Yes but its for peaceful purposes...

Sadly I await mushroom clouds in the near future

The List
1. Iran
2. Saudi Arabia (was number one before the Mullahs went psycho and nuclear)
3. Syria
4. Egypt
any suggestions

Those who have many nuclear weapons and have used them in the past century against defenceless people

Defenceless...Bruce?

Who the hell used nukes on defenceless people?

I just want to scream this at anyone who will listen: The only thing that will stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb is military force. I eagerly anticipate the news of Israel taking action.

I attended an event in SF tonight that featured 4 panelists fresh from duty in Iraq.

You know what they all said (including the woman who runs Veterans Against the War!)?

They said that the relentless negative spin from the press has a negative impact on troop morale and only encourages the insurgents. The Veterans Against War woman admitted that watching CNN was the worst possible thing for troop morale and that it painted a very innaccurate picture.

No different than most of our modern day Democrats who couldn't give a flying f#ck so long as they can score political points.

And wouldn't you know it...tonight, watching the local TV news, the station focused on the most negative topic of the discussion (porr equipment), interviewed an anti-war veteran who wasn't even on the panel and closed with a theme of defeatism - quite the opposite of the tone the panelists set. But you wouldn't know it unless you were there.

I saw the bias with my own eyes. Courageous soliders - women, men, blacks and hispanics who believe in their mission and know that they are doing good work. But the Left and their allies are clearly trying their best to undermine morale, whether they know it or admit to it.

It makes me damn furious!

Here is the event I attended:

[Link: www.commonwealthclub.org...]

We used nukes against an enemy that attacked us first, would not surrender and then we spent the last sixty years building up that former enemy. Japan is now one of our closest allies.

Iran would use its nukes to blast Israel in a first strike. Our use of nukes was to end a war in a way that would cost as littlel life as possible. Their use of nukes would be used to the ends of genocide and conquest.

Oh for a time machine so that I could go back in time to off Mohhamed the pedophile prophet.

Oh yeah and I'm still trying to figure out why a country sitting on an ocean of oil needs nuclear power plants.

blah blah blah...

Your end is near.

You are up late tonight Charles.

US, UN condemn Iranian leader's Holocaust comments:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comments by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressing doubt about the Holocaust and suggesting Israel be moved to Europe are appalling and reprehensible, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday.

Link

You who imposed medical embargoes on nations that caused the death of countless numbers of people...

All this nuke stuff aside, this quote really bothered me.

"Islamic summit"? Yeah. On the top of Mount Stoopid!

Ahmadinejad said Iran’s right to develop a full civilian nuclear program was non-negotiable.

Then there is absolutely no point in having negotiations.

The Europeans are fools. We don't need bigel and the Samson option to nuke them -- they're in the process of getting themselves nuked.

#6 nextmike:

Thansk for the great report.

Want to know what's really happening in the world? Come to LGF.

OT

Russ Feingold of McCain-Feingold fame and only congresscritter to vote against the original patriot act says patriot act is a threat to freedom and promises to use every means possible including filibuster to stop its renewal.

Frigging traitor

Liberals will want to give diplomacy with Iran a chance even after the fuse is lit on that stick og acme atomic dynamite.

In other San Francisco news:

For those not in the area, the San Franciso media is in a frenzy over a concocted scandal about a series of satirical videos made by a SF policeman as part of a morale-boosting program. The videos are described as being "racist," "offensive to women," "insensitive" and so on, but it's all a bunch of LLLies. The media will not tell you that the videos are actually NOT any of those things, are quite funny, and instead are self-deprecating about the cops. Example: a self-absorbed cop is driving along talking about having to relate to the community, and in his narcissism he runs over a homeless woman and doesn't even notice, and just drives away talking about connecting with the people. See? Self-deprecating. But this is described as "racist." Why? Because the "homeless woman" is black. Anyway, there are many such similar examples disproving the claims against the videos. But that is brushed aside and the MSM reports as unquestioned fact that the videos are racist, sexist etc.

Mayor Gavin Newsom and Police Chief Heather Fong held a press conference about the video yesterday in which they acted like they were announcing the end of the world. 20 cops were suspended over this non-event.

What's the catch?

The officer who made the video was named Andrew Cohen. Earlier tonight Shiplord Kirel noticed that officer Cohen had already been featured on LGF as the subject of a bizarre "cop-naming incident" by AP, which many suspected was a crypto-anti-semitic jab. For some reason, this Jewish former-liberal-from-Berkeley cop is highly unpopular with the leftist elites of San Francisco. It's like they have a vendetta against him. Why?

Well, this is what I dug up: In 1998 he recorded a rap CD that attacked the liberal DA's office for not prosecuting the criminals the cops brought in, and also attacked the OCC, an anti-police citizens' complaint commission that became a mouthpiece for the extreme left. I think this CD put him permanently on the radar of the vengeful far left of SF.

Here's a profile of him from about 7 years ago:

Two of his songs have become anthems among the rank and file, including cops who normally can't stomach rap music.

On "O.C.C.," Powder makes some clever digs at the Office of Citizen Complaints, The City's independent police watchdog agency loathed by most cops. Using the melody of Naughty By Nature's 1991 hit "O.P.P.," Cohen changes the refrain to "O.C.C." and gives a long diatribe about the agency, comparing it to "an autocrat."

On "DA Don't Prosecute," he pokes fun at prosecutors, crooning:

"Do the crime it seems to pay / you might have to do about a day / then push the revolving door to get free / go on another crime spree."

The song closes with the lines: "The streets are gettin' crazier day by day / people are comin from all around / to commit their heinous activities / the word is out - crime's legal in our town."

Prosecutors don't enjoy being the butt of his humor

Zombietone News: we report, you decide.

# 17 zombie
Hi zombie! Do you think the Bay Area is behond redemption? Sometimes I get that feeling, although I've never been around the area, so I don't know. But you are a part of that world, so your view point is very reliable.

The Bay area has been beyond redemption since the 60's. No hope for them.

#18 MigueldowninMexico
Hi zombie! Do you think the Bay Area is behond redemption?

No. If it's got people like Officer Cohen and me and Havoc and mbruce and all the rest of the Bay Area lizardoids, we've got a chance. There are times when it just seems like a lost cause, and then out of the blue there is a glimmer of hope. Here's an example: years ago I knew a guy who was an anarchist who was for the legalization of all drugs and who wanted to completely shut down the entire prison system and release all prisoners. A real moonbat supreme. I lost touch with him sometime in the '90s, but in the last few months I've begun to notice that he now writes letters-to-the-editor to local newspapers. The punchline: they're completely great anti-idiotarian letters that read like a paragraph from Mark Steyn or Victor Davis Hanson. When I saw them I was, like, "Whoa!" If this guy can "wake up" and have a political conversion, then anybody can.

Little by little I do see an incremental change around here. Still a very long way to go, but I think the Bay Area is not beyond redemption.

you see what they did to Schwarzenegger in this state and he's a RINO...not even close to being a Conservative. All he tried to do is balance the budget! They are vicious here. No, I don't see the politics here improving. If anything it's worse than it's ever been. I'm in SoCal and it's bad here. Even worse in NoCal. It would take 3 generations of deprogramming...kind of like the middle east.

Israel will attack and the world will be on fire. At least there will be something on TV to watch. And be assured that the MSM will blame the US for supporting Israel and it's Bush's fault because we chose a pre-emptive strike first. And after the beat down, watch Bashir Assad shake like a drunk on a Monday morning.

Back in my day (creak) it was considered very possible a nuclear power might launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike on another nuclear power. I wonder if the Iranians have considered the fact the U.S. has sworn off the nuclear bunker buster, while Israel has been very quiet on the subject.

Ahmadinejad support genocide, question the holocaust, and suggest Israel be moved (the Hitler package) without creating intense unease within the Israeli military planning community, not to mention Jews all over the world.

