Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it…. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
— Jimmy Swaggart
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srb1976 Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:17:29pm |
How does a 4 year old on perscription cough syrup manage to still b e awake @ 1 AM? I'm trying to outwait him, but I don't know if i can
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Salem Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:17:42pm |
re: #1 Sharmuta
And how much money did this guy pay for sex?
I suppose he blamed all that on Darwin, too.
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:17:57pm |
re: #2 sngnsgt
Ahhh, open late for business...
Open all night for your blogging and troll hunting pleasure...
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:19:39pm |
".... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory"
And that's a scientific fact!
/
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:21:16pm |
re: #2 sngnsgt
Ahhh, open late for business...
Been waiting, drink in hand (not on the floor yet)(my drink, not me(.
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Rustler Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:23:09pm |
re: #1 Sharmuta
3.7 million dollars or wait nm that just recently occured.
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:25:06pm |
Does this mean that atheists accept Satanic theory or that Satanists are atheists?
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srb1976 Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:26:29pm |
re: #10 Gus 802
Does this mean that atheists accept Satanic theory or that Satanists are atheists?
Neer quite got the whole "atheists worship the devil" thing..... seems a bit of a stretch even for folks used to...stretching
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:26:34pm |
re: #6 freetoken
Bet he overpaid.
There is no amount of money that could qualify as 'overpaying' for sex with Swaggart.
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freetoken Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:26:59pm |
re: #10 Gus 802
Literally, it means that non-atheists are incapable of accepting evolution. From which it would follow that the Pope is an atheist (assuming the Pope actually believes the official statements of the Vatican.)
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:28:15pm |
re: #12 srb1976
Neer quite got the whole "atheists worship the devil" thing..... seems a bit of a stretch even for folks used to...stretching
Yes, a moment of befuddlement followed by greater befuddlement of the masses.
/
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:28:44pm |
A unicorn walks into a bar and sits down to order a drink.
The bartender walks over and says " Hey, why the long face?"
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MrPaulRevere Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:28:45pm |
Swaggart was caught in Louisiana...I'm just sayin'...
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theheat Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:30:43pm |
Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.
Straight from the Reverend Of The Fallen Pants.
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:30:52pm |
re: #15 freetoken
Literally, it means that non-atheists are incapable of accepting evolution. From which it would follow that the Pope is an atheist (assuming the Pope actually believes the official statements of the Vatican.)
Ah. Speaking of the Vatican. I was searching there and found this statement from Cardinal Paul Poupard:
Atheism and non-belief, phenomena that seemed to have something rather masculine and urban about them and to be found particularly among those with an above-average culture, have changed their profile and now seem to be connected more with a lifestyle. Consequently, non-belief is increasing among women who go out to work
That was from 2004 so it's a rather modern line of thought. So, all yee husbands out there! Beware, work may make your wif into an atheist and perhaps later into a Satanist.
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freetoken Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:33:30pm |
re: #23 Gus 802
That was from 2004 so it's a rather modern line of thought. So, all yee husbands out there! Beware, work may make your wif into an atheist and perhaps later into a Satanist.
Yeah... better keep them in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant...
/ducking
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Neutral President Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:33:43pm |
re: #12 srb1976
It's two parts cognitive dissonance plus one part willful ignorance.
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:33:53pm |
A priest has been summoned for a meeting with the archbishop. He's ushered into the archbishop's office, and the archbishop tells him that there's a conference at the Vatican the next week, and that he wants him to go there and represent their archdiocese at the conference. He also tells him that he's going to get to meet the pope. So the priest is very excited and honored, and the next week, he flies to Rome. When he gets there, he goes and rents a car and starts driving to the Vatican. He's driving along a deserted stretch of autostrada when a unicorn comes bounding out of the woods, and—BAM!—the priest smashes his car right into the unicorn. The dazed priest slowly gets out of the mangled Fiat and goes over to where the unicorn's lying. He stands there for a second in disbelief, marveling at the beauty of the dying creature. Then he notices that it seems as if the unicorn is trying to speak, so he gets down and cradles its head in his arms and leans in to listen. The unicorn turns his eyes toward the priest and, with his dying breath, says, "All my life, I never got to do what I wanted."
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SurferDoc Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:34:15pm |
The very few Satanists I ever met were pretty lame. I wonder if there was ever anything to Satanism at all?
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winston06 Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:34:35pm |
re: #27 SurferDoc
nah, it is a fashion statement more than anything else
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srb1976 Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:34:36pm |
re: #25 ArchangelMichael
It's two parts cognitive dissonance plus one part willful ignorance.
that must be it....the mix strikes me as somewhat hard to swallow = )
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winston06 Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:35:21pm |
USMC Fat Albery
[Link: www.airliners.net...]
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:35:22pm |
Guess everyone is either asleep or falling asleep.re: #28 winston06
nah, it is a fashion statement more than anything else
Beat me to it.
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:37:07pm |
re: #24 freetoken
Yeah... better keep them in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant...
/ducking
The interesting part is that Card. Poupard not doubt never worked at real job in his entire life and by nature his contact with women has been... limited.
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:37:20pm |
Two hunters were in a lodge, making small talk. One of them asked the other, "So, what do you hunt?" He answered, "I hunt unicorns."
The first hunter was startled, but said, "Really? How do you do that?"
The other answered "I find a virgin and hire her to help me. The virgin sits around in the woods until a unicorn comes to her. When it does, it sets off a snare."
The first hunter said "Boy, they must be hard to find. I've heard of them, but I've never seen one."
The second hunter said "Yeah, and there aren't many unicorns around, either!"
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srb1976 Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:41:16pm |
Alright, I guess the boy wins, I've got to get some sleep, night all
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:42:22pm |
"Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals. The two things seem to go together"Pat Robertson
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:45:49pm |
Boy, I tell ya, is it slow tonight! How slow is it? Why, it's so slow...(fill in the blank).
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:46:03pm |
re: #41 Unakite
Boy, I tell ya, is it slow tonight! How slow is it? Why, it's so slow...(fill in the blank).
It's lonely at the top, but you eat better.
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:47:16pm |
re: #33 Gus 802
The interesting part is that Card. Poupard not doubt never worked at real job in his entire life and by nature his contact with women has been... limited.
Some similarity with congress. But only the "never worked a real job" part.
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SurferDoc Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:47:34pm |
re: #41 Unakite
Boy, I tell ya, is it slow tonight! How slow is it? Why, it's so slow...(fill in the blank).
...it's so slow the muggers in Central Park are mugging each other.
/Johnny Carson circa 1975
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:48:34pm |
re: #43 Unakite
Some similarity with congress. But only the "never worked a real job" part.
Or, the White House.
/
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:49:37pm |
re: #44 SurferDoc
...it's so slow the muggers in Central Park are mugging each other.
/Johnny Carson circa 1975
Not only slow, but old.
/was watching JC circa 1975.
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:49:54pm |
You know, when guys like Swaggart say things like this they're just inviting derision.
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:50:08pm |
re: #46 Unakite
Not only slow, but old.
/was watching JC circa 1975.
your so slow that the "Chariots of Fire" theme song plays when you walk.
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:50:58pm |
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:51:36pm |
re: #49 Unakite
Especially the White House. But hey, Hope and Change.
And off we go to fight the Yes We Can Wars!
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:52:28pm |
re: #48 Dustyvet
your so slow that the "Chariots of Fire" theme song plays when you walk.
In 16 rpm.
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calcajun Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:53:31pm |
re: #39 Gus 802
Damn, those Satanists get around.
Is it required that Satanists have a devil- may-care attitude?
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Rustler Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:53:43pm |
re: #49 Unakite Secret Service is enroute for Insulting the president please remain indoors patiently while transportation to reeducation camp 1639 is arranged.
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:53:53pm |
re: #50 Dustyvet
It's slower that a tortoise on valium.
OK, night's still young but we have a contender.
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Dan G. Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:55:48pm |
For those who thought that evolution was the sole target of these dishonest madmen: Creationists declare war over the brain
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SurferDoc Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:56:03pm |
It's great to have a new crowd to work the old jokes again.
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Rustler Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:56:55pm |
re: #60 Dan G. Summer linked a similar article in the last thread.
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Dustyvet Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:57:04pm |
re: #61 SurferDoc
It's great to have a new crowd to work the old jokes again.
What is the definition of innocence?
A nun working in a condom factory thinking she's making sleeping bags for mice.
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Gus Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:57:39pm |
re: #64 Dustyvet
What is the definition of innocence?
A nun working in a condom factory thinking she's making sleeping bags for mice.
Nooooooooooo!
:)
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Dan G. Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:57:45pm |
re: #63 Rustler
Thanks. I actually tried to hunt it down for her, but I guess she found it before me.
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Brit in Japan Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:58:07pm |
A toupee and a piece of crap go into a bar.
The barman says; "I'm not serving you!"
"Why not?" says the toupee.
The barman says; "Well, you're off your head, and your mate's steaming!"
BiJ
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SurferDoc Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:58:14pm |
re: #64 Dustyvet
What is the definition of innocence?
A nun working in a condom factory thinking she's making sleeping bags for mice.
Ding!
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Unakite Fri, Feb 20, 2009 11:58:29pm |
re: #56 Rustler
Secret Service is enroute for Insulting the president please remain indoors patiently while transportation to reeducation camp 1639 is arranged.
Will do. Don't plan on going anywhere until they get here. Maybe if I hop on my tortoise and give it Valium, I can make a clean getaway.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:00:00am |
Today in History, February 21:
re: #1 Sharmuta
And how much money did this guy pay for sex?
I don't know - but Jimmy Swaggart first confessed his sin (without specifying the sin initially) on today's date - February 21, 1988!
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Dan G. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:00:31am |
re: #70 Rustler
I know. I posted it there to expand on her article, since this one dealt explicitly with the philosophy and the strategic goals of the DI.
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Brit in Japan Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:00:33am |
The Earth going round the sun is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
— Jimmy Swaggart if he lived a few hundred years ago.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:03:26am |
re: #17 Dustyvet
A unicorn walks into a bar and sits down to order a drink.
The bartender walks over and says " Hey, why the long face?"
We have the same joke in Las Vegas, but we replace "unicorn" with "Celine Dion".
;)
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:03:37am |
re: #74 Brit in Japan
The Earth going round the sun is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
— Jimmy Swaggart if he lived a few hundred years ago.
Not far of the mark.
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:05:08am |
Now I'm curious what the Satanist theory would be for the evolution of biology.
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Steffan Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:06:37am |
Quoting Jimmy Swaggart on anything regarding moral values or science is kinda like quoting Madoff on the stock market.
Swaggart, Falwell, Robertson.... those morons lost all rights to claiming moral rectitude by their actions. Swaggart tearfully admitted that he had "sinned".... and Falwell and Robertson blamed 9/11 on our sins. Stupid gits.
I think the only televangelists I actually enjoyed watching were Gene Scott and Fred Price. Scott was a trip to watch, especially when he cranked up his bureaucratic monkey toys. Fred Price was the only one I ever saw who actually had an open Bible in his hand on camera.
The last church that I or my family attended regularly was the drive-in church run by Robert Schuller before he built the Crystal Cathedral. He tore down the screen of a drive-in theater and built his church there -- there was an open balcony so he could directly address both the walk-in crowd inside the building, and the drive-in crowd (listening to him on the theater's speakers) out on the lot. AFAIK the Crystal Cathedral sits on the site of his original church, and has the same balcony arrangement.
Lately, I've been abiding by Matthew 6:6.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:10:11am |
re: #80 Steffan
Lately, I've been abiding by Matthew 6:6.
I'm more a Genesis 2:25 man, myself.
(No, I'm not married.)
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Rides a Pale Horse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:15:31am |
Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House.
One is from Chicago, another is from Tennessee, and the third is from Minnesota.
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The Minnesota contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure thejob will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100
profit for me."
The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then
says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my
crew and $100 profit for me."
The Chicago contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to
the White House official and whispers, "$2,700."
The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the
other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"
The Chicago contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you,
and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."
"Done!" replies the government official.
And that, my friends, is how the new stimulus plan will work.
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Brit in Japan Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:16:00am |
Slower than an asthmatic ant, with a bag of heavy shopping.
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:16:59am |
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Brit in Japan Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:20:00am |
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Dan G. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:21:11am |
Slower than the "stimulating" effects of the "stimulus". (Is backwards slower than forwards?)
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:21:44am |
re: #98 Dan G.
Slower than the "stimulating" effects of the "stimulus". (Is backwards slower than forwards?)
Only in a dream.
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Dan G. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:22:32am |
re: #99 Gus 802
Speaking of which... goodnight all few of you.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:23:03am |
re: #88 Gus 802
What country was that made in?
Gus, it was made by a guy named Ton Dor...did a web search and can't find out much about him.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:24:49am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:25:09am |
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:26:33am |
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:27:17am |
re: #101 Dustyvet
Gus, it was made by a guy named Ton Dor...did a web search and can't find out much about him.
OK, thanks. Interesting film.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:29:34am |
re: #95 gmsc
Slower than a geriatric slug on a salted snowed in street.
1. Late-night levity and just wanted to get some conversation going earlier. Thanks for playing along.
w
2. Slugs and salt, Eeewwww!
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:30:26am |
Is it always this slow around this time of the week and time?
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:30:37am |
re: #98 Dan G.
Slower than the "stimulating" effects of the "stimulus". (Is backwards slower than forwards?)
Just as fast, only in the wrong direction.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:30:42am |
re: #107 Gus 802
OK, thanks. Interesting film.
If you click on the video and go to you tube, he has an email address in the information box.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:32:10am |
Am I a bad person if this news just made my evening?
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:33:01am |
At an auction in Manchester a wealthy American announced that he had lost his wallet containing £10,000 and would give a reward of £100 to the person who found it.
From the back of the hall a Scottish voice shouted, "I'll give £150!"
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:34:46am |
A Scots boy came home from school and told his mother he had been given a part in the school play. "Wonderful," says the mother, "What part is it?" The boy says "I play the part of the Scottish husband!" The mother scowls and says: "Go back and tell your teacher you want a speaking part."
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:35:58am |
re: #110 Gus 802
Is it always this slow around this time of the week and time?
Funny, I've been asking myself the same thing. I guess time zones have a lot to do with it.
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:36:32am |
re: #112 Dustyvet
If you click on the video and go to you tube, he has an email address in the information box.
OK, Tom Dor, Israel.
Seemed Middle Eastern. I actually thought it might be from Iran.
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JimmyTheClaw Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:36:37am |
blah just hillbillie engineered a fix for a radiater heating system tommorow will go buy correct parts to fix so is this the drinking thread
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:38:49am |
re: #118 JimmyTheClaw
blah just hillbillie engineered a fix for a radiater heating system tommorow will go buy correct parts to fix so is this the drinking thread
Yep, we got areselves a ce-ment pond, a washboard fer the percussion, and a saw fer the high notes.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:39:18am |
The narrative is that this recession is driven by a credit crunch. So why is consumer lending arguably stronger than in any of the past 9 recessions?
[see link for graph]
Some suggestion from the article's comments:
link:
Securitization market became a big part of consumer finance, and is now largely gone. I don’t know that it’s reflected in these numbers
February 20, 2009, 1:46 pmm:
As businesses deleverage, which they are doing, they won’t be able to offer as much credit to consumers. The business credit crunch may not have flowed through to consumers yet.
February 20, 2009, 5:07 pmTXJim:
People still employed using credit to pay bills.
February 20, 2009, 10:01 pmTXJim:
ps…and large purchases of ammo and MRE’s.
February 20, 2009, 10:02 pm
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:39:24am |
re: #117 Gus 802
OK, Tom Dor, Israel.
Seemed Middle Eastern. I actually thought it might be from Iran.
Well done..nut then I'm sleepy as heck...:(
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:40:02am |
re: #121 Dustyvet
Well done..nut then I'm sleepy as heck...:(
Found it here:
[Link: www.aniboom.com...]
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:40:11am |
And why couldn't the loutish baseball umpire have his little boy sit in his lap? Because the son never sits on the brutish umpire.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:41:11am |
I think Socks the cat knew too much (like Buddy).
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:41:52am |
re: #113 Fenway_Nation
Am I a bad person if this news just made my evening?
Um..uh..let me think about that...NOPE! I'm paying my bills and I don't have $13 million or even $6.55 million. If you're making millions and can't rent an apartment, FU! Fire your financial adviser.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:42:59am |
A man goes into a fish n chip shop with a salmon under his arm. He asks 'Do you sell fish cakes here?' 'No' was the reply. 'Shame, it's his birthday.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:43:44am |
re: #125 Unakite
I can enjoy this on a couple of different levels, since Damon left the Red Sox in 2005 at the behest of his douchebag agent so he could get a fatter comission by having his client sign with the arch-rival Yankees...
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JimmyTheClaw Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:44:51am |
re: #119 Gus 802
Yep, we got areselves a ce-ment pond, a washboard fer the percussion, and a saw fer the high notes.
actually my friend who did the labor corrected me he did the work so it was afro-engineering
/rimshot
super putty (generic billy mays super putty) beer can pipe/hose clamps = quick fix so you dont need a plumber midnight friday night hey we even managed to make last call
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:45:50am |
re: #118 JimmyTheClaw
blah just hillbillie engineered a fix for a radiater heating system tommorow will go buy correct parts to fix so is this the drinking thread
Not sure what you said but since you asked, I've been drinking since (early this evening) and it's (late) and I've (been drinking).
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Gus Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:47:23am |
re: #128 JimmyTheClaw
Handy friend to have around. I remember some couple was fighting in the back of a tiny house I lived in and broke my bathroom window. He came by later and glued on an old record player cover to it. Looked funny and stupid but it worked.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:47:48am |
re: #123 Dustyvet
And why couldn't the loutish baseball umpire have his little boy sit in his lap? Because the son never sits on the brutish umpire.
Are you Scottish, by any chance (just asking)?
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:48:59am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:49:28am |
A minister was asked to dinner by one of his parishioners, who he knew was an unkempt housekeeper.
When he sat down at the table, he noticed that the dishes were the dirtiest that he had ever seen in his life.
"Were these dishes ever washed?" he asked his hostess, running his fingers over the grit and grime.
She replied, "They're as clean as soap and water could get them."
He felt a bit apprehensive, but blessed the food anyway and started eating. It was really delicious and he said so, despite the dirty dishes.
When dinner was over, the hostess took the dishes outside and yelled, to her dogs "Here Soap! Here Water!"
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Cato the Elder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:49:40am |
From Wiki on Swaggart:
On October 11, 1991, Swaggart was found in the company of another prostitute, Rosemary Garcia, when he was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol in Indio, California, for driving on the wrong side of the road. According to Garcia, Swaggart stopped to proposition her on the side of the road. When the patrolman asked Garcia why she was with Swaggart, she replied, "He asked me for sex. I mean, that's why he stopped me. That's what I do. I'm a prostitute." Rather than confessing to his congregation, Swaggart told those at Familty Worship Center that "The Lord told me it's flat none of your business."
Remind you of anyone?
Sura (33:50) - [Allah speaking] "O Prophet! surely We have made lawful to you your wives whom you have given their dowries, and those whom your right hand possesses out of those whom Allah has given to you as prisoners of war, and the daughters of your paternal uncles and the daughters of your paternal aunts, and the daughters of your maternal uncles and the daughters of your maternal aunts who fled with you; and a believing woman if she gave herself to the Prophet, if the Prophet desired to marry her--specially for you, not for the (rest of) believers; We know what We have ordained for them concerning their wives and those whom their right hands possess in order that no blame may attach to you [...]"
Sign of false prophets: Getting special messages from God excusing them for acts that they would condemn in others.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:52:38am |
Two packets of crisps were walking along the road. A passing car stopped and the driver asked if they would like a lift.
"No thanks," said the crisps, "we're Walkers.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:00:18am |
re: #135 Dustyvet
Two packets of crisps were walking along the road. A passing car stopped and the driver asked if they would like a lift.
"No thanks," said the crisps, "we're Walkers.
Two bees were flying along and one said, "I need to stop at a gas station." The second bee asked. "where do you want to stop?" The first bee said, "down there, at the Sinclair station." The second bee said "I can't stop there, I'm an Esso Bee."
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:00:34am |
Kerry Turns Over Hamas Letter to U.S. Consulate
There were conflicting reports over whether U.S. Sen. John Kerry accepted a letter from Hamas to President Obama while traveling in the Middle East -- but his spokesman now says he has turned over the letter after learning where it came from.
Sure he did...whatever you say John!
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:04:05am |
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:07:28am |
Today, we mourn the passing of the secret Swiss Bank Account:
BS agreed to turn over the records of people suspected of U.S. tax evasion. UBS also agreed to pay a $780 million "fine" to the US government to avoid prosecution.
UBS signals the end of the secret Swiss bank account
By Lynnley Browning Published: February 19, 2009
In the hush-hush world of Swiss banking, the unthinkable is happening: Secrets are spilling into the open.
UBS, the largest Swiss bank, agreed Wednesday to divulge the names of well-heeled Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts at the bank to evade taxes. The bank admitted having conspired to defraud the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and agreed to pay $780 million to settle a sweeping federal investigation into its activities.
[Link: www.iht.com...]
UBS Agrees to Pay $780M, Turn Over Swiss Banking Records
UBS will pay $780 million in fines, penalties, interest and restitution for conspiring to create sham accounts to hide the assets of U.S. clients from the U.S. government.
AP Wednesday, February 18, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $780 million and turn over once-secret Swiss banking records to settle allegations it conspired to defraud the U.S. government of taxes owed by big clients.
As part of the deal struck in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., UBS has made the unprecedented step of agreeing to immediately turn over to the U.S. government account information for U.S. customers of the bank's cross-border business.
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
[Lest you think that words have meaning, here's a dose of oxymoron.]
Bank secrecy maintained despite UBS deal: Swiss FinMin
Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:20am EST
BERNE (Reuters) - Swiss Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz said on Thursday Switzerland's treasured banking secrecy remained in place despite a landmark UBS tax settlement that involved it handing over to Washington some client data.
Merz said, however, that Swiss bank secrecy was not there to protect tax fraud.
"It is evident there has been tax fraud (at UBS)," Merz said at a press conference with the foreign press.
[Link: www.reuters.com...]
[The gun to their head. Also, the London Times (below) called this "kill the competition."]
U.S. raises stakes in showdown with UBS over Swiss bank secrecy
By Lynnley Browning Published: January 27, 2009
Raising the stakes in a showdown over Swiss banking secrecy, U.S. prosecutors have given UBS "several weeks" to hand over scores of American client names or ultimately face potential indictment over its offshore banking services, a person briefed on the matter said Monday.
While no indictment is imminent, this person said, any refusal to turn over the names would lead prosecutors to ask a U.S. judge to order UBS, the world's largest private bank, to comply with a prior summons demanding the names of American clients using hidden offshore accounts
[Link: www.iht.com...]
[Note -- this has been developing for some time]
From The Times
July 18, 2008
UBS closes Swiss accounts of US clients
Tom Bawden in New York
UBS caved in to mounting pressure from the US Government yesterday and announced plans to close the Swiss bank accounts of all its American customers and prepared to lift the veil of secrecy that has protected its clients for centuries.
[Link: business.timesonline.co.uk...]
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:10:09am |
re: #138 Dustyvet
Quislings, traitors and socialists crawling around unchecked in the upper echelons of power like so much vermin.
Can we last 'til 2010 at this rate?
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:11:22am |
re: #142 Fenway_Nation
Quislings, traitors and socialists crawling around unchecked in the upper echelons of power like so much vermin.
Can we last 'til 2010 at this rate?
God, I sure hope so.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:13:50am |
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:14:29am |
re: #140 gmsc
Ooh, I read some of this earlier, but not the part about closing accounts of US clients.
/s Damn, I don't know what I'm going to do with all of my money now. Oh, wait. I don't have any
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:16:04am |
re: #144 Fenway_Nation
There's always Lichtenstein or Monaco.
Monaco? In Spain?
//
(Quick explanation - yes, I know Monaco is its own country, and that it's Morocco that's in Spain. I had a buddy who always confused the two in high school. His confusion was so constant, I can't help but think of him anytime I hear about Monaco or Morocco.)
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:16:05am |
re: #145 DesertSage
Quislings?
:)
Quisling, after Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany to conquer his own country, is a term used to describe traitors ...
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:16:14am |
re: #144 Fenway_Nation
There's always Lichtenstein or Monaco.
I like Lichtenstein. Never been there, but would love to go.
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DesertSage Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:16:33am |
re: #146 Dustyvet
Yup Quislings...John Kerry's a card carrying quisling.
I like that word......Quisling!
Very good.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:16:49am |
re: #143 Dustyvet
I left out the MSM....which is kinda like the plague-carrying fleas on the vermin.
Seriously- I can always count on CNN or ABC or whomever to 'explain' a gaffe, insult or missing back taxes from someone in the 0bama administration.
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theheat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:17:21am |
re: #140 gmsc
I wonder how many politicians and religious figures will turn up.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:18:26am |
re: #152 Fenway_Nation
I left out the MSM....which is kinda like the plague-carrying fleas on the vermin.
Seriously- I can always count on CNN or ABC or whomever to 'explain' a gaffe, insult or missing back taxes from someone in the 0bama administration.
I agree, funny how we have to got meaningful news from blog sites...
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:19:30am |
re: #153 theheat
Anyone taking bets on Geihtner and Dashle showing up on the list?
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:20:55am |
re: #151 DesertSage
I like that word......Quisling!
Very good.
Vidkun Quisling, executed October 24, 1945, Akershus
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:23:41am |
re: #150 Unakite
Heh....I was watching Bloomberg earlier today and they had a lawyer on explaining some of the 'banking privacy' laws in different jurisdictions- theoretically the assets/privacy are protected from civil suits, not criminal investigations.
But this guy also mentioned Antigua (probably not the best idea given what happened w/Stanford, atho that made it topical), Belieze, Monaco and Litchenstein.
They also had someone talking about utilities and which company's dividends were relatively safe.....unfortunately they ran out of time before discussing the utilities who's dividends might be at risk
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:28:10am |
re: #153 theheat
I wonder how many politicians and religious figures will turn up.
I don't know, but I'm betting there's more sweating than usual in Hollywood and DC.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:29:47am |
re: #154 Dustyvet
I agree, funny how we have to got meaningful news from blog sites...
I'm stuck with CNN on my mobile phone- generally only good for looking up sotck quotes on a 20-minute delay. Before I can get to the Money section, I'm treated to various headlines like '0bama Still Popular Despite Slumping Approval Ratings' or 'Holders Comments on Race Draw Criticism, Praise' when the 'praise' comes from an unnamed Huffpo commenter....
Pravda can learn a few things from these guys.
