This doesn't surprise me at all...

The Palestinians in Gaza voted overwhelmingly for Hamas, and got what they wanted—a radical Islamic government that could not care less about their welfare.

And Israel takes the blame no matter what.

I'm sorry - but doesn't Egypt also border Gaza? Is there no commerce in that direction?

No surprise, this.

And why can't they trade through Egypt?

Oh, that's right- Egypt is also willing to fight down to the last Palestinian.

Th

e Palestinians in Gaza voted overwhelmingly for Hamas, and got what they wanted—a radical Islamic government that could not care less about their welfare.

I'd like to add that of course they don't care about the individual Palestinians' needs. It's all about the ummah, and what's best for the ummah is dawah, insh'allah.

My apologies to my friend Preview, whom I should be visiting with more often.

The UN position is that it is against international law for Israel to protect itself. The UN couldn't care less about the people in Gaza. The UN wants HAMAS to do its dirty work.

Yeah right. And vice versa too, OK?

Israel should stop giving power and water to Hamastan. Honestly, you can only be so nice to people who want to kill you.

Night time reading:
Anti-Israel activists in America call for Israel's destruction.

Like we should open our borders to whom ever and let peace
flow like a mountain stream and let our love grow like the smallest
of dreams, let your love grow you cans see what I means it's the
season. yadayadayada

Islam is a one way trip to hell. Creeps. All of them. Creepy, dirty, a bit weird. Demented?

re: #9 Sharmuta

My apologies to my friend Preview, whom I should be visiting with more often.

Careful, or you might wind up as more than just friends.

re: #4 Racer X

There is trade through Egypt - explosives are imported continuously.

Special Giuliani/CAIR/Kos twofer Haiku -

Forge a new will.
Undermine the jihad.
CAIR will wither.

Koslings watch now.
Eager to cry out "bigot!"
Make them CAIR-less.

This is where the "you made your bed, now lie in it" cliche kicks in...they wanted to be ruled by terrorists and now they have to live with it. The only thing they want to export through Israel is death and destruction.

Let them keep that commodity to themselves.

#16 nature boy

...don't forget suitcases of money that came through Egypt earlier too.

Ever so slightly OT:

[Link: news.yahoo.com...]

Is it just me or does the DEA have way too much free time on its hands these days?

Tons of cocaine, thousands of illegal aliens, and who knows how many terrorists, pouring across the border every day. The Army fighting for control of Helmand Province, where the majority of the worlds heroin comes from. Pack and gangs of meth, crack, and PCP junkies roaming the streets of every major city in the nation.

And this is the best possible use of the DEA, it's agents, and resources? Our tax dollars at work to hunt down the sick and elderly, in a state that has already made it clear that it does not want to abide by that particular law?

===

If I was in charge around here...

I'd send the entire DEA over to Afghanistan, for the duration.

DE-RANT,
R

"When bad things happen to bad people'?

I know that in any population there are innocent women and children, etc, but this society seems so infested with enablers as well as Willing Participants that the "Palestinians" mostly deserve what they are mostly getting

If they want a Better Life, they should work towards living under Israeli rule: Arabs in Israel have a better life than Arabs anywhere outside the 'oil kingdoms'

With all the money the world gives the Palestinians, you would think that every Hamas member would have their own private jet by now. And a few pass to a nice bombed out atol somewhere to make them feel at home.

Who says business isn't booming in Gaza? Construction workers are busy digging tunnels... teachers are busy teaching children hate... television is programming murderous bumblebees...

The United Nations’ Middle East envoy says Israel needs to open their borders with the Hamas

Last time I checked, Israel was a sovereign nation.

Israelis, tell Hamas and the U.N. to go F themselves.

Or just have Paul Allen fly in there and give every Palestinian he can find a $10,000 bag of cash. The velocity of money in Palestine is truncated by corruption. Direct cash infusions, better yet just dropped from planes will eventually wear them out.

Charles final paragraph really says it all. You voted for this. Learn to love it. You too can live like Afghanis.

Haneef investigator 'drops dead'

An investigator into the case of Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef "dropped dead" last week amid enormous pressure, Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty has revealed.

Mr Keelty told reporters in Perth today the man died of natural causes last week amid intense pressure on the AFP.

"There are enormous pressures here," Mr Keelty told reporters in Perth today.

"One of the pressures that I haven't spoken about publicly is that one of the investigators dropped dead in the investigation room Monday last week, so the investigation team has been through a very emotional and stressful time," he said.

Terrorism kills.

I note that the Baha'i International Community is NOT asking to reopen Israel's borders to the poisonous vermin now infesting Gaza.

Coulter's latest. Obama caught in another Hilliarism. What a little oissant this prevaricator is proving to be. How he got his academic credentials is becoming an issue. he is really a bit of a bumbler.
[Link: www.wnd.com...]

And I am supposed to care?

Things are looking up!

2,000 Terrorists in UK, up from 1,600 last year

And they let in another one every five minutes.

re: #15 ChenZhen

You're right, Chen. I don't want to get all co-dependent on Preview.

re: #29 pat

Coulter's latest. Obama caught in another Hilliarism. What a little oissant this prevaricator is proving to be. How he got his academic credentials is becoming an issue. he is really a bit of a bumbler.
[Link: www.wnd.com...]

Thanks to Rudy Giuliani, cab drivers in New York no longer have to make that choice. Under his mayoralty, New York City became a lot safer for cab drivers — and everyone else. The murder rate went from about 2,000 murders a year under Mayor David Dinkins to about 700 by the end of Giuliani's term. The last time a cab driver was killed in New York was in 1997.

Sharmuta...you are the bomb!

new york times - check.
la times - check.
u.n. - check...

I think it might be easier to keep a list of who's not shillling for hamas.

No, DesertSage- you are the bomb.

re: #36 Sharmuta

I want to know how you achieved over 5,500 comments just since February?

I mean, that's determination!

re: #20 Render

Duude..!

re: #38 cbinflux

Dude.

R

Sage- what can I say? I guess I'm determined.

Everything these people touch turns to shit. Maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't have trashed the green houses, or sent sucide bombers to Israel's hospitals. They think the West and Israel are their worst enemies, but in fact, they are (their own worst enemy).

j

What I won't say is that the present Government of Israel should go have dinner with Rabin.

What I will say is:

...for an already impoverished Gaza Strip,...

Its sickens me that the UN considers Gaza "impoverised" and then feels that they need special attention and funds when real countries are suffering and others around the UN jurisdiction are starving to death!

Here are some pics of "impoverished" Gaza.
Exhibit A (city) B (city) C (cars & working taxi service) D (Embroidery Shops) E (sea side shopping carts full of swim toys, etc.) F (Gaza Powerplant) G (Gaza market full of food) H (fully fed and nourished Gazans) and lastly I (time to learn and play music, and also wearing full clothing.)

Here are some actual impoverished non-Terrorist supporters which the UN doesn't give a shit about!

Darfur 1, 2 3, (Darfur Lots of Photos)

South Africa (These people would beg for Gazan homes with running water, air conditioners, cars, food, medicine, guns, etc.) 2, Video of Shanty Town

Kenya...now there is impoverised. They would love markets full of food & taxi service.)

re: #42 WrathofG-d

Great post Wrath.

NODS,
R

Thank God Sharmuta found us. We may have had to recruit her, otherwise.

re: #40 Sharmuta

Dudette...!

Render
Wrath

They seem, well...fat.
As opposed to Christian Sudanese or Ethiopians. Hmmm

re: #43 Render

Thanks.

Those poor "impoverished" Gazans, with their impoverished high rises, impoverished running water, impoverished electricity, impoverished televisions, impoverished restaurants, impoverished refrigerators, impoverished beach towns, impoverished full stomachs, impoverished embroidery shops, impoverished fully structured homes with roofs, walls, insulation, gutters, doors, windows...

