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Offer not good after curfew in sectors R or N.
— Firesign Theatre
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BignJames Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:06:25pm |
It's fresh! It's new! 10 times better than brand x!
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Erik The Red Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:07:53pm |
Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Lizards.
A man goes to visit his 85-year-old grandpa in the hospital.
"How are you grandpa?" he asks.
"Feeling fine," says the old man.
"What's the food like?"
"Terrific, wonderful menus."
"And the nursing?"
"Just couldn't be better. These young nurses really take care
of you."
"What about sleeping? Do you sleep okay?"
"No problem at all --- nine hours solid every night. At 10
o'clock they bring me a cup of hot chocolate and a Viagra
tablet, and that's it. I go out like a light."
The grandson is puzzled and a little alarmed by this, so he
rushes off to question the Nurse in charge. "What are you
people doing?" he asks. "I'm told you're giving an 85-year-old
Viagra on a daily basis. Surely that can't be true?"
"Oh, yes," replies the nurse. "Every night at 10 o'clock we give
him a cup of chocolate and a Viagra tablet. It works
wonderfully well. The chocolate makes him sleep, and the
Viagra stops him rolling out of bed."
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Erik The Red Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:08:36pm |
Today's jokes [3.13.09]
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Clerk: Have you purchased tickets here before?
Woman: *cough* No.
Clerk: Then I need your address.
Woman: Okay. It's 260..*AHEM* Sorry..Laryngitis...
Clerk: You'll have to spell that one for me.
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"Get this." said the bloke to his mates, "Last night while I was
down the pub with you guys, a burglar broke into my house.
"Did he get anything." his mates asked.
"yeah, a broken jaw, six teeth knocked out, and a pair of broken nuts.
The wife thought it was me coming home drunk."
2.
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Sidney has a problem with premature ejaculation, so he pays a visit to a
sex shop for a remedy. The clerk hands him a little purple can and
says, "This is Stay-Hard spray... put on a little and you can go all
night!"
Excited, Sidney takes it home, stashes it in the cellar on a shelf, and
waits eagerly for bedtime. Later that night, he sprays some on his member
and then goes upstairs to his wife. To his utter disappointment, however,
the remedy seems to make him orgasm quicker than ever.
The next day, Sidney returns to the sex shop, angrily slammed the can down
on the counter, and snaps, "This stuff makes me worse than before!"
Upon reading the label, the clerk asks, "I don't suppose your hid this
stuff on your basement shelf, did you?"
"Yeah, so?"
"You must have grabbed the wrong can, sir... this is Easy-Off."
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Fenway_Nation Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:09:32pm |
China's Premier concerned about US Treasuries.
Maybe Hussein Dolt can sell them to those 'Moderate' Taliban if the ChiComCaps aren't buying...
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Erik The Red Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:11:30pm |
DIARY OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEWMAN, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
August 31
Just got transferred with work from grey old London to our new home in
Newman, Western Australia. Now this is a town that knows how to live!
Beautiful, sunny days and warm, balmy evenings. I watched the sunset from
a deckchair by the pool yesterday. It was beautiful. I've finally found my
new home. I love it here.
September 13
Really heating up now. It got to 31 today. No problem though. Living in
air-conditioned home, driving air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see
the sun every day like this.
I'm turning into a sun-worshipper.
September 30th
Had the back yard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and
rocks. No more mowing lawns for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it
here.
October 10th
The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do people get used to
this kind of heat? At least today it's windy though. Keeps the flies off
a bit. Acclimatising is taking longer than I expected.
October 15th
Fell asleep by the pool yesterday. Got third degree burns over 60% of my
body. Missed three days of work. What a dumb thing to do! Got to respect
the ol' sun in a climate like this.
October 20th
Didn't notice Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car before I left for work
this morning.
By the time I got back to the car after work, Kitty had died and swollen
up to the size of a shopping bag and stuck to the upholstery. The car now
smells like Whiskettes and cat shit. I've learned my lesson though: no
more pets in this heat.
October 25
This wind is a bastard. It feels like a giant fuckin' blow dryer. And
it's hot as hell!
The home air conditioner is on the blink and the repair man charged $200
just to drive over and tell me he needs to order parts from fuckin' Perth.
October 30th
The temperature's up around 40 and the parts still haven't arrived for the
fuckin' aircon.
Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. Bloody $800,000
house and we can't even go inside. Why the hell did I ever come here?
November 4
Finally got the ol' aircon fixed. It cost $1,500 and gets the temperature
down to around
25 degrees, but the humidity makes it feel about 30.
Stupid repairman.
November 8
If one more smart arse says 'Hot enough for you today?', I'm going to
fuckin' throttle him. Fuckin' heat! By the time I get to work, the car's
radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking fuckin' wet and I smell
like baked cat!
November 9
Tried to run some errands after work, wore shorts, and sat on the black
leather upholstery in the ol' car. I thought my fuckin' arse was on fire.
I lost two layers of flesh, all the hair on the backs of my legs and my
fuckin' arse. Now the car smells like burnt hair, fried arse and baked
cat!
November 10
Weather report! It might as well be a fuckin' recording. Hot and sunny.
Hot and sunny, Hot and fuckin' sunny! It's been too hot to do anything
for two fuckin' months and the weatherman says it might really warm up
next week.
Doesn't it ever rain in this damn fuckin' place. Water restrictions will
be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms might just dry up and blow into the
fuckin' pool. The only things that thrive in this hell-hole are the
fuckin' flies. You don't dare open your mouth for fear of swallowing half
a dozen of the fuckers!
November 20th
Welcome to HELL! It got to 45 fuckin' degrees today. Now the air
conditioner's gone in my car. The repair man came to fix it and said, 'Hot
enough for you today?' My wife had to spend the $2,500 mortgage payment
to bail me out of jail for assaulting the stupid fucker.
Fuckin' Newman! What kind of sick, demented fuckin' idiot would want to
live here!
December 1
WHAT! The first day of Summer! You are fuckin' kidding!
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Erik The Red Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:15:26pm |
Saturday morning I got up early, dressed quietly, made my lunch, grabbed my golf bag, tried not to wake my wife, sneaked quietly into the garage and proceeded to back out into a torrential down pour.
The wind was blowing 50 mph. I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad throughout the day.
Disappointed I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and sneaked back into bed. There I cuddled up to my wife's back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, 'The weather out there is terrible.'
My loving wife of 20 yrs replied, 'Can you believe my stupid husband is out there playing golf in that sh*t weather?'
I still don't know to this day if she was joking, but I have stopped playing golf..!
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:19:38pm |
Next time you use a pair of rubber gloves, you're going to smile when you think of this:
A dentist noticed that his next patient, a little old lady, was nervous so he decided to tell her a little joke as he put on his gloves.
'Do you know how they make these gloves?' he asked.
'No, I don't,' she replied.
'Well,' he spoofed, 'there's a building in Canada with a big tank
of latex and workers of all hand sizes walk up to the tank, dip in
their hands, let them dry, then peel off the gloves and throw them
into boxes of the right size.'
She didn't crack a smile.
'Oh, well. I tried,' he thought.
But five minutes later, during a delicate portion of the procedure,
she burst out laughing.
'What's so funny?' he asked
'I was just envisioning how condoms are made!'
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NoWhereAlaska Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:22:45pm |
Thanks for the humor folks.Too quiet, I am off t bed!
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Killian Bundy Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:27:03pm |
Remember the Democrat indignation and uproar when George W. Bush issued signing statements, stamements that have been issued by many Presidents?
[youtube=
Well, so much yada, yada yada.
Signing Statements Reappear in Obama White House
Democrats often criticized the Bush White House for its use of the presidential signing statement, a means by which the president can reject provisions of a bill he deems unconstitutional without vetoing the entire legislation. Now the approach is back.
President Barack Obama, after signing into law a $410 billion budget bill on Wednesday, declared five provisions in the bill to be unconstitutional and non-binding, including one that would effectively restrict U.S. troop deployments under U.N. command and another aimed at preventing punishment of whistleblowers.
The move came two days after Mr. Obama ordered a review of his predecessor's signing statements and said he would rein in the use of such declarations.
"As I announced this past Monday, it is a legitimate constitutional function, and one that promotes the value of transparency, to indicate when a bill that is presented for Presidential signature includes provisions that are subject to well-founded constitutional objections," Mr. Obama said in the statement.
/Barack Obama, complete, utter assclown or just an arrogant, condescending, cynical, lying assclown?
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gmsc Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:27:51pm |
Soundgarden's "Blackhole Sun"
(vocals provided by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormet)
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Gus Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:28:57pm |
re: #8 gmsc
CBS has a lot of old Twilight Zone videos. I'm sure you know that.
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gmsc Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:30:01pm |
re: #14 Gus 802
CBS has a lot of old Twilight Zone videos. I'm sure you know that.
Yep. The YouTube ones were easier to embed on LGF though.
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redc1c4 Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:30:18pm |
re: #12 Killian Bundy
Remember the Democrat indignation and uproar when George W. Bush issued signing statements, stamements that have been issued by many Presidents?
[youtube=
[Video]Well, so much yada, yada yada.
Signing Statements Reappear in Obama White House
/Barack Obama, complete, utter assclown or just an arrogant, condescending, cynical, lying assclown?
decisions, decisions..........
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Gus Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:30:31pm |
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gmsc Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:31:46pm |
re: #17 Pvt Bin Jammin
OMG, I've never seen that before. LOL
It's one of the few Heavy Metal songs you can slow dance to.
;)
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BignJames Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:33:33pm |
re: #12 Killian Bundy
Remember the Democrat indignation and uproar when George W. Bush issued signing statements, stamements that have been issued by many Presidents?
[youtube=
Well, so much yada, yada yada.
Signing Statements Reappear in Obama White House
/Barack Obama, complete, utter assclown or just an arrogant, condescending, cynical, lying assclown?
He can be both, can't he?
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:33:44pm |
Haven't been here in awile this late at night/early in morn, but I don't remember it being this quite.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:33:50pm |
re: #19 gmsc
Heh. I'm old enough to like the music. It was just the video that was kinda strange.
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redc1c4 Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:35:25pm |
re: #21 Inquisitive
Haven't been here in awile this late at night/early in morn, but I don't remember it being this quite.
it's all your fault!
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Gus Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:35:38pm |
40 years ago today Apollo 9 returned to Earth.
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quickredfox Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:35:53pm |
re: #21 Inquisitive
Haven't been here in awile this late at night/early in morn, but I don't remember it being this quite.
sssshhhh -- be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:37:58pm |
re: #21 Inquisitive
Haven't been here in awile this late at night/early in morn, but I don't remember it being this quite.
It is quite quiet, isn't it? ;-) It probably has something to do with the darn "spring forward". I'm still not used to it.
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pink freud Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:38:00pm |
re: #21 Inquisitive
Haven't been here in awile this late at night/early in morn, but I don't remember it being this quite.
I'm wondering how littleoldlady/condom jokes will be received at fruitcup time.
You just know she's gonna see it!
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:39:11pm |
re: #25 quickredfox
sssshhhh -- be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits.
Oh goody goody....we going to have...hasenfeffer
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IslandLibertarian Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:40:08pm |
re: #21 Inquisitive
When you enter sector R or N after curfew, we can't offer you much...........
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:40:22pm |
re: #28 pink freud
I'm wondering how littleoldlady/condom jokes will be received at fruitcup time.
You just know she's gonna see it!
oh geeze....you think she will let me have an fruitcup?
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:42:20pm |
re: #30 IslandLibertarian
When you enter sector R or N after curfew, we can't offer you much...........
Is it already after curfew....this springing forward has thrown me off.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:43:41pm |
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Killian Bundy Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:44:13pm |
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:44:32pm |
re: #32 Inquisitive
Fruitcup won't be here for over two hours. I only made it once for the fruitcup but RedC and I fixed it up early a few times when Little Old Lady was on vacation. Mine was spiked. LOL
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pink freud Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:45:15pm |
re: #31 Inquisitive
oh geeze....you think she will let me have an fruitcup?
Just hope she hasn't has her cranky flakes yet!
//hides from littleoldlady
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Rustler Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:45:50pm |
re: #35 Pvt Bin Jammin
And red's can barely be called fruitcup. Most girly drinks have more fruit and less additions than red's fruitcup.
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:46:14pm |
re: #35 Pvt Bin Jammin
Fruitcup won't be here for over two hours. I only made it once for the fruitcup but RedC and I fixed it up early a few times when Little Old Lady was on vacation. Mine was spiked. LOL
darn and I missed it....want to fix some more?...I could use some spiked right now!
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:48:33pm |
re: #36 pink freud
Just hope she hasn't has her cranky flakes yet!
//hides from littleoldlady
You better put a few more of those// to hide from littleoldlady after that statement
////
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:49:05pm |
re: #38 Inquisitive
We have a couple of pears left. Maybe I could soak them in this vanilla vodka that I have. I'll have them saved for you on the sidebar.
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pink freud Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:49:54pm |
re: #36 pink freud
Just hope she hasn't HAD her cranky flakes yet!
//hides from littleoldlady
Typos suck. Here ...I'll make up for it.
mathematicaster: noun: A minor or incompetent mathematician.
/not that that applies to anyone here!
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:50:29pm |
re: #40 Pvt Bin Jammin
We have a couple of pears left. Maybe I could soak them in this vanilla vodka that I have. I'll have them saved for you on the sidebar.
Pears and vanilla vodka....sounds like a winner to me....and thank you very much!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:51:57pm |
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Gus Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:51:59pm |
re: #34 Killian Bundy
It gets better.
[Video]/his pet weasel tries to explain it
I can't watch Gibbs now. I was just thinking of Apollo 9 and the upcoming 40th anniversary of Apollo 11: the moon landing.
Gibbs exemplifies a man of no accomplishments. A mouthpiece for a new generation that motivates no one except a political machine.
Percy Faith - Somewhere
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:52:16pm |
re: #41 pink freud
Typos suck. Here ...I'll make up for it.
mathematicaster: noun: A minor or incompetent mathematician.
/not that that applies to anyone here!
Say that 5 times fast.....lol
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redc1c4 Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:53:04pm |
re: #37 Rustler
And red's can barely be called fruitcup. Most girly drinks have more fruit and less additions than red's fruitcup.
/me slides a claymore into Rustler's fart sack & an M-21 under his easy chair....
if you can't handle the fruitcup, stay in the day threads. %-)
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IslandLibertarian Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:53:38pm |
re: #42 Inquisitive
Pears and vanilla vodka....sounds like a winner to me....and thank you very much!
' having a Pavlov's dog moment with that..........as I eat prunes............
don't get old..........
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:55:25pm |
I am the biggest computer dummie. Question for the night lizards (since I never got a response from the day lizards). I went to a photo blog that is run by a gal in my town for the first time yesterday. Some of the pictures were awesome so I looked at the comments. When I got to the comment form here was my LGF nic and my entire e-mail address already entered and ready to go. I have only used that nic here, Zomblog and back in the day Fallback LGF and Spleen of Zion (which are haloscan). The blog in question uses Word Press. What's up with this? I am not afraid of this particular blog having my e-mail but it is just weird.
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pink freud Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:56:03pm |
re: #39 Inquisitive
You better put a few more of those// to hide from littleoldlady after that statement
////
Forgive me, O Queen of the Late Night Dead Thread, Bringer of All That is Fruit, I beg your forgiveness for any implied or imagined impugnation of thou sweet, angelic nature.
(think that'll help?)
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:56:04pm |
re: #47 IslandLibertarian
' having a Pavlov's dog moment with that..........as I eat prunes............
don't get old..........
AAAHHH...just got a year older last week....but not at prune stage..yet
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redc1c4 Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:56:54pm |
re: #48 Pvt Bin Jammin
I am the biggest computer dummie. Question for the night lizards (since I never got a response from the day lizards). I went to a photo blog that is run by a gal in my town for the first time yesterday. Some of the pictures were awesome so I looked at the comments. When I got to the comment form here was my LGF nic and my entire e-mail address already entered and ready to go. I have only used that nic here, Zomblog and back in the day Fallback LGF and Spleen of Zion (which are haloscan). The blog in question uses Word Press. What's up with this? I am not afraid of this particular blog having my e-mail but it is just weird.
it's a conspiracy......
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redc1c4 Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:57:16pm |
re: #50 pink freud
Forgive me, O Queen of the Late Night Dead Thread, Bringer of All That is Fruit, I beg your forgiveness for any implied or imagined impugnation of thou sweet, angelic nature.
(think that'll help?)
no.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:57:19pm |
re: #42 Inquisitive
Pears and vanilla vodka....sounds like a winner to me....and thank you very much!
Any time. ;-)
I don't drink sweet stuff but I know that vodka must be great. It was a gift but the price tag was still on it.
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gmsc Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:57:35pm |
re: #48 Pvt Bin Jammin
I am the biggest computer dummie. Question for the night lizards (since I never got a response from the day lizards). I went to a photo blog that is run by a gal in my town for the first time yesterday. Some of the pictures were awesome so I looked at the comments. When I got to the comment form here was my LGF nic and my entire e-mail address already entered and ready to go. I have only used that nic here, Zomblog and back in the day Fallback LGF and Spleen of Zion (which are haloscan). The blog in question uses Word Press. What's up with this? I am not afraid of this particular blog having my e-mail but it is just weird.
Most likely, the blog was set to get that information from standard "cookies" in your browser.
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:57:52pm |
re: #50 pink freud
Forgive me, O Queen of the Late Night Dead Thread, Bringer of All That is Fruit, I beg your forgiveness for any implied or imagined impugnation of thou sweet, angelic nature.
(think that'll help?)
lol..you will find out in a couple of hours.
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AuntAcid Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:57:53pm |
re: #8 gmsc
...and this is the reason I'm a lizard - no matter what, there is always some one out there with something really different...
thanks all...
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:58:27pm |
re: #37 Rustler
You should try his mashed potatoes.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:58:39pm |
re: #52 redc1c4
LOL Is that how it works with word press? I really don't know as it's the first time it's happened to me.
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redc1c4 Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:58:50pm |
re: #51 Inquisitive
AAAHHH...just got a year older last week....but not at prune stage..yet
one good thing about ulcerative colitis, i'll never need to eat prunes.
down side is, my death from colon cancer is higher.
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Inquisitive Thu, Mar 12, 2009 11:59:30pm |
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:00:22am |
re: #55 gmsc
Thanks. It was just weird to me. I am going to delete my cookies but I have bookmarked that little blog. Her pics were great.
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Emperor Norton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:01:56am |
Since Obama's been in office, there's been a Friday the 13th every month.
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Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:02:07am |
Sir Mixalot's Baby got Back - Folk Acoustic Guitar version
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:02:10am |
re: #63 Pvt Bin Jammin
Thanks. It was just weird to me. I am going to delete my cookies but I have bookmarked that little blog. Her pics were great.
Be careful when deleting cookies.
You might find out you accidentally deleted one that LGF used to recognize you, for example. Then, you'd have to log in again, and LGF would place a new cookie.
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Inquisitive Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:02:24am |
re: #60 redc1c4
one good thing about ulcerative colitis, i'll never need to eat prunes.
down side is, my death from colon cancer is higher.
had to google that...sounds like it would be painful
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pink freud Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:05:57am |
re: #70 Syrah
Video disabled, but a doubleckick opens in youtube. Love this song. :-)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:06:01am |
re: #66 Kragar (proud to be kafir)
Outkast's "Roses", Bluegrass style.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:06:03am |
re: #67 gmsc
I really don't care if Charles places a cookie until 2050, I don't think. I used to have IE6. I deleted my cookies and cache every week. Am I nuts?
/Not really sure if I even know how to delete cookies or temporary internet files in Firefox, I've never done it and don't even know how.
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Syrah Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:07:00am |
What?
Friday the thirteenth again?
What happened? Did a socialist win the Presidency or something? Is this just bad luck or just deserts?
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:07:38am |
re: #74 Pvt Bin Jammin
LOL "I don't think." There was supposed to be a comma in there.
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Kragar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:08:36am |
Well, this sucks, my speakers just blew out on me
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:09:36am |
re: #74 Pvt Bin Jammin
I really don't care if Charles places a cookie until 2050, I don't think. I used to have IE6. I deleted my cookies and cache every week. Am I nuts?
/Not really sure if I even know how to delete cookies or temporary internet files in Firefox, I've never done it and don't even know how.
tools---->clear private data......follow the prompts.
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IslandLibertarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:09:40am |
actually, I'm eating prunes 'cause I'm jammed up 'cause I'm taking vicodin 'cause I have chronic pain 'cause I have herniated disc c-5 c-6 from an old surfing injury........and 'cause I'm, ahem.........older.........
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:10:03am |
re: #75 Syrah
What?
Friday the thirteenth again?
What happened? Did a socialist win the Presidency or something? Is this just bad luck or just deserts?
Yep - last month. When February is 28 days (exactly 4 weeks) long, and has a Friday the 13th in it, guess what happens 28 days later?
After this, you can relax until November 2009, which is the next time we have a Friday the 13th.
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:10:50am |
re: #79 Kragar (proud to be kafir)
Well, this sucks, my speakers just blew out on me
maybe you shouldn't turn them past eleven?
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:11:18am |
re: #80 redc1c4
Thanks, I never tried it before. I will have a jillion new cookies by next week.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:12:23am |
re: #79 Kragar (proud to be kafir)
Well, this sucks, my speakers just blew out on me
Friday the 13th!
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:13:36am |
re: #81 IslandLibertarian
actually, I'm eating prunes 'cause I'm jammed up 'cause I'm taking vicodin 'cause I have chronic pain 'cause I have herniated disc c-5 c-6 from an old surfing injury........and 'cause I'm, ahem.........older.........
drink more water. avoid thing that dehydrate you, like sodas, coffee, tea, etc. get up and walk, even if it hurts. the motion increases motility in the gut.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:14:12am |
re: #81 IslandLibertarian
actually, I'm eating prunes 'cause I'm jammed up 'cause I'm taking vicodin 'cause I have chronic pain 'cause I have herniated disc c-5 c-6 from an old surfing injury........and 'cause I'm, ahem.........older.........
OMG my hubby has to have a discectomy in the same cervical spot on 4/9. I'll let you know how it goes. He has the pain but can't feel his hand either. He's decided it's time. Vicodin is the pits.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:14:59am |
re: #85 Walter L. Newton
Friday the 13th!
It gets bad on Friday the 13th, but it gets worse on Saturday the 14th!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:15:15am |
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:15:20am |
re: #87 Pvt Bin Jammin
OMG my hubby has to have a discectomy in the same cervical spot on 4/9. I'll let you know how it goes. He has the pain but can't feel his hand either. He's decided it's time. Vicodin is the pits.
Two Buck Chuck is much more cost effective.....
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jordash1212 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:16:14am |
I need a letter of recommendation for my application to study abroad in Israel next Spring. I asked my professor of Islam & Modernity to write me one. He seemed enthusiastic. On the front of the sealed envelope it says "Letter of Recommendation for Richard." My name is not Richard. The professor leaves for the Netherlands in 2 days.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:17:41am |
re: #90 redc1c4
Two Buck Chuck is much more cost effective.....
He's allergic to wine. This is his "vicodin":
[Link: www.makersmark.com...]
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Inquisitive Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:21:09am |
Source: Obama technology official on leave after FBI raids his old DC office, arrests 2....anybody read this?
[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]
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AuntAcid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:21:11am |
re: #92 Pvt Bin Jammin
He's allergic to wine. This is his "vicodin":
[Link: www.makersmark.com...]
...for the older gentlemen, try Wiser's at less than 2/3 the cost.
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:21:30am |
re: #91 jordash1212
I need a letter of recommendation for my application to study abroad in Israel next Spring. I asked my professor of Islam & Modernity to write me one. He seemed enthusiastic. On the front of the sealed envelope it says "Letter of Recommendation for Richard." My name is not Richard. The professor leaves for the Netherlands in 2 days.
sucks to be you..... but then again, why did you ask a professor of msulim to write a rec letter to go to Israel?
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IslandLibertarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:22:18am |
re: #87 Pvt Bin Jammin
I had the surgery two years ago when the symptoms spiked.
Numbness down the arm, loss of strength in arm, pain in fingers........the surgery was about 80% successful. But the neck pain is something I'll have to live with.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:22:21am |
...and just in case you forgot what day it was, here's one more reminder:
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:22:29am |
re: #94 AuntAcid
...for the older gentlemen, try Wiser's at less than 2/3 the cost.
trader joe's "Rebel Yell" bourbon is tolerable.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:23:48am |
re: #94 AuntAcid
...for the older gentlemen, try Wiser's at less than 2/3 the cost.
I'll have him try it. We are old LOL
If you sign up over at maker's mark you can get a free shaker and some napkins. LOL I've never done it but our friend did. She gave us the gift.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:24:10am |
re: #93 Inquisitive
Source: Obama technology official on leave after FBI raids his old DC office, arrests 2....anybody read this?
[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]
When I first heard Madoff was going to jail, I couldn't help but think, "Great. Now who will 0bama appoint to the Treasury instead?"
;)
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AuntAcid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:25:15am |
re: #98 redc1c4
trader joe's "Rebel Yell" bourbon is tolerable.
life is too short to "tolerate" anything
of course, this attitude will brand you as a short fused asshole
but so be it
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:25:41am |
Ouch! Sen. Judd Gregg Tells Geithner His Budget Forecast Is a Lie
In a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee Gregg dressed down Geithner with facts, figures, and charts. While always keeping his cool, the exchange was somewhere between a mother's scolding, a drill sergeant's questioning and an attorney's cross examination.In his opening statement, Gregg politely called the administration's budget forecast a lie.
"The argument that it cuts the debt in half in four years is, ahh, is truly spurious," he told Geithner.
Obama lied, economy died.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:27:19am |
re: #96 IslandLibertarian
I had the surgery two years ago when the symptoms spiked.
Numbness down the arm, loss of strength in arm, pain in fingers........the surgery was about 80% successful. But the neck pain is something I'll have to live with.
D*mn. They are not guaranteeing anything with my hubby either but at least I hope he gets some relief. Isn't it the pits?
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:29:36am |
re: #101 AuntAcid
life is too short to "tolerate" anything
of course, this attitude will brand you as a short fused asshole
but so be it
it doesn't taste bad, it's got the ethanol content is claims to have, and the price is reasonable...... where i come from, that's tolerable. it ain't fancy schmansy "sippin whisky", but you won't hate yourself for drinking it, nor for mixing it.
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Inquisitive Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:30:06am |
It is past my curfew... got to go...good night to all you good folks.
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:30:30am |
re: #102 Kenneth
Ouch! Sen. Judd Gregg Tells Geithner His Budget Forecast Is a Lie
Obama lied, economy died.
but it was all Bush's fault.
/moonbat
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:32:28am |
re: #105 Inquisitive
It is past my curfew... got to go...good night to all you good folks.
G'Nite, Inq!
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:32:37am |
think i'll pull pitch too: got a law test to get done in the AM, ande writing for Household 6 too..... good thing i messed with the fruitcup early, eh?
hasta y'all.....
L8r!
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:33:13am |
Well, youngsters, I am out. LOL Take care, everybody.
Leaving the vodka laced pears on the sideboard.
Nite.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:34:40am |
What? Am I all alone?
Great. The one night I can stay up, everyone else goes to bed.
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IslandLibertarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:35:13am |
re: #103 Pvt Bin Jammin
I've had to be honest with myself over it. It is a life altering condition. A positive attitude and acceptance are my tools to make it through.
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AuntAcid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:35:53am |
re: #104 redc1c4
TJ's can't sell the hard stuff in my neck of the woods, just wine.
BTW, every time I go to a TJ's I feel like a "foreigner". Kinda creepy really. Like I don't belong.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:37:21am |
re: #110 gmsc
That's what you get for living in one of those 24 hr. towns. LOL
Damn, I hated Calif. when I first came here. People actually went to sleep at a decent hour.
Take care, Nevada.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:38:44am |
re: #106 redc1c4
but it was all Bush's fault.
/moonbat
Actually, that's exactly how they lied. Geitner took the annual cost of the Iraq war during the 2007, assumed that the US would continue to pay that same amount for the next 4 years, then they took the numbers for the real cost of the war, which is declining, and declared the difference as "savings". Well, the cost of the Iraq war is declining because Bush won it. Obama is just trying to take the credit.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:39:37am |
Feel like reading 25 pages of jaw-dropping data regarding the state of Baby Boomer finances after all this asset-price carnage? Yeah? Well, I have just your thing:
CEPR: Wealth of Baby Boomers After Housing Collapse (PDF)
For some good commentary on that, check out Mike ("Mish" to all his readers) Shedlock's article here.
And in case you're just now checking in:
A great many Boomers are in deep, deep trouble.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:40:31am |
Man, this is one weird condom commercial. Why don't we see funny stuff like that on the tube here in the States?
/never mind
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:40:58am |
re: #114 Pvt Bin Jammin
That's what you get for living in one of those 24 hr. towns. LOL
Damn, I hated Calif. when I first came here. People actually went to sleep at a decent hour.
Take care, Nevada.
Heh, true.
When it comes to daylight savings time in Vegas, they just tell us what the minutes should be. Everybody decides what hour they want on their clocks.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:41:39am |
re: #110 gmsc
What? Am I all alone?
Great. The one night I can stay up, everyone else goes to bed.
Er, I'm here. Pick a card.
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AuntAcid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:42:14am |
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:43:29am |
re: #116 gmsc
Wow.
3) As a result of the plunge in house prices, many baby boomers now have little or no equity in their home. According to our calculations, of those who own their primary residence, nearly 30 percent of households headed by someone between the ages of 45 to 54 will need to bring money to their closing (to cover their mortgage and transactions costs) if they were to sell their home. More than 15 percent of the early baby boomers, people between the ages of 55 and 64, will need to bring money to a closing when they sell their home.These calculations imply that, as a result of the collapse of the housing bubble, millions of middle class homeowners still have little or no equity even after they have been homeowners for several decades. These households will be in the same situation as first-time homebuyers, forced to struggle to find the money needed to put up a down payment for a new home.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:45:37am |
My favorite foreign commercial is one from France.
If you've never seen it before, try and guess the product being advertised before the end:
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:49:56am |
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:50:04am |
re: #123 gmsc
My favorite foreign commercial is one from France.
If you've never seen it before, try and guess the product being advertised before the end:
[Video]
Maisey the Parrot screamed right along with it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:51:12am |
re: #123 gmsc
This ain't a condom commercial, but maybe it should be. Or maybe a "don't get drunk and...." aw, never mind.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:51:59am |
re: #124 gmsc
Frightening. My wife & I are in our late 40's. We invested well & conservatively over the years and planned to retire at age 55 so we could enjoy the (expected) grandkids etc. Well, that plan has gone out the window. But we haven't lost as much as some of these fools. Our retirement fund is down about 25%, we have equity in our home and the housing bubble was never so big in Toronto as in the US. Of couse, many of these people voted for Obama & the Dems too. Irony bites.
