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Where the HELL does anything go around here anymore?
I've got NEWS!
I KNEW IT! The special prosecutor, Fitzgerald, tried to try the case in his press conference a couple of weeks ago. I KNEW I didn't like that guy. Now Bob Woodward has admitted that he knew Valerie Plame's name and position long before Libby is supposed to have 'outed' her. The case against Libby is DEAD! Woodwards testimony proves that Libby could have been telling the truth and the fact he didn't remember who told him isn't relevant either because Walter Pinkus doesn't remember being told by Woodward either so that goes to prove two people can remember things differently.
Joe diGenova on FOX said that the S.P. has an ABSOLUTE duty now, in light of the forcefulness of his earlier press conference, to dismiss the case against Libby.
Cmon, it was so freakin' funnie!
and the very bestest thing was, Allah had to tell Althouse it was a joke!
talk about no self-deprecating sense of humor...
sissy willis said on Ann's blog, "...hell hath no fury..."
*giggles*
i think i know where that icepick is...
;-)
They way I read it (Fox News article) was that Libby wasn't the leaker BUT that somone in the Administration was. Does that put Rove/Cheney are back in the cross-hairs?
Joe DiGenova on Britt just said that the original leaker to Woodward was a "ex administration" offical. Don't know how he knows that...but I trust him more than 'bout anyone!
I don't know what it does to the case against Rove (but I should think that's the end of it) but if Woodward (as he testified today) was told by someone and knew Valerie Plames name and identify long before Libby was supposed to have leaked it, then wherever Woodward got it from Libby and Rove are out of it. DiGenova says the S.P. now has a STRONG duty to announce the case is closed.
and Pam of Atlas Shrugs (who wrapped his twitching bulk in her thighs like a ball python wraps a gerbil) until security could escort him kicking and biting out of the building.
#29 don't know...maybe. Ari certainly would want to get Libby off the hook, but either way, didn't sound like the source has done anything wrong or else the procecutor will be bringing up charges against him.
Speaking of clue phones - will someone please administer one to the media who keeps pimping that white phosphorus is a chemical weapon.
Brian Williams is peddling the story of the battle of Fallujah - The accusations - by Italian TV. Jeff Englehart is mentioned. The Pentagon said that it was used but denies targeting civilians. And here comes the Vietnam comparison (and goes on to claim that white phosphorus is more damaging than napalm).
I've scrolled over so much of TFK's stream-of-consciousness-on-shrooms crap in the months that he's been here, I figure he owes me a new mouse by now. If he wants to criticize Charles or LGF or OSM or LGF readers he should try and use a few words of the English language strung together coherently so that people can actually respond to his thoughts instead of spamming every thread with the same insulting, intellectually lazy two word comment.
How is this news? Her husband outed her in a book. The CIA outed her to the Cubans. She outed herself by driving to her office at Langly. There are others I can't recall who outed her way before Libby. She's benn outed more times then Hillary's been ___ by Bill. (Fill in blank)
I watched you having your conniption the day Fitzgerald issued his report. You really need to chill out. Remember, Libby was NOT accused by Fitzgerald of "leaking" Plame's identity. Therefore, whatever that has-been Woodward has to say is inconsequential.
#23 oh_dude
I know this wasn't your point exactly but…
It doesn't !#%^$%^!#$ matter who "leaked" the name of this desk jockey. She was six years from any "covert" work which puts this firmly outside of a crime. Libby's crimes, such as they were, were lying and not being completely forthcoming. Not exactly treason as our friends on the L3eft would have it.
Yes...I would think so...and have wondered all along if Tenet didn't have a lot more to do with this thing. Someone who had alot more at stake that who talked to whom about Flame and when. All this nonsense was to take our attention away from why Wilson went there in the first place. I think Tenet is up to his eyeballs in this whole mess
Listen, I pretty much agree with you. I could care less in the sense that this is all bullshit in the first place. The concern I have is the reaction of the hook-line-sinker-get-their-news-exlusively-from-th e-MSM masses who make this such a big deal in the first place.
I was just wondering about this, the FOX news article is worded so loosely it makes you draw the same conclusion... So whodunnit?
Just waiting for this whole thing to go away.
Don't even get me started on the Wilson/CIA connection to this debacle.
What was news was that Woodward testified today that he knew her identity long before Libby was supposed to have outed her. If so, then Rove and Libby couldn't have done it. I think Tenet did it before he left office but it's only a guess.
And everybody, get of the crab rag will you? You're all grouchy and crabby tonight!
It seems the husband, Joe, was waving at people from his convertible and telling them 'Hi! Meet my wife who's in the CIA'. Now, whether it was as blatant as that, I don't know but it certainly seems this sudden concern for her 'secret' status has been a recent stand because at one time, he wasn't concerned at all. Au contraire! He seemed proud of it and bragged on it.
CNN is using the Kostards blog to "verify" the Phosphorous story in Iraq!
Stupid me. I went to military sources and checked out what sort of advice they give troops who must employ the weapons. I'll be less responsible in the future, promise.
Perhaps I mispoke a bit; allow me to clarify. I admire your zeal on behalf of Libby and against Fitzgerald. On "Fitzmas Day" I just thought it was a tad much. I simply believe this to be a tempest in a teapot. A whole lot of no big deal.
Whether you notice me or not is of no consequence. I really couldn't care less. I'm only mildly curious as to what attitude you think I've brought to the thread since I'm essentially agreeing with your point of view.
I get a bit grouchy about the "outing" since I firmly believe there was no such thing. It's probably becaue I have a very el cubo former roommate who went all hysterical about the "treasonous Bush administration exposing a covert operative". [gag!]
I get a bit grouchy about the "outing" since I firmly believe there was no such thing. It's probably becaue I have a very el cubo former roommate who went all hysterical about the "treasonous Bush administration exposing a covert operative". [gag!]
Meanwhile, pompous grandstanding Senator Jay Rockefeller can publically expose an ongoing CIA covert operation (TWICE!) and gets a complete pass. A better example of Democrat/MSM hypocrisy you'll never find.
I'm so sorry. Did you know her well? G.F.? That's so sad when they were so young but believe this...it seemed to have happened very quickly and if so, that's good. They probably didn't know what happened. Once again, I'm sorry for your loss.
It occurs to be that Joe DiGenova, who agrees with me that press conference he gave when he indicted Scooter Libby was a disgrace, will probably be on either O'Reilly or Hannity & Colmes tonight to discuss the new possibilities Woodward's revelation has raised.
My deepest sympathies. I just learned this morning that my Uncle died. He was driving on his way home from a weekly dialysis treatment and apparently had a heart attack. Luckliy no one else was injured when his car went out of control.
We lost touch over the past few years, but I'll never forget that he brought me to my very first MLB game when I was just a little kid.
#75 savage_nation, our life styles are go,go,go. Sometimes as you pointed out we would be better off if we stayed put when the weather is bad. Makes me think of all the unnecessary trips I've made. So they got the driver out and the car exploded before they could get the girls out?
i hope so...I like DeGenova, but don't think O'Reilly will get into this...but Sean should. "The Factor" is taped and seems to take an extra day to get up to speed on things and he never talked that much about it anyway
You're damn smart not to drive in the snow. It isn't worth the risk, especially when you're driving a big rig. It was dicy just driving down to Rolla last night. It was so windy, every time you'd pass a truck, they would end up weaving across the lane.
"...The Democratic senators, who are the vital, winning force in the Senate on this matter, are opposed to the Iraqi war for either principled or unprincipled reasons -- depending on the senator. Some, probably many, simply want to humiliate President Bush by denying him success -- and then reap the electoral bonanza that will likely follow. I'm sure there are some senators who sincerely believe retreat and defeat is in the best interest of our country. But principled or unprincipled, their objective is the same: Getting out of Iraq is more important to them, than staying and succeeding..."
I've been following the weather channel today and all across the midwest stretching up into Canada there are some high winds. Reporters interviewing people in various cities complaining about the high winds and umbrellas turned inside-out. They aren't tornadoes...just knock-you-off-your-feet winds.
Ever been in a small car going along in weather like that and a big rig comes up beside you and the NOISE and air sucking you...it feels almost like you're being sucked in under the wheels. It's darned spooky. I guess the worst I've ever seen is the 400 in a whiteout and high winds or the Rogers Pass in B.C. LOTS of snow! LOTS! Got caught in two slides in one night (stuck between them) while the highway crew tried to dig us out.
My deepest sympathies to your family as well. I'll remember you both in my prayers tonight. Not a good time of year for loss...right before CHRISTMAS! and all the other holidays.
oh_dude
I knew a man that happened to. His wife was in the car with him, but she was not injured and no one else was, either.
So sorry about your uncle.
I've had close encounters like that in an Accord hatchback. Trucks suck them in like flies. Got in one low-speed accident on snow up in Syracuse, where I rear-ended a gal (easy...) and then got rear-ended myself while sorting it out a full five minutes later. Needless to say, to road was dangerous.
Got in another high-speed accident on ice in a Baretta, where I hit ice coming onto a highway, and the car simply went along for Isaac Newton's ride. Coefficient of friction, zero, until I hit the SUV.
Got lucky both times and no one was hurt, but my cars were.
Gotta run and get to a hockey game. Ice, much safer with skates on.
Thanx J.D. He had health problems for some time now, but as you know it doesn't make it any easier. His brother (my Dad) comes from a line of tough-as-nails immigrants who helped the Americans battle the Japanese in the Philippines during WWII.
Just so a 30-something, slightly overweight Dude like me can ride his bike and drink beers without a care in the World...
Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.
Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the investigation.
Citing a confidentiality agreement in which the source freed Woodward to testify but would not allow him to discuss their conversations publicly, Woodward and Post editors refused to disclose the official's name or provide crucial details about the testimony. Woodward did not share the information with Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. until last month, and the only Post reporter whom Woodward said he remembers telling in the summer of 2003 does not recall the conversation taking place.
Woodward said he also testified that he met with Libby on June 27, 2003, and discussed Iraq policy as part of his research for a book on President Bush's march to war. He said he does not believe Libby said anything about Plame.
He also told Fitzgerald that it is possible he asked Libby about Plame or her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. He based that testimony on an 18-page list of questions he planned to ask Libby in an interview that included the phrases "yellowcake" and "Joe Wilson's wife." Woodward said in his statement, however, that "I had no recollection" of mentioning the pair to Libby. He also said that his original government source did not mention Plame by name, referring to her only as "Wilson's wife."
Woodward's testimony appears to change key elements in the chronology Fitzgerald laid out in his investigation and announced when indicting Libby three weeks ago. It would make the unnamed official -- not Libby -- the first government employee to disclose Plame's CIA employment to a reporter. It would also make Woodward, who has been publicly critical of the investigation, the first reporter known to have learned about Plame from a government source.
The testimony, however, does not appear to shed new light on whether Libby is guilty of lying and obstructing justice in the nearly two-year-old probe or provide new insight into the role of senior Bush adviser Karl Rove, who remains under investigation.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Rove, said that Rove is not the unnamed official who told Woodward about Plame and that he did not discuss Plame with Woodward.
William Jeffress Jr., one of Libby's lawyers, said yesterday that Woodward's testimony undermines Fitzgerald's public claims about his client and raises questions about what else the prosecutor may not know. Libby has said he learned Plame's identity from NBC's Tim Russert.
"If what Woodward says is so, will Mr. Fitzgerald now say he was wrong to say on TV that Scooter Libby was the first official to give this information to a reporter?" Jeffress said last night. "The second question I would have is: Why did Mr. Fitzgerald indict Mr. Libby before fully investigating what other reporters knew about Wilson's wife?"...
Read it all, and try to keep a straight face! Foreign Devil..thanks! Video included. :)
In the latest high-profile round of job cuts in the newspaper industry, the Los Angeles Times announced Wednesday it is cutting about 85 newsroom jobs, or approximately 8 percent of its editorial staff.
The Times was one of three papers owned by Chicago-based Tribune Co. to announce cuts.
The company's other flagship paper, the Chicago Tribune, said Wednesday it would eliminate fewer than 100 jobs in and out of the newsroom, while the Orlando Sentinel announced an unspecified number of cuts.
On the very day OSM launches, one of the major newspaper chains announces reporting cutbacks. It's like watching the scales of history shift right before your eyes.
Have not heard this mentioned anywhere before but in the back of my mind I have a nagging thought that all of this Plame/CIA/Bad Intelligence stuff (which seems to me to be coming from disgruntled/Liberal CIA leaks) has some connection to George H.W. Bush. HE WAS CIA Director earlier in his political career.
As the old saying goes "Payback is hell" and I just can't help but wonder if maybe Bush 1 really pissed off someone.
It's a point that is never mentioned. Hummm
Maybe it's too far removed but hey the LLL's are still pissed off over Reagan.
Perry
Can't post at lgc?
There must be some mistake...
zombie
"Our" newspaper is Knight-Ridder-owned, and lately they've had editorial sections that have shrunk considerably. I think they've slowly come to the realization that they've p-o'd way too many of their paying customers with the garbage they print.
Ever been in a small car going along in weather like that and a big rig comes up beside you and the NOISE and air sucking you...it feels almost like you're being sucked in under the wheels. It's darned spooky.
I know exactly what you're talking about (and so does anyone else who's done their share of winter driving.) It's around a "pucker factor" 7 - 8. When you start sliding out of control the PF pins at 10. And it's worse in the south b/c there's always that one storm that hits every year and everyone freaks out and just jams on the breaks at every opportunity. Atlanta in a hardcore winter storm is terrifying, for example.
Savage_Nation I'm really, really sorry for your loss. Prayers to you and those who've been lost, their family and friends.
That's a real nice reaction to the free and civil exchange of ideas and speech. With a little more vitriol, you'll qualify for dailykos.com.
Once again, I'll reiterate. I will wait to see whether or not this venture-capital funded enterprise results in commercialization or sellout. In any event, I hope Charles makes some bucks.
Pardon me, but who the fuck are YOU? Charles practically invented the blog concept, definitely refined it.
No sellout that I can see. Oh, and don't even THINK of trying to counter my point because I had a VERY BAD DAY and I'm not in the mood right now for naysayers like YOU...
I would never be concerned about Charles "selling out"; it's his business and he can do what he wants with it. I've known other people to have dealings with venture capitalists, though; they're like the mafia only not so warm and fuzzy.
Therein lies the danger: venture capitalists generally are seeking higher rates of return than other lenders. If OSM doesn't generate those returns, they could stick their hands in the operation, thereby diluting its "Openness".
Whatever happened to Michael Moore, the man who told us his mission in life was to stop President Bush from getting re-elected? The man who loathed Bush so much he spent millions of dollars making a film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," the main purpose of which was to discredit the president. The man who went on national television and relentlessly toured the United States begging people to vote the Republicans out of office. Moore never missed an opportunity to ram home the fact that he sought nothing less than total humiliation for Dubya.
But since Bush was returned to the White House, Moore has been strangely silent. Obviously, he found the result extremely unpalatable and Moore is not someone who likes to lose an argument. Apart from launching a film festival in a remote part of Michigan a couple of months ago, he seems to have vanished into thin air. There were stories that he'd been shacked up at a Florida fat farm trying to lose weight. There were rumors that he's toured New Orleans after Katrina, but reading his Web site, it's clear that while keen to rally support for the homeless and jobless, he was not actually there in person.
Now a new book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do) -- Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," by the right-wing commentator Peter Schweizer, criticizes Moore for not living up to the high moral standards he claims to espouse. The author, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, went through publicly available IRS documents to discover that Moore's foundation bought shares in some of the companies he has spent a career in the media attacking.
Not just a few shares either. Don't forget Moore has always said he doesn't own any stock and doesn't have a broker. But his foundation owns tens of thousands of shares in Boeing, Sonoco, Eli Lilly and Halliburton, the same defense company that "Fahrenheit 9/11" attacked for making huge profits out of rebuilding such countries as Afghanistan and Iraq after U.S. military intervention.
Even more damaging, try logging on to the Name the Hypocrite Web site and read claims that Moore, who says conservatives are racist because they don't support affirmative action, has managed to employ only three black people out of a work force of 135 working on his books, television shows and radio projects. Moore, who says Americans who live in white neighborhoods are racist, has lived for the past seven years in a waterfront home in Central Lake, Mich., a community of 2,600 residents. The 2000 Census records that the number of black people living there is zero.
Fourteen months ago, I wrote "he makes politics seem as exciting as a ball game, as partisan and one-dimensional as a comic. He aims so low it's extraordinary." Even so, I have always saluted Moore's achievements as a communicator, putting complicated subjects across to the mass audience. I commented that denigrating Moore because he distorted the truth in his movies and books was missing the point, and if every major politician was judged on how often he got his facts right Bush, Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac would have been impeached and removed from office years ago.
Over the past year, however, Moore has not only got richer than in his wildest dreams, but his celebrity status has meant that he now mingles with the glitterati. Stories of his giant ego and huge tantrums abound, but how many were manufactured by those on the right fearful of his influence? I decided to go to the United States and make a documentary about how the champion of the underdog has morphed into one of the creatures he originally so despised.
Now Moore is more unapproachable than the pope, more obsessed with his own security than Elton John. There's a dangerous gap between the Moore of myth and the reality...
If I remember correctly (and it's quite possible I don't ... another story) I believe the point of the whole PM thing was to bring together differing opinions ... turn them loose and let the sparks fly ... Charles' "fair and balanced" thing ... thus mixing David Corn and Michele Malkin in the same venture (Michele sets off sparks all her own ... but of a different type ;^) ) ... I'm sure Charles wants to make it work ... sooo you need money BUT I sincerely believe that his first priority is to spark debate and if it makes money GREAT! Youuuse Guys from NYC ... all you ever think about is bucks ...
Therein lies the danger: venture capitalists generally are seeking higher rates of return than other lenders. If OSM doesn't generate those returns, they could stick their hands in the operation, thereby diluting its "Openness".
And, from the VC point of view, the person with the entrepreneurial spirit and the vision to start a company may not be the best person to head the company in the day-to-day operations once the company reaches a certain size.
Thanks for the video. I didn't see that before. I was so fed up the day he was indicting Libby. Fitzgerald committed the sin of WALLOWING in his triumph. It was evident to me that 'under cover of a press conference to announce the indictment' it was a public gloat. So if Fitzgerald has to eat some crow now, that's fine with me. I saw straight through him at the time. Meanwhile everyone else was going on about what a great guy and a 'straight shooter' he was. Bollocks! He wasn't able to get Rove and he didn't get Libby on false information or obstruction or anything the original indictment was based on. He could only come up with some trumped up charge that Libby 'lied about who told him about Valerie Plame'. Well, sorry, anybody can misremember who told them something. It was very thin and a real stretch. Now, with this revelation he's going to have to climb back down off his high horse and admit he hasn't got anything and Libby was telling him the truth.