Thanks pat & Sage. One of you guys is sweet, the other is the bomb.

re: #31 cbinflux

Things are looking up!
2,000 Terrorists in UK, up from 1,600 last year
And they let in another one every five minutes.

Y'know, CB, I'd HATE to be one of the 'Mujaheddin' when the ship hits the sand... trapped in England, at the time that the English find their spines, their roots and their love of homeland!

Hunted down and shot, if they don't surrender...

Well, I shall surely settle for sweet. Only my dog agrees. LOL

re: #47 WrathofG-d

re: #43 Render
Thanks.
Those poor "impoverished" Gazans, with their impoverished high rises, impoverished running water, impoverished electricity, impoverished televisions, impoverished restaurants, impoverished refrigerators, impoverished beach towns, impoverished full stomachs, impoverished embroidery shops, impoverished fully structured homes with roofs, walls, insulation, gutters, doors, windows...

Hokey smokes! How 'impoverished' do you have to be to be as rich as the Gazans? Cry me a river!

re: #49 carridine

You're an optimist

BTW, isn't Lebanon killing more Palis that Israel these days?

re: #51 carridine

Cry me a river indeed!

But it is worse than that. While the UN worries about the so-called impoverished Gazans (& other Phakestinians) (they have a specific UN body to fund the Phakestinians), and sends millions if not billions of dollars on the fantastically "impoverished" Gazans, people in South Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, South America, etc., are starving and DYING!

When the UN cries about the destruction of a terrorists home, they manage to completely ignore the thousands of people in other parts of the world that HAVE NO HOMES!

I wish it were only support for the Phakestinians...its worse...its ignoring those that really need the help & are DYING!

I scare everyone off with my reality?

Cops: No plan to reinstate ex-officer

NEW ORLEANS - The city's police superintendent has no plans to overturn the firing of a former officer cleared this week in the videotaped beating a retired school teacher after Hurricane Katrina, a department spokesman said Wednesday.

A state judge on Tuesday acquitted Robert Evangelist, 37, of second-degree battery and false imprisonment of Robert Davis, 66, during an arrest videotaped by an Associated Press Television News crew on the night of Oct. 8, 2005. [Saying that it was an easy call; the perp just had to stop resisting]

Sue the reverse-racist city.

re: #55 WrathofG-d

No.

Way OT- hat tip to the Jawa Report...

Death Of An American Hero

NEW YORK - A black Labrador who became a national canine hero after burrowing through white-hot, smoking debris in search of survivors at the World Trade Center site died Wednesday after a battle with cancer.

I can say from experience, I've had two in my life, never a more loyal, faithful, intelligent, dependable friend can be found, then in a black lab.

Rest in piece, Jake.

Rest in piece peace, Jake.

~slaps forehead~

OT...ROPMA

South Korean hostage killed by Taliban

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan police discovered the bullet-riddled body of a male hostage on Wednesday, one of 23 South Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban last week.

Because of a recent spike in kidnappings — including an attempt against a Danish citizen Wednesday — police barred foreigners from leaving the Afghan capital without their permission.

South Korea reacted early Thursday by saying it would not tolerate the killing of an innocent civilian and vowed the kidnappers would be held accountable. It demanded the immediate release of the remaining hostages.

"The killing of an innocent civilian cannot be justified under any circumstance or for any reason," Baek Jong-chun, chief presidential secretary for security affairs, said in a statement. The kidnappers "will be held accountable for taking the life of a Korean citizen."

The South Korean victim was found with 10 bullet holes in his head, chest and stomach in the Mushaki area of Qarabagh district in Ghazni province, the region where the group was seized July 19 while riding a bus, said Abdul Rahman, a police officer.

A police official, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation, said militants told him the hostage was sick and couldn't walk and was therefore shot.

That's fair comment. And by the same token, I think Michael Williams should live next to a bunch of crack-crazed gang-bangers and remove his front door so that they have access to his family and belongings. It is cruel of him not to.

#58 Yankee
I still have 2, (White Labs). Never, ever been hit. Seem to understand English. One is always by my side. 120lbs of gentleness.

pat
They speak Hawaiian! ;)

Now back to the issue of opening the border between Israel and Gaza . . . isn't Gaza's OTHER border shared with Egypt? Are the Egyptians reluctant to open their border with Gaza? They could open it easily if they wanted to. So, what's the hangup?

re: #62 pat

#58 Yankee
I still have 2, (White Labs). Never, ever been hit. Seem to understand English. One is always by my side. 120lbs of gentleness.

pat
They speak Hawaiian! ;)

Almost spooky, isn't it? BTW Mine's snoozing at my feet as I type..

Dan
The Egytians made a "wall" between Gaza and Misrachi.
They are allowed, as they are muslim.

Mizraim?
God I'm confused now.

re: #64 Digger Dan

You are exactly right & if I were PM of Israel, that is the question I'd be asking the MSM/World everytime they give Israel crap...

Also for the security fense Israel is building. (Egypt has one too)

Hey Miguel. And Dan, yes , the guys know more than a few Hawaiian words.

pat
I don't doubt it. Dogs are very intelligent in general.
I love dogs lol ;)

re: #70 MigueldowninMexico

pat
I don't doubt it. Dogs are very intelligent in general.
I love dogs lol ;)

Well you know what they say: If you can't be with the one you love...love the one you are with.

;)

Weath
Hahahahahahahaha.
That's my case right now hahahahaha. ;)

Miguel, I once shouted at one, and he fell to the ground like he was shot. I walked over to him and asked "What in the hell are you doing?" And then I noticed his upper eye open up. Then , pop. Up and around like nothing happened. But he never did that again. LOL

Sorry Wrath :)
Playing the Stills mp3 right now ;)

pat
Hahahahahahaha. They are great LOL

Off to bed. Night all. Miguel, aloha. Or buenas nochas.

WrathofG-d

Your posts are great - keep up the good work!

re: #77 nature boy

WrathofG-d

Your posts are great - keep up the good work!

Why thank you! Its easy because its true.

Miggo...you're up!

And I'm up and running. Pleased to see you and All the Lizards.

Ah the After hours crowd. When is Lindsay Lohan going to show up with the blow?

Hi Sprite, Good to see you. Nite.

'Night Pat. Sleep tight.

ANyone still here?

Ain't nobody here 'cept us chickens ...

Funny cause it says 1, 000 people on line

Sprite, O Sprite, a-burning bright,
In the comments of the night.
What immortal phantom cry
Could frame thy dreamy fantasy.

And 98 logged in ...

"Watch out for the quiet types!"

Seriously where are old the old normals? Just us new kids

re: #89 WrathofG-d

Define "normal" ...

I meant usualy here. Ok then I guess it is do something else time.

Pakistan tests Cruise Missile capable of nuking India.

#86 phantom

My dreams burn bright to light the night.

Thank you. You've framed them perfectly ;)

Sleep well, All.

re: #12 insanity police

Israel should stop giving power and water to Hamastan. Honestly, you can only be so nice to people who want to kill you.

Night time reading:
Anti-Israel activists in America call for Israel's destruction.

That night time reading will give me nightmares. Some people are so stupid. Anyone who advocates for the dismantling of Israel is a racist, and is very dangerous. The guy is a moron as well.

Just when you think it cannot get any worse:

U.S. wants a Israeli-Palestinian [sic] deal by within year.

OH G-d, its the end of the POTUS term sell out Israel to try to sure up your legacy reutine! If Olmert goes along with it (which he will/is) Israel is screwed.

/E.O.T.W. anyone?

Ha! How can clueless Condi solve a problem that has no foreseeable solution? Good luck.

