Hope, Change, and the Egg of Power
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Yes, it’s true. Barack Obama has an ‘Egg of Power’ in the Oval Office.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:26:15pm |
Eggs, all the way to the top?
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karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:27:00pm |
In 2010 we will take back Congress and make an omelet.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:27:13pm |
Especially proverbs about “power” — this sculpture doesn’t illustrate the Big Man phenomenon terribly well, does it?
Again, CBBHO just doesn't get it.
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:28:07pm |
I have three eggs of power- green, blue and pink. I used to have 5, but I lost the purple and yellow ones. I blame Bush.
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ClosetConservative Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:28:24pm |
Bacon and eggs; The chicken contributes
But the pig (taxpayer) gives his all.
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gclaghorn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:28:26pm |
I can just feel the power flowing from my monitor! Spare me, O Egg, for I am not worthy!
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:28:30pm |
Well, he's definitely guilty of buying tourist nick-knacks.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:28:34pm |
We are the Eggmen
I am the Walrus
Goo goo ga choob
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karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:28:56pm |
re: #3 buzzsawmonkey
I fell into a burning Egg of Power...
... and I tried to get a tax cut
as the debt got higher ...
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IslandLibertarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:29:07pm |
Is it fertilized?
If so, it can be aborted.
If he chooses to................
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:29:46pm |
It's the incredible, edible egg.
Designed to keep him away from interns.
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A Kiwi Infidel Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:30:05pm |
The Goose that laid the golden egg, I can understand, but a wooden hand holding a wooden egg? Doesnt work for me.
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karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:30:21pm |
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:30:28pm |
Well, he is the Chicken Little of the Sea: THE WATER IS RISING! THE WATER IS RISISING!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:30:42pm |
The entire mystique surrounding Our Messiah-King is so New-Agey and Cultish.....it gives me a royal case of the Creeps and Heebie-Jeebies.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:30:43pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:30:56pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:31:25pm |
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:01pm |
You all laugh and smirk, but the yoke's on us.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:02pm |
re: #24 ArmyWife
It's a tourist trinket they sell all over Africa. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in Asia and Polynesia too.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:19pm |
I think that is left over from the Clinton administration. That was commissioned by Hillary. She's holding one of Bill's nuts.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:44pm |
re: #24 ArmyWife
What the hell is an egg of power?
“I am made to tremble and I fear!”
Pope John XXIII
/
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path Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:50pm |
re: #24 ArmyWife
What the hell is an egg of power?
It's like those who think Obama knows what he's doing.
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:51pm |
Get yer own: [Link: www.historycompany.com...]
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:54pm |
re: #31 Killgore Trout
It's a tourist trinket they sell all over Africa. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in Asia and Polynesia too.
It'd be a kick if there were a sticker on the bottom of this one that said, "MADE IN CHINA".
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:32:59pm |
re: #24 ArmyWife
What the hell is an egg of power?
A symbol of the proper exercise of power. Hold onto the egg too hard and one crushes it, hold too lightly and it slips from one's fingers.
New-Agey African BS that shows the Cultish nature of Our Messiah-King.
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IslandLibertarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:33:12pm |
I think it's just to remind "0" that he's a chicken.
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karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:33:35pm |
re: #20 MandyManners
Well, he is the Chicken Little of the Sea: THE WATER IS RISING! THE WATER IS RISISING!
Heh.
Here is an alarmist article to add to the insane catastrophic global warming pile.
Sea levels will rise to levels of last ice age!
/ Sea levels dropped in the last ice age. By many many feet. That is where the ice came from ...
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:33:36pm |
Is this the one egg, or is just one of the ones that is controlled by the one egg?
I really don't want to know who has that one.
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:33:41pm |
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:33:48pm |
re: #31 Killgore Trout
It's a tourist trinket they sell all over Africa. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in Asia and Polynesia too.
Ahhh, it's how he gets his secret instructions from.........
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:33:53pm |
re: #37 MandyManners
It'd be a kick if there were a sticker on the bottom of this one that said, "MADE IN CHINA".
I would be even more surprised if it had a sticker saying "MADE IN USA"
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karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:34:12pm |
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pink freud Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:34:27pm |
Sulfur smells like rotten eggs. Perhaps Chavez will get a whiff of this.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:34:37pm |
re: #36 carefulnow
Get yer own: [Link: www.historycompany.com...]
Same outfit selling the Obama's Little Blue Book.
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:34:49pm |
Honcos, take heart. Obama may have an egg of power, but we hold the Rooster of Competence!
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:35:08pm |
it's a stupid gimmicky thing,
very appropriate for him.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:35:28pm |
re: #51 ArmyWife
Honcos, take heart. Obama may have an egg of power, but we hold the Rooster of Competence!
You implying we can choke our chickens?!? ;)
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gclaghorn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:35:31pm |
re: #30 solomonpanting
You all laugh and smirk, but the yoke's on us.
Oh, boy, I have an egg on my face!
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:35:48pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:35:58pm |
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:36:38pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:37:02pm |
re: #57 carefulnow
"Pocket Obama." Who buys this stuff?
Acolytes and worshipers of Our Messiah-King.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:37:28pm |
"take my arm..take my leg...
oh honey dont you take my egg...
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:38:11pm |
re: #61 FurryOldGuyJeans
But is it enough to stimulate the economy?
/
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:38:23pm |
re: #59 chee toe
Is that endangered hard-wood in the Oval office I see?
It doesn't matter because Our Messiah-King uses it as a symbol of power and worship. Only mere mortals sin environmentally.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:38:46pm |
re: #52 nyc redneck
it's a stupid gimmicky thing,
very appropriate for him.
Interesting that The One would need such a visual anchor close at hand.
Wasn't a response to the interview question ... "do you ever have doubts? .... "Never"
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curt9988 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:38:51pm |
Can you imagine the fear being stuck in terrorists' hearts as they read this? No, I don't think you can.
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:39:09pm |
From the same outfit making a buck selling the blue book:
' The wooden sculpture that Barack Obama has brought into the Oval Office combines African tribal tradition with a poignant message. Obtained on a 2006 visit to his ancestral Kenya, the “Egg of Power” symbolizes the fragility of chiefly power: According to an ancient proverb, power is like an egg; if it’s held too tightly, it breaks, and if it’s held too loosely, it will slip from grasp."
Yours for $150.00
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:39:11pm |
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:39:14pm |
Just before Sharia makes it all illegal, Kwansa will be mandatory for a year or two.
And all that other African claptrap.
(Like a handshake with a white man can make your (you-know-what) disappear.)
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chee toe Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:39:44pm |
re: #68 FurryOldGuyJeans
That's right - there's not gonna be any more hard-wood in there....
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:39:55pm |
re: #57 carefulnow
"Pocket Obama." Who buys this stuff?
We all do.....
/
It is an unofficial requirement for to own, read and carry this book at all times......
*a couple clicks on the right arrows will get you to this page*
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:39:55pm |
re: #71 avanti
does it come with a free ShamWow? Snuggie? WackChop?
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path Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:40:11pm |
re: #71 avanti
From the same outfit making a buck selling the blue book:
' The wooden sculpture that Barack Obama has brought into the Oval Office combines African tribal tradition with a poignant message. Obtained on a 2006 visit to his ancestral Kenya, the “Egg of Power” symbolizes the fragility of chiefly power: According to an ancient proverb, power is like an egg; if it’s held too tightly, it breaks, and if it’s held too loosely, it will slip from grasp."
Yours for $150.00
Not really, ours for trillions and trillions.....
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:40:16pm |
All kidding aside, it does look pretty cool, and the concept behind it is neat.
Won't make me change my opinion of our current POTUS and his policies, though.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:40:29pm |
re: #71 avanti
From the same outfit making a buck selling the blue book:
' The wooden sculpture that Barack Obama has brought into the Oval Office combines African tribal tradition with a poignant message. Obtained on a 2006 visit to his ancestral Kenya, the “Egg of Power” symbolizes the fragility of chiefly power: According to an ancient proverb, power is like an egg; if it’s held too tightly, it breaks, and if it’s held too loosely, it will slip from grasp."
Yours for $150.00
I swear that outfit was started by P.T. Barnum. So many idiots and fools with gobs of cash.
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Truck Monkey Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:40:30pm |
Nanoo Nanoo. Mork to Orson. Come in Orson.
/Robin Williams at his cocaine crazed best
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:40:39pm |
re: #71 avanti
From the same outfit making a buck selling the blue book:
' The wooden sculpture that Barack Obama has brought into the Oval Office combines African tribal tradition with a poignant message. Obtained on a 2006 visit to his ancestral Kenya, the “Egg of Power” symbolizes the fragility of chiefly power: According to an ancient proverb, power is like an egg; if it’s held too tightly, it breaks, and if it’s held too loosely, it will slip from grasp."
Yours for $150.00
If that's what it means, i hope its a lesson he takes to heart. If he does, he'll be a better man and a better leader for it.
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mfarmer1 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:40:41pm |
Makes one long for the days when our President had a jar of jelly beans on the Resolute Desk.
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:41:04pm |
Forget the African egg.
I like the Escher Egg:
Image: escher_egg.jpg
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IslandLibertarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:41:09pm |
One Egg to rule them all, One Egg to find them, One Egg to bring them all and in the darkness bind them ...
MMMMMMMMMMM....omelet!.........
Homer Simpson
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Inquisitive Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:41:42pm |
re: #24 ArmyWife
What the hell is an egg of power?
from African proverb...power held to tight....breaks....hile to loose...it slips away.......
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path Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:41:58pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:42:04pm |
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:42:06pm |
re: #79 Slumbering Behemoth
All kidding aside, it does look pretty cool, and the concept behind it is neat.
Won't make me change my opinion of our current POTUS and his policies, though.
Yea, felt a bit better with the concept. Better then my WTF ?
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:42:14pm |
re: #71 avanti
No, it was a hundred bucks! ...Wait a minute, are you ...
Pocket Obamas, get your Pocket Obamas - $75
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Inquisitive Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:42:19pm |
re: #88 Inquisitive
from African proverb...power held to tight....breaks....hile to loose...it slips away.......
hile=held
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:42:52pm |
re: #81 Truck Monkey
Nanoo Nanoo. Mork to Orson. Come in Orson.
/Robin Williams at his cocaine crazed best
Well, he's still very funny when he wants to be. Watching him when gets going is like watching a tornado throwing debris. Only in his case, the debris are jokes and the great majority of them are very funny.
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:43:26pm |
re: #92 avanti
I'd have felt better if it was a magical eight ball. It would have answered many, many questions I have about this week.
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Racer X Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:43:28pm |
re: #77 ArmyWife
does it come with a free ShamWow? Snuggie? WackChop?
No, but it does come with a free ShariaWow, Snnuzzie, and a HeadChop.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:43:33pm |
re: #32 jcm
That's the hand that is shoving bailouts up your wazoo.
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A Kiwi Infidel Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:43:49pm |
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:43:51pm |
re: #86 IslandLibertarian
One Egg to rule them all, One Egg to find them, One Egg to bring them all and in the darkness bind them ...
MMMMMMMMMMM....omelet!.........
Homer Simpson
Are you calling Obama a Dark Lord?!
RACIST!
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chee toe Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:43:59pm |
re: #100 ArmyWife
I'd have felt better if it was a magical eight ball. It would have answered many, many questions I have about this week.
Dead-on! LOL
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FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:09pm |
An Egg of Power. Heh.
One Egg to rule them all, one Egg to find them; one Egg ... o hell it's been over 20 years since I last read the Lord of the Rings. .
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:10pm |
Honco Roosters know that only hens lay eggs......
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saberry0530 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:30pm |
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Inquisitive Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:37pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:40pm |
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:45pm |
I just finished two bowls of the most wonderful chicken soup I have had in a long time. I don't know why, I didn't do anything special to make it. But, I want to share my recipe with everyone here.
First, you ask the chicken nicely to lay down next to your knife...
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IslandLibertarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:55pm |
re: #88 Inquisitive
from African proverb...power held to tight....breaks....hile to loose...it slips away.......
Then, wouldn't it be "The Gentle Hand of Power"?
I mean, it could be holding a butterfly or a crystal orb or a sea-kitten.........
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:44:58pm |
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:45:11pm |
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:45:28pm |
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LEGION Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:45:28pm |
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A Kiwi Infidel Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:45:36pm |
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:45:37pm |
it's supposed to be his hand holding the egg, which represents life.
he's got the hold world btw his fingers.
that is the context, in which i view this piece of art.
he is that vain.
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:45:49pm |
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:46:11pm |
You know, you have to hold an egg just right to break it in your hand.
Hold it wrong and it takes a tremendous amount of power to break.
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BingoBunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:46:40pm |
Lenin had 3 monkeys setting on his desk.. you know.. see nothing ..hear nothing.. say nothing.. very apt for the commie group/murder think.
Obama.. has a future omelet setting on his.. what a mess that egg will be.
/how many democrats does it take to scramble an egg..? how many democrats are there?
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Steve Rogers Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:46:41pm |
Obama believes there are 57 eggs in a dozen.
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:46:46pm |
re: #106 WriterMom
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Wouldn't you just love to have buzzsaw over for dinner some night?
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UberInfidel67 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:47:08pm |
re: #71 avanti
' The wooden sculpture that Barack Obama has brought into the Oval Office combines African tribal tradition with a poignant message. Obtained on a 2006 visit to his ancestral birthplace Kenya, the “Egg of Power” symbolizes the fragility of chiefly power: According to an ancient proverb, power is like an egg; if it’s held too tightly, it breaks, and if it’s held too loosely, it will slip from grasp.
Kidding kidding! lol
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:47:12pm |
re: #64 buzzsawmonkey
It's good to know there's at least one huevo in the Oval Office.
Don't sell The One short. I'll bet he's a regular huevón.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:47:15pm |
re: #125 carefulnow
[Link: upload.wikimedia.org...]
Pocket Obama =
?
Somebody early this morning was having fun at Amazon....
I caught a screen shot.
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:47:41pm |
From the link:
It’s allegedly based on some “ancient African proverb,” which means that (a) the proverb was made up by some white dude 20 years ago and (b) it completely contradicts the horrid reality on the ground in Africa — the last place from which we should be adopting “proverbs.”
As to (a), that's a bold statement to make without any evidence. And regarding (b), I'll take my proverbs where I find them. Denigrating an entire continent of people and their wisdom (I reserve judgment on this "proverb" until I actually find someone who can tell me what it says) because of the misery in which many of them live seems a little bit, well, racist to these old eyes. Is everything Confucius ever said garbage because the Chicoms hold power in his homeland?
This kind of thing is easy to mock but where does it get us?
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:07pm |
re: #127 mean Gene
You know, you have to hold an egg just right to break it in your hand.
Hold it wrong and it takes a tremendous amount of power to break.
not if you drop it.
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:11pm |
re: #119 jcm
You be the judge...
[Video]
Er, that woman said fisting. I don't think she realized that it has more than one meaning, and not the one she meant. Me thinks she need to check her urban dictionary more often.
On a side note, what kind of sick mutherfucker has videos like that bookmarked, really to clip and paste into message on blogs like this?
:)
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:14pm |
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:19pm |
re: #130 HoosierHoops
Wouldn't you just love to have buzzsaw over for dinner some night?
We need to have a lizard convention. everyone. We need to find the exact geographical center of the US and meet there.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:22pm |
re: #37 MandyManners
They are almost all made in China, Thailand or Malaysia. Most experienced travelers will notice the same stuff in tourist traps wherever you go. There are genuine African things you can pick up but as a general rule they don't have the skilled workforce to make them. They are all made overseas and imported.
In all my travels there is one thing that I regret not buying. When I was in Morocco I was digging through a box of miscellaneous "antique" metal stuff (door knobs, hinges, etc) and found an iron Star of David. it was simple but had some detail carving. I asked the guy about it because I didn't know there were any Jews in Morocco. He said it was very old. I though he was lying and didn't buy it. He was probably right.
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:27pm |
I have not seen this level of doo-dads since many of my Catholic friends built their Kennedy shrines.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:38pm |
re: #79 Slumbering Behemoth
All kidding aside, it does look pretty cool, and the concept behind it is neat.
Won't make me change my opinion of our current POTUS and his policies, though.
I would prefer seeing a bronze eagle, talons outstretched, wings up and back, screaming down to kill our enemies.
And I am partial to the warrior class vs jawboners.
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Inquisitive Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:56pm |
re: #117 IslandLibertarian
Then, wouldn't it be "The Gentle Hand of Power"?
I mean, it could be holding a butterfly or a crystal orb or a sea-kitten.........
I don't know...LOL..... I just hope he is holding it loosely....so it will slip away!
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MacDuff Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:48:59pm |
re: #76 jcm
We all do.....
/It is an unofficial requirement for to own, read and carry this book at all times......
*a couple clicks on the right arrows will get you to this page*
I thought that "the little blue book" was a joke. Geez, this stuff creeps me out more each day.
What the friggin' hell is going on in this country?!
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notutopia Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:49:04pm |
The proverb may have been up 20 years ago by a white guy, but Obama's family is very proud of him. And, they're turning out to be good financial capitalists because of his presidency.
I wish we were faring the same good fortune.
[Link: isteve.blogspot.com...]
Obama's election brought a sense of vindication, friends and family members say, particularly as government officials have made the trek down the dirt road to the Obama compound to pay their respects. President Mwai Kibaki declared a national holiday in Obama's honor.
"The death was a great blow to the Obamas," Oluoch, the cousin, said. "We had no one else to be proud of. But 26 years later, God gave us another one."
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Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:49:23pm |
That statue reminds me of my youth. Tossing eggs at houses on devil's night.
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:49:52pm |
re: #86 IslandLibertarian
One Egg to rule them all, One Egg to find them, One Egg to bring them all and in the darkness bind them ...
MMMMMMMMMMM....omelet!.........
Homer Simpson
Heee! Hee-hee! Oh, triple-dee-doo-dah updings for you.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:49:56pm |
re: #137 Walter L. Newton
Er, that woman said fisting. I don't think she realized that it has more than one meaning, and not the one she meant. Me thinks she need to check her urban dictionary more often.
On a side note, what kind of sick mutherfucker has videos like that bookmarked, really to clip and paste into message on blogs like this?
:)
Huh, who you talking about?
*looks around innocently*
Cause if you're talking about me I resemble that!
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:49:57pm |
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quickjustice Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:50:10pm |
From "Horton Hatches the Egg", by Dr. Seuss:
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."
Send it to your congressman and senators!
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:50:35pm |
Who the hell makes a sculpture based off farm industry commercials?
And who the hell buys it?
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USBeast Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:50:35pm |
Someone Photoshop some hair on the egg and let's see where that thread goes.
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:50:57pm |
re: #140 bellamags
We need to have a lizard convention. everyone. We need to find the exact geographical center of the US and meet there.
Great Idea..I hear Indiana is the Center of the universe..err Country..
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:02pm |
re: #152 quickjustice
From "Horton Hatches the Egg", by Dr. Seuss:
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."
Send it to your congressman and senators!
It wouldn't work for my representatives. They are all jackasses.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:19pm |
re: #140 bellamags
We need to have a lizard convention. everyone. We need to find the exact geographical center of the US and meet there.
Kansas - are you kidding? Paging Dorothy.
/
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BigMoo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:27pm |
And I used to carry the 'instrument of absolute arbitration' in my duty holster...I can assure you that my instrument delivered positive results.
Three deep breaths, hopenchange, hopenchange, hopenchange...
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Palandine Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:29pm |
Shouldn't that be Ego of Power?
"We are the ones we've been waiting for..."
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:35pm |
Apparently one of 0bama's friends copied Salvadore Dali's Hand holding an egg in this painting:
[Link: www.humanflowerproject.com...]
Title.....The Metamorphosis of Narcissus
Fitting.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:37pm |
re: #152 quickjustice
From "Horton Hatches the Egg", by Dr. Seuss:
"I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent."
Send it to your congressman and senators!
Yes, an elephant is faithful, but what about a RINO?
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:49pm |
Didn't Mork, of Mork and Mindy show up on this planet in some kind of inter-galactic egg?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:51pm |
re: #123 A Kiwi Infidel
This has got to be the first time I've ever beaten another Lizard to a joke. Yay me!
/Hey, Obama healeded mai sef asteam!
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:51:52pm |
re: #156 HoosierHoops
Great Idea..I hear Indiana is the Center of the
universe..err Country..
I thought Florida was. hmmm. Indiana would be cool though. You hosting?
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:04pm |
re: #154 USBeast
Someone Photoshop some hair on the egg and let's see where that thread goes.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:05pm |
re: #153 Sharmuta
Who the hell makes a sculpture based off farm industry commercials?
And who the hell buys it?
At least one fool, who brought it into the Oval Office, so a whole lot more fools rush to buy it.
I still think the History Company was started by P.T. Barnum.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:31pm |
re: #158 Bobibutu
Kansas - are you kidding? Paging Dorothy.
/
Who cares how lame it is. We can find a Holiday Inn Express and get rowdy.
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:38pm |
re: #140 bellamags
No. We do it in DC. The Million Honco March. GAME ON!
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jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:44pm |
re: #156 HoosierHoops
Great Idea..I hear Indiana is the Center of the
universe..err Country..
I had to know that as a student in high school, and it just stuck.
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:44pm |
re: #158 Bobibutu
Kansas - are you kidding? Paging Dorothy.
/
My house. No Dorothy, though. And no, I'm not kidding. Actually, I am.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:52:51pm |
Screaming eggs
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:53:04pm |
re: #143 Bobibutu
Me, too. Have you ever seen how gently and carefully and devotedly the bald eagles sit upon their eggs? It's beautiful.
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:53:30pm |
re: #168 Sharmuta
Is it a turtle egg? Is he toying with the stack?
It's a 6,000 year-old dinosauer egg.
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quickjustice Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:53:54pm |
re: #162 Dark_Falcon
Well, ten allegedly Republican Senators voted for that tax cheat, Geithner. Specter now says he'll vote for Holder for AG. We'll see about the rest.
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notutopia Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:03pm |
I think of Obama as the Humpty Dumpty Egg nursery rhyme.
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FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:04pm |
Wait! -- somebody's going to identify that as the World Egg from which everything sprung, and claim tht proves Obama is a neo-pagan. Well, that will make a nice change from the Muslim and the 666 stuff. Plus it will enrage the Left. Heh. (Of course, we know it's Turtles All The Way).
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:14pm |
re: #171 ArmyWife
No. We do it in DC. The Million Honco March. GAME ON!
we need t-shirts. The Million Honco March.
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:23pm |
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:31pm |
re: #177 buzzsawmonkey
Guy's barely been in office a week, and already the news is eggonizing.
The yolk's on the electorate.
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:32pm |
OT - has anyone calculated how much they are getting nailed, per capita, for these TARP bailouts? I just figured out that Citibank alone is getting about a $1000 from my family of four.
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:54:46pm |
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BigMoo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:55:07pm |
Who was the 'Batman' character that Vincent Price played...."Egghead" ?
They were masterful at adding 'egg' into just about every line in Vincent's script. Just masterful.
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esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:55:11pm |
Let's see...we've got waffles and eggs so far...bacon should be arriving any day now with the Iran/Israel situation..I don't know how he'll do it, but he will. He must have read some Vonnegut while tripping.
OMG...he's setting the stage for pardoning the Juice!
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:55:23pm |
re: #153 Sharmuta
Who the hell makes a sculpture based off farm industry commercials? And who the hell buys it?
Can you see the secret service dealing with him on overseas trips...
"Do you have an empty pocket, here, no I want that keychain. Well then, but it in your other pocket. I don't care if you gun is there, what do you need the gun for. Michelle, you already have a beret, no, I know this one has a poodle on it, but we don't need any more."
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:55:34pm |
re: #165 bellamags
I thought Florida was. hmmm. Indiana would be cool though. You hosting?
I think we should talk about it.. Sounds like fun..We'd probably have to send out NCIS to find BuzzSaw.. Jorline is the chef
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:55:41pm |
re: #134 Cato the Elder
From the link:
As to (a), that's a bold statement to make without any evidence. And regarding (b), I'll take my proverbs where I find them. Denigrating an entire continent of people and their wisdom (I reserve judgment on this "proverb" until I actually find someone who can tell me what it says) because of the misery in which many of them live seems a little bit, well, racist to these old eyes. Is everything Confucius ever said garbage because the Chicoms hold power in his homeland?