This whole thing has been another Democratic 'campaign'. They are based on nothing and are merely meant to tie up the party answering the charges. But during a war it's really irresponsible. The party of Spoiled Brats from O.C.
hey did you all hear about the episode of law and order tonight? accusing the minutemen of murder? there is talk of boycotting the advertisers of the show, (since i dont have a TV) does anyone know who the advertisers are?
[Link: stoptheaclu.com...]
I guess the point of my comment can be summed up by my recollection of Charles' announcement that David Corn was joining PM ... there were a lot of negative comments ... I thought it was great! The best way to expose your opponents weakness is to draw him out in the open ... then BAM you can nail him ... David will have to temper his vitriol or else he will make a fool out of himself (again and again)(and again!) There are too many short memory’s in today’s "political debate" ... that's how the moonbats can get away with the "Bush Lied" crap. I believe that Charles has devised a way to return things to OPEN DEBATE. I really don't think he came up with this idea to make money ... although I'm sure he likes the stuff. Faith brother ... Faith
I suggest you make the little OSM icon that shows up in the address bar of the browser, and sits to the left of the title of the links when displaying bookmarks, (I forget the name of it) - make it a tad bigger, and maybe brighter.
150 lockednloaded
I didn't see the episode, but am not surprised.
Earlier tonight, I did see about 5 minutes of NBC's E-Ring, about a group of "fundamentalist Christians" who seized a mosque and held the poor muzlims hostage.
Poor [bigoted word]s, always the victims, thanks to the useful idiots of the mainstream demo party.
It was so obviously phony. Cliched & over the top. LGF has been nice. I'm glad for Charles. Hope it goes well. I just fear this will cause LGF to become tame. The outside investors scare me. They're gonna call all the shots. It's been enjoyable. I hope I don't have to find a new place.
so whats next weeks episode of E-RING? fundamentalist christians fly planes into skyscrapers in newyork, in an attempt to topple the government and replace it with a caliphate? caliphate, er uhm i mean christendom, yeah thats the ticket.
If I understand it correctly, OSM hopes that those of us here and other bloggers and posters will do what we have been doing, suppling links and fact-checking everything posted.
I vaguely remember something from my days watching CNBC of Mr Kudlow being kind of supportive of China & the phony argument that they will become FREE now that some of them are making money. Maybe I'm wrong, but some of the names are so mainstream in OSM, I have my doubts that this will end up being anything different than the MSM. Everyone will become respectable, in all the worst meaning(s).
I woke up from my nap and had bad feelings about how this OSM will affect the LGF that I love. I hope it's nothing, but I think it will be worse than Rathergate in changing this place. The outside investors & advertisers will call the shots in my "nightmare."
The monopoly may be dead, but not the institution itself (or themselves). Until the alternatives find their way into print, the traditionalists will be with us. Every new media technology that came down the pike was supposed to finally kill the book. Didn't happen. Let's see if this new group can make the ultimate leap into the 'dead tree' realm in some form or fashion.
Damn! Now the New Jerkey moonbats are going to be pissed.
Well got to go light the ole wood stove ... gonna get cold here tonight ... nothing like some good old smokey emissions to warm up the hut ... even if it does block the cooling of the "earf" Tuff $hit, mama gets cold and you don't want to piss mama off...
Daddy kno whaa he spose ta do ... to keep his ass outta the crack!
172 TQC
Look on the bright side. There may soon be an influx of Dutch seeking new homes. They seem to have some experience with dikes (however you want to spell it).
Isn't the goal to beome the new MSM? It will eventually happen, if one isn't careful. Commercialization will ruin evrything. Can't offend the advertisers or investors. I'm sure Charles wouldn't lie to us, but things will change. Rathergate changed this place in ways I don't like (fag-bashing much more common now). OSM + $ will change it too. I can't believe outside investors would put $3.5 million into OSM if they read LGF & Corn etc. Everything could become bland. Can't upset the money. He who pays, rules.
Not to worry though. Jon Corzine and his Democrats in the Assembly and Senate will make Jersey uninhabitable long before sea levels ever get to be an issue.
What's with the 'youse guys'? I have lived in NY for over 40 years, started going to the Bronx when I was 7, as we had family there (I'm from a Boston suburb), and my husband is from Brooklyn, where we met, and he says the only place he ever heard it was in B movies! It was used only in a certain part of Manhattan until, about, the 1930's..no real native New Yorker says it now. Fuhgedaboutit! :)
#149 foreign devil
You are so right. The whole thing smelled from Day One, and I know I read a few articles about her having been outed by her sleazoid husband in casual conversation, and Joe Wilson is, IMHO, the one they should be going after, as he is a POS...and would love to hurt the Administration.
Bottom line? Scooter Libby, VP Cheney and Karl Rove are being demonized by the LLL gang and the MSM, who just may end up eating, uh, just use your imagination. :)
You were onto it from the get go.
Does anyone else remember, early on, hearing and/or reading that it was already public knowledge re Plame before Novak's article?
I find it interessting that the ads have dis-appeared here as J.D. pointed out earlier in the thread. Kinda goes against your concerns or does it play into it? Whatcha think?
They won't pay if there is no one to see the stuff ... I'm sure they don't expect the same old dog & pony show as we now have in the MSM ... I would guess that the advertisers EXPECT it to be different. They must like the idea or else they would not lay out all the dough.
I am digging OSM bigtime! Charles et al, I'm telling ya, OSM is the coolest thing to hit the internet since the Jibjab videos of Kerry and GWB. Those were worth a visit or two. OSM will be a daily adventure. I stopped by about 10 OSM blogs and found something worth diving into in each one.
So long Drudge, so long Google News, there's a new sheriff in town.
184 GeeWhiz - It fits with my thinking. If ads appear again, which I assume they will, they will be more acceptable to investors. No more right-wing t-shirts. Left-wing will be OK I assume.
I tend to agree with the return of ads but I suspect that they will have a greater variety of sponsors. Less focused and political, more general interest products & services.
I didn't say Charles would compromise his integrity. RadioShack & Circuit City ads on OSM now... Wouldn't part of his integrity be to not lie to investors or advertisers? I'm sorry, but we'll see. Rathergate changed everything, this will be worse (in my selfish opinion - for me).
Has anyone else noticed the 60's replay theme that seems to be at work in the MSM the past few days?
The NY Slimes coverage of the release of Nixon era documents re: Cambodia/Nam/USSR/peaceniks/etc.
Bob Woodward.
John Kerry sound bites (no magic hat...)
The 30 minute long "Whiskey Peter" aka White Phosphourus over Fallujah video that shows Vietnamese bomber runs with Mama Cass & Co. singing California Dreaming? (and a few of the same dead baby pictures from 2002)
Is there going to be another CSN&Y reunion tour next? Will it be on Max Yasgur's farm?
Maybe it's too far removed but hey the LLL's are still pissed off over Reagan
You are so correct. Eight years of Clinton still couldn't ease their pain. For the LLL, Reagan was point, game, set, match. They are now just about insane. Shame, because they are taking half the country down with them.
Holy crap ! The ads are gone ? I hadn't noticed ! Hmm.
And RE # 175 Iron Fist, yeah, I do buy dead tree papers from time to time. No internet on most aircraft yet, so I read them when travelling. And I always read at least a few issues of the local English daily when I wind up in new locales, even if they also have a website, as many of them do. The paper issue and the website are often quite a bit different, which I find interesting.
Fox News used to be good, until they started beating CNN. Now, they have RFK Jr docudramas. I'm sorry, but I assume contracts were signed. Charles is probably beholden to the money-grubbers now (I'm one too).
His wife, Maryam, said: "This is a sad day for Britain and an even sadder day for British Muslims. There is a lot of evidence that, not just Babar, but no one should be sent to the United States because of their total disregard for human rights. If there was anything to charge him with he would have been charged in this country."
Yeah, he might just get a brand spanking new copy of the crappy koran while in jail.
197 reaganite - Thanks I don't drink. I respect Charles a great deal, but I'm sure he promised THEM something. I'll wait and see when ads appear again.
UN kleptocrats are winning the CNN online poll. I imagine every Chinese citizen allowed to log on for ten seconds to vote for "internatonal body." If you want to plunge the world into a depression, destroy freedom of speech, and read nothing but government propaganda, give the Internet to the UN.
It is possible CNN's average viewer is that stupid or totalitarian, but I think someone is stacking the poll.
"Some of the most irresponsible comments have, of course, come from politicians who actually voted in favor of authorizing force against Saddam Hussein," Mr. Cheney told the group, Frontiers of Freedom. "What we're hearing now is some politicians contradicting their own statements and making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war."
I feel Charles deserves to make alot of money on this, since he's probably sacrificed alot for LGF. I just have the willies. I hope it's nothing. I haven't slept well for 18 mos, & have been sick lately. Hopefully, nothing will change. Actually, I wish the threads didn't get so long. They're unreadable at a certain length.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Guatemala's two top anti-drug officials and one police officer were arrested in the United States for attempting to smuggle cocaine, Guatemalan Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann said on Wednesday.
No wait, the US is the most corrupt regime on the planet...I'm confused. Damn.
I heard that Murdock, the owner of Fox is conservative, but he is also a capitalist and he felt it was time to move more to the left because the public was more liberal and he wants to make money. I personaly feel he is wrong with this approach,but you can see the slight shift to the left.
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We can hope its a Beer for My Horses Whiskey for the men deal That the ads are being split to where they are most profitable. On the other hand there are sites that keep afloat with alot less hits. Politicaly it would be bad right now to dump LGF me thinks the KOS kids and left would have a hayday with OSM with that news.
