Onion: Bratz Dolls May Give Girls Unrealistic Expectations
And now for some pure silliness…
And now for some pure silliness…
1 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:48:32pm |
Get ready for a wave of eye and head enlargement surgeries.
2 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:48:44pm |
Sure, pick on them now that Barbie took 'em out in the courts.
4 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:49:29pm |
Heh. I have a big head.
MELONISTS!
6 | faraway Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:50:21pm |
This is what 40,000 topless virgins looks like.
/ from the last thread
7 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:50:43pm |
8 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:51:29pm |
re: #6 faraway
This is what 40,000 topless virgins looks like.
/ from the last thread
I am Booby, see me soar
In numbers too large to ignore
...
9 | faraway Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:52:16pm |
10 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:52:23pm |
12 | akak Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:53:04pm |
Prominent Sunni Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi, Banned in U.S., Opens Washington D.C. Office of Islamist News Organization, Says It (IslamOnline) Is
[Link: memri.org...]
IOL is "one of the most-visited Arabic/English Islamic web portals which issue fatwas."
13 | LizardAbroad Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:53:08pm |
This is why I'm glad I'm a guy. I think a little head would be great. I would like a little head everyday, as a matter of fact.
14 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:53:12pm |
Best part was at the end:
Obama to keep Bush on as National Scapegoat.
17 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:54:39pm |
I can't get it to play. But, for the record: "Bratz" are highly, highly creepy. Teaching 8 year-old girls to aspire to look like hookers... what could possibly go wrong?
18 | faraway Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:54:42pm |
19 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:54:45pm |
I knew we were on to something in the 80s with big HAIR! ;-)
20 | vagabond trader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:54:48pm |
Unrealistic expectations as in a billion dollar box of condoms?
21 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:55:07pm |
re: #17 Occasional Reader
I can't get it to play. But, for the record: "Bratz" are highly, highly creepy. Teaching 8 year-old girls to aspire to look like hookers... what could possibly go wrong?
Madonna started that.
22 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:55:29pm |
SEE THE CURRENT CD PLAYING! IT IS FANTASTIC!
Now, back to, "The Onion".
23 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:56:11pm |
SEE THE CURRENT CD PLAYING?! IT IS FANTASTIC!Now, back to, "The Onion".
Damn question marks. Damn punctuation!
24 | psyop Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:56:26pm |
That is hi-freakin'-larious!
'Course, I am not so much worried about the big heads as the absurdly small feet. I don't want my daughter reviving foot-binding....
25 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:56:31pm |
re: #17 Occasional Reader
I can't get it to play. But, for the record: "Bratz" are highly, highly creepy. Teaching 8 year-old girls to aspire to look like hookers... what could possibly go wrong?
On the bright side, my 7 and 5 year old daughter are much more concerned with getting their Orks ready to fight versus my Imperial Guard and playing with their Star Wars and Transformers.
27 | faraway Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:56:41pm |
28 | bulwrk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:56:41pm |
re: #16 Outrider
No but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
29 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:57:02pm |
re: #23 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Damn question marks. Damn punctuation!
If you insist.
Question marks, and punctation... I damn you!
30 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:57:07pm |
re: #17 Occasional Reader
Teaching 8 year-old girls to aspire to look like hookers... what could possibly go wrong?
Did I mention Stride Rite is coming out with Jessica Simpson shoes this Spring? Yep, including many with heels.
31 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:57:13pm |
re: #18 faraway
whatyamacallit broken?
neighbor boy has a Mitsubishi Lancer that has a problem throwing me for a loop.
He has water on the floorboards and has had for months. There is zero loss from the radiator and it doesn't smell of coolant anyway. He hasn't run the heater. And it hasn't rained here in quite awhile.
I thought he was talking damp. Water actually pools when you step on the carpet. Any ideas?
32 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:57:23pm |
Anybody catch the tease for the next article on the Lexus airbag?
Sounds seriously dangerous.
33 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:57:53pm |
Okay with a little head........
Taking cheap shots at the Clinton administration again.
34 | davinvalkri Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:57:58pm |
re: #17 Occasional Reader
I can't get it to play. But, for the record: "Bratz" are highly, highly creepy. Teaching 8 year-old girls to aspire to look like hookers... what could possibly go wrong?
Forget the hooker clothing...just their proportions...it's like they're diseased or something, right outta the uncanny valley!
35 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:58:18pm |
re: #28 bulwrk
No but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
which would have been my response if I wasn't the one asking the question. lol
36 | pink freud Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:58:40pm |
re: #31 Outrider
A/C overflow?
Wait. What part of the country? I keep forgetting it's winter, I spent 4 hours working in the yard today. 75 degrees.
37 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:58:41pm |
re: #31 Outrider
neighbor boy has a Mitsubishi Lancer that has a problem throwing me for a loop.
He has water on the floorboards
The car's water broke. It's about to give birth to a baby car. Get it to the hospital immediately.
Next question?
38 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:09pm |
39 | faraway Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:18pm |
re: #31 Outrider
neighbor boy has a Mitsubishi Lancer that has a problem throwing me for a loop.
He has water on the floorboards and has had for months. There is zero loss from the radiator and it doesn't smell of coolant anyway. He hasn't run the heater. And it hasn't rained here in quite awhile.
I thought he was talking damp. Water actually pools when you step on the carpet. Any ideas?
Probably not - thermostat stuck - engine losing water
Maybe - Rusty hole in the windshield frame - or cracked seal around it.
40 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:27pm |
I, for one, am all in favor of giant heads...
41 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:31pm |
42 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:35pm |
re: #22 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
SEE THE CURRENT CD PLAYING! IT IS FANTASTIC!
Now, back to, "The Onion".
Hey you..I saw a special on them on that Sunday Morning show this last summer..They have a certain magic to their music..To tell you the truth..That hit song they had this last summer was really good..But when I found out it was Robert Plant my first reaction was..WTH? kind of a mind blower..
43 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:40pm |
re: #36 pink freud
A/C overflow?
Wait. What part of the country? I keep forgetting it's winter, I spent 4 hours working in the yard today. 75 degrees.
same part of the country as you perhaps. Coastal Georgia. But he hasn't run the AC or the heater.
44 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 2:59:59pm |
re: #5 NYCHardhat
My favorite part of a woman is her cranium.
Yeah! Give me hea............nevermind.
/
46 | davinvalkri Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:00:16pm |
re: #40 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
I, for one, am all in favor of giant heads...
Dude, WHY?! They look like giant misshapen...fantasy monster thingies!
47 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:00:49pm |
re: #39 faraway
Probably not - thermostat stuck - engine losing water
Maybe - Rusty hole in the windshield frame - or cracked seal around it.
my thought was a cracker seal around the window, but it hasn't rained in quite awhile.
48 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:01:25pm |
re: #36 pink freud
A/C overflow?
Wait. What part of the country? I keep forgetting it's winter, I spent 4 hours working in the yard today. 75 degrees.
My thoughts exactly, plugged AC condensation drain.
49 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:01:32pm |
re: #46 davinvalkri
Dude, WHY?! They look like giant misshapen...fantasy monster thingies!
Exactly...
50 | Shug Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:01:55pm |
iPhone users
do you have the 8GB or the 16 GB phone and are you happy with it?
51 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:01:57pm |
re: #39 faraway
Probably not - thermostat stuck - engine losing water
Maybe - Rusty hole in the windshield frame - or cracked seal around it.
Where is the air conditioner condenser?
There's always a big puddle of pure water under my wife's SUV in the summertime when she shuts the car down. Took us a while to figure out it was condensation, not a leak.
52 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:01:59pm |
re: #45 bulwrk
My first guess would be the heater core.
I had a Ford that had that problem once. Can it leak even if the radiator has not been run?
53 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:02:13pm |
re: #48 jcm
My thoughts exactly, plugged AC condensation drain.
AC runs if you use the defrost setting on the heater. It drys the air.
54 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:02:19pm |
re: #31 Outrider
neighbor boy has a Mitsubishi Lancer that has a problem throwing me for a loop.
He has water on the floorboards and has had for months. There is zero loss from the radiator and it doesn't smell of coolant anyway. He hasn't run the heater. And it hasn't rained here in quite awhile.
I thought he was talking damp. Water actually pools when you step on the carpet. Any ideas?
Yes, he should pull over for pee breaks.
56 | Paul Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:02:33pm |
Here in Wisconsin Bratz are sausages.
....mmmmm bratz!
57 | davinvalkri Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:02:37pm |
58 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:02:49pm |
re: #42 HoosierHoops
Saw them live in June. Was the day Bo Diddley died. The band threw together a fifteen minute Bo Diddleyfest. Was amazing. They had a ball, you could tell it.
59 | Pyroskank Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:02:57pm |
I remember the body image problems I had thanks to my old TMNT Action Figures. I would constantly paint myself green and tie green wheelbarrow to my back.
/Need I?
60 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:03:20pm |
re: #53 jcm
AC runs if you use the defrost setting on the heater. It drys the air.
defrost! yeah. (slapping forehead) that is run. where can I check for that?
61 | pink freud Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:03:34pm |
re: #50 Shug
iPhone users
do you have the 8GB or the 16 GB phone and are you happy with it?
I checked them out and sat on the fence for a while, shug, and then bought the LG INCITE. Comparable, just released, and at a decent price with att now.
62 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:03:37pm |
re: #59 Pyroskank
I remember the body image problems I had thanks to my old TMNT Action Figures. I would constantly paint myself green and tie green wheelbarrow to my back.
/Need I?
I had Weebles. I think I look FANTASTIC!
64 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:04:15pm |
65 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:04:24pm |
re: #59 Pyroskank
I had a "Long Dong Silver" doll.
66 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:04:27pm |
All I can say is DAMN YOU STRETCH ARMSTRONG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
67 | bulwrk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:04:29pm |
68 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:04:40pm |
re: #55 Outrider
even if the AC hasn't been run?
Has he used the defrost / fog setting to clear moisture from the inside of the windshield, that runs the AC to dry the air.
69 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:05:11pm |
re: #60 Outrider
defrost! yeah. (slapping forehead) that is run. where can I check for that?
There's a control on the dashboard.
70 | davinvalkri Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:05:27pm |
re: #59 Pyroskank
I remember the body image problems I had thanks to my old TMNT Action Figures. I would constantly paint myself green and tie green wheelbarrow to my back.
/Need I?
It's not a question of body image really...at least the TMNT figures were explicitly ridiculous and "super-deformed"; these dolls just look like something the Fishmen would make.
71 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:05:43pm |
Leak in the heater coil. Can almost guarantee you. Does it smell like antifreeze?
72 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:05:51pm |
re: #68 jcm
Has he used the defrost / fog setting to clear moisture from the inside of the windshield, that runs the AC to dry the air.
yes. I totally forgot the daggoned defrost! I'm betting that is it!
73 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:05:51pm |
re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
All I can say is DAMN YOU STRETCH ARMSTRONG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
You, too, huh?
I tell you what, if I had a little brother back then, he'd now be 7 feet tall and 125 pounds...
74 | Eowyn2 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:05:59pm |
I've disliked Bratz since they first hit the market.
I have never been a barbie fan (used to steal my little bro's gi joe to be her boyfriend/husband because, well, ken was a wus.)
75 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:06:07pm |
Ty Industries of Oakbrook, Il, the beanie Baby people have two new dolls out, 'Sweet Sasha"& "Marvelous Melia" I do not know if they look like the Obama kids.
Michelle is livid claiming that her children are private citizens. I have to give her this one.
The Company says that it has nothing to do with her kids, that they are just pretty names.
77 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:06:17pm |
re: #67 bulwrk
What would cause water on driver side floor board on a 2001 eclipse?
I'm forwarding him the link. Thanks!
78 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:06:27pm |
re: #62 Silhouette
I had Weebles. I think I look FANTASTIC!
I had a Teddy Ruxpin. Aside from swallowing the occasional cassette tape I think I turned out okay.
79 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:06:34pm |
re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Leak in the heater core. Can almost guarantee you. Does it smell like antifreeze?
GAH!
I am getting off right now. I am stupid today!
80 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:06:36pm |
re: #25 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
On the bright side, my 7 and 5 year old daughter are much more concerned with getting their Orks ready to fight versus my Imperial Guard and playing with their Star Wars and Transformers.
You haven't seen anything until you see all the monsters of the Godzilla universe lined up to fight a fleet of Lego Star Wars ships.
81 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:06:52pm |
re: #71 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Leak in the heater coil. Can almost guarantee you. Does it smell like antifreeze?
no. i think jcm has it.
82 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:07:11pm |
re: #74 Eowyn2
I've disliked Bratz since they first hit the market.
I have never been a barbie fan (used to steal my little bro's gi joe to be her boyfriend/husband because, well, ken was a wus.)
I and all my Joe collector friends salute you.
And I will skip the usual dirty joke.
But I have turned out like my Joe...cracks in the knees and some of my hair rubbed off...
83 | Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:07:37pm |
Confession. My bride of 25 years and I do not have children. We rent them fro the neighbors next door. The Neighbors appreciate the quality time we spend with their children and we appreciate when the lovely kids get a little cranky, we simply send them home.
I knew I'd heard something about these dolls. Turns out that "Mattel, the makers of Barbie, won a copyright case in which it argued that the Bratz concept had been developed by one of its designers." California judge orders company to stop making Bratz dolls
84 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:07:53pm |
re: #75 opnion
Ty Industries of Oakbrook, Il, the beanie Baby people have two new dolls out, 'Sweet Sasha"& "Marvelous Melia" I do not know if they look like the Obama kids.
Michelle is livid claiming that her children are private citizens. I have to give her this one.
The Company says that it has nothing to do with her kids, that they are just pretty names.
WAB better get used to it.
85 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:08:20pm |
This thread is a hoot... Click-n-Klac the car talk guys interspersed with toy talk.
/life is good!
86 | Catttt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:08:30pm |
I wish my late mom could have seen this. She had an unusually large hat size, and we used to tease her a lot. :D
87 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:08:34pm |
JCM and all the others that took the time to answer my question? I appreciate it and am heading across the street to talk to the boy now.
Thanks again folks!
88 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:08:42pm |
Actually- I thought the funniest part of the video was at the end, where the next headline said 0bama was going to keep Bush on as the national scapegoat.
It's funny because it's true.
89 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:08:43pm |
re: #83 Conservative in Liberal Hands
Confession. My bride of 25 years and I do not have children. We rent them fro the neighbors next door. The Neighbors appreciate the quality time we spend with their children and we appreciate when the lovely kids get a little cranky, we simply send them home.
I knew I'd heard something about these dolls. Turns out that "Mattel, the makers of Barbie, won a copyright case in which it argued that the Bratz concept had been developed by one of its designers." California judge orders company to stop making Bratz dolls
Yep, see #2.
Poor ruling, IMO.
90 | Racer X Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:09:03pm |
Bratz?
Pftptpfptpfptpfptpt.
Major Matt Mason was the best action figure!
91 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:09:04pm |
re: #80 CyanSnowHawk
You haven't seen anything until you see all the monsters of the Godzilla universe lined up to fight a fleet of Lego Star Wars ships.
I have seen Optimus Prime fight Godzilla over the ruins of the Lego Fire Dept until My Little Pony came to put a stop to it.
92 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:09:13pm |
re: #86 Catttt
I wish my late mom could have seen this. She had an unusually large hat size, and we used to tease her a lot. :D
I wear a 7 5/8. It's not easy.
93 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:09:38pm |
re: #65 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I thought that was damn funny.
94 | davinvalkri Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:10:24pm |
re: #88 Sharmuta
Actually- I thought the funniest part of the video was at the end, where the next headline said 0bama was going to keep Bush on as the national scapegoat.
It's funny because it's true.
Who'll be surprised when it happens de facto, if not de jure?
95 | pink freud Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:10:25pm |
96 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:10:35pm |
re: #90 Racer X
Bratz?
Pftptpfptpfptpfptpt.Major Matt Mason was the best action figure!
Geez, I grew up right then and never ever heard of that one. :-(
97 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:10:58pm |
re: #50 Shug
iPhone users
do you have the 8GB or the 16 GB phone and are you happy with it?
1) 8GB (1st Generation) and 2) Yes.
98 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:11:16pm |
re: #84 Soona'
WAB better get used to it.
She is not a woman who seems to be able to roll with the punches.
Right now the media aqre shilling the myth that she is some stuning beauty.
She is not & how will she react when they are not so solicitous?
99 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:11:20pm |
That was hilarious.
Between Iowahawk and the Onion, I will survive.
100 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:11:33pm |
101 | Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:11:55pm |
re: #89 OldLineTexan
"I just report the news... you decide" or something like that...
102 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:12:28pm |
re: #90 Racer X
Bratz?
Pftptpfptpfptpfptpt.Major Matt Mason was the best action figure!
All I had growing up were those little plastic soldiers that always got blown up on July fourth by cherry bombs.
103 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:12:32pm |
re: #96 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Geez, I grew up right then and never ever heard of that one. :-(
You where a deprived child, you should apply for a bailout.
A friend hand a few, can you say 10 year old envy!
104 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:12:39pm |
re: #98 opnion
She is not a woman who seems to be able to roll with the punches.
Right now the media aqre shilling the myth that she is some stuning beauty.
She is not & how will she react when they are not so solicitous?
The way they keep having little hissy fights with the press (already), I suspect the honeymoon might come to an end around 2026.
105 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:13:12pm |
re: #103 jcm
You where a deprived child, you should apply for a bailout.
A friend hand a few, can you say 10 year old envy!
Yes, I was... send me a check.
106 | formercorpsman Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:13:13pm |
That was good. I'll have to go there more often.
108 | Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:13:49pm |
re: #104 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
IMHO Fatigue and Disillusionment will set in before six months.
109 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:14:01pm |
re: #58 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Saw them live in June. Was the day Bo Diddley died. The band threw together a fifteen minute Bo Diddleyfest. Was amazing. They had a ball, you could tell it.
My daughter is a led head..I told her that robert was singing country now..
What do you think of that? my most beautiful rocker daughter?
She goes..I know Dad..But he is really old now...
/I don't know about Nikki..She blasts old Rolling Stones CD's in her Car and thinks the Zep is the greatest band of all time...She would Marry Tom Petty..
//that's my little girl..
110 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:14:20pm |
re: #106 formercorpsman
That was good. I'll have to go there more often.
A lot of whorehouses are like that...
111 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:15:35pm |
re: #102 Soona'
All I had growing up were those little plastic soldiers that always got blown up on July fourth by cherry bombs.
Did you ever get those Knights? There were foot soldiers & Knights on horses (two pieces) . They cost the same, so I figured that the Knight & the horse were a twofer.
112 | Quintus_Arius Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:15:57pm |
OT:
There is a web site that has been created where you can personally thank GWB for his service and commitment to national security. It is fairly recent, but many here would want to add their comments.
See: Mission Accomplished
113 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:16:14pm |
re: #104 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
The way they keep having little hissy fights with the press (already), I suspect the honeymoon might come to an end around 2026.
114 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:16:29pm |
re: #108 Conservative in Liberal Hands
IMHO Fatigue and Disillusionment will set in before six months.
Marriages can last on starry eyed dreaminess for a good year before the "toothbrush in the wrong place" "socks on the floor" stuff shatters the illusion.
I think Zero can keep up the love affair longer than that...
115 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:17:14pm |
re: #111 opnion
Did you ever get those Knights? There were foot soldiers & Knights on horses (two pieces) . They cost the same, so I figured that the Knight & the horse were a twofer.
Yeah. I guess I had those too. They still got blown up on July fourth.
116 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:17:46pm |
re: #90 Racer X
Bratz?
Pftptpfptpfptpfptpt.Major Matt Mason was the best action figure!
Yah, right until the wires popped outta his elbows and knees.
I did have an alien we called Cholesterol, though. Turns out it was "Callisto".
117 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:17:49pm |
re: #102 Soona'
All I had growing up were those little plastic soldiers that always got blown up on July fourth by cherry bombs.
Lighter fluid can do a good job of imitating Napalm. None survived.
/just sayin'
118 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:17:58pm |
re: #113 opnion
Let me try it again. Don't ya think that both of them will have some kind of melt down? The press may call it rightous indignation, but still.
119 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:18:30pm |
re: #116 OldLineTexan
Yah, right until the wires popped outta his elbows and knees.
I did have an alien we called Cholesterol, though. Turns out it was "Callisto".
You weren't supposed to torture the poor little SOB.
120 | Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:18:33pm |
Mormon Lizards? Tom said he's sorry. You're not un-American.
Gotta run.
121 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:18:34pm |
re: #114 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Marriages can last on starry eyed dreaminess for a good year before the "toothbrush in the wrong place" "socks on the floor" stuff shatters the illusion.
I think Zero can keep up the love affair longer than that...
especially if he races to the left as fast as possible...and there is the illegal issue coming up again....truly fucked is an understatement to be sure
122 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:18:52pm |
re: #114 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Marriages can last on starry eyed dreaminess for a good year before the "toothbrush in the wrong place" "socks on the floor" stuff shatters the illusion.
I think Zero can keep up the love affair longer than that...
He's got his crack-whore media worshippers to garauntee that.
123 | Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:18:55pm |
re: #114 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
We're taking about some very... maladjusted people here, LT. Ya know, Liberals and Moonbeams... In my experience, their relationships sour quicker than slower.
But you may have the better understanding of it than I.
124 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:19:11pm |
re: #117 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Lighter fluid can do a good job of imitating Napalm. None survived.
/just sayin'
Fire crackers in the fuselage and plastic baggies of gas in the wings of model airplanes and one can reenact the Battle of Britain.
125 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:19:56pm |
126 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:20:00pm |
Hamas insisting all aid money for Gaza go thru them.
127 | quickjustice Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:20:19pm |
re: #17 Occasional Reader
"Aspire"? Have you seen what passes for girls' clothing for the past twenty years? It's hard to find anything modest for your daughter, much less aspire to it!
128 | Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:20:33pm |
re: #124 jcm
Not with my hand-crafted PT107!
129 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:20:46pm |
re: #107 jcm
Wait, wait let me pop some popcorn!
No fight. He owes me $5, that's a phrase only Texans can use.
/
130 | Conservative in Liberal Hands Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:21:01pm |
Night all! Got to get home to cook dinner!
131 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:21:15pm |
re: #125 OldLineTexan
My favorite hat is my yard-mowing boonie I got from the surplus store. It's a real one and it's great. I got the "sand" color so I don't scare the neighbors...
mowing grass is just so....middle class...let it go wild
132 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:21:16pm |
re: #126 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Hamas insisting all aid money for Gaza go thru them.
[Video]
Hamas insisting all aid money for Gaza go thru TO them.
Edited for accuracy.
133 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:21:25pm |
re: #123 Conservative in Liberal Hands
We're taking about some very... maladjusted people here, LT. Ya know, Liberals and Moonbeams... In my experience, their relationships sour quicker than slower.
But you may have the better understanding of it than I.
Nope, I avoid the moonbats in my orb... like my sisters-in-law. I don't understand them one lick.
134 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:21:44pm |
re: #127 quickjustice
"Aspire"? Have you seen what passes for girls' clothing for the past twenty years? It's hard to find anything modest for your daughter, much less aspire to it!
Short of covering them in full blown trash bags
135 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:21:48pm |
re: #127 quickjustice
"Aspire"? Have you seen what passes for girls' clothing for the past twenty years? It's hard to find anything modest for your daughter, much less aspire to it!