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:31:20am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:33:44am |
re: #153 theheat
I wonder how many politicians and religious figures will turn up.
I bet if there's one conservative politician/talk radio host etc who's name turns up, his (or her) name will be the only one plastered all over the news even though there'd be dozens of leftist/lib/Dem politicians, entertainers or pundits who turns up in the same audit...
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Dustyvet Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:35:34am |
Weet dreams all...I sitting here checking my eyelids for pin holes...
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:36:48am |
The New York Times announced a plan today that they say will help cut costs.
They believe that by switching from their current source of newsprint to printing their Sunday Edition on actual New York Times stock certificates, they should be able to enjoy great savings!
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:39:50am |
re: #162 Fenway_Nation
I bet if there's one conservative politician/talk radio host etc who's name turns up, his (or her) name will be the only one plastered all over the news even though there'd be dozens of leftist/lib/Dem politicians, entertainers or pundits who turns up in the same audit...
I can just see it . . .
Among the people hiding their money were: CHUCK NORRIS! TED NUGENT! KELSEY GRAMMAR!
...and then, when the story is continued on page 13...
(oh, and records of Bill Clinton, Barack 0bama, and Jimmy Carter have been alleged to be among the records, too.)
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:41:11am |
re: #157 Fenway_Nation
Heh....I was watching Bloomberg earlier today and they had a lawyer on explaining some of the 'banking privacy' laws in different jurisdictions- theoretically the assets/privacy are protected from civil suits, not criminal investigations.
But this guy also mentioned Antigua (probably not the best idea given what happened w/Stanford, atho that made it topical), Belieze, Monaco and Litchenstein.
They also had someone talking about utilities and which company's dividends were relatively safe.....unfortunately they ran out of time before discussing the utilities who's dividends might be at risk
Well, I know here in Virginia they're talking about raising rates for electricity several times in the next year or so. On the upside, part of the increase is to build a new coal-burning plant (eff the wind).
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:41:36am |
re: #164 gmsc Lol the Failure of the NYTimes is having effects even out here in New Mexico. The Area I live in recently lost it's access to the Albuquerque journal as a result of the Journal losing a $2 million a year contract to print and sell the NYtimes here in New Mexico. Our local area will also be losing access to USA Today starting March first tho our USA Today actually is printed and distributed from Pheonix, AZ it's the Albuquerque journal office that contracts with the Pheonix paper which prints our USA Today. Not that big a deal losing the USA Today but losing the Alb Journal means it's hell for me to keep up with new legislation in the state.(and my daily comics :()
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:41:45am |
re: #164 gmsc
To be fair, most stocks' prices are in the toilet right now- even the companies that provide something useful (read pretty much anything but newspapers), let alone the NY Times.
Having said that, the NY Times, McClatchey or the Tribune co. were waaaay ahead of the curve in the stock-circling-the-drain department.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:42:08am |
0bama on Geithner: Oops!
0bama on Richardson: Oops!
0bama on Killefer: Oops!
0bama on Solis: Oops!
0bama on Daschle: Oops!
USA on 0bama: Oops!
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:43:32am |
re: #163 Dustyvet
Weet dreams all...I sitting here checking my eyelids for pin holes...
Checked mine. None. Chair is holding me up.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:44:46am |
re: #168 Fenway_Nation
To be fair, most stocks' prices are in the toilet right now- even the companies that provide something useful (read pretty much anything but newspapers), let alone the NY Times.
Having said that, the NY Times, McClatchey or the Tribune co. were waaaay ahead of the curve in the stock-circling-the-drain department.
VERY much ahead of the curve - Since June 2002, they're down 93%! June 2002? Must be the housing bubble.
;)
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:47:24am |
re: #171 gmsc
Oddly enough thats also about the time the outrage from 9/11 started to die down isn't it?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:48:59am |
re: #171 gmsc
VERY much ahead of the curve - Since June 2002, they're down 93%! June 2002? Must be the housing bubble.
;)
Between that and Judas Johnny Damon having his assets frozen, I'm feasting on some USDA Grade A Schadenfreude this morning.
Johnny Damon: Looked like Jesus, Throws Like Mary, Acts like Judas.
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:49:39am |
re: #162 Fenway_Nation
I bet if there's one conservative politician/talk radio host etc who's name turns up, his (or her) name will be the only one plastered all over the news even though there'd be dozens of leftist/lib/Dem politicians, entertainers or pundits who turns up in the same audit...
it's always nice to see someone who finally becomes even a bit as experienced as i am......
/white smoke
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:49:41am |
re: #172 Rustler
Oddly enough thats also about the time the outrage from 9/11 started to die down isn't it?
Interesting thought . . .
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:52:12am |
re: #169 gmsc
0bama on Geithner: Oops!
0bama on Richardson: Oops!
0bama on Killefer: Oops!
0bama on Solis: Oops!
0bama on Daschle: Oops!
USA on 0bama: Oops!
you *did* see the Obama acronym, right?
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:52:13am |
re: #176 DesertSage
Cover and concealment. pop white smoke as a screen after making a snarky comment allthough some lizards tend to over use it.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:52:16am |
re: #172 Rustler
My rage will never die....this includes the rage I have directed at the New York Times for publishing a sympathetic puff-piece on Weather Underground bomb-setter Bill Ayers on September 11th, 2001.
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DesertSage Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:54:27am |
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:54:49am |
re: #178 Rustler
Cover and concealment. pop white smoke as a screen after making a snarky comment allthough some lizards tend to over use it.
and some never do, even when they should.......
/white smoke
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:55:47am |
re: #173 Fenway_Nation
Between that and
JudasJohnny Damon having his assets frozen, I'm feasting on some USDA Grade A Schadenfreude this morning.Johnny Damon: Looked like Jesus, Throws Like Mary, Acts like Judas.
Love it. Schadenfreude. Some words say it all. Just not always in English.
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:57:08am |
re: #182 DesertSage
Hmmmmm.....
it also means the fruitcup is gonna be epic, no matter what LoL and BlueCanuck say.........
/ENJOY!
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DesertSage Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:58:31am |
re: #185 redc1c4
it also means the fruitcup is gonna be epic, no matter what LoL and BlueCanuck say.........
/ENJOY!
So....you're still spiking the fruitcups?
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:58:33am |
re: #179 Fenway_Nation
I'm still pissed about it as well but I mean among those who routinely read the NYTimes.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:59:20am |
re: #184 Unakite
I went my whole life without hearing or using that word until Boston missed the playoffs in '06, and Yankees fans (with their new acquisition, Johnny Damon) never let us hear the end of it.....at least until they got bounced out of the first round by the Detroit Tigers.
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:59:30am |
re: #183 redc1c4
Who needs cover and Concealment I don't run and perfer the enemy to know Death stalks the land.:P
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:00:11am |
re: #183 redc1c4
and some never do, even when they should.......
/white smoke
I've only used white smoke once (yesterday, in fact). But then, I'm new. Give me time...
/
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:00:41am |
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet --------------->
Help yourselves!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:00:52am |
LoL is running late....time to dust off the fruitcupitron 3000
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:01:13am |
re: #191 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet --------------->
Help yourselves!
Yummers! Thanks!
**tips karma**
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:01:51am |
re: #192 Fenway_Nation
LoL is running late....time to dust off the fruitcupitron 3000
Do those who are tardy still serve fruitcup?
;)
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:04:19am |
Sage! :-)
Say hi!
Not your usual time here, is it? How've you been?
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:05:18am |
re: #189 Rustler
Who needs cover and Concealment I don't run and perfer the enemy to know Death stalks the land.:P
if you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck. always leverage ever advantage you have, and always plan that the OPFOR is doing the same.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:06:07am |
re: #188 Fenway_Nation
I went my whole life without hearing or using that word until Boston missed the playoffs in '06, and Yankees fans (with their new acquisition, Johnny Damon) never let us hear the end of it.....at least until they got bounced out of the first round by the Detroit Tigers.
We're not from Boston, but my sister lived there for many years (she's in FLA now). For some screwy reason, my youngest son likes the Patriots.
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:06:18am |
re: #201 redc1c4
If I'm there it is never a fair fight. Victory thru excessive use of force is my motto.
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DesertSage Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:06:49am |
re: #200 littleoldlady
Sage! :-)
Say hi!
Not your usual time here, is it? How've you been?
I am good LoL. How are you?
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:08:53am |
re: #192 Fenway_Nation
LoL is running late....time to dust off the fruitcupitron 3000
Beat LoL by 30 seconds.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:08:54am |
re: #203 Unakite
We're not from Boston, but my sister lived there for many years (she's in FLA now). For some screwy reason, my youngest son likes the Patriots.
He knows an epic, awesome thing when he sees it.
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:09:29am |
re: #206 littleoldlady
Thanks did you see the link of red's fruitcup a few above it?
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:09:51am |
Watch the video at the following link for at least 40 seconds:
[Link: www.dailymotion.com...]
Is this where the fruitcup stuff originated?
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:10:04am |
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Buster Bunny Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:10:39am |
I'm just here for the fruitcup tonight. No commentary, and I left the humour bone at home.
But fruit cup? Cant miss it !
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:10:58am |
Good Lord....a KNEW is streaming a 3rd hour of the Lars Larsen show?
/Guess I'll be up a little longer
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:11:15am |
re: #210 Rustler
Goodness! Looks just like our Valerie - many years ago. :-)
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:12:03am |
re: #212 littleoldlady
I guess I'm okay.
/not awake yet! ;-)
WAKE UP!
Wait - we're being served fruitcup that was made while LoL was drowsy?!?
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:12:31am |
re: #204 Rustler
If I'm there it is never a fair fight. Victory thru excessive use of force is my motto.
"Before the first shot is fired, the Quartermaster has already decided the outcome of the battle."
Grasshopper, i would suggest you read Sun Tzu, Rommel, Guderian, and Patton, just for the easily available starters. if you can get access to the Army files where they debriefed the Germans about the Eastern Front after the war, those are good too, but a bit stilted.
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:12:44am |
re: #211 gmsc
Exactly! :-)
/it was a rotating head here at LGF.
//back when we had rotating heads...
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:13:04am |
re: #209 Fenway_Nation
He knows an epic, awesome thing when he sees it.
He's eight years old and he's a Tom Brady fan (trying to talk him out of it). He wore a Patriots hat to his baseball practice last night.
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DesertSage Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:13:15am |
re: #212 littleoldlady
I guess I'm okay.
/not awake yet! ;-)
That's interesting.....I'm not asleep yet! :')
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:14:14am |
Howdy, Unakite! :-)
Welcome to the Dead Thread. :-)
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:14:50am |
re: #217 redc1c4
"Before the first shot is fired, the Quartermaster has already decided the outcome of the battle."
Grasshopper, i would suggest you read Sun Tzu, Rommel, Guderian, and Patton, just for the easily available starters. if you can get access to the Army files where they debriefed the Germans about the Eastern Front after the war, those are good too, but a bit stilted.
"If you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your enemies will float by... But those were brutal times."
-Sun Tzu, Art of War
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:15:33am |
re: #222 littleoldlady
Howdy, Unakite! :-)
Welcome to the Dead Thread. :-)
Thanks. First time up this late (this early?). Sun coming up soon.
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:16:35am |
re: #217 redc1c4
I have read em I was being snarky. My time in service was spent not being seen. I didn't use smoke because smoke is an indication somoene is there even if you can't see em.
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:16:45am |
re: #219 Unakite
He's eight years old and he's a Tom Brady fan (trying to talk him out of it). He wore a Patriots hat to his baseball practice last night.
Oldie, but a goodie:
Q: Why did it take so long for the police to start chasing OJ Simpson?
A: The initial APB told the police to be on the lookout for a slow-moving white Bronco, so they were all keeping an eye out for John Elway.
;)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:18:06am |
By the way, what sector will the next economic crisis come from? Commercial real-estate or people unable to pay off their credit cards?
/Either way, 0bama will 'solve' it by throwing more money at it and play the class warfare/race card.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:18:35am |
re: #226 gmsc
Oldie, but a goodie:
Q: Why did it take so long for the police to start chasing OJ Simpson?
A: The initial APB told the police to be on the lookout for a slow-moving white Bronco, so they were all keeping an eye out for John Elway.
;)
LOL! Heard that before, but still funny.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:19:26am |
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gmsc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:19:29am |
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DesertSage Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:19:53am |
Oh geeez, now we have black smoke.
I need to go to sleep.
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:19:56am |
re: #226 gmsc
Oldie, but a goodie:
Q: Why did it take so long for the police to start chasing OJ Simpson?
A: The initial APB told the police to be on the lookout for a slow-moving white Bronco, so they were all keeping an eye out for John Elway.
;)
By the way, never liked Elway because of his arrogant attitude.
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:21:27am |
re: #223 gmsc
"If you wait long enough by the river, the bodies of your enemies will float by... But those were brutal times."
-Sun Tzu, Art of War
i freaked out the would be "senior staff" of the small company i w*rked at.
they prided themselves as being "Corporate America" but were always a bit short. ..... having several versions of Sun Tzu handy, i took to either having one where it could be seen, or using various pithy but not directly threatening quotes as screen savers.........
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:21:39am |
re: #227 Fenway_Nation
By the way, what sector will the next economic crisis come from? Commercial real-estate or people unable to pay off their credit cards?
/Either way, 0bama will 'solve' it by throwing more money at it and play the class warfare/race card.
I'm no financial wizard, but what I've been reading, it looks like credit cards may be next.
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:23:58am |
re: #225 Rustler
I have read em I was being snarky. My time in service was spent not being seen. I didn't use smoke because smoke is an indication somoene is there even if you can't see em.
can't argue with that, but we ain't there....... and since i was mostly a peacetime reservist, most of my combat was with my alleged superiors.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:27:33am |
re: #231 littleoldlady
I almost hope that's the case. PLEASE, president 0bama- stick to form and use the class warfare card, and be sure to call out the credit cards for their 'predatory lending practices' (which I partly agree with). And then hope that nobody notices that all those payments for those credit cards w/the predatory lending practices GETS MAILED OFF TO A P.O. BOX IN WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, YOUR VP'S HOME DISTRICT!
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:29:18am |
re: #242 littleoldlady
Hoosier! :-)
LOL.. It's always so nice to see you..I only get here every so often so early..
How the hell are you?
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:30:17am |
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Unakite Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:32:12am |
Night all, morning HH, and nice to finally meet you LoL (if that's not too familiar on our first meeting). Sun up soon and I turn to dust.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:32:27am |
BTW- is it possible to get a T-shirt of that offensive cartoon with the cops that shot the chimpanzee wonder who will write the next stimulus?
Personally, I find it very offensive. I think a chimpanzee could've done a much better job than congress......
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:33:41am |
re: #243 Fenway_Nation
Yup. Delaware. A stone's throw from here.
/making me want to jump in the car and find some necks to wring...
But think about this, Fenway. Here's an idea for a "stimulus"/bailout/whatevah that will actually help people and won't cost the taxpayers a dime: LIMIT THE INTEREST RATES ON CREDIT CARDS.
I would use the term "usury" but it's more like highway robbery!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:34:25am |
re: #246 HoosierHoops
Bruins in First Place, Celtics in first place, Red Sox spring training about to get underway.....yet it's not enough to distract me from the fact that the current administration is hell-bent on turning the United States of America into a socialist third-world shithole in record time....
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:34:40am |
re: #245 HoosierHoops
I think I'm okay, Hoosier! :-) How's by you?
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:35:03am |
'Night, Unakite!
/y'all come back now, y'hear?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:39:01am |
re: #249 littleoldlady
I'm mostly paid off on my credit cards now. Two of them were issued by a company that eventually got taken over by Bank of America that started out with a reasonable interest rate but got jacked up to 12%-19% once B of A took over.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:40:09am |
re: #250 Fenway_Nation
Bruins in First Place, Celtics in first place, Red Sox spring training about to get underway.....yet it's not enough to distract me from the fact that the current administration is hell-bent on turning the United States of America into a socialist third-world shithole in record time....
At least we get to all go to re education camp together...
It will be be fun..just like summer camp as kids...Wait..somebody is knocking on the....
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:40:38am |
re: #254 Fenway_Nation
I'm mostly paid off on my credit cards now. Two of them were issued by a company that eventually got taken over by Bank of America that started out with a reasonable interest rate but got jacked up to 12%-19% once B of A took over.
that sounds about right......
a bit low, but about right.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:41:00am |
re: #251 littleoldlady
I think I'm okay, Hoosier! :-) How's by you?
just wonderful..I got my lizard cookbook the other day..It's awesome.
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:42:56am |
re: #254 Fenway_Nation
If only I could do that. :-(
In my experience, Citibank is reasonable, Chase is, too. Even Discover can be okay. But Bank of America are honest-to-goodness crooks.
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:45:00am |
re: #257 HoosierHoops
Oh boy! I forgot about that.
/the perils of not being around much during the day...
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:45:28am |
re: #256 redc1c4
I'm way too tolerant. If I was a day late with one of the payments, the menacing phone calls from the company would begin. I remember one month I made a more-than-the-minimum payment ahead of schedule and the fuckers called me at work seemingly for no other reason than to make me look like a deadbeat way behind on my credit card in front of my co-workers and supervisors.
Then I see these fuckers get multibillion dollar bailouts from multiple Administrations and I start to wonder who exactly is the irresponsible deadbeat who should be held accountable....
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:46:14am |
re: #258 littleoldlady
If only I could do that. :-(
In my experience, Citibank is reasonable, Chase is, too. Even Discover can be okay. But Bank of America are honest-to-goodness crooks.
that's an insult to crooks.
i'll bury my money in the back yard before i give it to B of A.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:48:39am |
re: #261 redc1c4
I have one check left for B of A....I'm trying to think of something appropraite to put in the 'Memo' line.
I'm thinking of either:
'For Sensuous Massage'
'Go Fuck Yourselves With a Broken Axehandle'
'3500 shares of BAC common stock'
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:49:51am |
re: #260 Fenway_Nation
I'm way too tolerant. If I was a day late with one of the payments, the menacing phone calls from the company would begin. I remember one month I made a more-than-the-minimum payment ahead of schedule and the fuckers called me at work seemingly for no other reason than to make me look like a deadbeat way behind on my credit card in front of my co-workers and supervisors.
Then I see these fuckers get multibillion dollar bailouts from multiple Administrations and I start to wonder who exactly is the irresponsible deadbeat who should be held accountable....
i've got a flame thrower, if that'll help?
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:52:59am |
re: #262 Fenway_Nation
I have one check left for B of A....I'm trying to think of something appropraite to put in the 'Memo' line.
I'm thinking of either:
'For Sensuous Massage'
'Go Fuck Yourselves With a Broken Axehandle'
'3500 shares of BAC common stock'
"Fuck you you fucking fucks."
short, sweet and to the point.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 2:55:31am |
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:02:38am |
re: #264 Iron Fist
Iron Fist! :-)
My short version of your most excellent post: I paid for those bombs - now let's USE THEM!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:04:57am |
Morning Afrocity! How's things in the Windy City?
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littleoldlady Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:06:19am |
Hiya, Afrocity! :-)
Anyway...time to do something about those credit card bills. :-(
Good day, ALL!™
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:08:30am |
re: #267 Iron Fist
I'd add A Book of Five Rings to that list, and Clauswitz. And last, but in no way least The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. Your education in politics can't be considered complete without having read The Prince.
it wasn'nt meant to be inclusive, just what the average GI might have in his/her ruck.
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:12:37am |
re: #275 Iron Fist
Man, where did you get a flamethrower? And how much was it? I've wanted a flamethrower since I was something like 12. That or a 20mm Vulcan cannon. The last time I did the Snta Clause thing as a child, I asked for a 20mm Vulcan Phalanx. Sadly, Santa did not abide by my request, so I quit believing in the fucker.
I do think back on that memory, and wonder what the dude really thought of that request :-)
don't get too excited: the last time i saw NIB flamethrowers, they were ChiCom, with all the issues than might be..... gotta love Shotgun News
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:13:03am |
re: #279 Afrocity
Thanks redc1c4
good mornng! how about a nice cup of coffee?
How is today treating you?
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redc1c4 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:14:09am |
re: #279 Afrocity
Thanks redc1c4
we're here to help, and you're always welcome to visit: Burbank Airport isn't that far away.......
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Afrocity Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:14:39am |
re: #281 HoosierHoops
good mornng! how about a nice cup of coffee?
How is today treating you?
herbal tea please
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Afrocity Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:15:48am |
I am up because I had a panic attack...Had them since 9/11 when I lived in NYC
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:16:30am |
re: #275 Iron Fist
I told Santa that I wanted a Franchi SPAS-12 or a select-fire version of the CZ-75 (there was even a rail where an unused magazine could be mounted as a foregrip). I didn't get either this year, so I no longer believe in him.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:16:51am |
re: #283 Afrocity
herbal tea please
ah crap.have some japanese green tea on the shelf...
Have any plans for today? I can't wait for springtime
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Afrocity Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:19:47am |
re: #287 HoosierHoops
I was thinking about going to a guitar show.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:23:18am |
re: #288 Afrocity
I was thinking about going to a guitar show.
I hope you have a great day..We went dancing last night..Had a blast..
I think I'm still alittle dizzy..typical of me on a saturday morning...:)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:24:02am |
re: #291 Afrocity
Have a good time at the guitar show if that's where you wind up heading...
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:24:53am |
Nightey night (or morning) Ironfist! Afrocity!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:28:48am |
Hmmm.....almost got the two crossed up- Iron City? Afro Fist?
/kinda like mixing up chocolate and peanut butter
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:33:26am |
I gotta give Labrick James his props.. He dropped 55 on the Bucks last night. 8 of 11 from the 3 point line..what a stud!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:36:52am |
re: #296 HoosierHoops
Just like I gotta bash him for growing up in northern Ohio, being the biggest name in Cleveland sports and showing up at a Yankees/Indians playoff game at Jacobs Field in a Yankees cap....
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:41:59am |
re: #297 Fenway_Nation
Just like I gotta bash him for growing up in northern Ohio, being the biggest name in Cleveland sports and showing up at a Yankees/Indians playoff game at Jacobs Field in a Yankees cap....
LOL It's really no different from me being from California rooting for the Sox in 2004 to win the World Championship..We'll not exactly..I can't explain it..
:)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:47:56am |
re: #298 HoosierHoops
Of course! Everyone pitied the Sox after Game 3 of the ALDS against the Yankees that year, but began rooting for them because
A) They hated the Yankees almost as much as we do and
B) They wanted to see history be made after Boston was down 0-3
Winning the World Series was the next logical step :P
/Seriously....what person older than their teens can honestly say 'The Yankees in the World Series? Now there's a refreshing change of pace'?
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HelloDare Sat, Feb 21, 2009 3:57:47am |
re: #18 MrPaulRevere
The video said Swaggart received $500,000 a day in donations.
Swaggart from noun Swag: slang for Stolen property or loot.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:09:14am |
Despite all the Swaggart/Falwell/Robertson quotes that start up the open threads, I truly think Jim Jones was the absolute worst of both worlds- even before the tainted flavor-aid was consumed en masse.
Think about it- all the preaching, overbearing hyperbole, fundamentalist zealotry and dogma with the fun and gratifying rewards that come with socialism, collectivism and forefitting your individuality and phyiscal, emotional or financial well-being to an omnipresent authoritarian figure. What's not to love!?
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:10:47am |
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:15:55am |
re: #300 HelloDare
The video said Swaggart received $500,000 a day in donations.
Swaggart from noun Swag: slang for Stolen property or loot.
How sad..I don't post about religion much if ever..
It breaks my heart that somebody pleads for a little old lady to send her last 20 bucks to a preacher..put your hand on the TV and you will be healed..
It literally breaks my heart when people use religion to manipulate the weak and despaired...
on a positive note..
The sun is now rising in Indiana..Light is starting to come through the windows..We have a new day to live, grow, love, give and enjoy.
Thank you...
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:21:47am |
re: #307 goddessoftheclassroom
{Fenway Nation}
Goddess.. I hope today finds you well...Did you order the cookbook?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:23:15am |
re: #306 Rustler
I was actually a little sad to hear that Socks had passed away- altho' I thought he passed on awhile ago in relative obscurity.
Yet old habits die hard- when I first heard that he has been euthanized, my first thought was 'He knew too much'....
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:24:12am |
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:24:40am |
It seems that one of the red flags to be used as a tip-off that an investment firm isn't on the up and up is having a small auditor. Apparently Madoff did the same thing.
This is what I don't get: "Michael Zarich, the company's senior investment officer, told authorities he didn't know where 90 percent of Stanford's portfolio was invested." ? How does someone in that position NOT know where the money is?
I especially liked his comment; "If that (telling investors that Sanford did business with this small auditor because the larger firms wouldn't work with him 25 years ago.) didn't work, he said, he told clients that using a name-brand firm "would erode the yields." LOLOLOL That's certainly true; a real auditor would FIND OUT IT WAS A SCAM and then there would be NO yields for the scammers. :>)
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:25:30am |
re: #311 HoosierHoops He's doing good not sure why he hasn't been posting much but I think he's been lurking. Maybe he hates being out of the loop cause we are no longer worthy of getting Newspapers. The prison has been working him hard tho.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:25:49am |
re: #309 HoosierHoops
Goddess.. I hope today finds you well...Did you order the cookbook?
{HoosierHoops}
I haven't ordered it yet, but I need to--if only for the cover!
I've had to uncomfortable confrontations in the past two days with colleagues. I'm finally learning to accept that sometimes I can't placate people who just prefer to be mad.
Neither was about a big deal, but in both cases the other person was trying to assert power, and I wasn't giving in. To be fair, in the second case she had a reason to be annoyed with me but she didn't seem as interested in my apology as she did in venting her anger.
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:26:35am |
re: #310 Fenway_Nation
Nothing about Socks in that story and I hadn't even heard that Bill's Kitty had died.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:27:30am |
re: #315 Rustler
I was just going with the whole kitty theme....
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:28:35am |
re: #312 jcw46
Wait....wasn't Arthur Anderson a name-brand auditing firm? That worked for Enron for awhile...
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:28:48am |
re: #310 Fenway_Nation
I was actually a little sad to hear that Socks had passed away- altho' I thought he passed on awhile ago in relative obscurity.
Yet old habits die hard- when I first heard that he has been euthanized, my first thought was 'He knew too much'....
They found him in Vince Foster's office after they .... (well, YOU know). That's why they gave him to betty currie so she could keep an "eye on him". :>)
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:29:43am |
Trying right now to find the creek in question on my second posted link where the CA man is suing for the right to dig up a teaxans yard because he saw a ship on it in google earth.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:35:24am |
re: #319 jcw46
Speaking of Vince Foster, I always found it moronic ironic that a right-winger expounding on how Vince Foster didn't actually commit suicide was considered by the MSM to be reprehesible, kookey and/or beyond the fringe into the realm of black helicopters and so on....
