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I was in London recently and I couldn't believe all these hate-talking fanatics you have over here who are allowed to carry on doing their thing even when a bus full of women and children gets blown to pieces.
"I know you've deported one or two of them, but it seems crazy. I think there is worse to come, something terrible will happen to either America or the U.K., or France even. I don't think these fundamentalists should be allowed to talk all this crap, and brainwashing these young kids
Every time a Palestinian hides in a mosque or hospital, remind yourself that "George Bush is the only evil in the world. He is the only one guilty of war crimes".
The incoming Obama administration should launch a criminal investigation of Bush administration officials to see whether they broke the law in the name of national security, a House Democratic report said Tuesday. President-elect Barack Obama has been more cautious on the issue and has not endorsed such a recommendation.
Along with the criminal probe, the report called for a Sept. 11-style commission with subpoena power, to gather facts and make recommendations on preventing misuse of power, according to the report by the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee.
Speaking of cameras. Does anyone know much about a Nikon F camera? Cleaning out stuff of my husbands and found a box with camera and assosrted lens. Help!
I still think it was trying to say honky. It thinks we are all racists, and all white, and therefore wanted to show us what it felt like by calling us a racial slur for whites. It googled, and that is what it found.
I just saw somebody on American Idol say they are a blue Collar worker stuck in a cube in an office..
OK I'm sure there must be millions of blue collar workers stuck in office cubicles..I just never met one.
I still think it was trying to say honky. It thinks we are all racists, and all white, and therefore wanted to show us what it felt like by calling us a racial slur for whites. It googled, and that is what it found.
God said to Moses. Ok, I want you to build and ark so many cubits long and so many cubits wide and then go collect all the animals of the earth in pairs, two by two, and bring them to the ark and put them on the ark and then you and you family enter the ark, shut the door and it will rain for 40 days, and the ark will float apon the waters and you will be saved. On the 40th day, you will release a dove and it will show you where the dry land is.
Moses: Sure Lord I go collect all the animals of the earth in pairs, two by two, and bring them to the ark and put them on the ark and then you and you family enter the ark, shut the door and it will rain for 40 days, and the ark will float apon the waters and you will be saved. On the 40th day, you will release a dove and it will show you where the dry land is. Neat, got ya... no problem, you will is done, I'll get right on it.
God said to Moses. Ok, I want you to build and ark so many cubits long and so many cubits wide and then go collect all the animals of the earth in pairs, two by two, and bring them to the ark and put them on the ark and then you and you family enter the ark, shut the door and it will rain for 40 days, and the ark will float apon the waters and you will be saved. On the 40th day, you will release a dove and it will show you where the dry land is.
Moses: Sure Lord I go collect all the animals of the earth in pairs, two by two, and bring them to the ark and put them on the ark and then you and you family enter the ark, shut the door and it will rain for 40 days, and the ark will float apon the waters and you will be saved. On the 40th day, you will release a dove and it will show you where the dry land is. Neat, got ya... no problem, you will is done, I'll get right on it.
Er, what's a cubit.
I did that in HS Drama, still know every line, it still cracks me up.
Hon-co [hon-koh] noun, plural -cos
–noun . 1. a member of an elite fighting force known as the Lizard Army. Known esp. for their keen insight and wit, along with an almost superhuman ability to spot idiots, terrorist sympathizers, fake video, photos, documents and sock puppets with remarkable accuracy.
2. Head Honco - the leader and facilitator of the Honcos.
God said to Moses. Ok, I want you to build and ark so many cubits long and so many cubits wide and then go collect all the animals of the earth in pairs, two by two, and bring them to the ark and put them on the ark and then you and you family enter the ark, shut the door and it will rain for 40 days, and the ark will float apon the waters and you will be saved. On the 40th day, you will release a dove and it will show you where the dry land is.
Moses: Sure Lord I go collect all the animals of the earth in pairs, two by two, and bring them to the ark and put them on the ark and then you and you family enter the ark, shut the door and it will rain for 40 days, and the ark will float apon the waters and you will be saved. On the 40th day, you will release a dove and it will show you where the dry land is. Neat, got ya... no problem, you will is done, I'll get right on it.
Matt 26:74 Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, "I don't know the man!"
Immediately a rooster crowed. 75 Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.
I thought someone said this camera was on top of a hospital. Roosters on the roof of a hospital?
Cameras (plural) and mike are not in the same location. How close together is anybody's guess.
The "rooster" microphone is near a roadway, and near a door. I've heard a sound exactly like that made by a screen door -- a few days ago, multiple times, in conjuction with men's voices.
I'm looking for Hattori Honco.
Q: Why?
A: I need Japanese steel.
Q: Why do you need Japanese steel?
A: I have vermin to kill.
Q: You must have big rats if you need Hattori Honco's steel.
A: Huge.
/apologies to Bill...
Today, I received the most moving email from the president of the Shalem institute:
We Jews Love Life: A Tribute to Dvir Emanuelof
January 12, 2009
Israel is a small country, but when it goes to war, the front is extraordinarily broad. On Sunday of last week, it reached “Gan Dalia,” the kindergarten my five-year-old son David attends in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. That morning, officers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) came looking for veteran head teacher Dalia Emanuelof. She was off that day, so they continued searching elsewhere, ultimately waiting outside her home in the nearby suburb of Givat Ze’ev until she returned that afternoon.
The news the officers brought was unbearable: Her 22-year-old son, Dvir, had been killed in Jabalya, making him the first Israeli casualty of the ground campaign in Gaza. Fighting there as a staff sergeant in his infantry unit, the elite Golani brigade, he was felled by Hamas mortar fire. Though Israel has a conscript army, Dvir did not have to be in Gaza, as he had received high marks as instructor of a squad leader course, was asked to go to officer school, and would still have been in training had he accepted; he deferred, however, saying he would not be fit to command until he had first fought alongside his comrades. In fact, Dvir did not have to be in any front-line position: His father Netanel had died of cancer at age 46, shortly before Dvir’s service began; as an only son in a single-parent family, Dvir was exempt under IDF rules from combat duty. Before accepting him to Golani, his commanding officer visited Dalia and asked if she acquiesced in her son’s opting for a dangerous path he was not obligated to choose. Her answer: “If this is how Dvir wants to serve his country, then this is what he will do.” Two days before entering Gaza, Dvir had called home and said: “Mom, I have to fight. I have to be there.” He went, and he fought—and was buried on Sunday night in the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem.
A few days later, I was thinking about Dvir as I prepared to speak at an Israel solidarity rally at the Ramaz high school in Manhattan. I opened by talking about Dvir’s words to his mother, and then explained why he had to fight—that is, why Israel had no choice but to wage war to stop Hamas from firing missiles at homes and schools in Sderot and other cities in the country’s south. After describing Israel’s war aims, I addressed the issue on the minds of these morally sensitive young people: How we could be sure that, in the pursuit of moral ends, Israel was using moral means? I stressed the lengths to which the IDF goes to protect Palestinian civilians, and contrasted it with Hamas’s systematic strategy of using non-combatants—women, children, even hospital patients—as “human shields,” to prevent the Israeli army from attacking its fighters or to saddle the Jewish state with the blame for the civilians who are killed.
A term that refers to an unattractive female that will usually have a large and unsightly nose. This can also be used to describe ugly or irrating person that may annoy you
' Look at her lad, she is such a honko!'
'You pulled such a honko last night!'
'Alright honko!'
Nice...if it was any one of us, the IRS would be crawling up our nether regions wanting the money, plus interest and penalties...and this clown is going to manage the treasury?
Afterwards, I fielded questions from seniors in one of Ramaz’s honors classes, of which the most difficult was posed by an earnest young woman named Julie. She accepted that Israel was right to launch an offensive and was fighting in accordance with the dictates of morality, but was deeply concerned about the outcome: If Hamas was eager for Palestinian non-combatants to be killed, while the IDF did its best to prevent such casualties, how could Israel hope to win? Either the Israeli army would be deterred from landing the blows needed to defeat Hamas, or Israel would end up killing large numbers of civilians and be forced by international pressure to accept a cease-fire prematurely—which would be perceived as a Hamas victory, on the model of Hizbollah’s “triumph by surviving” in the Second Lebanon War. She offered a chillingly apt understanding of the statement made in 2004 by Hizbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and later echoed by many Hamas leaders: “We have discovered how to hit the Jews where they are the most vulnerable….We are going to win, because they love life and we love death.” Nasrallah had meant that the Jews loved their own lives while Muslim radicals embraced death in the pursuit of jihad, but in Gaza, it turned out that Jews also cared more for the lives of Arab civilians than did the leaders of Hamas. I answered, haltingly, on the level of tactics, pointing out that the IDF’s detailed intelligence and precise execution enabled it to limit the bulk of Palestinian casualties to Hamas fighters, and that international condemnation of Israel has been kept in check by widespread revulsion at the use of human shields.
The question was still on my mind when I landed at Ben-Gurion Airport the next morning and headed to a shiva visit at the Emanuelofs. The first floor was overflowing with well-wishers, some sitting and most standing, centered around Dalia, her three daughters, and the general in charge of Israel’s ground forces, Avi Mizrahi, who in an extraordinary gesture of respect was making a condolence visit in the midst of war. Due to his rare combination of gentleness and determination, he became, with Dalia, the center of attention, and the two engaged in a dialogue interspersed with occasional comments from Dalia’s eldest daughter, Hadas, who got married less than a year ago and was visibly pregnant with the family’s first grandchild
From this dialogue, an extraordinary portrait emerged of Dvir—a modest, idealistic young man who was a leader in the Bnei Akiva youth movement, delighted in taking his friends on hikes throughout Israel, and could never be found without his trademark smile, which radiated out from his sparkling eyes and lit up everyone around him—a point amply attested to in the photos displayed in the Emanuelofs’ home. He loved life, with a passion, but was willing to risk his own because he felt a sense of mission to protect Israelis living in the country’s south. Dalia, too, was heroic in her own, quiet way. On her face and in her voice one could discern profound sadness, but also pride in her son and the army in which he served, and resolve that Israel must continue to fight until victory. One could also detect a spirit of hope, bordering on faith, that her people would triumph—and that, as Jews traditionally say, Netzach Yisrael lo yishaker, the Eternal One of Israel will not fail us.
Equally extraordinary was the picture Dalia painted of the support her family had received. She spoke of two teenage girls who came to her home, and when asked how they had known Dvir, answered that they had never met him but identified with the family’s tragedy and wanted to give whatever comfort they could; of a middle-aged man who said only, ‘I’m a citizen of Israel, and I came to be with you, as a representative of all of Israel’s citizens;’ of an elderly gentleman who walked in leaning on a cane, and declared: “I heard that a Golanchik (young Golani soldier) in your family was killed; I fought in Golani in the War of Independence in 1948, and have come to offer my condolences.” She described a phone call from a woman she didn’t know, who had just had a grandson and wanted permission to name him Dvir. Dalia assented, but urged that he be given a second name, as Jewish tradition says that in calling someone after a person who has suffered an unfortunate fate, one should make this change to symbolize the hope for better fortune. The grandmother answered that the boy’s name would be Dvir Chai—“Dvir lives.” And Dalia concluded the story: “A few days after my son had been killed, I could already say again, ‘Dvir lives.’”
At one point, Dalia turned to General Mizrahi and asked why Israel could not fight in Gaza the way coalition forces have in Iraq and Afghanistan—bombing aggressively against enemy fighters in populated areas. There was no bitterness in her voice at the IDF for having endangered her son’s life by its regard for Palestinian civilians, nor any desire for revenge—only the concerned tones of an Israeli mother anxious to protect the sons of other Israeli mothers. The general answered thoughtfully, but without hesitation, that the IDF had gone to greater lengths to protect its soldiers in Gaza than in previous conflicts, citing the week-long air campaign that preceded the ground invasion. He added, however, that the IDF’s strength is integrally tied to maintaining its humanity and morality. Soldiers are united in part because they know that regardless of religious or political differences, they share a common moral code. Alluding to the widely-held view that Hamas’s military leadership is hiding under Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, he said that he wouldn’t give an order to bomb the hospital from the air, because there are certain things one simply doesn’t do. This is an obligation, he stressed, that the IDF has as a Jewish army. From the reactions in the room, it was clear that while everyone identified with Dalia’s question, they accepted the answer—and were impressed that the officer used this opportunity to reinforce the Jewish values binding all of us together.
As I left to return home before the start of the Sabbath, I understood the answer to the question I had been asked by a young woman 6,000 miles away. Yes, on the tactical level it can be a handicap to love life when your opponent loves death. But in the end, it is that love of life that will enable us to prevail. We will defeat those who love death, because we love life so much that we Israelis—from teenage girls to senior officers in wartime—know how to give comfort to those who have lost a loved one, and to say, “We are with you.” Our love of life enables us to confront tragedy, and emerge with the pride and resolve, the hope and the faith, that Dalia showed.
We love life so much that we educate our children to love life, though surrounded by enemies who hope, pray, and work for our deaths. It is this love of life that enabled the Jews to return to our homeland and rebuild a state after 2,000 years, and it is the sense of mission stemming from this love that will sustain the Zionist dream long into the future. We love life so much that we refuse to have our sense of morality dulled by enemies who seek to force us to kill women and children in order to defend our families. Though our principles limit the IDF’s effectiveness, they provide us with intangibles that more than compensate—the confidence and the strength to pursue our aims secure in the knowledge we are acting justly, and the unity that comes from a society acting in accordance with its most cherished values. And yes, let no one err, we will win because we love life so much we are willing to brave death, if necessary, to ensure that our people can lead free lives in the country we have established against all odds. In the end, it is this love of life that will enable us to prevail—not only in the war in Gaza, but in all the challenges we face in the years and generations to come.
There are different cubits...there is the standard and the royal cubit, which was probably 22-24 inches long. I think there was another variation on the theme for Temple purposes.
There are different cubits...there is the standard and the royal cubit, which was probably 22-24 inches long. I think there was another variation on the theme for Temple purposes.
True . . . conflicting measurements were known to cause problems in those days.
A wealthy man and his son loved to collect rare works of art. They had everything in their collection, from Picasso to Raphael. They would often sit together and admire the great works of art.
When the Vietnam conflict broke out, the son went to war. He was very courageous and died in battle while rescuing another soldier. The father was notified and grieved deeply for his only son.
About a month later, just before Christmas, there was a knock at the door. A young man stood at the door with a large package in his hands.
He said, 'Sir, you don't know me, but I am the soldier for whom your son gave his life. He saved many lives that day, and he was carrying me to safety when a bullet struck him in the heart and he died instantly. He often talked about you, and your love for art.' The young man held out this package. 'I know this isn't much. I'm not really a great artist, but I think your son would have wanted you to have this.'
The father opened the package. It was a portrait of his son, painted by the young man. He stared in awe at the way the soldier had captured the personality of his son in the painting. The father was so drawn to the eyes that his own eyes welled up with tears. He thanked the young man and offered to pay him for the picture. 'Oh, no sir, I could never repay what your son did for me. It's a gift.'
