Uncle Jimbo Apologizes, Banned User Lies

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At Ace of Spades, Uncle Jimbo apologizes: LGF calling me out.

For the record the post about the Islam ads in SF that Charles at LGF called me out for was lame and poorly written. If I don’t have time to do a quality piece I will wait until I do. Neither LGF nor Zombie called for censorship it was a clown protesting in Florida, my bad.

I apologize to them and for causing shame and approbation to be heaped upon the morons here at AoS. Now everyone f-ck off and get on with more important shite.

Thanks for that, Jimbo.

His post, however, has led to another round of LGF-bashing in the comments, which I would ignore except when I see things like this, from a user named “Angry White Dude:”

I signed up to comment on LGF a few months ago. I made about 3 comments and then was banned from the site. I didn’t write anything over the top. I emailed Charles to ask why but he never responded. I guess he didn’t like my no political correctness allowed website! I check out his site every now and then but, bluntly, find it quite boring. Ace is my first page of the day. Lucianne second. Angry White Dude third! AWD

Again we see a very common tactic of people who’ve been blocked from commenting at LGF — they go to other blogs and simply lie about the circumstances, to make themselves look better, and to make me look like some kind of arbitrary dictator/Hitler wannabe. I’m not going to let these lies stand.

Here’s the comment that got “Angry White Dude” banned, for the record; you decide if he was being honest when he said he “didn’t write anything over the top.” This comment was deleted as soon as I became aware of it (after several complaints from other users) and his account was blocked.

Hey towelheads, try wearing a cross or carrying a bible in the airport in Saudi Arabia! Sucks being a Muslim in the US, doesn’t it Haji? Especially when you wave it in everyone’s faces. As for CAIR, when it all comes down here, you’ll be the first target!

Angry White Dude

Now would be a good time for an apology, “Angry White Dude.” (No, I’m not holding my breath.)

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849 comments
1 JammieWearingFool  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:30:57am

I was reading that earlier and was very suspicious about that commenter.

2 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:31:24am

Thanks, Uncle Jimbo. I'm glad this has been resolved. We need to stick together, not splinter.

3 zombie  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:31:40am

Oooh! I'll have to go check this out.

4 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:32:04am

More class from the Legion of the Banned again.
Buncha sick, twisted, perverted, narcissistic jerks who can't get over the fact that people just don't roll over for them.

5 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:32:33am

"Angry White Dude" - Stormfronter?

6 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:32:41am

Just shows Uncle Jimbo to be a class act. I wish we would see this happen more often.

7 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:33:13am

BTW, thanks again, Uncle Jimbo. As I stated in another thread, you have shown class and integrity by acknowledging your mistake. Thank you, we respect class and integrity here.

I only wish Pamela and Robert would do likewise.

8 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:33:27am

Thanks Jimbo!

AWD, go piss up a rope.

9 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:33:59am

re: #7 Honorary Yooper

BTW, thanks again, Uncle Jimbo. As I stated in another thread, you have shown class and integrity by acknowledging your mistake. Thank you, we respect class and integrity here.

I only wish Pamela and Robert would do likewise.

I'm afraid they're a lost cause.

10 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:34:33am

re: #9 Ward Cleaver

I'm afraid they're a lost cause.

I know, but this does show a marked contrast.

11 zombie  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:34:35am

Thanks for that, Jimbo. No hard feelings here. Just a misunderstanding. I had no intention of causing any problems with that essay about the bus ads!

12 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:34:54am
Now would be a good time for an apology, “Angry White Dude.” (No, I’m not holding my breath.)

I am sure he would reread that and still think there is nothing wrong with it. It is because you would delete and ban something like that, that allows me to enjoy the discussions here.

Good Afternoon Lizards!

13 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:35:20am
14 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:35:26am

re: #7 Honorary Yooper

BTW, thanks again, Uncle Jimbo. As I stated in another thread, you have shown class and integrity by acknowledging your mistake. Thank you, we respect class and integrity here.

I only wish Pamela and Robert would do likewise.

Silly, you're confusing class and integrity with Pamela and Robert.

15 jaunte  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:36:13am

Angry White Dude's doing some blog-pimping. I looked at his site earlier. Looks like he's tired of not having "victim-power" of his own, and is trying to make the case that white men need some too. That's his message in a nutshell.

16 Randall Gross  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:36:41am

The funny thing I've found about many of these "angry white dudes" when they salt the comments at my blog is that they tend to come from foreign IP's. In other words most of them are not Americans. Food for thought.

17 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:37:34am

re: #13 buzzsawmonkey

"Approbation" is approval. I think he means approbriation, which is contempt.

Or opprobrium.

/sorry to go all semantic...

18 Randall Gross  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:37:41am

Jimbo, Kudos to you for owning up. You are one of the good guys.

19 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:39:40am
20 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:40:12am

Clearly, the more moderate approach of LGF does not appeal to people like AWD - thank goodness. If you don't fit, you must split.

21 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:40:14am

re: #13 buzzsawmonkey

"Approbation" is approval. I think he means approbriation, which is contempt.

Or "opprobrium".

22 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:40:33am

I saw this earlier. Thanks, Uncle Jimbo.

Do any of the lizards know whether or not this is the same Uncle Jimbo who blogs at Blackfive?

23 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:40:44am

The victimhood mindset will never go away. This "innocent li'l me" routine is second nature to them.

24 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:40:50am

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

A new word for me: CLOU

noun: A major point of interest, or a central idea.

/speaking of semantics

25 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:41:26am

re: #1 JammieWearingFool

I was reading that earlier and was very suspicious about that commenter.

Me too. I was going to comment, but it would have descended into a pissing match unless Charles got involved, and I wasn't going to drag him into it.

I did however find time to squash that worm "shibumi". In shibumi's view, if Charles is slandered, "who cares".

26 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:41:27am

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

Oh, hell--my spelling has gone to pieces.

There's nothing worse than being half-right. I will go now and hide under a basket.

No, we need you!

27 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:41:35am

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

Oh, hell--my spelling has gone to pieces.

There's nothing worse than being half-right. I will go now and hide under a basket.

If you are 'half-right' that means you are 'half-left'. Splitter! /

28 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:41:58am

re: #17 Ward Cleaver

Or opprobrium.

/sorry to go all semantic...

I am finding it fascinating. Always love to see dredged up the more obscure words. ;)

29 NukeAtomrod  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:42:13am

re: #17 Ward Cleaver

Or opprobrium.

/sorry to go all semantic...

Don't apologize. I, for one, am disgusted with all the anti-semanticism I see these days.

30 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:42:21am

re: #21 Dianna

Or "opprobrium".

GMTA!

31 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:42:34am

re: #29 NukeAtomrod

Don't apologize. I, for one, am disgusted with all the anti-semanticism I see these days.

Ding!

32 realwest  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:42:56am

It was nice and I think proper for Uncle Jimbo to apologize. And I'm glad that Charles seperated Uncle Jimbo from some of the loons who comment over there.
Thanks, Charles.

33 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:43:45am

re: #9 Ward Cleaver

I'm afraid they're a lost cause.

Spenser was always a fascist hack, he just had a lot of us fooled. Pam on the other hand is descending into the Inferno. She could be redeemed but unfortunately she doesn't yet want to be.

34 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:44:02am

re: #16 Thanos

The funny thing I've found about many of these "angry white dudes" when they salt the comments at my blog is that they tend to come from foreign IP's. In other words most of them are not Americans. Food for thought.

Interesting, I have often wondered how many posters (on any given site) are actually who they say they are...

35 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:44:11am

OT: Mr DT has a write-up about his school appearing in the LA Times, part of a book review of Emergency:This Book Can Save Your Life, by former NYT's music editor Neill Strauss. Two chapters of the book are focused on the school as well. I'll post the link when it comes out. -DT

36 wiffersnapper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:44:35am

AWD needs to unclench

37 realwest  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:44:46am

re: #33 Zimriel
"She could be redeemed" do you honestly believe that?

38 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:44:52am

re: #32 realwest

It was nice and I think proper for Uncle Jimbo to apologize. And I'm glad that Charles seperated Uncle Jimbo from some of the loons who comment over there.
Thanks, Charles.

The battle lines are being drawn and now some of the factions would rather fight each other over trivial nonsense instead of engaging the real enemies.

39 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:45:00am
40 Jack Burton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:45:13am
I didn’t write anything over the top.

Except for the litany of anti-Arab racial slurs on a website constantly being accused of being full of 'racist islamophobic hate-mongers' by lefties. Oh I wonder why you were banned.... jackass.

41 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:45:42am

re: #33 Zimriel

Spenser was always a fascist hack, he just had a lot of us fooled. Pam on the other hand is descending into the Inferno. She could be redeemed but unfortunately she doesn't yet want to be.

Poor Pam. I think there are LOTS of issues there. It's almost Britney Spear-esque.

42 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:46:03am

Up-standing, Uncle Jimbo.

43 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:46:26am
44 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:46:27am

re: #36 wiffersnapper

AWD needs to unclench

And turn loose of his wee-wee?

45 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:46:35am

re: #34 brookly red

I am who I say I am, a 6'3" actor/model/humanitarian/rocket scientist with washboard abs and a garage full of Italian sports cars. Why would I lie about that?

46 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:46:57am

Banned users lying? What's next?

/

47 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:46:58am

I remember AWD. More like an AngryWhiteAsshole.

48 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:47:04am

I like AoSHQ. Missed the call out, but glad that Uncle Jimbo followed up on that.

There's a pretty good post up there now about a Nirther lawsuit getting a smackdown by a judge.

49 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:47:15am

re: #45 ConservatismNow!

I am who I say I am, a 6'3" actor/model/humanitarian/rocket scientist with washboard abs and a garage full of Italian sports cars. Why would I lie about that?

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

50 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:47:30am

re: #45 ConservatismNow!

I am who I say I am, a 6'3" actor/model/humanitarian/rocket scientist with washboard abs and a garage full of Italian sports cars. Why would I lie about that?

If I wasn't who I said I was, why would I use the pic I have as my avatar?

51 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:47:55am

re: #44 Ward Cleaver

And turn loose of his wee-wee?

Not gonna' touch it. Not gonna'. Just not gonna'.

52 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:48:07am

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

Which is worse--to sign yourself voluntarily into an ideological car impound lot, or to refuse to leave when given the opportunity?

The choices we make in our lives, when given the opportunity, define who we are.

53 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:48:17am

re: #29 NukeAtomrod

Don't apologize. I, for one, am disgusted with all the anti-semanticism I see these days.

I like your avatar football.

54 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:48:34am

RE; Jimbo - I think lots of people are feeling defensive and combative these days, and jumping the gun. Call it Obama-itis. I think Obama will be known as one of the most divisive presidents in history. His negative are already 8 points higher than Pres. Bush's at this stage.

55 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:48:35am

re: #51 MandyManners

Not gonna' touch it. Not gonna'. Just not gonna'.

I hope he gets to read that one.

56 realwest  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:48:49am

re: #38 FurryOldGuyJeans
Yep. Charles has always pretty much nailed it with his now famous (for me, at least) line: "There's no room for Fascists in the LGF foxhole." That he follows that and calls out the neo-Nazi's and their so called "contra- jihadist" enablers is one of the reasons I love LGF so much.

57 Randall Gross  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:48:52am

re: #34 brookly red

Interesting, I have often wondered how many posters (on any given site) are actually who they say they are...

One note, this guy is not one of the foreigners, it's the late night salt dead thread types who I was referring to. AWD seems to fall in with the VDARE / Rockford Paleocon nexus, and appears to be in Detroit or thereabouts. Most of these groups and think tanks are heavily influenced by foreign elements as well, one of these days I'll get around to a "follow the networks" diagram that shows all the links, you have to see it to believe it.
AWD and many other stasist Paleocons get their Talking points and angst directly from these foreign groups in many cases. It's why so many on the right are bent out of shape by new Mosques in Europe while not paying a whit of attention to the war in Afghanistan.

58 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:49:00am

re: #45 ConservatismNow!

I am who I say I am, a 6'3" actor/model/humanitarian/rocket scientist with washboard abs and a garage full of Italian sports cars. Why would I lie about that?

Is your IQ 165 and do you have a yacht?

59 kynna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:49:01am

It's like Charles is dunking a Fischer Price toddler basketball hoop with these guys. When will they learn they can't get away with it?

Oh yeah. They're crazy.

60 NukeAtomrod  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:49:01am

re: #51 MandyManners

Not gonna' touch it. Not gonna'. Just not gonna'.

Not in public anyway...

61 UberInfidel67  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:49:06am

IIRC AWD was recently returned from the middle east. He was a soldier? I remember when that comment was posted because I though "bye bye AWD".

62 redc1c4  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:49:32am

re: #22 Pvt Bin Jammin

I saw this earlier. Thanks, Uncle Jimbo.

Do any of the lizards know whether or not this is the same Uncle Jimbo who blogs at Blackfive?

yes, it is....

63 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:49:38am

re: #42 MandyManners

I thought of you and your hammering of the narcissist meme when I saw this posted one the LNDT. (Apologies to original poster for lack of attribution, my memory isn't what it used to be!)

64 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:50:00am

re: #58 MandyManners

My IQ is only 150. I don't own a yacht. I DO have some humility and restraint.

65 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:50:07am

re: #58 MandyManners

Is your IQ 165 and do you have a yacht?

It's spelled, "luxury yacht", but it's pronounced "throat-warbler mangrove".

/month python

66 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:50:24am

re: #36 wiffersnapper

AWD needs to unclench

Watch it there, if he unclenches, a few diamonds might pop out from all the lumps of coal he's stuck up his butt.

67 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:50:48am

re: #61 UberInfidel67

IIRC AWD was recently returned from the middle east. He was a soldier? I remember when that comment was posted because I though "bye bye AWD".

Or he was Andrew Sullivan returning from a drunken night out on the town.

68 NukeAtomrod  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:51:00am

re: #53 monkeytime

I like your avatar football.

Thanks. I made it myself. Feel free to snag it if you want.

69 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:51:33am

re: #60 NukeAtomrod

Not in public anyway...

Not even with a ten-foot barge pole.

70 realwest  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:51:59am

re: #52 Ford_Prefect
Hey Ford! Just a minor change, if you don't mind:
"The choices we make in our lives, when given the opportunity, define evidence who we are."
But I liked yours, too!

71 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:52:13am

Angry White Dude had only 3 comments? Funny that I remember him, then.

72 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:52:21am

re: #69 MandyManners

Not even with a ten-foot barge pole.

A cargo hook wouldn't be of any advantage either. ;)

73 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:52:23am

re: #62 redc1c4

yes, it is....

Cool. Blackfive was one of the first blogs I was into. It's great.

74 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:52:33am

re: #56 realwest

Yep. Charles has always pretty much nailed it with his now famous (for me, at least) line: "There's no room for Fascists in the LGF foxhole." That he follows that and calls out the neo-Nazi's and their so called "contra- jihadist" enablers is one of the reasons I love LGF so much.

You said it for me as well, {rw}!

75 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:52:38am

re: #39 buzzsawmonkey

Which is worse--to sign yourself voluntarily into an ideological car impound lot, or to refuse to leave when given the opportunity?

That's an easy one; it's always worse to refuse to leave. "The March of Folly" by Barbara Tuchman is instructive on this regard. But the distinction I was trying to make was between someone who relishes "reigning in hell", and someone who (I think) is just in it, screaming

76 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:53:19am

re: #71 SummerSong

Angry White Dude had only 3 comments? Funny that I remember him, then.

Some people are just so outrageously obnoxious they linger like a truly vile fart.

77 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:53:41am

re: #70 realwest

Hey Ford! Just a minor change, if you don't mind:
"The choices we make in our lives, when given the opportunity, define evidence who we are."
But I liked yours, too!

Thanks, right back atcha.

78 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:54:21am

re: #71 SummerSong

Angry White Dude had only 3 comments? Funny that I remember him, then.

He had 16 comments.

79 gmsc  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:54:24am

re: #58 MandyManners

Is your IQ 165 and do you have a yacht?

"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht"
-Bugs Bunny, Hare Brush

80 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:54:25am

re: #45 ConservatismNow!

I am who I say I am, a 6'3" actor/model/humanitarian/rocket scientist with washboard abs and a garage full of Italian sports cars. Why would I lie about that?

/ & I am an auditor for the IRS... pleased to meet you. :)

81 realwest  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:55:05am

re: #74 yma o hyd Thanks {yma}. It is, in a way, a true testament to Charles integrity when he sticks to that, instead of folding his tent to be the guy who's liked by everyone.
Moral courage is extremely rare these days.

82 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:55:21am

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

83 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:55:44am

re: #16 Thanos

The funny thing I've found about many of these "angry white dudes" when they salt the comments at my blog is that they tend to come from foreign IP's. In other words most of them are not Americans. Food for thought.

I wonder if "Angry White Dude" is Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy" all growns up?

84 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:55:45am

re: #56 realwest

Yep. Charles has always pretty much nailed it with his now famous (for me, at least) line: "There's no room for Fascists in the LGF foxhole." That he follows that and calls out the neo-Nazi's and their so called "contra- jihadist" enablers is one of the reasons I love LGF so much.

It is nice to have an oasis of sanity amidst the deserts of insanity all around us.

85 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:56:01am

re: #47 MandyManners

I remember AWD. More like an AngryWhiteAsshole.

AngryWhiteDouchebag. You gotta keep the same initals, Mandy. :-)

86 Diamond Bullet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:56:18am

re: #56 realwest

Yep. Charles has always pretty much nailed it with his now famous (for me, at least) line: "There's no room for Fascists in the LGF foxhole." That he follows that and calls out the neo-Nazi's and their so called "contra- jihadist" enablers is one of the reasons I love LGF so much.

This is also a pretty sweet foxhole.

87 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:56:40am

re: #63 pink freud

I thought of you and your hammering of the narcissist meme when I saw this posted one the LNDT. (Apologies to original poster for lack of attribution, my memory isn't what it used to be!)

Oh, that's marvelous! I saw it yesterday (?) but I didn't realize FCBBHO's face was photo-shopped.

88 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:56:55am
89 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:19am

re: #58 MandyManners

Is your IQ 165 and do you have a yacht?

Actually I'm a porn star and only date supermodels. That Naomi Campbell! What a nut!

90 realwest  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:23am

Well y'all it's been grand as usual, but I gotta go eat some lunch and whatnot!
Hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!

91 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:25am

re: #87 MandyManners

Oh, that's marvelous! I saw it yesterday (?) but I didn't realize FCBBHO's face was photo-shopped.

Isn't that Michael Jackson?

92 UberInfidel67  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:31am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey
Only if we burn the witch that started all this trouble.

93 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:38am

re: #64 ConservatismNow!

My IQ is only 150. I don't own a yacht. I DO have some humility and restraint.

I'm the most humble person I know. In fact, I'm sure I'm one of the most humble people in the history of the world.

94 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:44am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Will America get better if we turn the President into a Newt?

"I got bettah".

95 NukeAtomrod  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:45am

re: #82 pink freud

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

We're going to need him by then.

96 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:52am

re: #89 Zimriel

Actually I'm a porn star and only date supermodels. That Naomi Campbell! What a nut!

You noticed that too?

97 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:57:57am

re: #82 pink freud

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

I would likely support that move.

98 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:58:10am

re: #89 Zimriel

Actually I'm a porn star and only date supermodels. That Naomi Campbell! What a nut!

You're Ron Jeremy?

99 Amer-I-Can  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:58:11am

Touche'

100 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:58:23am

re: #65 Ward Cleaver

It's spelled, "luxury yacht", but it's pronounced "throat-warbler mangrove".

/month python

Do you remember that poster? His nic was a person's name, I think. David somethingorother.

101 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:58:52am

re: #72 FurryOldGuyJeans

A cargo hook wouldn't be of any advantage either. ;)

Maybe one of those hooks to yank someone off the stage.

102 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:58:58am

re: #87 MandyManners

There's now an F in front of CBBHO? When did this happen!?

/should I even ask?

103 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:02am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Will America get better if we turn the President into a Newt?

Well, we've had President Killer Rabbit & now a Black Knight who's lost touch with reality, so let's keep the Holy Grail thing going! If Sarah Palin runs, we can go nuts with the "A moose bit my sister" jokes!

104 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:03am

re: #98 Ward Cleaver

You're Ron Jeremy?

They needed someone even more short and funny looking. Heh

105 nyc redneck  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:26am

re: #63 pink freud

I thought of you and your hammering of the narcissist meme when I saw this posted one the LNDT. (Apologies to original poster for lack of attribution, my memory isn't what it used to be!)

that is so creepy.
it really is who he is.
narcissism is so awful when it's afflicts a grown man.
demanding, strident, weak and needy.
couldn't even share the stage at his victory party w/ wab and the daughters.
that's what i think when i see that photo.

106 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:27am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Will America get better if we turn the President into a Newt?

I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

107 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:29am

re: #87 MandyManners

Oh, that's marvelous! I saw it yesterday (?) but I didn't realize FCBBHO's face was photo-shopped.

Note my recently changed avatar.

108 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:43am

re: #79 gmsc

"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht"
-Bugs Bunny, Hare Brush

One man's mansion is another man's summer cottage.

109 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:51am

re: #100 MandyManners

Do you remember that poster? His nic was a person's name, I think. David somethingorother.

No, don't remember that, just the Monty Python line, spoken by Graham Chapman.

110 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:59:54am

re: #81 realwest

Thanks {yma}. It is, in a way, a true testament to Charles integrity when he sticks to that, instead of folding his tent to be the guy who's liked by everyone.
Moral courage is extremely rare these days.

Its always been rare - but yes, these days its getting even more difficult.

Add to that intellectual honesty - and you can see why so many prefer to spout lies and stupidity and whinges on other blogs, about what Charles does on his own LGF.

111 Ford_Prefect  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:11am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Will America get better if we turn the President into a Newt?

A newt is like a lizard, so I would say yes.

112 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:31am

re: #97 Ford_Prefect

I would likely support that move.

Got a phone call from the RNC yesterday asking for money.

My wife told them that when the Republican party returned to conservative principles, we'd resume contributing. Until then, don't call.

113 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:33am

re: #106 pink freud

I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

I expect he, and the rest of Congress, will turn into a Newt on October 2010 and will "get better" in mid November. :^/

114 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:34am

Who is Uncle Jimbo, and what does he think "approbation" means?

115 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:42am

re: #57 Thanos

Detroit huh?

116 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:51am
117 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:00:59am

re: #95 NukeAtomrod

We're going to need him by then.

I'm pretty sure that the dems will have abolished the 2 term limit by then.

118 unrealizedviewpoint  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:01:32am

The name: "Angry White Boy" (or Dude) tells me all I need know.

119 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:01:52am

re: #78 Charles

He had 16 comments.

Ha! Figures...

120 lostlakehiker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:02:02am

Whether the banned user's comment was over the top or not is a judgment call. He honestly thought it was not. So he's not lying. He's just got no judgment. Any reasonable reader would deem it over the top.

As to "when" it all "comes down" here, that's unlikely. It's even unlikely in Europe, though the odds aren't as outlandish.