Yet not even 10 years later, you have prominent Democrats and the MSM endorsing conspiracy theories or 'documentaries' that infer the Bush Administration was singlehandedly responsible for orchestrating the Sept. 11th attacks.....
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Mr Secul Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:39:09am |
re: #23 Gus 802
That was from 2004 so it's a rather modern line of thought. So, all yee husbands out there! Beware, work may make your wif into an atheist and perhaps later into a Satanist.
Then she'll kill you, eat her children then turn into a lesbian and a vegetarian (the trauma of child eating has that effect on people, a scientist proved it!).
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:39:37am |
Ok I've found the Area depicted in the map in the article now seeking the odd shape he saw in the creek.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:40:03am |
re: #314 goddessoftheclassroom
{HoosierHoops}
I haven't ordered it yet, but I need to--if only for the cover!I've had to uncomfortable confrontations in the past two days with colleagues. I'm finally learning to accept that sometimes I can't placate people who just prefer to be mad.
Neither was about a big deal, but in both cases the other person was trying to assert power, and I wasn't giving in. To be fair, in the second case she had a reason to be annoyed with me but she didn't seem as interested in my apology as she did in venting her anger.
I'm very sorry to hear that..I've haven't been in an issue at work in years..
But as you know I used to build Nuclear Subs at MINSY. Funny story time..you will smile this morning..
************************************
So years ago we had a sub in the ARCO at Pearl cleaning the Main Condensers ..
OK Goddess. I pulled a really funny stunt on the Captain...Maybe I shouldn't post it..He may Read LGF then I'll always have to watch my back..LOL
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:43:46am |
re: #325 Rustler
Wish I'd looked at this article first woulda saved 30 minutes of scanning the texas plain in 5sq mile blocks hehe.
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pittrader1988 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:43:49am |
I want to take a moment to defend Rick Santelli. Look for the left wing to initiate a smear campaign. Already I see he is being called a racist because he went on CNBC and said that he didn't like the Obama plan.
Hardball's Chris Mathews tried to destroy his credibility buy saying he was biased because he voted for McCain.
Neither of these things are true. Rick is not a racist. He is not biased, even though he did vote for McCain.
Rick is a passionate defender of free market capitalism. He understand markets extremely well. He understands the benefits that free markets can bring to a society.
Rick is not a right wing fanatic. He hated the Bush administrations management of the countries financial system too.
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:44:20am |
re: #308 Rustler
That isn't quite as disturbing as this one, from your link...
MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. — Sheriff's officers have arrested an 82-year-old man after his wife died on the floor of their home, apparently about 10 weeks after she fell out of bed and was unable to get up.
John Klein was arrested for investigation of second-degree manslaughter after he called 911 on Monday to report that his 73-year-old wife Pia had no pulse.
Klein told Spokane County sheriff's Detective Jim Dresback that his wife of 52 years fell out of bed around last Thanksgiving...
...Klein reportedly told the detective he thought his wife would eventually get up and start walking on her own, adding he told her to exercise while she was lying on the floor. ...
Husband Left Wife on Floor for 10 Weeks Before She Died, Police Say
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freedombilly Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:44:55am |
re: #324 HoosierHoops
My father-in-law is retired Navy and worked on many a nuclear sub for many years.
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freedombilly Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:47:00am |
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:51:24am |
re: #329 freedombilly
My father-in-law is retired Navy and worked on many a nuclear sub for many years.
I've been very blessed.. I went to work as a Civilian For the DOD at Mare Island out of College..I spent 4 years training in the Nuclear field on Westinghouse 5w reactors and am honored to work for our Country.
I have so much respect for the Navy..Esp. on a test dive as a civilian..
'OH GOD WE ARE GOING TO DIE!' LOL
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:51:33am |
re: #327 pittrader1988
Neither of these things are true. Rick is not a racist. He is not biased, even though he did vote for McCain.
But did McCain make Santelli's leg tingle?
I caught some smarmy remark from whoever the White House spokestool was about how "I don't know how things are in Mr. Santelli's neighborhood..." (which I guess was supposed to mean that he's rich and ergo out-of-touch with the rest of America).
My reaction to that would've been 'Is that neighborhood anywhere near Mr. 0bama's former residence in Chicago that Tony Rezko got him a great deal on?'
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:52:00am |
I've come to the conclusion that conservatives need to form a media group and begin from there to attack liberalism. Until we are able to know how to present our political and economic philosophy and have enough outlets to promulgate our message, we're at the mercy of the liberal entertainment/news/propaganda outlets.
It might be better for the republican party to spend money on gaining the necessary media outlets than on candidates. There should be training and practice for candidates and sitting representatives and senators at presenting the conservative side of an argument in a hostile media environment. There should be a constant countering of the lies of commision and omission from the entertainment/news media.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:54:09am |
re: #335 jcw46
Well...if nothing else, newspapers companies can be purchased for a song. For now, I think the hard part would be finding advertisers...
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:54:21am |
Bah I'm to the point where it's about an absolute certainty he will lose the lawsuit. The ship in question was a 3 masted Brigandine and the creek hes looking at is far narrower than the Highway in hte picture posted on the news article. No way in hell a judge will be ruling the river as a navigatible waterway. Now whether or not the State of Texas forces him out(via Immenant Domain) for the States own claim is a question I can't answer. There is also the fact that Spain has recently been suing to get back military shipwrecks and their cargo to muddy this whole affair up.
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:55:51am |
re: #337 Rustler
For anyone else interested in checking it out look up mission bay or mission creek rather than the Town Refugio named in the article.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:56:11am |
re: #328 J.D.
That isn't quite as disturbing as this one, from your link...
Husband Left Wife on Floor for 10 Weeks Before She Died, Police Say
"I don't consider it to be my fault. She did not want help."
I hope that bastard never sees the light of day again.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:56:58am |
re: #338 ploome hineni
I saw that a while ago.I thought the man may have had some type of dementia
Good morning ploome..What kind of coffee are you drinking?
Hope today finds you well
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Karridine Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:57:08am |
Well, howdy Lizards, from the gathered gloom of mango-scented, suburban Bangkok!
His Obamaness continues his destructive, anti-American efforts, I see... alongside the Swaggarts and 'academic freedom' supporters across America...
Happy Saturday to y'all! :D
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:57:47am |
re: #340 MandyManners
Can we leave him on the floor for 10 weeks without assistance? Oh wait Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment is only to protect the guilty not the victims well damn can't we just go back to an eye for an eye.
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Karridine Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:00:34am |
re: #345 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Mmmmmango. mmmmmm.
Yeah, the expats don't call Bangkok "The Big Mango" for nothin', Bub! :D
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Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:01:01am |
re: #342 Karridine
I'm Considering a move to Cuba or another like weathered location. If I'm gonna live in a socialist state I may as well live in one where the weather is good.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:01:29am |
re: #328 J.D.
I hope there is a less sinister explanation than I am thinking for this.... can't imagine one, but I hope there is one.
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:01:51am |
re: #318 Fenway_Nation
Wait....wasn't Arthur Anderson a name-brand auditing firm? That worked for Enron for awhile...
I believe that David Duncan was the source of the failure of Arthur Anderson. That and the fact that Enron was A.A.'s 2nd largest customer led to HQ being willing to overlook/ignore any misgivings or questions by outsiders. Even their initial conviction concerning the shredding of documents was overturned by the SCOTUS.
Point source failure gets ya every time.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:03:14am |
re: #327 pittrader1988
I want to take a moment to defend Rick Santelli. Look for the left wing to initiate a smear campaign. Already I see he is being called a racist because he went on CNBC and said that he didn't like the Obama plan.
Hardball's Chris Mathews tried to destroy his credibility buy saying he was biased because he voted for McCain.
Neither of these things are true. Rick is not a racist. He is not biased, even though he did vote for McCain.
Rick is a passionate defender of free market capitalism. He understand markets extremely well. He understands the benefits that free markets can bring to a society.
Rick is not a right wing fanatic. He hated the Bush administrations management of the countries financial system too.
Wow. How far we have sunk when one is called biased/a racist because one didn't vote for an African-American candidate.
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:03:23am |
re: #338 ploome hineni
I saw that a while ago.I thought the man may have had some type of dementia
I thought of that, but it's hard to believe if he was that bad off he would have been able to take care of himself, which he clearly did.
re: #340 MandyManners
"I don't consider it to be my fault. She did not want help."
I hope that bastard never sees the light of day again.
Can you believe it?
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Karridine Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:03:43am |
re: #348 Rustler
Ah, there's some ointment on your fly...
Cuba is a 3rd-World country in the debilitating advanced stages of brutal Socialism, and America is NOT.
/rethink THAT, Rustler...
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:03:50am |
re: #344 ploome hineni
:D
thanks, not drinking coffee yet
what are you drinking?
going to pick up a puppy today, very excited
That is very exciting..Winston and me went out this cold morning and played in the backyard in freezing weather...In a couple of months we will be floating around the pool working on our Tan with mrs. hoopster delivering beer and munchies..I miss swimming laps!
Kind regards ploome...
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gregg Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:04:13am |
re: #327 pittrader1988
I was reading a finance/economics message board which has a mix of posters from across the political spectrum. Those on the left were accusing Santelli of trying to stir up class warfare, which is very dangerous. Goodness gracious, class warfare is the bread-n-butter of the Democratic party. Others were suggesting that he will end up with blood on his hands. Yeah right, his own blood maybe, once the Chicago machine comes after him.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:04:17am |
re: #343 Rustler
Can we leave him on the floor for 10 weeks without assistance? Oh wait Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment is only to protect the guilty not the victims well damn can't we just go back to an eye for an eye.
I'm trying to think of where I saw it, but some girl in Iran was blinded after her stalker threw acid in her face and then turned himself in to the police. Instead of settling for 'blood money' and jail time, the girl requested that he be blinded by acid in his eyes as well. Surprisngly the court upheld her decision.
/guess even a shar'ia court can be right every now and then
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:05:48am |
re: #357 Fenway_Nation
Broken clock and all that.
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:08:59am |
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:09:07am |
re: #333 HoosierHoops
I've been very blessed.. I went to work as a Civilian For the DOD at Mare Island out of College..I spent 4 years training in the Nuclear field on Westinghouse 5w reactors and am honored to work for our Country.
I have so much respect for the Navy..Esp. on a test dive as a civilian..
'OH GOD WE ARE GOING TO DIE!' LOL
Never having been on a dive; is it true that the hull pops, creaks and groans when they do a "proof" dive? (oops, oh I'm sorry did I trigger some old memories?) :>
I agree; as a tin can sailor I consider sub sailors as certifiably "NUTS"!
God bless them though. Forget minuteman missiles, forget bombers, forget ground forces and surface navy, it was the threat of unknown numbers of unlocatable missile launch platforms that kept the Bear at bay!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:10:27am |
re: #353 J.D.
Can you believe it?
He let her lie there naked for 10 weeks--she developed large bedsores on her side--yet he didn't call 911. I don't care if she didn't want him to do it, it's what spouses do for each other. Besides, we only have his word that she didn't want him to call.
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:10:43am |
re: #344 ploome hineni
:D
thanks, not drinking coffee yet
what are you drinking?
going to pick up a puppy today, very excited
Ahhhh, puppy kisses (and puppy breath).
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:11:44am |
re: #359 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Broken clock and all that.
Blind squirrel and all that, but given what happened to the girl.....
Besides, the nuts that are found are usually the one presiding over the shar'ia court itself...
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:15:47am |
re: #352 MandyManners
Wow. How far we have sunk when one is called biased/a racist because one didn't vote for an African-American candidate.
I for one am pleased to see race hustlers use the term indiscriminately because eventually it will have less and less impact as it is used improperly. Sadly this will then allow REAL rascists to go unnamed.
P.S. note: where was Holder when Condi Rice was being caricatured in the papers as a large lipped parrot echoing GW or when Michael Steele had oreos thown at him? Holder is the racist and coward.
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:16:27am |
Last December, we wrote that an "early test" for the Obama Administration would be whether it participated in a forthcoming U.N. conference on racism, better known as Durban II. Uh, oh.The first "Durban" -- named for the South African city where the U.N. held its 2001 World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance -- was chiefly notable as a virulent display of anti-Semitism. Yet last weekend, the Administration announced it would participate in "conference preparations," while reserving judgment on whether to attend the conference itself. If this isn't failing the big test, it's flunking the pop quiz.
So here's a make-up review. Back in 2001, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell refused to appear at Durban for fear that it would turn into a carnival of hatred and grievance. That's exactly what happened, prompting Mr. Powell to withdraw the U.S. delegation. As he put it at the time, "I know that you do not combat racism by suggesting that apartheid exists in Israel."
Undeterred, the U.N. has been merrily planning what it formally calls the "Durban Review Conference," which is scheduled for April and whose purpose is to "reaffirm the Durban Declaration." The preparatory committee is chaired by Libya. Vice chairs include Iran and Cuba, which does double duty as the committee "rapporteur." The conference is organized under the auspices of the U.N. Human Rights Council, which the Bush Administration refused to join.
As for what this Review Conference is supposed to achieve, some clues are provided in the latest draft of the so-called Outcome Document. Israel's "racial policies" are a major theme, as is "the plight of Palestinian refugees and other inhabitants of the Arab occupied territories," meaning Israel itself. Under debate, however, is whether to include a line that the Holocaust "resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people." Presumably Iran objects.
The draft also calls "on states to develop, and where appropriate to incorporate, permissible limitations on the exercise of the right to freedom of expression into national legislation." Yes, you read that right. The transparent purpose is to criminalize all criticism of Islam, a.k.a. "Islamophobia." There is also a not-so-sly effort to extract reparations for the long-banned trans-Atlantic slave trade: States that "have not yet condemned, apologized and paid reparations" for the trade are urged "to do so at the earliest."
The Obama Administration knows all of this. ...
Obama's Durban Dalliance
Does an anti-Semitic conference deserve U.S. participation of any kind?
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:16:59am |
re: #344 ploome hineni
:D
thanks, not drinking coffee yet
what are you drinking?
going to pick up a puppy today, very excited
What kind?
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:17:29am |
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:17:54am |
re: #361 jcw46
Never having been on a dive; is it true that the hull pops, creaks and groans when they do a "proof" dive? (oops, oh I'm sorry did I trigger some old memories?) :>
I agree; as a tin can sailor I consider sub sailors as certifiably "NUTS"!
God bless them though. Forget minuteman missiles, forget bombers, forget ground forces and surface navy, it was the threat of unknown numbers of unlocatable missile launch platforms that kept the Bear at bay!
My first dive they gave me a flash light and told me to crawl behind the equipment in the fan room..I spent hours in spaces no person should be in.
There is an art to it..they trained us pukes.. You crawl in tight tight spaces you cannot panic cause you're body swells..You relax and you can work yourself through anything..It may take 20 minutes..but you'll make it..
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Lincolntf Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:21:04am |
re: #368 J.D.
Semi-related: Anyone see the wire story (I'll go get a link) about Hillary finally delivering the payoff for all those millions of Chinese dollars she and hubby pulled in over the years?
To sum up my interpretation of the article: "Human Rights" are now a point on which we should agree to disagree, so that we can address really important stuff like global warming.
I hope the Koskids flip out on her.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:21:25am |
re: #365 J.D.
I don't know why the daughter didn't have a welfare check done. Sure, she lives across the country but, after a couple of weeks of being told that her mother is sick and cannot talk, I'd be calling the cops to have them go check it out.
It all defies logic. What sane woman lies on a floor, naked and in pain, for 10 weeks and not want medical help? If she was suffering from dementia or the like, the husband was doubly obligated to call 911.
What's next? Put the old who fall on ice bergs and set them afire?
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Karridine Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:21:35am |
And with that, I'll take my leave of this glacial estate...
its been fun! :D
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:22:43am |
re: #367 jcw46
I for one am pleased to see race hustlers use the term indiscriminately because eventually it will have less and less impact as it is used improperly. Sadly this will then allow REAL rascists to go unnamed.
P.S. note: where was Holder when Condi Rice was being caricatured in the papers as a large lipped parrot echoing GW or when Michael Steele had oreos thown at him? Holder is the racist and coward.
They're not real blacks because they are Republicans. I reckon something about joining the GOP bleaches one's skin in the eyes of Democrats.
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Taqyia2Me Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:23:12am |
re: #327 pittrader1988
I want to take a moment to defend Rick Santelli. Look for the left wing to initiate a smear campaign. Already I see he is being called a racist because he went on CNBC and said that he didn't like the Obama plan.
Hardball's Chris Mathews tried to destroy his credibility buy saying he was biased because he voted for McCain.
Neither of these things are true. Rick is not a racist. He is not biased, even though he did vote for McCain.
Rick is a passionate defender of free market capitalism. He understand markets extremely well. He understands the benefits that free markets can bring to a society.
Rick is not a right wing fanatic. He hated the Bush administrations management of the countries financial system too.
He'll be getting at least the "Joe The Plumber" and "Sarah the Palin" treatment.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:23:35am |
re: #357 Fenway_Nation
I'm trying to think of where I saw it, but some girl in Iran was blinded after her stalker threw acid in her face and then turned himself in to the police. Instead of settling for 'blood money' and jail time, the girl requested that he be blinded by acid in his eyes as well. Surprisngly the court upheld her decision.
/guess even a shar'ia court can be right every now and then
No, that's not right. It is barbarism.
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Lincolntf Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:25:09am |
re: #373 Lincolntf
Here's an article on it, but it's not the one I read in my paper. Oh, I just realized this story is from yesterday, so sorry if it's already been hashed over.
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:25:55am |
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:25:58am |
re: #371 HoosierHoops
My first dive they gave me a flash light and told me to crawl behind the equipment in the fan room..I spent hours in spaces no person should be in.
There is an art to it..they trained us pukes.. You crawl in tight tight spaces you cannot panic cause you're body swells..You relax and you can work yourself through anything..It may take 20 minutes..but you'll make it..
I once worked a job cleaning the left over residue out of a hydro-cracker (that's the tall, thick tube you see at any refinery where the different fractionations are tapped as the gases boil out of the crude oil) anyway, this thing had an opening just barely the size (about 18"x15") of a skinny person (which I was at the time) you had to put a legs or arms out first then work the rest of your body out. oooffff. Not for me, I said no more after one day. Never knew I was claustrophobic until then.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:26:54am |
re: #378 MandyManners
Can't argue that- altho' the guy could've avoided the whole situation if he didn't make with the splashey-the-acid-in-the-face-of-the-girl-who-spurned-me. I'm more surprised that a shar'ia court ruled in favor of a female crime victim....
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:27:47am |
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:28:09am |
See that cute pink elephant dressed in a snappy uniform, standing one-legged on the stool, in the middle of the room? Executive Order: Establishment of the White House Office of Urban Affairs
Longing for warm spring days, cool nights? Come visit Arcadia and watch the play: Guardsmen to conduct urban training at Arcadia in April
Or might you be thinking of hot summer days spent lounging on the beach? Britons flee French island of Guadeloupe as rioters turn on white families
ugh.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:28:43am |
re: #374 MandyManners
I feel for the daughter. I love my parents dearly, but have gone for weeks without speaking with them and months without seeing them (I am one of 6).
Guess it'd be different if I was an only child.
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:29:08am |
re: #376 MandyManners
They're not real blacks because they are Republicans. I reckon something about joining the GOP bleaches one's skin in the eyes of Democrats.
I first changed my mind about Democrats when I first realized how bigoted they really were.
(Democrats!™ "Looking down their nose at people for 200 years".)©
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:30:22am |
re: #382 Fenway_Nation
Can't argue that- altho' the guy could've avoided the whole situation if he didn't make with the splashey-the-acid-in-the-face-of-the-girl-who-spur ned-me. I'm more surprised that a shar'ia court ruled in favor of a female crime victim....
The court went along with it because it's staffed by barbarians.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:31:13am |
re: #383 J.D.
That's the conclusion I've come to.
Judge Judy says that something that doesn't make sense is not true.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:31:57am |
re: #385 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I feel for the daughter. I love my parents dearly, but have gone for weeks without speaking with them and months without seeing them (I am one of 6).
Guess it'd be different if I was an only child.
Just put yourself in her shoes.
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DistantThunder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:32:27am |
re: #388 MandyManners
Judge Judy says that something that doesn't make sense is not true.
I like judge Judy because I find her thought processes so interesting. She explains how she can tell that a person is lying.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:32:39am |
re: #389 MandyManners
She wear flats or heels?
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:33:13am |
re: #371 HoosierHoops
You still at Mare Island? Is it still an active shipyard? I went to a "C" school there. Always got a kick at looking at all the old ships mothballed on the north end. I was there during the winter so my time there wasn't too pleasant (too chilly and damp for me).
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:35:24am |
re: #386 jcw46
I first changed my mind about Democrats when I first realized how bigoted they really were.
(Democrats!™ "Looking down their nose at people for 200 years".)©
I don't recall ever holding any regard for the Democrats. I went from being a Communist to being a Republican. I considered the Democrats to being watered-down Commies.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:36:18am |
re: #390 DistantThunder
I like judge Judy because I find her thought processes so interesting. She explains how she can tell that a person is lying.
I don't like her abruptness.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:36:30am |
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:36:37am |
re: #392 jcw46
You still at Mare Island? Is it still an active shipyard? I went to a "C" school there. Always got a kick at looking at all the old ships mothballed on the north end. I was there during the winter so my time there wasn't too pleasant (too chilly and damp for me).
No my friend..MINSY was closed during the Clinton years...I got recruited by a Global Japanese Company..and still work for them...
I've been blessed
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:38:25am |
re: #393 MandyManners
I don't recall ever holding any regard for the Democrats. I went from being a Communist to being a Republican. I considered the Democrats to being watered-down Commies.
I'm glad you grew up Mandy.
(Many didn't).
So, when you were young, Democrats weren't commie enough, now they are too commie.
Was there a moment one day when you crossed there path (however briefly) when they were about right?
j/k
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monkeytime Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:38:26am |
re: #391 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
She wear flats or heels?
That reminds me of a Joan Rivers Interview. When someone remarked on a pair of white flats a star was wearing Joan replied:
Everyone should have a pair of white flats. Mine are in my bra.
lol!
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:40:19am |
re: #387 MandyManners
The court went along with it because it's staffed by barbarians.
I agree: barbarism in the name of barbarism.
It's human to want "vengeance". Me I prefer cold, calculated PUNISHMENT. If an atrocity is committed in the name of "justice" it is still an atrocity. Civilization must be better than the savages that commit savage acts and punish them while keeping them from doing so again. (Better to put someone in a cell for 40 years than give them an easy out like the death penalty. I do believe in the death penalty in any case where the crime was premeditated and well witnessed with accompanying forensic evidence. Lots of science and testimony and NO appeals)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:40:31am |
re: #384 aboo-Hoo-Hoo
Yikes! How often do Reservists or National Guard conduct MOUT training in real-live municipalities? Something about this isn't sitting right with me on a couple of different levels (the events in Washington D.C. over the past 30 days do nothing to reassure me, either).
We used a couple of multi-storey barns or wooden shacks clustered together in Ft. Benning. That particular MOUT excercise was facetiously referred to 'Assault on Mayberry'.
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DistantThunder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:41:14am |
Funny church story: A new family moved into our area, and my church friend and I were assigned through the women's organization to pay a visit to the wife.
So we show up at this enormous house, and sit and talk with her and her husband. The woman is mid-thirties, Swedish, and very warm and funny.
The husband, a lawyer, is serving us herbal tea and cake, when I ask her about her educational back ground. She explains that she received her Ph'd in New York.
"Really?" I ask, "What is your degree in?"
And she responds nonchalantly,
"Nuclear Physics"
It must happen often that people have a look on their faces like I had at that moment.
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DistantThunder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:42:12am |
re: #394 MandyManners
I don't like her abruptness.
She is overly harsh. I have to change the channel.
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DistantThunder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:43:31am |
re: #400 Fenway_Nation
Yikes! How often do Reservists or National Guard conduct MOUT training in real-live municipalities? Something about this isn't sitting right with me on a couple of different levels (the events in Washington D.C. over the past 30 days do nothing to reassure me, either).
We used a couple of multi-storey barns or wooden shacks clustered together in Ft. Benning. That particular MOUT excercise was facetiously referred to 'Assault on Mayberry'.
Did it mention in the article how they will go door to door and ask people to allow them to search their homes, opening "cupboards" and doors?
Are they looking for the mythical armsdealer in a private "cupboard" or are they looking for something else.
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:43:45am |
re: #400 Fenway_Nation
I agree. Something is wrong with this. Has the National Guard ever done this?
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DistantThunder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:45:19am |
re: #404 Cathypop
I agree. Something is wrong with this. Has the National Guard ever done this?
Texas is running similar exercises I heard. I'll bet these guys will be deployed on the border.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:45:27am |
re: #401 DistantThunder
Funny church story: A new family moved into our area, and my church friend and I were assigned through the women's organization to pay a visit to the wife.
So we show up at this enormous house, and sit and talk with her and her husband. The woman is mid-thirties, Swedish, and very warm and funny.
The husband, a lawyer, is serving us herbal tea and cake, when I ask her about her educational back ground. She explains that she received her Ph'd in New York.
"Really?" I ask, "What is your degree in?"
And she responds nonchalantly,
"Nuclear Physics"It must happen often that people have a look on their faces like I had at that moment.
Wow! just wow! Sounds like you have just met some cool new friends..
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:46:08am |
re: #402 DistantThunder
She is overly harsh. I have to change the channel.
It's entertainment. If she was ever a real judge, I'm sure she was less acerbic and dictatorial (although no guarantees. Judges can pretty much act like they wish).
You do know she's only acting as an arbitrator? She doesn't have any actual power other than what is agreed to by the participants. (tho i'm sure she can get things done if she ever was a judge).
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:47:33am |
Gotta run. Y'all be kind to each other, okay?
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:48:07am |
re: #408 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Gotta run. Y'all be kind to each other, okay?
K..
have a nice day veggie
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monkeytime Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:48:16am |
Please note that in this ABC article titled "2 Rockets Fired From Lebanon at Israel" - a picture is featured large on the left - a bloody seen with this caption "Israeli rockets strike United Nations school used as a shelter in Gaza.". I guess ABC can not report any violence targeted at Israel without some counter prop.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:48:27am |
re: #397 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
I'm glad you grew up Mandy.
(Many didn't).
So, when you were young, Democrats weren't commie enough, now they are too commie.
