First in the water!

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

William T. Sherman

Charles,

What is that thingy in the cable? Never seen one.

Here's hoping that's not a bicycle seat.

Nice components! Always wanted those quick shifters.

but I'm too cheap

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

William T. Sherman

Or as we say here in Baltimore, downy oshun.

#5 RTLM

Got some. Deyz nice!

hmmm. is the message Brake Cable or break the cabal.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

William Tecumsah Sherman

Gee, I am visually impaired. Thought the bike with the thingy was a gas pump.

news.bbc.co.uk...] target="_blank">

BBC story about a dicumentary being produced about Atefah Sahaaleh, the 16-year old Iranian girl hanged for the crime of being raped.

National Lampoon's Beirut Vacation

The beach would be nice in hot Midland. But I'm OK with a glass of my Infidel Zinfandel and Law & Order Criminal Intent.

Hmmm, try it this way

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

#2 DistantThunder

I was just thinking that this might make a good bumper sticker or t-shirt:

WWSD?

(What Would Sherman Do?)

#3 Charles,

What is that thingy in the cable? Never seen one.

Charles will have to answer that for sure, but it looks like a device to indicate which cog is engaged...pretty high tech if so. Charles? (whatever it is, I will probably be envious)

Karl Rove made me hate the jews!

Blue tooth air pressure gage? GPS tracking device? LED brake light indicator? Something he twists to move the playing cards into position against the spokes so the bike makes that cool noise when he's cruising fast?

#10 DistantThunder

When this country starts to heed the advice of W.T. Sherman I think that there will be less BS to deal with.

Dear Fellow Jews,

If you ever wanted to learn more about your heritage and what it truly means to be a Jew and to live in these times, watch this video:

I watched it a week or so ago and I have to say its so amazing, jam packed with Jewish pride goodness. It teaches you why do we keep Kosher, what makes us different than other civilizations, what does it truly mean to be a Jew. Its around 1.5 hours but trust me, its pure gold in regards in emphazing "What does it mean to be Jewish?"

And for the political spectrum, check out this

as we need to do something as our past leaders are extremly poor and truly un Jewish like, what you will learn is a true sense of morality. As our Talmud states, "When one is merciful to the cruel, they shall be cruel onto the merciful".

Shalom and Am Yisrael Chai!

Voting rights act act should be for all states

Liberals sneaking across the border into Canada

We are off to Traverse City in the morning. If all y'all think the water is cold in California, you obviously have not ventured into the Northern part of Lake Mich-again. We're talking serious "Shrinkage".

That's a gear indicator, shows which rear cog your chain is on -- not high-tech at all, been available for years, it's only about 10 bucks...

Inspired by Spooked911 this blogger has experimental proof that the moon landings were faked!

ahh . . . the beach:

-artist: nat king cole
-peak billboard position # 6 in 1963
-words by charles tobias and music by hans carste

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Dust off the sun and moon and sing a song of cheer

Just fill your basket full of sandwiches and weenies
Then lock the house up, now youre set
And on the beach youll see the girls in their bikinis
As cute as ever but they never get em wet

Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Those days of soda and pretzels and beer
Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer
Youll wish that summer could always be here

#2 DistantThunder

I was just thinking that this might make a good bumper sticker or t-shirt:

WWSD?

(What Would Sherman Do?)

Or...

What Would Patton Do?

#17 average guy

That's what I was thinking but I am out of town and could not look at my bike. Couldn't remember if that is the shift or the brake cable.

/too many things on my mind to store that info

#25 Charles

I'm riding a 20 year old Trek Elance. I guess the guys in my local bike shop haven't tried to see me one because of my ancient wheels.

Thanks for the update!

Cool. Libs with their heads buried in the sand as far as the eye can see

PIMF Sell me one...sheesh

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.

William Tecumseh Sherman

11 St. Pancake 7/27/2006 08:52PM PDT
Gee, I am visually impaired. Thought the bike with the thingy was a gas pump.

Oh, good. So did I.

/great minds think alike.

#25

Cool

Probably wouldn't do me any good -- kind of a jazz rider -- do it by feel instead of cadence and monitoring. But cool nonetheless.

Thanks!

That would work a lot better than risking the loss of your shades while you look down to find out which cog is engaged.

34 Cattt
Lol! Lol!

Ok, can you beat me with this next question?

That's a gear indicator, shows which rear cog your chain is on

What is that, and what does it do?

"muttering to myself on my hi tech bike cluelessness"

I have a plain bike, the same type of bike Pat Nixon would have ridden.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

William Tecumseh Sherman

25 Charles

That's a gear indicator

Free automotive assembly lesson here:

My bizness is full of nutty terms that few outside our closed world have ever heard of. In car assembly, a gear indicator is generally referred to as a Prindle (as in Park, Reverse, Nuetral, Drive, Low)

And there are dogbones, beavertails, bat wings, noses, rockers, doglegs, shark teeth, torque rods, check links, backlights, heck I could go on and on...

Hizbullah's real goal is racist: To free the Middle East holy lands of Jews

Sometimes an apology can be quite revealing. Consider the one recently issued by Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah. He apologized to the families of two Israeli children who were killed by a Hizbullah rocket that hit the Christian holy city of Nazareth. He called them shahids, martyrs, even though they did not choose to die at the hands of Hizbullah terrorists.
The apology was issued not because they were children or innocent bystanders, but because they were Israeli Arabs and not Jews. Hizbullah's rockets are aimed at Jews, and earn cheers whenever they kill a Jewish baby or grandmother. No apologies there.

Just kind of wondering out loud here...

if we went through all the archives, could we pull enough photos and put them together to get a complete picture of Charles' bike?

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William T. Sherman

WTH?

Police bar Muslim mass weddings on Temple Mount

37 St. Pancake

I had a mountain bike that did stuff (like running over bumpy things, which was fun). When I was going too fast, I'd squeeze this thingy. If the chain made funny noises, I'd squeeze this thingy. That's the extent of my understanding.

Tomato
Lol. Normally I would say "hooray". For security's sake, I do not want to know.

Hope you are doing well.

Distant Thunder

Interesting that you quote General Sherman. I travel through his birthplace, Lancaster, Ohio, every day as part of my job. There is a three-story mural of him in uniform on one of the downtown buildings, so I see him every day. We as a country are in need of men, statesmen with a gravel gut, like Gen. Sherman.

Thanks for the quotes!

42 DistantThunder

That quote is the exact opposite of the apparent UN mission statement. "Make every war last as long as possible."

Now I could be wrong. And maybe someday they'll name a tank after Kofi...

Cattt
Oh, thank you for joining me in the high tech bike clueless club. As a kid, we used a playing card to hear the cool noise the card made when placed into a spinning wheel.