Truth is, it doesn't suck in the least to be a Muslim (man) in the U.S. It's a far better life than being a Muslim in France, or Pakistan, or just about anywhere else. For women, gee. It's less of a hardship in the U.S. than it is in most places. At least if you get beheaded, the State will prosecute the devout(?-from what I understand, Sharia doctrine is that husbands are permitted to mete out corporal punishment, but it must stop short of drawing blood, breaking bones, etc.) ripper who did you in. This has to have some deterrent effect.

121 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:02:14am

re: #93 MandyManners

There's that humility shining through

122 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:02:45am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Will America get better if we turn the President into a Newt?

An Empty Suit certainly has not been to our advantage.

123 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:02:45am

re: #83 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

I wonder if "Angry White Dude" is Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy" all growns up?

Youtube Video
124 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:02:51am

re: #54 DistantThunder

RE; Jimbo - I think lots of people are feeling defensive and combative these days, and jumping the gun. Call it Obama-itis. I think Obama will be known as one of the most divisive presidents in history. His negative are already 8 points higher than Pres. Bush's at this stage.

I think so too. I've noticed people are more so (tense, defensive, combative, etc.) in general - these are trying times.

This really has a deja vu feeling to it, too, a la the late 70s, when President Carter took office and turned the power off.

125 Cato the Elder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:02:57am

re: #13 buzzsawmonkey

"Approbation" is approval. I think he means approbriation, which is contempt.

There's no such word as "approbriation". As others noted, you're probably thinking of "opprobrium".

126 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:03:07am

re: #105 nyc redneck

that is so creepy.
it really is who he is.
narcissism is so awful when it's afflicts a grown man.
demanding, strident, weak and needy.
couldn't even share the stage at his victory party w/ wab and the daughters.
that's what i think when i see that photo.

A punk and a wannabe. Think about how really pathetic someone has to be when they ascend to the Presidency of the United States and can still be seen as a wannabe.

/cellular level

127 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:03:21am

re: #100 MandyManners

Do you remember that poster? His nic was a person's name, I think. David somethingorother.

You would be referring to the illustrious "David Schwartz". He crashed & burned pretty spectacularly, if I recall.

128 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:03:27am

re: #85 Honorary Yooper

That's one of those words that will never cross my lips or key-board.

129 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:03:36am

re: #120 lostlakehiker

Whether the banned user's comment was over the top or not is a judgment call. He honestly thought it was not. So he's not lying. He's just got no judgment. Any reasonable reader would deem it over the top.

As to "when" it all "comes down" here, that's unlikely. It's even unlikely in Europe, though the odds aren't as outlandish.

Truth is, it doesn't suck in the least to be a Muslim (man) in the U.S. It's a far better life than being a Muslim in France, or Pakistan, or just about anywhere else. For women, gee. It's less of a hardship in the U.S. than it is in most places. At least if you get beheaded, the State will prosecute the devout(?-from what I understand, Sharia doctrine is that husbands are permitted to mete out corporal punishment, but it must stop short of drawing blood, breaking bones, etc.) ripper who did you in. This has to have some deterrent effect.

Are you kidding? Charles' rule on violence is "Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal."

Read again what AWD said about CAIR.

130 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:03:39am
131 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:03:53am

re: #64 ConservatismNow!

My IQ is only 150. I don't own a yacht. I DO have some humility and restraint.

I am surrounded by people with high IQs. I want to know someone who owns a yacht.

132 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:02am

re: #89 Zimriel

Actually I'm a porn star and only date supermodels. That Naomi Campbell! What a nut!

Is Kate Moss really as skinny as she looks?

133 unrealizedviewpoint  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:19am

re: #82 pink freud

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

Hope only!
He floats this at least once yearly.

134 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:19am

re: #129 Walter L. Newton

Are you kidding? Charles' rule on violence is "Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal."

Read again what AWD said about CAIR.

NEVER mind, I misread your comment. Sorry.

135 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:20am

re: #30 Ward Cleaver

GMTA!

Why, thank you!

I've always wanted to be in the company of great minds!

136 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:20am

re: #91 Walter L. Newton

Isn't that Michael Jackson?

It looks like FCBBHO to me.

137 kansas  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:25am

re: #82 pink freud

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

Democrat Food Fight!

138 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:04:40am

re: #132 MandyManners

Is Kate Moss really as skinny as she looks?

Only from the front. She's invisible from the sides.

139 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:06am

Screw Angry White Dude, let's have some Average White Band!

Youtube Video
140 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:12am

Seven days of White-Dude Grundy
Lurked on Monday
Registered Tuesday
"Firsted" Wednesday
Warned on Thursday
Deleted on Friday
Banned on Saturday
Whining about it Sunday
Those were the posts of White-Dude Grundy
Before he went and twisted his undies

141 jaunte  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:18am

re: #120 lostlakehiker

from what I understand, Sharia doctrine is that husbands are permitted to mete out corporal punishment, but it must stop short of drawing blood, breaking bones, etc.) ripper who did you in. This has to have some deterrent effect.

I wonder if this is the reason for some of the the acid attacks we read about.
[Link: www.cnn.com...]

142 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:18am

re: #136 MandyManners

It looks like FCBBHO to me.

O.K. .... this one got by me some how. what's the CB?

143 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:21am

re: #102 pink freud

There's now an F in front of CBBHO? When did this happen!?

/should I even ask?

Over the past 24 hours, as this strange tic has started over my left eye.

144 Rancher  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:53am
As for CAIR, when it all comes down here, you’ll be the first target!

Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal. How hard is that to understand?

145 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:05:54am

re: #107 Ford_Prefect

Note my recently changed avatar.

You're the Lizard!

146 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:06:08am

re: #136 MandyManners

It looks like FCBBHO to me.

I know what CBBHO means, but what does the new addition mean?

/ should I really have asked this question?

147 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:06:17am

re: #109 Ward Cleaver

No, don't remember that, just the Monty Python line, spoken by Graham Chapman.

See Ford's No. 107.

148 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:06:19am

Yay! We're all good friends again!

149 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:06:32am

re: #142 eschew_obfuscation

O.K. .... this one got by me some how. what's the CB?

Commie Bastard

150 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:10am

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Will America get better if we turn the President into a Newt?

/or turn Newt into a President LOL

151 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:10am

re: #149 Dark_Falcon

Commie Bastard

Oh, I thought it was "Cat-butt." That only applies to Michelle, then?

152 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:12am

re: #89 Zimriel

Actually I'm a porn star and only date supermodels. That Naomi Campbell! What a nut!


When she threw her phone at you were you able to get other models numbers?

153 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:13am

re: #149 Dark_Falcon

Commie Bastard

Ahh... thanks! How very fitting.

154 Lee Coller  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:20am

re: #146 FurryOldGuyJeans

I know what CBBHO means, but what does the new addition mean?

/ should I really have asked this question?

Its MandyManner's addition, what do you think it stands for?

155 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:22am

re: #146 FurryOldGuyJeans

I know what CBBHO means, but what does the new addition mean?

/ should I really have asked this question?

Not really ...!

:-)

156 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:07:26am
157 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:08:07am

re: #131 Catttt

I am surrounded by people with high IQs. I want to know someone who owns a yacht.

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money. If you meet someone with a yacht, they can easily be separated from their money. You can tell, because he or she has a yacht.

That translates out as: Hi! I have more money that I know what to do with! Please separate me from some of it!

158 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:08:24am

re: #121 ConservatismNow!

There's that humility shining through

I'm doing the best that I can.


Youtube Video
159 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:08:27am

re: #143 MandyManners

Over the past 24 hours, as this strange tic has started over my left eye.

Oh - I thought President Obama had joined a football club. Silly me. /

160 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:08:30am

re: #154 Lee Coller

Its MandyManner's addition, what do you think it stands for?

Freakin' Commie Bastard Barack Hussein Obama? That's a mouthful.

161 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:08:41am

re: #151 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Oh, I thought it was "Cat-butt." That only applies to Michelle, then?

Nope Michelle is just a bitch. She's not fit to be compared to any part of a cat, only to dogs. :)

162 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:08:51am

re: #155 yma o hyd

Not really ...!

:-)

I figured I was stepping into something when I asked the question.

I blame it on the mass quantities of pain meds I am currently on. ;)

163 Lee Coller  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:01am

re: #157 Dianna

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money. If you meet someone with a yacht, they can easily be separated from their money. You can tell, because he or she has a yacht.

That translates out as: Hi! I have more money that I know what to do with! Please separate me from some of it!

Break
Out
Another
Thousand

164 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:05am

re: #157 Dianna

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money. If you meet someone with a yacht, they can easily be separated from their money. You can tell, because he or she has a yacht.

That translates out as: Hi! I have more money that I know what to do with! Please separate me from some of it!

:D Yes!

165 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:05am

re: #127 Kenneth

You would be referring to the illustrious "David Schwartz". He crashed & burned pretty spectacularly, if I recall.

Wasn't he the one who jumped my shit?

166 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:16am

re: #157 Dianna

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money.

You know the old joke: What are the two best days in a boat owner's life? The day he buys his boat & the day he sells his boat.

167 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:28am

re: #156 buzzsawmonkey

"Clueless boob" also works, if we are discussing his foreign policy.

DRINK!

168 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:34am

re: #157 Dianna

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money. If you meet someone with a yacht, they can easily be separated from their money. You can tell, because he or she has a yacht.

That translates out as: Hi! I have more money that I know what to do with! Please separate me from some of it!

Or as someone said, rather than own a yacht you might as well stand under the shower while tearing bank notes into little pieces ...

169 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:41am

re: #138 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Only from the front. She's invisible from the sides.

Like Flat Stanley?

170 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:49am

re: #151 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Oh, I thought it was "Cat-butt." That only applies to Michelle, then?

Hey, why insult cat butts? /

171 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:54am

Just took a look at the thread over there at Ace, and it seems as though all the creationists and fascist sympathizers have come out to bitch, whine, piss, and moan about Charles. How sad when your life is focused on complaining about one person.

172 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:58am

re: #143 MandyManners

Over the past 24 hours, as this strange tic has started over my left eye.

Now that's just too weird, Mandy. The same thing has happened to me, started yesterday morning, except mine is underneath my eye. I'm very self-conscious about it, I've never had a tic before. I looked inside and checked the dip-stick for my stress levels and they seem to be about the same (as they have been since inauguration, anyway) ....but this bothers me.

173 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:09:58am

re: #142 eschew_obfuscation

O.K. .... this one got by me some how. what's the CB?

CommieBastard.

174 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:10:26am

re: #82 pink freud

Gingrich Floats Possibility of 2012 Presidential Run

I've been trying to check out "Winston Churchill the Wilderness Years" from the Atlanta Public Library for weeks. Some guy named Newt has had it checked out since last November. Could there be a connection? /

175 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:10:27am

re: #146 FurryOldGuyJeans

I know what CBBHO means, but what does the new addition mean?

/ should I really have asked this question?

No. 143.

176 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:10:35am

re: #165 MandyManners

Wasn't he the one who jumped my shit?

I'm not sure what that means, but I do recall WriterMom pegging him as a "putz" after about 3 or 4 posts.

177 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:10:45am

re: #157 Dianna

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money. If you meet someone with a yacht, they can easily be separated from their money. You can tell, because he or she has a yacht.

That translates out as: Hi! I have more money that I know what to do with! Please separate me from some of it!

How about someone who owns a PT boat, with working torpedos? The older models are about the same size as a yacht, right?

178 Lee Coller  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:10:49am

re: #160 davinvalkri

Freakin' Commie Bastard Barack Hussein Obama? That's a mouthful.

I don't think "Freakin'" is in her vocabulary.

179 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:10:50am

re: #151 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Oh, I thought it was "Cat-butt." That only applies to Michelle, then?

WAB has a CBF.

180 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:11:26am

re: #161 Dark_Falcon

Nope Michelle is just a bitch. She's not fit to be compared to any part of a cat, only to dogs. :)

Oi!
No furry, four-legged bitch deserves to be compared with Michelle!

181 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:11:31am

re: #171 Honorary Yooper

Just took a look at the thread over there at Ace, and it seems as though all the creationists and fascist sympathizers have come out to bitch, whine, piss, and moan about Charles. How sad when your life is focused on complaining about one person.

See the past 8 years & BDS. It's really no different.

182 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:11:32am

re: #178 Lee Coller

I don't think "Freakin'" is in her vocabulary.

Ok, fucking commie bastard. God, that feels weird to type!

183 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:11:33am

re: #159 Catttt

Oh - I thought President Obama had joined a football club. Silly me. /

As a water-boy, maybe.

184 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:09am

re: #170 Catttt

Hey, why insult cat butts? /

It's soooooooooo descriptive.

185 Amer-I-Can  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:11am

re: #19 buzzsawmonkey

Oh, hell--my spelling has gone to pieces.

There's nothing worse than being half-right. I will go now and hide under a basket.

Hey monkey, look at the bright side... half-right is better than half-wit... and I KNOW you have been accused of that more than once... hehehe

///

186 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:13am

re: #171 Honorary Yooper

Just took a look at the thread over there at Ace, and it seems as though all the creationists and fascist sympathizers have come out to bitch, whine, piss, and moan about Charles. How sad when your life is focused on complaining about one person.

Can we let one or two of them in here? I haven't had a troll to tee off on in over a week. And a week without a troll roast is like a week without sunshine (and there are weeks without sunshine here in Chicagoland).

187 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:16am

re: #172 pink freud, Mandy

I wouldn't worry about it you two. It's probably just a stroke or a tumor .

No big deal.

188 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:30am

re: #174 DaddyG

I've been trying to check out "Winston Churchill the Wilderness Years" from the Atlanta Public Library for weeks. Some guy named Newt has had it checked out since last November. Could there be a connection? /

wow, see my # 150 LOL

189 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:34am

re: #162 FurryOldGuyJeans

I figured I was stepping into something when I asked the question.

I blame it on the mass quantities of pain meds I am currently on. ;)

Are ye still in the grip of that horrid virus?
I'm really sorry, and hope all tose pills will work soon!
{FurryOldGuyJeans}

190 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:46am

re: #170 Catttt

Hey, why insult cat butts? /

I remember Gallagher saying one time, "Hey why don't they just make butt-flavor cat food?"

191 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:12:47am

re: #178 Lee Coller

I don't think "Freakin'" is in her vocabulary.

As Mandy said yesterday, she prefers fucking.

192 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:13:26am

re: #180 yma o hyd

Oi!
No furry, four-legged bitch deserves to be compared with Michelle!

Somehow both my cat and myself feel insulted in there somewhere. ;)

193 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:13:50am

re: #156 buzzsawmonkey

"Clueless boob" also works, if we are discussing his foreign policy.

I have a hard time figuring out whether FCBBHO is cunningly using the economy to intentionally destroy it so the left can nationalize and control everything ala Venezuela..... OR ....Just cynically using the economy to permanently ensconce the Democrats in power.

Now that I think of it, those two may be the same thing to varying degrees.

Does anyone else find this an actually scary situation? I don't mean a short term foray into socialism, but a permanent change to classical fascism.

/hope this doesn't sound like hyperbole/paranoia?

194 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:14:23am

re: #172 pink freud

Now that's just too weird, Mandy. The same thing has happened to me, started yesterday morning, except mine is underneath my eye. I'm very self-conscious about it, I've never had a tic before. I looked inside and checked the dip-stick for my stress levels and they seem to be about the same (as they have been since inauguration, anyway) ....but this bothers me.

Deep breathing exercises? Massive quantities of bourbon? One or 10 of these?

195 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:14:38am
196 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:14:40am

re: #171 Honorary Yooper

Just took a look at the thread over there at Ace, and it seems as though all the creationists and fascist sympathizers have come out to bitch, whine, piss, and moan about Charles. How sad when your life is focused on complaining about one person.

And how even more sad when you cannot even grasp that your POV might possibly, perhaps, maybe, not the only one - and that these things can be argued over, civilly, like we do here.

Not prepared to learn a thing since they left school, methinks ...

197 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:14:46am

re: #190 Ward Cleaver

I remember Gallagher saying one time, "Hey why don't they just make butt-flavor cat food?"

I always liked his act. I just wish he could use his giant mallet on BHO as a cluebat.

198 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:15:05am

re: #189 yma o hyd

Are ye still in the grip of that horrid virus?
I'm really sorry, and hope all tose pills will work soon!
{FurryOldGuyJeans}

Still, and now my back disability decided to add to my "joys". This has not been a fun week. Thanks for the caring. :)

{yma o hyd}

199 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:15:08am

re: #174 DaddyG

I've been trying to check out "Winston Churchill the Wilderness Years" from the Atlanta Public Library for weeks. Some guy named Newt has had it checked out since last November. Could there be a connection? /

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

If he gets in the WH, I hope GB forgives us and gives back his bust.

200 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:15:24am

re: #191 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

As Mandy said yesterday, she prefers fucking.

Yep, it beats the hell out of celibacy.

201 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:15:30am

re: #174 DaddyG

I've been trying to check out "Winston Churchill the Wilderness Years" from the Atlanta Public Library for weeks. Some guy named Newt has had it checked out since last November. Could there be a connection? /

I watched a program on American presidential/political/economic history (Nova, History Channel?) where Newt spoke extemporaneously for an hour. I was mesmerized. His knowledge base was very impressive.

202 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:15:49am

re: #176 Kenneth

I'm not sure what that means, but I do recall WriterMom pegging him as a "putz" after about 3 or 4 posts.

It was either he or another one like him who jumped my shit and said my X deserved to beat me.

203 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:16:11am

re: #177 davinvalkri

How about someone who owns a PT boat, with working torpedos? The older models are about the same size as a yacht, right?

It'd be cool, but...again, that's someone in desperate need of being relieved of a few million.

204 Amer-I-Can  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:16:27am

re: #195 buzzsawmonkey

Actually, no.

I've been called a lot of other things in various circumstances, but "half-wit?" Never.

Damn, must have been another monkey I know...

205 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:16:53am

re: #120 lostlakehiker

The last part of the comment he made was what got him banned - it involved a threat of violence. That's a total no no.

I actually work with several people from Muslim countries. We never talk religion, so I have no idea of their religious beliefs, but I do know they all fled those Muslim countries, some with nothing but the clothes on their backs and maybe a little money in a foreign bank. Some lost very large wealth to get the heck out of those countries and live in freedom.

206 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:17:10am

re: #193 eschew_obfuscation

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

It's real.

207 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:17:32am

re: #192 FurryOldGuyJeans

Somehow both my cat and myself feel insulted in there somewhere. ;)

But is was meant in the nicest, kindest possible waaayyyyy ....!

;-)

208 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:17:44am

re: #195 buzzsawmonkey

I've been called a lot of other things in various circumstances, but "half-wit?"

What about "half-breed"?

[kicking off another Shockingly Bad Pop Music thread]

209 mikalm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:17:55am

re: #203 Dianna

It'd be cool, but...again, that's someone in desperate need of being relieved of a few million.

But you can bet that guy will never be hijacked by Somali pirates!

210 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:18:28am

re: #193 eschew_obfuscation I don't think you are paranoid. They are out to get me too.

To / or not to / that is the question?

211 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:18:40am

re: #193 eschew_obfuscation

Does anyone else find this an actually scary situation? I don't mean a short term foray into socialism, but a permanent change to classical fascism.

/hope this doesn't sound like hyperbole/paranoia?

If things keep going as they are, I may soon be in your camp. I've already gone from "I didn't vote for him but I'm willing to give him a chance" to "wrong leader, wrong policies, at the wrong time."

At least Carter may someday have someone to be better than...

212 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:18:46am

re: #202 MandyManners

That was him! Yes, that was the last straw & the day Stinky came down on him. Before that he was just boring people to death with his bragging about his life in high finance, luxury yachts and lots of lovely ladies.

213 unrealizedviewpoint  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:18:48am

re: #193 eschew_obfuscation

I have a hard time figuring out whether FCBBHO is cunningly using the economy to intentionally destroy it so the left can nationalize and control everything ala Venezuela..... OR ....Just cynically using the economy to permanently ensconce the Democrats in power.

Now that I think of it, those two may be the same thing to varying degrees.

Does anyone else find this an actually scary situation? I don't mean a short term foray into socialism, but a permanent change to classical fascism.

/hope this doesn't sound like hyperbole/paranoia?

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really scared of my country. Not really, but I'm getting really worried.

214 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:18:54am

re: #203 Dianna

It'd be cool, but...again, that's someone in desperate need of being relieved of a few million.

You know any yacht clubs in your area? I can come over for spring break and we can plan a hit! I always wanted to play "Phantom Thief".

215 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:19:10am

re: #187 Kenneth

, Mandy

I wouldn't worry about it you two. It's probably just a stroke or a tumor .

No big deal.

Well, I feel better now.

I'm reminded of this attorney I interned with in Denver. When a client agitated him, he'd get this HUGE tic on the side of his face. He was a family law attorney, as well as a PhD in child psychology who did evaluations and the like, so he had that tic at least twice a week.

216 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:19:10am

re: #194 MandyManners

Deep breathing exercises? Massive quantities of bourbon? One or 10 of these?

I hate to start something here, Mandy, but it is my profound belief that massive amounts of sex would probably be the best cure.

217 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:19:34am

re: #199 MandyManners

HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

If he gets in the WH, I hope GB forgives us and gives back his bust.

If he gets in the WH, he'll have to deal with Dave Cameron, Tory leader.
I somehow don't think there would be any difficulties ...

218 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:19:46am

re: #209 mikalm

But you can bet that guy will never be hijacked by Somali pirates!

Overkill, those torpedoes, but lots of fun!

219 Walter L. Newton  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:19:57am

re: #215 MandyManners

Well, I feel better now.

I'm reminded of this attorney I interned with in Denver. When a client agitated him, he'd get this HUGE tic on the side of his face. He was a family law attorney, as well as a PhD in child psychology who did evaluations and the like, so he had that tic at least twice a week.

Bob Melman?

220 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:19:58am

re: #212 Kenneth

Before that he was just boring people to death with his bragging about his life in high finance, luxury yachts and lots of lovely ladies.

I spotted him as a poseur right away, of course, having never seen him at the "in" spots.

/

221 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:20:09am

re: #197 Dark_Falcon

I always liked his act. I just wish he could use his giant mallet on BHO as a cluebat.

I saw him on a local TV show here (Dallas) last year, wielding the Sledge-O-Matic in an outdoor venue (outside the WFAA-TV studios at Victory Park, with Gordon Keith). Just like the good old days.

I didn't know that Gallagher has a chemical engineering degree. Wow.

222 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:20:15am

re: #201 pink freud

I watched a program on American presidential/political/economic history (Nova, History Channel?) where Newt spoke extemporaneously for an hour. I was mesmerized. His knowledge base was very impressive.

I am a Newt fan, and that seems to be out of fashion these days. But just mention his name in Manhattan & watch em twitch... heh, heh, heh.

223 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:20:21am

re: #191 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

IT WAS ABOUT VOCABULARY.

*slinking off*

224 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:20:21am

NOthing like killing a PITCHER of Sangria over lunch.

225 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:20:44am
226 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:20:45am

re: #216 pink freud

I hate to start something here, Mandy, but it is my profound belief that massive amounts of sex would probably be the best cure.