Ahmadinejad needs understanding, social recognition, and something to do. (via e-mail, enjoy)

Ahmadinejad cannot support genocide...

FIMP

#20 #21
Thanks for the answers. It was a mixed reaction I got. I would love that zombie's optimism be true, Stuck-in-CA, but also realism is necessary. I'll keep on praying for us to win this war, anyway. God bless all the good warriors everywhere.

Symposium: The Death of France
[Link: frontpagemag.com...]

The only good news in this is that maybe it will finally shake the US into action. Israel has no choice - if the Americans don't attack, Israel has to attack.

We are approaching the holiday of Chanuka, whose theme is "Mi laHashem Eilay" (מי לה' אלי) those who are for G-d come after me (the real G-d - not the Muslim pedophile). This is a situation that demands leadership. Hopefully W will overcome the LLL and provide it. Otherwise, it will have to come from elsewhere...

The tv media will report this when?

Flash to the media... This is the story, not the snow storm!

Get your head out of your *ss.
We are all watching you and asking wtf are you doing!

They shoot children, don't they? By Dennis Prager

[Link: www.sullivan-county.com...]

I got a email that came from General Schoomaker about a speech General Abizaid (CIC of Central Command) gave at the Naval War College. This email has come down the chain under orders that everybody connected with the war in any way, including vendors like my company, get it. I can't quote it, but I feel better not only about how the war is going, but that our military has the correct "big picture" about who we are fighting.

The Truth About Jonathan Pollard by John Loftus

`Pollard in fact did steal something that the U.S. government never wishes to talk about. Several friends inside military intelligence have told me that Pollard gave the Israelis a roster that listed the identities of all the Saudi and other Arab intelligence agents we knew about as of 1984. (This has been corroborated by Israeli sources, as well.) At that time, this list, known in intelligence circles as the "blue book," would have been relatively unimportant to the United States—but not to Israel.

Since 9/11, however, Pollard's "blue book" is of profound interest to everyone, including the U.S. These particular agents are now a major embarrassment to the Saudis and to the handful of American spy chiefs who had employed these Saudi intelligence agents on the sly. Some of the names on this list—such as Osama Bin Laden—turned out to be leaders of terrorist groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood and what we now call Al Qaeda.`

[Link: www.sullivan-county.com...]

#28 freedomplow

The tv media will report this when?

TV media focuses on getting people to work (weather), stories with video, entertainment, and financial news. Serious journalism is limited to print and the Internet. About the only exception is Fox and the Oil for Food scandal. They've done a few ambush interviews on the main characters to get into the stories with video category.

The punched preacher, Nick and Jessica, and snow are TV stories.

WHOA CHARLES! - I get up at 5:AM here in NYC and see you already have a post up for today, Friday. And a bunch of folks already commenting on it!
I actually checked the calender to make sure it was Friday - man this is going to mess with the (other) Dead Threaders' heads! - course I'm gonna try to go back to sleep again but the rest are gonna be astounded.

As to your questions: Yes, I'm afraid Armageddon does have a proper time and that time is drawing perilously near if it isn't already here. Hasn't President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heard of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or is his head so far up his ass he can't read ANYTHING, not even the Koran, because it's too dark?
Secondly, it has a price: millions upon millions dying. The question is, is it worth the price? And the answer is yes, if it somehow manages to save what civilization remains (in the West and the Far East).
Did you notice the irony of Ahmadinejad's question of "Is there any real guarantee that when you give us fuel and we become dependent on you that we receive the fuel at the proper time and a reasonable price?”
Is there any real guarantee that when you give us fuel and we become dependent on you that we receive the fuel at the proper time and a reasonable price? Can easily be turned around and you can easily substitute OIL for (nuclear) fuel? Finally, Ahmadinejad has dropped any pretense of this being anything justified on religious grounds: no mention of Muhammad (PBUH), the Koran or Islam, much less the Infidels not even the establishment of the Caliphate; this is a purely, naked grab for power and he's using their ATTEMPTS to finish developing Nukes against nations which already have them and, when necessary, have used them. Their either must be regime change in Iran or there must , most regrettably, be no more Iran. Soon.

#27 Carl in Jerusalem

I hope W realizes the U.S. should do this and not give into the temptation to let Israel do it. The regional and global consequences will be lessened if we do it. This is not time for the latest George to go all wobbly.

The IAF is probably the best defensive air force in the world. But when it comes to projecting power to the rest of the world with bombers, the U.S. has far more capabilities than any other nation. Israel would have to rely on fighter-attack planes. We have the B-2, F-117, B-1, and B-52, far better for the job, unless Israel uses nuclear weapons. If our inaction forces Israel to use nukes to get the job done the repercussions will be global and terrible.

#26 hutchrun

From the frontpagemag article: "(Muslims in France rioted to maintain) a privileged status that offers surplus rights and reduced responsibilities"

Now where do you suppose they learned that tactic?

Our best and only hope for a real revolution in Iran, a regime change from within, has always been the students. The students are being rounded up and kidnapped. The President of Iran Ahmedimaniac {hat tip expat swede] is removing all obstacles internally and externally to world domination. That is his objective.

Students blindfolded and taken to unknown locations

Based on received reports from Tehran, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of the Ahmadinejad administration have begun a new reign of terror on student activists. The reports confirm that many student activists have received phone calls from MOIS agents who have summoned them to hotels and various other odd types of places in order to undergo long interrogations. Sometimes they even arrange to meet students in the street; kidnapping and blindfolding them, the students are then driven to unknown locations.

The students undergo brutal interrogations that go on for hours and days where they are asked about various other student leaders and plans for actions; the students are also forced to surrender the names of their fellow activists who write the calls to protests, speeches, statements as well as the subjects of any upcoming statements and speeches.

Students who are arrested are forced to cooperate otherwise they or their families and friends are physically threatened. Several activists who refused to cooperate were explicitly told that MOIS would frame them and manufacture charges.

Students arrested during protests in Iran capital: Update

Tehran, Iran, Dec. 08 – Hundreds of students took part in a demonstration outside the main gates of the University of Tehran to mark Iran’s national Student’s Day amid tight police security and a ban on protests.

A student outside the campus told Iran Focus by telephone that State Security Forces, Iran’s para-military police, attempted to disperse the crowd who started to gather just after noon, chanting anti-government slogans and singing patriotic songs in commemoration of the student movement in the country.

According to the source, despite outnumbering the protesters, police were unable to disperse the crowd.

Police arrested half a dozen protesters including a young man who was then taken to ward 209 of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, according to one of his relatives who sent an email to Iran Focus.

Two female students were detained outside Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Sciences as protests were gaining momentum and taken to an unknown location.

A couple were also arrested and taken to Police base 148, while a young man, who was nabbed while holding up a banner, was detained and taken to an unknown location.

# 34 Beagle

I hope W realizes the U.S. should do this and not give into the temptation to let Israel do it. The regional and global consequences will be lessened if we do it. This is not time for the latest George to go all wobbly.

You're right. But if he doesn't do it, Israel doesn't have a choice. Ahmadinejad has made his intentions quite clear, and if we ignore him and we are wrong R"L, we won't have a second chance. This is a small country with dense concentrations of population, and we cannot take the chance of this maniac nuking us.

The IAF is probably the best defensive air force in the world. But when it comes to projecting power to the rest of the world with bombers, the U.S. has far more capabilities than any other nation. Israel would have to rely on fighter-attack planes. We have the B-2, F-117, B-1, and B-52, far better for the job, unless Israel uses nuclear weapons. If our inaction forces Israel to use nukes to get the job done the repercussions will be global and terrible.

The US has two things that Israel doesn't: aircraft carriers and forward bases. I don't think Israel would necessarily go nuclear to get the job done (we didn't in Iraq). But if the US doesn't act Israel has no choice. And that day of reckoning is fast approaching.

