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1 Sharmuta  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:01:06pm

Pretty cute.

2 Sharmuta  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:01:17pm

And hungry.

3 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:01:23pm

How can you tell it's a socialist Rhino? It's just a baby!

4 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:01:50pm

Okay, you got me. I never thought that a rhino could be cute.

5 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:01:57pm

Hello little rhino

6 Sharmuta  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:02:33pm

re: #4 BlueCanuck

Okay, you got me. I never thought that a rhino could be cute.

Babies are cute.

7 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:02:38pm

Awww...

8 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:02:38pm

Cute to another rhino, maybe.

Thanks for the photo, Charles, now we can trash some real rhinos as well as RINOs. ;)

9 bcgirl  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:03:32pm

Very very cute, just gotta love babies!

10 wee fury  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:03:53pm

Sweet and cuddly little thing.

11 jaunte  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:04:16pm

Good to see a newborn.


Poaching pressure escalated during the 1970s and 1980s as a result of the rising demand for rhino horn in Asia and the Middle East and between 1970 and 1992, the black rhino suffered a 96% decline in numbers. Three subspecies are listed as Critically Endangered in the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List, while the fourth is listed as Probably Extinct.[Link: www.panda.org...]
12 Occasional Reader  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:04:57pm

I will give a heartfelt "awwwww".

13 Sharmuta  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:05:16pm

re: #9 bcgirl

Very very cute, just gotta love babies!

Yes

14 Dar ul Harbarian  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:05:18pm

What a sweetie!

15 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:06:29pm

Oh horrorz! That penguin chick will be scarred for life!

German zoo: Gay penguin pair raising chick
Jun. 4, 2009 12:34 PM
Associated Press

BERLIN - A German zoo says a pair of gay male penguins are raising a chick from an egg abandoned by its parents.

Bremerhaven zoo veterinarian Joachim Schoene says the egg was placed in the male penguins' nest after its parents rejected it in late April. The males incubated it for some 30 days before it hatched and have continued to care for it. The chick's gender is not yet known.

16 reine.de.tout  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:06:47pm

Really cute!
So were the cats and the lemurs and the baby anteater.

The baby shark and croc - not so much.

17 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:07:49pm

Nice to have an open thread! The granddaughter's 5th grade graduation is tomorrow, whoo hoo! I am looking forward to it.

I've got the world on a string, don't I? :)

18 jaunte  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:07:52pm

Black rhinos in Glen Rose, Texas

19 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:08:30pm

re: #16 reine.de.tout

Really cute!
So were the cats and the lemurs and the baby anteater.

The baby shark and croc - not so much.

Hey, croc's look much like lizards at that age. Why the insult?

20 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:08:40pm

What a adorable little guy! Love that website.

21 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:08:59pm

Ewwwwwww!

[Bankrupt] Mass. company lists cadavers among its assets
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

MANSFIELD, Mass. - A bankrupt Massachusetts medical device maker left behind some gruesome assets when it shut down earlier this year.

Innovative Spinal Technologies lists nine human bodies, including "eight previously used" cadavers, among its property in a federal bankruptcy filing.

22 The Shadow Do  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:09:08pm

Good eatin' right there. Baby black ribs...

Give my my baby black, baby black, baby black ribs...

23 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:09:37pm

re: #21 FurryOldGuyJeans

Ewwwwwww!

[Bankrupt] Mass. company lists cadavers among its assets
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

DOUBLE EWWWWWWWWW!

24 Steffan  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:10:47pm

Sorry to go OT this soon:

In the "Editors' Picks" section of Newsbusters, they list a Chicago Tribune editorial cartoon from 1934 that could have been printed yesterday.

Pay particular attention to the "Plan of Action for US" in the lower left corner.

25 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:11:15pm

re: #21 FurryOldGuyJeans

Ewwwwwww!

[Bankrupt] Mass. company lists cadavers among its assets
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

If that company hasn't paid their taxes, the IRS might just end up with those "assets". LOL

26 RememberSekhmet?  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:11:50pm

What a cutie-pie! If rhinos weren't so ill-tempered, I'd love to give him a hug.

27 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:11:58pm

And this is someone we should take serious?!?

Cameron Diaz wants to change butt, planet
Jun. 4, 2009 02:49 PM
Bang Showbiz

Cameron Diaz wants a bigger butt.

The 'My Sister's Keeper' star is not a fan of plastic surgery, but often contemplates getting buttock implants to make her derriere rounder.

She said: "I'd love a bigger butt, more meat on my bones. I'd love to be more voluptuous. It's just not my body type."

But for now the 36-year-old actress - who is reportedly dating Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine - is far more interested in giving the world a makeover.

She explained: "The planet needs a publicist. It's the planet, you know what I mean? She should be a star. How do we make this little planet of ours a big star? I want everybody to know who she is."

28 albusteve  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:12:40pm

I want one...how big do they get?...do they bark alot?...no fur and I like that here in NM....where to you get Purina Rhino Chow?...anybody?

29 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:12:44pm

:D Love it. Don't want to meet it face-to-face, though.

30 JPL17  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:12:45pm

Almost as cute as our 2 cats, Tom-Tom and Max.

31 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:13:08pm

re: #27 FurryOldGuyJeans

And this is someone we should take serious?!?

Cameron Diaz wants to change butt, planet
Jun. 4, 2009 02:49 PM
Bang Showbiz

She should just shut up and eat a cheeseburger.

32 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:13:35pm

Zooborns, something else I learned here!
Thank you!

33 wee fury  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:14:00pm

For the baby Rhino and all Rhino lovers:

34 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:14:00pm

re: #28 albusteve

I want one...how big do they get?...do they bark alot?...no fur and I like that here in NM....where to you get Purina Rhino Chow?...anybody?

It's the Rhino Pooper Scooper that you need a forklift for. That is why they are not in all of our backyards.

35 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:14:30pm

re: #31 Alouette

She should just shut up and eat a cheeseburger.

I despise celebrity news normally, but this bit of "deep thinking" from Diaz was just too weird to not pass on.

36 albusteve  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:14:41pm

there is a guy down the road that makes saddles and other tack for rhinos...they are excellent barrel racers and run faster than a quarter horse on weekdays

37 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:14:53pm

re: #21 FurryOldGuyJeans

Ewwwwwww!

[Bankrupt] Mass. company lists cadavers among its assets
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

Triple Ewwwwwww if their power got cut off and their freezers thawed out.

38 Occasional Reader  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:15:09pm

re: #36 albusteve

there is a guy down the road that makes saddles and other tack for rhinos...they are excellent barrel racers and run faster than a quarter horse on weekdays

Now wait a minute. You're just making that up.

39 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:15:15pm

re: #21 FurryOldGuyJeans

Ewwwwwww!

[Bankrupt] Mass. company lists cadavers among its assets
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

Non-performing assets, no doubt.

40 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:15:16pm

re: #24 Steffan

Sorry to go OT this soon:

In the "Editors' Picks" section of Newsbusters, they list a Chicago Tribune editorial cartoon from 1934 that could have been printed yesterday.

Pay particular attention to the "Plan of Action for US" in the lower left corner.

One of the commenter's cleaned it up

41 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:15:18pm

re: #36 albusteve

there is a guy down the road that makes saddles and other tack for rhinos...they are excellent barrel racers and run faster than a quarter horse on weekdays

They get the weekends off?

42 albusteve  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:15:34pm

re: #34 Crimsonfisted

It's the Rhino Pooper Scooper that you need a forklift for. That is why they are not in all of our backyards.

I have alot of tomatoes so I'm covered there

43 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:15:50pm

re: #27 FurryOldGuyJeans

And this is someone we should take serious?!?

Cameron Diaz wants to change butt, planet
Jun. 4, 2009 02:49 PM
Bang Showbiz

My impression of Ms. Diaz is that she's three bricks shy of a load, but maybe she's just kooky.

44 [deleted]  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:16:00pm
45 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:16:17pm

re: #38 Occasional Reader

Now wait a minute. You're just making that up.

It could be. I saw a picture of a kid with a pet rhino. A big pet rhino.

46 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:18:07pm

Do my first five links in my tag cloud from Amazon make me sound boring? ( :D )

Anthologies Cats Conservatism Cotton Egyptian Cotton

47 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:18:21pm

This thread is mine!

48 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:18:30pm

Some good news from the Big Apple, for a change:

NY store owner gives would-be thief $40 and bread
Jun. 3, 2009 09:12 AM
Associated Press

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - A rifle-toting convenience store owner said he decided to show mercy on a would-be robber after seeing the man collapse into tears and claim he was only committing the crime to support his starving family.

The Long Island store owner provided the bat-wielding man with $40 and a loaf of bread and made him promise never to rob again.

"This was a grown man, crying like a baby," Mohammad Sohail, owner of the Shirley Express convenience store about 65 miles east of New York City, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

Ooops! Spoke too soon!

Benevolent New York merchant cited in drug sweep
Jun. 4, 2009 12:34 PM
Associated Press

SHIRLEY, N.Y. - A New York convenience store owner who made headlines after showing mercy on a would-be robber has been accused of selling drug paraphernalia.

Shirley Express owner Mohammad Sohail's store on Long Island was one of seven businesses cited Tuesday. He's accused of violating state business laws.

Prosecutors say undercover officers bought bongs and pipe screens at the store three times in recent weeks.

49 albusteve  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:18:45pm

you can grow your very own Chinese aphrodisiac with a herd of these guys....make millions

50 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:18:56pm

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.

51 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:19:57pm

re: #48 FurryOldGuyJeans

Bongs are illegal in New York? Control freaks.

52 Racer X  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:20:08pm

re: #50 Catttt

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.

Laker game is on.

53 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:20:09pm

re: #50 Catttt

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.

*snore* Huh? *snort* Wha? *snore*

54 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:20:39pm

re: #46 Catttt

Do my first five links in my tag cloud from Amazon make me sound boring? ( :D )

Anthologies Cats Conservatism Cotton Egyptian Cotton

I would say you like to read anthologies, curled up with your cat on double Egyptian cotton, conservatively reading by candlelight.

You sound like happy husband material! :)

55 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:20:53pm

re: #51 Catttt

Bongs are illegal in New York? Control freaks.

You won't find me arguing that point, dear feline. ;)

56 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:21:17pm

re: #52 Racer X

Laker game is on.

Ahhh so.

57 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:21:56pm

re: #55 FurryOldGuyJeans

You won't find me arguing that point, dear feline. ;)

I knew a guy on the city counsel in my home town who ran a head shop. Things are different in the west, apparently.

58 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:21:57pm

re: #48 FurryOldGuyJeans

Some good news from the Big Apple, for a change:

NY store owner gives would-be thief $40 and bread
Jun. 3, 2009 09:12 AM
Associated Press

The worlds broke and they got officers out citing people for selling screens & rolling papers. Somebody go smack someone.

59 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:22:53pm

re: #47 Catttt

This thread is mine!

Pfft, only three posts in a row. I think you declared a little too early. ;)

/must have at least five in a row, and dominate at least in a twenty post stretch.

//LNDT rules you know.....

60 albusteve  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:22:57pm

re: #57 Catttt

I knew a guy on the city counsel in my home town who ran a head shop. Things are different in the west, apparently.

nobody gives a shit about a bong in NM....what a bunch of nazis

61 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:22:57pm

council. geez.

62 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:23:14pm

re: #50 Catttt

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.

Tiller threads can be tiring.

63 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:23:15pm

re: #50 Catttt

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.

Hey there!
Well the Laakers just copletely destroy the Magic tonight..Be up early..The Hoopster is serving yummy coffee..We need to talk this out..
Hi Cattt!

