*GAZE*

Watch for Trolls

And Mobys!

That's a troll bridge?
Nah, not scary looking enough. They prefer dilapidated infrastructure , untainted by stimulus money.///

Paint job beckons

   tax deficits delays

      bridges suffer

         trolls laugh

What Is A Troll?

The term derives from "trolling", a style of fishing which involves trailing bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The troll posts a message, often in response to an honest question, that is intended to upset, disrupt or simply insult the group.

Usually, it will fail, as the troll rarely bothers to match the tone or style of the group, and usually its ignorance shows.

Why do trolls do it?

I believe that most trolls are sad people, living their lonely lives vicariously through those they see as strong and successful.

Disrupting a stable newsgroup gives the illusion of power, just as for a few, stalking a strong person allows them to think they are strong, too.

For trolls, any response is 'recognition'; they are unable to distinguish between irritation and admiration; their ego grows directly in proportion to the response, regardless of the form or content of that response.

Trolls, rather surprisingly, dispute this, claiming that it's a game or joke; this merely confirms the diagnosis; how sad do you have to be to find such mind-numbingly trivial timewasting to be funny?

Remember that trolls are cowards; they'll usually post just enough to get an argument going, then sit back and count the responses (Yes, that's what they do!).

Animal Attraction.

Language Warning.

Are iguanas our brothers? If so, they need our help in Florida. They are falling from trees!!!!!

[Link: www.justnews.com...]

No self-respecting troll would live under that bridge.
Maybe a hobo or two, but even that's stretching it a bit.
The most you could hope for is a couple of discarded troll dolls like those which were popular in the 60's, and even they would be embarrassed to live there.

Floating Bridge

The Fremont Troll.

re: #8 UncleSam

Most trolls live in their mom's basement. Just sayin'.

Well, I see that PJM has gone to the devil himself, so to speak, in their quest for AGW-denialism. Tonight they posted a short (and absurd) essay by Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, one of the main organs of AGW science denialism (along with tobacco carcinogen denial, etc.)

re: #11 Slumbering Behemoth

Most trolls live in their mom's basement. Just sayin'.

Now, that is scary!
And sadly true....

re: #11 Slumbering Behemoth

Most trolls live in their mom's basement. Just sayin'.

I kinda wish we had basements here. I would make it a sports watching room, complete with bleacher seats.

re: #12 freetoken

Well, I see that PJM has gone to the devil himself, so to speak, in their quest for AGW-denialism. Tonight they posted a short (and absurd) essay by Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, one of the main organs of AGW science denialism (along with tobacco carcinogen denial, etc.)

Makes you wonder who spiked the Kool-Aid over there - and why.

They started off as a pretty reasonable, decent bunch.

re: #15 ryannon

Makes you wonder who spiked the Kool-Aid over there - and why.

They started off as a pretty reasonable, decent bunch.

The left went off with "W." And I can''t believe the right, right about now. I feel like I am on an island. And I'm not. It's 5 miles away.

re: #14 Cannadian Club Akbar

I kinda wish we had basements here. I would make it a sports watching room, complete with bleacher seats.

My uncle had a huge basement with a bar, a pool table and a giant Lionel train set layout.
Wonderful.

re: #14 Cannadian Club Akbar

I kinda wish we had basements here. I would make it a sports watching room, complete with bleacher seats.

Quake country or flood country?

re: #17 UncleSam

My uncle had a huge basement with a bar, a pool table and a giant Lionel train set layout.
Wonderful.

So, you're an uncle and you have an uncle. That makes me, well, I am an uncle too!!!

re: #18 Slumbering Behemoth

Quake country or flood country?

I live in Florida. I can dig with a cupped hand and hit water. Been that way since I was 6 or so.

re: #19 Cannadian Club Akbar

I live in Florida. I can dig with a cupped hand and hit water. Been that way since I was 6 or so.

I had an uncle.
He tragically died in a penguin stampede at the Portland Zoo.

Holocaust Shooter Dies Awaiting Trial

James W. von Brunn, who was accused of fatally shooting a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in June, died on Wednesday at a hospital in North Carolina, near the federal prison where he was being held. He was 89.

His court-appointed lawyer, A. J. Kramer, said Mr. von Brunn had died of natural causes after having a history of chronic diseases. “He had been bedridden,” Mr. Kramer said. “He had never really recovered the use of his legs, and it was a continual deterioration of his health.”

Mr. von Brunn, who had been known to the authorities for anti-Semitic and white supremacist views before the museum shooting, was indicted in July on charges including first-degree murder in the death of a museum guard, Stephen T. Johns.

re: #15 ryannon

Makes you wonder who spiked the Kool-Aid over there - and why.

The owner of PJM apparently froths at the mouth at the mention of Al Gore, and appears to be hell bent on trying to get at Gore by attacking AGW.

It's absurd... but that is what happens - anger causes blindness.

re: #20 UncleSam

I had an uncle.
He tragically died in a penguin stampede at the Portland Zoo.

Musta been Portland, Oregon. I used to run guns to the ones in Portland, Maine. Just sayin'.
/

re: #21 Sharmuta

Holocaust Shooter Dies Awaiting Trial

Oops.

And when I hear:
"You can't walk to Turkmenistan!"
I say "Of course I can - screw you".

re: #23 Cannadian Club Akbar

Musta been Portland, Oregon. I used to run guns to the ones in Portland, Maine. Just sayin'.
/

Yup, he lived in Portland, Oregon.

re: #26 UncleSam

Yup, he lived in Portland, Oregon.

Damned hippies!!!

re: #24 Sharmuta

Oops.

As much as I would have liked to see justice play out in this case, on the upside it saves taxpayers the expense of a trial, and deprives this disturbed individual of a platform from which to spray his hate and disease.

re: #28 SixDegrees

As much as I would have liked to see justice play out in this case, on the upside it saves taxpayers the expense of a trial, and deprives this disturbed individual of a platform from which to spray his hate and disease.

You're not going to get kimchi with thoughts like that...

re: #19 Cannadian Club Akbar

I live in Florida. I can dig with a cupped hand and hit water. Been that way since I was 6 or so.

A Canadian! In Florida! I'm writing my congressman about this.
/

re: #25 Slumbering Behemoth

And when I hear:
"You can't walk to Turkmenistan!"
I say "Of course I can - screw you".

I prefer walking. I hate bikes, but looking at a scooter. Just for jaunts to the liquor store food store.

The latest Veridian Dynamics commercial, from Better Off Ted:

This show just keeps getting better.

re: #32 SixDegrees

We have talked about that show. Usually, it takes a while for things to get rolling. Look at early Seinfeld. It pretty much sucked.

re: #32 SixDegrees

Probably the only sit-com I actually watch. Portia is great in it, and I am happy to see her on the tube again. Her character on Arrested Development always cracked me up.

re: #27 Cannadian Club Akbar

Damned hippies!!!

