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Monday Afternoon Open

Open | Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15:52 pm PST

It’s a first Monday of 2009 open thread...

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1 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:16:22pm

Virgin thread!

2 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:16:44pm

Recess anyone?

3 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:16:46pm

I love the smell of an open thread in the afternoon.

4 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:17:01pm

Posted this this morning, but thought I would do it again:

Coolest BASE jumping video I have ever seen

5 Cathypop  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:17:04pm

Hello first Monday thread of 2009!

6 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:17:10pm

re: #1 Hard Right

Virgin thread!

Not for long.

7 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:17:42pm

re: #1 Hard Right

Virgin thread!

Where are the other 71?

8 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:17:42pm

re: #6 redstateredneck

Not for long.

6 and counting. What a slutty thread. ;)

9 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:18:09pm

re: #7 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Where are the other 71?

They quit. Something about finding real men...

10 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:18:12pm

First Monday of the year? No wonder my head hurts.

11 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:18:18pm

re: #1 Hard Right

Virgin thread!

Are there 72 of them?

12 Cathypop  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:18:31pm

re: #4 Creeping Eruption

Have watched that video about 5 times today. I would not try it but it does look cool.

13 Sizzlack  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:18:42pm

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

14 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:19:05pm

re: #11 Honorary Yooper

Are there 72 of them?

Charles was lucky to find one in this day and age let alone 72.

15 Cathypop  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:19:30pm

re: #14 Hard Right

Charles was lucky to find one in this day and age let alone 72.


Do born again virgins count?

16 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:19:34pm

re: #13 Sizzlack

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

Staring at their tails is sexual harassment.
////

17 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:19:48pm

re: #12 Cathypop

Have watched that video about 5 times today. I would not try it but it does look cool.

I am not one to get jealous, but I am very jealous of people who have the guts to try that. I wont even go bungie jumping or skydiving.

18 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:17pm

So how is everyone's 2009 so far?

19 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:18pm

At least someone didn't type "first thread of the new year" as the 1st comment.

20 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:22pm

re: #15 Cathypop

Do born again virgins count?

We'll have to ask the Lizards on that one. Me? I don't care either way. Oink, oink.

21 baconeatingkaffir  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:45pm

Man, I just got the most bizarre african scam letter. This has to be something someone planted them with.

Reply-To: Major Samuel Kebelo
Subject: Do not fail to read and reply to this message
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Length: 2547

Hello,

I pray that this email reaches you in the best of
health.

This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the
fact that we have not yet met. The message could be
strange but it's real and you will realise this if you
pay some attention to it.

I want to notify you about it at least for the sake of
your integrity.My name is Major Samuel Kebelo, a direct
and only remaining member of the wealthy Kebelo family
and great-nephew of the late, renowned war hero,General
Nuisance, formerly of the South African Air Force.I am
an astronaut with the South African Air Force (SAAF) and
presently on loan to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).In 2003 I left earth aboard the
Mars Rover, Spirit, along with my colleague, Major
Snafu.

Seven months later I arrived on Mars.Prior to departing
earth,I deposited the amount of US$ 11,600,000 (Eleven
million, six hundred thousand United States dollars) in
four safety galvanized trunk boxes in a European
financial institution which will be disclosed to you
upon your acceptance of my proposal.Last year, during
the course of our research on Mars, Major Snafu and I
were captured by a group of rebel Klingons who inflicted
great torturous pain upon me with their throbbing anal
probes. After a few weeks of enduring the physical pain,
they released us.

Major Snafu eventually died from his injuries and I
barely survived.As a direct result of this unimaginable
cruelty, I am now very ill with a ruptured uterus.
Sadly, my condition has defiled all forms of medical
treatment, though it is my stroke and fibroid problems
that bother me most.

I am writing this mail to you on my laptop from my
hospital bed in the Martian capitol of Zhwrong.
I now have only a few weeks to live and I am far too ill
to endure the long journey back to my Johannesburg
home. Therefore I have decided to donate the bulk of my
fortune to a church or charitable organisation that
will utilize this money in the manner which I shall
impart to you later.

In return for your assistance, I shall
authorise you to keep 30% of this fund for your trouble
and aggravation plus an additional 10% to cover your
expenses.

When I receive your interest via my mail box,I shall
give you more details of the transaction.Waiting
urgently for your response as I do not have much time to
live on this planet earth.

Sincerely yours,
Major Samuel Kebelo (Astronaut),
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Elysium Veterinary Infirmary and Asylum
Zhwrong,Mars

22 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:48pm

Enough of that off topic frivolity, now for some no topic frivolity.

23 JacksonTn  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:49pm

re: #13 Sizzlack

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

Hawks! ... I love hawks ...I watch them while I drive through the fields ...when they come down and grab stuff it is so great to watch ...I love it when they get snakes and you can see them dangling ...mostly they get mice ...

24 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:53pm

Board certifies recount results with Franken on top

The action concludes the recount, with Democrat Franken ahead by 225 votes, but the Coleman campaign has said it plans a legal challenge. Franken will make an announcement today outside of his Minneapolis home at 4 p.m.

25 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:53pm

re: #18 redstateredneck

So how is everyone's 2009 so far?

Could be worse. I'll let you know come January 21st.

26 3 wood  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:20:59pm

Franken wins Minnesota Senate seat in recount

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democrat Al Franken beat Republican incumbent Norm Coleman to win the U.S. Senate seat from Minnesota, officials conducting a final recount said on Monday nearly two months after the November 4 election.

This is the equivalent of watching a 3 year old play with a nail gun.

But on the bright side. just imagine the damage he can do to the Democrats.

27 nikis-knight  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:21:04pm

re: #11 Honorary Yooper

Are there 72 of them?

Just so long as they don't look like the "lady" from the previous thread.

28 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:21:16pm

re: #18 redstateredneck

So how is everyone's 2009 so far?

I want my money back

29 Cathypop  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:21:35pm

re: #17 Creeping Eruption

I have done enough crazy shit in my life and managed to reach 52 and have all my original parts in very good woring order.j

30 ThinkRight  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:21:38pm

re: #18 redstateredneck

So how is everyone's 2009 so far?


Israel is making it better everyday

31 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:21:49pm

re: #24 Dustyvet

Board certifies recount results with Franken on top

The action concludes the recount, with Democrat Franken ahead by 225 votes, but the Coleman campaign has said it plans a legal challenge. Franken will make an announcement today outside of his Minneapolis home at 4 p.m.

Well, I should hope Coleman brings up a legal challenge considering how many of Smalley's votes came from the trunks of cars.

32 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:21:53pm

re: #23 JacksonTn

Hawks! ... I love hawks ...I watch them while I drive through the fields ...when they come down and grab stuff it is so great to watch ...I love it when they get snakes and you can see them dangling ...mostly they get mice ...

Saw one try to take a jackrabbit. That was something. I've seen them do a mating or territorial display too. You won't believe it until you see it.

33 baconeatingkaffir  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:22:22pm

I like playing with the scammers sometimes. I know its bad but sometimes its quite amusing. from the guy who claimed to be in the Austrian Redcrossand living "on the seaside in vienna". hehehe.

34 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:22:37pm

Zombie had commented on the prior thread that the burka-wearer (assumed to be a woman) has a flier that says "Let Said Live".

Not sure if this is the same Said, but the perhaps it is the same Sa'id that Michael Leeden refers to today -

Sa’id Jalili, the very important secretary of the “Supreme National Security Council,” hit the airwaves of Al Manar TV to call on “the Arab and Islamic countries and other countries that have an independent will” to fight for a Hamas victory in Gaza and deliver a forceful blow to “the Zionist entity.”

If that is the case, then we have a nice Iranian Islamist sympathizer in Anaheim.

35 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:22:43pm

MSM commenting on possible Obama ties to the Blago affair:

Link

36 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:23:08pm

re: #18 redstateredneck

So how is everyone's 2009 so far?

Cold!
Perishingly cold, and its not letting off for this week either.

I hate it!

37 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:23:55pm

re: #13 Sizzlack

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

Whilst driving? This time of year they are very easy to spot in my neck of the woods (Central Virginia). Apparently it's a great time to catch mice.

38 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:24:19pm

re: #25 Honorary Yooper

Could be worse. I'll let you know come January 21st.

I started to ask what happens on the 21st.
D'uh.

39 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:24:23pm

Traditional fairytales 'not PC enough'

Favourites such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Rapunzel are being dropped by some families who fear children are being emotionally damaged.

A third of parents refused to read Little Red Riding Hood because she walks through woods alone and finds her grandmother eaten by a wolf.

One in 10 said Snow White should be re-named because "the dwarf reference is not PC".

Rapunzel was considered "too dark" and Cinderella has been dumped amid fears she is treated like a slave and forced to do all the housework.

The poll of 3,000 British parents - by TheBabyWebsite.com - revealed a quarter of mothers now rejected some classic fairy tales.

/a social farce wrapped in a world gone insane

40 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:24:24pm

re: #18 redstateredneck

So how is everyone's 2009 so far?

Well, in AZ this wet stuff keeps falling from the sky. We are puzzled as to what it is.
///

41 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:24:40pm
42 Sizzlack  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:24:46pm

re: #23 JacksonTn

I spend most of my time in NYC so I only get to see the handful that live there. I've been out on Long Island though and there are quite a few. I did see one catch a pigeon and tear it open in Union Square Park last fall. That was pretty amazing.

Union Square Hawk Eating a Pigeon

43 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:25:06pm

Flying Pig? A Government Minister talking sense!

Environment minister Sammy Wilson: I still think man-made climate change is a con

I think in 20 years’ time we will look back at this whole climate change debate and ask ourselves how on earth were we ever conned into spending the billions of pounds which are going into this without any kind of rigorous examination of the background, the science, the implications of it all. Because there is now a degree of hysteria about it, fairly unformed hysteria I’ve got to say as well.
44 ThinkRight  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:25:19pm

re: #40 Hard Right

Well, in AZ this wet stuff keeps falling from the sky. We are puzzled as to what it is.
///


It is global warming
So i have heard
/

45 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:25:19pm

re: #6 redstateredneck

HA!

46 Sizzlack  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:25:37pm

re: #42 Sizzlack

Now that I look at it again I think it actually might be a squirrel.

47 mean Gene  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:25:38pm

re: #13 Sizzlack

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

I saw three Peregrin Falcons today!
Two of them were sunning themselves with their wings completely outstretched.
Very cool scene.

48 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:26:18pm

FOX news is reporting that "something grave" has happened to the Israeli military inside Gaza. Further details are being blacked out.

/ruh roh, not good

49 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:26:24pm

damn. That means we have 51 more Mondays in the year. That blows...

50 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:26:31pm

re: #13 Sizzlack

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

That can't be right. Bush regime enviornmental policies have wiped out all species of everything!

51 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:26:41pm

re: #47 mean Gene

I saw three Peregrin Falcons today!
Two of them were sunning themselves with their wings completely outstretched.
Very cool scene.

re: #47 mean Gene

I saw three Peregrin Falcons today!
Two of them were sunning themselves with their wings completely outstretched.
Very cool scene.

I saw two finches screwing.

52 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:26:48pm

re: #42 Sizzlack

I spend most of my time in NYC so I only get to see the handful that live there. I've been out on Long Island though and there are quite a few. I did see one catch a pigeon and tear it open in Union Square Park last fall. That was pretty amazing.

Union Square Hawk Eating a Pigeon

Had a hawk pick off a dove that was in a tree 4 feet away from me. Streak. Explosion of dove feathers. Then a hawk flapping hard to regain altitude while holding now dead dove. It was so fast it took a second to understand what happened.

53 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:27:06pm

re: #47 mean Gene

I saw three Peregrin Falcons today!
Two of them were sunning themselves with their wings completely outstretched.
Very cool scene.

54 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:27:08pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

I'll check the Hebrew sites...BRB

55 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:27:10pm

re: #26 3 wood

Franken wins Minnesota Senate seat in recount

This is the equivalent of watching a 3 year old play with a nail gun.

But on the bright side. just imagine the damage he can do to the Democrats.

And our collective wallets? Anyone remember what he did to Air America and to the Gloria Wise charity? Or the state tax authorities in multiple states after failing to pay taxes across the nation? /

56 zombie  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:27:20pm

re: #13 Sizzlack

I saw 4 red tailed hawks today. Most I've ever seen in one day. Nice to see 4 majestic birds on an otherwise gloomy Monday.

Gee, around here, I see about 20 red-tailed hawks per hour, every day, all day.

I think I must live in a hawk zone. Seriously.

57 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:27:34pm

re: #39 Killian Bundy

Traditional fairytales 'not PC enough'


/a social farce wrapped in a world gone insane


On the brighter side, the Gay/Lesbian/Transgender groups have approved "Rub-a-dub-dub,three men in a tub"

58 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:27:39pm

re: #44 ThinkRight

It is global warming
So i have heard
/

We were afaraid of that. We are so worried about more tripple digit summers.
////

59 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:09pm

re: #39 Killian Bundy

Traditional fairytales 'not PC enough'

/a social farce wrapped in a world gone insane

My wife brought home the copy of Little Black Sambo from school, since the book is no longer tolerated.

60 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:11pm

re: #49 Iron Fist

damn. That means we have 51 more Mondays in the year. That blows...

Thanks for reminding me.

61 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:40pm

Iranian "journalist" arrested in Jerusalem for violating censorship order.

62 Sizzlack  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:42pm

re: #56 zombie

That's awesome. I see next to none in Manhattan and a handful in Nassau County. I would love to see 20 an hour Id spend half my day watching them soar.

63 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:43pm

re: #57 n in wi

On the brighter side, the Gay/Lesbian/Transgender groups have approved "Rub-a-dub-dub,three men in a tub"

LOL. where in WI are you?

64 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:46pm

re: #26 3 wood

Franken wins Minnesota Senate seat in recount


This is the equivalent of watching a 3 year old play with a nail gun.

But on the bright side. just imagine the damage he can do to the Democrats.

Figures. He demands a recount until he wins, then suddenly, whoop, he wins! Does the Republican candidate not even care anymore?
/I'd probably be saying "you want the office so much, fine, take it, let's watch you drop out of the sky."

65 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:47pm

re: #56 zombie

Gee, around here, I see about 20 red-tailed hawks per hour, every day, all day.

I think I must live in a hawk zone. Seriously.

I think it is time for you to leave the nest.

66 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:47pm
67 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:50pm

re: #40 Hard Right

Well, in AZ this wet stuff keeps falling from the sky. We are puzzled as to what it is.
///

Al Gore scratching his head.Bad case of dandruff

68 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:51pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

FOX news is reporting that "something grave" has happened to the Israeli military inside Gaza. Further details are being blacked out.

/ruh roh, not good

Bears watching, of course, but I'm already adjusting the meter for the usual FoxNews hysteria level.

69 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:53pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

FOX news is reporting that "something grave" has happened to the Israeli military inside Gaza. Further details are being blacked out.

/ruh roh, not good

From The Muqata:

'10:45 PM Important Update: Out of respect for the IDF Military Censor, we are unable to print more details about this evenings IDF ground operation in Northern Gaza. We'll provide details as soon as the censor allows...'

'11:15 PM Still unable to provide more updates (sorry) However, Hamas is on the ropes. Hamas begs UN security council to impose on Israel a cease fire. (AP)'

70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:56pm
71 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:28:57pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

FOX news is reporting that "something grave" has happened to the Israeli military inside Gaza. Further details are being blacked out.

/ruh roh, not good


Nothing on the web yet

72 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:29:06pm

re: #56 zombie

Gee, around here, I see about 20 red-tailed hawks per hour, every day, all day.

I think I must live in a hawk zone. Seriously.

Those aren't hawks. They are Zionist spies. You know, like the squirrels the Iranians keep capturing and interrogating.
////

73 Joo-LiZ  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:29:06pm

Good afternoon everyone.

Well, first day back to University from the break, and already we have the Pali's in an uproar.

Good to see they haven't lost their stamina yet!


On a slightly different note... anybody see a confirmed report the Israeli Intelligence believe Hamas has Fujr-4 rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv?

(I've seen DEBKA and Muqata on it)

74 taejohndo  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:29:35pm

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

Built on garbage.*

"Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble

RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart...."

*Very symbolic.

75 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:29:46pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

FOX news is reporting that "something grave" has happened to the Israeli military inside Gaza. Further details are being blacked out.

/ruh roh, not good

Jpost reports heavy clashes in Northern Gaza.

Live footage from Al-Jazeera showed numerous explosions and fires in the area where the soldiers were said to be operating. Heavy firepower could be heard, and reports told of dozens of artillery shells, as well as air support which had been concentrated in the area.

Just over an hour earlier, the IAF bombed at least 40 smuggling tunnels along the Philadelphi Corridor on Gaza's southern border with Egypt. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the strikes.

76 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:29:47pm

re: #51 Walter L. Newton

I saw two finches screwing.

Four red tailed hawks
Three Peregrines
Two Finches in sex!
And a Partridge in a pear tree!
I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry.

77 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:29:58pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

HOLY SHIT!

78 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:06pm

re: #67 n in wi

Al Gore scratching his head.Bad case of dandruff

Damn you Al-Gooooorrrre

79 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:08pm

re: #51 Walter L. Newton

I saw two finches screwing.

Bit early for that, surely?

80 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:13pm

re: #56 zombie

Gee, around here, I see about 20 red-tailed hawks per hour, every day, all day.

I think I must live in a hawk zone. Seriously.

I keep thinking of the beer commercial where the guy impresses his buddies with his hawk who he trained to fetch beers, then one of his buddies asks where he gets the beers from. The guy replies "I never really thought about it."

Pan to an outdoor restaurant in chaos, "ITS COMING BACK!"

81 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:20pm

re: #26 3 wood

They survived Cindy McKinney. They'll survive Franken. If the Republic survives the Obamessiah...

82 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:27pm

re: #77 Creeping Eruption

zakery what i said.

83 zombie  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:40pm

re: #39 Killian Bundy

Traditional fairytales 'not PC enough'

/a social farce wrapped in a world gone insane

They're waaayyyy behind the curve in England. When I was growing up, all the traditional fairy tales were rejected and roundly condemned as deeply racist because all the characters were white people. I was raised on PC-approved fairy tales in nursery school: Anansi the Spider (from Africa), Coyote the Trickster (Native American), etc. And this was, let's just say, quite a while ago.

84 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:51pm

re: #63 Creeping Eruption

Chippewa Falls. You?

85 Bloodnok  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:30:56pm

re: #56 zombie

Gee, around here, I see about 20 red-tailed hawks per hour, every day, all day.

I think I must live in a hawk zone. Seriously.

They are stealing the comments from your blog.

86 scottishbuzzsaw  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:02pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

Yikes!

87 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:04pm

re: #74 taejohndo

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

Built on garbage.*

"Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble

RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart...."

*Very symbolic.

Jimmuh will find a way to blame it on the Joooos.

88 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:13pm

re: #55 lawhawk

And our collective wallets? Anyone remember what he did to Air America and to the Gloria Wise charity? Or the state tax authorities in multiple states after failing to pay taxes across the nation? /

Hey! Let's strart a betting pool over when he gets to do the perp walk. :)

89 Sizzlack  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:14pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

OH MAN! That was one of the most insane things Ive ever seen. How big is that freakin eagle?

90 Haverwilde  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:19pm

MN will send to congress the world's least funny comedian. This after having a wrestler as Governor.
Good grief, MN is trying to out perform CA, with their womanizing, body builder, turned 3rd rate actor as Governor--but Palosi tips the balance of insanity in CA favor.

91 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:22pm

re: #84 n in wi

Chippewa Falls. You?

Milwaukee (without the "l")

92 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:23pm

re: #68 Occasional Reader

Bears watching, of course, but I'm already adjusting the meter for the usual FoxNews hysteria level.

Careful. You don't want to burn out this meter like you did the last one.

93 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:28pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

Man, like the IDF on Hamas.

94 Joo-LiZ  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:38pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

FOX news is reporting that "something grave" has happened to the Israeli military inside Gaza. Further details are being blacked out.

/ruh roh, not good

A twitter feed "from the other side" said that 4 Israeli's were killed when Hamas detonated a wired building while the IDF was inside.

I am hesitant to post that, and even more hesitant to believe it.

By all reports Hamas has been releasing INTENSE propaganda from the ground.

A friend of mine got off the phone with a relative in the IDF who had been fighting in Gaza who was very lightly wounded... apparently his unit alone has killed at least 40 terrorists, and they are generally kicking butt in there.

I'm sure if something big happened, we will find out in the next couple of hours.

95 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:41pm

News from Hebrew site:

IDF uses massive artilery in gun battle with Hamas terrorists in northern Gaza strip, in a building-backed up by helicopter fire and tanks...no other news.