64 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:24:13pm

re: #62 unrealizedviewpoint

Tiller threads can be tiring.

Glad I missed it. I can just refer to my one post on the first thread and then go on.

Too busy to post during work! Sigh.

65 Crimsonfisted  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:24:44pm

re: #50 Catttt

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.


I am still here!

66 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:24:46pm

re: #63 HoosierHoops

Hey there!
Well the Laakers just copletely destroy the Magic tonight..Be up early..The Hoopster is serving yummy coffee..We need to talk this out..
Hi Cattt!

And the Hoopster is so excited, he lost his spellcheck! ;)

67 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:24:48pm

re: #63 HoosierHoops

Hey there!
Well the Laakers just copletely destroy the Magic tonight..Be up early..The Hoopster is serving yummy coffee..We need to talk this out..
Hi Cattt!

:D You are happy, then?

68 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:24:48pm

re: #62 unrealizedviewpoint

Tiller threads can be tiring.

We need to take a different tack then. Heading into the winds of intolerance and bigotry can make for rough seas.

/ gee, can anyone guess I was a sailor?

69 albusteve  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:25:54pm

re: #60 albusteve

nobody gives a shit about a bong in NM....what a bunch of nazis

Charles will be attacked for harboring drug fiends, junkies and acid heads on his blog.....and weird rhino freaks....

outksi

70 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:26:33pm

re: #66 Floral Giraffe

And the Hoopster is so excited, he lost his spellcheck! ;)

Someday Charles will deploy an idiot check button..You may never see me again..:)

71 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:26:50pm

And to think these guys are almost extinct because superstitious morons think the powdered horn is an aphrodisiac. Stupid is dangerous.

72 MandyManners  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:27:57pm

re: #50 Catttt

I finally get off work, and everyone goes to bed! Gee whiz.

What am I? Chopped liver?

73 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:28:05pm

re: #70 HoosierHoops

Someday Charles will deploy an idiot check button..You may never see me again..:)

Nah, never happen!

74 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:28:12pm

re: #69 albusteve

Charles will be attacked for harboring drug fiends, junkies and acid heads on his blog.....and weird rhino freaks....

outksi

Of the 20K registered, the drug users could probably be counted on one ______?
I could name a couple but would that be right?

75 unrealizedviewpoint  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:28:24pm

re: #74 unrealizedviewpoint

NO

76 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:28:58pm

Wah!

Food junk: After Oregon crash, snacks get pitched
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. - When Little Debbie went topsy-turvy, 2,000 cases of snack food went to waste. Was that necessary?

A truck with the country girl logo on its side crashed Monday on Oregon 217 near Portland.

It was carrying the namesake cakes and other treats. All remained boxed and sealed. The driver was cited for speeding.

Tennessee manufacturer McKee Foods says the Oregon Department of Transportation was in a hurry to reopen a ramp over Interstate 5, so it unloaded the truck to tip it upright and exposed the snacks to the ground and heavy machinery.

77 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:29:11pm

re: #72 MandyManners

What am I? Chopped liver?

:D

78 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:29:28pm

re: #69 albusteve

Charles will be attacked for harboring drug fiends, junkies and acid heads on his blog.....and weird rhino freaks....

outksi

Haters will always find something to justify their hatred.

79 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:29:42pm

I need to switch to my laptop. My work comp won't let me go to fumari.com.

80 Racer X  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:29:58pm

Its all about the Lakers, baby!

81 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:30:11pm

re: #72 MandyManners

What am I? Chopped liver?

I wouldn't eat chopped liver.

/ did I just say that?!? *WHACK*

82 Occasional Reader  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:30:36pm

Good night.

83 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:31:14pm

Just came across this article in The Guardian:
UN rejects calls for Israel war crimes inquiry

Human rights council condemns Hamas for using civilians as human shields

Israel last night scored a major propaganda coup when the UN human rights council praised its victory over the Hamas rulers of Gaza and refused calls to investigate allegations of war crimes by both sides in the final chapter of a bloody 25-year conflict.

In a shock move, which dismayed western nations critical of Israel's approach, the Jewish state's diplomats succeeded in lobbying enough of its European allies to pass a resolution describing the conflict as a "domestic matter that doesn't warrant outside interference".

Ha ha fooled ya! I just swapped out "Sri Lanka" and "Tamil Tigers" for "Israel" and "Hamas"

84 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:31:23pm

re: #81 FurryOldGuyJeans

I wouldn't eat chopped liver.

/ did I just say that?!? *WHACK*

What? You don't like liver wurst or pate?

/heathen

85 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:32:16pm

re: #83 Alouette

Just wondering what Bizarro world I had fallen into.

86 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:32:32pm

re: #76 FurryOldGuyJeans

Wah!

Food junk: After Oregon crash, snacks get pitched
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

Noooo! That's no way to treat fudge brownies! Oh the humanity!

/Ahem, excuse me while I collect myself.

87 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:33:47pm

This was a bit too much show and tell:

Student's marijuana speech ends with flourish and trip to jail
Jun. 3, 2009 06:20 PM
McClatchy Newspapers

TACOMA, Wash. - The teachers wanted persuasive.

And they got it.

At the end of his speech Tuesday urging legalization of marijuana, a 17-year-old Peninsula High School student pulled out a joint, lit it and smoked away. Then he ate the remains.

For that he got a quick escort to the school office and then a ride to Remann Hall juvenile jail.

The stunt was celebrated among some of the teen's peers but was frowned on to say the least by law enforcement officers and district administrators.

"We believe in freedom of speech and encourage it, but illegal activities are absolutely not going to be tolerated in our district," schools Superintendent Terry Bouck said.

Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said, "If people want that law changed, they need to go about it the right way."

He did acknowledge, though, that the student's action will prompt discussion.

88 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:34:17pm

re: #86 Gearhead

Noooo! That's no way to treat fudge brownies! Oh the humanity!

/Ahem, excuse me while I collect myself.

That reminds me. I need to make fudge. I'm going to surprise my boss tomorrow and bring it to work (shopping mall next to work - tomorrow is my day off). I make really good fudge.

89 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:34:33pm

re: #67 Catttt

:D You are happy, then?

No my friend.. I hate the Lakers...
But they are playing like Champions tonight.....
But here is the thing..The Magic are buzzsaws...Everybody thought they could take them out early...They have outmannned everybody this year..They could care less out this blow-out..
/anybody seen my fingernail file? :)

90 MandyManners  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:34:47pm

Oh, my.

91 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:35:00pm

re: #83 Alouette

Just came across this article in The Guardian:
UN rejects calls for Israel war crimes inquiry

Human rights council condemns Hamas for using civilians as human shields

Israel last night scored a major propaganda coup when the UN human rights council praised its victory over the Hamas rulers of Gaza and refused calls to investigate allegations of war crimes by both sides in the final chapter of a bloody 25-year conflict.

In a shock move, which dismayed western nations critical of Israel's approach, the Jewish state's diplomats succeeded in lobbying enough of its European allies to pass a resolution describing the conflict as a "domestic matter that doesn't warrant outside interference".

Ha ha fooled ya! I just swapped out "Sri Lanka" and "Tamil Tigers" for "Israel" and "Hamas"

Attention flying butt monkeys: Alert cancelled. Repeat, alert cancelled.

92 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:35:10pm

re: #84 BlueCanuck

What? You don't like liver wurst or pate?

/heathen

You only now discovering how heathenistic I am? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT! ;)

Or was that supposed to be hedonistic?

93 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:37:05pm

My domestic shorthair has started sleeping behind my work computer tower. At first, I thought there was something wrong with the comp - it was making a weird, rhythmic sound - snoring, actually.

94 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:37:17pm

Game's over. 100 to 75. Go Lakers!

95 jorline  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:38:13pm

With age this black rhino will become wise beyond it's years.
Life's experiences will make the black rhino far superior than the white rhino.
////

96 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:38:35pm

I think I'll make fudge in the morning. Too tired tonight. Plus the food processor might make noise.

97 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:38:51pm

re: #90 MandyManners

Oh, my.

You speechless, oh my indeed! ;)

98 BignJames  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:38:53pm

re: #93 Catttt

Check the cat's hard drive?

99 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:39:17pm

Actually, it was the Oregon Food Bank that was ticked off. They would have been the ones to receive the not-really-damaged brownies.

100 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:39:52pm

re: #96 Catttt

I think I'll make fudge in the morning. Too tired tonight. Plus the food processor might make noise.

I only eat fudge during Xmas..Love that stuff

101 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:39:55pm

re: #88 Catttt

That reminds me. I need to make fudge. I'm going to surprise my boss tomorrow and bring it to work (shopping mall next to work - tomorrow is my day off). I make really good fudge.

Hmmm. My office is next to a mall....

Nah. The only person whose brownies I would trust isn't scheduled to be off tomorrow.

102 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:39:55pm

re: #98 BignJames

Check the cat's hard drive?

Cat's 16 pounds and doesn't like her hard drive checked. You do it.

103 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:41:07pm

re: #102 Catttt

Cat's 16 pounds and doesn't like her hard drive checked. You do it.

16 pounds?!? That is a mountain lion, not a domestic house cat!

104 Gella  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:42:07pm

Max Blumenthal: Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama's Cairo Address
[Link: www.philipweiss.org...]

105 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:42:43pm
106 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:43:01pm

re: #48 FurryOldGuyJeans

Wait a second. There appear to be some serious shenanigans going on here.

I posted a link to this story when it first came out. At that time, the main point of the story wasn't just how merciful the shopowner was by giving the man some bread and some money. It was also that, after this happened, the robber supposedly was so grateful that he said he wanted to become a Muslim, like the storeowner. So the storeowner had him say a little oath, and pronounced him a Muslim convert. CNN.com had a version of that story (written by a "progressive Muslim" reporter) that they pumped all the way to their main headline for a while.

Now that the guy's a peddler of drug paraphernalia, don't the references to his Muslim faith seem to be vanishing?

107 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:43:54pm

re: #103 FurryOldGuyJeans

16 pounds?!? That is a mountain lion, not a domestic house cat!

When she fights with the 9 pound Siamese, the Siamese usually wins. She doesn't know all she needs to do is body slam him.

108 Racer X  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:44:40pm
109 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:44:47pm

re: #103 FurryOldGuyJeans

16 pounds?!? That is a mountain lion, not a domestic house cat!

We had one that tipped the scales at 30 lbs. Tuxedo cat. Big, lumbering clown.

110 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:45:04pm

Dad watches triplets graduate live from Iraq
Jun. 1, 2009 08:54 AM
Associated Press

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. - Triplets Kyle, Corey and Sean Cooke graduated from Whitewater High School Friday night, and like the other graduates there, their parents were watching with beaming pride.

The big difference is that their father was watching from nearly 7,000 miles away at Camp Victory in Baghdad.

In partnership with the high school and NBC, WXIA 11Alive streamed the ceremony live on its Web site, as well as a live stream of Air Force Captain William Cooke watching from Baghdad where he is stationed.

Cooke stood up when the national anthem was played at the outdoor ceremony on the Whitewater football field, with the stands packed with family and friends. He beamed when the anthem was concluded with an Air Force flyover of the football field.

Kyle, Corey and Sean knew their dad was watching from Camp Victory, but immediately after they walked across the stage to get their diplomas, they were surprised with the opportunity to talk with him in Baghdad via the Web link.

Excuse me, I've got something in my eyes right now. *wipes tear*

111 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:45:42pm

re: #95 jorline

With age this black rhino will become wise beyond it's years.
Life's experiences will make the black rhino far superior than the white rhino.
////

Channeling Jeremiah Wright again, are we?

