LOL

no weapons allowed?

Um how can the left peacefully demonstrate then.

And how will any real live palis be allowed to attend

You can't make shit like this up! Damn this is funny. Will they be procaliming her St Pancake on his day? LOL!

They're having a pancake breakfast to remember a girl who was run over by a bulldozer?

It almost sounds like leftist communion. "This is my body, smashed flat for thee etc."

Charles, LOL.

I may have awakened some neighbors just now.

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

Well, then I'm out.

Can I come as St Alphonzo?

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please. And at Dennys?

Hell yeah, I won't be there!

Read the comments on the indymedia post. They are unreal.

Where is our St. Pancake? She needs to get in on this.

BTW...I'd rather go to St. Alphonsos pancake breakfast.

A Rovian plot, perhaps?

We should send them "get well soon" cards en masse.

OT/
Chirac in terrorism plea to Saudi Arabia

Excerpts-

Jacques Chirac, the French President, called yesterday for dialogue to avoid misunderstandings in the wake of the uproar over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

.... M Chirac also insisted on the need to “respect the diversity of peoples, faiths and cultures” and to “link ourselves to values of tolerance”. “More than ever, we should affirm the values that provide the basis for our common existence,” he said.

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.

Dennys will be thrilled, I'm sure.

the first annual St. Pancake Breakfast!

too.fucking.funny

Charles - you're slipping, where's the standard St. Pancake picture?

That's the funniest thing I've seen all weekend.

Notice the assumption that they all have khefiyehs.

A pancake breakfast for St.Pancake? I really wonder if her parents know how she is referred to on this site.

Life is rich.

This would be a target-rich environment, at least for ridicule.

I just checked the date. It is now the 6^th of March (right coast)...otherwise it would be a great April Fools Day joke.

Can I have pigs in a blanket? Or would that be insensitive?

There's an event coming up in Oakland that I STRONGLY recommend people come out to protest -- if you have the guts:

Rachel Corrie Fundrasier in Oakland, March 16

Remembering Rachel Corrie
Thursday, March 16th 7:00pm
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
(formerly the Alice Arts Center) at 1428 Alice Street (cross street 14th), Oakland
(near 12th Street Bart, see Map)
Suggested Donation: $10-$20
See below for speakers and performers.
The International Solidarity Movement Support Group in Northern California invites you to join us at the third annual Rachel Corrie Memorial.
We will celebrate the life of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old ISM volunteer who was killed by an Israeli soldier while nonviolently resisting the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip in Palestine. The event will also honor victims of violence everywhere and those unjustly imprisoned. Its objective is to raise awareness to and make connections between various global and domestic issues of social justice particularly the issue of Palestine.
More information:
Call (510)236-4250 or email us.
We thank our sponsors for their generous support.
This event is accessible for disabled persons in wheelchairs.
There will also be ASL interpretation for the hearing impaired.
Speakers: Huwaida Arraf, Dolores Huerta, Maria Labossiere, Todd Chretien,
Kiilu Nyasha, Mary Jean Robertson.
Performers: Dennis Kyne, Stephen Kent, Ras K' Dee, Lorene Zouzounis, Andrea Prichett, Dave Welsh, Dabke Dance Troup,

The only reason I'm recommending it is that I can't make it, and won't be there, so at least someone can show up and let the world know this stuff won't go unopposed.

Calling all ProtestWarriors, SFV4I, and everyone in the Bay Area:

Be there or be square flat!

drop by with a fitting gift for the inmates. Pizza? Pita? Pancakes? Just slip 'em under the door.

/apologies to Denny's

Them Lane Bryant pictures are starting to bother me...;}

Sick, sick, sick! Pancake breakfast for St Pancake!

Here's that link for a free, downloadable "It's in the Koran!" Brain Surgery with Spoons!

A Hamas terrorist said openly that Rachel was worth more dead than alive. "'Her death serves me more than it served her,' said one activist at a Hamas funeral yesterday. '...Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs.'"

"There will be a reading of selections from Ms. Corrie’s letters and diary, followed by a ceremony at Topaz Park, where a stone cairn will be erected in her honour."

Heavy equipment for lifting Cairn donated by Catepillar.

Reality trumps fantasy every time.

I don't have a car. Can I bring my dozer?

He himself testifies that the bulldozer was moving very slowly-- plenty of time for him or another man to pull her out of its path when it became clear that (for whatever reason) it was not going to stop.

(This and my previous post need no additional comments, as they speak for themselves.)

Does everybody want to chip in and rent a D-9 to park in the parking lot ?

I hope somebody doesn't wheedle on the bingo cards in lieu of the latrine.

#12 gromster

I will go OT re Fwance: Torture and Death of Jew Deepen Fears in France

Two strips of red-and-white police tape bar the entrance to the low-ceilinged pump room where a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, spent the last weeks of his life, tormented and tortured by his captors and eventually splashed with acid in an attempt to erase any traces of their DNA.

The floor of the concrete room, in the cellar of 4, rue Serge-Prokofiev, is bare except for a few packets of rat poison, a slowly drying wet mark and a dozen small circles drawn and numbered in white chalk, presumably marking the spots where the police retrieved evidence of Mr. Halimi's ordeal.

Mr. Halimi, 23, died Feb. 13, shortly after he was found near a train station 15 miles away by passers-by, after crawling out of the wooded area where he was dumped. He was naked and bleeding from at least four stab wounds to his throat, his hands bound and adhesive tape covering his mouth and eyes. According to the initial autopsy report, burns, apparently from the acid, covered 60 percent of his body.

"I knew they had someone down there," said a young French-Arab man, loitering in the doorway of a building adjacent to the one where Mr. Halimi was held. He claimed to live upstairs from the makeshift dungeon but would not give his name or say whether he knew then that the man was a Jew. "I didn't know they were torturing him," he said. "Otherwise, I would have called the police."

But it is clear that plenty of people did know, both that Mr. Halimi was being tortured and that he was Jewish. The police, according to lawyers with access to the investigation files, think at least 20 people participated in his abduction and the subsequent, amateurish negotiations for ransom. His captors told his family that if they did not have the money, they should "go and get it from your synagogue," and later contacted a rabbi, telling him, "We have a Jew."

The horrifying death has stunned France, which has Europe's largest Muslim and largest Jewish populations. Last weekend, tens of thousands of people marched against racism and anti-Semitism in Paris, joined by the interior minister, Nicholas Sarkozy, and smaller marches took place in several other French cities, including Marseille.

In the wake of the riots that broke out in the immigrant-heavy Paris suburbs last fall, the case seems to embody the social problems of immigration, race and class that France has been facing with so much uncertainty. The emerging details raise deep fears of virulent anti-Semitism within the hardening underclass, and point to the decaying social fabric in which that underclass lives....

read rest of article..

The same POS that go to that St. Pancake joke would gladly do the same. She would have happily assisted.

Hat tip: ymeagain

Does oblivious sound right?

# 4 Mr. Steven Den Beste,

I wish to thank you and hope you are in good health these days. We are truly in the presence of greatness.

Perhaps as a "guest speaker" they can land Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar

Yes indeed, here we are!
At Rachel Corrie's Pancake Breakfast
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen
An' widdled on the Bingo Cards in lieu of the latrine
I saw a handsome parish lady
Make her entrance like a queen
Why she was totally chenille
And her old man was a Marine
As she abused a sausage pattie
And said why don't you treat me mean?
(Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, oooooh!)
At Rachel Corrie's Pancake Breakfast
(Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!)
Where I stole the mar-juh-reen . . .

#33 NYNANA

This story has been virtually ignored by the MSM. Can't cast the [bigoted word]s in an unfavorable light?