Of course it might make you feel worse depending on your performance in bed.
My proposed solution? Start up a computer game where you control a civilization, do it right, then go conquer everybody else.

227 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:21:15am

re: #215 MandyManners

Hah! Sounds like a good guy to invite to your poker game.

228 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:21:20am

re: #224 Ben Hur

NOthing like killing a PITCHER of Sangria over lunch.

What are you, a Northwest Airlines pilot?

229 Dianna  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:21:30am

re: #214 davinvalkri

You know any yacht clubs in your area? I can come over for spring break and we can plan a hit! I always wanted to play "Phantom Thief".

Sorry, I'm too responsible any more. I think I shall stick to writing about exciting stuff like that.

230 bulwrk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:21:31am

re: #202 MandyManners

Lovely, one can only hope the scum doesn't have a wife girlfriend or daughter.

231 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:21:56am

re: #221 Ward Cleaver

I saw him on a local TV show here (Dallas) last year, wielding the Sledge-O-Matic in an outdoor venue (outside the WFAA-TV studios at Victory Park, with Gordon Keith). Just like the good old days.

I didn't know that Gallagher has a chemical engineering degree. Wow.

Yet he never applied that knowledge to the art of destroying watermelons. Such a waste.

I also never knew that he leased his act to his younger brother in the 1990s.

232 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:22:54am

Crap, I almost forgot. It's the 173rd anniversary of the siege of The Alamo.

Remember the Alamo!

233 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:22:59am

re: #220 Occasional Reader

I spotted him as a poseur right away, of course, having never seen him at the "in" spots.

/

Obviously. He claimed to be dating all the top models, and well, we all know you were dating them, so he had to be lying.

234 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:22:59am

re: #206 Kenneth

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

It's real.

Yes, it is. Obama intends to create crisis to move this nation permanently left.

235 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:23:02am

re: #177 davinvalkri

How about someone who owns a PT boat, with working torpedos? The older models are about the same size as a yacht, right?

Quite a bit larger than a pt boat.

236 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:23:11am

re: #228 Occasional Reader

What are you, a Northwest Airlines pilot?

Then it would have been more than just a pitcher. More like a whole bullpen.

237 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:23:23am

re: #225 buzzsawmonkey


You';re not a professor?

238 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:23:51am

re: #206 Kenneth

Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis

It's real.

Whoooo Boy! Now I need a way to talk about this to reasonable/uninformed people without getting a tin foil hat handed to me.

239 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:23:58am

re: #228 Occasional Reader

What are you, a Northwest Airlines pilot?


If you want me to be.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?

240 jjmckay1216  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:08am

re: #215 MandyManners

Mandy, u r in Denver?

241 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:14am

By the way, "David Schwartz" was charming, polite and unassuming, compared to another late and unlamented poster named... gah, it was "Robert" something. He used to like to brag about how "intelligint" he was.

242 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:19am

re: #231 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Yet he never applied that knowledge to the art of destroying watermelons. Such a waste.

I also never knew that he leased his act to his younger brother in the 1990s.

I saw him at one of the casinos in Lake Tahoe back in '90. A plate of Jello got the best dispersal from the Sledge-O-Matic. There were people 15-20 rows back that got hit with it.

243 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:19am

re: #226 davinvalkri

Of course it might make you feel worse depending on your performance in bed.

NOPE.


My proposed solution? Start up a computer game where you control a civilization, do it right, then go conquer everybody else.

For some reason, my idea has more appeal. :D

244 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:20am

re: #232 Ward Cleaver

Crap, I almost forgot. It's the 173rd anniversary of the siege of The Alamo.

Remember the Alamo!

Didn't Obama's grandmother liberate the Alamo? Or am I thinking of Antietam?

245 UFO TOFU  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:30am

re: #157 Dianna

A boat is a hole in the water into which one pours money.

Bust Out Another Thou$and.

246 jjmckay1216  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:24:53am

re: #221 Ward Cleaver

didn't he have a look-a-like? I thought that was on "E"

247 mikalm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:25:18am

re: #232 Ward Cleaver

The flag from the incident that got the whole thing started.

248 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:25:22am

re: #229 Dianna

Sorry, I'm too responsible any more. I think I shall stick to writing about exciting stuff like that.

Awwwwww...well, there's always Trilby.
But still, if I had the money to burn, I wouldn't buy a yacht. I'd buy a PT boat. Or a Vietnam era APC. Or a tank. Something that can blow other cars or boats out of my way!

249 lobo91  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:25:35am

re: #235 Texas Heathen

Quite a bit larger than a pt boat.

But according to the Web site of The Yacht Report, one of several publications that track yachting with the same intensity that gossip magazines cover Hollywood hunks, the Eclipse is 531.5 feet long.

PT boat? That thing's half the size of a Nimitz class carrier.

250 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:25:35am

ANother WTF brought to you bythe Fail Blog.

[Link: failblog.org...]

Must be one of those footbaths in Minn or Arizona

251 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:25:39am

re: #236 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Then it would have been more than just a pitcher. More like a whole bullpen.

Hey, I said Northwest, not Aeroflot.

252 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:25:55am

re: #225 buzzsawmonkey

Good advice .... I'll take it if you don't mind ;-)

253 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:26:03am

re: #231 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

The audience can tolerate watermelon juice. The chemical burns, not so much.

254 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:26:37am

re: #193 eschew_obfuscation

I have a hard time figuring out whether FCBBHO is cunningly using the economy to intentionally destroy it so the left can nationalize and control everything ala Venezuela..... OR ....Just cynically using the economy to permanently ensconce the Democrats in power.

Now that I think of it, those two may be the same thing to varying degrees.

Does anyone else find this an actually scary situation? I don't mean a short term foray into socialism, but a permanent change to classical fascism.

/hope this doesn't sound like hyperbole/paranoia?

Short version I posted a couple of days ago......

255 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:26:45am

re: #235 Texas Heathen

Quite a bit larger than a pt boat.

From that link.

“When a yacht is over 328 feet, it’s so big that you lose the intimacy,” says Tork Buckley, editor of The Yacht Report.

328'? Oh yeah, my 327' yacht is just so nice and cozy.
/

256 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:26:47am

re: #248 davinvalkri

Something that can blow other cars or boats out of my way!

Me? I just welded an I-beam to the front of my car. I figure if it works for the cops, it will work for me. I also keep a stack of my lawyers business cards in the glove compartment.

257 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:26:49am

re: #212 Kenneth

That was him! Yes, that was the last straw & the day Stinky came down on him. Before that he was just boring people to death with his bragging about his life in high finance, luxury yachts and lots of lovely ladies.

I'm reminded of this song.

Youtube Video

NSFW or those easily offended. It's just a song!

258 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:27:40am

re: #216 pink freud

I hate to start something here, Mandy, but it is my profound belief that massive amounts of sex would probably be the best cure.

Well, I'm a dedicated celibate so, I'll reckon I'll have the Basil Hayden's.

259 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:27:51am

re: #235 Texas Heathen

Quite a bit larger than a pt boat.

Whoa...they should mount a cannon on the foredeck! SUCK IT, PIRATES! HAHAH!

260 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:28:16am

re: #226 davinvalkri

Of course it might make you feel worse depending on your performance in bed.
My proposed solution? Start up a computer game where you control a civilization, do it right, then go conquer everybody else.

Sid Meyer already did that.

261 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:28:20am

re: #244 Kenneth

Didn't Obama's grandmother liberate the Alamo? Or am I thinking of Antietam?

Both.

262 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:28:33am

LOL I just refreshed Uncle Jimbo's post. There are some pretty crazy comments over there. We are the "purity police"? Who knew.

263 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:28:35am

re: #217 yma o hyd

If he gets in the WH, he'll have to deal with Dave Cameron, Tory leader.
I somehow don't think there would be any difficulties ...

Mince meat!

264 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:29:01am

re: #219 Walter L. Newton

Bob Melman?

Nope. He's in DTC.

265 eschew_obfuscation  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:29:29am

re: #254 jcm

Nice post. That's what I thought I was seeing develop. And I do remember the nationalization of 401k's ..... was just thinking about that yesterday.

266 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:29:32am

re: #143 MandyManners

Over the past 24 hours, as this strange tic has started over my left eye.

Too much caffeine or not enough sleep or both, thus sayeth my doc. (same thing happens to me)

267 davinvalkri  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:29:40am

re: #260 Honorary Yooper

Sid Meier already did that.

That's who I'm referring to. And his games are AWESOME. Why do something that'll leave you tired and asleep in two hours when you can conquer the WORLD over the course of TWO DAYS STRAIGHT? And then start up another game!

268 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:29:51am

re: #228 Occasional Reader

What are you, a Northwest Airlines pilot?

No... a Delta airlines customer from last Sunday (when Delta canceled practically all their flights because of the snow in Atlanta).

269 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:04am

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".

"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.

Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"

"You got it wrong," said Lavrov, smiling as the two pushed the reset button together before dinner at a Geneva hotel.

He told Clinton the word "Peregruzka" meant "overcharge", to which Clinton replied: "We won't let you do that to us."

/re Rush
/these people are fucking idiots

270 Shanimal1918  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:08am

Wow, the AWD is completely dishonest.

I was banned from posting at LGF for a week or two and I have no reason to complain whatsoever. I deserved it for making silly comments that added nothing to the discussion. My comments were nothing like the AWD racist rant. Charles has been more than fair to me. I'm happy to be back posting on LGF. There is no place for comments like the one AWD made.

271 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:11am

re: #246 jjmckay1216

didn't he have a look-a-like? I thought that was on "E"

His younger brother Ron. Read about the "Gallagher Too" controversy in the Wiki article. Sad how it's turned out.

272 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:11am

re: #224 Ben Hur

NOthing like killing a PITCHER of Sangria over lunch.

You don't like Hispanic baseball players?

273 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:17am

re: #262 Pvt Bin Jammin

LOL I just refreshed Uncle Jimbo's post. There are some pretty crazy comments over there. We are the "purity police"? Who knew.

Never underestimate the reach of the LFG Purity Police. BAHAHAH!

274 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:24am

re: #258 MandyManners

So am I. May I join you?

275 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:31am

re: #238 eschew_obfuscation

Whoooo Boy! Now I need a way to talk about this to reasonable/uninformed people without getting a tin foil hat handed to me.

There isn't one. Only bring up things like Cloward-Piven when you are dealing with informed, like-minded people. Uninformed people simply do not know enough to connect the dots. The best you can do with them is to explain how Obama's policies will hurt them. Give examples and be specific. Include sources they can use to educate themselves.

276 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:40am

re: #262 Pvt Bin Jammin

LOL I just refreshed Uncle Jimbo's post. There are some pretty crazy comments over there. We are the "purity police"?

Fuck yeah! Here's a link to a Brazilian supermodel to prove it.

277 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:42am

re: #255 CyanSnowHawk

From that link.

“When a yacht is over 328 feet, it’s so big that you lose the intimacy,” says Tork Buckley, editor of The Yacht Report.

328'? Oh yeah, my 327' yacht is just so nice and cozy.
/

Heh.

Me, when I somehow or other make my multimillions, the biggest floating object I'd get would be something like this.

278 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:30:56am

re: #227 Kenneth

Hah! Sounds like a good guy to invite to your poker game.

We'd all be twitching soon.

279 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:31:37am

re: #230 bulwrk

Lovely, one can only hope the scum doesn't have a wife girlfriend or daughter.

Oh, I hope he just grows up.

280 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:31:58am

re: #272 MandyManners

You don't like Hispanic baseball players?

If they're throwing Sangria bottles, then no. It's a waste of good alcohol. And the mess!

281 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:31:59am

re: #255 CyanSnowHawk

From that link.

“When a yacht is over 328 feet, it’s so big that you lose the intimacy,” says Tork Buckley, editor of The Yacht Report.

328'? Oh yeah, my 327' yacht is just so nice and cozy.
/

otoh someone buying that big of yacht probably is more concerned with being the center of attention than with intimacy.

282 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:04am

Ok, I'm outta here. I'll try to drop by this evening for a while.

If you want the Cloward-Piven essay, send me and email via my blue nic.

283 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:07am

re: #276 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Beauty is truth; and truth, beauty.

284 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:17am

re: #240 jjmckay1216

Mandy, u r in Denver?

A long time ago.

285 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:19am

re: #273 Zimriel

F*ckin A. LOL

286 mikalm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:37am

re: #276 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Fuck yeah! Here's a link to a Brazilian supermodel to prove it.

"Come to Butt-head!"

(yes, I know I've used that line before...)

287 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:39am

Off Topic but what does LNDT mean? I keep seeing references to it but can't figure it out from the context.

288 Kenneth  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:32:51am

re: #257 MandyManners

Good tune, but I don't think I'll be putting it on my ipod.

289 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:06am

re: #269 pink freud

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".

"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.

Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"

"You got it wrong," said Lavrov, smiling as the two pushed the reset button together before dinner at a Geneva hotel.

He told Clinton the word "Peregruzka" meant "overcharge", to which Clinton replied: "We won't let you do that to us."

/re Rush
/these people are fucking idiots

What a dope she is. They're using props now? You can't make this shit up.

290 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:20am

re: #287 LGoPs

It thin it's "late night drinking thread".

291 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:24am

re: #286 mikalm

"Come to Butt-head!"

(yes, I know I've used that line before...)

How do you think I met my wife?

//

292 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:25am

re: #197 Dark_Falcon

I always liked his act. I just wish he could use his giant mallet on BHO as a cluebat.

You should go to a GWAR concert, if you don't mind really loud music, screaming, moshing fans, getting covered in red and green dye, etc. They've already worked President O into the act. Actually, they had all the main candidates in the act, even before the election. Of course, they work pretty much all your top authority figures into the act.

If you go, wear dark, washable clothes.

293 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:40am

re: #287 LGoPs

Late Night Dead Thread.

294 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:48am

re: #266 Creeping Eruption

Too much caffeine or not enough sleep or both, thus sayeth my doc. (same thing happens to me)

Enough sleep and not too much caffeine. I'm just up-tight.

295 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:49am

re: #287 LGoPs

Off Topic but what does LNDT mean? I keep seeing references to it but can't figure it out from the context.

Late Night Drinking Thread.

296 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:52am

re: #276 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Fuck yeah! Here's a link to a Brazilian supermodel to prove it.

She's thinking about me, I just know it.

/fantasising

297 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:57am

re: #290 Pvt Bin Jammin

pimf "think".

298 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:33:58am

re: #250 Ben Hur

ANother WTF brought to you bythe Fail Blog.

[Link: failblog.org...]

Must be one of those footbaths in Minn or Arizona

That's hysterical!

299 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:34:02am
300 mikalm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:34:08am

re: #291 Occasional Reader

How do you think I met my wife?

//

It seems to work on my GF as well. :-)

301 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:34:21am

re: #269 pink freud

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".

"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.

Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"

"You got it wrong," said Lavrov, smiling as the two pushed the reset button together before dinner at a Geneva hotel.

He told Clinton the word "Peregruzka" meant "overcharge", to which Clinton replied: "We won't let you do that to us."

/re Rush
/these people are fucking idiots

If I push that "reset" button, can I reset the last election? Cause the outcome isn't working so well for me.

302 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:34:35am

re: #274 pink freud

So am I. May I join you?

Indeed! It's some smooth stuff.

303 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:14am

re: #271 Ward Cleaver

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one called 'brightness', but it don't work, does it? - Gallagher

304 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:18am

re: #282 Kenneth

Ok, I'm outta here. I'll try to drop by this evening for a while.

If you want the Cloward-Piven essay, send me and email via my blue nic.

Have a great weekend!

305 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:40am

re: #277 Occasional Reader

Heh.

Me, when I somehow or other make my multimillions, the biggest floating object I'd get would be something like this.

I got to crew a big '72 foot Swan one week.... long time ago. Friend of a friend needing muscle to grind the wenches.

306 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:48am

re: #299 Iron Fist

Remember Waco. We have another Democratic Administration with another far Left radical Attorney General who is unfit for office. As there appears to be no Cuban boys to kidnap and deport, you know Holder has to be looking for a church to burn to the ground. Especially if he can advance the goal of universal gun control while he does it.

Westboro Baptist Church?

/the first place that popped into my mind

307 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:49am

re: #269 pink freud

That story fills me with lust for the Polish people.

/hat tip: Jimmy Carter's Polish translator

308 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:51am
309 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:53am

re: #292 Catttt

You should go to a GWAR concert, if you don't mind really loud music, screaming, moshing fans, getting covered in red and green dye, etc. They've already worked President O into the act. Actually, they had all the main candidates in the act, even before the election. Of course, they work pretty much all your top authority figures into the act.

If you go, wear dark, washable clothes.

No thanks. I dislike loud noise intensely.

310 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:35:56am

re: #288 Kenneth

Good tune, but I don't think I'll be putting it on my ipod.

ROFLMAO!

311 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:14am

re: #303 lawhawk

I wish there was a knob on the TV so you could turn up the intelligence. They got one called 'brightness', but it don't work, does it? - Gallagher

LOL! I remember that one.

312 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:21am

re: #290 Pvt Bin Jammin

Oh.......ok. That makes sense from the contexts I've seen. Thanks

313 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:27am

re: #274 pink freud

So am I. May I join you?

I don't believe she is coming apart into pieces, but if she is make sure you get a good brand of superglue. ;)

314 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:28am

re: #269 pink freud

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".
...
/these people are fucking idiots

That seems to be a pretty accurate translation of the obamaspeak word "Change" into English, though...

315 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:37am

re: #299 Iron Fist

Remember Waco. We have another Democratic Administration with another far Left radical Attorney General who is unfit for office. As there appears to be no Cuban boys to kidnap and deport, you know Holder has to be looking for a church to burn to the ground. Especially if he can advance the goal of universal gun control while he does it.

*shudder*

316 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:38am

re: #295 Occasional Reader

Thanks

317 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:44am

re: #277 Occasional Reader

Heh.

Me, when I somehow or other make my multimillions, the biggest floating object I'd get would be something like this.

Pretty. I'm more of a land lubber. Something like this.

318 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:45am

re: #302 MandyManners

Indeed! It's some smooth stuff.

A neat glass of Glenmoranghie scotch is more my cuppa tea. However, I'd be happy to try your Basil's.

:-)

319 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:46am

re: #305 jcm

needing muscle to grind the wenches

Paging Dr. Freud...

(but I'm still jealous, even if they were mere "winches")

320 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:36:55am

BOO!

321 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:04am

re: #305 jcm

Friend of a friend needing muscle to grind the wenches.

Wenches? Was it a pirate ship?

322 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:10am

re: #269 pink freud

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".

"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.

Some how the image of Hillary w/a red button, scares me less that than the image of O w/one...

323 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:11am

re: #289 Ward Cleaver

Well, they couldn't well use the Easy Button now, could they?

324 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:18am

re: #293 pink freud

Gotcha. Thanks

325 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:34am

re: #307 Occasional Reader

That story fills me with lust for the Polish people.

/hat tip: Jimmy Carter's Polish translator

at least he wasn't in Brasil

326 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:35am

re: #269 pink freud

/re Rush
/these people are fucking idiots

Scheming to bankrupt coal when no viable alternative yet exists,
Returning the Churchill Bust to our closest allies,
A mistranslated 'Reset' button for the Russians,
The Treasury Secretary stepping out of his purview to criticize oil companies for global warming.

We need the finest leaders our country can muster, and we're getting amateur night rejects. Nobody voted for this kind of stupidity - Nobody!

327 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:36am

re: #287 LGoPs

Off Topic but what does LNDT mean? I keep seeing references to it but can't figure it out from the context.

Late Night Drinking Thread.

328 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:50am

re: #306 Ward Cleaver

Westboro Baptist Church?

/the first place that popped into my mind

Not when they're making fun of dead soldiers!

329 jjmckay1216  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:53am

re: #271 Ward Cleaver

thought i saw that. it was not good, if i recall

330 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:37:56am

re: #308 Iron Fist

Come on, man, Hillary's the smartest bitch in the world...

No no no, ironfist. Where've you been? That designation is now owned by WAB.

/

331 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:01am

Grinding wenches and moonbats, iTunes and yachts, ammo and David J Schwartz!

I AM IN THE RIGHT PLACE!

332 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:05am

re: #320 WriterMom

BOO!

Eeep!

Don't DO that! ;)

333 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:13am

re: #270 Shanimal1918

I was banned from posting at LGF for a week or two and I have no reason to complain whatsoever. I deserved it for making silly comments that added nothing to the discussion.

Uh oh.

334 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:17am

re: #307 Occasional Reader

That story fills me with lust for the Polish people.

/hat tip: Jimmy Carter's Polish translator

All we need now is some lame softball game between the White House staff and reporters, and it'll be Jimmy Carterville all over again.

335 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:20am

re: #320 WriterMom

BOO!

What'd you do? Leave the last B off for savings? I know times are tight, but seriously. /

336 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:26am

re: #305 jcm

I got to crew a big '72 foot Swan one week.... long time ago. Friend of a friend needing muscle to grind the wenches.

Whenever I hear boat sizes, I think of the Far Side cartoon "When Boating & Herpetology Collide", in which two sets of guys, one showing of his boat, the other his boa constrictor, each elicit the same response from their friends: "Wow! She's a beaut! What is she, a 35-footer?"

337 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:32am

re: #305 jcm

Friend of a friend needing muscle to grind the wenches.

I beg your pardon?

338 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:47am

re: #323 lawhawk

Well, they couldn't well use the Easy Button now, could they?

It would've been cheaper.

339 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:58am

re: #292 Catttt

You should go to a GWAR concert, if you don't mind really loud music, screaming, moshing fans, getting covered in red and green dye, etc. They've already worked President O into the act. Actually, they had all the main candidates in the act, even before the election. Of course, they work pretty much all your top authority figures into the act.

If you go, wear dark, washable clothes.

The Mutants are still kicking around? I saw them at Iguanas in TJ back in the early 90s.

340 unrealizedviewpoint  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:38:59am

re: #289 Ward Cleaver

What a dope she is. They're using props now? You can't make this shit up.

Props are fine, but do the research.

Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"

Yeah right! She and they worked hard to get the word right. Obviously No Russian was consulted. Morons!

341 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:39:05am

re: #318 pink freud

A neat glass of Glenmoranghie scotch is more my cuppa tea. However, I'd be happy to try your Basil's.

:-)

[Link: www.internetwines.com...]

342 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:39:26am

re: #320 WriterMom

BOO!

HOO!

343 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:39:42am

re: #312 LGoPs

Oh.......ok. That makes sense from the contexts I've seen. Thanks

Someone else just said "late night dead thread". Either way, it works.

344 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:03am

re: #319 Occasional Reader

Paging Dr. Freud...

(but I'm still jealous, even if they were mere "winches")

ROFLMAO.... at myself...

345 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:15am

re: #331 WriterMom

Grinding wenches and moonbats, iTunes and yachts, ammo and David J Schwartz!

I AM IN THE RIGHT PLACE!

But at the wrong time...

346 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:16am

re: #331 WriterMom

Grinding wenches and moonbats, iTunes and yachts, ammo and David J Schwartz!

I AM IN THE RIGHT PLACE!

