Good night.

Ah, 52nd Street.

Or perhaps I should say, "Goood day".

Good Morning Lizards

re: #4 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Lizards

Good morning? Do we mean morning in the technical sense of Sunday, O'dark thirty?

Green Acres

still forcing myself to watch CPAC.

Strangely, I've been spared of listening to Ron Paul until now. I managed to miss him when he was running for POTUS. Missing him was a good thing.

Coincidentally, I just read this poem this week.

I'm gonna get my gun

re: #7 ggt

still forcing myself to watch CPAC.

Strangely, I've been spared of listening to Ron Paul until now. I managed to miss him when he was running for POTUS. Missing him was a good thing.

I missed Newt. I'll have to check and see if it was posted on youtube.

52nd Street

The last stanza the best:

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages;
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

now I really have to get some sleeps

Me, too.

This is the night
Of the expanding the man
I take one last drag
As I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
Ill be what I want to be

re: #13 Noam Sayin'

Me three! (Not my age, honest!)

G'nite, all. Sweet dreams!

re: #14 rawmuse

Learn to work the saxophone

re: #15 NY Nana

{NY Nana}

G'night, Nana.

G'night, Gracie.

G'night, Mrs. Kalabash, wherever you are.

Seeya, lizards.

Ah the overnight open thread. Been busy lurking. Catching up on my science shows.

Night N.Y. Nana.

Spider Man musical planned for Broadway.

"1st September 1939" by W.H. Auden

Mornin', lizards! Am I still supposed to be giving 0bama a chance?

re: #20 rawmuse

Spider Man musical planned for Broadway.

Pffft! You call that blasphemy?

/Red Dawn remake

...drink scotch whiskey all night long...

re: #14 rawmuse

This is the night
Of the expanding the man
I take one last drag
As I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
Ill be what I want to be

Learn to work
The Saxaphone
I'm gonna play what I feel
Drink Scotch whiskey
All night long
And die behind the wheel
They've got a name
For the winners in the world
I want a name when I lose
They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
They call me Deacon Blue

re: #24 SurferDoc

...drink scotch whiskey all night long...

/all '80s all the time

Who knew? the Senate on YouTube.

I crawl like a viper through these suburban streets

Make love to these women so languid and bittersweet...

/with McDonald

Glad to know "Deacon Blues" has so many fans. That is one righteous song, with a righteous sax solo. Pete Christlieb, IIRC.

weet dreams honcos!

Deacon Blues was a staple on "soft rock" FM stations during a period of my life that resonated with the lyrics. I'm glad to have that a long ago chapter but I will always remember the music.

wow. threads movin slow.

Dang. Don't scare me. That poem should be kept back on the shelf unless something absolutely awful is at the top of the news.

For all the economic trouble the world has, the future ought to be bright. We're just so clever, we're bound to find a way around "peak oil", global warming, a brand of Islam so combative one is put in mind of Kzinti, the revanchist ambitions of Putin's Russia, etc.

There won't be any getting around the rise to major power status of China, then India. U.S. influence will remain potent but we will no longer be first-with-no-equals. Buck up, folks. Absent paralyzing fear, we'll get through this bad patch. We've bloody well got through far worse. That poem being a reminder.

re: #33 Karagush

wow. threads movin slow.

Sometimes it's a good thing. A nice slow Saturday night/Sunday morning. good people, good drinks, and good music. Me? I can still keep up lurking and going through some righteous science documentaries that I keep discovering on Youtube. Like the one on the Grand Canyon.

re: #34 lostlakehiker

Dang. Don't scare me. That poem should be kept back on the shelf unless something absolutely awful is at the top of the news.

For all the economic trouble the world has, the future ought to be bright. We're just so clever, we're bound to find a way around "peak oil", global warming, a brand of Islam so combative one is put in mind of Kzinti, the revanchist ambitions of Putin's Russia, etc.

There won't be any getting around the rise to major power status of China, then India. U.S. influence will remain potent but we will no longer be first-with-no-equals. Buck up, folks. Absent paralyzing fear, we'll get through this bad patch. We've bloody well got through far worse. That poem being a reminder.

Lostlake props to you for referencing Kzinti. I love Larry Niven's Known World.

re: #34 lostlakehiker

"Dang. Don't scare me. That poem should be kept back on the shelf unless something absolutely awful is at the top of the news. "

I remember it being sent around in the aftermath of 9/11/01.

September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden

I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.

Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.

From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
"I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,"
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the deaf,
Who can speak for the dumb?

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

re: #36 Karagush

Wouldn't it be "Known Universe"?

re: #38 BlueCanuck

Wouldn't it be "Known Universe"?

duh yes. Now i think i should go to bed! i really should read before i hit send...

For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.

***

Well, ain't that the startling truth.

re: #32 SurferDoc

Deacon Blues was a staple on "soft rock" FM stations during a period of my life that resonated with the lyrics. I'm glad to have that a long ago chapter but I will always remember the music.

Moi aussi, as the French in France would say...lol.

The song "My Old School" is forever linked in my mind with Albert Hammond's "It Never Rains In Southern California" and the week we stayed in LA waiting to catch the ship to Honolulu when I moved there in 1972...it was overcast that whole week...I remember watching the airliners going in and out of LAX, and the terrorist attack at the Munich Olympics on the tube. For some reason "My Old School" is mixed in with those images in my mind although it wasn't released until the following summer. Age does odd things to your memories.

re: #38 BlueCanuck

Wouldn't it be "Known Universe"?

Actually it "Known Space".

Funny how things are so synchronistic. I was reading the auden poem in one tab and viewing clips of "In The Face of Evil" on youtube in another and the clip was about Hitler, Chamberlain and Churchill...

re: #41 Colonel Panik

I'm out of work
I'm out of my head
I'm out of respect
I'm out of bread
I'm underloved
I'm underfed
I wanna go home...

Nice little lyric there.

re: #42 Colonel Panik

Ugh, so you are right. :p

re: #45 BlueCanuck

Ugh, so you are right. :p

does that mean we should BOTH go to bed?

Auden, excellent choice. Underrated poet, probably the best in English since Yeats/Eliot.

re: #46 Karagush

LOL, unfortunately I can't. Stuck at work, and my company frowns on sleeping on the job.

Speaking of Yeats, who I occasionally want to kill (don't bother me with the news that he's dead) for being a better writer than he deserved to be...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Or Ahkmatova, who just gives me the deep Russian blues...

I drink to our ruined house,
to the dolor of my life,
to our loneliness together;
and to you I raise my glass,
to lying lips that have betrayed us,
to dead-cold, pitiless eyes,
and to the hard realities:
that the world is brutal and coarse,
that God in fact has not saved us.

There once was a lady of Orange
Who somehow got stuck on a door hinge
We mush leave her up there,
In all her despair,
For nothing else rhymes with Orange!

-- I wrote that one. Applause appreciated. (My father was a famous poet, made me listen to his stuff when I was in kindergarten. Have hated to read or listen to poetry ever since.)

There once was a woman from Nantucket...

that that is is that that is not is not that is it

/fill in the punc's

Fenway -- No applause?