This kind of thing is easy to mock but where does it get us?
Here's the real art with the proverb. (Top of page)
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:04pm |
re: #130 HoosierHoops
My door is always open, and in the summer-my deck and BBQ always at your service.
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wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:13pm |
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:23pm |
re: #134 Cato the Elder
As to (a), that's a bold statement to make without any evidence.
Which is perhaps why the author used the word "allegedly"?
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HelloDare Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:24pm |
That's a severed hand. That kind of stuff goes on a lot in Africa and Muslim countries.
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pat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:33pm |
Yeah. Africa holds a lot of lessons on how to run a country, do what is right, etc. Yeah . Sure. /
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:37pm |
"Egg of Power'
I don't get it. I don't think anything about this man is funny.
For the first time in my life I'm scared of my country.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:51pm |
re: #177 buzzsawmonkey
Guy's barely been in office a week, and already the news is eggonizing.
he's poached...
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:53pm |
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:55pm |
re: #180 notutopia
I think of Obama as the Humpty Dumpty Egg nursery rhyme.
All of Soros' horses and all of Soros' men...
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notutopia Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:56:55pm |
re: #188 solomonpanting
He's going to take a big fall. The bigger you are the harder you crack and fall.
Scrambled everything....
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:57:05pm |
re: #183 USBeast
I do believe you missed my point. Hint: Imagine two such eggs.
*bout half way down middle, pisses me off*
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:57:13pm |
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The Shadow Do Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:57:26pm |
re: #156 HoosierHoops
Great Idea..I hear Indiana is the Center of the
universe..err Country..
Hoosier! Let's meet here, at the crossroads...
Is the Little Harlem Hotel still there?
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path Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:57:31pm |
re: #201 unrealizedviewpoint
I don't get it. I don't think anything about this man is funny.
For the first time in my life I'm scared of my country.
Scared OF my country or, scared FOR my country?
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notutopia Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:58:04pm |
re: #201 unrealizedviewpoint
I don't get it. I don't think anything about this man is funny.
For the first time in my life I'm scared of my country.
I'm scared FOR my country.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:58:06pm |
re: #141 Killgore Trout
There still is a large Jewish community in Fez, Casablanca and other Morocan cities. But that Star of David was probably from Jews that were slaughtered in Jihadi pogroms, forced to convert or forced out of Morocco in 1967 or 1948.
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:58:13pm |
The only egg I am worried about is my nest egg. These fascist bastards (big business + big business) who have a monopoly on force are robbing us.
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gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:58:39pm |
It's a finely-sculpted, highly-polished, well-marketed... turd.
Just like it's owner.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:58:41pm |
re: #211 buzzsawmonkey
Well, he is trying to achieve poach 'em in terris...
huevos locos as they say down in NM....
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Shr_Nfr Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:58:47pm |
re: #197 wolfie
I was trying not to be making a Sartire of the man.
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:59:03pm |
re: #160 Palandine
Shouldn't that be Ego of Power?
"We are the ones we've been waiting for..."
The Eggo's of Toasted.
Maple, where are ya' babe?
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:59:04pm |
Seriously- sculpture based on advertisements. Kinda tacky in the Oval Office.
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stuiec Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:59:08pm |
re: #7 Charles
Run! It's the Egg of Power! Gah!
We who are Star Trek fans know how invaluable this object is. In fact, it will be the key to ending Iran's nuclear program.
All the One has to do is to meet with the Iranian leadership in his famous no-preconditions diplomacy, and bring the Egg of Power with him. And when they ask what it's for, as they inevitably will, he can say, "Well, here's the thing. If you can answer its riddle, we will not interfere any further with your nuclear program in any way -- but if you cannot, you must relinquish your uranium enrichment and recognize Israel's right to exist peacefully alongside a Palestinian state. Are you confident enough in your wisdom to take on this Western trinket?"
Of course, they will say yes. They cannot at that point admit that their wisdom and knowledge might not be up to the challenge.
And then the One will say, "All right, then. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
And they will melt down -- like Norman, the coordinator android on Mudd's planet.
A powerful object, indeed!
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:59:14pm |
re: #196 WriterMom
My door is always open, and in the summer-my deck and BBQ always at your service.
*wink* You're the best writermom.. I got a swimming pool and hot tub..you come here this summer.
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oozel Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:59:25pm |
I’d like to see him turn it into the great suppository of power
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 6:59:38pm |
re: #177 buzzsawmonkey
Guy's barely been in office a week, and already the news is eggonizing.
You were expecting more hardboiled reportage?
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:00:35pm |
re: #221 HoosierHoops
*wink* You're the best writermom.. I got a swimming pool and hot tub..you come here this summer.
I have a river with assorted hot springs...non of that artificial stuff
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Ringo the Gringo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:00:37pm |
If Obama was Italian, rather than the "Egg of Power", he'd have the "Salami de Amore".
We should be thankful.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:01:05pm |
re: #210 path
Scared OF my country or, scared FOR my country?
Both. I really really tried, following the election, then the inauguration, to give this f*ckin' 'plant' the benefit of the doubt. I can't anymore.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:01:20pm |
re: #226 buzzsawmonkey
Just think positively, hopeandchangey and concentrate on keeping your sunny side up.
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:01:24pm |
re: #209 The Shadow Do
Hoosier! Let's meet here, at the crossroads...
Is the Little Harlem Hotel still there?
Gak! Did you just google the red light district? HAHAHA
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:01:30pm |
re: #219 Sharmuta
[Link: www.aeb.org...]
Seriously- sculpture based on advertisements. Kinda tacky in the Oval Office.
Two tacky things in the Oval Office now. ;)
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:01:33pm |
We're living in the land of Omelot.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:01:37pm |
re: #226 buzzsawmonkey
Well, at least the reporters could scramble a little.
They'd only accuse each other of "poaching my story".
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:02:21pm |
"See this egg, Sen. Obama? It represents the Constitution, the United States, and the American People. If you can take care of it and protect it for two weeks, and return it unharmed, you will have proven that you can be the next POTUS. Do you understand"?
/That cheating sonuvabitch used a wooden egg!
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Shr_Nfr Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:02:21pm |
re: #224 Occasional Reader
Maybe it has batteries and his Michelle uses it. (Sorry, but that nail stuck up and I had to hit it.)
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:02:24pm |
re: #50 jcm
Same outfit selling the Obama's Little Blue Book.
Many African-American people I know have versions of this egg sculpture in their homes--it is, I think, based on some traditional wood carving styles from West Africa (Ghana?). It isn't sinister or uncommon. As for the dang "blue book" that is sheer capitalist entrepreneurship--and, no more sinister than the hero-worship of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at MLK-Day gatherings.
I think African-American people are among the most resilient, loyal, enduring, faith-filled people in our country. It has been a privilege for me to work on various "team oriented" civic and service projects with them--they know how to organize, how to "make a way when there ain't know way!" and they do find inspiration in Africa-centric artwork, mythology, traditions.
These are also fierce, fearsomely passionate individuals, and I would never want to come between them and a cherished, beloved member of the great extended family of black people in America. I don't think I will ever understand, and Obama is their son, their darling, their pride. Therefore my dissent--even here, my free-speech "home" on LGF--needs to be dissent from policies, anger at bad ideas and failed ideology. We are on very thin ice and on dangerous ground. I have to watch myself, speaking just for myself, because sometimes I shoot from the lip.
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HelloDare Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:02:28pm |
The egg used to belong to a rich guy. It was redistributed.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:02:29pm |
re: #234 shiek al beif salami
We're living in the land of Omelot.
Will The One give us his Benedict-ion?
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path Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:02:37pm |
re: #230 unrealizedviewpoint
Both. I really really tried, following the election, then the inauguration, to give this f*ckin' 'plant' the benefit of the doubt. I can't anymore.
Well, I feel a lot like you do but, just take each day as it comes. Do what you can.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:07pm |
re: #192 HoosierHoops
I think we should talk about it.. Sounds like fun..We'd probably have to send out NCIS to find BuzzSaw.. Jorline is the chef
we should. give enough time for everyone to plan to go. Yes Jorline for the catering as long as he makes his LGBT sandwiches.
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slartybartfast Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:08pm |
Maybe we should send BHO a frying pan saying, "This is drugs..." to go with his "egg."
(If you don't remember the PSA saying, "This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" then this won't make sense.)
OT, I just sent this little note to my senators:
Now, there's a vote coming up on the so-called "stimulus package." Ugh! "PORK" is what it is. You can't make it bigger and bigger and say, "Well, now it's not 'pork-barrel spending, now it's STIMULUS." Bull-shit.
Let me have my billfold back.
I hope the B.S. comment wasn't over the top.
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:10pm |
re: #227 albusteve
I have a river with assorted hot springs...non of that artificial stuff
Does that hot springs have a little fridge for the Bud Light? No?
SHUT UP! LOLOLOLOL
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BigMoo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:14pm |
Egg of Power, closing Gitmo, blaming America first, a couple trillion in additional deficit spending... I reckon there's no way to get a 'Mulligan' on what the electorate did in 2008...
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:21pm |
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FloridaAnole Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:38pm |
re: #179 quickjustice
Well, ten allegedly Republican Senators voted for that tax cheat, Geithner. Specter now says he'll vote for Holder for AG. We'll see about the rest.
Now, tell me again why they threw Leona Helmsley into the slammer, but made this Geithner dude Sec. of the Treasury?
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:53pm |
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:55pm |
My eggs of power are of stone and would completely ruin the other egg of power which is made of wood and is totally tacky.
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:03:58pm |
re: #133 jcm
That is funny! I regret having only 1 upding to give!
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ArchangelMichael Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:04:35pm |
Egg of Power
Does this mean if a fellowship of nine intrepid adventurers can steal it and take it across country and then to Hawaii and throw it in a volcano that The Zero will disappear, his Ivory Tower will crumble, and his legions of Uruk-Hopenchangai will feel into obscurity in the wastelands?
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shiek al beif salami Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:04:53pm |
In certain languages that have trouble with "h"s, people enjoy going to the theater to watch productions of Shaekspeare's Omelot.
(Azerbaijani is one language that comes to mind.)
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:04:53pm |
re: #247 bellamags
we should. give enough time for everyone to plan to go. Yes Jorline for the catering as long as he makes his LGBT sandwiches.
I think it could be really fun
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:02pm |
re: #242 Joan
As for the dang "blue book" that is sheer capitalist entrepreneurship
I'm a little skeptical of the "blue book"... the one on Amazon appeared to be tongue in cheek.
(Not that I'd put it past the adoring acolytes of The One, mind you)
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:05pm |
The egg of power in Africa represented how much gold or diamonds each person had to deliver to the kleptocrat king or chief in order to live another year as his slave.
What does it stand for here?
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:06pm |
For all these egg puns, you guys are toast.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:11pm |
re: #170 bellamags
Who cares how lame it is. We can find a Holiday Inn Express and get rowdy.
Ha! It's a corn field in north central Kansas just south of the Nebraska border.
Lebanon KS is the closest town ... checking for a Holiday Inn. ;-)
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:22pm |
re: #249 HoosierHoops
Does that hot springs have a little fridge for the Bud Light? No?
SHUT UP! LOLOLOLOL
bar tenders are provided....
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slartybartfast Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:30pm |
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:36pm |
re: #245 path
Well, I feel a lot like you do but, just take each day as it comes. Do what you can.
I know, I'm so not alone. I feel the anger grow all around. I see it here everyday - Good folks lashing out attacking one another, over a slip of the key.
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The Shadow Do Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:47pm |
re: #232 HoosierHoops
Gak! Did you just google the red light district? HAHAHA
Picture Michael Pollard looking down, twisting his toe in the dirt....
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:57pm |
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:05:58pm |
re: #263 Charles
For all these egg puns, you guys are toast.
Please don't be so hard boiled about it.
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:06:12pm |
re: #264 Bobibutu
Ha! It's a corn field in north central Kansas just south of the Nebraska border.
Lebanon KS is the closest town ... checking for a Holiday Inn. ;-)
I never heard of Lebanon Kansas till this thread.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:06:20pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:06:40pm |
re: #248 slartybartfast
Maybe we should send BHO a frying pan saying, "This is drugs..." to go with his "egg."
(If you don't remember the PSA saying, "This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?" then this won't make sense.)
OT, I just sent this little note to my senators:
I hope the B.S. comment wasn't over the top.
Now that there is a single party in power any ideals of no pork get tossed in the bin post haste. People may have been rightly mad at the Republican majority for being spend thrift, but 30+ years of prior Dem control and fiscal irresponsibility seems to have been conveniently forgotten or ignored.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:06:52pm |
re: #242 Joan
I think African-American people are among the most resilient, loyal, enduring, faith-filled people in our country.
I'm curious; Which races/ ethnicities in the US do you find to be among the least resilient, loyal, enduring, and faith-filled?
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Palandine Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:06:54pm |
Does anyone have any insight into how the Bush Derangement Syndrome weirdos focused their anger for 8 whole years? I've only been mildly annoyed* with the Messiah for a little over two weeks, and it's exhausting.
*The real anger won't start until he truly begins his assault on the First (Fairness Doctrine, Card Check Rule) and Second Amendments to the Constitution, and the redistribution of wealth begins in ernest.
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ArchangelMichael Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:02pm |
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:05pm |
It can put the rumors that The One is Muslim to rest - obviously he is eggnostic!
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:14pm |
re: #264 Bobibutu
Ha! It's a corn field in north central Kansas just south of the Nebraska border.
Lebanon KS is the closest town ... checking for a Holiday Inn. ;-)
OMG. how fun. we could rent the corn field and pitch tents.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:15pm |
The artwork in the POTUS office seems a little eggstravagant. Just a little eggsessively obnoxious.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:15pm |
re: #242 Joan
Wonderful response a thread back, thank you.
To me the egg sculpture is neither here nor there. Other than having a little fun at The Ones expense. The mindset behind those who publish The Little Blue Book, the Presidential Pledge, and other things I find very worrisome.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:42pm |
re: #263 Charles
For all these egg puns, you guys are toast.
I surrender! (Because I'm French toast)
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:52pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:07:55pm |
re: #285 Charles
I've told you guys ovum and ovum.
You expecting us to count the times and chicken out?
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:08:14pm |
re: #263 Charles
For all these egg puns, you guys are toast.
eggsactly.
(hope someone didn't use that one already)
:)
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:08:22pm |
re: #289 Occasional Reader
I surrender! (Because I'm French toast)
And here I was just going to waffle.
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:08:38pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:08:52pm |
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gregg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:00pm |
Many years ago, I received a something similar as gift, but instead of an egg, the hand was holding some bok choy. Unfortunately, I forgot the symbolism.
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esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:01pm |
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:02pm |
re: #242 Joan
You said it better then I could of. It's fun to crack wise about insignificant things, but it should not get too snarky. Obama, is of partly African decent, the proverb is pretty wise, and the gift was from his home continent.
The fact that he did not toss it in a closet might mean he agrees with the proverb. I'm not saying his base should rush out and buy one though, that's just weird.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:08pm |
I picked the wrong thread to be soooo damn Eggcited.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:10pm |
re: #259 shiek al beif salami
In certain languages that have trouble with "h"s, people enjoy going to the theater to watch productions of Shaekspeare's Omelot.
(Azerbaijani is one language that comes to mind.)
Russian. Cockney.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:19pm |
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:09:41pm |
re: #198 Occasional Reader
Which is perhaps why the author used the word "allegedly"?
No, what the author says is that the proverb is allegedly African, casting doubt on whether it is or not, and then goes on to state positively that that means it was made up by some white guy. Not that it was allegedly made up. Look at the sentence. It's insidious.
As to the actual origin, Avanti provided me with a link. Thanks, Avanti! Until someone proves that it's a made-up proverb, whether by a white dude or some other dude, I'm going to say that all the ridicule is misplaced.
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:10pm |
I think it's a warning...to chickens...that he has their young
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:13pm |
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:14pm |
re: #303 unrealizedviewpoint
I picked the wrong thread to be soooo damn Eggcited.
I think its a shell of a good thread.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:15pm |
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:21pm |
re: #264 Bobibutu
Ha! It's a corn field in north central Kansas just south of the Nebraska border.
Lebanon KS is the closest town ... checking for a Holiday Inn. ;-)
OMG - there is one! Well of course for everyone wanting to get to the Geo Center of the lower 48 .... now do we include AK and HI in the mix?
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Cognito Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:27pm |
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:41pm |
re: #285 Charles
Proving again you are the eggspert. (was that used yet?)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:43pm |
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Guy_Philly Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:10:45pm |
in the new administration:
1. The egg will be spelled "Oegg"
2. Oeggs must be opened at the pointy end
3. Soft-boiled oeggs will be illegal (making it pointless for rule 2)
4. Everyone shall eat Oeggs Obama for breakfast (a committee will be formed to determine the recipe for Oeggs Obama)
5. Chickens will be considered sacred and Purdue Farms will be taxed out of business for killing the mother of oeggs
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:11:12pm |
re: #309 jcbunga
I think it's a warning...to chickens...that he has their young
Maybe it refers to the fact that revolutions, like chickens, devour their own?
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bse5150 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:11:17pm |
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:11:42pm |
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:11:53pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
They could go a long way to fixing the situation if they would STFU for a few days. Every time things start to get a little better, here they come bad mouthing it again. They really need shit to get worse.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:11:58pm |
re: #313 Bobibutu
OMG - there is one! Well of course for everyone wanting to get to the Geo Center of the lower 48 .... now do we include AK and HI in the mix?
Nope. to complicated. we will thank HI and AK at the conference.
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Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:05pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
Yep, damned silly. Couldn't agree more.
| 329 |
BignJames Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:06pm |
No government jobs or stimulus funds for egg whites.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:07pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
Good to see you, Cognito. How are things going?
| 331 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:14pm |
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solomonpanting Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:19pm |
So The Manchurian Candidate turns out to be an egg plant?
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esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:21pm |
re: #324 buzzsawmonkey
Shweet. I have discovered the dark delights of ding-whorage.
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esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:46pm |
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Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:49pm |
Late to thread, too lazy to read it.
OBVIOUSLY (ask any woman) the man stole, bought, or otherwise obtained the egg from a WOMAN.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:53pm |
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:12:59pm |
re: #281 carefulnow
um, where'd all that come from?
I know, I know....sometimes it surprises me that I'm not just in a corner somewhere, drooling and moaning.
/hee-hee. I live in Moonbattia and nobody gets me....
| 340 |
WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:11pm |
Yes let's talk about SOMETHING IMPORTANT NOW. We haven't talked about anything IMPORTANT TODAY.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:17pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
Yeah, because we never, ever have threads about stuff that matters.
/
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:34pm |
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Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:35pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
No. Feel free to move along, if you wish.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:36pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
Can't we have some fun? LGF shouldn't serious all the time. The world is grim right now, but that makes laughter all the more important.
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:42pm |
Maybe it's a goose egg...which is all he's got
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path Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:47pm |
re: #328 Charles
Yep, damned silly. Couldn't agree more.
Silly, refreshing, relaxing --- dare I say "fun."
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:50pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
That mess on your head is 3 fresh country eggs..over easy.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:53pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
go ahead..we'll catch up with you when we're done here
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esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:55pm |
re: #340 WriterMom
Yes let's talk about SOMETHING IMPORTANT NOW. We haven't talked about anything IMPORTANT TODAY.
I think at this point some group therapy is definitely in line.
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:13:57pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
Does it make us look like Kos?
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Unakite Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:05pm |
re: #71 avanti
From the same outfit making a buck selling the blue book:
' The wooden sculpture that Barack Obama has brought into the Oval Office combines African tribal tradition with a poignant message. Obtained on a 2006 visit to his ancestral Kenya, the “Egg of Power” symbolizes the fragility of chiefly power: According to an ancient proverb, power is like an egg; if it’s held too tightly, it breaks, and if it’s held too loosely, it will slip from grasp."
Yours for $150.00
And if you crack it open and add milk, it makes a good breakfast.
| 353 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:05pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I wouldn't hold your breath. Just sayin'.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:13pm |
re: #335 buzzsawmonkey
I see you fail to appreciate the social value of slapstick.
For one thing, it protects your lips in the wintertime.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:21pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
If you can't see the difference, no lizard can help you see.
| 357 |
jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:24pm |
re: #341 Occasional Reader
Yeah, because we never, ever have threads about stuff that matters.
/
The question was raised, "Which was first? Chicken or Egg?"
It's an EVOLUTION THREAD!
*ducks*
| 359 |
VioletTiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:48pm |
Perhaps we can use one of these on that egg?
[Link: www.strangenewproducts.com...]
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:14:49pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
Yeah, well - from your lips to Gods ear.
They are the source of the problem - and you think they can come up with a solution?
Unrealistic expectations/desires Cog.
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:15:02pm |
Some people can't appreciate a humor break? Well, I'll be deviled.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:15:07pm |
re: #341 Occasional Reader
Maybe we should consult DAVID SCHWARTZ, MILLIONAIRE YACHT OWNER, gazillion dollar dot com hot shot real estate. JA JA?
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:15:07pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
Then I would start praying to the Egg of Power, bowing down in front of the Eagle Poster of Inspiration and listen to the rhythm of the Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics because that's what's it's going to take to keep him from damaging the country.
Basically a miracle.
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:15:11pm |
re: #358 buzzsawmonkey
Mouthful-nic thinks he's Graham Chapman coming in to interrupt a "too-silly" Python skit.
well we DID do the nose....and the hat
| 367 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:15:43pm |
re: #323 bse5150
You are right. Let's change the subject. Anyone up for eggistentialism?
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Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:15:46pm |
re: #357 jcm
The question was raised, "Which was first? Chicken or Egg?"
It's an EVOLUTION THREAD!
*ducks*
dare we egg you on .. with that sort of behaviour?
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mshaw Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:16:15pm |
Am I missing something? Why is this thing supposed to be so weird?
I think I'm with Joan (#242). Are some of us succumbing to ODS?
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:16:19pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
For your serious consideration while the rest of us are being silly.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:16:25pm |
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:16:33pm |
re: #367 ArmyWife
You are right. Let's change the subject. Anyone up for eggistentialism?
no...I'm eggnostic
| 374 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:16:55pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
How about his Classic Poo-poo Cushion in the Oval Office. That's important to discuss. Specially when the French visit.
| 376 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:09pm |
re: #364 WriterMom
Maybe we should consult DAVID SCHWARTZ, MILLIONAIRE YACHT OWNER, gazillion dollar dot com hot shot real estate. JA JA?
I'll call him in, as soon as he finishes shining my shoes.
| 377 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:11pm |
re: #362 Sharmuta
Some people can't appreciate a humor break? Well, I'll be deviled.
I love deviled eggs..I'll eat em I swear..
But remember the first Rocky movie when rocky wakes up and drinks all those eggs raw? How didn't gag..That almost ruined eggs for me..:)
| 378 |
Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:13pm |
re: #349 albusteve
go ahead..we'll catch up with you when we're done here
My parents used to let Gareth (lived with parents for a while as a boy, until his dad remarried) walk part way to church every Sunday, because he was impatient. He never caught on that though he left the house earlier, he never got there ahead of the rest of the family, since he was always picked up on the way.
| 380 |
WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:27pm |
At least it isn't the Sperm of Power.
I really would find that a bit...ooh..psycho.
| 381 |
Inquisitive Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:29pm |
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Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:37pm |
John Kerry used to keep one of those hands on his desk.
| 383 |
Guy_Philly Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:41pm |
the egg is a bit feminine for the oval office. Now you take something like the Washington Monument. THAT is a monument to masculinity!
| 384 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:45pm |
re: #374 Walter L. Newton
How about his Classic Poo-poo Cushion in the Oval Office. That's important to discuss. Specially when the French visit.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
| 386 |
kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:17:50pm |
re: #369 mshaw
Am I missing something? Why is this thing supposed to be so weird?
I think I'm with Joan (#242). Are some of us succumbing to ODS?
Oh shut up about ODS please. This little bit of fun doesn't come close. What's next? Have a little fun and be called a Nazi?
| 388 |
gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:00pm |
re: #357 jcm
The question was raised, "Which was first? Chicken or Egg?"
It's an EVOLUTION THREAD!
