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Free Israel From Islamism, Occupation, Whining Schmucks on the Dole, Terrorism.

Have I missed anything?

This really isn't all that surprising. Brandeis is no different than any other LLL Northeast college campus. Why should it be different just because it was founded by Jews? If you tell me that Yeshiva University has demonstrations like this, then I'll be surprised.

For those who didn't follow Charles' first link, what you're missing in this story is that the 'student' who prepared this 'art exhibit' is a 27-year old Israeli.

Kevin Montgomery of Brandeis has lost his ever-lovin' mind. Israel, recognize Hamas? A terror organization that openly states it wants to wipe Israel clean off the map?

I suppose Mr Montgomery's next editorial will tell us that we must now recognize bin Laden and Zarqawi as heads of state.

/spit

How appropriate, they're walking in circles.

From the end of my blog post on this subject:

The real question that's not being asked here is how a young Israeli Jew can develop such hatred of her own people and her own country. For those who don't yet know the answer, please allow me to suggest that you read the first 100 pages or so of Yoram Hazony's The Jewish State.

Mr. Justice Brandeis (after whom the university is named) is probably rolling over in his grave.

I dated that chick in the red on the bottom when I lived in Boston.

The dealbreaker was when she told me she wouldn't make out with me unless I grew a beard and wore a kaffeyah.

So would these self hating jews have been siding with the nazis and marching themselves into the ovens?

Self hating jews make me sick.

Do us actual jews a favor and renounce your judiasm.

He's been taught that everything that America and Israel wants is WRONG.

I think it's called

INDOCTRINATION

/disgusted and signing off

# 11 logger phd

Which 'chick in red'? The bottom picture or the one above it? (I'm not sure the one above the bottom qualifies as a 'chick' - she looks a little old for that term - but that's a different story).

#6 Carl in Jerusalem
And why should it surprise you or anyone else that the person who prepared the "exhibit" is an Israeli? Being a self-hating Jew is not a prerogative of the Jews in Galut. Brandeis is no different from Harvard in that respect and some Israeli Jews are no different from their American brethren who go on founding ISM...
And I agree, when we see this in Yeshiva University, we'll really be up the creek.

#12 Pegcity:

I think I saw pictures of a rally about Jews who "renounce" their right of return to Israel.

I think Nazimedia advocated such an action as well.

What's tragic is, those traitors won't have any place else to go if they REALLY need that right of return.

FWIW, the Hoot is not Brandeis' official student paper and there seems to be some dispute about it.

They can't even spell Baal-istinian properly.

Losers of the world, unite! But I am of two minds on this. Should it be easier to defeat them in detail, or is it the case of accelerating their collapse by merging into one more-rapidly-failing mass?

Um, this is barely a protest by any standard but a few morons who think they will make a difference by standing outside a Jewish school, thank goodness aswell it doesnt look like the students are the ones who are protesting but the teachers. There are always a few nutcases in our mists and these "protests" move the Erev Rav on one side and the Hebrews, The Maccabees on another.

Even so, for those that have not heard him, Here are some amazing Meir Kahane audio mp3s, know the man, learn the ideology of what it truly means to be a Jew, a supporter of Eretz Yisrael.

[Link: kahane.hostultra.com...]

#4 CiJ

C'mon man, give me some credit! ;-)

Oops, that's #14 Carl in Jerusalem ^^^

(Next time I copy and paste like usual)

# 15 ymeagain

Did I say I was surprised? Anyone who's gone through a faculty publication list of any of the universities here (with the possible exception of Bar Ilan - and even there there are some) cannot be surprised about the existence and virulence of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish Israelis.

But I thought that the nationality of the exibitor was relevant to LGF's lizards.

# 16 Dayenu

And if it comes down to it, we all know that Israel will let them in, so their 'renouncing' their 'right of return' is meaningless.

What really surprises me is that there is no counter demo anywhere in sight. Even though we live the communist republic of Massachusetts, we do have a very active pro-Israel community and I am absolutely floored not to see any signs of them holding Israeli flags or signs or anything. Had I known, I would have been there as a one-person demo (not the first time, and I have a flag!)...

# 24 ymeagain

I doubt that the 'demonstration' was announced to anyone other than the 'demonstrators' in advance.

But at least they're relatively tame (and covered up!). Not the kind of demonstrators you see in Zombie's pictures.

# 20
Kahane was a crazy ass demented lunatic Jew who founded the JDL, a terrorist organization . I always jump down fellow Jew's throats when they identify with the man who inspired so many Jews to hatred against anyone who isn't Jewish (especially Arabs). No hard feelings though, just remember that we're all human beings on this planet.

In addition, half of these people in the protest are either fat, old or bald. They feel like they are contributing to society, but in reality are making themselves look like dumb fools who couldn't get dates, so came to a loser rally instead...

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About the Brandeis paper editor saying that Israel should renounce violence and recognize Hamas...

and he has a college education? Are they teaching logic?

Maybe not anymore!

Excuse me, but Hamas does not recognize the State of Israel and never will...Hamas wants an ISLAMIC state of Palestine...never mind the secular Palestinian state envisioned by the Fatah...

I meant PROPAGANDA...

Those evil US military. No better than the Islamofascists. {rolleyes}

I couldn't resist following the links in The Hoot to other ouvre of the author of the article quoted by Charles. He is a real winner, this guy! from praising Castro's Cuba bike progam to this pearl: A Memoir of a 'Goy' at Brandeis

what an unbelievable schmuck!

That is exactly one of the reasons why "iLi" (I like Israel) was founded. We had a very successful "Israel-Day" yesterday and the German TV-Channels joined in.

The JP wrote wrote about "iLi" (sorry for posting the whole article, but the lgf-link-function is not available):

Wir Lieben Israel!

Leo Sucharewicz likes Israel. A lot. And he wants others to join in his enthusiasm for the Jewish State.

For the past four years Sucharewicz, a communications psychologist, together with his colleagues who work under the name 'I Like Israel', have been promoting Israel and Israeli interests all over Germany.

"Our target is to bring one million people into the street in Germany for Yom Ha'atzmaut," states Sucharewicz, "[in order] to protect Israel with a very powerful demonstration, to improve its image, to bring more tourists, to defend Israel with one million flags. Israel is not alone, Europe is behind her."

Working diligently to create global consciousness about Yom Ha'atzmaut - Israeli Independence Day, Sucharewicz managed to bring 50,000 Germans together in 20 different cities last year. This year they hope to double the number of participants to 100,000.

What began in Munich as a way to promote Israel's hasbara (PR) efforts in Germany, Sucharewicz and his team of Jewish professionals in marketing and project management developed a 'strategic concept' with Israel Day ceremonies at its core.

This year their unique campaign, which takes place on May 4, will stretch to 44 cities across Germany including Munich as well as Berlin, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Koln and Frankfurt. And, for the first time, the event will also be held in 10 additional cities outside Germany including Vienna, Zurich, Basel, Copenhagen and Miami.

"At exactly six in the evening, there will be a countdown and two things will happen," explains Sucharewicz. "Each city will be linked via a special network so that everything happens simultaneously. "The public will sing the Stevie Wonder version of Happy Birthday together and they will also release blue and white balloons into the air."

