I'm glad their double-hulled, Charles.

One seems to be pulling away from shore, having already off-loaded its cargo -- paid in blood ...

/koslamb

Battleship

B6

Oil should be used up asap so the arabs cant have it forever. Buy an SUV!

poor Dixie Chicks, so many empty seats at their concerts:

Dixie Chicks play to half empty arena.

We were ahead of the curve by talking about this last November, but now, they're airing "The Other Iraq" commercials on US TV. I saw an ad on Fox News this evening.

Kurdistan: The Other Iraq

Almost makes you want to go there for a vacation.

Probably the best PR for our Iraqi campaign I've ever seen. Though it's a little ominous that they seem to be supporting a secession movement. But hopefully, prosperity in Kurdistan will pull the rest of Iraq off its ass.

Good pic! Well all, the cobjob I'm looking at as most promising/appealing is with the FL Highway Patrol.

[Link: www.fhp.state.fl.us...]

I love Dodge Stealths, I finally own 1, and ironically, I had no idea they had 1 when I decided to apply there. It makes no input to my descision, but that is a badass squad!

Gnite and God bless all!

Red

Where are the offshore drilling platforms?

JAFLW

To "By The Sea"

Buy the SUV
buy the SUV
buy the great big SUV
for you and me
you and me

#7...copjob, not cobjob

Red

#3 Amalie:

MISS

JAFLW

/E7

Oh, thank the Lord, the Kos segment is over. I've never heard so much bullshit.

11 JAFLW

HIT!

:D

Palestinians: 'Day of rage' against Rice visit

Palestinians are calling for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to protest US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to the region scheduled for later this week, accusing Washington of backing Israel's military campaigns against Hamas and Hizbullah.

Leaflets distributed in the West Bank and Gaza by representatives of several Palestinian factions called for a "day of rage" [a euphemism for violent protests] against Rice's visit. The groups also called on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to refrain from meeting with Rice.

OH, STFU already. You want the world to notice you? Trying acting rationally. It would be a nice change. The "rage" thing is getting tiresome and we're about done with it and you.

no tankers for oil!

YOY would you anyone watch that? I don't get it. Whats the point?

Amalie:

;P

JAFLW

14 Kragar

So they won't be doing any suicide bombing that day?

/they said they were going on strike

#5 Duane

Hope the Dixie Skanks enjoy their career on PBS.

Ha Ha!

#16 mich-again

Know thine enemy!

Though it's a little ominous that they seem to be supporting a secession movement

Yea the Kurds fight the Turks, Shia and Arabs.
Oh the ottoman empire.

Ward

Hi Ward!

Did you see my post about how the UN has been on peacekeeping mission in Lebanon since 1978!

A 12 Epsilon
3D Battleship, Hawaii style.

#19 Ward Cleaver

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.

I sat on the beach at Point Reyes for hours on Saturday and didn't see a single supertanker.

Rats.

#4 massachusetts republican

Like I said earlier today, I'll rejoice when the Saudis cap their last well. The way they burn through money, they'll be broke in no time.

#7 fieryred

Good pic! Well all, the cobjob I'm looking at as most promising/appealing is with the FL Highway Patrol.

Awww, damn. Just what I need, another gung-ho state trooper lookin' to hand out paper.

#22 Amalie

Yes I did. Hi sweetie.

The little Supertankers that could...

AAARRRGGGHHH!

Tomorrow night on Nightline? Man bags!

A friend of mine calls them f*g bags.

#14 Kragar (proud to be Kafir)
Palestinians: 'Day of rage' against Rice visit

Palestinians are calling for a general strike in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

'On strike' from what, their very productive jobs?

#24 fluffy

"After the pledge break, more of the Dixie Chicks."

And always on the horizon, the double-hulled supertankers.

Ahh yes...Bringing back all that free oil stolen from Iraq.

#14 Kragar (proud to be Kafir)

Palestinian strike. Now that is funny right there. These assholes haven't worked since the Turks realized these were permanent welfare cases. Maybe they get Israeli 'unemployment' checks while on strike? And if 'work' stopped in Gaza, who would know? What is the sound of one hand clapping?

#31 solomonpanting
Imagine the negative economic impact.

Awww, damn. Just what I need, another gung-ho state trooper lookin' to hand out paper.

Hmmm...guess that's saying quite about our Swampwoman's driving habits.

How about a "Rage Against Rice Krispies" day? We can let Hamas know that Israelis use nanotechnology to make the rice subliminally say "Israel 4-Eva" when doused with milk. You just need to listen really carefully to uncover the fiendish Zionist plot.

"In Iraq, the Hezbollah-Israel conflict has proved a rallying point for Sunnis and Shiites otherwise riven by sectarian violence."
Makes you wonder what the hell is really going on.
Arabs only make peace with each other at Israel's expense.
Without Israel, Arabs' bloodlust would not abate, but simply change direction.
Arabs worship death and would find soul mates among black magic practioners and other pagans.

Um, that would be quite a bit. I think all this head has addled my brain.

/okay, it was already fairly addled. But it's worse now.

The good old days of concrete oil tankers

Why did they make a ship out of concrete?

The S.S. Palo Alto was an oil tanker built during World War I on the east side of San Francisco Bay. The loss of many ships to German submarines and the high price of steel combined to make concrete ships feasible. Despite the fact that the construction of the ship went very quickly, World War I ended before the S.S. Palo Alto could be put into service.

The S.S. Palo Alto’s concrete recipe.

The ship was made from cement manufactured in the Santa Cruz Portland Cement company plant in Davenport. The specifications:
1 part Portland cement
2 parts aggregate (1/3 sand; 2/3 gravel)
1 part water

Important dates in the history of the S.S. Palo Alto

1918 – May 19 – ship was christened and launched at Alameda
1918 - November 11– Armistice signed ending World War I
1920 – October 20 – ship is commissioned
1921 – January 2 – First and only voyage under power across San Francisco Bay
1921 - Was towed to moth ball berth at Benicia
1924 - November - Sold for $18,750 to Oliver J. Colson Co., for oil storage
Later sold to Oakland machinery dealer, R.C. Porter
1929 – Sold to Seacliff Amusement Corporation for unknown amount of $
1929 – October 29 – Stock Market Crash
1930 - January 21-22 – Towed from Oakland to Seacliff
1930 - January 25 – Intentionally sunk off the end of pier at Seacliff
1930 - June 21 – Grand opening
1931-32 – Winter storms crack the ship’s hull.
1932 – August – First parcel of beach property acquired by State of California
1936 – February 12 – State of California purchases S.S. Palo Alto for $1.00.
1958 - Foredeck of ship made off-limits to the public
1959 - Ship’s masts are cut down.

Sigh. All this HEAT, not head.

I really need to put some ice on that brain of mine.

Oh, just in case you thought the jew hate was just going on at Kos, here's a bit from DU

[Link: www.democraticunderground.com...]

Israel = Assholes

Jack_Dawson:

The government, anyway.

I'm sorry but why do we unconditionally have Israel's back again?

95% of Lebanon's bridges destroyed.

1/3 of wounded and dead are children.

700,000 Lebanese displaced

aint_no_life_nowhere:

Bombing Ambulances (clearly marked)

Bombing Banks

90%+ of the casualties have been civilian

1,500 sorties flown

20,000 artillery shells fired (on edit - my bad).

Oh that's right - two soldiers were kidnapped by Hezbollah, and Israel has a right to "defend itself".

Look I get that living in Israel isn't easy, but if this conflict has taught me anything, it's an understanding of why Israel is so hated in the Arab world. I didn't really get it before. I'm sure bombing the living fucking daylights out of Lebanon's civilians will lead to world peace.