*ducks*
In this case the Chicken bought the Egg, so the Chicken definitely came first. And sadly that amounts to devolution rather than evolution.
| 390 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:06pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
The way I look at it, if poking fun a the Presidents taste in art is the topic of the day, things could be worse. I'm sure we'll find more controversial topics in the years ahead, but hopefully not a bad as many fear.
| 391 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:20pm |
| 392 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:24pm |
re: #3 buzzsawmonkey
You know, you just have to do that don't you.
Late to this thread, kids just fell asleep, I'm trying to quietly catch up, I can't even get to 5 posts in.
With less violence? The hell you say. Pure torture. I want to burst out, and I can only bang on the keys right now.
I won't be able to get that out of my head tonight. I swear I keep hearing his voice sing that verse now.
| 393 |
Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:25pm |
Doesnt anyone realise?
This is the EGG OF SINCERE HOPE AND CRACKED BELIEF !
... masquerading as an egg of power.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:28pm |
re: #378 Catttt
My parents used to let Gareth (lived with parents for a while as a boy, until his dad remarried) walk part way to church every Sunday, because he was impatient. He never caught on that though he left the house earlier, he never got there ahead of the rest of the family, since he was always picked up on the way.
fine analogy....
| 395 |
Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:18:31pm |
re: #359 VioletTiger
Perhaps we can use one of these on that egg?
[Link: www.strangenewproducts.com...]
That's just nasty. Do they have a Helen Thomas one?
| 396 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:05pm |
Terence, this is silly stuff
you eat your omelets fast enough...
| 397 |
rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:18pm |
all we are saying is give quiche a chance
| 399 |
WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:26pm |
re: #390 avanti
This is just a symptom of the idiocy in the President's office. I guess that is not something you 'get'.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:31pm |
re: #362 Sharmuta
Some people can't appreciate a humor break? Well, I'll be deviled.
Some people need to take that steel rod out of their ass, apparently.
| 401 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:33pm |
re: #377 HoosierHoops
I love deviled eggs..I'll eat em I swear..
But remember the first Rocky movie when rocky wakes up and drinks all those eggs raw? How didn't gag..That almost ruined eggs for me..:)
obviously you're no Rocky....go hit the bag
| 403 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:47pm |
| 405 |
mfarmer1 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:19:53pm |
Free range organic
Scrambled with arugula
Elitist breakfast
African teaching
Yolks spilled across continent
Hypocrisy reigns
Wooden hand and egg
Washington bust in storage
Forty four panders
| 406 |
Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:03pm |
re: #388 gort
In this case the Chicken bought the Egg, so the Chicken definitely came first. And sadly that amounts to devolution rather than evolution.
Ya .. this egg was paid for. Cost to taxpayers ..
omg .. thats a 700 billion dollar egg ...
... I WANT THAT GOLDEN GOOSE !
| 407 |
Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:03pm |
I might buy one if the hand were holding a golf ball.
| 408 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:03pm |
re: #397 rain of lead
all we are saying is give quiche a chance
OK dude..that has got to be a rotating title.
| 409 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:07pm |
| 410 |
Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:09pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
Good luck with that.
| 411 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:10pm |
re: #323 bse5150
This is a silly thing to be wasting out time on. A statue in Obama's office? Who cares? It makes us look small like the Liberals we so often point out. Let's move on to something that matters, please.
If people want to use this insignificant (and kinda neat) piece of art to point out what an enlightened hero he is, or what a pagan whacko he is, then yeah. That would be a silly waste of time.
But if it's used as a source of some jokes, and some puns, then there is no harm in that. Laughter is good. It keeps some of us from being too wound up.
| 413 |
kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:23pm |
re: #400 FurryOldGuyJeans
Some people need to take that steel rod out of their ass, apparently.
Barney F. will not be pleased to do that.
| 416 |
esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:51pm |
| 417 |
JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:54pm |
| 418 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:20:59pm |
| 420 |
Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:21:14pm |
re: #400 FurryOldGuyJeans
Some people need to take that steel rod out of their ass, apparently.
Furry .. if thats your real photo .. I have pictures of your mother and me dating a couple of years back.
Its not pretty.
| 421 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:21:16pm |
re: #392 formercorpsman
You know, you just have to do that don't you.
Late to this thread, kids just fell asleep, I'm trying to quietly catch up, I can't even get to 5 posts in.
With less violence? The hell you say. Pure torture. I want to burst out, and I can only bang on the keys right now.
I won't be able to get that out of my head tonight. I swear I keep hearing his voice sing that verse now.
Look on the bright side. Would you rather have the stuff Buzzsaw obviously has going on instead?
| 422 |
jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:21:24pm |
re: #395 Alouette
That's just nasty. Do they have a Helen Thomas one?
Helen Thomas has a book out about Presidential press conferences she's covered...she says James Madison hit on her.
| 423 |
opinionated Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:21:39pm |
An omen to those foolish enough to have voted for Obama.
Portends a time when the chickens will come home to roost.
| 424 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:21:40pm |
re: #404 Iron Fist
The whole "Cult of Obama" shit is more than just worrisome. It smacks of some the worst aspects of Twentieth Century Totalitarianism. and the Media, hell, even the Republicans give him a pass on it. John McCain had exactly one commercial on it, then I guess he decided it was too mean. And he quit running it.
It is...
The American Idolization of the Presidency
| 425 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:01pm |
re: #412 Sharmuta
Are egg whites racist?
There are 9.3 million yellow yolks in the world..Show some respect.
/
| 426 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:02pm |
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch."
Have any of these asshats read Aesop?
Any of them?
| 427 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:06pm |
re: #396 Occasional Reader
Terence, this is silly stuff
you eat your omelets fast enough...
Shut your face, Philip. [Terence raises his leg and his fart knocks Philip across the room.]
| 428 |
WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:07pm |
re: #418 Occasional Reader
Yo yo! The racist meanies are so PHAT, y'all. And dats a fact Y'all.
| 429 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:09pm |
re: #399 WriterMom
Besides that, sometimes you just gotta look at what's happening and say "what the yolk".
| 430 |
Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:28pm |
| 431 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:41pm |
| 432 |
Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:42pm |
re: #278 Occasional Reader
I'm curious; Which races/ ethnicities in the US do you find to be among the least resilient, loyal, enduring, and faith-filled?
I find that the entertainment industry has undermined resiliency, loyalty, endurance, faith, and instilled collectivist attitudes among all classes and races that make up our country. And, I made this comment because the African-American community has faced a disproportionate degree of corrosive, malign influences from entertainment; because many times it seems as if the solidarity and sense of family-loyalty among African Americans is uniquely intense--and because that is a factor in the hero-worship of Pres. Obama
By the way: why don't you spit it out, and complain about what I posted? Something in what I said you disagree with or dislike, so what is it?
| 433 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:22:56pm |
| 434 |
Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:02pm |
If I were President I would bring my Chucky doll knife block to spruce up the kitchen counter.
| 435 |
opinionated Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:09pm |
If Obama believes in African superstitions, I sure hope no one causes his penis to disappear.
| 436 |
Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:12pm |
Anyone reminded a little of the Flying Fickle Finger of Fate here?
| 437 |
kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:14pm |
re: #424 Walter L. Newton
It is...
The American Idolization of the Presidency
How can Americans spend 8 years demonizing the American President and then turn on a dime and Idolize one? This is so strange.
| 438 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:17pm |
re: #406 Buster Bunny
Ya .. this egg was paid for. Cost to taxpayers ..
omg .. thats a 700 billion dollar egg ...
... I WANT THAT GOLDEN GOOSE !
Yes, that goose is the ultimate honco. :)
| 439 |
gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:20pm |
re: #412 Sharmuta
Are egg whites racist?
If Larry King bought a dozen white eggs would they want to become brown eggs?
| 441 |
WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:26pm |
The dreaded YOLK of white racism raises it's EGGLY head again!
| 442 |
Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:23:56pm |
re: #362 Sharmuta
Some people can't appreciate a humor break? Well, I'll be deviled.
Now, this is ova-kill
| 443 |
carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:24:02pm |
re: #318 Guy_Philly
Yeah, and you gotta buy all your eggs from California, where they are penned humanely.... Any Californians here?
| 445 |
Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:24:09pm |
re: #422 jcbunga
Helen Thomas has a book out about Presidential press conferences she's covered...she says James Madison hit on her.
Is she still pissed that Thomas Jefferson ignored her for Sally Hemings?
| 446 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:24:15pm |
re: #436 Catttt
Can we send him one of those? He could combine them and have a snazzy new set of bookends!
| 447 |
lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:24:27pm |
re: #314 Cognito
I really couldn't care any less about his Egg of Power or his Eagle Poster of Inspiration or his Little Silver Clacky Balls of Basic Physics. I just want him and Congress fix our unpleasant situation and not damage the country.
Well, given that Congress caused a good portion of our "unpleasant situation," and that their plan to "fix" it is going to make it much worse, I don't think there's much chance of that happening.
At this point, I think I'd settle for them not f*cking things up to the point where I end up boiling grass for food, like they do in North Korea.
| 449 |
big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:24:53pm |
I do a little woodworking as a hobby. Looking closely at the photo and text there are two problems here. First of all, if the hand is Monkey Pod Tree wood, that tree is native of South, Central America and Pacific Islands. It is not native to Africa. Obviously it could be imported to Africa and be carved but that is very unlikely in that there are many many other types of wood simply lying around in Africa to use.
Second, I looked the photo over and to me it actually looks like walnut with the egg being very similar to rock maple. Any other wood workers out there who care to comment?
| 450 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:01pm |
re: #399 WriterMom
This is just a symptom of the idiocy in the President's office. I guess that is not something you 'get'.
To be honest, I don't see why African art work in the office of a African American President is idiotic, so no, I don't get it.
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Guy_Philly Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:21pm |
I am surprised this hasn't turned into an eggvolution thread
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mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:26pm |
Remember the stories about all of the lucky charms 0bama used to pick and choose to put in his pocket each day?
I want to know if he still carries the compass.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:34pm |
re: #420 Buster Bunny
Furry .. if thats your real photo .. I have pictures of your mother and me dating a couple of years back.
Its not pretty.
Not me.....not enough hair.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:43pm |
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:44pm |
re: #437 kansas
How can Americans spend 8 years demonizing the American President and then turn on a dime and Idolize one? This is so strange.
Well, you saw it happen. He was marketed like a contestant on American Idol, complete with all the internet buzz, websites, youtube's and facebook's, emails and text messages, I could go on.
We missed the boat. All we had to do was watch how any network promotes a show, and we would have know that this would be the year of the Presidential Idol.
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:56pm |
re: #432 Joan
I find that the entertainment industry has undermined resiliency, loyalty, endurance, faith, and instilled collectivist attitudes among all classes and races that make up our country. And, I made this comment because the African-American community has faced a disproportionate degree of corrosive, malign influences from entertainment;
Farrakhan says it's the Jews' fault.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:25:59pm |
re: #432 Joan
By the way: why don't you spit it out, and complain about what I posted? Something in what I said you disagree with or dislike, so what is it?
The sweeping generalization about certain races being more (e.g.) "loyal" than others, perhaps? What the hell does that even mean?
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JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:05pm |
re: #432 Joan
I find that the entertainment industry has undermined resiliency, loyalty, endurance, faith, and instilled collectivist attitudes among all classes and races that make up our country. And, I made this comment because the African-American community has faced a disproportionate degree of corrosive, malign influences from entertainment; because many times it seems as if the solidarity and sense of family-loyalty among African Americans is uniquely intense--and because that is a factor in the hero-worship of Pres. Obama
By the way: why don't you spit it out, and complain about what I posted? Something in what I said you disagree with or dislike, so what is it?
Joan ...if there is so much family-loyalty in the African-American community ...why are so many children being raised by mothers only ...if there was more loyalty to the family more fathers should stay home and take care of their children ...and that should be the case no matter what race ...or at least financially support their children ...
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rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:10pm |
re: #397 rain of lead
all we are saying is give quiche a chance
"steps onto stage and takes a bow"
thank you , thank you ....you are too kind.
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jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:11pm |
re: #449 big steve
I do a little woodworking as a hobby. Looking closely at the photo and text there are two problems here. First of all, if the hand is Monkey Pod Tree wood, that tree is native of South, Central America and Pacific Islands. It is not native to Africa. Obviously it could be imported to Africa and be carved but that is very unlikely in that there are many many other types of wood simply lying around in Africa to use.
Second, I looked the photo over and to me it actually looks like walnut with the egg being very similar to rock maple. Any other wood workers out there who care to comment?
I have nothing to add. Except there's a good chance it was made in Malaysia, if not China proper.
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yochanan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:15pm |
mrs obama must have the other one in a lock box
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Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:15pm |
The Egg of Power is served with the Grits of Hubris, and it goes well with some nice Butter of Delusion.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:16pm |
re: #449 big steve
You are missing the point. It's not about fact. It's about intention.
Where have you been for the past week and 10 hours?
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Dancing along the light of day Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:21pm |
Pssst, it's REALLY a Lizard egg! But, don't tell. OK?
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Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:22pm |
re: #450 avanti
To be honest, I don't see why African art work in the office of a African American President is idiotic, so no, I don't get it.
More appropriate would be something that represents him a little better.
Something like a big scary voodoo mask ... which he uses on the odd occasion.
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big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:26:33pm |
so next we get stories about what kind of jelly beans Obama likes as well?
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jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:03pm |
re: #461 rain of lead
"steps onto stage and takes a bow"
thank you , thank you ....you are too kind.
Please tell us you won't be here all week! :-)
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:05pm |
re: #426 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Have any of these asshats read Aesop?
Any of them?
Read some dead WHITE guy? You must be joking.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:08pm |
re: #432 Joan
the solidarity and sense of family-loyalty among African Americans is uniquely intense
I'm not sure that demographic data would really bear out that generalization.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:13pm |
re: #443 carefulnow
Yeah, and you gotta buy all your eggs from California, where they are penned humanely.... Any Californians here?
You're kidding right?
CA, the state that will import their eggs.
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VioletTiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:15pm |
re: #395 Alouette
That's just nasty. Do they have a Helen Thomas one?
I hope they make a Nancy Pelosi one so I can have a set.
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:24pm |
re: #452 mean Gene
Remember the stories about all of the lucky charms 0bama used to pick and choose to put in his pocket each day?
I want to know if he still carries the compass.
Joe: Here Barry, take the compass
O: Yes, yes, what does it do?
Joe: It point north Barry?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:26pm |
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formercorpsman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:27pm |
re: #421 jwb7605
I'm tellin ya, it ain't fair.
I get cruisin along to get caught up, and he throws out the road spikes at least once a day.
Easily a good 5 minute detour from my concentration on threads.
In all honesty, Buzz is someone I would love to kick a few back with.
Ferociously acerbic wit.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:32pm |
re: #462 jwb7605
I have nothing to add. Except there's a good chance it was made in Malaysia, if not China proper.
2.95 at Woolworths....
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iChef Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:38pm |
re: #465 Catttt
The Egg of Power is served with the Grits of Hubris, and it goes well with some nice Butter of Delusion.
How Bacon of Destiny ...
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:52pm |
re: #473 Occasional Reader
This is heading into noble savage territory.
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:54pm |
re: #465 Catttt
The Egg of Power is served with the Grits of Hubris, and it goes well with some nice Butter of Delusion.
somehow a single upding doesn't quite cover this one...poetical even
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Buster Bunny Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:56pm |
re: #465 Catttt
The Egg of Power is served with the Grits of Hubris, and it goes well with some nice Butter of Delusion.
I like a little Pepper of Hope .. and Salt of Change .. with of course .. the well renowned Ketchup of Despair to flavour.
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carefulnow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:56pm |
re: #474 unrealizedviewpoint
Yeah, kidding. Forgot the tag.
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Ringo the Gringo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:27:58pm |
I choose to take the symbolism of the hand holding the egg as a warning to protect my heuvos.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:06pm |
re: #410 Catttt
If you're gonna walk around in my noggin, would you please wipe your feet first?
/
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Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:12pm |
re: #426 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Have any of these asshats read Aesop?
Any of them?
Aesop is cool - The Panchatantra rules.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
[Link: panchatantra.org...]
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:15pm |
re: #462 jwb7605
I have nothing to add. Except there's a good chance it was made in Malaysia, if not China proper.
Peru.
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wong fei hung Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:28pm |
Everybody should check out MY "eggs of power"...
;) WFH
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:31pm |
based on how self-centered he is, he couldn't pick any art that ultimately didn't showcase himself.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:35pm |
re: #472 FurryOldGuyJeans
Aesop was white? Never really thought about it. That make me a racist?
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revobob Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:36pm |
re: #357 jcm
The question was raised, "Which was first? Chicken or Egg?"
It's an EVOLUTION THREAD!
*ducks*
Ummmm- how'd the chickens get to duck?
(Sorry- I just got back from Amsterdam, and I'm in a Holland-daze)
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:28:53pm |
re: #470 big steve
so next we get stories about what kind of jelly beans Obama likes as well?
That was Ronald Reagan. He loved Jelly Beans. Jar on his desk.
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big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:07pm |
re: #466 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
You are missing the point. It's not about fact. It's about intention.
Where have you been for the past week and 10 hours?
In the Czech Republic in fact.....why did something happen a week ago?
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Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:14pm |
re: #472 FurryOldGuyJeans
Read some dead WHITE guy? You must be joking.
Aesop was a black guy, just like Uncle Remus.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:15pm |
re: #432 Joan
the African-American community has faced a disproportionate degree of corrosive, malign influences from entertainment
In all fairness, I do find that a defensible statement.
Gangsta rap being identified as "authentically black" and therefore held up as creating role models.
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:27pm |
re: #432 Joan
the solidarity and sense of family-loyalty among African Americans is uniquely intense
Doesn't compare to that within the family of Marines.
It's not unique.
It's not even unusual.
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:35pm |
re: #456 Walter L. Newton
Well, you saw it happen. He was marketed like a contestant on American Idol, complete with all the internet buzz, websites, youtube's and facebook's, emails and text messages, I could go on.
We missed the boat. All we had to do was watch how any network promotes a show, and we would have know that this would be the year of the Presidential Idol.
Yes, I saw it. And we had William Hung for a candidate.
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:38pm |
re: #286 jcm
thanks jcm--I always enjoy your posts; check out Hoosier-Hoops project (click the nic) some wonderful folk amongst the lizardoids
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NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:43pm |
I hope its hard boiled. In fact, our POTUS should be hard boiled.
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:49pm |
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:29:58pm |
re: #449 big steve
I do a little woodworking as a hobby. Looking closely at the photo and text there are two problems here. First of all, if the hand is Monkey Pod Tree wood, that tree is native of South, Central America and Pacific Islands. It is not native to Africa. Obviously it could be imported to Africa and be carved but that is very unlikely in that there are many many other types of wood simply lying around in Africa to use.
Second, I looked the photo over and to me it actually looks like walnut with the egg being very similar to rock maple. Any other wood workers out there who care to comment?
Fact-check CBBHO's ass!
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:35pm |
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:36pm |
re: #404 Iron Fist
The whole "Cult of Obama" shit is more than just worrisome. It smacks of some the worst aspects of Twentieth Century Totalitarianism. and the Media, hell, even the Republicans give him a pass on it. John McCain had exactly one commercial on it, then I guess he decided it was too mean. And he quit running it.
I don't think that many buy that deeply into it. Most of Obama's support came from ordinary folks who listened to the MSM and really wanted Hope and Change, but forgot to order a Candidatefax before buying the used Marxist four door.
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Gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:39pm |
re: #438 Dark_Falcon
Yes, that goose is the ultimate honco. :)
That goose is in the process of getting cooked by ORP (ObamaReidPelosi)
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big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:48pm |
re: #489 wong fei hung
Everybody should check out MY "eggs of power"...
;) WFH
is that another jelly bean reference
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:54pm |
re: #435 opinionated
If Obama believes in African superstitions, I sure hope no one causes his penis to disappear.
What superstition is represented by the proverb and what is disagreeable about the sentiment ?
"Political power is like an egg, says an Ashanti proverb. Grasp it too tightly and it will shatter in your hand; hold it too loosely and it will slip from your fingers"
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:56pm |
re: #486 Slumbering Behemoth
If you're gonna walk around in my noggin, would you please wipe your feet first?
/
Should I flush the toilet as well? ;)
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:30:58pm |
All these egg puns- you people really know how to ham it up.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:31:46pm |
re: #504 Opinionated
Where Tarzan when you need him?
He has been deemed a racist symbol of imperialism. He was packed off to England and his jungle turned over to the new President-for-Life's cronies.
/semi-kidding
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rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:31:46pm |
re: #471 jwb7605
Please tell us you won't be here all week! :-)
no, but try the veal and don't forget to tip the waitress
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Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:31:59pm |
re: #242 Joan
Many African-American people I know have versions of this egg sculpture in their homes--it is, I think, based on some traditional wood carving styles from West Africa (Ghana?). It isn't sinister or uncommon. As for the dang "blue book" that is sheer capitalist entrepreneurship--and, no more sinister than the hero-worship of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at MLK-Day gatherings.
I think African-American people are among the most resilient, loyal, enduring, faith-filled people in our country. It has been a privilege for me to work on various "team oriented" civic and service projects with them--they know how to organize, how to "make a way when there ain't know way!" and they do find inspiration in Africa-centric artwork, mythology, traditions.
These are also fierce, fearsomely passionate individuals, and I would never want to come between them and a cherished, beloved member of the great extended family of black people in America. I don't think I will ever understand, and Obama is their son, their darling, their pride. Therefore my dissent--even here, my free-speech "home" on LGF--needs to be dissent from policies, anger at bad ideas and failed ideology. We are on very thin ice and on dangerous ground. I have to watch myself, speaking just for myself, because sometimes I shoot from the lip.
If I could give multiple updings, you'd get them.
And to come right out and say it, some of the comments on this and other Obama-mocking threads not only go right up to the edge of racism, but step boldly across that boundary.
I'm all for mockery, and there's no reason why anyone should hold back on what Obama says or does that's ridiculous, but snarking on the African tchotchkes he chooses to own (and I'm referring to some of the comments here, not to the thread as a whole) is, well, stepping on eggshells.
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jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:32:05pm |
re: #511 avanti
What superstition is represented by the proverb and what is disagreeable about the sentiment ?
"Political power is like an egg, says an Ashanti proverb. Grasp it too tightly and it will shatter in your hand; hold it too loosely and it will slip from your fingers"
Dude!
Kick back, mellow out. Have some of Walter's soup.
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:32:31pm |
re: #490 nyc redneck
based on how self-centered he is, he couldn't pick any art that ultimately didn't showcase himself.
He did not pick it. it was a gift. This is getting silly.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:32:33pm |
re: #512 FurryOldGuyJeans
Should I flush the toilet as well? ;)
if its yellow, let it mellow, if its brown, flush it down.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:33:05pm |
re: #496 Alouette
Aesop was a black guy, just like Uncle Remus.
Not according the "Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends" TV cartoon show. ;)
Ok, read a dead GUY? How misogynistic.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:33:15pm |
re: #516 Cato the Elder
If I could give multiple updings, you'd get them.
And to come right out and say it, some of the comments on this and other Obama-mocking threads not only go right up to the edge of racism, but step boldly across that boundary.
I'm all for mockery, and there's no reason why anyone should hold back on what Obama says or does that's ridiculous, but snarking on the African tchotchkes he chooses to own (and I'm referring to some of the comments here, not to the thread as a whole) is, well, stepping on eggshells.
| 523 |
bravesoat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:33:18pm |
I have the 'Bacon of Breakfast' sculpture in my office, symbolizing all can be made better with bacon. Perhaps the great leader will summon me to Washington so we can end our differences and heal this great nation.
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:33:27pm |
"Political power is like an egg, says an Ashanti proverb. Grasp it too tightly and it will shatter in your hand; hold it too loosely and it will slip from your fingers"
Sounds like Princess Leia to me.
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Elcid Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:33:28pm |
re: #76 jcm
We all do.....
/It is an unofficial requirement for to own, read and carry this book at all times......
*a couple clicks on the right arrows will get you to this page*
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revobob Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:00pm |
re: #443 carefulnow
Yeah, and you gotta buy all your eggs from California, where they are penned humanely.... Any Californians here?