Was there a moment one day when you crossed there path (however briefly) when they were about right?
j/k
Nope. By the time I got done studying Dialectical Materialism and taking a look at the real world, I knew that the path to take was that of the GOP. (It was roughly around the time of the Iran-Contra scandal, and that taught me a lot. The Samozans were horrible at times but, they paled in comparison to the Sandinistas who were establishing another toe-hold in our hemisphere for the Soviet Empire. I found the charges of colonialism lodged against the U.S. to be amusing in light of the Soviets' actual colonialism. I found the Democrats' adherence to that to be less amusing than appalling. I figured out whose side they were on, and it wasn't America's side.)
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quickjustice Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:49:17am |
Severe economic crises often lead to civic unrest. It's logical that the national guard would prepare for this.
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:49:48am |
re: #405 DistantThunder
Texas is running similar exercises I heard. I'll bet these guys will be deployed on the border.
Have not heard of the National Guard doing this in Texas. It would make sense sending them to the border.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:49:58am |
re: #399 jcw46
I agree: barbarism in the name of barbarism.
It's human to want "vengeance". Me I prefer cold, calculated PUNISHMENT. If an atrocity is committed in the name of "justice" it is still an atrocity. Civilization must be better than the savages that commit savage acts and punish them while keeping them from doing so again*. (Better to put someone in a cell for 40 years than give them an easy out like the death penalty. I do believe in the death penalty in any case where the crime was premeditated and well witnessed with accompanying forensic evidence. Lots of science and testimony and NO appeals)
*I think that this is the difference between LGF and AS, Jihadwatch and VB.
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DistantThunder Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:50:03am |
re: #407 jcw46
It's entertainment. If she was ever a real judge, I'm sure she was less acerbic and dictatorial (although no guarantees. Judges can pretty much act like they wish).
You do know she's only acting as an arbitrator? She doesn't have any actual power other than what is agreed to by the participants. (tho i'm sure she can get things done if she ever was a judge).
I was in court with a friend. Her children's counselor had asked her to hand carry information to the judge alleging abuse by the father. He had punched his son in the head with a closed fist - and the daughter had witnessed it.
The judge refused to look at the letters written by the children in the counselors office detailing how they had witnesses the now ex-husband, their father strangling their mother. The judge leaned over the bench and screamed at her that he would put her in jail if she didn't allow the father to take the children for a visit. I've never seen anything so unprofessional in my entire life. He yelled and yelled and yelled.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:51:04am |
re: #402 DistantThunder
She is overly harsh. I have to change the channel.
Why women who loan money to no-good men go into her court is beyond me.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:51:44am |
re: #404 Cathypop
The most innocous explanation I can think of is instead of sending all the reservists or Nat'l Guardsmen to Ft. Polk (Louisiana) or Ft. Irwin (california), they 'audition' local towns so that they can do their training a little closer to home.
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:51:46am |
re: #403 DistantThunder
Did it mention in the article how they will go door to door and ask people to allow them to search their homes, opening "cupboards" and doors?
Are they looking for the mythical armsdealer in a private "cupboard" or are they looking for something else.
Brrrr. This gives me chills.
I understand the need for "true conditions" exercises but this is suspect.
Here's a quote:
"We really want to get as much information out there as possible, because this operation could be pretty intrusive to the people of Arcadia."
Intrusive? No? What makes you think this would be intrusive?
Nothing about whether you have the option to refuse and what will be done then.
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Joan Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:52:44am |
re: #123 Dustyvet
And why couldn't the loutish baseball umpire have his little boy sit in his lap? Because the son never sits on the brutish umpire.
thank you, Mr. Peabody
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:54:41am |
Morning everyone!
*holding out tanker of coffee* Ford? You here?
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:55:03am |
re: #411 MandyManners
Nope. By the time I got done studying Dialectical Materialism and taking a look at the real world, I knew that the path to take was that of the GOP. (It was roughly around the time of the Iran-Contra scandal, and that taught me a lot. The Samozans were horrible at times but, they paled in comparison to the Sandinistas who were establishing another toe-hold in our hemisphere for the Soviet Empire. I found the charges of colonialism lodged against the U.S. to be amusing in light of the Soviets' actual colonialism. I found the Democrats' adherence to that to be less amusing than appalling. I figured out whose side they were on, and it wasn't America's side.)
Cool... a friend of mine's sister was a die-hard commie at that same time, the Sandinistas were the most wonderful people in the world. We were the running dogs of Satan for fighting them.
I wish I knew the term "useful idiot" back then...
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quickjustice Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:55:45am |
re: #285 Afrocity
I lost 12 friends and neighbors in the Twin Towers. All but one worked for Cantor Fitzgerald. The 12th one was Joe Leavey, an FDNY Lieutenant who died leading his men up the stairs to the Sky Lobby, where there were wounded he wanted to rescue.
I still tear up when I get off the subway downtown, and see that big hole in the skyline.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:56:07am |
re: #407 jcw46
It's entertainment. If she was ever a real judge, I'm sure she was less acerbic and dictatorial (although no guarantees. Judges can pretty much act like they wish).
You do know she's only acting as an arbitrator? She doesn't have any actual power other than what is agreed to by the participants. (tho i'm sure she can get things done if she ever was a judge).
Oh, yes, she was a real judge. Sheindlin has extensive experience in the NY family court system.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:56:23am |
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:56:49am |
re: #417 Fenway_Nation
Has the National Guard ever done this type of training in a local town?
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:57:04am |
re: #422 chicago blonde
Morning everyone!
*holding out tanker of coffee* Ford? You here?
Good Morning..Love the Avatar..
Ford will be here shortly.He got caught up in rush hour Internet traffic..
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:57:52am |
re: #415 DistantThunder
I was in court with a friend. Her children's counselor had asked her to hand carry information to the judge alleging abuse by the father. He had punched his son in the head with a closed fist - and the daughter had witnessed it.
The judge refused to look at the letters written by the children in the counselors office detailing how they had witnesses the now ex-husband, their father strangling their mother. The judge leaned over the bench and screamed at her that he would put her in jail if she didn't allow the father to take the children for a visit. I've never seen anything so unprofessional in my entire life. He yelled and yelled and yelled.
I doubt this was the first or last time he'd behaved like this. I wish people would report such judges to the state supreme court's office that oversees judges.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:58:18am |
re: #428 HoosierHoops
Morning Hoosier!
You guys in for some snow? I just had an appointment cancel because the roads were going to be too scary...
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monkeytime Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:58:37am |
A good article by Uzi Rubin. "Mr. Rubin, head of Israel's Missile Defense Organization from 1991 to 1999, won the Israel Defense Prize in 1996 and 2003."
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:58:42am |
re: #428 HoosierHoops
Morning! Thank you! I love flowers, especially when we have so much global warming here on the ground....
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:59:16am |
re: #420 Cathypop
15 minutes of fame
Surely they know how Judge Judy will behave if they've watched just two shows.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:59:46am |
re: #411 MandyManners
I found the charges of colonialism lodged against the U.S. to be amusing in light of the Soviets' actual colonialism.
Funny how Cuba's hostility towards the USA is explained away by the left, MSM and Che-worshippers as anti-imperialism, yet not a word is said about the Cuban military adventures in Ethiopia, Grenada or Angola.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 5:59:55am |
re: #422 chicago blonde
Morning everyone!
*holding out tanker of coffee* Ford? You here?
Speaking of coffee, I need to put less blood in my caffeine stream.
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:00:08am |
re: #420 Cathypop
15 minutes of fame
Must be. That's what I think too. What else could inspire them to endure the ridicule and disrespect? What? They think they've got an answer to the charges other than "she's/he's lyin' your honor"?
I get a kick out of the defendants the most. Totally clueless. Sometimes the plaintiffs get their ass handed to them but mostly it's the defendants.
OH, I just remembered why they do it. At the end of these shows they tell you that the participants get "paid" a fee for their appearance and any judgement is taken out of that fee. I guess they go cause it's better than the Lottery.
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:00:44am |
re: #433 MandyManners
Surely they know how Judge Judy will behave if they've watched just two shows.
Ever met an idiot? They never learn
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:00:50am |
re: #424 quickjustice
I am so sorry.
I get angry when I hear people trying to rationalize what we did. I try to avoid any movie with that gremlin-faced Maggie Gyllenhaal since she said we were "somewhat responsible."
/dislike her too much to bother looking up her name
| 439 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:02:03am |
Good moring. We have a lot of overnight global warming on the ground & more to come in the Chicago Area.
Let me look around. Alright! The really smart Lizards are here.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:02:06am |
re: #423 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Cool... a friend of mine's sister was a die-hard commie at that same time, the Sandinistas were the most wonderful people in the world. We were the running dogs of Satan for fighting them.
I wish I knew the term "useful idiot" back then...
He was willfully ignorant.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:02:06am |
re: #430 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Morning Hoosier!
You guys in for some snow? I just had an appointment cancel because the roads were going to be too scary...
LT!
hope today finds you well..
There is supposed to be 3" on the way in..
Watching sports highlights..Is Labrick a stud or what? He dropped 55 last night..We are watching a future HOF'er
| 442 |
jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:02:23am |
| 443 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:02:39am |
re: #435 MandyManners
LOL! Caffeine, sugary donuts, fried eggs & bacon...that's a power meal!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:03:54am |
re: #427 Cathypop
Has the National Guard ever done this type of training in a local town?
Ddin't the Oregon N.G. want to do that but was rebuffed by the mayor? (Or, maybe it was the active duty?)
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:04:37am |
re: #427 Cathypop
Not that I know of- the aforementioned facilities (Ft. Polk & Ft. Irwin) have dedicated OPFOR units (soldiers who's full-time job is to be the designated baddies the incoming units will be squaring off against). But I'm not sure what kind of a setting either one has for training in urban combat- Ft. Irwin was mostly designed to familiarize Army units with the rigors of desert warfare....I don't remember any mock-ups of little towns there.
| 446 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:05:05am |
re: #434 Fenway_Nation
Funny how Cuba's hostility towards the USA is explained away by the left, MSM and Che-worshippers as anti-imperialism, yet not a word is said about the Cuban military adventures in Ethiopia, Grenada or Angola.
Reality tends to escape some.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:05:33am |
re: #441 HoosierHoops
LT!
hope today finds you well..
There is supposed to be 3" on the way in..
Watching sports highlights..Is Labrick a stud or what? He dropped 55 last night..We are watching a future HOF'er
What's a La Brick? Some kind of Frog housing material?
/doing well here, wish the guy I was waiting on chose to make the trip... now I have to do something else today.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:05:47am |
re: #437 Cathypop
Ever met an idiot? They never learn
Or, they think that they're somehow "spayshul".
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albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:06:01am |
what a hoot!...people are getting pissy...
Tax Revolt is starting to mean something again...
check out the Pork Protesters...
[Link: michellemalkin.com...]
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:07:00am |
re: #429 MandyManners
I doubt this was the first or last time he'd behaved like this. I wish people would report such judges to the state supreme court's office that oversees judges.
1. They're afraid of retribution
2. They don't expect anything to be done.
Really the only people that have a chance of successfully ratting out a judge is the clerk, the bailiff, other judges and the lawyers/prosecutors. Every one else gets ignored. (unless the actions are egregious or criminal).
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:07:06am |
re: #445 Fenway_Nation
They built a good one at Ft Benning in the late 80's... cinder-block buildings, couple of stories tall, designed to look like a German village.
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:07:58am |
re: #447 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
What's a La Brick? Some kind of Frog housing material?
/doing well here, wish the guy I was waiting on chose to make the trip... now I have to do something else today.
King James!
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:08:34am |
re: #438 chicago blonde
I am so sorry.
I get angry when I hear people trying to rationalize what we did. I try to avoid any movie with that gremlin-faced Maggie Gyllenhaal since she said we were "somewhat responsible."
/dislike her too much to bother looking up her name
I've never heard of her. Wiki:
Gyllenhaal drew criticism for comments on the September 11 attacks made during an interview with NY1 at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. She remarked, "I think America has done reprehensible things and is responsible in some way..."[2] In response to the criticism, she issued a statement saying that 9/11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world" and that it was "useful as individuals or nations to ask how we may have knowingly or unknowingly contributed to this conflict."[2][108] She pointedly denied saying that the 9/11 attacks were deserved.[2][108] Gyllenhaal later said that she regretted her comments and asserted that film interviews were not the "right place" to discuss politics.[109] Gyllenhaal also said that she had "nothing but gratitude and admiration" for firefighters and that she should have "been more gentle and more thoughtful" in her comments.[110]
Stupid asshole.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:08:42am |
re: #438 chicago blonde
I hate her and her brother Jake (who I think was in one of the many flops box office successes designed to undercut the war on terror documenting American imperialism and injustice under the Bush Admin.).
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:09:08am |
re: #443 chicago blonde
LOL! Caffeine, sugary donuts, fried eggs & bacon...that's a power meal!
I might grab a PopTart.
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:09:16am |
Good morning y'all - from a COLD (26 degrees when I awoke, now 28 going up to 54 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone doing today?
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:09:17am |
re: #438 chicago blonde
I'm so sorry, I wasn't as awake as I thought I was when I tried typing that.
What I meant was, I get furious when I hear moonbats try to rationalize what we did to deserve 9/11, and I have a pet dislike of Gremlin-Face because she said we were "somewhat responsible" for it and did some "terrible things".
/going to get a bit more coffee, clearly need it...
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:10:24am |
re: #456 realwest
Good morning y'all - from a COLD (26 degrees when I awoke, now 28 going up to 54 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone doing today?
Good morning Realwest!
How goes it today?
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:10:48am |
re: #446 MandyManners
The Cubans pretty much had their asses handed to them by the South Africans in Angola.
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:11:12am |
re: #458 notutopia
Good morning notutopia! How are you today?
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n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:11:19am |
re: #453 MandyManners
Her attitude on this is similar to our current President's.
Like you said,stupid asshole.
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:11:22am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:11:31am |
re: #450 jcw46
1. They're afraid of retribution
2. They don't expect anything to be done.Really the only people that have a chance of successfully ratting out a judge is the clerk, the bailiff, other judges and the lawyers/prosecutors. Every one else gets ignored. (unless the actions are egregious or criminal).
That's not true. The state's supreme court office that oversees the lower courts is obligated to take each report that comes its way, and is obligated to investigate.
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:11:54am |
re: #459 HoosierHoops
Hey there Hoops! It goes, it goes. How are you doing today my friend?
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:12:21am |
re: #456 realwest
Morning! Could you please send a degree or two of that here? We have some global warming to melt away...
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:12:51am |
re: #460 Fenway_Nation
The Cubans pretty much had their asses handed to them by the South Africans in Angola.
I miss the good old days of proxy wars and MAD.
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notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:13:28am |
re: #461 realwest
Good morning notutopia! How are you today?
Freezing realwest! It's 22 and feels much colder d/t to the dampness. I looked like the ovaltine kid in my down coat going out to bust up the ice in the animals water tanks this morn. How're you?
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gregg Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:13:36am |
re: #439 opnion
Since you're from Chicago, you might be interested in the Snuggie™ Pub Crawl in Chicago.
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aboo-Hoo-Hoo Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:14:05am |
re: #400 Fenway_Nation
Fenway, they started these exercises after the first IC report stated with a high degree of confidence we'd be nuked sometime within 10 years - 2, maybe 3, years ago. I'm pretty sure they've conducted exercises in Indiana, SC and Georgia. I also remember something to the effect that Blanco used the NG to search & disarm NOLA residents - post Katrina.
However, given today's environment this is getting to be some pretty scary stuff.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:14:17am |
re: #456 realwest
Good morning y'all - from a COLD (26 degrees when I awoke, now 28 going up to 54 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte!
How is everyone doing today?
Good morning Real!
Cold (and staying that way) plus snow here.
Otherwise doing very well. Yourself?
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albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:14:21am |
VDH from yesterday...brilliant as usual
[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:14:30am |
re: #462 n in wi
Her attitude on this is similar to our current President's.
Like you said,stupid asshole.
Let's not get me going this bright and beautiful morning.
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:15:05am |
re: #466 chicago blonde
Good morning to you. Uh, send a degree or two of what?! We're still FREEZING down here in "DIXIE" ARGGGH!
Oh you mean later today when we supposedly will get into the low 50's? Of course! I waive my arms around in the general direction of Chicago! LOL!
Wish I could warm things up for you in Chicagoland, but alas it's above my pay grade to do that.
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:15:30am |
The "Lynching" Of Senator Roland Burris continues, with more politicians calling for him to resign. Hey, if we was not African American they wouldn't, uh , er, well they probably wouldn't have seated him.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:15:39am |
re: #453 MandyManners
Gyllenhaal later said that she regretted her comments and asserted that film interviews were not the "right place" to discuss politics.[109] Gyllenhaal also said that she had "nothing but gratitude and admiration" for firefighters and that she should have "been more gentle and more thoughtful" in her comments.
Translation: I'm not sorry I offended people- I'm sorry this might hurt my career and cost me money
FUCK
HER
AND
THE
GREMLIN
SHE
RODE
IN
ON
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:16:07am |
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:16:16am |
re: #475 realwest
LOL! Enjoy the 50s as much as you can - we have more global warming falling as we speak.
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:16:54am |
re: #477 Fenway_Nation
*burning coffee out nose...but so worth it*
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:16:55am |
re: #469 notutopia
Well I'm better than that - I ain't going out until it gets over 32 degrees or 10:45 AM whichever comes first - chores and all, doncha know?!
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Digital Display Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:16:56am |
re: #465 realwest
Hey there Hoops! It goes, it goes. How are you doing today my friend?
I'm doing great my friend...Been up since 5am..we went out dancing last night..drinking coffee..but still kind of drunk..LOL
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:18:09am |
re: #470 gregg
Since you're from Chicago, you might be interested in the Snuggie™ Pub Crawl in Chicago.
That's funny. The bartenders should be required to use ShamWow's to wipe the bars.
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:18:13am |
re: #478 MandyManners
I don't either; all I know is I bought the United 93 DVD and left WTC behind at the store.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:19:19am |
re: #477 Fenway_Nation
Translation: I'm not sorry I offended people- I'm sorry this might hurt my career and cost me money
FUCK
HER
AND
THE
GREMLIN
SHE
RODE
IN
ON
Part of me wonders why actors talk about politics. Then, I realize that they do because they have the same rights as the rest of us. The difference is that they have microphones and cameras trained on them.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:19:22am |
re: #467 MandyManners
Apartheid South Africa vs Communist Cuba. Not that I liked Apartheid, but I'm glad the South Africans made it a costly venture for the Cubans.
I think the Ethiopians were briefly our proxy in Somalia last year.
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:19:42am |
re: #473 albusteve
VDH from yesterday...brilliant as usual
[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]
Excelent article.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:20:10am |
re: #484 chicago blonde
I don't either; all I know is I bought the United 93 DVD and left WTC behind at the store.
I have the former. I didn't even know that the latter existed.
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notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:20:35am |
re: #468 MandyManners
Whazzup?
I owe you an apology from my comment yesterday that I made. Please forgive my laughter upon reading the LGF cookbook quote, of your story when you were gushed in gasoline.
I was NOT laughing at what happened to you.
I was laughing at the thought of everyone in the station
wondering why in heavens name, is this woman stripping
here in a gas station! I can only imagine the shock value
if I had witnessed only the stripping part .
BTW, I hope you sent them your cleaners bill!
| 490 |
J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:21:20am |
...From Islamabad, let us zip a world away to London. Among the growing population of Yorkshire Pakistanis is a fellow called Lord Ahmed, a Muslim member of Parliament. He threatened "to bring a force of 10,000 Muslims to lay siege to the House of Lords" if it went ahead with an event at which the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders would have introduced a screening of his controversial film "Fitna."Britain's Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, reacted to this by declaring Wilders persona non grata and having him arrested and returned to the Netherlands.
Smith is best known for an inspired change of terminology: last year she announced that henceforth Muslim terrorism (an unhelpful phrase) would be reclassified as "anti-Islamic activity." Seriously. The logic being that Muslims blowing stuff up tends not to do much for Islam's reputation – i.e., it's an "anti-Islamic activity" in the same sense that Pearl Harbor was an anti-Japanese activity.
Anyway, Geert Wilders' short film is a compilation video of footage from recent Muslim terrorist atrocities – whoops, sorry, "anti-Islamic activities" – accompanied by the relevant chapter and verse from the Koran. Jacqui Smith banned the filmmaker on "public order" grounds – in other words, the government's fear that Lord Ahmed meant what he said about a 10,000-strong mob besieging the Palace of Westminster. You might conceivably get the impression from Wilders' movie that many Muslims are irrational and violent types it's best to steer well clear of. But, if you didn't, Jacqui Smith pretty much confirmed it: We can't have chaps saying Muslims are violent, because they'll go smash the place up.
So confronted by blackmail, the British government caved. So did the Pakistani government in Swat. But, in fairness to Islamabad, they waited until the shooting was well underway before throwing in the towel. Twenty years ago this month, Margaret Thatcher's Conservative ministry defended the right of a left-wing author Salman Rushdie to publish a book in the face of Muslim riots and the Ayatollah Khomeini's attempted mob hit. Two decades on, a supposedly progressive government surrenders to the mob before it's even taken to the streets.
In his first TV interview as president, Barack Obama told viewers of al-Arabiya TV that he wanted to restore the "same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago." I'm not sure quite what golden age he's looking back to there – the Beirut barracks slaughter? The embassy hostages? – but the point is, it's very hard to turn back the clock. Because the facts on the ground change and change remorselessly.
Between 1970 and 2000, the developed world declined from just under 30 percent of the global population to just over 20 percent, while the Muslim world increased from 15 percent to 20 percent. And in 2030, it won't even be possible to re-take that survey, because by that point half the "developed world" will itself be Muslim: in Bradford as in London, Amsterdam, Brussels and almost every other western European city from Malmo to Marseilles the principal population growth comes from Islam.
Along with the demographic growth has come radicalization: It's not just that there are more Muslims, but that, within that growing population, moderate Islam is on the decline – in Singapore, in the Balkans, in northern England – and radicalized, Arabized, Wahhabized Islam is on the rise. So we have degrees of accommodation: surrender in Islamabad, appeasement in London, acceptance in Toronto and Buffalo.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:21:37am |
re: #486 Fenway_Nation
Apartheid South Africa vs Communist Cuba. Not that I liked Apartheid, but I'm glad the South Africans made it a costly venture for the Cubans.
I think the Ethiopians were briefly our proxy in Somalia last year.
Many times during the Cold War, it was a case of "He may be a bastard but, he's our bastard".
| 492 |
jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:21:42am |
re: #464 MandyManners
Ignored as in; the paper work is done and the boxes are all checked but an actual investigation it wasn't. It actually makes sense as the people most likely to experience a judge's courtroom demeanor are usually those involved in a hearing of some sort or other and likely to have a vested interest in one outcome or another. Thus their complaint and their statements are usually suspect by anyone with experience. Sure it's not what's supposed to happen but it does -- a lot, particularly in the larger jurisdictions.
| 493 |
Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:21:45am |
re: #489 notutopia
My cookbook should be here soon and I can't wait to read that story.
| 494 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:22:58am |
Disturbing news, while we are planning a 17,000 ttroop surge in Afghanistan, the Pakistan government is complicating things.
The government has ceded control of border tribal areas to the Taliban.
Sharia Law is instituted & assasinations, beheadings & denial of education for gilrls are in full swing.
| 495 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:23:03am |
re: #489 notutopia
I owe you an apology from my comment yesterday that I made. Please forgive my laughter upon reading the LGF cookbook quote, of your story when you were gushed in gasoline.
I was NOT laughing at what happened to you.
I was laughing at the thought of everyone in the station
wondering why in heavens name, is this woman stripping
here in a gas station! I can only imagine the shock value
if I had witnessed only the stripping part .
BTW, I hope you sent them your cleaners bill!
Oh, it was funny so laughter is okay. It took me a while to get over my feelings but, I patronize that store.
| 496 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:23:53am |
re: #493 Cathypop
My cookbook should be here soon and I can't wait to read that story.
Cathypop, The LGF Cookbook is AWESOME!
From cover to cover it is worth every cent!
| 497 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:24:17am |
re: #403 DistantThunder
Good morning Distant Thunder! I'm a nuclear physcist too, though I can't spell it right! LOL! According to the article, only residents who have previously agreed to participate in this drill will have their doors knocked on - I imagine they'll have some sorta sticker or door knob type thing for folks who are willing to participate.
I think for REAL training, we all ought sneak up there, hide a apartments across the hall and when they knock on the door, jump out with water guns and yell "Booga Oga"!
Or, maybe not.
But let's face it, these folks from the NG aren't going to be carrying real ammo, just blanks - if that and we'd be assisting in training them how to avoid ambushes!
Or, maybe not.
:)
| 498 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:24:59am |
re: #485 MandyManners
I'm guessing the politics of the entertainers and the politics of whoever's interviewing them intermesh pretty seamlessly and they're at ease discussing their outlook and worldviews among each other and that may or may not seep into an interview. Then they may be genuinely shocked that there would be people who would disagree with or be offended by a statement made in the itnerview....
| 499 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:25:43am |
re: #495 MandyManners
Oh, it was funny so laughter is okay. It took me a while to get over my feelings but, I patronize that store.
I would have called the EPA and OSHA.
You're far more gracious than I.
| 500 |
aboo-Hoo-Hoo Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:25:55am |
When this askhole crawls out from under his rock....ah well...you know: German Ex-Chancellor Schroeder to Meet Iranian President
| 501 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:26:04am |
ome community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.
After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters "this is our house now."
The home in the 300 block of Ellwood Avenue used to be owned by Donna Hanks. She lost this home in September, after owning it since 2001. When things got tough she struggled to make her payments. Her mortgage? $1995 a month. Her income? $2200. Donna's story is one that ACORN is taking a stand against.
ACORN says that they will move Donna Hanks back in despite the fact that she no longer owns the house. During the taping of this story a man by the name of William Lane told ABC2 News that he owns the house currently--and plans to sue Acorn.
| 502 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:26:10am |
re: #486 Fenway_Nation
Apartheid South Africa vs Communist Cuba. Not that I liked Apartheid, but I'm glad the South Africans made it a costly venture for the Cubans.
I think the Ethiopians were briefly our proxy in Somalia last year.
Amazing how a war can be fought and won in relatively short order when there are no TV cameras around.
| 503 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:27:33am |
re: #492 jcw46
Ignored as in; the paper work is done and the boxes are all checked but an actual investigation it wasn't. It actually makes sense as the people most likely to experience a judge's courtroom demeanor are usually those involved in a hearing of some sort or other and likely to have a vested interest in one outcome or another. Thus their complaint and their statements are usually suspect by anyone with experience. Sure it's not what's supposed to happen but it does -- a lot, particularly in the larger jurisdictions.