# 36 AtlasShrugged

Our best and only hope for a real revolution in Iran, a regime change from within, has always been the students. The students are being rounded up and kidnapped. The President of Iran Ahmedimaniac {hat tip expat swede] is removing all obstacles internally and externally to world domination. That is his objective.

There's no time to wait for a revolution. The Iranians are past the point of no return. They're no more than a few months from having a bomb. Even if Ahmadinejad were not suppressing any possible revolution, there's no time for that now anyway. While I sympathize with the Iranian students, there's not enough time for them to do their thing; they are not an option for us and cannot be our top priority.

#35 Dan Gummitt:

They learnt it from the Koran. A lazy,lustful, greedy people not fit to call themselves humans.

#40 Carl in Jerusalem

But if the US doesn't act Israel has no choice.

Ahmadienjad makes that clear seemingly on a daily basis. If the UN didn't always subvert its charter and founding documents, Iran would be under intense pressure already.

ElBaradei revised his estimate on nuclear weapons, again. He now claims he said it's months after the completion of some facility.

I've read enough about technology transfer to Iran to think the second they have enough enriched uranium, they'll have functioning nuclear weapons of the fission variety. They may have a couple already.

Wow. Alot of snow out there. Which means but one thing: I'm going back to bed.

Oh, and would someone please whack Ahmadinejad.

Thanks. Have a nice day.

This ought to be amusing. From Drudge. But we won't question their patriotism:

EXCLUSIVE: GOP TO LAUNCH 'WHITE FLAG' DEM ATTACK
Thu Dec 08 2005 18:02:44 ET

The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from a top GOP operative that the Republican National Committee will provide state parties with a web video prior to release tomorrow afternoon that shows a white flag waving over images of Democrat leaders making anti-war remarks.

The ad is in response to the controversial comments Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and 2004 Democratic Presidential nominee John Kerry made earlier in the week.

A Democratic strategist who had the web ad described to her said, “This is way over the top but we have no one to blame but Dean, Kerry and others who continue to pander to the anti-war activists within our party.”

The web video advances the Republican contention that the Democrats only have a “retreat and defeat” message on the war in Iraq.

The video highlights the effect Democrats can have on the morale of U.S. soldiers.

One Republican strategist familiar with the ad said, “The Democrats, especially Howard Dean have a way of trying to turn the tables and say ‘that’s not what I meant’ – its just those ‘evil Republicans’ This video will make them crazy – it reinforces what they really believe with what they actually said – and that is devastating for the Democratic Party.”

Developing...

Ralph Peters weighs in on Dr. Demento, aka Little Howie Dean.

Damn, it is 10 degrees in Dallas, Wind chill = 2. Who left the door to Canada open?

Egypt Islamists make record gains

The opposition Muslim Brotherhood have won a record 19% of seats in Egypt's three-round parliamentary elections, preliminary results say.

Nutz.

Not good to see Egypt heading off down this path.

Oh boy, this is amazing.

An Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian at a busy Israeli army checkpoint outside Jerusalem... There was no word on the motive for the stabbing

Israeli killed in W Bank stabbing

To the tune of "Winter Wonderland"

In Iran if your're lookin'
Yellow cake is still cookin'.
They're makin' some nukes
Despite our rebukes,
Building an Islamist arsenal.

They'll say, "Hey, glad to see ya."
As they practise taquiyah,
And tell Mo ElBee
There's nothin' to see,
Building an Islamist arsenal.

In the silo they can hide a bomb now
Then pretend it isn't what we think.
They will tell us lies with such aplomb now.
If we buy them we all need to see a shrink.

Later on, they'll conspire.
Say they plan to retire.
They'll sing us a song
And string us along,
Building an Islamist arsenal.

18° F. and 2-3 inches of snow in S. Ohio.

#48 Smit

There was no word on the motive for the stabbing

Just how dumb does the writer think we are?

Hmmm...a sign of hope, or a smoke screen?

Muslim Leaders Pledge Crackdown on Extremism

Good Morning-Afternoon-Evening Lizardzoids & Lizardettes

I have received the following info from a number of people working in Croydon, I'm not sure whether or not to believe it myself.

Muslim's in Croydon are droping £10 notes and if someone give's the money back to the Muslim who droped the money, The Muslim will first thank that person then say the following "Now you have helped me,I'm going to save you. Stay out of Croydon between 21-30 Dec because it's going to be bombed."

Well, crap. I've been hanging out on the wrong damned thread.

#49 scaramouche

Very good...that's a keeper!

As soon as the Larry David and his irk, and the Liberal Jews are finished removing George Bush and the republicans from power.

Then they can get around to disarming Iran.
Right ! I mean that the plan ... right!
First Bush, then Iran... In order of importance...right

OT. It's my last day on the Nightshift after 6 years...I intend to party tonight. w00t!

Jewels: Enjoy the new schedule. Party on.

Krauthammer criticizes the Saddam trial.
Man for a Glass Booth

Of all the mistakes that the Bush administration has committed in Iraq, none is as gratuitous and self-inflicted as the bungling of the trial of Saddam Hussein.

Here's a shocka...

Bicycle Bomber Kills Six, Wounds Dozens in Bangladesh

#53

Sounds like an urban legend.

What is it with Fox news and Christmas? Christmas for them is a time to hate. Just now ED and her friend let go with this teaser: "Is Santa the victim of a hate crime in Florida? It's really sick!:"

Why don't they just leave the story alone? Let people have Christmas, or not. But stop ruining it for everybody.

I far, far prefer the message of Ebenezer Scrooge to that of Fox. I quote Scrooge:

"Let me keep Christmas in my own way."

I really wonder what Christmas actually means to the people at Fox. It seems to be an excuse for hating people.

#56 Planet X

Larry David and his irk

Well, they are really irksome.

If you see a mentally deficient child shivering in the cold , by all means give him a blanket and shellter. If you see this same child playing with a firearm in a room full of people, do not hesitate to mitigate such a potentially disasterous situation.

#59 Sean II

Well, that's the Religion of Pieces for you.

Mr. Alpizar in Miami experienced his own personal Armagadon. His wife, who professionally and personally knew better, set him up to get taken down. Schade. When she screamed to get their "bags" while the Air Marshalls ordered him DOWN, they heard a "B-word". Admitting her own blame, relieved to be done with him, the media is certain to make her a martyr. Schade.

Curt Anderson, Associated Press:

The statement did not address Alpizar's mental condition. Other passengers have said Alpizar's wife, Anne Buechner, said he was bipolar, a disorder also known as manic-depression.

She was yelling "That's my husband, that's my husband — I need to get to my husband!" Gardner said. "She said, 'My husband is bipolar. He didn't take his medicine.'"

Mike Beshears heard her say, "'My husband is sick. I've got to get my bags.'" Then the shots rang out, and a flight attendant stopped her and guided her to a seat, he said.

"She was very apologetic," Beshears said of Alpizar's wife. "She was explaining to us as we sat there in the row. She felt it was her fault, that she had convinced him to get on board, that he wasn't ready."

Buechner did not speak publicly Thursday. She works for the Council on Quality and Leadership based in Towson, Md., a nonprofit organization focused on improving life for people with disabilities and mental illness, the organization said in a statement.

#59 Sean II

Muslims randomly targeting other Muslims. I can't believe it's typical in the 21st Century. When I was a kid I thought we'd be moving forward into the Space Age, not backward into the Dark Ages.

You can't spell "Jihad Madman" without the letters "Ahmadinejad"

♪♪ Good morning, dead-threaders! ♪♪

Snowing here and it's -5ºC or around 23ºF for those of you down south.

:)

Cornholio

LOL!

That's very clever!

#68 miss trixie

Good morning!

We woke up in Virginia this morning to 0C, or 32F with snow and ice. Yuk.

16 Black George Bush- liberals will want to give diplomacy a chance even when lower Manhattan is a glowing pile of rubble.

