I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes … have you ever seen anything more revolting than an egg yolk breaking and spilling its yellow liquid? Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.
— Alfred Hitchcock
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reloadingisnotahobby Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:24:47am |
Coming from from A. Hitchcock...Now that's funny!
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Russkilitlover Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:25:08am |
Mr. Russkilitlover can't even watch me eat eggs. I love them sunny-side up or light poach. Lots of lovely runny yolk for my toast!
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Kragar Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:25:12am |
Carnies scare me. Big hands. Smell like cabbage.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:25:44am |
Years ago, I read (in Readers' Digest), that Alfred Hitchcock would sometimes talk in puns.
He told an actress "genuine chopper" when he wanted her to "real-ax".
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:26:02am |
Why is it that boiled eggs smell like farts?
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JohnnyReb Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:26:43am |
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:26:44am |
CAIR Spokeswoman arrested for drunk driving, claims Islamaphobia...
Muslim on Wellbutrin, a Former CAIR Spokeswoman, Claims Gilbert PD Racially Profiled Her
The former office manager and spokesperson for CAIR-AZ was pulled over by Gilbert police and arrested last month on suspicion of driving while impaired, and she thinks the incident was a case of racial profiling.
...
She confirmed that she performed poorly on a field sobriety test after swerving, and says it's possible that officers believed (incorrectly) she was impaired."They had nothing better to do that day," she says of Gilbert officers.
The Chandler resident was on her way to Target on February 15, driving with a scarf on her head and a "big bumper sticker that says "Islam Means Peace" on the back of her car, she says.
...
She doesn't deny swerving. But when a Chandler cop pulled her over 10 years ago for swerving while she adjusted her CD player, the cop understood, she says. Gilbert PD, however, gave her a sobriety test -- which she flunked -- and arrested her."I was wobbly -- I don't have great balance," Gopalan says.
She later told cops she's been taking Wellbutrin XL for a few years, but it doesn't affect her driving.
I've taken Wellbutrin before. It doesn't effect your balance.
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:26:53am |
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Power Armored Lizardoid Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:27:23am |
Makes me hungry for brinner...Scrambled eggs with cheese, dusty (very crispy) bacon, and come lovely hash browns...Mmmm
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:27:43am |
Perhaps his egg phobia may have been the genesis of "The Birds".
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Sgt.Slappy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:28:14am |
Eggs of any type are uninspiring without tasty, crispy, thick-sliced hickory smoked bacony goodness.
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:28:19am |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:28:28am |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
CAIR Spokeswoman arrested for drunk driving, claims Islamaphobia...
Muslim on Wellbutrin, a Former CAIR Spokeswoman, Claims Gilbert PD Racially Profiled HerI've taken Wellbutrin before. It doesn't effect your balance.
CAIR will throw her out now because alcohol is haram.
However, if she had managed to run over a Jew while drunk...
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HelloDare Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:28:40am |
It's ironic that Hitchcock was egg-shaped. Maybe that's why eggs revolted him so. They reminded him of his body.
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WindHorse Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:29:14am |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
hoot man... you gots to take it with four fingers of single malt scotch.
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:29:23am |
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:29:36am |
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lawhawk Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:29:47am |
It's the Monday morning hopen'change.
The markets hoped for change, and they got it. They're liking the idea of having the taxpayer bailout those businesses whose bad business decisions precipitated this mess. Geithner's plan is nothing more than a massive shift in burden of risk - with private entities getting all the benefit should the prices rise, but none of the risk on the downside if they go down.
Keep in mind that the government has repeatedly been wrong in assessing the values of these assets - Citigroup, Wachovia, and WaMu come to mind.
If you let the markets determine prices, you'll find things pick up on their own - see the effect foreclosures are having on existing home sales - they picked up considerably because saavy buyers are picking up great deals on foreclosed properties - and the values in many areas are returning to more realistic pricing - making the areas more affordable to all who have proper credit. The kicker is that the government doesn't have to do a damned thing to make those homes affordable. The markets do it for them, but that's why the Administration is committed to meddling in the markets - because they don't like the outcome. They think that foreclosures are destroying communities or that they adversely affect existing homeowners.
If you're realistic and don't use your home as a piggy bank, it doesn't. If you did, and are highly leveraged, you're going to get hurt - but no one should bail you out for your bad decisions.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:07am |
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:30am |
re: #8 redstateredneck
Why is it that boiled eggs smell like farts?
* * *
SO2 or SO4, sulphur is involved. But my they're tasty & good for you.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:33am |
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Kragar Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:45am |
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Dianna Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:46am |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
CAIR Spokeswoman arrested for drunk driving, claims Islamaphobia...
Muslim on Wellbutrin, a Former CAIR Spokeswoman, Claims Gilbert PD Racially Profiled HerI've taken Wellbutrin before. It doesn't effect your balance.
Side effects aren't exactly one-to-one, KT. And shakiness and impaired balance are listed among the side effects.
It made me so shaky I would get off my bike to turn it around. So she was driving while impaired, if it causes her problems.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:48am |
re: #18 Kosh's Shadow
She was fired from CAIR recently. Maybe she's hoping to get her job back...
Gopalan, an aspiring nurse, says she quit CAIR's Phoenix office a few months ago because another employee hassled her. The employee complained to the office's former executive director that she "was doing a bad job and begging for money." Even though it wasn't true, Gopalan left her position."I feel I've been the victim of vicious lies and slander," she says.
Still, she feels CAIR-AZ will help her out in this situation because it has a new director, Ahmed Daniels, who is sympathetic to her.
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HelloDare Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:30:59am |
re: #8 redstateredneck
Why is it that boiled eggs smell like farts?
It's because of sulfur containing amino acids.
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Silvergirl Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:31:10am |
Hitchcock was a genius director, but kind of a weird guy. While directing, he was known to just toss his teacup over his shoulder when he was finished with it. Also, pregnant women gave him the creeps, and he would hardly look at his wife was she was pregnant with their daughter.
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:31:11am |
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:31:16am |
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:31:49am |
re: #24 lawhawk
It's the Monday morning hopen'change.
The markets hoped for change, and they got it. They're liking the idea of having the taxpayer bailout those businesses whose bad business decisions precipitated this mess. Geithner's plan is nothing more than a massive shift in burden of risk - with private entities getting all the benefit should the prices rise, but none of the risk on the downside if they go down.
Keep in mind that the government has repeatedly been wrong in assessing the values of these assets - Citigroup, Wachovia, and WaMu come to mind.
If you let the markets determine prices, you'll find things pick up on their own - see the effect foreclosures are having on existing home sales - they picked up considerably because saavy buyers are picking up great deals on foreclosed properties - and the values in many areas are returning to more realistic pricing - making the areas more affordable to all who have proper credit. The kicker is that the government doesn't have to do a damned thing to make those homes affordable. The markets do it for them, but that's why the Administration is committed to meddling in the markets - because they don't like the outcome. They think that foreclosures are destroying communities or that they adversely affect existing homeowners.
If you're realistic and don't use your home as a piggy bank, it doesn't. If you did, and are highly leveraged, you're going to get hurt - but no one should bail you out for your bad decisions.
Excellent post but for some reason I still feel like a sucker for paying off my mortgage.
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:31:58am |
re: #25 DaddyG
That pun was just oval.
You have to be pretty hard boiled to deal with the puns around here...
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:31:58am |
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:32:07am |
re: #17 redstateredneck
Verrry interesting.
If you ever make it to the bay area you have take a drive up the coast and see the little quaint towns of Tomales and Bodega where much of the movie was filmed. Really cool areas, the turnwife and I like to camp at Bodega Bay and Lawson's landing which are places very close to these towns.
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:32:10am |
Technically he's right about blood being jolly. What does "sanguine" mean, after all?
But I like eggs. And blood. Blood and eggs? Depends on the blood. And the eggs, I guess.
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:32:32am |
More Hitchcock trivia and phobias:
As a child, Hitchcock was sent to the local police station with a letter from his father. The desk sergeant read the letter and immediately locked the boy up for ten minutes. After that, the sergeant let young Alfred go, explaining, "This is what happens to people who do bad things." Hitchcock had a morbid fear of police from that day on. He also cited this phobia as the reason he never learned to drive (as a person who doesn't drive can never be pulled over and given a ticket). It was also cited as the reason for the recurring "wrong man" themes in his films.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:32:48am |
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:32:57am |
re: #20 DaddyG
Didn't Bill Clinton suffer from Hitchcock?
So that was the identifying characteristic!
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:33:19am |
I would like our Presidente to grow some real HUEVOS!
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:33:21am |
re: #24 lawhawk
The other thing that's not being talked about is that the private sector participation on this plan is going to be pretty minimal. It's still going to be about 90% tax payer money and about 10% private investment.
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:33:26am |
re: #42 J.D.
Ifeather we don't need another punny thread...
I might have to poach that one from you.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:33:42am |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
CAIR Spokeswoman arrested for drunk driving, claims Islamaphobia...
Muslim on Wellbutrin, a Former CAIR Spokeswoman, Claims Gilbert PD Racially Profiled Her
/what, don't they administer blood alcohol tests in Arizona or did she refuse, which is a crime in itself in many jurisdictions?
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:33:56am |
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:34:01am |
re: #35 Leonidas Hoplite
Excellent post but for some reason I still feel like a sucker for paying off my mortgage.
Does this mean I won't have to pay off my loans and mortgage when I enter the market? Hurray (cough cough) for extended adolescence! Ha! HA!
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:34:15am |
re: #47 Ford_Prefect
I might have to poach that one from you.
Pun threads aren't all they're cracked up to be.
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:34:38am |
re: #45 alegrias
I would like our Presidente to grow some real HUEVOS!
He already does have huevos - that's why Michelle wears the pants.
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:34:54am |
re: #51 Kosh's Shadow
Pun threads aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Omelet you get away with that this time.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:34:55am |
re: #24 lawhawk
It's the Monday morning hopen'change.
The markets hoped for change, and they got it. They're liking the idea of having the taxpayer bailout those businesses whose bad business decisions precipitated this mess. Geithner's plan is nothing more than a massive shift in burden of risk - with private entities getting all the benefit should the prices rise, but none of the risk on the downside if they go down.
Keep in mind that the government has repeatedly been wrong in assessing the values of these assets - Citigroup, Wachovia, and WaMu come to mind.
If you let the markets determine prices, you'll find things pick up on their own - see the effect foreclosures are having on existing home sales - they picked up considerably because saavy buyers are picking up great deals on foreclosed properties - and the values in many areas are returning to more realistic pricing - making the areas more affordable to all who have proper credit. The kicker is that the government doesn't have to do a damned thing to make those homes affordable. The markets do it for them, but that's why the Administration is committed to meddling in the markets - because they don't like the outcome. They think that foreclosures are destroying communities or that they adversely affect existing homeowners.
If you're realistic and don't use your home as a piggy bank, it doesn't. If you did, and are highly leveraged, you're going to get hurt - but no one should bail you out for your bad decisions.
Keep an eye on oil. It's going back up, or just keeping level with the value of our freshly printed up dollars. Let's see how this next price increase will be Bush's fault.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:02am |
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:15am |
re: #51 Kosh's Shadow
Pun threads aren't all they're cracked up to be.
The deviled's in the details...
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:21am |
re: #50 davinvalkri
Does this mean I won't have to pay off my loans and mortgage when I enter the market? Hurray (cough cough) for extended adolescence! Ha! HA!
I am crying and laughing at the same time. Is there an emoticon for that?
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:22am |
Oh and really bad news for America's car companies: India's $2,000 car, the TATA NANO, may be coming in 2011.
You know TATA employees probably don't have cradle to grave healthcare or pension obligations TAXPAYERS cover...nor bailouts I would guess. What is a bailout worth in India?
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:23am |
"The chicken is a wonderful bird;",
that's what the preacher said,
"Cause, we eat them both before they're born
And after they are dead..."
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Russkilitlover Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:25am |
"By providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets," Geithner said in an op-ed piece published in today's Wall Street Journal. "The ability to sell assets to this fund will make it easier for banks to raise private capital."
So who will hold these assets? What happens to them? I can't help but think this is all a shell game. Wall St. seems a bit pleased though that banks aren't going to be forced to reorganize and/or change behavior. Message of the day seems to be relief that things will continue status quo.
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Kragar Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:39am |
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Silvergirl Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:46am |
I recently read a tip about making hard boiled eggs easier to peel, but I haven't tried it yet. Put a tablespoon of oil in the water when you boil them, and because the shells are just porous enough, they'll absorb enough to make the shells slide off easily. We shall see.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:35:55am |
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:36:14am |
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:36:15am |
re: #57 Leonidas Hoplite
I am crying and laughing at the same time. Is there an emoticon for that?
Schadenfreude? No that's pleasure at somebody else crying. Hmm...sad clown! :*^)
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:36:37am |
re: #58 alegrias
Oh and really bad news for America's car companies: India's $2,000 car, the TATA NANO, may be coming in 2011.
You know TATA employees probably don't have cradle to grave healthcare or pension obligations TAXPAYERS cover...nor bailouts I would guess. What is a bailout worth in India?
Of course, by the time it meets US safety and pollution requirements, it will be $12,000.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:36:45am |
re: #53 Ford_Prefect
Omelet you get away with that this time.
* * * *
Obama says you have to break a few eggs.
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:36:51am |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
CAIR Spokeswoman arrested for drunk driving, claims Islamaphobia...
Muslim on Wellbutrin, a Former CAIR Spokeswoman, Claims Gilbert PD Racially Profiled HerI've taken Wellbutrin before. It doesn't effect your balance.
The Phoenix New Times just earned my respect. From the article:
(Reality check: Islam means "submission," and only derives from a word meaning "peace.")
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:36:53am |
re: #61 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Anymore of this and a real roe will break out
You don't really have to be so caviar about it.
