And a gorgeous Saturday afternoon it is :)

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.



W. C. Fields

Columbia students to protest

A law student Aviva Robbin is one of nearly a 100 students who have united on Facebook and have planned to protest against Ahmadinejad speaking on their campus.

''While we do value academic debate and freedom of speech we do not feel that it would be a violation of these values not to have the President of Iran on our campus. He is a known state sponsor of terrorism and he has many human rights violations on his record and by having him here it seems as if Columbia is legitimising what he has to say and endorsing his views in the public opinion,'' said Aviva Robin.

I thought being poor was curable according to the dems.

The common argument that crime terrorism is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Updated for a new era.

How about Dinnerjacket t-shirts? Sheesh when will these idiots stop? "mister dinner jacket can I ahve your autograph on my koran"? ahahaha.

Candidates Try To Win Over the NRA Roundup.

IAF fighter jets were scrambled on Saturday morning towards the Golan Heights after a Syrian aircraft suddenly disappeared from radar screens.

After a short while it became evident that the plane had crashed in Syrian territory and the planes return to their base.
[Link: www.jpost.com...]

One more to share. This one is funny.

The Shoplifting Seagull

So, how 'bout them North Koreans...

A report says North Korea has trained Syrian missile engineers and the Arab nation has bartered farm products and computers for missiles from the Stalinist state.

The two countries have recently strengthened missile cooperation, with Syrian engineers staying in Pyongyang to acquire technology, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said.

The barter system began in 1995 due to Syria’s worsening financial woes.

Syria has shipped cotton, food and computers to North Korea in return for buying short-range missiles, the report said.

Because the situation simply wasn't craptastic enough...

If you've been keeping track, you may have noticed that it's been several days since our last hamster panic at LGF.

I discovered (and fixed) a pretty serious bug in one of the PEAR modules that runs this site, that was leading to the creation of orphaned processes that were taking up huge chunks of the web server's memory.

At this point, the load spikes that were knocking us offline seem to be history. (Of course, as soon as I write that, we'll probably have another one just so Murphy can prove me wrong.)

We're still going to be moving to a load-balanced multi-server setup, so that we can stay online even with huge traffic from a site like Drudge Report.

But this bug fix means we'll be able to stay online much more consistently in the meantime.

Iran's spiritual leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned the West against attacking Iran, saying any attack would have "grave consequences", the Iranian news agencies reported Saturday.

"A 'hit-and-run' military strike against Iran in not possible... anyone attacking us shall suffer the consequences," he said. (Dudi Cohen

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

re: #4 Pope Urban

I thought being poor was curable according to the dems.

Take your money and give it to them. You obliviously have too much.

That Murphy is a bitch.

Alway wondered about that too, as if the poor people who don't turn to crime lack intiative.

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
-- J. Danforth Quayle

Algore is now annoying the folks down under

Just shut up already.

Love a good quotation, Charles, thanks! And! the infamous open thread...

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

re: #5 Sharmuta

The common argument that crime terrorism is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

Updated for a new era.

Good one.

IAEA slams Israel's nuclear policy

Besides Washington, only Israel voted against the resolution while 53 nations backed it and 47 abstained.

The sign of the times

"I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons."
--Douglas Adams

re: #17 JammieWearingFool

Algore is now annoying the folks down under

Just shut up already.

Any way we could get them to keep him?

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

re: #11 Charles

My remote connection to work crapped out about 10 minutes ago while I was on the last thread and I at first feared the hamsters were having a brief work stoppage.

Had to switch to my other machine. Sadly, those TPS reports will have to wait.

Good work Charles, tracking down and killing things like that is always difficult.

It's a good practice to read "root" email after a crash, it's really old style but there are still many things in *ix systems that will mail root right before dying.

"Sobriety is for people who can't handle drugs."

~Lily Tomlin

Hillary interview on LGBT issues for the Oct edition of The Advocate

Thank you Charles, for this quote. I have been saying this for years as a counter to my moonbat friends' arguments about crime. We grew up dirt poor and I did not turn to a life of crime or prostitution. Many poor people work very hard and try to teach their children good values. I'm sick to death of hearing this cause/effect connection -- it is a MYTH created by liberals. It is much closer to the truth to say that a life of crime leads to poverty.

The common argument that crime terrorism is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

— H. L. Mencken

There...updated that for ya.

/Bin Laden & The 19 hijackers weren't exactly impoverished

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

re: #22 MandyManners

re: #17 JammieWearingFool

Algore is now annoying the folks down under

Just shut up already.

Any way we could get them to keep him?

WHy would they want him. They seem pretty sane.

Maybe someone can airdrop him over Antartica.

"Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping."
--Bo Derek

Always keep a litter bag in your car. It doesn't take up much room, and when it gets full, you can just throw it out the window.

Steve Martin

"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
--Spike Milligan

Last day of summer in the northern hemisphere. enjoy.

Iranian Atomic Energy Organization Director: Document On Completion Of Bushehr Reactor To Be Signed Prior To Putin's Visit To Iran

Under the fifth Russian-Iranian agreement, Russia committed to transfer 90 tons of nuclear fuel by March 2006 and to activate the reactor by September 2007.

Source: IRNA, September 20, 2007.
Posted at: 2007-09-21

*Checking calendar*

Questions, questions. How hot is the Bushehr Reactor?
Will it be made hotter during Ahmadinejad's visit?

Nine and half minutes into the first quarter Ohio State leads Northwestern 28-0.

re: #8 storagemanager

After a short while it became evident that the plane had crashed in Syrian territory and the planes return to their base.

Must be one of those super duper Iran made fighter jets.

re: #29 Fenway_Nation

The common argument that crime terrorism is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.— H. L. Mencken

There...updated that for ya.

/Bin Laden & The 19 hijackers weren't exactly impoverished

Quit messing up liberal platitudes with facts will ya'!
Poverty causes terrorism, crime, obesity, you just need to fall in line or we'll have to send you to re-education camp.
/sarc

We are all born Liberal but most of us grow out of it by the time we hit puberty

Myself

4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscar'i-ot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Presidential candidate, John Edwards
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.

8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

Power to the Correct People!
(Rich and Poor!)

re: #31 JammieWearingFool

re: #22 MandyManners

re: #17 JammieWearingFool

Algore is now annoying the folks down under

Just shut up already.

Any way we could get them to keep him?

WHy would they want him. They seem pretty sane.

Maybe someone can airdrop him over Antartica.