Baldy I appologize for the drinking ref but it fit so well.
#205 former demo - Thank you. I woke up at 900pm ET. I need to stay awake now :) I wonder how many of the commenters here at LGF are the evil capitalist outside investors (of course I'm a money grubber too, and technically a business owner)? :)
hey did you all hear about the episode of law and order tonight? accusing the minutemen of murder?
Yep, the minutemen didn't come off looking too good. Sam Waterson plays a smarmy prick so well, it's almost like he's channelling it directly from some well of dumb.
206 reaganite - So I am jumping to conclusions, yet no ads means you're right? See the OSM site -it implies ads will be distributed across the range of blogs. That says to me Radio Shack & Circuit City soon to come (they're on OSM NOW). CAIR boycotters get ready.
The fact that Charles posted about it at all shows that he has no intention of shutting down comments.
I understand Baldy's concerns. Some of us have become almost like family, and we really don't have a playground that we all meet at otherwise. I would hate to wake up one morning and y'all were gone, especially since I don't have any way to contact the majority of the posters here that I interact with.
metal man - No problem with the drinking references. I do have problems with the FNDT though. I have to leave LGF during those - too many cravings, which I never get (all the ALL CAPS exhortations to indulge), until those.
WASHINGTON - A woman in her 20s executed by a firing squad after being caught with a Bible. Five Christian church leaders punished by being run over by a steamroller before a crowd of spectators who "cried, screamed out, or fainted when the skulls made a popping sound as they were crushed."
So, who's the bigger f*ckheads -- the red Koreans or the MSM which ignores this story?
Is there any logical reason Charles would scrap LGF or close comments?
That's not a rhetorical question. I can't think of any. He's devoted countless man-hours to LGF and the comments don't require constant monitoring so long as he keeps registration closed.
Asked whether the shrines of the Imams Hussein and Abbas in the city had been attacked by Iraqi forces, Saddam at first pretended not to know the two holy figures of Shia Islam.
But he then said: "Who do you mean? Those manayich [buggers]?" According to the Iraqi lawyer, two of the court's clerks who had been taking notes then lunged at the former dictator and started to punch him.
Naw. And even if during the end times you can't get to LGF? You have a network of us that you do have contact info for, that have contact info for others.
So true...I was not posting here pre-9/11. Charles went to sleep on 9/10, and when he woke up, like so many of us, on 9/11, he woke up to a world that is forever changed.
Charles realized the significance, and we are all (well, almost all) the better off because of what he has done. There is just no way I can see him changing. He has stayed on course through so many events subsequent to 9/11, and I know he is going to hate this, but he really is owed our gratitude and love for creating a family here.We even have creeps, like the idiot cousins we never want to invite to dinner or any family affair, who pop in and annoy the hell of us! Uh, like the one who shall be known by this, and we all wish would disappear...
The amount of envy and snide remarks on that bitch's blog? Sad.
When you look at how diverse we lizards are..so many states and also countries...all age ranges, races and religions, etc. And lizards are the first ones there to offer help. You are a prime example, and just because we are twins, seperated by about 20 years, is no reason for me to say this! :)
I'm so proud to be an LGF'er that anytime I have registered or made a comment on other blogs I ALWAYS refer to myself as "the LGF" Cavy ... I don't intend on leaving LGF even if (god forbid) it ever left me! IF I ever see a post from a "swamp woman" anywhere else I'll know it is you!
I have sent money a couple of times to Charles, and wished I could have sent more. Now, he (and others)has $3.5 million. If OSM and LGF are separate, and Charles "owns" this site & is a principal at OSM, then I assume he'll be "there" more now. This place will change. My fear (1 of them): Less threads, more MSM stuff, since he won't have time to get news from us (read his emails). It'll be just AP stories here. Everything will be sent to OSM & filtered through the politburo there. Somewhat worst case. Even worse, CAIR boycotts.
A major international conference on Islam concluded in Vienna today with strong appeals from prominent Muslim leaders to recognize international terrorism as simply "terrorism." Political figures from Islamic countries, including the presidents of Iraq and Afghanistan, argued that it should never be labeled "Islamic" or "Muslim" terrorism because Islam is based on peace, dialogue, and tolerance.
I have a question, and if you know the answer please raise your hand.
What religion/culture is perpetrating terrorism worldwide today?
Bonz, I couldn't agree more. I think the liberals, Msm, and dhimmicrats( all the same I think) have over-played their hand. I think the American people have had enough of all this backstabing,anti-Christian, liberal bu..sh.t, and are not going to take it anymore. We will see if this is just wishfull thinking or reality.
I'm so proud to be an LGF'er that anytime I have registered or made a comment on other blogs I ALWAYS refer to myself as "the LGF" Cavy ... I don't intend on leaving LGF even if (god forbid) it ever left me! IF I ever see a post from a "swamp woman" anywhere else I'll know it is you!
Gotta run ... 5am comes well at 5am ...
The thought of getting up at 5 a.m. makes my eyeballs hurt, but I'm gonna have to somehow change my internal clock around.
I wonder how many of the commenters here at LGF are the evil capitalist outside investors
I have a feeling that there would have been many who would have jumped at the chance to own a small piece of this new venture. I noticed on the OSM site, OSM Media is organized as an LLC. I wouldn't think that this would be the vehicle of choice for an organization that was looking for large numbers of outside investors, but rather one that will allow a small number of owners to maintain the focus on the immediacy of the project at hand.
OSM is not in its final form. It will change as its mission becomes more clearly focused, and all of the moving pieces are fleshed out.
reaganite - Maybe the CAIR comment was over the top. Do you think if they complained to Circuit City or Radio Shack, they would listen? I do. They are considered mainstream by Fox News, which has them whenever they can. BlogAds were just that. Small outfits. Exchange-listed cos will behave differently. They will call the shots.
WASHINGTON - A federal judge found Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in contempt Wednesday, saying the journalist must reveal his government sources for stories about the criminal investigation of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee
232 cracker_jones - I would have too, but nowadays many large cos are now LLC's. $3.5 million was invested. Not large compared to NYSE (or even NASDAQ), but still a sizable amount of $.
Big bro, I would loan it to you but I wasted it all on chicken wings at a place with waitresses in skimpy outfits. I know you could have made much better use of it, though. Sorry.
I am failing to understand the anal retentiveness of the Grand Jury system. If it's politically driven like in Texas is it an impediment to Democracy? All people lie about something, if weeks of testimony expose that and there is no crime... Sooo What..
Cracker Jones
"OSM is not in its final form. It will change as its mission becomes more clearly focused, and all of the moving pieces are fleshed out. "
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EERLY...I've heard that line...almost EXACTLY...before.
For a while, I was content...then, a reality check opened my eyes!
Not a good situation...
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - A woman receiving treatment for diabetes at a state-run hospital in eastern India lost one of her eyes after ants nibbled away at it, officials said on Tuesday.
Scampering rats and stray cats and dogs sharing bed space with patients are not uncommon sights at India's overcrowded state-run hospitals that are used by millions of poor and middle-class people.
Would you go back to bed for an hour or two, get up and start over? Puhleeeze! Lighten up! We'll cross the bridge of LGF changing when we come to it. Meanwhile, there's a war to fight.
Anyone know what's happening in Fwance? Anyone check 'No Pasaran!' in the last hour or two. Must have barbied a few cars last night, surely. Mid-week blues and all? I'd have torched a couple myself if I could've gotten up the apathy to go outside! :(
It’s alright, I’m just happy SwampMan finally convinced you to go out to a high class restaurant for a change.
I thought they had opened a week before and went walking in, assuming they were open. A girl came walking up with an application in her hand for me, asking if I had come for a job.
All I can say is the labor market must be a lot tighter than I thought.
VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran has begun processing a new batch of uranium despite Western pressure on it to halt sensitive atomic work, possibly harming attempts to defuse a standoff over its nuclear aims, a diplomat said on Wednesday.
250 Foreign devil - You are one, aren't you? :) We'll see. I hope I'm wrong. My greatest fear is Charles will spend his time doing OSM stuff, and we'll get 1500-post threads. I hope he makes a ton of money, he deserves it, I just don't want this site to become less than it is. I consider it very important. I used to post alot of good news stories, but now the threads are so long, they get lost. I don't do it as often as I used to.
261 cracker_jones - There was a Citizens Bank in PA. THEN, the Royal Bank of Scotland had a new Citizens Bank move in. They kept the name, but paid the little guys, IIRC. The name is so generic (OSM), maybe it won't matter. I hope the lawyers knew about it & prepared.
EDMOND, Okla. - Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."
That mom is right. You can't show up to work late, do a half-assed job, and talk back to your manager and expect to stay employed. Welcome to the real world, kid. Take the lession and learn from it.
EDMOND, Okla. - Tasha Henderson got tired of her 14-year-old daughter's poor grades, her chronic lateness to class and her talking back to her teachers, so she decided to teach the girl a lesson.
She made Coretha stand at a busy Oklahoma City intersection Nov. 4 with a cardboard sign that read: "I don't do my homework and I act up in school, so my parents are preparing me for my future. Will work for food."
I love it!
ROFL! Good one! I never thought of doing that to my son...when he was skipping school, though, I told him that the next instance, I was going to attend all his classes with him, walk him from class to class holding his hand, and be dressed in my rattiest bathrobe, bunny slippers, and big ol' curlers.
