If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:21:16pm |
I was looking at Breitbart's mainstream "Big Hollywood" site, and imagine my shock when I scrolled down and saw one of my own pictures featured on the site!
My initial reaction of, "Hey, you ripped off my picture without credit" was immediately transformed into "Thanks for linking to me!" when I saw they actually did link to my report, futher down in the post.
And upon additional reading, my feeling turned to satisfaction when I realized that my "Queers for Palestine" essay had played some small role in the political transformation a very perceptive and insightful former gay activist. In fact, the entire essay, by someone named Charles Winecoff, is about his moral awakening, from moonbat to lizardoid.
I've never heard of Charles Winecoff before, but I like his way of thinking!
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Buster Bunny Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:22:35pm |
That Jefferson guy will go places .. I'm sure of it.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:22:59pm |
My arrogant opinion of the latest kerfuffle: Obama used special-needs kids/adults as a joke, and those opposed to Obama are using special-needs kids/adults as a political "gotcha".
It's exploitation, and I don't like any of it.
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Desert Dog Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:24:55pm |
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
-Thomas Jefferson
smart guy
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Buster Bunny Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:27:25pm |
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:29:07pm |
re: #3 Slumbering Behemoth
By sheer random accident I once stumbled across an actual Special Olympics track-and-field finals, being held on Edwards Field at Cal Berkeley. Even as cynical and sarcastic as I was at the time, I was touched by what I saw. And having read how disabled people were treated throughout most of history (i.e. abysmally), it was practically a miracle to see their humanity shining through.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:29:52pm |
re: #5 Buster Bunny
Zombie .. you start the ball rolling ...
We'll just chase it down the hill ;)
People are always chasing after my balls, it seems.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:30:58pm |
I'd forgotten this song until I heard on the radio while I was doing my taxes earlier today:
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BatGuano Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:33:31pm |
Tommy Jeff was damn good President too (despite that Mabury v. Madison thing).
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Desert Dog Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:35:36pm |
re: #6 zombie
By sheer random accident I once stumbled across an actual Special Olympics track-and-field finals, being held on Edwards Field at Cal Berkeley. Even as cynical and sarcastic as I was at the time, I was touched by what I saw. And having read how disabled people were treated throughout most of history (i.e. abysmally), it was practically a miracle to see their humanity shining through.
If anyone is looking for a worthwhile cause, I recommend volunteering for a Special Olympics event. One of our closest friends has a Downs Syndrome child and asked us to help at a Track and Field meet and it was one of the most enjoyable times I have ever had. One afternoon or once a month or once a year. It will make a difference to these wonderful kids and it will make a difference in yourself too.
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BatGuano Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:35:54pm |
re: #8 gmsc
Oh, thanks. Now nobody is going to get their taxes done.
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Alberta Oil Peon Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:36:55pm |
re: #1 zombie
Congratulations, Zombie. It must be gratifying indeed to see that your efforts are bearing fruit.
BTW, did you ever get the information you needed about Marvin Levant? He is indeed Ezra's Dad, and a retired radiologist M.D.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:37:08pm |
re: #8 gmsc
I'd forgotten this song until I heard on the radio while I was doing my taxes earlier today:
I remain blissfully unaware of all Spice Girls songs to begin, so I've never forgotten a single one.
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Gus Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:38:32pm |
re: #15 zombie
I remain blissfully unaware of all Spice Girls songs to begin, so I've never forgotten a single one.
What about the B-52s?
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LynnfromNZ Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:38:33pm |
re: #3 Slumbering Behemoth
That and he was jabbing at Sarah Palin, who had just released a Special Olympics promo and has a special needs child:
O'Bambi's a remarkably petty man, so I have no problem believing that. Remember his middle finger to Clinton and McCain?
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gmsc Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:39:27pm |
re: #15 zombie
I remain blissfully unaware of all Spice Girls songs to begin, so I've never forgotten a single one.
Heh.
BTW, Congrats on the Breitbart mention!
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Alberta Oil Peon Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:39:47pm |
I don't know if this has been posted here already, but good news, nevertheless. According to the Grauniad uber-moonbat and terrorist financier George Galloway has been banned from entering Canada.
Kudos to our government for showing some stones in this matter.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:40:17pm |
re: #14 Alberta Oil Peon
Congratulations, Zombie. It must be gratifying indeed to see that your efforts are bearing fruit.
BTW, did you ever get the information you needed about Marvin Levant? He is indeed Ezra's Dad, and a retired radiologist M.D.
Yes, Marvin continued to email me! I eventually figured out he was indeed Ezra's dad. And like many dads, I think, he's a bit of an eccentric! His emails are somewhat -- uh -- hard to decipher. But his heart is definitely in the right place.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:40:45pm |
damn, and I was still sitting on a previous thread, thinking somehow I managed to kill it.
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devnulled Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:41:12pm |
I am starting to convince myself that there is a huge problem with Obama that he is under the gun to play puppet to.
No one can be as bumbling as he has been, what with zero accomplishments so far and nothing but gaffes and backtracking.
President Bush had the ultimate insider with him; Cheney, who was not only talented, but in so deep in the back-room politics that I rarely shuddered during the whole bush administration knowing he was there.
0 has nothing but a ladder of suits as empty as his all the way.
One bit of wisdom I learned from the Clinton era is; what if the Red Chinese got hold of the blue dress before we did? What would Clinton have done to protect himself?
I am wondering who has 0's blue dress at this point in the train wreck that is his administration... and I hope to hell they are Constitutionally friendly.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:41:48pm |
re: #15 zombie
crap, so you are NOT a bleached blonde wit hpig tails and a pink plaid miniskirt...
/scratch off another guess off the list
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gmsc Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:42:05pm |
re: #16 Gus 802
What about the B-52s?
Or R.E.M.? (Shown performing below with Kate Pierson of the B-52s)
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:42:22pm |
re: #16 Gus 802
What about the B-52s?
The B-52s are a real band. So of course I know about them. But the only song of theirs I really ever liked was "52 Girls" (which may have been their very first single).
The Spice Girls, on the other hand, are entirely artificial.
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Van Helsing Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:42:31pm |
re: #20 Alberta Oil Peon
I don't know if this has been posted here already, but good news, nevertheless. According to the Grauniad uber-moonbat and terrorist financier George Galloway has been banned from entering Canada.
Kudos to our government for showing some stones in this matter.
Congrats to Canada!
Galloway is evil. Just plain evile.
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LynnfromNZ Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:43:26pm |
re: #11 Desert Dog
Credit Eunice Shriver for the Special Olympics. It started on her lawn.
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Gus Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:17pm |
re: #26 zombie
The B-52s are a real band. So of course I know about them. But the only song of theirs I really ever liked was "52 Girls" (which may have been their very first single).
The Spice Girls, on the other hand, are entirely artificial.
Yeah, the UK seems to put out a lot of artificial bands. Many I've never heard of. It's just a name and they replace the singers.
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:21pm |
re: #20 Alberta Oil Peon
I think that someone that wears a homosexual cat outfit on a TV show should be banned from...entering anything
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Alberta Oil Peon Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:44:36pm |
re: #26 zombie
The B-52s are a real band. So of course I know about them. But the only song of theirs I really ever liked was "52 Girls" (which may have been their very first single).
The Spice Girls, on the other hand, are entirely artificial.
I actually liked their Rock Lobster song. And didn't they do one called Love Shack, too? I seem to remember a sly sense of humor in the band. Can't hurt.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:45:53pm |
re: #11 Desert Dog
Has ANYBODY yet mentioned how incredibly INSULTING it was for Obama to mock disabled people considering that his VP opponent just a few months ago was Sarah Palin, whose son Trig has Down's Syndrome? And that she is a champion for disabled people everywhere? You'd think Obama would have remembered this rather important "detail," but no -- he's still as juveline and insulting as he ever was. Proving he was in his own universe during the campaign. Sickening.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:46:36pm |
re: #17 LynnfromNZ
That and he was jabbing at Sarah Palin, who had just released a Special Olympics promo and has a special needs child:
Thanks you for mentioning that -- and for being a faster typer than me!
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BatGuano Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:47:17pm |
re: #15 zombie
I remain blissfully unaware of all Spice Girls songs to begin, so I've never forgotten a single one.
Mr. Zombie (if that is your name), I have been following your posts for some time now and I have come to the sad conclusion that you have been denying yourself popular culture. Turn on the TV, turn on the radio, pick up a people magazine, watch American Idle, fer cryin' out loud.
re: #26 zombie
Oh, come on.You must have liked "Love Shack"
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:48:10pm |
re: #23 devnulled
0 has nothing but a ladder of suits as empty as his all the way.
"It's empty suits -- all the way down."
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LynnfromNZ Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:48:14pm |
I still can't believe he gave Clinton and McCain the finger on TV. Or that anybody thought he wasn't doing it intentionally.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:48:41pm |
re: #29 Gus 802
Yeah, the UK seems to put out a lot of artificial bands. Many I've never heard of. It's just a name and they replace the singers.
I suppose you're going to tell me boyzone is an artificial band?
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trigger girlie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:48:55pm |
re: #37 LynnfromNZ
is there a youtube vid of that? I missed that one
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Gus Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:49:05pm |
re: #32 zombie
He is in his own universe that's for sure. He will be lauded by the media for "best apology ever" and then this event will disappear from the MSM radar.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:49:22pm |
re: #24 trigger girlie
crap, so you are NOT a bleached blonde wit hpig tails and a pink plaid miniskirt...
/scratch off another guess off the list
Well, I might be, but I still hate the Spice Girls, whatever color my miniskirt is.
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BatGuano Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:49:42pm |
re: #32 zombie
Absolutely sickening. This is not a political point, but about basic decency. And Obama skates on.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:49:49pm |
re: #6 zombie
I have three relatives that were born developmentally challenged, and one (perhaps two, as things seem to be going) who have succumbed to Alzheimer's.
Although I am not as outraged as some about the Obama/Leno Affair, I still don't think it was an appropriate thing for a POTUS to say. At the same time, I see the way some Obama critics are using developmentally challenged people as a "gotcha" to be equally deplorable.
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oc livin Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:49:51pm |
That Thomas Jefferson quote reminded me to keep spreading the "ideas" to a real solution to the market panic & mortgage problems ...
Namely for the government to get their grubby paws off banks, corporate executives, and loans. Repeal the community reinvestment act etc etc. Let the beautiful workings of capitalism sprout up new banks and let the old ones stand or fail on their own!
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soccerdad Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:50:03pm |
re: #34 BatGuano
Mr. Zombie (if that is your name),
Back the eff off. The Zombie is a protected species around here.
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Gus Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:51:45pm |
re: #38 gmsc
I uh, uh, uh. That's a "band?" Looks like an audition tape.
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:52:12pm |
re: #34 BatGuano
Mr. Zombie (if that is your name), I have been following your posts for some time now and I have come to the sad conclusion that you have been denying yourself popular culture. Turn on the TV, turn on the radio, pick up a people magazine, watch American Idle, fer cryin' out loud.
re: #26 zombieOh, come on.You must have liked "Love Shack"
I hated Love Shack! The B-52s jumped the shark in 1979.
As for popular culture: You either consume it, or create it. I choose the latter path.
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Desert Dog Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:52:26pm |
re: #32 zombie
Has ANYBODY yet mentioned how incredibly INSULTING it was for Obama to mock disabled people considering that his VP opponent just a few months ago was Sarah Palin, whose son Trig has Down's Syndrome? And that she is a champion for disabled people everywhere? You'd think Obama would have remembered this rather important "detail," but no -- he's still as juveline and insulting as he ever was. Proving he was in his own universe during the campaign. Sickening.
I think it is fairly clear to everyone that our current President has no class, tact or decorum. I think he does not realize he is the the POTUS sometimes and that every word he speaks and writes and action he does will be heard and seen.
And they called Bush and idiot? I don't remember Bush saying some of the stuff Obama has already.
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TheMatrix31 Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:52:56pm |
I'm really stupid for eating stuff I KNOW will give me heartburn, when I've been battling nightly heartburn for the past few months now.
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gmsc Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:52:56pm |
re: #32 zombie
Has ANYBODY yet mentioned how incredibly INSULTING it was for Obama to mock disabled people considering that his VP opponent just a few months ago was Sarah Palin, whose son Trig has Down's Syndrome? And that she is a champion for disabled people everywhere? You'd think Obama would have remembered this rather important "detail," but no -- he's still as juveline and insulting as he ever was. Proving he was in his own universe during the campaign. Sickening.
Sarah Palin has!
Palin whacks Obama on Special Olympics
Time differences tend to slow these things down, but here's Palin:
“I was shocked to learn of the comment made by President Obama about Special Olympics,” Governor Palin said. “This was a degrading remark about our world’s most precious and unique people, coming from the most powerful position in the world.
“These athletes overcome more challenges, discrimination and adversity than most of us ever will. By the way, these athletes can outperform many of us and we should be proud of them. I hope President Obama’s comments do not reflect how he truly feels about the special needs community.”
UPDATE: Think Progress noted during the campaign that she once proposed cutting Special Olympics funding.
(Note Politico just can't resist that dig at the end.)
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pat Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:53:06pm |
Skating on thin ice me thinks. Obama has already gained the 'cringe' factor. As near as I can tell, Obama is throwing gutter balls that the MSM are trying to pretend are strikes.
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Salamantis Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:55:23pm |
I'm reposting this here because there's a good chance it will disappear unread at the end of the last thread:
re: #892 Van Helsing
And congress shamed itself (and the country) by turning their backs on a commitment to an ally [the Vietnamese].
And we did it again. Bush I asked the Iraqis during the Gulf War to revolt against Saddam Hussein, and they did, in 14 of 18 provinces. Then we opened our lines at the end of it, and permitted the Republican Guard tank battalions to return to Iraq unmolested, where they proceeded to massacre a quarter million mostly unarmed Iraqis who had made the mistake of trusting and heeding our president's call to freedom, with the help of bombers and helicopter gunships. The no-fly zones were imposed by the UN in order to lessen the slaughter, but they had no effect on the tank battalions that we allowed to return.
We fecklessly and ignobly abandoned and betrayed those trusting, freedom-desiring people to certain death at the hands of a genocidal dictator, and allowed the means of their destruction to trundle back into the country unhindered; no wonder they had a hard time trusting our word again. It was our country's most shameful moment since Vietnam.
But we paid our blood debt of honor, and regained their trust (with the surge especially), and we shouldn't even consider contemplating betraying that trust a second time in two successive generations. Otherwise, I could fully understand them turning to Al Qaeda for revenge against us.
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Desert Dog Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:55:43pm |
re: #31 Alberta Oil Peon
I actually liked their Rock Lobster song. And didn't they do one called Love Shack, too? I seem to remember a sly sense of humor in the band. Can't hurt.
I saw these guys at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver right after this album was released.....what a great live band. Everyone danced the entire show
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Alberta Oil Peon Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:55:55pm |
re: #45 oc livin
That Thomas Jefferson quote reminded me to keep spreading the "ideas" to a real solution to the market panic & mortgage problems ...
Namely for the government to get their grubby paws off banks, corporate executives, and loans. Repeal the community reinvestment act etc etc. Let the beautiful workings of capitalism sprout up new banks and let the old ones stand or fail on their own!
That's a brilliant idea.
I hereby announce that the Left Bank of the Peace River is now open for business. Moonbats, please e-mail your deposits to pissedawayATdownarathole.com We promise not to report any of our your income to the I.R.S.
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devnulled Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:56:16pm |
re: #31 Alberta Oil Peon
Back when Saturday Night Live was viable in 1980, the B-52s performed 'Dance This Mess Around' along with 'Rock Lobster'.
I think every writer of SNL should be forced to watch that show to understand what the whole hubbub of SNL was about and what granted it another 30 years of legacy.
I stopped watching in 1987 but I still respect the roots.
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Sharmuta Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:57:36pm |
re: #32 zombie
Has ANYBODY yet mentioned how incredibly INSULTING it was for Obama to mock disabled people considering that his VP opponent just a few months ago was Sarah Palin, whose son Trig has Down's Syndrome? And that she is a champion for disabled people everywhere? You'd think Obama would have remembered this rather important "detail," but no -- he's still as juveline and insulting as he ever was. Proving he was in his own universe during the campaign. Sickening.
We have an entire thread full of people mentioning it.
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:57:51pm |
re: #8 gmsc
I'd forgotten this song until I heard on the radio while I was doing my taxes earlier today:
Mercy Snipage Occurs
i've never knowing heard a Spice Girls song, or seen one of their videos, and since i won't be clicking on that one, i can remain the pure and undamaged soul that i am. %-)
/white smoke
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gmsc Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:57:55pm |
Comandante Obama
The president has made America look like a banana republic.
"But you don't understand," the Colombian said. "We've seen this before."
"He's right, my good friend," the Cuban said. "We Latin Americans know the pattern. Believe me we do."
The American tried to shrug off the Latin Americans' warning. To his consternation, he found that he couldn't. Peron, Fidel, now Chavez, they insisted. The emergence of misrule, corruption and economic stagnation in Latin American nations follows a particular sequence or progression. Now the sequence was unfolding in the United States.
"It starts with a cult of personality," the Cuban explained. "One man declares himself the jefe, the caudillo, the big leader."
Had Obama attempted to instigate something like a cult of personality? The American found the charge impossible to refute. During the campaign, Obama had failed to advance a genuine agenda, instead campaigning on "hope" and "change." In effect, he had asked Americans to turn the nation over to him on blind faith. He would, he promised, transcend racial and partisan divides in his very person.
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Gus Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:58:10pm |
re: #56 Desert Dog
I saw these guys at the Rainbow Music Hall in Denver right after this album was released.....what a great live band. Everyone danced the entire show
[Video]
Appropriate song too!
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Unakite Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:58:36pm |
re: #22 trigger girlie
damn, and I was still sitting on a previous thread, thinking somehow I managed to kill it.
No footballs anymore (I hope).
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redc1c4 Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:59:23pm |
re: #51 TheMatrix31
I'm really stupid for eating stuff I KNOW will give me heartburn, when I've been battling nightly heartburn for the past few months now.
has your doctor checked you for h. pylori in the stomach?