And piss of the poor penguins?

Who knew Columbia University was the 8th holiest site in Islam?

-Blue Chip

Ibrahim Hooper on CNN...
CAIR Rep Discusses Rep. King's 'Too Many Mosques' Statement

Rudy Giuliani is spewing "utter non-sense".

re: #36 abolitionist

Are they getting ready for October 12th?

re: #42 MandyManners

And piss of the poor penguins?

You see him in that tux? He's one of them.

re: #30 zygazint

Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

If recollection serves me, assassin is a term derived from an early muslim sect who used murder of their political rivals as a means to gain power. It was very successful for a few centuries keeping the shia in control of the caliphate.

re: #24 JammieWearingFool

Don't forget the TPS reports get new cover sheets now. Did you get that memo?

Request:

If someone has a copy of Shotgun News handy, I need to know what the current prices are on the following types of ammunition:

.308 rifle (7.62 x 51 NATO)
.223 rilfe (5.56 x 45 US)
7.62 x 39 (AK)

Thanks.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Anyone watching the UFC tonight?

Good week and good year everyone!

Yom Kippur suicide bombing foiled in Tel Aviv

re: #51 zygazint

Naah. You can pay people for that :)

re: #47 filetandrelease

re: #30 zygazint

Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

If recollection serves me, assassin is a term derived from an early muslim sect who used murder of their political rivals as a means to gain power. It was very successful for a few centuries keeping the shia in control of the caliphate.

I thought it had an arabian nights feel to it lol! thanks for that bit of historic trivia though :)

re: #49 The Other Les

Request:

If someone has a copy of Shotgun News handy, I need to know what the current prices are on the following types of ammunition:

.308 rifle (7.62 x 51 NATO)
.223 rilfe (5.56 x 45 US)
7.62 x 39 (AK)

Thanks.

Planning to invade Richfield, Les?

re: #54 m

re: #51 zygazint

Naah. You can pay people for that :)

lol!

re: #52 Logan

I might.

re: #40 LeftJustAintRight

We are all born Liberal but most of us grow out of it by the time we hit puberty

Myself

It took me a few years after puberty hit. I always was a slow starter.

re: #48 Jack Reacher

re: #24 JammieWearingFool

Don't forget the TPS reports get new cover sheets now. Did you get that memo?

Yes, but it's the the mailbox I can't access.

I guess I'll have to watch football.

re: #59 Nevergiveup

It took me a few years after puberty hit. I always was a slow starter.

Don't feel bad
Some never will

re: #55 zygazint

And somehow, assassin having an islamic root just seems, well, right.

re: #53 Carl in Jerusalem

Good week and good year everyone!

Yom Kippur suicide bombing foiled in Tel Aviv

buh buh buh ... but ... it's just after the day of Peace for Islam. This must be a mistake... was it really a plot by the Ahura Mazdans?

/

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. ~Archibald MacLeish

re: #45 m

re: #36 abolitionist

Are they getting ready for October 12th?

A military attack on a reactor site tends to be much messier after it is fueled and active. Reactors are needed for making Plutonium, not for refining/separating Uranium.

re: #54 m

re: #51 zygazint

Naah. You can pay people for that :)

How many WASPs (white anglo-saxon Protestants) does it take to change a light-bulb?

Two. One to mix the drinks and the other to call the servants.

PTTCP

Heh.

Syracuse shocks No. 18 Louisville, 38-35

Brian Brohm completed 45-of-65 passes for a career-high 555 yards and four scores for Louisville, but the Cardinals' defense allowed Syracuse — which entered the game ranked near the bottom nationally in every offensive category — to pile up 465 yards and make big play after big play.

Syracuse, a 36 1/2 point underdog, built a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter before trying to make it interesting late. The Orange turned the ball over twice in the final minutes allowing Louisville to get within three with 56 seconds left.

re: #2 Noam Sayin'

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

W. C. Fields

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad," -Salvador Dali

re: #53 Carl in Jerusalem

May your year be sweet, CIJ

re: #64 Blue Chip

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. ~Archibald MacLeish

Temporarily suspended this Monday Sept. 24th, 2007 in the borough of Manhattan at Columbia University.

Rudy on Hillary:

Giuliani used some of Hillary Clinton’s own words to attack the New York Senator for her vote against a senate resolution condemning the MoveOn “betray us” ad, accusing her of supporting “politics of personal destruction.” Giuliani said, “I'm not intimidated by MoveOn.org. ... I think they are the worst thing in American politics. ... They are precisely what the Clintons used to talk about as participating in the politics of personal destruction.”

Also Rudy and McCain will speak or have spoken at the NRA recently, anyone have links to the transcripts or news yet?

I've never been a millionaire but I just know I'd be darling at it. Dorothy Parkerre: #54 m

re: #4 Pope Urban

I thought being poor was curable according to the dems.

The Dems doon't want to "sure" poverty, that would rob them of half of their putative constituency.

"Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common"

Satchel Paige

re: #44 Killgore Trout

Ibrahim Hooper on CNN...
CAIR Rep Discusses Rep. King's 'Too Many Mosques' Statement

Rudy Giuliani is spewing "utter non-sense".

What's a day without hearing from the shit-slinging monkey?!

re: #49 The Other Les

I'm curious about the .223 as well. Just got my kit in last week and have been too busy to do anything with it.

re: #73 ChristianRepublic

re: #4 Pope Urban

I thought being poor was curable according to the dems.

The Dems doon't want to "sure" poverty, that would rob them of half of their putative constituency.

SCIMF

That's "don't want to cure..."

An oldie but goodie:
Money isn't everything but it is way ahead of anything in second place!

re: #46 JammieWearingFool

re: #42 MandyManners

And piss of the poor penguins?

You see him in that tux? He's one of them.

LOL! He waddles, too.

George Soros - big money propaganda machine behind MoveOn and other left-wing organizations

Soros funded voter fraud is next.

Since it is an open thread.

Some

people should never be let out of the city.

...searchers found a note from Wingfield indicating that she was out of food and water and needed immediate help. The note said she planned to follow the creek downstream.

WTF? She is out of WATER, and is following the CREEK downstream. Just what was in the F'in creek?

re: #47 filetandrelease

re: #30 zygazint

Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

If recollection serves me, assassin is a term derived from an early muslim sect who used murder of their political rivals as a means to gain power. It was very successful for a few centuries keeping the shia in control of the caliphate.

It comes from "hashish" which the killers would smoke to stoke them up.

re: #81 jcm

Since it is an open thread.