-an Arab from East Jerusalem reporting for Iranian TV arrested for ignoring military censor and publishing details and images of soliders in Gaza

-Sarkozy renews call for humanitarian cease fire in talks with Peres

96 nikis-knight  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:45pm

re: #83 zombie

I remember Anansi and Coyote from Gargoyles the cartoon, actually.

97 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:48pm

re: #81 Iron Fist

They survived Cindy McKinney. They'll survive Franken. If the Republic survives the Obamessiah...

Franken would make 60. Fillibuster proof...

98 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:31:50pm

re: #41 Occasional Reader

Blue Monday.

Nice, reminds me of Tom Tom Club

99 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:00pm

re: #79 yma o hyd

Bit early for that, surely?

And a partridge in a bare tree....

100 Who Watches the Watchmen?  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:04pm

re: #31 Honorary Yooper

Well, I should hope Coleman brings up a legal challenge considering how many of Smalley's votes came from the trunks of cars.

He's good enough, he's smart enough, and gosh darn it, his people printed up enough ballots.

101 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:07pm

re: #68 Occasional Reader


You mean there aren't cannibals in the Superdome? I blame Bush!

102 Bloodnok  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:07pm

re: #74 taejohndo

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

Built on garbage.*

"Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble

RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart...."

*Very symbolic.

The Malaise Chalets?

103 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:12pm

re: #79 yma o hyd

Bit early for that, surely?

They are in a cage in my bedroom. Back up food for Maisey the Parrot if I ever need it.

104 formercorpsman  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:13pm

re: #39 Killian Bundy

Lorazepam.

105 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:29pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

I wonder if the Air Force has any units dedicated to bird-strike controllers, like Army K9 units or something. That was AWESOME!

106 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:43pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

This guy got it right:

SnyperTyme: That's a big fucking bird!

Agreed.

107 zombie  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:45pm

re: #62 Sizzlack

That's awesome. I see next to none in Manhattan and a handful in Nassau County. I would love to see 20 an hour Id spend half my day watching them soar.

Oh, well, you're in New York -- that explains it! The hawks migrate in massive numbers back and forth across the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the year. It's actually pretty rural around here, except in the northeast corner of SF, which is the only densely urbanized zone.

108 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:32:59pm

From Muqata:

10:13 PM Released for publication: IDF Border Gaurd prevented terror attack today near Dimona, by bodily stopping a terrorist on a bus from making it go over a cliff.

109 baconeatingkaffir  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:33:10pm

re: #74 taejohndo

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

Built on garbage.*

"Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble

RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart...."

*Very symbolic.

Hopefully it won't be long before Barrah andJimmah can build makeshift ghettos together. Have Hamas and hizbollah given Jimmah his "outstanding 30 years of service" plaque yet?

110 reine.de.tout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:33:35pm

re: #74 taejohndo

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]

Built on garbage.*

"Charity homes built by Hollywood start to crumble

RESIDENTS of a model housing estate bankrolled by Hollywood celebrities and hand-built by Jimmy Carter, the former US president, are complaining that it is falling apart...."

*Very symbolic.

Last paragraph of that story may actually be more accurate than claims of poor construction:

Some residents dismiss their neighbours’ worries. Diennal Fields, 51, said people did not know how to look after their homes: “It’s simple stuff: if there is mildew, don’t get a lawyer, get a bottle of bleach.”
111 MarineGrunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:33:44pm
It’s a first Monday of 2009 open thread..

Another 50 to go, sigh

112 tfc3rid  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:33:49pm

re: #97 Hard Right

Franken would make 60. Fillibuster proof...

Nah, Freanken is 59... McCain/Snowe/Collins makes 60...

113 formercorpsman  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:33:58pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

I thought there was a total blackout on the media as a whole.

Possible psyop?

114 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:34:05pm
115 Joo-LiZ  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:34:09pm

Can anybody help me out in terms of Muqata

I love it cause I feel like I am getting the latest information. But how accurate/"official" are the updates that Muqata posts? Can I cite it to friends/others?

Not everything posted there has sources cited.

116 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:35:19pm

re: #48 Killian Bundy

I just checked the google news. Nothing from the MSM yet.

117 taejohndo  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:35:28pm

re: #102 Bloodnok

The Malaise Chalets?

Or a Louse House.

118 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:35:30pm

re: #80 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I keep thinking of the beer commercial where the guy impresses his buddies with his hawk who he trained to fetch beers, then one of his buddies asks where he gets the beers from. The guy replies "I never really thought about it."

Pan to an outdoor restaurant in chaos, "ITS COMING BACK!"

Omigawd - lol!

119 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:35:51pm

re: #97 Hard Right

As a practical matter, McCain pretty much makes it filibuster-proof. He'd much rather help the Democrats than seem, I don't know, like a Republican. That's one reason he's not taking Office on the 20th.

120 Ayatollah Ghilmeini  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:00pm

This comment, in of all places a response to a Robert Fisk Article on UN SR 242at the independenet.co.uk:

This article reminds me of a long plane journey where I sat next to rather well known Aussie journalist banging on about 'Israeli land stealers'. "Well." I said, "what about you lot? I don't think Aborigines get much of a say in your country. Don't they have their land stolen and aren't they treated abymissmally? And they're not out to destroy you given half the chance? It's the same in America, Indians are second class citizens there and what about all the other natives colonized by Europeans? Why is it you nor anyone else seems to care a jot about them?"
He was quiet for a moment but then came back with a rather telling remark. "Yes that's absolutely true, but you see, Columbus and Cook , they weren't Jews."

121 Dave the.....  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:03pm

On Franken. It will be a long 6 years with clownboy in office.

Who represents me? (on paper)

In the house, it's Betty McCallum, a lady so useless that the guy sending threating letters to all congressmen and Senators a couple of months ago forgot to include her. She can't even get a nutso stalker like every one else did.

Senate:
Amy Klobuchar.
And now, crazy Al Franken.

I'm thinking of going in exile to North Dakota.

122 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:03pm

re: #116 Killgore Trout

I just posted the news from Hebrew Ma'ariv ^ ^ ^ .

123 witness  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:04pm

F**k Al Fraken. Idiots who voted for him deserve what they get.

124 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:11pm

re: #115 Joo-LiZ

Reasonably good - most of his sources are actually Israeli tv or radio news reports. He's like listening to a police scanner on 'roids.

125 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:30pm

re: #105 davinvalkri

I wonder if the Air Force has any units dedicated to bird-strike controllers, like Army K9 units or something. That was AWESOME!

Elmendorf AFB a AWACS E-3 and all 24 crew was lost to geese back in '95 or so. Yes, the AF takes birds seriously.

126 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:36:39pm

re: #97 Hard Right

Franken would make 60. Fillibuster proof...

Nope. It's only 59. (Now, If the Reps could only figure out how to snatch The Messiah's seat. Wouldn't that be a laugh?)

127 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:37:07pm

re: #94 Joo-LiZ

A twitter feed "from the other side" said that 4 Israeli's were killed when Hamas detonated a wired building while the IDF was inside.

I am hesitant to post that, and even more hesitant to believe it.

Definitely wise to wait and see, given the source.

That said, it is unfortunately quite possible that something like this will happen. Urban combat is nasty. We should be braced for IDF casualties.

128 3 wood  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:37:31pm

On market news, the Dow dropped 81.80 points, the S&P 500 dropped 4.35 points, while oil increased to $48.56 due mainly to the Gaza Strip action.

One interesting bit of data that you will not hear from the MSM. Even though the indexes dropped today, gainers lead decliners by a factor of 2 to 1. Of the 3125 issues on the NYSE, 2049 gained on the day, 1014 lost on the day and 62 issues were unchanged.

When you start seeing more gainers than losers, even on a down day, it's a good sign.

The volatility index also dropped slightly on the day.

Basically, the swing traders took a profit from the last few day's of increase. Cars sales were not as bad as anticipated.

Remember, good news will start being published by the MSM after January 20th.

129 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:38:03pm

re: #99 Dustyvet

And a partridge in a bare tree....

Thats better!

130 mean Gene  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:38:07pm

re: #53 Dustyvet

That was very cool.
I almost forgot that I also saw a parent falcon take it's nestling aloft and drop it midair so that it flew (soared and glided, really) probably for its first time.
All this in downtown Long Beach!
They nest in our bridges and high rises.

131 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:38:11pm

re: #120 Ayatollah Ghilmeini

This comment, in of all places a response to a Robert Fisk Article on UN SR 242at the independenet.co.uk:

He was quiet for a moment but then came back with a rather telling remark. "Yes that's absolutely true, but you see, Columbus and Cook , they weren't Jews."


...good old (not really) anti-Jew sympathies at work, ah? I wonder how much that explains for the rest of the world...

132 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:38:19pm

re: #125 jcm

Elmendorf AFB a AWACS E-3 and all 24 crew was lost to geese back in '95

Canada geese, no less.

[turning vengeful eye northward]

133 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:38:52pm

re: #121 Dave the.....

On Franken. It will be a long 6 years with clownboy in office.

Who represents me? (on paper)

In the house, it's Betty McCallum, a lady so useless that the guy sending threating letters to all congressmen and Senators a couple of months ago forgot to include her. She can't even get a nutso stalker like every one else did.

Senate:
Amy Klobuchar.
And now, crazy Al Franken.

I'm thinking of going in exile to North Dakota.

Not much better over to your east with Kohl and Feingold

134 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:01pm

re: #128 3 wood

Remember, good news will start being published by the MSM after January 20th.

The same date on which homelessness in America will suddenly disappear.

135 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:12pm

Two officers were injured in the tunnels under houses.

136 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:14pm

re: #105 davinvalkri

I wonder if the Air Force has any units dedicated to bird-strike controllers, like Army K9 units or something. That was AWESOME!

I don't know if Eagles are being used but here in Los Angeles County I see quite a few of these birds, and apparently some airports use them. From "Wiki":

"The Peregrine Falcon was used in falconry for more than 3,000 years, beginning with nomads in central Asia.[51] Due to its ability to dive at high speeds, it was highly sought-after and generally used by experienced falconers.[10] Peregrine Falcons are also occasionally used to scare away birds at airports to reduce the risk of bird-plane strikes, improving air-traffic safety.[" [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

137 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:16pm

re: #122 WriterMom

Thanks

138 taejohndo  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:27pm

re: #117 taejohndo

Or a Louse House.

And the obvious:

[Link: blackflag.com...]

139 Joo-LiZ  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:31pm

re: #124 lawhawk

Reasonably good - most of his sources are actually Israeli tv or radio news reports. He's like listening to a police scanner on 'roids.

lol.... I'll tell that to my friends...

"Where'd you hear that!?"

"Oh, I have a police scanner on 'roids! I keep it in my backpack..."

140 mean Gene  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:32pm

I just checked CNN, if it was bad for Israel I figured they'd have it first.
But so far nothing.

141 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:33pm

re: #132 Occasional Reader

Canada geese, no less.

[turning vengeful eye northward]

That enough for me INVADE!
/

142 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:40pm

re: #128 3 wood

On market news, the Dow dropped 81.80 points, the S&P 500 dropped 4.35 points, while oil increased to $48.56 due mainly to the Gaza Strip action.

Yeah, the major oil producer of Gaza there.
/

143 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:47pm

re: #123 witness

F**k Al Fraken. Idiots who voted for him deserve what they get.

While I am certainly not happy about him being there, I can't imagine anyone in the Senate is going to take him seriously.

144 96RoadKing  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:39:54pm

re: #121 Dave the.....

On Franken. It will be a long 6 years with clownboy in office.

Who represents me? (on paper)

In the house, it's Betty McCallum, a lady so useless that the guy sending threating letters to all congressmen and Senators a couple of months ago forgot to include her. She can't even get a nutso stalker like every one else did.

Senate:
Amy Klobuchar.
And now, crazy Al Franken.

I'm thinking of going in exile to North Dakota.

Hold up a second, I may join you. We can at least share expenses as far as Fargo...

145 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:40:11pm

re: #103 Walter L. Newton

They are in a cage in my bedroom. Back up food for Maisey the Parrot if I ever need it.

Oh, thats all right then!
Warmth, food, nothing else to do but indulge in a bit of rumpy-pumpy - thats natural!

(I thought they were outside in the snow ...)

146 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:40:23pm

re: #118 yma o hyd

Omigawd - lol!

AHA! Found it!

147 96RoadKing  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:40:28pm

re: #123 witness

F**k Al Fraken. Idiots who voted for him deserve what they get.


Yeah...but what about us idiots that didn't?

148 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:40:29pm

re: #4 Creeping Eruption

Posted this this morning, but thought I would do it again:

Coolest BASE jumping video I have ever seen

That is just FREAKING AWESOME! I've always wanted to try a base jump at the Royal Gorge in Colorado, but never managed to do it. (sigh) At 1000 foot it isn't that high, but still... off a bridge? Cool.

149 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:40:51pm

re: #134 Occasional Reader

The same date on which homelessness in America will suddenly disappear.

Quite seriously now. The polar ice caps are already returning just in time to help Messiah lower sea levels just like he promised.

/do I have to

150 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41:08pm

This is an article about Nasrallah's 'dilema'...he would love to start shooting from up north...it also has an intelligence assessment that Hamas is reducing the number of missiles fired into Israel for tactical reasons-they have weeks worth of missiles still (whatever that means.)

[Link: www.nrg.co.il...]

151 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41:23pm

re: #136 Pvt Bin Jammin

I don't know if Eagles are being used but here in Los Angeles County I see quite a few of these birds, and apparently some airports use them. From "Wiki":

"The Peregrine Falcon was used in falconry for more than 3,000 years, beginning with nomads in central Asia.[51] Due to its ability to dive at high speeds, it was highly sought-after and generally used by experienced falconers.[10] Peregrine Falcons are also occasionally used to scare away birds at airports to reduce the risk of bird-plane strikes, improving air-traffic safety.[" [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Sweet! Falconry and bird-training are alive and well! Combine them with foxes for anti-rodent purposes and you have the ultimate all-natural anti-vermin team! Muahahahaha!

152 freedombilly  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41:29pm

The freaking trolls were out late last night. Kept me up way past my bed time.

153 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41:35pm

re: #145 yma o hyd

Oh, thats all right then!
Warmth, food, nothing else to do but indulge in a bit of rumpy-pumpy - thats natural!

(I thought they were outside in the snow ...)

What's wrong with rumpy-pumpy in the snow?

154 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41:44pm

re: #141 jcm

You two better wise up...I'M WATCHING YOOOOOOOOOOOOU

155 Dave the.....  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:41:59pm

I hear Minot is nice this time of year (I do like the cold).

A little consolation. We have T-Paw for governor. Wisconsin has big Jim Doyle (who, honestly, could be worse as a Madison liberal).

156 ShiksaGrrrl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:02pm

Hey calling all of the troops------theres a punk on FACEBOOK going around FACEBOOK and starting up fights with anyone that has a PRO ISRAEL message in their tag line--------------------if anyone feels like throttling this guy, here is the link to his FACEBOOK profile and his name is FRED HAMPTON and he refers to himself as a "Revolutionary Intercommunalism"...............hahahaha

Hes just attacked a few people I know on this site from Toronto with pro israel tag lines..

[Link: www.facebook.com...]


C'mon troops, lets have a bit of fun and bury this guy ;-)

157 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:08pm

re: #112 tfc3rid

Nah, Freanken is 59... McCain/Snowe/Collins makes 60...

minor point, but until Obama's replacement is named, freak'in is #58.

158 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:17pm

re: #148 Outrider

That is just FREAKING AWESOME! I've always wanted to try a base jump at the Royal Gorge in Colorado, but never managed to do it. (sigh) At 1000 foot it isn't that high, but still... off a bridge? Cool.

I want to get one of those winged suits. Those guys are literally flying!

159 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:26pm

re: #143 Ford_Prefect

They take Ted Kennedy seriously, and he's about as useless a waste of breathable air as there is in existance.

160 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:29pm

re: #93 Ford_Prefect

Man, like the IDF on Hamas.

Except that the fantasy goes the other way, Arab aristocrats hunt with eagles.

161 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:30pm

re: #146 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

AHA! Found it!



Alfred Hitchcock, eat your heart out! Ha ha!

162 unreconstructed rebel  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:42:54pm

re: #153 Ford_Prefect

What's wrong with rumpy-pumpy in the snow?

Rather like in the sand, imagine. You really don't want to miss.

163 scottishbuzzsaw  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:01pm

re: #145 yma o hyd

Warmth, food, nothing else to do but indulge in a bit of rumpy-pumpy - thats natural!

"Rumpy-pumpy" ~ first time I heard that was an episode of "Inspector Lewis" ~ his Cambridge-educated sidekick said it oh-so-properly and I nearly fell off the couch laughing!

164 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:25pm
165 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:30pm

re: #158 Creeping Eruption

I want to get one of those winged suits. Those guys are literally flying!

to right! Free fall is the closest to flying we can get.

166 Alouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:51pm

re: #70 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Here's a bad-ass bird.

A real bastard, but neither fat nor vegetarian.

167 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:52pm

re: #155 Dave the.....

I hear Minot is nice this time of year (I do like the cold).

A little consolation. We have T-Paw for governor. Wisconsin has big Jim Doyle (who, honestly, could be worse as a Madison liberal).

As far as governors go, nothing I've seen yet beats the selection Illinois has had over the years.

Walker, Big Jim Thompson, George "Jailbird" Ryan, and Blago. Only Edgar out of that group seems to be somewhat clean (by Illinois standards).

168 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:54pm

re: #130 mean Gene

That was very cool.
I almost forgot that I also saw a parent falcon take it's nestling aloft and drop it midair so that it flew (soared and glided, really) probably for its first time.
All this in downtown Long Beach!
They nest in our bridges and high rises.

Some years ago, an office building in Minneapolis, Minnesota had a camera set up so you could watch the nesting box for either Falcons or Hawks high up on the building, Was great to see the parent birds do power dives off the building, vanish from the cameras view, then reappear in full flight.

169 gop_patriot  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:54pm

re: #110 reine.de.tout

That's one of the big problems with housing like this in my little city. They get new houses that start out sparkling and shiny and new- and the residents just cannot understand why they don't stay that way all by themselves.

two comments from that page:

Houses require maintenance. It is highly unlikely that most people who are given a house without having to work for it are willing to get a job and save money to maintain or improve their home. People with a "gimme" attitude will always neglect what they don't respect or didn't earn.


and

Having been the former owner of rentals I learned in a hurry that things such as "cockroaches, skin ailments" and a lot of the other complaints came from nasty personal habits and poor sanitation practices by the inhabitants. When you've been given a home, you are responsible for its maintenance.

hit the nail on the head, imho.

170 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:59pm

re: #155 Dave the.....

I hear Minot is nice this time of year (I do like the cold).

A little consolation. We have T-Paw for governor. Wisconsin has big Jim Doyle (who, honestly, could be worse as a Madison liberal).

Pawlenty is as bad as McCain, isn't he?

171 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:43:59pm

Harry Reid just said that the race in Minnesota is over (nevermind that final certification isn't for a week and Coleman will file an election contest), so look for them to try and seat Franken tomorrow. He also said that the stimulus should be increased from $800 billion to $1.3-1.4 trillion.

/oh boy, Obama isn't even President for two more weeks and pork infested government spending is already setting records for being out of control

172 Pvt Bin Jammin  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:44:05pm

re: #151 davinvalkri

OMG Sounds like we are "going green" fast. LOL

173 winston06  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:44:06pm

good afternoon every body

174 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:44:09pm

re: #150 WriterMom

This is an article about Nasrallah's 'dilema'...he would love to start shooting from up north...it also has an intelligence assessment that Hamas is reducing the number of missiles fired into Israel for tactical reasons-they have weeks worth of missiles still (whatever that means.)

[Link: www.nrg.co.il...]


ah crap.. It's in Hebrew!

175 96RoadKing  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:44:48pm

re: #155 Dave the.....

I hear Minot is nice this time of year (I do like the cold).

A little consolation. We have T-Paw for governor. Wisconsin has big Jim Doyle (who, honestly, could be worse as a Madison liberal).

I've been to Minot. Not much scenery...I think I'll keep going until I hit Medora or Williston...

176 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:44:53pm

re: #115 Joo-LiZ

Can anybody help me out in terms of Muqata

I love it cause I feel like I am getting the latest information. But how accurate/"official" are the updates that Muqata posts? Can I cite it to friends/others?

Not everything posted there has sources cited.

I think they're pretty damn good - anything they have turns up on the other blogs, like israellycool, with links.
They're also very careful to observe the news restrictions by the IDF.
I keep linking their updates here.

177 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:45:02pm

Why you should consider moving towards the equator (or stocking up on fire wood and blankets) ...

Solar magnetic activity at lowest point on record

Look at the bottom graph and see how magnetic activity lows correlate to Solar minimums.

We are at a prolonged minimum.