On edit: Retitled to better express my outrage.

amBushed:
IOW, Israel is being Israel.
Being a bully is all they know

Jack_Dawson:
Well...they do know WWII
but wtf is going on right now I have no idea

AlamoDemoc:
think many of us are now focusing on why we support Israel unilaterally
You are not alone seeing the devastation and indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians in Lebanon.

RethugAssKicker :
And the Ground War begins next week... Stay tuned !
For Arab slaughter and submission Round II.

I think all this head has addled my brain.

Would me ;-P

ROFL. Bob's Kid, I'm starting to wonder if you're there all by yourself, or you have distraction in that house.

/One that snores on the La-Z-Boy and hogs the remote control.

So?

Beautiful pictures! Please buy a telephoto lens to record the name (or flag) of the vessel.

Each vessel is individual and their name provides a wealth on information.

/reading...travel...etc

#44 Rayra

Heh. Just the venues where they couldn't give away tickets.

hee-hee

/pretending I didn't notice...

1 Cattt

They're, dammit. PIMF.

#35 J.D.

Nothing from nothing is nothing.

Hey, Bob's Kid, SwampMan's school starts next week!

/Teenage kids have been hugging him in stores, restaurants, etc. and telling him that they're going to try to get into his class. He tells them how mean he's going to be, but they don't seem to care (or believe it).

ROFL. Bob's Kid, I'm starting to wonder if you're there all by yourself, or you have distraction in that house.

/One that snores on the La-Z-Boy and hogs the remote control.

Don't I just wish. Well...maybe not he La-Z-Boy and the remote, but...

Dixie Chicks play to half empty arena.

Gee who would've thunk their anti-Americanism wouldn't have played well with the NASCAR crowd?

I should clean my apartment but I'm too lazy.

Hey! The Dixie Chicks have convictions.

/I keep my place squeaky clean..

Hey, Bob's Kid, SwampMan's school starts next week!

Oh gosh...I still have 9 more days of summer school!

/Teenage kids have been hugging him in stores, restaurants, etc. and telling him that they're going to try to get into his class. He tells them how mean he's going to be, but they don't seem to care (or believe it).

That NEVER happens to me! I am such a bitch, everyone thinks I am the meanest teacher on campus.

Got a nasty note today from a mom because I told her daughter there was no way she could pass with her grade the way it is now. The mom said I was a terrible teacher for making her daughter feel like she couldn't pass. Ummm...so what should I do? String her along thinking she might be able to pass when I know she couldn't pass if she got 100% on every remaining assignment?

Sheesh. Sometimes it just don't pay enough to even go to work!

The sailors on those supertankers are known to say "Brandy, you're a fine girl...What a good wife you would be...Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea"

59 Dirk

Nooo! That song...

#40 Amalie

One sunk off Cape May NJ.

Sticks up out of the ocean

[Link: www.sunsetbeachnj.com...]

59 Dirk Diggler

Damn you straight to heck.

I keep my place squeaky clean..

What do you want a cookie?

/snarkasm ;-O

Damn you straight to heck.

Yeah--I'm gonna be singing that song in my dreams now...thanks a lot, man.

:)

#58 Bob's Kid

You need a better class of parents. When one boy cut his finger off in SwampMan's class, his daddy said the boy always did have an attention problem.

63 Dirk

You remind of someone.. let's see... who is it?

Snidely Whiplash?

Watching Leno -- has some idiots on -- "main contributor to global warming is CO₂...

So tired of the lunacy...

I think all this head has addled my brain.

Ok... can't resist...

Head on, applied directly to the forhead!~ x3

Bob's Kid, son gets $65/hr and he never went to college.

/I should have skipped out on college and concentrated on welding.

#25

I sat on the beach at Point Reyes for hours on Saturday and didn't see a single supertanker.

But you still got enjoy Point Reyes National Seashore, perhaps my favorite place in the world. So consider yourself lucky!

main contributor to global warming is CO2...

And I always thought it was George Soros.

#59 Dirk...

Oh god, now we got bad karoke.

I am going for another beer.

Is it only me that these pics of charles remind me of WW2 submarine movies.

68 JB

Nooo! Now I have that horrible ad in my head...

Hell, she was probably out there waiting for a tanker to bust open so she could scoop up some oil.

/Those sea birds make real good scoops to get the oil into containers.

♪ Amalie you're a fine girl...
What a good wife you'd be...
Especially if you cleaned Dirk Diggler's place for free...

(dooda-dit-dooda), (dit-dooda-dit-dooda)♪

Now if we just had a pirate ship, we could all be rich.

Three oil tankers? Who needs the Spanish treasure fleet.

You need a better class of parents. When one boy cut his finger off in SwampMan's class, his daddy said the boy always did have an attention problem.

Sigh. Not in this state.

We need more people in this world who can do things like welding. And plumbing. And electrical. But do we teach those things in schools? Nooo.

I think all this head has addled my brain.

Ok... can't resist...

Head on, applied directly to the forhead!~ x3

I wouldn't have resisted either.

One o' them days.

67 christheprofessor

Which explains why back in prehistoric times, we had jungles in Canada and the central US was an ocean. All those dinosaurs with their SUV's and dirty factories.

/wait a sec

I always dreamed of growing up and marrying a porn star...

But you still got enjoy Point Reyes National Seashore, perhaps my favorite place in the world. So consider yourself lucky!

Oh, I do, every time I visit. It's one of my fav places to go, too!

It's not usually as hot there as it was on Saturday, though--I was surprised by the hordes on the beaches. It was more like SoCal than Point Reyes, which as I am sure you know, is cold and foggy in July as often as not!

#78 Kragar

I know... Sad, isn't it? Here's a great article that another Lizard posted (wish I could remember who) about it.. Pay particular attention to the graph...

From Red Meat Conservative

Major News: PM Olmert announced today that the Islamonazi attacks have not detered him from his plans to surrender the heart of the country to the terrorists and deport 100,000 Jews, eventhough it is clear that the Gaza and Lebanon retreat were the cause of this! Worst of all, he said this in front of a crowd of refugees that he threw out of Gaza. Handing over Judea and Samaria will exacerbate their strategic peril 100 fold. The only explanation is that liberalism is a sick mental disoreder. Olmert must be thrown out immediately! How can one who plans to deport more Jews and create a violent terror state be trusted with the responsibility of fighting the very enemy that he seeks to appease?!

#79 Amalie
I always dreamed of growing up and marrying a porn star...

And if you had a male child would he be born pre-hung?

I think the rabid little anti-semite Kos Kidz need some love in their hearts:

Love is but a song to sing
Fear's the way we die
You can make the mountains ring
Or make the angels cry
Though the bird is on the wing
And you may not know why

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

Some may come and some may go
We shall surely pass
When the one that left us here
Returns for us at last
We are but a moment's sunlight
Fading in the grass

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

If you hear the song I sing
You will understand (listen!)
You hold the key to love and fear
All in your trembling hand
Just one key unlocks them both
It's there at you command

Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now

...assuming they have hearts?

#74 SwampWoman

/Those sea birds make real good scoops to get the oil into containers.

They're a bitch to wring out though.

#73 Amalie

I have been doing some home repairs for an elderly couple in Scottsdale. Every noon she feeds me and we watch Fox news. After seeing that commercial for the umpteenth time, the 83 year old husband said,"They got headon for a head ache, back on for a back ache, what if you have a pain a little lower? What you gonna call it?"

His darling little 78 year old wife looked at him and said "Hardon?"

