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Did everyone remember to put those clocks ahead an hour? Here’s an open thread while we ponder the relative nature of time and space…
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Buster Bunny Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:04:47pm |
Now a chance to go an hour into the future .. wind the clock forward !
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:05:34pm |
the relative nature of time and space aunt what it seems.
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:06:08pm |
re: #1 Buster Bunny
Now a chance to go an hour into the future .. wind the clock forward !
Heh, Back to the Future.
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Buster Bunny Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:06:48pm |
re: #3 pre-Boomer Marine brat
the relative nature of time and space aunt what it seems.
You have a space aunt? I used to have a grandma that was totally cosmic.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:07:28pm |
Bringing mehitabel over from the prior thread, just for the wotthehell of it
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Truck Monkey Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:08:46pm |
I just wish I had something timely to say.........but my time is running out.
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vxbush Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:08:58pm |
So if we moved the clock ahead, does that mean that we haven't actually moved anywhere? And so instead of time dilation, we have time compression....
Something is seriously backwards, then.
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Split Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:09:07pm |
My clocks are right where they always are: GMT -07:00
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Earick Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:09:24pm |
A 4th dimensional mind in a 3 dimensional body?
What must the rest of him be thinking!?!
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:09:37pm |
OT - I have a couple of bluejays making a nest in a tree outside of my window. Really cool!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:10:12pm |
re: #5 Buster Bunny
You have a space aunt? I used to have a grandma that was totally cosmic.
My paternal grandmother was spaced-out.
/ultra-fundamentalist religion
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:10:18pm |
re: #14 Cygnus
OT - I have a couple of bluejays making a nest in a tree outside of my window. Really cool!
Their twiterpaited. ;)
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Killian Bundy Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:10:23pm |
/cool if not a tad creepy
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goddessoftheclassroom Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:10:36pm |
re: #14 Cygnus
OT - I have a couple of bluejays making a nest in a tree outside of my window. Really cool!
BE CAREFUL walking near the nest--blue jays will dive bomb at you.
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vxbush Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:11:00pm |
Oh, wait--I forgot to apply the Lorentz transformation. That will fix it.
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transient Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:11:08pm |
When will the Islamists choose to "spring forward" instead of "falling back"?
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simonml Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:12:00pm |
re: #14 Cygnus
OT - I have a couple of bluejays making a nest in a tree outside of my window. Really cool!
"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit them, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:12:11pm |
My father in law just suggested I read Jon Stewart to get a different perspective. Sigh.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:12:15pm |
re: #19 goddessoftheclassroom
BE CAREFUL walking near the nest--blue jays will dive bomb at you.
Put the cat out in the yard.
/then lock the door, and pay no attention to the cat's shrieks
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Buster Bunny Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:12:25pm |
Try Ebay and you'll find a guy who actually makes lifelike delorean parts to match the movies great gear.
Corse .. the flux capacitor doesnt work .. so you wont be going anywhere. But to all your nerdy friends who dont have one .. you can be the only one to go from 1 to 100 years in 4.5 seconds.
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:13:04pm |
re: #19 goddessoftheclassroom
BE CAREFUL walking near the nest--blue jays will dive bomb at you.
My cat had better stay off the deck or he'll be toast. Right now he stares out the window at them, thinking of Kentucky Fried Bluejay.
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J.D. Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:13:08pm |
re: #23 ArmyWife
My father in law just suggested I read Jon Stewart to get a different perspective. Sigh.
What does he read?
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Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:13:13pm |
re: #6 Cygnus
Great Scott!
/Doc Brown
I was just watching the "What does a yellow light mean?" clip from Taxi the other day. Christopher Lloyd is one of the funniest actors ever.
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:13:13pm |
re: #14 Cygnus
OT - I have a couple of bluejays making a nest in a tree outside of my window. Really cool!
Blue Jays are interesting. They're actually a little mean. They gang up on the Robins and other birds in my yard.
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Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:14:05pm |
re: #23 ArmyWife
My father in law just suggested I read Jon Stewart to get a different perspective. Sigh.
A different perspective on what? Life, the universe and everything?
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zombie Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:14:38pm |
I just had an actually courteous and non-contentious email exchange with an imam!
He wrote to me about one of the captions at the Mohammed Image Archive, saying there was a minor historical error in the description for one of the pictures.
He didn't complain about the Archive. He didn't ask for it to be taken down. Nothing. He just pointed out that one particular image showed a young Mohammed before he "received his messengership," therefore he was not yet "the" Prophet as depicted in the drawing. I looked it up and -- the imam was correct. The incident depicted did happen prior to the hallucinations. So I corrected the caption, wrote him back to thank him, and he wrote back thanking me for being so attentive to detail.
Maybe I've finally found that elusive "moderate Muslim"!
(He had an Egyptian name, but his IP traced to Indiana.)
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:14:59pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:15:33pm |
re: #29 Killgore Trout
Blue Jays are interesting. They're actually a little mean. They gang up on the Robins and other birds in my yard.
all Jays are bad ass...mountain Jays will steal your dog right outa the bun while you lift it to your mouth for a bite...no shit
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:15:46pm |
Boy, I feel better than yesterday. Yesterday I was violently ill for most of the day. Nausea, fever, chills, and spewing. Signs point to norovirus. Sudden onset, rapid recovery, but while you are in its grip, it is hell. Today, it really is as if nothing ever happened. Anyone else ever get that?
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:16:14pm |
(He had an Egyptian name, but his IP traced to Indiana.)
Well he sounds rational.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:16:35pm |
re: #26 Cygnus
My cat had better stay off the deck or he'll be toast. Right now he stares out the window at them, thinking of Kentucky Fried Bluejay.
A cat is no match for a pair of bluejays.
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:16:59pm |
re: #27 J.D.
The New York Times, I guess as he also suggested Frank Rich.
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:17:08pm |
re: #33 Cygnus
How about Eddies father? Is he still dating?
Did you notice the back-to-back HGTTG refs? (my 30 and 31)
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:17:25pm |
re: #34 albusteve
We have what they call "Scrub Jays" in the mountains here. When I go back country skiing they will land on your arm and eat right out of your hand.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:17:27pm |
re: #35 rawmuse
(no) but I'm sure glad you're over it!
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:18:10pm |
re: #34 albusteve
all Jays are bad ass...mountain Jays will steal your dog right outa the bun while you lift it to your mouth for a bite...no shit
Years ago, I had some fish and chips at the Edmonds, WA waterfront. Those gulls came around and stole half of it right off my plate! I felt like a victim in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
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J.D. Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:18:17pm |
re: #38 ArmyWife
The New York Times, I guess as he also suggested Frank Rich.
Oh!
Maybe you should suggest he try reading National Review to broaden his own.
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Boxy_Brown Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:18:20pm |
Here’s an open thread while we ponder the relative nature of time and space...
OK; If energy = matter times the speed of light times the speed of light doesn't that mean that energy can be converted into time or that velocity can be turned into matter? (by simple algebra?) Seriously, doesn't that mean we can manipulate time by manipulating energy and/or matter?
Never mind. I am going to go turn back the clocks.
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:18:20pm |
re: #31 Tigger2005
Obama sucking wind. So, I guess if you need to feel like Obama doesn't suck wind, Comedy Central is the place to go!
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:18:24pm |
re: #35 rawmuse
Yeah, sounds like mild food poisoning.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:18:30pm |
re: #40 Killgore Trout
We have what they call "Scrub Jays" in the mountains here. When I go back country skiing they will land on your arm and eat right out of your hand.
they will also mug you in a New York second....nice birdies
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:19:13pm |
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:19:41pm |
re: #35 rawmuse
Boy, I feel better than yesterday. Yesterday I was violently ill for most of the day. Nausea, fever, chills, and spewing. Signs point to norovirus. Sudden onset, rapid recovery, but while you are in its grip, it is hell. Today, it really is as if nothing ever happened. Anyone else ever get that?
I had it Nov 4th
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:19:42pm |
re: #47 Killgore Trout
I thought maybe food poisoning, except the wife did not get it, and we ate every meal together for the last 3 days.
I took the BART train down town on Thurs. I think I may have picked it up there.
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:19:51pm |
Time and space as we currently are experiencing -
US Government has concentrated enough money in a single place (DC), via by borrowing, taxation and printing. It has created a point and time in space that is so dense that it has become a black hole.
•A place that feeds on collapse and gains more power as more is thrown in it.
•A place that plays tricks with time - such that lessons of the past are completely dismissed.
•A place where the sounds of protest and objection cannot escape.
And the beltway is the event horizon.
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Boxy_Brown Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:20:11pm |
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:20:21pm |
re: #47 Killgore Trout
Thats what I was thinking as well, I had it once, and it is no fun at all.
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:20:25pm |
re: #52 rawmuse
I had it yesterday. Not fun. Feel great today, though!
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:20:32pm |
Anyway, the experience of being desperately ill one day and symptom free the next is a new one for me. Weirod.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:21:07pm |
re: #43 Cygnus
Years ago, I had some fish and chips at the Edmonds, WA waterfront. Those gulls came around and stole half of it right off my plate! I felt like a victim in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
gulls are flying rats
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:21:32pm |
re: #48 albusteve
Saw a bald eagle once in Delaware. I was canoeing with my brother and there he was about 50 feet away. What a sight.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:21:54pm |
re: #40 Killgore Trout
We have what they call "Scrub Jays" in the mountains here. When I go back country skiing they will land on your arm and eat right out of your hand.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:22:05pm |
Open Thread!
Dr. Pamela Gay has been in St. Louis speaking about Astronomy.. She is a Harvard Grad and donates her time teaching girl scouts about science..
She is very tired and has not blogged for awhile begging off from exhaustion.
What would be really nice is if some lizards pinged her site and expressed gratitude for all her hard work...It will lift her spirits..She works so hard to blog on science and gets like 20 hits a month....
[Link: www.starstryder.com...]
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songbird Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:22:06pm |
re: #58 rawmuse
Anyway, the experience of being desperately ill one day and symptom free the next is a new one for me. Weirod.
Nothing like a good ole 24 hour bug!
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:22:18pm |
re: #32 zombie
That is so cool! It's like a meesage from outer space.
Reformed?
Islam Lite™?
Neo-muslim?
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Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:22:18pm |
re: #46 ArmyWife
Obama sucking wind. So, I guess if you need to feel like Obama doesn't suck wind, Comedy Central is the place to go!
Actually, Jon Stewart is one of the few comics I've seen who's been willing to mock the One. He did a pretty good piece on Obama's first press conference. "The thoughtful pause!"
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:22:24pm |
re: #53 karmic_inquisitor
Time and space as we currently are experiencing -
US Government has concentrated enough money in a single place (DC), via by borrowing, taxation and printing. It has created a point and time in space that is so dense that it has become a black hole.
•A place that feeds on collapse and gains more power as more is thrown in it.
•A place that plays tricks with time - such that lessons of the past are completely dismissed.
•A place where the sounds of protest and objection cannot escape.
And the beltway is the event horizon.
And we are all on board the ship that's being sucked into the abyss.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:23:12pm |
Time to change the batteries in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector too.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:23:15pm |
re: #60 Gus 802
Saw a bald eagle once in Delaware. I was canoeing with my brother and there he was about 50 feet away. What a sight.
I have seen many goldens but never a bald eagle...I hope to before I die...I deserve it
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:23:31pm |
re: #65 Tigger2005
That may be - but to use him as a source to "broaden my mind" on politics struck me as....wait for it....comedic!
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:23:42pm |
re: #60 Gus 802
Saw a bald eagle once in Delaware. I was canoeing with my brother and there he was about 50 feet away. What a sight.
Canoeing in Ontario 2 springs ago my son and I HEARD the swooosh of the bald eagle's wings before we saw him fly 10 feet over our heads. Will. Never. Ever. Forget. That.
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:24:07pm |
Afternoon Honcos.....
Look who's pleased as punch with Obama.....
Just look at the new lay of the land: a friend of labor and its allies sits in the White House. Larger Democratic majorities control Congress. A feeling of renewal and hope is in the air. Public opinion polls show a high favorability rating for our new President. And the labor and people’s movement that was so instrumental to the election’s outcome, after a short holiday pause, is off and running.
By Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA
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Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:25:16pm |
re: #66 Cygnus
And we are all on board the ship that's being sucked into the abyss.
I put the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution in the escape pod and fired it off toward a distant star cluster.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:25:23pm |
re: #70 jamgarr
Yeah, it was like a rush experience. This one dropped a feather which I picked up and I always used to joke about what would happen to me if they caught me with that feather.
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:25:43pm |
re: #66 Cygnus
And we are all on board the ship that's being sucked into the abyss.
And for generations.
One thought just occurred to me - remember how Carl Sagan would describe the vastness of space in terms of "billions and billions?"
Well now that we are being made comfortable with the idea of spending several trillion dollars each year that we don't have, maybe the cosmos won't seem so vast anymore.
Sagan gave us "billions and billions". Obama gave us "trillions and trillions".
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:26:11pm |
re: #68 albusteve
Good call not to make the turkey the national symbol like they
initially wanted to. Although wild turkeys are impressive.
and fun to drink...
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:26:45pm |
re: #67 midwestgak
Time to change the batteries in the smoke/carbon monoxide detector too.
And the bull sh*t detector (although I must have changed the batteries 5 time since the last time-change - busy election season).
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:26:55pm |
re: #74 karmic_inquisitor
And for generations.
One thought just occurred to me - remember how Carl Sagan would describe the vastness of space in terms of "billions and billions?"
Well now that we are being made comfortable with the idea of spending several trillion dollars each year that we don't have, maybe the cosmos won't seem so vast anymore.
Sagan gave us "billions and billions". Obama gave us "trillions and trillions".
In four more years, we'll be up to "googleplex".
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:27:12pm |
re: #68 albusteve
I see those high up most of them. Except once while driving through the San Luis Valley in Colorado I saw him right on the side of the road, stopped the car, backed up and ran towards is just to get a close up view. He was huge and he flew off in majestic fashion.
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:27:48pm |
re: #75 NonNativeTexan
Good call not to make the turkey the national symbol like they
initially wanted to. Although wild turkeys are impressive.
and fun to drink...
VAMPIRE!
Oh wait, the bourbon, never mind.....
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:28:40pm |
re: #77 Cygnus
In four more years, we'll be up to "googleplex".
Free advertising for the Obamatons at Google.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:28:58pm |
re: #70 jamgarr
Canoeing in Ontario 2 springs ago my son and I HEARD the swooosh of the bald eagle's wings before we saw him fly 10 feet over our heads. Will. Never. Ever. Forget. That.
I was conoeing with a friend up there years back...we stopped and pitched camp on a little islet...we heard a loud crack!...like a pistol...then another crack!...I walked down to the water to get a better idea and CRACK! right next to me...I looked over and there was a bull moose submerged up to his neck not thirty feet from me...he was slamming his antlers against the water to get rid of the black flies pestering him...I stood there and he casually raised out of the water and walked away...HUGE! beast....
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:29:05pm |
Anyone read this meltdown from evangelical pastor David Wilkerson yet?
I am compelled by the Holy Spirit to send out an urgent message to all on our mailing list, and to friends and to bishops we have met all over the world.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING CALAMITY IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. IT IS GOING TO BE SO FRIGHTENING, WE ARE ALL GOING TO TREMBLE - EVEN THE GODLIEST AMONG US.
For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City. It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires—such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago.
rant rant rant rant THE END IS NEAR rant rant etc
Drudge Report has the report in red and is calling Wilkerson "famed". The article it quoted was from WorldNetDaily and reads like a press release, so I won't bother linking that. It IS worth linking his blog which is here.
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Wilderstad Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:29:10pm |
I hate freaking daylight saving time. Who ever thought of it should be shot at dawn, twice a year.
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:29:24pm |
Also saw 2 bald eagles "standing" next to the right-of-way on the train from Anchorage to Whittier. BIG Suckers!
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:29:40pm |
re: #80 karmic_inquisitor
Free advertising for the Obamatons at Google.
And they'll probably have a special Google logo for the O's birthday. Probably involving a star and a manger.
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:30:05pm |
re: #81 albusteve
I was conoeing with a friend up there years back...we stopped and pitched camp on a little islet...we heard a loud crack!...like a pistol...then another crack!...I walked down to the water to get a better idea and CRACK! right next to me...I looked over and there was a bull moose submerged up to his neck not thirty feet from me...he was slamming his antlers against the water to get rid of the black flies pestering him...I stood there and he casually raised out of the water and walked away...HUGE! beast....
Quetico?
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:30:22pm |
re: #83 Wilderstad
I hate freaking daylight saving time. Who ever thought of it should be shot at dawn, twice a year.
That would be Ben Franklin.
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:30:31pm |
In Sitka, AK there is a place called the Raptor Center.
They repair injured birds from all over, even the lower 48.
They had all kinds of eagles there, hawks, osprey, you name it.
If you are a bird lover, I highly recommend a visit, and some financial support if you are able.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:30:44pm |
re: #81 albusteve
Large animals always seem like they're carrying their own environment and weather.
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Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:30:46pm |
re: #69 ArmyWife
That may be - but to use him as a source to "broaden my mind" on politics struck me as....wait for it....comedic!
I guess he wants you to explore new ways of thinking. "Rationality," "Logic," and "Common Sense" are so old school. It is time for you to learn that 2+2=4 is all in your mind. Actually, the answer can be anything you want it to be.
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notutopia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:31:02pm |
re: #83 Wilderstad
I'm no fan either.
Daylight Saving Time
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
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debutaunt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:31:07pm |
re: #40 Killgore Trout
We have what they call "Scrub Jays" in the mountains here. When I go back country skiing they will land on your arm and eat right out of your hand.
[Link: www.collegehumor.com...]
Ducks going up the down escalator.
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Wilderstad Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:31:21pm |
re: #88 DEZes
Amazing that Ben Franklin thought so too. :-P
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:31:52pm |
re: #70 jamgarr
Canoeing in Ontario 2 springs ago my son and I HEARD the swooosh of the bald eagle's wings before we saw him fly 10 feet over our heads. Will. Never. Ever. Forget. That.
There are some barn owls on our property, and some nights I'll go out and walk around. Sometimes you can hear them fly by. I love that sound. The most peaceful sound I know (even if they are stalking prey when I hear it).
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:32:17pm |
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DEZes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:32:18pm |
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:32:42pm |
Maybe Wilkerson has been listening to Prince Charles" - only 100 months to live OMG!
/we've all gone crazy apparently
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:32:44pm |
re: #82 Zimriel
I'm not so sure we oughta be direct-linking to that stuff here.
Referral probably okay, for the info heads-up. A link, maybe not.
/just sayin'
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:32:46pm |
re: #84 jamgarr
Also saw 2 bald eagles "standing" next to the right-of-way on the train from Anchorage to Whittier. BIG Suckers!
Never saw bald eagles. But if you're interested in feathered giants. It is condors for you. Absolutely and positively HUGE SUCKERS!
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:33:32pm |
re: #95 karmic_inquisitor
I love that sound.
Power and grace at the same time. A very efficient sound.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:33:35pm |
In case there are any optimists out there about the future, there are more and more reports of this nature coming out, not just from Debka which tends to lean to the sensational side always.
Washington experts: Iran has fissile material for 50 nuclear bombs
I suspect the chances are high that Israel will see no option but to delay, if not stop, this process. Then Iran will lash out like the good old fashioned terrorist state they are, and all that implies in terms of an economic recovery for the rest of the world.
As much as I don't like doomsayers like Glenn Beck, I have a bad feeling about this.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:33:41pm |
re: #90 Gus 802
Large animals always seem like they're carrying their own environment and weather.
I have had several encounters with moose...a bald eagle is my dream...I want to see one close up someday
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:33:43pm |
Is DST always one hour ahead of normal time?
Today it is almost always one hour ahead, but throughout history there have been several variants on this, such as half adjustment (30 minutes) or double adjustment (two hours), and adjustments of 20 and 40 minutes have also been used. A two-hour adjustment was used in several countries during the 1940s and elsewhere at times. A half adjustment was sometimes used in New Zealand in the first half of the 20th century. Sometimes DST is used for a longer period than just the summer, as it was in the United States during World War II. From February 3, 1942 to September 30, 1945 most of the United States had DST all year; it was called “War Time.”
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pink freud Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:33:51pm |
re: #71 JCM
Afternoon Honcos.....
Look who's pleased as punch with Obama.....
By Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA
Glenn Beck provided him with a legitimate forum to spew his BS the other night on Fox. Left me feeling about as bad as rawmuse described.
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Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:34:12pm |
re: #68 albusteve
I have seen many goldens but never a bald eagle...I hope to before I die...I deserve it
The best place to see bald eagles is in Haines, AK in November. Thousands of bald eagles congregate along the Chilkat River to feed off a late season salmon run. It's a unique experience to see hundred's of eagles perched in the trees along the river.
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Empire1 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:34:18pm |
re: #60 Gus 802
You ought to be here in Lower Delaware. I had a couple of bald eagles go after my electric R/C model at our flying field a couple of years ago -- I have never landed a plane faster in my life! Well off the runway, too, but I didn't care; the eagles ignored it once it was on the ground.
And Mr. Empire has had a couple fly formation with him here at home, while he was flying his gas plane in the field out back. They're beautiful birds, but I'd rather see them in an otherwise-empty sky, thanks!
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:34:21pm |
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:34:36pm |
re: #85 Cygnus
And they'll probably have a special Google logo for the O's birthday. Probably involving a star and a manger.
Sounds like we need a Google Logo contest. I will enter a footprints in water spelling the "g"s and "le". Presidential seals for the "o"s.
I understand that, even when talking to friends, he never passes up the opportunity to point out that he is the president.
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:35:14pm |
re: #98 Zimriel
Maybe Wilkerson has been listening to Prince Charles" - only 100 months to live OMG!
/we've all gone crazy apparently
100 months? It's only 45 months or so till Dec. 21, 2012. Charles better get with the program.....
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secsailor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:35:15pm |
All things are relative
All relatives are things
My relatives took all my things
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:35:33pm |
re: #100 callahan23
Never saw bald eagles. But if you're interested in feathered giants. It is condors for you. Absolutely and positively HUGE SUCKERS!
So I've heard.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:35:55pm |
re: #103 albusteve
Maybe they have organized bird watching events just for eagles in your area. That might the most reliable.
I saw moose in Yellowstone, and once in Vermont or New Hampshire. Forgot which but he was huge.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:36:02pm |
Notutopia: Very nice post at Dr. Pamela Gay's web site..
Thank you..
You've got a 1000 ding credits coming your way!
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:36:09pm |
re: #100 callahan23
Never saw bald eagles. But if you're interested in feathered giants. It is condors for you. Absolutely and positively HUGE SUCKERS!
Pinnacles National Monument has them. Just stunning to see them fly across the cliff faces.
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:36:14pm |
re: #106 Cheechako
My oldest was stationed in Anchorage for a while, are you
on the other side of the state?
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:36:30pm |
Condors can be seen at Pinnacles State Park in CA. Worth the trip.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:36:38pm |
re: #108 jamgarr
Sweet! No lake trout up there I guess.
alot of acid rain kill...but man it gets wild as hell up there in a hurry...there is better trout fishing in MI
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:37:19pm |
Pinnacles is now a National Monument?
If so, it is worth the designation.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:37:50pm |
re: #107 Empire1
Ha, that's good. Could end up being an expensive encounter.
Used to love going to Delaware when I was a kid. We'd go with either a motor home or a trailer. Canoeing was part of it.
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Empire1 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:38:04pm |
re: #83 Wilderstad
I hate freaking daylight saving time. Who ever thought of it should be shot at dawn, twice a year.
What You Said! Especially the springtime "forward" trip.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:38:09pm |
re: #103 albusteve
I have had several encounters with moose...a bald eagle is my dream...I want to see one close up someday
I saw one yesterday, fairly low circling over south St. Petersburg, FL. Not terribly uncommon around here actually.
If you want to see a lot, go up to British Columbia during one of the Salmon runs in early spring. There you can count hundreds along the rivers.
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:38:16pm |
re: #105 pink freud
Glenn Beck provided him with a legitimate forum to spew his BS the other night on Fox. Left me feeling about as bad as rawmuse described.
I'm split on that, part of me want's what guys like Webb have to say be common knowledge, another part wants them completely ignored. Give the publicity it only encourages them, but if you don't keep an eye on them, they skulk around sowing seeds of discontent.
Personally I like to keep an eye on 'em. But I'm not about to be swayed by any of what they say.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:38:45pm |
re: #113 Gus 802
Maybe they have organized bird watching events just for eagles in your area. That might the most reliable.
I saw moose in Yellowstone, and once in Vermont or New Hampshire. Forgot which but he was huge.
I'm totally unorganized..I can't do cruises for that very reason
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:39:06pm |
re: #109 karmic_inquisitor
Sounds like we need a Google Logo contest. I will enter a footprints in water spelling the "g"s and "le". Presidential seals for the "o"s.
I understand that, even when talking to friends, he never passes up the opportunity to point out that he is the president.
Does he also say that it is really really hard work?
/(ducks)
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:39:30pm |
re: #115 karmic_inquisitor
Pinnacles National Monument has them. Just stunning to see them fly across the cliff faces.
I could do that...condors are cool
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:39:55pm |
Hey y'all - got a short break so I thought I'd check in to see what's going on.
Pondering time/space eh? Wonder WHO it was who forgot to turn his clocks ahead, Charles?!?
:)
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:39:59pm |
re: #103 albusteve
I have had several encounters with moose...a bald eagle is my dream...I want to see one close up someday
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:40:00pm |
re: #104 midwestgak
Kiond of OT, but what the heck... I highly suggest the book Questioning the Millennium by Steven Jay Gould. Your mention of the variable "savings times" reminded me of his stories about his son who was something of an autistic savant in the field of Calendrics, if that's the right way to say it.
Could recall/calculate dates, which days of the week they fell on, etc. going back centuries. Very interesting book about a very interesting topic.
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:40:06pm |
Surprising to some - Alton, IL (near the Mississippi/Illinois confluence) has a nice eagle population in the cold months.
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:40:15pm |
re: #110 JCM
100 months? It's only 45 months or so till Dec. 21, 2012. Charles better get with the program.....
Didn't that crock of sh*t climate scientist Jim Hansen tell Obama that he had exactly 4 years to reverse industrialization? Maybe Hansen and Charlie can have a debate over who has the better doomsday threshold.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:40:27pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:40:50pm |
re: #123 Naso Tang
I saw one yesterday, fairly low circling over south St. Petersburg, FL. Not terribly uncommon around here actually.
If you want to see a lot, go up to British Columbia during one of the Salmon runs in early spring. There you can count hundreds along the rivers.
I'm a New Mexican...I will find one someday :)
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karmic_inquisitor Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:41:59pm |
re: #126 Naso Tang
Does he also say that it is really really hard work?
/(ducks)
Actually, he has been telling close friends that the job is much more demanding than he thought. I'll go dig up the article.
He is such a putz.
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Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:42:02pm |
re: #116 NonNativeTexan
My oldest was stationed in Anchorage for a while, are you
on the other side of the state?
I'm in the Moonbat Capitol in SE Alaska.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:42:04pm |
re: #128 realwest
Hey y'all - got a short break so I thought I'd check in to see what's going on.
Pondering time/space eh? Wonder WHO it was who forgot to turn his clocks ahead, Charles?!?
:)
Hey there Realwest!
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:42:30pm |
re: #112 jamgarr
So I've heard.
One of them suckers flew just 60 feet above me and I heard the swoosh. Absolutely amazing.
Also mind blowing was the experience of a big tree full of Marabou Stork. It is sometimes called the "undertaker bird". I still have a single feather which measures 22 inches.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:42:49pm |
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:42:57pm |
The United States is about to take on the Evil Empire of Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic. First pitch in about 20 minutes. Winner advances to the next round.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:43:51pm |
re: #134 albusteve
I'm a New Mexican...I will find one someday :)
I don't think they hang out in your climate. You would probably get in the newspapers if you saw one there.
You need to get out more. I had to go all the way to southern Peru to see my first condors.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:44:12pm |
re: #135 Gus 802
Oops, NM? I though Minn.
what?...I'd rather eat lint...NM is the center of the universe
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:44:22pm |
A fellow I worked with decades ago was a licensed falconer. I was in one Saturday, getting stuff done in the peace and quiet, and he comes in with a yearling redtail hawk on his wrist. Got to see it close up, a couple of feet away. DAMN that sucker was big!
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:45:38pm |
re: #142 Lincolntf
The United States is about to take on the Evil Empire of Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic. First pitch in about 20 minutes. Winner advances to
the next roundsocialismo.
FIFY
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IslandLibertarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:45:50pm |
"Did everyone remember to put those clocks ahead an hour?"
DST challenged.............I feel so left out, and behind the times too.........
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:46:22pm |
re: #82 Zimriel
Anyone read this meltdown from evangelical pastor David Wilkerson yet?
Drudge Report has the report in red and is calling Wilkerson "famed". The article it quoted was from WorldNetDaily and reads like a press release, so I won't bother linking that. It IS worth linking his blog which is here.
Maybe Dave W. should reread this:
21 You may say to yourselves, "How can we know when a message has not been spoken by the LORD ?" 22 If what a prophet proclaims in the name of the LORD does not take place or come true, that is a message the LORD has not spoken. That prophet has spoken presumptuously. Do not be afraid of him.
Deuteronomy 18:21-22
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:46:28pm |
re: #143 Naso Tang
I don't think they hang out in your climate. You would probably get in the newspapers if you saw one there.
You need to get out more. I had to go all the way to southern Peru to see my first condors.
get out more?....heh...there are bald eagles five miles from me in the Sandias
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:46:51pm |
re: #145 albusteve
Roger!
OK, this says they're common in winter at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge...
[Link: www.npwrc.usgs.gov...]
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:46:55pm |
re: #138 Cheechako
Colder there than Anchorage, I suppose.
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:47:07pm |
Here's a thought: anyone up for a petition and donation collection to buy Gordon Brown a REAL gift?
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:47:11pm |
re: #131 jamgarr Ah, I remember taking a trip to Colorado once for about a week or so, just cause I'd never seen the Rockies. It was in August and it (and the Rockies!) was just magnificient.
Anyway, on the way into Rocky Mtn. National Park, we stopped for lunch in the Village of Estes Park - and sat on the upper deck (reinforced roof) of a hamburger joint - plexiglass panels all around to keep the wind off during winter, I guess. Anyway, waitress brings my beer and most recent former wife's chablis, and I tilted my chair back to drink from the bottle ad there were 3 or 3 HUGE birds up in the sky right overhead. I asked the waitress what they were and she replied, nonchalantly, "Oh those are Bald Eagles - we have about 5 nesting pairs around here". So of course, idiot that I am, I grab my camera - 35mm lens, and take shot after shot after shot. Wow. Bald Eagles. Course when we got the film developed (yes, that's right, it was pre-digitial camera!) all we saw was this beautiful blue sky and some specks of what appeared to be dust WAAAY up in the sky! LOL!
But Lord, it sure was special to see 'em.
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:47:12pm |
re: #132 karmic_inquisitor
Didn't that
crock of sh*tclimate scientist Jim Hansen tell Obama that he had exactly 4 years to reverse industrialization? Maybe Hansen and Charlie can have a debate over who has the better doomsday threshold.
I've been listening to we're gonna' destroy the entire planet crap my whole life. Starting with that mass murderer Rachel Carson. So friggin' doomsday dates have come and gone and we're still here. 6 billion people and things have gotten better not worse, hunger and disease are declining, the industrial nations cut and reversed pollution.
More or less we've followed a middle road through all those doomsday warnings. I'd say we just keep on doing what we're doing, expand the economy so we can afford to make industry and energy cleaner over the long run.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:48:47pm |
re: #153 spirochete
Here's a thought: anyone up for a petition and donation collection to buy Gordon Brown a REAL gift?
Have you checked Ebay to see if there's an autographed portrait of Maggie Thatcher out there?
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:49:02pm |
re: #154 realwest
Ah, I remember taking a trip to Colorado once for about a week or so, just cause I'd never seen the Rockies. It was in August and it (and the Rockies!) was just magnificient.
Anyway, on the way into Rocky Mtn. National Park, we stopped for lunch in the Village of Estes Park - and sat on the upper deck (reinforced roof) of a hamburger joint - plexiglass panels all around to keep the wind off during winter, I guess. Anyway, waitress brings my beer and most recent former wife's chablis, and I tilted my chair back to drink from the bottle ad there were 3 or 3 HUGE birds up in the sky right overhead. I asked the waitress what they were and she replied, nonchalantly, "Oh those are Bald Eagles - we have about 5 nesting pairs around here". So of course, idiot that I am, I grab my camera - 35mm lens, and take shot after shot after shot. Wow. Bald Eagles. Course when we got the film developed (yes, that's right, it was pre-digitial camera!) all we saw was this beautiful blue sky and some specks of what appeared to be dust WAAAY up in the sky! LOL!
But Lord, it sure was special to see 'em.
Camped in White River north of Estes a couple of times in college. Nice area. Never seen so many stars.
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gregg Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:49:24pm |
re: #131 jamgarr
Surprising to some - Alton, IL (near the Mississippi/Illinois confluence) has a nice eagle population in the cold months.
It's no longer unusual to see eagles in the upper Mississippi river valley. Wild turkeys have also made a big comeback (is it true it was B. Franklin's choice for a national bird?).
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:49:50pm |
re: #153 spirochete
Well - I have an autographed picture of W. Perhaps we can just get that framed and forward along a card saying "we miss him, too".
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:50:20pm |
re: #154 realwest
Ah, I remember taking a trip to Colorado once for about a week or so, just cause I'd never seen the Rockies. It was in August and it (and the Rockies!) was just magnificient.
Anyway, on the way into Rocky Mtn. National Park, we stopped for lunch in the Village of Estes Park - and sat on the upper deck (reinforced roof) of a hamburger joint - plexiglass panels all around to keep the wind off during winter, I guess. Anyway, waitress brings my beer and most recent former wife's chablis, and I tilted my chair back to drink from the bottle ad there were 3 or 3 HUGE birds up in the sky right overhead. I asked the waitress what they were and she replied, nonchalantly, "Oh those are Bald Eagles - we have about 5 nesting pairs around here". So of course, idiot that I am, I grab my camera - 35mm lens, and take shot after shot after shot. Wow. Bald Eagles. Course when we got the film developed (yes, that's right, it was pre-digitial camera!) all we saw was this beautiful blue sky and some specks of what appeared to be dust WAAAY up in the sky! LOL!
But Lord, it sure was special to see 'em.
Benefit of Seattle. We have about a dozen nesting pairs in the city limits. Couple weeks ago I heard a god awful racket being raise by crows. I go out and in the tree in my front yard is a Bald Eagle taking refugee from the harassing crows.
My office has a pair of hawks that nest in the tree out front.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:50:24pm |
Greatest ending to the stupidest movie ever made...
School of Rock
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:50:45pm |
Sure are a lot of nature lovers here. I thought conservatives wanted
to poison the planet /
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:50:50pm |
re: #150 albusteve
get out more?....heh...there are bald eagles five miles from me in the Sandias
I rest my case, then you most definitely need to get out more.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:50:51pm |
re: #151 Gus 802
Roger!
OK, this says they're common in winter at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge...
[Link: www.npwrc.usgs.gov...]
I have been there...very unique place about an hour or so south of ABQ...but it is dreary and stark in the winter...next year I will go down there and see my eagle....thanks!
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:51:09pm |
re: #159 gregg
It's no longer unusual to see eagles in the upper Mississippi river valley. Wild turkeys have also made a big comeback (is it true it was B. Franklin's choice for a national bird?).
My mom has some acreage in Southern IL. I've seen 30 turkeys at once there. She's seen more.
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Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:52:07pm |
re: #152 NonNativeTexan
Colder there than Anchorage, I suppose.
Usually we're warmer but today it's abour 16 degrees and sunny. Here's a web cam shot from the Mendenhall Glacire Visitor Center.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:52:10pm |
re: #163 NonNativeTexan
Sure are a lot of nature lovers here. I thought conservatives wanted
to poison the planet /
Conservatives come in many flavors; but you know that.....
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:52:27pm |
re: #165 albusteve
Great.
I've been down to New Mexico a couple of time. 4-Corners area. Saw ship rock. Spent a couple of nights in Santa Fe. Also got the opportunity to go 120 MPH for a couple of hours on my way down to Santa Fe.