Solar minimums/maximums have a 78% correlation with cooling/heating trends over the last 500 years.

178 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:45:03pm

re: #112 tfc3rid

Nah, Freanken is 59... McCain/Snowe/Collins makes 60...

Could have sworn he'd be 60, but you are correct. Now I need a beer. :(

179 Ozark Mountain Daredevil  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:45:42pm

A guy goes into an adult store in New York City and asks for an inflatable doll.
Guy behind the counter says, 'Male or female?'
Customer says, 'Female.'
Counter guy asks, 'Black or white?'
Customer says, 'White.'
Counter guy asks, ' Christian or Muslim?'
Customer says, 'What the hell does religion have to do with it?'
Counter guy says, 'The Muslim blows itself up.'

180 formercorpsman  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:45:42pm

re: #171 Killian Bundy

Well, he said the war in I raq was over as well. We lost.

His days as a Senator are numbered.

181 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:45:54pm

Anyone interested in ancient history, as I was on Saturday, would do well to stay away from the book that I bought, Norman Cantor's Antiquity. My eyebrows were raised when it made the statement, "Rome was tolerant towards religion." Excuse me? Are we talking about the same Rome that I think we're talking about? After looking it up on Amazon, seeing its 2.5/5 rating out of 31 reviews and reading the truth about this book I wish I had kept the receipt. Here's one review that should scary anybody away from this piece of junk:

I am a prolific reader of historical novels, so when I saw "Antiquity" by Norman Cantor, I was intrigued. Inside the covers, however, lies one of the worst researched, terribly opinionated, and worse, outright disingenuous books purporting to be historical analysis I have ever read.

One could chalk this up to a novice's first attempt, but Cantor is a well known author with his work on Medieval life. Perhaps, under a rush of a deadline he forgot that history is supposed to be told truthfully. He skewers or ignores facts, presents blantantly opinionated views which leave a novice reader with a wholly untruthful view of what happened, and provides no documentation of research for his outlandish postulations (presented as fact) of actions, locales or politics which he covers.

Any lizard suggestions for a book that might actually be worth reading? I'm no historian but the last year or so I've gained an interest in reading history. Antiquity claims to be from Sumeria to the fall of Rome but doesn't really touch on anything before 300 B.C. or anything non-Egyptian. I'd like to learn more about the Hittites, the Byzantines, and the Assyrians.

182 MarineGrunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:45:57pm
183 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:46:57pm

re: #143 Ford_Prefect

While I am certainly not happy about him being there, I can't imagine anyone in the Senate is going to take him seriously.

Are you kidding? He's a democrat and an uber liberal. What is the uber liberal leadership in the house and senate not going to take seriously?

184 Dave the.....  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:06pm

n in wi

Pawlenty is as bad as McCain, isn't he?

He's okay. He's not as conservative as many would like, but look at the alternatives. And he's right on the issues that are most important.

185 Joo-LiZ  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:15pm

re: #176 yma o hyd

I think they're pretty damn good - anything they have turns up on the other blogs, like israellycool, with links.
They're also very careful to observe the news restrictions by the IDF.
I keep linking their updates here.

I've been impressed with them so far... I am just grasping at a more authoritative "I can use them as a source" type of thing.

I couldn't find any secondary info on a report they had yesterday, that a Jewish doctor in Paris was shot and beaten....

186 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:23pm

re: #177 karmic_inquisitor

::panicking, running around in circles:::

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. The sun is running out of fuel. Clearly, the only solution is .......

.............more socialism.

187 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:26pm

re: #165 Outrider

to right! Free fall is the closest to flying we can get.

Right up until you hit the ground...

188 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:34pm

re: #147 96RoadKing

Yeah...but what about us idiots that didn't?

This where 3rd parties kill....
Prelimary vote totals.

Independence DEAN BARKLEY 437404 15.16
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1211590 41.99
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1211375 41.98
Libertarian CHARLES ALDRICH 13916 0.48
Constitution JAMES NIEMACKL 8905 0.31

22,821 votes for Libertarian and Constitution candidates.
This way these votes matter.
Franken wins (certified) by 225 votes. This why protest votes, conscience votes etc... are a bad idea. The reality is we have a two party system. DEAL WITH IT!

189 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:39pm

re: #142 Honorary Yooper

Yeah, the major oil producer of Gaza there.
/

/it's really the possibility of Iran getting involved an threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, insurance would become unavailable and the tankers would stop sailing through

190 96RoadKing  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:46pm

re: #170 n in wi

Pawlenty is as bad as McCain, isn't he?


Pretty much. But he's not as bad as Franken...

191 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:47:52pm

re: #180 formercorpsman

His days as a Senator are numbered.


I hope to hell so.

192 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:48:03pm

re: #179 Ozark Mountain Daredevil

A guy goes into an adult store in New York City and asks for an inflatable doll.
Guy behind the counter says, 'Male or female?'
Customer says, 'Female.'
Counter guy asks, 'Black or white?'
Customer says, 'White.'
Counter guy asks, ' Christian or Muslim?'
Customer says, 'What the hell does religion have to do with it?'
Counter guy says, 'The Muslim blows itself up.'

Ding, ding, ding....we have a winner...:)

193 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:48:15pm

re: #177 karmic_inquisitor

Why you should consider moving towards the equator (or stocking up on fire wood and blankets) ...

Solar magnetic activity at lowest point on record

Look at the bottom graph and see how magnetic activity lows correlate to Solar minimums.

We are at a prolonged minimum.

Solar minimums/maximums have a 78% correlation with cooling/heating trends over the last 500 years.

Exactly..And they say because solar output is down that it is man causing the warming..See how easy that was?

194 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:48:17pm
195 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:48:39pm

re: #187 Iron Fist

Right up until you hit the ground...

Check out the video. These guys skim inches past the rock face at terminal velocity.

196 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:49:09pm

re: #154 WriterMom

You two better wise up...I'M WATCHING YOOOOOOOOOOOOU

Yes, Ma'am...
*sheepish look*

197 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:49:19pm

re: #165 Outrider

to right! Free fall is the closest to flying we can get.

I'd say paragliding is actually about the closest. Get in touch with your inner condor!

198 opnion  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:49:25pm

re: #184 Dave the.....

n in wi


He's okay. He's not as conservative as many would like, but look at the alternatives. And he's right on the issues that are most important.


Franken will give super dramatic speeches, emoting all over the place.
He is gonna be a nose bleed.

199 WriterMom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:49:32pm

re: #174 HoosierHoops

Sorry!

200 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:49:44pm

re: #177 karmic_inquisitor

Why you should consider moving towards the equator (or stocking up on fire wood and blankets) ...

Solar magnetic activity at lowest point on record

Look at the bottom graph and see how magnetic activity lows correlate to Solar minimums.

We are at a prolonged minimum.

Solar minimums/maximums have a 78% correlation with cooling/heating trends over the last 500 years.

Another Dalton or Maunder Minimum would not be a good thing. The less energy the sun puts out, the less heat reached the Earth. Also, there is a theory out there that suggests that increased cosmic rays from lower solar activity causes increased cloud formation. Increased cloud formation can cause even more heat to be reflected instead of reaching the surface.

201 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:49:56pm

re: #193 HoosierHoops

Exactly..And they say because solar output is down that it is man causing the warming..See how easy that was?

I think the Sun is registering its hatred of George Bush. It can't display bumper stickers, after all.

202 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:50:03pm

re: #183 Soona'

Are you kidding? He's a democrat and an uber liberal. What is the uber liberal leadership in the house and senate not going to take seriously?

I don't know. I just think that everyone is likely to try to keep their distance because they know that sooner or later he is going to say something that is going to embarrass them. He isn't Obama. He isn't a Kennedy. There is no Teflon coating on him.

203 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:50:31pm

re: #200 Honorary Yooper

Another Dalton or Maunder Minimum would not be a good thing. The less energy the sun puts out, the less heat reached the Earth. Also, there is a theory out there that suggests that increased cosmic rays from lower solar activity causes increased cloud formation. Increased cloud formation can cause even more heat to be reflected instead of reaching the surface.

Where do I buy sled dogs?

204 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:50:33pm

re: #146 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

AHA! Found it!


Awesome!

Thanks!

205 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:50:45pm

re: #181 bosforus

This isn't ancient history, but if you like Mountain Man stuff, this is the most fascinating book I ever read: Crow Killer

It explains for real what the movie Jeremiah Johnson was based on.
Whole book was done with interviews of people that knew him.

206 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:50:50pm

re: #202 Ford_Prefect

they know that sooner or later he is going to say something that is going to embarrass them.

Well, someone has to fill-in for Biden

207 mean Gene  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:50:52pm

re: #168 Dustyvet

I like this one from Santa Cruz:
[Link: www2.ucsc.edu...]
Especially the one titled, ''Up to the ledge."

208 eschew_obfuscation  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:51:10pm

re: #193 HoosierHoops

Exactly..And they say because solar output is down that it is man causing the warming..See how easy that was?

Never mind ..... the ice is back! Algore is done.....bye Al....thanks!

209 Dave the.....  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:02pm

There was a little bit of a consensus that Dean Barkley took more votes from Franken then he did from Normie. Looking at what Obama did in Minnesota compared to Crazy Al supports this theory.

But yes, I agree. You don't vote third party out of principle. You do that in the primaries, then go with the lessor of two evils in the general election.

210 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:05pm

re: #197 Occasional Reader

I'd say paragliding is actually about the closest. Get in touch with your inner condor!

We have paragliding almost every week here in Golden. I even saw them out this past Sat., when it was in the 20 degree range.

Some info and pictures...

[Link: www.flyaboveall.com...]

211 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:07pm

Climate Change, The way I see it............

/Always look on the bright side of life......

212 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:20pm

re: #153 Ford_Prefect

What's wrong with rumpy-pumpy in the snow?

Nothing, if you don't belong to the feathered kind of two-kegged animals ...

213 taejohndo  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:27pm

re: #188 jcm

This where 3rd parties kill....
Prelimary vote totals.

Independence DEAN BARKLEY 437404 15.16
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1211590 41.99
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1211375 41.98
Libertarian CHARLES ALDRICH 13916 0.48
Constitution JAMES NIEMACKL 8905 0.31

22,821 votes for Libertarian and Constitution candidates.
This way these votes matter.
Franken wins (certified) by 225 votes. This why protest votes, conscience votes etc... are a bad idea. The reality is we have a two party system. DEAL WITH IT!

My wife after voting for Perot:

"I never thought it would matter!"

214 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:31pm

Excuse me but I will not accept the "Those idiots voted for Franken so they deserve him argument"
1) I do not believe that they did vote for him. It is my belief that the election is being stolen and I have no intention of swallowing it with good grace.
2) He was not running for the office of Minnesota Senator but that of United States Senator. We all have to face the consequences of this election.

215 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:41pm

re: #203 jcm

Where do I buy sled dogs?

Yeah, you kind of need them now in Seattle, eh. Alaska, maybe?

216 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:52:58pm

Tomorrow will be interesting if they seat Franken and not Burris.

/because, technically, neither of them will be able to submit the proper certification paperwork

217 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:53:09pm

re: #208 eschew_obfuscation

Never mind ..... the ice is back! Algore is done.....bye Al....thanks!

When did little things like observations stop him?

218 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:53:16pm

re: #211 IslandLibertarian

Climate Change, The way I see it............

/Always look on the bright side of life......

I miss Calvin & Hobbes.

219 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:53:49pm

re: #212 yma o hyd

Nothing, if you don't belong to the feathered kind of two-kegged animals ...

Where do you put the tap?

/

220 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:54:28pm

re: #199 WriterMom

Sorry!

LOL
How do I know that isn't the lifestyle section?

221 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:54:32pm

re: #219 Ford_Prefect

Where do you put the tap?

/

Depends on if you have a male or female connector

222 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:54:33pm

re: #197 Occasional Reader

I'd say paragliding is actually about the closest. Get in touch with your inner condor!

Having now watched the video from #148, I stand corrected. That is some crazy shit.

223 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:54:40pm

re: #195 Creeping Eruption

I'd puke. I'm not fond of heights, let alone falling. I wish I had a link a friend of mine showed me a couple of years ago. It was some guy on a rice-burner splitting trafic on one of the freeways in Japan. This old boy was either brave or stupid. He hits a couple of cars/trucks with his mirrors, almost rear-ends a delivery truck, and generally does everything not to do on a motorcycle. But he does keep the rubber side down, and manages not to be converted into road-kill.

224 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:54:49pm

re: #213 taejohndo

My wife after voting for Perot:

"I never thought it would matter!"

I walked into the voting both that year intending to vote Perot. I looked at the ballot.
Bush
Clinton
Perot

Held my nose and voted GHWB.

225 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:54:55pm

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

We have paragliding almost every week here in Golden. I even saw them out this past Sat., when it was in the 20 degree range.

Some info and pictures...

[Link: www.flyaboveall.com...]

Back when hang gliding was the "new" sport I saw some hang gliders fly over the stage at Red Rocks during a concert.

226 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:01pm

re: #186 Silhouette

::panicking, running around in circles:::

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. The sun is running out of fuel. Clearly, the only solution is .......

.............more socialism.

This is where we send all that nasty coal. Let it pollute the sun instead.
/moonbat scientist off

227 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:04pm

re: #218 Ford_Prefect

I miss Calvin & Hobbes.

Too right man. But Watterson doesn't want to do any more and have the comic become only a shadow of its former glory.
On the other hand, you can always go grab a collection and laugh over it (Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Charlie Brown and Dilbert beat all comers!)

228 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:08pm

re: #222 Occasional Reader

Having now watched the video from #148, I stand corrected. That is some crazy shit.

Glad you liked it.

229 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:32pm

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

We have paragliding almost every week here in Golden. I even saw them out this past Sat., when it was in the 20 degree range.

Some info and pictures...

[Link: www.flyaboveall.com...]

One of my big regrets was not having taken it up when I lived in Lima, Peru. They used to paraglide right off the cliffs over the sea near where I lived.

230 taejohndo  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:38pm

re: #209 Dave the.....

There was a little bit of a consensus that Dean Barkley took more votes from Franken then he did from Normie. Looking at what Obama did in Minnesota compared to Crazy Al supports this theory.

But yes, I agree. You don't vote third party out of principle. You do that in the primaries, then go with the lessor of two evils in the general election.

So if Jindle is the GOP nominee ... ?

And with that,

I am out of here!

231 Dave the.....  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:41pm
Tomorrow will be interesting if they seat Franken and not Burris.

That's what the Dems plan to do...make statements. They are trying to show Franken as a done deal. That it's over. But doing the opposite for Burris.

Heh, if I had no morals, I would play the race card on this one. Say things like "Maybe they want Burris to use the back entrance". Or "Gee, don't they have that seperate fountain for him?"

232 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:44pm

re: #208 eschew_obfuscation

Never mind ..... the ice is back! Algore is done.....bye Al....thanks!

I read that this morning.. Is it too much to ask for just pure science and observation without the religion?

233 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:55:44pm

re: #215 Honorary Yooper

Yeah, you kind of need them now in Seattle, eh. Alaska, maybe?

Got 6" last night in a last blast. 42° and it's a slushy mess rapidly melting.

234 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:56:52pm

re: #217 davinvalkri

When did little things like observations stop him?

Isn't that the truth.

We have "runaway" warming even though the trend is down for the last 10 years while the carbon curve continues to climb.

But wait - I forgot - the debate is over.

Newton should have declared "the debate is over" so that the uppity usurper Einstein would have been forced to be a patent clerk for all of his life.

235 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:56:53pm

re: #233 jcm

Got 6" last night in a last blast. 42° and it's a slushy mess rapidly melting.

You are talking snow, right?

236 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:56:55pm

re: #228 Creeping Eruption

Glad you liked it.

Bah, sorry, from #4...

237 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:56:59pm

re: #223 Iron Fist

I'd puke. I'm not fond of heights, let alone falling. I wish I had a link a friend of mine showed me a couple of years ago. It was some guy on a rice-burner splitting trafic on one of the freeways in Japan. This old boy was either brave or stupid. He hits a couple of cars/trucks with his mirrors, almost rear-ends a delivery truck, and generally does everything not to do on a motorcycle. But he does keep the rubber side down, and manages not to be converted into road-kill.

I'm with you on that. Re: Motorcycles: I don't ride motorcycles and am amazed at the control riders have. I was rear-ended by a guy on a Harley and he was able to keep himself upright.

238 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:57:23pm

re: #177 karmic_inquisitor

Why you should consider moving towards the equator (or stocking up on fire wood and blankets) ...

Solar magnetic activity at lowest point on record

Look at the bottom graph and see how magnetic activity lows correlate to Solar minimums.

We are at a prolonged minimum.

Solar minimums/maximums have a 78% correlation with cooling/heating trends over the last 500 years.

Oh, but scientist now say that if there is an ice age coming, its due to globull warning.
The sun has nothing to do with it, at all!

Saw it as headline in a paper a week or so ago (at the newsagents), so it must be true!

(sorry, no linkie ...)

239 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:57:26pm

re: #235 Hard Right

You are talking snow, right?

Yeah..... git your mind out of the gutter....
and let me float by.

240 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:57:34pm

re: #227 davinvalkri

Too right man. But Watterson doesn't want to do any more and have the comic become only a shadow of its former glory.
On the other hand, you can always go grab a collection and laugh over it (Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Charlie Brown and Dilbert beat all comers!)

Rose is Rose is good as well. In fact I have suspected at times that it may be Watterson under another name.

241 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:57:43pm

re: #225 redstateredneck

Back when hang gliding was the "new" sport I saw some hang gliders fly over the stage at Red Rocks during a concert.

That will happen if you go off the south side of the mountain. Most of the gliders eventually land on the north side, in Golden, because there are much more accessible areas there.

Land on the Red Rocks side, and you may have a mile hike out.

242 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:58:06pm

re: #239 jcm

Yeah..... git your mind out of the gutter....
and let me float by.

Nope. I have too nice a view of the grate.

243 Ford_Prefect  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:58:14pm

OK. I have to go pick up my daughter at daycare. You all play nice.

244 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:58:19pm

re: #90 Haverwilde

MN will send to congress the world's least funny comedian. This after having a wrestler as Governor.
Good grief, MN is trying to out perform CA, with their womanizing, body builder, turned 3rd rate actor as Governor--but Palosi tips the balance of insanity in CA favor.

The California governor loves the US.

245 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:58:32pm

re: #225 redstateredneck

Back when hang gliding was the "new" sport I saw some hang gliders fly over the stage at Red Rocks during a concert.

What show? I was there for the first time last year and fell in love with it. Best venue I have been to for sights and sound. My favorite is still Sultans Pool in Jerusalem though.

246 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:58:35pm

re: #232 HoosierHoops

Is it too much to ask for just pure science and observation without the religion?

Yes. It is too much to ask.

How else can you be declared morally inferior by ignorant whores of socialism?

247 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:59:15pm

Hell week starts tonight. New show opens Friday. Got to go clean up, be back in a bit, and then off to the theatre.

248 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:59:21pm

re: #184 Dave the.....

You need Jason Lewis off the radio and in the Gov. office
As far as Wi. Govs, I'll take Thompson back.
Or maybe James Sensenbrenner

249 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:59:43pm
250 ChefJeff  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:59:49pm

Woot!

251 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:59:50pm

re: #232 HoosierHoops

I read that this morning.. Is it too much to ask for just pure science and observation without the religion?

They will only see what they want to anyway. That's the hallmark of the left.

252 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 1:59:56pm

re: #247 Walter L. Newton

Hell week starts tonight.

I thought the inauguration wasn't for 2 weeks.

253 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:00pm

re: #238 yma o hyd

Oh, but scientist now say that if there is an ice age coming, its due to globull warning.
The sun has nothing to do with it, at all!

Saw it as headline in a paper a week or so ago (at the newsagents), so it must be true!

(sorry, no linkie ...)

The sun has no impact on weather here on earth. SUVs do.

/

254 BlueCanuck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:05pm

re: #83 zombie

I remember being told Anansi stories by my mom when I was a kid. Loved them. But she was told them as a child, so she was just sharing what she learned. Then again, we had a old book of Brothers Grim fairy tales that wasn't what most children were read in public school.

/couple stories gave me nightmares.

255 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:08pm

re: #237 Creeping Eruption

I try and keep a good distance between me and other vehicles. Sometimes you just can't, but you can get out of that situation as quickly as you can. What really sucks is getting in heavy traffic, and cruising along at 5-10 miles an hour. In leather. In the summer.

I'd really rather be rained on.

256 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:09pm

re: #245 Creeping Eruption

What show? I was there for the first time last year and fell in love with it. Best venue I have been to for sights and sound. My favorite is still Sultans Pool in Jerusalem though.

Hell it was the 70's...you expect me to remember what show?