We laughed till we cried.

#85 kragar

They're a bitch to wring out though.

Really? One quick wring of the neck works pretty well for my seabirds.

Well, okay, pelicans can be tough.

79 Amalie

I always dreamed of growing up and marrying a porn star...

Its over-rated.

87 SwampWoman

Yeah, but the bodies and legs just dont twist right. Hard to get the last drops off them.

Very cool:

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

Why Christians must support Israel
JOHN C. HAGEE, THE JERUSALEM POST Jul. 23, 2006

Last week, more than 3,000 Christians representing all 50 states gathered in Washington for a truly historic event.

Without the traditional rally on the Capitol steps or demonstrations that bring Washington traffic to a halt, Christians United for Israel held a banquet saluting the State of Israel and meeting with members of Congress to urge greater support for the Jewish state.

Christians United for Israel, or CUFI, is not a lobbying group; we are a national Christian organization that urges stronger US support for Israel, especially in light of growing international tensions.

Delegates came to Washington at their own expense to exercise their right to meet with members of Congress.

Since its founding in February, CUFI has attracted members at an amazing rate. I believe that is because we perceive Israel to be facing threats of historic proportions.

From Hamas and Hizbullah at its doorstep to the nuclear threat by Iran's president to wipe Israel off the map, Israel confronts graver dangers than at any time since it was founded in May 1948.

IT IS MY view that Christians have a biblical responsibility to support Israel in the face of this aggression, and CUFI is the organization that will allow us to express that support with one strong voice.

Specifically, we will be asking Congress to:

# allow Israel to continue its anti-terrorism operations in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere as long as it deems them necessary. We believe Israel has as much right to pursue and destroy terrorists in Gaza or Lebanon as the United States does in Afghanistan and Iraq;

# avoid putting pressure on Israel to restrain its response against Hamas and Hizbullah;

# pass the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act, which prohibits US aid to Hamas until it renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel;

# renew the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, which would deny Iran the funds it needs to pursue nuclear weapons;

# tell the Bush administration to pressure Iran to stop stalling and accept international incentives for suspending its work on uranium enrichment.

DO WE AGREE with every bit of US policy toward Israel? No, we don't. But we do support the right of a free and democratic State of Israel to make its own decisions about security and borders without pressure from the United States or anyone else.

I cannot speak for others; I can only accept the biblical view that God will bless those who bless the Jewish people.

With that mandate, Christians cannot remain silent while Israel and its people are threatened.

We came to Washington in that spirit.
- JTA

The writer is the founder and senior pastor at the Cornerstone Church of San Antonio, president of John Hagee Ministries and founder and national chairman of Christians United For Israel (www.cufi.org).

Aw, Kragar.

Were you disappointed in love with your porn star?

86 JB

LOL LOL... Hysterical!

christheprofessor

And of course you are aware that in the last 8 years the graph has been flat. And doesn't warming increase water flow into North American rivers? That is generally a good thing (except for New Orleans, which I feel is a failed city with strangely stupid and corrupt leadership).

I always dreamed of growing up and marrying a porn star...

Its over-rated.

Pay no heed to that man.

67 CTP

Howdy!

The Human Lima Bean is checking in.

What do you think about global warming being a precursor to the magnetic poles flipping and or migrating?

/just a thought

#89 Kragar

Yeah, but the bodies and legs just dont twist right. Hard to get the last drops off them

Oh, dang. I just left 'em on the oily side and used 'em to light up bonfires.

Yeah, but the bodies and legs just dont twist right. Hard to get the last drops off them.

Are we still talking about porn stars?

91 SwampWoman

Yup. She'ld come back from work and say, "Honey, I'd love to, but if I see another one today ..."

Global warming...

...yeah, that's Bush's fault!

Nightline should have had you on, Charles... Kos was a waste of airtime.

The corporate sponsors of that episode oughta demand a refund.

#86 jbinnout
God I hate that commercial.(The head on one, the hardon is OK) And that "Tell me oil company..." creeps me out.MUTE. Love the Gecko tho.

95 unclassifiable

magnetic poles flipping and or migrating?

The Polish are so talented.

# 95 unclassifiable

Unrelated.

#90,

Personally, I've always thought the 'Bless those who Bless You and Curse those " etc should be incentive enough for anyone ...

but evidently not.

#93 pat

That wouldn't surprise me... Still -- flat, up or down, one can't say man is causing it...

#95 unclassifiable

Hey! My favorite unclassifiable human lima bean! How the hell are you?

I am nowhere near qualified to judge that... When was the last time the poles changed (if ever?)?

#98 Kragar

Yup. She'ld come back from work and say, "Honey, I'd love to, but if I see another one today ..."

Ahhh. Good point! (I've seen the mechanics with their cars that never get fixed; guess not getting paid for it kinda tends to discourage a person.)

#101, pat,

That's funny, because I decided today that I should write those people and let them know that I'd never ever buy any of their products until they pulled that freakin' commercial.

Damn! (wipes tears) All most of my fave posters are here! Should I open that bottle of wine? ;)

Chris

Pull that cork..

:D

#95 unclassifiable

Flipping poles. There was a theory around in the 70's that Ice-Ages caused the phenomenon. But nothing really matches the magnetic evidence. Current theory has the molten core demagnetizing and then re-magnetizing or something like that. Pole flipping does not appear to be associated with mass death(and that is also strange). I know no more.

Well folks got to call it a night.

Nite Amalie and all the lizardoid minions.

I am nowhere near qualified to judge that... When was the last time the poles changed (if ever?)?

Around 750k years ago or thereabouts.

I'm off to bed. Carry on nobly without me, okay?

# 108 ctp

To the IDF, may they continue to winnow the ranks of the party of baal ...

SALUD!

# 105 ctp

The magnetic poles have reversed many times. That's what caused that magnetic striping on the seafloors.

#26 Ward Cleaver 7/24/2006 09:04PM PDT

#4 massachusetts republican

Like I said earlier today, I'll rejoice when the Saudis cap their last well. The way they burn through money, they'll be broke in no time.

There is more to it than bankruptcy.
They cannot feed their current population without the imported food that oil money buys. Their population is larger than their domestic resources can support.

111 Dirk

Night Dirk!

Always love to see you...

#113 Buckaroo 7/24/2006 09:56PM PDT

# 108 ctp

To the IDF, may they continue to winnow the ranks of the party of baal ...

SALUD!

SALUD!

#113 Buckaroo

To the IDF! (raises glass) Salud!

#114 Mike C.

I admit total igorance on that subject... Thanks for the head up -- never new that. Got any good links (in layman's terms?) for it? I'd appreciate (I am into science...).

#116 Amalie

SALUD!

#112 Bob's Kid

I'm off to bed. Carry on nobly without me, okay?

I dunno how to do dat. Can I carry on ignobly instead?

119 Chris

SALUD!

:clink:

103 Mike C

I throw it out there because I really do not know. I have read of evidence of the poles migrating and they are currently migrating at an accelerated (albeit slight by human standards) rate. I am interested as to why you dismiss it out of hand.

105 CTP

I am well and catching a very small amount of online time. Maybe I can stay somewhere with reliable connections for a while.

As for the last time the poles flipped -- not sure -- a very long time ago -- researching now. Hopefully I can get back to you on that.

102 Amalie

Great joke ;)

#108, ctp,

Absolutely! But carefully, because the foil wrapper on that screw cap can give you a nasty cut...
/just kiddin'/

#114 Mike C.

Again, I am completely ignorant of that stuff...

Does the magnetic striping on the seafloor affect compasses (say, if you were on the ocean) in any appreciable way?