I've shared your Leno link today.

347 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:18am

OT, but
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Ceres?
I think, based on experience, that a lot of life on Earth came from Uranus.

348 gmsc  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:19am

OT: Interesting graph, showing the S&P500 performing under various combinations of Republican and Democrat Houses, Senates and Presidents.

349 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:19am

re: #335 lawhawk

TIMES ARE TOUGH, there is a CATASROPHE coming around the corner. FUND THE FOOLISH, ALMS FOR THE STUPID! Grin and PORK IT OVER!

NO "B"s for BOO! Buck up and pay your neighbour's mortgage!

/and Fly Air Force one, too.

350 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:23am

re: #337 wrenchwench

I beg your pardon?

*BLUSH*

351 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:24am

re: #322 brookly red

You know it's not just the image that's so scary, it's the accompanying cackle that echoes in our heads.

352 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:33am

re: #329 jjmckay1216

thought i saw that. it was not good, if i recall

His family sided with Ron in the dispute, and now Gallagher is estranged from his parents and others. Not good.

353 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:41am

re: #337 wrenchwench

I beg your pardon?

I was gonna snark on that, but I felt it was your turff ;)

354 gmsc  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:40:54am

re: #348 gmsc

OT: Interesting graph, showing the S&P500 performing under various combinations of Republican and Democrat Houses, Senates and Presidents.

Oops - forgot the link.

355 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:01am

re: #338 Ward Cleaver

It would've been cheaper.

They'd never do it the cheap way. There's no opportunity for graft doing things the cheap way.

356 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:05am

re: #345 Occasional Reader

Is that you on keyboard?

357 Miss Molly  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:14am

For Hillary to give a "reset" button to the Russians is so pathetic and lame. And she is supposed to be the "smartest" person in the world. Why can't she try and pretend she has a little class.

Besides, the Russians must still be laughing themselves silly after that letter from Obama offering to trade missels for help with Iran. Every leader in the world must be behind closed doors shaking their heads and swearing.

358 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:25am

re: #346 MandyManners

Wasn't that just piss-in-yer-pants funnnnnnayyyyyyyyyyy?

359 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:43am

re: #269 pink freud

These people are fucking idiots. Any first year Russian student with a dictionary could have told them peregruzka was wrong.

360 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:52am

re: #349 WriterMom

FUND THE FOOLISH, ALMS FOR THE STUPID!

That's very good. Original?

361 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:41:57am

re: #326 Gearhead

Nobody voted for this kind of stupidity - Nobody!

OH.
YES.
THEY.
DID.

/avanti, you around?

362 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:00am

re: #356 WriterMom

Is that you on keyboard?

Doesn't the boa give him away?

363 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:01am

re: #305 jcm

If we're talking about boats, I'd like one of these.
0bama, can I have a stimulus check to buy one?

364 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:11am

re: #305 jcm

I got to crew a big '72 foot Swan one week.... long time ago. Friend of a friend needing muscle to grind the wenches.

grinding wenches?
Sounds like fun! Must've been some friend of a friend.

365 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:21am

re: #355 Dark_Falcon

They'd never do it the cheap way. There's no opportunity for graft doing things the cheap way.

Unless it's gifts for the children of visiting foreign dignitaries.

366 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:29am

re: #358 WriterMom

Wasn't that just piss-in-yer-pants funnnnnnayyyyyyyyyyy?

Bang 'im like a dinner-bell at the Ponderosa!

367 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:35am

re: #360 Occasional Reader

Why yes, I just made it up now.

368 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:42am

re: #357 Miss Molly

For Hillary to give a "reset" button to the Russians is so pathetic and lame. And she is supposed to be the "smartest" person in the world. Why can't she try and pretend she has a little class.

Besides, the Russians must still be laughing themselves silly after that letter from Obama offering to trade missels for help with Iran. Every leader in the world must be behind closed doors shaking their heads and swearing.

Where the [delete] are the Russian language specialists at State?
Can't even translate one damn word correctly.....

We be soooooooooo fucked.

369 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:53am

re: #356 WriterMom

Is that you on keyboard?

I think it's rawmuse.

Hey, do you remember the guy I mentioned upthread, who was even more of a boorish braggart than David J. Schwartz? Robert... Brandjen, something like that?

370 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:53am
371 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:42:57am

re: #357 Miss Molly

For Hillary to give a "reset" button to the Russians is so pathetic and lame. And she is supposed to be the "smartest" person in the world. Why can't she try and pretend she has a little class.

Besides, the Russians must still be laughing themselves silly after that letter from Obama offering to trade missels for help with Iran. Every leader in the world must be behind closed doors shaking their heads and swearing.

It looks like groveling.

372 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:43:09am

re: #348 gmsc

OT: Interesting graph, showing the S&P500 performing under various combinations of Republican and Democrat Houses, Senates and Presidents.

The deciding factor seems to be which party controls the Senate.

373 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:43:13am

re: #357 Miss Molly

For Hillary to give a "reset" button to the Russians is so pathetic and lame. And she is supposed to be the "smartest" person in the world. Why can't she try and pretend she has a little class.

Besides, the Russians must still be laughing themselves silly after that letter from Obama offering to trade missels for help with Iran. Every leader in the world must be behind closed doors shaking their heads and swearing.

Along the same lines:

Obama to Drop Shield if Russia Helps with Limbaugh

374 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:43:22am

re: #361 pink freud

OH.
YES.
THEY.
DID.

/avanti, you around?

Maybe he got tired of me calling him a fucking idiot yesterday or, telling him that something wasn't the fucking point.

375 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:43:53am

re: #369 Occasional Reader

Hmmm...it's familiar. There was a guy who pretended to be Jewish, like a "Solly Mendelberg" or something.

376 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:44:31am

re: #366 MandyManners

The whole thing was a riot.

377 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:45:33am

re: #160 davinvalkri

Freakin' Commie Bastard Barack Hussein Obama? That's a mouthful.

I just call him 0.

378 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:45:44am

re: #368 jcm

You just had a Russian specialist at State and you were still fucked.

379 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:45:50am

re: #351 pink freud

You know it's not just the image that's so scary, it's the accompanying cackle that echoes in our heads.

Actually, now that I think of it having Her go & show Them a red button may have been a not so veiled threat...

380 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:45:51am

OT: My friend sent me a copy of this prophetic 1999 article from NY Times. I thought I would share. I reads like a script of our current problems:

Fannie Mea Eases Credit to Aid Mortgage Lending

381 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:04am

re: #269 pink freud

GENEVA, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a red "reset button" to symbolise improved ties, but the gift drew smiles as the word "reset" was mistranslated into the Russian for "overcharge".

"I would like to present you with a little gift that represents what President Obama and Vice President Biden and I have been saying and that is: 'We want to reset our relationship and so we will do it together," said Clinton, presenting Lavrov with a palm-sized yellow box with a red button.

Clinton joked to Lavrov: "We worked hard to get the right Russian word. Do you think we got it?"

"You got it wrong," said Lavrov, smiling as the two pushed the reset button together before dinner at a Geneva hotel.

He told Clinton the word "Peregruzka" meant "overcharge", to which Clinton replied: "We won't let you do that to us."

/re Rush
/these people are fucking idiots

This passes for foreign policy? We've put a bunch of spoiled children in charge.......
Heaven help us.

382 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:06am

re: #368 jcm

Where the [delete] are the Russian language specialists at State?

Condi? Retired.

Yep, this is embarassing. But the kindergartenish "reset" idea is, itself, even more embarassing.

383 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:12am

re: #359 ConservatismNow!

what could be a stupider gift? a reset button? where'd they get that? staples? and it was red? red just because? or red to let the commies know that the USA is going commie?

384 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:17am

re: #341 MandyManners

[Link: www.whisky.com...]

Yummm!

385 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:20am

re: #354 gmsc

Oops - forgot the link.

Very interesting link - and the DOWn just dipped below 6500 ...

386 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:40am

re: #347 Kosh's Shadow

OT, but
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Ceres?
I think, based on experience, that a lot of life on Earth came from Uranus.

There better not be any life there. When they find out what we've been calling them, they're going to be pissed.

387 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:50am

re: #347 Kosh's Shadow

OT, but
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Ceres?
I think, based on experience, that a lot of life on Earth came from Uranus.

I wonder about Vesta, myself. It's the closest asteroid, on the inner edge of the Belt at 2.3 AU from the Sun. That close, you'd expect bits of it to ease into unstable orbits, and land on Earth like bits of the Moon and Mars do... and you'd be right (the "HED" meteorites) And it's differentiated... it's got an iron core, a mantle, and a crust.

388 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:46:53am

re: #227 Kenneth

OMG one of my kids has been singing Lady GaGa's "Poker Face" over and over again. I think it should be in the iTunes library of torture songs at Gitmo.

389 Rexatosis  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:47:45am

I am afraid while Uncle Jimbo's apology for his inaccurate report regarding LFG may be hailed here on this blog we have lost sight that Uncle Jimbo has gravely damaged his earnings potential during these difficult economic times. The MSM will now never hire Uncle Jimbo. If only he had claimed though his report had flaws it was still "accurate" and reached a "deeper truth" he might still have a chance to work at NBC, MSNBC, CBS, or even the NYTIMES. I can't believe anyone would cheer at such a tragedy. It only shows how....(place your favorite invective here) LFGers are.

Was that sufficently swarmy enough for me to get Keith Obermann's job? ;)

390 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:12am

re: #383 phoenixgirl

Did you see a news item that Obama gave the PM of Britain DVDs as a gift? Anyone see it? I can't tell if it's a true story or an urban myth.

391 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:13am

re: #383 phoenixgirl

what could be a stupider gift? a reset button? where'd they get that? staples?

Her first choice was the boxed set DVD of E.T., but Obama already gave that to Gordon Brown.

392 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:15am
393 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:22am

re: #364 Texas Heathen

grinding wenches?
Sounds like fun! Must've been some friend of a friend.

I don't think I live this one down for a while..........

394 Bloodnok  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:22am

re: #385 yma o hyd

Very interesting link - and the DOWn just dipped below 6500 ...

Is this a fit or a start?

395 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:51am
396 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:48:54am

re: #339 CyanSnowHawk

The Mutants are still kicking around? I saw them at Iguanas in TJ back in the early 90s.

Yep.

They were in Bam Margera's last Viva La Bands tour, in 2007 (and I'm waiting, Bam, for Viva La Bands 3). It took a long time for them to set up, because they have to cover the entire stage in heavy plastic.

397 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:49:12am

re: #391 Occasional Reader

Her first choice was the boxed set DVD of E.T., but Obama already gave that to Gordon Brown.

They are like old people who give away things they find around their house.

398 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:49:27am

re: #347 Kosh's Shadow

OT, but
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Ceres?

I refuse to believe that I'm descended from Cereal!

399 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:49:32am

re: #395 buzzsawmonkey

I've never been a big World/Ceres fan.

GROAN

400 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:49:35am

re: #371 Gearhead

It looks like groveling.

Standard 0bama Foreign Policy.

401 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:49:38am

re: #393 jcm

I don't think I live this one down for a while..........

After a bit of wenching, the furor should ratchet down.

402 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:49:43am

re: #391 Occasional Reader

Her first choice was the boxed set DVD of E.T., but Obama already gave that to Gordon Brown.

Again Scrappleface says it best:

Obama to Meet Queen, Planning Gift of CD Box Set

403 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:01am

re: #120 lostlakehiker

At least if you get beheaded, the State will prosecute the devout(?-from what I understand, Sharia doctrine is that husbands are permitted to mete out corporal punishment, but it must stop short of drawing blood, breaking bones, etc.) ripper who did you in. This has to have some deterrent effect.

Social custom in a lot of places is much nastier than actual Sharia. The problem with Saudi, Pakistan, etc. is not actually Islamic law, but long-standing traditions of strongmen doing what the hell they like without consequences. Now sometimes enshrined as "Islamic" tradition.

404 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:03am

re: #394 Bloodnok

Is this a fit or a start?

Reminds me of the noise my cat makes as she retches up a hairball.

405 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:13am

re: #394 Bloodnok

Is this a fit or a start?

I might start to have a fit.

406 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:17am

re: #391 Occasional Reader

Her first choice was the boxed set DVD of E.T., but Obama already gave that to Gordon Brown.

I'm surprised at E.T. I thought Dr. Strangelove would have been more likely.

407 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:20am

re: #390 WriterMom

Did you see a news item that Obama gave the PM of Britain DVDs as a gift? Anyone see it? I can't tell if it's a true story or an urban myth.

Its a true story, nothing urban-mythic about it.
And WB gave two plastic helicopeters from te White House Gift Shop to Gord's two boys.

408 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:31am

re: #391 Occasional Reader

So the story is true? I was just asking about that..he really did give the PM of Britain DVDs. What a knob.

409 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:45am

re: #390 WriterMom

Did you see a news item that Obama gave the PM of Britain DVDs as a gift? Anyone see it? I can't tell if it's a true story or an urban myth.

i saw that, lol, what a tool! 25 dvd's

A box of 25 DVDS including ET, the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars? Oh, give me strength. We do have television and DVD stores on this side of the Atlantic. Even Gordon Brown will have seen those films too often already.
410 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:49am

re: #374 MandyManners

Maybe he got tired of me calling him a fucking idiot yesterday or, telling him that something wasn't the fucking point.

No, I think he's gotten used to that.

411 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:53am

re: #358 WriterMom

Wasn't that just piss-in-yer-pants funnnnnnayyyyyyyyyyy?

Could you please re-post that, WriterMom? Gotta add it to my favorites.

412 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:55am
413 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:50:57am

re: #397 ConservatismNow!

They are like old people who give away things they find around their house.

Like Aunt Bethany in Christmas Vacation - she wrapped up a Jello mold & her cat.

414 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:51:27am

re: #394 Bloodnok

Is this a fit or a start?

Looks like a small wriggle, its 6501 now.

415 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:51:32am

re: #407 yma o hyd

HOW TACKY IS THIS IDOT? I wonder if he had any time to send condolences to the leader of the British Conservative party on the death of his son. Probably not.

416 Bloodnok  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:51:37am

re: #406 Kosh's Shadow

I'm surprised at E.T. I thought Dr. Strangelove would have been more likely.

I can totally see BH0's response to news that Iran attacked Israel with a nuclear device to be "Well how do you think I feel?".

417 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:51:44am

re: #393 jcm

I don't think I live this one down for a while..........

So there's not going to be an LGF Renaissance Faire?

re: #394 Bloodnok

Is this a fit or a start?

Both - a fart

418 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:51:51am

re: #398 Occasional Reader

I refuse to believe that I'm descended from Cereal!

Well, you picked the right place to Post about it.

419 raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:04am

O.T. I just saw an angry blue dude called Dr. Manhattan in the new movie Watchmen that my 17 year old son made me take him to. It was a great movie, I enjoyed it more than the lsat Batman movie Dark Knight. 2 Thumbs up!

420 Neo Con since 9-11  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:28am

#383 phoenixgirl

what could be a stupider gift? a reset button?

A 25 DVD gift box that won't play on the recipient player?

421 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:28am
422 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:32am

re: #416 Bloodnok

I can totally see BH0's response to news that Iran attacked Israel with a nuclear device to be "Well how do you think I feel?".

Oh, bloody marvelous.

423 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:36am

re: #418 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Well, you picked the right place to Post about it.

Let's not sugar-coat things....

424 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:42am

We are under 6,500 now.

425 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:49am

re: #402 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Again Scrappleface says it best:

Obama to Meet Queen, Planning Gift of CD Box Set

I like my previously mentoined Estee Lauder Gift Pack better.

426 Miss Molly  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:50am

BeerDrinking-VictoryMonkey -- that story about the Russians giving Obama help with Rush Limbaugh made me laugh so hard -- I am going to send that to Senator Harry Reid because it upsets him so much when people talk back to him and don't take his edicts seriously -- he is such a jerk.

jcm -- I would bet that since Hillary know everything in the world she would never ask anyone in the State Depart to make sure to get the right work for "reset". But, she will blame others for the mistake.

427 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:54am

re: #262 Pvt Bin Jammin

LOL I just refreshed Uncle Jimbo's post. There are some pretty crazy comments over there. We are the "purity police"? Who knew.

The term "purity police" or "purity patrol" was created by the fascist sympathizers here during the Vlaams Belang controversy. They didn't like being called out for their beliefs, and claimed they were being hounded by a "purity patrol" here on LGF.

428 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:52:56am

re: #409 phoenixgirl

Just wait, they'll show up on the UK eBay site.

429 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:07am

re: #416 Bloodnok

I can totally see BH0's response to news that Iran attacked Israel with a nuclear device to be "Well how do you think I feel?".

Yes, he'd be upset that Iran didn't listen to him, not that Israelis died.
And then he'd be upset at the Israeli counterattack.

430 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:19am

re: #411 Ward Cleaver

Voila.

431 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:22am

re: #424 SummerSong

We are under 6,500 now.

fan"fuckin"tastic!/

432 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:23am

re: #410 pink freud

No, I think he's gotten used to that.

People can get used to just about anything.

433 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:32am

re: #420 Neo Con since 9-11

#383 phoenixgirl

A 25 DVD gift box that won't play on the recipient player?

Not unless he has a multistandard DVD player.

434 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:38am

re: #398 Occasional Reader

I refuse to believe that I'm descended from Cereal!

If I kill you does that make me a cereal killer....
:)

435 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:47am

re: #430 WriterMom

Voila.

Thanks!

436 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:48am

BBIAW

437 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:59am

re: #421 buzzsawmonkey

Just try not to Kellogg the thread with the discussion.

Would it be better if I just Kix it over to an open thread?

438 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:53:59am

So, CNN thinks that Israel's possible choice of Avigor Lieberman as foreign minister (nothing solid yet, just a possibility) will further complicated the stalled peace process.

Memo to CNN:
The prime reason that the peace process is stalled is that one of the two parties involved - the Palestinians - would rather have a continual and destructive war that they can't win against Israel than have a peaceful coexistence in a 2-state solution. Hamas and Islamic Jihad don't want peace. They want Israel destroyed. Lieberman's elevation to such a high profile is a direct response to the failure of the continual concessions to Palestinians in the name of peace that undermines Israel's national security and only encourages further terrorist acts by Gazans and Fatah thugs in the West Bank.

In other words, CNN gets cause and effect mixed up. Figures, since they're on Israeli double standard time on all days ending in Y.

439 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:01am

re: #412 Iron Fist

If it keeps going like this, the DOWn is going to be OUT.

Yep - inch by inch.

They seem to like it below 6500 now they dipped their toes in - its 6491 as I type.

440 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:01am

re: #374 MandyManners

Maybe he got tired of me calling him a fucking idiot yesterday or, telling him that something wasn't the fucking point.

I could be wrong, but I think he actually enjoys it. It gives him an opportunity to start throwing out Leftist talking points about how mean "The Right" is, etc.

441 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:05am

re: #423 Gearhead

Let's not sugar-coat things....

If you're lucky, we'll find your remark charming.

442 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:13am
443 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:16am

re: #425 Occasional Reader

I like my previously mentoined Estee Lauder Gift Pack better.

i'm telling you, estee lauder is way too classy, it will be jean nate

444 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:28am

re: #434 LGoPs

If I kill you does that make me a cereal killer....
:)

TOTALly

445 LGoPs  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:39am

Man, pun thread starting and I have to leave....sheesh

446 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:54:59am

re: #438 lawhawk

So, CNN thinks that Israel's possible choice of Avigor Lieberman as foreign minister (nothing solid yet, just a possibility) will further complicated the stalled peace process.

Memo to CNN:
The prime reason that the peace process is stalled is that one of the two parties involved - the Palestinians - would rather have a continual and destructive war that they can't win against Israel than have a peaceful coexistence in a 2-state solution. Hamas and Islamic Jihad don't want peace. They want Israel destroyed. Lieberman's elevation to such a high profile is a direct response to the failure of the continual concessions to Palestinians in the name of peace that undermines Israel's national security and only encourages further terrorist acts by Gazans and Fatah thugs in the West Bank.

In other words, CNN gets cause and effect mixed up. Figures, since they're on Israeli double standard time on all days ending in Y.

I'd love to see Lieberman in that job.

447 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:01am
448 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:26am

re: #408 WriterMom

So the story is true? I was just asking about that..he really did give the PM of Britain DVDs. What a knob.

And there are format issues between the two countries. I wonder if they thought of that in their haste to scare up a gift.

I also read that Gordon Brown has issues with his eyesight.

Someone yesterday said Obama could make up for it by sending along an Old Spice gift set (LOL) - I'd like to suggest, also, a Hickory Farms Deluxe Gift Box.

449 kansas  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:26am

re: #424 SummerSong

We are under 6,500 now.

Somewhere there is a shit head standing in front of a couple of teleprompters reveling in this. Barack, where are you?

450 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:37am

re: #432 MandyManners

People can get used to just about anything.

The only thing I can figure is that he's waiting/wants to be convinced. Otherwise, his being here is puzzling.

451 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:47am

re: #419 raven1

O.T. I just saw an angry blue dude called Dr. Manhattan in the new movie Watchmen that my 17 year old son made me take him to. It was a great movie, I enjoyed it more than the lsat Batman movie Dark Knight. 2 Thumbs up!

Glad to hear that. I enjoyed the comic, but it's dark. I'm going to see it tomorrow.

452 MandyManners  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:48am

I gotta' get outta' here. See you Lizards later!

453 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:55am

re: #442 buzzsawmonkey

Actually, in Watchmen you can see the genesis of Trooferism. The villain in that story fabricates a faux alien attack that kills half of New York, in order to provide an incident that he hopes will unify the country.

Sound familiar?

Am I the only person left in America who isn't reading "graphic novels"?

454 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:55:56am

re: #438 lawhawk

I am so enjoying the fear of Lieberman and Bibi. THE SKY IS FALLING. I love it that there are at least a few Jews that make the MSM and Arabs shit in their pants.

455 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:13am

This just in: Sec. Clinton is knitting a sweater for Sar'cozy'.

/mark my words

456 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:30am

re: #447 buzzsawmonkey

If you don't, Mandy might Sugar Smack you.

Deservedly so. She's an integral part of the Chex and balances here at LGF.

457 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:32am

re: #453 Occasional Reader

Am I the only person left in America who isn't reading "graphic novels"?

Does Penthouse count?

458 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:37am

re: #453 Occasional Reader

No. I gave up comic books even before the gang graduated from Riverdale High.

459 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:37am

re: #433 Ward Cleaver

Not unless he has a multistandard DVD player.


Dang, Obama gave that to the President of Mexico before the Browns came over!

460 jordash1212  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:43am

Charles, perhaps you should offer a public ban log for these idiots, so that you don't have to defend your reputation to hate-spewing, mindless bigots.

461 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:56:57am

re: #424 SummerSong

We are under 6,500 now.

That means it's time for a song,

Workin' on the stock market
Goin' down down down
Workin' on the stock market
Whop! about to slip down
Workin' on the stock market
Goin' down down down
Workin' on the stock market
Whop! about to slip down
Nine o'clock in the mornin'
It's all ready down and gone
Lord I am so tired
How long can this go on?

