Blagojevich Speaks
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Here’s a thread to discuss the bizarre press conference being given right now by impeached Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich…
537 comments
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:31:48pm |
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Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:31:56pm |
We now have a new river in Illinois...Denile...
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:32:16pm |
Blago, Blago, Blago, you expect us to feel sorry for you carcass? Go piss up a rope.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:32:25pm |
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:32:40pm |
He is mad as hell and he's talking about himself.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:32:53pm |
Rod, it's not about foreclosures, it's about you, dipshit.
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pink freud Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:32:57pm |
Something about this whole thing is eerily similar to the mannerisms of Bill Clinton.
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:11pm |
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Guanxi88 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:13pm |
Is there something wrong with me that I like to see these train-wrecks in real-time?
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jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:35pm |
If Shep Smith joined LGF, how long do you all think it would take for Stinky to intervene?
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:38pm |
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:38pm |
Not Kipling again. Please. Leave Rudyard out of this.
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Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:41pm |
re: #11 Honorary Yooper
Rod, it's not about foreclosures, it's about you, dipshit.
Smoke and mirrors, and a fine dog and pony show....cotton candy anyone?
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:33:48pm |
Is that what this is? It sounds more like Hospital Ground Rounds to me.
Medical case reviews.
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mattm Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:34:09pm |
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:34:13pm |
He wants to "fight for families"! And that's what Pay to Play is all about, really.
/
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Guanxi88 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:34:33pm |
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TheBull271 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:34:36pm |
Shep smith said "Why dont we just make him president" lol.. Don't think he knew his mic was on haha
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:34:43pm |
LOL! Roe Conn's (890 AM) playing heavenly music over the statement now.
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:01pm |
Ah, crap. I actually like this poem. Gah. Horrible to hear it from his mouth.
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:06pm |
re: #23 bulwrk
I think his hair is telling him what to say.
That's it! His hair is an alien that has latched onto him and is controlling him. You're a genius!
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Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:12pm |
Shep is an asshole. To think I used to defend him?
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:16pm |
And, of course, no questions.
What an asshole Rod is.
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pink freud Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:46pm |
re: #35 FightingBack
We are what we are! It is what it is!
We are the ones we have been waiting for.
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mattm Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:48pm |
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sinsremoved Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:35:54pm |
He just told us how great he is . . . why is he being impeached?
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:36:00pm |
Blago is really a walking, talking cartoon version of the Democratic Party.
"Sure, I'm corrupt as hell, but... it's for the children!"
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MJ Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:36:41pm |
The Illinois Republican Party couldn't beat this guy.
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:36:44pm |
On the plus side, no Black Panther special guest appearances. So I guess that's a kind of progress!
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yma o hyd Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:02pm |
Keep the comments coming, Lizards - I can't get him live (thank God) - and for sure you're much more amusing!
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:07pm |
re: #42 Killgore Trout
He's quite insane.
So's every other Chicago Dem out there. Ever see King Richard II when he's on camera and majorly pissed off? You'd swear he has an anger management problem.
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:09pm |
I think it was a Blago look alike. Not one curse word was uttered.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:17pm |
I don't want to watch it. Did he really resort to poetry again. I wonder if any of the Chicago Public School students actually learn poetry anymore.
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:38pm |
That was one of the more freaky political moments I've witnessed.
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Tarkus289 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:54pm |
I hope this guy goes down in flames, and then releases all the secrets he knows about Chicago's dirty politicians.
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:55pm |
How does this man manage to walk with balls that large?
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pink freud Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:37:58pm |
Dick Durbin (a dem) calling on Blago (a dem) to use his moral compass ... hahahahaha ...and do the right thing
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:00pm |
re: #55 ggt
I don't want to watch it. Did he really resort to poetry again. I wonder if any of the Chicago Public School students actually learn poetry anymore.
He worked the Kennedy name into it.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:29pm |
re: #40 Nevergiveup
Shep is an asshole. To think I used to defend him?
He did a good job from Israel (2007?) and won me over then. But there's just so much that I can take.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:29pm |
re: #49 MJ
The Illinois Republican Party couldn't beat this guy.
Ever since George Ryan (R-Licenses for Sale) damaged the Illinois Republican Party, it just hasn't been the same. Maybe this will even the score.
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pink freud Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:30pm |
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Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:45pm |
The people of Illinois have spoken. They want new and interesting forms of corruption...
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Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:53pm |
re: #48 mattm
INSULIN THERAPY OF SCHIZOPHRENIA IN THE ELGIN STATE HOSPITAL
Wonder if they still doing this? Book Blogo an appointment...
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ArmyWife Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:38:59pm |
Darnnit! I was on a conference call with my boss and missed it. From Charles' 56 I am not really upset! What happened?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:39:06pm |
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:39:29pm |
re: #56 Charles
That was one of the more freaky political moments I've witnessed.
Didn't we go through this a few weeks ago? I'm having deja vue all over again.
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:39:35pm |
re: #58 looking closely
How does this man manage to walk with balls that large?
He has a tiny brain to counterbalance them.
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:39:39pm |
re: #59 pink freud
Dick Durbin (a dem) calling on Blago (a dem) to use his moral compass ... hahahahaha ...and do the right thing
Can you say, "Irony," kids. Sure. I knew you could.
/Mr. Rogers.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:39:52pm |
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:39:58pm |
I believe a contest for "fitting Blago poetry quotes for his next press conference" is in order. Who's with me?
My first nomination (with some hopefulness): Something from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:40:01pm |
re: #56 Charles
That was one of the more freaky political moments I've witnessed.
Charles, this is par for the course in Chicago politics. Daley uses these tactics (minus the poetry) all the time. It's all obfuscate, bullshit, deny, and show how bad your enemy is while showing how nice and sweet you are. Watch for this kind of crap from Obama once he is in office.
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MJ Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:40:01pm |
re: #56 Charles
That was one of the more freaky political moments I've witnessed.
That's OK. You need to check out Roland Burris' monument to himself:
[Link: www.suntimes.com...]
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pink freud Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:40:51pm |
re: #66 ArmyWife
Darnnit! I was on a conference call with my boss and missed it. From Charles' 56 I am not really upset! What happened?
A truly nauseating display of Chicago hubris and personal insanity from Blago. Clintonesque in it's delivery, party line "look at all I've done for the children and the less fortunate among us" and oh yeah ...there was a teeny part about some people wanting to wrongfully impeach him.
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jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:40:52pm |
re: #73 Honorary Yooper
Charles, this is par for the course in Chicago politics. Daley uses these tactics (minus the poetry) all the time. It's all obfuscate, bullshit, deny, and show how bad your enemy is while showing how nice and sweet you are. Watch for this kind of crap from Obama once he is in office.
Far, far, too late already.
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:41:03pm |
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zombie Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:41:26pm |
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
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David IV of Georgia Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:41:40pm |
Is there a recording of the speech video anywhere— or a transcript? WGN's website froze under the deluge and I would have to bother to go out and buy a TV to see it on TV...
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:41:57pm |
This is Chicago politics? We're going to get this on a national scale?
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:04pm |
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reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:11pm |
re: #79 David IV of Georgia
Is there a recording of the speech video anywhere— or a transcript? WGN's website froze under the deluge and I would have to bother to go out and buy a TV to see it on TV...
I'm looking for the same thing.
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Devil's Advocate Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:19pm |
CNN: Lightweight of the Week
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Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:29pm |
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
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FrogMarch Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:31pm |
I wonder if he's playing up the "Yes - I'm nutters" just to help out his fellow corrupt D's?
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:34pm |
I just had a nauseating thought that Blago might actually skate on the criminal charges.
I don't know how strong the prosecutions' case actually is, and there is always some chance this guy could "get" to the jurors.
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doppelganglander Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:35pm |
Kipling? I'm guessing it wasn't "The Gods of the Copybook Headings."
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jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:39pm |
re: #78 zombie
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
Dem irony, and now this.
upding.
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RightLogic Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:43pm |
Remember all the moonbats who created that "Sorry World" web site with their pathetic grovelling for being American? Well I want to create one that apologizes to the rest of the country for having the clown as my governor (though I didn't vote for him in either election).
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Render Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:42:54pm |
re: #42 Killgore Trout
Col Blago Kurtz?
"I don't see any method."
"...and I'm not even in their damn army..."
ONE
LIGHT,
R
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:43:21pm |
re: #72 Occasional Reader
I believe a contest for "fitting Blago poetry quotes for his next press conference" is in order. Who's with me?
I didn't realize Peacekeeper was here. Now I've pratically invited him to rabbit on about Wankerston, or whatever that dude's name is.
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maddogg Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:43:23pm |
Blago is reading the Slick Willie manual of political survival. Lie until you can't lie anymore, then pull out the trap and start launching red herrings. Pray a combination of stupidity of the citizenry, and the fact your state has only one corrupt party can save your sorry fetid carcass.
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Dianna Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:43:34pm |
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Ron Shaw Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:43:49pm |
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:09pm |
re: #83 reine.de.tout
If there ever was a reason not to own a TV, this is it.
He didn't even bother to dissemble convincingly.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:19pm |
re: #80 FightingBack
This is Chicago politics? We're going to get this on a national scale?
Sadly, yes. We tried to warn the country, but now I feel like Cassandra.
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:20pm |
re: #49 MJ
The Illinois Republican Party couldn't beat this guy.
You have to remember that Lincoln LOST the senate race.
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Dianna Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:29pm |
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bulwrk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:31pm |
re: #39 Hard Right
Thanks but I think I stole that from an old Elvira Mistress of the Dark show I saw as a kid.
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pink freud Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:47pm |
re: #87 looking closely
I just had a nauseating thought that Blago might actually skate on the criminal charges.
I don't know how strong the prosecutions' case actually is, and there is always some chance this guy could "get" to the jurors.
Commentary on Fox last night speculating the same ....based on his unlikely appointment of Burris to fill the Senate seat, in hopes that a jury would be filled with grateful blacks that would decline to convict him on any charges brought by Fitzgerald.
/master strategist, doncha know
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Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:44:51pm |
re: #82 The Other Les
Why not?
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade.
"To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said.
"What makes you look so white, so white?" said Files-on-Parade.
"I'm dreadin' what I've got to watch", the Colour-Sergeant said.
For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play,
The regiment's in 'ollow square -- they're hangin' him to-day;
They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,
An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.
Rudyard Kipling
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jcm Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:45:34pm |
re: #78 zombie
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
Underground Gay Muslim Community?
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Sizzlack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:45:53pm |
re: #78 zombie
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
Whoa. Some 19th century Victorian era Muslims must have traveled back in time to distribute buttons to the general public?
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J.S. Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:45:59pm |
re: #55 ggt
oooh, yes he did (resort to poetry). You know, some people were saying that Blago is, in fact, nuts...or that he is suffering from some severe form of mental illness (a couple of weeks ago, I dismissed that as hyperbole, now, though, I'm not so sure...)
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:13pm |
re: #105 jcm
Underground Gay Muslim Community?
About 6 feet under if their compatriots would have their way.
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BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:14pm |
Go Blago, Go !
The more he fights, the more this guy becoming a 'poster child'...highlighting to the American people what Politics has evolved into...cash and power hungry narcissists, craving privilege and the ability to perpetuate themselves at the public trough.
And we keep footing the bill....
Go figure.
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Dianna Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:19pm |
OT: My friend has been sprung from the hospital!
I'm taking her home with me this afternoon.
Yay!
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ShumBaayaMyLord Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:22pm |
Any chance Blago might have a copy of that Rashid Khalidi sendoff party video that the LATimes was stashing? Obama acolytes are now saying that the new administration is going to start "clandestine" talks with Hamas...
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:22pm |
re: #72 Occasional Reader
I believe a contest for "fitting Blago poetry quotes for his next press conference" is in order. Who's with me?
My first nomination (with some hopefulness): Something from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".
I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky,
And at every drifting cloud that went
With sails of silver by.
Can I nominate Gelette Burgess:
I never saw a purple cow
I hope I never see one,
But I can tell you this right now:
I'd rather see than be one.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:23pm |
Doesn't this guy have lawyers, a staff, anybody?
Uh Gov, what are you going to say out there?
Blago: I'll think of something.
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Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:42pm |
Now I feel sorry for the people of Illinois. Well kinda.
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:46:59pm |
re: #102 pink freud
Commentary on Fox last night speculating the same ....based on his unlikely appointment of Burris to fill the Senate seat, in hopes that a jury would be filled with grateful blacks that would decline to convict him on any charges brought by Fitzgerald.
/master strategist, doncha know
The jury wouldn't even have to be "filled" with them; he'd really only need one stubborn one.
And yeah. . .I wouldn't put something like that out of the realm of possibility.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:47:29pm |
re: #115 Nevergiveup
Now I feel sorry for the people of Illinois. Well kinda.
We are all the People of Illinois.
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bulwrk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:47:33pm |
re: #78 zombie
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
He did like gladiator movies.
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Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:47:53pm |
re: #115 Nevergiveup
Now I feel sorry for the people of Illinois. Well kinda.
We in Illinois await the arrival of UN aid trucks...