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zombie Fri, Mar 20, 2009 11:59:25pm |
re: #54 BatGuano
Good answer. I was joking of course.
I know. But totally aside from being zombie, I made a conscious decision long ago to spend my time creating culture instead of consuming it. And I've spent my life doing that. Because I simply don't have time for both! My "zombie" "career" is just the tip of the iceberg.
But actually, I know a lot more about popular culture than I let on, because to drop cultural references would give too many clues about me.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:00:03am |
re: #34 BatGuano
Most of popular culture is a waste of time and serves only to dumb down the masses. The vast majority of it is ignorable, and more people should reject it.
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zombie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:00:55am |
re: #59 Sharmuta
We have an entire thread full of people mentioning it.
Ah -- I've been too busy to read most of the thread the last two days. I'm glad I wasn't the only one it occurred to!
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:01:53am |
re: #55 Salamantis
I'm reposting this here because there's a good chance it will disappear unread at the end of the last thread:
re: #892 Van Helsing
And congress shamed itself (and the country) by turning their backs on a commitment to an ally [the Vietnamese].
And we did it again. Bush I asked the Iraqis during the Gulf War to revolt against Saddam Hussein, and they did, in 14 of 18 provinces. Then we opened our lines at the end of it, and permitted the Republican Guard tank battalions to return to Iraq unmolested, where they proceeded to massacre a quarter million mostly unarmed Iraqis who had made the mistake of trusting and heeding our president's call to freedom, with the help of bombers and helicopter gunships. The no-fly zones were imposed by the UN in order to lessen the slaughter, but they had no effect on the tank battalions that we allowed to return.
We fecklessly and ignobly abandoned and betrayed those trusting, freedom-desiring people to certain death at the hands of a genocidal dictator, and allowed the means of their destruction to trundle back into the country unhindered; no wonder they had a hard time trusting our word again. It was our country's most shameful moment since Vietnam.
But we paid our blood debt of honor, and regained their trust (with the surge especially), and we shouldn't even consider contemplating betraying that trust a second time in two successive generations. Otherwise, I could fully understand them turning to Al Qaeda for revenge against us.
It's a good thing the surge worked, because the Dems would have pulled the plug on Iraq otherwise. Perhaps the Iraqis saw that coming and decided to pull things together. They knew Bush would not wimp out and I think they felt that Obama or Hillary would pack up and bug out the day after being sworn in.
It's amazing any country trusts us....we have left some people twisting in the wind over the past 50 years.
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:02:46am |
re: #68 Sharmuta
Most of popular culture is a waste of time and serves only to dumb down the masses. The vast majority of it is ignorable, and more people should reject it.
But, but, how would people know what is important if they didn't watch Celebrity What The F***?
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TheMatrix31 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:03:40am |
re: #65 redc1c4
has your doctor checked you for h. pylori in the stomach?
Nope, what's that? Back when I was 12 and really overweight, they said I had acid reflux. I've lost the weight but I guess I still have it.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:03:41am |
How do y'all like me when I get a few drinks in me and post on something BESIDES evolution? hehe
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:04:17am |
Did you hear about the new invention that has Cal Trans workers terrified?
Scientists finally invented a broom-handle that stands up by itself.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:04:33am |
re: #55 Salamantis
Good post. I remember that.Schwarzkopf unwittingly assisted by allowing Iraq to retain helicopters which they armed and used against them.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:05:31am |
re: #68 Sharmuta
I realized tonight that the only show on TV that makes me feel stupid is Jeopardy*. Everything else on the tube makes me feel smarter than I should.
*It doesn't actually make me feel stupid, but just makes me realize how little history I know.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:05:32am |
re: #71 Van Helsing
But, but, how would people know what is important if they didn't watch Celebrity What The F***?
I only click around on the Celebrity WTF online stuff just in case it comes up in a triva question. Still trying to figure out why I'm supposed to give a shit about Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. WTF are these people and why do they get their picture taken at the dollar store? [RHETORICAL QUESTION! Please don't answer.]
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:06:17am |
Special Olympics bowler: I can beat the president!
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - The top bowler for the Special Olympics looks forward to meeting President Barack Obama in an alley.
"He bowled a 129. I bowl a 300. I could beat that score easily," Michigan's Kolan McConiughey (KO-lahn Mc-KAHNA-he) told The Associated Press in an interview Friday.
The athletic-minded president made an offhand remark Thursday on "The Tonight Show" comparing his weak bowling to "the Special Olympics or something." He quickly apologized and told the Special Olympics chairman he wants to have some of its athletes visit the White House to bowl or play basketball.
McConiughey, who is mentally disabled, is just the bowler for the job. He's bowled five perfect games since 2005.
The 35-year-old McConiughey has been bowling since he was 8 or 9. His advice for Obama? Practice every day.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:06:33am |
re: #74 blackpajamas
Did you hear about the new invention that has Cal Trans workers terrified?
Scientists finally invented a broom-handle that stands up by itself.
In time they will invent a flagman that isn't on his cell phone all the time.
///
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:07:28am |
re: #66 zombie
But totally aside from being zombie, I made a conscious decision long ago to spend my time creating culture instead of consuming it.
Speaking of creating culture, won't it be just grand when they weaponize stem cells into modern bio-chemical arsenals?
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:07:35am |
re: #73 Salamantis
How do y'all like me when I get a few drinks in me and post on something BESIDES evolution? hehe
never seen you here before.....
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zombie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:07:37am |
Here's the B-52s back when they were relevant:
"52 Girls" performed live at the Downtown Cafe in 1978:
After that, it was all downhill.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:07:55am |
I'm one of those 9-11 hawks who lost the scales from his eyes when I saw the terror flyers on the tube. I remain a social liberal (if those jihadi bastards don't like it, that's a good indication that we should do more of it), and have always been a fiscal conservative (don't buy what you can't pay for), but until the WTC atrocity happened, I had not realized that our failure to deal with assholes abroad could dearly cost us at home.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:08:00am |
re: #77 Sharmuta
I only click around on the Celebrity WTF online stuff just in case it comes up in a triva question. Still trying to figure out why I'm supposed to give a shit about Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt. WTF are these people and why do they get their picture taken at the dollar store? [RHETORICAL QUESTION! Please don't answer.]
Mrs Desert Dog gets US and People and I am lucky if I know 3 or 4 of these nitwit "celebrities"......no thanks
I'll stick to my online reading and the few decent magazines that arrive here: Sports Illustrated and the Weekly Standard
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:08:14am |
re: #22 trigger girlie
damn, and I was still sitting on a previous thread, thinking somehow I managed to kill it.
You'll get used to it. Lizards often will mention when they're leaving the site, but will usually wander without warning to a new shiny thread--and often, those left behind (hey, isn't that a book?) will suddenly realize that their comments are ECHOING in the empty thread.
Just jump along till you find where everyone else is.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:09:12am |
re: #74 blackpajamas
Did you hear about the new invention that has Cal Trans workers terrified?
Scientists finally invented a broom-handle that stands up by itself.
Damn, in Virginia it's "what's yellow and sleeps eight?" Answer, "VDOT truck."
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:09:16am |
re: #79 Gus 802
In time they will invent a flagman that isn't on his cell phone all the time.
///
Yes, but the "broom operator" and flagman will be alternating their 15 minute breaks with lunch all day long
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:09:32am |
re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth
I enjoy good entertainment- but it seems it's rare these days. Movies are all about the special effects now and no one cares about plot or character development. Music has too much crap also- not enough musicians, and that goes for singers too.
I think the arts add value to our lives. I just wish art was what was produced in this day and age.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:10:07am |
re: #88 Desert Dog
Yes, but the "broom operator" and flagman will be alternating their 15 minute breaks with lunch all day long
Does that come with paternal/maternal leave time and COLAs?
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:10:21am |
re: #85 Desert Dog
Mrs Desert Dog gets US and People and I am lucky if I know 3 or 4 of these nitwit "celebrities"......no thanks
I'll stick to my online reading and the few decent magazines that arrive here: Sports Illustrated and the Weekly Standard
Don't get me started on People magazine. Fucking hypocrites.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:10:24am |
re: #85 Desert Dog
Mrs Desert Dog gets US and People and I am lucky if I know 3 or 4 of these nitwit "celebrities"......no thanks
I'll stick to my online reading and the few decent magazines that arrive here: Sports Illustrated and the Weekly Standard
I'm the same way.
When someone mentioned to me that Natasha Richardson had died, I had no idea who they were talking about at first. Finally, when they said, "Did you ever see the remake of Parent Trap with Lindsday Lohan? The woman who played her mother was Natasha Richardson!" I finally had an inkling of who she was.
Until they talked about her death on the news, I had no idea of her relationship to Liam Neeson, or the Redgrave family, for that matter.
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TheMatrix31 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:10:59am |
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:12:00am |
re: #86 SanFranciscoZionist
been here for 8 yrs, still cant get used to it
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:14:04am |
re: #26 zombie
The B-52s are a real band. So of course I know about them. But the only song of theirs I really ever liked was "52 Girls" (which may have been their very first single).
The Spice Girls, on the other hand, are entirely artificial.
I was in England when they were at the height of their popularity. There was some London imam who announced that his first act, once he was in charge of an Islamic Britain would be to have the Spice Girls arrested. His popularity among middle-aged Anglican Tories skyrocketed.
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:14:42am |
This fellow comes to confession. "Father, he said, forgive me for I have sinned."
The priest asked, "What did you do, my son?"
"I lusted," the fellow replied.
"Tell me about it," the priest said.
The fellow then related his story. "Father, I am a deliveryman for UPS. Yesterday I was making a delivery in the affluent section of the city. When I rang the bell, the door opened and there stood the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She had long blonde hair and eyes like emeralds. She was dressed in a sheer dressing gown that showed her perfect figure. And, she asked if I would like to come in."
"And, what did you do, my son?" asked the priest.
"Father, I did not go in the house but I lusted. Oh, how I lusted," replied the man.
"Your sin has been forgiven," replied the priest. "You will get your reward in heaven, my son."
"A reward, father? What do you think my reward might be?"
the fellow asked.
The priest replied, "I think a bale of hay would be appropriate, you jackass."
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:14:45am |
re: #74 blackpajamas
Did you hear about the new invention that has Cal Trans workers terrified?
Scientists finally invented a broom-handle that stands up by itself.
a few years back, they installed one of those stupid signals at the bottom of the ramp i used every morning. if i didn't get on the road on time, i'd have to stop and look at an empty freeway until it deigned to turn green for me.
one morning, while i was sitting there waiting for permission to do the obvious, a Caltrans truck blew by me in the diamond lane, with only a driver. his lights weren't on, so i caught up with him and got all his info, plates, etc. we stayed together until he took another freeway at the interchange in Pasadena.
i got to w*rk and looked up the contact info for Caltrans HQ and turned his ass in. a week or 3 later i got an e-mail that they had talked to him about it. a few weeks after that, dumb ass did it again, and i sent a scathing reply back to HQ. in a few days they wrote back and said that he would lose his truck privileges if he was cited again.
i never saw him on the freeway again: he must have changed his timing and his route entirely.
/yeah, i can be a dick. %-)
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:14:46am |
re: #94 trigger girlie
been here for 8 yrs, still cant get used to it
Been here for a month and a half, and I can't get used to it.
//
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:15:23am |
re: #30 trigger girlie
I think that someone that wears a homosexual cat outfit on a TV show should be banned from...entering anything
What would a heterosexual cat outfit look like?
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:15:29am |
re: #97 SanFranciscoZionist
I was in England when they were at the height of their popularity. There was some London imam who announced that his first act, once he was in charge of an Islamic Britain would be to have the Spice Girls arrested. His popularity among middle-aged Anglican Tories skyrocketed.
Gay and lesbians for radical Imans!
///
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:16:27am |
re: #88 Desert Dog
What do broom operators, orange flag technicians, and waste management artisans have in common?
They all work green-job banker's hours.
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:17:39am |
re: #75 BatGuano
Good post. I remember that.Schwarzkopf unwittingly assisted by allowing Iraq to retain helicopters which they armed and used against them.
Too many people knew that not removing Saddam during Gulf War I was a huge mistake and that we'd end up going back at some point.
It was foolish too allow him to remain alive.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:18:35am |
re: #99 redc1c4
a few years back, they installed one of those stupid signals at the bottom of the ramp i used every morning. if i didn't get on the road on time, i'd have to stop and look at an empty freeway until it deigned to turn green for me.
one morning, while i was sitting there waiting for permission to do the obvious, a Caltrans truck blew by me in the diamond lane, with only a driver. his lights weren't on, so i caught up with him and got all his info, plates, etc. we stayed together until he took another freeway at the interchange in Pasadena.
i got to w*rk and looked up the contact info for Caltrans HQ and turned his ass in. a week or 3 later i got an e-mail that they had talked to him about it. a few weeks after that, dumb ass did it again, and i sent a scathing reply back to HQ. in a few days they wrote back and said that he would lose his truck privileges if he was cited again.
i never saw him on the freeway again: he must have changed his timing and his route entirely.
/yeah, i can be a dick. %-)
Hey come on, he was in charge of the donuts that day!
How can you sit around under the shade tree without donuts!?!?!?!
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Alberta Oil Peon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:19:46am |
Last "cultural" event I went to, was to see this guy play with his electric band, the Electrofires. And in the same club as the video, incidentally. Tim is an awesome blues guitar player, and a pretty fair songwriter, too.
I'd much rather hear a good band like this in an intimate setting like a club than go to a stadium show and see some superstar pop group from the nosebleed seats.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:19:59am |
re: #104 Van Helsing
Too many people knew that not removing Saddam during Gulf War I was a huge mistake and that we'd end up going back at some point.
It was foolish too allow him to remain alive.
It was a mistake to not continue the chase to Baghdad. Recognizing that is accepted now but can't change history as you know.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:20:13am |
WHAT TO CONSIDER when buying a “green” car.
(h/t blogfather)
Things I'd consider before buying a "green" car:
• Spending eternity eating shards of broken glass
• Getting a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
• Slamming my fingers in a door again and again and again and again and again
• Shoving an ice pick under a toenail or two
• Jumping naked onto a huge pile of thumbtacks
• Sticking my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
• Diving into a pool filled with double-edged razor blades
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:20:16am |
There was an old man whose family could no longer afford to take care of him. So the family decided that a nusring for the aged would be appropriate. Of course the old man rejected the idea, but no sooner he was convinced that it was the right thing to do. On his first day at the home, he spent most of his time laying in bed reflecting on life, feeling lonely. A while later, an orderly stopped by to seee how the old man's first day was going. "How you doing today?", she said to the old man, "First day I see". The Old man replied with a nod. In no time the two began talking up a storm. As the conversation began to drag on, the orderly was eyeing the room filled with fresh flowers, cards and balloons from friends and relatives. She noticed a bowl full of peanuts sitting on top of the table next to the bed, and help herself to a handful. As the two continued to converse with eac h other, the orderly kept eating more helpings of the peanuts. She look at her watch and noticed that nearly 2 hours had passed and said, "My goodness, the time has gone by quickly. I have to tend to other people here too." "That's okay.", said the old man, "I feel so much better being able to talk to someone." Looking into the bowl the orderly said, "I feel awful! I ate almost all of your peanuts!" The old man responded, "That's okay. Ever since I got these false teeth, all I could do was suck the chocolate off of them anyhow."
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:20:16am |
re: #101 SanFranciscoZionist
less flamboyant perhaps?
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:20:38am |
re: #94 trigger girlie
been here for 8 yrs, still cant get used to it
Oh well. Just holler if you can't find the rest of us, we'll send a car back for you.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:20:53am |
re: #104 Van Helsing
Too many people knew that not removing Saddam during Gulf War I was a huge mistake and that we'd end up going back at some point.
It was foolish too allow him to remain alive.
I knew leaving saddam in power was only begging for trouble, and I was still a democrat at that time.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:21:33am |
re: #89 Sharmuta
Heh, the last time I paid money to see a movie at the theater was for LotR II, and before that I can't remember.
Music has too much crap also- not enough musicians, and that goes for singers too.
I fully agree, though that may not mean much coming from a committed metal-head.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:21:40am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:21:40am |
Cat Prayer Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray this cushy life to keep.
I pray for toys that look like mice,
And sofa cushions, soft and nice.
I pray for gourmet kitty snacks,
And someone nice to scratch my back,
For windowsills all warm and bright,
For shadows to explore at night.
I pray I'll always stay real cool
And keep the secret feline rule
To NEVER tell a human that
The world is really ruled by CATS!
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:22:06am |
I've sure gotten old. I've had two By-pass surgeries. A hip replacement, new knees. Fought prostate cancer, and diabetes. I'm half blind, can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine, take 40 different medications that make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts. Have bouts with dementia. Have poor circulation, hardly feel my hands and feet anymore. Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92. Have lost all my friends. But.....Thank God, I still have my Florida driver's license!
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:23:09am |
re: #108 gmsc
WHAT TO CONSIDER when buying a “green” car.
(h/t blogfather)Things I'd consider before buying a "green" car:
• Spending eternity eating shards of broken glass
• Getting a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
• Slamming my fingers in a door again and again and again and again and again
• Shoving an ice pick under a toenail or two
• Jumping naked onto a huge pile of thumbtacks
• Sticking my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
• Diving into a pool filled with double-edged razor blades
How about 'forest', or 'hunter'?
//
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:23:34am |
re: #111 SanFranciscoZionist
thanks, preferably a black Mercedes with tinted windows and a personal chaffeur
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:23:38am |
re: #106 Alberta Oil Peon
Last "cultural" event I went to, was to see this guy play with his electric band, the Electrofires. And in the same club as the video, incidentally. Tim is an awesome blues guitar player, and a pretty fair songwriter, too.
I'd much rather hear a good band like this in an intimate setting like a club than go to a stadium show and see some superstar pop group from the nosebleed seats.
I took my three sons, 18, 16 and 8 to see AC/DC this last December. We had seats in the last upper section in the last row. The spot light guys were lower than we were. But, it was a great show. My kids loved it.