462 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:19am

re: #427 Honorary Yooper

The term "purity police" or "purity patrol" was created by the fascist sympathizers here during the Vlaams Belang controversy. They didn't like being called out for their beliefs, and claimed they were being hounded by a "purity patrol" here on LGF.

Now that you mention that, I do recall something along those lines. Those were some crazy threads.

463 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:29am

re: #460 jordash1212

Charles, perhaps you should offer a public ban log for these idiots, so that you don't have to defend your reputation to hate-spewing, mindless bigots.

Or a troll graveyard.

464 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:34am

re: #443 phoenixgirl

i'm telling you, estee lauder is way too classy, it will be jean nate

I'm giving them just a little credit for having the White House expense account available.

465 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:39am

re: #448 capitalist piglet

A loaf of Wonder Bread and Cheeze Whiz maybe? Much more classy.

466 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:42am

Dow at -100 and going down.

467 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:45am

re: #424 SummerSong

We are under 6,500 now.

We keep losing the same as yesterday's loss, we will be at zero in 23 short days.

468 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:51am

re: #415 WriterMom

HOW TACKY IS THIS IDOT? I wonder if he had any time to send condolences to the leader of the British Conservative party on the death of his son. Probably not.

No - why should he.
PB0 has only met him briefly on that fabulous European tour of his - and Dave is just an opposition leader, nothing of interest.

If it had been anybody other than PB0 meeting Grd in the WH, I'd have speculated that Gord's reception was perhaps due to hth fact that they know he's on his way out, and they'd want to keep doors open for the next Prime Minister.
With PB0 - such a thought wouldn't have dawned on them at all, I don't think.

469 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:57:54am

I just love pun threads.

They're GRRRRREEEAAAT

470 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:58:16am

re: #442 buzzsawmonkey

Actually, in Watchmen you can see the genesis of Trooferism. The villain in that story fabricates a faux alien attack that kills half of New York, in order to provide an incident that he hopes will unify the country.

Sound familiar?

Moore made good use of the meme in the comic. The tree that gave us the fruit of trooferism is plenty mature and has deep roots.

471 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:58:21am

re: #463 Creeping Eruption

Or a troll graveyard.

A Wall of Shame?

472 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:58:22am

re: #458 WriterMom

No. I gave up comic books even before the gang graduated from Riverdale High.

I said in AMERICA, you head-flapping Canuck!

473 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:58:24am

re: #451 CyanSnowHawk

Glad to hear that. I enjoyed the comic, but it's dark. I'm going to see it tomorrow.

Seeing it tonight. The Washington Times & of all sites, Christianity Today, loved it.

475 raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:59:05am

re: #442 buzzsawmonkey

My son informs me the comic is different than the movie.

476 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:59:12am

re: #457 Creeping Eruption

Does Penthouse count?

Depends. Do you "read" Penthouse?

477 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:59:44am

re: #443 phoenixgirl

i'm telling you, estee lauder is way too classy, it will be jean nate

Or those "Smells Like..." perfumes from the Family Dollar.

478 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:59:47am

re: #474 phoenixgirl

And what did Obama do? Chucked the bust of Churchill in the garbage pretty much.

479 jjmckay1216  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:59:50am

re: #305 jcm

i LOVE wenches

480 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:59:59am
481 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:00:03pm

re: #476 Occasional Reader

Only for the articles, and the advice column I'm sure.

482 subsailor68  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:00:08pm

Hi all! A little late today. It was my Meals on Wheels turn.

Came up with a way to cut my route drive time in half. I just called ahead and asked folks to open a front window, then slowed down to about 20 when I drive past. Thought it was a great plan.

Forgot it was soup day.

483 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:00:11pm

re: #347 Kosh's Shadow

OT, but
Could Life on Earth Have Come From Ceres?
I think, based on experience, that a lot of life on Earth came from Uranus.

Once again, GWAR is ahead of the trend - "This Toilet Earth" was released in 1994. /:D

484 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:00:14pm

re: #477 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Or those "Smells Like..." perfumes from the Family Dollar.

mmmmmmm, smells like teen spirit!

485 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:00:43pm

re: #476 Occasional Reader

Depends. Do you "read" Penthouse?

Well some of the things in there are quite . . ."novel."

486 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:01:04pm

re: #472 Occasional Reader

Head Flapping Canuck? LOL. I've been called worse.

(like "nice")

487 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:01:05pm

re: #374 MandyManners

Maybe he got tired of me calling him a fucking idiot yesterday or, telling him that something wasn't the fucking point.


I had to leave that thread, how did it turn out with Avanti?

488 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:01:07pm

re: #476 Occasional Reader

Depends. Do you "read" Penthouse?

The Letters, of course. I never knew so many people were having sex with twins in the elevators of our nation's shopping malls, but every word is true...

489 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:01:11pm

re: #475 raven1

My son informs me the comic is different than the movie.

The ending is changed in the manner in which it occurs, but it is reported that the spirit has been maintained.

The ending as it stood in the comic would have been near impossible to pull off seriously.

490 subsailor68  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:01:19pm

re: #485 Creeping Eruption

Well some of the things in there are quite . . ."novel."

Isn't that spelled "navel"?

491 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:11pm

re: #490 subsailor68

Isn't that spelled "navel"?

LOL. That is how I spelled it at first.

492 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:21pm

Work or fart around on line? Work or fart around on line..

Today, I have had to make too many critical decisions.

493 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:32pm

re: #483 Catttt

Once again, GWAR is ahead of the trend - "This Toilet Earth" was released in 1994. /:D

My only exposure to GWAR comes from their videos occasionally showing up on "Beavis & Butthead". At one point, as GWAR are stomping around onscreen in their foam rubber armor, shrieking atonally, Butthead gives a sigh of satisfaction and says, "dude, this is what it's all about."

494 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:38pm

re: #491 Creeping Eruption

LOL. That is how I spelled it at first.

Orange you glad you asked?

495 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:39pm

re: #469 Texas Heathen

I just love pun threads.

They're GRRRRREEEAAAT

Wonderful. Serial Cereal Puns

496 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:47pm

re: #474 phoenixgirl

Brown, who is not known to be a movie buff, gave the president and his children several uniquely historical gifts.

The first of which is a pen holder fashioned from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

Another treasure given to Obama is a framed commissioning paper for the HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy ship that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.

Finally, Brown gave Obama a first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.

It makes me ill every time I read of these carefully thought out and executed gifts (as well as the gifts for the daughters), when I think of what the O and WAB gave in return. Just physically ill at their total lack of class and manners. These gifts between heads of state aren't really so much about the individuals who are giving and receiving, they are more a reflection of friendship and honor between two countries.

And for the O and WAB not to understand that is just heartbreaking.

497 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:52pm

re: #468 yma o hyd

I don't think they are that sophisticated. Just a bunch of classless idiots.

498 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:02:54pm

re: #492 WriterMom

Work or fart around on line? Work or fart around on line..

Today, I have had to make too many critical decisions.

So what was it in the end - sushi or run?

499 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:05pm

re: #474 phoenixgirl

Brown, who is not known to be a movie buff, gave the president and his children several uniquely historical gifts.

The first of which is a pen holder fashioned from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

Another treasure given to Obama is a framed commissioning paper for the HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy ship that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.

Finally, Brown gave Obama a first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.

Pres. Bush gave Brown a bomber jacket. Trying to up-cool the stodgey Brit.

500 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:20pm

re: #493 Occasional Reader

My only exposure to GWAR comes from their videos occasionally showing up on "Beavis & Butthead". At one point, as GWAR are stomping around onscreen in their foam rubber armor, shrieking atonally, Butthead gives a sigh of satisfaction and says, "dude, this is what it's all about."

LOL! I miss those goofy bastards.

501 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:39pm

re: #390 WriterMom

Did you see a news item that Obama gave the PM of Britain DVDs as a gift? Anyone see it? I can't tell if it's a true story or an urban myth.

It's true. What I want to know is does he realize that American DVDs won't work in UK players?

502 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:49pm

re: #489 CyanSnowHawk

The ending as it stood in the comic would have been near impossible to pull off seriously.

"ROSEBUD" IS A SLED! THERE, I SAID IT!

503 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:51pm

re: #498 yma o hyd

So what was it in the end - sushi or run?

Perhaps bad sushi (then she can have runs too).

504 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:55pm

re: #498 yma o hyd

I actually went for a long walk in the sunshine (it's gorgeous here today) and bought myself fresh cut flowers-beautiful pink tulips, and ducked in to Whole Foods, too.

505 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:03:59pm

re: #244 Kenneth

Didn't Obama's grandmother liberate the Alamo? Or am I thinking of Antietam?

I'm missing something.

506 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:01pm

re: #494 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Orange you glad you asked?

I was going to make a comment about a Kumquat, but . . . .

507 Miss Molly  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:03pm

The 25 dvds given to Gordon Brown almost sounds like the Obama's are re-gifting something given to them. Somewhere someone wrote that Gordon Brown doesn't even like movies very much -- so much for the Obama team dong their research. The Obama's seem big on getting things -- no giving them.

508 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:12pm

re: #496 reine.de.tout

It makes me ill every time I read of these carefully thought out and executed gifts (as well as the gifts for the daughters), when I think of what the O and WAB gave in return. Just physically ill at their total lack of class and manners. These gifts between heads of state aren't really so much about the individuals who are giving and receiving, they are more a reflection of friendship and honor between two countries.

And for the O and WAB not to understand that is just heartbreaking.

It's a social class issue, and they are just union class.

509 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:19pm

re: #496 reine.de.tout


And for the O and WAB not to understand that is just heartbreaking.

I think they understand just fine.

Hi Reine!

510 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:32pm
511 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:35pm

re: #474 phoenixgirl

wow. well thought out gifts as compared to a collection of DVD's that could've been picked up at a garage sale.

512 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:35pm
513 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:40pm

re: #501 Catttt

The PAL/NTSC faux pas is the least of the problems with the gift exchange. So disgustingly tacky.

514 CyanSnowHawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:04:55pm

re: #502 Occasional Reader

"ROSEBUD" IS A SLED! THERE, I SAID IT!

Hey. I went spoiler free in my description.

515 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:05:31pm
516 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:05:40pm

link to Ace doesn't work.

517 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:05:56pm

re: #493 Occasional Reader

I had extra tickets to Viva La Bands, and a friend at work and her bf went. She got roped in when he found out GWAR was going to be there. She was a good sport, though she felt she stuck out like a sore thumb, since everyone else wore black. She did like the free Rockstar Energy Drinks. :D

518 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:08pm

re: #507 Miss Molly

The 25 dvds given to Gordon Brown almost sounds like the Obama's are re-gifting something given to them. Somewhere someone wrote that Gordon Brown doesn't even like movies very much -- so much for the Obama team dong their research. The Obama's seem big on getting things -- no giving them.

It's in part that they don't have empathy for other people. Their narcissism blinds them to all but the most blatant and based desires of other people. Don't you think there is a person in the White House who would have been willing to help them with these gift ideas?

519 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:12pm

re: #390 WriterMom

Did you see a news item that Obama gave the PM of Britain DVDs as a gift? Anyone see it? I can't tell if it's a true story or an urban myth.

He gave the PM a set of DVD's (not to mention that US DVDs won't play in the UK) and Michelle gave the PM's kids crappy plastic "made in China" toy helicopters.

These classless shitheads make the Clintons look like cultured, intellectual aristocrats.

520 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:14pm

re: #515 ploome hineni

HOLY SHITZKY.

521 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:20pm
522 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:31pm

re: #511 Texas Heathen

wow. well thought out gifts as compared to a collection of DVD's that could've been picked up at a garage sale.

Note to Mr. Brown - Check package for remnants of torn Christmas wrapping paper, or a Sharpie marking that looks like this: $1.

523 unrealizedviewpoint  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:35pm

re: #474 phoenixgirl

Finally, Brown gave Obama a first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.

I wonder if Obama might have taken this gift as some insult to his apparent lacking - his knowledge of history. Nah, ..not unless he cracks it open.

524 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:40pm

re: #496 reine.de.tout

It makes me ill every time I read of these carefully thought out and executed gifts (as well as the gifts for the daughters), when I think of what the O and WAB gave in return. Just physically ill at their total lack of class and manners. These gifts between heads of state aren't really so much about the individuals who are giving and receiving, they are more a reflection of friendship and honor between two countries.

And for the O and WAB not to understand that is just heartbreaking.

What is far more worrying is that they seem to have overridden their own protocol department, who surely must have given them some advice and some options - and that they seem to think that the USA is best represented by movies.
It actually disses all the cultural achievements of so many Americans - its mind-boggling.

Oh - and crass, because they must surely have been told that Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and can't see very well with the other.

525 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:06:56pm

re: #515 ploome hineni

can you make this up?

Parents facing prosecution after removing children from school in protest at 'Romeo and Julian' play

The sword fighting scene was just over the top. And don't get me started on "oh happy dagger..."

526 Ben Hur  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:02pm

re: #476 Occasional Reader

Depends. Do you "read" Penthouse?

What do you think "creeping eruption" means, anyway?

527 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:06pm

re: #519 Alouette

He gave the PM a set of DVD's (not to mention that US DVDs won't play in the UK) and Michelle gave the PM's kids crappy plastic "made in China" toy helicopters.

These classless shitheads make the Clintons look like cultured, intellectual aristocrats.

Or the Clintons had a better protocol officer. That person's head should be on a plate (figuratively).

528 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:19pm

re: #497 WriterMom

I don't think they are that sophisticated. Just a bunch of classless idiots.

Yep - just as we have been saying all along.

529 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:30pm

re: #518 DistantThunder

It's in part that they don't have empathy for other people. Their narcissism blinds them to all but the most blatant and based desires of other people. Don't you think there is a person in the White House who would have been willing to help them with these gift ideas?

The snub was not unintentional.

530 Gearhead  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:34pm

What DVDs did he give?

"Oh, thank you, Mr. President, a Monty Python box set. How, umm, original."

531 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:40pm

re: #402 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Again Scrappleface says it best:

Obama to Meet Queen, Planning Gift of CD Box Set


THat was hilarious - I was over here laughing out loud and getting the stank eye from coworkers. :>)

532 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:45pm

re: #521 buzzsawmonkey

It's like two couples going to a dinner party, one of which brings a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and the other of which brings the big jug of Boone's Farm.

Somehow the 0ne fooled everyone when he talked about arugula, when he's really Denny's Grand Slam class.

533 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:07:47pm

re: #509 pink freud

I think they understand just fine.

Hi Reine!

Hiya, Pink!

Well, the other thing is this - as Pres & First Lady, they are "standing in" for ALL OF THE REST OF US when these types of gestures are made.

To make such a poor showing on our behalf shows their utter contempt for us.

534 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:08:13pm

re: #521 buzzsawmonkey

It's like two couples going to a dinner party, one of which brings a bottle of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and the other of which brings the big jug of Boone's Farm.

"I guarantee you that if we show up with Pepsi & Ding-Dongs, we'll be the hit of the party!"
George Constanza

535 subsailor68  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:08:18pm

re: #515 ploome hineni

can you make this up?

Parents facing prosecution after removing children from school in protest at 'Romeo and Julian' play

Good grief! The two kids mentioned were nine and ten? WTF are they thinking of over there?

Romeo and Julian? What's next week? Richard Simmons III?

536 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:08:46pm

re: #504 WriterMom

I actually went for a long walk in the sunshine (it's gorgeous here today) and bought myself fresh cut flowers-beautiful pink tulips, and ducked in to Whole Foods, too.

Now that has to be the best spontaneous decision you could possibly have made!

I love tulips.

537 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:08:47pm

re: #533 reine.de.tout

Hiya, Pink!

Well, the other thing is this - as Pres & First Lady, they are "standing in" for ALL OF THE REST OF US when these types of gestures are made.

To make such a poor showing on our behalf shows their utter contempt for us.

There you have it.

538 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:08:51pm

re: #502 Occasional Reader

"ROSEBUD" IS A SLED! THERE, I SAID IT!

You're wrong, it's a painting. ;)

539 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:09:22pm

Comment over at Ace.....

I stopped bothering with LGF months ago. For me it's Ace, Lucianne and Vdare.com.

Posted by: ccruse456


Ugh. Good riddance!

540 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:09:48pm

re: #443 phoenixgirl

i'm telling you, estee lauder is way too classy, it will be jean nate

Estee Lauder is classy, Jean Nate is too innocent and teen-girly.

A complete set of the Britney Spears fragrances.

541 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:03pm

re: #535 subsailor68

Good grief! The two kids mentioned were nine and ten? WTF are they thinking of over there?

Romeo and Julian? What's next week? Richard Simmons III?

Now is the winter of our discontent, so shake the butter off those buns, girls!

542 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:07pm

re: #519 Alouette

He gave the PM a set of DVD's (not to mention that US DVDs won't play in the UK) and Michelle gave the PM's kids crappy plastic "made in China" toy helicopters.

These classless shitheads make the Clintons look like cultured, intellectual aristocrats.

It was Marine One out of the white house gift store. And then they baubled the whole press conference. There was confusion, misdirection, changing plans, a very slovenly performance by Bama.

543 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:09pm

re: #460 jordash1212

Charles, perhaps you should offer a public ban log for these idiots, so that you don't have to defend your reputation to hate-spewing, mindless bigots.

That reminds me of the request we had a few days ago about whether LGF should display a formal blacklist of fascist sympathisers and conspiracy believers.

We do, informally, have an unwritten "shit list" - every site has a mental register of sites and serial trolls they don't like - but it really would make us look bad to publish it. It might even drive up traffic to those sites; we'd get fascists and troofers deliberately coming here to visit (say) Lionheart or some similar BNP style weirdo.

Too many assholes would take their blacklisting with pride - a twisted version of how we take pride in insults from CAIR. Plus if a personal blacklist was public, CAIR would point at it and say, "look at this hate site and the pond-scum it attracts". And some of the guys Stinky boots aren't exactly, shall we say, entirely stocked with a full set of diamonds in their card deck. What if someone gets blacklisted, it's traceable to their real name, he loses his job and shoots himself?

So yeah. Let's not.

544 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:21pm

re: #540 SanFranciscoZionist

Estee Lauder is classy, Jean Nate is too innocent and teen-girly.

A complete set of the Britney Spears fragrances.

i know! "blue jeans" by avon!

545 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:29pm

re: #540 SanFranciscoZionist

Estee Lauder is classy, Jean Nate is too innocent and teen-girly.

A complete set of the Britney Spears fragrances.

So, if the 0nes meet Sarkozy, will they give a gift pack of Vichy water?

546 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:31pm

re: #501 Catttt

It's true. What I want to know is does he realize that American DVDs won't work in UK players?

re: #501 Catttt

It's true. What I want to know is does he realize that American DVDs won't work in UK players?

OMG.

You sure about that?

If so... this is just priceless.

547 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:10:59pm

re: #507 Miss Molly

The 25 dvds given to Gordon Brown almost sounds like the Obama's are re-gifting something given to them. Somewhere someone wrote that Gordon Brown doesn't even like movies very much -- so much for the Obama team dong their research. The Obama's seem big on getting things -- no giving them.

It doesn't seem very stylish, or statesmany, and anyone who likes movies will have all the American greats they want already.

548 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:02pm

re: #535 subsailor68

Good grief! The two kids mentioned were nine and ten? WTF are they thinking of over there?

Romeo and Julian? What's next week? Richard Simmons III?

Did you see where the same group wanted to explore the advantages of gay sex with kindergarteners. That was in the UK too.

549 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:04pm
I didn’t write anything over the top.

Sure, you didn't, bud.
Charles has nothing better to do than to ban your sorry ... tush.

550 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:05pm
-110.15


Wheeeee!

551 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:11pm

re: #544 phoenixgirl

i know! "blue jeans" by avon!

It smells like pants! What a great concept!

552 raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:40pm

re: #510 Iron Fist

You could easily avert your eyes from the blue member, it did not figure prominently for me, but I'm a hetero male.

553 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:53pm

re: #524 yma o hyd

What is far more worrying is that they seem to have overridden their own protocol department, who surely must have given them some advice and some options - and that they seem to think that the USA is best represented by movies.
It actually disses all the cultural achievements of so many Americans - its mind-boggling.

Oh - and crass, because they must surely have been told that Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and can't see very well with the other.

I was wondering what happened to the protocol office - I'm sure one exists. Did they even consult with them?

And I did not know that about Gordon Brown, but couple that with the fact that US DVD's will not play in UK DVD players - it is mind-boggling. Simply mind-boggling. I feel personally insulted by that this couple failed to represent me properly to the gov't of the UK.

554 Miss Molly  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:11:56pm

Barry and Michelle have been given a "special pass" all their lives so there was no need to pick up on manners or taste. Apparently a protocole officer that would help them has essentially been "dismissed" because they make the decisions. This will only get better if Barry and Michelle let someone who actually knows what should be done make the choices.

Barry will get rid of the Churchill bust and most likely all others to make room for ones of him.

555 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:00pm

re: #545 Kosh's Shadow

So, if the 0nes meet Sarkozy, will they give a gift pack of Vichy water?

German sausage & a six-pack of Heinekin.

556 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:04pm

re: #446 Ward Cleaver

I'd love to see Lieberman in that job.

So would I. A western country would have a foreign minister who would stand up for his nation instead of go along to get along. Other diplomats wouldn't like him, but that's because he has balls and they don't.

557 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:09pm

re: #515 ploome hineni

can you make this up?

Parents facing prosecution after removing children from school in protest at 'Romeo and Julian' play

Obviously not Muslims, or the government would have prosecuted the school.

558 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:16pm

re: #550 Killgore Trout

Wheeeee!

Two words: health care

559 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:27pm

re: #518 DistantThunder

It's in part that they don't have empathy for other people. Their narcissism blinds them to all but the most blatant and based desires of other people. Don't you think there is a person in the White House who would have been willing to help them with these gift ideas?

Ya know, they dissed Brown the whole time that he was here. Maybe this was an intentional slight?

560 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:27pm

re: #540 SanFranciscoZionist

One word: Charlie.

561 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:46pm

re: #545 Kosh's Shadow

So, if the 0nes meet Sarkozy, will they give a gift pack of Vichy water?

OOWWWWWW.

562 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:55pm

re: #539 Killgore Trout

Comment over at Ace.....


Ugh. Good riddance!

LGF is one of the most libertarian sites around. Lucianne is rather librarian.

563 ConservatismNow!  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:12:59pm

re: #546 Occasional Reader

Why would I expect him to know anything? After working in computer sales and tech support, I no longer expect a minimum level of intelligence in any of my social interactions.

564 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:13:08pm

re: #544 phoenixgirl

i know! "blue jeans" by avon!

You have something against jeans, hmmmm? ;)

565 madisonsfriend  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:13:26pm

re: #502 Occasional Reader
I thought it was Richie's name on the Dick Van Dyke show?!?

566 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:13:41pm

re: #558 J.D.

Tax the rich! Raise corporate taxes! Spread the wealth around!

567 subsailor68  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:13:47pm

re: #548 DistantThunder

Did you see where the same group wanted to explore the advantages of gay sex with kindergarteners. That was in the UK too.