///

112 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:46:46pm

re: #108 Racer X

Vulcan Obama

He makes a pretty cool looking vulcan. LOL

113 BignJames  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:47:20pm

re: #111 Dark_Falcon

Channeling Jeremiah Wright again, are we?

///


Jeremiah was a bullfrog.....or so I've been told.

114 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:47:36pm

re: #110 FurryOldGuyJeans

Skype!

115 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:47:48pm

re: #113 BignJames

Jeremiah was a bullfrog.....or so I've been told.

Was he a good friend of yours?

116 BignJames  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:49:00pm

re: #115 FurryOldGuyJeans

Was he a good friend of yours?


I never understood a single word he said.

117 tubbyhubby  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:50:19pm

Do you know why black rhinos are called "black" rhinos? Because theyr'e not white rhinos.

118 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:50:24pm

re: #106 Last Mohican

Furthermore, the heartwarming story of the convenience store owner who helped out the poor, starving robber hit the media on the DAY BEFORE he was cited for selling drug paraphernalia?

I'm gonna find the full video for y'all, because I thought the whole story looked a little fake when I first saw it. Now I'm really suspicious. Undercover officers had been buying the paraphernalia at the store for weeks. Someone may have tipped off the owner.

SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS!

119 pingjockey  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:50:39pm

re: #104 Gella

Them folks do not like the one! Guess they haven't got their unicorn yet!

120 tubbyhubby  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:51:24pm

Really. Because white rhinos are actually "weidt" rhinos. Affrikaans for "wide", as in wide snouted.

121 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:51:53pm

re: #108 Racer X

Vulcan Obama

"Live long and prosper. And remember that taxes are your civic duty."

122 ShanghaiEd  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:51:53pm

re: #116 BignJames

I never understood a single word he said.

Think I helped him drink...uh...something.

123 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:52:55pm

A drunk phoned police to report that thieves had been in his car.

"They've stolen the dashboard, the steering wheel, the brake pedal, even the accelerator!" he cried out.

However, before the police investigation could start, the phone rang a second time with the same voice came over the line.

"Never mind," he said with a hiccup, "I got in the back seat by mistake."

124 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:53:03pm

Grand View coffee shop indeed!

Topless [Maine] coffee shop gutted by overnight fire
Jun. 3, 2009 12:19 PM
Associated Press

A deliberately set fire destroyed a topless coffee shop early Wednesday, just hours after the owner talked with local officials about making the business more like a strip club, investigators said.

The fire at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop was reported just before 1 a.m. by an ambulance that happened to be driving past.

The state fire marshal's office concluded it was arson after investigators, aided by a specially trained dog, sifted through the shop's ruins. Officials would not say how or where the fire started, but said evidence was taken to the state police crime lab for analysis.

The coffee shop featured waiters and waitresses without shirts serving coffee and doughnuts. Owner Donald Crabtree had met Tuesday night with planning officials to discuss adding a disc jockey, expanding parking and extending the hours of operation.

Crabtree said he spent $277,000 buying and renovating the former motel in Vassalboro, just north of Augusta. It wasn't insured, he said. He and six others who live in the old motel escaped the fire unharmed.

Crabtree said he's determined to reopen his business.

“I'll keep going. ... I've got some girls out of work and I'm going to do all I can to get in there,” Crabtree said.

125 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:53:11pm

re: #108 Racer X

Vulcan Obama

Spock: I do not understand how Mr. Obama thinks prosperity will result from his government continually spending more money than it has. It is not logical.

126 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:55:24pm

re: #124 FurryOldGuyJeans

If that fire was set to force the business out, then we must support its being reopened. Under no circumstances must the "terrorist's veto" ever be allowed to stand.

127 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 8:58:59pm

Okay, here is the original WCBS version of the story about the robber who asked to convert to Islam after the shopkeeper he was robbing gave him $40 and some bread. Click the video on the right to watch it (there's a short commercial first).

LGF member "Memphis" called this out as possibly fake right from the start. What do you think? Is your opinion changed at all by the fact that the a weeks-long investigation of drug paraphernalia sales at the man's store ended the VERY NEXT DAY after this story hit the airwaves? And that he's due to be fined for some amount up to $30,000, but that the amount of the fine may depend on how much of a good guy he is?

128 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:00:14pm

re: #100 HoosierHoops

I only eat fudge during Xmas..Love that stuff

Fudge, it's not just for breakfast anymore. ;-)

129 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:01:41pm

re: #124 FurryOldGuyJeans

I've always thought "topless" was a dumb way to describe naked from the waist up. I realize Naked From The Waist Up Bar is too long for most signs, but it has always bugged me.

Plus - the whole point is what's up top - topless sounds like flat.

But topless and bottomless - I draw the line. Naked is the word, and it is short enough to put in neon. Or Nude if you want to sound high class.

/picky writer

130 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:02:22pm

What do ya get when you cross a helicopter with a rhino?
HellifIno....
What's up?

131 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:02:24pm

re: #128 sngnsgt

Fudge, it's not just for breakfast anymore. ;-)

lol!
Breakfast!

132 freetoken  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:02:39pm

re: #127 Last Mohican

What's wrong with the conclusion that
weed ➪ good deed
?

133 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:02:54pm

re: #124 FurryOldGuyJeans

Grand View coffee shop indeed!

Topless [Maine] coffee shop gutted by overnight fire
Jun. 3, 2009 12:19 PM
Associated Press

The Boston Herald said
Topless coffee shop goes bust in arson
Does this mean it is time for a boob thread?

134 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:03:00pm

re: #129 Catttt

I've always thought "topless" was a dumb way to describe naked from the waist up. I realize Naked From The Waist Up Bar is too long for most signs, but it has always bugged me.

Plus - the whole point is what's up top - topless sounds like flat.

But topless and bottomless - I draw the line. Naked is the word, and it is short enough to put in neon. Or Nude if you want to sound high class.

/picky writer

You are obviously not a guy. ;)

135 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:04:01pm

Hey where did you guys end up with grasshopper? I think LC had it nailed.

136 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:04:18pm

re: #118 Last Mohican

Furthermore, the heartwarming story of the convenience store owner who helped out the poor, starving robber hit the media on the DAY BEFORE he was cited for selling drug paraphernalia?

I'm gonna find the full video for y'all, because I thought the whole story looked a little fake when I first saw it. Now I'm really suspicious. Undercover officers had been buying the paraphernalia at the store for weeks. Someone may have tipped off the owner.

SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS!

The guys store was selling bongs, horror of horrors. He should have just shot the robber and avoided some of the press. It looks like the Mohammad the store owner is going to get some press scrutiny just like Joe the Plumber.

137 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:04:53pm

re: #128 sngnsgt

Fudge, it's not just for breakfast anymore. ;-)

By the way, for those who think fudge is hard - it is really easy to make. Use confectioner's sugar, butter (real butter!), and sweetened, condensed milk. And of course chocolate - fun to melt!

Food process, microwave, do it again in that order several times. You never have to touch the stove. I never touch the stove except to lean on it to open the microwave.

138 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:04:56pm

re: #129 Catttt

I've always thought "topless" was a dumb way to describe naked from the waist up. I realize Naked From The Waist Up Bar is too long for most signs, but it has always bugged me.

Plus - the whole point is what's up top - topless sounds like flat.

But topless and bottomless - I draw the line. Naked is the word, and it is short enough to put in neon. Or Nude if you want to sound high class.

/picky writer

Oh this is going to get good...Topless..Carry on

139 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:05:13pm

Wonder if Charles is getting any additional hate-mail for linking to ZooBorns.

140 SteveC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:05:16pm

re: #129 Catttt

But topless and bottomless - I draw the line. Naked is the word, and it is short enough to put in neon. Or Nude if you want to sound high class.

When you are naked, you don't have any clothes on. When you are nekked, you don't have any clothes on, and you are up to something! - Lewis Grizzard

141 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:05:33pm

re: #134 FurryOldGuyJeans

You are obviously not a guy. ;)

Someone the other night asked if I was a guy, and I made him guess. I think he wound up thinking I'm a gay guy after looking at my youtube page. :D

142 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:05:41pm

re: #129 Catttt

I've always thought "topless" was a dumb way to describe naked from the waist up. I realize Naked From The Waist Up Bar is too long for most signs, but it has always bugged me.

Plus - the whole point is what's up top - topless sounds like flat.

But topless and bottomless - I draw the line. Naked is the word, and it is short enough to put in neon. Or Nude if you want to sound high class.

/picky writer

ok then, "naked chicks" will fit

143 freetoken  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:05:51pm

re: #139 Fenway_Nation

Wonder if Charles is getting any additional hate-mail for linking to ZooBorns.

Well.... he did choose a black rhino over a white rhino...

144 Gearhead  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:07:33pm

re: #124 FurryOldGuyJeans

Grand View coffee shop indeed!

Topless [Maine] coffee shop gutted by overnight fire
Jun. 3, 2009 12:19 PM
Associated Press

"So how's the coffee at the Grand View?"

"They serve coffee?"

145 SteveC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:07:43pm

re: #129 Catttt

Plus - the whole point is what's up top - topless sounds like flat.

The Itty Bitty Titty Committee disapproves!

146 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:07:52pm

80.1% with two hours remaining without a charger. You guys better make it interesting for turn, ha

147 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:07:53pm

re: #133 Kosh's Shadow

The Boston Herald said
Topless coffee shop goes bust in arson
Does this mean it is time for a boob thread?

There's always time for jello a boob thread!

148 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:09:29pm

re: #147 FurryOldGuyJeans

There's always time for jello a boob thread!

turn was at this bar in San Anton last night, women doing belly shots on the piano. Place was crazy. Hey furry, how ya doing?

149 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:09:58pm

re: #138 HoosierHoops

Oh this is going to get good...Topless..Carry on

Sans Vêtements Bar

150 SteveC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:10:23pm

re: #148 turn

turn was at this bar in San Anton last night, women doing belly shots on the piano. Place was crazy. Hey furry, how ya doing?

Lucky Piano!

151 BignJames  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:10:29pm

re: #129 Catttt

Saw Fr.. Guido do a monolog on SNL about 42nd St. in NYC....saw a sign that said "Nude Wrestling"...he decided to go inside and check it out. They took his money and told him to get undressed. After a few minutes they told him it was his turn. He said..."You know, that other guy was just as surprised as me."

152 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:10:44pm

re: #149 Catttt

Where's that?

153 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:11:16pm

re: #142 turn

ok then, "naked chicks" will fit

Beautiful Nude Models Bar

Nude is usually a check. The other two - not so much.

154 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:11:40pm

re: #150 SteveC

Lucky Piano!

oh man, when they got the whipped cream out things really started to rock

155 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:11:53pm

re: #151 BignJames

Saw Fr.. Guido do a monolog on SNL about 42nd St. in NYC....saw a sign that said "Nude Wrestling"...he decided to go inside and check it out. They took his money and told him to get undressed. After a few minutes they told him it was his turn. He said..."You know, that other guy was just as surprised as me."

LOL!

156 jorline  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:12:06pm

re: #111 Dark_Falcon

Channeling Jeremiah Wright again, are we?

///

Hey Dark...actually this rhino will make laws for the herd. I was thinking about the rare "Wise Sotomayor Rhina". A Rhino that would reach a better decision than a rhino without that experience.
///

157 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:12:23pm

re: #153 Catttt

chick?

158 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:12:34pm

I really need to get on my laptop. I want to look for pictures of male strippers to post, and my work comp already dissed me for trying to look at a hookah site.

159 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:12:43pm

re: #137 Catttt

That sounds goood, I like the recipe on the side of a jar of Marshmallow Fluff, quick too!