257 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:19pm

re: #185 Joo-LiZ

I remember that - but was too lazy to follow it through the internet. should ahve trawled through the French online papers, but there was too much other sruff going on ... as you know ...

258 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:26pm

re: #227 davinvalkri

Too right man. But Watterson doesn't want to do any more and have the comic become only a shadow of its former glory.
On the other hand, you can always go grab a collection and laugh over it (Calvin and Hobbes, Foxtrot, Charlie Brown and Dilbert beat all comers!)

Problem with Dilbert is that Scott Adams is a bigoted a**hole.

259 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:00:46pm

re: #256 redstateredneck

Hell it was the 70's...you expect me to remember what show?

:)

260 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:01:00pm

re: #238 yma o hyd

Oh, but scientist now say that if there is an ice age coming, its due to globull warning.

You saw how it works in that carefully-researched, highly scientific film The Day After Tomorrow, right?

Step One: Dick Cheney gives a speech poo-pooing environmentalism.

Step Two: The entire Northern Hemisphere is immediately flash-frozen because of, er, global warming. (But you're apparently able to escape this catastrophic flash-freeze effect by, um, closing a door... at least if you're the movie's hero.)

261 redstateredneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:01:10pm

Outta here.
Later, lizards.

262 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:01:12pm

re: #258 lifeofthemind

Problem with Dilbert is that Scott Adams is a bigoted a**hole.

Raging BDS loon.

263 taxfreekiller[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:01:47pm
264 cagney  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:02:16pm

re: #39 Killian Bundy

I can bet most, if not all, of those parents interviewed for that survey will have children with the same stupid names that those minor celebrities name theirs like Brooklyn, peaches, pixies etc.

Daft, the whole lot of them.

265 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:02:18pm

re: #249 buzzsawmonkey

Rome, like the Greeks, had a problem with Judaism because, with no "visible" god they considered the Jews to be atheists

I knew there was a reason I liked you guys.

266 3 wood  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:03:30pm

re: #171 Killian Bundy

He also said that the stimulus should be increased from $800 billion to $1.3-1.4 trillion.

This why I keep saying that a year from now our problem will be inflation, not recession.

267 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:03:49pm

re: #249 buzzsawmonkey

a retelling of the Quest for the Golden Fleece

Subtitle: The Bernie Madoff Story

268 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:04:03pm

re: #219 Ford_Prefect

Where do you put the tap?

/

Gah!
I didn't even see that typo ...

Mind, its pretty funny!

269 eschew_obfuscation  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:04:48pm

re: #266 3 wood

This why I keep saying that a year from now our problem will be inflation, not recession.

Oh come on 3 Wood..... we can have both at the same time! More fun for all.

270 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:05:13pm

re: #237 Creeping Eruption

I'm with you on that. Re: Motorcycles: I don't ride motorcycles and am amazed at the control riders have. I was rear-ended by a guy on a Harley and he was able to keep himself upright.

My big brother just wiped out on his HD several days ago while mountain riding, he came upon a patch of snow about 10 feet wide that went across the 2-lane road.......he thought he could "glide" right across it, well that snow was partially melted, re-frozen, partially melted, re-frozen etc etc....as soon as his front tire hit that patch, his brand new HD flew out from under him and slammed him face first into the asphalt.

Moral of the story: Ride a Honda and stay on the Dirt.

271 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:05:39pm

re: #260 Occasional Reader

You saw how it works in that carefully-researched, highly scientific film The Day After Tomorrow, right?

Step One: Dick Cheney gives a speech poo-pooing environmentalism.

Step Two: The entire Northern Hemisphere is immediately flash-frozen because of, er, global warming. (But you're apparently able to escape this catastrophic flash-freeze effect by, um, closing a door... at least if you're the movie's hero.)

Gore used footage in his documentary from "The Day After Tomorrow," so it must be accurate.

272 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:05:59pm

re: #270 Maximu§

My big brother just wiped out on his HD several days ago while mountain riding, he came upon a patch of snow about 10 feet wide that went across the 2-lane road.......he thought he could "glide" right across it, well that snow was partially melted, re-frozen, partially melted, re-frozen etc etc....as soon as his front tire hit that patch, his brand new HD flew out from under him and slammed him face first into the asphalt.

Moral of the story: Ride a Honda and stay on the Dirt.

Hope he is ok.

273 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:06:26pm

re: #262 Hard Right

Raging BDS loon.

Really? Never noticed it. Dilbert isn't that political (unless you count business politics), I guess.

274 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:07:08pm

re: #272 Creeping Eruption

Hope he is ok.

He was ugly and now he's uglier.

275 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:07:38pm

re: #187 Iron Fist

Right up until you hit the ground...

Yeah, well that would be the entire purpose behind a parachute. ;-)>

276 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:07:48pm

re: #274 Maximu§

He was ugly and now he's uglier.

LOL! Spoken by a younger (?) brother.

277 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:08:11pm

re: #276 Creeping Eruption

LOL! Spoken by a younger (?) brother.

lol, exactly!

278 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:08:40pm

re: #249 buzzsawmonkey

So it's not entirely wrong to say that Rome was "tolerant of religion"--it's just facile and incomplete.

Thanks for the input. Facile and incomplete describes how I felt while reading the first 30 pages. I don't think it's worth continuing.

279 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:08:55pm

re: #197 Occasional Reader

I'd say paragliding is actually about the closest. Get in touch with your inner condor!


Never really done that. That is the one over the water right?

280 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:10:21pm

re: #263 taxfreekiller

THEY MAIN LINED $1 TRILLION OF THE DRUG INTO THE VEINS OF AMERICA AND ARE GETTING READY WITH ANOTHER HIT $$$ AS WE POST.

God damn!

281 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:10:27pm

And I really don't like snarky / haughty / arrogant author opinions at the conclusion of every paragraph. I'm trying to read history here!

282 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:10:38pm

re: #260 Occasional Reader

You saw how it works in that carefully-researched, highly scientific film The Day After Tomorrow, right?

Step One: Dick Cheney gives a speech poo-pooing environmentalism.

Step Two: The entire Northern Hemisphere is immediately flash-frozen because of, er, global warming. (But you're apparently able to escape this catastrophic flash-freeze effect by, um, closing a door... at least if you're the movie's hero.)

YEah - that was a pretty shiver-inducing fillum!

When I was still young and uneducated, and read about the coming ice age at the end of the 70s, I actually got some thermal udneerwear and extra woolly jumpers, as a sort of insurance ... one never knew, that ice age might have been just around the corner ...

283 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:11:07pm

re: #233 jcm

Got 6" last night in a last blast. 42° and it's a slushy mess rapidly melting.

heh. 82 degrees right now. ;-)>

Uh sorry,.

284 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:11:12pm

re: #275 Outrider

Yeah, well that would be the entire purpose behind a parachute. ;-)>

I think I want a whole chute, not a parachute.

285 Dustyvet  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:12:00pm

re: #284 Silhouette

I think I want a whole chute, not a parachute.

well, with para-chutes you get two...:)

286 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:12:15pm

re: #198 opnion

Franken will give super dramatic speeches, emoting all over the place.
He is gonna be a nose bleed.

I sure hope he wears that satellite dish thing on his head, when he gets up to emote.

287 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:12:25pm

re: #279 Outrider

Never really done that. That is the one over the water right?

Parasailing is the one where you're towed behind a speedboat.

Paragliding looks somewhat similar, but can be done over water or not; anywhere there's a strong updraft (usually cliffs).

288 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:12:42pm

re: #205 jwb7605

Not ancient history, but sounds very interesting. My history spectrum in the last year has gone from early American political figures to numbers (pi and such) to The Thrid Reich, so I guess you could say nothing's not worth suggesting as I'm apparently all over the place right now.
:)

289 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:12:51pm

re: #270 Maximu§

Blimey!
Is your brother all right?
Sounds horrendous!

290 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:13:15pm
291 karmic_inquisitor  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:13:52pm

re: #266 3 wood

This why I keep saying that a year from now our problem will be inflation, not recession.

IMO Mortgages should hit around 4.5% and stay there for 6 to 9 months. The hit to the money supply has been huge, and mark-to-market rules have had an impact on money supply that the M1, M2, M3 measures don't account for. So for the money supply to trigger inflation we need lending to take off and that will only happen after the housing market bottoms and bad inventory moves off the books.

The real interesting thing will be the housing boom that follows - you will have a bunch of people unwilling to sell because they have such cheap mortgages at rates they will never see again, and when inflation does hit (and it will) the incentive to stay intensifies. Buyers will be hunting high and low for inventory in 3 years.

That will be our last freebie bubble, IMO. After this one if we bubble the economy again the dollar will be utterly destroyed unless we create a sustained capacity to "pay down" our trade deficit.

Anyway - I give it 24 months before the inflation starts really kicking in. Too much housing inventory to chew through.

292 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:14:40pm

re: #290 buzzsawmonkey

Paragoric is the one where you're doped out of your mind.

Paris Hilton is....pretty much the same thing.

293 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:14:41pm

re: #287 Occasional Reader

Parasailing is the one where you're towed behind a speedboat.

Paragliding looks somewhat similar, but can be done over water or not; anywhere there's a strong updraft (usually cliffs).

oh ok. I'll look into it. might be fun to try as I've never done any of it without going out an aircraft of some kind. One time, even a hot air balloon.

294 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:15:34pm

re: #290 buzzsawmonkey

Paragoric is the one where you're doped out of your mind.

I thought it was the one where you catch the thermal updrafts from global warming?

295 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:16:00pm
296 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:16:57pm

re: #290 buzzsawmonkey

Paragoric is the one where you're doped out of your mind.

I thought "paragoric" was being kinda like Algore.
/

297 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:17:05pm

One more update from The Muqata:

'11:47 PM In light of the situation in Gaza, the IDF Judea and Samaria regional district commander issues warning to Jewish residents; avoid hitch-hiking, be extremely vigilant. I was called away from blogging this evening for an emergency drill of a simulated terror attack.

All Israeli media outlets firmly complying with IDF censor's orders. This is probably a first, and a noticable change from the second Lebanon war.

11:21 PM Al Jazeera reporting information that violates IDF censorship, and is not fully accurate.'

Emphasis added by me.

298 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:17:25pm

re: #294 Occasional Reader

I thought it was the one where you catch the thermal updrafts from global warming?

paranormal

299 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:17:28pm

re: #287 Occasional Reader

Paragliding looks somewhat similar, but can be done over water or not; anywhere there's a strong updraft (usually cliffs).

I see paragliders all the time around the point of the mountain on I-15 south of Salt Lake. They're rather fun to watch!

300 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:17:32pm

Parabolic is of course a form where you rise, peak, and descend. But don't pay any attention to the plural form, parabollocks, as they're utter rubbish.

301 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:17:45pm

re: #252 Silhouette

I thought the inauguration wasn't for 2 weeks.

Not the same hell. Ok, I'm back for a few minutes and then out the door. Lighting designer has to book me in and then we'll do a dry tech before rehearsal.

302 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:17:50pm

re: #225 redstateredneck

Back when hang gliding was the "new" sport I saw some hang gliders fly over the stage at Red Rocks during a concert.

Back then Rule #1 was recited to me.

Never glide higher than you are willing to fall from.

Thus ended my brief encounter with the sport.

303 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:18:25pm
304 opnion  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:18:43pm

re: #286 debutaunt

I sure hope he wears that satellite dish thing on his head, when he gets up to emote.


I don't know why anyone thought that, that skit was funny.
Franken is not funny & he bombed on Air America, so MN elects him to the Senate. Go figure.

305 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:18:48pm

re: #290 buzzsawmonkey

Paragoric is the one where you're doped out of your mind.

Oh man, that stuff was craaaaaazy back in the 60's.
Just a couple of tokes of a joint laced with a few drops of paragoric (which I believe was diarrhea medicine), and ZOWEEEEE!
*ahem*
*ahem*

306 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:18:58pm

I simply do not own enough underwear to skydive or paraglide.

307 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:18:58pm

Think You Know Your Dog? Put Your Nose to the Test

Studies show that dog owners can pick their pooch out of a lineup by smell alone.

/no thanks

308 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:19:26pm

re: #300 Occasional Reader

Parabolic is of course a form where you rise, peak, and descend. But don't pay any attention to the plural form, parabollocks, as they're utter rubbish.

I'd prefer a para'doxies myself.

309 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:19:45pm
310 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:19:48pm

re: #302 Bobibutu

Back then Rule #1 was recited to me.

Never glide higher than you are willing to fall from.

Thus ended my brief encounter with the sport.

Heh.
Thats why I love swimming: one can't fall off anything!

311 Scorpius  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:19:53pm
312 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:20:02pm

re: #306 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I simply do not own enough underwear to skydive or paraglide.

Or smoke paragoric!

313 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:20:21pm

re: #273 davinvalkri

Really? Never noticed it. Dilbert isn't that political (unless you count business politics), I guess.

He keeps it out of his strips. Saw some comments he made.

314 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:20:32pm

re: #308 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I'd prefer a para'doxies myself.

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

315 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:21:05pm
316 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:21:13pm

re: #297 yma o hyd

Very interesting video from that site.....

I wish there was so more info with the video. I assume it's recent?

317 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:21:28pm

re: #314 Occasional Reader

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

Or when one med student marries another med student and then the two graduate.

318 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:21:51pm

re: #306 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I simply do not own enough underwear to skydive or paraglide.

Never done it, but paragliding looks remarkably peaceful, actually.

Skydiving (which I have done), not so much.

319 opnion  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:22:05pm

re: #314 Occasional Reader

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

You walk out on them wearing boaters & doxers>

320 martinsmithy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:22:07pm

Interesting article about the long-term war with Iran represented by the Israeli attack on Gaza.

321 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:22:32pm

re: #314 Occasional Reader

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

No, that's what you get if you have two Jewish males in the family.

322 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:22:35pm

So Ann Coulter is banned from life from NBC --- ha ha ha like she really cares...

Was NBC the network that aired the Ayers interview?

323 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:22:38pm

re: #314 Occasional Reader

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

And here I thought paradox was a couple of quackers.

324 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:22:58pm

Hanging gliding commercial.....
with a twist.

325 VegasRick  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:23:10pm

re: #314 Occasional Reader

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

I always wanted to get into pandora's box.

326 A.W.  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:23:12pm

i feel like there hasn't been an open thread on a monday since last year.

Get it, last year?

Sorry, i can only make this joke once a year.

327 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:23:29pm

re: #314 Occasional Reader

No, that's paradox, which is what a moderately successful waterfront developer winds up owning.

re: #315 buzzsawmonkey

Or it could describe a boutique medical practice.

re: #317 DeafDog

Or when one med student marries another med student and then the two graduate.

All together now: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Horrible, horrible puns. And yet so very funny!

328 Honorary Yooper  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:23:59pm

re: #325 VegasRick

I always wanted to get into pandora's box.

You're in Vegas, you should know how that's done.

/Is it $50 or $100/half hour?

329 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:24:09pm

re: #318 Occasional Reader

Never done it, but paragliding looks remarkably peaceful, actually.

Skydiving (which I have done), not so much.

I prefer going on the ziplines - that is a blast.

330 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:24:40pm

re: #289 yma o hyd

Blimey!
Is your brother all right?
Sounds horrendous!

Yeah he's OK, but his face...HIS FACE! It looks like someone threw Strawberry Jelly all over it and his nose is busted. He's more upset about his stupid Harely Davidson than his ruined face.

Funny how Harley Davidson bikes change people...I had a good friend and after he got his "Harley", he became a Dickhead. He than only hung around other Harley riders and Ive noticed most HD riders are Assholes.

331 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:24:59pm

re: #329 summergurl

By the way, I stepped out last night before I read your cute comment. Yes, the free meal was nice, and yes, I'm showing my age.

332 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:25:38pm

re: #188 jcm

This where 3rd parties kill....
Prelimary vote totals.

Independence DEAN BARKLEY 437404 15.16
Republican NORM COLEMAN 1211590 41.99
Democratic-Farmer-Labor AL FRANKEN 1211375 41.98
Libertarian CHARLES ALDRICH 13916 0.48
Constitution JAMES NIEMACKL 8905 0.31

22,821 votes for Libertarian and Constitution candidates.
This way these votes matter.
Franken wins (certified) by 225 votes. This why protest votes, conscience votes etc... are a bad idea. The reality is we have a two party system. DEAL WITH IT!

Equally, it is arguable that Perot led to Clinton, siphoning off 19% of the vote in '92

333 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:25:45pm

re: #330 Maximu§

Yeah he's OK, but his face...HIS FACE! It looks like someone threw Strawberry Jelly all over it and his nose is busted. He's more upset about his stupid Harely Davidson than his ruined face.

Funny how Harley Davidson bikes change people...I had a good friend and after he got his "Harley", he became a Dickhead. He than only hung around other Harley riders and Ive noticed most HD riders are Assholes.


Now now now (said by a woman who has a Road King in her garage)

Dickheads are born not made

334 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:26:09pm

re: #315 buzzsawmonkey

Or it could describe a boutique medical practice.

I prefer a 5-star medical practice, but certainly a boutique medical practice is preferable to a "Bed & Breakfast" medical practice.

335 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:26:21pm

re: #317 DeafDog

Or when one med student marries another med student and then the two graduate.

I thought that was when two people in med school get married and one quits school to support the other one and when the other one graduates, divorces the one who didn't. Wait a minute, that's "paradigm". My mistake.
/

336 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:26:58pm

re: #331 Walter L. Newton

lol - You left as I was posting it - I am a slow reader and can't post fast enough when the thread is sooming along.

Glad you had a good evening and free food.

337 eschew_obfuscation  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:27:07pm

re: #315 buzzsawmonkey

Or it could describe a boutique medical practice.

Or two small dogs....

338 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:27:24pm

re: #330 Maximu§

Funny how Harley Davidson bikes change people...I had a good friend and after he got his "Harley", he became a Dickhead. He than only hung around other Harley riders and Ive noticed most HD riders are Assholes.

Yeah, I had a friend like that with his new HP calculator.

339 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:27:26pm

re: #316 Killgore Trout

Very interesting video from that site.....

[Video]I wish there was so more info with the video. I assume it's recent?

They seem to have got it from israellycool, who links it to this blog, called 'Israel Politk'.
There then is a brief comment which would indicae that it was taken when the IDF moved into Gaza - so its pretty recent!

340 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:27:27pm

re: #333 summergurl

Now now now (said by a woman who has a Road King in her garage)

Dickheads are born not made

oooohhaaaa A Harley girl!
Harley girls rock....

341 turn  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:27:33pm

re: #4 Creeping Eruption

Posted this this morning, but thought I would do it again:

Coolest BASE jumping video I have ever seen

Wow, that video had me on the edge of my chair the whole time. I was gritting my teeth each time a new outcrop was looming before them, I almost couldn't watch when they were buzzing the road! I sent the link to turnspawn and turnspawn2 telling them they better never try this. Great link.

Happy first Monday 2009 open thread all, I've been on vacation and missed hanging out the last couple weeks. Hey and since this is an open tread I might as well come out and get this off my ass, my doctor wants me to have a Colostomy and I am soooo not looking forward to it. I'm going to ponder his request for awhile, don't see why it couldn't wait a while longer. On the brighter side my cholesterol was so low it blew him away, lower than his.

Well time to go walk the lab along the American, take care all.

342 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:28:04pm

re: #338 Silhouette

Yeah, I had a friend like that with his new HP calculator.

Now say that again in RPN!

343 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:28:07pm

re: #336 summergurl

lol - You left as I was posting it - I am a slow reader and can't post fast enough when the thread is sooming along.

Glad you had a good evening and free food.

PIMF = apparently I can not spell either ---zooming

344 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:28:10pm

re: #339 yma o hyd

Thanks for tracking that down.

345 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:28:29pm

re: #322 summergurl

So Ann Coulter is banned from life from NBC --- ha ha ha like she really cares...

Was NBC the network that aired the Ayers interview?

Did she insult the One?

346 Sifty  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:29:03pm

Ha. Ann banned from NBC. Now all 4 viewers will be missing out.

I am sure some bed bug at NBC is courting Ayers for his own weekly show.

347 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:29:14pm

re: #332 LGoPs

Equally, it is arguable that Perot led to Clinton, siphoning off 19% of the vote in '92

Absolutely.

WA '04

Christine Gregoire(D) 1,373,361 48.8731%
Dino Rossi(R) 1,373,228 48.8684%
Ruth Bennett(L) 63,464 2.2585%

133 votes margin of victory. 63,464 to 3rd party.

348 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:29:31pm

re: #340 HoosierHoops


Hey I have a license but that's it. Had a snowmobile accident in Canada several years back, almost was airlifted out... now I know, it hurts like hell when you fall. So I ride on the back these days.

349 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:29:31pm

re: #345 Hard Right

Did she insult the One?

Worse. Caroline Kennedy.