Is anyone else's cat pouting under the bed because he didn't get fried chicken for dinner? Mine is.

/He may be a tad spoiled.

#48 St. Pancake

Oh, yeah, we did that card and clothes pin thing (do people still even HAVE clothes pins?)

#41...

I'd make a guess that Charles' bike is always in a state of slow change. An upgrade here, a tweak there... Maybe only the frame is static...

Just guessing...

49 Cattt
Mine are not pouting. They ordered me to open a can of tuna for them. At this moment, they are crashed on the easy chair.

St. P

I just want to know if he really has the playing cards against the spokes so the bike makes that cool noise when he's cruising fast (as per #19 Thanos)!

These photos are probably of a prop bike anyway. Bet Charles has an invisible bike.

Doing OK! And heading to bed. See you on the FNDT?

Little Pig the Cat can hardly wait for the skin and 'knuckles'. Already in the kitchen, on the carpet, keeping brother dogs out.:)Yes, it is chix for dinner.

#49 Cattt

One of my cats is trying to walk on my keyboard...the war is on!

50 Cattt
Yes, my Filipino sister-in-law still hangs up the clothes utilizing the old-fashioned clothes pins. Something comforting about them.

#52 St. Pancake

Re that Tuna. Pig will only eat Figueroa brand. Which does smell good enough to mix with Mayo in a pinch.

53 Killer Tomato
I really do hope that Charles has not missed out on this really cool piece of Americana. :)

Nite, and sleep well!

52 St. Pancake

He had tuna last night. He ate it, but he prefers roast or fried chicken. He gave me the "this isn't chicken, but I'll eat it" look.

My other cat likes cat kibble, any brand.

Mine insist on the low-sodium tuna. I want them to live a long and productive life.
Ask any cat what productive means.

Sherman at Shiloh is what really matters.

#50 Cattt
If you don't have cloths pins, how do you dry your clothes? (Yes, we do. And the sheets and towels feel great).

59 Cattt
Strangely, mine are not into chicken. They adore the aroma, but eat very little of it.

63 St. Pancake

What can I say - he's Siamese. He also likes Entenmann's cheese Danish.

Another example of Muslim cluelessness about our take on world affairs.

Lurid language

So what are these “false grievances”? Could this include Britain’s increasingly despicable policy towards the Middle East conflict, endorsed by its silence on the inhumane disaster caused by Israel’s renewed bombardments of Gaza and Lebanon, when ministers even refused to call for a ceasefire or condemn killing of civilians by the Israeli forces, whilst they demonise as ‘terrorists’ fighters who attacked Israeli personnel? By acting as an apologist, the Government has become more Israeli than the Israelis. “If we want to defeat extremism, we have got to defeat its ideas,” the Prime Minister said. If this includes any criticism of the Government’s foreign policy, then we are all extremists not only Muslims, but peace campaigners, anti-war demonstrators, civil rights movements and human rights groups.

Cattt
Oh, that is great. Mine do enjoy a bit of butter and cream cheese too.

Billy, my wonderful cat, when I put his waterbowl on a towel would grab the towel and drag it around the room. Alas, his name is now "Stop that you POS!"

At least for that moment Charles' evil bicycle isn't polluting Mother Earth, and stoking global warming.
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

Are Cyclists Destroying the Earth? By DAN MITCHELL
KARL T. ULRICH, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has put forth a provocative theory. Traveling by bicycle, he argued in a recent paper, may cause more environmental harm than driving around in pollution-spewing, fossil-fuel-swallowing cars and sport utility vehicles.
How can this be? Bicyclists are healthier, he wrote, so they live longer. Over their lifetimes, they consume more energy than they save...

#15 Anaxagoras

I'm shocked that the Beeb would show the land of the hezbos in such an unfavorable light..somehow the execution must have been Bush's fault

(Almost totally O/T, but come to think of it, this one does involve a bitch and a tomcat, as well as a skunk and a weasel.. This is just delicious. Lengthy, but delicious:

[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

--Ernest Miller Hemmingway--

68 cbinflux
My response? Pass the Danish and pasta, please.

"Put your trust in God, but keep your powder dry."

- Oliver Cromwell

MULLIGAN!,
R

#68 cbinflex

How can this be? Bicyclists are healthier, he wrote, so they live longer. Over their lifetimes, they consume more energy than they save...

And the logical end of that guy's thinking is that, if all humans just died, the world would be a better place.

No energy consumption and no man made pollution.

Pancake! Great to see you back!

Hey, All! I predicted it! Landis accused of doping! The French had a backup strategy to win, in place all the time!

Try Landis in the Court of Public Opinion, falsifying samples, and grinning to an American non-victory!

North Korea/NYTimes
[Link: jewishworldreview.com...]

If one can stomach anymore crap this fine evening, there is this bowl of gruel.

Islamic Rules of Combat

Hiya Carradine!
Good to see you, dear. Hope you and your family are well.

Israel 'targeting Arab journalists'

A leading journalist freedom group today demanded an "immediate investigation" into reports that Israel is targeting Arab television crews operating in southern Lebanon.

It is the latest in mounting criticism that Israel is making little distinction between civilians and combatants in its campaign in Lebanon.

The Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ's) call came after several Arab TV stations said Israeli aircraft fired missiles within 75 metres of them on July 22, in an apparent bid to stop them covering the effect of Israel's bombardment around the town of Khiam.

So far, at least two journalists and media workers have been killed, and another seven wounded since fighting began on July 12, following the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hizbollah guerrillas.

In all, at least 420 Lebanese have been killed since the start of the fighting, most of them civilians, while 52 Israelis have died, including 34 military personnel.

The strikes in question were directed at TV crews, especially those of the independent satellite channels Al Jazeera and Al-Arabiya and the Hizbollah-affiliated Al-Manar channel, said Ghassan Benjeddou, Al Jazeera's Lebanon bureau chief.

#75
It's all relative...

Landis' testosterone levels vs. that of an avg. white-flag-waving fwenchman

All these Sherman quotes made me think of something: do you think it's a healthy thing that many American citizens enjoy dressing up and re-enacting Civil War battles? I happen to think it's a very positive way of putting away hard feelings and accepting the past, and actually appreciating it as the major historical event of our history.

But does any other nation that has experienced civil war do this, or is it just us, and are we nuts (or just silly)?

#75,

Yeah, wouldn't they just LOVE it, since they came up empty on each of Lance's tests.
The Frogs say that Landis' tests showed an ' irregularity in testosterone levels', which is pretty funny, since that has been missing from French blood for decades now.

He gets more detailed tests this week... maybe they will be okay.

