I don't know how to respond to that.

RIBBIT

ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

/poetic license, doesn't really work that way

For redc1c4, and anyone else who has been driven crazy by books and attitudes like that of Nickeled and Dimed:

Hmmm, sounds like some university students I used to know. Dust for brains, and not much use to anything else.

And a new week commences. At the rate of Obamanations, it should be interesting.

I'm #6! I'm #6! I'm #6!

re: #8 pewboy

I'm #6! I'm #6! I'm #6!

Says the guy at #8.

AIG PLANNING HUGE BONUSES AFTER $170 BILLION BAILOUT

WASHINGTON — The American International Group, which has received more than $170 billion in taxpayer bailout money from the Treasury and Federal Reserve, plans to pay about $165 million in bonuses by Sunday to executives in the same business unit that brought the company to the brink of collapse last year.

Word of the bonuses last week stirred such deep consternation inside the Obama administration that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner told the firm they were unacceptable and demanded they be renegotiated, a senior administration official said. But the bonuses will go forward because lawyers said the firm was contractually obligated to pay them.

The payments to A.I.G.’s financial products unit are in addition to $121 million in previously scheduled bonuses for the company’s senior executives and 6,400 employees across the sprawling corporation.

Edward M. Liddy, the government-appointed chairman of A.I.G., argued that some bonuses were needed to keep the most skilled executives.

Unsubstantiated Scuttlebutt is, that Congress is so concerned over AIG's success partly because AIG insures the US Congressional Retirement Plan. Anyone know how to check this out?

(wasn't talking about this thread)

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

re: #5 BlueCanuck

Hmmm, sounds like some university students I used to know. Dust for brains, and not much use to anything else.

Put me down and stop shaking me...:P

Overnight open thread, the signal for me to go to bed...

Night all.

I knew someone would think that . . .
But I thought of that after pressing the "post" button.

re: #15 jcm

Overnight open thread, the signal for me to go to bed...

Night all.

G'Nite, jcm!

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening Lizards.

People will post anything on the You Tubes.

/suck it up LGFers!

speaking of empty minds:

Dear MoveOn member,
Think oil companies should pay their fair share of taxes? So does President Obama.

In his budget, the President has proposed cutting billions of dollars in unfair subsidies and tax loopholes for oil and gas companies, to help pay for critical priorities like clean energy and green jobs.1 After all, they don't exactly need the help: ExxonMobil made a record profit of $45.2 billion last year.2

But Big Oil is already fighting back. Like other corporate special interests, they're lobbying heavily to gut Obama's budget. The American Petroleum Institute has announced plans to fly top executives into Washington to help save their tax breaks.

And they've got a lot of friends on Capitol Hill, thanks to millions in campaign contributions over the years. So we've got to be louder than Big Oil, and remind our elected representatives that they work for us, not ExxonMobil. Click here to sign our petition:

link deleted

The petition reads: "Congress should stop the giveaways and tax loopholes for oil and gas companies—and invest in green jobs and clean energy instead."

President Obama has a bold vision for switching America to a clean-energy economy and putting millions of people back to work in good, green jobs.

His proposed budget is full of important provisions to make it happen: investing in wind and solar power, retrofitting buildings to make them more energy-efficient, and helping working families cope with rising energy costs.

To help pay for it, oil and gas companies need to start paying their fair share in taxes. For years, they've been receiving generous subsidies—and taking advantage of loopholes that let them avoid paying royalties from drilling on federal lands and in the Gulf of Mexico.

Unsurprisingly, the industries that make their profits from producing and burning oil, coal, and natural gas are spending millions of dollars working to undermine the president's plans for a clean-energy economy.

So we're organizing a massive grassroots campaign to get his back and take them on. Can you help out by signing our petition? Click here:

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Thanks for all you do.

–Adam, Justin, Michael, Ilyse and the rest of the team

Sources:

1. "Obama seeks repeal of industry tax breaks, subsidies," Greenwire, February 26, 2009. [Link: www.moveon.org...]

2. "Exxon 2008 profit: A record $45 billion," CNNMoney.com, January 30, 2009. [Link: www.moveon.org...]

3. "A backlash against Obama's budget," BusinessWeek, March 5, 2009. [Link: www.moveon.org...]

4. "Obama budget boosts green spending," CNNMoney.com, February 26, 2009. [Link: www.moveon.org...]

re: #12 MJ

Hey, is that a real Ambrose quote?
Never heard it before tonight.
Ambrose fan here, even if he was a total nut.

Academic

Definition

3. theoretical or hypothetical; not practical, realistic, or directly useful: an academic question; an academic discussion of a matter already decided.

4. learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality.

More Bierce:

CABBAGE, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.

/Obama, take note

re: #8 pewboy

I'm #6! I'm #6! I'm #6!

Six for Two! Six for Two!

re: #21 rawmuse

Hey, is that a real Ambrose quote?
Never heard it before tonight.
Ambrose fan here, even if he was a total nut.

Yup, it's a real one.
I'm a fan too.

re: #10 Tamron

AIG PLANNING HUGE BONUSES AFTER $170 BILLION BAILOUT

Unsubstantiated Scuttlebutt is, that Congress is so concerned over AIG's success partly because AIG insures the US Congressional Retirement Plan. Anyone know how to check this out?

/it's called contract law, pay up or get your ass sued off

re: #21 rawmuse

Hey, is that a real Ambrose quote?
Never heard it before tonight.
Ambrose fan here, even if he was a total nut.

My juniors read "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge". Correction, my students were assigned to read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

Devils Dictionary?

Ayn Rand Was Right: America Goes Fascist

Much has been written lately about whether America is becoming a socialist country. Socialism refers to the economic and social system in which everything is owned by the government.

Nobody has been writing about whether the United States has become a fascist system. Ayn Rand, author of "Atlas Shrugged" and "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" wrote the following about fascism, many decades ago:

"Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal." Also: "Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership ... the government officials hold the economic, political and legal power of life or death over the citizens."

Isn't this what we're witnessing today? The government bails out AIG, Citibank and others. The government now owns as much as 80 percent of many of these companies. Yet the government leaves these companies free to "profit," to pay for executive bonuses, vacations and the like with federal tax dollars. These former capitalist companies are permitted to go on existing as before, only funded by government rather than private dollars. On the course set last fall by President Bush and now even more aggressively by President Obama and Congress, America is becoming a fascist country. It's fair to say this, because once banks and major financial institutions are owned by the government (yet are still nominally "private" and "for-profit"), you have embraced fascism, by Ayn Rand's definition.