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:53:27am |
re: #127 Slumbering Behemoth
Can it be any worse than the Trojan 'massager' commercial with the granny eavesdropping on the two younger women in the beauty salon that I just saw?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:55:57am |
re: #129 Fenway_Nation
What the hell are you talking about? That commercial is HAWT!
/
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:56:14am |
This one is really going to piss off folks... if the media bothers to notice it...
1. In September, 2008, the 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) - after months of preparation - is ordered to Iraq. (One of two SBCTs that were then scheduled to replace the two currently in Iraq)
2. In February, 2009, President Obama announces his Iraq drawdown/Afghanistan surge - the 5th SBCT will be diverted to Afghanistan instead of Iraq.
3. March, 2009, the DoD announces the 4th SBCT will deploy to Iraq this fall, several months ahead of the original schedule replacing the 5th SBCT in the rotation in order to maintain two Stryker Brigades in Iraq.
For the record, I'm in favor of commanders on the ground getting the forces they need to get the job done. I have no doubt that two Stryker Brigades are needed in Iraq, and others in Afghanistan.
I'm deeply concerned when I see troop rotations "adjusted" in what appears to be an effort to fool the American public. But I appreciate that the Obama administration can do that in plain sight, even providing press releases detailing exactly how they're doing it.
Obama makes a big speech about the "drawdown" of US troops from Iraq and how that enables him to send troops to Af'stan. But he's playing a shell game in which he shuffles troops from Iraq to Af'stan, then replaces the troops taken from Iraq with a brigade trained fro Afstan.
Obama's phony fucking shell game is endagering US lives to make him look like he's keeping his promises. Fucking liar!
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:58:05am |
Suddenly popular tonight after a month of being there.
/I guess if you post it, they will come, they certainly can't get enough of searching for Captain John Carroll every day
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:59:16am |
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:03am |
re: #134 Killian Bundy
I've watched the tape.
/you give the parrot too much credit
WHAT do you mean by that?
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:24am |
re: #128 Kenneth
Frightening. My wife & I are in our late 40's. We invested well & conservatively over the years and planned to retire at age 55 so we could enjoy the (expected) grandkids etc. Well, that plan has gone out the window. But we haven't lost as much as some of these fools. Our retirement fund is down about 25%, we have equity in our home and the housing bubble was never so big in Toronto as in the US. Of couse, many of these people voted for Obama & the Dems too. Irony bites.
There's actually hope for you, since you're in your late 40s. Since 1926, money invested in the S&P500 for a period of 20 years has never lost money. Check out the article Why the Long-Run is so Important When Investing in Stocks.
At this writing, I'm in my early 40s, and I've lost more than 36% of my money invested in stocks. I'm not worried. As a matter of fact, I've found this is a good time to add more money, while everything is so cheap.
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Nadnerb Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:03:42am |
re: #7 Erik The Red
I'm sittin' in my garage with a blanket around my shoulders. In Southern California. Fuckin Coriolis Effect...
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:05:14am |
re: #136 gmsc
We'll be ok. But our plans for early retirement will have to change. Ah well, I still want the grandkids!
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:06:41am |
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:34am |
Report: Ayman Al-Zawahiri Seen In Somalia
The second man of Al-Qaeda terror network Ayman Al-Zawahiri has been seen for the first time Habar Gidir stronghold Marka town 90km south of Somalia capital as quoted from officials of unnamed money transfer companies and aid agencies on Thursday.
“Here in Marka, I have seen an Arab man who was heavily guarded as he was walking inside the town, with his sides we could see foreign armed men. I glimpsed him and he was Terrorist Ayman Al-Zawihiri, the man we often see on the world televisions,” one of the remittance companies said in condition of anonymity.He said all the movements in the town were halted as some of the senior officials of Al-Shabab group confirmed that the man they are hosting is Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
“I could not exactly say he was himself but most of out spoken issue was that the man seen is Al-Qaeda’s second man,” he added.“The presence of Ayman Al-Zawahiri in Marka is widely known, many people saw him but they fear for their security.
Maybe. Or maybe it was just Elvis.
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:07:51am |
Kenneth is up in the middle of the night?!
*waves*!
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:11:14am |
re: #112 gmsc
So, how's the "smoothest transition in history" going?
We're planning the funerals for a week from today. The most pressing questions, mass graves, geographically centralized incinerations or some combination of both?
Mornin folks...gmsc, Kenneth, nad, red, Killian, Walter, SB, Fenway...all. We havin' fun yet?
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:12:11am |
re: #141 littleoldlady
hey. I'm not sleeping well lately. But I think I'll take some fruit cup & head back to bed now. Later...
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AuntAcid Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:14:24am |
re: #142 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
We're planning the funerals for a week from today. The most pressing questions, mass graves, geographically centralized incinerations or some combination of both?
Mornin folks...gmsc, Kenneth, nad, red, Killian, Walter, SB, Fenway...all. We havin' fun yet?
what, no razor wire?
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:16:19am |
re: #144 Kenneth
WAIT! That's YESTERDAY'S fruitcup!
Great seeing you, Kenneth. :-)
aboo! :-)
gmsc! :-)
Wow. A blast from the past! ;-)
Can I email you through your blog? I'd like you to check out something I found and see if you can find anything wrong with it. If that's okay...?
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:17:12am |
re: #146 littleoldlady
gmsc! :-)
Wow. A blast from the past! ;-)
Can I email you through your blog? I'd like you to check out something I found and see if you can find anything wrong with it. If that's okay...?
Yep! Just go to my blog, and click "Contact Me" at the menu at the top!
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freetoken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:17:51am |
re: #136 gmsc
Check out the article Why the Long-Run is so Important When Investing in Stocks.
There is an assumption, of course, underlying the claim. Or, at least one assumption.
First of course is the universal - we (any individual) don't know that we have a tomorrow.
Perhaps less pedantic and more difficult to answer - why should one believe the next 80 years (or 20 years) will be like the last 80 (or 20)?
That isn't just an academic question. There are some nations which are now undergoing transitions that indicate their future will be significantly different than that in the 20th century - notably Japan, and Italy. Both face now the result of many years of low birth rates.
We can pull out of our own history other examples, such as the native North Americans and the transition they underwent from the 19th century onward (essentially a complete collapse of their way of life.)
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:25:35am |
re: #147 gmsc
Yep! Just go to my blog, and click "Contact Me" at the menu at the top!
Geez, magic.
/boy do I have on old Friend/Frat brother, in Israel, on Facebook, just yesterday, with about 750 Friends that may or may not "take you to the river", he drove an M113 in and out of Lebanon, but he's way beyond that now
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:27:13am |
re: #150 Killian Bundy
Geez, magic.
/boy do I have on old Friend/Frat brother, in Israel, on Facebook, just yesterday, with about 750 Friends that may or may not "take you to the river", he drove an M113 in and out of Lebanon, but he's way beyond that now
At first, I assumed there was supposed to be a connection between those two paragraphs, but I'm not seeing any.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:32:45am |
re: #151 gmsc
At first, I assumed there was supposed to be a connection between those two paragraphs, but I'm not seeing any.
/just sayin', as a magic enthusiast you might get it, this guy is beyond Coast to Coast, he walks the walk and I don't get it, but he has a sizable entourage
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Scorch Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:47:06am |
Good morning all. Been another week of BHO blunders I see.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:48:23am |
In reality, there's no such thing as magic, outside of a Harry Potter book.
There are are tricks and illusions, they may be professionally executed but they're still tricks and illusions.
/and then there's the real human beings that live their life honestly believing they can perform actual Harry Potter magic, where the psychological rubber meets the road
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:52:02am |
re: #158 Killian Bundy
GAH! You just HAVE to take the fun out of everything?!
/Of course there's MAGIC
//There's MIRACLES, too!
///Powerball!
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:52:14am |
re: #158 Killian Bundy
Bleh I know magic watch me summon a poison gas cloud :P.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:53:23am |
re: #158 Killian Bundy
In reality, there's no such thing as magic, outside of a Harry Potter book.
There are are tricks and illusions, they may be professionally executed but they're still tricks and illusions.
/and then there's the real human beings that live their life honestly believing they can perform actual Harry Potter magic, where the psychological rubber meets the road
I was doing a levitation the other day, and someone yelled out, "I bet it's just a trick!"
I looked at him with a perplexed look on my face and replied, "Well, I hope so! If this was real, I'd be over on the strip levitating whole casinos until they paid me the money I demand to put them back down!"
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:54:05am |
re: #159 littleoldlady
GAH! You just HAVE to take the fun out of everything?!
/Of course there's MAGIC
//There's MIRACLES, too!
///Powerball!
When I perform, I try to keep the attitude of, "I can't really do magic. I can only help you see it.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:55:26am |
re: #159 littleoldlady
GAH! You just HAVE to take the fun out of everything?!
/Of course there's MAGIC
//There's MIRACLES, too!
///Powerball!
Miracles are a different thing from magic.
/miracles are acknowledging and appealing to a higher power, not trying to physically usurp it
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:57:38am |
re: #161 gmsc
I was doing a levitation the other day, and someone yelled out, "I bet it's just a trick!"
I looked at him with a perplexed look on my face and replied, "Well, I hope so! If this was real, I'd be over on the strip levitating whole casinos until they paid me the money I demand to put them back down!"
I can hypnotize people.
/not magic and infinitely more useful
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 1:58:28am |
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:00:26am |
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ---------------->
Help yourselves!
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:01:33am |
re: #166 littleoldlady
I think that's the narrow definition of magic.
/but that's just me...
There's no magic in the Bible/Old Testament.
/only miracles written down many centuries after the fact
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:06:56am |
re: #167 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ---------------->
Help yourselves!
{lol} Once again Thank you.
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freetoken Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:07:37am |
re: #167 littleoldlady
Will go well with my calorically meager dinner....
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:07:53am |
re: #167 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ---------------->
Help yourselves!
Yummy! Magic fruitcup!
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:12:59am |
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:15:16am |
A guy comes home with a sheep in his arms, and enters the bedroom, where his wife is laying in bed.
He goes: " you see, honey, this is the pig that I'm f***ing every night"
The wife says: " for your information, its not a pig, its a sheep"
the man: "for your information, I wasn't talkin to you"
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:16:26am |
Rustler! :-)
NICE! :-)
'Morning (?) trigger! ;-)
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:17:21am |
re: #165 Killian Bundy
I can hypnotize people.
/not magic and infinitely more useful
/without third party witnesses, the ethics get tough
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:18:33am |
I remember trying to demonstrate a magic trick at a store a while back, and miracles kept getting in the way.
It was a trick called "The Insurance Policy". The standard way I performed it was by talking about how tricks don't always work, so for those cases, I always carry a "magic insurance policy". I bring out a folded piece of paper, designed to look like an insurance policy, and then set it aside. I then have a card selected, then the person returns it to the deck, and shuffles it themselves (they can also shuffle it before the performance).
I tell them to turn up the top card, and ask them if it's their card. Obviously, the answer is almost always "no". I then tell them to count down to the number indicated on the card (or spell it, if it's an ace, king, queen or jack), dealing one card for each number. When they get down to another card arrived at by this procedure, I ask if that is their card. Again, the answer is usually "no". I then joke, "It's a good thing I brought my insurance policy with me," I unfold the insurance policy, and inside is a giant image of their card!
As I said, that's the way it usually goes.
On this one particular day, I tried demonstrating the insurance policy to one gentleman, as a simple beginning trick for his son. I went through the performance as described above, and after shuffling, he turns up a 5. After verifying that wasn't his card, I had him count down 5 cards, and asked if this 5th card was his. It was! I still managed to work in the insurance policy finish, but he wanted to see if he could figure out how I got the 5 and his selected card in the right places even though he shuffled!
This gentleman was still pondering the trick when I was later demonstrating the insurance policy to another person. I figured it would be good to let the guy off the hook, and see that the selected card doesn't always show up.
I run through the performance, with the first guy watching every move I make. After the second guy shuffles, there's an 8 on top. He counts down 8 cards, and, you guessed, there's the selected card!
Both guys are stunned, especially the first guy, who now not only believes the selected card shows up every time, but that the first card can be easily changed somehow.
The second guy buys it and leaves, and the first guy is stunned. You won't believe what happened next!
I demonstrated it one more time to the first guy, just so he could see that the selected card showing up in the first 2 demonstrations was pure dumb luck (although I didn't say this).
I go through the trick, and after the guy shuffles the deck, I tell him to turn up the top card. It was his selected card!
When he finally bought this trick off of me, I felt so bad explaining the whole point was the comedy of the selected card not showing up that is supposed to make the performance work.
He thought I was keeping some great sleight-of-hand secret from him, as it was too far-fetched to believe that the card showed up 3 times in a row by accident alone!
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TheMatrix31 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:18:40am |
I can only hope the 2009 Atlanta Braves are not as much of a disappointment as the 2008-2009 Phoenix Suns.
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:19:04am |
re: #178 littleoldlady
Wow! That beats my Hugo Chavez sweat-sock pruno!
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:20:21am |
re: #184 TheMatrix31
Not a chance- they'll be even more disappointing.
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BignJames Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:20:35am |
re: #184 TheMatrix31
I can only hope the 2009 Atlanta Braves are not as much of a disappointment as the 2008-2009 Phoenix Suns.
Aim low....it lessens the dissappointment.
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:23:15am |
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:24:38am |
re: #188 BignJames
Isn't doing better than the Suns aiming pretty damn low? Maybe he shoulda said he hopes they do better than the 2008 detroit lions as there is no mathmatical way a team could do worse?
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:24:55am |
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:25:32am |
re: #193 trigger girlie
It's in your Info box that pulls up when avatar gets clicked.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:26:17am |
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TheMatrix31 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:26:39am |
re: #188 BignJames
Aim low....it lessens the dissappointment.
I don't think I can aim any lower, lol.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:28:30am |
re: #189 littleoldlady
WOW. A miracle!
;-)
One performance tip I've carried with me ever since that experience is to always try and allow for miracles whenever I can.
If there's some aspect of a trick that only has a 1 in 100 chance of working, I'll try and find a place in the routine where it can be framed as a miracle if that 1% chance comes through, and can still be performed as a complete trick in the 99% of the circumstance.
That way, 99% of the people who see it, see a good magic trick. The other 1% get a special, unusual experience, and credit me with creating a miracle.
:)
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:29:38am |
re: #193 trigger girlie
Zdravstvuite :)
wait a second! how did you know I am from Russia?
/eyebrow raise
Rustler is a physic!
/No, not psychic, physic – he can predict people's movements. ;)
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:30:49am |
re: #199 gmsc
nice! And I'm a psycho, I can predict people's reactions when I take out my axe :)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:32:02am |
re: #177 trigger girlie
Howse you been?
A redhead walks into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. She sits down next to this blonde at the bar and stares up at the TV. The 10:00 news was on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a large building preparing to jump.
The redhead turns to the blonde and says, "You know, I bet he'll jump."
The blonde replied, "Well, I bet he won't."
The redhead placed $20 dollars on the bar and said, "You're on!"
Just as the blonde placed her money on the bar, the guy did a swan dive off of the building, falling to his death. The blonde was very upset and handed her $20 dollars to the redhead and said, "All is fair. Here is your money."
The redhead replies, "Honey, I can't take your money, I saw this earlier on the 5 o'clock news and knew he would jump."
The blonde replies, "I did too, but I didn't think he'd do it again"
The Behemoth shamelessly panders to a brunette hottie
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:33:24am |
re: #183 gmsc
I go through the trick, and after the guy shuffles the deck, I tell him to turn up the top card. It was his selected card!
/I've been to the State Fair, the deck is edgily size stacked strangely with a lot of the same cards
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:34:53am |
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:34:54am |
re: #207 Killian Bundy
/I've been to the State Fair, the deck is edgily size stacked strangely with a lot of the same cards
When I was doing this trick, I was using a regular deck. No funny arrangements, and no cards that were cut funny.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:37:32am |
re: #201 trigger girlie
nice! And I'm a psycho, I can predict people's reactions when I take out my axe :)
/bring it on night shift hotel infiltrating Spetsnaz operative!
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:38:06am |
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:38:31am |
re: #213 Killian Bundy
bah come on now I work Night shift at a Hotel.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:39:00am |
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:39:38am |
re: #216 trigger girlie
Just kiddin...
its not an axe, its an AK 47!
Now I am falling in love. Girls and guns :)
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:41:43am |
re: #216 trigger girlie
Are you at all familiar with the Mozambique Drill?
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:41:59am |
re: #201 trigger girlie
Mine? Or, my reaction?
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:42:09am |
re: #215 Rustler
bah come on now I work Night shift at a Hotel.
/can you hit an a target, upside down. with an axe wile flying through the air?
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:44:00am |
re: #218 trigger girlie
Yeah I'm a night owl so work nights rather than days. It's pretty fun despite being in a small town in the middle of nowhere we actually get a decent amount of international travel. Had a couple gents from Moscow stay here a few weeks ago and right before Christmas had a Ukrainian couple who couldn't figure out how i knew where they were from. As well as your random euro travelers a few germans(by far the most common foreign travelers coming thru new mexico) and some french and italians.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:44:51am |
re: #221 Fenway_Nation
That sounds like a torture device. Kinda like Helen Thomas.
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:45:49am |
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:46:30am |
re: #224 Rustler
Oh, a fellow hotel night auditor? The world is small :)
I live in a Russian/Ukrainian neighborhood, so I see enough fellow Russkies to last me lifetime. Did they wear leather jackets and Adidas pants? :)
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:46:35am |
re: #223 Killian Bundy
Nah I can't jump anymore I can hit shit real good with my hatchet tho. I still need to find a place to toss the 12lb Maul tho.
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axegrinder Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:46:40am |
re: #224 Rustler
The low dollar gets us lots of international tourists. Is the recession affecting business where you are and has the hotel lowered rates? I'm finding cheap hotel and plane fare just about everywhere. Some really nice hotels too.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:46:49am |
re: #222 Slumbering Behemoth
the joke,lol
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:47:17am |
re: #227 trigger girlie Leather jackets yes but no jogging pants.
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littleoldlady Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:47:18am |
I'd say "get a room" but that's too easy...
Psst! Trigger! Some nice boys here. OPPORTUNITY! ;-)
Wish your father a happy 57th birthday next Wednesday for me!
Good day, ALL!™
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gmsc Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:47:58am |
re: #232 littleoldlady
I'd say "get a room" but that's too easy...
Psst! Trigger! Some nice boys here. OPPORTUNITY! ;-)
Wish your father a happy 57th birthday next Wednesday for me!
Good day, ALL!™
Good night, littleoldlady!
I think I'll turn in, myself.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:48:56am |
re: #229 axegrinder
Our rates have remained the same. But the recession is raping us Tonight was the first non weekend in 4 months we've been over 50% and only had 3 weekends so far this year where we went over 50% on one night and 1 where we hit it both nights.
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:49:04am |
re: #227 trigger girlie
Oh, a fellow hotel night auditor? The world is small :)
I live in a Russian/Ukrainian neighborhood, so I see enough fellow Russkies to last me lifetime. Did they wear leather jackets and Adidas pants? :)
Without giving away too much, you don't happen to live in upstate NY, do you?
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:50:24am |
!re: #232 littleoldlady
I work at a hotel, lotsa rooms here! lol
Opportunity? Too many to pick from ;p
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Fenway_Nation Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:51:19am |
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:51:28am |
re: #228 Rustler
Nah I can't jump anymore I can hit shit real good with my hatchet tho. I still need to find a place to toss the 12lb Maul tho.
/I think you might be about to date or die in competition, based on previous posts, you're dealing with a real, militarily trained Russian women
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axegrinder Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:52:09am |
re: #239 Fenway_Nation
Yah, I saw that pic. I wonder how the landing went...
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:54:17am |
re: #241 axegrinder
Pretty good(not sure if the one in that photo) I've seen video of one of those Obstacle courses.
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axegrinder Fri, Mar 13, 2009 2:55:24am |
My momma taught me not to run and jump carrying sharp objects.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:00:09am |
re: #242 Rustler
Have you ever been to Crazy Hotel Workers?
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:01:01am |
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:03:19am |
BBIAB all running out receipts and doing security sweep.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:03:25am |
re: #246 trigger girlie
Have you ever been to Crazy Hotel Workers?
Give him some sugar, he's your professional neighbor.
/two turtledoves
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:03:55am |
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:04:44am |
re: #250 Killian Bundy
/shoots the doves and eats them
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:07:08am |
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Spare O'Lake Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:10:26am |
Good Morning LGF.
After 3 whole days of gains, the financial hucksters are starting to speculate on a rally.
The only credible evidence I am aware of for that view is the fact that I do not believe it at all. That is because historically I am ALWAYS wrong.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:11:46am |
Ackk, work is callin...just 2 more hours and I'm goin home!
nite everyone :)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:11:58am |
G'nite Lizards, I'm out.
Enjoy the new day.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:15:34am |
re: #254 Spare O'Lake
Good Morning LGF.
After 3 whole days of gains, the financial hucksters are starting to speculate on a rally.
The only credible evidence I am aware of for that view is the fact that I do not believe it at all. That is because historically I am ALWAYS wrong.
Well, I'm with you as far as I'm already almost blowing through a couple of covered calls with five trading sessions left to go.
/worst case scenario, I get cash and more margin
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TheMadKing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:22:52am |
Guys, HERE'S a story no one else seems to get the angle on!
If THAT don't get your blood boiling, NOTHING will!
WHERE is Roxana Saberi?
It has been EIGHT DAYS since Hillary Clinton DEMANDED her release!
WHERE IS SHE?
Are the Iranians punking us again?
They LOVE humiliating the Great Satan, you know!
Sneaky Little Devils ;-)
All links and refs included.
God I feel low as American citizen today.
They always seem to be Jerry to our Tom.
Best of, Lizards!
Regards, Your Most Obedient and Humble Mad King.
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Jim in Virginia Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:25:38am |
Morning all. Hiya righside, sleet down your way? Still dry here.
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Spare O'Lake Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:27:35am |
re: #259 Killian Bundy
Well, I'm with you as far as I'm already almost blowing through a couple of covered calls with five trading sessions left to go.
/worst case scenario, I get cash and more margin
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:30:14am |
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:31:10am |
Seriously, if you're sitting on the investment sideline, almost all signs point to this being the time to get in.
/do your own homework, but cash is starting to suck
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Jim in Virginia Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:32:22am |
Krauthammer on stem cells: Obama's science fiction
He's no Asimov.
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Spare O'Lake Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:34:15am |
re: #263 goddessoftheclassroom
Good morning, Lizards!
Hiya Teach!
Would you like a nice shiny apple?
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:35:25am |
re: #262 Spare O'Lake
Have you looked at the futures?
/of course, if you didn't cover your shorts two days ago, the tension on your wedgie will only be increased today
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Jim in Virginia Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:38:35am |
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:42:02am |
g'mornin' Lizards!
A rabbi and a priest and a moose and a bear walked into a bar, and the bartender said: "Is this some kind of a joke?"
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:45:31am |
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:50:25am |
re: #269 Jim in Virginia
Erik, we need a good story or two.
Fresh out today. Go to the beginning of the thread for a few.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:52:07am |
re: #273 UncleRancher
g'mornin' Lizards!
A rabbi and a priest and a moose and a bear walked into a bar, and the bartender said: "Is this some kind of a joke?"
Let's clear this up right now. There are two other "ranchers" at LGF, both genetically related to each other, father and son.
/are you part of the "rancher" family tree?
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:53:10am |
A man walks out to the street and catches a taxi just going by.
He gets into the taxi, and the cabbie says, 'Perfect timing. You're just
like Frank.'
Passenger: 'Who?'
Cabbie: 'Frank Feldman. He's a guy who did everything right all the time.
Like my coming along when you needed a cab, things happened like that to
Frank Feldman every single time.'
Passenger: 'There are always a few clouds over everybody.'
Cabbie: 'Not Frank Feldman. He was a terrific athlete. He could have won the
Grand-Slam at tennis. He could golf with the pros. He sang like an opera
baritone and danced like a Broadway star and you should have heard him play
the piano. He was an amazing guy.'
Passenger: 'Sounds like he was something really special.
Cabbie: 'There's more... He had a memory like a computer. He remembered
everybody's birthday. He knew all about wine, which foods to order and which
fork to eat them with. He could fix anything. Not like me. I change a fuse,
and the whole street blacks out. But Frank Feldman, he could do everything
right'
Passenger: 'Wow, some guy then.'
Cabbie: 'He always knew the quickest way to go in traffic and avoid traffic
jams. Not like me, I always seem to get stuck in them. But Frank, he never
made a mistake, and he really knew how to treat a woman and make her feel
good. He would never answer her back even if she was in the wrong; and his
clothing was always immaculate, shoes highly polished too - He was the
perfect man! He never made a mistake. No one could ever measure up to Frank
Feldman.'
Passenger: 'An amazing fellow. How did you meet him?'
Cabbie: 'Well, I never actually met Frank, he died. I married his fucking
widow.'
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:55:24am |
American Medical Association researchers have found that
Patients needing blood transfusions may benefit from receiving chicken blood
rather than human blood.
It tends to make the men cocky and the women lay better!
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:56:50am |
re: #276 Killian Bundy
Let's clear this up right now. There are two other "ranchers" at LGF, both genetically related to each other, father and son.
/are you part of the "rancher" family tree?
Not that I am aware of. I didn't know about the "other ranchers" when I registered. Time was running out fast and I had to poke something into the moniker field before the door slammed shut, so that's how I became UncleRancher. I had tried a couple of other things and got a "no, you can't use that" message.
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Crux Australis Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:58:01am |
Something I found on another website.
To All Employees:
As the CFO of this business that employees 140 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Clients will have to see an increase in our fees to them of about 8%. Since we cannot increase our fees right now due to the dismal state of our economy, we will have to lay off six of our employees instead. This has really been eating at me for a while, as we believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who will have to go.
So, this is what I did.
I strolled through our parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem.
These folks wanted change; I'm giving it to them.
Sincerely,
The Boss
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 3:59:03am |
re: #279 UncleRancher
Not that I am aware of. I didn't know about the "other ranchers" when I registered. Time was running out fast and I had to poke something into the moniker field before the door slammed shut, so that's how I became UncleRancher. I had tried a couple of other things and got a "no, you can't use that" message.
/cool, that clears that up
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:02:44am |
re: #281 Killian Bundy
/cool, that clears that up
/although, you could do worse than to throw your lot with the "Rancher" family
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Luigi Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:03:42am |
Before I head out to work I wanted to post this gem.
After telling us repeatedly that we have the worst economy since the 1930's, Obama now says...
Why? I think it is because liberals are now getting hit. Hard. I posted a couple days ago (just before the current rally) that Google is tanking and beset by shorts. And the movie studios are especially hard hit. It's not just the working people or conservative old white guys who are hurting. It is his donors.
There are indications that steps have been taken over the last couple days to inject some sanity into the economy. The dollar is falling a little. I can't go into it now, not that I completely understand it anyway. Suffice it so say that somebody called somebody and is getting some action, and that first somebody is an Obama donor.
Why else would he turn on a dime and start talking out of the other side of his mouth? Suddenly he's talking up the economy? Yeah, right.
/* Have a nice day.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:03:47am |
FCBBHO now says the economy is "not as we think".
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goddessoftheclassroom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:04:08am |
I've got to run--have a great day!
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:04:14am |
re: #284 MandyManners
FCBBHO now says the economy is "not as BAD we think"
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:05:39am |
"Progressives" in Columbia, SC.
I'm sitting there eating breakfast, the TV is on, and the local news is featuring an event that is going to help homeowners restructure their mortgages. I'm only barely paying attention when the reporter says "We've got an online question from one of our viewers: Why are attendees at a mortgage restructuring event being asked to attend rallies and protests? And why is a free event charging a $50 per month fee?" The smooth talker that answers the question says that NACA is a national non profit advocacy group that has to deal with major issues, and "rally" is perhaps a bad choice of words... these are informational meetings, usually. And you don't have to participate but are encouraged to. Or you could volunteer to work in a local office. It costs $50 because what is being offered today is NACA's free assistance, it's not their for fee product. But living isn't free, they need to keep the lights on and the people who come out to work for them can't do this for free, so this is to cover their expenses. ($50 per month? Sounds like dues or a membership fee to me)
Turns out these guys are NACA - the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. Their website says nice
things about owning a home, but it also says "Executives of financial institutions have amassed huge fortunes on the backs of hardworking American families. While living in their many luxurious homes, they have refused to restructure mortgages that would allow families to stay in their homes. We need to make them accountable for their actions. Join the fight. While NACA has agreements with many lenders to make your mortgage affordable, the below executives refused. Click on the lender/servicer below to see how they live and how to contact them directly."
Looks like this ACORN didn't fall far from the tree. NACA
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Luigi Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:05:45am |
Mandy -- Obama is worse than we think.
Have a nice day.
| 289 |
itellu3times Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:05:50am |
They never come up into the hills anymore.
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:06:22am |
re: #282 Killian Bundy
/although, you could do worse than to throw your lot with the "Rancher" family
That's what I hear too.
| 293 |
rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:08:55am |
re: #261 Jim in Virginia
Mostly wet snow, not sticking though. Just plain nasty.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:09:29am |
re: #288 Luigi
Thanks for posting that link about Dennis Blair last night, Luigi. FCBBHO is deliberately staffing his administration with freedom-hating bastards.
| 295 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:11:10am |
Schwazzeneger is going after Rush and other Republicans who are against FCBBHO?
| 296 |
SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:11:21am |
A church service is going on when suddenly there is a loud POOF! and a cloud of smoke, and the Devil himself appears. Everyone panics and runs for the doors, except for this old man sitting on the back row. The Devil just stares at him, and the old man stares back.
"Mister, don't you know who I am?" Satan asks.
"Yep," the old guy says, real slow. Doesn't move a muscle. Satan is confused and scratches his head.
"And I don't scare you?"
"Nope."
After a long pause Satan asks "Why not?" The old guy smiles.
"I was married to your wife forty years."
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:11:54am |
re: #295 MandyManners
Meh he's Kalifornian even the Republicans might as well be donkeys there.
| 298 |
SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:13:18am |
re: #297 Rustler
Meh he's Kalifornian even the Republicans might as well be donkeys there.
An Elephass? or perhaps an Assephant?
| 299 |
rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:13:24am |
re: #295 MandyManners
Grasping at the biggest straws, while his state circles the bowl.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:14:01am |
re: #294 MandyManners
Thanks for posting that link about Dennis Blair last night, Luigi. FCBBHO is deliberately staffing his administration with freedom-hating bastards.
Here's that link for those who missed it. Go to the link to get the links in the story.
There is another angle to the Charles Freeman story that hasn't been covered. There is a problematic man called Dennis Blair who Barrack Obama named National Intelligence Director as one of his first acts. Freeman would have worked with Blair and Blair was probably Freeman's mentor for this job. Between the two of them American intel would have been sewn up.