Sheesh. That's like fifty miles from where I live. No wonder I feel like putting three layers of concrete around the ol' Home. LOL

Did anyone notice that on the sidebar of this Canadian site it lists both Israel and Palestine? If you place your mouse over Israel it says "Israel" butif you place it over Palestine it says "Jerusalem"

One Rachel Corrie Special with Strawberrys and Whip Cream please!

Will they read from "The Very Hungry Catepillar"?

No bulldozers either.

Right?

Ooops, just woke up the wife!

Daaayam that funny!

This is one of the very few things I love about the Left. They are so irony challenged that they are a constant source of self parody!

This just about makes up for the OSU stupidity from last night.

UFB

-Drill

Remember: Only ten more days until the Patchouli Putsch.

I want my pancake with a big smiley face.

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black

Sounds like a fun group.

Yep.

Get on your feet and do the Funky Rachel!

OT #33 NY Nana

What a horrible story. I sometimes find it hard to believe that people can be so sick and twisted.

Oh the irony. Are they purposely trying to make us snicker so they can then say we're mean-spirited and insensitive?

Plus - no drugs, weapons or alcohol?! Who are they expecting to show up that they need to remind them how to behave?

Well I'm not gonna be there. Never liked pancakes anyway.

#22
I would go complete with my IDF T shirt, but that's the night of my Bible Study. Learning about the Almighty always wins out over making fun of those people.

I have a great recipe for Rachel Corrie pancakes. I wonder if they'd be interested.

Just noticed that Palestine anagrams to

Penis tale

Good morning lizards - it's a beautiful morning here in Israel and I see that there are pancakes for breakfast!

Paradise Now did NOT win the Oscar - which just goes to show that you should never give up - even if it looks impossible, it is always worth it to open your mouth and protest what you see as wrong.

# 47 Ringo

I usually wear black at all times when I'm not working.

Charles
#33 NY Nana

This is worth a thread. Not now, but to wake up to. This is really creepy, and shows Muslims for what they are: cowardly opportunists that enjoy the pain of others. Very sick.

#42 Ojoe 3/5/2006 09:28PM PST

Thanks for the wet keyboard!

Holy crap! Now THIS deserves to be made into a play.

Setting:

Run down Dennys. Three teenagers and several old bald men with ponytails sit around a sticky table. All wear keffiahs and black jogging suits. Behind them a mural of Rachel Corrie's face overlaying a pancake with the Latin characters IHOP written on a titulus over her head. They stand for: Iaceo-Humo-Oblivio-Praemo.

We need an American Indian to go in there and blow the place up and demand that the American occupiers leave their land. Then maybe they'll understand how assenine they really sound.

#38 bubbaman

For al-NYT, it is an amazing article. It is not a surprise at all re the MSM; just another dead Jew.

My friend sent it as she was in shock re the source. I guess they feel that they have to post one decent article once or twice a year.

I still feel sick to my stomach over the way he was tortured..and that the Fwench immediately said 'No Jew hate here, move along'...the same Fwench, who during the Shoah, said 'Take our Jews, please!' to the n***'s, and were complicit in the deaths of so many Jews. Why even one Jew still lives there? I have no answer.

And here ,in the 21^st century, we have the St. Pancakes of the world. I wonder if she ever met a Jew.

#49 gromster

What else can we expect from the cult of islam ?

One day Eurabia will wake up, but I fear it will be too late.

#56 pat

Thanks. I sent it to Charles a bit over 5 hours ago.

OT--Voltaire and Muslims

Blame It on Voltaire:
Muslims Ask French To Cancel 1741 Play

Wall St Jnl
March 6, 2006

SAINT-GENIS-POUILLY, France -- Late last year, as an international crisis was brewing over Danish cartoons of Muhammad, Muslims raised a furor in this little alpine town over a much older provocateur: Voltaire, the French champion of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

A municipal cultural center here on France's border with Switzerland organized a reading of a 265-year-old play by Voltaire, whose writings helped lay the foundations of modern Europe's commitment to secularism. The play, "Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet," uses the founder of Islam to lampoon all forms of religious frenzy and intolerance.

The production quickly stirred up passions that echoed the cartoon uproar. "This play...constitutes an insult to the entire Muslim community," said a letter to the mayor of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, signed by Said Akhrouf, a French-born café owner of Moroccan descent and three other Islamic activists representing Muslim associations. They demanded the performance be cancelled.

Instead, Mayor Hubert Bertrand called in police reinforcements to protect the theater. On the night of the December reading, a small riot broke out involving several dozen people and youths who set fire to a car and garbage cans. It was "the most excitement we've ever had down here," says the socialist mayor.

The dispute rumbles on, playing into a wider debate over faith and free-speech. Supporters of Europe's secular values have rushed to embrace Voltaire as their standard-bearer.

A debate on Swiss television last month degenerated into a shouting match when the director of the Saint-Genis-Pouilly performance accused a prominent Muslim of campaigning to censor Voltaire in the past. The two men also have traded insults in the French media.

Meanwhile, the name Voltaire -- and the Enlightenment tradition he embodies -- has frequently been cited by pundits across Europe commenting on the Danish cartoon furor.

"Help us Voltaire. They've gone mad," read a headline last month in France Soir, a daily newspaper.

Editors in France, Germany and elsewhere have explained their decision to reprint the drawings by pointing to principles enshrined in a statement often attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire said something similar, but the phrase was coined in 1906 by a biographer of Voltaire to sum up the French writer's views.

"Fanaticism," the play that stirred the ruckus in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, portrays Muhammad as a ruthless tyrant bent on conquest. Its main theme is the use of religion to promote and mask political ambition.

For Voltaire's Muslim critics, the play reveals a centuries-old Western distortion of Islam. For his fans, it represents a manifesto for liberty and reason.

#51 mjk
#22
I would go complete with my IDF T shirt, but that's the night of my Bible Study. Learning about the Almighty always wins out over making fun of those people.

Don't mean to be harsh, but if these people gain ascendancy, you won't be allowed Bible study any more. This is how the Left gained control of this country: while everybody was quietly indoors studying their Bibles, they brashly went out and seized control of the public discourse.

While you study your Bible, the very places you're reading about are being taken over by Muslim supremacists, aided by these ISM tools. Would you rather read about Bethlehem, or save Bethlehem?

It's not just "making fun of these people," it's trying to publicly shame them so they can't so openly and successfully raise money to send to Hamas to drive the Christians and Jews out of the Holy Land.

Nite all. Off to dinner. Beef Stew with hot rice. .

Hey Charles - I think you need a clean up on Aisle
#112 of the Beach thread (posted here cause I thought you might actually see this here on the latest thread.

Sh*t, what's next? A Rachel Corrie Edition Caterpillar tractor.

This is so ironic it's downright magnetic.

"No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please."

LOL. LOL. LOL.

I'd like my pancakes rolled out extra flat, please.

#33 NYNana

including the French-Iranian woman, whose first name is Yalda.

Hmmm...

The bait's name, in Hebrew, "yalda" means child.

Fitting for crowd she runs with...

This is slightly OT, but very interesting. Hamas is worried about a "hostile takeover" by a new Shiite terrorist group in Gaza.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

They think that Iran and Hizbullah are trying to move in on their turf.

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.

If that dosen't make you look like a bunch of radicals, what will. I'm sure the Denny's management will be thrilled with this bunch.

When you go to the front page you get:

"Vic IMC TIME OUT
IMC Victoria is taking a time-out to regroup and rebuild

There is a good chance something interesting will happen here. Sit back and watch. In the meantime, please understand if you see something loathsome in this space, it is a merely a reflection of some loathsome individual's thoughts. Get over it."