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badger1970 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:02am |
I like my eggs runny (with dry toast) but still am grossed out when people put salsa or *ack* ketchup on theirs. icky poo
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:07am |
So, have we decided on a nickname yet? For the people who believe that HR1355, the G.I.V.E. Act is somewhat scary and remeniscent of WW2 Germany? Whatever nickname we decide to give these people, bear in mind that it should be derisive, condescending, even, yet amusing, and should also be a word which makes them sound mentally retarded.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:11am |
re: #44 taxfreekiller
U.S. Marines and others "profile John Murtha", join in if you please.
[Link: www.petitiononline.com...]
help get it over 29,900 to 30,000
pass it on
Hey there tfk, I read that link here this morning and joined in. Ha, many other made the same comment I did "Murtha, you're a disgrace to America"
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:11am |
re: #68 alegrias
* * * *
Obama says you have to break a few eggs.
I am scrambling to come up with more puns.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:19am |
re: #59 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
"The chicken is a wonderful bird;",
that's what the preacher said,
"Cause, we eat them both before they're born
And after they are dead..."
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:33am |
re: #71 badger1970
I like my eggs runny (with dry toast) but still am grossed out when people put salsa or *ack* ketchup on theirs. icky poo
Kimchi is even nastier.
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:38am |
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:45am |
re: #62 Silvergirl
I recently read a tip about making hard boiled eggs easier to peel, but I haven't tried it yet. Put a tablespoon of oil in the water when you boil them, and because the shells are just porous enough, they'll absorb enough to make the shells slide off easily. We shall see.
I'ma gonna try that tonight!
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Andopolis Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:37:56am |
I don't want any eggs.. can't I just eat my waffle?
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:05am |
re: #70 J.D.
You don't really have to be so caviar about it.
We don't want a fight to break out where someone needs a sturgeon.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:06am |
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Kragar Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:08am |
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:09am |
re: #71 badger1970
I like my eggs runny (with dry toast) but still am grossed out when people put salsa or *ack* ketchup on theirs. icky poo
Bah. Wimps. Go right for the Tobasco, myself...
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NukeAtomrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:23am |
I have an electric chicken that cooks perfect hard-boiled eggs. Yum.
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:32am |
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:36am |
re: #46 Killgore Trout
The other thing that's not being talked about is that the private sector participation on this plan is going to be pretty minimal. It's still going to be about 90% tax payer money and about 10% private investment.
PIMCO and Blackstone, to name at least two, have already publicly hopped on board.
/that's pretty heavy hitting for day one
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:49am |
re: #57 Leonidas Hoplite
I am crying and laughing at the same time. Is there an emoticon for that?
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Ford_Prefect Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:53am |
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wrenchwench Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:55am |
re: #48 Killian Bundy
/what, don't they administer blood alcohol tests in Arizona or did she refuse, which is a crime in itself in many jurisdictions?
From the article quoted at that blog:
Fearing anti-Islamic treatment, Gopalan said she removed her headscarf, or hijab. She was then asked to step outside of the car and then attempted to explain that she wasn't under the influence of alcohol, she said.The officer began a field sobriety test, which Gopalan performed poorly on. A short time later, a second officer arrived with a portable breathalyzer, which registered the woman's BAC at 0.00.
"In my religion we don't drink. That's just something we don't do," she said.
When police attempted to arrest Gopalan, she pulled her wrists away from officers, the report said.
En route to jail, Gopalan admitted to taking Wellbutrin XL, an antidepressant and pain reliever she has used for about three years.
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reine.de.tout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:38:57am |
re: #5 Russkilitlover
Mr. Russkilitlover can't even watch me eat eggs. I love them sunny-side up or light poach. Lots of lovely runny yolk for my toast!
I'm with Al and Mr. Russkilitlover.
When my family wants eggs, I have to leave the house until after the eggs have been cooked, eaten and everything cleaned up.
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:01am |
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:23am |
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NukeAtomrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:26am |
re: #81 Kosh's Shadow
We don't want a fight to break out where someone needs a sturgeon.
We don't want to get into a roe over fish eggs.
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:37am |
re: #84 Leonidas Hoplite
Bah. Wimps. Go right for the Tobasco, myself...
Does no one take their eggs pure or with just a little pepper?
Sacrilegious, every last one of you!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:37am |
re: #17 redstateredneck
Verrry interesting.
FYI, I threw you a Rosie treat at the end of the prior thread.
Here it is again.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:38am |
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:39:53am |
re: #67 Kosh's Shadow
Of course, by the time it meets US safety and pollution requirements, it will be $12,000.
* * * *
And by 2011, the USA might be down to using rickshaws.
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ErnieG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:10am |
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:16am |
re: #81 Kosh's Shadow
We don't want a fight to break out where someone needs a sturgeon.
Well you don't have to snapper my head off!
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:19am |
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:24am |
re: #85 MandyManners
You know what I mean. Something which makes them sound as if they have a severe developmental or learning disability of some sort.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:33am |
re: #62 Silvergirl
I'll have to see if that works, especially on fresh brown chicken eggs that a friend gives me, those things are impossible to peel.
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:40am |
re: #99 alegrias
* * * *
And by 2011, the USA might be down to using rickshaws.
Or just walking...
ahem...NOOO!
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:40:45am |
re: #30 Killgore Trout
She was fired from CAIR recently. Maybe she's hoping to get her job back...
Dude, when even CAIR thinks you're a whiner, you're in trouble.
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JacksonTn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:01am |
re: #45 alegrias
I would like our Presidente to grow some real HUEVOS!
Not possible ... Michelle has already fried them up in a pan ... served as a side dish with waffles ...
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:05am |
Hitch's talent and artistry are legend, and no one will ever be able to take his movies away from him.
That said, off camera he was a lecherous, vindictive, petty, and generally dislikable man, especially towards women.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:09am |
re: #103 Taqiyyotomist
You know what I mean. Something which makes them sound as if they have a severe developmental or learning disability of some sort.
Congressman works for me
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:18am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:31am |
My father-in-law does not eat eggs. He's almost eighty.
When he was 6 years old, was caught with his brother throwing eggs against the back of the chicken coop.
His punishment... raw eggs til he threw up.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:34am |
re: #102 Kosh's Shadow
Sea, we always end up with fish puns.
We were beginning to flounder on the egg puns.
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NukeAtomrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:41:37am |
re: #99 alegrias
* * * *
And by 2011, the USA might be down to using rickshaws.
That should create some jobs! Maybe Obama's plan will work!
/ +1 Sarc Tag of Obviousness
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:02am |
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:13am |
re: #91 wrenchwench
The officer began a field sobriety test, which Gopalan performed poorly on. A short time later, a second officer arrived with a portable breathalyzer, which registered the woman's BAC at 0.00.
/well, she's that pretty much clears her on DUI unless they also did a blood test and found something else
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lawhawk Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:22am |
re: #46 Killgore Trout
I'm reading it's going to be more like 95%/5%. And this program is announced after spending the last few weeks bashing the very private sector that is supposed to be doing this public/private partnership? Yeah, that's going to sit well once the details are sussed out.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:30am |
re: #110 LGoPs
And we always feel remoras afterwards
But don't get to close to the big guy with 'em.
You'll get quite a shark.
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:37am |
re: #103 Taqiyyotomist
You know what I mean. Something which makes them sound as if they have a severe developmental or learning disability of some sort.
Well, considering what FCBBHO said the other night on Leno,...
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:42am |
re: #74 Ford_Prefect
I am scrambling to come up with more puns.
* * * *
No need to get whipped up into a merengue.
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:42:59am |
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:43:21am |
re: #112 J.D.
We were beginning to flounder on the egg puns.
Glad we started in on fish, if only for shellfish reasons...
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:43:24am |
re: #97 pre-Boomer Marine brat
FYI, I threw you a Rosie treat at the end of the prior thread.
Here it is again.
Thanks! When I was a little girl, I had a bunch of Viewfinder stories on records with Rosie telling the story. A little chime would ring when you were supposed to change the picture on the viewfinder. They were fairy tales. She and I spent a lot of time together!
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:43:30am |
re: #120 alegrias
* * * *
No need to get whipped up into a merengue.
Beat until your cream is stiff?
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:43:31am |
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:43:48am |
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:43:57am |
re: #84 Leonidas Hoplite
Bah. Wimps. Go right for the Tobasco, myself...
I was going to post that too, I love eggs sunny side up with Tabasco sauce. Then again I like them soft boiled with lots of pepper and a pad of butter mixed in too, and the buttered toast is a necessity.
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:44:01am |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:44:10am |
re: #114 Lizard by the Bay
Shockingly, I don't eel that way atoll.
You should.
How else are you gonna coral your sea horses?
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:44:19am |
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ErnieG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:44:20am |
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MandyManners Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:44:28am |
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:44:46am |
How many comments on this thread contain a pun of one form or another? I'm just curious.
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:08am |
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:13am |
re: #109 soxfan4life
SO we should use the word "congressman" as a humorous and derisive nickname for the people who think the G.I.V.E. act is dangerous and remeniscent of WW2 Germany?
I'm thinking we should go with "campurs" or something in lolspeak.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:16am |
I guess Hitchcock wouldn't have liked Edith Massey (aka Edie the Egg Lady in Pink Flamingos) very much.
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pbird Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:21am |
re: #104 turn
I'll have to see if that works, especially on fresh brown chicken eggs that a friend gives me, those things are impossible to peel.
They are too fresh to peel well. Have to be tricksy.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:26am |
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:29am |
re: #135 davinvalkri
How many comments on this thread contain a pun of one form or another? I'm just curious.
What a crappie question...
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mjwsatx Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:30am |
Two men were travelling on a train from London to Scotland. An odd shaped package sat on the luggage rack above their seat.
"What have you there?" asked one of the men.
Oh, that's a MacGuffin," replied his companion.
"What's a MacGuffin?"
"It's a device for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."
"But there aren't any lions in the Scottish Highlands!"
"Well, then, I guess that's no MacGuffin!"
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Dianna Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:31am |
re: #115 Killian Bundy
/well, she's that pretty much clears her on DUI unless they also did a blood test and found something else
She was impaired. By her prescription anti-depressant.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:31am |
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NukeAtomrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:41am |
Sorry for the redundant roe pun. I just got here and didn't read all the comments yet.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:42am |
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:48am |
re: #119 jimc
With all the hopeychangey being allocated to nonsensical economic, tax, and fiscal plans there isn't any hope left for anything else.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:45:55am |
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DisturbedEma Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:46:08am |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:46:31am |
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:02am |
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:03am |
I got your Macguffin right here, buddy!
re: #142 mjwsatx
Two men were travelling on a train from London to Scotland. An odd shaped package sat on the luggage rack above their seat.
"What have you there?" asked one of the men.
Oh, that's a MacGuffin," replied his companion.
"What's a MacGuffin?"
"It's a device for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands."
"But there aren't any lions in the Scottish Highlands!"
"Well, then, I guess that's no MacGuffin!"
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:20am |
re: #146 Kosh's Shadow
They're going to have to act like our enemy before the 0 reaches a hand out to them.
Didja hear about the Polish terrorist that tried to blow up a bus?
He burned his lips on the exhaust pipe.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:27am |
re: #143 Dianna
She was impaired. By her prescription anti-depressant.
/if I was a Muslim, I'd be depressed too
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:31am |
re: #123 redstateredneck
Thanks! When I was a little girl, I had a bunch of Viewfinder stories on records with Rosie telling the story. A little chime would ring when you were supposed to change the picture on the viewfinder. They were fairy tales. She and I spent a lot of time together!
If I recall correctly (but I was in 2nd grade at the time), I saw her on a neighbors' TV on the Hit Parade, during the early Korean War. She sang Jambalaya. My parents had a 78rpm of it (later, I think).
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Russkilitlover Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:55am |
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:47:56am |
re: #139 pbird
They are too fresh to peel well. Have to be tricksy.
I know, I used to have about a dozen chickens myself. It doesn't matter if they're brown, white, or green, it they are fresh they are hard to peel.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:48:04am |
re: #152 davinvalkri
My favorite MacGuffin? Briefcase in "Pulp Fiction".
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Dianna Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:48:05am |
re: #154 Killian Bundy
/if I was a Muslim, I'd be depressed too
She's female and a Muslim: that sounds like a certainty.
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revobob Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:48:13am |
re: #150 OldLineTexan
unless albumensteve is lurking ...
On an egg pun thread, it's ovary man for himself!
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:48:31am |
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:48:47am |
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:48:58am |
re: #159 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
My favorite MacGuffin? Briefcase in "Pulp Fiction".
The link has a big list of macguffins for your perusal pleasure.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:03am |
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Opinionated Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:04am |
The first two months of the Age of the Hopeychange have been unexpectedly inept
By Mark Steyn
To his credit, the hopeychanger-in-chief has had some difficulty doing the outrage kabuki with a straight face. In the middle of his press conference the other day, he got a tickle in his throat and departed from his telepromptered script to joke: "Excuse me, I'm choked up with anger here." How the assembled hacks laughed! Why, it was almost as funny as his gag on "The Tonight Show." Referring to his 129 score at the White House bowling alley, the president cracked that "it was like the Special Olympics." Ha-ha! What a card that Obama is when he unplugs the prompter and kicks loose a little. Maybe next time he can toss in that the Dow Jones has got "Down" syndrome — geddit? Oh, come on! Don't be so uptight and politically correct! And besides, anyone who says the president shouldn't be doing crip jokes is a racist.
[Link: www.jewishworldreview.com...]
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:19am |
re: #111 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
My father-in-law does not eat eggs. He's almost eighty.
When he was 6 years old, was caught with his brother throwing eggs against the back of the chicken coop.
His punishment... raw eggs til he threw up.