Well, a few years ago...
Blair disobeyed orders from civilians in the Clinton Administration during the 1999 East Timorese crisis during his tenure as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command. Amid growing international concern over violence against the independence movement in Indonesian-occupied East Timor, Blair was ordered to meet with General Wiranto, the commander of the Indonesian military, and to tell him to shut down the pro-Indonesia militia. According to Nairn, two days after the Liquiçá Church Massacre, Blair failed to deliver this message; instead he presented Wiranto with an offer of military assistance and a personal invitation to be Blair's guest in Hawaii.[5] Consequently, Wiranto’s "forces increased the Timor killings".
An East Timor advocacy group screamed like hell when Obama put this guy up for the intel chief job...
"It is unfathomable that Obama would consider appointing someone to such a prominent position who has shown so little concern for human rights in the past. Can we expect someone who has sought to undermine efforts to link human rights to military assistance to be a champion of reform? We don't think this is the kind of change people are expecting,"
Frankly, Blair sounds like Freeman's kind of guy, and vice verse. And it was Obama who was behind them both. Remember, Obama grew up partly in Indonesia. He went to grade school in Indonesia. And now he places a man in a sensitive post who is accused of aiding Indonesian atrocities against Christian East Timor. And that man tried to bring in another man who spits venom against Israel while taking money from Saudi Arabia.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:15:01am |
re: #287 SteveC
"Progressives" in Columbia, SC.
I'm sitting there eating breakfast, the TV is on, and the local news is featuring an event that is going to help homeowners restructure their mortgages. I'm only barely paying attention when the reporter says "We've got an online question from one of our viewers: Why are attendees at a mortgage restructuring event being asked to attend rallies and protests? And why is a free event charging a $50 per month fee?" The smooth talker that answers the question says that NACA is a national non profit advocacy group that has to deal with major issues, and "rally" is perhaps a bad choice of words... these are informational meetings, usually. And you don't have to participate but are encouraged to. Or you could volunteer to work in a local office. It costs $50 because what is being offered today is NACA's free assistance, it's not their for fee product. But living isn't free, they need to keep the lights on and the people who come out to work for them can't do this for free, so this is to cover their expenses. ($50 per month? Sounds like dues or a membership fee to me)
Turns out these guys are NACA - the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. Their website says nice
things about owning a home, but it also says "Executives of financial institutions have amassed huge fortunes on the backs of hardworking American families. While living in their many luxurious homes, they have refused to restructure mortgages that would allow families to stay in their homes. We need to make them accountable for their actions. Join the fight. While NACA has agreements with many lenders to make your mortgage affordable, the below executives refused. Click on the lender/servicer below to see how they live and how to contact them directly."Looks like this ACORN didn't fall far from the tree. NACA
Fox has a stroy coming up about ACORN going after moderate Democrats in a few minutes.
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:15:18am |
re: #299 rightside
Grasping at the biggest straws, while his state circles the bowl.
Victim Mentality. But it's not our fault we spent so much!
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:17:40am |
re: #303 SteveC
Get a clue Arnie, maybe if you didn't have to shell out so much for ILLEGAL ALIENS, you wouldn't be in such dire straights.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:17:43am |
re: #292 Rustler
Lol Don't think he is.
How many people on LGF are hotel night shift?
/scroll back and get professional tips
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:18:46am |
re: #302 MandyManners
Fox has a stroy coming up about ACORN going after moderate Democrats in a few minutes.
Moveon.org and ACORN have joined forces publicly.
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:18:50am |
re: #305 rightside
Get a clue Arnie, maybe if you didn't have to shell out so much for ILLEGAL ALIENS, you wouldn't be in such dire straights.
Money for nothin'.....
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:20:06am |
re: #308 SteveC
lol, I started to write straits, but changed it, thinking of that.
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:20:10am |
Good Morning Lizards!
Today is going to be a cool (upper 30's) but nice day here in CT.
I hope everyone is well and happy.
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:21:07am |
re: #307 MandyManners
Moveon.org and ACORN have joined forces publicly.
So they have come out of the left-wing closet? Not exactly a surprise that they have been linked before this.
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:21:08am |
re: #308 SteveC
Money for nothin'.....
Maybe that should be his new motto? Money for nothing and your checks for free!
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:21:44am |
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:22:11am |
re: #309 rightside
lol, I started to write straits, but changed it, thinking of that.
Actually I wouldn't mind if Mark and the boys stepped up to the Microphone. Take our minds off our problems for a little while!
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:23:03am |
re: #304 MandyManners
Gonna' get my coffee. bbiab
*Brings Mandy her coffee while wearing my glasses and a loincloth*
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:23:50am |
A Hugely Important Upturn in Retail Sales
*snips
Doom-and-gloom crowd take notice: Today’s retail-sales report showed far more strength than Wall Street economists dreamed possible.
Overall, February was down slightly, but January was revised up to a 1.8 percent gain. Excluding autos, February was up 0.7 percent and January was up 1.6 percent. In terms of core retail sales (ex autos, gas, and building materials), which feed into the GDP reports, February was up 0.5 percent and January was up 1.7 percent.
In other words, even before one dime of the Obama spending package goes into play, the economy is beginning to show the first signs of recovery.
(emphasis added by FP)
Is it too late to pull all that money back?
/hysterical laughter in the background
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:24:15am |
Did you know that we were nearly clobbered by an asteroid on March2? (2009)DD45 a 35 meter rock (100ft) missed us by 46000 miles.
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Erik The Red Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:24:49am |
Later Lizards. See you on the next LNDT. Stay scaly.
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:24:55am |
re: #317 UncleRancher
Did you know that we were nearly clobbered by an asteroid on March2? (2009)DD45 a 35 meter rock (100ft) missed us by 46000 miles.
That could smart a bit, I think.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:25:40am |
The apologist for FCBBBHO this morning is blaming Pres. Bush and talking over the other two. Obnoxious asshole. She needs to STFU.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:27:51am |
re: #320 MandyManners
Kimberly Kiddy? Bashing Bush over clean Coal or another one?
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3 wood Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:28:43am |
Good morning.
The futures are pointing up this morning as the market has staged a 3 day rally and is going to try for a 4th. I do know that a lot of short sellers started reloading their short positions late yesterday, so don't be surprised if you see a big bear raid later today as the short sellers try to pound this market again before the uptick rule gets put back in.
Something else to keep an eye on....I watched yesterday as a congressional subcommittee held a hearing with representatives of FASB, the SEC and the bank examiners and absolutely torched them for how their Mark to Market standard and how it has been interpreted has screwed up the financial system.
Lawmakers Tell FASB to Change Fair-Value ‘Quickly’
March 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Representative Paul Kanjorski said regulators must act “quickly” to give companies more leeway in applying the fair-value accounting rule that banks blame for exacerbating the financial crisis.“If the regulators and standard setters do not act now to improve the standards, then the Congress will have no other option than to act itself,” Kanjorski, the Pennsylvania Democrat who leads a House Financial Services capital markets subcommittee, said at a hearing today. Fair-value, which requires companies to mark assets to reflect market prices, has “produced numerous unintended consequences,” he said.
Lawmakers pressed Financial Accounting Standards Board Chairman Robert Herz and James Kroeker, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s acting chief accountant, to issue improvements to the rule as soon as possible. Herz said he would try to have a proposal ready within three weeks.
I know this Herz fellow. I argued with him at a national conference some years ago about mark to market and I predicted this very problem would occur in a down market. Herz basically blew me off and suggested that I was not intelligent enough to understand the rule.
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I really enjoyed watching him squirm yesterday on camera.
I also laughed out loud when Herz said it would take 3 weeks for them to have a new proposal ready. First, you have to understand that guys like this Herz thrive on endlessly discussing obscure and technical accounting rules. It was no news to them for the past year that M2M was causing severe problems for the banking industry on how it was written and being interpreted by the SEC and the examiners. Yet he needs another 3 weeks to think about it?
The panel told him he had 3 weeks to get this right or the subcommittee would take action themselves>
Note to Robert Herz: It's time to stop fumbling with your pencil water bottle cap and playing word games. You and your bean counting buddies on the FASB board have really screwed the pooch with this one, you know it, and you had better get your rear in gear but quick and fix the mess you've created. You do not want Congress doing your job for you, cause if you do you will go down in history as the clown who destroyed FASB with your arrogance and game playing.
Note to Bank Examiners: It's time for you to also stop taking the worst possible interpretation of every item just to make it easier to do your jobs, which is exactly what you've been doing.
Kanjorski said he isn’t advocating suspending the rule, because such a move would bring back “the very kind of subjectivity and sleight of hand that made mark-to-market necessary in the first place.”
Eliminating fair-value “would diminish the quality and transparency of reporting, and could adversely affect investors’ confidence in the markets,” Herz said. The rule “can help to more promptly reveal underlying problems at financial institutions.”
Guidance being prepared by Norwalk, Connecticut-based FASB will encourage companies and auditors to use their own judgments in valuing assets, Herz said.
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:30:04am |
re: #320 MandyManners
The apologist for FCBBBHO this morning is blaming Pres. Bush and talking over the other two. Obnoxious asshole. She needs to STFU.
Republicans need to man up and own up. We'll accept responsibility for our portion of the problem, because that is what adults do. But anything after High Noon of January 20, that's on your fair haired boy.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:31:00am |
re: #322 Rustler
Kimberly Kiddy? Bashing Bush over clean Coal or another one?
Maniacal laughter and wearing purple boots.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:35:19am |
Bush set back Clean coal by 10 years by not signing off on a clean coal plant in Illinois in December 2007(when Bush killed the plan to build said plant because it was going to Illinois instead of 1 of the 2 locations proposed in Texas).
The research project was announced in 2003 by President George W. Bush, who promoted it as the centerpiece of his efforts to deal with climate change. After spending $175 million on the plant, it was killed by the administration, which cited rising cost estimates and an arrangement that had the government paying two-thirds of the price. Administration officials denied that it was killed for political reasons.
The GAO report disputed the Bush administration's contention that the costs had nearly doubled, from $1 billion to $1.8 billion, saying the figure would be $1.3 billion if adjusted for inflation.
///But you know the 80% increase in hte projects budjet had absolutely nothing to do with the termination. It was all about Bush wanting to deny Illinois it's pork and keep it for his Homies in Texas.
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3 wood Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:36:03am |
re: #323 3 wood
Following up on my earlier post, knowing Herz as I do, do not be surprised if Herz and FASB try to get by with issuing a new "guideline" basically saying that bank examiners and the SEC should use their judgement in interpreting M@M. Basically they will duck the issue and dump it on the Bank Examiners and the SEC. If that happens, look for Congress to overturn M@M themselves then via legislation, and for FASB to become nonfunctional as Congress with then start setting accounting policy.
Mr. Herz, you had better realize right now that you and your bean counting buddies are playing a very dangerous game of chicken with the economy and Congress.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:36:27am |
Well, I fucked up that. I'm not the world's greatest maker of coffee but, this morning's pot really sucked--as weak as a kitten. So, I dumped it down the drain before I looked for a new filter. Turned out, I'm out of filters. Gah.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:37:28am |
re: #329 MandyManners
Lol comeon you know your with 500 feet of a starbucks.//
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:38:32am |
re: #329 MandyManners
Paper towel or napkin works in a pinch.
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monkeytime Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:38:40am |
re: #329 MandyManners
Well, I fucked up that. I'm not the world's greatest maker of coffee but, this morning's pot really sucked--as weak as a kitten. So, I dumped it down the drain before I looked for a new filter. Turned out, I'm out of filters. Gah.
Oh that sucks! That panic when you find out - NO FILTERS!~
I have crappy instant because I am the only one in the house who drinks coffee. It sucks.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:39:19am |
re: #332 Rustler
Lol comeon you know your with 500 feet of a starbucks.//
Closest is about a mile from The Kid's school, which is about 20 miles away.
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monkeytime Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:39:26am |
re: #333 rightside
Paper towel or napkin works in a pinch.
LOL! I have done that in the past out of desperation. I had a few grinds in my coffe - but - crunchy coffee better then no coffee.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:40:54am |
re: #333 rightside
Paper towel or napkin works in a pinch.
Thanks! This is a small (four-cup) maker so I'll have to cut the paper towel down.
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:41:16am |
re: #335 MandyManners
Closest is about a mile from The Kid's school, which is about 20 miles away.
Dad used to have to travel into Central America for his job, and he'd bring back a couple of bags of coffee... Lawd Ha' mercy!
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:41:17am |
So anyone think China's messing with the Navy might have something to do with it's plans for Tibet?
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:42:10am |
When I was in college we could have strong coffee and hard boiled eggs or weak coffee and soft boiled eggs. Only had one pot.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:42:27am |
re: #334 monkeytime
Oh that sucks! That panic when you find out - NO FILTERS!~
I have crappy instant because I am the only one in the house who drinks coffee. It sucks.
I switched from tea to coffee a while back and I'm not nearly as uptight as I useta' be.
WHAT? STOP THE FUCKING SNICKERS! I'M NICE NOWADAYS.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:42:52am |
re: #327 3 wood
Herz and FASB try to get by with issuing a new "guideline" basically saying that bank examiners and the SEC should use their judgement in interpreting M@M.
/less than three weeks out in real time
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:43:36am |
re: #329 MandyManners
reach into trash, remove filter, empty coffee from filter, put coffee in filter, make coffee.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:44:09am |
re: #338 SteveC
Dad used to have to travel into Central America for his job, and he'd bring back a couple of bags of coffee... Lawd Ha' mercy!
I cut my teeth on coffee in Seattle before Starbucks opened up their stores. I useta' go with a friend to their store downtown (Pike's Place Market area?) to pick up her beans. That stuff smelled fantastic.
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:44:30am |
re: #337 MandyManners
You can do that, or, pour the grounds into the center, and twist it up, so no grounds spill out accidentally.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:44:43am |
re: #340 UncleRancher
When I was in college we could have strong coffee and hard boiled eggs or weak coffee and soft boiled eggs. Only had one pot.
Couldn't you make one first and then the other?
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:45:09am |
re: #340 UncleRancher
When I was in college we could have strong coffee and hard boiled eggs or weak coffee and soft boiled eggs. Only had one pot.
And I bet you had to walk up-hill to classes and back from classes.
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:45:30am |
re: #346 MandyManners
Couldn't you make one first and then the other?
There was no time for that! ;-)
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:45:45am |
re: #343 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
reach into trash, remove filter, empty coffee from filter, put coffee in filter, make coffee.
I hit the trash compactor button.
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:46:19am |
re: #347 MandyManners
And I bet you had to walk up-hill to classes and back from classes.
Yes, in 6 ft of snow too. ;-)
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:46:24am |
re: #345 rightside
You can do that, or, pour the grounds into the center, and twist it up, so no grounds spill out accidentally.
That's too complicated and technical for me this morning. What are you? An engineer?
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:46:39am |
A Pakistani lawyer involved in an anti-government rally has said that the cross-country protest will be intensified despite a police crackdown.The comments on Friday came a day after police arrested about 100 protesters, beat others and prevented about 300 activists from leaving Karachi to march on Islamabad, the capital.
"The way our lawyers were beaten up and arrested, we've decided that we need to intensify our struggle," Ali Ahmed Kurd, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association and a protest organiser, said in the eastern Baluchistan province.
Nawaz Sharif, leader of the main opposition PML-N party, has called upon Pakistanis to rise up against the government, which is viewed as failing on political, economic and security fronts.
From Al Jazeera English.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:46:43am |
re: #349 MandyManners
I hit the trash compactor button.
reach into trash compactor, remove filter, empty coffee from filter, put coffee in filter, make coffee.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:47:55am |
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:48:16am |
re: #353 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
You forgot to mention the break the 6 inch cube of 5 pounds of garbage up locate filter step.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:48:18am |
re: #353 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
reach into trash compactor, remove filter, empty coffee from filter, put coffee in filter, make coffee.
It's been smooshed.
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:48:23am |
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SteveC Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:49:59am |
re: #353 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
reach into trash compactor,
remove filter, empty coffee from filter, put coffee in filter, make coffee.
lose two finger, run around the house screaming, grab the phone, dial 9-1 before collapsing, bleed out while lying in a pool of your own blood. Sounds like an OUTSTANDING way to start the day.
Leave the trash compactor alone, Mandy!
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:50:02am |
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:50:11am |
re: #351 MandyManners
Sort of... Remember when we had to shoot down that decaying satellite? That's what I do.
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Chicago Blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:50:13am |
Morning all.
Mandy, I'm sorry. The only thing that throws the morning off more is having your coffee pot completely die when you're already late for work...
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:51:04am |
re: #358 SteveC
lose two finger, run around the house screaming, grab the phone, dial 9-1 before collapsing, bleed out while lying in a pool of your own blood. Sounds like an OUTSTANDING way to start the day.
Leave the trash compactor alone, Mandy!
It has safety thingies in place. It cannot work if the door is not shut.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:51:37am |
Obama's new tech chief now on "leave" since the FBI raid yesterday.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:52:10am |
re: #360 rightside
Sort of... Remember when we had to shoot down that decaying satellite? That's what I do.
I'm dying to crack a joke about X husbands but, I'll not.
You work with lasers?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:52:25am |
I'd reach into the toilet to pick out a coffee filter if it was the last one I had left.
Just sayin...
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:52:43am |
re: #361 Chicago Blonde
Morning all.
Mandy, I'm sorry. The only thing that throws the morning off more is having your coffee pot completely die when you're already late for work...
I'm gonna' do the paper towel thing.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:53:53am |
re: #359 MandyManners
Yeah not quite sure who to root for there.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:54:18am |
re: #360 rightside
Sort of... Remember when we had to shoot down that decaying satellite? That's what I do.
/and you and your ilk have nothing to be proud of, [expletive deleted] the Space Station had to abandoned for about 15 minutes.
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eon Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:54:30am |
re: #339 Rustler
So anyone think China's messing with the Navy might have something to do with it's plans for Tibet?
Good morning, Lizards.
I think it has more to do with their plans for Taiwan. Now that they see a fundamentally clueless administration which, like Jimmy Carter's, wants to be loved by dictatorships, they're counting on the same dynamic that they had with Rabbit Bait. He contrived to get Taiwan thrown out of the UN and get the PRC recognized as the "only legitimate" government of both the mainland and Formosa. That began the process of trying to isolate Taiwan and make it vulnerable to a hostile takeover by the old men in the Forbidden City. Much as Clinton's policies toward North Korea (mainly motivated by his unwarranted belief in Lil 'Kim's mental stability) increased the chances of NK trying to solve its problems by taking on the ROK.
I believe that the PRC is convinced that if they blockade Taiwan, attack it from the air to wreck its infrastructure, or just outright invade it (the latter beyond their realistic capability, but realism has never sold well in Beijing), The One would just issue a press release boiling down to, "oh, well." Mainly due to the fact that after the "stimulus" porkaganza, the PRC holds most of the U.S. government's IOUs.
The PRC may be a Communist dictatorship, but its leaders understand the concept of loan-sharking all too well. Especially the bit about how the sharker ends up owning the sharkee.
cheers
eon
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:54:31am |
Doofus sent a photograph of his naked girlfriend and has been convicted of sending child porno. Now he's bitching about the consequences which are incredibly steep. Tough shit, jerk. You should've thought about what you were doing to that teen when you got mad.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:55:47am |
re: #366 MandyManners
If he does can you ask him really nicely to outfit Fluffy. Only thing better than freaking sharks with lasers beams on their heads is a Sea kitteh with freaking laser beams.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:56:21am |
She was 16 when he sent that photograph to everyone in her e-mail book, including her parents and grandparents.
His attorney advised him to plead nolo without reading the punishments. I'd sue that fucker.
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:56:28am |
re: #366 MandyManners
Go ahead, it won't bother me.
Not quite, but anti-missile stuff... Shooting things down really, really, really way up there.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:57:18am |
re: #373 MandyManners
Thats the new tech guy who got raided? Wasn't sure of the exact details regarding the why of it.
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:58:31am |
re: #371 Killian Bundy
Not us, we never miss.
Firecontrolman motto: In God we trust, all others we track.
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monkeytime Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:58:33am |
re: #341 MandyManners
I switched from tea to coffee a while back and I'm not nearly as uptight as I useta' be.
WHAT? STOP THE FUCKING SNICKERS! I'M NICE NOWADAYS.
lol! I like hot tea in the afternoon - British style, cream and sugar.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:58:48am |
re: #372 eon Was thinking the nefarious plans atm were for Tibet, as China is trying to make nice with Taiwan atm and get em to rejoin peaceably.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 4:59:00am |
Morning, lgf!
Mandy - Paper towels can substitute for coffee filters in a pinch.
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:01:45am |
re: #377 rightside
Go ahead, it won't bother me.
Not quite, but anti-missile stuff... Shooting things down really, really, really way up there.
"Shooting down" that orbital stuff presents a new problem with clouds of debris that just stays in orbit until solar wind and eddy currents from the earth's magnetic field absorb enough kinetic energy and make them dip into the upper atmosphere and burn up. That can take a long time, not to mention the kind of Davey Crockett aim you need.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:02:56am |
re: #379 Rustler
Thats the new tech guy who got raided? Wasn't sure of the exact details regarding the why of it.
No, this is a young man in Florida. His life is fucked up seriously.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:03:33am |
So guys no more Sears tower soon. Will be renamed Willis Tower.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:03:33am |
re: #377 rightside
Go ahead, it won't bother me.
Not quite, but anti-missile stuff... Shooting things down really, really, really way up there.
Is it based on the SDI started under Pres. Reagan?
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:04:35am |
re: #389 MandyManners
Ahh good(good that it wasn't Obama hiding a Child porn peddler in office anyway) got a link didn't see one above?
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:05:06am |
We're into this thing, what, 6 weeks or so, and now this.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:06:22am |
re: #392 rightside
Thanks. Was asking for further details cause Mandy had said it after I had posted a mini article about Tech guy thought the reason was his 40 year old ass was passing pics of a 16 year old. But apparently its a kid in Florida.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:06:37am |
re: #382 monkeytime
lol! I like hot tea in the afternoon - British style, cream and sugar.
If I had it in the afternoon, I'd be up all night.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:06:57am |
re: #384 lurking faith
Morning, lgf!
Mandy - Paper towels can substitute for coffee filters in a pinch.
Got it going.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:07:38am |
*trying again*
Morning Lizards! My ISP decided to do its maintenance this morning and I was booted out for a bit.
How is everyone?
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:07:39am |
re: #390 Rustler
So guys no more Sears tower soon. Will be renamed Willis Tower.
Whatchoo' talkin' 'bout?
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:07:44am |
re: #394 UncleRancher
Yep he's already lower than Bush was this far into his presidency. Obama gonna be pushing single digits before the year is out I hope.
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Killian Bundy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:07:46am |
re: #381 rightside
Not us, we never miss.
Firecontrolman motto: In God we trust, all others we track.
/and they had to suddenly move to the Soyuz, unacceptable
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:08:07am |
re: #393 Rustler
Ahh good(good that it wasn't Obama hiding a Child porn peddler in office anyway) got a link didn't see one above?
It was on Fox.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:08:39am |
re: #400 MandyManners
Willis group is moving 500 employees into the buil;ding in hte contract they negotiated for the Sears tower to be renamed the Willis Tower.
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:08:59am |
I'm thinking we need some nice music to go with this.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:09:20am |
re: #404 Rustler
Disregard I must be tired I missed the Whole Watchoo taklking bout Willis reference.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:10:21am |
re: #388 rightside
It's what I get for jumping in before reading the rest of the thread - but I figured coffee constitutes an emergency.
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Fat Jolly Penguin Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:11:48am |
Morning all. *yaaaaaaawn*
Something from the inbox...
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts.
'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me,' said one boy.
Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to investigate. Sure enough, he heard, 'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.'
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along.
'Come here quick,' said the boy, 'you won't believe what I heard! Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls.'
The man said, 'Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk.' When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard, 'One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me.'
The old man whispered, 'Boy, you've been telling' me the truth. Let's see if we can see the Lord.'Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, 'One for you, one for me. That's all. Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done.'
They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:11:52am |
Ahhhhhh...I detect a note of wood pulp but, it's good.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:12:06am |
re: #399 chicago blonde Morning CB doing good under an hour til shift over and I can get home hurray.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:14:47am |
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:14:51am |
Gonna' be a busy afternoon 'cause I'm taking The Kid to shop for a gift for a birthday party tomorrow and MAYBE a new swim suit. The parents have an indoor pool so it should be a fun party. The only drawback is that they live about 30 minutes away--I look forward to not driving all over the place on weekends.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:15:44am |
Man poor aussies can't buy a break Floods, then fires, more floods from a cyclone, and now this.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:17:21am |
re: #413 MandyManners
Gonna' be a busy afternoon 'cause I'm taking The Kid to shop for a gift for a birthday party tomorrow and MAYBE a new swim suit. The parents have an indoor pool so it should be a fun party. The only drawback is that they live about 30 minutes away--I look forward to not driving all over the place on weekends.
Indoor pool? Ya hanging out with the rich and famous?
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eon Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:17:42am |
re: #383 Rustler
Was thinking the nefarious plans atm were for Tibet, as China is trying to make nice with Taiwan atm and get em to rejoin peaceably.
China considers Tibet a done deal. Considering that it invaded Tibet in 1959, and officially "incorporated" it in 1961, the chances of anyone contesting it meaningfully at this late date are slim.
However, this could be a shot across India's bows. India and the PRC fought a short but nasty war in 1961-62, when the PRC tried to press some territorial demands along the Tibet/Nepalese border region. Officially, it was a "minor engagement" sort of thing. Unofficially, the Indian Army seriously b***h-slapped the PLA. Relations have been "cool" (tending toward subzero) since then. Which is why the PRC has been a major source for Pakistan's military hardware for the last forty-plus years. (On the principle of "Let's you and him fight".)
The PRC may be thinking of giving India an ultimatum- expel the Dalai Lama and the "government in exile", or else. India can be expected in such an event to tell China to go p**s up a rope. And put their military on full alert just in case the PLA decides to get proddy.
China's biggest problem in getting it on with India is the one the Imperial Japanese Army had in World War Two, when trying to invade India via' the land they held in China. Namely, that the Himalayas were in the way. The IJA had a trick the PLA can't pull- they tired and end run through Burma. For their trouble the (then) Royal Indian Army handed them their own heads at Imphal.
The PRC may have "ambitions" in the Indian Subcontinent, but unless they have an ace up their sleeve nobody knows about, trying to fulfill them is likely to hurt them a lot worse than it does anybody else.
Have to run. Have a great day, Lizards.
cheers
eon
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:18:59am |
re: #413 MandyManners
You got your coffee and have a party coming up, I'm back on line, and per Rustler the world's ugliest kitteh found a home and is loved.
Things are looking up a bit. :)
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:21:15am |
re: #415 nevergiveup
Indoor pool? Ya hanging out with the rich and famous?
Nah. They're very, very quiet.
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:21:41am |
Gotta' go jerk a knot in The Kid and get rolling. bbl
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:21:49am |
re: #409 Fat Jolly Penguin
Joe Hayes' Book The day it Snowed Tortillas has a similar story except the boys are splitting apple's in the graveyard. One boy named Pedro(peter) the other an troublesome Orphan everyone in town has called Diablo(devil) so long noone knows his name. there are also a number of other short story's within all interesting. It's a good read.
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:23:39am |
re: #407 lurking faith
No worries, I am sure we both have used that method before!
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:24:59am |
re: #415 nevergiveup
We have an indoor pool, and aren't rich. We call ours a bathtub.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:25:00am |
Hey Rightside. I have coffee and am connected to the net again. How are you?
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:25:29am |
re: #424 rightside
We have an indoor pool, and aren't rich. We call ours a bathtub.
You have a tub? Elitist.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:26:36am |
White House objects to UN calling US 'deadbeat'
[Link: www.breitbart.com...]
Well lets stop paying them completely I say!
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:26:40am |
I just got home from training for sheriff dispatching job...computer training to use the FBI's Criminal Information computer. Amazing stuff, but 4 days of classroom in order to pass a 25 question test?
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:27:02am |
Good morning all. How goes it today?
Saw the first robins this morning. Spring is here!
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:27:21am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:27:26am |
re: #429 Wishing
Could you have passed it before the four day class?
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:27:58am |
re: #430 VioletTiger
Good morning all. How goes it today?
Saw the first robins this morning. Spring is here!
It should be spring here (TN), but it is only 39 right now. Robins are staying home today.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:28:18am |
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:28:31am |
re: #428 nevergiveup We needed to ditch the UN back in 2001 when Bush took office. Now we just gonna be stuck paying more of our hard earned dollars into the UN if that new tax levy ever passes. Or has the UN poor tax idea finally been dropped by the Obama Admin and thats why we were called deadbeats.
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:28:47am |
re: #429 Wishing
I just got home from training for sheriff dispatching job...computer training to use the FBI's Criminal Information computer. Amazing stuff, but 4 days of classroom in order to pass a 25 question test?
Love the little lizard in your avatar. I take it you passed?
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UncleRancher Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:29:04am |
re: #431 nevergiveup
Tub? You have indoor running water?
Builder question: Where do you locate the hole for the toilet?
Answer: At least 35 feet from the back door.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:29:43am |
re: #437 VioletTiger
Love the little lizard in your avatar. I take it you passed?
Yes passed with no problem, but I think the class was unduly long...or maybe we took too many breaks. I am glad it is over and really glad to be home!
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Crux Australis Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:30:34am |
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:30:54am |
re: #428 nevergiveup
*Sigh*
"Let's give more money to people that don't like us! Maybe they'll think we're cool then!"
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:31:08am |
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:31:23am |
re: #440 Wishing
Yes passed with no problem, but I think the class was unduly long...or maybe we took too many breaks. I am glad it is over and really glad to be home!
Congratulations! I know what you mean about being home at last. i travel way to much on this assignment and am looking forward to moving on to something else. One good thing...I can work from home if I am not traveling.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:31:31am |
So, it's back from a looming national crisis to stupidly cheery hopenchange:
Richard Parsons, chairman of beleaguered Citigroup Inc., asked if Obama could offer some help in a national battle "between confidence and fear.""A smidgen of good news and suddenly everything is doing great. A little bit of bad news and ooohh , we're down on the dumps," Obama said. "And I am obviously an object of this constantly varying assessment. I am the object in chief of this varying assessment."
"I don't think things are ever as good as they say, or ever as bad as they say," Obama added. "Things two years ago were not as good as we thought because there were a lot of underlying weaknesses in the economy. They're not as bad as we think they are now."
[emphasis mine]
Wow, the President finds himself under scrutiny during these bad economic and diplomatic times. Quick - somebody call the waaaaambulance!