Some

people should never be let out of the city...searchers found a note from Wingfield indicating that she was out of food and water and needed immediate help. The note said she planned to follow the creek downstream.

WTF? She is out of WATER, and is following the CREEK downstream. Just what was in the F'in creek?

The dope probably peed in the creek

Money doesn't buy happiness but it does make being depressed alot more comfortable.

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.

~ Dizzy Dean

re: #85 Geepers

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.

~ Dizzy Dean

I guarantee it!
Joe Namath

re: #31 JammieWearingFool

re: #22 MandyManners

re: #17 JammieWearingFool

Algore is now annoying the folks down under

Just shut up already.

Any way we could get them to keep him?

WHy would they want him. They seem pretty sane.

Maybe someone can airdrop him over Antartica.

Our soldiers fighting AQ should rub their ammo on him. To make it unclean in a porcine way. Can we say "ammo"?

re: #56 Noam Sayin'

The short story is that the brother I'm living with right now doesn't want it in his house and a friend on mine found a buyer for it.

re: #38 filetandrelease

More likely it was one of the newish MiG-31's that the Syrians got in a straight up trade for the MiG-25's they could neither fly nor maintain.

That's what happens when all your best pilots get shot down.

REPEATEDLY,
R

re: #83 Nevergiveup

re: #81 jcm

Since it is an open thread.

Some

people should never be let out of the city...searchers found a note from Wingfield indicating that she was out of food and water and needed immediate help. The note said she planned to follow the creek downstream.

WTF? She is out of WATER, and is following the CREEK downstream. Just what was in the F'in creek?

The dope probably peed in the creek

Yer supposed to pee downstream.

re: #66 IslandLibertarian

re: #62 filetandrelease

re: #82 MandyManners

oh my

re: #62 filetandrelease

Chemically speaking.

Whoops never mind, the NRA speeches were last night -- here's an article

[Link: www.cbn.com...]

The AP and NYT versions aren't as kind.

re: #71 Thanos

Hot Air caught a blunder from Rudy...
Video: Rudy confuses the Second Amendment with the Fourth — in front of the NRA

Heh. He also took a staged phone call from his wife that came off kinda goofy.
Overall, I think a few people were satisfied with his speech.

re: #90 ChristianRepublic

I know that-peeing down stream and all. I referring to the out of water part. Maybe she thought water also flowed upstream.

re: #89 Render

Being a fighter pilot for Syria or Iran could possible be the worst job in the world.

re: #69 zygazint

re: #53 Carl in Jerusalem

May your year be sweet, CIJ

Thanks and same to you.

re: #91 zygazint

Ever heard of Lebanese Red? Good stuff.

re: #95 Nevergiveup

re: #90 ChristianRepublic

I know that-peeing down stream and all. I referring to the out of water part. Maybe she thought water also flowed upstream.

We've already given it more attention that it etc.

re: #96 filetandrelease

re: #89 Render

Being a fighter pilot for Syria or Iran could possible be the worst job in the world.

I think that prize might actually go to being a guard at a Iranian Nuclear site!

re: #96 filetandrelease

re: #89 Render

Being a fighter pilot for Syria or Iran could possible be the worst job in the world.

Or one of Saddam's doubles.

re: #98 MandyManners

re: #91 zygazint

Ever heard of Lebanese Red? Good stuff.

My eldest brother introduced all forms of that 'stuff' to our house in the early 70's. I remember names like acapulco gold, panama red etc..

Jihad a possilbe mental illness

Mental exam ordered by judgeBy Sean Delaney, Press & Guide Newspapers
PUBLISHED: September 23, 2007

A Dearborn man accused of wielding a loaded AK-47 semi-automatic rifle in a public park earlier this month agreed to delay his preliminary examination Friday morning in 19th District Court.

Houssein Zorkot, 26, is scheduled to return to that same courtroom at 9 a.m. Nov. 9 after undergoing a psychological evaluation to determine his competency and criminal responsibility in the case.

Michigan law normally requires a preliminary hearing within 14 days of a defendant's arraignment on charges.

Zorkot, who is of Lebanese descent, was arrested Sept. 8 in Hemlock Park and has been charged with one count of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent, one count of possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle and one count felony firearm.

He was arraigned on Sept. 11 in 19th District Court — the same day a nation mourned those who lost their lives during the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

City officials issued a press release about the incident that same day; however, their response has come under fire from some groups, who say that the city waited too long to release important information about an incident that occurred just days prior to the sixth anniversary of the attacks.

Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly has defended the city's decision, and told the Press & Guide earlier this month that the information was withheld until after Zorkot's arraignment to avoid stirring up fears of another terrorist attack.
However, with more than a dozen Web sites already labeling Zorkot a would-be terrorist, their efforts may have been in vain.

Critics say Zorkot's Web site — [Link: www.zorkot.org...] — openly supports Hezbollah, a group designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, and features a picture posted on Sept. 8 which states that Zorkot had begun his "personal Jihad (in the U.S.)."
A search of Zorkot's home immediately following the incident also revealed several photographs, which were taken during a recent trip he took to Lebanon and featured him standing in front of pro-Hezbollah billboards.
However, Zorkot has not been identified as a terrorist and has yet to be linked to any terrorist group or terrorist activities, according to Gerald Gleeson, a Pontiac-based attorney who represented Zorkot in court Friday.

"My client has no criminal record and has not been charged as a terrorist," Gleeson said before requesting that the $1 million cash bond set Sept. 11 by Judge Mark Somers be reduced to $50,000 cash/10 percent.

In exchange for a lower bond, Zorkot would agree to wear a tether, which would allow law enforcement officials to locate him at any time.

However, Detective Sgt. Ron Beggs of the Dearborn Police Department said that given the nature of the charges against Zorkot — and his potential as a flight risk — lowering the bond would be unwise.

Judge William Hultgren agreed, and set the $1 million bond. The judge did, however, agree to review the matter at a future date.

If Zorkot's family is unable to raise the bond, he will remain in custody until his next court date.

For more on this ongoing story, see Wednesday's Press & Guide.

re: #102 zygazint

Sure,...your brother.

I'm thinking Fitch is gonna win,
but I'm not too sure about the other matches...

re: #66 IslandLibertarian

re: #72 debutaunt

:-D

"If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are."
--Errol Flynn

re: #104 filetandrelease

re: #102 zygazint

Sure,...your brother.

lol it's true - he was like the wc fields of the family..i remember once when i was about 8 or 9 ( he was 4 yrs my senior) he was smoking a cigarette to which i replied ugh how could you and he said 'you'll be doing it too one day' - i mean he was about 13 or 14 years old and the most jaded guy already...it's sad...