But, I have agree with you. I love to go to local pubs and clubs and see someone play. It's nice to see the Superstars, but it's just as nice watching some local band or musician perform as well.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:24:07am |
re: #113 Slumbering Behemoth
Last movie I paid to see was Harry Potter.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:24:39am |
Youtube sucks. About the only thing you can hear or see is some stupid home video.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:24:43am |
re: #104 Van Helsing
I couldn't believe it. Our military stopped, gazing at baghdad. I Thought we were going to complete it. And then nothing. Now we are finishing what should have been done 18 years ago.
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:25:08am |
An elderly lady did her shopping and, upon returning to her car, found four males in the act of leaving with her car. She dropped her shopping bags and drew her handgun, proceeding to scream at them at the top of her voice, "I have a gun and I know how to use it! Get out of the car, scumbags !" The four men didn't wait for a second invitation but got out and ran like mad, whereupon the lady, somewhat shaken, proceeded to load her shopping bags into the back of the car and get into the driver's seat. She was so shaken that she could not get her key into the ignition. She tried and tried, and then it dawned on her why. A few minutes later she found her own car parked four or five spaces farther down. She loaded her bags into her car and drove to the police station. The sergeant to whom she told the story nearly tore himself in two with laughter and pointed to the other end of the counter, where four pale white males were reporting a car jacking by a mad elderly woman described as white, less than 5' tall, glasses, and curly white hair carrying a large handgun.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:25:11am |
re: #108 gmsc
WHAT TO CONSIDER when buying a “green” car.
(h/t blogfather)Things I'd consider before buying a "green" car:
• Spending eternity eating shards of broken glass
• Getting a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
• Slamming my fingers in a door again and again and again and again and again
• Shoving an ice pick under a toenail or two
• Jumping naked onto a huge pile of thumbtacks
• Sticking my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
• Diving into a pool filled with double-edged razor blades
The real question is would you be putting a "COEXIST" or a "Make Love, Not War" bumper sticker on the back?
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:25:20am |
re: #99 redc1c4
[I] looked up the contact info for Caltrans HQ and turned his ass in. a week or 3 later i got an e-mail that they had talked to him about it. a few weeks after that, dumb ass did it again, and i sent a scathing reply back to HQ. in a few days they wrote back and said that he would lose his truck privileges if he was cited again.
Just remember, all those explorers like Columbus and Ponce de Leon weren't looking for the new world -- they were looking for a place to dump their cheap union labor.
If you figure out the golden formula for getting a union worker fired in California, you will be a great man, of whom the natives in the hills will sing songs to their children for generations.
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:25:57am |
re: #115 Dustyvet
ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for that! I needed some humor. Was starting to get drunk and morose cuz I haven't heard from the eldest son (somewhere in Iraq) for 3 weeks.
Cats are great fun. made me think of a couple of books - How to tell your cat from a meatloaf and I hate cats.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:26:20am |
re: #108 gmsc
WHAT TO CONSIDER when buying a “green” car.
(h/t blogfather)Things I'd consider before buying a "green" car:
• Spending eternity eating shards of broken glass
• Getting a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
• Slamming my fingers in a door again and again and again and again and again
• Shoving an ice pick under a toenail or two
• Jumping naked onto a huge pile of thumbtacks
• Sticking my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
• Diving into a pool filled with double-edged razor blades
Uhm, all in all, I think I would prefer sticking my nostrils together with Krazy Glue.
//
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:26:20am |
re: #30 trigger girlie
I think that someone that wears a homosexual cat outfit on a TV show should be banned from...entering anything
What? You don't like Danny John-Jules in Red Dwarf?
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:26:54am |
An elderly couple were driving across the country. The woman was driving when she got pulled over by the highway patrol. The officer said, "Ma'am did you know you were speeding?" The woman, hard of hearing, turned to her husband and asked, "What did he say?" The old man yelled, "He says you were speeding!" The patrolman said, "May I see your license?" The woman turned to her husband once again and asked, "What did he say?" The old man yelled, "He wants to see your license!" The woman gave the officer her license. The patrolman then said, "I see you are from Arkansas. I spent some time there once and went on a blind date with the ugliest woman I've ever seen." The woman turned to her husband and asked, "What did he say?" The old man yells, "He said he thinks he knows you!".
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Alberta Oil Peon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:27:41am |
re: #108 gmsc
WHAT TO CONSIDER when buying a “green” car.
(h/t blogfather)Things I'd consider before buying a "green" car:
• Spending eternity eating shards of broken glass
• Getting a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
• Slamming my fingers in a door again and again and again and again and again
• Shoving an ice pick under a toenail or two
• Jumping naked onto a huge pile of thumbtacks
• Sticking my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
• Diving into a pool filled with double-edged razor blades
My very first car was a green car; a dark green '51 Studebaker Champion. You could fit 6 adults in it, comfortably, and it got 25 miles per gallon. And it cost me a whole 25 bucks. Wish I had never sold it.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:27:54am |
re: #118 SanFranciscoZionist
How about 'forest', or 'hunter'?
//
Oh, I'd have no problem hunting "green" cars, or hunting any other liberal thing, for that matter.
;)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:29:17am |
re: #122 Gus 802
Youtube sucks. About the only thing you can hear or see is some stupid home video.
You have to search for the good stuff.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:29:26am |
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:29:42am |
re: #126 blackpajamas
Just remember, all those explorers like Columbus and Ponce de Leon weren't looking for the new world -- they were looking for a place to dump their cheap union labor.
If you figure out the golden formula for getting a union worker fired in California, you will be a great man, of whom the natives in the hills will sing songs to their children for generations.
Columbus and his contemporaries were looking for a way to cut out the middleman (Muslims) when dealing with China and other Asian lands. They wanted the spices and finished goods the Orient offered without the Caliphate surcharge attached.
Ponce was looking for what everyone is still looking for, the fountain of youth.
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:30:10am |
re: #115 Dustyvet
Cat Prayer Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray this cushy life to keep.
I pray for toys that look like mice,
And sofa cushions, soft and nice.
I pray for gourmet kitty snacks,
And someone nice to scratch my back,
For windowsills all warm and bright,
For shadows to explore at night.
I pray I'll always stay real cool
And keep the secret feline rule
To NEVER tell a human that
The world is really ruled by CATS!
Enter Sandbox (Petallica)
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:30:12am |
re: #129 gmsc
I can't get youtube at work :(
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:30:28am |
re: #134 Dustyvet
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
...and then there was Lot's wife, a real pillar to the community.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:30:36am |
re: #121 Sharmuta
Which one?
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:30:44am |
re: #133 Slumbering Behemoth
You have to search for the good stuff.
That's still a home video. Actually, the audio is OK.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:30:59am |
re: #137 trigger girlie
I can't get youtube at work :(
Actually, in this case, you might consider yourself lucky.
;)
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:31:41am |
Evolution isn't why I came here; anti-jihadism was why I came here. And I was here for quite a while before I ventured out of the Lounge and began regularly posting on the threads (they have a Lounge reputation of an elephnat graveyard; go there, and you die). But when I began to see that same kind of theocratically imperialist and totalitarian mindset that I saw theologically justifying the beheading of infidels and the stoning of gays and women abroad being employed in my own beloved country to rationalize the violation of our revered Constitution in the service of morphing our public school system into sectarian religious madrassas for the purpose of indoctrinating enough of our youth into their theocratic dogma so they would vote for our constitutional democracy's abrogation and the replacement of it with a Christian fundamentalist version of Iran and Saudi Arabia (one person, one vote, one last time), I decided to also make the battle against that atrocity mine.
If we become another religion's version of our enemy in order to defeat them, we lose, even if we win.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:32:01am |
re: #137 trigger girlie
My #113 link wasn't YouTube. Does it work, at work?
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:32:04am |
re: #135 Desert Dog
Columbus and his contemporaries were looking for a way to cut out the middleman (Muslims) when dealing with China and other Asian lands. They wanted the spices and finished goods the Orient offered without the Caliphate surcharge attached.
Ponce was looking for what everyone is still looking for, the fountain of youth.
I've given up on the fountain of youth -- I'll settle for the fountain of middle age.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:32:41am |
re: #134 Dustyvet
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
Unfortunately, light beer came next.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:32:52am |
re: #144 blackpajamas
I've given up on the fountain of youth -- I'll settle for the fountain of middle age.
Youth is wasted on the young
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:33:23am |
re: #144 blackpajamas
I've given up on the fountain of youth -- I'll settle for the fountain of middle age.
We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:33:44am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:34:49am |
Dear mum,
I am writing you this note to say that I haven't been honest to you lately.
I have a boyfriend, his name is Dragon and he lives in a trailer in the woods he wears biker clothes and deals Ecstasy.
I am moving in with him and I am four months pregnant.
His friends will come over all the time so I can get a little frisky with them.
We will make a living out of growing drugs and selling them to Dragons friends as are both already drug addicts, we will live a life of drugs beer and all the sex.
Wish us luck
Katie
P.S.
I am at the neighbors house, all of the above was a lie I just wanted to let you know there are worse things in life than my report card which is in the top drawer.
Xx
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:35:30am |
re: #123 BatGuano
I wonder if the decision was influenced by the footage on 'The highway of death'.
The destruction of the instruments of war is never pretty. It looks particularly bad when your foe is completely outclassed.
My view is that it sucks to lose.
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:36:24am |
A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store and he does a double take. He recognizes that the saucer is extremely old and very valuable, so he walks casually into the store and offers to buy the cat for two dollars. The storeowner replies "I'm sorry, but the cat isn't for sale. The collector says, "Please, I need a hungry cat around the house to catch mice. I'll pay you twenty dollars for that cat." And the owner says "Sold," and hands over the cat. The collector continues, "Hey, for the twenty bucks I wonder if you could throw in that old saucer. The cat's used to it and it'll save me from having to get a dish." And the owner says, "Sorry buddy, but that's my lucky saucer. So far this week I've sold sixty-eight cats."
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:37:22am |
re: #142 Salamantis
But when I began to see that same kind of theocratically imperialist and totalitarian mindset that I saw theologically justifying the beheading of infidels and the stoning of gays and women abroad being employed in my own beloved country to rationalize the violation of our revered Constitution in the service of morphing our public school system into sectarian religious madrassas for the purpose of indoctrinating enough of our youth into their theocratic dogma so they would vote for our constitutional democracy's abrogation and the replacement of it with a Christian fundamentalist version of Iran and Saudi Arabia (one person, one vote, one last time), I decided to also make the battle against that atrocity mine.
With all due respect, this was tough for me at this time. I think I need some Evan Williams.
//
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:37:31am |
re: #150 Dustyvet
Dear mum,
I am writing you this note to say that I haven't been honest to you lately.
I have a boyfriend, his name is Dragon and he lives in a trailer in the woods he wears biker clothes and deals Ecstasy.
I am moving in with him and I am four months pregnant.
His friends will come over all the time so I can get a little frisky with them.
We will make a living out of growing drugs and selling them to Dragons friends as are both already drug addicts, we will live a life of drugs beer and all the sex.
Wish us luck
KatieP.S.
I am at the neighbors house, all of the above was a lie I just wanted to let you know there are worse things in life than my report card which is in the top drawer.Xx
A coworker of mine used to take away her son's computer games when his grades slipped. She knew he was getting the message when she came home one day to find his game system neatly boxed up on the dining room table, his report card on top of that, and a note saying that he was at his friend's house, getting the biology notes.
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:37:40am |
A policeman came upon a super-salesman about to jump from a bridge and yelled, "Wait, Fellow! Please don't do that !" The salesman said, "Why not ?" and proceeded to expound on his views on the shaky economy, declining family life and Obama's politics. Shortly thereafter, they both jumped.
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Neutral President Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:38:23am |
re: #108 gmsc
I did the math on buying a Prius vs buying a cheaper Toyota P.o.S. that still gets pretty good gas mileage. (I did this because another friend of a friend is considering buying a Prius without critical analysis of it.)
At current gas prices, the price difference + fuel cost per year between a Prius and a Yaris would result in a cost break-even time period of 37 years and if gas goes back up to $5-ish per gallon it will still be 16 years. How many average Joes keep a car for 16-37 years?
There are similar results with the Matrix and the Corolla. Math education needs a stimulus package I'm afraid.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:38:47am |
re: #140 Gus 802
That's still a home video. Actually, the audio is OK.
Whatever, dude! That's freakin' Iommi rocking that with make-shift finger tips! What the hell, man?!?
///
Yeah the video ain't all that great, but the audio is pretty damn good.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:39:14am |
For some reason, I am reminded of this story from Mark Twain:
A woman went to her doctor for some complaint or other and the doctor says,
"You must give up smoking, drinking and keeping late hours."
She says, "But Doctor, I don't do any of those things!"
He says, " That's the problem! You're neglecting your habits. You're a sinking ship with nothing to throw overboard!"
I guess that is why I attend to my habits.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:40:38am |
re: #158 Slumbering Behemoth
Whatever, dude! That's freakin' Iommi rocking that with make-shift finger tips! What the hell, man?!?
///Yeah the video ain't all that great, but the audio is pretty damn good.
Iommi INVENTED the Hard Rock/Metal guitar .....his riffs influenced every guitarist that has come since.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:40:46am |
re: #149 ploome hineni
It's the Tao of Head Bang. You wouldn't understand.
/
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:41:01am |
re: #142 Salamantis
I hope that doesn't happen. In many ways I don't see it happening within what some would call traditional American values. If I had a fear it would be that we would allow other theocratic institutions subjugate the rule of law and allowed to do so because of fear of racism or bias. America is in danger because in essence we are running things like we see in large corporate offices.
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Neutral President Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:42:02am |
re: #125 Desert Dog
The real question is would you be putting a "COEXIST" or a "Make Love, Not War" bumper sticker on the back?
I thought those were standard features on Hybrids.
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:42:36am |
re: #146, 147
Maybe we should invent the fountain-pen of youth -- its ink never dries.
It's too bad that Obozo and his mortgage re-writing crew already have decided that ink on legal contracts in America is never really dr...
* Ack! *
* Feel ... some kind of tingle ... running up leg ... must resist! *
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:42:39am |
These are real comments made by teachers on their student report cards.
1. Since my last report, your child has hit rock bottom and has started to dig.
2. I would not allow this student to breed.
3. Your child has delusions of adequacy.
4. Your child is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
5. Your son sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve them.
6. The student has a "full six-pack" but lacks the plastic thing to hold it all together.
7. This child has been working with glue too much.
8. When your daughter's IQ reaches 50, she should sell.
9. The gates are down, the lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
10. If this student were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
11. It's impossible to believe the sperm that created this child beat out 1,000,000 others.
12. The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:42:59am |
re: #113 Slumbering Behemoth
Heh, the last time I paid money to see a movie at the theater was for LotR II, and before that I can't remember.
I fully agree, though that may not mean much coming from a committed metal-head.
re: #121 Sharmuta
Last movie I paid to see was Harry Potter.
Nerd fight!
;)
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:44:22am |
re: #161 Desert Dog
Iommi INVENTED the Hard Rock/Metal guitar .....his riffs influenced every guitarist that has come since.
And this is how good it has gotten since (long clip, but hella worth it):
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:44:24am |
re: #151 Sharmuta
Order of the Phoenix.
I think I've seen three of the Potter movies. It's been quite some time, though. Never read any of the books.
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:44:33am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:45:01am |
Ol' Fred had been a religious man who was in the hospital, near death. The family called their preacher to stand with them. As the preacher stood next to the bed, Ol' Fred's condition appeared to deteriorate and he motioned frantically for something to write on.
The pastor lovingly handed him a pen and a piece of paper, and Ol' Fred used his last bit of energy to scribble a note, then he died. The preacher thought it best not to look at the note at that time, so he placed it in his jacket pocket.
At the funeral, as he was finishing the message, he realised that he was wearing the same jacket that he was wearing when Ol' Fred died.
He said, "You know, Ol' Fred handed me a note just before he died. I haven't looked at it, but knowing Fred, I'm sure there's a word of inspiration there for us all."
He opened the note, and read out loud, "Hey, you're standing on my oxygen tube?"
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Neutral President Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:45:03am |
re: #151 Sharmuta
Order of the Phoenix.
Last movie I paid to see was Goblet of Fire. I had planned on seeing OotP when it was in production, but after the complete abomination that Book 7 was... It completely turned me off of the whole deal.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:46:02am |
re: #158 Slumbering Behemoth
Whatever, dude! That's freakin' Iommi rocking that with make-shift finger tips! What the hell, man?!?
///Yeah the video ain't all that great, but the audio is pretty damn good.
I meant like this.
38 Special
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:46:14am |
re: #157 ArchangelMichael
I did the math on buying a Prius vs buying a cheaper Toyota P.o.S. that still gets pretty good gas mileage. (I did this because another friend of a friend is considering buying a Prius without critical analysis of it.)
At current gas prices, the price difference + fuel cost per year between a Prius and a Yaris would result in a cost break-even time period of 37 years and if gas goes back up to $5-ish per gallon it will still be 16 years. How many average Joes keep a car for 16-37 years?
There are similar results with the Matrix and the Corolla. Math education needs a stimulus package I'm afraid.
And I imagine that's without factoring in the higher-than-average repair cost for the Prius.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:46:38am |
re: #163 Gus 802
I hope that doesn't happen. In many ways I don't see it happening within what some would call traditional American values. If I had a fear it would be that we would allow other theocratic institutions subjugate the rule of law and allowed to do so because of fear of racism or bias. America is in danger because in essence we are running things like we see in large corporate offices.
Contemporary creationist activists have as much of a skewed conception of what the good old days actually were as contemporary racial bigots do.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:47:15am |
re: #152 Van Helsing
Nah, I think it was decided before that. Americans have not been allowed to totally defeat an enemy since WW2.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:47:20am |
re: #170 Slumbering Behemoth
I think I've seen three of the Potter movies. It's been quite some time, though. Never read any of the books.