It's weird how Portland has become a hippie hangout, because they used to be conservative politically and economically, but liberal, socially.
Now it's all liberal everything.
Kind of like California.
Which is pretty much totally screwed by the leftist takeover and rigging of the entire government and electoral system.

re: #30 Slumbering Behemoth

A Canadian! In Florida! I'm writing my congressman about this.
/

I am not lying here.. I had 16 people from Canada in my house at one time for at least 10 days. OMG!!! And I was the only one who knew how to make B&G.

re: #34 Slumbering Behemoth

Probably the only sit-com I actually watch. Portia is great in it, and I am happy to see her on the tube again. Her character on Arrested Development always cracked me up.

I agree. She is brilliant.

re: #35 UncleSam

I must ask this... Can you tell me how they took over the electorate? I kinda know about Washington State.

re: #36 Cannadian Club Akbar

Okay now, what is "B&G"? Some commie Canadian plot?
/

Seriously though, what is it?

re: #39 Slumbering Behemoth

Okay now, what is "B&G"? Some commie Canadian plot?
/

Seriously though, what is it?

Biscuits and gravy. If you never had it, thank yourself. If you have heard of it, ya better learn to make it. Actually it is sausage gravy. Like nothin' you have had. Yummie!!!

re: #40 Cannadian Club Akbar

Oh, got it. Actually, I am not a fan of it. I probably consume a grand total of two tablespoons of gravy per year, at Thanksgiving, and that's only because my mom makes it. Granted, her gravy is awesome, but I'm just not into gravy.

re: #36 Cannadian Club Akbar

I am not lying here.. I had 16 people from Canada in my house at one time for at least 10 days. OMG!!! And I was the only one who knew how to make B&G.

Upding for B&G.

re: #37 SixDegrees

I agree. She is brilliant.

Indeed. Here she is apologizing for destroying marriage, western culture, etc.

Better Off Ted and Modern Family are both beyond fantastic.

re: #41 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, got it. Actually, I am not a fan of it. I probably consume a grand total of two tablespoons of gravy per year, at Thanksgiving, and that's only because my mom makes it. Granted, her gravy is awesome, but I'm just not into gravy.

There is a difference. B&G sticks to you. It is a good morning food.

re: #42 Stanley Sea

Upding for B&G.

Many don't understand how we in the South do things.

re: #45 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'll take grits with bacon and pepper, if it's all the same to you. :)

re: #46 Slumbering Behemoth

I'll take grits with bacon and pepper, if it's all the same to you. :)

You good...

I must impose a self imposed Iron Fist rule. I have worked 7 days in a row. That isn't a bad thing. But I am tired. And I must go to the CCA Ranch tomorrow. I might mow yard. I might not. Geez, I was bitching about 95 degree heat about 6 months ago.

re: #47 Cannadian Club Akbar

Heck, I'm not even a Southerner. The farthest south I've ever been was New Mexico. But I have had the great fortune of having friends from all over the country.

When I was a teen, one friend of mine was a transplant from the south. He fixed us up a batch of grits (my first time trying them), and I asked "Where's the sugar"?

He looked at me like I was about to stab a puppy with a crucifix. "You don't put sugar on grits! Butter, salt, pepper, bacon! No fucking sugar!"

re: #49 Slumbering Behemoth

Heck, I'm not even a Southerner. The farthest south I've ever been was New Mexico. But I have had the great fortune of having friends from all over the country.

When I was a teen, one friend of mine was a transplant from the south. He fixed us up a batch of grits (my first time trying them), and I asked "Where's the sugar"?

He looked at me like I was about to stab a puppy with a crucifix. "You don't put sugar on grits! Butter, salt, pepper, bacon! No fucking sugar!"

Was he wrong?

re: #50 Cannadian Club Akbar

Was he wrong?

Nope, he was dead right. It's delicious as hell that way, and I don't have much of a sweet tooth to begin with. My bacon tooth could probably fell an elephant, though.

G'nite dude, I'm knocking off as well.

Best biscuits and gravy I ever had was in Moab, Utah, at a restaurant that also did the catering for the firefighters. I was ready to go out and stamp out a 4,000-acre blaze.

The heck with trolls, I like guns

Morning folks.

If anyone is following the Ryan Frederick case, he lost his appeal yesterday.
[Link: www.wvec.com...]

Good Morning Lizards.

Speaking of gravy, anyone remember this cartoon?

And this time we didn't forget the gravy!

No video unfortunately.

Hi.

Morning

The Iron Dome short-range missile defense system passed a series of tests over the last few days with flying colors, successfully shooting down Qassam rockets, Grad rockets and mortar shells one after the other.

It even succeeded in determining which missiles to shoot down - those whose trajectory made them likely to land in a populated area - and which to ignore.

SNIP

The first operational battery is expected to be deployed in May.

SNIP

The Israel Air Force dropped thousands of fliers over Gaza on Thursday, after Palestinian militants launched a barrage of at least ten mortar shells at Israel, none of which caused injuries or damage.

Six shells exploded in the northwestern Negev, three others struck near the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza, while another exploded in the coastal strip.

The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) claimed responsibility Thursday for the mortar fire.

SNIP

Sarah Jackman, Sarah Jackman,
How's by you? How's by you?

re: #59 MandyManners

The Israel Air Force dropped thousands of fliers over Gaza on Thursday, after Palestinian militants launched a barrage of at least ten mortar shells at Israel, none of which caused injuries or damage.

SNIP

Barbaric!! Those fliers have sharp corners!!

/left

re: #61 bloodnok

Barbaric!! Those fliers have sharp corners!!

/left

Paper-cuts!!!

AQ is not even mentioned in the Undie Bomber's indictment?

re: #60 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Sarah Jackman, Sarah Jackman,
How's by you? How's by you?

I'd like to know what do you think...oh boy,
What's your opinion of mink...OH BOY!

If you call the Internal Revenue Service for help this tax season and someone actually picks up the phone, consider yourself lucky.

The agency has set a goal of answering only 71 percent of calls to its toll-free help line this year, and those fortunate enough to get through are expected to spend an average of 12 minutes on hold, according to a report released Wednesday by an IRS ombudsman.

"This level of service is unacceptable," National Taxpayer Advocate Nina E. Olson said, calling it the "number one most serious problem for taxpayers."

SNIP

After more than four years of investigation, and a month after a guilty verdict in the first corruption trial against her, Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors Wednesday in which she pledged to resign from office.

The move ends – temporarily at least – the public career of the city’s first female mayor and a longtime force in Baltimore politics. It also concludes a political and legal drama that has consumed the city for months.

“Today is a sad day,” Mayor Dixon said at a late afternoon press conference, unusually choked up for a woman who has long projected a tough-as-nails public image. “It is a cloud. But the sun comes out.”

SNIP

Earlier in the day, Dixon had entered an Alford plea to one count of perjury – a charge related to prosecutors’ assertion that she had failed to disclose gifts from her former boyfriend and prominent Baltimore developer, Ronald Lipscomb. The Alford plea means that although Dixon does not admit guilt, she recognizes that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict her.

Mr. Lipscomb’s gifts were to be the subject of a trial scheduled to begin in March. Last month, in a separate trial, a jury convicted the mayor of taking for her own use gift cards donated for the city’s poor.