Iran smacks down Canada...
Iran attacks Canada's human rights record

"Routine unlawful strip and beatings by Canadian police has been a matter of concern for international community," notes the booklet, entitled Report on Human Rights Situation in Canada, adding that "the practice of police is alarming simply because I it is functioning as if there is no need to have judges."

The publication, which claims its allegations are drawn from "objective and factual information released by authentic and credible international sources", alleges that a range of human rights violations occur in Canada, especially toward aboriginal peoples and immigrants.

"To the great dismay of the international community, it is a great concern that the rights of women are violated, and no serious attention has been paid in promotion and protection of women's rights in Canada."

Heh.

It always amazes me when men of brilliant minds like Mencken, Twain, Churchill can destroy commonly accepted erroneous beliefs with billions of pages of support over centuries in less than 3 sentences.

re: #108 Killgore Trout

Those damn Canadians! If they would only adopt Sharia Law...

re: #109 ted

It always amazes me when men of brilliant minds like Mencken, Twain, Churchill can destroy commonly accepted erroneous beliefs with billions of pages of support over centuries in less than 3 sentences.

Example?

re: #102 zygazint

re: #98 MandyManners

re: #91 zygazint

Ever heard of Lebanese Red? Good stuff.

My eldest brother introduced all forms of that 'stuff' to our house in the early 70's. I remember names like acapulco gold, panama red etc..

Cheba-Cheba...

re: #94 Killgore Trout

re: #71 Thanos

Hot Air caught a blunder from Rudy...
Video: Rudy confuses the Second Amendment with the Fourth — in front of the NRA

Heh. He also took a staged phone call from his wife that came off kinda goofy.
Overall, I think a few people were satisfied with his speech.

Rudy has no hair and a great accent...he's a shoe in for the nomination...if and when he debates Hillary it will be a friggin bloodbath...Rudy's a lock...see your bookie soon...

re: #108 Killgore Trout

[Link: www.iranfocus.com...]

I guess the Mullahs missed this...too busy "burhka-izing" the local babes

Rudy apparently confused the 2nd and 4th Amerndments, but the 4th certainly supports the 2nd: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures..."

re: #113 albusteve

I hope you're right. I might be able to settle for McCain or Mitt but no Fred for me.

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

- Will Rogers

re: #108 Killgore Trout

Now that is funny.

Written by Iran "in the name of God," the document asserts that the Canadian government denies its people food, clean water and the right to work.

re: #81 jcm

Since it is an open thread.

Some

people should never be let out of the city...searchers found a note from Wingfield indicating that she was out of food and water and needed immediate help. The note said she planned to follow the creek downstream.

WTF? She is out of WATER, and is following the CREEK downstream. Just what was in the F'in creek?

Most people can live for a couple of months without food I have gone without food for 15 days twice. Water is essential and most can only last less than 5 days without it.

One pair of shoes can change your life.

~Cinderella

re: #111 ChristianRepublic

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

re: #117 mama winger

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

- Will Rogers

"When I was a young man I spent 90% of my money on booze, broads and the ponies. The rest I just wasted." -Unknown

LONDON (Reuters) - About 16,000 words have succumbed to pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens in a new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.

Bumble-bee is now bumblebee, ice-cream is ice cream and pot-belly is pot belly.

And if you've got a problem, don't be such a crybaby (formerly cry-baby).

The hyphen has been squeezed as informal ways of communicating, honed in text messages and emails, spread on Web sites and seep into newspapers and books.

"People are not confident about using hyphens anymore, they're not really sure what they are for," said Angus Stevenson, editor of the Shorter OED, the sixth edition of which was published this week.

Another factor in the hyphen's demise is designers' distaste for its ungainly horizontal bulk between words.

SNIP

Oh, the hyphenity!

re: #122 ChristianRepublic

re: #117 mama winger

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

- Will Rogers

"When I was a young man I spent 90% of my money on booze, broads and the ponies. The rest I just wasted." -Unknown

Sounds like my son! LOL

re: #116 Killgore Trout

re: #113 albusteve

I hope you're right. I might be able to settle for McCain or Mitt but no Fred for me.

forget those stiffs...Rudy is one of the guys you wait...sorry to sound so sure...I'm not patronizing by any means...I jusy know this to be true...he's getting stronger with his NRA gig and by next year he'll have something for everybody on the right...

re: #111 ChristianRepublic

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill

re: #117 mama winger

Without prohibition we wouldn't have nascar~

re: #120 J.D.

She wasn't kidding! :)

It's time to boycott Mattel for their groveling, it's our fault apology to the Chinese Commies for the imported toys with lead paint.

re: #121 ted

re: #111 ChristianRepublic

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill

Not hostile, jes wonderin, what "commonly accepted erroneous beliefs" are overturned by this statement, especially in a nation -England- in which liberty made its greatest strides?

Correction:

One shoe can change your life.
~Cinderella

Drugs?
What drugs?

"To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems."
Homer Simpson

re: #124 mama winger

re: #122 ChristianRepublic

re: #117 mama winger

Prohibition is better than no liquor at all.

- Will Rogers

"When I was a young man I spent 90% of my money on booze, broads and the ponies. The rest I just wasted." -Unknown

Sounds like my son! LOL

Mom?

re: #131 Canadian Guy

"To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems."
Homer Simpson

drink!

re: #127 m

re: #120 J.D.

She wasn't kidding! :)

Hey m!
It's good to see you!

re: #126 Desert Dog

re: #111 ChristianRepublic

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Sir Winston Churchill

These things are axiomatic. I mean, they might be news to commies or mullahs or the DNC, but... What great men often have the ability to do is distill something we all know well into a sentence that makes us say, "I always knew that: why didn't I say it?!"

re: #127 m

Without prohibition we wouldn't have nascar~

That thar is a truism.

An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.

Dylan Thomas

re: #132 ChristianRepublic

Hahaha!

(Mebbe - he does lurk at LGF , and has been known to post a time or two.)

Are you a devout Lutheran? In the Army? Like to play poker? Know Greek?

If so, you just might be Little Winger :)

re: #136 mama winger

re: #127 m

Without prohibition we wouldn't have nascar~

That thar is a truism.