Oh, and I'm so relieved to hear that he thinks everything's gonna be ok. Yep, that totally makes my lack of employment and the exceedingly low level of professional job postings not bother me anymore.
/
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:32:28am |
re: #445 VioletTiger
Congratulations! I know what you mean about being home at last. i travel way to much on this assignment and am looking forward to moving on to something else. One good thing...I can work from home if I am not traveling.
Part of my problem was that I had to room with another gal. She was unusual, to say the least. I am glad it is over. LOL
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:32:28am |
re: #431 nevergiveup
Tub? You have indoor running water?
Water? What's this water you speak of, cream cake? :)
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:34:07am |
re: #446 lurking faith
Hasn't he been saying this is the worst economy in the history of the universe for weeks now?
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:35:00am |
re: #441 Crux Australis Ouch but yall are still getting hit hard this year with back to back disasters. //Just remember to Blame Bush.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:37:24am |
re: #447 Wishing
Part of my problem was that I had to room with another gal. She was unusual, to say the least. I am glad it is over. LOL
So passed a tough class and test AND had an oddball roommate, and you passed? Good job! Do you have a treat lined up for yourself like a dinner out? Ya earned it...
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:37:35am |
re: #449 VioletTiger //Yeah but things aren't as bad as he said they were he was just trying to scare us into doing the right thing.
Gag me with rancid cod liver oil for that one.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:39:28am |
re: #451 chicago blonde
So passed a tough class and test AND had an oddball roommate, and you passed? Good job! Do you have a treat lined up for yourself like a dinner out? Ya earned it...
I do deserve something special, and the money the company gave me for meals, well, was an obscene amount, so I even have some left over cash....Hmm, maybe I will treat Mr Wishing and myself to a steak dinner!
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:39:55am |
re: #449 VioletTiger
Yep. Apparently he thinks we won't remember that. And evidently he has finally noticed that, even though he is still personally popular, more and more of the People think his policies really, really suck.
BTW: Funny how his "two years ago" point when things were actually not as good as we thought was just about exactly when then Democrats took over Congress. Funny how things started to go downhill then...
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:40:34am |
re: #453 Wishing
Now you're talking! Throw in a nice bottle of red wine too. :)
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:40:38am |
re: #453 Wishing Yeah perdiem from some company's is outrageous. I had a friend who used to bank more money off 2 weeks perdiem than his monthly pay.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:41:03am |
re: #455 chicago blonde
Now you're talking! Throw in a nice bottle of red wine too. :)
Make that Port, and hubby is so there!
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:42:02am |
re: #456 Rustler
Yeah perdiem from some company's is outrageous. I had a friend who used to bank more money off 2 weeks perdiem than his monthly pay.
Exactly! What is it with that? Actually, I think the funds come from the FBI, so I am spending your tax dollars (and my own!).
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:43:08am |
re: #458 Wishing
Well with Government service it's hard for perdiem not to exceed salary at least in the Military where I recieved perdiem.
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:43:46am |
re: #454 lurking faith
Yep. I remember two years ago quite fondly. Market good, unemployment low, inflation low. And then the idiots marched in.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:44:01am |
re: #459 Rustler
Not that I made any money off perdiem when I was enlisted bastards almost always sent me TCS just for I didn't get it.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:44:25am |
re: #461 Rustler
Not that I made any money off perdiem when I was enlisted bastards almost always sent me TCS just for I didn't get it.
TCS?
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:44:29am |
re: #457 Wishing
Make that Port, and hubby is so there!
How about a bottle of that new Iraqi wine that was just released to the world market,
WHITE INFIDEL!
/S
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:45:00am |
re: #329 MandyManners
Well, I fucked up that. I'm not the world's greatest maker of coffee but, this morning's pot really sucked--as weak as a kitten. So, I dumped it down the drain before I looked for a new filter. Turned out, I'm out of filters. Gah.
Not to worry, do you have a nylon stocking?
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:45:55am |
re: #458 Wishing
I think they assume you'll be eating out at DC restaurant prices.
I know some people who have told me that their companies give the same per diem regardless of travel destination, and so on some trips they make money, and on others they can't break even.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:46:41am |
re: #464 Walter L. Newton
Not to worry, do you have a nylon stocking?
Paper towel or napkin works as well.
Walter, have you honestly used panty hose for a coffee filter or are you pulling my leg? (heh)
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:47:01am |
re: #462 Wishing Temporary change of Station as apposed to TDY Temporary Duty. Temp duty qualified for Per Diem TCS qualified me for an Open room in the Barracks of where ever I had to go.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:47:12am |
re: #465 lurking faith
I think they assume you'll be eating out at DC restaurant prices.
I know some people who have told me that their companies give the same per diem regardless of travel destination, and so on some trips they make money, and on others they can't break even.
And that was my situation.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:47:36am |
re: #465 lurking faith
I think they assume you'll be eating out at DC restaurant prices.
I know some people who have told me that their companies give the same per diem regardless of travel destination, and so on some trips they make money, and on others they can't break even.
That is probably true. I am so glad I don't live in DC!
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:47:46am |
re: #464 Walter L. Newton
Mandy already made a new pot using a paper towel.
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Walter L. Newton Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:48:04am |
re: #467 Wishing
Paper towel or napkin works as well.
Walter, have you honestly used panty hose for a coffee filter or are you pulling my leg? (heh)
No, I pulled it over my head as a mask and I robbed a 7-11 for coffee filters.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:48:12am |
re: #468 Rustler
Temporary change of Station as apposed to TDY Temporary Duty. Temp duty qualified for Per Diem TCS qualified me for an Open room in the Barracks of where ever I had to go.
AKA, dirty trick!
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:48:21am |
re: #467 Wishing
It can be iffy depending on how hot your pot heats the water. A plastic pot would work better for a nylon and I wouldn't recommend it in a metal one.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:48:36am |
re: #472 Walter L. Newton
No, I pulled it over my head as a mask and I robbed a 7-11 for coffee filters.
lolol
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:49:12am |
re: #472 Walter L. Newton
But did it give that coffee that extra kick?
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:49:32am |
I have a big pot-o-coffee if anybody wants?
Dunkin Donuts, my favorite.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:49:40am |
re: #470 Wishing
Actually, you can eat out at reasonable prices in DC, but you have to know where to go. And business travelers, of course, usually don't know where to go, what with not being local and all that.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:50:34am |
re: #478 VioletTiger
I have a big pot-o-coffee if anybody wants?
Dunkin Donuts, my favorite.
Zoiks, I bought that ONE TIME, my husband about killed me. I think it was like 15.00 a pound?
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:51:21am |
re: #480 lurking faith
Actually, you can eat out at reasonable prices in DC, but you have to know where to go. And business travelers, of course, usually don't know where to go, what with not being local and all that.
Well my classes were in Nashville, not sure if the prices compare.
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:52:24am |
re: #481 Wishing
Zoiks, I bought that ONE TIME, my husband about killed me. I think it was like 15.00 a pound?
Oh no, it's probably 2 lbs for $15. I will take it over Starbucks any day.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:53:08am |
re: #481 Wishing
Zoiks, I bought that ONE TIME, my husband about killed me. I think it was like 15.00 a pound?
My one holiday thing is a bag of Dunkin' Donuts vanilla coffee, with a little extra vanilla, cream and sugar. Not Thanksgiving without it!
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:53:14am |
re: #480 lurking faith
My one time eatting out in DC was quite expensive. But it was Amazing Thai food. Went to visit my Grandparents up there at Christmas as my father and all my uncles and aunts were going to be their except my uncle Mike who flew apaches and test piloted Commanches, as Mike was in BK Germany. Before all the uncles and aunts arrived I took my grandparent to eat Thai food was something like 300 bucks for the 3 of our meal and no booze involved. Was a lovely meal tho and cheaper than a ticket to Thailand to get the real deal as we got it at that particular restraunt.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:53:26am |
When Mr. faith and I moved out to greater DC/Baltimore, papa faith was sure we were going to become homeless and starve due to food costs.
Groceries do cost more here than in the midwest, and housing is a LOT more expensive, but we get by.
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livefreeor die Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:54:03am |
re: #454 lurking faith
Yep. Apparently he thinks we won't remember that. And evidently he has finally noticed that, even though he is still personally popular, more and more of the People think his policies really, really suck.
BTW: Funny how his "two years ago" point when things were actually not as good as we thought was just about exactly when then Democrats took over Congress. Funny how things started to go downhill then...
I'm sick of Obama and Co.'s arrogance. They seem to think that we sheeple can't notice a 180 change in what they've been saying.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:54:17am |
re: #484 VioletTiger
Oh no, it's probably 2 lbs for $15. I will take it over Starbucks any day.
Agree, it is delicious, the best I have ever had, but cost prohibitive, according to hubby. Heck, I even worked at a DD as a child. Where I live now there are no DD's. Heartbreak.
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:54:54am |
re: #488 livefreeor die
That's cause the Sheeple can't only us the growing class of dissenters is capable of noticing such.
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:56:40am |
re: #487 lurking faith
When Mr. faith and I moved out to greater DC/Baltimore, papa faith was sure we were going to become homeless and starve due to food costs.
Groceries do cost more here than in the midwest, and housing is a LOT more expensive, but we get by.
Housing in the greater DC are is hugely expensive. One of my company's headquarters is in the area and transfers there usually involve sticker shock. One guy who worked for me begged for an assignment down there and then promptly changed his mind when he saw the housing market. It may be a little better now, however.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:56:59am |
re: #484 VioletTiger
Dunkin's coffee isn't my favorite, but it's definitely better than Starbucks. Starbucks is just harsh; their roasting process must be weird.
When I splurge on coffee, it's usually Caribou.
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chicago blonde Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:57:14am |
I'll be back later guys - errands etc. Have a good morning!
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:58:45am |
re: #490 Rustler
That's cause the Sheeple can't only us the growing class of dissenters is capable of noticing such.
Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
[Link: online.wsj.com...]
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MJ Fri, Mar 13, 2009 5:59:28am |
The New Age of Aquarius is upon us. Terrorism is over. Let us rejoice and do away with security at out embassies:
Hardened U.S. Embassies Symbolic of Old Fears, Critics Say
UNITED NATIONS, March 12 -- Across the Manhattan street from the landmark buildings of the United Nations, a new architectural symbol of American outreach to the world is rising: an impenetrable concrete tower with 30-inch-thick concrete walls and no windows on its first seven floors.
Built to endure a chemical- or biological-weapon attack or an explosives-laden truck careening up Manhattan's First Avenue, the new U.S. mission to the United Nations will offer the most secure diplomatic quarters in history when it is completed next year. ..
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:01:02am |
re: #486 Rustler
That's the best thing about DC restaurants; if you can find out which ones the embassies use for catering, you are guaranteed a high-quality, authentic meal. But, as you noted, you're going to pay for it.
We like to try to go out during Restaurant Week, when a lot of high-end places offer 3-course dinners for $30 (beverage not included).
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:01:07am |
re: #494 Dustyvet
Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
[Link: online.wsj.com...]
Heh.
Wonder how Avanti will spin this?
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Rustler Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:01:21am |
My Mom used to order from Givalia. They have some good stuff but it's about 13-15 bucks a pound maybe more for some more discriminating blends.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:01:35am |
re: #494 Dustyvet
Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
[Link: online.wsj.com...]
Let him suffer some sticker shock.
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:02:11am |
But, but, but, I thought he was the only guy who coud fix it?
When Judd Gregg abruptly withdrew from his appointment as Commerce Secretary, I wrote that Barack Obama now faced the real risk of having created the most credible critic of his administration. That nightmare came true on the Hill yesterday when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner tried explaining Deadbeatonomics to the Senate Budget Committee. Gregg chewed Geithner to pieces with facts and figures, exposing Geithner and Obama’s economic policies as incompetent:
SNIP
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Lincolntf Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:02:18am |
re: #498 VioletTiger
I'm guessing something like:
"Well, we all know that Math hates black people, and so do you!"
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yochanan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:02:24am |
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:03:11am |
re: #502 rightside
But, but, but, I thought he was the only guy who coud fix it?
SNIP
But do we have a video/transcript of that confrontation?
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:06:11am |
Hmm, I wonder if it will be Gregg who leads the Reps back to sanity...
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:07:05am |
Good morning. I just posted this in the spin offs. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. I am a mess! Just beautiful.
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:07:18am |
A Muslim fundamentalist leader today told of his vision of Britain under Sharia law.
Anjem Choudary said he wanted the “flag of Allah” flying over Downing Street, all women wearing burkas and caning for drunkenness.
He is the leader of Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah, founded as a successor to the banned fundamentalist sect al-Muhajiroun, which was led by now-exiled preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad.
The self-proclaimed Sharia judge admitted his followers had organised protests against British soldiers in Luton this week, waving placards which called them “murderers” for their conduct in Iraq.
Mr Choudary, a 41-year-old lawyer, said he was proud to be reviled. “It's inevitable that when you offer an alternative morality and way of life many people will hate you for it.”
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:07:40am |
re: #502 rightside
But, but, but, I thought he was the only guy who coud fix it?
SNIP
Love that! How perfect because Obama picked Gregg, thereby giving him credibility. Geithner is going to be a huge embarrassment, if he isn't already.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:08:29am |
re: #491 VioletTiger
No, it's not much better now. House/townhouse/condo prices jumped wildly in the last few years, and even with the collapse they haven't dropped back to sane levels. Prices in some desirable parts of the area haven't dropped at all.
Rentals are fairly high, too. We pay twice what we did in the midwest for a slightly less good apartment, in a decent neighborhood but with a long commute. And we shopped a long time to find a deal this good.
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Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:08:34am |
Hey Rustler & Dusty , thought I'd give you an update on the situation. I found a low(er) rent apartment for people over 60 and gave them her phone number at the hospital. I called the elderly abuse people but she is 59 and they said sorry, 60 years old so bye bye.
I found the number of a friend of hers in seattle and she was very cool about it saying that she is a big girl and wants to be in the basement and that they would respect her decisions and are not able to help her either. It was so strange how cool she was about it. Not worried at all or upset. She also didn't know any of her other friends numbers who might help her, but I guess they have all done way too much for her over the years and are probably sick of taking in the freeloader.
Its totally illegal for a landlord to rent out a basement as an apartment, but here in new orleans, I doubt they city would do anything about it.
So, that's that. If she wants to live like an animal, so be it.
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DaddyG Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:10:34am |
re: #508 Dustyvet
Anjem Choudary said he wanted the “flag of Allah” flying over Downing Street, all women wearing burkas and caning for drunkenness.
Just imagine what a group of rowdy soccer fans spilling out of a pub could do to one of the Saudi morality police crews if they tried to cane them for public drunkeness.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:12:13am |
re: #512 DaddyG
Just imagine what a group of rowdy soccer fans spilling out of a pub could do to one of the Saudi morality police crews if they tried to cane them for public drunkeness.
Well then again, being English and all, some of them may enjoy that?
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rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:12:40am |
re: #505 Wishing
I will look, but I can't view most vids at work, youtube/etc.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:13:18am |
re: #507 WriterMom
Good morning. I just posted this in the spin offs. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. I am a mess! Just beautiful.
Thanks for that, WM. Do you know if there is an organization that will hook me up with a soldier to write to?
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avanti Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:14:00am |
Morning all. Good start on the day for me. Brought a 63 Studebaker Avanti home yesterday that was parked 3 years ago because of the key broken off in ignition switch. I replaced the switch yesterday, charged the battery over night, added some fresh gas and it's alive.
Drove it in the garage where it's warm and will start fixing her up for ebay. Life is good.
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:14:15am |
re: #507 WriterMom
Good morning. I just posted this in the spin offs. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. I am a mess! Just beautiful.
OMG, that made me cry...
Thanks for posting.
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:15:54am |
re: #511 Teacake!
Hey Rustler & Dusty , thought I'd give you an update on the situation. I found a low(er) rent apartment for people over 60 and gave them her phone number at the hospital. I called the elderly abuse people but she is 59 and they said sorry, 60 years old so bye bye.
I found the number of a friend of hers in seattle and she was very cool about it saying that she is a big girl and wants to be in the basement and that they would respect her decisions and are not able to help her either. It was so strange how cool she was about it. Not worried at all or upset. She also didn't know any of her other friends numbers who might help her, but I guess they have all done way too much for her over the years and are probably sick of taking in the freeloader.
Its totally illegal for a landlord to rent out a basement as an apartment, but here in new orleans, I doubt they city would do anything about it.
So, that's that. If she wants to live like an animal, so be it.
You've done your best, heaving said that you may want to check back with Department Of Aging, and find out if there is a state agency that handles abuse of folks under the age of 60. This needs to be investigated! I've changed my SN to blue, if you want to send me an email, and I'll start doing some digging on how to assist this person.
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:17:03am |
re: #511 Teacake!
I thought that in most locations, a basement can be an apartment provided it has both a working bathroom and a window that can be used as an emergency exit. Oh, and a smoke detector.
| 521 |
nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:17:37am |
Ahmadinejad: Sanctions against Iran are 'childish'
By Reuters
[Link: www.haaretz.com...]
I find myself agreeing with the little dick again. Boy, weird times. And time to move beyond sanctions for sure.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:17:45am |
re: #236 Fenway_Nation
No, I live in a Chicago burb :)
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:20:18am |
Iraqi clerics call for shoe thrower's release
"IF YOU CAN'T DO THE TIME, DON'T DO THE CRIME"
NUFF SAID...
/S
| 525 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:23:12am |
Senators slam plan for wounded vets to use private insurance
[Link: www.cnn.com...]
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jcbunga Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:23:42am |
and now on the music front--
We're going to see bassist Stanley Clarke in Alexandria next week. I see Tommy Emmanuel is also coming in a few weeks.
Has anyone seen Tommy's show live? If they're as good as the vids Charles posts, it should be a screamer.
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Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:23:43am |
At this point, if she agrees to this - fuck her. I've washed my hands of the situation. She rather live in the empty basement than go to a nursing home. We'll see how this goes with her being dependent on the creep as she is pretty much crippled and will still be defendant on him. Perhaps at some point other neighbors will complain to the land lady?
I have no idea when she is being released from the hospital. Fuck her. She has made the situation I have with some of the neighbors worse than before she showed up and decided to stay. Just in case I didn't mention this, she came here supposedly to visit me for 2 weeks before going to Baltimore to be with some guy she met on myspace and they were so so in love.
But, she decided to stay, and tried to move in with me. After 3 months I told her she had to leave and I couldn't help her anymore. She freeloaded the whole time. She said to me, help? What do you mean help? So fuck her. Longer story of all the shit she put me though, but that's the nutshell.
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:28:10am |
re: #507 WriterMom
Good morning. I just posted this in the spin offs. YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. I am a mess! Just beautiful.
Thank you for posting that. If that doesn't at least choke you up , then you have no heart.
I posted this a few days ago, but it seems appropriate again:
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." Mark Twain
To paraphrase, patriotism is supporting your soldiers all the time and your government when it deserves it.
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Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:28:37am |
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:29:44am |
Good Friday (the 13th, again) morning all.
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Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:31:49am |
Oh good! LOL a major scandal with public corruption is breaking out here in New Orleans. Perhaps many people in the city council will end up in handcuffs.
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:35:49am |
re: #516 Wishing
I am sure that there are organizations like that but I don't have any links.
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:36:09am |
re: #525 Dustyvet
Yeah Obama really loves the troops my ass!
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:36:29am |
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:36:39am |
re: #529 Ford_Prefect
I was an absolute mess...the eyeliner! All over the place!
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:37:11am |
re: #533 Teacake!
Oh good! LOL a major scandal with public corruption is breaking out here in New Orleans. Perhaps many people in the city council will end up in handcuffs.
Is it on nola.com? Gotta go check it out.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:38:06am |
Hey Guys!
Drive by here... I just got back from watching my boy start his college baseball career in Tennessee. All went well, boy pitched three innings (he was slated to start the 6th game, but it got rained out). He starts again Tuesday.
I'm on the road again now to see my mother in the hospital in Chicago. She's 85 and not in a good way.
Miss you guys...
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Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:38:26am |
Ward, it might be. I just heard the new breaking news on talk radio. The city council lady just got a defense attorney. Sandra White?
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BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:38:26am |
re: #533 Teacake!
Oh good! LOL a major scandal with public corruption is breaking out here in New Orleans. Perhaps many people in the city council will end up in handcuffs.
No offense meant to your fair city (I'm from Philly - a Federal jury is still debating the fate of one of our State Senators), but wouldn't it be more newsworthy if there wasn't a public corruption scandal in New Orleans?
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:39:23am |
re: #537 Ward Cleaver
But, but, but. Timmy is the only one who can save us. YEAH -RIGHT. LOL
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:40:09am |
re: #540 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
The circle of life-congrats on your boy and prayers for your Mom.
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:40:42am |
Good morning y'all - from a chilly (39 degrees, going up to only 43 degrees) and rainy Charlotte! And I mean really rainy! LOL!
How is everyone doing this morning?
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BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:40:45am |
re: #540 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Hey Guys!
Drive by here... I just got back from watching my boy start his college baseball career in Tennessee. All went well, boy pitched three innings (he was slated to start the 6th game, but it got rained out). He starts again Tuesday.
I'm on the road again now to see my mother in the hospital in Chicago. She's 85 and not in a good way.
Miss you guys...
Sorry to hear about your Mom, Vet. Prayers for you & her.
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Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:42:34am |
There's a gal in city hall who is very honest and is determined to fight against the evil forces and they want her recalled or something. The scandal was caused by her for having the nerve to question Ms. White about some bullshit.
Stacy Head is a force of bright light shining on the old ways here. Naturally, they want her gone.
| 550 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:42:34am |
re: #547 realwest
Good to see ya buddy.. Boeing has block LGF for the last few weeks. Have no idea why?
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BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:43:31am |
re: #550 Dustoff-507
Good to see ya buddy.. Boeing has block LGF for the last few weeks. Have no idea why?
A few days ago, someone here said a disparaging word about the age of the B-52. That could be the reason.
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pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:43:51am |
Mornin' all. Was at Safeway yesterday and saw that Newsweak cover about radical islam. What a bunch of shit.
| 553 |
Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:44:06am |
I'm really effin' sick of cold weather. I want my Global Warming Back!
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:44:20am |
re: #551 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
LOL, well they are QUITE old... (-:
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:45:02am |
Good morning Fun Seekers.
Is everybody as proud of the banking system as I am?
They take OUR money to open credit & create jobs here, but lend lots of our money to China & Dubai. While doing that, most now moitor your credit card purchases to see if you are doing more shopping now at WalMart rather than Macy's. That tells them that you are strapped & they increase the rate of interest to sell you money.
Am I missing something?
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:45:03am |
re: #534 Dustoff-507
"PHEW"
I'm back............. (-:
Your Huey has been washed, waxed, fueled...now take your water balloons and scram...:)
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:45:14am |
re: #540 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Safe journey. I hope your mom will have a good day while you visit.
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:45:26am |
re: #551 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
A few days ago, someone here said a disparaging word about the age of the B-52. That could be the reason.
How can anyone disparage the B-52? I understand it's older than all of it's present pilots but the lady can still strut her stuff.
| 560 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:45:35am |
re: #541 Teacake!
Ward, it might be. I just heard the new breaking news on talk radio. The city council lady just got a defense attorney. Sandra White?
I see some articles there related to a recall election, and a judge asking an attorney (Tracie Washington) to turn over City Council emails she got in a records request.
| 561 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:46:03am |
re: #557 Dustyvet
You waxed my OD-green Huey...
Dude YOUR the man! LOL
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:46:18am |
re: #551 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
A few days ago, someone here said a disparaging word about the age of the B-52. That could be the reason.
Who be dissin' the BUFF?
| 563 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:46:37am |
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:47:14am |
re: #540 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Hey LT! Sorry to hear about your Mom - prayers going up for her.......and for you, now!
Be safe driving out there, and best wishes my friend.
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:47:28am |
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:47:34am |
re: #555 Dustoff-507
Me too. 32degs this morning
It's not gonna' hit 60 today here. But, the dogwoods are blooming.
| 567 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:47:48am |
re: #559 nevergiveup
How can anyone disparage the B-52? I understand it's older than all of it's present pilots but the lady can still strut her stuff.
Kinda like Sophia Loren.
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Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:48:07am |
Thats it Ward. I'm still a bit fuzzy on what is at the root of the problem. However, it has something to do with her releasing emails sent to her by white council members. There seems to be a race war brewing (again) in the city hall.
As it is, a group of black pastors wants Goa recalled and now city hall is ganging up on Stacy Head. A couple issues blending together.
| 570 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:48:17am |
re: #526 jcbunga
and now on the music front--
We're going to see bassist Stanley Clarke in Alexandria next week. I see Tommy Emmanuel is also coming in a few weeks.
Has anyone seen Tommy's show live? If they're as good as the vids Charles posts, it should be a screamer.
Hi, we've seen him at a few music festivals here and he is wonderful!
Great performer and well worth seeing him
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:48:22am |
re: #565 Dustoff-507
Sweet.
Man I bet your arm is killing you. (wax on, wax off)
Nope, but the cat is smarting...:)
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nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:48:31am |
re: #567 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Kinda like Sophia Loren.
I wonder who's has more parts swapped out and upgraded?
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:48:39am |
re: #543 Dustoff-507
But, but, but. Timmy is the only one who can save us. YEAH -RIGHT. LOL
The honeymoon's over, and Obama's just halfway through his first 100 days. I love it. As Terrell Owens would say, "Get ya popcorn ready, it's gonna be a show."
| 574 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:49:33am |
re: #550 Dustoff-507
Hey good morning Dustoff - maybe they've blocked LGF cause they expect you to, you know, actually WORK for a change! LOL!
I am happy to see y'all out here again. When you get a chance, you should check yesterday's thread on the "under consideration" rules for Vets and their having to pay for their own healthcare! Just to get your BP pumping again!
| 575 |
Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:49:53am |
re: #555 Dustoff-507
Me too. 32degs this morning
Ugh, 23 when I got in my car (I'm just north of NYC) - can't wait for spring!
| 576 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:50:19am |
re: #566 MandyManners
We have a high of 45 today with rain/snow forecast for tomorrow. I am ready for frakkin' spring. Plus even though the snow pack is staying late, the local power company says the runoff will be below normal so they may have to raise electric rates. Luckily I'm on the east side of the Columbia river and our power co. isn't run by greedheads and asshats.
| 577 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:50:21am |
re: #547 realwest
Good morning y'all - from a chilly (39 degrees, going up to only 43 degrees) and rainy Charlotte! And I mean really rainy! LOL!
How is everyone doing this morning?
*Smooch* {darls} and it's now Saturday here, with lovely warm weather for us in Sydney
| 578 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:50:21am |
re: #573 Ward Cleaver
The honeymoon's over, and Obama's just halfway through his first 100 days. I love it. As Terrell Owens would say, "Get ya popcorn ready, it's gonna be a show."
All singing, all dancing...It's the Obama revue...!
/S
| 579 |
Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:50:40am |
Obama is just the little puppet for the imbeciles - sort of like the inmates running the insane assylum.
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:51:46am |
re: #573 Ward Cleaver
The honeymoon's over, and Obama's just halfway through his first 100 days. I love it. As Terrell Owens would say, "Get ya popcorn ready, it's gonna be a show."
Even papers that supported him are now being critical. They have not completely tossed him off of the sled, but the gushing is not what it was in some of them.
Obama has a thin skin & it has to be getting to him.
| 581 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:52:07am |
re: #563 Dustyvet
Good morning Dusty! Uh, don't know how to tell ya this, but waxing Dustoff's Huey is an exercise in futility - it's gonna come back chock full of holes, just like everyother run into a hot LZ!
How are you doing my friend?
| 582 |
Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:52:16am |
I guess Pellosi is the one "in charge" and all the other meglomaniacs are out of control. I hope we survive them all.
| 583 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:53:00am |
re: #579 Teacake!
Obama is just the little puppet for the imbeciles - sort of like the inmates running the insane assylum.
/insensitive
| 584 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:54:01am |
re: #580 opnion
Even papers that supported him are now being critical. They have not completely tossed him off of the sled, but the gushing is not what it was in some of them.
Obama has a thin skin & it has to be getting to him.
It ought to make for entertaining press conferences. Or maybe Obama will decide to stop doing those. Hmmm...
| 585 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:54:15am |
re: #581 realwest
Good morning Dusty! Uh, don't know how to tell ya this, but waxing Dustoff's Huey is an exercise in futility - it's gonna come back chock full of holes, just like everyother run into a hot LZ!
How are you doing my friend?
Doing fine here Realwest, with a minor gun fight going on over a Veterans Burial Flag.
| 588 |
Lincolntf Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:55:23am |
Little help here..
Anyone in here go to The Watchmen movie yet? My main question:Is it unbearably long at 2:40? I know this is subjective but some long movies need an hour removed, while others are perfect. Ya know what I mean, I think...
| 590 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:55:40am |
re: #587 Teacake!
Speechless Ward
About the state school story? People do some stupid things down here.
| 591 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:55:58am |
re: #577 aussiemagpie
Hey there {aussie} *smooch* back to you - got your glass of Chady handy do ya?! Our high temp yesterday was 83, 81 the day before that and so getting whacked with this 40 degree nonesense is sorta pissing me off - it's supposed to be spring down here, damnit!
| 592 |
Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:56:04am |
This is the first time in my adult life that there seems to be no actual president. lol
I really miss George.
| 593 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:56:16am |
| 595 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:56:36am |
re: #574 realwest
I saw it on the news and blew my top... Some smells about this
| 596 |
Teacake! Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:56:56am |
You're in Austin Ward? It sounds like an episode of some strange reality tv.
| 597 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:57:26am |
re: #573 Ward Cleaver
That's for sure.. plus No-one wants to work for timmy
| 598 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:57:33am |
Good Morning! Breakfast Links anyone?
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:57:35am |
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opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:57:58am |
re: #584 Ward Cleaver
It ought to make for entertaining press conferences. Or maybe Obama will decide to stop doing those. Hmmm...
He does not like specific questions, they get in the way of the 'Hope & Change" hyperbole & generalities.
| 601 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:58:25am |
re: #588 Lincolntf
Little help here..
Anyone in here go to The Watchmen movie yet? My main question:Is it unbearably long at 2:40? I know this is subjective but some long movies need an hour removed, while others are perfect. Ya know what I mean, I think...
I saw & no, I didn't think it was too long. The first hour is devoted to character development & investigating the mystery of who murdered The Comedian. It's long, but not boring. Don't expect a Batman or Spider-Man movie - it's not that kind of superhero movie.
| 602 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:58:26am |
re: #597 Dustoff-507
That's for sure.. plus No-one wants to work for timmy
Yeah, Lassie packed his/her bag and hit the road...:)
| 603 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:58:30am |
IIRC, the one doesn't have a full cabinet yet. I was working late the other night and heard Coast to Coast(!) that NASA still doesn't have a Chief Admin officer. What other cabinet posts are wandering aimless? I know obambi isn't playing with a full deck, let alone a full cabinet.
| 604 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:58:35am |
re: #598 Creeping Eruption
Good Morning! Breakfast Links anyone?