You have to take the time to read the books – there are whole levels of detail that the movies completely miss. The books are easily better than the movies.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:47:55am |
re: #161 Desert Dog
Iommi was the Riff King. Matt Pike , IMMO, is coming close.
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:47:56am |
Good Early Morning Lizards. Does anyone know if this is for REAL?
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:48:21am |
re: #171 trigger girlie
have you ever watched MST3K? mystery science theater 3000
or Strangers With Candy?
MST3K? I quote it all the time! I liked it more when Joel was on, but some of the Mike episodes aren't too bad.
I watched Strangers With Candy once. That was enough.
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Neutral President Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:49:10am |
re: #175 gmsc
And I imagine that's without factoring in the higher-than-average repair cost for the Prius.
Nope, no repair costs just gas costs assuming 15k miles per year and the cost of buying the car in the first place. It's also assuming paying for the cars in cash rather than getting a loan. So I guess the 37 years is just a theoretical floor time.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:49:16am |
re: #168 ploome hineni
..this kind of thinking is self defeating and fallacious
we must defeat themwhatever it takes..after that, we can lament the lossof our illusions about life and power and begin to confront the ugly reality of
the cost of freedom
I agree. We are not the ones that are intolerant. We want peace, we crave peace, we just want the world to function. It is the radical elements within Islam which are bringing on the chaos and pushing the fight.
They should be careful about what they ask for. Although the USA loves peace, we can bring the war on like no other power has ever seen. If something happens in the USA on a large scale, i.e. nuclear or biological, we will respond 100x worse.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:49:59am |
re: #170 Slumbering Behemoth
I think I've seen three of the Potter movies. It's been quite some time, though. Never read any of the books.
Ya gotta read the books! Just like LOTR, the Potter movies are good, but there is no comparison to the books.
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Killian Bundy Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:50:13am |
Minn. Senate Race Is In Judges' Hands Now
Nearly five months after 2.9 million voters cast ballots, the Senate race between Al Franken (D) and Norm Coleman (R) is in the hands of a three-judge panel here after first one candidate and then the other declared victory.
Until the judges rule, perhaps within days, Franken officially has a 225-vote lead, the U.S. Senate has 99 members and Minnesota has a reality show that feels as though it's already in reruns.
. . .
A number of Republican leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), said Coleman should go to federal court if he loses. That route appears time-consuming -- a potential GOP advantage -- but also expensive.
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:50:14am |
re: #175 gmsc
And I imagine that's without factoring in the higher-than-average repair cost for the Prius.
I own a gas station here in S Africa. I have had many conversations with Prius owners. When we get around to the real cost of owning the car they all look at me as if I am mad. It for the environment they say.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:50:38am |
re: #167 gmsc
I'm down, but only if there is jello, and... no cameras, and... the rest of you get out of the room!
///
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:52:02am |
re: #181 Pietr
Good Early Morning Lizards. Does anyone know if this is for REAL?
/Yes, the phrase BO Brown Shirts is for real.
Long ago, when sailing ships ruled the waves, a captain and his crew were in danger of being boarded by a pirate ship. As the crew became frantic, the captain bellowed to his First Mate, "Bring me my red shirt!". The First Mate quickly retrieved the captain's red shirt, which the captain put on and lead the crew to battle the pirate boarding party. Although some casualties occurred among the crew, the pirates were repelled.
Later that day, the lookout screamed that there were two pirate vessels sending boarding parties. The crew cowered in fear, but the captain calm as ever bellowed, "Bring me my red shirt!". The battle was on, and once again the Captain and his crew repelled both boarding parties, although this time more casualties occurred.
Weary from the battles, the men sat around on deck that night recounting the day's occurrences when an ensign looked to the Captain and asked, "Sir, why did you call for your red shirt before the battle?". The Captain, giving the ensign a look that only a captain can give, exhorted, "If I am wounded in battle, the red shirt does not show the wound and thus, you men will continue to fight unafraid". The men sat in silence marveling at the courage of such a man.
As dawn came the next morning, the lookout screamed that there were pirate ships, 10 of them, all with boarding parties on their way. The men became silent and looked to their Captain for his usual command. The Captain, calm as ever, bellowed, "Bring me my brown pants!"
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:52:21am |
re: #170 Slumbering Behemoth
I think I've seen three of the Potter movies. It's been quite some time, though. Never read any of the books.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:52:50am |
re: #189 Slumbering Behemoth
I'm down, but only if there is jello, and... no cameras, and... the rest of you get out of the room!
///
What, no cool whip....;)
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blackpajamas Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:53:06am |
____ Beggardomization ____
20090321
Vehemently denouncing the guerrilla menace of Ho Chi Lim(baugh) and the Republi-Cong, the Obozo Administration announced the escalation of continued carpet-bagger strikes against the capitalist strongholds of Wahl-Street, Bonus-Pei, and 401-Khe-Sahn.
"We shall lead them from free market mortgage bondage and return their holdings to the rightful social stewardship of the People's Republic of Beggardom!"
Vowing to stimulize the captive populace into submission at all cost, employing the nation's top social scientists to re-invent age-old weapons, including the use capital de-foliants (previously banned under the Glass Steagal convention), they stammered:
"We'll drop so much Agent Mortgage on those bastards their great grandkids will need to be Special Olympians to fumble our hand-outs!"
Sparing no blunt weapon from the Liberal tool shed's arsenal of dim-o cracy,
the People's Treasurer, Loan Doc Dim, described the latest "incentive system" to launch from the Commanding Heights of the financial-recession-fighter-jet superiority school, Top Dumb:
"Armed with the new corporate bonus-buster, the F-105 Plunderthief, proved itself with flying colors at the battle of Ran Dom Tax, where it single handedly reduced Constitutional Law to it's constituent components."
According to opposition forces, the administration's "Operation Rolling Plunder" consists of four primary objectives:
(1) Bolster the sagging morale of the regime in their dis-appointed state of discount cabinetry, via inflation fueled retail therapy.
(2) Convince captains of industry to cease foolish support for determining their own employees pay.
(3) Destroy efficient market clearing mechanisms, the industrial base, and interdict the flow of intellectual capital and raw material into the sphere of public education on the topics of finance, economy, capital, thrift, and the destructive capacity of debt.
(4) Reduce civil liberty to nothing:
"If the Pelosi bill is actually enacted into law (which I still think is doubtful) and upheld by the courts, there is no limit to the arbitrary power of Congress. In that event, we have no property rights and there is no Constitution--no equal protection clause, no due process clause, no impairment of contracts clause, no bill of attainder/ex post facto law clause. Instead, we are living in a majoritarian tyranny"
To which, in a giggly response, the TOTUS himself responded:
"Let them eat bananas!"
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:53:57am |
re: #168 ploome hineni
..this kind of thinking is self defeating and fallacious
we must defeat themwhatever it takes..after that, we can lament the lossof our illusions about life and power and begin to confront the ugly reality of
the cost of freedom
It is a drastic mistake to relinquish one's freedom now in the hope of regaining it later.
Freedom is the major difference between us and them. The moment we lose our freedoms, we become the image of our enemy, the very thing against which we fight. That is why our freedoms must be maintained, before any other consideration.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:54:11am |
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:54:14am |
re: #177 Salamantis
Contemporary creationist activists have as much of a skewed conception of what the good old days actually were as contemporary racial bigots do.
There was a time when that would concern my own personal life.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:55:40am |
re: #174 Gus 802
Say, here is a "remaster" of the vid I linked before:
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots (Remaster)
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:56:36am |
re: #170 Slumbering Behemoth
I think I've seen three of the Potter movies. It's been quite some time, though. Never read any of the books.
They are a lot of fun, and quick reads, despite their length.
What I will miss about the Harry Potter series is the way I used to buy the new one, and then see other people on Muni for a few weeks, reading it. A remarkable range of ages, genders, races, odd subculture-related outfits, etc. All of us nodding approvingly at one another because you too were reading the new Harry Potter.
The first two movies were very good, and Goblet of Fire was not bad at all. Prisoner of Azkaban is my favorite of the books, but wasn't so successful a movie.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:56:36am |
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:56:57am |
re: #191 gmsc
That was supposed to be a link to a WorldNetDaily article....did I just step in something? I was wanting to know if the Bill and all mentioned were real, but apparently this is a Banned at LGF site? Anyone?
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:57:22am |
this bit of news should warm everyone's hearts: The GIVE Act.....
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:57:24am |
re: #198 Slumbering Behemoth
Say, here is a "remaster" of the vid I linked before:
Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots (Remaster)
Much better audio and video.
Ozzy! :)
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:58:08am |
re: #201 Pietr
That was supposed to be a link to a WorldNetDaily article....did I just step in something? I was wanting to know if the Bill and all mentioned were real, but apparently this is a Banned at LGF site? Anyone?
Dude- I wouldn't trust anything world nut daily had to say. I mean ANYTHING.
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:58:15am |
re: #201 Pietr
That was supposed to be a link to a WorldNetDaily article....did I just step in something? I was wanting to know if the Bill and all mentioned were real, but apparently this is a Banned at LGF site? Anyone?
try my 202.... it might be the same thing.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:58:39am |
Oh- and world nut daily is so bad, Charles has banned them from the spinoff links.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:58:40am |
re: #200 Sharmuta
I could have hurt someone when they moved the release back by MONTHS!
The movies are a bit different than the books, but my family loves them all. We prefer the books, but we'll see the movies for certain.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 12:59:08am |
re: #190 Sharmuta
Naturally. I am a member of the Illuminaughty, after all.
/wait, forget I said that.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:00:49am |
re: #184 Desert Dog
I agree. We are not the ones that are intolerant. We want peace, we crave peace, we just want the world to function. It is the radical elements within Islam which are bringing on the chaos and pushing the fight.
They should be careful about what they ask for. Although the USA loves peace, we can bring the war on like no other power has ever seen. If something happens in the USA on a large scale, i.e. nuclear or biological, we will respond 100x worse.
I am not saying that we shouldn't emloy any military methods available and necessary in order to win, just like we did in WW II. We should. We must. If it becomes existentially necessary for us to slaughter billions in order to prevent constitutional democracy from vanishing from the face of this planet, we must do it. And live with the terrible burden of our decision. But not UNTIL it becomes existentially necessary, and we are far from that point.
However, we cannot sacrifice our own freedoms while we do so, IF we have to do so, because they are what distinguishes us from them.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:01:46am |
re: #208 Slumbering Behemoth
Naturally. I am a member of the Illuminaughty, after all.
/wait, forget I said that.
Sir, the chemicals are loaded onto the aircraft.
Good luck on todays chemtrail run... er... flight to Raleigh that is.
///
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:01:54am |
re: #192 Desert Dog
I like the "Mandy moment" in that trailer!
Hermione: "She's only interested in you because she thinks you're the chosen one."
Harry: "But I am the chosen one!"
*WHACK*
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:02:20am |
re: #209 Salamantis
Salamantis you are drinking fast enough. You still are making far to much sense :)
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:03:06am |
re: #207 Desert Dog
The movies are a bit different than the books, but my family loves them all. We prefer the books, but we'll see the movies for certain.
I prefer the books over the movies, but I do like the films.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:03:33am |
re: #208 Slumbering Behemoth
Naturally. I am a member of the Illuminaughty, after all.
/wait, forget I said that.
Because the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are true,
And I am a member in standing,
Our goal is to milk all the money from you,
It's world domination we're planning.
Oh no, there I go, I've let the cat right out of the bag,
Will you please keep my secret I pray,
Cause I'm undercover as a singer-songwriter
Right here at the sidewalk cafe.
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Truck Monkey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:04:10am |
re: #157 ArchangelMichael
I did the math on buying a Prius vs buying a cheaper Toyota P.o.S. that still gets pretty good gas mileage. (I did this because another friend of a friend is considering buying a Prius without critical analysis of it.)
At current gas prices, the price difference + fuel cost per year between a Prius and a Yaris would result in a cost break-even time period of 37 years and if gas goes back up to $5-ish per gallon it will still be 16 years. How many average Joes keep a car for 16-37 years?
There are similar results with the Matrix and the Corolla. Math education needs a stimulus package I'm afraid.
I am afraid that you are missing the point. People that purchase a Prius do not do so for style or, necessarily, for saving themselves money on fuel. They do so because, they are told, they will be saving the planet. What price do libtards put on that?
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:04:31am |
re: #204 Sharmuta
Dude- I wouldn't trust anything world nut daily had to say. I mean ANYTHING.
I must concur. This is not to say that they might not publish something true, but it would be hard to spot such.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:04:48am |
re: #193 Dustyvet
I would defer that to ladies choice.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:04:56am |
re: #213 Sharmuta
I prefer the books over the movies, but I do like the films.
Even though the films are less detailed in the books, I do like that the films stay true to the books, and do hint at things that won't be explored until later movies (first movie: Harry talks to a snake, which isn't mentioned again in that movie, and doesn't become important until the middle of Chamber of Secrets.)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:05:21am |
An elderly couple were sitting on the couch watching a televangelist on the tv. The televangalist said, " Put your hand on what needs healing and the Lord will heal it"
The Old woman put her hand on her rheumatic shoulder and noticed her husband had his hand on his crotch.
She said." He said he was going to heal the sick not raise the dead!"
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:05:50am |
re: #212 Erik The Red
Salamantis you areen't drinking fast enough. You still are making far to much sense :)
What can I say? I'm an ex-sailor...;~) And about to make my sixth drink. My fifth of Evan Williams is damn near half gone.
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:06:04am |
re: #205 redc1c4
try my 202.... it might be the same thing.
I believe you're right, red-but I can never get thru all the legalese BS. The Email I got about the article, and the article, both said this would be mandantory for all children-IE a Brown Shirt draft as in 1937 Germany? That's why I came to the board, for some understanding of it, from those I trust....
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:06:57am |
re: #209 Salamantis
I am not saying that we shouldn't emloy any military methods available and necessary in order to win, just like we did in WW II. We should. We must. If it becomes existentially necessary for us to slaughter billions in order to prevent constitutional democracy from vanishing from the face of this planet, we must do it. And live with the terrible burden of our decision. But not UNTIL it becomes existentially necessary, and we are far from that point.
However, we cannot sacrifice our own freedoms while we do so, IF we have to do so, because they are what distinguishes us from them.
We temporarily sacrificed our freedoms during the Civil War, World War I and World War II. I am not saying that we should go around destroying countries willie nillie. What I am saying is that we are quite capable of bringing hell down on anyone that tries it on us. There are people in this world, right now, plotting and planning ways to strike the USA with a terrible blow. How will we respond when or if it happens? I hope we do not worry about the bad guys motivations or their feelings. We should worry about survival. If it comes down to the USA dying or the countries that incubate these terrible men and allow them to exist in their cultures, there is no other choice in my mind.
Let's hope that never happens....
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:07:07am |
re: #209 Salamantis
If we would bring back assimilation into cultures that would be a good thing. Not that we have a serious problem in the United States with that, yet. The warning should be in what we are seeing happen with the UK, Netherlands, Sweden and other countries. At this time we are far away from being that way but there are those in this country that would like to see us become "more like Europe."
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:07:38am |
re: #213 Sharmuta
I prefer the books over the movies, but I do like the films.
I love that apple trailer site....HD all the way.....the clearest videos.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:07:39am |
re: #215 Truck Monkey
I am afraid that you are missing the point. People that purchase a Prius do not do so for style or, necessarily, for saving themselves money on fuel. They do so because, they are told, they will be saving the planet. What price do libtards put on that?
Plus, they cause all that smug pollution!
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:08:46am |
re: #212 Erik The Red
Salamantis you aren't drinking fast enough. You still are making far to much sense :)
I think I make a lot of sense on the EVO threads, too...;~)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:08:57am |
re: #186 Sharmuta
I read the first two, lost interest thereafter.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:09:07am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:09:20am |
re: #225 gmsc
I regret that I have but one upding to give to that episode/post.
I could bring some of my sock puppets out of retirement, but that would kinda tip my hand....
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:09:53am |
re: #226 Salamantis
I think I make a lot of sense on the EVO threads, too...;~)
Between you and Sharmuta it is a absolute blast to see you two tear the trolls a new one.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:10:42am |
re: #230 BatGuano
I love 38 special. Thanks.
You're welcome. They remind me of South Jersey and the late 70s and early 80s.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:11:19am |
re: #201 Pietr
That was supposed to be a link to a WorldNetDaily article....did I just step in something? I was wanting to know if the Bill and all mentioned were real, but apparently this is a Banned at LGF site? Anyone?
I read the WND article, and I've searched the bill in question and the word "uniform" comes up once and in the context of changing a pre-existing word in the Civil Code from "clothing" to "uniform". This isn't new- it's a change of wording in the already existing law.
WND is once again fanning the flames of paranoia.
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:11:38am |
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
Not enough, apparently-I still can't get the broom more than 1 foot off the ground......:>((
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:12:12am |
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
re: #192 Desert Dog
re: #199 SanFranciscoZionist
So tell me, just how many satanic rituals have you learned from those accursed books, and just what kind of manipulative witchcraft skills have these desecrated tomes imparted upon you sinners!
////
Well, me and the Mrs and our three sons go out to a field every full moon and sacrifice a goat in the middle of a pentagram to honor our Dark Lord. But, besides that, we have nothing else to report.
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Erik The Red Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:12:50am |
Outta here for now Lizards. See you later. Great rugby on today so I may just lurk until this evening. By then I may have to enforce the IRON FIST RULE though. :)
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:13:01am |
re: #233 Sharmuta
Thanks, Sharmuta-this is why I come here to ask.....:>))
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:13:54am |
re: #221 Pietr
I believe you're right, red-but I can never get thru all the legalese BS. The Email I got about the article, and the article, both said this would be mandantory for all children-IE a Brown Shirt draft as in 1937 Germany? That's why I came to the board, for some understanding of it, from those I trust....
sounds like hyperbole to me..... i didn't realize it, but that's a private web page: your best bet is to take the bill name & number to the Congressional web page and deal with the verbiage. that's safer than trusting some internet whack j*b with an ax to grind, or some Moby setting Conservatives up to look dumb.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:14:16am |
Time for me to go to bed too...Mrs Desert Dog is flicking the lights on me again....play nice
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:14:41am |
re: #221 Pietr
OMG! Tell your email friend to get a grip and to stop reading WND! red's link provided a summary of the bill as well as the full text- there is nothing there that suggests we're on the brink of a Hitler Youth Group being formed.