Bush and Condi should know better than to trust that Abbas can or will do anything to create peace. You can only make so many deals and concessions with "moderate" terrorists before they reveal their true colors, and diabolical plans.

There is no solution unless the Palis live in peace, and their brothers across the Middle East stop urging the Palis to fight Israel. The Palis should get nothing unless they change their behavior.

Condi has gone off the fuc*king deep end. She is worthless.

re: #92 karmic_inquisitor

Pakistan tests Cruise Missile capable of nuking India.

Im sure it was a gift for China

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*™

Fruitcup is on the buffet → → → → →
Help yourselves!

Everybody okay out there?

/should I call the paramedics?

huh?

'Morning, storage! :-)

It's just the two of us today.

/and I'm in the DozeZone...

re: #101 littleoldlady

'Morning, storage! :-)

It's just the two of us today.

/and I'm in the DozeZone...

Good morning...I think I remember sleep...but it's been so long ago.

Condi now telling Israelis where they're permitted to live:

'Israel should focus on Negev, Galilee'

"I believe that Israel understands...that it has obligations that need to be met and need to be met now, because the future of Israel is not in the continued occupation of the West Bank," Rice said. "The future of Israel is in building a strong Israeli state in places like the Negev and Galilee."

Five+ AM and I'm awake -- clearly, there is a ripple in the Force...

Abbas to visit Russia next week

Published: 07.26.07, 11:42 / Israel News

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to embark on a three-day visit to Russia next week.

Officials in his office said that Abbas is leaving for a "diplomatic mission" to Moscow and that he plans to meet with several top Russian officials

It's a good thing America and Irael gave him enough money...to visit the enemy! [Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

re: #106 ploome hineni

re: #19 ReverseTaqiyya

and how come all these starving people are SO FAT?

They eat their children.

plooome! :-)

Rice Sets New Standard
Pres. Bush also stopped short of saying Israel must withdraw from all of Judea and Samaria.

She has lost her mind. [Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

re: #108 storagemanager

Rice Sets New Standard
Pres. Bush also stopped short of saying Israel must withdraw from all of Judea and Samaria.

She has lost her mind. [Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

Well, at least she hasn't lost her Saudi pension.

/Baker's sharmuta
//[Sorry, Sharmuta!]

The UN's goal is no less than the genocide of the jewish people

re: #111 ploome hineni

re: #107 littleoldlady

*smootchies*

wheresmyfruitcup..?

:)

#98. Fresh Jersey blueberries today! :-)

As a conservative--but more important, as an American concerned about the future of this country in the face of a terrorist threat--Thompson's choice of Spencer Abraham was the final nail in the coffin for me in opposing Fred Thompson's quest for the White House.

I know Spencer Abraham. He wrote one of my recommendations for law school. And the Spencer Abraham that I and all of America have since experienced is bad news for everyone except CAIR, ADC, MPAC, ISNA, and all Islamists who want to endanger America.

In 2003, I wrote the definitive column on Spencer Abraham a/k/a Spence a/k/a Edward Spencer Abraham (which was quoted in The Washington Post), and I re-publish it below, with several additions I've made, updating it. At the time Spence was still Energy Secretary, but he left to become a lobbyist for Islamist countries.

As a Senator, he took marching orders from James Zogby of the pan-Islamist Arab American Institute, opposing profiling of Arabs, the use of secret evidence against Muslims (at the behest of Muslim groups), attempting to repeal the Clinton counterterrorism package, refusing to fund computer tracking of student and other foreign aliens, giving millions in our tax money right to Hezbollah, and putting CAIR on the map on Capitol Hill (taking the group's officials around to meet other Senators and Members of Congress). He took campaign contributions from the relatives of Hezbollah-backed top Lebanese officials after he got the group millions in our tax money.

[Link: www.debbieschlussel.com...]

re: #113 littleoldlady

#98. Fresh Jersey blueberries today! :-)

Throw the stale donuts away,

I love blueberries.

Hello everyone!

I hope this works...HouseMoves to Free Border Patrol Agents

The House on Wednesday approved a move by conservative Republicans to try to set free two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug dealer.

After a long, emotional debate, the House voted by voice to block the Bureau of Prisons from keeping former agents Ignacio Ramos and Alonso Compean in federal prison. Ramos and Compean are serving 11- and 12-year federal prison sentences, respectively, for the 2005 shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila on the Texas border near El Paso.

The case has caused a furor among conservative lawmakers and on talk radio across the country.

A little audio caffeine for this early in the morning... Camel Walk

I bet the Jersey blues are just later in the season.

Blueberries are very good for you.

Have some blueberries chris(t)heprofessor! :-)

Damn, that beehive made me think of this...

/I'll apologize in advance...

ONEONTA _ An Oneonta man who helped produce a 9/11 conspiracy documentary that became an Internet hit was arrested Monday for allegedly deserting the Army.

Korey Rowe, 24, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, was picked up by deputies at about 10:45 p.m. Monday, Otsego County Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. said.

http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2007/07/2 5/jprowearrest0722.html

The blueberries are delish littleoldlady. Thanks.

We don't seem to get blueberries here in Tampa that often and that are very good. :(

/One of the few things I miss about Calif.

Blueberry muffins with real butter.

and whole milk with creme.

ttftfmn.

ta ta for the fat man now.

re: #120 littleoldlady

Heh. My favorite blues band name is the Bluesberries...

/I love blueberries -- the park next to my neighborhood has about an acre (best guess) of untended blueberries bushes... Free for the taking...

re: #124 ibmkeyboard

Hey, Mon! What the hell are you doing up so early?

re: #120 littleoldlady

Thank you kindly, I think I will!

New cruisers ?

re: #125 christheprofessor

re: #120 littleoldlady

Heh. My favorite blues band name is the Bluesberries...

/I love blueberries -- the park next to my neighborhood has about an acre (best guess) of untended blueberries bushes... Free for the taking...

Oh MAN, am I jealous! This has been a rough (expensive) year for blueberries - which I'm sure has more to do with gas prices than anything else. (Or did the "undocumented blueberry pickers" get a raise?) Even on sale they're $2/container. I could grow them here IF I was interested in feeding the neighborhood fauna.

re: #128 Mike C.

I think the first commenter doesn't understand the concept of armor protection...

Renewable energy could 'rape' nature

Al ain't gonna like this...

re: #126 christheprofessor

re: #124 ibmkeyboard

Hey, Mon! What the hell are you doing up so early?

Had to comb my hair. heh

Morning Chris, See my daily reading of poetry below.

If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says
15 miles to the... Love Shack! Love Shack yeah yeah
I'm headin' down the Atlanta highway, lookin' for the love getaway
Heading for the love getaway, love getaway,
I got me a car, it's as big as a whale and we're headin' on down
To the Love Shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money
The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together
Love Shack baby, {a Love Shack bay-bee}.
Love shack, baby love shack, love shack, baby love shack, love shack. {love baby, that's where it's at) love shack {love baby, that's where it's at)

Sign says.. Woo... stay away fools, 'cause love rules at the Love Shack!
Well it's set way back in the middle of a field,
Just a funky old shack and I gotta get back

Glitter on the mattress
Glitter on the highway
Glitter on the front porch
Glitter on the highway

The Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together, love shack baby...
{Love Shack baby!} Love Shack, that's where it's at! Love Shack, that's where it's at!

Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin', wearin' next to nothing
Cause it's hot as an oven
The whole shack shimmies
YEA! the whole shack shimmies!
The whole shack shimmies when everybody's
Movin' around and around and around!
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby!
Folks linin' up outside just to get down
Everybody's movin', everybody's groovin' baby!
Funky little shack! Funky little shack!

Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail!
I got me a car, it seats about 20
So come on and bring your jukebox money.