* * * *
They must have been cruel & rich to do such a thing to a little child!
During the great Depression, my dad's job was to muck out the chicken coop which provided the family its weekly chicken dinner. Dad still likes chicken.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:26am |
So I'm having a bit of an argument with some moonbats in a thread on the "political" section of another site.
Someone started a thread with the the title "Israel helped create Hamas!"
I found this article in something called "American Conservative:"
But there is something bitterly ironic in Israel’s support for Fatah against Hamas—and it should be a lesson to governments everywhere that meddle in other states’ affairs. In the past, Israel supported Hamas against Fatah. Indeed, in the 1970s and 80s, Israel played a not insignificant role in encouraging Hamas’s emergence in the belief that such an Islamist group might help rupture support for the mass nationalist movement of Fatah. Twenty years later, Israel has switched sides, hoping that it can encourage Fatah to see off Hamas. It wants “moderate” Palestinians to take on the “extremist” Palestinians it helped create. Like America and Britain before it—both of whom have supported and armed Islamist movements in the Middle East in attempts to undermine secular nationalist parties—Israel is learning the hard way that it is one thing to let radical Islamists off the leash but quite another thing to rein them back in again. If you make monsters, you shouldn’t be surprised if they come back to bite you.
And of course, Ron Paul was ranting about it, too.
Is this true?
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NukeAtomrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:40am |
re: #158 turn
I know, I used to have about a dozen chickens myself. It doesn't matter if they're brown, white, or green, it they are fresh they are hard to peel.
You peel chickens?!?!? I'd pay to see that!
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:46am |
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MikeAlv77 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:53am |
re: #93 redstateredneck
It's over.
Nothing is over till we say its over! - Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
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DisturbedEma Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:49:56am |
re: #157 Russkilitlover
Poland better get used to disappointment.
Awesome use of Princess Bride. . .
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:50:10am |
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:50:39am |
re: #172 MikeAlv77
Nothing is over till we say its over! - Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
You're on a roll!
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:50:46am |
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:50:49am |
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:50:59am |
re: #172 MikeAlv77
Nothing is over till we say its over! - Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
Germans?
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:00am |
re: #175 astronmr20
Germans?
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:08am |
re: #170 NukeAtomrod
You peel chickens?!?!? I'd pay to see that!
On YouTube, next to a video of Sarah Palin undressing a moose.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:10am |
re: #116 lawhawk
I haven't checked the new details. They can increase private investment by adding more incentives but the end result is still going to be pretty low.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:14am |
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:30am |
re: #180 davinvalkri
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
Animal House
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:49am |
re: #180 davinvalkri
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
Animal House
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:51am |
re: #180 davinvalkri
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
You forgot the double-secret sarc tag...
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:51:54am |
re: #171 Kosh's Shadow
At least no one tried to nail you to the steak.
Liver and let liver, I always say.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:52:08am |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:52:18am |
re: #180 davinvalkri
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
Animal House. Said by future Senator Blutarsky.
I think Belushi would make a better president than the one we have.
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:52:31am |
re: #180 davinvalkri
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
Aminal House, silly.
:)
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:52:41am |
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revobob Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:52:43am |
re: #182 OldLineTexan
On YouTube, next to a video of Sarah Palin undressing a moose.
Wasn't a moose- was a Rotarian
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:53:00am |
re: #157 Russkilitlover
Poland better get used to disappointment.
* * * *
Betcha Obama will make Polish jokes now.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:53:13am |
re: #191 Kosh's Shadow
Animal House. Said by future Senator Blutarsky.
I think Belushi would make a better president than the one we have.
Who wouldn't make a better President than the one we have now?
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:53:40am |
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:53:40am |
Do not listen to Rosemary Clooney while you're trying to come up with puns.
/epic fail
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:53:40am |
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:01am |
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revobob Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:07am |
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:10am |
re: #196 alegrias
* * * *
Betcha Obama will make Polish jokes now.
He's planning to meet the president of Poland, once he gets some kielbasa to give him.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:14am |
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:28am |
re: #168 alegrias
* * * *
They must have been cruel & rich to do such a thing to a little child!During the great Depression, my dad's job was to muck out the chicken coop which provided the family its weekly chicken dinner. Dad still likes chicken.
That reminds me of the first time I saw a chicken slaughtered for dinner on my uncle Don's ranch in Oak Creek Colorado as a very young boy. I was fascinated and watched my aunt clean the entrails out when I spotted little eggs in the pipeline. I said "look mom, unripe eggs" Ha, wow that goes back awhile.
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JohnnyReb Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:47am |
re: #199 J.D.
Cod I suggest we change the subject?
Beer battered fried cod at the Portuguese holy ghost society this Friday. Nobody, and I mean nobody, does a better fish and chips dinner in New England than those guys in Stonington, CT.
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NukeAtomrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:54:59am |
re: #198 soxfan4life
Who wouldn't make a better President than the one we have now?
Sean Penn comes to mind.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:05am |
+343.92
The market seems to like the new TARP plan. Wasn't some lizard talking last night about how he was going to make a fortune shorting the market today?
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revobob Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:05am |
re: #203 Lizard by the Bay
Other than the hat, is there a difference?
Lunch meetings- doesn't get as drunk out?
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itellu3times Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:07am |
re: #169 astronmr20
Is this true?
Not to my knowledge, no.
AFAIK, Hamas since day one has sent suicide bombers into civilian Israel.
Since day one.
Israel never supported them.
Israel did not support Hamas' winning in Gaza.
Israel's official position since at least 92 has been kumbaya with Fatah.
Hamas did not exist pre-92, AFAIK.
End of story.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:13am |
re: #208 turn
That reminds me of the first time I saw a chicken slaughtered for dinner on my uncle Don's ranch in Oak Creek Colorado as a very young boy. I was fascinated and watched my aunt clean the entrails out when I spotted little eggs in the pipeline. I said "look mom, unripe eggs" Ha, wow that goes back awhile.
Those unripe eggs, I've heard, are a delicacy. Never had any myself, but I read about them.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:17am |
Does anyone have any info to contradict what's in my #169 re:Israel?
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Charles Johnson Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:35am |
Looks like Ringo the Gringo is now on the anti-LGF sh-t list -- his photo essay on the creationist museum is being trashed at the scumbag stalker blogs today.
The creep who runs 'lgfonevolution', by the way, tried to register a sock puppet last Friday.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:55:49am |
re: #211 Killgore Trout
+343.92
The market seems to like the new TARP plan. Wasn't some lizard talking last night about how he was going to make a fortune shorting the market today?
Shorting certain banks, IIRC.
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redc1c4 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:02am |
re: #191 Kosh's Shadow
Animal House. Said by future Senator Blutarsky.
I think Belushi would make a better president than the one we have.
even today... it's hard to screw things up when you're dead.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:19am |
re: #209 JohnnyReb
Beer battered fried cod at the Portuguese holy ghost society this Friday. Nobody, and I mean nobody, does a better fish and chips dinner in New England than those guys in Stonington, CT.
So you've haddock.
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Opinionated Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:21am |
re: #169 astronmr20
The PLO were terrorist murders.
When a religious group was founded in Gaza, Israel supported them in the hope that "religious" and pious folks were better then terrorist murders and might make good leaders for the "Palestinians" as an alternative to the PLO.
Israel was naive not to understand that nothing temperate comes out of devout Islam.
So yes, out of misplaced trust and giving Islam the benefit of the doubt, Israel helped Hamas.
The lesson isn't that Israel did bad or deserved what Hamas became, the lesson is the Islamics are scum.
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:25am |
re: #211 Killgore Trout
+343.92
The market seems to like the new TARP plan. Wasn't some lizard talking last night about how he was going to make a fortune shorting the market today?
It's a head fake.
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davinvalkri Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:27am |
re: #216 Charles
Looks like Ringo the Gringo is now on the anti-LGF sh-t list -- his photo essay on the creationist museum is being trashed at the scumbag stalker blogs today.
The creep who runs 'lgfonevolution', by the way, tried to register a sock puppet last Friday.
Uh-oh. I'm sending umbrellas Ringo!
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:33am |
re: #216 Charles
Looks like Ringo the Gringo is now on the anti-LGF sh-t list -- his photo essay on the creationist museum is being trashed at the scumbag stalker blogs today.
The creep who runs 'lgfonevolution', by the way, tried to register a sock puppet last Friday.
It's a badge of honor to piss off those freaks.
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DisturbedEma Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:45am |
re: #210 NukeAtomrod
Sean Penn comes to mind.
Susan Sarandon
Cindy Sh. . .canot finish
Michelle Obama
George Clooney
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ErnieG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:50am |
re: #206 Kosh's Shadow
He's planning to meet the president of Poland, once he gets some
kielbasasauerkraut to give him.
There. Fixed it.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:56:51am |
re: #213 itellu3times
Not to my knowledge, no.
AFAIK, Hamas since day one has sent suicide bombers into civilian Israel.
Since day one.
Israel never supported them.
Israel did not support Hamas' winning in Gaza.
Israel's official position since at least 92 has been kumbaya with Fatah.
Hamas did not exist pre-92, AFAIK.
End of story.
That's what I thought, but there's mountains of this stuff around.. (I know.. there's mountains of untrue bullshit about Israel everywhere)
And didn't Hamas start in '82? or was that Hebollah?
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wrenchwench Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:57:00am |
re: #216 Charles
Looks like Ringo the Gringo is now on the anti-LGF sh-t list -- his photo essay on the creationist museum is being trashed at the scumbag stalker blogs today.
The creep who runs 'lgfonevolution', by the way, tried to register a sock puppet last Friday.
Ringo has arrived.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:57:12am |
re: #224 DisturbedEma
Susan Sarandon
Cindy Sh. . .canot finish
Michelle Obama
George C. Looney
There.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:57:15am |
Charles - my avatar shows up on my posts, but not if I click on it; then, I just get the football. Others confirmed this.
Happens on FireFox 3 on both XP and Vista. Haven't tried on a Mac since I noticed it.
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itellu3times Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:57:50am |
re: #220 Opinionated
So yes, out of misplaced trust and giving Islam the benefit of the doubt, Israel helped Hamas.
When?
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:58:25am |
re: #208 turn
That reminds me of the first time I saw a chicken slaughtered for dinner on my uncle Don's ranch in Oak Creek Colorado as a very young boy. I was fascinated and watched my aunt clean the entrails out when I spotted little eggs in the pipeline. I said "look mom, unripe eggs" Ha, wow that goes back awhile.
* * * *
Awww! You were precocious! Bet that was tasty chicken too.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:58:29am |
re: #216 Charles
The creep who runs 'lgfonevolution', by the way, tried to register a sock puppet last Friday.
Aw, Charles ... C'MON!
We're HONGRY down here!
/
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Dianna Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:59:06am |
re: #216 Charles
Well, I updinged his photo essay, and I think he did a great job.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:59:18am |
Summers Sees ‘Considerable’ Investor Interest in Bad-Debt Plan
The Obama administration has found “considerable” investor interest in its plan to purge toxic assets from banks’ balance sheets, National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers said.
“Some of the major firms have suggested a willingness, and perhaps even an eagerness, to take part,” Summers said today in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “There’s considerable investor interest from a number of different quarters.”
It's pretty much free money with little downside, Wall Street greed seems to be overcoming the trepidation over last weeks' House tantrum.
/at a certain point you need to give up on the pessimism and admit that this might just work
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gymmom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:59:34am |
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
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IslandLibertarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 11:59:43am |
Eggs, way too organic...I can only handle them disguised as an omelet.
Ot: My first grandson was born Friday afternoon. No problems, a beautiful baby. Throws me into a whole new frame of thought about evolution, design, creation...there's just so much mystery. I don't think we know 1/100th of it.
Peace.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:08pm |
re: #216 Charles
Looks like Ringo the Gringo is now on the anti-LGF sh-t list -- his photo essay on the creationist museum is being trashed at the scumbag stalker blogs today.
The creep who runs 'lgfonevolution', by the way, tried to register a sock puppet last Friday.
It is amazing that the creationists are so bent out of shape over their museum being publicized. Perhaps they didn't like the commentary but I think the real answer is nothing upsets the cockroaches like turning on the light.
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:11pm |
re: #205 revobob
Have to ask Rebekka
My mother was a Rebekah. For like fifty years. I think they finally all died off.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:14pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
Clearly, she isn't a Democrat.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:21pm |
re: #209 JohnnyReb
Beer battered fried cod at the Portuguese holy ghost society this Friday. Nobody, and I mean nobody, does a better fish and chips dinner in New England than those guys in Stonington, CT.
* * *
Mmm. Lance Armstrong can get great fried fish in Spain, once his collarbone's fixed. They do fish right.
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Leonidas Hoplite Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:37pm |
re: #237 IslandLibertarian
Eggs, way too organic...I can only handle them disguised as an omelet.
Ot: My first grandson was born Friday afternoon. No problems, a beautiful baby. Throws me into a whole new frame of thought about evolution, design, creation...there's just so much mystery. I don't think we know 1/100th of it.
Peace.
Congratulations!
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Opinionated Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:50pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
She can be the next Treasury Sec.
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DisturbedEma Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:52pm |
re: #237 IslandLibertarian
Eggs, way too organic...I can only handle them disguised as an omelet.
Ot: My first grandson was born Friday afternoon. No problems, a beautiful baby. Throws me into a whole new frame of thought about evolution, design, creation...there's just so much mystery. I don't think we know 1/100th of it.
Peace.
Mazel Tov!
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itellu3times Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:58pm |
re: #226 astronmr20
That's what I thought, but there's mountains of this stuff around.. (I know.. there's mountains of untrue bullshit about Israel everywhere)
And didn't Hamas start in '82? or was that Hebollah?
Wikipedia says started in 88, with a charter that called for destruction of Israel.