Shop in the Boy's Dept. You can get the same pair of jeans without the crap embroidery and sequins for half the price as the Girl's dept.
136 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:13pm |
re: #135 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Shop in the Boy's Dept. You can get the same pair of jeans without the crap embroidery and sequins for half the price as the Girl's dept.
and they'll last longer
137 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:14pm |
re: #129 OldLineTexan
No fight. He owes me $5, that's a phrase only Texans can use.
/
Awwwwww
*puts bowl away*
138 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:33pm |
139 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:41pm |
140 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:41pm |
re: #115 Soona'
Yeah. I guess I had those too. They still got blown up on July fourth.
I thought the damn things were soo cool.I think about it now, the really didn't do anytyhing
141 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:43pm |
re: #127 quickjustice
"Aspire"? Have you seen what passes for girls' clothing for the past twenty years? It's hard to find anything modest for your daughter, much less aspire to it!
We call that look Prosti-tots.
142 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:22:43pm |
re: #117 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Lighter fluid can do a good job of imitating Napalm. None survived.
/just sayin'
Cleaning up the battlefield afterward was always kind of a bitch though. My dad would be running over plastic body parts with the lawnmower all summer.
144 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:23:09pm |
re: #124 jcm
Fire crackers in the fuselage and plastic baggies of gas in the wings of model airplanes and one can reenact the Battle of Britain.
We had a lake across the street from my house (part of a construction project, not a real one). We'd send out models of the Bismarck, Yamato and subs with internal bulkheads built in and then race to see who could sink the enemy ship first using BB guns.
Made for epic battles.
145 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:23:26pm |
re: #131 albusteve
mowing grass is just so....middle class...let it go wild
The weeds do that already, so I have all bases covered. Mostly in poodle droppings in the back, though.
146 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:23:47pm |
re: #124 jcm
Fire crackers in the fuselage and plastic baggies of gas in the wings of model airplanes and one can reenact the Battle of Britain.
Wow. I never thought of that. Cool!
147 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:23:57pm |
re: #138 NYCHardhat
and tomboys make the best women
? I always thought that boys clothing lasted longer and was cheaper than girls clothing. That's not to say that boys don't wear out clothes faster, but that if a girl wore boy jeans they'd probably last longer.
148 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:24:08pm |
re: #133 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Nope, I avoid the moonbats in my orb... like my sisters-in-law. I don't understand them one lick.
That was just soooo close to twisted.
149 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:24:10pm |
re: #138 NYCHardhat
and tomboys make the best women
I'm still trying to figure out how my 5 year old, born and raised in CA, can have a near perfect NC accent when she get excited.
150 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:24:36pm |
re: #125 OldLineTexan
My favorite hat is my yard-mowing boonie I got from the surplus store. It's a real one and it's great. I got the "sand" color so I don't scare the neighbors...
Of course you forgot to mention that except for the hat, you are in the buff, right?
151 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:24:54pm |
re: #140 opnion
I think about it now, the really didn't do anytyhing
Which is why they were cool. Like an empty cardboard box, you did more with it because it did less. Some toys do so much that the kids don't have to imagine at all.
152 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:25:07pm |
re: #147 Hengineer
? I always thought that boys clothing lasted longer and was cheaper than girls clothing. That's not to say that boys don't wear out clothes faster, but that if a girl wore boy jeans they'd probably last longer.
I see the logic.
153 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:25:12pm |
re: #137 jcm
Awwwwww
*puts bowl away*
Sorry, man. I'll malign, mistreat, amd misrepresent someone later, 'k?
154 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:25:21pm |
re: #149 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I'm still trying to figure out how my 5 year old, born and raised in CA, can have a near perfect NC accent when she get excited.
You got me on that.
155 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:25:46pm |
156 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:26:03pm |
re: #148 OldLineTexan
That was just soooo close to twisted.
If you met my sisters-in-law, you'd know just how nasty that reference was... we're talking died in the wool, 1967 hippie moonbat (unreconstructed).
157 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:26:14pm |
re: #152 NYCHardhat
I see the logic.
I know some girls and/or women who would complain about that very phenonemon. Hell my girlfriend right next to me just agreed with me.
158 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:26:17pm |
re: #150 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Of course you forgot to mention that except for the hat, you are in the buff, right?
Oh hell no, I don't hate any of my neighbors that much. Plus, I wear the hat to avoid skull cancer...sure don't want cancer on those OTHER parts.
159 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:26:18pm |
re: #124 jcm
Fire crackers in the fuselage and plastic baggies of gas in the wings of model airplanes and one can reenact the Battle of Britain.
See, now just a week or two ago a female lizard declared that I "needed help" when I mentioned having blown up model airplanes with firecrackers as a lad.
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
160 | quickjustice Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:27:37pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
If you're a male child with adequate levels of testosterone frying your brain, blowing stuff up is cool!
161 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:27:38pm |
re: #155 NYCHardhat
wow
Sorry, it's Friday, I have to go into town at rush hour to get my daughter from drill team practice, and for family reasons I can't keep alcohol at home. I have to let it out somewhere...
162 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:27:39pm |
re: #156 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
sooo...what happened to your brother? Or is this your wife's sister?
163 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:28:11pm |
re: #145 OldLineTexan
The weeds do that already, so I have all bases covered. Mostly in poodle droppings in the back, though.
after about two years the weeds become very nice perennials...jus sayin...up north in MI if my mower couldnt make the turn it didnt get mowed....beautiful
164 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:28:21pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
See, now just a week or two ago a female lizard declared that I "needed help" when I mentioned having blown up model airplanes with firecrackers as a lad.
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
No one was allowed to blow up my Aurora and Airfix WWI classics. No way.
165 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:28:24pm |
re: #151 Silhouette
Which is why they were cool. Like an empty cardboard box, you did more with it because it did less. Some toys do so much that the kids don't have to imagine at all.
Well the boxes had a purpose. You would go to the guy's house that had the highest outdoor stairs, get in the box & have someone push you down the stairs.
I alwys thought that maybe, i would hve gotten further if I didn't do things like that.
166 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:28:29pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
See, now just a week or two ago a female lizard declared that I "needed help" when I mentioned having blown up model airplanes with firecrackers as a lad.
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
QFT, you'd be amazed at the stuff we found was flammable at this boy scout camp I went to and then later worked out.
You know those Glue Spray cans? Those make great flame throwers.
167 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:29:02pm |
re: #163 albusteve
after about two years the weeds become very nice perennials...jus sayin...up north in MI if my mower couldnt make the turn it didnt get mowed....beautiful
Bull nettle must be treated harshly. It is the Code of the Suburbs.
168 | Racer X Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:29:04pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
See, now just a week or two ago a female lizard declared that I "needed help" when I mentioned having blown up model airplanes with firecrackers as a lad.
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
If you still "need help" let me know. I'll help.
;-)
169 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:29:07pm |
re: #166 Hengineer
QFT, you'd be amazed at the stuff we found was flammable at this boy scout camp I went to and then later worked out.
You know those Glue Spray cans? Those make great flame throwers.
Oh and we mixed styrofoam in with gasoline and made makeshift napalm.
170 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:29:14pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
See, now just a week or two ago a female lizard declared that I "needed help" when I mentioned having blown up model airplanes with firecrackers as a lad.
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
Well duh... we wouldn't have built them if we weren't gonna blow them up.
/Important safety tip: when you mount a C Rocket Engine into the ascent stage a Lunar Lander model, remember a) it wasn't made for flight in an atmosphere, b) the CG is just all wrong, and c) get behind something strong, like a brick wall.
Not saying how I found that out.
171 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:29:52pm |
re: #166 Hengineer
QFT, you'd be amazed at the stuff we found was flammable at this boy scout camp I went to and then later worked out.
You know those Glue Spray cans? Those make great flame throwers.
"Fire! Fire!"
-Beavis
172 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:29:58pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
Unless you had brothers who, for instance, filled a coffee can with snails and turned it over on top of a lit cherry bomb, or something like that....
173 | esch Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:30:28pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
Here as a kid in the winter late at night when it got really cold we'd sometimes play 'flameball soccer'. Tennis ball plus cord through it wrapped tight with cloth and soaked in lighter fluid. Whip it at eachother. Tons of fun.
174 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:30:34pm |
re: #170 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Well duh... we wouldn't have built them if we weren't gonna blow them up.
/Important safety tip: when you mount a C Rocket Engine into the ascent stage a Lunar Lander model, remember a) it wasn't made for flight in an atmosphere, b) the CG is just all wrong, and c) get behind something strong, like a brick wall.
Not saying how I found that out.
I can add that C engines and empty vegetable cans with duct tape do NOT a rocket make.
175 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:30:44pm |
re: #162 ArmyWife
sooo...what happened to your brother? Or is this your wife's sister?
Wife's sisters, two of them. One in NYC, the other in Lexington KY.
My brother has his name on the Wall in DC, let's leave him out of it. :-(
176 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:30:56pm |
re: #160 quickjustice
If you're a male child with adequate levels of testosterone frying your brain, blowing stuff up is cool!
No longer a child it's still cool......
177 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:31:01pm |
re: #43 Outrider
same part of the country as you perhaps. Coastal Georgia. But he hasn't run the AC or the heater.
You said it hasnt rained lately, but has he been washing it lately?
178 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:31:04pm |
re: #172 wrenchwench
Unless you had brothers who, for instance, filled a coffee can with snails and turned it over on top of a lit cherry bomb, or something like that....
In modern times, it'd be on youtube.
179 | Wendya Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:31:10pm |
Bratz remind me of big eye art gone bad.... as if it could get any worse.
180 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:31:54pm |
re: #167 OldLineTexan
Bull nettle must be treated harshly. It is the Code of the Suburbs.
I had thistle eight feet tall with flowers as big as small apples....I lived out a bit tho...no commie yard regs to deal with
181 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:31:56pm |
re: #174 OldLineTexan
I can add that C engines and empty vegetable cans with duct tape do NOT a rocket make.
so what'd you use next? ;)
182 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:32:31pm |
re: #179 Wendya
Bratz remind me of big eye art gone bad.... as if it could get any worse.
HA! When I was a kid, our dentist shared a big lobby with three other offices.
His wife painted those big-eye waif things.
There was a pair in the lobby of a little girl riding a trike naked...one front view, one back.
It is seared in my memory, I tell you.
183 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:32:32pm |
re: #168 Racer X
If you still "need help" let me know. I'll help.
;-)
One of our more memorable occasions was when our time-traveling plastic soldiers were forced to use high explosives (including an M80, if memory serves) to take out some attacking plastic dinosaurs.
Mass extinction.
But I think one of our plastic soldiers suffered a pretty bad "friendly fire" wound, if I recall correctly.
184 | BlueCanuck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:32:36pm |
185 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:32:44pm |
re: #164 OldLineTexan
No one was allowed to blow up my Aurora and Airfix WWI classics. No way.
My friends and I used to put the firecrackers in as we built them. We knew what those cheap models were for.
186 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:32:55pm |
re: #161 OldLineTexan
Sorry, it's Friday, I have to go into town at rush hour to get my daughter from drill team practice, and for family reasons I can't keep alcohol at home. I have to let it out somewhere...
no need to apologize
187 | TheOtherCanadian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:33:01pm |
Just a thought: Can we give Nassul, the bloodthirsty bumblebee, a real stinger? If swollen heads are all the rage...I'm just saying....it might save some kids in Gaza some plastic surgery expenses.
188 | OldLineTexan Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:33:02pm |
re: #181 Hengineer
so what'd you use next? ;)
Dad ponied up a couple bucks and bought us a real kit, but there was a price...
189 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:33:16pm |
re: #182 OldLineTexan
HA! When I was a kid, our dentist shared a big lobby with three other offices.
His wife painted those big-eye waif things.
There was a pair in the lobby of a little girl riding a trike naked...one front view, one back.
It is seared in my memory, I tell you.
CHILD PORN!
190 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:33:23pm |
191 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:34:01pm |
re: #183 Occasional Reader
One of our more memorable occasions was when our time-traveling plastic soldiers were forced to use high explosives (including an M80, if memory serves) to take out some attacking plastic dinosaurs.
Mass extinction.
But I think one of our plastic soldiers suffered a pretty bad "friendly fire" wound, if I recall correctly.
M-80s on plastic soldiers?...whoa
192 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:34:12pm |
re: #188 OldLineTexan
Dad ponied up a couple bucks and bought us a real kit, but there was a price...
You know, I never played with rockets, I was too busy wacking weeds with a stick or playing like my house was the fort at the end of Glory with a few friends
193 | quickjustice Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:34:14pm |
re: #176 jcm
Gotta love those testosterone-fried brains! ;-)
195 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:34:50pm |
re: #170 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
196 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:35:09pm |
re: #174 OldLineTexan
I can add that C engines and empty vegetable cans with duct tape do NOT a rocket make.
But a C rocket engine built into a model custom van does.
197 | Racer X Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:35:09pm |
re: #173 esch
That sounds dangerous!
Most fun I ever had:
Bottle rocket wars. You take a bottle rocket (4th of July) and light the fuse. Place into a 2 foot section of 3/4 pvc pipe and aim at your buddy like an RPG. Fun for hours. Goggles might have been a good idea.
198 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:35:33pm |
re: #154 NYCHardhat
You got me on that.
One of the great mysteries, like why does the video of Total Eclipse of the Heart have Ninjas in it.
199 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:35:43pm |
re: #144 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
We had a lake across the street from my house (part of a construction project, not a real one). We'd send out models of the Bismarck, Yamato and subs with internal bulkheads built in and then race to see who could sink the enemy ship first using BB guns.
Made for epic battles.
We did the same thing when I was a kid. Except instead of a lake, it was a rain-filled ditch next to the rail road tracks. And instead of model boats, it was the prolific number of empty bottles left lying around by the hobos. Instead of BB guns, we used rocks.
Okay, maybe that's not the same thing. Still fun, though.
200 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:35:57pm |
re: #191 albusteve
M-80s on plastic soldiers?...whoa
It was for the dinosaurs! You didn't expect our soldiers to go up against dinosaurs with mere firecrackers, did you?!
201 | bulwrk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:36:38pm |
re: #183 Occasional Reader
One of our more memorable occasions was when our time-traveling plastic soldiers were forced to use high explosives (including an M80, if memory serves) to take out some attacking plastic dinosaurs.
Mass extinction.
But I think one of our plastic soldiers suffered a pretty bad "friendly fire" wound, if I recall correctly.
Mine sweeper guy was always the first to go.
202 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:36:45pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
good LORD!...they surrendered?...my wife could dodge bottle rockets easy...
203 | debutaunt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:36:54pm |
re: #48 jcm
My thoughts exactly, plugged AC condensation drain.
Occasional Reader doesn't know what he's talking about.
204 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:37:08pm |
re: #200 Occasional Reader
It was for the dinosaurs! You didn't expect our soldiers to go up against dinosaurs with mere firecrackers, did you?!
nuke the fuckers....
205 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:37:21pm |
re: #175 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
I knew that, and he would be forgiven of anything. I've made some calls about the memorial. But we don't need to talk about that.
206 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:37:26pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
LOL, that's so cute.
it's who men are, really.
little boys, after they've done wrong.
207 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:37:35pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
It's always rewarding to see if you can assemble enough firecrackers to build something in the 5 to 10 megaton range...
even when you are in your 40s...
...even more so when you are drunk.
208 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:37:37pm |
re: #202 albusteve
good LORD!...they surrendered?...my wife could dodge bottle rockets easy...
I think one of them was hoping to get lucky maybe?
209 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:38:17pm |
re: #198 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
One of the great mysteries, like why does the video of Total Eclipse of the Heart have Ninjas in it.
LMAO!
210 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:38:22pm |
Better off Without a Wife
211 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:38:26pm |
re: #207 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
It's always rewarding to see if you can assemble enough firecrackers to build something in the 5 to 10 megaton range...
even when you are in your 40s...
...even more so when you are drunk.
Famous last words:
"Hey guys Check this shit out!"
212 | RubyTuesday Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:38:37pm |
re: #193 quickjustice
Ya gotta love boys - I married one, had two. Fell in love with one with one. Even though I divorced one and wanted to kill one, I never lost my faith in them in general. They're all boys in the dugout with rally caps on. How can you not love that?
213 | brookly red Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:38:50pm |
Awwwww, I used to have a pit bull & as a puppy her head was sooo big she could hardly walk... and then she grew up. nuff said
214 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:38:50pm |
re: #160 quickjustice
If you're a male child with adequate levels of testosterone frying your brain, blowing stuff up is cool!
A male child? (checks age on drivers licence)
215 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:39:18pm |
re: #208 Hengineer
I think one of them was hoping to get lucky maybe?
sex is over rated...now a good explosives buzz is a special kinda thing bro...imo
216 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:39:21pm |
When I was 6, for fourth of July, my Dad and his friends decided to see what $200 (1970's dollars) worth of fireworks would look like in a webber kettle.
Mom was pissed.
217 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:39:26pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
Reminds me of my brothers.
218 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:39:39pm |
re: #201 bulwrk
Mine sweeper guy was always the first to go.
I always killed the guy with the rifle over his head first.
He looked like he was surrendering and we'd have none of that in my army.
219 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:39:44pm |
re: #201 bulwrk
Mine sweeper guy was always the first to go.
Ah, you had the same soldiers, I see.
What I couldn't figure out; most of the infantrymen were equipped with M-16s. And then there are some guys sprinkled in there with BREN guns. What the heck army was this, anyway?
220 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:39:58pm |
I think that as a kid we were not a bunch of intellectuals.
For a good time we would peddle bikes over to the toboggan slides in the summer. The deal was to ride you bike down the slide. It was pretty much even money that your front wheel would hit the side & you would fly over the handle bars. Good times!
221 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:40:07pm |
re: #215 albusteve
sex is over rated...now a good explosives buzz is a special kinda thing bro...imo
Especially when coupled with a beer buzz
222 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:40:38pm |
re: #202 albusteve
You've never been up against my sister. We are quite matriarchal, my Aunt handed the torch squarely to my sister. Her answer is the final one. Always.
223 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:40:52pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
Why would she use her "teacher" voice? Wouldn't that be reserved for childish behavior?
224 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:41:05pm |
re: #220 opnion
I think that as a kid we were not a bunch of intellectuals.
For a good time we would peddle bikes over to the toboggan slides in the summer. The deal was to ride you bike down the slide. It was pretty much even money that your front wheel would hit the side & you would fly over the handle bars. Good times!
I always loved doing dangerous insane stunts! Childhood was the best.
225 | esch Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:41:06pm |
re: #197 Racer X
That wasn't really because it was so cold/snowy.
226 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:41:25pm |
re: #223 jwb7605
Why would she use her "teacher" voice? Wouldn't that be reserved for childish behavior?
Define childish behavior
227 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:41:37pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
LOL That is great..When Jordan got back from Iraq we had a big party planned for Saturday night in Oceanside for him and first platoon..Alot of parents had flown in from texas and Michigan ect.. When the boys went down to the bar a block away after dinner for just one beer.. and it was like 9pm when Mama started getting pissed cause she kept calling on his cell..hey everybody is here..
Finally she called him and said this..Look! In 5 minutes I WILL BE IN THAT BAR AND DRAG YOU OUT OF THERE BY YOUR EAR IN FRONT OF YOUR BIG TOUGH MARINE BUDDIES AND IN FRONT OF ALL THOSE BITCHES! 5 MINUTES! whisper..I will be there...
He was back in about 3 minutes..
228 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:41:56pm |
re: #216 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
When I was 6, for fourth of July, my Dad and his friends decided to see what $200 (1970's dollars) worth of fireworks would look like in a webber kettle.
Mom was pissed.
Well, what did it look like? I don't want to have to do it myself to find out...
230 | Hengineer Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:42:56pm |
re: #229 jwb7605
Here, hold my beer first ...
No, its childish when you hold onto your beer. Men never spill their beers.
231 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:42:58pm |
re: #222 ArmyWife
You've never been up against my sister. We are quite matriarchal, my Aunt handed the torch squarely to my sister. Her answer is the final one. Always.
I lived in MI and when me and my buddies got lose she would often flee for IN....safer down there for a day or two....she liked to call it antique shopping...
232 | bulwrk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:43:31pm |
re: #219 Occasional Reader
Some lost Brit who hooks up with an American patrol I guess.
233 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:43:37pm |
re: #228 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Well, what did it look like? I don't want to have to do it myself to find out...
Really impressive for about 20-30 seconds. Mom was about to bring out the burgers to cook on our new grill, so she wasn't quite as impressed with the whole thing.
234 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:44:19pm |
re: #224 NYCHardhat
I always loved doing dangerous insane stunts! Childhood was the best.
Ya knew that you were going to do something nuts when of of you said "Don't tell anybiody." You are right, being a kid was the best.
235 | BlueCanuck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:44:32pm |
re: #232 bulwrk
I was thinking maybe Canadian soldiers attached to them for a spell.
236 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:44:33pm |
237 | quickjustice Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:44:36pm |
re: #214 Soona'
The plastic soldiers I remember all were WWII vintage, but flamethrower guy-- whew! In the old days, they made aerosol cans with flammable gas. You could cut a screen door fast with one of those!
238 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:44:56pm |
re: #134 Hengineer
Short of covering them in full blown trash bags
already been done. they call them burkas
239 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:45:02pm |
re: #220 opnion
I think that as a kid we were not a bunch of intellectuals.
For a good time we would peddle bikes over to the toboggan slides in the summer. The deal was to ride you bike down the slide. It was pretty much even money that your front wheel would hit the side & you would fly over the handle bars. Good times!
I did that, the slide was on the side of a plateau, it had a road leading up to on the top. You could get a really good head of steam up, the jump out over the the toboggan run and see how far down the hill you touched down. I came blazing down the road one down day, got a magnificent jump looked down the run to spot my landing..... saw a new ditch had been dug across the run at the bottom of the hill.
I had some time to think about how much pain I was going to be in very soon.
240 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:45:20pm |
re: #233 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Really impressive for about 20-30 seconds. Mom was about to bring out the burgers to cook on our new grill, so she wasn't quite as impressed with the whole thing.
NEW? They killed a NEW Weber? Before the burgers were done? They have no shame?
241 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:45:21pm |
re: #216 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
When I was 6, for fourth of July, my Dad and his friends decided to see what $200 (1970's dollars) worth of fireworks would look like in a webber kettle.
Mom was pissed.
how far did the lid fly?
242 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:46:12pm |
re: #239 jcm
I did that, the slide was on the side of a plateau, it had a road leading up to on the top. You could get a really good head of steam up, the jump out over the the toboggan run and see how far down the hill you touched down. I came blazing down the road one down day, got a magnificent jump looked down the run to spot my landing..... saw a new ditch had been dug across the run at the bottom of the hill.
I had some time to think about how much pain I was going to be in very soon.
I don't think they build kids like this anymore. Sad.
243 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:46:21pm |
re: #241 Outrider
how far did the lid fly?
Left it open. They had the fireworks piled high and couldn't get the lid to close.
245 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:46:29pm |
re: #233 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Really impressive for about 20-30 seconds. Mom was about to bring out the burgers to cook on our new grill, so she wasn't quite as impressed with the whole thing.
4 and 6 in fireworks are nothing to fuck around with...that's the caliber we had tubes for...big ass mfks....shoot one off in a grill would blow down half a house!
246 | reloadingisnotahobby Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:46:38pm |
re: #233 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
What the hell were you thinking!?