Oh the Love Shack is a little old place where we can get together
love shack, baby! {a love shack baby}
love shack! baby love shack
love shack! baby love shack
love shack! baby love shack {love baby that's where its at, yea, love baby that's where it's at}

Bang bang bang, on the door baby! {Knock a little louder, baby}
Bang bang bang,on the door baby! {I can't hear you}
Bang bang bang, on the door baby! {Knock a little louder sugar!}
Bang bang bang, on the door baby! {I can't hear you!}

Bang bang {on the door baby}
Bang bang {on the door}
Bang bang {on the door baby}
Bang bang
Your what?... Tin roof, rusted!

Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love Shack, baby Love Shack! love baby that's where its at, yea, love baby that's where it's at}
Love Shack, baby Love Shack!
Love baby, love shack
Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin' at the love shack.

re: #129 littleoldlady

Heh. I and anybody else who wants them competes with the fauna - small price to pay, I suppose...

My father (who was born in 1920) was telling me a few months back how he used to in the summers pick wild blueberries on Long Island and sell them for, as I recall, 15 cents/quart to a lady who would them make pies for her restaurant... He would use the money to order new clothes from the Sears Roebuck catalog for school. Said he couldn't wait for them to arrive...

My how times have changed...

re: #132 ibmkeyboard

Had to comb my hair. heh

I've seen your head, so I know you're lyin'! ;)

Oh my goodness.

Mule's foal fools genetics
It's an event so rare that the Romans had a saying, "when a mule foals" - the equivalent of "when hell freezes over."

/I blame global warming.

[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

Secy. Rice: Israel Must End Occupation of 'West Bank'

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) Speaking with Arabic-language Radio Sawa, based in Washington and Dubai, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice went even further in her demands on Israel than President Bush did in his recent speech on Israel.

Rice, about to depart for the Middle East to prepare an upcoming international meeting of regional leaders, said that President Bush recently stated "very clearly that Israel's future will rest in Israel, in places like Galilee and in the Negev - and that the occupation of the West Bank will have to end and a Palestinian state will need to be established."

In fact, however, in his recent speech, President Bush did not phrase this as a demand upon Israel, but rather cited Prime Minister Olmert as having "made clear that Israel's future lies in developing areas like the Negev and Galilee - not in continuing occupation of the West Bank. This is a reality that Prime Minister Sharon recognized, as well. So unauthorized outposts should be removed and settlement expansion ended."

Rice Sets New Standard
Pres. Bush also stopped short of saying Israel must withdraw from all of Judea and Samaria. Bush said rather that future Israel-PA negotiations must "lead to a territorial settlement, with mutually agreed borders reflecting previous lines and current realities, and mutually agreed adjustments."

By stating so clearly that the "the occupation of the West Bank will have to end," Rice has set a new standard for United States officials of her stature in opposition to Israel's presence in Judea and Samaria.

Secretary Rice did not deal with the question of what to do with the 240,000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria. Israel has not yet been able to solve the problems of the fewer than 10,000 Jews it evicted from Gaza two years ago; those Jews are still living in transient camps of temporary pre-fab houses, with no long-term housing or employment solutions in sight.

re: #136 gettinby

I question the timing...

re: #134 christheprofessor

VeryBigSigh. Been buying my kid stuff for college.

All things considered, we'd all have been better off if we just bought her a house and furnished it.

re: #130 christheprofessor

Not certain which comment you are referring to. The one RE carrier escorts being reconfigured to a single role ?

re: #140 Mike C.

The one that said that future escorts should be 5000 tons, saying that modern destroyers and cruisers had essentially merged roles...

Rice Sets New Standard
Pres. Bush also stopped short of saying Israel must withdraw from all of Judea and Samaria. Bush said rather that future Israel-PA negotiations must "lead to a territorial settlement, with mutually agreed borders reflecting previous lines and current realities, and mutually agreed adjustments."

Hell,
If Israel gives them any more land,
the Jews will be living on top of Mt Arat.

/after they build the boat.

re: #139 littleoldlady

Well, what you and your husband are doing will allow her to buy her own houses...

It's the smart move*...

*hat tip: Michael Corleone

Rudy on energy independence.

I am not impress.

Well, what you and your husband are doing will allow her to buy her own houses...

Sure. Someday. I figure she'll get the loans paid off by the time she's 40.

re: #141 christheprofessor

Yeah, that's the one I mentioned. It discards the current thinking that, with a numerically reduced fleet, ships need to be multi-role.

Olmert will be sending out doves to see if there is any dry land.

re: #145 littleoldlady

Heh. Still, it's the right thing to do!

/as if I need to say it... ;)

re: #146 Mike C.

My bone of contention, so to speak, is that ships need to be survivable if they take a hit...

re: #144 Mike C.
Addendum

On the other hand, at least he didn't mention hydrogen.

re: #148 ploome hineni

re: #129 littleoldlady

you just have to plant one time, and then they take over

I remember in the Laurentian mountains they grow wild

Oh, I'm sure I'd be able to grow the bushes. I just won't have any berries by the time the deer, rabbits, squirrels, groundhogs and (especially) birds get through with them.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain's media team has resigned, an indication that a campaign shake-up two weeks ago is continuing to backfire and further imperil the Arizona Republican's presidential candidacy.

Political ad-makers Russ Schriefer and Stuart Stevens, veterans of President Bush's 2000 and 2004 campaigns, on Monday emailed the new campaign manager -- lobbyist and longtime McCain adviser Rick Davis -- to say that they were quitting.

Anybody have a few minutes they can give McCain?

re: #149 christheprofessor

With today's anti-ship weapons (conventional), armour is no match for preventing the hit in the first place. A single Exocet damned-near sank the Stark, and another knocked out the HMS Sheffield. My objection to the 5000 ton idea is that leaves you with nothing more than modern FFGs. Good ships and all, but we build larger and vastly more capable and lethal ones. And they can't really be armoured. The Aegis-class ships are dependent on that billboard radar system. You can't cover them in armour. And if that gets knocked out, the ship is no longer effective, regardless of any other damage.

Test

"Sir, they're asking me to leave. You were a lobbyist for 18 years. You were not a real conservative, sir. Sir, what do you think about World Trade Center 7, it was an inside job? What do you think... Don't grab me. Why are you touching me? Get your hands off me!"
Troofer confronts Fred Thompson in Texas. (Final minute of video)

re: #153 ploome hineni

WHOA! You've got quite an orchard there!

I can't grow most of that stuff here, of course, and I spend enough time and $ trying to discourage the deer from eating my hostas. But some years the veggie garden really takes off and we eat well.

My peasant roots are pretty close to the surface. ;-)

re: #154 Mike C.

True, but that's like arguing that tanks are obsolete. The reason that the Stark suffered such damage was precisely because it had insufficient armor protection (and was essentially made of aluminum) .

Put the right (Chatham) armor on them and send you where you need them. Plus, one always has to keep the safety and survivability of the crew in mind -- that's part of what separates us, in my opinion from the rest of the world.

Speaking of foaling mules...

Before I go off to work, I feel a need to preach to the choir.

Here's the Arab League...

[Link: upload.wikimedia.org...]

and here's their deal...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Egyptian and Jordanian envoys from the Arab League, on their first visit to Israel to present an Arab land-for-peace plan

I'm sure nobody actually needs the link, but here it is:
[Link: ca.today.reuters.com...]

Look at the map, and then look at the deal: LAND FOR PEACE. There's just one question. Where's Orwell when we need him? Maybe it's more of a subject for Lewis Carroll. Or maybe Jonathan Swift.

re: #157 littleoldlady

My peasant roots are pretty close to the surface. ;-)

Peasants are the best cooks...

re: #161 christheprofessor

re: #157 littleoldlady

My peasant roots are pretty close to the surface. ;-)

Peasants are the best cooks...