I may be mixing up Hamas and Hizboolah a little, but I think the meme being argued is entirely bogus, a mixup of the US supporting the taliban against the Soviets.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:00:59pm |
re: #229 Kosh's Shadow
Well, you went over 10K posts today. Congrats, fellow total loser.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:01:12pm |
re: #237 IslandLibertarian
Congratulations!
Lots of fun coming your way!
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HelloDare Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:01:34pm |
Charles,
Seen this:
Bill Would Allow Texas School to Grant Master's Degree in Science for Creationism
A Texas legislator is waging a war of biblical proportions against the science and education communities in the Lone Star State as he fights for a bill that would allow a private school that teaches creationism to grant a Master of Science degree in the subject.
State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private institution that specializes in the education and research of biblical creationism, was not able to receive a certificate of authority from Texas' Higher Education Coordinating Board to grant Master of Science degrees.
Berman's bill would allow private, non-profit educational institutions to be exempt from the board’s authority.
“If you don’t take any federal funds, if you don’t take any state funds, you can do a lot more than some business that does take state funding or federal funding,” Berman says. “Why should you be regulated if you don’t take any state or federal funding?”
HB 2800 does not specifically name ICR; it would allow any institution that meets its criteria to be exempt from the board's authority. But Berman says ICR was the inspiration for the bill because he feels creationism is as scientific as evolution and should be granted equal weight in the educational community.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:01:45pm |
re: #211 Killgore Trout
+343.92
The market seems to like the new TARP plan. Wasn't some lizard talking last night about how he was going to make a fortune shorting the market today?
/Jet Pilot something or other was like double shorting oil, double not working today
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:01:59pm |
re: #170 NukeAtomrod
You peel chickens?!?!? I'd pay to see that!
Ha, didn't turn out quite right did it. I got booted out to the OS again googling for the chickens I had that lays green eggs. This machine has this annoying google spyware that the IT guy tells me the whole machine must be reloaded to solve. At any rate turn's search didn't come up with anything because turn couldn't even get close to the spelling. Sounds like airaconda. They lay green and bluish eggs, pretty neat.
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Eclectic Infidel Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:02:09pm |
re: #226 astronmr20
That's what I thought, but there's mountains of this stuff around.. (I know.. there's mountains of untrue bullshit about Israel everywhere)
And didn't Hamas start in '82? or was that Hebollah?
Hamas - 1987
Hezbollah - 1982
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:02:39pm |
re: #235 Killian Bundy
/at a certain point you need to give up on the pessimism and admit that this might just work
I never said it was a bad idea or that it wouldn't work. In fact I've posted twice today that the market seems to like the plan. Your article still doesn't mention the proportions of private investment. As of this weekend it was only around 10%. We'll see if that changes.
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:02:42pm |
re: #231 Iron Fist
The worst drug side effect I ever had was with Strattera. It gave me the most vivid, lucid nightmares you could imagine, and it was impossible to wake myself from them. That and the oceans of sweat that even the smallest amounts of stress would crerate were enough to "discontinue use", as they say.
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Dianna Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:02:48pm |
re: #231 Iron Fist
Yes, that's a severe side-effect! Ugh!
At least I could still stay on a bike on Welbutrin.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:03pm |
re: #232 alegrias
* * * *
Awww! You were precocious! Bet that was tasty chicken too.
Another memory from that trip, I got chickenpox back there.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:08pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
Funny, the name the IRS has on those W-2s is Pedro Jiminez, and the address given turns out to be a vacant lot.
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:11pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
My 16-year-old will be filing her first tax return this year on her minimum-wage, 15-hour-per-week job. A Republican is born.
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:31pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
What are they gonna do...put a lien on her playstation?
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Killgore Trout Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:45pm |
re: #249 Killian Bundy
I recall somebody talking about shorting financials. I guess a lot of people had the same plan.
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Opinionated Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:48pm |
re: #252 eclectic infidel
Hamas - 1987
Hezbollah - 1982
Hamas wasn't created in 1987, they just changed their name to Hamas then.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:03:55pm |
re: #220 Opinionated
The PLO were terrorist murders.
When a religious group was founded in Gaza, Israel supported them in the hope that "religious" and pious folks were better then terrorist murders and might make good leaders for the "Palestinians" as an alternative to the PLO.
Israel was naive not to understand that nothing temperate comes out of devout Islam.
So yes, out of misplaced trust and giving Islam the benefit of the doubt, Israel helped Hamas.
Thanks. I'm going to go with this, even though I admit my knowledge of these particular facts is a bit lacking.
The lesson isn't that Israel did bad or deserved what Hamas became, the lesson is the Islamics are scum.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:04:03pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:04:05pm |
re: #237 IslandLibertarian
Eggs, way too organic...I can only handle them disguised as an omelet.
Ot: My first grandson was born Friday afternoon. No problems, a beautiful baby. Throws me into a whole new frame of thought about evolution, design, creation...there's just so much mystery. I don't think we know 1/100th of it.
Peace.
Congratulations- what a blessing! I agree with the 1/100th part. It is quite possible to see the hand of God in things without going full bore nutty anti-science creationist. Claiming to have all the answers from a limited mortal/terrestrial perspective is pure hubris. Raising my own family has taught me just how little I really do know.
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MikeAlv77 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:04:09pm |
re: #180 davinvalkri
It's a quote from a movie. But I can't remember which one. It was obviously a comedy.
Animal House... A classic like Gone with the Wind...
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:04:10pm |
re: #237 IslandLibertarian
Eggs, way too organic...I can only handle them disguised as an omelet.
Ot: My first grandson was born Friday afternoon. No problems, a beautiful baby. Throws me into a whole new frame of thought about evolution, design, creation...there's just so much mystery. I don't think we know 1/100th of it.
Peace.
Congratulations!
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:04:38pm |
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:05:06pm |
re: #258 doppelganglander
My 16-year-old will be filing her first tax return this year on her minimum-wage, 15-hour-per-week job. A Republican is born.
Not these Republicans. She may want to wait a while before she devotes herself to another party of corruption and taxes.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:05:23pm |
re: #253 Killgore Trout
I never said it was a bad idea or that it wouldn't work. In fact I've posted twice today that the market seems to like the plan. Your article still doesn't mention the proportions of private investment. As of this weekend it was only around 10%. We'll see if that changes.
* * * *
Remember the original name for this "plan" was "Bad Asset Relief Fund" (BARF).
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:06:09pm |
re: #206 Kosh's Shadow
He's planning to meet the president of Poland, once he gets some kielbasa to give him.
We should have a thread where we can all make suggestions on what kinds of gifts Obama can give to visiting heads of state...for example, when French President Sarkozy comes present him with the video game Frogger...
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:06:39pm |
re: #253 Killgore Trout
I never said it was a bad idea or that it wouldn't work. In fact I've posted twice today that the market seems to like the plan. Your article still doesn't mention the proportions of private investment. As of this weekend it was only around 10%. We'll see if that changes.
/PIMCO and BlackRock are major players and they both came out today and, so far, the government is only throwing in less than $100 billion
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:06:43pm |
re: #258 doppelganglander
My 16-year-old will be filing her first tax return this year on her minimum-wage, 15-hour-per-week job. A Republican is born.
* * * *
Maybe that's the secret--make all our young people get taxed on their allowances & jobs.
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Opinionated Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:06:51pm |
Waltzing with Hamas
The Palestinian group that would begin calling itself Hamas in 1987 was founded by Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a half-blind cleric partially paralyzed by a childhood sports accident. In the 1970s, Yassin’s interest was to turn Palestinians toward the Koran and to find their way through it, rather than through the PLO. Israel saw an opportunity to battle the PLO from within its own Palestinian ranks by openly supporting Yassin and his followers.
Israel’s assumption that Yassin could be a viable alternative to Yasser Arafat was the same sort of miscalculation the United States committed in Iran in the 1970s, when the CIA cultivated radical Islamist groups there should the regime of the Shah of Iran falter or fall. In 1979, the regime did fall. The CIA had misread the forces of political Islam in Iran. It had also misread its reach: Political Islam wasn’t a fad. It was the future.
[Link: middleeast.about.com...]
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:06:52pm |
re: #269 alegrias
* * * *
Remember the original name for this "plan" was "Bad Asset Relief Fund" (BARF).
Anyone see the Dirty Jobs episode where Mike worked with people making "Biologically Appropriate Raw dog Food"?
BARF is right. But my dogs would probably wolf the stuff down; made from various stomachs, green tripe, and other offal.
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gymmom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:07:16pm |
re: #243 Opinionated
She can be the next Treasury Sec.
She's not a big Obama supporter! Imagine that. She argues with her gymnastics coach about Obama! So does another little girl there. She is a pretty typical 11 year old, so not that informed. But more so than her coach! I'm sure it's entertaining to say the least.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:07:26pm |
re: #270 LGoPs
We should have a thread where we can all make suggestions on what kinds of gifts Obama can give to visiting heads of state...for example, when French President Sarkozy comes present him with the video game Frogger...
Last night, we were saying he'd give him Velveeta and Gallo wine.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:07:44pm |
Worst drug side effect combination ever.
My wife was on one where she couldn't stand my "attentions" at the same time I couldn't "finish the job". Ice queen meets rutting pig.
Needless to say we changed prescriptions right quick.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:07:56pm |
re: #270 LGoPs
We should have a thread where we can all make suggestions on what kinds of gifts Obama can give to visiting heads of state...for example, when French President Sarkozy comes present him with the video game Frogger...
Or he can have Taco Bell cater his meeting with Mexico's President.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:08:14pm |
re: #220 Opinionated
The PLO were terrorist murders.
When a religious group was founded in Gaza, Israel supported them in the hope that "religious" and pious folks were better then terrorist murders and might make good leaders for the "Palestinians" as an alternative to the PLO.
Israel was naive not to understand that nothing temperate comes out of devout Islam.
So yes, out of misplaced trust and giving Islam the benefit of the doubt, Israel helped Hamas.
The lesson isn't that Israel did bad or deserved what Hamas became, the lesson is the Islamics are scum.
But who was responsible? It just sounds strange to me that they wouldn't have knows what hamas was has become, as they started killing jews right off the bat.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:08:14pm |
re: #268 astronmr20
Not these Republicans. She may want to wait a while before she devotes herself to another party of corruption and taxes.
* * * *
Please don't tar and feather all Republicans, some are good eggs.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:08:51pm |
re: #283 alegrias
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Please don't tar and feather all Republicans, some are good eggs.
Like me!
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redstateredneck Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:08:51pm |
re: #283 alegrias
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Please don't tar and feather all Republicans, some are good eggs.
A dozen or so.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:08:52pm |
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:08:56pm |
re: #260 Killgore Trout
I recall somebody talking about shorting financials.
That was him too.
/I read that and was thinking good luck with that, especially since, when he posted that, the DJIA futures were already hovering around up 200
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:03pm |
re: #283 alegrias
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Please don't tar and feather all Republicans, some are good eggs.
Not enough.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:03pm |
re: #280 soxfan4life
Or he can have Taco Bell cater his meeting with Mexico's President.
Along with a video (on Betamax) of the best of the Frito Bandito ads.
Plus some Speedy Gonzales cartoons.
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LGoPs Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:23pm |
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:23pm |
re: #279 DaddyG
Worst drug side effect combination ever.
My wife was on one where she couldn't stand my "attentions" at the same time I couldn't "finish the job". Ice queen meets rutting pig.
Needless to say we changed prescriptions right quick.
Are you talking about anti-depressants DG?
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DisturbedEma Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:29pm |
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revobob Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:34pm |
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gmsc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:48pm |
In order to preserve and expand government programs such as Medicare, Social Security, and all the new ones being proposed, government must have money. A poor country could not create programs because there would be no capital to tax and redistribute. The current American government was elected to "fix" the failing economy, to "make it work" again. It's seeking to do this by taxing the private, capitalized sector and spending money as never before. The government is telling the people: "Don't worry. Taxing and spending will solve our problems and everything will be fine again." But they define "fine" as having more and more government programs that redistribute wealth, and having everyone on national health insurance rather than only the elderly and the poor. This will cost trillions of dollars in government money, but it will do absolutely nothing to create more revenue and wealth in the private sector.
Most Americans have yet to grasp that our current government is on a mission of what they consider morality--not a mission to "fix the economy." Politicians are using the current crisis as an opportunity to nationalize and socialize major sectors of the economy. By spending and raising taxes, more money will be removed from the private sector than ever before. It means it will be that much more difficult--perhaps even impossible--for the private sector to recover from the current economic downturn. Even if it recovers a little, the effect of the spending and the tax increases (already enacted, and those yet to come) will beat the economy back down. This happened during the New Deal presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Just as the Great Depression economy started to recover in a timid manner, it would go into another "mini-Depression" or recession due to the expansion of government spending and taxation. Myth holds that World War II ended the Great Depression, but it was only the post-war recovery "boom" that brought a reasonable amount of prosperity back to America.
Economists are warning that the trillions of dollars in deficits now being created by Congress and the President are taking us into uncharted waters. How right they are! The only response from our President is "not to worry" because, he believes, government can tax and spend its way into prosperity. Congress doesn't reply at all, other than to propose to spend another trillion dollars every time there's either good or bad news. This is the fiscal and political equivalent of a drunken rampage never before seen in our nation's history. It has to stop, but it will also have to be reversed. When the politicians' party ends, and the economy is facing complete ruin, somebody will have to cut government spending (and taxes) by literally trillions of dollars. That will be the only way to rebuild our economy.
Those who care about what the United States originally stood for must now begin planning and arguing for the way back to freedom. It's ironic that the advocates of Big Government will, in the end, destroy the government they so cherish by bankrupting it. There's a certain odd justice in that, isn't there.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:09:51pm |
re: #280 soxfan4life
Or he can have Taco Bell cater his meeting with Mexico's President.
