Fly . me . to . the . moon...

Mmmm. A bird. Smack smack.

Stealth seagull. Hopefully being vectored in to drop a load on Ahmadinejad.

A tanker bombardment

Such beautiful birds, seagulls, and yet... so annoying. They've got in in for my car, let me tell you. As my brother has always maintained, it's a good thing humans can't fly.

I want to fly like an eagle...to the sea.

He's flying out to check out the scraps from a Supertanker!

Audio of seagulls:

[Link: www.reelwavs.com...]

btw - The California Gull is the Utah State Bird.

It's a bird's life.

Just another day in Paradise...
I wonder what its like to live totally in the moment, not a care in the world...
Oh, yeah; kinda like a two year old. Or Ward Churchill...

#13 Krampus

And we're just targets?

#12 RTLM

The Miracle of the Gulls.

The Gulls
retold by
S. E. Schlosser

In the year of our Lord 1848, vast swarms of crickets descended upon our settlement. Twas a judgment upon us, yea certain, for how else could you explain the desecration of our crops, the dimming hope of survival for the coming winter?

We tried rude methods to destroy the insects: some attempted to burn the crickets, some tried to drown or bury them. But alas, nothing, not even our prayers for deliverance, seemed able to stop the massive destruction of the crickets.

Then, when we had lost all hope, the morning sky was filled with the hoarse cry of gulls and the sound of wings. Before our eyes, thousands of gulls descended over the Great Salt Lake and commenced a great feasting upon the crickets. Twas a miracle of God. Every day the gulls came to eat the crickets until there were no more crickets left. Our crops were saved and we survived the following winter.

* Based on a true story, this story explains why the California gull is the Utah state bird.

[Link: www.americanfolklore.net...]

The effects of Driving while Muslim in Florida

#15 PSGInfinity

That is so speciesist!

Just an Earth-bound misfit.

#6 savage_nation

No birds like that up here in Calgary.

You're a bit inland. :)

Want me to send you the ones we have here? We are right on the coast...and the village beach is a landing path.

Try Toronto. They have exquisite aim...I would imagine any place on one of the Great Lakes has the same problem.

White bird
In a golden cage

in the rain...
Alone... well here you go

white bird must fly

recorded version

12 RTLM

Yes, because seagulls ate their locust plague. Years ago, we were watching a western where a locust plague hit, and my mom started to cry. Turns out when she was a little girl, their farm had a locust plague hit - it was incredibly traumatic. The TV show brought it all back.

For similar childhood trauma reasons, she didn't like eagles. She saw one carry off a calf once.

I hope that bird lives in Ejectia.

#17 jcm
Hungry birds. I was on the beach and saw a gull steal a 7 year old's sack lunch and atttempt get airborne - kid gave chase and managed to get close enough, the bird had to drop the sack and fly off. LOL.

Corgi eating artist sets mashed potato target

"I am being buried in a box -- a David Blaine type thing -- in Dublin underneath a metre of mashed potato," he said. He did not explain why.

/because he's an attention whore?

18 obscured by clouds

Oh dear. Man, a car is not worth your life! That's awful. I'm glad they caught the guy before he could skip out.

#26 RTLM

Here in Seattle we have water front deak dining. Seagulls included. At Ivars Seafood Bar, they'll set up a landing pattern for tossed or held aloft french freedom fries.

I note my local paper not only has multiple editorials in every issue supporting the shamnesty bill, but now there is one questioning the sanity of anyone who opposes it. the author is a fellow named Hernandez who just happens to be a hard left Democrat. WTF?

Having worked in the teen magazine industry for many years, I find this very disturbing.

#26 RTLM

Hungry birds.

If you're ever in downtown Chicago, flip a donut on the sidewalk.

/watch what happens

G-d bless our boys & girls! (the bird IS the word)

#19 jcm

"That is so speciesist!"

[hangs head in shame]

#32 new2thezoo

Lots of uncovered hair send out those rays and causing men to lust.

This must be the Bird of Paradise

#28 Killian

He must be a member of this party...

#32 new2thezoo
Watching History Channel on the Taliban. Afghanis are confused when the Taliban take over because the veil and Burga are unknown. Note that they are still there. Who won?

#30 jcm
Here in Seattle we have water front deak dining. Seagulls included. At Ivars Seafood Bar, they'll set up a landing pattern for tossed or held aloft french freedom fries.

I've never had seagull. Extra mango salsa please.

:)

I want the border sealed!

Why doesn't anyone in Washington hear me?

the seagull is like a politcal party and charles cool on the spell check

Don't know why this imagery came to mind, but looking at that picture, I imagine someone who's been deeply involved in Islam, sensing that something's not right, and then going it alone, flying away to freedom, heading off out into the unknown, with all of the difficulty and struggles that entails, but concluding that it's worth it just the same, because there's a big world out there, and they want to be part of it.

Karzai swaps top Taliban body for hostages

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — President Hamid Karzai ordered swapping the body of a slain top Taliban commander in exchange for the release of five Afghan health workers kidnapped in the country's south, an official said Monday.

Karzai told "relevant authorities" to exchange the body of Mullah Dadullah, killed last month in southern Afghanistan, for a doctor, three nurses and a driver kidnapped March 27, said Abdullah Fahim, a spokesman for the Public Health Ministry.

/sounds fair to me

#18 obscured by clouds

"Sheriff Jenne identified the suspect as Abdelaziz Hamze, 24, of Coral Springs, during a press conference."

Being dismissed as "road rage." Note that the victim, Sandra Hall, was black. The savage racism of many Arabs is one of the dirtiest of the many dirty secrets the MSM keep on behalf of their petro-tick masters. We see the same thing in Darfur and all along the southern tier of the Sahara. Have for centuries.

We see it in Iraq, where Imans rail against the "negro occupation" by American troops and where some insurgents have admitted to cancelling attacks because there were no blacks among the targeted troops.

Imagine how these barbarians would behave if they weren't afraid that every other potential victim they meet had a gun in purse or pocket.

What the Hell?!

Appears the Central Vally California Hmongs were planning a little war of there own - in LAOS.

The criminal complaint said Vang Pao, now 77, and the other Hmong defendants formed a committee "to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a military expedition or enterprise to engage in the overthrow of the existing government of Laos by violent means, including murder, assaults on both military and civilian officials of Laos and destruction of buildings and property." [] The defendants also attempted to recruit a mercenary force that included former members of the Army special forces or Navy SEALs, prosecutors said. (Vang Po, 77 year old former leader of) CIA-backed Hmong forces in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s as a general in the Royal Army of Laos, was charged.

"We're looking at conspiracy to murder thousands and thousands of people at one time," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss said in federal court.

He said thousands of co-conspirators remain at large.

Hell don't prosecute them - put them to work.

Check out this political quiz which matches you with the most compatible candidate in the 2008 election:

[Link: www.speakout.com...]

My top match was Mike Huckabee at 55% (63% Social, 50% Economic). I'm interested to know what everyone scores.

This is a response to Mr. Mom from the "Aussie Cleric" thread.

#61 Tigger2005
Read Ann Coulter's "How to Talk to a Liberal"
There is an entire chapter detailing how Darwinists have had to grope for, stretch and out and out fabricate GIANT sections of the "theory" of evolution to make it even quasi-scientific.

So, the geologists, cosmologists, biologists, chemists, paleontologists, DNA researchers, etc. are all in cahoots and are all fabricating huge amounts of evidence that all dovetails neatly to support evolution.

Do you realize what a vast, elaborate conspiracy theory you and Ann are proposing here? Frankly, it dwarfs 9/11 "Truthism." It dwarfs anything from the mind of Oliver Stone. But that's OK. Vast and elaborate conspiracy theories are only crazy when they don't support your point of view, I guess.

If you're an atheist, I believe you're just another "big chip on the shoulder" guy/gal like objectivist who posts here from time to time.

What did I say in my post to warrant this attack? I was speaking from my heart and trying to reach out to find common ground and understanding and mutual respect, and I get this "chip on the shoulder" comment. Where in my post did I give the impression that I was spoiling for a fight?

I have not posted as frequently on LGF in the past year as I did previously, but I suggest you look through my old posts before you make accusations like this.

Perhaps all the evidence you care to look at supports evolution. Look at the entire body of evidence before you decide to make assinine statements and conclusions.

Well, there's no way to look at ALL the evidence for evolution, because there's too much of it for any one person to examine it all in his or her lifetime. But I've looked at more than enough of it to be persuaded. You might want to read "Finding Darwin's God" by Kenneth Miller, a biologist and practicing Catholic.

Meanwhile, I haven't seen any evidence at all for creationism or ID. I've looked, but there's just nothing there but arguments from personal incredulity ("I don't see how this particular structure could have evolved through random mutation and natural selection, therefore it was designed"). Irreducible complexity is a discredited argument. If you could point out some actual evidence for me, I'd be glad to take a look at it.