BEFORE THE THE BURGERS WERE COOKED?
that's just ....crazy!
LOL
247 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:46:39pm |
248 | Occasional Reader Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:46:39pm |
Reading a thread, it's kind of a miracle we're all still here, and with enough fingers to type...
Later.
249 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:47:42pm |
re: #239 jcm
I did that, the slide was on the side of a plateau, it had a road leading up to on the top. You could get a really good head of steam up, the jump out over the the toboggan run and see how far down the hill you touched down. I came blazing down the road one down day, got a magnificent jump looked down the run to spot my landing..... saw a new ditch had been dug across the run at the bottom of the hill.
I had some time to think about how much pain I was going to be in very soon.
Great, great story! Ok, so you were probably in traction for a while, but you had your cred. Your parents probably took a dim view, but how do you please everybody?
250 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:47:48pm |
re: #220 opnion
I think that as a kid we were not a bunch of intellectuals.
For a good time we would peddle bikes over to the toboggan slides in the summer. The deal was to ride you bike down the slide. It was pretty much even money that your front wheel would hit the side & you would fly over the handle bars. Good times!
we had a community building with a long sloped roof. We would haul our bikes to the peak of the roof and ride them down trying for distance when hitting the lake.
251 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:48:00pm |
re: #248 Occasional Reader
Reading a thread, it's kind of a miracle we're all still here, and with enough fingers to type...
Later.
I have to type with my toes. :(
/s
252 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:48:36pm |
re: #245 albusteve
4 and 6 in fireworks are nothing to fuck around with...that's the caliber we had tubes for...big ass mfks....shoot one off in a grill would blow down half a house!
These were mostly cones, picholo petes, ground flowers and sparklers. No rockets or roman candles.
253 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:48:58pm |
re: #243 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Left it open. They had the fireworks piled high and couldn't get the lid to close.
wow! them webbers can hold a lot of stuff too. we piled one with logs one time and made an outdoor fireplace. it didn't hold up real well.
254 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:48:58pm |
re: #31 Outrider
neighbor boy has a Mitsubishi Lancer that has a problem throwing me for a loop.
He has water on the floorboards and has had for months. There is zero loss from the radiator and it doesn't smell of coolant anyway. He hasn't run the heater. And it hasn't rained here in quite awhile.
I thought he was talking damp. Water actually pools when you step on the carpet. Any ideas?
Air conditioner drain is stopped up. Condensation is running back into the passenger compartment.
255 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:49:03pm |
re: #248 Occasional Reader
Reading a thread, it's kind of a miracle we're all still here, and with enough fingers to type...
Later.
And only a few with lawn darts still sticking out of our heads.
256 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:49:12pm |
re: #251 DEZes
I have to type with my toes. :(
/s
I wish I had toes. I have to type with my nose.
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257 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:49:26pm |
re: #239 jcm
I did that, the slide was on the side of a plateau, it had a road leading up to on the top. You could get a really good head of steam up, the jump out over the the toboggan run and see how far down the hill you touched down. I came blazing down the road one down day, got a magnificent jump looked down the run to spot my landing..... saw a new ditch had been dug across the run at the bottom of the hill.
I had some time to think about how much pain I was going to be in very soon.
I'll bet you didn't have to wear a stupid helmet either. I never did when I was a kid. The helmets people wear today here in California just make me laugh........
258 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:49:41pm |
Pal of mine and I spent an entire Indiana winter building the Japanese navy with Revel model kits. All carefully constructed and properly painted. In the spring we took our fleet down to the creek and set each one on fire before launching and then shooting bb guns and throwing firecrackers at them. Five minutes of glorious fun, and then they all melted and sank. Sort of a compressed battle of the Coral Sea.
What the hell were we thinking?
259 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:50:08pm |
re: #230 Hengineer
No, its childish when you hold onto your beer. Men never spill their beers.
15 years ago the police brought my son home, and told me he almost started a fire in the alley behind the grocery store with a friend, but they got it put out in time.
They told me he wasn't playing with matches, but him and his friend were using a flint and steel to set pieces of cardboard on fire. They told me the two really seemed to know what they were doing, and wanted to know where the heck he got those skills.
I was Scoutmaster at the time, and our troop prided itself on backpacking and outdoor survival skills ...
Son is now a Staff Sergeant in the USMC. My grandson likes to blow up his sister's doll house with pretend explosives.
260 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:50:24pm |
re: #256 Hard Right
I wish I had toes. I have to type with my nose.
////
remind me snot to use your keyboard. ;)
261 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:50:37pm |
Well it may be the end of the world as we know it..
I just heard Bobby Knight on ESPN and I agreed with every single thing he said...If I don't post again tonight It's because I'm in ER. Wish me luck..:)
262 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:50:51pm |
re: #255 CyanSnowHawk
And only a few with lawn darts still sticking out of our heads.
I used to throw them straight up in the air directly over me, and wait until the last second to move out of the way.
That even makes me shake my head.
263 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:51:14pm |
re: #256 Hard Right
I wish I had toes. I have to type with my nose.
////
I wish I had a nose. I have to type with my.....er......never mind
264 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:51:20pm |
re: #255 CyanSnowHawk
And only a few with lawn darts still sticking out of our heads.
Lawn Darts... ah... I recall games of that extending over 100 yards, man, you could make those things go... it always felt wrong to go in when it was too dark to see.
265 | MacGiolaPhadraig Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:51:21pm |
I'm surprised an by of us us in the neighborhood has fingers left. We'd light cherry bombs and hold until the fuse got short before throwing them up in the air or have roman candle fights, holding them like bazookas. 1950s were good.
266 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:51:28pm |
re: #250 Outrider
we had a community building with a long sloped roof. We would haul our bikes to the peak of the roof and ride them down trying for distance when hitting the lake.
Beautiful story my friend. See this is why the terrorists will neverbeat us.
267 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:51:53pm |
268 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:51:57pm |
re: #257 LGoPs
I'll bet you didn't have to wear a stupid helmet either. I never did when I was a kid. The helmets people wear today here in California just make me laugh........
The absolute funniest line in the new movie Bedtime Stories, Sandler is looking for a book to read to the children of his LLL sister, and can only find The Alligator that Saves the Wetland and The Organic Squirrel Gets A Bike Helmet.
269 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:52:09pm |
re: #237 quickjustice
The plastic soldiers I remember all were WWII vintage, but flamethrower guy-- whew! In the old days, they made aerosol cans with flammable gas. You could cut a screen door fast with one of those!
Testor's glue. Not for the high, but I remember the smell from the times my dad put together his aircraft models. (His models were never blown up)
270 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:52:35pm |
re: #263 LGoPs
I wish I had a nose. I have to type with my.....er......never mind
Let me guess, you can't type when you're cold? :)
271 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:53:25pm |
re: #254 razorbacker
Air conditioner drain is stopped up. Condensation is running back into the passenger compartment.
although the ac isn't running right now, the defroster is. That is the angle we are looking at right now. thanks.
272 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:53:31pm |
re: #257 LGoPs
I'll bet you didn't have to wear a stupid helmet either. I never did when I was a kid. The helmets people wear today here in California just make me laugh........
Helmet? Hell no....
Kinda wish I had had a cup though.
273 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:53:35pm |
274 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:53:40pm |
re: #214 Soona'
A male child? (checks age on drivers licence)
Is that why my husband built a potato gun that looks like it needs to be mounted on the side of the USS Missouri?
275 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:53:42pm |
re: #258 The Shadow Do
Pal of mine and I spent an entire Indiana winter building the Japanese navy with Revel model kits. All carefully constructed and properly painted. In the spring we took our fleet down to the creek and set each one on fire before launching and then shooting bb guns and throwing firecrackers at them. Five minutes of glorious fun, and then they all melted and sank. Sort of a compressed battle of the Coral Sea.
What the hell were we thinking?
Ways to make next year's boats more damage resistant?
276 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:53:49pm |
re: #269 Soona'
Testor's glue. Not for the high, but I remember the smell from the times my dad put together his aircraft models. (His models were never blown up)
Do you remember the lemon scented model glue?
277 | opnion Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:54:24pm |
re: #261 HoosierHoops
Well it may be the end of the world as we know it..
I just heard Bobby Knight on ESPN and I agreed with every single thing he said...If I don't post again tonight It's because I'm in ER. Wish me luck..:)
That is disturbing. Sit down, have a drink & call the emergency hot line. They'll talk you down.
278 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:54:34pm |
279 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:54:45pm |
I think the doll that gives girls the biggest unrealistic expectation is President Barbie.
280 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:54:45pm |
re: #57 davinvalkri
Why exactly? Is there something here I'm missing?
Your wallet if you aren't more attentive. ;)
281 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:54:46pm |
re: #270 Hard Right
Let me guess, you can't type when you're cold? :)
All right. I'll be candid. I have to type with my pen.......
wait for it.........
cil......
282 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:54:57pm |
re: #269 Soona'
Testor's glue. Not for the high, but I remember the smell from the times my dad put together his aircraft models. (His models were never blown up)
Remember when they took away the Red tube Testors (because of the glue sniffers) and made us buy that Green tube crap?
Couldn't glue anything worth a damn and melted the plastic.
/government idiocy taught at a young age...
283 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:01pm |
re: #252 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
These were mostly cones, picholo petes, ground flowers and sparklers. No rockets or roman candles.
I lived on a lake...a big one...we took an old 18ft floatboat and made a barge out of it to shoot our stuff....my friends were all rich kids mind you...we would shoot 3 or 4k $ in big stuff off every year...folks would come for miles to watch it...literally hundreds of boats out there...we were famous back then...good times....Gull Lake, Kalamazoo county....
284 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:09pm |
re: #272 jcm
Helmet? Hell no....
Kinda wish I had had a cup though.
Plus 1,000,000,000 on that. My sperm are cross-eyed and swim in circles. Damned slippery banana seat...
285 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:10pm |
re: #266 opnion
Beautiful story my friend. See this is why the terrorists will neverbeat us.
kids today are pampered wusses. lol
286 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:11pm |
287 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:15pm |
re: #274 monkeytime
Is that why my husband built a potato gun that looks like it needs to be mounted on the side of the USS Missouri?
Taking delivery of ammo for my potato gun.......
288 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:32pm |
re: #276 CyanSnowHawk
Do you remember the lemon scented model glue?
I used that glue to melt GI Joe faces off. Yes, I was a nutbar.
289 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:45pm |
re: #258 The Shadow Do
Pal of mine and I spent an entire Indiana winter building the Japanese navy with Revel model kits. All carefully constructed and properly painted. In the spring we took our fleet down to the creek and set each one on fire before launching and then shooting bb guns and throwing firecrackers at them. Five minutes of glorious fun, and then they all melted and sank. Sort of a compressed battle of the Coral Sea.
What the hell were we thinking?
Shit. You won!
290 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:55:51pm |
re: #279 Sharmuta
I think the doll that gives girls the biggest unrealistic expectation is President Barbie.
Is that the one that says, "Foreign Policy is hard."
291 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:56:06pm |
re: #258 The Shadow Do
Pal of mine and I spent an entire Indiana winter building the Japanese navy with Revel model kits. All carefully constructed and properly painted. In the spring we took our fleet down to the creek and set each one on fire before launching and then shooting bb guns and throwing firecrackers at them. Five minutes of glorious fun, and then they all melted and sank. Sort of a compressed battle of the Coral Sea.
What the hell were we thinking?
Indiana Winters? what's that? AKKK!
great story
292 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:56:10pm |
re: #286 CyanSnowHawk
For some reason it wasn't available for very long.
I think the developers were sniffing glue.
293 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:56:17pm |
re: #272 jcm
Helmet? Hell no....
Kinda wish I had had a cup though.
Watching bike riders around here you'd think they were freakin' combat infantrymen or something. Jeeeez Loooeeze, you're just riding a bike, not jumping into Normandy with the 82nd.........
Sheesh.
294 | nikis-knight Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:56:18pm |
re: #82 OldLineTexan
I and all my Joe collector friends salute you.
And I will skip the usual dirty joke.
But I have turned out like my Joe...cracks in the knees and some of my hair rubbed off...
Could be worse. You could have collected the 80's GIJoes and be missing both thumbs.
295 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:56:22pm |
re: #271 Outrider
although the ac isn't running right now, the defroster is. That is the angle we are looking at right now. thanks.
Yeah, I get bored reading from the top. Shoulda know others would have known that too.
Good luck unstopping it. And, drying out that carpet without that 'smell' lingering, good luck with that, too.
Nice thing about the convertible, you just leave the top down all the time, it'll dry, eventually.
296 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:56:45pm |
re: #279 Sharmuta
I think the doll that gives girls the biggest unrealistic expectation is President Barbie.
With all due respect Sharm, I think we will see a woman POTUS.
297 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:57:06pm |
re: #290 CyanSnowHawk
Is that the one that says, "Foreign Policy is hard."
No- that's the one that everyone thinks faked her pregnancy to cover up for Skipper.
298 | debutaunt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:57:13pm |
re: #195 ArmyWife
My husband, my brother and my brother in law never out grew this. 2 years ago on vacation in the Outer Banks, they were on the upstairs deck lighting off bottle rockets and other assorted fireworks. While drinking tequila . You can see this going bad, right? So they strap a bunch of who knows what together to make a "Megacracker" (which apparently was hysterically funny in it's own right), light the thing pointing upside down, and BOOM! The whole house shakes and the deck shook so much, their glasses fell off the table. My sister (all 110 pounds of her) marches out there and with her stern teacher voice says "THAT IS ENOUGH! IT IS TIME FOR BED". All three of them hung their head, said "ok" and marched to bed.
hahahahahahahahahahahahhahaaa
299 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:57:22pm |
300 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:57:26pm |
re: #296 NYCHardhat
With all due respect Sharm, I think we will see a woman POTUS.
We won't live to see it.
301 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:57:47pm |
re: #261 HoosierHoops
Well it may be the end of the world as we know it..
I just heard Bobby Knight on ESPN and I agreed with every single thing he said...If I don't post again tonight It's because I'm in ER. Wish me luck..:)
Bobby Knight is always right, dammit!
/Hoosier expat here
302 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:58:33pm |
re: #293 LGoPs
Watching bike riders around here you'd think they were freakin' combat infantrymen or something. Jeeeez Loooeeze, you're just riding a bike, not jumping into Normandy with the 82nd.........
Sheesh.
Can't let the little ones fall down and skin their knee... afterall, 1 out of 200,000 might do a double somersault and land on the curb killing themselves.
303 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:58:43pm |
304 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:59:21pm |
305 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:59:52pm |
306 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 3:59:53pm |
re: #287 jcm
Taking delivery of ammo for my potato gun.......
LOL! I can't show him that picture or he will be drafting plans for his new gun and my back land will be potato salad.
307 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:00:00pm |
re: #304 NYCHardhat
After this last election, what makes you think a woman is electable?
308 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:00:40pm |
re: #277 opnion
That is disturbing. Sit down, have a drink & call the emergency hot line. They'll talk you down.
I can never remember the number..711..no wait that's the store..411 no wait..that is information..811? Crap...
/
309 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:00:42pm |
re: #306 monkeytime
LOL! I can't show him that picture or he will be drafting plans for his new gun and my back land will be potato salad.
I hope he hasn't seen pumpkin chunking. You'll lose him forever.
310 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:00:49pm |
re: #279 Sharmuta
I think the doll that gives girls the biggest unrealistic expectation is President Barbie.
'24' has a woman President this season. Will be curious to see how she is depicted in the long run.
We will have a woman President eventually and I just pray that she will be Palin or someone like her.
311 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:00:53pm |
re: #296 NYCHardhat
With all due respect Sharm, I think we will see a woman POTUS.
Yeah, WAB, divine right of accession.
//////
312 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:01:06pm |
re: #307 Sharmuta
After this last election, what makes you think a woman is electable?
or even a mere conservative?....big time fuckola
314 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:01:31pm |
re: #307 Sharmuta
After this last election, what makes you think a woman is electable?
Because when all is said and done, she will have a clear message to the people of this country and she won't be going up against a pop culture icon.
315 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:01:35pm |
re: #308 HoosierHoops
I can never remember the number..711..no wait that's the store..411 no wait..that is information..811? Crap...
/
The real number is 912. The other number is for the common folks. ;)
316 | goddessoftheclassroom Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:01:42pm |
re: #310 rightymouse
'24' has a woman President this season. Will be curious to see how she is depicted in the long run.
We will have a woman President eventually and I just pray that she will be Palin or someone like her.
I too hope it's Gov. Palin or someone else as down-to-earth and genuine as she.
317 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:02:16pm |
318 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:02:44pm |
re: #307 Sharmuta
After this last election, what makes you think a woman is electable?
Their ability to learn the OODA loop. My best example is marriage, as demonstrated in ArmyWife's post.
319 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:02:55pm |
re: #314 NYCHardhat
Because when all is said and done, she will have a clear message to the people of this country and she won't be going up against a pop culture icon.
who are you talking about?
320 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:03:27pm |
Misogyny is still rampant in this country- I don't see how a woman is electable to the highest office in the land facing it.
321 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:03:33pm |
322 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:03:34pm |
re: #316 goddessoftheclassroom
I too hope it's Gov. Palin or someone else as down-to-earth and genuine as she.
That's what I love the most about her. She lacks all the D.C. cynical pretense. And she has a solid conservative spine.
323 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:03:39pm |
re: #303 Hard Right
It smelled sooooo niiice. What? Were we talking about something?
Just surprised at such an asinine idea.
324 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:03:42pm |
re: #296 NYCHardhat
With all due respect Sharm, I think we will see a woman POTUS.
What do you mean? Oh, you probably mean one with boobs and a vagina. Yeah, probably. Someday. I figured Hillary had the best shot, but after Obama I betcha bout anybody will look good, comparatively speaking.
325 | freetoken Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:03:43pm |
re: #307 Sharmuta
After this last election, what makes you think a woman is electable?
Please don't be too dour... it will come to pass someday. Although I must admit, right now I don't see anyone obvious who will fill the bill.
326 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:04:04pm |
328 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:04:29pm |
Update on the pending reinstatement of antisemitic catholic order.....
Jews outraged by Holocaust-denying bishop
Two Italian newspapers reported Thursday that Pope Benedict XVI planned to lift the excommunication of Richard Williamson and three other bishops punished for having been consecrated without papal consent 20 years ago by the late French conservative Archbishop Marcel Lefevbre.
...
Williamson made his comments in an interview with Swedish state TV while in Germany in November; the broadcast was aired Wednesday night.He said the Nazis did not use gas chambers.
"I believe that the historical evidence ... is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler," he said.
He cited what he called the "most serious" revisionists who he said had concluded that "between 200,000-300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber."
Vatican officials declined Friday to comment on his remarks.
329 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:04:50pm |
re: #320 Sharmuta
Misogyny is still rampant in this country- I don't see how a woman is electable to the highest office in the land facing it.
This is true. But are you going to overcome it? A woman of your intelligence would certainly be able to. IMHO.
330 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:07pm |
re: #320 Sharmuta
Misogyny is still rampant in this country- I don't see how a woman is electable to the highest office in the land facing it.
So was racism, and yet that was overcome. The only problem was two protected minorities fought it out in the last election. One had to lose.
331 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:10pm |
332 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:14pm |
re: #329 NYCHardhat
This is true. But are you going to overcome it? A woman of your intelligence would certainly be able to. IMHO.
I am not electable.
333 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:24pm |
re: #320 Sharmuta
Racism is still alive and well and Obama still got in. It can happen.
334 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:28pm |
re: #311 jcm
Yeah, WAB, divine right of accession.
//////
I think we saw how well that worked for Hildebeast.
335 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:37pm |
re: #303 Hard Right
It smelled sooooo niiice. What? Were we talking about something?
Did your unicorn fart?
336 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:57pm |
re: #323 Soona'
Just surprised at such an asinine idea.
Lemon scented model glue. It smelled soooooo niiiiice. Huh? What am I doing here? Who are all these people? ////
I do remember it. I guess they figured it would be a less offensive smell than the usual.
337 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:59pm |
re: #327 jwb7605
Sarah Palin, I think. See my #318.
not gonna happen...forget Sarah....they will have her in a straight jacket by then...the MSM has to okay any candidate first...
338 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:05:59pm |
re: #329 NYCHardhat
This is true. But are you going to overcome it? A woman of your intelligence would certainly be able to. IMHO.
Nor do I want the job.
339 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:06:29pm |
re: #320 Sharmuta
Misogyny is still rampant in this country- I don't see how a woman is electable to the highest office in the land facing it.
Misogyny is mostly a lefty trait against a conservative female. And that includes the feminists who showed their true colors this past election cycle. I was furious with them and their blatant hypocrisy.
340 | Mardukhai Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:06:32pm |
When I was a kid playing baseball, my outfielder's mitt gave me unrealistic hand expectations.
Here's a really unrealistic girl's doll:
Pick-Up-The-Check Barbie -- She walks, she talks (but not too much), she opens doors, and takes Ken out for dinner!
341 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:06:34pm |
re: #320 Sharmuta
Misogyny is still rampant in this country- I don't see how a woman is electable to the highest office in the land facing it.
Those most violently opposed to Sarah Palin were, in my experience, women.
NOT men.
By violently, I mean frothing-at-the-mouth moonbat rage.
343 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:06:54pm |
re: #332 Sharmuta
I am not electable.
I would hope you aren't the only woman out there with an elevated Intelligence Quotient. Obstacles are meant to be hurdled. Walls are meant to be knocked down.
344 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:07:10pm |
re: #335 monkeytime
Did your unicorn fart?
Yeah man, but instead of gas, cotton candy came out. Far out man.
///
346 | 3 wood Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:07:12pm |
HuffPo has a thread on the missile strike in Pakistan today.
Some folks are having fun with the moonbats, doing the "Obama lied, people died" routine.
I think our own Killgore Trout is having fun with the moonbats.
Now, all of a sudden, these moonbats don't want use diplomacy, they like launching missiles.
I love this one:
DrPearl
War Crimes!
Treason!
Obama Lied! People Died!
IMPEACH!
:::::uhh...nevermind:::::
Reply Posted 06:38 PM on 01/23/2009
347 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:07:18pm |
re: #277 opnion
That is disturbing. Sit down, have a drink & call the emergency hot line. They'll talk you down.
Just be careful if you get routed to Pakistan. If they think you're suicidal, they'll ask if you can drive a truck.........
/
348 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:07:18pm |
349 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:07:38pm |
re: #341 jwb7605
Those most violently opposed to Sarah Palin were, in my experience, women.
NOT men.
By violently, I mean frothing-at-the-mouth moonbat rage.
Don't mistake my pointing out misogyny to mean that it stems only from men.
350 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:08:40pm |
re: #344 Hard Right
Yeah man, but instead of gas, cotton candy came out. Far out man.
///
I've been getting Skittles.....
351 | 3 wood Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:08:42pm |
re: #328 Killgore Trout
Hey Killgore, you been slapping around the twits over at HuffPo today?
352 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:08:45pm |
re: #341 jwb7605
Those most violently opposed to Sarah Palin were, in my experience, women.
NOT men.
By violently, I mean frothing-at-the-mouth moonbat rage.
And the PUMAs sure didn't act according to principle when they by and large voted for Obama and party.
353 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:09:09pm |
re: #301 The Shadow Do
Bobby Knight is always right, dammit!