Applesauce also works.

re: #53 IslandLibertarian

that that is is that that is not is not that is it

/fill in the punc's

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. That is it.

re: #51 Mardukhai

There once was a lady of Orange
Who somehow got stuck on a door hinge
We mush leave her up there,
In all her despair,
For nothing else rhymes with Orange!

-- I wrote that one. Applause appreciated. (My father was a famous poet, made me listen to his stuff when I was in kindergarten. Have hated to read or listen to poetry ever since.)

(Clap, clap, clap, clap...)

re: #55 gmsc

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. That is it.

So what is what? Is that which it is what it should be or what that it is not?

re: #53 IslandLibertarian

that that is is that that is not is not that is it

/fill in the punc's

Or, to make it just a little harder: that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

Morning gmsc. Here's a documentary on youtube that I found and just thought of you.

re: #58 gmsc

Or, to make it just a little harder: that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

Ok . . . with that I think you took my mental milkshake you were making .. and turned into psychotic icecream.

re: #59 BlueCanuck

Morning gmsc. Here's a documentary on youtube that I found and just thought of you.

Thanks! I've favorited it, and will watch it tomorrow.

re: #58 gmsc

Or, to make it just a little harder: that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

Quite.

re: #58 gmsc

Or, to make it just a little harder: that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is

re: #60 Buster Bunny

Ok . . . with that I think you took my mental milkshake you were making .. and turned into psychotic icecream.

The second version is punctuated in this manner:

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.

ahhh, another twenty minutes of my life well spent...

/'least I ain't smokin' pot...

re: #63 gmsc

The second version is punctuated in this manner:

That that is, is. That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is.

Ah it was so simple ! That that is always was and that that was not is not because if that is it and it is stated that it is then that that is always is not consistantly always and should not be !

Wow .. its so easy once u get it !

Today in History, March 1:

re: #14 rawmuse

This is the night
Of the expanding the man
I take one last drag
As I approach the stand
I cried when I wrote this song
Sue me if I play too long
This brother is free
Ill be what I want to be

Coolest. Tune. Ever.

gmsc's money tips #9:

Besides watching where the money is going out, how about making sure more money is coming in? The more you look for opportunities around you, the more you'll find.

One money making idea that's becoming more and more popular on the web is making your own on-demand items. There are numerous services that will let you create your own print or electronic items, as well as create custom designs on clothing, mugs, tiles, journals and almost anything else, in order to sell them to other people!

Often you can create simple stores at these sites for free, with more advanced options available for paid stores (see my CafePress store site for an example). Take a look at these sites, and see if they don't spark some ideas for your own original products and product designs:

CafePress

Zazzle

Lulu

Spreadshirt

CreateSpace

Perhaps you have an item you already create, but you'd like to promote and sell it to a wider audience? Try eBay (of course), or Etsy, if it's a handmade item!

Speaking of eBay, why not find inexpensive items that you can turn around and sell for a profit on there? I know some people who shop at places like Big Lots, and then turn around an sell the items they buy there. There have been a few times that I've bought discounted/refurbished items from the Apple Store, marked them up (but kept them less than the new price), and sold them.

Yes, many of the above sites and the economic opportunities have been on the internet for some time. However, there's another opportunity that is just getting started on the internet. I'll discuss that in my next money tip.

re: #68 gmsc

DISCUSS IT NOW!

/please!?

re: #69 ploome hineni

Umm...give him a chance?

/MSM

re: #68 gmsc

Anti-Obama merchandise?

Report: Iran Stole Marine One Specs

(CNET) An Internet security company claims that Iran has taken advantage of a computer security breach to obtain engineering and communications information about Marine One, President Barack Obama's helicopter, according to a report by WPXI, NBC's affiliate in Pittsburgh.

Random question, but what if Joe the Plumber was actually Joe the Railway Engineer or Joe the Assembly Line Machinist and he got 0bama to let the mask slip a little like he did? How would the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers or International Association of Machinists react if one of their own made (what I assume was) their selection for president of the USA bad?

/Only union that I know of who endorsed McCain/Palin was the Fraternal Order of Police. 0bama chumming around with radicals and cop-killers probably had something to do with that...

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

re: #74 Fenway_Nation

After they finished one of their no-work or no-show contracts with the boys in Jersey, they would have "taken care" of Joe.

re: #72 ArchangelMichael

Anti-Obama merchandise?

Better make those quick- I'm sure they'll be banned under the new 'Fairness doctoring doctorine' which won't be the fairness doctorine like 0bama's non-state of the Union speech was a State of the Union speech...

re: #70 littleoldlady

DISCUSS IT NOW!

/please!?

I'm getting there, but I do have to finish typing it up!

re: #71 Fenway_Nation

Umm...give him a chance?

/MSM

Thanks.

re: #72 ArchangelMichael

Anti-Obama merchandise?

No, that's not it - but I'm sure that will be a growth market over the next few years!
;)

re: #75 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Yum, thanks! I'll eat and type!

re: #78 gmsc

gmsc! :-)

Good!

/because I can't hang around much today... :-(

re: #78 gmsc

No, that's not it - but I'm sure that will be a growth market over the next few years!
;)

That's a racket I was thinking about getting into but the tin-foil hat in me is afraid of getting visited by Obamasturmabteilung.

re: #75 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

Thank you littleoldlady!
My first fruitcup.

VioletTiger! :-)

Bon appetit!

re: #81 ArchangelMichael

That and I don't think that Shepard Fairey would be OK with me using his commie posters to make fun of or criticize his new God.

I attended an initial meeting for an Armenian Social Committee in charge of gathering Armenian youth and throwing social events in the name of getting people together.

Hooray, I'm a community organizer too!

re: #85 TheMatrix31

I play Civilization 4 and Galactic Civ 2. I like to think of myself as a community organizer too.

HOT NEWS ITEM!

PUNK'D AMPAS IN REAL PICKLE IN IRAN!

Sent info to Charles et al, this should be a hot item on the morning news circuit. Already at Breitbart, Nickki Finke and Drudge, spreading far and wide. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch :)

Here's the skinny as I forwarded it to every blog and news agency I could find.

---

Guys! Have you heard that the Iranians will not let AMPAS members now in Tehran (which includes Annette Bening and Acad prez Sid Ganis) to meet their Iranian film counterparts until and unless they confess to such cultural crimes as 300 and The Wrestler? HA HA HA!

IRAN WANTS APOLOGY FROM HOLLYWOOD TEAM, Drudge via Breitbart and AFP

AMPAS GETS PUNK'D BY IRAN GOVERNMENT, Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily

This is where the drama REALLY starts!

What do they do? Ride the wire and hope an apologetic non-apology (blamed mostly on Bush, no doubt) will gain them access to Iranian filmmakers, MAYBE? What if they get double-crossed and ejected from the country for confessing to such horrific cultural crimes as the aforementioned films?

And confessing to us for a few others while they're at it, LOL!

But I digress.

SO, do they play contrite and prostrate to a regime responsible for an ocean of blood, including American through proxies Hezbollah and HAMAS, and slings up Harvey Milks and Matthew Shepherds by the dozen, thereby undermining all Penn and Black pleaded for at the Oscars, i.e. humane and civilized treatment of gays?

