.

I was raised in the South but, I never could get into grits.

359 Lincolntf  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:17am

re: #321 sattv4u2
I feel your pain. Making the playoffs (no matter how long they lasted) would have been a great way to wrap up the season. Now they have to deal with Cassel/Brady (I assume they'll try to get something for Cassel, but isn't he a free agent?) and figuring out who's gonna be healthy on defense/at running back next year.
Oh, Mangini just got the axe.

360 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:25am

re: #352 MandyManners

now THAT would be an uber-cool news story.

361 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:32am
362 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:42am

re: #356 USBeast

Oh God. We are saddled with a president who can't even wear a baseball cap properly. Will someone please tell him that, if you are not a catcher or a welder, wearing your cap backwards does not make you look cool. It makes you look like an idiotic 15 year old .

addendum

363 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:32:58am

re: #355 Irish Rose

Hiya Rose...

364 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:11am

re: #340 MandyManners

Anything like grits?

NO WAY! (and I'z a Southern boy!)

Think glue.

365 Jimmah  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:35am

re: #351 lifeofthemind

I can understand BHO being allowed to visit the base dining room as the base commander's guest but given that he is a private citizen why is he being allowed to use the base gym? For the next three weeks he has no legal right to do so, he isn't even a Senator.

Impeach him.

366 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:39am

re: #364 pre-Boomer Marine brat

It can't be worse than vegemite.

367 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:41am

re: #358 MandyManners

I was raised in the South but, I never could get into grits.

And grits could not get into me. Yech!

368 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:51am

re: #346 MandyManners

I wonder if the live one was communicating by "twitcher" right after he was caught.

"Ut-oh, gotta run. C U la8ter!"

369 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:53am

re: #310 MandyManners
It means excited I think, as in "The crowd was all atwitter awaiting President Putz arrival!"

370 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:33:53am

re: #355 Irish Rose

A gazillion up-dings.

371 Irish Rose  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:34:23am

re: #363 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Hiya Rose...

Hiya, FBV ;).

372 NYCHardhat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:34:27am

I really hate this man. I am really disappointed with the 52% of Americans that voted for this POS. You have set my generation back 25 years.

373 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:34:43am

re: #360 ArmyWife

now THAT would be an uber-cool news story.

The MFM would hide it. CBBHO could have sex with a goat in the Rose Garden at high noon, and the MFM would ignore it.

374 rawmuse  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:34:47am

Lately I work with kids. It is always the irretrievably stupid ones that wear their caps backward. And, what's worse is, they like being stupid. To them, stupid is cool.

375 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:34:48am

re: #359 Lincolntf

I feel your pain. Making the playoffs (no matter how long they lasted) would have been a great way to wrap up the season. Now they have to deal with Cassel/Brady (I assume they'll try to get something for Cassel, but isn't he a free agent?) and figuring out who's gonna be healthy on defense/at running back next year.
Oh, Mangini just got the axe.

After Mulroney went out, the "running back via commitee" actually worked well.
In total, the offense was pretty good. It was the defense that couldn;'t overcome the injury bug

376 kcladderman  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:34:59am

I'll see your shaka and raise youA Chest Bump

377 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:35:11am

re: #364 pre-Boomer Marine brat

NO WAY! (and I'z a Southern boy!)

Think glue.

And, sand.

378 HoosierHoops  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:35:16am

re: #359 Lincolntf

I feel your pain. Making the playoffs (no matter how long they lasted) would have been a great way to wrap up the season. Now they have to deal with Cassel/Brady (I assume they'll try to get something for Cassel, but isn't he a free agent?) and figuring out who's gonna be healthy on defense/at running back next year.
Oh, Mangini just got the axe.


The Bears should throw a truck full of money at Cassel..

379 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:35:28am

re: #352 MandyManners

CBBHO's a cross-dresser?!

*cough*
I was merely responding to your comment regarding his body structure.