People mistakenly equate the term "fascist" with racism and Hitler-like concentration camps. These are not the essence of fascism, although they are the byproduct of it. Why? Because fascism, no more than socialism, cannot possibly work as a rational economic system. It routinely denies individual rights and eliminates personal responsibility through the creation of a massive welfare state. As society falters under this fiscally and morally disastrous economic system, government takes over in other ways and ultimately restricts basic individual, human freedoms. It starts with the nationalization of banks and health care--and ends with speech, religion and who knows what else.

America, like pre-Nazi Germany, is forsaking economic liberty for what a majority apparently still believe will lead to greater welfare for all. Has anybody yet made the connection that it doesn't work this way? If you allow former private companies to still operate at a profit, using billions of taxpayer dollars, you get fraud and abuse. This sets the stage for the Barney Franks of the world to step in and essentially turn the whole thing socialist, leading to nothing less than permanent economic stagnation like the former Soviet Union.

Fascism holds an unhealthy appeal to a once capitalist, free country now in denial about the cause and nature of its woes. As a whole, the people of the U.S. do not want to collapse into communism or socialism. The pretense of private profit and ownership with government actually running the show seems appealing, at first, to those seeking a "third way." Yet as Ayn Rand warned, it's impossible. Fascism is no better than the evil of socialism.

re: #26 Killian Bundy

/it's called contract law, pay up or get your ass sued off

So declare the company bankrupt, at the hands of this very group. Sue them for damages, violating fiduciary duty, unfair enrichment, fraud, negligence, and sodomy.

re: #30 itellu3times

So declare the company bankrupt, at the hands of this very group. Sue them for damages, violating fiduciary duty, unfair enrichment, fraud, negligence, and sodomy.

Sodomy?...

re: #30 itellu3times

So declare the company bankrupt, at the hands of this very group. Sue them for damages, violating fiduciary duty, unfair enrichment, fraud, negligence, and sodomy.

A good lawyer will get the sodomy charge reduced to following too closely.

Mary Clancy goes up to Father O'Grady after his Sunday morning
service, and she's in tears.

He says, "So what's bothering you, dear?"

She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news. My husband passed away
last night."

The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, Mary, did he
have any last requests?"

She says, "That he did, Father..."

The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary?"

She says, "He said, 'Please, Mary, put down the Goddamn gun...'"

Telegraph finally wakes up to the global warming climate change scam.
Nobody listens to the real climate change experts

Considering how the fear of global warming is inspiring the world's politicians to put forward the most costly and economically damaging package of measures ever imposed on mankind, it is obviously important that we can trust the basis on which all this is being proposed. Last week two international conferences addressed this issue and the contrast between them could not have been starker.

The first in Copenhagen, billed as "an emergency summit on climate change" and attracting acres of worldwide media coverage, was explicitly designed to stoke up the fear of global warming to an unprecedented pitch. As one of the organisers put it, "this is not a regular scientific conference: this is a deliberate attempt to influence policy".

Whole article

re: #10 Tamron

AIG PLANNING HUGE BONUSES AFTER $170 BILLION BAILOUT

Unsubstantiated Scuttlebutt is, that Congress is so concerned over AIG's success partly because AIG insures the US Congressional Retirement Plan. Anyone know how to check this out?

What - AIG pays if the government defaults? There's a 0% chance the govt will fail to fund a retirement plan for its own employees. It doesn't make any sense.

re: #33 Erik The Red

Mary Clancy goes up to Father O'Grady after his Sunday morning
service, and she's in tears.

He says, "So what's bothering you, dear?"

She says, "Oh, Father, I've got terrible news. My husband passed away
last night."

The priest says, "Oh, Mary, that's terrible. Tell me, Mary, did he
have any last requests?"

She says, "That he did, Father..."

The priest says, "What did he ask, Mary?"

She says, "He said, 'Please, Mary, put down the Goddamn gun...'"

And she said, "Contract law, I had no choice."

POLITICS

A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

re: #27 SanFranciscoZionist

My juniors read "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge". Correction, my students were assigned to read "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge".

Great story! Although I've only seen the movie (which was purchased by Rod Serling to use as the last episode of The Twilight Zone, as it was the only way to bring the last season in under budget).

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

re: #31 Dustyvet

Sodomy?...

Had to throw that one in the end, didn't you?

LIBERTY

One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

If the global crisis continues at the present rate, by the end of this year only two banks will be left operational .... the Blood Bank and the Sperm Bank!

And before you know it, these two will merge, and the whole place will be full of bloody wankers.

MEDICINE

A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.

re: #32 SanFranciscoZionist

A good lawyer will get the sodomy charge reduced to following too closely.

LOL

I am embarrassedd to even tell the lizards this but my hubby has a small AIG IRA. I opened the statement and it is up over last year. I feel like a welfare recipient.

a taxidermist from connecticut decides to take a vacation to arkansas. after arriving, he decides to visit the local watering hole. as he enters the bar he notices all eyes are on him and there is an uncomfortable feeling in the air. the taxidermist approaches the bar and asks the bartender for a beer. after handing the beer to him the barkeep says, "don't think i've seen you around here before, where you from and what do you do?" the tsxidermist answers, "i'm from connecticut and i mount animals.""oh," the bartender says, "its ok boys, he's one of us!"

re: #27 SanFranciscoZionist

Living in San Francisco as we do, we are afforded rich literary pickings, so much so, i can scarcely keep up at times. But I do enjoy reading Mr. Bierce, Herman Wouk, Jack London, and Bret Harte, also Rob't Louis Stevenson. I have even hiked up to the place where Mr. S convalesced when he was ill, where he wrote "Silverado Squatters". There was snow up there in April.

re: #39 CyanSnowHawk

Had to throw that one in the end, didn't you?

Ask itellu3times it's his post...:)

LAWYER

One skilled in circumvention of the law.

re: #33 Erik The Red

Paddy comes in to the church on Sunday morning with a terrible black eye. "It looks as though you've been fighting again, Paddy," says Father McClanahan.

"I have, Father, but I didn't mean to at all."

"Well, what happened?"

"I was visiting over at the O'Reilly's, and Kathleen asked me to hold the baby while she made the dinner. So I had the wee child in my arms, when her husband got home. 'How are you doing, Paddy?' he says. 'I'm holding me own,' I says, and that's when the fight started..."

re: #26 Killian Bundy

/it's called contract law, pay up or get your ass sued off

--Hmmph. Are you saying that we the citizens were going to get our asses sued off if we didn't foot the bailout giveaway?
.