If so, they risk losing incredible face.

If not, they are denied access and return home shamed and a lot lighter of pocket.

Now THAT'S comedy!

Does it get any better? Not sure, but I LIKE IT!

By the way, I broke this story to Nikki Finke and Drudge. Have the email proof. Nikki even used my byline. I got a mofo-in' scoop!

Do what you will now. Happy to just watch the rockets fall.

I hope AMPAS has a bomb shelter, LOL!

re: #76 ArchangelMichael

I remember a particularly nasty/bitter strike for Guilford Rail System (which was the parent company of the combined Delaware & Hudson, Boston & Maine and Maine Central Railways at the time) when I was a kid growing up back east. During the latter stages of the strike, someone took six idling locomotives and set them loose on the Boston & Maine mainline.

/Whaddaya know? The New York Times actually was useful to me. Way to earn that $4 a share stock price, pinchey!

re: #87 TheMadKing

HOT NEWS ITEM!

/might even be believable with something resembling a linky

gmsc's money tips #10:

One of the big things over the past few years has been social networking sites, with Facebook and Myspace getting the lion's share of the attention.

However, there's been another, quieter, but nonetheless powerful kind of social networking website going up - person to person lending, also known as social lending or P2P lending.

The easiest way to think of these sites is in a manner similar to eBay. However, instead of buyers, you have borrowers, and instead of sellers, you have lenders. Also, instead of bidding a price up, you're often bidding an interest rate down.

It starts with borrower(s) asking for an amount of money they need, and a maximum interest rate they're willing to pay. As part of the bid, not only are the reasons for their request given, and questions often answered, but information about their past credit history and other relevant and important details, as well.

At first, the borrower(s) have to wait and see if lenders will put up the fulll amount. Usually, dozens (or even hundreds) of lenders will offer up a small part of the amount (say, $50 to $100 when a loan of $1,000+ is requested), and at the maximum interest rate offered.

When enough loans are offered, lenders can still offer money, but they must be competitive by offering their newer money at lower interest rates. As newer money comes in at lower interest rates, lenders who offered money at higher interest rates get bumped off the list, and must offer their money at the same or lower rate to get a part of the loan.

There are already an amazing amount of social lending sites out there already, including these:

Community Lend

Fynanz

Globe Funder

Lending Club

Loan Back

Loanio

Prosper (my personal choice)

Virgin Money

(Note: Due to current market conditions, many of these companies are restructuring, and some of them may not be accepting new members at this time.)

Prosper (my choice, as mentioned above) has some great detailed introductions to the concept, and their site. Start by checking out the FAQ (this is the Prosper FAQ, but all of them should have a FAQ, as well), and consider it carefully.

Good morning littleoldlady thanks for the fruitcup. Sorry about the delay. Work is really annoying this morning.

re: #80 littleoldlady

gmsc! :-)

Good!

/because I can't hang around much today... :-(

If you're still here, I just posted it at #90.

LOL

Someone down dinged my anti LHC-moonbat comments in the other thread. I guess I'm starting to piss off the anti-science crowd like the best of them. Either that or there some silent LGF lurking Lizard who has a PhD in Physics and takes objection to stating that a unit of Plank time is 5.34E-44 sec, when it's actually 5.39E-44 sec.

I think its probably not the latter.

re: #93 ArchangelMichael

LOL

Someone down dinged my anti LHC-moonbat comments in the other thread. I guess I'm starting to piss off the anti-science crowd like the best of them. Either that or there some silent LGF lurking Lizard who has a PhD in Physics and takes objection to stating that a unit of Plank time is 5.34E-44 sec, when it's actually 5.39E-44 sec.

I think its probably not the latter.

Click on the number by the plus and minus sign, and a window will come up and show you the screenname of the person/people who downdinged you.

If it has not been posted here is some economic humor from Iowahawk:

'The Dave Burge sector: leading America back to prosperity'

[Picture of large incomplete house with junk cars in front and inflatable gorilla marked with ‘Party Tonight’]

Thanks to the new housing bailout plan, happy days are here again for America's sub-prime borrowing community -- but Iowahawk's Dave Burge warns that national recovery is now threatened by deadbeat tax protesters who failed to understand the rules of the game

For many months now, I have been writing about how the national mortgage crisis has affected at-risk borrowers like myself. Lured in by devious plus-size lenders like Linda Mustaine, with their promises of low interest ARMs and free Igloo coolers, millions of us were tricked into purchasing houses we obviously could not afford. Worse, when the market turned south, we faced the nightmarish prospect of being relocated to homes that we arguably could afford.

But through all of it, some of us persevered. We made the hard economic choices. We fought off eviction by keeping Linda Mustaine juiced up with mai tais at Applebee's happy hour... We spent countless hours applying for the credit cards that would see us through... when the rainy day came, Washington would come to its senses and clear up the tab.

Happily, that day has finally arrived. Thanks to the new federal mortgage bailout bill, Americans like me are finally on track for housing security. Previously facing a $1.2 million debt from three mortgage on a home recently appraised at $43,500, less missing bathroom fixtures and windows, the President's plan allowed me to renegotiate my payments down to a level that will keep me solvent until at least mid June-ish.

...now that my mortgage worries are over, I was able to afford the down payment on a sweet new jet ski, directly creating jobs at Coralville Kawasaki. I also purchased a few items from my friend and local small business entrepreneur Randy Hansgard. Randy used that money to make high tech capital improvements in his business, like new grow-lights and an Ohaus 3-beam electronic scale. After I wrecked the jet ski, this created jobs at the Coralville Kawasaki service department. I also splurged by sending Linda a thoughtful Jenny Craig gift certificate with my partial January mortgage payment, because she's really been packing on the pounds lately...

...that small amount of money I originally spent now gets re-spent, and re-re-spent, snowballing through the economy, creating jobs and opportunities everywhere it goes. America's liquor stores and zip-lock bag makers and go-kart tracks hire millions of new workers. Eventually this tsunami of economic activity creates additional wealth for everyone, even the stupid tax protesters, resulting in more tax revenues to pay for my next round of job-creating bailout spending...

Iowa Hawk, Memo to Americ’s Irresponsible Tea Party Whiners STFU

BlueCanuck! :-)

gmsc,

Yeah, I was waiting for you to type it out. Borrowing is not an option.

/Money Making Ideas 'R Us

Actually, I've got a million of them. My daughter calls me the World's Biggest Underachiever :-(

Do you make anything from your CafePress store?

re: #94 gmsc

Yeah I know. It was the same guy in both. The only time I've ever been down-dinged here that I can remember besides this is when Salamantis and I had an argument in an atheism thread and I was not articulating my agnostic viewpoint very well.

Even times when I've torn a few Republican sacred cows a new a-hole in posts I didn't get down-dinged. I guess I'm starting to become a real Lizard now.

Okay, Killian Red, too lazy to cut and paste?

That's okay. We aim to please.

Here ya go.

via Drudge, Brietbart and AFP:
Iran Wants Apology From Hollywood Team

Via Nikki Finke's Dealine Hollywood Daily:
AMPAS GETS PUNK'D BY IRAN GOVERNMENT

Happy now?

Hope they posted OK.