That comes from my Hungarian roots. ;-)

Real.Life.Intrudes.

Good day, ALL!™

A little mellow music -- The Rain Song

re: #162 littleoldlady

Well, you cook well (bad pun ahead) because your ancestors were (bad pun imminent) hungary...

Wake up Realwest! I've got a nice, extremely respectful Photoshop of John Murtha that I think you'll enjoy.

re: #165 ec marm

Excellent... Now, if you could just strap an IED on his back as he crawls by...

re: #166 christheprofessor

re: #165 ec marm

Excellent... Now, if you could just strap an IED on his back as he crawls by...

I was thinking of having Nancy Pelosi go by next, then Harry Reid, then Cindy Shehag, but I'm feeling kind of lazy.

ec marm

I hear ya...

Got a beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed gals number last night -- wish me luck!

re: #158 christheprofessor

Nah - FFGs are steel (the hulls, that is). The HMS Sheffield had an aluminum superstructure (an RN guy told me why once - interesting story, and an argument for new as opposed to refitted ships in some cases) which actually burned, so I'm guessing that's what you were remembering. The Stark didn't have it's fire control systems activated. If it had, it likely wouldn't have been hit at all.

The fact is, a 5000 ton platform is simply not big enough to handle everything these days. You want highly advanced radar and fire control systems, and a whole lot of shots for them to use. A smaller platform necessarily just can't hold it all. The FFGs are truly amazing, given what they cram into a pretty small hull, but the cruisers and destroyers pack a way bigger punch.

Might as well relate the Sheffield story. The Sheffield was an old cruiser that had been upgraded. The existing diesel engine powertrain was replaced with a more powerful and LIGHTER gas turbine powertrain. But the loss of weight low in the ship made it top-heavy, so the existing steel superstructure was replaced with an alloy superstructure. That fixed the balance problem, and the overall loss of weight, couple with the increased power, made the ship substantially faster. But obviously not without a very high cost.

re: #168 christheprofessor

Got a beautiful blonde-haired, blue-eyed gals number last night -- wish me luck!

Good luck to ya!. Make her laugh. Or, get her lots of alcohol. Seduction requires one or the other.

Under his plan, Murtha, a close ally of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said that he envisions troop withdrawals to start in November and take about a year to complete.

Terrorists are marking their short calenders right now.
When they un-cover Nancy Pelosis private areas the attacks will begin.

This was mine.

[Link: www.figmochart.com...]

re: #169 Mike C.

Here are pictures of the USS Stark after she was hit by two Exocet missiles (the first failed to detonate upon impact) through the hull. I can't help but think that an armored ship (like a WW2 cruiser) would have suffered far less severe damage from those hits.

Mike,
You are right..

When terrorist can blow a ship out of the waters and kill 17,
we need more armor.

[Link: www.pianoladynancy.com...]

Got an actual comment from an islamist at my blog. I've been invited to 'revert' and 'beware witness'!

Islam is a religion that it is so great that everyone can join it by saying the Shahada ” I beware witness that there is NO GOD but ALLAH and I beware witness the Muhammad was his prophet” and if you are a christian then you can add the sentence ” And I beware witness that JEsus was a messenger of God”

This is how easy to enter this great religion ... the religion that is so obvious and clear ... One God one Version of the Quran and still till now available the exact same ..with ZERO errors ...and everything is clear...

it is really amazing if u look with ur true heart to it how quickly u will revert to islam...

Allah is the all merciful and the kind and the more compassion to his slaves ...

it is the religion of peace and rest and satisfaction ...

Try to learn about it and visit ur nearer mosque and see how happy and convinced u will be

Peace be upon you all

/Ya just can't make this stuff up!

Doh! Forgot the link -- here are the pics...

Sorry,

picture of
USS Cole

re: #174 ec marm

This is how easy to enter this great religion

Yeah, but the only way out involves explosives and vests... And raisins...

re: #170 ec marm

She just wants me to cook for her...

re: #178 christheprofessor

re: #170 ec marm

She just wants me to cook for her...

Plus, I'll make her a meal... ;)

re: #177 christheprofessor

Yeah, but the only way out involves explosives and vests... And raisins...

Yeah, the only 'religion' that has a sort of Hotel California thing going...
'You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'

Damn, did I kill the thread?

off topic

today i went back and read tillys story [Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
and totally lost it (tears, trembling the whole 9 yards). sometimes we should all go back and read it so some of the petty things we all tend to debate should be put back into prespective.

The Paleos made their bed when they elected that bunch of murderous thugs as their "government", now they can lie in it.

A good dose of starvation might take their minds off trying to destroy Israel for a while.

re: #182 yochanan

Yes, that is an astounding story. I recommend it to all newbies and lurkers who have not already read it. heart-wrenching.

re: #172 christheprofessor

Like I said, if the fire control systems had been active, the missiles most likely wouldn't have hit at all. That is exactly the type of threat the weapons systems are designed to defeat.

If you armoured an FFG (say, to the point that the armour would prevent damage from a Silkworm, which has a much larger warhead than an Exocet), the extra weight would render it incapable of keeping up with a carrier, thus negating the whole purpose. IIRC, modern cruisers and destroyers are not really armoured, either. For sure carriers aren't.

FFGs were specifically designed as carrier escorts, with AA and ASW roles. They weren't designed to battle surface ships (although they do have torpedo launchers port and starboard and the helicopters can carry air-dropped torpedos for ASW work.) They are defensive ships only, for all intents and purposes, dedicated to protect the offensive ship, i.e., the carrier. Larger platforms, like the ones mentioned in that Defense Tech article, can also incorporate offensive capability in the form of cruie missiles and even guns.

Perhaps the USN should consider some sort of modern-day battleship, but it's clear this is not where modern ship design is heading. With the exception that the USN "rail gun" program is perking along nicely, with the objective of fielding a ship equipped with rail gun artillery capable of truly astonishing ranges. I'll try to dig up a link on that.

re: #139 littleoldlady

Just remember, Lady, they return from college and want to store all of their 'stuff' in your attic, garage, basement, etc... I have remnants from three college educated young people everywhere.

re: #179 christheprofessor

Plus, I'll make her a meal... ;)

Oh, yeah. That is another great way. I remember my bachelor days. There's something about the role reversal ( I guess) that really works. Humor, alcohol, and a home cooked meal. I only hope that when the inevitable moment arrives and the question is asked, "What about Trade Center #7," she has the right answer. :~)

#187 ec marm

Yea, it's a real flaccid maker when she says "Bush did it!"

re: #184 christheprofessor

I wonder how she is doing now. What she went through has to effect her for the rest of her life. In the same way a GI is effected by war.

re: #188 Roger

#187 ec marm

Yea, it's a real flaccid maker when she says "Bush did it!"

If you are married to a conservative and need to sleep,
Just tell him/her that.

"Bush did it darling."

Bwha.

i for one would not want a moonbat girl. at my age they would look like breasts not bombs crowd EWWWH POKEING OUT MY MINDS EYE

Okay, it's an old and not particularly great link that mentions the naval rail gun program, but here you go. I know there's better and more recent stuff out there, but I can't remember where.

Range up to 300 NM. Madre de Dios ! Couple that with both the expected rate of fire and the already-developed precision guidance systems for artillery rounds, and you have just cut WAY back on the need for lobbing million dollar cruise missiles at small targets.

For me I'd need to know her answer for Tower #7 before I went to the grocery store.

at least some personal good news they settled the hisdatrut strike and i will get to see my grand daughter for the first time in NYC in aug.

Missed the above story before signing off last night...reminds me of Old Yeller...after the dog got rabies, the kid kept pleading that the caged up animal be set free & his love would take care of it all...

Good Morning Lizards.

This may be the ultimate in excuse making, as well as academic double-speak.