OMG! No, I haven't seen that. Thank heavens! It's totally nuts.

(BTW, when I first read your post, it sounded like they were talking about the advantages of gays having sex with kindergartners.)

;-)

568 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:13:56pm

re: #560 WriterMom

One word: Charlie.

Great, just when I finally had forgotten about that horrible commericialof Cindy Crawford "singing" the Charlie theme song...

569 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:14:03pm

re: #559 opnion

Ya know, they dissed Brown the whole time that he was here. Maybe this was an intentional slight?

I'm thinkin'... yes.
Vengeance is His

570 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:14:22pm

re: #560 WriterMom

One word: Charlie.

A Christmas gift set? With little bottles of Charlie, and Charlie Red, and whatever all else they've got.

I LOVED that stuff--in ninth grade I think.

571 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:14:23pm

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

572 SanFranciscoZionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:11pm

re: #567 subsailor68

OMG! No, I haven't seen that. Thank heavens! It's totally nuts.

(BTW, when I first read your post, it sounded like they were talking about the advantages of gays having sex with kindergartners.)

;-)

That was what I heard first as well. Thank you for clarifying, so my breakfast will stay down.

573 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:12pm

re: #524 yma o hyd


Oh - and crass, because they must surely have been told that Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and can't see very well with the other.

I'd give them a pass on that much. Blind people do go to movies. They can hear what goes on just fine; if there are specifically visual scenes they can have those described to them.

That said, I'm in agreement that DVDs are a stupid gift.

574 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:17pm

re: #564 FurryOldGuyJeans

You have something against jeans, hmmmm? ;)

i have nothing against jeans..in fact, jeans are my preferred attire. and i have made mention before that nothing gets me going like a cowboy in 501's driving a truck with bench seats

575 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:18pm

re: #560 WriterMom

One word: Charlie.

I think I remember the entire "Charlie" t.v. ad jingle. It was rather catchy.

576 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:21pm

re: #541 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Now is the winter of our discontent, so shake the butter off those buns, girls!

LMAO

577 MJBrutus  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:31pm

Cheers to Jimbo for manning up! Well done.

As for Angry White Dude, {yawn}

578 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:38pm

re: #545 Kosh's Shadow

So, if the 0nes meet Sarkozy, will they give a gift pack of Vichy water?

OMG!
This will be drool-worthy:
WAB meeting Madame Sarkozy, formerly Carla Bruni

(thats at the State visit when she met the Queen ...)

579 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:41pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

I will be 32 shy of that mark myself.

580 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:48pm

re: #559 opnion

Ya know, they dissed Brown the whole time that he was here. Maybe this was an intentional slight?

yep. But I do think they also lack the class and social graces. We saw it throughout the campaign. Remember the plane scandal? Reporter wrote that the the plane was smelly and unkept, and the schedule was chaotic, and reporters were disced right and left.

581 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:15:50pm

re: #559 opnion

Maybe this was an intentional slight?

I think it must have been. For everything that we say Obama is, remember that this guy is a Chicago politician, no one knew who he was a few years ago, and he trounced Hillary Clinton at her own game. He must have a black belt in dirty politics. I do not think anything he does is an oversight.

582 WriterMom  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:16:10pm

Warning: The following is a rant.

I HATE PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO IMPORTANT TO TYPE OUT THEIR WHOLE FRIGGING NAME ON AN E-MAIL AND JUST USE THEIR STUPID, IDIOTIC FIRST INITIAL.

/back to your regularly scheduled posting.

583 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:16:13pm

re: #559 opnion

Ya know, they dissed Brown the whole time that he was here. Maybe this was an intentional slight?

You might want to see Baldilocks' perspective. Her family is Kenyan, like Obama's, I think.

584 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:05pm

re: #515 ploome hineni

can you make this up?

Parents facing prosecution after removing children from school in protest at 'Romeo and Julian' play

From your link:

Mr Latif, from Leytonstone, said: 'We were worried because weren't sure how they were going to teach our children these issues.

'We don't think it is necessary to teach it for a whole week and the children are so young. It is more appropriate for secondary school.

'Most children that age don't understand these things. When we took our children out of school we had to explain why - they didn't know what two parents the same sex meant.'

Lovely. Let's sexualize preteens.

Now Mr. and Mrs. Latif are in a position where they need to explain same-sex relationships to a nine-year old and a 10-year old who had not given a thought to such things so will have many questions, and they are worried about being charged with a crime for removing their kids from the "lesson."

And apparently Google has not been enlightened yet:


« View all web results for romeo-and-julien

Did you mean to search for: "romeo and juliet"

585 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:12pm

re: #568 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Great, just when I finally had forgotten about that horrible commericialof Cindy Crawford "singing" the Charlie theme song...

Cindy Crawford?! The "Charlie" ad I remember aired when Cindy was in grade school.

586 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:13pm

re: #566 Killgore Trout

Tax the rich! Raise corporate taxes! Spread the wealth around!

The Obama Economy, Cont.
Recessions don't last forever, but bad policies can prolong the pain.

he Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 281 points yesterday, or 4%, while President Obama began his political push for nationalizing health care and Barney Frank called upon state, local and federal officials to prosecute "those people whose irresponsible and, in some cases, criminal actions helped bring about this crisis." (In what must have been an oversight, Mr. Frank left himself off the target list.)...


I only wish I could laugh about it.

587 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:28pm

re: #569 J.D.

I'm thinkin'... yes.
Vengeance is His

You beat me. I thought of that too...interesting.

588 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:48pm

re: #569 J.D.

I'm thinkin'... yes.
Vengeance is His

That could explain it. Obama, to by mind harbors an unnatural allegiance to the nation of the father that deserted him.

589 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:53pm

re: #578 yma o hyd

This will be drool-worthy:
WAB meeting Madame Sarkozy, formerly Carla Bruni

Carla Bruni is always drool-worthy.

590 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:17:56pm

re: #535 subsailor68

Good grief! The two kids mentioned were nine and ten? WTF are they thinking of over there?

Romeo and Julian? What's next week? Richard Simmons III?

What they were thinking was to push the 'normality' of gayness as early and as often as possible. It's pretty blatant thought control.

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!

Youtube Video
591 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:06pm

re: #574 phoenixgirl

i have nothing against jeans..in fact, jeans are my preferred attire. and i have made mention before that nothing gets me going like a cowboy in 501's driving a truck with bench seats

About the only thing there I can even hope to achieve in a reasonable facsimile is the 501s. ;)

592 Killian Bundy  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:14pm

Uh Oh, White House Seeks Economic Advice From Twitter

The administration invited him to join a “young business leaders" summit to discuss the economic crises.

As Ev himself puts it -- in a Twitter message, of course -- "[this] must mean they're *really* out of ideas."

/there's always room for one more in the Obama clown car

593 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:27pm

re: #583 capitalist piglet

You might want to see Baldilocks' perspective. Her family is Kenyan, like Obama's, I think.

gmta

594 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:31pm

re: #583 capitalist piglet

You might want to see Baldilocks' perspective. Her family is Kenyan, like Obama's, I think.

More - she's half Luo like Obama. But her other half is American black rather than Midwest pinko.

595 Wishing  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:36pm

re: #547 SanFranciscoZionist

It doesn't seem very stylish, or statesmany, and anyone who likes movies will have all the American greats they want already.

It is quite a *cultural* statement though, and not a very good one.

596 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:52pm

re: #548 DistantThunder

Did you see where the same group wanted to explore the advantages of gay sex with kindergarteners. That was in the UK too.

Which group? NAMBLA or MPAUK?

597 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:55pm

re: #586 J.D.

Barney Frank called upon state, local and federal officials to prosecute "those people whose irresponsible and, in some cases, criminal actions helped bring about this crisis."

Kuhlak hoarders! Er, I mean... "greedy bankers", yeah, that's it!

598 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:18:56pm

re: #531 monkeytime

THat was hilarious - I was over here laughing out loud and getting the stank eye from coworkers. :>)

A queen-sized mattress! hahahahahahahahahahahaa

599 BignJames  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:19:00pm

re: #574 phoenixgirl

Cowboys wear Wranglers....don't you watch the commercials?

600 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:19:27pm

re: #573 Zimriel

I'd give them a pass on that much. Blind people do go to movies. They can hear what goes on just fine; if there are specifically visual scenes they can have those described to them.

That said, I'm in agreement that DVDs are a stupid gift.

This could be worse, he could have given Brown Audio books of him reading his crappy memoirs.

601 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:19:27pm

re: #583 capitalist piglet

You might want to see Baldilocks' perspective. Her family is Kenyan, like Obama's, I think.

OK now this makes sense. I have to laugh at you Brits that thought Obama would love you back. Don't you know who he thinks he is?

602 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:19:29pm

re: #559 opnion

Ya know, they dissed Brown the whole time that he was here. Maybe this was an intentional slight?

If so - why?
Gord is a neo-stalinist, PB0 ought to have embraced him with love!
I cannot believe that PB0 has the faintest idea of the domestic situation ehre in the UK where not just us peasants but more and more people 'in the know' in London are calling for an election at the soonest possible point.
And everyone knows that the next Prime Minister will be Dave Cameron, Tory Leader.

I don't think this has impinged on PB0's consciousness at all.

603 Miss Molly  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:19:36pm

How could their treatment of Brown not be intentional. Both the Obama's seemed intent on being a little insullting to the Browns. The Obama's were such an embarrasment to the country to behave in this manner to GB with whom we have a special relationship.

604 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:20:00pm

re: #588 opnion

That could explain it. Obama, to by mind harbors an unnatural allegiance to the nation of the father that deserted him.

Which is potentially a problem. He has an unusual background for a U.S. President - it's vitally important that he is able to set these things aside, and I have always worried that he wouldn't be able to.

605 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:20:16pm

re: #599 BignJames

Cowboys wear Wranglers....don't you watch the commercials?

did you ever see Giant?

606 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:20:30pm

re: #588 opnion

That could explain it. Obama, to by mind harbors an unnatural allegiance to the nation of the father that deserted him.

Well, it's OK if he has mixed feelings, but he is supposed to be President... now.
This is not a "big picture" guy.

607 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:20:38pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

GO, {reine}, GO!

608 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:05pm

Mr Brown's gifts to President Obama included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President.

Another treasure given to the U.S. President was the framed commission for HMS Resolute, a vessel that came to symbolise Anglo-US peace when it was saved from ice packs by Americans and given to Queen Victoria.

Finally, Mr Brown gave a first edition set of the seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.

In return, President Obama gave Prime Minister Brown 25 DVDs of American classic movies.

The First Lady gave to Mrs. Brown for her two sons: Two Marine One toy helicopters, which apparently can be found at the White House gift shop for $15 each.

609 newsjunkie_ky  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:09pm

re: #553 reine.de.tout

I was wondering what happened to the protocol office - I'm sure one exists. Did they even consult with them?

And I did not know that about Gordon Brown, but couple that with the fact that US DVD's will not play in UK DVD players - it is mind-boggling. Simply mind-boggling. I feel personally insulted by that this couple failed to represent me properly to the gov't of the UK.

Didn't they even call Goldie Hawn?
/'Protocol'

610 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:21pm

re: #580 DistantThunder

yep. But I do think they also lack the class and social graces. We saw it throughout the campaign. Remember the plane scandal? Reporter wrote that the the plane was smelly and unkept, and the schedule was chaotic, and reporters were disced right and left.


Yeah, they are impossible to under estimate

611 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:26pm

re: #582 WriterMom

INITIALIST!
/

612 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:32pm

re: #592 Killian Bundy

Uh Oh, White House Seeks Economic Advice From Twitter


/there's always room for one more in the Obama clown car

Can it be any worse from the advice they've been listening to so far?

613 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:34pm

re: #588 opnion

That could explain it. Obama, to by mind harbors an unnatural allegiance to the nation of the father that deserted him.

Not really unnatural. He didn't even have a father figure till he moved to Hawaii. Many boys in his position come to idolize the father they only knew from afar.

614 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:43pm

re: #584 Catttt

And how to parents explain the insanity of transgendered without commiiting a hate crime by saying the people are nuts?

I've written before that MR DT knew a guy who changed to a woman and then called MR DT on the phone a few months later, suicidal that he had made a mistake. Mr DT told him to take his hormones and call his doctor. We just looked at each other and said - OMG.

615 BignJames  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:46pm

re: #605 phoenixgirl

did you ever see Giant?


You're not gonna tell me James Dean is a cowboy?

616 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:21:51pm

re: #600 opnion

This could be worse, he could have given Brown Audio books of him reading his crappy memoirs.

I wouldn't be surprised if it crossed his mind. Yesterday when I first saw the headline that he had given Brown 25 DVDs, I thought, "Of what? His inauguration?"

617 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:22:06pm

re: #607 yma o hyd

GO, {reine}, GO!

rofl!
I was just thinking I should come here late at night and post just really stupid stuff to get my count up.

But really, why bother? I'm sitting here laughing at myself because that number seems so . . . magical . . . somehow.

Besides, I need all the beauty sleep I can get these days.

618 abolitionist  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:22:26pm

re: #390 WriterMom

Did you see a news item that Obama gave the PM of Britain DVDs as a gift? Anyone see it? I can't tell if it's a true story or an urban myth.

Story appeared early on at HotAir. Seems that PM Brown ignored most of the inquiries by the press about the gift.
[Link: hotair.com...]

619 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:22:40pm

re: #602 yma o hyd

If so - why?
Gord is a neo-stalinist, PB0 ought to have embraced him with love!
I cannot believe that PB0 has the faintest idea of the domestic situation ehre in the UK where not just us peasants but more and more people 'in the know' in London are calling for an election at the soonest possible point.
And everyone knows that the next Prime Minister will be Dave Cameron, Tory Leader.
If you look up thread, it may have to do with Kenya.

I don't think this has impinged on PB0's consciousness at all.

620 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:22:56pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

I'm no-where near that. But I am four days away from my two year registration anniversary...

621 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:23:10pm

re: #614 DistantThunder

And how to parents explain the insanity of transgendered without commiiting a hate crime by saying the people are nuts?

I've written before that MR DT knew a guy who changed to a woman and then called MR DT on the phone a few months later, suicidal that he had made a mistake. Mr DT told him to take his hormones and call his doctor. We just looked at each other and said - OMG.

Mr. DT sounds like a smart man.

622 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:23:18pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

When it happened to me, I quietly celebrated with chocolate.

623 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:23:26pm

re: #616 capitalist piglet

I wouldn't be surprised if it crossed his mind. Yesterday when I first saw the headline that he had given Brown 25 DVDs, I thought, "Of what? His inauguration?"

I hadn't even thought that, but I'll bet it was in there.
lol

624 Pvt Bin Jammin  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:23:38pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

Good for you. I just recently went over 5,000.

625 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:23:39pm

re: #613 Dark_Falcon

Not really unnatural. He didn't even have a father figure till he moved to Hawaii. Many boys in his position come to idolize the father they only knew from afar.

I'll grant that it is understandable, which is not the same as natural.

626 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:24:13pm

re: #620 Zimriel

I'm no-where near that. But I am four days away from my two year registration anniversary...

all-riiiight!

627 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:24:16pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.

In 115 comments, welcome to the club. :-)

628 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:24:53pm

re: #615 BignJames

You're not gonna tell me James Dean is a cowboy?

he's wearing a cowboy hat

629 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:25:05pm

re: #622 debutaunt

When it happened to me, I quietly celebrated with chocolate.

Honestly, I don't need any sort of event in order to celebrate with chocolate. I just sort of crave chocolate all the time.

630 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:25:07pm

re: #621 reine.de.tout

Mr. DT sounds like a smart man.

He's had to handle all sorts of wackos when he was the director of a wilderness survival school - including ELF and PETA nut-jobs.

he finally opened his own school, catering to sane civilians, military and law enforcement.

631 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:25:07pm

re: #616 capitalist piglet

I wouldn't be surprised if it crossed his mind. Yesterday when I first saw the headline that he had given Brown 25 DVDs, I thought, "Of what? His inauguration?"

He could always have given Brown one of those ubiquitous Commemorative Inaugural Collector's Plates. Or one of the defaced US Quarters with his image painted on it. *BARF*

632 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:25:10pm

re: #579 FurryOldGuyJeans

I will be 32 shy of that mark myself.

The 10,000 club.

633 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:26:32pm

re: #631 FurryOldGuyJeans

He could always have given Brown one of those ubiquitous Commemorative Inaugural Collector's Plates. Or one of the defaced US Quarters with his image painted on it. *BARF*

The big scandal is that the coins are actually real quarters with Obama stickers stuck to them. Phoney as the Man himself.

634 BignJames  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:26:34pm

re: #628 phoenixgirl

he's wearing a cowboy hat


So is this guy.

635 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:26:37pm

re: #601 DistantThunder

OK now this makes sense. I have to laugh at you Brits that thought Obama would love you back. Don't you know who he thinks he is?

Well, if thats the reason, then all I can say he's behaving like a badly brought up brat.
He has no business, as the leader of the most powerful country on Earth, to treat other nations like a mad autocrat who acts out his personal dislikes.
Worse - this is no way to treat one of the USA's staunchest Allies.

636 Wishing  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:26:50pm

re: #608 SummerSong

Mr Brown's gifts to President Obama included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President.

Another treasure given to the U.S. President was the framed commission for HMS Resolute, a vessel that came to symbolise Anglo-US peace when it was saved from ice packs by Americans and given to Queen Victoria.

Finally, Mr Brown gave a first edition set of the seven-volume classic biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.

In return, President Obama gave Prime Minister Brown 25 DVDs of American classic movies.

The First Lady gave to Mrs. Brown for her two sons: Two Marine One toy helicopters, which apparently can be found at the White House gift shop for $15 each.

Gawd, they are an embarrassment!

637 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:00pm

re: #630 DistantThunder

He's had to handle all sorts of wackos when he was the director of a wilderness survival school - including ELF and PETA nut-jobs.

he finally opened his own school, catering to sane civilians, military and law enforcement.

Gotta link by any chance. Looking for an alternative to NOLS.

638 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:04pm

re: #634 BignJames

So is this guy.

you should have put a warning on that picture!/

639 nyc redneck  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:11pm

re: #553 reine.de.tout

I was wondering what happened to the protocol office - I'm sure one exists. Did they even consult with them?

And I did not know that about Gordon Brown, but couple that with the fact that US DVD's will not play in UK DVD players - it is mind-boggling. Simply mind-boggling. I feel personally insulted by that this couple failed to represent me properly to the gov't of the UK.

this bothers me a lot too.
we have classless lowlifes in the white house.
they resent america. they resent britain.
and because that thug won, he can be as obnoxious as he wants.
as vindictive as rev wright taught him to be.
how his crass disrespectful behavior reflects on us, has not crossed his
militant mind.

640 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:25pm

re: #633 DistantThunder

The big scandal is that the coins are actually real quarters with Obama stickers stuck to them. Phoney as the Man himself.

Oh, it is just stickers, eh? Here I thought it was paint. My bad! ;)

641 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:56pm

re: #636 Wishing

Gawd, they are an embarrassment!

their disdain for the British is transparent

642 bulwrk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:57pm

re: #602 yma o hyd

If so - why?
Gord is a neo-stalinist, PB0 ought to have embraced him with love!

That's what I thought,the only reason I could come up with is the the big labor unions don't like the UK much.

643 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:27:58pm

re: #634 BignJames

So is this guy.

Figures it'd be black.

644 jordash1212  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:28:05pm

re: #543 Zimriel

Someone killing themselves because their blog-site handle was posted on the "banned list?" Highly doubtful. Have you ever heard of blog-banned induced suicide?

Indeed some people might purposely try to get banned here, but I know it's quite easy to detect these kinds of people. Of course there are exceptions.

Sure it might show that this site might attract some loonies, but it also shows that we do not tolerate such hate and idiocy here. The idea has its pros and cons, but right now there's a pretty negative image about the ideologies and opinions here.

645 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:28:14pm

re: #637 Creeping Eruption

Gotta link by any chance. Looking for an alternative to NOLS.

Link

646 BignJames  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:28:24pm

re: #638 phoenixgirl


Nothing is really what it seems.

647 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:28:53pm

re: #617 reine.de.tout

rofl!
I was just thinking I should come here late at night and post just really stupid stuff to get my count up.

But really, why bother? I'm sitting here laughing at myself because that number seems so . . . magical . . . somehow.

Besides, I need all the beauty sleep I can get these days.

Yep - there are some special, magical numbers about.
But how magical they are, beauty sleep has to be the priority, absolutely!

648 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:28:56pm

re: #641 phoenixgirl

their disdain for the British is transparent

Their disdain for EVERYONE not themselves is very evident.

649 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:10pm

re: #646 BignJames

Nothing is really what it seems.

i like the way the 501's look on a guy. wrangler's not so much.

650 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:12pm

re: #631 FurryOldGuyJeans

He could always have given Brown one of those ubiquitous Commemorative Inaugural Collector's Plates. Or one of the defaced US Quarters with his image painted on it. *BARF*

I'm not sure those quarters were even painted. I think all they had was a sticker placed over the quarter. At least that's what it was according to a news report I saw about people upset at having paid a pretty penny for some stickers on quarters.

651 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:14pm

Hey my little town is getting some culture: Dead Sea Scrolls headed to Milwaukee Public Museum

652 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:20pm

re: #604 capitalist piglet

Which is potentially a problem. He has an unusual background for a U.S. President - it's vitally important that he is able to set these things aside, and I have always worried that he wouldn't be able to.

Obama seems to have lots of issues, & the Oval Office is not the place to find himself. I say that from my expertise gained in Psych 101, which if memoy serves, I actually showed up on occasion.

653 Raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:36pm

re: #631 FurryOldGuyJeans

I bet when you flip one of those quarters, Obama's mug is on both sides. Heads I win, tails you lose.

654 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:38pm

re: #546 Occasional Reader

Actually, I think it's an urban legend, but it's so deliciously possible, people will think it's true.

Too bad President O didn't include this movie:

Youtube Video
655 newsjunkie_ky  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:29:41pm

re: #617 reine.de.tout

rofl!
I was just thinking I should come here late at night and post just really stupid stuff to get my count up.

But really, why bother? I'm sitting here laughing at myself because that number seems so . . . magical . . . somehow.

Besides, I need all the beauty sleep I can get these days.

I should come here late at night and post just really stupid stuff to get my count up. I dinged you up for that one. LOL!

656 DistantThunder  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:30:06pm

re: #652 opnion

Obama seems to have lots of issues, & the Oval Office is not the place to find himself. I say that from my expertise gained in Psych 101, which if memoy serves, I actually showed up on occasion.

Someone published a 800 page book on the Psychology of Bill Clinton.

657 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:30:24pm

re: #629 reine.de.tout

Honestly, I don't need any sort of event in order to celebrate with chocolate. I just sort of crave chocolate all the time.

I find something to celebrate every day - today it will be your comment total, no matter what it is!

658 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:30:45pm

re: #645 DistantThunder

Link

Cool. Thanks.

659 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:30:52pm

re: #650 reine.de.tout

I'm not sure those quarters were even painted. I think all they had was a sticker placed over the quarter. At least that's what it was according to a news report I saw about people upset at having paid a pretty penny for some stickers on quarters.