Under Wednesday’s agreement, prosecutors asked the court to strike last month’s guilty verdict and give Dixon probation before judgment – a legal status that means the mayor does not have a criminal conviction. She will serve no jail time, keep her $83,000 a year pension and after two years will be able to run again for office.

In return, the mayor has pledged to step down from office as of Feb. 4. Dixon will also receive four years of unsupervised probation, contribute 500 hours of community service, and donate $45,000 to charity.

SNIP

Thousands of Coptic Christians clashed with police during a funeral procession Thursday for the seven people killed in an attack on churchgoers leaving a midnight Mass, security officials said.

The protesters pelted cars with stones. Earlier, they smashed ambulances at the hospital in frustration over delays in turning over the bodies for burial. A security official says police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

The official and witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The riots follow an attack the previous night, in which three gunmen in a car sprayed automatic gunfire into a crowd leaving a church in the town of Nag Hamadi, about 40 miles from the ancient ruins of Luxor. The lead attacker is identified as a Muslim.

SNIP

Who blow up da Internet?

I can load LGF (one of the most visually complex sites I visit, and I assume complex behind the scenes) but other sites won't load.

re: #68 SteveC

Who blow up da Internet?

I can load LGF (one of the most visually complex sites I visit, and I assume complex behind the scenes) but other sites won't load.

SHOOT YER MODEM!

re: #69 MandyManners

SHOOT YER MODEM!

OK! This shouldn't take but a sec -

*BANG!* @#%$#@#$#-------------------- *No Carrier*

re: #65 MandyManners

If you call the Internal Revenue Service for help this tax season and someone actually picks up the phone, consider yourself lucky.

SNIP

Is it really a great idea to ask the IRS for tax advice?

re: #70 SteveC

OK! This shouldn't take but a sec -

*BANG!* @#%$#@#$#--- *No Carrier*

I hope you unplugged it first.

Plane bomb suspect joined al Qaeda in London: Yemen

"The information provided to us is that Umar Farouk (Abdulmutallab) joined al Qaeda in London," Rshad al-Alimi, Yemen's Deputy Prime Minister for Defense and Security, told a news conference on Thursday.

re: #71 Spare O'Lake

Is it really a great idea to ask the IRS for tax advice?

It's not like the government would lie, ya' know.

re: #68 SteveC

Who blow up da Internet?

I can load LGF (one of the most visually complex sites I visit, and I assume complex behind the scenes) but other sites won't load.

Do not adjust your computer.
Resistance is futile.

re: #68 SteveC

Who blow up da Internet?

I can load LGF (one of the most visually complex sites I visit, and I assume complex behind the scenes) but other sites won't load.

Steve - is this how you feel?

re: #72 MandyManners

I hope you unplugged it first.

Hell, Mandy! I'm not computer litri litrate lo I don't know a damn thing about computers, so tell me these things before I do them!

re: #71 Spare O'Lake

In 2001, just 80 percent of the people who called the toll-free help line received accurate information, according to the agency's own estimates. In 2009, 93 percent of callers got accurate information, according to the IRS.

At the Daily Dish: "Sick" Of The Israelis And The Palestinians

Israel dictates US foreign policy?

. . .
I too am sick of the Israelis for their contempt for the interests of their most important ally, their continuation of brutalizing colonization of the West Bank, their shameless ethnic engineering in East Jerusalem, their pulverization of Gaza, the direct manipulation of domestic American politics by their ambassador, and on and on. And, yes, I'm also sick of the war crimes and theocratic insanity of Hamas, and the lame passive-aggression of the PA, and the inability of the Palestinian leadership to prepare for actual governance as opposed to the victimized preening and theatrics and violence they prefer to the difficult compromises required if we are to move forward.

And if Rahm Emanuel is sick of them all, one can imagine how the average American feels. My own view is moving toward supporting a direct American military imposition of a two-state solution, with NATO troops on the borders of the new states of Palestine and Israel. I'm sick of having a great power like the US being dictated to in the conduct of its own foreign policy by an ally that provides almost no real benefit to the US, and more and more costs.

re: #76 reine.de.tout

Steve - is this how you feel?

I'm not quite to the bleedin' stage yet! I got you guys! :)

re: #68 SteveC

Who blow up da Internet?

I can load LGF (one of the most visually complex sites I visit, and I assume complex behind the scenes) but other sites won't load.

Must be something in your area? I've been on for hours and haven't noticed any lag anywhere.

re: #77 SteveC

Hell, Mandy! I'm not computer litri litrate lo I don't know a damn thing about computers, so tell me these things before I do them!

I know the feeling.

re: #81 RogueOne

Must be something in your area? I've been on for hours and haven't noticed any lag anywhere.

"Cut that... no, cut that wire."

re: #79 reine.de.tout

Wow. There's the Andrew Sullivan I remember.

re: #84 bloodnok

Wow. There's the Andrew Sullivan I remember.

This part was really shocking, imo:

My own view is moving toward supporting a direct American military imposition of a two-state solution, with NATO troops on the borders of the new states of Palestine and Israel.

What . . . we should invade?
sheesh.

I was in Atlanta for a doctor's appointment trying to answer some e-mail. Couldn't get a connection, but thought that since my computer was new and I hadn't used it much, I was doing it wrong. Finally gave up and went down to the hotel Business Center.

Business Center computers couldn't reach the net, either. So I walked around to the Front Desk and asked "Is the hotel having problems with their internet connection or am I just having a really bad day?"

Front desk clerk says a truck backed into the wireless internet box in the parking lot and its broken. It won't work until tomorrow sometime. Now go back to your room.

Hello?!?! I know I look young, but not that young! And whatever happened to courtesy and manners? So I asked him if it was wireless internet, why is there even a box?

*Dirty look*

re: #79 reine.de.tout

At the Daily Dish: "Sick" Of The Israelis And The Palestinians

.....My own view is moving toward supporting a direct American military imposition of a two-state solution, with NATO troops on the borders of the new states of Palestine and Israel.

That sounds like a request to invade Israel. What a tool.

re: #82 MandyManners

I know the feeling.

yeah, I saw what the conclusion to your problem was yesterday. I started to give you a hard time about it but decided your day was rough enough.

re: #79 reine.de.tout

At the Daily Dish: "Sick" Of The Israelis And The Palestinians

Israel dictates US foreign policy?

My own view is moving toward supporting a direct American military imposition of a two-state solution, with NATO troops on the borders of the new states of Palestine and Israel.

Wasn't that the POV of Samantha Powers who worked for BHO's transition team in the State Department and who now is on the National Security Council and who is married to Cass Sunstein, Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs?

re: #88 RogueOne

yeah, I saw what the conclusion to your problem was yesterday. I started to give you a hard time about it but decided your day was rough enough.

It never occured to me to Google it and then bookmark it.

re: #86 SteveC

Report that desk clerk!

My own view is moving toward supporting a direct American military imposition of a two-state solution, with NATO troops on the borders of the new states of Palestine and Israel.