/ask Michelle ... on second thought, don't

380 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:35:56am

re: #313 lawhawk
Why should you be different? President-Elect Putz fooled some 68 million American Voters!
But I agree - but I'm glad it's the White Sox, not the Yankees. At least Bush had the gracy to not where the Texas cap!

381 Silas  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:36:00am

That sucking sound you’ll be hearing from now on when Obama’s name is mentioned is the liberal media. They’ll be brown-nosing up to him every chance they get. Oh wait! Was that statement about brown-nosing racist?

382 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:36:00am

re: #351 lifeofthemind

I can understand BHO being allowed to visit the base dining room as the base commander's guest but given that he is a private citizen why is he being allowed to use the base gym? For the next three weeks he has no legal right to do so, he isn't even a Senator.

Where should he go? Gold's Gym?

It's about security.

383 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:36:59am

re: #366 ArmyWife

It can't be worse than vegemite.

Whazzat?

384 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:37:16am

re: #382 MandyManners

Where should he go? Gold's Gym?

It's about security.

I imagine that a Marine Base Gym'd be one secure fucking place.

385 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:37:46am

re: #383 pre-Boomer Marine brat

See here

386 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:37:58am

re: #374 rawmuse

Lately I work with kids. It is always the irretrievably stupid ones that wear their caps backward. And, what's worse is, they like being stupid. To them, stupid is cool.

Yep. I used to work in a museum and help with the school tours. The Idiots always thought that their idiocy was cool. "You guys need to get your s*** together and get an education" always fell on deaf ears.

387 Jimmah  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:38:00am

re: #356 USBeast

Oh God. We are saddled with a president who can't even wear a baseball cap properly. Will someone please tell him that, if you are not a catcher or a welder, wearing your cap backwards does not make you look cool. It makes you look like an idiot.

It's a slap in the face particularly given everything that Bush did to present a dignified, intelligent face to the world. All that good work is now ruined and yes, this is sarcasm.

388 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:38:03am

I'm reminded of the saying during the Cold War when we were supporting some pretty bad characters: He might be a sonofabitch but, he's our sonofabitch.

389 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:38:04am

re: #315 ArmyWife
Ah, ordinarily as a First SGT I'd be worried about being riffed if I were him, but not if his MOS is medic.
He's probably safe, but if he doesn't act soon, his discharge papers and Honorable Discharge Certificate will be signed by Obama.
But the Army needs men like him, I hope he stays in!

390 lifeofthemind  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:38:17am

This is about apiece of anti-Semitism from Greece.
HT Israelycool

391 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:38:24am

Need some coffee this morning, bbiab!

392 eon  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:38:46am

re: #356 USBeast

Oh God. We are saddled with a president who can't even wear a baseball cap properly. Will someone please tell him that, if you are not a catcher or a welder, wearing your cap backwards does not make you look cool. It makes you look like an idiot.

There is only one other legitimate reason to wear a ball cap the wrong way around- namely, to clear optics, as in mounted binoculars on a ship's flying bridge, or the exit bell of a sharpshooter's 'scope. Two other things The One would not be caught doing, I'm sure, to avoid alienating his "core constituency" of touchy-feeley, bong-sucking, rainbows n' unicorns n' butterfly-believing overage flower children.

I've often wondered if it is possible for one person to make a laughingstock of an entire nation. It looks like we may be about to find out the hard way.

cheers

eon

393 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:40:15am

Who says "uber" anymore? That's so 2006, noob.

394 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:40:20am

re: #389 realwest

He can't get out now, he has to make his 20. He has 18 months to go.

395 lifeofthemind  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:40:55am

re: #382 MandyManners

Where should he go? Gold's Gym?

It's about security.

Why not? The USSS could sweep it, or he can put a crowbar in his wallet and buy a Bowflex. The point is that the taxpayers don't owe him the perks. We provide the security but everything else should be on his dime.