A woman in a nursing home, Florida, fire ants. That's all I'm going to say about that. I'm sure you can imagine how quickly it could happen, and it did. Different situation in that no cries were ignored.
Your larger point about health care, I agree. Ignoring patients is easy when you only have to answer to a bureaucrat who's trying to cut costs. Lawyers add to health care costs, file frivolous or fraudulent suits sometimes, and leech off the system in many cases, but they also keep doctors on their toes. Complaining to a bureaucrat who mainly wants to protect the other bureaucrat is a crappy way to run health care.
OSM is accused of Trademark Infringement (Another OSM) Notice they're a Corp, not a LLC, like this OSM is. Otherwise same name.
Open Source (sm) is a production of Open Source Media, Inc. Contents (c) 2005 Open Source Media, Inc.
I'm assuming that they have lawyers who know what they are doing and have thought this through and done trademark search due dilligence. We're talking lawyer 101 and they can afford really good specialist lawyers.
If they actually [expletive deleted] this up and missed it, its a MAJOR legal faux pas and one or more lawyers are guilty of malpractice.
/I've got to believe they're collectively smarter than that and, although possibly close, this isn't trademark infringement
Baldy, if everything you fear comes true, so what? I hope we all had fulfilling lives before LGF, I know I did, just as I know I'll have a great life after it's gone.
I'm sure in ten years the time spent chatting with the great Lizards here will start to become a distant memory, just as the time I spent with good friend ten years ago. Just the way live is, be happy in the moment.
"The parents of that girl need more education than she does if they can't see that the worst scenario in this case is to kill their daughter psychologically," Suzanne Ball said in a letter to The Oklahoman.
Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective.
"The trick is to catch them being good," he said. "It sounds like this mother has not had a chance to catch her child being good or is so upset over seeing her be bad, that's where the focus is."
One last comment before I sign off - I noticed it was hard to find info on LGF on OSM. It seemed it wasn't highlighted as prominently as some others. I hope it's just a fluke, that I didn't search enough... Take care everyone. I'll try to keep an open mind.
Oh yes, I know. Especially in terminal cases where there is gangrene present. There is no way to keep the maggots critters out/off.
But, in the vast majority of cases here there is a concerted effort on behalf of the patient. The same cannot be said for apathetic state run and funded entities.
Keep the government out of health care. Hell, look what they've done to education!
Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective.
As opposed to the very real, non-theoretical, damage flunking out of school WILL do to her entire life (unless she lucks out)? I'll take my chances, doc.
It's become a strange world. If the 'expert' says it, I reflexively disagree. These are the same people who tell us to avoid competition, scrap grades, and produce little prima donnas who can't deal with the real world for the rest of their lives.
"Donald Wertlieb, a professor of child development at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University, warned that such punishment could do extreme emotional damage. He said rewarding positive behavior is more effective."
Okay, so you don't go to school, and when you do, you're late, don't do anything, and sas your teachers. But you brushed your teeth this morning! Hoooray for you! Ok, now go on and really try to go to school today. And if you don't, well, I guess that's fine; you didn't comit any major felonies today.
Someone posted two earlier. That one seemed like the lesser of two problems. I could have been wrong. New ventures without brick and mortar issues don't have the same problems as other businesses in these situations. I'd change names before hacking something like this out in court.
There is the issue of "open source media" being a generic term. But that means arguing in court. Bad.
Baldy, if everything you fear comes true, so what? I hope we all had fulfilling lives before LGF, I know I did, just as I know I'll have a great life after it's gone.
I'm sure in ten years the time spent chatting with the great Lizards here will start to become a distant memory, just as the time I spent with good friend ten years ago. Just the way live is, be happy in the moment.
Yep, Baldy.. listen to what's his name here... this lowblow fellow is right!
Looking after little sisters is a big brothers job.
This one is heading back to Houston tomorrow evening, to look after his girl friend for another long weekend. Little sisters are on their own this weekend. So behave!
LOL, I'll bet he did, probably shuffled his feet and stared at the floor too.
Well, I couldn't decide if he was thinkin' "Will someone get this crazy woman away from me!" or "Heh, see this Swampy! I gots me other women who kiss me!"
What really annoys me about these 'experts' is the fact that I was in all sorts of competitive things when I was young. I got used to losing. Oh well, try again. I learned to handle winning and losing. My best childhood memories involve competition, and not just when I won.
Making a big deal out of losing or getting grades actually has the reverse effect the 'experts' want it to have. Children aren't fools. They know when something is wrong. If everyone is trying to cover it up, it seems worse, not better.
This one is heading back to Houston tomorrow evening, to look after his girl friend for another long weekend. Little sisters are on their own this weekend. So behave!
Take good care of her, bro. I understand that it's gonna be cold this weekend, and I'd hate for her to catch a chill.
Are you telling me that...what the heck was her name? Used to appear on the late-nite shows too. The short, four-foot-five sex therapist wasn't married?
/I can picture here describing...maybe you won't remember...dr. uh
Well, I couldn't decide if he was thinkin' "Will someone get this crazy woman away from me!" or "Heh, see this Swampy! I gots me other women who kiss me!"
He was probably thinking, WOW she kissed me and didn’t ask me to pump out the septic tank, like the other one usually does.
What really annoys me about these 'experts' is the fact that I was in all sorts of competitive things when I was young. I got used to losing. Oh well, try again. I learned to handle winning and losing. My best childhood memories involve competition, and not just when I won.
Sort of like handing out all blue ribbons to the kids in a livestock show regardless of how their animals actually placed, right? My daughter hated that. She wanted her she earned, not a devalued blue ribbon.
/Didn't want to make any kid feel "bad" if his animal wasn't the "winner".
Exactly. Sometimes finishing third was great. If some kid shot 66 and I shot 72, I was happy. He beat me, but I still did the best I could and was proud. A fake first place trophy would have made me think adults are idiots to be ignored.
When I finally managed to win it made it sweet and I could appreciate the work which went into it. I could also identify with the kids who finished second and third.
What would we do without child experts? For thousands of years they didn't exist. It's a miracle any of us survived. /
Wow, Ted Waffle checked out and I had no idea. After all that time he spent plugging away on his causes. I was watching "Saving Private Ryan" and drinking a beer. Yeah, I'll really miss ole whatsisname. I agree that the MSM guard is changing, but are they changing the SA for the SS?
So. Someone leaked a name to Bob Woodward two years ago hoping he would leak it, but he didn't oblige. Then why wouldn't the someone who was so intent on leaking it not, then, leak it to someone else, who would leak it?
She was really bad in the showmanship classes, though. If she thought the livestock judge was an idiot, she didn't bother to hide the eye rolls (and anytime a sheep is placed first because he/she has a long, elegant neck, the judge is an idiot).
I sat in the stands at the state fair one year and told the (commercial sheep) person beside me who was also observing which animals were going to place 1st, 2nd, and 3rd as they walked into the ring. I was right. She told me she absodamnlutely could not see it coming, how did I know? I pointed out that I placed them according to the length and elegance of the neck (which has no bearing whatsoever in a meat class, but there you go).
#319, portolan. The SA was loyal to a party, as no doubt the press for the most part is. The SS was loyal to a man. My question is, which man would the press be loyal to?
Saturday? I'll be at the birthday party early (OMG please pray for me).
Call me when you get in?
Well, you know we have to see some reps at the woodworking show, and I need to see if Midwest chemical is going to have some reps there. Plus, some people are going to be demonstrating doing the spray on tans; I have the equipment and might want to adopt to spraypainting people. Probably be kinda late in the day, so you're safe for your birthday party.
You want to know where the real money is? Feeding funnies. One eye, one horn, half an ear. These are the cattle that sell low at low weight and sell very nicely fed out. No sick or diseased cattle, just handicapped.
I can still remember the first time I did it. I had to drain a right to left twelve footer for birdie on the last hole as the sun was going down. Center cut. I was 15.
I grew up in an area where local golf tournaments got front page of the sports section coverage and eventual tour players were pretty common. Once they wrote an article featuring how fast I walked on the course. I read an article which said I always choked at the junior T of C at my home course, which I did. Of all the things which sucked in my life, that wasn't one of them.
I can only imagine how much psychological damage that theoretically did. Fact is, I would have been the first person to say I always choked in the T of C.
The leftist's leader has yet to emerge. The Clintons are always present, Kerry and Gore are seen as has-beens. Howard Dean has been regulated to mouth-piece. I bet that they're going to groom the public for Hillary Clinton. Schummer as V.P.
You want to know where the real money is? Feeding funnies. One eye, one horn, half an ear. These are the cattle that sell low at low weight and sell very nicely fed out. No sick or diseased cattle, just handicapped.
Lots of those cattle come from Mexico.
That's a tip you won't get just anywhere.
I have never understood the emphasis on long, elegant necks and long legs in a sheep. The ideal sheep should not be wasting energy growing long, inedible legs and neck.
I can see where buying Miz Congeniality (yeah, she ugly but she has a good personality, and she's cheap, too) would be good in the cattle business.
At the fairgrounds, the sheep or whichever livestock you are expositioning should be judged on their commercial value, their ability to produce meat or be broodstock.
Crazy, esoteric stuff of fantasy judges always seems to surface, like the Kianina (african) cross cattle craze of the early 80s... The cattle were just too huge to commercially breed, but you could get a crazy calf or two out of them, so they were prized show stock.
No anchor in reality, however, unless you wanted half of your broodcows to die in labor.
This is freaky - just finished watching "Saving Private Ryan" myself, called my little bro. and he was watching it himself..get back here to LGF and read your post !