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:52:38pm |
re: #160 ArmyWife
That and a Green Football. Says a lot, in my book.
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imtoast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:52:43pm |
re: #103 albusteve
I have had several encounters with moose...a bald eagle is my dream...I want to see one close up someday
My daughter and I were fishing at Green Lake on Elemdorf one summer. I caught a fish that was too small and threw it back in and an eagle swooped in about 5 feet from us to catch it. The bird was breathtaking. They also had 3 eagles in a cage on base. They had been injured and were taking care of them. This was in 1997 so I don't know if they are still there.
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:52:47pm |
re: #163 NonNativeTexan
Sure are a lot of nature lovers here. I thought conservatives wanted
to poison the planet /
Of course we love nature. We hunt and/or fish.
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:53:00pm |
re: #153 spirochete
Here's a thought: anyone up for a petition and donation collection to buy Gordon Brown a REAL gift?
That is actually a GREAT idea. I'm in for twenty.
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:53:15pm |
re: #153 spirochete
Good idea, but I understand that Gordon Brown is a bit of a tool, so nothing too nice. I'd be willing to "Paypal" a few bucks along in the cause of making Obama look bad. I'm a petty little man.
Maybe a bronze bust of Eldredge Cleaver. Let the Limey's figure that one out.
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NYCHardhat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:53:17pm |
Something is telling me that people are starting to wake up...exponentially
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:53:20pm |
Now they're both in the nest working on it. Dang, I'd love to get a teeny webcam in there so I could see them 24/7.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:53:38pm |
re: #161 JCM
Hi JCM - now wait a minute - you're trying to tell me that a Bald Eagle was being hassled by a buncha crows?
I mean Bald Eagles are easily 3 to 4 times the size of crows! Sort like saying Mike Tyson in his prime was being hassled by some crack heads or something!
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:53:48pm |
re: #164 Naso Tang
I rest my case, then you most definitely need to get out more.
I have hiked up and down and all across those mountains....there are few places I have not been in NM in five yrs...I get out far more than most people...too bad I can't sit at a lake in Conn at watch bald eagles eh?...so be it
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:55:04pm |
re: #170 Gus 802
Great.
I've been down to New Mexico a couple of time. 4-Corners area. Saw ship rock. Spent a couple of nights in Santa Fe. Also got the opportunity to go 120 MPH for a couple of hours on my way down to Santa Fe.
You are aware that most tires sold in the USA are designed to blow out at 100?
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:55:10pm |
re: #178 realwest
Hi JCM - now wait a minute - you're trying to tell me that a Bald Eagle was being hassled by a buncha crows?
I mean Bald Eagles are easily 3 to 4 times the size of crows! Sort like saying Mike Tyson in his prime was being hassled by some crack heads or something!
I've seen that before. I've also seen crows harassed by little chickadee birds. Yes, I do love nature!
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:55:36pm |
re: #173 Zimriel
Of course we love nature. We hunt and/or fish.
Saw a guy in the grocery store with a PETA tee-shirt which is
unusual in the Dallas area, I looked at it closer.
People for the Eating of Tasty Animals-
loved it
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:55:55pm |
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:55:59pm |
re: #158 jamgarr
Camped in White River north of Estes a couple of times in college. Nice area. Never seen so many stars.
All you need to find is a spot without light-smog, i.e. away from big urban areas to be able to see the stars in all their glory.
The southern hemisphere's sky is said to be even heavier populated with stars.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:56:19pm |
re: #170 Gus 802
Great.
I've been down to New Mexico a couple of time. 4-Corners area. Saw ship rock. Spent a couple of nights in Santa Fe. Also got the opportunity to go 120 MPH for a couple of hours on my way down to Santa Fe.
I rented a Mustang GT a coupla years ago and took it down south....heh...NM is a drivers dream come true...the roads are perfect, the scenery excellent....yup
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:56:24pm |
re: #174 rawmuse
What would be a decent gift, to thank his country for our heretofore special relationship?
Something regarding the Magna Carta?
Some kind of talisman from the wars in Afg/Iraq that is difficult to come by?
Monty Python DVD collection?/
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:56:34pm |
re: #153 spirochete
Here's a thought: anyone up for a petition and donation collection to buy Gordon Brown a REAL gift?
How about sending him the LGF Cookbook?
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:56:44pm |
re: #181 Naso Tang
Yeah, that added to the thrill. //
Actually, the tires were pretty good and went along with the turbo engine.
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:57:09pm |
re: #178 realwest
Hi JCM - now wait a minute - you're trying to tell me that a Bald Eagle was being hassled by a buncha crows?
I mean Bald Eagles are easily 3 to 4 times the size of crows! Sort like saying Mike Tyson in his prime was being hassled by some crack heads or something!
Yeah, crows gang up and harass the hawk and eagles. They'll take turns circling and dive bombing the eagle.
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:57:21pm |
re: #185 callahan23
All you need to find is a spot without light-smog, i.e. away from big urban areas to be able to see the stars in all their glory.
The southern hemisphere's sky is said to be even heavier populated with stars.
Are you sure that's the right link? What is this 'fok' thing?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:57:35pm |
re: #181 Naso Tang
You are aware that most tires sold in the USA are designed to blow out at 100?
conspiricy!....pass the bong
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:57:51pm |
re: #186 albusteve
Roads sure are in better shape than Colorado. The moment you cross the border it's like "thump." "Yep, we're in Colorado," as you thump along.
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:57:57pm |
re: #187 spirochete
An inspirational sculpture by a good, living American sculptor.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:57:59pm |
re: #175 Lincolntf
Good idea, but I understand that Gordon Brown is a bit of a tool, so nothing too nice. I'd be willing to "Paypal" a few bucks along in the cause of making Obama look bad. I'm a petty little man.
Maybe a bronze bust of Eldredge Cleaver. Let the Limey's figure that one out.
You are wicked!
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:58:21pm |
re: #182 Cygnus
I've seen that before. I've also seen crows harassed by little chickadee birds. Yes, I do love nature!
Crows are bullies and smart. I've watch a crow climb into a trash can climb out with a bag, and go through the contents of the bag looking for food.
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jamgarr Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:58:22pm |
re: #187 spirochete
What would be a decent gift, to thank his country for our heretofore special relationship?
Something regarding the Magna Carta?
Some kind of talisman from the wars in Afg/Iraq that is difficult to come by?
Monty Python DVD collection?/
A History of the Ebonic Speaking Peoples
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:58:34pm |
...I heard that Michelle initially offered to give them "two tickets to da gun show", but Mrs. Brown demurred.
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:59:30pm |
re: #181 Naso Tang
For some reason I have to buy z-rated tires for my volvo. Adds about a gazzillion dollars to each one.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:59:32pm |
re: #180 buzzsawmonkey
One of the spinoff links goes to an American Thinker article asking whether Obama is "lazy."
I think people musing on this should read the Mark Twain short story "Luck."
As with most Twain stories, there's a kicker which is not immediately apparent. The tale ostensibly tells of the "lucky" rise of an incompetent idiot to a position of high and untouchable prominence. But the teller, concentrating on the idiot's luck, glosses over the fact that it is he, the teller, who was instrumental in putting the idiot where he could rise to his current eminence--who has, in fact, been responsible for foisting this incompetent on the world by saving him from his own stupidity time and again. And though the narrator concludes by saying that the lucky idiot is "an absolute fool," one must in the end look at what an even greater absolute fool is the narrator who fostered and protected him.
(Warning: there are many versions of this story online. The one linked to above is complete, but some leave off the all-important final line.)
Soros?
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:59:32pm |
re: #194 rawmuse
Out of my realm but that's cool. You must know of some, then.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 4:59:56pm |
re: #172 imtoast
My daughter and I were fishing at Green Lake on Elemdorf one summer. I caught a fish that was too small and threw it back in and an eagle swooped in about 5 feet from us to catch it. The bird was breathtaking. They also had 3 eagles in a cage on base. They had been injured and were taking care of them. This was in 1997 so I don't know if they are still there.
someday I will be in the right place at the right time and I see a bald eagle....NM is very rugged and empty....no eagle will steal your little fish while boating somewhere...there are few lakes here to begin with
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Cygnus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:00:07pm |
re: #175 Lincolntf
Good idea, but I understand that Gordon Brown is a bit of a tool, so nothing too nice. I'd be willing to "Paypal" a few bucks along in the cause of making Obama look bad. I'm a petty little man.
Maybe a bronze bust of Eldredge Cleaver. Let the Limey's figure that one out.
How about a collection of selected messages from 'Rev' Wright? Be sure to include the 'God d*mn America' sermon.
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gregg Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:00:08pm |
re: #142 Lincolntf
The United States is about to take on the Evil Empire of Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic. First pitch in about 20 minutes. Winner advances to the next round.
How the heck did the Netherlands beat the Dominican Republic yesterday?
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:00:14pm |
re: #190 JCM Well I'll be a son-of-a-gun! Wonder why that Eagle didn't climb for altitude and just come screaming down on those crows and whack a few of 'em?!
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:00:38pm |
re: #199 ArmyWife
That's why I got rid of my volvo. Great car. Very expensive to repair.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:01:03pm |
re: #193 Gus 802
Roads sure are in better shape than Colorado. The moment you cross the border it's like "thump." "Yep, we're in Colorado," as you thump along.
the entire state is one huge road course....140 is typical out on the mesas
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:01:37pm |
re: #203 Cygnus
You know, had the Obama's been thinking ahead, they could have picked up a copy of the Blue Book Of Obama Quotations along with a pocket sized edition for carrying ease. Barry could have highlighted some of his favorites, perhaps even made a recording of him reading them or something.
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yochanan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:01:41pm |
i was on AMTRAK west of Denver and got to be very close to a 'bald eagle, the train was going up a steep encline along the head waters of the colorado river during the winter, in a old tree over looking a part of fast moving water, one of the few ice free spots was a bald eagle it was waiting for dinner to swim by. the train was maybe 10 feet from the eagle and it did not leave the spot as we slowly went by at maybe 5 miles an hour. these are damn big birds.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:02:05pm |
Whoops, break over! Have a great one y'all - hope to get the chance to see you all down the road tonight!
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:02:42pm |
re: #207 albusteve
Mine tops out at 129. They sure were driving fast around the 4-Corners area.
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:03:24pm |
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Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:03:36pm |
re: #178 realwest
Hi JCM - now wait a minute - you're trying to tell me that a Bald Eagle was being hassled by a buncha crows?
I mean Bald Eagles are easily 3 to 4 times the size of crows! Sort like saying Mike Tyson in his prime was being hassled by some crack heads or something!
Up here the ravens are not scared of the eagles. The ravens will chase and harass them all the time.
I have a small pond in a city park just behind my house. The pond is used by ducks (mallards) for nesting and feeding. Almost every day in the summer there is an eagle or two perched in the Sitka spruce tree in my backyard looking for a duck dinner. My 2 dogs are fairly small so when I let them out in the backyard I have to be cautious there are no eagles. The eagles would consider my dogs as a possible meal. There are not too many feral cats in the neighborhood as the eagles keep the numbers down.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:04:09pm |
re: #211 buzzsawmonkey
Read the story. It is narrated by a well-meaning clergyman who mentors and protects the incompetent through his career because he is too soft-hearted to see the boy fail, and in doing so creates a catastrophic monster--but never realizes that it was he, not the idiot he was protecting, that is to blame for the catastrophe.
Definitely not Soros.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:05:00pm |
Speaking of birds. Here's a video of a bird using "bait" to catch fish which I saw a little while back.
The bait is bread and I think it's a heron.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:05:03pm |
re: #212 Gus 802
Mine tops out at 129. They sure were driving fast around the 4-Corners area.
we consider that congested!...go down south east of the valley or even further south toward old Mexico and you can drive as fast as you want....for miles and miles...no shit
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:05:24pm |
Team USA plays in about 5 minutes in the WBC. If Venezuela loses will Hugo have them shot at the break of Dawn?
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Randall Gross Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:06:23pm |
Birds? Here's a sign of Spring, Geese heading North
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gregg Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:06:34pm |
re: #219 HoosierHoops
Team USA plays in about 5 minutes in the WBC. If Venezuela loses will Hugo have them shot at the break of Dawn?
Probably the only time he will de-nationalize something...
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:07:54pm |
re: #219 HoosierHoops
Win or lose, the Venezuelans should defect.
...Of course they'd still end up in a socialist State, so what's the point? Forget I brought it up.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:08:35pm |
re: #218 albusteve
Someday perhaps I will. Was thinking before about catching some summer air shows. Might entail a road trip.
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:11:17pm |
re: #174 rawmuse
A piece of a Liberty Ship would have been good.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:11:19pm |
re: #179 albusteve
I have hiked up and down and all across those mountains....there are few places I have not been in NM in five yrs...I get out far more than most people...too bad I can't sit at a lake in Conn at watch bald eagles eh?...so be it
I trust you know I was pulling your leg? Anyway, probably there are not as many where you are and they need bigger ranges to find food. If one looks for birds however, they are easy to spot from miles away and distinguish from vultures by wing shape and how they fly. Perhaps you look more where you step rather than at the sky when hiking.
Good luck.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:11:40pm |
re: #225 Lincolntf
Rollins leadoff double.
USA, USA, USA!
LOL
You likey that catchers arm now? Sit down Jimmy
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:11:42pm |
I went bicycling, and saw deer. Deer are pretty. That is all.
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:12:01pm |
re: #201 spirochete
Out of my realm but that's cool. You must know of some, then.
I know about a dozen good ones.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:12:16pm |
But The Simpsons has a new opening title sequence, which freaks me out.
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:13:01pm |
re: #214 Cheechako
There are plenty of ravens in my area, They are the smartest bird no doubt.
One Indian tribe calls them "the real chief".
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:13:17pm |
re: #231 Occasional Reader
I went bicycling, and saw deer. Deer are pretty. That is all.
What? You didn't have a 30.06 with you, drop one and bring home across your handle bars?
/ ;-P
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:14:12pm |
re: #235 JCM
What? You didn't have a 30.06 with you, drop one and bring home across your handle bars?
/ ;-P
That was so you.
/
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:14:41pm |
re: #235 JCM
What? You didn't have a 30.06 with you, drop one and bring home across your handle bars?
/ ;-P
No. They're pretty, didn't I explain that?!
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:14:48pm |
re: #229 Naso Tang
I trust you know I was pulling your leg? Anyway, probably there are not as many where you are and they need bigger ranges to find food. If one looks for birds however, they are easy to spot from miles away and distinguish from vultures by wing shape and how they fly. Perhaps you look more where you step rather than at the sky when hiking.
Good luck.
yeah...NM is huge and the game is generally spread out...same with eagles I'd say..and you always look where you step while hiking
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:15:20pm |
re: #237 Occasional Reader
No. They're pretty, didn't I explain that?!
Oh, I thought you meant pretty tasty.........
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:16:04pm |
re: #238 albusteve
Yep, what with all those rock and boulders east of the Mississippi.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:16:24pm |
re: #235 JCM
What? You didn't have a 30.06 with you, drop one and bring home across your handle bars?
/ ;-P
haha!...OR peddling so hard with his doe flopping around yelling TAXI!
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:16:28pm |
re: #217 Gus 802
Speaking of birds. Here's a video of a bird using "bait" to catch fish which I saw a little while back.
[Video]The bait is bread and I think it's a heron.
I can't help but wonder what it uses when there is no bread laying around, and of course then there is that thought about whether this was a evolved skill or something else.......
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:16:36pm |
re: #239 JCM
Oh, I thought you meant pretty tasty.........
That, too. But i assume that all the venison I've ever eaten died of natural causes, after leading a rich, full life.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:17:44pm |
re: #242 Naso Tang
Not sure. I was curious if this was common behavior or something new that has evolved. Would have to ask a "bird expert."
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:18:05pm |
re: #243 Occasional Reader
That, too. But i assume that all the venison I've ever eaten died of natural causes, after leading a rich, full life.
12ga slug is a natural cause where I come from...jus sayin
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:19:42pm |
re: #243 Occasional Reader
That, too. But i assume that all the venison I've ever eaten died of natural causes, after leading a rich, full life.
LOL!
I do like the parks where hunting is not allowed and the deer, elk and wildlife is easier to to watch because their not skittish.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:20:26pm |
re: #248 JCM
LOL!
I do like the parks where hunting is not allowed and the deer, elk and wildlife is easier to to watch because their not skittish.
And seldom is heard a disparagin' word.
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:20:36pm |
re: #246 albusteve
12ga slug is a natural cause where I come from...jus sayin
If god didn't want for use to eat them, he wouldn't have made them out of meat....
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livefreeor die Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:21:12pm |
Anyone know how to set the clock ahead four years?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:21:34pm |
re: #248 JCM
LOL!
I do like the parks where hunting is not allowed and the deer, elk and wildlife is easier to to watch because their not skittish.
Black Hills
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:21:34pm |
re: #232 rawmuse
Anything pop into your mind? I'm in for 20 or more even if there's enough interest
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soxfan4life Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:22:19pm |
re: #251 livefreeor die
Anyone know how to set the clock ahead four years?
It's the U.S. Savings time setting.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:22:27pm |
re: #250 JCM
If god didn't want for use to eat them, he wouldn't have made them out of meat....
And God said let there be deer! And so He made them out of brussel sprouts.
//
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yochanan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:22:32pm |
in parts of chicago a 9 mm round would be a natural cause.
old age not so much
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:23:06pm |
re: #243 Occasional Reader
That, too. But i assume that all the venison I've ever eaten died of natural causes, after leading a rich, full life.
Soylent green is deer?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:23:31pm |
re: #250 JCM
If god didn't want for use to eat them, he wouldn't have made them out of meat....
and when he invented gunpowder what were we supposed to think?...duh...go forth and eat!
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:23:37pm |
re: #251 livefreeor die
Anyone know how to set the clock ahead four years?
Take a four year time released sleeping capsule./
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:23:37pm |
re: #257 MandyManners
Soylent green is deer?
Nah, it's remarkably reasonably-priced if you know where to shop.
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:23:50pm |
re: #256 yochanan
in parts of Chicago a 9 mm round would be a natural cause.
old age not so much
No gun crime in Chicago, they have strict gun laws. /
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:24:28pm |
re: #262 NonNativeTexan
No gun crime in Chicago, they have strict gun laws. /
It's also illegal to discharge a firearm within city limits.
//
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:24:33pm |
Look at all the empty seats for the WBC in Toronto..
Even after Joe Carter hit the home run the win the world series you guys still can't sell out up there..
Sorry..but you guys suck up there..what is the problem?
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:25:00pm |
re: #245 Gus 802
Not sure. I was curious if this was common behavior or something new that has evolved. Would have to ask a "bird expert."
I meant that as a dig at any creationists reading this. There are other examples of birds (and other animals) using tools. In my mind it is a different and good example of evolution in action, not just in form but in behavior. After all, why wouldn't an intelligent designer just have given the bird a long tongue with a bait on the end, if it was meant to go fishing?
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:25:00pm |
re: #253 spirochete
Anything pop into your mind? I'm in for 20 or more even if there's enough interest
I will approach one of them and see if they would be interested. A bronze figure about 35 pounds or so would be nice. Something that does not require a helicopter to install.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:25:12pm |
re: #258 JCM
Olympics and Pasayten Wilderness round here.
do you have Rocky Mnt sheep up there?...very impressive beast
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:25:52pm |
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:26:27pm |
re: #267 albusteve
do you have Rocky Mnt sheep up there?...very impressive beast
Mmmm.... mint sheep....
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:26:38pm |
re: #266 rawmuse
I will approach one of them and see if they would be interested. A bronze figure about 35 pounds or so would be nice. Something that does not require a helicopter to install.
What are you guys talking about, muse?
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:26:46pm |
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wiffersnapper Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:27:14pm |
Will DST get a bailout? After all, all of our other savings are in the toilet.
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:27:30pm |
Oswalt shuts down Citgo.
G*d I love baseball...Good evening all!
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:27:59pm |
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:28:39pm |
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:28:58pm |
re: #267 albusteve
do you have Rocky Mnt sheep up there?...very impressive beast
Hunters imported a small herd in 1925, they've taken off since hunting them is not allowed, there is an ongoing debate on removing them since they are not native.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:29:06pm |
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:29:29pm |
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:06pm |
re: #246 albusteve
If not hunted, deer will starve in the winter. This upsets the Bambi fans either way.
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:26pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:39pm |
re: #276 JCM
Hunters imported a small herd in 1925, they've taken off since hunting them is not allowed, there is an ongoing debate on removing them since they are not native.
well neither are the Chinese...live and let live I say...their horns are really cool...you knew that tho
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livefreeor die Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:42pm |
Did our fearless leader do his radio speech yesterday or have his talking heads on this morning's news programs? It seems like things have been awfully quiet around ye olde White House this weekend.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:45pm |
What's next? A discussion on how to cook Rocky Mountain oysters?
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:50pm |
re: #279 jorline
Hey Hoopster...how are you?
Watching the WBC on a Sunday night..Baseball! Springtime!
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:30:57pm |
re: #271 Gus 802
Or give the bird a retractable fish-net-tongue. Better yet, explosives!
//
Had to think of these geese. Of course it's duck.
What a refreshing change.
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:31:06pm |
re: #270 NonNativeTexan
What are you guys talking about, muse?
Getting a better gift for Gordon Brown.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:31:17pm |
re: #281 Ojoe
That or they start crashing into things: like cars.
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TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:31:19pm |
DeRosa DRILLED.
Just like the Venezuelans and their nationalized oil drilling.
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:31:25pm |
re: #260 midwestgak
And miss all the fun? There will be fun, I have no doubt. Can't go on like this.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:31:46pm |
re: #284 livefreeor die
Did our fearless leader do his radio speech yesterday or have his talking heads on this morning's news programs? It seems like things have been awfully quiet around ye olde White House this weekend.
They're just warming up for Wednesday night.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:07pm |
re: #282 jorline
{gak}
How's that mac holding up?
Terrific! It's like going from and 1976 Pinto to a 2009 Mercury. lol
Did they make Pintos that year? dunno.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:17pm |
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:19pm |
re: #209 yochanan
Indeed they are some big birds. When we were on our Alaskan cruise this past summer we spotted one nesting in a tree on the coast of Skagway. After we got back from touring the town he/she was still there so we tried to get a picture. Our daughter's friend even got her good camera with the big lens out but even with that lens it was too far away. About two minutes later after we put away the cameras he/she flew within about five feet of our balcony. Awesome, absolutely awesome.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:24pm |
re: #281 Ojoe
If not hunted, deer will starve in the winter. This upsets the Bambi fans either way.
disease is the worst affliction...white tail must be managed...MI knows all about game management
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gregg Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:24pm |
Is this out of the ordinary (from Bloomberg):
North Korea Orders Army to Be Combat Ready Before U.S.-South Korea Drills
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:30pm |
re: #281 Ojoe
If not hunted, deer will starve in the winter. This upsets the Bambi fans either way.
I just couldn't shoot a deer. Nope. Now turkeys, on the other hand... they're assholes. I could shoot a turkey.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:38pm |
re: #285 MandyManners
What's next? A discussion on how to cook Rocky Mountain oysters?
Even if it's in the cookbook..I ain't eating any..promise
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livefreeor die Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:44pm |
re: #292 MandyManners
They're just warming up for Wednesday night.
It would be awesome if he did his weekly radio speech after the Wednesday night soirees. I might even listen to it then.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:32:58pm |
re: #285 MandyManners
What's next? A discussion on how to cook Rocky Mountain oysters?
you eat those raw...silly girl
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:33:15pm |
re: #263 Gus 802
It's also illegal to discharge a firearm within city limits.
//
WA is real tough, I can own a suppressor but can't use it.......
WA is really good on gun laws and self defense.
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:33:18pm |
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:33:21pm |
"Time is an illusion. Lunch time, doubly so." -- Ford Prefect
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:33:24pm |
re: #301 HoosierHoops
Even if it's in the cookbook..I ain't eating any..promise
I'll never forget seeing a tray of them, frozen.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:34:17pm |
re: #304 livefreeor die
It would be awesome if he did his weekly radio speech after the Wednesday night soirees. I might even listen to it then.
Only if there's a conga beat going in the back ground.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:34:21pm |
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:34:35pm |
re: #289 Gus 802
I got one to jump off a bridge once; it was night, it was totally foggy, there was this deer I came upon at about 10 mph, on a bridge, it just stood there, it wouldn't move if I honked; I wasn't going to stay still on the bridge & get rear ended, I started to drive around it & it leapt over the railing. Next morning I checked and there it was dead on a gravel bar 80 feet down.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:34:37pm |
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JCM Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:34:59pm |
re: #285 MandyManners
What's next? A discussion on how to cook Rocky Mountain oysters?
Fresh, lightly battered and fried over the fire that was used to heat the branding irons.
Foster Ranch, WY 1972 got to help with round up and branding and castration. The Rocky Mountain oysters were part of dinner.
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:35:42pm |
re: #300 Occasional Reader
I just couldn't shoot a deer. Nope. Now turkeys, on the other hand... they're assholes. I could shoot a turkey.
I could shoot a deer, and enjoy it. When a human being dies in an encounter with an animal, chances are better than 50% that the animal was a white-tail deer.
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:35:56pm |
re: #286 HoosierHoops
Watching the WBC on a Sunday night..Baseball! Springtime!
Same here...I enjoyed the last WBC. Dominican Republic and Pueto Rico will be tough again this year. Panama's win yesterday was a fluke.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:36:28pm |
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:36:52pm |
re: #309 MandyManners
I'll never forget seeing a tray of them, frozen.
So who was the first person to decide that I think I'll cut the Balls off my Bull and eat them? Cause..That is what we are talking about..Sick..
/And I really don't care how tasty they are...
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Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:37:04pm |
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:37:31pm |
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:38:11pm |
re: #322 jorline
Same here...I enjoyed the last WBC. Dominican Republic and Pueto Rico will be tough again this year. Panama's win yesterday was a fluke.
I was live blogging early this morning when the Netherlands won!
Awesome game
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NonNativeTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:38:20pm |
What is that joke about the guy that would go to the bullfights
every year and pay extra for the "oysters". One year they were
unusually small, he ask the waiter about it , the waiter said=
sometimes the bull wins.
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:38:29pm |
re: #284 livefreeor die
He was sleeping. I heard he was quite overwhelmed and tired what with having to do work and all.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:39:02pm |
re: #326 Naso Tang
There you go. Now make that flammable and the beetle can kill his prey and have BBQ at the same time.
//
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:39:12pm |
re: #318 victor_yugo
I could shoot a deer, and enjoy it. When a human being dies in an encounter with an animal, chances are better than 50% that the animal was a white-tail deer.
Non-starter for me, anyway. My wife totally melts every time she sees a deer. She'd probably divorce me if I shot one!
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:39:34pm |
re: #324 HoosierHoops
Probably the same person who drank cows or goats milk the first time? Seriously, think about that for a minute. Then go get some ice cream.
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:39:48pm |
re: #293 midwestgak
Terrific! It's like going from and 1976 Pinto to a 2009 Mercury. lol
Did they make Pintos that year? dunno.
Yes they did.
The Pinto, Pacer and Vega were all on the market at the same time...they all should gone belly up at that time...lol
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:39:54pm |
re: #332 Occasional Reader
Non-starter for me, anyway. My wife totally melts every time she sees a deer. She'd probably divorce me if I shot one!
I've taken to calling them giant land-kittens.
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:39:55pm |
re: #323 Occasional Reader
Meaning, can't use one even at the range?
As fire as I can tell nope. Kinda strange....
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:40:14pm |
re: #332 Occasional Reader
Non-starter for me, anyway. My wife totally melts every time she sees a deer. She'd probably divorce me if I shot one!
Has she ever had one come through her windshield at 55mph?
We need just one year with no bag limit.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:40:39pm |
re: #324 HoosierHoops
So who was the first person to decide that I think I'll cut the Balls off my Bull and eat them? Cause..That is what we are talking about..Sick..
/And I really don't care how tasty they are...
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:40:45pm |
re: #332 Occasional Reader
My husband is an avid hunter. Rules are, however, that it comes home looking like he went to the butcher and bought it - all wrapped up in white paper marked "tender loin", "Stew" or "ground". Never, ever shall it come home with a face.
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:41:15pm |
re: #333 ArmyWife
Not to mention the first fella who saw a huge bug crawling through the salty mud and brought us the $20 a lb. lobster.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:41:28pm |
re: #334 jorline
The Pinto, Pacer and Vega were all on the market at the same time...they all should gone belly up at that time...lol
Ha. My brother threatened to disown me if I ever bought a Pacer. Huge rear window and all.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:41:33pm |
re: #329 NonNativeTexan
What is that joke about the guy that would go to the bullfights
every year and pay extra for the "oysters". One year they were
unusually small, he ask the waiter about it , the waiter said=
sometimes the bull wins.
Reminds me of a long time ago when the owner of a small restaurant in Kuwait asked me to help translate and proof read a menu in English.
Most of it was easy enough, but eventually it took some charades to understand one item and rather than play cute with names I wrote it down as it was; goat balls.
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:41:50pm |
Tacky tacky tacky: My other half got an email of a buck (huge rack, too) mounting a doe. Just as he is "finished" he rears up and a hunter takes the shot. POW* right in the neck. Needless to say, I did NOT enjoy that video. On the other hand, my son hunts and we can butcher a deer in our kitchen. YUK!
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brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:41:56pm |
re: #324 HoosierHoops
So who was the first person to decide that I think I'll cut the Balls off my Bull and eat them? Cause..That is what we are talking about..Sick..
/And I really don't care how tasty they are...
And, I have always wondered about the origins of sausages too...
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:42:31pm |
re: #324 HoosierHoops
So who was the first person to decide that I think I'll cut the Balls off my Bull and eat them? Cause..That is what we are talking about..Sick..
/And I really don't care how tasty they are...
The farm hands on a South American ranch once tried to make me eat what they described as 'tripa gorda' (big intestines) which is a delicacy. But in reality they had the p*nis of a young bull on the barbecue. A huge laugh when another city-slicker fell for the trap.
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:42:43pm |
I just emailed the Iranian author Amil Imani (author of a pro-Iran-democracy / secularism site with, unfortunately, Nirther material) -
Dear Mr Imani,I was directed to your website from FrontPage. I am glad to see a voice arguing for freedom for Iran and for honesty about the teachings of the Qur'an.
However I am concerned about some of the arguments made on other pages on your site. In reference to your 18 December article "Clouds Still Hover Over Presidential Election"; there are no such clouds. Obama is, in fact, a citizen. I personally wish he wasn't, but he is. The Alan Keyes case to which you refer was thrown out of court:
[link]Every other such case has been, likewise, thrown out. Philip Berg is becoming notorious for that sort of thing. Associating with the likes of Berg and Keyes is bad mojo at the best of times.
While the case was still in the courts, it might have made some sense to post about it; but now that the case has been decided, the "constitutional crisis" is over. For the sake of your reputation, and for the reputation of FrontPage, I ask that you issue a correction linked from that article.
Best wishes
[my real name]
(PS: Do you really think Wilders and Spencer have your best interests at heart? They are too close to racialist parties in Europe. Spencer is bad news in particular; I assume you are aware of this: [link]. Their friends aren't going to stop with believing Muslims; even if the Muslims all converted, other excuses would be found.)
The postscript refers to his latest on FrontPage, which gives shouts-out to Wilders and Spencer. (Funny how these articles of faith converge even among those who should know better.)
Maybe "lizard evangelism" is quixotic. I just think that if we can pull more of these guys away from the cliff, there'd be a critical mass of sanity in FrontPage's links, and Horowitz himself will get a clue.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:43:07pm |
re: #317 Ojoe
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I got to thinking about you this afternoon while I was driving past some commercial construction. This is not some abstraction despite what FCBBHO says about gyrating this and that. This is real folks hurting.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:43:08pm |
re: #344 UberInfidel67
Tacky tacky tacky: My other half got an email of a buck (huge rack, too) mounting a doe. Just as he is "finished" he rears up and a hunter takes the shot. POW* right in the neck. Needless to say, I did NOT enjoy that video. On the other hand, my son hunts and we can butcher a deer in our kitchen. YUK!
bad shot to the neck....not good
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:43:45pm |
re: #345 brookly red
And, I have always wondered about the origins of sausages too...
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:43:52pm |
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:44:27pm |
re: #328 HoosierHoops
I was live blogging early this morning when the Netherlands won!
Awesome game
That who it was...the Netherlands, not Panama. The cather had a rocket arm.
Pudge looked good yesterday.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:44:28pm |
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Empire1 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:44:43pm |
re: #340 ArmyWife
My husband is an avid hunter. Rules are, however, that it comes home looking like he went to the butcher and bought it - all wrapped up in white paper marked "tender loin", "Stew" or "ground". Never, ever shall it come home with a face.
Huh. My rule is that it comes home dead and gutted. I'll take care of the rest; I'm much neater at it than he is.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:44:49pm |
re: #347 callahan23
My mom tried the menudo out on us once. No thanks. I cringed just looking at that raw before she cooked it. That was followed a couple of weeks later with sheep brains which wasn't much better.
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:45:03pm |
re: #351 albusteve
I thought the neck shot was the best one? At least that is what I was told. Other than the heart shot. But what do I know. I would yell "RUN LITTLE DEER" if I ever saw a hunter getting ready to plug him. lol
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:45:11pm |
re: #332 Occasional Reader
Non-starter for me, anyway. My wife totally melts every time she sees a deer. She'd probably divorce me if I shot one!
What about elk? That's the best food I've ever had. It was so lean the meat had a bluish tinge to it. Before grinding it up for burgers, my friend would mix it with tallow or it wouldn't hold together.
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:45:21pm |
re: #352 OldLineTexan
I thought sausage was invented to cover up the flavor of the barely-edible meat?
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:45:27pm |
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:46:04pm |
re: #339 MandyManners
camp down in the canyon, when the moon lights the land, and meet there the ladies that he understands
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:46:27pm |
re: #347 callahan23
The farm hands on a South American ranch once tried to make me eat what they described as 'tripa gorda' (big intestines) which is a delicacy. But in reality they had the p*nis of a young bull on the barbecue. A huge laugh when another city-slicker fell for the trap.
Gak! And people make fun of me cause I'm a picky eater...
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:47:07pm |
re: #355 albusteve
out here they call it jerky
Most Mediterranean climates are too wet to reliably dry meat ... they smoke meat, and fish. Sausage took off when the Roman Army quit being able to live off the land completely. Hence all the "dry sausages" with lots of salt and fat to keep it from spoiling.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:47:11pm |
re: #359 MandyManners
What about elk?
I've had enough of people like you, and your elk.
/
Never tried it. Don't think I could shoot one either, though. (Unless it was attacking me, or trying to steal my iPhone or something.)
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Empire1 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:48:20pm |
re: #349 Iron Fist
I consider the Right to Keep and Bear arms to be the capstone of freedom. Nations (or States) that infringe on that are not really free. They may not be authoritarian hellholes (although it is a good indicator of that), but they are not really free, either.
Yes! You are precisely correct!
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:48:22pm |
re: #358 UberInfidel67
I thought the neck shot was the best one? At least that is what I was told. Other than the heart shot. But what do I know. I would yell "RUN LITTLE DEER" if I ever saw a hunter getting ready to plug him. lol
That'll get you a ticket in Texas.
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Lincolntf Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:48:27pm |
re: #347 callahan23
Of all the cock and bull stories I've ever heard...
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:48:33pm |
re: #363 swamprat
Another reason why I love LGF: I never know what I'm gonna' hear.
Beautiful. Thank you.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:48:37pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:49:02pm |
re: #358 UberInfidel67
I thought the neck shot was the best one? At least that is what I was told. Other than the heart shot. But what do I know. I would yell "RUN LITTLE DEER" if I ever saw a hunter getting ready to plug him. lol
heart/lung...right behind the shoulder broadside or at the same level head on....if a deer takes more than one leap after the shot, it was a bad shot...you want them to go down almost instantly...
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:49:22pm |
re: #369 OldLineTexan
Shooting one in the neck or telling him to run?
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:49:23pm |
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:49:24pm |
That was quick! Here is Amil Imani -
Dear Mr. [me],
As an American patriot who vehemently support the Constitution of the United States of America, I must inform you that I will not sell my soul to anyone. I always speak the truth. Please keep in mind, all President Obama has to do is show us his BC, that's all. If Obama is a citizen, all he has to do is to prove it. Is that too much to ask? Why do I have to prove my citizenship every time I fly and come to beck to this country? Please, give us a break.