It's a dereliction of duty to not investigate.
I went through that office when I reported an attorney years ago. I figured it would take the investigating attorney the standard 10 days to get back to me. I reported it on a Friday afternoon, and got a call Monday morning.
He couldn't tell me how many complaints this particular attorney had caused but, when I asked him if the prompt attention was an indication, he said some would call that a reasonable assumption.
| 504 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:28:06am |
re: #491 MandyManners
South Africa's been democratic since 1994- Cuba's still a bankrupt island prison.
/Don't like Apartheid, but not too keen on Mandela's sniffing Castro's jock and subsequent complicity with the Mugabe regime.
| 505 |
J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:28:27am |
| 506 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:28:34am |
Well, hubby is home from his locums post, and I guess I should go fix some real breakfast food for him, after eating military hospital mush for the last two weeks...
BBL.
| 507 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:28:34am |
re: #498 Fenway_Nation
I'm guessing the politics of the entertainers and the politics of whoever's interviewing them intermesh pretty seamlessly and they're at ease discussing their outlook and worldviews among each other and that may or may not seep into an interview. Then they may be genuinely shocked that there would be people who would disagree with or be offended by a statement made in the itnerview....
They live in a bubble, surrounded by an ideological mutual admiration society.
| 508 |
Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:29:26am |
re: #501 Who Watches the Watchmen?
Mortgage is $1995.00 and her income is $2200.00. So when does Oshit come to her rescue. And with a unicorn for the backyard?
| 509 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:29:28am |
re: #499 notutopia
I would have called the EPA and OSHA.
You're far more gracious than I.
Gracious? No, I whimped out.
| 510 |
quickjustice Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:30:23am |
re: #438 chicago blonde
Maggie Gyllenhall comes from a family of actors who are longstanding communists. It's no surprise that she and her brother are cut from the same cloth.
| 511 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:30:43am |
re: #508 Cathypop
And with a unicorn for the backyard?
Is there already a grill or firepit for the unicorn in the back yard or will she have to find one herself?
| 512 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:31:17am |
re: #501 Who Watches the Watchmen?
What if the new owner was living in that house? Would ACORN still have broken in?
| 513 |
Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:32:09am |
re: #511 Fenway_Nation
Is there already a grill or firepit for the unicorn in the back yard or will she have to find one herself?
Building a firepit in my backyard just witing for the unicorn to show up.
| 514 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:32:50am |
re: #498 Fenway_Nation
I'm guessing the politics of the entertainers and the politics of whoever's interviewing them intermesh pretty seamlessly and they're at ease discussing their outlook and worldviews among each other and that may or may not seep into an interview. Then they may be genuinely shocked that there would be people who would disagree with or be offended by a statement made in the itnerview....
Hey, they didn't get those High School Equivalence Diplomas for nothing.
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:33:00am |
re: #498 Fenway_Nation
I think you've got something there. So many of them are almost like alien life forms. I remember before Oprah made me want to pull out my own teeth, I watched an episode where she was talking to a celebutant about shopping. This woman was amazed that you could get a lipstick at a drugstore for under $20-25. This was back in the late 80s as I recall. I know it's a bit of trivia but I think it nicely shows how out of touch they are with how most of us live.
/Still using $8 Cherries in the Snow
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:34:12am |
re: #504 Fenway_Nation
South Africa's been democratic since 1994- Cuba's still a bankrupt island prison.
/Don't like Apartheid, but not too keen on Mandela's sniffing Castro's jock and subsequent complicity with the Mugabe regime.
I studied the ANC's tactics in forcing students to not go to school. Winnie figured predominantly. She was one of the nastiest bits of work from the 1980s.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:34:17am |
re: #510 quickjustice
Maggie Gyllenhall comes from a family of actors who are longstanding communists. It's no surprise that she and her brother are cut from the same cloth.
I'm all to familiar with McFarlance's politics now, but I remeber one of the throwaway moments on Family Guy was when Stewie was complaining about how something was going to be "more unpleasant than Jake and Maggie Gyllenhall" and it cuts away to the two of them arguing at the dinner table with their father in between.
"I'm more unpleasant!"
"Oh yeah, well I'm more unwatchable...."
"Says you! I'm a bigger box-office drag"
"Kids! Kids! That's enough. You both are just....awful..."
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jcw46 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:34:38am |
re: #497 realwest
they actually ought to do something like that if they want to really "train" these guys.
it's why multi-player first person shooter games are so poplular; there's nothing like a real, live brain with a weapon to concentrate the mind. After "fighting" AI driven "enemies" real people are much more challenging. It's why OPFOR units were formed and why battlefield condition training is so valuable. Drills help muscle memory and give you a basic level of ability but actual environment with opposition under controlled conditions allows mistakes to be made without them being fatal.
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eon Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:34:52am |
re: #431 monkeytime
A good article by Uzi Rubin. "Mr. Rubin, head of Israel's Missile Defense Organization from 1991 to 1999, won the Israel Defense Prize in 1996 and 2003."
Good morning, Lizards.
Calling the techne'in Iran's missiles "proscribed" accomplishes exactly nothing in real terms. From the article and my own (fascinated amateur) knowledge, I recognized the details of the Iranian launch vehicles as being based on the old Soviet Scud series as stated. What the writer overlooked (or probably just didn't know) is that the Scud was based on the technology of the world's first ballistic missile, the World War Two German A-4 aka V-2. The major differences being the Scud was a simplified design intended for mass production (its body was a simple cylinder with a conical nose instead of the more sensuously streamlined but harder to build A-4 "spindle" shape), and the use of storable propellants (inhibited red fuming nitric acid and unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine) instead of the water/alcohol and liquid oxygen of the German version. Graphite exhaust vanes for steering, also a feature taken from the original A-4, are a bit less "elegant" than thrust vectoring by gimbaled motors (our most common system), but they are simple, reliable, and they work. (They also weigh less than gimbaled motors, BTW, which is a consideration if thrust is at a premium.)
And even the German team at Peenemunde' considered a two-stage version of A-4, called A-9/A-10, to either put a satellite in orbit- or drop a warhead (probably either chemical, biological, or a radioactive-dust carrying "dirty" HE airburst type) on either Washington or New York. The A-9 stage would have been a "stretched" A-4 with more propellant tankage. The A-10 stage would have been nothing more than a double-sized A-4 (scaled up 100% in all directions) with five regular A-4 motors clustered in its base. Simple, effective, and so mule-stupid it was almost impossible for it not to work.
The Iranians seem to be working along very similar lines, design-wise. The bottom line being that 27.27 kilograms of satellite in a stable orbit equals (technically speaking) about four times as much mass (100 kg or so) deposited on a ground target within 500 miles range. And 500 miles is a very long way in the MidEast. Add a reasonably "hot" booster under the first stage and the existing transtage (the equivalent of that "double-sized" A-10 stage), and you can either loft about twice that mass (200 kg+) to the same range, or that same 100+ kilograms across an ocean.
With even easily-available (black market) weapons technology, someone can pack an awful lot of grief into 100 kilograms' mass.
/Not being alarmist, but something to think about.
Have to run. Have a great day, Lizards.
cheers
eon
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n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:35:23am |
re: #494 opnion
Disturbing news, while we are planning a 17,000 ttroop surge in Afghanistan, the Pakistan government is complicating things.
The government has ceded control of border tribal areas to the Taliban.
Sharia Law is instituted & assasinations, beheadings & denial of education for gilrls are in full swing.
I have mixed emotions on this,but if we are not going to make a full commitment in Afghanistan, we should consider leaving,or greatly reducing our presence now.
It is going to get more difficult,and Obama doesn't have the desire or fortitude to see it through.
May be just stay in a position to protect Pak. nukes.
I know leaving is not a solution but it may be the best bad choice we have. Like I said,Obama will not have the fortitude to stay when it get tougher.
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ilzito guacamolito Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:35:52am |
Good morning!
Mmmm, let me get this straight. I am spiritually bankrupt AND in league with the Prince of Darkness if I do not believe that Earth as we know it was created in six days. So I guess the various fossils discovered belonging to the genus Homo, not to mention all of those dinosaur remnants my kids see at the Museum of Natural History, are just plants to weed out the non-believers.
BTW, I wonder how Debra Murphree and Rosemary Garcia are faring these days.
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:37:20am |
re: #510 quickjustice
Ugh. She and her idiot brother are both gross.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:38:41am |
re: #510 quickjustice
Maggie Gyllenhall comes from a family of actors who are longstanding communists. It's no surprise that she and her brother are cut from the same cloth.
Per Wiki, the father, Stephen, is the brother of he executive editor of the Miami Herald, Anders Gyllenhaal.
I think it would be interesting to research the families of executives in the MFM.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:38:49am |
re: #521 ilzito guacamolito
Sorry....all I got from that was 'Homo Dinosaur'.
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Wishing Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:40:46am |
re: #418 jcw46
Brrrr. This gives me chills.
I understand the need for "true conditions" exercises but this is suspect.
Here's a quote:
"We really want to get as much information out there as possible, because this operation could be pretty intrusive to the people of Arcadia."Intrusive? No? What makes you think this would be intrusive?
Nothing about whether you have the option to refuse and what will be done then.
That is one scary article. So the citizens invite the Guards in and open their doiors and cupboards? Says they are looking for an *arms dealer*? Is this a code word ?
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albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:40:47am |
re: #512 MandyManners
What if the new owner was living in that house? Would ACORN still have broken in?
targets inside the wire
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ilzito guacamolito Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:41:52am |
re: #524 Fenway_Nation
I didn't mention Jimmy Swaggart, just commented about what he said.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:42:38am |
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:42:57am |
re: #520 n in wi
I have mixed emotions on this,but if we are not going to make a full commitment in Afghanistan, we should consider leaving,or greatly reducing our presence now.
It is going to get more difficult,and Obama doesn't have the desire or fortitude to see it through.
May be just stay in a position to protect Pak. nukes.
I know leaving is not a solution but it may be the best bad choice we have. Like I said,Obama will not have the fortitude to stay when it get tougher.
Our new President is getting acquainted with reality.
He routinely criticised Bush on Afghanistan during the Campaign, but now like lots of things he ridiculed , he is finding that it is not that easy.
He knows that if he pulls our troops out that Al Queda could reconstitute there & he doesn't want to hand the Repulicans an issue.
This is not a novel opinion but I think that Obama is over his head.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:43:05am |
re: #526 albusteve
targets inside the wire
In Baltimore? I wonder what Maryland's law is about defending yourself and your property.
Maybe ACORN is content for now to break into homes not occupied by the new owners.
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Ojoe Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:43:47am |
"Paradise is all around us and we do not understand."
— Thomas Merton.
Good morning Lizards, to those in the morning;
Greetings to those in further time zones.
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:44:00am |
re: #523 MandyManners
Probably would be an eye-opener, wouldn't it?
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:44:57am |
re: #530 MandyManners
In Baltimore? I wonder what Maryland's law is about defending yourself and your property.
Maybe ACORN is content for now to break into homes not occupied by the new owners.
It's about staging. There's better publicity in cutting a padlock off an empty house than a home invasion.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:46:05am |
re: #530 MandyManners
In Baltimore? I wonder what Maryland's law is about defending yourself and your property.
Maybe ACORN is content for now to break into homes not occupied by the new owners.
don't know...I have my own law and besides NM allows you to not become a victim
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:46:21am |
re: #532 chicago blonde
Probably would be an eye-opener, wouldn't it?
Yes but, it also might confirm our suspicions.
The first step would be to get the names of every publisher, executive and manager.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:47:04am |
re: #533 Who Watches the Watchmen?
It's about staging. There's better publicity in cutting a padlock off an empty house than a home invasion.
Do they have the means and the guts to escalate?
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:47:30am |
re: #534 albusteve
don't know...I have my own law and besides NM allows you to not become a victim
It might be different in Maryland.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:47:39am |
re: #529 opnion
Our position in Iraq (i.e. the 'bad' war) is much more tenable than Afghanistan (i.e. the 'good' war) with the Taliban attacking supply routes and Kyrgyzistan closing down a stragetically-placed air base.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:48:06am |
Dear Mr. Swaggart, ... this Christian is happy to realize that he's spiritually bankrupt, speculative, philosophical, non-scientific, atheistic and Satanic.
You will, I'm sure, be aghast to know that I stirred by peas in with my mashed potatoes when I was a child.
/just trying to make your day
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quickjustice Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:49:17am |
re: #533 Who Watches the Watchmen?
Here in NYC, ACORN picked a black grandma with a daycare center who lost her brand new house in Queens to foreclosure as their poster girl. NY1 gave them ten minutes of prime-time TV coverage. No attempt to interview the bank or the new owner. More evidence that the media are lackeys of the left.
| 541 |
Ojoe Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:49:25am |
re: #539 pre-Boomer Marine brat
My cousins, Catholics all, drank dill pickle juice through chocolate flavor straws.
/going to hell for sure
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:49:54am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:50:12am |
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:51:04am |
re: #541 Ojoe
I like a little ketchup for my onion rings. I'm likely in the same handbasket.
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Cathypop Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:51:12am |
re: #501 Who Watches the Watchmen?
About a month ago I heard on the radio about a group in Florida called "Take Back our Land" They were breaking into homes that had been foreclosed and moving homeless people into them. Have not seen anything else on this.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:51:50am |
re: #541 Ojoe
My cousins, Catholics all, drank dill pickle juice through chocolate flavor straws.
/going to hell for sure
FOR SURE!
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:51:53am |
re: #518 jcw46
Yep, even back in the day when I was in (he says, clutching his cane and swigging Geritol) we had an Advanced Infantry Course called point and shoot or some such thingy. We'd wear a helmet with a Plexiglas visor and some padding and then have to wander along a trail from one part of a forest to the end, with pump BB guns. OPFOR guys would jump out from behind trees and crap and shoot at us with BB's. The idea was to develop our reflexes so we got away from all of our prior "aim, breathe out slowly and slowly pull back on the trigger"rifle shooting training and get to real life where if you do that aim, breathe out crap you'll be killed.
Course, we weren't clearing urban areas, just "Vietnamese" Villages/mock ups. But sometimes those effin BB's would break the skin and they HURT - so you really got used to what it was like to shoot first and question later. I probably plugged every damn tree in that forest!
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FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:52:09am |
good morning peeps.
THIS totally made my morning:
If it weren’t for his Power of Myth series where he introduced Joseph Campbell to a broader audience, Bill Moyers would have contributed little to our national discourse. He has otherwise dedicated his career almost exclusively to destroying Republicans.
It’s too bad that despite his deep affection for Campbell and his work, Moyers all but ignored that great mythologist’s politics. Campbell was a Republican and, as I understand, a pretty conservative one at that.
FU Bill Moyers - you small little fascist f*ck.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:53:27am |
I didn't tell Swagger that I also like anchovies.
Didn't want to give him a coronary.
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n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:53:38am |
re: #529 opnion
Our new President is getting acquainted with reality.
He routinely criticised Bush on Afghanistan during the Campaign, but now like lots of things he ridiculed , he is finding that it is not that easy.
He knows that if he pulls our troops out that Al Queda could reconstitute there & he doesn't want to hand the Repulicans an issue.
This is not a novel opinion but I think that Obama is over his head.
Like you said,it's about politics to them. Always was.
I see Gates leaving in a year, and Obama withdrawing shortly after.
He'll say it was too far gone because Bush diverted attention to Iraq.
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:53:55am |
re: #538 Fenway_Nation
Our position in Iraq (i.e. the 'bad' war) is much more tenable than Afghanistan (i.e. the 'good' war) with the Taliban attacking supply routes and Kyrgyzistan closing down a stragetically-placed air base.
Afghanistan is really a tough slog. The terrain is inhospitable & they have no tradition of central government.
Add to that, they have the psyche of knowing that the British & Russians were defeated there. The enemy no doubt figures that time is on their side.
My fear is that if we get a poor outcome there, it will ginn up the worldwide Jihad.
| 553 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:54:09am |
re: #542 chicago blonde
They couldn't claim such a study would violate their right to privacy. Well, they could but, it would be hypocritical and farcical.
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J.D. Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:54:34am |
re: #546 Cathypop
About a month ago I heard on the radio about a group in Florida called "Take Back our Land" They were breaking into homes that had been foreclosed and moving homeless people into them. Have not seen anything else on this.
[Link: takebacktheland.net...]
Miami.
How bizarre.
| 555 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:55:02am |
re: #537 MandyManners
It might be different in Maryland.
my property, over an acre, is completely sealed with 6ft chainlink fencing and block walls...the driveways are gated and locked...typical in NM, it's understood that if you breech the walls at night it goes to guns...very simple and effective...all my neighbors here at Ft. Willow are armed...911 is an afterthought you might say, for cleanup crew
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:56:45am |
re: #555 albusteve
my property, over an acre, is completely sealed with 6ft chainlink fencing and block walls...the driveways are gated and locked...typical in NM, it's understood that if you breech the walls at night it goes to guns...very simple and effective...all my neighbors here at Ft. Willow are armed...911 is an afterthought you might say, for cleanup crew
Again, it might be different in Maryland.
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:57:40am |
re: #551 n in wi
Like you said,it's about politics to them. Always was.
I see Gates leaving in a year, and Obama withdrawing shortly after.
He'll say it was too far gone because Bush diverted attention to Iraq.
Ya know, Obama could bet his Messianic complex all mixed up iin Afgghanistan. He may make our commanders to foolish things & get a lot of troops killed. Then he would still blame Bush
| 559 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:58:51am |
re: #553 MandyManners
Fortunately lot of them do the work for us. Just blab in front of the camera and voila, I know not to buy their DVDs. :)
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Miss Trixie Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:59:17am |
♪ ♬ Good morning, {lizards!} ♬ ♪
We've a bright and sparkly winter day with a little more gorebull warming on the ground overnight. I'm so ready for spring, I tell you what.
{realwest} Morning, hunnie! *smoochie-smooch* Sorry to hear you're so cold. Here's a Snuggie ...
:D
New avatar BTW.
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realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 6:59:53am |
re: #533 Who Watches the Watchmen? Don't know what the gun laws are in Baltimore, but damned if I wasn't the owner of that house, if me and a couple of buddies wouldn't break in with 20 gauge shotguns (loaded with birdshot) and tell the bastards to get out of my property or I'd shoot 'em. And if they didn't leave, I would shoot 'em - probably in the legs - maybe cause some minor wounds but if someone breaks into MY house they'd be paying a much heavier price.
WTF is wrong with the Baltimore PD - what, can anyone break into a home that's temporarily empty (like if a couple live there but actually, ya know, GO TO WORK) and claim it as theirs?
| 562 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:00:46am |
re: #553 MandyManners
And I pretty much just assume the media has an agenda. Watching Campbell Brown drool over Obama and bash Palin was confirmation but no surprise.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:02:02am |
re: #549 FrogMarch
Falwell and Robertson are held up to the ridicule they deserve whenever they say something stupid (altho' the MSM uses it as an opportunity to charichture the right as a whole).
Reverend Wright leads his congregation in 'God Damn America' just after the 9/11 attacks and one tool Bill Moyers gives another tool Wright a platform in which he can explain himself as a 'complex charchter who shouldn't be judged on a 5-second soundbite that was taken completely out of context'.
FUCK
THEM
AND
THE
CHICKENS
THEY
RODE
IN
ON
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:02:23am |
re: #559 chicago blonde
Fortunately lot of them do the work for us. Just blab in front of the camera and voila, I know not to buy their DVDs. :)
I'm talking about the powers that be in the MFM.
| 565 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:03:01am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:03:02am |
re: #562 chicago blonde
And I pretty much just assume the media has an agenda. Watching Campbell Brown drool over Obama and bash Palin was confirmation but no surprise.
I've never watched her but, knowing she's on CNN gives me a clue about her.
| 567 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:03:35am |
re: #558 opnion
He is more intent on being the Distributor in Chief, than the Commander in Chief.
| 568 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:03:36am |
re: #563 Fenway_Nation
And we shall know our enemy, as they shall come riding in on gremlins and chickens...
| 569 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:03:59am |
re: #550 pre-Boomer Marine brat Hey there PBMB! "anchovies"? Ewww!
| 570 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:04:38am |
re: #560 Miss Trixie
New avatar BTW.
Oh, I love it. I just wanna' reach into the screen and tickle it.
| 571 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:04:44am |
re: #564 MandyManners
I know, caught that belatedly, see #562. I do need more coffee...
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:04:51am |
re: #562 chicago blonde
And I pretty much just assume the media has an agenda. Watching Campbell Brown drool over Obama and bash Palin was confirmation but no surprise.
Isn't she married to Ari Fliesher?
| 573 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:05:03am |
re: #561 realwest
Don't know what the gun laws are in Baltimore, but damned if I wasn't the owner of that house, if me and a couple of buddies wouldn't break in with 20 gauge shotguns (loaded with birdshot) and tell the bastards to get out of my property or I'd shoot 'em. And if they didn't leave, I would shoot 'em - probably in the legs - maybe cause some minor wounds but if someone breaks into MY house they'd be paying a much heavier price.
WTF is wrong with the Baltimore PD - what, can anyone break into a home that's temporarily empty (like if a couple live there but actually, ya know, GO TO WORK) and claim it as theirs?
the govt decides which laws to enforce and when to do it...the concept of ownership is rapidly changing...you have to give up what is yours (Kelo) and you are highly restricted how you can protect what they let you have
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:05:27am |
re: #568 chicago blonde
Gremlins and chickens that are walking kinda funny...
| 576 |
Miss Trixie Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:05:53am |
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chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:06:55am |
re: #572 opnion
Per Wikipedia:
On April 2, 2006, Brown married her second husband Daniel Samuel Senor (born 1971), a Republican consultant who regularly appears on Fox News.
Huh.
| 578 |
Miss Trixie Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:07:03am |
Has Scottishbuzzsaw been around lately? I've been a little worried about her.
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pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:08:38am |
re: #569 realwest
Hey there PBMB! "anchovies"? Ewww!
I'm damned to perdition for eternity.
/why should I care about being all those things Swaggart thinks I am?
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:08:49am |
re: #567 n in wi
He is more intent on being the Distributor in Chief, than the Commander in Chief.
true, he really does want to loot your money to give to someone else.
But anti military types can really get in to the Commander in Chief thing.
Clinton is an example. He loved using the military, as long as it had nothing to do with our national interests.
| 581 |
Wishing Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:08:57am |
re: #552 opnion
Afghanistan is really a tough slog. The terrain is inhospitable & they have no tradition of central government.
Add to that, they have the psyche of knowing that the British & Russians were defeated there. The enemy no doubt figures that time is on their side.
My fear is that if we get a poor outcome there, it will ginn up the worldwide Jihad.
I do not think Obama takes the word *loss* well, and I do not think he is anything short of a loose cannon, when provoked. If Afghanistan goes badly, I am expecting him to use *less than PC weapons*. Anything to secure his *win*.
| 582 |
Taqiyyotomist Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:09:00am |
Good morning Lizardia! from re-snowy South Haven. 6-8 inches today. Gah.
| 583 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:09:08am |
re: #563 Fenway_Nation
Both sides of the political spectrum have their freaks. The freaks on the left get a pass and a whitewash by fellow media freaks like Bill Moyers.
I am just so happy to learn that Joseph Campbell was a Republican.
| 584 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:09:10am |
re: #552 opnion
Yep, but the difference between OUR troops and the SOVIET troops is incredible. Plus when we first went in , we used a combination of Shock and Awe (B-52's with 500 lb conventional munitions; gunships, close in air support) and other Afghans (the National Front) to do most of the fighting. There has NEVER been a cental government in those regions in Pakistan where they are hiding out; they are "governed" by a multitude of Warlords. I figure if we pay those Warlords enough money, they'll take care of the Taliban and Al-Q for us; after all the Taliban and Al-Q threaten the Warlords' hold on that area, too.
| 585 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:09:40am |
re: #578 Miss Trixie
Has Scottishbuzzsaw been around lately? I've been a little worried about her.
She was here yesterday afternoon-ish.
| 586 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:09:45am |
re: #578 Miss Trixie
Has Scottishbuzzsaw been around lately? I've been a little worried about her.
I know she was in at the tail end of the Missouri Creationist Bill thread night before last.
| 587 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:10:00am |
| 588 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:10:17am |
re: #556 J.D.
Hey, hi {j.D.} yes, eye is much better, thank you kindly!
How are y'all doing these days?
| 589 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:10:39am |
re: #578 Miss Trixie
Has Scottishbuzzsaw been around lately? I've been a little worried about her.
She was here yesterday.
| 590 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:11:08am |
re: #550 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I didn't tell Swagger that I also like anchovies.
Didn't want to give him a coronary.
What kind of filthy disgusting degenrate likes anchovies!?
/not as a pizza topping, I hope
| 591 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:11:49am |
oooo the Obama media pimpage is starting.
(the deception)
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
that extra 13 bucks a week is on its way!
| 592 |
phoenixgirl Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:11:57am |
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:11:58am |
Notice that we have Scottishbuzzsaw and Buzzsawmonkey? What is it about Lizards and buzz saws?
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opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:12:05am |
re: #581 Wishing
I do not think Obama takes the word *loss* well, and I do not think he is anything short of a loose cannon, when provoked. If Afghanistan goes badly, I am expecting him to use *less than PC weapons*. Anything to secure his *win*.
I agree. He has his ego all tied up in Afghanistan because he got really mouthy about it. He could double down & force a stupid strategy.
| 596 |
Miss Trixie Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:12:33am |
Thanks. Is there a new pupster in her arms yet to mend her broken heart?
| 597 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:12:51am |
re: #587 MandyManners
Nope. Christianne Amanpour is married to him.
I think that Amanpour is married to Jamie Rubin.
| 598 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:13:14am |
re: #560 {Miss Trixie} Good morning gorgeous! *smooches* back to you - I find that they'll proably keep you warmer than a Snuggie! LOL!
I looked and looked at that Avatar (blown up by clicking on it) and still can't figure out what it is except a cat lying on it's back!
Sorry - but what is it?
| 599 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:13:14am |
| 600 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:13:25am |
re: #587 MandyManners
I cringed a little and I think the 'boys' went into hiding at the very mention of her name.
| 602 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:13:42am |
re: #595 chicago blonde
We like to cut through B.S.?
And it can be so thick that we need a buzz saw!
| 603 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:14:06am |
| 604 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:14:18am |
re: #600 Fenway_Nation
You're on a roll today! What coffee do you drink?
/I need to upgrade
| 605 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:14:46am |
re: #593 MandyManners
Notice that we have Scottishbuzzsaw and Buzzsawmonkey? What is it about Lizards and buzz saws?