We feed a young stray cat. He shows no inclination to be a pet, house cat. He just comes around when there is poor hunting in our woods. His favorite is Alaskan Sockeye Salmon. Won't eat dry kibbles. Cats are almost as funny as dogs..

Hi Tasty
No, the English also do reanactments of their Civil War, along with Napoleonic battles etc.

Here are some examples.

ECW

I have a weasel in my freezer...

#68 cbinflux

So if I'm following Prof. Ulrich correctly if we killed everyone at birth we would not have any energy problems.

Prof. Ulrich has educated himself to mental retardation.

#86 Amalie,

I have a weasel in my freezer...

I found myself almost afraid to ask this? Who put it there? LOL

#86 Amalie

I'm divorcing a weasel. What a coincidence...;-D

It's been awhile since I've been involved in bicycles. So, where's the shifting lever? All I see in the picture is (what appears to be) the brake lever, and (according to Charles) a gear-shift cable leading into it.

I put the weasel in the freezer.

:D

#86 Amalie
If that weasel is your ex, keep him on ice.

On another note, Atlas has a good historical approach on why we can never appease Muslims.

[Link: atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com...]

#97 ploome

HER! I'm stupid...

#85 St. Pancake

Here are some examples

Aw, thanks! I love this stuff. I had a feeling (seriously) that if anybody else does it, it would be the Brits. Like ploome said:

I think its like a costume party

the Brits love those

Exactly.

#25 Charles,

You sure you don't have impeller hidden for those 18 degree grades? Looks something similar to my fuel gauge on the WaveRunner.

If I was a biker, I'd be cheating like a mother...

In a bid for equal time down here, a quote from Robert E. Lee, one that the surrender monkeys on the left should have drilled into them:

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or keep one.

56 St Pancake

Even though we own one of those newfangled clothes dryers, we still hang up most all of our clothes to dry.

Doesn't everyone?

Yikes. I have a weasel in my bathroom. (its really a ferret) I feed him raw meat and he makes messes and raises hell.

80 cbinflux

Just for fun:

First picture in Yahoo for American man.

First picture in Yahoo for French man.

Addendum - men may go blind with the American man pic. :)

#89,

bitch -- Val

tomcat -- Slick

skunk -- Wilson

weasel -- Jefferson

#39 mich,

My bizness is full of nutty terms that few outside our closed world have ever heard of. In car assembly, a gear indicator is generally referred to as a Prindle (as in Park, Reverse, Nuetral, Drive, Low)

And there are dogbones, beavertails, bat wings, noses, rockers, doglegs, shark teeth, torque rods, check links, backlights, heck I could go on and on...

You got nothing on the aerospace companies. Once, when I was a newbie out of college, the guy told me this "tombstone" would be used to attach the wing to the fuselage. And it did look like a tombstone.

I wasn't sure I wanted to fly anymore.

Another interesting piece I dug up just now:

The Hidden History of the Israeli Conflict

Here's how the joker introduces his piece:

This is not a comprehensive history, just a few dry facts soaked in the tears of Palestinian mothers and the blood of Palestinian children.

He'll give Arundhati Roy a run for her money in the melodrama stakes.

#85 St. Pancake

And I'll never forget the Batley Women's Guild's reinactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbor.

Ploome

I found one for Zulubaby from the Washington Post..

[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com...]

By John Ward Anderson
The Washington Post
Updated: 1 hour, 36 minutes ago

HAIFA, Israel, July 27 - At the port of Haifa, the parking lots are empty and the docks are vacant. Long chains with hooks at their ends dangle from tall, silent cranes, swaying gently in the Mediterranean breeze. The only sign of life is a white security vehicle making lonely laps

Cat palates are too finicky for my tastes.

My female lab just came back from consuming 7-8 cicadas off the church parking lot. I point to them. She eats them.

Are dogs great or what?

#104

oh baby

thanks for that

California dremain'...wish I was there

The other night I watched a piece of junk called "Project Runway" or something like that with my two teenage daughters.

They thought I was interested in fashion. What they didn't know was the old man was ogling this:

My Girlfriend

Hey you Southern Americans read up... the Deaniacs have a plan for you!

From KOS:

wonkytonker's diary :: ::
We also believe that the way to win back Southern voters, and working class voters in general, is with a progressive populist campaign. Just like working folks everywhere, Southern Americans want universal healthcare, real education reform, an end to payola politics, and Fair Trade. And just like working folks everywhere, Southern folks are angry about what they see happening to their jobs, their security, their way of life, and the American dream.

#116 Amalie

And just like working folks everywhere, Southern folks are angry about what they see happening to their jobs, their security, their way of life, and the American dream.

Damn straight. We want an open season no bag limit on them commie bastard liberals.

Why are Americans still fighting -- killing and destroying -- on foreign soil? How long can America sustain it's killing people abroad.

Another jewel from KOS..

[Link: www.dailykos.com...]

Checked the menu over, don’t see weasel on the list. So far it’s pork spare ribs, yard bird, Zummo sausage, boudain, grilled shrimp, jambalaya, potato salad, baked beans and various deserts. Nope, no weasel on the menu so far. The grills will be fired up Saturday morning and Nam will sit in a chair and drink beer slave over them until everyone is fed. Miss Trixie made it in safe and semi sound, Nam and I gave her the 3 hour tour of the area today. Yeah, yeah, I know, what did we do with the other 2 hrs and 55 mins.

#116 Amalie

Can you give the link for that? I want to see if the koslims can restrain themselves from using their favorite epithets/stereotypes for Southerners.

Hey, Bordm! (grin)

Yum!

119 Bordm

If you guys need some weasel you know where to find me...

:D

120 Tasty _B

Here's your link..

[Link: www.dailykos.com...]

/I think it showed a slight "misunderstanding" of southerners.. calling them.. "southern americans" tipped me off.

:D

Hi ya SwampWoman

Since you can't make it this time we crossed milk shakes and Krispy Kremes off the list and decided to go with Pat O'Brien’s hurricanes and boudain instead. ;)

Tasty_B

I checked the comments for that particular diary. Nothing nasty but what is up with the habit of posting a quote with every comment over on KOS?

#124 Bordm

Thanks. I couldn't have taken it if y'all would have had chocolate peanut butter milkshakes and Krispy Kremes on the menu.

/Along with Diet Coke, of course.

#122 Amalie

Hmm, never barbequed weasel before, does it taste anything like nutria or racoon?

LOL...

Care to guess where this is from?