I know, for one, I did not come from a monkey. I am in G-d's image and likeness.

I only became an atheist in my late 20's. Prior to that I was a believer. I had no trouble accepting that humans evolved from other species while at the same time holding the belief that all life had been invested with the divine image and likeness, but only humankind (so far) had evolved to be aware of this. Accepting evolution and believing in the divine are not mutually exclusive.

I am sorry you find it personally repugnant to think that one of your distant ancestors from millions of years ago was a monkey-like creature. I find it personally repugnant to think that I'm the same species as Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, but that doesn't mean I'm not. In my book, among the hallmarks of being a conservative adult is a willingness to be realistic and to accept things one does not like if they are supported by overwhelming evidence. When someone tries to brush said evidence aside as being fabricated as part of a vast, elaborate, multi-generational, interdisciplinary scientific hoax, the word "denial" comes to mind.

For anyone who is fed up with Google, especially after Memorial Day? Try Scroogle.org:Powerful search tool without privacy violations.

[...]Privacy concerns are not the only controversy causing Internet users to look for alternatives for their searches.

For the ninth year in a row, Google this week declined to mark Memorial Day with one of its trademarked holiday logo modifications – something the company has done for the Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Halloween and other observances that have nothing to do with American patriotism or commemorations of military service or war dead.

Google has, in the past, highlighted special honors for Percival Lowell, Edvard Munch and Louis Braille. Lowell was an astronomer, Munch an artist, and Braille developed Braille writing for the blind.

But while the rest of the nation marked Memorial Day, Google did not.

Other days that have been honored have included National Teachers Day, Women's Day, Ray Charles' birthday, World Water Day and St. George's Day.

Besides overlooking Veterans Day and Memorial Day since the company's inception in 1999, it also has ignored Christmas.[...]

#41 RTLM

Guy is on the beach shooting gulls. He gets caught by a Fish and Wildlife Agent.

Agent tells him shooting gulls is illegal.

Guy says I know, but I am an out of work logger trying to put food on the table for my family.

Agent decides to cut the guy a break and issues him a warning.

As they part company the Agent asks the guy, "By the way what does gull taste like?"

Guy pauses and thinks, "Oh, 'bought half way between Bald Eagle and Spotted Owl."

As I have said many times, never give up your guns. This is especially true if you are African-American. Libs do not believe that black people can be trusted with guns. The rest of us, especially veterans, know that this is not the case.
The media goebbelists represent gun rights as a lily-white campaign by rednecks, panicked suburbanite racists, and defrocked Klansmen. That is one of the biggest of their big lies. Disadvantated minorities know that they cannot count on the police. Gun control in the inner cities is an utter failure, its only effect being to leave the law-abiding completely defenseless against the lawless.

#46 Shiplord Kirel
What you say it true. See for instance:
[Link: www.westernresistance.com...]
The degree in which academics have covered the truth so as not to embarrass Afro-centric crackpots may destroy black society.

48 Eri
Just took it. Almost the same. Durn, Ron Paul came in way last. :)

#47 RTLM

What an absolute disgrace, United States attorneys doing the Reds' dirty work for them.

"thousands of co-conspirators remain at large"

Make that millions, if the remaining enemies of communism in this country are willing to be counted. There will undoubtedly be a legal defense fund for these victims of communist subversion. All loyal Americans should contribute and the incoming President (if a Republican) should make sure that the responsible officials are duly and severely punished for their persecution of people who are seeking to liberate their country from genocidal communists.

Don't forget today is the Anniversary of the Six Day War!

Lessons of the Six-Day War

Today the world will commemorate the 40th anniversary of Israel's victory in the Six-Day War. This was one of the most convincing conventional military accomplishments of the 20th century, one which removed the threat of annihilation from the Jewish States for the following four decades.
During May 1967, Egypt's dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser and the leaders of Syria, apparently misled by carefully fed Soviet disinformation, mobilized their armies, and kicked United Nations peacekeepers out of Sinai. Nasser proclaimed "the Jews would be thrown into the Mediterranean." "Our basic objective will be to destroy Israel," he vowed May 26.
Nasser also closed the Straits of Tiran in the Red Sea, cutting Israel's maritime link to the Far East and Africa -- a casus belli under international law. Jordan joined the pending attack, while Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Algeria contributed troops and arms. The shadow of the Holocaust, which had occurred little more than 20 years earlier, again descended on Israel.
The key to Israel's victory was recognition that its was at stake. This led to full mobilization of the state and the people and creation of a government of national unity. The people and leaders had no choice but to become heroes overnight.

More at: Washington Times

Hijack a plane and you're a criminal.

Hijack a country and your a Head of State, get to speak at the UN, and receive diplomatic courtesy.

#28 Killian Bundy

"I am being buried in a box -- a David Blaine type thing -- in Dublin underneath a metre of mashed potato," he said. He did not explain why.

/because he's an attention whore?

The UK has some of the loosest standards for "art" in the Western world. I'm convinced "contemporary artists" know this, and they know full well they can get cash grants for doing dumb stunts, so long as they present things correctly. Just look up "Turner Prize".

(What am I working on my concept art skills for? I can just do something disgusting and stupid, call it art, and get U.S. fifty grand $$.)

You would think it a rare day when the Whitehouse celebrated the death of a GOP Senator, but the RNC and the President are doing it now. Craig Thomas was firmly against the McCain-Kennedy bill.

57 Shiplord Kirel

What an absolute disgrace, United States attorneys doing the Reds' dirty work for them.

Especially since we owe the Hmong. They helped us, we helped them, now they get in trouble for doing what the CIA should have been doing anyway? F that noise.

If they want to raise an army to kick some genuine Communist butt, they should give me a call. I don't know how much use I'll be but I must be able to contribute somewhere. I'd love to get a crack at some real Commies.

#53 Shiplord: I underline your short, accurate description, and applaud the courage with which you posted it, Sir.

You know its difficult to look at GWB and Iraq and not see T.E. Lawrence and Damascus!

Just saying.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull ?

"The people of Israel formed a UNITY government... became heroes overnight!"

(paraphrased)

America will do exactly the same, when the time is right! Islamism is dead.

#63 carridine

Many thanks my friend.

I remember reading an article many years ago by a very liberal (in the old sense) professor at Saint Louis University. He believed that gun control primarily hurt minorities. He documented the rather interesting observation that the first really serious wave of state-wide gun control measures in this country were aimed at southern blacks during the Jim Crow era.
He also described his experiences as a voting rights activist in Mississippi in the early 60s, when a loaded .45 revolver was sometimes the only thing between him and a racist lynch mob. As some here will remember, other activists weren't so fortunate, or so well armed.
The article made some sense, especially as I started spending time in minority communities, and I have never forgotten it.
Like it or not, "call the cops" is a grim joke for millions of Americans.

#52 jcm:

A man who had just moved to Maine asked a local why the seagulls aren't cooked for food, if they were so plentiful.

The local answered, "Well, if you put a seagull and a brick into the same oven, the brick would be done sooner, and probably taste better."

#42 DesertSage

I want the border sealed!
Why doesn't anyone in Washington hear me?

Perhaps this might help answer that question.

New York Sun: Islamists in the Courtroom
By Daniel Pipes
June 5, 2007

The decision by the Islamic Society of Boston to drop its lawsuit against 17 defendants, including counterterrorism specialist Steven Emerson, gives reason to step back to consider radical Islam's legal ambitions.

The lawsuit came about because, soon after ground was broken in November 2002 for the ISB's $22 million Islamic center, the press and several nonprofits began asking questions about three main topics: why the ISB paid the city of Boston less than half the appraised value of the land it acquired; why a city of Boston employee, who is also an ISB board member, fund raised on the Boston taxpayers' tab for the center while traveling in the Middle East, and the ISB's connections to radical Islam.

Under this barrage of criticism, the ISB in May 2005 turned the tables on its critics with a lawsuit accusing them of defamation and conspiring to violate its civil rights through "a concerted, well-coordinated effort to deprive the Plaintiffs … of their basic rights of free association and the free exercise of religion."

For two long years, the lawsuit roiled Bostonians, and Jewish-Muslim relations in particular. The discovery process, while disclosing that the defendants had engaged in routine newsgathering and political disputation, and had nothing to hide, uncovered the plaintiff 's record of extremism and deception. Newly aware of its own vulnerabilities, the ISB on May 29 withdrew its lawsuit with its many complaints about "false statements," and it did so without getting a dime. (...)

He has killed thousands of gulls

#48 Eri 6/04/2007 10:19:55 pm PDT

Check out this political quiz which matches you with the most compatible candidate in the 2008 election:

[Snip, links don't copy well...]

My top match was Mike Huckabee at 55% (63% Social, 50% Economic). I'm interested to know what everyone scores.