JUSTICE

A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

re: #46 Dustyvet

Ask itellu3times it's his post...:)

I wanted a little separation from it, I just showered.

re: #4 gmsc

I really cant stand that Ehrenreich woman and the fact that high schools and colleges ram that book down students' throats is infuriating. They should require Scratch Beginnings as well if they are going to do that.

re: #51 CyanSnowHawk

LOL

re: #21 rawmuse

Hey, is that a real Ambrose quote?
Never heard it before tonight.
Ambrose fan here, even if he was a total nut.

He mysteriously disappeared in Mexico, as I recall.

re: #46 Dustyvet

Had to throw that one in the end, didn't you?

Ask itellu3times it's his post...:)

This is your missionary position, if you choose to accept it.

re: #55 itellu3times

This is your missionary position, if you choose to accept it.

Look out, that post will blow after you read it.

re: #45 rawmuse

You ever check out American Digest? The blog.

re: #54 UncleSam

He mysteriously disappeared in Mexico, as I recall.

Yes, during hostilities.

re: #30 itellu3times

So declare the company bankrupt, at the hands of this very group. Sue them for damages, violating fiduciary duty, unfair enrichment, fraud, negligence, and sodomy.

/AIG bankruptcy would be more internationally complicated and economically damaging than a GM bankruptcy and I'm all up for a GM bankruptcy and now GM doesn't seem to be opposed to it either

A LITTLE GUN HISTORY

I Thought you might appreciate this . . .

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun con trol.
From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend
themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
------------------------------
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to
1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
up and exterminated.
------------------------------
Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939
to 1945, a total of 13 million Jews and others who were unable to defend
themselves were rounded up and exterminated.
------------------------------
China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to
1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated
------------------------------
Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964
to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.
------------------------------
Uganda established gun co ntrol in 1970. From 1971 to
1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up
and exterminated.
------------------------------
Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975
to 1977, one million educated people, unable to defend themselves, were
rounded up and exterminated.
---- -------------------------
Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the
20th Century because of gun control: 56 million.

re: #52 ArchangelMichael

I really cant stand that Ehrenreich woman and the fact that high schools and colleges ram that book down students' throats is infuriating. They should require Scratch Beginnings as well if they are going to do that.

They'd never do that. It makes America look good, so that would be, uh, racist or something!

Who you going to believe? A sincere, caring woman, or some lying white male?

/////

re: #52 ArchangelMichael

I really cant stand that Ehrenreich woman and the fact that high schools and colleges ram that book down students' throats is infuriating. They should require Scratch Beginnings as well if they are going to do that.

that would inhibit the intended result

Damn. Past 11:30. Night lizards.

/Tucks head under wing.

re: #57 Gus 802

You ever check out American Digest? The blog.

No. Should I? Got a link?

re: #56 CyanSnowHawk

Look out, that post will blow after you read it.

If it does, the secretary of state will deny all knowledge, ... she's good at that.

re: #59 Killian Bundy

/AIG bankruptcy would be more internationally complicated and economically damaging than a GM bankruptcy and I'm all up for a GM bankruptcy and now GM doesn't seem to be opposed to it either

If they pay these bonuses, they will be burned at the stake. Saves a lot of litigation, right?

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:

A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
.

re: #64 rawmuse

[Link: www.americandigest.org...]

It might be a little too off the wall for you. But he makes some interesting literary connections from time to time. I haven't been there for a while so perhaps it changed.

re: #65 itellu3times

If it does, the secretary of state will deny all knowledge, ... she's good at that.

as long as it isn't the SecState that's going to blow........

(even if she does suck. %-)

re: #49 Tamron

--Hmmph. Are you saying that we the citizens were going to get our asses sued off if we didn't foot the bailout giveaway?
.

/people who sell insurance don't get salary, they live on commissions and bonuses or they starve to death

How many guns do the US need to combat an enemy?

Two: one to shoot and one to sell him to shoot back.

re: #67 Tamron

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS:

A doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
.

ACTIVIST:

Someone who is so dedicated to a cause that they devote much of their time to demanding that someone else solve the problem.

re: #45 rawmuse

Living in San Francisco as we do, we are afforded rich literary pickings, so much so, i can scarcely keep up at times. But I do enjoy reading Mr. Bierce, Herman Wouk, Jack London, and Bret Harte, also Rob't Louis Stevenson. I have even hiked up to the place where Mr. S convalesced when he was ill, where he wrote "Silverado Squatters". There was snow up there in April.

Have you been to Jack London State Historic Park, in The Valley of the Moon?
Beautiful.
[Link: www.parks.sonoma.net...]

re: #66 itellu3times

If they pay these bonuses, they will be burned at the stake. Saves a lot of litigation, right?

/have you ever sold insurance for a living?

re: #43 Pvt Bin Jammin

LOL

I am embarrassedd to even tell the lizards this but my hubby has a small AIG IRA. I opened the statement and it is up over last year. I feel like a welfare recipient.

The lizards love you, and would like to ask for a loan.

///

A tough old Montana cowboy once told his grandson that, if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a little gunpowder on his oatmeal every morning.

The grandson did this religiously, and he lived to the age of 93. When he died he left 14 children, 28 grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren ... and a 15-foot hole in the wall of the crematorium.

re: #69 redc1c4

Sec. of State? I still have a window open from the last thread, might as well post it.

Image: bill_and_hillary_clinton_1.jpg

Keep out those pesky drafts! For only $19.99 plus S/H
;D

re: #21 rawmuse

Hey, is that a real Ambrose quote?
Never heard it before tonight.
Ambrose fan here, even if he was a total nut.

You can get what is likely the full skinny on "The Devil's Dictionary" here.

I have tomorrow off, and plan to use it to houseclean like a crazy woman.

Must sleep first.

Goodnight, lizards and company.

re: #70 Killian Bundy

/people who sell insurance don't get salary, they live on commissions and bonuses or they starve to death

Then let them starve to death! I also work on commission, and nobody volunteered to keep ME out of the poor house.
.

re: #80 SanFranciscoZionist

Chau SFZ.

re: #80 SanFranciscoZionist

Sweet dreams.

re: #74 Killian Bundy

/have you ever sold insurance for a living?

Apparently this is exactly the financial products division, I guess the one that sold all the CDS. Does that count as insurance? When they had no reserves behind the policies? And they ended up getting called for benefits that bankrupted the entire company ten times over? And that deserves a bonus? I got their bonus right here.

/I've sold some stuff, not insurance, and hung with a lot of sales and marketing types, fwiw

re: #81 Tamron

Then let them starve to death! I also work on commission, and nobody volunteered to keep ME out of the poor house.
.

I'll volunteer to do it, and I'll do it right now:

STAY THE F*CK OUTTA MY HOUSE!
/////

OK, you're a German company who is releasing a new microwave treat you can heat at home that is basically chicken bits with a tasty curry sauce. You want a name that will help make it an international sensation.