Looks like some kind of a set-up to me...

front page

#63 kay1212 3/5/2006 09:49PM PST

"This play...constitutes an insult to the entire Muslim community,"

THIS is an insult to all 'slimes:

"Allez vous faire enculer chez les imames, salles especes de pedes(philiaques)"

;-)

Oh, and I seriously almost spewed when I read the indymedia site...

Is it "pita", "pieta", or "pizza" that they're trying to convey with this?

#4 Mr. Den Beste, yes it does sound like communion. Especially the reference to her "precious body".

I'll have to gas up the dozer for a little drive by.

#28 Mike C. . . .

Reality trumps fantasy every time.

These five words summarize all the wisdom that I've acquired in the past few decades. As a reader of science fiction, no matter how outrageous fantasy is--reality is even MORE outrageous.

Knowing this will help one get through all kinds of crazy times.

ROTFL!

Charles, you just made my day!

#71 Alkmyst

I missed that...boker tov! Those yeledim need to be sent for some pancakes with 72 burned raisins.

Seriously, there will be more Jews in Fwance ,G-d forbid, who will meet his fate, if they do not leave quickly.

#78 Promethea--my post . . .

An example of reality trumping fantasy--in Chicago on Caldwell Avenue there used to be a Ghengis Khan restaurant, i.e. a family Chinese restaurant named after one of history's most vicious mass murderers (wantonly destructive in terms of killings and gutting of thriving cities and irrigation projects).

Does anyone doubt that in 50 or 100 years, if not sooner, there'll be a family German restaurant in an everyday location called the Adolf Hitler?

Wild, uncontrollable laughter in 5,4,3,2,1...

Ahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Bwa-ha-hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Ahhhhh-hahahahahahahahahahaha!
Aughhhhh-hahahahahahahahahaha!

Pancake breakfast...Rachel Corrie...I'm dying over here!

It's funny the kind of thing that put a smile on your face.

NY Nana:

Our MSM has been all over the abduction/torture/rape of the pretty young lady in NYC (sounds like they may have their man though). Its so wrong that this poor fellas plight has rec'd. so little attention. Can't help but wonder "why" ?

/duh...

#81 Promethea
Does anyone doubt that in 50 or 100 years, if not sooner, there'll be a family German restaurant in an everyday location called the Adolf Hitler?

There already is one, if I recall, in Korea -- the Hitler Bar, or some such. Charles posted about here it way back in the day -- 2003 or thereabouts. I remember it, vaguely.

A family friend went on a business trip to Germany in the '80s and found himself in a small restaurant in the Bavarian mountains, and after all the other foreigners had left, the old owner woman came out from the kitchen and asked, "Have they all gone?" The patrons looked around, didn't notice my friend as a tourist, and said, "Yes, they've all gone!" So the owner then went over to a Bavarian snowscape painting on the wall, and flipped it over to reveal a portrait of Der Fuhrer! Everyone shouted a quick "Siegheil!" and went back to eating.

Did I mention that this friend was Jewish?

#80 NY Nana 3/5/2006 10:17PM PST

Seriously, there will be more Jews in Fwance ,G-d forbid, who will meet his fate, if they do not leave quickly.

From what I understand, real estate inquiries from Fwance have spiked in the past few weeks...

They may be (somewhat) French, but they ain't stoopid...

gotta bounce...

mmmm... I'm thinking some nice maple syrup, although the Saint (pressure be upon her) is one pancake I'd never eat

/ewwwww

#4 Steven Den Beste

They're having a pancake breakfast to remember a girl who was run over by a bulldozer?

It almost sounds like leftist communion. "This is my body, smashed flat for thee etc."

#76 Jim C.

#4 Mr. Den Beste, yes it does sound like communion. Especially the reference to her "precious body".

Moonbat communions? "Precious body"? Urk... what's next, some sort of Mother Gaia Earth-Goddess midnight séance?

Smashed flat for thee... LMAO!

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs...

Mine's at the cleaners. I'll just wear my "declear the crudase and unite" t-shirt.

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

Oh, they'll be provided at the site? Cool.

The Public is invited to a memorial pancake breakfast at Denny's Restaurant on Douglas Street near Finlayson, 10 am

Sorry, but I'll still be dozing at that time.

REALLY BAD. Sorry, I couldn't resist posting that at LeftyMedia.

I wonder the owner of that Denny's. Many of the 24/7 breakfast places (IHOP's, etc.) in Memphis are Palestinian owned, operated and staffed.

They do not like questions on nationality, what it's like over there/here, etc...

#85 zombie

A family friend went on a business trip to Germany in the '80s and found himself in a small restaurant in the Bavarian mountains, and after all the other foreigners had left, the old owner woman came out from the kitchen and asked, "Have they all gone?" The patrons looked around, didn't notice my friend as a tourist, and said, "Yes, they've all gone!" So the owner then went over to a Bavarian snowscape painting on the wall, and flipped it over to reveal a portrait of Der Fuhrer! Everyone shouted a quick "Siegheil!" and went back to eating.

Did I mention that this friend was Jewish?

Leaving, what a great idea.

Sounds like the roadhouse in From Dusk Till Dawn...

_{Although that should be 'til, not till, as it is short for "until"...}

#84 leftover54

One guess! Are you in NY also?

As I said, it was only a dead Jew; the torture, etc., he was put through? I cannot say what I am feeling. The words would get me in trouble. His family now must live with this for the rest of their lives.

#86 Alkmyst

mmmm... I'm thinking some nice maple syrup, although the Saint (pressure be upon her) is one pancake I'd never eat

/ewwwww

She ain't kosher, dude. I know it is not nice to speak ill of the dead ,but when someone like St Pancake comes along?

Re the Jews in Fwance? They cannot leave soon enough, and I am glad that they are waking up.

I soon will say layla tov!

(Hat tip: IDF Dave.)

Turn up your volume.

Would love to go to one of those Rachel Corrie memorial pancake things.

Loudly call out to the server: "Hey waiter, bring me out another stack of Rachels' and bring some blueberry sauce with 'em!"

#95 JonB

Would that be a Short Stack?

Made pancakes on the weekend. One had something like Rachel's likeness on it. Thought about selling it on eBay, but I fed it to the CAT instead.

#87 Rayra

So true...somehow bringing up ones' children to be homicide bombers is reprehensible...here they would be considered child abusers and also molestors.

The way that boy was murdered? My 4 kids are all at least 10 years older...and to think of how he was tortured? If my kids wonder why I am hugging them tighter when they come over, it will be because I realize how blessed we are to be in this country, and they are not targets...and the suffering of his parents? Unimaginable.

Fwance still has, IIRC, the largest Jewish community in Eurabia, but that will not be a fact much longer.

Will they have a "MoonsOverMyHammy" special?
BLT's all around!

Boycott Dennys

#94 freedomplow

G-d bless President Bush; that is so hard to listen to; we are a bit over 6 months from the 5^th anniversary.

I can never forget, as I see the empty space ,whenever I forget not to look when we go over a bridge....

In my mind, I still picture him speaking with a bullhorn to the emergency workers, and how brave he was to actually be there, in the open...

Big bucks for the person who shows up sporting one of those ' Hi, My Name Is ' tags filled in with ' Saint Pancake '.

#78 Promethia

G.K. Chesterton said:
"Fact is stranger than fiction, because we create fiction to suit ourselves."

I like to say that the reason 'Truth is stranger than fiction' is because it has a better author.

Israel 'plans to annex West Bank colonies' in response to Hamas

Israel: Russia vows not to harm our security

FM mullahs fill the airwaves with hatred

France to sign pact to develop Libya's civilian nuclear energy program

Jennifer Tilly chooses poker over Oscar parties

/cats and dogs living together

Good morning lizards,

it's almost 0900hrs here in Malta - and I just figured what I'm gonna have for breakfast - when I stop laughing that is!