If not, you're on your own, son.

Regards, TMK.

Siegfried and Roy take final bow for charity

The brief charity show saw Roy Horn and Siegfried Fischbacher side by side with Montecore, the massive white tiger that brutally mauled Horn during a 2003 performance.

Horn re-emerged Saturday dressed in black robes, his face covered with a skeletal mask. The dark stage was covered in smoke. Horn limped slowly onstage, often steadying himself on Fischbacher's shoulder.

The two slowly performed a signature illusion as Fischbacher, dressed in white robes and a mask, stood inside a cage, which was then cloaked in drapes. As Horn removed the curtain seconds later, Fischbacher appeared across stage, a hulking tiger in his place.

As the crowd took to its feet, the men removed their masks. Fischbacher standing between the tiger and Horn. They waved and blew kisses at the audience, but said nothing.

/it would have been more dramatic if . . .

re: #98 themadking

Okay, Killian Red, too lazy to cut and paste?

/WTF are you talking about?

That's a good question from littleoldlady there. Does your Cafepress store make any money gmsc?

re: #96 littleoldlady

BlueCanuck! :-)

gmsc,

Yeah, I was waiting for you to type it out. Borrowing is not an option.

/Money Making Ideas 'R Us

Actually, I've got a million of them. My daughter calls me the World's Biggest Underachiever :-(

Do you make anything from your CafePress store?

Actually, borrowing is not what I was suggesting. I've never borrowed on Prosper. I'm only a lender! Of course, this goes along with the saving suggested in the The Richest Man in Babylon.

re: #96 littleoldlady

Do you make anything from your CafePress store?

re: #101 ArchangelMichael

That's a good question from littleoldlady there. Does your Cafepress store make any money gmsc?

Yep! It's not a fortune, but in the 3 years I've been running it, I've made over $1,100 in profit from my Cafepress store.

re: #103 gmsc

Yep! It's not a fortune, but in the 3 years I've been running it, I've made over $1,100 in profit from my Cafepress store.

One thing I like is that the items don't cost you anything to design. Once you offer the item for sale, only then does Cafepress take out their cut. As long as you've set a price at which people will buy the product and that gives you a profit over Cafepress' amount for creating it, it's a good way to make money.

re: #104 gmsc

Does CafePress let you know what it costs to print?

RE Killian's WTF to TheMadKing:

re: #89 Killian Bundy

/might even be believable with something resembling a linky

Sound familiar now, Killian?

You wanted linkys, ya got 'em. WTF?

BTW, in case anyone was wondering...it's not a good idea to put your cellphone in the washing machine.

:-(

re: #107 littleoldlady

At least it's clean...or all the scattered components are...

re: #107 littleoldlady

BTW, in case anyone was wondering...it's not a good idea to put your cellphone in the washing machine.

:-(

My Mom washed my little brother's pants today with his ITouch Ipod still in the pocket...

re: #105 littleoldlady

Does CafePress let you know what it costs to print?

Of course! It wouldn't be very fair to do otherwise, would it?

Here are all the products you can customize at CafePress. The prices below them are what CafePress charges to make them.

Do you want to design a baseball jersey? Once you've set up your account, and created and uploaded your design, CafePress will print for you for $16.99. If you sell it for, say, $24.99, then when someone buys it, CafePress will take their $16.99, and the remaining $8 goes to you.

Keep in mind, too, that there are free shops, such as my 0bama Rules site (check out the shirt to understand the name), which are limited in capacity and customization, and paid sites, such as my site I linked to earlier.

All the free sites will tend to look the same (as they have the same design), but you can easily overcome the capacity limitations by creating as many of them as you want or need!

The real trick to success with a CafePress store is promoting it, as it would be with any other store. I use my blog to promote my store regularly, and that is what has helped the most!

re: #108 Fenway_Nation

Fenway! :-)

I've discovered the secret to perpetual motion.

/the battery
//oy

Matrix! :-)

Yeah, that's exactly how I achieved my f'up du jour. :-(

re: #110 gmsc

Okay! GREAT info/advice! Thanks very much! :-)

re: #103 gmsc

Thanks for the posts and the links. I've been looking for supplementary income ideas that don't involve bending over backwards or going back to delivering pizzas part time during football season. I'm not expecting any huge raises at work for awhile and there are certain attributes at the place beyond the paycheck that keep me there. That and with 10+% unemployment in CA, I doubt there's anywhere I could go anyway.

The lending thing is interesting and I'm going to put it in my "look into this" pile. Has Prosper made you much money? Have you had any deadbeats?

re: #111 littleoldlady

Fenway! :-)

I've discovered the secret to perpetual motion.

/the battery
//oy

Matrix! :-)

Yeah, that's exactly how I achieved my f'up du jour. :-(

It's exactly why I've been doing my own laundry since I was a kid ;)

But I've left things in there on more than one occasion. The most frequent offender? Paper towels/napkins.

re: #113 ArchangelMichael

Thanks for the posts and the links. I've been looking for supplementary income ideas that don't involve bending over backwards or going back to delivering pizzas part time during football season. I'm not expecting any huge raises at work for awhile and there are certain attributes at the place beyond the paycheck that keep me there. That and with 10+% unemployment in CA, I doubt there's anywhere I could go anyway.

The lending thing is interesting and I'm going to put it in my "look into this" pile. Has Prosper made you much money? Have you had any deadbeats?

With the current economy? Of course there have been deadbeats!

However, the lending sites do employ collection companies to go after them. When they finally do pay, the lending site and/or the collection company does take a chunk out of it, but I see it as you're getting more than you would if they never paid.

Also, when there are deadbeats, I like to go back and look at the original bidding page and ask myself what signs were there that this person could have defaulted. What kinds of things should I look out for in future bidding?

Also, since I expected to have this money tied up on a scale of years, I'm not too upset if I can't get it back right away.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss
-If, Rudyard Kipling

I've actually been more upset with the people who have paid their loans off early. Sure, it's good to have your money back and useful, but I'm loaning to make money on interest, and if you pay it all back too early, I'm cheated on interest! Oh, well - maybe I can use it to bid on people who will pay it back over time, and get me that interest I wanted in the first place.

re: #114 TheMatrix31

There's been times when I've left $5 or $20 bills in my pants and they went round and round in the washer...but were still negotiable afterwards (albeit soggy and wrinkled).

I think the most agonizing thing I left in my pants while washing them was a starburst wrapper. When I was in high school, this sweet, curvaceous blonde that had been playing hard-to-get left me her phone # on the only available piece of paper at the time- a starburst wrapper...

re: #112 littleoldlady

Okay! GREAT info/advice! Thanks very much! :-)

You're welcome.

Are you familiar with how to use various drawing programs? Most people design in Photoshop or similar programs, but anything that lets you design what you want, and control things like the resolution of the image, should be able to work.

There's some great help in creating your products here.

re: #117 gmsc

Yeah well...I used to be a graphic artist, actually.

/people used to pay me, too

Always good to know the specs! Thanks again! :-)

re: #115 gmsc

I've actually been more upset with the people who have paid their loans off early. Sure, it's good to have your money back and useful, but I'm loaning to make money on interest, and if you pay it all back too early, I'm cheated on interest! Oh, well - maybe I can use it to bid on people who will pay it back over time, and get me that interest I wanted in the first place.