Render dresses out his trolls with one....SPLAT!
| 606 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:14:56am |
re: #600 Fenway_Nation
I cringed a little and I think the 'boys' went into hiding at the very mention of her name.
Is it safe for them to come out now?
| 607 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:15:22am |
re: #590 Fenway_Nation
What kind of filthy disgusting degenrate likes anchovies!?
/not as a pizza topping, I hope
*thinks twice about replying*
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... *silence*
| 608 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:15:24am |
| 609 |
Wishing Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:15:24am |
re: #594 opnion
I agree. He has his ego all tied up in Afghanistan because he got really mouthy about it. He could double down & force a stupid strategy.
I absolutely expect it. A woman scorned and all....
| 610 |
Last Mohican Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:15:29am |
Hey, has anyone seen oslogin? I haven't seen him or her for days, and I have a correction and apology that I want to post when he or she is around.
| 611 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:16:07am |
re: #573 albusteve
NO. In Kelo the property owners WERE PAID the FMV for their property. Here these ACORN mofos just took over someone else's property. Period. The Balitmore PD should be sued by that new owner unless he want's to try my method first.
| 612 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:16:16am |
re: #604 chicago blonde
Well....I just had a White Russian and some ny-quil.
/Kalhua come from coffee- right?
| 613 |
Lincolntf Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:16:40am |
re: #591 FrogMarch
That reminds me. I have to go find a bunch of bloggers from pre-election days who used their "tax-cut calculator" to "prove" that Obama was going to put tons of money into their pockets. I'm wondering how those calculations look now that we've seen Obama in action.
| 614 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:17:14am |
re: #578 Miss Trixie
She was out here last night if that's any consolation to you. Maybe you should do an LGF search on her name?
| 615 |
Miss Trixie Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:17:34am |
re: #598 realwest
Good morning gorgeous! *smooches* back to you - I find that they'll proably keep you warmer than a Snuggie! LOL!
I looked and looked at that Avatar (blown up by clicking on it) and still can't figure out what it is except a cat [*with a monster tummy] lying on it's back!
Sorry - but what is it?
*The caption reads "The Day the Barking Stopped."
:D
| 616 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:17:53am |
re: #612 Fenway_Nation
Wow. Had I had one or the other I wouldn't be able to string 2 sentences together! :)
White Russians are tasty though....
| 617 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:18:18am |
re: #579 pre-Boomer Marine brat Oh hell, I wasn't talking about Swaggart, I was talking about anchovies! EWWWWW!
:)
| 618 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:18:32am |
re: #607 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Safest thing in the world is to leave me in a room with a pizza that has anchovy, pineapple and/or olive on it. No matter how hungry I am, chances are that pizza will be undisturbed.
| 619 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:18:52am |
| 620 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:20:09am |
re: #611 realwest
NO. In Kelo the property owners WERE PAID the FMV for their property. Here these ACORN mofos just took over someone else's property. Period. The Balitmore PD should be sued by that new owner unless he want's to try my method first.
they were paid yes, but they were forced to give it up...I like your method, I will not bow to authority acting against my security or interests...but it's not for everyone...I've been jailed a few times...I expect if this guy goes in to take his property with violence he will go down
| 621 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:20:36am |
re: #613 Lincolntf
That reminds me. I have to go find a bunch of bloggers from pre-election days who used their "tax-cut calculator" to "prove" that Obama was going to put tons of money into their pockets. I'm wondering how those calculations look now that we've seen Obama in action.
The democrats do not know how to properly cut taxes. It's all a scam. It's all smoke and mirrors. Obama promised to let the evil Bush tax cuts expire. If they expire, won't that effectively raise all of our taxes and offset any piddly 13 bucks a week?
| 622 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:20:40am |
re: #609 Wishing
I absolutely expect it. A woman scorned and all....
Wish that I would have said that. You got an upding.
| 623 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:21:26am |
re: #618 Fenway_Nation
We agree on pineapple.
I've never liked olives in any fashion, so I guess it doesn't count.
| 624 |
neverquit Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:21:39am |
re: #1 Sharmuta
And how much money did this guy pay for sex?
Oh boy, this calls for a Lazarus Long Quote:
Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly.
| 625 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:21:43am |
re: #616 chicago blonde
Not sure I used enough vodka.....oh wait it's starting to kick in...
| 626 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:21:54am |
re: #618 Fenway_Nation
That reminded me - the first time I had anchovies, they were sliced into itty bitty things on the pizza my friend ordered, so they didn't bother me. Much.
When I met my future mother-in-law for the first time, she ordered a pizza with anchovies. I almost died when the thing came with SARDINE-SIZED CHUNKS of fish on it. I quietly fed them to Mr. Blonde, who didn't rat me out - he got the anchovy gene from his mother.
/I married a good man.
| 627 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:22:39am |
re: #610 Last Mohican
Good morning! Y'all ought to try an LGF search for him.
Hell, just click my avatar, go to recent searches, delete my name and insert his (make sure you use the " feature at the beginning and end) and you'll go to any comments he's made in the last two weeks.
| 628 |
Lincolntf Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:22:41am |
re: #621 FrogMarch
Of course.
Math has never been the strong suit of the dewy-eyed hopenchangers
| 629 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:22:56am |
re: #623 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Pineapples were meant to be crushed into juice and serve chilled with vodka.
/doesn't even have to be good vodka
| 630 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:23:22am |
re: #617 realwest
Oh & Real, you think it's cold there? I'll give ya cold! come on over here. I have to go clear the drive way.
How ya doin?
| 631 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:23:52am |
re: #611 realwest
NO. In Kelo the property owners WERE PAID the FMV for their property. Here these ACORN mofos just took over someone else's property. Period. The Balitmore PD should be sued by that new owner unless he want's to try my method first.
Why should the homeowner sue the BPD? The department is treating it as a crime scene. The police cannot stand guard over every empty, foreclosed home.
| 632 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:24:28am |
| 633 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:24:54am |
re: #628 Lincolntf
Of course.
Math has never been the strong suit of the dewy-eyed hopenchangers
Heh. No it hasn't.
| 634 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:25:38am |
re: #620 albusteve
Well fuck that. If he calls the PD and says get their asses outta my property - and has a lawyer with him to prove it's his property - what the hell do the PD do about the ACORN mofos? That's the question I keep asking.
| 635 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:25:53am |
re: #628 Lincolntf
Of course.
Math has never been the strong suit of the dewy-eyed hopenchangers
Or basic hygiene
Or interpersonal skills
Or geography
Or a firm grasp of logic
Or a sense of responsibility
Or any sense of irony
| 636 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:26:05am |
| 637 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:26:41am |
Hillary....poor Hillary already not so popular
[Link: washingtontimes.com...]
| 638 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:26:45am |
re: #620 albusteve
they were paid yes, but they were forced to give it up...I like your method, I will not bow to authority acting against my security or interests...but it's not for everyone...I've been jailed a few times...I expect if this guy goes in to take his property with violence he will go down
The police have secured the property.
| 639 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:27:17am |
LGF 101, Lesson 18 -- how to blow 2,000 positive karma points in one post
When I fix an 8" DiGiorno deep-dish pizza for myself, I put an entire can of anchovies on it
| 640 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:27:18am |
re: #623 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Wait a minute! Y'all like anchovies but you don't like one of God's finest gifts to man, olives? G'head, tell me you put anchovies in your martini's!
Gah.
:)
| 641 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:27:35am |
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
— Jimmy Swaggart
"Spiritually bankrupt;" interesting choice of words there Jimmy.
Morning Honcos.
| 642 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:27:52am |
re: #634 realwest
Well fuck that. If he calls the PD and says get their asses outta my property - and has a lawyer with him to prove it's his property - what the hell do the PD do about the ACORN mofos? That's the question I keep asking.
find a peaceful resolution?.....spit
| 643 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:28:06am |
re: #634 realwest
Well fuck that. If he calls the PD and says get their asses outta my property - and has a lawyer with him to prove it's his property - what the hell do the PD do about the ACORN mofos? That's the question I keep asking.
The owner was not living in the house. I don't see ACORN entering an occupied house.
| 644 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:28:18am |
Well, I hate to leave, but I need to dig out the global warming. If I don't freeze I'll be back later. Bye Lizards!
| 645 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:28:44am |
re: #632 MandyManners
I know that name.
He was Deputy White House Press Secretary for Bush.
Interesting , because Brown is the daughter of a Democrat ,Louisiana politician.
| 646 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:29:00am |
The ACORN story.
[Link: www.abc2news.com...]
| 647 |
Last Mohican Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:29:13am |
re: #627 realwest
Well, I'm not sure I have the hang of the LGF user search. Clicking anaAvatar just gets me a little sub-window in which I can't specify a different user. But I went back to an old thread and searched for oslogin there. No posts since early AM of 2/19. I guess I could try sending email...
| 648 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:29:15am |
re: #593 MandyManners
Notice that we have Scottishbuzzsaw and Buzzsawmonkey? What is it about Lizards and buzz saws?
It's funny, because in Med School, they slang refer to Ortho Surgeons as Buzzsawmonkey's.
Are either Surgeons?
They both have cutting wit!
| 649 |
chicago blonde Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:29:29am |
| 650 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:29:39am |
re: #637 albusteve
Looks like the ChiComs investment in the 1990s is paying big dividends.
/Kinda sad when the ChiComs and Vlad Putin are more knowledgable about free markets/capitalism than the current Administration
| 651 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:29:53am |
re: #630 opnion
I KNOW it's cold down here in the SOUTHLAND. And I'd be happy to help ya with your shoveling and all, but I got this bad back, see and, uh, well........and I do have chores to run!
(whew, thank God for chores!).
| 652 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:30:06am |
re: #640 realwest
Wait a minute! Y'all like anchovies but you don't like one of God's finest gifts to man, olives? G'head, tell me you put anchovies in your martini's!
Gah.
:)
Don't like martinis either.
/incipient pariah status
| 653 |
Who Watches the Watchmen? Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:30:09am |
re: #634 realwest
Well fuck that. If he calls the PD and says get their asses outta my property - and has a lawyer with him to prove it's his property - what the hell do the PD do about the ACORN mofos? That's the question I keep asking.
It doesn't matter. It's over. ACORN got the story on the news and that was the goal. Maybe they were hoping for a violent encounter in order to bring in Rev. Al and the cable news networks, but they basically got what they wanted.
| 654 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:30:11am |
re: #638 MandyManners
The police have secured the property.
good now the owner should procede with criminal charges against ACORN...push back hard
| 656 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:30:43am |
re: #645 opnion
He was Deputy White House Press Secretary for Bush.
Interesting , because Brown is the daughter of a Democrat ,Louisiana politician.
Carville and Matalin. Senor and Brown.
I wonder what dinner conversations are like in their homes.
| 658 |
Wishing Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:31:16am |
re: #646 MandyManners
The ACORN story.
[Link: www.abc2news.com...]
OMG! I lived in the 300 block of Elwood ave!
| 659 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:31:24am |
re: #648 notutopia
It's funny, because in Med School, they slang refer to Ortho Surgeons as Buzzsawmonkey's.
Are either Surgeons?
They both have cutting wit!
I don't know what Scottishbuzzsaw does. Buzzsawmonkey is an attorney.
| 660 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:31:40am |
re: #641 JCM
"Spiritually bankrupt;" interesting choice of words there Jimmy.Morning Honcos.
I'd be spiritually bankrupt too if I picked up as many spiritual hookers as Swaggert did.
| 661 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:31:57am |
re: #643 MandyManners
Suppose the owner wanted to move into his/her/their house Mandy? It doesn't matter if they live there; they own it and presumably pay taxes (and hopefully insurance) on the property it's theirs to occupy when they feel like it.
What's the PD gonna do?
| 662 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:32:12am |
re: #651 realwest
I KNOW it's cold down here in the SOUTHLAND. And I'd be happy to help ya with your shoveling and all, but I got this bad back, see and, uh, well........and I do have chores to run!
(whew, thank God for chores!).
Good news, I have a snowblower!. My wife is out of town & it is just me & the dog. I have liquor & cigars, so think about it
| 663 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:32:42am |
re: #650 Fenway_Nation
Looks like the ChiComs investment in the 1990s is paying big dividends.
/Kinda sad when the ChiComs and Vlad Putin are more knowledgable about free markets/capitalism than the current Administration
ironic since BO is a stone cold commie...the world is upside down
| 664 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:32:53am |
| 665 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:32:56am |
re: #639 pre-Boomer Marine brat
LGF 101, Lesson 18 -- how to blow 2,000 positive karma points in one post
When I fix an 8" DiGiorno deep-dish pizza for myself, I put an entire can of anchovies on it
Now that's one big fishy hor' derve!
| 666 |
Last Mohican Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:33:06am |
re: #634 realwest
Well fuck that. If he calls the PD and says get their asses outta my property - and has a lawyer with him to prove it's his property - what the hell do the PD do about the ACORN mofos? That's the question I keep asking.
The owner of the foreclosed house in Baltimore is presumably the bank, right? I don't think it's worth the lawyer fees for a bank to sue ACORN. I think sometimes they don't even bother to foreclose. Plus, this being Baltimore, a lawsuit would probably just trigger a wave of bad publicity for the bank. Al Sharpton would come in and mobilize people to start trashing the bank's branches. That sort of thing.
| 667 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:33:09am |
re: #654 albusteve
good now the owner should procede with criminal charges against ACORN...push back hard
Don't the police lodge criminal charges with the victim usually being the complaining witness? As for what the owner should do, I think he should sue in civil court.
| 668 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:33:26am |
re: #656 MandyManners
Carville and Matalin. Senor and Brown.
I wonder what dinner conversations are like in their homes.
Abbott and Costello
| 669 |
phoenixgirl Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:33:33am |
i think i've been over stimulated.....how much will you pay for the stimulus package
| 670 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:33:41am |
re: #646 MandyManners
The ACORN story.
[Link: www.abc2news.com...]
quick - ACORN deserves 4 billion dollars!
| 671 |
Lincolntf Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:33:53am |
re: #643 MandyManners
Not yet, But it only takes a small leap of conjecture to picture a case where an occupied building (perhaps a Korean Deli or the like) is essentially occupied by intimidation, forcing the legitimate owners out to be replaced by Acorn-approved "community members".
I put nothing past these power-mad thugs.
| 672 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:34:39am |
re: #652 pre-Boomer Marine brat Actually I don't like martinis either - even back in the day when I was drinking I couldn't stand 'em. I just used them for comparison purposes!
| 673 |
Irish Rose Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:02am |
Ah yes, Jimmy Swaggart.
Televangelism pioneer.
Great piano player... runs in the family
Flaming hypocrite.
Bonafide nutcase.
"I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.”
“If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell!”
~ Jimmy Swaggart
Swaggart on the Beatles:
"You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home, this is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid filth that this nation or the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this filth to be in your home, you ought to be taken out somewhere and horsewhipped, you hear me. And I mean it, my friend".
Swaggart on sex education:
"I saw pictures the other day of what they’re wanting to show our kids. And I want to tell you, if I ever hear of one teacher that shows my boy that filth, I’m going to get in my car and go to that school and pull off my coat, and when I get through with him, his face is going to be rearranged".
Swaggart on the prostitute that he was caught boinking with in a New Orleans hotel room:
| 674 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:07am |
re: #646 MandyManners
The ACORN story.
[Link: www.abc2news.com...]
I'd like to know what her monthly income was in 2001, when she took out the loan to buy the house.
| 675 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:11am |
re: #664 FrogMarch
Who you calling a Honco, Honco?
G'day JCM.
I wonder if the poor smuck who wrote that letter knows how much fun we've had with it?
| 676 |
nyc redneck Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:26am |
re: #538 Fenway_Nation
Our position in Iraq (i.e. the 'bad' war) is much more tenable than Afghanistan (i.e. the 'good' war) with the Taliban attacking supply routes and Kyrgyzistan closing down a stragetically-placed air base.
i'm going to be asking all the libs i know to tell me abt. the marches and protests they have lined up for this troop surge of 17000. it is going to be interesting to see how many of these anti-war crusaders make excuses for this "good war" or even endorse it.
i will be revisiting their favorite slogan, "war is NOT the answer"
and see how they justify it all of a sudden.
| 677 |
Wishing Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:42am |
re: #666 Last Mohican
The owner of the foreclosed house in Baltimore is presumably the bank, right? I don't think it's worth the lawyer fees for a bank to sue ACORN. I think sometimes they don't even bother to foreclose. Plus, this being Baltimore, a lawsuit would probably just trigger a wave of bad publicity for the bank. Al Sharpton would come in and mobilize people to start trashing the bank's branches. That sort of thing.
It actually is a nice area, a one way street, just off a city park. About 2 miles from Johns-Hopkins Bayview Hospital (where I used to work).
| 678 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:44am |
re: #656 MandyManners
Carville and Matalin. Senor and Brown.
I wonder what dinner conversations are like in their homes.
Mandy, I caught Carville's & Matlin's schtick some years back at a Trade Show in DC.
They of course were compensated for showing up. All they did is schill a new book by Carville. To me it was painful & I wondered if either one believed anything
| 679 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:35:53am |
re: #667 MandyManners
Don't the police lodge criminal charges with the victim usually being the complaining witness? As for what the owner should do, I think he should sue in civil court.
he should do something...he's been used by ACORN and has an obligation to himself to move legally against them...imo
| 680 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:36:00am |
re: #637 albusteve
Hillary....poor Hillary already not so popular
[Link: washingtontimes.com...]
The Democrats cannot help acting like totally hypocrites. (what happens when we have an unprofessional unaccountable agenda driven media)
A year ago, when it wasn't their problem to deal with, they were sniping and badgering Bush to stay away from the Olympics. Resolutions were passed. Letters were written.
| 681 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:37:46am |
Swaggart on the Beatles:
"You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home, this is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid filth that this nation or the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this filth to be in your home, you ought to be taken out somewhere and horsewhipped, you hear me. And I mean it, my friend".
obviously he was unfamiliar with the Stones at the time....what a rube
| 682 |
yesandno Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:38:20am |
Why does the term "April Fools" come to mind?
| 684 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:38:47am |
re: #680 FrogMarch
Socks is rolling over in his grave...
| 685 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:39:29am |
| 686 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:39:30am |
re: #681 albusteve
Swaggart on the Beatles:
"You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home, this is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid filth that this nation or the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this filth to be in your home, you ought to be taken out somewhere and horsewhipped, you hear me. And I mean it, my friend".
obviously he was unfamiliar with the Stones at the time....what a rube
He should have been an Imam.
| 687 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:39:47am |
re: #681 albusteve
Swaggart on the Beatles:
"You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home, this is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid filth that this nation or the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this filth to be in your home, you ought to be taken out somewhere and horsewhipped, you hear me. And I mean it, my friend".
obviously he was unfamiliar with the Stones at the time....what a rube
Jimmy Swaggart...his name sounds more like that of a country and western artist.
| 688 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:40:28am |
re: #673 Irish Rose
Swaggart on the prostitute that he was caught boinking with in a New Orleans hotel room:
Now..now..he was just doing research on sex education...
/lol!
| 689 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:40:30am |
re: #669 phoenixgirl
i think i've been over stimulated.....how much will you pay for the stimulus package
$787,000,000,000
142,000,000 employed according to the Jan. numbers.
95% will benefit from stimulus. That leaves 5% to pay for it.
7,100,000 working folks get to pay for stimulus.
$787,000,000,000
÷ 7,100,000
---------------------
$110,845.07 each for those who pay....
| 690 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:40:44am |
re: #639 pre-Boomer Marine brat
LGF 101, Lesson 18 -- how to blow 2,000 positive karma points in one post
When I fix an 8" DiGiorno deep-dish pizza for myself, I put an entire can of anchovies on it
Mmmmmm Love the anchovies, but I am the only one in the house who does.
And good morning to all! Second cup of coffee time.
| 691 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:41:04am |
re: #675 JCM
I wonder if the poor smuck who wrote that letter knows how much fun we've had with it?
He's the anti-Honco. We are proud honcos!
| 692 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:41:21am |
re: #680 FrogMarch
it is a disease with no cure....you pin it down and it morphs into another reality
| 693 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:41:38am |
re: #689 JCM
$787,000,000,000
142,000,000 employed according to the Jan. numbers.
95% will benefit from stimulus. That leaves 5% to pay for it.
7,100,000 working folks get to pay for stimulus.$787,000,000,000
÷ 7,100,000
---------------------
$110,845.07 each for those who pay....
A BIG UGGGH!
| 694 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:41:48am |
re: #684 Fenway_Nation
Socks is rolling over in his grave...
Poor socks. I hope he (she?) had a good life despite Bill and Hillary's selfishness.
| 695 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:41:54am |
re: #681 albusteve
Swaggart on the Beatles:
"You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home, this is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid filth that this nation or the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this filth to be in your home, you ought to be taken out somewhere and horsewhipped, you hear me. And I mean it, my friend".
obviously he was unfamiliar with the Stones at the time....what a rube
It's the Devil's Music!
//
| 696 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:43:30am |
re: #686 opnion
He should have been an Imam.
he is isn't he?....what else to you call it?
Jimmy the Imam...perched on his Holy Throne
| 697 |
Honorary Yooper Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:43:59am |
Swaggart on the Beatles:"You boys and girls that have Beatle records at home, this is the most rotten, dirty, damnable, filthy, putrid filth that this nation or the world has ever known. And you parents that would allow this filth to be in your home, you ought to be taken out somewhere and horsewhipped, you hear me. And I mean it, my friend".
Just more evidence to me of what an asshole Swaggart was.
| 698 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:44:35am |
re: #689 JCM
$787,000,000,000
142,000,000 employed according to the Jan. numbers.
95% will benefit from stimulus. That leaves 5% to pay for it.
7,100,000 working folks get to pay for stimulus.$787,000,000,000
÷ 7,100,000
---------------------
$110,845.07 each for those who pay....
Considering my retire nest egg has just been eaten up by George Soros, I
cannot afford that.
maybe that $13 bucks a week that 95% of us will be getting soon will help.
| 699 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:44:42am |
There is a financial guy on CNN right now defending the bail out.
He said that people that signed Adjustable Mortgages had no idea the they would adjust 2% per year.
Say what?
| 700 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:45:10am |
re: #661 realwest
Suppose the owner wanted to move into his/her/their house Mandy? It doesn't matter if they live there; they own it and presumably pay taxes (and hopefully insurance) on the property it's theirs to occupy when they feel like it.
What's the PD gonna do?
As I said, I don't see ACORN breaking into occupied houses.
The most the PD can do is investigate the crime after it happens.
| 702 |
SurferDoc Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:45:47am |
re: #676 nyc redneck
i'm going to be asking all the libs i know to tell me abt. the marches and protests they have lined up for this troop surge of 17000. it is going to be interesting to see how many of these anti-war crusaders make excuses for this "good war" or even endorse it.
i will be revisiting their favorite slogan, "war is NOT the answer"
and see how they justify it all of a sudden.
Their essential dishonesty will show through loud and clear. Few will notice.
| 703 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:45:53am |
re: #696 albusteve
he is isn't he?....what else to you call it?
Jimmy the Imam...perched on his Holy Throne
The man's hypocricy was freaking breath taking.
| 704 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:46:07am |
re: #666 Last Mohican
Nope, the owner of the house is an individual who either bought the house at foreclosure or before it was foreclosed upon - see Mandy's link at #646 above.
What someone ought to be asking Obama is this: If her (the prior owner's) mortgage payment was $1995 a month, and her income $2200 a month, why did the bank make that loan? Was it the Community Reinvestment Act ( a DEMOCRAT Party law that fines - heavily - lenders who don't make approximately 1/3 of all their loans to people who are not credit worth or have no credit history at all)?
And while they're at it they ought to ask the bank WTF it was doing loaning that much money to someone who clearly couldn't afford the house in the first place if it wasn't to comply with CRA?
SOMTHING is genuinely FUCKED UP when folks who work hard and sweat to make ends meet suddenly are faced with paying someone else's mortgage as well as meeting their own expenses.
There is gonna be a HUGE blowback at the Democrat Party for this once the public understands this aspect of the "Stimulus Bill".
| 705 |
nyc redneck Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:46:17am |
re: #694 FrogMarch
Poor socks. I hope he (she?) had a good life despite Bill and Hillary's selfishness.
i can't see hillary ever petting a cat or a dog.
she has no warmth and she is too calculating.
cats and dogs don't play into her hunger for power.
| 707 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:46:40am |
re: #689 JCM
$787,000,000,000
142,000,000 employed according to the Jan. numbers.
95% will benefit from stimulus. That leaves 5% to pay for it.
7,100,000 working folks get to pay for stimulus.$787,000,000,000
÷ 7,100,000
---------------------
$110,845.07 each for those who pay....
Oh geez.
Now I need some Bailey's in the coffee.
| 708 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:46:47am |
re: #666 Last Mohican
The owner of the foreclosed house in Baltimore is presumably the bank, right? I don't think it's worth the lawyer fees for a bank to sue ACORN. I think sometimes they don't even bother to foreclose. Plus, this being Baltimore, a lawsuit would probably just trigger a wave of bad publicity for the bank. Al Sharpton would come in and mobilize people to start trashing the bank's branches. That sort of thing.
According to the story, the owner of the house is a man named William Lane.
| 710 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:47:41am |
re: #671 Lincolntf
Not yet, But it only takes a small leap of conjecture to picture a case where an occupied building (perhaps a Korean Deli or the like) is essentially occupied by intimidation, forcing the legitimate owners out to be replaced by Acorn-approved "community members".
I put nothing past these power-mad thugs.
Then the police will do their job. I don't see ACORN taking on a police department.
| 711 |
vxbush Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:47:48am |
re: #685 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Hi!
Hope you're feeling a lot better than a few days ago!
Yes, I do, for the most part. Thanks for remember--that's sweet. Right now, not much can be wrong, as my cat is curled up in my lap and quite content.
| 712 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:48:18am |
re: #698 FrogMarch
Considering my retire nest egg has just been eaten up by George Soros, I
cannot afford that.maybe that $13 bucks a week that 95% of us will be getting soon will help.
Then when start adding in financing etc... it hit what is it $3,000,000,000,000?
And The One is already talking more stimulus.
If I had a time machine I would not go back in time and shoot Hitler, I'm thinking Kenynes.
//
| 713 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:48:18am |
re: #674 pre-Boomer Marine brat
I'd like to know what her monthly income was in 2001, when she took out the loan to buy the house.
I wouldn't be suprised if it was what it is now.
| 714 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:48:38am |
re: #705 nyc redneck
i can't see hillary ever petting a cat or a dog.
she has no warmth and she is too calculating.
cats and dogs don't play into her hunger for power.