Mwahahaha ('insensitive' laugh)
deepdiver

Boy, this "living in an alternate universe" stuff is getting harder to do everyday. Reality is beating out my making-it-up-as-I-go-along world ... hands down!

I guess it won't be biscuits for breakfast today...

#105,kb

The last link will make a cute desktop for a day or so, thanks....

#108 gonzo,

Good thing 'Nam Grunt knows how to make pancakes! ;-)

#110 LOL

If they're Corrie cakes, I hope he picks out the gravel!

Crêpes, anyone?

HOTCAKES!

But what made it a more volatile act was that by declining for now to offend with the play, the theater violated the most sacred principles of our artistic temples.

Those principles are: Thou shalt offend, thou shalt test limits, thou shalt cause controversy. If there is an artistic orthodoxy in the West, it is that good art is iconoclastic and provocative, and that any pull back from this orthodoxy is cowardly and craven. In this distended context, the New York Theater Workshop's act was heretical.

Pot, meet kettle.

Oy! Denny's is not halal!

Thanks Charles! I needed a good laugh to end the week.

j

Perhaps Rachel Corrie memorial committee was infiltrated by a lizardoid with a sense of humor.

Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup!

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Whew... as long as its not an IHOP.

I like IHOP.

Well, no fruit cup for me, then. Sorry - had a meeting that ran late (surprise, surprise). Good morning, dead thread.

The Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakfast? Good god that's a hard act to follow...what's could possibly top that? The Uday and Qusay Hussein Memorial Turkey Shoot? The Sheikh Yassin Memorial Barbecue?

No......I'm sorry.....this takes the (pan)cake

Good morning, people.

What's on the agenda today? :-)

I'm making truck rental arrangements for Saturday and taking my car to the body shop to have the front bumper component replaced (ran over truck tire tread last week).

hiya nonic!

Your day sounds much more exciting than mine.

:-)

Yassir Arafat Memorial Blood drive, maybe....?

/still nothing

nonic

Well, glad to hear you're getting the trucking arranged, anyway. What did you do RE the furniture situation ?

Oh, lol. Another St. Pancake thread. Very amusing. I must say.

Hi, {littleoldlady}
Hi, Mike :-)

Re trucks, we decided to rent two cargo vans and borrow a friend's pick-up. Major advantage is RELIABILITY and cost will be good.

Re furniture, moving in without any. Ha, ha. It'll be fun.

I HAVE a dining table, so I plan to get the plastic deck chairs now and use those until I get the real chairs. Will buy mattresses and have those delivered on move-in day.

So, everybody will have something to sleep on and to sit down to eat on. It'll work.

(Already have had some trouble with LGF preview-post-load. And I have something I want to put up. So, let's see if I can do that.)

Am I the only one having technical troubles with this site today?

On WSJ editorial page today....

Babies Win Wars, by Gunnar Heinsohn (professor of sociology at Bremen University)

Talks about European population decline versus muslim population growth, gives some interesting historical data going back to the 1400's. Interesting statement about that....

Throughout the 1400s, outbreaks of bubonic plague and pressure from conquering Muslim armies reduced Europe's population to 40 million from 70 million.

“Pressure from conquering muslim armies”? What sort of "pressure" was that exactly, hmmm?

Concludes with....

In some ways, the faster Europe collapses the better it will be for the U.S., whose chances of defeating global terrorism would improve by a panic-driven influx of the Old World's best, brightest and bravest ready to strengthen it economically and militarily.

The alternative to the terrorism of the Islamist [second sons] will not be peace but -- as it was for their "Christianist" predecessors in Peru, Mexico and India -- conquest. Terror is merely conquest's little brother.

#127 littleoldlady

Nope.

Whew! As long as it's not just my computer!

#128 nonic,

“Pressure from conquering muslim armies”? What sort of "pressure" was that exactly, hmmm?

Death pressure. You know...the pressure you have when you're trying to stay alive and people are hell-bent on killing you.

# 126 nonic

Perhaps that's for the best. I'd recommend that, regardless of style, you buy quality furniture. Well-made and durable stuff, that is. Better to camp out for a while until you can get that done properly than to rush into something that costs just as much and turns out to be less than optimal. Not to mention, you have to be in a room for a while before it becomes obvious to you what might work best. At least it does for me.

# 126 nonic and # 127 littleoldlady

The site is acting a bit funky from here, too.

According to Drudge, a foreign company manages Indianapolis International Airport – including responsibility for law enforcement. [Link: www.drudgereport.com...]

The same company, BAA International LLC, owns and operates seven airports in the United Kingdom including Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports serving London.

#132 nonic,

I think they're Brits. (I would have posted the link I found but it threatened to roger the page, so I refrained. Enough problems already!)

Well, hell - time for some food. Haven't had any Indian in a long time, so perhaps that. Back in a bit.

Morning Youse'all from "cool" (32 degrees) and about to be sunny, New Yor City!
What's this chatter I've read about the site acting
funky?

#131 Mike

"Better to camp out for a while." That's what I figure. Plus, I HAVE TO wait, anyway, since I'm going to use a withdrawal from my pension (part of divorce settlement) to buy furniture, and WON'T have that till probably the end of the month.

Re quality.... There's 2 kinds of furniture I want to buy. Some that I figure I'll be using the rest of my life, 20-25 years? (my bedroom, living room) and some that will be used by adult sons who will be out and on their own in a few years.

For them, I'd like to get stuff that's good enough that they can take it with them when they leave to start out with, but obviously I'm not going to sink major bucks into stuff that they may not want to keep.

MSNBC: Hillary Clinton 'unaware' of Bill's Dubai ties

Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute.

But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife.

Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.

Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.

#135 {realwest}

Hiya, bud.

I had some early-on trouble, but it seems to be okay now.

#138 nonic - morning back atchca! This is just a drive by posting, as I'm still sleeping as I type this! ALl your puter problems seem gone now? And I think Mike C. said something about he was having trouble too?

So they had these Oscar thingies last night, huh?

List of winners from USA Today

The only pics I saw were Narnia (best make-up) and Penquins (documentary).

I did buy Walk the Line (best actress), on its way from amazon. Boy, they brought that out fast.

I see that Robert Altman got an honorary. They must be expecting him to die.

Robert Altman did one of my favorite pics Cookie's Fortune and another that I like very much Gosford Park.

Hmmm - talk about a "Dead Thread"! Well then, back to my pre-breakfast nap - hope to see youse'all later!

#139 realwest

Yeah, I'm driving by, too. This whole week I have to be more industrious and get ready for the move on Saturday.

Yeah, computer seems okay now. I don't know what happened to littleoldlady. She said she had problems, and now where is she?

littleoldladeeeooooo!

When Mike goes off for brekkies (or din-din, whatever his time zone), I wish he'd at least leave us his socks.

You yodeled?

Frankly, I'm glad Mike took his socks with him.

Trying to screw my head on for the day and [ALREADY] forgot my first few tasks. That's what comes from waking up at 1:30 (for no reason).

I understand keynote speakers Jack Flap and Suzette Crêpe will be appearing.

There will be a reading of selections from Ms. Corrie’s letters and diary, followed by a ceremony at Topaz Park, where a stone cairn will be erected in her honour.

forgive my ignorance, I had to look Stone carin up...

Uh Oh...Paws In Parks Topaz Park could be a problem, a big pile of rocks in park area where:

As part of a one year pilot program, eight parks in Victoria now have distinct areas and times to exercise licensed dogs off-leash. The Paws in Parks program has been developed to balance and accommodate the needs of all park users, including dogs.