2 1/2 c. sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 stick butter or margarine
1 5 oz. can evaporated milk (3/4 c.)
1 Jar (7 1/2oz) Marshmallow Fluff
3/4 tsp. vanilla
1 12-oz. package semisweet-chocolate pieces
1 /2 c. chopped walnuts (optional)
160 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:13:12pm

re: #157 turn

chick?

If she's naked, it should be easy to tell. :D

161 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:13:33pm

re: #154 turn

oh man, when they got the whipped cream out things really started to rock

crap..That's happy hour every day in Indiana..
/Full disclosure..Happy Hour is against the law in Indiana..I wonder why?

162 Drogheda  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:13:37pm

re: #159 sngnsgt

I've made that specific recipe quite a bit. Not recently though.

163 SteveC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:13:44pm

re: #154 turn

oh man, when they got the whipped cream out things really started to rock

Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player

164 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:13:53pm

re: #133 Kosh's Shadow

The Boston Herald said
Topless coffee shop goes bust in arson
Does this mean it is time for a boob thread?

Don't tell me the investigators found a headless body in the charred remains of the topless bar.....

165 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:14:38pm

re: #158 Catttt
ok kitty, turn doesn't usually post his picture but her ya go
Image: 823.jpg

166 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:14:40pm

re: #159 sngnsgt

That sounds goood, I like the recipe on the side of a jar of Marshmallow Fluff, quick too!

I got my recipe from Bakers Chocolate. People die for it - they have no idea how easy it is to make (as long as you have a microwave and a food processor). I'll dig it up and post it. Not now. Tomorrow!

167 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:15:38pm

re: #160 Catttt

Well "chick" usually means "check" like get out the checkbook, ha

168 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:15:39pm

re: #166 Catttt

I got my recipe from Bakers Chocolate. People die for it - they have no idea how easy it is to make (as long as you have a microwave and a food processor). I'll dig it up and post it. Not now. Tomorrow!

Send it to Reine for the cookbook!
*drooling*

169 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:16:26pm

re: #165 turn

well her works too turn ... here sheesh

170 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:16:42pm

re: #148 turn

Any lizards been to Seattle's Cowgirls, Inc.?

171 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:16:50pm

More on shenanigansgate:

This was CNN's version of the story: Merciful storekeeper changes robber's mind, religion. That was literally the headline story on CNN.com's front page for a number of hours.

You know what I think? I think Mohammed Sohail staged the whole thing to get some good press for himself, knowing that he was about to get busted for selling rolling papers. And knowing that his fine could range from zero to $30,000, depending on whether or not he was seen as an icky immigrant ne'er-do-well who would be victimized by Islamophobia, or a devoutly religious, kindhearted, community-minded guy who, not being from these parts, had no idea that those funny little "Zig-Zag" thingies were immoral.

I think he got a little too caught up in the hoax, and added the over-the-top part about the robber asking to convert to Islam. And that's when CNN's Kiran Khalid picked up the story and decided to turn it into a pro-Muslim PR piece to run as CNN's headline.

Okay, maybe I'm reading too much into this. But doesn't the video have at least a faint ring of fakitude to it?

172 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:17:27pm

re: #154 turn

oh man, when they got the whipped cream out things really started to rock

I know a lady at work who had pics of herself on vacation doing that, if I understand the concept. It sounds like the same thing. I remember a pic of her with a maraschino cherry in her navel.

Those of us who are older than the other ladies may sometimes shock the young dears. :D

173 SteveC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:17:30pm

re: #164 Fenway_Nation

Don't tell me the investigators found a headless body in the charred remains of the topless bar.....

No but the police found a head sitting on the yellow line of a country road around here once. Just the head in the center of the road, with a small tape player. After the bomb squad said yes, it is just a cassette player and the forensics team took all the photographs, somebody pressed PLAY.
There was music(!) and then a voice sang

I ain't got no body!

174 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:17:47pm

re: #161 HoosierHoops

crap..That's happy hour every day in Indiana..
/Full disclosure..Happy Hour is against the law in Indiana..I wonder why?

hey hoops, it's pretty wild here along the river walk. The friggin cops are tight though, people getting cuffed on the streets and all ...

175 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:18:38pm

re: #166 Catttt

Anything with Baker's chocolate is good. I'll keep an eye out for your post.

176 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:19:20pm

re: #171 Last Mohican

I haven't seen the video, but I just figured it was CNN cherry-picking headlines about Muslims prior to 0's trip to the Middle East.

177 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:19:41pm

re: #163 SteveC

Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player

Hey steve, don't get it but my battery is too low to go chasing links right now. Besides I'm this "." far from breaking the ironfist rule, ha

178 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:21:00pm

re: #176 Fenway_Nation

I haven't seen the video, but I just figured it was CNN cherry-picking headlines about Muslims prior to 0's trip to the Middle East.

That could be part of it too I guess.

Here's the video (look over on the right).

179 SteveC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:21:24pm

re: #177 turn

Hey steve, don't get it but my battery is too low to go chasing links right now. Besides I'm this "." far from breaking the ironfist rule, ha

Old Elton John Album - Crocodile Rock is on that one, I think!

180 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:22:10pm

re: #171 Last Mohican

And yes....I saw that guffawingly puffball headline on the CNN section of my moble phone. I told myself 'I bet the Merciful Storekeeper isn't a Christian' before skimming through the article....and Lo and behold, I was right.

181 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:22:38pm

re: #170 Fenway_Nation

Any lizards been to Seattle's Cowgirls, Inc.?

dang FWN, that was a 5 mb download .. and the friggin thing locked up on this hokey hotel connection. I love Seattle

182 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:22:49pm

I will post the recipe tomorrow - and my boss deserves chocolate. He was out a month in March - melanoma on his face. Really shook him up. He's a stiff upper lip type, and he's young, married with a baby. Good boss.

183 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:23:56pm

re: #177 turn

Hey steve, don't get it but my battery is too low to go chasing links right now. Besides I'm this "." far from breaking the ironfist rule, ha

Thou shalt covet thy laptop battery...
/It's the law

184 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:24:23pm

re: #172 Catttt

I know a lady at work who had pics of herself on vacation doing that, if I understand the concept. It sounds like the same thing. I remember a pic of her with a maraschino cherry in her navel.

Those of us who are older than the other ladies may sometimes shock the young dears. :D

You got that right. Man the older women were rocking and having a blast! Many of them were, well there is an acronym for that

185 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:25:07pm

re: #181 turn

I love what I can remember or Seattle....

Except for Tim Wakefield pitching a gem against the Mariners' Eric Bedard and only giving up a solo home run and the Red Sox still losing!

186 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:25:35pm

re: #166 Catttt

I got my recipe from Bakers Chocolate. People die for it - they have no idea how easy it is to make (as long as you have a microwave and a food processor). I'll dig it up and post it. Not now. Tomorrow!

Send it to Reine for the LGF cookbook or Sharmuta will yell at you.

187 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:27:25pm

re: #179 SteveC

Old Elton John Album - Crocodile Rock is on that one, I think!

Man you wouldn't believe how absolutely shitty some of the pianist are. The best one was this tinny little chick who really rocked. The money, shit people were tipping like $40 to get a song played. When turn tipped a $5 he didn't even get a friggin nod, ha

188 jorline  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:27:38pm

I'm 100% confident that the salary of Mr. Feinberg and his "Czar Department" will far exceed any infractions by the Bailout Big Boys.

White House Set to Appoint a Pay Czar

The Obama administration plans to appoint a "Special Master for Compensation" to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter.

The administration is expected to name Kenneth Feinberg, who oversaw the federal government's compensation fund for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, to act as a pay czar for the Treasury Department.

189 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:28:48pm

re: #171 Last Mohican

More on shenanigansgate:

This was CNN's version of the story: Merciful storekeeper changes robber's mind, religion. That was literally the headline story on CNN.com's front page for a number of hours.

You know what I think? I think Mohammed Sohail staged the whole thing to get some good press for himself, knowing that he was about to get busted for selling rolling papers. And knowing that his fine could range from zero to $30,000, depending on whether or not he was seen as an icky immigrant ne'er-do-well who would be victimized by Islamophobia, or a devoutly religious, kindhearted, community-minded guy who, not being from these parts, had no idea that those funny little "Zig-Zag" thingies were immoral.

I think he got a little too caught up in the hoax, and added the over-the-top part about the robber asking to convert to Islam. And that's when CNN's Kiran Khalid picked up the story and decided to turn it into a pro-Muslim PR piece to run as CNN's headline.

Okay, maybe I'm reading too much into this. But doesn't the video have at least a faint ring of fakitude to it?


OK, step back from the brink for a moment, the guy was caught sell bongs. He may have not even known it was against the law, but at the worst, he'd get a slap on the wrist.
To find a accomplice to help him stage a video and take the risk of being arrested seems a stretch. More likely, the press started snooping around like they did with Joe the Plumber and found some dirt. I'm not saying your conspiracy theory is wrong, but I'll withhold judgment while the press goes through the store owners tax records. :)

190 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:29:31pm

re: #183 HoosierHoops

Thou shalt covet thy laptop battery...
/It's the law


Yeah, can't believe I left the friggin charger in Sac. Had to borrow the boss's. Hey turn how come your battery dies so quick (well jeeze boss ya ever heard of LGF, ha)

191 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:29:59pm

re: #189 avanti

hey, avanti is here. What's up my fav lib?

192 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:30:28pm

Here's a slightly less contrived tale of a Muslim shopkeeper confronting an armed robber for those interested.

/No convenient conversions to Islam....just "Put up or shut up!"

193 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:31:35pm

re: #189 avanti

Wait...who was Joe the Plumber selling drug paraphanelia to again?

194 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:32:07pm

re: #185 Fenway_Nation

I love what I can remember or Seattle....

Except for Tim Wakefield pitching a gem against the Mariners' Eric Bedard and only giving up a solo home run and the Red Sox still losing!

Man you got to get a life outside BB. There is Pike's market and just north the most beautiful islands. San Juan and my fav Salt Spring Island.

195 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:32:32pm

re: #193 Fenway_Nation

Wait...who was Joe the Plumber selling drug paraphanelia to again?

Don't all plumbers sell crack?

/too easy

196 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:32:54pm

re: #191 turn

hey, avanti is here. What's up my fav lib?

Getting ready to give you guys a break and head to the casino in the AM, what's up with you.

197 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:32:55pm

Ugh, I just dove into the AoG cesspool thread and we have a troll trying to justify Dr. Tiller's murder.

I need a shower, bad.

198 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:33:23pm

re: #194 turn

Who's saying I don't?

/Hoping nobody calls my bluff on that....

199 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:34:12pm

re: #196 avanti

Getting ready to give you guys a break and head to the casino in the AM, what's up with you.

Where you at man. I love to play texas holdum, well didn't say I was any good. I'm here in San Antonio having a blast.

200 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:35:28pm

re: #197 FurryOldGuyJeans

Ugh, I just dove into the AoG cesspool thread and we have a troll trying to justify Dr. Tiller's murder.

I need a shower, bad.

turn's advice... don't go there

201 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:35:54pm

re: #193 Fenway_Nation

Wait...who was Joe the Plumber selling drug paraphanelia to again?

I think you missed my point. If the store owner was not invoked in a big conspirancy, like Joe, he'll be screwed by the press for doing the right thing. Granted, he should have left the bong sales to the internet and head shops, but it's not like he was selling crack.

202 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:36:21pm

re: #198 Fenway_Nation

Who's saying I don't?

/Hoping nobody calls my bluff on that....

I'm assuming the Lakers won tonight (left sports bar while still on two feet)

203 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:36:33pm

re: #192 Fenway_Nation

Addendum: Nowhere in the article did it say the storekeeper is Muslim, but he's from Pakistan so I thought it was a fairly reasonable assumption.