They gave Socks to Betty Curry when the left the White House.
You do not raise an animal from kitten or puppy & give it up unless you have to.
| 715 |
Athens Runaway Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:48:54am |
Is it just me or does anyone else feel like Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels, after he returned from living with the Houyhnhnms and is back in England? Can barely stand to be out in the world, because of the all blanant stupidity you see around. My Democrat friend was teasing me about how the only news I consumed was Fox News and blogs, and I had to explain to him that I used to be a CNN guy until they swallowed the Sarah Palin fake baby pill along with everyone else. Fox News was the only outlet not buying what Kos had to say, and the only network using common sense. That soured me a lot on what passes for news around here.
I have been feeling really pessimistic about the future. You just KNOW that Bush is going to get trotted out as the Cause For All Evil, just as he did for the last three election cycles. My Dem friend tried to sell me on the idea that Ohio (my state) was now a blue state, because it voted for a moderate-ish Democratic governor in '06, and for Obumbler in '08. He's also convinced that this year is the Year That the Oakland Raiders Win, so take that into account.
Sorry for the rant, can I get a fruit cup handout?
| 716 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:49:22am |
re: #703 opnion
The man's hypocricy was freaking breath taking.
I wonder what God has to say about the Holy Trumpet of Rightousness....a guy sings I wanna hold your hand and he's called damned putid filth...nice
| 717 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:49:46am |
re: #699 opnion
There is a financial guy on CNN right now defending the bail out.
He said that people that signed Adjustable Mortgages had no idea the they would adjust 2% per year.
Say what?
* * *
Yes, deal with it. We've got massive math illiteracy in our nation. Hope & Change will pay your interest off.
When you mandate--like the Democrats did beginning in the Carter Era--that banks "give" mortgages to barely literate people with little or no mathematics background, you get disaster.
| 718 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:50:23am |
re: #705 nyc redneck
That's why Socks spent the last eight years with the Clinton's former secretary.
I remember a political Cartoon shortly after Bill got Buddy the dog. It showed him all happy and petting his new dog and saying 'Finally! A Friend of mine who won't be subpeonaed!'
| 719 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:50:31am |
re: #646 MandyManners
The ACORN story.
[Link: www.abc2news.com...]
Holy crap. This makes my blood boil. How the hell did these idiots get these loan?
| 720 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:50:55am |
re: #678 opnion
Mandy, I caught Carville's & Matlin's schtick some years back at a Trade Show in DC.
They of course were compensated for showing up. All they did is schill a new book by Carville. To me it was painful & I wondered if either one believed anything
Maybe they both believe in the almighty dollar.
| 721 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:51:04am |
re: #701 JCM
I'm gonna take a shot at getting part of the wacko-left's stimulus package.
I'm writing a grant proposal ... in the field of psychological electronics.
If a blown op-amp's output goes to the negative rail, does that indicate damage to its self-esteem?
| 722 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:51:41am |
re: #711 vxbush
Cats can cure much with just a purr.
| 723 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:52:04am |
re: #679 albusteve
he should do something...he's been used by ACORN and has an obligation to himself to move legally against them...imo
He might have a moral obligation but, it's up to him to decide if he wants to take them on. I wish there was a conservative legal fund to take this on.
| 724 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:52:19am |
re: #704 realwest
We weren't told, in the article, what her income was when she took out the loan in 2001.
| 725 |
Athens Runaway Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:52:22am |
| 726 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:52:32am |
re: #701 JCM
WOOT! I'm just short of the top 5% when do I get my unicorn!
*spit*
I just got my retirement portfolio in the mail yesterday.
I try not to look at it more often than monthly since the market has folded on itself. It just makes me ill.
Our household has lost one half of our retirement investments.
50% in the last year! That's 15 years of our work. Down the market drain. This, after we discussed seriously pulling out the market until it restabilized, two years ago. If we had withdrawn those funds, we still would have had to pay early withdrawal penalties and tax, so all in all, I guess we really no richer and also no poorer. Someone else has benefited from the market downfall...not us.
| 727 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:52:39am |
re: #716 albusteve
I wonder what God has to say about the Holy Trumpet of Rightousness....a guy sings I wanna hold your hand and he's called damned putid filth...nice
True , "I wanna hold your hand", pretty innocent. Now Emmem wants kill her & put her in a trunk.
| 728 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:52:45am |
re: #709 ploome hineni
the problem with people like Swaggart and his ilk,is their primitive ignorance
they are selling magic with the force of their personality
their methods also seduce the dreamers
Ignorance is right, start with ignorance of the Bible they attempt to teach. And in their ignorance do far more damage to both believers and non-believers than their attempts at good.
| 729 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:53:15am |
re: #709 ploome hineni
the problem with people like Swaggart and his ilk,is their primitive ignorance
they are selling magic with the force of their personality
their methods also seduce the dreamers
* * *
Swaggart was in the business of selling Hope & Change; be glad he didn't run & get elected President of the USA.
| 730 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:53:32am |
re: #720 MandyManners
Maybe they both believe in the almighty dollar.
That was painfully obvious. They were not recieved very well.
| 731 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:53:35am |
| 732 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:53:58am |
re: #700 MandyManners
Mandy - "The most the PD can do is investigate the crime after it happens."
Well maybe they could start with good ole "After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters 'this is our house now.'"
And after they investigate what then - do they arrest him for breaking and entering? That's a felony in most jurisdictions and it doesn't matter if you're living there or not.
| 733 |
vxbush Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:53:59am |
Okay. Apparently the brain isn't in gear yet, or the cat has made my brain turn to mush. PIMF: remember -> remembering in my last post.
I have to say, I liked Socks. I like any cat who has white paws like that. It's adorable.
I'm just glad to have a day off and rest. I can't seem to get any ire up over the insanity going on right now.
| 734 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:54:05am |
re: #705 nyc redneck
i can't see hillary ever petting a cat or a dog.
she has no warmth and she is too calculating.
cats and dogs don't play into her hunger for power.
Well, we really have no way of knowing. I just hope Socks wasn't just a prop.
Hillary does seem like a cold fish.
| 735 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:54:20am |
re: #719 VioletTiger
Holy crap. This makes my blood boil. How the hell did these idiots get these loan?
Community Reinvestment Act.
| 736 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:54:21am |
re: #719 VioletTiger
Holy crap. This makes my blood boil. How the hell did these idiots get these loan?
This looks like an interesting idea. Can we do this with the guy in the Whitehouse?
| 737 |
nyc redneck Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:54:23am |
re: #702 SurferDoc
Their essential dishonesty will show through loud and clear. Few will notice.
i agree. i can see their faces now.
this is a perfect opportunity to force the issue.
if even one of them maintains their "anti-war" stance i'll be shocked.
i'm going to bring this up to all the libs i encounter.
| 740 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:55:35am |
re: #704 realwest
I think the peasants are starting to take up their pitchforks.
You can get support damning the evil rich wall street type,but when O starts to tell Joe 6pack,that has done things right,and lived within his means,and payed his mortgage,that now he will be taxed to pay the mortgage of someone that should not have been giving the loan in the first place,a lot of people are going to see that it's not what "Change"
they voted for.
| 741 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:55:49am |
re: #732 realwest
Mandy - "The most the PD can do is investigate the crime after it happens."
Well maybe they could start with good ole "After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters 'this is our house now.'"
And after they investigate what then - do they arrest him for breaking and entering? That's a felony in most jurisdictions and it doesn't matter if you're living there or not.
I cannot fathom the police not making arrests in this case.
| 743 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:56:32am |
re: #705 nyc redneck
i can't see hillary ever petting a cat or a dog.
she has no warmth and she is too calculating.
cats and dogs don't play into her hunger for power.
Our animals pile on our bed at night, especially during the winter. I don't see that happening with her either.
| 744 |
opnion Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:56:38am |
re: #717 alegrias
* * *
Yes, deal with it. We've got massive math illiteracy in our nation. Hope & Change will pay your interest off.When you mandate--like the Democrats did beginning in the Carter Era--that banks "give" mortgages to barely literate people with little or no mathematics background, you get disaster.
Adjustable mortgages adjust! Who Knew?
Off to clear the driveway, I have a basketball game to watch.
| 745 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:56:59am |
re: #726 notutopia
We've lost half of our daughter's college savings. Haven't even looked at the retirement investments. I just hand the envelope to my husband.
| 746 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:57:01am |
re: #741 MandyManners
I cannot fathom the police not making arrests in this case.
Why? They were community activists, not criminals.
/
| 748 |
Taqyia2Me Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:57:08am |
As if we need more info about Bill Moyers' objectiveness:
[Link: online.wsj.com...]
/
| 749 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:57:32am |
re: #732 realwest
"After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters 'this is our house now.'"
I have several friends back in Boston that for a few bucks and a six pack would walk into Mr Beverlys houes and declare "this is our house now!".
| 750 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:57:55am |
re: #740 n in wi
I think the peasants are starting to take up their pitchforks.
You can get support damning the evil rich wall street type,but when O starts to tell Joe 6pack,that has done things right,and lived within his means,and payed his mortgage,that now he will be taxed to pay the mortgage of someone that should not have been giving the loan in the first place,a lot of people are going to see that it's not what "Change"
they voted for.
Joe and Jane Six Pack are probably too busy trying to keep above water to take up pitchforks.
| 751 |
Fenway_Nation Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:58:00am |
re: #704 realwest
There is gonna be a HUGE blowback at the Democrat Party for this once the public understands this aspect of the "Stimulus Bill".
All the more reason for CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times to sugar-coat it. They're gonna trot out every 'economist' who's in favor of the bill and crap all over anyone who has any misgivings.
If the economy shows even the slightest turnaround between now and 2010, it's all thanks to the stimulus bill.
If the economy continues circling the drain, that's only because the stimulus bill hasn't 'been given enough time to take effect'.
Even if you're the biggest fuck-up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, nobody will notice as long as your leg-tingling pals in the MSM have your back...
| 752 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:58:01am |
re: #746 Walter L. Newton
Why? They were community activists, not criminals.
/
The Community Activist In Chief has granted them immunity?
//////////
| 753 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:58:33am |
re: #746 Walter L. Newton
Why? They were community activists, not criminals.
/
Did you read the article? The police are treating this as a crime scene.
| 754 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:59:11am |
re: #749 sattv4u2
"After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters 'this is our house now.'"
I have several friends back in Boston that for a few bucks and a six pack would walk into Mr Beverlys houes and declare "this is our house now!".
And, they'd be arrested.
| 755 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:59:12am |
re: #712 JCM
Then when start adding in financing etc... it hit what is it $3,000,000,000,000?
And The One is already talking more stimulus.
If I had a time machine I would not go back in time and shoot Hitler, I'm thinking Kenynes.
//
Indeed. This whole nightmare is a huge set-up so the government can take over.
| 756 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:59:43am |
re: #753 MandyManners
Did you read the article? The police are treating this as a crime scene.
Did you read my snark slash.
| 757 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 7:59:55am |
re: #715 Athens Runaway
"this year is the Year That the Oakland Raiders Win,"
I suppose they will be playing the Detroit Lions in the Super Bowl
| 758 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:00:04am |
re: #732 realwest
Mandy - "The most the PD can do is investigate the crime after it happens."
Well maybe they could start with good ole "After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member Louis Beverly told supporters 'this is our house now.'"
And after they investigate what then - do they arrest him for breaking and entering? That's a felony in most jurisdictions and it doesn't matter if you're living there or not.
* * *
Hi Real Sir!
Your comment gave me a flashback to when the communists came back to Spain & campaigned by going to neighborhoods & knocking on house doors threatening "this is going to be our house" when they won. (This was after Generalisimo Franco's death in 1975; former communists who'd lived in the USSR & eurocommunists came back to Spain to bring "change"/revolucion Spain had rejected during the Spanish Civil War.)
| 759 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:00:06am |
re: #736 Walter L. Newton
This looks like an interesting idea. Can we do this with the guy in the Whitehouse?
You mean we should evict the occupant?
/
| 760 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:00:26am |
re: #735 MandyManners
Community Reinvestment Act.
And Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who lured banks into doing this by buying up crappy loans so as to 'reduce' the risk to banks.
We have one mortgage company here who is not in trouble. Why? They didn't write CRA motivated loans.
| 761 |
phoenixgirl Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:00:56am |
re: #689 JCM
$787,000,000,000
142,000,000 employed according to the Jan. numbers.
95% will benefit from stimulus. That leaves 5% to pay for it.
7,100,000 working folks get to pay for stimulus.$787,000,000,000
÷ 7,100,000
---------------------
$110,845.07 each for those who pay....
your figures are even more depressing but you forgot the interest that we have to pay on it .....don't bother calculating, we are screwed
| 762 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:01:07am |
re: #743 rightymouse
Our animals pile on our bed at night, especially during the winter. I don't see that happening with her either.
Bill may like animals piling on the bed
| 763 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:01:10am |
re: #738 ploome hineni
ploome, what really upsets me, is that on top of losing 50% of our retirement funds, now they want us to fork up more of our take home as well. We'll never recoop those loses in our lifetime left on this earth. Hubby is 4 years away from true retirement.
Best laid plans..kaploey !
| 764 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:01:14am |
re: #755 FrogMarch
Indeed. This whole nightmare is a huge set-up so the government can take over.
When it comes crashing down, it will be an opportunity of restoration of the Republic.
| 765 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:01:16am |
"Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China."
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
Why is it that leftists are always surprised when their leftist leaders start acting like, well, leftist?
| 766 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:01:37am |
re: #750 MandyManners
Joe and Jane Six Pack are probably too busy trying to keep above water to take up pitchforks.
somebody is getting pissy...
[Link: michellemalkin.com...]
| 767 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:01:56am |
re: #724 pre-Boomer Marine brat She was loaned x dollars to buy the house in 2001. She promised to pay that debt and pledged her house as security. She didn't pay the debt, so she loses the house she put up as security. If we don't enforce those laws, then we can't bitch about banks going under or needing federal assistance or refusing to loan mortgage money again.
Funny, my Dad worked two jobs for about six years just so we could afford the mortgage payments, the car and gasoline, utiliities, FOOD, medical attention,
and all the rest.
His best friend lost his job and lost his house in foreclosure. But there was no ACORN for him. He was held to a level of PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY that ACORN and Obama don't believe in.
| 768 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:02:26am |
re: #754 MandyManners
And, they'd be arrested.
not THESE types of guys. They're the type that are ,,, ummm,,, professional. Leave no marks ,,, leave no trail ,,,,,leave no witnesses!
| 769 |
burntjohn Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:02:32am |
3 Books
Obamanomics by John Talbott
Saving the World at Work by Tim Sanders
A Declaration of Energy Independence by Jay Hakes
and several others push one very sick idea
Global warming and carbon emissions are caused by too many people on the planet.
It would be smart to introduce emphasis on reducing the planets population.
This idea has been pushed forward in many books.
Scary stuff
| 770 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:02:37am |
re: #747 realwest
Please see my #704 above.
My husband and I discussed this over coffee this morning. I think the inevitable failure of the porkulus will help in the 2010 elections. People are starting to realize that they are getting screwed.
| 771 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:02:52am |
re: #737 nyc redneck
i agree. i can see their faces now.
this is a perfect opportunity to force the issue.
if even one of them maintains their "anti-war" stance i'll be shocked.
i'm going to bring this up to all the libs i encounter.
* * * *
Great strategy. Thank you for the courage of your convictions, and for asking your liberal friends & family to face the cognitive dissonance of their Dear Leader's flip flops.
| 772 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:02:54am |
re: #745 VioletTiger
We've lost half of our daughter's college savings. Haven't even looked at the retirement investments. I just hand the envelope to my husband.
Anyone know How many more banks the Feds closed yesterday?
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:02:59am |
| 774 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:03:07am |
re: #768 sattv4u2
not THESE types of guys. They're the type that are ,,, ummm,,, professional. Leave no marks ,,, leave no trail ,,,,,leave no witnesses!
oh , just in case anybody needed it
///
| 775 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:03:28am |
re: #755 FrogMarch
Indeed. This whole nightmare is a huge set-up so the government can take over.
of course....I think alot of people simply deny what seems obvious...it is epic eh?
| 776 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:03:34am |
re: #762 n in wi
Bill may like animals piling on the bed
Yeah...thought of that. But I doubt Hillary would be there at the same time. :)
| 777 |
Athens Runaway Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:03:42am |
re: #751 Fenway_Nation
All the more reason for CNN, MSNBC and the New York Times to sugar-coat it. They're gonna trot out every 'economist' who's in favor of the bill and crap all over anyone who has any misgivings.
I helped organize an informational debate between two professors here at Ohio U, with the topic being the stimulus package. It was somewhat academic, since the bill had been passed, but over 100 people showed up, and it was really entertaining. I had no trouble finding an economist who was against the stimulus, but I had the hardest time finding someone to support it. One of the people I contacted said (paraphrasing) "you are not going to find anyone in the economics department who supports this thing".
At one of the most liberal universities in the Midwest, no economists were up the challenge of backing Spendulusaurus Rex up with "facts".
| 778 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:03:44am |
re: #766 albusteve
somebody is getting pissy...
[Link: michellemalkin.com...]
TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY!
| 779 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:04:05am |
re: #760 rightymouse
And Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who lured banks into doing this by buying up crappy loans so as to 'reduce' the risk to banks.
We have one mortgage company here who is not in trouble. Why? They didn't write CRA motivated loans.
The Feds didn't harass that company?
| 780 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:04:07am |
re: #767 realwest
Having owned 3 homes, I understand, and agree.
I was making a "technicality" point up-thread. Just wondering.
| 781 |
realwest Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:04:50am |
Sorry y'all I gotta run and do some chores. Hope I get the chance to see you all down the road!
Have a great day!
| 782 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:05:27am |
re: #752 JCM
The Community Activist In Chief has granted them immunity?
//////////
* * **
Immunity! I believe ACORN's getting BILLIONS in stimulus.
| 783 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:05:57am |
Yep!
U.S. regulators close Oregon's Silver Falls Bank
[Link: uk.reuters.com...]
| 784 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:06:20am |
re: #766 albusteve
somebody is getting pissy...
[Link: michellemalkin.com...]
Seattle on Monday. Denver on Tuesday. Mesa AZ on Wednesday. Overland Park, Kansas today. What a week, huh? We got the anti-stimulus, anti-entitlement protest ball rolling — and now the movement, spurred further by CNBC host Rick Santelli’s call for a “Chicago Tea Party,” is really taking off.
David Hogberg at Investor’s Business Daily has a nice piece out today spotlighting the growing taxpayer revolt the rest of the MSM won’t cover. He interviewed our registered commenters Liberty Belle Keli Carender, who spearheaded the Seattle anti-pork protest, and HuskerGirl Amanda Grosserode, who organized today’s anti-stimulus demonstration against Democrat Rep. Dennis Moore in Overland Park, MS.
I’m happy to report on several new protest events now on the docket.
My friend Michael Patrick Leahy of Top Conservatives on Twitter and his crew are spearheading “simultaneous local tea parties around the country, beginning in Chicago, and including Washington DC, Fayetteville NC, San Diego CA, Omaha Nebraska, and dozens of other locations” for next Friday.
The MFM are gonna' be shocked when it grows to such a large issue that they cannot ignore it.
| 786 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:06:47am |
Good Saturday morning, lizards. Never been here on a Saturday morning 'cause I'm always at work. So if you see a "plunk" on the screen, it's because my nose fell off and struck the keyboard. (Sick).
| 787 |
vxbush Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:07:05am |
re: #765 Walter L. Newton
"Amnesty International and a pro-Tibet group voiced shock Friday after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed not to let human rights concerns hinder cooperation with China."
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
Why is it that leftists are always surprised when their leftist leaders start acting like, well, leftist?
Not all human rights activists are leftists. Most may be, perhaps, but there are some that are center or right of center.
| 788 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:07:06am |
re: #761 phoenixgirl
your figures are even more depressing but you forgot the interest that we have to pay on it .....don't bother calculating, we are screwed
They took out any money for E-verify, so, you can be sure were most of the jobs will be going to. As it is, most of the jobs are construction, which is fine for construction workers, except, it's only the contractors and the illegal's that will be getting the lion share of the work.
If this bell was in any way really for the sake of the country, and not big business and special interest, the would be previsions with in the stimulus to make sure the money is legally spent to help Americans.
And PLEASE, my comment is not about immigration, it's about anyone who is not legally situated to work in this country, period.
| 789 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:07:24am |
re: #768 sattv4u2
not THESE types of guys. They're the type that are ,,, ummm,,, professional. Leave no marks ,,, leave no trail ,,,,,leave no witnesses!
I would hold them in the same contempt I would hold the ACORN criminals. Sorry but, wrong is wrong.
| 790 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:07:38am |
re: #782 alegrias
* * **
Immunity! I believe ACORN's getting BILLIONS in stimulus.
underwriting a criminal enterprise...and I'm not in the least surprised...
I hate the feds
| 791 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:08:02am |
re: #762 n in wi
Bill may like animals piling on the bed
* * *
Bill Clinton let animals like Arafat pile up in the Lincoln Bedroom for 8 years straight. Meow, the cat fights--scratches on the furniture were blamed on poor Socks.
Now John Kerry's inviting Hamas to sleepover in the Lincoln Bedroom!
| 792 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:08:23am |
re: #778 JCM
TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY!
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Athens Runaway Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:08:44am |
re: #757 n in wi
"this year is the Year That the Oakland Raiders Win,"
I suppose they will be playing the Detroit Lions in the Super Bowl
I don't pretend to know how my friend thinks. Being a [Raiders/Bengals/Browns] fan must be like being a battered wife. He did vote for Obumbler because he assumed that O would reform education into a working system, as opposed to the unionocracy it is now.
I can't understand that kind of mindset, being sure that things will change if he just votes Democratic ONE MORE TIME.
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albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:09:27am |
re: #784 MandyManners
and Malkin is on it like a pit bull...and she has some mojo
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nyc redneck Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:09:49am |
re: #771 alegrias
* * * *
Great strategy. Thank you for the courage of your convictions, and for asking your liberal friends & family to face the cognitive dissonance of their Dear Leader's flip flops.
LOL,
it will be enjoyable to make them squirm.
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sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:10:07am |
re: #789 MandyManners
I would hold them in the same contempt I would hold the ACORN criminals. Sorry but, wrong is wrong.
it was a joke Mandy, sorry. Just rtying to lighten up the convo. It;s Saturday and way too nice a day to be mired into Swaggart/ Stimulus / Gloom and Doom
my bad
| 797 |
notutopia Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:10:29am |
re: #785 ploome hineni
Dow falls below 8,600 for first time since 2003 - on the 1-year anniversary of its all-time high.
it took 6 yrs to rebound after 2003..look on the bright side
it should come back
Wouda, Coulda, Shoulda.
| 798 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:10:37am |
re: #764 JCM
When it comes crashing down, it will be an opportunity of restoration of the Republic.
* * *
Lizards can't wait and do nothing!
NOW is the time to strike in Illinois. Please work to get Mark Kirk (R) elected Senator there, when Roland Burris is thrown under the bus shortly.
Teddy Kennedy's ill, don't let his wife Victoria take over his Massachusetts senate seat.
| 799 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:10:39am |
re: #778 JCM
TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY! TEA PARTY!
There it goes, once again I'm the bastard step child ghost writer for the movement. I've been tagging some of my comments here for 6 MONTHS with "Your tea is in the harbor, sir"
If anyone wants to send pity money for a donation, click on my name, get my email and deposit 5 dollars in Paypal for me.
:)
| 800 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:10:57am |
re: #790 albusteve
underwriting a criminal enterprise...and I'm not in the least surprised...
I hate the feds
You wouldn't hate me, Albusteve. Unless it's out of principle. Besides, I have relatives in Albuquerque; up on the hill west of town, by the Fire Station overlooking the whole valley.
| 801 |
Honorary Yooper Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:11:25am |
re: #766 albusteve
somebody is getting pissy...
[Link: michellemalkin.com...]
I saw that. Lots of good parodies there, many worthy of our own Buzzsawmonkey. I rather liked the "American Pie" one.
| 802 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:12:05am |
re: #794 albusteve
and Malkin is on it like a pit bull...and she has some mojo
One of the reasons Alex Jones hates her.
| 803 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:12:07am |
re: #800 Timbre
You wouldn't hate me, Albusteve. Unless it's out of principle. Besides, I have relatives in Albuquerque; up on the hill west of town, by the Fire Station overlooking the whole valley.
STEVE, quick run.... they're on to ya!
| 804 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:12:10am |
re: #792 FrogMarch
nice catch, thanks...I booked it just in case I start feeling my oats again...revolution is in my blood
| 805 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:12:33am |
Jimmy would've been happier playing music with his cousin.....Jerry Lee Lewis.
| 806 |
vxbush Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:12:35am |
By the way: Obama has a clear record of not paying his own bills:
$1.74 million deadbeats of the day: Obama and the DNC
By Michelle Malkin • February 20, 2009 08:41 AM
“Shared sacrifice” apparently means shafting your hometown and letting your victory day celebration bills go unpaid. What happened to “We must all pay?”
The deadbeat fish rots from the head down. Via Sun-Times:
Chicago has yet to recoup the $1.74 million cost of President Obama’s victory celebration in Grant Park — despite a burgeoning $50.5 million budget shortfall that threatens more layoffs and union concessions.
And.....
Philly to Obama: Hey, you owe us money, too!
By Michelle Malkin • February 20, 2009 03:58 PMThis morning, I mentioned Team Obama/DNC’s unpaid bills in Chicago.
Guess what? The Team of Deadbeats owes the City of Brotherly Love, too (hat tip -David R):BARACK OBAMA spent a record $760 million getting himself elected president. But his campaign, Obama for America, still owes Philadelphia nearly $24,000 for several pre-election events, and the cash-strapped city hasn’t given up its collection efforts.
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MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:12:37am |
re: #796 sattv4u2
it was a joke Mandy, sorry. Just rtying to lighten up the convo. It;s Saturday and way too nice a day to be mired into Swaggart/ Stimulus / Gloom and Doom
my bad
Oh. Okay.
| 808 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:13:25am |
| 810 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:13:39am |
re: #805 pingjockey
Jimmy would've been happier playing music with his cousin.....Jerry Lee Lewis.
Why,, did Jimmy want to marry his 13 year old cousion also?
| 811 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:14:09am |
re: #780 pre-Boomer Marine brat
Having owned 3 homes, I understand, and agree.
I was making a "technicality" point up-thread. Just wondering.