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Desert Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:14:42am |
re: #236 Erik The Red
Outta here for now Lizards. See you later. Great rugby on today so I may just lurk until this evening. By then I may have to enforce the IRON FIST RULE though. :)
See ya Erik!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:15:56am |
I had family visiting over the last 72 hours....most of them of the moonbat persuasion. Did I miss anything noteworthy?
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:16:36am |
re: #238 redc1c4
Yeah, that's been pretty much debunked at this point. It's just volunteerism type gubernment programs. A lot of NGOs.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:16:43am |
re: #222 Desert Dog
We temporarily sacrificed our freedoms during the Civil War, World War I and World War II. I am not saying that we should go around destroying countries willie nillie. What I am saying is that we are quite capable of bringing hell down on anyone that tries it on us. There are people in this world, right now, plotting and planning ways to strike the USA with a terrible blow. How will we respond when or if it happens? I hope we do not worry about the bad guys motivations or their feelings. We should worry about survival. If it comes down to the USA dying or the countries that incubate these terrible men and allow them to exist in their cultures, there is no other choice in my mind.
Let's hope that never happens....
Constitutional democracies are notoriously slow to anger, and typically absorb grievous wounds before the majority of the populace is stirred to substantially retaliate, but once drastic damage is done to us beyond ratonal denial, and our people get marrow mad, it's Katie Bar the Door, because the will of the nation rallies powerfully and without significant exception behind inflicting the carnage necessary to completely extinguish the common enemy.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:17:12am |
re: #239 Desert Dog
Time for me to go to bed too...Mrs Desert Dog is flicking the lights on me again....play nice
G'Night, Desert Dog.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:17:33am |
re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth
re: #192 Desert Dog
re: #199 SanFranciscoZionist
So tell me, just how many satanic rituals have you learned from those accursed books, and just what kind of manipulative witchcraft skills have these desecrated tomes imparted upon you sinners!
////
Wouldn't YOU like to know? (Let's just say that if I turn you into a newt, you won't be getting better.)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:17:45am |
re: #236 Erik The Red
G'night, Iron Fist rule is there for a purpose. :)
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:17:51am |
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:19:55am |
re: #234 Pietr
Not enough, apparently-I still can't get the broom more than 1 foot off the ground......:>((
You really need to apply the virgin's blood the night before and let it soak in properly. You can't just go rubbing it on right before take-off.
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Neo Con since 9-11 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:20:42am |
re: #246 SanFranciscoZionist
Wouldn't YOU like to know? (Let's just say that if I turn you into a newt, you won't be getting better.)
Could you turn me into Newt? He seems to be the smartest man in the Republican party right now.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:21:09am |
Stand steady and upright! Maintain all intelligence as it comes in off the internet on a need to know basis and keep a steady eye on the objective! Sometimes what you read might be false intelligence.
Military March - Bridge Over The River Kwai
Right ready major!
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:22:04am |
re: #234 Pietr
Not enough, apparently-I still can't get the broom more than 1 foot off the ground......:>((
My brother was going to a Christian school when all that "Satanic Harry Potter" crap was going on. One of his teachers said "If I thought that fiction could teach me how to fly, I would buy the the whole darn series".
Not all Christians are nutters, not that I need to tell the Lizards that.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:22:32am |
Cripes. My 200 ml of Jack is gone and I drank it slow.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:23:18am |
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:24:13am |
re: #252 Slumbering Behemoth
My brother was going to a Christian school when all that "Satanic Harry Potter" crap was going on. One of his teachers said "If I thought that fiction could teach me how to fly, I would buy the the whole darn series".
Not all Christians are nutters, not that I need to tell the Lizards that.
I remember that- my initial thought was Wait....aren't these the same people who said video games were singlehandedly responsible for the Columbine massacre? Would they rather the Harry Potter readers indulge in ultra-violent video games?
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:24:19am |
re: #253 Gus 802
Cripes. My 200 ml of Jack is gone and I drank it slow.
NOT. SLOW. ENOUGH!
/(or get a bigger bottle).
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:24:28am |
re: #250 Neo Con since 9-11
Could you turn me into Newt? He seems to be the smartest man in the Republican party right now.
Dammit Jim, I'm a witch, not a miracle worker.
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:24:46am |
love many, trust few and always cut the cards.
and, if you're a lizard, fact check everything. %-)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:24:54am |
re: #251 Gus 802
When I was a child there was Malt-o-meal commercial set to this tune.
"Winners warm up with Malt-O-Meal"...
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:25:17am |
WOW! Just reading a couple other articles at world nut daily... These folks have carved a niche for themselves in hyping paranoia and and fanning the flames of ignorance. They are the right wing's Weekly World News, except at least people know better than to believe the WWN.
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:25:24am |
re: #253 Gus 802
Cripes. My 200 ml of Jack is gone and I drank it slow.
well, how long did you think a shot glass was going to last?
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:25:34am |
re: #246 SanFranciscoZionist
Wouldn't YOU like to know? (Let's just say that if I turn you into a newt, you won't be getting better.)
re: #250 Neo Con since 9-11
Could you turn me into Newt? He seems to be the smartest man in the Republican party right now.
Careful . . . there's a big difference between A newt and THE Newt!
===========
(A woman who had gone through my line earlier that day came up to me.)
Customer: “Give me back my g****** keys!”
Me: “Excuse me?”
Customer: “My car keys! Give them back!”
Me: “I wasn’t aware that I had them. Ma’am, are your keys lost? I can get someone to help you find them if you want.”
Customer: “No! I know it was you who took them! I put them up on this little tray– *points to the tray next to the debit machine* “–and when I got home I couldn’t find them anywhere!”
Me: “When…when you got home? Ma’am, did you drive home?”
Customer: “Well, duh! What kind of idiot are you? Do you think I’m poor?” *gives a disgusted look*
Me: “No…how did you get back here, ma’am?”
Customer: “I drove here, of course!”
Me: “With your car keys?”
Customer: “Yes! Now give them back!”
Me: “Ma’am…if I had taken your car keys, would you have been able to drive home and back here?”
Customer: “No! But I know you took them!”
(I then notice the keys shining in her hand.)
Me: “Open your hand please, ma’am?”
Customer: *upon seeing her keys in her hand* “Oh, you little witch! What did you do, ‘magic’ them back into my hand?! What kind of store lets witches work for them?!”
Me: “Ma’am, I’m not a witch…but you are a complete stereotypical blonde.”
Customer: “Oh, how dare you! I demand to speak to your manager.”
(My manager, who is a Wiccan and has been listening to this exchange for the past few minutes, comes up behind me, playing with her five-pointed star necklace.)
Manager: *in a mystical voice* “Well, hello there, earth-walker. What can I do for you?”
Customer: *sputters curse words and quickly storms out*
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:25:37am |
re: #252 Slumbering Behemoth
My brother was going to a Christian school when all that "Satanic Harry Potter" crap was going on. One of his teachers said "If I thought that fiction could teach me how to fly, I would buy the the whole darn series".
Not all Christians are nutters, not that I need to tell the Lizards that.
Actully, the medieval pagans did have a flying ointment, but they didn't rub it on their brooms; they rubbed it on their own skin, which absorbed the hallucinogenic compounds from the psychedelic herbs they used to make it, and sent them on inner 'flights'.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:25:51am |
re: #257 Unakite
NOT. SLOW. ENOUGH!
/(or get a bigger bottle).
True enough. But you know what happens if you get a bigger bottle. You end up needing 3 days to recover.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:26:40am |
re: #262 redc1c4
well, how long did you think a shot glass was going to last?
Damn that's a BIG SHOT.
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:27:12am |
re: #261 Sharmuta
You expect me to believe that Bat Boy didn't help capture Saddam?
And there's no river of beer?
Crushed... my soul... crushed.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:27:25am |
Here's a fun blog idea- World Nut Daily Watch. I wonder what percentage of their articles could be found misleading to fraudulent. I'd guess over 90%
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:27:49am |
well, i managed to sneak out and snipe a rat, so the evening is a success, even if i did miss about 4 hours of studying for the stupid algebra test tomorrow afternoon. guess i'll have to make it up in the morning, so maybe i should go tend to the fruitcup and call it a night, eh?
hasta, y'all.....
L8r!
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:28:09am |
re: #253 Gus 802
I have yet to tap into my Bacardi tonight....
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:28:14am |
re: #261 Sharmuta
WOW! Just reading a couple other articles at world nut daily... These folks have carved a niche for themselves in hyping paranoia and and fanning the flames of ignorance. They are the right wing's Weekly World News, except at least people know better than to believe the WWN.
BTW, back issues of Weekly World News, going all the way back to 1981, are now available for free online!
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:29:21am |
re: #255 Gus 802
Alec Guinness before he was Obi Wan Kanobi
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redc1c4 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:29:24am |
re: #265 Gus 802
True enough. But you know what happens if you get a bigger bottle. You end up needing 3 days to recover.
never had that problem........
/which could explain lots of things %-)
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:29:35am |
re: #270 Fenway_Nation
I have yet to tap into my Bacardi tonight....
Make sure you have a contingency plan before you do. That's some mean stuff.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:29:36am |
re: #267 Van Helsing
You expect me to believe that Bat Boy didn't help capture Saddam?
And there's no river of beer?
Crushed... my soul... crushed.
If it's any consolation, there was a river of molasses once in America's history...
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:30:03am |
re: #251 Gus 802
Stand steady and upright! Maintain all intelligence as it comes in off the internet on a need to know basis and keep a steady eye on the objective! Sometimes what you read might be false intelligence.
Military March - Bridge Over The River KwaiRight ready major!
1st Battalion Coldstream Guards Corps of Drums
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:31:52am |
re: #252 Slumbering Behemoth
My brother was going to a Christian school when all that "Satanic Harry Potter" crap was going on. One of his teachers said "If I thought that fiction could teach me how to fly, I would buy the the whole darn series".
Not all Christians are nutters, not that I need to tell the Lizards that.
There are parents who object to the Junie B. Jones books because the little girl gets words wrong, and sometimes disobeys her parents and teachers. I think there are just some folks who find fiction deeply scary.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:31:58am |
re: #275 Gus 802
Make sure you have a contingency plan before you do. That's some mean stuff.
Yet I keep coming back for more abuse.
One of the few things I get all 'brand-name-snob' over.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:32:25am |
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:32:35am |
re: #272 ploome hineni
no, your premise is faulty
and actually rediculous..you exhibit muddy, confused and extreme thinking characterized by the very young or very drunk
You don't defeat Nazis by becoming Nazis. You don't defeat Commies by bcoming Commies. You don't defeat Islamofascists by becoming Islamofascists.
And oh yeah; fuck you very much, you execrable nimrod. I'm 53 years old, and know how to handle my booze. If you ever get some brains, it would be interesting to see how you handle them.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:33:19am |
re: #256 Fenway_Nation
I remember that- my initial thought was Wait....aren't these the same people who said video games were singlehandedly responsible for the Columbine massacre? Would they rather the Harry Potter readers indulge in ultra-violent video games?
My grandmother was convinced that Dungeons and Dragons would make you lose your mind, and wanted me to promise not to play.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:33:26am |
re: #275 Gus 802
Make sure you have a contingency plan before you do. That's some mean stuff.
Contingency is tomorrow (today) is Saturday.
//
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:34:14am |
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:34:18am |
re: #263 gmsc
Ah, so you also work in the customer service industry. Sometimes the stars align.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:34:19am |
re: #284 Unakite
Contingency is tomorrow (today) is Saturday.
//
I was just thinking about that. Thank God tomorrow's Saturday.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:34:54am |
re: #285 Fenway_Nation
I fear that some bad puns are up a-head.
Not from me. I'm just going to amber away from any puns.
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:35:04am |
re: #276 gmsc
That's why I love this place so much.
Make a smart ass comment and still end up learning something.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:35:12am |
re: #278 SanFranciscoZionist
There are parents who object to the Junie B. Jones books because the little girl gets words wrong, and sometimes disobeys her parents and teachers. I think there are just some folks who find fiction deeply scary.
Nancy Drew probably gives girls bad ideas too, huh? Like showing independence and having critical thinking skills....?
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:35:36am |
re: #286 BatGuano
Ah, so you also work in the customer service industry. Sometimes the stars align.
No...that's a story from NotAlwaysRight.com, a site about customer horror stories.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:36:56am |
re: #281 Unakite
Against my better judgment I up dinged you, bastard!
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:37:04am |
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:37:33am |
re: #261 Sharmuta
WOW! Just reading a couple other articles at world nut daily... These folks have carved a niche for themselves in hyping paranoia and and fanning the flames of ignorance. They are the right wing's Weekly World News, except at least people know better than to believe the WWN.
Within the last couple of days, someone linked this here at LGF. If you spend a few seconds clicking the links, you can also find the same here.
///You know what else, Big Brother will soon monitor our pickle relish consumption, right down to the "micro reli".
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:38:14am |
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:38:14am |
re: #288 Gus 802
Not from me. I'm just going to amber away from any puns.
Ah, you'll be bock for more.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:38:32am |
re: #279 Gus 802
That's some pretty strong drum work.
1000 pipers at Hunter Mountain 2007
SCOTLAND THE BRAVE!
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:38:50am |
re: #264 Salamantis
Actully, the medieval pagans did have a flying ointment, but they didn't rub it on their brooms; they rubbed it on their own skin, which absorbed the hallucinogenic compounds from the psychedelic herbs they used to make it, and sent them on inner 'flights'.
IIRC, the ointment was heavy on Belladonna, and other absorbed ingredients-and today's Pharmacologists say it was an effective hallucigen.....
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:38:52am |
re: #298 Unakite
Ah, you'll be bock for more.
I'm brewing a plan but it will have to wait for the afternoon.
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TheMatrix31 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:38:58am |
There's nothing like a good pun to soothe an ale-ing heart.
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:39:42am |
re: #264 Salamantis
GIMMIE! Behemoth want recipe!
///
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:39:43am |
re: #293 BatGuano
Against my better judgment I up dinged you, bastard!
Yeah, you just wait. Looks like it already started.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:40:05am |
re: #283 SanFranciscoZionist
My grandmother was convinced that Dungeons and Dragons would make you lose your mind, and wanted me to promise not to play.
I think my brother in law still plays Dungeons and Dragons- while my sister tends to collect Hello Kitty merchandise.
Did I mention that these are two professionals a few years my senior?
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:40:15am |
re: #282 Salamantis
You don't defeat Nazis by becoming Nazis. You don't defeat Commies by bcoming Commies. You don't defeat Islamofascists by becoming Islamofascists.
Hear, hear.
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freetoken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:41:57am |
re: #233 Sharmuta
WND is once again fanning the flames of paranoia.
How else could their authors make money selling books?
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:42:12am |
re: #290 ploome hineni
we did not defeat the nazis by becoming nazis, but during ww2, many 'freedoms' were suspended
Why put freedoms in quotes? Do you not believe that they were actual freedoms? Freedoms worth preserving, protecting, defending, and retaining? The selfsame freedoms that our enemies, be they Nazis, Comunists, or Islamofascists, have traditionally denied to their own citizenry, and the respecting of which has ever and always distinguished us from them?
And freedoms for most people in wartime America were NOT suspended during the past century (as a young nation in less civilized times, we did other unsavory things before, too, such as, for instance, slavery), only for people who hailed from the countries we were fighting against (Japanese internment, for example). People could still say what they thought; they just didn't have much of an audience if they thought that the Nazis were good people.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:43:50am |
re: #302 Gus 802
I'm brewing a plan but it will have to wait for the afternoon.
At yeast you have a plan.
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:44:13am |
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:44:19am |
re: #307 Fenway_Nation
I think my brother in law still plays Dungeons and Dragons- while my sister tends to collect Hello Kitty merchandise.
Did I mention that these are two professionals a few years my senior?
My husband and many of my close friends are gamers. I have limited tolerance--I will play a round of Munchkin, but a D&D game is just beyond my ability to sit still and pretend to be interested.
I know grown women who collect Barbies, men who have whole walls of Star Wars junk...
Me, I'm a perfume buff, and my husband is very patient when he has to pick 1-milliter sample vials out of his figurine-painting stuff.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:45:14am |
re: #305 Slumbering Behemoth
GIMMIE! Behemoth want recipe!
///
Sorry; it's a religious secret, involving the rendered fat of babes for maximum cutaneous absorption...
/JUST KIDDING!
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freetoken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:45:53am |
re: #313 Van Helsing
Of all the strange but real (unlike that gun) Hello Kitty items that have ever been made, the classic has to be the Hello Kitty vibrator....
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:46:21am |
re: #315 Salamantis
Sorry; it's a religious secret, involving the rendered fat of babes for maximum cutaneous absorption...
/JUST KIDDING!
Could I get a little high if I just mixed the stuff in Vaseline?
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:46:49am |
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:47:00am |
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:47:04am |
re: #316 freetoken
Of all the strange but real (unlike that gun) Hello Kitty items that have ever been made, the classic has to be the Hello Kitty vibrator....
I'm still waiting to see the Hello Kitty female condom, and the Hello Kitty dental dam...;~)
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:47:25am |
re: #315 Salamantis
Sorry; it's a religious secret, involving the rendered fat of babes for maximum cutaneous absorption...
/JUST KIDDING!
Sounds like the...was starting on a middle-east reference, but never mind. It was in bad taste.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:47:54am |
re: #318 Dustyvet
Hunter Mountain, Hunter, New York
Thought so. The only Hunter Mountain I know is in upstate New York. I love the bag pipes.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:48:28am |
re: #309 BatGuano
Bookmarked it.
I did have one friend whose story I should send to that site.