The father hung the portrait over his mantle. Every time visitors came to his home he took them to see the portrait of his son before he showed them any of the other great works he had collected.
The man died a few months later. There was to be a great auction of his paintings. Many influential people gathered, excited over seeing the great paintings and having an opportunity to purchase one for their collection.
On the platform sat the painting of the son. The auctioneer pounded his gavel. 'We will start the bidding with this picture of the son. Who will bid for this picture?'
There was silence.
Then a voice in the back of the room shouted, 'We want to see the famous paintings. Skip this one.'
But the auctioneer persisted. 'Will somebody bid for this painting. Who will start the bidding? $100, $200?'
Another voice angrily. 'We didn't come to see this painting. We came to see the Van Gogh's, the Rembrandt's. Get on with the real bids!'
But still the auctioneer continued. 'The son! The son! Who'll take the son?'
Finally, a voice came from the very back of the room. It was the longtime gardener of the man and his son. 'I'll give $10 for the painting.' Being a poor man, it was all he could afford.
'We have $10, who will bid $20?'
'Give it to him for $10. Let's see the masters.'
'$10 is the bid, won't someone bid $20?'
The crowd was becoming angry. They didn't want the picture of the son. They wanted the more worthy investments for their collections.
The auctioneer pounded the gavel. 'Going once, twice, SOLD for $10!'
A man sitting on the second row shouted, 'Now let's get on with the collection!'
The auctioneer laid down his gavel. 'I'm sorry, the auction is
over.'
'What about the paintings?'
'I am sorry. When I was called to conduct this auction, I was told of a secret stipulation in the will. I was not allowed to reveal that stipulation until this time. Only the painting of the son would be auctioned. Whoever bought that painting would inherit the entire estate, including the paintings.
The man who took the son gets everything!'
God gave His son 2,000 years ago to die on the cross. Much like the auctioneer, His message today is: 'The son, the son, who'll take the son?'
grid gonna get you,
every one has a foot in some grid
every gun has its grid to get,
if you are, grid is gonna get you
It's that magical twilight time of the day, when the therapeutic levels of the last days medications start to wear off just as the current dose starts to kick in.
In February 2008, Kerry blamed a series of thunderstorms that killed at 50 people throughout the Southeastern United States on global warming and warned there would be more to come if global warming weren’t addressed.
For Pete's sake. Storms didn't kill people in the 1800s? 1400s? 300s? Nope. Just now. Because of (cue ominous music) Global Warming. Beware! Beware! Certain Death by Thunderstorm if you don't buy enough carbon credits!
Walter, you've got Moses in there. If he built an ark, there is no record of it.
Actually Moses did build an ark, just not the first one. Noah's ark was the one that sailed for a few months. Moses' ark was the one that held the tablets and some manna, and a flowering branch IIRC, and was first placed in the tabernacle and then in the Temple in the Holy of Holies.
/ and that is about the extent of my knowledge of such stuff. ;)
Yeah, because that Galveston storm that killed thousands back in 1900-was definitely caused by global warming. All those houses heated by wood and coal, and all those horses pooping everywhere.
Ok, so this is my first nite watching the gazacam. I've heard some big booms thus far, but no visuals as yet. have their been any visible blasts on previous nights?
Actually Moses did build an ark, just not the first one. Noah's ark was the one that sailed for a few months. Moses' ark was the one that held the tablets and some manna, and a flowering branch IIRC, and was first placed in the tabernacle and then in the Temple in the Holy of Holies.
/ and that is about the extent of my knowledge of such stuff. ;)
Last night, I posted an observation that, according to Jonah Goldberg, both Mussolini and FDR essentially said, "Vote for me now, and I'll come up with a plan later." I thought that sounded a lot like Obama.
We were a bit startled by the Puffington Host email that hit our box late yesterday afternoon, bearing the headline "Obama Preparing Order to Close Guantanamo in First Week." The link went to an Associated Press story, of which we'll quote a longer version:
President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office--and perhaps his first day--to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.
But the PuffHo headline--which has since been changed on the Web site, turned out to be a gross exaggeration, and the lead overstates the case too, as the second paragraph makes clear:
It's unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be "a challenge" to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there.
Wow, on his very first day in office Obama is going to issue a directive starting the process of deciding what to do. That's the kind of bold leadership America has been hankering for, lo these eight awful years!
Pat Buchanan now getting the big thumbs-up from Sean Hannity.
MMM...always kindof of liked Sean..Always could never stand Pat..
So do this guys work for the same guy? who signs the checks here? Cause i don't get it
Ok, so this is my first nite watching the gazacam. I've heard some big booms thus far, but no visuals as yet. have their been any visible blasts on previous nights?
First it's Roostercam. There have been visual explosions other nights and tonight. Sit back and enjoy.
Actually, there is a McDonalds, down the Champs d'Elysee, going east, just a few blocks on the left. It's sort of tacky seeing it among all the other upscale stores there.
But then again, the McDonalds is probably the only place on the Champs d'Elysee that I could afford to spend any money.
actually, it was the flatulence. It is still somewhat of a mystery as to exactly whose flatulence, but it is an irrefutable fact that flatulence was the cause. No need to debate.
True . . . conflicting measurements were known to cause problems in those days.
I was thinking of posting how there were no set standards of a cubit, its similar to a horse being so many hands high, your video did it better than I would have said it, so take an upding!
Actually, there is a McDonalds, down the Champs d'Elysee, going east, just a few blocks on the left. It's sort of tacky seeing it among all the other upscale stores there.
But then again, the McDonalds is probably the only place on the Champs d'Elysee that I could afford to spend any money.
Planet Hollywood is just down the street on the left.
Wow, on his very first day in office Obama is going to issue a directive starting the process of deciding what to do. That's the kind of bold leadership America has been hankering for, lo these eight awful years!
Definitely go read the whole thing. :)
He promised he'd shut it down, but admitted it might take a few months to relocate the remaining detaines. I heard him say 100 days might be optimistic, so I'm guessing 6 months to a year announcement.
It is possible that Buchanan's Fox contract stipulates so many hours that he has to work. Perhaps Hannity got stuck with having to contribute his time to him.
Cubit is a measurement from a different time -- before standardization. It is (the common version) the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger. That will be different for different people, of course. It was good enough for the time -- they weren't mass producing anything, so precision wasn't an issue.
He promised he'd shut it down, but admitted it might take a few months to relocate the remaining detaines. I heard him say 100 days might be optimistic, so I'm guessing 6 months to a year announcement.
Hey, moonbat heads are exploding all over the place about Obama breaking his promises, and he isn't even in office yet.
You think it's tough in Gaza... imagine being here in D.C. this weekend!
Went grocery shopping this evening. We're pretty well-provisioned. Not planning on having to move anywhere on Monday-Tuesday that doesn't involve a bicycle or feet.
Planet Hollywood is just down the street on the left.
I never noticed. I have never even stuck my head into one establishments on the Champs d'Elysee when I have been there. I really don't even like the area, really tourist loaded, and shitty-assed uppity types.
I've only been on there because the person(s) I was with wanted to see the street, that kind of thing.
Charles: some user named "tshup" downdinged a very good article in the links (posted by pat from DBKP), with no reason given. Is there a way you could force folks to leave a reason, for downdings in the links?
Democrats light the fuse. 'Cause that, would just about do it. The explosion will be devastating.
That would be a massive mistake, and Obama will avoid it at all costs. The Democrat suggesting it should have his head examined. The last thing the voters want is a bunch of time spent in another witch hunt.
State law does not bar teachers from having sex with 18-year-old students.
That's the decision of a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals, which on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of a case brought against Hoquiam High School's former choir teacher.
A panel of judges has apparently made Washington the first state to rule that juvenile students accused of chronically cutting classes in public schools are entitled to a lawyer in their first court hearing.
The Washington state Court of Appeals ruled Monday that denying a juvenile the right to a lawyer from the outset violated constitutional requirements.
/thank God we elected Obama, he'll stem the tide of the decline of civilization in this country
Charles: some user named "tshup" downdinged a very good article in the links (posted by pat from DBKP), with no reason given. Is there a way you could force folks to leave a reason, for downdings in the links?
It's assholes like that, the ones that do hardly anything except dingings, that make me think the ability to ding should be a privilege given to lizards only after they have a track record of actually saying things in threads.
Just my 2 cents...I AIN'T telling Charles how to run his blog! ;)
I recently took my laptop to a computer geek place that I have used in thepast to do computer stuff. I wanted them to remove my media files, get rid of a virus I picked up, and then put the pics and stuff back on.
They called me a few weeks later saying the virus was gone, the settings were factory but they had "lost" all the media files and tried everything they could to retrieve them.
They didn't charge me anything, of course.
Now I'm installing antiviral software, and it is finding files that were "erased". I'm thinking those files are still there, they are just inaccessible. Anyone know how to reaccess them?
No, I have to be available 24 hours a day x 5 days. The city is going to be locked down - which makes absolutely no sense since with the coronation of the annointed one, the seas will recede, the lion will lay down with the lamb, and we'll all be singing Kumbaya. What on earth could happen?
I lived in Philly for a stretch back in the early 90s. These Gaza sirens are not unlike an average nite back then.
...no roosters though.
What I do find interesting is that the "sirens" are mostly our "American" sounding sirens, and not the European styled sirens. Where do they purchase the police cars and ambulances from, I wonder?
Even the rank-and-file policemen, who 18 months ago were put on the streets by Hamas to convey a sense of law and order, are no longer anywhere to be seen. Those who are out wear plainclothes in order to make it more difficult for the Israeli army to target them – and ultimately, for anyone to distinguish between civilian and military casualties.
As a newbie, "dings" are confusing. Agreeing with a comment or article is one thing but if I disagree with the article/comment, am I "dinging" the person or the thought/comment?
I recently took my laptop to a computer geek place that I have used in thepast to do computer stuff. I wanted them to remove my media files, get rid of a virus I picked up, and then put the pics and stuff back on.
They called me a few weeks later saying the virus was gone, the settings were factory but they had "lost" all the media files and tried everything they could to retrieve them.
Now I'm installing antiviral software, and it is finding files that were "erased". I'm thinking those files are still there, they are just inaccessible. Anyone know how to reaccess them?
As a newbie, "dings" are confusing. Agreeing with a comment or article is one thing but if I disagree with the article/comment, am I "dinging" the person or the thought/comment?
You're either updinging (approving) or downdinging (disapproving) of the comment.
Some guys down ding every post they can find from a guy/gal they disagree with on one comment. No big deal, it's not like you get a cookie for a big Karma score. :)
I had a woman come into a machine shop that I worked in, and say her husband needed a piece of metal 12 inches long, she did a hand gesture of about four inches, I laughed so hard I nearly passed out when a coworker said honey you only think your happy.
There's a rooster lives a life of danger
In Gaza he tries to stay out of range-er
With each crow he risks--you bet--
Being made into a croquette
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow
He's the rooster jammed
By the Gaza-Cam
He's braved so many explosions
That he puts Hamas to shame
Charles, I just want you to know that my schedule has been totally blown by the hours I'm spending staring at the gazacam and chit chatting with LGF'ers. It has kept me from freaking out and starting to yell at people because of worrying about Israel and the crazy anti-Jew people in the world.
As a newbie, "dings" are confusing. Agreeing with a comment or article is one thing but if I disagree with the article/comment, am I "dinging" the person or the thought/comment?
Yes, and worrying about which will drive you dingy.
For the foodies...
Make polenta as per Alton Brown's directions... True Grits
After you serve yourself a nice big bowl of fresh polenta pour the leftovers into yogurt containers (pack well) and store in the fridge. The next day invert your yogurt container and slice off a nice 1-2 inch thick disk of polenta. Bake or fry at will.
Some guys down ding every post they can find from a guy/gal they disagree with on one comment. No big deal, it's not like you get a cookie for a big Karma score. :)
Lot of stealth dingers, seldom comment, just ding. I'm not much of dinger either way. More often with what I think is a good comment.
I have a rooster problem..
In the 90's we had a neighbor for a year that had a rooster.. Every morning for a year at 4am i wanted to kill it..I mean Marine sniper one shot kill that dang rooster shot..maybe poison at 5am and 3 cups of coffee..Maybe an ambush at 6am with a cute chicken and a baseball bat.. at 7am when the alarm goes off i was usually finishing the kids homework and wondering if one of them would consider taking up a secret life of rooster assassin for the right pay-off..
when the lease was up...Gone..
What I do find interesting is that the "sirens" are mostly our "American" sounding sirens, and not the European styled sirens. Where do they purchase the police cars and ambulances from, I wonder?
If you choose to leave a downding, it helps the communication to leave a comment explaining that you think the posted article subject is boring, irritating, or enraging.
Updings and downdings are the little red and green plus and minus buttons. If you really like a post, upding it. If you really dislike a post, downding. The number next to the buttons is how many, if positive, updings...if negative...downdings.
Posts by Charles can be up and downdinged, links (in the "top rated links" or Linkviewer, at the top) can also be up- or downdinged, and individual comments can be up or downdinged.
Then there is Karma. Your all-time total up- or downding count is kept track of.
As a newbie, "dings" are confusing. Agreeing with a comment or article is one thing but if I disagree with the article/comment, am I "dinging" the person or the thought/comment?
Your question, in a way, shows why I detest anonymous dingers, those who ding with no explanation. When I ding, especially down, I usually quote or reply and give a reason why.
Thank you for taking the time to participate in the conversation here. +DING
In my SF Gaza Protest report, I included a video by someone named "juklux" showing people stomping on an Israeli flag. I present to you one of the latest comments on that video at YouTube from "y2knoproblem":
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"Fuk israel. Death to the Zionist monkeys! Where the fuk is Hitler when you need him. God curse Hitler for not finishing the job."
That would be a massive mistake, and Obama will avoid it at all costs. The Democrat suggesting it should have his head examined. The last thing the voters want is a bunch of time spent in another witch hunt.
That's for damn sure. The Big O, better clip that Left wing and quickly.
Democrats - Putting the unCivil in Civil War since 1856.
Fer sure brother. Getting damn sick and tired of the asshats. Were gonna' have a lot of space at GITMO, soon. Couldn't find a better place for these idiots. They best get down to the business at hand.
If you choose to leave a downding, it helps the communication to leave a comment explaining that you think the posted article subject is boring, irritating, or enraging.
Yeah? I find that boring, irritating, and enraging, so I UPDINGED you.
So there.
The International Committee of the Red Cross urged Israel to exercise "extreme caution" in using the incendiary agent, which is used to illuminate targets at night or create a smoke screen for day attacks, said Peter Herby, the head of the organization's mines-arms unit.
"In some of the strikes in Gaza it's pretty clear that phosphorus was used," Herby told The Associated Press. "But it's not very unusual to use phosphorus to create smoke or illuminate a target. We have no evidence to suggest it's being used in any other way."
The only evidence that it was being used in any other fashion was from self interested Palestinians who want to propagandize against Israel and human rights groups that have repeatedly bent over backwards to ignore Hamas violations of every international law on the book but attempt to hold Israel to a standard of international law that doesn't even exist.
So the reporter here is admitting that Israel targets uniformed people, not civilians.