Not only did government push banks into the sub-prime market, and borrowers get stars in their eyes. Banks were reckless in lending practices. And not just for mortgages. When looking at various ways of financing my van, on bank offered me $120,000 max for an auto loan. It was just insane.
| 813 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:14:16am |
| 814 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:14:18am |
re: #806 vxbush
By the way: Obama has a clear record of not paying his own bills:
I really hope that the American tax payers don't wind up paying for his shindig.
| 815 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:14:40am |
| 816 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:14:44am |
re: #808 Walter L. Newton
Mandy, do you need a hug this morning {MANDY}.
Why, thank you!
((((((Walter))))))
| 817 |
nyc redneck Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:14:46am |
re: #805 pingjockey
Jimmy would've been happier playing music with his cousin.....Jerry Lee Lewis.
wasn't mickey gilley also their cousin?
iirc, they all spent a lot of time as boys, at their gramma's playing music.
| 818 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:15:21am |
re: #800 Timbre
You wouldn't hate me, Albusteve. Unless it's out of principle. Besides, I have relatives in Albuquerque; up on the hill west of town, by the Fire Station overlooking the whole valley.
of course not...not unless you are a govt gangster bent on my ruination
| 819 |
gregg Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:15:30am |
If anyone here has HBO, Taking Chance premiers this evening. For those not familiar with the story, here's the post from a few years ago on Blackfive about Marine Lieutenant Colonel Strobl's account of escorting the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps. I'd recommend grabbing some tissues before reading the story (or watching the trailer).
| 820 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:15:36am |
re: #814 MandyManners
You can bet obambi ain't gonna pay for it, he's entitled to whatever he and the donks can steal.
| 821 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:15:44am |
re: #803 Walter L. Newton
STEVE, quick run.... they're on to ya!
No, I mean real relatives; in-laws. But that was funny :)
| 822 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:16:11am |
re: #779 MandyManners
The Feds didn't harass that company?
Have no idea if the Feds ever harassed them. This is a Savings and Loan and I checked their website - they still be humming along.
My mortgage is through a large bank that was bought out last year. Had to go through hell and mountains of paperwork/documentation to prove ability to pay. Plus, had to put 20% down to avoid PMI.
| 823 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:16:25am |
re: #793 Athens Runaway
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I can't understand that kind of mindset, being sure that things will change if he just votes Democratic ONE MORE TIME.
I don't get the mindset of the Libs that run for office. From Obama to Kerry and so on. They seem to think that they have the personality to make collectivism work,along with negotiations with evil.
Dangerously arrogant,demonstrably failures.
| 824 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:16:29am |
re: #816 MandyManners
Why, thank you!
((((((Walter))))))
I tried those "{}" bracket's multiple times around your name, but Charles' software parsed them out. And, I think I know why, it just accorded to me while I was typing this.
Never mind.
But anyway, I meant a big hug (((((MANDY)))))
| 825 |
sattv4u2 Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:16:54am |
re: #821 Timbre
No, I mean real relatives; in-laws. But that was funny :)
You do know the difference betwen IN LAWS and OUTLAWS, don';t you?
OUTLAWS are WANTED!
| 826 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:17:09am |
re: #817 nyc redneck
I don't know if Mickey Gilly is another cousin or not. My mom would know, moms know lotsa stuff. Kind of like NCOs.
| 827 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:17:11am |
| 828 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:17:24am |
re: #790 albusteve
underwriting a criminal enterprise...and I'm not in the least surprised...
I hate the feds
* * *
Albusteve,
SOME liberals now running the country, with 3 Senators named Specter, Snow & Collins, voted for this underwriting of ACORN and other criminal thuggish enterprises.
Please don't hate all federal people--Remember our troops are Government Issue (GIs), and they're the best among us. I support them all the way, with my tax dollars too.
| 829 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:17:51am |
re: #827 albusteve
to where?...ever been out here? :)
I know, there's not even a kiva between you and town.
| 830 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:18:49am |
re: #828 alegrias
The troops aren't the gov't. It's the hordes of faceless paper shufflers!
| 831 |
vxbush Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:19:11am |
re: #814 MandyManners
I really hope that the American tax payers don't wind up paying for his shindig.
Oh, but I bet we will.....
| 832 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:19:11am |
re: #820 pingjockey
You can bet obambi ain't gonna pay for it, he's entitled to whatever he and the donks can steal.
I can see Chicago letting him slide but, why would Philadelphia?
| 833 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:19:28am |
We need a short, pithy phrase for the tea party to get on bumper stickers then put it at Cafepress.
No Tea Then!
No Stimulus Now!
*I suck at short pithy*
| 834 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:19:43am |
re: #822 rightymouse
Have no idea if the Feds ever harassed them. This is a Savings and Loan and I checked their website - they still be humming along.
My mortgage is through a large bank that was bought out last year. Had to go through hell and mountains of paperwork/documentation to prove ability to pay. Plus, had to put 20% down to avoid PMI.
Is your bank solvent?
| 835 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:20:27am |
re: #806 vxbush
Why am I not surprised? Bet he expects a pass, or expects the Stimulus money funneled their way to make up for it.
| 836 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:20:34am |
BBIAB, b-day party today. Have to go clean the bathroom. Of course after a horde of 8 and 9 year old boys get done, it'll look like its been taken to 10,000 feet and dropped!
| 837 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:20:37am |
re: #830 pingjockey
The troops aren't the gov't. It's the hordes of faceless paper shufflers!
I resemble that remark!
| 839 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:21:32am |
re: #795 nyc redneck
LOL,
it will be enjoyable to make them squirm.
* * *
Ronald Reagan was a pro-union, union president and pro-New Dealer once.
Let's encourage our liberal friends gently to see WHO sold them a bridge to nowhere, fast. Will they be pissed when they confront reality.
John Kerry's the richest millionaire in the Senate, $300 million or so, earned selling out his country to his country's state enemies. This ought to piss someone off.
| 840 |
pre-Boomer Marine brat Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:21:32am |
re: #811 JCM
Not only did government push banks into the sub-prime market, and borrowers get stars in their eyes. Banks were reckless in lending practices. And not just for mortgages. When looking at various ways of financing my van, on bank offered me $120,000 max for an auto loan. It was just insane.
Incredible!
GAH!
| 841 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:21:39am |
re: #832 MandyManners
What I meant was, Philly will holler and caterwaul and in the end will get nada, zilch, zip.
| 842 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:21:44am |
re: #828 alegrias
* * *
Albusteve,SOME liberals now running the country, with 3 Senators named Specter, Snow & Collins, voted for this underwriting of ACORN and other criminal thuggish enterprises.
Please don't hate all federal people--Remember our troops are Government Issue (GIs), and they're the best among us. I support them all the way, with my tax dollars too.
I don't hate all govt people...just the thieves and crooks and unholy gangsters that seem to hold the reins of power over me...policy makers and filthy deal cutters...political pimps and their whores...the ones that cut my throat and steal my money and fuck me stupid...you know the type
| 843 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:21:49am |
re: #833 JCM
We need a short, pithy phrase for the tea party to get on bumper stickers then put it at Cafepress.
No Tea Then!
No Stimulus Now!*I suck at short pithy*
I've been tagging some of my post with a nice pithy saying for months...
"Sir, your tea is in the harbor"
Use it, someone will.
| 845 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:22:38am |
re: #837 Timbre
Oops! Ah but you're a lizard, so you are exempt from that swipe!
| 846 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:23:16am |
re: #832 MandyManners
I think Philly is getting bunch o pork from the stimulus. Nutter was a Hillary supporter who went over to BHO pretty hard.
| 847 |
vxbush Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:23:17am |
re: #835 VioletTiger
Why am I not surprised? Bet he expects a pass, or expects the Stimulus money funneled their way to make up for it.
No, I'm thinking that it will be part of a special bill to handle special cities who need additional help beyond the state stimulus measure. First we had the federal bill for general purpose Dem strongholds. Next will be a state-centered bill to help those states who are in the most desperate straits financially. Then, there will be a city bill, and that is when Chicago and Philly will get paid off.
| 848 |
Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:23:44am |
re: #400 Fenway_Nation
We Used to conduct Warren Robbins trainings for the Spec ops troops in a similar function the township Warren robbins participated not to the extent as in arcadia mostly just newsies and Law enforcement all though a rancher(not rancher just a random one) on the outskirts let us use his barns etc to conduct searches.
| 849 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:24:19am |
re: #834 MandyManners
Is your bank solvent?
They are ok now that they were bought out - how long that will last, I have no idea.
Am going to Cancun next week with some of my 'ya-ya' gal pal network. One of them works for the bank. Haven't chatted with her for a while, so I can find out more poop then.
| 850 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:24:19am |
re: #802 MandyManners
One of the reasons Alex Jones hates her.
One of the reasons I hate Alex Jones (the equal opportunity paranoid schizophrenic)
| 851 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:25:18am |
re: #850 FrogMarch
Whom is Alex Jones? And, should I care? :)
| 852 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:25:50am |
re: #843 Walter L. Newton
I've been tagging some of my post with a nice pithy saying for months...
"Sir, your tea is in the harbor"
Use it, someone will.
An image of Obama on the left end of the bumper sticker.....
Give me a few minutes.
| 853 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:26:02am |
re: #711 vxbush
Yes, I do, for the most part. Thanks for remember--that's sweet. Right now, not much can be wrong, as my cat is curled up in my lap and quite content.
There are few things quite as satisfying as having a contented cat curled in your lap and purring.
| 854 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:26:41am |
| 855 |
alegrias Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:27:06am |
re: #830 pingjockey
The troops aren't the gov't. It's the hordes of faceless paper shufflers!
* * *
I will not tar all bureaucrats & public servants. God bless the Food & Drug Administration, Border Patrols, Coast Guard, etc.
Unfortunately, they also serve, who Facebook & Twitter & Community Organize for Obama.
| 856 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:27:10am |
re: #853 reine.de.tout
A puppy next to you napping is good too.
| 857 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:27:10am |
re: #836 pingjockey
BBIAB, b-day party today. Have to go clean the bathroom. Of course after a horde of 8 and 9 year old boys get done, it'll look like its been taken to 10,000 feet and dropped!
After raising 4 boys (one still at home), plus spouse, I gave up cleaning bathrooms. My BP went wayyyyyyyyyyy down once he agreed to hiring cleaning help once a week.
Having a sign in the bathrooms "I am to please, you aim too, please", never worked.
| 858 |
Bloodnok Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:28:05am |
| 859 |
Teacake! Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:28:21am |
Alex Jones is a total wackjob which is unfortunate in case any of his investigations might be true.
| 860 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:28:26am |
re: #851 pingjockey
Whom is Alex Jones? And, should I care? :)
He's a freak conspiracy theorist. He's all over the map with his insane conspiracies. He's basically a paranoid schizophrenic with a small radio show - attempting to bild an army with other paranoid schizophrenics.
Back during the DNC convention in Denver, Alex Jones verbally (and almost physically) attacked Michele Malkin in the streets - accusing her of all sorts of crazy. He's a pig.
| 861 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:28:44am |
re: #854 Timbre
Yep. When I retired from Uncle Sams canoe club, I had to write yearly evals for my troops, 3 paper copies and the floppy disc!
| 862 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:29:18am |
re: #850 FrogMarch
One of the reasons I hate Alex Jones (the equal opportunity paranoid schizophrenic)
MM is pretty, tenacious, and very very smart...3 reasons to hate her right there
| 863 |
Teacake! Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:29:26am |
pingjocky, I think his website is infowars.com
| 865 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:30:14am |
This is revolting. Here I am sick at home from work, talking about work. Let's talk about how the Dallas Cowboys need a new owner and management and coach.....unless you're a Cowboy hater in which case your probably as happy as a clam in Oyster Bay!
| 866 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:30:22am |
Maisey the Parrot has been acting out lately.
A few weeks ago, our local supermarket had the most expensive parrot food on sale at 1/3 the price, because it appears that they are discontinuing that brand.
So, I purchased the two 4 pound bags that they had left, since the total price was less than the 5 pound bag of less expensive stuff.
Well, this parrot food has a lot of different items that parrot like. Most parrots like, it seems most parrots EXCEPT Maisey.
So, I'll put her food bowl in the cage, half filled with this new and wonderful product, I go and sit down, and behind my back I hear...
Slop, throw, scatter, plunk (chestnut), slop, throw, scatter, plunk (almond), slop, throw, scatter... nibble (peanut)... and then CLUNK... (food bowl has been moved).
She's thrown half the food out, and then, she moves the food bowl so it's hanging by only ONE clip, at an angle, so she can get to the smaller softer seeds in the bottom.
She's lazy. She doesn't want to take the time to break open the chestnut and almonds and other hard shelled food stuffs.
It's good for her, it's good for her beak, it's good for her coordination, all those things. No, Maisey wants to play couch potato, and just go after the crunchy easy stuff.
She's wasting my excellent money saving purchase.
| 867 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:30:55am |
re: #857 rightymouse
After raising 4 boys (one still at home), plus spouse, I gave up cleaning bathrooms. My BP went wayyyyyyyyyyy down once he agreed to hiring cleaning help once a week.
Having a sign in the bathrooms "I am to please, you aim too, please", never worked.
Why not make THEM clean the baths? I'm making The Kid do some but, I keep tabs on him while he does.
| 868 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:31:26am |
re: #852 JCM
An image of Obama on the left end of the bumper sticker.....
Give me a few minutes.
Sure, send me a link to it when you're done, and some money :)
| 870 |
revobob Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:32:14am |
re: #593 MandyManners
Notice that we have Scottishbuzzsaw and Buzzsawmonkey? What is it about Lizards and buzz saws?
The Lizard Army includes many Skils!
| 871 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:32:28am |
re: #859 Teacake!
Alex Jones is a total wackjob which is unfortunate in case any of his investigations might be true.
Which investigations? Into the allegations that the bar code stickers on the backs of highway signs are intended to help the military take us to the relocation camps?
| 872 |
Bloodnok Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:32:43am |
re: #866 Walter L. Newton
It's good for her, it's good for her beak, it's good for her coordination, all those things. No, Maisey wants to play couch potato, and just go after the crunchy easy stuff.
Welcome to Barack's America.
/
| 873 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:32:59am |
re: #867 MandyManners
Why not make THEM clean the baths? I'm making The Kid do some but, I keep tabs on him while he does.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Been there. Done that. I was outnumbered.
| 874 |
pingjockey Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:33:00am |
re: #857 rightymouse
We have 3 boys, plus me. I do the bathroom. Keeps the better half in good temper!
| 876 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:33:15am |
re: #865 Timbre
This is revolting. Here I am sick at home from work, talking about work. Let's talk about how the Dallas Cowboys need a new owner and management and coach.....unless you're a Cowboy hater in which case your probably as happy as a clam in Oyster Bay!
the present owner has three rings and the coolest stadium on the planet...the players run and catch and tackle...not management
| 877 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:33:35am |
re: #872 Bloodnok
Welcome to Barack's America.
/
No, no, no, Maisey did not vote for Kenyan Barry, no way.
| 878 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:33:46am |
| 880 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:34:45am |
re: #873 rightymouse
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Been there. Done that. I was outnumbered.
I would've not shopped for groceries, cooked, cleaned or did laundry until I had prevailed upon them.
| 881 |
Last Mohican Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:35:12am |
re: #863 Teacake!
pingjocky, I think his website is infowars.com
That is correct. But don't link to it here, Charles won't like it. And I don't recommend going there yourself unless you're prepared for a nice long mind-cleansing afterwards. I hadn't visited the site since the election, so I just went over to see what Jones is ranting about these days. Here's a comment I found:
This country was FOUNDED by WHITE, ENGLISH-SPEAKING people! You think the slaughter of a few Indians was bad? It was way less than the 60 million WHITE Russians, Germans, Austrians, and Polish killed by jews after WW2. The Indians are alright, but face it, they didn’t build this country. They would still be wearing hides and using a bow and arrow to catch rabbits to eat if it wasn’t for all the things ENGLISH-SPEAKING Patriots have invented and built to make life easier.Don’t diss on Ron Paul! You actually think this melting pot crap has been good for America? Look at all the crime going on by these people who have come here from Africa, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, ect. Look at the gangs these people have created to commit crimes all over the place.
| 882 |
VioletTiger Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:35:20am |
re: #847 vxbush
Ak, there will be no end to the handouts.
| 884 |
Ayeless in Ghazi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:35:59am |
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.— Jimmy Swaggart
In the garden of eden, satan invites man to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge, a tree that God had placed off-limits. You could argue based on this that all science is satanic, which is not far from what many of the RR believe. After all, from their point of view, it's that nasty knowledge stuff that got humanity into 'this mess' in the first place. They might as well be using Ghazali as their philosophical guide (although some of them might have difficulty following him).
| 885 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:36:10am |
re: #869 pingjockey
Thanks. Never heard of him. Yay!
It's not a bad thing that you've never heard of him. He's really awful.
Sadly, he's somewhat influential with the younger easily fooled adolescents and misfits. I see "9/11 was an inside job" - Infowars stickers plastered all over town. It sickens me that he has convinced so many.
| 886 |
MandyManners Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:36:19am |
re: #881 Last Mohican
Nothing like rank racism to fuck up a great morning.
| 887 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:36:28am |
re: #857 rightymouse
Great line from "Two and a Half Men"
Dad. "Why is my son scrubbing the toilets"
Housekeeper, "When he's through, he'll be able to pee through a Cheerio."
| 888 |
Teacake! Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:36:44am |
Which investigations? Into the allegations that the bar code stickers on the backs of highway signs are intended to help the military take us to the relocation camps?
The one in particular is of actual video footage of secret rituals that he somehow was able to tape of a skull and crossbone thing in the woods. Really creepy footage that apparently Kerry and others were a part of - I forget what happened to him - if he was busted or not. The footage seems real enough is the problem.
| 889 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:36:49am |
| 890 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:37:01am |
re: #874 pingjockey
We have 3 boys, plus me. I do the bathroom. Keeps the better half in good temper!
Honey, you're a better person than me. The last thing I wanted to do after working all week was spend the weekends cleaning bathrooms. :)
| 891 |
FrogMarch Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:37:51am |
re: #852 JCM
An image of Obama on the left end of the bumper sticker.....
Give me a few minutes.
how about "NO MORE" - with both of the "O's" as Obama/pepsi symbols with slashes thru them?
| 892 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:37:56am |
re: #868 Walter L. Newton
Sure, send me a link to it when you're done, and some money :)
Polish it up, then YOU can send it to Cafepress and reap any profits.
| 893 |
Teacake! Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:38:11am |
That is correct. But don't link to it here, Charles won't like it.
Why not? Its good for a laugh!
| 894 |
Rustler Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:38:48am |
re: #878 MandyManners
You saw right to the point didn't you?
| 895 |
reine.de.tout Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:40:13am |
| 896 |
Timbre Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:41:47am |
re: #876 albusteve
I don't know, Albusteve, I was more disappointed this year in the decisions and management than in the fundamentals. And the three SB rings were from a different time and attitude. The new stadium is about 3/4 mile from my parents' house. It is awesome. I just hope there's not a big hailstorm there anytime!
| 897 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:42:16am |
re: #880 MandyManners
I would've not shopped for groceries, cooked, cleaned or did laundry until I had prevailed upon them.
Four of the five were step-children. Hubby had this 'thing' about prevailing on them for much of anything in terms of chores. And they fussed that step-mom was being mean. Lovely dynamics. Have a much easier time now that it's just our biological child at home. He has his chores and there aren't the same toxic dynamics ruling the home. But I kept our hired cleaning pact. Hubby pays for her. :)
| 898 |
tradewind Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:42:49am |
Bring it, Bibi.
BHO, you'll just have to learn to deal.
[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk...]
| 899 |
revobob Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:42:55am |
re: #671 Lincolntf
Not yet, But it only takes a small leap of conjecture to picture a case where an occupied building (perhaps a Korean Deli or the like) is essentially occupied by intimidation, forcing the legitimate owners out to be replaced by Acorn-approved "community members".
I put nothing past these power-mad thugs.
I know I'm late to this, but I have to comment that, at least here in SoCal, taking on a Korean family business would likely be a fatal mistake. During the Rodney King Insurrection, they were openly guarding their properties with guns in hand, and the knowledge and willingness to use them.
| 901 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:44:24am |
re: #887 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Great line from "Two and a Half Men"
Dad. "Why is my son scrubbing the toilets"
Housekeeper, "When he's through, he'll be able to pee through a Cheerio."
lol!
| 902 |
revobob Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:44:31am |
| 903 |
albusteve Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:45:09am |
re: #896 Timbre
I don't know, Albusteve, I was more disappointed this year in the decisions and management than in the fundamentals. And the three SB rings were from a different time and attitude. The new stadium is about 3/4 mile from my parents' house. It is awesome. I just hope there's not a big hailstorm there anytime!
injuries and pathetic special teams wrecked the season imo...I was over to Dallas last Aug for the Texas Shootout...we checked out the new park and was shocked to see how congested it is around there...there will be huge traffic problems
| 904 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:45:46am |
| 905 |
n in wi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:46:11am |
| 906 |
JCM Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:48:33am |
re: #900 VioletTiger
Cute kiddies!
The one in wagon went back to family, foster daughter we had her for 4 months.
| 907 |
revobob Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:48:57am |
re: #890 rightymouse
Honey, you're a better person than me. The last thing I wanted to do after working all week was spend the weekends cleaning bathrooms. :)
Awwww, once a month it's not TOOOOO bad!
| 908 |
sprucepinehollow Sat, Feb 21, 2009 8:56:31am |
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it.... Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.
— Jimmy Swaggart
Interesting.... a silly statement and the quote itself has an ad hominem fallacious intent. Error compounded by fallacy.
| 909 |
rightymouse Sat, Feb 21, 2009 9:10:01am |
| 910 |
LC HOGHEAD Sat, Feb 21, 2009 11:34:35am |
Unions are naturally and inherently tyrannical, collectivist, criminal, corrupt, parasitic organizations. They're based on the theory and marxist-leninist "ideal" of what could be called predatory authoritarian communism for otherwise free-agent labor and naturally liberated workers.
No proper, self-respecting, freedom-loving employee should ever belong to a union at his job. No proper, self-respecting, freedom-loving employer should ever allow a union at his company. Unions destroy efficiency, competitiveness, prosperity, success -- and labor-management harmony. They create a kind of company civil war. Ultimately, unions kill business.
Even employees who think of joining a union, or who sympathize with the concept of unionism, should be summarily and energetically fired. Unionism as a socio-economic ideal is a deadly plague which severely weakens and impoverishes every worker and labor market it contaminates. Unions are a cancer which severely debilitate or destroy every company they infect.
Death to unions and unionism!
| 911 |
Tracy_p Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:30:23pm |
Have you ever thought that GOD is all powerful so GOD created evolution. There by creating man.
| 912 |
Bob Z Sat, Feb 21, 2009 12:51:40pm |
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That is all I need to know. I didn't come from some stupid monkey. Give yourself some credit!
| 913 |
Charles Johnson Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:14:34pm |
re: #912 Bob Z
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That is all I need to know. I didn't come from some stupid monkey. Give yourself some credit!
Classic.
| 914 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:20:23pm |
re: #912 Bob Z
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That is all I need to know. I didn't come from some stupid monkey. Give yourself some credit!
I do give myself credit. I don't believe in myths, ghosts, fairies, spirits, UFO's, chem-trails, secret tunnels all over the west, nor something as silly as god.
| 915 |
Ayeless in Ghazi Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:21:44pm |
re: #913 Charles
If we didn't know better, we'd assume it was parody. Sadly, we do.
| 916 |
jcm Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:25:03pm |
re: #912 Bob Z
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That is all I need to know. I didn't come from some stupid monkey. Give yourself some credit!
Let me know what you think.
| 917 |
Salamantis Sat, Feb 21, 2009 1:32:23pm |
re: #912 Bob Z
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That is all I need to know. I didn't come from some stupid monkey. Give yourself some credit!
I guess you don't think you need to know about artifactual retroviral DNA sequences, then, ayy, Bob? Because they conclusively demonstrate beyond a rational statistical doubt that humans and great apes evolutionarliy diverged from common ancestors. Read all about it here:
[Link: www.newyorker.com...]
Money quote:
“If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes,” Weiss wrote.
Darwin’s surprise almost certainly would be mixed with delight: when he suggested, in “The Descent of Man” (1871), that humans and apes shared a common ancestor, it was a revolutionary idea, and it remains one today. Yet nothing provides more convincing evidence for the “theory” of evolution than the viruses contained within our DNA. Until recently, the earliest available information about the history and the course of human diseases, like smallpox and typhus, came from mummies no more than four thousand years old. Evolution cannot be measured in a time span that short. Endogenous retroviruses provide a trail of molecular bread crumbs leading millions of years into the past.
Darwin’s theory makes sense, though, only if humans share most of those viral fragments with relatives like chimpanzees and monkeys. And we do, in thousands of places throughout our genome. If that were a coincidence, humans and chimpanzees would have had to endure an incalculable number of identical viral infections in the course of millions of years, and then, somehow, those infections would have had to end up in exactly the same place within each genome. The rungs of the ladder of human DNA consist of three billion pairs of nucleotides spread across forty-six chromosomes. The sequences of those nucleotides determine how each person differs from another, and from all other living things. The only way that humans, in thousands of seemingly random locations, could possess the exact retroviral DNA found in another species is by inheriting it from a common ancestor.
Molecular biology has made precise knowledge about the nature of that inheritance possible. With extensive databases of genetic sequences, reconstructing ancestral genomes has become common, and retroviruses have been found in the genome of every vertebrate species that has been studied. Anthropologists and biologists have used them to investigate not only the lineage of primates but the relationships among animals—dogs, jackals, wolves, and foxes, for example—and also to test whether similar organisms may in fact be unrelated.
Sal: Read it and weep, and then accept the facts of the matter. Or else dismiss or ignore the overwhelming empirical evidence, shitcan your intellect, and emotionally embrace the warm fluffy narcotic comfort of your dogma-driven willful ignorance.
| 918 |
Brit in Japan Sat, Feb 21, 2009 4:47:44pm |
re: #912 Bob Z
In the Beginning God created the heavens and the Earth. That is all I need to know. I didn't come from some stupid monkey. Give yourself some credit!
Err, is that a hail-mary bomb or a self-destruct play? I think you fumbled.
(or did you forget the sarc tag?)
BiJ
| 919 |
Tracy_p Sun, Feb 22, 2009 3:58:41pm |
As a mechanical engineer and not a church going person I believe in both God and science and look on science as the study of God through the study of one of his greatest works, the universe. From the study of the smallest subatomic particle
to the study of galaxy s, from Newton to Galileo all are the study of the rules that made the universe, and there by the study of God. And evolution is just one more thing too study.
As for the bible it is a good book but a book that you are reading in a language that it wasn't written in and that was translated by people that didn't have our understanding of the world.
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