Tancredo 73%
Social 56%
Economic 83%
Not too bad when you consider how few questions were asked.
// {;-)™

New London Olympic logo torches debate
By Martina Smit

The £400,000 new logo of the London 2012 Olympics was unveiled at a star-studded ceremony - only to be greeted by public dissent.

Within 12 hours, an online petition to "get this terrible logo dropped as soon as possible" attracted more than 13,000 signatures.

Of more than 6,000 votes cast in an opinion poll on the BBC website by midnight, almost half gave the logo the lowest possible rating.
(...)
Olympic bosses described their logo as "dynamic, modern and flexible".

But in online forums, contributors have described it as looking like a swastika, a smashed window, a couple having sex and a symbol of the "ill conceived mess" that the Games has become.

[A swastika looks like a couple having sex?--B.P.]

#71 Barrypopik

Just think of ISB as the Oscar Wilde of Islamofascism.

#74 Barrypopik:

Well, whether you're looking at a swastika or a couple having sex, you can be sure someone's f***d.

I've heard the beginnings of smart ass giggles (KFI John & Ken)about the so-called buffoonish attempt to blow up a aviation fuel artery between NY and NJ. The man who was picked up was a 63 year old Trinidadian muslim convert named Russell Defreitas. Four men were arrested, one was a former Guyana Parliament Member and Imam.
But there's a big picture here. I just learned Via American Thinker that Trinided is the provider of 65% of US Liquified Natural Gas.

An unappreciated aspect of the NYC airport plot is that Trinidad, which seems the focus of the terror plot, is a large supplier of natural gas to America ( 65% of America's imports of Liquefied Natural Gas-LNG.) Trinidad and its sister island of Tobago have a Muslim population estimated to range from 10-15% of their total population-including a recent influx of immigrants from Pakistan and Afghanistan-two fertile sources of terrorists.

LNG has always been considered a dangerous material; it is a highly combustible substance that is shipped to America in cryogenic form in large ships.

So maybe its not so shit funny John.

Note to W:
France gets tough on illegal immigration, setting quotas for arrests, expulsions
[Link: news.bostonherald.com...]

#74 Barrypopik

It does look simultaneously like a swastika and a couple having sex . . . or a foursome having sex.

It also looks like some sort of psychological test, an industrial warning, the packaging for a cracker box, a very crummy jigsaw puzzle, a bunch of barnyard animals fighting, and an Olympic logo designed by a committee.

#74 Barrypopik

Take a look at this..and the logos people sent in..most of them are excellent. I couldn't believe what they chose. It is the absolute worst.

There is also a poll...hilarious!

rtlm
LNG tanks and tankers have the potential of a small nuke.

CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT

For all of you at LGF for your viewing pleasure

Steve

#81 cbinflux
LNG tanks and tankers have the potential of a small nuke.

yup.

#6 savage_nation

Oh, Calgary has its gulls alright, or sh**hawks as they are known here.

If you are going to return to Calgary soon, or are going to be around for a while, we could meet for a coffee. I expect to be there tomorrow myself. I live about an hour and a half distant.

Enjoy your stay, regardless.

Yup. There was a thread and sub-threads on that a while back...

#81 cbinflux:

"France gets tough on illegal immigration, setting quotas for arrests, expulsions"

A couple years ago they would have got it wrong and deported the citizens of France instead of the illegal aliens.

Sorry for a 'hit and run;' and maybe this has already been linked. "Holocaust Diary of 14- year- old dubbed 'the Polish Ann Frank' unveiled." At Fox news.

#86 cbinflux
could you link that - I'd like to check it out. busy weekend and monday unfortunately

#47 RTLM

What the Hell?!

Appears the Central Vally California Hmongs were planning a little war of there own - in LAOS.

The criminal complaint said Vang Pao, now 77, and the other Hmong defendants formed a committee "to evaluate the feasibility of conducting a military expedition or enterprise to engage in the overthrow of the existing government of Laos by violent means, including murder, assaults on both military and civilian officials of Laos and destruction of buildings and property." [] The defendants also attempted to recruit a mercenary force that included former members of the Army special forces or Navy SEALs, prosecutors said. (Vang Po, 77 year old former leader of) CIA-backed Hmong forces in Laos in the 1960s and 1970s as a general in the Royal Army of Laos, was charged.
"We're looking at conspiracy to murder thousands and thousands of people at one time," Assistant U.S. Attorney Bob Twiss said in federal court.

He said thousands of co-conspirators remain at large.

Hell don't prosecute them - put them to work.

I've been doing a little reading on the Hmong and Vang Pao this evening and apparently there were some in the Hmong community that felt that Vang Pao was raising money for his own self aggrandizement and had no intention of returning to Laos and taking on the Communists. Looks like they were wrong. I also get the feeling there are quite a few VietNam era American vets who felt that this was their last chance for revenge against the Communists and their enablers in the media, academia and the court system here in the US, and were girding for battle, either in the Laotian highlands or the US court system and media. It will be interesting to see how all this plays out over the next few months. This Twiss twit sounds like real piece of work. I'm guessing he is a Carter or Clinton appointee. "Conspiracy to murder thousands" ha!

What is it some folks say here? The time of torches and pitchforks is approaching?

TFK I'd be interested in your take on this if you are out there.

#88 brakes
Ditto on this. Very moving. Bring a hanky.

[Link: www.foxnews.com...]

#48 Eri

Took the quiz. I'm aligned with Romney at 58%. 56 social, 58 economic.

I guess I'm good at assessing candidates, because I was already a Romney supporter.

Here's a pic a Vang Pao - tough looking sob.

Can't find a pic of Robert Twiss.

This things getting legs.

#92 savage_nation

#90 Colonel Panik

This Twiss twit sounds like real piece of work. I'm guessing he is a Carter or Clinton appointee.

Indeed he is a Clinton appointee. I found that little tidbit of info from the Clinton Purge.

Look at number 9 on that list in there.

Sumbitch. Well, as my dad likes to say, it's not that I am never wrong, it's just that I am seldom incorrect!

Good catch SN. There are a lot of legal shenanigans from the Clintoon years that have never been properly investigated. I am sure his wholesale firing of US attorneys was entirely politcally motivated. I'd be willing to bet that every single one of them was a Republican or an old school Truman/FDR/Scoop Jackson style Dem and not a '68er type.

#48 Eri

Since you ask, I got matched with Jim Gilmore. My reaction is: wtf?

I'm voting for the one who can sink Hillary: Giuliani.

from National Review Oct 1995

"The story of the Hmong has been a story of neglect and betrayal. Though they were paid and encouraged by the United States to resist the advance of Communism in Southeast Asia, most of them were left to a precarious fate when the Laotian domino collapsed in 1975. Now the Hmong betrayal appears to be continuing, with the support of the Clinton Administration: the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the government of Thailand soon may be closing the Hmong refugee camps and sending many of the 40,000 refugees still in Thailand back to Laos, where they are certain to face ruthless persecution.

Fortunately, Congress now is resisting the move and is mobilizing to assist the Thai-based Hmong in receiving permission to immigrate to the United States. In May, the House of Representatives authorized financial support for the resettlement of Hmong and other Southeast Asian refugees in the United States (though President Clinton promises a veto). Similar legislation may soon be adopted by the Senate.

Even if the repatriation of the Hmong is halted, reports from the camps in Thailand raise questions about the involvement of the UNHCR and Thai authorities in pressuring and even forcing Hmong to go back to Laos against their will. Staffers affiliated with Reps. Ben Gilman (R., N.Y.) and Lee Hamilton (D., Ind.) led a fact-finding mission to the Thai refugee camps in September 1994; Tim Bartl, a staff assistant to Rep. Steve Gunderson (R., Wisc.), and Hmong human-rights advocate Philip Smith visited the camps in December. Both groups found that, in an attempt to pressure the Hmong into returning to Laos, the UNHCR keeps them in prison-like conditions, including severely restricted food and water rations and a ban on communications with the outside world."

And the leftists want to whine about the f***in' Palis.

Robert Twiss - fourth from right, back row (bald, grinning)

#102 Savage Nation

Ron Paul clearly has the Ronmentum right now. He won the Democratic debate without even showing up!

48- Eri

My top match was Mike Huckabee at 55% (63% Social, 50% Economic). I'm interested to know what everyone scores.

My top two were Hunter 70% and Tancredo 65%. And they are who I already support.

#106 Savage

I was referring to the LGF poll where Ron Paul got 65% of the vote. It was held on Tuesday night.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=2574 0&only

#109 Savage_nation

And that is a man I will march into Hell for.

Huh?

I don't understand all of the enthusiasm for Fred!. First, the man looks like he is about 1000 years old, second he talks and acts like he is too.

I suppose people will always want what they can't have, I'll be waiting to see how he does when he is an actual candidate and not a theoretical one.