So what name do you choose?

Yep. It's a real product.

Did You Know?

Via American Digest via Flopping Aces.

re: #86 gmsc

Are you kidding?

re: #86 gmsc

Is that the Golden Gate Bridge in the background? What absurd, surreal packaging.

re: #86 gmsc

Serious?

re: #88 Pvt Bin Jammin

Are you kidding?

Nope.

As I said, it's a real product. Here's more on it from Spiegel Online.

re: #70 Killian Bundy

/people who sell insurance don't get salary, they live on commissions and bonuses or they starve to death

Most everyone today does get salary if they are employees, and these bonuses are not commissions. It's an obscenity to be paying bonuses out of the public money, to employees of what must be the most bankrupt companies in history. If the execs of this company want to pay their employee bonuses out of their past ten years' earnings, that might be fair. If the employees don't get their bonuses, it's no skin off my teeth, it's that many more indictments of the management.

This whole issue should be crystal clear to anyone with any grasp of the facts, or a modicum of common sense. Of course, those are mostly lacking in the talking heads that were on the news shows this morning.

Tender, Juicy Obama Fingers Hit the Shelves
By Charles Hawley

A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of the possible racist overtones of the product.

Selling products has, of course, become a bit more difficult than usual these days. No wonder then that companies everywhere are turning to optimistic marketing messages in an effort to counteract the steady drum beat of negativity coming from front page headlines around the globe.

re: #86 gmsc

OK, you're a German company who is releasing a new microwave treat you can heat at home that is basically chicken bits with a tasty curry sauce. You want a name that will help make it an international sensation.

So what name do you choose?

Yep. It's a real product.

Oh man. Somebody get the hook already.

re: #91 gmsc

Hat tip! ;)

re: #81 Tamron

Then let them starve to death! I also work on commission, and nobody volunteered to keep ME out of the poor house.
.

Okay, so if someone comes along and says hey, you're going to work for free now and it's retroactive for any bonuses you've already earned.

/how long will you work there?

re: #89 Slumbering Behemoth

Is that the Golden Gate Bridge in the background? What absurd, surreal packaging.

re: #90 Gus 802

Serious?

Yep. See #91 gmsc.

Apparently, quick and fast American food is popular in Europe right now, so packaging with American symbols and American names sell well.

re: #93 Gus 802

Oh geez, I didn't even think about the fried chicken thing. Someone already accused them of racism?

re: #98 capitalist piglet

You must have been reading my mind because I was thinking about that connection. This is rather, strange.

re: #96 Killian Bundy

Okay, so if someone comes along and says hey, you're going to work for free now and it's retroactive for any bonuses you've already earned.

/how long will you work there?

Show me a bonus contract that pays off if the company loses money.

re: #86 gmsc

OK, you're a German company who is releasing a new microwave treat you can heat at home that is basically chicken bits with a tasty curry sauce. You want a name that will help make it an international sensation.

So what name do you choose?

Yep. It's a real product.

Roasted with Curry Dip? Is curry dip a common condiment in Europe or are they lumping everyone on the darkish side, skin tone wise, altogether?

re: #102 ArchangelMichael

Usually I would associate curry with the UK. Not Spain, France, or Germany. I'm still trying to put together an association between Obama and chicken fingers. It's a bit like selling Nixon Fingers, or Clinton Cereal. Are Europeans that stupid?

re: #103 buzzsawmonkey

I was kind of thinking that way too.

re: #84 itellu3times

Apparently this is exactly the financial products division, I guess the one that sold all the CDS. Does that count as insurance? When they had no reserves behind the policies? And they ended up getting called for benefits that bankrupted the entire company ten times over? And that deserves a bonus? I got their bonus right here.

/I've sold some stuff, not insurance, and hung with a lot of sales and marketing types, fwiw

Yeah credit default swaps is unregulated insurance and it's now a huge problem. They deserve the bonus because they earned it under contract. If they did something illegal, they should go to jail. Bad bets on a grand scale.

/fire them if AIG can function without them, but abrogating existing contracts will only make it worse and yes, AIG is the poster child for "too big to fail", we'd all feel the repercussions in the shorts on a global scale

re: #104 Gus 802

Usually I would associate curry with the UK. Not Spain, France, or Germany. I'm still trying to put together an association between Obama and chicken fingers. It's a bit like selling Nixon Fingers, or Clinton Cereal. Are Europeans that stupid?

I associate it with Indian cooking.

I don't want to know what's in Clinton Cereal. Nope. Don't even tell me.

re: #101 itellu3times

Show me a bonus contract that pays off if the company loses money.

/it's based on personal sales levels, not overall company performance

re: #104 Gus 802

Are Europeans that stupid?

The jury is still out on this but I'm leaning toward ridiculously self-deluded and ignorant.

re: #107 capitalist piglet

I associate it with Indian cooking.

I don't want to know what's in Clinton Cereal. Nope. Don't even tell me.

You think that's bad?

Do you remember the game "Operation"? Can you imagine a worse cross promotion than Operation Cereal?

re: #109 Killian Bundy

Isn't the government running AIG now?

re: #110 ArchangelMichael

The jury is still out on this but I'm leaning toward ridiculously self-deluded and ignorant.

Yes. My thinking is that it is opposite of the stereotype. They're not all a bunch of "virtuoso violinists" that speak 5 languages. They are in fact buying into the Obama marketing machine.

re: #108 buzzsawmonkey

May I offer you a nice, steaming bowl of Lewinsky Bits?

Now you're just being mean. I'll have you know I am prone to nightmares, Mr. Monkey.

re: #104 Gus 802

I've always had Curry in Indian, Thai, and even Japanese dishes. That's why I was wondering if they are so out of touch that they think alle Leute mit braunhaut mußt Curry essen.

re: #112 Pvt Bin Jammin

Isn't the government running AIG now?

Yes they are, for all intents and purposes.

/and they inherited all the existing employee contracts

re: #113 Gus 802

Yes. My thinking is that it is opposite of the stereotype. They're not all a bunch of "virtuoso violinists" that speak 5 languages. They are in fact buying into the Obama marketing machine.

Wait – so, when I pack for France, I shouldn't necessarily pack my striped shirt, beret, and grocery bag with French bread sticking out of it?

re: #111 gmsc

You think that's bad?

Do you remember the game "Operation"? Can you imagine a worse cross promotion than Operation Cereal?

You just kind of have your finger on the pulse of all the weird stuff tonight, don'tcha? LOL

re: #115 ArchangelMichael

Yep, Indian and Thai here. Come to think of it the sauce on that box doesn't look like curry. Looks like a BBQ sauce.

re: #118 capitalist piglet

You just kind of have your finger on the pulse of all the weird stuff tonight, don'tcha? LOL

Yes, somehow the geeky guy who lives in Vegas manages to find weird stuff.