The biggest celebration will be in Dusseldorf, where the Jewish community graciously donated a lump sum of 10,000 Euros towards the event.

"In Berlin mayor Wowereit will address the crowd along with Israeli ambassador Shlomo Stein."

Several political dignitaries will be in attendance and most cities' processions will be lead by their respective mayors.

The 'I Like Israel' campaign shows no signs of slowing down as preparations are already in the works for 2007. London, Paris and Stockholm are among several major European capitals slated for next year's event.

"According to our forecast," predicts Sucharewicz, "in 2010, there will be 200 cities worldwide celebrating with us, including Tokyo as well as cities in the new EU countries including Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest and Prague."

"We almost initiated an Israeli Independence Day celebration in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia!"

And how is Sucharewicz and his crew of media experts able to fund such a grand project?

"We are financing everything out of our pockets," says Sucharewicz, who volunteers his time to work on the event. He has not received any support from the Israeli government in spite of his efforts to promote Israel. Still, Sucharewicz is persistent and has hope for the future.

With over 180 organizations taking part in the event, Sucharewicz sees a convergence of opposing parties, all united in their support for Israel.

"You can see youth organizations from the Conservative party working in harmony with their Social-Democrat party counterparts, something which is very unusual."

"Nothing like this has ever happened in Germany before," confesses Sucharewicz.

"We've succeeded in launching an ideological bridge between regular German citizens and Israel. We must defend Europe's democracy, humanism and freedom and this movement must begin from Israel."

ymeagain, Carl in Jerusalem

This is not the Brandeis I remember when I was a kid, and IIRC, it was founded in 1948, the year the State of Israel was declared, as if that should have been neccesary.

My Hebrew School, at about grade 7 or 8, went to Brandeis to see David Ben Gurion zt'l speak. It was outdoors, and we sat on the grass.

Why or how this could happen I can only attribute to the L³ malaise that seems to have infected academia...Waltham has caught it from across the Charles, it would seem, from Harvard and MIT.

#25 CiJ

But at least they're relatively tame (and covered up!). Not the kind of demonstrators you see in Zombie's pictures.

And thank G-d for small favors! I would love to see more pictures of these morons just to see if I recognize any from the roving "peace" demo that gathers on a major intersection in my town for the last 3+ years; they gather in time for the end of the Shabbat services and try to engage every Jewish passer-by in a very annoying, harrassing way. Jeff Jacoby, whom I see occasionally walking to his shul, must be taking alternative rout back in order to avoid them; at least I never see him on the way back. My 12-year old walks back in constant fear that I will tell them off (thus causing her a major embarrassment).

Hi NY Nana... what are doing up so late?
:)

Pro-palestinians at a School with strong Jewish roots?

Sad but not as shocking as the pic I saw on yahoo news of a bunch of thugs giving the nazi salute...in Russia!

ya know, that country that defeated the nazis at the cost of 25 million people

Strange, strange times

#24 ymeagain

Even though we live the communist republic of Massachusetts, we do have a very active pro-Israel community and I am absolutely floored not to see any signs of them holding Israeli flags or signs or anything. Had I known, I would have been there as a one-person demo (not the first time, and I have a flag!)...

Incredible...and I noticed the spelling on the signs, at least 1 of them, was about at the right level for the mentality of the protestors.

Your part of the area is where I would have expected people to make it known...could it have been quietly arranged? I doubt it..but you would have been the perfect protestor, even as a committee of one.

I wonder what their Commencement will be like. Chumpsky going to be the speaker?

1
islam means peace in the same way war means peace in 1984. I know you were kidding, but many aren't.

#35 ymeagain

You are asking me that? ROTFL.

Past your bedtime, young lady! Whoops, it isn't even 2 AM yet.

# 34 ymeagain

You must live in Brookline. Where is this 'roving peace demonstration'? When I was there last summer (I grew up in Boston; my mother passed away last summer and lived in Brookline for the last six years of her life), there were all these nut cases with hurricane lanterns almost every night on the corner of Beacon and Washington. Is that what you meant? I walked past them and started humming Kumbaya...

# 36 restitutor orbis

I saw something yesterday about neo-Nazis in Israel. Russian goyim who came here under the 'law of return' (but since I didn't blog it, I don't recall where it is...).

A distictly bovine looking bunch.

#37 NY Nana

I wonder what their Commencement will be like. Chumpsky going to be the speaker?

Don't know about him, but they are apparently conferring an "honoris causa" degree on Tony Kushner - see here

all I know, I would rather my other kid goes to UT Austin (where the first one is now on the board of "Texans for Israel") than to Brandeis University close to home - Austin is weird, but not that weird.

In defense of the morons:

Honestly, they know not of what they speak/protest. If these idiots are anything like the college kids I deal with on a daily basis - they haven't got a clue and academia makes damn sure that they never will. Along with the MSM of course.

Some of them are older than college kids you say?

Yep. But in our society, we no longer expect anyone to grow up. Nanny state bullshit.

Gee, aren't those white chicks pretty, I can't wait to see their heads, stuck on sticks.

One good thing, they will forever never breed again.

I've been to Brandeis a few times...

On the one hand, this surprises me because Brandeis is Jew U. You'd think somewhere in there are enough folks of the Hebrew persuasion, who would take offense to a bunch of fools effecitvely calling for the destruction of Israel, that you'd be shouted down when your unshowered, crooked old ass walks around with some stupid sign like that.

On the other hand, the first time I visited Brandeis (when the Dalai Lama came to speak there in... 1998? Maybe? Can't recall the year) I saw more NeoHippie flower children than I even knew existed. Up until that point I thought Hippies were a thing of the past, then I go to this Tibetan event weekend and the place is full of dumbasses who are auditioning for "That 60's Show". Girls who haven't showered in a week with long skirts and dredlocks carrying signs, ratty unshaven Revolutionary Wannabes, hippie burnouts driving beater cars with stickers all over them, the works. Ugh. They were enough to put me off the "free Tibet movement".

#42 ymeagain

Kushner? Want to go protest with me? Have they sunk that low? Is there even a Hillel on campus anymore? A kosher cafeteria? Why do I have a sinking feeling that frum Jews are not comfortable there? Better not be on the 28^th of this month..son #2 graduates from Law School..in Manhattan. It will only be the second time since 9/11 that we have been there.

No, your son is far better off at UT/Austin.

All I can say that this is not the Brighton/Newton I grew up in.

#45 Savage_Nation

This will give you an explanation.

Kids today!

What silly ideas they have. I mean ideals. I mean irrational idealism. I mean delusional ignorance.

48 NY Nana 5/4/2006 11:20PM PDT

NY Nana, why can you link and I cant? Grrr...

In Britain, before WW2, there was a neo fascist movement called the Blackshirts under Sir Oswald Moseley. Jews fought them physically in the East End of London where they were most active.

The demonstrators supporting arab terror and genocide of Jews are the modern equivalent of those British neo fascists. We have to fight them today as we fought them before. They are nazis by another name.

If we were to do violence to this pigswill, it would be totally justified. I would support it. This is not a matter fo free speech. It is a matter of Jewish survival in teh face of leftofascist and islamofascist desire for another genocide of Jews.

All they need are some "We love you, Adolf!" signs.

#49 Savage_Nation

:)

#51 zuckerlilly

Because LGF respects Bubbes? :)

Read this, just in case...