But they did tell this whopping lie
Hamas's resumption of rocket attacks when a six-month truce ran out on Dec. 19.
The rockets only resumed on Dec 19th, after 6 months without Hamas rockets? I don't think so. Usually they write it so it isn't technically a lie, but just strongly implies the lie they want to tell.
Charles: some user named "tshup" downdinged a very good article in the links (posted by pat from DBKP), with no reason given. Is there a way you could force folks to leave a reason, for downdings in the links?
Probably not...
Folks like "tshup" and "Higgs Boson" have made a career of down-dinging other folks' posts, and they hardly ever, EVER post comments themselves.
As a newbie, "dings" are confusing. Agreeing with a comment or article is one thing but if I disagree with the article/comment, am I "dinging" the person or the thought/comment?
If you're a newbie, you may not have seen some of the flamewars of years past on LGF. I think the updings and downdings give people an outlet rather than an all-caps post. Hmmm. I wonder if Charles intended that. Anyway, can't take disagreement personally. Go ahead with the downding when you don't like what someone says. That said, I haven't used the downding yet. But I have called stinky for cleanups on comments that look really bad.
In my SF Gaza Protest report, I included a video by someone named "juklux" showing people stomping on an Israeli flag. I present to you one of the latest comments on that video at YouTube from "y2knoproblem":
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"Fuk israel. Death to the Zionist monkeys! Where the fuk is Hitler when you need him. God curse Hitler for not finishing the job."
Good Evening Lizards! It is still snowy in Near Iowa. They are predicting, yet more, snow for this night AND dangerous wind chills. Lizards in snowland --BE SAFE.
Your question, in a way, shows why I detest anonymous dingers, those who ding with no explanation. When I ding, especially down, I usually quote or reply and give a reason why.
Thank you for taking the time to participate in the conversation here. +DING
Wild turkeys can not only fly, they can fly very fast for short distances. And run fast too. Faster than any Olympic sprinter.
At sunrise, they don't "fly" out of the tree. They spread their wings, and jump down. Float or glide is not the right word, and the sound they make when they hit the ground is straight out of the mental image we got on that WKRP infamous show.
They seem to fly faster than pheasants, that's for sure.
What I do find interesting is that the "sirens" are mostly our "American" sounding sirens, and not the European styled sirens. Where do they purchase the police cars and ambulances from, I wonder?
Your question, in a way, shows why I detest anonymous dingers, those who ding with no explanation. When I ding, especially down, I usually quote or reply and give a reason why.
Thank you for taking the time to participate in the conversation here. +DING
Sometimes I just leave an upding as a way of saying, "Yeah, I agree," or "good one" Our computers would choke if everytime we wanted to say "good thought," we left a comment.
In my SF Gaza Protest report, I included a video by someone named "juklux" showing people stomping on an Israeli flag. I present to you one of the latest comments on that video at YouTube from "y2knoproblem":
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"Fuk israel. Death to the Zionist monkeys! Where the fuk is Hitler when you need him. God curse Hitler for not finishing the job."
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Nothing new under the sun. I heard Germans say the same stuff in the early '70s.
At sunrise, they don't "fly" out of the tree. They spread their wings, and jump down. Float or glide is not the right word, and the sound they make when they hit the ground is straight out of the mental image we got on that WKRP infamous show.
They seem to fly faster than pheasants, that's for sure.
There's a rooster lives a life of danger
In Gaza he tries to stay out of range-er
With each crow he risks--you bet--
Being made into a croquette
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow
He's the rooster jammed
By the Gaza-Cam
He's braved so many explosions
That he puts Hamas to shame
Swingin' through the Shifa tunnels one day
Crowin' on the rooftop "playground" the next day
At every dawn, he calls
"Hamasniks have no balls"
The odd thing is
they're more "chicken" than he is
If you choose to leave a downding, it helps the communication to leave a comment explaining that you think the posted article subject is boring, irritating, or enraging.
Indeed. I play a game for which I download user-made modifications. The site I download these files from lets you rate the files 1-10. You can ONLY leave a rating if you explain your reason for the rating. The same could be applied to the link-dings. I would only suggest making DOWN-dingers leave an explanation, and then only when dinging in the links-viewer. Updings are just kudos, and don't need explanation.
Um, Mr. Buchanan, this isn't quite how I pictured a Blitzkrieg. Sounds more like some car alarms going off after a fly-by prior to a stadium event at best.
Probably not...
Folks like "tshup" and "Higgs Boson" have made a career of down-dinging other folks' posts, and they hardly ever, EVER post comments themselves.
Cowards.
I was going to post about my surprise that with 30000 registered users, Charles didn't win the "Best Conservative Blog" hands down. Then, I mentally divided the number by three (most of the registered users probably don't lurk or visit much), and remembered people like you list, and a few who have gotten the stick.
Sometimes I just leave an upding as a way of saying, "Yeah, I agree," or "good one" Our computers would choke if everytime we wanted to say "good thought," we left a comment.
But you ain't a newbie; you are someone that has a track record of participation. So you are not an anonymous non-voiced dinger. ;)
If you're a newbie, you may not have seen some of the flamewars of years past on LGF. I think the updings and downdings give people an outlet rather than an all-caps post. Hmmm. I wonder if Charles intended that. Anyway, can't take disagreement personally. Go ahead with the downding when you don't like what someone says. That said, I haven't used the downding yet. But I have called stinky for cleanups on comments that look really bad.
I view "dings" as a way to measure how my posts are received. In non-virtual, conversation, I can tell by people's facial expression or sounds they may make (a smile, or a groan). I also think that "Dings" work also to streamline threads because they are easier than short posts ("good one, dude" or "Not Funny").
It's another magical, wonderful way to experience Lizardland brought to you by our GrandLizard ™ Charles.
Just before and just after pheasant season. (I was raised in Nebraska)
If you want to see wild Turkeys, drive up to Lyons, and take the canyon road north toward highway 14. There are (surprisingly!) a lot of wild Turkeys up there.
Wouldn't have mattered if Our Messiah-King had been elected or not...WA State is bound and determined to become Sodom and Gomorrah North.
Apparently it was the fault of the legislature that wrote the law, not the court. By saying 18 is no longer a minor, the court probably had no choice. I wonder how they'd write a law to cover 18 and up. College professors bonk their students all the time.
Hey, Obama will probably repay the love by setting down to talk with Iran with no preconditions. Unless Iran demands some preconditions. Then he'll give himself a hernia trying to comply with whatever the Iranians want.
I do wish they'd get it straight. The Holocaust didn't happen, but they love Hitler and the Nazis for committing it; they use Nazi propaganda, cartoons, salutes, and march steps, but they condemn Jews for being Nazis.
Talk about your Moebius logic!
They are just like liberals, aren't they? Two opposing statements can both be true at the same time. Like the duo about W. being an imbecilic moron who, with his wily brilliance, deceived the world about WMD.
What are the chances that there are so many cars on the road at 4am that the cops actually would need to run their sirens. These people have got to be massively sleep deprived.
Sometimes I just leave an upding as a way of saying, "Yeah, I agree," or "good one" Our computers would choke if everytime we wanted to say "good thought," we left a comment.
I recently took my laptop to a computer geek place that I have used in thepast to do computer stuff. I wanted them to remove my media files, get rid of a virus I picked up, and then put the pics and stuff back on.
They called me a few weeks later saying the virus was gone, the settings were factory but they had "lost" all the media files and tried everything they could to retrieve them.
They didn't charge me anything, of course.
Now I'm installing antiviral software, and it is finding files that were "erased". I'm thinking those files are still there, they are just inaccessible. Anyone know how to reaccess them?
What you ask is very complex..There are multiple answers depending on the facts on the ground..
First off..Windows doesn't really delete your files when it says it does..The trash can is only an icon..When a file is deleted windows puts a $ sign in front of the file name and the FAT tables get updated and told 'if you want to write crap here feel free' But because of drive usage windows will choose free space instead of marked sectors to write new data..Thus you can recover alot of deleted files..That's the readers digest version...It is esp. more complex esp. during a catastrophic failure or password protected files
Charles toyed with the idea of truly making the dings anonymous - but chose correctly to have the nic tag along with the ding. If you want to know why someone dinged you you can ask them
In my SF Gaza Protest report, I included a video by someone named "juklux" showing people stomping on an Israeli flag. I present to you one of the latest comments on that video at YouTube from "y2knoproblem":
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"Fuk israel. Death to the Zionist monkeys! Where the fuk is Hitler when you need him. God curse Hitler for not finishing the job."
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Thanks for the vid, Zombie.
Rated it high for everyone to see how scary it is to live in SF.
When you lob them with your trebuchet, silly! Peasants aren't very areodynamic, but they'll still go a long way if you aim them just right.
I love saying "trebuchet." It sort of fills out your whole mouth. Some French words get stuck somewhere in the back of your throat, and some sort of drip out like you just performed a slow, wet sneeze, but then there are some French words that are just a party in your mouth.
Um, Mr. Buchanan, this isn't quite how I pictured a Blitzkrieg. Sounds more like some car alarms going off after a fly-by prior to a stadium event at best.
Pat Buchanan knows about as much about military history as he does about economics, science and theology, which is somewhere between diddly and squat.
Blitzkrieg is rapidly advancing mechanized forces with coordinted air cover penetrating the enemy's interior lines of communication and rendering them useless, thereby depriving the enemy the capacity to sustain a coordinated fight. The rear of the advancing force deals with the pockets of resistance, which tend to surrender en masse.
The US fights using Blitzkrieg as a matter of doctrine. Israel can't in Gaza (or refuses to) because its aim is not to hold land. Instead it is a police action in urban terrain, so they are selecting targets carefully and advancing infantry teams with specific "kill lists" in hand.
Pat Buchanan is a complete asshole that makes conservatism look stupid, as is Sean Hannity for giving him any credibility whatsoever.
Yes, and worrying about which will drive you dingy.
I'm new here,but most folks only down ding a comment they disagree with. A few will down ding your Merry Christmas comment if they disagreed with another comment.
They have a sort of down dinging party, but they are ding-a-lings.
Pat Buchanan knows about as much about military history as he does about economics, science and theology, which is somewhere between diddly and squat.
Blitzkrieg is rapidly advancing mechanized forces with coordinted air cover penetrating the enemy's interior lines of communication and rendering them useless, thereby depriving the enemy the capacity to sustain a coordinated fight. The rear of the advancing force deals with the pockets of resistance, which tend to surrender en masse.
The US fights using Blitzkrieg as a matter of doctrine. Israel can't in Gaza (or refuses to) because its aim is not to hold land. Instead it is a police action in urban terrain, so they are selecting targets carefully and advancing infantry teams with specific "kill lists" in hand.
Pat Buchanan is a complete asshole that makes conservatism look stupid, as is Sean Hannity for giving him any credibility whatsoever.
well said with the tactics...more so at the last...Hannity is dirt
I do wish they'd get it straight. The Holocaust didn't happen, but they love Hitler and the Nazis for committing it; they use Nazi propaganda, cartoons, salutes, and march steps, but they condemn Jews for being Nazis.
Talk about your Moebius logic!
Indeed.
Arabs continually refer to Jews as Nazis, that Jews are engaging in genocide, Gaza is a concentration camp, using the words most associated with Nazism to describe Israel's defense against terrorism, etc.
I think it's time to call the Arab-think Hitlerian Jihad, because it combines the worst of both. Megalomaniacal devotion to killing Jews, and making the land red in blood. Hitler gave the jihadis something to strive for - annihilation of the Juice.
Thanks, HH. I actually can follow what you wrote, and that's my understanding, too. I'm downloading a file now that JCM found for me. I wonder why the geeks couldn't figure that out. But then again, I haven't retrieved anything yet either, so I'll reserve criticism.
usually one does not eat a rooster...that's what older hens are for slicker...
In France, you may get rooster when you least expect it, since "poulet" can refer to chicken or rooster. If you see "creme de'poulet," on a menu, most time it will be rooster. Not bad tasting either.
"These are not just regular costumes. These are the costumes that remind someone of the plantation in Gone with the Wind," Edward Vaughn said in a phone interview.
I'm new here,but most folks only down ding a comment they disagree with. A few will down ding your Merry Christmas comment if they disagreed with another comment.
They have a sort of down dinging party, but they are ding-a-lings.
I've seen links to very negative articles get down dinged.
I don't get the logic, but, whatever. Mobius logic, of course, prompts me to upding links to inspiring or otherwise positive articles.
And, yes. That term does need to be added to the LGF dictionary!
In France, you may get rooster when you least expect it, since "poulet" can refer to chicken or rooster. If you see "creme de'poulet," on a menu, most time it will be rooster. Not bad tasting either.
I have little class...they are edible certainly but not as a BBQ item...I've eaten roosters in Jamaica many times...usually stewed in some fashion
I'm new here,but most folks only down ding a comment they disagree with. A few will down ding your Merry Christmas comment if they disagreed with another comment.
They have a sort of down dinging party, but they are ding-a-lings.
I'm trying to work "when a cock name al-Capon..." into a rendition of "The Night that Gaza Died", but the Muse is not with me. Help me, Obi-Wan Buzzsawmonkey, you are my only hope.
"I don't give a f**k who's in office, Bush or whoever, there is no simple solution to this problem... I'm not one of those who blames Bush for everything. This s**t between Christians and Muslims goes back to the Crusades, doesn't it.
"It's too easy to blame everything on one guy. These are unpredictable, dangerous times, and I don't think that anyone really knows quite what to do."
Rourke also confesses he was so angry after 9/11, he wanted to fight the war on terror himself.
He adds, "I'm not politically educated. But I do know that after 9/11 I wanted to go over there, you know what I'm saying?"
And the star is baffled by the U.K.'s approach to fundamentalists - insisting he was taken aback by the freedom of speech allowed in the U.K.
He explains, "I was in London recently and I couldn't believe all these hate-talking fanatics you have over here who are allowed to carry on doing their thing even when a bus full of women and children gets blown to pieces.
"I know you've deported one or two of them, but it seems crazy. I think there is worse to come, something terrible will happen to either America or the U.K., or France even. I don't think these fundamentalists should be allowed to talk all this crap, and brainwashing these young kids."
And the only reason the ATMs were invited were thanks to the efforts of Ms. Merceria Ludgood, a black woman who recently sat on the Mobile County Commission. One of the local opinion columnists has a good article on this.
That darned rooster crows at all hours of the day! If the Gazians get hungry, why don't they eat that darned loud creature. Of course, he's probably so old and rangy that he'd be tough so maybe he should be marinated in tomato and olive oil sauce!
I've seen links to very negative articles get down dinged.
I don't get the logic, but, whatever. Mobius logic, of course, prompts me to upding links to inspiring or otherwise positive articles.
And, yes. That term does need to be added to the LGF dictionary!
Notice how they are all standing around just watching... going about their business in the MARKET... not afraid of the apparent genocidal blitzkrieg in their concentration camp...
Where is the Gaza-shattering kaboom? I was expecting a Gaza-shattering kaboom!
they are preparing bleachers for us further south...we'll have to pack up the party and move tomarrow...lets pick up some trash here and get ready to move out...and dont forget to recycle!