#113 Buckaroo

To the IDF, may they continue to winnow the ranks of the party of baal ...

Oh, well, I'll raise my lil' medicinal bottle of Jack Daniels to that.

/cough medicine, doncha know.

Now for something on the light side:

Green Garden Grass Snakes!

Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not rattlesnakes.

A couple in Sweetwater, Texas, had a lot of potted plants, and during a cold snap, the wife was bringing a lot of them indoors to protect them from a possible freeze. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants, and when it warmed up, it slithered out and the wife saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream. Her husband, who getting dressed after a shower, ran out into the living room in his boxer shorts to see what the problem was. She told him there was a snake under the sofa. He got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog came and cold-nosed him on the leg. He thought the snake had bitten him and he fainted. His wife thought he had a heart attack, so she called an ambulance.

The attendants rushed in and loaded him on a stretcher and started carrying him out. About that time, the snake came out from under the sofa. The emergency medical technician saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher. That's when the man broke his leg and why he wound up in the hospital. The wife still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called on a neighbor man. He volunteered to capture the snake. He armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking around under the sofa. Soon he decided it was gone and told the woman, who sat down on the sofa in relief. But in relaxing, her hand dangled in between the cushions, where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and the neighbor man, seeing her lying there passed out, tried to use CPR to revive her.

The neighbor's wife, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on the woman's mouth and slammed her husband in the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking him out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches. An ambulance was again called, and it was determined that the injury required hospitalization. The noise woke the woman from her dead faint and she saw her neighbor lying on the floor with his wife bending over him, so she assumed he had been bitten by the snake. She went into the kitchen, brought back a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down the man's throat. By now the police had arrived. They saw the unconscious man, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken brawl had occurred. They were about to arrest them all, when the two women tried to explain how it all happened over a little green snake. They called an ambulance, which took away the neighbor and his sobbing wife.

Just then the snake crawled out from under the sofa. One of the policemen drew his revolver and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of an end table that was on one side of the sofa. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered, and as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes. The other policeman tried to beat out the flames and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog, who, startled, jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid hitting the dog and smashed into the parked police car, setting it on fire. Meanwhile, the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house was ablaze.

Dirk's probably got a movie shoot tommorrow.Get a good nite's sleep etc.

Continued:

Neighbors had called the fire department, and the arriving fire truck had started raising its ladder as they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and caused the electricity to go out, and also disconnected the telephones in a ten-square city block area.

Time passed... Both men were discharged from the hospital, the house was rebuilt, the police acquired a new police car, and all was right with the world once again.

About a year later, the couple was watching TV and the weatherman announced a cold snap for that night. The husband asked his wife if she thought they should bring in their plants for the night.

She shot him.

(NOTE: None of this true, so do not pass this along as such, but it sure is funny!)

#44 rayra 7/24/2006 09:14PM PDT

#5 Duane 7/24/2006 08:52PM PDT
poor Dixie Chicks, so many empty seats at their concerts:

Dixie Chicks play to half empty arena.

LOL!
I thought they cancelled that tour.

They cancelled (they said postponed to make it sound better) most southern and midwestern dates and concentrated on the north and Canada. And they kicked off this tour in London.

#123 tradewind

Heh. It's gonna take Tin foil to get through this thick skin... ;)

126 steve

HFS that's what caused global warming?

I'll be damned.

OK. Nevermind the pole flipping stuff.

#126 steve

Reminds me of the story of the husband who climbed on his roof to do repairs with a rope tied to him and tied off to the car's bumper. His wife didn't see the rope and drove off and you can guess the rest.

# 118 ctp

Try Wikipedia first. I mostly find crappy links to bogus stuff. But het - you've got university resources and can probably get easily to better stuff than what you'll find on the ordinary web.

Did somebody post music?

I could walk across Kansas in a New York minute
Climb the Colorado Rockies in the Fall
Crawl across Arizona like a flat land lizard
If I thought it'd do me any good at all

I could swim Lake Erie with my hands tied behind me
Eat a West Virginia coal miner's shoes
Drink the Mississippi River
If it took a month of Sundays
Just to prove my love to you...

I remember well the first time that I kissed you
‘Cause things ain’t been the same ever since
Got me thinkin’ I could eat a 10-penny nail
And spit out a barbed wire fence
Ain’t another livin’ creature gonna ever come between us
I’d fight lions, snakes, and go-rillas too
If that ain’t enough, I’d start all over
Just to prove my love to you..

I could ride my pony through the eye of a hurricane
Climb Mount Everest on a string
Jump Niagara Falls in a burnin’ barrel
And bring you back the hoops for a ring
Rassle alligators in the Okeefenokee
There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do
If you’d just say the word
I’d catch that great speckled bird
And bring it back to you..

I remember well the first time that I kissed you
‘Cause things ain’t been the same ever since
Got me thinkin’ I could eat a 10-penny nail
And spit out a barbed wire fence
Ain’t another livin’ creature gonna ever come between us
I’d fight lions, snakes, and go-rillas too
If that ain’t enough, I’d start all over
Just to prove my love to you..

Hezbollah rejects ceasefire plan put forward by United States

See all you peace people, Hezbollah wants Israel to keep kicking their ass!

/go IDF, thin the herd to the point of extinction!

Speaking of climate change, wasn't it so nice to see Mann et al. get spanked on their "warmest in 1000 years" allegation? I've never been so happy to see a broken hockey stick.

The summary
The report

Mann et al., misused certain statistical methods in their studies, which inappropriately produce hockey stick
shapes in the temperature history.

#133 Mike C.

True... I'll check it out (if I think of it)...

Song Lyrics?

People say we are sane
lock your doors and play the games
out in a constant search of fame
if we tell them of our dreams
some but bright and subtle schemes
others true and honest means
oh you people out there
with your marshmallow wills
your tragic days
and your tranquillizer pills can't you see?
people got to be believed
words have got to be perceived
won't you listen to us please?
maybe to you it's another day
do you want to see the sun
coming up in gray?
tell me what the difference is
between your life and pay
does the fire of your optimism
flare up in the dark?
can you come to me with open arms
and strike the finite spark of love?
could be a case of velleity
on your part my part
or anyone who thinks they see
through a decade an epoch
or maybe even centuries
what do you think could be
your reality?
does your breath go away
for anything you plainly see?
talking to God or going on the nod
or freaking out fancy free
take your time in the morning sun
it lasts for half a day
speak your mind to your only son
if that's what you have to say to him
I know I'm living in utopia
with a strangely cloying
absence of euphoria
and the rapidly increasing senses of dementia
the anticipation in my life
now lends an ear
and I know I gotta choose
gonna win or gonna lose
maybe that's the fear
I only hope that the choice of death
will be mine to make and clear

Who cares if the poles flip?

/with GPS, does anyone even need a compass anymore?

#135,

Looks that way, but WHY? Surely they know that militarily, there's just no way this can end well for them. Israel is not the US under Clinton, and will not cut and run.

What is the link to the Dennis Prager interview of earlier today?

# 122 unclassifiable

For one thing, the time scale of some serious climate changes is substantialy shorter than the time scale of pole reversals. A quick search of the web turns up all sorts of pseudo-scientic speculation, but I sure didn't find anything very solid looking. I suspect you would need to look in better sources, such as the Journal of Geophysical Research, before you got to that stuff. In any case, there have been massive (by human standards) climate changes in all directions since the last pole reversal.

#141 neocon

There is a thread below that has the link to Pragger's site... I had no luck when I tried it...