Topaz, Oswald, Arbutus, Victoria West park, Alexander, Redfern, Gonzales Beach and Clover Point to Dallas Road at Douglas Street have specific areas and times for dogs to exercise off-leash provided they remain under their owner's control.

we all KNOW what will happen there.
A Rachel Corrie memorial where Ψ piss be upon her Ψ will be forever true...
-- DRG --....
;>P

Bah! Any self-respecting Caterpillar could knock that stone cairn down.

/thanks for looking it up, drg. too lazy myself. ;-)

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.

i enjoy eating pancakes in the nude,
not her,
me.

pancakes and near beer,
support the palislime people.

# 12 gromster

Hey, Chirac, those values that provide the basis for our common existence are WESTERN values.

Are you saying our values our superior to theirs? That they should adopt our values? I call cultural imperialism!

Here's the appropriate attire for the meal service.

Transportation will be provided by Spatula City.

Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.

Yeah,
they added a bedroom.

#151 tigger2005

I used to feel guilty when I felt that America and Western values were superior, as if I was a snob or a bigot.

Now, older and wiser, I proudly say, yes, our values ARE superior. Our values recognized the worth of each person and create a society that strives for justice, freedom, and peace. It allows dissent and creativity, and rewards each according to his achievements.

No, we're not perfect and sometimes fall short of our goals, but our goals are in place.

I wonder how many will order bacon or ham. Or will they abstain out of respect for their Muslim overlords?

152 Powderfinger

Are they wearing Michigan green,
Spartan hats.

roflol.

Protest at UNC this morning.

Against political correctness.

UNC-Chapel Hill student leaders said that Monday's protest is aimed at the reluctance of the university to label Friday's incident as an act of terrorism.

UN watchdog meets on Iran in Security Council prelude
Sun Mar 5, 2006 06:37 PM ET By Mark Heinrich

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog's board of governors meets on Monday to weigh Iran's snub of calls to curb nuclear activity, opening the way to possible U.N. Security Council action over concerns Tehran covertly seeks atom bombs.

Bawahahahahha...
-- DRG --....
;>P

Oh wow.

Irony surrenders.

ann 158

mohammed was a good guy.

"I think (what Taheri-azar did) is extreme," said Dan VanAtta, a friend of the suspect. "But then again, I don't know what was going through his head. … Mohammed was a good guy."

his SUV (saudie urban vehicle),
filled with muslim gas,
ran over the kids,

and will be used in his defense.

No weapons? How can you peacefully demonstrate without weapons?!

And am I allowed to wear my Hamas headband with my black ski-mask and kaffiah?

And will there be American and Israeli flags provided for burning, or is it a BYOF event?

I think that Denny's is slated for demolition that day, to make way for an interstate bypass.

The Caterpillars will be there at 10 a.m. sharp. Will the Rachelites lie down in front of the restaurant to prevent the bulldozing, like Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" ?

#158 Ann

UNC-Chapel Hill student leaders said that Monday's protest is aimed at the reluctance of the university to label Friday's incident as an act of terrorism.

The poor man was just acting out his feelings. We just need to understand him better.

/there, did I do it right?

Hey, I got some of those Jimmy Dean Skillets you suggested. Haven't tried them yet, but they look good.

#155 Goddess

Consider also, Western fine art and serious music. And literature. Our art and music, from the Medieval period, the Renaissance and after was often (usually) based on glorifying the Judeo-Christian God.

Today, regardless of one's opinion about the religious motivation, who will deny the sheer beauty and genius of Mozart, Michaelangelo, or Milton or Donne, which were an expression of Western values (belief in the Judeo-Christian God).

Where and what is the islamic equivalent?

Too funny!

Croatian Serb leader Babic commits suicide in jail
Mon Mar 6, 2006 07:07 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Former rebel Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic has committed suicide in jail in The Hague where he was being held to testify against another top Croatian Serb, the U.N. war crimes tribunal said on Monday.

The tribunal said in a statement that Babic was found dead in his cell at the U.N. detention unit on Sunday evening.

"The Dutch authorities were called immediately. After conducting an investigation, they confirmed that the cause of death was suicide," the statement said, adding that Tribunal President Judge Fausto Pocar had ordered an internal inquiry.

The tribunal did not say how Babic had killed himself.

-- DRG --....
;>P

No doubt shot himself in the head...3 or 4 times.

Hey ! What the hell was all that trash talk about socks earlier, hmm ? Sounds like clothing bigotry to me. I am offended ! A fatwa upon you ! Oh, and I want lots and lots of money, too. Them Mogolian hookers ain't cheap, you know. But we sock puppets are not extremists, nor are we venegeful. $ 50 million ought to do it (small bills, please) , and we will trust you to slit your own throats in repentance. Oh, and a couple cases of brewskies wouldn't go wrong, either.

How many memorial ceremonies have to include the message "no weapons, drugs, etc"? Unreal.

I think this deserves some photoshop submissions by astute LGF members.

an article from the seething leftist dram queen drama blogging from Iran:
Collision course with the West?
Monday, 06 March 2006

News from Iran: Attempts at the weekend to avert a crisis ahead of Monday's meetings of the International Atomic Energy Agency have come to nothing.

As diplomats meet in Vienna, a referral to the UN security council the likely outcome. All this week Channel 4 News comes live from a country seemingly on a collision course with the West.

Sandwiched between Afghanistan and Iraq with nuclear Pakistan and Israel beyond, its alleged aspiration for an atomic bomb has huge implications for a region where the West has invested unparalleled political, economic and military capital.

And as the world's second highest oil producer, sanctions or any military action will impact across the world.

As enrichment continues apace South East of here at the Natance nuclear facility, Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum joined pro-nuclear protestors today at the burial place of the father of the Iranian revolution Ayatollah Kohmenei.

The President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was supposed to be there too, but failed to make an appearance.

a target-rich enviroment no doubt kept him away !...
-- DRG --....
;>P

# 177 SlothB77

Well, put it in context, or at least the weapons part. I don't think the Denny's management would appreciate a traditional Palestinian memorial service, with lots of automatic weapons fire. Takes selling one hell of a lot of pancakes to replace the entire roof, you know. On the other hand, I have no bloody idea what the objection to alcohol and drugs is about. No BYOB ? Bummer, dude.

#169

O, most Merciful Puppet (lint never be upon you), unworthy as I am, I implore you (may sweat never soil your holiness) to see that this submissive one desired your presence (#143).

It was that evil infidel (at #145) who so arrogantly and ignorantly dissed your greatness. (And where's her burka, huh?)

----

Did you ever notice how often muslim whiners complain about Western "ignorance"? Incidentally.

#171 SlothB77 3/6/2006 04:41AM PST

How many memorial ceremonies have to include the message "no weapons, drugs, etc"? Unreal.

all of the flyers for the Sunday Morning Harley rallies I attend have that statement ..
-- DRG --....
;>P

Good morning, lizards! Well, doesn't this article peg the irony meter? I really needed the laugh today.

I don't remember who was here the other morning when we were discussing Kennewick Man, but Time magazine's cover story this week is on that very topic: Rediscovering the New World. The link takes you to a summary on CNN; for the full article, you have to subscribe (or shell out 3 bucks at the newsstand, as I will).

Ah, the dead thread can always be a source of merriment to start my day!

And the Oscar for best terrorist front mouthpiece goes to.....

-drumroll....

"Brokeback Pancake"!

or shell out 3 bucks at the newsstand, as I will).

Or have your librarian daughter bring it home for free! :)

/I do have to give it back, though.

#169

NO WAY, HOSE-AY! No steenkin' sock is gonna talk to me that way!

Put up your...um...FABRICS!