396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:41:30am

Oh, I should be fair. I have turned my cap around before. Sometimes you don't want the shadow over your eyes. But go back outside, turn hat around.

397 midwestgak  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:41:42am

Did anyone see Mike Wallace's interview with Mrs. Bush this weekend? She has class and grace.

398 Ayatollah Ghilmeini  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:41:43am

DAY 3

Looks like Charles couldn't sleep this morning either.

The silence from the US, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia is a big green light for Israel to pound Hamas to oblivion.

DM Barak, running in an election, declared Israel's war today against Hamas "a fight to the finish." This is really bad news for Hamas. Especially when Israel just bombed half their tunnels with deep penetrator bombs and Egypt is blocking access to the Sinai. Hamas is cut off and facing a completely enraged Israel. They should have released Shalit and stopped firing rockets when they had the chance. But then Hamas would not be Hamas and not backed by Iran to the tune of a couple billion in military aid and assistance. Barak, unlike his predecessor, is not a complete military imbecile, ffar from it, he is a very accomplished general, seeking personal and political redemption from Israeli voters as to himself- Barak deeply recognizes the his failings as PM and most especially with respect to his disastrous pullout from south Lebanon in 2000. Barak understands victory and he understands voters. This spells doom for Hamas. Hamas is not coming out of this war in power over Gaza, their little Somalia on the Mediterranean is over; Israel's military policy is regime change and the people to do it are in charge with all green lights to go all the way.

Someone, not Israel, is going to have to govern Gaza, PA President Abbas, if he can keep a lid on things on the West Bank, may just find himself back in power in Gaza with Egyptian "help.". After Hamas' miserable economy-destroying government and Israeli reoccupation, a reunified, PA under the relatively less corrupt PA PM American Professor Fayaz, will seem like an Athenian Golden Age to Gazans who have been more starved of life and opportunity than from actual hunger. Most importantly, this will begin the governmental interdependence between Israelis and Palestinians that is the only viable and true path to peace. It may seem odd to talk of such things while the bombs are flying but, the whole point fighting a war is to get the peace you want- how you fight the war determines the peace you actually get.

And THAT brings us to the elephant in the room, Iran. Senior Iranian psychopaths are already calling for the entire Islamic world to wage Jihad against Israel. You can't call Israel a "stinking rotting corpse," refer to Jews as "vermin" and then let said corpses and vermin kick your "heroic and steadfast" proxy's butt all across the region. If you are unelected dictators, it looks bad and undermines your regime. But doing nothing risks their strategy of having The One tie Israel's hands while they get the Bomb. For the Ayatollahs, this war could not have come at a worse time. It forces them to make choices. They really liked having 250,000 Jews in range of their Gaza rockets; just like their beloved Hitler, they adore the chance to indiscriminately shell civilians and Jewish civilians are, as we all know, double points.

So the Iranians have to do something or risk losing Hamas altogether but if they do too much they risk Israel widening the war, possible US intervention, and losing Hezbollah too. If Israel is willing to destroy Hamas, Israel is willing to destroy Hezbollah and the Syrian regime too. Does Iran believe that Hezbollah defeated Israel in 2006? If they do, they will attack believing international pressure will stop the war before Israel goes to far or they can use enough rocket to stop an Israeli victory. Syria, which had, up until days ago, been in brokered peace talks with Israel via Turkey, Assad gets Hobson's choice, bet the whole hog on Iran, because if Israel goes for victory and Syria is in the war, Assad's regime will be destroyed. My bet is, if escalation comes Syria will come in with Iran, praying the war stays in Lebanon and the UN can prevent the regime from destruction. You have to have big stones to play in this poker game.

399 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:07am

re: #395 lifeofthemind

Why not? The USSS could sweep it, or he can put a crowbar in his wallet and buy a Bowflex. The point is that the taxpayers don't owe him the perks. We provide the security but everything else should be on his dime.