#140 tradewind

Looks that way, but WHY? Surely they know that militarily, there's just no way this can end well for them. Israel is not the US under Clinton, and will not cut and run.

Probably listening to the Europeans. Too bad.

# 124 ctp

I don't know if the sea floor striping affects a normal compass reading, but there are all sort of irregularities in the magnet field, which is one reason you need to set the compass declination to a value appropriate to your location. You can detect the sea floor stiping with survey magnetometers.

Democrats predict Bolton filibuster

So what?

/even if they amange to block his appointment for the second time, what're the odds they'll go on recess again?

#145 Mike C.

My car has a magnetic compass, and the owner's manual indicates how it should be set, given where one is (of coures, I knew magnetic north was different from true north, because I was fortunate enough to go to school before the moonbats took over).

That said, I wasn't aware of the bottom striping... Always learn something new here...

#146 Killian Bundy

Dodds is a notorious braggart, often wrong. He is a drunk who appears sober thru years of practice. His pretensions to insight are, frankly, ludicrous.

#140 tradewind

Looks that way, but WHY?

Because they're brainwashed from birth that they're moths and Israel is the open flame?

/it's one gigantic, self-perpetuating death cult, even if the estimates are correct that about 10% of the billion+ [bigoted word]s are "radicalized", it's still a huge worldwide problem

Killian

From Powerline re Bolton. Interesting.

[Link: www.powerlineblog.com...]

OT Talk about getting up close and personal.

NBC said that in one incident the Israeli Air Force bombed the home of a bank manager as a warning to other Lebanese bankers not to deal with Hizbullah.

/just love it when people use brains and brawn

#146 Killian Bundy

Powerline had something to say on that earlier...

Pat

Damn you! Beat me to the punch...

/just kidding on the "damn you!" part, of course...

btw the Powerline thing...

I see a nice pic of Ann Coulter there... Can somebody please get her a sandwich!

#139 Killian Bundy

I like to hike low-tech. Go easy on those poles, please.

Didn't mean to run everybody off... :(

# 156 ctp

Eh, we're just killing the bottle ...
:-)

#155 fluffy

I like to hike low-tech. Go easy on those poles, please.

/can't navigate using the sun and stars, eh?

#157 Buckaroo

Heh. Dammit, I asked if I should open it, I heard "Yes!", then I was drinkin' alone...

# 160 ctp

Hey -- we toasted ...
:-)

I thought the poles had flipped when the compass in my trucks trip computer malfunctioned: East was West and vice versa. I always thought it would be a north/south shift - kinda like Billary carpetbagging in New York State - but no: It seems the Kennedys will move to LA and Schwartzenegger will go to NYC. Creepy.

Fortunately, it was just some firmware corruption and a reset fixed the problem. I thought for sure it was an end-times sign.

/Steven Wright

158 rayra

Dude! Awesome... ...

#153 christheprofessor

Damn you! Beat me to the punch...

Your links were to different blog entries.

/both interesting

I'm here...

Rayra's post:

His buttocks were just so firm...

Liza Droids: I have a meeting in beautiful downtown Bangkok, but I should be back for full participation by about 0400 AM, YOUR time...

Hold the fort!

Karridine

Buckaroo

We workin' on it... ;)

I just saw Tom Delay on Neil Kavuto. The camera turns and he is SMILING. How creepy. Can't any politician in this country have a serious discussion without SMILING? If someone in my office did this to me I would call an ambulance and fire them at the same time. (Now laughing out loud is OK. If appropriate)

Bangkok Dangerous!

# 146 K B

Uh, IIRC he can't be recess appointed more tham once ...

#159 Killian Bundy

We get our fair share of clouds here. Actually, I have been meaning to ask my father-in-law to teach me a bit about celestial navigation. He is a retired Coast Officer, so I'm sure he knows a bit.

#164 Killian

Good catch... My bad... Though I thought the text it would be the same...

Regardless, Bolton rules! (hoists wine)...

It's worse than we thought:

If you’ve ever read the James Bond novel “Moonraker” _{not the goofy movie} you might remember that it begins with M calling Bond into his study to tell Bond that he has just played cards at his club with the director of a European rocketry program, Sir Hugo Drax, and caught him cheating. It freaked him out enough to put Bond on the case, because Drax cheating at cards made him wonder whether Drax was doing something screwy with the rockets as well.

Logically, of course, this proves that Glenn Greenwald is working for SPECTRE.

I believe that those supertankers, as pictured, are pointed just about at North Korea, given great circle routing. Oh, what a coincidence! Here's my latest post:

Kim Jong Il goes to Washington
  Okay, it's a scenario, and one which I do not relish. That little turd is about thirty years overdue to be strung up by his ankles from a lamp-post. He is certainly not overdue for some Presidential treatment.

But the opportunity presents itself for the President to use the awesome power of his office to make a real change in an otherwise stagnant situation. Kim Jong-Il wants bilateral talks? He wants to sit at the big table? Fine. Bring his ass to Washington.

Put him in a room with W, and let the good times roll. President Bush could tell that dime-store dictator that if he doesn't mend his ways today, there will be Hell to pay tomorrow.

There is an increasing rumble in Congress for the president to tell Kim Jong-Il to calm down or be "calmed". Senator Joe Biden (D) thinks that we should tell him directly, "If you do anything too stupid, we will AN-NI-HIL-ATE you." It is a joy to hear the Senator speak those words--listen on the 16 July 2006 edition of Meet The Press.

Senator Biden and (of all people) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are in very close agreement as to what to do with (or to) Kim Jong-Il. Newt: "If you put a missile on the launch pad, we'll take it down, and if you fire ONE ROUND into South Korea, your regime is OVER."

They agree that these are the things which President Bush should be saying to Kim Jong-Il. For added effect, Bush could slap the little bastard on his fat cheek to punctuate each point. What's Kim going to do--call Jan Egeland?

That petty tyrant should depart U.S. soil afraid, angry, ashamed, astonished, and absolutely convinced that every morning he should mumble a bitter "thank you" to President Bush for not having him killed the night before.

The six-party talks have been a kid-gloves evolution designed more to force our slow-footed nominal allies into actually helping than to coerce Kim to do anything. If those talks have been a failure, the answer is not to be even more kid-gloved with the unspeakable horror from beyond the 38th parallel. It is well past time to show this human plague how lucky he was to have been at six-party talks. I now support bilateral talks between America and North Korea, but only with that demonic piece of shit placed firmly into Receive Mode.

Israel isn't taking any crap from the Islamic Party of God; why is America being pushed around by a small man with bad hair? The problem is not that Kim has too little hope--the problem is that he has far too much hope, and the United States is derelict in our duty to remove that hope from him.

ctp,

Hope the vino was enjoyed...
I had phone call from sister in ER with my nephew having anaphylactic reaction to some Chinese food, so hope you drank mine.

(I saw that Cavuto too and laughed at the headon commercial reference... evidently it's as bad as I think).

Well, all is good in the world... Just got this e-mail:

How are u? The good news are that this obstacle can be overcome by you, the real man. With all the reasons combated, Extra-Time is the unmatched comprehensive non-hormonal solution. You tried condoms, pauses, alcohol, but nothing worked. Eager to find a way to stop this premature thing forever? Check up here:

Charles is going to be on Prager on the local affiliate in afew minutes -- who-hoo!

/shaddup -- it's not my fault I live in the middle of the Pacific and the show is aired delayed ...

#166 Carridine

I can't help it. It is a compulsion. Forgive me.(Belushi in the Blues Brothers).