Obesity 'contagious', experts say

Having a friend, sibling or spouse who is overweight raises a person's risk of being obese too, US researchers say.
They said data on more than 12,000 people suggested the risk was increased by 57% if a friend was obese, by 40% if a sibling was and 37% if a spouse was.

They argued this showed social factors, such as the body sizes of other people, were important in developing obesity.

Oh my, where do you start with disecting this stupidity?

First, what somebody else shoves down their piehole has no imapct on what, how much I choose to consume.

Second, there is something called exercise. What somebody else eats has no impact on the amount of exercise I choose to do.

Third, being around somebody who is obese ruins my appitite. The top 3 turnoffs I can think of for eating or libido are:

a.) a picture of the Code Pink skanks with their tops off;

b.) any picture of Momma Moonbat (the skank part is assumed by definition);

c.) Being around an obese person, especially if he/she has on tight clothes/cottage cheese thighs hanging out of shorts.

How about this instead, maybe really fat people tend to hang around with each other so they don't feel so bad about themselves by comparison?

Listen to this academic double-speak later in the article:

Author Professor Nicholas Christakis said: "It's not that obese or non-obese people simply find other similar people to hang out with.

"Rather, there is a direct, causal relationship. What appears to be happening is that a person becoming obese most likely causes a change of norms about what counts as an appropriate body size.

"People come to think that it is OK to be bigger since those around them are bigger, and this sensibility spreads."

So in other words, obese people find similar people to hang out with so they can feel okay with their being so fat. You just contradicted yourself, Einstien.

This kind of stupidity is why I don't attend faculty meetings anymore, imagine 4 hours of listening to crap like this.

re: #192 Mike C.

A gun that accelerates a bullet to a speed of 13,000 miles per hour in 0.2 seconds? Seems like a science fiction dream, but don't even blink -- with advances in rail gun technology, a new era of high-speed military weaponry is coming right at us, faster than a speeding bullet.

Wow.

re: #144 Mike C.

Rudy on energy independence.

I am not impress.

Does anybody have a better solution?

What? Hours of television viewing re: #196 3 wood

What? Hours of television viewing What? Hours of television viewing and lack of exercise(laziness) is contagious? Jeez, I think we have some apologists for the obese going on here. I'm curious.. How would these jackasses explain Michael Moore? A donut eating michelin man with a ballcap and a hatred of his country? Could obesity contribute to that too?
I went to basic training/osut for cavalry scout (190d) at the ripe age of 31 about 5 years ago (4 years prior service USAF and 2 1/2 ANG) and even despite having not prepared myself for it (I quick-shipped) I still manage to finish in the middle of the PT tests and runs while kids younger than me were doing lousy. Has this new generation gotten soft? Is there idea of exercise "Jelly Donuts and Play Station" (as my drill sergeant used to say? Unfortunately, I was put out 3 weeks before graduation for breaking my foot but I can never forget the runs and how my drills used to call me "gramps", even though my scores were way higher than the younger guys. ... It makes me wonder.

BTW: I didn't mean to demean soldiers as "Kids" but, at 31 when you're with a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds.. they do come off as kids sometimes.

re: #196 3 wood

They argued this showed social factors, such as the body sizes of other people, were important in developing obesity.

[Link: www.zombietime.com...]
Obesity Virus.

re: #200 baconeatingkaffir

Ah...you yourself, then are still a kid to me... by your own definition -- but ever more so, using that measurement... :)

re: #202 Ma Sands

Well, my wife says all men are children.. only our toys are more expensive. :)

The World Bank estimates that 75 percent of Gaza’s factories have closed and more than 68,000 Palestinian workers have been laid off as a result, he said.

Seems to recall that when Israel pull out, all of the profit making green houses and businesses they built and LEFT BEHIND as part of a seed money deal, were gutted and stolen by the local jihadi thieves and hoodlums.

Maybe I am misguided, an emerging people should destroy all the remnants of their imperial past. I worked so well for USSR and the GDR...wait, wait these countries don't exist.

No shoes for Industry, no shoes for them.

re: #203 baconeatingkaffir

Ma, I was 31 5 years ago, though. :)

re: #196 3 wood

I can understand that obese people could shove food at others to compensate, but as you point out, it's up to the person what he or she eats, as well as how much he or she exercises.

Of course, it could work the other way: thinner friends and family could encourage the overweight person to get fitter.

As for visual turn-offs, mine is the "muffin top": girls wearing such lowriding, tight jeans that their lovehandles spill out over the top, as muffin batter does in the tin as it bakes. When I see a girl at school dressed this way, I have to bite my tongue to keep from telling her how silly she looks.

re: #206 goddessoftheclassroom

This is another good reason for school uniforms. All the students (except for university) wear them here, and I think it's a good idea.

re: #205 baconeatingkaffir

Still applies...heehee :)

And that bit about children --I agree, though I think it makes them more endearing... :)

re: #197 ibmkeyboard

There was a very successful test of a naval prototype system last year, but damned if I can find a link. Note also that catapults on future carriers are planned to be electronic rather than steam.

re: #207 baconeatingkaffir

Oh, how I wish! As a teacher, I'd even wear a "uniform"--it would be tax deductible then!

School is for education, not self-expression, except in limited, appropriate circumstances, such as certain projects. The kids can express themselves at the mall, if they wish, not within the confines of a school where they have a captive audience.

re: #206 goddessoftheclassroom

At the high school my kids went to, they had a really neat principal -- one of the phrases in his early morning patter over the loudspeakers, included the order to "pull your pants up"... :)

And, I know the kids were paying attention -- my children would roll off the entire 2-minute-long patter as if it were a rap chant! :)

“Unless the crossings are open for imports and exports, the downward economic spiral will lead to extensive hardship for an already impoverished Gaza Strip.”

“Unless the residents of the area make it clear that they will no longer accept the terror and tyranny of their duly elected leadership, the downward economic spiral will lead to extensive hardship for an already impoverished Gaza Strip.”

“Unless Hamas releases its hold on the area, the downward economic spiral will lead to extensive hardship for an already impoverished Gaza Strip.”

“Unless Iran and Syria stop arming and training the terrorists who run the area, the downward economic spiral will lead to extensive hardship for an already impoverished Gaza Strip.”

“Unless the Arab nations embrace their defeated partisans and put an end to the "Palestinian refugee problem", the downward economic spiral will lead to extensive hardship for an already impoverished Gaza Strip.”

“Unless the United Nations, through the office of Mr. Mohammed El Baradei, manages to equip Iran with a nuclear bomb, the downward economic spiral will lead to extensive hardship for an already impoverished Gaza Strip.”

Here's some good news, New York Times selling off assets to show increased profit.

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Newspaper publishers New York Times Co. and Tribune Co. reported second-quarter results Wednesday, giving no indication that a prolonged print-advertising downturn will abate anytime soon.

New York Times Co. reported profit of $118.4 million, or 82 cents a share, compared with $59.6 million, or 41 cents, in the year-earlier quarter.

Excluding a gain on the sale of the company's television stations, which have been sold and are now accounted for as discontinued operations, as well as a gain on the sale of radio station WQEW-AM and a loss related to the shutdown of an Edison, N.J. printing facility, among other items, New York Times would have earned 34 cents a share in the latest three months.

Revenue fell 3.7% to $788.9 million from $819.6 million.

If you wade through the numbers, while NYT reported Earnings Per Share of 82 cents, about 60% of that was from a one-time sale of assets. So in plain language, their real EPS due to operations sucked.

Also, the Tribune company's profit is flat-lining.

Tribune Co. reported Wednesday that its second-quarter profit plunged 58% due to print- advertising weakness and charges tied to the marketing of derivatives, job cuts and a printing-plant shutdown.