"The word South is offensive, it reminds us of slavery. We need a compass with directions whose names don't bring up the horrible spectre of slavery."
I mean, seriously. Now they want to ban something which reminds them of some movie set in a particular time-period? These people are STARKERS.
I agree, it's not like they are wearing civil war uniforms and waving the stars and bars, the dresses are really quite pretty. If a black President elect does not see a connection, neither should the NAACP.
BTW, National Geo channel doing a interesting evolution show as we speak. (Virus connection to evolution.)
We need to launch the slippery slope counter campaign - I will pay YOU retribution, however, your people held my people as slaves for MUCH longer, therefor you owe me...anyone got a calculator handy?
I have stains on my pillow from the tears I have cried
by pilot-x on 12.01.2009 [22:31 ] for the Gaza Rooster.
When the webcam first appeared, his voice was healthy and vibrant.
After 3 nights of steady bombing it is now sounding frail and weak and has dropped 1/3 of an octave. GAWD damn Israel I now have tears on my keyboard.
I think pilot-x is mocking them, because the rest of the posters on there are the "death to jews" type.
re: #697 efuseakay
Notice how they are all standing around just watching... going about their business in the MARKET... not afraid of the apparent genocidal blitzkrieg in their concentration camp...
It is remarkable the trust they demonstrate that the Israelis will not hit them, because they know they aren't the targets. Contrary to the story that much of the media is telling.
But do you tell her? When we assume in relationships, misunderstandings occur.
Yes I do. And every time I go near the cage, she grabs the top and walks upside down above her perch, showing off her little "muff" to me, and I tell her how pretty she is.
Actually, he doesn't quite get it. The Crusades were a response to hundreds of years of Jihad throughout Europe.
Although he admits that he doesn't know all of the facts at least Rourke seems to have a better understanding than most elites who claim they do. A few minutes and a few references and perhaps we could have a Hollywood resource.
Gazans must not be too needing for food if those roosters are still crowing. But maybe they are fighting chickens and are use to supplement the owner's income. Cockfighting is pretty common in most of the world.
Oh, yes, they can fly.
They 'glide' down from the roosting branch at sunrise, though, and make the most amazing plop sound when they hit the ground.
I killed one about 30 years ago with a bow and arrow! It was legal, and the 'other alternative' was a shotgun. I didn't want the pellets in the meat, and I knew where they roosted.
Perhaps I shall respond with a comforting there, there, followed by a little note explaining his name is Fluffy Al-capon the Gaza Rooster and we are taking a collection to finance his quite dangerous rescue mission.
Yes I do. And every time I go near the cage, she grabs the top and walks upside down above her perch, showing off her little "muff" to me, and I tell her how pretty she is.
The damn bird would sleep with me if I let her.
Trade you: My cat steals my underwear. Not my Male's, though he has been found lounging on it. Mine.
He stole one of my bras and it was an adventure, retrieving it.
thanks...remember it well...it was a fairly big hit...you can still see some of this stuff in NY...the Village..Soho...I like it but Philly is the home of do wop
Oh, yes, they can fly.
They 'glide' down from the roosting branch at sunrise, though, and make the most amazing plop sound when they hit the ground.
I killed one about 30 years ago with a bow and arrow! It was legal, and the 'other alternative' was a shotgun. I didn't want the pellets in the meat, and I knew where they roosted.
The Wild Turkey in the bottle is a bit more civilized, you think?
Just locked up winamp with the videofeed. I hit X to close it, it locked. Ok, I hit the CTRL-ALT-DEL combo, you know, since I recognized that it was not responding.
Windows says: The program is not responding. End Now?
Really, Windows? Is it not responding? Do tell. You P.O.S. that's why I hit the CTRL-ALT-DEL, because I had already recognized that. You think I'm stupid, Windows? Do you? You dumb f***.
"Would that all the employees of Microsoft had but ONE NECK..."
I DJ as a hobby, and I can tell you, there have been a couple gigs where you hit the right song like that one (oldie), and the 60 year old crowd bum-rushes the dance floor.
AVS Capture can grab videos from anywhere. Free to try - it's about 30 bucks, iirc, after the trial period.
Red Kawa downloads directly from youtube and converts to ipod format, which you can then play via itunes. It's shareware.
Are those for Mac?
I have a FireFox extension (Download Helper) that captures video from almost anywhere... and it's free!
But the vid has to be actually playing before it will begin the capture. Can't play/can't capture.
Gazans must not be too needing for food if those roosters are still crowing. But maybe they are fighting chickens and are use to supplement the owner's income. Cockfighting is pretty common in most of the world.
I heard it's all the Rave in the SanFran bar scene.
I DJ as a hobby, and I can tell you, there have been a couple gigs where you hit the right song like that one (oldie), and the 60 year old crowd bum-rushes the dance floor.
I've seen it myself.
I'm 56 but my older sister was an early rocker...I heard all that stuff...sentiment never goes away (or it wouldnt be sentiment!)
I DJ as a hobby, and I can tell you, there have been a couple gigs where you hit the right song like that one (oldie), and the 60 year old crowd bum-rushes the dance floor. I've seen it myself.
Yea, but the aftermath is horrific. Bent walkers all over the place, nylons stuck to bar stools, oxygen tanks missing, really bad scene.
I don't remember the gentleman's name, but Sons of Confederate Veterns used to have a black guy as a spokesman. I've seen him on the news, wearing full uniform back when the Stars and Bars were such a controversy in South Carolina. I will submit to you that if the biggest challenge the NAACP has on their plate is the flag over the South Carolina capitol, then the Civil Rights movement is over.
They've won.
They interviewed that guy on the Penn and Teller BS show on Race (at least I think that was the topic). Neat guy.
So if your Senator "gives" you tickets, you can still legally sell them on ebay for 10K.
When scalping is outlawed, only outlaws will have scalps. Or something.
Excellent! There is NO 'color' with these ladies They are female of the species persons. Only with men such as the Alabama NAACP idiot, is there 'color'. Shame really.
Oh the don't forget the inevitable toupee that ends up in the corner of the dance floor leading to much shrieking of "What is that? It's a (insert whatever rodent here)!" followed by panic and stampede, canes being used as weapons. Then, and you can set your watch by this, someone gets their eye poked out.
Excellent! There is NO 'color' with these ladies They are female of the species persons. Only with men such as the Alabama NAACP idiot, is there 'color'. Shame really.
The rooster's name is Richard. He was up all night crowing. Get used to it.
Bona fide Insurgent
And the links go on and on and on. Everyone is watching gaza and that one rooster.
/just making a point, this guy is famous. We need to get him an agent, some ad campaigns (I'm think a cameo with the AFLAC duck), maybe a record deal (for cell phone ringtones and such)
Now that movie sucked. I walked out about halfway through it. I've got better things to do with my life than waste a couple of hours watching that shit.
Really? I'm surprised. I mean, the movie didn't exactly change my life or anything, but I didn't think it was bad. And I'd have thought you'd like all the obsidian-edged-weapon action.
Really? 10k? I have a confession. I have tickets. I've been wondering whether I should go or not - will this reflect badly on me when I run against Obama in '12?
Way back last year, I got an e-mail from a nice young liberal exhorting me to caucus. Even if I was a Republican.
I, of course, e-mailed her back and told her I was registered "unaffiliated", and even if she thought I was Republican, I couldn't caucus, because that was a Democrat thing.
She e-mailed me back and admitted she had a lot to learn about politics. She was mainly interested in improving the image of the U.S.A. around the world. She wanted people to like us. ad nauseum.
I replied that the only way for the "world" to like us was to degenerate into a third world country, because the "dislike" she thought she was seeing amounted mainly to jealousy. She's a big Linux fan, and asked her why, really, she hated Microsoft.
I saved the appropriate e-mail, and I figure in about six months, I can re-send my reply with several explanatory and illuminating links.
Yeah, it's probably the same guy. When I saw him he was reminding everyone that there were a few, not many, but a few black slave owners in the antebellum South. You could hear the steam escaping from Jesse Jackson's ears several states away :-)
He made a great talk about the old South was his home, too, and this was his heritage.
More power to him... trying to hold back an avalanche of ignorance.
To be honest, I'm 39, and I like getting those crowds. Much better vibe all around.
you get older you dont quit..you just pick your spots...I'm a ferocious rock and roller and see as many live gigs as I can every year...do road trips out east and through the south...wherever...I will tell you my crowd flat out parties!
I apologize for this question if the information is here somewhere and I just haven't been able to find it - but who are the folks responsible for the live feed? I can't make out the name on the screen...
I'm trying to work "when a cock name al-Capon..." into a rendition of "The Night that Gaza Died", but the Muse is not with me. Help me, Obi-Wan Buzzsawmonkey, you are my only hope.
Late to the thread, but that line would work better in Bad Bad LeRoy Brown..
A man and a woman who had never met before, but who were both married to other people,
found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a trans-continental train.
Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room,
they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the upper berth and she in the lower.
At 1:00 AM, the man leaned down and gently woke the woman saying...
"Ma'am, I'm sorry to bother you, but would you be willing to reach into the closet to get me a second blanket?
I'm awfully cold."
"I have a better idea", she replied. "Just for tonight,... let's pretend that we're married."
"Wow!...That's a great idea!" he exclaimed.
"Good!" she replied. ..."Get your own fucking blanket."
Now that movie sucked. I walked out about halfway through it. I've got better things to do with my life than waste a couple of hours watching that shit.
My favorite part was he was saved by a total eclipse of the sun. Later that night while he is running... a full moon.
Oh the don't forget the inevitable toupee that ends up in the corner of the dance floor leading to much shrieking of "What is that? It's a (insert whatever rodent here)!" followed by panic and stampede, canes being used as weapons. Then, and you can set your watch by this, someone gets their eye poked out.
I have actually used a "used" glass eye that I picked up at Goodwill (yes, at Goodwill) as a joke. Sit around a bunch of folks at a bar or dinner, specially a group where not everyone know you, and bring the glass eye up to you face, and then just drop it to the table, at the same time squinting you right or left eye.
Make some excuse, be polite, bring it up to you squinting eye and act as if you are reinserting it. Palm it away, use you other hand to "adjust" your eye, drop glass eye in you pocket while they are watching you adjust your eye.
Yeah, it's probably the same guy. When I saw him he was reminding everyone that there were a few, not many, but a few black slave owners in the antebellum South. You could hear the steam escaping from Jesse Jackson's ears several states away :-)
I don't remember the gentleman's name, but Sons of Confederate Veterns used to have a black guy as a spokesman. I've seen him on the news, wearing full uniform back when the Stars and Bars were such a controversy in South Carolina. I will submit to you that if the biggest challenge the NAACP has on their plate is the flag over the South Carolina capitol, then the Civil Rights movement is over.
They've won.
I recall traveling with a decorated black Petty Officer senior to me in the deep south many years ago and him seeing his first whites only lunch counter. I wanted to join him at the negro counter but he being older and wiser, jointed me on the bus. That was something to get upset over, not a historic flag that represents far more then slavery.
And the links go on and on and on. Everyone is watching gaza and that one rooster.
/just making a point, this guy is famous. We need to get him an agent, some ad campaigns (I'm think a cameo with the AFLAC duck), maybe a record deal (for cell phone ringtones and such)
Really? I'm surprised. I mean, the movie didn't exactly change my life or anything, but I didn't think it was bad. And I'd have thought you'd like all the obsidian-edged-weapon action.
I thought it was pretty cool...I like that sort of thing rather than insidious TV spinoff type crap
I do like the EXTREMELY non-PC aspect of portraying some pre-Colombian people as being less than perfectly kind, sweet, selfless and utterly nice. In other words, as showing them as... you know... human. Which you're not supposed to do.
So if your Senator "gives" you tickets, you can still legally sell them on ebay for 10K.
When scalping is outlawed, only outlaws will have scalps. Or something.
"Gantman noted that Feinstein was able to secure voluntary agreements from ebay and StubHub not to sell inauguration tickets."
Yeah, it's probably the same guy. When I saw him he was reminding everyone that there were a few, not many, but a few black slave owners in the antebellum South. You could hear the steam escaping from Jesse Jackson's ears several states away :-)
Way back last year, I got an e-mail from a nice young liberal exhorting me to caucus. Even if I was a Republican.
I, of course, e-mailed her back and told her I was registered "unaffiliated", and even if she thought I was Republican, I couldn't caucus, because that was a Democrat thing.
She e-mailed me back and admitted she had a lot to learn about politics. She was mainly interested in improving the image of the U.S.A. around the world. She wanted people to like us. ad nauseum.
I replied that the only way for the "world" to like us was to degenerate into a third world country, because the "dislike" she thought she was seeing amounted mainly to jealousy. She's a big Linux fan, and asked her why, really, she hated Microsoft.
I saved the appropriate e-mail, and I figure in about six months, I can re-send my reply with several explanatory and illuminating links.
There certainly will be no shortage of available data to share. That's for sure.
Have a friend (played Senator Fogbound in Lil' Abner), took his glass eye out backstage, turned to a female cast member, nonchalantly handed it to her, saying "hold this please" she reached out, not knowing what he was handing her until she looked down.
Really? 10k? I have a confession. I have tickets. I've been wondering whether I should go or not - will this reflect badly on me when I run against Obama in '12?
You've got tickets? I'll give you 10,000 quatloos for a pair.
Sure wish Mandy was here. Did you see the story the other day about the inmate who plucked out his own eye?
Then ate it.
I am not a mental health professional, but, I think the guy is crazy.
As you can imagine, I've done the same thing with the glass eye. Lot's of fun at parties. I've also dropped it in my drink and tried to fish it out, dropped it into someone else's drink and had it start rolling around my keyboard when I was playing in my band.
I think, originally, Mandy was asking which of Tolkein's dwarves wrote the last entry in the diary found by the Fellowship in Khazad-dun. Oin, Gloin, Durin, etc. are some of the possibilities. Lovin and Squeezin (and Darwin) were not Tolkeinian dwarves. Neither was Dorf.
Thanks :-) One wonders whether his decendants should have to pay reperations for slavery or get reperations for slavery. Little things like that get swept under the rug, because there is no money to be made with them.
Well, and they don't fit the preferred narrative du jour.
As you can imagine, I've done the same thing with the glass eye. Lot's of fun at parties. I've also dropped it in my drink and tried to fish it out, dropped it into someone else's drink and had it start rolling around my keyboard when I was playing in my band.
So much fun Ollie!
LOL, Good evening everyone. Walter, I went to high school with a kid who had a glass eye. He was no nearly so much fun. He just kept getting t-boned from the left every time he drove!
This was real. To make it worse? He had already plucked out his other eye before his trial.
That's not a cool as using a glass one. Real ones are to "icky" and they stick to things, don't really roll right, and you have to keep them moist all the time.
I lost my eyeball prosthetic many years ago, and I just searched around Ebay and such, hoping to find a new one. I had forgot all about that gag until it came up here tonight.
If any Lizards have any unused glass eyeballs laying around, I would be willing to pay you something for it.
(Does Charles get mad if we pimp for products here?)