350 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:29:38pm

re: #310 yma o hyd

Heh.
Thats why I love swimming: one can't fall off anything!

This was more my speed back in the late 80s.
[Link: www.bungyzone.com...]
Great place to jump in Vancouver, B.C.

351 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:29:52pm

Be back later after work.

352 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:30:07pm

re: #349 debutaunt

Worse. Caroline Kennedy.

Called her dumber than Palin?
///

353 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:30:15pm

re: #345 Hard Right

Did she insult the One?

She spent equal amounts of time insulting the One and McCain.
In spite of that, I still don't not like her.

354 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:30:52pm

re: #353 jwb7605

She spent equal amounts of time insulting the One and McCain.
In spite of that, I still don't not like her.

So you DO like her...?

355 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:31:07pm

re: #330 Maximu§

Yeah he's OK, but his face...HIS FACE! It looks like someone threw Strawberry Jelly all over it and his nose is busted. He's more upset about his stupid Harely Davidson than his ruined face.

Funny how Harley Davidson bikes change people...I had a good friend and after he got his "Harley", he became a Dickhead. He than only hung around other Harley riders and Ive noticed most HD riders are Assholes.

His nose can be re-done, and all that stuff on his face will surely heal!

The only HD riders here sem to be old, very rch guys - into their midlife crisis. Best avoided.

356 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:31:10pm

I'll bet that having Ann Coulter on the NBC morning show, whatever they call it, increases their ratings way above their miserable baseline.

their loss, not hers

357 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:31:13pm

re: #345 Hard Right

Did she insult the One?


I think they read some of her book which is supposed to blast the media- but that's so.... well--- Ann They knew that when they booked her so either it is a publicity stunt for them, (maybe), or someone just read her boo and thought " Oh shit- we're having HER on to discuss the media's bias?"

358 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:31:24pm

re: #322 summergurl

So Ann Coulter is banned from life from NBC --- ha ha ha like she really cares...

The only deleted comment I ever had on LGF was when I quoted Ann Coulter.

I think it means I am not passionate enough.

359 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:31:28pm

re: #353 jwb7605

She spent equal amounts of time insulting the One and McCain.
In spite of that, I still don't not like her.

Don't be so doubly negative.

360 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:31:47pm

re: #349 debutaunt

Worse. Caroline Kennedy.

Imagine a press conference with The One and Caroline.

Ummm, you know, errr, you know, ahhh, you know, mmm, you know....

361 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:32:25pm

re: #307 Killian Bundy

Think You Know Your Dog? Put Your Nose to the Test

/no thanks

The nose knows.

362 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:32:30pm

re: #360 jcm

Imagine a press conference with The One and Caroline.

Ummm, you know, errr, you know, ahhh, you know, mmm, you know....

(BLAM! Shot self in head)

363 summergurl  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:32:44pm

re: #355 yma o hyd

What you have to avoid is elderly drivers that don't see you as they pull out... that is scary...

364 Age Of Freedom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:32:51pm

The Israeli media quotes Obama saying he's extremely concerned with what's happening in the "Middle East". From the way he's saying it, it doesn't sound like "Hamas is guilty" but more like "both sides" are. I mean, why would one be concerned when IDF is raining death on Hamas right now?

The link is in Hebrew, so there's no point.

365 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:13pm

re: #354 Hard Right

So you DO like her...?

Not really, and not really not.
Sometimes she goes a bit too far with sarcasm.
Sometimes she gets it just right.
I get her newsletter, and read about a third of them.

366 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:17pm

re: #341 turn

You take care, {turn}, and get a second opinion ... and a third ...!

367 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:25pm

re: #362 Hard Right

(BLAM! Shot self in head)

Couldn't you just turn off the television, instead of resorting to such drastic measures?

368 Sifty  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:29pm

re: #349 debutaunt

Insulting a Kennedy is like peeing in a lib's cornflakes. Good for Ann Coulter. Too many old money blue blooded cocktail party scags running things now, we don't need another one.

Or as my Da said:
Screw the Kennedy clan. Buncha old gin-soaked rum runners anyway.

Now, if we could just get Ann to buy a new dress and eat a sandwich...

369 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:37pm

re: #347 jcm

Absolutely.

WA '04

Christine Gregoire(D) 1,373,361 48.8731%
Dino Rossi(R) 1,373,228 48.8684%
Ruth Bennett(L) 63,464 2.2585%

133 votes margin of victory. 63,464 to 3rd party.

I know I sound like a broken record but the democrats have made a science out of stealling elections. They're blatant and unabashed and the reason they get away with it is because the media, who are supposed to be our watchdogs, are totally on board. No doubt because it's for the children........
*spit*

370 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:55pm

re: #344 Killgore Trout

Thanks for tracking that down.

You're very welcome!

371 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:33:58pm

re: #360 jcm

Imagine a press conference with The One and Caroline.

Ummm, you know, errr, you know, ahhh, you know, mmm, you know....

Who would be the first to say, without really saying it of course, "Vote for me because of who my daddy was."

372 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:34:01pm

re: #365 jwb7605

Not really, and not really not.
Sometimes she goes a bit too far with sarcasm.
Sometimes she gets it just right.
I get her newsletter, and read about a third of them.

I'm in the same camp. She has fantastic insight when she isn't going for shock or outrage.

373 Hard Right  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:34:30pm

re: #367 davinvalkri

Couldn't you just turn off the television, instead of resorting to such drastic measures?

Now you tell me.

374 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:35:19pm

re: #333 summergurl

Now now now (said by a woman who has a Road King in her garage)

Dickheads are born not made

I had a run in with a Harley Gang in Malibu Canyon last Summer, there was easily over 40 of them, after my passenger door got kicked in, I swerved over in my big green 4000 Lb. Chrysler and put two riders into the dirt. They backed down cause I was crazier than they were.

Dickheads for the most part, cept you.

375 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:35:24pm

re: #360 jcm

Imagine a press conference with The One and Caroline.

Ummm, you know, errr, you know, ahhh, you know, mmm, you know....

I'd rather sit it on a Vogon poetry recital

376 coquimbojoe  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:35:54pm

Hey all! Just voted for LGF in the blog voting thingy. LGF is listed as a conservative blog. My question, and it may seem stupid, but does Charles consider it a 'conservative' blog? My guess has always been this blog encapsulates a lot of what interests Charles and his points of view, but not necessarily is his goal for it to be promoting a conservative viewpoint.

377 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:36:08pm

Can I nominate Robert Kennedy, Jr for Idiotarian of the Year? This story is about how hugo chavez will NOT be sending heating oil to poor Boston-area families this year:

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

Kennedy shows his idiocy when he tells deserving families to write to chavez and tell him their stories! This idiot actually thinks chavez sent oil to American families because he is a compassionate man! How anyone could not see through chavez's motives (to mock GW Bush and the USA) is staggeringly stupid. RFK Junior is truly deserving of the Idiotatian Award.

378 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:36:17pm

Oh shit! Ann was banned for something she wrote in her book?

Wow!

379 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:36:23pm

re: #367 davinvalkri

Couldn't you just turn off the television, instead of resorting to such drastic measures?

Didn't Harry Reid say we are all required to watch after HDTV becomes law, because of precedent, which is in the Constitution?

380 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:36:53pm

re: #360 jcm

Imagine a press conference with The One and Caroline.

Ummm, you know, errr, you know, ahhh, you know, mmm, you know....


You're the best
No, you're the best
No, you're really the best
No, stop. You're the absolute best

381 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:37:29pm

re: #350 Bobibutu

Wow!

Mind - I'd rather be in the water than dangle above it ...

382 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:37:34pm

re: #377 _RememberTonyC


oops ...my bad ... JOSEPH Kennedy, not RFK Junior (maybe I should nominate myself)

383 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:37:48pm

re: #376 coquimbojoe

Hey all! Just voted for LGF in the blog voting thingy. LGF is listed as a conservative blog. My question, and it may seem stupid, but does Charles consider it a 'conservative' blog? My guess has always been this blog encapsulates a lot of what interests Charles and his points of view, but not necessarily is his goal for it to be promoting a conservative viewpoint.

You could always run the experiment of calling Charles a liberal. Maybe you could compare him with the Huffington Post ...

384 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:37:55pm
385 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:37:59pm

re: #378 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh shit! Ann was banned for something she wrote in her book?

Wow!

I'm kinda tickled that NBC isn't pretending anymore.

386 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:38:41pm

re: #369 LGoPs

I know I sound like a broken record but the democrats have made a science out of stealling elections. They're blatant and unabashed and the reason they get away with it is because the media, who are supposed to be our watchdogs, are totally on board. No doubt because it's for the children........
*spit*

No doubt about that. My point in this is they're stealing races my very narrow margins. Almost did in in FL in '00, they did it with the Gorton / Cantwell race in '00 in retrospect, and '04 in WA and '08 in MN.

All those races the margins were 2000 or less. Just a few % of those voting 3rd party out conscience would have made the (D) fraud irrelevant.

Yes we need to fight this on all fronts. One of those fronts is talking with those who for the most part are conservative / right leaning / classical liberal, that voting 3rd party gives (D)s a better shot at stealing an election.

387 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:38:59pm
388 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:39:03pm

re: #371 Silhouette

Who would be the first to say, without really saying it of course, "Vote for me because of who my daddy was."

The media really wants Camelot back. They'll grasp at anything or anybody in order to restore their little fantasy kingdom. Hence, Obama (without WAB), Caroline or anyone else that will fit that mold.

389 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:39:05pm

Could Ann Coulter be on Hollywood Squares?

390 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:39:13pm

re: #376 coquimbojoe

Thanks for the reminder. Look like Ace is out to an early lead.

391 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:39:47pm

Where the hell is Sharmuta. I've been holding something for her.

392 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:39:47pm

re: #378 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Oh shit! Ann was banned for something she wrote in her book?

Wow!

Huh? What? Ann who?
What did I miss?

393 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:39:48pm

re: #363 summergurl

What you have to avoid is elderly drivers that don't see you as they pull out... that is scary...

I bet!

Mind, as a pedestrian I regard anything on two or more wheels as a menace.

;-)

394 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:40:18pm

re: #391 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Where the hell is Sharmuta. I've been holding something for her.

TMI

395 nanook  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:40:20pm

re: #21 baconeatingkaffir

That can't be the same Major Snafu I know. Heck I ran into him just last week on a project for work......

396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:40:24pm

re: #392 jcm

Huh? What? Ann who?
What did I miss?

Sorry. Ann Coulter. Banned for life by NBC.

397 stuiec  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:40:34pm

re: #317 DeafDog

Or when one med student marries another med student and then the two graduate.

No, it's when Ben Casey meets Kildare. I have an authoritative source for the definition: One Hippopotami.

398 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:41:15pm

re: #391 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Where the hell is Sharmuta. I've been holding something for her.

is it in a baggie?

399 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:41:19pm
400 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:41:26pm

Hi all,

just finished listening to the latest podcast by 'Shire Network News'.
It is well made and filled to the brim with satire I am sure a lot of fellow lizards will cherish.
If you are so inclined donate a little for their efforts.

And do I need to remind what miracles a warm pizza does to the fighting spirits of the brave, the proud of Israel, the IDF? PizzaIDF.org

401 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:41:27pm

re: #388 Soona'

The media really wants Camelot back. They'll grasp at anything or anybody in order to restore their little fantasy kingdom. Hence, Obama (without WAB), Caroline or anyone else that will fit that mold.

I have always associated Camelot with the Bay of Pigs.

402 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:41:36pm

re: #395 nanook

That can't be the same Major Snafu I know. Heck I ran into him just last week on a project for work......

So that's where he ended up. We got rid of him but hired a General Fubar.

403 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:41:39pm

re: #384 buzzsawmonkey

I still do not understand why all TV must become digital. And I am seriously considering giving up the TV habit.

All that bandwidth in those frequencies have been sold to the Cell phone companies for Billions of Dollars...
It's always about money

404 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:42:03pm

re: #396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sorry. Ann Coulter. Banned for life by NBC.

Not to worry, Ann formed her own blog called NBC II.

/

405 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:42:10pm

re: #380 Shug

You're the best
No, you're the best
No, you're really the best
No, stop. You're the absolute best

And that would be only Obama's side of the converstion

406 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:42:13pm

re: #396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sorry. Ann Coulter. Banned for life by NBC.

Ahh, a resume enhancement!

407 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:42:21pm

re: #396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I think the GOP should ban her too. I don't have a problem with her writting a column or doing a shock-jock radio show but she's really not appropriate to speak at political events.

408 nanook  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:42:41pm

re: #330 Maximu§

Why do HD riders never wear full-face helmets? I guess those Dickheads just don't fit inside.......hmmmm.

409 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:42:54pm

re: #401 debutaunt

I have always associated Camelot with the Bay of Pigs.

Wow. I thought I was the only screwball. (meaning I get the same mental image)

410 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:43:46pm

re: #396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sorry. Ann Coulter. Banned for life by NBC.

These are no doubt the same types of people who would argue leniency or clemency for a convicted murderer.
The only reason they didn't have her killed is because it is not yet legal to kill conservatives.....
//////

412 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:43:56pm

re: #408 nanook

Why do HD riders never wear full-face helmets? I guess those Dickheads just don't fit inside.......hmmmm.


because most of them drive less than a mile from their house, to park it in front of starbucks and sit all afternoon.
Who needs a helmet when your top speed is 25 mph

413 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:43:58pm

re: #381 yma o hyd

Wow!

Mind - I'd rather be in the water than dangle above it ...

It's quite a rush - being connected to something is somehow comforting tho.

It's only ~143' at Nanaimo -

this ones twice that and you hit terminal during the jump.

[Link: www.taupobungy.co.nz...]

*sniff* - wasn't built yet when I visited NZ in 68.

414 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:44:06pm

Leon Panetta, Spook-in-Chief.
We.
Are.
Soooo.
Screwed.......

415 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:44:29pm

re: #409 jwb7605

GMTA and high five or something!

416 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:44:32pm

re: #396 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sorry. Ann Coulter. Banned for life by NBC.

At Least NBC still allows militant terrorists/spokemen on their station.
I'm not going to..ok I will
/ better?

417 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:03pm
418 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:15pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike....
Lol!

Charles!
Threadworthy!

The IAF is killing cartoon characters!

419 yma o hyd  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:16pm

Gotta go, Lizards, that Collie stare tells me so!
Seeya tomorrow, all being well.

May God bless and protect the brave sodiers fighting for Israels survival, their families, and all of Israel.

420 Empire1  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:32pm

Has anyone seen Hellboy II yet? I really enjoyed the first movie, and I'd really like to know if the new one measures up, or if it's just another crummy sequel not worth buying the DVD of.

421 nanook  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:36pm

re: #412 Shug

because most of them drive less than a mile from their house, to park it in front of starbucks and sit all afternoon.
Who needs a helmet when your top speed is 25 mph

Not to mention who needs a helmet when your invulnerable, invincible, and all those other superlatives, right? (And I live in the mountains, we don't have no steenkin' Starbux. Our gourmet coffee comes from the QT.)

422 coquimbojoe  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:36pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

I think the GOP should ban her too. I don't have a problem with her writting a column or doing a shock-jock radio show but she's really not appropriate to speak at political events.

She does get provocative, but I like the occasional fearless flame throwing. Sometimes she seems to be the only one with balls on the conservative side.

423 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:41pm

re: #384 buzzsawmonkey

I still do not understand why all TV must become digital.

Because it's too hard to work the remote control with your tongue.

424 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:48pm
425 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:51pm

re: #419 yma o hyd

Gotta go, Lizards, that Collie stare tells me so!
Seeya tomorrow, all being well.

May God bless and protect the brave sodiers fighting for Israels survival, their families, and all of Israel.

Amen.

426 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:53pm
427 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:55pm
428 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:45:58pm

re: #418 jcm

I can't wait to see the video.

429 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:04pm

re: #399 buzzsawmonkey

Coulter gets a little over the top for me sometimes, but she's generally right.
NBC bans her? Just adding to her street cred, IMO.
Now I may have to boycott them and the sponsors they rode in on.

430 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:21pm

re: #408 nanook

Why do HD riders never wear full-face helmets? I guess those Dickheads just don't fit inside.......hmmmm.

We have no helmet law in Indiana...

431 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:34pm

re: #398 Maximu§

is it in a baggie?

Hey! Stash those comments away.

432 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:40pm
433 nanook  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:40pm

re: #421 nanook

Not to mention who needs a helmet when your invulnerable, invincible, and all those other superlatives, right? (And I live in the mountains, we don't have no steenkin' Starbux. Our gourmet coffee comes from the QT.)

Bah. You're invulnerable. You're dangit. PMIF>

434 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:44pm

re: #401 debutaunt

I have always associated Camelot with the Bay of Pigs.

Me too. Actually the whole screwed up Cuban thing. From the Bay of Pigs (the prelude to Vietnam) to a close encounter with nuclear war.

435 gop_patriot  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:46:59pm
436 quickjustice  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:47:14pm

re: #377 _RememberTonyC

Now that Obama has been elected, Chavez has friends in higher places than the dim-witted Kennedy! He doesn't need his oil subsidy propaganda program any more.

-H

437 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:47:38pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike....
Lol!

So it wasn't "duck season" after all.

438 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:47:43pm

re: #415 debutaunt

GMTA and high five or something!

If you really want to piss of one of the Camelot people, point out that the Bay of Pigs was a dress rehearsal for the way VietNam was conducted.

439 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:01pm

Been tryin' hard to read the thread....quit around 250, scrolled down-refreshed-scrolled down-and am posting! Hello,lizard Nation-what are the topics now?

440 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:15pm

re: #431 Occasional Reader

Hey! Stash those comments away.


to what do you reefer

441 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:22pm

re: #376 coquimbojoe

Hey all! Just voted for LGF in the blog voting thingy. LGF is listed as a conservative blog. My question, and it may seem stupid, but does Charles consider it a 'conservative' blog? My guess has always been this blog encapsulates a lot of what interests Charles and his points of view, but not necessarily is his goal for it to be promoting a conservative viewpoint.

Good evening, Lizards.

I think a lot of it is the tendency among even bloggers to try to reduce everything to the lowest common denominator, i.e. to "keep things simple". LGF is considered a "conservative" blog in this respect due to its general line of opinion being pro-American, pro-Israel, anti-radicalism (of any stripe), etc. The fact that it is frequented by people who are independent-minded, generally suspicious of dogmas (whether political, such as AGW, or theological, such as "creationism") doesn't necessarily fit the template, so it tends to get lost in translation, so to speak.

I don't recall anyone I know here in OH ever accusing me of being a conservative, and it's certainly never happened here at LGF, either. For the record, I've always considered myself to be more of a cynic, in the H.L. Mencken/ Ambrose Bierce line. As Ben Franklin once observed, when things go well, I'm delightfully surprised.

/When they don't, which is more often the case, at least I'm not disappointed, as I more or less expect it to happen that way.

cheers

eon

442 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:37pm

re: #431 Occasional Reader

Hey! Stash those comments away.

Don't bogart the comment section...

443 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:38pm

re: #413 Bobibutu

It's quite a rush - being connected to something is somehow comforting tho.

It's only ~143' at Nanaimo -

this ones twice that and you hit terminal during the jump.

[Link: www.taupobungy.co.nz...]

*sniff* - wasn't built yet when I visited NZ in 68.

My bad - wrong bridge ...

this is it.

[Link: www.bungy.co.nz...]

134m

444 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:58pm

re: #422 coquimbojoe

She does get provocative, but I like the occasional fearless flame throwing. Sometimes she seems to be the only one with balls on the conservative side.

The problem in is hateful rhetoric and slurs (most won't pass the LGF language filter). I was displeased about her stance on converting all the Jews. She's outspoken but she says some pretty terrible things. She has the right to say that stuff but it looks really bad when she speaks at political events.

445 Maximu§  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:48:59pm

re: #431 Occasional Reader

Hey! Stash those comments away.

Quit Bogin all the jokes Duuudddeeee...

446 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:02pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike....
Lol!

Oh no! Any word at all about the little Farfur?
///

447 nanook  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:13pm

re: #442 HoosierHoops

Don't bogart the comment section...

This thread has gone to pot.

448 Outrider  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:18pm

re: #386 jcm

No doubt about that. My point in this is they're stealing races my very narrow margins. Almost did in in FL in '00, they did it with the Gorton / Cantwell race in '00 in retrospect, and '04 in WA and '08 in MN.

All those races the margins were 2000 or less. Just a few % of those voting 3rd party out conscience would have made the (D) fraud irrelevant.

Yes we need to fight this on all fronts. One of those fronts is talking with those who for the most part are conservative / right leaning / classical liberal, that voting 3rd party gives (D)s a better shot at stealing an election.

Or perhaps those that will not vote for Republican because they do not like the potential soc-Con aspect of that candidate? Such as many not voting for Palin for that reason? Just saying.