Best wishes,
AmilPS. My reputation will remain intact since I am the voice of millions of Americans.FPM doesn't have to publsih my work. Millions of other places do.
Boy did that windmill take a beating.
*sigh*
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:49:54pm |
re: #349 Iron Fist
Did you miss a sarc tag, or is the Washington Moonbat Hunting Preserve not quite as far Left as I thought? I consider the Right to Keep and Bear arms to be the capstone of freedom. Nations (or States) that infringe on that are not really free. They may not be authoritarian hellholes (although it is a good indicator of that), but they are not really free, either.
No the WA State Constitution is even stronger on the right to keep and bear arms. Self defense case law is excellent, a guy in downtown Seattle got knock down was being kick, he shot and killed his assailant and walked, another one guy chase some guys off, when one they were off the property one of them turned and reach into his waist band. The resident shot and killed him, he was cleared also.
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rain of lead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:05pm |
re: #366 Occasional Reader
I've had enough of people like you, and your elk.
/Never tried it. Don't think I could shoot one either, though. (Unless it was attacking me, or trying to steal my iPhone or something.)
if it meant eating or not eating..... I could shoot any animal.
top of the food chain and damn proud of it!
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:16pm |
re: #359 MandyManners
What about elk? That's the best food I've ever had. It was so lean the meat had a bluish tinge to it. Before grinding it up for burgers, my friend would mix it with tallow or it wouldn't hold together.
elk have beautiful eyes and a gracious smile...
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:23pm |
re: #336 jcm
As fire as I can tell nope. Kinda strange....
A guy at my range has a full-auto Ingram M-11 with a suppressor. I assume he has whatever license is required for it. Seems like tons of fun, but rather expensive to shoot (it's tricked out to something like 1100 rounds per minute).
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:34pm |
re: #366 Occasional Reader
I've had enough of people like you, and your elk.
/Never tried it. Don't think I could shoot one either, though. (Unless it was attacking me, or trying to steal my iPhone or something.)
I'd stay away when they're rutting if I were you. I've heard they're mean.
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_RememberTonyC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:40pm |
This is a true time and space story. Back in the early-mid 1970s when there were two pro basketball leagues, there was a player in the now defunct ABA named Marvin "Bad News" Barnes. One time he was supposed to take a short flight across time zones where the arrival time was "before" the takeoff time. barnes refused to get on the plane, saying "I ain't getting in no time machine."
True story!
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:43pm |
re: #373 ploome hineni
and I thought sausage was invented to make use of barely edible/useable meat
bits and pieces
And everything inedible becomes hotdogs!
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:50:43pm |
re: #374 albusteve
At least in this video that I saw, he stood up and then fell right over. I think he was dead before he hit the ground. Imma see if I can post the video here for you huntin' men (unless anyone objects?)
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:51:00pm |
re: #380 jcm
That's pretty good. Same applies with Denver. Not sure about other cities.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:51:07pm |
re: #376 UberInfidel67
Shooting one in the neck or telling him to run?
The latter. Unless someone's trespassing/poaching.
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:51:18pm |
re: #357 Gus 802
My mom tried the menudo out on us once. No thanks. I cringed just looking at that raw before she cooked it. That was followed a couple of weeks later with sheep brains which wasn't much better.
DO NOT EAT BRAINS.
Let me repeat:
DO NOT EAT BRAINS.
That's the source of the mis-folded proteins (prions) that cause mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It cannot be cooked out, because it isn't a living organism like bacteria, or even a semi-living organism like a virus.
I lost an admired friend to it last year.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:51:52pm |
re: #382 albusteve
elk have beautiful eyes and a gracious smile...
They're great at telling saucy limericks, too.
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endotoxin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:52:10pm |
This is OT but does anyone remember the "panic" around 15 Sept 2008 when there was that $550 billion electronically pulled out from US money market funds over the space of 2 hours that if the feds hadn't noticed and closed the accounts that 5.3 trillion dollars wound have been lost and collapsed the US and then the global financial system.
There is this youtube video from CSPAN where a Paul Kanjorski discusses it. My question is: who pulled out that money and where is the investigation for something that serious - was it a cyber attack, an attack by a foreign power, an "October surprise" by George Soros for the benefit of a certain Presidential candidate and that is why we hear nothing about it? Or is it an innocent thing where normal people all just happened to pull their money out all at the same time and put it into gold or something? Anyone know of this and why no one seems to be discussing it?
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:52:31pm |
re: #389 OldLineTexan
No shit? I can believe that though. It is neccesary to cull the herds and I harbor no ill will toward anyone that hunts. I tease my son about it all the time. I understand reality. Thank God there are others who do it for me so that I don't have to.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:52:50pm |
re: #375 Iron Fist
A better way to fix that problem is to mix it with hamburger at about three to one amounts. It is better for you than adding the pure fat, I've had deer burger that was done like that. Lots of deerburger. I killed a spike buck when I was like fifteen years old. Me and my father were the only ones who would eat the meat. We had deer burger, deer steaks, and the like for more than a year.
I wasn't the one doing the fixing. I've never had venison, though. If it's anything like that elk, wowza. Good eating.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:02pm |
re: #384 MandyManners
I'd stay away when they're rutting if I were you. I've heard they're mean.
REAL mean.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:11pm |
re: #390 victor_yugo
DO NOT EAT BRAINS.
Let me repeat:
DO NOT EAT BRAINS.
Good thing zombie's not on this thread.
(But yes, excellent advice.)
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:19pm |
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:19pm |
re: #390 victor_yugo
I'm sorry to hear that.
I forgot about that connection to eating brains. This was in 1969.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:32pm |
re: #387 UberInfidel67
At least in this video that I saw, he stood up and then fell right over. I think he was dead before he hit the ground. Imma see if I can post the video here for you huntin' men (unless anyone objects?)
I've seen alot of deer killed, if that makes a difference
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:38pm |
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:41pm |
re: #393 endotoxin
We are talking about gross things to eat right now!
//seriously, we have discussed this quite a bit. Even concocted our own Soros theory.
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:53:55pm |
re: #393 endotoxin
I don't but I look everyday for it via the usual channels. I rank it right in front of who shorted airline stocks before Sept. 11.
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callahan23 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:54:20pm |
re: #370 Lincolntf
Of all the cock and bull stories I've ever heard...
... mine was the worst? Well, it certainly is a true story but it has got that special Gak-Factor, ay?
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:54:32pm |
re: #395 UberInfidel67
No shit? I can believe that though. It is neccesary to cull the herds and I harbor no ill will toward anyone that hunts. I tease my son about it all the time. I understand reality. Thank God there are others who do it for me so that I don't have to.
Cuts down on the possibility of someone pissing off someone else with a high-powered rifle. Plus, PETA/ELF types are not wanted out in the woods during hunting season.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:54:47pm |
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spirochete Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:55:25pm |
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Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:55:26pm |
re: #234 Ojoe
Ravens are probably one of the smartest birds. They will sit in the trees in my backyard and mimic the barking of my dogs. They sound just like my dogs and drive the dogs crazy. They can even meow like a cat. On garbage days they fly to the top of the garbage can, grab the handle with their talons and then fly/bounce up and down to get the lid off. They then knock the can over a spread the trash all over. Had to put bungee cords on the cans to stop them. At the grocery stores they will fly into the backs of pick-up trucks and eat any groceries stored in the pick-up bed.
At one time the local brewery stored their used mash out side. The ravens and eagles would gobble it down and then walk around drunk. They could'nt fly. They now store it in covered containers.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:55:34pm |
re: #397 OldLineTexan
REAL mean.
I'd rather be in Tora Bora than between a horny boy elk and his date.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:55:43pm |
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:55:44pm |
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:55:56pm |
re: #377 MandyManners
Ran across it by chance. But really he is complaining about how his song will be portrayed... I still like it.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:56:11pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:56:17pm |
re: #402 MandyManners
ELK DON'T SMILE.
how do you know?...I say there are happy elk and they smile in a way only I can perceive...you are obviously no Danielle Boone
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:56:18pm |
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_RememberTonyC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:56:59pm |
re: #385 _RememberTonyC
This is a true time and space story. Back in the early-mid 1970s when there were two pro basketball leagues, there was a player in the now defunct ABA named Marvin "Bad News" Barnes. One time he was supposed to take a short flight across time zones where the arrival time was "before" the takeoff time. barnes refused to get on the plane, saying "I ain't getting in no time machine."
True story!
in case you thought i was kidding:
[Link: blog.mlive.com...]
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:04pm |
This is just for the hunting men! Don't say I didn't warn you lady lizards!
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:07pm |
re: #412 Occasional Reader
Not at you.
At us, yes.
I'm just gonna' ignore all kinds of things I could post.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:17pm |
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:29pm |
re: #413 swamprat
Ran across it by chance. But really he is complaining about how his song will be portrayed... I still like it.
It cracked me up.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:47pm |
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:56pm |
re: #393 endotoxin
I think that was an international data hacker consortium that had cracked the access codes for an ATM network. They flooded the systems with transactions. IIRC, investigators got to the bottom of it a couple months ago.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:57:59pm |
re: #415 albusteve
how do you know?...I say there are happy elk and they smile in a way only I can perceive...you are obviously no Danielle Boone
I ain't never kilt a bar.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:58:42pm |
elk do not dig Mandy...this is telling is it not?
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:58:43pm |
re: #383 Occasional Reader
A guy at my range has a full-auto Ingram M-11 with a suppressor. I assume he has whatever license is required for it. Seems like tons of fun, but rather expensive to shoot (it's tricked out to something like 1100 rounds per minute).
Full-autos are actually difficult to slow down. One of the ways the US military screwed up thiefing the MG42 design for the M-60 was tryinf to reduce the 1200 rpm rate of fire.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:58:59pm |
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:59:28pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 5:59:50pm |
re: #429 Occasional Reader
So we can Scotch that idea.
killing a bar takes stamina...I've killed a few in my day
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:00:09pm |
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:00:16pm |
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victor_yugo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:00:37pm |
re: #430 spirochete
Please don't ask me to find it. Two months ago is eternity in Internet time.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:00:50pm |
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CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:00:54pm |
God evening all! Hope everyone is just ducky tonight!
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:00:57pm |
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Bobblehead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:01:10pm |
re: #409 Cheechako
Ravens are probably one of the smartest birds. They will sit in the trees in my backyard and mimic the barking of my dogs. They sound just like my dogs and drive the dogs crazy. They can even meow like a cat. On garbage days they fly to the top of the garbage can, grab the handle with their talons and then fly/bounce up and down to get the lid off. They then knock the can over a spread the trash all over. Had to put bungee cords on the cans to stop them. At the grocery stores they will fly into the backs of pick-up trucks and eat any groceries stored in the pick-up bed.
At one time the local brewery stored their used mash out side. The ravens and eagles would gobble it down and then walk around drunk. They could'nt fly. They now store it in covered containers.
An oldie but goodie...The Lyre Bird
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:01:13pm |
re: #373 ploome hineni
and I thought sausage was invented to make use of barely edible/useable meat
bits and pieces
That's what is called Haggis.
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Sheepdogess Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:01:34pm |
You lizards are sooooo clever. I envy you that.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:01:36pm |
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:01:54pm |
re: #393 endotoxin
Anyone know of this and why no one seems to be discussing it?
People have discussed it. It's probably nothing. The conspiracy loons have some theories about it but there's not much there. I seem to recall the same stuff about 9/11 too. This happens all the time and people only notice when something big happens afterward.
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:01:59pm |
re: #441 CapeCoddah
Hola! Got a gross food from a body part we don't discuss in polite society to share?
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tripletdad Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:02:11pm |
Just did my taxes, and even with my 3 deductions, I STILL had to pay! I've NEVER had to do that in all my taxpaying history!
/just had to get that off my chest - thanks.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:02:24pm |
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:02:42pm |
re: #423 Occasional Reader
Ha, good one!
No, this Leo may never have been to New York City. But back in the '70's he travelled Southeast Asia and Japan selling Texas rice for his co-op.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:02:50pm |
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:02:53pm |
re: #447 tripletdad
I had to pay, too. A lot. It really hurt.
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CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:03:19pm |
re: #446 ArmyWife
Hola! Got a gross food from a body part we don't discuss in polite society to share?
All due respect AM, Not gonna touch that one with the proverbial 10 foot pole!
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:03:22pm |
Pathetically sentimental moose and her twins complete with overly saccharine music. (Posted a while back)
[Link: www.maniacworld.com...]
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ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:03:24pm |
re: #451 midwestgak
We sure are committing a lot of word zins, aren't we?
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:03:27pm |
All this talk of charismatic megafauna is making me hungry.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:03:27pm |
re: #436 OldLineTexan
You sure? I grew up in the areas they helped settle, and I distinctly remember hearing about a tree with "Dan'l Boon kilt a bar" cut into it.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:04:06pm |
re: #451 midwestgak
My mind just went blanc.
I don't know if I should instigate any more puns or just put a cork in it.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:04:43pm |
re: #446 ArmyWife
Hola! Got a gross food from a body part we don't discuss in polite society to share?
I don't know about gross, but my favorite is Head Cheese.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:05:01pm |
re: #458 Gus 802
I don't know if I should instigate any more puns or just put a cork in it.
Screw you./
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:05:02pm |
tripletdad -- I just did taxes as well and for the first time in a decade I actually get something back from the government. I could hardly believe my good luck this time after so many years of totally being screwed by the gov't.
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itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:05:46pm |
re: #439 Bobblehead
An oldie but goodie...The Lyre Bird
Why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air?
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pink freud Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:09pm |
re: #444 spirochete
Oh God, here we go with the punnage again.
A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money.
Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine,
something Brussels sprouts never do.
--P. J. O'Rourke
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CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:09pm |
re: #448 HoosierHoops
Good evening..Hope today finds you well..
Today finds me well. Found my childhood best friend on facebook, met for lunch today after a 22 year absence. Got a lot of questions answered about why the friendship was ended so abruptly by her parents. Not happy answers, but, it made a lot of unexplained things fall resoundingly into place, confirmed old suspicions, and I have by childhood best friend back now.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:27pm |
re: #462 Miss Molly
tripletdad -- I just did taxes as well and for the first time in a decade I actually get something back from the government. I could hardly believe my good luck this time after so many years of totally being screwed by the gov't.
I don't mean to rain on your parade, but that "something back from the government" was your own money. You gave the government an interest-free loan.
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:28pm |
re: #393 endotoxin
Is there proof? No, but Soros has played those games in the past. Several of us speculated on a Soros hand in it when it happened.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:42pm |
re: #460 Lincolntf
USA up 2-1 over Venezuela in top of 4th.
Did you see the USA in the dugout? Like high schoolers! I love this shit!
pure sports
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:43pm |
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rain of lead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:44pm |
re: #453 CapeCoddah
All due respect AM, Not gonna touch that one with the proverbial 10 foot pole!
how about a 6 ft hungarian
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:06:57pm |
re: #463 itellu3times
I think we're all bozos on this thread.
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Bobblehead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:07:02pm |
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:07:17pm |
re: #461 midwestgak
Now my mind really went blank especially since I was thinking along the lines of cork screw.
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FrogMarch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:07:31pm |
The Audacity of Obama
He says to the NY Times...
And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement -– the prescription drug plan -- without a source of funding.
F off. Obama is spending more that Bush ever did and with ZERO source of funding for anything. Unless you count our children and grand children and great grand children...
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Bobblehead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:07:33pm |
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:08:07pm |
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:08:10pm |
re: #457 MandyManners
You sure? I grew up in the areas they helped settle, and I distinctly remember hearing about a tree with "Dan'l Boon kilt a bar" cut into it.
Did you play the song?
Of course, Dan'l was the REAL deal. Davey was tougher than I ever was, but he was no Dan'l Boone. He was a self-promoter extraordinaire. But he is so popular in Texas that the revisionists are constantly gunning for him.
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:08:23pm |
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
Our choice, last fall, was between an angry 73 year old with a legislative record far from consistently conservative, who nominated as his running mate a know-nothing religious extremist; on the other side was an appealing, thoughtful man who--for a brief shining moment--seemed to be more than the sum of his ideological parts.
If I had to vote all over again, I'd pull the same lever. Maybe I'm obtuse. Or maybe I just haven't yet entirely given up on the old audacity of hope.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:08:58pm |
re: #472 Occasional Reader
I think we're all bozos on this thread.
Just another bozo on under the bus.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:09:32pm |
re: #480 OldLineTexan
Just another bozo
onunder the bus.
Would that be the short bus or the blue bus?
//
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CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:09:38pm |
re: #471 rain of lead
how about a 6 ft hungarian
Saw a Hungarian best man at a wedding I did once. The wedding party all went skinny dipping after the reception. The Hungarian was without a doubt the "Best" Man!
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:09:50pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
Then he's still an empty-headed, bigoted, pretentious half-wit.
/whoopee
/lots of people with famous names
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VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:09:55pm |
Good evening lizards. Spring forward, fall over?
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:09:57pm |
re: #462 Miss Molly
Ugh. I was going to do my taxes early this year. So much for that plan.
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:10:02pm |
Occasional Reader -- Sadly I know it is my own money. I think it is just that when you are beaten down so much by gov't taxes for so long you become grateful for any bread crumbs that come along.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:10:11pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
Maybe I'm obtuse. Or maybe I just haven't yet entirely given up on the old audacity of hope.
Or, maybe you're just a fucking moron.
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Bobblehead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:10:34pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
What an a..hole!
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Sheila Broflovski Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:10:43pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
What a maroon.
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Shay4l Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:10:46pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
It's so much easier than having the guts to admit he was WRONG!
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:11:02pm |
re: #478 OldLineTexan
Did you play the song?
Of course, Dan'l was the REAL deal. Davey was tougher than I ever was, but he was no Dan'l Boone. He was a self-promoter extraordinaire. But he is so popular in Texas that the revisionists are constantly gunning for him.
I spent many a fine hour on Boone Lake when I was a teen. My boyfriend loved jumping off this one bridge.
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TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:11:06pm |
re: #475 FrogMarch
The Audacity of Obama
He says to the NY Times...
F off. Obama is spending more that Bush ever did and with ZERO source of funding for anything. Unless you count our children and grand children and great grand children...
That's fucking ridiculous.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:11:10pm |
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:11:21pm |
re: #483 OldLineTexan
What surprises me is that he's still enchanted by Obama's dopey campaign slogan.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:11:26pm |
re: #484 VioletTiger
Good evening lizards. Spring forward, fall over?
Good evening..How are you today?
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:11:52pm |
re: #485 Killgore Trout
Ugh. I was going to do my taxes early this year. So much for that plan.
I see we have the same plan. I had the software and all the papers on Feb 4.
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:08pm |
re: #449 Sheepdogess
linky for you arlo moose poem...
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itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:09pm |
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:18pm |
re: #490 Shay4l
It's so much easier than having the guts to admit he was WRONG!
He broaches the topic in the article but he's still smitten by Chairman Obama.
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CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:23pm |
re: #487 MandyManners
Or, maybe you're just a fucking moron.
Mandy, I needed to hear you smack someone down today. I was thinking about what your reaction to some info I got today would be. You are a balm, even in thought.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:29pm |
re: #478 OldLineTexan
Did you play the song?
Of course, Dan'l was the REAL deal. Davey was tougher than I ever was, but he was no Dan'l Boone. He was a self-promoter extraordinaire. But he is so popular in Texas that the revisionists are constantly gunning for him.
Crockett went to the mat...he didn't have to...Boone spent his entire life trying to pay his bills...great American that he was
| 503 |
Randall Gross Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:37pm |
Tonight's moon is waxing
[Link: noblesseoblige.org...]
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:47pm |
re: #494 Killgore Trout
What surprises me is that he's still enchanted by Obama's dopey campaign slogan.
I wonder what kind of photographs Soros has of Chrissy.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:53pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Boy, the apple sure fell far from the tree with this twit. His writing is almost like a fashion review:
If I had to vote all over again, I'd pull the same lever. Maybe I'm obtuse. Or maybe I just haven't yet entirely given up on the old audacity of hope.
Copy writer. I can see him now sucking on his glasses trying to act like an intellectual.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:54pm |
re: #494 Killgore Trout
What surprises me is that he's still enchanted by Obama's dopey campaign slogan.
Some people cling to the boat, and some people take off their jackets and drift out to sea. It's hard to tell what people REALLY think, especially those who write for a living. BS is too natural for them.
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Bobblehead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:12:57pm |
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VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:14pm |
re: #495 HoosierHoops
Good evening..How are you today?
Very well, thanks. Had nice weekend, enjoying the great weather at home and then down the shore today.
How about you?
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TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:17pm |
re: #490 Shay4l
It's so much easier than having the guts to admit he was WRONG!
One of my friends who was an Obama voter already owned up to his mistake. Granted, he didn't know about politics anyway (then again, that sounds like a typical Obama voter to me!), but he's seen the light. Too little, too late, but at least maybe this'll teach him a lesson to listen to me.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:23pm |
re: #501 CapeCoddah
Mandy, I needed to hear you smack someone down today. I was thinking about what your reaction to some info I got today would be. You are a balm, even in thought.
Glad to help!
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Charles Johnson Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:24pm |
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:27pm |
Killgore Trout -- last year I did my taxes on April 12th and mailed them in on April 14th, a pattern I have followed for many years.
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:28pm |
re: #485 Killgore Trout
Ugh. I was going to do my taxes early this year. So much for that plan.
I began doing my taxes using an online service which indicated I owed $87. Last year I received approx $450 back. I made slightly more this year than last so I did my taxes manually. I'll get back approx $480 doing that way.
Just be aware.
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FrogMarch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:41pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
The audacity of pride. The audacity of delusion.
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CyanSnowHawk Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:52pm |
re: #150 albusteve
get out more?....heh...there are bald eagles five miles from me in the Sandias
There is a pair nested up in Big Bear CA near my SiL house. I've seen them a couple times when we've been up to visit. Amazing creatures.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:13:58pm |
re: #502 albusteve
Crockett went to the mat...he didn't have to...Boone spent his entire life trying to pay his bills...great American that he was
No, he didn't have to do it. I am an admirer. But Dan'l was a long-hunter and a trailblazer unequalled in our history.
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Sheepdogess Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:14:02pm |
re: #392 ploome hineni
My bitch loves em. Best dog treat ever made.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:14:13pm |
re: #486 Miss Molly
Occasional Reader -- Sadly I know it is my own money. I think it is just that when you are beaten down so much by gov't taxes for so long you become grateful for any bread crumbs that come along.
don't pay them...
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:14:14pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:14:44pm |
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Shay4l Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:14:44pm |
re: #500 Killgore Trout
He broaches the topic in the article but he's still smitten by Chairman Obama.
Maybe he'll grow a pair and make his namesake proud.
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CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:15:07pm |
re: #497 Iron Fist
That's pretty cool. I've lost touch with so many people that were very close to me. I imagine that they probably think I'm dead. Especially the people who knew me in Tallahassee. I simply disappeared from there, and I haven't been back in something like ninteen years. It'd be nice to see them again, but I doubt that it ever happens in this life.
It was awesome. Very happy, then spitting mad. I want 15 minutes alone with her parents. They both have a lot to answer for. They should both be in prison, and the injustice of them not ever being punished will nag me until the day I die.
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:15:13pm |
re: #513 midwestgak
I didn't make much money last year. I might have actually had a loss. Next year is going to be worse.
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FrogMarch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:15:36pm |
re: #475 FrogMarch
The Audacity of Obama
He says to the NY Times...
F off. Obama is spending more than Bush ever did and with ZERO source of funding for anything. Unless you count our children and grand children and great grand children...
fixed
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:15:46pm |
re: #490 Shay4l
It's so much easier than [CJB] having the guts to admit he was WRONG!
It's not guts. He's been made aware of the Iowahawk parodies and he's taking them personally. He's digging in because his sense of honour has been impugned.
/has a penis too
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itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:16:05pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
Still crazy after all these years.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:16:31pm |
re: #508 VioletTiger
Very well, thanks. Had nice weekend, enjoying the great weather at home and then down the shore today.
How about you?
Doing wonderful herel Springtime is upon us..
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midwestgak Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:16:54pm |
re: #523 Killgore Trout
I didn't make much money last year. I might have actually had a loss. Next year is going to be worse.
I think it will be worse for Everyone. Tax brackets are going to change and I think we will all be surprised how much we will owe, no matter what the employer deducts. IMO.
| 530 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:16:55pm |
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FrogMarch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:16:58pm |
re: #492 TheMatrix31
That's fucking ridiculous.
and par for the course.
/slobbering media won't even blink.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:17:09pm |
re: #516 OldLineTexan
No, he didn't have to do it. I am an admirer. But Dan'l was a long-hunter and a trailblazer unequalled in our history.
you have no argument here...Boone was utterly fearless in a bind and only wanted to be left alone to his own devices...a very principled man..I practically worship them both
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itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:17:48pm |
re: #494 Killgore Trout
What surprises me is that he's still enchanted by Obama's dopey campaign slogan.
Victim of the hope a dope.
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:18:02pm |
re: #511 Charles
Great shot! Tripod?
nice pic..wonder about the camera...how many mega pixels do you think that was?
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:18:26pm |
re: #525 Zimriel
/has a penis too
To be fair, I am now keeping CLOSE eyes on my dogs.
/thanks a lot, ploome
/pizzle
/shee-yit
| 536 |
Sheepdogess Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:18:30pm |
re: #490 Shay4l
Being a liberal democrat means never having to say you're wrong or sorry.
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CyanSnowHawk Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:18:36pm |
re: #440 Naso Tang
That's what is called Haggis.
Haggis is what's left over when they're done making the sausage.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:18:42pm |
re: #532 albusteve
you have no argument here...Boone was utterly fearless in a bind and only wanted to be left alone to his own devices...a very principled man..I practically worship them both
You a Kit Carson fan?
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:19:26pm |
re: #532 albusteve
you have no argument here...Boone was utterly fearless in a bind and only wanted to be left alone to his own devices...a very principled man..I practically worship them both
An American archetype, like Teddy Roosevelt.
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Shay4l Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:20:08pm |
re: #525 Zimriel
It's not guts. He's been made aware of the Iowahawk parodies and he's taking them personally. He's digging in because his sense of honour has been impugned.
/has a penis too
Why then, he's suffering from too much pride and too small testicles, poor man.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:20:19pm |
re: #538 OldLineTexan
You a Kit Carson fan?
I was going to mention Kit....yes I am but as you can well expect he has a reputation here in NM that is not too good....I admire him a great deal
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:20:42pm |
albusteve --- I've been thinking that millions of Americans should do as Charlie Rangel does and refuse to pay taxes for decades. If Charlie Rangel can get away with that so should the rest of us.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:21:03pm |
re: #541 albusteve
I was going to mention Kit....yes I am but as you can well expect he has a reputation here in NM that is not too good....I admire him a great deal
He has a nice museum at Philmont as I recall. Another man writ large in history by REAL audacity and hope.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:21:31pm |
re: #542 Miss Molly
albusteve --- I've been thinking that millions of Americans should do as Charlie Rangel does and refuse to pay taxes for decades. If Charlie Rangel can get away with that so should the rest of us.
And I'm thinking that Charlie should be penalized like millions of Americans.
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tripletdad Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:22:32pm |
I know it's mine - I'd just like to keep a little of it this time!
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:22:33pm |
re: #541 albusteve
I was going to mention Kit....yes I am but as you can well expect he has a reputation here in NM that is not too good....I admire him a great deal
What's your thoughts on Santa Fe? Struck me as being a little bit like Boulder if you know what I mean.
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VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:22:56pm |
re: #536 Sheepdogess
Being a liberal democrat means never having to say you're wrong or sorry.
Or pay taxes...
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pink freud Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:22:57pm |
re: #503 Thanos
Tonight's moon is waxing
[Link: noblesseoblige.org...]
There is a nearly perfect man's head in your moon tonight, wearing sunglasses.
| 549 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:23:01pm |
re: #545 tripletdad
I know it's mine - I'd just like to keep a little of it this time!
Your money, or your "doggie chew treat"?
/
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:23:52pm |
re: #542 Miss Molly
albusteve --- I've been thinking that millions of Americans should do as Charlie Rangel does and refuse to pay taxes for decades. If Charlie Rangel can get away with that so should the rest of us.
I could take the hit when I refused...most people can't...home loans and kids and futures etc...I got to the point where I said fuck you, bring it on....the IRS is fairly intimidated by typical people like myself that just say no more...they don't quite know what to do with me although that may all change someday
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:24:22pm |
OldLineTexan --Oh I so agree with you that Charlie should be punished a lot as he skipped taxes for "decades" of unreported income. When Barry starts really hitting the Middle Class with even more taxes maybe there will be a loud and threatening revolt on that. I can wish....
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:25:19pm |
re: #525 Zimriel
It's not guts. He's been made aware of the Iowahawk parodies and he's taking them personally. He's digging in because his sense of honour has been impugned.
/has a penis too
What a whiner. He's a freakin' pubic figure, for fuck's sake. If he can't take the mockery, he needs to go away.
| 553 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:25:37pm |
re: #460 Lincolntf
USA up 2-1 over Venezuela in top of 4th.
I just never understood how competitive sports meshed with socialist society. I mean for example if 2 teams score between them 10 points, then should not the government seize all the points, keep 8 points for the greater good, award each team one point and then declare it a tie & a great victory for humanity? Am I missing something, or do competitive sports by their very nature discredit socialism?
/Hugo? Barack? Anybody?
| 554 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:26:03pm |
Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, Kit Carson... all fine. But what about REAL American heroes, who demonstrated REAL courage? People like George Clooney, and Sean Penn?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:26:48pm |
re: #543 OldLineTexan
He has a nice museum at Philmont as I recall. Another man writ large in history by REAL audacity and hope.
Kit Carson was a bonified tough guy...he was a sevent to the people as well as his own man....a remarkable life that like Boone and Crockett, he was a living legend...I wish he would have been more precise in his memoirs...most of what we know about Carson is others perceptions
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itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:26:59pm |
re: #553 brookly red
The people, united, can never be defeated.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:27:03pm |
re: #551 Miss Molly
OldLineTexan --Oh I so agree with you that Charlie should be punished a lot as he skipped taxes for "decades" of unreported income. When Barry starts really hitting the Middle Class with even more taxes maybe there will be a loud and threatening revolt on that. I can wish....
It's the old class warfare ... middle-class versus the rich is relatively new ... this is the ruling class versus the peons. It's been ON for a while now. Just "cold" in the US ... but as the creeping kleptocracy climbs the chain of command, people are going to start getting desperate. Desperate people sometimes get PISSED.
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VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:27:28pm |
re: #554 Occasional Reader
Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, Kit Carson... all fine. But what about REAL American heroes, who demonstrated REAL courage? People like George Clooney, and Sean Penn?
Did you mean real American zeros?
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:28:09pm |
albusteve --Good for you to stand up to the IRS. Actually I agree with you that they will back down some when you give them a lot of trouble and simply let them know you are not intimidated by them.
Barry is going to eventually have to raise a ton of taxes on the middle class and somehow I think the middle class will not be much in to mood to comply.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:28:12pm |
re: #554 Occasional Reader
Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, Kit Carson... all fine. But what about REAL American heroes, who demonstrated REAL courage? People like George Clooney, and Sean Penn?
The day Sean Penn steps into an icehouse in Seabrook and starts mouthing off is the day I think him brave. Stupid, but brave.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:28:29pm |
re: #554 Occasional Reader
Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, Kit Carson... all fine. But what about REAL American heroes, who demonstrated REAL courage? People like George Clooney, and Sean Penn?
You forgot Alec Baldwin who can berate a little girl like no other.
Hat tip: a Lizard today whose nic I cannot recall.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:28:45pm |
Still haven't got your gov't issue Unicorn? This is probably the reason why. [NSFW] Unicorns and Hand Grenades
| 564 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:29:50pm |
re: #546 Gus 802
What's your thoughts on Santa Fe? Struck me as being a little bit like Boulder if you know what I mean.
Santa Fe is a new millenium town with an ancient history....I pay no attention to the bats that sully Santa Fe's wonderful, rugged history....those people up there mean nothing to me...they have no clue as to Santa Fe's rich heritage...probably unfair but they are not old New Mexico
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UberInfidel67 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:30:32pm |
EL FASHER, Sudan – Sudan's president threatened to kick out more aid groups and expel diplomats and peacekeepers on Sunday during his first trip to Darfur after an international court issued an arrest warrant against him for war crimes there.
Sudan has already expelled 13 of the largest aid groups operating in Darfur as part of its defiant response to the International Criminal Court's decision last week to indict him. Sudan has accused them of cooperating with the Netherlands-based ICC.
The statements came as the Sudanese army announced it was moving toward putting its army on full alert by mobilizing three-quarters of its troops, according to the Sudan Media Center, a news agency with close links to the government.
The army renewed its allegiance to President Omar al-Bashir and said it was ready to confront any possible threat, according the report, quoting a statement from the army's chief of staff, Gen. Mohammed Nasreddin.
*SNIP*
It's time for the forces of good to start kicking some ass. I for one am tired of all the evil in the world...and the perpatrators getting away with it.
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brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:30:35pm |
re: #556 itellu3times
The people, united, can never be defeated.
or perhaps in defeat they are united :) have you filed yet?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:30:51pm |
re: #554 Occasional Reader
Daniel Boone, Davey Crockett, Kit Carson... all fine. But what about REAL American heroes, who demonstrated REAL courage? People like George Clooney, and Sean Penn?
this is why I have a little bayonet on my pistol...en gard heathen!
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Miss Molly Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:31:17pm |
OldLineTexan --Oh the middle class ,as you say, will be true and well PISSED when Barry starts to bury them in higher taxes as he most certainly will do sooner rather than later. This will be interesting!
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Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:31:49pm |
re: #483 OldLineTexan
Then he's still an empty-headed, bigoted, pretentious half-wit.
And he went to Harvard. But I repeat myself.
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:32:02pm |
Will PBO blink?
N. Korea warns intercepting 'satellite' will prompt counterstrike+
North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it.
"We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army as saying.
If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out "a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds" of the countries, it said.
"Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war," it added.
Fuck Kim!
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:32:39pm |
re: #569 Jim in Virginia
And he went to Harvard. But I repeat myself.
Indeed. Lovey and I only vote for Yale men, Skull and Bones preferably.
/
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:33:13pm |
re: #561 MandyManners
You forgot Alec Baldwin who can berate a little girl like no other.
Hat tip: a Lizard today whose nic I cannot recall.
Hi Mandy..early this morning I was watching a movie with Alex in it..I blogged about..What a handsome up and coming actor he was..Now he is this fat over rated dude on TV..I am not impressed with him...
/I really don't think many lizards will defend him tonight...
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:34:13pm |
re: #564 albusteve
That's a good way of seeing it actually. I was there with my brother and his wife and some of the places were kind of moonbatty. Then there's the wealthy-liberal art crowd hanging around. Probably the same thing that they did with Aspen. New-age stuff and the like. Outside SF seemed normal but I also noticed that it has some gang activity.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:34:16pm |
re: #570 jorline
His pizzle very, very small. No good for dog treat. Hamster maybe?
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:34:51pm |
re: #552 MandyManners
What a whiner. He's a freakin' pubic figure, for fuck's sake. If he can't take the mockery, he needs to go away.
...and joke him if he can't take a good all American public fuckin' - who cares, other than Christopher, what he thinks? The presumption pisses me off more than anything else.
jayzuz.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:35:14pm |
re: #573 Gus 802
That's a good way of seeing it actually. I was there with my brother and his wife and some of the places were kind of moonbatty. Then there's the wealthy-liberal art crowd hanging around. Probably the same thing that they did with Aspen. New-age stuff and the like. Outside SF seemed normal but I also noticed that it has some gang activity.
Where there are Eloi, there will be Morlocks.
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:35:16pm |
re: #571 OldLineTexan
Indeed. Lovey and I only vote for Yale men, Skull and Bones preferably.
/
How smart can Yale be, if they're still hanging around New Haven?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:35:43pm |
re: #559 Miss Molly
albusteve --Good for you to stand up to the IRS. Actually I agree with you that they will back down some when you give them a lot of trouble and simply let them know you are not intimidated by them.