204 Karridine  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:36:59pm

OT: Thai pre-Noon news on TV is reporting David Carradine's post-mortem indicates some significant anomalies...

I don't speak Thai well enough to get WHAT they are, but this is BIG here in Bangkok

205 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:37:23pm

re: #201 avanti

someone say "bong"? ha

206 A Man for all Seasons  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:37:37pm

re: #202 turn

I'm assuming the Lakers won tonight (left sports bar while still on two feet)

They didn't win..They destroyed the Magic..
Time to man up

207 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:37:44pm

re: #200 turn

turn's advice... don't go there

I'm too stupid to take advice. My ex told me that.

208 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:38:23pm

re: #199 turn

Where you at man. I love to play texas holdum, well didn't say I was any good. I'm here in San Antonio having a blast.

Maryland, I play Texas holdum, Blackjack, oriental poker and Pai Gow.

209 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:38:56pm

re: #203 Fenway_Nation

Addendum: Nowhere in the article did it say the storekeeper is Muslim, but he's from Pakistan so I thought it was a fairly reasonable assumption.

Being that the store owner is named Mohammed might also tend to make someone lean in that direction.

210 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:39:28pm

re: #204 Karridine

OT: Thai pre-Noon news on TV is reporting David Carradine's post-mortem indicates some significant anomalies...

I don't speak Thai well enough to get WHAT they are, but this is BIG here in Bangkok

Wow, you're in Bangkok. Hey your nic is eerily similar.

211 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:40:27pm

re: #206 HoosierHoops
Orlando hoops, jeeze I'm not that drunk

212 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:41:11pm

Oh my, how weirdly coincidental.

An advert for a TV show called Mental just flashed on the tube, and had David Carradine in a wheelchair.

213 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:41:19pm

re: #204 Karridine

Do you remember INXS lead singer Micheal Hutchense?

Might be that kind of abnormality....

214 Karridine  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:41:30pm

re: #210 turn

Aye, that it is!

People asked ME if I was HIM on dozens of occasions, but I chose this name to do business online because two Johns were abusing my real names!

And Swisshotel isn't the ritziest but no flop-house, neither...

215 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:41:31pm

re: #208 avanti

Maryland, I play Texas holdum, Blackjack, oriental poker and Pai Gow.


That Pai Gow shit I never understood. You any good at holdum?

216 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:41:52pm

re: #208 avanti

Maryland, I play Texas holdum, Blackjack, oriental poker and Pai Gow.

What are oriental poker and Pai Gow?

217 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:42:20pm

re: #211 turn

Correction turn, you just might be ... ha

218 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:42:31pm

re: #195 EmmmieG

Don't all plumbers sell crack?

/too easy

Ba-dum-bum!

219 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:43:05pm

re: #218 sngnsgt

Ba-dum-bum!

I'm going to have to bookmark that.

220 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:43:05pm

re: #186 Kosh's Shadow

Send it to Reine for the LGF cookbook or Sharmuta will yell at you.

I promise I will. I don't put walnuts in, though I like them, but you can. I love black walnuts, but for parties and work, there is always someone who either hates them or will die if he/she eats one.

221 Karridine  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:43:19pm

re: #213 Fenway_Nation

Roger your analysis, Fenway... and Thais talk really funny when they're beating around a bush THIS bushy and THIS beaten...

222 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:44:22pm

re: #212 FurryOldGuyJeans

Oh my, how weirdly coincidental.

An advert for a TV show called Mental just flashed on the tube, and had David Carradine in a wheelchair.

Does he have a rope .. well self sustained comment all. dang, Hey I think there really was something fishy going on though. LC nailed it on that thread.

223 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:44:30pm

re: #221 Karridine

Roger your analysis, Fenway... and Thais talk really funny when they're beating around a bush THIS bushy and THIS beaten...

I really hate to say it but I think we have another Bob Crane death story in the works.

Sad, really sad.

224 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:44:34pm

re: #189 avanti

OK, step back from the brink for a moment, the guy was caught sell bongs. He may have not even known it was against the law, but at the worst, he'd get a slap on the wrist.
To find a accomplice to help him stage a video and take the risk of being arrested seems a stretch. More likely, the press started snooping around like they did with Joe the Plumber and found some dirt. I'm not saying your conspiracy theory is wrong, but I'll withhold judgment while the press goes through the store owners tax records. :)

My conspiracy theory may be wrong (okay, there's a very good chance that it's wrong). But what would make you think the press would "Joe the Plumber" him? It was the press that decided to make him into a hero in the first place. The investigation into his store had been going on for weeks, and he was cited after the original story came out, not before. So it's not like the press started digging into his past to find something. Also, although the storeowner isn't facing any jail time, he could be fined up to $30,000. That's more than a slap on the wrist, for a guy who sells bongs in a convenience store for a living and gives away his inventory for free to armed robbers.

Anyway, the whole original video just looks fishy to me. I mean, why would a robber say "you are so generous, I want to be a Muslim just like you?" I mean, how would anyone know the guy is a Muslim just by looking at him? He doesn't have a beard or wear any religious garb... he looks and sounds like he's most likely of Indian descent, to the untrained observer... I think at the very least, Sohail may have invented the part about the robber spontaneously asking to convert to Islam. And, if nothing else, isn't it weird how the pre-bong versions of the story focused mostly on the "I wanna be a Muslim" angle, but the post-bong versions omit any mention of that (at least, the two versions I saw omitted it).

I'm calling possible shenanigans.

225 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:45:01pm

re: #218 sngnsgt

Ba-dum-bum!

Set that on up, LOL.

226 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:45:08pm

re: #219 EmmmieG

I bookmarked it the first time I saw it. Being a drummer, I use it every chance I get.

227 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:46:01pm

re: #223 FurryOldGuyJeans

I really hate to say it but I think we have another Bob Crane death story in the works.

Sad, really sad.

Good God, I hope not. Somehow, that makes it worse. I'm thinking it was death by misadventure.

228 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:46:01pm

re: #222 turn

Does he have a rope .. well self sustained comment all. dang, Hey I think there really was something fishy going on though. LC nailed it on that thread.

He comatose in a wheelchair and the narration was something about depression and ending a life. Really wasn't paying attention and only got a real quick glimpse, long enough to see it was David Carradine.

229 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:46:37pm

re: #214 Karridine

Aye, that it is!

People asked ME if I was HIM on dozens of occasions, but I chose this name to do business online because two Johns were abusing my real names!

And Swisshotel isn't the ritziest but no flop-house, neither...

[Link: www.hotelthailand.com...]

dang, turnspawn has been to Thailand ... lot's of he-shes there

230 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:47:34pm

re: #224 Last Mohican

To me, the bong thing is ludicrous. You can buy a fricking bong on Amazon!

What got me was the rifle. He kept it, right? The robber is poor, right? Wouldn't he want his rifle back? I'd want my rifle back. Maybe it's just me.

231 Killian Bundy  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:47:37pm

/just say no to the Chinese communists’ attempts to shove their bloody, evil, inhuman massacre of unarmed citizens down the history memory hole

232 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:48:45pm

re: #230 Catttt

To me, the bong thing is ludicrous. You can buy a fricking bong on Amazon!

What got me was the rifle. He kept it, right? The robber is poor, right? Wouldn't he want his rifle back? I'd want my rifle back. Maybe it's just me.

The original story didn't pass the sniff test, and the followup makes both stories reek badly.

233 Gus  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:49:15pm

News alert!

EU elections: Anti-Islam party big winner
DutchNews.nl - ‎5 minutes ago‎
Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party PVV emerged as the big winner in the European elections in the Netherlands on Thursday, taking almost 17% of the vote. ...

More news here.

234 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:49:49pm

re: #231 Killian Bundy

I noticed Google didn't have any specially designed logos to commemerate today. I was thinking maybe a crushed and broken likeness of the Goddess of Democracy statue with tank-treads running right down the middle and off into the background.

235 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:50:01pm

re: #233 Gus 802

News alert!

EU elections: Anti-Islam party big winner
DutchNews.nl - ‎5 minutes ago‎
Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party PVV emerged as the big winner in the European elections in the Netherlands on Thursday, taking almost 17% of the vote. ...

More news here.

17%, not good. Not good at all.

236 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:50:12pm

re: #233 Gus 802

Somebody go wake up Charles

237 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:50:37pm

re: #230 Catttt

To me, the bong thing is ludicrous. You can buy a fricking bong on Amazon!

What got me was the rifle. He kept it, right? The robber is poor, right? Wouldn't he want his rifle back? I'd want my rifle back. Maybe it's just me.

I think the rifle (a shotgun, actually) belonged to Sohail. The robber burst in brandishing a baseball bat, and then Sohail pulled his shotgun out from under the counter, IIRC.

238 Irish Rose  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:50:39pm

Good evening, lizards.

239 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:51:20pm

re: #238 Irish Rose

Good evening, lizards.

Hi rose. How ya'll doing tonight (turns in Texas)

240 Gus  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:52:01pm

re: #235 FurryOldGuyJeans

17%, not good. Not good at all.

Not at all. They're going to pick up seats.

241 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:52:52pm

bbiam

242 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:53:06pm

re: #216 Dark_Falcon

What are oriental poker and Pai Gow?

A Americanized version of a ancient Chinese game that was played with tiles, now cards. Pai Gow is played with two hands, a high and low hand against the dealer, oriental poker has a high, middle and low hand. Very hard to learn since you split aces on occasion, 4 card straights and flushes, and a joker and bonus bets.
Typically my friend and I are the only Caucasians in the room and she taught me how to play.

243 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:53:15pm

re: #240 Gus 802

Not at all. They're going to pick up seats.

And credibility. That will mean more seats next election.

244 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:54:04pm

re: #230 Catttt

To me, the bong thing is ludicrous. You can buy a fricking bong on Amazon!

What got me was the rifle. He kept it, right? The robber is poor, right? Wouldn't he want his rifle back? I'd want my rifle back. Maybe it's just me.

The robber brought a bat to the gunfight, the owner had the gun.

245 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:55:07pm

re: #237 Last Mohican

I think the rifle (a shotgun, actually) belonged to Sohail. The robber burst in brandishing a baseball bat, and then Sohail pulled his shotgun out from under the counter, IIRC.

Oh. Well, then that makes sense. Bats are a lot cheaper.

I still think it's dumb to arrest people for selling bongs, and I'm totally anti-drugs - except caffeine and tobacco. :D And Aleve.

246 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:55:09pm

re: #244 avanti

The robber brought a bat to the gunfight, the owner had the gun.

And I admit, that's a situation in which one might quickly find religion.

I just can't figure out how he knew the owner was Muslim.

247 Irish Rose  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:55:09pm

re: #239 turn

Not too good tonight, to be honest.
Trying to relax a bit here, so that I can shut my mind off and get some sleep.

248 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:56:03pm

re: #244 avanti

Frankly, that makes the story all the more suspect to me. This is a noticeable break from the 'guns are bad and inherently evil and you don't need one to defend yourself' narrative from the MSM.

249 Kosh's Shadow  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:56:55pm

re: #242 avanti

A Americanized version of a ancient Chinese game that was played with tiles, now cards. Pai Gow is played with two hands, a high and low hand against the dealer, oriental poker has a high, middle and low hand. Very hard to learn since you split aces on occasion, 4 card straights and flushes, and a joker and bonus bets.
Typically my friend and I are the only Caucasians in the room and she taught me how to play.