My website is devoted primarily to exploring the various ways in which you suck in more detail, updated on a daily basis, and the mere fact that you do not visit it more often to learn how much you always suck is a perfect, ruby-studded example of your further suckiness. As a fully trained and vested suckographer, I have a suckometer poll on my site that will measure your suckitude based on how much you refuse to recognize my genius, and will assign you a number on the Suckter scale meant to represent your sucktasticness.

Hello everybody :)

"Those who have the feebleness of quoting others, are fools who waste their time miserably in futile attempts to absorb what intelligent people think"
Septimius Severus.

Mmmm... this Diet Coke and Krispy Kreme donut tastes sooo good.

/torture post

#126 SwampWoman

My kind of balanced meal -- whatever you want to eat and a diet coke.

/guilt makes you fat and diet coke removes guilt

129 Miguel

Those who have the feebleness of quoting others, are fools who waste their time miserably in futile attempts to absorb what intelligent people think"
Septimius Severus.

Yes! A big cheer for Miguel..

/we should start writing our own quotes..

Hey Charles,

Sweet ride...I'm no expert, but is that a Huffy?

Interesting post Tim Blair has: Pluto is heating up. Most of his commenters blame Kyoto. Some of them, pretending to be DUmmies, insist that GWB did it.

I blame it on Setsuna. She hasn't gotten any since the fall of the Silver Millennium.

Welcome to Third World Europe, where people from developing countries are warned against visiting Western Europe because of the lack of law and order:

Bangkok Warns: Avoid France

Foreign Ministry has cautioned Thai citizens to consider postponing or cancelling travelling to France particularly this period because of the threat of crime. [...] In the past month, at least four robberies occurred to embassy cars [...]. A thief broke the window of an embassy car in which the Thai commercial attache was traveling when it had stopped at the intersection of a busy road. The diplomat was slightly injured when he resisted the thief [...] Last month, a thief broke an embassy vehicle’s window while it was stopping at a crowded road. A group of visiting high-ranking Thai officials were on the vehicle. [...] The ministry has earlier suggested that Thais avoid traveling alone, stay clear of isolated places and pay particular attention to passing motorbikes – the vehicle of choice for French thieves.

#128 Amalie

Monica Lewinski's web site?

/the scandal gift that keeps on giving

#23 mkultra

A car company can move its factories to Mexico and claim it's a free
market.

A toy company can out source to a Chinese subcontractor and claim it's a
free market.

A shoe company can produce its shoes in south east Asia and claim it's
free market.

A major bank can incorporate in Bermuda to avoid taxes and claim it's a
free market.

We can buy HP Printers made in Mexico.
We can buy shirts made in Bangladesh.
We can purchase almost anything we want from 20 different countries

BUT, heaven help the elderly who dare to buy their prescription drugs
from a Canadian pharmacy..

That's called un-American! And you think the pharmaceutical companies
don't have a powerful lobby? Think again!

Maybe this is an issue that should come up in the next election!

135 fjordman

Knowing Bangkok.. this article is quite amazing.

Thanks Amalie :)

"I'm sick and tired of being quoted by fools"
Sir Winsnton Spencer Churchill.

Maddox is, once again, completely correct:
[Link: www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net...]

Guilt: the best gift to give, the worst gift to receive.

OT Bolton

[Link: news.bostonherald.com...]

On the Foreign Relations panel, Sen. George Voinovich last year voiced strong opposition to the White House’s nominee - the sole Republican to align with the committee’s Democrats on the issue.
The Ohio lawmaker claimed he had concerns about Bolton’s management style/interpersonal skills. It was hooey then, and it’s hooey now.
But Voinovich converted, writing in a Washington Post column that he’s impressed by Bolton’s first year at the U.N. Voinovich now would vote to confirm Bolton, and warns Senate colleagues that failing to show unity on the nominee will only weaken our international position at a critical time.
This time, Voinovich is on the mark. America needs to speak with one strong voice at the United Nations.
Bolton has that voice. No shrinking violet, he’s just the type of no-nonsense, “get ’er done” diplomat Washington needs.

128 Amalie

www.fellatio.com? (Don't click on that!)

#141 Bordm 7/27/2006 10:47PM PDT

Guilt: the best gift to give, the worst gift to receive.

Bordm...

Really good one..

#123 &
#125 Amalie

Thanks for the link. Those idiots just turned it into a music thread, as if music is the answer to their problems down south. They have not a clue -- just stir up class hatred, their plan for everywhere else anyway.

As for why they end every comment with a signature or quote? With them, from the selection of quotes you see on any given kos thread, it's obvious the pretentious losers are just trying to appear intelligent and sophisticated. Annoying.

143 Cattt

[Link: www.ihc.ucsb.edu...]

/I wouldn't if I were you...

145 Tasty B

Perhaps I am being too harsh on the quote freaks over on KOS...

Good evening, Lizards.

I have a hypothetical question for you all. Say you had a good friend once. One of your best friends for a couple of years. Now say that a few years back he screwed you over. Really betrayed you, so he becomes your worst enemy. Then, let's say a few years later, you learn he has just died.

So, do you go to the funeral (which will be filled with people you really don't want to see), or do you just say, "fuck it and fuck him"?

148 lizard by the bay

So okay... let's fast forward five years. Do you think you will wish you had paid your last respects... at their funeral?

#148,depends if there is a reception with free food and drinks after.

#148
Remember the good times, and forget the rest.

150 mbruce

LOL ~

Catt,

www.fellatio.com? (Don't click on that!)

Too late. How exactly did you come across that link anyway?

I have a manager where I work who can't resist dispensing sexual advice to her female subordinates. She loves oral sex from what I can gather.

Women will be women and they'll talk about some kinky, X-rated topics. But that kind of fraternization between labor and management strikes me as a tad unprofessional.

Or,Lizard, i am in the EB so I will go as your representative and get all sloppy drunk and cry and stuff, I'll even take pics.

148 Lizard by the bay

a. You go, and tell the wife he owed you money.
b. You go, and tell the family that the dead truly desired to be buried with the rubber duckie you provide.
c. You don't go, and relax in karma completed.

You know what's going on in my head tonight? I'm thinking how great a shock the democrats are going to receive when Republicans sweep the congress in November. Dummies always equate fear or disapproval as being bad for the status quo government, but in this case they are wrong. Even the unhappy patriots are still patriots in wartime. It's only peace that makes the conceits of socialism plausible.

Let's take bets- loser has to do my dishes- what are the believed odds on losing either house?

153 Dirk

Women will be women and they'll talk about some kinky, X-rated topics.

The only person who gets to talk to me about their kinky x-rated topics is a lover of mine.

I don't want to hear it from anyone else.

Does this make me a weirdo?

#154 mbruce 7/27/2006 11:04PM PDT

Or,Lizard, i am in the EB so I will go as your representative and get all sloppy drunk and cry and stuff, I'll even take pics.