#26 DrewyChewy

# 20
Kahane was a crazy ass demented lunatic Jew who founded the JDL, a terrorist organization . I always jump down fellow Jew's throats when they identify with the man who inspired so many Jews to hatred against anyone who isn't Jewish (especially Arabs). No hard feelings though, just remember that we're all human beings on this planet.

Sorry but you must be off your rocker... JDL is not a terrorist organization and neither was Kahane a demented nutjob. Whether his views on non-Jews were as extreme as you claim, is a matter of opinion and it fashionable in many circles to dismiss him as an aberration. But what is the matter of record is that before it became fashionable within the American Jewish community to advocate for the emigration of Soviet Jews who were held back, essentially held hostage, by the repressive government, Kahane and JDL in the early 70s were practically the only people who stood up to protest the attempts of detanté with the Soviet gov't pushed by the "realists": "no detenté until they let the Jews go". They were "in your face", they disrupted concerts by the visiting Soviet artists, they were marching in front of the embassy in DC and the consulate in NYC while most "mainstream" Jewish organizations preferred to go with the flow and work behind the scenes, so to say.

People like myself are forever in his debt because he raised the awareness of the "mainstream" and pulled it away from the "real politik" into the realities of Jewish families in Moscow, in Kiev, in Kishinev and everywhere else, who were denied the freedom to leave the socialist paradise.

And as far as all of us being human beings, oh sure... a nice sentiment and I share it but unfortunately it doesn't quite end there. Frankly, transfer, per Kahane, seems an attractive option especially in view of the events of the last five years in Eretz Yisrael. So, before you jump feet first down someone's throat next time, look around, read some history. Just because Israeli Supreme Court branded him an outlaw, and American Jewish liberals painted him as a crazy rasist, doesn't make him and JDL terrorists.

#53 UbcleSam

Quite so. We should be treating this pigswill like the nazis they are. If that means beating the crap out of them, so be it. I've had it with trying to reason with leftonazis and arabs appear unable to argue reasonably about anything apart from who they are going to kill next. So let's treat them like they want to treat us.

If that means some of this scum spending a few months in hospital being fed through a tube, it's what they deserve.

#55 ymeagain

Agree 100%. As for teh Israeli High Court, it would give the country to the illegal arab occupiers lock stock and barrel without blinking. Leftists in high judicial office are not healthy for civilisation.

#56c transferthem- You're right. You can't reason with people who want you to die.

#52 transferthem

Yes, that is as it should be. Problem is most Jews see Christians as the enemy. They do not reconize what socialism means and it's danger to them now. They have been deceived by leftfacist. In their stonghold of NYC they vote regualarily for those who will destroy them.

54 NY Nana 5/4/2006 11:27PM PDT

Thanks Nana, but I know this. I´ve linked to articles before. But today it want work (sneef). Every time I click the link-button, the window does´nt open.

For all: have a nice day, 'gut schabbes' and a happy weekend.

The main thrust of the "article" by the Brandeis student is: We love you, please kill us.

rayra,

LOL.

Thanks for the new background.

Right up there with "Rock The Casbah" scrawled on 500 pound bombs on F-16's in Desert Storm.

#55 ymeagain

Thanks for saving me a lot of typing. Especially in view what is being done now by Israel's alleged leaders, he looks like a tsaddic.

#40 CiJ

Yes, indeed I live in Brookline and these nut cakes are in Coolidge Corner every week. There are 3-4 synagogues (and probably a few unaffiliated small minyans and chavurahs) within a radius of a 10-15 min walk; I swear these people assemble there around 11-11:30 am just in time for them all to let out.

They try to stuff their materials in your hand, they try to put it in baby carriages, in open windows of the cars stopping on red lights, what have you. True indeed they accost all passers-by, not just Jews, but their timing, to me, is suspect. They are never there on a Sunday, just Saturday (call me paranoid).

Last fall, I remember, one of them shouted into the megaphone: "Come and hear what Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize winner, thinks of Bush and his war in Iraq". She seemed to be addressing me so I informed her that Harold Pinter is a literary has-been and only morons like her and the Nobel committee are interested in what he has to say about anything. She had the look of complete astonishment on her face and tried to come up with a clever response but the light changed and my daughter and I crossed Beacon street and went on... My daughter, on the other hand, had a look of total horror and told me that I was "mean" and that she didn't want any of her friends to see me talking to these people "like that".

They are usually disperse to Starbucks by 1-1:30 pm.

thoughts

what idiots...yes...

you don't see that where I went
what if I did
it would expose the idiots among us
...

So its a good thing, these are the people you need to save from idiocy...some would say they have Love pointed in the wrong direction...they're idiots too...we all are.

#61 zuckerlilly

There will be no extra charge for sharing my vast knowledge of computers! Maybe you ought to email Charles?

Shabbat shalom!

That imbecile wouldn't pass a junior high school clear thinking test in Australia.

#64 NY Nana
you are most certainly welcome.
off to bed. my cough doesn't let me fall asleep but if I don't do it now, I'll be unable to get up in the moring to do my shopping & to go to work (remember, Butcherie opens at 7 am and I'll be there bright and early)

TTFN

#66
Orbid Rain

You cannot save idiots from themselves. They try very hard to destroy themselves and succeed 100% of the time. We will still live, they will not.

ymeagain

Still with the cough? Feel better. I miss the Butcherie and all of Coolidge Corner.We have nothing like it in this area.

Just in case I don't get a chance later, as I am off to sleep, and #4 will be here later, Shabbat shalom to you and your family!

G'nite, all.

Notice how it's always the most white-bread,vacant eyed, wealthy looking idiots that hold the most vile signs at these fucking protests. It's real easy to piss and moan about phantom "injustices" when you've got 50k in the bank and a 15 room house to go back to after you've finished speaking truth to power. Douchebags. If you want peace in the middle east, I would suggest a healthy bombing campaign against Iran and "palistine", with as much "collateral damage" as we can incur. There is nothing we can do to insure peace and stability on this planet as long as Islam is the religion of these goddamn animals.

rayra

BTW, What is the bulge in the middle of the barrel for?

There is absolutely nothing more pathetic that an self-hating Jew. These creatures deserve whatever God gives them.

67 NY Nana 5/4/2006 11:51PM PDT

There will be no extra charge for sharing my vast knowledge of computers!

*lol*

I face such problems sometimes, while Charles is asleep.

I hope it will be better in the evening and I can show some photos about the Israel-event yesterday.

Gut Schabbes!

The Drizzle

The saddest thing is that this whole terrostist thing is not going away. They feel that NYC is the Jewest stonghold of American. It will be the main target until the day they destroy it.

tommoon...I feel ya on the Darwinian angle...and it's true to a certain extent...some people...maybe all of us...choose to run off the cliff sometimes...

some succeed

we make it so...tho...either way...I'd prefer to keep my optimism in the face of this idiocy tho...I look at it as a collective challenge each of us wins or loses...

if we keep playing this game

...but then I'm civilized enough to realize that *I* am the keeper of my emotions...not the other way around, so I for oe would not go the Saddam route on them...some sure would

blah blah blah

Damn...I had a Lebanese Druze co-worker a few years ago who, on the surface, was a prince of a guy. However when the subject of Israel or anything remotely Jewish came up (even something as seemingly trivial as then-Dodgers first baseman Shawn Green taking a few days off for Yom Kippur) the fangs, venom and hatred for all things Jewish came out [under the socially acceptable veneer of 'anti-Zionism'].