Barry is going to eventually have to raise a ton of taxes on the middle class and somehow I think the middle class will not be much in to mood to comply.
on paper I'm worthless...it took several years to get it down...I'm in alliance with my older sister...if the IRS drags me away they will have to deal with her and she is a living hell on earth, and I'm her baby brother....she has a ton of money and like the rest of my family is hardly intimidated by authority....the worst they can do is lock you up and when they did I laughed at them....fuck the IRS...they owe me money
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Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:36:23pm |
re: #575 buzzsawmonkey
Take this. Buy bullets. Kill the punsters.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:36:29pm |
re: #578 Occasional Reader
How smart can Yale be, if they're still hanging around New Haven?
The secret city is underground.
/
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Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:37:04pm |
re: #515 CyanSnowHawk
There is a pair nested up in Big Bear CA near my SiL house. I've seen them a couple times when we've been up to visit. Amazing creatures.
We live a mile from Reagan National Airport, five miles or so from the White House. Last Easter Sunday we had a pair of bald eagles flying over the house. Looking for the Easter Bunny, I assume.
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melinwy Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:37:05pm |
re: #563 Iron Fist
I guess more power to him. He's a big boy, he can do what he wants. But if Sarah Palin is seen as a "religious extremist" and that shouold disqualify her from office, then you are pretty close to establishing an anti-Christian religious test to hold office.
So close to establishing it that I can't think of anything to make it more of such a test other than apply it consistently against people of faith. She did not believe anything (that I saw, at least) that was particularly outside of mainstream Christianity.
And if she is an extremist, what of Obama? He never missed a chance to emphasize that he was a Christian. And he never really distanced himself much from Rev. "God Damn America" Wright. This is not extreme? He associates with unrepentant Marxist terrorists. This is not extreme? Just because he wants abortion to be more readily available than asprin, he gets a pass on being, if not a hard-core racist himself, associated with hard-core anti-white racists? Forget that he intends to tax our asses off, do you not see the problem that he intends to effectively surrender the wwar on the foreign front?
If Buckley can see all that and still say he is glad of his choice, then perhaps he has moved away from us. Just because he is the son of a prominent Conservative leader does not mean that he, himself will also be a prominent Conservative leader.
well said.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:37:43pm |
re: #583 Jim in Virginia
We live a mile from Reagan National Airport, five miles or so from the White House. Last Easter Sunday we had a pair of bald eagles flying over the house. Looking for the Easter Bunny, I assume.
Can you see the rainbows from yer house?
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Van Helsing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:37:44pm |
re: #575 buzzsawmonkey
Excellent. Just excellent.
The jackboots and goosestep are probably right around the corner, too.
Because we're just being obstructionists...
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:38:15pm |
re: #573 Gus 802
That's a good way of seeing it actually. I was there with my brother and his wife and some of the places were kind of moonbatty. Then there's the wealthy-liberal art crowd hanging around. Probably the same thing that they did with Aspen. New-age stuff and the like. Outside SF seemed normal but I also noticed that it has some gang activity.
Santa Fe doesn't even know it's Santa Fe...
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Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:38:22pm |
re: #570 jorline
Will PBO blink?
N. Korea warns intercepting 'satellite' will prompt counterstrike+
Try it, Kimmie.
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Kreuzueber Halbmond Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:38:26pm |
DST is a bureaucratic invention - trick everyone into thinking the sun will magically shine for an extra hour by moving the hands of a clock, thus compelling people to work longer, earn more money and consequently pay more taxes to the benefit of the bureaucracy. In short, we are slaves to government time manipulation. We must break free!
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Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:39:17pm |
re: #563 Iron Fist
Boy is this going to p*ss off the religious conservatives:
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:39:57pm |
re: #577 OldLineTexan
Where there are Eloi, there will be Morlocks.
I'd put that on a bumper sticker, but it's against my religion to put stickers on cars.
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Spare O'Lake Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:40:12pm |
In the great white suburban north, space is seldom the problem unless you happen to sell or measure happiness in square feet.
Time, on the other hand, seems always to be in short supply.
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derbigdog Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:40:25pm |
re: #352 OldLineTexan
re: #361 victor_yugo
I thought sausage was invented to cover up the flavor of the barely-edible meat?
My Italian in-laws made their own sausage every Christmas. They only used the finest cuts of meats. Sausage's bad reputation comes from meat packing companies that sell what ever won't kill you.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:40:56pm |
re: #592 Slumbering Behemoth
I'd put that on a bumper sticker, but it's against my religion to put stickers on cars.
My father practiced that religion, and passed it on to me.
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Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:41:18pm |
I was in the Lounge and a "low profile" fellow brought up this poem. It is called "Death; and His Brother, Sleep". From Punch #99, October 4, 1890...
Who is in charge of the clattering train?
The axles creak, and the couplings strain.
Ten minutes behind at the Junction. Yes!
And we're twenty now to the bad—no less!
We must make it up on our flight to town.
Clatter and crash! That's the last train down,
Flashing by with a steamy trail.
Pile on the fuel! We must not fail.
At every mile we a minute must gain!
Who is in charge of the clattering train?Why, flesh and blood, as a matter of course!
You may talk of iron, and prate of force;
But, after all, and do what you can,
The best—and cheapest—machine is Man!
Wealth knows it well, and the hucksters feel
'Tis safer to trust them to sinew than steel.
With a bit of brain, and a conscience, behind,
Muscle works better than steam or wind.
Better, and longer, and harder all round;
And cheap, so cheap! Men superabound
Men stalwart, vigilant, patient, bold;
The stokehole's heat and the crow's-nest's cold,
The choking dusk of the noisome mine,
The northern blast o'er the beating brine,
With dogged valour they coolly brave;
So on rattling rail, or on wind-scourged wave,
At engine lever, at furnace front,
Or steersman's wheel, they must bear the brunt
Of lonely vigil or lengthened strain.
Man is in charge of the thundering train!Man, in the shape of a modest chap
In fustian trousers and greasy cap;
A trifle stolid, and something gruff,
Yet, though unpolished, of sturdy stuff.
With grave grey eyes, and a knitted brow,
The glare of sun and the gleam of snow
Those eyes have stared on this many a year.
The crow's-feet gather in mazes queer
About their corners most apt to choke
With grime of fuel and fume of smoke.
Little to tickle the artist taste—
An oil-can, a fist-full of "cotton waste,"
The lever's click and the furnace gleam,
And the mingled odour of oil and steam;
These are the matters that fill the brain
Of the Man in charge of the clattering train.Only a Man, but away at his back,
In a dozen ears, on the steely track,
A hundred passengers place their trust
In this fellow of fustian, grease, and dust.
They cheerily chat, or they calmly sleep,
Sure that the driver his watch will keep
On the night-dark track, that he will not fail.
So the thud, thud, thud of wheel upon rail
The hiss of steam-spurts athwart the dark.
Lull them to confident drowsiness. Hark!
What is that sound? 'Tis the stertorous breath
Of a slumbering man,—and it smacks of death!
Full sixteen hours of continuous toil
Midst the fume of sulphur, the reek of oil,
Have told their tale on the man's tired brain,
And Death is in charge of the clattering train!Sleep—Death's brother, as poets deem,
Stealeth soft to his side; a dream
Of home and rest on his spirit creeps,
That wearied man, as the engine leaps,
Throbbing, swaying along the line;
Those poppy-fingers his head incline
Lower, lower, in slumber's trance;
The shadows fleet, and the gas-gleams dance
Faster, faster in mazy flight,
As the engine flashes across the night.
Mortal muscle and human nerve
Cheap to purchase, and stout to serve.
Strained too fiercely will faint and swerve.
Over-weighted, and underpaid,
This human tool of exploiting Trade,
Though tougher than leather, tenser than steel.
Fails at last, for his senses reel,
His nerves collapse, and, with sleep-sealed eyes,
Prone and helpless a log he lies!
A hundred hearts beat placidly on,
Unwitting they that their warder' gone;
A hundred lips are babbling blithe,
Some seconds hence they in pain may writhe.
For the pace is hot, and the points are near,
And Sleep hath deadened the driver's ear;
And signals flash through the night in vain.
Death is in charge of the clattering train!
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:41:24pm |
re: #570 jorline
Will PBO blink?
N. Korea warns intercepting 'satellite' will prompt counterstrike+
Fuck Kim!
How will they know if an intercept or another massive FAIL on their part.
We just say, we didn't intercept no missile!
And let 'em stew.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:42:26pm |
re: #572 HoosierHoops
Hi Mandy..early this morning I was watching a movie with Alex in it..I blogged about..What a handsome up and coming actor he was..Now he is this fat over rated dude on TV..I am not impressed with him...
/I really don't think many lizards will defend him tonight...
I liked him in Hunt for Red October and Working Girl. That's about it.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:42:36pm |
re: #595 OldLineTexan
My father practiced that religion, and passed it on to me.
Yeah, but it can be fun if you live in a liberal area. Just the sight of the American flag makes them squirm.
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VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:42:47pm |
re: #594 derbigdog
My Italian in-laws made their own sausage every Christmas. They only used the finest cuts of meats. Sausage's bad reputation comes from meat packing companies that sell what ever won't kill you.
I can remember my grandparents doing that every Christmas. My job was to pull the casing onto the stufferr thingie. Didn't like the job at the time, but boy, was the sausage ever good.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:42:48pm |
re: #597 jcm
How will they know if an intercept or another massive FAIL on their part.
We just say, we didn't intercept no missile!
And let 'em stew.
exactly...life is full of mysteries is it not?
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Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:43:41pm |
I'm so sorry..But I still have to give props to Dr. Pamela Gay..She is really a great scientist but hardly gets hits to her web site..She is in St. Louis doing some lectures on Dark mass and is thinking that blogging is a lot of work.
Please Lizards..ping her and tell her that what she writes does matter...
Thank you -From the hoopster
[Link: www.starstryder.com...]
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The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:43:42pm |
Uh oh, the Venezuela Chavez's up on team USA 3-2 in the 5th.
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brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:44:22pm |
re: #559 Miss Molly
Barry is going to eventually have to raise a ton of taxes on the middle class and somehow I think the middle class will not be much in to mood to comply.
Upding, but...
Mood, Schoom. Unless we start selling our blood & organs what else is freakin left?
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:44:31pm |
re: #597 jcm
How will they know if an intercept or another massive FAIL on their part.
We just say, we didn't intercept no missile!
And let 'em stew.
Since when did we learn to keep secrets in this country?
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:44:39pm |
re: #597 jcm
How will they know if an intercept or another massive FAIL on their part.
We just say, we didn't intercept no missile!
And let 'em stew.
His people are starving...shift responsibility, someone has to be the bad guy.
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melinwy Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:45:34pm |
re: #606 Naso Tang
Since when did we learn to keep secrets in this country?
Since a dem was elected.
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Alberta Oil Peon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:45:41pm |
re: #68 albusteve
I have seen many goldens but never a bald eagle...I hope to before I die...I deserve it
You have to be at the right place at the right time. Bald eagles tend to move around, and they congregate where there are feeding opportunities. Two weeks ago, I was in Vancouver, B.C., and took a short trip to Bellingham, Washington. Passing through a wooded area in Delta, B.C., just north of the border, I must have seen nearly a dozen bald eagles (some of them immature, and lacking the white head) roosting in trees there. I expect they were in the area to take advantage of a fish run of some sort.
They congregate near the mouth of the Nooksack River in Washington State about the same time.
The most bald eagles I ever saw in one locality was on the Quesnel River in B.C. at the time of the Chinook salmon run. Late summer, early fall, as I remember. The eagles had completely monopolized the forest along about a mile of riverbank, just downstream, but within sight of, the village of Likely. I walked down the riverbank, and eagle-watched. And eagle-smelled, too. The eagles would swoop down and latch onto a large spawning salmon (like a 10 or 20 pounder, folks) and carry it back to their roosting branch. Then they'd eat their fill, and drop the partially-eaten fish. The lower branches of the trees were festooned with droopy salmon carcasses, as well as the ground below. The scene reminded me of that famous Salvador Dali painting of pocket watches draped over tree limbs; totally surreal. And the combined reek of rotting salmon and eagle s*** was enough to make a strong man weep.
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Sheila Broflovski Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:46:04pm |
re: #596 Zimriel
I was in the Lounge and a "low profile" fellow brought up this poem. It is called "Death; and His Brother, Sleep". From Punch #99, October 4, 1890...
If they wrote it today, it would be called "Death, and His Brother, Text"
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Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:46:25pm |
re: #585 OldLineTexan
Can you see the rainbows from yer house?
The unicorn delivers them every day, along with the Washington Post and the canned unicorn farts.
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nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:46:34pm |
re: #479 Killgore Trout
Hot Air Headlines.....
I Would Still Vote Obama
Christopher Buckley
he's rebelling against his dad. who over shadowed him.
maybe if o's dad had not dumped him, o would rebel too
and be a normal person instead of a commie to please the absent jerk who ran off.
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MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:46:53pm |
I've spent 20 minutes trying to explain DST to The Kid and why he must go to bed now instead of an hour from now. I finally resorted to the best explanation of all: BECAUSE I SAID SO.
bbiab
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:46:58pm |
re: #604 Iron Fist
I've got a few more I'd like to see floating down the river before I make somebody real happy when I float by them.
What, you have enemies?
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brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:48:00pm |
re: #590 Kreuzueber Halbmond
DST is a bureaucratic invention - trick everyone into thinking the sun will magically shine for an extra hour by moving the hands of a clock, thus compelling people to work longer, earn more money and consequently pay more taxes to the benefit of the bureaucracy. In short, we are slaves to government time manipulation. We must break free!
/if you punch in late again I gonna have to dock yah.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:48:45pm |
re: #595 OldLineTexan
My father practiced that religion, and passed it on to me.
There are many sects of that faith. There's the "I take pride in my junker, and I'm not gonna ugly it up with a bunch of stupid crap" sect, and the "Please officer, don't look at me" sect, just to name a couple.
I am a member of the "If the sum of your political savvy fits on a sticker, then you're fuckin' stupid" sect.
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brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:49:25pm |
re: #611 Jim in Virginia
The unicorn delivers them every day, along with the Washington Post and the canned unicorn farts.
/we used to call them sterno...
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Ateam Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:49:27pm |
time Vs. speed & gravity will prevails, we r going to take a point of view also concerning the hypothetic find theory including same-chance appearance of quintiles elements at the same time in deferent placesWhen relative
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Spare O'Lake Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:49:30pm |
re: #615 buzzsawmonkey
Just by the way, I was musing the other day over the amount of poetry and general literary reference here. OK, I'm as much to blame as anyone, but there are plenty of people who provide songs, parody lyrics, verse in general and other literary references besides myself--and I note that there seems to be a dearth of this sort of intellectual engagement and general linguistic play in such sites as Kos and Huffpo.
I have to say I like the both the level of intellectual engagement and the general sense of humor, about ourselves no less than the world, that this mode of discourse shows.
So what's yer effin' point?
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:49:31pm |
re: #609 Alberta Oil Peon
You have to be at the right place at the right time. Bald eagles tend to move around, and they congregate where there are feeding opportunities. Two weeks ago, I was in Vancouver, B.C., and took a short trip to Bellingham, Washington. Passing through a wooded area in Delta, B.C., just north of the border, I must have seen nearly a dozen bald eagles (some of them immature, and lacking the white head) roosting in trees there. I expect they were in the area to take advantage of a fish run of some sort.
They congregate near the mouth of the Nooksack River in Washington State about the same time.
The most bald eagles I ever saw in one locality was on the Quesnel River in B.C. at the time of the Chinook salmon run. Late summer, early fall, as I remember. The eagles had completely monopolized the forest along about a mile of riverbank, just downstream, but within sight of, the village of Likely. I walked down the riverbank, and eagle-watched. And eagle-smelled, too. The eagles would swoop down and latch onto a large spawning salmon (like a 10 or 20 pounder, folks) and carry it back to their roosting branch. Then they'd eat their fill, and drop the partially-eaten fish. The lower branches of the trees were festooned with droopy salmon carcasses, as well as the ground below. The scene reminded me of that famous Salvador Dali painting of pocket watches draped over tree limbs; totally surreal. And the combined reek of rotting salmon and eagle s*** was enough to make a strong man weep.
nice...my time will come...someday in my travels I will look up and there will be a bald eagle screaming albusteve you fool!
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ziggyelman Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:50:16pm |
re: #616 TheMatrix31
I hate Youkilis.....but let's go Kevin!
Doesn't he look a lot older than 29? Was he by any chance born in the Dominican? ;)
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:50:30pm |
re: #618 Slumbering Behemoth
I am a member of the "If the sum of your political savvy fits on a sticker, then you're fuckin' stupid" sect.
But not if it's a good pun, not that I can think of one at the moment.
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TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:50:50pm |
re: #623 ziggyelman
Doesn't he look a lot older than 29? Was he by any chance born in the Dominican? ;)
Hahaha, I don't know. He looks older with his hardcore goatee though.
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:51:41pm |
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:51:44pm |
re: #615 buzzsawmonkey
Just by the way, I was musing the other day over the amount of poetry and general literary reference here. OK, I'm as much to blame as anyone, but there are plenty of people who provide songs, parody lyrics, verse in general and other literary references besides myself--and I note that there seems to be a dearth of this sort of intellectual engagement and general linguistic play in such sites as Kos and Huffpo.
I have to say I like the both the level of intellectual engagement and the general sense of humor, about ourselves no less than the world, that this mode of discourse shows.
I know some Beatle lyrics...does that count?...you da bomb....
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:52:21pm |
| 631 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:52:41pm |
re: #601 albusteve
exactly...life is full of mysteries is it not?
Reagan era, we rigged both the Buran shuttle, and their natural gas pumps...
Cost the Sovs Billions!
| 632 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:52:51pm |
re: #624 Naso Tang
In that case, I defer to the religious tracts of the other two sects I referenced.
| 633 |
itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:53:01pm |
re: #615 buzzsawmonkey
Just by the way, I was musing the other day over the amount of poetry and general literary reference here. OK, I'm as much to blame as anyone, but there are plenty of people who provide songs, parody lyrics, verse in general and other literary references besides myself--and I note that there seems to be a dearth of this sort of intellectual engagement and general linguistic play in such sites as Kos and Huffpo.
I have to say I like the both the level of intellectual engagement and the general sense of humor, about ourselves no less than the world, that this mode of discourse shows.
You think they want to quote a bunch of dead white men, or look to the past, over at the progressive libtard sites, when their minds are already seething, ragings torrents flooded with rivulets, ...
| 634 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:53:16pm |
| 635 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:53:27pm |
I love you lizards! I went and read the encouraging posts you left at Dr. Gays web site..She will never know where all the nice posts came from..you know last summer she spent a lot of cash buying telescopes for the girl scouts and blogged about how much fun they had...
Thanks for hitting her site tonight..and encouraging her..
I love you guys
| 636 |
CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:54:03pm |
re: #604 Iron Fist
I actually talked a friend of mine out of killing his parents. I convinced him that a better revenge was to make it good, and show up when his father was dying wearing Rolex and an Armani.
Sadly, it was my friend who wound up dead. Ah, well. They're all dead now except maybe his older sister. I had nothing to do with that, I assure you, but it does make me think of the (Buddhist, IIRC) proverb about sitting next to a river and eventually the bodies of your enemies will float by.
I've got a few more I'd like to see floating down the river before I make somebody real happy when I float by them.
Glad you talked your buddy out of doing that. It would only have made him the bad guy, no matter how badly his abusers needed killing. Indeed, living well is the best revenge. I still wish there was some way I could let my friends parents know that I know what they are. But, It is not my place, I will not make things tough for her, she has taken quite enough. I wish she had told me or someone what was going on. We were 12 when her parents ended our friendship, because they figured if she started talking, I was old enough to rock their world. And I surely would have. Even my mother, who is a nut, would have helped her and her siblings if she had known what was going on. It shattered my heart today when she asked me if I believed her, then thanked me when I said I absolutely did. No one else had, for a long time. The scars on her arms from years of cutting herself, IMHO, should have been a goddamned clue.
| 637 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:54:14pm |
re: #631 jcm
Reagan era, we rigged both the Buran shuttle, and their natural gas pumps...
Cost the Sovs Billions!
there is no reason to waste much discourse on the Norks...it is beneath us...fuck them over and play stupid
| 638 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:55:57pm |
re: #614 Naso Tang
What, you have enemies?
I like what Churchill had to say about having enemies.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
| 640 |
MittDoesNotCompute Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:56:33pm |
re: #490 Shay4l
It's so much easier than having the guts to admit he was WRONG!
Being (a closet) liberal means never having to say you're sorry....
| 641 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:57:05pm |
re: #618 Slumbering Behemoth
There are many sects of that faith. There's the "I take pride in my junker, and I'm not gonna ugly it up with a bunch of stupid crap" sect, and the "Please officer, don't look at me" sect, just to name a couple.
I am a member of the "If the sum of your political savvy fits on a sticker, then you're fuckin' stupid" sect.
Was I fucking' stupid when I had the bumper sticker that read: PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH?
| 642 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:57:35pm |
re: #615 buzzsawmonkey
Just by the way, I was musing the other day over the amount of poetry and general literary reference here. OK, I'm as much to blame as anyone, but there are plenty of people who provide songs, parody lyrics, verse in general and other literary references besides myself--and I note that there seems to be a dearth of this sort of intellectual engagement and general linguistic play in such sites as Kos and Huffpo.
I have to say I like the both the level of intellectual engagement and the general sense of humor, about ourselves no less than the world, that this mode of discourse shows.
You're dead at recess, nerd.
| 643 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:57:38pm |
3-3! Zombrano the Chavezista melt down. USA! USA!
| 644 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:58:16pm |
re: #615 buzzsawmonkey
Just by the way, I was musing the other day over the amount of poetry and general literary reference here. OK, I'm as much to blame as anyone, but there are plenty of people who provide songs, parody lyrics, verse in general and other literary references besides myself--and I note that there seems to be a dearth of this sort of intellectual engagement and general linguistic play in such sites as Kos and Huffpo.
I have to say I like the both the level of intellectual engagement and the general sense of humor, about ourselves no less than the world, that this mode of discourse shows.
So, that means you love my posts to Avanti that state: "THAT'S NOT THE FUCKING POINT"?
| 646 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:58:23pm |
re: #641 MandyManners
Don't take it personal, Mandy. Just pokin fun.
| 648 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:58:52pm |
re: #638 MandyManners
I like what Churchill had to say about having enemies.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Quote Churchill, get upding. (and street cred too)
| 649 |
Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:58:52pm |
re: #637 albusteve
there is no reason to waste much discourse on the Norks...it is beneath us...fuck them over and play stupid
I don't know. I honestly think their leaders are all paranoiac sociopaths, if not psychopaths. That's what it takes to succeed over there.
| 650 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:59:20pm |
re: #626 buzzsawmonkey
Just a general congratulation to the assembled multitude for engaging in a level of discourse unmatched by other sites.
Say that five times, fast.
| 652 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 6:59:57pm |
re: #618 Slumbering Behemoth
I am a member of the "If the sum of your political savvy fits on a sticker, then you're fuckin' stupid" sect.
I think the NRA window sticker adds a nice touch to any vehicle.
| 653 |
BlueCanuck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:00:10pm |
re: #611 Jim in Virginia
| 654 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:00:26pm |
re: #650 MandyManners
Say that five times, fast.
[is he saying we suck, or that we're cool? big words make me head hurt]
| 655 |
Spider Mensch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:00:40pm |
re: #594 derbigdog
My Italian in-laws made their own sausage every Christmas. They only used the finest cuts of meats. Sausage's bad reputation comes from meat packing companies that sell what ever won't kill you.
re: #622 albusteve
nice...my time will come...someday in my travels I will look up and there will be a bald eagle screaming albusteve you fool!
I had been fishing for years up on the Delaware,way up past the gap, only saw a couple Bald eagles in about 5 years. Took my wife fishing for the first time 2 summers ago. She see's 2 the first day. She's from Austria, and I'm giving her the old line.."well honey, sometimes it takes years..they're skittish creatures..yup..."..she knudges me and points.."isn't that one over there?"... "D'OH!..umm yeah by God it is...son of a bitch..."
| 656 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:00:40pm |
re: #648 brookly red
Quote Churchill, get upding. (and street cred too)
They were targeting those people I referred to as 'little Eichmanns.' These were legitimate targets.
Ward Churchill
//////
| 658 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:00:55pm |
re: #630 jorline
Youtube Video>Bases loaded, no outs.
| 659 |
SteveC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:00:57pm |
re: #630 jorline
Bases loaded, no outs.
Say Hey!
Say Willie!
Swingin' at the plate!
Say Hey!
Say Willie!
That Giants kid is great!
| 660 |
Dustyvet Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:01:01pm |
re: #612 nyc redneck
he's rebelling against his dad. who over shadowed him.
maybe if o's dad had not dumped him, o would rebel too
and be a normal person instead of a commie to please the absent jerk who ran off.
Let's see if he sings the same song in six months, some how I think his rant will change to a whine.
| 663 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:01:45pm |
| 664 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:02:01pm |
re: #649 Naso Tang
I don't know. I honestly think their leaders are all paranoiac sociopaths, if not psychopaths. That's what it takes to succeed over there.
to let the Norks muscle in on events today is a weakness we don't need to show....there are bigger fish to fry...we can deal with them on the sly....but we need the will... so BO must go
| 665 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:02:24pm |
re: #649 Naso Tang
I don't know. I honestly think their leaders are all paranoiac sociopaths, if not psychopaths. That's what it takes to succeed over there.
No matter what we do NorKo is a lose lose. They implode we have 25 million who can't take care of themselves. If it explodes Seoul is in artillery range.
| 666 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:02:31pm |
re: #652 Mich-again
re: #618 Slumbering Behemoth
I think the NRA window sticker adds a nice touch to any vehicle.
Ack! my dues are due...
| 667 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:02:48pm |
re: #657 buzzsawmonkey
Those too. Gotta leaven the highbrow with the lowbrow, and vice versa. Referencing archy from the last thread,
coarse jocosity catches the crowd
shakespeare and i are often low browed
I missed an archy and mehitabel thread?
| 669 |
Dustyvet Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:02:55pm |
re: #663 Mich-again
Isn't there still a guy on third?
I don't know's on third, what's on second, and who's on first.
| 670 |
Spare O'Lake Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:02:56pm |
re: #626 buzzsawmonkey
Just a general congratulation to the assembled multitude for engaging in a level of discourse unmatched by other sites.
You are much appreciated.
BTW, I suggest discourse.
| 671 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:03:55pm |
re: #646 Slumbering Behemoth
Don't take it personal, Mandy. Just pokin fun.
Me? Take something personal? Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
| 672 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:04:14pm |
re: #645 VioletTiger
I missed this. Link?
Whoops.My Favorite head on straight Harvard educated woman Astronomer that dedicates her life as a Prof and teaching girl scouts? *wink*
I'm only linking her because she is thinking that blogging is a lot of work and nobody reads her stuff...She is good people...and needs a little encouragement..
[Link: www.starstryder.com...]
| 673 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:04:18pm |
re: #663 Mich-again
Isn't there still a guy on third?
Bases clearing triple mean the bases were loaded but the guy batting clears them all up so only he's remaining.
Unless you're arguing the point that the term could be construed as stupid because the bases are not "fully cleared" anyway, in which case I haven't thought about it that way, lol.
| 675 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:04:22pm |
Interview with Chuck Palahniuk now on XM202.
| 677 |
SteveC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:04:29pm |
re: #669 Dustyvet
I don't know's on third, what's on second, and who's on first.
When you pay the players every week, and the first baseman gets his money, who gets the check?
Exactly! And why not? He earned it!
| 679 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:04:44pm |
re: #665 jcm
No matter what we do NorKo is a lose lose. They implode we have 25 million who can't take care of themselves. If it explodes Seoul is in artillery range.
"dyin ain't much of a livin boy"
| 680 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:04:46pm |
re: #642 Occasional Reader
You're dead at recess, nerd.
I got his six.
You like Thermonuclear Wedgies, dontcha', tough guy?
| 681 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:05:15pm |
| 682 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:05:24pm |
re: #658 MandyManners
lmao...STOP RIGHT THERE....I've got to know right now.
I love that song...ding
| 683 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:05:34pm |
re: #657 buzzsawmonkey
coarse jocosity catches the crowd
shakespeare and i are often low browed
Hence me repeated allusions to Brazilian supermodels.
Grishkin is nice: her Russian eye
Is underlined for emphasis;
Uncorseted, her friendly bust
Gives promise of pneumatic bliss.The couched Brazilian jaguar
Compels the scampering marmoset
With subtle effluence of cat;
Grishkin has a maisonette;The sleek Brazilian jaguar
Does not in its arboreal gloom
Distil so rank a feline smell
As Grishkin in a drawing-room.And even the Abstract Entities
Circumambulate her charm;
But our lot crawls between dry ribs
To keep our metaphysics warm.
T.S. to the E.
| 685 |
ArmyWife Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:06:16pm |
My poor little chihuahua was locked in the utility closet not saying a word. Mr. Armywife went to through something away and there my little SGT sat. I hear this "What are you doing in there?" and then a bark. It is really pandemonium in this house at times.
On that note, I am going to try to go to bed with DST and all - I still have to go to work early!
| 686 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:06:25pm |
re: #678 buzzsawmonkey
Pre-Boomer Marine Brat was recommending archy to goddess of the classroom. There was a little quoting here and there.
man i miss all the fun
| 687 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:06:52pm |
re: #654 Occasional Reader
[is he saying we suck, or that we're cool? big words make me head hurt]
The latter fer shure.
| 688 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:06:59pm |
re: #656 OldLineTexan
Ward Churchill
//////
Still gets the street cred, but only on Pennsylvania Ave. (and OT; isn't a ward a place for ill people? )
| 689 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:07:23pm |
| 690 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:07:37pm |
re: #657 buzzsawmonkey
Those too. Gotta leaven the highbrow with the lowbrow, and vice versa. Referencing archy from the last thread,
coarse jocosity catches the crowd
shakespeare and i are often low browed
Makes my pen tingle.
| 691 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:08:25pm |
re: #684 jcm
Shoulda' let Dug Out Doug finish the job.....
maybe...tough call...if Truman took Pattons advice there would have been no Cold War....who knows
| 694 |
ziggyelman Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:08:56pm |
re: #656 OldLineTexan
Ward Churchill
//////
Ward should have to have his last name legally changed away from Churchill. He is the anti-Churchill.
| 696 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:09:29pm |
| 697 |
Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:10:02pm |
Reid can't get the $410 billion, 8000 earmark spending bill out of the Senate.
Awwwwwwwwwwww.
That should make tomorrow a positive Dow day.
| 699 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:10:37pm |
re: #691 albusteve
maybe...tough call...if Truman took Pattons advice there would have been no Cold War....who knows
LOL! There are some who think Patton was murdered for his ideas....
| 700 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:10:47pm |
| 701 |
nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:11:18pm |
re: #660 Dustyvet
Let's see if he sings the same song in six months, some how I think his rant will change to a whine.
that's what i'm thinking.
he will eat crow. realizing his dad was right.
| 702 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:11:36pm |
re: #697 Jim in Virginia
On the bright (?) side, the Obama administration has so far only filled 70 of 360 policy jobs.
[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]
| 703 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:11:55pm |
re: #698 buzzsawmonkey
So basically you're saying "I'm hungry for a gun thread", right?
| 704 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:12:13pm |
re: #700 Occasional Reader
And the dish ran away with the spoon?
Hey diddle diddle...how are you tonight?
| 707 |
VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:13:12pm |
re: #672 HoosierHoops
That is so nice. She's got some good stuff over there.
My company does an 'Introduce a Girl to Engineering' program. I think the girls would love to see her blog.
| 708 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:13:18pm |
re: #699 jcm
LOL! There are some who think Patton was murdered for his ideas....
yes I know...Patton was a machine eh?...serendipity and all that
| 709 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:13:23pm |
Two more! 8-3 (still the 6th). Take that Hugo.
| 710 |
ziggyelman Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:13:31pm |
re: #697 Jim in Virginia
Reid can't get the $410 billion, 8000 earmark spending bill out of the Senate.
Awwwwwwwwwwww.
That should make tomorrow a positive Dow day.
But, but, experts say we NEED it...sigh....I want a 6 figure job in a field that I know nothing about....
| 711 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:13:50pm |
re: #700 Occasional Reader
And the dish ran away with the spoon?
Tolkien's Man in the Moon is the best.
| 712 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:13:55pm |
re: #694 ziggyelman
ward (benedict) arnold?
ward chamberlain?
| 713 |
Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:14:02pm |
re: #676 ploome hineni
seems like a variant of head cheese
You like good food.
Try this recipe for hog souse. It starts with a live, or dead, hog. A lot of other fun reading too.
How to make hog souse. Start at the bottom of page 20, then go back to the introduction
| 715 |
SteveC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:14:09pm |
re: #702 jaunte
On the bright (?) side, the Obama administration has so far only filled 70 of 360 policy jobs.
WSJ tv show on fox said that the Taxdodger over at Tres. had NO staff... the upper level hadn't even been put before the Senate yet. The dodger is over there by himself. (Gulp!)
| 716 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:14:09pm |
Spanking Hugo...his shirt matches his face right now.
| 717 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:14:42pm |
re: #699 jcm
LOL! There are some who think Patton was murdered for his ideas....
That's odd. I read the book "Scream of Eagles" by the same author, Robert Wilcox, which is a very good book covering the creation of the Top Gun school during the Vietnam War.
| 718 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:14:56pm |
re: #704 jorline
Hey diddle diddle...how are you tonight?
Fine, thanks. I pulled down 10 "International Answer Coalition" posters during my perambulations today.
| 720 |
ziggyelman Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:16:04pm |
re: #712 swamprat
ward (benedict) arnold?
ward chamberlain?
Shoot, both of those guys were not pure evil...almost a shame to tarnish their names with his! ;)
| 721 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:16:08pm |
re: #709 The Shadow Do
Two more! 8-3 (still the 6th). Take that Hugo.
Hugo's boyz are considering future options right now
| 722 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:16:10pm |
| 723 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:16:19pm |
re: #718 Occasional Reader
Fine, thanks. I pulled down 10 "International Answer Coalition" posters during my perambulations today.
Good idea. Leaving obscenities on posters invites an ass-whooping lately.
| 724 |
Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:16:48pm |
re: #709 The Shadow Do
Two more! 8-3 (still the 6th). Take that Hugo.
8-3? That seems so unfair. Shouldn't we share some of our runs with the Venezuelans?
What would CBBHO do?
| 726 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:17:15pm |
re: #720 ziggyelman
Arnold's true history is largely untold.
| 727 |
ziggyelman Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:18:37pm |
re: #716 jorline
Spanking Hugo...his shirt matches his face right now.
I read somewhere that he drank 42 cups of coffee a day(No, not 40 cups of coffee like the song) you would think that wouldn't be something that would lead to a long life. I sure hope I live long enough to see Fidel and Hugo's state funerals...
| 728 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:18:49pm |
| 729 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:18:58pm |
re: #726 swamprat
Arnold's true history is largely untold.
There's an explanation for that, but it's obscene. It starts "Climb one mountain, and they won't call you a mountain climber. Catch one fish, and you're not a fisherman. But ... one ..., and they call you a ... ...er.
| 730 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:19:07pm |
re: #725 jaunte
"Smoothest transition ever."
/
Boy, the dems really know how to..........
......criticize
| 731 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:19:07pm |
re: #718 Occasional Reader
Fine, thanks. I pulled down 10 "International Answer Coalition" posters during my perambulations today.
The A.N.S.W.E.R. guys? I was going to post a link, but thought better of it.
| 732 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:19:26pm |
re: #682 jorline
lmao...STOP RIGHT THERE....I've got to know right now.
I love that song...ding
I had to turn it down 'cause it kept The Kid awake.
Tonight we tried on all his uniform pieces--shorts and short-sleeved shirts--from last Fall. One pair of shorts fits, and if he grows one centimeter in any direction tonight, none of the shirts will fit. A new wardrobe will cost about half of one month's tuition, including new tennies which I just dropped $70.00 on today. (Let's not even get into the Kenneth Cole shoes he wears for church or the Timberlakes or the Bass loafers. Oh, and he's really getting into snazzy hair styles and mousse and gel.) I reckon I'm lucky 'cause he hits his growth spurts as the seasons change. Why I don't just put a brick on his head, I don't know.
| 733 |
Jim in Virginia Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:19:31pm |
re: #718 Occasional Reader
Fine, thanks. I pulled down 10 "International Answer Coalition" posters during my perambulations today.