Oh! LOL ~~

I can do this too.. LOL

Amalie
No. Just a Weirod.

Pat

Thanks.

/LOL

#155 munga

c. You don't go, and relax in karma completed.

Yup, I think that's the winner!

Amalie,

Does this make me a weirdo?

Definitely. I'm sorry to say it Amalie, but not divulging the intimate details of you're sex life to anyone who passes by makes you weirod.

/:-P

#148 LBTB

Put me down in the FIAFH category.

Pat,

Amalie
No. Just a Weirod.

Pat you bastard you stole my weirod.

Damn, Jane Seymore was hot when she was young! (watching my new Ultimate Edition DVD of Live and Let Die)

Dirk Diggler

Isn't there supposed to be some mystery in a relationship?

Whenever I have a dirty thought, I run tell my husband.

166 munga

LOL ~

In the Catholic Church, thinking it is the same as doing it.

/there's my quote of the day

Wierods. Noun. A heavy length of metal or dense wood used to beat sense in cultists or Moonbats(see Moonbats). Never used on spouses or familial members. No known derivation. It is suggested by the context that a weirod may bring reason to the delusional. Usage: I beat Cindy with a weirod and she started to cry for Casey.

Evening everyone...

I'm trying to find a link that lists the countries that don't recognise Israel. More specifically, I was wondering if the new Iraqi government recognises Israel. Can anyone help me out?

Sorry if this is a stupid question , but I haven't found it anywhere.

GOOD NIGHT MY LGF FRIENDS!

(everyone)

In the Catholic Church, thinking it is the same as doing it.

*sigh* If only real life worked that way... Oh wait, is this one of those times where I'm missing the point again?

Goodnight Mungagungadin!

Love your nic and your posts!

#163 Dirk Diggler

I get called a bastard here as much as work.

#170 ChenZhen

NO

174 pat

What do you do for a living? Of course you know Dirk meant it in a loving way..

:}

172 Lizard By The Bay

It's damned if you don't and damned if you do...

If you think it.

/does that help?

lol

Amalie
Of course I know Dirk was joshing. He is one of us.

Pat

He is?

Isn't there supposed to be some mystery in a relationship?

In a relationship? I thought we were just talking about not divulging sexual secrets to acquaintances or friends?

But since you brought it up, I don't think mystery is good when it comes to the physical aspects of a relationship.

Be honest and communicate. What do you like what does he like in bed. Why hold back? "Trial and Error" does not strike me as a recipe for a fulfilling sex life.

#148 Lizard By The Bay,

I have a hypothetical question for you all. Say you had a good friend once. One of your best friends for a couple of years. Now say that a few years back he screwed you over. Really betrayed you, so he becomes your worst enemy. Then, let's say a few years later, you learn he has just died.

So, do you go to the funeral (which will be filled with people you really don't want to see), or do you just say, "fuck it and fuck him"?

You go.

#155,

The Congressional Quarterly, which has accurately predicted the last few years of midterm and four-year elections, says that the Republicans will narrowly hold the House , with a reduced advantage in the Senate than they now hold but retaining the majority there as well.

I would take your bet re the Senate, but I am worried about the House. The mere sound of the words Speaker Pelosi and Chairman Rangel is panic-inducing.

180 Dirk

I was referring to the beginning of a relationship. Not whipping off your pants the first date. Not becoming too intimate too soon. Establishing some trust.

Then all bets are off.

Sorry if this is a repeat:

[Link: www.somebodyhelpme.info...]

Wow! Brigitte Gabriel should replace Rice, Bolton, and Rumsfeld all at the same time!

Amalie
Was it not you, the other night, who implied that "Dirk Diggler" was a porn star? Care to explain?

# 182 tw

The dems are not going to pick up 10 seats, let alone the ~18 to get a majority ...

Pat

You've never heard of Dirk Diggler before?

#181 PDM

You go.

Yeah, well, that's what I thought at first. But you know something, it's been about two days since I found out he was dead, and strangely enough, I still hate his guts for what he did to me. Being dead hasn't really changed that. I don't know, maybe it just means I'm a bad person, but that's the way I feel.

Anyways, I still haven't decided to go yet. My ex-wife will be there which alone is an argument for being in another state on that day.

#186 Buckaroo
I agree.

Semi 0T

The 7/28 DbD -- even better than Chris's usual stuff!
:-)

Amalie,

I was referring to the beginning of a relationship. Not whipping off your pants the first date. Not becoming too intimate too soon. Establishing some trust.

Then all bets are off.

What do I know. I haven't dated anybody seriously for two years.

Me dispensing relationship advice is like the blind leading the blind through a minefield and off a cliff.

It's L-A-T-E. I gotta get some sleep. See ya tommorrow, chica.

Dirk

It is late. Goodnight, Dirk.

/I don't know anything either..

Amalie

Of course not. Do you not know where I come from? I did not have TV until I was 11. And that was 2 stations for 8 years. In high school TV wasn't even allowed. We had to learn from real girls.

#188 LBTB

Well, you could always break out in applause whenever somebody says something about "the deceased".

You could take a whiz on the casket before it gets in the ground.

You could wear a bright-colored Hawaiian shirt and hum "Oh what a beautiful morning!" from Oklahoma.

#116 Amalie,

Born and raised in the Delta and laughing my butt off at that ' Southern Americans ' thing. Think I will write Dr Dean and ask him ' Who are ya'll talkin' about, Brazilians'?

#188 LBtB

My ex-wife will be there

Say no more.

Pat

Here you go:

[Link: www.imdb.com...]

Boogie Nights : The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.

/This is where the name Dirk Diggler came from..

#186, buckaroo,

From your lips keyboard to God's ears...

LBTB

And you could tell your ex-wife "Whoa, have you ever packed on the lbs.!"

/Even if she would disappear if she turned sideways this pisses women off.

195 tradewind

Yeah, Southern Americans, made me laugh too. And these people think they know what's good for the south.

#188 Lizard By The Bay,

Yeah, well, that's what I thought at first.

That's because your conscience knows immediately what is the right thing to do. Later, you talk yourself out of it.
If that person ever meant anything to you, you should go.
No need to socialize there or hang out longer than needed. But I'd say you should probably do this for you.

Funerals can be fun if you're not sad the person is dead.

/Bring a beer! Try your pickup lines during the eulogy!

Amalie

'The plot proved richer than I expected and the underlying themes are teased out quite profoundly as each "B grade" human being is brought, through crisis, into perspective'

I told you Dirk was one of us!(But where are the previews?)