Uh, Charles ? What's up with the site this AM ? Earlier in the dead thread, people were reporting problems. And it keeps hanging on this side of the globe as well, so it's not just some individual PC problem. Inquiring minds want to know.

Bill Levinson pointed this out...

International Solidarity Movement distributes Rachel Corrie cards

The International Solidarity Movement is using an intelligent propaganda distribution system that deserves examination and possibly imitation. The Palestine Solidarity Movement is now distributing Rachel Corrie cards for people to distribute in their communities.

There's already plenty of photoshopped stuff around - maybe someone could deliver a short stack of cards there?

/"I'll trade you the flag burning card for that one with the steamroller from PDM..."

There are some very interesting comments following the press release.

When you are more useful to your friends dead than alive, it is time to find new friends QUICKLY.

...

The Palestinians have a track record for using their own people for suicide missions without their knowledge or consent, so why not kill Rachel Corrie as well?

1. "Sending Children off to die." In March 2004, Palestinian terrorists gave 11-year-old Abdullah Quran a shrapnel bomb (without his knowledge, which emphasizes the importance of never accepting any kind of package from a stranger at an airport) which they could detonate by remote control. Israeli soldiers saved the innocent boy's life by finding the bomb but the lesson is clear. Palestinian terrorists are willing to murder Muslim boys by using them as unwitting bombs, so they're obviously willing to kill infidel American women if that will help them make propaganda.

2. "World Watch" by Ian Black (The Guardian) reminds us of this one as well: " Looking back to 1986, to the case of a Jordanian called Nezar Hindawi, some curious parallels emerge. Hindawi duped his Irish girlfriend, pregnant with his child, into trying to board an El Al plane at Heathrow with a bomb he had secretly hidden in her luggage."

3. Conclusion: Rachel Corrie, a female and an infidel (and therefore worth little more than a domestic animal to many Islamofascists, noting that Saudi law values a Christian female at one-quarter the value of a Muslim male) was expendible. The only remaining question is how much of a role the Palestine Solidarity Movement had in "expending" her.

That comment is followed by this somewhat self-aware comment

I know that Corrie got flattened like a pancake by a Killdozer, but is this real? this seems way way way too funny to be real.

#181 Mikey,

Yeah, it's happening again. (All my good come-backs to Socky got chewed up in cyberspace.)

SHHHH! Charles is still asleep!

Good Morning again Youse'all!
Hey Mike C. - just sent you an e-mail about this;
FINALLY got LGF to open and it looks funky too.
BTW, since it's only about 5:07 AM Charles' time,
I don't think he's gonna be awake to help out just yet.
SO how's things in the PRC?

# 180 lol

Watch it, old lady. You have no idea of our powers. Or our numbers. Think back for a moment to how many socks have mysteriously vanished from your laundry, eh ? Where do you think they all went , hmm ? We could overwhelm you and your ilk from sheer weight alone, never mind the horrible smell. Socks Ahkbar !

#158 Ann - Hi Ann (if you're still around)! Yeah forget ALL the evidnece, goodness me we can't have any bad karma against terrorism at UNC Chapel Hill, now can we?
I Would've sworn this would't happen in North Carolina; guess I was wrong.

# 185 realwest

Got your e-mail. Things have been a bit dodgey RE the LGF connection this AM, as noted by several folks above. Don't know what's up with that. Yeah, I know it's early for Charles, but I figure he might just scan these dead threads for stuff adresed to him, so best to notify him that things seem to be less than optimal. Everything is just (Peking) ducky here in the PRC.

Palestinian leader shows a softer side of Hamas
BY DION NISSENBAUM
KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS

GAZA, Gaza Strip -- Had Israel's quarter-ton bomb been a bit bigger, Ismail Haniyeh might have gone down in history three years ago as a minor Hamas figure killed in a surgical strike aimed at the militant group's leadership.

Instead, the fisherman's son who survived attempted assassination, exile and imprisonment has emerged as the softer, pragmatic face of Hamas as it moves into power.

enough to make you choke on your pancake...
Bwahahahaha !......
Ψ peanut butter upon him Ψ
-- DRG --....
;>P

" to celebrate the life and untimely death of Rachel Corrie, Peace Activist with the International Solidarity Movement." How the hell is ISM gonna celebrate without guns, alcohol and drugs? I mean, really.
Maybe they believe in a new form of martyrdom - eat at Denny's 3 times a day until your arteries harden and you get what doctors like to call a "cardiac event"!

RE # 188

Cripes ! Go to take a leak and the stinky little bastard is answering my e-mail for me !

#188 Mike C.'s Sock Puppet -"Everything is just (Peking) ducky here in the PRC." AHA! What have you done with Mike C. heh? He would never make such a horrible pun. Where'd I put that Tide with bleach alternative...I'll get Mike freed from the clutches of this sock puppet of his!

Cripes ! Go to take a leak and the stinky little bastard is answering my e-mail for me !

That's a sock puppet for ya!

# 190 realwest

Oh, come on - that's a bit harsh. Okay, I'll give you the drugs and alcohol, especially the drugs. But let's be honest - most of those folks wouldn't know one end of a gun from the other.

#186

DARN you, Socky! I'm going to RINSE your mouth out with CLOROX. You keep AGITATING me like that and I'll introduce you to the SUPER HEAVYDUTY CYCLE of violence. DRYER men than you have tried and failed to CLEAN my clock.

/You messin' with The Queen of Laundry? Ha. Next stop paint-rag!

(You know, we could also try to IRON out our differences...)

#189 dustyroadguy 3/6/2006 05:17AM PST
Corrected link to:Palestinian leader shows a softer side of Hamas
my bad ...
-- DRG --....
;>P

Good Morning Dead Threaders!

The Arab parties are running for the Israeli Knesset on an Islamist platform.

Hamas and the PA are 'upset' that there is a new Shi'ite radical group that is taking hold in the PA-controlled territories.

Think there's a connection?

#195 littleoldlady - whoa someone woke up fiesty this morning, didn't she? Paint Rag - gack the ultimate thread to a sock puppet!

;>)

# 195 lol

Oh, good God ! Don't tell me you iron socks ! NOBODY is that A-R !

#197 Carl in Jerusalem - You Have to be kidding us:
" But the Islamic turn here has alarmed a coalition of Zionist parties, which narrowly failed last week to have the United Arab List disqualified from the March 28 elections for advocating the creation of an Islamic state in Israel."

Please say I misread your blog. PLEASE!

#199

Ohhhhhhh! Did that scare you? GOOD!

/I do have an iron. Lord only knows where it is...

Ooh ! I see John Bolton called a spade a spade. Again.

No drugs and alcohol, of course. Hamas would't approve.

But does "no weapons" include bomb belts? What about the ones the Hamas kids wear at rallies?

I think I'll go to St. Alfonso's pancake breakfast instead.

DARN you, Socky! I'm going to RINSE your mouth out with CLOROX. You keep AGITATING me like that and I'll introduce you to the SUPER HEAVYDUTY CYCLE of violence. DRYER men than you have tried and failed to CLEAN my clock.

/You messin' with The Queen of Laundry? Ha. Next stop paint-rag!
(You know, we could also try to IRON out our differences...)

Heheheeh. Just the thing to get me off to work in a good humor. Accreditation team on campus all week, so it's going to be a pain for the next few days. Wish I could just call in sick all darn week.

Good Morning!

# 201 littleoldlady

What is this "iron" thing you speak of ?

Good Morning Lizards. Hope everyone had a nice weekend.

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

When that has to be part of the announcement, you know you are dealing with a very strange group of people.

I recently bought some pancake breakfast tickets for a boy scout fundraiser in town here. I just checked the tickets and they are for March 12th as well. I find the contrast striking of the two events striking.