/Hoosier expat here
He is old school..But I'm a California Native and I used to mail Bobby Quotes every day to CWNevius to just to rile him up..He ran scathing articles about him in the green section..I am a big anti Bobby fan..I played ball in College..If a coach chokes my boy we have big issues..It's out of line..
Look at Coach K..Have you ever seen a tape of a Duke practice? It is truly brutal...Yet he maintains the respect of the player..the school and the parents..
Coach K is one hell of a mean get down old school coach..And I'd trust my kid with him any day of the week
354 | Wendya Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:09:20pm |
re: #300 Sharmuta
We won't live to see it.
I don't give a shit about having a woman elected President, I'd be happy if they just stopped voting for a substitute husband or daddy.
355 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:09:35pm |
re: #333 Killgore Trout
Racism is still alive and well and Obama still got in. It can happen.
There's a certain John Lennon song that springs to mind. I cannot name it- the verbiage isn't allowed. But I believe he was correct.
356 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:09:45pm |
357 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:06pm |
re: #344 Hard Right
Yeah man, but instead of gas, cotton candy came out. Far out man.
///
Dont eat t5hat. ;}
358 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:08pm |
359 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:24pm |
re: #349 Sharmuta
Don't mistake my pointing out misogyny to mean that it stems only from men.
Lefty feminists that feel betrayed can be exactly as Rush Limbaugh describes them.
360 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:24pm |
re: #355 Sharmuta
There's a certain John Lennon song that springs to mind. I cannot name it- the verbiage isn't allowed. But I believe he was correct.
We make her paint her face and dance...
That one?
361 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:25pm |
re: #341 jwb7605
Those most violently opposed to Sarah Palin were, in my experience, women.
NOT men.
By violently, I mean frothing-at-the-mouth moonbat rage.
Yeah, nuthin' like female solidarity......
Only exists if you're a libtard.......
*Spit*
362 | Mardukhai Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:25pm |
re: #345 monkeytime
Thank you for your "lol"! But, alas, Pick-Up-The-Check Barbie will never sell.
363 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:28pm |
re: #354 Wendya
I don't give a shit about having a woman elected President, I'd be happy if they just stopped voting for a substitute husband or daddy.
Touché!
364 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:41pm |
re: #328 Killgore Trout
Update on the pending reinstatement of antisemitic catholic order.....
Jews outraged by Holocaust-denying bishop
Many Catholics are outraged as well.
I cannot figure out what this Pope is thinking.
365 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:43pm |
re: #346 3 wood
It's not me. I checked earlier today over at Dkos and they were ignoring it.
367 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:53pm |
368 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:10:53pm |
re: #355 Sharmuta
There's a certain John Lennon song that springs to mind. I cannot name it- the verbiage isn't allowed. But I believe he was correct.
Your cynicism is upsetting. But to each his/her own. I would win if we were to bet though. ;)
370 | debutaunt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:11:16pm |
re: #264 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Lawn Darts... ah... I recall games of that extending over 100 yards, man, you could make those things go... it always felt wrong to go in when it was too dark to see.
To Jart.
To be Jarted.
371 | Mardukhai Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:11:22pm |
re: #352 FurryOldGuyJeans
I'm a PUMA, and I didn't vote for Obama!
372 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:11:27pm |
373 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:11:29pm |
re: #316 goddessoftheclassroom
I too hope it's Gov. Palin or someone else as down-to-earth and genuine as she.
I too think she is a gem. She will need to work her way up the ranks to become truly viable however, unlike some other Presidential candidates.
374 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:11:32pm |
re: #355 Sharmuta
There's a certain John Lennon song that springs to mind. I cannot name it- the verbiage isn't allowed. But I believe he was correct.
Sharm, just remember it is hard to compete when one is good woman going up against a media created idol and messiah.
376 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:12:02pm |
re: #337 albusteve
not gonna happen...forget Sarah....they will have her in a straight jacket by then...the MSM has to okay any candidate first...
I'm probably going to be proved wrong, but I think by the time people catch on to what a zero the zero is, he'll be taking the MSM, as it exists now, down with him.
377 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:12:07pm |
re: #362 Mardukhai
Thank you for your "lol"! But, alas, Pick-Up-The-Check Barbie will never sell.
Yea, it will sit on the store shelf next to Scrub The Toilet Ken.
378 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:12:32pm |
379 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:12:35pm |
re: #349 Sharmuta
Don't mistake my pointing out misogyny to mean that it stems only from men.
My observations were that the men who opposed her didn't take her seriously, but the women absolutely hated her.
mi⋅sog⋅y⋅ny
–noun
hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.
None of the men I know (Obama supporters) had any of the above.
380 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:13:06pm |
re: #364 reine.de.tout
I figure there's some political reason for him wanting to do this. Maybe he owes a favor or something like that. There's also a really awful antisemitic bishop in Poland who has a radio station. The Church refuses to ditch him.
381 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:13:30pm |
re: #369 DEZes
Heh, that one caught me by surprise too.
382 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:13:35pm |
re: #368 NYCHardhat
Your cynicism is upsetting.
It should be, because I'm pointing out a much deeper problem.
385 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:14:36pm |
re: #354 Wendya
I don't give a shit about having a woman elected President, I'd be happy if they just stopped voting for a substitute husband or daddy.
Good one!
386 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:14:47pm |
387 | Kragar Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:14:49pm |
re: #350 jcm
I've been getting Skittles.....
I got M&Ms I think. Hard to tell without the candy shell.
388 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:14:51pm |
My wife says that the reason that women are so much harder on other women is because they know them better than men do.
(I'm the nice one in this family, and I'm not that nice.)
389 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:15:11pm |
re: #340 Mardukhai
When I was a kid playing baseball, my outfielder's mitt gave me unrealistic hand expectations.
Here's a really unrealistic girl's doll:
Pick-Up-The-Check Barbie -- She walks, she talks (but not too much), she opens doors, and takes Ken out for dinner!
You have heard of the divorced Barbi?
She comes with all of Kens crap. ;)
390 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:15:36pm |
re: #355 Sharmuta
There's a certain John Lennon song that springs to mind. I cannot name it- the verbiage isn't allowed. But I believe he was correct.
Lennon wrote a song about Avanti....?
I'll be damned.....
/
391 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:15:51pm |
392 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:15:54pm |
re: #376 Soona'
I'm probably going to be proved wrong, but I think by the time people catch on to what a zero the zero is, he'll be taking the MSM, as it exists now, down with him.
I agree. Nothing lasts forever. The worse things get, the more rational people are going to become. Soon, newspapers are going to figure out that printing conservative points of view will sell more newspapers than the drivel they now print.
393 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:15:54pm |
394 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:16:01pm |
re: #376 Soona'
I'm probably going to be proved wrong, but I think by the time people catch on to what a zero the zero is, he'll be taking the MSM, as it exists now, down with him.
you will be wrong...the MSM isnt going anywhere in our lifetime...they just elected a president and will do it again....they are in bed with the ignorant which is the driving force of politics as we know it...I am totally pessimistic
395 | Empire1 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:17:06pm |
re: #392 jwb7605
I agree. Nothing lasts forever. The worse things get, the more rational people are going to become. Soon, newspapers are going to figure out that printing conservative points of view will sell more newspapers than the drivel they now print.
I very much pray that you are 100% right.
396 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:17:27pm |
re: #394 albusteve
you will be wrong...the MSM isnt going anywhere in our lifetime...they just elected a president and will do it again....they are in bed with the ignorant which is the driving force of politics as we know it...I am totally pessimistic
Can't tell. ;)
397 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:17:53pm |
re: #382 Sharmuta
It should be, because I'm pointing out a much deeper problem.
I'm not going to change your mind, but consider 40,000 thoughts in your mind a day. If the large majority are negative...self fulfilling prophecy.
398 | Age Of Freedom Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:18:26pm |
re: #14 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
Best part was at the end:
Obama to keep Bush on as National Scapegoat.
I thought he was the world's Scapegoat.
399 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:18:49pm |
re: #337 albusteve
not gonna happen...forget Sarah....they will have her in a straight jacket by then...the MSM has to okay any candidate first...
after the damage the O does, sarah, who has a lot of support already, might have great chance no matter what the msm does.
they are not going to look so good either.
shills and propagandists.
worthless saps who promoted a loser.
400 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:18:52pm |
re: #376 Soona'
I'm probably going to be proved wrong, but I think by the time people catch on to what a zero the zero is, he'll be taking the MSM, as it exists now, down with him.
I hope you're proved wrong, but unlike JCM's disagreement, I agree with you.
I predict that MSNBC and other media will soon resort to reporting on those who say unfavorable things about The One, rather than reporting on The One.
401 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:18:58pm |
re: #394 albusteve
I'd like to disagree with you. But that graph showing more government employees than manufacturing workers (and more government workers to come with O) has me a little downhearted, too.
Government needs something to govern, so the more you have, the less freedom the people have.
402 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:18:58pm |
re: #394 albusteve
you will be wrong...the MSM isnt going anywhere in our lifetime...they just elected a president and will do it again....they are in bed with the ignorant which is the driving force of politics as we know it...I am totally pessimistic
They're the Pied Pipers of the ignorant,,,,,,,,
403 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:19:24pm |
01:48 Saudi envoy to U.S.: Bush left a `sickening legacy` in the Middle East (Reuters)
Nevergiveup to Saudi envoy ( and all your other sick bastard relatives) UP YOURS!
404 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:19:27pm |
re: #392 jwb7605
I agree. Nothing lasts forever. The worse things get, the more rational people are going to become. Soon, newspapers are going to figure out that printing conservative points of view will sell more newspapers than the drivel they now print.
you are dreaming...the media rules the feds who rule the people...it's not just newspapers...it's the manipulation of public opinion...it's everywhere...we are fucktomundo...say goodbye
405 | Truck Monkey Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:19:46pm |
re: #339 rightymouse
Misogyny is mostly a lefty trait against a conservative female. And that includes the feminists who showed their true colors this past election cycle. I was furious with them and their blatant hypocrisy.
I think that the Feminists showed their true colors during the Monica Lewinsky kerfuffle. No one of them said a word and Bubba got a pass.
406 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:19:48pm |
re: #349 Sharmuta
Don't mistake my pointing out misogyny to mean that it stems only from men.
Just so, I do know that my wife is viscerally opposed to her though we generally agree politically. This surprised me. I'm thinking she (Palin) is somehow threatening in a way that I, as a man, just doesn't understand.
/Did I say I don't understand women very well?
407 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:20:10pm |
re: #395 Empire1
I very much pray that you are 100% right.
Thanks!
I've observed enough desperation to form the opinion that survival skills always outweigh feel-good intentions. Put a PETA member in the woods for a week with a rifle, knife, bedroll, and nothing else.
408 | 3 wood Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:20:28pm |
re: #365 Killgore Trout
It's not me. I checked earlier today over at Dkos and they were ignoring it.
Oh OK.
It makes for some fun reading anyway.
Now, suddenly, the left seems concerned about tracking down terrorists.
I hate to break it to them, but with their god and savior Obama closing GITMO, they won't have to track them down,the terrorists are likely coming to a town near them soon.
409 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:20:29pm |
re: #403 Nevergiveup
01:48 Saudi envoy to U.S.: Bush left a `sickening legacy` in the Middle East (Reuters)
All that democracy and women voting and girls going school...sickening...to a Saud.
410 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:20:56pm |
Geert News.....
UK parliament calls off screening controversial film
The UK’s parliament has cancelled the screening of a controversial film, titled ‘Fitna’, by right-wing Dutch MP Geert Wilders following vociferous protest by the Muslim community.
The screening was to take place on January 29 at the House of Lords. The decision to cancel the showing was taken on Friday when Lord Nazir Ahmed held a meeting with the government chief whip of the House of Lords and leader of the House, together with representatives from the Muslim Council of Britain, the British Muslim Forum and other representatives from the British Muslim community.
411 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:02pm |
re: #406 The Shadow Do
Just so, I do know that my wife is viscerally opposed to her though we generally agree politically. This surprised me. I'm thinking she (Palin) is somehow threatening in a way that I, as a man, just doesn't understand.
/Did I say I don't understand women very well?
No man does.
412 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:11pm |
re: #404 albusteve
you are dreaming...the media rules the feds who rule the people...it's not just newspapers...it's the manipulation of public opinion...it's everywhere...we are fucktomundo...say goodbye
One of us is right.
You can buy me lunch in 4 years if it's me.
413 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:19pm |
re: #361 LGoPs
Yeah, nuthin' like female solidarity......
Only exists if you're a libtard.......
*Spit*
Conservative women tend to view/accept/not accept other women based on their personal qualities/attributes, etc. and are very much the activists when it comes to abused women, for instance. It's the feminists who are the ones who have barked the loudest about being for ALL women when clearly they have proven to be liars and hypocrites. And that's not just about Sarah Palin. Their track record regarding the atrocities committed against women in Islamic culture is appalling. They should be ashamed of themselves.
414 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:24pm |
re: #405 Truck Monkey
I think that the Feminists showed their true colors during the Monica Lewinsky kerfuffle. No one of them said a word and Bubba got a pass.
That was nothing compared to the way the yawned when it came to light that Bill Clinton raped a woman.
415 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:26pm |
Palestinians take part in the traditional Muslim Friday prayers on the street outside a destroyed mosque, where only the minaret still stands, in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, Friday. Gaza residents headed for Friday communal prayers and Israeli naval guns were largely silent as grief and shock began to mix with a palpable sense of relief in the coastal strip pounded by weeks of Israeli airstrikes and ground assaults.
(January 23, 2009)Associated Press
Ya' think it being used as a ammo dump might have something to do with it's current condition?
Jus' askin'
416 | Shug Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:30pm |
re: #403 Nevergiveup
01:48 Saudi envoy to U.S.: Bush left a `sickening legacy` in the Middle East (Reuters)
They just hate it when we fight back and kick their asses
417 | debutaunt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:40pm |
418 | Racer X Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:41pm |
re: #403 Nevergiveup
01:48 Saudi envoy to U.S.: Bush left a `sickening legacy` in the Middle East (Reuters)
Nevergiveup to Saudi envoy ( and all your other sick bastard relatives) UP YOURS!
fucker is the envoy?
We should have let Saddam take over Kuwait AND Saudi Arabia before taking him out.
419 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:21:41pm |
re: #399 nyc redneck
after the damage the O does, sarah, who has a lot of support already, might have great chance no matter what the msm does.
they are not going to look so good either.
shills and propagandists.
worthless saps who promoted a loser.
loser is being redefined...it's all about words and perception...but I hope you are right
420 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:22:00pm |
re: #410 Killgore Trout
Geert News.....
UK parliament calls off screening controversial film
Cowards all.
421 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:23:08pm |
Saudi envoy to U.S.: Obama mustn't repeat Bush's 'sickening legacy' in Mideast
[Link: www.haaretz.com...]
If the U.S. wants to continue playing a leadership role in the Middle East and keep its strategic alliances intact - especially its 'special relationship' with Saudi Arabia - it will have to drastically revise its policies vis-a-vis Israel and Palestine,"
Here is the whole article. The article is sickening and ominous for Israel and America if Obama is in any way on board.
422 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:23:40pm |
re: #405 Truck Monkey
I think that the Feminists showed their true colors during the Monica Lewinsky kerfuffle. No one of them said a word and Bubba got a pass.
Exactly. They should have been the first ones to holler, and they were silent. Bunch of hypocrites and liars.
423 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:23:51pm |
re: #397 NYCHardhat
I'm not going to change your mind, but consider 40,000 thoughts in your mind a day. If the large majority are negative...self fulfilling prophecy.
The majority of delegates at the DNC were women, yet they threw their sister under the bus. That's not a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's reality. I voted for a woman, and was proud to do so, but after what I witnessed in 2008, I have to wonder what woman in her right mind would want to put up with the crap that Hillary and Sarah went through. If they don't run, they can't get elected. And I don't see why a woman should want to run if she's expected to be twice as pure in deed and character as any man running against her.
424 | Shug Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:23:55pm |
re: #410 Killgore Trout
Geert News.....
UK parliament calls off screening controversial film
Lord Nazir told them how it was gonna be if they shoiwed a film that portrayed Muslims as violent.
425 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:23:57pm |
re: #408 3 wood
The Koskidz are still trying to figure it out....
President Obama, stop these target killings now!
Are there any children, women, and other innocent people among the deaths? What crimes have those people committed to deserve the death penalty? Who is to judge?
President Obama is right to order the closure of the Guantanamo bay detention camp. However, killing people via remote control without even a trial is much worse than what has been done in Guantanamo Bay.
Target assassination has been used by the Israeli government against the Palestinians for decades. Evidently, it has not worked. President Obama has said that reaching out to the Muslim world is one of the top priorities of his presidency. Is this the right way to reach out to the Muslim world?
The poll is pretty much a 3 way tie.
426 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:23:58pm |
VX sneaking back into the conversation here....
I really didn't understand the visceral reactions some women had to Palin. I always saw it as jealousy, but then I'm guessing on their motivation. It just made no sense to me.
427 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:24:04pm |
re: #421 Nevergiveup
Saudi envoy to U.S.: Obama mustn't repeat Bush's 'sickening legacy' in Mideast
[Link: www.haaretz.com...]
If the U.S. wants to continue playing a leadership role in the Middle East and keep its strategic alliances intact - especially its 'special relationship' with Saudi Arabia - it will have to drastically revise its policies vis-a-vis Israel and Palestine,"
Here is the whole article. The article is sickening and ominous for Israel and America if Obama is in any way on board.
So in other words.... we are fucked
428 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:24:09pm |
re: #387 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I got M&Ms I think. Hard to tell without the candy shell.
I just checked my unicorn litter box. Tootsie Rolls! But I have cats too.
/indecision
429 | ceemack Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:24:18pm |
re: #90 Racer X
Bratz?
Pftptpfptpfptpfptpt.Major Matt Mason was the best action figure!
Major Matt Mason rocked!
430 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:24:38pm |
re: #353 HoosierHoops
He is old school..But I'm a California Native and I used to mail Bobby Quotes every day to CWNevius to just to rile him up..He ran scathing articles about him in the green section..I am a big anti Bobby fan..I played ball in College..If a coach chokes my boy we have big issues..It's out of line..
Look at Coach K..Have you ever seen a tape of a Duke practice? It is truly brutal...Yet he maintains the respect of the player..the school and the parents..
Coach K is one hell of a mean get down old school coach..And I'd trust my kid with him any day of the week
You're right, but I'm old school too. Never played in college but my HS coach could have been a close cousin to Bobby. Bad as it could get at times he was always right and we did have a lot of success. He was pushed out after a bad season and I am still PO'd about that. Bobby is a nut, but he is my kind of nut.
431 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:24:43pm |
432 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:24:55pm |
re: #413 rightymouse
Conservative women tend to view/accept/not accept other women based on their personal qualities/attributes, etc. and are very much the activists when it comes to abused women, for instance. It's the feminists who are the ones who have barked the loudest about being for ALL women when clearly they have proven to be liars and hypocrites. And that's not just about Sarah Palin. Their track record regarding the atrocities committed against women in Islamic culture is appalling. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Apparently I married a conservative woman. She does occasionally show a feminist side, though. Glass-ceiling feminism, and I usually agree with her.
433 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:25:10pm |
re: #412 jwb7605
One of us is right.
You can buy me lunch in 4 years if it's me.
I will indeed if I can spare the 2000$...we are looking at massive inflation down the road if BO has his way....right wing radicals are gonna go bezerk...connect the dots
434 | freetoken Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:26:12pm |
re: #406 The Shadow Do
The women I know (who communicated with me on the subject) were universally and strongly opposed to Palin.
Well, so was I, but probably for different reasons. My suspicion is that many women felt mocked by McCain's choice.
435 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:26:19pm |
re: #430 The Shadow Do
You're right, but I'm old school too. Never played in college but my HS coach could have been a close cousin to Bobby. Bad as it could get at times he was always right and we did have a lot of success. He was pushed out after a bad season and I am still PO'd about that. Bobby is a nut, but he is my kind of nut.
I loved how Knight made sure his players graduated. That meant more to me than what he did on the court. His temper was legendary, and he wouldn't put up with crap from the sportswriters. He still has a special place of honor in my heart.
436 | DEZes Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:26:29pm |
re: #425 Killgore Trout
The Koskidz are still trying to figure it out....
President Obama, stop these target killings now!
The poll is pretty much a 3 way tie.
I read about the missile attacks earlier, I wondered how may Koslings heads would burst.
437 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:26:33pm |
re: #424 Shug
I really wish Geert was a better model for free speech. The counter jihad folks are also rallying around some chick from a nazi party in Austria who was convicted this week of hate speech. We need better role models.
438 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:26:56pm |
re: #426 vxbush
VX sneaking back into the conversation here....
I really didn't understand the visceral reactions some women had to Palin. I always saw it as jealousy, but then I'm guessing on their motivation. It just made no sense to me.
It was primarily liberal women and in that case your assessment of not making any sense is balls on accurate.........
No sarc tag needed......
439 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:27:22pm |
re: #383 Sharmuta
That's because women are misogynists too.
it's true.
look at NOW. the best you can get from them is ignored.
(ie. if you are female in an oppressive 3rd world country)
and if you are a conservative woman anywhere, despised.
and the hags in code pink will hate you just because you're not ugly.
(or fat)
440 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:27:28pm |
re: #433 albusteve
I will indeed if I can spare the 2000$...we are looking at massive inflation down the road if BO has his way....right wing radicals are gonna go bezerk...connect the dots
I sincerely hope you'll be able to say "I'm glad I was wrong".
Otherwise, you'll have to say "Sometimes I hate being right".
$2000? I was hoping I'd get a super-sized meal.
441 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:27:34pm |
re: #423 Sharmuta
The majority of delegates at the DNC were women, yet they threw their sister under the bus. That's not a self-fulfilling prophecy. That's reality. I voted for a woman, and was proud to do so, but after what I witnessed in 2008, I have to wonder what woman in her right mind would want to put up with the crap that Hillary and Sarah went through. If they don't run, they can't get elected. And I don't see why a woman should want to run if she's expected to be twice as pure in deed and character as any man running against her.
She doesn't have to be twice as pure. When this current idiot gets us in trouble, the window will open even more. You have a chance, you always have a chance. The doors of perception.
442 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:27:47pm |
re: #434 freetoken
The women I know (who communicated with me on the subject) were universally and strongly opposed to Palin.
Well, so was I, but probably for different reasons. My suspicion is that many women felt mocked by McCain's choice.
My wife and my 2 daughters, both of voting age, all loved Sarah Palin.
443 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:28:13pm |
re: #428 Soona'
I just checked my unicorn litter box. Tootsie Rolls! But I have cats too.
/indecision
If the cats won't eat them, there is your answer.
444 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:28:22pm |
re: #439 nyc redneck
it's true.
look at NOW. the best you can get from them is ignored.
(ie. if you are female in an oppressive 3rd world country)
and if you are a conservative woman anywhere, despised.
and the hags in code pink will hate you just because you're not ugly.
(or fat)
Not once have I ever seen any group of women who are supposedly liberal ever hold a fundraiser to help the women in another country. It's always been to support abortion here, or help women candidates, or to rail against Bush.
Speaks volumes to me.
445 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:28:27pm |
re: #440 jwb7605
I sincerely hope you'll be able to say "I'm glad I was wrong".
Otherwise, you'll have to say "Sometimes I hate being right".$2000? I was hoping I'd get a super-sized meal.
well there you have it amigo....how can it be different?