He works at what he calls an auto supply store, and the rest of us call a junk yard. Still, people do come there for parts.
About 2 years ago, a guy came in asking for a specific replacement part for his car. My friend asked what kind of car they guy had, and the customer replied, "A Pontiac Ghoulie".
My friend, who can describe just about every make of car there is down to individual variations in each year, had never heard of this model. He replied, "Sir, I don't believe there's any such thing as a 'Pontiac Ghoulie'."
The customer insisted that there was! He mentioned he'd been driving it for 6 years, and that it most definitely existed. When my friend asked him if he could prove it, the customer replied, "No problem! I drove it here today!"
They went outside to where the car was parked, and my friend had to bite his lip to keep from laughing.
He said to the gentleman, "Sir, that's a Pontiac 6000 LE!"
(The guy had been driving this car for 6 years, and never figured this out?)
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:49:40am |
re: #322 Gus 802
Thought so. The only Hunter Mountain I know is in upstate New York. I love the bag pipes.
Same here, I've always wanted to learn to play the pipes...Guess I do it in my next life...:)
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:50:37am |
re: #316 freetoken
Of all the strange but real (unlike that gun) Hello Kitty items that have ever been made, the classic has to be the Hello Kitty vibrator....
What-no linkie-SADIST!
/white smoke.....
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:51:09am |
Didn't realize that WND had a bookstore.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:51:16am |
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:51:36am |
re: #317 SanFranciscoZionist
Could I get a little high if I just mixed the stuff in Vaseline?
Butter, lard, or vegetable oil would do just fine. Vaseline, I dunno. But since it is always an educated guesstimate how potent the herbal ingredients are, since such things widely variate, the window between an effective and a lethal dosage has always been a mite ginchy, so it's best to start at the low end, and only gradually augment...;~)
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:52:10am |
re: #324 Dustyvet
Same here, I've always wanted to learn to play the pipes...Guess I do it in my next life...:)
Yes indeed. I used to have a neighbor that played it in the distance. It was more than twice but it was so beautiful to hear.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:52:11am |
re: #323 gmsc
I work in customer service. I hate people!They be stupid.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:53:30am |
re: #323 gmsc
6000 LE to Ghoulie?
So, how good were they at reading stop signs and yield signs?
//Do not enter!... Donut In here.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:54:12am |
re: #47 Gus 802
I uh, uh, uh. That's a "band?" Looks like an audition tape.
That video is from Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday celebration at Royal Albert Hall.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:54:35am |
re: #329 Gus 802
Yes indeed. I used to have a neighbor that played it in the distance. It was more than twice but it was so beautiful to hear.
I used to have a friend who piped, and we would have him over for dinner, once a mouth. After dinner he would pipe, and our cat would rub his legs with her body and meowal for him to stop.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:54:47am |
re: #316 freetoken
Of all the strange but real (unlike that gun) Hello Kitty items that have ever been made, the classic has to be the Hello Kitty vibrator....
Thing is, if there was a Hello Kitty gun, it would sell like hotcakes.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:55:32am |
re: #328 Salamantis
Butter, lard, or vegetable oil would do just fine. Vaseline, I dunno. But since it is always an educated guesstimate how potent the herbal ingredients are, since such things widely variate, the window between an effective and a lethal dosage has always been a mite ginchy, so it's best to start at the low end, and only gradually augment...;~)
Yeah. You know, maybe I'll stick with Chardonnay.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:55:45am |
re: #331 Gus 802
6000 LE to Ghoulie?
So, how good were they at reading stop signs and yield signs?
//Do not enter!... Donut In here.
He's probably still amazed at all the branches of the "Nosmo King" company he sees wherever he goes.
//"Nosmo King" = "No smoking"
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:56:07am |
I think my husband is going to bed. This indicates that I am up too late.
Night all.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:56:17am |
re: #333 Dustyvet
I used to have a friend who piped, and we would have him over for dinner, once a mouth. After dinner he would pipe, and our cat would rub his legs with her body and meowal for him to stop.
Cats get funny about certain noises. It almost bring out the best in them sometimes. Especially when the plead for you to stop. Or swat at a hair clipper or anything like that.
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:56:33am |
re: #328 Salamantis
With Belladona and Valerian as ingredients, 1 would want to start slow...(SB, that's 2 ingredients, keep watching this space).......:>))
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:58:06am |
...and now, before we eat our fruitcup, a little table-side entertainment:
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:58:16am |
re: #338 Gus 802
Cats get funny about certain noises. It almost bring out the best in them sometimes. Especially when the plead for you to stop. Or swat at a hair clipper or anything like that.
My cat Tiger is I discovered the other day, is scared witless by bananas...
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 1:58:53am |
re: #342 Dustyvet
My cat Tiger is I discovered the other day, is scared witless by bananas...
Just like a static banana?
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:00:25am |
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------------->
Help yourselves!
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:01:01am |
I had a cat that was scared of watermelons.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:01:07am |
re: #344 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------------->
Help yourselves!
Fruitcup appears, as if by magic! Yum!
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:01:38am |
re: #343 Gus 802
Just like a static banana?
no idea as soon as he either sees a banana, or smells one...he's gone...
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Alberta Oil Peon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:01:55am |
re: #329 Gus 802
Yes indeed. I used to have a neighbor that played it in the distance. It was more than twice but it was so beautiful to hear.
I had a friend who was a piper. I liked to hear him play solo.
So low, and so far away, I couldn't hear it.
Just joking, actually. It was really fun to hear Tom play his pipes in a small room. He was a good player, probably still is. I've been out of touch for far too long.
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:02:53am |
re: #349 Dustyvet
no idea as soon as he either sees a banana, or smells one...he's gone...
That's funny. I had a cat that was scared of oranges. I think it was because when I squeezed it next to him the juice freaked him out.
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TheMatrix31 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:03:38am |
re: #344 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------------->
Help yourselves!
Good morning! I'm FINALLY on break, sitting with my computer, smoking some nergileh, and listening to music. Despite the President of my country being an asshole and everything in the world going to shit, I'm enjoying it.
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Alberta Oil Peon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:03:45am |
re: #344 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------------->
Help yourselves!
Yum! Fruitcup!
Thanks, littleoldlady!
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:04:46am |
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freetoken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:04:54am |
re: #325 Pietr
I think I linked it a while back (maybe last year...)
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:05:04am |
For those of you who don't know, I've been an eclectic Pagan for more than 30 years. So yes, I know alla those funky recipes. But due to solemnly sworn secrecy oaths, if I told you about them, I'd have to kill you, by molding a poppet of you and sticking strategically placed needles in it. And if that didn't work, I'd have to tell Guido, my favorite Italian Cajun. And he would be very disappointed. But not in me, but in your failure to expeditiously die. And he and several hundred of his closest voodoo hoodoo friends would make it their mission in life to rectify your rude and unacceptable error. /;~P
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Gus Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:05:46am |
Good night everyone. Time to rest my weary foot bones.
Hasta.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:06:07am |
re: #359 Salamantis
For those of you who don't know, I've been an eclectic Pagan for more than 30 years. So yes, I know alla those funky recipes. But due to solemnly sworn secrecy oaths, if I told you about them, I'd have to kill you, by molding a poppet of you and sticking strategically placed needles in it. And if that didn't work, I'd have to tell Guido, my favorite Italian Cajun. And he would be very disappointed. But not in me, but in your failure to expeditiously die. And he and several hundred of his closest voodoo hoodoo friends would make it their mission in life to rectify your rude and unacceptable error. /;~P
Ummm, can I just get changed into a froggie?
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:06:16am |
re: #351 Gus 802
That's funny. I had a cat that was scared of oranges. I think it was because when I squeezed it next to him the juice freaked him out.
Maybe he thinks the orange is contagious.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:06:47am |
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:07:00am |
Van Helsing! :-)
'Night, Gus! :-)
/were you standing at the computer?
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:07:53am |
re: #361 Gus 802
Good night everyone. Time to rest my weary foot bones.
Hasta.
G'nite! Don't let the foot bones bite!
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devnulled Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:08:25am |
I am very sad that the B-52 chatter died a quiet death because I so wanted to segue into a solid reason to post one of the better YouTube offerings of 'Dance this Mess Around'.
There is something so enticing about a New Wave chick of the early 80's who knew how to be both disinterested *and* agitated.
My father, a very wise man, told me that a great punk show was one that worked you up.. then cooled you down... then worked you up even more.. then cooled you down... then gave it to you both barrels blazing until you could not take it anymore.
That formula is seen a lot in retrospect and perhaps in perfection in one single song by the Dropkick Murphys in 'Barroom Hero".
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TheMatrix31 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:08:38am |
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freetoken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:08:39am |
re: #344 littleoldlady
Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™
Fruitcup is on the buffet ------------------->
Fortunately for us.... you don't hang the fruit from a string and make us climb a pole or jump for it!
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:08:50am |
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Alberta Oil Peon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:08:55am |
re: #356 Gus 802
It's a great instrument.
Another friend of mine had a little black Cocker Spaniel, called Woof. He'd pick Woof up, hold him on his back in the crook of his arm, and grab a hind paw in his fist, and hold his fist to his mouth, while miming blowing into it. Meantimes, he'd squeeze Woof a little, and Woof would howl on cue. You had to see it to believe it. Perfect imitation of a bagpipe player.
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:09:33am |
re: #359 Salamantis
For those of you who don't know, I've been an eclectic Pagan for more than 30 years. So yes, I know alla those funky recipes. But due to solemnly sworn secrecy oaths, if I told you about them, I'd have to kill you, by molding a poppet of you and sticking strategically placed needles in it. And if that didn't work, I'd have to tell Guido, my favorite Italian Cajun. And he would be very disappointed. But not in me, but in your failure to expeditiously die. And he and several hundred of his closest voodoo hoodoo friends would make it their mission in life to rectify your rude and unacceptable error. /;~P
Curious question and not meant to be funny because I know your a Pagan from previous threads, but what is an eclectic Pagan?
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freetoken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:10:41am |
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:10:58am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:11:28am |
re: #373 Alberta Oil Peon
Another friend of mine had a little black Cocker Spaniel, called Woof. He'd pick Woof up, hold him on his back in the crook of his arm, and grab a hind paw in his fist, and hold his fist to his mouth, while miming blowing into it. Meantimes, he'd squeeze Woof a little, and Woof would howl on cue. You had to see it to believe it. Perfect imitation of a bagpipe player.
Police Bagpipe Band on a budget...:)
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freetoken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:15:19am |
re: #381 gmsc
SchoolHouse Rock was a great TV show... better than 99% of the junk on the boob tube, IMO.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:15:25am |
re: #374 Unakite
Curious question and not meant to be funny because I know your a Pagan from previous threads, but what is an eclectic Pagan?
That's a Pagan who is not bound to any particular tradition, but is free by choice to do a personal wheat and chaff, and choose the tenets of his/her personal path from among all the religious and philosophical traditions of the world, according to his/her own conscience and logical judgment, and augment them with his/her own maxims derived from personal life experience.
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:16:53am |
Afew years ago since we are still on the B-52's thing. Judge William Pryor
The 2001 Ordinance regulates comprehensively the operation of adult entertainment businesses in Gwinnett County. Establishments governed by the 2001 Ordinance include those where persons perform either fully or partially nude; where more than ten feet of floor space or five percent of net sales are derived from the sale of adult magazines, books, or movies; and adult movie theaters, minitheaters, video stores, arcades, hotels, and motels. 2001 Ordinance § 86-71. The 2001 Ordinance, in other words, regulates commercial entertainment akin to the "Huggin' and a kissin', dancin' and a lovin', wearin' next to nothing" that the B-52s famously described as occurring in a "funky old shack." The B-52s, Love Shack, on Cosmic Thing (Reprise Records 1989).
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:17:41am |
I am the world that hides
The universal secret of all time
Destruction of the empty spaces
Is my one and only crime
I've lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child that never was conceived
/Ugh, the vox suck, but the band nails it.
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:18:55am |
re: #377 Sharmuta
You make me soil myself! over and over!
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:19:32am |
re: #384 Salamantis
That's fine. As long as you worship trees and have been washed in the blood of the lamb. It's a joke!
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:19:34am |
Iran's supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures
Well, like we didn't see that coming...
/S
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:21:51am |
re: #389 Dustyvet
Iran's supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures
Well, like we didn't see that coming...
/S
Speaking of overtures...:)
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:22:36am |
re: #346 littleoldlady
Thanks for the FruitCup, LoL...and I don't blame your Kitteh...
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:22:40am |
re: #383 freetoken
SchoolHouse Rock was a great TV show... better than 99% of the junk on the boob tube, IMO.
Too true!
I remember I was in 3rd grade when "The Preamble" (below) first aired. For over a decade, my school district had required kids to learn and memorize the preamble to the constitution in 3rd grade, and it always seemed to take forever (according to the teachers who had tried numerous times).
By the time they got around to teaching it to my 3rd grade class, everyone had seen the cartoon at least 10 times.
When my teacher asked if anyone knew the Preamble to the US Constitution, she was startled when every hand in the classroom went up! It was amazing to her, because she didn't even know that Schoolhouse Rock had added this song to its line-up.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:22:56am |
re: #389 Dustyvet
Apparently picking fights with special olympians is more his speed.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:24:03am |
re: #392 Pietr
Thanks for the FruitCup, LoL...and I don't blame your Kitteh...
Hey great movie idea..."The Attack of The Pod Cats"
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:24:36am |
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devnulled Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:24:51am |
re: #385 BatGuano
operation of adult entertainment businesses in Gwinnett County.
Since I was married in 1998, I have seen three boobs other than those of my wife and all three of them were in Georgia.
Cafe Risque.
(I was so curious.. but not curious enough to find out what went on behind those little curtained rooms off to the side)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:25:13am |
Littleoldlady, how do you think Obama is doing?
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:27:01am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:27:02am |
re: #392 Pietr
Thanks for the FruitCup, LoL...and I don't blame your Kitteh...
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Unakite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:27:42am |
re: #384 Salamantis
That's a Pagan who is not bound to any particular tradition, but is free by choice to do a personal wheat and chaff, and choose the tenets of his/her personal path from among all the religious and philosophical traditions of the world, according to his/her own conscience and logical judgment, and augment them with his/her own maxims derived from personal life experience.
Thanks for your answer, but it looks like things are starting to get a little testy tonight.
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Fenway_Nation Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:27:51am |
re: #399 devnulled
Since I was married in 1998, I have seen three boobs other than those of my wife and all three of them were in Georgia.
I thought you were gonna say the chick from Total Recall.
Or were you refering to three pairs of boobs?
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:28:19am |
re: #401 littleoldlady
Of course not. I'm not smart enough to pose a trick question.
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:28:31am |
re: #387 trigger girlie
You make me soil myself! over and over!
A friend of mine and several of his irreverant fellow college students were applying to rent this off-campus home to share while they attended university classes from this little old lady, and she asked them about their religions.
One of them said that he was a Taoist, another said he was a Confucian, and my friend told her he was a Zoroastrian.
She smiled brightly and replied, "That's all right, as long as you believe in Jesus!"
They smiled back and said not a word.
She rented it to them, and they stayed there for the duration of their education withoput any hassles from her, and took excellent care of the place.
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:28:59am |
re: #3 Slumbering Behemoth
My arrogant opinion of the latest kerfuffle: Obama used special-needs kids/adults as a joke, and those opposed to Obama are using special-needs kids/adults as a political "gotcha".
It's exploitation, and I don't like any of it.
I get the distinct impression that Die Grosse Null (The Big Zero) has fouled up more times in his first two months in office than the average Republican president fouls up in two terms. What's worse, Die Grosse Null's errors tend to be those which should be easily avoidable.
Back during the 2000 presidential election, Steven Michael Barry, the editor and publisher of THE RESISTER told everyone to vote for Al Gore. The theory behind this "endorsement" was that he expected the Gore Administration to become so incompetent, corrupt, and just plain evil, that it would provoke a Pinochet-style coup d'etat and the commencement of a campaign to shut down the Left in general.
No, I didn't vote for Gore. But I have the horrible feeling that SMB may have made a valid prediction.
This isn't advocacy. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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devnulled Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:29:56am |
re: #403 BatGuano
Were those boobs on one person?
Lol, Total Recall.
No. One girl had a shirt sling over her shoulder, also covering one breast.
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:31:03am |
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:32:40am |
re: #402 Dustyvet
Dustyvet! :-)
Before the Cat Who Was Afraid of Watermelon™ (Ulysses) there was the Cat Who Would Turn Over the Trash Can to Get to the Cantelope Rinds™ (Chinka)
| 415 |
Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:34:15am |
Of all the things I value most in life
I see my memories
And feel their warmth
And know that they are good
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Salamantis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:34:45am |
re: #412 Pietr
Do what you wilt, shall be the whole of the law.......
re: #391 Dustyvet
The Lone Ranger, rides again.............
Love is the Law; Love under Will.
But that is Aleister Crowley's formulation; the Pagan formulation is:
If it harms none, do what thou wilt.
At first glance, this maxim appears to be rather permissive and laissez faire, but when stringently applied, it proves to be a strict discipline, fornbidding one to harm oneself, or others, or the planet that we share.
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:34:46am |
re: #406 BatGuano
Of course not. I'm not smart enough to pose a trick question.
See the column where it says "Strongly Disapprove"? I think I was first in line...
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:38:27am |
re: #383 freetoken
SchoolHouse Rock was a great TV show... better than 99% of the junk on the boob tube, IMO.
I remember once, someone challenged me to name the year that women got the right to vote, and the number of the amendment that gave them that right.
I just sang "Sufferin' until Suffrage" until I got to the part in the lyrics that mentioned "1920" and the "19th amendment"!
Sadly, we now have young women who are so uneducated, they'll sign a petition to end women's suffrage!
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Van Helsing Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:42:22am |
re: #419 gmsc
I remember once, someone challenged me to name the year that women got the right to vote, and the number of the amendment that gave them that right.
I just sang "Sufferin' until Suffrage" until I got to the part in the lyrics that mentioned "1920" and the "19th amendment"!