#148 Lizard By The Bay

First, he was never REALLY your friend, so you are not obligated to go, but if he has a hot widow or daughter that you can sleep with in their moment venerability, I say go for it!
If he took you for money this might be a good time to get it back by getting to his estate if at all possible.

Beyond that, you don't need to go unless you think you can gain some advantage from the situation by showing up.
Screw 'em.

202 Swampwoman

LOL ~

203 pat

You'll just have to see it yourself. I liked it.

/For a porn guy Dirk is pretty astute.

# 199 SW

Yeah, but it's even cooler when it's true ...

/like, for example, with my ex -- aka heavy equipment ...
:-)
:-)

Well, the trip might be worth it to go up to the casket, pop open a cold one, and look down at the corpse and say "Who's laughing NOW, bitch?"

208 Swampwoman

LOL ~

You are so bad..

#200,

I doubt very much if Howie would even show his face down heayah. He'd be about as popular as a hound full of ticks.

O/T, I just heard Jim McDemott (spit) look straight into the C-Span cameras and tell his audience that we HAVE to sit down and negotiate with the [bigoted word]s, like Al Q'aeda. Compared 'em to the IRA...(LOL).

#170 ChenZhen

You have to grow up before you are invited to the adult table.

Are you fanning the flames of slavery or freedom?

Sheesh,

CNN is running an infomercial for Hezbollah.

210 Tradewind

Dean was in Florida this week.. said the new PM of Iraq was a anti-semite and that Kathryn Harris was Joseph Stalin.

That kooky Dean!

At one point I was joking with my (current) wife that I should go just to make sure the bastard is dead. Would it be impolite to poke the deceased with a sharp stick during the service?

Night Everyone...

/Don't think it.

:D

#207 buckaroo

ROFL. Well, in that case, you can tell her that you heard she'd volunteered to undergo liposuction and congratulate her on single-handedly being able to reinflate an entire Somalian village.

Lizard

Wierod. Noun. A heavy length of metal or dense wood used to beat sense in cultists or Moonbats(see Moonbats). Never used on spouses or familial members. No known derivation. It is suggested by the context that a weirod may bring reason to the delusional. Usage: I beat Cindy with a weirod and she started to cry for Casey.

Choose your weapon.Poke the bastard with a weirod.

#214 LBTB

At one point I was joking with my (current) wife that I should go just to make sure the bastard is dead. Would it be impolite to poke the deceased with a sharp stick during the service?

I thought you wanted to be sure he was dead, not piss him off. This calls for a wooden stake through the heart.

/Bring a sledgehammer. And a lot of wooden stakes in case they shatter, you can never be too careful.

#213,

I guess he'd be safe enough in FL if he stuck close to Palm Beach County or Broward/Dade, etc.
Bet they steer him away from Okaloosa/Walton, AKA God's Country.

(grin)

Or you could shoot him a couple times.

You know, just to make sure. I'm pretty sure that shooting dead people isn't one of those major felonies.

#219 tradewind

Yeah, nothin' down there but a bunch of damnyankees anyway.

#214 - Lizard By The Bay
Offer to give one of the eulogies and then reiterate all the crappy things he did to his "friends" through the bastard's miserable life, and in the last few sentences, turn it into a lesson on forgiveness.
Done right, you get to drag his memory through the mud in front of his family and remaining friends, and make yourself look altruistic, all at the same time.

#214, LT,

If you're into drama , hire a bunch of little people to show up and sing ' Ding Dong'

May HaShem Revenge His Blood: Dr. Dani Yacobi

The news is now official that the murdered doctor was our friend Dani Yacobi. His brother is the principal of the girls school in Petach Tikva my daughters attended and he was well known and liked for his frequent role as acting as a medicial aid for school trips. He was a wonderful man and a father of four.

There isn't a community in Israel that has not suffered a loss like this, but each time the wound is made fresh. We see too often the funerals of good people much before we would expect it to happen in a normal place. May G-d give us all strength to go from this tragedy.

#224, Ilan,

I am so sorry for your loss, and may the IDF crush Hez'bollah quickly and the bloodshed end.

#222, Jimmy The Clam, damn, I say stay away unless youre sorry ass cannot find one decent or kind thing he did for ya! Goodness, attack family members at a funeral? Sick! ok Just my opinion!

The thing that scares me most about sharia is the sheer ignorance on which it is often based. Take, for example, this article, in which Malaysia's Islamic courts ban Botox:

Botox ban for Malaysian Muslims

Muslims in Malaysia are going to have to learn to live with their wrinkles, after the country's top Islamic body ruled against Botox injections.

The council decided that the serum contained prohibited substances, including those derived from pigs.

At the last meeting of the National Fatwa Council, Malaysia's top Muslim clerics decided to ban black metal music - a kind of heavy metal.

They also ruled that it was alright for Muslims to eat cheese.

But they could not make up their minds about Botox.

Now they have come down against it, amidst fears that it contains pig products.

Where's the absurdity? Botox doesn't come from pigs! The toxin is produced by a bacteria. Any five-year-old could find this out in 1 minute on the internet. But the wise, intelligent Islamic clerics have no use for such facts! No! They fear it might come from pigs. And so it is banned. Even though it doesn't come from pigs.

What to make of this? It exposes the lunacy and evil of sharia. It represents everything that modern society has evolved to overcome and reject. Pompous, ignorant individuals -- in this case, Muslims imams -- have the right to determine law that applies to everyone. And there is no appeal. No democratic process. No legal review. Nothing. Just idiots spouting sheer ignorance, and it becomes law.

It's not just metaphorically medieval -- it is medieval. Feudal. When lords could dictate laws, and all had to obey.

Forget about Allah, submission, slaying infidels, and all the rest: this reason alone is enough to fear and loathe Islam as a concept.

#226,

In all seriousness, you're right... nasty at funerals is a little too Code Pink-ish for me.

#226 - raidergirl
Who said anything about attacking anyone?

Zombie,

Maybe they filter the stuff through pig placentas or something. A friend of mine who is an orthopedic surgeon is injecting knees with pig cartilage cells, and has had good success so far...

Watch out, [bigoted word]s, you never know where Porcine may be lurking...

/sarc-with-great-enjoyment-at-the-thought/

If you say hateful things at a funeral, that is an attack! Think about his mom, dad, or siblings! Why hurt them in their darkest hour?

#227 zombie

Malaysia's Islamic courts ban Botox...

Yes, well, one of my worst drunks was in a cowboy bar in Kuala Lumpur. Nothing like listening to Asian Willie Nelson karaoke as you toss down that last shot of Jack Daniels that "does it for ya".

KL is a good drinking town, even though it might be run by muslims.

Can't get botox? Pass the bottle instead!