I prefer to call it Taco Hell.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:10:39pm |
re: #277 gymmom
She's not a big Obama supporter! Imagine that. She argues with her gymnastics coach about Obama! So does another little girl there. She is a pretty typical 11 year old, so not that informed. But more so than her coach! I'm sure it's entertaining to say the least.
* * *
Good for your little girl. I remember defending Nixon in debates with other kids in the back of the school bus at 10!
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jimc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:10:52pm |
re: #281 jimc
I pray for an "Obama's complicated relationship with AIG exposed" article...that would be sweet...
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:10:56pm |
re: #295 J.D.
I prefer to call it Taco Hell.
I stopped going once I found out they didn't use real Mexicans in their Mexican food.
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gymmom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:11:27pm |
The little delinquent just got home from school and I have to feed her and get her to the gym, so LGF only has part of my attention right now.
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soxfan4life Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:11:28pm |
re: #297 jimc
I pray for an "Obama's complicated relationship with AIG exposed" article...that would be sweet...
Don't hold your breath.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:11:35pm |
re: #291 turn
Are you talking about anti-depressants DG?
Yup, mild ones. Sometimes you have to shop around a bit to get the right mix for your body chemistry. WIth a doctors guidance of course.
I used to be upset that I needed them occasionally for anxiety until my doctor explained that "4 out of 5 people experience signs of clinical depression and the 5th is in denial."
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:11:55pm |
re: #295 J.D.
I prefer to call it Taco Hell.
Cut out the middle man...buy it...take it to bathroom...flush it.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:12:31pm |
re: #298 soxfan4life
I stopped going once I found out they didn't use real Mexicans in their Mexican food.
Is your last name Addams?
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KingKenrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:12:35pm |
re: #32 Silvergirl
Hitchcock was a genius director, but kind of a weird guy. While directing, he was known to just toss his teacup over his shoulder when he was finished with it. Also, pregnant women gave him the creeps, and he would hardly look at his wife was she was pregnant with their daughter.
Pregnant women are sort of egg-shaped, so it fits his egg phobia.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:13:24pm |
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rawmuse Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:13:41pm |
Ah, another monday and the good news just keeps coming.
At least I have plenty of eggs.
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:13:52pm |
re: #274 alegrias
* * * *
Maybe that's the secret--make all our young people get taxed on their allowances & jobs.
It all depends on how you present it. If you tell the kid it's her responsibility to pay taxes to help the less fortunate, you get a Democrat. When I do my kid's taxes, she'll get a vivid description of the history of Social Security and statistics on how the top 50% pay 97% of tax revenues. It's a teachable moment. :)
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:14:11pm |
re: #301 DaddyG
Yup, mild ones. Sometimes you have to shop around a bit to get the right mix for your body chemistry. WIth a doctors guidance of course.
I used to be upset that I needed them occasionally for anxiety until my doctor explained that "4 out of 5 people experience signs of clinical depression and the 5th is in denial."
* * *
Congratulations getting the right balance.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:14:28pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
May I be the FIRST to congratulate you on your daughter's appointment to an Obama administration Cabinet post.
I am very pleased that she is so advanced for her tender years.
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:14:32pm |
re: #289 Kosh's Shadow
Along with a video (on Betamax) of the best of the Frito Bandito ads.
Plus some Speedy Gonzales cartoons.
Don't forget some classic Señor Wences.
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:15:14pm |
re: #301 DaddyG
So, according to the good doc, we're all depressed and we all need to be on meds. Good gravy. What, were we designed that way? Ask the doc.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:15:36pm |
If you are Geithner's plan released today, or at least happy with the bump it sparked in the markets, you need to watch this video interview with James Galbraith.
[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]
The plan is another "Obama will pick the winners" plan and avoids the accountability mechanisms that were used in the S&L crisis.
Don't focus on bonuses and jets - focus on the fact that this plan bypasses all of the regulatory consequences to irresponsible risk taking and criminal activity.
Instead, the politically connected get to stay afloat and you and I get to pay the bill.
There will be generational effects of bringing The Chicago Way to Washington and Wall Street.
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:15:47pm |
re: #253 Killgore Trout
I never said it was a bad idea or that it wouldn't work. In fact I've posted twice today that the market seems to like the plan. Your article still doesn't mention the proportions of private investment. As of this weekend it was only around 10%. We'll see if that changes.
Well, I will say it's a bad plan. Read this...
What we do know is that the Obama administration is offering extremely favorable terms to the potential investors. The government, as The New York Times reported this morning, would lend private investors nearly 95 percent of the money for an investment. (Here’s an irony: at the very moment we are trying to deleverage the economy, the government is now using the principle of leverage to revive it). Moreover, if the investment goes bad, the private investor is only on the hook for the small portion it put in originally – not for the full amount of the purchase. Yes, the government will share in profits, but if the toxic assets go up sharply in value – as the government hopes – the private investor could make piles and piles of money.
First off, it sound like the government is dangling the concept of "piles and piles" of money in front of the faces of business, piles of money from the same BAD DEBT that these sort of businesses created.
So, they take the bait, take the government loan, but the bad assets, can't do any more with them than anyone else could, and suddenly, the government has the original owners of the toxic assets in pocket PLUS all the NEW businesses who borrowed money from the government.
Now we have a whole basket full of companies who are in debt to the government, and the government now takes part control or tries to totally nationalize these ventures.
Either way, any way, what ever way, the government will have their hands in the process, and the taxpayer is paying for it.
Smooth, it's a scam.
I'll have to admit, our president is trying to BREAK the hold of the Evil Money Cult (trademarked TFK), but what we will end up with is democratic socialism, bigger and better than ever.
And Obama and his cronies are setting up all the peripheral class warfare to help this along.
Typical socialist game plan.
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:15:59pm |
re: #301 DaddyG
until my doctor explained that "4 out of 5 people experience signs of clinical depression and the 5th is in denial."
Doesn't that suggest that maybe their definition of "clinical depression" may be just a little overbroad?
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:16:22pm |
re: #301 DaddyG
Yup, mild ones. Sometimes you have to shop around a bit to get the right mix for your body chemistry. WIth a doctors guidance of course.
I used to be upset that I needed them occasionally for anxiety until my doctor explained that "4 out of 5 people experience signs of clinical depression and the 5th is in denial."
Thanks, believe me I know all about depression. It irks me when people try and argue that someone can basically talk themselves out of depression. This only shows they know NOTHING about it. It's organic and the right chemical mix is the key.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:16:34pm |
re: #315 karmic_inquisitor
pimf - If you are pleased with ...
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gymmom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:16:51pm |
re: #312 OldLineTexan
May I be the FIRST to congratulate you on your daughter's appointment to an Obama administration Cabinet post.
I am very pleased that she is so advanced for her tender years.
Thankew kindly. She won't last long there though, she's a tad too inquisitive I fear.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:17:10pm |
re: #289 Kosh's Shadow
Along with a video (on Betamax) of the best of the Frito Bandito ads.
Plus some Speedy Gonzales cartoons.
Don't laugh - Speedy Gonzales cartoons (the ones that are too racist for the US) are extremely popular in Mexico.
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:17:55pm |
re: #316 Walter L. Newton
So, they take the bait, take the government loan, but the bad assets, can't do any more with them than anyone else could
Or, if they somehow DO manage to make "piles and piles of money", they'll instantly be denounced as "greedy executives" and slapped with ex post facto confiscatory taxes...
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:18:04pm |
"My Lexus payments are telling me that everyone is depressed."
Gah.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:18:20pm |
re: #318 Occasional Reader
Everyone feels down now and again..clinical depression is something else. I think people rush to get medicated, and doctors often rush to medicate people when sometimes they need a good kick in the ass, a good friend, some exercise or some hobbies...
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:18:56pm |
I never felt I needed antidepressants until I was injured and had chronic pain for over a year. Before that, I had always managed to figure out a way of dealing with whatever.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:04pm |
re: #322 OldLineTexan
Don't laugh - Speedy Gonzales cartoons (the ones that are too racist for the US) are extremely popular in Mexico.
At least somebody's got a sense of humor. Problem is, our PC liberals don't.
/There is no fun in liberalism.
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Kragar Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:07pm |
re: #312 OldLineTexan
May I be the FIRST to congratulate you on your daughter's appointment to an Obama administration Cabinet post.
I am very pleased that she is so advanced for her tender years.
Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if someone is using her daughter's SSN for employment reasons. I'd check on identity theft pronto.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:08pm |
re: #322 OldLineTexan
WHAT? Speedy Gonazles is racist. WTF? That's a joke, right?
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:37pm |
re: #314 Taqiyyotomist
So, according to the good doc, we're all depressed and we all need to be on meds. Good gravy. What, were we designed that way? Ask the doc.
I think our modern way of life, while it has obvious material benefits, is out of step with our evolutionary development. Why does almost everyone need glasses at some point? Probably because we evolved to spot the herds on the horizon, not to read the fine print. Our brain chemistry and nervous system reflect a world that revolved around kin groups in small villages whose lives were shaped by the passing seasons. We were not built for the Internet age.
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gmsc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:44pm |
re: #325 WriterMom
Everyone feels down now and again..clinical depression is something else. I think people rush to get medicated, and doctors often rush to medicate people when sometimes they need
a good kick in the ass, a good friend, some exercise or some hobbies...more money.
FTFY
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Silvergirl Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:49pm |
re: #80 Andopolis
I don't want any eggs.. can't I just eat my waffle?
The waffle shop is closed, Mr. Obama. Get to work!
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Opinionated Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:54pm |
re: #282 astronmr20
But who was responsible? It just sounds strange to me that they wouldn't have knows what hamas was has become, as they started killing jews right off the bat.
They didn't.
You may not remember the 70's. It was when the PLO was internationally attacking Israelis, hijacking planes, the Olympics, etc.
The Hamas predecessor organization was not involved in terror yet.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:19:58pm |
re: #329 WriterMom
WHAT? Speedy Gonazles is racist. WTF? That's a joke, right?
Obviously you've never spoken with a liberal about those cartoons.
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:20:32pm |
I'd rather look at a broken egg than read about Lance Armstrong's collarbone. Damn.
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:20:39pm |
re: #325 WriterMom
I think people rush to get medicated
I remember reading some article in like October of 2001, suggesting that if thoughts of 9/11 are "still" causing you to experience feelings of sadness, you may be experiencing clinical depression! And should, naturally, see your doctor (etc.).
Me, I had this funny idea that the idea of thousands being murdered in a catastrophic terrorist attack is supposed to make you sad (and, more importantly, angry).
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:21:03pm |
re: #310 doppelganglander
It all depends on how you present it. If you tell the kid it's her responsibility to pay taxes to help the less fortunate, you get a Democrat. When I do my kid's taxes, she'll get a vivid description of the history of Social Security and statistics on how the top 50% pay 97% of tax revenues. It's a teachable moment. :)
I tell my kids its their duty to donate to the less fortunate trhough reputable charitable organizations because they know where the money goes and they can deduct it and keep it from the hands of wasteful bureaucrats.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:21:33pm |
re: #329 WriterMom
WHAT? Speedy Gonazles is racist. WTF? That's a joke, right?
Absolutely not a joke and Old Line Texan is correct. One of our Mexican friends made copies of those banned cartoons for us. He loves them.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:21:39pm |
re: #325 WriterMom
Everyone feels down now and again..clinical depression is something else. I think people rush to get medicated, and doctors often rush to medicate people when sometimes they need a good kick in the ass, a good friend, some exercise or some hobbies...
Oh just so my comment doesn't get misinterpreted, there are levels of depression that could be categorized I suppose as "clinical" that might not require anti-depressants for the person to "cope" day to day. But at some point in the level of increasing depression they become essential.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:22:24pm |
re: #336 Occasional Reader
I remember reading some article in like October of 2001, suggesting that if thoughts of 9/11 are "still" causing you to experience feelings of sadness, you may be experiencing clinical depression! And should, naturally, see your doctor (etc.).
Me, I had this funny idea that the idea of thousands being murdered in a catastrophic terrorist attack is supposed to make you sad (and, more importantly, angry).
That was my thought as well, but I was depressed to see that not as many people were angry about it.
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:22:45pm |
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
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HelloDare Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:26pm |
Stimulus? U.S. to buy Chinese condoms, ending Alabama jobs
At a time when the federal government is spending billions of stimulus dollars to stem the tide of U.S. layoffs, should that same government put even more Americans out of work by buying cheaper foreign products?
In this case, Chinese condoms.
That's the dilemma for the folks at the U.S. Agency for International Development, which has distributed an estimated 10 billion U.S.-made AIDS-preventing condoms in poor countries around the world.
But not anymore.
In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.
The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.
"Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.
Besides, he said, the sole U.S. supplier — an Alabama company called Alatech — had previous delivery problems under the program.
It's clear that Alatech's problems over the years, which apparently have been resolved, may have driven U.S. officials to seek much less expensive foreign-made condoms in the first place.
But that's cold comfort to Fannie Thomas, who has been making AIDS-preventing condoms in southeastern Alabama for nearly 40 years in the small town of Eufaula.
“We pay taxes down here, too, and with all this stimulus money going to save jobs, it seems to me like they (the U.S. government) should share this contract so they can save jobs here in America,” Thomas said.
Thomas and others at the Alatech plant said there aren’t many alternatives for them if it closes down, which is a likely result of the contracting switch.
In fact, the government is close to accepting condoms from two offshore companies: Unidus Corp., which makes condoms in South Korea, and Qingdao Double Butterfly Group, which makes them in China.
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:28pm |
re: #342 FrogMarch
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
Same old tasteless shit, brand new name.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:29pm |
re: #328 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if someone is using her daughter's SSN for employment reasons. I'd check on identity theft pronto.