And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
| 605 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:59:24am |
re: #604 Kosh's Shadow
And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
Now that's Eerie...:)
| 606 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 6:59:39am |
re: #604 Kosh's Shadow
And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
Are people dumping meat instead of tea? Reminds me of a scene in the movie PCU.
| 607 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:00:26am |
Good morning Dusty! Uh, don't know how to tell ya this, but waxing Dustoff's Huey is an exercise in futility - it's gonna come back chock full of holes, just like everyother run into a hot LZ!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Hey now guys.. it's only a few holes. Just because the cobras won't follw us below 1000ft isn't my fault. 0-:
| 608 |
Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:00:52am |
Good morning, good Friday, to all Lizards. Boker Tov!
| 609 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:01:19am |
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:01:41am |
This is interesting...looks like we have Costco coming here to OZ
SUPERMARKET giants Coles and Woolworths will have have a new kid on the block to go up against later this year with cut-price international grocery warehouse Costco set to open in Melbourne.
Costco will open its first Australian outlet at Melbourne's central Docklands precinct in July, offering everything from greenhouses to diamond rings and fresh strawberries to toilet paper, at discount prices to both wholesale and retail customers.
And one to open In Sydney when a suitable site is found...
| 613 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:01:44am |
re: #580 opnion
Good morning opnion! Chris Wallace continues to give Obama cover though - on F&F today he said the reason it's taken so long to get folks hired at the upper echelon of the Treasury Department is because the Senate Finance Committee (headed by a Dem, of course) makes all nominees to under or deputy Secretaries of the Treasury go through what amounts to a 3 year audit by the IRS and "Who could be ready to deal with such a thing on such short notice?" Hey Chris - these folks being nominated (some Partner at the NYC hotsy-totsy law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell just withdrew his name from consideration cause he really didn't want the job - I heard him say it!) will be in charge of the IRS - what, do you expect the IRS to audit their bosses? Screw that - Obama's nominees are having trouble because Obama and Emmanuel know so few truly honest men and women of any ability, that's all.
| 615 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:02:12am |
Ahh gezzz ( A case of kitty food ) OMG can't even spell
| 617 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:02:46am |
Good Morning Lizards.
Please help me defend Sarah Palin on the ABC blog. I am begging you
Jake Tapper just posted: Palin's Back to Lovin' Her Some Earmarks
| 618 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:03:19am |
re: #605 Dustyvet
Now that's Eerie...:)
It's actually from Firesign Theater.
Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand me the Pliers.
But I'm not trying to buffalo you.
| 619 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:03:24am |
re: #615 Dustoff-507
Ahh gezzz ( A case of kitty food ) OMG can't even spell
3rd time is the charmer...:)
| 620 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:03:33am |
re: #612 aussiemagpie
This is interesting...looks like we have Costco coming here to OZ
And one to open In Sydney when a suitable site is found...
I love Costco. Nowhere else can you get a 6-pack of tape measures and a Cashmere sweater at the same time.
| 621 |
Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:04:09am |
re: #612 aussiemagpie
This is interesting...looks like we have Costco coming here to OZ
And one to open In Sydney when a suitable site is found...
When they do open, be sure to get a giant-sized container of California dates! They are so delicious! [my choice for a first purchase at Costco]
| 623 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:04:40am |
re: #588 Lincolntf
I saw the Watchmen, and I didn't think it was unbearably long. Oddly, the climax was a bit slow, but otherwise I think they couldn't have had the story make sense if any more had been cut.
I presume you've been warned that there are a few spots that are very graphic...? (If you've read the comic, then you'll know when they're coming.)
| 624 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:04:48am |
Texas is one of the more populous states and their only in line for half a billion of stimulus money. Where is the other 790.5 billion going? BTW, the guv of Texas said no thanks to the porkulus money.
| 625 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:05:00am |
re: #612 aussiemagpie
Wow - you still have Woolworth's down under? The last one closed up in the States years ago.
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:05:10am |
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MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:05:14am |
I bet FCBBHO didn't go to the Gridiron Dinner last night because he didn't want to be exposed to teasing.
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:05:46am |
re: #584 Ward Cleaver Good morning Ward! Hope all is well in the Cleaver household this morning!
Wonder why Obama is not gonna attend the Gridiron club dinner next Friday or Saturday night (the FIRST President not to attend since Grover Cleveland)? Maybe he has thin skin or something?!? Avanti last night said that Obama's two girls will be on Spring Break and he'd rather spend time with them than uphold that fine tradition of getting roasted - and roasting back - members of the press.
I reckon cause Chicago is SOOO far from D.C., huh?
| 630 |
DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:05:55am |
re: #624 pingjockey
Texas is one of the more populous states and their only in line for half a billion of stimulus money. Where is the other 790.5 billion going? BTW, the guv of Texas said no thanks to the porkulus money.
Kennedy Land. . .oh, wait, what is that other name for that place. . . .:)
| 631 |
rightside Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:06:04am |
re: #612 aussiemagpie
Wonderful! You too can enjoy mayonaise in the 3.7 liter easy-open barrell!
| 632 |
Lincolntf Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:06:24am |
re: #623 lurking faith
Thanks. Yup, I've read the book. By graphic do you mean "explicit" or more violent/bloody? Neither is a deterrent, I'm just curious.
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:06:29am |
re: #585 Dustyvet A minor gun fight going on over a Vet's funeral flag? What?!
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:05am |
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:10am |
re: #603 pingjockey
IIRC, the one doesn't have a full cabinet yet. I was working late the other night and heard Coast to Coast(!) that NASA still doesn't have a Chief Admin officer. What other cabinet posts are wandering aimless? I know obambi isn't playing with a full deck, let alone a full cabinet.
He sure was ready on day one, yeppers.
/do I need to?
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:32am |
re: #626 Dustyvet
Huey Helicopter impounded in Florida...hmmmmm...
Ahhhhhhhhh come on now, give it back. I'm just waiting for my Obama bailout. (-:
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BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:42am |
re: #632 Lincolntf
Thanks. Yup, I've read the book. By graphic do you mean "explicit" or more violent/bloody? Neither is a deterrent, I'm just curious.
It's very bloody & I didn't approve of the wang-to-boob ratio. But I did enjoy the movie more than the comic.
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:44am |
re: #629 realwest
Good morning Ward! Hope all is well in the Cleaver household this morning!
Wonder why Obama is not gonna attend the Gridiron club dinner next Friday or Saturday night (the FIRST President not to attend since Grover Cleveland)? Maybe he has thin skin or something?!? Avanti last night said that Obama's two girls will be on Spring Break and he'd rather spend time with them than uphold that fine tradition of getting roasted - and roasting back - members of the press.
I reckon cause Chicago is SOOO far from D.C., huh?
This should be called off any way. . .the media would hav nothing to roast dear leader about. . .except his annoying habit of bringing light to darkness, walking on water, and turning water into. . .oh, wait. . .
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Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:47am |
How about this for frightening:
Dr. Bouthaina Sha'aban, Syria's Minister of Expatriates and a close adviser to President Bashar Assad, said Friday there will soon be a "real positive change" in ties between Arab countries and Iran.
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kafir lover Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:07:48am |
I just saw this pop up on Drudge:
Judge orders home schoolers into public schools
I'm curious to know what collective Lizard opinion is regarding this subject, as I think this will become an increasingly important issue in the near future . . .
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:08:30am |
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:08:56am |
re: #591 realwest
Hey there {aussie} *smooch* back to you - got your glass of Chady handy do ya?! Our high temp yesterday was 83, 81 the day before that and so getting whacked with this 40 degree nonesense is sorta pissing me off - it's supposed to be spring down here, damnit!
LOL! Yes my glass is right here! Although I'm sipping coffee and eating a delicious lamington
Once we all pay lots of carbon emission taxes, the world thermostat will be set at a very comfortable temp I've heard
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:09:21am |
re: #595 Dustoff-507 Yep and "trial balloon" my ass - Obama's proposed 2010 budget has an "income" line from the VA! Don't know about you but I've never paid the VA a penny - wonder how it is that his budget contains that line item for income if they are just "considering" making Vets pay for their own healthcare?
(sharpens pitchfork, gets torches ready....)
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:09:28am |
Ok, when it comes to insanity like this I’m a bit embarrassed to live in California.
“In separate, strongly worded orders, two judges of the federal appeals court in California said that employees of their court were entitled to health benefits for their same-sex partners under the program that insures millions of federal workers.”
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
Evidently the California case for same-sex coverage is being made a lawyer:
“Ms. Golinski’s insurance plan, offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield, rejected her effort to obtain health benefits for her spouse, Amy Cunninghis.”
With a name like that turn was thinking there must have been an instant attraction. Ha!
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pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:09:36am |
re: #635 lurking faith
Nope, but is appearing, oh hell it's fact, this bunch of asshats couldn't manage a 7-11.
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:10:35am |
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:10:52am |
So is it bad Karma to hit 1300 on the LGF Karma meter on Friday the 13th?
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:11:35am |
re: #649 Creeping Eruption
So is it bad Karma to hit 1300 on the LGF Karma meter on Friday the 13th?
Dunno- check your 401K and see. . .oh, wait:)
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:11:46am |
re: #608 Golem Akbar
Good morning Golem! How are ya today? And thank you for that glorious photograph!
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:12:11am |
re: #645 realwest
I've helped out at the VA in San diego, but have never used it.
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nyc redneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:12:17am |
re: #430 VioletTiger
Good morning all. How goes it today?
Saw the first robins this morning. Spring is here!
i saw 2 robins yesterday morning. it's still a little early upstate but
there they were chirping in the pear tree like they were right on time.
it really cheered me up to see them.
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:12:35am |
re: #649 Creeping Eruption
So is it bad Karma to hit 1300 on the LGF Karma meter on Friday the 13th?
Yes, I'll start downdinging every one of you posts today in order to delay this. :.)
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:12:49am |
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:13:15am |
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VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:13:24am |
re: #620 Creeping Eruption
I love Costco. Nowhere else can you get a 6-pack of tape measures and a Cashmere sweater at the same time.
My mother-in-law gave us a membership, but I have never been in there. I take it is worth the trip? I thought they just had mega-boxes of toilet paper and stuff like that.
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:13:40am |
re: #650 DisturbedEma
Dunno- check your 401K and see. . .oh, wait:)
LOL. My 401k is more like a 240.6k right now . . . but I'm hopin for some spare change.
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:14:15am |
re: #658 VioletTiger
My mother-in-law gave us a membership, but I have never been in there. I take it is worth the trip? I thought they just had mega-boxes of toilet paper and stuff like that.
HEY! That is a good thing in a house full of people full of. . .;)
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:14:18am |
re: #616 taxfreekiller Hey there TFK - don't know what you're talking about, but I'd gladly help you anytime!
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:15:00am |
re: #620 Creeping Eruption
I love Costco. Nowhere else can you get a 6-pack of tape measures and a Cashmere sweater at the same time.
Now that sounds great!
The German supermarket chain Aldi has stores everywhere here and they do sell other stuff as well as food
One personal example - I went there to buy cat food, and came home with a dryer :-)
Is Aldi in the US too?
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Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:15:12am |
Good Morning Lizards!
How is everyone today?
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:15:45am |
re: #659 Creeping Eruption
LOL. My 401k is more like a 240.6k right now . . . but I'm hopin for some spare change.
Looks like the DOW is headed in the right direction this AM.
HOPE! (gawd I'm beginning to despise that word)
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DisturbedEma Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:16:01am |
re: #659 Creeping Eruption
LOL. My 401k is more like a 240.6k right now . . . but I'm hopin for some spare change.
Hope that is change you can believe in. . .
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pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:16:08am |
re: #645 realwest
The VA is set up now for vets who can't pay/don't have the means to pay for their own health care. The VA is part of the social contract this country owes its vets!
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:16:30am |
re: #632 Lincolntf
Well... both. Mostly not lasting long, though.
I found it more disturbing than comics-style movie violence usually is, but I think that's because the story is more real.
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:16:43am |
re: #633 realwest
A minor gun fight going on over a Vet's funeral flag? What?!
We had a WWII Veteran pass away in the building two years ago, his remains lay unclaimed for 6 weeks. A friend and I spent some bucks and locaited his estaranged family. In the meantime his "lady friend" proceeded to loot his apartment. The man passed away at around 4 AM, His property started getting removed at 7:00 AM. The witch took everything he owned. Then left him laying at the county mo's office, till we did something about it. The family awarded me the burial flag, a case was purchased and it has been with me for two years.
The other day "his lady friend" demanded the burial flag. Claimed that "he wanted her to have it.
In so many words, I told her to piss off...The flag is mine.
Waiting to see what her next move is going to be.
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:16:48am |
re: #664 HoosierHoops
Good Morning Lizards!
How is everyone today?
Finer than frog's hair.
Good morning, {all the rest of y'all}
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:17:03am |
re: #664 HoosierHoops
How is everyone today! How is everyone today!... jezzz my good man. It's Friday the 13th.. Awwwwwwwwwwwww
LOL
Morning.
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:17:04am |
re: #658 VioletTiger
My mother-in-law gave us a membership, but I have never been in there. I take it is worth the trip? I thought they just had mega-boxes of toilet paper and stuff like that.
That and more. The one I go to has excellent produce and prepared foods, frozen foods, meat and fish department, etc. . . and no, you do not need to buy 14 Salmon at once. It also has its own gas station for members which has been generally cheaper.
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:17:10am |
re: #621 Golem Akbar
When they do open, be sure to get a giant-sized container of California dates! They are so delicious! [my choice for a first purchase at Costco]
I'll make sure I buy those dates as soon as Costco opens in Sydney!
Then I'll report back here :-)
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:17:19am |
re: #663 aussiemagpie
Not out west at least. Morning to ya down under. What was that thing you're eating anyway?
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yochanan Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:18:06am |
re: #522 trigger girlie
hello trigger girlie long time no see.
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pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:18:30am |
re: #670 Dustyvet
If the lady friend isn't NOK the family ought to be after her ass for the vets estate she stole!
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Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:18:32am |
re: #651 realwest
Good morning Golem! How are ya today? And thank you for that glorious photograph!
I'm great. Thanks for asking. Maybe it's just my morning coffee, but I'm feeling like I'm going to smash all the crap that's being thrown at me, and I'm truly enjoying my morning jaunt through LGF. You?
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Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:18:52am |
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:19:21am |
re: #670 Dustyvet
Ahhhhhhhhhhh CRAP. Sorry to hear this. Tell her to pound sand.
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:19:30am |
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:19:36am |
re: #677 pingjockey
If the lady friend isn't NOK the family ought to be after her ass for the vets estate she stole!
I agree...she's a stone cold thief...
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turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:19:48am |
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:20:08am |
re: #663 aussiemagpie
We do but I do not know if it is the same chain. The ones in my town only sell groceries and they are only in really rough neighborhoods.
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sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:20:10am |
re: #672 Dustoff-507
How is everyone today! How is everyone today!... jezzz my good man. It's Friday the 13th.. Awwwwwwwwwwwww
LOL
Morning.
DAMN ,,, that right ,,,,I'm going back to bed,,pulling the covers over mt head for the next 14 hours!
//
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:20:11am |
re: #625 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Wow - you still have Woolworth's down under? The last one closed up in the States years ago.
Yes, one of the Big Two grocery chains
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:20:31am |
re: #681 Dustoff-507
Ahhhhhhhhhhh CRAP. Sorry to hear this. Tell her to pound sand.
I have, and she's not getting that Burial Flag!
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sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:20:44am |
re: #682 redstateredneck
Friday the 13th two months in a row. Must be the Obama administration.
;-)
and IIRC there's another coming up later in the year
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:21:39am |
re: #688 Dustyvet
I have, and she's not getting that Burial Flag!
Is she crazy enough to break into your place to get it? You might want to move it off site for the time being.
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pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:09am |
re: #687 aussiemagpie
Just missed it, what's up down under with the east coast beaches? Was there an oil spill?
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Honorary Yooper Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:12am |
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:14am |
re: #689 sattv4u2
and IIRC there's another coming up later in the year
A quick look at the calendar behind my desk shows that it's in November.
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Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:23am |
I posted this in the links, above, but in case no one sees it, the National Parks Service, here in the US, has published it's revised Trails Guide, for those of us who like to hike. Lots of little green lizards on those trails, you know.
| 695 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:33am |
re: #682 redstateredneck
Yep.... and the stock market proves it.
| 696 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:35am |
re: #631 rightside
Wonderful! You too can enjoy mayonaise in the 3.7 liter easy-open barrell!
I'll have to buy a bigger fridge :-)
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:22:48am |
re: #690 Creeping Eruption
Is she crazy enough to break into your place to get it? You might want to move it off site for the time being.
That's being arranged later today, it's being shipped to a friend in Texas for safe keeping.
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:23:16am |
everywhere you look BO continues to get hammered, mostly from the right but from the left as well...
[Link: www.stoptheaclu.com...]
[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:23:17am |
re: #652 Dustoff-507 Thank God you never needed to my friend. I've heard good things and bad things about VA hospitals and most of them varied differently by region - NYC VA is a fucking disgrace - it's FILTHY and they've got guys in beds in the hallways ( or they did before I left 3 years ago) cause they lack capacity). OTOH, the ones in Texas seem to be ok. But the idea that someone got hurt or wounded serving his Nation should then have to pay for his own health care/rehabilitation is an abomination, PERIOD.
| 700 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:23:39am |
re: #694 Golem Akbar
OTOH, Wa. state, to make up our budget shortfall is planning on mothballing 33 state parks!
| 701 |
Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:24:10am |
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:24:12am |
re: #658 VioletTiger
Costco has some great foodstuffs that you probably won't see at your local grocery store. Some things they pretty much always have in stock; others are more seasonal or appear when they can get a good deal on something. If you've got a membership, you should definitely check it out at least once.
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Nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:24:13am |
Japan warns it may shoot down North Korean satellite launcher
• Pyongyang says response would be act of war
• Regional tensions rise over missile launch
[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]
Maybe Japan shooting the dam thing down is an indirect way to do it without leaving American Fingerprints all over the place? Still I doubt the Obama Administration has the balls to do it.
| 704 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:24:54am |
re: #699 realwest
There has to be a word worse that abomination for this disgrace, but I don't know what it is.
| 705 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:24:56am |
re: #596 Teacake!
You're in Austin Ward? It sounds like an episode of some strange reality tv.
No, I'm in Dallas, but about every ten years or so, the state schools here go through some kind of scandal. The last time it was sexual abuse.
| 707 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:25:02am |
re: #625 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Wow - you still have Woolworth's down under? The last one closed up in the States years ago.
Smithers! Have the gryocopter pilot spin us over to the "Spruce Moose"... we're off to Van Diemen's Land for a round of shopping at Woolworth's. We'll lunch at the Horn & Hardart Automat.
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sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:25:09am |
re: #679 HoosierHoops
Heya HOOS ,,, some interesting conference tourney games last night, to say the least, huh !
I'm heading into work soon. We're doing the commercial rolls for all the ACC and SEC tourney games this week/end
| 709 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:25:32am |
re: #693 redstateredneck
A quick look at the calendar behind my desk shows that it's in November.
tanks
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:25:47am |
re: #703 Nevergiveup
Japan warns it may shoot down North Korean satellite launcher
• Pyongyang says response would be act of war
• Regional tensions rise over missile launch[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]
Maybe Japan shooting the dam thing down is an indirect way to do it without leaving American Fingerprints all over the place? Still I doubt the Obama Administration has the balls to do it.
I doubt the Obama Administration has got the balls to do anything regarding National Defence.
| 711 |
albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:25:57am |
Judd Gregg smacks Geithner in the chops....this guy is in a heap of trouble
[Link: firstread.msnbc.msn.com...]
| 713 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:26:10am |
re: #668 taxfreekiller
Good Lord TFK! I didn't tell ya to use your own photograph did I? Now everyone will know what you look like!LOL!
Glad to provide what little tech assistance I did!
| 714 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:26:15am |
Just got my paycheck - it's about $20 more than the last one. Should I point this out, or just keep my fool mouth shut?
| 715 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:26:35am |
re: #703 Nevergiveup
The Japanese may do it by themselves. We sold them the Aegis technology that the navy used last year to shoot down a test ICBM and they may have the Patriot system too.
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Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:26:48am |
re: #699 realwest
The VA in San Diego wasn't bad... clean, and well kept. But waste like you would not believe.
| 717 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:27:08am |
re: #703 Nevergiveup
Interesting news.
I like this bit:
Any missile launch, even one intended to put a satellite into orbit, would represent a snub to the US administration, which has repeatedly invited the communist state to return to negotiations over its nuclear weapons programme.
I know this is The Guardian, but do I sense maybe a note of snark at The One's naivete?
| 718 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:27:13am |
re: #714 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Just got my paycheck - it's about $20 more than the last one. Should I point this out, or just keep my fool mouth shut?
Go buy beer...liquid assets...:)
| 719 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:27:33am |
Re-post from very early this morning...
This one is really going to piss off folks... if the media bothers to notice it...
1. In September, 2008, the 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) - after months of preparation - is ordered to Iraq. (One of two SBCTs that were then scheduled to replace the two currently in Iraq)2. In February, 2009, President Obama announces his Iraq drawdown/Afghanistan surge - the 5th SBCT will be diverted to Afghanistan instead of Iraq.
3. March, 2009, the DoD announces the 4th SBCT will deploy to Iraq this fall, several months ahead of the original schedule replacing the 5th SBCT in the rotation in order to maintain two Stryker Brigades in Iraq.
For the record, I'm in favor of commanders on the ground getting the forces they need to get the job done. I have no doubt that two Stryker Brigades are needed in Iraq, and others in Afghanistan.
I'm deeply concerned when I see troop rotations "adjusted" in what appears to be an effort to fool the American public. But I appreciate that the Obama administration can do that in plain sight, even providing press releases detailing exactly how they're doing it.
Obama makes a big speech about the "drawdown" of US troops from Iraq and how that enables him to send troops to Af'stan. But he's playing a shell game in which he shuffles troops from Iraq to Af'stan, then replaces the troops taken from Iraq with a brigade trained for Af'stan.
Obama's phony fucking "draw down is endangering US lives just to make it look like he's keeping his promises.
Fucking liar!
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albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:27:36am |
re: #703 Nevergiveup
Japan warns it may shoot down North Korean satellite launcher
• Pyongyang says response would be act of war
• Regional tensions rise over missile launch[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]
Maybe Japan shooting the dam thing down is an indirect way to do it without leaving American Fingerprints all over the place? Still I doubt the Obama Administration has the balls to do it.
if they do we should all claim credit...the US, Taiwan, S Korea and Japan...screw the Norks and their attention needs
| 722 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:27:47am |
re: #668 taxfreekiller
661
realwest
got the avatar up loaded
ME WAY SCARY, BOO!
shaped charge research
That is way cool, tfk.
| 723 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:28:13am |
re: #714 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Just got my paycheck - it's about $20 more than the last one. Should I point this out, or just keep my fool mouth shut?
Stimulus!
| 724 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:28:26am |
re: #707 Occasional Reader
Smithers! Have the gryocopter pilot spin us over to the "Spruce Moose"... we're off to Van Diemen's Land for a round of shopping at Woolworth's. We'll lunch at the Horn & Hardart Automat.
Uh, yes sir. Would you care to take in the latest Cecil B. DeMille movie, Birth of a Nation?
| 725 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:28:38am |
re: #720 Dustoff-507
The worthless GOV needs to go.
Hey, hey, ho, ho...:)
The worthless GOV needs to go...:)
/S
| 726 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:28:38am |
re: #716 Dustoff-507
The VA in San Diego wasn't bad... clean, and well kept. But waste like you would not believe.
I used to take my dad to the one in Boston. (he still goes there, I moved to Atlanta years ago)
Same there as what you state about SD,
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Nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:28:51am |
re: #715 pingjockey
The Japanese may do it by themselves. We sold them the Aegis technology that the navy used last year to shoot down a test ICBM and they may have the Patriot system too.
Yeah I know, but I doubt they would do anything SO provocative without our approval. I hope they do, but I doubt they would.
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:29:00am |
re: #675 turn
Not out west at least. Morning to ya down under. What was that thing you're eating anyway?
Hello turn !
I'm eating a lamington, a really delicious cake - sponge cake covered in melted chocolate and dipped in coconut - I'll find a pic
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Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:29:08am |
re: #714 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Just got my paycheck - it's about $20 more than the last one. Should I point this out, or just keep my fool mouth shut?
You're no fool. Now buy me dinner rich boy/
| 730 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:29:17am |
| 731 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:05am |
re: #670 Dustyvet
Good for you my friend! Y'all hang onto that flag! You and I both know that she'd just sell it at some yard sale or something. And remember, Louisville Sluggers ain't just for baseball anymore!
BTW, if the family didn't write to you to tell you to keep the flag, you should write to them and thank them for gifting that flag to you.
Serious as can be with that advice.
| 732 |
UFO TOFU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:28am |
re: #730 redstateredneck
Good morning, redstate. Hooray, it's damn near Friday!
| 733 |
VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:28am |
re: #702 lurking faith
Costco has some great foodstuffs that you probably won't see at your local grocery store. Some things they pretty much always have in stock; others are more seasonal or appear when they can get a good deal on something. If you've got a membership, you should definitely check it out at least once.
Hmmm...sounds like I should make an appearance. It's about a half hour ride for me, and I usually don't drive that far for groceries.
| 734 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:48am |
re: #729 Afrocity
You're no fool. Now buy me dinner rich boy/
dinner for 2 at 20 bucks? Hope you like the all you can eat menu at Arbys!
| 735 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:48am |
re: #720 Dustoff-507
2010 is coming up fast. Wonder how the one would deal with repub majorities in both houses? Waaaaah!
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:55am |
re: #729 Afrocity
You're no fool. Now buy me dinner rich boy/
"Cheezborger! Cheezborger!
No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!"?
[Link: www.billygoattavern.com...]
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:30:56am |
re: #680 VioletTiger
Okay, what's a lamington?
See my reply to turn #675, and hello!
It's a really delicious cake and i shouldn't be eating it!
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:31:05am |
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:31:14am |
re: #671 redstateredneck
Hey there {red} Glad to hear it! I'd doing as fine as fresh spun cotton candy! (h/t Mandy Manners!).
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:31:35am |
re: #694 Golem Akbar
I posted this in the links, above, but in case no one sees it, the National Parks Service, here in the US, has published it's revised Trails Guide, for those of us who like to hike. Lots of little green lizards on those trails, you know.
Going to AZ in one week for 10 days. I will hike a different trail everyday with my Father in law.
| 741 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:31:45am |
re: #736 Dustyvet
"Cheezborger! Cheezborger!
No fries, cheeps! No Pepsi, Coke!"?[Link: www.billygoattavern.com...]
That reminds me of the three words that could have saved John Belushi's life:
No coke, Pepsi.
| 742 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:31:49am |
re: #727 Nevergiveup
I don't know. I'd be pissed if some little pissant was shooting ICBMs over my head!
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sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:32:01am |
re: #735 pingjockey
2010 is coming up fast. Wonder how the one would deal with repub majorities in both houses? Waaaaah!
just like he's handling the dem majority in both. He'l still have to do whatever they say!
| 744 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:32:17am |
re: #728 aussiemagpie
Hello turn !
I'm eating a lamington, a really delicious cake - sponge cake covered in melted chocolate and dipped in coconut - I'll find a pic
What's a "moderate oven" (in deg C, I can convert to F)? Also, what's "icing sugar"? Powdered sugar?
| 745 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:32:17am |
re: #738 redstateredneck
Yeah, are all y'all feeling stimulated now?
I thought I felt a stimulus running up my leg this morning, but it was just the cat.
| 746 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:32:34am |
re: #728 aussiemagpie
Hello turn !
I'm eating a lamington, a really delicious cake - sponge cake covered in melted chocolate and dipped in coconut - I'll find a pic
They go well with chardy, then?
| 747 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:32:43am |
re: #678 Golem Akbar
I'm doing well Golem - especially for a cold and very rainy day here!
| 748 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:33:16am |
re: #743 sattv4u2
True. I wonder how much of this lunacy is being driven by Blinky and Dirty Harry?
| 749 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:33:17am |
re: #744 Ward Cleaver
What's a "moderate oven" (in deg C, I can convert to F)? Also, what's "icing sugar"? Powdered sugar?
A "moderate oven" as opposed to an Islamic extremist oven.
| 750 |
VioletTiger Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:33:29am |
re: #728 aussiemagpie
Those look yummie.
Do you ever eat Morton Bay Bugs (I think that's what they are called....)
| 751 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:33:38am |
re: #663 aussiemagpie
Aldi's in the US, too, in some areas. I've never been inside, though, because I didn't like the ones I went to in Germany. Random items, and almost no brands I'd ever heard of (and I'd been in Germany for months by then).
It's not that I mind trying off-brands, but not when I can't afford to throw anything away if it's bad.
But maybe it's different now; the ones I went to then only carried food.
| 752 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:33:46am |
re: #739 realwest
Hey there {red} Glad to hear it! I'd doing as fine as fresh spun cotton candy! (h/t Mandy Manners!).
{real} muah!
| 753 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:33:53am |
re: #679 HoosierHoops
HEY HOOPS! Didja ever bother going to bed last night/early this morning after watching that 6 OT game?!
| 755 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:34:18am |
re: #729 Afrocity
You're no fool. Now buy me dinner rich boy/
Hey, Fridays & Outback keep advertising their "$9.99" dinner specials, so yeah, $20 could buy us dinner. Of course, $20 can't buy me a plane ticket to Chicago.
| 756 |
nyc redneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:34:24am |
re: #719 Kenneth
Re-post from very early this morning...
This one is really going to piss off folks... if the media bothers to notice it...
Obama makes a big speech about the "drawdown" of US troops from Iraq and how that enables him to send troops to Af'stan. But he's playing a shell game in which he shuffles troops from Iraq to Af'stan, then replaces the troops taken from Iraq with a brigade trained for Af'stan.
Obama's phony fucking "draw down is endangering US lives just to make it look like he's keeping his promises.
Fucking liar!
every move he makes is calculated to benefit him, no matter what bad consequences may result to others. has he admitted the surge worked, yet?
which he so lobbied against to please his hysterical anti-war faction.
o is completely w/ out morals. he's depraved actually.
| 757 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:34:34am |
re: #748 pingjockey
True. I wonder how much of this lunacy is being driven by Blinky and Dirty Harry?
My guess
Rahm 50%
Blinky 40%
Harry 10%
| 758 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:35:14am |
re: #754 Dustoff-507
I see YOUR feeling good today.