(Raises hand timidly)
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:11pm |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:11pm |
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:13pm |
Just for blasphemy's sake....
Dr. Seuss Bible
Forgive them o' lord
they know not what they do
For they walk through this life
in crappity shoes
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JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:13pm |
re: #516 Cato the Elder
If I could give multiple updings, you'd get them.
And to come right out and say it, some of the comments on this and other Obama-mocking threads not only go right up to the edge of racism, but step boldly across that boundary.
I'm all for mockery, and there's no reason why anyone should hold back on what Obama says or does that's ridiculous, but snarking on the African tchotchkes he chooses to own (and I'm referring to some of the comments here, not to the thread as a whole) is, well, stepping on eggshells.
Cato ...didn't we have to walk on eggshells during the whole dang campaign? ...geez ...it is just an EGG ...
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Inquisitive Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:18pm |
re: #513 Sharmuta
All these egg puns- you people really know how to ham it up.
Yes..... and I don't know how....but I pulled a hamstring....laughing so hard
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:31pm |
re: #516 Cato the Elder
not only go right up to the edge of racism
Do statements that some races are more "loyal" than others not do that?
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big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:43pm |
re: #498 buzzsawmonkey
If Joan is talking about "negative stereotypes," or some such crap, I would remind her that Stepin Fetchit got his start playing the same character he played in Hollywood in black vaudeville; that Hattie McDaniel, accepting her Oscar for Gone With the Wind, said, "I'd rather play a maid than be one"; that white film producers and directors put black performers into their films because they were good box office; that blacks were not the only ethnics to be subject to "negative stereotypes"; that the negative stereotypes of today are perpetuated by black people in entertainment who feel it incumbent upon them to act like thugs.
I always thought the recent WaMu commercials with the young yuppie good looking black guy and the fussy old white bankers was enormously racist.
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:34:48pm |
This egg talk reminds me of the Beatles' White Albumin
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:35:16pm |
It is NOT RACIST to mock stupid idiotic art.
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NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:35:27pm |
re: #528 bellamags
this thread used to be fun, now, not so much.
What can I do to make it fun for you?
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:35:33pm |
re: #536 jcbunga
This egg talk reminds me of the Beatles' White Albumin
they suck...did you know that?
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:35:37pm |
re: #524 Sharmuta
"Political power is like an egg, says an Ashanti proverb. Grasp it too tightly and it will shatter in your hand; hold it too loosely and it will slip from your fingers"
Sounds like Princess Leia to me.
LOL!
I knew that sounded famiiar...
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Catttt Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:35:38pm |
re: #449 big steve
I do a little woodworking as a hobby. Looking closely at the photo and text there are two problems here. First of all, if the hand is Monkey Pod Tree wood, that tree is native of South, Central America and Pacific Islands. It is not native to Africa. Obviously it could be imported to Africa and be carved but that is very unlikely in that there are many many other types of wood simply lying around in Africa to use.
Second, I looked the photo over and to me it actually looks like walnut with the egg being very similar to rock maple. Any other wood workers out there who care to comment?
The site that sells it says this:
The "hand" is carved from the hardwood of the Monkey Pod tree, with interlocked, wavy grain and colors that range from medium tan to dark brown; the "egg" is lathe-turned from the hardwood of the Coffea Arabica tree, a species that produces the majority of coffee consumed in the world.
They mention that President O was gifted in while in Kenya and that it is based on an African proverb. They don't say where it is made, but Kenya is capable of importing wood as well as nick-knacks. If we could turn it over, it might have "Hecho in Mexico" on the bottom.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:00pm |
I drank tonight. Much to the shock of everyone, I am sure.
Will invoke Iron Fist upon myself.
Goodnight my friends.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:00pm |
re: #532 Mich-again
Waffles, egg, Milk toast,
And don't forget the Dixie Kitchen Corn Cakes! Though in fact those corn cakes are quite good, speaking from personal experience.
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Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:07pm |
re: #524 Sharmuta
"Political power is like an egg, says an Ashanti proverb. Grasp it too tightly and it will shatter in your hand; hold it too loosely and it will slip from your fingers"
Sounds like Princess Leia to me.
I think they stole that line from Dan Patrick in an old ESPN commercial where he was giving golf lessons and hitting balls into the satellite dish in Bristol.
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Syrah Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:12pm |
"Egg of Power"?
Is it just me or does anyone else think that this is an example of a freaky-creepy fetish for "power"?
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:13pm |
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:17pm |
re: #525 Elcid
Mao's book was an official requirement for everyone to own and read daily. The Obama Reader Little Blue Book is currently only an unofficial requirement.
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Killgore Trout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:23pm |
re: #543 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Cheers!
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:30pm |
re: #535 big steve
I always thought the recent WaMu commercials with the young yuppie good looking black guy and the fussy old white bankers was enormously racist.
ME TOO! I was completely offended by those fucking commercials. If it was reversed, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton would have made millions.
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:34pm |
re: #302 avanti
You said it better then I could of. It's fun to crack wise about insignificant things, but it should not get too snarky. Obama, is of partly African decent, the proverb is pretty wise, and the gift was from his home continent.
The fact that he did not toss it in a closet might mean he agrees with the proverb. I'm not saying his base should rush out and buy one though, that's just weird.
But, you know there's a good chunk of Dear Leader's followers that will, simply because DL has one....
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kansas Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:41pm |
#242
I think African-American people are among the most resilient, loyal, enduring, faith-filled people in our country. It has been a privilege for me to work on various "team oriented" civic and service projects with them--they know how to organize, how to "make a way when there ain't know way!" and they do find inspiration in Africa-centric artwork, mythology, traditions.
Gee, that's kind of an over generalization don't you think?
I mean seriously. My local paper just did a series on about 20 prison inmates from a certain area in the city who were convicted murderers. They all were African American. You want to draw any conclusions there? Just as accurate as your observations.
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kcladderman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:47pm |
re: #516 Cato the Elder
I think African-American people are among the most resilient, loyal, enduring, faith-filled people in our country. It has been a privilege for me to work on various "team oriented" civic and service projects with them--they know how to organize, how to "make a way when there ain't know way!" and they do find inspiration in Africa-centric artwork, mythology, traditions.
These are also fierce, fearsomely passionate individuals, and I would never want to come between them and a cherished, beloved member of the great extended family of black people in America
That is the most racist post on the whole thread.
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:36:49pm |
re: #444 buzzsawmonkey
BET videos and gangsta chic and some of the rap--there's pure gold in perpetuating that stuff
Do I have to defend that it is disproportionate? Okay, I'm not a sociologist, I just play one on TV
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:37:07pm |
re: #512 FurryOldGuyJeans
Sure, why not? While you're at it, you might as well sweep out the gutters.
Psst! That's where I keep all the good pr0n. Hint, hint
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gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:37:15pm |
re: #540 itellu3times
I didn't know unicorns laid eggs.
Only the ones with rainbow tails: The Egg of Dope
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:37:19pm |
re: #537 WriterMom
It is NOT RACIST to mock stupid idiotic art.
It hardly matters what's said. It'll be interpreted racists anyway.
/not sure I totally believe that, but I heard it...
| 559 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:37:43pm |
re: #538 NYCHardhat
What can I do to make it fun for you?
get me some of walter's soup (he makes it with a special ingredient)! ha ha,
but really, I would love some wine.
| 560 |
Bob Dillon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:37:50pm |
re: #500 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
NERD ALERT!
Danger, danger, warning, warning!
A king, worried that his three sons are without the wisdom to live in a world of wile and guile, asks a learned man called Vishnu Sharman to teach them the ways of the world.
Since his wards are dimwits, Vishnu Sharman decides to pass on wisdom to them in the form of stories. In these stories, he makes animals speak like human beings. Panchatantra is a collection of attractively told stories about the five ways that help the human being succeed in life. Pancha means five and tantra means ways or strategies or principles. Addressed to the king's children, the stories are primarily about statecraft and are popular throughout the world. The five strategies are:
Discord among friends
Gaining friends
Of crows and owls
Loss of gains and
Imprudence
The stories have been translated into nearly every language in the world that has a script. The story form appeals to children while the wisdom in them attracts adults. The Panchatantra collection represents the earliest folk tale form in the world of literature. There are several versions of Panchatantra tales in circulation in the world but the one that is popular in India is the Sanskrit original of Vishnu Sharman.
Enjoy.
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Opinionated Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:03pm |
re: #511 avanti
"Political power is like an egg, says an Ashanti proverb. Grasp it too tightly and it will shatter in your hand; hold it too loosely and it will slip from your fingers"
Might fit for the tyrannies and dictatorships of Africa. Doesn't fit the American Republic.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:04pm |
re: #540 itellu3times
I will say this to you... I can never see your avatar without thinking "Hello, I must be going."
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:13pm |
re: #551 talon_262
But, you know there's a good chunk of Dear Leader's followers that will, simply because DL has one....
Especially if Oprah talks about it on her show.
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WriterMom Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:20pm |
re: #558 unrealizedviewpoint
RACIST!
EMBRACE EGG OF POWER OR GO TO GULAG
DO NOT PASS GO
DO NOT COLLECT BAIL OUT
UR2 BIG TO FAIL
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:29pm |
re: #558 unrealizedviewpoint
It hardly matters what's said. It'll be interpreted racists anyway.
/not sure I totally believe that, but I heard it...
PC in a nutshell.
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NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:33pm |
re: #559 bellamags
get me some of walter's soup (he makes it with a special ingredient)! ha ha,
but really, I would love some wine.
I'm three glasses deep.
| 567 |
BignJames Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:57pm |
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least Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:38:58pm |
re: #50 jcm
Same outfit selling the Obama's Little Blue Book.
Out of curiosity, I clicked the link . . . simply stunning. The American Cultural Revolution is stelthily underway.
Printed in a size that easily fits into pocket or purse, this book is an anthology of quotations borrowed from Barack Obama's speeches and writings. POCKET OBAMA serves as a reminder of the amazing power of oratory and the remarkable ability of this man to move people with his words. His superb and captivating oratory style has earned comparisons to John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and this historic collection presents words that catapulted his remarkable rise to the American Presidency. It is an unofficial requirement for every citizen to own, to read, and to carry this book at all times.
Unofficial for the time being.
| 569 |
JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:39:00pm |
re: #563 lobo91
Especially if Oprah talks about it on her show.
lobo91 ...you are so right ...it may be "One of Her Favorite Things" and it will sell millions for sure ...
| 571 |
Elcid Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:39:46pm |
re: #548 FurryOldGuyJeans
To this point, that is. Hopenchange it stays that way.
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Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:39:52pm |
re: #556 itellu3times
It's the Cholesterol of Change!
Your lip.. i' tor Obama a new one, so it did.
[okay, a bit of a stretch]
| 573 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:39:58pm |
| 577 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:40:20pm |
re: #562 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I will say this to you... I can never see your avatar without thinking "Hello, I must be going."
Did you say you were going to be fisting yourself?
:)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:20pm |
re: #537 WriterMom
While I whole heartedly agree, I don't find this piece of art to be stupid nor idiotic. I think it's kind of cool, actually. Still, it does nothing to change my negative opinion of our current POTUS.
| 581 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:25pm |
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3 wood Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:26pm |
Good evening.
Look for the market to open on the upside. The futures are all up well over 1% tonight.
Wall to wall pork called a stimulus package is making its way through the Senate.
Senate Finance Committee approves tax cuts in 14-9 vote
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- A Senate committee approved $342 billion in tax cuts on Tuesday as part of a larger plan to stimulate the economy. The Senate Finance Committee voted 14 to 9 to approve the legislation after amending the original proposal to make sure middle-class taxpayers aren't hit by the alternative minimum tax this year. All Republicans on the committee opposed the package except for Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Me, according to Dow Jones Newswires. The bill includes a $500 individual tax credit, tax breaks for businesses to hire workers and buy equipment, and tax incentives for energy efficiency
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:28pm |
re: #569 JacksonTn
lobo91 ...you are so right ...it may be "One of Her Favorite Things" and it will sell millions for sure ...
I almost didn't get my Kindle for Christmas because of her show. When my wife ordered it, Amazon said it wouldn't arrive for 9-11 weeks!
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:35pm |
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JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:36pm |
re: #577 Walter L. Newton
Did you say you were going to be fisting yourself?
:)
Walter ...ewwwwwww ....no visuals please ......
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:41pm |
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Code Red 21 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:47pm |
I need to get an "Egg-O-Power" website going I bet his worshipers will be buying them like crazy. There might be a few bucks in it.
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:49pm |
re: #519 avanti
He did not pick it. it was a gift. This is getting silly.
and what a perfect thing for him to display. a sculpture based on ancient african proverbs.
this from a guy who refused to wear an american flag pin until it became so awkward and detrimental to his campaign that he had to.
| 589 |
onslow Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:41:51pm |
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:42:02pm |
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3 wood Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:42:22pm |
re: #543 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I drank tonight. Much to the shock of everyone, I am sure.
I'm stunned.
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NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:42:26pm |
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:42:42pm |
Thank goodness! Now we are getting somewhere.
////
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:42:45pm |
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:42:51pm |
these threads all coast along at a walking pace until somebody ignites...ShamWow and they're off...Pun-a-thons and they're off...it always entertains :)
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:00pm |
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Egg.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:24pm |
re: #580 NYCHardhat
The Congressional GOP wants to roll over, get their belly rubbed, and play dead. This is getting so ridiculous.
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MacDuff Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:40pm |
re: #242 Joan
Many African-American people I know have versions of this egg sculpture in their homes--it is, I think, based on some traditional wood carving styles from West Africa (Ghana?). It isn't sinister or uncommon. As for the dang "blue book" that is sheer capitalist entrepreneurship--and, no more sinister than the hero-worship of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. at MLK-Day gatherings.
I think African-American people are among the most resilient, loyal, enduring, faith-filled people in our country. It has been a privilege for me to work on various "team oriented" civic and service projects with them--they know how to organize, how to "make a way when there ain't know way!" and they do find inspiration in Africa-centric artwork, mythology, traditions.
These are also fierce, fearsomely passionate individuals, and I would never want to come between them and a cherished, beloved member of the great extended family of black people in America. I don't think I will ever understand, and Obama is their son, their darling, their pride. Therefore my dissent--even here, my free-speech "home" on LGF--needs to be dissent from policies, anger at bad ideas and failed ideology. We are on very thin ice and on dangerous ground. I have to watch myself, speaking just for myself, because sometimes I shoot from the lip.
Well said however, when are we going to get past this? Contrary to what some Europeans say, we do have our own collective culture which is a sum of all of our ethnic parts. Sure, we carry part of our ancestors with us and cherish it but we are all (or should be) part of the American culture. America isn't just the place where we live; it is who we are and that is where I believe the whole multiculturalism movement is destructive. No, I don't think that our culture should be defended and protected by dictate like the French do, but it should be freely accepted and that acceptance should be expected.
I think much of these "cultural differences" between black people who couldn't find Africa on a map and white people who couldn't find Europe on a map is a contrived and artificial difference.
There are those who may say "it's a black thing, you wouldn't understand" and perhaps they are right. I'm of Irish heritage, and what the English did to my ancestors was nothing short of genocide, but that was then and this is now.
Obama himself said that we need to "put away the childish things" - perhaps this "cultural difference" between 20th generation blacks and 20th generation whites is one of the childish things that's in dire need of being put away. Obama is in a unique position to do just that, regardless of the damage that I fear he will do on other fronts.
"E Pluribus Unim" should be what we should strive for; A little unity would go a long way right now.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:45pm |
re: #568 least
Unofficial for the time being.
Well they can take their little book and stick where the sun don't shine. If I want a book full of worthless drivel, I'll pick something entertaining instead.
| 601 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:46pm |
re: #582 3 wood
Wall to wall pork called a stimulus package is making its way through the Senate.
Wall to wall pork... and eggs... mmmmmm....
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MittDoesNotCompute Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:51pm |
re: #369 mshaw
Am I missing something? Why is this thing supposed to be so weird?
I think I'm with Joan (#242). Are some of us succumbing to ODS?
As the great Sgt. Hulka once said, "Lighten up, Francis!"
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:51pm |
re: #584 unrealizedviewpoint
WTF?
Don't worry, FVB and myself plays tough. He may have left the thread, but it wasn't personal. We have this game about ragging on each other.
Honestly, if he saw it, he understood.
| 604 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:54pm |
re: #598 FurryOldGuyJeans
The Congressional GOP wants to roll over, get their belly rubbed, and play dead. This is getting so ridiculous.
I only listen to Rush.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:43:55pm |
re: #598 FurryOldGuyJeans
The Congressional GOP wants to roll over, get their belly rubbed, and play dead. This is getting so ridiculous.
Beat them. Harder.
| 606 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:44:27pm |
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Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:44:42pm |
re: #473 Occasional Reader
I'm not sure that demographic data would really bear out that generalization.
I'm not speaking from "demographic data" only from my own personal first-hand experience functioning in this society among my colleagues. Enough said already--either your life experience and observations line up with mine, or you disagree and have not observed what I describe. Okay, fair enough.
| 609 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:44:47pm |
NYCHardhat..A mellow BV Merlot from Napa Valley..My fav wine in the world
| 610 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:45:11pm |
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jcbunga Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:45:14pm |
re: #604 NYCHardhat
I only listen to Rush.
I e-mailed that Georgia rep who criticized Rush and told him he and his buddies had better figure out how pissed people are, or better yet, just resign.
These f'ers are an epic failure.
| 612 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:45:22pm |
Another African proverb: The Colonists are leaving! WTF do we do now?
| 613 |
SurferDoc Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:45:25pm |
Grab 'em by the eggs and their hearts and minds will follow.
| 615 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:46:18pm |
re: #592 NYCHardhat
Some red wine my dear. Wish you were here. ;)
If you can get some San Sebastian Vinters Red, you should try it.
| 616 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:46:37pm |
re: #612 maddogg
Another African proverb: The Colonists are leaving! WTF do we do now?
don't ask mugabe.
| 617 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:00pm |
re: #610 FurryOldGuyJeans
I listen to neither Rush nor the Congressional GOP.
I don't like Rush either.
| 618 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:01pm |
re: #589 onslow
President Obama leads US drive to topple Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
If his plan works, I'm for it.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:06pm |
re: #589 onslow
President Obama leads US drive to topple Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Yet ousting Saddam was wrong and worthy of a War Crime.
Mugabe should be gone, but the hypocrisy of some is so palpable.
| 620 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:10pm |
re: #584 unrealizedviewpoint
WTF?
It was pretty good. Please forgive any typos. I am typing one handed.
| 621 |
karmic_inquisitor Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:20pm |
OT - NASA's Dr. James Hansen, the alarmist who feeds Al Gore, has just been totally slammed by his former NASA boss, Dr. John Theon.
Theon has also now publicly proclaimed himself to be an Man Made Global Warming skeptic (a growing and diverse group) :
Theon declared “climate models are useless.” “My own belief concerning anthropogenic climate change is that the models do not realistically simulate the climate system because there are many very important sub-grid scale processes that the models either replicate poorly or completely omit,” Theon explained. “Furthermore, some scientists have manipulated the observed data to justify their model results. In doing so, they neither explain what they have modified in the observations, nor explain how they did it. They have resisted making their work transparent so that it can be replicated independently by other scientists. This is clearly contrary to how science should be done. Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy,” he added.
“As Chief of several of NASA Headquarters’ programs (1982-94), an SES position, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson, and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the private sector who worked on climate research,” Theon wrote of his career. “This required a thorough understanding of the state of the science. I have kept up with climate science since retiring by reading books and journal articles,” Theon added. (LINK) Theon also co-authored the book “Advances in Remote Sensing Retrieval Methods.”
Science that uses modified data to feed models intended to interpret that very data, while then not sharing the raw data for others to use to replicate results is inevitably bad science, no matter what it intends or if it coincidentally describes a phenomenon. Looks like Theon is admitting that.
| 622 |
Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:22pm |
re: #481 WriterMom
This is heading into noble savage territory.
No. It isn't. I wrote down what my experience was, and if it does not ring true to what you have lived and observed, then fair enough.
| 623 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:24pm |
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:26pm |
Evening, lizards.
African proverbs to live by, eh?
Lucky us.
| 625 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:37pm |
re: #580 NYCHardhat
Asked to respond to Gingrey, Limbaugh, in an email to Politico, wrote: “I'm sure he is doing his best but it does not appear to be good enough. He may not have noticed that the number of Republican colleagues he has in the House has dwindled. And they will dwindle more if he and his friends don't show more leadership and effectiveness in battling the most left-wing agenda in modern history. And they won't continue to lose because of me, but because of their relationship with the grassroots, which is hurting. Conservatives want leadership from those who claim to represent them. And we'll know it when we see it.”
Well said, Rush.
| 626 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:37pm |
re: #597 ArmyWife
I find your lack of feathers disturbing.
/okay, I admit that I suck at this thing called "pun"
| 627 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:41pm |
re: #620 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
It was pretty good. Please forgive any typos. I am typing one handed.
It's always good!
| 628 |
3 wood Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:47pm |
re: #598 FurryOldGuyJeans
The Congressional GOP wants to roll over, get their belly rubbed, and play dead. This is getting so ridiculous.
And they are going to get it stuck to themselves real good by this guy.
The Republican party in Illinois tried to work with the Democrats and they got destroyed.
| 629 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:48pm |
re: #609 HoosierHoops
NYCHardhat..A mellow BV Merlot from Napa Valley..My fav wine in the world
Chateau Ste Michelle Merlot Columbia Valley 2004
Its reasonable and decent.
| 630 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:53pm |
Sharmuta - if you are still here - you were spot on. Princess Leia quote is as follows:
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
There is money to be made here. Let's scan the quotes, create an "ancient proverb", fire up the kiln and get to work. When the going gets tough, the tough make up crap and sell it on the internet!
| 631 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:47:57pm |
re: #580 NYCHardhat
The lone voice of Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. What a wuss.
You go Rush. We need more people (our elected Republicans) to speak out against and fight against the 0.
| 632 |
mojo jojo Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:48:04pm |
Did I miss the Bessarabian Cossacks marching down Pennsylvania Avenue during the parade?
/SARC
| 634 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:48:11pm |
re: #617 Walter L. Newton
I don't like Rush either.
If I wanted a Super-sized Ego I would listen to Obama speeches.
| 637 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:48:27pm |
re: #620 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
It was pretty good. Please forgive any typos. I am typing one handed.
So, what are you doing with that other hand?
/you may decline to answer.
| 638 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:48:40pm |
| 639 |
wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:48:55pm |
re: #602 talon_262
As the great Sgt. Hulka once said, "Lighten up, Francis!"
Or as John Riggins once said to Justice Sandra Day O'connor at a banquet in Washington: "Lighten up, Sandy baby!"
| 640 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:14pm |
re: #615 bellamags
If you can get some San Sebastian Vinters Red, you should try it.
Do you like Napa valley wine? Have you ever had anything from the Valley of the moon? It's right outside the official valley but it's cheaper and taste just as good. Sonoma makes a great wine
| 641 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:17pm |
If I may take a crack at this, (seriously, no pun intended) I think the motivation for posting this is really the pomp and circumstance which will follow.
Platitudes. Ingratiating gestures from all the sycophants who will latch on to this symbol, as some sort of bullshit pay it forward kind of meme, meant to represent some mystical higher form of ancient knowledge only missing from our current world view.
It will become the visual cause-celeb bumper sticker, fixated to the urban Range Rovers sporting brush guards deep in the brush of San Francisco.
The supposed learned will find it the key to the universal truth's, a homeopathic puritanical road back to the true meaning of life.
| 642 |
big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:25pm |
re: #516 Cato the Elder
And to come right out and say it, some of the comments on this and other Obama-mocking threads not only go right up to the edge of racism, but step boldly across that boundary.
Not doubting your point but it seems to be that any comments about Obama and his family, except for strict policy arguments are being interpreted as racist regardless of whether the are or not. The physical appearance of George and Laura Bush was mocked heavily along with their intellectual weight, speech patterns, clothing, drinking habits, how they raised their children, and on and on. Not one interpreted that as racist.