446 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:28:29pm |
re: #435 vxbush
I loved how Knight made sure his players graduated. That meant more to me than what he did on the court. His temper was legendary, and he wouldn't put up with crap from the sportswriters. He still has a special place of honor in my heart.
And he always had a place in his heart for West Point.
447 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:29:09pm |
re: #439 nyc redneck
it's true.
look at NOW. the best you can get from them is ignored.
(ie. if you are female in an oppressive 3rd world country)
and if you are a conservative woman anywhere, despised.
and the hags in code pink will hate you just because you're not ugly.
(or fat)
Is that a political problem or just a gender issue? Trust me, when the shit hits the fan and the best person with the plan is a woman, we will be listening.
448 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:29:31pm |
re: #443 Hard Right
If the cats won't eat them, there is your answer.
LOL! I must have missed out. No unicorns have shown up at my door yet. Aren't they part of the stimulus package?
449 | freetoken Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:07pm |
re: #442 Nevergiveup
My wife and my 2 daughters, both of voting age, all loved Sarah Palin.
It appears as if Palin is a more polarizing figure than Jindal.
450 | x-wing Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:13pm |
re: #426 vxbush
VX sneaking back into the conversation here....
I really didn't understand the visceral reactions some women had to Palin. I always saw it as jealousy, but then I'm guessing on their motivation. It just made no sense to me.
Yer right. Sneaking in my self. I'm not coming in to bash women,but I know and dated a few that just hate a woman more sucessful or prettier than them.
452 | Empire1 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:15pm |
re: #407 jwb7605
Put a PETA member in the woods for a week with a rifle, knife, bedroll, and nothing else.
OOOOH! That would be FUN! Hells, I'd even allow a box of matches, a string, and a safety pin. That's more than enough for anyone with basic competence to survive very nicely indeed, with a healthy and varied diet.
453 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:16pm |
what would you have Obama do? I hate to tell you this but there are bad guys in Pakistain and the government isn't doing aquat.
I, for one, am glad the government isn't doing aquat. Could you imagine if they were doing aquat? Oh the humanity of it all!
454 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:28pm |
re: #423 Sharmuta
The majority of delegates at the DNC were women, yet they threw their sister under the bus.
There are hundreds of reasons not to vote for Hillary. It is selling her short to assign misogyny as the sole motivation.
455 | Sheepdogess Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:39pm |
re: #433 albusteve
I will indeed if I can spare the 2000$...we are looking at massive
inflationconfiscation down the road if BO has his way....right wing radicals are gonna go bezerk...connect the dots
All fixed!
456 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:30:58pm |
re: #448 vxbush
LOL! I must have missed out. No unicorns have shown up at my door yet. Aren't they part of the stimulus package?
Yes, but remember they are coming from the government. So you should see them in about 8 years...
457 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:31:12pm |
re: #449 freetoken
It appears as if Palin is a more polarizing figure than Jindal.
I'd agree with that, as I expect any strong conservative women would be.
458 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:31:38pm |
Somehow I missed out on this whole unicorn reference. Anybody care to give me a quick down and dirty about what everyone's referring to.......
459 | x-wing Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:31:41pm |
re: #428 Soona'
I just checked my unicorn litter box. Tootsie Rolls! But I have cats too.
/indecision
LOL, taste it...
460 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:32:19pm |
re: #430 The Shadow Do
You're right, but I'm old school too. Never played in college but my HS coach could have been a close cousin to Bobby. Bad as it could get at times he was always right and we did have a lot of success. He was pushed out after a bad season and I am still PO'd about that. Bobby is a nut, but he is my kind of nut.
I dinged you up for being from Indiana and being Honest..
Regards
461 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:32:24pm |
re: #432 jwb7605
Apparently I married a conservative woman. She does occasionally show a feminist side, though. Glass-ceiling feminism, and I usually agree with her.
That's not a bad thing for conservative women to become annoyed at the glass ceiling. It does exist. The worst part is when one's opinion is dismissed at work but then when a guy says the same thing, it's treated seriously.
462 | docremulac Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:32:33pm |
I've always thought a better name for these dolls would be Slutz. (tm)
Since these little plastic whores sell more than Barbie now how about a pimp action figure to compete with GI Joe?
463 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:32:43pm |
re: #450 x-wing
Yer right. Sneaking in my self. I'm not coming in to bash women,but I know and dated a few that just hate a woman more sucessful or prettier than them.
If I may guess (given that I am a woman), part of it may be frustration at what they see as their own better attributes (supposed better intelligence, supposed better ability) not being given recognition, whereas they fear the more successful woman only got her position because of looks.
I can't recall where the study was from, but some study said that even when merit is properly considered, the prettier, skinnier gal gets the job even if her merits aren't quite as high as the more qualified gal.
464 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:32:55pm |
re: #434 freetoken
The women I know (who communicated with me on the subject) were universally and strongly opposed to Palin.
Well, so was I, but probably for different reasons. My suspicion is that many women felt mocked by McCain's choice.
I took at as a statement from McCain like "I intend to live through the term, and intend to leave you with a true conservative for the next election. In the meantime, consider this on-the-job training."
I am one of the least qualified men on the planet to claim understanding of women, but I always got the sense that jealousy was involved, because most men would have selected her as a mate in a heartbeat. Cool, calm, dependable -- stuff we secretly really want in a mate.
My wife understood that feeling, and did not feel the least bit threatened.
465 | mensamann Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:32:57pm |
Hey, let me ask a question. There have been some comments in this post that made me think about something I heard on the radio today. There is a local talk radio show on in my area that follows Beck and Rush. Today, he was talking about the new senate appointment in NY, and kept getting calls from people who wanted to talk about what we, the people, could do to stop government from taking away more of our freedoms. I was quite surprised to hear so many calls from people that eluded to revolution. I haven't heard anyone come out and call openly for an armed uprising, but people in NY are equating this new soda pop tax to the tea tax that caused the Boston Tea Party. My question is does anyone else think the mind set of the average American may be shifting, moving towards a more revolutionary bent? Have you all been hearing more talk along these lines?
466 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:33:25pm |
I like Palin very much, and it has nothing to do with her sex. I hated the pink bumper stickers and such. I wasn't voting for a woman; I was voting for a candidate. I don't give a damn which bathroom they use.
467 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:33:30pm |
re: #463 vxbush
The study shows attractive people make 10-15% more income then their homelier counterparts.
468 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:33:32pm |
re: #434 freetoken
The women I know (who communicated with me on the subject) were universally and strongly opposed to Palin.
Well, so was I, but probably for different reasons. My suspicion is that many women felt mocked by McCain's choice.
I think it's because Palin had a better body that many women. And men thought she was good looking. Jealousy? (And she was smarter than many of the women)
469 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:33:50pm |
re: #434 freetoken
The women I know (who communicated with me on the subject) were universally and strongly opposed to Palin.
Well, so was I, but probably for different reasons. My suspicion is that many women felt mocked by McCain's choice.
Women shun other women that threaten them or don't fit into the "group". This has been observed in girls as young as 5. It's deeply embedded. Sarah most likely did both- she didn't fit, and made them feel threatened.
I think the majority of men have come to embrace "modern women" but there is still a lot of "good ol' boy" sexism out there.
So between these two phenomenon, I just don't see how a woman gets to the Oval Office. I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, because it's much nicer to have hope, but mine is spent. I would love to be wrong, but I don't look for it.
Between the two- I
470 | Noam Sayin' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:33:54pm |
re: #356 Killgore Trout
If I've learned anything from Internet videos it's that 100% of cats are cute, and 20% are murderers.
Says it all, right there.
That was funny. Helps if one has seen the original stealth cat vid.
471 | Hard Right Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:34:04pm |
re: #467 ArmyWife
The study shows attractive people make 10-15% more income then their homelier counterparts.
The ugly truth?
//
472 | Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:34:07pm |
re: #462 docremulac
I've always thought a better name for these dolls would be Slutz. (tm)
Since these little plastic whores sell more than Barbie now how about a pimp action figure to compete with GI Joe?
DI Joe?
/wait, wrong kinda pimp
475 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:34:26pm |
re: #434 freetoken
My suspicion is that many women felt mocked by McCain's choice.
I think you nailed it, but would like to hear from a woman.
476 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:34:54pm |
re: #461 rightymouse
That's not a bad thing for conservative women to become annoyed at the glass ceiling. It does exist. The worst part is when one's opinion is dismissed at work but then when a guy says the same thing, it's treated seriously.
BINGO! I've experienced this more times than I care to count. I had a job where I worked directly under a misogynist of the worst kind. He alienated every woman who ever worked under him. i finally had to go to HR and say, "move me. I'm not working with him." He caused more problems in my department than I care to count.
477 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:35:26pm |
re: #466 Silhouette
I like Palin very much, and it has nothing to do with her sex. I hated the pink bumper stickers and such. I wasn't voting for a woman; I was voting for a candidate. I don't give a damn which bathroom they use.
I agree 100% but I really wouldn't want to go the bathroom with Barney Fr......ah never mind.
478 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:35:30pm |
re: #452 Empire1
OOOOH! That would be FUN! Hells, I'd even allow a box of matches, a string, and a safety pin. That's more than enough for anyone with basic competence to survive very nicely indeed, with a healthy and varied diet.
We had a case in WA of a Seattle women called an "experience hiker" how got lost (a few miles from I-90 in Snoqualmie pass). She was smart enough to following a stream down hill and get herself out several days later. In good shape, but dehydrated.
*in Seattle Water comes in bottles*
480 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:35:51pm |
re: #469 Sharmuta
Women shun other women that threaten them or don't fit into the "group". This has been observed in girls as young as 5. It's deeply embedded. Sarah most likely did both- she didn't fit, and made them feel threatened.
I think the majority of men have come to embrace "modern women" but there is still a lot of "good ol' boy" sexism out there.
So between these two phenomenon, I just don't see how a woman gets to the Oval Office. I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, because it's much nicer to have hope, but mine is spent. I would love to be wrong, but I don't look for it.
Between the two- I
Its not hope. Its just logic. It will happen.
481 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:36:29pm |
re: #469 Sharmuta
Weird- I didn't realize I'd tried to repeat myself there. Ignore the last line. That's why preview is our friend.
482 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:36:43pm |
re: #467 ArmyWife
The study shows attractive people make 10-15% more income then their homelier counterparts.
I was thinking about a study that was looking at hiring, but your referenced study also sounds familiar.
483 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:36:46pm |
re: #461 rightymouse
That's not a bad thing for conservative women to become annoyed at the glass ceiling. It does exist. The worst part is when one's opinion is dismissed at work but then when a guy says the same thing, it's treated seriously.
What used to piss me off was when I realized what was going on, and I used to have to say something like "I was talking to so-and-so, and she pointed out something I had overlooked. It was ... ".
Typically, the "she" got her position solidified, but promoted? Naw ....
485 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:37:16pm |
re: #481 Sharmuta
Weird- I didn't realize I'd tried to repeat myself there. Ignore the last line. That's why preview is our friend.
I hope you like Nirvana (#474)
486 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:37:25pm |
re: #435 vxbush
I loved how Knight made sure his players graduated. That meant more to me than what he did on the court. His temper was legendary, and he wouldn't put up with crap from the sportswriters. He still has a special place of honor in my heart.
I love you VX..But I always thought Knight was an embarrassment to the State of Indiana..and of course I'm not from here so you know my views have color..
It's like a Red Sox fan getting free Yankee Tickets..You know you are going to the game but you can't figure out what jersey to wear..and live to tell about it..
:)
488 | acwgusa Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:37:53pm |
I was mocking Obama's minions squealing about no Macs, no Facebook, no MySpace, no outside email. I get the feeling they've never worked for any government before with that reaction.
490 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:38:18pm |
re: #435 vxbush
I loved how Knight made sure his players graduated. That meant more to me than what he did on the court. His temper was legendary, and he wouldn't put up with crap from the sportswriters. He still has a special place of honor in my heart.
Me too. No doubt he has a hell of a temper, but what you see in the media is the pictures. What actually happened? Who knows. I suspect his players loved him almost as much as the media which sold many a paper when he acted up in public - and believe me, they all loved him.
/no sarc
491 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:38:23pm |
492 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:38:55pm |
re: #488 acwgusa
I was mocking Obama's minions squealing about no Macs, no Facebook, no MySpace, no outside email. I get the feeling they've never worked for any government before with that reaction.
Perhaps they have simply never worked where the rules were actually enforced before.
493 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:39:00pm |
re: #478 jcm
We had a case in WA of a Seattle women called an "experience hiker" how got lost (a few miles from I-90 in Snoqualmie pass). She was smart enough to following a stream down hill and get herself out several days later. In good shape, but dehydrated.
*in Seattle Water comes in bottles*
How the hell do you get dehydrated following a stream? I'm assuming the stream was reasonably clean, here.
494 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:39:00pm |
re: #447 NYCHardhat
Is that a political problem or just a gender issue? Trust me, when the shit hits the fan and the best person with the plan is a woman, we will be listening.
the GoP as a political entity has to start to push back against BO NOW...not tomarrow or next year...NOW...they have huge problems with their platform and with their candidates...there is almost no leadership there and the must act NOW....it's the Alamo for conservatives in America....moderate to left liberalism has swept the country...it's a nearly unstoppable force and those that sit around waiting for BO to implode are wasting precious time....it's not just BO, it's the media and it's millions of stupid Americans...the feds own the media...the feds own the banks...they own the schools...they own the unions...they're gonna own the car business...in four years Sarah Palin will be an afterthought...the GoP needs to act very quickly here to stave away all the damage that the donks can do in a very short time...we will see but I dont get where fate is gonna put anything on our table for us and if we have to do it alone we are doomed...fucked by the GoP....like that
495 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:39:13pm |
re: #467 ArmyWife
The study shows attractive people make 10-15% more income then their homelier counterparts.
Have you ever seen an ugly officer in the Military? LOL
496 | BlueCanuck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:39:47pm |
re: #478 jcm
*blink blink* Followed a stream, yet was dehydrated? Okay water may come in bottles, but didn't the moonbat realize what she was walking beside?
497 | Syrah Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:02pm |
re: #488 acwgusa
I was mocking Obama's minions squealing about no Macs, no Facebook, no MySpace, no outside email. I get the feeling they've never worked for any government before with that reaction.
I fear that the Obama Administration will be noteworthy for its security failures.
498 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:04pm |
From The Times
January 24, 2009
Iran in scramble for fresh uranium supplies
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]
Any comment people?
499 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:27pm |
re: #489 Sharmuta
I LOVE Nirvana.
Consider that a 110 pound male feminist had it right almost 20 years ago. We are making progress.
500 | freetoken Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:32pm |
re: #465 mensamann
There is an article in the Times (London) that I was saving for the overnight thread:
New age of rebellion and riot stalks Europe
Iceland has no army, no navy and no air force - but it does have riot police.
On Tuesday night the black-uniformed troopers came out to quell the latest riots in Reykjavik, which erupted in front of parliament. The building was splattered with paint and yoghurt, the crowd yelled and banged pans, shot fireworks and flares at the windows and lit a fire in front of the main door. [...]
The Greek disturbances, the worst since 1974, were triggered by the killing of the teenager, but the anger was stoked by a sense that the young were going to have to pick up the bill for the miscalculations of the political class. Unemployment among Greeks aged 15 to 24 has reached 21.2 per cent; for 25 to 34-year-olds it is 10.5 per cent.
The good years have come to an end suddenly.
[...]
The article goes on to talk about the related issues of rising economic problems and the resultant social disruption.
Discontent can rise pretty quickly along with unemployment and decreasing expectations of the possibility of in improved future.
501 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:47pm |
re: #486 HoosierHoops
I love you VX..But I always thought Knight was an embarrassment to the State of Indiana..and of course I'm not from here so you know my views have color..
It's like a Red Sox fan getting free Yankee Tickets..You know you are going to the game but you can't figure out what jersey to wear..and live to tell about it..
:)
Well, not only am I from the state, but I attended IU and graduated, so my views are extremely colored. :D However, with that said: if the new coach can treat his players with respect and get them to play top-level ball, I will be more than ready to support him.
I am no big fan of UI, but Bruce Webber has given me many reasons to respect him (which Keady of Purdue never did).
502 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:47pm |
re: #463 vxbush
If I may guess (given that I am a woman), part of it may be frustration at what they see as their own better attributes (supposed better intelligence, supposed better ability) not being given recognition, whereas they fear the more successful woman only got her position because of looks.
I can't recall where the study was from, but some study said that even when merit is properly considered, the prettier, skinnier gal gets the job even if her merits aren't quite as high as the more qualified gal.
And further studies show that even among prettier, skinnier gals the one with the biggest bozangas gets the raise.........
*scurries from the room ducking for cover*
503 | Empire1 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:58pm |
re: #466 Silhouette
I like Palin very much, and it has nothing to do with her sex. I hated the pink bumper stickers and such. I wasn't voting for a woman; I was voting for a candidate. I don't give a damn which bathroom they use.
I voted for the only conservative in the race. It was a handicap to her that McCain was on the ticket, but I did it anyway, and I'd vote for her again in a heartbeat, and so would Mr. Empire.
504 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:40:58pm |
re: #476 vxbush
I am HR - in a male dominated environment. In fact, I am the only female senior manager. But I have pull, baby. If I don't say it's ok, it doesn't happen. I've never, ever asked to be treated differently, I can go in the plant and get just as dirty as the next guy. I work my tail off, and deliver results. That said, I get cat calls from contractors when I walk around the plant (followed by one of the Union guys running over, whispering who I am, and them suddenly walking in the opposite direction at a very fast clip). Heck, I had the president of the AFL-CIO tell my union president if he had a labor relations expert that looked like me, he'd be filing grievances left and right too. I doubt my male counterparts hear that often. But I don't get incensed and outraged, I laugh and kick their tails in arbitration.
505 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:12pm |
re: #498 Nevergiveup
From The Times
January 24, 2009
Iran in scramble for fresh uranium supplies[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]
Any comment people?
January is almost over. Wasn't Iran supposed to be able to build a crude bomb by February (speculated)?
506 | BlueCanuck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:17pm |
re: #495 HoosierHoops
Have you ever seen an ugly officer in the Military? LOL
Quite a few actually. :)
/real mean tempered brutes too.
507 | acwgusa Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:32pm |
re: #492 CyanSnowHawk
Perhaps they have simply never worked where the rules were actually enforced before.
Because of HIPAA regulations, I have to enforce privacy with an iron fist, because our email isn't encrypted, and some offices won't listen. I unplugged an office router at one point, and told them they weren't getting any access back until they followed the rules. I haven't had any violations since then. Damned if I'm going to explain to the OIG why my office is having serious violations.
508 | Syrah Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:34pm |
re: #498 Nevergiveup
From The Times
January 24, 2009
Iran in scramble for fresh uranium supplies[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]
Any comment people?
They must have figured out that all of the "yellow cake" that we had shipped to them was really just Betty Crocker cake mix.
509 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:44pm |
re: #461 rightymouse
That's not a bad thing for conservative women to become annoyed at the glass ceiling. It does exist. The worst part is when one's opinion is dismissed at work but then when a guy says the same thing, it's treated seriously.
I cannot tell you how often that happened to me.
Several times a week.
I once was HR Director for an agency, and one day I was trying to explain a policy to an employee. We were in the break area. He argued and argued and argued with me.
Finally, another male employee, NOT an HR office employee, walked up, listened to the discussion, and told the first guy, well, yeah, she's right. What she's saying is in the Employee Handbook. First guy - well, he was surprised, but he finally admitted that perhaps he misunderstood the policy.
He was willing to believe another guy who said the same thing I was saying, and who "proved" his point by pointing out that it was in the Employee Handbook.
Neither of them, I think, ever realized - I HAD WRITTEN THE HANDBOOK.
510 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:44pm |
re: #486 HoosierHoops
I love you VX..But I always thought Knight was an embarrassment to the State of Indiana..and of course I'm not from here so you know my views have color..
It's like a Red Sox fan getting free Yankee Tickets..You know you are going to the game but you can't figure out what jersey to wear..and live to tell about it..
:)
Actually that's not true. It's been my experience that between Red Sox and Yankee fans there is very little violence and plenty of good old fashion ribbing and drinking.
511 | Silhouette Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:45pm |
re: #477 Nevergiveup
I agree 100% but I really wouldn't want to go the bathroom with Barney Fr......ah never mind.
I wasn't saying I want unisex bathrooms. The guys over there and us over here, please. They mess up the joint.
512 | x-wing Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:50pm |
re: #463 vxbush
I'm not even going that deep into the issue. I had a GF that insisted I take her back to her hotel room to change clothes before we went out,because one of my buddies GF was dressed a little more seductive than she was.
513 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:41:56pm |
re: #465 mensamann
Hey, let me ask a question. There have been some comments in this post that made me think about something I heard on the radio today. There is a local talk radio show on in my area that follows Beck and Rush. Today, he was talking about the new senate appointment in NY, and kept getting calls from people who wanted to talk about what we, the people, could do to stop government from taking away more of our freedoms. I was quite surprised to hear so many calls from people that eluded to revolution. I haven't heard anyone come out and call openly for an armed uprising, but people in NY are equating this new soda pop tax to the tea tax that caused the Boston Tea Party. My question is does anyone else think the mind set of the average American may be shifting, moving towards a more revolutionary bent? Have you all been hearing more talk along these lines?
People in NY finally getting upset about taxes? Go figure.
514 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:42:20pm |
re: #450 x-wing
Yer right. Sneaking in my self. I'm not coming in to bash women,but I know and dated a few that just hate a woman more sucessful or prettier than them.
The Maureen Dowd types of the world. They are annoying and depressing to be around. They should be ignored like the plague.
515 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:43:03pm |
re: #495 HoosierHoops
Yes. Yes in deed I have. Actually, I've seen many, many ugly females in the Army. But male 1SGs? They are HOT.
517 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:43:18pm |
re: #497 Syrah
I fear that the Obama Administration will be noteworthy for its security failures.
Worthy of triple-ding. I laughed out loud when they said the campaign person in charge of the websites was now in charge of the whitehouse.gov address. Remember when Charles posted the stories of all the security failures and then how they had to hire a network/web security guy? HA!
518 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:43:19pm |
re: #493 jwb7605
How the hell do you get dehydrated following a stream? I'm assuming the stream was reasonably clean, here.
Our water supply in Seattle and surrounding areas is surface water run off in the Cascades, minimally treated.
519 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:43:30pm |
re: #512 x-wing
I'm not even going that deep into the issue. I had a GF that insisted I take her back to her hotel room to change clothes before we went out,because one of my buddies GF was dressed a little more seductive than she was.
insanity
520 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:43:44pm |
re: #501 vxbush
Well, not only am I from the state, but I attended IU and graduated, so my views are extremely colored. :D However, with that said: if the new coach can treat his players with respect and get them to play top-level ball, I will be more than ready to support him.
I am no big fan of UI, but Bruce Webber has given me many reasons to respect him (which Keady of Purdue never did).
Crean is a hell of a coach.. He is one of the best and I expect IU to be back in the Championship talk in a few years.. I really respect him.. IU hit that one out of the park
521 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:43:55pm |
re: #495 HoosierHoops
Have you ever seen an ugly officer in the Military? LOL
Yes, and they just happened to have been a woman. Best Navy doctor I ever met, though.
522 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:44:30pm |
re: #469 Sharmuta
Women shun other women that threaten them or don't fit into the "group". This has been observed in girls as young as 5. It's deeply embedded. Sarah most likely did both- she didn't fit, and made them feel threatened.