That was my point, said more humorously:
re: #257 Kosh's Shadow
Funny, the name the IRS has on those W-2s is Pedro Jiminez, and the address given turns out to be a vacant lot.
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:33pm |
WLS did a show a couple years ago on Speedy Gonzalez. They opened the phones to ONLY those of Hispanic descent. Every single caller, bar none, was a huge fan of Speedy. This was right before Cartoon Network bought all the old shorts, then told us they were going to NOT show them, ever.
It's their "concerned" white "betters" who are always up in arms about this. Defending the defenseless, speaking for the voiceless, yada yada yada.
Now Pepe Le Pew, on the other hand...I don't know whether that is offensive to a majority of French folks or not, but I don't think I'd like the "stinky amorous Frenchman" stereotype.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:38pm |
re: #318 Occasional Reader
Doesn't that suggest that maybe their definition of "clinical depression" may be just a little overbroad?
It was his tongue in cheek way of telling me I was "normal" and not to worry. He is in actuality a very conservative doctor when it comes to prescriptions of all kinds.
But your point is a good one in many cases Doctors are quick to push the latest miracle pill. Especially with youngsters in school.
No medication is a silver bullet (expect perhaps aspirin) but when you really need them the right ones are miracles.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:44pm |
re: #313 Occasional Reader
Don't forget some classic Señor Wences.
(back in after watching)
THANKS for that, OR!
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:47pm |
re: #338 Pvt Bin Jammin
Calling Speedy Gonzales racist is the way a bookish frustrated leftyboy feels like a tough guy. I'm glad to hear Mexican guys think it's hilarious. Nice to know there are guys left who still piss standing up.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:23:47pm |
re: #336 Occasional Reader
Actually, I remember Rosie O'Donnel had a ME ME ME IT'S ALL ABOUT ME episode about the gun killings at that high school. Same thing. Yes-it's all about you, you stupid cow, not the victims and their families...that's when I think she did that upside down bat hangy-"therapy".
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wrenchwench Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:24:04pm |
re: #342 FrogMarch
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
I heard it as "I'm going to be a legacy asshat."
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gymmom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:24:18pm |
re: #328 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if someone is using her daughter's SSN for employment reasons. I'd check on identity theft pronto.
OK, that was a party pooper. Probably would have taken me a few days to think about looking into that. (Thanks)
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JimmyTheClaw Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:24:26pm |
A blonde teenager, wanting to earn some extra money for the summer, decided to hire herself out as a 'handy-woman' and started canvassing a nearby well-to-do neighborhood. She went to the front door of the first house, and asked the owner if he had any odd jobs for her to do.
'Well, I guess I could use somebody to paint my porch,' he said, 'How much will you charge me?'
Delighted, the girl quickly responded, 'How about $50?'
The man agreed and told her that the paint brushes and everything she would need was in the garage. The man's wife, hearing the conversation said to her husband, 'Does she realize that our porch goes ALL the way around the house?'
He responded, 'That's a bit cynical, isn't it?'
The wife replied, 'You're right. I guess I'm starting to believe all those dumb blonde jokes we've been getting by e-mail lately.'
Later that day, the blonde came to the door to collect her money. 'You're finished already?' the startled husband asked.
'Yes,’ the blonde replied, ‘and I even had paint left over, so I gave it two coats.'
Impressed, the man reached into his pocket for the $50.00 and handed it to her along with a ten dollar tip.
'And by the way,' the blonde added, 'it's not a Porch, it's a Lexus.'
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:24:26pm |
re: #343 HelloDare
Goody, Chinese-made condoms. I guess they'd be the wrong size, be full of holes, and potentially be toxic to one's nether regions.
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KenJen Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:24:34pm |
re: #325 WriterMom
Funny this topic has come up. Ive been getting panic attacks. Am going to the doctor tomorrow to ask for something to help. Maybe a little xanax or something. I have no idea whats causing it. No kids, job stable, no boyfriend. Only thing that causes stress is Obama and what he's doing to my country. I almost feel sorry for those BDS suffers-almost.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:24:48pm |
re: #336 Occasional Reader
I remember reading some article in like October of 2001, suggesting that if thoughts of 9/11 are "still" causing you to experience feelings of sadness, you may be experiencing clinical depression! And should, naturally, see your doctor (etc.).
Me, I had this funny idea that the idea of thousands being murdered in a catastrophic terrorist attack is supposed to make you sad (and, more importantly, angry).
They've found out that sending "grief counselors" to schools where a student died has actually made the situation worse.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:03pm |
re: #340 WriterMom
Or to get laid. That helps, too.
So true.
"...the brain chemicals that can repair a depression are produced by exercise, sex, joy, and triumph, but it only works if the exercise is free of competition, the sex free of guilt, the joy free of danger, and the triumph free of shame."
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:05pm |
re: #344 Honorary Yooper
Same old tasteless shit, brand new name.
Language, it's a virus legacy asset.
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:18pm |
re: #351 WriterMom
Actually, I remember Rosie O'Donnel had a ME ME ME IT'S ALL ABOUT ME episode about the gun killings at that high school. Same thing. Yes-it's all about you, you stupid cow, not the victims and their families...that's when I think she did that upside down bat hangy-"therapy".
Wouldn't all of the blubber just overwhelm her head and suffocate her?
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:20pm |
re: #343 HelloDare
But that's cold comfort to Fannie Thomas, who has been making AIDS-preventing condoms in southeastern Alabama for nearly 40 years
You just can't make this stuff up.
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opnion Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:34pm |
re: #342 FrogMarch
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
They have actually been calling them "legacy assets" fo a while. They want to make sure that the blame is on Bush.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:38pm |
re: #253 Killgore Trout
I never said it was a bad idea or that it wouldn't work. In fact I've posted twice today that the market seems to like the plan. Your article still doesn't mention the proportions of private investment. As of this weekend it was only around 10%. We'll see if that changes.
This is a trader's rally. Wall Street gets to see some risk removed from the balance sheets of some major DOW component companies, so those companies are seeing big gains.
But the cost of this will be digested in the next few days.
Here is a very clear headed analysis of the rally that was written this morning as it started.
Read it, please. Anyone who thinks this action has made his/her portfolio "safe" should read it. This guy is an options trader, so he doesn't really care which way the market goes - he is just really good at laying out where it is likely to go.
And pay attention to the SPY (S&P depository receipts). It is stuck at "81" right now - just as the author predicted.
It is a traders rally.
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gmsc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:45pm |
re: #342 FrogMarch
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
We could get a more accurate name by combining the two – "legacy debt".
ATTENTION TIM GEITHNER! NEWSFLASH! The definition of an asset is property that, after all expenses are taken care of, result in a financial gain.
You can change the name all you want, but how are these toxic assets going to make the government money?
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IslandLibertarian Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:45pm |
re: #336 Occasional Reader
Me, I had this funny idea that the idea of thousands being murdered in a catastrophic terrorist attack is supposed to make you sad (and, more importantly, angry).
It's obvious that you probably played with toy guns in your childhood, you believe you deserve more for working harder, you were taught that doing wrong deserves punishment, and you believe that if you don't work, you don't eat.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:49pm |
The "toxic assets" aren't necessarily bad debt at all. Over 90% of mortgages are being paid on time. They're "toxic" because buyers and sellers can't agree on a price so there's no market and the assets just sit and fester on bank balance sheets, tying up capital that could be put to work elsewhere.
/the PPIP is designed to narrow the bid/ask and create a market for these securities
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:25:54pm |
re: #325 WriterMom
Everyone feels down now and again..clinical depression is something else. I think people rush to get medicated, and doctors often rush to medicate people when sometimes they need a good kick in the ass, a good friend, some exercise or some hobbies...
A thousand updings.
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Silvergirl Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:00pm |
re: #332 Silvergirl
The waffle shop is closed, Mr. Obama. Get to work!
Page not found? It's a gorgeous 1950's empty Waffle Shop photo.
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JimmyTheClaw Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:00pm |
The Amazing Human Body...
It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6 lb).
The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
Women blink twice as often as men.
The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.
Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.
If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.
Women reading this will be finished now.
Men are still busy checking their thumbs..
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HoosierHoops Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:02pm |
re: #340 WriterMom
Or to get laid. That helps, too.
I was going to say that but was afraid too..
I've never seen anyone depressed after smoking hot sex..Well except the girls I was with..They usually just cried alot.
/
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abolitionist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:11pm |
re: #229 Kosh's Shadow
I see football too. Bet it's a parsing issue related to the apostrophe in your nic.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:17pm |
re: #339 turn
I think we agree. For people who are clinically depressed, medications are incredible. I had a friend who went totally Post-Partum, not just depression but psychosis and without the medications-she would have been..well I can't even think about it. But feeling down is not the same as clinical depression (loss of appetite, will to live, interest in the outside world, etc..).
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:22pm |
re: #342 FrogMarch
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
Hey, why not Adventure Investments.
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Kosh's Shadow Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:26:55pm |
re: #346 Taqiyyotomist
WLS did a show a couple years ago on Speedy Gonzalez. They opened the phones to ONLY those of Hispanic descent. Every single caller, bar none, was a huge fan of Speedy. This was right before Cartoon Network bought all the old shorts, then told us they were going to NOT show them, ever.
It's their "concerned" white "betters" who are always up in arms about this. Defending the defenseless, speaking for the voiceless, yada yada yada.
Now Pepe Le Pew, on the other hand...I don't know whether that is offensive to a majority of French folks or not, but I don't think I'd like the "stinky amorous Frenchman" stereotype.
What's not French about Pepe? He doesn't bathe, or shave his underarms. And he pees in the street. Must be Fwench.
/
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:27:33pm |
re: #361 Occasional Reader
You just can't make this stuff up.
C'mon, now!
We're tired of your frank opinions.
:D
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:27:40pm |
re: #369 JimmyTheClaw
The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.
Now that is some useful information.
/waits while all the LGF gentlemen check their thumbs.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:27:45pm |
re: #356 KenJen
Funny this topic has come up. Ive been getting panic attacks. Am going to the doctor tomorrow to ask for something to help. Maybe a little xanax or something. I have no idea whats causing it. No kids, job stable, no boyfriend. Only thing that causes stress is Obama and what he's doing to my country. I almost feel sorry for those BDS suffers-almost.
Just know that in the end, this may be the "kick in the ass" our country needed to scare it straight.
Remind yourself that you are doing the best with your life that you can do with the resources you have, and that there are things completely out of your control. Our federal government is one of them.
Breathe.
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yma o hyd Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:27:49pm |
re: #330 doppelganglander
I think our modern way of life, while it has obvious material benefits, is out of step with our evolutionary development. Why does almost everyone need glasses at some point? Probably because we evolved to spot the herds on the horizon, not to read the fine print. Our brain chemistry and nervous system reflect a world that revolved around kin groups in small villages whose lives were shaped by the passing seasons. We were not built for the Internet age.
Its actually worse than that - we weren't meant to get that old in the first place!
Once one's reproduced, helped th grandchildren a bit - that should be it.
In prehistoric time, that was usually around forty at the latest, average age was about 30.
Thats why they did revere the very old so much - they were the very rare survivors, and the repository of all the tribe's stories, knowledge, history, secrets ...
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:28:38pm |
re: #356 KenJen
KenJen, I'm just a person on a blog...I don't have any medial or counselling credentials, but before medication, I would try all the conservative remedies-like exercise, doing things for others, volunteering, before going the medication route. That's just me-and I did have serious anxiety a few times in my life, and I just focused on my body and mind and I got over it.
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:28:59pm |
Good fundamental news drove us to within striking distance of a major resistance level and quadruple witching fueled us the rest of the way.
I'm in.
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KingKenrod Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:00pm |
re: #342 FrogMarch
Geithner re-brands 'toxic debt'
He's gonna call them "legacy assets".
X-TREME assets!
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gmsc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:09pm |
re: #369 JimmyTheClaw
The Amazing Human Body...
A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.
Women blink twice as often as men.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:25pm |
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:25pm |
re: #372 WriterMom
The problem with anti-depressants, especially SSRIs, is that not even doctors understand how or why any of them work (or the differences between them), when they do at all. That's why they'll put you on about 7 different ones and months of "new side effect of the week" entertainment in order to find your "correct" drug and dosage.
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Pvt Bin Jammin Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:26pm |
re: #350 godfrey
Calling Speedy Gonzales racist is the way a bookish frustrated leftyboy feels like a tough guy. I'm glad to hear Mexican guys think it's hilarious. Nice to know there are guys left who still piss standing up.
Amen to that.
We had these adorable little "Yo Quero Taco Bell" tv commercials running for quite awhile until some lefties decided it was not pc.
[Link: vids.myspace.com...]
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Walter L. Newton Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:40pm |
re: #323 Occasional Reader
Or, if they somehow DO manage to make "piles and piles of money", they'll instantly be denounced as "greedy executives" and slapped with ex post facto confiscatory taxes...
Good point. It's a win-win for Obama if they take the bait.
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opnion Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:40pm |
re: #357 Kosh's Shadow
They've found out that sending "grief counselors" to schools where a student died has actually made the situation worse.
After the Colombine shootings, the school administration kept asking for privacy, while they kept holding public memorials.
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:45pm |
re: #362 opnion
They have actually been calling them "legacy assets" fo a while. They want to make sure that the blame is on Bush.
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:47pm |
re: #380 yma o hyd
Its actually worse than that - we weren't meant to get that old in the first place!
Once one's reproduced, helped th grandchildren a bit - that should be it.
In prehistoric time, that was usually around forty at the latest, average age was about 30.Thats why they did revere the very old so much - they were the very rare survivors, and the repository of all the tribe's stories, knowledge, history, secrets ...
Under that system, I'd be a grandma several times over by now and about to kick any day. I did say modern life has its benefits!