I just know the NATO countries are going to be begging for that assignment...

re: #91 MandyManners

Report that desk clerk!

The hotel *always* mails me a "how did we do?" survey about a week later. That time, they didn't do so great...

re: #79 reine.de.tout

At the Daily Dish: "Sick" Of The Israelis And The Palestinians

Israel dictates US foreign policy?

The White House had rejected claims that Barack Obama's most senior aide blasted Israel and the Palestinians for foot-dragging and warned that the U.S. could walk away from the Middle East peace process.

The comments come after reports that Rahm Emanuel recently told an Israeli diplomat that the U.S. is fed up with both sides, and said that Washington would reduce its involvement in peace efforts if no significant progress was made.

SNIP

Emanuel added that if there is no progress in the peace process, the Obama administration will reduce its involvement in the conflict, because, as he reportedly said, the U.S. has other matters to deal with.

SNIP

This would be a bad thing?

re: #85 reine.de.tout

I flipped through some of the recent sullivan posts and came across the politico kerfluffle.
[Link: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com...]

How dare politico print something that evil Cheney said./ There is a lot of pointing out of silly outrage here, this should be bumped to the top of the list.

Morning, Honcos.

re: #95 RogueOne

I flipped through some of the recent sullivan posts and came across the politico kerfluffle.
[Link: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com...]

How dare politico print something that evil Cheney said./ There is a lot of pointing out of silly outrage here, this should be bumped to the top of the list.

Remember, Dick said stuff after he was out of office. Unlike Clinton, Carter, etc.

re: #96 Cannadian Club Akbar

Morning, Honcos.

*Slaps down a plate of bacon and eggs in front of Akbar*

Mornin'!

re: #98 SteveC

*Slaps down a plate of bacon and eggs in front of Akbar*

Mornin'!

I love you, man!!!

Speaking of tools, I can't believe I missed Balloon boy dad on Larry King last night. Morning Joe is having a good time playing clips. I still say his kid blurting out on live tv that the whole thing was a hoax was the funniest bit of TV in 2009.

re: #94 MandyManners

SNIP

This would be a bad thing?

Nah.
Interesting that Sullivan would refer to an incident that the administrations says did not happen.

Obama Official Confirms Birth of Child

"President Obama’s top budget official acknowledged Wednesday fathering a child out of wedlock, less than two weeks after announcing his engagement to another woman."

This ought to get the Right Wingnuts seathing about the moral decay that this administration is promoting.

re: #100 RogueOne

Speaking of tools, I can't believe I missed Balloon boy dad on Larry King last night. Morning Joe is having a good time playing clips. I still say his kid blurting out on live tv that the whole thing was a hoax was the funniest bit of TV in 2009.

Or pukin'! Can't forget that award winning "the game is up!" puke! On two networks, nonetheless!

Morning Lizards. Happy snow day on this blustery Thursday morning. Did I miss anything in my all-day meeting yesterday?

re: #104 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizards. Happy snow day on this blustery Thursday morning. Did I miss anything in my all-day meeting yesterday?

Yes. We asked you to leave, but you didn't. Expect a knock on your door soon.
//

re: #103 SteveC

re: #104 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizards. Happy snow day on this blustery Thursday morning. Did I miss anything in my all-day meeting yesterday?

The eight millionth comment at LGF was reached!
Posted by . . . Charles himself!
Inquiring minds want to know - was it a conspiracy?

re: #101 reine.de.tout

Nah.
Interesting that Sullivan would refer to an incident that the administrations says did not happen.

The article I linked to in No. 94 says it did happen but that Rahm's remarks were "distorted".

re: #102 Bubblehead II

Obama Official Confirms Birth of Child

"This child is not directly related to President Obama. As far as we can tell, he can't walk on water and can only cure minor illnesses."

re: #107 reine.de.tout

The eight millionth comment at LGF was reached!
Posted by . . . Charles himself!
Inquiring minds want to know - was it a conspiracy?

It was an INSAHD JAWB.

/technically speaking

re: #79 reine.de.tout

At the Daily Dish: "Sick" Of The Israelis And The Palestinians

Israel dictates US foreign policy?

According to virulent anti-semite Pat Buchanan, yes they do.
Many asshats parrot this ridiculous meme in order to scapegoat tiny Israel for the global Islamofascist terrorist threat.

///Israel is the evil puppetmaster behind all the world's problems.///

re: #105 Cannadian Club Akbar

Yes. We asked you to leave, but you didn't. Expect a knock on your door soon.
//

Well, that explains the lack of a Zionist check this month. Sigh.

re: #110 laZardo

It was an INSAHD JAWB.

/technically speaking

By someone with a Birf Cirtifikit!

Dry feet plus hardwood floors= doesn't work. Just sayin'.

Did Mike Leiter, the head of the National Counter-Terrorism Center, really keep on skiing after the Undie Bomber event?

re: #112 thedopefishlives

Well, that explains the lack of a Zionist check this month. Sigh.

We took out for your Free healthcare.:)

re: #111 Spare O'Lake

According to virulent anti-semite Pat Buchanan, yes they do.
Many asshats parrot this ridiculous meme in order to scapegoat tiny Israel for the global Islamofascist terrorist threat.

///Israel is the evil puppetmaster behind all the world's problems.///

Doesn't Carter believe that, too?

re: #110 laZardo

It was an INSAHD JAWB.

/technically speaking

Heheh.
You wrote that just like I say it.
Me being a southern redneck heathen, and all.

re: #117 MandyManners

Doesn't Carter believe that, too?

Yes, yes he does. Which is why he actively participates in the "peace process" by holding talks with the Hamastards.

re: #117 MandyManners

Doesn't Carter believe that, too?

"I'll believe anything you got if it will get me a job."

re: #119 thedopefishlives

Yes, yes he does. Which is why he actively participates in the "peace process" by holding talks with the Hamastards.

Me like the name.

re: #106 Bubblehead II

Puking is a good one, but you can't beat a good fart joke. Listen closely to the part right after the boy blurts out "you said we did it for the show" His dad says "man...." then.....

re: #121 Cannadian Club Akbar

Me like the name.

I wish I could claim credit for it, but I don't remember who came up with it originally. I saw it here, though.

re: #111 Spare O'Lake

According to virulent anti-semite Pat Buchanan, yes they do.
Many asshats parrot this ridiculous meme in order to scapegoat tiny Israel for the global Islamofascist terrorist threat.

///Israel is the evil puppetmaster behind all the world's problems.///

I know - I hear this and I wonder - do people really think the world's Jews have that much power?

Apparently, people do think that. It's amazing.

re: #123 thedopefishlives

I wish I could claim credit for it, but I don't remember who came up with it originally. I saw it here, though.

We are creative peeps, like the Amish.
/

re: #119 thedopefishlives

Yes, yes he does. Which is why he actively participates in the "peace process" by holding talks with the Hamastards.

re: #121 Cannadian Club Akbar

Me like the name.