Varooom! See y'all.

re: #128 kendig

It's time to boycott Mattel for their groveling, it's our fault apology to the Chinese Commies for the imported toys with lead paint.

Mattel's turned around and is now blaming itself for the recalls, saying that the Chinese did nothing wrong.

re: #9 Jay777

I just tuned in; that is hysterical. I don't think I've seen an animal video I've enjoyed that much in a very long time.

re: #134 J.D.!

Good to see you! We were worried aboutcha!

&#9834 &#9835 &#9836 Afternoon lizards! &#9834 &#9835 &#9836

Yaay! {Miss Trixie}! is musical again!

re: #138 mama winger

re: #132 ChristianRepublic

Hahaha!

(Mebbe - he does lurk at LGF , and has been known to post a time or two.)

Are you a devout Lutheran? In the Army? Like to play poker? Know Greek?

If so, you just might be Little Winger :)

3 outa 4 aint' bad! In fact we are joining a Lutheran church tomorrow, I'm the world's 387th best poker player, and (phonetically) "ean ma tis gennetha anothen, ou dunatai idein tan basileian tou theou.

How odd.

Mattel Seeks to Placate China With Apology

Mattel Inc. made a public apology to China for damage to the country's reputation stemming from a spate of toy recalls. It was an extraordinary attempt to placate Mattel's most important supplier, but it is likely to shift the spotlight to the company's own responsibility in the crisis.

In its apology, the world's largest toy maker said its own "design flaw" was responsible for the biggest recall by far, involving around 18 million playsets studded with potentially dangerous magnets.

While soothing China's pride, the apology could make Mattel a target in lawsuits. "I can't think of any other instance where" a major toy company "has actually come out with such a public announcement of a defect," said Andrew Krulwich, a former general counsel for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission who now practices at Wiley Rein LLP.

SNIP

If we're trading quotes, I have a favorite. Something of a doozy.

This was said by Gouvernor Morris during the Constitutional Convention of 1787:

A standing army is like a standing member: A wonderful guarantee of domestic tranquility, but a terrible temptation to foreign adventure.

I forget where I first encountered that, but isn't it great?

L8r ma!

re: #146 MandyManners

Wow.

re: #147 Dianna

If we're trading quotes, I have a favorite. Something of a doozy.

This was said by Gouvernor Morris during the Constitutional Convention of 1787:

A standing army is like a standing member: A wonderful guarantee of domestic tranquility, but a terrible temptation to foreign adventure.

I forget where I first encountered that, but isn't it great?

Whoa.

***Note to those who believe we are free.

Rights are vested in the man, not the state, so the state passes laws.

Laws make actions criminal.

Free people act.

Laws cause crime.

re: #149 m

Giant suck-up.

re: #146 MandyManners

Talk about Shot Wheels...

re: #120 J.D.

One pair of shoes can change your life.~Cinderella

I thought Imelda Marcos said that!

re: #153 Macker

re: #146 MandyManners

Talk about Shot Wheels...

LOL! That's great!

{m} Hello toots! glad to see you - it's been a while ...what snoo?

:D

Bad News for "Ex-Gay" Movement

Two scholars funded by the "ex-gay" ministry Exodus reported greatly mixed results this week in the most ambitious study yet on whether faith-based therapy can "cure" homosexuality, days after a counselor in another "ex-gay" program was sentenced on felony charges of sexually attacking his male clients.

ooops!

Yankees just took the lead and the Irish are down 17-14 but driving 2nd quater

Oh, well. I'm summoned for dog walking and grocery shopping.

Blech.

Have fun, folks.

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

Rudy Gets The Second Amendment Wrong At NRA Forum!

re: #142 m

re: #134 J.D.!

Good to see you! We were worried aboutcha!

That is so nice!
It's been a rough 6 months but I'm still hanging in there!
I have a shoulder, etc. problem that's kept me from posting, not to mention being whacked out on prescription drugs [not to be confused with the other kind, of course], so I have found posting to be challenging, to say the least, as is apparent above...

That said, you simply can't keep a good woman down, as you well know.
:-)

I missed all y'all!

Gotta read this.

Rules of Engagement - From Those Who Matter

re: #144 m

Yaay! {Miss Trixie}! is musical again!

I didn't know about the code until yesterday (thanks IreneNYC *mwah*) and I was all ready to give it up after Charles changed the site thingamajiggy-thang which caused my notes to disappear.

re: #162 J.D.

re: #142 m

re: #134 J.D.!

Good to see you! We were worried aboutcha!

That is so nice!
It's been a rough 6 months but I'm still hanging in there!
I have a shoulder, etc. problem that's kept me from posting, not to mention being whacked out on prescription drugs [not to be confused with the other kind, of course], so I have found posting to be challenging, to say the least, as is apparent above...

That said, you simply can't keep a good woman down, as you well know.
:-)

I missed all y'all!

Glad you're back, toots.

re: #145 ChristianRepublic

Odd indeed.

But are you drunk every Thursday and Friday night? Do you smoke cigars and fart in the living room on a regular basis ? :)

What synod? We are WELS, the really really fanatical ones - LOL!

Israeli citizen with German passport arrested for espionage in Beirut

“Many complain of their memory, few of their Judgement.”
-- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1745

re: #162 J.D.

Remember the "throwing plates" sound in the Lounge?

re: #86 Nevergiveup

re: #85 Geepers

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.

~ Dizzy Dean

I guarantee it!
Joe Namath

i WANNA GIVE YOU A KISH.
Joe Namath when drunk

re: #162 J.D.

{J.D.}

Good to see you, friend.

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day...teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

OMG OMG OMG! My husband just sent me this: Germany encouraging pedophilia and child sexual abuse under the guise of creating a "healthy" sexuality in children! You never saw something so disgusting. This is being promoted by the state, as far as the article goes.

[Link: www.lifesite.net...]

re: #172 albusteve

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

not really...pass the petunias...I need a whiff

re: #154 nevergiveup

re: #120 J.D.

One pair of shoes can change your life.~Cinderella

I thought Imelda Marcos said that!

Unless I'm mistaken, I think Imelda said that even a closet full of shoes couldn't really change her life.

Or something like that.

But I could be wrong...

re: #172 albusteve

Anybody wishing to avoid Armegeddon rising waters due to Global WAAArming is welcome at my house in Wisconsin. Y'all come.