GWB, Rummy, IDF, somebody - Faster, please.

#67 cornholio

Very good...that should be on a bumper sticker.

flipflop

I lived in Reston VA for a few years. I really loved that town and miss it a lot. I'll take your "winter" weather anytime over Canadian ones.

/I ♥ VA

You know, I can actually understand 3rd worlders being suspicious of Western intentions; after all, colonial exploitation really happened and only ended in the middle of the last century, and two devastating wars were fought in Europe, and the U.S. and the Soviet Union fought proxy wars and held a long and tense nuclear standoff. If you'd lived in the 3rd world during that time, you might not have an especially balanced perspective on the West.

But the cynical way Madmouth Ahmajerkinwad twists history to justify Iran's nuclear program is sickening. He offers absolutely no context for U.S. use of atomic weapons, ignoring the facts that we were attacked first by a well-armed and relentless enemy that had already slaughtered millions of Asians, that the bombings saved hundreds of thousands of American AND Japanese lives, and that we haven't used atomics since.

Then the medicine crap, an obvious reference to the Iraq embargo, ignoring oil-for-food and the fact that it was Saddam Hussein, not the U.S., who withheld medicine from his people.

But Madmouth knows all this, of course. However, his bile will play well with the LLLs.

#73 miss trixie

I go to Reston frequently. It's a nice town, but very congested these days. Of course, the Fredericksburg area where I live was still mostly rural when I built my house here 10 years ago, but is becoming more and more like Reston.

This is a joke. Right?

World 'losing patience with Iran'

Mohamed ElBaradei, who is in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, said outstanding nuclear issues with Iran would be clarified next year.

Ahmadinejad is a capering monkey. A Rumpelstiltskin for the 21st century. Give him enough rope...

Kennedy Airport has gone to rain, but LaGuardia is still snow.

#77 foreign devil

Yeah, but cornholio already guess his real name in #67.

#78 ed

That's weird, they're not that far from each other. I guess it's JFK's proximity to the ocean that makes the difference?

48 smit

An Israeli soldier was stabbed to death by a Palestinian at a busy Israeli army checkpoint outside Jerusalem... There was no word on the motive for the stabbing

Motive, motive? We don't need no stinkien' motive

may they burn in hell...and soon

#65 Mrs. Beto - Your story is troubling, to say the least. But a few questions first, please.
What is the meaning of "Schade"?
You then say :"Mike Beshears heard her say, "'My husband is sick. I've got to get my bags." BEFORE THE SHOTS RANG OUT [emphasis added, ed.] Was Mike Beshears a passenger on the plane?
You also say: "Air Marshalls ordered him DOWN, they heard a "B-word". Admitting her own blame, relieved to be done with him,..."

What makes you say she was "relieved to be done with him"?
I don't think it at all unusal for someone to blame themselves when something awful happens to a loved one who didn't take his/her meds, especially when they've been taking them for an extremely short time or an extremely long time; blaming herself may simply be her way of saying "I didn't WATCH him take his meds, so he must not have, ergo it's my fault". I think it's even more so when the person works for a nonprofit organization focused on improving life for people with disabilities and mental illness. Other than commentating on what I've said, do you have a link?
Thanks.

I think the war in Iraq was the right thing to do. It would have been foolish to let a man who ignored international norms and who had at least indirect ties to Islamic terrorists to develop nuclear weapons.

But if the US does nothing and allows Iran to develop a nuclear arsenal, than almost by definition the war in Iraq was pointless.

#68 Miss Trixie

Snowing here and it's -5ºC or around 23ºF for those of you down south.

Thanks. It's been raining for two days, but it's 70 F. Every time I see a commercial which suggests I turn the thermostat down (they run in Florida for whatever reason) I'm thinking "but the AC will kick on."

So, would this be the official "dead thread," or would the Thursday Night Beach below? This thread technically was posted today...

#75 Flip Flop

Wow, a fellow Fredericksburg area lizard. Howdy neighbor.

#81 atlas

...no word on the motive...

Only an MSM idiot would put that into a report on an incident of this nature.

"Oh, we can't assume that just because the attacker was Palistinian and the victim was an Israeli soldier that the motive was hatred for Jews!"

*spit*

He wouldn't be spouting off like this if he didn't already have the bomb. This is playing out just like North Korea. Lil' Kim behaved the same way prior to announcing he had his. The game now is to see if they can get Iran to surrender it before announcing they have it. Once they announce it, positions become fixed.

Lots of bravado on this site, but one thing we must all ask ourselves is - are we prepared for a long war with Islam? Are we geared up for the front line ourselves? Are we able to sacrifice, kill, suffer, and so forth? At some point it is not just going to be our soldiers (may The LORD bless and protect them) out in faraway Iraq, but we ourselves in our own cities, possibly drafted into battle on some distant field...

It may seem far-fetched, but the seeds are sown and we all need to PREPARE.

323 BEAGLE "...the U.S. has sworn off the nuclear bunker buster..." When did we do that and why? Did we really rule out the use of Nuke bunker busters in all situations?

BTW was the (creak) the sound of your bones moving on this freezing, snowing pretty heavily morning here in NYC, at least, or the sound of your rocking chair as it moved! LOL!

#86 semper gumbi

Holy crap! Another lizardoid in the Frednecksburg area!

How are you this fine, icy morning?

What's been happening in Israel since 2000 will happen all over the West...I believe Israel is on the verge of another 1973-style existential "hot" war.

#89 Jetziger,

I think many on this site are prepared for that war. Unfortunately, too many of the American public beleive the defeatacrats and think that, if we appeal to their feelings, all will be okay.

#76 Luigi

I lost patience with Iran in 1979. I've been running a patience deficit ever since.

Visibility under 0.25 miles in heavy snow at Boston.

NORTHEAST SNOW UPDATE

Long Island briefly experienced freezing rain, maybe enough to cancel school at St. Martin of Tours in Amityville, but I doubt it.

As mentioned above, rain/snow line now inside New York City.

latest 6Z NAM model 12km grids suggests rain-snow line probably winds up in the Bronx and maybe Northern Manhattan, and also bisects Suffolk and Norfolk counties of Massachusetts.

Where is stays all snow, a foot or more. The Cape is going to rain now, still heavy snow at Plymouth.

Good news for Houston area citrus and banana plant afficionados. Thick cloud cover means temps in Houston dropped to about freezing, but no lower.

I love the look of the big, lush banana plants so popular in Houston, but they appear dead after our almost annual freezes. I know they come back better than ever the following March, but that 2 or 3 months of hibernation, looking dead, is the main reason I haven't planted any. But they look positively tropical in the summer, and everybody likes the little bananas.

Beagle

I'm thinking "but the AC will kick on."

LOL!

Oh this is rich.

Those who have many nuclear weapons and have used them in the past century against defenceless people

The Japanese as defenseless people. Rape of Nanking. Pearl Harbour. The reprisals against Chinese civilians after Doolittle Raid. Unit 731. Baatan Death March. Using military POWs, as 'protected' by the Geneva Conventions, as slave labour.

He is truly a mad mad mullah swimming in moral equivalency so he too can clutch to his hard heart the atomic bomb.

#90 realwest

When did we do that and why? Did we really rule out the use of Nuke bunker busters in all situations?

The why is political and related to a misunderstanding of nuclear proliferation. In another article I read some scientists saying the fallout would be just as great and conventional could do the job. Some people in the DoD disagree (see link).

The when is almost two weeks ago.

#89 jetzinger:

So far I've spent four years sitting here typing, first on CNN forums, then Peoples Forum, Delphi Forums with the Washington Post in 2000 and finally four years here on LGF telling anyone who'd listen there is a worldwide war coming (now here) and hoping and praying someone would listen. I found others like me in 2001 here and together our voices became loud enough that the world listened. We don't have a choice. The war has been thrust upon us. We've had to scramble to play catch-up but now I think the West is beginning to come around. Angela Merkel 'gets it' and so we won't have to fight Schroeder and Chirac in future. Both have been destroyed since their last attempt to sabotage Bush and the US. Since then they've been given a "non!" to the EU Constitution, Schroeder's lost his job and Chirac has lost France. New Europe is solidly on the side of the West! They see the danger.