"One Night In Bangkok"

Bangkok!
Oriental setting
And the city don't know what the city is getting
The cr�me de la cr�me of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner

Time flies doesn't seem a minute
Since the Tyrolean spa has the chess boys in it
All change dom't you know that when you
Play at this level there's no ordianry venue

It's Iceland or the Philippines or Hastings or this place

One night in Bankok and the worlds's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
And if you're lucky then the god's a she
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One town is very like another
When you head's down over your pieces brother

Tea girls warm and sweet (warm sweet)
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite
Get Thai'd you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline sunshine

One night in Bankok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bankok an the tough guys tumble
Can't bee to careful with your comapny
I can feel the devil walking next to me

Siam's gotta be the witness
To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
This grips me more than would a
Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

And thank god I'm only watching the game
Controlling it

I don't see you guys rating
The kind of mate I'm contemplating
I'd let you watch I would invite you
But the queens wee use would not excite you

So you'd better go back to your bars
your temples
your massage parlours

One night in Bankok and the worlds's your oyster
The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
You'll find a god in every golden cloister
A little flesh a little history
I can feel an angel sliding up to me

One night in Bankok makes a hard man humble
Not much between despair and ecstasy
One night in Bankok an the tough guys tumble
Can't bee to careful with your comapny
I can feel a devil walking next to me

#175 tradewind

Don't leave us hanging, dude... I assume your nephew's okay?

#156 CTP

Have not run off. Just searching for a picture of a Polish gymnast for Amalie.

...not really a lot of that out there.

#179,

(I wouldn't be here)... still waiting for call back to say if he stays or they get to go home..., she thinks it will be okay, they don't seem too panicked (sister's words). He's done this before once or twice (he's 16).

Did you guys read/see the story on those two 15 year old Ruskie jugglers? WOW (from the man who reads too much).

#170 Buckaroo

Uh, IIRC he can't be recess appointed more tham once ...

Well, that would suck, got a linky for that?

/or do I have to look for it?

#181 tradewind

Surely you are aware that after puberty this condition either gets much better or much worse? I'm sure Amalie or Swampwomen can elucidate.

#181 tradewind

That's good to hear... Gotta be scary as hell, though. What is he allergic to?

# 183 K B

From your own link -- "If Bolton is not confirmed, his appointment would expire in the fall."

#174, re the ronery dictator,

why is America being pushed around by a small man with bad hair?

I think it has a lot to do with his choice of human shields, as in SK.
But yeah, you're right.

pat ... tradewind

The best course of action would be for the kid to see an allergist...

#139 Killian Bundy

Who cares if the poles flip?

Actually, the poles are one effect of the molten spinning core (we think). Another effect is the fact that the Earth is not bathed in high-energy radiation thanks to the magnetosphere.

No magnet, no poles, no magnetosphere. I, for one, heartily greet our new W-chromosomal masters!

#188,

They had to scoot to ER because his throat was swelling up, and he had long ago quit carrying an epi pen... he went through all that allergist thing and it was chicken, but the past few years he had been thought to have outgrown it.

Guess not.

But that's a thought for Kim and Ahmanutjob: wonder if they have any food allergies..

'God told us to fight Ethiopia'

Mogadishu - Somali Islamist leaders have told protesters on Monday that God had commanded them to fight Ethiopian troops sent to defend the Horn of Africa nation's virtually powerless interim government.

In the latest anti-Ethiopia rally, crowds of mostly young men and a few veiled women gathered at a football stadium in the Islamist-controlled capital. Some protesters set fire to an Ethiopian flag to cries of "God is great!"

/well. I'm pretty sure I know which side the CIA is putting their money on

158 rayra,

LOL!

And I always thought Fred Phelps would be a skinny, bent, crooked looking guy. Turns out he could blend in at any truck stop, or he looks like any old guy out mowing his lawn on a Saturday. Banality of Evil and all that.

Much respect to the Aussie reporter, who is exceptionally skilled at keeping a straight face and using proper comic timing.

#189 haakondahl

The poles have flipped before. Bush must have traveled back in time via his Halliburton Time Machine!

#186 Buckaroo

From your own link -- "If Bolton is not confirmed, his appointment would expire in the fall."

Sure, but then, theoretically, Congress goes on recess again and Bush reapponts him.

/I'll look it up

#191 Killian

From your link:

An 18-year-old student Fozia Bashir said: "I've never taken part in any war or battle. But, I swear I'm ready to defend my country against Ethiopia."

How sad is that?

# 194 K B

I don't have a link on hand, but IIRC you can't re-appoint via recess appt. ...

Let's face it. The reason NK is still around is because they are China's rabid pit bull.

RE: Fred Phelps

I imagine Phelps is a latent gay. To prove to himself that he isn't he has chosen this path.

Pit bulls have been known to turn around and rip their owners to shreds..

Re: Bolton

Fine, let 'em filibuster. But make it a real filibuster and let us be man enough to hold them to it. Bush has maybe one more Supreme Court nomination left, circumstance willing, let's hold their pansy-ass feet to the fire...

#189 haakondahl

No magnet, no poles, no magnetosphere. I, for one, heartily greet our new W-chromosomal masters!

So, if the poles flip, is that a bad thing, is there a W chromosome? I took a lot of genetics and I don't recall that, but it was a long time ago.

/I need to know whether we're all doomed or not, I have things to do this week

#148,

heh... the only ' bruising fight ' that Dodd is capable of mixing it up in is the one he picks with Teddy K at Au Bar over who gets the waitress onto the table first.

Fred Phelps is a hating loathsome scumbag, his followers are even worse.

# 198 Am

Now that's just sad ...

/Is he married? Can you imagine waking up with that every day?
:-0

Buckaroo

Yeah, Phelps is married, his wife was in the video.

# 205 Am

So, is she just as ugly and bitter?
:-0

More Fright the Future at Reuters:

Mideast violence may raise odds of US attack: experts

The tenor of this one is as craven and defeatist as can be imagined. Now we're making the muslims REALLY angry, it turns out. Sources include: "some experts", "former officials", "other experts", "they", "one European counterterrorism official", "Michael Scheuer, a former CIA counterterrorism official who ran the agency's bin Laden unit", "some former intelligence officers", "one former U.S. official, who remains up to date on counterterrorism strategy" (who spoke on condition of anonymity), "a US counterterrorism official"...

Well, you get the drift, I trust...

Get this:

Israel's attempt to cripple Hizbollah in Lebanon may have strengthened the Shi'ite organization by winning it fresh political support among moderate Arabs and Muslims, former officials and other experts said.

Well, those wouldn't be moderate Arabs then, would they? And it's curious they use the term "Arab". Hmmm. Wierod...

#200,

Bolton has gotten pretty popular with the public lately... I bet that enough citizens would write their Sen. urging them to support him so that they'd be wary of nuking him.

And Voinovich has flipped, so I think he'd be confirmed.

Although the causes of homophobia are unclear, several psychoanalytic explanations have emerged from the idea of homophobia as an anxiety-based phenomenon. One psychoanalytic explanation is that anxiety about the possibility of being or becoming a homosexual may be a major factor in homophobia. For example, de Kuyper (1993) has asserted that homophobia is the result of the remnants of homosexuality in the heterosexual resolution of the Oedipal conflict. Whereas these notions are vague, psychoanalytic theories usually postulate that homophobia is a result of repressed homosexual urges or a form of latent homosexuality. Latent homosexuality can be defined as homosexual arousal which the individual is either unaware of or dent. Psychoanalysts use the concept of repressed or latent homosexuality to explain the emotional malaise and irrational attitudes displayed by some individuals who feel guilty about their erotic interests and struggle to deny and repress homosexual impulses. In fact, West stated, 'when placed in a situation that threatens to excite their own unwanted homosexual thoughts, they overreact with panic or anger." Slaby ( 1994 ) contended that anxiety about homosexuality typically does not occur in individuals who are same-sex oriented, but it usually involves individuals who are ostensibly heterosexual and have difficulty integrating their homosexual feelings or activity. The relationship between homophobia and latent homosexuality has not been empirically investigated and is one of the purposes of the present study.