Little too close to "hamsters". I don't like the idea of the LGF power supply launching rockets and carrying AK-47s.

re: #126 SteveC

Little too close to "hamsters". I don't like the idea of the LGF power supply launching rockets and carrying AK-47s.

I pronounced it "hamsturds."

re: #126 SteveC

Little too close to "hamsters". I don't like the idea of the LGF power supply launching rockets and carrying AK-47s.

My pizza was late once. TRY THAT!!!!
/

re: #118 reine.de.tout

Heheh.
You wrote that just like I say it.
Me being a southern redneck heathen, and all.

I was thinking of Alex Jones, to be honest. His boisterous drawl never gets old. :D

re: #119 thedopefishlives

Yes, yes he does. Which is why he actively participates in the "peace process" by holding talks with the Hamastards.

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re: #115 MandyManners

Apparently.

NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt

re: #125 Cannadian Club Akbar

We are creative peeps, like the Amish.
/

Oh, yeah. I bet the LGF crew could put up a barn lickedy-split. While a few of us get dinner together... now that's good wages for hard work!

re: #117 MandyManners

Doesn't Carter believe that, too?

We all know that Jimmah is a craven, anti-semitic, lying, whore.
Yes.

re: #131 Bubblehead II

Apparently.

NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt

Egads.

re: #130 MandyManners

[Link: www.hyscience.com...]

One of my absolute favorites. I should print that out, but it'd probably offend someone here. I'm already on the borderline by hanging Dilbert cartoons in my cube.

re: #135 thedopefishlives

One of my absolute favorites. I should print that out, but it'd probably offend someone here. I'm already on the borderline by hanging Dilbert cartoons in my cube.

Oh, live dangerously!

Oh, one of these nights at about twelve o'clock
This whole earth is gonna reel and rock
Saints will tremble and cry for pain
For the Lord's gonna come in his heaven airplane.

re: #133 Spare O'Lake

We all know that Jimmah is a craven, anti-semitic, lying, whore.
Yes.

But, but he's an Ex-President!!!

re: #137 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I saw her get booed off the stage opening for Aerosmith.

The decision to defrock a dissident ayatollah – widely considered to wear the mantle of spiritual leader of the opposition – has pried open conflicts within the Islamic Republic’s religious core.

The Qom Theological Lecturers Association, a regime-aligned grouping of clerics, mandated Saturday that Ayatollah Yusuf Sanei’s edicts are no longer religiously binding. The ruling was furiously disputed by the rival Association of the Lecturers and Scholars of Qom Theological Seminary and the Association of Combatant Clerics.

“It’ll be tough work [defrocking Sanei],” says Nicola Pedde, director of the Rome-based Institute for Global Studies and a frequent visitor to Iran. “It’ll provoke a massive movement from the clerical side and, possibly, totally and completely religiously delegitimize the regime.”

The crucial background struggle waged by the government and opposition supporters over religious legitimacy has taken backstage to the high-profile coverage of street-level political and social tensions. But the religious dimension is crucial in an Islamic Republic, where it is customary for members of the majority Shiite Muslim population to select an ayatollah as a religious and social object of emulation and donate to him a fifth of their income.

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re: #133 Spare O'Lake

We all know that Jimmah is a craven, anti-semitic, lying, whore.
Yes.

re: #138 Cannadian Club Akbar

But, but he's an Ex-President!!!

I thought he was Iceweasel's new hubby...?

// That one, not that one!

/// Need a scorecard to keep up with everyone these days

re: #139 Cannadian Club Akbar

Who'd want to open for Aerosmith?

re: #142 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Who'd want to open for Aerosmith?

Aerosmith still thinks they are headliners, when they might not even be an acceptable opening act themselves!

re: #142 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Who'd want to open for Aerosmith?

I saw Ted Nugent open for Aerosmith. Can you spell AWESOME!!!?
/No, seriously, can you?

re: #143 SteveC

Aerosmith still thinks they are headliners, when they might not even be an acceptable opening act themselves!

Watch your tounge, young man!!

re: #144 Cannadian Club Akbar

I saw Ted Nugent open for Aerosmith. Can you spell AWESOME!!!?
/No, seriously, can you?

Well, I can now, now that you spelled it out for me ;)

re: #140 MandyManners

The cracks are widening. Wonder how much longer they can keep the lid on before it blows up in their face?

[Link: www.politico.com...]

Gallup.com: “The increased conservatism that Gallup first identified among Americans last June persisted throughout the year, so that the final year-end political ideology figures confirm Gallup’s initial reporting: conservatives (40%) outnumbered both moderates (36%) and liberals (21%) across the nation in 2009.”

My views are all within the top 97%, I'm a little of each.

Aerosmith SUCKS!!!

re: #144 Cannadian Club Akbar

I saw Ted Nugent open for Aerosmith. Can you spell AWESOME!!!?
/No, seriously, can you?

You can read it on my face.

re: #143 SteveC

Aerosmith still thinks they are headliners, when they might not even be an acceptable opening act themselves!

*WHACK*

re: #144 Cannadian Club Akbar

At least in the same area code of Music Genre.

Can you spell, "All Aerosmith Songs are the same song?"

(runs away laughing maniacally!)

AWESOME. That is all.

re: #147 Bubblehead II

The cracks are widening. Wonder how much longer they can keep the lid on before it blows up in their face?

Beats me.

re: #151 MandyManners

*WHACK*

Youch!

re: #151 MandyManners

*WHACK*

I felt that one all the way over here.

re: #152 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My friend traded "Point of No Return" for "Toys in the Attic" when I was 11. No looking back.

The Kid has the sniffles so no school for him today. Gotta' go tend to him. Maybe I'll get him back to sleep.

re: #154 MandyManners

Beats me.

Me too.

re: #156 thedopefishlives

I felt that one all the way over here.

*rubs butt* Damn Mandy, have you considered a career in Major League Baseball?

re: #158 MandyManners

The Kid has the sniffles so no school for him today. Gotta' go tend to him. Maybe I'll get him back to sleep.

Ear ache my eye!!!

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

What Does the Detroit Bomber Know?
The president's job is not detecting bombs at the airport but neutralizing terrorists before they get there.

Well-deserved mockery has already been heaped on the move-along-folks-nothing-to-see-here tone of the administration's initial pronouncements—from Janet Napolitano's "the system worked," to President Obama's statement that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was an "isolated extremist." This week brought little improvement.

The president acknowledged that the plot had been hatched in Yemen, but not without adding the misleading statement that Yemen faces "crushing poverty and deadly insurgencies." That Yemenis have to cope with "crushing poverty" is irrelevant here. Abdulmutallab is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker. Other jihadists, including the physician who blew himself up and killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan last week, and indeed the millionaire Osama bin Laden, prove that poverty does not beget terrorists.
.......
Holding Abdulmutallab for a time in military custody, regardless of where he is ultimately to be charged, would have been entirely lawful—even in the view of the current administration, which has taken the position that it needs no further legislative authority to hold dangerous detainees even for a lengthy period in the United States. Then we could decide at relative leisure where to charge him—whether before a military commission or before a civilian court.

re: #160 SteveC

She might also want to think about replacing this guy.

re: #163 Bubblehead II

That's thinking with your dipstick!