#58 Robert O.
Don't forget today is the Anniversary of the Six Day War!

We may be due for another.

USS Enterprise Heads To Iran…

The Enterprise makes three. Three carriers and three strike groups, total.

This finalizes the first phase of military escalation against Iran that VP Cheney promised to the Gulf States.

The message we sent to Iran in Baghdad was signigicant only to people who don’t know better, like the media and dumb politicians. The real message is in the weapons of mass destruction, the instruments of the apocalypse of Iran’s nuclear facilities and infrastructure, that we have strung like a Damocles sword above their heads. Bush has made it quietly clear to them that we are going to strike. Forget Condi’s for-the-press face today. For many months now, while no one has been able to really see and understand, we have been waging a war of finality against Iran and her ambitions. While everyone in the media, and on the media’s receiving end, have been wringing their hands in anquish at our seeming impotence and inaction, the VP has been functioning as a nearly one man army/terrorist wreaking havoc through the halls of power in Tehran. Why do you think he has been taking all those trips through the region? To discuss the latest trends in couscous recipes? He has been shoring up relationships, building strategy, and waging the necessary war against Iran. Why is he about to visit all of Iran’s northern neighbors? Why has Iran been taking Americans captive in a feverish panic? Coincidence? Why is the architect of Iran’s nuclear program, Vladimir Putin, about to head to a private summit with Bush? Why all the posturing about a missile shield? It’s all about Iran, and Putin is working to get all he can as the price for his blessing.

This move isn’t on the Navy board just yet but it makes sense. One caveat - If you count the Bonhomme Richard (which I do) there are three Strike Groups there already. If we are sending the Enterprise’s very large group - 8 ships total - its better positioned in the Eastern Med. To assist Israel vs. LEB and Syria IF we launch on Iran. Looking forward to Dollard’s next on this.

TO: savage_nation
RE: Gosh!

"And that is a man I will march into Hell for." -- savage_nation

I sure hope it doesn't require THAT!

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Hell is empty and all the devils are HERE! -- The Tempest]

TO: RTLM
RE: Forecast: A Long, 'Hot' Summer for the Middle East

Iran continues to accelerate it's nuke program.

The build-up of combat forces in Iraq continues.

The evidence that Iran is behind the insurgency in Iraq keeps coming out.

And I hear the Iraqi parliament is going to take a two-month hiatus starting in July...

Regards,

Chuck(le)
P.S. I hope our people in the Puzzle Palace are not overly arrogant. That tends to get people into a LOT of trouble. Especially against people as clever as our friends in Iran are.

#114 Savage

So you want Hillary in the White House? Because that's your alternative.

No, of course in the general election I would vote for any Republican over any Democrat.

I was just saying that I don't see what others seem to see in Fred!. And if you mean that Fred! is the only Repub that can win, I've gotta disagree with you there. I'm confident that Guliani could win.

#112 RTLM

#58 Robert O.
Don't forget today is the Anniversary of the Six Day War!
We may be due for another.

USS Enterprise Heads To Iran…

The Enterprise makes three. Three carriers and three strike groups, total.
This finalizes the first phase of military escalation against Iran that VP Cheney promised to the Gulf States.

Speaking of Carrier Battle Groups, it is also the anniversary of the Battle of Midway-the turning point in the Pacific War.

Maybe that seagull is a good sign!
Cue the Victory at Sea music!

#118 Savage

Talk about baggage, Clinton has it in spades. It is going to be a tough race, but if Hillary! is the nominee, I am confident that the big 3 (Guliani, Fred!, and Mitt) have a legitimate chance of beating her.

Just for reference though, the leader of the Savage Nation has said he is for Mitt at this point, for what that's worth.

Killian Bundy posted this bit of at sea Leisure Activity some time ago. I found it to be humorous - catchy, even.

nite all

It's been a cloudy day in the South Bay. I'm in Hermosa, and its chilly and cloudy.

Some monday night Fred, for the Frednecks

You people realize your kids are going trick-or-treating twice before the election? It's a long way off. That's why some Hillary dirty laundry is being released now, to get it out of the way. At this point, McCain could beat Hillary. She probably won't get the nod anyway, but when you look at the rest of the Democratic field, they may have to, even knowing they have no chance of keeping the closet skeletons from burying her alive right in front of everyone.

Obomba's done. You can't come back from being 9,990 off on a death-toll. His people are wasting their time.

Edwards isn't popular now, outside of Kos, but it's a long way off. This guy's frigging clueless, though. He won't clear the holster.

Biden's BACK, baby!

#118 savage

Fred! on the other hand will wipe the debate floor with that skanks big fat ass.

He may debate gud, but I don't see enough ACTION in his past to make me march into hell for him.

I think Rudy can wipe Hillary up. He's enough of a social liberal to siphon votes from her.

Well, this discussion will be going on until November 2008, and I've got to get to sleep for now.

#48 Eri: Duncan Hunter
Social 81%
Economic 63%
Total 70%

It worked for me, even had my top 5 down :)

Well I took that quiz... and I too found Huckabee to be the closest match, but at only 48% (25% social, 63% economic). My lowest matched Republican counterpoint (yes, the one and only Ron Paul) still ranked higher than the highest Democrat (the ever boring Joe Biden.)

Huckabee is to self conciously a Christian, which is a no-no in the public arena. GWB is also but he had the family connections to overcome the opposition forces in his own party. Huckabee has no such luck.

The 63% score on Huckabee's economic policy was the only entry to break 50% for me... what that tells me I already knew...

None of the candidates inspire me to vote for them.

Meanwhile in more important news... oil is up strongly this morning in East Asian trading as news of TC Gonu blocking Gulf oil shipments are popping up on the newswires. Who would have thought... a hurricane in the Gulf of Oman! First time in modern weather history.

#125 Free: All I can say is, "May the best man win", and if Duncan Hunter doesn't win then here's hoping 2nd best is an overachiever. I am a bit annoyed with all this reasoning based upon, "who can beat Hillary". Bring the pant suit, the large auriculated one or the Silk Pony on.

Good Morning Dead Threaders!

New directions for Israeli academics

Okay, that guitar thing a couple of threads down is pretty funny. But while I recognize the song name, not a note of it pops into my mind.

Here's a few notes. You'll recognize it immediately.

/and turn it off licketysplit

Senator Joe Lieberman Gets Personal in Prague

Senator Joe Lieberman gave the keynote remarks at the reception to open the The Democracy and Security Conference in Prague Czech Republic on June 4, 2007.

Here Senator Lieberman shared a moving story about his wife, Hadassah Lieberman, and her family's connection to Prague:

Good polling news:
11 months ago the right in Mexico had 35% of the vote and the left 35% of the vote. (Left and right are a simplification, but not completely inaccurate).
After months of the left doing all kinds of stupid and even evil things, the polls -as per a very serious polling company here- are:
49% for the right, 20% for the left.

And they keep on doing the same: harming people every time they protest. They are so bright, they know the way to succeed is to hurt others! Yes!

More of the same, please :)

Good morning, dead thread.

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*™

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

131 Miguelito: Something to calm your nerves, my friend, and to cleanse the palate of the rest. Wash that Deep Purple right away.

Drought unearths artifacts on bottom of Lake Okeechobee

Drought has uncovered what some are calling the most significant archaeological find in Palm Beach County's recent history

.

wild_cat
WOW! just WOW!
I was litening to Deep Purple -Hush- five minutes ago!

Stop hacing my comp! ¬¬

The violin sounds impressing. Nice electronical sound. thanks :)

Ahem...hacking. heh.

#126 wildcat_clan

What can I say... Duncan is my rep and he does a decent job in that capacity but I don't think of him as presidential material. I suspect he is hoping to end up SecDef incase a Repub wins the election. Heck, he could even end up being SecDef for one Democrats.

Agree with you about the "who can beat Hillary" approach... that just doesn't sound to me like a way to pick a leader.

Congresscritters on the move...

The more things change...

Good morning, people.

Something cute for the early morning crowd...

Knut der kleine Eisbär

#138 freetoken

Agree with you about the "who can beat Hillary" approach... that just doesn't sound to me like a way to pick a leader.

I sure don't want to pick a "leader" who can't beat Hillary.

nonic
What a wonderful little bear :)
Thanks.

#135 freedomplow

Drought has uncovered what some are calling the most significant archaeological find in Palm Beach County's recent history

Damn that global warming!

Oh... wait a minute...

Shamnesty International

here's another cute bear song. the guitar is awesome! =)

problem with this pol. match poll is that it does not give the same weight to things that i do even saying that the guy i am supporting (RUDY) is only a few % points different than the guy who matchs me the most.

GAZA
were arabs are arabs
and goats are worried

(At least) Four more years of Kassams?

klina eisbar cute
gross eisbar fressen man

Hello everyone!