Beyond that, what would you have us do?

#91 Flip flop,

I'm doing well this fine morning. Waiting for the sun to come out. Glad it's my day off so I don't have to make the commute north. Despite what Fox5 says, the roads look crappy to me. Of course, we haven't seen any plows in the 'hood, and probably won't for several hours.

I see from your blog you live on the Spotsy side. we live on the Stafford side, just North of the Chatham bridge.

I knew there were fellow Northern Virginia lizards, but you are the first I've found from Frednecksburg.

"Almost" or more than two weeks ago. What year is it anyway? (creak)

88 Stop Hillary

#88 Stop Hillary
He wouldn't be spouting off like this if he didn't already have the bomb. This is playing out just like North Korea. Lil' Kim behaved the same way prior to announcing he had his. The game now is to see if they can get Iran to surrender it before announcing they have it. Once they announce it, positions become fixed.

I'm not so terribly sure that you can assign rational type modes of thinking to this individual. He seems to be motivated by "what he wishes to be" more than "what is". I see him as perfectly capable of acting in such a manner that ensures the total destruction of Iran, just as Hitler carried Germany to destruction in WWII.

I hope that I'm wrong. I fear that I'm right.

Let's just bomb these mother f*ckers and get it over with.

#39 AtlasShrugged - NOt knowing his location hinders things a little, but perhaps there is some way for him to smuggle himself across the Iran/Iraq border and then surrendet to US Troops?
Other than that, not knowing anything about him or where he's located, I have no ideas as to how to get him out of Iran. Sorry. I wish him the best of luck - if you like and respect him, he must be a very good man.

#67 Cornholio

You can't spell "Jihad Madman" without the letters "Ahmadinejad"

#89 jetziger

Lots of bravado on this site, but one thing we must all ask ourselves is - are we prepared for a long war with Islam? Are we geared up for the front line ourselves? Are we able to sacrifice, kill, suffer, and so forth?

Not really. I'm on my second cup of coffee. Relax, it's not civilian D-Day. If any jihadi is stupid enough to come to my house, I promise to make enough war noises to generate 20 911 calls in two minutes.

Hmm - lots on NVA lizards about this AM Just for you (and for Ed), the Goddess of Periodicals reports Winchester (lower Shenandoah valley) got 3" of snow along with enough sleet to make a real mess.

BTW, I remember when they built Reston. It was WAAAY out in the country.

#100 semper gumbi

I spent four years making the commute up north. I don't miss it one bit.

I work from home now when I'm not traveling on business, so the weather doesn't bother me like it used to.

I didn't see your push pin on frappr.com before. But it looks like there are a couple more lizards over in King George county.

Narthern Baltimore is clear with bright sunshine. 33 degrees and the road snow is fading fast.

Just bad enough to make me say "Nope, not driving in that" at 0430 this morning.

950AM KPRC Radio tips on growing bananas in S.E. Texas.

#107 mike c.

Interesting thing about Reston...the entire town is basically a planned sub-division. It was developed by a guy named Roger E. Smith. I suspect (don't know for sure), that the name of the community came from his initials.

#85 christheprofessor -LOL! See my # 33 above.

flipflop

that the name of the community came from his initials.

Yup. That's exactly right.

:)

G'day from Down Under on a warm Sydney night

#57 Jewels etc

Wonderful news! I hope you adjust to working when the sun is shining and most important of all - don't forget the recipes! :-)

#113 miss trixie

heheh...some ego, huh?

#112 realwest

Heh. I saw this thread when I got up about 8 and thought, "Damn! Charles is up awfully early this morning!"

#114 aussiemagpie

Good morning!

How I envy your summer weather!

# 111 flipflop

Oh, it was the first pre-planned community in the US, IIRC. It was a very big deal indeed. Of course, it was out in the middle of nowhere. Back then, the biggest attraction at Baily's Crossroads was the pony ride ring on the SE corner. Times change.

#106 Beagle

Sorry, but I tend to agree with jetziger. I'm not digging a foxhole in my front yard yet, but I feel a certain anxiety every morning I pack my daughter off to school. The children of Beslan were massacred for their nation's rightful refusal to back down in the face of Islamist aggression and expansionism. The US has joined the right side in that fight, and barring any electoral catastrophies it will remain there for some time. I believe the home front will inevitably heat up as time goes on.

#119 rayparish

but I feel a certain anxiety

I'm familiar with the feeling going back quite a few years now. It all started when I realized my medieval history training was actually going to pay off in the 'modern' world.

It's called "getting it." When it happens, anxiety is the natural reaction. You get used to the "combat any moment" feeling, or you don't.

G'morning dead-threaders.

Charles tossed us a curveball with this thread.

BTW today's wakeup tune is on the other dead thread.

#121 AI

Mornin'!

#117 flipflop

Hi - yes it is lovely but when we were in the US last year - driving from Toronto to New York via Washington it was hot! And the humidity in Washington was like tropical Queensland! Such extremes of weather - we only have two seasons in Sydney - hot and humid, and cool to warm and not so humid. The only time I wear a coat is to the footy as it does get cool at night in winter

Perhaps this thread is actually dead, but on life-support...

#124 aussiemagpie

"to the footy?"

Translation, pls...

#108 Flip Flop

Ahh, the drive. I've been doing it since 2000. It continues to amaze me how much worse it gets every year. I had planned to retire this year but something came up and I can't retire until next year. On the bright side, it's another 2 1/2 percent. People ask me what I'm going to do when I retire and I tell them I that I don't know, other than I'm not making the commute north. The real unfortunate thing is that I have some prospects with Booz Allen, unfortunately, they're out of there Arlington office, not the Stafford office.

Oops, gotta go. Wife has to go to work and her car door is froze shut. It's been a pleasure chatting with you.

#126 ctp

I believe footy=footba...er...soccer.

aussie!

♪♪Good morning!♪♪

This one's for you! :D

While attending a marriage seminar on communication, Wally and his wife Carolyn listened to the instructor declare, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other."

He addressed the men, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?" Wally leaned over, touched Carolyn's arm gently and whispered, "Robin Hood, All-Purpose, isn't it?"

And thus began Wally's life of celibacy.

#127 semper gumbi

Drive careful!

Morning, AI.

#124 aussiemagpie

I relish hot, humid weather! It makes my swimming pool almost worth the money I spent having it built.

# 131 AI

Five cents says it's Aussie Rules Football.

#127 semper gumbi

Pour warm rubbing alky diluted 50% with warm water.

It will dissolve the existing ice and prevent refreeze.

In future spray the door seals with WD-40 or non stick cooking spray,wipe lightly with dry cloth.

The thin layer of oil will keep ice from sticking to the door seals.

Tips from a veteran of ice storms.

#122 Totallysirius

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

Back, door crisis at 127 fixed.

Aussie, My daughter has an opportunity to visit Australia for three weeks next Summer (ours). The trip starts in Sydney and then goes to the North coast. What is the weather in Sydney like around late June, early July?

Oh yeah, I really love your crook jokes.

#135 Mike

I love Aussie rules football

Now that's a man's sport.

#137 aussie

Thank you

Sorry I can't count high enough to tell you my real age.

:-)

#126 christheprofessor

To the Rugby league match or occasionally to the Rugby match, or sometimes to the Aussie Rules match - never to the SOCCER! (ugh)

#140 TS

Yes, it is a man's sport. As is hockey -- any game where the players are equipped with sticks and blades is a man's sport.

# 138 AI

Old expression, meaning it' a sure thing.