So I asked him...if given the choice, what would he rather be; A non-Muslim in an Islamic country or a non-Jew in Israel?

He waffled a moment before deciding on a non-Jew in Israel. Yet for some reason, I'm sure the Jew hatred still remains...

#77
Orbid Rain

Darwin did not make the rules, he only recorded them. Civilizatins have destroyed themselves with much less than an external enemy willing to destroy themselves to destroy you.

# 65 ymeagain

Daven 'Hashkama' (which is too late for my Israeli tastes, but that's another story). Then you will miss them. :-)

Is this the dead thread yet?

Looks like it.

Good Morning Dead Threaders!

Ehud Olmert wants to give the country away to satisfy his leftist wife Aliza. Some Israelis think this will let us change the terminology from an 'occupation' to a 'border dispute.' I disagree.

The 'Palestinians' are looking for a bank willing to do wire transfers for terrorists. Anyone know one?

'Palestinian' civil war watch: Fatah has created a new armed force (yes, yet another one) to protect its leadership from Hamas and al-Qaida. But all they need is a state reichlet, right?

Carl

It is only dead if you make it so. Who is Aliza, enlighten me.

An inspirational article about a man who lost his entire family in a terror attack and put his life back together.

# 85 tommoon

Sorry, it took me a minute to find you a good link.

Aliza is Ehud Olmert's wife. She is about as LLL as they come. As are her children, some of whom live abroad and all of whom are active in leftist causes.

On Sunday, three Jewish families will be 'evicted' from the building that they are renting in Hevron. The building had sat empty for ten years. Will this be another 'Amona'?

iS this the thirstday threading drink?

/inbibing minds want to know - hic

Ehud Olmert plans to divide Jerusalem. His 'mapmaker' is Otniel Schneller, a former member of the Yesha (Judea, Samaria and Gaza) Council. For those who stayed home on election day, you brought this on yourselves and on all of us.

# 89 Max

Too early in the morning for that :-)

Representative Tom Lantos has decided to force the UN to clean up UNRWA.

Can George Bush save Israel from itself?

Ever toured a(n alleged) nuclear reactor?

Thank you Carl,

How can you have a pacifist in a world were so many are trying to kill you. I absolutly, don't understand the USA with with it's present pacifist. At least the USA is spread out over a large area, we could withstand a masive attack and still survive. What is a pacifist other one who will not defend themselves.

well, one thing the author is learning is how to be a victim and play it for all it's worth. essential skill in the PC world.

note esp. his absurd use of the word "racist" to denote religious discrimination. Uh, race is not religion, dopey.

He yearns for a mosque at Brandeis. Ten to one this fool will end up converting to Islam -- the Religion of Peace™ that treats all Brothers and Sisters as equals in a beautiful egalitarian way. Unless, of course, you are a Jew or Christian or Hindu, in which case you should be killed, or converted, or pay the jizya.

I did a thesaurus on Protest and came up with
Synonyms: balk, cavil, challenge, combat, complain, deprecate, disapprove, dispute, doubt, fight, hesitate, object, oppose, pause, protest, pussyfoot*, refuse, remonstrate, resist, scruple, shy, stick, stickle, strain, take exception*, vacillate, waver.

Fitting.

# 91 Carl

It's still night for some of us!
:-)

# 96 ww

If you're Hindu, that 3rd choice isn't available to you ...
:-(

*looks around, puts his arm in ice* What up folks? been a long day today

#73 RTLM

The bulge is a fume extractor. The purpose is to reduce fume blowback into the turret when the breech is opened.

THanks Gonzo.

I thought it was a magnet..

'night all

The best thing is we will have always had warriors. Time for me to go, I'll listen to Five for Fighting, "The Beautiful". We are betrayed daily by this country, but they will never win. We fight for our brothers not for them. God Bless America.

Federal Judge Orders Removal of San Diego Hilltop Vets' Cross

When is this finally going to stop? This monument has been there for more than fifty years.

/thank God for Roberts and Alito

Pentagon surfing 5,000 jihadist Web sites

Well, you know, if the CIA's asleep at the switch . . .

/someone's got to pick up the slack

Anyone wearing that black and white keffiyeh supports terrorism, period. And they should be on some government watch list.

Fuck Hamastine.

I think this is kinda funny:

Fitzgerald Accused Libby Of Not Leaking

Fitzgerald indicted Libby for lying to a Grand Jury.

/the case never had anything to do with leaking, and Libby'll beat the lying rap in the end too

#104 Killian Bundy

That really makes you sick. All because of one idiot that thinks everyone MUST be forced to think like he does.

The next thing they will be after is ALL of the military cemetaries around the country.

the case never had anything to do with leaking, and Libby'll beat the lying rap in the end too

Oh, hell yeah. I just hope he has an ace up his sleeve. He has a reputation for being non-partisan. He busted some serious Democratic chops in Chicago. My holdout hope is that he is investigating the concept that maybe Plame/Wilson/McCarthy/CIP/IPS concocted this whole scandal to put President Bush in a double bind.

#111 crosspatch

Oh, hell yeah. I just hope he has an ace up his sleeve. He has a reputation for being non-partisan. He busted some serious Democratic chops in Chicago. My holdout hope is that he is investigating the concept that maybe Plame/Wilson/McCarthy/CIP/IPS concocted this whole scandal to put President Bush in a double bind

/my money's on Scooter's lawyers, this just in, they're really good, sit back and watch the fun there crosspatch man, it's going to come to fruition sometime next year

my money's on Scooter's lawyers

Mine too, actually. But there is a bigger story lurking in the background that someone is bound to bust open sooner or later.

111 crosspatch

Did you see this article about the Rumsfeld heckler?

Guess who it was?

#114 crosspatch

Mine too, actually. But there is a bigger story lurking in the background that someone is bound to bust open sooner or later.

Not if it involves Bonkeys.

/in that case, it's bound never to see the LSM light of day

Yikes! Look at the time!

117 littleoldlady

Is Mike C. late again? Where is Miguel?

Pat cites pills in car wreck

WASHINGTON -U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy insisted yesterday that he had consumed “no alcohol” before he slammed his Mustang convertible into a concrete barrier near his office, but a hostess at a popular Capitol Hill watering hole told the Herald she saw him drinking in the hours before the crash.

"He was drinking a little bit,” said the woman, who works at the Hawk & Dove and would not give her name.

Oops, someone's lying.

/I post, you decide

OK ... picture 3

ya ignorant old heathen bitch...
(who has to be a teacher)
Just who the hell are the PalestAnian children, anyhoo?

We Jews are so cunning we can opress and repress people that dont even exist in make believe lands!

Woe to the children of Palestania, for I am in the Jew mobile now and speeding mightily on my ZOGular Jew-way to opress and repress you with Zionist impunity and Hebrew horrors!

[sings Haktiva, starts engine]

up up and oy vey!

119 Killian Bundy

That's his second crash in two weeks.

#117 littleoldlady

Did you ask your stock guinea pig about QCOM?