The March 21 march? Someone was busy on Saturday, the posters are all over Old Town.
| 734 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:20:06pm |
re: #707 VioletTiger
That is so nice. She's got some good stuff over there.
My company does an 'Introduce a Girl to Engineering' program. I think the girls would love to see her blog.
Thank you VT..Pamela is a big time real scientist that deserves more than a couple hits a month...
| 736 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:20:19pm |
re: #702 jaunte
On the bright (?) side, the Obama administration has so far only filled 70 of 360 policy jobs.
That is good news (no snark.)
| 737 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:20:29pm |
re: #721 albusteve
Hugo's boyz are considering future options right now
Future not looking too bright in Venezuela for Hugo's crew right now?
.......
Bam! Two more!
| 739 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:21:02pm |
Boom Boom...out go the light.
USA eight run inning.
| 740 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:21:17pm |
re: #730 swamprat
I have mixed thoughts about it. On the one hand, they should be able to staff the Executive branch. On the other hand, any delay in their policies may be to the good.
| 741 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:21:19pm |
re: #737 The Shadow Do
Future not looking too bright in Venezuela for Hugo's crew right now?
.......
Bam! Two more!
Maybe it'll be like the old Cuba games.... the whole team defects!
| 743 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:21:43pm |
re: #732 MandyManners
Kenneth Cole? Ack. That's a moonbatty company; I won't look at their crap. Famous anti-Second Amendment ad campaigns. Bass and Timberlands are quality goods.
| 744 |
rain of lead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:00pm |
re: #635 HoosierHoops
Hey HH
I was one of those that sent an atta-girl, hope we gave her a smile
she really does do good stuff!
| 745 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:10pm |
re: #700 Occasional Reader
And the dish ran away with the spoon?
Only after ArmyWife's dog laughed to see such sport.
| 746 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:13pm |
re: #739 jorline
Boom Boom...out go the light.
USA eight run inning.
Turn out the lights..the party is over...
| 747 |
SteveC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:29pm |
re: #718 Occasional Reader
Fine, thanks. I pulled down 10 "International Answer Coalition" posters during my perambulations today.
"In our evening perambulations through the streets of Brooklyn we have seen children playing "Base", a game of ball... this game of ball is glorious." -- attributed to Walt Whitman
| 748 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:35pm |
re: #733 Jim in Virginia
The March 21 march? Someone was busy on Saturday, the posters are all over Old Town.
I'm somewhat heartened by the fact that the ones I've seen here seem to be pulled down or defaced very quickly. I'm not alone.
| 749 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:40pm |
re: #743 OldLineTexan
Kenneth Cole? Ack. That's a moonbatty company; I won't look at their crap. Famous anti-Second Amendment ad campaigns. Bass and Timberlands are quality goods.
Didn't know that about Kenneth Cole. I love their products. It's sleek and sharp, much better than some of the other foofy designer stuff there is.
| 751 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:22:55pm |
re: #706 buzzsawmonkey
Well, if there is one in the offing I will miss it this time, since I must away momentarily.
Sweet dreams!
| 752 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:23:04pm |
re: #746 HoosierHoops
Turn out the lights..the party is over...
Obama will call the dug out... Spread the runs around, says The One!
| 754 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:23:16pm |
Question for all you military types- Is the president correct to salute the troops as he leaves (for example) Marine One? Clinton and Obama both throw these little "yeah, whatever" kind of salutes, and I for one am offended. I am not military, but have understood that if not in uniform you don't salute. Mrs Revo pointed out that he is the CIC (g-d help us!) and that as such maybe this is correct. How says this assembly?
| 755 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:23:19pm |
re: #739 jorline
Boom Boom...out go the light.
USA eight run inning.
"We're gonna need a bigger scoreboard"
MERCY RULE COMING UP!
| 756 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:23:28pm |
re: #643 The Shadow Do
3-3! Zombrano the Chavezista melt down. USA! USA!
Sorry, had to down-ding. Zambrano plays for the Cubs and I'm a big fan of his.
| 757 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:23:29pm |
re: #744 rain of lead
Hey HH
I was one of those that sent an atta-girl, hope we gave her a smile
she really does do good stuff!
Thanks! I'm a ping you rain!
| 758 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:24:07pm |
re: #718 Occasional Reader
Fine, thanks. I pulled down 10 "International Answer Coalition" posters during my perambulations today.
They got meds for that nowadays.
Seriously, GO FOR IT!
| 759 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:24:24pm |
re: #754 revobob
Question for all you military types- Is the president correct to salute the troops as he leaves (for example) Marine One? Clinton and Obama both throw these little "yeah, whatever" kind of salutes, and I for one am offended. I am not military, but have understood that if not in uniform you don't salute. Mrs Revo pointed out that he is the CIC (g-d help us!) and that as such maybe this is correct. How says this assembly?
He's the Commander in Chief, he can do what he likes. It's a traditional show of respect from the POTUS.
| 760 |
Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:24:24pm |
re: #742 ploome hineni
I had a friend from Trinidad, who would make this souse
[Link: www.thepanamanews.com...]
never tried it, but I like the pepper and lime direction.
| 761 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:25:07pm |
re: #758 MandyManners
They got meds for that nowadays.
Seriously, GO FOR IT!
I only got horrified looks once, from a couple of latte liberal-looking types.
| 762 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:25:19pm |
re: #749 TheMatrix31
Didn't know that about Kenneth Cole. I love their products. It's sleek and sharp, much better than some of the other foofy designer stuff there is.
Wouldn't touch it with a stick.
| 763 |
BlueCanuck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:25:31pm |
re: #734 HoosierHoops
Thank you VT..Pamela is a big time real scientist that deserves more than a couple hits a month...
I passed that link on to my friends wife for their daughter. She mentioned this week that she wants to be an astronomer. I like kids with their heads in the stars. Reminds me of myself at that age.
| 765 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:26:21pm |
re: #755 sattv4u2
"We're gonna need a bigger scoreboard"
MERCY RULE COMING UP!
the mercy rule is a socialist cop out... no quarter.
| 766 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:26:22pm |
re: #741 jcm
Maybe it'll be like the old Cuba games.... the whole team defects!
Wondering if they will be taking the field for the 7th?
"Uh, Mr. Ambassador, there is whole lot of guys in red baseball caps downstairs banging on the door...."
| 767 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:27:04pm |
re: #743 OldLineTexan
Kenneth Cole? Ack. That's a moonbatty company; I won't look at their crap. Famous anti-Second Amendment ad campaigns. Bass and Timberlands are quality goods.
He likes the oxfords.
| 768 |
Spare O'Lake Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:27:48pm |
Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
| 769 |
nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:27:50pm |
re: #743 OldLineTexan
Kenneth Cole? Ack. That's a moonbatty company; I won't look at their crap. Famous anti-Second Amendment ad campaigns. Bass and Timberlands are quality goods.
i hate that outfit. those kenneth cole bill boards are so contrived and ridiculous.
real pandering to the left b.s.
| 770 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:27:57pm |
re: #748 Occasional Reader
I'm somewhat heartened by the fact that the ones I've seen here seem to be pulled down or defaced very quickly. I'm not alone.
Let us know when you see signs directing you to pitchfork-collection sites.
| 771 |
CapeCoddah Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:28:18pm |
re: #743 OldLineTexan
Kenneth Cole? Ack. That's a moonbatty company; I won't look at their crap. Famous anti-Second Amendment ad campaigns. Bass and Timberlands are quality goods.
Gotta go Cole- Haan!
| 774 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:29:01pm |
re: #732 MandyManners
I had to turn it down 'cause it kept The Kid awake.
Tonight we tried on all his uniform pieces--shorts and short-sleeved shirts--from last Fall. One pair of shorts fits, and if he grows one centimeter in any direction tonight, none of the shirts will fit. A new wardrobe will cost about half of one month's tuition, including new tennies which I just dropped $70.00 on today. (Let's not even get into the Kenneth Cole shoes he wears for church or the Timberlakes or the Bass loafers. Oh, and he's really getting into snazzy hair styles and mousse and gel.) I reckon I'm lucky 'cause he hits his growth spurts as the seasons change. Why I don't just put a brick on his head, I don't know.
[Video]
I hear ya, Mandy. My eleven year old daughter is 5'3"...she's the fashion queen, I told her to get a job. My son is fourteen and just now starting his growth spurt.
I hate Abercrombie's.
| 775 |
Aviator Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:29:07pm |
re: #754 revobob
Question for all you military types- Is the president correct to salute the troops as he leaves (for example) Marine One? Clinton and Obama both throw these little "yeah, whatever" kind of salutes, and I for one am offended. I am not military, but have understood that if not in uniform you don't salute. Mrs Revo pointed out that he is the CIC (g-d help us!) and that as such maybe this is correct. How says this assembly?
Reagan considered it important enough that he had one of the WH Marines coach him in the proper way to salute. GW always gave a military like salute. Billy and the O's salutes are about one inch away from just flipping them off.
| 776 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:29:13pm |
re: #761 Occasional Reader
I only got horrified looks once, from a couple of latte liberal-looking types.
I'd be tempted to shout "BOOGA BOOGA" at them.
| 777 |
Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:29:35pm |
re: #754 revobob
Question for all you military types- Is the president correct to salute the troops as he leaves (for example) Marine One? Clinton and Obama both throw these little "yeah, whatever" kind of salutes, and I for one am offended. I am not military, but have understood that if not in uniform you don't salute. Mrs Revo pointed out that he is the CIC (g-d help us!) and that as such maybe this is correct. How says this assembly?
Those little sloppy salutes offend me as well. Since I'm not a real private I'll defer the question to the others here.
| 778 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:29:47pm |
re: #767 MandyManners
He likes the oxfords.
Fanciest shoes I ever had at that age were Hushpuppies or maybe Thom McCann (sp?). Gawd I hated Thom McCann shoes!
But oxfords sound stylish ... again, I won't look at that brand. 10 years of anti-2nd warfare have left me clingy and bitter.
| 781 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:30:11pm |
re: #749 TheMatrix31
Didn't know that about Kenneth Cole. I love their products. It's sleek and sharp, much better than some of the other foofy designer stuff there is.
Same here for The Kid.
| 782 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:30:30pm |
| 783 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:31:08pm |
Okay, We'll give Carlos Gillan protection. Send him to Texas, we need the help.
| 784 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:32:06pm |
re: #773 buzzsawmonkey
Whatchoo got against clean Cole?
Old clean cole is an energy goal
The energy goal for me
And it comes through pipes, and it comes through wires
And it brings BTUs to me
| 786 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:32:29pm |
re: #763 BlueCanuck
I passed that link on to my friends wife for their daughter. She mentioned this week that she wants to be an astronomer. I like kids with their heads in the stars. Reminds me of myself at that age.
Thank you Blue..I remember last summer when Pam took a group of girl scouts out for a star party..And her Website does the Carnival of science..
But we post more times here in 15 minutes than she gets in a year.. I know she gets discouraged some times...And after all the nice posts tonight she is going WTF? Nobody tell her she got a flood from LGF..
like I said..I love you guys
| 787 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:32:51pm |
| 788 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:32:55pm |
re: #781 MandyManners
Same here for The Kid.
I really like their shoes and their cologne especially. Very simple yet sharp.
| 790 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:33:39pm |
New pitcher...neon sign around his neck says "Hit Me".
*Tilt*
| 791 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:34:18pm |
Lots of people showed up to this baseball game disguised as empty seats, I see!
| 792 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:34:19pm |
re: #776 MandyManners
I'd be tempted to shout "BOOGA BOOGA" at them.
Had they angrily cited ANSWER's "right" to put up these posters (while defacing public property), I'd have been tempted to say, "why, no, they don't... just like I don't have a 'right' to carve 'SUPPORT THE 2ND AMENDMENT' into your forehead with my folding knife. See?"
But it didn't come to that.
| 793 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:34:32pm |
re: #774 jorline
I hear ya, Mandy. My eleven year old daughter is 5'3"...she's the fashion queen, I told her to get a job. My son is fourteen and just now starting his growth spurt.
I hate Abercrombie's.
They blast the crappy music in there ... ugh ... I went in twice ... never again.
| 794 |
Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:34:34pm |
re: #610 Alouette
If they wrote it today, it would be called "Death, and His Brother, Text"
Who is the driver of the swerving car,
Trailing the dust from the verge to the tar?
Klaxons blare from all sides of the road;
Is this man Mr Wheeler? or perhaps Mr Toad
Taking his motor-car out for a spell,
While he taps on his telephone a quick "L-O-L".For his phone is the driver of the screeching car;
It's attached to a moron with a date at the bar;
He slaloms around a six-seat sedan
(Narrowly missing a Good Humour Man)
And ignoring the curses their occupants yell
He steals a swift moment to type "L-O-L".We can guess what will come of that fateful car
And the backs it will break and the faces mar;
There's a girl in a ward in a comatose sleep,
There's a man in a courtroom while onlookers weep,
And Hades is building a new wing in Hell
For the damned ones who drive while they type "L-O-L".
| 795 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:35:12pm |
| 796 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:35:27pm |
| 797 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:35:28pm |
re: #791 sattv4u2
Lots of people showed up to this baseball game disguised as empty seats, I see!
You ain't kidding..pathetic Toronto
| 798 |
SteveC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:36:04pm |
Long beach State 10, South Carolina 7. First loss of the year for USC.
| 799 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:36:15pm |
re: #775 Aviator
Reagan considered it important enough that he had one of the WH Marines coach him in the proper way to salute. GW always gave a military like salute. Billy and the O's salutes are about one inch away from just flipping them off.
'Zactly! Seems to me that these Marines embody not only their own willingness to protect his life with their own, but personify the whole military service of which he is in command. A little thought seems like it would be worth an honest salute in the true meaning of that word. And it would even be a cheap bone thrown to those of us who care....
| 800 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:36:17pm |
re: #793 OldLineTexan
They blast the crappy music in there ... ugh ... I went in twice ... never again.
lol...last time I was in there I asked them to turn it down...I couldn't hear my wife on the phone. She thought I was at a strip club...lol
| 802 |
Occasional Reader Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:37:29pm |
| 803 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:37:59pm |
re: #800 jorline
lol...last time I was in there I asked them to turn it down...I couldn't hear my wife on the phone. She thought I was at a strip club...lol
No kidding.
/Honey, I am going to run down to Abercrombie's at the Mall for a while ...
| 804 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:39:10pm |
re: #801 sattv4u2
THATS why Dustin Pedroia is the MVP !
I love Pedroia..."Charlie Hustle" and he's a likable guy.
| 805 |
Jetpilot1101 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:39:13pm |
re: #754 revobob
Question for all you military types- Is the president correct to salute the troops as he leaves (for example) Marine One? Clinton and Obama both throw these little "yeah, whatever" kind of salutes, and I for one am offended. I am not military, but have understood that if not in uniform you don't salute. Mrs Revo pointed out that he is the CIC (g-d help us!) and that as such maybe this is correct. How says this assembly?
While some of us may not like it, President Obama is the CinC of all of the US military and because of that, the salute is correct, yes even if he isn't in a uniform and uncovered. Most presidents have tried very hard to return a snappy salute to the USMC guards at the door to Marine 1; some have failed miserably (Clinton), others have done relatively well (Bush). The salute is a gesture of respect to a senior officer and technically needs to be held by the junior member until the senior member drops his or hers. The various presidents are simply returning a military courtesy since they are the leader of the armed forces.
I suppose if folks wanted the President in uniform, he could start wearing olive green fatigues a la Castro; maybe those aren't too far off.
| 806 |
VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:39:45pm |
re: #774 jorline
I hear ya, Mandy. My eleven year old daughter is 5'3"...she's the fashion queen, I told her to get a job. My son is fourteen and just now starting his growth spurt.
I hate Abercrombie's.
Their stuff is such poorly made crap. Glad my daughter has grown up and moved on.
| 807 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:40:39pm |
re: #774 jorline
I hear ya, Mandy. My eleven year old daughter is 5'3"...she's the fashion queen, I told her to get a job. My son is fourteen and just now starting his growth spurt.
I hate Abercrombie's.
The uniform costs are set. I buy Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger for his Sunday stuff and dressy casual stuff, and Wal Mart for a lot of sweats and play stuff. However, paying more for a pair of sweats usually means they will last longer.
| 809 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:40:50pm |
Wake the hell up people. The new "change" Obamo wants is the Communist/Socialists MSM in this country reporting his lie's as truth.
Read this and weep. [Link: www.blackfive.net...]
| 810 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:41:20pm |
re: #793 OldLineTexan
They blast the crappy music in there ... ugh ... I went in twice ... never again.
| 811 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:41:28pm |
re: #778 OldLineTexan
Fanciest shoes I ever had at that age were Hushpuppies or maybe Thom McCann (sp?). Gawd I hated Thom McCann shoes!
But oxfords sound stylish ... again, I won't look at that brand. 10 years of anti-2nd warfare have left me clingy and bitter.
Remember Buster Brown shoes?
| 812 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:42:04pm |
| 813 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:42:34pm |
| 814 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:42:34pm |
re: #805 Jetpilot1101
I suppose if folks wanted the President in uniform, he could start wearing olive green fatigues a la Castro; maybe those aren't too far off.
Maybe the Merrill McPeak Air Force uniforms will come back.
| 815 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:42:57pm |
re: #806 VioletTiger
Their stuff is such poorly made crap. Glad my daughter has grown up and moved on.
My son likes Abercrombie's...my daughter wouldn't touch their crap. ;)
| 816 |
Aye Pod Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:43:55pm |
| 817 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:44:03pm |
re: #805 Jetpilot1101
While some of us may not like it, President Obama is the CinC of all of the US military and because of that, the salute is correct, yes even if he isn't in a uniform and uncovered. Most presidents have tried very hard to return a snappy salute to the USMC guards at the door to Marine 1; some have failed miserably (Clinton), others have done relatively well (Bush). The salute is a gesture of respect to a senior officer and technically needs to be held by the junior member until the senior member drops his or hers. The various presidents are simply returning a military courtesy since they are the leader of the armed forces.
I suppose if folks wanted the President in uniform, he could start wearing olive green fatigues a la Castro; maybe those aren't too far off.
The One would be one of those with medals down to his waist.
| 818 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:45:06pm |
re: #779 buzzsawmonkey
I'm amazed that they sell any clothes, given the aversion to clothing displayed by their models.
I've a pair of AF walking shorts made of seersucker I bought about 20 years ago that that still fit and still look brand new.
| 819 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:45:46pm |
re: #784 OldLineTexan
Old clean cole is an energy goal
The energy goal for me
And it comes through pipes, and it comes through wires
And it brings BTUs to me
DA BOMB!
| 820 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:46:27pm |
re: #809 hous bin pharteen
Wake the hell up people. The new "change" Obamo wants is the Communist/Socialists MSM in this country reporting his lie's as truth.
Read this and weep. [Link: www.blackfive.net...]
I've just been reading Greyhawk's post about that:
While that story might be obscure, it's anything but insignificant. The diversion of the Stryker Brigade (one of two that were then scheduled to replace the two currently in Iraq) to Afghanistan made headlines as the President appeared at Camp Lejeune to announce his Iraq drawdown and Afghanistan "surge". As noted here at the time, that followup report - if accurate - "exposes everything you've heard about troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan over the past two weeks as an absolute hoax on the American public."
[Link: www.mudvillegazette.com...]
| 821 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:46:41pm |
re: #787 OldLineTexan
They'll only like that.
How about waving a copy of the Bill of Rights at them?
| 822 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:46:42pm |
re: #807 MandyManners
The uniform costs are set. I buy Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger for his Sunday stuff and dressy casual stuff, and Wal Mart for a lot of sweats and play stuff. However, paying more for a pair of sweats usually means they will last longer.
My wife hits Marshall's a lot.
I wish we had uniforms...I tell my kids that cheap is chic now.
| 823 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:46:51pm |
re: #811 MandyManners
Remember Buster Brown shoes?
Yes, but I never had any.
My one shoe story:
I was a little older than The Kid when I was given a twenty and told I could walk to the Target and get a new pair of deck shoes for $7 ... bring back ALL the change, natch. I came back with a pair of Converse Chuck Taylor hightops ($14, IIRC). Lucky I didn't wear them home ... because I got to take them RIGHT back, LOL.
| 824 |
Jetpilot1101 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:47:00pm |
re: #817 jcm
The One would be one of those with medals down to his waist.
Many of those tinpot dictators who wear military uniforms remind me of the dude who worked at "Chotchkys" in Office Space; you know ensuring they had enough "pieces of flair". It's an ego thing but awfully funny to those of us who are students of military history.
| 825 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:47:04pm |
re: #793 OldLineTexan
3rd attempt
They used to outfit expeditions....times have changed
| 826 |
Scorch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:47:38pm |
If BHOs first couple of months in office are any clue I would say we have as our president and commander in chief a clueless, egotistical arrogant fool on our hands.
| 828 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:47:58pm |
re: #792 Occasional Reader
Had they angrily cited ANSWER's "right" to put up these posters (while defacing public property), I'd have been tempted to say, "why, no, they don't... just like I don't have a 'right' to carve 'SUPPORT THE 2ND AMENDMENT' into your forehead with my folding knife. See?"
But it didn't come to that.
Whoa.
You'd "carve" it?
Didn't you have a wood-burning kit when you were a kid?
| 829 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:47:58pm |
re: #813 HoosierHoops
Saw him in Cincy a couple years ago..He is a big boy..
That he is, HH. Glad I didn't have to feed him.
| 830 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:48:22pm |
re: #826 Scorch
If BHOs first couple of months in office are any clue I would say we have as our president and commander in chief a clueless, egotistical arrogant fool on our hands.
And her husband is even worser!
| 831 |
brookly red Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:48:45pm |
re: #821 MandyManners
How about waving a copy of the Bill of Rights at them?
you have to really believe...
| 832 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:49:33pm |
re: #817 jcm
The One would be one of those with medals down to his waist.
I don't think so.
Stuffing the Zero in a military uniform would be like throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.
| 833 |
Digital Display Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:49:59pm |
re: #829 jorline
That he is, HH. Glad I didn't have to feed him.
Hey you..So what is the special for Monday? I have to start planning for lunch..
| 834 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:50:05pm |
massive casualties...pieces parts all over the place in old Mexico
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
| 835 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:50:18pm |
re: #805 Jetpilot1101
While some of us may not like it, President Obama is the CinC of all of the US military and because of that, the salute is correct, yes even if he isn't in a uniform and uncovered. Most presidents have tried very hard to return a snappy salute to the USMC guards at the door to Marine 1; some have failed miserably (Clinton), others have done relatively well (Bush). The salute is a gesture of respect to a senior officer and technically needs to be held by the junior member until the senior member drops his or hers. The various presidents are simply returning a military courtesy since they are the leader of the armed forces.
I certainly never suggested anything about the POTUS needing to be in uniform. I understand what you are saying about his saluting being acceptable, but as I previously pointed out, a half-assed salute is not proper. I know as a civilian manager, and I believe the military is no different, a senior who does not respect his juniors is a very poor senior. (Not that this is a surprise with FCCBHO) and is likely to find his six flapping in the breeze when he most needs it covered.I suppose if folks wanted the President in uniform, he could start wearing olive green fatigues a la Castro; maybe those aren't too far off.
| 836 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:50:46pm |
re: #806 VioletTiger
Their stuff is such poorly made crap. Glad my daughter has grown up and moved on.
Per my No. 818, I've had no problems with the stuff I bough ages ago.
| 837 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:51:14pm |
re: #826 Scorch
If BHOs first couple of months in office are any clue I would say we have as our president and commander in chief a clueless, egotistical arrogant fool on our hands.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but everyone here knew that would be the case during the summer !
| 838 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:51:37pm |
re: #832 OldLineTexan
I don't think so.
Stuffing the Zero in a military uniform would be like throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.
LOL!
| 839 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:52:19pm |
re: #821 MandyManners
How about waving a copy of the Bill of Rights at them?
It's a living document..
...which they wish to kill.
I never got that before...a regular document is binding, but a "living" document.....
| 840 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:52:53pm |
re: #826 Scorch
If BHOs first couple of months in office are any clue I would say we have as our president and commander in chief a clueless, egotistical arrogant fool on our hands.
Yeah, things aren't looking that good. There was a glimmer of hope for a while when he opointed a bunch of old Clintonistas and talked about delaying tax hikes and expensive social programs. The economy would still suck no matter who's in office but it looks like Obama will delay recovery and quite possibly make things worse. Hold on to your hat, we're in for a wild ride.
| 841 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:53:27pm |
re: #799 revobob
I agree whole heartedly. To liberals, he shows what they feel . Contempt. In an previous post I pointed out Reagan's speech at Normandy France when he saluted the men of the Ranger battalion who climbed the cliffs to take out the Nazi naval guns that would have shot up landing craft and killed thousands of men. That man was a true leader. Not just as pretty boy, like we have now.
| 842 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:53:31pm |
re: #809 hous bin pharteen
Wake the hell up people. The new "change" Obamo wants is the Communist/Socialists MSM in this country reporting his lie's as truth.
Read this and weep. [Link: www.blackfive.net...]
Wow. That's stupefying.
| 843 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:53:49pm |
| 844 |
Scorch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:54:24pm |
re: #837 sattv4u2
Obviously we failed to get those word across effectively.
| 845 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:54:29pm |
re: #834 albusteve
massive casualties...pieces parts all over the place in old Mexico
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
Hey. don't worry, right? Kidnappings, etc. don't happen here. It's all so unbelievable, it must be false, right?
//////////
| 846 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:54:32pm |
re: #833 HoosierHoops
Hey you..So what is the special for Monday? I have to start planning for lunch..
This time of the year it's fish, fish and more fish...lol
| 848 |
Jetpilot1101 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:55:41pm |
re: #835 revobob
I agree with everything you said. I was being somewhat flippant when I suggested the olive drab may be making a comeback. You are absolutely correct, a senior who does not respect his subordinates is a piss poor leader. A half assed salute is indicative of his character and in my opinion he does himself a disservice and looks unprofessional in the process. I am less than thrilled that he does not take the time to learn a proper salute but I guess he doesn't have much time for such niceties, after all, he has international visits to flub.
| 849 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:55:48pm |
re: #824 Jetpilot1101
Many of those tinpot dictators who wear military uniforms remind me of the dude who worked at "Chotchkys" in Office Space; you know ensuring they had enough "pieces of flair". It's an ego thing but awfully funny to those of us who are students of military history.
According to Paul Johnson in "Intellectuals," Henrik Ibsen, the playwright, was so enamored of medals, he would do whatever finagling was necessary to get them from various heads of state. At first he would wear the little ribbons, rather than the actual medals, with formal wear. Over the years, he started wearing the medals themselves at every opportunity. I'm sure he had no idea people were laughing at him behind his back.
| 850 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:56:01pm |
| 851 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:56:02pm |
re: #845 OldLineTexan
Hey. don't worry, right? Kidnappings, etc. don't happen here. It's all so unbelievable, it must be false, right?
//////////
it's already spreading and by the time we do anything about it will be too little to late of course
| 852 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:56:05pm |
re: #840 Killgore Trout
re: #844 Scorch
Obviously we failed to get those word across effectively.
We do have recourse. Seeing most of the "stimulus" doesn't take effect till down the road some, if we can get control back of the Senate for the 2010 elections AND if the Republicans maintain a spine we could put a stop to the rest of the package!
| 853 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:56:08pm |
re: #834 albusteve
massive casualties...pieces parts all over the place in old Mexico
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
Here's a related story about where the cartels are getting their arms.
(Hint for Eric Holder: it's not at gun shows here in the US).
[Link: www.gunnewsdaily.com...]
| 854 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:56:47pm |
re: #826 Scorch
News Flash! Dogs are known to bark, while cats tend to go "meow".
In other news, water is wet and amazingly, can impart that property to objects in or near it.
...More news later...
| 855 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:57:03pm |
re: #832 OldLineTexan
Stuffing the Zero in a military uniform would be like throwing water on the Wicked Witch of the West.
In Wicked you'll see that event was just a ruse to help her escape.
As for the PresOdent in a military uniform, I'm sure he has a camouflage winter coat somewhere deep in the closet from his radical days.
| 856 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:57:24pm |
The border problems seem to have been allowed to fester into the problem they are and no one seems to want to take the problem on now that it is an even bigger problem every month.
Do we know why it is this way?
| 857 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:57:57pm |
re: #851 albusteve
it's already spreading and by the time we do anything about it will be too little to late of course
But Ciudad Juarez is so far away!
/isn't it?
/We're going to pay for ignoring all this.
| 858 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:58:23pm |
re: #840 Killgore Trout
re: #844 Scorch
re: #852 sattv4u2
re: #844 Scorch
We do have recourse. Seeing most of the "stimulus" doesn't take effect till down the road some, if we can get control back of the Senate for the 2010 elections AND if the Republicans maintain a spine we could put a stop to the rest of the package!
THAT STATED,,, I fear that what is being spent from now till the next election cycle is doing one thing and one thing only,,
BUYING DEMOCRATS VOTES
| 859 |
VioletTiger Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:58:25pm |
re: #836 MandyManners
Per my No. 818, I've had no problems with the stuff I bough ages ago.
I bet the quality was a lot different than it is now.
I don't remember them out here in the wastelands of Jersey that far back.
| 860 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:58:52pm |
re: #851 albusteve
it's already spreading and by the time we do anything about it will be too little to late of course
Ah, don't worry. Zero put Janet Napolitano in charge of Homeland Security.
//
| 861 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:59:24pm |
re: #852 sattv4u2
I'm a little concerned about the Republicans coming back before they're ready. With reckless spending, pork, corruption and bad ideas they are almost as bad as the Dems. I'm hoping the Obama isn't a disaster, the Republicans have some work to do and they need some more time off.
| 862 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 7:59:36pm |
re: #860 Gus 802
Ah, don't worry. Zero put Janet Napolitano in charge of Homeland Security.
//
Thats like putting Dean Martin in charge of the liquor cabinet!
| 863 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:00:34pm |
re: #862 sattv4u2
Thats like putting Dean Martin in charge of the liquor cabinet!
lol! Good one. Yeah, she started off by complaining about raids on illegal aliens... something about her not being notified first.
| 864 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:00:41pm |
re: #861 Killgore Trout
I'm a little concerned about the Republicans coming back before they're ready. With reckless spending, pork, corruption and bad ideas they are almost as bad as the Dems. I'm hoping the Obama isn't a disaster, the Republicans have some work to do and they need some more time off.
agreed, but at least they (congressmen that is) voted 100% AGAINST the package.
| 866 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:01:06pm |
re: #853 jaunte
Here's a related story about where the cartels are getting their arms.
(Hint for Eric Holder: it's not at gun shows here in the US).
[Link: www.gunnewsdaily.com...]
nice read really...thanks for that...we are in deep shit when this ebbs over our 'border'....250 miles from me
| 867 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:01:11pm |
On Fox here in New Mexico they had to stuff going on in Mexico, but nothing about the kidnappings going on in Abq. and over in Az. and
there seems to be very large numbers now, much higher than ever.
| 868 |
SteveC Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:01:24pm |
Here's one to cheer everyone up!
Erik Compton played in the Honda Classic today and shot a 69... after TWO heart transplants! And walking the course with him was a 14 year old with half a functioning heart!
| 869 |
MandyManners Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:01:26pm |
I'm forcing myelf to go to sleep.
Good night, Lizards.
| 870 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:01:59pm |
re: #857 OldLineTexan
But Ciudad Juarez is so far away!
/isn't it?
/We're going to pay for ignoring all this.
yes we are bro....no question
| 871 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:02:28pm |
re: #869 MandyManners
I'm forcing myelf to go to sleep.
Good night, Lizards.
Your posts usually do that to me!
// (duckin!)
| 872 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:03:08pm |
re: #857 OldLineTexan
But Ciudad Juarez is so far away!
/isn't it?
/We're going to pay for ignoring all this.
From Wiki;
In January 2004, Ciudad Juarez police unearthed a mass grave containing 12 bodies in a backyard. Mexican investigators found 19 more bodies buried in the backyard of a house in Ciudad Juarez, increasing the tally of corpses found there to 36, officials said March 15, 2008. Federal agents began digging in the yard on March 1, 2008, initially finding six dismembered bodies. Ciudad Juárez has been plagued by violence as Mexico's crackdown on powerful drug cartels stokes turf wars among traffickers who have been linked to thousands of killings in the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. The body count in Mexico stands at 5,400 slayings in 2008, more than double the 2,477 reported in 2007, officials said, with over 1400 in Ciudad Juárez alone.[15] [16] The population of Ciudad Juarez had to change their daily routine and many try to stay home in the evening hours. Public life is almost paralyzed out of fear of being kidnapped or hit by a stray bullet. On 20 February 2009, the U.S. State Department announced in an updated travel alert that "Mexican authorities report that more than 1,800 people have been killed in the city since January 2008." [17]
Jeez.
| 873 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:03:22pm |
Kilgore Trout,
You seem to know a lot about the Republican party are you an active member I have been thinking of getting involved.
| 874 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:03:29pm |
re: #861 Killgore Trout
I'm a little concerned about the Republicans coming back before they're ready. With reckless spending, pork, corruption and bad ideas they are almost as bad as the Dems. I'm hoping the Obama isn't a disaster, the Republicans have some work to do and they need some more time off.
You may well be right. On the other hand, my local rag reported 800 applicants for a school janitorial opening. If things get any worse I will be 801.
| 875 |
Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:04:07pm |
re: #853 jaunte
Here's a related story about where the cartels are getting their arms.
(Hint for Eric Holder: it's not at gun shows here in the US).
[Link: www.gunnewsdaily.com...]
Wow. Why am I not surprised.
| 876 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:04:09pm |
| 877 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:04:10pm |
re: #840 Killgore Trout
Hold on to your hat, we're in for a wild ride.
Embrace the upheaval. Anyone can ride off into retirement fat dumb and happy. We all get to start over with nothing. It'll be fun!
| 878 |
Scorch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:04:44pm |
re: #840 Killgore Trout
Yessir I felt a little comfort in the "clintonistas" being appointed even though they were a bunch of fools also but it seems this BHO is even slicker than slick willy on playing for the audience.
| 879 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:06:23pm |
re: #874 The Shadow Do
You may well be right. On the other hand, my local rag reported 800 applicants for a school janitorial opening. If things get any worse I will be 801.
Come to georgia. They're looking for 1600 teachers. Kia is expanding their auto plant in Ga also
| 880 |
rain of lead Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:06:40pm |
re: #809 hous bin pharteen
Wake the hell up people. The new "change" Obamo wants is the Communist/Socialists MSM in this country reporting his lie's as truth.
Read this and weep. [Link: www.blackfive.net...]
followed the link at blackfive to get "the rest of the story" "HT P Harvey"
all I can say is Damn....just Damn
should be suprised........ain't
| 881 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:06:43pm |
Sorry,
Looks like this new poster made a mistake, Kilgore is not a Republican looks like.
| 882 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:07:42pm |
re: #876 OldLineTexan
Remember, the Mexicans are very respectful of our borders.
/
What's your take on legalizing drugs? As a way of putting the cartels out of business. Of course now I'm thinking would it put them out of business or just legalize a certain aspect of their organization...
| 885 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:08:28pm |
re: #876 OldLineTexan
Remember, the Mexicans are very respectful of our borders.
/
Am citizens have been prosecuted for laying claim to their own property and defending it....you heard it here first, this is going to be a HUGE problem soon
| 887 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:09:10pm |
re: #879 sattv4u2
Come to georgia. They're looking for 1600 teachers. Kia is expanding their auto plant in Ga also
Great. Maybe the new workers can buy some of those empty McMansions around me. I read somewhere that it's projected to be 5 years before all the available housing stock in Metro Atlanta is occupied.
| 889 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:09:32pm |
re: #882 Gus 802
What's your take on legalizing drugs? As a way of putting the cartels out of business. Of course now I'm thinking would it put them out of business or just legalize a certain aspect of their organization...
The repeal of Prohibition didn't put organized crime out of the illegal liquor business.
| 890 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:09:36pm |
re: #881 TheRealThing
Sorry,
Looks like this new poster made a mistake, Kilgore is not a Republican looks like.