Sean II #59...A bicycle bomb! Can you get any "higher tech" than that ? I've got it! How about...exploding sneakers ?

flipflop

I relish hot, humid weather!

You and me both. It seems that every winter that passes is more colder than the previous one and I'm getting thin skin.

I have italian mediterranean blood and it needs warming in the winter, dagnabit.

#142 aussiemagpie

Thanks. So it's either rugby or Aussie Rules football...

Not a big soccer fan myself. When I was a kid, everybody played baseball, football, basketball, street hockey, sometimes lacrosse -- now it's soccer. I think it is part of the subjugation internationalization of America (like using periods instead of parentheses and dashes in phone numbers).

Funny - I thought Pro Bass Fishing was a man's sport.

#129 Miss Trixie

Hi and how do you do those musical notes - they're so cute!

LOL! Thanks!

A bad case of Denying Holocaust Denial in the Toronto Globe & Mail. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech in Mecca is covered in this report, yet for some reason the key sentence in which he denies the fact of the holocaust is editted out. I wonder why that is? Maybe the reporter, SALAH NASRAWI, could explain...

#149 Mike

Bass fishing is a man's sport,it uses sharp objects and a stick don't it?

re: aussie's #137

TotallySirius!
Happy Birthday!

I did not know, or I would have brought a gift :)

#134 flipflop

Yes cooling off in the pool - or even better at the beach in the surf!

You could always make your pool into an ice rink in winter...

aussie

Press the Alt key then 13.

♥ = Alt 3
♦ = Alt 4
♣ = Alt 5
♠ = Alt 6

:D

#146 Miss Trixie

I have italian mediterranean blood

As do I. My grandfather came from Termini Imerese, which is three towns east of Palermo on the coast of Sicily on this map.

Sleet producing some "bright banding" on Upton, NY radar. Newark has changed back to snow from sleet, Kennedy remains rain, LaGuardia remains snow. The rain /snow line is right through the middle of Queens!

For God and Country

The American Legion - [Link: legion.org...]

Show your support!

# 152 TotallySirius

And don't forget a kick-ass big old motor ! Well, awrite !

No explanation necessary but you may regard the seemingly innocent relationship between your Lazy Boy and the Fringed Ottoman in a different light ...

Furniture Pr0n

:P

Does Armageddon have a proper time and a reasonable price?

Interesting choice of words, Charles.

Armageddon (Original Hebrew: Meggido) is part of the territory Ademinajihanejidanad would like to see consumed in nuclear fire.

In Massachusetts, Otis ANG reporting mixed rain and snow, while Plymouth is snow, and Hyannis is rain!

Here's a hot tip for holiday travelers. When federal air marshals have fire-arms pointed at you and are telling you to "Get Down! Get Down!" that is not the time to make sudden movements toward your carry-on luggage...

"The officers clearly identified themselves and yelled at him to 'get down, get down.' Instead, he made a move toward the backpack."

Frankly this man's wife is an idiot for letting him fly unmedicated.

#135 Mike C

Hi there - did I read something where you will be in Q8 for months? Or was I seeing things -

and you've last 2 cents - we go to one Aussie rules match - a special match between the Sydney Swans and Essendon, a Melbourne team -

the other matches are Rugby League, but the MOTH is an ex Rugby player so we go to a few of those too - the Super 12 between teams from Oz, NZ and South Africa

Re my last post

"and you've last 2 cents " that was me speaking in an American accent - I mean lost!

Friday Joke time.

A socialist, a capitalist and a communist agreed to meet. The socialist was late.

'Excuse me for being late, I was standing in a queue for sausages.' he said

'And what is a queue?' the capitalist asked.

'And what is a sausage?' the communist asked.

ctp

Great map! My great-grandparents emigrated to Canada from Florence. I was really young then but I clearly remember them.

She was the typical italian madre in the black dress and hair tied back in a bun and a respectable girth, while he was content to garden, drink a little wine and use his cane to scare away the squirrels.

There was a lot of love from them is the most I remember.

A priest, a rabbi, a minister, and a giraffe walk into a bar.

Bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"

#148 christheprofessor -- "Not a big soccer fan myself. When I was a kid, everybody played baseball, football, basketball, street hockey, sometimes lacrosse -- now it's soccer. I think it is part of the subjugation internationalization of America (like using periods instead of parentheses and dashes in phone numbers)."

It's simply a great game. What I like about the USA's participation in it is that our national teams play against the best and in places, before opposing fans and under circumstances that no "dream team" pro sports player in any "American" sport would consent to. And our boys are starting to win, win at a game that is barely on the radar screen here. This is beginning to piss off the America-haters abroad with a passion that is white hot. Soccer was the one thing they always thought they could beat the USA at, and that is no longer automatically the case. We made it to the QuarterFinals in 2002, losing to Germany on a controversial goal and were their equal for most of the match. We're gonna win the World Cup some day, in our lifetimes.

You may not like the game as not everyone does, but stand behind our athletes that represent us in it. They are something to be proud of.

#138 American Infidel

Hi there! I love my footy! Especially as the blokes wear shorts and no body armour like your footy players!

Oh dear - it doesn't hurt to look no matter what age you are!

# 166 aussiemagpie

Well, I'm out of here in 5 days (MOL), but I have to come beck a time or two, and that should take me damned near until the end of June. Could be worse - had an e-mail today wanting me to do a project in Nigeria.

And drat, now I owe AI five cents.

#155 Miss Trixie

Thanks!

#8 TotallySirius

Oh yeah and I'm still trying to figure out why a country sitting on an ocean of oil needs nuclear power plants.

Unlike president-select Chimpy McHitlerburton, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cares about the Earth: Iran needs nuclear power because they don't want to emit greenhouse gases.

#167 AI

He or she said that INTIFADA does not mean UPRISING as the media have made it out to be...

I'd like to get to the bottom of that "filth" post as well. I know "Allahu Akbar" means "Allah is greatest" not "God is great" as we're led to believe. Just like "Islam is peace" actually means "Islam is submission."

I can't tell jokes, so this will have to do!

#170 Miss Trixie

My grandmother (whose parents came from somewhere in the southern boot of Italy) was a real sweetheart -- she died about 7 years ago at 96. I can't remember my grandfather, as I was less than a year old when he died. I do remember his brother and sister (Auntie Ida and Uncle Mario), she was sweet though scary (she always pinched my cheeks and marveled over my curly hair), he was a pain in the ass (he cut my hair and smacked me with the hairbrush if I moved)...

#172 CtP

A guy walks into a bar, and says "ouch!"

#171 AI

until "the Palestinian situation changes entirely."

Paging the IDF! The PA won't even think about step one in any of the surrender peace plans.

There was a question on Armenian radio for which there was no answer: If all countries became socialist, where would we buy grain?

===

What's the real ratio between the Pound, the Rouble and the Dollar?

A pound of Roubles is worth a Dollar.

===

'Who's your father?' the teacher asked Vovo.
'Comrade Stalin!'

'And who's your mother?'
'The Soviet native land!'

'And what do you want to become?'
'An orphan!'

Might I suggest our reply:

[Link: www.boeing.com...]

Video is RealPlayer.

Video of B-2 dropping 80 2000 lb GPS guided bombs.

Note the bomds dropped are dummies no explosive, pay attention toward the end it shows the accuracy, a hole in the bed of truck.

I almost miss the Cold War

#174 Stop Hillary

I can go along with that... I should rephrase and say it's not so much that I dislike the game (my nephew plays, I sometimes go to his games), I dislike how it seems to be replacing American games that our kids traditionally played...

#189 smit

Yeah, it was kind of nice having an enemy who didn't actually want to die.

#185 flipflop

Ted Kennedy walks OUT of a bar.
(Perhaps the most unrealistic, and therefore most humorous joke yet)

Ann,

Very funny. Apparently he wanted Chelsea to marry up.

You are telling us we can’t produce nuclear fuel, that we will give it to you.