Build a man a fire, and he'll stay warm for a day. If you set the man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Here's an interesting Tid-bit (sorry for that Hypen!)...
In California Hillary is polling lower than Kerry in '04 -- with Rudy only ten points down before the real campaign has started.

re: #172 albusteve

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

Better hustle down to South Beach while it's still there.

It takes a strong man to cry but it takes an even stronger man to laugh at that man! Jack Handey

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” -- George Orwell

Hiroshima scientists create transparent frogs

A research team led by professor Masayuki Sumida at Hiroshima University’s Institute for Amphibian Biology has created a type of transparent frog whose internal organs are visible through its skin. The researchers say the see-through frogs can help in the study of diseases and in the development of medical treatments by allowing laboratory scientists to check the status of internal organs and blood vessels while the frogs are alive and without having to dissect them.

Science!

re: #174 American Jewess In Jerusalem

OMG OMG OMG! My husband just sent me this: Germany encouraging pedophilia and child sexual abuse under the guise of creating a "healthy" sexuality in children! You never saw something so disgusting. This is being promoted by the state, as far as the article goes.

[Link: www.lifesite.net...]

I can't bring myself to click on that link.

The result of decades of teaching moral relativism. And of course Stan.

I wish calamity on these perpetrators of child abuse.

Car Bomb At The Iranian Embassy In Basra

The Iranian Consular in Basra said on Saturday that the blast that took place next to the Iranian Consulate earlier on the day left no casualties among the Iranian diplomats.

“A car bomb detonated near the Iranian Consulate in al-Bradhiyah neighborhood, on Saturday afternoon,” Consular Mohammed Ridha Bagh told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by telephone.

The consular added “the attack occurred in four successive blasts but left no losses among the Consulate staff.”

Earlier on Saturday, an eyewitness told VOI that a car bomb exploded near the front of the Iranian Consulate in Basra.

Other unmentioned casualties are insignificant I guess, or maybe a little telling.

From the Rasmussen poll cited in the earlier link:

Immigration remains a hot topic nationally but is especially important in states like California. Forty-four percent (44%) of California voters favor an increase in workplace raids to find and deport illegal aliens. Thirty-six percent (36%) are opposed and 20% are not sure.

Only 20% believe the workplace raids should be stopped while 62% are opposed.

Fifty-seven percent (57%) of California voters favor strict government sanctions on employers who hire illegal immigrants. Twenty-nine percent (29%) are opposed.

Nationally, 79% of American adults favor a proposal requiring employers to fire workers who falsify identity documents. Another survey found that 58% of voters nationwide favor cutting off federal funds for “sanctuary cities” that offer protection to illegal immigrants.

Clinton is viewed favorably by 54% of California voters and unfavorably by 45%.

Giuliani is viewed favorably by 59%, Thompson by 52%, McCain by 52%, and Romney by 39%.

re: #184 mama winger

re: #174 American Jewess In Jerusalem

OMG OMG OMG! My husband just sent me this: Germany encouraging pedophilia and child sexual abuse under the guise of creating a "healthy" sexuality in children! You never saw something so disgusting. This is being promoted by the state, as far as the article goes.

[Link: www.lifesite.net...]

I can't bring myself to click on that link.

The result of decades of teaching moral relativism. And of course Stan.

I wish calamity on these perpetrators of child abuse.

Cultural marxism. The long march through the institutions of the West continues.

re: #177 mama winger

re: #172 albusteve

Anybody wishing to avoid Armegeddon rising waters due to Global WAAArming is welcome at my house in Wisconsin. Y'all come.

thanks for the hospitality...I'm checking out snorkle and fin packages this week...Im taking surfing lessons as well...I'll be ready...I'll bring the red stripe

As of this moment, I've decided that Europe can only be improved by an Islamic takeover. I shall no longer fret for them. Good people of Europe: Get out! Go to America, Australia, or come to Israel. Your ship is sinking.

re: #173 FishFearMe

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day...teach a man to fish and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day. play with his fly all day.

:P

I've never gotten a job from a poor man...but I have been robbed by a stupid one.

re: #174 American Jewess In Jerusalem

The authors rationalize, "The child touches all parts of their father's body, sometimes arousing him. The father should do the same."

wtF?

re: #190 Miss Trixie

LMAO!

re: #189 American Jewess In Jerusalem

This stuff makes the GDR seem like paradise. I know alot of people from the former East Germany who hate the west and have immigrated elswehere.

re: #186 Thanos

Wow. A Rudy win in California would be huge! I think he has a lot of appeal to swing states, it could really change the map.

re: #183 Killgore Trout

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If those frogs came from ground zero there that means we invented them

re: #165 Miss Trixie

re: #162 J.D.

re: #142 m

re: #134 J.D.! Good to see you! We were worried aboutcha!

That is so nice!
It's been a rough 6 months but I'm still hanging in there!
I have a shoulder, etc. problem that's kept me from posting, not to mention being whacked out on prescription drugs [not to be confused with the other kind, of course], so I have found posting to be challenging, to say the least, as is apparent above...That said, you simply can't keep a good woman down, as you well know.
:-)

I missed all y'all!

Glad you're back, toots.

Thanks.
Good to see you, too, Miss Trixie.

re: #169 MandyManners

re: #162 J.D.

Remember the "throwing plates" sound in the Lounge?

I still miss doing that.

How ya been?

re: #171 mama winger

re: #162 J.D.

{J.D.}

Good to see you, friend.

Hey {mama winger}. It's good seeing you, too.

*sniff*
I'm touched, you all. You're all so nice. That's what I've missed about this place as much as anything, really. Thanks all y'all.
:-D

'The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.'

Groucho Marx

re: #195 Killgore Trout

re: #186 Thanos

Wow. A Rudy win in California would be huge! I think he has a lot of appeal to swing states, it could really change the map.

Yes and Guiliani's favorable rating is higher than Hillary's.

re: #192 zygazint

re: #174 American Jewess In Jerusalem

The authors rationalize, "The child touches all parts of their father's body, sometimes arousing him. The father should do the same."

wtF?

this person ought to be in prison

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Ah! Globular worming! My favorite subject! Did you all see that there was a bug in the software James Hansen - he of the NASA Al Gore acolytes produced and they had to revise the warmest year back to the 1920s.

Well, back in the 1970s, his computer models were predicting - wait for it - an ice age. I kid you not.

NASA scientist James E. Hansen, who has publicly criticized the Bush administration for dragging its feet on climate change and labeled skeptics of man-made global warming as distracting "court jesters," appears in a 1971 Washington Post article that warns of an impending ice age within 50 years.