It's like watching a slow motion train wreck.

re: #198 finallyhere

Well, until somebody cobbles up a cellulosic process, ethanol is pretty much just a farm subsidy program which also drives up the price of food. The nuke plant idea, is, of course, completely valid, but what are the chances of ANYBODY fixing those problems in, say, the next presidential term ? Solar and wind will progress as technology and economics allow. Hydropower ? What, we're going to build more major dams and hydroelectric facilities ? Not in my lifetime. And the best sites have already been utilized.

Improved efficiency is a valid long-term strategy, but that will be driven more by market forces than government action. As I said, at least he didn't say "hydrogen."

re: #211 Ma Sands

One of my now famous catch-phrases is "hitch your britches." In the most recent Harry Potter movie, one of the teachers uses her want to hike up some trousers. One of my students said, "OMG, I so thought of you!"

When I see the boxers and the knees sagging, I have to fight an almost overwhelming urger to yank the jeans to their ankles.

re: #210 goddessoftheclassroom

Yeah, I remember one of the highschools I worked at had a dress code, No t-shirts advertising alcohol,cigarettes, or profanity, "underwear will not be worn as outerwear", "Hair must be a natural color".. no earrings for boys etc etc. Now, I guess they cna't do that anymore since somehow, these kids have "rights" .

re: #206 goddessoftheclassroom

When I see a girl at school dressed this way, I have to bite my tongue to keep from telling her how silly she looks.

I just laugh out loud at them. I'm in the fortunate position where I really don't have to care what they think.

re: #215 goddessoftheclassroom

re: #211 Ma Sands

One of my now famous catch-phrases is "hitch your britches." In the most recent Harry Potter movie, one of the teachers uses her want to hike up some trousers. One of my students said, "OMG, I so thought of you!"

When I see the boxers and the knees sagging, I have to fight an almost overwhelming urger to yank the jeans to their ankles.

I know that urge. I used to fight the urge to staple the pants and underpants on.. or duct tape them.

Video of Newt! speaking before Christians United for Israel. About a week old, I guess. "We can be reasonable and surrender, or we can defeat them." About 10 minutes long.

re: #191 yochanan

i for one would not want a moonbat girl. at my age they would look like breasts not bombs crowd EWWWH POKEING OUT MY MINDS EYE

Who said anything about them being your age? Don't worry about it--nobody misses a slice from a cut loaf. And on that side of the fence--it's all thinly-sliced sandwich bread.

re: #212 haakondahl

Perfect. You expose the cheap rhetorical trick the media constantly uses to force a connection between unrelated events. Well done!

re: #219 ec marm

This is an awesome clip

I was going to run that same clip and a few others from that same night today, I still will.

HE NEEDS TO RUN

I would vote for him in a second.

re: #217 3 wood

Lucky, lucky, you! My worry is that some parent would haul me in to the principal's office because I was "demeaning" or harassing her child.

I do try the positive reinforcement approach. When I see a a student looking particularly nice, I compliment her (or him). I have seen a few make better fashion choices afterwards.

The WORST thing for me is seeing tongue studs. My stomach turns. Nose studs are a close second. Actually, metal on any part of the face is disgusting to me.

re: #221 Kenneth

I call this "pathetoric"

re: #215 goddessoftheclassroom

re: #211 Ma Sands

One of my now famous catch-phrases is "hitch your britches." In the most recent Harry Potter movie, one of the teachers uses her want to hike up some trousers. One of my students said, "OMG, I so thought of you!"

When I see the boxers and the knees sagging, I have to fight an almost overwhelming urger to yank the jeans to their ankles.

Morning all! In my catholic school days we had a dress code that required us to at least wear button down shirts with collars, no jeans or cords, and dress shoes. this led to an interesting sort of non conformity where instead of students trying to get around the dress code to dress down we used to go the opposite the the point of students coming in in full business suits and the girls wearing dresses or business attire in and sort of convoluted attempt at non conformity.

re: #215 goddessoftheclassroom

Hmmm... :) They really did, in my Dad's youth --they had what were called "whoopie pants"...elastic waistbands...and he & his brother were surprised, more than once... :)

re: #215 goddessoftheclassroom

A few weeks ago I saw an idiot wearing the stylish baggy pants down to his knees & boxers exposed, attempting to board a bus. He tripped on the step (duh!) and fell headlong into the fare box, splitting open his forehead. He lay thee moaning while his friends laughed at him. Not the cool look he was going for. I'll admit to taking some cruel pleasure in his self-inflicted misery.

re: #222 BabbaZee

We need Newt.

re: #216 baconeatingkaffir

Yeah, I remember one of the highschools I worked at had a dress code, No t-shirts advertising alcohol,cigarettes, or profanity, "underwear will not be worn as outerwear", "Hair must be a natural color".. no earrings for boys etc etc. Now, I guess they cna't do that anymore since somehow, these kids have "rights" .

I make it very clear each college term on the first day of class that you have to dress like a sane, mature human being in my classroom to stay in my class. If you don't I will throw you out and you are free to drop, transfer to another class, I really don't care which. No underwear hanging out, no tank tops, no pajamas, no pincushion faces with stuff hanging off. I tell them my clasroom is a dictatorship and I'm in charge. I tell my Dept Chairs the day they don't like it is the day they can get somebody else to teach my classes.

I'm told by my students this is one of the reasons why they line up to take my classes, many of them are tired of the ongoing circus in our college classrooms.

re: #227 Kenneth

Did you have a camera phone handy?

The best part of uniforms at school from the kid's perspective IMO having been there, was this :

No one could make fun of you or torture you in perpetuity because you didn't have the "cool"clothes

which I never had of course

it EQUALIZES everyone.

re: #228 storagemanager

BIG TIME

re: #227 Kenneth

I remember when I went to basic training we had a guy who liked to "Sag" his bdu pants under his bdu top. Well, we had an inspection one day and he got found out. The drill sergeant did actually pull his trousers down! "But my recruiter told me I could do it" ahahahahaha!

re: #222 BabbaZee

[NEWT] NEEDS TO RUN

I would vote for him in a second.

Not a chance in Hell. Every Democrat's skin crawls at the mere mention of his name, and half of the Republicans' at the memory of his Hospital divorce paperwork. The man is BRILLIANT, and has the right solutions to nearly everything (no kidding!), but none of that matters--he can never campaign again without doing harm to the Republican party, and just driving his ideas into disrepute by association with his name.

Don't get me wrong--if I could "Miracle his ass into the Oval Office", I would. But he can't get there from here.

He needs to be somebody's Harry Hopkins. But he can't be the somebody. As awful as this feels to say, a Newt Nomination is a Democrat Presidency.

Good morning Y'all from a warm (72 degrees, going up to 88 degrees) but still sunny Charlotte!
How's everyone doing this fine morning?

re: #222 BabbaZee

re: #219 ec marm

This is an awesome clip

I was going to run that same clip and a few others from that same night today, I still will.

HE NEEDS TO RUN

I would vote for him in a second.

Please don't ever NOT run something because I found it first and you think I may not like it. The message is too important.

[Link: www.JewishWorldReview.com...] | If Gen. David Petraeus can't stabilize Iraq by autumn — or if Americans decide to pull out of Iraq before he gets a fair chance — expect far worse chaos eventually to follow. We will see ethnic cleansing, mass murder of Iraqi reformers, Kurdistan threatened, emerging Turkish-, Iranian-, and Wahhabi-controlled rump states, and al-Qaida emboldened as American military prestige is ruined.

re: #223 goddessoftheclassroom

The WORST thing for me is seeing tongue studs. My stomach turns. Nose studs are a close second. Actually, metal on any part of the face is disgusting to me.

Unless it's brass knuckles. Sometimes that's okay.