#231 raidergirl

Fear not. I would never make a spectacle of myself at a funeral. And his sister is someone who is very kind and who I admire quite a bit. It's not her fault this asshole was her brother. Whether I go or not, I do have to be sure to send her a condolence card.

# 232 M D

zombie's point is, left to the imams, KL becomes as dry as a 1-horse Jawja town on Sunday morn ...
:-0

What's he supposed to do, pretend everything is A-OK and the deceased was a swell guy?
I'm assuming whatever this dirtbag did was serious and pretty slimy.
I just see no need to play forgiveness games or to lie about the dead to protect the feelings of the very people that likely made him that way in the first place.

#233 - Lizard By The Bay
What exacly did this guy do to you anyways?

#233 Lizard By The Bay, good for you, we should be really careful not to become the kos screw um folks! Ya know, she loved him, and her heart is broken! Sorry he was a dirtbag, but isnt that for our Lord to decide?!

oops..

toss down that last shot of Jack Daniels Johnny Walker Black that "does it for ya".

I hardly remember what I was drinking. At that point, ya won't care about botox because you don't care if anything is wrinkled.

Actually, that night in Kuala Lumpur, we "climbed the ladder", started with a couple/few beers before dinner, then the host-guy brought 7 bottles of wine for 14 of us (1/2 bottle each), then we went to the cowboy bar and he kept buying bottles of Johnny Walker Black. When the 3rd bottle hit the table in front of me with the screeching Asian karaoke "On The Load Again", well, you reach a breaking point.

evening all *is reading Harry Turtledoves The Grapple*

Cats are almost as funny as dogs..

Almost? Exhibit A: Guermillo(aka. Gizmo)the Cat

-As a kitten, has no reaction to external stimuli. We think he may be deaf. Turns out, he just doesn't give a shit.
-Obsessed from kittendom with food. While littermates are still nursing, found in adult cat bowl. Actually, IN bowl. All 4 paws, scarfing away on adult cat food.
-Also obsessed wih a number of inanimate objects: leaves, straws, nailfiles. Begins hording said items.
-We learn to be very carefull about opening the refrigerator door as Giz develops habit of jumping into fridge at every opportunity. Becomes so good(read stealthy)at it, that on a number of occasions, he is shut inside, only a bit of tail sticking out to alert us.
-Prefers to rest in human sitting postion-up against a hard surface, like a wall, front paws between his legs.
-Spends hours and hours watching crickets and lizards on wall. Never attempts to actually catch them. Just watches. Apparently waiting for them to turn into straws and nail files.
-Unsatisfied with human family to provide him enough food to satisfy his insatiable appitite, starts stealing food and stockpiling it in back closet. Rotting meat alerts humans to stockpile. Angry with stupid humans for dumping precious stockpile in trash. Plots revenge.
-Actual revenge proving too taxing, settles on 'management'.
-Worms way into heart of elderly neighber(aka playing the 'cute' card)and successfully secures secondary household residency to secure secondary source of food.
-Giz, hilarious, beloved, missed.

#234 Buckaroo

zombie's point is, left to the imams, KL becomes as dry as a 1-horse Jawja town on Sunday morn ...

They will have a real problem drying up KL. That will be VERY hard. What are there more of in KL?

a) Mosques
b) Bars
c) Lap Dancers

Think hard... Clue: it ain't a)

One guy took me to a "gentleman's club" in KL where he had a membership and a "private bottle". The ladies were fine (no, I didn't do THAT). The whole thing was rather fancy and pricey. Lot's of red velvet all over. Classic.

Ya, a "Muslim country" (pshaw)

# 241 M D

Oh, I realize the smart money is on the gin joints, but noone ever thought people were crazy enough to blow up 1000 year old statues either ...
:-0

# 241 MaxDarkSide

In this worldwide oil biz consulting company, KL is considered the best office by westerners.

#235 Jimmy The Clam, dude, stay away and let this family Have some Peace! How about we let people know, sometimes, people fuck up, and their families had nothing to do with it! See ted the bastard "spit" bundy for reference! I think his family turned him in! I could be wrong!

Here is a piece of succinct sobriety, a study in unvarnished truth:
[Link: article.nationalreview.com...]

Here is a piece of succinct sobriety, a study in unvarnished truth:
[Link: article.nationalreview.com...]

I appologize if this is old news. It seems it was posted nearly 24 hours ago.

Watch This Video!

UN and terrorists working hand in hand.

Pardon my lingua franca, but Fuck the UN!

another link to the video is at the Jawa Report

#243 Mike C.

In this worldwide oil biz consulting company, KL is considered the best office by westerners.

Ya, I go there on oil business, too. With 3.8 RM to the dollar, and 1 RM buys about $1 worth, it would be a pretty good place to retire. Effective multiplier for your dollar is about 3:1. Honestly. I'm not kidding. Over in Sarawak (Borneo), the prices are better, the health care is good, it's always Summer, never earthquakes or sunami's and the average middle income American can afford a house with a view of the South China Sea and "house staff". If you really get in tough straights medically, Singapore is a short hop away, a Class AAA city for sure.

#227 zombie

The thing that scares me most about sharia is the sheer ignorance on which it is often based. Take, for example, this article, in which Malaysia's Islamic courts ban Botox:

Botox ban for Malaysian Muslims

Muslims in Malaysia are going to have to learn to live with their wrinkles, after the country's top Islamic body ruled against Botox injections.

The council decided that the serum contained prohibited substances, including those derived from pigs.
*snip*
Where's the absurdity? Botox doesn't come from pigs! The toxin is produced by a bacteria. Any five-year-old could find this out in 1 minute on the internet. But the wise, intelligent Islamic clerics have no use for such facts! No! They fear it might come from pigs. And so it is banned. Even though it doesn't come from pigs.

What to make of this? It exposes the lunacy and evil of sharia. It represents everything that modern society has evolved to overcome and reject. Pompous, ignorant individuals -- in this case, Muslims imams -- have the right to determine law that applies to everyone. And there is no appeal. No democratic process. No legal review. Nothing. Just idiots spouting sheer ignorance, and it becomes law.

It's not just metaphorically medieval -- it is medieval. Feudal. When lords could dictate laws, and all had to obey.

Forget about Allah, submission, slaying infidels, and all the rest: this reason alone is enough to fear and loathe Islam as a concept.

---
When your whole world-view is based on the rantings of a child molester, thief, war-monger, and all-around putz, this sort of stuff is inevitable. The West hopes for some sort of Muslim Martin Luther to ignite Islam's long-overdue Reformation, and he may yet appear...but I ain't holding my breath.

Max DarkSide

To counter that, one of the local hire staff here has broken out into the corporate International Mobil league, and leaves Beijing tonight for his very first international assignment. Khartoum. Yuk.