Fucking deadbeats...paying off early- who the fuck do they think they are!?

The poor widdle dahlings at Visa are probably saying the same thing about me...

re: #49 SanFranciscoZionist

The center cannot hold... how often have I thought that one of the most perceptive commentaries on contemporary American politics. Thanks for this, good quote.

re: #113 ArchangelMichael

Thanks for the posts and the links. I've been looking for supplementary income ideas that don't involve bending over backwards or going back to delivering pizzas part time during football season.

I was just going through some financial sites, and I found one called 52 ways to make extra money.

I saw #1 and immediately thought back to your post above! It made me laugh!
;)

re: #106 TheMadKing

Sound familiar now, Killian?

You wanted linkys, ya got 'em. WTF?

What does that have to do with cut and paste Mr. 25 comments?

/not my fault you're too retarded to link on the first try

If I get a paper route somebody else is going to have to serve fruitcup every morning.

/Nah. Every local daily has declared bankruptcy this week!

;-)

Good day, ALL!™

Thanks again, gmsc! :-)

Speaking of ingenious ways to make money, has anyone here ever read One Red Paperclip?

This guy started with one red paperclip (thus the name of the blog), which he traded for a fish-shaped pen. he traded the fish-shaped pen for...

• a doorknob, which he traded for

• a portable outdoor stove, which he traded for

• a power generator, which he traded for

• a neon Budweiser sign, which he traded for

• a snowmobile, which he traded for

• a trip to Yahk, British Columbia, which he traded for

• a truck, which he traded for

• a recording contract, which he traded for

• a one-year stay in Phoenix, which he traded for

• an afternoon with Alice Cooper, which he traded for

• a KISS snowglobe, which he traded for

• a minor role in a Hollwood movie, which he traded for

• a house!

That's right - by promoting his trading project, the guy was ultimately able to trade a red paperclip for a house!

re: #123 littleoldlady

If I get a paper route somebody else is going to have to serve fruitcup every morning.

/Nah. Every local daily has declared bankruptcy this week!

;-)

Good day, ALL!™

Thanks again, gmsc! :-)

You're welcome. Good night/day to lol!

I'd better say good night myself! I haven't been to bed yet!

Good night, all!

...and here's little old me wide awake and sober.

Night gmsc, bye littleoldlady. See you both tomorrow.

re: #127 Fenway_Nation

That sucks, being sober that is.

re: #129 BlueCanuck

Yea...it's not like I have to drive somewhere...

Good Morning LGF.
It's (/a dangerously warm/) -21 (-6F) up here in the Great White North.
Screw you Gore!

Morning all testing new Avatar how's everyone doing?

re: #131 Spare O'Lake

Good Morning LGF.
It's (/a dangerously warm/) -21 (-6F) up here in the Great White North.
Screw you Gore!

Shh .. the Democrat eating polar bears might hear you.

Mornin' Spare! I wuz just lamenting my sobriety...

re: #134 Fenway_Nation

Mornin' Spare! I wuz just lamenting my sobriety...

Thanks to O .. I'm learning to drink again.

re: #135 Buster Bunny

I already knew how to drink, but I'm rediscovering talk radio on the right side of the dial ever since 0bama got elected.

Snowy here. Just enough to be pretty but not enough to be a nuisance.

re: #136 Fenway_Nation

I already knew how to drink, but I'm rediscovering talk radio on the right side of the dial ever since 0bama got elected.

Change HAS to come from the right. There are too many screwballs on the left to get anything done except splurge hard-earned cash on fake causes. We just need the right to stop siding with Nazis and creationists to get an end-result. And we might just get something done.

re: #134 Fenway_Nation

Mornin' Spare! I wuz just lamenting my sobriety...

How dry I am,
How wet I'll be,
If I can't find,
The bathroom key.

Morning Fenway Nation, how about those Bruins? :D

re: #138 Buster Bunny

Change HAS to come from the right. There are too many screwballs on the left to get anything done except splurge hard-earned cash on fake causes.

You'd think that in and of itself would be enough to catapult the GOP to a majority on both houses come 2010...

Then again, you'd think that 0bama being mentored by people who truly hate this country would've been off-putting to the general voting public...

re: #140 Fenway_Nation

You'd think that in and of itself would be enough to catapult the GOP to a majority on both houses come 2010...

Then again, you'd think that 0bama being mentored by people who truly hate this country would've been off-putting to the general voting public...

Did you watch TV? He wasnt promoted as a candidate for the presidency of the United States .. he was promoted as super hero, democratic cowboy, and worst of all .. saviour !

There WILL be consequences from this presidency, and none of them nice.

From two threads back.

re: #446 So?

Did they crawl through a tunnel? Too bad it didn't cave in.

/Why doesn't the US just send in a team of engineers and show Hamas how to build super-reinforced tunnels that Israel can't destroy.

Unless you have read every word in the Porkulus and scanned every Executive Order and CFR issuance and seen notice released at 4:15 PM on a Friday by placing a badly xeroxed copy in a staff cafeteria bulletin board do not assume that any plan no matter how outrageous is not in the works. They are playing rope-a-dope. Meeting with the Durban planners then announcing they are not attending the meeting and then brining Freeman onto the team. They are relentless and incremental.

re: #139 Spare O'Lake

How dry I am,
How wet I'll be,
If I can't find,
The bathroom key.

Morning Fenway Nation, how about those Bruins? :D

Even when we lose in the most anti-climactic manner possible, we still come out with a point continue to gain ground...

re: #135 Buster Bunny

Thanks to O .. I'm learning to drink again.

I have Kahlua in my coffee,
Tia Maria in my tea,
A little Bailey's on my bacon,
O that's good enough for me.

re: #142 lifeofthemind

These guys specialise in what would be called in any other profession, the language of BS diplomacy. Its not just a matter of writing a lie and selling it to the public .. thats 20th century stuff. For a 21st century lie to be sold to the public the foundations for the lie must be laid beforehand to make it that extra bit more convincing. Durban II was accepted and withdrawn from so for the NEXT time they head to a similar affair .. it will look like they have had a change of mind AND that things are now better (which they wont be because nothing will have changed). Its the same thing they did with Arafat. Gave him a pseudo legitimacy by rephrasing his cause.

re: #141 Buster Bunny

Did you watch TV? He wasnt promoted as a candidate for the presidency of the United States .. he was promoted as super hero, democratic cowboy, and worst of all .. saviour !

Cowboys are bad, mmm'kay?

Well, 0bama's done a bang-up job of saving my parent's 401(K) from all those nasty extra digits.

Truth be told, this is probably one of the best time to bargain hunt- I didn't even own any stocks until this month. However, as much as I like a good bargain, I'd rather it not be at the expense of everyone else's savings or retirement accounts...

Haha this is a great LolCeleb. Even tho I have no clue who they are.

re: #146 Fenway_Nation

Fenway .. cowboys arent bad .. conservatives arent bad .. entrepreneurs arent bad .. CEOs who work 18-20 hour days and do their tasking to keep companies working .. they arent bad.