Now Fizzbin, that's a real man's game.
////
Here are some of the rules:
# Each player gets six cards, except for the player on the dealer's right, who gets seven.
# The second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays.
# Two jacks are a "half-fizzbin".
# If you have a half-fizzbin:

* a third jack is a "shralk" and results in disqualification;
* one wants a king and a deuce, except at night, when one wants a queen and a four;
* if a king had been dealt, the player would get another card, except when it is dark, in which case he'd have to give it back.

# The top hand is a "royal fizzbin", but the odds of getting one are said to be "astronomical".

250 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:57:12pm

re: #224 Last Mohican

My conspiracy theory may be wrong (okay, there's a very good chance that it's wrong). But what would make you think the press would "Joe the Plumber" him? It was the press that decided to make him into a hero in the first place. The investigation into his store had been going on for weeks, and he was cited after the original story came out, not before. So it's not like the press started digging into his past to find something. Also, although the storeowner isn't facing any jail time, he could be fined up to $30,000. That's more than a slap on the wrist, for a guy who sells bongs in a convenience store for a living and gives away his inventory for free to armed robbers.

Anyway, the whole original video just looks fishy to me. I mean, why would a robber say "you are so generous, I want to be a Muslim just like you?" I mean, how would anyone know the guy is a Muslim just by looking at him? He doesn't have a beard or wear any religious garb... he looks and sounds like he's most likely of Indian descent, to the untrained observer... I think at the very least, Sohail may have invented the part about the robber spontaneously asking to convert to Islam. And, if nothing else, isn't it weird how the pre-bong versions of the story focused mostly on the "I wanna be a Muslim" angle, but the post-bong versions omit any mention of that (at least, the two versions I saw omitted it).

I'm calling possible shenanigans.

I agree, Sohail may well have embellished the story will all the praying and converting stuff.

251 avanti  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 9:58:20pm

OK, got to get some sack time, see you all later.

252 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:00:33pm

re: #247 Irish Rose

Not too good tonight, to be honest.
Trying to relax a bit here, so that I can shut my mind off and get some sleep.

Back now, hey things will be alright. What, the kid giving ya trouble? Want to talk about it ...

253 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:00:46pm

re: #246 Last Mohican

And I admit, that's a situation in which one might quickly find religion.

I just can't figure out how he knew the owner was Muslim.

I'm thinking he may have brought up his faith. Certainly, he might have mentioned Allah when he asked if the guy wanted to pray with him.

254 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:00:57pm

re: #251 avanti

All this talk of sacks and Sam Adams....is there something you'd like to tell us, Avanti?

//

255 freetoken  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:01:56pm

re: #231 Killian Bundy

Killian - where y'been?

256 sngnsgt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:02:32pm

re: #251 avanti

Nite avanti.

257 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:03:04pm

Here's some info about the "Mental" episode that David Carradine starred in. I guess the episode will air on Tuesday.
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]

258 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:03:11pm

re: #230 Catttt

To me, the bong thing is ludicrous. You can buy a fricking bong on Amazon!

Good lord, you're right. And they also have something called an "Oxygen Mini O2 Handheld Portable Vaporizer." I think it's some sort of a high-tech pipe. Here's the blurb:

Portable meets affordable in the Oxygen Mini vaporizer from Vapir. This sleek unit is about 6 inches long making it perfect for use on the go. Like all Vapir vaporizers, these units feature digital temperature control. This allows you to adjust and maintain the heat of the unit, ensuring the release of all the active ingredients in your herbs.

Here's one of the user reviews:

This is a decent product for the money. This is really a personal unit, and wouldn't be good for parties. It is somewhat time consuming to load at first. For one or two people, this is a great purchase, however. It makes a nice vapor, and helps me conserve my supply of natural herbs.

Things have certainly changed in the world. Don't kids make pipes out of old beer cans or cored-out apples or potatoes or whatever?

259 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:04:03pm

re: #258 Last Mohican

Amazon has books on how to make bongs too. :D

260 Last Mohican  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:05:05pm

re: #259 Catttt

Amazon has books on how to make bongs too. :D

I saw that one. To think people used to have to rely on sheer creativity and whatever they could steal from the freshman chemistry lab.

261 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:05:24pm

re: #258 Last Mohican

tin foil works. Gonna go check out earlier threads for a bit. bbiam

262 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:06:14pm

re: #260 Last Mohican

I saw that one. To think people used to have to rely on sheer creativity and whatever they could steal from the freshman chemistry lab.

If I'd wanted to, which I didn't (I was voted most innocent girl of my senior class), I could have made great bongs. My daddy was the chemistry teacher.

263 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:08:25pm

oh "Soldiers in the Army of God" and O's speech. Didn't read o's speech but Charles seemed to be fond of it ... good enough for me. One problem, it ain't going to change one dang thing.

264 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:09:29pm

re: #235 FurryOldGuyJeans

17%, not good. Not good at all.

Very bad in fact. The Netherlands had fascists eruption before: During WWII enough Dutch men joined the Waffen SS that they comprised an entire division (SS Nordland). Still, I am horrified to find myself seeing a barbarity that happened in my grandfather's time repeated in my own.

265 JacksonTn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:10:00pm

I was reading before going to sleep and came across something that really bothers me about this recent trip to the middle east ...

I remember when Hillary Clinton went to China ... she made a speech about Women's Rights ...

"It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights," Mrs. Clinton told the Fourth World Conference on Women assembled here.

"It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls," Mrs. Clinton said, or "when women and girls are sold into slavery or prostitution for human greed.

"It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small" she continued, or "when thousands of women are raped in their own communities and when thousands of women are subjected to rape as a tactic or prize of war."

***

I guess we are more afraid of the middle east than China ...

Would she have given this speech today in Egypt? ... Why did Obama not address more of these issues? Will he later? ... Probably not ... and Hillary walks behind him with the scarf on her head ...

Sad ... losing faith in all politicians ... all of them ...

266 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:11:07pm

re: #264 Dark_Falcon

Very bad in fact. The Netherlands had fascists eruption before: During WWII enough Dutch men joined the Waffen SS that they comprised an entire division (SS Nordland). Still, I am horrified to find myself seeing a barbarity that happened in my grandfather's time repeated in my own.

Sanity and Jews once again get caught in the middle.

267 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:11:48pm

re: #262 Catttt

If I'd wanted to, which I didn't (I was voted most innocent girl of my senior class), I could have made great bongs. My daddy was the chemistry teacher.

Ha, that's funny. I mean the you're innocent thing. I worked in the chem lab at my JC, you wouldn't believe the stuff I made off with. There was sodium and pure ethanol not to mention the glassware. Ever throw sodium in water, purple flash - bang! well not so much bang but a whole lot of fun

268 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:15:52pm

BTW....apparently the latest 'progressive' spin on waterboarding and renditions were simply a mechanism for the eeeeevil BushCheneyHalliburtonBildeberg Consipracy to coerce jihadis into falsely confessing there was a link between Iraq and 9/11; which in and of itself sets off a number of BS detectors.

I don't think I'm yet at the age where my memory can't go all the way back to 2003, but I'm pretty sure the Bush Administration was emphasising the link between terrorists in general and the Hussein regime. Apparently the libs took that to mean that the only act of terrorism ever comitted was 9/11, since the mantra became "No link between Iraq and 9/11!"....

269 Opilio  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:16:03pm

re: #267 turn

Ha, that's funny. I mean the you're innocent thing. I worked in the chem lab at my JC, you wouldn't believe the stuff I made off with. There was sodium and pure ethanol not to mention the glassware. Ever throw sodium in water, purple flash - bang! well not so much bang but a whole lot of fun

I thought it was potassium that burned purple/pink in water, and sodium burned yellow/white. But it's been about 30 years...

270 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:16:48pm

re: #265 JacksonTn

Hey Jackson, that scarf thing about Hil, really? How friggin embarrassing - we're AMERICANS!

271 melinwy  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:17:28pm

re: #188 jorline

I'm 100% confident that the salary of Mr. Feinberg and his "Czar Department" will far exceed any infractions by the Bailout Big Boys.


wow this stuff has to stop, who is the czar accountable to? scary stuff going on.


White House Set to Appoint a Pay Czar

272 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:20:51pm

re: #269 Opilio

I thought it was potassium that burned purple/pink in water, and sodium burned yellow/white. But it's been about 30 years...

Hey I haven't seen you in a while. I remember now, your avatar 355/115 is near pi. cool. No it is sodium that flashes purple (thinking hard now if it was the sodium or something else, like in my mind). Are you a numbers guy/gal?

273 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:21:18pm

re: #267 turn

Ha, that's funny. I mean the you're innocent thing. I worked in the chem lab at my JC, you wouldn't believe the stuff I made off with. There was sodium and pure ethanol not to mention the glassware. Ever throw sodium in water, purple flash - bang! well not so much bang but a whole lot of fun

Of course I didn't! My daddy wouldn't have permitted it. He was a great teacher - and no one got away with anything in chem lab. Even I - and yes, he was my chem teacher.

The other chem teacher was an idiot - they DID get away with stuff on him.

274 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:22:16pm

Have to go to bed. My Siamese cat is pacing back and forth and giving me dirty looks. Plus I have to make fudge tomorrow morning.

275 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:22:28pm

re: #270 turn

I thought Jennifer Garner pulled off a happy medium in The Kingdom....her hair (mostly) concealed by a ballcap and some body armor to obstruct her feminie outline.

/Not a good look for Hill, but just sayin'

276 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:22:44pm

re: #273 Catttt

Refresh my memory please, aren't you in CA. What city?

277 Catttt  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:23:07pm

re: #276 turn

Refresh my memory please, aren't you in CA. What city?

Baltimore. About as far and non-CA as you can get. :D

278 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:23:21pm

re: #274 Catttt

Have to go to bed. My Siamese cat is pacing back and forth and giving me dirty looks. Plus I have to make fudge tomorrow morning.

doh, turn like fudge

279 Opilio  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:23:22pm

re: #272 turn

Hey I haven't seen you in a while. I remember now, your avatar 355/115 is near pi. cool. No it is sodium that flashes purple (thinking hard now if it was the sodium or something else, like in my mind). Are you a numbers guy/gal?

Math rules. No, science rules. No, math... no...

280 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:23:58pm

re: #279 Opilio

ok, what science?

281 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:24:50pm

re: #277 Catttt

Baltimore. About as far and non-CA as you can get. :D

Haven't traveled to Maryland yet, been to California. Wise, you are. ;)

282 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:26:10pm

re: #277 Catttt

Baltimore. About as far and non-CA as you can get. :D

That's why I needed a refresh. Been in Balimore many times, connecting to DC on a shuttle. Much cheaper. Next time I'm there I'm going to hook up with OR .. get ready for a OMG moment.

283 Opilio  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:28:12pm

re: #273 Catttt

Of course I didn't! My daddy wouldn't have permitted it. He was a great teacher - and no one got away with anything in chem lab. Even I - and yes, he was my chem teacher.

The other chem teacher was an idiot - they DID get away with stuff on him.

My high school Chem II teacher was pretty cool about doing dramatic demos of various chemical processes. He taught a few of us how to make nitrocellulose a.k.a guncotton. Good times.

284 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:28:40pm

re: #281 FurryOldGuyJeans

hey I resemble that!

285 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:31:11pm

Another "Deep Thought" moment from another of the Hollywood elites:

Sandra Bullock expected her now-husband to be 'obese'
Jun. 4, 2009 02:53 PM
Bang Showbiz

Sandra Bullock thought her husband would be "obese with a handlebar mustache".

The 'Proposal' actress met spouse Jesse James - who she married in July 2005 - when she visited his motorbike store in California and expected him to be a stereotypical biker.

She said: "I took my godson to visit his company. I had an image of an obese guy with a handlebar mustache.