Sadly, we now have young women who are so uneducated, they'll sign a petition to end women's suffrage!
Banning di-hydrogen monoxide, too!
Sad. I think I'll go dream something now.
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:43:55am |
re: #41 zombie
Well, I might be, but I still hate the Spice Girls, whatever color my miniskirt is.
I don't as much hate them as I just ignore them.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:45:39am |
re: #422 Van Helsing
Banning di-hydrogen monoxide, too!
Sad. I think I'll go dream something now.
Yep! That's still a classic.
G'Nite, Van Helsing.
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Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:47:15am |
re: #416 Salamantis
I stand corrected....but I believe that creed existed before AC. It's been a long time since I really was into researching Earth religions/Paganism, M'am; I was in high school-and I'm 62 this year-I just have a fair memory.....
However, I do believe in certain things of both-and REAL magic is nothing more than applied psychic ability, IMHO. The Mage has Psychic power, and can channel his/her poer, plus the power created by believers-of any sect. He/She just has to be near a place of worship to funnel the power generated-because the power is neutral; only the wielder can make it evil or good....
Maybe that's TMI, for some......but I've seen it happen....can't say more.
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:48:50am |
re: #399 devnulled
all 3 boobs? Was it in Chernobyl? ;p
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trigger girlie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:49:52am |
re: #405 Fenway_Nation
dammit...you beat me to it :(
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 2:51:55am |
re: #48 zombie
I hated Love Shack! The B-52s jumped the shark in 1979.
As for popular culture: You either consume it, or create it. I choose the latter path.
I have to agree with you there.
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:00:17am |
re: #414 littleoldlady
Dustyvet! :-)
Before the Cat Who Was Afraid of Watermelon™ (Ulysses) there was the Cat Who Would Turn Over the Trash Can to Get to the Cantelope Rinds™ (Chinka)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:03:39am |
re: #427 trigger girlie
My wife I and agree conservative women are more attractive than libs. LGF has Afrocity, Capitalist Piglet and you. I hope you don't find this sexist, it is not intended to be.
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:07:08am |
re: #429 Dustyvet
WOW! WOW! WOW!
/if those sheep weren't so talented I'd say that was a flock of Obama voters...
;-)
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BatGuano Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:07:21am |
I am invoking the Iron Fist Rule. Good night all. Good night littleoldlady.
| 433 |
Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:07:42am |
It's 5:06 A. M. in Illinois...and it sure is dark here...:)
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:09:16am |
re: #431 littleoldlady
WOW! WOW! WOW!
/if those sheep weren't so talented I'd say that was a flock of Obama voters...
;-)
Nah, their welsh sheep...:)
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:10:11am |
re: #432 BatGuano
I am invoking the Iron Fist Rule. Good night all. Good night littleoldlady.
G'Nite, BG!
| 437 |
littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:13:52am |
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Dustyvet Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:14:45am |
re: #437 littleoldlady
Of course they are!
/silly me!
//American sheep are much dumber...
Sure are...silly little moon bats...:)
| 439 |
Pietr Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:19:45am |
G'nite BG-in fact, G'nite all....I am crashing.....last word....
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littleoldlady Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:21:31am |
'Night, Pietr! :-)
Nap. Sounds good.
/even laundry is difficult on 2-1/2 hours of sleep...
Good day, ALL!™
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:26:24am |
re: #283 SanFranciscoZionist
My grandmother was convinced that Dungeons and Dragons would make you lose your mind, and wanted me to promise not to play.
I was into Traveller.
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gmsc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:30:21am |
Just caught myself dozing off, so I'm off to bed.
Good night, all!
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Pigtown Water Dog Sat, Mar 21, 2009 3:40:39am |
re: #414 littleoldlady
Hi, lol.
First time I've heard of cat wanting canteloupe other than one cat I served during the '70s--had to have paper-thin slices of canteloupe morning, noon, night, hand-fed by, mostly, my mom. Try getting canteloupe during the winter--we were buying imported casaba melons for this cat, and he was mostly dissin' them.
Oh, yeah, maybe once a week he'd eat tuna. People tuna.
Spoiled much?
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TheMatrix31 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:15:28am |
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shanec99 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:21:30am |
Howdy everyone, so sorry I have not been here in a while, still of the coast of East Africa, south of Somalia, will be home in a few months. This has been one of the most rewarding tours I have done since I have been in the Navy.
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Shinyhead Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:23:45am |
Morning thread!
Decided to pop in for some fruit cup for the first time and say hello.
Doing some early morning website coding and I am waiting for the coffee to kick in (can't code without the coffee!)
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shanec99 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:26:25am |
re: #449 Shinyhead
Careful... caffiene is a vaso-constrictor... in other words it makes the blood vessels smaller... I would hate to have a cup before sex... because of the likelyhood that it could make some very important blood vessels smaller. It would be catostrophic... or to be more dilomatic... limp.
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shanec99 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:29:10am |
no discussion here... oh well, perhaps another day. Good lock my friends.
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Shinyhead Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:30:00am |
re: #450 shanec99
Fortunately for me, when I say coding, I actually mean coding, LOL
I have a show registration page I have to clunk together so teh pron will have to wait.
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Shinyhead Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:30:38am |
So you on board?
Navy has changed much as far as that goes!
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TaeJohnDo Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:35:09am |
Coming soon to a former Republic near you ....
[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]
Baby's right to life appeal fails
Parents battling to keep their seriously ill baby alive have failed to overturn a ruling allowing him to die.
The nine-month-old boy has a rare metabolic disorder and has suffered brain damage and respiratory failure.
The couple had appealed against a judge's ruling on Thursday that it was in the boy's best interests to withdraw his "life sustaining treatment".
They said they were "deeply distressed" by the decision and the life of their "beautiful boy" was worth preserving.
In a statement, they said they knew of only one other child with their son's condition and everyone was in "unknown territory".
"We are and always will be convinced that despite his desperate problems his life is worthwhile and is worth preserving as long as it is possible to do so without causing him undue pain.
"That was the real argument between us and the doctors - they think his life is intolerable and that his disability is such that his life has little purpose; but we, along with some of the nurses, believed that he experiences pleasure and that he has long periods where he was relaxed and pain free.
"Our belief in his humanity and inherent worth justified us taking every step to support him."
They said the plan was now to withdraw his treatment within the next 24 hours and they planned to "enjoy what little time" they had left with their only son.
'Deepest sympathy'
The High Court ruling gives doctors at an unnamed NHS trust powers to turn off the ventilator keeping "baby OT" alive.
Two Court of Appeal judges refused the couple permission to challenge a decision by Mrs Justice Parker made after a 10-day hearing.
Neither the baby, the trust involved in the case, nor the parents - Mr and Mrs T - can be identified.
Lord Justice Ward was told the couple had decided to wait outside the courtroom while the ruling was given as they could not face hearing the decision.
The judge acknowledged the hearing seeking permission to appeal had been conducted "in a brusque, uncaring, unfeeling way on a crude issue of law".
But he said he would like to have addressed them personally and asked their lawyers to pass on the message that it was impossible not to feel the "deepest sympathy for their predicament".
The NHS trust had argued that the boy was suffering intolerable pain as a result of his treatment and condition and had no prospect of recovery.
His parents, however, wanted him to be kept alive as long as possible. They now have no further right to appeal.
Lord Justice Ward and Lord Justice Wilson said they would give the reasons for their decision at a later date.
Story from BBC NEWS:
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:48:03am |
How do you get leverage with one leg!?
SportsCenter...they're about to profile a college wrestler with one leg.
(think he's from Arizona State)
I'll be he could Special Olympics the heck out of BHO!
| 458 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:51:51am |
re: #455 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Anthony Robles. Wow.
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formercorpsman Sat, Mar 21, 2009 4:58:37am |
re: #419 gmsc
You know, it is funny to watch that, but realize it just illustrates a point like no other.
The Man Show had this kind of an episode as well.
It is pathetic, the amount of money we spend on education & this stunt can pulled off so many times.
Guys would be signing their names not knowing as well.
Pretty scary when you really ponder it.
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formercorpsman Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:00:36am |
re: #454 TaeJohnDo
That is terrifying. I have a child that is on life sustaining medication.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:02:06am |
re: #459 formercorpsman
I still have to sing the Preamble...
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smokefire Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:02:40am |
Well what is the big deal re: Special Olympics?
We HAVE elected Obama, and no one cannot say that he is not handicapped.....er special needs,......er retarded,.........challenged,..............intellectually challenged,.....er slow. Oh well here it is a DEMOCRAT. That's the best description.
| 464 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:07:48am |
Barack made a video and sent it to the people of Iran? What does he think that the people will think? Does he think his "rock-star" status translates into other cultures so easily?
| 465 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:08:13am |
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formercorpsman Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:08:57am |
re: #461 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I see it now.
No coffee defense.
I have been messing up on here quite a bit as of late.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:11:28am |
What's the deal...past 8 est... where's the lizards... spring feverin'?
| 469 |
spinmore Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:12:55am |
Today . . .
Milan - San Remo
Will Lance ride to win today (or just to train)?
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formercorpsman Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:18:13am |
I know, I really need some coffee. My brothers and I would watch all of them on Saturday mornings.
I tried getting my kids to watch them online, and they were not interested.
It does not stop me from quizzing them in this stuff. My 10 year old son just last night chimed in my wife's tax conversation with her mother.
He acknowledged me.
| 472 |
lawhawk Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:26:34am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Today marks the 1,000th day that Gilad Shalit has been in the clutches of Hamas in Gaza.
It has been 1,000 days since Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel and attacked an Israeli patrol, killing two soldiers and taking Gilad Shalit back into Gaza.
It has been 1,000 days of hearing the same story from Hamas: they demand the release of hundreds of terrorists before considering the release of Shalit.
It has been 1,000 days of watching the Israeli government under Prime Minister Ehud Barak promise to do all it can to secure Shalit's release and yet come up short when it had the ability to do so during Operation Cast Lead.
| 473 |
lawhawk Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:32:27am |
re: #472 lawhawk
Opps. Should be Ehud Olmert, not Barak. Though there are times when both seem to be playing from the same playbook.
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:37:17am |
Israel has largely disgraced itself with it's abandonment of Shalit. Not to mention how much it hurts their cause when they shout from the rooftops that the rest of the world has to fight back against the Islamists trying to wipe them out, yet they sit on their hands for years while one of their own soldiers is being brutalized literally right down the street.
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VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:51:28am |
re: #475 goddessoftheclassroom
Morning goddess, and all the lizards.
What's for breakfast?
My husband is in the kitchen making, of all things, SPAM! Haven't had that in years. Do you think it's improved?/
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:53:52am |
re: #476 VioletTiger
Morning goddess, and all the lizards.
What's for breakfast?
My husband is in the kitchen making, of all things, SPAM! Haven't had that in years. Do you think it's improved?/
{VioletTiger}
Spam is eternal.
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VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:56:56am |
re: #477 goddessoftheclassroom
{VioletTiger}
Spam is eternal.
It is kind of like that creme in Twinkies. Sure to survive into the next ice age ;)
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:00:00am |
re: #478 VioletTiger
It is kind of like that creme in Twinkies. Sure to survive into the next ice age ;)
Man's having invented creme filling is proof of God's benevolence towards us!
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:04:30am |
re: #479 goddessoftheclassroom
Man's having invented creme filling is proof of God's benevolence towards us!
Or Stan's evil... depending on your POV.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:05:50am |
re: #480 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Or Stan's evil... depending on your POV.
The evil is not in the thing itself but how man misuses it.
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Digital Display Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:06:08am |
Good Morning Lizards..
How is everyone this fine day? I'm watching a really sweet movie this morning.
It's light fare but fun..Elizabethtown with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst..
Why I'm watching a chick flick we'll never know..But really.. When this movie first came out I told everybody back home..That small town in the movie is just like where we live now..You've got to come visit..check it out..
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:08:32am |
re: #476 VioletTiger
SPAM! Haven't had that in years. Do you think it's improved?/
Nope; pig's eyes, lips and butt-holes are still made exactly the same as they've always been.
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SurferDoc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:08:52am |
Good morning, HH, and Lizards one and all. I haven't seen that film yet. I'll check it out.
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:09:33am |
re: #482 HoosierHoops
My wife and I saw it at the theater. I was surprised. Really enjoyed it.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:09:51am |
I've gotta get movin' this morning.... don't wanna... but, gotta.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:10:16am |
re: #485 NonNativeTexan
My wife and I saw it at the theater. I was surprised. Really enjoyed it.
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:10:52am |
re: #482 HoosierHoops
How're your brackets looking?
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:11:03am |
re: #487 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Not that there's anything wrong with that....
How about them Bears...
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:11:08am |
Morning all.
I have had Wake Forest going to the Final Four. Oy vey...
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:12:14am |
re: #481 goddessoftheclassroom
The evil is not in the thing itself but how man misuses it.
That can apply to many things... but the evil in a creme filling calls to us all, unlike the potential evil in, say, Zyklon-B, which requires human evil to do it's thing.
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:13:07am |
re: #490 Lincolntf
Morning all.
I
havehad Wake Forest going to the Final Four. Oy vey...
My son (we'll call him "the expert" for this conversation) had them winning the whole sha-bang!
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:16:02am |
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:16:49am |
Don't even hear crickets this morning.
Bye for now!
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Digital Display Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:17:07am |
re: #488 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
How're your brackets looking?
I'm afraid to jinx it..I've only missed 4 games.But as I blogged last night during the Louisville game.I regret picking them..UConn will just destroy them in the paint..I don't think they are using their length effectively..and a low seed almost..almost ran them out of the gym..I got them and Pitt in the final.
Pitt is tough..they don't fold and they play hard old timey basketball..they work the paint..they run..and they can shoot..
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sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:17:22am |
re: #493 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Looked up sha-bang on dictionary.com. It's shebang.
Huh.
Wouldn;t feminists demand that it be PERSONbag?
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:17:30am |
re: #491 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
That can apply to many things... but the evil in a creme filling calls to us all, unlike the potential evil in, say, Zyklon-B, which requires human evil to do it's thing.
Your point is well taken--those who have given over to evil have tools at their disposal to destroy those around them.
Temptation is Stan's tool. It's not the creme feeling so much as the lack of self-control that makes a person eat too much. I think it's the little things that are more insidious because it take so little volition to accede to our own self-destruction. That is the key difference between sin (to which all mankind is susceptible) and evil (which most of us choose to reject)
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sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:17:57am |
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:17:57am |
I haven't read the morning paper yet. Have I missed anything good?
Like, did Obama sneak up and trip a blind guy or maybe appoint an agoraphobe as his travel secretary in the past 24 hours?
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:18:54am |
re: #493 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I think that's a Cyndi Lauper song...
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sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:20:22am |
re: #500 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Have some coffee TV.
I will. I'm off to the soccer fields for another fun filled day of watching my son and having the "privilage" of taking him and 6 of his teammates to lunch between games
Seven 14-16 year olds hyped up from soccer in a restaurant! Oh, the joy !
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Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:20:24am |
re: #502 Lincolntf
I think that's a Cyndi Lauper song...
That's "SheBop"! Ricky Martin or William Hung for "She Bangs".
Get your crappy pop culture straight.
/
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kcladderman Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:20:45am |
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:21:43am |
Good morning you all! From a cold (36 degrees going up to 59 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte! How is everyone doing this morning?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:21:54am |
re: #504 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
That's "SheBop"! Ricky Martin or William Hung for "She Bangs".
Get your crappy pop culture straight./
Theres something poetic (and pornish) about William HUNG for She BANGS
| 508 |
Fat Bastard Vegetarian Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:22:23am |
re: #506 realwest
We're talking about evil, Cindy Lauper, and lips and ass-holes. Take over for me.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:22:38am |
re: #506 realwest
Good morning you all! From a cold (36 degrees going up to 59 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte! How is everyone doing this morning?
{realwest}
I'm fine, thanks, and hope you are, too!
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sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:22:58am |
re: #508 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
We're talking about evil, Cindy Lauper, and lips and ass-holes. Take over for me.
You guys were talking about me again !?!?!?!
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:23:28am |
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NonNativeTexan Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:23:40am |
re: #503 sattv4u2
I will. I'm off to the soccer fields for another fun filled day of watching my son and having the "privilage" of taking him and 6 of his teammates to lunch between games
Seven 14-16 year olds hyped up from soccer in a restaurant! Oh, the joy !
Need to listen to Darius Rucker's(hootie) new song
"It won't be like this for long"
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Digital Display Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:23:43am |
re: #506 realwest
Good morning you all! From a cold (36 degrees going up to 59 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte! How is everyone doing this morning?
Doing wonderful Real..
How are you feeling?
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sattv4u2 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:23:54am |
re: #510 sattv4u2
You guys were talking about me again !?!?!?!
No ,, but all the rest ,, all rolled inot one!@
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:25:33am |
re: #499 Lincolntf
I haven't read the morning paper yet. Have I missed anything good?
Like, did Obama sneak up and trip a blind guy or maybe appoint an agoraphobe as his travel secretary in the past 24 hours?
* * * **
I just read a great article about how Obama has totally reversed himself on taxation of health care benefits, according to the Wall Street Journal editorial, "Vindicating McCain."
McCain called for individuals to tax a tax credit for health care insurance, which only employers get to take at present.
The article calls our present health care insurance system a "money laundering scheme" where some get rich without any concern for cutting costs (or providing service, I might add!)
| 517 |
VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:26:22am |
re: #483 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Nope; pig's eyes, lips and butt-holes are still made exactly the same as they've always been.
Thanks so much, FBV. Yummmmmm. Part is parts, I guess.
| 518 |
Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:28:16am |
re: #497 goddessoftheclassroom
Your point is well taken--those who have given over to evil have tools at their disposal to destroy those around them.
Temptation is Stan's tool. It's not the creme feeling so much as the lack of self-control that makes a person eat too much. I think it's the little things that are more insidious because it take so little volition to accede to our own self-destruction. That is the key difference between sin (to which all mankind is susceptible) and evil (which most of us choose to reject)
Well said!