A day or so ago a lady lizard wondered why all the fuss about Michelle Obama's fashion sense and referred to her as a "snarling fullback, swathed in drapery fabric." I damn near died of laughter over that one. When I mentioned it at work, someone IMMEDIATELY said that was a racist comment. Well how so. It might have been snarky, or even wrong (although I thought it was very clever) but where in the comment is race? Is it the word "snarling" or "fullback" or "drapery fabric"....hardly.
| 644 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:36pm |
re: #607 Joan
either your life experience and observations line up with mine, or you disagree and have not observed what I describe.
What my life experiences and observations have shown me are some African-Americans who are really "loyal" and "fierce" and "family loyal", and others who are less so. Kind of like... oh, I dunno... white people.
| 645 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:39pm |
re: #633 Iron Fist
Theme Music for the thread: Die eier von satan.
i can't get Tool on Itunes or Rhapsody, what gives?
| 646 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:42pm |
re: #620 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
It was pretty good. Please forgive any typos. I am typing one handed.
It was the visual that got me. I nearly plucked my eyes out.
/
| 647 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:49:43pm |
re: #630 ArmyWife
Sharmuta - if you are still here - you were spot on. Princess Leia quote is as follows:
There is money to be made here. Let's scan the quotes, create an "ancient proverb", fire up the kiln and get to work. When the going gets tough, the tough make up crap and sell it on the internet!
We can comb through Star Wars, LOTR, and Dr. Suess.
| 648 |
JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:50:01pm |
re: #637 maddogg
So, what are you doing with that other hand?
/you may decline to answer.
Please ...again ...no visuals ...I am trying to get rid of the one Walter gave me ...
| 649 |
Wilderstad Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:50:07pm |
I don't know why he just didn't buy Star Wars memorabilia, and have Princess Leia's quote to General Tarkin " The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. "
| 650 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:50:11pm |
| 653 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:50:47pm |
re: #646 unrealizedviewpoint
It was the visual that got me. I nearly plucked my eyes out.
/
Just don't eat 'em. People will think you're nuts!
| 654 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:51:33pm |
re: #628 3 wood
And they are going to get it stuck to themselves real good by this guy.
The Republican party in Illinois tried to work with the Democrats and they got destroyed.
The prior administration was an exercise in working with the opposition party and receiving nothing but fangs for the effort.
| 655 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:51:34pm |
re: #606 bellamags
brandy, rum or whiskey you turd
hey...I'm more than just a turd...have some respect...
| 656 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:51:37pm |
re: #653 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Just don't eat 'em. People will think you're nuts!
Man-did ya see that guy? OMG
| 657 |
itellu3times Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:51:48pm |
| 658 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:18pm |
re: #653 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Just don't eat 'em. People will think you're nuts!
Are you going THERE again?
| 659 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:18pm |
| 660 |
Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:20pm |
re: #641 formercorpsman
Yes, it could get very smarmy out around that little sculpture.
| 661 |
lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:26pm |
re: #635 taxfreekiller
Private Obama,
Your the newby, check your equipment, make sure you know the seconday exfil plan if the first lz is hot.
You walk point tonight, the weather sucks, there is some reports of others on the trails and they seem to be a bit pissed.
Bill and his wife are going to pull drag and have your back.
Get'm up, move'em out!
Unfortunately, Private Obama's next move would be to walk into the tail rotor on the Huey...
| 662 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:38pm |
re: #647 Sharmuta
We can comb through Star Wars, LOTR, and Dr. Suess.
And Pooh Bear- one of the greatest philosophers of all time!
| 663 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:41pm |
re: #656 unrealizedviewpoint
Proudly? FBV! The one who brought him to the attn of LGF.
Didn't I say I was going?
| 665 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:52:54pm |
re: #588 nyc redneck
and what a perfect thing for him to display. a sculpture based on ancient african proverbs.
this from a guy who refused to wear an american flag pin until it became so awkward and detrimental to his campaign that he had to.
Never wore a pin, never owned one, nor knew that was required to show you loved your country. Now, it's suddenly a mandatory accessory for every politician, and proves nothing.
| 666 |
rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:53:10pm |
re: #635 taxfreekiller
Private Obama,
Your the newby, check your equipment, make sure you know the seconday exfil plan if the first lz is hot.
You walk point tonight, the weather sucks, there is some reports of others on the trails and they seem to be a bit pissed.
Bill and his wife are going to pull drag and have your back.
Get'm up, move'em out!
tfk,
that brought a mental picture that just made me giggle like a madman
bill and hill got your back......bwahahahahah
| 667 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:53:36pm |
re: #664 Iron Fist
I don't know. I have to admit I don't even have an MP3 player. I bought one for the girlfriend for Christmas, but we haven't had time to actually do anything with it.
Ahh, you just bought her an MP3 because you assumed it was a prototype model of the MP5.
| 668 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:53:54pm |
“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"”
-Pooh Bear
| 669 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:10pm |
re: #663 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Proudly? FBV! The one who brought him to the attn of LGF.
Didn't I say I was going?
So you're the source of that visual also.
| 670 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:14pm |
re: #631 newsjunkie_ky
The lone voice of Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. What a wuss.
You go Rush. We need more people (our elected Republicans) to speak out against and fight against the 0.
This is not a lone voice. He is praising the "Get Along" gang for capitulating. This reminds me of an abused spouse resisting anyone trying to stop the beatings.
| 671 |
mean Gene Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:24pm |
I was looking for separate proof that this is really an African proverb.....it may be.
The ''real'' ones include such gems as:
Do not tell the man carrying you that he stinks.
If one is roasting two potatoes, one of them is bound to get charred.
Bad dancing does not brake an engagement.
Do not follow a person who is running a way.
We should talk while we are still alive.
| 672 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:28pm |
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
-Pooh Bear
| 673 |
wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:33pm |
re: #662 Sharmuta
And Pooh Bear- one of the greatest philosophers of all time!
That's his foreign policy advisor, too!
| 674 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:35pm |
re: #630 ArmyWife
You know, when you really think about it, it is not so far fetched.
If you have any knowledge as the history of Kwanzaa, it is obvious our buddy Karenga ripped off the Menorah, and red & green colors of Christmas.
| 676 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:42pm |
re: #640 HoosierHoops
Do you like Napa valley wine? Have you ever had anything from the Valley of the moon? It's right outside the official valley but it's cheaper and taste just as good. Sonoma makes a great wine
I am not enough of a wine connoisseur to give you an accurate answer. I like sweet wines, we have a local winery (San Sebastian) that uses muscadine grapes. Very sweet and full. I will look for some from the Valley of the Moon at the wine shop next time.
| 677 |
Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:52pm |
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
| 678 |
Lee Coller Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:53pm |
My first peek at this thread and I see that there are 666 (probably more by the time I post this) comments. Coincidence?
| 679 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:54:56pm |
re: #668 Sharmuta
Hey Sharmuta...By any chance did you catch Glenn Beck today?
He did a great show on it being our responsibility at the grass roots to take our government back.
| 680 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:55:16pm |
“If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”
-Pooh Bear
| 681 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:55:33pm |
re: #634 FurryOldGuyJeans
If I wanted a Super-sized Ego I would listen to Obama speeches.
And he calls it "his bit." No, I listen to the tone of his dialog, I've watched his body english on TV, and I've read his printed words, and they all smack of an over active ego.
In a sense, he lies every time he tries to dismiss himself as just an entertainer, a harmless fuzzball and so on, yet he keeps up with the ego on a stick routine.
I'm not fooled by him. I don't get a thrill from listening to him prune his feathers.
| 683 |
Lee Coller Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:55:46pm |
re: #678 Lee Coller
My first peek at this thread and I see that there are 666 (probably more by the time I post this) comments. Coincidence?
In case anyone has any doubts. I'm joking.
| 685 |
Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:13pm |
re: #677 Charles
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
Not in my book. Some of the comments here, though, mebbe.
| 686 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:15pm |
re: #677 Charles
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
A couple of posters think so, and by the Code of PC that means it is.
What a crock of shit calling some humor racist.
| 687 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:16pm |
re: #672 Sharmuta
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
-Pooh Bear
Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift, thats why they call it the present.
/Kung fu Panda:)
| 689 |
itellu3times Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:25pm |
re: #562 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I will say this to you... I can never see your avatar without thinking "Hello, I must be going."
It's a good avatar, ... even if it's a mismatch for my Lewis Carroll nic.
But how about the song from Coconuts: Everyone Says 'I Love You'
| 690 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:26pm |
re: #672 Sharmuta
“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
-Pooh Bear
I'd like Pooh as a philosopher a lot more if he occasionally threw in a quote like "let them hate, so long as they fear", or something along those lines.
| 691 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:36pm |
re: #677 Charles
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
No.
| 692 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:45pm |
re: #628 3 wood
And they are going to get it stuck to themselves real good by this guy.
The Republican party in Illinois tried to work with the Democrats and they got destroyed.
Agreed. Now is not the time to work with Obama. Now is the time to lay out a clear alternative to his plans. That is the only road back for the GOP.
| 693 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:56:58pm |
“You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.”
-Pooh Bear
| 695 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:57:03pm |
re: #630 ArmyWife
Sharmuta - if you are still here - you were spot on. Princess Leia quote is as follows:
There is money to be made here. Let's scan the quotes, create an "ancient proverb", fire up the kiln and get to work. When the going gets tough, the tough make up crap and sell it on the internet!
Here's one "A wise man says, Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it."
| 696 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:57:09pm |
re: #677 Charles
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
Your hobokophobia has not gone unnoticed, mister.
| 697 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:57:33pm |
re: #677 Charles
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
Wasn't it Gloria Steinem who first used that phrase?
Or was that Susan B. Anthony?
Or was it Eve?
| 698 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:57:49pm |
re: #676 bellamags
I am not enough of a wine connoisseur to give you an accurate answer. I like sweet wines, we have a local winery that uses muscadine grapes. Very sweet and full. I will look for some from the Valley of the Moon at the wine shop next time.
Let me try again San Sebastian
| 699 |
Joan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:57:50pm |
re: #644 Occasional Reader
What my life experiences and observations have shown me are some African-Americans who are really "loyal" and "fierce" and "family loyal", and others who are less so. Kind of like... oh, I dunno... white people.
Very good. Well, there's a phenomenon at work around Obama, among African-American people, that is highly charged with the kind of emotion that one more often sees connected with family.
Thanks for the insult, it was not necessary but perhaps salutary
| 700 |
Syrah Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:58:02pm |
re: #662 Sharmuta
And Pooh Bear- one of the greatest philosophers of all time!
The Hundred Acre Wood is a far more logical place then DC ever will be.
| 701 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:58:09pm |
re: #690 Occasional Reader
I'd like Pooh as a philosopher a lot more if he occasionally threw in a quote like "let them hate, so long as they fear", or something along those lines.
So- you just pooh-pooh the matter, huh?
| 702 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:58:13pm |
re: #629 NYCHardhat
Chateau Ste Michelle Merlot Columbia Valley 2004
Its reasonable and decent.
Isn't that next to the Love Canal?
Just teasing ya..I grew up in Yountville in the middle of wine country and spent years making fun of wine snobs..Twirling it between your thumb and index finger notice the clarity...Blah blah..Trust me on this...*wink* The best wine is always free..
LOL
When i was a kid..The Valley was mostly farm land...Then it became a huge winery corporations..The Napa Valley is a very special place...
| 703 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:58:39pm |
re: #700 Syrah
The Hundred Acre Wood is a far more logical place then DC ever will be.
It's funny because it's true.
| 704 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:58:45pm |
re: #651 Iron Fist
I once had a roommate that would make completely appropriate (and sometimes hilarious) puns based on stuff that was currently happening, adding the annoying quip "No pun intended".
He leveled a pretty good one at a guy that was about to get his car towed. Wish I could remember it. I partied a lot back in those days.
| 705 |
Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:58:50pm |
re: #599 MacDuff
but if his past performance is any indicator, he has no desire to 'heal' There is a huge difference between anger and resentment The words he used to describe the races in his speech in Philly, right before he called his grandmother racist.
Our president listened to a racist pastor for many years, some of it rubbed off.
This sculpture however is not indicative of that racism, this was a tourist getting taken.
| 706 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:05pm |
re: #681 Walter L. Newton
I won't go that far, Walter. I just prefer listening to/reading opinion on the events of today instead of nearly 3 hours of raging ego-mania.
| 707 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:11pm |
| 708 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:16pm |
re: #677 Charles
I couldn't care less whether this sculpture was African or from Hoboken, New Jersey. I just think the words "Egg of Power" are inherently hilarious.
So that's "racist" now?
It is a bit of over the top marketing, no question.
| 709 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:25pm |
re: #604 NYCHardhat
I only listen to Rush.
i love him.
i always learn something and he always makes me laugh.
| 710 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:27pm |
re: #702 HoosierHoops
Isn't that next to the Love Canal?
Just teasing ya..I grew up in Yountville in the middle of wine country and spent years making fun of wine snobs..Twirling it between your thumb and index finger notice the clarity...Blah blah..Trust me on this...*wink* The best wine is always free..
LOL
When i was a kid..The Valley was mostly farm land...Then it became a huge winery corporations..The Napa Valley is a very special place...
I had a blast in college with boxed wine.
| 711 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:34pm |
re: #641 formercorpsman
Since we got all serious here, let me add my 2 cents (taxed at a very high rate now). I think what we have here is a failure to communicate..
no, seriously. It appears that Obama got elected on a series of bumper sticker slogans. It seems this is how he lives his life - he has no depth. To him, this is meaningful, moving art. We have a society that is this way, they get their information in sound bites and are unwilling or unable to spend time getting to solid answers themselves. They want it fed to them, and they want it fed to them in a jingle format. What they don't understand is those sound bites and platitudes will affect our country, will affect us. This problem won't be resolved in 30 minutes with 4 commercial breaks. We need deep thinkers in office, instead we got Barnum and Bailey.
| 712 |
big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:38pm |
Democratic Party Playbook:
1. Use Coulter to raise money.
2. Bitch slap Rush every once in a while and then cry about how mean he is.
3. Refer to all Republicans as stupid.
4. Its all Bush's fault.
5. Tell children scary stories about Cheney.
6. Read Doonsbury as Trudeau catches up the the 80's.
7. Write one billion word long essays and hope either Kos or Huffington will post them.
8. Muscle up and throw a punch or two at Palin.
| 713 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:52pm |
| 714 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 7:59:58pm |
re: #665 avanti
Seriously Avanti. Him, and his family sat in that church for 20 years. With their kids to boot.
His wife has publicly stated she was never proud of her country.
People should not draw the least bit of suspicion from any of this?
| 716 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:01:00pm |
A fat man needs his sleep.
I am fat.
I need to sleep.
| 717 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:01:07pm |
re: #699 Joan
Thanks for the insult,
Why, sure. Um, could you refresh my memory... where did I insult you, again?
| 718 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:01:27pm |
re: #715 Iron Fist
The indoor gun range/shop we do business with has an MP 5 for rent for $20 (IIRC). You have to have enough range time to rent it (I think it is four visits) and bring your own ammo. I figure I can burn through about 500 rounds in less than half an hour :-)
I'm going to get the Girlfriend to put a couple of magazines through it as well. I'm trying hard to cultivate her interest. I'd like her to get a carry permit and (probably) a .38/.357 Magnum.
Why a revolver?
| 719 |
Charles Johnson Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:01:40pm |
I mean, come on. If you can't even make fun of a freakin' egg o' power, what's left? Is nothing un-sacred any more?
| 720 |
JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:01:54pm |
re: #716 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
A fat man needs his sleep.
I am fat.
I need to sleep.
Good Night FBV ...hope you sleep well and do not wake up with a hangover ...
| 721 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:02:02pm |
re: #665 avanti
Never wore a pin, never owned one, nor knew that was required to show you loved your country. Now, it's suddenly a mandatory accessory for every politician, and proves nothing.
then why is he wearing one, now.
everywhere he goes.
are you alleging he is insincere.
| 722 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:02:27pm |
re: #674 formercorpsman
with a dash of SLA philosophy for good measure.
| 723 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:02:53pm |
re: #717 Occasional Reader
Why, sure. Um, could you refresh my memory... where did I insult you, again?
Wow, speaking opinion backed up by facts is now an insult. Who knew?
| 724 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:02:54pm |
Can we please stop with calling everything racist? The word is getting watered down.
| 725 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:02:58pm |
re: #698 bellamags
Let me try again San Sebastian
“The Cellar Upstairs” Wine, Jazz & Blues Bar
Live Music “The Cellar Upstairs” Wine, Jazz & Blues Bar is located on the rooftop of the Winery building and is a best kept secret with locals. Open on weekends, featuring incredible live music from a wide range of talented local and regional Bands. Relax to the music and enjoy the tremendous views overlooking the St. Augustine skyline while enjoying a glass of San Sebastian Wine and light appetizers.
What an awesome place..Fine wine..Jazz on the rooftop,,dancing..
I'm there
| 726 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:03:24pm |
re: #715 Iron Fist
I'd like her to get a carry permit and (probably) a .38/.357 Magnum.
Remember to be nice to her after that.
| 727 |
Maui Girl Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:03:55pm |
I'm sure the "O" strokes his egg lovingly every morning while no one is looking wishing his wife's you know what's were that nice. Okay, never mind that.
I'm sure the "O" strokes his egg lovingly every morning hoping the Egg Genie would show up and grant him wishes. Yeh, that's better. I like the Genie idea.
| 728 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:04:08pm |
re: #721 nyc redneck
then why is he wearing one, now.
everywhere he goes.
are you alleging he is insincere.
I certainly would be willing to entertain that.
| 729 |
big steve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:04:22pm |
The egg of power kind of reminds me of folding paper into a triangle and kicking with your finger through the up-rights.
| 730 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:04:23pm |
re: #721 nyc redneck
then why is he wearing one, now.
everywhere he goes.
are you alleging he is insincere.
to avanti, the 0 wore one until 9/11 or so he says. He said he took it off after 9/11 to show a pin didn't mean patriotism.
He may have had other reasons after 9/11 for not wearing a Flag pin.
| 732 |
yesandno Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:05:03pm |
So the great 0 contemplates and respects the power of the egg.......
unless, of course, it becomes a fetus.
| 735 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:05:29pm |
re: #725 HoosierHoops
Its sooo relaxing. you can see the bridges and Flagler College (cool architecture) from the roof. They have cushy chairs and tables with umbrellas. they make this type of "sangria" with the sweet Rosa wine and fresh fruit. Get a pitcher of that and the cheese tray. Set for the night.
| 736 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:05:39pm |
re: #706 FurryOldGuyJeans
I won't go that far, Walter. I just prefer listening to/reading opinion on the events of today instead of nearly 3 hours of raging ego-mania.
That's a simple way to handle it. Agreed.
| 737 |
rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:05:40pm |
re: #726 Occasional Reader
Remember to be nice to her after that.
I suspect that around his woman the iron fist is kept in a velvet glove
| 738 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:05:52pm |
re: #699 Joan
Very good. Well, there's a phenomenon at work around Obama, among African-American people, that is highly charged with the kind of emotion that one more often sees connected with family.
Thanks for the insult, it was not necessary but perhaps salutary
One thing I see little discussion about is the behavior of the crowd at the inaugural. I'll admit I was concerned about my son being in DC late at night with a couple of million people. It's not the most crime free city my any stretch, but for one night at least, everyone was high on the hope thing and it was very crime free.
| 739 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:05pm |
re: #732 yesandno
So the great 0 contemplates and respects the power of the egg.......
unless, of course, it becomes a fetus.
Baby, it's a human baby.
| 740 |
Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:05pm |
re: #729 big steve
The egg of power kind of reminds me of folding paper into a triangle and kicking with your finger through the up-rights.
Paper football is awesome, I taught my kids, well I thought I was teaching them but they schooled me!
And coin hockey, who can forget coin hockey?
| 741 |
Sheila Broflovski Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:10pm |
re: #734 Iron Fist
You aren't showing proper deference to the Lord God Obama when you mock his Egg of Power. That's almost blasphemy, but I figure it'll take a couple of years for Him to start dealing with Blasphemers. He has the Terrorists whose rights He must defend, and with whom He shall begin negotiations without any preconditions, at least from the United States' side. The terrorists will possibly have preconditions of their own, which Obama will try His best to fulfill. That'll occupy his time for the next year or two.
Do not mock Hopenchange Egg!
| 742 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:25pm |
re: #730 newsjunkie_ky
to avanti, the 0 wore one until 9/11 or so he says. He said he took it off after 9/11 to show a pin didn't mean patriotism.
He may have had other reasons after 9/11 for not wearing a Flag pin.
He is full of shit
| 743 |
lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:29pm |
re: #711 ArmyWife
Since we got all serious here, let me add my 2 cents (taxed at a very high rate now). I think what we have here is a failure to communicate..
no, seriously. It appears that Obama got elected on a series of bumper sticker slogans. It seems this is how he lives his life - he has no depth. To him, this is meaningful, moving art. We have a society that is this way, they get their information in sound bites and are unwilling or unable to spend time getting to solid answers themselves. They want it fed to them, and they want it fed to them in a jingle format. What they don't understand is those sound bites and platitudes will affect our country, will affect us. This problem won't be resolved in 30 minutes with 4 commercial breaks. We need deep thinkers in office, instead we got Barnum and Bailey.
I've started listening to Mark Levin's show in the afternoon, since Sirius shifted some of their programming around. Not a huge fan, but he does get some interesting callers.
Some dipshit called yesterday blaming the current financial situation on deficit spending under Bush, while simultaneously railing against Republicans for holding up the Democrats' plan to fix everything by...even bigger deficit spending.
When Levin pointed out the stupidity of his position, I thought the guy was going to have a coronary.
| 744 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:34pm |
Over 700 comments, and most still on topic, about a wooden egg. Ok, what's wrong with that? Maybe that egg does have some sort of power?
| 745 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:49pm |
WTF? The term "black hole" is now racist. You can only cry wolf so many times until your credibility is nothing. And the people looking for racism behind every comment have no credibility, only slogans.
| 746 |
Syrah Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:06:59pm |
Sarah Palin is raising money. I just sent in a contribution.
Early money in a campaign is VERY important.
Even if she is not your favorite, she is at least making a move. It deserves some attention.
Give the Democrats no rest.
| 748 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:07:11pm |
| 749 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:07:19pm |
re: #738 avanti
One thing I see little discussion about is the behavior of the crowd at the inaugural. I'll admit I was concerned about my son being in DC late at night with a couple of million people. It's not the most crime free city my any stretch, but for one night at least, everyone was high on the hope thing and it was very crime free.
Maybe that had something to do with the amount of security (police, etc.)?
I heard there were more police in the area than we've got troops in Iraq.
| 750 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:07:44pm |
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. I've only been skimming this thread, but from reading some of the posts I am getting the impression that there are people calling the mockery of this "Egg of Power" racism. Is this so?
| 751 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:07:51pm |
re: #738 avanti
One thing I see little discussion about is the behavior of the crowd at the inaugural. I'll admit I was concerned about my son being in DC late at night with a couple of million people. It's not the most crime free city my any stretch, but for one night at least, everyone was high on the hope thing and it was very crime free.
are you serious?
| 752 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:07:54pm |
re: #739 newsjunkie_ky
Baby, it's a human baby.
Can't argue with that!
But they sure do, don't they?
Selfish pr*cks!
| 753 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:07:59pm |
re: #745 maddogg
WTF? The term "black hole" is now racist. You can only cry wolf so many times until your credibility is nothing. And the people looking for racism behind every comment have no credibility, only slogans.
It worked for 70 odd years for the Soviets.
| 754 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:08:33pm |
re: #744 Walter L. Newton
Over 700 comments, and most still on topic, about a wooden egg. Ok, what's wrong with that? Maybe that egg does have some sort of power?
Iron Fist and I are trying valiantly to turn it into The Inevitable Gun Thread.
| 755 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:08:35pm |
| 756 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:08:41pm |
re: #745 maddogg
WTF? The term "black hole" is now racist. You can only cry wolf so many times until your credibility is nothing. And the people looking for racism behind every comment have no credibility, only slogans.
That's why I hope the dreaded word fades into the realm of crying wolf.
| 757 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:08:45pm |
re: #750 Slumbering Behemoth
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. I've only been skimming this thread, but from reading some of the posts I am getting the impression that there are people calling the mockery of this "Egg of Power" racism. Is this so?