"U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming," blares the headline of the July 9, 1971, article, which cautions readers that the world "could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts."

Cold yet?

re: #193 FishFearMe

re: #190 Miss Trixie

LMAO!

Thankyouvverymuch - I'm here alll weekend. :D

Have you ever fished for Rainbow trout in the Rockies? Nothing like it, I tell you what.

My ex-wife told once that if I went fishin' just ONE more time that she was gonna leave me. Damn, I miss that woman.

re: #180 JammieWearingFool

re: #172 albusteve

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

Better hustle down to South Beach while it's still there.

re: #180 JammieWearingFool

re: #172 albusteve

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

Better hustle down to South Beach while it's still there.

somehow Aquaman will save us in the clutch...

re: #195 Killgore Trout

re: #186 Thanos

Wow. A Rudy win in California would be huge! I think he has a lot of appeal to swing states, it could really change the map.

This Kos Kid has declared the election over.

What I do hope is that she picks (and she should be smart enough to) the very electric Barack Obama as her running mate.

Besides, I really want to see and hear the reactions from the right-wing noise machine shit themselves into oblivion when President Hillary Clinton and Vice President Barack Obama are sworn into office on January 20, 2009. That would be sweet justice.

re: #200 mama winger

Depraved beyond belief...I don't even want to understand why...

{grayp} Afternoon, missy. :D

Hansen's an a**hat.

re: #189 American Jewess In Jerusalem

As of this moment, I've decided that Europe can only be improved by an Islamic takeover. I shall no longer fret for them. Good people of Europe: Get out! Go to America, Australia, or come to Israel. Your ship is sinking.

Europe has abondoned its heritage of religion and reason. It now merely used the artifacts of its heritage as a tourist attraction. To the general European population, the only right and wrong is what is expedient, and what is most comfortable. It has no love for children, in fact the Europeans are not even having children. They are involved in self-worship, and will sacrifice the innocent on the alter of hedonism. There is no bravery, or honor, or moral courage.

Screw 'em.

re: #170 kcladderman

re: #86 Nevergiveup

re: #85 Geepers

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.
~ Dizzy Dean

I guarantee it!
Joe Namath

i WANNA GIVE YOU A KISH.
Joe Namath when drunk

Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too uptight.
Drunk John Riggins.

re: #201 grayp

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Ah! Globular worming! My favorite subject! Did you all see that there was a bug in the software James Hansen - he of the NASA Al Gore acolytes produced and they had to revise the warmest year back to the 1920s.

Well, back in the 1970s, his computer models were predicting - wait for it - an ice age. I kid you not.

NASA scientist James E. Hansen, who has publicly criticized the Bush administration for dragging its feet on climate change and labeled skeptics of man-made global warming as distracting "court jesters," appears in a 1971 Washington Post article that warns of an impending ice age within 50 years.

"U.S. Scientist Sees New Ice Age Coming," blares the headline of the July 9, 1971, article, which cautions readers that the world "could be as little as 50 or 60 years away from a disastrous new ice age, a leading atmospheric scientist predicts."

Cold yet?

I don't think he's one of the "leading scientists" they're relying on any longer.

re: #205 JammieWearingFool

Heh. They just can't see that they've driven their party so far to the left that there are plenty of opportunities as long a the Reublicans run toward the middle.

re: #180 JammieWearingFool

re: #172 albusteve

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:

Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

Better hustle down to South Beach while it's still there.

It's amazing what the AGW cult's "worst case scenario" of a 59-centimeter sea-level rise will do... Ummm, that a whopping TWO FEET, people.

:^þ

re: #198 mama winger

'The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.'

Groucho Marx

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member!
Groucho Marx

One day a rather inebriated ice fisherman drilled a hole in the ice and peered into the hole and a loud voice said, "There are no fish down there."

He walked several yards away and drilled another hole and peered into the hole and again the voice said, "There's no fish down there."

He then walked about 50 yards away and drilled another hole and again the voice said, "There's no fish down there."

He looked up into the sky and asked, "God, is that you?"

"No, you idiot," the voice said, "it's the rink manager."

re: #208 mama winger

I am speaking of the general atmosphere of Europe, not individuals. I know of many people who do not fit this mold. For instance, some of the soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. And of course people like Fjordman.

But we need 100 times more then those few.

re: #22 MandyManners

Sorry. they are too intelligent not to return a defective product.

re: #209 MandyManners

re: #170 kcladderman

re: #86 Nevergiveup

re: #85 Geepers

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.
~ Dizzy Dean

I guarantee it!
Joe Namath

i WANNA GIVE YOU A KISH.
Joe Namath when drunk

Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too uptight.
Drunk John Riggins.

...Drunk John Riggins to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...

re: #201 grayp

I posted (click my nic) on the temperature measurement problems. We don't even have a reliable baseline temperature readings.

Honest, ociffer, I'm not as drunk as some thinkle peep.

Drunk FishFearMe

Checking out a bit, the lawn police are about to come get me.

To anyone reading this who is a member of Freerepublic:

As repulsive as I believe Freerepublic has become of late, particularly in its defamatory attacks on Giuliani, anyone remaining there possessed of any decency should demand that a post coupling Giuliani with Hitler should immediately be removed.

[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

That it as stayed up for as long as it has, is evidence that the crazy minority segment of Republicans and Conservatives is no different then the crazies on the Left who defamed General Petraeus.

Has intellectual honesty, a sense of history- not to mention plain common decency- totally vanished from our politics? From both sides?

re: #174 American Jewess In Jerusalem

OMG OMG OMG! My husband just sent me this: Germany encouraging pedophilia and child sexual abuse under the guise of creating a "healthy" sexuality in children! You never saw something so disgusting. This is being promoted by the state, as far as the article goes.

[Link: www.lifesite.net...]

For ages 4-6, the booklet recommends teaching children the movements of copulation.

Good gravy. That is beyond sick.

re: #217 RightOfAtilla

re: #209 MandyManners

re: #170 kcladderman

re: #86 Nevergiveup

re: #85 Geepers

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.
~ Dizzy Dean

I guarantee it!
Joe Namath

i WANNA GIVE YOU A KISH.
Joe Namath when drunk

Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too uptight.
Drunk John Riggins.

...Drunk John Riggins to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...

I never knew Riggins was so observant

An old man rocking on his porch sees a young kid with his fishing pole walking down the dirt road. "Where you goin' with that pole?" he calls. "Gonna git me some fish with this here fishing pole!" answers the kid. Sure enough, as the sun is setting the old man sees the kid going home with a bucket of fish.