(I happened to see Operation Cereal when grocery shopping today.)

re: #116 Killian Bundy

Even deeper pockets. I get it but it isn't easy to swallow.

re: #117 gmsc

Nope, just bring a case of "Obama Fingers" packed in dry ice!

re: #123 Gus 802

Nope, just bring a case of "Obama Fingers" packed in dry ice!

That's a recipe for "Hit of the Party" if I've ever heard one.

Oval office.
President alone.
Lewinsky walked in.
Hold all calls.
Myanmar Shave.

Also, last time I checked, the AIG bailout was something like $176 billion.

/$110 million in contractual bonuses doesn't seem to be the real problem in this equation, like corporate jets, it's a red herring

re: #124 capitalist piglet

A party of one. Where substance follows image.

skulls full o' mush

re: #128 wiffersnapper

skulls full o' mush

re: #129 gmsc

That was painful.

The most recent comment on this thread said "3 weeks 6 days ago" before I went to the comment string.

re: #121 gmsc

Yes, somehow the geeky guy who lives in Vegas manages to find weird stuff.

(I happened to see Operation Cereal when grocery shopping today.)

Well how about this? Ever hear of Smutto?

Yep, it still says "3 weeks, 6 days ago."

LOL

Interesting. I have evidence that tonight's posts were, in fact, all made three weeks and six days ago!

re: #113 Gus 802

Yes. My thinking is that it is opposite of the stereotype. They're not all a bunch of "virtuoso violinists" that speak 5 languages. They are in fact buying into the Obama marketing machine.

I'm almost positive that multi-lingual crap is a lefty urban legend or at least highly exaggerated. I know in Germany and possibly France, they require high school students to learn English, but I seriously doubt they are generally fluent in it unless they are exposed on a regular basis. I expect than anyone you would run into as a tourist probably can speak enough English so that you don't require an interpreter, but it would probably still be a good idea. You don't want the waiter to serve you TV dinners and dishwater after making lude comments about your teenage daughter.

My German teacher from high school immigrated with her husband to the US in 1979 because he was offered a high paying aerospace job here. She could barely speak English at the time (and told us many humorous stories about when she was learning it), and 10 years later when I started taking her class she was fluent but had a heavy accent still. She also could not speak French, despite originally living in Baden-Würtemberg, near the French border.

Everyone I know that lives in England only knows English.

Man we're stuck in the past here.

re: #134 Clemente

re: #93 Gus 802

I think they meant to use the word "opportunistic", rather than "optimistic" in that article. If not, they should have.

/certainly would have made it more "accuristic"...

Not only am I a bit slower than Ojoe, I'm apparently talking to myself...

re: #132 BlueCanuck

Well how about this? Ever hear of Smutto?

[Video]

I think I'll pass, although it sounds better than Spermies (no salt added!).

re: #136 Ojoe

Man we're stuck in the past here.

Whew! What an afternoon and evening of baseball! I'm not sure if it's because the Celtics and Bruins look like they're going to tank after such a dominating 1st half or just because I miss baseball, but I hardly changed the channel on the World Baseball Classic today....

Coverage started out with a rematch of the '06 Championship matchup- Japan vs. Cuba.....which again went to the Japanese and again with a stron outing by Daisuke Matsuzaka....

Then I caught the USA/Holland matchup. I'm a little sorry to see the Dutch go, since they were the darlings of the tournament after beating the Dominicans twice in the preliminaries to advance. Having said that, it was an elimination game and better them than us....

And after dinner, I tuned in to catch most of the Korea/Mexico game on TV. I don't think I've heard of any of these guys on the Korean team, but I imagine their performance tonight has caught the attention of MLB International scouting....

As some of you have probably gathered; I miss baseball.

re: #139 Clemente

Not only am I a bit slower than Ojoe, I'm apparently talking to myself...

...and yet, you're losing the argument!
;)

re: #135 ArchangelMichael

I'm almost positive that multi-lingual crap is a lefty urban legend or at least highly exaggerated. I know in Germany and possibly France, they require high school students to learn English, but I seriously doubt they are generally fluent in it unless they are exposed on a regular basis. I expect than anyone you would run into as a tourist probably can speak enough English so that you don't require an interpreter, but it would probably still be a good idea. You don't want the waiter to serve you TV dinners and dishwater after making lude comments about your teenage daughter.

My German teacher from high school immigrated with her husband to the US in 1979 because he was offered a high paying aerospace job here. She could barely speak English at the time (and told us many humorous stories about when she was learning it), and 10 years later when I started taking her class she was fluent but had a heavy accent still. She also could not speak French, despite originally living in Baden-Würtemberg, near the French border.

Everyone I know that lives in England only knows English.

if i wanted to learn another language, i'd move to another country......

like Texas, for instance. %-)

re: #141 Pvt Bin Jammin

Really fine, that!

re: #137 Clemente

I had to upding you for that one.

Now it is fixed. Too bad.

Hell, AIG is trading at .50.

/the reason AIG can't be allowed to fail is that half the world is counterparty to transactions they've written

re: #135 ArchangelMichael

It's pretty much a myth as you state. Europeans are highly parochial and historically have stuck within their own nationalities and particular congregations. The stereotype promoted by Americans in large part has been spread in large part by academics, musical and art aficionados, and the standard liberal, in that: if it's European, it's better. This was expanded from coffee, foods, wines and music into the citizens of Europe. Thus a BMW was better so ergo: Europeans are better. It's more or less a logical leap that they make from point a, products, to point b, the people.

Something like that.

re: #147 Ojoe

Guess Charles is awake after all. I don't envy him, keeping everything going, dealing with the weirods, etc.

Thanks, Charles.

re: #149 Gus 802

Right. Europeans are better, who were stupid enough to ignite two world wars in one century.

re: #150 Pvt Bin Jammin

It was some sort of window of opportunity, but I can't figure out for what.

LOL

re: #151 Ojoe

Right. Europeans are better, who were stupid enough to ignite two world wars in one century.

that's because all the smart europeans immigrated here......

re: #141 Pvt Bin Jammin

[Video]

If you like Twilight Zone, have you ever seen "The Scary Door"?

"As per your request, please find enclosed...the last man on Earth..."

re: #152 Ojoe

It was some sort of window of opportunity, but I can't figure out for what.

LOL

back to the future?