Obama thinks there is no more beautiful sound than the evening call to prayer. So he said. Not that I'm saying he's Muslim. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
LOL, Good evening everyone. Walter, I went to high school with a kid who had a glass eye. He was no nearly so much fun. He just kept getting t-boned from the left every time he drove!
You did catch my comments above. I don't have a glass eye, I owned a glass eye which I used for "fun and folly."
So if your Senator "gives" you tickets, you can still legally sell them on ebay for 10K.
When scalping is outlawed, only outlaws will have scalps. Or something.
Ummm, Jim...a Mr. Sitting Bull would like to see you in the Lobby...:)
Good evening everyone. I just got myself up to speed on today's Mads Gilbert news conference. Thanks to Charles for finding and linking to it. Wow, Mads was so upset he popped the collar on his Members Only jacket.
I want to make sure that I'm able to analyze every word that Mads said about the Mashharawi case, but my video keeps getting stuck. I have everything from the first part when he talked about it, but my video got stuck early in the Q&A period. Did he saying anything else about the Mashharawi case in the Q&A period? If so, I'll keep trying to download the whole thing.
My ex roomie and I drove her 20 something son nuts once on the way to a weekend festival. We played disco - and sang along - all the way. I'm surprised he didn't get out and walk. :D
Watching College Ball tonight.. I think high school and college ball is te purest..the most fun to watch..march madness is like the SB x65.
Pro ball..you are dead to me...
Can I retract my comment - I don't have my contacts in and I thought you wrote something in arabic. As I stuck my nose right on the screen I realize my really horrible mistake -
very cute - yiddish for Rooster. If a monitor lizard is around, will they be so kind as to delete my comment?
A friend of mine in high school had lost an eye to glaucoma, and he had an eye shield. IIRC it was plastic. He used to sit in class and freak out the teachers by bouncing his pencil off of it while they tried to teach class. He was just evil that way :-)
My dad knew a newspaper reporter who had a wooden leg. The guy covered the sports pages. Once he was with a group of reporters interviewing a boxer. The boxer kept taunting them, saying reporters are pussies, etc. My dad's acquaintance rejoined, "if you're so tough, let's see you do THIS", took a nearby icepick (this was the old days, I guess there were lots of icepicks lying around), and jammed it into his (wooden) leg (which was of course concealed by a normal pair of pants). The boxer fainted.
My ex roomie and I drove her 20 something son nuts once on the way to a weekend festival. We played disco - and sang along - all the way. I'm surprised he didn't get out and walk. :D
I suffered through that era - I probably would have bailed. Poor kid!
My ex roomie and I drove her 20 something son nuts once on the way to a weekend festival. We played disco - and sang along - all the way. I'm surprised he didn't get out and walk. :D
It's hard to get out of moving car doing 75 on the freeway...:)
NO, Missed that one, but that makes it even funnier! Unfortunately, My story is true.
Ok, I was just looking over Ebay, and you can find vintage Eyeball Prosthetic for sale, but shit, they are getting 30,40,50 and more dollars a piece for them.
When I got the one I had, back in the 70's, I found a whole little cardboard box of them, from an undertaker who did cremations, and things like glass eyes were just removed. Goodwill had them on sale for a buck a piece. I purchased 3 at the time.
Boy, wish I had kept at least one. It's a good gag, but not at these current prices.
My ex roomie and I drove her 20 something son nuts once on the way to a weekend festival. We played disco - and sang along - all the way. I'm surprised he didn't get out and walk. :D
LMAO. Obviously he knew the options...He chose discretion..
Ok, I was just looking over Ebay, and you can find vintage Eyeball Prosthetic for sale, but shit, they are getting 30,40,50 and more dollars a piece for them.
When I got the one I had, back in the 70's, I found a whole little cardboard box of them, from an undertaker who did cremations, and things like glass eyes were just removed. Goodwill had them on sale for a buck a piece. I purchased 3 at the time.
Boy, wish I had kept at least one. It's a good gag, but not at these current prices.
My dad knew a newspaper reporter who had a wooden leg. The guy covered the sports pages. Once he was with a group of reporters interviewing a boxer. The boxer kept taunting them, saying reporters are pussies, etc. My dad's acquaintance rejoined, "if you're so tough, let's see you do THIS", took a nearby icepick (this was the old days, I guess there were lots of icepicks lying around), and jammed it into his (wooden) leg (which was of course concealed by a normal pair of pants). The boxer fainted.
My grandmother suffered from headaches and went from doctor to doctor with no relief. The last doctor she went to told her "Ma'am I'm sorry but to make these headaches go away we are going to have to remove all your teeth".
To which grandma responded "Oh, is that all", popped out her dentures and handed them to him!
It's a death defyin' life I lead
I take my chances
I die for a living in the movies and TV
But hardest thing I ever do
Is watch my leading ladies
Kiss some other guy
While I'm bandagin' my knee
I might fall from a tall building
I might roll a brand new car
'Cause I'm the unknown stuntman
That makes Redford such a star
My dad knew a newspaper reporter who had a wooden leg. The guy covered the sports pages. Once he was with a group of reporters interviewing a boxer. The boxer kept taunting them, saying reporters are pussies, etc. My dad's acquaintance rejoined, "if you're so tough, let's see you do THIS", took a nearby icepick (this was the old days, I guess there were lots of icepicks lying around), and jammed it into his (wooden) leg (which was of course concealed by a normal pair of pants). The boxer fainted.
After I read your story I was hoping that some modern journalists and other media personalities would use an icepick on their hands, and tongues... repeatedly. I promise you that I would not faint.
Everyone, wait, ok, here's an evolution story, a poem, to start a evolution thread... don't go...
Paradise Almost Lost.
by
Joseph Simon Newman
I'll tell about those ancient days
ere history penetrates the haze,
ere human eyes were there to gaze,
when earth was all primeval:
worms and germs and rocks and sod
were ready at the slightest nod
of quite an inexperienced God
to go into upheaval.
Not even Adam had appeared.
sin was nothing to be feared:
this was before all men were queered
by apple-eating ladies.
In fact, in those days, don't forget,
the Lord had made no devils yet,
and up 'til then had never met
a fit recruit for Hades.
There was no mammoth, fish, or seal,
Fatimas, Pepsodent, or veal,
no radio or movie reel,
no Buick, bean, or Bendix,
no pterodactyl, fudge, or Lux,
no Sal Hepatica or ducks,
no Nazis, Communists, or Klux,
no Man...and no appendix.
Well, in that very distant day,
in June, July, or August, say,
two living specks of matter lay
in Egypt or Samoa.
Two earless, eyeless, chinless specks,
with neither craniums nor necks,
nor any sign of soul or sex --
in short, two protozoa.
Now organisms of this kind
are rather flimsily designed,
with neither skin nor bones to bind
the parts to one another,
so when the larger of these two
went rolling into pastures new,
she knocked her plasm all askew --
enveloping her brother.
Well never mollusk, worm, nor slug,
nor animalculus, nor bug
had hitherto enjoyed a hug.
God wasn't sentimental!
He planned no species to reveal
the slightest hint of sex appeal!
And yet this...hug...appeared too real
to call it accidental.
Approaching closer to observe
God thought he saw a certain verve,
a quickening of plasmic nerve
unquestionably striking;
the sky, the sun, the sea, the land
were things the Lord could understand,
but here was something quite unplanned,
and scarcely to his liking.
Judicially he held his ire,
deciding he would first inquire
what set those little cells afire
in ways uncontemplated.
But neither had a mouth nor beak,
and therefore neither one could speak,
all language was the same as Greek --
thus Greek originated.
Alas! I forgot to state:
God early had invented Fate!
It now was definitely late
to check the spreading virus.
Though both were silent, well, he knew
his worst suspicions had come true:
it was evident that two
were mutually desirous.
To be explicit and exact,
from that day on the cards were stacked:
the germ of love became a fact
embedded in their plasm.
With lightning flash and thunder roll
an angry God demanded toll,
and so he dug a hellish hole
and thrust them in the chasm.
The spawn of life spread far and wide,
the species grew and multipled,
for hundreds lived, though thousands died,
God wept within his portals,
came alligators, birds, and dogs,
and elephants, and flies, and frogs,
and beetles, barnacles, and hogs,
and anthropoids, and mortals.
And ever since that fateful day
when protozoa found a way
to multiply our earthly clay,
they've handed us erebus:
for though we have discarded gills
for Carter's Little Liver Pills,
we're far more surfeited with ills
than when we were amoebas.
Just think of what we might have been
without surrealists and gin,
and broccoli, and other sin
that hurt beyond all measure.
But still, I take a certain pride
in that ancestral groom and bride,
who in some ways, I'm satisfied,
made hell on earth a pleasure.
Quick, someone, anyone, blow up something, or crow, we're loosing our audience.
Oh lawdy..Kentucky is beating Tenn tonight..I will hear about this for hours at work...
Don't everybody leave yet..Did you hear the one about the Mossed assassin rooster that went deep undercover for MI6?
/don't worry..I'll come up with a punch line
Watching College Ball tonight.. I think high school and college ball is te purest..the most fun to watch..march madness is like the SB x65.
Pro ball..you are dead to me...
I have a FireFox extension (Download Helper) that captures video from almost anywhere... and it's free!
But the vid has to be actually playing before it will begin the capture. Can't play/can't capture.
Will look into anyway...
Thanks.
Nope - don't think either one has a Mac version. This sort of thing is why I gave up on Mac comps and went over to the Dark Side.
The meme at ___ is that I embraced fascists because I would not rebuke Filip Dewinter's attendance at the conference. The reality is Dewinter is not a fascist. Dewinter (years ago) said in Ghent, Belgium: "You should know, the real enemies of Israel today are not on the right, but rather on the left: the socialists and the Greens." The leftist/Islamic death to the Jews marches that we have seen these last 10 days haave certainly validated his point.
I always like the contemptuous spin Biff Rose put on the word "surrealists.'
Never heard of Biff Rose until now. Just looking on Google to see if I can find any to listen to, streaming. So far, no luck. I like the official site, though.
Never heard of Biff Rose until now. Just looking on Google to see if I can find any to listen to, streaming. So far, no luck. I like the official site, though.
You all must be good at the arts & literature category in Trivial Pursuit. I'll stick with sports & leisure for $1,000,000,000.00 Alex.
Oh, I'm a rube compared to most here. I never heard that poem, or of the author. Just read it out loud, and liked it. (although the art/lit category is my best...sports being my 2nd worst, entertainment, by far my worst category.)
re: #1022 jaunte
When we begin to use the images of war as entertainment for the masses you know that we have begun to cater to the least humane, immature and calloused among us.
War is nothing more than organized violence and destruction to achieve goals that were not be achieved through negotiation and civilized diplomacy.
But then we must remember, that some among us, would rather that we bargain or force us to pay an expensive ransom to those who would murder us. They would have us pay this price in the hope that we can obtain some respite from terror.
Unfortunately, the price they are asking us to pay must be measured in the tyranny that they would subject us to and the loss of our freedoms and liberty. Let us never revel in the images of war... but let us support the men and women who participate in it to guarantee our continued liberty.
Oh, I'm a rube compared to most here. I never heard that poem, or of the author. Just read it out loud, and liked it. (although the art/lit category is my best...sports being my 2nd worst, entertainment, by far my worst category.)
The author Joseph Newman was Paul Newman's uncle and was a columnist for the Cincinnatti Plains Dealer (I belive that's the paper). He did about 20 years of columns, and many of his columns were poems like this. He had three book of his poems compiled.
Lord Buckley was the first artist/comedian to feature some of his poems and Biff Rose was the second. Biff was most popular from about 1968-1972 although he still hands in there right now.
Ok, I was just looking over Ebay, and you can find vintage Eyeball Prosthetic for sale, but shit, they are getting 30,40,50 and more dollars a piece for them.
When I got the one I had, back in the 70's, I found a whole little cardboard box of them, from an undertaker who did cremations, and things like glass eyes were just removed. Goodwill had them on sale for a buck a piece. I purchased 3 at the time.
Boy, wish I had kept at least one. It's a good gag, but not at these current prices.
I collect little glass bird figurines. Collecting glass eyeballs is just weird.
The looks part is obvious enough, if you've ever seen any old Motely Crue videos.
The "dude" part came from the fact that every other word out of his mouth was "dude" when he met Tyler and Perry prior to the tour where Motely Crue opened for Aerosmith.
At least that's what Steven Tyler said in an interview.
I'll never forget going to see Heart in concert, back in days when Nancy was wearing the gold llame bustiers (and they'd hide Ann behind a Rhinoceros or something).
They came out, Nancy looked so beautiful, light shining through her hair, holding her guitar high...
Then Ann and Nancy came out, I'd been staring at a dude.
I'll never forget going to see Heart in concert, back in days when Nancy was wearing the gold llame bustiers (and they'd hide Ann behind a Rhinoceros or something).
They came out, Nancy looked so beautiful, light shining through her hair, holding her guitar high...
Then Ann and Nancy came out, I'd been staring at a dude.
I'll never forget going to see Heart in concert, back in days when Nancy was wearing the gold llame bustiers (and they'd hide Ann behind a Rhinoceros or something).
They came out, Nancy looked so beautiful, light shining through her hair, holding her guitar high...
Then Ann and Nancy came out, I'd been staring at a dude.
But, I know what you mean.
To this day I have pics. of Nancy tucked away in my Spank Bank. One hot lady.
It'd be more accurate to point out how the upcoming ice age may incite new wars. Ask the Germans what they think about the gangsters in Russia jacking around with their natural gas supply.
These pictures do not really look like a city that has been bombed day and night for 18 days.
In all seriousness, the sounds are there, but the view sure doesn't look like a "Holocaust" in progress, now does it? And the lights are fed by electricity coming from...Israel.
Let's go
Come on
Let's go
Empty our pockets
And disappear.
Missing all our appointments
And turning up unshaven
Years later
Old cigarette papers
stuck to our pants
leaves in our hair.
Let us not
worry about the payments
anymore.
Let them come
and take it away
whatever it was
we were paying for.
And us with it.
These pictures do not really look like a city that has been bombed day and night for 18 days.
Actually, they look exactly like a city that's been "bombed day and night for 18 days," if it was bombed by the IAF or the USAF.
Contrary to the propaganda put out by the MSM, we actually go to great lengths to hit only legitimate targets, even when it means letting valid targets escape in order to prevent collateral damage.
A MAN convicted of adultery has escaped death by stoning in Iran after dragging himself out of the pit he had been buried in for the punishment – an act that means he is free under Islamic law.
Two other male adulterers were killed by the barbaric method in the same incident, which took place in the north-eastern city of Mashhad last month.
You are correct, and keeping us in check is welcomed.
It's so hard not to revel sometimes, though. After so long.
War may be necessary, but it should never be celebrated. Heroes should be honored and heroic sacrifice encouraged when required, but we should pray for the day when we never have to send our children to war.
But until we achieve the ideal, I say, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Reverend!
I met the Crue backstage on their first tour after Vince Neal got out of jail for vehicular manslaughter. The encore was Jailhouse Rock and I thought the roof was going to come down.