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jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:47:57pm |
re: #95 Dianna
Because some of us love Kipling. Crooks should not quote him.
This reminds me more of Shakespeare.
"Lay on McDuff! And damned be he who first cries hold, enough!"
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jcm Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:48:19pm |
re: #109 Creeping Eruption
About 6 feet under if their compatriots would have their way.
I would have expected an Allah belongs to NAMBLA button before an Allah is Gay button.
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:48:25pm |
re: #109 Creeping Eruption
About 6 feet under if their compatriots would have their way.
after being hoisted 30' high on that old crane they use for unintended purposes.
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:48:43pm |
re: #91 Render
Col Blago Kurtz?
"I don't see any method."
"...and I'm not even in their damn army..."
ONE
LIGHT,
R
I've always wanted to see an episode of THE WEST WING directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
"Washington...shit...I was still only in Washington."
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:48:59pm |
re: #91 Render
Col Blago Kurtz?
"I don't see any method."
"...and I'm not even in their damn army..."
ONE
LIGHT,
R
Maybe the DNC will send Lt-for-life Kerry upriver on a mission to "terminate, with extreme prejudice."
He already has the hat, after all.
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:02pm |
re: #93 Peacekeeper
You can't trust people who quote poetry.
Maybe true, but Blago might have a few foilables that might be even a bigger signal of untrustworthiness. Like, I dunno, he's a liar?
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frred Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:03pm |
re: #110 BigMoo
Blago learned from Bubba that being a politician means never admit guilt and demonize your opponents. Well done Blago!
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:26pm |
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:28pm |
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Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:44pm |
re: #118 FightingBack
We are all the People of Illinois.
Hey I got enough problems, don't lay that on me!
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Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:45pm |
re: #121 jwb7605
This reminds me more of Shakespeare.
"Lay on McDuff! And damned be he who first cries hold, enough!"
Shakespeare's pooch weed on the floor...hence we have "out, out, damn Spot!"
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:50pm |
re: #115 Nevergiveup
Now I feel sorry for the people of Illinois. Well kinda.
except the majority will elect another just like him. Didn't Illinois have four out of the last five Governors go to jail?
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:49:52pm |
re: #111 Dianna
OT: My friend has been sprung from the hospital!
I'm taking her home with me this afternoon.
Yay!
Good news, Dianna!
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SurferDoc Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:00pm |
re: #124 The Other Les
I've always wanted to see an episode of THE WEST WING directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
"Washington...shit...I was still only in Washington."
"I was getting weaker while Sarah Palin was out there in the tundra getting stronger"
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Render Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:04pm |
Smart actually...when you think about it.
Blago has now established that there will never be a jury of his "peers," outside of an asylum.
THE
PLEA,
R
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:09pm |
re: #80 FightingBack
This is Chicago politics? We're going to get this on a national scale?
Aren't you excited?
/
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:29pm |
re: #132 Outrider
You don't need a majority of the living, you see.
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:31pm |
re: #110 BigMoo
Go Blago, Go !
The more he fights, the more this guy becoming a 'poster child'...highlighting to the American people what Politics has evolved into...cash and power hungry narcissists, craving privilege and the ability to perpetuate themselves at the public trough.
And we keep footing the bill....
Go figure.
I agree. The dems are racing to impeach him. I want to see them squirm.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:46pm |
re: #127 frred
Blago learned from Bubba that being a politician means never admit guilt and demonize your opponents. Well done Blago!
Actually, he picked that up from the Teflon Don of Chicago, Mayor Richard M. Daley. That's Daley's SOP when caught in the act.
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:49pm |
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yma o hyd Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:50:54pm |
re: #111 Dianna
OT: My friend has been sprung from the hospital!
I'm taking her home with me this afternoon.
Yay!
Excellent news - warmest wishes for a speedy recovery, and hugs to the both of you!
{Dianna}
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ArmyWife Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:51:02pm |
You know what would be funny? If Blago started to hold daily "press conferences" and at each one he announces a piece of dirt on the Dem's finest - each time escalating the importance factor of the person he is dishing on. We could then see how long it takes to "settle" this matter before we get too close to The One's inner circle.
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infopimp Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:51:08pm |
re: #74 MJ
That's OK. You need to check out Roland Burris' monument to himself:
[Link: www.suntimes.com...]
Read LGF much?
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
;)
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:51:18pm |
If the dead only knew what their votes had wrought....
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RebelPOW Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:51:36pm |
This was circulating around here in Chicago before Christmas.
"Get Packin', Rod Blagojevich"
(*Sung to the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen")
Get packin', Rod Blagojevich
The state's in disarray
The Tribune wants you unemployed
At least by Christmas Day.
The TV pundits want your head
Could there be pay to play?
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy Save Illinois!
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.
Good riddance Rod Blagojevich
Your Elvis look's inane, The Senate's mad, so's Lisa's dad.
You drive us all insane.
Our transit's broke, the state's a joke, The Tollway's one big pain.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy Save Illinois!
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.
Good luck old Rod Blagojevich
The feds have quite a place.
Fitzgerald's poked his nose around And if he has a case ,
George Ryan's moving stuff around Creating extra space.
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy Save Illinois!
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy- - -
Illinois’ New State Motto: "Illinois, where our governor’s make our license plates."
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SamHermanMD Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:52:06pm |
What a vulgar and cheap way to exploit patients! If Blago were a health care professional, I would file appropriate charges with the state licensing board. As it is, the Illinois House of Representatives already filed their charges, and this pathetic sideshow all but cooked Blago's goose.
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:52:14pm |
re: #125 lobo91
Maybe the DNC will send Lt-for-life Kerry upriver on a mission to "terminate, with extreme prejudice."
He already has the hat, after all.
Excellent!
Calling Iowahawk... come in, Iowahawk...
"Are you an assassin, Mr. Kerry? No. You are a ketchup gigolo, sent by politicians, to collect a bill. By the way, can I interest you in a Senate seat?"
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:52:21pm |
re: #137 FightingBack
You don't need a majority of the living, you see.
got to admit, their voters are pretty damn loyal. I mean all that trouble crawling out of the grave and all. ;-)>
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jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:52:27pm |
re: #142 ArmyWife
You know what would be funny? If Blago started to hold daily "press conferences" and at each one he announces a piece of dirt on the Dem's finest - each time escalating the importance factor of the person he is dishing on. We could then see how long it takes to "settle" this matter before we get too close to The One's inner circle.
Didn't we just see that veiled threat today?
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:52:55pm |
re: #132 Outrider
except the majority will elect another just like him. Didn't Illinois have four out of the last five Governors go to jail?
Three out of five. Big Jim Thompson has never been close to a jail cell, but he has defended George Ryan. Jim Edgar has not either, and stays out of politics after stepping down as governor at then end of his second term in 1999.
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SurferDoc Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:53:07pm |
My kids loved watching Apocalypse Now" on VHS all those years ago. To this day if they hear a helicopter nearby, they are likely to mutter: "Saigon...shit!"
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:53:20pm |
re: #78 zombie
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
I've never thought of him as a happy god before.
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:53:21pm |
re: #74 MJ
That's OK. You need to check out Roland Burris' monument to himself:
[Link: www.suntimes.com...]
It will make a lovely urinal for those wishing to pay him their "respect". Heh.
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:53:51pm |
re: #151 SurferDoc
My kids loved watching Apocalypse Now" on VHS all those years ago. To this day if they hear a helicopter nearby, they are likely to mutter: "Saigon...shit!"
I'm prone to doing that practically every time I see a ceiling fan.
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chicagodudewhotrades Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:53:52pm |
Wow. I kinda figured that Blago would talk about anything but today's news, but I wasn't expecting more poetry. I'm sure Fitzgerald's crew down at the DA taped the gov's speech because anything he says about his situation could be used against him someday. This is why he didn't take any questions either. I'm so proud on days like this to live here...... do I need the sarc tag?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:54:14pm |
re: #107 J.S.
oooh, yes he did (resort to poetry). You know, some people were saying that Blago is, in fact, nuts...or that he is suffering from some severe form of mental illness (a couple of weeks ago, I dismissed that as hyperbole, now, though, I'm not so sure...)
There was a call for a psyc eval the other day.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:54:18pm |
re: #150 Honorary Yooper
Ok, only three out of five. I'd call that a pretty good record. /
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:54:20pm |
re: #150 Honorary Yooper
Three out of five. Big Jim Thompson has never been close to a jail cell, but he has defended George Ryan. Jim Edgar has not either, and stays out of politics after stepping down as governor at then end of his second term in 1999.
maybe the reference had something to do with 20 years. Let me look th....never mind I'll take your word for it. You're up there. ;-)>
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rawmuse Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:54:40pm |
He needs to get back to doing the work of the people.
Clinton playbook number 581
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:54:54pm |
re: #135 Render
Smart actually...when you think about it.
Blago has now established that there will never be a jury of his "peers," outside of an asylum.
THE
PLEA,
R
Sure, I suppose, he might be trying to lay the grounds for an insanity defense. Though its unlikely to help, it probably won't hurt.
The act doesn't necessarily even have to be strong enough to convince a jury. If he gets the prosecution to worry that it MIGHT work, it could buy him a little bit more space in negotiations.
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:03pm |
re: #142 ArmyWife
You know what would be funny? If Blago started to hold daily "press conferences" and at each one he announces a piece of dirt on the Dem's finest - each time escalating the importance factor of the person he is dishing on. We could then see how long it takes to "settle" this matter before we get too close to The One's inner circle.
Can you say Obamaside?
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:13pm |
re: #151 SurferDoc
My kids loved watching Apocalypse Now" on VHS all those years ago. To this day if they hear a helicopter nearby, they are likely to mutter: "Saigon...shit!"
I don't think soldiers ever forget hearing the sound of a Huey.
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SurferDoc Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:18pm |
re: #154 Occasional Reader
I'm prone to doing that practically every time I see a ceiling fan.
If I hear "The End" my mind goes far, far away for 6 or 7 minutes.....
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:42pm |
re: #162 Outrider
I don't think soldiers ever forget hearing the sound of a Huey.
I was never a soldier and even I know what a huey sounds like.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:43pm |
Hey, how often do you hear poetry on TV these days?!
It's a cultural upding for Blago!
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Stoutcat Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:45pm |
Yep, definitely going for an insanity defense.
And Kipling was bad enough, but Teddy Kennedy and Tennyson? Please!
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ArmyWife Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:50pm |
re: #135 Render
Now dear Render - we can find a gaggle of them over at Kos or DU that fit the bill quite well!
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:55:56pm |
re: #163 SurferDoc
If I hear "The End" my mind goes far, far away for 6 or 7 minutes.....
Am I the only one who does NOT love the smell of napalm (in the morning, or any other time)?
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Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:56:07pm |
re: #46 Occasional Reader
Blago is really a walking, talking cartoon version of the Democratic Party.
"Sure, I'm corrupt as hell, but... it's for the children!"
It's only bad if Republicans are corrupt, because then it's hypocrisy. We expect it from the Dems, so why is everyone getting bent out of shape?
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:56:14pm |
re: #58 looking closely
How does this man manage to walk with balls that large?
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Kragar Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:56:26pm |
re: #154 Occasional Reader
I'm prone to doing that practically every time I see a ceiling fan.
Running gag between me and my buddies when we were in Oki was whenever someone said "What was that?" we would answer "FUCKING TIGER, MAN!"
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Racer X Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:56:26pm |
Ignore all those dead pedestrians on the sidewalk. I am a damn good governor, dammit!
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:56:50pm |
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:56:57pm |
He could do "The Poetry Report" daily. Teachers could assign it.
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jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:14pm |
re: #167 ArmyWife
Now dear Render - we can find a gaggle of them over at Kos or DU that fit the bill quite well!
That would be appropriate, given where a Dem primary debate was held, after the Dems had completely refused Fox.
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:22pm |
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ArmyWife Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:36pm |
re: #149 jwb7605
I don't know. My actual job got in the way of my politics hobby! I HATE when that happens!
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:40pm |
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:51pm |
re: #169 Dainn
It's only bad if Republicans are corrupt, because then it's hypocrisy. We expect it from the Dems, so why is everyone getting bent out of shape?
I'm actually expecting someone to try that as a defense someday...
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:52pm |
Instead of rhymes, maybe Blago should start using Japanese Haikus to up his image.
The Peole's Cube has some ideas....
Unwashed masses!
The only thing not smelly
is the money you give us.
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Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:57:53pm |
re: #156 ggt
There was a call for a psyc eval the other day.
Sometimes I think sociopathy is a requirement for office. Chicagoland politics proves this point.
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Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:58:02pm |
re: #111 Dianna
OT: My friend has been sprung from the hospital!
I'm taking her home with me this afternoon.
Yay!
Thats a lousy poem.
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SurferDoc Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:58:16pm |
re: #171 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Running gag between me and my buddies when we were in Oki was whenever someone said "What was that?" we would answer "FUCKING TIGER, MAN!"
"Don't get off the boat!"
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:58:34pm |
re: #176 The Other Les
Correction: That should be Obamacide.
Vince Foster was unavailable for comment...