449 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:21pm

re: #429 tradewind

Coulter gets a little over the top for me sometimes, but she's generally right.

I admit, I find this photo of her rather shocking.

Where's the eye protection? Tsk tsk, Ann.

450 Sifty  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:39pm

re: #420 Empire1

In my opinion, it wanders a bit and never grabs traction. Not nearly as good as the first. On par with the rape of Indiana Jones.

451 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:50pm

re: #440 n in wi

to what do you reefer

May I be perfectly blunt?

452 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:49:51pm

re: #429 tradewind

Coulter gets a little over the top for me sometimes, but she's generally right.
NBC bans her? Just adding to her street cred, IMO.
Now I may have to boycott them and the sponsors they rode in on.

I agree about the over the top occasionally but after more than 30 years of in your face from these libtards, I kind of relish her backatcha attitude....

453 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:50:32pm

re: #446 Soona'

Farur was martyred by Israeli soldiers a few years ago. He was replaced by Nahoul the antisemitic bee.

454 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:50:41pm

re: #388 Soona'

The media really wants Camelot back. They'll grasp at anything or anybody in order to restore their little fantasy kingdom. Hence, Obama (without WAB), Caroline or anyone else that will fit that mold.

Many people do not realize this, but "Camelot" was an after the fact invention.

Kennedy was a mediocre president at best. He was elected by the slimest of margins (some think Papa Joe stole the 1960 election) and was sure to face a tough re-election....hardly a super-poular guy. Jackie-O invented the "Camelot" person for JFK in the late 1960s.

455 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:50:41pm
456 quickjustice  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:50:44pm

Coulter has created a cottage industry in shock-jock-style insults of leftists. She needs the publicity, good or bad, to survive.

She has nice gams, but she's a little skinny for my tastes. She also has a mouth on her for a nice, Presbyterian girl!

457 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:51:29pm

re: #453 Killgore Trout

Farur was martyred by Israeli soldiers a few years ago. He was replaced by Nahoul the antisemitic bee.

I've got a gmail account under the name Nahoul Farfour.

458 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:51:54pm

re: #449 Occasional Reader

Oh, details.....

459 davinvalkri  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:52:09pm

re: #379 jwb7605

Didn't Harry Reid say we are all required to watch after HDTV becomes law, because of precedent, which is in the Constitution?

Uh, what?

460 Bloodnok  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:52:11pm

re: #455 eon

Hassenpfeffer?

cheers

eon

Myxomatosis?

461 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:52:13pm

re: #440 n in wi

to what do you reefer

All right....let's hash it over......

462 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:52:20pm

re: #438 jwb7605

If you really want to piss of one of the Camelot people, point out that the Bay of Pigs was a dress rehearsal for the way VietNam was conducted.

That was exactly what I was referring to in my #434 comment.

463 BBev  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:52:27pm

re: #408 nanook

Why do HD riders never wear full-face helmets? I guess those Dickheads just don't fit inside.......hmmmm.

I have no problem, I just sling it around my neck like a scarf. :-)

464 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:52:59pm

re: #438 jwb7605

If you really want to piss of one of the Camelot people, point out that the Bay of Pigs was a dress rehearsal for the way VietNam was conducted.


When I think of Camelot I think of women being left to die in a submerged car. Or a women's husband having an affair with Marylin Monroe. Or a woman being harassed on a boat.
Yeah ,the boys of Camelot sure know how to treat a lady

465 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:06pm

re: #416 HoosierHoops

Fox had the 'aswhaari' Pali apologist on about 2 hours back-I almost busted the TV...."the Palestinians are OCCUPIED-Israel controls ALL entry into Gaza and the West bank"...I call Bullshit! Then the A**wipess, says Hamas observed the truce-RIGHT AFTER she said they fired 400 missiles in 6 months' and Israel fired 400 in 1 day......AND, she wasn't asked WHY she told 2 different versions...AAaaaarrrgggghhh....

466 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:14pm

re: #461 LGoPs

All right....let's hash it over......

Once we reach agreement, we can issue a joint statement.

467 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:31pm

re: #459 davinvalkri

Uh, what?

I was hoping the sarc tag wasn't necessary.

468 coquimbojoe  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:36pm

re: #443 Bobibutu

My bad - wrong bridge ...

this is it.

[Link: www.bungy.co.nz...]

134m

I used to help run this company in Taiwan. I was the first off the first bridge shown.

469 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:48pm

re: #414 tradewind

Leon Panetta, Spook-in-Chief.
We.
Are.
Soooo.
Screwed.......

Small blessing,....at least it wasn't Sandy Durgler or Vallerie "the dumbest spy ever" plame.

470 Sifty  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:48pm

re: #444 Killgore Trout

Sleeping people are rarely offended. Which is what results from most of our leading "official party speakers" lately.

471 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:53:58pm

re: #446 Soona'

Oh no! Any word at all about the little Farfur?
///

/bit the dust last year

472 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:54:31pm

re: #466 Occasional Reader

Once we reach agreement, we can issue a joint statement.

And then smoke a peace pipe.......

473 So?  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:54:38pm
474 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:54:45pm

re: #455 eon

Hassenpfeffer?

cheers

eon

Corrected that. It's bunny-pepper a recipe for tasty rabbit.
Yummy

475 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:55:32pm

re: #461 LGoPs

All right....let's hash it over......

No need for anyone to get their nose out of joint.

476 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:55:40pm

Dobiee really need to continue the puns?

477 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:55:51pm

re: #455 eon

Kesundheit.....

/white smoke...but 'Cheers' back...

478 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:56:11pm

re: #448 Outrider

Or perhaps those that will not vote for Republican because they do not like the potential soc-Con aspect of that candidate? Such as many not voting for Palin for that reason? Just saying.

No argument from me. McCain was a serious hold my nose vote, even with Palin.

It's all part of the equation. But in each of those cases I think the case could be made to even those who object to religious So-Con, that the alternative is worse, that voting single issues is self defeating in the long run.

479 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:56:48pm

re: #476 n in wi

Dobiee really need to continue the puns?

Absolutely! We need to give LGF readers more bong for their buck.

480 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:08pm

The cable on my 6 speed stick shift car broke and after Volvo fixed it, it's like driving a whole new car. I actually had trouble finding 5th and 6th gear. I felt like an amateur. Looks like a picked the wrong week to give up LSD?

481 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:09pm

re: #454 DeafDog

Many people do not realize this, but "Camelot" was an after the fact invention.

Kennedy was a mediocre president at best. He was elected by the slimest of margins (some think Papa Joe stole the 1960 election) and was sure to face a tough re-election....hardly a super-poular guy. Jackie-O invented the "Camelot" person for JFK in the late 1960s.

With a lot of help from Theodore H. White (The Making Of A President 1960) and William Manchester (Death Of A President; November, 1963).

One of the often-overlooked advantages of the Kennedy dynasty is that they've always made sure to have very good ghostwriters working for them, both at the time of an occurrence and after the fact. Chappaquiddick was the one time the SOP seems to have been ineffective from their standpoint.

cheers

eon

482 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:23pm

re: #466 Occasional Reader

Once we reach agreement, we can issue a joint statement.

From Boob to Bongs - its always fresh at LGF. G'night all . . I'll leave you with this Ska favorite: My Collie (not a dog)

483 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:24pm

re: #474 callahan23

Hassenpfeffer?

Corrected that. It's bunny-pepper a recipe for tasty rabbit.
Yummy

Pissedoffpfeffer - a recipe for a mean, angry rabbit with sharp, nasty, pointy teeth and a meanstreak in it a mile wide.....
:)

484 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:26pm
Overture, curtain, lights,
Assoud is Hassenpfeffer tonight
No more rehearsing and nursing our parts
Reuters knows their lines by heart
Overture, curtain, lights
Let’s get out to the Golan Heights
And oh what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it

Tonight what heights we'll hit
On with the show this is it

485 SWPaul  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:37pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Oh come on! That looks staged!

/

486 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:39pm

re: #476 n in wi

Dobiee really need to continue the puns?

I think they are up in smoke

487 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:51pm

re: #453 Killgore Trout

Farur was martyred by Israeli soldiers a few years ago. He was replaced by Nahoul the antisemitic bee.

Wasn't Farfur the "Mickey Mouse" of the bomb-vest kiddies?

488 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:57:52pm

re: #479 Occasional Reader

Absolutely! We need to give LGF readers more bong for their buck.

When Charles debugs his code, does he use a roach clip?

489 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:58:03pm

re: #479 Occasional Reader

tOKe with me

490 Alouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:58:35pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike....
Lol!

Charles should start a thread: what cute cartoon creature will be the next Jew-killing mascot?

Khalil the Cockroach
Mahmoud the Maggot
Leilah the Locust
Jamil the Jackal
Hussein the Horsefly

Nominate your own!

491 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:58:44pm

re: #474 callahan23

A very tasty recipe....SIGH! Mrs doesn't let me fix it anymore, and lost my recipe.....

492 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:59:05pm

farfur
Nihoul
Assoud

saraa and her unibrow must be nervous

493 flbob10  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:59:24pm

mccain blah

494 SWPaul  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:59:46pm

re: #471 Killian Bundy

I don't know what's worse, that show or the children shows in Brazil where 3/4 naked women dance in front of kids.

495 Alouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:59:50pm

re: #490 Alouette

Charles should start a thread: what cute cartoon creature will be the next Jew-killing mascot?

Khalil the Cockroach
Mahmoud the Maggot
Leilah the Locust
Jamil the Jackal
Hussein the Horsefly

Nominate your own!

Almost forgot: Abu Hanky the Poop

496 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:59:50pm

re: #479 Occasional Reader

Absolutely! We need to give LGF readers more bong for their buck.

we're really getting into the weeds here......

497 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 2:59:50pm

re: #469 DeafDog

Small blessing,....at least it wasn't Sandy Durgler or Vallerie "the dumbest spy ever" plame.

My guess is, Leon wants to be "M". The original, I mean, not Dame Judi Dench.

/I can hear him now; "Whattyamean, we haven't got invisible Aston-Martins?"

cheers

eon

498 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:04pm

re: #486 HoosierHoops

Weed better stop

499 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:05pm

The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews just had a commercial on FOX soliciting funds to support Israel. I think they really do good things.

[Link: www.ifcj.org...]

They support Israel more than many American liberal Jews.

500 Empire1  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:14pm

re: #450 Sifty

In my opinion, it wanders a bit and never grabs traction. Not nearly as good as the first. On par with the rape of Indiana Jones.

Thanks -- that's what I was afraid of. It's all too easy for action movies to fall into that trap. ::sigh:: So I guess I'll wait till it hits Starz or free TV. Thanks again!

501 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:27pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike....
Lol!

KILL THE WABBIT!
KILL THE WABBIT!

/Fudd 4evah!

502 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:37pm

re: #490 Alouette

Hump-free the Camel

503 coquimbojoe  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:42pm

re: #482 Creeping Eruption

From Boob to Bongs - its always fresh at LGF. G'night all . . I'll leave you with this Ska favorite: My Collie (not a dog)

Here's one that's much clearer. NSFW. And don't play it at work - at least loud.

504 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:43pm

re: #411 Killgore Trout

Shock and Horror: Hamas Says Assoud the Jihad Bunny Mortally Wounded in Israeli Airstrike....
Lol!

.....72 virgin bunnies awaiting, the place will be over-run with rabbits in weeks.

505 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:46pm

re: #469 DeafDog

What's so awful is that LP is offered up with a straight face. Plame/Berger, etc, wouldn't even have been floated.
Leon has exactly no experience within the security sector. None.
His committees in the House were business related. Even if you consider running bimbo interference for Bubba ' security '... a stretch.... he failed miserably there.
Evildoers everywhere are yip-yip-yipping with joy.

506 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:48pm

re: #490 Alouette

Kahmul the Camel?

507 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:49pm

More Palistinian Child Abuse...
here

508 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:55pm

re: #498 n in wi

Mary-Jane is going to get mad

509 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:00:55pm

re: #483 LGoPs

Hassenpfeffer?

Pissedoffpfeffer - a recipe for a mean, angry rabbit with sharp, nasty, pointy teeth and a meanstreak in it a mile wide.....
:)

Yeah sure so you and eon are right after all as 'Hass' means hate.
:-)

510 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:01:05pm

re: #479 Occasional Reader

Absolutely! We need to give LGF readers more bong for their buck.

A buck well spent.

511 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:01:15pm

re: #494 SWPaul

I don't know what's worse, that show or the children shows in Brazil where 3/4 naked women dance in front of kids.

Which 1/4 do they cover up?

512 Occasional Reader  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:01:17pm

re: #494 SWPaul

I don't know what's worse, that show or the children shows in Brazil where 3/4 naked women dance in front of kids.

Um, that's an easy choice. Teaching kids genocidal hatred? Much, much worse.

513 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:01:31pm

re: #490 Alouette

Charles should start a thread: what cute cartoon creature will be the next Jew-killing mascot?

Khalil the Cockroach
Mahmoud the Maggot
Leilah the Locust
Jamil the Jackal
Hussein the Horsefly

Nominate your own!

Gamiel the Goat

514 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:01:35pm

re: #507 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Because my Internet Fu isn't strong enough to use the new video feature...

515 goddessoftheclassroom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:02:27pm

Good evening, Lizxards.

516 Throbert McGee  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:02:34pm

re: #407 Killgore Trout

I think the GOP should ban her too. I don't have a problem with her writing a column or doing a shock-jock radio show but she's really not appropriate to speak at political events.

Yeah, if NBC truly has banned her, you could make the argument that the network is actually doing conservatives a small favor. Whatever Coulter's merits may be as an entertainer and a gadfly, from a public-relations standpoint she's an overall liability.

517 grassrootsrally  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:02:38pm

re: #39 Killian Bundy

This is a plot by lawyers so that after kids get locked in someplace, like Rapunzel; made to clean up after themselves like Cinderella and find themselves alone and scared at times for no explicable reason, they can SUE their parents!

What retards parents are now. Lord deliver us!

518 MJBrutus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:02:44pm

For anyone left who still needs more proof that our country is entering a deep, dark, bad time, I have 3 words for you:

Senator Al Franken

519 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:02:50pm

re: #515 goddessoftheclassroom

Hiya Goddess!

520 Creeping Eruption  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:02:50pm

re: #503 coquimbojoe

Here's one that's much clearer. NSFW. And don't play it at work - at least loud.

Right back at you: I Got 5 on it (Remix) Very very NSFW

521 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:12pm

re: #518 MJBrutus

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

522 Lincolntf  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:16pm

re: #481 eon

Ever read "Senatorial Privilege"? Very good book on the details of TK's ill-fated joyride and the subsequent "cover-ups" at a local level.

523 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:21pm

Farfur dead!

Nahoul dead!

Assud dead!

Neidermeyer dead!

/what Western cartoon character will they rip off next?

524 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:22pm

re: #513 LGoPs

Gamiel the Goat


Suicide Barbie [Car not included]

525 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:37pm

I think it's time for the return of Arafish

526 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:49pm

re: #523 Killian Bundy

[Video]Nahoul dead!

Assud dead!

Neidermeyer dead!

/what Western cartoon character will they rip off next?

You killed Kenny?

527 MJBrutus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:03:51pm

re: #521 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

As have we all :-(

528 bulwrk  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:04:04pm

Wile E Coyote survived 40 years of mishaps with equipment purchased from the ACME Corporation and the jihad bunny can't live through one air strike.


wimp

529 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:04:21pm

BANNED: Coulter Banned from NBC, Both Network and Cable
—Ace

[Link: ace.mu.nu...]

Those wacky liberals. So open to all views?

530 SWPaul  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:04:42pm

re: #511 Spare O'Lake

The good parts.

531 bosforus  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:04:51pm

re: #473 So?

Safe thread.

Seems likes a reasonable enough request: Don't be stupid, it only makes everyone else's life difficult.

532 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:04:56pm

re: #498 n in wi

Weed better stop


Only a dope would quit while ahead...run this right across the border, and heroin lies the tale....

533 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:05:03pm

re: #524 n in wi

Suicide Barbie [Car not included]

Ken, I understand changed his name to Ali Muahammd

534 jaunte  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:05:11pm

re: #523 Killian Bundy

/what Western cartoon character will they rip off next?

Sponge Bassam Crescent Pants

535 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:05:50pm

re: #515 goddessoftheclassroom

Good evening, Lizxards.

Evening Goddess! {Goddess}

536 Shug  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:05:58pm

re: #523 Killian Bundy

Did they rush the dead Nihoul to the hospital, and were the reuters camera flashes going pop pop pop

Palestinians carry a dead bee, killed in an Israeli airstrike,which also killed a hive of a dozen larva...

537 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:06:02pm

re: #529 nevergiveup

BANNED: Coulter Banned from NBC, Both Network and Cable
—Ace

[Link: ace.mu.nu...]

Those wacky liberals. So open to all views?

So, the Fairness doctrine doesn't include NBC

538 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:06:02pm

re: #516 Throbert McGee

Yeah, if NBC truly has banned her, you could make the argument that the network is actually doing conservatives a small favor. Whatever Coulter's merits may be as an entertainer and a gadfly, from a public-relations standpoint she's an overall liability.

At least she's got some fire in the belly. Suits me better than most of the milquetoast biscuits we have fighting for us......

539 IslandLibertarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:06:02pm

re: #507 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

More Palistinian Child Abuse...
here

Millstone, depths of the ocean.......seems appropriate for the teachers of these innocents.............

540 DeafDog  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:06:11pm

re: #505 tradewind


With the Pinata selection, it seems pretty obvious to me that the CIA will be ground central for political patronage jobs.

The CIA.....who for decades after WWII said that the Soviet union was outproducing the USA.....the CIA....who said there were certainly WMD stockpiles in Iraq.....the CIA....who said that North Korea was a decade away from completing a bomb...

I guess my point is that the quality of intelligence will not suffer.

541 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:10pm

re: #522 Lincolntf

Ever read "Senatorial Privilege"? Very good book on the details of TK's ill-fated joyride and the subsequent "cover-ups" at a local level.

Yep. I have a rather dog-eared copy. IMPO, a good prosecutor could have hung Ted out to dry with a negligent homicide charge.

Here in OH, if you OVI and a passenger dies, it's pretty much a slam-dunk that you'll get 5-10 on that count alone. And it's been that way since before I was born.

cheers

eon

542 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:13pm

re: #515 goddessoftheclassroom

Good evening, Lizxards.

Play nice

*GASP* ... and did EVERYONE SEE IT?!
GODDESS MISSPELLED "LIZARDS" !

543 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:21pm

3:39 Livni tells Turkish FM: Erdogan`s attacks on Israel unacceptable (Haaretz)

Seems like at least some Israeli leaders are growing a pair.

544 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:22pm

What was CBBHO thinking when he chose Panetta? Even Feinstein thinks he's unquallified! Heck, I'd be a better choice.

545 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:39pm

re: #527 MJBrutus

As have we all :-(

I had a "pulmonary embolism" which was misdiagnosed as acid reflux disease.
Somebody point out the differences in the symptoms, including Al Franken.
I may need to know.

546 coquimbojoe  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:44pm

re: #520 Creeping Eruption

Right back at you: I Got 5 on it (Remix) Very very NSFW

I am going back to the Afroman well for this one. Very, very, very, NSFW

547 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:07:59pm

re: #491 Pietr

A very tasty recipe....SIGH! Mrs doesn't let me fix it anymore, and lost my recipe.....

In case you have a chance to prepare it for guests when the missus is away: Here and here are some recipes for Hasenpfeffer.
And the Google search site.

548 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:08:39pm

re: #468 coquimbojoe

I used to help run this company in Taiwan. I was the first off the first bridge shown.

Far out ... I still have an old VHS of my first jump at Nanaimo. Got to know some of the staff there - they got free jumps - every day.

Taiwan was a favorite stop for me back in the 60s & 70s.

549 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:08:51pm

re: #542 pre-Boomer Marine brat

We don't tattle on others, p-BBMb, now. Do we?

550 Empire1  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:08:52pm

re: #515 goddessoftheclassroom

Hiya, Goddess! Got something you might get a chuckle out of. In today's snail mail, I got a letter inviting me to join the National Council of Teachers of English. I'm not a certified teacher by any stretch of anyone's imagination (did teach swimming one summer, but that's my total experience). I've worked as proofreader and copy-editor, yes, but never as a teacher!

No, I have no idea how they got my name and address.

551 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:09:20pm

re: #540 DeafDog

With the Pinata selection, it seems pretty obvious to me that the CIA will be ground central for political patronage jobs.

The CIA.....who for decades after WWII said that the Soviet union was outproducing the USA.....the CIA....who said there were certainly WMD stockpiles in Iraq.....the CIA....who said that North Korea was a decade away from completing a bomb...