Bizzarrro moment was while we were standing there yapping with Tommy Lee after the show and a guy comes up to him with a mirror with a pile of coke that looked like an anthill. No jagged line. In mid-sentence, he sticks his head down, inhales the whole anthill, and then looks up and continues his thought.
Then like a week later I see the Crue do a Rockers Against Drugs public service commercial on MTV and I'm like yeah right.
War may be necessary, but it should never be celebrated. Heroes should be honored and heroic sacrifice encouraged when required, but we should pray for the day when we never have to send our children to war.
But until we achieve the ideal, I say, praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Reverend!
World's greatest bass player, Victor Wooten (IMO). That song is what got me to buy Live Art. I had Ufo Tofu years ago, then forgot all about them. Live Art is an incredible album. 2 CD set. And that song is easily my favorite track. Great post.
I wore my skull and crossbones necklace and earrings to work today. One of the guards complimented me on them. :D
My use is in reverance to the Tomcat squadron, the Jolly Rogers, that was on the USS John F Kennedy when my father was. I remember walking thru the ship and seeing their logo on the pilots quarters and I was immediately hooked.
Second to them is the Tomcatters that have Felix the Cat running with a lit bomb. But I think the seeing the skull and crossbones on a jet would inflict more fear on the enemy.
Jeez! Gaza in the daytime is about as dull as say, Pasadena, TX, at night.
Blow something up, burn something down, somebody do something.
Dammit! If there's really a full-on war, a brutal blitz thru civilian areas, I'd like to see some effin' devastation already. What I see is dull, and the sounds? Hell, that could be from Juarez, if they just mixed in a little conjunto.
I am a Youtube dolt. but this one wasn't on youtube.
iTunes is so easy, even I can do it.
Well, if you download and install the latest FREE Real Player, whenever you go to a site with video, Real Player will pop up a lil query ask if you want to download the video.
Cant get much easier than that!
Jeez! Gaza in the daytime is about as dull as say, Pasadena, TX, at night.
Blow something up, burn something down, somebody do something.
Dammit! If there's really a full-on war, a brutal blitz thru civilian areas, I'd like to see some effin' devastation already. What I see is dull, and the sounds? Hell, that could be from Juarez, if they just mixed in a little conjunto.
You could probably dig up some clips of Detroit after the Pistons won the Championship a few years ago, or the '84 Tigers World Series. Not surprisingly you don't get the same response when the Red Wings win the cup but then again, that is a different fan base.
Lizards. I cannot decide who to vote for in the Fiskies.
being from Illinois, I'm really leaning toward Blagohair. I just don't know. There are so many qualified candidates.
I support Israel's right to defend herself by using force against all who would seek her destruction.
I condemn Hamas and all other terror organizations who use murder and terror as tools to facilitate political growth and religious conversion.
Please understand, that although I recognize the necessity of Israel's conduct, I will never celebrate the death or trauma so many have suffered.
Hamas by its philosophy and actions has caused pain on both sides of the border, and I will not celebrate the enormous pain and unnecessary bloodshed that wretched organization has brought to the region.
Thanks for the post, and recommendation. Amazon has a bit more economic stimulus now.
Victor Wooten on Bass, Bela on Synth Banjo, Roy (Future Man) Wooten, vic's bro, on the Synthaxe Drumitar. Thats the weird-looking instrument with which all the "drums" you hear are being played. No drummer, per se, you can't tell listening to any of their music. Such an incredible group of musicians.
You could probably dig up some clips of Detroit after the Pistons won the Championship a few years ago, or the '84 Tigers World Series. Not surprisingly you don't get the same response when the Red Wings win the cup but then again, that is a different fan base.
It's like this, I want some friggin' truth in advertising. Everything the guys over at Kos write seems to make gaza sound like a highlight reel from Leningrad and WWI spliced together, in real-time, and in living color.
So, the few evenings I've managed to tune in, the night time stuff was okay, even interesting.
But Daytime, when we can actually make out what's going on? Dull, very dull.
re: #1205 ggt Hey ggt! It is difficult this year, but fwiw, I voted for Mckinney, MSM, and - I think - Chrissy Mattews. But they are hard choices!
How are ya tonight?
I registered zionistmall.com. It will take a while for the new domain name to propagate through the DNS, in the meantime you can buy Zionist stuff here.
Hey ggt! It is difficult this year, but fwiw, I voted for Mckinney, MSM, and - I think - Chrissy Mattews. But they are hard choices!
How are ya tonight?
Hey ggt! It is difficult this year, but fwiw, I voted for Mckinney, MSM, and - I think - Chrissy Mattews. But they are hard choices!
How are ya tonight?
you just can't beat the "tingle in the leg and the other quotes of his that border on "man love" for the Chosen One. ;-)>
No, he's a parrotlet. About the size of a sparrow.
Ha, they appear to be a "newer" species of parrot, a designer parrot. Noticed no breeding history on Wiki. Cute, about the size of a Concure, possibly better language skills.
I registered zionistmall.com. It will take a while for the new domain name to propagate through the DNS, in the meantime you can buy Zionist stuff here.
Love the url! Sweet! Get some good security, and get to merchandising, already. Say, I'm in the import trade (mostly a little further east than the Levant, but you get the idea). Maybe we could make some shekels?
I agree... let us pray that after this Hamas will be thoroughly discredited and its goals abandoned.
Then Fatah takes over. Not convinced they are going to be any better for Gaza. I'm pretty sure there will be many many reprisals and I'm pretty sure a lot of these dead are a result of some infighting anyway
re: #1217 ggt Well the good news is that all three of my friends made it trhough their respective surgeries just fine. With two of 'em, still, apparently some idea of follow up radiation or chemo. The third was is supposed to be just fine.
As for me - crappy day, dental wise - went to dentist on emergency run late this afternoon, have appointment tomorrow morning as well - damn cancer/cancer meds rot my teeth from the insided out so no matter how much I brush and (now) floss and all, they just go on me.
Lizards. I cannot decide who to vote for in the Fiskies.
being from Illinois, I'm really leaning toward Blagohair. I just don't know. There are so many qualified candidates.
Blago isn't really an idiotarian. He's just a nasty, corrupt politician. He is actually quite smart, but he uses his intelligence for ill ends.
Well the good news is that all three of my friends made it trhough their respective surgeries just fine. With two of 'em, still, apparently some idea of follow up radiation or chemo. The third was is supposed to be just fine.
As for me - crappy day, dental wise - went to dentist on emergency run late this afternoon, have appointment tomorrow morning as well - damn cancer/cancer meds rot my teeth from the insided out so no matter how much I brush and (now) floss and all, they just go on me.
I am so sorry RW. Nothing worse than a toothache.
I would offer you my dentures, but I don't think that would be most helpful.
re: #1220 Walter L. Newton
Hi Walter - I know you've probably been asked this a million times today, so here's a million and one: how's your girlfriend doing? And how are you doing?
Are you asking if Bonnie Rait had any other hits? LOL!
Very talented, and I'm glad she has made a sh!t-load of money off this song, but it seems to be the only one I hear on the radio and I'm f'ing tired of it.
Well the good news is that all three of my friends made it trhough their respective surgeries just fine. With two of 'em, still, apparently some idea of follow up radiation or chemo. The third was is supposed to be just fine.
As for me - crappy day, dental wise - went to dentist on emergency run late this afternoon, have appointment tomorrow morning as well - damn cancer/cancer meds rot my teeth from the insided out so no matter how much I brush and (now) floss and all, they just go on me.
Very talented, and I'm glad she has made a sh!t-load of money off this song, but it seems to be the only one I hear on the radio and I'm f'ing tired of it.
the radio?...well that's a problem right there...
there is a cure
Love the url! Sweet! Get some good security, and get to merchandising, already. Say, I'm in the import trade (mostly a little further east than the Levant, but you get the idea). Maybe we could make some shekels?
The store is already open and has been for a while, I'm just giving its own domain name. I hold affiliate partnership with a bunch of vendors in Israel.
re: #1244 Wishing
Thanks Wishing - you're right it wouldn't help - still too many teeth in my mouth and my dentist and oral surgeon still have kids to put through college or grad school! LOL!
How are you doing tonight?
Blago isn't really an idiotarian. He's just a nasty, corrupt politician. He is actually quite smart, but he uses his intelligence for ill ends.
I think he is an idiot. Idiocy brought on by mental illness, perhaps, but an idiot, nonetheless. I agree that he is not in the same category as Ms. McKinney.
I don't know, can I vote more than once? I forget the rules and being from Chicagoland and all. Can dead people vote? How about Fluffy Al-Capon?
re: #1235 Outrider
I am afraid that you are right...
Fatah has never forgiven or reconciled with the fact that Hamas drove them out of Gaza and killed many of their number.
There are even reports that Hamas gunmen dragged their Arab opponents out of hospital beds and murdered them during the period when IDF forces were fighting them in the streets.
When Israel is done weakening Hamas and crippling its armed wing, I believe that more bloodshed (although much less reported by our media) will follow. There will be revenge, and it will not be pretty.
Thanks Wishing - you're right it wouldn't help - still too many teeth in my mouth and my dentist and oral surgeon still have kids to put through college or grad school! LOL!
How are you doing tonight?
Am doing great, thanks Real. Am happy that your friends seemed to come thru their surgeries ok. May they each have a speedy recovery.
Did you do the Fiskie Vote yet?
Hi Walter - I know you've probably been asked this a million times today, so here's a million and one: how's your girlfriend doing? And how are you doing?
She has b een moved to the rehab floor. They are going to keep her for at least 5 days, using a back brace, giving her Physical Therapy and at the end of it all, they'll decide if she is going to need back surgery or if the brace will enable the healings.
She sitting up in chairs, with the brace, eat some, walking some (with the brace and a walker), she whining like a princess, and she don't have squat, so she alright.
I'm tired, I don't get to get any of the happy pills.
Last week I went to the site pizzaidf.org and donated a few bucks to buy pizza for an IDF platoon. Got this very nice email today:
We are an artillery unit doing service on the northern border of Israel. The other night while it was cold and rainy we were surprised when we received pizza and coke from you.
In the name of my soldiers I would like to thank you for your kind gift and let you know that it warmed our hearts to know that there are people like you thinking of us.
I certainly never expected a thank you note, but it made ME feel great to hear from the actual person who received the gift.
These pictures do not really look like a city that has been bombed day and night for 18 days.
I don't remember "humanitarian trucks" lined up to bring succor to the enemy in the olden days. Those Israelis are lowering the bar for being vicious killers.
I'm a lot more vicious than they are, and I'm a really nice person--like a Canadian, in fact.
I don't remember "humanitarian trucks" lined up to bring succor to the enemy in the olden days. Those Israelis are lowering the bar for being vicious killers.
I'm a lot more vicious than they are, and I'm a really nice person--like a Canadian, in fact.
/Sarc/not sarc...I can't decide
Last time I checked, Hamas did not send any humanitarian trucks after they sent a suicide bomber into a pizza parlor.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Reverend.
Last time I checked, Hamas did not send any humanitarian trucks after they sent a suicide bomber into a pizza parlor.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition Reverend.
Hear! hear! A beer and a benediction for the pizza-munching defenders of humanity. Don't worry - Walter said he'd cover it.
Oh yeah, Mckinney, MSM and Chrissy Matthews - you?
So far, just MSM. I have two to squander on the scoundrels, and am torn between that antisemitic idiot, Barfcanon, the UN tool, al Baradei, Code Pink and Mr Internet.
Haven't decided yet.
re: #1273 Walter L. Newton
Well I hope the brace does it - spinal surgery is always or at least appears to me to always be an iffy proposition - I have two friends who have had 6 surgeries between them, all for compressed disks. So I DO hope the brace works for her!
" I don't get to get any of the happy pills." Doesn't seem fair, does it? I mean hell you're the one who has to drag butt to the hospital and take care of her and her personal affairs for a while, you ought to get some happy pills for yourself! LOL!
The pizza comes from a kosher place in Jerusalem where they're Israelis who know how to get it to the IDF. Don't know how many local pizza places in Baghdad or Kabul will run takeout to US military bases
So far, just MSM. I have two to squander on the scoundrels, and am torn between that antisemitic idiot, Barfcanon, the UN tool, al Baradei, Code Pink and Mr Internet.
Haven't decided yet.
One look at your retirement portfolio should help make up your mind. (Barney Frank.)
I think he is an idiot. Idiocy brought on by mental illness, perhaps, but an idiot, nonetheless. I agree that he is not in the same category as Ms. McKinney.
I don't know, can I vote more than once? I forget the rules and being from Chicagoland and all. Can dead people vote? How about Fluffy Al-Capon?
Capone wasn't so fluffy. But he did say something worth repeating about politicos like Blago:
"A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But a guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician, who gives about half his time to covering up so that no one will know he's a thief. A hard-working crook will - and can - buy these birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he hates the sight of them".
Source: Mark Lavell and Bill Helmer. The Quotable Al Capone.
Donate to the USO...
the USO provides coffee, a place to shower, pizza, burgers, a place to sit in the airports all over the US for US troops. In war zones they provide phone cards to call home, movies, books, cds, dvds, drinks, and they sponor live shows for the troops.
Hamas can send their dead to the Democrats. They need more voters.
Why not? When they're alive, they serve the Party - as witness the Gaza phone banks for the ONE, and the surprising large number of t-shirts bought by GAZANS from hopey-changey merchandising.com
re: #1297 Syrah
Hey Syrah! Yeah, I wanted to vote for him, too! But Chris Dodd deserved at least a mention there, as did several others - I mean this is a tough competition this year!
Then Fatah takes over. Not convinced they are going to be any better for Gaza. I'm pretty sure there will be many many reprisals and I'm pretty sure a lot of these dead are a result of some infighting anyway
This needs to be repeated a few times. A lot of the deaths are due to infighting among the Palestinians.
Does anyone reading this wonder what life in an anarchical society might be like? This is an example.
The pizza comes from a kosher place in Jerusalem where they're Israelis who know how to get it to the IDF. Don't know how many local pizza places in Baghdad or Kabul will run takeout to US military bases
Most of the larger bases in Iraq have Pizza Hut, Burger King, Taco Bell and Seattles Beast (kind of like Cinnabon).
When I missed the chow hall sometimes I'd grab a burger at Burger King. Occasionally I would take my Iraqi counter parts over to the American side of the base and have a Pizza with them.
Hey Syrah! Yeah, I wanted to vote for him, too! But Chris Dodd deserved at least a mention there, as did several others - I mean this is a tough competition this year!
One look at your retirement portfolio should help make up your mind. (Barney Frank.)
Yes he certainly has impacted my life, but slyly, not so much as an idiot, though of course he is. Besides, idiot is a word that may be too manly for Barneyboy. Gore, now, is an IDIOT. CodePink, en masse, are idiots, having MAYBE one brain among them.
al Baradei, just cuz.
re: #1302 Dark_Falcon
Whoa great quote! And so true, too.
Or as 3 wood put it out here a couple of days ago, the Illinois Better Business Bureau should say "You license plates will be made by our former governors!"