/bought it at a premium, making money so far, they just announced a deal with Microsquish

You just can't depend on anybody anymore! [verybigsigh]

[{[BabbaZee!]}]

Killian,

She said "Oil and gold. Period."

She's very conservative. :-) (But only in this respect...)

{Lil'Ol'Lady}

#115 AK oilfield worker

Thanks for the link.

The guy is as right there with Mikey Moron - a whacko conspiracy nut!

Microsquish? (I could use some of that for my sugar ants.)

126 AngryAmerican

It's worse than that, these asshats are knee deep in the Plame leak story.

More on VIPS

And what the hell are they holdng in the 4th picture?

This the art of the repressed Palestanian children?

Repressed imaginary children from make believe lands have crayons? Who knew?

Or maybe it is the artwork of the tenured professor holding it?

Happy childrens drawings in support of Islam and throat slitting? Yay! We present now in primitive and prepubescent style the fabulous art of our tenured professors. All art is representational of Jewish evil and the Zionist machinery of doom.

OOPs should have read:

It's worse than that, these asshats are knee deep in the McCarthy leak story

PIMF

#127 littleoldlady

Microsquish?

MSFT, a stock I refuse to own directly, patent holder of the "Blue Screen of Death"

/those responsible for raking in billions while inflicting maximum, hegemonic operating system pain on the masses, on an ongoing basis, with no thought of repentance, knowing Mac isn't a viable alternative for most

#115 AK Oilfield Worker -

What a day for the administration. First Cheney lays heck on Russia, then Rummy takes on a heckler. I saw a clip of Rummy's exchange on Fox last night. I must give Rummy credit, he kept his cool and did a really good job of answering McGovern's questions.

Good morning, all!

#124 littleoldlady

She said "Oil and gold. Period."

Got 'em both covered.

/oil more than gold

Killian,

knowing Mac isn't a viable alternative for most

Soon...soon...people will know what they've been missing! :-)

Babba,

You are going to elevate your blood pressure into the stratosphere. Don't look!

#128 AK oilfield worker

Yeh, seen that, too.

It takes a conspirator to make a conspiracy.

Why does this stuff never make it to the pages of MSM? But this will?

132 windybon

Didn't see the clip but would like too.

I did hear Russia was a little peeved over Cheney's remarks.

The worst enemies are your own people. This is so common, unfortunately.

Good morning all :)

135 AngryAmerican

Yeh I know, the story about the heckler was widely reported. They just omit his left wing foaming at the mouth background. Crazy

Sheesh...I'm mostly a lurker and even I am wondering where the heck he is!

#138 AK oilfield worker

It is called "biased" reporting, PERIOD!

140 AngryAmerican

But don't question their patriotism!

I hope he's out drinking somewhere. I didn't read upthread; he didn't indicate his plans for the evening, did he?

139 stonemason

It's Saturday morning in commie land, he's probably just sleeping in. If you were refering to Mike C. that is.

#134 littleoldlady

Soon...soon...people will know what they've been missing! :-)

When it can run WordPerfect and the rest of the software I use that Mac won't run, I may be impress.

/AAPL initially ran up on the dual boot announcement and has since retreated, if you want a Mac, get a Mac, otherwise, get a PC, Mac's don't run PC software any better than PCs

Friday afternoon in Pekin now ;)

OOPS,

It's Saturday morning in commie land, he's probably just sleeping in. If you were refering to Mike C. that is.

It is Sat afternoon in commie land, my bad

Friday afternoon :)

5 MigueldowninMexico

Correct! My brain is not working this morning. You get an A+ Miguel

#148 Ak
I'm a Geography freak :s
Can't help it lol.
Thanks for the mark :)

hehe...I was waiting for y'all to get the day, I did know it was afternoon/evening. Just for the sake of Lil' one and myself, I declare the world is now on Philly time!

Your liberal $$ at work. Shameful

Terror-free oil initiative

This project is dedicated to encouraging Americans to buy only gasoline that originated from countries that do not export or finance terrorism.

We educate the public by promoting those companies that acquire their crude oil supply from nations outside the Middle East and by exposing those companies that do not.

The list is tragically short:

SUNOCO, Inc.
Sinclair Oil Corp.
Flying J, Inc.

#150 stonemason
If I'm correct, that'd be about 5:50 pm right?

Oh sorry stonemason, Philly is Philadelphia right? I thought about it as the Philippines.
Ok 5:50 am then lol.

#153 MigueldowninMexico

5:50 AM

Well, the old clock on the wall says it's time to get ready for work. Have a great day, all!

#150 stonemason,

Heh™ If they're lucky, they'll not only get our time, they'll have today's Philadelphia weather, too. Other than the allergy-factor, it's slightly perfect, don't you think?

I am going to take it upon myself to open the Dead Thread (and dedicate it to Mike C., just to CMA)

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Wasn't it Shakespeare that said "First thing let's do, let's kill all the clients" ?

Bye windybon! God bless :)

#153 MigueldowninMexico

I screwed up again:
Philly should be 4:52 AM assuming they are on EST

158 Mike C.

It's about time bucko, man you really draw a crowd. lol

#144 Killian,

Do you prefer WordPerfect to Word? I've never met anyone who did before!

I have both a Mac and a PC. If you do any kind of graphics whatsoever, the Mac is the way to go. One other thing that I can never get used to with the PC is, I cannot find my files! On the Mac, nothing gets lost. I started out on Macs, so maybe I'm biased, but I believe it is a superior machine.

3 hours more than the pacific coast.

It is 6 am in Philadelphia. I don't know what time it is in commie-land, except Mikey makes it sound like it's Miller Time!

Oh EST, but they are on EDT now.

163 MigueldowninMexico

Another A+ and 4 hours ahead of us up here in Alaska. I am brain dead this morning!

Must be around 5 pm in Pekin now.

Hahahaha this is funny, a looong thread about the time ;)

It's 5 am where I am. The time here is the same as Central.

AK oilfield worker

I had the client VP/Head of Geosciences right on my ass all afternoon until 5:35 PM local.

Miguel

It's just after 6 PM here now. I am now 12 hours ahead of ESDT, 15 hours ahead of the time stamps on the comments.

#170 Mike C.

Ouch, well LOL was right, you better grab a cold one.

Oops. Make that 16 hours ahead of the time stamps on the comments.

Mikey,

Once upon a time in the Dark Ages, back when I had an ad agency, I used to charge my clients an "aggravation premium" for the times they drove me or my staff nuts. I told them upfront about it; that they could expect an invoice 15% higher than originally quoted if they demanded impossible deadlines or made changes willy-nilly.

It was slightly cheaper than my "pantyhose premium", which is what I charged if they expected me to dress up for appointments.

Morning All! {littleoldlady}

Did anyone read what that kid wrote? - He's trying to sound all grown up & ends up sounding like a 10 year old with a dictionary.

the international community, with America and George Bush as its conductor, began making unilateral demands of the Hamas-led Palestinian government

The international community makes unilateral demands?

to reiterate the question

Surely that should be "to re-reiterate the question again"

The boy needs a clue.

# 171 AK oilfield worker

On the second now.

#172 Mike C.

I think you were right the first time with 15 hrs. but my record this morning with time sucks, so I defer to the expert.