Regardless of my Avatar, I don't really drink a bunch. Today might be an exception.

re: #165 Cannadian Club Akbar

Regardless of my Avatar, I don't really drink a bunch. Today might be an exception.

If I were a drinking man, today would be a good day for it. Seven degrees and frickin' snowing.

re: #157 Cannadian Club Akbar

I'm not a big Aerosmith fan. Although "Dream On" and "Walk this Way" are two of the greatest songs ever recorded.

Just don't particularly like the rest of their body of work.

re: #162 RogueOne

An assertion that something would be perfectly lawful is not the same thing as it actually being perfectly lawful.

If you're looking for ideas on what to do with your christmas tree:

re: #167 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm not a big Aerosmith fan. Although "Dream On" and "Walk this Way" are two of the greatest songs ever recorded.

Just don't particularly like the rest of their body of work.

This song sucks. Don't listen.

re: #163 Bubblehead II

She might also want to think about replacing this guy.

[Video]

Or this guy...

Mornin', all - no time to catch up this a.m. (busier than a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest and multitasking in about three areas, counting this one), but wanted to say "hi." I see we hit the 8 mil comment mark! Woohoo!!!

How is everyone this morning?

re: #170 Cannadian Club Akbar

Okay. I won't.

re: #168 Obdicut

An assertion that something would be perfectly lawful is not the same thing as it actually being perfectly lawful.

[Link: www.courthousenews.com...]

The federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., noted that all of his arguments "rely heavily on the premise that the war powers granted by the AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) and other statutes are limited by the international laws of war."
"This premise is mistaken," Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote. "The international laws of war ... have not been implemented domestically by Congress and are therefore not a source of authority for U.S. courts." She added that the laws of war are "by nature contestable and fluid," and that the president has the power to "exceed those bounds."
Turning to domestic law, she said al-Bihani fit the government's definition of legal detainees as those who "substantially support" enemy forces. Anyone subject to a military commission trial is subject to detention, Brown added, including those who are "part of forces associated with al-Qaida or the Taliban or those who purposefully and materially support such forces in hostilities against U.S. Coalition partners."
......
The court also rejected al-Bihani's claim that the government needed to prove the charges against him on "clear and convincing evidence," rather than the more lenient "preponderance of evidence" standard. The government need only satisfy the lower burden in defending "a wartime detention -- where national security interests are at their zenith and the rights of the alien petitioner at their nadir," the court ruled.

In other words, we can hold him as long as we choose.

re: #170 Cannadian Club Akbar

This song sucks. Don't listen.

[Video]

Or this...

re: #172 SasyMomaCat

There's usually a hullaballo. Did I miss the hullaballo?

re: #176 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The hullaballo was in the previous thread (saw the title, didn't get to enjoy the celebration yet)

The suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan could have been planned by one of Osama bin Laden's closest allies, according to US intelligence sources.

They believe that the Haqqani network, which controls the area around Khost where the bombing occurred on Dec 30, authorised if not aided the Jordanian double agent who carried out the deadliest attack on the US spy agency for 30 years.

Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA unit tracking bin Laden, said: "There is no way this operation would have occurred in Khost without the knowledge and active support of Jalaluddin Haqqani and/or his son.

"They and their organisation own the area and nothing occurs that would impact their tribe or its allies without their knowledge or OK.

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re: #171 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The swish of the dipstick sounds more painful.

as only Queen Ann can word it...

"If you can find a better deal, take it."

re: #174 RogueOne

I should have quoted the very first paragraph:

The international laws of war do not limit the U.S. government's power to detain suspected terrorists or their supporters at Guantanamo Bay, the D.C. Circuit ruled in a decision meant to "narrow the legal uncertainty that clouds military detention."

A pdf of the ruling is at the bottom of the page:
[Link: www.courthousenews.com...]

re: #174 RogueOne

I'm sorry, but since this person was arrested for a specific crime, not military action, I don't see how that applies. It also is not a situation where I would be comfortable with the state having that level of power, either.

In unrelated news, here's a hilarious and terrifying thread about the experiences of ER doctors with dumb, crazy, or altered patients.

[Link: forums.studentdoctor.net...]

US border officials were aware that an alleged extremist was on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day and were ready to question him on landing, according to a report in the the Los Angeles Times.

Officials from the Transport Security Administration discovered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's name on the Customs and Border Protection database after he boarded his Northwest flight in Amsterdam and were waiting to question him upon landing in Detroit, according to senior law enforcement officials.

The disclosure appears to show US intelligence was close to uncovering the terrorist plot, despite the barrage of criticism it has come under since Abdulmutallab, 23, failed to detonate a bomb aboard a Northwest airliner on Christmas Day.

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I have to go to the CCA ranch for a day. Not gonna mow the yard though. At least, I think not. See ya'll tomorrow!!

re: #182 Obdicut

he was picked up, classified as a military detainee, and sent to gitmo for "supplying material support" and being a member of al-queda. The president has all the authority he needs to have done the same thing for the pantie bomber.

re: #183 MandyManners

I read they were waiting for the plane to land to talk to him. How's that for shitty timing.

A policeman was killed and eight were wounded on Wednesday in a gunbattle between soldiers and separatists in the heart of Srinagar, police and witnesses said.

The fighting took place in Lal Chowk, the main business centre at the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital, and fighting was continuing, police said.

"One or two militants are believed to be hiding in a hotel in Lal Chowk and they are lobbing grenades and firing intermittently," a police officer told Reuters

.

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re: #186 RogueOne

I read they were waiting for the plane to land to talk to him. How's that for shitty timing.

Ever heard of the barn door?

[Link: www.steelheadstudio.com...]

The 100 game cupcake game.....there are some really cool cupcakes...

re: #12 freetoken

Well, I see that PJM has gone to the devil himself, so to speak, in their quest for AGW-denialism. Tonight they posted a short (and absurd) essay by Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, one of the main organs of AGW science denialism (along with tobacco carcinogen denial, etc.)

One sentence? Wow. :))

re: #185 RogueOne

That guy was picked up in Afghanistan, working with Taliban forces.

I'm not sure why you think the two are very similar.

re: #191 Obdicut

Oh I don't know, maybe because he said he was a member of al-queda and tried to blow his shorts up on an airplane?

A suicide bomber blew himself up in an SUV at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 89 people in a village that opposes al Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents.

The New Year's day attack raised new doubts over the pro-American government's efforts to contain Taliban militants.

Here are some possible scenarios as President Asif Ali Zardari faces mounting pressure from militants who appear to have adopted a new strategy of bombing large crowds in their bid to destabilise the country.

Big attacks against civilians would anger Pakistanis, most of whom reject the Taliban's ideology and violent methods. That was evident on Monday after a suicide bomber blew himself up among thousands of Shi'ite Muslims at a religious festival.

The attack in the commercial capital Karachi killed 43 people, and triggered riots which destroyed hundreds of buildings. A call for a strike to protest violence was observed by the public, a sign that the Taliban strategy could backfire.