LOL!
Think Crips and Bloods; roughly the same, but with artillery.
Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine Schanzer, director of policy at the Jewish Policy Center and counterterrorism analyst for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the U.S. Department of Treasury, investigates the conflict between rival Palestinian factions with nuance and detail as he exposes the long-broiling tensions and violent eruptions between Fatah and Hamas—even as the two sides attempted to pretend that the Palestinians were still united under one flag. The author posits that only by rejecting the platforms of both parties will the Palestinian people begin to break the self-destructive cycle and provides a concise historical survey from the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood—the template for many Islamist groups—in 1928 to the recent conflict in Lebanon and a thorough comparison of Fatah's and Hamas's leadership. Neophytes to the tangled world of Palestine's internal conflict will be treated to a serious, no-frills account; those readers more familiar with the issues will enjoy how Schanzer weaves a web of connectivity between the Palestinian conflict with Israel, the conflicts involving Lebanon, the rise of al-Qaeda and American complicity.
The pizza comes from a kosher place in Jerusalem where they're Israelis who know how to get it to the IDF. Don't know how many local pizza places in Baghdad or Kabul will run takeout to US military bases
It was quiet, too quiet, my eyes were just getting used to the dark, when off in the shadows I could make out the faint outline of some sort of bird...In a minute I came to know just what kind of bird it was. It was the kind of bird that just would not shut up, no matter what was going on around it; the kind of rooster that crowed while mating, crowed while eating, crowed when it was happy, crowed when it was sad, the damned bird probably crowed when it was asleep.. I was just about to see if it could crow while its obnoxious neck was being wrung, when a mortar blast...
re: #1315 Promethea
I think it's more like someplace run by a buncha Warlords or something - these guys just LOVE TO KILL. Jews/Israelis if possible, if not, then each other.
It'd be more accurate to point out how the upcoming ice age may incite new wars. Ask the Germans what they think about the gangsters in Russia jacking around with their natural gas supply.
My money is on the Germans this time around, to kick their butts...
Yes he certainly has impacted my life, but slyly, not so much as an idiot, though of course he is. Besides, idiot is a word that may be too manly for Barneyboy. Gore, now, is an IDIOT. CodePink, en masse, are idiots, having MAYBE one brain among them.
al Baradei, just cuz.
Security on American bases in Iraq is tight, something about VBIEDs (vehicle borne IEDs)... by the time the food got in it would have long grown cold and started to grow mould.
Fortunately, you have many fast food joints on the bigger bases in Iraq... can't speak of Afghanistan... have not been there.
Is the plan to starve them out of the hospital basement?
That would be my plan.
In other life, I would have been a great military leader. Surround the place, and send in the smells of delicious food. Psychological warfare at its best, and most humane.
I give to Operation Gratitude. I like the idea of delivering a pizza tho.
You wouldn't want a local Baghdad food establishment delivering food to American troops... the sanitation standards... well lots of gastroenteritis would follow among the troops.
And then the risk that pizza delivery men would be jihadists... does the Fort Dixx jihadists ring a bell?
Re charities for military, I'll add Canadian and British military charity sites to the list. I'm a Yank and donate to the USO, but have also donated (albeit small, I ain't rich) to these also. CFPSA: Canadian Forces Military Families Fund
re: #1379 Floral Giraffe
HA! Y'all got NOTHING on me! I really, I mean REALLY hate going to the dentist unless I'm in pain - cleaning? If I ain't hurting and nothings loose, forget about it!
You wouldn't want a local Baghdad food establishment delivering food to American troops... the sanitation standards... well lots of gastroenteritis would follow among the troops.
And then the risk that pizza delivery men would be jihadists... does the Fort Dixx jihadists ring a bell?
We have a couple of Chicago Pizzerias that deliver all over the country. Was wondering if any of them have contracts or arrangements with the military. Lou Malnati's is a favorite.
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I hear alot of semi-truck traffic moving around...tanks have a very distinct sound...like a jet engine or diesel with A LOT of clanking on the pavement...
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We have a couple of Chicago Pizzerias that deliver all over the country. Was wondering if any of them have contracts or arrangements with the military. Lou Malnati's is a favorite.
I just hate to think of the troops eating Tombstone.
I wonder if any of them will be making deliveries to the White House once Obama is inaugurated. He has fairly good taste in Chicago area eateries and I hope he maintains those ties. I'd like to see some of Chicago's restaurants get some national press from him. Yes, I know I'm praising and rooting for Obama here, but this is something he could do that would be all to the good.
The locals are probably playing with a lot more explosives more often than usual so there is likely to be a larger number of "work accidents" than normally seen, too. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that quite a number of those guys have accidentally blown themselves to bits from time to time over the past couple of weeks.
I just posted that video of the police removing the Israeli flag in the window of the apartment in the western German city of Duisburg the other day.
It's in the "Europe" section of the spin off links.
That's fog/mist. Smoke knows no altitude limitations.
You'll know the sound of tanks on the move when you hear it. Nothing else sounds quite like them, (think drag racing bulldozers), and no other tank sounds like the Merkava, the worlds only front engine/front drive Main Battle Tank.
The finger would rot and fall off, or you would risk gangrene. I would prefer that you muzzle the rabid nuisance. It would benefit all concerned.
I was saying that was what Truck Monkey's request amounted to, not that I thought it was a good idea. I'd like the IDF to give Rosie a bird's-eye view of Gaza from an F-16 and then drop her along with the rest of the bomb-load. Though she's so rancid that the UN would then condemn Israel for using chemical weapons.
We have a couple of Chicago Pizzerias that deliver all over the country. Was wondering if any of them have contracts or arrangements with the military. Lou Malnati's is a favorite.
Connie's is available in the grocery store now.
Where I was in Iraq there was Pizza Hut on base. It was pretty much the same as in the states.
I just hate to think of the troops eating Tombstone.
I've never seen an image on this. I figure it has something to do with the lousy speeds of my Lubbockite-maintained "broadband" connection. I've used five different ISPs in the last year and not one of them will consistently run streaming video.
LOL! Was he pissed? I hope not, White Rasta's a good guy - but still man you got the goods!
He has not commented on it as yet... heh heh, but i suspect that when he sees it he will commence to using words like blood claat, raas claat and many other words that should not be used in mixed or polite company.
That's fog/mist. Smoke knows no altitude limitations.
You'll know the sound of tanks on the move when you hear it. Nothing else sounds quite like them, (think drag racing bulldozers), and no other tank sounds like the Merkava, the worlds only front engine/front drive Main Battle Tank.
PATIENCE,
R
Render, I think you are forgetting about inversion layers. I see them here in the Puget Sound region, mostly in the winter. The smoke from a chimney will rise a few feet and then spread sideways even when there is no wind.
I wonder if any of them will be making deliveries to the White House once Obama is inaugurated. He has fairly good taste in Chicago area eateries and I hope he maintains those ties. I'd like to see some of Chicago's restaurants get some national press from him. Yes, I know I'm praising and rooting for Obama here, but this is something he could do that would be all to the good.
I've got headphones on now...hear people talking in the background (youngsters/teens) and vehicular traffic...emergency vehicle passed by...no sounds of battle or UAV's yet...
I used to eat Pizza from Pizza Hut on base the American side of the Base at Taji when I was in Iraq. And I must add that the KBR run DFAC (chow hall) did make a pretty good variety of pizza too, and you could have pizza for lunch or dinner any day of the week.
I've got headphones on now...hear people talking in the background (youngsters/teens) and vehicular traffic...emergency vehicle passed by...no sounds of battle or UAV's yet...
How long do you think it will be til we have scents via PC? Watch a demonstration and you start hacking and your eyes water. Or the distinct odor of gunpowder? 5 years, 10?
Haha! I put on the headphones so as not to wake the rest of the family with the noise. Plus this old Mac has the most unbelievably crappy speakers. Even the war sounds like sh*t on them.
We have a couple of Chicago Pizzerias that deliver all over the country. Was wondering if any of them have contracts or arrangements with the military. Lou Malnati's is a favorite.
I was saying that was what Truck Monkey's request amounted to, not that I thought it was a good idea. I'd like the IDF to give Rosie a bird's-eye view of Gaza from an F-16 and then drop her along with the rest of the bomb-load. Though she's so rancid that the UN would then condemn Israel for using chemical weapons.
How long do you think it will be til we have scents via PC? Watch a demonstration and you start hacking and your eyes water. Or the distinct odor of gunpowder? 5 years, 10?
I'm sure that someone is working on it as we speak...
re: #1449 shanec99
Hey - I love reggae and spliffs (well back before I got sick anyway) but I have to say ya lost me on "blood claat, raas claat"! Could y'all translate?
We have a couple of Chicago Pizzerias that deliver all over the country. Was wondering if any of them have contracts or arrangements with the military. Lou Malnati's is a favorite.
How long do you think it will be til we have scents via PC? Watch a demonstration and you start hacking and your eyes water. Or the distinct odor of gunpowder? 5 years, 10?
re: #1457 ggt
Well, long as you don't call it deep dish pizza I'm ok with it.
But EVERYONE KNOWS that REAL pizza is very thin crust, lots of mozzarella, sauce, and dripping with oil!
Ya know, New York Pizza!
The best posting(s) I've seen here was one written by a girl who was on one of the towers during 911. That was a helluva story! with some vivid imagery of what it was like inside.
I can't remember her handle, but I think she is still a member. (This was written several years ago).
re: #1461 Wishing
Yeah, I know - just figured I'd kid around with ya!
This is a pretty neat idea of Charles, ya know - he gets that web cam feed, if something BIG TIME should develop we get to see it, if not it's just another open thread!
When i was between the age of 10-14 i used to have tanks and apc going past my house.
the effect of being an army brat.
We used to roll thru German towns back in the 80's. German civilians near the border would stand in the streets giving us the V for Victory sign. Young soldiers would ask me if that was the Peace sign. I'd tell them no, the Germans were signaling 2 marks to the dollar. Then I'd tell them when we signaled the same back it meant, 'Beat'cha twice'...
:)
Something has got to be done to break this "cycle of violence."
I hope that the Israelis and the Americans are thinking seriously about finding a way to make the Palestinians find another way to live.
If starving them until they cry "uncle," well, so be it. I'm an amateur chickenhawk. Serious professional military people have got to find a way to end this stupid madness.
Catering to their craziness and coddling their illusions is not the way, clearly.
The best posting(s) I've seen here was one written by a girl who was on one of the towers during 911. That was a helluva story! with some vivid imagery of what it was like inside.
I can't remember her handle, but I think she is still a member. (This was written several years ago).
Yeah, I know - just figured I'd kid around with ya!
This is a pretty neat idea of Charles, ya know - he gets that web cam feed, if something BIG TIME should develop we get to see it, if not it's just another open thread!
Agree, I love it! Has totally spiced up the Open Thread!
re: #1470 Abu Al-PoopypantsHmmm - any good stuff seems to happen before I get here! What do UAV's sound like and if you can hear 'em, can't you shoot 'em down?
Yeah, the good old days. The Germans on the border loved us, the ones in the bigger cities...not so much.
Dead on. When we were close to the border we didn't have to worry about vehicle crews breaking down on road marches. The German locals would take good care of them...great memories.
re: #1490 JCM
Yeah - and I gotta question Batman and Robin - I mean, how old was Robin, anyway?
Paging Mr. Wayne, paging Mr. Bruce Wayne, Gotham PD on line two!
The UAVs are just unmanned prop planes. The sound reminds me of the private planes from the nearby suburban airport a few miles from my house.
I would imagine that firing on them would reveal their positions to the good guys.
Something has got to be done to break this "cycle of violence."
I hope that the Israelis and the Americans are thinking seriously about finding a way to make the Palestinians find another way to live.
If starving them until they cry "uncle," well, so be it. I'm an amateur chickenhawk. Serious professional military people have got to find a way to end this stupid madness.
Catering to their craziness and coddling their illusions is not the way, clearly.
It's time for a new paradigm! (love that word)
I've long said we need to change the cost benefit analysis the terrorists make. For the last 50 years, it's paid off. Arafish become legitimate and a guest in the White House instead of room temperature.
It will take will, dedication and the willingness to inflict maximum violence on selected targets every single time a terror attack occurs. It will take hunting down the enablers, controllers and financiers of terror. It will take taking the fight to the State sponsors. When terror no longer pays dividends and only reaps massive, violent and sure reprisals will they change their tune and start to think of other options.
4 years 7000 rockets and how many homicide bombers and Israel said enough. But the world opinion is Israel is out of bounds. Terror pays, and Dr. Mads, and the protestors in this country only encourage them to continue.
The equation must change to end it. I don't see it happen with the current world consensus. I am in trembling fear of the event that it will take to change that consensus.
I completely agree with you. I'm surprized that Charles has gone this far with technology. It can be dehumanizing, technology and it fairly well objectifies the situation, eliminating responsibility, safely fighting a war from a safe distance, but, nonetheless, fighting it. Very surreal!
Loud buzzing (high rpm turboprops) with a pronounced Doppler effect. They usually fly above 10,000 feet, outside of small arms range. At that altitude they are really difficult to see due to their small size.
Black screen on the Gazacam and I can now type an entire sentence before I see the first letter hit the screen.
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Maybe Charles could set the auto open thread creator to make a new open thread each time a thread reaches 1,200 or so comments?
re: #1523 Abu Al-Poopypants Yeah, I know, but ya know if the bad guys don't shoot 'em down they are gonna get found by 'em anyway!
Wonder how high those suckers fly, anyway?
Dead on. When we were close to the border we didn't have to worry about vehicle crews breaking down on road marches. The German locals would take good care of them...great memories.
I almost wanna know your real name. Cause we broke down and had to wait 3 days for a Low-boy to pick us up. Me and my crewmate got taken care of very well.We even met a WWII Vet. and he praised us for the way the USA treated him.And finally two local Fraulines even tucked us in one night. Good times.on the border.
The best posting(s) I've seen here was one written by a girl who was on one of the towers during 911. That was a helluva story! with some vivid imagery of what it was like inside.
I can't remember her handle, but I think she is still a member. (This was written several years ago).
Her name was Tilly, and her story is preserved in one of Charles's sidebars.
I almost wanna know your real name. Cause we broke down and had to wait 3 days for a Low-boy to pick us up. Me and my crewmate got taken care of very well.We even met a WWII Vet. and he praised us for the way the USA treated him.And finally two local Fraulines even tucked us in one night. Good times.on the border.
I was in 3ID my friend...'85 to '88. I had a buddy up in 2AD FWD about the same time...
It will take will, dedication and the willingness to inflict maximum violence on selected targets every single time a terror attack occurs. It will take hunting down the enablers, controllers and financiers of terror. It will take taking the fight to the State sponsors. When terror no longer pays dividends and only reaps massive, violent and sure reprisals will they change their tune and start to think of other options.
you're right and we have Obama coming into the position of POTUS? Never gonna change for the better I'm afraid.
Although, if we could somehow get the "Palestinians" to understand what you said, get them to understand, no roads, no electric, no gas, little food and medicine, no schools NADA until the rockets, mortars and suicide belt wearers are done away with, we might have a chance. A slim one I admit, but a chance.