Killgore is a free spirit...he does what he thinks is best for himself and I have alot of respect for him
| 891 |
Scorch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:09:40pm |
re: #857 OldLineTexan
Ten miles north of the mexican border here. When we go across the mexican army personnel are well armed and have armored vehicles at the bridge. They are a very competent army but they have a drug cartel power struggle going on down there and it's nasty as hell.
| 892 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:10:50pm |
re: #889 sattv4u2
Yep. Legalizing it would require an established method of sales which the cartels already monopolize. So it really wouldn't work for a long time.
| 893 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:11:09pm |
re: #886 Sharmuta
From the Chinese curse, and yes we do. It is like watching a verrrry sloooow train wreck.
| 894 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:12:01pm |
re: #879 sattv4u2
Come to georgia. They're looking for 1600 teachers. Kia is expanding their auto plant in Ga also
Georgia a shining city on the hill! Who knew?
| 895 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:12:03pm |
re: #887 doppelganglander
Great. Maybe the new workers can buy some of those empty McMansions around me. I read somewhere that it's projected to be 5 years before all the available housing stock in Metro Atlanta is occupied.
Too many built too fast. If you have the wherewithal, you should buy something right now as an investment. A friend of mine and myself just bought a 4 bedroom/ 2 1/2 bath in Stone MT. for 40K. Pretty nice subdivision. 18 months ago houses in the neighborhood were selling for 150K.
| 896 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:13:03pm |
re: #881 TheRealThing
Sorry,
Looks like this new poster made a mistake, Kilgore is not a Republican looks like.
I'm curious. Did you think that everyone on this blog was a Republican?
| 897 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:13:57pm |
re: #896 Walter L. Newton
I'm curious. Did you think that everyone on this blog was a Republican?
Not ME! I'm a pedestrian !
| 898 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:14:02pm |
re: #891 Scorch
Ten miles north of the mexican border here. When we go across the mexican army personnel are well armed and have armored vehicles at the bridge. They are a very competent army but they have a drug cartel power struggle going on down there and it's nasty as hell.
the Mex govt is going to have to walk up and summarily kill alot of people to gain some advantage in this dire situation...as with Pablo Escobar people that benefit from the cartel will be outraged...civil war is very likely...think about that for a minute
| 899 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:14:13pm |
re: #820 jaunte
I have too. But I linked black five because at that site you end up reading the whole thing. At Mudville (another of the site I like) the topic does not grab the readers as well. You have to first read into it. It is a good read. MandyManners :I still have my Army BDU's. The one's I wore to the field has rips and tears from usage, but the one's I have from in the office look brand new. And they are from the 80's!
| 900 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:14:23pm |
re: #882 Gus 802
What's your take on legalizing drugs? As a way of putting the cartels out of business. Of course now I'm thinking would it put them out of business or just legalize a certain aspect of their organization...
I am not in favor of it. As for the cartels, it would keep that aspect of business in business. The Mob ran garbage collection as a racket.
| 902 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:14:41pm |
re: #873 TheRealThing
Kilgore Trout,
You seem to know a lot about the Republican party are you an active member I have been thinking of getting involved.
Nope, I'm not a Republican or a conservative.
| 903 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:15:03pm |
re: #896 Walter L. Newton
I'm curious. Did you think that everyone on this blog was a Republican?
We're not all Born Again Christian Evangelical YEC Republicans?
Opps, I must be in the wrong place!
///
| 904 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:15:44pm |
re: #896 Walter L. Newton
I'm curious. Did you think that everyone on this blog was a Republican?
You know we're all supposed to subscribe groupthink here. /////
| 905 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:16:17pm |
| 906 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:16:21pm |
re: #904 Sharmuta
LGF is a conservative blog!
/
| 907 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:16:25pm |
Kilgore Trout
Sorry, but your posts read like a very conservative person.
| 908 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:16:47pm |
| 909 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:16:58pm |
re: #900 OldLineTexan
I am not in favor of it. As for the cartels, it would keep that aspect of business in business. The Mob ran garbage collection as a racket.
Right. Legalization would effectively legalize the cartels. Is there any hope for enforcement from Mexico? Doesn't seem like it considering the rampant corruption within the Mexican police culture and structure. Short of that doing something about the "open border" policy is the first step we should take.
| 911 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:17:06pm |
re: #907 TheRealThing
Kilgore Trout
Sorry, but your posts read like a very conservative person.
He can't be a conservative- he's an atheist. ///
| 912 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:17:39pm |
re: #902 Killgore Trout
Nope, I'm not a Republican or a conservative.
But you are, well.......a fisherman! So there Mr. fisherman.
| 913 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:17:39pm |
re: #888 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Given the countless hours that I wasted being wasted before I realized that pot was not my friend I have to ask: Why?
| 915 |
rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:18:05pm |
re: #907 TheRealThing
Kilgore Trout
Sorry, but your posts read like a very conservative person.
LOL! You are new here, methinks...
| 916 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:18:09pm |
re: #911 Sharmuta
He can't be a conservative- he's an atheist. ///
he can't be an athiest, he's an alien
| 917 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:18:18pm |
| 918 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:18:33pm |
re: #910 albusteve
My Political Affiliation
Just kidding, a joke off a very old album
| 919 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:18:37pm |
re: #913 USBeast
Given the countless hours that I wasted being wasted before I realized that pot was not my friend I have to ask: Why?
Simply because as a sober adult I think the thing I posted is kind of dumb. Was a hell of a lot of fun when I was high tho...
| 920 |
Gella Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:18:40pm |
| 922 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:19:08pm |
re: #909 Gus 802
Right. Legalization would effectively legalize the cartels. Is there any hope for enforcement from Mexico? Doesn't seem like it considering the rampant corruption within the Mexican police culture and structure. Short of that doing something about the "open border" policy is the first step we should take.
We have armed incursions of Mexican forces in uniforms carrying military weapons and driving military vehicles. And aren't doing a damned thing about it.
Anything I would suggest is a pipe dream while shit like that goes down unanswered.
| 923 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:19:09pm |
re: #877 Mich-again
Embrace the upheaval. Anyone can ride off into retirement fat dumb and happy. We all get to start over with nothing. It'll be fun!
I've always made sure I owned a vehicle with room to sleep in - and people used to laugh at me. HAH.
| 925 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:19:28pm |
| 926 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:19:37pm |
| 927 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:19:48pm |
re: #917 sattv4u2
He repairs the rifts in the lute
that by and by will make the music mute.
| 928 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:20:03pm |
I just popped in to agree with the agreeing agreements.
| 932 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:20:21pm |
re: #907 TheRealThing
Heh. Actually I'm pretty non-partisan. I lean Republican, I'm an atheist and classical liberal. We have all types here.
| 933 |
Scorch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:20:23pm |
re: #888 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Here's the bowl, take a hit and enjoy the rest of the evening listening to Jethro.
| 935 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:20:41pm |
| 937 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:20:48pm |
| 938 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:21:01pm |
Sorry, I am new just do not know much about atheists, very Catholic myself and have not met more than one atheist in my life.
Are atheists prone to be liberal and or Democrats?
| 939 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:21:07pm |
re: #925 albusteve
Killgore invented the flute...he invented music
He's been alive forever
And he wrote the very first song
He put the words and the melody together
KT's music. And he wrote the songs....
| 940 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:21:11pm |
| 941 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:21:22pm |
re: #912 The Shadow Do
But you are, well.......a fisherman! So there Mr. fisherman.
Not this year. $50 for the fishing license is out of my budget.
| 942 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:21:41pm |
re: #895 sattv4u2
Too many built too fast. If you have the wherewithal, you should buy something right now as an investment. A friend of mine and myself just bought a 4 bedroom/ 2 1/2 bath in Stone MT. for 40K. Pretty nice subdivision. 18 months ago houses in the neighborhood were selling for 150K.
Sweet. I wish I had the money to buy foreclosed properties. I actually know a lot about real estate, although I am not licensed. My nic is blue if you'd like to talk.
| 944 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:21:45pm |
re: #939 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
He's been alive forever
And he wrote the very first song
He put the words and the melody together
KT's music. And he wrote the songs....
Killgore invented sound itself
| 946 |
astronmr20 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:03pm |
This has probably already been covered, but did anyone realize that both Iran and North Korea both just launched missiles within a 24-hour period?
| 948 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:23pm |
re: #922 OldLineTexan
We have armed incursions of Mexican forces in uniforms carrying military weapons and driving military vehicles. And aren't doing a damned thing about it.
Anything I would suggest is a pipe dream while shit like that goes down unanswered.
Armed incursions which demand a military response. And then there is the bizarre behavior by the Mexican military during their exercises in the border region.
In my most extreme thoughts I sometimes ponder the use of land mines and razor wire.
| 949 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:37pm |
re: #907 TheRealThing
Kilgore Trout
Sorry, but your posts read like a very conservative person.
Maybe a little explanation will help. This is an anti-idiotarian blog. That means it is made up of many different flavors of conservative and libertarian (and a hand full of progressives) commenters.
The primary thing that binds us together is critical thinking. That means we like to deal with science as science, faith as faith, politics as politics and other people as equals.
We have people of all faiths here, not faith and atheists. We have people who believe in a supernatural creation, and a scientific evolution.
We are free-thinkers, and do not follow the beat of any of the folks who think that it's their way or the highway.
Simple.
| 950 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:42pm |
re: #939 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Waitaminute ... this isn't Heaven ... this is the OTHER PLACE, isn't it? ?
/Twilight Zoning here due to YOU
| 951 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:42pm |
re: #938 TheRealThing
Actually, a lot of us atheists are ex-Catholics.
| 952 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:46pm |
re: #938 TheRealThing
Sorry, I am new just do not know much about atheists, very Catholic myself and have not met more than one atheist in my life.
Are atheists prone to be liberal and or Democrats?
EASY LESSON ,,,
Everything you beleive,.,, they don't!
(please make check payable to SATTV4U2)
| 953 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:22:50pm |
re: #941 Killgore Trout
Sorry to hear that- I know how much you enjoy it.
| 954 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:23:04pm |
re: #944 albusteve
Killgore invented sound itself
...and on the seventh day, he rested, and listened to cool vibes. /
| 955 |
Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:23:17pm |
re: #900 OldLineTexan
I am not in favor of [drug legalisation]. As for the cartels, it would keep that aspect of business in business. The Mob ran garbage collection as a racket.
But... garbage collection is a bottleneck in the smooth running of a city. What happens when dope dealers go on strike? Stoner just says "Bummer dude! Now I have to, like, go to the bar instead."
There won't ever be a "marijuana racket"; if (when) gangs get involved in what the corner store sells, it'll be a general protection racket, and they can run that sort of racket over any kind of store.
[The above isn't meant to point out the pros and cons of legalisation; just to point out the defects in the argument of post #900.]
| 957 |
Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:23:22pm |
re: #922 OldLineTexan
We have armed incursions of Mexican forces in uniforms carrying military weapons and driving military vehicles. And aren't doing a damned thing about it.
Anything I would suggest is a pipe dream while shit like that goes down unanswered.
Any reasonable action on ANYTHING for the next four years is a pipe dream.
Our entire policy on everything is now based on pipe dreams. Crack pipe dreams.
| 958 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:23:28pm |
| 959 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:23:40pm |
re: #949 Walter L. Newton
Maybe a little explanation will help. This is an anti-idiotarian blog. That means it is made up of many different flavors of conservative and libertarian (and a hand full of progressives) commenters.
The primary thing that binds us together is critical thinking. That means we like to deal with science as science, faith as faith, politics as politics and other people as equals.
We have people of all faiths here, not faith and atheists. We have people who believe in a supernatural creation, and a scientific evolution.
We are free-thinkers, and do not follow the beat of any of the folks who think that it's their way or the highway.
Simple.
Watch out for Walter... he's a Thespian...
Not that there's anything wrong with that!
;-)
| 960 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:24:00pm |
| 961 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:24:01pm |
| 962 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:24:34pm |
re: #932 Killgore Trout
Heh. Actually I'm pretty non-partisan. I lean Republican, I'm an atheist and classical liberal. We have all types here.
That describes me too. But Killgore lutes, I thespian.
| 964 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:24:44pm |
re: #946 astronmr20
This has probably already been covered, but did anyone realize that both Iran and North Korea both just launched missiles within a 24-hour period?
That's because Mars is in ascension, with jupiter aligned.
//double sarc
| 965 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:24:44pm |
re: #939 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
He's been alive forever
And he wrote the very first song
He put the words and the melody together
KT's music. And he wrote the songs....
Of the many low depths you ave plumbed, that may be the versed!
| 966 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:25:36pm |
we love you Killgore...it's important the noobs know what your all about....so print me some money
| 967 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:25:39pm |
re: #959 jcm
Watch out for Walter... he's a Thespian...
Not that there's anything wrong with that!;-)
Yes, do you remember me in that classic "I Thespian."
| 968 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:26:06pm |
re: #954 Catttt
...and on the seventh day, he rested, and listened to cool vibes. /
and had a fish fry
| 969 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:26:22pm |
re: #848 Jetpilot1101
But it does take skills, leadership, knowledge, and even personal risk to earn those bars. I recognize also that there are people who receive them, but to respect someone who earns them it does not take much to tell them apart pretty quick. The stripes mean allot as well.
| 970 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:26:27pm |
KT's music. And he wrote the songs....
Killgore is Barry Manilow?
| 971 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:27:02pm |
Geeeesssshhhh... we're all in trouble now...
"It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago," he explains. "There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
World Nut Daily is at it again. FInd it yourself if you want it. No linky from me.
| 972 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:27:05pm |
| 973 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:27:06pm |
re: #923 Catttt
I've always made sure I owned a vehicle with room to sleep in - and people used to laugh at me. HAH.
I currently don't have a car payment. 100,000+ miles and paid for.
| 974 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:27:10pm |
re: #919 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Simply because as a sober adult I think the thing I posted is kind of dumb. Was a hell of a lot of fun when I was high tho...
Yeah, I know. I was always a genius when I was stoned. It's funny how stupid and ridiculous what I actually recorded seemed when I woke up the next morning.
| 976 |
Tigger2005 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:27:21pm |
re: #938 TheRealThing
Sorry, I am new just do not know much about atheists, very Catholic myself and have not met more than one atheist in my life.
Are atheists prone to be liberal and or Democrats?
Unfortunately too many of them seem to lean that way. I don't really understand it myself. I was more liberal when I was a believer. Now, I would rather people learn from history and do sensible, rational things, as I have no interest in dying or living a life of grinding poverty because of someone's stupid impossible ideals.
| 977 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:27:52pm |
| 978 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:28:11pm |
re: #955 Zimriel
But... garbage collection is a bottleneck in the smooth running of a city. What happens when dope dealers go on strike? Stoner just says "Bummer dude! Now I have to, like, go to the bar instead."
There won't ever be a "marijuana racket"; if (when) gangs get involved in what the corner store sells, it'll be a general protection racket, and they can run that sort of racket over any kind of store.
[The above isn't meant to point out the pros and cons of legalisation; just to point out the defects in the argument of post #900.]
There is no defect. Any honest business can be run dishonestly.
If your family tried to muscle in on my family's garbage "turf" there would be war, capiche?
We would get the same with legalized marijuana. And the protection racket to boot. No way those boys are letting go of any of THEIR money. They are killing each other in MEXICO, where they roam unopposed. They will kill each other HERE when/if they roam unopposed. And if you have "state stores" and taxes, they will give you a black market.
| 979 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:28:41pm |
re: #971 Walter L. Newton
Do they say when this is going to happen? I'd just as soon call in sick that day.
| 981 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:29:20pm |
re: #973 Mich-again
I currently don't have a car payment. 100,000+ miles and paid for.
High five. Twelve-year old truck, 48,000 miles, no payment.
| 982 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:29:40pm |
| 983 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:29:57pm |
Killgore...for the record...are you Barry Manilow or not?
| 984 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:30:10pm |
re: #979 Killer Tomato
Do they say when this is going to happen? I'd just as soon call in sick that day.
Theres a guy walking around downtown (insert city name here) with a sandwhich board sign proclaiming the end. I'll ask him!
| 985 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:30:11pm |
A public interest announcement for all lock step, like minded lizards: You are invited to witness the execution at dawn; firing squad to form up at dawn on orders of his excellency Mr Hugo Chavez. Casual wear acceptable though ball caps would be seen inappropriate.
Goodnight and good luck!
| 986 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:30:12pm |
re: #979 Killer Tomato
Do they say when this is going to happen? I'd just as soon call in sick that day.
Nope, you'll just have to be careful. Take taxi's, do be caught in the subways, or New Jersey.
| 987 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:30:46pm |
| 988 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:30:48pm |
| 989 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:03pm |
re: #981 Catttt
High five. Twelve-year old truck, 48,000 miles, no payment.
CRIPEYS ,,,,, I used to put that much mileage on every 2 years!
| 990 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:11pm |
re: #953 Sharmuta
It's a bummer but I have to cut all expenses that aren't absolutely necessary. I'm making fresh homemade Udon noodle soup this week to see if I can make one porkchop last all week. I'm on day 3 and still on target.
| 991 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:19pm |
re: #963 Iron Fist
Same in Texas. I can buy one, but I can't carry it UNLESS I'm a cop or an EMT.
| 992 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:34pm |
re: #971 Walter L. Newton
Geeeesssshhhh... we're all in trouble now...
"It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago," he explains. "There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
World Nut Daily is at it again. FInd it yourself if you want it. No linky from me.
I was at a friend's house this evening and the first thing she did was pull up that story. I had to explain to her that the site has zero credibility and David Wilkerson is a fraud who is merely trying to get attention and drum up donations. She was shocked that I wasn't the least bit worried. We used to go to the same church, and I think you can guess why I left.
| 993 |
TheRealThing Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:40pm |
This thing with the open border with Mexico has caused huge problems for my poor state, low incomes to start with and with all the illegal immigrants competing for jobs at lower wages it is putting many families in real stress here in New Mexico. The Democrats control the state so it just gets worse and worse. For high tech and people with college ect. its not a problem but in construction and labor it is a horror story.
| 994 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:42pm |
| 995 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:31:50pm |
| 996 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:32:05pm |
re: #989 sattv4u2
CRIPEYS ,,,,, I used to put that much mileage on every 2 years!
I telecommute. Evil grin.
| 998 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:32:19pm |
re: #990 Killgore Trout
It's a bummer but I have to cut all expenses that aren't absolutely necessary. I'm making fresh homemade Udon noodle soup this week to see if I can make one porkchop last all week. I'm on day 3 and still on target.
two words....
Ballpark Franks
| 999 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:32:23pm |
I sat around at a friends house tonight, had a couple of beers and enjoyed the conversation with real people.
Been here for 20 minutes, and am having more fun.
You guys.....
| 1000 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:32:53pm |
re: #986 Walter L. Newton
Nope, you'll just have to be careful. Take taxi's, do be caught in the subways, or New Jersey.
Swell. My house is 65 miles from my office. What kind of mileage would I get from a used tank?
| 1001 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:33:06pm |
Has anyone made the point that whiny tired Obama would never have made it through bootcamp?
| 1002 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:33:09pm |
re: #964 swamprat
That's because Mars is in ascension, with jupiter aligned.
//double sarc
So, when Uranus is in asscension we can expect a response from Obama?
/snicker
| 1003 |
Zimriel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:33:30pm |
re: #978 OldLineTexan
We would get the same with legalized marijuana. And the protection racket to boot. No way those boys are letting go of any of THEIR money. They are killing each other in MEXICO, where they roam unopposed. They will kill each other HERE when/if they roam unopposed. And if you have "state stores" and taxes, they will give you a black market.
Okay, there'd be a black market if they were taxed. So? There's black markets in cigarettes and alcohol too. They can be battled in similar fashion (starting with, lowering the duties and taxes).
I'm sorry, but I'm still not seeing what's so magical about the reefer that makes it worth prohibiting, when we don't prohibit cigs and booze.
| 1005 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:33:52pm |
re: #1000 Killer Tomato
Swell. My house is 65 miles from my office. What kind of mileage would I get from a used tank?
Thats not the problem,.,,,, at a 5 mph it'll take you 13 hours to get to work!
| 1006 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:34:14pm |
re: #990 Killgore Trout
It's a bummer but I have to cut all expenses that aren't absolutely necessary. I'm making fresh homemade Udon noodle soup this week to see if I can make one porkchop last all week. I'm on day 3 and still on target.
Don't cut out the Internet. If you get to that point, we'll take up a collection. We would miss you a LOT.
| 1007 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:34:14pm |
re: #994 Killgore Trout
I don't think so.
Killgore, click on my name and email me. I can give you some pointers, off line, about how I save pennies.
| 1008 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:34:21pm |
re: #995 The Shadow Do
That's not as depressing as the job applications for menial labor I filled out this weekend.
| 1009 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:34:28pm |
re: #990 Killgore Trout
It's a bummer but I have to cut all expenses that aren't absolutely necessary. I'm making fresh homemade Udon noodle soup this week to see if I can make one porkchop last all week. I'm on day 3 and still on target.
What are you doing to supplement? I can't make one porkchop last five minutes.
| 1010 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:34:35pm |
re: #1001 DistantThunder
Has anyone made the point that whiny tired Obama would never have made it through bootcamp?
BOOTCAMP ,,,, hell ,,, he wouldn't make it thru standing in line for a 1st run movie!
| 1011 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:34:37pm |
| 1013 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:35:10pm |
Cheap to be a vegetarian.
Just sayin...
| 1014 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:35:17pm |
re: #1000 Killer Tomato
Swell. My house is 65 miles from my office. What kind of mileage would I get from a used tank?
M4A5 Sherman, 5 gallons to the mile, SIR!
/my old Scoutmaster was in the Indiana guard
| 1015 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:35:30pm |
re: #1000 Killer Tomato
Swell. My house is 65 miles from my office. What kind of mileage would I get from a used tank?
Who cares? Why would you ever PAY for gas?!
| 1016 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:35:33pm |
| 1017 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:35:43pm |
re: #999 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I sat around at a friends house tonight, had a couple of beers and enjoyed the conversation with real people.
Been here for 20 minutes, and am having more fun.
You guys.....
Here you can get a word in edgewise.
| 1018 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:35:48pm |
| 1019 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:36:17pm |
| 1020 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:36:24pm |
re: #1005 sattv4u2
Thats not the problem,.,,,, at a 5 mph it'll take you 13 hours to get to work!
unopposed the entire way....
| 1021 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:36:32pm |
re: #990 Killgore Trout
I hear you- I was going to get a stock pot and start doing real cooking for my weekly meals, but I felt lazy today, so I stayed home.
| 1022 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:36:48pm |
My Bologna Has a 1st name, it's OSCAR, ,,,,,,,
| 1023 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:36:49pm |
re: #1014 OldLineTexan
Thanks! Now all I have to do is get someone to follow me with a fuel truck.
(it's ma'am)
| 1024 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:36:51pm |
One huge pot of pasta with sauce can last like 5 meals....
| 1025 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:37:08pm |
re: #1003 Zimriel
Okay, there'd be a black market if they were taxed. So? There's black markets in cigarettes and alcohol too. They can be battled in similar fashion (starting with, lowering the duties and taxes).
I'm sorry, but I'm still not seeing what's so magical about the reefer that makes it worth prohibiting, when we don't prohibit cigs and booze.
Nothing. They have anything you want, and they are used to killing to sell it. Violence as a business method appears to be a difficult habit to kick.
So if we legalize it, I don't expect them to become Girl Scouts.
| 1026 |
Noam Sayin' Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:37:11pm |
re: #971 Walter L. Newton
I tried to pop that one in the spinoffs earlier today. Didn't know about the block on that site.
It was just in fun.
| 1027 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:37:26pm |
re: #1013 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Cheap to be a vegetarian.
Just sayin...
yes lucky you...you can eat grass...like a donkey
| 1028 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:37:46pm |
re: #971 Walter L. Newton
Geeeesssshhhh... we're all in trouble now...
"It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago," he explains. "There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
World Nut Daily is at it again. FInd it yourself if you want it. No linky from me.
Just read that piece of drek. Sorry I did. One glance at WorldNetDaily told me that I was right to strike them off my bookmarks list last year.
| 1029 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:38:25pm |
re: #986 Walter L. Newton
Nope, you'll just have to be careful. Take taxi's, do be caught in the subways, or New Jersey.
Whacko's on the left the world's gonna' end.
Whacko's on the right the world's gonna' end.
Now if I can figure out how to make money off both of 'em.
| 1030 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:38:32pm |
re: #1001 DistantThunder
Has anyone made the point that whiny tired Obama would never have made it through bootcamp?
No kidding. Everyone swoons over how fit he is, but all I see is a skinny dude with no stamina or muscle tone.
| 1031 |
Scorch Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:38:35pm |
Good night all, will check back in around 4 am to see what kind of lunacy has gone on during the night. Only 5 hours away but much can happen when your on BHO time.
| 1032 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:38:49pm |
re: #1007 Walter L. Newton
I have cheap living down to a science. My grocery bill is usually 30-40 bucks a week (rice, flour, eggs, veggies). I grow a lot of my own food. I don't drive much, no restaurants, no movies, no bars. All my clothes come from thrift stores. I've been poor my whole adult life so I'm pretty used to it. I made my own peanutbutter this week. It's much better and about 1/2 price of the store bought stuff.
| 1033 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:39:04pm |
re: #1010 sattv4u2
BOOTCAMP ,,,, hell ,,, he wouldn't make it thru standing in line for a 1st run movie!
If Michelle tells him to, he will.
We have a friend who is a medic in the SEALS. Broke his tibia going through training - but did not ring the bell. He was almost through, BUDS , so they gave him a break, let him recover, and he took back up where he left off.
| 1034 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:39:11pm |
re: #929 jcm
He's 6000 years old? WoW!
/
I'm a 6000 year old alien...I met the Alpha and the Omega.
///
| 1035 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:39:17pm |
re: #1025 OldLineTexan
Nothing. They have anything you want, and they are used to killing to sell it. Violence as a business method appears to be a difficult habit to kick.
So if we legalize it, I don't expect them to become Girl Scouts.
Which is why I mentioned that there would have to be an established business infrastructure to support it. Marijuana would probably be the only one in all seriousness because I doubt anyone would take on the massive liability involved with other drugs. That and the social impact it would cause because even though it is argued that hard drugs are "just as bad" as alcohol why add another layer of societal hardship.
| 1037 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:40:05pm |
re: #1028 Dark_Falcon
Just read that piece of drek. Sorry I did. One glance at WorldNetDaily told me that I was right to strike them off my bookmarks list last year.
I just went over....
They've gone completely nirther too.
| 1038 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:40:23pm |
re: #1032 Killgore Trout
I have cheap living down to a science. My grocery bill is usually 30-40 bucks a week (rice, flour, eggs, veggies). I grow a lot of my own food. I don't drive much, no restaurants, no movies, no bars. All my clothes come from thrift stores. I've been poor my whole adult life so I'm pretty used to it. I made my own peanutbutter this week. It's much better and about 1/2 price of the store bought stuff.
but who does your hair?
| 1039 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:40:30pm |
re: #999 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Of course. We rock! It's no coincidence that former/banned members go crying and trash talking us all over the blogosphere like petty, jilted lovers.
| 1040 |
The Shadow Do Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:40:34pm |
re: #1008 Killgore Trout
That's not as depressing as the job applications for menial labor I filled out this weekend.
I hear you. What you are doing is exactly what many of us fear, and are sure to realize, given the trends in the economy. And I do mean fear. I have no idea what it is going to take to turn this mess around but I sense we are a long way from the bottom.
| 1041 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:40:42pm |
re: #1023 Killer Tomato
Thanks! Now all I have to do is get someone to follow me with a fuel truck.
(it's ma'am)
SORRY SIR! I DID NOT REALIZE THE SIR WAS A MA'AM SIR!
/
Actually, I was just repeating his line. He loved that line. He's a great guy.
| 1042 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:40:44pm |
re: #1036 USBeast
Cheap shot. No points.
What are you talking about, I dinged 'em. My wife still doesn't understand. When I became a vegetarian, it actually pissed her off. Go figure.
She calls me an ass all the time.
| 1043 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:10pm |
re: #1035 Gus 802
Which is why I mentioned that there would have to be an established business infrastructure to support it. Marijuana would probably be the only one in all seriousness because I doubt anyone would take on the massive liability involved with other drugs. That and the social impact it would cause because even though it is argued that hard drugs are "just as bad" as alcohol why add another layer of societal hardship.
Food for humans is going to be the big cash crop.
| 1044 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:12pm |
"There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting..."
Well, of course there'll be looting! What kind of a riot would it be if there was no looting?
What an idiot. Who's planning this thing anyway? The White House Protocol Office?
| 1046 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:43pm |
re: #1011 Gus 802
Or Vienna sausages -- even cheaper.
Love them. You can get them at Amazon for a good price with free shipping. Stock up.
I also love ramen (Momofuku Ando is my hero) and Banquet chicken dinners. I have bad taste. :D
| 1047 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:45pm |
| 1048 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:50pm |
re: #1021 Sharmuta
I hear you- I was going to get a stock pot and start doing real cooking for my weekly meals, but I felt lazy today, so I stayed home.
I make a big pot of vegetable soup every Sunday evening or Monday morning, and refresh it if needed toward the end of the week. I get a couple of meals a day off it, for about a week, for under 20.
One week I'll make it tomato based, one week, chicken based (sometimes use some cheap chicken breast) and one week beef based.
Low in calories and cheap.
| 1049 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:52pm |
re: #1027 albusteve
yes lucky you...you can eat grass...like a donkey
Back to the "legalize pot" stuff again ...
| 1050 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:41:52pm |
re: #1036 USBeast
Cheap shot. No points.
is there a score?....LGF is full of cheap shots...how am I doin?
| 1051 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:42:13pm |
re: #1009 USBeast
make your own Udon noodles, broth ideas and info here. A few thin slices of pork, green onion and a mushroom or two. It's very filling. Make a big bowl and you'll be surprised if you can finish it. Very healthy too.
| 1052 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:42:41pm |
re: #1013 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Cheap to be a vegetarian.
Just sayin...
The thing is, cats really like meat.
| 1053 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:42:44pm |
Reine still needs some money-saving recipes for the next 'recession themed' LGF cookbook.
| 1054 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:42:55pm |
Funny thing is, under liberal rule, if you are armed for protection you run into a storm of problems. But when you are armed for drug dealing, gangs, etc, the libs think that is okay. You are being prosecuted.
LA, NYC, San Fran, Phoenix, etc.
But in the sticks, you used to be allowed to have shotguns hanging in the rear window of your pick-up truck.
| 1055 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:42:58pm |
I wonder if Chavez will take over more American companies tomorrow morning.
| 1056 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:13pm |
| 1057 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:13pm |
re: #1041 OldLineTexan
SORRY SIR! I DID NOT REALIZE THE SIR WAS A MA'AM SIR!
/
Actually, I was just repeating his line. He loved that line. He's a great guy.
Where's that from? It sounds familiar.
| 1058 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:18pm |
re: #1042 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
What are you talking about, I dinged 'em. My wife still doesn't understand. When I became a vegetarian, it actually pissed her off. Go figure.
She calls me an ass all the time.
some of my best friends are vegens...they all look the same to me...
| 1059 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:19pm |
re: #1037 jcm
I just went over....
They've gone completely nirther too.
Yeah, I saw that too. Time was, they used to be a useful site. But last year they went bats crazy. I never go there now but I was very sad to see that they've only gotten worse.
| 1060 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:21pm |
re: #1048 Walter L. Newton
I make a big pot of vegetable soup every Sunday evening or Monday morning, and refresh it if needed toward the end of the week. I get a couple of meals a day off it, for about a week, for under 20.
One week I'll make it tomato based, one week, chicken based (sometimes use some cheap chicken breast) and one week beef based.
Low in calories and cheap.
probably extends your life to not be eating high caloric foods in large quantities.
| 1061 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:35pm |
re: #1042 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
What are you talking about, I dinged 'em. My wife still doesn't understand. When I became a vegetarian, it actually pissed her off. Go figure.
She calls me an ass all the time.
You know of course that that has nothing to do with your diet.
/
| 1062 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:43:35pm |
re: #1046 Catttt
Yeah, I don't eat them all the time just once in a blue moon. My mom used to get them when we'd go camping and somehow they tasted better back then. Right now I have some regular old Italian sausages in the frig. I either get those or brats.
| 1063 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:44:26pm |
re: #1038 albusteve
but who does your hair?
I cut my own hair. One of those electric shears is about 15 bucks. There's an attachment cut cut 1/2 inch length. I don't even need to do it in front of a mirror.
| 1064 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:44:32pm |
re: #1003 Zimriel
Okay, there'd be a black market if they were taxed. So? There's black markets in cigarettes and alcohol too. They can be battled in similar fashion (starting with, lowering the duties and taxes).
I'm sorry, but I'm still not seeing what's so magical about the reefer that makes it worth prohibiting, when we don't prohibit cigs and booze.
Gateway drug. Just ask my ex, the recovering heroin addict, how he got started.
| 1065 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:44:44pm |
re: #1001 DistantThunder
Bootcamp? Bootcamp?
The guy would not even make the bus ride before escaping from a truck stop bathroom.
| 1066 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:44:50pm |
re: #1053 jaunte
Reine still needs some money-saving recipes for the next 'recession themed' LGF cookbook.
Which reminds me- remember how Geaorge Bush was so mean that Grandma and Grandpa had to eat dog food? Where is that msm fueld meme now?
| 1067 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:44:52pm |
re: #1050 albusteve
is there a score?....LGF is full of cheap shots...how am I doin?
I see you thought it through....good one
| 1068 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:45:04pm |
re: #1057 TheMatrix31
Where's that from? It sounds familiar.
It was a standard response to inspection in the Indiana guard, if he can be believed. Big joke to him; constant inspections of WW2-era tanks, always the same few rote responses.
| 1069 |
A Kiwi Infidel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:45:32pm |
I find it curious that these two posts were made within 24 hours of each other by two men in Ministry, one in NY city, the other in Israel, probably dont know each other from a bar of soap. As they both state in the finish, the message, and how it is treated, is over to the reader.
| 1070 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:45:58pm |
I met a 92 year old Vet tonight who was at the battle of the bulge. he had to burn up 3000 GM engines rather then let them fall into the hands of the germans. he was telling us about his friends who were tortured at Corrigador - out of 140 soldiers in his friend's group - only 7 of them survived a long forced march. Another friend of his was in the woods for 4 years as a POW in Germany. The Germans had them walking from forest to forest - they lived outdoors. We'd heard this from another local vet.
| 1071 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:46:09pm |
re: #1063 Killgore Trout
I cut my own hair. One of those electric shears is about 15 bucks. There's an attachment cut cut 1/2 inch length. I don't even need to do it in front of a mirror.
Money saving tips from my blog...
This blog entry is NOT INTENDED TO CONDON STEALING. Now that I got the disclaimer out of the way, hopefully I won’t be writing an entry on how to obtain a lawyer pro-bono.
Let’s face it, the price of everything is going up. I never thought there would be a time that I actually had to make a decision if I was going to purchase a magazine or a days worth of food. But there are still ways to save money. There’s a lot of free stuff available if you look close. Here are some suggestions get you started.
Condiments: Fast food places seem only to glad to leave a veritable feast of condiments at your fingertips. Ketchup, mustard, salad dressings, salt and pepper, mayonnaise, hot sauce, sugar and sweetener, coffee creamer and so much more. Why do you think they give you such a big bag for one lonely burger and fries? Fill it up.
Reading material: Religious groups are happy to pass on all sorts of free magazines, brochures, propaganda (did I say that) and such. You can even find reading material for your children. Jehovah’s Witnesses offer the best deal… they’ll deliver to your door.
Bathroom items: Ever see that stack of toilet paper rolls in public restrooms? Need I say more.
Clothes: Make your rounds of the Laundromats. There is always a pile of clothe items that the owner has found left in the machines. But only take what you need, and it’s not good etiquette to try on the underwear there. Wait until you get home.
Furniture: Visit some large apartment complexes around the end or the beginning of the month. Folks who are moving in or out are always leaving unneeded items around the dumpsters. If you really want to get innovative, scotch tape a “wanted” list to one of the dumpsters.