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:58pm |
re: #350 godfrey
Calling Speedy Gonzales racist is the way a bookish frustrated leftyboy feels like a tough guy. I'm glad to hear Mexican guys think it's hilarious. Nice to know there are guys left who still piss standing up.
What Speedy Gonzales is a racist? Is that Taco Bell Chihuahua a racist too?
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:29:58pm |
re: #377 doppelganglander
Now that is some useful information.
/waits while all the LGF gentlemen check their thumbs.
Whatta ya want next? ... Statistics?!
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JimmyTheClaw Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:30:31pm |
My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, 'What's on TV?'
I said, 'Dust.'
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.'
I bought her a scale.
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.
My wife asked, 'Do you know her?'
'Yes,' I sighed, 'She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since.'
'My God!' says my wife, 'who would think a person could go on celebrating that lon g?'
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ---
I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
"I'll have the strip steak, medium rare, please."
He said, "Aren't you worried about the mad cow?""
Nah, she can order for herself."
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- ---
A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror.
She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband,
'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly.
I really need you to pay me a compliment.'
The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- ---
I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95.
Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95.
I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream.
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- --- ---
A man and a woman were asleep like two innocent babies.
Suddenly, at 3 o'clock in the morning, a loud noise came from outside.
The woman, bewildered, jumped up from the bed and yelled at the man 'Holy crap. That must be my husband!'
So the man jumped out of the bed; scared and naked, he jumped out the window. He smashed himself on the ground, ran through a thorn bush and to his car as fast as he could go.
A few minutes later he returned and went up to the bedroom and screamed at the woman, 'I AM your husband!'
The woman yelled back, 'Yeah, then why were you running?'
And then the fight started...
--- --- --- --- --- ---
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HelloDare Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:30:31pm |
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:30:32pm |
re: #378 Iron Fist
After my shoulder/neck/etc. episode, I finally resorted to Prozac, which didn't really help, and last week changed to Wellbutrin. So far, so good. I never thought I would take any of that stuff, but when you need it, you need it.
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yma o hyd Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:30:52pm |
re: #357 Kosh's Shadow
They've found out that sending "grief counselors" to schools where a student died has actually made the situation worse.
They've also found out that the good old English 'stiff upper lip' was and still is of far more help in such situations than the modern way of pouring it all out and getting 'counselling' as a right!
And - counselling not by a priest or vicar, but by a touchy-feely modern social helper!
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:30:54pm |
re: #356 KenJen
Funny this topic has come up. Ive been getting panic attacks. Am going to the doctor tomorrow to ask for something to help. Maybe a little xanax or something. I have no idea whats causing it. No kids, job stable, no boyfriend. Only thing that causes stress is Obama and what he's doing to my country. I almost feel sorry for those BDS suffers-almost.
I wondered for years where mine came from (and yes I knew they were somewhat stress related). Recently I was just diagnosed with Mitral Valve Regurgitation (mild heart murmer) and lo and behold guess what some of the symptoms were... Chest pain, panic attacks, migranes... You never know until you know but don't let anyone tell you "get over it - it's in your head".
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Occasional Reader Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:01pm |
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:08pm |
re: #356 KenJen
I had a good friend with these who weaned herself off Xanax but it was really hard and excruciating to watch. Do not mess with it if you can avoid it.
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:11pm |
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gmsc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:16pm |
re: #392 Afrocity
What Speedy Gonzales is a racist? Is that Taco Bell Chihuahua a racist too?
No, the Taco Bell Chihuahua is just ordinary stupid.
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JimmyTheClaw Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:18pm |
Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, grabbed the dog, and slipped quietly into the garage.
I hooked up the boat up to the truck, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour.
The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.
I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed.
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 10 years replied, 'Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?'
And then the fight started ...
--- --- --- --- --- ---
I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary? "
It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation. "Somewhere I haven't been in a long time!" she said.
So I suggested, "How about the kitchen?"
And that's when the fight started...
--- --- --- --- --- ---
My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?"
"No," she answered.
I then said, "Is that your final answer?"
She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying "Yes."
So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."
And that's when the fight started...
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doppelganglander Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:26pm |
re: #393 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Whatta ya want next? ... Statistics?!
No, please God no. I was just assuming that male anxiety would impel them to check.
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jcm Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:26pm |
Lunch time.
A couple of hours of voir dire, and Juror #40 is still alive.
I wonder if my playing with a noose prejudiced the defense attorney against me?
///
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Pvt Bin Jammin Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:31:48pm |
re: #392 Afrocity
What Speedy Gonzales is a racist? Is that Taco Bell Chihuahua a racist too?
Yep. Isn't that a shame? I loved those ads.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:32:00pm |
re: #372 WriterMom
Yes we agree, and on that getting laid thing as well :.)
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:32:04pm |
re: #386 Lizard by the Bay
No thanks! Mucking with my brain chemistry is not my thing.
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:32:12pm |
re: #364 gmsc
We could get a more accurate name by combining the two – "legacy debt".
ATTENTION TIM GEITHNER! NEWSFLASH! The definition of an asset is property that, after all expenses are taken care of, result in a financial gain.
You can change the name all you want, but how are these toxic assets going to make the government money?
That's right. Also, "Legacy Assets" doesn't even make sense. Well, deceptive language is the cornerstone of this administration.
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:32:17pm |
re: #378 Iron Fist
Oh, btw, Lexapro helped my daughter. If it works, do it!
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opnion Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:33:30pm |
re: #370 HoosierHoops
I was going to say that but was afraid too..
I've never seen anyone depressed after smoking hot sex..Well except the girls I was with..They usually just cried alot.
/
Yeah I had pretty much the same experience. I tried to tell myself that they were tears of joy, but you know I knew better.
Hey, at least I had fun!
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:33:48pm |
re: #398 DaddyG
You're really lucky they hit on the problem.
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karmic_inquisitor Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:34:21pm |
re: #401 Killian Bundy
Did you see this morning's housing data?
/better than expected
Yes. Prices down, though. Just the same, it is good news. A sign of market forces working. It would be nice if the govt didn't try to reinflate things now and instead give the housing market room to recover by focusing on mortgages and by firming up the ability of the FDIC to deal with bad banks with bad assets.
This is getting the junkie back on his feet by giving him the heroin you took away 2 days ago.
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yma o hyd Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:34:25pm |
re: #381 WriterMom
KenJen, I'm just a person on a blog...I don't have any medial or counselling credentials, but before medication, I would try all the conservative remedies-like exercise, doing things for others, volunteering, before going the medication route. That's just me-and I did have serious anxiety a few times in my life, and I just focused on my body and mind and I got over it.
I agree with you - and I'm also not medically qualified, but frome xperience i can tell that doing regular exercise, proper exercise which leaves you out of breath, releases endorphins in your brain and these make you feel much better.
Instead of taking anti-depresants, I went to the swimming pool five times a week, for one hour's training. Worked wonders!
(Draw-back - I became a pool-junkie ...)
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opnion Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:34:39pm |
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:34:44pm |
re: #392 Afrocity
What Speedy Gonzales is a racist? Is that Taco Bell Chihuahua a racist too?
If you have to ask, then you aren't a Democrat.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:35:08pm |
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J.D. Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:35:30pm |
Have a great afternoon y'all!
I must do something [else] even if it's wrong.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:35:45pm |
re: #416 yma o hyd
Exactly. Me too. This morning, I had to deal with my nutty Dag The Bounty Hunter's Wife boss..it made me very stressed. Went for a run and my whole outlook goes back to 'kiss my tuches'.
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Kragar Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:35:53pm |
re: #385 WriterMom
ALL THE MEN WAVE NOW
/just checking
I'd have responded earlier but these damn huge thumbs keep getting in the way.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:06pm |
re: #418 Honorary Yooper
If you have to ask, then you aren't a Democrat.
That is the nicest thing anyone has said to me all year ;-)
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:07pm |
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yma o hyd Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:15pm |
re: #391 doppelganglander
Under that system, I'd be a grandma several times over by now and about to kick any day. I did say modern life has its benefits!
Yep - it does, deosnt it.
Just think of modern dentistry, compared to that of the Middle Ages, never mind Prehistory!
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:18pm |
re: #404 doppelganglander
No, please God no. I was just assuming that male anxiety would impel them to check.
*grin*
/btw ... *chuckle* ... I didn't
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:19pm |
re: #422 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Are your thumbs so big you are having trouble typing?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:19pm |
re: #381 WriterMom
KenJen, I'm just a person on a blog...I don't have any medial or counselling credentials, but before medication, I would try all the conservative remedies-like exercise, doing things for others, volunteering, before going the medication route. That's just me-and I did have serious anxiety a few times in my life, and I just focused on my body and mind and I got over it.
kenjen, if it is mild depression I've seen that organic treatments like saint john's wort can actually help too.
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:36:51pm |
re: #421 WriterMom
I had to deal with my nutty Dag The Bounty Hunter's Wife boss
Sounds like a film by Lars Von Trier.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:37:17pm |
re: #405 jcm
Lunch time.
A couple of hours of voir dire, and Juror #40 is still alive.
I wonder if my playing with a noose prejudiced the defense attorney against me?
///
I take it that you're on jury duty ... ... ?
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:38:13pm |
re: #421 WriterMom
Exactly. Me too. This morning, I had to deal with my nutty Dag The Bounty Hunter's Wife boss..it made me very stressed. Went for a run and my whole outlook goes back to 'kiss my tuches'.
You have a female boss who is taller horizontally than vertically?
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gmsc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:38:33pm |
re: #427 WriterMom
Are your thumbs so big you are having trouble typing?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
That gives a whole new meaning to "hunt and peck".
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Honorary Yooper Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:38:39pm |
re: #431 ploome hineni
he can call them burritos for all the difference it makes
How fitting, considering that's Spanish for "little jackasses", which is exactly what Obama's cabinet is made of.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:38:40pm |
re: #429 godfrey
godfrey, I really wish I could write more about it..LOL.
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astronmr20 Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:38:49pm |
re: #416 yma o hyd
I agree with you - and I'm also not medically qualified, but frome xperience i can tell that doing regular exercise, proper exercise which leaves you out of breath, releases endorphins in your brain and these make you feel much better.
Instead of taking anti-depresants, I went to the swimming pool five times a week, for one hour's training. Worked wonders!(Draw-back - I became a pool-junkie ...)
+10 to this.
Rigorous exercise is incredible for one's mood and general feeling of well-being.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:39:36pm |
re: #433 Lizard by the Bay
Ha ha ha...I've mentioned it before. Her and "the girls" are quite zaftik.
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:39:38pm |
One thing I have learned. Nobody that is on psych meds, or has kids on psych meds, will ever suffer anyone telling them that there's probably a better way. Logic and reason are not options at this point. Nobody wants to be told that what they invested in, purchased, were convinced of the veracity of, ingested, voted for, or installed on their computer...is anything but the best. It's scary the reactions.
That said, I think Depression and Anxiety are an industry, one which is more interested in cashing in and perpetually treating (read:selling pills for) than it is interested in curing. Any doc which says "Four out of five suffer from symptoms of clinical depression, and the fifth is in denial" is, to me, no doc at all, is just a salesman for a pharmaceutical company.
Everyone seems to agree that the West is overmedicated. Nobody wants to look on their own use, or the "oh but for MY kid it's necessary, you should see all the good its done!" drugs given to their kids. Even when they agree that the nation is overmedicated. Just not them.
Just like everyone says the American Educational System is gone down the crapper, but "oh, no, not my kids' school, they're actually pretty middle-of-the-road."
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:40:19pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:40:59pm |
re: #414 WriterMom
You're really lucky they hit on the problem.
I'm also lucky the palpitations I was experiencing a few weeks back weren't something more serious. I have a good doc, and he's put many things right for my whole family. Very big into lab tests and exams to get it right the first time. We're fortunate to have been referred to him.
He did have me give up Dr. Pepper and Girl Scout Cookies however. Which could be the cause of the depression. //
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Learned Mother of Zion Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:41:16pm |
re: #10 Killgore Trout
CAIR Spokeswoman arrested for drunk driving, claims Islamaphobia...
Muslim on Wellbutrin, a Former CAIR Spokeswoman, Claims Gilbert PD Racially Profiled HerI've taken Wellbutrin before. It doesn't effect your balance.
Drinking AND driving. What a naughty Muslim. She's lucky if she only gets beaten to within an inch of her life.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:43:14pm |
re: #440 Taqiyyotomist
I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction, you don't suffer from depression.
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KenJen Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:43:42pm |
re: #428 turn
I'm going to check into that. Thanks, great advice everyone. I hate taking meds but didnt know what else might help. I havent even told anyone in my family-didn't want them to worry or think I was crazy. Im still going to the doctor tomorrow. Haven't had a physical in a year.
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yma o hyd Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:44:25pm |
re: #421 WriterMom
Exactly. Me too. This morning, I had to deal with my nutty Dag The Bounty Hunter's Wife boss..it made me very stressed. Went for a run and my whole outlook goes back to 'kiss my tuches'.
Running has of course the added advantage that it takes place in fresh air.
Ever since the dogs came, we've been out, no matter what, for hours.
Ok - its a bit less now that madame is getting on - but nevertheless, even in freezing rain and gale force winds, we're out.
Nothing helps as much against what ails one, mentally, as a brisk walk or run in the park.
Its even better when one keeps looking out for changes in the flowers, listens to the birds, watches for the first bumblebees ... and one comes back with a big smile on one's face.
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:44:47pm |
Dow up to 442. my mutual/IRA funds are happy (for a change)
Will it last?
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:45:21pm |
re: #446 KenJen
Get the physical. I'm serious when I say try exercise. Nothing cures winter blahs like running. Get the heart pumping and clear the head. Feels great!
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:47:02pm |
re: #448 FrogMarch
Dow up to 442. my mutual/IRA funds are happy (for a change)
Will it last?