Yeah...:) I building a sand bag bunker under my bed...:)
| 759 |
opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:35:16am |
re: #613 realwest
Good morning opnion! Chris Wallace continues to give Obama cover though - on F&F today he said the reason it's taken so long to get folks hired at the upper echelon of the Treasury Department is because the Senate Finance Committee (headed by a Dem, of course) makes all nominees to under or deputy Secretaries of the Treasury go through what amounts to a 3 year audit by the IRS and "Who could be ready to deal with such a thing on such short notice?" Hey Chris - these folks being nominated (some Partner at the NYC hotsy-totsy law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell just withdrew his name from consideration cause he really didn't want the job - I heard him say it!) will be in charge of the IRS - what, do you expect the IRS to audit their bosses? Screw that - Obama's nominees are having trouble because Obama and Emmanuel know so few truly honest men and women of any ability, that's all.
Good morning Real. I could not agree more with your analysis.
When W took his first term they raked him for not having his appointments lined up for his Cabinet & assistants.
Bush had to fight the Florida Recounts, while Gore & the rest tried to steal it.
Obama has had since Nov 4th & really beyond since they had the poll numbers. He knows lots od reprobates, because water seeks it's own level.
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sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:35:38am |
re: #755 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Hey, Fridays & Outback keep advertising their "$9.99" dinner specials, so yeah, $20 could buy us dinner. Of course, $20 can't buy me a plane ticket to Chicago.
Dinner,,, yes ,,
Drinks, Tax, Tip, not so much!
| 761 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:35:40am |
re: #735 pingjockey
WELL. The Reps need a real leader, which they don't have...But I hope they find the right direction so they can re-take both.
Man how we need it.
| 762 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:35:57am |
Hiya, Lizard Nation!
And a special hi to {aussiemagpie} - I'm so sorry for your lovely, batetred country. after the fires and floodings, now this:
Oil spill disaster on Australian beaches
I pray its not as bad as the report makes out, and that you'll be able to clean it up as fast as possible.
| 763 |
pingjockey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:36:33am |
re: #757 sattv4u2
Ya really think Rahm has that much input for this marxist crap? Now that I just wrote that, you are probably right. OMG strip clubs are gonna get hit with a ten buck tax per admission. Damn, that'll hit the working girls!
| 765 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:37:11am |
re: #758 Dustyvet
Yeah...:) I building a sand bag bunker under my bed...:)
WTF... Ok I don't even want to know...
But can you send me the directions, just in case. (-:
| 766 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:37:28am |
| 767 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:37:31am |
re: #738 redstateredneck
Yeah, are all y'all feeling stimulated now?
All over but, I attribute it to the coffee.
| 768 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:37:34am |
re: #728 aussiemagpie
Hello turn !
I'm eating a lamington, a really delicious cake - sponge cake covered in melted chocolate and dipped in coconut - I'll find a pic
Also, what's "castor sugar"? I'd like to try that recipe, but I don't want to screw it up because of something lost in translation.
| 769 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:37:51am |
re: #728 aussiemagpie
Hello turn !
I'm eating a lamington, a really delicious cake - sponge cake covered in melted chocolate and dipped in coconut - I'll find a pic
Looks yummy. Do you eat those or apply them directly to your body?
:.)
When I was down there the BIL's mother made this special cake for Christmas. I can't remember exactly how she made it because we were all running different directions at once but I think she steamed the things all day or something. It was the big event of the evening when she brought the thing to the dinner table, lots of ooos and ahhhs. She was a bit tipsy by this time and applied way too much alcohol over the top of the cake. When she lit the thing off, I'm not kidding a HUGE flame went up. It damn near singed everybody's eyelashes. That was a crack up. Then they had this tradition of popping those little poppers over this wire strung over the table. Lots of fun.
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Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:38:50am |
re: #734 sattv4u2
dinner for 2 at 20 bucks? Hope you like the all you can eat menu at Arbys!
Yep that will work and you are taking me to see "Birth of a Nation" afterward right? Sound like a date.
| 771 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:38:52am |
re: #763 pingjockey
Ya really think Rahm has that much input for this marxist crap? Now that I just wrote that, you are probably right. OMG strip clubs are gonna get hit with a ten buck tax per admission. Damn, that'll hit the working girls!
I am 100% certain that he is the puppet master right now. Obama got in on his rock star teleprompter hopey changey image. Once there, he knew he needed someone that was a policy wonk/ leg breaker. he knew Rahm and his reputation from there Chicago connections.
| 772 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:38:57am |
re: #756 nyc redneck
Obama the Narcissist strikes again: people are pawns to him. His first order as Commander in Chief is to order a brigade that trained for and just arrived in Iraq to go to be moved to Af'stan, so he can claim he's drawing down. Then he orders a brigade that trained for Af'stan to be sent to Iraq to make up for the one he just ordered out. And he lied about it in front of US Marines at Camp Lejuene. Asshole.
| 773 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:39:05am |
re: #765 Dustoff-507
WTF... Ok I don't even want to know...
But can you send me the directions, just in case. (-:
Sure...:) First find a National Guard headquarters...then...:)
| 774 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:39:39am |
re: #708 sattv4u2
Heya HOOS ,,, some interesting conference tourney games last night, to say the least, huh !
I'm heading into work soon. We're doing the commercial rolls for all the ACC and SEC tourney games this week/end
The UConn game was a classic..6 overtimes..
Pitt played badly..and I picked them to win the big dance..think I'll change my mind
| 775 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:39:48am |
re: #770 Afrocity
Yep that will work and you are taking me to see "Birth of a Nation" afterward right? Sound like a date.
Okay,,,,, but don't expect to get any! It will be only our 1st date!
| 776 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:39:53am |
re: #704 pingjockey
Hey ping, there are several words worse than abomination, but I don't want Charles to wake up to read what I really think.
It's truly outrageous -and that Obama has an income line from the VA in his proposed 2010 budget is just one more example of what a lying pos he is with this "under consideration" crap.
| 777 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:39:57am |
re: #714 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Is your gross pay higher, or just your net pay?
| 778 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:40:06am |
re: #691 pingjockey
Just missed it, what's up down under with the east coast beaches? Was there an oil spill?
A cargo ship was caught up in the cyclone and spilled oil...
| 780 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:40:40am |
So why do I need to read a foreign paper to find out my government is apparently not pleased with the UK reaching out to hizbullocks?
| 781 |
Randall Gross Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:40:40am |
I've just survived another layoff, ( I'm in telecom/network, we've had one or two layoffs every year since 9/11.)
That means I will be really busy the next couple of months, if you don't see a lot of me it's not 'cause I don't luv ya all.
| 782 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:08am |
| 783 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:18am |
Whats this all about - has WAB given PB0 his cojones back, for a few moments?
Or has someone at the Pentagon got something on PB0 - and used it?
| 784 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:24am |
re: #781 Thanos
I've just survived another layoff, ( I'm in telecom/network, we've had one or two layoffs every year since 9/11.)
That means I will be really busy the next couple of months, if you don't see a lot of me it's not 'cause I don't luv ya all.
Congrats. That is a good problem to have.
| 785 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:28am |
re: #770 Afrocity
Yep that will work and you are taking me to see "Birth of a Nation" afterward right? Sound like a date.
Aim high, girl!
| 786 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:41am |
re: #774 HoosierHoops
The UConn game was a classic..6 overtimes..
Pitt played badly..and I picked them to win the big dance..think I'll change my mind
DON'T be too hasty. Losing in the conference just means A) a 2 seed instead of a 1 and B) they won;t have to go through the rest of the grind of this weekend (i.e. REST!)
| 787 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:41am |
re: #773 Dustyvet
LOL.... Rememebr I'm a fly boy. Not a ground pounder. Me dig a hole?
| 788 |
Nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:41:47am |
re: #742 pingjockey
I don't know. I'd be pissed if some little pissant was shooting ICBMs over my head!
Me too. Think they would dare do it without our ok?
| 789 |
opnion Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:42:15am |
re: #772 Kenneth
Obama the Narcissist strikes again: people are pawns to him. His first order as Commander in Chief is to order a brigade that trained for and just arrived in Iraq to go to be moved to Af'stan, so he can claim he's drawing down. Then he orders a brigade that trained for Af'stan to be sent to Iraq to make up for the one he just ordered out. And he lied about it in front of US Marines at Camp Lejuene. Asshole.
They are all just little people to BHO. He is the entitled one & his life has gone that way.
If troops suffer being shifted to areas that they were not trained for, it is for the greater good, Obama promoting Obama.
| 790 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:42:18am |
re: #775 sattv4u2
Okay,,,,, but don't expect to get any! It will be only our 1st date!
Hey! I'm the one she asked out & who promised a screening of Birth of a Nation!
| 791 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:43:12am |
re: #790 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Hey! I'm the one she asked out & who promised a screening of Birth of a Nation!
Thanks for opening the door for me!
| 792 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:43:30am |
re: #780 Creeping Eruption
So why do I need to read a foreign paper to find out my government is apparently not pleased with the UK reaching out to hizbullocks?
Obama's just pissed off the Brits got to meet them first.
| 793 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:43:36am |
re: #772 Kenneth
Then he orders a brigade that trained for Af'stan to be sent to Iraq
Well, if they trained for Afghanistan, they'll of course have lots of Arabic interpreters, so it's all good.
/
| 795 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:43:56am |
re: #772 Kenneth
Obama the Narcissist strikes again: people are pawns to him. His first order as Commander in Chief is to order a brigade that trained for and just arrived in Iraq to go to be moved to Af'stan, so he can claim he's drawing down. Then he orders a brigade that trained for Af'stan to be sent to Iraq to make up for the one he just ordered out. And he lied about it in front of US Marines at Camp Lejuene. Asshole.
Meanwhile our local national guard is being called up for active duty again.
| 796 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:45:05am |
re: #781 Thanos
I've just survived another layoff, ( I'm in telecom/network, we've had one or two layoffs every year since 9/11.)
That means I will be really busy the next couple of months, if you don't see a lot of me it's not 'cause I don't luv ya all.
That's fantastic, Thanos!
| 797 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:45:11am |
re: #710 Dustyvet
I doubt Obama's willingness to offend NORK too, but the Japanese are an entirely different matter.
I would not be surprised to see Japan shoot that mother down.
Screw NORK anyway - how the hell are they gonna make war against Japan - they can't even feed their million man army, much less figure out a way to get 'em to Japan.
| 798 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:45:29am |
| 799 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:45:33am |
re: #781 Thanos
I've just survived another layoff, ( I'm in telecom/network, we've had one or two layoffs every year since 9/11.)
That means I will be really busy the next couple of months, if you don't see a lot of me it's not 'cause I don't luv ya all.
Good for you, to have a job to hang onto!
Wishing you all the best, and that you keep it in these uncertain times.
| 800 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:46:12am |
re: #786 sattv4u2
DON'T be too hasty. Losing in the conference just means A) a 2 seed instead of a 1 and B) they won;t have to go through the rest of the grind of this weekend (i.e. REST!)
yea..It depends alot on who they have in their bracket..
I've lauded Pitt on their toughness all year..They looked soft yesterday.
red flag for me.
| 801 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:46:21am |
| 802 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:46:23am |
re: #774 HoosierHoops
BTW ,,, I'll stick with UCONN. Another year for them to win both the mens and womens titles!
| 803 |
1SG(ret) Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:46:54am |
F__K the VA, Don't ever go to the one in Marion IL. They will kill you!
| 804 |
doppelganglander Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:47:11am |
Good morning. We interrupt this attempt by half the men on the board to date Afrocity with an important message.
Michelle Obama begins advocacy as first lady
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – The nation owes not only gratitude but tangible assistance to the nation's military and their families, and she'll make that a focus of her time in the White House, first lady Michelle Obama says.
Underscoring her commitment to the plight of America's military families, Mrs. Obama used a trip to Fort Bragg as a stage for her first television interviews since the inauguration. One, with ABC's "Good Morning America," aired Friday morning.
In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House.
| 805 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:47:16am |
re: #744 Ward Cleaver
What's a "moderate oven" (in deg C, I can convert to F)? Also, what's "icing sugar"? Powdered sugar?
Hello Ward!
Moderate oven: 375 - 400F
Icing sugar: I'd say it;s powdered sugar - if it's used for icing/frosting on cakes, yes!
| 806 |
Dustoff-507 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:47:21am |
OK all you fine people.
I need to get some work done. Have a great weekend and take care of yourselves.
(-:
| 808 |
VegasRick Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:47:48am |
| 809 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:48:27am |
re: #793 Occasional Reader
Well, if they trained for Afghanistan, they'll of course have lots of Arabic interpreters, so it's all good.
/
He was so intent on trashing Pres. Bush that he couldn't be bothered to check his facts.
| 810 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:48:35am |
re: #746 redstateredneck
They go well with chardy, then?
Hi {redstaredneck}
Everything goes with chardy..... :-)
| 811 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:48:35am |
re: #803 1SG(ret)
F__K the VA, Don't ever go to the one in Marion IL. They will kill you!
My dad (WW 2 vet) swears by the one in Boston. After the war, he was civilian service at the Chelsea (Mass) Naval Hospital until he early retired, so he knows a thing or 2 about military hospitals. facilities
| 812 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:48:41am |
re: #783 yma o hyd
Whats this all about - has WAB given PB0 his cojones back, for a few moments?
Or has someone at the Pentagon got something on PB0 - and used it?
My, my. This could get interesting.
| 813 |
KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:49:06am |
re: #800 HoosierHoops
yea..It depends alot on who they have in their bracket..
I've lauded Pitt on their toughness all year..They looked soft yesterday.
red flag for me.
The Louisville Cards will go all the way!
| 814 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:49:23am |
| 815 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:49:36am |
re: #727 Nevergiveup
I've gotta disagree with you there. The Japanese will do whatever is right for Japan and if the US doesn't like it (especially with Obama as POTUS) they'll just tell us to screw off - it is JAPANESE territory that the missile is flying over.
| 816 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:06am |
re: #810 aussiemagpie
Hi {redstaredneck}
Everything goes with chardy..... :-)
I knew you'd say that!
| 817 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:17am |
re: #804 doppelganglander
Good morning. We interrupt this attempt by half the men on the board to date Afrocity with an important message.
In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House.
Riiiiiiiiiight. The same "friend" whose husband's administration is considering forcing those servicemembers to pay for their own health care.
| 818 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:19am |
I found out today that Dick Cheney runs and Executive Assassination Ring. Impeach him and Bush!
[Link: www.alternet.org...]
| 819 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:33am |
re: #807 turn
Oh man OR
I'm a little confused as to why the horse has to wear a Klansman sheet... is it so that he isn't recognized by other horses during the day?
| 820 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:37am |
| 821 |
albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:41am |
re: #797 realwest
I doubt Obama's willingness to offend NORK too, but the Japanese are an entirely different matter.
I would not be surprised to see Japan shoot that mother down.
Screw NORK anyway - how the hell are they gonna make war against Japan - they can't even feed their million man army, much less figure out a way to get 'em to Japan.
a dangerous stab at some credibility...trouble is the Norks are a hundred years behind the rest of us except with their worthless missle tech....I say whack the thing
| 822 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:50:57am |
re: #817 MandyManners
In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House.
Riiiiiiiiiight. The same "friend" whose husband's administration is considering forcing those servicemembers to pay for their own health care.
With friends like that. who needs enemies
| 823 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:51:18am |
re: #782 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
If your gross pay is the same but your net pay has risen, check for which withholding or deduction has dropped. Make sure they aren't messing with your 401K or something. And make sure you aren't going to end up having underpaid your income tax by enough to owe penalties.
| 824 |
nyc redneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:51:34am |
re: #804 doppelganglander
Good morning. We interrupt this attempt by half the men on the board to date Afrocity with an important message.
i call bull shit on wab.
and i question the timing.
| 825 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:51:41am |
re: #817 MandyManners
In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House.
Riiiiiiiiiight. The same "friend" whose husband's administration is considering forcing those servicemembers to pay for their own health care.
I think that's a typo on the Teleprompter - it was supposed to read "fiend."
| 826 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:51:43am |
re: #819 Occasional Reader
I'm a little confused as to why the horse has to wear a Klansman sheet... is it so that he isn't recognized by other horses during the day?
No. He (the horse) is embarrassed by the horses ass thats sitting on him!
| 827 |
KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:51:51am |
| 828 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:51:53am |
re: #793 Occasional Reader
Well, if they trained for Afghanistan, they'll of course have lots of Arabic interpreters, so it's all good.
/
Always good to have Arabic speakers when you want to talk with the Tollybohn hiding on that magical mountain between Af-hanistan and Pawkeestawn.
| 829 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:52:53am |
re: #818 Mad Al-Jaffee
I found out today that Dick Cheney runs and Executive Assassination Ring. Impeach him and Bush!
[Link: www.alternet.org...]
The evening of great conversation, featuring Walter Mondale and Hersh, moderated by Jacobs and titled “America’s Constitutional Crisis,” looked to be a mostly historical review of events that have tested our Constitution, by a journalist and a high government officials who had experience with many of the crises.
Sounds fricken fascinating.
/
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sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:53:07am |
re: #827 KenJen
Ya wanna bet?
sure. Oklahoma will beat them in the final 4. Connecticut beats (not sure yet who they will play)
FINAL
Conn beats Oklahoma
| 831 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:53:18am |
re: #819 Occasional Reader
I'm a little confused as to why the horse has to wear a Klansman sheet... is it so that he isn't recognized by other horses during the day?
Show some respect. That horse held the same post in the KKK as Representative Byrd.
/
| 832 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:53:21am |
re: #826 sattv4u2
No. He (the horse) is embarrassed by the horses ass thats sitting on him!
In any event, this promises to be BDVM's greatest dating triumph since he took that nice Rebecca Stein from down the street to see Triumph of the Will.
/
| 833 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:53:23am |
re: #712 UFO TOFU
HEY UFO! MY Norton Internet Security says that site you linked to is a security hazaard - contains a trojan of some sort!
| 834 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:53:51am |
re: #823 lurking faith
If your gross pay is the same but your net pay has risen, check for which withholding or deduction has dropped. Make sure they aren't messing with your 401K or something. And make sure you aren't going to end up having underpaid your income tax by enough to owe penalties.
New withholding tables went into effect.
| 835 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:53:57am |
re: #833 realwest
HEY UFO! MY Norton Internet Security says that site you linked to is a security hazaard - contains a trojan of some sort!
I though Trojans were supposed to keep you safe.
| 836 |
Ateam Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:54:29am |
Good morning (noon, evening)
Re: Friday the 13st - what's the origin of faith that this specific date is cursed? and BTW -what's the origin of daily week names (like, why Friday)?
| 837 |
sattv4u2 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:54:34am |
re: #833 realwest
HEY UFO! MY Norton Internet Security says that site you linked to is a security hazaard - contains a trojan of some sort!
Thats so you can have safe sex wif it!
| 838 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:54:49am |
re: #815 realwest
Good morning!
Speculation: Obama has asked the Japanese to do it for him, so he can pretend he's still that Man of Peace. He thinks this is so clever of him. However, the real effect will be to tell our Asian allies they're on their own. This will make China very happy.
| 840 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:54:56am |
re: #835 Creeping Eruption
I though Trojans were supposed to keep you safe.
That's funny, how you ribbed realwest. I'll bet that gave him extra pleasure.
| 842 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:55:11am |
| 843 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:55:13am |
re: #832 Occasional Reader
In any event, this promises to be BDVM's greatest dating triumph since he took that nice Rebecca Stein from down the street to see Triumph of the Will.
/
Hey, she was into women in the arts, it was directed by a woman, I thought she'd like it.
/
| 844 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:55:16am |
| 845 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:55:33am |
re: #819 Occasional Reader
Ha! I was just reading that Hersh hit piece on Bush and Cheney linked upthread. Does that guy hate our country or what?
| 846 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:56:12am |
re: #825 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
I think that's a typo on the Teleprompter - it was supposed to read "fiend."
"Fiend" is more accurate.
| 847 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:56:13am |
re: #834 redstateredneck
New withholding tables went into effect.
Really? So I'm paying less taxes? I'll have to compare this pay stub to the last one when I get home.
| 848 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:56:31am |
re: #750 VioletTiger
Those look yummie.
Do you ever eat Morton Bay Bugs (I think that's what they are called....)
Moreton Bay Bugs, these are a kind of lobster, and they're a bit pricey, - and i'm not a great lobster fan - I prefer prawns and oysters :-)
| 849 |
doppelganglander Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:56:53am |
| 850 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:56:57am |
re: #845 turn
Ah yes, about the Super Double Top Secret Executive Assassin Team that reported directly to Cheney! Way cool!
| 851 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:57:15am |
re: #835 Creeping Eruption
I though Trojans were supposed to keep you safe.
Trojan horse, as in beware of geeks bearing gifts.
| 852 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:57:21am |
re: #833 realwest
HEY UFO! MY Norton Internet Security says that site you linked to is a security hazaard - contains a trojan of some sort!
I clicked on that link, no problems here (yet?)
| 853 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:57:52am |
re: #850 Kenneth
Ah yes, about the Super Double Top Secret Executive Assassin Team that reported directly to Cheney! Way cool!
And which world leaders were assassinated during the 8 years of President Bush?
/crickets
| 854 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:00am |
re: #845 turn
Ha! I was just reading that Hersh hit piece on Bush and Cheney linked upthread. Does that guy hate our country or what?
I didn't see it. But it's amazing to me that Sy Hersh has any credibility left, with anyone.
| 855 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:02am |
re: #847 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Really? So I'm paying less taxes? I'll have to compare this pay stub to the last one when I get home.
It's not a whole lot. Average is about a $13.00 increase.
WOOT!
| 856 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:21am |
re: #787 Dustoff-507
Well y'all have dug plenty of 'em out here for yourself!
/
| 857 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:26am |
re: #836 Ateam
Good morning (noon, evening)
Re: Friday the 13st - what's the origin of faith that this specific date is cursed? and BTW -what's the origin of daily week names (like, why Friday)?
Week names are from various mythologies and planets:
Sunday - obvious
Moonday
Tuesday - forgot this one
Woden's Day (Norse mythology)
Thor's Day (Norse)
Freya's Day (Norse)
Saturnday.
| 858 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:32am |
re: #851 Kosh's Shadow
Trojan horse, as in beware of geeks bearing gifts.
They usually give out comic books or some crap.
| 859 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:43am |
re: #850 Kenneth
Ah yes, about the Super Double Top Secret Executive Assassin Team that reported directly to Cheney! Way cool!
Let me guess; Hersh's sources are so ultra super secret that nothing he writes can be confirmed?
| 860 |
lawhawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:58:50am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Prosecutors are crawling over Obama's urban policy czar, Aldolfo Carrion's dealings, based on the facts such as they are. We've got ourselves pay to play, as Carrion approved at least 3 deals over the past two years for the architect who did nearly $4k in work on his house.
The WH continues to think that if Carrion pays the architect, everything is okay.
It isn't.
Carrion appears to have broken the law and violated various ethics rules in NYC. Paying the cost for the work doesn't solve the criminal intent. Had he never been chosen by the Administration to run the newly created urban policy czar position, Carrion would likely never have been forced to admit that he never paid for the architectural services in the first place.
Never mind that this is a bogus position given that what he's being asked to do is already within the purview of HUD.
| 861 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:59:02am |
re: #840 Occasional Reader
That's funny, how you ribbed realwest. I'll bet that gave him extra pleasure.
As usual OR, each post of yours, a magnum opus
| 862 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:59:36am |
re: #855 redstateredneck
It's not a whole lot. Average is about a $13.00 increase.
WOOT!
That's dinner at Arby's, my man!
| 863 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:59:38am |
re: #854 Occasional Reader
I didn't see it. But it's amazing to me that Sy Hersh has any credibility left, with anyone.
The Douche-ocratic Underground idiots believe him.
| 864 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:59:39am |
| 865 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 7:59:53am |
re: #853 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
And which world leaders were assassinated during the 8 years of President Bush?
/crickets
Like, hellooooo? Does the name "Paul Wellstone" ring a bell?
/
| 866 |
aggieann Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:00:18am |
re: #817 MandyManners
In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House.
Riiiiiiiiiight. The same "friend" whose husband's administration is considering forcing those servicemembers to pay for their own health care.
and the same one who didn't attend the Medal of Honor inaugural ball . . .
| 867 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:00:21am |
re: #853 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
He claims it was used to assassinate terrorist. If so, my reaction is, "So what's the bad part?"
| 868 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:00:39am |
re: #818 Mad Al-Jaffee
I found out today that Dick Cheney runs and Executive Assassination Ring. Impeach him and Bush!
[Link: www.alternet.org...]
More bullshit from the moonbats.
| 869 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:00:39am |
re: #859 Occasional Reader
Let me guess; Hersh's sources are so ultra super secret that nothing he writes can be confirmed?
Shhh - I'll tell you. He gets his info beamed directly into his head from the mother ship.
| 870 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:05am |
re: #859 Occasional Reader
I could tell you his sources, but then I'd have to kill you.
| 871 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:08am |
re: #864 turn
WTF? I clicked on it, what's going to happen?
I clicked it and I'm okay. I think the geek squad has set realwest's anti virus to the highest protection level. He can hardly receive any of the stuff I email him any more.
| 872 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:27am |
re: #803 1SG(ret)
HEY TOP! Good to see y'all out here again! Didja get a chance to peruse the thread Charles was kind enough to put up yesterday covering this abomination of an idea to make Vets pay for their own healthcare/rehabilitation? If not, you should, even if you just scan it!
Otherwise, how are you doing? You back home yet?
| 873 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:35am |
re: #859 Occasional Reader
He could tell you, but then he'd havta kill ya.
| 874 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:41am |
re: #850 Kenneth
Ah yes, about the Super Double Top Secret Executive Assassin Team that reported directly to Cheney! Way cool!
Problem is people are going to believe that shit, I could probably go find a thread on it a dkos and huffpo right now.
| 875 |
UFO TOFU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:42am |
re: #864 turn
I don't know, realwest's security must be more rigorous than mine.
| 876 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:47am |
| 877 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:50am |
re: #860 lawhawk
The WH continues to think that if Carrion pays the architect, everything is okay.
Hey, it worked for Tim "Oopsie!" Geithner, so why not?
/
| 878 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:50am |
re: #805 aussiemagpie
Hello Ward!
Moderate oven: 375 - 400F
Icing sugar: I'd say it;s powdered sugar - if it's used for icing/frosting on cakes, yes!
Thanks aussue. What's "castor sugar"?
| 879 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01:51am |
| 880 |
Russkilitlover Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:02:31am |
re: #768 Ward Cleaver
Also, what's "castor sugar"? I'd like to try that recipe, but I don't want to screw it up because of something lost in translation.
Super fine sugar - most markets have it. Also used to line the rim of a martini glass when making Lemondrop Martinis!
| 881 |
Lincolntf Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:02:42am |
re: #857 Kosh's Shadow
I think Tuesday is named for Tiw, a Norse something or other.
| 882 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:02:46am |
re: #804 doppelganglander
Huh. WAB said "In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House."
Did she say who that is?
| 883 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:02:51am |
re: #854 Occasional Reader
I didn't see it. But it's amazing to me that Sy Hersh has any credibility left, with anyone.
I bet dkos and huffpo revere him.
| 884 |
nyc redneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:02:51am |
re: #849 doppelganglander
re: #824 nyc redneck
I think this is about as genuine and heartfelt as an anti-corruption campaign led by the Borgias.
i doubt she can even pull it off. she has spent too much time hating america,
to now turn around her thinking. especially regarding the military.
they won't be fooled by her self-serving agenda. not possible w/ that
perpetual frown on her face.
| 885 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:02:54am |
re: #834 redstateredneck
New withholding tables went into effect.
That would most likely explain it. But it's always worth confirming.
| 886 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:03:11am |
re: #860 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Prosecutors are crawling over Obama's urban policy czar, Aldolfo Carrion's dealings, based on the facts such as they are. We've got ourselves pay to play, as Carrion approved at least 3 deals over the past two years for the architect who did nearly $4k in work on his house.
The WH continues to think that if Carrion pays the architect, everything is okay.
It isn't.
Carrion appears to have broken the law and violated various ethics rules in NYC. Paying the cost for the work doesn't solve the criminal intent. Had he never been chosen by the Administration to run the newly created urban policy czar position, Carrion would likely never have been forced to admit that he never paid for the architectural services in the first place.
Never mind that this is a bogus position given that what he's being asked to do is already within the purview of HUD.
So Carrion is "dead meat"?
/ducking
| 887 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:03:21am |
re: #879 WriterMom
KEEEEEEEEEEENETHHHHHHHHHHH
Getoutamybrain!
Y'all doing that mind meld thing again?
| 888 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:03:28am |
re: #857 Kosh's Shadow
Week names are from various mythologies and planets:
Sunday - obvious
Moonday
Tuesday - forgot this one
Woden's Day (Norse mythology)
Thor's Day (Norse)
Freya's Day (Norse)
Saturnday.
Tuesday
| 889 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:03:30am |
re: #859 Occasional Reader
Let me guess; Hersh's sources are so ultra super secret that nothing he writes can be confirmed?
Exactly. Ha!
| 890 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:03:37am |
re: #882 realwest
Huh. WAB said "In the interview she said she wanted military families to know they have a friend in the White House."
Did she say who that is?
Their new puppy?
Hiya, {rw}!
| 891 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:03:55am |
re: #884 nyc redneck
Did you see the link I posted about the US Military? GET A KLEENEX BOX READY.
| 892 |
Honorary Yooper Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:04:06am |
re: #860 lawhawk
It looks like Carrion could be carrion under Obama's Bus shortly.
| 893 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:04:31am |
re: #887 redstateredneck
There's some people it happens with more than others.
| 895 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:05:05am |
re: #751 lurking faith
Aldi's in the US, too, in some areas. I've never been inside, though, because I didn't like the ones I went to in Germany. Random items, and almost no brands I'd ever heard of (and I'd been in Germany for months by then).
It's not that I mind trying off-brands, but not when I can't afford to throw anything away if it's bad.
But maybe it's different now; the ones I went to then only carried food.
We've found Aldi branded food to be equal and often better than name brands, and the basics like milk, butter, flour etc are cheaper which suits me!
| 896 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:05:15am |
re: #811 sattv4u2
With all due respect to you and your dad, sincerely,
1SG(ret) has had some really shitty, very recent contacts with the VA and they damn near killed him.
| 897 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:05:15am |
re: #860 lawhawk
Morning LH, you mean his excuse about waiting until everything is checked off before paying isn't going to fly?
| 898 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:05:28am |
re: #874 turn
The paranoid wing of the loony left (but I repeat myself) will believe anything bad about America, especially if there is no facts or evidence to back it up, as that only proves it's true. After all, if Cheney really did have a top secret assassin squad, you wouldn't have heard about it, right? And you didn't hear about it, so it must be true.