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:59:00pm |
re: #168 looking closely
Am I the only one who does NOT love the smell of napalm (in the morning, or any other time)?
The S4 shop was just across the road from the artillery range so we got artillery in the afternoon.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:59:12pm |
Blago to aide: How'd I do?
Aide: Very nice review of medical cases. They love that stuff.
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subsailor68 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:59:25pm |
At least he didn't quote Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
"The whore! The whore!"
Uh, governor....
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Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:59:42pm |
re: #185 The Other Les
The S4 shop was just across the road from the artillery range so we got artillery in the afternoon.
Wouldn't coffee have been better?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:59:48pm |
re: #150 Honorary Yooper
Three out of five. Big Jim Thompson has never been close to a jail cell, but he has defended George Ryan. Jim Edgar has not either, and stays out of politics after stepping down as governor at then end of his second term in 1999.
He was intereviewed also on news radio this morning. I think it was him and not the State Senator that said that impeachment was a "political process not a legal process."
I thought that was interesting. Must research more.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jan 9, 2009 12:59:52pm |
re: #78 zombie
"Allah Is Gay”: mystery button found in Oakland
Truly mysterious indeed!
Great... now there is going to be a new type of 'beheading'...
/
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:00:09pm |
re: #181 Dainn
Sometimes I think sociopathy is a requirement for office. Chicagoland politics proves this point.
True dat. We have enough sociopaths in office in Illinois. With people like Roland Burris, Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, Todd Stroger, Emil Jones, etc, etc, who needs Hollywood?
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:00:15pm |
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:00:39pm |
re: #164 Hard Right
I was never a soldier and even I know what a huey sounds like.
Better the enemy know. It goes something like this.
Whup whup whup, we're gonna whup your ass!
/At least until the politicians call us off.
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:01:13pm |
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:01:24pm |
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:01:39pm |
re: #187 subsailor68
At least he didn't quote Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"
"The whore! The whore!"
Uh, governor....
Wrong governor, I think...
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:01:39pm |
Pat Quinn, Lt. Gov, is giving a statement now.
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:01:42pm |
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:01:56pm |
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subsailor68 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:02:08pm |
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Racer X Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:02:13pm |
re: #190 Oh no...Sand People!
Great... now there is going to be a new type of 'beheading'...
/
The prayer rug certainly takes on a new angle.
/head bump
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Steve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:02:22pm |
forget the self and you will fear nothing
Carlos Castaneda
Since Blago seems to be talking only about himself.... I wonder what he has to fear?
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doppelganglander Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:02:41pm |
I didn't see Blago's little bit of theater. What was the poem?
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:02:54pm |
re: #195 CyanSnowHawk
Better the enemy know. It goes something like this.
Whup whup whup, we're gonna whup your ass!
/At least until the politicians call us off.
We have all kinds of helicopters that fly over-including the Apache. I can pick out the Huey every time. I hear them loooong before I see them.
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The Other Les Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:02:58pm |
re: #188 Peacekeeper
Wouldn't coffee have been better?
Yes.
That's about the time I discovered Diet Coke.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:10pm |
re: #206 Steve
forget the self and you will fear nothing
Carlos CastanedaSince Blago seems to be talking only about himself.... I wonder what he has to fear?
Us.
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:15pm |
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claire Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:29pm |
Signs of mental illness manifest themselves in various ways. The hair should have been a clear sign.
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subsailor68 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:32pm |
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:40pm |
re: #195 CyanSnowHawk
Better the enemy know. It goes something like this.
Whup whup whup, we're gonna whup your ass!
/At least until the politicians call us off.
I think as far as the enemy goes, the Apache is better. You are in the woods and hear nothing and all of a sudden you are getting whacked with an enormous roar overhead. I go whacked that way in an exercise one time. Never heard the bast*rd.
But Hueys? They could get your butt out quick even after taking rounds.
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Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:41pm |
re: #191 Honorary Yooper
True dat. We have enough sociopaths in office in Illinois. With people like Roland Burris, Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, Todd Stroger, Emil Jones, etc, etc, who needs Hollywood?
But our Hollywood sociopaths are cool. Like Chicago, but with designer jeans and sandals. If you are enough of a moonbat you get invited to some killer parties, too!
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:42pm |
re: #212 claire
Signs of mental illness manifest themselves in various ways. The hair should have been a clear sign.
Don King too.
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Oh no...Sand People! Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:48pm |
re: #204 Racer X
The prayer rug certainly takes on a new angle.
/head bump
The 'new' RoP member walks late into the prayer room, "Oh Achmed! It's like shooting fish in a barrel in here!"
/rimshot...?
//sorry...I should stop now.
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Desert Dog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:03:54pm |
Narcissus thy name is Blago....
"....Yes, the world revolves around me and what is really important is me..." Blah blah blah......
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debutaunt Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:05pm |
re: #212 claire
Signs of mental illness manifest themselves in various ways. The hair should have been a clear sign.
Discount-little-boy haircut.
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ArmyWife Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:09pm |
re: #180 DeafDog
They need to brush up on their Haiku rules first. As official Haiku Honco, I will assist -
5
7
5.
Yo! Unwashed masses
The only thing not smelly
Is your hard earned cash
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:22pm |
re: #189 ggt
He was intereviewed also on news radio this morning. I think it was him and not the State Senator that said that impeachment was a "political process not a legal process."
I thought that was interesting. Must research more.
Well, its pretty much right, if you parse what exactly he's saying.
The worst outcome of impeachment is that he's removed from elected (eg political) office. Technically its a "legal" process, but the decision will ultimately be made collectively by other politicians.
On the other hand, if he's convicted of corruption he could go to prison, and that's probably what he meant by "legal" (ie criminal) process.
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rawmuse Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:37pm |
re: #212 claire
Signs of mental illness manifest themselves in various ways. The hair should have been a clear sign.
Are you kidding? I know some bald guys that would kill for that hair.
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:42pm |
re: #214 Outrider
I think as far as the enemy goes, the Apache is better. You are in the woods and hear nothing and all of a sudden you are getting whacked with an enormous roar overhead. I go whacked that way in an exercise one time. Never heard the bast*rd.
But Hueys? They could get your butt out quick even after taking rounds.
I was going to say that the Apache is usually over the house before I hear it. Scary.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:54pm |
re: #212 claire
Signs of mental illness manifest themselves in various ways. The hair should have been a clear sign.
No, this press conference was par for the course in Chicago politics. It's all about obfuscating, bullshitting, denying all the while you are defaming your opponents and praising yourself. You guys really need to see when Daley gets caught. It's a true popcorn moment.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:04:57pm |
re: #208 Hard Right
We have all kinds of helicopters that fly over-including the Apache. I can pick out the Huey every time. I hear them loooong before I see them.
Two blade main rotor Hueys have a very distinctive sound. Not so sure with the newer 4 bladed ones. I was a Huey Crew Chief in the 80s. 1/4 Cav, D Troop at Ft. Riley.
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:05:15pm |
re: #208 Hard Right
We have all kinds of helicopters that fly over-including the Apache. I can pick out the Huey every time. I hear them loooong before I see them.
when you heard them? you knew help was coming; dustoff or extraction one.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:05:22pm |
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:05:25pm |
re: #208 Hard Right
We have all kinds of helicopters that fly over-including the Apache. I can pick out the Huey every time. I hear them loooong before I see them.
Yep. Which is one advantage to the Blackhawk, I suppose; they're more or less on top of you by the time you hear them.
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:05:41pm |
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:05:41pm |
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:05:58pm |
re: #201 The Other Les
That brings back some memories. When I was at Ft Sill in the early '80s, our battalion XO looked and acted just like Robert Duvall's character. He had even been a Huey pilot in Vietnam, and wore a 1st Cav combat patch.
Scary.
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winston06 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:06:04pm |
btw right now Military Ch. s showing the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:06:06pm |
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:06:22pm |
re: #227 CyanSnowHawk
Two blade main rotor Hueys have a very distinctive sound. Not so sure with the newer 4 bladed ones. I was a Huey Crew Chief in the 80s. 1/4 Cav, D Troop at Ft. Riley.
Interesting. Didn't know about the four bladed ones. I smile when I see them though. I think about all the vets they saved.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:06:24pm |
Press Conference? Conference? Was there a Conference I missed somewhere?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:06:37pm |
re: #221 looking closely
Well, its pretty much right, if you parse what exactly he's saying.
The worst outcome of impeachment is that he's removed from elected (eg political) office. Technically its a "legal" process, but the decision will ultimately be made collectively by other politicians.
On the other hand, if he's convicted of corruption he could go to prison, and that's probably what he meant by "legal" (ie criminal) process.
thank you
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yochanan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:09pm |
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:11pm |
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:18pm |
I'd like to see Blago criminally convicted of corruption.
Then, as part of his sentencing deal, the prosecution offers to shave off three months of his prison time for every other crooked Chicago/Illinois pol he rats out.
With a deal like that, he might even be able to walk.
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:22pm |
Q: How many Chicago pols does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: F--- you, what am I gettin' outta this?
{Joke Shamelesslessly lifed from the People's Cube}
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:23pm |
re: #231 Occasional Reader
Yep. Which is one advantage to the Blackhawk, I suppose; they're more or less on top of you by the time you hear them.
Them and the Apache. I don't see the Blackhawks like I used to. Guess most of them are deployed.
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Steve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:41pm |
re: #210 FightingBack
Us.
Oh I pray that that is what it is. Now that he is impeached can they go all the way and kick him out of office.
But that brings up the question... Who will replace him?
I am not up on Il politicals.
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doppelganglander Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:43pm |
re: #212 claire
Signs of mental illness manifest themselves in various ways. The hair should have been a clear sign.
He's had the same cut since he was in kindergarten. Why change now?
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:07:47pm |
re: #239 FightingBack
Press Conference? Conference? Was there a Conference I missed somewhere?
It was really more of a "poetry slam".
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:08:24pm |
BTW, if you think Blago's nuts, here's a Daley rant for you.
Note the red face and the useage of words.
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Guanxi88 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:08:34pm |
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:08:44pm |
re: #225 Hard Right
I was going to say that the Apache is usually over the house before I hear it. Scary.
The Apache doesn't throw too much noise forward. I don't know if that's an accident of the design or not, but it's scary.
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doppelganglander Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:08:48pm |
re: #224 rawmuse
Are you kidding? I know some bald guys that would kill for that hair.
He could share it among at least 4 or 5 bald guys.
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experiencedtraveller Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:08:52pm |
Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I.
Is it not monstrous
that this Blago here
but in a fiction,
in a dream of passion,
can force his soul so to his own conceit.
/Blago performing as First Player in Hamlet
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Wishing Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:08:59pm |
Darn! I just got home and missed it!
Was it nutso?
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lobo91 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:09:26pm |
re: #253 CyanSnowHawk
The Apache doesn't throw too much noise forward. I don't know if that's an accident of the design or not, but it's scary.
It was intentional.
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Stoutcat Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:09:27pm |
re: #207 doppelganglander
Tennyson's Ulysses:
"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."
He heard Teddy Kennedy quote it back in the 80s and had to go look it up.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:10:19pm |
It's nap time, Lizards.
Talk nice about me when I'm gone.
Have a great afternoon!
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:10:29pm |
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:10:32pm |
re: #251 Honorary Yooper
BTW, if you think Blago's nuts, here's a Daley rant for you.
Note the red face and the useage of words.
Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed.
/DC resident
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:10:48pm |
re: #257 lobo91
It was intentional.
Eek. here in AZ they have a factory that builds/tests/and repairs them IIRC. I had a Longbow fly right over me while I was on the beeline highway. Glad they are on our side.
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:11:16pm |
re: #220 ArmyWife
O, wise Armywife
The site Haiku-o-matic
Says that you are right
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:11:20pm |
re: #238 Hard Right
Interesting. Didn't know about the four bladed ones. I smile when I see them though. I think about all the vets they saved.
Marine Corps still flies Hueys and Cobras. UH-1Y and AH-1W are the newest ones IIRC.
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:11:25pm |
re: #259 ggt
It's nap time, Lizards.
Talk nice about me when I'm gone.
Have a great afternoon!
Yay, he's gone. I hear he has bad breath.
////
Take care.
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:12:20pm |
re: #264 CyanSnowHawk
Marine Corps still flies Hueys and Cobras. UH-1Y and AH-1W are the newest ones IIRC.
The National Guard uses them too.
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:12:25pm |
Here's a reminder of the day before it all broke:
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Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:12:49pm |
Blago. Rhymes with Chicago and also Iago.
Othello:
O monstrous, monstrous!
Iago:
Nay, this was but his dream.
Othello:
But this denoted a foregone conclusion.
Iago:
'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream,
And this may help to thicken other proofs,
That do demonstrate thinly.
Othello Act 3, scene 3, 427–431
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Wishing Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:12:49pm |
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Steve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:13:00pm |
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Well that leave out blago. He has consistently gone over the five minute mark
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Racer X Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:13:49pm |
re: #263 DeafDog
O, wise Armywife
The site Haiku-o-matic
Says that you are right
This is my favorite:
From out of the blue
The A-Team will kick your ass
"I pity the fool"
LOL!