Next day, old man rocking on his porch sees the kid walking down the dirt road with some duct tape. "Where you goin' with that?" he calls. "Gonna git me some ducks with this here tape!" answers the kid. "You can't git no ducks with tape!" hollers the old man. But sure enough, as the sun is setting the old man sees the kid going home with the tape strung out behind him and ducks stuck all over it!

Next day, old man rocking on his porch sees the kid walking down the dirt road with some chicken wire. "Where you going with that?" he calls. "Gonna get me some chickens with this wire!" answers the kid. "You can't get no chickens with wire!" hollers the old man. But sure enough, as the sun is setting the old man sees the kid going home with the wire strung out behind him and chickens stuck all through it!

Next day, old man rocking on his porch sees the kid walking down the dirt road with some pussy willows. "Now hold on just a minute" calls the old man, "wait while I get my hat!"

re: #217 RightOfAtilla

I still remember the uproar.

re: #213 Nevergiveup

'Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.'

- Groucho Marx

re: #212 Spiny Norman

re: #180 JammieWearingFool

re: #172 albusteve

re: #160 JammieWearingFool

Good news:
Global Warming to Wash Away U.S. History

Rising waters will lap at the foundations of old money Wall Street and the new money towers of Silicon Valley. They will swamp the locations of big city airports and major interstate highways.

selective armageddon...I like it!...

Better hustle down to South Beach while it's still there.

It's amazing what the AGW cult's "worst case scenario" of a 59-centimeter sea-level rise will do... Ummm, that a whopping TWO FEET, people.

:^þ

thanks...I can handle it bro...if it's got a mongo curl it will get me at least to Tulsa...

Re: 128
Thanks Mandy for the update: #146

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

re: #224 Miss Trixie

But, was it of the hippy variety?

"I can tell you , how fast we traveled...we left Spokane with 2 rabbits and when we got to Topeka...we still had 2 rabbits"

BOB HOPE

re: #229 zygazint

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

Groucho was the man

re: #228 kendig

Aggravating, isn't it?

re: #223 Nevergiveup

re: #217 RightOfAtilla

re: #209 MandyManners

re: #170 kcladderman

re: #86 Nevergiveup

re: #85 Geepers

It ain't braggin' if you can do it.
~ Dizzy Dean

I guarantee it!
Joe Namath

i WANNA GIVE YOU A KISH.
Joe Namath when drunk

Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up. You're too uptight.
Drunk John Riggins.

...Drunk John Riggins to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...

I never knew Riggins was so observant

And he was the quintessential load running the counter play.

re: #222 MandyManners

re: #174 American Jewess In Jerusalem

OMG OMG OMG! My husband just sent me this: Germany encouraging pedophilia and child sexual abuse under the guise of creating a "healthy" sexuality in children! You never saw something so disgusting. This is being promoted by the state, as far as the article goes.

[Link: www.lifesite.net...]

For ages 4-6, the booklet recommends teaching children the movements of copulation.

Good gravy. That is beyond sick.

I clicked on the link. I wish I had not. the words there are sick and perverse and BEING TAUGHT TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN.

If I were there in Germany, I do believe I would be considering some violent act.
Little Children are meant to be protected, not used as sexual beings

The global warming item got picked up over here. The hysterics will be all over this one.

Though they'll no doubt be gleeful to know the Bush compound in Kennebunkport will be submerged with the rest of us.

re: #221 Opinionated

Has intellectual honesty, a sense of history- not to mention plain common decency- totally vanished from our politics? From both sides?

That is the question of the century, imo. Well I'm off good afternoon to all.

From Bill Maher’s bio at Huffington Post:

“Some of the outstanding guests who have appeared on the show include George Clooney, Howard Dean, Michael Moore, Robin Williams, Drew Barrymore, Bradley Whitford, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Gen. Wesley Clark, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Costner, Gary Hart, Pat Buchanan, Ben Affleck, John Edwards and George Carlin.”

That’s what you call diversity. Every political persuasion from the left to the far left.

Mandy that's hysterical - thanks!

re: #235 mama winger

Evil.

re: #221 Opinionated

To anyone reading this who is a member of Freerepublic:

As repulsive as I believe Freerepublic has become of late, particularly in its defamatory attacks on Giuliani, anyone remaining there possessed of any decency should demand that a post coupling Giuliani with Hitler should immediately be removed.

[Link: www.freerepublic.com...]

That it as stayed up for as long as it has, is evidence that the crazy minority segment of Republicans and Conservatives is no different then the crazies on the Left who defamed General Petraeus.

Has intellectual honesty, a sense of history- not to mention plain common decency- totally vanished from our politics? From both sides?

This is eggs f-in actly what Republicans do not need this election. A bunch of sour assed one-issue purists driving people away from the polls. They are trying to create "RDS".

re: #239 Miss Trixie

I got it from another Lizard.

re: #234 RightOfAtilla

Being a Missouri fan...I swear that John Riggins played for Kansas 7 years...lol! He killed MU ...couldn't stop him

re: #240 MandyManners

re: #235 mama winger

Evil.

'It would be better if a giant stone were to be tied around their necks and they were thrown into the sea, than to harm one of these little ones'

- paraphrase of Jesus the Nazarene ( as long as we are doing quotes)

re: #218 jcm

Thanks. I keep a folder on global warming crap.

Hello Miss Trixie! I have to get you my write up on the Peruvian chef who showed me how to make ceviche, don't I?

Re: Groucho Marx. I don't know how many people here are old enough to have seen his television show. I am. It was great. But CBS kicked him off - because of one of the greatest one liners ever.

A married couple were his contestants. As usual he asked them a bit about themselves.

Groucho: "So, do you have any children?"

Husband: "Yes we do. We have eleven children."

Groucho: "Eleven children?! Why do you have so many children?"

Husband: "Well, I love my wife."

Groucho: " I love my cigar, but I take it out every once in awhile."

Canned. Immediately.

Fishing bloopers with Bill Dance...

Bending the trolling arm

Tree Snake

More with Bill Dance...

/personally, I had never heard of him until someone sent me an email. But he's f-u-n-n-y, imho!

re: #245 grayp

I remember his show. He was amazingly hilarious.

re: #243 missouri boy

No doubt, I don't remember any team that stopped Riggins...

re: #241 Thanos

The right's Dkos.