For the love of God.....
| 758 |
Gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:08:46pm |
Maybe he's just a huge Salvador Dali fan?
| 759 |
Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:12pm |
re: #710 NYCHardhat
I had a blast in college with boxed wine.
LOL
OK when you go up in napa country..we could never score beer as kids but everybody always had a bottle he swiped from mom and dad..Worse than that..I college..We used to drive down the road at night and fill up 55 gallon buckets of the most expensive grapes in the world..And I feel bad..mea culpa..But damn we made good home made wine in college..
| 760 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:16pm |
re: #738 avanti
One thing I see little discussion about is the behavior of the crowd at the inaugural. I'll admit I was concerned about my son being in DC late at night with a couple of million people. It's not the most crime free city my any stretch, but for one night at least, everyone was high on the hope thing and it was very crime free.
Then we DEFINITELY should send the Zero to Gaza, for instance. Instant healing, right?
| 761 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:27pm |
| 762 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:39pm |
re: #733 MandyManners
Someone's called this thread "racist"?
Several people (a couple are usual suspects) have pretty much come out and said that many of the posters are.
| 763 |
formercorpsman Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:48pm |
Something's at the edge of your mind, you don't know what it is
Somethin' you were hopin' to find but your not sure what it is
Then you hear the unicorn, and it all comes crystal clear
Dolittle does the talkin' says the things you want to hear
I'm young, I'm wild and I'm free
I got the egg of power of the music in me
| 764 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:50pm |
re: #750 Slumbering Behemoth
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. I've only been skimming this thread, but from reading some of the posts I am getting the impression that there are people calling the mockery of this "Egg of Power" racism. Is this so?
Wouldn't mockery of eggs more logically be misogynist?
| 765 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:09:50pm |
re: #745 maddogg
WTF? The term "black hole" is now racist. You can only cry wolf so many times until your credibility is nothing. And the people looking for racism behind every comment have no credibility, only slogans.
Obama only had slogans, it got him elected.
| 766 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:10:04pm |
re: #753 FurryOldGuyJeans
It worked for 70 odd years for the Soviets.
No, it really didn't. What worked was the brutal force behind the slogans.
| 767 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:10:18pm |
re: #759 HoosierHoops
LOL
OK when you go up in napa country..we could never score beer as kids but everybody always had a bottle he swiped from mom and dad..Worse than that..I college..We used to drive down the road at night and fill up 55 gallon buckets of the most expensive grapes in the world..And I feel bad..mea culpa..But damn we made good home made wine in college..
Badass.
| 768 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:10:22pm |
re: #714 formercorpsman
Seriously Avanti. Him, and his family sat in that church for 20 years. With their kids to boot.
His wife has publicly stated she was never proud of her country.
People should not draw the least bit of suspicion from any of this?
I don't have the energy to rehash all of that. The voters heard it over and over and for whatever reason gave it little weight. He's the President now, and that we can discuss, not pins, his minister or a poorly worded comment by his wife.
| 769 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:10:23pm |
| 770 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:10:28pm |
re: #753 FurryOldGuyJeans
It worked for 70 odd years for the Soviets.
Only because it was backed up with the rifle and gulag.
| 771 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:10:32pm |
re: #748 NYCHardhat
I'm so tired of that fucking word.
If you didn't watch the 0 last Tuesday, you might be a racist.
If you laugh at the wooden egg, you might be a racist.
If you say michelle has a big a$$, you might be a racist.
If you are a Republican, you ARE a racist.
/liberal
| 772 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:05pm |
re: #730 newsjunkie_ky
to avanti, the 0 wore one until 9/11 or so he says. He said he took it off after 9/11 to show a pin didn't mean patriotism.
He may have had other reasons after 9/11 for not wearing a Flag pin.
hmmm, what a strange time for hussein to show patriotism by taking OFF the flag lapel pin, right after 9-11.
| 774 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:13pm |
re: #754 Occasional Reader
Iron Fist and I are trying valiantly to turn it into The Inevitable Gun Thread.
I don't like gun threads. How about an ancient Greek and Roman coin thread?
| 775 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:19pm |
re: #759 HoosierHoops
LOL
OK when you go up in napa country..we could never score beer as kids but everybody always had a bottle he swiped from mom and dad..Worse than that..I college..We used to drive down the road at night and fill up 55 gallon buckets of the most expensive grapes in the world..And I feel bad..mea culpa..But damn we made good home made wine in college..
that is totally badass.
| 777 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:27pm |
re: #738 avanti
One thing I see little discussion about is the behavior of the crowd at the inaugural. I'll admit I was concerned about my son being in DC late at night with a couple of million people. It's not the most crime free city my any stretch, but for one night at least, everyone was high on the hope thing and it was very crime free.
| 778 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:36pm |
re: #757 NYCHardhat
For the love of whatever. All I asked was whether or not someone actually cried racism over this whole egg pun thing.
| 780 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:52pm |
| 781 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:54pm |
OT -
Only 23 hours till the next episode of L O S T
| 782 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:11:55pm |
re: #750 Slumbering Behemoth
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. I've only been skimming this thread, but from reading some of the posts I am getting the impression that there are people calling the mockery of this "Egg of Power" racism. Is this so?
Some people are so full of O kool-aid that their sense humor drowned.
| 783 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:12:14pm |
re: #773 ArmyWife
There was a lot of military, too.
What was the ratio, do you know (estimate)?
Security getting into the place was apparently worse than an airport.
| 784 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:12:26pm |
re: #771 newsjunkie_ky
If you didn't watch the 0 last Tuesday, you might be a racist.
If you laugh at the wooden egg, you might be a racist.
If you say michelle has a big a$$, you might be a racist.
If you are a Republican, you ARE a racist.
/liberal
It hardly matters what's said, it'll be interpreted as racist by some loon.
| 785 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:12:48pm |
re: #771 newsjunkie_ky
If you didn't watch the 0 last Tuesday, you might be a racist.
If you laugh at the wooden egg, you might be a racist.
If you say michelle has a big a$$, you might be a racist.
If you are a Republican, you ARE a racist.
/liberal
Just because I don't pander to and coddle groups of people who already hate me because I'm the worst slur in the book...White Male.
| 787 |
Syrah Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:12:56pm |
re: #719 Charles
I mean, come on. If you can't even make fun of a freakin' egg o' power, what's left? Is nothing un-sacred any more?
Mocking The One is sacrilegious!
| 788 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:00pm |
Of it took a hen and half, a minute and a half, to lay an egg and a half. How long would it take a rooster sitting on a brass door knob, to hatch out a hardware store?
| 789 |
songbird Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:00pm |
If the age of 'white guilt' is over because a black man is president, why are we considered racist if we voice our opposition to the policies of the opposing party?
| 790 |
itellu3times Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:05pm |
re: #719 Charles
I mean, come on. If you can't even make fun of a freakin' egg o' power, what's left? Is nothing un-sacred any more?
You're just a member of the hegemony of the placental mammals.
| 791 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:13pm |
re: #778 Slumbering Behemoth
For the love of whatever. All I asked was whether or not someone actually cried racism over this whole egg pun thing.
It has seemed that way. It seems to be a pattern with some. The egg punjoke thingy turned into you don't like blackpeopleculture thingy.
| 792 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:13pm |
re: #777 Wishing
Avanti, you have been wonderfully deceived, and god forbid someone challenge your fairytale with FACTS.
| 793 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:16pm |
re: #770 maddogg
Only because it was backed up with the rifle and gulag.
Civilian Defense Force, as fully funded and equipped as the U.S. Military.
| 794 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:20pm |
re: #780 albusteve
did someone say Revolver?.... reminds me of the feds...
Everything reminds you of the feds. If you were dyslexic, sdef would remind you of the feds.
/
| 795 |
Occasional Reader Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:22pm |
re: #774 Walter L. Newton
I don't like gun threads. How about an ancient Greek and Roman coin thread?
I once put a 5.56mm NATO round through an ancient Greek coin at 100 yards with iron sights.
(well, I didn't, really, I'm just trying to be inclusive)
| 796 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:33pm |
re: #785 NYCHardhat
Just because I don't pander to and coddle groups of people who already hate me because I'm the worst slur in the book...White Male.
I remember when WASP was the dirty word. You ain't one of those is ya?
| 797 |
JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:36pm |
re: #781 Walter L. Newton
OT -
Only 23 hours till the next episode of L O S T
Walter ...I have a niece who is just as addicted to LOST as you ...I have never seen the show ...I have loved shows before but not for as long as LOST has been on ...I usually lose interest after a few years ...I did watch 24 for 2 years ...
| 798 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:48pm |
re: #765 Walter L. Newton
Obama only had slogans, it got him elected.
You can fool some of the people all of the time...
| 799 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:13:48pm |
re: #772 nyc redneck
hmmm, what a strange time for hussein to show patriotism by taking OFF the flag lapel pin, right after 9-11.
just sayin'
| 800 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:14:00pm |
re: #748 NYCHardhat
I'm so tired of that fucking word.
So am I.
Has someone called this thread "racist"?
Will making fun of CBBHO and questioning his policies for the next four years be considered "racist"?
| 801 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:14:02pm |
re: #791 bellamags
It has seemed that way. It seems to be a pattern with some. The egg punjoke thingy turned into you don't like blackpeopleculture thingy.
When? Where? Did they run away?
| 802 |
kynna Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:14:12pm |
I'll take Sarah Palin's "Many Eggs of Power" over 0's little sculpture any day. Hers come with babies. ;D
| 803 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:14:36pm |
re: #789 songbird
If the age of 'white guilt' is over because a black man is president, why are we considered racist if we voice our opposition to the policies of the opposing party?
Because it will never go away. Its the ace in the hole for brain-dead people.
| 805 |
Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:14:46pm |
The egg of power
gently held in wooden hand
over easy please
| 806 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:15:08pm |
re: #795 Occasional Reader
I once put a 5.56mm NATO round through an ancient Greek coin at 100 yards with iron sights.
(well, I didn't, really, I'm just trying to be inclusive)
Which Greek coin?
| 807 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:15:10pm |
re: #762 FurryOldGuyJeans
Several people (a couple are usual suspects) have pretty much come out and said that many of the posters are.
Who? Avanti? Cognito?
| 808 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:15:11pm |
re: #796 jwb7605
I remember when WASP was the dirty word. You ain't one of those is ya?
nope, worse. Half-Assed Roman Catholic
| 809 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:15:18pm |
re: #800 MandyManners
So am I.
Has someone called this thread "racist"?
Will making fun of CBBHO and questioning his policies for the next four years be considered "racist"?
Yes.
| 810 |
VioletTiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:15:38pm |
re: #724 NYCHardhat
Can we please stop with calling everything racist? The word is getting watered down.
You're right. People get in a PC snit over every word. Save it for the real thing.
| 813 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:16:08pm |
re: #797 JacksonTn
Walter ...I have a niece who is just as addicted to LOST as you ...I have never seen the show ...I have loved shows before but not for as long as LOST has been on ...I usually lose interest after a few years ...I did watch 24 for 2 years ...
Yes, year 5 now, one more to go after this.
| 814 |
Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:16:14pm |
re: #768 avanti
I don't have the energy to rehash all of that. The voters heard it over and over and for whatever reason gave it little weight. He's the President now, and that we can discuss, not pins, his minister or a poorly worded comment by his wife.
So you are saying that we can not discuss the past experiences of our President as they may or may not relate to his actions today? tomorrow?
Bullcrap, his past is relevant, the past of any President is relevant, and can be discussed. It was his socialistic past that has influenced his diecisions this pas week, closing Gitmo is part of his Ayers connection where prisons are wrong.
Simply overturning Bush Admin. Legal decisions was influenced by years of left wing propaganda.
We have noting he has written from his past, most of his votes were present, so we have no choice but to question his associations.
| 815 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:16:20pm |
re: #801 Walter L. Newton
When? Where? Did they run away?
dude, it was a long time ago. i just tried to ignore it. lets just talk about coins, eggs, guns, wine, boobs, whatever.
| 816 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:16:28pm |
re: #792 Wishing
Avanti, you have been wonderfully deceived, and god forbid someone challenge your fairytale with FACTS.
85 crimes. For Metro DC that is a crime-free day.
| 817 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:16:28pm |
re: #800 MandyManners
So am I.
Has someone called this thread "racist"?
Will making fun of CBBHO and questioning his policies for the next four years be considered "racist"?
If so then I am a racist.
| 818 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:16:43pm |
Who worries about "the cow" when it is all about the "Ice Cream?
The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade
this year.
The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an
interest.
I decided we would have an election for a class president.
We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class
would vote.
To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.
We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for
the top spot.
The class had done a great job in their selections.
Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage
because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother.
The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first.
He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by
promising to do his very best.
Everyone applauded. He sat down and Olivia came to the podium. Her speech was
concise.
She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She
sat down.
The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream." She surely could say more. She did not have to.
A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She
wasn't sure.
Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it? She didn't know.
The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was ice cream.
Jamie was forgotten.
Olivia won by a landslide.
Now the rest of the story……………………………
Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two
percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream.
The other forty-eight percent of us know we're going to have to feed the
cow and clean up the mess.
It's kinda like this, 'Wishing and Hoping'.
| 819 |
wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:03pm |
re: #738 avanti
Did you find the booing and razzing of Mr. Bush charming?
| 820 |
songbird Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:06pm |
re: #803 NYCHardhat
Because it will never go away. Its the ace in the hole for brain-dead people.
I will remain among the living lizardim!
| 821 |
abolitionist Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:38pm |
re: #677 Charles
By virtue of its geometry, an egg is fairly well able to withstand a variety of bumps and jostling from the outside. But a weak and inexperienced creature, unable to walk and lacking vision, using little more than its mouth parts, is able to break it apart from the inside.
This may be the enduring symbol of BHO's presidency.
| 822 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:41pm |
re: #814 Stonemason
This one has shown he's impervious to facts.
| 823 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:47pm |
re: #793 FurryOldGuyJeans
Civilian Defense Force, as fully funded and equipped as the U.S. Military.
They have one problem with that idea; armed populace, half of which has no taste for Koolaid.
| 824 |
kywrite Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:57pm |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
Well, he's definitely guilty of buying tourist nick-knacks.
Yes, he is, but I bet that the mighty Egg of Power is not even African. The egg is made of coffee tree wood -- authentically African enough, though East African. The hand is made of monkeypod tree wood -- which grows in South American and the Pacific Islands, not Africa. That does include Hawaii, at least, but unless it was custom-made for him by someone who got into it that subtly, it's really a goofy sort of symbol.
| 825 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:17:57pm |
I f you don't watch your step, there's no telling where you'll be swept off to.
-Ancient Tolkienian Proverb
| 826 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:18:22pm |
re: #816 FurryOldGuyJeans
85 crimes. For Metro DC that is a crime-free day.
85 crimes to avanti and others who worship the zero, is CRIME-FREE. So learn the new lingo.
crime-free = only 85
| 827 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:18:29pm |
re: #777 Wishing
OK, much freer of major crime then a typical day in downtown DC, especially with the crowd. Of course the additional security sure helped, but it was a happy crowd.
| 828 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:18:35pm |
re: #823 maddogg
They have one problem with that idea; armed populace, half of which has no taste for Koolaid.
So there be the reason to disarm the populace.
| 829 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:18:55pm |
re: #768 avanti
That poorly worded comment was said twice. I think that is because she meant it. And what did she have to be disdainful about? Her Princeton education? That must have been rough. Or maybe it was all that suffering she endured going to law school at Harvard. She opined at the plight of being "African-American" while attending these schools. Tell me, which African country would have afforded her a better proposition than the one she got here?
| 830 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:18:56pm |
I will have a greased pig of servitude installed in MY Oval Office. Next to the Oval Throne.
I shall apply extra grease with Ancient Grecian coins.
| 831 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:18:57pm |
re: #821 abolitionist
By virtue of its geometry, an egg is fairly well able to withstand a variety of bumps and jostling from the outside. But a weak and inexperienced creature, unable to walk and lacking vision, using little more than its mouth parts, is able to break it apart from the inside.
This may be the enduring symbol of BHO's presidency.
Man, thats deep.
| 832 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:19:09pm |
re: #823 maddogg
They have one problem with that idea; armed populace, half of which has no taste for Koolaid.
They'll be introducing legislation to take care of that problem shortly.
| 833 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:19:10pm |
re: #824 kywrite
Yes, he is, but I bet that the mighty Egg of Power is not even African. The egg is made of coffee tree wood -- authentically African enough, though East African. The hand is made of monkeypod tree wood -- which grows in South American and the Pacific Islands, not Africa. That does include Hawaii, at least, but unless it was custom-made for him by someone who got into it that subtly, it's really a goofy sort of symbol.
So you're saying what ... Africans discovered America?
| 835 |
Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:19:42pm |
| 836 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:20:00pm |
re: #826 Wishing
85 crimes to avanti and others who worship the zero, is CRIME-FREE. So learn the new lingo.
crime-free = only 85
Plus the tons of garbage left behind by the crowds is ignorable as well. Greenest Inauguration Ever, my fat, hairy, white ass.
| 837 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:20:04pm |
re: #808 NYCHardhat
nope, worse. Half-Assed Roman Catholic
This is not going to work anymore, people. We have to buckle down and get things done. From now on, I want at least THREE-QUARTERS ass from ALL of you.
/
| 838 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:20:27pm |
re: #783 jwb7605
I don't know - and I don't know if they ever fully divulged the actual number in attendance. I could ask, but probably wouldn't have an answer until tomorrow.
| 839 |
Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:20:28pm |
re: #836 FurryOldGuyJeans
Thanks for the mental image not.
| 840 |
Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:20:47pm |
| 841 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:21:01pm |
| 842 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:21:26pm |
re: #772 nyc redneck
hmmm, what a strange time for hussein to show patriotism by taking OFF the flag lapel pin, right after 9-11.
I was wrong it wasn't RIGHT after 9/11 but it might as well have been. He said:
"You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest."
| 843 |
jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:21:34pm |
re: #838 ArmyWife
I don't know - and I don't know if they ever fully divulged the actual number in attendance. I could ask, but probably wouldn't have an answer until tomorrow.
Don't go out of your way. I was just musing. (but, thanks!)
| 844 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:21:55pm |
| 845 |
Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:22:01pm |
re: #838 ArmyWife
I don't know - and I don't know if they ever fully divulged the actual number in attendance. I could ask, but probably wouldn't have an answer until tomorrow.
It was the largest crowd of human beings ever assembled in the history of the planet. But not quite as big as original estimates.
| 846 |
jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:22:13pm |
re: #827 avanti
OK, much freer of major crime then a typical day in downtown DC, especially with the crowd. Of course the additional security sure helped, but it was a happy crowd.
I've talked with a number of Obama voters. Not a single one looked beyond the Hype. Not one knew who Alinsky was, not one knew about Obama's missing paper trail. Everyone made an emotional decision, not a rational one.
| 847 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:22:47pm |
re: #774 Walter L. Newton
I don't like gun threads. How about an ancient Greek and Roman coin thread?
they make excellent targets....
| 848 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:22:55pm |
re: #845 Mich-again
It was the largest crowd of human beings ever assembled in the history of the planet. But not quite as big as original estimates.
Original estimate 7+billion, wasn't it?
| 849 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:22:59pm |
re: #792 Wishing
Avanti, you have been wonderfully deceived, and god forbid someone challenge your fairytale with FACTS.
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
| 850 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:23:06pm |
re: #834 Macker
Does this thing replace "The Buck Stops Here"?
It's a sign that the "Cluck Stops Here".
| 851 |
Mich-again Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:23:46pm |
re: #848 FurryOldGuyJeans
Original estimate 7+billion, wasn't it?
I heard 3 brazillions were going to be there.
| 852 |
Racer X Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:23:52pm |
re: #821 abolitionist
By virtue of its geometry, an egg is fairly well able to withstand a variety of bumps and jostling from the outside. But a weak and inexperienced creature, unable to walk and lacking vision, using little more than its mouth parts, is able to break it apart from the inside.
This may be the enduring symbol of BHO's presidency.
Funny, I see it as the symbol of Obama yanking Uncle Sam's balls off.
| 853 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:24:04pm |
re: #827 avanti
OK, much freer of major crime then a typical day in downtown DC, especially with the crowd. Of course the additional security sure helped, but it was a happy crowd.
There you go again, moving the goal posts when you get your head handed to you for shoveling shit.
| 854 |
Typicalwhitey Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:24:16pm |
OMG this is too funny:
Jake Tapper on 'Unrequited' Media Love for Obama [Tim Graham]
ABC White House reporter Jake Tapper described Obama’s first full day as president on the PBS talk show hosted by Charlie Rose on the evening of January 21. The real eyebrow-raising passage came when Rose asked Tapper about the relationship between Team Obama and the press, and Tapper described many of his press colleagues on their knees:
I would say for a lot of my colleagues, it's perhaps an unrequited love between them and the president. He’s — you know, he’s a cool customer. You know, I think that there are some of us that, you know, maybe try to report on our feet a little bit more than on our knees and he doesn`t necessarily know what to make of us all the time. You know, he eyes us warily.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:24:17pm |
re: #842 newsjunkie_ky
My mind was made up when I heard him say:
I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest."
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wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:24:21pm |
re: #849 avanti
Did you find the booing and razzing of Mr. Bush charming?
Have you EVER witnessed that at an Inauguration before?
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JacksonTn Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:24:50pm |
re: #849 avanti
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
Then maybe the people who live in the District need to behave that way all the time ...I mean ...why not? ...does it take someone who looks like them being elected President to make them behave for one day? ...Change People ...right? ...they say Change ...so change ...
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:24:54pm |
re: #849 avanti
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
the District?...the Holy Land?....
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:25:22pm |
re: #840 Cato the Elder
Doug has one of the most informative free sites on the internet. I don't have a large collection anymore, for a matter of fact, the little I have is vanilla.
Had a large collection at one time, about 5 years ago, my life changes required me to pass on most of my collection to buyers who would take care of them for me.
But, I do have a good stack of book, and you can't take the knowledge away from me.
Most people don't realize they can hold remarkable ancient history in there hand for very little money. And every coin is actually a newspaper of it's time, the current political propaganda, the bringer of news of the goings on in the empire.
Wonderful little pieces of metal.
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Roses Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:25:27pm |
This is as much a prop as all that Lincoln-esque garbage. All contrived. All set design. Facades, and illusions. For the devotees, oh, so rich in deeper meaning. Proof, for them, that he is The One.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:25:49pm |
re: #849 avanti
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
An extra 50,000 armed individuals might have that effect.
I doubt the Obama effect, affected the crime rate.
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:26:41pm |
re: #814 Stonemason
So you are saying that we can not discuss the past experiences of our President as they may or may not relate to his actions today? tomorrow?
Of course you can discuss it. Hannity will be talking about Ayers in 2012, I'm just not interested in beating that horse any longer.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:26:47pm |
re: #791 bellamags
It has seemed that way. It seems to be a pattern with some. The egg punjoke thingy turned into you don't like blackpeopleculture thingy.
Well, I guess I missed those comments. Admittedly, I've been skimming. That's unfortunate, though, that people would pull the race card on this kind of joking.
I actually think the sculpture and the concept behind it is pretty cool. I wouldn't mind having one myself. That being said, I would fully expect my good friends to make jokes about it, and make jokes about me for having it. Still, I would not resort to the cheap tactic of playing the race card if they did.
/besides, I apparently can't do that on account of my complexion...and I'm not that big of a wuss, either.
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:26:53pm |
re: #842 newsjunkie_ky
hussein's gibberish, to justify taking off the flag pin after 9-11, is so insulting.
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jwb7605 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:01pm |
re: #846 jcm
I've talked with a number of Obama voters. Not a single one looked beyond the Hype. Not one knew who Alinsky was, not one knew about Obama's missing paper trail. Everyone made an emotional decision, not a rational one.
I went to lunch with a big liberal who retired from the Air Force Reserves as a Lt. Colonel. BIG Obama supporter.
I told him "It wasn't the Jeremiah Wright flap that bothered me as much as the Bill Ayers associations. That's because when I got out of the service, Ayers was doing his thing."
He said "But Ayers did his time, didn't he?".
I said "No, off on a technicality. He said 'Guilty as Hell, free as a bird'. His wife did a few years. Ayers is now teaching that crap as a university professor".