Try again...

206 Buckaroo

She is just as vile, vicious, and hate filled as Phelps is. His followers are mostly family members.

#207,

Sure. If we just make nice with the [bigoted word]s, they'll leave us alone, like they have in Britain, Spain,...oh wait.

Nevermind..

Seems like the Bush administration has been busy thwarting 'em...they only have to get lucky once, so that sucks.

Someone should remind the appeaceniks that just because you feed the alligator doesn't mean he won't eat you in the end.

# 211 Am

Great -- a warped brady family and the LLL media give them air time ...

This morning I heard an interview where they discussed the Marines in Beirut..

Here was the tone:

So, President Reagan didn't put enough Marines in Beirut?

Answer: That's right, he put either put in too little to fight or too many to sacrifice the way he did...

#212 tradewind

Feeding alligators makes it a near certainty the alligator will become aggressive towards people.

/Florida swamp learnin'

#187 tradewind

I think it has a lot to do with his choice of human shields, as in SK.

You are quite right. The problem is that we (the world) have surrendered the battlefield to hostage-takers. The result is that now the battlefield is the world itself, and we are losing on all fronts except Iraq and Lebanon. And those are hardly settled issues.

The shittiest end of this thoroughly shitty deal is that the only way out is through a mountain of dead civilians--because we were unwilling to accept a molehill of dead civilians for far too long.

Containment, Appeasement, Rapprochement, Sanctions, Armistice, Sunshine Policy, Engagement, Withdrawal... All for Nothing. Time wasted, opportunities lost.

We have lost decades and allowed hundreds of millions to become hostages, in order not to ruffle the feathers of foul birds we should shoot, not feed.

And the peaceniks who for so long beat the drum against the defense of Democracy should be the first to die--they have killed millions of innocents by disarming those who would disarm evil.

Man, I'm in a mood. If I see a protester this afternoon, you'll see me on the news tonight. "Stubble-headed foreigner goes berserk at peaceful demonstration in Tokyo--locals bewildered, chant for peace".

Sigh.

#215 Beagle

Feeding alligators makes it a near certainty the alligator will become aggressive towards people.

/Florida swamp learnin'

Uh huh. And Florida construction people ALWAYS feed the gators in the new housing developments.

# 214 Am

"put in too little to fight or too many to sacrifice the way he did"

"Heads I win, tails you lose!"

/sounds like my ex ...
:-)

The worst of the offenders on TV are the Lebanese and Syrian "spokespersons."

The Syrians lie and deny any connection to Hezbollah or Iran. Now there is talk of negotiating with the Syrians. What a fucking joke.

The Last Full Measure

True memorials from patriots. How come we aren't seeing this in the MSM?

And the peaceniks who for so long beat the drum against the defense of Democracy should be the first to die--they have killed millions of innocents by disarming those who would disarm evil.

Disarm, hell. I think some people really do need killing.

158 rayra

You notice how that "he-man" Phelps had to have his women shield him from that reporter?

Maybe they know he can't really control his true feelings?

That was laugh out loud fun.

Thank you.

P.S. His wife is a vidiot.

Crap, here's the main link.

Oy.

#207 Salem

Yeah, it's a very strange Islamic template the media uses without explanation.

Can you imagine...?

"Today's strike against American troops in Iraq will probably anger moderate Americans. This will make terrorism against mosques and Islamic centers more likely. Poor Americans without jobs feel isolated and may choose to plant bombs on trains..."

#209 Amalie
Couldn't be that guys acting like girls are just creepy? And vice versa?

/Simpleton tells adults he is sorry for ruining the party. Slinks off to bed.

#217 SwampWoman

And Florida construction people ALWAYS feed the gators in the new housing developments.

Ours all had to be removed after making moves on pets and kids. I saw a ten footer going after a lab which was swimming in a lake.

/stupid Yankees

216 Haak

Hey... Did you know the UN still has a "peacekeeping" force in Lebanon and that it started in 1978?

Did you know that Syria only disengaged from Lebanon just over a year ago?

Do not blame us for what it happening over there. Hizbollah are agents of Iran and Syria. They are the ones using the Lebanese as their pawns in order to get Israel.

We have stood firm as Israel's ally.

#216 haakondahl

I said it the other day, in another context:

My thinking is that these leftist asshats see Bush and conservatives as more of a threat to their precious pet liberties (e.g., gay marriage) than the islamofascists are to their very lives. And selfish pricks that they are, they are willing to sacrifice the lives and liberties of countless millions currently under the islamofascist boot, siding with them, as long as they believe it will help bring socialist Democrats back to power in the US.

In other words, they know exactly what is going on -- they just don't care.

Arab-Americans in Detroit are ticked at how slowly the US has moved to import their Hezbollah sleeper-cell relatives bring their families out of danger in Lebanon:

[Link: today.reuters.com...]

Another one right up there with the Plame/Wilson non suit.

#201 KB

So, if the poles flip, is that a bad thing, is there a W chromosome? I took a lot of genetics and I don't recall that, but it was a long time ago.

No, but if the poles flip there might be!

#226 Beagle

Ours all had to be removed after making moves on pets and kids. I saw a ten footer going after a lab which was swimming in a lake.

/stupid Yankees

ROFL. Yep, nothin' gators like better than a dog. And really, gators eat everything smaller than they are. People just need to realize that they and their kids and their dogs are food and maybe they'd treat the water with the suspicion it deserves.

#196 Buckaroo

I don't have a link on hand, but IIRC you can't re-appoint via recess appt. ...

Are you sure?

Sorry, Senate PDF file, scroll to page six.

The President may make succesive recess appointments of the same or a different individual to a positiion.

/there's a question of full pay though, then again, who wouldn't donate to a fund to pay Bolton in the face of Bonkey opposition?

Damn those 500 T-72 tanks on the Syrian border make me drool. Nite.

'Night, all.

Nite Pat..

# 232 K B

link dead ...

But taking your excerpt at face value, it'll be a Merry Christmas then!
:-)

#217,

We have seen a few full-grown gators recently in the Delta, lazing around in Ole Man River like they were born here.
Theory is they are Katrina refugees.(really).

No less clear than people’s fondness for the missing towers is the admiration and gratitude they feel for those who worked as rescuers that day, especially the city’s police and firefighters, many of whom headed fearlessly into the burning towers knowing that they might never come out. Many memorials, whatever else they say, take full note of the sacrifices of these rescue workers. The Ground Zero memorial, by contrast, will only scantly acknowledge their heroism, incorporating the insignias of their departments into the work but nothing else.

#232 Killian Bundy

I'll contribute $1,000 to Mr. Bolton's salary, if needed...

Chris, I'll double your contribution! /Now I am really gone.

#238 Sarah

Did I miss something? That's a great quote...