I never really researched the matter, but stickers would seem to be very appropriate to the shallowness of the entirety of the man and the hucksters latched onto him like leeches.

660 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:30:59pm

re: #639 nyc redneck

this bothers me a lot too.
we have classless lowlifes in the white house.
they resent america. they resent britain.
and because that thug won, he can be as obnoxious as he wants.
as vindictive as rev wright taught him to be.
how his crass disrespectful behavior reflects on us, has not crossed his
militant mind.

OR, he just doesn't care, even though he and his wife have had the benefit of the very best of everything this country has to offer.

661 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:31:10pm

re: #651 Creeping Eruption

Hey my little town is getting some culture: Dead Sea Scrolls headed to Milwaukee Public Museum

Cool! It's a pretty nice museum as well, having visited it.

662 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:31:34pm

re: #631 FurryOldGuyJeans

He could always have given Brown one of those ubiquitous Commemorative Inaugural Collector's Plates. Or one of the defaced US Quarters with his image painted on it. *BARF*

OMG, what am I thinking? The Obamas should have gifted the Browns with matching snuggies & a supply of ShamWows!

663 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:31:59pm

re: #653 Raven1

I bet when you flip one of those quarters, Obama's mug is on both sides. Heads I win, tails you lose.

The only winners were the grifters pushing the crap merchandise.

664 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:07pm

re: #656 DistantThunder

Someone published a 800 page book on the Psychology of Bill Clinton.

Only 800 pages? They probably missed a lot.

665 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:07pm

re: #642 bulwrk

If so - why?
Gord is a neo-stalinist, PB0 ought to have embraced him with love!

That's what I thought,the only reason I could come up with is the the big labor unions don't like the UK much.

Again - that would surprise me, because under NuLab the Unions here have got a much greater say than they ever had under Maggie.
And they do finance the Labour Party to a huge extent.
So the Big Unions ought to heart Gord even more than PB0.

Something isn't right here, somthing looks very odd.

666 ~BfromTX  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:09pm

Happy Alamo Day my fellow Texans! Go Davy Crockett! ;-)

667 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:24pm

re: #653 Raven1

I bet when you flip one of those quarters, Obama's mug is on both sides. Heads I win, tails you lose.

I bet when you filp one of those quarters, only 8 cents comes back down...

668 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:35pm

re: #650 reine.de.tout

I'm not sure those quarters were even painted. I think all they had was a sticker placed over the quarter. At least that's what it was according to a news report I saw about people upset at having paid a pretty penny for some stickers on quarters.

Now that's just tacky, but somehow appropriate for this particular president who is himself tacky.

669 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:37pm

re: #664 Creeping Eruption

Only 800 pages? They probably missed a lot.

How many pages do you need to write SEX and FOOD?

/Bill's a typical guy.

670 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:43pm

re: #656 DistantThunder

Someone published a 800 page book on the Psychology of Bill Clinton.

Now that had to be a walk on the wild side.

671 Wishing  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:32:54pm

re: #641 phoenixgirl

their disdain for the British is transparent

I think their disdain reaches far beyond the Brits...like to the the Texans, the Omahans, the Arkansans, etc etc.

672 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:01pm

re: #645 DistantThunder

Link

Thanks for that link, there are some interesting courses in there.

673 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:11pm

re: #631 FurryOldGuyJeans

He could always have given Brown one of those ubiquitous Commemorative Inaugural Collector's Plates. Or one of the defaced US Quarters with his image painted on it. *BARF*

Excellent idea!

Nothing says "diplomacy" like a coin covered with an adhesive picture of Barack Obama.

674 Texas Heathen  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:11pm

re: #608 SummerSong

It makes it sound like when a guest drops by at Christmas with a gift and you have to scramble to reciprocate.
"oh crap, Michelle go find something to give these people, Quick..go go .."

even funnier image is the unexpected trick-or-treater like in "Big Daddy"

675 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:24pm

re: #666 ~BfromTX

Happy Alamo Day my fellow Texans! Go Davy Crockett! ;-)

Thanks, back at ya.

It should be a solemn occasion, IMO, but mostly it's now ignored, just like March 2.

676 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:26pm

re: #571 reine.de.tout

Of note to no one but me:

When this comment is posted, I will have 115 comments to go to reach the magic 10,000 comment mark.


Start punning!

677 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:55pm

re: #657 debutaunt

I find something to celebrate every day - today it will be your comment total, no matter what it is!

What a great outlook to have!
Yes, you are correct, there is something to celebrate every day, even if it is simply the fact that one is alive to enjoy the day.

678 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:33:55pm

re: #584 Catttt

It reminds me of 1984. The parents are being put in a position where they cannot manage their child's education and the manner in which the school is acting makes it clear they intend to do just that. The school is saying, "We'll teach your child to act and think as we want him to. If you complain or try to insulate your child from it, we'll attack you publicly and drag you to court." Britons and Americans, behold your chains!

679 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:00pm

re: #670 opnion

Now that had to be a walk on the wild side.

Wild side or seedy side? With BJ Clinton, I'd go with the latter.

680 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:00pm

re: #666 ~BfromTX

Happy Alamo Day my fellow Texans! Go Davy Crockett! ;-)

Oh geez - are you just using your first initial?

681 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:07pm

re: #661 Honorary Yooper

Cool! It's a pretty nice museum as well, having visited it.

Glad you like it. One of the fist, if not the first to use diaramas as exhibits.

682 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:08pm

re: #651 Creeping Eruption

Hey my little town is getting some culture: Dead Sea Scrolls headed to Milwaukee Public Museum

Milwaukee has plenty of culture, Maders!

683 nyc redneck  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:10pm

the o's are uncultured and not generous by nature.
as "victims" and affirmative action types they are looking to what they have coming.
not what they can give.
greedy spirits.

684 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:15pm

re: #656 DistantThunder

Someone published a 800 page book on the Psychology of Bill Clinton.

Good heavens!

I don't know why that surprises me, actually, now that I think about it.

685 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:34:45pm

re: #662 opnion

OMG, what am I thinking? The Obamas should have gifted the Browns with matching snuggies & a supply of ShamWows!

Now that would have been really appropriate, with him being a sSotsman and bound to turn the central heating down wherever he goes!

686 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:35:06pm

re: #675 OldLineTexan

It should be a solemn occasion

Indeed. Because you are illegally occupying Mexican land, pinche gringo.

687 newsjunkie_ky  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:35:31pm

re: #654 Catttt

Actually, I think it's an urban legend, but it's so deliciously possible, people will think it's true.

Too bad President O didn't include this movie:

Youtube Video


Rush wondered if the 0s thought to get region 2 DVDs and I do believe there is a difference.

688 bulwrk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:35:43pm

re: #608 SummerSong

Dear Lord I am deeply embarrassed for my country.But I wouldn't feel too slighted if I was Brown when Sarkozy comes to visit Barry just plans on picking up a Blockbuster gift certificate on his way home from work.

689 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:35:49pm

re: #685 yma o hyd

Now that would have been really appropriate, with him being a sSotsman and bound to turn the central heating down wherever he goes!

/snicker

So he and Barry have something in common (re: the White House being kept hotter because "Barack's from Hawaii" tempest).

690 midwestgak  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:35:56pm

re: #662 opnion

OMG, what am I thinking? The Obamas should have gifted the Browns with matching snuggies & a supply of ShamWows!

Hi all,

Ever notice that Maggie Simpson wears a tiny snuggie? :)

691 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:18pm

re: #656 DistantThunder

Someone published a 800 page book on the Psychology of Bill Clinton.

Even worse would be the "graphic novel" on the same subject.

(Because, boy, would it ever be graphic.)

692 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:32pm

re: #690 midwestgak

Hi all,

Ever notice that Maggie Simpson wears a tiny snuggie? :)

Still?
I haven't seen the Simpsons in awhile...

693 reine.de.tout  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:37pm

re: #676 DaddyG

Start punning!

I wish . . . but I'm so dense . . . by the time I realize a punning thread is going on, it's over and all the ones I could have thought of have been used.

694 ~BfromTX  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:40pm

re: #680 debutaunt

And your using what? you're bedroom name? //;-)

695 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:43pm

re: #666 ~BfromTX

you go Tex!

696 Jimmah  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:47pm
His post, however, has led to another round of LGF-bashing in the comments,

The comments section is like an ignoranuses convention. They seem to be revelling in the opportunity (that they did not get here) to rant freely about the evils of Darwinism and the 'nit-picky political correctness' of rejecting fascism without their claims being immediately set upon and debunked.

At the same time they propogate this lie that they were banned for merely disagreeing. The truth is that these clowns typically 'merely disagree' for a while and then give up after seeing their arguments repeatedly destroyed. Then they deliberately commit a banning offence and appear on other sites with their little tale of heroism "guess what I did at LGF". I wouldn't be surprised if they started posting pre-meltdown videos on youtube.

697 hazzyday  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:36:51pm

re: #112 eschew_obfuscation

Got a phone call from the RNC yesterday asking for money.

My wife told them that when the Republican party returned to conservative principles, we'd resume contributing. Until then, don't call.

What about the liberal Republicans?

698 Wishing  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:11pm

re: #645 DistantThunder

Link

Does he teach any online courses?

699 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:15pm

re: #669 OldLineTexan

How many pages do you need to write SEX and FOOD?

/Bill's a typical guy.

And POWER!

700 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:21pm

re: #682 opnion

Milwaukee has plenty of culture, Maders!

I work about 3 blocks from there. I havent been there since three people were gunned down outside a bar down the block and one of the people dragged himself over to Maders to die on their stoop.

701 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:25pm

re: #686 Occasional Reader

Indeed. Because you are illegally occupying Mexican land, pinche gringo.

We made Texas the old-fashioned way.

We earned it.

By throwing someone else out.

It's a tradition all over the world!

/

Besides, the Mexicans weren't using most of it anyway.

702 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:32pm

re: #674 Texas Heathen

It makes it sound like when a guest drops by at Christmas with a gift and you have to scramble to reciprocate.
"oh crap, Michelle go find something to give these people, Quick..go go .."

even funnier image is the unexpected trick-or-treater like in "Big Daddy"

Completely thoughtless. I'll bet you that these plastic helicopters were given to the Obama's daughters and Michelle just fished them out of the pile of things she didn't bother to unpack yet.

Stunningly stupid.

703 Raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:48pm

re: #688 bulwrk

Well Brown IS a leftist. I'm sure he understands and identifies with the cluelessness.

704 Suzette  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:49pm

re: #530 Gearhead

What DVDs did he give?

"Oh, thank you, Mr. President, a Monty Python box set. How, umm, original."


ET, The Wizard of Oz.....etc.
/bum gift I would say

705 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:49pm

re: #687 newsjunkie_ky

Rush wondered if the 0s thought to get region 2 DVDs and I do believe there is a difference.

You're right. I asked an A/V professional, and a trip to Amazon UK confirms.

706 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:37:53pm

re: #691 Occasional Reader

Even worse would be the "graphic novel" on the same subject.

(Because, boy, would it ever be graphic.)

Found at better adult bookstores everywhere!

707 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:38:18pm

re: #706 Honorary Yooper

Found at better adult bookstores everywhere!

Perish the thought!

708 opnion  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:38:22pm

re: #685 yma o hyd

Now that would have been really appropriate, with him being a sSotsman and bound to turn the central heating down wherever he goes!

Beautiful!

709 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:38:31pm

re: #686 Occasional Reader

pinche gringo.

Great wine, slightly chilled . . . with a slice of apple and a baguette.

710 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:38:44pm

re: #686 Occasional Reader

Indeed. Because you are illegally occupying Mexican land, pinche gringo.

Addendum:

I won't write the typical Mexican slang response to that insult, because someone beside you may understand it.

/

711 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:38:45pm

re: #688 bulwrk

Dear Lord I am deeply embarrassed for my country.But I wouldn't feel too slighted if I was Brown when Sarkozy comes to visit Barry just plans on picking up a Blockbuster gift certificate on his way home from work.

I think WAB will have to take an urgent course in anger management when she's gotta spend time with Carla Bruni, a.k.a Madame Sarkozy.
She'll never ever manage to look as classy as Carla - and chacnes are PB0 will fall for her charme as well ...

Oooohhh - too delicious!

712 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:38:54pm

re: #709 Creeping Eruption

Great wine, slightly chilled . . . with a slice of apple and a baguette.

heh

713 midwestgak  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:39:00pm

re: #692 J.D.

Still?
I haven't seen the Simpsons in awhile...

Yes. And after all these years./

714 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:39:09pm

The market turned up a bit, back above 6,500.

715 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:39:33pm

Ouch. The economy is hurting everyone, and in NJ that means that Atlantic City is hurting pretty bad (and therefore state revenues from the casinos is down). It also means that a major Atlantic City casino project not going to happen. Okay, that's bad for the local economy since that's lost jobs. But here's the kicker:

The Las Vegas-based company put the project on indefinite hold last fall. It says it will either wait until the economy improves, or will sell the land if someone makes a decent offer.

"To build what we had hoped to build in Atlantic City takes an era of dreaming," he said on a conference call to discuss fourth-quarter earnings. "It takes an era where greed is good, we should all have a good time.

"We seem to be transported to Scandinavia: We have to hide our wealth, drive modest cars, conspicuous consumption is out," he said. "We live in an era where it's just not possible to build what we had anticipated in Atlantic City. Someday, hopefully it's a better world, or somebody shows up and offers us a better deal."

And even that looks iffy. Lee said the economic crisis has made it difficult if not impossible to accurately determine the value of land Pinnacle owns on and near the Boardwalk.

"If we had an auction on that land, I'm not sure anybody would show up," he said. "The city held an auction for Bader Field, and nobody bid."

716 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:39:39pm

Whoo-hoo! An Obama stock market bounce! Only -76 down!

717 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:39:42pm

re: #699 Kosh's Shadow

And POWER!

That's Hillary's book. Without the ice water flowing in her veins, Bill would be pumping gas in Hope, Arkansas.*

*completely stolen line

718 newsjunkie_ky  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:40:17pm

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!

719 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:40:18pm

re: #714 SummerSong

The market turned up a bit, back above 6,500.

I'd say "dead cat bounce" but at this point its more like "squashed cat twitch".

720 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:40:29pm

re: #694 ~BfromTX

And your using what? you're bedroom name? //;-)

There was a rant a little earlier about people who just use their first initial - be careful!

721 Ward Cleaver  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:40:39pm

re: #666 ~BfromTX

Happy Alamo Day my fellow Texans! Go Davy Crockett! ;-)

Same here!

722 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:03pm

re: #686 Occasional Reader

Indeed. Because you are illegally occupying Mexican land, pinche gringo.

I believe the term "come and take it" comes to mind.

723 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:03pm

It won't be Chanel, obviously, but I have to link my favorite ever Chanel commercial. The subtle sexual symbolism (which apparently sailed over the heads of the censors in the 70s) is so - um - French.

Youtube Video
724 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:07pm

re: #689 OldLineTexan

/snicker

So he and Barry have something in common (re: the White House being kept hotter because "Barack's from Hawaii" tempest).

Oh, Gord likes it cold - he's been brought up in the Manse, thats a presbyterian vicarage: cold, no central heating, open fireplaces, bedrooks unheated - and modern central heating needs to be low, to save money (not the planet!).

725 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:23pm

re: #698 Wishing

Does he teach any online courses?

No, they discontinued the Keyboard Commando series.

/////

726 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:38pm

re: #724 yma o hyd

Oh, Gord likes it cold - he's been brought up in the Manse, thats a presbyterian vicarage: cold, no central heating, open fireplaces, bedrooks unheated - and modern central heating needs to be low, to save money (not the planet!).

PIMF - thats bedrooms, natch!

727 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:42pm

re: #711 yma o hyd

I think WAB will have to take an urgent course in anger management when she's gotta spend time with Carla Bruni, a.k.a Madame Sarkozy.
She'll never ever manage to look as classy as Carla - and chacnes are PB0 will fall for her charme as well ...

Oooohhh - too delicious!

Michelle would have a hard time looking as classy as the Bride of Frankenstein.

728 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:41:47pm

re: #704 Suzette

ET, The Wizard of Oz.....etc.
/bum gift I would say

First edition dvds - classy.

729 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:42:09pm

re: #710 OldLineTexan

I won't write the typical Mexican slang response to that insult

How can there be a typical Mexican slang response to be called a pinche gringo?

Eh, smart guy?!

730 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:42:13pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!

I would've given him the finger, so she's WAY ahead of me.

731 brookly red  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:42:24pm

re: #717 OldLineTexan

That's Hillary's book. Without the ice water flowing in her veins, Bill would be pumping gas in Hope, Arkansas.*

*completely stolen line

/I believe the quote was pumping Ethel...

732 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:42:50pm

re: #722 Honorary Yooper

I believe the term "come and take it" comes to mind.

"But... we are, señor! Haven't you noticed?"

733 Onslow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:42:52pm

re: #651 Creeping Eruption

Culture died in Milwaukee when the National Liquor Bar made way for a Walgreens.

/well, not really

734 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:06pm

re: #696 Jimmah

The comments section is like an ignoranuses convention. ...

Typo or non typo? You decide!

735 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:06pm

re: #729 Occasional Reader

How can there be a typical Mexican slang response to be called a pinche gringo?

Eh, smart guy?!

Because it's not Spanish ... it's Mexican slang.

I know you're joking, but the two languages are diverging, especially in cursing!

736 ~BfromTX  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:17pm

re: #720 debutaunt

of who? the "people who use their first initial police?" Do you get down dinged? Fined? sorry I missed the rant.

737 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:31pm

re: #688 bulwrk

Dear Lord I am deeply embarrassed for my country.But I wouldn't feel too slighted if I was Brown when Sarkozy comes to visit Barry just plans on picking up a Blockbuster gift certificate on his way home from work.

Hopefully Sarko would answer such a gift by with gift of some runny French cheese, gifted directly to the 0's face of course.

738 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:38pm

re: #731 brookly red

/I believe the quote was pumping Ethel...

Only until Fred finds out.

739 Suzette  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:45pm

re: #728 debutaunt

To me it was more along the lines of something you would give your children at Christmas.
/oh wait they don't give their children gifts at Christma.

740 Wishing  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:43:55pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!

O M G

741 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:44:17pm

For what it's worth -

In Britain, senior politicians have to pay the equivalent cash value of a gift from a foreign dignitary, if they want to keep it.

742 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:44:19pm

re: #733 Onslow

Culture died in Milwaukee when the National Liquor Bar made way for a Walgreens.

/well, not really

Which has since probably made way for another bar. They grow like weeds around here.

743 lostlakehiker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:44:28pm

re: #129 Walter L. Newton

Are you kidding? Charles' rule on violence is "Comments that advocate violence will be cause for immediate banning with no appeal."

Read again what AWD said about CAIR.

But does the post advocate violence, or merely "predict" it? As I wrote, the "Dude" has no judgment and doesn't understand that the line between advocacy and prediction is a thin reed, as one verges off into the other.

744 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:44:47pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!

What are the odds that the staffer who did the translation was a Bush administration hold over?

745 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:44:57pm

Barack Obama bets the farm in $4 trillion poker game
The President believes he can change US politics for a generation. If he's wrong he could bankrupt the whole country

...What he unveiled last week was one of the most audacious agendas announced by a new president. He declared his intention not just to pump trillions of dollars into a short-term rescue for the economy, but also to press ahead with enormously costly plans to trigger a green industrial revolution, transform education and provide health coverage to all Americans. These are issues that have bedevilled Congress and other presidents for decades. Achieving just one would be an extraordinary achievement. Mr Obama wants all three - and fast.

What was most striking about the budget - including that it will explode the federal deficit to $1.75trillion this year, its highest since the Second World War - was that it was a ruthless declaration of how Mr Obama intends fundamentally to change the American social contract, from Right to Left.

Its goal is not just to rescue the economy. It is to crush conservatism, end the age of anti-tax, anti-regulation policies that have been the guiding philosophies of US governance for a generation, and usher in a fresh “epoch”, as his aides call it, of New Deal-Great Society wealth redistribution and central intervention that were repudiated by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago. Much of his agenda will be paid for by a ten-year, $1 trillion tax increase on families earning more than $250,000 a year, beginning in 2011, a move that critics say risks stunting the economic recovery.

Mr Obama and his aides are particularly attracted to the notion, put forward by the Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek, that most of the truly transformative US presidents - and there are only a handful - followed failed ones. They include Thomas Jefferson after John Adams, Lincoln after James Buchanan, FranklinD. Roosevelt after Herbert Hoover and Ronald Reagan after Jimmy Carter. ...

746 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:45:21pm

re: #724 yma o hyd

Oh, Gord likes it cold - he's been brought up in the Manse, thats a presbyterian vicarage: cold, no central heating, open fireplaces, bedrooks unheated - and modern central heating needs to be low, to save money (not the planet!).

I just meant jacking with the thermostat.

Which is a cardinal sin in my house.

Only the bill-payer may change the temperature!

747 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:45:27pm

re: #735 OldLineTexan

Because it's not Spanish ... it's Mexican slang.

'kay, but you're missing my point... referring to a typically Mexican response to being called a "gringo", which is kind of like the typically Irish response to being called a "wop".

748 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:45:27pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!

Yep - perhaps the whole PB0 administration needs to attend a course on proper gift-giving? As a matter of urgency?

Hiya, {newsjunkie_ky}!

749 BignJames  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:45:32pm

re: #643 pink freud

Figures it'd be black.


Here's his everyday hat.

750 VioletTiger  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:45:32pm

re: #716 FurryOldGuyJeans

Whoo-hoo! An Obama stock market bounce! Only -76 down!


Will the tracking poll stay above 6500?

751 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:45:42pm

re: #741 SummerSong

For what it's worth -

In Britain, senior politicians have to pay the equivalent cash value of a gift from a foreign dignitary, if they want to keep it.

Pay the sum to whom?

/ wish there was a similar regulation here, and one that required public notice of said gift.

752 Wishing  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:46:04pm

re: #744 DaddyG

What are the odds that the staffer who did the translation was a Bush administration hold over?

Better odds that this Obama's passive aggressive streak in full swing.

753 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:46:12pm

re: #744 DaddyG

What are the odds that the staffer who did the translation was a Bush administration hold over?

Most of State under Bush was holdover Dem/Lib careerists, which is why he had so much trouble with them.

754 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:46:29pm

re: #738 OldLineTexan

Only until Fred finds out.

Your post Mertz an upding.

755 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:47:00pm

re: #749 BignJames

Here's his everyday hat.

Bad link.

756 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:47:20pm

re: #747 Occasional Reader

'kay, but you're missing my point... referring to a typically Mexican response to being called a "gringo", which is kind of like the typically Irish response to being called a "wop".

No, you're missing the point!

Not a MEXICAN's response ... a response IN MEXICAN SLANG, rather than Spanish.

Cripes, do I haveta have Barney sing it to you?

/

757 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:47:33pm

re: #25 Zimriel

Me too. I was going to comment, but it would have descended into a pissing match unless Charles got involved, and I wasn't going to drag him into it.