Whew! First thing this a.m., let the dogs out, and the obvious aroma of skunk was filling this humid air. *whew & peee-ewww*

Here's a little ditty on Fred Thompson.

The campaign finance reform bill, sponsored by Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, angered many conservatives who believe restrictions on political donations violate free speech.

Thompson's support for the proposal was one of the reasons he was among just four Republican senators to support the McCain 2000 presidential campaign. McCain is also running for the 2008 GOP nomination.

"He was a reliable conservative in the Senate except for the McCain-Feingold bill, and that's because he was enamored with John McCain," Keene said.

EGYPT: MOSQUES THAT POLLUTE THE NILE CAN BE DEMOLISHED SAYS TOP CLERIC

Cairo, 5 June (AKI) - Any mosques or churches in Egyptian territory which pollute the river Nile may be demolished, the country's leading cleric Mohammed Sayyed al Tantawi, has ruled. Tantawi, who is the imam at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, the highest seat of Sunni learning, said "water is a common good which must be protected and respected by the faithful as it is a precious element in sacred texts and is used for ritual ablutions before prayer." more...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Police said Tuesday they have arrested two men suspected of involvement in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
[Link: www.chron.com...]

Oh, this is really, really rich!
Palestinians hurl rocks at Peace Now bus

Palestinians in Hebron hurled rocks at a bus filled with left-wing Peace Now activists following a demonstration the organization held in the city. No injuries were reported. A police vehicle was also pelted with rocks.
The Peace Now rally ended without incident.

Yeah, right.

Many on the right remain angry Mr. Thompson supported the campaign finance law sponsored by his friend, John McCain. “There are problems with people giving politicians large sums of money and then asking them to pass legislation,” Mr. Thompson says. Still, he notes he proposed the amendment to raise the $1,000 per person “hard money” federal contribution limit. Conceding that McCain-Feingold hasn’t worked as intended, and is being riddled with new loopholes, he throws his hands open in exasperation. “I’m not prepared to go there yet, but I wonder if we shouldn’t just take off the limits and have full disclosure with harsh penalties for not reporting everything on the Internet immediately.”

[Link: blogs.wsj.com...]

watching the news. Hillary is being introduced as being from the Mid-West.

So was Charlie Manson and Jeffrey Daumer...yawn.

Good morning, Lizards!

I hate editing.

Two hot stories this am...

The first is this novel "Islamist" solution to preventing illicit affairs; have hourly marriages.

Better yet, why get married at all when you can hit a car and then drag a woman to death?

Bye, Lizards--have a great day.

Bye Goddess

And off for me also!

Surprise ?

Hebron: Palestinians throw rocks at Peace Now bus

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

[Link: www.news.com.au...]

Suicide bomber shot in Iraq...

That's they way to deal with them.

Notice Anything Different About Mrs. Clinton?

A magical transformation. Too bad she's still a socialist.

EGYPT: MOSQUES THAT POLLUTE THE NILE CAN BE DEMOLISHED SAYS TOP CLERIC

Cairo, 5 June (AKI) - Any mosques or churches in Egyptian territory which pollute the river Nile may be demolished, the country's leading cleric Mohammed Sayyed al Tantawi, has ruled. Tantawi, who is the imam at the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, the highest seat of Sunni learning, said "water is a common good which must be protected and respected by the faithful as it is a precious element in sacred texts and is used for ritual ablutions before prayer." more...

I'll lay you 99:1 odds that the only religious buildings that will ever be demolished under this law are churches. Expect to see demolition almost immediately. The older & more historically precious, the sooner it will be destroyed.

islam - the religion of pieces & hate

Actual link

Am Yisrael Chai !

#165 JammieWearingFool

Unactual link

Law...what law?..Islam don't need no stinken law...

UPDATE: Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne announced Monday afternoon the arrest of a man at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in the dragging death of Sandra Hall, 44, of Fort Lauderdale.

[Link: www.sun-sentinel.com...]

WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- The FBI says al-Qaida is issuing video messages in English to get Muslim extremists in the United States to carry out terror attacks.
Speaking on C-SPAN Television, FBI Director of Public Affairs John Miller said al-Qaida leaders have stepped up the tempo of their public messages in an effort to inspire others to compensate for their network's reduced ability directly to execute attacks.

"You see that they put out more communications than they used to, that they have picked up the tempo and pace a great deal," Miller said. He said al-Qaida's "ability to function as a corporate structure" had been impaired "because of the capture and killing of so many of its key leaders."

As a result, "al-Qaida has tried to put the message out to get others to step forward ... and do things in its name," Miller said. "I think what al-Qaida is counting on now ... is trying to develop and execute the major (attack) plan while at the same time putting out the propaganda fodder and hoping that others will take that ball and run with it. And they're counting on both happening at once

[Link: jihadwatch.org...]

Abbas: Palestinians on verge of civil war, says infighting worse than occupation

Published: 06.05.07, 13:27 / Israel News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned Tuesday that his people are on the verge of civil war and said the infighting is worse than living under Israeli military rule.

Israel's capture of the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast War was a ''black day'' for the Palestinians, who paid a heavy price for defeat, Abbas said in a televised speech. ''Regarding our internal situation, what concerns us all is the chaos, and more specifically, being on the verge of civil war,'' Abbas said. (AP

Gee...Israel belives in life...Islam loves death...that might be why... [Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

#165 Jammie

I emailed you the other day, as requested. Did you get it?

Showing appreciation - 'Palestinian' style

3 wood,

Yes, I got your original and replied. Did you get my reply?

Iran's president told the UN Security Council on Tuesday not to continue along the path of imposing sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program saying it was like "playing with a lion's tail". The Security Council has slapped two rounds of sanctions on Iran since December

for its failure to stop atomic work which the West believes is aimed at building a nuclear warhead.

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

Christmas Id el-Fitr in June: Olmert to join shower of money to 'Palestinians'

I want the opinion of the assembled Lizardoid host on something:

Should indicted traitor Adam Gadahn receive a Presidential pardon if he personally kills Osama bin Laden?
If so, should he also get the reward?

What about a reduced sentence rather than a pardon?
If so, by how much should it be reduced?

Should the US authorities make this offer publicly?

Personally, I am in favor of the public offer and a pardon, and a partial reward but not the full amount.

What do y'all think?

Ali Sina's new book
Understanding Muhammad: A Psychobiography of Allâh’s Prophet
is released.

A man who is believed to have killed up to 100 million people in his life is to be the subject of a positive $60 million biographical film portrait, if a Hollywood producer gets his way.

Mao Zedong

"Challenging Heaven" by Steven North will tell the story of the founding of Communist China with Mao Zedong in the role of George Washington.

North is currently trying to romance Beijing into offering support for the project.

"This is a very positive portrayal of Mao, and we are hoping that once the script clears the approval process, China will come forward with services and support," he said.

[Link: www.worldnetdaily.com...]

Shiplord Kirel 6/05/2007 4:35:11 am PDT

It won't stop anything...this is about Islam...and Iran is ready to make a move.

3 wood,

Maybe there was a problem with the yahoo mail. I just replied from my regular email as well.

Demons in Iraq...

Baghdad, 6 June (AKI) - Iraqi insurgents have experimented a "corpse bomb", a police official in the Nineveh province has told the pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat. According to Major Al-Karim al-Jibburi a group of armed men beheaded a local police officer near Mosul late Sunday, and then rigged his body with explosives and loaded it into a police car. When the policeman's colleagues came to retrieve his body- al Jibburi said - the insurgents triggered the device by remote control. It's not the first time that a corpse in Iraq has been booby-trapped with explosives but local security officials fear it could become a more frequent tactic.

Meanwhile, on Monday, an official of the interior ministry General Rashid Falih, accused Iran of supporting militiamen in Basra who were stirring up violence in the city. According to the official, members of the local coast guard are constantly involved in following vessels coming from Iran which are allegedly ferrying arms to Shiite insurgent groups

[Link: www.adnki.com...]

More arrest in Daniel Pearl murder

KSM copped to it, but perhaps more are involved.

Then again, KSM copped to alot of things he may not have done.

#158 Bubbaman

How could anyone be against the death penalty in a case like that?

That's called "depraved indifference to life."

The love of a mother...sweet... [Link: www.vidmax.com...]

I came out almost a tie between Guiliani and Richardson. I imagine because I'm more of a social centrist as far as religious/gay issues.

I don't understand the hype on Thompson yet either. He has a lot to say and a lot to show before I can make a decision on him one way or the other.

Back to coffee.

No justice in death cult...

RIYADH, 5 June 2007 — A man, who died on Friday, possibly from a stress-related heart attack while in religious police custody, wasn’t breaking the law, according to Sheikh Sulaiman Al-Anzi, the head of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice in Tabuk.

Al-Anzi said yesterday that it was determined after the arrest of 50-year-old Ahmed ibn Mussalam Al-Bulawi that the deceased was the driver of the family of the woman he picked up in his car, but he stopped short of admitting outright that the officers had made a mistake.