Stony.Dead.Silence.
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:07pm |
re: #827 avanti
OK, much freer of major crime then a typical day in downtown DC, especially with the crowd. Of course the additional security sure helped, but it was a happy crowd.
Were they happy because only 85 citizens had crimes committed against them? Or were they so happy with the Zero that they didnt give a rats ass about those citizens?
BTW...on Jan 21, there were ONLY 93 crimes in same report. So actually, the Zero's *wave of tranquility* only accounted for SEVEN less crimes on Hope Day.
Arent you a wee bit embarrassed?
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Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:14pm |
re: #847 albusteve
Did you see my answer to you up thread?
did someone say Revolver?.... reminds me of the feds...
Steve, everything reminds you of the feds. If you were dyslexic, sdef would remind you of the feds.
/
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:16pm |
re: #862 jcm
An extra 50,000 armed individuals might have that effect.
I doubt the Obama effect, affected the crime rate.
He will never doubt The Obama Effect is the cause for anything good happening.
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MacDuff Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:25pm |
Maybe I'm fed up with the whole "first black President" schtick and the creepy messianic idol worship that accompanies it. The fact is, while I understand the historical significance, I didn't wake up the day after the election and say "my God, we have a BLACK President?". What bothers me about him are his politics, not his pigmentation and they suck (Eggs? Perhaps.)
As for the "Egg of Power", I'm with Charles, it's inherently funny. It's also, in my opinion, incredibly simplistic. As many others have said on this thread, Africa is a basket case ruled primarily by ignorant madmen and tribal proverbs from a continent of failed states is not exactly Greek philiosophy - cute maybe, but not particularly profound. If that's racist well, sorry. I don't suffer fools gladly, regardless of the race of the fool.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:32pm |
re: #849 avanti
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
I'm drunk and you are an idiot...tomarrow I'll be sober...
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Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:27:51pm |
re: #849 avanti
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
Yippeee...compare a dead show to a metalica show too, same amount of people less crime at on than the other.
What is your point here? so what that the security force was equal to the task of keeping the sheeple who were there under control, it does nto change the fact that this man was elected on a wish and a prayer, with no background and no scrutiny. Now, when we begin to question him his loyal followers point to irrelevant facts to draw attention from the important fact that the associations we were all screaming about last year are begining to creep into his decisions.
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Digital Display Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:28:01pm |
Well I'm running down the thread trying to loosen my load
got a world of trouble on my mind..
BV on the left ..Hitler on the right
and Pamela trying to be a friend to me
Taken it Easy..taken it easy..Don't let the sound of your own wheels
drive you crazy.
Well lighten up while you still can..
Don't even try to understand
Just open up I'm climbing in..
and taking it easy..
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:28:01pm |
re: #857 Iron Fist
One of the things that I really don't like about our carry process in this State is that they make you qualify out to 25 yards. If you are shooting at someone 25 yards away, you really should be looking at a way to break off the conflict (this may not be true 100% of the time, but it is certainly the truth for the vast majority of situations).
Yeah, I'd think you might have a problem claiming self-defense after shooting someone who was 25 yards away.
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:28:35pm |
re: #853 FurryOldGuyJeans
There you go again, moving the goal posts when you get your head handed to you for shoveling shit.
I should have been clearer, there was crime in DC, just way less then expected.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:28:37pm |
re: #867 Wishing
Were they happy because only 85 citizens had crimes committed against them? Or were they so happy with the Zero that they didnt give a rats ass about those citizens?
BTW...on Jan 21, there were ONLY 93 crimes in same report. So actually, the Zero's *wave of tranquility* only accounted for SEVEN less crimes on Hope Day.
Arent you a wee bit embarrassed?
Why be embarrassed when he's one of worshipful masses adoring the Messiah-King?
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:28:53pm |
re: #868 Walter L. Newton
Did you see my answer to you up thread?
Steve, everything reminds you of the feds. If you were dyslexic, sdef would remind you of the feds.
/
I hate the sdef....implicitly
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OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:28:59pm |
re: #856 wolfie
Did you find the booing and razzing of Mr. Bush charming?
Have you EVER witnessed that at an Inauguration before?
I saw no reason for that crowd of ignoramii to go out any differently than they lived for eight years. I wasn't surprised at the lack of class, lack of respect for the venue, lack of respect for the grounds, lack of respect for ANYTHING. Truly, my expectations had already been much lowered by the slobbering adoration heaped on Obama, the willful ignorance of his "issues", and the apparently untreatable, nearly terminal condition known jokingly as "BDS".
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:29:10pm |
re: #858 JacksonTn
Then maybe the people who live in the District need to behave that way all the time ...I mean ...why not? ...does it take someone who looks like them being elected President to make them behave for one day?
I think you just answered your wn question.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:29:32pm |
re: #876 avanti
I should have been clearer, there was crime in DC, just way less then expected.
You lied, and you want to get excused for it?
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:29:41pm |
re: #863 avanti
Of course you can discuss it. Hannity will be talking about Ayers in 2012, I'm just not interested in beating that horse any longer.
I didn't realize that horse had been beaten at all.
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Moonbat Serenade Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:29:43pm |
re: #861 Roses
This is as much a prop as all that Lincoln-esque garbage. All contrived. All set design. Facades, and illusions. For the devotees, oh, so rich in deeper meaning. Proof, for them, that he is The One.
I, for one, miss the styrofoam columns. Maybe he could place the egg of power on one in the Oval Office.
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:29:45pm |
Milestone..........
"....of the 1.4 million that attended Obama's inauguration, only 14 missed
work."
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maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:30:00pm |
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VioletTiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:30:19pm |
re: #849 avanti
Guys/gals, you'd need to talk to those that were there. Yes, there was crime, there always is, but for whatever reason, even the DC police were impressed with the lack of major incidents. This is the District we are talking about.
An opposing viewpoint from those who were there:
My daughter and her friends were there the day before the big day. They were just a bit horrified with the hateful signs and displays everywhere-bashing Pres Bush, bashing Cheney, bashing our military men and women. Perhaps they saw a different side as they are conservatives, but it wasn't happy happy joy from their PVO and they brought back the pics to prove it.
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:30:27pm |
re: #849 avanti
I was there. Can I speak from a position of authority? The booing of W was beyond the pale, perhaps trumped only by the wishes of ill directed at Cheney in a wheel chair. Was it a mob scene? No. I was up front, where the "special people" got to be, I understand there were more issues toward the back. The reaction of the Obama supporters was surreal, to be honest. Oh, and my camera was stolen.
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:30:36pm |
re: #865 nyc redneck
hussein's gibberish, to justify taking off the flag pin after 9-11, is so insulting.
THAT PIN, says it all.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:30:52pm |
re: #858 JacksonTn
Then maybe the people who live in the District need to behave that way all the time ...I mean ...why not? ...does it take someone who looks like them being elected President to make them behave for one day? ...Change People ...right? ...they say Change ...so change ...
thank you
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:30:59pm |
re: #881 FurryOldGuyJeans
You lied, and you want to get excused for it?
Actually, she believed the lie. Shame on her for just believing and not checking.
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Macker Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:31:32pm |
re: #884 newsjunkie_ky
Milestone..........
"....of the 1.4 million that attended Obama's inauguration, only 14 missed
work."
All the rest got extra credit.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:31:57pm |
Creepy site....
RottenNeighbor.com find out what your neighbors say about you.
Or, we could start a file on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
////
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NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:32:12pm |
re: #864 Slumbering Behemoth
Couldn't agree with you more, but there seems to be a few bitter souls on this thread that love to perpetuate the race issue. I never saw The One's skin color, I did see that he is the most liberal politician in history to be POTUS and that scares me quite a bit. As for my friend who continues to downding me for my stance on the situation, grow up.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:32:23pm |
re: #887 ArmyWife
I was there. Can I speak from a position of authority? The booing of W was beyond the pale, perhaps trumped only by the wishes of ill directed at Cheney in a wheel chair. Was it a mob scene? No. I was up front, where the "special people" got to be, I understand there were more issues toward the back. The reaction of the Obama supporters was surreal, to be honest. Oh, and my camera was stolen.
I suspect he is sticking his fingers in his ears about now and screaming, "LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-I'M-NOT-LISTENING-TO-YOU!"
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:32:34pm |
re: #876 avanti
I should have been clearer, there was crime in DC, just way less then expected.
Yes, let's stand up an cheer for people behaving as they ought to. Should I get a Nobel Peace Price for all the houses I didn't rob?
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:32:35pm |
re: #887 ArmyWife
I was there. Can I speak from a position of authority? The booing of W was beyond the pale, perhaps trumped only by the wishes of ill directed at Cheney in a wheel chair. Was it a mob scene? No. I was up front, where the "special people" got to be, I understand there were more issues toward the back. The reaction of the Obama supporters was surreal, to be honest. Oh, and my camera was stolen.
Sorry about your camera, armywife!
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wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:32:50pm |
re: #863 avanti
Did you find the booing and razzing of Mr. Bush charming?
Hey hey hey na na na na hey hey good bye.
Did you find that pleasant?
Did it make you feel good about your country?
Okay. Even the MSM was embarrassed, but I guess it's fine with you.
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:32:54pm |
re: #883 Moonbat Serenade
I, for one, miss the styrofoam columns. Maybe he could place the egg of power on one in the Oval Office.
I was kind of hoping they'd leave them set up at Invesco Field. Might have made Broncos games more interesting, if they had to weave around them like at a dog agility competition.
/not a big football fan
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:33:15pm |
re: #867 Wishing
Were they happy because only 85 citizens had crimes committed against them? Or were they so happy with the Zero that they didnt give a rats ass about those citizens?
BTW...on Jan 21, there were ONLY 93 crimes in same report. So actually, the Zero's *wave of tranquility* only accounted for SEVEN less crimes on Hope Day.
Arent you a wee bit embarrassed?
You need to factor in the extra few million added to the population too and that the bars were open until 4 AM. I expected a major uptick, since out of town tourists are crime magnets.
I am sorry I brought it up, but it was a big story locally.
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:33:20pm |
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:33:20pm |
Obama gets Mad mag treatment
[Link: www.swamppolitics.com...]
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:34:28pm |
re: #896 Mister Ghost
Eggs Benedict Arnold...
The liberals in the legislature turned him. Too bad. He's such a good guy.
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:34:30pm |
re: #900 avanti
You need to factor in the extra few million added to the population too and that the bars were open until 4 AM. I expected a major uptick, since out of town tourists are crime magnets.
I am sorry I brought it up, but it was a big story locally.
Then please explain the SAME NUMBERS on the 21st?
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OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:35:20pm |
re: #887 ArmyWife
I was there. Can I speak from a position of authority? The booing of W was beyond the pale, perhaps trumped only by the wishes of ill directed at Cheney in a wheel chair. Was it a mob scene? No. I was up front, where the "special people" got to be, I understand there were more issues toward the back. The reaction of the Obama supporters was surreal, to be honest. Oh, and my camera was stolen.
This is the District we are talking about.
/
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wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:35:23pm |
re: #879 OldLineTexan
I guess you're right, but it made me very sad.
I was around when Carter left and Reagan was inaugurated, and I can't imagine anyone doing anything like that, no matter how glad they were to see the change.
We've gone downhill.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:35:41pm |
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:36:01pm |
re: #876 avanti
I should have been clearer, there was crime in DC, just way less then expected.
Avanti - was anybody talking about how well-behaved the crowds were for the Bush inauguration? Clinton? Bush? Reagan?
Why are you concerned about how well-behaved this crowd was?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:36:50pm |
re: #908 wolfie
I guess you're right, but it made me very sad.
I was around when Carter left and Reagan was inaugurated, and I can't imagine anyone doing anything like that, no matter how glad they were to see the change.
We've gone downhill.
When you have a large chunk of people wanting a sitting President to die, disrespect such as what was done is nothing.
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:03pm |
re: #897 Wishing
It's ok - I actually brought my little cheap one in anticipation of such antics. I was hoping for some pics of the military protesters to post - such is life!
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itellu3times Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:06pm |
re: #883 Moonbat Serenade
I, for one, miss the styrofoam columns. Maybe he could place the egg of power on one in the Oval Office.
Maybe he could have Biden shave his head and just rub that for good luck.
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:08pm |
Wishing- to answer your earlier question, no I didn't hear the Beck show. I don't listen to talk radio anymore.
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:12pm |
re: #910 reine.de.tout
Avanti - was anybody talking about how well-behaved the crowds were for the Bush inauguration? Clinton? Bush? Reagan?
Why are you concerned about how well-behaved this crowd was?
She/he thinks the zero casts a spell of equanimity or something. I call BS!
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:14pm |
Maybe the Democrats can make that part of their stimulus pork orgy bill.
For just $170 million a day, we can reduce crime in DC by almost 15%!
All we have to do is hold an inauguration for Obama every day!
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:37pm |
re: #900 avanti
You need to factor in the extra few million added to the population too and that the bars were open until 4 AM. I expected a major uptick, since out of town tourists are crime magnets.
I am sorry I brought it up, but it was a big story locally.
you're sorry you brought it up?...sorry?...you commie dweeb..I'll bet you are
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:39pm |
re: #910 reine.de.tout
Avanti - was anybody talking about how well-behaved the crowds were for the Bush inauguration? Clinton? Bush? Reagan?
Why are you concerned about how well-behaved this crowd was?
Because he's a TRUE BELIEVER.
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jorline Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:41pm |
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:47pm |
re: #916 Sharmuta
Wishing- to answer your earlier question, no I didn't hear the Beck show. I don't listen to talk radio anymore.
Shram, that is PRECISELY what the show is about.
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Typicalwhitey Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:47pm |
re: #910 reine.de.tout
Avanti - was anybody talking about how well-behaved the crowds were for the Bush inauguration? Clinton? Bush? Reagan?
Why are you concerned about how well-behaved this crowd was?
Is Avanti showing a little bit of racism there?
lmao.
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reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:37:54pm |
re: #887 ArmyWife
I was there. Can I speak from a position of authority? The booing of W was beyond the pale, perhaps trumped only by the wishes of ill directed at Cheney in a wheel chair. Was it a mob scene? No. I was up front, where the "special people" got to be, I understand there were more issues toward the back. The reaction of the Obama supporters was surreal, to be honest. Oh, and my camera was stolen.
Oh, whoa, now!
You're saying you're spay-shul?
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kywrite Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:38:12pm |
The husband says:
"What came before the 'bird in the hand.'"
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:38:28pm |
re: #900 avanti
You need to factor in the extra few million added to the population too and that the bars were open until 4 AM. I expected a major uptick, since out of town tourists are crime magnets.
I am sorry I brought it up, but it was a big story locally.
I think you are sorry, avanti, because you were embarrassingly caught in a propaganda lie.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:38:49pm |
Hello Night Lizards! Yes, it is still cold in Near Iowa.
The egg is still up? Eggs are boring. . .
How are you-all and what are we talking about?
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:38:56pm |
re: #923 Wishing
Shram, that is PRECISELY what the show is about.
What? That everyone needs to quit listening to talking heads?
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:39:15pm |
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yesandno Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:39:15pm |
re: #886 VioletTiger
An opposing viewpoint from those who were there:
My daughter and her friends were there the day before the big day. They were just a bit horrified with the hateful signs and displays everywhere-bashing Pres Bush, bashing Cheney, bashing our military men and women. Perhaps they saw a different side as they are conservatives, but it wasn't happy happy joy from their PVO and they brought back the pics to prove it.
My daughter was with a group of future progressives of America...high school class. She was the odd man out. She was insulted about the treatment given to Pres. Bush. She also said the place was a pigsty. Rush referred to it as Hurricane Latrena...
I am not sure that inauguration day is a high crime day for any President. Seems too many police around. And if it was safe this time, it was because Pres. Bush declared it a disaster area so they could have additional security.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:39:20pm |
re: #920 albusteve
you're sorry you brought it up?...sorry?...you commie dweeb..I'll bet you are
He's only sorry that he got caught shoveling shit.
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wolfie Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:39:53pm |
re: #912 FurryOldGuyJeans
Yes.
I had hoped that after the election the winners would be gracious.....I mean, at least for the sake of the Inauguration & its dignity.
I suppose it was too much to ask.
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Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:01pm |
re: #929 Sharmuta
What? That everyone needs to quit listening to talking heads?
No...some man calls Glenn...and says, I am done. I dont listen anymore. I just cant. And Glenn responds. PLEASE, Sharmuta, please take the time to listen to it.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:08pm |
re: #929 Sharmuta
What? That everyone needs to quit listening to talking heads?
I'd agree with that!
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newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:15pm |
re: #912 FurryOldGuyJeans
When you have a large chunk of people wanting a sitting President to die, disrespect such as what was done is nothing.
Who are you talking about?
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gulfloafer Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:19pm |
Yes, it hatches into a unicorn then steals your kidney.
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NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:20pm |
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Moonbat Serenade Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:27pm |
re: #914 itellu3times
Maybe he could have Biden shave his head and just rub that for good luck.
That would never work. Biden is busy being a doorstop in the Lincoln Bedroom.
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OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:30pm |
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Maximu§ Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:36pm |
re: #902 Dustyvet
Obama gets Mad mag treatment
[Link: www.swamppolitics.com...]
Mad Magazine rags on everybody....President Bush musta made the cover at least six times in the last 8 years.
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:40:52pm |
re: #908 wolfie
I guess you're right, but it made me very sad.
I was around when Carter left and Reagan was inaugurated, and I can't imagine anyone doing anything like that, no matter how glad they were to see the change.
We've gone downhill.
we can thank the spoiled raucous left for that.
no manners. no class.
| 945 |
Syrah Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:12pm |
re: #931 yesandno
My daughter was with a group of future progressives of America...high school class. She was the odd man out. She was insulted about the treatment given to Pres. Bush. She also said the place was a pigsty. Rush referred to it as Hurricane Latrena...
I am not sure that inauguration day is a high crime day for any President. Seems too many police around. And if it was safe this time, it was because Pres. Bush declared it a disaster area so they could have additional security.
There is something very satisfying about Bush having the Inauguration of Obama officially declared a disaster.
| 946 |
Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:25pm |
re: #929 Sharmuta
What? That everyone needs to quit listening to talking heads?
I took that from Beck today, first time I listened in a long time, had the wifes car she was home sick...long story...he was telling me to live my life, stop listening to the pundits and live right, by each of us living right, we can bring about real changes that will turn America back into America
| 947 |
MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:28pm |
re: #863 avanti
Of course you can discuss it. Hannity will be talking about Ayers in 2012, I'm just not interested in beating that horse any longer.
Avert your eyes, then.
| 948 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:29pm |
re: #934 wolfie
Yes.
I had hoped that after the election the winners would be gracious.....I mean, at least for the sake of the Inauguration & its dignity.
I suppose it was too much to ask.
You were expecting adult behavior from a bunch of immature Leftoids. 1st mistake. ;)
| 949 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:31pm |
re: #933 unrealizedviewpoint
Easy!
BO is a communist...Bos supporters support communism...not complicated
| 950 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:34pm |
| 951 |
rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:40pm |
re: #917 Iron Fist
She's also decided that she wants me to begin teaching her karate. I'll have to be careful with her. Moreso than I would have when I was teaching down at the dojo. I'm known for delighting in causing pain to my uke when demonstrating various attack/response drills. If you break your uke, you have to buy him or her, but if you only
yeah, I would say indeed be careful, having to buy your uke......ummm
dude, does she know of this rule.....sneaky,sneaky those girls : )
| 952 |
Typicalwhitey Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:46pm |
Oh for cryin' out loud:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail.
| 953 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:52pm |
re: #942 Maximu§
Mad Magazine rags on everybody....President Bush musta made the cover at least six times in the last 8 years.
O know, but the cover on this one is a hoot...:) The First 100 Minutes...:)
| 954 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:41:56pm |
re: #942 Maximu§
Mad Magazine rags on everybody....President Bush musta made the cover at least six times in the last 8 years.
Well, ya need admit George had more of an Alfred E. Neuman look. Especially when he was younger.
| 955 |
maddogg Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:42:18pm |
| 956 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:42:31pm |
| 957 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:42:43pm |
re: #946 Stonemason
I took that from Beck today, first time I listened in a long time, had the wifes car she was home sick...long story...he was telling me to live my life, stop listening to the pundits and live right, by each of us living right, we can bring about real changes that will turn America back into America
Amen Stonemason, get involved LOCALLY, forget about what the big shots are doing. AFFECT YOUR OWN WORLD.
| 958 |
Cognito Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:42:46pm |
re: #946 Stonemason
I took that from Beck today, first time I listened in a long time, had the wifes car she was home sick...long story...he was telling me to live my life, stop listening to the pundits and live right, by each of us living right, we can bring about real changes that will turn America back into America
I believe that's quite true, but I have to ask -- did you mean the 'I took that from Beck today' to be a joke?
I hope so, man.
| 959 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:43:22pm |
| 960 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:43:24pm |
re: #929 Sharmuta
What? That everyone needs to quit listening to talking heads?
We should quit letting the days go by?
| 962 |
esch Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:43:40pm |
re: #942 Maximu§
Mad Magazine rags on everybody....President Bush musta made the cover at least six times in the last 8 years.
Has South Park deconstructed zerO yet? I don't watch it anymore but I would probably watch that one.
| 963 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:43:51pm |
re: #949 albusteve
BO is a communist...Bos supporters support communism...not complicated
It's up to you if you want to refer to a fine Veteran as a commie. I don't, regardless of his politics. Avanti ain't a commie. His opinions are more liberal then yours, that's all.
| 964 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:43:57pm |
re: #952 Typicalwhitey
I sent them an email and it went something like this:
"Rush is right on target. I am only saddened that my party leadership team doesn't have the strategic insight of Rush Limbaugh. Like Mr. Limbaugh, it is my sincerest desire that the bozo trifecta of Obama, Pelosi and Reid fail miserably in their quest to turn my country into a socialist stronghold."
| 965 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:44:20pm |
re: #953 Dustyvet
O know, but the cover on this one is a hoot...:) The First 100 Minutes...:)
Dissent is no longer patriotic now that the Messiah-King has been anointed and crowned.
| 966 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:44:29pm |
re: #952 Typicalwhitey
Oh for cryin' out loud:
Got a link, I would like to leave a comment. And they won't like it, mwwwaaahhhhh!
| 967 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:44:34pm |
re: #956 reine.de.tout
I think The One would take issue with me. Something says WAB wouldn't invite me in for a coke, either.
| 968 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:44:34pm |
Buyt Beck was NOT saying to become uninvolved. Just the opposite: he was saying become MORE involved locally.
| 969 |
jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:44:48pm |
re: #963 unrealizedviewpoint
It's up to you if you want to refer to a fine Veteran as a commie. I don't, regardless of his politics. Avanti ain't a commie. His opinions are more liberal then yours, that's all.
CBBHO has pulled the wool over a lot of eyes, with the help of the MSM.
| 970 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:44:59pm |
Before I get really sleepy and have to bow out for the evening . . .
COOKBOOK UPDATE, for anyone who missed it earlier.
| 971 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:45:41pm |
| 972 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:45:45pm |
re: #963 unrealizedviewpoint
It's up to you if you want to refer to a fine Veteran as a commie. I don't, regardless of his politics. Avanti ain't a commie. His opinions are more liberal then yours, that's all.
veterans are often commies...if he supports BO he's a supporter of a communist president...it's hardly rocket science...
| 973 |
jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:45:47pm |
re: #970 reine.de.tout
Before I get really sleepy and have to bow out for the evening . . .
COOKBOOK UPDATE, for anyone who missed it earlier.
To Serve Man......
Where have I heard that before?
;-)
| 974 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:45:57pm |
re: #944 ArmyWife
A legend in my own mind!
Mom used to annoy me, telling me I was special. But buying a short bus was really pushing it.
| 975 |
Typicalwhitey Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:45:58pm |
re: #966 newsjunkie_ky
Got a link, I would like to leave a comment. And they won't like it, mwwwaaahhhhh!
[Link: www.dccc.org...]
| 976 |
Walter L. Newton Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:10pm |
| 977 |
lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:11pm |
re: #952 Typicalwhitey
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail.