Nice link, Sarahd

The town of Babylon, Long Island, lost 48 residents that day and wanted to make a place for the many family members and friends of the dead to mourn. So out of the local beachfront, the town carved a one-acre memorial site that includes headstones for all the victims, adorned with photos and words of remembrance from family members. In Brick, New Jersey, the town installed a statue by Brian Hanlon, Angel in Anguish, to remember its nine local victims. The beachfront statue shows an angel weeping over a tableau of the New York City skyline with the Twin Towers still standing and an American flag flying over them. “The sculpture reflects the anguish I feel, but the angel is also a powerful figure, and you feel, looking at it, that after she’s done mourning she’s going to get up and do what has to be done to carry on,” says Jennifer Sands, whose husband died in the Twin Towers. “None of us here in Brick has any remains or gravesites. This is our gravesite.”

#240 pat

You bastid! ;)

#233 pat

Are you now or have you ever been an A-10 pilot?

Well yeah, I mean these "experts" in the article don't say anything that the man on the street couldn't guess. I suspect that 9 out of ten of the "experts" were named David Morgan, which is the name of the guy who wrote the article. And using the word "Arab"? What are Christian Arabs going to go Jihad on Israel, too? And shia aren't strictly "Arab". are they? The article goes on to suggest that this would be an ideal time for Al Qaeda to strike us, though it hardly elaborates on why. They need to make up their minds. Are moderate muslims terrorists or not? Is there a civil war between sunnis and shia. or not? If so, is it remotely realistic to suppose they unanimously unite in an instant against Isreal? And if that's going to happen eventually, anyway, then why bide our time anymore? What is Mr. Newsgrub's solution?

Perhaps the most robust and stirring tribute to rescue efforts sits in Pennsauken, New Jersey. Town leaders commissioned artist Brian Hanlon, who specializes in traditional sculpture and comes from a long line of firefighters, to create a life-size tribute to the survivors and the rescue workers who helped save them in a monument titled We Shall Never Forget. The $250,000 memorial boasts five life-size figures, including a dazed stockbroker helped by an emergency medical technician, a policeman, a firefighter, and a rescue dog, set against an 8-by-30-foot polished marble wall, inscribed with a 9/11 timeline. At the statue’s foot, one reads the virtues that we honor in the rescuers: bravery, courage, and compassion.

#236 Buckaroo

link dead ...

It's a PDF file, although it worked for me.

/try right clicking on the link to download the fiie

Over and out, ya'll.

Go, IDF.

Just dropped by to post this bit of great news!

Over 70 years old? Then drink up as you will be healthier!

A STUDY of men and women age 70 to 79 found that those who downed one to seven alcoholic drinks a week had a significantly lower risk of heart problems or death than those who did not imbibe, researchers said today.

Why the apparent protective effect exists is not clear, the report from the US Institute on Ageing and the University of Florida said, but it does not appear to be related to speculation that alcohol consumption has an anti-inflammatory effect.

No harm then in starting earlier is there?

S D
Am

Further proof that as screwed up as NYC is, the surrounding [redder] cities understand that day and what it means ...

#241 christheprofessor

Here.

one to seven alcoholic drinks a week had a significantly lower risk of heart problems or death than those who did not imbibe, researchers said today.

Woo-hoo! Oh, wait. That was per week...

Nevermind...

#242 Amalie

Heartwarming to know that things are being done locally, not just at the big sites.

They really have not been forgotten or politicized.

Buckaroo

Yes, Buck, they are doing what is right. This whole WTC memorial has been tainted from the very beginning.

Personally I would like to see the site become a huge park and memorial. I know others want to see new trade towers built but for me I believe a place where over 3,000 people were murdered is forever hallow ground.

Time to go..

Night Buck..

#245 Salem

That too. The Druse and Christians in Lebanon are not thrilled Israel is pounding the South into little concrete bits, but they're not going to jihad.

And yes, the reflexive Israelophobia - if it exists - makes any solution outside war to completion a pipe dream.

did anyone catch the "metrosexual" Kos on Nightline a few minutes ago?
creeepy...

#251 Sarah D.

Thanks, a great link...

Never forget...

Did you catch Charles on Prager today? I onlyh caught about the last 10 minutes, but Internet willing, will listen to the rest...

253 Sarahd

I agree with you. I cannot imagine how the families must feel. Almost all of the victim's bodies were not retrievable so they have nothing, no coffin, no ashes, and a bunch of squabbling going on at the WTC site.

I hope it gives some of them some peace.

#257 christheprofessor

I got the last 20 minutes or so. It was a great segment.

#256 BringMeTuri

He's a little bug-eyed creep. But he has the fake political smile nailed.

#251 Sarah D

Thanks for that link - we don't hear anything about this here - I get my American news from LGF - hard to believe all the money involved at the WTC site with nothing to show for it, as compared to these very moving memorials in the suburbs done with far less

And hi there - hope you've settled in well in your your home!

#258 Amalie

Worse to me is the site in PA. But it's all bad, political - no one caring about those who died.

Which is why I'm heartened by this article, I had no idea.

Kofi wants to nurse the failure (UNIFIL) along another month. I guess Hiz'b'Allah needs some artillery spotters and guards for their bunkers.

#258 Amalie

I think it will give all of them some peace...

Army officer who sued given [HONORABLE] discharge
[Link: www.commercialappeal.com...]

...Stultz "had reviewed the situation and decided that it was in the best interests of the Army and the best interests of the soldier to grant the discharge."
Lt. Gen. James R. Helmly, former Army Reserve chief, issued a directive in 2004 saying that reserve officers who had completed eight years of service could resign if their career fields were at least 80 percent up to strength or if they had served in Iraq, Afghanistan or in a domestic security role since the 2001 terrorist attacks. Officers who demonstrated compelling personal hardships also would be considered, Helmly wrote.
Schwan, who was attending law school then, had served in Bosnia but met none of Helmly's criteria. He was also a military intelligence officer, a position that the Army said was in short supply. He had served six years on active duty before spending two in the Army Reserve.
In an interview on C-SPAN last month, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey called Helmly's resignation policy "unwise" and said it was under review. Harvey said reserve officers who served eight years or more would be allowed to resign in the "vast, vast majority of cases."

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Delayed departure
Capt. Bradley E. Schwan had argued that federal law requires military volunteers to serve no more than eight years during their initial terms of service.
Justice Department lawyers argued that officers serve indefinitely, citing a clause in the 1952 Armed Forces Reserve Act that says officer commissions "are for an indefinite term and are held during the pleasure of the president."
Nearly 1,300 reserve officers have sought to resign since 2004. Of those requests, 880 have been approved, according to the Army.

/spit

#261 aussiemagpie

We don't hear anything here either! I had no idea!

And yes I am, thanks aussie. It's been wonderful.

it's = it has

PIMF whatever...

#228 CTP

It just makes me think that the left is a collection of basically unhappy people who feel that they were dealt a shitty hand in life and that the only way it is going to get better is for the entire system to change.

Pretty self-centered if you ask me.

Kofi wants to nurse the failure (UNIFIL) along another month. I guess Hiz'b'Allah needs some artillery spotters and guards for their bunkers.

Man, just think, soon that guy is going to be out there, somewhere, running loose. Brrr... Might be more scary for him, though.

Party of Goats talking trash.

"An army that fights with excellent forces and tanks with the assistance of an air force cannot go into a village directly on the border except after a battle that has continued for days with great losses against a number of opposition fighters is a failed and defeated army," read the statement.

Yeah, and America never captured Tarawa. You had six years to dig in, jackass.

Ooh, CNN ran a five minute segment on Hezzbollah accusatiions that Israel is using the evil white phosphorous, uncluding medical commenttary from Dr, Sanjay Gupta! Less than ten seconds devoted to the fact that Israel totally denies it, not like it's an illegal weapon anyway.

/DRINK!

#228 ctp
Apathy and laziness (physical as well as intellectual) explains a lot of the USA's ills.