#251 Mike C.

To counter that... Khartoum. Yuk.

I think the worst assignment would be Nigeria. I know one guy at an unnamed global multi-national oil company who was assigned there aborted his assignment pronto.

I always thought that Jakarta would be nasty, but a friend of mine says it's a "party town". Somehow I find it hard to believe him, but he's a good guy and should know.

#244 - raidergirl

#235 Jimmy The Clam, dude, stay away and let this family Have some Peace!

When did I say I was going to the funeral? Geesh girl...

That last post of yours comes off as a little hysterical with every one of your sentences ending with an exclamation point and all.

I have to say, lebanon had six years er sixty years, whateverZ! to correct this problem! Hexbabullshit! What the hell? Hey Goodnight all LGF folks! O.K, I stand on the right side of this battle!

# 252 Max

People I know who've been to Jakarta say it's not bad. Never been there myself, but I'll bet ya a buck right now it beats the hell out of Karachi.

Jimmy, really, good on ya for the exclamation point! Call all the lgf folks and let them know, raidergirl was drunk, and ya won! PS, God Bless! And My Sweet Brother is fighting this war! PS, know I pray for you!

Qassam hits kindergarten; 2 children lightly wounded

Rocket lands next to kindergarten in town south of Ashkelon; 2 children hurt, 8 suffer shock. Earlier a number of rockets hit central Sderot; no wounded. Residents demand army operations on southern front be boosted to level of northern offensive

Hizballah needs to be annihilated, today.

yehoshua (#245)

Send that to Bush.

GOODNIGHT ALL!

IDF official: At least 200 Hezbollah operatives have been killed (Reuters)

Keep going ...

Hey All,get good and drunk! For tommorow you may be in Utah!

#256 - raidergirl

I really wasn't looking for a win in this case.
In any event, thanks for praying for me and I also pray your brother comes home safe and soon.
Pleasant dreams.

Right back at ya! Jimmy!

Seriously, Goodnight all Ya'll!, might be a redneck!

It's another tequila sunrise
Starin' slowly 'cross the sky, said goodbye
He was just a hired hand
Workin' on the dreams he planned to try
The days go by

Ev'ry night when the sun goes down
Just another lonely boy in town
And she's out runnin' 'round
She wasn't just another woman
And I couldn't keep from comin' on
It's been so long
Oh, and it's a hollow feelin' when
It comes down to dealin' friends
It never ends

Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb
It's another tequila sunrise,
this old world still looks the same,
Another frame, mm...

[ahem!]

Actually mildly related to Botox & Muslim 'morality', there is a fascinating article about the Iranians executing a 16 year old child for "crimes against chastity". Also in that article it mentions that "..the age of sexual consent for girls under Sharia law is nine,"
[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

I wonder if this Sharia law comes from the fact that history's most infamous pedophile "married" Aisha at 6, but consummated his "marriage" when the infant was 9!

Sorry - work

Good morning, dead thread.

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Fruitcup is on the buffet --->
Help yourselves!

RE #257, it was Islamic Jihad.

Islamic Jihad says it was behind rocket attack on Zikim

Also past due for annihilation.

Also past due for annihilation.

Quoting westbankmama: "Take a number and wait your turn."

Did ya'll know that Cindy Sheehan is going to be George Bush's neighbor in Crawford, Texas? Some anti-war supporter bought it in her name because he figured if the local folks found out about it, they'd be none too happy about it.

These people are entirely insane. What she gonna do when his presidency is over in 2008?

#257 zulubaby

I know it's tough, and you feel the complete and utter frustration and rage in your heart, much like everyone here.

But the fact is that is S. Lebanon is basically one huge trap. We must give them time to finish this fight properly.

UN aid chief says Israel has 'created a generation of hatred'

United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland accused Israel on Wednesday of committing "catastrophic mistakes" in its attack on Hizbullah, which have caused civilian casualties and alienated the Lebanese public.

"It will create a generation of hatred," he said in an interview held with The Jerusalem Post after he had concluded tours of northern Israel, Gaza and Lebanon.

"I'm talking more as a friend of Israel than as an aid worker," said Egeland, who noted that he studied at Jerusalem's Hebrew University as a Truman Fellow, while his brother lived on a kibbutz.

So that makes him what, a Jew-lover? Do you know how many times I've heard anti-Semites say that they've studied in Israel or lived on a kibbutz, as if that alone demonstrates that they are, in fact, not anti-Semitic.

With "friends" like Egeland ...

He said he was deeply struck by what he had observed first-hand during his tour of the region, particularly the "Christians, Druse, Maronites, Sunnis, who all hated Israel" when before they had hated Hizbullah, and the rubble of Beirut, which he said looked "a little bit like the end of the Second World War. It was block after block after block down in some kind of a carpet bombing."

"Christians, Druse, Maronites, Sunnis, who all hated Israel" when before they had hated Hizbullah

Gee, that's a shame. We all know how much they loved Israel before.

To be fair ...

While the results of the attacks might be different, Egeland said that Israelis and Lebanese suffered "the same sense of terror." He described his distress by the scene that had greeted him in Haifa.

"I remember Haifa as a city of moderation and reconciliation and peace, and now to see people running to shelters and see many of its citizens being wounded is just terrible," he said. "It's heartrending to hear the stories."

--

Livni later told reporters that she had wanted to meet in him Haifa so that he could see first-hand what life was life for residents in the North suffering under the daily barrage of Hizbullah rockets.

I appreciate Livni's efforts, but honestly, I don't think it matters. Egeland comments illustrate his lack of understanding of what this is truly about. He does not see that Hizbollah has brought this war on and instead blames Israel for the Lebanese suffering. He also does not understand that no matter what Israel does in the name of "peace", the Arab world will never be satisfied until Israel is totally destroyed.

I also don't believe that any member of the UN has real compassion or concern for the Jews.

Manker, I know that. It's just difficult.

Has anyone seen this. If true it will only be a matter of time before the thought police start to shut down sites.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/27/ntia_icann _meeting/
here is an excerpt:

However, assistant commerce secretary John Kneuer, the US official in charge of such matters, also made clear that the US was still determined to keep control of the net's root zone file - at least in the medium-term.

Ultimately, what came out of a gathering of the (English-speaking) great and the good regarding the internet was two things:

That the US government recognises it has to transition its role if it wants to keep the internet in one piece (and it then has to sell that decision to a mindlessly patriotic electorate)
That ICANN has to open up and allow more people to decide its course if it is going to be allowed to become the internet's main overseeing organisation

Pimf:

Has anyone seen this.= Has anyone seen this?