I'm reminded of the saying during the Cold War when we were supporting some pretty bad characters: He might be a sonofabitch but, he's our sonofabitch.

400 Lincolntf  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:27am

re: #378 HoosierHoops

Somebody is going to, that's for sure.

401 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:34am

re: #385 ArmyWife

See here

hmmm ... thanks!

Especially thanks because a link at the bottom told me what Bovril is! (Finding out had been way down on my round-tuit list, and forgotten when the computer was running. This helped.)

402 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:34am

re: #397 midwestgak

Did anyone see Mike Wallace's interview with Mrs. Bush this weekend? She has class and grace.

Did anyone see Mrs. Bush's portrait? Wow.

403 lifeofthemind  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:38am

re: #383 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Whazzat?

Vegemite is the Australian Weapon of Mass Destruction.

404 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:53am

re: #398 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

Israel blew up the Islamic University yesterday.

405 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:42:55am

re: #359 Lincolntf


Oh, Mangini just got the axe.

Muahahahahaaaaa! My morning has been made. I hope loppyd sees this.

406 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:43:02am

re: #395 lifeofthemind

Why not? The USSS could sweep it, or he can put a crowbar in his wallet and buy a Bowflex. The point is that the taxpayers don't owe him the perks. We provide the security but everything else should be on his dime.

It would cost more to do that than have him go to a bases gym.

407 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:44:04am

re: #404 MandyManners

Israel blew up the Islamic University yesterday.

sad, because the one book they had there was almsot unused!

408 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:44:12am

re: #383 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Whazzat?

409 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:44:18am

re: #344 sattv4u2
ROTFL! NO - didn't you hear he had the flu or somesuch which is why he had such a poor game!

410 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:44:41am

re: #396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

But you are not the President or President Elect. A certain amount of class and dignity ought to be displayed when you are in that role. Gansta NEVER says "Trust me, my intellect and my judgement"

411 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:44:49am

re: #409 realwest

ROTFL! NO - didn't you hear he had the flu or somesuch which is why he had such a poor game!

my bet still stands

412 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:44:59am

re: #395 lifeofthemind

Why not? The USSS could sweep it, or he can put a crowbar in his wallet

"Barak Obama is in booking? Why?"

"We picked him up for assault and battery, Chief."

"Oh, Jeebus!"

"He said we didn't have to call him that, Chief. `Mr. President' would do just fine."

413 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:45:14am

re: #407 sattv4u2

sad, because the one book they had there was almsot unused!

LOL! The labs were being used for ammo depots.

414 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:45:23am

re: #405 Bloodnok

Marinelli got fired. I didn't see that coming.

415 ArmyWife  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:45:25am

re: #401 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I am always here to help.

416 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:45:33am

re: #345 HoosierHoops
Hey Hoops - yes, they are an 11 win team and it doesn't seem fair, but look who's in their division? I mean that's gotta be 8 wins right there!

417 lawhawk  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:45:34am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I see that Israel continues its attacks against Hamas, and Hamas is now pushing for yet another hudna.

Israel must reject all calls for truces and ceasefires and demand nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the terrorist group Hamas.

The Palestinians must taste the bitter sting of defeat and watch the terror masters frogmarched. They brought this war upon themselves, and must learn the bitter lessons thereof.

Israel must reject international pressure and remind the UN that all casualties inflicted in this war are the fault of no one but Hamas - but for Hamas firing all those kassams and mortars at Israel, Israel would not have attacked.

Hamas fired those missiles and rockets because it does not accept Israel's righ to exist, and has used Gaza as their launching pad. They hide behind civilians and engage in attacks on civilians to spread terror and inflict casualties on Israel.

That Hamas hasn't killed more people with those missiles and rockets is a miracle (and the majority of those killed and injured in the recent attacks are actually fellow Palestinians). Forget the numbers injured, and know only that it is the murderous intent to kill and maim that counts. Thousands of kassams and mortars were fired - each with the intent to kill and maim. That they were less than successful only means that Hamas doesn't have the sophistication to kill more with those weapons. And Israel should be thankful for that (of course, it was the fact that those attacks didn't kill and maim more - and far sooner that led Israel to hold off on going after Hamas until the latest major barrages).