Miguel?

# 173 littleoldlady

Believe it or not, I have never yet had a client ask me to wear pntyhose.

15 hours ahead.

Simultaneous again AK oilfield worker LOL

175 Mike C.

That is a good thing, gotta go. Later everyone

#177
Hahahahahahaha Mike hahahahahahahaha.

# 176 AK oilfield worker.

Hmm. Right you are. Obviously I need to dring faster.

#180 AK o.w.
Bye and God bless!

{[{SMIT!}]}

Long time no type to! How've you been?

I am obviously not sufficiently drunk to post. Kinda the opposite of the Iron Fist rule. Maybe we'll call it the Mike C. rule. To whit:

"If you think you're not drunk enough to post, then you're not."

Good morning littleoldlady! I've been playing Wonderland's rabbit, so worried with the time LOL.

Hahahaha Mike.
I'm glad to have that rule, sometimes you need one, sometimes, the other LOL!
Eggselent!

Good morning for a few. I am wishing littleoldlady's daughter great and good luck for today.

# 187 Miguel

Like I always say, since we're going to err anyway, might as well err on the side of excess. Or, as Martin Luther said, "If the devil says drink not, then drink I will. And to excess."

Really.

Oh, I forgot the "waving"

#44 tommoon

Gee, aren't those white chicks pretty, I can't wait to see their heads, stuck on sticks.

White liberal guilt is the perversity of the West. Look at the sh*t-eating grins on some of the faces. In the name of tolerance they march for Nazis. In the name of multiculturalism they hate their own culture. In the name of self-esteem they hate themselves. In the name of the God of Abraham they hate Jews. How many real Americans died in the current war died so that these unworthies can disgrace their country?

Carl says that why are we amazed at this happening at Brandeis. Well Carl, it's not like any other U, you see? It's a Jewish U. referring about Jewish land. It's the very same people, and it is depressing to see them attack their own.
I've had my terrible frustrations with Mexicans or Catholics, that sometimes seem to be the worst enemies of their own people.
But that's the reason Carl. It's not just any university.

:)

I guess I am chopped liver.

Good morning, Miguel! :-)

"waves" to St. Pancake!

Thank you so much for the good wishes. Prayers would be nice too, since she's going to need Divine Intervention to pass this test!

#190
Good morning St. Pancake :) Waving back at you!

St. Pancake,

Chopped Liver? Check back with W-lover to get a number. ;-)

Simultaneous double answer, teacher.
Can't complain LOL.

#189 Mike
You are a Lutheran Catholic LOL

I don't know why the html keeps playing tricks on my, scratching out words.

/looks inside his glass to see what's in there

# 194 littleoldlady

Remind me again - which test is up first ?

I am still constantly amazed that kids study for the SAT. We just took it.

#55 ymeagain

So, before you jump feet first down someone's throat next time, look around, read some history. Just because Israeli Supreme Court branded him an outlaw, and American Jewish liberals painted him as a crazy rasist, doesn't make him and JDL terrorists.

Well, you should read some of Kahane's own writing to see that ISC were right about him on all counts. Kahane was a Jewish suprimacist nut by his own accounts, not by the ISC rulings, he was dreaming about Jewish Halachah state in Eretz Israel in the same way as Islamists dream about world Khaliffath. His fighting for increasing the Jewish presence in Eretz Israel was only logical extension to his world view. The fact that many former Soviet Jews benefited from his actions is rather a case of "yoter mazal m'sechel" [more luck than brains], as they say in Israel .

# 198 Miguel

No, I just remember that quotation from a European hisory course my sophmore year in college. Truly a memorable quotation for a college student to encounter.

#194 littleoldlady
I'll pray for your daughter to pass all the exams too.
I believe in the power of prayer ;)

littleoldlady
Miguel etc.

Thanks, and good luck.

Mikey,

This morning is the AP U.S. History test. St. Pancake administers the AP Euro History test this afternoon. Tomorrow is the (new! oy!) SAT.

By Sunday I should be finished with my heart attack...

#201 Mike
Yeah, quite a quotation.
Let's drink over it LOL

Are you leaving now St. Pancake?

Yes, Miguel.

Ahora!

#207 S. P.
Wow! How decisive LOL
God bless you my friend :)
Que pases un buen día ;)

St Pancake,

Good luck to you and your kids today!

I'm going to see if meannastyteenager wants a "good breakfast" for a change. I'll be back later (I hope - unless I have to call the paramedics early) but in case I miss some of you...

Good day, ALL!™

# 204 littleoldlady

I take it the term "AP" indicates some sort of standardized test. Of course, we never had such things in my day. Hell, we hardly had history back then. Half of the SAT score is verbal. Best way to score on that is to have been a person who reads. Does the daughter read ? I mean, as a way to pass the time/entertainment ?

Bye littleoldlady, God bless you too :)

Well, now it's only the 2,150 of us alone.
/I feel lonely...

Mornin' all.

An ex-friend in gay ol' Frisco, who's dying from BDS and cant drop dead fast enough, argued until blue in the face that "from the river..." was nothing but a "sports chant".

Dear G-d I despise that little phrase and the idjits who repeat it.

Good Morning youse'all from a warm (67 degrees, going to 78 degrees!) and cloudy NYC!
How is everyone doing this fine morning?

# 214 allthatstuff

"from the river" ?

'Morning, realwest. Things are barely tolerable here.

#215
Good morning realwest! Doing fine around here, thanks. Is Spring already in in NYC?

/the only living boy in New Yooork :p

#217 Mike
You had a bad day with the clients today right Mike?
Lighten up. Bud light or other drinkable staff helps to relax from all that pressure.
;)

217 Mr. C

Check the sign in photo #2 above.

A L3 mantra.

#217 MIke C. - why only barely tolerable? You feeling ok?

The staff of the stuff is stiff.
I'm closer to IF's rule than to Mike C.'s rule lol.

slightly OT

help stop Jimmy Carter!
[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

#218 MigueldowninMexico - Hola Amigo! Spring? It looks like we're leaping over Spring and right into Summer - high temp today 78, warmer over the weekend! I'm doing ok, but gotta go to the doc's office early this morning and haven't even had my coffee yet!
Como esta?

# 221 realwest

Just another pile of crap from the client. Nothing medical.

# 220

Well, you can hardly expect folks on the dead thread to recognize an actual on-topic post, now. Be reasonable.

But I feel the need for grub, so I'm going to go find some. Back in an hour or so. "Have a good one" to those that have to split before then.

#224 realwest
Estoy bien, gracias :)
I hope everything goes just fine at the doctor's.
Enjoy the Summer then! :)

#225
Bye Mike. God bless :)

See ya later Mikey, try to focus on your mid-May or whenever trip back home!

#226 Miguel - I'm sure everything will be fine at the doc's - but I'm just not used to being up so early! Speaking of which isn't it a tad late for you to be up (reference back to you comment about Iron Fist's rule, LOL!)?

#228 realwest
Hahahahaha. You're right it's 6 am here, high time for me to go to bed, and on top of that...LOL
I'm approaching the wise advise of Iron Fist LOL.

["No breakfast. Gimme 5 bucks for some Wawa coffee!"...Well, it's in G-d's hands now.]