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:14:20pm |
Yet more Daley ranting for and idea of what passes for a statement in Chicago:
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bulwrk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:14:31pm |
Friend just sent me this I wonder if its true?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet,
8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a Specification/ Procedure/ Process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right.
Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or Serbs. The Serbs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the Serbs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the Serbs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the Serbs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.
And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:14:41pm |
| 277 |
J.S. Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:15:11pm |
re: #251 Honorary Yooper
Maybe these rambling, delusional, semi-paranoic utterances of Chicago pols are contagious?
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hazzyday Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:15:14pm |
He probably has a job as a future Hamas spokesperson. What is his actual crime here when compared to other politicians? Besides just being stupid. Isn't Gov. Richardson under the same limelight? Isn't Caroline Kennedy getting hers the same way? Appointing a Kennedy to a political seat probably achieves the same effect as Blago getting a billion for his appointment. We need a lineup.
| 279 |
Dave the..... Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:15:23pm |
If you Illinois types are a bit down, look at it this way......this is Minnesota's new US Senator:
| 280 |
Jewels (AKA Julian) Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:15:39pm |
While Blagovich is a corrupt fool, I will enjoy watching him drag the Socialist Democrat Party down with him
| 281 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:15:54pm |
re: #272 ArmyWife
You even questioned? ;)
I question you not
But for Friday Drinking thread
Please speak in Haiku
:-)
| 282 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:16:31pm |
re: #279 Dave the.....
If you Illinois types are a bit down, look at it this way......this is Minnesota's new US Senator:
[Link: www.lucianne.com...]
Yes, but Blago has crazier hair.
| 283 |
Guanxi88 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:16:55pm |
re: #275 bulwrk
Friend just sent me this I wonder if its true?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet,
8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that?
Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a Specification/ Procedure/ Process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right.
Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.) Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or Serbs. The Serbs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the Serbs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the Serbs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the Serbs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.
And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything.
Was that all Blago had to say?
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doppelganglander Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:17:26pm |
re: #258 Stoutcat
Tennyson's Ulysses:
"Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."He heard Teddy Kennedy quote it back in the 80s and had to go look it up.
Good Lord. What an arrogant little shitstain.
| 285 |
Grundle Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:17:26pm |
I hope he doesn't get impeached and finishes out his term like nothing ever happened. It will be a wedge issue for Republicans for years to come.
He's not crazy, he's just corrupt. Chicago thug politics.
| 286 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:18:34pm |
re: #278 hazzyday
He probably has a job as a future Hamas spokesperson. What is his actual crime here when compared to other politicians? Besides just being stupid. Isn't Gov. Richardson under the same limelight? Isn't Caroline Kennedy getting hers the same way? Appointing a Kennedy to a political seat probably achieves the same effect as Blago getting a billion for his appointment. We need a lineup.
It's even worse. As A Kennedy, she doesn't actually need to pony up. She just has to imply that she will.
| 287 |
Nancy Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:18:40pm |
re: #150 Honorary Yooper
I was just thinking of the other two besides Ryan: wasn't it Walker and Kerner
But they never bothered with impeachment on the other 3 so cynic that I am it makes me wonder if this rush to impeach RB before any charges have been brought against him was more for the politicians to "protect" themselves.
If he starts naming names, how much credibility is he going to have now?
No defense of the Governor! I doubt he was qualified for Governor.
| 288 |
David IV of Georgia Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:18:52pm |
re: #279 Dave the.....
If you Illinois types are a bit down, look at it this way......this is Minnesota's new US Senator:
[Link: www.lucianne.com...]
Not safe for work, play, office nor home. It is, however, in keeping with my general opinion of the —shall we call it a "man"?
| 289 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:19:11pm |
re: #281 DeafDog
I question you not
But for Friday Drinking thread
Please speak in Haiku:-)
House party tonight
I will get quite drunk there
and rue the morning
| 290 |
tackle Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:19:11pm |
re: #285 Grundle
I hope he doesn't get impeached and finishes out his term like nothing ever happened. It will be a wedge issue for Republicans for years to come.
He's not crazy, he's just corrupt. Chicago thug politics.
I agree. Just because someone is corrupt and unbelievably self-absorbed does not make them insane. Just evil.
| 291 |
doppelganglander Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:19:38pm |
re: #275 bulwrk
I've seen that before and I believe it's true. Other gauges were used for railroads in various times and places but that's the size that became the standard.
| 292 |
Ben Hur Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:19:56pm |
How f*cking dare anyone out there make fun of Blago after all he has been through.!
He lost her job, he will go through a divorce. He has kids.
All you people care about is….. readers and making money off of her.
HE’S A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don’t realize is that Blago is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her.
LEAVE HIM ALONE! You are lucky he even was Governor for you BASTARDS!
LEAVE BLAGO ALONE!…..Please.
Pundits talked about professionalism and said if Blago was a professional he would’ve pulled it off no matter what.
Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional to publicly bash someone who is going through a hard time.
Leave Blago Alone Please…. !
Leave Blago alone!…right now!….I mean it.!
Anyone that has a problem with him you deal with me, because he is not well right now.
LEAVE HIM ALONE!
| 293 |
Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:20:48pm |
re: #287 Nancy
I was just thinking of the other two besides Ryan: wasn't it Walker and Kerner
But they never bothered with impeachment on the other 3 so cynic that I am it makes me wonder if this rush to impeach RB before any charges have been brought against him was more for the politicians to "protect" themselves.
If he starts naming names, how much credibility is he going to have now?
No defense of the Governor! I doubt he was qualified for Governor.
Yep, Kerner got convicted after his term for crimes committed during his term. Walker got convicted long after his term for crimes committed after he left office.
They're going with impeachment on Blago because he is so blatent in what he is doing. Ryan may have gotten it if he ran and won in 2002, but Ryan opted not to run for a second term.
| 294 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:21:02pm |
On Fox, Cavuto, to John McCain: You feeling OK, besides that?
McCain:What?
| 295 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:22:24pm |
re: #292 Ben Hur
Who was the original subject of the "leave him/her alone!" YouTube meme? Was it Britney Spears? And was it originally meant to be taken seriously?
| 296 |
DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:22:24pm |
Illinois has a Governor there
who's press conferences just make one stare
though Governor Blagojevich
Is a hard to catch sonovabitch
because he can hide in his hair.
| 297 |
Wyatt Earp Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:22:26pm |
re: #294 FightingBack
On Fox, Cavuto, to John McCain: You feeling OK, besides that?
McCain:What?
Well, he did strain his shoulder while throwing Sarah Palin under the bus . . .
| 298 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:22:44pm |
re: #295 Occasional Reader
Who was the original subject of the "leave him/her alone!" YouTube meme? Was it Britney Spears? And was it originally meant to be taken seriously?
Yes and yes.
| 299 |
Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:22:52pm |
re: #277 J.S.
Maybe these rambling, delusional, semi-paranoic utterances of Chicago pols are contagious?
Folks outside of the Chicago media market have no idea what we see on a normal basis. What passes for "normal" here is usually considered sociopathic in other locals.
| 300 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:23:25pm |
re: #289 Hard Right
House party tonight
I will get quite drunk there
and rue the morning
Have fun getting drunk
I hope you do nothing dumb
If you do - deny
| 301 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:23:27pm |
re: #267 Hard Right
The National Guard uses them too.
the Cobra was a mean little bit*h. I enjoyed watching them dart around laying down hell.
| 302 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:23:28pm |
re: #292 Ben Hur
If you they had let us know he was a Dem, we'd have backed off, you know.
/
| 303 |
Racer X Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:23:51pm |
The comb had no chance
Flying like a nasty Huey
The hair had bad intent
| 304 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:24:11pm |
re: #301 Outrider
the Cobra was a mean little bit*h. I enjoyed watching them dart around laying down hell.
I call it the Apache's father.
| 306 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:24:32pm |
re: #301 Outrider
the Cobra was a mean little bit*h. I enjoyed watching them dart around laying down hell.
But weren't you on GI Joe's side?!
| 307 |
Fenway_Nation Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:25:02pm |
I'm sure Blagojevich's hair wants to be a Snuggie when it grows up.
/weak attempt to work in Snuggies to the discussion
| 308 |
LGoPs Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:25:12pm |
I find it instructive that almost invaraibly, when Democrats are acused of scandal, they fight tooth and nail to hang on and if in the process they pull everyone down with them, so be it. Republicans, on the other hand, generally resign quickly and move off stage, lest they drag the party down with them.
The one side is strictly self focused - the country be damned, while the other at least attempts putting the greater good above their own selfish needs.
The irony is that the Democrats get away with this type of dishonorable behavior while the Republicans get no credit for theirs.
| 309 |
CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:25:18pm |
| 310 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:25:42pm |
re: #292 Ben Hur
How f*cking dare anyone out there make fun of Blago after all he has been through.!
He lost her job, he will go through a divorce. He has kids.
All you people care about is….. readers and making money off of her.
HE’S A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don’t realize is that Blago is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her.
LEAVE HIM ALONE! You are lucky he even was Governor for you BASTARDS!
LEAVE BLAGO ALONE!…..Please.Pundits talked about professionalism and said if Blago was a professional he would’ve pulled it off no matter what.
Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional to publicly bash someone who is going through a hard time.
Leave Blago Alone Please…. !
Leave Blago alone!…right now!….I mean it.!Anyone that has a problem with him you deal with me, because he is not well right now.
LEAVE HIM ALONE!
see someone saw that video. lol
| 311 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:01pm |
re: #292 Ben Hur
How f*cking dare anyone out there make fun of Blago after all he has been through.!
He lost her job, he will go through a divorce. He has kids.
All you people care about is….. readers and making money off of her.
HE’S A HUMAN! (ah! ooh!) What you don’t realize is that Blago is making you all this money and all you do is write a bunch of crap about her.
LEAVE HIM ALONE! You are lucky he even was Governor for you BASTARDS!
LEAVE BLAGO ALONE!…..Please.Pundits talked about professionalism and said if Blago was a professional he would’ve pulled it off no matter what.
Speaking of professionalism, when is it professional to publicly bash someone who is going through a hard time.
Leave Blago Alone Please…. !
Leave Blago alone!…right now!….I mean it.!Anyone that has a problem with him you deal with me, because he is not well right now.
LEAVE HIM ALONE!
This message sponsored by our friends at the Daily Kos
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Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:32pm |
re: #300 DeafDog
Have fun getting drunk
I hope you do nothing dumb
If you do - deny
Dumb is all I do
Maybe drinking too much will
At last make me smart
| 313 |
Kenneth Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:35pm |
re: #280 Jewels (AKA Julian)
For every cloud there is a silver lining!
| 314 |
bosforus Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:36pm |
re: #292 Ben Hur
I hope you were under a bed sheet when you typed that.
| 315 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:41pm |
Now Durbin is going to have a Press Conference. He saw how much fun they can be.
| 316 |
flbob10 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:48pm |
shepard smith is a butthead
blago said rahm out load great keep talking
| 317 |
BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:50pm |
Chicago politics are supposed to be pretty 'incestuous'....I'm just wondering how many people Blago could drag down with him, if given the chance to negotiate (on the upcoming criminal charges).
Between he and Rezko, one's gotta wonder nervous 'some people' might be getting...
| 318 |
jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:50pm |
re: #308 LGoPs
I find it instructive that almost invaraibly, when Democrats are acused of scandal, they fight tooth and nail to hang on and if in the process they pull everyone down with them, so be it. Republicans, on the other hand, generally resign quickly and move off stage, lest they drag the party down with them.
The one side is strictly self focused - the country be damned, while the other at least attempts putting the greater good above their own selfish needs.
The irony is that the Democrats get away with this type of dishonorable behavior while the Republicans get no credit for theirs.
I thought there weren't any Republicans left in Chicago that could resign on behalf of Blago.
| 319 |
WitchDoctor Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:26:51pm |
re: #261 Occasional Reader
"Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed."
Sad thing is, DC voters weren't impressed either.
| 320 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:27:49pm |
re: #274 Honorary Yooper
Yet more Daley ranting for and idea of what passes for a statement in Chicago:
The good news is that Daley escaped whatever capitity he was in , since this all bubbled over. Notice that he was MIA for about a week?
No surprise when da Mare did surface, he knows nuttin bout nuttin.
| 321 |
Wyatt Earp Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:27:52pm |
re: #316 flbob10
shepard smith is a butthead
blago said rahm out load great keep talking
Shep Smith shouted down someone after the election, stating there was no liberal bias in the media.
Guy is in need of a curb job. Heh.
| 322 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:28:11pm |
re: #319 WitchDoctor
"Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed."
Sad thing is, DC voters weren't impressed either.
How about if he smokes a hooker while on crack?
| 323 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:28:13pm |
re: #319 WitchDoctor
"Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed."
Sad thing is, DC voters weren't impressed either.