418 sattv4u2  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:45:51am

re: #413 MandyManners

LOL! The labs were being used for ammo depots.

and the goats in the biology labs were being used for prom dates !

419 kcladderman  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:46:23am

re: #404 MandyManners

Israel blew up the Islamic University yesterday.

Here is the building after it was destroyed

420 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:46:25am

I posted this on the links, but I think it bears repeating here. Jamie Lee Curtis thinks that a new Great Depression will be good for you little people:

What this crisis is going to do is bring us into financial alignment. Families may have to live together again! What a concept. Grandparents will live with their grown children and help raise their grandchildren — even at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Neighbors are going to meal share and carpool and child care for each other and maybe even rent out parts of homes to other families. Less meat, more beans. Might be better for you anyway. Less indoor gym workouts and more walking, more park time, more family outdoor time.


/hat tip: Dirty Harry

421 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:46:27am
422 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:46:45am

re: #414 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Marinelli got fired. I didn't see that coming.

Couldn't they give the poor guy a chance?

/Millen

423 Jimmah  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:23am

re: #388 MandyManners

I'm reminded of the saying during the Cold War when we were supporting some pretty bad characters: He might be a sonofabitch but, he's our sonofabitch.

Yes, and bitching every time someone says something nice about the president is "too Kos for comfort" as far as I'm concerned.

424 lifeofthemind  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:27am

re: #398 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

Well done

425 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:32am

Brady may not be back next year. Hmmm.

426 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:34am

re: #404 MandyManners

Israel blew up the Islamic University yesterday.

One building, IIRC, not the whole thing

427 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:34am

re: #404 MandyManners

Israel blew up the Islamic University yesterday.

Usually the only thing that gets blown at American Universities is.......ah never mind.

428 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:35am

re: #353 Bloodnok
Hey Bloodnok - don't blame yourself; ever since Charles uncoverd al-Reuters fauxtography bullshit, ya gotta take all the photos taken by stringers with a grain of salt!

429 Lincolntf  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:41am

re: #422 Bloodnok

Who can be expected to win in the Bush economy? He needs a bailout.

430 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:47:44am

re: #417 lawhawk

and the majority of those killed and injured in the recent attacks are actually fellow Palestinians

Didn't they kill two little kids inside Gaza before Israel started responding?

431 SteveC  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:48:17am

Jamie Lee got the bod, but she ain't got the brain. Major Fail!

432 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:48:19am

re: #418 sattv4u2

and the goats in the biology labs were being used for prom dates !

Susie sorority?

433 Nevergiveup  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:48:22am

re: #425 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Brady may not be back next year. Hmmm.

Maybe they can sign Brett Farve for next year?
/

434 notutopia  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:48:36am

He's gone native!
It's never too late to relive your childhood...especially the parts when you were 8y/o and said,... When I grow up...I want to be the PEOTUS !
Enjoy your vacation Obama. It may be the last one you get to take for a long while!

How to do the shaka sign
[Link: www.to-hawaii.com...]

435 Bloodnok  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:48:38am

re: #425 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Brady may not be back next year. Hmmm.

Your post made my computer sad.

436 realwest  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:48:56am

re: #355 Irish Rose
Morning Rose! Yeah but the rest of us don't deserve what we're gonna get over the next four years!

437 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:49:04am
438 MandyManners  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:49:18am

re: #419 kcladderman

Here is the building after it was destroyed

They got gangstas over there, even! I didn't know you could tag in Arabic.

439 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:49:30am

re: #435 Bloodnok

Your post made my computer sad.

Source, ESPN.com...

440 Lincolntf  Mon, Dec 29, 2008 6:49:41am