People who lie to demonise honest hardworking people are bad, people who RUIN equitable and fair systems of commercial transaction on the basis of FAIRNESS are bad, people who parade themselves as fashion icons while the Empire burns .. are bad people.

re: #146 Fenway_Nation

Cowboys are bad, mmm'kay?

Well, 0bama's done a bang-up job of saving my parent's 401(K) from all those nasty extra digits.

Truth be told, this is probably one of the best time to bargain hunt- I didn't even own any stocks until this month. However, as much as I like a good bargain, I'd rather it not be at the expense of everyone else's savings or retirement accounts...

The bargains are out there alright, but many can't get the credit to buy'em...which is why the bargains are out there.
In other words WE IS ROYALLY FUCKED.

Some interesting infos here.

Jeez...

Rush kicked ass yesterday.

re: #151 TheMatrix31

Jeez...

Rush kicked ass yesterday.

Matrix .. i have the perfect icon image for you .. right here

Enjoy

re: #151 TheMatrix31

I caught some of that on CNN...couldn't stick around to see the constipated look on the faces of the studio talking heads afterwards...

re: #152 Buster Bunny

Matrix .. i have the perfect icon image for you .. right here

Enjoy

Heh, thanks! But my username isn't about the movie, it's my favorite basketball player's nickname and jersey number...Shawn Marion.

Morning Lizards!

re: #155 rightside
Morning RS

re: #156 Rustler

Heynow! love that avatar!

Quick question- a gold-backed ETF is going to Debut on Dubai's stock exchange this upcoming week. Do any lizards who trade in the markets or commodities know how- or if- this will affect the price of gold?

I thought for sure the nationalization news regarding Citibank and worse-than-anticipated GDP numbers would push gold back to the $1000 an ounce range, but it actually dropped to around $940 to close out the week.

re: #157 rightside Thanks that is my Sea kitteh fluffy he eats 3 Peta members a day.

re: #158 Fenway_Nation

You're speaking iron sulfide to me.

re: #159 Rustler

That's abusive, cruel and unusual...

/to fluffy- god knows where the PETA people have been

re: #159 Rustler

train him to eat more, lol!

re: #161 Fenway_Nation But he stalks and eats them on his own. I've tryed telling him it's a dirty habit that will get him sick.

re: #160 rightside

I think that Dubai exchange-traded fund for gold debuts Monday- and since they're several hours ahead, I figure I should get in the question before the markets open over there...

re: #162 rightside
I see you have never tryed cleaning up leftover PETA in the Aquarium :P.

Well...put myself to sleep with all this talk of the markets in Dubai, gold ETFs and the shrinking GDP.

'night, lizards and sea-kitties.

re: #165 Rustler

You need to turn him into a landkitteh...you know, evolution!

re: #166 Fenway_Nation

sleep well

re: #167 rightside The whole evolving to a land creature tho will make him much smaller and less capable of continuing his membership in PETA.(Pet's Eatting Troublesome Activists)

re: #169 Rustler

Well, then he would have to graduate from dining on sea sheperds and move on...

re: #132 Rustler

Morning all testing new Avatar how's everyone doing?

LOL the new avatar!

I don't know if anyone has pointed it out, but the title of Auden's poem refers to the day World War II erupted. But that's not nearly all it's about. A couple of crucial lines from the rest of the stanzas:

Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.

Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.

Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.

Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.

The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.

From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
'I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,'
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the dead,
Who can speak for the dumb?

All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.

Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.

Auden speaks of us, not some undefined "they".

And so far this has indeed been a low dishonest decade; it remains to be seen how it will finish. But every decade I've lived in (six and counting) has been low and dishonest in its own way, without exception. It's called la condition humaine.

Just as an aside, I find it a pity that the only poem by Yeats that most people are readily able to cite is "The Second Coming"; it's like popping out with to be or not to be every time someone mumbles Shakespeare's name.

Apology coming in 5...4...3...

Iran Demands Hollywood Apology for Lies and Insults

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Hollywood should apologize to Iran for “insults and accusations against the Iranian nation,” a top aide to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a visiting Hollywood delegation Sunday.

Oscar-nominated “American Beauty” star Annette Bening was among the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to hear the remarks, Iran’s state-run ISNA news agency said.

“Representatives of Iran’s film industry should only have an official meeting with representatives of the Academy and Hollywood if they apologize for the insults and accusations against the Iranian nation during the past 30 years,” said Javad Shamghadri, Ahmadinejad’s advisor on the arts, ISNA reported.

He singled out the 1991 Sally Field thriller “Not Without My Daughter,” about an American woman who marries an Iranian and then tries to flee Iran with their child, and the comic-book-inspired action flick “300″ as “two clear examples of total lies.”

– CNN’s Reza Sayah contributed to this report.

re: #173 monkeytime

Why didn't the reporters get comments from the Hollywood folks?

re: #174 MandyManners

Why didn't the reporters get comments from the Hollywood folks?

They were probaby busy writing their apologies.
no sarc tag.

Good morning, all.

re: #172 Cato the Elder

Just as an aside, I find it a pity that the only poem by Yeats that most people are readily able to cite is "The Second Coming";...

Not everyone.

An Irish Airman Forsees His Death

I KNOW that I shall meet my fate
omewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tummult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

re: #173 monkeytime

Iran can f-ck itself for all I care.

Someone put a book called 'Reel Arabs' a number of years ago, complaining about every negative portrayal of an Arab, no matter how slight that 'negative' might have been, and no matter how slight a truth about even one 'real' Arab it might have been. Any portrayal of ANY Arab as a terrorist, for example, was whined about.

re: #176 Chicago Blonde

Happy March Day!

re: #175 monkeytime

They were probaby busy writing their apologies.
no sarc tag.

I'd like to know who was in the delegation. Does the meeting's being held one week after the Oscars have any significance?

I can't stand bill maher. UGGGH!

re: #179 Sharmuta

Happy March Day!

Thanks, you too. I can't wait to kick winter out the door...

Seriously, didn't they do some ground work before they went over there like big peacemaking wonders? Were they going to show us how Hollywood can solve our problems and WTF makes them experts at diplomacy? When did the American people decide that we wanted hollywood actors as diplomats to one of the most strained relationships we are dealing with. Typical arrogant "I play one so I am one" bullshit. I hope they get their nose wiped in it bigtime!

A minister decided that a visual demonstration would add emphasis to his Sunday sermon.
Four worms were placed into four separate jars.
The first worm was put into a container of alcohol.
The second worm was put into a container of cigarette smoke.
The third worm was put into a container of chocolate syrup.
The fourth worm was put into a container of good clean soil.
At the conclusion of the sermon, the Minister reported the following results:
The first worm in alcohol - Dead
The second worm in cigarette smoke - Dead
Third worm in chocolate syrup - Dead
Fourth worm in good clean soil - Alive.
So the Minister asked the congregation -What did you learn from this demonstration?
Maxine was sitting in the back, quickly raised her hand and said,
'As long as you drink, smoke and eat chocolate, you won't have worms!'
That pretty much ended the service

re: #181 rightside

I can't stand bill maher. UGGGH!