Mikey,

AP = advanced placement. I can't remember whether there was such a thing when we were kids, but probably not, since I most likely would have taken one or two.

And you are right about the SATs; we didn't study. And my kid is following in her mother's footsteps this time around.

These days your average college wants an average of 600 on both the math and verbal. (We haven't run into a college yet who even looks at the new essay section, so the question is, why bother?) I am not terribly worried about the verbal section, but the math will no doubt be a problem. So for next time, after spending this summer working with the Official SAT Study Guide (as opposed to paying $2000 for a Kaplan or some such course) we will have studied.

I was very strong in high school math, but at this advanced age...who remembers!?

#223 cybermonk - Yeah, I wish, but there's no way Dem's are gonna vote for a censure of this guy, even though it's the least he deserves.
Dude keeps getting worse, every single year day.

Ok, now I'm leaving for real lol.
Bye littleoldlady, realwest and everybody else. God bless all :)

#230 littleoldlady - It's been so long ago that I don't even remember the SAT's. When I was in high school in NY we had something called the NY State Regent's exam - a statewide comprehensive (math, english, history, geography, science) exam that was looked upon by colleges (even outside of NY State) more favorably than the SAT's. It was a two day affair (both school days) that I don't even know if they give anymore!
OTHER THAN THAT, how are you this morining?

Good morning all,

I read in this morning's Globe & Mail the Iranian authorities have arrested a Canadian-Iranian academic, Ramin Jahanbegloo. The report is unclear as to why he was arrested, (the charge is espionage) but he did recently quote other dissidents in a publication, and in an interview with a Spansih journalist he attacked Ahmadinejad's holocaust denial. That's probably what ticked them off, I'll bet. He's being held at Evin prison, the place where Ahmadinejad used to work as an "interrogator".

I don't want to be a pessimist, but Canadian-Iranian photographer Zahri Kazemi was tortured to death in that prison 2 years ago.

#232 Adios Miguel, God Bless you too - see ya later I hope!

Why is it that leftist women always look like they're...well...unwanted?

#234 Kenneth well, as long as you're not going to be a pessimist about it!
Seriously, it's waaay past time for a regime change in Iran.
I wish the good professor the best; imagine believing that the Holocaust was real! How rude and insensitive of him.
Make that waaay past time for regime change.

#236 hiker - maybe because they are? (although back in the day, I used to go to Peace Marches just to get laid meet some interesting girls)!

#233 {realwest!}

As of 5 or 6 years ago they were still giving the NY Regents. (I'm pretty sure my cousin's daughter took them.) I'll let you know what the deal is in 12 or 13 years when my brother's kid reaches his senior year of high school. ;-)

I'm okay. How're you feeling today?

#239 littleoldlady - {littleoldlady} morning! I'm doing more or less ok, just gotta go in to see the doc this morning for what'll probably turn out to be all morning long (waiting to see him that is, not all morning long for tests etc.). The Regents Exam used to be REALLY TOUGH, but last I heard, it was too damaging to student's self-esteem and they either did away with it or made it one of those "See Jane Run, See Spot run after Jane" type tests.
Sigh. Sounding more and more like my Dad did back when I was a high schooler myself!

Mornin', y'all.
Oliver North in Townhall...

...The consequence of mainstream media hostility to this president and the Global War on Terror is to leave the American people woefully ignorant of what's really going on in places like Iraq and Iran and what our options are in either. So few American reporters venture forth outside the Baghdad Green Zone that good news from Iraq is virtually non-existent. Were it not for U.S., British and Australian military "bloggers," stories about battlefield successes -- like last week's counter-terror offensives in Al Anbar Province -- would be practically unknown to the outside world.

Unfortunately, there are far fewer "bloggers" with secure Internet access in Iran. Those who dare to report from within on the doings of the paranoid regime running Tehran do so at great peril. Thus, the American public knows next to nothing about what's really happening inside a government that today poses a major risk to U.S. security. We are treated to little more than the malevolent, threatening rhetoric of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, video of banner-bearing Iranian Republican Guardsmen goose-stepping through the streets of the capital and file footage of white-coated scientists fiddling inside a nuclear lab. In the U.S. media, this kind of reporting is usually followed by the "observation" that "because we're over-committed in Iraq, we have few options," or words to that effect.

Hogwash. Hyperventilated rhetoric aside, the United States -- precisely because we have U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan -- has considerable leverage when it comes to Iran. Notwithstanding Ahmadinejad's wild-eyed bluster, even he knows that Rumsfeld was right when he said last week in Baghdad, "a successful democracy in Iraq is a failure" for Tehran.

Though American pundits constantly harp that the United States can do nothing about Iran without the acquiescence of the United Nations, that isn't true either. Unilateral U.S. action to freeze the financial assets of North Korean leaders has proven effective in stopping a major counterfeiting operation, money laundering -- and foreign travel by Pyongyang officials. The same can be done "for" the Iranian mullahs who have "hidden" their ill-gotten gains everywhere from Switzerland to the Cayman Islands.

And if we want to get up close and personal -- Ahmadinejad and a "senior delegation" of officials from Tehran reportedly plan to attend the Iranian national team's World Cup opening game in Nuremberg, Germany next month. Perhaps it's time for the FBI to put out a BOLO -- an Interpol notice to "be on the look out" -- for all individuals wanted by the U.S. government for involvement with the seizure of the U.S. embassy and hostage-taking in Tehran in 1979. Such action would make foreign travel by Iranian bomb-builders problematic at the very least.

These are but a few of the non-military "options" available for dealing with the despots ruling in Tehran. They are unlikely to adversely affect the welfare of the long-suffering people of Iran. Regrettably, it's equally unlikely that the American people will see or read about them in the most Anti-American media on earth -- our own.

All the news...

#162 littleoldlady

Do you prefer WordPerfect to Word? I've never met anyone who did before!

Yes, WordPerfect is vastly superior to Word, which [expletive deleted] sucks.

/you must not be a lawyer

This is proof that not ALL Jews are smart.

An intelligent new blog here that keeps track of the terror which MSM and Brandeis students ignore.

#241 J.D. - Morning back atcha! Oliver North is right (this time, at least) we haven't even begun to take anything resembling non-military action against what is clearly one of the three most problematic regimes in the World.
And I don't understand why.

#242 Killian,

I agree, Word leaves a lot to be desired (at least it's "compatible"), but I didn't much like WordPerfect either.

Nope. Not a lawyer. Was thinking about going to law school recently but then got a look at what college will cost for my kid.

Oy. [verybigsigh] I guess that's my cue to get to work. [verybigsigh].

Good day, ALL!™

/this time I mean it!

littleoldlady

I've been through it with my daughters.

They both took several APs. Most colleges won't give you credit unless you score at least 3 (out of 5). In some cases, its a 4. For example, my kids' school would only take 4s and 5s in the Calculus AP.

Also, Most schools won't take all of them for credit. You have to choose one or two. We were lucky in that we found a school that took all of them. (Case Western Reserve.)

Unfortunately, the AP classes around here have just become another vehicle to boost GPA's. Most of the kids never actually take the real AP exam.

Cox & Forkum on Mouseman.

#247 lol

Was thinking about going to law school recently but then got a look at what college will cost for my kid

.

You can do it!

I start in August, and have two daughters in college, one heading off to med school!