Be back in 3 weeks and 6 days ...

re: #152 Ojoe

LOL I remember one night when Charles shut a thread down but those of us who were on it kept posting. We had a lot of fun speculating.

re: #151 Ojoe

I know. I was thinking about that while typing but wanted to be brief. WWI and WWII. Not counting the conquests of Britain, and France. Millions killed in European wars some of which took place within generations of our very own. Yet, we only get the constant drone of the error of America's ways from the left (Europe, American Leftists, and Islamacists).

re: #102 ArchangelMichael

Roasted with Curry Dip? Is curry dip a common condiment in Europe or are they lumping everyone on the darkish side, skin tone wise, altogether?

Not sure about Germany, but I know in the Netherlands that ketchup/catsup is almost universally flavored with curry. It's a cultural thing there, in everything from Burger King ketchup packets, to the Heinz 57 at the grocer, to the table ketchup you find at a greasy burger joint.

It's pretty good, actually. I like curry as a ketchup additive much more than sugar/corn syrup, but that's just me.

re: #155 redc1c4

back to the future?

/pretty sure you'll like this

re: #159 Slumbering Behemoth

Not sure about Germany, but I know in the Netherlands that ketchup/catsup is almost universally flavored with curry. It's a cultural thing there, in everything from Burger King ketchup packets, to the Heinz 57 at the grocer, to the table ketchup you find at a greasy burger joint.

It's pretty good, actually. I like curry as a ketchup additive much more than sugar/corn syrup, but that's just me.

I'd be interested in trying some if I could find it.

re: #158 Gus 802

Too few people read extensively in history. I suppose Oprah could encourage this though.

/ Ho ho ho.

BBL, I am going to try and do some work.

re: #154 gmsc

LOL That would be my kind of luck.

re: #156 Ojoe

Be back in 3 weeks and 6 days ...

Watch out for Orcs.

/and remember, Mordor is thataway =>

re: #118 capitalist piglet

You just kind of have your finger on the pulse of all the weird stuff tonight, don'tcha? LOL

Hey, if weird stuff is my theme tonight, I'm going with it.

First up, why do a 1971 Krofft Saturday morning show theme and a 2008 Britney Spears song sound so much alike?

re: #162 Ojoe

Later!

I'm out too. Monday is already here! Good night folks.

re: #162 Ojoe

Too few people read extensively in history. I suppose Oprah could encourage this though.

/ Ho ho ho.

BBL, I am going to try and do some work.

Hurry back!

NASA Live Feed

gmsc's weird stuff #2:

Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", with vocals by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormet!

re: #165 gmsc

Hey, if weird stuff is my theme tonight, I'm going with it.

First up, why do a 1971 Krofft Saturday morning show theme and a 2008 Britney Spears song sound so much alike?

She was a "mouseketeer" IIRC

re: #167 Gus 802

I'm out too. Monday is already here! Good night folks.

Night, Gus!

re: #170 gmsc

gmsc's weird stuff #2:

Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", with vocals by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormet!

[Video]

I'm not going for that one again. LOL

re: #160 Killian Bundy

redc1c4

/pretty sure you'll like this

/you know, silence is the sincerest form of non-protest acceptabce

Later, lizards, I am about to doze off here at the keyboard. Take care, all.

re: #171 Pvt Bin Jammin

She was a "mouseketeer" IIRC

Yep, she was!

re: #175 Pvt Bin Jammin

Later, lizards, I am about to doze off here at the keyboard. Take care, all.

'Nite.

re: #176 gmsc

The teenage zone. LOL

re: #161 ArchangelMichael

I suppose you could hop a flight to Amsterdam, but it seems like a long way to go just to sample a condiment.

The flavoring is subtle and not overpowering, much like the sugar/corn syrup flavoring is here in the states.

I prefer it, but I lean much more towards the savory than I do the sweet.

/being that I am the kind of guy who says "If you have room for dessert, you didn't eat enough meat".

re: #178 Pvt Bin Jammin

The teenage zone. LOL

There's also the pre-teen zone!

I got to see these Dancers in the Honolulu Festival Parade today.

At this point in time, I would not celebrate my city sharing the same name with the greatest destroyer of American Wealth.
And "0" isn't calling Hawaii home anymore. He's a Chi' Town boy now.

AP On Obama: You've Been Punked

Change is in the air. Not just that the inside the Beltway pundits are noticing that He is not all that He is cracked up to be. Not just that people are taking to the streets in protest. Not just that our European allies no longer are amused. Not just that the Chinese and Russians are worried that His economic policies may be too socialist.

No, you know that things are changing when the normally compliant cheerleaders at AP take to mocking Him:

The economy is fundamentally sound despite the temporary "mess" it's in, the White House said Sunday in the kind of upbeat assessment that Barack Obama had mocked as a presidential candidate.

Obama's Democratic allies pleaded for patience with an administration hitting the two-month mark this week, while Republicans said the White House's plans ignore small business and the immediate need to fix what ails the economy. After weeks projecting a dismal outlook on the economy, administration officials — led by the president himself in recent days — swung their rhetoric toward optimism in what became Wall Street's best stretch since November.

During the fall campaign, Obama relentlessly criticized his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, for declaring, "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." Obama's team painted the veteran senator as out of touch and failing to grasp the challenges facing the country.

But on Sunday, that optimistic message came from economic adviser Christina Romer. When asked during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" if the fundamentals of the economy were sound, she replied: "Of course they are sound."

Hey America. Remember that election? You've been punked. Remember all the "sky is falling" rhetoric to get the stimulus package passed? You've been punked. Remember "imagine hope"? You've been punked.

Pretty funny. The One who shows the fierce urgency to mock others is being mocked.

re: #181 IslandLibertarian

I got to see these Dancers in the Honolulu Festival Parade today.

At this point in time, I would not celebrate my city sharing the same name with the greatest destroyer of American Wealth.
And "0" isn't calling Hawaii home anymore. He's a Chi' Town boy now.

Find them and ask them why they hate capitalism and the American economy.

re: #174 Killian Bundy

redc1c4

/you know, silence is the sincerest form of non-protest acceptabce

i was over at my on line class painting a fool into a corner.

re: #184 redc1c4

i was over at my on line class painting a fool into a corner.

Thank God!

/I thought you were getting redc1c4 soft

re: #183 gmsc

Find them and ask them why they hate capitalism and the American economy.

Oh, they don't hate American capitalism and economy. They just love "0".
And they were so "genki & kawai". I couldn't get tough with them.
And it's not their fault they live in Obama...........

Below an ad with a voice-over by Australian activist Cate Blanchett, encouraging her fellow Australians to turn their lights off for Earth Hour.

However, I doubt the people who animated the ad were Australian. If you actually visit Australia and flip the light switch down, as depicted in the ad, you'll find that you'll be turning lights on, not off.

re: #185 Killian Bundy

Thank God!