#338 Beagle
Even if you did choke at one tourney it's still pretty impressive golf. I'm sure you have alot of great memories. Hell, I'd be happy just to break 80.
Swamp Woman
THere's quite a margin to be made off what we call "Swamp Queens"
THey look a little poor when you start...
Give 'em a couple months & nearly double your money!
At the fairgrounds, the sheep or whichever livestock you are expositioning should be judged on their commercial value, their ability to produce meat or be broodstock.
Not to mention that the top prizes were going to sheep brought in from out of state that were the size of Shetland ponies and the market for sheep is/was for lambs that will fit on a spit for roasting.
Ignoring the customer's preferences seems like a spectacularly stupid thing to do and then complaining that there is not a market for lambs, oh, please. There's a HUGE market for lambs, but not a market for HUGE lambs.
Swamp Woman
THere's quite a margin to be made off what we call "Swamp Queens"
THey look a little poor when you start...
Give 'em a couple months & nearly double your money!
Since I'm a little overconditioned now, I don't think anybody would make any money off of me no matter how many Krispy Kremes they bought for me.
That is a powerful movie, man. Have you seen the series "Band of Brothers"? It's in the same vein. I wish somehow every European could be made to watch that film. Probabally over their heads though. Ruthless Americans and all that.
This morning while listening to the OSM press
release I cruised around OSM (or was it last night ?) and stumbled on an OSM page that requested username and password. I tried my LGF nic and pass for the hell of it - didn't recognize me - I expected this. But now I can't find any links to register, input username/pass again. Hmmm.
On the OSM legal troubles - if the other companies name is actually O.S.M or "Only So Many" and OSM is, paperwork/legal wise "Open Source Media", I can't imagine they have a case. If McDonalds refers to their franchise
in ads as "Micky D's" you mean to tell me that "Micky D's" Irish Whisky would have a case ? Or "KFC" (Kentucky Fried Chicken) has a lock on this abbreviation ? Sounds like another waste of the courts time and someone this sees $ signs.
Yup, Spock should've stayed up in orbit. Thanks to you, I can't get Shatner singing "Rocket Man" out of my head. Why did Capt. Kirk keep loosing his shirt every other episode?
I know the feeling. Been trying to get that song out of my head too since I saw Dr. Spock mentioned up above. First thing I thought of was Capt. Kirk and all the trouble he stayed in with Spock to the rescue. LOL
At least it made me laugh again tho...have a feeling I won't still be laughing at 4am when I'm STILL hearing that darn song and can't go to sleep. :)
man walked up to a woman in the parking lot at Store 24 at 991 Washington St. and asked if he could change her children's diapers. The woman, who was putting a bag of diapers in her car, told the man his request was inappropriate and to leave her alone . . .
"That's very creepy," she said. "I can see why she was terrified."
/lock your door, hide your babies, there's a sicko still on the loose!
Couldn't do the "Brothers". It irritates me to watch a "copy" of this movie. This movie gets me f***ed up every time I watch it. The worst part is I get like this over a movie - knowing my father, uncles and great uncles were the real deal is a sobering thought for me - one I have to remind myself of everytime the movie ends.
I originally bought this movie for my kids to watch (FF through the 1on1 stabbing scene
and where appropriate. About 7 or 8 years ago, when my boys were younger, I marched with them (Cub/Boy Scouts) in the annual Memorial Day parade. At the conclusion of the parade we wound up at the local cemetery
where a WW II vet. gave a speech (same as repeated all over the country). Well, he was old, he stumbled over a few words and seemed to loose his place. A bit of a giggling fest
(the contagious kind) broke out amongst our group. This really got me steamed. I bought the movie sometime later, had my boys watch it - they were impressed and reminded them that it was only a movie and then reminded them of the old vet. You can figure out where I took it from there. I ended with "you will always give out the "vibe" to our elderly that they are safe around you, nothing to fear from you as they pass you by on the street, smile, say hello, step out of the way because chances are they are/were the people that,when they were your age,actually went through this for you".
I think it stuck.
Good for you. No, Great for you! My closest family who was in WW2 was my Aunt Mary Keefe (like a second mom to us). She was in the W.A.C's. She didn't see combat, but was in Patton's 3rd Army during the war and was on the ground in Berlin during the Berlin Airlift. She also served in post war Japan. You did good.
This will be the 4th or 5th time I've repeated that LGF will not be changing -- in fact, it is part of my deal that LGF will not change. No one wants LGF to change. No one has asked me to spend less time at LGF, and no one has asked me to change LGF. If they did, I wouldn't be involved in this venture.
I hope I'm making myself clear here. You folks who are worried about negative effects on LGF are winding yourselves up over nothing.
OOoopppss - just read the Althouse thing (OSM). In regards to my #358 post "never mind". Not that anyone read it but I feel better that I "fact checked" my own damn self !
#367 leftover54 - #369 Portolan - #370 annelid
Stephen Ambrose wrote 'Band of Brothers', 'Citizen Soldier', 'D-Day', 'The Wild Blue' and other histories. He did countless interviews of WWII vets and the historical research he did for his books is extremely good.
I have 'Band of Brothers' on DVD -- it is well done. But, IMO, the book is even better.
I think that the majority of people here realize that the format won't be changing, but apprehension about change will steer and folks will get nervous. In a few days, everybody will settle down. Not to be a kiss-ass, but thanks for providing and keeping an open forum.
Wooo ! Charles at 1:44 am EST ! How are you ? This is like when Bob Hope used to walk out on the "Tonight Show" !Just teasing Charles ! Glad to hear it ! Too late to say/ask much else but, again, congrats and
DTTMSM !
Yes, I did read the books. It's just a weird quirk I have about movies. If a certain style is copied it just turns me right off. Years ago Spielberg (?) filmed flash lights aimed directly at the camera
to good and unique effect. This was copied
by a few other directors and as soon as I saw it off went the TV or out popped the video - almost an ingratiating thing which I detest. Hey, I'm old now so I can be crotchety !
Indian Born retired Northrup engineer give up B-2stealth IR supression technology to the Chinese.
This is really serious ... article
Definitely not good. We really need to put a sock in this one-way secrets flow that ends up in China, whatever it takes and whoever gets caught up in the rollup.
However, if there is a bright side to this, and there surely isn't, low IR signature is just that and China may or may not be capable of countering it effectively, even with the espionage they've obtained. On the other end, I'm pretty sure this intelligence setback won't enable them put their own "B-2" on the flight line.
Anyway, if history is any barometer of U.S. military procurement, B-2 is probably already "legacy" technology.
/besides, any all out China "talking to" will be primarily a Navy operation, backed up by ICBMs
#370 annelid:
I have tears rolling down my cheeks right
now ! I saw similar when I went - grown men
visibly shaken.
About ten years ago I was standing in a very, very looonnnggg line at a store
(Service Merchandise) that was having a going out of business sale. The line was from one end of the store to the other - everyone holding all they could carry (70 - 90 % off sale). This older man, struggling to hold his "finds" was looking rather shaky and appeared to be looking to cut into line - he also looked tired, desperate even nervous. I noticed he had the same tat that my father had. Behind me were a group of people bitching that he looked like he was going to cut in line. I asked him "Sir, (he looked like he was now going to pee his pants - I'm 6'5") I noticed the tat on you're arm - are you a WW II vet ? My father has the same one". He very nervously said "why, yes son, I am". We talked for a moment or two and I then announced in a LOUD voice,while eyeing my neighbors, it would be an honor for me if you would stand in line in fornt of me - I'll hold one of your items". Not a peep out of anyone. He did, I did and he just said quietly "thank you son".
If I had heard one single word of protest from the a**holes behind me...
Hey, what about the OSM "trademark infringement controversy" that's been festering here and there all day? You might want to address that also.
Forces of OSM negativity out there in cyperspace are convinced that your OSM lawyers [expletive deleted] up and they are wringing their hands over the potential lawsuits they're imagining.
/personally, I find it mind boggling that, despite all the professionals you've assembled, this could even be remotely possible.
It pains me to ever see these "old warriors"
have a look of fear/nervousness due to their
age and frailties. And nothing makes me feel better than to help them feel safe and protected while engaging them in a little conversation about their "glory days". That spark and twinkle in their eyes is priceless.
G_d bless our vets !
Hey, what about the OSM "trademark infringement controversy" that's been festering here and there all day? You might want to address that also.
If this is indeed so Charles would be crazy to hash it out here.
It is so, and, to be clear, I guess I meant OSM should address it, at their convenience. I just thought I'd mention it while Charles might still be around.
/until then it's all buzz and that's free advertising and that's good
I try to do the same. The pride in our military was nearly destroyed by Kerry and Co... Reagan brought it back to some degree. The LLL are still in the business of denigrating it by kicking the ROTC off campuses...
Tho I've only been a few weeks, somehow, I KNEW that was the way you felt and it would be. I wasn't worried and felt bad to see others who've been here longer, working themselves up into a franzy over it and especially on Day 1 of your new venture! Thanks for letting them know again...hopefully it will stick this time!
You've had a great day today and I just want to say Congrats one more time...I think it's going to be a fantastic site and will definately accomplish your mission and I, for one, can't wait to watch it all happen!
Don't forget to get an hour or two sleep here and there. lol
Its ok, not a sad cry ! The Flag being raised, the Star Spangled Banner,Taps -
all bring it on. Ever hear the saying "Don't trust a man that doesn't drink" ? My standard is don't trust anyone that doesn't get a little misty at any of the above.