Keep It Simple

/How to explain war to a child

#251 hans ze beeman - LOL! Another in a long string of great cartoons by them.

#252 tridroid97 - You start law school in August? Why for heaven's sake (keep in mind that I have just been involuntarily retired from practising law after 32 years)do you want to go to law school?

Well, After a disaterous night for Labour in the local elections, Tony Blair has reshuffled or fired his entire cabinet.

Jack Straw - has been demoted thank goodness. But his replacement is not much better.

You guys have Condi. We have http://www.iisd.ca/csd/csd12/pix/day2/2beckett.jpg

And the damn BNP is on the rise again.

There were reports from polling stations of voters writing the letters BNP on ballot forms where no BNP candidate was listed. Some apparently screwed up their ballot papers in disgust.

Across the country the far-right party also made gains, including three in Stoke-on-Trent, where Labour lost overall control.

#260 Smit - What, no hanging "chads"? LOL!

We must end this culture of drunkenness in Washington.

Can you just imagine the howls of outrage had a Republican done this?

Patches Kennedy had been an embarassment for many years, but I guess with the name comes special privileges.

Daddy needs to hide the key to the liquor cabinet.

Oh well - it's the dead thread anyway, so why not ?

Like an old-fashioned, natural gas-fueled, single cylinder engine - bang, bang, bang. Is that how the universe works ? Maybe.

#262 JammieWearingFool - good morning! You shouldn't be so judgemental; I mean he might have been staggering around due to the impact of his crash; at 2:30 AM he might have thought there was a roll call vote in the House, ya know, give the guy the benefit of the doubt!

/do I really need this?

#257 realwest

Mostly for practical reasons. A lot of what I do here involves IP, NDAs, manufacturing contracts, etc. Our in-house attorney is doing more and more work on real-estate deals and other business issues. I thought that I'd be able to help out later.

Its also a safety valve. We're privately held, and the fourth generation coming up doesn't look like they care much for the (chemical) business that I'm involved with. I figure that a JD, emphasizing IP with my manufacturing and R&D background should be worth something and be more portable.

Plus, I need something to do with the other 8 hours a day! ;-)

RE # 263

Of course, a main course like that requires a side of string theory, yes ?

#263 Mike C. - That was needlessly cruel, even for the Dead Thread. I'm on my second cuppa coffee, waiting for the car service to go to the doc and I tried to actually read that. And I'm not even taking the SAT's or anything!
That was a short dinner break you had there...or have you not yet gone to eat?

...Nothing could be more innocent than the fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, attendants and pilots on that plane. Like us at this moment, they were in the act of daily life. They were not combatants in any sense. They were targeted precisely because they were unprotected. During periods of peace, and we have had a long one, some people come to believe that this happy condition is the natural state of life. It is not. The unprotectedness of civilized, quotidian life was earned, over centuries, often in war.

To dedicate the act of murdering a stewardess, pilot or passenger to Allah in the course of committing such an act, as United 93's hijackers did, is to engage in behavior that is quite wide of the daily life of America and many other nations. Whether the Khobar Tower bombing, the USS Cole, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the bombings in Madrid and London, Bali, Jerusalem, the murder of Theo van Gogh, a great many people are being murdered in the service of Allah. In this respect, watching what takes place inside the confines of United Flight 93--and surely this movie is as close to the reality as one can imagine--is food for thought. Maybe just saying that you "know" Islamic terror exists out there isn't quite enough. If in 2006 we think that if Iraq would go away the world would not be too different than the world before September 11, then Moussaoui may in time prove right: "America you lost. I won!"

There is reason to believe that pre-9/11 thinking will in time return and prevail.

Defenders of Moussaoui's life sentence say he will "rot in prison." Perhaps in a better world Zacarias Moussaoui would share a cell with Hannibal Lecter. But if our moral betters aren't going to let Saddam's torturers rot in Abu Ghraib, if they aren't going to let the CIA's most important al Qaeda captives rot in "secret" foreign prisons, they certainly aren't going to let Moussaoui rot in Florence, Colo. He will be treated more than well.

Not to mention the Moussaoui trial itself. We arrive at the end of these interminable trial circuses of procedural delay and then claim "the system works" and "justice" has been done. No, it has done damage to the normal idea of justice. He saw the game early on and made a mockery of it. Moussaoui achieved a two-year delay in his trial by demanding to interview al Qaeda detainees. But our moral betters insist that the whole lot of Guantanamo detainees be given access to this same system of justice. They would diminish and crush it.

The odds were strong, as Moussaoui's lawyers knew and the government's should have known, that 9 of 12 jurors would vote that Moussaoui's childhood was "dysfunctional" and "mitigating." This is the therapeutic vocabulary that the West has developed to explain anything in the years from the postwar period to, say, September 11.

For quite awhile after September 11, we were a people united in the war on terror. By now we have let the adrenal pleasures of political fighting over the presidency dissipate the difficult emotions of staying united against a real enemy. The war in Iraq has contributed, but you can't lay it all off on Iraq. The ambiguity of the Moussaoui jury is a portent. See "United 93." It is very difficult. It should be.

'United 93' and the 20th Hijacker

I'm sure my Jewish brothers and sisters feel the same way about Brandeis as I do when I look at Harvard which as founded by a Christian missionary to train Christian ministers.

In some ways, we've got ourselves to blame for allowing this to happen through the 60's, 70's, and 80's.

RE # 268

Crap. What happened to my link ? Try this.

#266 tridroid97 - Are you going full time day law school? Cause if so, after the first full year, you're still gonna need something to do with the other 8 hours a day! LOL!

;>)

# 269 realwest

Don't take long to chow down when you're solo.

And all of these assholes probably vote for Democrats.

The party of death.

hi realwest,

I like this part at the end.

In 1969, Ted Kennedy careened off a bridge while driving in Chappaquiddick, Mass., killing Mary Jo Kopechne. The senator, who managed to swim to safety, later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.

It would read better if they reported it factually. As in, the Chivas-soaked Swimmer drove off a bridge, leaving Mary Joe Kopechne paralyzed and struggling for air for some 10 hours before she died while the fat slob concocted a tale and instigated a coverup.

Ah, well gotta go now, see youse'all later!
Have a good day/night everyone!

# 275 AI

Sure would have saved all that hassle with inventing the wheel.

#273 realwest

Nope, part-time at night. I'm signed up for 4 classes, on three nights, three hours each night.

And Mike C.

I tried to read that too. Interesting theory, but a little short on backup.

Kids

# 280 tridroid97

It's just a news brief, not a scientific paper. In those realms, I couldn't read the real papers anyway. I get 12 issues a year of The Journal of Geophysics, and If I can find one article in all 12 that I can understand, I'm having a good year. I'm talking 25 page papers that maybe have a cumulative page of English in toto. Mostly consisting of "thus", "therefore", etc. Everything else is equations.

# 282 AI

Just a little nasi gorin (sp ?).

Danish troops to stay in Iraq

"But I want to make it clear that it is my intention and this government's intention to stay in Iraq and finish the job," he said.

"This cartoon affair will not change our basic policies. On the contrary, it has only strengthened our resolve to assist countries that are in the midst of very difficult social transformations," Mr. Rasmussen said yesterday.

Europe is doomed.

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