Odds and Ends: When you go to Goodwill (you do shop at Goodwill, don't you), do some creative designing. Put that candle holder you want into that wicket basket you want and clip those earrings you want to the outside of the basket. Take the price tags off of everything except the basket. Tell the check out clerk that you love collecting kindergarten art projects. They'll never know the difference.
Food: For Sunday dinner, take the entire family to Sam's Club and dine on the free samples.
Don't thank me, just happy to help.
| 1072 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:46:14pm |
re: #1068 OldLineTexan
It was a standard response to inspection in the Indiana guard, if he can be believed. Big joke to him; constant inspections of WW2-era tanks, always the same few rote responses.
Oh wow, I was way off. That line sounded like it was from a TV show that I've watched. Maybe it's appeared somewhere. Who knows...
| 1073 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:46:44pm |
re: #1062 Gus 802
Yeah, I don't eat them all the time just once in a blue moon. My mom used to get them when we'd go camping and somehow they tasted better back then. Right now I have some regular old Italian sausages in the frig. I either get those or brats.
The barbecue ones are good. It's nice to have some put away, just in case.
I think I was a starving urchin living in a tin box in a former life.
| 1074 |
hous bin pharteen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:46:53pm |
Night guys.
Remember the last pro-Islamic nut job in DC?
The Beltway Sniper?
| 1075 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:47:07pm |
re: #1042 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
What are you talking about, I dinged 'em. My wife still doesn't understand. When I became a vegetarian, it actually pissed her off. Go figure.
She calls me an ass all the time.
Are you asking me to disagree with your wife? I can't. I am not now and never will be a vegetarian. Albusteve took a cheap shot and I called him on it.
| 1076 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:47:08pm |
re: #1069 A Kiwi Infidel
From the 1st link (probably the 2nd also)
For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York City
So , basically, you've been WRONG for 10 years !
| 1077 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:47:15pm |
re: #1063 Killgore Trout
I cut my own hair. One of those electric shears is about 15 bucks. There's an attachment cut cut 1/2 inch length. I don't even need to do it in front of a mirror.
I do to...I have a nice expensive thing...I go from shoulder length to buzz cut once a year, depending on weddings and funerals
| 1078 |
Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:47:19pm |
re: #1063 Killgore Trout
I cut my own hair. One of those electric shears is about 15 bucks. There's an attachment cut cut 1/2 inch length. I don't even need to do it in front of a mirror.
My dad did that too.
Dang, I wish you could have come over to dinner at our house tonight. Hubby did some great chicken with red beans and rice.
| 1079 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:47:43pm |
re: #1064 Catttt
Gateway drug. Just ask my ex, the recovering heroin addict, how he got started.
I think what happens is the social contacts that are created when people use pot. This is either done within the pot smoking circles and extends into acquaintances with dealers who have even more extreme drug use and criminal backgrounds. All of this makes it easier to be exposed to the harder drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, etc., because it is part of the drug culture.
| 1080 |
Sharmuta Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:47:56pm |
Well- I'd love to stay, but this drying paint isn't going to watch itself.
| 1081 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:49:20pm |
re: #1073 Catttt
The barbecue ones are good. It's nice to have some put away, just in case.
I think I was a starving urchin living in a tin box in a former life.
I warm them up in a microwave, and put them on some wheat bread with mustard.
| 1082 |
astronmr20 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:49:21pm |
What the heck is Wilkinson's vision referring to?
Natural disaster? Stock market complete meltdown? Terrorism?
| 1083 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:49:48pm |
re: #1042 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
What are you talking about, I dinged 'em. My wife still doesn't understand. When I became a vegetarian, it actually pissed her off. Go figure.
She calls me an ass all the time.
My husband is a vegetarian when it suits him (not when there's General Tso's chicken to be had, for example). When he's on the veggie wagon, he makes a lot of Indian stuff that stinks to high heaven. Everything seems to have eleventy thousand ingredients and requires multiple knives, cutting boards, pots, pans, and steamers. Most of the spices stain the countertop. He does clean up after himself, eventually. I could probably put up with this, but he's also become a sort of pseudo-Hindu, which is his motivation for avoiding meat. I don't even want to get into the kind of friction this has created between us. Next time, I'll tell you about the book he claims to be writing.
| 1084 |
astronmr20 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:49:48pm |
/edit
I mean what is it supposed to be referring to
| 1085 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:49:53pm |
re: #1063 Killgore Trout
Same here. I finally had to spring for a $40 Wahl a year or so ago. The cheap clippers would always die on me after about the fourth or fifth cut.
| 1086 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:50:01pm |
re: #1063 Killgore Trout
I cut my own hair. One of those electric shears is about 15 bucks. There's an attachment cut cut 1/2 inch length. I don't even need to do it in front of a mirror.
I cut my hair myself. People go - OH, you got a haircut. I like it. They have no clue, so far. I just cut it in a shag. Now I look like David Cassidy. :D
| 1087 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:50:07pm |
re: #1082 astronmr20
What the heck is Wilkinson's vision referring to?
Natural disaster? Stock market complete meltdown? Terrorism?
I think it's a delay in the next release of Grand Theft Auto.......
| 1088 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:50:26pm |
Tonight the kids had English muffin pizzas with tomato sauce and mozarella cheese. I fed 7 people for $5.
| 1089 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:50:57pm |
I was wondering when these predictions would start.
Famed pastor predicts imminent catastrophe
A respected pastor, best-selling author and founder of a major ministry to teens predicts an imminent "earth-shattering calamity" centered in New York City that will spread to major urban areas across the country and around the world – part of what he sees as a judgment from God.
Wilkerson's vision is of fires raging through New York City.
"It will engulf the whole megaplex, including areas of New Jersey and Connecticut. Major cities all across America will experience riots and blazing fires – such as we saw in Watts, Los Angeles, years ago," he explains. "There will be riots and fires in cities worldwide. There will be looting – including Times Square, New York City. What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God’s wrath. In Psalm 11 it is written, "If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?"
Wilkerson can now be added to this long list.
Have the Witnesses picked another date yet?
| 1090 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:51:03pm |
re: #1075 USBeast
Are you asking me to disagree with your wife? I can't. I am not now and never will be a vegetarian. Albusteve took a cheap shot and I called him on it.
I could care less...everyone knows FBV is really a talking donkey...he can play a clarinet too
| 1091 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:51:56pm |
Man ,, is my life GREAT or what!?!?!
An ESPN news crew just showed up to play out a tape! They showed up with FRESH WARM KRISPY KREME's
YYEEEEE HAAAWWWW
| 1092 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:52:07pm |
re: #1061 OldLineTexan
You know of course that that has nothing to do with your diet. Two words- Broccoli farts!
/
| 1093 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:52:39pm |
re: #1085 Slumbering Behemoth
Same here. I finally had to spring for a $40 Wahl a year or so ago. The cheap clippers would always die on me after about the fourth or fifth cut.
Wahl...that's what I have..just like a barber
| 1094 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:52:49pm |
re: #1089 jorline
I was wondering when these predictions would start.
Famed pastor predicts imminent catastrophe
Wilkerson can now be added to this long list.
Have the Witnesses picked another date yet?
Unlike Glenn Beck - this guy is saying that it will happen. Glenn was saying it is a small possibility, catastrophic event. Big difference.
| 1095 |
A Kiwi Infidel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:52:59pm |
re: #1076 sattv4u2
From the 1st link (probably the 2nd also)
For ten years I have been warning about a thousand fires coming to New York CitySo , basically, you've been WRONG for 10 years !
No, Dave Wilkerson was asked at the time of the 9/11 attacks if this was what he was warning about. He said "no" that what was coming was greater and more devastating. If there is a delay between a warning and its occurance shouldnt you be thankful? I would be. And now that 2 men have almost similtaneously re-issued the warning, and taking into account what else is going on in the world that we know of, and dont know of, (Iran eg) then I would pause and contemplate.
| 1096 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:53:02pm |
| 1097 |
Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:53:27pm |
re: #1085 Slumbering Behemoth
Wahl's are the best. I sent a pair to one of my USMC adoptees when he was in Iraq. He was cutting not only his own hair but his buddies too and says those clippers are still good.
| 1098 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:07pm |
re: #1093 albusteve
Wahl...that's what I have..just like a barber
I got the $20 Wahl set at teh Wahl-Mart ... just like a really cheap barber.
/
| 1099 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:13pm |
re: #1066 Sharmuta
Which reminds me- remember how Geaorge Bush was so mean that Grandma and Grandpa had to eat dog food? Where is that msm fueld meme now?
You're right; I think the WSJ has also noticed the comings and goings of the homeless in msm stories, depending on who was President.
| 1100 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:15pm |
re: #1097 Pvt Bin Jammin
Wahl's are the best. I sent a pair to one of my USMC adoptees when he was in Iraq. He was cutting not only his own hair but his buddies too and says those clippers are still good.
We cut the kids here too. I try to not say OOps when I make a mistake.
| 1101 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:18pm |
re: #1079 Gus 802
I think what happens is the social contacts that are created when people use pot. This is either done within the pot smoking circles and extends into acquaintances with dealers who have even more extreme drug use and criminal backgrounds. All of this makes it easier to be exposed to the harder drugs like cocaine, heroin, meth, etc., because it is part of the drug culture.
Yeah. My ex hooked up with dealers at a very young age, and he didn't quit until he hit bottom. He's clean and sober now, thanks to NA. They get a different set of contacts and keep coming back - they don't wind up in the usual places (jails, institutions, the morgue).
| 1102 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:18pm |
re: #1083 doppelganglander
My husband is a vegetarian when it suits him (not when there's General Tso's chicken to be had, for example). When he's on the veggie wagon, he makes a lot of Indian stuff that stinks to high heaven. Everything seems to have eleventy thousand ingredients and requires multiple knives, cutting boards, pots, pans, and steamers. Most of the spices stain the countertop. He does clean up after himself, eventually. I could probably put up with this, but he's also become a sort of pseudo-Hindu, which is his motivation for avoiding meat. I don't even want to get into the kind of friction this has created between us. Next time, I'll tell you about the book he claims to be writing.
Unless he has virtues that make staying with him agreeable, make plans to get out now. You may not need to execute those plans but you do need to make them.
| 1103 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:30pm |
Hey y'all - good Lord, we're still on the same open thread we were over 3 hours ago!
So what are we all talking about tonight?
| 1104 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:34pm |
re: #1086 Catttt
I cut my hair myself. People go - OH, you got a haircut. I like it. They have no clue, so far. I just cut it in a shag. Now I look like David Cassidy. :D
David Cassidy is actually worse than David Bowie...although it's proven they both wear lipstick
| 1105 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:44pm |
re: #1089 jorline
I was wondering when these predictions would start.
Famed pastor predicts imminent catastrophe
Wilkerson can now be added to this long list.
Have the Witnesses picked another date yet?
That's a long list of loons. The real thing that bothers we is that these assholes drag other people down with them.
| 1106 |
DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:49pm |
re: #1099 jaunte
You're right; I think the WSJ has also noticed the comings and goings of the homeless in msm stories, depending on who was President.
Now the predss is doing stories about how great it is for people to be home with their kids.
| 1107 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:54:54pm |
| 1108 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:55:19pm |
re: #1095 A Kiwi Infidel
sorry ,, but I'll stand by my post. True, if I start today and for every day after I say "THE END IS NEAR" at some point in time I WILL be correct!
| 1109 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:55:28pm |
re: #1091 sattv4u2
Man ,, is my life GREAT or what!?!?!
An ESPN news crew just showed up to play out a tape! They showed up with FRESH WARM KRISPY KREME's
YYEEEEE HAAAWWWW
You're getting free Krispy Kremes? I'm jealous.
| 1110 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:55:29pm |
re: #1100 DistantThunder
We cut the kids here too. I try to not say OOps when I make a mistake.
It's why God gave you TWO ears, honey.
| 1111 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:55:29pm |
re: #1103 realwest
Hey y'all - good Lord, we're still on the same open thread we were over 3 hours ago!
So what are we all talking about tonight?
Hey, RW.
| 1112 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:55:51pm |
re: #1098 OldLineTexan
I got the $20 Wahl set at teh Wahl-Mart ... just like a really cheap barber.
/
if you don't have much hair it's fine..I have hair like Sampson
| 1113 |
itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:56:25pm |
re: #1071 Walter L. Newton
There are so many electronic items left in the alleys of my LA neighborhood ... unfortunately, I suppose they are all worth zero (and it's illegal to toss them, supposed to carry them to an ewaste site). Then there are the deposit bottles, and almost no place left in the city to return them. I estimate the trash pickers going after the bottles might make upwards of $40 an hour (depending on the competition), tax free I dare say. Since my IT gig ends in two weeks, I wonder if that won't be me. Takes several grand a month to live poor in LA, at least it seems that way to me.
| 1114 |
Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:56:37pm |
re: #1100 DistantThunder
We cut the kids here too. I try to not say OOps when I make a mistake.
LOL
Makes me think about how my dear mom would cut my bangs. She had a heck of a time getting them straight and kept on correcting. In my fourth grade picture I think they were only about an inch long.
| 1115 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:56:42pm |
I don't know about ya'll, but it's so great to be an American now that our honor abroad has been restored. NK says they'll freakin' test if they want, and Iran's even closer to da bomb, and Russia says screw you, buddy, we'll talk about shutting down your missile defense but no promises on helping with Iran.
Ahhhh.... it's that sweet relief you get when they love you again!
| 1116 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:56:59pm |
re: #1071 Walter L. Newton
I like the fast food one. There used to be a chain called Roy Rogers that had a fixin's bar (pickles, lettuce, ketchup, etc). I'd go with a friend to order a burger and just make myself a salad.
| 1117 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:56:59pm |
re: #1110 OldLineTexan
It's why God gave you TWO ears, honey.
free,, warm ,, and plentiful. They (2 guys) brought in 2 dozen. I'm the only one here, besides them. They already had theirs on their way over
YOU DO THE MATH!
| 1118 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:57:00pm |
re: #1101 Catttt
Yeah. My ex hooked up with dealers at a very young age, and he didn't quit until he hit bottom. He's clean and sober now, thanks to NA. They get a different set of contacts and keep coming back - they don't wind up in the usual places (jails, institutions, the morgue).
Yeah. We had one guy who was everyone's friend in town. Was a really talented guitarist. Died when he was only about 20 and I think it was heroin. Another was a drummer I knew and when I went to look him after a few months I found out that he died of a drug overdose. My sisters boyfriend spent a month in psychiatric hospital because of an extended LSD binge.
| 1119 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:57:20pm |
re: #1106 DistantThunder
I just spoke to a young lady friend of my son this evening, visiting from Steamboat Springs, who was telling me about all the layoffs in town because of poor tourist revenues. She's a teacher, so she has some insulation, but the economic effects are hitting fast in tourism centers.
| 1120 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:57:20pm |
re: #1108 sattv4u2
sorry ,, but I'll stand by my post. True, if I start today and for every day after I say "THE END IS NEAR" at some point in time I WILL be correct!
I'm an atheist and I know for a fact that if I start saying the same thing, at some point I will be right.
Believing in this sort of hack preaching is like mystical thinking. You may as well believe in elves.
| 1121 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:57:30pm |
re: #1112 albusteve
if you don't have much hair it's fine..I have hair like Sampson
I have hair like Sampson, too. Homer Sampson.
| 1122 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:57:55pm |
re: #1109 Catttt
You're getting free Krispy Kremes? I'm jealous.
free,, warm ,, and plentiful. They (2 guys) brought in 2 dozen. I'm the only one here, besides them. They already had theirs on their way over
YOU DO THE MATH!
| 1123 |
Mich-again Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:58:02pm |
re: #1063 Killgore Trout
I cut my own hair too. No attachments, I guess you call it the #0.
| 1124 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:58:07pm |
I can't imagine how badly I'd butcher cutting my own hair. You're all braver than I am.
I went the other route. Should hit my waist in about 6 months.
| 1125 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:58:26pm |
re: #1111 jorline
Hello jorline! Geez, ya know I started skimming this thread and don't seem to find any real cohesiveness!
So I reckon I'll give another plug to Day by Day (internet only) cartoon: [Link: www.daybydaycartoon.com...]
| 1127 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:58:33pm |
re: #1115 tradewind
I don't know about ya'll, but it's so great to be an American now that our honor abroad has been restored. NK says they'll freakin' test if they want, and Iran's even closer to da bomb, and Russia says screw you, buddy, we'll talk about shutting down your missile defense but no promises on helping with Iran.
Ahhhh.... it's that sweet relief you get when they love you again!
Mexico is vowing to take back the Alamo as well.
| 1128 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 8:59:02pm |
Shampoo is a capitalist scam. Rub a fucking bar of soap on your head. Don't let the man keep you down.
| 1129 |
USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:00:04pm |
re: #1090 albusteve
I could care less...everyone knows FBV is really a talking donkey...he can play a clarinet too
A talking donkey that can play a clarinet! I'm impressed. Do you play an instrument?
| 1130 |
OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:00:17pm |
re: #1127 jorline
Mexico is vowing to take back the Alamo as well.
Got a link for that? I would LOVE to be there for that.
| 1132 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:00:23pm |
re: #1128 Killgore Trout
Shampoo is a capitalist scam. Rub a fucking bar of soap on your head. Don't let the man keep you down.
Don't do it! I tried that once. Talk about itch city.
| 1133 |
albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:00:35pm |
re: #1121 OldLineTexan
I have hair like Sampson, too. Homer Sampson.
that's pretty weak man...no temple crashing for you
| 1134 |
Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:00:37pm |
re: #1123 Mich-again
I keep thinking about a Mohawk but I'm a little old for that. Maybe this is the summer to try it.
| 1135 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:00:39pm |
re: #1116 Killgore Trout
I like the fast food one. There used to be a chain called Roy Rogers that had a fixin's bar (pickles, lettuce, ketchup, etc). I'd go with a friend to order a burger and just make myself a salad.
Most of what I wrote there is of course, tongue in cheek, but, there is a lesson in the text.
| 1136 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:04pm |
re: #1096 OldLineTexan
LOL.
Pinto beans and cabbage, mah boy. Boiled egg for dessert.
I yield to the Distinguished Gentleman from Texas- that'll do it, although a few brussels sprouts wouldn't hurt the mix none either.!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:26pm |
re: #1093 albusteve
Wahl...that's what I have..just like a barber
Yep. I got the one recommended by the last barber I went to see when the cheap one I had died halfway through a hair cut. Boy did I look funny. Got a discount for having half the job done already, though.
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tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:27pm |
re: #1127 jorline
No way. I say we defend the Alamo vigorously, and cede them the inner city of Houston instead.
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A Kiwi Infidel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:27pm |
Someone answer this question, what is a mega plex?
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doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:30pm |
re: #1102 USBeast
Unless he has virtues that make staying with him agreeable, make plans to get out now. You may not need to execute those plans but you do need to make them.
I appreciate your concern. He's not crazy, just spiritually adventurous, I suppose, but something about it annoys the living shit out of me. When we got married, I felt it was important that we were on the same page spiritually, and we were. I am less devout than I was, but I'm still basically a Christian. The children are grown, so at least that's not an issue, and he doesn't try to convert me. Really, he's the sweetest guy in the world, loves me madly, and is generally an amazing husband and father. As long as he's not trying to sell all our worldly goods and move to an ashram, I think we're cool.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:31pm |
re: #1132 Gus 802
Don't do it! I tried that once. Talk about itch city.
You telling me bald guys still use shampoo?!?!?!?! I doubt it!
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:34pm |
re: #1129 USBeast
A talking donkey that can play a clarinet! I'm impressed. Do you play an instrument?
yes and no...depends on the definition of 'do'
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:42pm |
re: #1125 realwest
Hello jorline! Geez, ya know I started skimming this thread and don't seem to find any real cohesiveness!
So I reckon I'll give another plug to Day by Day (internet only) cartoon: [Link: www.daybydaycartoon.com...]
This thread has been all over the place tonight...I like that.
Ding on the cartoon, RW...can I do that in Vegas?
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Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:46pm |
re: #1128 Killgore Trout
Shampoo is a capitalist scam. Rub a fucking bar of soap on your head. Don't let the man keep you down.
Walgreens, White Rain Shampoo, one dollar a bottle. Read the ingredients, same shit as the Loreal.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:47pm |
Almost cut my hair.
Happened just the other day.
Was getting, kind of long...
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swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:50pm |
re: #1066 Sharmuta
Which reminds me- remember how George Bush was so mean that Grandma and Grandpa had to eat dog food? Where is that msm fueld meme now?
Million of those
Debt we are leaving to our children
Freedom of the press(white House press room restrictions now)
Transparent Presidency...except for those pesky BHO admin suppressed gitmo documents
One man's Halliburton is another man's ACORN
Bush's withdrawal from Iraq quite similar to BHO
Bush was accused of ham fisted diplomacy/BHO is a master of ham fisted diplomacy
Bush may be inarticulate/BHO says nothing at great length
Bush damaged our economy/BHO has hired a wrecking crew; he used a credit card and they wield platinum crowbars
Bush's errors were magnified under the largest lens possible/BHO's errors are ignored, and when they can no longer be ignored, they will be ascribed to Bush
...on and on
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DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:52pm |
re: #1110 OldLineTexan
It's why God gave you TWO ears, honey.
Sorry I'm typing in the dark so as not to wake Mr DT. I meant HAIR.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:01:52pm |
re: #1113 itellu3times
Your IT gig ends in two weeks? Are y'all a contract worker or an employee? And in either event, I surely do hope you find suitable employment soon!
I know what it's like to have to leave a city you love cause you can't afford to live there anymore.
I do wish you the best of luck.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:02:28pm |
re: #1136 revobob
I yield to the Distinguished Gentleman from Texas- that'll do it, although a few brussels sprouts wouldn't hurt the mix none either.!
Brusselssprouts are GREAT ... like little cabbage grenades.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:02:33pm |
re: #1141 sattv4u2
You telling me bald guys still use shampoo?!?!?!?! I doubt it!
Ah. KT's bald.
Hey Killgore, are you bald?
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:02:44pm |
re: #1136 revobob
I yield to the Distinguished Gentleman from Texas- that'll do it, although a few brussels sprouts wouldn't hurt the mix none either.!
The Gentleman from Illinois suggests asparagus. He finds that it goes very with things like steak and swordfish.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:02:53pm |
re: #1130 OldLineTexan
Got a link for that? I would LOVE to be there for that.
NM will be there early...book it
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Killgore Trout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:02:58pm |
re: #1139 A Kiwi Infidel
It one of those big movie theaters that has like 10 screens showing different movies.
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:07pm |
re: #1089 jorline
I was wondering when these predictions would start.
Famed pastor predicts imminent catastrophe
Wilkerson can now be added to this long list.
Have the Witnesses picked another date yet?
I was get suspiscions when a pastor starts the predictions.
Without getting two scriptural Christians should live every moment like the end is right around the corner. That means being prepared spiritually, and doing the right things all the time.
If we do that we don't need to worry about the when. Worrying about the when, to me, means they aren't paying attention to being ready and doing the right things here and now.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:12pm |
re: #1138 tradewind
No way. I say we defend the Alamo vigorously, and cede them the inner city of Houston instead.
Ha. That they don't want!
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:15pm |
re: #1115 tradewind
And hey, y'all forgot how much our "Special Relationship" with Great Britain was recently damaged, too.
Hopefully not beyond repair.
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doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:34pm |
re: #1117 sattv4u2
free,, warm ,, and plentiful. They (2 guys) brought in 2 dozen. I'm the only one here, besides them. They already had theirs on their way over
YOU DO THE MATH!
Can you give me directions? I can probably be there in 30 minutes. ;)
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Racer X Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:43pm |
re: #1128 Killgore Trout
Shampoo is a capitalist scam. Rub a fucking bar of soap on your head. Don't let the man keep you down.
You Stink!
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DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:47pm |
re: #1140 doppelganglander
I appreciate your concern. He's not crazy, just spiritually adventurous, I suppose, but something about it annoys the living shit out of me. When we got married, I felt it was important that we were on the same page spiritually, and we were. I am less devout than I was, but I'm still basically a Christian. The children are grown, so at least that's not an issue, and he doesn't try to convert me. Really, he's the sweetest guy in the world, loves me madly, and is generally an amazing husband and father. As long as he's not trying to sell all our worldly goods and move to an ashram, I think we're cool.
It's a good experience in differentiation. You are not him, he is not you, and the marriage can survive with you too being different. The less pressure he feels from you, the more quickly he'll tire of it. You are lucky to have such a good guy. They are far and few between.
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Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:48pm |
re: #1150 OldLineTexan
Brusselssprouts are GREAT ... like little cabbage grenades.
Especially a few hours later... methane.
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BatGuano Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:03:49pm |
re: #1145 Gus 802
Almost cut my hair.
Happened just the other day.
Was getting, kind of long...
Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Deja vu to be exact.
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ArchangelMichael Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:04:13pm |
re: #1139 A Kiwi Infidel
Someone answer this question, what is a mega plex?
Megaplex is to Movie Theater as Wal Mart is to corner grocer.
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A Kiwi Infidel Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:04:24pm |
re: #1154 Killgore Trout
It one of those big movie theaters that has like 10 screens showing different movies.
Thanks KT
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:04:26pm |
re: #1147 DistantThunder
Sorry I'm typing in the dark so as not to wake Mr DT. I meant HAIR.
No, I understood you. It's the one home haircut OOPS I used to dread.
Mom was pretty good, though.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:06pm |
re: #1138 tradewind
No way. I say we defend the Alamo vigorously, and cede them the inner city of Houston instead.
I say we cede nothing to the Cartels. We should arm ourselves and not let them make gains anywhere.
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tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:13pm |
re: #1126 Racer X
'Brought to you by the people who elected Keith Ellison and Al Franken'.
/Uff/
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DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:13pm |
re: #1155 jcm
I was get suspiscions when a pastor starts the predictions.
Without getting two scriptural Christians should live every moment like the end is right around the corner. That means being prepared spiritually, and doing the right things all the time.
If we do that we don't need to worry about the when. Worrying about the when, to me, means they aren't paying attention to being ready and doing the right things here and now.
Jesus talks about coming like a thief in the night - all you can do is prepare, but no one know the exact time - the point being to always be prepared in character.
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:20pm |
re: #1139 A Kiwi Infidel
Someone answer this question, what is a mega plex?
A theater with more than 50 screens!
//
Seriously it's the large urban centers, like DC to Baltimore, or New York down into New Jersey.
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revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:28pm |
re: #1120 Walter L. Newton
I'm an atheist and I know for a fact that if I start saying the same thing, at some point I will be right.
Believing in this sort of hack preaching is like mystical thinking. You may as well believe in elves.
Wait- what about elves?
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:32pm |
re: #1130 OldLineTexan
Got a link for that? I would LOVE to be there for that.
No link...it's a joke son...a joke. Although we're keeping a close eye on Mexico here in south Texas...I let you know if it heads up I-59.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:55pm |
re: #1134 Killgore Trout
I keep thinking about a Mohawk but I'm a little old for that. Maybe this is the summer to try it.
LOL We are a lot older than you are but when my hubby had his first brain surgery they shaved one side of his head. He buzzed the other side and made it into a mohawk of sorts. We stopped by the drug store and got some blue hair color spray (which we both used) and went to eat at our favorite restaurant. It was a hoot.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:05:56pm |
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USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:08pm |
re: #1131 babes
A Flowbee for haircuts in this house.
You have a Flowbee? I thought they'd gone the way of the Pocket Fisherman.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:18pm |
re: #1139 A Kiwi Infidel
Someone answer this question, what is a mega plex?
It's a really really big plex!
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:29pm |
re: #1113 itellu3times
San Francisco is about to outlaw the recycle bin pickers. They operate at night, make noise and litter, but worst of all, they deny the waste pick up company the $. I saw this one coming. The night pickers have annoyed me for years, and I griped about them, but the board of supes said it was ok for them to do their night picking. Only when the waste company griped is something being done.
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TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:38pm |
One of my friends did a philosophical write-up on socialism after he read my post on my FB about Chavez calling for revolution in America. It's a damn good read. Check it out.
This post is simple in nature. I will offer an argument (in the purest philosophically-styled format) against the practicality of socialism. What exactly do I mean by practicality? I will define an economic transaction as practical if and only if it achieves a statistically significant level of efficiency (with respect to the maximal attainment of both consumer and producer surplus).
Argument Against the Practicality of Socialism
Premise 1: An industry is efficient only if it entails a profit motive.
Premise 2: Any socialized industry will necessarily eliminate any profit motive.
Conclusion: Therefore, any socialized industry will not be performing efficiently.The argument above is transitively valid. It consists of the form:
A --> B
C --> ~B
Therefore, C --> ~A. by Law of Contraposition we know this inference to be truth-preserving.
If one wants to refute the argument above, they will have to attack either Premise 1 or Premise 2. Any economist will affirm the truth of the first premise. The second premise may be most commonly inspected on grounds of suspicion. Therefore, let me make its argument. Socialism, by definition, is the theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, and labor in the community as a whole. However, each community member is, by human nature, concerned with his or her own best interest and not with the community's at large. Therefore, each individual will work to maximize his or her own benefit at the expense of the aggregate. What you are left with is a loss of profit incentive and consequent systematic disorder and chaos. If one wants to contest this further, I would strongly suggest one first read an economic-philosophical paradox which is said to have instantiated capitalism into existence: The Tragedy of the Commons.
What Friedman suggested at one point with respect to socialism, is where anyone will find the angels willing to work without any profit incentive. Sure enough, on paper the theory works well. In practice, however, failure or extreme inefficiencies will result. And if the inefficiencies do not show up immediately in the industry per se, they will necessarily surface in the aggregate economy in one form or another through the payment of unnecessarily high taxes and resulting deadweight loss – such as chronic high unemployment, high inflation, wage rigidity, and many other negative features attributed to socialist endorsing nation-states. We can see such instances in countries such as France and Germany whose natural level of unemployment gravitates at around 8-12%.Just trying to get the message out to most of you. Socialism is not all it's cracked up to be.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:41pm |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:41pm |
I have a thick head of hair. Some years back, got the worst haircut in modern civilization. Unable to fix it, so I used a Wuhl and sheared it all off.
Since I had always wondered like I'd look like bald...got out the Shaving Cream and the razor.
My wife nearly fainted.
She said I have an awful shaped head.
I thought it was pretty.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:06:48pm |
re: #1119 jaunte
Hey juante - not to make light of Steamboat Springs problems, but think - just for a minute - about NYC's problems - they're top three industries, as of about 3 years ago, were banking, financial services and tourism.
And they have Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg to contend with, as well (although, with any luck, he's now Multi-Millionaire Bloomberg!) as well.
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tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:07:14pm |
re: #1167 Dark_Falcon
It's a little late.... so far, it's chupacabras 10,000, border patrol, 0.
If the US doesn't jumpstart this we are going to be overrun and TX and other border states will be free fire zones.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:07:34pm |
re: #1158 doppelganglander
Can you give me directions? I can probably be there in 30 minutes. ;)
Head to Emory, take a left onto Briarcliff
1st driveway on the right,,,, all the wy in the back
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jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:07:44pm |
re: #1169 DistantThunder
Jesus talks about coming like a thief in the night - all you can do is prepare, but no one know the exact time - the point being to always be prepared in character.
Yep, I worry some groups focus on what they can do to bring Christ back and end up like the 12th Imam cult.
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babes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:07:54pm |
re: #1176 USBeast
You have a Flowbee? I thought they'd gone the way of the Pocket Fisherman.
Sure do! And it works just fine. Saves a lot of money. And, you don't have to suffer with the hairdresser's chitchat.
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doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:07:56pm |
re: #1161 DistantThunder
It's a good experience in differentiation. You are not him, he is not you, and the marriage can survive with you too being different. The less pressure he feels from you, the more quickly he'll tire of it. You are lucky to have such a good guy. They are far and few between.
We've always been very different in temperament and taste. He is a good guy, and I am very lucky, because I am not easy to live with, either. I figure he'll eventually drop it, as he has done with many of his enthusiasms, or he really will finish his book and make a pile of money off of insecure people who need reassurance in hard times. Either one works for me.
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:07:59pm |
re: #1172 jorline
No link...it's a joke son...a joke. Although we're keeping a close eye on Mexico here in south Texas...I let you know if it heads up I-59.
Hey, nothing surprises me much any more.
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revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:08:03pm |
re: #1132 Gus 802
Don't do it! I tried that once. Talk about itch city.
ummmm, did we forget the lather, rinse, repeat part?
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BatGuano Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:08:27pm |
re: #1154 Killgore Trout
It one of those big movie theaters that has like 10 screens showing different movies.
when I was young we had one movie theater showing two movies and we liked it!
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DistantThunder Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:08:56pm |
re: #1188 doppelganglander
We've always been very different in temperament and taste. He is a good guy, and I am very lucky, because I am not easy to live with, either. I figure he'll eventually drop it, as he has done with many of his enthusiasms, or he really will finish his book and make a pile of money off of insecure people who need reassurance in hard times. Either one works for me.
That's a good plan.
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Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:00pm |
re: #1179 rawmuse
San Francisco is about to outlaw the recycle bin pickers. They operate at night, make noise and litter, but worst of all, they deny the waste pick up company the $. I saw this one coming. The night pickers have annoyed me for years, and I griped about them, but the board of supes said it was ok for them to do their night picking. Only when the waste company griped is something being done.
That's too bad. I usually attach a want list to my dumpsters at the apartment here, at the end/beginning of the month. You'd be surprised what people will be throwing away when they are moving in or out.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:02pm |
re: #1127 jorline
Well, Fuck the Mexicans - they ain't getting back the Alamo - hell Texas is better armed and stronger willed than Mexico, even if Obama doesn't mind the Mexican's making a move on the Alamo!
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Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:08pm |
re: #1104 albusteve
...although it's proven they both wear lipstick
You say that as thought it's a bad thing. Not work safe, according to my boss.
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jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:10pm |
re: #1138 tradewind
No way. I say we defend the Alamo vigorously, and cede them the inner city of Houston instead.
I read this earlier...for Oldline too.
Mexican cartels infiltrate Houston
Be careful what you wish for.
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JohnAdams Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:42pm |
Go back an hour. The future's only gotten worse!
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:44pm |
re: #1190 revobob
ummmm, did we forget the lather, rinse, repeat part?
Yep, I just rubbed the soup on my hair for a few seconds, got tired and left the bar of soap on my head which I left on my hair and went in to work with a bar of soap on my head.
//
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:09:58pm |
re: #1182 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I have a thick head of hair. Some years back, got the worst haircut in modern civilization. Unable to fix it, so I used a Wuhl and sheared it all off.
Since I had always wondered like I'd look like bald...got out the Shaving Cream and the razor.
My wife nearly fainted.
She said I have an awful shaped head.
I thought it was pretty.
there is an unusual attraction for the Cue ball these days...I always leave enough to be an irritant if it comes to that
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jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:10:01pm |
re: #1183 realwest
Hey juante - not to make light of Steamboat Springs problems, but think - just for a minute - about NYC's problems - they're top three industries, as of about 3 years ago, were banking, financial services and tourism.
I hadn't cosidered tourism for New York; you're right, the scale of New York's problems is hard to take in.
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Euler Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:10:15pm |
re: #217 Gus 802
Speaking of birds. Here's a video of a bird using "bait" to catch fish which I saw a little while back.
[Video]
The bait is bread and I think it's a heron.
Yes, a Green Heron. In fact the Wikipedia page links to the same video, and to a page on Green Herons in Florida fishing with bait.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:10:18pm |
Goodnight, you princes of LGF. You kings of the Blogosphere.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:10:29pm |
re: #1182 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I'm slowly growing bald, but the cool thing is have a nice shaped head. Kinda like Bruce Willis.
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Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:10:54pm |
re: #1124 Killer Tomato
I can't imagine how badly I'd butcher cutting my own hair. You're all braver than I am.
I went the other route. Should hit my waist in about 6 months.
I used to do that, but my hair looked really stringy when it got near my waist.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:10:58pm |
re: #1203 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Goodnight, you princes of LGF. You kings of the Blogosphere.
Goodnight, you fat bastard who claims to be a vegetarian!
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:11:03pm |
re: #1202 Euler
Yes, a Green Heron. In fact the Wikipedia page links to the same video, and to a page on Green Herons in Florida fishing with bait.
Is that a common behavior?