I was married to my ex for several years when
we got on this topic. She laughed at me and thought I was foolish or exaggerating. I could not believe that she had never experienced same. I got right on the horn, long distance,
got her father on the phone (with her on the extension) and asked point blank "do you ever tear up at the start of the star Spangled Banner/Flag raising" he replied "oh sure, yes, of course" (he is a man of his word and a vet.). The ex looked perplexed. Not hard to figure why we divorced...
I just spent some time updating/revamping my zombietime index page, to not only make it easier to read but to add links to a few forgotten reports that somehow slipped through the cracks. My goal was to make it at least 5% less hideous. The page now looks fine on my machine (Mac running Safari), but I was hoping I could get a little feedback from someone with a Windows machine running Explorer, or from anyone using any other Web browser. Does the page look OK -- any layout problems? Do the orange category boxes look fine? Just want to make sure my primitive hand-coding loads properly in all environments. Thanks.
Next step will be to update the "zombie Hall of Shame" with a few new classics.
I'm 'asleep' but it looks great to me. It's possible I'm hallucinating, but it's organized and the topic headers look sporty. Furthermore, I've got your system requirements (if you know what I mean ;>). Sorry. I do the same thing during basketball games. Think about what the announcers say, differently.
But here's something that's really depressing. I've noticed my visitor stats have been very high recently (at least for me), and for the last few months have been going back and forth between about 7,000 visitors/day at the low end, up to 35,000 visitors/day at the high end. There are big spikes whenever I post a new report, but after a short while the burst dies down. So I wondered: where are all the random 7,000 - 10,000 people a day coming from, even when there's nothing new to see? Why bother going to zombietime at all when there isn't a new post? Then I looked at the search strings being used to find my site. Oy. Now I understand. The male of the species has only one thing on his mind.
Here are the top 20 search strings which lead people to my site:
breasts not bombs
breasts
breast not bombs
zombie
zombietime
breasts not bombs pictures
breasts not bombs photos
zombietime.com
"breasts not bombs"
breasts for bombs
zombie time
breasts not bomb
not bombs
breasts not bombs protest
kerry
zombie photos
zombie pictures
world can't wait
www. zombietime.com
michelle malkin
What am I -- Hugh Hefner? Larrry Flynt? Is there anyone on the Internet who isn't an adolescent boy?
After looking through the Hall of Shame, it's a good thing that I just got up (talk about your "rude awakening"!) instead of trying to go to sleep. I'd have nightmares for sure!
That's some resume you've got there! Looks great on the PC (with Windows XP). I'll take a look on the mac (OS 10.6... I think) when I move over there later to do some work.
westbankmama + littleoldlady:
Thanks as well. Now I'm completely convinced it looks good on all platforms. That's all the feedback I needed!
#421 Rayra:
Looks like you got some really nice pix. Should be an excellent report. My only worry is that your work schedule took so much time away from photo editing that the report will be "released" so long after the event that Charles may perceive it as "old news." That happened to me a couple times -- I delayed getting a report online with any promptness, and LGF didn't ever link to it because by that time I had been scooped by other bloggers. Luckily, in this case, I haven't seen much (if any) other coverage of the Santa Monica event, so your exclusive seems safe. We look forward to it.
Is there anyone on the Internet who isn't an adolescent boy?
Adolescent boys looking for pr0n and finding Sherry Glazer, inflated scrotum guy, the bearded man with boobs, nature woman, and the naked dudes at parades (just scratching the surface)? Oh, to see the looks on their faces.
Great op-ed piece in today's JPost explaining how Israel Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak has hijacked the court. Must reading for those of you who still that Israel's Supreme Court is a neutral arbiter of the law.
Looks great on my WinXP/Internet Exploder 6, Zombie! Glad you did the chronological organization and removed a few of the "new" tags that were a bit dated ;-). Much easier to follow now.
As for the strange, inexplicable interest in the "Breasts not Bombs" crowd ... maybe you could look at it this way: Sex sells, lol. Think of Zombietime News as the website with a centerfold (Grin, duck, run motions...).
And if the folks who find your site that way don't get violently sick looking at Sherry Guernsey-Glaser's sad offerings, maybe they'll stick around and read a few of your great reference articles. The BNB part of the LLL crowd is so self-r1diculing it's pathetic-- the more "exposure" they get, the better for all concerned ;-). Thanks again for your efforts, it's a great site!
World: We want to control the internet.
USA: No.
World: Come on!
USA: No.
World: Will you at least think about it?
USA: No.
World: If you don't we will be forced to make our own DNS systems.
USA: OK.
World: But that will break the internet.
USA: OK
World: But that would be bad.
USA: Then leave it alone.
World: OK. But we're making a committee.
USA: That's cute.
Like it or not you're going to get some more Althouse blog disrespect/reverse disrespect of LGF (see the Althouse thread) . . .
miklos rosza said...
I don't think Ann's joke was witty. Neither do I think the "Pajamas Media" concept has ever been particularly exciting.
To those who don't know Little Green Footballs, the front page is often worth seeing, it's valuable, but the comments are worthless -- notoriously so.
As long as I'm saying everything on my mind, although I've been a regular reader of the Althouse blog I listened to one podcast and didn't like the "star turn" impression it gave me. I understand that Ann is trying it make it big, to get on television I suppose, and that is fine with me. I sincerely hope she makes it, though I don't much watch that sort of TV.
1:28 AM, November 17, 2005
Is this blog sprinklered, the local Fire Marshall nedds to know.
And, saving something for last . . .
Ann Althouse said...
Johannes: I can't spread memes. Memes are memes because they are contagious. I just happen to say some things that are catchy, so they spread. That's why you're calling them memes. What am I supposed to do? Tone it down and not say such catchy things? I've been trying to avoid saying much about OSM today. If I had actually meant to go after it and had set my mind to that -- oh, my dear, you have no idea what that would look like. Signed, Your Berkeley House Whore.
10:07 PM, November 16, 2005
/all hail Manalo, the bringer of shoes/boots, and believe me, the LGF women are impatiently expecting fashionable SHOES/BOOTS!
"Civil unrest continues in France even though media coverage in the United States suggests the riots are finished, the violence subsided and peace restored. [...]
Focus in the press was quick to shift from the challenge of restoring order in the destitute suburbs around Paris to speculation of the underlying causes. The American media consistently overlooked or disregarded, however, the potential Islamist threat, even during the height of the riots. Many of the rioters are second- or third-generation Muslims whose ancestors immigrated from North Africa.
Not until nearly two weeks after the rioting started was the state of emergency declared. Only this Monday did President Jacques Chirac finally hold his first national address -- after 18 consecutive nights of rioting had reportedly destroyed 8,500 vehicles and 100 public buildings. Is this tepid response indicative of how the French authorities regard the balance of power between France and its Muslim communities?[...]
Because the problem has moved out of the Paris city-center and back into the suburbs, the lackadaisical attitude seems to have returned. But it was this complacency on the part of the French government with regard to the problems stewing in the outer rings of Paris that allowed, if not encouraged, the violent outburst of the past three weeks. This is an ongoing crisis that requires ongoing international media attention."
Iran body launches national drive to recruit suicide bombers
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – An organisation set up by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) is holding a rally in a provincial centre in north-east Iran on Tuesday as part of a nationwide drive to recruit volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking” operations, Iran Focus has learnt.
The event, dubbed “Palestinian intifada and martyrdom-seeking”, will be staged on the campus of the Industrial University of Shahroud. The keynote speaker will be Mohammad-Ali Samadi, the spokesman for the “Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement”.[...]
Earlier this month, radical fanatics signed up for suicide operations in Tehran to mark the end of the month of Ramadan.
Samadi said that 40,000 volunteers for suicide bombing operations had already enlisted to attack targets on the orders of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei."
Got an email from a buddy of mine in NJ who says the really lightened up regarding gun ownership-- problem is the press never mentioned it and you wouldn't know about it unless you were actually purchasing a firearm. You should be legal, but call your local sheriff's department when you get there.
Joe Bastardi says extreme cold to hit Far East, Eastern/Central US and Europe simultaneously, promising to drive energy prices back up.
Still not certain whether a Hurricane Gamma hits Florida next week, or just feeds in enough heat and moisture to a developing winter storm to Super-Charge it as it heads up the Coast, and, best of all, for me, Joe thinks the weekend after Thanksgiving may see the happy combination of polar air in the Southern Plains at the surface while a sub-tropical connection from Hawaii brings in moisture over the top.
I remember that Thanksgiving about 12 years ago, snow, sleet, thunder, lighting, Cowboys, Dolphins, Pete Stoyanovich, Leon Lett.
"Sina-1 is a research satellite. It's not possible to use it for military purposes," said Deputy Telecom Minister Ahmad Talebzadeh, who heads the space program.
A prototype of a cheap and robust laptop for pupils has been welcomed as an "expression of global solidarity" by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. .. The laptops are powered with a wind-up crank, have very low power consumption and will let children interact with each other while learning.
Then this.
A slightly embarrassed Annan inadvertently broke the crank handle of the non-functioning model on display as he left.
276 lowandblow - It would be hard to find another site as open as this, and one as important to getting the unfiltered news out about the worldwide jihad going on. I haven't liked a lot of the changes since RatherGate. I've stuck around because I still think it's worthwhile. There aren't many places I feel at home. This is a big tent, as most so-called consrvative sites aren't. Alot of gay posters left last year. I haven't. I'm not sure what I fear. That's the worst kind of fear. I hope it's just me. Seems no one else is concerned.