Morning Rightside. He drives me nuts and thankfully Mr. Blonde isn't a fan. Too bad he thinks The Daily Show is funny at times. :(

re: #183 monkeytime

Seriously, didn't they do some ground work before they went over there like big peacemaking wonders? Were they going to show us how Hollywood can solve our problems and WTF makes them experts at diplomacy? When did the American people decide that we wanted hollywood actors as diplomats to one of the most strained relationships we are dealing with. Typical arrogant "I play one so I am one" bullshit. I hope they get their nose wiped in it bigtime!

Will it help CBBHO ramp up his diplomacy with ShortShit?

Hollywood idiots go to Iranre: #180 MandyManners

Is there any psychological analysis about the Muslim World's constant need for apologies?

re: #22 Fenway_Nation

Mornin', lizards! Am I still supposed to be giving 0bama a chance?

I'm hoping he spends the next 3½ years on vacation.

re: #186 MandyManners

Will it help CBBHO ramp up his diplomacy with ShortShit?

I guess it depends on how good the apologies they all give are. I think they start every sentence with "We demand an apology for...". I have never seen such thin skinned people.

Iran can kiss my Hollywood ass.

Good morning, Lizards!

re: #187 monkeytime

Hi Monkeytime.
Have you ever noticed moonbats just sort of have a look to them, even without "peace scarves" etc? THAT is something I'm still trying to figure out. :)

re: #191 SurferDoc

Iran can kiss my Hollywood ass.

Good morning, Lizards!

Good morning and Damn Right. I would have pelted my kids if they had cried and whined that much.
SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP!

re: #192 Chicago Blonde It's gotta be that vacant stare that eminates from there nearly lifeless eyes. Well except when they get to start their fearmongering and complaining then life appears in their eyes.

re: #185 Chicago Blonde

Good morning CB. I think maher recently said something about "offing" rich people a couple at a time. I'll leave it to your imagination who I would choose...

Morning all!

Back on the road to Chicago today (this time to see grandma).

How is everyone?

re: #195 rightside He realises he's rich and anyone advocating such should be at the top of the list.

re: #192 Chicago Blonde

Hi Monkeytime.
Have you ever noticed moonbats just sort of have a look to them, even without "peace scarves" etc? THAT is something I'm still trying to figure out. :)

I just kind of figured that the look is a combo of anger, bitterness, self righteousness, and eyeballing every other liberal to make sure that they are wearing the same bracletes and such so they are spouting the cause of the moment and not last weeks cause.

re: #188 abaleh

Is there any psychological analysis about the Muslim World's constant need for apologies?

I will apologize to them when they apologize for the Munich Olympic village, the bombing of the Beirut embassy, the high jacking of the cruise ship, the Lockerbie bombing, the attack on the U.S.S Cole . . .

re: #198 monkeytime

I just kind of figured that the look is a combo of anger, bitterness, self righteousness, and eyeballing every other liberal to make sure that they are wearing the same bracletes and such so they are spouting the cause of the moment and not last weeks cause.

Great description of my moonbat sisters-in-law. Upding.

re: #194 Rustler

Good morning Rustler! Love the sea kitteh!
You know, I think you're right - the eyes and a general look of...dippiness. I don't know how else to put my finger on it. They do get fired up in their self-righteous snits though, don't they?

They've pushed ahead with anti-evolution legislation in Florida.

Senate Bill 2396 (PDF), filed on February 27, 2009, would, if enacted, amend a section of Florida law to require "[a] thorough presentation and critical analysis of the scientific theory of evolution." The bill is sponsored by Stephen R. Wise (R-District 5), who was in the news earlier in February when he announced his intention to introduce a bill requiring "intelligent design" to be taught in Florida's public schools. "If you're going to teach evolution, then you have to teach the other side so you can have critical thinking," he told the Jacksonville Times-Union (February 8, 2009). Wise acknowledged that his bill was likely to invite a legal challenge, but contended, "Someplace along the line you've got to be able to make a value judgment of what it is you think is the appropriate thing." Evidently he changed his mind about how to accomplish his goal, since "intelligent design" is not mentioned in the bill.

PDF of the bill

re: #195 rightside

I don't listen to Maher (not a masochist) so I missed that.

What an idiot.

re: #188 abaleh

Is there any psychological analysis about the Muslim World's constant need for apologies?

It's a matter of pack power politics.

The alpha doesn't apologize to the pack, ever, so if they have us apologizing, then they think they are the alpha.

"Don't apologize, it's a sign of weakness"
-- John Wayne

re: #192 Chicago Blonde

Hi Monkeytime.
Have you ever noticed moonbats just sort of have a look to them, even without "peace scarves" etc? THAT is something I'm still trying to figure out. :)

Theres a chapter in Laura Ingrahams book "Shut Up And Sing" about how/where "stars" get their thought process from. I won;'t be able to do it justice here, but basically she theorizes because many of them had crappy paying jobs while they "worked on the craft" they would live 8-9 people in an apartment meant for 2 people in order to share expenses. This gave them their COMMUNE(ist) ideology. Also their contempt for those that could afford better at that time. They really think that they 'struggled' until they made it big

re: #187 monkeytime

Hollywood idiots go to Iran

Leslie Unger, Annette Benning and Sid Ganis. Is that all? I've found no list.

re: #196 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Morning all!

Back on the road to Chicago today (this time to see grandma).

How is everyone?

Over the meadow and through the woods to Grandmothers house we go ,,,

re: #188 abaleh

Is there any psychological analysis about the Muslim World's constant need for apologies?

A serious case of Spayshul Flakism.

re: #194 Rustler

That guy is the height of arrogance and hypocrisy! Karma is a bitch!

re: #200 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Great description of my moonbat sisters-in-law.

Good morning Vet! Sorry you have moonbat SILs. :( Do you grit your teeth at holidays, self-medicate with brandy, or are you a snot like me and casually say stuff to get under their skin when they start? :)

re: #205 sattv4u2

Theres a chapter in Laura Ingrahams book "Shut Up And Sing" about how/where "stars" get their thought process from. I won;'t be able to do it justice here, but basically she theorizes because many of them had crappy paying jobs while they "worked on the craft" they would live 8-9 people in an apartment meant for 2 people in order to share expenses. This gave them their COMMUNE(ist) ideology. Also their contempt for those that could afford better at that time. They really think that they 'struggled' until they made it big

Yeah, and none of the rest of us "struggled" when getting started. When I started my little company, I could afford to pay myself $100 a month... I was motivated to grow out of that as fast as I possibly could.

Jackasses.

BBIAB - refilling coffee.

re: #209 rightside
Supposed to be replying to my 197 about Maher? Not my 194 about lifeless Moonbat eyes?

re: #190 monkeytime

I guess it depends on how good the apologies they all give are. I think they start every sentence with "We demand an apology for...". I have never seen such thin skinned people.

What if they don't apologize?

BTW, if you've ever dealt with domestic violence, you'd notice that many abusers have incredibly thin skin and are preoccupied by what they see as their victimhood.

re: #203 Chicago Blonde

I don't watch him, or anyone else for that matter. I did read about it here.

re: #205 sattv4u2

Also explains that whole old school "sell out" concept of bands that make it big when they signed on to one of the big music labels.

re: #207 sattv4u2

Over the meadow and through the woods to Grandmothers house we go ,,,

Exactly. Except she lives in the frozen suburbs, not a bucolic gradma house in the forest.