"I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make. We waste so much time making decisions based on someone else's idea of our happiness - what will make you a good citizen or a good wife or daughter or actress. Nobody says, 'Just be happy - go be a cobbler or go live with goats.' "

286 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:31:45pm

re: #283 Opilio

My high school Chem II teacher was pretty cool about doing dramatic demos of various chemical processes. He taught a few of us how to make nitrocellulose a.k.a guncotton. Good times.

Got ya beat. My chem prof in JC offered to teach me how to make mescaline out of oak balls. No kidding

287 Karridine  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:31:52pm

re: #229 turn

Sure are, and they're quite something... he-she here, he-she there...

some of them are sad, very sad, indeed, Turner

288 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:32:52pm

re: #287 Karridine

Not quite, but close. French/Scottish/Irish

289 Opilio  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:33:05pm

re: #280 turn

ok, what science?

Mostly the physical sciences: chemistry, physics,...and my earliest interest, from about age 8, astronomy.

290 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:34:51pm

re: #289 Opilio

Mostly the physical sciences: chemistry, physics,...and my earliest interest, from about age 8, astronomy.

Really, cool. It never ceases to amaze me how diverse the crowd is here at LGF. Lots of really, I mean really, smart people. Tell me something about astronomy ...

291 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:35:17pm

oh shit, 20% remaining on this battery

292 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:35:49pm

says 21 min

293 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:36:10pm

re: #290 turn

Really, cool. It never ceases to amaze me how diverse the crowd is here at LGF. Lots of really, I mean really, smart people.

And then there's crazy old coots like me. ;)

294 J.S.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:36:48pm

OT

More on the on-going nature of Canadian "justice"...An accused foster mother who had in her custody a 3 year old child, was alleged to have -- days prior to the child's death -- to have put the child (in a diaper) in a garage in freezing, minus degree weather, that was to stop the child from crying; later, she claimed that the toddler hit its head on the toilet (forensics suggested that it wasn't "an accident") -- the child died. The female has now been charged, tried, and convicted in the death of this child. The sentence? 3 years. The female intends to appeal her onerous sentence. Also, thanks to Canada's "justice" system, the convicted criminal's name will never be released to the public...Yet more in terms of "anonymity." (What's next? secret show "trials"?)

295 Charles Johnson  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:38:11pm

Someone asked if I ever get hate mail for the cute animal posts -- not for this one, but posted tonight at Ace of Spades we find this classy comment:

Everyone was wondering if Chuckles The Clown had gotten a liberal girlfriend that has set him off his rocker.

It's official, his baby is a black RINO . What a cute couple, I'm happy for him.

Posted by: Blazer at June 04, 2009 10:23 PM (+FzLa)

296 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:38:24pm

re: #293 FurryOldGuyJeans

And then there's crazy old coots like me. ;)

Hey furry, it wouldn't be the same without you. Really, such a diverse group of people sharing the same ideology.

297 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:38:55pm

re: #295 Charles

Hey you're up, cool

298 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:40:25pm

re: #296 turn

Hey furry, it wouldn't be the same without you. Really, such a diverse group of people sharing the same ideology.

Yeah, the place wouldn't stink. ;)

299 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:41:28pm

re: #295 Charles

Someone asked if I ever get hate mail for the cute animal posts -- not for this one, but posted tonight at Ace of Spades we find this classy comment:

LOL! Teh crazies, they are. I hope you find humor in them?

300 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:41:28pm

re: #295 Charles

ha ya gotta admit, they're basically jealous of your success Charles. Thank you for running this blog.

301 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:42:08pm

Charles, did you see this yet?

re: #233 Gus 802

News alert!

EU elections: Anti-Islam party big winner
DutchNews.nl - ‎5 minutes ago‎
Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party PVV emerged as the big winner in the European elections in the Netherlands on Thursday, taking almost 17% of the vote. ...

More news here.

302 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:42:35pm

re: #295 Charles

Better a black RINO than a white supremacist.

303 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:42:55pm

re: #295 Charles

Someone asked if I ever get hate mail for the cute animal posts -- not for this one, but posted tonight at Ace of Spades we find this classy comment:

Nice. Racism in conservative garb.

304 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:43:01pm

re: #265 JacksonTn

Jackson, these are some excellent points you have made. I, too, have hope that this administration will come out in support of right for ALL women, not just the ones who can be used as fodder for political manipulation. It's quite clear from 0bama's speech this morning that his desire to speak out for the rights of the women of Islam are far eclipsed by Hillary's (and by extension, his) concern for the women of China. It is also clear that 0bama's political agenda re the Middle East has far more to do with ingratiating himself to the powers that be instead of being a staunch defender of Israel and women's rights.

305 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:43:26pm

re: #298 FurryOldGuyJeans

sniff ... is that you furry. dang, I miss my lab!

306 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:44:26pm

Hi Pink!
I hope this day/evening finds you well?

307 NY Nana  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:44:38pm

re: #265 JacksonTn

That was not the first time Shrillary wore a head scarf..she and Chelsea did earlier.

/I wish that they had worn this instead! Oooh, the humanity!

308 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:44:49pm

re: #295 Charles

I would bet it will only be a matter of time now that the other blogs know of this post. Haters travel in packs.

309 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:45:43pm

re: #306 Floral Giraffe

Hello FG! Yes, I am doing well, thanks for asking. How's everything in your corner of the world?

310 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:46:49pm

re: #294 J.S.

Wow. Why the anonymity?

311 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:47:16pm

Wow....maybe I'm just plain late in the game, but YouTube has zero frontpage content for the 20th anniv. of the Tianamen Square Massacre. Instead, it's Spotlight: World Environmental Day.

I'm correct in assuming the YouTube is a wholly owned outift of Google these days, right?

312 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:47:23pm

re: #307 NY Nana

That one is a little too snazzy. Sack cloth would be better.

313 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:47:42pm

Rain & lightening from yesterday have moved on.
Wierod in June in So Cal!
All is good, 'cept the crazies here!

314 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:48:25pm

re: #307 NY Nana

Nana, that's funny!

315 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:49:11pm

re: #313 Floral Giraffe

Rain & lightening from yesterday have moved on.
Wierod in June in So Cal!
All is good, 'cept the crazies here!

I heard we might get more tomorrow.

316 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:49:13pm

Today in Obama's speech, he called the iraq war a "war of choice." But he also said the people of iraq were better off without being under saddam's thumb. So why didn't he tie the two together by saying America fought a war of choice and the choice was to liberate 25,000,000 iraqis (nearly all of the muslim faith) from a tyrannical government. That really pissed me off. It showed that he can't give George Bush even the slightest bit of credit and also that he couldn't also praise our soldiers for their humanity in helping the iraqi people.

317 Charles Johnson  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:49:26pm

re: #301 FurryOldGuyJeans

Charles, did you see this yet?

Yes, I saw it. And you can now expect the other Dutch parties to form a cordon sanitaire and refuse to cooperate with the PVV.

318 turn  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:51:16pm

re: #313 Floral Giraffe

Rain & lightening from yesterday have moved on.
Wierod in June in So Cal!
All is good, 'cept the crazies here!

Rained in sac this week too I understand. Yeah, weird. This is my last post - battery dead. Take care all - and Charles, again thank you!

319 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:52:17pm

re: #318 turn

Rained in sac this week too I understand. Yeah, weird. This is my last post - battery dead. Take care all - and Charles, again thank you!

Night. Sweet dreams.

320 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:52:35pm

re: #317 Charles

Yes, I saw it. And you can now expect the other Dutch parties to form a cordon sanitaire and refuse to cooperate with the PVV.

With the evidence you've presented against Wilders, thay would be right to do so.

321 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:52:51pm

re: #316 _RememberTonyC

Today in Obama's speech, he called the iraq war a "war of choice." But he also said the people of iraq were better off without being under saddam's thumb. So why didn't he tie the two together by saying America fought a war of choice and the choice was to liberate 25,000,000 iraqis (nearly all of the muslim faith) from a tyrannical government. That really pissed me off. It showed that he can't give George Bush even the slightest bit of credit and also that he couldn't also praise our soldiers for their humanity in helping the iraqi people.

I don't think the speech was crafted for American intake - especially our military - or intended to give recognition of what they have accomplished and paid for with American blood.

322 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:53:27pm

re: #313 Floral Giraffe

Rain & lightening from yesterday have moved on.
Wierod in June in So Cal!
All is good, 'cept the crazies here!

Up here in the Great NorthWet we are expecting some of that, we really need it having had a sun spell of nearly a week now.

323 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:53:46pm

re: #318 turn

Bye, turn!

324 NY Nana  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:54:20pm

re: #312 Pvt Bin Jammin

That one is a little too snazzy. Sack cloth would be better.

I agree! But this one seems closer to the real Shrill!

325 J.S.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:55:13pm

re: #310 pink freud

Yeah. O the irony...it's due to an Alberta law which prohibits the press from giving out the names of children (whether the children are victims of a crime, or the children are perpetrators of a crime)...they're assured anonymity...the rationale is so that a child's reputation would not be tarnished, the child's life ruined, etc. but then, it was extended to even the adult perps who attack children, the perp's names are also not published...(i'm assuming, again, it's to protect "the children"). In this case, the biological father of the child says he wants the foster mother's name published -- his child his dead, so withholding the perp's name can hardly be because it's necessary to protect the child's "reputation"...But, of course, the name isn't going to be released..(actually, I'm at a real loss in attempting to figure out Canadian "justice" -- I was born and raised in the United States -- much of this stuff is really beyond bizarre.)

326 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:56:00pm

re: #324 NY Nana

LOL That's actually a flattering picture of her. She must feel natural that way.;-)

327 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:56:06pm

re: #316 _RememberTonyC

I'm hearing more about same-sex marriages (or partnerships) in New Hampshire from the MSM than I am any follow up about Pvt. Long's murder in Arkansas.

328 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:56:39pm

re: #322 FurryOldGuyJeans

Sun is good for you. I know you're not used to it, but enjoy it as a treat!
You'll get more rain. No doubt!

329 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:57:59pm

re: #321 pink freud

I don't think the speech was crafted for American intake - especially our military - or intended to give recognition of what they have accomplished and paid for with American blood.


You are correct, but he found time to say we will "no longer" torture people, so he should have had the decency to point out that our military helped many more muslims than the world gives it credit for.

330 NY Nana  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:58:14pm

re: #326 Pvt Bin Jammin

That's actually a flattering picture of her. She must feel natural that way.;-)

And is probably wearing a pants suit.

331 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:58:46pm

re: #328 Floral Giraffe

Sun is good for you. I know you're not used to it, but enjoy it as a treat!
You'll get more rain. No doubt!

I don't doubt we will get more rain, but this is unseasonably dry.

332 carefulnow  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:59:16pm
333 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 10:59:29pm

re: #327 Fenway_Nation

I'm hearing more about same-sex marriages (or partnerships) in New Hampshire from the MSM than I am any follow up about Pvt. Long's murder in Arkansas.


our media is incompetent and its members look down on all of us.

334 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:00:41pm

re: #330 NY Nana

And is probably wearing a pants suit.

No doubt. I glad to say I don't even own a pants suit. It's either skirts, jeans or dresses for me. Never was the pants suit type.

335 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:01:39pm

re: #334 Pvt Bin Jammin

No doubt. I glad to say I don't even own a pants suit. It's either skirts, jeans or dresses for me. Never was the pants suit type.

Jeans! Hubba, hubba! ;)

336 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:02:00pm

re: #325 J.S.

Unbelievable. Canada, for all it's reputation as an enlightened and progressive place to live, puts me off with some of it's legal positions - especially those on hate speech.