I also find the tribute for Corrie interesting.

There will be a reading of selections from Ms. Corrie’s letters and diary, followed by a ceremony at Topaz Park, where a stone cairn will be erected in her honour.

More fitting would be a cement slab in the shape of a pancake, next to a dunce cap.

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

What good are pancakes without beer?

Good Morning {All}!

Tiger Woods gets a $ 3,000,000 US "appearance fee" for playing in the Dubai tournament. Is there a doctor, cancer researcher or any other really useful person in the world that makes $ 3 mil for simply showing up for a week ? I think not. Mind you, I don't blame Tiger for taking the $ 3 mil - he'd be nuts not to. But it strikes me that things are just a wee bit distorted here.

I thought alchol WAS a drug...

#204 Bob's Kid,

Doesn't sound like fun. :-( Good luck!

G'day from Down Under

Funny and strange thread discussions elsewhere today/yesterday -

But I'm glad I'm here with the Night Shift on this Tuesday early morning! :-)

Realwest - you wont' credit this - your reply went through to Michael's email not mine even though it was sent from my address His Outlook is playing up so I only managed to open it earlier today before work

Isn't that the strangest thing? Must ask a computer expert here why this could happen

#206 Mike C. - I too have heard of this iron thing, but not in conjunction with say, jeans or a sweat shirt, much less SOCKS?
I think your sock puppet is in deep water here, my friend - hot, deep water!

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!

*gasp* *gasp*

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!

Whew!

*wipes eyes*

Boy, I sure needed that first thing on a Monday!

Where I stole the margarin...

Mike C-

All professional athletes make too much money, and it's hard not to blame any of them for taking what their given. At least Tiger is a guy you can let your kids look up to.

So what day is it, anyway? Monday or Tuesday?

Either way [verybigsigh] I'd better get moving [muchlargersigh].

Good day, ALL!

{Peacekeeper!}

OT: 'We never thought it could happen in New York'
Sunni group’s slurs at annual Shia procession seen by some as ominous sign of religious friction

Istafa Naqvi of Dix Hills was stunned to see the small knot of angry young men waving placards as he and several thousand fellow Shia Muslims walked along Park Avenue in midtown last month in their annual religious procession.

"Enemies of Islam!" one man shouted at the group. "Kaffir," yelled another, using the Arabic word for infidel.

Many of the Shia flinched as they got close enough to read the signs carried by members of a fringe Sunni group called The Islamic Thinkers Society. "Shia are NOT Muslims!" said one. "Shia is made of superstitious elements of Judaism," declared another. Police moved in to break up a shoving match.

"We never thought it could happen in New York," said Naqvi, president of a Shah E Najaf Islamic Center in Brentwood. "In other countries, yes. But not here. We've had this procession for 20 years without any problems. It is very worrying."

Just looked at LGF for first time this morning. I successfully avoided strong desire to laugh out loud so as to not look psychotic to the office.

Rachel Corrie Pancake Breakdast.

Pass the strawberry preserves!

#213 aussiemagpie - I'll credit it ok (meaning believe it, yes?) but you better check with either your ISP or your e-mail provider, somehow e-mail is being sent to one e-mail addy and is being bounced to another; you sure you or Michael didn't set it up for your e-mail to be forwarded at some point for some reason and have forgotten to turn the forwarding device off?
ANYWAY - how are you doing lil roo - how's your daughter coming along with the diagnosis?

This is gotta be a joke? Are the moonbats that dense that we would turn this into mocking fodder on all blogs....

Pancakes and muz-zies....hmmm....probably need some of their thousands of victims blood as ingrediants for the batter....be especially halal then....

/sarcasm off

Good Morning {Chopped Liver #2}!

# 200 realwest

What do you think you misread? Last week, a coalition of Zionist parties tried to have the United Arab list disqualified as a racist list. They failed. That should not surprise you. The only party that has ever been disqualified from running in the Israeli parliamentary elections on the grounds that it was 'racist' was Meir Kahane's Kach party (and its progeny).

******

Question for all of you on the pancake breakfast:

I hope they're going to be serving chocolate chip pancakes. Otherwise, it'll be racist....

/ducking

#220 LSD - Holy guano! DIX HILLS? That's out in Suffolk county, Long Island (about 40 miles west of NYC) and is a neighborhood of mostly VERY upscale housing and well to do residents!
Frickin' Islam is everywhere you turn these days.

#210 Mike C.

Tiger Woods gets a $ 3,000,000 US "appearance fee" for playing in the Dubai tournament. Is there a doctor, cancer researcher or any other really useful person in the world that makes $ 3 mil for simply showing up for a week ? I think not.

How would you go about changing this situation?

#214 savage station

I hope that **** is roasting in Hell on a spit slowly with an apple in her mouth. And woe be to the one who spout off praises to her in my presence.

While you use much stronger language than I would, I have to agree with your sentiment.

#225 Carl in Jerusalem - I mean, how can Israel have a Taliban type Islamic party running in elections? That's almost a suicide wish.

# 218 W-lover

All evidence I've seen seems to indicate that Tiger Woods is a relatively decent human being. So is the guy that picks up the trash at my house every week. In any case, I would hope my children and grandchildren can look up just a bit higher than people who play with balls for inspiration. I hope I have influenced them to the point where they might at least consider doing something of actual importance with their lives. Show biz (and that includes sports) is the froth that floats on top of real life.

WooHoo!
The WSJ reports this morning (subscription required) that a municipal cultural center in a Saint-Genis-Pouilly, France, revived a 265 year-old play by Voltaire, "Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet". The play uses the founder of islam to lampoon all forms of religious frenzy and intolerance.Local Muslim activists demanded that the performance be cancelled, but Mayor Hubert Bertrand refused to back down and called in police reinforcements to protect the theatre. A small riot broke out, several dozen "yoots" torched a car and some garbage cans.
I guess there a a few real men left in Fwance. Vive le Mayor!
Also (unrelated to above)
Happy Michealangelo's birthday and

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!

Doesn't sound like fun. :-( Good luck!

It ain't!

Happy Monday everyone, except Mike and Aussie and anyone else for whom it is Tuesday!

At the Indymedia website we read,

We will never forget the day that an Israeli bulldozer battered and crushed your precious body.

I thought this story contains waaaay too much much irony to not be a joke but apparently it is true.

#222 realwest

Yes I'll ask the provider Ozemail today

And Julie is still in hospital - had a lumbar puncture yesterday, she's having a colonoscopy today and on Thursday she's having a test i'd never heard of - she swallows this little capsule which is like a camera - sounds very science fiction to me

Then she has three days to start cortisone and methotrexate treatment and settle into a regime

So hopefully she'll be out of there by early next week

Thanks for asking after her - :-)

She knows about all my nightime friends on LGF!

#201 littleoldlady

I do have an iron. Lord only knows where it is...

Well, it ain't at my house. Haven't seen the iron here since October. I do remember using it just before my daughter's wedding. (Thought I'd better spruce up a bit for that.)

Good morning everyone.

# 229 3 wood

How would I go about changing this situation ? What, somebody died and left me in charge ? I'm not trying to change anything. I'm just expressing my contempt for those that think playing with a ball is something worth attention and money. But hey - if that floats your boat, by all means...

#237 aussie

Oh my - your poor daughter! I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers.

#224 W-lover

Hi Chopped Liver #2!

Didjahaveagoodweegend luv? :-)

#231 Mike C-

I agree that there are better people than athletes & celebrities our kids should look up to. But Tiger shows kids that hard work & dedication can pay off...that's not so bad. That's a better message than they'd get from, say...Terrel Owens.

Most kids look up to their parents, but if they're not going to look up to Mom & Dad they should look up to someone who's been humble in the face of success.