I'll apologize to iran- just as soon as they apologize about our Embassy.

re: #217 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Exactly. Except she lives in the frozen suburbs, not a bucolic gradma house in the forest.

Regardless, have a great visit. When my fathers mother was still with us, we would vistit her. I always walked out with a new crisp dollar in my pocket

(NOTE ,,, at the time I was in my mid 20's ,,,! )

Need coffee, fruitcup and a danish.

re: #218 Sharmuta Lol I'll wait til they stop demanding apologies for justified actions. 300 tho not entirely accurate historically probably does a better job portraying history than many of the other films made in hte last 10-15 years. I wonder if the Iranians get this Irrate over the movie "The 300 Spartans."

re: #210 Chicago Blonde

Good morning Vet! Sorry you have moonbat SILs. :( Do you grit your teeth at holidays, self-medicate with brandy, or are you a snot like me and casually say stuff to get under their skin when they start? :)

Rule 1: I never mention politics.

Rule 2: I never mention politics.

Rule 3: See rule 1.

It's not worth it, it really isn't. One is an old school lesbian (living with her WW2 era "partner" who thinks the New Deal is God's work on earth and even though born in 1936 thinks she knows everything about the depression as she "lived it").

The other is a bitter washed up actress living in NYC working as a secretary at a school and hates every minute of it.

re: #215 rightside

Thank you for the link. Can you imagine the whining if Rush had said that?

re: #219 sattv4u2

Regardless, have a great visit. When my fathers mother was still with us, we would vistit her. I always walked out with a new crisp dollar in my pocket

(NOTE ,,, at the time I was in my mid 20's ,,,! )

Yeah, they have a way of doing that... I'm almost 48 and she still treats me like I'm 12.

RE: Irans demand for an apology to the visiting "stars".

Expect a spring movie depicted a "Heroic Iranian" saving the world from some disaster a la James Bond

re: #222 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

*offers coffee*
That has to be rough.

re: #218 Sharmuta

Did you read "Guests of the Ayatollah"?

Remember that Jewish American who went missing in the last year or so? IIRC, he was consulting for security for some movie being shot in the southern part of Iran.

Why Hair Goes Gray

Scientists may have figured out why hair turns gray, and their finding may open the door to new anti-graying strategies.

New research shows that hair turns gray as a result of a chemical chain reaction that causes hair to bleach itself from the inside out.

re: #227 Chicago Blonde

Did you read "Guests of the Ayatollah"?

Yes.

My favorite quote out of the Old 1962 300 spartans.

Samos: Who can understand the way of the gods? They create lovely girls and then turn them into wives.

re: #223 Chicago Blonde

Hell, they excoriated him for hoping cbbho's policies fail, and are still playing that meme. The drive bys would have organized a boycott of all advertisers on his show. Advocacy journalism. This is how bad they have gotten. Now ClintonNewsNetwork is doing stories on how WAB's arms are toned.

re: #230 Sharmuta

It was hard to read for me; I had to take frequent hug-Mr.-Blonde and pet-the-kitty breaks to get through it. I almost died when I read that the one really obnoxious female hostage-taker opened a resort and couldn't understand why we wouldn't visit.

/I know people are that stupid but reading it puts it in a whole new light...

re: #231 Rustler

My wife and I were happy for 20 years...then we met! click me

re: #226 Chicago Blonde

*offers coffee*
That has to be rough.

I have the scars to prove it. :-)

Just listening though, is an amazing experience. Great reinforcement of self-discipline and control.

For example, the older "partner" is a doctor (the sis-i-law is a nurse), they both hate HMOs because they make decisions that they don't agree with on what treatment is worth it and so on.

But are just in love with the government doing that job (because health care is a right, damnit!).

They can't grasp the concept that the federal government would be making decisions they don't agree with _and_ has a red tape system that will put any private business to shame.

"But they'll care about us."

Yeah, right... just like the DMV.

re: #172 Cato the Elder

Thanks for the stanzas... and the thoughts about the human condition, which doesn't seem to change very much per century.

re: #232 rightside

Don't forget teh ticker at the bottom still reads Rush try's to justify comments. Or has that finally dropped off was on there about 20 minutes straight earlier as I was prepping lobby for breakfast.

re: #221 Rustler

Lol I'll wait til they stop demanding apologies for justified actions. 300 tho not entirely accurate historically probably does a better job portraying history than many of the other films made in hte last 10-15 years. I wonder if the Iranians get this Irrate over the movie "The 300 Spartans."

Well- my apology is conditionally based on something I know they won't apologize for. It's my polite way of telling them to GFT.

re: #232 rightside

I know that nothing positive the ConservativesRepublicans do will be reported; nor anything negative appear about The One. I email links to all my friends and family of the things that the MSM ignores.

"We must love one another or die."

--W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939

Philosophy of W.H.Auden
[Link: www.johnharle.com...]

re: #237 Rustler
NM looks like its shifting now at least.

re: #240 notutopia

See post #172 upstream.

Hehe probably the most insulting quote to Iran in the olden movie tho would be from this Conversation.

Agathon the Spartan Spy: Leonidas! The barbarians have sent an emissary to talk with you. It is Hydarnes himself.
Leonidas, Spartan King: Hydarnes? Good, get me a clean cloak.
Agathon the Spartan Spy: How many men do you want for an escort?
Leonidas, Spartan King: [Scornfully] When has a Spartan king needed an escort to talk to a mere Persian?

re: #233 Chicago Blonde

It was hard to read for me; I had to take frequent hug-Mr.-Blonde and pet-the-kitty breaks to get through it. I almost died when I read that the one really obnoxious female hostage-taker opened a resort and couldn't understand why we wouldn't visit.

/I know people are that stupid but reading it puts it in a whole new light...

I took breaks too Just think... our new president wants to have a chat with those lovely people... I think I'll spike my coffee now.

The president of the AMPAS, Sid Ganis, is a Jew so, what was he doing in Tehran? I thought ShortShit forbade entry to Jews.

re: #239 Chicago Blonde

Good for you, but isn't that like preaching to the choir? I don't even bother associating with libs.

re: #235 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)

Ah, so you sort of pretend to be an anthropologist, learning how their clan thinks (while quietly gritting your teeth).

I still can't figure out people thinking the government cares or that the feds would provide good healthcare.

re: #245 MandyManners

Like gays, there are no Jews in Iran.

Leonidas, Spartan King: The council must act quickly
Xenathon, Spartan Isolationist: Why?
Leonidas, Spartan King: In order that we Spartans may reach the first line of defense in time.
Xenathon, Spartan Isolationist: And where might that be?
Leonidas, Spartan King: The Pass of Thermopylae.
Xenathon, Spartan Isolationist: Thermopylae, of course. That's the pass that protects Athens.
Leonidas, Spartan King: No! It's the pass that protects GREECE! Mere cities don't matter now. It is Greece that counts! Only by being united can we hope to avoid slavery. Now, I am no politician, but I will plead this cause with you until the moon wanes and the night brings forth a new day!