I suppose we only found out now when Joe Biden got their mail by accident.
| 900 |
KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:05:43am |
re: #842 HoosierHoops
True. I think we deserve a no. 1 seed, but the selection committee will probably give us a 2. We will see on Sunday.
| 901 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:05:59am |
re: #862 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
That's dinner at Arby's, my man!
Don't forget the Birth of a Nation movie.
Beerdrinking, I spit my tea when I saw that because I use that film to teach my grad students and I own a copy. So we can get the Arby's to go and hang at my place to see the DVD. Although I can't guarantee you that I wont turn into a raging black female Incredible Hulk by the movie's end. Watching Roots brings that out in me too./
| 902 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:06:19am |
So how is the WAB going to exploit military families? By inferring that they're victims, or "poor white trash"? This whole thing smells.
| 903 |
KitchenQueen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:06:41am |
re: #859 Occasional Reader
Let me guess; Hersh's sources are so ultra super secret that nothing he writes can be confirmed?
Interviewing the comatose a la Woodward?
| 904 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:06:53am |
re: #871 redstateredneck
I clicked it and I'm okay. I think the geek squad has set realwest's anti virus to the highest protection level. He can hardly receive any of the stuff I email him any more.
Thanks red, whew
| 905 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:06:58am |
I was so FERMISHT this morning that I forgot my lunch on the subway. Someone is going to hopefully going to inherit a salad, tuna sandwich on challah and seedless grapes. I realized I left it just under my seat, conveniently, when the subway doors closed. I got out and was thinking: hmmmm, I feel like I'm missing something.
GA!
| 906 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:07:23am |
re: #905 WriterMom
I was so FERMISHT this morning that I forgot my lunch on the subway. Someone is going to hopefully going to inherit a salad, tuna sandwich on challah and seedless grapes. I realized I left it just under my seat, conveniently, when the subway doors closed. I got out and was thinking: hmmmm, I feel like I'm missing something.
GA!
That sucks.
| 907 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:07:32am |
| 908 |
Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:07:57am |
| 909 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:11am |
re: #906 Ward Cleaver
It's OK. I found a handsome, older Jewish sugar daddy to buy me lunch...(my Dad).
| 910 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:14am |
I despise the Beeb for giving this asshat a platform, I deeply despise all those 'yuman roight lawyers' who are taking his fantasies up and earning a hefty sum of money for their 'work', and I utterly sepise this excuse for a human being for wailing about this in the first place.
Why should anybody believe him, never mind lsiten to him?
And why is nobody capable of asking what he was doing when captured, in the first place?
*spit*
| 911 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:25am |
re: #901 Afrocity
Although I can't guarantee you that I wont turn into a raging black female Incredible Hulk
psst... BDVM is totally into that... he's already packing his Dr. Manhattan costume.
| 913 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:35am |
re: #909 WriterMom
It's OK. I found a handsome, older Jewish sugar daddy to buy me lunch...(my Dad).
Coooool.
| 914 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:48am |
re: #875 UFO TOFU
I don't know, realwest's security must be more rigorous than mine.
I think I'm safe. Hell, the IT guys here are really good. This network is way secure and I receive absolutely NO spam. Yeah!
| 915 |
UFO TOFU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:52am |
Has anyone here seen the Angelina Jolie flick about Daniel Pearl? Mrs. Tofu watched yesterday, said it was pretty depressing.
| 916 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:08:57am |
re: #910 yma o hyd
YID! I saw SUCH a stupid article on the BBC today. Lemme see if I can find it.
| 917 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:09:00am |
re: #879 WriterMom
I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I'm on Stephen Harper's Super Double Top Secret Assassination Team. Ok, we're Canadian so we don't actually assassinate people, we just T-P their house and make annoying prank phone calls. But we are Top Secret.
| 918 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:09:01am |
re: #838 Kenneth
Good morning Kenneth - nah, the One will tell China everything he's doing. Didja notice that the escort ships Obama's sending to the South China Sea are just Destroyers?
Shoulda sent two carrier battle groups and then said to the Chinese "You were saying......?"!
| 919 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:09:05am |
re: #910 yma o hyd
I despise the Beeb for giving this asshat a platform, I deeply despise all those 'yuman roight lawyers' who are taking his fantasies up and earning a hefty sum of money for their 'work', and I utterly sepise this excuse for a human being for wailing about this in the first place.
Why should anybody believe him, never mind lsiten to him?And why is nobody capable of asking what he was doing when captured, in the first place?
*spit*
Yawn.
| 920 |
1SG(ret) Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:09:06am |
re: #872 realwest
No, didn't read it. I've been laid up awhile. Things aren't great on the health side right now. Trying to get Meds right. Can't really sit by the computer for very long. Having to pay for health care by Vet's with this asshole in charge dosen't surprise me though. I'm paying for my own care because the VA in IL nearly killed me. I'll pay to stay alive awhile longer! I know everyone can't do that and it breaks my heart to see the Vet's in the facility.
Top
| 921 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:09:29am |
re: #905 WriterMom
I hope nobody calls 911 and reports it as a suspicious package. I don't like tuna, so I would probably report it as a hazmat. :)
| 923 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:09:54am |
re: #893 WriterMom
There's some people it happens with more than others.
You and I have done it several times, but usually about something off color.
;-)
Minds in the gutter!
| 924 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:10:18am |
re: #915 UFO TOFU
You know what's depressing? That the nut cases of Hollyweird highjacked the story. Yehuda Pearl keeps publishing this drivel on 'understanding' and funding bullcrap 'understanding' and dialogue garbage.
| 925 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:10:19am |
re: #901 Afrocity
Don't forget the Birth of a Nation movie.
Beerdrinking, I spit my tea when I saw that because I use that film to teach my grad students and I own a copy. So we can get the Arby's to go and hang at my place to see the DVD. Although I can't guarantee you that I wont turn into a raging black female Incredible Hulk by the movie's end. Watching Roots brings that out in me too./
You'll have a better time with me than with SatTV - I sell rare books, you're a rare book lover. We'll have lots to talk about.
| 926 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:10:56am |
re: #841 UFO TOFUHey, not you're fault my friend - I reported it too, but you might want to run a full system scan just in case it infected your computer!
| 927 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:10:57am |
re: #917 Kenneth
Do you wear a uniform? If you do, I'll get all excited!
| 928 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:10:59am |
re: #907 MandyManners
I put a < next to a ----- and the thing disappeared.
If you don't succeed, Tyr, Tyr again.
| 929 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:11:09am |
re: #912 ploome hineni
like she was concerned about the military family before this week?
She is all over the map with her "agenda". I thought she was going to target education, kinda hard to focus when you are doing all of those Vogue cover shoots.
| 930 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:11:14am |
| 931 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:11:25am |
re: #905 WriterMom
Bummer, indeed. But at least you didn't leave your purse, or briefcase, or a brand-new pair of shoes, or...
| 932 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:11:38am |
re: #905 WriterMom
I forgot my lunch on the subway. Someone is going to hopefully going to inherit a salad, tuna sandwich on challah and seedless grapes.
So that was your lunch I found!?! Thanks, I'm getting hungry already!
| 933 |
nyc redneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:11:51am |
re: #891 WriterMom
Did you see the link I posted about the US Military? GET A KLEENEX BOX READY.
yes. i can't watch it yet, tho i'm on dial up.
| 935 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:12:02am |
re: #925 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Maybe you guys should go on a date....Afrocity-BDVM...
/back to minding my own business
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:12:03am |
re: #916 WriterMom
YID! I saw SUCH a stupid article on the BBC today. Lemme see if I can find it.
Hiya, {WriterMom}!
If it was on the Beeb it is bound to be stupid.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:12:11am |
re: #921 Mad Al-Jaffee
I hope nobody calls 911 and reports it as a suspicious package. I don't like tuna, so I would probably report it as a hazmat. :)
I love tuna (here we call it "tuna fish"). That's my sandwich today, on Mrs Baird's seven grain bread (has oats on the top of the slices). With nacho cheese Doritos, and white seedless grapes.
| 938 |
VegasRick Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:12:30am |
re: #857 Kosh's Shadow
Week names are from various mythologies and planets:
Sunday - obvious
Moonday
Tuesday - forgot this one
Woden's Day (Norse mythology)
Thor's Day (Norse)
Freya's Day (Norse)
Saturnday.
I work 6 days a week (sometimes 7), off on Sundays. My 5 day a week co-workers will tell me "have a nice weekend" I tell them that if using the term "goose" singular (1) or "geese" plural, 2 or more then technically I actually have a wookend or if I work the Sunday I have a workend.
| 939 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:12:44am |
| 940 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:12:57am |
re: #931 lurking faith
Yes. I did so much stuff this morning before I left for work, and was flustered...
| 941 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:13:30am |
re: #924 WriterMom
You know what's depressing? That the nut cases of Hollyweird highjacked the story. Yehuda Pearl keeps publishing this drivel on 'understanding' and funding bullcrap 'understanding' and dialogue garbage.
That woman is an idiot. Pearl's dad better understands the true nature of the animals that murdered Danny.
| 942 |
UFO TOFU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:13:32am |
re: #924 WriterMom
Yehuda Pearl keeps publishing this drivel on 'understanding' and funding bullcrap 'understanding' and dialogue garbage.
Oh, maybe I'll skip it then. Thanks.
| 943 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:13:33am |
re: #762 yma o hyd
Hiya, Lizard Nation!
And a special hi to {aussiemagpie} - I'm so sorry for your lovely, batetred country. after the fires and floodings, now this:
Oil spill disaster on Australian beaches
I pray its not as bad as the report makes out, and that you'll be able to clean it up as fast as possible.
Hello {yma o hyd}
It's bad for a lovely stretch of coastline, the Sunshine Coast - and it appears to be causing some grief for the State Labour Government due to the late response to this disaster - and one week out from an election too
Bunch of incompetents!
| 944 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:13:47am |
re: #852 turn
What are you running for Anti-Virus, anti-spyware? In spite of what some out here have said, I've found Norton Internet Security to be the best - protects against virus, malware, ad-ware and intrusions in every place I go to on the Internet and also scans e-mails as well.
| 945 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:13:59am |
I think I read here yesterday that John Walker Lindh's defense attorney is FCBBBHO's pick to head up the DoJ's civil department.
Link?
| 947 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:14:03am |
From the Sy Hersh link:
"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office."
Uh, Sy? Buddy? JSOC has been around for almost thirty years. It's not some scary thing made up by BusHitler and Darth Cheney.
| 948 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:14:05am |
re: #898 Kenneth
The paranoid wing of the loony left (but I repeat myself) will believe anything bad about America, especially if there is no facts or evidence to back it up, as that only proves it's true. After all, if Cheney really did have a top secret assassin squad, you wouldn't have heard about it, right? And you didn't hear about it, so it must be true.
I suppose we only found out now when Joe Biden got their mail by accident.
You know once in a while I get the nerve up to click to Olberman during commercials. I swear every question he asks is wrapped up in some America's bad conspiracy theory. How exactly do all these loony people come to be anyway? It's fricken unbelievable.
| 949 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:14:19am |
For once, a pretty stinging cartoon in today's TIMES/London:
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WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:15:02am |
re: #947 Occasional Reader
Next thing he's planning a special report on is that there is REALLY NO TOOTH FAIRY!
| 952 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:15:07am |
Aussie, what's castor sugar?
/now i'm becoming a pest
| 953 |
Kosh's Shadow Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:15:13am |
re: #907 MandyManners
I put a < next to a ----- and the thing disappeared.
That combination is an HTML comment so it didn't get displayed.
| 954 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:15:33am |
re: #951 WriterMom
Next thing he's planning a special report on is that there is REALLY NO TOOTH FAIRY!
Don't tell my kids that.
| 955 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:15:58am |
re: #947 Occasional Reader
From the Sy Hersh link:
Uh, Sy? Buddy? JSOC has been around for almost thirty years. It's not some scary thing made up by BusHitler and Darth Cheney.
Set up by that notorious right-wing deathmonger Jimmy Carter.
| 956 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:11am |
re: #941 Ward Cleaver
Amazingly, there are people whose loved ones are murdered by these barbarians, and still defend the terrorists. Remember Nick Berg...Yehuda Pearl is not the same as that of course, but he still harbours delusions of tollerance and understanding and dialogue. You don't dialogue with barbarian terrorists: you kill them.
| 957 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:31am |
re: #948 turn
You know once in a while I get the nerve up to click to Olberman during commercials. I swear every question he asks is wrapped up in some America's bad conspiracy theory. How exactly do all these loony people come to be anyway? It's fricken unbelievable.
I love the way Ari Fleischer kicked Chrissie McTingle's ass the other day.
| 958 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:39am |
re: #937 Ward Cleaver
I love tuna steak and whatever they call it when it's sushi, but I can't stand canned tuna.
I also like the acoustic blues duo Hot Tuna.
| 959 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:48am |
re: #927 WriterMom
Do you wear a uniform? If you do, I'll get all excited!
That would kind of undermine the "secret" part, now wouldn't it?
(Although here in DC, we do have the "Uniformed Secret Service", kind of a contradiction in terms.)
| 960 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:50am |
re: #768 Ward Cleaver
Also, what's "castor sugar"? I'd like to try that recipe, but I don't want to screw it up because of something lost in translation.
Ward, I'll consult my cookbooks to find what castor sugar translates to in American :-)
| 961 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:53am |
re: #957 Ward Cleaver
That was great. "How dare you?". Really good.
| 962 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:57am |
re: #941 Ward Cleaver
That woman is an idiot. Pearl's dad better understands the true nature of the animals that murdered Danny.
She got sucked in by the liberals and book deals. The same goes for the true victims of 9/11. Most of the libs when I lived in NYC blamed Condi rice and Bush. I hate the way liberals take things and twist them without concern for true problem solving.
| 963 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:59am |
re: #945 MandyManners
I think I read here yesterday that John Walker Lindh's defense attorney is FCBBBHO's pick to head up the DoJ's civil department.
Link?
Jim in Virginia. [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
| 964 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:16:59am |
re: #956 WriterMom
Amazingly, there are people whose loved ones are murdered by these barbarians, and still defend the terrorists. Remember Nick Berg...Yehuda Pearl is not the same as that of course, but he still harbours delusions of tollerance and understanding and dialogue. You don't dialogue with barbarian terrorists: you kill them.
With extreme prejudice.
| 965 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:17:00am |
re: #917 Kenneth
I probably shouldn't tell you this, but I'm on Stephen Harper's Super Double Top Secret Assassination Team. Ok, we're Canadian so we don't actually assassinate people, we just T-P their house and make annoying prank phone calls. But we are Top Secret.
Code name: CHARMIN
| 966 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:17:14am |
re: #890 yma o hyd
Hey, good afternoon {yma}! Hope you're doing well today!
| 967 |
Russkilitlover Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:17:23am |
re: #952 Ward Cleaver
Aussie, what's castor sugar?
/now i'm becoming a pest
I'll try this again.....Castor sugar is super fine sugar, found in most markets.
| 968 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:17:31am |
re: #927 WriterMom
Yup, the full mountie red serge. That's what makes it so top secret. Horse is extra.
| 969 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:17:35am |
re: #901 Afrocity
Don't forget the Birth of a Nation movie.
Beerdrinking, I spit my tea when I saw that because I use that film to teach my grad students and I own a copy. So we can get the Arby's to go and hang at my place to see the DVD. Although I can't guarantee you that I wont turn into a raging black female Incredible Hulk by the movie's end. Watching Roots brings that out in me too./
White men can't jump does the same thing to me...
| 970 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:17:59am |
re: #953 Kosh's Shadow
That combination is an HTML comment so it didn't get displayed.
I figured the < did it.
| 971 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:18:01am |
re: #961 WriterMom
That was great. "How dare you?". Really good.
Ari should have said something like, "It's no wonder that nobody watches your show".
| 972 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:18:18am |
re: #951 WriterMom
Next thing he's planning a special report on is that there is REALLY NO TOOTH FAIRY!
California kids got an IOU under their pillows in exchange for a tooth
| 973 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:18:44am |
re: #943 aussiemagpie
Hello {yma o hyd}
It's bad for a lovely stretch of coastline, the Sunshine Coast - and it appears to be causing some grief for the State Labour Government due to the late response to this disaster - and one week out from an election too
Bunch of incompetents!
Hope that scuppers their chances to be re-elected!
We have experienced some devastating oil spills here on the Welsh coasts, so I know how harrowing they are - even if they are not in the Exxon Valdes category.
Its not just the wildlife - tis all the small industries which depend on the coast - small-scale tourism, crab and lobster fisheries - and here in Wales the harvest of one whole year of cockles and winkles was wiped out.
I hope the next storms break the oil spills up and disperse them.
| 974 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:18:52am |
re: #967 Russkilitlover
I'll try this again.....Castor sugar is super fine sugar, found in most markets.
Aussie, is it that? That sounds like powdered sugar, which you said that "icing sugar" is.
| 975 |
Lincolntf Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:18:56am |
Interesting tale from Wiki., regarding Tuesday's namesake. Also, why birds don't spit...
According to the Poetic Edda and Prose Edda, at one stage the gods decided to shackle the wolf Fenrisulfr (Fenrir), but the beast broke every chain they put upon him. Eventually they had the dwarves make them a magical ribbon called Gleipnir. It appeared to be only a silken ribbon but was made of six wondrous ingredients: the sound of a cat's footfall, the beard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, bear's sinews (meaning nerves, sensibility), fish's breath and bird's spittle. The creation of Gleipnir is said to be the reason why none of the above exist.
Fenrir sensed the gods' deceit and refused to be bound with it unless one of them put his hand in the wolf's mouth. Tyr, known for his great honesty and courage, agreed, and the other gods bound the wolf. After Fenrir had been bound by the gods, he struggled to try and break the rope. When the gods saw that Fenrir was bound they all laughed, except Tyr, who had his right hand bitten off by the wolf. Fenrir will remain bound until the day of Ragnarök. As a result of this deed, Tyr is called the "Leavings of the Wolf". According to the Prose version of Ragnarok, Tyr is destined to kill and be killed by Garm, the guard dog of Hel. However, in the two poetic versions of Ragnarok, he goes unmentioned; unless one believes that he is the "Mighty One". In Lokasenna, Tyr is taunted with cuckoldry by Loki, maybe another hint that he had a consort or wife at one time.
| 976 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:19:07am |
re: #959 Occasional Reader
In Israel, the "secret" security guards supposedly have no uniform-like at the airport. Funny though there are all these gorgeous guys with short hair cuts, walking around with nice jackets, pressed shirts, some kind of "bulk" at the sides of their jackets, looking into trash cans and watching people.
| 977 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:19:12am |
re: #944 realwest
I'll have to check what they got on this machine. BBL
| 978 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:19:21am |
re: #918 realwest
Obama desperately needs the Chinese to bank-roll his humongous budget by buying US Treasury bills. He's not going to do anything to make them unhappy.
| 979 |
Amer-I-Can Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:19:30am |
re: #896 realwest
I guess I'm lucky. The VA in Kansas City is pretty good... I have not seen many issues there over the last 15 years, other than the expected over crowding which is evident everywhere. Of course, I've never had to walk in to the ER so I don't know what to expect there...
| 980 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:19:31am |
re: #972 Afrocity
California kids got an IOU under their pillows in exchange for a tooth
From The Jerkinator?
/that's what mark levin calls him
| 981 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:19:49am |
| 982 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:20:00am |
re: #769 turn
Looks yummy. Do you eat those or apply them directly to your body?
:.)When I was down there the BIL's mother made this special cake for Christmas. I can't remember exactly how she made it because we were all running different directions at once but I think she steamed the things all day or something. It was the big event of the evening when she brought the thing to the dinner table, lots of ooos and ahhhs. She was a bit tipsy by this time and applied way too much alcohol over the top of the cake. When she lit the thing off, I'm not kidding a HUGE flame went up. It damn near singed everybody's eyelashes. That was a crack up. Then they had this tradition of popping those little poppers over this wire strung over the table. Lots of fun.
LOL!
That cake was the Christmas pudding :-)
Don't you have Christmas crackers over there?
| 983 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:20:17am |
re: #929 Afrocity
She is all over the map with her "agenda". I thought she was going to target education, kinda hard to focus when you are doing all of those Vogue cover shoots.
And then there was BH0's Vanity Fair cover shoot. (barf)
I wonder if it ever occurred to him to think that Vanity Fair has nasty associations: Thackeray's story of a vicious social climber.
Me, I would NOT want my picture published with "vanity fair" anywhere near it.
| 984 |
Leonidas Hoplite Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:20:25am |
| 986 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:20:40am |
| 989 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:21:10am |
re: #956 WriterMom
Amazingly, there are people whose loved ones are murdered by these barbarians, and still defend the terrorists. Remember Nick Berg...Yehuda Pearl is not the same as that of course, but he still harbours delusions of tollerance and understanding and dialogue. You don't dialogue with barbarian terrorists: you kill them.
Speaking of which, I finally got around to watching A Mighty Heart last night. It wasn't as moonbatty as I expected (but then my expectations were low). I expected the US Embassy security guy to be portrayed as cruel, callous or bumbling, and by and large he wasn't. And they weren't too shy about showing the Pakistani CID guy having to use nasty methods in order to move the case ahead. On the other hand, it seemed to soft-soap the brutality of the jihadists... just kind of passed it over, to some degree.
| 990 |
Russkilitlover Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:21:17am |
re: #974 Ward Cleaver
Aussie, is it that? That sounds like powdered sugar, which you said that "icing sugar" is.
It's NOT powdered sugar - its super fine sugar crystals - it's used a lot in baking, also to rim a martini glass when making Lemondrop Martinis.
| 991 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:21:18am |
| 992 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:21:33am |
re: #904 turn (and Red!) no my protection levels are set at medium and this is only the second warning I've received in four months.
And it identified a specific trojan virus. I reported it anyway.
But if I were y'all I'd still run a full system Scan.
Oh and learn how to attach things to e-mails!
:)
| 993 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:21:48am |
re: #990 Russkilitlover
It's NOT powdered sugar - its super fine sugar crystals - it's used a lot in baking, also to rim a martini glass when making Lemondrop Martinis.
Oh, okay. I'll have to look for it.
| 994 |
acwgusa Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:22:39am |
re: #972 Afrocity
California kids got an IOU under their pillows in exchange for a tooth
Actually, we got taxed. Losing a tooth outside a no loose tooth zone.
| 995 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:22:57am |
re: #988 ploome hineni
/I read some where the PEarls don;t see their grandchild very often, if at all
How sad.
| 996 |
Honorary Yooper Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:00am |
re: #982 aussiemagpie
LOL!
That cake was the Christmas pudding :-)
Don't you have Christmas crackers over there?
No, we have Christmas cookies.
| 997 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:10am |
re: #989 Occasional Reader
When I first heard about that movie being made, I thought they said that Angelina Jolie was going to plan Minnie Pearl. That would have taken a pretty amazing makeup job.
| 998 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:12am |
re: #966 realwest
Hey, good afternoon {yma}! Hope you're doing well today!
Hiya, {rw}!
Hanging in there, hoping for better weather, dreaming of spring!
How're you doing?
| 999 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:21am |
re: #957 Ward Cleaver
I love the way Ari Fleischer kicked Chrissie McTingle's ass the other day.
Yeah, he really shut him up for a bit there, and that's almost impossible to do. Last night Chrissie could only clip out one little snipit to do damage control on. It was so arcane, I'm having a hard time remembering exactly what it was.
| 1000 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:30am |
re: #989 Occasional Reader
Thanks for the review..It's showing on Shotime..I was debating about whether it would be good or not. I'll give a gander I suppose..
| 1002 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:45am |
| 1004 |
KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:23:57am |
re: #974 Ward Cleaver
Aussie, is it that? That sounds like powdered sugar, which you said that "icing sugar" is.
Aussie why dont you just send Ward one of those sponge cakes with sugar icing? I think he really, really wants one.
| 1005 |
acwgusa Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:24:15am |
re: #972 Afrocity
California kids got an IOU under their pillows in exchange for a tooth
Also, we had to adhere to the Tooth Fairy Equal Opportunity Employment Act.
Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and the boys from Rice Krispies set up a union.
| 1006 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:24:16am |
re: #1004 KenJen
Aussie why dont you just send Ward one of those sponge cakes with sugar icing? I think he really, really wants one.
Good idea.
| 1007 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:24:21am |
re: #976 WriterMom
In Israel, the "secret" security guards supposedly have no uniform-like at the airport. Funny though there are all these gorgeous guys with short hair cuts, walking around with nice jackets, pressed shirts, some kind of "bulk" at the sides of their jackets, looking into trash cans and watching people.
When I finally get around to forming the Occasional Reader Praetorian Guard Super Secret Black Ops squad, my standing orders will be, "you dress like students, you dress like housewives [hat tip: The Talking Heads], and instead of glaringly obvious translucent plastic earpieces, you use bland Motorola Bluetooth earpieces for communication."
| 1009 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:24:43am |
Okay, folks, I slept in good and long today as today's a vacation day. Now I'm trying to convince myself to go clean up the tub and dry it so I can replace the caulk around the seam.
And I've hereby decided to wait at least a little longer and hang out on LGF!
What's the word today?
| 1010 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:24:54am |
re: #995 Ward Cleaver
Doesn't Yehuda have some cushy job as an editor at a magazine?
| 1011 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:25:04am |
re: #920 1SG(ret)
Ah damn Top, I'm really sorry to hear about your health situation - you able to deal with phone calls?!
| 1013 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:25:35am |
| 1014 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:25:39am |
re: #1000 HoosierHoops
Thanks for the review..It's showing on Shotime..I was debating about whether it would be good or not. I'll give a gander I suppose..
I finally saw Milk, not as moonbatty as I thought.
| 1015 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:25:41am |
re: #989 Occasional Reader
I refuse to see it. I'd rather put my time into reading, being better informed about the subjects. I get really angry when attempts are made to whitewash the brutality, and the utter denial of the nature of the beast.
| 1016 |
acwgusa Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:26:04am |
Larry Summers opens his yapper, kills the market upward trend. Thanks Larry. Have a cookie.
| 1017 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:26:05am |
re: #1009 vxbush
Okay, folks, I slept in good and long today as today's a vacation day. Now I'm trying to convince myself to go clean up the tub and dry it so I can replace the caulk around the seam.
And I've hereby decided to wait at least a little longer and hang out on LGF!
What's the word today?
Good Morning, {vx}!
| 1018 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:27:23am |
re: #1017 redstateredneck
Good Morning, {vx}!
Morning! So how long can I delay dealing with the tub? Because this really does need to get done today. I've put it off far too long.
And buzzsaw, that last one was a groaner. "Of thee icing." Ow.
| 1019 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:27:31am |
Can We Defeat the Taliban?
We must understand why our foes in Afghanistan are so formidable.
By David Kilcullen (served as the senior counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus)
Must read article of the day.
Yes, they can be defeated. Yes, it will be tough. Yes, we have to go after the leadership in Pakistan.
| 1020 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:27:36am |
re: #1016 acwgusa
Larry Summers opens his yapper, kills the market upward trend. Thanks Larry. Have a cookie.
I swa on Fox this morning a clip of FCBBHO saying that things are not as bad as they seem.
| 1021 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:27:43am |
re: #1012 buzzsawmonkey
All truly patriotic cakes have Of Thee Icing.
Patriotic cakes are the last snackfood of a scoundrel.
| 1022 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:27:55am |
| 1023 |
KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:27:57am |
re: #1014 Afrocity
I finally saw Milk, not as moonbatty as I thought.
Did Sean Penn deserve the Oscar?
| 1024 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:28:01am |
re: #1003 WriterMom
That's weird, it's working for me.
Perhaps because you've got the international version of the Beeb?
What is it about? I can go and see if I can find it in their archives.
| 1025 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:28:27am |
re: #1018 vxbush
Morning! So how long can I delay dealing with the tub? Because this really does need to get done today. I've put it off far too long.
And buzzsaw, that last one was a groaner. "Of thee icing." Ow.
I would leave it until afternoon so it will be good and dry.
;-)
| 1026 |
Digital Display Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:28:28am |
re: #1014 Afrocity
I finally saw Milk, not as moonbatty as I thought.
No matter what you think of Sean Penn as an activist or his politics..
I think he is a brilliant actor..The movie I am Sam was fantastic!
| 1027 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:28:36am |
re: #1010 Afrocity
Doesn't Yehuda have some cushy job as an editor at a magazine?
| 1028 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:28:55am |
| 1029 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:28:56am |
re: #1024 yma o hyd
Hmm. Yes, maybe. It's a story that discusses how Hamas has arrested the Dastardly Rocket Launcher People! They have no control of them but they arrested them. So stupide.
| 1030 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:09am |
re: #947 Occasional Reader
From the Sy Hersh link:
Uh, Sy? Buddy? JSOC has been around for almost thirty years. It's not some scary thing made up by BusHitler and Darth Cheney.
Ah now O.R. - why do you want to go ruin Sy's masturbatory fantasies with facts?
Just let him, ah, play with his waffle, ok?!
| 1031 |
lawhawk Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:10am |
re: #877 Occasional Reader
Hey, it worked for Tim "Oopsie!" Geithner, so why not?
/
Obama seems to think that excuse should fly for all his appointees (at least those who haven't already withdrawn from consideration - a list that keeps growing by the day). It must be a Chicago thing.
Never mind that this kind of nonsense brought prison time to Sen. Stevens or CT Gov John Rowland. Of course, both were GOPers, so everything is different.
| 1032 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:25am |
re: #1023 KenJen
Did Sean Penn deserve the Oscar?
I don't know, but I've just about sworn off movies for good. I fear that there will never be a good old-fashioned movie anymore. So I'm stuck reading classics and things I know I will like.
| 1033 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:27am |
re: #910 yma o hyd
I despise the Beeb for giving this asshat a platform, I deeply despise all those 'yuman roight lawyers' who are taking his fantasies up and earning a hefty sum of money for their 'work', and I utterly sepise this excuse for a human being for wailing about this in the first place.
Why should anybody believe him, never mind lsiten to him?And why is nobody capable of asking what he was doing when captured, in the first place?
*spit*
I'm weeping for him///////
Despicable really and he is milkng your tax money for all it's worth with the help of all the bleeding hearts
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:35am |
| 1035 |
joncelli Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:47am |
re: #373 MandyManners
If the guy had a record or was otherwise unsympathetic (i.e., an asshole to the judge) that might have been the best his attorney could do.
| 1036 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:29:48am |
re: #1026 HoosierHoops
He was really good in Mystic River. And, of course, in Fast Times.
| 1037 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:30:01am |
re: #1025 redstateredneck
I would leave it until afternoon so it will be good and dry.
;-)
Ah, but I need to clean the tub really good first; it's got a rather icky sheen of soap scum that must be dealt with. I can't wait too long to deal with that.
| 1038 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:30:04am |
re: #1018 vxbush
Morning! So how long can I delay dealing with the tub? Because this really does need to get done today. I've put it off far too long.