Bitch set me up! ROFL
| 324 |
Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:28:17pm |
Here's a response from Sony Ericsson's US division to a complaint regarding Sony Ericsson's decision to pre-install Al Jazeera news feeds on their cell phones in the Middle East and North Africa, which I learned about here on LGF:
Thank you for contacting Sony Ericsson Online Support.The announcement of a partnership between Sony Ericsson and Al Jazeera to pre-install RSS feeds of Al Jazeera news onto Sony Ericsson phones was made by the Sony Ericsson Middle East and North Africa team and was not a global decision. Sony Ericsson will immediately begin investigating the 'agreement' to determine whether it conforms to Sony Ericsson's stringent requirements for companies in our ecosystem.
Please consider emailing Sony Ericsson to politely express your concern about the decision, made by one division of their company, to help spread hatred and incitement to violence in a region of the world that desperately needs peace. You might consider including a link to an Al Jazeera video or two. And also consider thanking Sony Ericsson for their decision to review this matter at the corporate level, and, hopefully, to do the right thing.
Contact Sony: USA
Contact Sony: Canada (English)
Contact Sony: Canada (French)
Contact Sony: UK
Contact Sony: Israel
Contact Sony: Australia
Contact Sony: From somewhere else
| 325 |
Wyatt Earp Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:28:27pm |
re: #319 WitchDoctor
"Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed."
Sad thing is, DC voters weren't impressed either.
Oh, they were impressed. They voted him back in! :)
| 326 |
LGoPs Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:28:28pm |
re: #318 jwb7605
I thought there weren't any Republicans left in Chicago that could resign on behalf of Blago.
Good point. Republicans should be covered under the Endangered Species Act in Chicago........
| 328 |
Racer X Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:29:03pm |
re: #319 WitchDoctor
"Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed."
Sad thing is, DC voters weren't impressed either.
On the contrary - they re-elected him.
| 329 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:29:14pm |
re: #299 Honorary Yooper
Folks outside of the Chicago media market have no idea what we see on a normal basis. What passes for "normal" here is usually considered sociopathic in other locals.
So true, the country is shocked. We on the other hand are just surprised that Blago was so careless.
| 330 |
BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:29:29pm |
re: #316 flbob10
He lost ANY chance at credibility when he went to New Orleans during Katrina and joined the hysteria
| 331 |
DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:29:44pm |
(Sung to the calypso tune Day-O)
Blaaaago!
Im-peach Blago Rod Blago Rod Blago!
Impeach Blago who Obama don't know.
Hey mister Senate man impeach Blago-je-vich
(Obama threw him under the bus)
He uses his office to make himself rich
(Obama says he didn't talk to him much)
Gov - he da Gov he da Gov he da Gov'ver
But 'da Illinois Senate is sending him hoooooome!
(repost- should have saved it for this thread)
| 332 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:30:05pm |
re: #319 WitchDoctor
"Bah. If he isn't smoking crack with a hooker, I'm not impressed."
Sad thing is, DC voters weren't impressed either.
They were dis-impressed with the Nagin man down in NO that fell to pieces and failed his city when they needed him the most. They re-elected him.
And ole Jefferson with the "frozen assets"? No problem there either.
| 333 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:30:31pm |
re: #323 Outrider
Bitch set me up! ROFL
Marion Barry should set up his own Burris-style "Trailblazer" mausoleum, with that quote prominently featured.
| 334 |
Wyatt Earp Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:30:55pm |
re: #326 LGoPs
Good point. Republicans should be covered under the Endangered Species Act in Chicago........
And Philly!
| 335 |
scottishbuzzsaw Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:30:59pm |
I’m laughing at those self-proclaimed mainstream media pro-Arab pundits who think that theirs is the only voice which we, the public, harken to. They are so wrong, so very wrong! We no longer listen to them exclusively because we don’t have to, for we have the Internet and emails and mobile ‘phones and I’ve been emailed and ‘phoned countless numbers of times questioning the clip as it was broadcast, and it’s veracity and objectivity has been questioned countless millions of times more all across the Web in just the last few hours, and its import has been thoroughly and absolutely debunked by so many tens of millions of us so that its effect, as intended by the Pan-Arabists at Channel 4, has been so effectively neutralised by us that we have made a laughing stock out of them.
Grief, it’s good to be alive in this day and age of the Internet, an age wherein we can debunk the nonsense so quickly and so effectively that the feculent opinions of our enemies never have a chance to gain credence before we have had a chance to reply. Thanks to the Internet – and thanks to such sites as this, the NER – deliberately, wilfully, ill-informed procrustean conformity to a handed down norm is dead!
| 336 |
jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:31:08pm |
re: #324 Last Mohican
Sounds like they actually read the e-mail text.!
... possibly the canned response they came up with after receiving several thousand messages?
| 337 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:31:13pm |
re: #312 Hard Right
Dumb is all I do
Maybe drinking too much will
At last make me smart
Blago, Durbin, Rahm
Are criminals who will
sink B. Obama
| 338 |
looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:31:14pm |
re: #275 bulwrk
Friend just sent me this I wonder if its true?
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.
. . .
And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything.
Per Snopes, its false.
[Link: www.snopes.com...]
| 339 |
Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:31:38pm |
Blago did us a favor by selecting Burris- who is already showing signs of being a egomaniac . It should be that much easier for a republican to beat him in two years.
| 340 |
MJ Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:31:48pm |
Terrorist supporting newspaper up for sale:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale
SEATTLE (AP) — Hearst Corp. put Seattle's oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale Friday, saying that if it can't find a buyer in the next 60 days, the paper will close or continue to exist only on the Internet.
[Link: www.wgntv.com...]
| 341 |
CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:31:50pm |
re: #301 Outrider
the Cobra was a mean little bit*h. I enjoyed watching them dart around laying down hell.
Had one almost knock me unconscious once. It was sitting in the hanger and the front door was open, I was walking around the front of it with my BDU cap on. I didn't even see the outstretched door frame before I ran my forehead into it.
Luckily I was used to recovering quickly from a sudden head hit from all the times I stood up on top of Huey and slammed by head in the damn stabilizer bar.
| 342 |
Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:32:00pm |
re: #320 opnion
The good news is that Daley escaped whatever capitity he was in , since this all bubbled over. Notice that he was MIA for about a week?
No surprise when da Mare did surface, he knows nuttin bout nuttin.
Mayor Shortshanks is also known as Sargent Schulte.
"I know nothing!"
| 343 |
thefallingman Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:32:15pm |
I would act shocked, but I'm from Alabama. After John Patterson, George Wallace, Jim Folsom, Fob James, and Don Siegleman, I got used to horribly corrupt Democrat governors.
| 344 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:32:20pm |
I can't wait to see Blago in chains. Or in a straitjacket.
| 345 |
Nancy Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:32:26pm |
re: #293 Honorary Yooper
All my offspring (they are adults, I didn't abandon them-- ha ha) are still in Illinois and ever since Blago was elected --I got the impression that it was more what he didn't do --and that was "govern."
Even before any charges or corruption, when I would go back to Illinois no one of any political party seemed to think much of his governing ability.
I left the state of Illinois for Yooperland
| 346 |
BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:32:27pm |
re: #326 LGoPs
Hell, more like Repubs are endangered species in much of the US. When I moved to CO 10 years ago, it was pretty much a red state...now we have a Dem Governor, two Dem Senators and a 'blue tattoo' after Obama carried it.
The horror, the horror...
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:09pm |
re: #340 MJ
Terrorist supporting newspaper up for sale:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer up for sale
SEATTLE (AP) — Hearst Corp. put Seattle's oldest newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, up for sale Friday, saying that if it can't find a buyer in the next 60 days, the paper will close or continue to exist only on the Internet.[Link: www.wgntv.com...]
Mmmm, me likes the taste of schadenfreude.
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:11pm |
re: #333 Occasional Reader
Marion Barry should set up his own Burris-style "Trailblazer" mausoleum, with that quote prominently featured.
Oh I can just picture that monumental mausoleum. It would be grander than Lincoln's tomb and the Taj Mahal...... and probably on the taxpayers dime.
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:14pm |
re: #341 CyanSnowHawk
Luckily I was used to recovering quickly from a sudden head hit from all the times I stood up on top of Huey and slammed by head in the damn stabilizer bar.
I'm starting to understand why Delta operators wear those hockey helmets.
| 351 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:18pm |
re: #337 DeafDog
Blago, Durbin, Rahm
Are criminals who will
sink B. Obama
No sinking. Walks on water.
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summergurl Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:31pm |
re: #344 Ward Cleaver
I can't wait to see Blago in chains. Or in a straitjacket.
Yes but in jail you don't get conditioner. His hair will be scary wild.
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itellu3times Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:36pm |
re: #56 Charles
That was one of the more freaky political moments I've witnessed.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Obamanation
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rawmuse Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:40pm |
re: #339 Peacekeeper
Blago did us a favor by selecting Burris- who is already showing signs of being a egomaniac . It should be that much easier for a republican to beat him in two years.
I love optimism. God Bless You. May your tribe increase!
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BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:33:45pm |
re: #340 MJ
Don't ya love it ? Of course, they could get a 'media bail-out' from the Messiah....
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:01pm |
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Rancher Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:16pm |
What is he being charged with? What is the penalty for conspiring to defraud the State of Illinois and the people of the State of Illinois of the honest services of ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH? Corruptly soliciting and demanding a thing of value?
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DisturbedEma Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:18pm |
re: #307 Fenway_Nation
I'm sure Blagojevich's hair wants to be a Snuggie when it grows up.
/weak attempt to work in Snuggies to the discussion
Hey, me and my blue snuggie say BACK OFF. . .cold snap coming with kisses from Palin. . .
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:30pm |
re: #347 Mich-again
Did they impeach his hair helmet too?
The DOT is going to crash test it. Also, Bell and Shoei are fighting over the rights to make a reproduction.
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Wyatt Earp Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:44pm |
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Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:46pm |
I just noticed on Michelle Malkin's blog that LGF was mentioned for the Gaza Hospital theatre issue yesterday. :)
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Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:34:49pm |
I just did a webcam spot for PJTV on the staged Hamas doctor video...
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:35:04pm |
re: #352 summergurl
Yes but in jail you don't get conditioner. His hair will be scary wild.
At least he won't have to give up his hair, like Jim Traficant did.
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David IV of Georgia Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:35:05pm |
re: #274 Honorary Yooper
Yet more Daley ranting for and idea of what passes for a statement in Chicago:
Having guns in homes for personal defense adds to crime? Idiots. No wonder they have no clue. Perhaps—and more likely—Chicago's politicians just want unarmed victims, not of "criminals" but of them.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:35:17pm |
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Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:35:23pm |
re: #337 DeafDog
Blago, Durbin, Rahm
Are criminals who will
sink B. Obama
The man spent his entire life publicizing his adoration of Jeremiah Wright, and got elected president anyway.
This won't sink him. This won't even make him bob a little bit.
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Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:35:55pm |
re: #341 CyanSnowHawk
Had one almost knock me unconscious once. It was sitting in the hanger and the front door was open, I was walking around the front of it with my BDU cap on. I didn't even see the outstretched door frame before I ran my forehead into it.
Luckily I was used to recovering quickly from a sudden head hit from all the times I stood up on top of Huey and slammed by head in the damn stabilizer bar.
heh. try doing that with a track cupola cover. damn good reason to wear helmets in a track. lol
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Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:35:59pm |
re: #349 Outrider
Oh I can just picture that monumental mausoleum. It would be grander than Lincoln's tomb and the Taj Mahal...... and probably on the taxpayers dime.
Barry at one point had a larger security detail than the President of the US, so they say.
In contrast, breath-of-fresh-air former mayor Anthony Williams; I was dining at a restaurant one night with my girlfriend, looked over at another table, and there he was, with his wife. There was one body guard near the door; that was it. And Tony actually got shit done.
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MJ Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:36:17pm |
re: #348 Ward Cleaver
Mmmm, me likes the taste of schadenfreude.
This could be a great year to look forward to:
The death of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The death of LA Times
The death of the New York Times
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:36:20pm |
re: #363 Charles
I just did a webcam spot for PJTV on the staged Hamas doctor video...
The Real Media
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:36:24pm |
re: #363 Charles
I just did a webcam spot for PJTV on the staged Hamas doctor video...
Great job on that bit.
I have to wonder if the endgame of this fraud-exposure will simply be more professional frauds on the part of Hamas and its like.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:36:44pm |
re: #358 Rancher
What is he being charged with? What is the penalty for conspiring to defraud the State of Illinois and the people of the State of Illinois of the honest services of ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH? Corruptly soliciting and demanding a thing of value?
Wow, I hope they get a pardon, but I'm not holding my breath.
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DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:36:59pm |
I don't get Haiku
five, seven, five syllables
in three lines, what gives?
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BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:37:12pm |
re: #364 Ward Cleaver
Now THAT was funny...the 'Un-Doming' of Traficant. De-Doming ?
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OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:37:16pm |
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looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:37:17pm |
re: #365 David IV of Georgia
Having guns in homes for personal defense adds to crime? Idiots. No wonder they have no clue. Perhaps—and more likely—Chicago's politicians just want unarmed victims, not of "criminals" but of them.
I think the Chicago pols might literally be afraid for their own lives if their subjects had firearms.