[Link: www.arabnews.com...]

#166 Jammie and realwest (and other Yankees fans):

I never thought I would find myself saying this, but I felt sorry for Yankees fans last night watching DeSalvo try to pitch for the Yanks in the major leagues. He made the White Sox look good, and that is hard to do. DeSalvo has got triple A written all over him. You just know he will be a future Cub.

Hey Jammie, I spent some time the past two days talking to some connections I have, and got the inside skinny on that dust up every sports fan saw on the BooYaa network between Cub pitcher Zambrano and catcher Barrett in the dugout (and club house) the other day.

First you got to understand that Barrett may be the worst defensive catcher in the majors in the last 10 years. He is a converted 3rd baseman, and has no instincts for the position. I see players at the "A" level who could do a better job catching. His bat is what keeps him in the majors. Most of the pitchers know Barrett sucks behind the plate and can not stand pitching to him, especially Zambrano who is in his free agent year and looking for a big year for the huge payoff. Barrett sees Zambrano as an egotistical jerk who is all mouth and not much of a team player. So you do not have a warm a fuzzy relationship between the two to start with.

If you watched the replay of the pitch Barrett missed, he signaled for and set up to catch an outside slider. Zambrano crossed him up and threw a backdoor fastball, missing the spot he was supposed to throw to (and Barrett was anticipating) by about 3 feet. Ergo, passed ball (which really was Zambrano's fault). Barrett then multiplied the mistake by throwing the ball into left field and a runner scored from 2nd.

When they got into the dugout, Zambrano was hot and starts pointing to his head and yelling at Barrett "What are you thinking out there? Where's your head", implying that it was all Barrett's fault. You then saw Barrett point toward up and to the right and everyone miss-interpreted that he was pointing toward the scoreboard (as in you gave up 13 hits pal, not me) and the fight was on.

Actually, Barrett was pointing to 2nd baseman DeRosa, who was standing on the top dugout step and had seen the slider signal from Barrett, and knew Barrett was crossed up by Zambrano. Barrett was saying, "Ask DeRosa, he knows I called a slider." Zambrano realized his ruse to blame Barrett was now exposed, and reacted by then going after Barrett. Zambrano was out of the game anyway, so Piniella told him to shower and go home. At that point, Barrett was still in the game.

Barrett tried to clear the air with Zambrano in the clubhouse a few minutes later and Zambrano cold cocked him.

One other thing my sources told me. The players had a "players only" meeting about a week ago to discuss why they suck so bad. They pretty much decided it is all Piniella's fault.

And you Yankee fans think you have it bad this year.

#151 ec marm
#164 galloping granny

They will be demolishing churches, for sure. And we'll hear Western "enviromental cases" supporting the destruction.

Jammie - got your messages. Let me give you a considered reply in a few minutes. Got some alligators here to deal with at the moment.

3 wood,

Yes, watching DeSalvo was painful. In fact, most of this season has been.

Trying to stay optimistic about a wildcard, but even that seems like a longshot now.

The Yankee announcers last night seemed to be pushing an Abreu-Dye trade. Any thoughts there? I'd take Dye, assuming they can re-up with him.

Abreu seems to be falling back into the bad habits that made him an outcast in the Philly lockerroom, and word has it he, Cano and Melky Cabrera seem to like the nightlife a bit too much.

I'll say this much for Piniella. He hasn't mellowed one bit since he played here. Joe Girardi was in the Yankee booth last night. He looks ready and refreshed for another managerial job.

3 wood,

Take your time. Respond to either email; but I'll be in a meeting and at the yahoo email the rest of the day.

#187 me

To follow- up, I realize my reference to DeRosa probably only makes sense if you know that short stops/2nd basemen look in at the catchers signals to anticipate the next pitch being thrown so they can postion themselves accodingly. Therefore, they know what is supposed to be thrown.

If the pitch is a fastball, they will shade the hitter to be a bit late on the pitch. If it is a breaking ball or change up, they will play the hitter to pull. If there is a runner on 1st base the pitch selection will also dictate whether the short stop or 2nd baseman will cover the 2nd base bag on a ground ball or steal attempt.

Incidentally, if you know this, you can quite often see shortstops/2nd baseman tipping off what the next pitch will be by how they position themselves just as the pitcher starts his motion.

Now back to politics.

#190 Jammie

As you could see last night, Dye is trying to jerk everything and is pulling off the ball, causing his poor performance so far this year. Last year he hit 40 + taters and now thinks he is Henry Aaron. Once he stops trying to hit 5 run homers every time up, he should go back to being a solid hitter. He would be a good pick-up for the Yanks, as long as you realize he is not a long term answer. He has a lot of miles on him, and he had a severe leg injury some years ago that will catch up to him as he puts on another year or two. I think two years is all he has left in the tank. I know the White Sox are ready to ship him out to free up space on the roster for some kids in the minors they like. They think his arrow is pointed down.

Abreu is one of those guys who's production has mysteriously dropped now that steroid testing is happening. Hmmm, you don't suppose...

The word of the Day is "pig"
[Link: oed.com...]

pig, n.2 and adj. DRAFT REVISION Mar. 2006

Now chiefly Sc. and Eng. regional (north.).

Brit. /pg/, U.S. /pg/ Forms: ME (19- hist.) pygg, 15 pigge, 18- pig (now Eng. regional (north.), Irish English (north.), and U.S. regional); Sc. pre-17 peeg, pre-17 pege, pre-17 peig, pre-17 pige, pre-17 pigge, pre-17 pik, pre-17 17 pyg, pre-17 17- pig, pre-17 17- pigg, 19- peg- (in compounds). [Origin uncertain; perh. cf. slightly earlier PIGGIN n. (although see also discussion at that entry), and perh. cf. also PRIG n.2; perh. orig. a transferred use of PIG n.1, perh. on account of the resemblance of the vessels to a pig.

1. a. A pot, pitcher, jar, or other vessel, usually made of earthenware; a crock; (in pl.) crockery or earthenware generally.

b. pigs and whistles fragments, pieces; odds and ends, trivial things. to go to pigs and whistles: to fall into ruin or disrepair. Now rare.

2. A cinerary urn. Obs. rare.
Only in translations of Boece.

COMPOUNDS

pig-ass n. Obs. an ass which draws a cart filled with crockery.

1787 W. TAYLOR Scots Poems 79 Frae Phoebus' beams ye apes retire, Wi' your *Pig-asses.
pig-cart n. a cart filled with crockery for sale.

1898 Westm. Gaz. 25 Oct. 2/1 Sometimes the clanging of a ‘*pig-cart’ bell is heard far down the street.
pig shop n. a crockery shop.

1894 J. B. SALMOND Bawbee Bowden (1922) vi. 50 Ye wudda thocht it was ten hundred thoosand erthquakes in a *pigshop. 1896 ‘I. MACLAREN’ Kate Carnegie 226 His father keepit a pig chop [= shop].
pig-wife n. a woman who deals in crockery.

1787 W. TAYLOR Scots Poems 79 (note), Some ape Poets may be said rather to lead *Pig Wives' cripple Asses. 1821 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 423 Already has the ‘Pig Wife's’ early care Mark'd out a station, for her crockery ware. 1951 N. B. MORRISON Hidden Fairing iv, The old pig-wife who, putting down her heavy burden of china, would have a gossip with Kirsty.

A moment of truth for the Israel Broadcasting Authority: Editor Admits: We Slanted the News:

We "pushed in every way possible the withdrawal from Lebanon towards 2000. In our newsroom, three of the editors had sons in Lebanon, and we

took it upon ourselves as a mission - possibly not stated - to get the IDF out of Lebanon... I have no doubt that we promoted an agenda of

withdrawal that was a matter of public dispute."

Ha! I knew it!

#176 Shiplord Kirel 6/05/2007 4:35:11 am PDT

I want the opinion of the assembled Lizardoid host on something:

Should indicted traitor Adam Gadahn receive a Presidential pardon if he personally kills Osama bin Laden?
If so, should he also get the reward?

Why would he immolate his own GOD?
He doesn't have it in him
that kid is 100% follower.

The quiz up at #48:

Arghh! I am slipping to the left... 3% agreement with Kookinich.

78% with Hunter.

Did Slimy Shimon fink on Pollard?

#195 nature boy

even friggin HARVARD admitted there was bias!

and

for you

#197 JCM

I just did it

58% Hunter
55% Tancredo

By the way, for anybody watching the Womens College Softball World Series, look for Tennessee to wrap it up tonight. For one, Tennessee's pitcher, Monica Abbott is untouchable right now, and will probably throw a shut out tonight. Arizona's hitters need to choke up ans horten their swings to catch up to Abbott's 70 mph heater and so far they seem unwilling to do so.