I think the majority of men have come to embrace "modern women" but there is still a lot of "good ol' boy" sexism out there.
So between these two phenomenon, I just don't see how a woman gets to the Oval Office. I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, because it's much nicer to have hope, but mine is spent. I would love to be wrong, but I don't look for it.
Between the two- I
i tend to agree w/ you.
i talked to some grumpy guys who i could tell didn't like sarah because she is a woman. and several lib gals who were full of anger and jealousy.
but sarah really galvanized people. mccain went up in the polls when she came on board.
and as the left get us in deep sh*t because of their dangerous policies, a conservative female could become potus.
523 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:45:20pm |
re: #497 Syrah
I fear that the Obama Administration will be noteworthy for its security failures.
The sad thing is it won't matter to them if they're externally compromised because to them the real enemies are us conservatives.
524 | lostlakehiker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:45:28pm |
re: #307 Sharmuta
After this last election, what makes you think a woman is electable?
Well, think about it. If Hillary had won, would you be saying what makes me think a black is electable? It should be clear that anybody with enough political skill and a modicum of good looks and accomplishments has a shot.
Hillary is not your generic "woman". She is a particular woman and she went into the primaries with unprecedentedly high negatives. There was the Dynasty thing, the cattlegate thing, her tendency to put different faces before different audiences, her husband's record, his remarkably bad ear for today's politics, and the bad luck to be going up against a man of extraordinary political skill.
I trust you do not believe that America simply cannot produce a woman of the caliber of Maggie Thatcher? When she comes along, she'll be taken seriously and then it'll just be a matter of chance. Elections can tilt this way and that for odd reasons or no reason at all, but a top-notch woman will have as much of a chance as a top-notch man would have.
525 | The Shadow Do Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:45:29pm |
re: #469 Sharmuta
Women shun other women that threaten them or don't fit into the "group". This has been observed in girls as young as 5. It's deeply embedded. Sarah most likely did both- she didn't fit, and made them feel threatened.
I think the majority of men have come to embrace "modern women" but there is still a lot of "good ol' boy" sexism out there.
So between these two phenomenon, I just don't see how a woman gets to the Oval Office. I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, because it's much nicer to have hope, but mine is spent. I would love to be wrong, but I don't look for it.
Between the two- I
Thanks for your take. I think I understand. I'll quit scratching my head, for now.
526 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:45:49pm |
re: #522 nyc redneck
and as the left get us in deep sh*t because of their dangerous policies, a conservative female could become potus.
Didn't I just say that, it must be the NYC thing.
527 | Syrah Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:45:51pm |
re: #517 vxbush
Worthy of triple-ding. I laughed out loud when they said the campaign person in charge of the websites was now in charge of the whitehouse.gov address. Remember when Charles posted the stories of all the security failures and then how they had to hire a network/web security guy? HA!
I winder if anyone has explained bluesnarfing to The One, or if he would even listen.
528 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:46:38pm |
re: #510 Nevergiveup
Actually that's not true. It's been my experience that between Red Sox and Yankee fans there is very little violence and plenty of good old fashion ribbing and drinking.
That maybe true..Although I have never gone to a Giants game wearing an A's hat or jersey..It just isn't done...Right NoCal natives? :)
529 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:46:54pm |
re: #504 ArmyWife
I am HR - in a male dominated environment. In fact, I am the only female senior manager. But I have pull, baby. If I don't say it's ok, it doesn't happen. I've never, ever asked to be treated differently, I can go in the plant and get just as dirty as the next guy. I work my tail off, and deliver results. That said, I get cat calls from contractors when I walk around the plant (followed by one of the Union guys running over, whispering who I am, and them suddenly walking in the opposite direction at a very fast clip). Heck, I had the president of the AFL-CIO tell my union president if he had a labor relations expert that looked like me, he'd be filing grievances left and right too. I doubt my male counterparts hear that often. But I don't get incensed and outraged, I laugh and kick their tails in arbitration.
{standing up and applauding}
You go, girl. For me, the accolades are different. No one ever gave me cat calls except my husband. :D But I was able to solve some programming problems at work that many guys never were able to do. I got some serious cred for doing so amongst the guys that counted. I am about to do it again at work on a current project; I'm doing a demo next week to at least two higher-level managers who can't do what I'm doing.
[breathes on knuckles, rubs them off on my shirt]
530 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:47:33pm |
re: #518 jcm
Our water supply in Seattle and surrounding areas is surface water run off in the Cascades, minimally treated.
The easiest way to "treat" water is to expose it to sunlight. If it has chemicals in it, that's another problem.
Giardia is the biggest problem around here, but the odds of getting that are actually very small.
531 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:47:42pm |
re: #507 acwgusa
Because of HIPAA regulations, I have to enforce privacy with an iron fist, because our email isn't encrypted, and some offices won't listen. I unplugged an office router at one point, and told them they weren't getting any access back until they followed the rules. I haven't had any violations since then. Damned if I'm going to explain to the OIG why my office is having serious violations.
Damn straight.
532 | Empire1 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:47:43pm |
re: #478 jcm
We had a case in WA of a Seattle women called an "experience hiker" how got lost (a few miles from I-90 in Snoqualmie pass). She was smart enough to following a stream down hill and get herself out several days later. In good shape, but dehydrated.
*in Seattle Water comes in bottles*
Experienced? Okay ... as you say, at least she got out. Dehydrated after several days I'm not surprised at, though, even if she drank from the stream; around here, at least, that'll give you nasty diarrhea.
I wonder if she had a knife, compass, and map? (Or, these days, hand-held GPS ... I want, I want!) And if blazing trees is legal in WA.
533 | quickjustice Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:48:10pm |
re: #465 mensamann
I've run political campaigns in NY and elsewhere. Middle class New Yorkers are not represented by either political party. They pay sky-high taxes, and get crappy New York State government in return. Elected officials act like aristocrats entitled to gorge themselves in the public trough.
The legislature is gerrymandered to prevent defeat of incumbents. The Democrats now have taken control of the State Senate, so we'll have to wait and see if that makes any difference. No elected officials speak for middle class taxpayers.
Is this a climate for a revolution? Probably, if middle class New Yorkers couldn't flee the state for, say, Florida. Most middle class New Yorkers end up voting with their feet and fleeing the state entirely. As educated New Yorkers leave; they are replaced by ignorant immigrants and illegal aliens.
A candidate who promised real change (as in lower taxes and less government) could get elected in New York. That's whom New Yorkers thought Spitzer was. They were disappointed.
534 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:48:17pm |
re: #527 Syrah
I winder if anyone has explained bluesnarfing to The One, or if he would even listen.
Pfft, he's The One, no one would do that to him.
/
535 | logboy Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:48:17pm |
re: #495 HoosierHoops
Have you ever seen an ugly officer in the Military? LOL
Yeah, quite a few. Most were in Mississippi during the trainup.
536 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:48:29pm |
re: #497 Syrah
I fear that the Obama Administration will be noteworthy for its security failures.
They are conditioned that water only comes from a tap or in a bottle. She probably couldn't even conceive the liquid in the stream she followed was water.
537 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:49:01pm |
538 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:49:03pm |
re: #509 reine.de.tout
I cannot tell you how often that happened to me.
Several times a week.I once was HR Director for an agency, and one day I was trying to explain a policy to an employee. We were in the break area. He argued and argued and argued with me.
Finally, another male employee, NOT an HR office employee, walked up, listened to the discussion, and told the first guy, well, yeah, she's right. What she's saying is in the Employee Handbook. First guy - well, he was surprised, but he finally admitted that perhaps he misunderstood the policy.
He was willing to believe another guy who said the same thing I was saying, and who "proved" his point by pointing out that it was in the Employee Handbook.
Neither of them, I think, ever realized - I HAD WRITTEN THE HANDBOOK.
Dense, dense, dense....
539 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:49:14pm |
re: #506 BlueCanuck
Quite a few actually. :)
/real mean tempered brutes too.
Most of the really ugly ones get to be sergeant majors.
540 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:49:31pm |
re: #527 Syrah
I winder if anyone has explained bluesnarfing to The One, or if he would even listen.
What is bluesnarfing?
543 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:50:20pm |
re: #516 Bloodnok
Thanks! Also- another reason why I feel the need to bring this up is to just have these conversations. I think how men and women treat women is something to ponder because the issues wont get solved if we don't even think about it.
I've recommended this book before, and I will continue to do so:
After reading this, I certainly started catching myself in acts of female misogyny and I work against it in myself now. I hope the Lizardettes will give it a read, but I also think men (especially those with daughters) look into it as well (might help with that whole understanding women better thing). And usually, when I bring up female misogyny, I make the female listeners uneasy.
Have to dash out for a few Lizards, BBIAB.
544 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:50:29pm |
re: #512 x-wing
I'm not even going that deep into the issue. I had a GF that insisted I take her back to her hotel room to change clothes before we went out,because one of my buddies GF was dressed a little more seductive than she was.
Oh, please. Cry me a river--then shut up and quit yer yapping. I get frustrated when I am expected to dress in a suit and then I'm supposed to go crawling under desks to fix computers. I flat out said no, and most days I wear jeans. The higher ups stopped complaining.
545 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:50:33pm |
re: #529 vxbush
{standing up and applauding}
You go, girl. For me, the accolades are different. No one ever gave me cat calls except my husband. :D But I was able to solve some programming problems at work that many guys never were able to do. I got some serious cred for doing so amongst the guys that counted. I am about to do it again at work on a current project; I'm doing a demo next week to at least two higher-level managers who can't do what I'm doing.
[breathes on knuckles, rubs them off on my shirt]
We did a major upgrade this week..The hours were long the beer is cold...
Tech stuff is fun isn't it?
546 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:50:51pm |
re: #536 FurryOldGuyJeans
Ignore, totally WRONG quote. *Yeesh*
548 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:51:05pm |
re: #528 HoosierHoops
That maybe true..Although I have never gone to a Giants game wearing an A's hat or jersey..It just isn't done...Right NoCal natives? :)
Interesting. Because in NY and Boston ( I think I can speak for Boston ) we both may wear vulgar Tee Shirts and have some unique chants but it is mostly good natured. Maybe it is because both franchises are so successful here on the east coast.
549 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:51:22pm |
re: #536 FurryOldGuyJeans
They are conditioned that water only comes from a tap or in a bottle. She probably couldn't even conceive the liquid in the stream she followed was water.
Which is why the popular (expensive) bottled water has a nice picture of a stream, preferably with a waterfall, to give the impression it's "natural".
Too much college education.
550 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:52:15pm |
re: #532 Empire1
Experienced? Okay ... as you say, at least she got out. Dehydrated after several days I'm not surprised at, though, even if she drank from the stream; around here, at least, that'll give you nasty diarrhea.
I wonder if she had a knife, compass, and map? (Or, these days, hand-held GPS ... I want, I want!) And if blazing trees is legal in WA.
Running water in the Cascades is okay, it's when it pools up and sits that it's a problem.
552 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:52:49pm |
re: #527 Syrah
I winder if anyone has explained bluesnarfing to The One, or if he would even listen.
He wouldn't listen. Period.
553 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:53:02pm |
re: #476 vxbush
BINGO! I've experienced this more times than I care to count. I had a job where I worked directly under a misogynist of the worst kind. He alienated every woman who ever worked under him. i finally had to go to HR and say, "move me. I'm not working with him." He caused more problems in my department than I care to count.
Before the election I told my boss (who is a Dem) that Dems were showing themselves to be misogynists. His nephew overheard me (he's a far left Dem) and asked me what that meant and I said 'woman hater, go look it up' and he said "I don't know how to spell it". The nephew is a VP just because he shares the same last name as his Dad and Uncle. Drives me nuts.
554 | experiencedtraveller Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:53:11pm |
It was a ludicrous idea from the beginning. Here was a woman with virtually no history of political involvement or donations, no clear ideas about public policy, no natural constituency, a poor speaking voice and awkward personal skills, who hadn't even bothered to vote much of the time, who suddenly, for reasons she never explained, decided she should be given Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Apart from her last name, she was the worst candidate ever.
Ahhh the les majeste of the Democrats!
555 | Empire1 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:53:23pm |
re: #518 jcm
Our water supply in Seattle and surrounding areas is surface water run off in the Cascades, minimally treated.
In that case, I retract my caveat about diarrhea -- lucky you! Don't try drinking surface water in this area, though. You WILL regret it!
556 | logboy Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:53:24pm |
The scene looked more like the leftovers of a massive college frat party.
Heaps of plastic bottles, food wrappers, soda cans, and newspapers, which blanketed the National Mall Wednesday morning, were a stark contrast to the stateliness and splendor of President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony a day before.
One hundred tons of trash were collected by city and federal sanitation workers, according to Department of Public Works public information officer Linda Grant.
In comparison, 40 tons of garbage were collected in New York City's Time Square on New Year's Day 2009 -- after one million people attended the celebration -- according to the city's Department of Sanitation.
558 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:54:12pm |
re: #524 lostlakehiker
How many women since Thatcher has the UK elected PM? How many women have been elected PM of Australia or Canada? We have Merkel (sp?) in Germany- how many other women PMs do we have in europe, or anywhere else for that matter?
Really now- BBIAB
559 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:54:32pm |
re: #549 jwb7605
Which is why the popular (expensive) bottled water has a nice picture of a stream, preferably with a waterfall, to give the impression it's "natural".
Too much college education.
A pretty picture makes it "natural" when most likely the stuff is lightly filtered tap water.
Just 'cuz someone read a lot of books they don't understand doesn't mean they are smart.
560 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:54:39pm |
re: #542 ploome hineni
did any of them bother to find out Gov Palin's record during her time as governor of Alaska?
She is an amazing woman, down to earth, no pretention, hard working
HAPPY with her husband, her children, her fmaily and her job
and I suppose she wasn't butch enough, or corrupt enough or sly enough to 'measure up' to the likes of Pelousey and Hillary and thried rate Couric
Good point. Her happiness pissed a LOT of people off to no end.
562 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:54:59pm |
re: #558 Sharmuta
How many women since Thatcher has the UK elected PM? How many women have been elected PM of Australia or Canada? We have Merkel (sp?) in Germany- how many other women PMs do we have in europe, or anywhere else for that matter?
Really now- BBIAB
When you are proven wrong...will you smile?
564 | Spare O'Lake Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:55:29pm |
He cited what he called the "most serious" revisionists who he said had concluded that "between 200,000-300,000 perished in Nazi concentration camps, but not one of them by gassing in a gas chamber."
- from the cited article
Just in case anyone thought the creepy Cardinal was perhaps just quibbling over the exact number of victims, this anti-Semitic Nazi apologist is clearly a major holocaust denier.
As far as the Pope's conduct is concerned, I am going to bite my tongue for a while and see if His Holiness chooses to correct this greivous error.
565 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:55:45pm |
re: #545 HoosierHoops
We did a major upgrade this week..The hours were long the beer is cold...
Tech stuff is fun isn't it?
Yes, it is. When I get to play on a project, I have a blast.
566 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:55:57pm |
re: #527 Syrah
I winder if anyone has explained bluesnarfing to The One, or if he would even listen.
Why would he listen? He's The One! No one would be so crass as to try to get around his security.
567 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:56:19pm |
we've been schooled by the liberals...J kennedy was groomed for years to be president...all kind of nefarious payola behind the back of the public, the electorate...BO has risen on those same principles of dirty politics, alliances, graft and sometimes illegal devices...where is the leaders of conservatism?...whoever they are they have submitted to the whip of the left....John McCain was a fraud...Sarah Palin was red meat...the wall is stout and I dont see a rise in conservative values again in my life....they dont know how to play the game...service is quaint and power is everything...the biggest share of the American people have resigned themselves to being ruled and there is no turning back now...that BO is president is an outrage of historical proportion...it's fucking epic....the tide has turned from representative politics to narcissism and the courts....they have achieved what they went for and it will be almost impossible to reverse it unless BO is fought tooth and nail every inch of the way...will Republicans fight?....dunno but dont think so...
570 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:57:49pm |
re: #509 reine.de.tout
I cannot tell you how often that happened to me.
Several times a week.I once was HR Director for an agency, and one day I was trying to explain a policy to an employee. We were in the break area. He argued and argued and argued with me.
Finally, another male employee, NOT an HR office employee, walked up, listened to the discussion, and told the first guy, well, yeah, she's right. What she's saying is in the Employee Handbook. First guy - well, he was surprised, but he finally admitted that perhaps he misunderstood the policy.
He was willing to believe another guy who said the same thing I was saying, and who "proved" his point by pointing out that it was in the Employee Handbook.
Neither of them, I think, ever realized - I HAD WRITTEN THE HANDBOOK.
There ya go. Have seen this kind of crap over and over again.
571 | mensamann Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:58:02pm |
re: #513 Soona'
Yes, it seems long overdue on the surface, but it isn't that the taxes are getting more onerous. It is the type of tax that is creating the negative response. A tax on sugared soda pop but not on diet? The social engineering through taxes and litigation, that has been increasingly intrusive into our private lives over the years, is beginning to become so overwhelmingly burdensome that I think people are starting look for an alternative. When the government started to try to steer the private sector with tax loopholes like the mortgage deduction, most people were happy to go along because they benefited from the seemingly harmless tax code. No one looked at the precedent that was set. I doubt many of the founders of our nation would have considered a tax deduction that promoted home ownership as a proper function of government.
572 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:58:15pm |
re: #557 Syrah
Bluetooth has some interesting vulnerabilities.
Hence my rate the other day about Barry's crackberry. He has absolutely the finest secure communication systems at his disposal. And he insists on using a vulnerable commercial network.
573 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:58:22pm |
re: #567 albusteve
...will Republicans fight?....dunno but dont think so...
Will Republican fight? Very doubtful since so many seem to think McCain was the epitome of what the party should be.
But Conservatives are just starting the fight.
575 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:58:46pm |
576 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:58:57pm |
re: #567 albusteve
we've been schooled by the liberals...J kennedy was groomed for years to be president...all kind of nefarious payola behind the back of the public, the electorate...BO has risen on those same principles of dirty politics, alliances, graft and sometimes illegal devices...where is the leaders of conservatism?...whoever they are they have submitted to the whip of the left....John McCain was a fraud...Sarah Palin was red meat...the wall is stout and I dont see a rise in conservative values again in my life....they dont know how to play the game...service is quaint and power is everything...the biggest share of the American people have resigned themselves to being ruled and there is no turning back now...that BO is president is an outrage of historical proportion...it's fucking epic....the tide has turned from representative politics to narcissism and the courts....they have achieved what they went for and it will be almost impossible to reverse it unless BO is fought tooth and nail every inch of the way...will Republicans fight?....dunno but dont think so...
do you feel better now?
;)
577 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:59:03pm |
re: #549 jwb7605
Which is why the popular (expensive) bottled water has a nice picture of a stream, preferably with a waterfall, to give the impression it's "natural".
Too much college education.
There is a bottled water (Mountain Valley Spring Water) that actually does come from a spring in the Ozarks. I've been to the plant, and it's an interesting place. The water actually has a taste, due to the calcium and magnesium imparted when the water bubbles up through the limestone and sandstone mountain.
578 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:59:10pm |
579 | Sheepdogess Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:59:27pm |
re: #533 quickjustice
A candidate who promised real change (as in lower taxes and less government) could get elected in New York. That's whom New Yorkers thought Spitzer was. They were disappointed.
They should be angry.
580 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:59:31pm |
re: #566 FurryOldGuyJeans
Why would he listen? He's The One! No one would be so crass as to try to get around his security.
his security people will take care of it. They don't come and go, they are there.
581 | Wendya Fri, Jan 23, 2009 4:59:39pm |
re: #454 Silhouette
There are hundreds of reasons not to vote for Hillary. It is selling her short to assign misogyny as the sole motivation.
70% of unmarried women voted for Obama. If it had been McCain/Hillary, McCain would have bled off some of those votes. It's just a fact that the majority of unmarried women will always vote for the man who promises to take care of them.
582 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:00:11pm |
re: #565 vxbush
Yes, it is. When I get to play on a project, I have a blast.
We had a really cool girl transfer here from silly cone valley..She is in the cube next to me..We wax about being back home in California...But this is the promise land for growth..She is so sharp..She can log in a fix a Cisco switch in China in no time and run to Starbucks to buy coffee for everybody...
Mama and her are becoming fast friends...
583 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:00:12pm |
re: #572 jcm
Hence my rate the other day about Barry's crackberry. He has absolutely the finest secure communication systems at his disposal. And he insists on using a vulnerable commercial network.
PIMF rant.....
585 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:00:40pm |
re: #580 Outrider
his security people will take care of it. They don't come and go, they are there.
He better hire better security people than the crop he had during the campaign.
586 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:01:21pm |
587 | Spare O'Lake Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:01:23pm |
re: #564 Spare O'Lake
PIMF - "cardinal" should read "bishop".
588 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:01:43pm |
re: #584 ploome hineni
and
she is georgous
/she is a grandmother....lol
And has a good looking husband (from what I HEAR...) NTTAWTT
589 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:02:02pm |
re: #573 FurryOldGuyJeans
Will Republican fight? Very doubtful since so many seem to think McCain was the epitome of what the party should be.
But Conservatives are just starting the fight.
Hannity was on a rant about this very subject today on his radio show. Slowly but surely, it will become very clear to the existing GOP that their wussiness is unacceptable to the voter base.
590 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:03:18pm |
re: #576 nyc redneck
do you feel better now?
;)
really...lets go back to making jokes about Maureen Dowd and complain about our security...
591 | mensamann Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:04:37pm |
re: #533 quickjustice
Well said, and very true. Our state government is completely out of control. It will be a sad day when there is another Ruby Ridge type event that takes place in this state, but I fear it will come. Just a matter of time.....
592 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:04:52pm |
re: #585 FurryOldGuyJeans
He better hire better security people than the crop he had during the campaign.
his security people do not count. what counts is the White House security staff who are always present. There are military and civilians on this security team, communications is one major aspect of their responsibilities.
593 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:05:16pm |
594 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:05:18pm |
re: #567 albusteve
we've been schooled by the liberals...J kennedy was groomed for years to be president...all kind of nefarious payola behind the back of the public, the electorate...BO has risen on those same principles of dirty politics, alliances, graft and sometimes illegal devices...where is the leaders of conservatism?...whoever they are they have submitted to the whip of the left....John McCain was a fraud...Sarah Palin was red meat...the wall is stout and I dont see a rise in conservative values again in my life....they dont know how to play the game...service is quaint and power is everything...the biggest share of the American people have resigned themselves to being ruled and there is no turning back now...that BO is president is an outrage of historical proportion...it's fucking epic....the tide has turned from representative politics to narcissism and the courts....they have achieved what they went for and it will be almost impossible to reverse it unless BO is fought tooth and nail every inch of the way...will Republicans fight?....dunno but dont think so...
I hate to say it, and I'm desperately hoping I'm wrong, but I starting to feel the same way. Especially when one thinks about how despicable the public education system has been for the last one-and-a-half generations. How do we overcome this when most people just don't know any better?
595 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:05:47pm |
596 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:05:57pm |
re: #589 rightymouse
Hannity was on a rant about this very subject today on his radio show. Slowly but surely, it will become very clear to the existing GOP that their wussiness is unacceptable to the voter base.
slowly but surely....wtf?....this just illustrates how slow witted the GoP is...Duh!