I don't listen to Rush, but I'd be willing to bet that was taken out of context. He probably said that he wants him to fail in implementing his agenda, which is a perfectly valid wish.
I wish for the same thing.
| 978 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:14pm |
re: #965 FurryOldGuyJeans
Dissent is no longer patriotic now that the Messiah-King has been anointed and crowned.
Oh...tying sheets together and getting ready to make a run for it...
| 979 |
NYCHardhat Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:34pm |
If you're around bella...goodnight honey. *kiss*
| 980 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:37pm |
re: #963 unrealizedviewpoint
I agree with you, I don't see eye to eye with Avanti most times, but he isn't a commie. He is deluded at times, and I hope that eventually he will see this - I wish he would answer my questions and we would, perhaps, get somewhere. I'm not interested in belittling him. There are others so much more deserving of that!
| 981 |
reine.de.tout Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:37pm |
re: #964 ArmyWife
I sent them an email and it went something like this:
"Rush is right on target. I am only saddened that my party leadership team doesn't have the strategic insight of Rush Limbaugh. Like Mr. Limbaugh, it is my sincerest desire that the bozo trifecta of Obama, Pelosi and Reid fail miserably in their quest to turn my country into a socialist stronghold."
You sent that e-mail after being all VIP and stuff at the inauguration?
| 982 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:47pm |
re: #909 FurryOldGuyJeans
He CAN'T, so he IGNORES them.
The 2 million tourists left, and the numbers went up a bit, what do you want me to explain ? The local police say they were surprised, I sadly commented. I was just happy my son and his friends had fun and were safe. Since I've been called a liar, I'll leave it at that and move on.
| 983 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:46:56pm |
re: #969 jcm
CBBHO has pulled the wool over a lot of eyes, with the help of the MSM.
He's pulled the wool over their eyes, with MSM help. But the wool over them, doesn't make the supporters communists. Just ignorant fools.
| 984 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:47:03pm |
re: #977 lobo91
I don't listen to Rush, but I'd be willing to bet that was taken out of context. He probably said that he wants him to fail in implementing his agenda, which is a perfectly valid wish.
I wish for the same thing.
you are correct.
| 985 |
Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:47:45pm |
re: #958 Cognito
Well I didn't hear the whole show, maybe just that long list of ways to make life work...and what I took away was to live right.
When I left the Post office and drove home there was some guy pushing some book about making money and I tuned it out.
Common sense thoughts...and now that I am trying to remember specifics I can't so maybe they were not that good...
Oh well, when I was listening I was thinking he was right on
| 986 |
Typicalwhitey Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:48:19pm |
re: #977 lobo91
I don't listen to Rush, but I'd be willing to bet that was taken out of context. He probably said that he wants him to fail in implementing his agenda, which is a perfectly valid wish.
I wish for the same thing.
I do listen to him and you are absolutely correct.
I want my country to succeed, but I do not want the o's agenda to succeed. Therefore I do not want the o to succeed.
| 987 |
ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:48:26pm |
re: #981 reine.de.tout
I was not a guest of the incoming administration. ;)
| 988 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:48:27pm |
re: #975 Typicalwhitey
[Link: www.dccc.org...]
Oh, I love it, they are going to send the comments to Rush.
| 989 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:48:58pm |
re: #972 albusteve
veterans are often commies...if he supports BO he's a supporter of a communist president...it's hardly rocket science...
Sure is a lot of black & white in your world.
/is that racist?
| 990 |
Cognito Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:49:03pm |
re: #985 Stonemason
No, he was definitely right on, from what you're saying. It's just a little funny:
"We should stop listening to pundits. Glenn Beck told me so."
Get it?
It's just kinda funny. Not a big thing.
| 991 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:49:03pm |
re: #983 unrealizedviewpoint
He's pulled the wool over their eyes, with MSM help. But the wool over them, doesn't make the supporters communists. Just ignorant fools.
Just because the ignorant fools don't know they are communists doesn't change the fact they want socialistic change.
| 992 |
jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:49:16pm |
re: #983 unrealizedviewpoint
He's pulled the wool over their eyes, with MSM help. But the wool over them, doesn't make the supporters communists. Just ignorant fools.
Everyone one I've talked to falls in the ignorant category. They know nothing of the O.
| 994 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:49:44pm |
re: #982 avanti
You can't take the heat so you tuck tail and leave.
Nice to hear that you and yours were safe, really.
| 995 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:49:47pm |
re: #962 esch
Has South Park deconstructed zerO yet? I don't watch it anymore but I would probably watch that one.
Obama defeating McCain is revealed to be a ruse by Obama, McCain, Palin, and Mrs. Obama to cover a high-tech theft of the Hope Diamond from the Smithsonian.
Meanwhile, back at home, both sides suffer from election emotion hangovers.
It's a good episode.
| 996 |
avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:49:57pm |
re: #918 Wishing
She/he thinks the zero casts a spell of equanimity or something. I call BS!
Because it was a record crowd and the damn city decided to keep the bars open until 4 AM with a much younger crowd.
| 998 |
Dar ul Harb Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:50:12pm |
Kind of reminded me of the later Stax logo.
| 999 |
Greengolem64 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:50:32pm |
re: #850 OldLineTexan
Just goes to show how EGGOcentric our new CinC is...
| 1000 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:50:41pm |
re: #977 lobo91
I don't listen to Rush, but I'd be willing to bet that was taken out of context. He probably said that he wants him to fail in implementing his agenda, which is a perfectly valid wish.
I wish for the same thing.
| 1001 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:50:52pm |
| 1004 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:51:03pm |
re: #991 bellamags
Just because the ignorant fools don't know they are communists doesn't change the fact they want socialistic change.
There's an awful big difference between a socialists and a lefty with his hand out.
| 1005 |
rawmuse Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:51:05pm |
Egg of Power, is that anything like the Holy Hand Grenade?
| 1006 |
Stonemason Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:51:25pm |
re: #990 Cognito
It is funny...but he has said that few times actually.
He is a little gloomy for me at times, but the common sense stuff it dead nuts.
| 1007 |
MacDuff Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:51:49pm |
re: #952 Typicalwhitey
Oh for cryin' out loud:
OK,
Most of the Middle East wants us dead, We're in involved in 2 wars, the economy is melting down, banks are failing, all of our automakers are virtually bankrupt and what are the Dems worried about?
Rush Limbaugh.
He really knows how to get inside their head and you have to respect that. Even the GOP is starting to feel his heat.
| 1008 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:52:02pm |
re: #982 avanti
The 2 million tourists left, and the numbers went up a bit, what do you want me to explain ? The local police say they were surprised, I sadly commented. I was just happy my son and his friends had fun and were safe. Since I've been called a liar, I'll leave it at that and move on.
You did tell a lie...a lie that was fed to you and that you swallowed because it spoke well of the Zero. But it was a SHAM. GET IT?
| 1009 |
bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:52:19pm |
re: #1004 unrealizedviewpoint
There's an awful big difference between a socialists and a lefty with his hand out.
not really. its just the beginning.
| 1010 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:52:39pm |
re: #972 albusteve
veterans are often commies...if he supports BO he's a supporter of a communist president...it's hardly rocket science...
Veterans are often commies? You might want to tone down your rhetoric a bit, or you might find this non-commie veteran pigeon-holing you and your opinions to scroll-over status.
| 1011 |
Dar ul Harb Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:52:44pm |
re: #960 OldLineTexan
We should quit letting the days go by?
I've got a girlfriend that's better than that
And nothing is better than this
Is it?
| 1012 |
rawmuse Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:52:58pm |
| 1013 |
Gort Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:52:58pm |
re: #1002 Spare O'Lake
Communism is different than socialism.
Indeed.
I'm going to practice Somnunism - g'nigt all.
| 1014 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:53:03pm |
re: #989 unrealizedviewpoint
Sure is a lot of black & white in your world.
/is that racist?
ask BO...he is racist...his ignorant minons support racism...cant you figure that out on your own? or do you need others to enlighten you?....
| 1015 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:53:26pm |
Wishing- that's sweet of you, but I don't need to listen. I was saying people need to get involved locally months ago. It's mice to know, though, that Mr. Beck has come around to my line of thinking and is promoting it on his show. It's wonderful, really. I hope people take up the challenge and do so.
| 1016 |
rain of lead Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:53:47pm |
ok folks,
now that the thread has reached 1000 comments, i feel I can retire for the night
I'll check in at the end of the nite shift in the morning.
| 1017 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:54:00pm |
re: #992 jcm
Everyone one I've talked to falls in the ignorant category. They know nothing of the O.
Any O voter (of integrity), if they knew of the O, couldn't, in good conscience, cast an O vote.
| 1018 |
Dan G. Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:54:40pm |
The current president of the United States of America possesses, in his office, a wooden egg-shaped object that he believes contains “powers”; it is called an “Egg of Power”. The man has the ability to unleash thermonuclear war and he believe that a piece of wood in the shape of an egg can positively affect his life. If ever faced with the decision to launch or not launch an ICBM, will he consult the egg first? Or perhaps some other trinket? Anyone who griped about Bush praying/consulting with jesus had better be pissed about this else they cash in any pretense at having credibility.
Calling all cartoonists, this is a wet-dream of an opportunity for satire.
| 1019 |
Gretchen G.Tiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:54:55pm |
| 1020 |
Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:55:01pm |
re: #996 avanti
Let me get this straight- you're impressed at the low crime rate in one city?
Hell- 19 assholes reduced the national crime rate one Tuesday about 7 1/2 years ago.
Should we give them props?
| 1021 |
FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:55:02pm |
re: #1008 Wishing
You did tell a lie...a lie that was fed to you and that you swallowed because it spoke well of the Zero. But it was a SHAM. GET IT?
No, he doesn't. He moves the goal posts and keeps on shoveling.
Now he's trying to get us to swallow the open later bars were THE reason.
| 1022 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:55:13pm |
re: #1014 albusteve
ask BO...he is racist...his ignorant minons support racism...cant you figure that out on your own? or do you need others to enlighten you?....
I'll refrain from posing two different thoughts in one post - for your benefit.
geez.
| 1023 |
nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:56:00pm |
re: #1002 Spare O'Lake
Communism is different than socialism.
an elderly ukrainian man who lives in my bldg. said the russians presented communism to them as the "carrot" they could achieve if they could just work harder to make it happen.
communism was the unattainable utopia they were dying for.
| 1024 |
Wishing Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:56:02pm |
re: #1015 Sharmuta
Wishing- that's sweet of you, but I don't need to listen. I was saying people need to get involved locally months ago. It's mice to know, though, that Mr. Beck has come around to my line of thinking and is promoting it on his show. It's wonderful, really. I hope people take up the challenge and do so.
Yes, agree Sharmuta, you and I talked about this pre-election. It was a refreshing show, and I thought it might be an encouragement.
| 1025 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:56:06pm |
re: #1010 FurryOldGuyJeans
Veterans are often commies? You might want to tone down your rhetoric a bit, or you might find this non-commie veteran pigeon-holing you and your opinions to scroll-over status.
And this one following FurryOldGuyJeans Lead!
| 1026 |
unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:56:15pm |
| 1027 |
Cato the Elder Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:57:00pm |
re: #939 NYCHardhat
Mr. Cato The Elder.
Yep. You say apropos racism "I'm so tired of that fucking word".
I'm tired of the attitude that racism is dead. It's not, and though they'll dance around the issue and say they didn't mean it that way and I'm just an old grump with no sense of humor, there have been some commenters that cross the line.
I find the "Egg of Power" hilarious, too. But not the sentiments expressed in the original link:
You think I’m kidding. It’s allegedly based on some “ancient African proverb,” which means that (a) the proverb was made up by some white dude 20 years ago and (b) it completely contradicts the horrid reality on the ground in Africa — the last place from which we should be adopting “proverbs.”
The assumption that it can't be a real proverb and if it is, it comes from a bad place and so has no validity is demeaning to an entire continent. As I said in my initial post, do we dump all of Confucius because China's government sucks?
There's a lot of great humor on this thread. There's also some borderline racism. You don't have to like the word, and you don't have to agree with me, and I'm not going to get into a pissing match about it. Just my opinion.
| 1028 |
newsjunkie_ky Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:57:14pm |
Don't forget to click to give food to rescue animals at the rescuesite.
| 1029 |
albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:57:54pm |
re: #1010 FurryOldGuyJeans
Veterans are often commies? You might want to tone down your rhetoric a bit, or you might find this non-commie veteran pigeon-holing you and your opinions to scroll-over status.
I could care less who you scroll over....your threat means little to me
| 1030 |
Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:58:00pm |
egg-cellent
eggs-treme
egg-citing
egg-stavagent
egg-speriment
egg-splosive
egg-tortionate
egg-static
eggs-traordinary
eggs-tra terrestrial
egg-sotic
egg-sactly
egg-stracted
eggs-cavation
egg-saggerate
egg-saust
egg-xam
egg-samine
egg-ceed
egg-cel
egg-cept
eggs-change
| 1031 |
Gretchen G.Tiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:58:57pm |
re: #1030 Dustyvet
egg-cellent
eggs-treme
egg-citing
egg-stavagent
egg-speriment
egg-splosive
egg-tortionate
egg-static
eggs-traordinary
eggs-tra terrestrial
egg-sotic
egg-sactly
egg-stracted
eggs-cavation
egg-saggerate
egg-saust
egg-xam
egg-samine
egg-ceed
egg-cel
egg-cept
eggs-change
are you eggs-austed creating that list?
| 1032 |
abolitionist Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:59:04pm |
re: #863 avanti
Of course you can discuss it. Hannity will be talking about Ayers in 2012, I'm just not interested in beating that horse any longer.
Dead horse?
Bill Ayers Down With Capitalism
Ayers Is No Education 'Reformer'
He still hopes for a revolutionary upheaval that will finally bring down American capitalism and imperialism, but this time around Mr. Ayers sows the seeds of resistance and rebellion in America's future teachers.
Barack Obama and Bill Ayers: Social Justice Is The Link
Ayers sees his education work as carrying on his radicalism in a new guise. The point of Ayers’ education theory is that the United States is a fundamentally racist and oppressive nation. Students, Ayers believes, ought to be encouraged to resist this oppression. Obama was funding Ayers’ "small schools" project, built around this philosophy. Ayers’ radicalism isn’t something in the past. It’s something to which Obama gave moral and financial support as an adult. So when Shane says that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers’ radicalism, he’s flat wrong. Obama’s funded it.
Conversacion con Bill Ayers, parte 1 of 11.
DEAD HORSE !?
| 1033 |
Dan G. Tue, Jan 27, 2009 8:59:14pm |
re: #1030 Dustyvet
A nice start... "Obama egg-cepts responsiblity as commander in chief, and begins to change."
| 1034 |
BlueCanuck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:11pm |
re: #1018 Dan G.
Could be worse. He could be like on of our former Prime Ministers that held seances to contact his dead mother and dogs.
/also an anti-semite.
| 1035 |
jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:13pm |
re: #1019 ggt
didja forget that sarc tag?
Socialism is on the spectrum toward communism. No one in the same. It's shades of red.
| 1036 |
OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:19pm |
For good old-fashioned borderline racism, just go back and listen to all the pundits explain how white people wouldn't vote for Obama because of his skin color.
For a shorter trip back in time and explicit racism, just review the prayer delivered at Obama's inauguration. Join us in imploring God that white will choose right in some future, far-off day.
Yep, plenty of racism in this country. I agree whole-heartedly.
| 1037 |
yesandno Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:25pm |
re: #952 Typicalwhitey
Oh for cryin' out loud:
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has launched an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh for saying last week that he wanted President Barack Obama to fail.
There is more to this then pettiness...though God knows that the word pettiness in the dictionary is represented by a photo of Chuck You Schumer.
The real thrust is to get everyone on board to institute the Fairness Doctrine. Its coming, but it will be under the radar. And Rush is the target to be marginalized. And as the GOP push him to the fringes, then the FD is instituted because he is now portrayed to be on the fringe.
This is part of an overall plan. Can't trust any of these people to be honest brokers of the truth....they manipulate for power. And too many GOP members want to kiss ass thinking no one will know what caused their bad breaths.
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Dan G. Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:28pm |
I mentioned that this would be a good opportunity for satire... but who will throw the first egg?
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Dustyvet Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:39pm |
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:45pm |
Where's that Iron Fist Rule when ya need it?
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rawmuse Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:48pm |
re: #1026 unrealizedviewpoint
amusing muse
No sarcasm, Communists are generally straight forward in their approach, whereas socialists have to tell you that black is white, up is down and good is bad.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:00:52pm |
re: #1032 abolitionist
Conversacion con Bill Ayers, parte 1 of 11.
DEAD HORSE !?
He considers it a dead horse because he doesn't want his O Worship to be contaminated with mere facts.
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Maximu§ Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:01:09pm |
re: #972 albusteve
veterans are often commies...if he supports BO he's a supporter of a communist president...it's hardly rocket science...
Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash and thank your lucky stars I'm not in front of you.
You owe all of us Vets an apology.
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:01:19pm |
re: #1030 Dustyvet
egg-cellent
eggs-treme
egg-citing
egg-stavagent
egg-speriment
egg-splosive
egg-tortionate
egg-static
eggs-traordinary
eggs-tra terrestrial
egg-sotic
egg-sactly
egg-stracted
eggs-cavation
egg-saggerate
egg-saust
egg-xam
egg-samine
egg-ceed
egg-cel
egg-cept
eggs-change
That was eggessive.
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lobo91 Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:01:29pm |
re: #1007 MacDuff
OK,
Most of the Middle East wants us dead, We're in involved in 2 wars, the economy is melting down, banks are failing, all of our automakers are virtually bankrupt and what are the Dems worried about?Rush Limbaugh.
He really knows how to get inside their head and you have to respect that. Even the GOP is starting to feel his heat.
Actually, it's brilliant. Rush is only the beginning. Their hatred is going to spread from him to all the other conservative talk show hosts, and from them to their listeners.
Gives them millions of scapegoats to blame when their polcies inevitably fail.
Substitute "Jews" for "conservatives" and rewind about 75 years, and tell me it doesn't sound familiar.
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Dan G. Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:02:03pm |
re: #1034 BlueCanuck
Just as bad. Consulting the air or wood; neither will respond.
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opilio Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:02:39pm |
re: #1015 Sharmuta
It's mice to know, though
Mickey, Minnie, Mighty, Fievel, or Speedy G.?
/nothing substantive to contribute. stooping to mocking typos.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:02:41pm |
re: #1035 jcm
Socialism is on the spectrum toward communism. No one in the same. It's shades of red.
The difference between Socialism and Communism is like the difference between blowing your brains out with a gun and slitting your throat with a sharp knife. Dead is still dead.
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Dan G. Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:02:55pm |
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abolitionist Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:03:05pm |
re: #1042 FurryOldGuyJeans
He considers it a dead horse because he doesn't want his O Worship to be contaminated with mere facts.
O
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OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:03:35pm |
re: #1040 unrealizedviewpoint
Where's that Iron Fist Rule when ya need it?
Oo-yay ink-thay he's unk-dray?
/
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Maximu§ Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:04:09pm |
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:04:35pm |
re: #1043 Maximu§
Don't let your mouth write checks your body can't cash and thank your lucky stars I'm not in front of you.
You owe all of us Vets an apology.
why?...did I implicate you?...read the thread...if you support a communist racist president I have no apology for you...if not then you have my highest regard
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Sloppy Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:04:36pm |
I'd vote for a naionwide Lizard meet-up in Kansas because it's next door to Nebraska and maybe I could go. Downhill, too . . .
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avanti Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:04:46pm |
re: #1010 FurryOldGuyJeans
Veterans are often commies? You might want to tone down your rhetoric a bit, or you might find this non-commie veteran pigeon-holing you and your opinions to scroll-over status.
I took a few days off LGF last week after trying to defend my President from being called a Commie. I figured inaugural days was a bitter one from some and came back. Now not only is he a Commie, but all those that voted for him are, including Vets. Yes, I'm socially left of most of you, but I've not found many retired vet Commies in my travels. 20 years of your life is a pretty big price to pay to be a covert Commie.
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BlueCanuck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:05:09pm |
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Dar ul Harb Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:05:11pm |
You know that old socialist proverb (attributed to V.I. Lenin):
If you want to make an omelette, you've got to be willing to break a few eggs...
/retch
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:05:33pm |
re: #1005 rawmuse
Egg of Power, is that anything like the Holy Hand Grenade?
Yep, it's the Holy Hen Grenade of Africa.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:05:54pm |
re: #1035 jcm
Socialism is on the spectrum toward communism. No one in the same. It's shades of red.
collectivism is collectivism -- red is red.
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nyc redneck Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:06:02pm |
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:06:20pm |
re: #1054 OldLineTexan
Oo-yay ink-thay he's unk-dray?
/
Pass the rule to albusteve when ya sober, will ya?
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:06:26pm |
re: #1029 albusteve
I could care less who you scroll over....your threat means little to me
That was not a threat, just a request.
You have joined the rarified ranks of scroll-overs. You should feel honored.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:06:53pm |
re: #972 albusteve
holy shit dude
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jcm Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:06:57pm |
re: #1049 FurryOldGuyJeans
The difference between Socialism and Communism is like the difference between blowing your brains out with a gun and slitting your throat with a sharp knife. Dead is still dead.
LOL! Much of Europe is socialist. Companies are still privately owned, but intensely regulated by government. Individuals retain some control over where they live in work. Communism everything is state owned, individuals do as told.
Okay, it's a academic discussion. And in the end, as you so eloquently state, is the same.
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bellamags Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:06:58pm |
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OldLineTexan Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:07:40pm |
re: #1065 unrealizedviewpoint
Pass the rule to albusteve when ya sober, will ya?
I'm stone-cold sober. I have an alcoholic to take care of any drinking that needs doing around here.
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:08:18pm |
re: #1058 avanti
I took a few days off LGF last week after trying to defend my President from being called a Commie. I figured inaugural days was a bitter one from some and came back. Now not only is he a Commie, but all those that voted for him are, including Vets. Yes, I'm socially left of most of you, but I've not found many retired vet Commies in my travels. 20 years of your life is a pretty big price to pay to be a covert Commie.
you are not paying attention...it has nothing to do with covert...it's entirely overt
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:08:23pm |
re: #1058 avanti
I took a few days off LGF last week after trying to defend my President from being called a Commie. I figured inaugural days was a bitter one from some and came back. Now not only is he a Commie, but all those that voted for him are, including Vets. Yes, I'm socially left of most of you, but I've not found many retired vet Commies in my travels. 20 years of your life is a pretty big price to pay to be a covert Commie.
You got supporters here this evening Avanti. Unusual night.
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Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:08:52pm |
Signing off now. I have to work on some things.
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FurryOldGuyJeans Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:09:05pm |
re: #1041 rawmuse
No sarcasm, Communists are generally straight forward in their approach, whereas socialists have to tell you that black is white, up is down and good is bad.
Dead is still dead.
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Archimedes Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:09:26pm |
I had a hand similar to that once, but it had the middle finger extended an said "This ones for you baby"... maybe that's what should be on Obama's desk instead. You know, to the nation.
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MandyManners Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:09:34pm |
re: #1061 Sharmuta
He's a stone cold marxist.
Wasn't there some discussion a few months ago about whether he has some significant Maoism?
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unrealizedviewpoint Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:09:40pm |
re: #1070 OldLineTexan
I'm stone-cold sober. I have an alcoholic to take care of any drinking that needs doing around here.
LOL
Will somebody then please pass the Rule?
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albusteve Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:10:02pm |
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abolitionist Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:10:12pm |
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Sharmuta Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:10:18pm |
re: #1076 MandyManners
Wasn't there some discussion a few months ago about whether he has some significant Maoism?
I don't recall, but I do know he's a Weather Underground sock puppet.
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opilio Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:10:41pm |
re: #1030 Dustyvet
egg-tortionate
Eggs-istentially, even egg-regiously eggs-eptional. But egg-tortionate ?
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soxfan4life Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:10:52pm |
re: #52 nyc redneck
it's a stupid gimmicky thing,
very appropriate for him.
Perfect description of his campaign and ascension to power
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ArmyWife Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:11:08pm |
re: #1072 unrealizedviewpoint
I'm one of them. Shall we place a pox on the Steelers and root for them together? We did a heck of a job on the Ravens!
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rawmuse Tue, Jan 27, 2009 9:11:10pm |