Then how stupid are we?

"You can't make your own gun, because we think you'll shoot us with it. However, we'll give you your own gun if you promise not to make one of your own."

flipflop

A guy walks into a bar, and says "ouch!"

*groan*

#192 flipflop - Ain't that the truth!

Last one:

Describe communist business:

You steal a box of vodka and then sell it so as to have money to spend on drink.

#183 Ann

Timing is everything.

/Hope that young man learns

A horse walks into a bar, the bartender says "hey, why the long face?"

Sorry if posted earlier

ABCNews ran a poll in Afganistan after 4 years of US involvement.
Some of the results are amazing.

Yet despite these and other deprivations, 77 percent of Afghans say their country is headed in the right direction — compared with 30 percent in the vastly better-off United States. Ninety-one percent prefer the current Afghan government to the Taliban regime, and 87 percent call the U.S.-led overthrow of the Taliban good for their country. Osama bin Laden, for his part, is as unpopular as the Taliban; nine in 10 view him unfavorably.

Progress fuels these views: Despite the country's continued problems, 85 percent of Afghans say living conditions there are better now than they were under the Taliban. Eighty percent cite improved freedom to express political views. And 75 percent say their security from crime and violence has improved as well. After decades of oppression and war, many Afghans see a better life.

The rest of the results validate everything that the President has said concerning freedom and democracy.

Theref roe it will be downplayed by the MSM

(Rather surprised that ABC released the results)

Read it all here.

And did you notice that they hate Osama's guts?

#194 JammieWearingFool
#199 Scotch

So many suffer from BDS. This poor guy never heard of President Bush!

#177 American Infidel -- ""Women, including non-Muslims, are hereby advised not to go out of home without burqa. Seclusion has been made compulsory for you," said the statement in Bangla language, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Friday."

Like I say, "Wear the gear, live in fear."

#204 tfk

you passed your test.

you may now enter the blog.

#139 Semper Gumbi

Hi - Sydney in winter is usually mild - June and July are usually cool to mild with clear skies and not much wind It can get cold but only on occasional days and I reckon the temperature would be around 17 - 22C in these months with the occasional cold day where the temp may not reach above 14 - 15C. The nights can get cold especially in the outer suburbs but closer to the sea it is usually milder. We sometimes get frost but we didn't have any last winter

As all my relatives live in Europe they usually travel here in these months and actually go to the beach because for them it is warm!

Your daughter won't need too many winter clothes like you would wear over there - except if she's travelling south where it is much colder in winter

I hope that she has a wonderful holiday! And you are welcome to email me for information if you'd like - I could direct you to websites etc

#206 tfk

below your username and password is a line for email and URL.

one of the two of those on your screen probably has something in it. if both of those lines are empty, then your name won't be blue.

tfk

RE; the blue
Go into your settings, and clear/delete your e-mail addy.

#202 VIA

All it takes is a Soviet invasion, civil war, land salted with mines, grinding poverty, and a brutal Taliban regime. After all that, it's time to move on from the idiotic jihad.

Flip flop...a varition on that joke..

Three blondes walk into a bar...huh, you'd think one of them would have seen it.

tfk, take the email out of the box before you post and then post again.

taxfree will also be blue free

#141 Totallysirius

C'mon now - would you need a fire extinguisher handy if you put all the candles on your cake?

Damn. That's what I get for not refreshing. Fifty-eleven lizards beat me to the punch.

(seriously, it was 50-11. just ask Susan)

Sounds like tfk has been invaded by Smurfs.

Back to my post on the polls.

Take the time to actually read the results.
They are truely amazing.

I had a link to the actual PDF for the breakdown and the results were more dramatic yet.

[Toddles off to find link]

#215 dave the...

heheh...I like that one!

#148 CTP

I think it is part of the subjugation internationalization of America (like using periods instead of parentheses and dashes in phone numbers).

Or maybe because the period key is easier to reach? Trying for the dash I would often get a zero, which changed the number.

That doesn't happen when I miss a period.

(rimshot)

Another variation:

Two guys walk into a bar -- the second one feels really stupid.

*gasp*

It is FRIDAY!

and there's a rumor that it is going to be a happy friday

#217 aussie

Fire extinguisher? Hell no I'd need an airport foam machine.

The real answer to my age is the fourth root of 5306416

Stupid me,
There was a link right in the article

here.

Sorry.

#223 TenRing

I suppose that's possible, also. I like my explanation better, though...

#201

WTF?

See, this is why I was rooting (apologies to aussiemagpie) for Ahmadinejad in the last Iranian "elections". The mask is now COMPLETELY off.

#202 VIA:

ABCNews ran a poll in Afganistan after 4 years of US involvement.

Hey, look, noted political scientist Janeane Garofalo has assured us all that Afghanistan "is a disaster". Who are you going to believe, her or all those lying Afghans?

How many resolutions have passed on Iran?

Any of this familiar?

Could be a hot Summer.

ooops wrong #

My age is the fourth root of 5308416

According to the ArabNews CAIR & the ACLU is suing so Muslims can swear on the K'O'R'A'N in court, in N.Carolina - Anyone hear about this?

Debate Brews Over Use of Qur’an in US Court

WASHINGTON, 9 December 2005 — Here in the United States, witnesses taking the stand in a court of law traditionally are asked to swear to tell the truth — by placing their right hand on the Bible.

So when Muslims in Guilford County, North Carolina, tried to donate copies of the Qur’an for courtroom use, Chief District Court Judge Joseph Turner rejected the proposal.

Taking an oath on the Qur’an is not allowed by North Carolina state law, he said, which specifies that witnesses shall place their hands on the “Holy Scriptures,” which he interprets as the Christian Bible...

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union challenged the decision by the Guilford County Courts.

#226 TS

You're 50?

#232 TS

You're 48?

#235 ctp

Close

O R

Who are you going to believe, her or all those lying Afghans?

OOPS, you're right.

Forget the poll.
Afganistan is a quagmire.
Stupid little brown people are just too dumb to notice

/Sarc

#218 taxfreekiller

Hi and I'm glad you don't want to be blue today! It's much better being happy!

TS is 48! ;P

*spring chicken*

#236 ctp

You win the no-prize selected especially for you.

#232 TotallySirius:

My age is the fourth root of 5308416

Your age is the number 5308416 having sex four times in Australia?

#230 OR

noted political scientist Janeane Garofalo

She wears smart glasses now. That's worth an honorary degree at least.

#26 hutchrun

Symposium: The Death of France
[Link: frontpagemag...]

Great 4 person panel interview. Very intelligent discussion on the Islamisation of France. Thanks for the link.

Oh, and GOOD MORNING FELLOW LIZARDS!

#232 TS

48?

/thanks to my nokia 6230

Aussie...I see you're up partying early on Saturday!

{Aussiemagpie}

Good morning, and good day to all lizards.

#82 realwest

Curt Anderson, Associated Press found in Yahoo news, wrote the article quoted in #65. My conclusion is that the media would use this situation to hurt the air marshalls. For instance, another article available in Drudge does not mention the wife's profession and other details of importance.

Schade=too bad (what a shame auf Deutsch) meaning:

1. This incident is a tragedy that should have been prevented by those with prior knowledge of the situation. I would be troubled to find that it was in any way a set up for disaster.

2. Anne Buechner works for the Council on Quality and Leadership based in Towson, Md., a nonprofit organization focused on improving life for people with disabilities and mental illness.