And buzzsaw, that last one was a groaner. "Of thee icing." Ow.
Until tonight?
| 1039 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:30:32am |
re: #978 Kenneth
Obama desperately needs the Chinese to bank-roll his humongous budget by buying US Treasury bills. He's not going to do anything to make them unhappy.
That makes sense, which knowing O is exactly why this worries me a bit
| 1040 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:30:52am |
re: #1023 KenJen
Did Sean Penn deserve the Oscar?
You know I did not see the other movies. I was going for Mickey Rourke, but honestly I have not seen the Wrestler.
I thought Sean Penn gave a better performance in Mystic river. I was not blown away.
| 1041 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:31:12am |
re: #1013 MandyManners
“I mention this for one reason: Tony Ward is the President’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division. If you want to know how far we are past 9/11, there’s your answer: John Walker Lindh’s defense attorney is going to work for Justice.”
FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!
What on earth is wrong with Obama and the Democrats!?!
| 1043 |
acwgusa Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:31:30am |
re: #1020 MandyManners
I swa on Fox this morning a clip of FCBBHO saying that things are not as bad as they seem.
Well of course. When you use powdered unicorn horn to get high, everything looks beautiful. Even Michelle.
| 1044 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:31:56am |
re: #1035 joncelli
If the guy had a record or was otherwise unsympathetic (i.e., an asshole to the judge) that might have been the best his attorney could do.
His attorney did not read what the nolo plea would mean for his client. That's shitty lawyering.
| 1045 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:32:10am |
re: #1034 Ward Cleaver
Thanks lf. Yes, I've superfine sugar in the store.
And while patriotic cakes are made with Of Thee Icing, as buzzsawmonkey noted, Blaxploitation cakes are made with superfly sugar.
| 1046 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:32:20am |
re: #1023 KenJen
Did Sean Penn deserve the Oscar?
Heard that Penn's going to do a sequel to Milk...Cottage Cheese...:)
| 1047 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:32:20am |
re: #1038 yma o hyd
Until tonight?
I would, except that I'm pretty sure the caulk will need a good 24 hours to dry and cure. So I can delay taking a shower for a while tomorrow, but I don't think I can make it the entire day!
Of course, I have to find the caulk gun too, and that's hiding somewhere in the garage...
| 1048 |
Wishing Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:32:56am |
| 1049 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:33:30am |
re: #952 Ward Cleaver
Aussie, what's castor sugar?
/now i'm becoming a pest
*Swat* :-)
Superfine sugar - another poster just posted that but I'll look up my American/English dictionary to confirm :-)
| 1050 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:33:30am |
re: #1036 Mad Al-Jaffee
He was really good in Mystic River. And, of course, in Fast Times.
Let's not forget that triumph of cinema, Shanghai Surprise.
| 1051 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:33:37am |
re: #1036 Mad Al-Jaffee
OK, I am just kind of jumping in to this movie talk with both feet, so if I am rehashing something you already discussed I apologize. Mrs. Prefect and I went and saw Slumdog Millionaire yesterday. I thought it was really good. The thing that remains with me is the conditions that some of those people live in. People here complain about being poor, but they don't know poor. Those people in that movie are poor.
| 1052 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:01am |
re: #1050 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
Let's not forget that triumph of cinema, Shanghai Surprise.
Did that come before or after Shanghai Noon?
/
| 1053 |
aboo-Hoo-Hoo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:05am |
Sales of guns, ammo still high
Four months after the election of President Barack Obama, firearms and ammunition sales in Tulsa remain at a fever pitch.Popular self-protection ammunition is often sold out at local stores, weapons are flying off shelves and the state reports an 87 percent increase in concealed carry permit applications for February 2008 over February 2009.
"People are hoarding. They're creating a shortage," Jim Prall at Sports World on 41st Street said of ammunition sales. "We've sold more ammunition in the last three months than we sold last year."
Gun sales spiked in November with the election of Barack Obama and Democrats adding to their majority in Congress. But local gun dealers say the spike is turning into a steady climb with political worries about gun rights as well as worries about the economy and potential for increased crime.
So what's to worry about with a Commie-and-Thief in charge of the Republic?
| 1054 |
albusteve Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:09am |
re: #1041 Kenneth
“I mention this for one reason: Tony Ward is the President’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division. If you want to know how far we are past 9/11, there’s your answer: John Walker Lindh’s defense attorney is going to work for Justice.”
FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!
What on earth is wrong with Obama and the Democrats!?!
liberalism
| 1055 |
FreakyBoy Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:11am |
"Defoliating a victory garden sure works up an appetite."
| 1056 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:19am |
re: #982 aussiemagpie
LOL!
That cake was the Christmas pudding :-)
Don't you have Christmas crackers over there?
Oh that was it a pudding, and it was pretty good. Got a genuine buzz eating it. Are those steamed like I recalled? No, the Christmas crackers aren't a tradition here. It was weird having Christmas there when it was warm outside. Snow is a typical Christmas theme here.
| 1057 |
Lincolntf Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:22am |
re: #1050 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey
He gets his ass kicked in "Bad Boys". Worth the price of admission.
| 1058 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:30am |
re: #1027 Ward Cleaver
Oh that so called feminist forward mag that attempted to portray the election in an unbiased way and ran an article on why women were voting the way that they are. 15 women for Obama, 3 for McCain.
Also I don't see any previous credentials for her having this job.
| 1059 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:33am |
re: #1043 acwgusa
Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark!
| 1061 |
lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:34am |
re: #1007 Occasional Reader
When I finally get around to forming the Occasional Reader Praetorian Guard Super Secret Black Ops squad, my standing orders will be, "you dress like students, you dress like housewives [hat tip: The Talking Heads], and instead of glaringly obvious translucent plastic earpieces, you use bland Motorola Bluetooth earpieces for communication."
And when your Praetorian Guard brings you someone for questioning, don't forget to tell the guards to thwow him to the fwoor!
| 1062 |
Occasional Reader Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:41am |
re: #1046 Dustyvet
Heard that Penn's going to do a sequel to Milk...Cottage Cheese...:)
I hope they show that in Iraq, but I wonder if a single Kurd'll see it.
| 1063 |
Golem Akbar Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:50am |
re: #1014 Afrocity
I finally saw Milk, not as moonbatty as I thought.
I saw Milk, and thought it a pretty clever piece of political propoganda. It was totally preachy and didn't reveal much in the way of insights into H. Milk's life. The audience here in LA really loved it, but I felt it was too slick, glossing over why he couldn't have any long-term relations work out. Plus, the bad guys were all straight (Dan White was just one). Too one-sided.
| 1064 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:34:51am |
re: #1051 Ford_Prefect
I've been meaning to see Slumdog, and it's playing at a really great old theater that's very close to home. I want to see Watchmen first, and I plant to this weekend.
| 1065 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:35:20am |
re: #1019 Kenneth
Can We Defeat the Taliban?
We must understand why our foes in Afghanistan are so formidable.
By David Kilcullen (served as the senior counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus)Must read article of the day.
Yes, they can be defeated. Yes, it will be tough. Yes, we have to go after the leadership in Pakistan.
Very interesting - and good to hear someone who knows what he's talking about to be so positive.
Btw - and this is just a general observation, no hard and fast data - but in the last few weeks there have been no reports of British soldiers killed in A'stan. You'll know about American soldiers killed, I'm sure.
There have been repeated drone attacks in the badlands of Pakistan
Since January, the SAS is in A'stan ...
Makes one think ...
| 1066 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:35:23am |
re: #1062 Occasional Reader
I hope they show that in Iraq, but I wonder if a single Kurd'll see it.
If there's a Kurd, there's a whey.
| 1067 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:03am |
re: #1041 Kenneth
“I mention this for one reason: Tony Ward is the President’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division. If you want to know how far we are past 9/11, there’s your answer: John Walker Lindh’s defense attorney is going to work for Justice.”
FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!FUCK!
What on earth is wrong with Obama and the Democrats!?!
Read this from Luigi. [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
Go to the above link to find the links in his post.
There is another angle to the Charles Freeman story that hasn't been covered. There is a problematic man called Dennis Blair who Barrack Obama named National Intelligence Director as one of his first acts. Freeman would have worked with Blair and Blair was probably Freeman's mentor for this job. Between the two of them American intel would have been sewn up.
Well, a few years ago...
Blair disobeyed orders from civilians in the Clinton Administration during the 1999 East Timorese crisis during his tenure as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Command. Amid growing international concern over violence against the independence movement in Indonesian-occupied East Timor, Blair was ordered to meet with General Wiranto, the commander of the Indonesian military, and to tell him to shut down the pro-Indonesia militia. According to Nairn, two days after the Liquiçá Church Massacre, Blair failed to deliver this message; instead he presented Wiranto with an offer of military assistance and a personal invitation to be Blair's guest in Hawaii.[5] Consequently, Wiranto’s "forces increased the Timor killings".
An East Timor advocacy group screamed like hell when Obama put this guy up for the intel chief job...
"It is unfathomable that Obama would consider appointing someone to such a prominent position who has shown so little concern for human rights in the past. Can we expect someone who has sought to undermine efforts to link human rights to military assistance to be a champion of reform? We don't think this is the kind of change people are expecting,"
Frankly, Blair sounds like Freeman's kind of guy, and vice verse. And it was Obama who was behind them both. Remember, Obama grew up partly in Indonesia. He went to grade school in Indonesia. And now he places a man in a sensitive post who is accused of aiding Indonesian atrocities against Christian East Timor. And that man tried to bring in another man who spits venom against Israel while taking money from Saudi Arabia.
| 1068 |
BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:13am |
re: #1062 Occasional Reader
I hope they show that in Iraq, but I wonder if a single Kurd'll see it.
No whey!
| 1069 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:21am |
re: #1053 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Sales of guns, ammo still high
So what's to worry about with a Commie-and-Thief in charge of the Republic?
They better not try to arrest this Grandma.
| 1070 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:21am |
Obama getting read to fire Geithner?
Well, that's one way to cheer the market up...
| 1071 |
KenJen Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:21am |
re: #1046 Dustyvet
Ha! Funny! Sounds like Rosie O'Donnel's thighs will be co-starring.
| 1072 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:33am |
re: #1043 acwgusa
Well of course. When you use powdered unicorn horn to get high, everything looks beautiful. Even Michelle.
I wish quaaludes were still around.
| 1073 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:39am |
re: #1029 WriterMom
Hmm. Yes, maybe. It's a story that discusses how Hamas has arrested the Dastardly Rocket Launcher People! They have no control of them but they arrested them. So stupide.
Will have a sniff around - but I can't recall having seen that on the British website.
| 1074 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:36:55am |
re: #973 yma o hyd
Hope that scuppers their chances to be re-elected!
We have experienced some devastating oil spills here on the Welsh coasts, so I know how harrowing they are - even if they are not in the Exxon Valdes category.
Its not just the wildlife - tis all the small industries which depend on the coast - small-scale tourism, crab and lobster fisheries - and here in Wales the harvest of one whole year of cockles and winkles was wiped out.I hope the next storms break the oil spills up and disperse them.
This is a big tourist region, and also lots of fishing goes on there
It's so sad to see photos of blackened birds being rescued from this
| 1075 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:37:28am |
re: #1065 yma o hyd
Nathaniel Fick writes a lot about serving in Afghanistan and about the history of war there in his book One Bullet Away. The book is a must read if you're a fan of the mini-series and/or book Generation Kill.
| 1076 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:37:36am |
re: #1063 Golem Akbar
I saw Milk, and thought it a pretty clever piece of political propoganda. It was totally preachy and didn't reveal much in the way of insights into H. Milk's life. The audience here in LA really loved it, but I felt it was too slick, glossing over why he couldn't have any long-term relations work out. Plus, the bad guys were all straight (Dan White was just one). Too one-sided.
I too felt that the movie was missing something. It did not go into depth about Dan White or his motives. I thought Josh Brolin's performance was better than Sean's actually.
| 1077 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:11am |
| 1078 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:15am |
| 1079 |
vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:22am |
Okay, I at least have to go clean the tub. I'll do it now while I at least have a tiny bit of motivation.
It's not Mandy's dryer buzzer, but I'll be back in a bit.
| 1080 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:29am |
re: #1074 aussiemagpie
This is a big tourist region, and also lots of fishing goes on there
It's so sad to see photos of blackened birds being rescued from this
How's wee Sam the Koala doing?
| 1081 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:39am |
re: #1046 Dustyvet
Heard that Penn's going to do a sequel to Milk...Cottage Cheese...:)
I've heard that Milk was a big supporter of Jim Jones (as in Jonestown), and even supported Jones after he started moving his followers to Guyana, and even up to the time of the massacre (mass suicide).
| 1082 |
acwgusa Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:39am |
re: #1070 Kenneth
Obama getting read to fire Geithner?
Well, that's one way to cheer the market up...
Consider that Geithner hasn't done a damn thing he was supposed to, I'm surprised he wasn't promoted, or given a pay raise. That's how Obama works.
| 1083 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:43am |
| 1084 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:38:58am |
| 1085 |
aggieann Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:39:04am |
re: #983 lurking faith
And then there was BH0's Vanity Fair cover shoot. (barf)
I wonder if it ever occurred to him to think that Vanity Fair has nasty associations: Thackeray's story of a vicious social climber.
Me, I would NOT want my picture published with "vanity fair" anywhere near it.
Check out the letters to the editor in the new issue. How many more months can they justify the evil Bush meme?
| 1086 |
WriterMom Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:39:28am |
re: #1073 yma o hyd
Here's the text:
Hamas threatens rocket militants
Hamas says continuing rocket fire by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel is "ill-timed".
Hamas, which runs Gaza, said it had nothing to do with the attacks and would act against those responsible.
The warning, issued in a brief statement, was released as Egyptian-led efforts continue to achieve a long-term ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
A key Israeli condition of any deal is the complete cessation of Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel.
Hamas has fired thousands of rockets into southern Israel over the past few years.
In eight years, around 20 Israeli civilians have been killed by rockets, and dozens injured.
'Right to resist'
This was Israel's justification for its recent, massive military operation in Gaza, in which around 1,300 Palestinians are thought to have died.
"Hamas is under pressure to make the conditions right for a ceasefire deal with Israel," says the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Gaza.
A senior leader of the Islamic Jihad movement, Khader Habib, confirmed to the BBC that Hamas forces had arrested some of the group's members for launching rockets.
Islamic Jihad said they were only released when they signed forms saying they would no longer carry out attacks.
Mr Habib said Islamic Jihad had "the right to resist" and would continue to fire rockets in response to what it saw as any aggression from Israel.
Story from BBC NEWS:
[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]
| 1087 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:39:32am |
re: #1042 1SG(ret)
Hey Top - how's about I call you around 12:00 noon Eastern time?!
| 1088 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:39:32am |
re: #1070 Kenneth
Obama getting read to fire Geithner?
Well, that's one way to cheer the market up...
That would appear to be a no brainer....so, of course, it won't happen.
| 1090 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:39:38am |
re: #974 Ward Cleaver
Aussie, is it that? That sounds like powdered sugar, which you said that "icing sugar" is.
Icing sugar is the really powdery stuff, castor sugar is fine but not powdery, and I'm still looking for you :-)
I'll be up all night for this you know so you'd better be baking lamingtons after this!
| 1091 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:40:24am |
re: #1079 vxbush
Okay, I at least have to go clean the tub. I'll do it now while I at least have a tiny bit of motivation.
It's not Mandy's dryer buzzer, but I'll be back in a bit.
Speaking of the devil, I've about three loads to do today. GAH.
| 1092 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:40:37am |
re: #1081 Ward Cleaver
I did not know that. Wasn't a CA senator one of the Jone' victims?
| 1093 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:40:47am |
re: #987 Kenneth
Some forms of mental illness are contagious.
I was kind of hoping for a serious explanation actually. I know, it would be too long. There are many causes, the loony liberals who teach this to their students and the parents and upper society elitist who pass it around in their little cliques are among them.
| 1094 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:41:12am |
| 1095 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:41:14am |
| 1096 |
aboo-Hoo-Hoo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:41:23am |
| 1097 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:41:41am |
| 1098 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:41:50am |
re: #1078 MandyManners
Milk it, baby.
Ghee, I'm from Wisconsin. If I can't hold my own on a dairy thread, I must just be conDENSEd.
| 1099 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:41:57am |
re: #1067 MandyManners
Btw - just to round up the picture, The TIMES/London Washinton correspondent happily peddles the Jewish Conspiracy lies about Freeman's retraction:
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]
Nice. Don't know what he gets paid for ...
| 1101 |
Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:42:12am |
re: #1092 Afrocity
I did not know that. Wasn't a CA senator one of the Jone' victims?
State Representative, I believe. His murder was the kick-off to the mass suicide.
| 1102 |
Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:42:24am |
re: #1076 Afrocity
I too felt that the movie was missing something. It did not go into depth about Dan White or his motives. I thought Josh Brolin's performance was better than Sean's actually.
I also heard somewhere that White's motive wasn't hate, but political revenge for Moscone and Milk not letting White back on the board of supervisors (because it would change the political makeup of the board). Also that there were two other board members he wanted to kill that day, but he wasn't able to get to them.
| 1103 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:42:40am |
| 1104 |
UFO TOFU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:42:45am |
re: #1027 Ward Cleaver
I wonder how she feels about this (old news, I know; I'm a little slow today)?
Afghan court secretly sentences student whose cause was taken up by The Independent. His crime? To download article on women's rights
| 1105 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:42:46am |
re: #1062 Occasional Reader
I hope they show that in Iraq, but I wonder if a single Kurd'll see it.
OH NO'SE! You really didn't say that didja - man them Kurds ain't gonna like it one little bit!
| 1106 |
aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:42:51am |
Kenneth
Found it!
Icing sugar is confectioners sugar
Castor sugar is superfine sugar
Let me know how your lamingtons turn out :-)
| 1107 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:43:00am |
re: #994 acwgusa
Actually, we got taxed. Losing a tooth outside a no loose tooth zone.
turnwife told me they're adding another 20 cents to a pack of smokes here.
| 1108 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:43:03am |
re: #1095 MandyManners
I don't skim off the top.
These bad food jokes make me want to have Milk of Amnesia
| 1109 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:43:28am |
re: #1092 Afrocity
I did not know that. Wasn't a CA senator one of the Jone' victims?
Rep. Ryan.
What a lot of people forget is that Jones was a flaming Commie.
| 1111 |
Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:43:39am |
re: #1067 MandyManners
I knew that about Blair. Of course, he denies he disobey an order. so what really happened? The odd thing is, what exactly are Blair's qualifications for the post? Navy commanders do have intelligence clearance, but that's not exactly the same thing as intelligence gathering & analysis experience. Freeman has zero intelligence service experience, he was a career diplomat. And Leon Paneta has zero intelligence service experience.
I call this the "experience gap" in Obama's cabinet. What they all do have in common is political loyalty to the Democratic Party and Obama.
| 1112 |
Racer X Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:43:47am |
re: #1055 FreakyBoy
"Defoliating a victory garden sure works up an appetite."
Is that what they're calling it these days?
| 1113 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:05am |
re: #1098 Creeping Eruption
Ghee, I'm from Wisconsin. If I can't hold my own on a dairy thread, I must just be conDENSEd.
Don't get all frothy.
| 1114 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:21am |
| 1115 |
rawmuse Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:27am |
re: #1089 ploome hineni
Chris Matthews is a vile toad, and his table manners are non existent.
| 1116 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:27am |
| 1117 |
realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:29am |
| 1118 |
yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:43am |
| 1119 |
victor_yugo Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:44:50am |
re: #1081 Ward Cleaver
I've heard that Milk was a big supporter of Jim Jones (as in Jonestown), and even supported Jones after he started moving his followers to Guyana, and even up to the time of the massacre (mass suicide).
| 1120 |
Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:45:23am |
Are giraffes good pets or are they too high maintenance?
| 1121 |
redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:45:23am |
| 1122 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:45:38am |
re: #1108 Afrocity
Do we have to walk on eggshells around you?
| 1123 |
MandyManners Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:45:43am |
re: #1099 yma o hyd
Btw - just to round up the picture, The TIMES/London Washinton correspondent happily peddles the Jewish Conspiracy lies about Freeman's retraction:
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]Nice. Don't know what he gets paid for ...
With friends like that....
| 1124 |
Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:03am |
| 1125 |
Dianna Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:17am |
re: #1109 MandyManners
Rep. Ryan.
What a lot of people forget is that Jones was a flaming Commie.
I used to live just a couple blocks from the old People's Temple, which was fenced off and abandoned.
A lot of people out here were really upset, even after fifteen years.
| 1126 |
aggieann Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:35am |
re: #1120 Dustyvet
Are giraffes good pets or are they too high maintenance?
"Boy, giraffes are selfish."
---B. Fife
| 1127 |
Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:41am |
| 1128 |
turn Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:43am |
re: #996 Honorary Yooper
No, we have Christmas cookies.
Hey there yoop! She means those little popping firecrackers that shoot out those little colored ribbons of paper when you tug on the string. I guess they call them Christmas crackers down under. Hey they call the dump the "tippie" - go figure. Actually it refers to tipping the bed of your yute to unload the trash.
| 1129 |
Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:43am |
| 1130 |
Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:46am |
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Nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:46:52am |
re: #1019 Kenneth
Can We Defeat the Taliban?
We must understand why our foes in Afghanistan are so formidable.
By David Kilcullen (served as the senior counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus)Must read article of the day.
Yes, they can be defeated. Yes, it will be tough. Yes, we have to go after the leadership in Pakistan.
I know you mean the Taliban leadership that is in Pakistan, but you might as well add the Pakistani Government Leadership into that.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:47:02am |
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:47:16am |
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:47:19am |
Officer Jones takes his yearly bath every June. He is a characteristic example of a dirty cop.
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Nevergiveup Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:47:45am |
re: #1109 MandyManners
Rep. Ryan.
What a lot of people forget is that Jones was a flaming Commie.
Well he was that but he was also basically just a flaming nut cake.
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:47:59am |
re: #1106 aussiemagpie
Kenneth
Found it!
Icing sugar is confectioners sugar
Castor sugar is superfine sugar
Let me know how your lamingtons turn out :-)
Thanks aussie!
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Ward Cleaver Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:48:36am |
re: #1136 Nevergiveup
Well he was that but he was also basically just a flaming nut cake.
Mmmm... Flaming Nut Cake...
Aussie, do you have a recipe for that?
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Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:48:37am |
re: #1129 Creeping Eruption
We are a cultured lot, though.
I need to get out a cowculator just to see how many are actually funny.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:48:41am |
re: #1106 aussiemagpie
I'm not baking any lamingtons, but thanks anyway. I think your conversation was with somebody else.
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:49:11am |
re: #1138 Ward Cleaver
Mmmm... Flaming Nut Cake...
Aussie, do you have a recipe for that?
I don't want anything to do with flaming nuts.
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yma o hyd Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:49:11am |
re: #1086 WriterMom
Thanks - that is just typical Beeb!
I have yet to see anything similar about the children of Sderot, or the people living there.
Worse - the facial expressions of some of the Beeb correspondents show exactly what they think about Israel.
I've bombarded them with complaint after complaint - you never get any relevant answer back, just a few weasel words.
They won't change as long as they are in the tank for NuLab and the moonbats in London.
Hearted - for my Beeb dossier!
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Ford_Prefect Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:49:49am |
re: #1139 Afrocity
I need to get out a cowculator just to see how many are actually funny.
I herd quite a few were.
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:50:12am |
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:51:01am |
re: #1141 Ford_Prefect
I don't want anything to do with flaming nuts.
A stewed chef sat pie-eyed as the crusty judge took his caraway, a punnish mint a long thyme cumin.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:51:44am |
Could Obama Be Just Too Awesome?
While the president's brilliant radiance may fill us with boundless ecstasy, it could actually hurt the eyes of those unused to such light.It’s unfashionable right now to worry about things. The dark ages of being ruled by a thuggish tyrant are now behind America. By electing Barack Obama (the pinnacle of perfect manhood) our leader, we have entered a new era of enlightenment and declared to the universe that we are no longer feuding beasts. Soon Obama’s extremely targeted and precise stimulus plan will have us overflowing with riches, and his wisdom in all things will bring peace to this world. Then all the troubles we now have will be but fables to scare children with.
Despite all this, though, I still worry. Could Obama have a flaw? Could he be, in fact, too awesome?
He has a point...
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:52:11am |
re: #1113 MandyManners
Don't get all frothy.
The short-order crook poached his eggs, shaved his chocolate, welched on his rabbits, and even his pastry was stollen.
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lobo91 Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:53:11am |
re: #1053 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Sales of guns, ammo still high
So what's to worry about with a Commie-and-Thief in charge of the Republic?
I wonder when they'll try to use this very statistic as proof that we need to ban guns?
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Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:53:14am |
Hey I thought Beermonkey was taking me out for dinner and a Moo-vie? Where did he go?
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realwest Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:53:43am |
Well it's been grand y'all but I gotta scoot - hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:54:58am |
re: #1150 Afrocity
Hey I thought Beermonkey was taking me out for dinner and a Moo-vie? Where did he go?
Cowed by your brilliance. Slipped out the back.
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Afrocity Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:55:12am |
re: #1151 realwest
Well it's been grand y'all but I gotta scoot - hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
see you guys in calf an hour.
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:56:21am |
re: #1004 KenJen
Aussie why dont you just send Ward one of those sponge cakes with sugar icing? I think he really, really wants one.
LOL!
Should be a piece of cake organising that :-)
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BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:56:38am |
re: #1150 Afrocity
Hey I thought Beermonkey was taking me out for dinner and a Moo-vie? Where did he go?
Hold on now - it's not even lunch time in Chicago! I'm going to cash my big fat check in a few minutes.
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Ateam Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:56:58am |
re: #857 Kosh's Shadow
Week names are from various mythologies and planets:
Sunday - obvious
Moonday
Tuesday - forgot this one
Woden's Day (Norse mythology)
Thor's Day (Norse)
Freya's Day (Norse)
Saturnday.
Thanks, you & all others contributing to solve this matter.
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vxbush Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:57:19am |
re: #1091 MandyManners
Speaking of the devil, I've about three loads to do today. GAH.
Whoa! I wasn't trying to install guilt there, my dear! You have my permission to ignore it.
Of course, my hubby does our laundry, so I can't complain.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:57:56am |
Okay, a bunch of women in the office next to mine just went screaming and running to their window because Obama's suv drove by. I think I'm gonna puke.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:58:39am |
US Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair believes Kim Jong-il:
"I tend to believe that the North Koreans announced that they are going to do a space launch, and I believe that that's what they intend," Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
So this is why Obama hired Blair. Heaven help us.
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Kenneth Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:59:29am |
re: #1158 Mad Al-Jaffee
Okay, a bunch of women in the office next to mine just went screaming and running to their window because Obama's suv drove by. I think I'm gonna puke.
Did they throw eggs?
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Mad Al-Jaffee Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:00:34am |
re: #1160 Kenneth
No, but I thought they were going to throw their panties at him.
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:00:41am |
re: #1056 turn
Oh that was it a pudding, and it was pretty good. Got a genuine buzz eating it. Are those steamed like I recalled? No, the Christmas crackers aren't a tradition here. It was weird having Christmas there when it was warm outside. Snow is a typical Christmas theme here.
Yes, the pud is steamed for hours ...I love a summer Christmas, backyard cricket after lunch, and perhaps a swim later :-)
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redstateredneck Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:02:02am |
re: #1158 Mad Al-Jaffee
Okay, a bunch of women in the office next to mine just went screaming and running to their window because Obama's suv drove by. I think I'm gonna puke.
I think I'm gonna puke.
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:02:55am |
re: #1080 Dustyvet
How's wee Sam the Koala doing?
Hello, Dustyvet, and I haven't heard anything lately so everything must be OK with Sam :-)
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Dustyvet Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:04:27am |
re: #1165 aussiemagpie
Hello, Dustyvet, and I haven't heard anything lately so everything must be OK with Sam :-)
The Video of Sam accepting the water from the Firemen, is still moving...
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Desert Dog Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:05:45am |
re: #1062 Occasional Reader
I hope they show that in Iraq, but I wonder if a single Kurd'll see it.
That sounds pretty cheesy to me
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:07:34am |
re: #1137 Ward Cleaver
Thanks aussie!
OOPS I meant to write WARD CLEAVER :-)
It's 3am here you know...
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:08:23am |
re: #1168 aussiemagpie
OOPS I meant to write WARD CLEAVER :-)
It's 3am here you know...
What in God's name are you doing up at 3:00 am?
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lurking faith Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:08:49am |
re: #1085 aggieann
Check out the letters to the editor in the new issue. How many more months can they justify the evil Bush meme?
Hahahahahahahaha!
Seriously, I'm not going to read that thing. I get enough of it just seeing the cover in the checkout line at the grocery store.
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:10:22am |
re: #1140 Kenneth
You can always start baking of course!
My apologies, I was reading one of your posts while thinking about my post to Ward!
And women are supposed to be good at multitasking....
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:13:48am |
re: #1169 Creeping Eruption
What in God's name are you doing up at 3:00 am?
It's Saturday and it's wind down time after a busy week at work, so as I'm too old to go out clubbing, here I am....
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Creeping Eruption Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:16:02am |
re: #1172 aussiemagpie
It's Saturday and it's wind down time after a busy week at work, so as I'm too old to go out clubbing, here I am....
Well, cheers then. Here's to winding down after a long week [raising coffee mug]
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abaleh Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:19:06am |
re: #956 WriterMom
Amazingly, there are people whose loved ones are murdered by these barbarians, and still defend the terrorists. Remember Nick Berg...Yehuda Pearl is not the same as that of course, but he still harbours delusions of tollerance and understanding and dialogue. You don't dialogue with barbarian terrorists: you kill them.
And there's the case of Yvonne Ridley (?), who was kidnapped by the Taliban and had an overdose of the Stockholm Syndrome, causing her to convert to Islam and spew terrorist propaganda.
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UFO TOFU Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:19:45am |
re: #1157 vxbush
Of course, my hubby does our laundry, so I can't complain.
Please don't tell anyone, women will get ideas...
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aussiemagpie Fri, Mar 13, 2009 9:20:16am |
re: #1173 Creeping Eruption
Well, cheers then. Here's to winding down after a long week [raising coffee mug]
Thanks :-)
I'm wound down now, and bed beckons...
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Goggins Fri, Mar 13, 2009 10:33:03am |
Sorry, but the only appropriate response to "offer not good in sectors R or N" is, "They never come up into the hills!"
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Guy Caballero Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:27:17pm |
There's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut...
Those are the headlines and now for the rumors behind the news...
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Guy Caballero Fri, Mar 13, 2009 12:28:09pm |
And who can forget "The Church of the presumptuous assumption of the blinding light."
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