Much will depend on the mood of Pakistanis. It's a complex issue. For instance, many were enraged last year after a video of Taliban militants flogging a young woman was circulated.

At the same time Zardari's close ties with Washington have deeply disappointed Pakistanis. U.S. drone missile attacks on militants on Pakistani soil, as well as a conditional U.S. aid package, have infuriated people who see it as a humiliating violation of sovereignty.

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re: #191 Obdicut

C'mon now. You know there isn't any argument over whether the president has the authority to classify this guy as a military detainee and toss him in gitmo. The only argument is if he should have, not if he can.

re: #33 Cannadian Club Akbar

We have talked about that show. Usually, it takes a while for things to get rolling. Look at early Seinfeld. It pretty much sucked.

OHHHH Shut your mouth! Seinfeld NEVAH sucked! ///

re: #35 UncleSam

It's weird how Portland has become a hippie hangout, because they used to be conservative politically and economically, but liberal, socially.
Now it's all liberal everything.
Kind of like California.
Which is pretty much totally screwed by the leftist takeover and rigging of the entire government and electoral system.

Yeah well you can't trust THEM.
/

re: #183 MandyManners

US border officials were aware that an alleged extremist was on a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day and were ready to question him on landing, according to a report in the the Los Angeles Times.

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Somehow, I don't really find that to be particularly comforting.

A bomb at a military school in Pakistan-ruled Kashmir killed three cadets and wounded 11 on Wednesday, police said.

Pakistan's portion of the divided Kashmir region had long been free of Islamist militant violence but there have been several attacks there over the past year.

The latest attack took place near the town of Rawalakot when cadets were going to school.

"It has yet to be determined whether it was a suicide bombing or a planted bomb," Javed Iqbal, chief of police in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, told Reuters.

Late last month, five people were killed in a suicide attack outside a Shi'ite Muslim meeting hall during Ashura, the Shi'ite calender's biggest event, in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistani Kashmir.

The violence in Kashmir has fuelled concern that the militants are trying to expand their campaign of violence in retaliation for a military offensive in their South Waziristan bastion on the Afghan border.

Hundreds of people have been killed in a wave of bomb attacks across Pakistan since the offensive in South Waziristan was launched in mid-October.

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re: #192 RogueOne

Sure. Which is really different than working with Taliban fighting forces in Afghanistan.

There are things that are similar, definitely. There are also things that are clearly very, very different.

re: #194 RogueOne

No, I don't know that. I am not a lawyer of any sort, and I do not see how the authority to detain people who were fighting against us on a foreign battlefield gives the ability to detain people who were attempting to commit a terrorist act here in the US. One seems much more reasonable than the other, to me.

I am also unsure as to what benefit you feel having him as a military prisoner would bring.

Trolls are intimately associated with Darwinian evolution.

Beware of Trolls!

Just a drive-by post top wish everyone a Great Day!

If anyone is pre-planning your summer vacation:

Danish tourism board produces video marketing Denmark as a country with drunk women who have unprotected sex with random tourists.

[Link: www.boingboing.net...]

re: #197 reine.de.tout

Somehow, I don't really find that to be particularly comforting.

But, but, but...the system worked!

re: #40 Cannadian Club Akbar

Biscuits and gravy. If you never had it, thank yourself. If you have heard of it, ya better learn to make it. Actually it is sausage gravy. Like nothin' you have had. Yummie!!!

Oh yes now you are talking. Serve with two sunny side up eggs and then go to the emergency room for your impending heart attack.
Worth it for sure :)))

re: #46 Slumbering Behemoth

I'll take grits with bacon and pepper, if it's all the same to you. :)

No law against eating them all at once :))

Good Morning Lizards!
We are in the middle of a pretty bad snow storm.. I'm working from home this morning in my PJ's..

re: #205 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Lizards!
We are in the middle of a pretty bad snow storm.. I'm working from home this morning in my PJ's..

In bed.

Mornin', HH!

re: #201 RogueOne

If anyone is pre-planning your summer vacation:

Danish tourism board produces video marketing Denmark as a country with drunk women who have unprotected sex with random tourists.

[Link: www.boingboing.net...]

Now, how to convince the Mrs Fish... /

re: #61 bloodnok

Barbaric!! Those fliers have sharp corners!!

/left

Papercuts everywhere! Oh the humanity!!

re: #206 reine.de.tout

In bed.

Mornin', HH!

Good Morning reine!
Hope today finds you well

re: #167 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm not a big Aerosmith fan. Although "Dream On" and "Walk this Way" are two of the greatest songs ever recorded.

Just don't particularly like the rest of their body of work.

Exactly my feelings as well. But this one has some pretty decent dramatic intensity. As close to opera as we'll ever come, I suppose:

re: #205 HoosierHoops

Good Morning Lizards!
We are in the middle of a pretty bad snow storm.. I'm working from home this morning in my PJ's..

Mornin, Hoops. Wish we'd have gotten that kind of snow, but instead, it's supposed to be pretty wimpy. Still enough to bring out the Idiot Brigade and make my drive to work miserable, though.

Morning Lizards.

Also watch for weapons of moss destruction.

In 2006, the first full year after the London bombings, 73 people were prevented from coming to the UK either because it was feared they would foment extremism or posed a risk to national security.

By 2008 that figure had dropped to just 38, figures obtained by the Conservatives show.

The decline covers the period that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian who tried to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day, was studying in London.

There is also growing outrage over plans by Islamic extremists to stage a march through Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire town renowned for honouring British servicemen killed in Afghanistan.

The Tories repeated their calls for the group, Islam4UK, which is led by Anjem Choudary, to be banned.

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Stupid question time - where is the counter that shows the total number of posts? I couldn't find it last night.

This sux. I walked out the front door of my shop just in time for a gust of wind to blow 3" of snow off my canopy and down on my head. I'm soaking wet and freezing.

just can't keep up this morning going back and forth - hope to catch you all later :)

May your day be fabulous!

re: #215 RogueOne

This sux. I walked out the front door of my shop just in time for a gust of wind to blow 3" of snow off my canopy and down on my head. I'm soaking wet and freezing.

I wish I caught that on camera...
How is the storm hitting you up there? I'm working from home

re: #214 Mad Al-Jaffee

Left side bar, under statistics.

re: #214 Mad Al-Jaffee

Stupid question time - where is the counter that shows the total number of posts? I couldn't find it last night.

Look for 'Statistics' just above the LGF calendar on the left.

re: #212 Mad Al-Jaffee

Morning Lizards.

Also watch for weapons of moss destruction.

Meanwhile, in Peanuts... startin' em in politics young.

re: #217 HoosierHoops

I wish I caught that on camera...
How is the storm hitting you up there? I'm working from home

It's coming down steady but not too bad. Maybe 2-3 inches so far.

Iran will try five people arrested in connection with riots last month, the worst violence in the Islamic republic since protests erupted over the presidential election in June, the official news agency IRNA said on Thursday.