I did however find time to squash that worm "shibumi". In shibumi's view, if Charles is slandered, "who cares".

Fascists, communists, and socialists seemingly have the same views toward (truthful) free speech: None for thee...we wouldn't know the truth if it bit us on the ass!

758 Jimmah  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:47:40pm

re: #734 Zimriel

Typo or non typo? You decide!

Heh. It's not a typo. It was the first time I typed that sequence of letters - but I decided it was apt and so kept it as a special term of abuse for those types.

759 DaddyG  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:47:47pm

Woo Hoo Karma hits 1600. I'm gonna pass up the DOW soon.

760 Suzette  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:47:55pm

re: #755 pink freud

Hey {pink}!

761 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:48:02pm

re: #750 VioletTiger

Will the tracking poll stay above 6500?

The Obama Daily Tracking Poll is trending up!
Cocktails tonight!

/////

762 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:48:06pm

re: #750 VioletTiger

Will the tracking poll stay above 6500?

The Dow is now actually positive +3 at nearly 6600

Ooops, now -19 and sinking.

763 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:48:12pm
764 SummerSong  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:03pm

re: #751 FurryOldGuyJeans

Pay the sum to whom?

/ wish there was a similar regulation here, and one that required public notice of said gift.

Beats me. I'll look for more info after the market closes, if you'd like me to?

765 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:09pm

re: #746 OldLineTexan

I just meant jacking with the thermostat.

Which is a cardinal sin in my house.

Only the bill-payer may change the temperature!

Just so!
Same rule here - and if snuggies aren't quite one's style, then there are always blankets, hot water bottles, piles of cardigans and jumpers ...
cats ...

766 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:10pm

re: #760 Suzette

Hey {pink}!

Suzette! How's by you?

/channeling LOL

767 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:17pm

re: #598 debutaunt

A queen-sized mattress! hahahahahahahahahahahaa

I spit out my diet coke - I love the part about Michelle's ripping biceps carrying the queen size mattress being a distraction to the pagentry. Brilliant!

768 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:28pm

re: #762 FurryOldGuyJeans

The Dow is now actually positive +3 at nearly 6600

Ooops, now -19 and sinking.

Geithner? Is that you?

769 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:51pm

Corporate America's Icons Crumbling Under Global Recession
That's change all right!

770 Honorary Yooper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:49:58pm

re: #762 FurryOldGuyJeans

The Dow is now actually positive +3 at nearly 6600

Ooops, now -19 and sinking.

Still got 10 minutes to go.

771 capitalist piglet  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:00pm

re: #759 DaddyG

Woo Hoo Karma hits 1600. I'm gonna pass up the DOW soon.


I'm right behind you. Can you feel my breath? Can you hear my footsteps? ; )

772 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:02pm

re: #745 J.D.

Mr Obama and his aides are particularly attracted to the notion, put forward by the Yale political scientist Stephen Skowronek, that most of the truly transformative US presidents - and there are only a handful - followed failed ones. They include Thomas Jefferson after John Adams, Lincoln after James Buchanan, FranklinD. Roosevelt after Herbert Hoover and Ronald Reagan after Jimmy Carter. ...

That's pretty funny. O & aids are off by one in their reckoning.
Who will be the next prez? O is in Hoover's seat.

773 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:08pm

re: #687 newsjunkie_ky

Rush wondered if the 0s thought to get region 2 DVDs and I do believe there is a difference.

There definitely is. I bought a PAL format copy of Vampire Circus, because the American version cut all the good parts out - you can set a computer to play them, even if you don't have the appropriate player.

774 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:13pm

re: #751 FurryOldGuyJeans

Pay the sum to whom?

/ wish there was a similar regulation here, and one that required public notice of said gift.

To the Treasury, i.e. the State finances.

775 bulwrk  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:17pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Well her husband is the guy who put all those Russian specialist that used to be employed by the DOD and State out of work.

776 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:18pm

re: #765 yma o hyd

Just so!
Same rule here - and if snuggies aren't quite one's style, then there are always blankets, hot water bottles, piles of cardigans and jumpers ...
cats ...

Ooh, last time I suggested wearing cats several Lizards took rather stern exception.

//////

777 Suzette  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:45pm

re: #766 pink freud

Doing all right. Just a little creeped out by our new president and his epic fail beginning.

778 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:50:55pm

re: #582 WriterMom

Warning: The following is a rant.

I HATE PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO IMPORTANT TO TYPE OUT THEIR WHOLE FRIGGING NAME ON AN E-MAIL AND JUST USE THEIR STUPID, IDIOTIC FIRST INITIAL.

/back to your regularly scheduled posting.

Warning to first initial people from Texas.

779 subsailor68  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:01pm

Here's a partial list of the DVD's Obama gave Brown:

1776 (the musical)
The Patriot (Mel Gibson)
Drums Along the Mohawk
Revolution (with Al Pacino)
John Paul Jones (with Robert Stack)
Johnny Tremain (Disney)
Siege of Yorktown

On reading the list, Brown was heard to say, "Thank you Mr. Obama. Now go fuck off mate."

780 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:02pm

re: #772 Ojoe

That's pretty funny. O & aids are off by one in their reckoning.
Who will be the next prez? O is in Hoover's seat.

I don't believe he's figured that out yet.

781 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:05pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!

Good thing it didn't say "Launch"

782 VioletTiger  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:12pm

re: #761 jcm

The Obama Daily Tracking Poll is trending up!
Cocktails tonight!

/////

Tears in our beers......

783 soxfan4life  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:35pm

re: #740 Wishing

O M G

Why not just give them a Easy Button. That's an indicator for the next 4 years under this fool. I don't see Putin getting too nervous over this group telling him to move the tanks ou of Georgia. Has anyone seen the movie Breach when the FBI Agent says the thing that bothered her the most was her time in the Burea was for naught. That's what it feels like for the time spent in the military. We fought to protect America, so these liberal assholes could feel good and destroy us from within.As much as the libs loved it when the Iraqi threw a shoe at President Bush, I would love to see someone throw a shoe full of shit at this joke of a leader.

784 Russkilitlover  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:37pm

re: #718 newsjunkie_ky

Have you all heard about the hillary gift gaffe to Russia?

Good grief, this 0 administration is the most inept (as well as dangerous) evah!


And at the end of the visit after throwing Ukraine and Poland under the bus, Hillary will present the Staples red button "That was Easy."

785 pink freud  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:47pm

re: #777 Suzette

Doing all right. Just a little creeped out by our new president and his epic fail beginning.

Ditto!

786 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:51:57pm

re: #778 debutaunt

Warning to first initial people from Texas.

Posts ain't e-mail.

J

/////

787 Creeping Eruption  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:52:30pm

re: #645 DistantThunder

Link

Are some of the classes (urban survival, home invasion) open to civilians?

788 Russkilitlover  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:52:35pm

re: #747 Occasional Reader

'kay, but you're missing my point... referring to a typically Mexican response to being called a "gringo", which is kind of like the typically Irish response to being called a "wop".

I thought the Italians were "wops." Man, I'm getting my ethnic slurs all mixed up!

789 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:52:37pm

re: #779 subsailor68

Here's a partial list of the DVD's Obama gave Brown:

1776 (the musical)
The Patriot (Mel Gibson)
Drums Along the Mohawk
Revolution (with Al Pacino)
John Paul Jones (with Robert Stack)
Johnny Tremain (Disney)
Siege of Yorktown

On reading the list, Brown was heard to say, "Thank you Mr. Obama. Now go fuck off mate."

Surely you jest.

790 FurryOldGuyJeans  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:52:48pm

re: #774 yma o hyd

To the Treasury, i.e. the State finances.

That is what I thought. Thanks for confirming it. :)

Still wish we had something similar here, and that it required VERY public notification of said gift.

791 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:13pm

re: #789 J.D.

Surely you jest.

Subsailor's name is Shirley?

/

792 Raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:16pm

re: #763 Iron Fist

I'd figured as much. I'm hoping to see the movie this weekend. The other thing Schlussel was upset about was that this R-rated movie was targeted to children. That is just bullshit. They'd have shot for a PG-13 rating if they were aiming at kids.

This movie most definitely is not targeted to children. After reading your great posts these past few years, I'm betting you will enjoy this movie, and your favorite character will be Rorschach.

793 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:19pm

the dow is trying to close up

794 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:35pm

re: #746 OldLineTexan

I just meant jacking with the thermostat.

Which is a cardinal sin in my house.

Only the bill-payer may change the temperature!

Smart Grid.... The One will jack with your thermostat.....

795 nyc redneck  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:45pm

re: #711 yma o hyd

I think WAB will have to take an urgent course in anger management when she's gotta spend time with Carla Bruni, a.k.a Madame Sarkozy.
She'll never ever manage to look as classy as Carla - and chacnes are PB0 will fall for her charme as well ...

Oooohhh - too delicious!

wab is going to implode when she sees carla who has a lot more to feature than her arms. wab will really try to avoid being photographed w/ her.
too heartbreaking to see the contrast. beauty and the beast.
and not just for how she looks. her personality comes thru loud and clear in
photos.

796 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:52pm

re: #763 Iron Fist

I'd figured as much. I'm hoping to see the movie this weekend. The other thing Schlussel was upset about was that this R-rated movie was targeted to children. That is just bullshit. They'd have shot for a PG-13 rating if they were aiming at kids.

Schlussel is a two-bit demagogue and Charles has been on to her for many years now. Look at this: Most Americans in Lebanon Are Hezbollah Supporters. This while we were trying to evacuate them from the 2006 war. Yikes!

797 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:53:59pm

re: #756 OldLineTexan

No, you're missing the point!

Not a MEXICAN's response ... a response IN MEXICAN SLANG

No, YOU'RE missing MY point, pinche tejano, which was to make a play on words regarding that very ambiguity.

Ayayay. It is on days like this, that I wish I were not the Frito Bandito.

798 VioletTiger  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:10pm

re: #776 OldLineTexan

Ooh, last time I suggested wearing cats several Lizards took rather stern exception.

//////

Cattula would like a word, er, hiss with you...
/

799 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:11pm

re: #792 Raven1

This movie most definitely is not targeted to children. After reading your great posts these past few years, I'm betting you will enjoy this movie, and your favorite character will be Rorschach.

Am I understand that the movie features a character with a big, blue, swinging d&ck?

/shall we tell Sharmuta?

800 newsjunkie_ky  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:27pm

re: #748 yma o hyd

Yep - perhaps the whole PB0 administration needs to attend a course on proper gift-giving? As a matter of urgency?

Hiya, {newsjunkie_ky}!


The 0 wanted the world to look at America differently. They do and it 'ain't' good.
Hiya {yma}

801 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:27pm

re: #788 Russkilitlover

I thought the Italians were "wops." Man, I'm getting my ethnic slurs all mixed up!

[slaps forehead]

DAT'S DA POINT!

802 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:31pm

re: #776 OldLineTexan

Ooh, last time I suggested wearing cats several Lizards took rather stern exception.

//////

Whats wrong with sticking a nice, warm, purring cat up under one's jumper?
I used to do that whenIi was a schoolgirl ...

803 phoenixgirl  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:48pm

come on baby!

804 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:54:49pm

re: #789 J.D.

Stop calling me "Shirley".
/had to

805 J.D.  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:55:01pm

re: #791 OldLineTexan

Subsailor's name is Shirley?

/

As I typed that, I thought to myself, "Now who will be the first to ask the ... obvious?"
;-)

806 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:55:05pm

re: #794 jcm

Smart Grid.... The One will jack with your thermostat.....

Has to get the grid in the house first ... then he has to make sure it doesn't have an accident ... or get zapped by some static ... accidentally sprayed with WD-40 ... duct-taped ...

807 debutaunt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:55:19pm

re: #786 OldLineTexan

Posts ain't e-mail.

J

/////

Sometimes jokes that need explaining are ummm...

808 newsjunkie_ky  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:56:10pm

re: #781 Kosh's Shadow

Good thing it didn't say "Launch"


LOL!

809 monkeytime  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:56:27pm

re: #687 newsjunkie_ky

Rush wondered if the 0s thought to get region 2 DVDs and I do believe there is a difference.


Queen: Thank you President Obama. I didn't even know they made a Caddy Shack II.

810 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:56:57pm

re: #802 yma o hyd

Whats wrong with sticking a nice, warm, purring cat up under one's jumper?
I used to do that whenIi was a schoolgirl ...

My dear, sweet lady ... typically when a Texan considers WEARING an animal, that animal is deceased. Parrots are the exception that proves the rule. Consider the coonSKIN cap on old Davey's head ... the 'coon was NO MORE. He was an ex-raccoon. He had gone to his reward, etc. per Monty Python.

;)

811 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:57:14pm

re: #807 debutaunt

Sometimes jokes that need explaining are ummm...

Not that funny? Yep.

812 Zimriel  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:57:31pm

re: #419 raven1

O.T. I just saw an angry blue dude called Dr. Manhattan in the new movie Watchmen that my 17 year old son made me take him to. It was a great movie, I enjoyed it more than the lsat Batman movie Dark Knight. 2 Thumbs up!

I so hope so. I have a ticket for IMAX. Please don't let it suck big blue balls.

813 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:57:51pm

re: #801 Occasional Reader

Tough room.

814 Raven1  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:57:55pm

re: #799 OldLineTexan

Am I understand that the movie features a character with a big, blue, swinging d&ck?

/shall we tell Sharmuta?

Well, I wasn't looking mind you... The most I noticed it was just hanging around.

815 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:57:59pm

re: #795 nyc redneck

wab is going to implode when she sees carla who has a lot more to feature than her arms. wab will really try to avoid being photographed w/ her.
too heartbreaking to see the contrast. beauty and the beast.
and not just for how she looks. her personality comes thru loud and clear in
photos.

Carla Bruin has one thing which WAB will never ever have, and that is charme.
If one has that, it doesn't even matter if one looks like a model (which carla was), and its something which truly is age-defying.

816 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:58:13pm

re: #806 OldLineTexan

Has to get the grid in the house first ... then he has to make sure it doesn't have an accident ... or get zapped by some static ... accidentally sprayed with WD-40 ... duct-taped ...

In winter, keep some ice on top of the thermostat, and set it low.
In the summer, aim a warm lamp at it.
You get the temperature you want, and waste even more energy.
But this way, you don't tamper with it.

No problem for me in the winter; 60 is fine.
But I start losing consciousness at 75.

817 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:58:20pm

re: #776 OldLineTexan

Ooh, last time I suggested wearing cats several Lizards took rather stern exception.

//////

I don't wear cats on purpose. I'm a cat magnet.

818 OldLineTexan  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:59:07pm

re: #797 Occasional Reader

No, YOU'RE missing MY point, pinche tejano, which was to make a play on words regarding that very ambiguity.

Ayayay. It is on days like this, that I wish I were not the Frito Bandito.

Cabron.

819 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 12:59:58pm

re: #810 OldLineTexan

My dear, sweet lady ... typically when a Texan considers WEARING an animal, that animal is deceased. Parrots are the exception that proves the rule. Consider the coonSKIN cap on old Davey's head ... the 'coon was NO MORE. He was an ex-raccoon. He had gone to his reward, etc. per Monty Python.

;)

Awww .... ye've got to put this down to my decidely un-Texan upbringing!

:-)))

820 yma o hyd  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:01:25pm

Going upstairs >

821 Alberta Oil Peon  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:01:40pm

re: #235 Texas Heathen

Quite a bit larger than a pt boat.

John Wayne had a converted minesweeper, the Wild Goose. He used to frequent the waters of Georgia Strait in southwestern British Columbia with this vessel, and I remember seeing it once, from a mile or two off.

822 Occasional Reader  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:03:14pm

re: #810 OldLineTexan

My dear, sweet lady ... typically when a Texan considers WEARING an animal, that animal is deceased. Parrots are the exception that proves the rule. Consider the coonSKIN cap on old Davey's head ... the 'coon was NO MORE. He was an ex-raccoon. He had gone to his reward, etc. per Monty Python.

;)

If Texans were really tough, they'd wear live raccoons on their heads.

823 Catttt  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:03:55pm

re: #797 Occasional Reader

No, YOU'RE missing MY point, pinche tejano, which was to make a play on words regarding that very ambiguity.

Ayayay. It is on days like this, that I wish I were not the Frito Bandito.

I get it. It's like double secret probation, with a backtwist. :D

824 jcm  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:08:14pm

re: #806 OldLineTexan

Has to get the grid in the house first ... then he has to make sure it doesn't have an accident ... or get zapped by some static ... accidentally sprayed with WD-40 ... duct-taped ...

And the canon on the front walk.......
/ ;-P

825 BatGuano  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:14:33pm

re: #643 pink freud

That photo reminds of a song from the early sixties, "I ain't no cowboy, I just found this hat.

826 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:21:29pm
827 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 1:28:07pm
828 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:16:08pm

Angry White Dude?

829 richardb  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:33:23pm

Charles, while AWD's comments were poorly written, its hardly offensive or "over the top" to my ears. In fact he makes a accurate point when he implies some Arab countries are intolerant of Christianity if not murderous to adherents.

I think you've taken political correctness too seriously.

830 Kosh's Shadow  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 2:48:37pm

re: #829 richardb

Charles, while AWD's comments were poorly written, its hardly offensive or "over the top" to my ears. In fact he makes a accurate point when he implies some Arab countries are intolerant of Christianity if not murderous to adherents.

I think you've taken political correctness too seriously.

The line

As for CAIR, when it all comes down here, you’ll be the first target!


can be taken as a threat of violence. That is the part I object to. I can't speak for Charles, though.

831 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 3:46:16pm

re: #829 richardb

Charles, while AWD's comments were poorly written, its hardly offensive or "over the top" to my ears. In fact he makes a accurate point when he implies some Arab countries are intolerant of Christianity if not murderous to adherents.

I think you've taken political correctness too seriously.

OK, so that's what you think. Thank you for sharing.

Just be aware that if you ever post anything similar to that comment, your account will be history.

832 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:02:16pm

re: #474 phoenixgirl

Brown, who is not known to be a movie buff, gave the president and his children several uniquely historical gifts.

The first of which is a pen holder fashioned from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, a Navy vessel that served on anti-slavery missions off Africa.

Another treasure given to Obama is a framed commissioning paper for the HMS Resolute, a Royal Navy ship that came to symbolize British-American goodwill when it was rescued by the U.S. from icebergs and given to Queen Victoria. It is the sister ship of the HMS Gannet.

Finally, Brown gave Obama a first edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill, whose World War II partnership with President Franklin Roosevelt symbolized the U.S.-Anglo alliance.

And Dear Leader and WAB gave PM Brown and his family modern plastic crap, compared to the one-of-a-kind/rare items they received...how embarassing for our nation.

Stay classy, Dear Leader...

833 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:07:42pm

re: #518 DistantThunder

It's in part that they don't have empathy for other people. Their narcissism blinds them to all but the most blatant and based desires of other people. Don't you think there is a person in the White House who would have been willing to help them with these gift ideas?

There is professional staff there whose jobs it is to help the President with things like this...and they were apparently promptly ignored.

834 richardb  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:20:40pm

re: #830 Kosh's Shadow

can be taken as a threat of violence. That is the part I object to. I can't speak for Charles, though.

I have a hard time understanding that last sentence, it's very poorly written. "Target" has multiple meanings, not all of them implies to aim a bullet. For all I know AWD is a 3rd grader as his writing is at that level.

All that Charles has done is parked a Grauman's Chinese Theater spot light in front of his post. I could have missed Angry White Dude just fine during my LGF tour today. Perhaps Charles has had other run-ins with him and know more about his views than this 3rd grade post would indicate.

835 The Dude  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:25:54pm

I may be a White Dude, but I'm not that Angry.

836 pre-Boomer Marine brat  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:26:43pm

For the record:

I posted a "/asshole" on the first thread about this - referring to Uncle Jimbo. I hereby take that expletive back.

It appeared to be warranted at the time. It is, however, not. I apologize.

837 ManlyDad  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:27:34pm

Except for the last line, I have no problemo with it.

838 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 4:35:37pm

re: #831 Charles

OK, so that's what you think. Thank you for sharing.

Just be aware that if you ever post anything similar to that comment, your account will be history.

With 4 comments in 2 years, I don't think we'll be missing much. If 'richardb' decides to go out in a blaze of glory, it'll be like a fart in a windstorm...

839 [deleted]  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:17:33pm
840 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 5:20:49pm

re: #839 richardb

And with that, I bid you adieu.

841 wong fei hung  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:02:32pm

When will they learn?

The DBA pwns u.

-WFH

842 zonekeeper  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:14:10pm

Plus one who doesn't think AWD's comments were over the top. Except for the wording, most of it was pretty accurate. And you needn't automatically threaten someone with bannination just for saying so. You can of course, you just shouldn't. Just remember, most of your posters here (including me) aren't the enemy.

843 notutopia  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:21:05pm

I am so relieved and breathing easier knowing that not only did Unc Jimbo apologize, but he validated the apology with meaning, that it with his error in not researching the comments before taking umbrage.
I hope and trust that he follows up with his example of sincerity, and develops more of a dissenting
commentary and verbal admonishment with some of his
critical commentors who use his site to lambaste LGF .
Kudos Uncle Jimbo and also to Charles for accepting the apology so graciously.

844 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 6:36:25pm

re: #842 zonekeeper

Plus one who doesn't think AWD's comments were over the top. Except for the wording, most of it was pretty accurate. And you needn't automatically threaten someone with bannination just for saying so. You can of course, you just shouldn't. Just remember, most of your posters here (including me) aren't the enemy.

If you use language like you see in the comment I quoted above, you will lose your account.

845 Tom on the rez  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 8:49:56pm

I was surprised at AoS coming down on LGF and Zombie. I guess mistaking a commenter for the site is pretty common. I'm not surprised that he apologized so quickly. We all screw up, and a quick apology shows class. Maybe Charles should call people out before banning them, so they can apologize for their stupidity ... but there are only so many hours in a day.

846 Dales  Fri, Mar 6, 2009 10:16:07pm

Leave [bigoted word] out of his comment, and it isn't all that bad.

But he included [bigoted word]. And chose angry white dude.

The evidence that he is a racialist, if not a racist, is pretty damned clear.

Angry White Dude? Try being friends with people with names like Farzad. You might be surprised.

847 strangelove  Sat, Mar 7, 2009 7:25:42am

I'm not clear on why AWD was banned. I don't think he threatened anyone in particular, and the first part of his statement, while crude, is in fact accurate: a Bible in a Saudi Airport will bring you trouble.

In my opinion, Islam is a real threat, and our timidity in confronting it here at home cost us dearly on 9/11.

Hopefully, Charles won't ban me for not supporting his ban on the guy who got banned.............:-P

848 Charles Johnson  Sat, Mar 7, 2009 8:06:19am

It doesn't matter to me whether or not you "support" the policies that I've stated very clearly. I will not accept the kind of language you see in that comment, and if you post something like that your account will be blocked too.

849 Charles Johnson  Sat, Mar 7, 2009 8:09:02am

It's a little amazing to see these people popping up with accounts that have been open for years but with very few comments, trying to tell me how I should run LGF, suggesting I should allow threats and racist slurs.


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