I have a friend who lives there who would support this ruling. He also thinks Cuba is a paradise in which there are no human rights violations. Boggles my mind.

337 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:05:00pm

re: #336 pink freud

Unbelievable. Canada, for all it's reputation as an enlightened and progressive place to live, puts me off with some of it's legal positions - especially those on hate speech.

I have a friend who lives there who would support this ruling. He also thinks Cuba is a paradise in which there are no human rights violations. Boggles my mind.

Let him take a gander at The Real Cuba website then.

338 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:05:20pm

re: #336 pink freud

When was your friend last in Cuba, the fifties? LOL That is unbelievable.

339 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:07:57pm

re: #325 J.S.

Trust me, I have lived in Canada my whole life. I don't even understand our justice system. Met this police officer that was part of the commission to change the Young Offenders Act to the present one. From his experience with dealing with juveniles he, and the commission, recommended that the government lower the age of when children could be charged to ten from 12. Didn't happen and the new act is even worse at coddling youths then the old one was.

340 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:08:02pm

re: #333 _RememberTonyC

Wanna hear my latest crazy conspiracy theory? The story is more or less spiked by the MSM....not because of the Tiller murder or 0bama's trip to the middle east.

I think Pvt. Long's father made clear his disdain for the MSM and their practices and now these so-called journalists are picking up their toys and flouncing off instead of doing any follow-up on the story.


I think they are that petty.

341 NY Nana  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:08:03pm

re: #334 Pvt Bin Jammin

No doubt. I glad to say I don't even own a pants suit. It's either skirts, jeans or dresses for me. Never was the pants suit type.

Same here!

/Who is this masked man who's trying to pry my fingers off the keyboard, and shut my computer down?

G'nite, Lizards. I can take the hint....sweet dreams!

342 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:08:26pm

87-year-old vet receives high school diploma
Jun. 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Associated Press

WAUSAU, Wis. - Clarence Marschall is 87 and survived World War II. And he's finally a high school graduate.

Marschall received his diploma Tuesday with 292 other Wausau East High School seniors as a way to honor him for his work in the classroom and overseas in the military.

Marschall dropped out of Wausau High School in the 1930s after finishing 10th grade. He lived on his own making paper products until the Army drafted him in 1942.

343 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:10:07pm

re: #341 NY Nana

Does he have ADORN connections? LOL, NY Grandpa, I am just teasing.

Sweet dreams, you two.

344 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:10:36pm

re: #340 Fenway_Nation

Wanna hear my latest crazy conspiracy theory? The story is more or less spiked by the MSM....not because of the Tiller murder or 0bama's trip to the middle east.

I think Pvt. Long's father made clear his disdain for the MSM and their practices and now these so-called journalists are picking up their toys and flouncing off instead of doing any follow-up on the story.

I think they are that petty.

Why should the FMSM let the man speak. He didn't trash the military and Bush like Cindy Sheehan did.

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long, long time, and I had to bring it up. Pummel me.

345 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:11:43pm

Salamantis, Dark Falcon & Charles are whacking around a troll on the previous thread. It's taking a beating & keeps on ticking!

346 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:12:32pm

re: #345 Floral Giraffe

Salamantis, Dark Falcon & Charles are whacking around a troll on the previous thread. It's taking a beating & keeps on ticking!

Is that moron still kicking?!? Yeesh, that boy is past stupid.

347 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:12:42pm

re: #340 Fenway_Nation

Wanna hear my latest crazy conspiracy theory? The story is more or less spiked by the MSM....not because of the Tiller murder or 0bama's trip to the middle east.

I think Pvt. Long's father made clear his disdain for the MSM and their practices and now these so-called journalists are picking up their toys and flouncing off instead of doing any follow-up on the story.

i think there's an element of truth in your theory, but i think the MSM just doesn't give a shit about the young man who was killed. after all, he was just a kid from arkansas. it's shameful.

I think they are that petty.

348 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:12:59pm

re: #344 FurryOldGuyJeans

Now that is a name I haven't heard in a long, long time, and I had to bring it up. Pummel me.

*THUMP*

/consider yourself pummeled.

349 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:13:22pm

re: #344 FurryOldGuyJeans

Cindy Sheehan is the anti-MILF.

350 FurryOldGuyJeans  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:14:04pm

re: #348 BlueCanuck

*THUMP*

/consider yourself pummeled.

I deserved that. Mentioning that one is just too gross. ;)

351 J.S.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:14:44pm

re: #336 pink freud

The federal court in Quebec charged a person from Rwanda with "crimes against humanity," "war crimes", and "genocide." Then, the "judge" heard so-called "evidence" from a series of anonymous "witnesses." (It's almost funny...) the fellow was indeed convicted, based, in part, on the testimony of anonymous accusers -- he has no way of knowing who they were/are...(I'm really wondering about his "defense" attorney? from what law school did that person graduate from?) (then there's some ridiculous law in Nova Scotia which enables people to be evicted from their own homes based on, once again, anonymous accusers -- the neighbors file complaints to the police, the police don't have to bother with all that legal stuff like arresting people or finding actual evidence -- no, they just go to a judge and get an "eviction order." lol...then they send out the police crew to evict the person and board up the house (even if the guy owns the house...yeah, the neighbors, though, don't like him...the only relevant bit of info which trumps all other considerations.) Then, of course, there are those Star Chambers -- the so-called Human Rights Tribunals -- omg -- Ezra Levant has detailed these utter travesties in his book: "Shakedown." I once had a list of all the "human rights" which were routinely violated by the Human Rights Tribunals...over a dozen of them...(and it just keeps getting more and more goofy up here...)

352 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:14:55pm

re: #345 Floral Giraffe

Salamantis, Dark Falcon & Charles are whacking around a troll on the previous thread. It's taking a beating & keeps on ticking!

Hmm. Maybe I'll take a look. Sometimes I forget about the spy feature.

353 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:15:10pm

re: #347 _RememberTonyC


that was weird, Fenway. My response ended up in the middle of the copy from your post.

354 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:15:55pm

re: #348 BlueCanuck

Hi there, Blue, good to see you.

355 Fenway_Nation  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:16:13pm

re: #353 _RememberTonyC

I was able to seperate it.

356 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:16:46pm

re: #354 Pvt Bin Jammin

Hi PBJ. Mostly lurking the past little while.

357 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:18:07pm

re: #337 FurryOldGuyJeans

Let him take a gander at The Real Cuba website then.

FOGJ ....Get this:

He vacations there yearly, takes thousands of pictures, calls the people the sweetest people he's ever encountered (he travels the world extensively) and readily admits that the standard of living "could be higher" ...but that Castro is like a benevolent father to his children and their amiable, pleasing demeanor is a proof-like indication that the whole "violation of human rights" meme is a fabrication by the American government.

Conversations are strained, to the say the least.

358 BlueCanuck  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:18:36pm

Moving on up....

359 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:18:43pm

re: #351 J.S.

Not to mention Mark Steyn's trial. SO glad I'm in the USA.

360 Summersong  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:18:56pm

re: #286 turn

Got ya beat. My chem prof in JC offered to teach me how to make mescaline out of oak balls. No kidding

I had never heard of oak balls, so I started looking around. It seems some people call them -

Little green oak balls!

[Link: answers.yahoo.com...]

361 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:19:14pm

re: #355 Fenway_Nation

I was able to seperate it.

i nearly didn't!

362 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:19:44pm

re: #356 BlueCanuck

Hi PBJ. Mostly lurking the past little while.

I do a lot more lurking too.

Going to check that old thread for a couple of minutes. Not enough on the spy. See you on the dead thread asap.

363 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:19:59pm

re: #338 Pvt Bin Jammin

When was your friend last in Cuba, the fifties? LOL That is unbelievable.

There was no reasoning with him. Imperialistic America is evil, blah blah ......

364 _RememberTonyC  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:20:05pm

it's 2:20am in the east ... time for bed ....

sweet dreams y'all

365 Jack Burton  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:20:26pm

re: #317 Charles

Yes, I saw it. And you can now expect the other Dutch parties to form a cordon sanitaire and refuse to cooperate with the PVV.

The Belgians did that when Vlaams Blok started gaining momentum in the 80s. Hopefully the Dutch will follow suit.

366 Dancing along the light of day  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:20:56pm

re: #352 Pvt Bin Jammin
I'm not clever enough to use the spy, my screen's too small. I just went downthread, to check!

367 Pvt Bin Jammin  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:23:23pm

re: #363 pink freud

There was no reasoning with him. Imperialistic America is evil, blah blah ......

I know some people like that. One of my favorites, truly, is a Vietnam vet who saw the most terrible things in his two tours. He is a absolute truther now but I just listento him. He has been through hell. See you upthread.

368 pink freud  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:24:10pm

re: #351 J.S.

The federal court in Quebec charged a person from Rwanda with "crimes against humanity," "war crimes", and "genocide." Then, the "judge" heard so-called "evidence" from a series of anonymous "witnesses." (It's almost funny...) the fellow was indeed convicted, based, in part, on the testimony of anonymous accusers -- he has no way of knowing who they were/are...(I'm really wondering about his "defense" attorney? from what law school did that person graduate from?) (then there's some ridiculous law in Nova Scotia which enables people to be evicted from their own homes based on, once again, anonymous accusers -- the neighbors file complaints to the police, the police don't have to bother with all that legal stuff like arresting people or finding actual evidence -- no, they just go to a judge and get an "eviction order." lol...then they send out the police crew to evict the person and board up the house (even if the guy owns the house...yeah, the neighbors, though, don't like him...the only relevant bit of info which trumps all other considerations.) Then, of course, there are those Star Chambers -- the so-called Human Rights Tribunals -- omg -- Ezra Levant has detailed these utter travesties in his book: "Shakedown." I once had a list of all the "human rights" which were routinely violated by the Human Rights Tribunals...over a dozen of them...(and it just keeps getting more and more goofy up here...)

WOW. I had no idea. I know more of the Ezra Levant story because we covered it here, but I did not know things were this bad. Thanks for that info.

369 J.S.  Thu, Jun 4, 2009 11:35:09pm

re: #368 pink freud

It seems (from my perspective, anyway) that many serious criminals (if they're Canadian) get off lightly (pat on the wrist -- kill a three year old, get 3 years); meanwhile, publish some cartoons that might be deemed "offensive", and, hey, you're looking at massive legal bills, years of litigation, possible contempt of court charges; or offend your neighbors, and you'll lose your house, etc., etc. Justice is turned on its head...(meanwhile enormous resources are being expended in ensuring that Omar Khadr -- the "child" -- at Gitmo is "immediately returned to Canada." Yeah, we bend over backwards for the benefit of terrorists/murderers, etc, "the terrorists' 'rights' are being abused! they've been tortured!" but won't spend a dime on actual, legitimate civil rights for Canadian citizens facing Tribunals, etc. I don't get it.)

370 notutopia  Fri, Jun 5, 2009 7:28:34am

Precious! It's horn bump is already developing.

371 Land Shark  Fri, Jun 5, 2009 8:09:45am

re: #4 BlueCanuck

Okay, you got me. I never thought that a rhino could be cute.

Same here! I've always thought rhinos, along with hippos, were as ugly as an animal can get without being an insect, but that little feller is actually quite cute.

372 gregb  Fri, Jun 5, 2009 8:14:58am

Every year for my wife's bday we used to take the Wild Animal Park jeep tour in San Diego. One year, they had a baby black rhino. It was running around chasing the giraffes. It was the cutest/funniest thing I ever saw. I need to find that video and post it.

373 zulubaby  Mon, Jun 8, 2009 12:30:59am

Too cute and beautiful for words!


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