The sound just came back one and I'm confused.
There are two perfectly good streets allowing four directions of traffic with virtually no cars on them.
BUT...all I hear is traffic.
Is it canned?
I've long said we need to change the cost benefit analysis the terrorists make. For the last 50 years, it's paid off. Arafish become legitimate and a guest in the White House instead of room temperature.
It will take will, dedication and the willingness to inflict maximum violence on selected targets every single time a terror attack occurs. It will take hunting down the enablers, controllers and financiers of terror. It will take taking the fight to the State sponsors. When terror no longer pays dividends and only reaps massive, violent and sure reprisals will they change their tune and start to think of other options.
4 years 7000 rockets and how many homicide bombers and Israel said enough. But the world opinion is Israel is out of bounds. Terror pays, and Dr. Mads, and the protestors in this country only encourage them to continue.
The equation must change to end it. I don't see it happen with the current world consensus. I am in trembling fear of the event that it will take to change that consensus.
A hundred updings my friend, if only I had to give them...
you're right and we have Obama coming into the position of POTUS? Never gonna change for the better I'm afraid.
Although, if we could somehow get the "Palestinians" to understand what you said, get them to understand, no roads, no electric, no gas, little food and medicine, no schools NADA until the rockets, mortars and suicide belt wearers are done away with, we might have a chance. A slim one I admit, but a chance.
There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald Reagan
I almost wanna know your real name. Cause we broke down and had to wait 3 days for a Low-boy to pick us up. Me and my crewmate got taken care of very well.We even met a WWII Vet. and he praised us for the way the USA treated him.And finally two local Fraulines even tucked us in one night. Good times.on the border.
It was a treat to meet German WWII vets. The irony is that of all the ones I met, not one was captured by the Soviets. Few if any of those guys ever came home. Only ones I met were captured by the US. Soviets were a ruthless enemy...
I hate the evil MFs who teach their children to hate. That teach that hate and death are the only answers. The ones that brought this destruction to pass, and will use it to further more destruction. I pray for the people of Gaza, and I hope the ones behind the scenes, the hidden ones who are taking money to keep peace away at any cost, I hope those guys get it. They poison their peoples' minds with hate. Hate is easy. With hate you get an easy way, you don't have to forgive, you don't have to think. Israel and Palestine are at each others throat because of people outside of Israel and Palestine. There are wads of money being pumped into this conflict for the express purpose of conflict for conflicts sake. The Palestinians are Arabia's trained attack dog. They are good enough to kill the Jews, but they are not good enough to be allowed into the surrounding countries.
"Stay out of my country. Here is some money. Kill some Jews and you will get more."
'85 I was with 1 AD in Bamberg. I started my tour in 2 AD but my unit went to an air cav.
3 ID where was that?
I was 3rd Brigade in Ashaffenburg, not far from Hanau. Rest of the Division was in Wurzburg and Schweinfurt...
Heck, my GDP was close to Bamburg - figure that's not classified anymore...
I hate the evil MFs who teach their children to hate. That teach that hate and death are the only answers. The ones that brought this destruction to pass, and will use it to further more destruction. I pray for the people of Gaza, and I hope the ones behind the scenes, the hidden ones who are taking money to keep peace away at any cost, I hope those guys get it. They poison their peoples' minds with hate. Hate is easy. With hate you get an easy way, you don't have to forgive, you don't have to think. Israel and Palestine are at each others throat because of people outside of Israel and Palestine. There are wads of money being pumped into this conflict for the express purpose of conflict for conflicts sake. The Palestinians are Arabia's trained attack dog. They are good enough to kill the Jews, but they are not good enough to be allowed into the surrounding countries.
"Stay out of my country. Here is some money. Kill some Jews and you will get more."
re: #1549 stevieray
LOL! I have never understood this Cam bit much since after the first one - it's really unlikely we'll see anything happening that we will fully comprehend and, as one of my fellow Vietnam Vets said to me, "Infantry warfare is about 95% boredom and 5% sheer terror!" so this Web Cam is a neat thing, but again, I think we are unlikely to see anything really worth seeing live.
Yeah, that was sad. That's another thing that sticks in my craw. I know other people have differing opinions, but I liked Pattons' idea to take out the Ruskies while we were there. I just wonder where we'd be now.
Oh well, history,we can't change, but we can sure as hell make it.
LOL! I have never understood this Cam bit much since after the first one - it's really unlikely we'll see anything happening that we will fully comprehend and, as one of my fellow Vietnam Vets said to me, "Infantry warfare is about 95% boredom and 5% sheer terror!" so this Web Cam is a neat thing, but again, I think we are unlikely to see anything really worth seeing live.
Not to mention, at infantry small unit level, your world-view is limited to about 50 meters. WWIII could break out a mile away and you wouldn't know it...
:)
re: #1565 swamprat
"Palestine's biggest enemies are its friends." Amen to that (although I'd not use the term "Palestine"). And you could easily add "and if you'd all just TRY to buckle down and WORK to improve your lot in life, you might be pleasantly surprised. Peace can do wonders for attaining happiness.
I was 3rd Brigade in Ashaffenburg, not far from Hanau. Rest of the Division was in Wurzburg and Schweinfurt...
Heck, my GDP was close to Bamburg - figure that's not classified anymore...
Well that's the route they figured the Ivan would come. Did you spend anytime in Hoensfeld. Talk about a hell hole.
Not to mention, at infantry small unit level, your world-view is limited to about 50 meters. WWIII could break out a mile away and you wouldn't know it...
:)
The Israeli Defense Forces continue to face a good deal of heat from humanitarian groups such as Human Rights Watch, which say the military's tight cordon around Gaza City is taking a punishing toll on civilians who are in desperate need of humanitarian supplies.
Apparently Hamas, the terrorist "government" in Gaza, doesn't agree. As the Jerusalem Post reports:
Hamas on Monday raided some 100 aid trucks that Israel had allowed into Gaza, stole their contents and sold them to the highest bidders.
... Since the beginning of Operation Cast Lead, the IDF has facilitated the transfer of close to 900 trucks into the Gaza Strip with over 20,000 tons of basic food and medical supplies.
So Hamas loots 1 out of 9 aid trucks, not only stealing food and supplies from the mouths of its own people to fund more rockets but also jeopardizing Israel's inclination to allow future relief deliveries.
What are the chances that HRW, the United Nations, and other humanitarian organizations will now express the same outrage over relief access with Hamas that they showed with Israel? Far less than 1 in 9 is my guess.
Well that's the route they figured the Ivan would come. Did you spend anytime in Hoensfeld. Talk about a hell hole.
Hohenfels and Grafenwoer both. Both were nasty but Hohenfels was worse, I agree. I think I hated the mud the most. But we did do some hellacious training at both. We would've given the Russians 'what for' if they'd ever come. Thank God for everyone, they didn't...
Hohenfels and Grafenwoer both. Both were nasty but Hohenfels was worse, I agree. I think I hated the mud the most. But we did do some hellacious training at both. We would've given the Russians 'what for' if they'd ever come. Thank God for everyone, they didn't...
Graf, we did our gunnery training there. Boy it got foggy as a bitch. But yeah, hated Hohen, nothing but a muddy,hilly mess.
re: #1581 gmsc
And I'd bet it's been more than just those 100 aid trucks, too. As I've said before, Hamas gets to decide who gets what "goodies" and they save the very best aid for their leaders, some for their "fighters", swap the best of the rest for rockets and ammo, and give the crumbs remaining to the people THEY are supposed to be representing.
FUCK HUMAN RIGHT'S WATCH AND FUCK AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND ALL OF THEIR ILK.
All of HAMAS leaders have to be brought to justice for this situation. For every dead Israeli, every dead Palestinian civilian. ALL of them are the moral responsibility of HAMAS. ALL OF THEM.
Hohenfels and Grafenwoer both. Both were nasty but Hohenfels was worse, I agree. I think I hated the mud the most. But we did do some hellacious training at both. We would've given the Russians 'what for' if they'd ever come. Thank God for everyone, they didn't...
Thanks to you guys hunkered down in the mud, they had second thoughts.
And I'd bet it's been more than just those 100 aid trucks, too. As I've said before, Hamas gets to decide who gets what "goodies" and they save the very best aid for their leaders, some for their "fighters", swap the best of the rest for rockets and ammo, and give the crumbs remaining to the people THEY are supposed to be representing.
FUCK HUMAN RIGHT'S WATCH AND FUCK AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AND ALL OF THEIR ILK.
All of HAMAS leaders have to be brought to justice for this situation. For every dead Israeli, every dead Palestinian civilian. ALL of them are the moral responsibility of HAMAS. ALL OF THEM.
Hey Gaza Cam viewers. Let's take up a collection for the Gaza Cam operator to buy one of them new fangled web cams where the viewers can control the camera. Would make viewing a lot more interesting.
Hey Gaza Cam viewers. Let's take up a collection for the Gaza Cam operator to buy one of them new fangled web cams where the viewers can control the camera. Would make viewing a lot more interesting.
Hohenfels and Grafenwoer both. Both were nasty but Hohenfels was worse, I agree. I think I hated the mud the most. But we did do some hellacious training at both. We would've given the Russians 'what for' if they'd ever come. Thank God for everyone, they didn't...
Graf, we did our gunnery training there. Boy it got foggy as a bitch. But yeah, hated Hohen, nothing but a muddy,hilly mess.
/thanks for the correct spelling.
Yeah, we sure could put steel on target at Graf. Nice talking to you x-wing. Didn't mean to correct you on the spellings...I've always been anal when it comes to my own spelling...
:)
re: #1489 realwest
Well when you refer to someone as a "blood claat": you are calling them a piece of used female sanitary napkin.
A "rass claat" means a piece of used ass cloth... or used toilet paper.
They are very vile insults used among Jamaicans. Although some people will occasionally use them endearingly... I can't figure out why.
I have heard my brother say to a fellow:"You ole dead raas" translated:"You old dead ass" and the fellow smiled and both my brother and he laughed. It is an anomoly, but I accept it for what it is.
The current camera angle is pointed at the hill I've dubbed Merkava Ridge.
It got that name because I saw Merkava's and armored excavators working over that ridge and the surrounding area two nights ago. I believe that on the other side of that ridge is the Karni crossing point on the eastern Gaza border.
At the time, nobody else was reporting the presence of Israeli armor in Gaza City's outskirts.
I think that, in and of itself, is rather historical. We got to see live news , as it happened, from half a world away, in real time. We also got stark proof that Gaza City is not Stalingrad, Hue, or Berlin. It's not even close. It barely qualifys as a warzone, and it pales in comparison to a place like Sri Lanka or the Congo.
Well, long as you don't call it deep dish pizza I'm ok with it.
But EVERYONE KNOWS that REAL pizza is very thin crust, lots of mozzarella, sauce, and dripping with oil!
Ya know, New York Pizza!
The Sicilians and Neopolitans may have something to say about that. I lived in Sicily for a while when I was stationed at Sigonella... trust me, the Sicilians have a lot to say about many subjects, especially food.
re: #1606 mean Gene
Hmmm I'd want to start a land invasion way before 9 AM, but I suspect all that smoke from the smoke bombs is intended to cover the IDF advances on the ground - maybe some house-to-house with armor back up.
that was a nice little bit of theater, wasn't it? Guy being supported by his cohorts, they drop him (literally) onto a stretcher and off he goes into the waiting ambulance... how nice of them to wait for the camera. Made such exciting TV.
Finishing fourth, behind the blog Atlas Shrugs, was an especially bitter pill for Charles Johnson, who only a year before had expelled Atlas Shrugs from his blog role for not submitting to his power. It is a sign, along with several bitter blog wars with anti-Jihad and conservative blogs, that LGF is declining in influence and power.
I think that someone here can come up with a more suitable entry...Don't you?
Yeah, we sure could put steel on target at Graf. Nice talking to you x-wing. Didn't mean to correct you on the spellings...I've always been anal when it comes to my own spelling...
:)
No, thanks seriously. Never paid much attention to the spelling of things in Germany. English is sometimes a challenge for me ;>}
that was a nice little bit of theater, wasn't it? Guy being supported by his cohorts, they drop him (literally) onto a stretcher and off he goes into the waiting ambulance... how nice of them to wait for the camera. Made such exciting TV.
It seemed they were carrying him one way. Once on the stretcher they took him back the other way.
pass the chips please... i m looking repeated scene of ambulance taking some pali supposed to be killed (only they are moving) ! now i know, why hamas propoganders were watching polish porn...
ah.. new screen ! i love change... hey the webcam has a Israeli phone and fax number... ach those zionist are spying in Gaza :p
NEw scene arrived, fire bridage watering a tree...
jeez, you would think these guys had never seen a fire before.
People the same world wide. An explosion. A fire. A crowd forms oblivious to the fact that if a rocket hits once, it can hit again. But then, that is a terrorist trick, not the Israelis. ;-)>
Yeah, whenever I know there's a chemical spewing I always go over and stand near it to get some in my lungs...NOT!
Are these people all idiots or what?!
re: #1627 gringotipico
Ya know I think maybe YOU could add that "although LGF finished fourth, it has more readership than all of the three who finished above it, including the Canadian Blog, small dead animals. If LGF's influence is waning, it's only because there are more blogs out there now including Jihad Watch, deemed not fit for a postion in the final voting but which cheered Atlas Shruggs on 'to beat LGF' and encouraged it's readers to back Atlas Shruggs".
re: #1642 shanec99
AH, yes I did, thanks but was caught up in the moving camera and smoke conversation I was having with MeanGene! Sorry - and thank you for the "translations" for me!
AH, yes I did, thanks but was caught up in the moving camera and smoke conversation I was having with MeanGene! Sorry - and thank you for the "translations" for me!
So if I can give you some advise, please do not use those words if you want to impress a Jamaican lady. You would be politely ignored.
Ya know I think maybe YOU could add that "although LGF finished fourth, it has more readership than all of the three who finished above it, including the Canadian Blog, small dead animals. If LGF's influence is waning, it's only because there are more blogs out there now including Jihad Watch, deemed not fit for a postion in the final voting but which cheered Atlas Shruggs on 'to beat LGF' and encouraged it's readers to back Atlas Shruggs".
Come on, folks. This has nothing to do with "influence waning." The Weblog Awards are based on silly Internet polls -- they do not measure anything real, and it's not difficult to manipulate them. It's supposed to be fun, nothing more, and it has exactly the significance any other Internet poll has -- zero.
"Awards are based on silly Internet polls -- they do not measure anything real, and it's not difficult to manipulate them."
If we learned nothing else from Ron Paul, it would be that.
Opened up the cam at 02:20 Gaza time (16:20 CST), after a few moments of quietude two LOUD explosions, a pause, then about a dozen more in rapid succession. Then hell broke loose. It appears that the shit is hitting the fan in Gaza. The cam caught it magnificently until it croaked at 17:00.
its about 5 miles out from the microphone, nasty stuff
I know that being addicted to this is wrong, but I am driven to see - to know - what is happening there...It was all I could do to not watch at work...
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