Second, Arizona's top pitcher, Taryne Mowatt, seems to me to have an injured throwing shoulder. She walks all over the mound between pitches now. which tends to be a sign of a pitcher in pain. Also, if you watch her throwing arm immediately after each pitch, she is twitching and cranking the arm around. All those are signs of discomfort. She has lost several mph on her pitches since the championship started, and is not challenging hitters any more with her fastball. I think Tennessee will hit her hard tonight, cause their hitters should now realize Mowatt can not blow it past them anymore.

Good Morning Y'all from a warm (69 degrees going up to 88 degrees) and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone this fine morning?

199 BZ
my dad used to sing us that song all the time when we were kids

YO BABBA! How are you this fine morning?

♪ Good morning {LGF} ♪ Another grey day in the valley and the sun's supposed to make an appearance by Thursday. I bloody well hope so.

{savage} Hey! You're in my old stompin' grounds!

:D

199 BabbaZee

Gosh... Thanks. Cheered me right up!

#48 Eri - Hey, I took that test and it turns out I'm a Rudy supporter (56% and 58% and a (ugh) McCain supporter second (25% and 64%). Which is spot on with Rudy, but waaay off base with Mcain!
I demand a recount! LOL!

My nails have grow uncomfortably long during twelve days of travel.

Can't get even a small pair scissors on the aircraft.

Damn Muslim shitbirds.

Well, I know ed's up by now. Where's our update on Cyclone Gonu ?

#201 3 wood - Hey there! Good morning my friend, how are you today (and please, no talking about the Yankees; I'm in enough pain as it is! LOL!). How are you doing and did "we" play golf again recently (I've been working on my short game!)?

Good morning all!

#199 BabbaZee - I'm surprised that Harvard reached that conclussion; not surprised, however, that the MSM hasn't picked it up and run with it.
Just another example of what's happened to "journalism" in the MSM!

#206 nature boy
good!

&

Good morning to everyone who just came in.

Friar your dad has good taste

{REAL}
Not so good pappy

{Trixie}

{PK}

#194 friarstale

They gotta be kidding.

I know the OED well. Or knew, in a past life. And I would consider subscribing for onlline access.

But at $300 a year?!

No, thank you.

Question of the Day :
Why Hillars support radical Islam ?
Answer :
Dream of Polygamy ?

{realwest} Morning, darls *smooch* How are you today?

{Babalouey) Toots!

{Peace TCG^TM} Wassup?

#208 Trumpeter

That must be why allah invented emery boards?

Or was it Al Gore?

my vote match was>>>>78% Hunter
75% Tancredo
73% Brownback

Insh'allah, a strong Cat 2 tropical cyclone (its still a Cat 4 now) will smack Iran!

Nothing in the Atlantic tropics, but check out the sub-980 mb low forecast to form in the Northern Plains of the United States. Unheard of in June, rare enough in November or March!

I'm thinking an unusually active tornado outbreak with this tomorrow and again Thursday. As you can tell by the links, SPC is on it. I wonder if the set up for the last 100 fatality tornado in this country, in Flint, MI, June 8th, was similar to this. The next day in Worcester, MA, came up just a few bodies short of being the last 100 fatality tornado.

This morning, a pretty manly bow echo/MCS is racing towards Corpus Christi, where I have been drunk, and seen the park bench on the boardwalk donated by the Fawcett family (including Farrah, I suspect long before she was a University of Texas Tri-Delt). At 7:10 am CDT, the Cotulla, TX (Cotulla is a Polish name, not a Spanish name, and the Poles, Czechs and German settlers of Texas is why Tejano/Norteño music has accordions, and further, the oldest Polish community in the US is nowhere near Chicago, its Panna Maria ('Virgin Mary') Southeast of San Antonio) automatic weather station recorded a 70 mph wind gust, so some tree and powerline damage, along with quarter sized hail is possible.

Here in Houston, a 34º temperature yesterday suggests Spring is transitioning into Summer, and we may be starting our early Summer dry period, as the upper ridge from the East merges somewhat with the ridge over the Desert Southwest. In about a month, the ridge axis will shift a little further North, giving the Texas coast deep layer flow from the East, which is the end of capping/convective inhibition, and while severe storm season is over then, any weak disturbance coming in from the Gulf can enhance the normal late afternoon sea breeze generated showers and storms.

The water offshore Florida is still a tad cool for tropical cyclone genesis, but a week or more of generally quiet weather during the longest days/highest sun angles of the year should help get the entire Gulf to 30 to 32º by the time the meat and potatoes hurricane season, mid-August to mid-October, arrives.

Netanyahu: 'We're unbeatable - so long as we have the mountains of Judea and Samaria'

"Knut der kleine Eisbär"

#216 {Miss Trixie} - Good morning to you sweetie and *smooch* back atcha! I'm doing about the same as always, I'm afraid; how are you doing?

214 nonic

the Word of the Day is free
I must have put the wrong link
I'll try to find the right one

Jonathon Livingston returns...or did someone already say that, I did'nt look...

Koran: Sura 47:4 "does not, as the column claims, call for the wholesale beheading of disbelievers. It says Muslims should strike disbelievers on the neck in battle". (ed-read behead).

Taliban Behead Doctor, Jihad Snuff Film to Follow...

here it is
[Link: oed.com...]

today's word of the day is Pig

Oops forgot the link

Taliban Behead Doctor, Jihad Snuff Film to Follow...

#176 Shiplord Kirel

Should indicted traitor Adam Gadahn receive a Presidential pardon if he personally kills Osama bin Laden?

What do you mean, in some sort of crime of passion involving a love triangle with a she-goat?

Honestly, I think the question is so academic as to be pointless.

I sent this story to that goof at Amherst Middle School, in reference to his Open Tent night.

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

Saudis are on a roll this year.

Beheaded...

83 in '05
38 in '06

81 already this year.

Greets and saluts from the muggy NYC metro area. On the verge of stating the obvious: Abbas: Palestinian civil war is at hand.

Last night there was a PBS program on the Six Day War and some of the footage included stuff I had never seen before. It was pretty interesting, but the end appeared to have a pro-Palestinian bent to it. They had several people comment on what Israel did in the Kotel area after the capture of Jerusalem to widen the Kotel from a narrow corridor into a wide plaza, as though that was Israel's move to stake a claim to the city.

That, of course, disregards the Jordanian and Arab destruction of Jewish cemeteries in Jerusalem, destruction of synogogues and other religiously significant areas, and a constant denial of Jewish claims to the area.

On the plus side, the program pointed out that the Arabs refused to believe that Israel could win a devastating victory on its own and that Nasser and Hussein concocted a plan to blame Arab losses on US intervention on Israel's behalf. That should rebut those who think that the US can somehow be viewed as a neutral in this conflict. It also shows that the Arabs leaders will never take full responsibility for their own plight, or that of the Palestinians - it is always someone else's fault.

Good morning LGF friends ! It's a cool and cloudy day here on the Wisconsin-Illinois border. Maybe more rain today, Again. The mosquitos are loving it.

Reminder to all dog owners - have you given Poochie's heartworm medication this month ? Heartworm is spread by mosquitos.

Babba

Got these in your collection?

Rivers of Blood speech full text

The Rivers of Blood speech was a controversial speech about immigration made on April 20, 1968 by the British politician Enoch Powell.

The Road to National Suicide full text

The Road to National Suicide was another speech on the topic of "race relations" and freedom of speech made on January 21, 1977 by British politician Enoch Powell.

Anybody see that Hillary made her post debate morning appearance in a room full of masculine women, and was introduced by Billie Jean King, most famous for having defeated a 64 year old man when she was thirty years younger to 'prove' that woman can compete with men, but also famous for leaving her husband for her lesbian lover?

Hillary was in her element, and told the assembled women in comfortable shoes that she was waiting for a question "Senator Clinton, you have been accused of being ambitious, what do you have to say", to which she planned to answer "why don't you ask the men a question like that?".

I have read, here and there, rumors that Bill told his friends Hillary wouldn't have a child with him, which he figured would help his political ambitions, and in fact Chelsea was conceived in a hotel room in Bermuda when Bill raped Hillary.

It would explain quite a bit, why a supposedly brilliant women lawyer, no shrinking violet, would tolerate serial adultery from her husband. Win/win, really. Hillary gets a free ticket to the governor's mansion, the White House, the US Senate from a state she never lived in, and the lead in the Demonrat race, Bill gets a woman who never gets jealous and permits his frequent tryts.

Hardliners are restive.

hey Babazeee

Am Yisrael Chai !

#232 nonic 6/05/2007 6:10:38 am PDT

Babba

Got these in your collection?

Now I do, LOL

I'll read them thanks

#48 Eri 6/04/2007

Check out this political quiz which matches you with the most compatible candidate in the 2008 election:

[Link: [Link: www.speakout.com...]...]