Good Morning All!

Fabby weekend, even with the 2 inches of snow!

American Infidel ~ Good Morning neighbor!

Aussie-

I did have a nice weekend. You?

# 234 Bob's Kid

Nah - just Monday evening here.

#207 3 wood: On the interstate this morning I saw a vanity tag that said 8 iron. Was that a relative of yours?

#234 Bob's Kid

Hi to you on Tuesday!

Only 4 more work days

Aussie ~

Oh dear, what a rough week ahead for your daughter (and you). I'll pray for things to go smoothly and for good news all around.

# 242 W-lover

Who is Terrel Owens ?

237 Aussie

This is your daughter? The camera is similar to an EGD (esophogeal gastro pyloro-scopy) or somesuch. The camera can get pictures of the small bowel,which is something like 23 feet long, and is very difficult to get a good look at. Wonderful innovation.

Sounds like a tough week. The colon prep is a bear, but the test isn't bad.

Prayers for your family......

On Saturday, I got an invitation to a local Republican fundraiser event. They also printed a request that I not bring in drugs, alcohol and weapons. Must be a trend.

#237 aussiemagpie

on Thursday she's having a test i'd never heard of - she swallows this little capsule which is like a camera - sounds very science fiction to me

I think you might mean this Smartpill

#240 mama winger

Hi and thanks so much!

I'll let her know -

And only a couple of weeks till your son gets home?

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

LOL!

...but the pancakes will be laced with pot in corrie's honor.

I haven't went through all of the comments, but even if it has been posted earlier, it won't hurt to link to it again.

Don't forget The Other Rachels.

My Name is Rachel Levy
Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy, 17, of Jerusalem, was one of two people killed when a female suicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem.

My Name is Rachel Thaler
Feb 27, 2002 - Rachel Thaler, 16, of Ginot Shomron died of wounds suffered on February 16 when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a pizzeria in the shopping mall in Karnei Shomron in Samaria, bringing the death toll in the attack to three.

My Name is Rachel Levi
Feb 14, 2001 - Sgt. Rachel Levi, 19, of Ashkelon, was one of 8 Israelis killed when a Palestinian crashed a bus into a crowded bus stop at Azor junction, south of Tel Aviv. It was the deadliest Palestinian attack on Israelis in four years.

My Name is Rachel Gavish
Mar 28, 2002 - Rachel Gavish, 50, of Elon Moreh was one of four members of the Gavish family killed in Elon Moreh, when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the hilltop community near Nablus, burst into their home, and shot them shortly before 9 P.M.

My Name is Rachel Charhi
Apr 4, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, died five days after being critically injured in a suicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

My Name is Rachel Shabo
June 20, 2002 - Rachel Shabo, 40, of Itamar was murdered along with three of her sons when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire.

255 bonz

Hey, yeah. That's the ticket.

#210 Mike C. - It's not just the Tiger. I mean, baseball players hitting .240 getting millions of dollars a year; pro-football players DEMANDING big raises coming off what was at best a mediocre year;
Professional sports and steroids etc. etc. etc.
The idea is NOT that it's athetics, not a bunch of grown (?) men being paid huge bucks to play a frickin' GAME, it's all about Entertainment.
If you saw or blogges the Oscar's from last night, that's really all you need to know. IF a George Clooney can make money for a studio, BIG money, then he feels HE deserves big money too. I'm not saying enteratinment isn't importantant to society, but when you realize that a NYC first year police officer (not a probabionary officer, a real one)makes $21,000 per year (with significant raises in years after) then you look at what Tiger received, you know we all collectively have our heads up our asses. A ticket to see a Movie in a "cineplex" (you know one of those sorta large living rooms?) here in NYC is $10.00 TEN BUCKS to see a flic?
Our entire society has its values waaay out of whack.

Speaking of sports, sort of, Kirby Puckett from the Minnesota Twins is in critical condition following a stroke he suffered yesterday. He's only 44 years old.

I wonder if Caterpillar T-shirts will be allowed? Caps?

Not to nit-pick, and not knowing internal Israeli politics, but "The only party that has ever been disqualified from running in the Israeli parliamentary elections on the grounds that it was 'racist' was Meir Kahane's Kach party (and its progeny)." is inaccurate, in that I though 'Kach' was an abbreviation of 'Kahane Chai', or "Kahane Lives", which I can't see being used as a name for a political party while the founder was still alive.

I always found it kind of interesting that proto-al Qaeda's first attack in the US, the first in a series of related attacks that culminated in September 11th, was Rabbi Kahane's murder.

#239 Mike C.

I'm not trying to change anything. I'm just expressing my contempt for those that think playing with a ball is something worth attention and money.

Just curious if you had a constructive suggestion.

#248 doppleganger

On the interstate this morning I saw a vanity tag that said 8 iron. Was that a relative of yours?

LOL. Not that I know of. But an 8 iron is a great utility club. You can chip with it, hit a normal short iron shot with it, or play it back in your stance and play it like a 5 iron. Sometimes I use a light carry bag and carry about 7 clubs, the 8 iron being one of them.

OT, but this seems to be the active thread.

Annan wants U.N. to consider outsourcing

I understand they want to outsource the Human Rights organization to North Korea; Worker's Rights to China; religous freedom to Saudi Arabia, and Atomic Energy to Iran.

Oh. They already did that.

Mike C-

Terrel Owens...played football for The 49ers & Eagles...Egomaniac...

#256 aussie

30 days till his leave. Dang, I better start buying the beer. And maybe clean this place up a bit. :)

W-lover ~

Good Morning ~

Most kids look up to their parents, but if they're not going to look up to Mom & Dad they should look up to someone who's been humble in the face of success.

Indeed.
I'm always awed by excellence and accomplishment and a little strutting is fine by me, but humbleness and gratefulness sure is lacking in this ol' world.

#258 m

Thanks for posting that. I'm going to save it.

mama winger-

Yes- We're all praying for Kirby up here.

[Les once again rolls out of bed and proceeds to read the morning dead thread.]

# 165 nonic

Where and what is the islamic equivalent?

Let's kill infidels, yeah, yeah!
Let's kill infidels, yeah, yeah!
Let's kill infidels, yeah, yeah, yeah!

/silly

Maddog44 - you gave me an idea!

Someone needs to encourage people to show up wearing Catapillar t-shits and signs that simple display the photo of delicate St. Pancake.

No words - just stand there at the Denny's window - looking in.

#245 W-lover

I went to a wedding down the coast on Saturday - about 1 1/2 hours from here

And Sunday I spent the day at the hospital with my daughter - watching footy replays and eating her choccies that she's not allowed to eat :-)

#268 ChicagoBlue

Speaking of humble sports heroes, two of my faves are Ernie Banks and Ryne Sandberg.

I saw Ryno's speech last year as he was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and it brought tears to my eyes.

Omri Sharon's calendar discloses corruption in Kadima Achora

Attendees are encouraged to wear their keffiahs, and to dress in black.

No weapons, drugs, or alcohol please.

But I always bring weapons, drugs & alcohol to a pancake breakfast! My only question is, can I get bacon with my flap-jacks?

Good morning all & sundry lizards...

FWIW, and whether it's fair or not, Tiger Woods and a few other golfers gets appearance fees for some tournaments, as it's a means of increasing attendance.

I've been to several tournaments where he's appeared and it's a mobscene wherever he goes; I prefer to follow some of the lesser known names on the course to avoid being trampled.

I did happen to drive his mother to the course last year; a very nice lady.

When they told me I was picking up Mrs. Woods, though, all I was thinking of was the Swedish bikini model he's married to.

#250 ChicagoBlue

Hi - and thanks for your thoughts and prayers

They are very much appreciated