I guess my point is that the quality of intelligence will not suffer.

Intelligence suffered because we came to rely to much in high tech Intel and less on human Intel on the ground. Sure there have been set backs. But without Intel we are naked against future threats. FIX it don't DESTROY it!

552 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:09:36pm

re: #544 MandyManners

What was CBBHO thinking when he chose Panetta? Even Feinstein thinks he's unquallified! Heck, I'd be a better choice.


My take on it.

553 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:09:57pm

re: #542 pre-Boomer Marine brat

*rap*

554 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:00pm

re: #549 MandyManners

We don't tattle on others, p-BBMb, now. Do we?

We do when one has a death wish.
/waiting for it ....

555 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:00pm
556 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:17pm

re: #533 HoosierHoops

Ken, I understand changed his name to Ali Muahammd

G.I.Joe Jihad has little fire-crackers strapped to a vest. You know so the young uns' can hone their skills

557 yochanan  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:17pm

re: #446 Soona'

no commits about FARFAR he must have been a mozad agent finked on the warbbit

558 stuiec  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:30pm

re: #542 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Play nice

*GASP* ... and did EVERYONE SEE IT?!
GODDESS MISSPELLED "LIZARDS" !

Not misspelled. Enhanced.

/it's not a bug, it's a feature

559 Killian Bundy  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:31pm

re: #536 Shug

Did they rush the dead Nihoul to the hospital, and were the reuters camera flashes going pop pop pop

Palestinians carry a dead bee, killed in an Israeli airstrike,which also killed a hive of a dozen larva...

/you know things can't be that bad in Gaza if they have hospital bed space for lame rabbit man puppets

560 BBev  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:34pm

re: #518 MJBrutus

For anyone left who still needs more proof that our country is entering a deep, dark, bad time, I have 3 words for you:

Senator Al Franken

Didn't he do something with Air America?

561 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:10:42pm

re: #549 MandyManners

We don't tattle on others, p-BBMb, now. Do we?

I vote we put it on the internets anonymously. She'll never know.

562 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:08pm

re: #553 MandyManners

*rap*

OW!
/seems I've seen that ruler before ... hmmm ... 2nd grade?

563 sngnsgt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:11pm

Even Santa wants a piece of the pie:

Santa Claus Bailout Hearings

564 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:13pm

From the reception Panetta seems to be getting from his own party, he may not get confirmed.

565 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:22pm

re: #549 MandyManners

We don't tattle on others, p-BBMb, now. Do we?

You misspelled p-BBMb.....should only be p-BMB. I'm telling...........

566 CIA Reject  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:27pm

re: #544 MandyManners

What was CBBHO thinking when he chose Panetta? Even Feinstein thinks he's unquallified! Heck, I'd be a better choice.

That's got me stumped too. The only thing I can figure is that BO plans to completely decimate the Agency (to make friends with all our enemies) and he needs somebody with a proven track record as a punching bag (which is about the only record Panetta has) to preside over the bloodbath.

567 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:32pm

re: #552 jwb7605

Major Garrett on Fox said CBBHO's people told him that America needs a bureaucrat at the CIA, and not someone who is in any way "tainted" by Pres. Bush, torture, et cet..

568 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:38pm

re: #560 BBev

Didn't he do something with Air America?

Yeah, helped run it into the ground.

569 jcm  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:11:58pm

re: #542 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Play nice

*GASP* ... and did EVERYONE SEE IT?!
GODDESS MISSPELLED "LIZARDS" !

YOU DARE QUESTION THE GODDESS!
Your doom awaits you!

570 goddessoftheclassroom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:12:13pm

re: #542 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Play nice

*GASP* ... and did EVERYONE SEE IT?!
GODDESS MISSPELLED "LIZARDS" !

Ahem.

I MISTYPED "Lizards." I did NOT misspell it.

{MWAH!)

571 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:12:16pm

re: #547 callahan23

In case you have a chance to prepare it for guests when the missus is away: Here and here are some recipes for Hasenpfeffer.
And the Google search site.


All 3 bookmarked-DING and Thank You! I noticed #1 allows me to substitute chicken-will see if I can fool her.....LOL.

572 SWPaul  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:12:18pm

re: #560 BBev

Co-founder and DJ.

573 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:12:30pm

re: #542 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Play nice

*GASP* ... and did EVERYONE SEE IT?!
GODDESS MISSPELLED "LIZARDS" !

We Lizxards stand with the goddess!

574 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:12:58pm

re: #558 stuiec

Not misspelled. Enhanced.

/it's not a bug, it's a feature

OH! That's right!
Thanks for the More Fulfilling Web Experience.
(-:

575 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:13:03pm

re: #555 buzzsawmonkey

This just in... we're screwed.

That is all.

576 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:13:11pm

re: #567 MandyManners

Major Garrett on Fox said CBBHO's people told him that America needs a bureaucrat at the CIA, and not someone who is in any way "tainted" by Pres. Bush, torture, et cet..

IDNVFH---I am gonna copyright that I think

I Did Not Vote For Him

577 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:13:12pm

re: #567 MandyManners

Major Garrett on Fox said CBBHO's people told him that America needs a bureaucrat at the CIA, and not someone who is in any way "tainted" by Pres. Bush, torture, et cet..

Are you serious? If so, please whack me. I need the wakeup.

578 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:13:42pm

re: #565 LGoPs

You misspelled p-BBMb.....should only be p-BMB. I'm telling...........

I'm going w/ stuiec's No. 558.

579 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:13:48pm

Congratulations, MN!
Because he's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it... you people liked him! Meet your new Senator, Stuart Smalley!

580 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:13:55pm

re: #577 jwb7605

Are you serious? If so, please whack me. I need the wakeup.

I heard it also

581 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:14:15pm

re: #567 MandyManners

Major Garrett on Fox said CBBHO's people told him that America needs a bureaucrat at the CIA, and not someone who is in any way "tainted" by Pres. Bush, torture, et cet..

They've succeeded in getting someone not tainted with brains........
harumph.

582 Bloodnok  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:14:58pm

re: #567 MandyManners

Major Garrett on Fox said CBBHO's people told him that America needs a bureaucrat at the CIA, and not someone who is in any way "tainted" by Pres. Bush, torture, et cet..

I'm a-gonna be sick.....

583 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:00pm

re: #569 jcm

YOU DARE QUESTION THE GODDESS!
Your doom awaits you!

Yeah, I know. Right there in the comment below this one.
Do I dare open the link?

/Goodbye, cruel world!

584 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:07pm

re: #570 goddessoftheclassroom

Ahem.

I MISTYPED "Lizards." I did NOT misspell it.

{MWAH!)

I have a problem with my B key on the laptop..everytime before i post i have to check for missing B's...Kindof suks

585 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:18pm

re: #516 Throbert McGee

Yeah, if NBC truly has banned her, you could make the argument that the network is actually doing conservatives a small favor. Whatever Coulter's merits may be as an entertainer and a gadfly, from a public-relations standpoint she's an overall liability.

I like her. We have become so PC that anyone speaking like pre-1970's people used to speak, is considered rude and unvarnished. I have come to really like people and politicians who speak beyond the speech rules and regulations that the PC liberal left is trying to foist upon us. Fuck'em.

586 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:28pm
587 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:29pm

re: #560 BBev

Yeah. Pushed it into bankruptcy that much faster.

588 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:31pm

re: #582 Bloodnok

I'm a-gonna be sick.....

hey man-up--he ain't even been sworn in yet!

589 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:37pm

re: #579 tradewind

If by "you people" you mean the vote counters, then yes, they like Franken much. If you mean the voters of MN, I hold that they elected the other guy.

590 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:37pm

re: #566 CIA Reject

That's got me stumped too. The only thing I can figure is that BO plans to completely decimate the Agency (to make friends with all our enemies) and he needs somebody with a proven track record as a punching bag (which is about the only record Panetta has) to preside over the bloodbath.

Make the Church Committee look like a walk in a park?

591 Jetpilot1101  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:15:55pm

re: #579 tradewind

Congratulations, MN!
Because he's good enough, he's smart enough, and doggone it... you people liked him! Meet your new Senator, Stuart Smalley!


[Video]

Boy I can't wait until buyers remorse sets in. That state has got to be filled with the biggest bunch of nincompoops modern civilization has ever seen. Congrats you idiots (who voted for Franken, the rest of you are just screwed), you'll get what you paid for.

592 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:16:22pm

re: #576 nevergiveup

IDNVFH---I am gonna copyright that I think

I Did Not Vote For Him

IVFMP

593 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:16:32pm

re: #579 tradewind

Video no linky...

594 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:16:33pm

re: #576 nevergiveup

IDNVFH---I am gonna copyright that I think

I Did Not Vote For Him

May I have a free sample please?

595 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:16:41pm

Re #579,
Sorry, evidently I wasn't careful enough.
Someone is a little sensitive about that old video.....maybe I can find it somewhere else.

596 BBev  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:16:45pm

re: #568 nevergiveup

Yeah, helped run it into the ground.

Ya that's the guy. My moonbat brother always wanted me to listen to him.

597 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:16:51pm

re: #585 Soona'

I like her. We have become so PC that anyone speaking like pre-1970's people used to speak, is considered rude and unvarnished.

I've started referring to myself as a broad or a chick. I hate PC. I'm thinking of taking up smoking.

598 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:12pm

re: #567 MandyManners

Major Garrett on Fox said CBBHO's people told him that America needs a bureaucrat at the CIA, and not someone who is in any way "tainted" by Pres. Bush, torture, et cet..

"Not tainted "with reforming the intelligence community and interrupting numerous plot the last 8 years

599 BBev  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:22pm

re: #587 tradewind

Yeah. Pushed it into bankruptcy that much faster.

Something to look forward to ha?

600 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:25pm

re: #592 MandyManners

IVFMP

I Voted For Mrs. Palin?

601 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:42pm

re: #570 goddessoftheclassroom

Ahem.

I MISTYPED "Lizards." I did NOT misspell it.

{MWAH!)

YIKES! .... AAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh!
*running panic-stricken into the distance*

{goddess}
MWAH!

602 goddessoftheclassroom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:43pm

re: #586 buzzsawmonkey

Hey, Goddess, on a different topic; I was rereading Damon Runyon's "Little Miss Marker" the other day and realized that it was almost identical to Bret Harte's "The Luck of Roaring Camp."

I don't know if a compare/contrast lesson is in your line, but I thought I'd pass it along.

I'll check it out! I LOVE comparison/contrast lessons. I haven't read a lot of Runyon.

603 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:46pm
604 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:49pm

re: #597 Silhouette

I've started referring to myself as a broad or a chick. I hate PC. I'm thinking of taking up smoking.

Party like it's 1939!

605 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:57pm

re: #598 n in wi

Someone untainted with any whiff of intelligence at all, in other words.
Yeah, that'll work.

606 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:17:58pm

re: #571 Pietr

All 3 bookmarked-DING and Thank You! I noticed #1 allows me to substitute chicken-will see if I can fool her.....LOL.

Then how about asking her to revel in the glories of False Hare 'Falscher Hase' which contains absolutely and positively no hare, bunny or rabbit.
;-)

607 Arby Dwiar  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:18:24pm

re: #529 nevergiveup

Looks like the fairness doctrine to me.

608 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:18:31pm

re: #597 Silhouette

I've started referring to myself as a broad or a chick. I hate PC. I'm thinking of taking up smoking.

If I refer to you as a hot smoking Babe will you not take up smoking?
look at the upside for years on end

609 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:18:34pm

re: #600 nevergiveup

I Voted For Mrs. Palin?

Exactly. I had to take "the package", but that's exactly what I did.

610 avanti  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:18:53pm

re: #516 Throbert McGee

Yeah, if NBC truly has banned her, you could make the argument that the network is actually doing conservatives a small favor. Whatever Coulter's merits may be as an entertainer and a gadfly, from a public-relations standpoint she's an overall liability.

As a moderate, I'll miss her, she is entertaining. I personally believe she's over the top just to get publicity. i.e. the quote "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. " or the one slamming 9-11 widows that were Democrats.

611 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:19:01pm

re: #590 MandyManners

Make the Church Committee look like a walk in a park?

We're still paying the price for Church's emasculation of the CIA. Continued by Carter and Clinton. Whats' the least common demoniator here?.....they're all Democrats. Their bad decision making can get all of us killed.......

612 BBev  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:19:21pm

re: #591 Jetpilot1101

Boy I can't wait until buyers remorse sets in. That state has got to be filled with the biggest bunch of nincompoops modern civilization has ever seen. Congrats you idiots (who voted for Franken, the rest of you are just screwed), you'll get what you paid for.

Ya well we have to live with there remorse.

613 DaddyG  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:19:24pm

re: #464 n in wi

When I think of Camelot I think of women being left to die in a submerged car. Or a women's husband having an affair with Marylin Monroe. Or a woman being harassed on a boat.
Yeah ,the boys of Camelot sure know how to treat a lady

Don't forget the next generation - golf clubs and walks on the beach. The nephews learned well.

614 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:19:30pm

re: #603 buzzsawmonkey

Rent a few good, raunchy pre-Code American movies (1930-34), and marvel at the wisecracking, sez-you style of exchange that was considered normal in the US at one time--without taking offense.

That was before the Consitutional Right to never be Offended was discovered cleverly hidden in there, somewhere.

615 CIA Reject  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:19:34pm

re: #590 MandyManners

Make the Church Committee look like a walk in a park?

That's my initial reaction. Of course the other possibility, given that he's holding Gates over at defense, is that BO simply has no clue when it comes to national security, no idea of who is qualified to do what, and he's just plugging anybody into those positions who is uncontroversial.

Either way we're screwed....

616 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:19:50pm

re: #581 LGoPs

They've succeeded in getting someone not tainted with brains........
harumph.

I don't know if the man is stupid. All I know is that he seems to have no qualifications to run an intelligence community.

617 Bloodnok  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:20:18pm

re: #588 nevergiveup

hey man-up--he ain't even been sworn in yet!

I just love how he thinks that scoring a few political points off of Bush is as important as intelligence gathering and world security.

The question is, why did I expect more from him?

618 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:21:15pm

re: #610 avanti

As a moderate, I'll miss her, she is entertaining. I personally believe she's over the top just to get publicity. i.e. the quote "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. " or the one slamming 9-11 widows that were Democrats.


Actually as a Jew I had no problem with that. Since we really don't believe in proselytizing, it seemed like an acceptable alternative. And some of those 9/11 widows I think were way out of line.

619 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:21:17pm

re: #608 HoosierHoops

If I refer to you as a hot smoking Babe will you not take up smoking?
look at the upside for years on end

Alright, but only if we go to the dog track, while wearing fur, in a really big SUV, wishing people Merry Christmas.

620 goddessoftheclassroom  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:21:29pm

re: #613 DaddyG

Don't forget the next generation - golf clubs and walks on the beach. The nephews learned well.

I've got to stick up for the Smith nephew. I did believe his story that it was consensual. My evidence? The fact that she took her pantyhose off herself.

I was living in England at the time, and it's possible that I haven't heard all the angles of the story, but that's what I remember.

621 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:02pm

re: #490 Alouette

Chamrah the Chupacabra

622 Charles  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:04pm

Time to reload the page, folks, to get the new comment rating features installed...

623 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:05pm
624 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:07pm

re: #598 n in wi

"Not tainted "with reforming the intelligence community and interrupting numerous plot the last 8 years

This has to be stopped.

625 Cato  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:20pm

THEY KILLED THE JEW-HATING RABBIT!

[Link: www.weaselzippers.net...]

626 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:27pm

re: #614 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

That was before the Consitutional Right to never be Offended was discovered cleverly hidden in there, somewhere.

The 14.1th Amendment

627 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:28pm

re: #611 LGoPs

We're still paying the price for Church's emasculation of the CIA. Continued by Carter and Clinton. Whats' the least common demoniator here?.....they're all Democrats. Their bad decision making can get all of us killed.......

Exactly. After 9/11 I just can't fathom how stupid these people are!

628 DaddyG  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:22:35pm

re: #555 buzzsawmonkey

Every now and then I fear that I am becoming paranoid because it seems to me that there is a conscious effort under way to destroy every bit of historical memory this society has that might antedate the advent of laptops fifteen years ago. Then I read stories such as the one you linked to, and it seems I am not being nearly alarmist enough.

I look at my nephews, who are being bred to read--when they read--a diet of fantasy pap that is three or four generations removed from its source material; who are incapable of sustained concentration because they crave the blips and bloops of a video or a computer game rather than the effort of thought.

Generations of children have managed to address their primal fears by the means of the old, bloody, scary fairy tales. Sanitizing them--or, worse, removing them from the lexicon--merely leaves a vacuum to be filled with more PC pap.

IMO the tipping point will be when they attempt to censure Fahrenheit 451 and have no sense of irony while doing it.

629 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:23:00pm

re: #616 MandyManners

I don't know if the man is stupid. All I know is that he seems to have no qualifications to run an intelligence community.

Maybe he should appoint Franken. It would diffuse the voting controversy in Minnesota and be totally consistent with the democrats seriousness on things like Intelligence........
/

630 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:23:15pm

re: #623 buzzsawmonkey

It's the Pre-Teenth Amendment, I think.

Amendment 1 and 3/4.

You know, the one after free speech and before the right of the government to own all the guns...

631 DaddyG  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:23:43pm

re: #616 MandyManners

I don't know if the man is stupid. All I know is that he seems to have no qualifications to run an intelligence community.

No intelligence intelligence?

632 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:24:07pm

re: #619 Silhouette

Alright, but only if we go to the dog track, while wearing fur, in a really big SUV, wishing people Merry Christmas.

Since your driving your SUV, can I have a few drinks ?

633 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:24:17pm
634 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:24:42pm

Okay, that is the third time today I have almost exactly matched someone else's joke.

I don't know whether to be more upset at my lack of originality or that, apparently, my mind works just like OR, Iron Fist, and buzzsaw.

635 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:24:44pm

Wonder if any "O"s will be taken off the key boards when the Bushies leave.
I know it's not classy but I'd like to see an F you too attitude.

636 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:24:49pm

re: #606 callahan23

Then how about asking her to revel in the glories of False Hare 'Falscher Hase' which contains absolutely and positively no hare, bunny or rabbit.
;-)

The missus kinda stopped me hunting rabbit for us, when she saw me cleaning a rabbit finally (normally she didn't, and she ate rabbit then). She got all hostile and asked why I was preparing a CAT-i explained, but she hasn't eaten rabbit since.....sad. But i saved that also-Hey, i'm the cook....LOL.

637 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:24:58pm

re: #611 LGoPs

We're still paying the price for Church's emasculation of the CIA. Continued by Carter and Clinton. Whats' the least common demoniator here?.....they're all Democrats. Their bad decision making can get all of us killed.......

It started under Ford but, Church was a Democrat.

If I were in the intelligence community, I'd be looking to retire.

638 Hobbes  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:04pm

re: #360 jcm

Imagine a press conference with The One and Caroline.

Ummm, you know, errr, you know, ahhh, you know, mmm, you know....

Rush put that together on his show today. It was pretty funny.

639 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:05pm

re: #631 DaddyG

No intelligence intelligence?

Has he made a pick for the department of redundancy department yet?

640 Haverwilde  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:11pm

Minnesota deserves what they get with Senator Franken. Any state that would give him enough votes to be in stealing range of the election deserves him. I just wish he could be cloned and taken MN other senate seat as well.
The only hope for America is that these *&%^* folks deliver on all their chaos producing promises. Maybe then there can be some sanity returning to Washington D.C. not to mention the rest of America. It is not much of a hope.
I still think we need a national day of mourning for the lost American Dream. What better day the inaugural day. A Wake America!We have begun the long descent into insignificance.

641 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:38pm

re: #632 nevergiveup

Since your driving your SUV, can I have a few drinks ?

As long as they're real drinks. No umbrellas.

642 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:53pm

General Electric's NBC announces the zany new Political Commentary Team Cheech and Chong in "Credibility" (Up in Smoke extra helpings) costarring Ann Coulter as the jilted lover.

643 opnion  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:55pm

re: #610 avanti

As a moderate, I'll miss her, she is entertaining. I personally believe she's over the top just to get publicity. i.e. the quote "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. " or the one slamming 9-11 widows that were Democrats.

I believe it was during the 04 Campaign that USA Today had Ann Coulter doing commentary. She was dropped for a column considered over the top & replaced by Jonah Goldberg.
Here's the kicker, the Libereal counterpoint was Michael Moore.

644 Truck Monkey  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:25:58pm

re: #538 LGoPs

At least she's got some fire in the belly. Suits me better than most of the milquetoast biscuits we have fighting for us......

She doesn't have a belly. Olive Oyl with blond hair.