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opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:37:41pm |
re: #339 Peacekeeper
Blago did us a favor by selecting Burris- who is already showing signs of being a egomaniac . It should be that much easier for a republican to beat him in two years.
There is a method to the madness of Blago. It is no coincidence that he chose an African American or that Bobby Rush was at the press conference to drop the race card.
Blago is trying to taint the jury pool for the criminal trial brought by Fitzgerald. There is a lot of evidence that Blacks are rallying to Blago.
| 381 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:37:45pm |
re: #363 Charles
I just did a webcam spot for PJTV on the staged Hamas doctor video...
LEAVE MADS ALONE! He's a human being! [etc.]
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Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:37:50pm |
re: #363 Charles
I just did a webcam spot for PJTV on the staged Hamas doctor video...
Excellent! Can't wait to see it.
I just noticed that CNN has now even removed even the link to their "expired" video, so that there's no trace of them ever having hosted the video in the first place. But they still have the text version of the story up, even though they apparently now know that it's false.
Why isn't this bigger news?
Maybe it will be, eventually.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:38:35pm |
re: #365 David IV of Georgia
Having guns in homes for personal defense adds to crime? Idiots. No wonder they have no clue. Perhaps—and more likely—Chicago's politicians just want unarmed victims, not of "criminals" but of them.
WTF is with Illinois? Sheesh.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:38:39pm |
re: #369 Outrider
heh. try doing that with a track cupola cover. damn good reason to wear helmets in a track. lol
Seen the results of a few of those hits. The other troops in my squadron were armor.
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:39:00pm |
Dr Mads is a good doctor. He was using alternative therapy, that's all.
/ (to be safe)
| 386 |
Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:39:09pm |
re: #361 Wyatt Earp
Snitches get stitches!
The hair is under the care of Federal Marshall's the Hair Club for men witness protection program...:)
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Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:39:36pm |
re: #363 Charles
I'm a little surprised that story isn't getting more attention.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:39:41pm |
re: #376 DaddyG
I don't get Haiku
five, seven, five syllables
in three lines, what gives?
Rod Blagojevich
Gives a poor press conference
Hair like a wheat field
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DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:39:42pm |
re: #367 Last Mohican
The man spent his entire life publicizing his adoration of Jeremiah Wright, and got elected president anyway.
This won't sink him. This won't even make him bob a little bit.
Yes, you are correct
I am practicing Haiku
Good Job, to you and Charles for kicking ass on exposing that sham Hamas video.....(damnit that last line always gets me).
....seriosuly, good job!
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FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:40:09pm |
re: #387 Killgore Trout
I'm a little surprised that story isn't getting more attention.
I'm shocked, shocked.
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CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:40:13pm |
re: #381 Occasional Reader
LEAVE MADS ALONE! He's a human being! [etc.]
Oh just phone it in why don't you OR?
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OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:40:38pm |
re: #387 Killgore Trout
I'm a little surprised that story isn't getting more attention.
Are you really? Like, where? CNN? MSNBC? Fox? NYT?
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LGoPs Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:40:57pm |
re: #369 Outrider
heh. try doing that with a track cupola cover. damn good reason to wear helmets in a track. lol
Helmet won't keep you from eatin' the .50 cal on a 113's TC hatch...........ouch
| 394 |
Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:41:10pm |
Blogo-haiku
You voted for me,
I did what you expected.
What's with all the fuss?
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Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:41:28pm |
re: #381 Occasional Reader
LEAVE MADS ALONE! He's a human being! [etc.]
Speaking of Mads, what are the chances someone could contact the Norwegian Directorate of Health, send them a copy of the video, and suggest that his license be revoked for having supervised a totally ineffectual code blue, and thereby perhaps negligently contributed to the death of a child?
| 397 |
rawmuse Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:41:46pm |
re: #379 looking closely
I think the Chicago pols might literally be afraid for their own lives if their subjects had firearms.
I once visited the office of a Chicago Union boss. He had a large walnut desk. Behind it was a closet with a steel door. Inside the closet was a bare light bulb and a rotary style phone. It served as the man's escape shelter.
The steel door was pock marked with 45acp rounds fired from a Thompson's gun.
| 398 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:08pm |
re: #342 Honorary Yooper
Mayor Shortshanks is also known as Sargent Schulte.
ng!"
I'll bet ya that he is all lawyered up. Blago could really drop a dime on him.
Add to that Fitz has a seperate investigation of Potty Mouth Patty & he real estate transactions with people like Rezko.
If the Feds lean on her, ya think that her father Alderman Mell might give up someone to save his daughter? Someone like I don't know, Daley?
| 399 |
Honorary Yooper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:09pm |
Geeze, everyone needs a fucking press conference today. First Blago, then Quinn, next was Jesse White, and now we're waiting for Dick(head) Durbin.
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Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:15pm |
re: #382 Last Mohican
Why isn't this bigger news?
Maybe it will be, eventually.
I wouldn't hold my breath. None of the other major outlets will take them to task for it as they all sympathize and also have similar political leanings. Maybe once alternative media starts to bear down on cable/network TV audiences for news they will be more accountable, and given the dramatic fall the newspapers are experiencing it might be sooner rather than later. But I still wouldn't hold my breath.
| 401 |
Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:17pm |
re: #392 OldLineTexan
Drudge would be a nice start. The Adnan Hajj story caught on within 24 hours or so.
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OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:21pm |
In winter the trees
Lose their covering of leaves
Not Blagojevich
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:29pm |
Good Afternoon Lizards!
Looks like you are all having fun. Wisj I had been around to enjoy it all with you.
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David IV of Georgia Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:30pm |
re: #379 looking closely
I think the Chicago pols might literally be afraid for their own lives if their subjects had firearms.
I briefly lived in some of the more interesting areas of Chicago. I never noticed any lack of guns. One day as I returned from work, my landlady was in the lobby cleaning her pistol. She told me to make sure I always came to the front door. She said that earlier some thug tried to break in through the back and she shot him. Leaving a blood trail (which I saw) he had run off. I made a mental note to always enter through the front entrance.
| 405 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:43pm |
re: #369 Outrider
heh. try doing that with a track cupola cover. damn good reason to wear helmets in a track. lol
Ow! Jeez.
| 406 |
Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:52pm |
re: #387 Killgore Trout
I'm a little surprised that story isn't getting more attention.
Roger at Pajamas called CNN for a statement. They stonewalled him, but in a way that made it very clear they know there's a problem.
| 407 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:52pm |
re: #396 Last Mohican
Dr Mads? He's up for the Nobel Prize for Medicine (Peace, whatever.)
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Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:42:54pm |
re: #381 Occasional Reader
LEAVE MADS ALONE! He's a human being! [etc.]
Pajamas Tv sounds like something Hugh Hefner cooked up.
| 409 |
Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:03pm |
| 410 |
CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:07pm |
re: #399 Honorary Yooper
Geeze, everyone needs a fucking press conference today. First Blago, then Quinn, next was Jesse White, and now we're waiting for Dick(head) Durbin.
I think mine is scheduled for early next week.
| 411 |
Kenneth Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:16pm |
Well, I for one was impressed with Blago's press conference. He spoke for 11 minutes straight and didn't once drop the F bomb. In Chicago, that counts as eloquent.
| 412 |
bosforus Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:22pm |
Hello Blago
This is impeachment Blago
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You look like hell Blago
I can tell Blago
Your hair's still growin'
Your hair's still growin'
Your hair's still growin' strong
| 413 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:49pm |
re: #402 OldLineTexan
In winter the trees
Lose their covering of leaves
Not Blagojevich
Good toupe glue.
| 414 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:50pm |
re: #401 Killgore Trout
Drudge would be a nice start. The Adnan Hajj story caught on within 24 hours or so.
It seemed to me a while back that Drudge had gone a least a bit Obamist. Perhaps he's otherwise occupied.
| 415 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:43:57pm |
| 417 |
BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:44:30pm |
re: #407 FightingBack
Dr Mads? He's up for the Nobel Prize for Medicine (Peace, whatever.)
Maybe we have a new candidate for Surgeon General...ok, that's a stretch.
| 418 |
looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:45:03pm |
re: #387 Killgore Trout
I'm a little surprised that story isn't getting more attention.
It might get some blog attention, but I wouldn't expect any regular media outlet to touch it.
Why should they expose the incompetence of their peers when it could just as easily be them running the obviously-false story next?
CNN wiped the story and is hoping this all blows over. And it will, too, unless it gets substantially more traction in the blogosphere or elsewhere.
| 419 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:45:20pm |
re: #409 Last Mohican
Well, Fox maybe? Drudge?
I think Fox is crawling further into the Arab Street bag.
/btw, nice work. I wish I had a Lizard doctor.
| 420 |
Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:45:28pm |
The problem with this country is people who have no degrees from Yale or Harvard or Columbia thinking they can report news-or even decide what is news.
| 421 |
Digital Display Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:46:01pm |
re: #408 Peacekeeper
Pajamas Tv sounds like something Hugh Hefner cooked up.
Yea.. but without the playmates.
| 422 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:46:03pm |
re: #419 OldLineTexan
I think Fox is crawling further into the Arab Street bag.
/btw, nice work. I wish I had a Lizard doctor.
How would you know if you did?
| 423 |
Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:46:03pm |
I'm surprised the hospital story hasn't gone viral yet, to be honest. I still expect it to though it may take a day or two. Either Drudge or FNC will grab it and then the hamsters will burn calories.
| 424 |
Mich-again Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:46:30pm |
| 425 |
BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:46:46pm |
re: #418 looking closely
The Gaza situation is nothing more than another 'flavor' of the 2008 Obama campaign-sides have been clearly drawn in the MSM and now they're looking to drive their chosen outcome...
| 426 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:47:00pm |
Blago's quaff is thick
Obama will soon go gray
Biden has hair plugs
| 427 |
DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:47:03pm |
re: #388 OldLineTexan
Rod Blagojevich
Gives a poor press conference
Hair like a wheat field
Rap music would be
different than it is now
if based on Haiku
Yo Mutha ****er
B******* in the house Play-a
My homeys is Krunk
| 429 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:47:57pm |
re: #422 FightingBack
How would you know if you did?
Maybe he/she would ask, given the computer screen eyestrain and carpal tunnel...hell, I dunno.
Years ago I had a doc who was CLEARLY a huntin' and fishin' kind of guy. Always figured that if I died waiting for him, at least the meat wouldn't go to waste.
/
| 430 |
Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:47:59pm |
re: #426 DeafDog
Blago's quaff is thick
Obama will soon go gray
Biden has hair plugs
I saw Pelosis on the news. Facelift city. The HDTV age will not be kind to her.
| 431 |
MJ Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:48:18pm |
re: #396 Last Mohican
Speaking of Mads, what are the chances someone could contact the Norwegian Directorate of Health, send them a copy of the video, and suggest that his license be revoked for having supervised a totally ineffectual code blue, and thereby perhaps negligently contributed to the death of a child?
None. Norway has become one of the most antisemitic places in Europe:
Norway - a paradigm for anti-Semitism
[Link: www.jpost.com...]
Also, see the riots from yesterday:
""These people came to the protest with knives, bats and Molotov cocktails," he said, speaking about the pro-Palestinian side..."
[Link: www.alertnet.org...]
| 433 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:48:30pm |
| 434 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:48:37pm |
re: #430 Peacekeeper
I saw Pelosis on the news. Facelift city. The HDTV age will not be kind to her.
She still looks like a skeleton with skin pulled over it.
| 435 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:48:38pm |
McCain was on earlier with Cavuto, talking positively about the Obama stimulus package.
Cavuto just asked Ann Coulter about it. She responded, "I don't think that Republicans should be taking advice from John McCain."
Love her or hate her, you can't argue with that.
| 436 |
Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:48:41pm |
re: #406 Charles
Roger at Pajamas called CNN for a statement. They stonewalled him, but in a way that made it very clear they know there's a problem.
I'm baffled by why they'd leave the text version of the story up.
I mean, I was initially quite impressed by CNN's attempts to be a little more evenhanded. They emphasized that the Arab family merely "claimed" the boy had been killed by an Israeli drone, and they even put right at the beginning of the video the IDF's statement that they weren't aware of the incident and don't target civilians. It was a big improvement over CNN's usual practices.
But the fact that they're leaving the story up, now that they seem to know it's fake, is evidence that they have more sinister intentions, and it's going to make them look very, very bad if and when people start paying attention. Why not just yank the whole story, post an equivocal retraction and apology on page 58 of the cricket scores or something, and move on to their next pro-Hamas propaganda effort?
| 437 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:48:58pm |
| 438 |
Dave the..... Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:49:46pm |
There is a pro-Israel rally at the Sabes Jewish Community Center in St Louis Park, Minnesota (west of Minneapolis). 3 PM Sunday.
[Link: www.jewishminnesota.org...]
[Link: www.jfedbflo.com...]