/I thought you were getting redc1c4 soft

on that disgusting note, i'm outta here, and am leaving you with this as pay back.

re: #188 redc1c4

on that disgusting note, i'm outta here, and am leaving you with this as pay back.

Apparently, you don't music by The Carpenter?

/What? There's only one now.

re: #189 gmsc

Apparently, you don't like music by The Carpenter?

/What? There's only one now.

PIMF

re: #187 gmsc

Oh, that's brilliant. And just two days after a new moon. I've seen a similar comercial here in the states sponsored by eSurance.

Maybe if we're real lucky, the city managers will see fit to shut down the grid altogether.

Reminds me of a Jack Handey style quote, atributed to a fifteen year old:

"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started".

re: #188 redc1c4

on that disgusting note, i'm outta here, and am leaving you with this as pay back.

That's like some retarded LOTR movie, not even proper speed metal.

/stand clear, nothing an M-60 won't take care of in more than 100 rounds

re: #191 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, that's brilliant. And just two days after a new moon. I've seen a similar comercial here in the states sponsored by eSurance.

Maybe if we're real lucky, the city managers will see fit to shut down the grid altogether.

Reminds me of a Jack Handey style quote, atributed to a fifteen year old:

"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started".

In my house, we celebrate Earth Hour by turning on as many lights in the house on as possible.

re: #193 gmsc

I plan on doing the same. Turn on every light I can, run the washer and dryer, and turn on my laptop as well as my desktop. I'm celebrating the abundance of prosperity afforded by western civilization and it's greatest offspring: science, technology and capitalism.

re: #191 Slumbering Behemoth

"If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started".

My favorite Jack Handey deep thought: "I believe in making the world better for my children, but not my children's children because I don't think that kids should be having sex"

Beginning of the week Asian market outlook this morning:

Taiwan's TCW Index- up 1.5%

Australia's All Ordinaries- up .08%

Singapore's Straits Times Index- down .06%

Korea's KOPSI Seoul Composite Index- down .05%

Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index- up 3.6%

Japan's Nikkei 225 Index- up 1.75%

New Zealand's NZSE 50 Index- up .85%

China's Shanghai Composite- up 1.15%

/Inofrmation is subject to change- Fenway Nation disavows any and all liability for said information

re: #194 ArchangelMichael

I plan on doing the same. Turn on every light I can, run the washer and dryer, and turn on my laptop as well as my desktop. I'm celebrating the abundance of prosperity afforded by western civilization and it's greatest offspring: science, technology and capitalism.

/cap and trade your exuberant energy wasting ass more than big time times ten if enacted

re: #194 ArchangelMichael

I plan on doing the same. Turn on every light I can, run the washer and dryer, and turn on my laptop as well as my desktop. I'm celebrating the abundance of prosperity afforded by western civilization and it's greatest offspring: science, technology and capitalism.

Exactly – Exploit-The–Earth Day!

re: #195 ArchangelMichael

re: #191 Slumbering Behemoth

To whom should I forward my electric bill?

re: #193 gmsc

Don't do it! You pay for that electricity!

I am sure you're being sarcastic, but I find it absurd and idiotic that some folks really think the way to counter the asinine, emotional messages from the environmentalists is by being wasteful (a.k.a., being equally asinine and emotional).

Instead, I think you should shut off all your lights, and set a hippie on fire for warmth and illumination.
////

re: #199 littleoldlady

re: #191 Slumbering Behemoth

To whom should I forward my electric bill?

Hook up to Hoover Dam – it can power 25 cities with the same electricity requirements of Las Vegas!

re: #189 gmsc

Apparently, you don't music by The Carpenter?

/What? There's only one now.

Call me reactionary, call me a romantic, call me nostalgic, call me a lover of soft rock, call me irresponsible too.. But I have love the Carpenters every since I heard "We've only just begun" in 1970.

re: #200 Slumbering Behemoth

Don't do it! You pay for that electricity!

I am sure you're being sarcastic, but I find it absurd and idiotic that some folks really think the way to counter the asinine, emotional messages from the environmentalists is by being wasteful (a.k.a., being equally asinine and emotional).

Instead, I think you should shut off all your lights, and set a hippie on fire for warmth and illumination.
////

What can I say? Here in Las Vegas, we're not big fans of turning off lights.

re: #201 gmsc

I'm gonna need one heck of an extension cord! ;-)

re: #187 gmsc

Plan on having all my lights going full blast for that hour. But I am like red in that aspect, ornery and cynical.

re: #199 littleoldlady

You can send it to me, but if you want it to get paid you better include dirty pictures. ;)

re: #206 Slumbering Behemoth

You can send it to me, but if you want it to get paid you better include dirty pictures. ;)

You mean like this?

Ooops....left out a rather large reigonal/international player.

India's BSE Sensex- up 1.75%

re: #203 gmsc

Nor of immolating hippies, it would seem. Certainly not the Vegas I thought I knew.
/

re: #206 Slumbering Behemoth

You can send it to me, but if you want it to get paid you better include dirty pictures. ;)

You mean like this?

Coal is over 50% of our power grid, nuclear another ~10%. All bad! Don't even think about domestic drilling for oil or natural gas. It's all bad!

/bend way over for Unicorn Faerie Power and I sincerely hope you're healthy enough to bend over that far

re: #206 Slumbering Behemoth

Dirty is no problem around here!

/...checks laundry room

How about dusty? Will dusty do?

re: #209 Slumbering Behemoth

Nor of immolating hippies, it would seem. Certainly not the Vegas I thought I knew.
/

Are you kidding? We're still trying to get rid of the remnants of the mob days in the 30s and 40s, such as our mayor.

We'll get up to cleaning up after the 60s eventually...

re: #202 BatGuano

Call me reactionary, call me a romantic, call me nostalgic, call me a lover of soft rock, call me irresponsible too.. But I have love the Carpenters every since I heard "We've only just begun" in 1970.

Listen to the lyrics.

/Karen died of anorexia, no matter how cool her alto was

How did Orson Welles know?
;)

I'm just hoping we still have a Vegas here to clean up after Obama's done with us.

re: #201 gmsc

Hook up to Hoover Dam – it can power 25 cities with the same electricity requirements of Las Vegas!

gmsc, what do you think? Could Hoover dam be built today? Considering labor costs, governmental regulations, union interference, regulatory incompetence, environmental wacko organizations, lack of workers willing to extend themselves, I say no.

re: #212 littleoldlady

I'll take 'em all. We can use 'em to fill vending machines in Japan. We'll make a fortune.