At least on the S&P, it's now an official 20% Bull move off the low.
/let's see how much profit taking there is tomorrow and on what volume
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godfrey Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:48:30pm |
re: #453 Killian Bundy
Do you think we're at the bottom, then?
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avanti Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:48:39pm |
re: #377 doppelganglander
Now that is some useful information.
/waits while all the LGF gentlemen check their thumbs.
I may have a small penis, but I'm proud of every foot of it.
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:49:31pm |
re: #450 ploome hineni
Withdrawal from anti-depressants isn't like withdrawal from an addictive sedative at all, but it can still be unpleasant. Lots of increased irritability, short fuses are even shorter, often times you'll see emotional reactions completely off the scale (or even the inverse) in relation to the trigger event, etc...
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jimc Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:49:38pm |
re: #448 FrogMarch
Dow up to 442. my mutual/IRA funds are happy (for a change)
Will it last?
Will it last? well a better question is "Will grocery stores accept monopoly money?" Cause once Team Obama runs out of paper to print US dollars, the plan is to make Monopoly money legal tender. Also Schrute bucks. value will be accepted as well.
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FrogMarch Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:50:05pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:50:23pm |
re: #431 ploome hineni
he can call them burritos for all the difference it makes
Awww, man ... I like burritos.
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:50:54pm |
re: #455 avanti
I may have a small penis, but I'm proud of every foot of it.
Your penis can walk?!
Science... what will they think of next?
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:51:08pm |
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:52:11pm |
re: #440 Taqiyyotomist I agree that they are over prescribed. They should be a last resort when all other avenues are tried. Exercise is very therapeutic and diet plays a big part. Sometimes after all they can do people really have busted plumbing where Serotonin uptake is concerned or physical issues that lead to symptoms of panic or depression. When done right it really is no different than treating any other disease.
I have strenuously avoided treating any of my children with any kind of brain chemical altering treatments because there are too many risks for growing minds and bodies. Teachers and school counselors are way to eager to get kids to behave in abnormal ways (like sitting still and listening). It used to appall me as a student teacher in the early 90s seeing the line of kids at lunch getting Ritalin from the school nurse. There is no way that many students need medicated. Now more studies are showing that there is a link between Ritalin use and chemical dependency as adults.
Bottom line for me is that its not candy or a cure all but anti-depressants are useful when prescribed carefully and when combined with a reasonable diet and exercise regimen.
I still think asking me to give up girl scout cookies was too radical though. ;-)
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Killian Bundy Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:52:44pm |
re: #454 godfrey
Do you think we're at the bottom, then?
I think so, the little things keep pointing in the right direction. Then again, it wouldn't take much to turn things sour again.
/that said, I'll take my upside rallies where I find them, bull or bear
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:52:48pm |
re: #450 ploome hineni
does prozac cause the same problems?
You have to build up Prozac doses, and you have to wean off of it, too.
I wouldn't touch a Xanax with a 10-foot pole after the shit I've heard and been told in addiction family support groups.
Xanax has a street value, while Prozac is worthless to a junkie. Draw your own conclusions.
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Lincolntf Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:52:53pm |
re: #458 jimc
I'll give Obama 6 billion Stanley nickels if he stops appointing douchebags and dingbats.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:53:12pm |
re: #457 Lizard by the Bay
Withdrawal from anti-depressants isn't like withdrawal from an addictive sedative at all, but it can still be unpleasant. Lots of increased irritability, short fuses are even shorter, often times you'll see emotional reactions completely off the scale (or even the inverse) in relation to the trigger event, etc...
In my case withdrawal means my panic attacks come back.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:53:27pm |
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:53:36pm |
re: #445 turn
I have been in the hospital for Major Depression a total of four times. I have seen my only brother lying on a hospital bed, knocked unconscious by psych meds, a few dozen times in the few years before he offed himself in a garage with CO and booze. I've been told by psychobabblists that there is no such thing as evil. I've been subjected to endless postmodern nonsense from these PhD'ed morons, who only seem to exist to speak random phrases and to write also random prescriptions.
I am not writing from a position of ignorance on the matter.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:53:56pm |
re: #470 Afrocity
In my case withdrawal means my panic attacks come back.
Have you ever been on Lyrica? It seems to help my wife.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:54:10pm |
re: #463 Afrocity
Give us a break.
Ha! Hi afro, good news ... we haven't had to put Willie down yet. He isn't suffering per se. We went and got him shaved and gave him a new sweater and he seems to have perked up a bit. He's going blind though and we'll have to make the call soon. Hope you are recovering well over the ordeal.
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Lizard by the Bay Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:54:28pm |
re: #464 ploome hineni
is that a yes?
or are you saying xanax is a sedtive, and prozac an anti depressant?
or vice versa?
xanax is a sedative and muscle relaxant, and the withdrawl from it is very physical, i.e. severe nausea, irregular heart beat, insomnia, loss of appetite, etc...
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:55:19pm |
re: #468 OldLineTexan
You have to build up Prozac doses, and you have to wean off of it, too.
I wouldn't touch a Xanax with a 10-foot pole after the shit I've heard and been told in addiction family support groups.
Xanax has a street value, while Prozac is worthless to a junkie. Draw your own conclusions.
(yeahhh)
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:57:40pm |
re: #472 Taqiyyotomist
turns wrong (again). Sorry I apologize, it seemed you put so little confidence in anti-depressants as a means of dealing with the problem. It seems to me you may just be really angry at the doctors. Get well by any means possible.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:57:54pm |
re: #474 turn
Ha! Hi afro, good news ... we haven't had to put Willie down yet. He isn't suffering per se. We went and got him shaved and gave him a new sweater and he seems to have perked up a bit. He's going blind though and we'll have to make the call soon. Hope you are recovering well over the ordeal.
That is good news...Nothing like a good shave and new wardrobe. I did good this weekend. My brother's visit helped. I got my dog's ashes this weekend. I could not believe they arrived so quickly.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:57:59pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:58:51pm |
re: #477 Iron Fist
Sugar cravings are a pretty common side-effect, I am told.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 12:59:21pm |
re: #473 OldLineTexan
Have you ever been on Lyrica? It seems to help my wife.
No I am a traditional pharmaceutically challenged woman. I do prozac and xanax straight up with a twist.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:00:40pm |
re: #483 Afrocity
No I am a traditional pharmaceutically challenged woman. I do prozac and xanax straight up with a twist.
HA! My wife's "cocktail" is probably closer to a Long Island Iced Tea (like freakin' EVERYTHING in it).
All of this is naturally sooo good for her alcoholism. Not.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:00:50pm |
re: #479 Afrocity
That is good news...Nothing like a good shave and new wardrobe. I did good this weekend. My brother's visit helped. I got my dog's ashes this weekend. I could not believe they arrived so quickly.
Are you going to get another one? It helps.
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:01:33pm |
re: #486 turn
Are you going to get another one? It helps.
I can overnight you a poodle with fine taste in rugs bathroom areas.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:02:14pm |
One more free opinion (worth what you paid for it).
It may take years to find the right course of treatment for depression. Excercise and good diet never hurt while treatment with alcohol or drugs is a disaster bound to happen.
Find a doctor you can trust, who will listen to you and who doesn't just slap down the prescriptions after a five minute consultation and tell you the latest miracle pill will cure your ills. Be willing to change some parts of your lifestyle (i.e. Krispy Kremes, Lazy Boy Chairs and sleep deprivation).
There are no short cuts to health and too many people are willing to sell them to anyone who is willing to pay. That causes a lot of the problems Taqiyyotomist is referring too.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:03:12pm |
re: #487 OldLineTexan
I can overnight you a poodle with fine taste in
rugsbathroom areas.
Man, I'm really happy I finished tiling my entire house with those little lovable pissers I've got.
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avanti Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:03:32pm |
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Taqiyyotomist Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:04:31pm |
re: #478 turn
I've got my own ways of dealing with it. I've not been in a hospital or spoken with a psych doc for about 5-6 years now.
My beefs are many with the industry. Treat it like any other disease? Okay, how about they test the organ in question? Scan my brain, take fluids, X-rays. CT, have a g_dd. phrenologist read the f***ing bumps on my skull, do something which at least smacks of, or even vaguely resembles real scientific inquiry or study.
Nope, they don't do any of this. Science, my ass. I could give them a set of D&D dice and have them roll me up a treatment plan. Same as what they do.
/rant off
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:04:44pm |
re: #489 turn
Man, I'm really happy I finished tiling my entire house with those little lovable pissers I've got.
It's a wood floor with a really nice 9 x 12 wool rug. And I have been covering it with a plastic drop cloth since last year while trying to break Mr. I'm A Little Tee-Pot of his frikkin' habit.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:05:42pm |
re: #479 Afrocity
That is good news...Nothing like a good shave and new wardrobe. I did good this weekend. My brother's visit helped. I got my dog's ashes this weekend. I could not believe they arrived so quickly.
Awww man. We just lost a kitty (probably bad cat food from China 6 months ago - she never recovered). It was our second in two years. The first was 18 and lived a long happy life. On the one hand it is a good lesson in life and death for the kids. We decided to keep her alive as long as she wasnt suffering (teach them the value of life) and those that chose to be in the room witnessed her last breaths. I hope that takes some of the fear out of the passage out of this world for them as they grow.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:05:55pm |
re: #488 DaddyG
I agree so much with that, finding the right doctor was the key for my loved one.
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:06:49pm |
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OldLineTexan Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:08:33pm |
re: #496 Iron Fist
Yeah, and the diabetes plays a role in that as well. When my blood sugar goes squirrly, it can cause all kinds of things. It is very similar to being drunk, I guess. It can cause me to black out. I was doing that a couple of weeks ago when my blood sugar was over 600 (100 is about where it should be). I put myself in the emergency room about eighteen months ago with a 12 pack of beer and two candy bars. After the third time I called my girlfriend to tell her goodnight (and I don't remember calling her at all), she came over, and took me to the hospital. I don't remember much of that, either.
Not good. When I went to my doctor for my follow-up the next day, she bluntly asked me if I was trying to kill myself. That kind of got my attention. Still, there's only so much I can do.
Blood sugar problems have been suspect in her case, too, but every time she has the symptoms (eat a meal, go to sleep; don't eat, turn stoopid; etc.) her blood tests/fast tests show normal. Her father and her youngest sister have problems, so it's not out of the question.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:08:54pm |
re: #491 Taqiyyotomist
Okay, how about they test the organ in question? Scan my brain, take fluids, X-rays. CT, have a g_dd. phrenologist read the f***ing bumps on my skull, do something which at least smacks of, or even vaguely resembles real scientific inquiry or study.
Absolute 100% agreement with that. I don't know how anyone in good conscience prescribe as much as an aspirin without doing comprehensive testing.
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avanti Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:10:05pm |
I suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and it's getting worse as I get older. I can't stand winter, I get more and more depressed with each passing one. I bought a SAD lamp which helps a bit, but may have to move to a area where I get good sunlight all year. I must be part bear, I just want to sleep through winter.
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:10:10pm |
re: #491 Taqiyyotomist
Oh, that's part of your frustration. Unfortunately finding the right combination of drugs really isn't a science at this point, more of a black art in my experience. Doctors have to basically experiment with your body until they find a combination that works, the better the doctor the quicker the depressed person will find something that works.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:10:45pm |
re: #500 avanti
I suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and it's getting worse as I get older. I can't stand winter, I get more and more depressed with each passing one. I bought a SAD lamp which helps a bit, but may have to move to a area where I get good sunlight all year. I must be part bear, I just want to sleep through winter.
Avoid Seattle!
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:12:19pm |
re: #501 turn
Yup- and don't feel loyalty to a doctor who isn't willing to work hard to listen to you and find the best solutions for you.
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debutaunt Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:12:58pm |
re: #202 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Do not listen to Rosemary Clooney while you're trying to come up with puns.
/epic fail
Hey there.
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WriterMom Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:13:08pm |
re: #455 avanti
ROFL. I think that's the first time one of your comments has made me laugh out loud.
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:13:28pm |
re: #503 Iron Fist
The most interesting "cocktail" I've ever had was half a hit of LSD and half a hit of pharmaceutical grade Ecstasy. That was interesting. For about 18 hours. Yee-haw :-)
///Shocked stare///
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DaddyG Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:15:00pm |
Me: I got so sucked up in the medical discussion I didn't notice the new thread.
Dr. Quack: Attention Defecit Disorder - have some Ritalin.
//
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Afrocity Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:19:56pm |
re: #500 avanti
I suffer from SAD (seasonal affective disorder) and it's getting worse as I get older. I can't stand winter, I get more and more depressed with each passing one. I bought a SAD lamp which helps a bit, but may have to move to a area where I get good sunlight all year. I must be part bear, I just want to sleep through winter.
Was that what happened when you voted for Obama?/
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turn Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:23:50pm |
re: #509 Iron Fist
I experimented a little bit with drugs when I was younger, it was kind of scary not knowing what was about to happen to you. But in the case of depression I'm convinced it has to be done.
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debutaunt Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:44:17pm |
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DisturbedEma Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:50:09pm |
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imtoast Mon, Mar 23, 2009 1:54:24pm |
re: #236 gymmom
OT:
My 11 year old just received mail from the IRS for failure to pay her taxes year before last when she was 9-10. she should be paid for being so talented and wonderful, but alas, she was not! The IRS is such a tightly run organization! //
Your daughter should not even be in the system. If I were you I would look into identity theft. The person may have a social security card with your daughter's name on it.
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alegrias Mon, Mar 23, 2009 2:06:26pm |
My mother's depression has been treated successfully twice with electro-shock, once in the 1960 and again in the 1980s. She is on Lithium for life.
I thank my father for recognizing she needed treatment, not a lecture, whatever the cause of her going from happiest warmest person in the world to moping anxious creature.
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