597 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:06:25pm |
re: #593 Bloodnok
Snowman? Sexist.
/;-p
have to make snowmen because people complained about the large breasts on the snow women.
598 | BakaRanger Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:07:06pm |
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
599 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:07:25pm |
re: #598 BakaRanger
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
Humility?
600 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:08:53pm |
re: #598 BakaRanger
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
Because no one died and the one is more important than anything
601 | freetoken Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:09:19pm |
One more topic related to misogyny...
Look at the reception that the replacement for Hillary's seat is getting. A woman, she is nevertheless being pilloried by the left, and the so called "conservatives" haven't exactly rallied to her defense, even though it appears the woman has been among the most so-called "conservative" member of the entire Democrat caucus.
602 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:09:23pm |
re: #594 Soona'
I hate to say it, and I'm desperately hoping I'm wrong, but I starting to feel the same way. Especially when one thinks about how despicable the public education system has been for the last one-and-a-half generations. How do we overcome this when most people just don't know any better?
who will question BO over this Gitmo thing?...who spoke up on a national venue?...who called a presser?...nobody
603 | razorbacker Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:09:51pm |
re: #598 BakaRanger
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
The NTSB prolly hasn't released them to speak to the media yet.
604 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:09:59pm |
re: #596 albusteve
slowly but surely....wtf?....this just illustrates how slow witted the GoP is...Duh!
a problem is Republicans and in particular Conservatives almost always play by the rules. They get whacked by their own when they don't.
A public that has grown up with shows like American Idol and the survivor one would like to see that kind of behavior from everyone to justify their own enjoyment of the reality shows, but not everyone plays it.
605 | BakaRanger Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:10:08pm |
re: #599 Bloodnok
Maybe, but I would like to hear the real story about what happened from the horses mouth.
606 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:10:17pm |
re: #582 HoosierHoops
We had a really cool girl transfer here from silly cone valley..She is in the cube next to me..We wax about being back home in California...But this is the promise land for growth..She is so sharp..She can log in a fix a Cisco switch in China in no time and run to Starbucks to buy coffee for everybody...
Mama and her are becoming fast friends...
Excellent! I'm not doing network stuff; I'm doing a special Linux project, and there aren't too many folks here familiar enough with Linux to do it.
/got back faster than expected
607 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:10:18pm |
re: #601 freetoken
One more topic related to misogyny...
Look at the reception that the replacement for Hillary's seat is getting. A woman, she is nevertheless being pilloried by the left, and the so called "conservatives" haven't exactly rallied to her defense, even though it appears the woman has been among the most so-called "conservative" member of the entire Democrat caucus.
are they ever happy?
608 | brookly red Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:10:26pm |
re: #589 rightymouse
Hannity was on a rant about this very subject today on his radio show. Slowly but surely, it will become very clear to the existing GOP that their wussiness is unacceptable to the voter base.
Actually it is already clear to them at least from the fundrasing letters & e-mails I keep getting... but I just keep telling them too little too late. I do make an exception for King.
609 | Catttt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:11:19pm |
OK - my Siamese cat just shared my pate and brie. He now is reclining on his throne the heating pad, looking at me with "more?" eyes.
My domestic shorthair backed away - literally - when I offered her pate - poison! - and gave me her best "I'm going to claw you" look. I gave her some Whisker Lickin's - she is happier, but still not appeased.
610 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:11:22pm |
re: #598 BakaRanger
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
Still under a gag order? Being interviewed by NTSB?
611 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:11:56pm |
re: #584 ploome hineni
and
she is georgous
/she is a grandmother....lol
i hate katie couric.
that devious, jealous b*tch had hours of video of sarah.
she could have edited an honest version of the tape reflecting who sarah is.
which is after all, her job.
what i find it amazing is, that in spite of the cougar's best effort to hurt sarah's image, she couldn't make her look that bad.
and the awkward moments had blow back. they showed the true nature of the predatory katie quite well.
she's a spiteful jerk.
612 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:12:08pm |
re: #594 Soona'
Look at the complete loony asylum Britain has become.
613 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:12:37pm |
re: #605 BakaRanger
Maybe, but I would like to hear the real story about what happened from the horses mouth.
I should have added a sarc tag now that I think of it. Humility barely exists anymore in the days of the overnight six figure book advance.
614 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:13:03pm |
re: #610 vxbush
I thought Captain Sully granted his first interview with Katie whatever her name is......
615 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:13:16pm |
re: #598 BakaRanger
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
Upstaging the zero is not allowed.
616 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:13:26pm |
re: #604 Outrider
a problem is Republicans and in particular Conservatives almost always play by the rules. They get whacked by their own when they don't.
A public that has grown up with shows like American Idol and the survivor one would like to see that kind of behavior from everyone to justify their own enjoyment of the reality shows, but not everyone plays it.
it's all in the numbers...it's an equation....I do not give the feds one dime of my money...I do not watch one minute of network news....I'm small but to myself I count amigo...it's gut check time in America but sadly nobody is paying attention...
617 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:14:18pm |
re: #609 Catttt
OK - my Siamese cat just shared my pate and brie. He now is reclining on
his thronethe heating pad, looking at me with "more?" eyes.My domestic shorthair backed away - literally - when I offered her pate - poison! - and gave me her best "I'm going to claw you" look. I gave her some Whisker Lickin's - she is happier, but still not appeased.
Heh. Mine are curled up, one on the heater vent, the other on a warm spot on the floor. They are already begging for food, even though they won't be fed for another hour and a half.
618 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:14:21pm |
re: #601 freetoken
One more topic related to misogyny...
Look at the reception that the replacement for Hillary's seat is getting. A woman, she is nevertheless being pilloried by the left, and the so called "conservatives" haven't exactly rallied to her defense, even though it appears the woman has been among the most so-called "conservative" member of the entire Democrat caucus.
She was just announced this PM. We "conservatives" had nothing to do with it and have not criticized her one iota. This is a democratic party here. Oh and by the bye Al D'mato was standing right behind her today wasn't he?
619 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:15:06pm |
re: #593 Bloodnok
Snowman? Sexist.
/;-p
she is a girl snowman.
i put a girl hat and scarf on my snowman.
620 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:15:11pm |
re: #614 WhiteRasta
I thought Captain Sully granted his first interview with Katie whatever her name is......
Really? I hadn't heard that. Hmmm.....
621 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:15:17pm |
re: #609 Catttt
OK - my Siamese cat just shared my pate and brie. He now is reclining on
his thronethe heating pad, looking at me with "more?" eyes.My domestic shorthair backed away - literally - when I offered her pate - poison! - and gave me her best "I'm going to claw you" look. I gave her some Whisker Lickin's - she is happier, but still not appeased.
I found out a couple minutes ago that my black cat is fond of meatloaf.
He kept slapping my thigh (consummate beggar!) until I gave him a piece.
623 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:16:52pm |
re: #596 albusteve
slowly but surely....wtf?....this just illustrates how slow witted the GoP is...Duh!
You think the GOP is going to 'get it' any time soon? I wish. They've done more to destroy everything that Reagan built for the party, and Newt isn't exactly helping right now either.
624 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:16:59pm |
re: #619 nyc redneck
she is a girl snowman.
i put a girl hat and scarf on my snowman.
Hey, I'm hip. I fully support that snowman's rights. / :p
625 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:17:07pm |
re: #594 Soona'
I hate to say it, and I'm desperately hoping I'm wrong, but I starting to feel the same way. Especially when one thinks about how despicable the public education system has been for the last one-and-a-half generations. How do we overcome this when most people just don't know any better?
I feel simliarly depressed and pessimistic. I literally cannot beleive that we've actually done this. Not in any way because of Obama's race but because I understood that it was almost inevitable that the democrats win....but not the most leftist, unqualified one of the lot.
I'm still in shock, but that will pass. We've had our noses bloodied but the fight isn't over unless we say it is. I don't know how we'll do it but I do know that we must. The left, even though victorious, is weak in intellect and in common sense. The only thing they have going for them is a huge megaphone - the MFM.
We need to make the case for the inate common sense that is the foundation of our beliefs. I always take comfort from Burke's words -
All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke
Now is the time for stout hearts.
626 | BakaRanger Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:17:12pm |
re: #615 Soona'
Gad, you're right! What the hell was I thinking!
627 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:17:56pm |
re: #159 Occasional Reader
See, now just a week or two ago a female lizard declared that I "needed help" when I mentioned having blown up model airplanes with firecrackers as a lad.
It's a guy thing, ladies. You wouldn't understand.
Doesn't every lad do that?
628 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:17:59pm |
629 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:18:05pm |
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
630 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:18:33pm |
I'm having trouble posting tonight. The "post this comment" button stays greyed out, but if I reload the page, the comment shows up. Odd.
631 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:18:37pm |
632 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:18:47pm |
Conservatives Have Answered Obama's Call
On the other hand, the data show that liberals need a nudge to give.
In May of last year, the Gallup polling organization asked 1,200 American adults about their giving patterns. People who called themselves "conservative" or "very conservative" made up 42% of the population surveyed, but gave 56% of the total charitable donations. In contrast, "liberal" or "very liberal" respondents were 29% of those polled but gave just 7% of donations.These disparities were not due to differences in income. People who said they were "very conservative" gave 4.5% of their income to charity, on average; "conservatives" gave 3.6%; "moderates" gave 3%; "liberals" gave 1.5%; and "very liberal" folks gave 1.2%.
633 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:19:13pm |
re: #627 Cato the Elder
We used to steal my dad's lighter fluid and set fire to model boats.
634 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:19:18pm |
re: #628 WhiteRasta
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
Yes, to that poisonous witch.
Unfortunate choice, but thanks for posting that.
635 | FloridaAnole Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:19:18pm |
re: #469 Sharmuta
Women shun other women that threaten them or don't fit into the "group". This has been observed in girls as young as 5. It's deeply embedded. Sarah most likely did both- she didn't fit, and made them feel threatened.
I think the majority of men have come to embrace "modern women" but there is still a lot of "good ol' boy" sexism out there.
So between these two phenomenon, I just don't see how a woman gets to the Oval Office. I don't expect a lot of people to agree with me, because it's much nicer to have hope, but mine is spent. I would love to be wrong, but I don't look for it.
Between the two- I
Which may explain why both Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton were dissed by many members of their own party (politicians and voters), even though the dems claim to espouse dogmatic radical feminism.
636 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:19:41pm |
re: #623 rightymouse
You think the GOP is going to 'get it' any time soon? I wish. They've done more to destroy everything that Reagan built for the party, and Newt isn't exactly helping right now either.
As far as I'm concerned, Newt can fuck off.
637 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:19:48pm |
re: #623 rightymouse
You think the GOP is going to 'get it' any time soon? I wish. They've done more to destroy everything that Reagan built for the party, and Newt isn't exactly helping right now either.
nobody in that party is doing much...what's his name down in S Caroilna is pretty pissed at the bailout but there is no concerted effort to resist that I can see...people care but they need a voice and the GoP is not there for us....
638 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:20:45pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
"He's cut! He's cut! The Russian's been cut!" (Rocky IV)
/It's going to be so easy to break this guy.
639 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:21:16pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
I never heard of W doing something like that.
640 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:21:19pm |
641 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:21:28pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
Rush will take him to task for it too
642 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:22:28pm |
re: #608 brookly red
Actually it is already clear to them at least from the fundrasing letters & e-mails I keep getting... but I just keep telling them too little too late. I do make an exception for King.
We need to work this on a state by state basis with our GOP reps/groups and push up. If they don't get it, maybe at some point here, conservatives will have to think about a 3rd party.
643 | NYCHardhat Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:22:29pm |
re: #640 monkeytime
Obama shows his willingness to reach across the asile and work together
get fucked. not the poster...the story
644 | brookly red Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:23:01pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
can you smell the fear...
645 | monkeytime Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:23:29pm |
646 | jorline Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:23:37pm |
Geraldo Rivera on O'Reilly is thinks Caroline Kennedy would have been a great choice for NY Senator. Geraldo also said Paterson choice was like "the
blind leading the blind", O'Reilly reminded Geraldo that the governor was blind while shaking his head....smooth move Rivera...dumbass!
647 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:23:44pm |
re: #582 HoosierHoops
We had a really cool girl transfer here from silly cone valley..She is in the cube next to me..We wax about being back home in California...But this is the promise land for growth..She is so sharp..She can log in a fix a Cisco switch in China in no time and run to Starbucks to buy coffee for everybody...
Mama and her are becoming fast friends...
What does "wax" mean?
648 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:23:51pm |
re: #640 monkeytime
Obama shows his willingness to reach across the asile and work together
Obama needs to be reminded who works for who here.
650 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:24:13pm |
re: #644 brookly red
can you smell the fear...
I hope so...BOs enemies need to pounce fast and hard....push
651 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:24:28pm |
re: #640 monkeytime
Obama shows his willingness to reach across the asile and work together
Middle finger extended in response.........
652 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:24:41pm |
re: #644 brookly red
can you smell the fear...
It's like being chosen Hall Monitor and trying to get the kids who picked on you written up.
653 | jorline Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:24:57pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
The President is going to make his fight with the conservative right personal.
654 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:24:57pm |
re: #608 brookly red
Actually it is already clear to them at least from the fundrasing letters & e-mails I keep getting... but I just keep telling them too little too late. I do make an exception for King.
All I get is the usual "omygod this is gonna happen if you dont act now" crap.
Somebody (like Sarah Palin) needs to take lessons from Fred Thompson.
He has the most "presence" and "force" in a sit-down interview of any man I've ever seen, and I include Ronald Reagan in that sentiment. However, he is not energetic enough for a campaign.
The object is not to change the MSM, the object is to re-write the rules tthey have to follow. The Democratic party will remain in power as long as their rules are followed.
655 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:24:57pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
Turn about is fair play.
656 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:25:46pm |
re: #651 LGoPs
Middle finger extended in response.........
Well Obama reached across the aisle so often when he was in the Senate? Again another point McCain failed to drive home.
657 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:10pm |
Frodo Baggins was a feminist- he offered the One Ring to a she-elf!
658 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:10pm |
re: #648 jcm
Obama needs to be reminded who works for who here.
So the president works for the congressional Republicans?
659 | Shug Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:17pm |
Giraldo just playing conspiracy theory on the loofah man's show.
Gonna suck for Mr Rivers when goose guts turn up in both engines
660 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:23pm |
re: #653 jorline
The President is going to make his fight with the conservative right personal.
I never thought he wouldn't. BUT on the THIRD day!
661 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:41pm |
re: #655 Cato the Elder
Turn about is fair play.
A sitting President should be above that. This is what Rahm and the attack dogs are for.
663 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:52pm |
re: #654 jwb7605
All I get is the usual "omygod this is gonna happen if you dont act now" crap.
Somebody (like Sarah Palin) needs to take lessons from Fred Thompson.
He has the most "presence" and "force" in a sit-down interview of any man I've ever seen, and I include Ronald Reagan in that sentiment. However, he is not energetic enough for a campaign.The object is not to change the MSM, the object is to re-write the rules tthey have to follow. The Democratic party will remain in power as long as their rules are followed.
Except that presence was never seen whenever he was shown by the media, during the debates, etc. He has always been so passionate in his commentaries, but I never saw it anywhere else.
664 | Catttt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:26:58pm |
re: #598 BakaRanger
Any thoughts why we have not seen the flight crew of US Airways flight 1549 on TV yet? It has been over a week now.
The American Airline Pilots Assn. asked the pilot not to appear (he was going to be on the Today Show on Monday) due to the on-going investigation, according to news reports.
665 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:27:07pm |
re: #611 nyc redneck
i hate katie couric.
that devious, jealous b*tch had hours of video of sarah.
she could have edited an honest version of the tape reflecting who sarah is.
which is after all, her job.
what i find it amazing is, that in spite of the cougar's best effort to hurt sarah's image, she couldn't make her look that bad.
and the awkward moments had blow back. they showed the true nature of the predatory katie quite well.
she's a spiteful jerk.
She needs another on-air colonoscopy.
666 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:27:27pm |
re: #529 vxbush
I'd rather have your talent. I am a technological idiot. I try, but it's all Greek to me!
667 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:27:46pm |
re: #644 brookly red
can you smell the fear...
If the fairness doctrine doesn't immediately get reinstated, I'd surmise that Obama just f*cked up big time.
668 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:28:10pm |
re: #657 Sharmuta
Frodo Baggins was a feminist- he offered the One Ring to a she-elf!
Was Theoden a misogynist for not allowing Eowyn to fight? :)
669 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:28:11pm |
re: #657 Sharmuta
Frodo Baggins was a feminist- he offered the One Ring to a she-elf!
I would have as well...what a goddess...Galadriel
670 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:28:39pm |
671 | Sharmuta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:28:56pm |
re: #668 Bloodnok
Was Theoden a misogynist for not allowing Eowyn to fight? :)
Absolutely not- he left her in charge of Rohan.
672 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:29:06pm |
re: #663 vxbush
Except that presence was never seen whenever he was shown by the media, during the debates, etc. He has always been so passionate in his commentaries, but I never saw it anywhere else.
That's exactly what I meant. His first debate showed promise when he called out the moderator, but that was the extent of it.
673 | Nevergiveup Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:29:09pm |
President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
[Link: www.nypost.com...]
Yeah he's reaching out? With a Dagger!
674 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:29:21pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
obama has shown himself to nothing but a petty, undignified, classless man.
that is not going to change just because he has been elected to the highest office in the land.
forget the smile. he is as crass, defensive and hateful as michelle.
675 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:29:22pm |
re: #661 Bloodnok
A sitting President should be above that. This is what Rahm and the attack dogs are for.
BO is a street punk in a Brooks Bros suit...a thug
676 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:29:53pm |
re: #661 Bloodnok
A sitting President should be above that. This is what Rahm and the attack dogs are for.
Laying the "probable cause" for the fairness doctrine.
677 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:30:05pm |
re: #668 Bloodnok
Was Theoden a misogynist for not allowing Eowyn to fight? :)
just a concerned father...you got kids? :)
678 | vxbush Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:30:19pm |
re: #666 ArmyWife
I'd rather have your talent. I am a technological idiot. I try, but it's all Greek to me!
That's sweet of you, but sometimes I would be better off if I played like a dumb blonde. It probably wouldn't upset the guys as much. :D
/no disrespect to lizards
679 | A Man for all Seasons Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:31:17pm |
re: #666 ArmyWife
I'd rather have your talent. I am a technological idiot. I try, but it's all Greek to me!
No matter how complex it is..
It's still just ones and zeros..
680 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:31:18pm |
681 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:31:19pm |
re: #616 albusteve
it's all in the numbers...it's an equation....I do not give the feds one dime of my money...I do not watch one minute of network news....I'm small but to myself I count amigo...it's gut check time in America but sadly nobody is paying attention...
as you said, it's in the numbers. Get a blog. Put your opinion out there and it will attract like minded people. many Conservatives stay quite in public because they are afraid of being ostracized. It's time to respectfully, and with an informed opinion, speak up. And back up your assertions, which is almost always easy enough to do.
682 | Unakite Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:31:58pm |
683 | Soona' Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:32:41pm |
684 | Lee Coller Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:32:45pm |
re: #674 nyc redneck
obama has shown himself to nothing but a petty, undignified, classless man.
that is not going to change just because he has been elected to the highest office in the land.
forget the smile. he is as crass, defensive and hateful as michelle.
I wonder how long before buyers remorse sets in? Obama's never been in a position of authority before, it is already sounding like he likes it too much.
685 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:33:09pm |
re: #651 LGoPs
That's terribly immature and un professional.......
686 | brookly red Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:33:16pm |
re: #642 rightymouse
We need to work this on a state by state basis with our GOP reps/groups and push up. If they don't get it, maybe at some point here, conservatives will have to think about a 3rd party.
Actually yes, a third party is in order... some say it will take votes from the GOP, but I am a registered (Regan) democrat from NYC & even here in the belly of the beast the man on the street is pissed. (OK I tried to register Independent 3 or 4 times but it never sticks, so I know something about voter fraud too, we just learn to live w/it)
687 | Bloodnok Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:33:37pm |
After watching Return of the King the other day I have to say I was mightily unimpressed with Sam Gamgee's garden in his hobbit hole in the last shot of the film. For a hobbit who was supposedly "in the business" of horticulture I have to conclude that if he drew any kind of salary he was robbing Mr. Frodo blind.
688 | jorline Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:33:46pm |
re: #660 Nevergiveup
I never thought he wouldn't. BUT on the THIRD day!
Agree, it's going to be a long fight. Any bets on the Fairness Doctrine?
689 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:34:05pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
Now, this is a freaking petty comment to make!
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
690 | capitalist piglet Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:34:09pm |
691 | Wendya Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:34:20pm |
re: #629 Nevergiveup
PRESIDENT OBAMA TAKES ON RUSH LIMBAUGH IN NEW MEDIA WAR
On Drudge:[Link: www.drudgereport.com...]
I heard this before. Obama made some crack about Rush? So petty for a President to do.
That's extremely inappropriate but not unexpected. Obama never got past the emotional age of 12.
692 | LGoPs Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:34:23pm |
re: #685 WhiteRasta
That's terribly immature and un professional.......
In the same way when he extended his in the debates.....?
693 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:34:58pm |
What all is involved in creating a blog, anyway?
Charles does all kinds of fancy stuff programing his... obviously that's out of the reach of less all-knowing folk than our lizard king.
Outrider, you have one... what are the basic steps in setting one up?
694 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:35:28pm |
re: #681 Outrider
as you said, it's in the numbers. Get a blog. Put your opinion out there and it will attract like minded people. many Conservatives stay quite in public because they are afraid of being ostracized. It's time to respectfully, and with an informed opinion, speak up. And back up your assertions, which is almost always easy enough to do.
others here will say the same thing only more eloquently and with more authority...it's an old meme for some of us....it's an issure I'm not comfortable to press here with regard to Charles and LGF...I dont want to get busted for sedition...I've said enough except this...I hate the feds...
696 | RubyTuesday Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:35:34pm |
Lots of talk about conservatives needing a good strong racehorse with big balls. So...who, why? and who not? why not? It's too early to throw out some names (No names of actual horses, please)?
The Obamabot is exactly what's wrong for this country. Who's right?
697 | Wendya Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:35:39pm |
re: #662 ploome hineni
he is a petty thug
remember he supported and endorsed Blogoiovitch.that psycho
It's even worse than that. He ran Blago's first campaign for governor.
698 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:35:55pm |
re: #684 Lee Coller
I wonder how long before buyers remorse sets in? Obama's never been in a position of authority before, it is already sounding like he likes it too much.
It will get much worse, fast... depends on the reaction of the MSM if the people learn what a sad, strange, little man he is...
699 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:36:07pm |
re: #662 ploome hineni
he is a petty thug
remember he supported and endorsed Blogoiovitch.that psycho
NObama is a product of the most ugly and corrupt political morass in America
look at his associated and his appointments
gak
He's working hard to make sure he does averages a Gaffe-A-Day, isn't he?
Third day in and so far...
Doesn't attend Heroes Ball,
Visits Press Corps and gets snippy,
Snipes at Rush Limbaugh, a mere gad-fly.
700 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:36:14pm |
re: #690 capitalist piglet
Has this made it here yet? The Obamas enjoy, ummmm...er....
[Video]Nine seconds in.
WTF?
701 | FloridaAnole Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:36:36pm |
re: #640 monkeytime
Obama shows his willingness to reach across the asile and work together
Yeah, very presidential: "Nyah, nyah, nyah. I Won! (I don't have to listen to anything you losers say)."