My top match was Mike Huckabee at 55% (63% Social, 50% Economic). I'm interested to know what everyone scores.

My top 2 were Duncan Hunter at 70% and Tom Tancredo at 68%. Hunter matched Social at 81% and Economic at 63%.

This seems to be correct. I always did support Tancredo, but listened to an interview with Hunter the other day and really liked what I heard.

Surprisingly, Bill Richardson was 1 stroke above Ron Paul in my outcome. Hmmm.

I scored as a Hard-core Conservative, which is not quite right. I'm a more moderate conservative, but this immigration issue has pushed me to the right more.

#235 humanity

Am Yisrael Chai !

;~}

!VIVA LA ANTI-GHANDI JEWHAD REVOLUCION!

#221 nonic

Servus! was gibt heute ? Grüntag!

#226 friar

Okay. Thanks. :-)

But still. When I saw your first link, I jumped on it, because I would love to have online access to the OED.

But not at that price.

I had a subscription to the Encyclopedia Britannica, which was only $5 a month.

That's lapsed. I'll probably pick it up again.

That's a reasonable price.

Thanks again. :-)

I cant match any candidates past 50 something percent because there are so few other people who are as conservative as I am on most things and yet still insist that pot should be legalized.

LOL.

WFB would have to run for me to get a serious match.

#181 storagemanager

Thanks for the hat tip.

#229 humanity

Sorry, my German is not that gut.

Whaaahhh?

Good Morning, One & All!

What's the skinny this morning?

Lebanese Mufti of Hasbaya and Marjeyoun Sheik Mustafa Ghader: Israel Was More Merciful Than Syria. If Fath Al-Islam Members Hide in Mosques, the Army Should Topple the Mosques over Their Heads

Palestinian MP and Head of the Palestinian Islamic Scholars Association Hamed Al-Bitawi: All Agreements with the Zionists Are Null and Void

Because they complied to begin with.

Free today at WSJ Opinion Journal...

No Pyrrhic Victory
Most of the conventional wisdom about the Six Day War is wrong.

BY BRET STEPHENS

I'm sitting at my daughter's house waiting for the air conditioner man. I hate her laptop. None of my favorite bookmarks are on it and I don't know where half the keys are. And I can't figure out how to cut and paste and quote.

Thus endeth my morning whine,

realwest

how are you doing?

*sigh* without.

:P

Coming up next on FOX News:

"Your dog may have more cognitive abilities than you think."

Obviously they have never met my greyhound.

[Link: switch5.castup.net...]

[Link: switch5.castup.net...]

[Link: switch5.castup.net...]

My bad

On the other hand, my Golden Retriever is smarter than a fifth grader.

#220 Carl in Jerusalem

Netanyahu: 'We're unbeatable - so long as we have the mountains of Judea and Samaria'

I fail to see how asserting Israel's right to sovereignty over all of Judea & Samaria would make the Palestinians hate Israel even more than they do now.

#251 mama winger

That's why they put that "may" in there... :)

#238 BabbaZee

Yes it must... there are two news coverage for today... and two special points to note... Perhaps 2 special points Americans should learn from Hindus...

one is Here... reminding me of Jihadi killings made by Muslims around Indian subcontinent in 1947/48... and recently found letter had refreshed every part of History...

A letter written by Mahatma Gandhi 19 days before his assassination where he pleads for tolerance of Muslims in newly-partitioned India is among the handwritten treasures from the private collection.

and the other part is here, in todays edition of "familysecuritymatters"

Exclusive: Wake Up America! Tolerance Is Cultural Suicide When It’s a One-Way Street

At last... Leftist move on Gandhi's way... and Gandhi words are here...

On 23.9.1947, during a prayer speech, Gandhi said, '(Even if Muslims) killed our relatives, our people, why should we be angry with anyone? Those who got killed met with a proper end. We should know that they attained heaven. Let this happen with Gods' wish with each one of us. God should grant us this kind of death. If you want to ask God for anything, let it be this

I rather believe in my Freedom, and I respect "Aayan Harsi Ali".. so I will repeat her words...

I am accused of hating Muslims and vilifying their Holy Book and their prophet. I do not hate Muslims. But yes, I detest the submission of free will.

Am Yisrael Chai
Hindu zionist ;)

#243 nonic

#229 revisited in English

What is today ? Green's Propaganda day ?

#253 Ma Sands

HA! I think you're right.

How are things in Minnesota ? We have had several cold and rainy days here.

#245 Ben Hur

Your Memri link... that was Fatiha

Duncan Hunter
Total 78%
Social 81%
Economic 75%

Sam Brownback
Total 73%
Social 69%
Economic 75%

Tom Tancredo
Total 70%
Social 63%
Economic 75%

Mike Huckabee
Total 60%
Social 56%
Economic 63%

Mitt Romney
Total 58%
Social 63%
Economic 54%

Jim Gilmore
Total 53%
Social 56%
Economic 50%

Rudy Giuliani
Total 50%
Social 44%
Economic 54%

John McCain

Total 50%
Social 44%
Economic 54%

Tommy Thompson
Total 43%
Social 50%
Economic 38%

Bill Richardson
Total 40%
Social 63%
Economic 25%

Ron Paul
Total 28%
Social 13%
Economic 38%

Joe Biden
Total 18%
Social 31%
Economic 8%

Mike Gravel
Total 15%
Social 0%
Economic 25%

Barack Obama
Total 10%
Social 19%
Economic 4%

Chris Dodd
Total 8%
Social 13%
Economic 4%

Hillary Clinton
Total 8%
Social 13%
Economic 4%

John Edwards
Total 8%
Social 19%
Economic 0%

Dennis Kucinich
Total 3%
Social 6%
Economic 0%

Re my own #207 - I scored as a Moderate Libertarian Conservative! WTF is that?!

The 'Palestinians' are pleased with their war

#254 humanity
Thank you for those links

I will use them eventually because GHANDI is one person I want to post on very soon, I have a list - {Called Stealth Beasts, it's LONG haha} but it's been hard to get out from under the every days news and then the lat 4 days my hands give me much trouble so I couldnt work like I normally would.
BTW I knew it was you immediately.

#256 mama winger

Glorious! So many flowers blooming all over the place.

Good thing too...need something to cheer me up --going to the dentist today for the first time in many years...

#255 humanity

Green's Propaganda day ?

As in, environmentalism?

I just think Knut is a cutie (not that I want him growing up near me, thank you!) and the combination with that song is particularly cheering.

#246 nonic

BBC is also propogating the same message ...

I will upload a video in evening... which we might need to spread, by email ...

# 252 Kenneth

I agree but I'm not sure what you meant to ask me.

Good Morning from the Land of Coz!

Things that make me go ARRRGGGHHH! Our local leftist newspaper has a story on a soldier killed in Iraq. So far so good but then they go and do something like this.

On Sunday, a couple of hours after coming home from church, George and Ruth Dunham discovered nearly two dozen tiny American flags in the front yard of their Decatur area home.

snip---

Dunham's son, Sgt. 1st Class Robert E. Dunham, died May 24 when his Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad. The 36-year-old husband and father was stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta.

And then the dumb part

Robert Dunham was a career Army officer who enlisted 19 years ago, after graduating from high school in Baltimore. He was stationed in Germany, Kansas and Arkansas before settling in Georgia.

A Sergeant First Class (SFC) is a Non Commisioned Officer (NCO) NOT an officer. I have a little bit of knowledge on this since I retired from the Army as an SFC.
Don't they have anybody who can check their military stories? Oh the newspaper is the Atlanta Journal Constitution and it requires registration to see the story. It does go to show how far removed the average citizen is from anything military related, and you are supposed to believe their reporting on the conduct of war?

/rant off

#263 nonic

No, I am sick of Indian Media...they are blaming us the human for this... so should we stop breathing...

#258 jcm - That's really weirod - I mean I know Rudy was waaay down on your list, but you scored exactly the same with him as with McCain. Rudy was my first choice and McCain was my second choice with almost the same numbers as Rudy (and your Rudy and McCain scores were the same). Who the hell did the questioning and anyalysis of this test? I love Rudy and hate McCain and they aren't anywhere near as close on the issues as that poll or whatever makes them out to be.

I just got another counterjihad article of mine posted at (pro-Muslim site) Malaysia Today. Have a look, my fellow lizardoids! Consternation to the enemy!

Link:
[Link: malaysia-today.net...]

Another setback for the "spring offensive"

Two dozen expired Taliban.

Oh well.

I took Eri's quiz...

Looks like Duncan Hunter is my man.

Mitt will be so jealous. :)

#270 the anti-jihadist
Mazel Tov yet again!

I can't wait for the MSM to stop covering the 6 Day War anniversary.

It's before 10am and I'm already pissed.

{loppy} {coz}

Shalom to whoever I missed

BBL