/Brilliant!

re: #212 littleoldlady

Dirty is no problem around here!

/...checks laundry room

How about dusty? Will dusty do?

Waking up...You Rang?

re: #217 BatGuano

Ummm isn't Ground Zero still a dry hole in the ground? Question answered.

re: #216 Benthoven

Randall Flagg has to set up shop somewhere. Even after the apocolypse...

re: #214 Killian Bundy

Listen to the lyrics.

/Karen died of anorexia, no matter how cool her alto was

Yeah, I know the lyrics and I remember the day she died. There was irony in that song.

re: #220 Benthoven

Ummm isn't Ground Zero still a dry hole in the ground? Question answered.

/no. they're making progress

re: #219 Dustyvet

Bwaha! :-)

DUSTY! :-)

A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak.

After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done.

The monsignor replied, "When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. if I start to get nervous, I take a sip."

So next Sunday he took the monsignor's advice. At the beginning of the sermon, he got nervous and took a drink. He proceeded to talk up a storm.

Upon his return to his office after mass, he found the following note on the door:

1. Sip the Vodka, don't gulp.
2. There are 10 commandments, not 12.
3. There are 12 disciples, not 10.
4. Jesus was consecrated, not constipated.
5. Jacob wagered his donkey, he did not bet his ass.
6. We do not refer to Jesus Christ as the late J. C.
7. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are not referred to as Daddy, Junior and the Spook.
8. David slew Goliath, he did not kick the shit out of him.
9. When David was hit by a rock and was knocked off his donkey,don't say he was stoned off his ass.
10. We do not refer to the cross as the "Big T."
11. When Jesus broke the bread at the Last Supper he said, "Take this and eat it for it is my body." He did not say "Eat me"
12. The Virgin Mary is not called "Mary with the Cherry,"
13. The recommended grace before a meal is not: Rub-A-Dub-Dub thanks for the grub, yeah God.
14. Next Sunday there will be a taffy pulling contest at St. Peter's, not a Peter pulling contest at St. Taffy's!

re: #217 BatGuano

gmsc, what do you think? Could Hoover dam be built today? Considering labor costs, governmental regulations, union interference, regulatory incompetence, environmental wacko organizations, lack of workers willing to extend themselves, I say no.

No way.

When Boulder Dam (as it was referred to in its earlier days) was being built, the government even went so far as to build Boulder City to house the workers.

To keep them moral and upright, however, gambling was illegal in Boulder City. To this day, Boulder City remains the only city in Nevada where gambling is illegal.

(Of course, when you're not that far from Las Vegas, that only does so much good.)

re: #221 Fenway_Nation

"His goals typically center on bringing down civilizations, usually through spreading destruction and sowing conflict." Hmmm I guess Obama can get started on his "Mission Accomplished" banners.

re: #222 BatGuano

Yeah, I know the lyrics and I remember the day she died. There was irony in that song.

/ready?

re: #216 Benthoven

Look on the bright side. After Obama is gone, you might still have Reid.
/wait, what?

re: #225 Dustyvet

Hey Dv stop saving my jokes and reposting them weeks later:)////

re: #224 littleoldlady

Bwaha! :-)

DUSTY! :-)

(((((Lady))))))

re: #230 Erik The Red

Hey Dv stop saving my jokes and reposting them weeks later:)////

Okey dokeys...:)

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

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

Ah, littleoldlady is here. :)

/now Erik and I won't have to suffer abuse from the other lizards.

re: #233 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

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

{lol} morning

re: #233 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

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

Yummy!

/Wait? Why is my fruitcup dusty?

Thanks for your scrumptious fruitcup littleoldlady.

re: #229 Slumbering Behemoth

Look on the bright side. After Obama is gone, you might still have Reid.
/wait, what?

Well, hopefully someone will have driven a wooden stake through his cold, dead, vampiric heart by then.

re: #234 BlueCanuck

Ah, littleoldlady is here. :)

/now Erik and I won't have to suffer abuse from the other lizards.

Actually, you 2 didn't do too bad last night.

re: #232 Dustyvet

Okey dokeys...:)

Fire away buddy. I love reading them as much as I do posting.

re: #239 gmsc

True, but all the grumbling and complaining...

/looks pointedly at batguano

re: #240 Erik The Red

Fire away buddy. I love reading them as much as I do posting.

If you think life is bad. How would you like to be an egg?
* You only get laid once.
* You only get eaten once.
* It takes 4 minutes to get hard. Only 2 minutes to get soft.
* You share your box with 11 other guys.
* But worst of all.... The only chick that ever sat on your face was your mother.

So cheer up.....Your life ain't that bad!

re: #187 gmsc

Below an ad with a voice-over by Australian activist Cate Blanchett, encouraging her fellow Australians to turn their lights off for Earth Hour.

However, I doubt the people who animated the ad were Australian. If you actually visit Australia and flip the light switch down, as depicted in the ad, you'll find that you'll be turning lights on, not off.

You are correct! A lot of things are upside-down and back-to-front like that in Australia.

re: #233 littleoldlady

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

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

Thank you lol!

re: #239 gmsc

Actually, you 2 didn't do too bad last night.

Yeah I just logged in an saw that lol must have over slept. Beat Blue by 8 seconds and man did we take abuse.

re: #233 littleoldlady

BACON!

G'nite {LoL}, g'nite Lizards.

BlueCanuck! :-)

I thought you and Erik did a fabulous job yesterday!

/I can retire at any time now ;-)

Erik! :-)

gmsc! :-)

BatGuano! :-)

'Night, Slumbering! :-)

re: #243 Crux Australis

You are correct! A lot of things are upside-down and back-to-front like that in Australia.

Why is that, anyway? Copying New Zealand? Popular vote? The Coriolis Effect?

re: #246 Slumbering Behemoth

BACON!

G'nite {LoL}, g'nite Lizards.

G'nite, SB!

re: #241 BlueCanuck

True, but all the grumbling and complaining...

/looks pointedly at batguano

Oh, c'mon you were perpetrating a fraud and I did get whacked without complaint.

During Exploit-The-Earth Day, not only will I have all my lights on for that hour, I think I'll cook some 0bama Fingers, as well!

All futures indexes green.

/Rain is good today

re: #251 gmsc

During Exploit-The-Earth Day, not only will I have all my lights on for that hour, I think I'll cook some 0bama Fingers, as well!

I'll never eat chicken again...:P

re: #250 BatGuano

My horrorscope for today:

Someone is deflecting his or her own lack of success by placing blame on a person you know. The finger pointing is creating a lot of drama. You might be tempted to jump in and help; however, becoming involved is not in your best interests.

;-)

So, how 'bout them [fill in a successful sports team here]?