3. Anne Buechner knew better than to have forced this situation. Anne Buechner is Mrs. Alpizar.

4. From the article I understood that Mr. Alpizar's wife stated that she knew he had not taken his meds before the flight, and that she had the meds in their onboard luggage bag. Instead of simply telling Mr. Alpizar to calm down, she could/should have asked the flight attendant for help (prior to, upon or after boarding), thus notifying the flight crew of her predicament rather than doing the sit and wait routine while Mr. Alpizar's agitation grew. She knew that he would not likely subside without help. (Irrational people under strain do not calm down merely on verbal command.) She was also aware of the ongoing terrorist threat (nothing new). It was her responsiblity to have called the flight attendant. Mrs. Alpizar professionally and personally knew what the ramifications would be beforehand. According to Mr. Anderson's article, she had the meds in her possession prior to boarding and while on board, knew that he had not taken them, and had not made the effort to make him take them even though she made him board the plane against his will.

5. Yes, it is a shame, a real tragedy. Mrs. Alpizar has my condolensces. Yet I feel more for Mr. Alpizar's tragedy since it was HIS life lost, not hers. Further, I would hate to see this situation manipulated by her, her employers' the Council on Quality and Leadership based in Towson, Md. (a nonprofit organization focused on improving life for people with disabilities and mental illness), and/or the media to hurt the air marshalls. Mr. Alpizar was having an obvious episode and she knew what could happen. Yet even while he was suffering, she made no precaution to help him or to prevent this tragedy.

6. I had a close person in life with like circumstance. It troubles me that a wife would let things get so out of control when she of all people had so much knowledge at hand. Schade.

#241 eschew

Tell my grey hair that.

Although it may have more to do with raising 5 kids than age.

Damned modern calculators.

I thought that would take longer than 30 seconds.

#226 Totallysirius

Oh dear - R..t?

A great dane standing in 6 inches of snow says to his pal, a dashund, "My feet are just freezing!"

The dashund replies "Buddy, you think you have problems?"

;p

Happy Birthday, Totally Sirius.

May you have many more and the health to enjoy them.

#226 Totally

Its ok.. you don't have to worry for another 2 years.

#251 aussie

I would like to point out that I wasn't the one who said 'the word'

Look for the Iranian presidential plane to have technical dificulties on the return flight from Mecca ...
/ maybe not ... but it would be a good opportunity for the IAF

AI

The Arabic meaning of Intifada is "shaking off" not uprising. So part of the other definition is true. The word itself doesn't contain "filth" from what I can tell. It's implied that the shaking off would be something bad.

#248 Mrs Beto

Do you have a link for the shooting article.

See, the VIA household is also based in Towson Maryland, and I think it's time to send a couple e-mails to a few local news stations.

#249 TotallySirius 12/9/2005 07:19AM PST
#241 eschew

Tell my grey hair that.

Although it may have more to do with raising 5 kids than age.

Wow...ya got my respect...We quit at 2 and that has been challenging enough.

#238 TotallySirius:

Sounds like it's time to start handing out the bumper stickers Mark Steyn is selling (scroll down a bit).

They read:

FREE IRAQ. DONE.
FREE AFGHANISTAN. DONE.
How's your Free Tibet campaign going?

#89 jetziger -With all due respect, should it come to our (US or Israel)using nuclear weapons against Iran
(and I SINCERELY hope that it does not), and our winning Afghanistan and closer to winning in Iraq than some people believe, your scenario is a little, well, silly. NO MUSLIM COUNTRY in the world can defeat the US Armed Forces; Russia and China are, to put it mildly, not overjoyed with Islam either, so I assume you mean a long drawn out war with "radical Islam". Not going to happen if Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan all wind up in our win column. That really only leaves Saudia Arabia (lots of money, very tiny military and a civilan populace not likely to go to war overseas for the Royal Family) Egypt, Syria and Indonesia as major sources of Islam fundamentalism or radical Islam. I'm not joking when I say US Armed Forces could take Syria in about a week, Egypt in about 2 weeks and Indonesia we just let sit there.
As for fighting on the home front, LGF has more veterans than most any other blog I can think of (myself included, combat Infantry, Vietnam) and I'd pity the poor radical Islamists who'd DARE try to invade this country.

#239 American Infidel, yes it says allah was more devious than those willy Christians. Made 'em think Jesus was crucified but according to allah, allah fooled 'em.

Still, an 83 percent favorable rating for the United States, and a 68 percent positive work performance rating, are remarkable — in sharp contrast to negative views of the United States in many other Muslim nations.

Hell, that favorable rating is probably higher than it would be in Britain.

Yet still we lavish money on repressive regimes that hate us (Egypt and the Palestinian Authority come to mind). I would have no problem diverting $2.5 billion in funds and loan guarantees earmarked for the Egypt and the P.A. to Afghanistan.

#260 Occasional Reader 12/9/2005 07:25AM PST
FREE IRAQ. DONE.
FREE AFGHANISTAN. DONE.
How's your Free Tibet campaign going?

ROTFLMAO!.!

#260 OR
LOL! Too funny!

WHOA. Like, I shouldn't have eaten those mushrooms. What happened to the LGF format?

#181 Beagle

"Allah" is simply the Arabic for "God". The usage predates Islam, and Arab Christians use the word "Allah" in their Bible.

English: God
German: Gott
French: Dieu
Latin: Dei
Arabic: Allah

#114 Aussiemagpie - hello! Please check your e-mail when you get a chance!

Whoops, no, it's back now. Anybody else get that? Or was it just my mushrooms?

You who imposed medical embargoes on nations that caused the death of countless numbers of people

If so why did you rush in there with islamic medicine. Mohammed provide solutions to all medical problems, right?

Sorry, I meant #238 VIA, not TotallySirius. I still blame the 'shrooms.

English: God
German: Gott
French: Dieu
Latin: Dei
Arabic: Allah

Ladies: CTP

/sorry

#260 Occasional Reader

Oh I have to get me one of those.

#233 smit

That's interesting because we already have Korans available in our courts for Muslims

This has been news today (yesterday) about one of those delightful "men" from Pakistan who gang raped some Aussie girls

He has changed his story so many times - firstly it was voices in his head now it's the culture. Because the girls weren't wearing Muslim gear, they were fair game - mongrel bastard

Anyway he swore on the Koran in court...

The culture made me do it!

#261 AI

billionaire Prince al-Walid bin Talal

...looks like a butt-ugly mob hitman with a tablecloth on his head.

Good morning kayawanee!

#268 Kenneth

That's not the point. The point is "greatest." I know Allah is Arabic for God. I refuse to make the association for personal reasons.

#268 Kenneth

#181 Beagle - "Allah" is simply the Arabic for "God". The usage predates Islam, and Arab Christians use the word "Allah" in their Bible.

I think he was differentiating between "Great" and "Greatest" as well. "Allahu Ackbar" literally means "Allah is greatest", rather than "Allah is great".

#273 christheprofessor 12/9/2005 07:30AM PST

English: God
German: Gott
French: Dieu
Latin: Dei
Arabic: Allah

Ladies: CTP

E_O: Ann Coulter

Good Morning Lizards and other rational life forms!

# 7

Oh for a time machine so that I could go back in time to off Mohhamed the pedophile prophet.

Dude, bad idea. You could end up stuck in timeless space like these poor bastards.

Swearing on the Koran in court?

You mean the same book that says all authorities except Islamic ones are illegitimate?

The same book that counsels muslims to lie and deceive if it gets them where they want to go?

Sounds like a great idea.

#243 Occasional reader

I'm laughing so much I've spilt my Friday Night Drinking Thread wine all over the desk and the keyboard! Very funny indeed!

#278 m

Good morning kayawanee!

And a pleasant, snowy, cold morning to you as well! I'm freezing my boogers off in NJ today.

Sounds to me that this is just another Muslim trying to talk his way into Hell and willing to take thousands of other Muslims with him. He should be accommodated.

Occasional Reader,

FREE IRAQ. DONE.
FREE AFGHANISTAN. DONE.
How's your Free Tibet campaign going?

I saw the local chapter of Amnesty International holding a "Stop Genocide - Save Darfur" petition signing and fund raising drive on my university campus.

I was thinking of holding my own fund raising drive: "Stop Genocide - Arm Darfur"