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USBeast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:11:13pm |
re: #1140 doppelganglander
I appreciate your concern. He's not crazy, just spiritually adventurous, I suppose, but something about it annoys the living shit out of me. When we got married, I felt it was important that we were on the same page spiritually, and we were. I am less devout than I was, but I'm still basically a Christian. The children are grown, so at least that's not an issue, and he doesn't try to convert me. Really, he's the sweetest guy in the world, loves me madly, and is generally an amazing husband and father. As long as he's not trying to sell all our worldly goods and move to an ashram, I think we're cool.
Glad to here it. I'm in the middle of a divorce so I hope I may be excused if I suggest preparing for the worst while hoping for the best.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:11:22pm |
re: #1143 jorline
Ah, no, I'm afraid y'all can't do that in Vegas - or anywhere else except that comic strip.........well maybe in some parts of Chicago!
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rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:11:30pm |
I have a lot of hair, but lately it is cropping up in the darnedest places.
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Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:11:50pm |
re: #1184 tradewind
It's a little late.... so far, it's chupacabras 10,000, border patrol, 0.
If the US doesn't jumpstart this we are going to be overrun and TX and other border states will be free fire zones.
And the border patrol will continue to not do much. This will occur because Obama doesn't want anything to mess up his amnesty plans. H'es the kind who doesn't care about people dying, as long as the Grand Plan is put into action. Thus, action should be taken on the grassroots level. Support adding police if possible, arm yourself as best as you can afford. The key is to make a major move by the cartels into the US costly. If we are strong, they are more likely to not want to try conclusions with. Drugs cartels are not like Islamists, they can be deterred.
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albusteve Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:11:57pm |
re: #1196 Catttt
You say that as thought it's a bad thing. Not work safe, according to my boss.
what the hell are those things?
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Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:12:06pm |
re: #1196 Catttt
You say that as thought it's a bad thing. Not work safe, according to my boss.
So, which one is you? Nice.
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revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:12:26pm |
re: #1137 Slumbering Behemoth
Yep. I got the one recommended by the last barber I went to see when the cheap one I had died halfway through a hair cut. Boy did I look funny. Got a discount for having half the job done already, though.
Mrs Revo has been cutting my (little) hair since we got married. Years ago she was giving me a trim before a job interview the next day. There was a car wreck on our corner, and she didn't pay close attention to the haircut. I ended up with whitewalls about an inch above my ears. I got the job, but as we were shaking hands to part, the interviewer asked where I got the haircut so he would know never to go there. (It' s funny now...)
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OldLineTexan Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:12:32pm |
re: #1204 Slumbering Behemoth
I'm slowly growing bald, but the cool thing is have a nice shaped head. Kinda like Bruce Willis.
I've been married over twenty years. My noggin makes Pete the Puma's look smooth and shapely.
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sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:13:06pm |
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itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:14:26pm |
re: #1148 realwest
Just a contract, I've been doing mostly contract for years. Generally have months between gigs, and in this economy who knows. I can keep the rent paid for quite a while, live relatively cheap (for LA!), try to at least stay in the black every year, and usually make it, often enough anyway. Savings aren't making much interest these days. Also working on an article/book, in my time off - will never pay, academic stuff.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:16:11pm |
re: #1179 rawmuse
Well I'll agree with you that the recycle bin pickers make noise and litter, but you gotta admit they work hard for their money.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:16:12pm |
re: #1214 revobob
Mrs Revo has been cutting my (little) hair since we got married. Years ago she was giving me a trim before a job interview the next day. There was a car wreck on our corner, and she didn't pay close attention to the haircut. I ended up with whitewalls about an inch above my ears. I got the job, but as we were shaking hands to part, the interviewer asked where I got the haircut so he would know never to go there. (It' s funny now...)
LOL My sister is a hair stylist and she knew better than to be a model for another hair stylist but she was at a hair show with some famous stylist from New York and went ahead and let him cut her hair. He put two inch whitewalls above her ears and her twentieth high school reunion was the following weekend.
| 1221 |
jorline Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:16:17pm |
re: #1195 realwest
Well, Fuck the Mexicans - they ain't getting back the Alamo - hell Texas is better armed and stronger willed than Mexico, even if Obama doesn't mind the Mexican's making a move on the Alamo!
It will be tough for them getting through south Texas...a lot of ranches and deer leases with a shit load of deer blinds.
| 1222 |
sattv4u2 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:16:39pm |
okay ,,, these ESPN guys are starting to get pushy. Now they actually want ME to do something!
I'm already eating the Krispy Kremes they brought in, what MORE do they expect !?!?!?!?
BRB
| 1223 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:17:21pm |
re: #1221 jorline
It will be tough for them getting through south Texas...a lot of ranches and deer leases with a shit load of deer blinds.
Oh deer.
| 1224 |
avanti Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:17:25pm |
re: #1170 jcm
A theater with more than 50 screens!
//Seriously it's the large urban centers, like DC to Baltimore, or New York down into New Jersey.
Some have very nice seating and serve beer.
| 1225 |
imtoast Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:17:34pm |
re: #1051 Killgore Trout
make your own Udon noodles, broth ideas and info here. A few thin slices of pork, green onion and a mushroom or two. It's very filling. Make a big bowl and you'll be surprised if you can finish it. Very healthy too.
Question: Do you HAVE to use wheat flour for the noodles? Have you tried it with any other kind of flour? If so, did it taste ok?
| 1226 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:17:41pm |
re: #1197 jorline
I read this earlier...for Oldline too.
Mexican cartels infiltrate Houston
Be careful what you wish for.
Houston has a good police force but they're spread thin. Here's some background:
| 1227 |
revobob Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:18:03pm |
re: #1199 Gus 802
Yep, I just rubbed the soup on my hair for a few seconds, got tired and left the bar of soap on my head which I left on my hair and went in to work with a bar of soap on my head.
//
Well that's okay then- hell, I've had days like that myself!
| 1228 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:18:11pm |
re: #1157 realwest
I love this poster.... copied from one that hung in 10 Downing during WWII, supposedly... ' Remain Calm and Carry On'.
Hopefully, that applies to our diplomatic relations with the UK.
But since the only show of any strength in this administration has been Michelle 's bare biceps, we're pretty much SOL with the less civilized places that respect only power.
| 1229 |
rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:19:02pm |
re: #1219 realwest
I was OK with the bin pickers up to the point where the board of supes was going to pass a law making it illegal to put a recyclable thing in the rubbish bin. And, they were doing night searches, and writing citations.
I brought suit saying that once you put your rubbish bins out on the street you have no control over what passers by do with them.
These geniuses had never thought of that.
| 1230 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:19:42pm |
re: #1197 jorline
I had heard. Good luck to them... Houston used to be a really nice place.
| 1231 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:19:47pm |
| 1234 |
Neo Con since 9-11 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:20:11pm |
re: #1199 Gus 802
Yep, I just rubbed the soup on my hair for a few seconds,
What flavor soup did you use? I prefer cream of chicken in my hair.
| 1235 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:20:46pm |
re: #1234 Neo Con since 9-11
What flavor soup did you use? I prefer cream of chicken in my hair.
Cream of potato. With bacon.
//
| 1236 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:20:46pm |
re: #1208 USBeast
Glad to here it. I'm in the middle of a divorce so I hope I may be excused if I suggest preparing for the worst while hoping for the best.
I'm sorry you're going through that. The mere thought of how bad divorce must be has kept us married for 23 years. I hope you'll soon see better days.
| 1237 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:21:10pm |
re: #1229 rawmuse
I was OK with the bin pickers up to the point where the board of supes was going to pass a law making it illegal to put a recyclable thing in the rubbish bin. And, they were doing night searches, and writing citations.
I brought suit saying that once you put your rubbish bins out on the street you have no control over what passers by do with them.
These geniuses had never thought of that.
People come from miles around to go through our dumpsters - espeially just before the end of Spring term. The college kids throw away a lot of good stuff.
| 1238 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:22:00pm |
re: #1201 jaunte
Yes NYC is truly hurting right now. And while they were truly DEEP BLUE for Obama, I still have a lot of friends there - mostly in law, financial services and Tourism. What hasn't been mentioned much in the MSM (among a whole lot of other things) is that they are ALL UNEMPLOYED. No fucking joke - 8 friends left in NYC and every one of them has lost their jobs since November 5, 2008.
| 1239 |
capitalist piglet Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:22:04pm |
| 1240 |
babes Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:22:26pm |
re: #1237 Catttt
People come from miles around to go through our dumpsters - espeially just before the end of Spring term. The college kids throw away a lot of good stuff.
The University of Pennsylvania has a street fair at the end of Spring semester at which they sell all the stuff students leave behind.
| 1241 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:22:33pm |
re: #1234 Neo Con since 9-11
What flavor soup did you use? I prefer cream of chicken in my hair.
I'd say split pea, but one of my co-workers got called on the carpet for her green streaks (boss is a square).
| 1242 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:22:56pm |
re: #1229 rawmuse
I was OK with the bin pickers up to the point where the board of supes was going to pass a law making it illegal to put a recyclable thing in the rubbish bin. And, they were doing night searches, and writing citations.
I brought suit saying that once you put your rubbish bins out on the street you have no control over what passers by do with them.
These geniuses had never thought of that.
Have they never watched a police procedural?
| 1243 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:23:01pm |
| 1244 |
itellu3times Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:23:12pm |
re: #1179 rawmuse
San Francisco is about to outlaw the recycle bin pickers. They operate at night, make noise and litter, but worst of all, they deny the waste pick up company the $. I saw this one coming. The night pickers have annoyed me for years, and I griped about them, but the board of supes said it was ok for them to do their night picking. Only when the waste company griped is something being done.
I try to leave any deposit bottles I leave outside the bins, easy to grab, and so do many. I used to return my own bottles to the local Whole Foods, maybe the only guy in town who did - and they no longer offer the service. Just a couple of bucks a month, but it's the principle of the thing.
| 1245 |
reine.de.tout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:23:21pm |
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
| 1246 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:23:35pm |
re: #1203 Fat Bastard Vegetarian HEY! What about the Princesses and Queens of the blogsphere, eh?!
| 1247 |
Catttt Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:23:49pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
I accidentally worked an hour late today.
| 1248 |
Pvt Bin Jammin Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:24:09pm |
re: #1239 capitalist piglet
All I got on that link was the lizard that says: "Page not found."
| 1249 |
reine.de.tout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:24:14pm |
| 1250 |
capitalist piglet Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:24:19pm |
re: #1243 Gus 802
What for? His ideology or wearing a unitard?
For screwing up a link. LOL - sorry!
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]
There it is, quick and dirty.
| 1251 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:24:24pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
I was wondering why Milton Berle was on tonight.
| 1252 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:24:54pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
My body clock is so far gone, I may as well be on another continent. Self-employment is really bad for me that way.
| 1253 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:25:20pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
Not so much.... I love the light! The worst is the fall back.
| 1254 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:08pm |
re: #1238 realwest
Woof. That sucks. I hope it doesn't last too long for them.
| 1255 |
Euler Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:20pm |
| 1256 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:28pm |
re: #1215 OldLineTexan
I've been married over twenty years. My noggin makes Pete the Puma's look smooth and shapely.
Yo, me too (or at least it did 30+ years ago when I got my basic training shavecut!) can't believe the dings and lumps on my scalp.
| 1257 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:39pm |
re: #1250 capitalist piglet
Thanks.
Here's a quote from the article:
"Vandals also wrote dirty words and anti-Hamas slogans,'' she said. "Several people in the convoy were injured in the attack.'"
Too bad they didn't hit Galloway. I can't stand the vile cretin.
| 1258 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:44pm |
re: #1253 tradewind
Not so much.... I love the light! The worst is the fall back.
And I hate the light. I am a child of the night. I live in a basement apartment, keep my blinds closed, and only 2 lights on. It saves me money for both utilities and heating etc.
| 1259 |
rawmuse Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:44pm |
re: #1244 itellu3times
Of course, all of this was going on back in my drinking days. The clang and bang of empties going in the truck was deafening. Now, not so much.
| 1260 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:26:49pm |
re: #1250 capitalist piglet
I just figured he's stoned most of the time, so didn't really think it was news.....
but really, getting rocks thrown at him?
At least they have excellent taste in targets.
| 1261 |
jaunte Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:27:16pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
I tried to prepare by exhausting myself hauling stepping stones around the back yard. It's almost worked.
| 1263 |
Ojoe Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:27:52pm |
Reported over at Newsmax,
more "encouraging" news from the assholes who should shut up.
(yes my language is deteriorating):
Budget Director: Economy Is 'Weak'
Sunday, March 8, 2009 1:48 PM
The White House's top budget official declared on Sunday that "fundamentally, the economy is weak" while saying the administration's own financial predictions could need a revision by midyear.
Peter Orszag, President Barack Obama's Office of Management and Budget director, said in television interviews ...
Idiots.
Good Night All.
| 1264 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:28:21pm |
re: #1217 itellu3times
Well at least you have some experience to fall back on instead of going looney tunes if you wind up unemployed for any length of time. Do you mind me asking you how old you are?
| 1265 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:28:30pm |
| 1266 |
Killer Tomato Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:28:32pm |
Well, we're getting another 3-6 inches of snow tonight/tomorrow, so the commute's sure to stink.
Guess I'd better rest up for it.
Night all!
| 1267 |
Walter L. Newton Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:29:23pm |
re: #1263 Ojoe
Reported over at Newsmax,
more "encouraging" news from the assholes who should shut up.
(yes my language is deteriorating):
Budget Director: Economy Is 'Weak'
Sunday, March 8, 2009 1:48 PM
The White House's top budget official declared on Sunday that "fundamentally, the economy is weak" while saying the administration's own financial predictions could need a revision by midyear.
Peter Orszag, President Barack Obama's Office of Management and Budget director, said in television interviews ...
Idiots.
Good Night All.
Wow, I'm glad Team Obama is up on this. I wouldn't have seen it coming.
| 1268 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:30:02pm |
re: #1221 jorline
It will be tough for them getting through south Texas...a lot of ranches and deer leases with a shit load of deer blinds.
Well I sure hope those deer blinds hide a few dudes with M-16's and a few LAW'S!
| 1269 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:30:18pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
Nope, not here. But if someone could come by and get my internal vcr to stop blinking "12:00", that'd be great.
| 1270 |
reine.de.tout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:30:23pm |
re: #1261 jaunte
I tried to prepare by exhausting myself hauling stepping stones around the back yard. It's almost worked.
Well, all I know is that it's way past my bedtime and I am wide awake.
I'll have to force myself to get up early tomorrow, though, and the next day and maybe in two weeks my internal clock will be reset.
| 1271 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:30:44pm |
re: #1224 avanti
Some have very nice seating and serve beer.
Hell, in Rosemont (a Chicago suburb) we've got a theater called Muvico that serves wine and has a full bar. How did your Studebaker show go, avanti?
| 1272 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:31:45pm |
re: #1267 Walter L. Newton
I wouldn't have seen it coming.
Well, I told you.... open your damn blinds!
/jk/
| 1273 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:32:51pm |
re: #1228 tradewind
Well you're right, of course. But the fact is that those places like Nork, Iran, Syria and Russia - to name but a few - didn't like us before folks elected Obama. So I don't see any real diplomatic losses there....yet.
| 1274 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:32:54pm |
re: #1270 reine.de.tout
Pop some melatonin half an hour before you want to go to bed for a few nights.
| 1275 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:33:00pm |
re: #1257 Gus 802
Thanks.
Here's a quote from the article:
Too bad they didn't hit Galloway. I can't stand the vile cretin.
But good for the Egyptians that did it. They recognize that Hamas does them no good and means Egypt great harm.
| 1276 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:34:39pm |
Evening all.
Dark Falcon. Bad day in Illinois.
| 1277 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:35:00pm |
re: #1275 Dark_Falcon
Sounds like it. I'm clueless about Egypt-Palestine history but I think, and I could be wrong, that Palestinians are "nothing but trouble" for Egypt.
| 1278 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:35:10pm |
re: #1229 rawmuse
Well hell, they are the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco - did ya really expect them to get it, first time out of the gate so to speak?!?
| 1279 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:35:31pm |
re: #1276 Afrocity
Evening all.
Dark Falcon. Bad day in Illinois.
What happened, other than the rain, which was indeed bad?
| 1280 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:35:54pm |
re: #1273 realwest
That was my point..... BHO's mantra was ' they're gonna love us if we only talk to 'em'.
They never have, and they never will. It just ticks me off that he insinuates that he can Change All That.
| 1281 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:36:04pm |
| 1282 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:37:24pm |
re: #1277 Gus 802
Sounds like it. I'm clueless about Egypt-Palestine history but I think, and I could be wrong, that Palestinians are "nothing but trouble" for Egypt.
That might be true, but what I was getting at was that Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood and wants to eventually turn Egypt into a "Islamic State". That alone would be reason for Egyptians who know what that would mean to oppose them.
| 1283 |
nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:37:30pm |
re: #1128 Killgore Trout
Shampoo is a capitalist scam. Rub a fucking bar of soap on your head. Don't let the man keep you down.
we all worked that marine cut in the '80's. wash your hair w/ a bar of soap
and you were good to go. put on a mini-skirt and a t-shirt, your fish nets and
motor cycle boots. fringe cowboy jacket.
wow, i just might go back to that. lol.
| 1284 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:38:02pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
Hey reine! Not totally, but it does have my body confused as all get out!
| 1286 |
nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:38:47pm |
re: #1245 reine.de.tout
So, has the time change totally screwed up everybody's internal clock, the way it has mine?
i don't know what time it is or what day it is.
| 1287 |
tradewind Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:39:09pm |
re: #1277 Gus 802
Egypt gave the go signal for the ' Palestinians' ** to rush the borders of Israel during the seven day war, and then refused to help when their original countries denied them re-entry.
**Palestinians= ex-countrymen of southern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan.
| 1288 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:39:17pm |
MARYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — A pastor shot and killed during his Sunday sermon deflected the first of the gunman's four rounds with a Bible, sending a confetti-like spray of paper into the air in a horrifying scene that congregants initially thought was a skit, police said. The gunman strode down the aisle of the sprawling First Baptist Church shortly after 8 a.m. and briefly spoke with The Rev. Fred Winters, then pulled out a .45-caliber semiautomatic pistol and began firing until it jammed, Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent said. Churchgoers wrestled the gunman to the ground as he waved a knife, slashing himself and two other people, Trent said.
| 1289 |
avanti Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:40:06pm |
| 1290 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:40:37pm |
re: #1287 tradewind
Egypt gave the go signal for the ' Palestinians' ** to rush the borders of Israel during the seven day war, and then refused to help when their original countries denied them re-entry.
**Palestinians= ex-countrymen of southern Syria, Lebanon, Jordan.
Thanks. That rings a bell.
| 1291 |
Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:40:43pm |
re: #938 TheRealThing
Sorry, I am new just do not know much about atheists, very Catholic myself and have not met more than one atheist in my life.
Are atheists prone to be liberal and or Democrats?
I bet you have, they just weren't the one who write books about it, and most of the ones here would call themselves conservatives, though not necessarily Republicans.
| 1292 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:40:52pm |
Yes Gus, the shooting in Maryville. Dark Falcon that is what I was referring to.
| 1293 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:40:58pm |
re: #1288 Gus 802
I just saw that article. That is indeed bad. Some will try to use it to make a case for gun bans, though it really is exactly the opposite.
| 1294 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:42:08pm |
re: #1293 Dark_Falcon
I just saw that article. That is indeed bad. Some will try to use it to make a case for gun bans, though it really is exactly the opposite.
Yep. But I know my typical response which is to bring back the funny farms. What do I know.
| 1295 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:42:12pm |
re: #1254 jaunte
Thanks my friend. Unfortunately they are all over 50 years of age and that seems to make it harder for them to compete to get what few jobs remain.
And they are hurtin' so bad I didn't even remind 'em that they voted for Obama, either.
Anyone who is willing and capable of working ought to be able to find a job - that's at least part of my philosophy.
| 1297 |
reine.de.tout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:43:58pm |
| 1298 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:44:03pm |
re: #1292 Afrocity
Yes Gus, the shooting in Maryville. Dark Falcon that is what I was referring to.
Any word on the perp?
| 1299 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:44:09pm |
re: #1293 Dark_Falcon
I just saw that article. That is indeed bad. Some will try to use it to make a case for gun bans, though it really is exactly the opposite.
That and the fact that a teenager was killed in Chicago this weekend exactly two weeks after his brother was killed- both via street violence.
Being sick has made me have a lot of time to think.
I am feeling like it is time to leave Illinois. Go someplace different. Never lived in the west. Maybe Seattle.
| 1300 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:44:45pm |
re: #1257 Gus 802
Thanks.
Here's a quote from the article:
Too bad they didn't hit Galloway. I can't stand the vile cretin.
Yeah, when I read the headline about him being stoned in Egypt, I naturally thought they meant he had ingested, or inhaled something he shouldn't have. Wonder if those three terrorists who were supposedly trying to smuggle out with his caravan got out or not?
| 1301 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:44:56pm |
| 1302 |
BatGuano Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:45:10pm |
A man tired of the hustle and bustle of city life buys a house in a remote part of Alaska. He is provisioned only once a month
After several months, he begins to get lonely.
There is a knock at the door. He opens the door and there is a bearded man standing there who says," I'm your nearest neighbor, I live about 20 miles down the road and I'm throwing a party and I'd like you to come. There will be food, and drinks and games and sex and I'm sure a fight will break out."
The man is excited and asks, "who all will be there?"
The neighbor says, "Just the two of us"
| 1303 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:45:12pm |
| 1304 |
pink freud Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:45:57pm |
re: #1283 nyc redneck
Reine, wanta take a drive up to nyc and kidnap redneck? I think she belongs down here with us.
| 1305 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:46:53pm |
re: #1294 Gus 802
Yep. But I know my typical response which is to bring back the funny farms. What do I know.
I'd be fine with that. Some people do need to be lock away for their own good.
| 1306 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:47:01pm |
re: #1301 Afrocity
Had surgery earlier. I assume still in ICU.
And no motive. I'll assume then that the perp had serious anti-social behavior and more than likely a record indicating as such.
| 1307 |
reine.de.tout Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:47:17pm |
re: #1304 pink freud
Reine, wanta take a drive up to nyc and kidnap redneck? I think she belongs down here with us.
Yes, I think we'll have to do that one day.
| 1308 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:47:27pm |
re: #1276 Afrocity
Good eveing Afrocity - what happened today?
| 1309 |
TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:48:38pm |
re: #1304 pink freud
Reine, wanta take a drive up to nyc and kidnap redneck? I think she belongs down here with us.
You guys can kidnap me. I'm an obedient, trained 21 year old who is misplaced in the city!
| 1310 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:48:45pm |
re: #1280 tradewind
Hey the fuck's a narcissist - you really can't expect anything better out of him.
| 1311 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:49:05pm |
re: #1305 Dark_Falcon
I'd be fine with that. Some people do need to be lock away for their own good.
Yeah. I just couldn't help but notice that most if not all of these mass shootings involve a person with an extensive record which includes pre-homicidal type behavior. Since the liberalization of the mental health sector we have seen that these people are allowed to roam the streets.
| 1312 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:50:26pm |
re: #1308 realwest
A pastor was shot to death in Illinois.
re: #1306 Gus 802
They say the guy had Lyme disease
The Jeep, which remained at the church Sunday night under State Police watch, was registered to the address of a 27-year-old man in an upscale neighborhood in Troy. No one answered the door at the residence Sunday. A woman from a neighboring home cried while hugging other neighbors in the cul-de-sac, but all declined comment.
A man of the same age whose mother's name also is registered at the Troy address was featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article detailing his battle with Lyme disease. In the article, the man's mother said the disease left lesions on his brain and that doctors had diagnosed him as mentally ill before discovering the disease.
In the August 2008 article, the mother said her son was taking several medications and had difficulty speaking after contracting the tick-borne illness.
Police would not confirm that the man in the article was the church shooting suspect. The Associated Press is not naming the man because no one has been charged in the shooting.
| 1313 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:50:28pm |
re: #1299 Afrocity
Seattle is beautiful. Fulla moonbats, but beautiful. One neat thing: WA state law says that any place that serves mixed drinks must have a full kitchen working at the same time.
It's kinda weird being able to get a burger at 1:00 am at a club while a death metal band is on stage.
| 1314 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:50:30pm |
re: #1300 realwest
Now that wouldn't surprise me to see Galloway smuggle terrorists into Gaza. Galloway should be in prison.
| 1315 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:50:50pm |
re: #1288 Gus 802
Aw Shit. I hadn't heard about that. Did they kill him or take him alive?
| 1316 |
doppelganglander Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:51:01pm |
re: #1311 Gus 802
Yeah. I just couldn't help but notice that most if not all of these mass shootings involve a person with an extensive record which includes pre-homicidal type behavior. Since the liberalization of the mental health sector we have seen that these people are allowed to roam the streets.
What I thought was odd is that no one at the church seemed to recognize the shooter. Maybe further investigation will reveal a connection of some sort.
It really is bedtime now. Hasta la vista, lizards.
| 1317 |
nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:51:51pm |
re: #1304 pink freud
Reine, wanta take a drive up to nyc and kidnap redneck? I think she belongs down here with us.
she surely does.
lol
| 1318 |
pink freud Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:51:52pm |
re: #1309 TheMatrix31
You guys can kidnap me. I'm an obedient, trained 21 year old who is misplaced in the city!
Ok, here's the plan ....you and redneck get yer stuff together, not too much though cause my car's really small, and I will be there to pick you guys up in next weekend. We'll leave reine here to cook ....reine, ok with you? But shhhhhh! don't tell anyone else or reine will need to break out a cookbook or two!
Think you could handle cajun country, matrix? We ain't all high-fallutin' like you city folk. :D
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:52:26pm |
re: #1312 Afrocity
Thanks.
A man of the same age whose mother's name also is registered at the Troy address was featured in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article detailing his battle with Lyme disease. In the article, the man's mother said the disease left lesions on his brain and that doctors had diagnosed him as mentally ill before discovering the disease.
I rest my case.
| 1320 |
Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:52:40pm |
re: #1314 Gus 802
Now that wouldn't surprise me to see Galloway smuggle terrorists into Gaza. Galloway should be in prison.
Terrorists? What's that?/
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nyc redneck Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:52:43pm |
re: #1307 reine.de.tout
Yes, I think we'll have to do that one day.
let me know when you're coming.
i'll have my bags packed.
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Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:52:44pm |
re: #1315 realwest
Aw Shit. I hadn't heard about that. Did they kill him or take him alive?
Shot him, but he is alive.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:52:51pm |
re: #1315 realwest
Aw Shit. I hadn't heard about that. Did they kill him or take him alive?
He stabbed himself and a couple of other people.
| 1324 |
avanti Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:52:56pm |
re: #1303 Dark_Falcon
Very nice! You have good taste.
Bit of trivia. GM copied the sliding roof idea on the 63-66 Studebaker wagons a few years back. Here's one I sold a few years back with the roof open. Actually a handy feature to haul tall items.
Sliding roof.
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TheMatrix31 Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:53:19pm |
re: #1318 pink freud
Ok, here's the plan ....you and redneck get yer stuff together, not too much though cause my car's really small, and I will be there to pick you guys up in next weekend. We'll leave reine here to cook ....reine, ok with you? But shhhhhh! don't tell anyone else or reine will need to break out a cookbook or two!
Think you could handle cajun country, matrix? We ain't all high-fallutin' like you city folk. :D
I'm sure I can handle it ;) Just let me keep my computer and TV and I'll be just fine!
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:53:24pm |
re: #1289 avanti
I don't think I told you this, but when my fraternity at college was first put on probation, the National Fraternity sent a guy down to try to help us "smooth" things over with the administration and he was driving a fire-red Avanti - no joke! None of us had even seen a photo of that car - twas VERY hot looking!
| 1327 |
swamprat Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:53:34pm |
re: #1295 realwest
Daughter's friend was whining about not being able to find a job after a drug conviction...I went off on him.
M_F a job!
Make your own G-D'd job!
..He looked at me"How?"..
Get a f-ing mower. Fix up one from the trash, or buy one , or borrow your mom's. When you have a little cash, get more tools: edgers, chainsaw, what ever. Keep investing in equiptment, you'll need a truck and a trailer after a while. Keep some money back for winter, when you should be fixing and preparing for the warmer months.
He smiles whenever he goes past with his pickup pulling his trailer of mowing stuff. big smile. Waves every time.
| 1328 |
Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:53:39pm |
| 1330 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:54:45pm |
re: #1313 Slumbering Behemoth
I like that rule!
I would like to try a new place out
Chicago is getting too depressing for me and too dangerous.
| 1331 |
Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:55:33pm |
re: #1328 Gus 802
Freedom fighters!
////
That's right. Don't you go and insult anyone needlessly (in joke).
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:56:07pm |
re: #1331 Naso Tang
That's right. Don't you go and insult anyone needlessly (in joke).
Yeah, according to the UN we can't say TERRORIST. Bleh.
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realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:56:07pm |
re: #1299 Afrocity Have you ever considered moving to North Carolina? Lots of fine folks down here!
| 1334 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:57:39pm |
re: #1333 realwest
Have you ever considered moving to North Carolina? Lots of fine folks down here!
Can't do the Carolinas or any of the South. Tried Texas for 8 years. Cant handle it again.
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Achilles Tang Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:57:58pm |
I seem to be still operating on DWT (daylight wasting time), so it is my usual bedtime.
Good night.
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Gus Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:59:08pm |
re: #1334 Afrocity
Can't do the Carolinas or any of the South. Tried Texas for 8 years. Cant handle it again.
Denver might be interesting for you.
Heading over to the Galloway thread...
| 1337 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:59:29pm |
re: #1317 nyc redneck
Nah, y'all'd be much happier in North Carolina - it's sorta where all the good conservatives in New York and New Jersey have moved to!
| 1338 |
pink freud Sun, Mar 8, 2009 9:59:31pm |
re: #1325 TheMatrix31
I'm sure I can handle it ;) Just let me keep my computer and TV and I'll be just fine!
Sure! Reine, can you imagine how much fun it would be to rent one of those big houseboats for a week with about ten lizards? We could bring the big gumbo pots and the crawfish boilers, some fishing poles and waders, and just laze around on the Atchafalaya in the breeze. C'est magnifique!
/and redneck would luuuuuv it! She could even wear her cowboy boots...
| 1339 |
Afrocity Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:00:29pm |
re: #1336 Gus 802
Denver might be interesting for you.
Heading over to the Galloway thread...
I have thought about Denver too.
| 1340 |
Dark_Falcon Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:00:50pm |
re: #1330 Afrocity
I like that rule!
I would like to try a new place out
Chicago is getting too depressing for me and too dangerous.
I'm not moving. Most of my family still lives around here, as does my best friend. I need them all too much to move.
| 1341 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:01:29pm |
re: #1327 swamprat
Now that was some fine advice you gave him. Won't work for folks living in NYC I'm afraid - though I do get your drift.
| 1342 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:03:19pm |
re: #1334 Afrocity
Well I can understand Texas (ducks!) but what don't you like about North Carolina? Serious question here.
| 1343 |
avanti Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:04:01pm |
re: #1326 realwest
I don't think I told you this, but when my fraternity at college was first put on probation, the National Fraternity sent a guy down to try to help us "smooth" things over with the administration and he was driving a fire-red Avanti - no joke! None of us had even seen a photo of that car - twas VERY hot looking!
Cool. Studebaker sold one of the first supercharged Avanti's to Ian fleming, he wanted black, they did not have that color as a option and tried to sell him a red one, but he insisted and they built him a black one. They made black a extra cost option because of the added work needed to get the waves out of the fiberglass body.
| 1344 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:05:43pm |
re: #1343 avanti Huh, I don't think I understand that one; why would changing paint colors create waves in the car's body? I'd a thought a paint color was a paint color, nothing else.
| 1345 |
realwest Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:07:08pm |
Well ok, rather than chat with myself, I'm moving over to the new thread too!
| 1346 |
avanti Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:09:11pm |
re: #1344 realwest
Huh, I don't think I understand that one; why would changing paint colors create waves in the car's body? I'd a thought a paint color was a paint color, nothing else.
Fiberglass is naturally wavy compared to steel, look down the side of a dark Corvette. Black shows the waves much more then lighter colors, so it takes a lot more priming and block sanding to make it look good.
| 1348 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:23:49pm |
re: #1330 Afrocity
I loved it. Having the option of getting drunk, thrashing around in a mosh pit, and then eating a full meal, all in the same club, is nothing less than awesome.
Also, it seems most of the bars downtown that have the room for it will have live music. Went bar hopping one night and saw so many different styles of music: blues, jazz, funk, punk, goth, rock, etc. The musical diversity is pretty cool.
But I haven't been there in over ten years. JCM is the guy you want to talk to for up to the minute info. Do we have any other near Seattle Lizards here?
| 1349 |
Cheechako Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:23:56pm |
After Katrina I was working at the evacuee center at the old Kelly AFB in San Antonio. The Mexican Govt sent a Mexican Army mobile kitchen unit and medical unit to help out. (They were NOT requested by the US). The Mexican Army personnel were ordered to not visit the Alamo. The joke of the day was that was the closest the Mexican Army had been to the Alamo since the battle. Some of the old timers were very resentful that that Mexican Army had been allowed to "invade" Texas.
| 1350 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:29:43pm |
re: #1330 Afrocity
Also, they have the Bumbershoot every year. Saw the Skatalites there one year.
Sometimes big name (and no-name), local bands will do free shows at the Seattle Center. Pretty cool town if your into music.
| 1351 |
jcm Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:39:46pm |
re: #1330 Afrocity
I like that rule!
I would like to try a new place out
Chicago is getting too depressing for me and too dangerous.
WA crime rate is low, even in Seattle. Summer times they're are concerts on the Seattle waterfront every weekend, as well as a number of parks. Lot's of clubs. The hip hop ones have a slight problem with gangs, but compare to elsewhere in the country not much. Race isn't much of issue, expect to the usual suspects, in the professional community it's not an issue. Summer the weather can't be beat, if you can stand 45° and drizzle the rest of the year. You've got skiing an hour from downtown in winter, and national parks and wilderness 2 hours away.
It's a Blue city and State and the government is truly nuts. On the other hand 2nd Amend rights are respected. Taxes a bit of killer, and gonna' get worse in the short term.
If you want to look for work Monster.com is big in Seattle.
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Athos Sun, Mar 8, 2009 10:59:43pm |
Just signed on and happy to see an open thread as I am still seething from the actions of a SoCal pinhead this afternoon.
Part of a troop of Girl Scouts were outside a SoCal Albertson's this afternoon selling GS cookies. The troop was also taking donations of cookies to be forwarded on to troops deployed in Iraq - my nephew is currently deployed there.
So, a guy comes up, buys a couple of boxes of $4 cookies, and asks that the girls put a sticker on each of the two boxes and then add them to the bin for donation to the troops. The stickers - 'Support Your Local Hessians'.
This gutless asswipe was hoping that the girls didn't have a real clue as to who the Hessian's were. They were, as most of us know, the mercenaries hired by King George to fight in his wars, including the Revolutionary War. This schmuck wanted to call our troops mercenaries - and merc's who acted as the Hessian's did fighting for Britain. He didn't have the cojones to buy the cookies and mail them to the troops with the stickers - using his own name and address on the return lable - no, he had to try to trick 11-13 year old girls to do his character assassination against the US Armed Forces.
Pathetic.
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cowbellallen Sun, Mar 8, 2009 11:27:48pm |
So.... Obama's Wikipedia page has been scrubbed clean. No mention of Bill Ayers or Jeremiah Wright.
| 1355 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 11:35:00pm |
| 1356 |
Athos Sun, Mar 8, 2009 11:46:00pm |
re: #1355 Slumbering Behemoth
Somehow, I don't think he was referring to that example.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sun, Mar 8, 2009 11:56:53pm |
re: #1356 Athos
Nor do I, considering the context.
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Joan Mon, Mar 9, 2009 2:34:28am |
re: #1352 Athos
"....a guy comes up, buys a couple of boxes of $4 cookies [Girl Scouts] and asks that the girls put a sticker on each of the two boxes and then add them to the bin for donation to the troops. The stickers - 'Support Your Local Hessians'."
Don't you just long for the day when gutless wonders like this ingrate traitor are running down the street screaming for help because Americans are after him, with tar and feathers. Yellow damned bastards.
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