Thanks to both of you! I saw those yesterday (they're terrific, aren't they?) but was hoping there was some pix from the after-press-conference party. Or as Atlas says, "partay!"
#458- where at in Southern Ohio are you? i'm in a snug warm dorm in OU, closest dorm to the Hocking (+1 mod points if you know your OU geography)
i would have thought that the "Jooish & Is-ray-ee Blog Awards Gold Medal Winner- Best humor blog" would have been a good tipoff that it's not an actual 100% news account... i certainly got the joke. but then again, i am but a mere college student
Athens - I'm one block away from OU - Chillicothe "campus". My sis (lived in Tiffin (sp)
hall dorm)and some friends went to OU a long time ago, you survive holloween?
It's about 32 degrees this morning in SE PA. I really miss...um...yesterday! I suppose the kind of weather we've had up until now is a "fluke". This is a really nice place to live, except for the next 4 months or so. Today is the day I start asking myself, "Whywhywhy didn't I move to Florida when I had the chance!?"
The coffee is brewing, the doggy fed, I wait for my man to get out of bed.
I grew up in the desert, so I've been telling myself this Indian Summer without rain that its just like home. But since its not, I'm glad to feel 60 degrees outside instead of 80 near Thanksgiving.
Our kids are grown and moving this week. We'll round them back home for the feast. But this holiday I'd sure like to go climb Enchanted Rock once more before I age any further.
At the moment, no one can have confidence in the Bush administration. Almost three years into the war, the world is not safer, the Middle East is less stable and Americans and others die for a mission that is not what it once was called: a fight for democracy. It would be nice, as well as important, to know how we got into this mess - nice for us, important for the President. It wasn't that he had the wrong facts. It was that the right ones didn't matter.
None of that mattered to Vice President Cheney, a fibber without peer in the realm, who warned of a "reconstituted" nuclear weapons program, promoted the nonexistent Prague meeting and went after legitimate critics. "We will not hesitate to discredit you," Cheney told ElBaradei and Hans Blix, the other important UN inspector. ElBaradei recently won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Bloggers blogging about blogging bloggers is no worse than the "News media" people interviewing other news media people about how news media people feel about the news.
One day the MSM will become one dude interviewing himself about how he feels about the day's events
At the moment, no one can have confidence in the administration. Almost three years into the war, the world is not safer, the Middle East is less stable and Americans and others die for a mission that is not what it once was called: a fight for democracy.
Help me out here. They are sending "playfully" colored lime green and yellow hand crank laptops to kids in poor countries. Now, they are hand crank because it is assumed that electricity is spotty in these countries.
Are they edible?
Another worry is what happens to the laptops after they're handed gratis to students with families that are struggling to survive. The average Nigerian, for instance, makes $1,000 a year — so a family would have a strong incentive to sell the laptop because they need the money.
"One of the things you want to do is make sure there's no secondary market," Negroponte said. He said one solution would be to make sure "the machine will be disabled if it doesn't log in to the network for a few days."
So they can't even sell them to buy food. That's nice! And what Nigerian network do they speak of? No electricity and no phones, but hey Ma! my laptop has a wireless connection!
"...the Prosecution appealed once again - with the girls remaining in prison. The Prosecution claimed again that the girls are a danger to the public and could "lead to an escalation in the entire area, because if they are attacked, they would hit back and this would cause the soldiers to have to get involved and shoot."
Katzir said, "The Prosecution essentially blamed the girls for the fact that the Palestinians hit them, and for causing the soldiers to have to shoot to protect them."
None of that mattered to Vice President Nixon, a fibber without peer in the realm, who warned of a "reconstituted" nuclear weapons program, promoted the nonexistent Prague meeting and went after legitimate critics. "We will not hesitate to discredit you,"
One of CAIR's founders, Nihad Awad, called himself a supporter of Hamas, the Iran-backed group that has waged a long campaign of terror against Israel. He also called the trial over the 1993 World Trade Center bombing "a travesty of justice" and suggested that Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, and Egyptian intelligence agents played a role in the bombing. In recent years, a CAIR spokesman repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas, Hezbollah or Islamic Jihad.
So they can't even sell them to buy food. That's nice! And what Nigerian network do they speak of? No electricity and no phones, but hey Ma! my laptop has a wireless connection!
WTF is wrong with these people?
Now, now, Sarah. Remember what your momma told you? "It's not the gift, but the thought behind it."
Being liberal; never having to think it through or be responsible for unintended consequences.
Karachi; Nov. 15, 2005 - An alarming trend — that of Muslims kidnapping Pakistani Hindu girls and forcing them to convert to Islam — in Pakistan’s Sindh province is forcing the worried resident Hindu community to marry off their daughters as soon as they are of marriageable age or to migrate to India, Canada or other nations.
gates of Vienna takes down the gang of Senate invertebrates
on the Iraq war vote.
That Warner and Frist sponsored it is no surprise. That McCain voted against it is. That Sen. Allen (who I thought might make a good candidate in 2008) voted for it is appalling.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A LAKE EFFECT SNOW WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM EST THIS MORNING. THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
THE SOUTHTOWN AREAS OF NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY WILL CONTINUE TO BE LOCATED IN THE HEAVIER PORTION OF THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND THROUGH AROUND 10 AM. ALTHOUGH BUFFALO WILL RECEIVE AN INCH OR LESS OF NEW SNOW...SOUTHTOWN AREAS MAY GET AN ADDITIONAL 4 TO 7 INCHES OF NEW SNOW WITH TOTALS AROUND 10 INCHES IN SOME AREAS.
IN LAKE EFFECT SNOW THE WEATHER CAN VARY FROM LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW IN NARROW BANDS TO CLEAR SKIES JUST A FEW MILES AWAY. IF YOU WILL BE TRAVELING ACROSS THE REGION BE PREPARED FOR RAPID CHANGES IN ROAD AND VISIBILITY CONDITIONS.
You can often see a couple inches in the city and two feet 20 miles south. In the years I spent there, only one storm shut things down, in January 1985. About six feet combined over the course of three days. On the upside, alot of the bars remained open.
OT (again)
Got Ten Spare Minutes to see some moving footage of soldiers and Israeli citizens forced to deal with the Powers That Be, in Israel?
If you're wondering what the effect of 'International Solidarity Movement' is on the IDF, this will give some insight.
One pithy quote: - "if you're an IDF soldier or officer, best you be prepared to NOT do your duty, and have two lawyers on retainer" (paraphrased) Honenu (Civil Rights in Israel)
The Chief Rabbi of Israel says (in one segment of the 10 minute film), that donations here (tax deductible in US) are equivalent to highest level of charity. (working towards Release of Prisoners (falsely accused/convicted) being a mitzva, y'see)
Follow your heart. Me, I find it 'heartbreaking'. :-(
has to be higher than that. even down here in Bobcat country, everyone knows the Buckeyes will win, and thats why most of us wear OSU instead of OU jackets, etc. or else we have no school spirit. that could be it.
But you got to admit, this country is strange. In a country where spanking your child is a criminal offence (really!), six girls between the ages of 13-15 are being kept in jail as a danger to society...
So, I think its possible the low cloud swirl moving inland into Nicaragua dies, and a new low level center forms underneath the mid-level center/thunderstorm cluster.
Last time I was in La.,we got some little,bright red,link-type sausages(can't remember the name) from a Mom 'n'Pop meat market,it was hot as the core of the sun but it was damned good.
I know of what you are speaking, we call them lil' reds', however they have many names, I really like andouille, but I save that for my red beans and rice. ;-)
Our kids are grown and moving this week. We'll round them back home for the feast. But this holiday I'd sure like to go climb Enchanted Rock once more before I age any further.
Ms. Beto, I've been feeling the same way the last few months. I want to visit the Anasazi ruins in Mesa Verde again, visit the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and hike the Grand Canyon before my knees go.
Yeah, and after almost two months the only places that are open for business are a couple of hamburger joints and 3 or 4 grocery stores, 75% of the businesses were damaged or destroyed, and the chain saws keep humming. ;-)
Nam Grunt- the eye of Rita passed Orange because it was avoiding unincorporated Northern Harris County area.
I tell you, even when I lose, I win. Sure, power was out 10 hours, and I couldn't watch college football, but Texas wasn't playing.
Only remaining sign of damage, the traffic signal at an intersection I use daily, one of the two traffic lights hanging across the sidestreet I turn on to to go into my subdivision got turned about 90o, facing the main street, so when you approach the intersection you see 2 greens and a red or two reds and a green, which can be a little confusing.
Sony BMG is recalling music CDs that use controversial anti-piracy software.
The software was widely criticised because it used virus-like techniques to stop illegal copies being made.
[snip]
Security exploit
The alarm about XCP was raised by Windows programming expert Mark Russinovich who discovered that it used a "root kit" to install itself deep inside the operating system.
Subsequent to his discovery virus writers started exploiting XCP's stealthy abilities to hide their own creations.
In the same statement about the recall Sony BMG said it would make it much easier to uninstall the XCP system from Windows PCs on which is has been installed.
Also, see Mark's Sysinternals Blog - Victory! for the straight poop (that's a technical term) about this story. He's the man who moved the mountain (Sony).
Hey we're not just irrelevant, we're notoriously worthless.
That's a big word on the Left for some reason; half the time it applies to people whom no one has heard of outside their own circles ("Rhomboid Goatcabin, notorious crypto-Trotskyite") or to bald, unsupported assertions ("the notorious connection between Rice Krispies and Halliburton"). I think Marxists in particular are required to use it a lot or some other Marxist will use it against them...