645 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:26:04pm

re: #615 CIA Reject

That's my initial reaction. Of course the other possibility, given that he's holding Gates over at defense, is that BO simply has no clue when it comes to national security, no idea of who is qualified to do what, and he's just plugging anybody into those positions who is uncontroversial.

Either way we're screwed....

Does he really think that a bureaucrat is the most important trait in the head of a HUGE agency?

646 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:26:06pm

re: #616 MandyManners

I don't know if the man is stupid. All I know is that he seems to have no qualifications to run an intelligence community.

BHO shrewdly appointed the grossly unqualified Panetta so the botched Richardson appointment wouldn't stick out like such a sore thumb./

647 DaddyG  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:26:10pm

re: #633 buzzsawmonkey

Now that is funny.

I hope it remains a joke. We are witness to things today that I would never have guessed our society would have seriously considered earlier in my generation - and I'm not that old!

648 VegasRick  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:26:15pm

re: #619 Silhouette

Alright, but only if we go to the dog track, while wearing fur, in a really big SUV, wishing people Merry Christmas.

Don't forget to have "God bless the U-S-A" blaring on the radio!

649 buzzsawmonkey[deleted]  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:26:28pm
650 opnion  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:27:10pm

re: #618 nevergiveup

Actually as a Jew I had no problem with that. Since we really don't believe in proselytizing, it seemed like an acceptable alternative. And some of those 9/11 widows I think were way out of line.

The 9/11 widows were the "Jersey Girls" They wound up campaigning for Kerry.

651 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:27:24pm

re: #597 Silhouette

I've started referring to myself as a broad or a chick. I hate PC. I'm thinking of taking up smoking.

Good for you!
//running and ducking from the reformist non-smokers.

652 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:27:56pm

re: #551 nevergiveup

Intelligence suffered because we came to rely to much in high tech Intel and less on human Intel on the ground. Sure there have been set backs. But without Intel we are naked against future threats. FIX it don't DESTROY it!

CIA is actually more of a clearinghouse than an active intelligence-gathering agency, and has been since the Congressional massacre under Carter and Adm. Stansfield Turner in the Seventies. The actual G-2 is generally gathered by;

Defense Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency
U.S. Army Security Service
G-2 (Intelligence) , U.S. Army
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigation (OSI)
Strategic Reconnaissance Office, U.S. Air Force
Strategic Space Command , U.S. Air Force
Justice Department (FBI, U.S. Marshal Service)
And (don't laugh) the Treasury Department (DEA, Secret Service).

The actual intelligence-gathering mechanisms of this nation haven't changed materially since World War Two. What has changed is the degree of political maneuvering to ensure that the data is "interpreted" in the way that is most pleasing to those who present it to the final end-users, and to those end-users.

The Company saw the handwriting on the wall when when Jimmy Carter kept sending NIEs that said things he didn't want to hear back with "Not Acceptable" red-penned across the header, often with one or more !s. The Turner Generation of CIA analysts, etc., learned to make sure that whatever they sent up the Hill or to the Oval Office was "pleasing" to the recipients. Quite a few got a shock when Reagan started calling them in to ask them, "OK, what's the bad news- I mean, the real bad news?" because they had already become accustomed to not telling his predecessor anything that conflicted with his worldview. Ditto for both Presidents Bush. Clinton was Carter redux.

Obama picking Panetta tells me that The One wants to hear only what he already knows to be "true".

(Not that that comes as a great surprise to anyone here, I'm sure.)

We'll still be getting good data from our assets. The problem will be that the decisions being made at the executive level will most often be made in defiance of the data, rather than being based upon it.

Not that "P" will ever let The One know that the intel take does not support his policies.

/Theory and Dogma must always triumph over those nasty, uncomfortable facts in Mr. O's Neighborhood.

cheers

eon

653 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:28:05pm

re: #629 LGoPs

Maybe he should appoint Franken. It would diffuse the voting controversy in Minnesota and be totally consistent with the democrats seriousness on things like Intelligence........
/

Oh, they're serious about intelligence. I think many are serious about doing whatever they can to level the playing field for all nations.

654 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:28:40pm

re: #641 Silhouette

As long as they're real drinks. No umbrellas.

Scotch on the rocks here.

655 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:28:53pm

re: #635 n in wi

I am willing to bet everything I own that the answer is no.

656 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:29:06pm

re: #639 jwb7605

Has he made a pick for the department of redundancy department yet?

He's only picked the Vice Chair to the Assistant Secretary of the Managing Deputy Director.

657 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:29:12pm

re: #631 DaddyG

No intelligence intelligence?

I'm not gonna' trash Panetta. I don't know if he's stupid.

What I do know is that CBBHO has made an incomprehensible choice based on Panetta's backgroiund.

658 Silhouette  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:29:26pm

re: #654 nevergiveup

Scotch on the rocks here.

Hop in the back and don't spill any on my deer rifle.

659 CIA Reject  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:29:42pm

re: #645 MandyManners

Does he really think that a bureaucrat is the most important trait in the head of a HUGE agency?

The more I think about it the more it appears to me that BO doesn't see the USIC any differently than he does HUD or the Interior Department.

It may be just that simple- that he's just that stupid...

660 avanti  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:29:57pm

re: #618 nevergiveup

Actually as a Jew I had no problem with that. Since we really don't believe in proselytizing, it seemed like an acceptable alternative. And some of those 9/11 widows I think were way out of line.

I have no problem with her disagreement, I just feel saying “I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.” does not further her argument to most folks, right or left.

661 irongrampa  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:30:58pm

re: #434 Soona'

Heh. I was just beginning my USAEUR tour when the cuban Missile crisis erupted. Was attached to an Arty group, and we moved out to a location and set up, locked and loaded, authority to open fire granted. Two days of that shit, the entire outfit was scared stiff, because we were prime targets, due to our having a missle unit.

662 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:31:02pm

re: #646 Spare O'Lake

BHO shrewdly appointed the grossly unqualified Panetta so the botched Richardson appointment wouldn't stick out like such a sore thumb./

Or, maybe CBBHO had the IDF invade Gaza so that his choices would not be noticed as much?

CBBHO! YOU MANGY BASTARD! I DIDN'T READ YOUR BOOKS.

663 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:31:09pm

re: #660 avanti

I have no problem with her disagreement, I just feel saying “I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.” does not further her argument to most folks, right or left.

She can be a tad on the edge some but all in all I like her. I bet she is a pisser to have a few drinks with.

664 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:31:36pm

re: #644 Truck Monkey

She doesn't have a belly. Olive Oyl with blond hair.

That's the way I like 'em. Built for speed.
//

665 MandyManners  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:31:44pm

Gotta' sling some hash. bbl

666 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:32:00pm

re: #630 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Amendment 1 and 3/4.

You know, the one after free speech FOR SOME and before the right of the government to own all the guns...

FTFY, VMP, 1Lt....:>)

667 opnion  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:32:01pm

re: #660 avanti

I have no problem with her disagreement, I just feel saying “I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much.” does not further her argument to most folks, right or left.

She went way to far with that. Her statement about invading their countries, killing their leaders & converting tham to Christianity, I think was a parody on Jihadists.

668 mean Gene  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:32:09pm

So, how many Clintonistas are in 0bama's cabinet?
Seems like a lot of them.
He lost Richardson but added Panetta.
(Is head of CIA a cabinet position?)

669 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:32:29pm

re: #636 Pietr

I learned agriculture, starting with an apprenticeship up until I had my BSc and MSc degrees. I learned to breed farm animals and also to slaughter them.
You shouldn't be squeamish when you do all that and still remain a carnivore.

But I managed, tasty buttocks, gamey choicy parts off meat yummy.
:-)

670 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:33:27pm

re: #640 Haverwilde

Minnesota deserves what they get with Senator Franken. Any state that would give him enough votes to be in stealing range of the election deserves him. I just wish he could be cloned and taken MN other senate seat as well.
The only hope for America is that these *&%^* folks deliver on all their chaos producing promises. Maybe then there can be some sanity returning to Washington D.C. not to mention the rest of America. It is not much of a hope.
I still think we need a national day of mourning for the lost American Dream. What better day the inaugural day. A Wake America!We have begun the long descent into insignificance.

NO, no no no no no. They don't deserve him and more to the point they don't get him. We do. This line of let the fools have it that will show them is not only wrong on the merits, the office is United States Senator in Washington, DC not Minnesota model UN in Frostbite Falls, but it is demeaning to those who voted honestly. The election was stolen. A crime happened. Do not blame the victims for not being purer, that is like blaming a girl for dressing wrong when she gets attacked.

671 Scion9  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:34:04pm

re: #444 Killgore Trout

The problem in is hateful rhetoric and slurs (most won't pass the LGF language filter). I was displeased about her stance on converting all the Jews. She's outspoken but she says some pretty terrible things. She has the right to say that stuff but it looks really bad when she speaks at political events.

Yes. She can come across as a caricature of what Democrats think mainstream, everyday Conservatives voters (and politicians) are like. I can't even tell where her beliefs actually lie sometimes because I think she deliberately takes the most controversial tack to her writing and speeches for the shock factor alone. It would be fine for a talk show host, but not for a serious pundit or analyst that is speaking at official GOP events. I know that there are some serious bigots and fascists that pimp for the Dems, but as we all know the GOP is held to a higher standard by the media, so they should strive for a more squeaky clean image.

672 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:34:19pm

re: #634 Silhouette

Okay, that is the third time today I have almost exactly matched someone else's joke.

I don't know whether to be more upset at my lack of originality or that, apparently, my mind works just like OR, Iron Fist, and buzzsaw.

GMTA-it means "great minds think alike", and it's often used here....Heh Heh.

673 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:35:04pm

"learned to breed farm animals and also to slaughter them"
Was that taught by Professor Black-widow?

674 avanti  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:35:31pm

re: #663 nevergiveup

She can be a tad on the edge some but all in all I like her. I bet she is a pisser to have a few drinks with.

That must be true, she dated Bill Maher until recently and I'd guess they'd both need a few drinks.

675 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:35:56pm

re: #666 Pietr

FTFY, VMP, 1Lt....:>)

Viel Danke!

676 eon  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:36:23pm

re: #668 mean Gene

So, how many Clintonistas are in 0bama's cabinet?
Seems like a lot of them.
He lost Richardson but added Panetta.
(Is head of CIA a cabinet position?)

No, but he also wants a Cabinet-level "Intelligence Tsar" along with the "Car Tsar" and the "Energy Tsar".

He's starting to sound like a Boyar, IMHO.

/Yes, I know he spells it "Czar"- I can't help that he doesn't understand the proper transliteration of Russian into English. (Or much of anything else, for that matter.)

cheers

eon

677 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:37:03pm

re: #599 BBev

You mean the state of MN?
I mean, it is cold up there, but there have to be some good folks outside of the twin cities who are as horrified at Senator Smalley as the rest of the states.

678 Truck Monkey  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:37:22pm

re: #591 Jetpilot1101

Boy I can't wait until buyers remorse sets in. That state has got to be filled with the biggest bunch of nincompoops modern civilization has ever seen. Congrats you idiots (who voted for Franken, the rest of you are just screwed), you'll get what you paid for.

Radical liberal ideas seem to have taken hold up there. Some people still have Wellstone yard signs still out in their yard. I guess that it must be one of the tenets of their faith. How bad can Franken be after all? Isn't there also a Senator Reid, Senator Kennedy, Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer, Senator Schumer, Senator Clinton, Senator Lautenberg, Senator Reid, Senator Kerry..... Oh, Good god in heaven we have reached the tipping point of Sheer idiocy. We are screwed!

679 nevergiveup  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:37:54pm

re: #674 avanti

That must be true, she dated Bill Maher until recently and I'd guess they'd both need a few drinks.

I didn't know that. Seems like the odd couple?

680 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:38:00pm

re: #661 irongrampa

Heh. I was just beginning my USAEUR tour when the cuban Missile crisis erupted. Was attached to an Arty group, and we moved out to a location and set up, locked and loaded, authority to open fire granted. Two days of that shit, the entire outfit was scared stiff, because we were prime targets, due to our having a missle unit.

I was only around eleven then, but I knew the stakes were high and going higher every day. I (and my parents) were glad all of you were standing at the wall for us. I knew our military would protect us somehow.

681 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:38:10pm

re: #652 eon

Bad news, most of the intelligence gathering functions were moved from Treasury to the model agency known and loved as Homeland Security. ATF is now ATFE for Explosives and USSS is also there, why no one knows.

682 tradewind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:38:30pm

re: #670 lifeofthemind

It couldn't have been stolen had there not been a huge number of stuart smalley supporters in the first place. Sorry, but they did bring it on themselves.
I feel sorry for the rest of the people who didn't vote for him.

683 n in wi  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:39:47pm

re: #674 avanti

That must be true, she dated Bill Maher until recently and I'd guess they'd both need a few drinks.

Coulter,Maher, Carville, Matalin , All of them play their schtick to get on shows and sell books.

684 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:40:20pm

re: #657 MandyManners

At best Pannetta does not have any real qualifications to make us think that he might be able to handle the job.
He's a Clinton re-tread, just like many (most?) of The Messiah's appointments. He has probably been chosen more for Party loyalty than anything substantive that he brings with him.

685 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:40:46pm

re: #674 avanti

That must be true, she dated Bill Maher until recently and I'd guess they'd both need a few drinks.

Earlier she dated local Democratic politician Andrew Stein, I think Ann is OK.

686 Soona'  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:41:23pm

re: #669 callahan23

I learned agriculture, starting with an apprenticeship up until I had my BSc and MSc degrees. I learned to breed farm animals and also to slaughter them.
You shouldn't be squeamish when you do all that and still remain a carnivore.

But I managed, tasty buttocks, gamey choicy parts off meat yummy.
:-)

Mmmmm. Tasty buttocks! :)

687 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:42:28pm

re: #673 n in wi

"learned to breed farm animals and also to slaughter them"
Was that taught by Professor Black-widow?

Yep, well learned that during my practical work in agriculture.
The Professor Black-Widow was the part that taught tropical animal and human diseases.
Oooh retch, that was truly an ordeal to the stomach and the accompanying slide show required an awful lot of eye bleach.

688 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:43:25pm

re: #661 irongrampa

Heh. I was just beginning my USAEUR tour when the cuban Missile crisis erupted. Was attached to an Arty group, and we moved out to a location and set up, locked and loaded, authority to open fire granted. Two days of that shit, the entire outfit was scared stiff, because we were prime targets, due to our having a missle unit.

I was in an Infantry Battalion in Germany during the Cold War. We had a Lance Battalion quartered with us on the kaserne. During alerts we'd just want to get the hell out of the kaserne because we knew the Lance guys were prime Spetznaz targets.

689 nyc redneck  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:43:29pm

re: #663 nevergiveup

She can be a tad on the edge some but all in all I like her. I bet she is a pisser to have a few drinks with.

i like her too. i can't wait to get her book.
which i'm sure will make the best seller list and drive the leftists crazier than they already are.
her nervous laugh is a bit annoying but i think she's smart and i admire her spunkiness.

690 Pietr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:43:41pm

re: #686 Soona'

Mmmmm. Tasty buttocks! :)

Trollin'...Trollin' down the river....LOL.

691 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:45:50pm

re: #684 Iron Fist

At best Pannetta does not have any real qualifications to make us think that he might be able to handle the job.
He's a Clinton re-tread, just like many (most?) of The Messiah's appointments. He has probably been chosen more for Party loyalty than anything substantive that he brings with him.

It could be worse. It could've been Warren Christopher instead. Don't even know if he's still alive but alive or dead, he'd still be worse in that position.......

692 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:47:40pm

what are leon panetta's espionage chops?

693 jamgarr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:48:48pm

re: #692 _RememberTonyC

what are leon panetta's espionage chops?

None

694 irongrampa  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:49:00pm

re: #688 LGoPs

Where we you? I was at Neckarsulm, Artillery Kaserne, 10 or so klicks from Heilbronn.

695 jamgarr  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:49:58pm

re: #693 jamgarr

None


Well, he was Bill's chief-of-staff - so he has some experience in, say, obfuscation.

696 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:51:49pm

re: #657 MandyManners

I'm not gonna' trash Panetta. I don't know if he's stupid.

What I do know is that CBBHO has made an incomprehensible choice based on Panetta's backgroiund.

Unless he plans on gutting the agency financially.

697 callahan23  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:51:57pm

re: #690 Pietr

Trollin'...Trollin' down the river....LOL.

Jus' quoting LotR
Bed time, have lots of work tomorrow. See ya'all

698 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:55:13pm

does panetta have an evil twin who might "get" it? is leon capable of acting like a badass if necessary?

699 yochanan  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 3:59:28pm

re: #661 irongrampa

my father was attached to a missle unit that was sent to key west then. the real tip of the sword.

during the hungarian revolt we were in schwienfurt and my first memory was when the m.p/'s came on our part of the base and told the dependents we had 15 mins to pack one bag and get on the army bus.

700 avanti  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:01:38pm

re: #696 Bobibutu

Unless he plans on gutting the agency financially.

Good read on the pluses and minuses link here.

701 LGoPs  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:02:00pm

re: #694 irongrampa

Where we you? I was at Neckarsulm, Artillery Kaserne, 10 or so klicks from Heilbronn.

I was in Aschaffenburg......3ID. About 60 klicks east of Franfurt down Autobahn 3......

702 lifeofthemind  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:03:08pm

re: #692 _RememberTonyC

what are leon panetta's espionage chops?

Spied on Bill for Hill and Hill for Bill.

703 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:04:50pm

re: #702 lifeofthemind


if he was hill and bill's guy, he's a true clintonista ... does he get along with gates?

704 Scion9  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:05:53pm

re: #628 DaddyG

IMO the tipping point will be when they attempt to censure Fahrenheit 451 and have no sense of irony while doing it.

Already been there. Read Bradbury's Coda in some of the more recent printings of the book, detailing and rebutting attempts at having it censored.

Bradbury's publisher had censored out obscenities from the book for years without his knowledge, and most of the mass marketed paperback editions printed before the '90s are not word for word what was written by the author.

705 irongrampa  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:06:17pm

later, the dog's making noise about outside.

706 debutaunt  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:06:41pm

re: #631 DaddyG

No intelligence intelligence?

WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama's decision to fill the nation's top intelligence jobs with two men short on direct experience in intelligence gathering surprised the spy community and signaled the Democrat's intention for a clean break from Bush administration policies.

Tom Sowell stated it best - we have taken what works and replaced it with what doesn't work. (The danger we face is scary.)

707 avanti  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:09:01pm

re: #703 _RememberTonyC

if he was hill and bill's guy, he's a true clintonista ... does he get along with gates?

I think the pick will be in trouble from both sides, they want experience. Obama does not want anyone possibly involved in torture or illegal wiretaps, and that limits his picks.

708 kansas  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:17:41pm

And in even dumber news, Al Franken has stolen the Minnesota election, Nancy Pelosi has completely screwed the Republicans out of participating in the legislative process, and Ann Coulter is banned from NBC because she is a downer. Perez Hilton, on the other hand is an upper. Its gonna get worse, isn't it?

709 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:21:29pm

re: #707 avanti

I think the pick will be in trouble from both sides, they want experience. Obama does not want anyone possibly involved in torture or illegal wiretaps, and that limits his picks.

do you think Joe Lieberman will vote against him?

710 jwb7605  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:21:29pm

re: #708 kansas

And in even dumber news, Al Franken has stolen the Minnesota election, Nancy Pelosi has completely screwed the Republicans out of participating in the legislative process, and Ann Coulter is banned from NBC because she is a downer. Perez Hilton, on the other hand is an upper. Its gonna get worse, isn't it?

It's not the thought of things getting worse before they get better that bother me. It's the thought of things getting better before they get worse.
/Ashleigh Brilliant

711 _RememberTonyC  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 4:27:24pm

when is scumbag jimmy carter gonna come oozing to the top of the cesspool?

I doubt he supports Israel right now /

Hope he is drooling all over himself muttering about the Jews.

712 avanti  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 5:38:57pm

re: #709 _RememberTonyC

do you think Joe Lieberman will vote against him?

Maybe, but McCain would cancel him out. I think Obama should use him to replace Richardson and rethink CIA.

713 Bobibutu  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 6:04:06pm

re: #700 avanti

Thx

714 Iron Fist  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 6:54:17pm

re: #388 Soona'

Back? What is this "back" shit of which you speak? The real Kennedy Administration was really quite different from the "Camalot" bullshit that the Media was peddling.

715 Leah  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 7:10:37pm

now here is a welcoming sign for the new year, along with all the jihad rallies across the world...

North Carolina aquatic center says yes to sharia law - makes public pool private for Muslim women

716 Leah  Mon, Jan 5, 2009 7:11:39pm

and in the UK they are promoting mosque lectures with pictures of New York City being destroyed... Muslim groups linked to 9/11, promote lecture with ‘New York in flames’ poster


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