The Senate Republicans should have responded with a dignified: "Well, scotty-wotty-woo-woo-woo."
As Rush Limbaugh's brother has observed, they're nasty winners.
702 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:36:38pm |
703 | esch Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:37:04pm |
re: #691 Wendya
That's because the despicable fool has never actually suffered or wanted and has never had to learn discipline or wisdom. Like most spoiled, ignorant, feckless leftists.
704 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:37:17pm |
re: #692 LGoPs
Yes. And no one from the dinosaur media called him on it....
705 | jcm Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:37:19pm |
re: #690 capitalist piglet
Has this made it here yet? The Obamas enjoy, ummmm...er....
[Video]Nine seconds in.
Puts the fist bump in a new light.
706 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:37:24pm |
708 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:38:30pm |
I went to lunch today with my old engineering manager (my real motive was to find some job leads).
The guy is one of those rare individuals who is incredibly liberal, and not one of those guys who holds things against you for being a conservative. He lost a bet (lunch) two years ago because he was convinced Bush would attack Iran. I told him he didn't understand things the way I understand things, and I don't gamble. He didn't listen.
So I asked him what his reactions were to Obama.
He said the only reason he voted for Obama was closing Gitmo. He was very pleased and said that was the only way America was going to gain respect in the world.
I replied that once again, we were at opposite ends philosophically. Terrorists give no respect, and deserve no respect. If we treated them like the dogs they are, publicly announced we had no use for them and publicly announced they had no rights coming to them, and acted accordingly, the world would actually respect us more. More countries would follow the example. The reason they don't do that now is because they are afraid. The reason they are afraid is because America is acting like a big woosie.
The above is an example of what I mean by changing the rules.
709 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:38:41pm |
re: #616 albusteve
...it's an equation....I do not give the feds one dime of my money...I do not watch one minute of network news...
Er, not to pry but how do you manage that first part?
I'm with you on the second, though. Don't watch cable either. It's Netflix all the way. Movies and documentaries that I pick.
710 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:38:54pm |
re: #628 WhiteRasta
That is a horrible picture of her! I can't stand her, but will give props were due, and she is normally cute as a button. What the heck happened here?
711 | Catttt Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:39:00pm |
re: #611 nyc redneck
i hate katie couric.
that devious, jealous b*tch had hours of video of sarah.
she could have edited an honest version of the tape reflecting who sarah is.
which is after all, her job.
what i find it amazing is, that in spite of the cougar's best effort to hurt sarah's image, she couldn't make her look that bad.
and the awkward moments had blow back. they showed the true nature of the predatory katie quite well.
she's a spiteful jerk.
Perky doesn't age well. In Ms. Couric's case, I call that payback.
Now, for a totally meow moment:
Here is a pic of her - false on left, true on right. The real Katie looks kind of like Kate Smith, except that Ms. Smith was far FAR more pleasant and talented.
The Flyers' secret weapon opening a game in 1976:
713 | RubyTuesday Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:39:36pm |
re: #699 CyanSnowHawk
Every gaffe suggests he's scared of being discovered to be a Paper Tiger. Or the nekkid emperor, if that analogy makes ya happy.
I think Rush and Hannity scare the sh!t out of him.
714 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:39:56pm |
re: #483 jwb7605
What used to piss me off was when I realized what was going on, and I used to have to say something like "I was talking to so-and-so, and she pointed out something I had overlooked. It was ... ".
Typically, the "she" got her position solidified, but promoted? Naw ....
The thing is that not all women at work should be treated with kid gloves just because they are women. That's silly. What I object to is the purposeful overlooking of women (usually by men, but not always) just because they are women.
I had a discussion with my boss some time ago about one executive who I was concerned about. He pooh-poohed my concern. That executive turned out to be an embezzler - big one at that. When the perp was caught, my boss didn't want to talk about it with me. lol!
715 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:08pm |
re: #693 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
What all is involved in creating a blog, anyway?
Charles does all kinds of fancy stuff programing his... obviously that's out of the reach of less all-knowing folk than our lizard king.
Outrider, you have one... what are the basic steps in setting one up?
I got a domain name through GoDaddy and registered a blog through them. they have all the basic tools and you don't have to be a programmer to get it going. It is probably the cheapest hobby I have ever had. I can't even come close to writing something like Charles'
If you go through wordpress or some of the others, I think you can get er done for free.
I can offer more advice off line if you are serious.
716 | WhiteRasta Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:18pm |
re: #710 ArmyWife
No makeup. No botox and a candid photo.
717 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:26pm |
re: #705 jcm
Puts the fist bump in a new light.
I don't care. What they do behind closed doors is their own business.
718 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:27pm |
re: #710 ArmyWife
That is a horrible picture of her! I can't stand her, but will give props were due, and she is normally cute as a button. What the heck happened here?
No make up or hairdresser would be my guess.
719 | ArmyWife Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:44pm |
re: #693 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
I have one - freebie with no bells and whistles. I want bells and whistles, but no can do. Maybe one day.
720 | brookly red Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:58pm |
re: #713 RubyTuesday
Every gaffe suggests he's scared of being discovered to be a Paper Tiger. Or the nekkid emperor, if that analogy makes ya happy.
I think Rush and Hannity scare the sh!t out of him.
I repeat: can you smell the fear?
721 | JacksonTn Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:40:59pm |
re: #712 Iron Fist
He hung at Rev. Wright's Church of Hate Whitey for twenty fucking years. He heard a message that pleased him, make no mistake about that. I think that we will see very quickly what Obama truly is.
He has no particular reason to hide anymore. Not for the next year or eighteen months, anyway. And there will likely be no better time than now to implement the policies he wants. Typically, the party in power loses votes during the mid-term elections. He might not, but why take the chance?
We already know what Obama is about ...he told us all along ...those who do not see did not want to see ...he will just act on his agenda now ...cuz he does have one ...
722 | jorline Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:41:13pm |
re: #695 jcm
Coming soon. Any bets on it being extended to blogs?
lol...Good evening, jcm. I saw your post just after posting mine...totally agree.
In relation to the blogs...scary thought, but not out of the "O" realm.
723 | Kenneth Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:41:25pm |
UNRWA mouthpiece just makes up stuff:
Ging told reporters that the number of extremists in the Strip had grown as a result of the three-week operation against Hamas, and stressed that it was important to prove that justice could be delivered in a lawful way.The extremists "are very confident in their rhetoric that there should be no expectation that justice will be delivered through the rule of law. Now we must prove that wrong," he reportedly said
How does he know the `number of extremists' had grown? What were the numbers before and after? Actually, if he bothered to listen to the rhetoric, he would know the extremists are determined to establish Islamic justice through the rule of Sharia law.
724 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:41:29pm |
re: #715 Outrider
I got a domain name through GoDaddy and registered a blog through them. they have all the basic tools and you don't have to be a programmer to get it going. It is probably the cheapest hobby I have ever had. I can't even come close to writing something like Charles'
If you go through wordpress or some of the others, I think you can get er done for free.
I can offer more advice off line if you are serious.
Yeah, please... always wanting to learn more. Nic is hot!
725 | mean Gene Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:41:36pm |
Just got back and 700+ comments on big heads?
Well, I used to perm hair for girls and most used 2 packages of rollers.
Then this girl came in and her head was SO BIG that her hair required 5 sets of rollers!
I never!
And she was a tall thin thing, too.
But that didn't seem to make her popular.
Maybe we should ask boys what they think of Bratz dolls.
726 | esch Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:41:37pm |
re: #717 Dark_Falcon
True except that's what he also wants to do all those who won't bow down and worship him.
727 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:41:45pm |
re: #699 CyanSnowHawk
He's working hard to make sure he does averages a Gaffe-A-Day, isn't he?
Third day in and so far...
Doesn't attend Heroes Ball,
Visits Press Corps and gets snippy,
Snipes at Rush Limbaugh, a mere gad-fly.
tosses photographers out of Oval office
and don;t forget that whole campaign attitude of not answering questions he didn't like
729 | CyanSnowHawk Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:43:25pm |
re: #713 RubyTuesday
Every gaffe suggests he's scared of being discovered to be a Paper Tiger. Or the nekkid emperor, if that analogy makes ya happy.
I think Rush and Hannity scare the sh!t out of him.
They do, I'm sure of it. I was completely surprised by the naivety on display with the whole thought that he could come down and 'hang out' with the press corps.
730 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:43:38pm |
re: #722 jorline
lol...Good evening, jcm. I saw your post just after posting mine...totally agree.
In relation to the blogs...scary thought, but not out of the "O" realm.
They didn't blow all that effort on "electronic operations" during the campaign w/o fully coming to grips with the fact they must shut down the free exchange of ideas to get their way.
And paying Obamabots to troll and flood boards is inefficient as hell.
731 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:44:07pm |
re: #654 jwb7605
All I get is the usual "omygod this is gonna happen if you dont act now" crap.
Somebody (like Sarah Palin) needs to take lessons from Fred Thompson.
He has the most "presence" and "force" in a sit-down interview of any man I've ever seen, and I include Ronald Reagan in that sentiment. However, he is not energetic enough for a campaign.The object is not to change the MSM, the object is to re-write the rules tthey have to follow. The Democratic party will remain in power as long as their rules are followed.
I love Fred. His message is clear and down to earth. No BS.
The GOP leader types would be wise to listen to him or we will keep losing elections over and over again.
732 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:44:08pm |
re: #673 Nevergiveup
President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
[Link: www.nypost.com...]
Yeah he's reaching out? With a Dagger!
wow, you'd think his handlers would try to encourage him to quit showing his ass.
this really worries me. this wildly inappropriate cattiness from the president, who should be focusing on important issues.
it shows he has poor judgment abt. proper acceptable social behavior.
i don't trust him. he's out of control. very unbecoming conduct.
worrisome.
733 | Unakite Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:45:25pm |
re: #657 Sharmuta
Frodo Baggins was a feminist- he offered the One Ring to a she-elf!
He offered it to a long-haired, scraggly old man first.
734 | ciaospirit Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:45:41pm |
How inspiring can it be for blacks to have a black President who doesn't even know what's in his executive orders so he has to ask the white guy during the press conference?
OBAMA: (chiseling in marble sound effect) In order to effect the appropriate disposition of individuals currently detained by the Department of Defense at Guantanamo, uh, and promptly to close the detention facility at Guantanamo consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States and interests of justice, I hereby order. And we then we will then, uh, provide the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed no later than, uh, one year from now. We will be... Uhhh.... Ummm.... Is there a separate executive order, Greg, with respect to how we're going to dispose of the detainees? Is that it, eh, uh, what we're doing?CRAIG: We'll set up a process!
OBAMA: We will be, uh, setting up a process whereby this is going to be taking place.
736 | esch Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:46:45pm |
re: #730 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Just can't do it without shutting it down completely. Won't happen.
737 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:47:53pm |
re: #731 rightymouse
I love Fred. His message is clear and down to earth. No BS.
The GOP leader types would be wise to listen to him or we will keep losing elections over and over again.
Lots of GOP leader types are conservative.
The trick is to study and reproduce his technique and delivery.
And be able to stand up for more than an hour while doing so.
738 | nyc redneck Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:48:52pm |
re: #684 Lee Coller
I wonder how long before buyers remorse sets in? Obama's never been in a position of authority before, it is already sounding like he likes it too much.
but he is very uncomfortable w/ it.
wow, and our enemies are watching him squirm.
739 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:49:12pm |
re: #736 esch
Just can't do it without shutting it down completely. Won't happen.
He is the One, you know... and they can always keep some Obamabots on duty to take care of any stragglers that slip through the perimeter.
740 | Outrider Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:49:16pm |
re: #724 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Yeah, please... always wanting to learn more. Nic is hot!
I'll happily send you an E-mail stating what I did and any challenges I encountered.
ArmyWife and a few others can give some more appropriate advice if you want a free blog.
742 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:50:20pm |
re: #709 Cato the Elder
Er, not to pry but how do you manage that first part?
I'm with you on the second, though. Don't watch cable either. It's Netflix all the way. Movies and documentaries that I pick.
I've been harrassed for years by the IRS...I work for cash only now...they know who I am and where they can find me....I've been audited and consulted and threatened with jail...I pay my own way and have little to give them back now...I file and attach a letter every year that I cant give them any money...they beat me up for awhile and now ignore me...they can run me down anytime they want but I dont care and they know it...I do not owe a penny to anyone...my assets are held by others...I have bank accounts offshore that were stuffed with dollars I took there myself over and over....it's a scary way to live....federal time is no joke...they will get me sooner or later if they want but my kids are grown and I'm on a rampage...I hate the feds and they know it...
743 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:50:27pm |
re: #740 Outrider
I'll happily send you an E-mail stating what I did and any challenges I encountered.
ArmyWife and a few others can give some more appropriate advice if you want a free blog.
Great... much appreciated!
744 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:51:03pm |
re: #741 Iron Fist
The problem with Fred is that he didn't want power. He'd have taken the nomination if he'd won, and he'd have done at least as much as McCain did to win, but he didn't want it with the single-minded obsessiveness to actually win. I suspect that he was relieved when he didn't get the nomination.
1000% agree.
Fred! needs to be a trainer.
And then, when successful, Secretary of State.
745 | IslandLibertarian Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:51:10pm |
re: #669 albusteve
I would have as well...what a goddess...Galadriel
"Do you like what you doth see...?" said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within. Frito's throat was dry, though his head reeled with desire and ale.
She slipped off the flimsy garment and strode toward the fascinated boggie unashamed of her nakedness. She ran a perfect hand along his hairy toes, and he helplessly watched them curl with the fierce insistent wanting of her.
"Let me make thee more comfortable," she whispered hoarsely, fiddling with the clasps of his jerkin, loosening his sword belt with a laugh. "Touch me, oh touch me," she crooned.
Frito's hand, as though of its own will, reached out and traced the delicate swelling of her elf-breast, while the other slowly crept around her tiny, flawless waist, crushing her to his barrel chest.
"Toes, I love hairy toes," she moaned, forcing him down on the silvered carpet. Her tiny pink toes caressed the luxuriant fur of his instep while Frito's nose sought out the warmth of her precious elf-navel.
"But I'm so small and hairy, and...and you're so beautiful," Frito whimpered, slipping clumsily out of his crossed garters.
The elf-maiden said nothing, but only sighed deep in her throat and held him more firmly to her faunlike body. "There is one thing you must do for me first," she whispered into one tufted ear.
"Anything," sobbed Frito, growing frantic with his need. "Anything!"
She closed her eyes and then opened them to the ceiling. "The Ring," she said. "I must have your Ring."
Frito's whole body tensed. "Oh no," he cried, "not that! Anything but...that."
"I must have it," she said both tenderly and fiercely. "I must have the Ring!"
Frito's eyes blurred with tears and confusion. "I can't," he said. "I musn't!"
But he knew resolve was no longer strong in him. Slowly, the elf-maiden's hand inched toward the chain in his vest pocket, closer and closer it came to the Ring Frito had guarded so faithfully...
746 | RubyTuesday Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:53:54pm |
re: #738 nyc redneck
I think all he wanted to do was win the personality contest as the *ta da* first black man, give his friends rewards for helping him, and let others do the work. Ask W how much fun it is to hear "It's Bush's fault" ad nauseum. He's got plenty of thugs and toadies surrounding him so he can keep looking like Miss Congeniality at the pageant.
747 | Unakite Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:53:56pm |
re: #711 Catttt
Perky doesn't age well. In Ms. Couric's case, I call that payback.
Now, for a totally meow moment:
Here is a pic of her - false on left, true on right. The real Katie looks kind of like Kate Smith, except that Ms. Smith was far FAR more pleasant and talented.
The Flyers' secret weapon opening a game in 1976:
[Video]
748 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:54:32pm |
re: #745 IslandLibertarian
"Do you like what you doth see...?" said the voluptuous elf-maiden as she provocatively parted the folds of her robe to reveal the rounded, shadowy glories within. Frito's throat was dry, though his head reeled with desire and ale.
She slipped off the flimsy garment and strode toward the fascinated boggie unashamed of her nakedness. She ran a perfect hand along his hairy toes, and he helplessly watched them curl with the fierce insistent wanting of her.
"Let me make thee more comfortable," she whispered hoarsely, fiddling with the clasps of his jerkin, loosening his sword belt with a laugh. "Touch me, oh touch me," she crooned.
Frito's hand, as though of its own will, reached out and traced the delicate swelling of her elf-breast, while the other slowly crept around her tiny, flawless waist, crushing her to his barrel chest.
"Toes, I love hairy toes," she moaned, forcing him down on the silvered carpet. Her tiny pink toes caressed the luxuriant fur of his instep while Frito's nose sought out the warmth of her precious elf-navel.
"But I'm so small and hairy, and...and you're so beautiful," Frito whimpered, slipping clumsily out of his crossed garters.
The elf-maiden said nothing, but only sighed deep in her throat and held him more firmly to her faunlike body. "There is one thing you must do for me first," she whispered into one tufted ear.
"Anything," sobbed Frito, growing frantic with his need. "Anything!"
She closed her eyes and then opened them to the ceiling. "The Ring," she said. "I must have your Ring."
Frito's whole body tensed. "Oh no," he cried, "not that! Anything but...that."
"I must have it," she said both tenderly and fiercely. "I must have the Ring!"
Frito's eyes blurred with tears and confusion. "I can't," he said. "I musn't!"
But he knew resolve was no longer strong in him. Slowly, the elf-maiden's hand inched toward the chain in his vest pocket, closer and closer it came to the Ring Frito had guarded so faithfully...
wow...just wow...
749 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:54:42pm |
re: #636 Soona'
As far as I'm concerned, Newt can fuck off.
He lost me when he said hello to the human-made global warming nonsense and sat next to Pelosi while pontificating his nonsense. And he's gone downhill from there. So I agree with your sentiments.
750 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:55:44pm |
re: #742 albusteve
I've been harrassed for years by the IRS...I work for cash only now...they know who I am and where they can find me....I've been audited and consulted and threatened with jail...I pay my own way and have little to give them back now...I file and attach a letter every year that I cant give them any money...they beat me up for awhile and now ignore me...they can run me down anytime they want but I dont care and they know it...I do not owe a penny to anyone...my assets are held by others...I have bank accounts offshore that were stuffed with dollars I took there myself over and over....it's a scary way to live....federal time is no joke...they will get me sooner or later if they want but my kids are grown and I'm on a rampage...I hate the feds and they know it...
Dang. Hope you don't end up where you don't wanna be...I mean that most sincerely.
751 | albusteve Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:57:49pm |
re: #750 Cato the Elder
Dang. Hope you don't end up where you don't wanna be...I mean that most sincerely.
you have to take a stand somewhere...fuck the feds...it's my mission and I'll pay if they make me...so far so good...and thanks bro
752 | Unakite Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:57:58pm |
re: #711 Catttt
Perky doesn't age well. In Ms. Couric's case, I call that payback.
Now, for a totally meow moment:
Here is a pic of her - false on left, true on right. The real Katie looks kind of like Kate Smith, except that Ms. Smith was far FAR more pleasant and talented.
The Flyers' secret weapon opening a game in 1976:
My bad. Hit the wrong button (or the right one too quickly). Anyway, all I wanted to say was, Broadstreet Bullies! Not from PA, but got to see a Flyers/Redwings game at the Spectrum back then.
[Video]
753 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:58:05pm |
re: #745 IslandLibertarian
Bored of the Rings... and no, that scene is nowhere in the bloody book.
754 | n in wi Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:58:27pm |
re: #746 RubyTuesday
I think all he wanted to do was win the personality contest as the *ta da* first black man, give his friends rewards for helping him, and let others do the work. Ask W how much fun it is to hear "It's Bush's fault" ad nauseum. He's got plenty of thugs and toadies surrounding him so he can keep looking like Miss Congeniality at the pageant.
He wanted the position,not the job.
755 | Cato the Elder Fri, Jan 23, 2009 5:59:02pm |
re: #745 IslandLibertarian
Dang, dude. That's National Lampoon's "Bored of the Rings", right? I haven't thought of that book since the seventies. Got it in a box around here someplace...
756 | n in wi Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:00:25pm |
re: #749 rightymouse
He lost me when he said hello to the human-made global warming nonsense and sat next to Pelosi while pontificating his nonsense. And he's gone downhill from there. So I agree with your sentiments.
I used to like Newt, alot. Now he only seems to have something to say when he's plugging a book. Which is every 3 mo.
757 | reine.de.tout Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:03:00pm |
re: #646 jorline
Geraldo Rivera on O'Reilly is thinks Caroline Kennedy would have been a great choice for NY Senator. Geraldo also said Paterson choice was like "the
blind leading the blind", O'Reilly reminded Geraldo that the governor was blind while shaking his head....smooth move Rivera...dumbass!
Geraldo is an idiot.
758 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:07:19pm |
re: #741 Iron Fist
The problem with Fred is that he didn't want power. He'd have taken the nomination if he'd won, and he'd have done at least as much as McCain did to win, but he didn't want it with the single-minded obsessiveness to actually win. I suspect that he was relieved when he didn't get the nomination.
He came in late. Not late by normal standards, but late to this past crazy election cycle. Perhaps if he had come in earlier, things would have been different. By the time he threw his hat in the ring, McCain had already been tagged as 'it'. Fred will have his place in our party history, I don't think we've heard the last of him.
759 | jwb7605 Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:09:39pm |
re: #758 rightymouse
He came in late. Not late by normal standards, but late to this past crazy election cycle. Perhaps if he had come in earlier, things would have been different. By the time he threw his hat in the ring, McCain had already been tagged as 'it'. Fred will have his place in our party history, I don't think we've heard the last of him.
I'd like to see him replace Greta.
760 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:12:38pm |
re: #742 albusteve
I've been harrassed for years by the IRS...I work for cash only now...they know who I am and where they can find me....I've been audited and consulted and threatened with jail...I pay my own way and have little to give them back now...I file and attach a letter every year that I cant give them any money...they beat me up for awhile and now ignore me...they can run me down anytime they want but I dont care and they know it...I do not owe a penny to anyone...my assets are held by others...I have bank accounts offshore that were stuffed with dollars I took there myself over and over....it's a scary way to live....federal time is no joke...they will get me sooner or later if they want but my kids are grown and I'm on a rampage...I hate the feds and they know it...
That is a very odd post. Why in the world would you say anything like this on an open forum?
761 | Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:13:29pm |
762 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:13:46pm |
re: #592 Outrider
his security people do not count. what counts is the White House security staff who are always present. There are military and civilians on this security team, communications is one major aspect of their responsibilities.
The insistence that O keeps his blackberry, security concerns be damned, makes your assertions less than compelling. O wants something, and he has people that will do it, currently in-place rules and procedures not withstanding.
763 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:14:01pm |
764 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:14:42pm |
765 | FurryOldGuyJeans Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:16:45pm |
re: #760 rightymouse
That is a very odd post. Why in the world would you say anything like this on an open forum?
Maybe someone needs their meds dosage adjusted.
766 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:16:45pm |
re: #756 n in wi
I used to like Newt, alot. Now he only seems to have something to say when he's plugging a book. Which is every 3 mo.
He's lost his way ideologically.
767 | rightymouse Fri, Jan 23, 2009 6:17:48pm |
re: #765 FurryOldGuyJeans
Maybe someone needs their meds dosage adjusted.
Or slow down on the booze. Yikes!