Minneapolis & St. Paul MN
What: Community Gathering sponsored by the JCRC of Minnesota and the Dakotas, AIPAC, The Minneapolis Jewish Federation, United Jewish Fund and Council of St. Paul, National Council of Jewish Women, Hadassah, Minnesota Rabbinical Association, Christians United for Israel, Minnesotans Against Terrorism, Hillel, Sabes JCC, and St. Paul JCC
When: Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Where: Sabes JCC, 4330 S. Cedar lake Rd., Minneapolis
Contact: Steve Hunegs[no phone numbers allowed] in Minneapolis,[no phone numbers allowed] or apriso@ujfc.org in St. Paul
| 440 |
Kenneth Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:49:55pm |
Iran's Hamas Strategy
Radical Shiites back radical Sunnis with the aim of destabilizing the Middle East.
The 2006 Lebanon war, which lasted 34 days and saw Hezbollah's Iranian-trained forces embarrass the Israeli army, made Tehran's favorite Arab son, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, one of the most admired men in the Sunni Arab world. This was a remarkable achievement given that Hezbollah had helped Iran train some of the Iraqi Shiite militants who were wreaking a horrific vengeance against Baghdad's Sunni Arabs in 2006 -- a bloodbath that was constantly on Arab satellite television....With Hamas, Iran has the opportunity to make amends. The mullahs have a chance of supplanting Saudi Arabia, the font of the most vicious anti-Shiite Sunni creed, as the most reliable backer of Palestinian fundamentalists. Even more than the Lebanese Hezbollah, which remains tied to and constrained by the complex matrix of Lebanese politics, Hamas seems willing to absorb enormous losses to continue its jihad against Israel. Where Saudi Arabia has been uneasy about the internecine strife among Palestinians -- it has bankrolled both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas -- Iran has put its money on the former.
| 441 |
looking closely Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:49:58pm |
re: #406 Charles
Roger at Pajamas called CNN for a statement. They stonewalled him, but in a way that made it very clear they know there's a problem.
Sure, as you know by now with these things, standard corporate mentality is never to admit there has been a mistake until/unless absolutely necessary. If you think about it, credibility is basically CNN's only "asset".
Of course, that's always exactly the wrong response. If they had simply said "we've been had, we'll be more careful next time" yesterday, this would blow over much faster.
If they REALLY wanted to, they could blow the lid off this thing with an "inside" story exposing Hamas' propaganda and malfeasance here. . .but we know they'd never do that.
| 442 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:50:14pm |
re: #434 Hard Right
She still looks like a skeleton with skin pulled over it.
No wonder the Dems want to delay the DTV transition!
| 443 |
BigMoo Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:50:23pm |
re: #435 opnion
McCain...the 'Bob Dole' of the new century. Heroes, to be sure, but inarticulate and not photogenic in a society where image is EVERYTHING.
| 444 |
Dainn Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:50:30pm |
re: #428 taxfreekiller
Sounds like conspiracy theory to me. Bush will let them rot. Obama won't touch it because he wants to further solidify his latino support. Poor guys are going to be there a long time.
| 445 |
jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:50:32pm |
Following the the spirit of the logic of today's youth,
Haiku is easy
Derived from the great
Burma Shave poetry.
| 446 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:50:39pm |
re: #420 Peacekeeper
The problem with this country is people who have no degrees from Yale or Harvard or Columbia thinking they can report news-or even decide what is news.
The problem is only getting worse. Many non-annointed ones are actually questioning their mental superiors.
| 447 |
yochanan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:51:03pm |
off topic
the whole sea kitten thing is beyond ROFLMAO FUNNY
so what do you call it if your eating sea pussy?
| 448 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:51:37pm |
re: #439 beblebrox
Big Blagojevich is ripping us off!
Sell a Senate seat
And we didn't get a cut
Rod's ripping us off
| 449 |
Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:51:50pm |
re: #447 yochanan
off topic
the whole sea kitten thing is beyond ROFLMAO FUNNY
so what do you call it if your eating sea pussy?
Chicken of the Sea?
| 450 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:52:12pm |
re: #442 Ward Cleaver
No wonder the Dems want to delay the DTV transition!
I think they should. After all they have only been playing those commercials for a year and a half. I think another ten years or so should be good. ///
| 451 |
Kenneth Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:52:13pm |
Through Hamas, Tehran can possibly reach the ultimate prize, the Egyptian faithful. For reasons both ancient and modern, Egypt has perhaps the most Shiite-sympathetic religious identity in the Sunni Arab world. As long as Hamas remains the center of the Palestinian imagination -- and unless Hamas loses its military grip on Gaza, it will continue to command the attention of both the Arab and Western media -- Egypt's politics remain fluid and potentially volatile. Tehran is certainly under no illusions about the strength of Egypt's military dictatorship, but the uncertainties in Egypt are greater now than they have been since the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.
| 452 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:52:14pm |
re: #384 CyanSnowHawk
Seen the results of a few of those hits. The other troops in my squadron were armor.
I had one free fall on my head while wearing the old steel pot as I hadn't put my other helmet on yet. It dented the sucker, but the worst I got out of it was a headache and it felt like I had a spinal compression on the neck, it turned out ok. Hate to think if I had been in soft hat.
| 453 |
CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:52:29pm |
Ever since I first saw Blago on TV, I have been trying to remember what he reminded me of. Suddenly I remembered.
There is a dry cleaner in San Diego's Pacific Beach area that had the sign seen here. I don't know if they are still there or not, it's been a few years since I've been down in that area.
| 455 |
Lincolntf Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:52:48pm |
re: #423 Dainn
If the story gets picked up by the national media the result will be almost worse than the original sham footage. I mean, nobody at CNN will EVER acknowledge that they played the footage in order to support Hamas. They'll (at most) claim that there "was a breakdown in the broadcast process" and that the "unverifiable" footage should have been vetted better. Then they'll slap themselves on the back for getting to the bottom of it.
| 456 |
albusteve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:53:16pm |
| 457 |
LGoPs Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:53:35pm |
re: #443 BigMoo
McCain...the 'Bob Dole' of the new century. Heroes, to be sure, but inarticulate and not photogenic in a society where image is EVERYTHING.
You're right about that. I am convinced that if Hitler were cloned, as long as he was good looking and supported abortion - he'd be a shoo-in as the next president. We have become such sheep........and the f**king media are the shepherds......Batsards.
| 458 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:53:47pm |
Rahm Emanuel
A chin like an iron fist
Rod, cop a plea quick
| 459 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:53:52pm |
re: #428 taxfreekiller
there are rumors that Obama has a pardon ready for Ramos and Compean and a big speech on how Bush and the R's do not care about hard working law enforcement Mexican Americans,
He is just that evil.
thing is the R's and Bush are just stupid enough not to pardon Ramos and Compean.
two party evil dumb ass money cult
These guys should have been pardoned immediately.
If Bush doesn't do it on the way out & Obama does, Bush will look real bad & come by it honestly.
| 460 |
Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:02pm |
re: #434 Hard Right
She still looks like a skeleton with skin pulled over it.
Seriously it was like the Amityville horror and the nazi face melting guy from raiders in one.
| 461 |
DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:05pm |
Democrats in charge
consolodating power
while scandals are rife
Rebublicans shrink
from partisan politics
and seal their own fate
Libertarian rise
to power could start now
but they are too stoned
| 462 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:05pm |
re: #393 LGoPs
Helmet won't keep you from eatin' the .50 cal on a 113's TC hatch...........ouch
heh, the whole short time I was on a 113, we seemed to have been short an M2 so the Troop Cdr had a 60 mount installed and that is what I used.
| 465 |
Last Mohican Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:29pm |
re: #455 Lincolntf
If the story gets picked up by the national media the result will be almost worse than the original sham footage. I mean, nobody at CNN will EVER acknowledge that they played the footage in order to support Hamas. They'll (at most) claim that there "was a breakdown in the broadcast process" and that the "unverifiable" footage should have been vetted better. Then they'll slap themselves on the back for getting to the bottom of it.
Yeah, that's how they could have played it. If they had yanked the text story along with the video. But for at least a day now, they've been reporting a story that they know to be false.
| 466 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:34pm |
re: #450 Ford_Prefect
I think they should. After all they have only been playing those commercials for a year and a half. I think another ten years or so should be good. ///
If the sheeple don't have their converter boxes, how are they gonna get their daily Dem propaganda fill from Katie, Brian, and Charlie?
| 467 |
Kenneth Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:40pm |
It is entirely possible that Tehran could overplay its hand among the Palestinians as it overplayed its hand among Iraqi Shiites, turning sympathetic Muslims into deeply suspicious, nationalistic patriots. The Israeli army could deconstruct Hamas's leadership sufficiently that Gaza will remain a fundamentalist mess that inspires more pity than the white-hot heat that comes when jihadists beat infidels in battle. But with a nuclear-armed Iran just around the corner, the mullahs will do their best to inspire.
Ultimately, it's doubtful that Tehran will find President-elect Barack Obama's offer of more diplomacy, or the threat of more European sanctions, to be compelling. The price of oil may be low, but the mullahs have seen worse economic times. In 30 years, they have not seen a better constellation of forces. And as the Shiite prayer goes, perhaps this time round the Sunnis, too, inshallah (God willing), will see the light.
| 468 |
Peacekeeper Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:54:45pm |
re: #446 DeafDog
The problem is only getting worse. Many non-annointed ones are actually questioning their mental superiors.
Shameful.
| 469 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:55:09pm |
re: #456 albusteve
honco karma
RonCo Karma? Is that one of those paid advertisements that run on channels with nothing better to show?
| 470 |
FightingBack Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:55:13pm |
re: #457 LGoPs
You're right about that. I am convinced that if Hitler were cloned, as long as he was good looking and supported abortion - he'd be a shoo-in as the next president. We have become such sheep........and the f**king media are the shepherds......Batsards.
It used to be "the taller guy wins;" now, "the hotter guy wins."
| 471 |
LGoPs Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:55:13pm |
re: #462 Outrider
heh, the whole short time I was on a 113, we seemed to have been short an M2 so the Troop Cdr had a 60 mount installed and that is what I used.
Easier to dodge than old Ma Deuce.......
:)
| 472 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:55:16pm |
re: #464 LGoPs
Batsards = Bastards.....PIMF
I dunno. Honcos and Batsards. Sounds kinda Medieval Fwench.
| 473 |
wrenchwench Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:55:18pm |
re: #358 Rancher
re: #428 taxfreekiller
If Bush's term expires without his acting on the case, then it's possible the Obama administration might consider it. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, was among the more than 100 U.S. lawmakers who signed House Resolution 563 in support of a congressional pardon for the two men; the entire House has not voted on the proposal.
| 474 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:55:55pm |
re: #430 Peacekeeper
I saw Pelosis on the news. Facelift city. The HDTV age will not be kind to her.
Pelosi, Clinton,
Kerry - Botox everywhere.
Buy JNJ stock
| 475 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:07pm |
re: #443 BigMoo
McCain...the 'Bob Dole' of the new century. Heroes, to be sure, but inarticulate and not photogenic in a society where image is EVERYTHING.
John McCain is a true American hero. We talked about that a lot.
As a youing man he pretty much defeated his captors & acted with great honor.
Where did that guy go?
| 476 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:12pm |
re: #420 Peacekeeper
The problem with this country is people who have no degrees from Yale or Harvard or Columbia thinking they can report news-or even decide what is news.
and strangely enough doing a better job of it. ouch.
| 477 |
DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:13pm |
re: #461 DaddyG Not quite right- here
Democrats in charge
consolodating power
while scandals are rife
Rebublicans shrink
from partisan politics
and seal their own fate
Libertarian
rise to power could start now
but they are too stoned
/fixed
| 478 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:28pm |
re: #466 Ward Cleaver
If the sheeple don't have their converter boxes, how are they gonna get their daily Dem propaganda fill from Katie, Brian, and Charlie?
I thought all liberals were empathic and could just feel each other's pain.
| 479 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:36pm |
re: #466 Ward Cleaver
If the sheeple don't have their converter boxes, how are they gonna get their daily Dem propaganda fill from Katie, Brian, and Charlie?
Rush got the technology of TV so WRONG yesterday I had to shut him off.
He was kvetching that the Dems wanted the sheeple to get their boxes so they could watch CNN.
I had to turn it off. It was a real MSM moment (i.e. cluelessness) for him.
| 480 |
LGoPs Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:46pm |
re: #472 OldLineTexan
I dunno. Honcos and Batsards. Sounds kinda Medieval Fwench.
I actually like the sound of batsard.....
:)
| 481 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:56:53pm |
| 482 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:57:18pm |
re: #428 taxfreekiller
there are rumors that Obama has a pardon ready for Ramos and Compean and a big speech on how Bush and the R's do not care about hard working law enforcement Mexican Americans,
He is just that evil.
thing is the R's and Bush are just stupid enough not to pardon Ramos and Compean.
two party evil dumb ass money cult
hopefully President Bush will get it done first.
| 483 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:57:25pm |
re: #435 opnion
McCain was on earlier with Cavuto, talking positively about the Obama stimulus package.
Cavuto just asked Ann Coulter about it. She responded, "I don't think that Republicans should be taking advice from John McCain."
Love her or hate her, you can't argue with that.
This time, I'm with Ann.