Morning all -- cloudy and drippy in the Wisconsin/Illinois borderlands. I see the buttons have changed -- I'll have to go back and see what this is all about. Spent much of the last two days in a car with kids. First day was ok; by the end of the second day things were less than ok. I am fantasizing about buying a limo with one of those windows you can raise between the driver and the passengers.

My students generally dress ok because I praise those who look nice and subtely make fun of those who dress oddly. One of my grips is hats in class -- they learn quickly not to do that. I asked about the fashion of keeping the stickers and tags on them; I was told that makes you "lid" "fresh." I said it reminded me of Minny Pearl ("howwwDY!") Never saw the hat again.

OT, breaking, from the "What's the Arabic for 'chutzpah'?" department:

"Abu Mazen: set free 100 more Fatah prisoners" (link, in Hebrew, so here follows my translation):

In a follow-up to the freeing of 250 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prison last week, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen, asked to free 100 additional Fatah prisons who had lived in the Gaza Strip. IDF Radio reported that the goal of this step was to strengthen Fatah in the Strip and to pressure Hamas into moderating the conditions for the release of Shalit.

Blackmail with constantly increasing demands.

This will not stop until we expel them all. There isn't any other solution. Anything else is a pipe-dream.

MFer.

Secy. Rice:
Israel Must End Occupation of 'West Bank'

OK - someone want to tell me again how this administration is merely using diplomacy and I am just an insane effin spleen that doesn't understand the nuances because I am sooo unsophisticated

COMPLICIOTS.

NEWT! HELP!

re: #229 3 wood

I love it!

I can't be stricter than the school dress "guidelines," but I do insist that the kids get rid of their gum--watching ruminating bovines drives me crazy. The comply pretty well. A glare is enough to get them to take a walk to the trash can.

I too tell the kids that my class is not a democracy; I am the Goddess of the Classroom, a benevolent despot (I tell them to look it up). They RARELY ask me why they have to do something after that.

The beauty of uniforms, is that everyone is the same. All the kids wear a tie, and look presentable. It also keeps kids from playing hookie becuase most internet cafes and cafes here have banned the wearing of school uniforms in them. My highschool kids had normal hair (long hair on men isn't allowed in turkish schools nor are bald women!) and any kind of facial jewelery is banned.
The public school system here in Turkey is kind of strict. It's a bit old fashiioned but it's better that way. If a girl gets married during highschool, she can't attend anymore and has to go through the "Open high school" courses by distance learning. Ditto for pregnant girls. I guess the logic is .. if you're adult enough to do those things.. you're not a kid anymore and attending a school isn't for you. I'm sure it sure draws down the teenage pregnancy statistics!

re: #236 ec marm

Oh I would never think that... and if I did, I would just ask you first - also link back to your post always.

re: #235 realwest

'Mornin', lazybones! :) (I've been up since just past 5:30 ...trying to keep the squirrels from munching in my plum tree...but, I found they had already breakfasted there! --5 a.m. tomorrow mornin', to catch those little buggers!)

:)

re: #234 haakondahl

Exactly how I think. Kind of the same way I felt about Bill Bennet, if I could make someone a "philosopher-king" it would be him or Newt, but un-electable.

re: #235 realwest

How's everyone doing this fine morning?

Got a little something, here, especially for you!

Jimmy Carter now writes books damning our present policies. He should keep quiet. When the Iranians stormed the American embassy in Tehran and inaugurated this era of Islamic terrorism, his U.N. ambassador, Andrew Young, announced that the murderous Ayatollah Khomeini was "a 20th century saint." Moralist Carter himself also tried to send hardcore leftist Ramsey Clark over to Tehran to beg the mullahs to release the hostages — in exchange for arms sales.

Next came Ronald Reagan, who, to put it kindly, was bewildered by Islamic extremism. He pulled out American troops from Lebanon after Hezbollah murdered 241 marines and thereby helped to energize a new terrorist movement that has spread havoc ever since.

[Link: www.jewishworldreview.com...]

re: #240 ZionistYoungster

Boker Tov!

re: #238 haakondahl

LOL!

Series of signs I saw on I-57 in southern Illinois:

Schoolyard thugs
Will not attack
If their teacher
Can shoot back

** BURMA SHAVE**

/actually, I just added the "burma shave" part, but it is sort of necessary.

re: #234 haakondahl

Fuck the party
He can run as an independent

re: #231 BabbaZee

Absolutely. Uniforms are actually less expensive that other clothes. Getting dressed is much easier because there are no decisions to make.

lucius septimus

Damn. I haven't heard a hat called a "lid" since my father used the term. Took me a minute.

re: #250 lucius septimius

Um...I think, if that company catches sight of it, though, you'd be in for it...just like the Palis stealing Mickey, only more so...

:)

John Hagee on the same night as Newt's clip

Chuck Shepherd's News of the Weird is a feast for cynics and other fans of true-life weird stuff, all of it sourced and documented. The column appears in a couple of hundred newspapers and even the newest installments are available online. Highlights of this week's column include:

People Different from Us:

Pablo Castro, 26, was sent to the hospital twice in Decatur, Ala., on June 24, once after being stabbed in an argument and, after his release later that day, being stabbed again while arguing with a different person. [Decatur Daily, 6-26-07]

And Tony Hicks was hospitalized in Knoxville, Tenn., for separate wounds on July 1, 2 and 3; he was hit by a car one night, then released from the hospital the next day, but was back in after an intruder attacked him in his home, and after his release the next day, he was back after police shot him in connection with a robbery. [WBIR-TV (Knoxville)-AP, 7-5-07]

Other regular features include "the Jesus World Tour," a roundup of divine apparitions in such unlikely places as tortillas and shower stains, and the "Classic Middle Name," a list of recently charged or convicted murderers with the middle name Wayne.

I've made a couple of appearances in NoTW over the years (as a contributor, not a subject).

re: #239 lucius septimius

I am fantasizing about buying a limo with one of those windows you can raise between the driver and the passengers.

Keep an eye open for the public annoucements of surplus police squad cars getting sold at auction and get one. Back doors only open from the outside so they can't jump out on you, and you have the bulletproof window or screen between you and the backseat. You can throw the little guttersnipes in there and drive around with some peace of mind.

re: #252 goddessoftheclassroom

Agreed.
Uniforms are very good for schools, parents and kids IMO.

re: #249 BabbaZee

Lifnot Erev (="Before Evening") Tov, achoti!

Condi is State Dept. Whore is Gramscian Whore is Caliphate Whore.

re: #242 goddessoftheclassroom

I too tell the kids that my class is not a democracy; I am the Goddess of the Classroom, a benevolent despot (I tell them to look it up). They RARELY ask me why they have to do something after that.

I use the "benevelent despot" thing too. I also like the sound of "God-King." I regularly threaten to disembowl them if they use contractions.

re: #251 BabbaZee

re: #234 haakondahl

Fuck the party
He can run as an independent

But he can't win. But it would be nice if SOMEBODY (namely all of us) were to benefit from his ideas. Have you heard him talk about "Federal Chipmunks"? Fantastic.

re: #259 ZionistYoungster

LOL.
Absolutely.

Let's see.. uniform infractions, of my daughter when she was in highschool. Hmm... the wrong shade black pants, pink converse shoes, a henna tattoo on her hand. etc.
The public school system here in Turkey is pretty strict. Up until about 2 years ago corporal punishment was still the norm. Now, things are slowly starting to change.

re: #245 Ma Sands Morning Ma! I've found that squirrels are some of God's craftiest creatures. They'll keep munching earlier and earlier (they can nap any time they want to, whereas you, poor soul, cannot!). I'd druther see you get a big ole Tomcat out there - methinks that'd keep the squirrels away!

re: #255 BabbaZee

Thank you for that.

re: #257 3 wood

Ooooh! That is a good idea. I'll spring it on the Missus and see what she has to say.