The report, citing a statement by Tehran's revolutionary Court, did not identify the detainees or the date of their trials but the charge of 'moharebeh' -- an Islamic term meaning warring against God -- carries the death sentence.

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re: #94 MandyManners

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This would be a bad thing?

I can hear the Israelis laughing their asses off right now./

re: #217 HoosierHoops

I wish I caught that on camera...
How is the storm hitting you up there? I'm working from home

I'll trade you your snow for my cold. Apparently, the low down here in the flatlands is supposed to be on the order of -10 degrees F tonight and closer to -20 degrees F tomorrow night.

the latest nontroversy of the day

people upset about this are so well off they have nothing else to complain about and must invent something.

re: #221 RogueOne

It's coming down steady but not too bad. Maybe 2-3 inches so far.

I sure miss California...I'm not adjusted to Indiana Weather yet.
At least if you want snow in California you can drive to Tahoe

re: #226 HoosierHoops

I sure miss California...I'm not adjusted to Indiana Weather yet.
At least if you want snow in California you can drive to Tahoe

Funny, that. I'd take Indiana weather any day over this. 25 mph winds at a -40 wind chill are just plain no fun.

re: #227 thedopefishlives

Funny, that. I'd take Indiana weather any day over this. 25 mph winds at a -40 wind chill are just plain no fun.

Holy crap! Tell Santa I said hi!

Drudge sirens going off. Apparently he's got some scoop on healthcare debate. He hasn't posted the story yet, just the flashing light.

re: #228 HoosierHoops

Holy crap! Tell Santa I said hi!

Santa's in Hawaii. ;)

re: #225 jdog29

the latest nontroversy of the day

people upset about this are so well off they have nothing else to complain about and must invent something.

The Census folks are right that some older African-American folks prefer "negro". Maybe the younger ones need to get their knickers untwisted.

re: #226 HoosierHoops

I sure miss California...I'm not adjusted to Indiana Weather yet.
At least if you want snow in California you can drive to Tahoe

Like dopefish said, it could be worse. I spent a couple years in the dakotas and haven't complained about an Indiana winter since. The only thing that bothers me around here is people seem to forget how to drive in snow from one year to the next.

re: #232 RogueOne

Like dopefish said, it could be worse. I spent a couple years in the dakotas and haven't complained about an Indiana winter since. The only thing that bothers me around here is people seem to forget how to drive in snow from one year to the next.

Heh, where I live, 1-2 inches is enough to cause fools to fender-bender all day long. :/

re: #124 reine.de.tout

I know - I hear this and I wonder - do people really think the world's Jews have that much power?

Apparently, people do think that. It's amazing.

Yeah well I am busy as hell. ////

re: #232 RogueOne

Like dopefish said, it could be worse. I spent a couple years in the dakotas and haven't complained about an Indiana winter since. The only thing that bothers me around here is people seem to forget how to drive in snow from one year to the next.

That tends to be true of most snow-receiving states. Heck, it took me twice as long to get in to work this morning as usual, just because there was a little snow on the road. You'd think Minnesotans, of all people, would be okay with this.

re: #232 RogueOne

Like dopefish said, it could be worse. I spent a couple years in the dakotas and haven't complained about an Indiana winter since. The only thing that bothers me around here is people seem to forget how to drive in snow from one year to the next.

True dat.. On the positive note..
1. working from home
2. ESPN on the Big Screen
3. A well stocked Beer fridge
4. LGF and all the great lizards

At some point in the parent/child dynamic roles seem to reverse, if one lives long enough.

Case in point:

Phone rings about dark-thirty yesterday. It is the Daughter,

"Hey Daddy. Can I talk to Mom?"

'Sure. Wait one' and I hand the phone over. I can hear one side of the conversation.

Wife, 'Yes, he has plenty of firewood on the porch, and more up the hill. He'll be okay...Don't worry so much, everything will be all right. Okay, bye now. Be careful on the road tomorrow.'

"What's up with that?" I ask.

'She's worried that you'll get to fooling around outside and hurt yourself and freeze to death before anyone notices that you're gone.'

At some point here I've become that guy. You know the one. The one without enough sense to come in out of the weather.

I wonder when that happened?

re: #131 Bubblehead II

Apparently.

NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt

Bet Napalitono is breathing a sigh of relief. They have someone to fire other than her./

p.s. Kaam says the picture's from Ballona Creek in Marina Del Rey.

[Link: tinyurl.com...]

re: #231 MandyManners

Uh.... I don't think that's very safe ground, Mandy. I don't think that a black guy who doesn't like having to check a box identifying himself as a 'negro' has his knickers in a twist.

Work, work, work, work, work, work. Hello Boys!

re: #138 Cannadian Club Akbar

But, but he's an Ex-President!!!

Thank God.

re: #237 razorbacker

At some point in the parent/child dynamic roles seem to reverse, if one lives long enough.

Case in point:

Phone rings about dark-thirty yesterday. It is the Daughter,

"Hey Daddy. Can I talk to Mom?"

'Sure. Wait one' and I hand the phone over. I can hear one side of the conversation.

Wife, 'Yes, he has plenty of firewood on the porch, and more up the hill. He'll be okay...Don't worry so much, everything will be all right. Okay, bye now. Be careful on the road tomorrow.'

"What's up with that?" I ask.

'She's worried that you'll get to fooling around outside and hurt yourself and freeze to death before anyone notices that you're gone.'

At some point here I've become that guy. You know the one. The one without enough sense to come in out of the weather.

I wonder when that happened?

When you raised a good daughter.

re: #241 Locker

Work, work, work, work, work, work. Hello Boys!

Harumph!

re: #240 Obdicut

Uh... I don't think that's very safe ground, Mandy. I don't think that a black guy who doesn't like having to check a box identifying himself as a 'negro' has his knickers in a twist.

It might help if you were to actually read the article.

re: #238 Blueheron

Well since he was a Bush appointee, it of course has to be Bush's fault.

/need I?

re: #245 MandyManners

It might help if you were to actually read the article.

FTA:

In fact, Congress approved the form more than a year ago. Newark resident Jabbar Ali can't believe it.

So....it's bush's fault.//

re: #162 RogueOne

[Link: online.wsj.com...]

Now that he is lawyered up the Justice Department gets to play 'make a deal' with him. :(

re: #245 MandyManners

I did, Mandy.

Question #9 on the this year's census asks about your race. One of the boxes you can choose is "black," "African American," or "negro," all placed next to the same box. Ingram said it's not a word he uses to identify neither himself nor anybody else.

The words are all next to the same box. If he checks it, he's saying that word applies to him.

re: #243 MandyManners

When you raised a good daughter.

Maybe. Could be. Personally I lean towards the idea that she doesn't want anything to happen to me because then she'll be the one that has to care for her mother.

I'm probably too cynical. The woman is a fine person, and considering how poorly we raised her she is an exceptional child.

re: #194 RogueOne

C'mon now. You know there isn't any argument over whether the president has the authority to classify this guy as a military detainee and toss him in gitmo. The only argument is if he should have, not if he can.

Precisely.