Johnny Mac could not speak to the economy and that's why he got sunk. Why in the heck should anyone listen to him now?
| 484 |
albusteve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:57:26pm |
re: #469 Ford_Prefect
RonCo Karma? Is that one of those paid advertisements that run on channels with nothing better to show?
you'll have to ask your doctor about that
| 485 |
father_of_10 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:57:26pm |
Night before last in Gallup, NM there was a pro-Palestinian rally in front of the El Rancho Hotel (John Wayne slept there). From a distance it looked like they were waving CUBAN flags. I HAD to get a closer look, so I circled the bloack and pulled up right in front of them. The yo-yo with one of the flags was a kid I had bought a car from. He ripped me off and still ewes me a hundred clams or so. I leaned that the Palestinian flag is similar to the Cuban flag in design. I also learned something about the Palestinians in Gallup, New Mexico that I had previously suspected.
| 486 |
Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:58:17pm |
| 487 |
DistantThunder Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:58:20pm |
re: #459 opnion
These guys should have been pardoned immediately.
If Bush doesn't do it on the way out & Obama does, Bush will look real bad & come by it honestly.
Obama is supposed to meet with the Mexico's president in the next few days. I don't know how he can best play this....to his own selfish advantage.
| 488 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:58:26pm |
re: #447 yochanan
off topic
the whole sea kitten thing is beyond ROFLMAO FUNNY
so what do you call it if your eating sea pussy?
salty? fishy?
| 489 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:58:41pm |
re: #484 albusteve
you'll have to ask your doctor about that
Crap.
/scribbles it down on list of ninety-five mystery meds on TV with "ask your doctor about..." in them
| 490 |
DaddyG Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:58:51pm |
Creationism
Boobs honco pardon pollard
Lizard Haiku fight
| 491 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:58:52pm |
re: #484 albusteve
you'll have to ask your doctor about that
Why do I have the feeling that is going to hurt?
On that note. Gotta run. Later Lizards!
| 492 |
father_of_10 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:59:02pm |
| 493 |
lifeofthemind Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:59:23pm |
Garbo Speaks! or not
| 494 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 9, 2009 1:59:51pm |
re: #489 OldLineTexan
Crap.
/scribbles it down on list of ninety-five mystery meds on TV with "ask your doctor about..." in them
And they're all made by the fine people of Plaxico Pharmeceuticals.
| 495 |
Outrider Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:00:17pm |
re: #471 LGoPs
Easier to dodge than old Ma Deuce.......
:)
yeah, but somewhat embarrassing on the range. DUM DUM DUM tatatatat DUM DUM. Not hard to find my track. lol
| 496 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:00:28pm |
re: #490 DaddyG
Creationism
Boobs honco pardon pollard
Lizard Haiku fight
Want a Lizard fight?
Do not disturb my karma
You honco batsard!
| 497 |
tradewind Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:00:35pm |
I'm late to this. How are things in the Blagosphere going, anway?
Has he cried ? Is the wife positioned properly?
| 498 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:00:36pm |
re: #483 DeafDog
This time, I'm with Ann.
Johnny Mac could not speak to the economy and that's why he got sunk. Why in the heck should anyone listen to him now?
He is going to make life easier for Obama. For God sake, I bet he almost voted for him!
| 499 |
father_of_10 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:00:51pm |
Here's a plate of batsard:
| 500 |
Mich-again Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:01:28pm |
Here is an interesting Time magazine cover from 20 years ago. A smiling waving George Walker Bush witht the words The Bush Era Begins. They might want to revisit that theme now for a bookend story. I happened to find that issue going through some boxes in the basement last night. Kind of interesting reading the stories from that period. The lead story:
World: Israel's soldiers confront a moral dilemna - To be humane or to crush the intifadeh
Strawman in the headline. geesh.
| 501 |
albusteve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:01:28pm |
re: #489 OldLineTexan
Crap.
/scribbles it down on list of ninety-five mystery meds on TV with "ask your doctor about..." in them
aw hell...just take em all and let God sort em out!
| 503 |
Hard Right Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:02:01pm |
re: #442 Ward Cleaver
No wonder the Dems want to delay the DTV transition!
Maybe as a result it will become clear they are pod people!
| 504 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:02:10pm |
re: #487 DistantThunder
Obama is supposed to meet with the Mexico's president in the next few days. I don't know how he can best play this....to his own selfish advantage.
Bush should short ciruit the thing & do what he should have done from the jump, pardon those guys.
| 505 |
tradewind Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:02:31pm |
re: #474 DeafDog
Nah, she's way past Botox and deep into the Juvederm.
Figured she did need her eyebrows movable, after all.
| 506 |
father_of_10 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:03:06pm |
re: #502 ploome hineni
they are your neighbors
you bought something from one of them :(
I didn't know it at the time. I was clueless. I am now clued.
| 507 |
jamgarr Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:03:12pm |
| 508 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:03:17pm |
re: #475 opnion
John McCain is a true American hero. We talked about that a lot.
As a youing man he pretty much defeated his captors & acted with great honor.
Where did that guy go?
In my opinion, that guy is still there.
That hero understand international policy and America's position in world, but that hero does not have a clue on economics. (neither does Obama, but Obama can fake it better)
| 509 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:03:52pm |
re: #508 DeafDog
In my opinion, that guy is still there.
That hero understand international policy and America's position in world, but that hero does not have a clue on economics. (neither does Obama, but Obama can fake it better)
Not as well as Michelle.
| 510 |
albusteve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:05:14pm |
re: #506 father_of_10
I didn't know it at the time. I was clueless. I am now clued.
I've never seen a burkha in ABQ...
| 511 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:05:38pm |
Can you get a Pali flag with a little portrait of Arafish on it? The Oval Office will be unbalanced with the Che/Cuban flag tribute on one side and nothing on the other.
| 512 |
opnion Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:05:45pm |
re: #508 DeafDog
In my opinion, that guy is still there.
That hero understand international policy and America's position in world, but that hero does not have a clue on economics. (neither does Obama, but Obama can fake it better)
Nah, he stabs his friends , too much.IMO
| 513 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:06:12pm |
re: #510 albusteve
I've never seen a burkha in ABQ...
Saw my first full-up black bag in Houston last month. No eyescreen yet, though.
| 514 |
lifeofthemind Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:06:15pm |
re: #508 DeafDog
In my opinion, that guy is still there.
That hero understand international policy and America's position in world, but that hero does not have a clue on economics. (neither does Obama, but Obama can fake it better)
Pity that he went straight to Washington from the Navy, if he had spent two years working for his Father in Law he would have learned about business realities.
| 515 |
albusteve Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:07:14pm |
re: #513 OldLineTexan
Saw my first full-up black bag in Houston last month. No eyescreen yet, though.
Texas?....they should call their travel agent soon I'd think
| 516 |
Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:07:24pm |
Chicken Jihad: Indonesian Muslims, enraged over Gaza, storm KFC
RoP strikes again...
| 517 |
OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:08:22pm |
re: #515 albusteve
Texas?....they should call their travel agent soon I'd think
Yeah, that's gonna smell worse than a camel come May, NTTAWWT.
| 518 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:08:26pm |
re: #498 opnion
He is going to make life easier for Obama. For God sake, I bet he almost voted for him!
We'll see how it plays out. It'll be a target rich environment, but the republicans need to pick their fights carefully at first.
Now that McCain's not running for president, he will again become the darling republican of the media. Someone - besides McConnel, too, btw - needs to step up as the voice. There ain't one right now.
| 519 |
Summer Seale Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:09:31pm |
Outrage!
I'm outraged at all of you! This display of cannibalism - throwing the man to the wolves!
He's innocent! Yes, innocent! He hasn't be proven guilty yet! Shame on you all! Shame!
Why, it reminds me of the time when we were fighting for the working class of Illinois because the House wouldn't pass the bills we wanted them to pass. I had a bad hair day and I was livid. But I was fighting, fighting for the working class people - good people...people like you see around the Governor today! And on that day, there was this woman who wore a pink sweater, and she approached me, because she had a liver problem, or a heart problem - a liver, heart problem - or something, and we caught it in time because I went before the House and spoke down upon them and defied the FDA and ABC and CNN, and I told them no longer would pink sweaters no longer be eligible for heart-liver problems which were not caught in time! I did this! I! I, the Chamberlain! I did this! Me! I!
That's why Blago is being impeached, sccchhhhhhh,....yessssss.....Blagojevichessssesss is innocent....yessss....sccchhhh......and we foughtsses against them, again and again, yessss...for all those....gollum....lonely years! Yes! We dids it ourselvvvsssessss......and...
...oh god, what happened? Oh I'm so terribly sorry.....what was I saying? =)
| 520 |
Dustyvet Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:10:09pm |
Baltimore Mayor Shelia Dixon (D) Indicted
Another news conference?
| 521 |
oh_dude Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:10:54pm |
Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich..
Thanx. I didn't know which party he was with.
| 522 |
DeafDog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:11:06pm |
re: #514 lifeofthemind
Pity that he went straight to Washington from the Navy, if he had spent two years working for his Father in Law he would have learned about business realities.
I never heard that opinion before. You have a very good point.
Until the financial crisis meltdown that McCain fumbled, I thought he had a shot.
Oh well. That fight is over. Time to move on.
| 523 |
formercorpsman Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:13:45pm |
Late of course, and no I have not seen the video.
Would I be too far (Hillary southern accent there) out on a limb to think this guy might be embellishing this act in an effort to have some kind of card to play in the future.
Perhaps he would like the next administration at some type of arm's length, possibly concerned he might spill some beans?
It is just a thought came across my mind.
| 524 |
stuiec Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:14:04pm |
re: #475 opnion
John McCain is a true American hero. We talked about that a lot.
As a youing man he pretty much defeated his captors & acted with great honor.
Where did that guy go?
The North Vietnamese used physical torture against McCain, and he readily understood that it was his duty to resist.
But no one ever taught him of the necessity to resist the navy bean soup in the Senate Dining Room. Prolonged years of exposure to it makes the people around you seem like reasonable chaps.
| 525 |
Rancher Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:17:59pm |
re: #485 father_of_10
There are Arabs from Judea and Samaria in Gallup?
I also learned something about the Palestinians in Gallup, New Mexico that I had previously suspected.
And that is?
| 526 |
shwaiutah Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:18:51pm |
Did anyone notice Baltimore's mayor has been indicted on theft and bribery charges? Her party (shocker-Dem) wasn't found until para 7
| 527 |
Wishing Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:20:20pm |
re: #453 CyanSnowHawk
Ever since I first saw Blago on TV, I have been trying to remember what he reminded me of. Suddenly I remembered.
There is a dry cleaner in San Diego's Pacific Beach area that had the sign seen here. I don't know if they are still there or not, it's been a few years since I've been down in that area.
That is a great shot! If Blago only knew!
He would probably sue the dry cleaner for Trademark infringement.
| 529 |
jwb7605 Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:42:58pm |
re: #528 Iron Fist
The average American has an average IQ.
[SNIP]
upding.
I was laughing too hard to read the rest.
| 530 |
Silvergirl Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:50:39pm |
Did you hear him talking about The Golden Rule he learned in Sunday School? That's the part I caught while listening to the car radio today. He may be impeached, but Sunday School teachers all over the nation can hold him up as a poster boy. Their students have something to aspire to once they too begin practicing The Golden Rule like Blago. He learned half of it anyway. Do unto others.
I scanned through the comments and didn't see this mentioned, so forgive the rehash if that's what it is.
| 531 |
Silvergirl Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:52:47pm |
re: #527 Wishing
That is a great shot! If Blago only knew!
He would probably sue the dry cleaner for Trademark infringement.
It's him! And he was trying to take us to the cleaners! Good find.
| 533 |
Silvergirl Fri, Jan 9, 2009 2:54:37pm |
re: #453 CyanSnowHawk
Ever since I first saw Blago on TV, I have been trying to remember what he reminded me of. Suddenly I remembered.
There is a dry cleaner in San Diego's Pacific Beach area that had the sign seen here. I don't know if they are still there or not, it's been a few years since I've been down in that area.
I thought Wishing had posted this. I see you were the rightful owner, so I just updinged. Good one.
| 534 |
TheAntichrist Fri, Jan 9, 2009 3:32:32pm |
I don't know if anyone posted this yet, but here's the press conference:
| 535 |
Pigtown Water Dog Fri, Jan 9, 2009 3:33:19pm |
re: #520 Dustyvet
Yup. Sheila "The Shoe" Dixon is in a heap o'trouble.
Her lawyer (A. Weiner--his name, not character description) was on, banging the podium and talking about eeevilll Republican prosecutors. Stressed the "R-word" 2x in 2 sentences.
Ppl who know things about stuff like this are wondering if these transgressions will go as far as our gov, the teflon leprechaun, Martin O'Malley.
| 536 |
Hobbes Fri, Jan 9, 2009 5:08:31pm |
re: #111 Dianna
OT: My friend has been sprung from the hospital!
I'm taking her home with me this afternoon.
Yay!
Yay, back at you. Glad to hear she's well enough to leave the hospital.
I'm sure she'll have excellent care with you. And I hope the idiot relative doesn't give you both a hard time. Happy for you both.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
3 weeks ago
Views: 517 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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