Stan is a tricky fellow... application of small temptations (like the drug dealer's first one is free trick) can get a lot more people into trouble than trying to get them to bite the whole evil cake.
Of course, Stan is also good at multi-tasking, so the Jeffery Dalmers of the world also get their bigger evils to play out.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:29:21am |
re: #508 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
re: #509 goddessoftheclassroom
re: #513 HoosierHoops
re: #510 Cindy Lauper
Wow - good morning to you all and thanks! Mom and I are doing ok, thanks and it's really good to see you all out here (well, except maybe for Cindy) !
In the hope of getting you all in an even better mood, try this:[Link: www.daybydaycartoon.com...]
| 520 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:30:12am |
Or, y'all could try this one: [Link: www.daybydaycartoon.com...]
| 521 |
VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:30:54am |
Okay, anybody want some leftover SPAM? We've had more than we want over here.
| 522 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:32:16am |
re: #516 alegrias Good morning to you! Here's a special one in honor of your comment: [Link: www.daybydaycartoon.com...]
!
Hope you're doing well today!
| 523 |
VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:32:40am |
re: #520 realwest
lol! creepiness is right.
Dodd is not doing so well right now.
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SurferDoc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:32:53am |
Good morning, Realwest. Doing fine over here, how about you?
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:34:40am |
re: #518 Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret)
Well said!
Stan is a tricky fellow... application of small temptations (like the drug dealer's first one is free trick) can get a lot more people into trouble than trying to get them to bite the whole evil cake.
Of course, Stan is also good at multi-tasking, so the Jeffery Dalmers of the world also get their bigger evils to play out.
I've always liked the explanation of Original Sin as disobedience. I do NOT believe that Man is basically evil, but self-control/self-denial is counter-intuitive to our animal natures--they are an act of will.
I also think Stan uses our own body chemistry against us. I lost a former student Monday to suicide. When a person is in the grip of depression, he or she cannot use reason. Some have called despair the ultimate sin because it implies a lack of faith, but in my experience, there is NO volition in real despair--its simply overwhelms a person. I read that JK Rowling based her "dementers" in the Harry Potter series on her own experience with depression--and it show,
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:35:34am |
re: #523 VioletTiger
Morning VioletTiger - no Dodd grabbed himself by the proverbial short hairs and yanked, hard! LOL! What a putz, first "Who, me" then "No, no I don't recall putting any language authorizing AIG to pay those bonuses" to "Someone [unspecified] in the Administration wanted me to put in that language!"
| 527 |
VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:37:19am |
re: #526 realwest
Looking forward to the Dems turning on each other like wild beasties......
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:37:33am |
re: #483 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
Nope; pig's eyes, lips and butt-holes are still made exactly the same as they've always been.
And a ton of salt. Stuff is gag-worthy.
| 529 |
Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:37:50am |
re: #526 realwest
It's amazing that the Senator has the gall to show his face in public after such blatant and repeated lies. In any decent culture, he'd be shamed from office.
| 530 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:38:42am |
re: #524 SurferDoc
Hey SurferDoc - doing pretty well here - just had breakfast and some meds - and it's infuriating: it's so PRETTY outside my window and so cold inside (they never heard of the word "insulation" when they built these apartments) that I can't decide whether or not to go back to sleep or go for a walk or just sit here and chat with my friends!
Reckon I'll sit here and chat with y'all!
How are YOU doing this morning?
| 531 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:41:40am |
re: #527 VioletTiger
Well ya know they control the WH, the House of Reps and the Senate and SOMEBODY has to take the blame here - and this shit they can't blame on Bush! FUN!
But damned bad for the country.
| 532 |
albusteve Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:42:08am |
so I can carry concealed in downtown ABQ but not up in some remote wilderness Nat'l. Park?....gun control folly or how one federal judge take the law into her own hands
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
| 533 |
alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:43:06am |
re: #522 realwest
Good morning to you! Here's a special one in honor of your comment: [Link: www.daybydaycartoon.com...]
!
Hope you're doing well today!
* * * *
Real Sir--thank you for that comic: You know the real McCain would never be caught dead wearing a Speedo on camera!
Though McCain is a mensch for holding his nose & trying to push Obama to do the right thing for the country.
| 534 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:43:10am |
re: #529 Lincolntf
Yep, but I'll settle for him being replaced by the electorate in 2010 - wish it could be sooner, but you take what you can get when you're no where near equal in political power!
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:44:20am |
re: #526 realwest
Morning VioletTiger - no Dodd grabbed himself by the proverbial short hairs and yanked, hard! LOL! What a putz, first "Who, me" then "No, no I don't recall putting any language authorizing AIG to pay those bonuses" to "Someone [unspecified] in the Administration wanted me to put in that language!"
Looks like the Connecticut voters are going to put this weasel out of his misery in 2010.
| 536 |
alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:46:20am |
re: #529 Lincolntf
It's amazing that the Senator has the gall to show his face in public after such blatant and repeated lies. In any decent culture, he'd be shamed from office.
* * **
As Iowa Senator Charles Grassley put it last week, resigning or committing ritual suicide are always options for people who disgrace themselves and injure our country. If said people had any shame or sense of honor!
| 537 |
SurferDoc Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:47:13am |
re: #530 realwest
I'm still fighting off the last of that cold/cough but otherwise I'm OK. We are going out to see if the desert flowers are blooming today.
| 538 |
VioletTiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:47:48am |
re: #535 rightymouse
Looks like the Connecticut voters are going to put this weasel out of his misery in 2010.
I hope you are right and he doesn't pull it off at the last minute.
| 539 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:47:48am |
re: #533 alegrias Yes, I think McCain has handled himself quite well post-election. No bitterness and - apparently - no more RINO either - he's spoken out against the Obama Stimulus Plan, the "emergency spending bill" and the Obama $1.3 or $1.5 (depending on how you count) 2010 budget.
OTOH, I've never seen anyone break SO many campaign promises SO quickly as has Obama. He's been positively breathtaking with his speed and footwork. It's been an interesting 80 days so far!
| 540 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:52:00am |
re: #535 rightymouse Hey there! Hiya righty! Gee its good to see you out here today! How are you?
I hope the CT voters put him - and us - out of his misery for sure in November 2010, just wish there were someway to speed the process up - wonder if CT allows recall votes for US Senators? Nah, I reckon not, or the Feds would step in and tell the States to mind their own business! LOL!
| 541 |
rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:52:38am |
re: #538 VioletTiger
I hope you are right and he doesn't pull it off at the last minute.
I hope so too even though Dems tend to protect their own even when they are lying, cheating, scummy crap-weasels.
| 542 |
spinmore Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:54:49am |
Liberals
The Liberal
Such a curious breed
Its illness comes from tainted feed
© Copyright by cjmiller 2004
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:55:50am |
re: #540 realwest
Hey there! Hiya righty! Gee its good to see you out here today! How are you?
I hope the CT voters put him - and us - out of his misery for sure in November 2010, just wish there were someway to speed the process up - wonder if CT allows recall votes for US Senators? Nah, I reckon not, or the Feds would step in and tell the States to mind their own business! LOL!
Hi real!
Instapundit has some good stuff on Dodd at his website. Worth reading. Dodd needs to be voted out by his own constituency. As Glenn points out, it is unlikely the Senate will expel him.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:56:58am |
re: #537 SurferDoc
Well I sure hope you finish off that cold or whatever it is IMMEDIATELY if not sooner.
But, speaking of desert, I put this in the spin-off links this morning:
WASHINGTON - California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy.Nineteen companies have submitted applications to build solar or wind facilities on a parcel of 500,000 desert acres, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday such development would violate the spirit of what conservationists had intended when they donated much of the land to the public.
Feinstein said Friday she intends to push legislation that would turn the land into a national monument, which would allow for existing uses to continue while preventing future development.
The Wildlands Conservancy orchestrated the government's purchase of the land between 1999-2004. It negotiated a discount sale from the real estate arm of the former Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad and then contributed $40 million to help pay for the purchase. David Myers, the conservancy's executive director, said the solar projects would do great harm to the region's desert tortoise population.
Y'all have to admitt that the Democrats - even while trying to destroy our Nation, can be (unintentionally) funny as hell sometimes.
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vagabond trader Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:59:14am |
As for Dodd, never underestimate the apathy of the Connecticut voter.OTOH I did see one encouraging sign on my dem neighbor's front yard:
DUMP DODD
I hope this guy realizes that his idol The Obama was just as complicit in the bonus debacle.Doubtful.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 6:59:17am |
re: #541 rightymouse
"Dems tend to protect their own even when they are lying, cheating, scummy crap-weasels." and they really circle the wagons to protect their own when their own start acting abnormally for Democrats!
:)
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:00:30am |
re: #544 realwest
What a bunch of clowns. I love it when the Libs eat their own.
Oh, and I'm also wondering how much of an effect solar panels would have on tortoises that have managed to eke out a living in the middle of the Mojave Desert. I'm sure they'll be fine.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:02:01am |
re: #546 realwest
"Dems tend to protect their own even when they are lying, cheating, scummy crap-weasels." and they really circle the wagons to protect their own when their own start acting abnormally for Democrats!
:)
Yeah. Lieberman comes to mind. lol!
Wonder what they'll do to Conyers who is calling for a probe of ACORN?
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:03:50am |
Hiya, Lizard Nation!
Its another lovely Spring day here - now that the sun is out!
It was freezing fog this morning, and there was frost ont the grass in the park!
The buds on my litle apple trees are definitely going to make an appearance soon ...
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vagabond trader Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:03:55am |
re: #548 rightymouse
Aside from his support of the Iraq war, which most of his dem colleagues also voted for, he's a pretty conventional big spending social agenda liberal.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:04:11am |
re: #548 rightymouse
Huh? Conyers is calling for a probe of ACORN? A probe by the Feds? The Feds who are controlled by the WH which owes the election of Obama in no small measure to ACORN?
I have a feeling that's just bread and circuses for the masses!
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:04:15am |
re: #61 gmsc
Comandante Obama
The president has made America look like a banana republic.
Progressive politics is the politics of failed left-wing corrupt big government socialism.
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:04:20am |
re: #548 rightymouse
Dollars to donuts, I'd say ACORN simply pays Conyers off. He's a shakedown artist anyway, so he'll gladly accept.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:05:50am |
re: #544 realwest
"David Myers, the conservancy's executive director, said the solar projects would do great harm to the region's desert tortoise population."
HAHAHAHA! I love it when moonbat ideologies collide. They always sound ridiculous.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:05:51am |
re: #1 zombie
From this link.
I must be immune to gay marriage fever. Because I can’t help sympathizing with the citizens whose majority vote to defend their long-valued concept of marriage has been stigmatized as bigotry. The pro-8 voters I’ve talked to are resigned to the likelihood that the screaming minority will ultimately get its way, that gay marriage will come to California. So the psychological game, at least, is over.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:06:19am |
re: #549 yma o hyd
Hey, good afternoon {Yma} - there's supposed to be frost on the ground here in North Carolina tomorrow morning, too!
I blame Al Gore. I honestly don't know if it's his personal responsibility, but I like blaming him!
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:06:38am |
Hiya, {goddess} - could you please put me on the prayer list?
I'm told I need eye oeprations (glaucoma) - but after having read up on it, I'm horrified - and will negotiate with the consultant on Monday.
Whatever the outcome - Lizard Prayers are very much needed indeed.
Thank you!
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:06:53am |
re: #550 vagabond trader
Aside from his support of the Iraq war, which most of his dem colleagues also voted for, he's a pretty conventional big spending social agenda liberal.
I know, but his support of the war sure got a bunch of liberal panties in a wad.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:08:12am |
re: #553 Lincolntf
Dollars to donuts, I'd say ACORN simply pays Conyers off. He's a shakedown artist anyway, so he'll gladly accept.
Ugh...then maybe that's what he's doing. Calling them out so they respond with an offer he can't/won't refuse.
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vagabond trader Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:08:20am |
re: #549 yma o hyd
Hi Yma. We have a yearly ritual around here. When the woodpecker tears into the tree across the road, the hawk makes a couple of noisy circles over our property, and the unidentified warbling bird chimes in, IT'S SRING! Only one out of three so far.
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vxbush Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:08:23am |
Morning, everyone. Did you know Obama's teleprompter has his own blog?
I won't be on much; have housework to do before I go out for lunch with a friend.
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goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:08:51am |
re: #557 yma o hyd
Hiya, {goddess} - could you please put me on the prayer list?
I'm told I need eye oeprations (glaucoma) - but after having read up on it, I'm horrified - and will negotiate with the consultant on Monday.
Whatever the outcome - Lizard Prayers are very much needed indeed.Thank you!
{yma o hyd}
Absolutely.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:09:43am |
re: #556 realwest
Hey, good afternoon {Yma} - there's supposed to be frost on the ground here in North Carolina tomorrow morning, too!
I blame Al Gore. I honestly don't know if it's his personal responsibility, but I like blaming him!
Hiya, {rw]!
I blame him as well!
I so love to have someone to blame for all this - it is much more satisfying than just whine about how cold or warm it is.
How did we ever manage without him ...!
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:10:04am |
Morning Honcos......
Obama's open hand to Iran.
You, too, have a choice. The United States wants the Islamic Republic of Iran to take its rightful place in the community of nations. You have that right -- but it comes with real responsibilities, and that place cannot be reached through terror or arms, but rather through peaceful actions that demonstrate the true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization. And the measure of that greatness is not the capacity to destroy, it is your demonstrated ability to build and create.
I guess open doesn't believe a legitimate government rules with the consent of the governed.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said President Barack Obama’s video message yesterday didn’t show that the U.S. has modified its “hostile” attitude toward his nation.The U.S. has shown no sign of “genuine” change in its “hostile” policy the Islamic Republic, Khamenei, 69, said in a speech to mark the Iranian New Year, according to state-run Press TV.
Obama continues to run Foreign relations like community organizing. Someone's gonna' get hurt, and the someone will likely be wearing the uniform of the United States Military.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:10:04am |
re: #551 realwest
Huh? Conyers is calling for a probe of ACORN? A probe by the Feds? The Feds who are controlled by the WH which owes the election of Obama in no small measure to ACORN?
I have a feeling that's just bread and circuses for the masses!
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vxbush Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:10:17am |
re: #563 yma o hyd
Hiya, {rw]!
I blame him as well!
I so love to have someone to blame for all this - it is much more satisfying than just whine about how cold or warm it is.
How did we ever manage without him ...!
Why do you think they had someone called Jack Frost?
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vagabond trader Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:10:48am |
re: #557 yma o hyd
Are you able to get a second opinion? Many people with Glaucoma are able to maintain their vision with more conservative treatment than surgery.Best wishes.
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Vet_Missing_Parts (1LT, Ret) Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:12:18am |
re: #525 goddessoftheclassroom
Wonderful stuff... sorry I had to run. Wish we could talk more about it, I really enjoy your thinking here.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:12:33am |
re: #560 vagabond trader
Hi Yma. We have a yearly ritual around here. When the woodpecker tears into the tree across the road, the hawk makes a couple of noisy circles over our property, and the unidentified warbling bird chimes in, IT'S SRING! Only one out of three so far.
Thats a pretty good triple indicator - birds and other animals do know pretty well when its safe to start nesting!
My indicator are the start of the dawn chorus - that never fails, and is so cheering.
And then the first hayfever atacks: birch catkins in full pollen-shedding mood.
At-chooo!
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:13:14am |
re: #550 vagabond trader
Good morning to you! Respectfully, he's such a HUGE spending domestic LEFTY that he puts all of his predecessors to shame!
I mean, the economy is facing excruciatingly tough times, millions and millions of American's are out of work, so he decides now is the time to pay $700 Billion as a "downpayment" on National Healthcare?
Caught Rudy Guliani on Hannity last night before switching over to the Dog Wisperer, and Rudy said "the Fed is just gonna keep on printing money - hell even the Chinese Communists are telling him how to run a capitalist economy" because they are, obviously, afraid of the value of their investments in US T-bills dropping like a rock from what the Chinese Communists see as the inevitable 15% plus inflation rates over the next four years or so!
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:13:47am |
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vxbush Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:14:10am |
re: #569 yma o hyd
Thats a pretty good triple indicator - birds and other animals do know pretty well when its safe to start nesting!
My indicator are the start of the dawn chorus - that never fails, and is so cheering.
And then the first hayfever atacks: birch catkins in full pollen-shedding mood.
At-chooo!
For me, it's when the sun lines up with the driveway leading to the main road just at sunrise. I know we've hit the Vernal Equinox then!
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vxbush Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:15:14am |
Okay, gotta start with the housework. Later--and enjoy the teleprompter's own words!
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vagabond trader Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:15:20am |
re: #572 vxbush
Isn't nature grand? Sounds like you may have a tourist attraction there/
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:16:39am |
re: #564 JCM
Morning Honcos......
Obama's open hand to Iran.
Obama continues to run Foreign relations like community organizing. Someone's gonna' get hurt, and the someone will likely be wearing the uniform of the United States Military.
Its a pity that Foggy Bottom seems to think this sort of 'new' Foreign Policy is actually what is needed.
While the Mad Mullahs' response was predictable - is there nobody who'd ask him how he'd feel if dinnerjacket were to address the American people in a similar fashion?
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Leonidas Hoplite Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:17:06am |
re: #571 yma o hyd
Hey - I'm not sure if you saw but in our brief discussion on Napoleon yesterday, I was wondering if you could recommend a book or two. I've already read How Far From Austerlitz by Alistair Horne, do you know of any others?
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:17:22am |
re: #557 yma o hyd
GACK {yma} - can you get a second opinon - oh, wait, you're under National Healthcare over there in Great Britain. Well can you afford to pay to get a second opinon? I've got two relatives who had that surgery and they did just fine, if that's any comfort to you, but they did them one eye at a time just in case.
{yma} prayers going up for you right now!
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yesandno Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:17:34am |
re: #1 zombie
I was looking at Breitbart's mainstream "Big Hollywood" site, and imagine my shock when I scrolled down and saw one of my own pictures featured on the site!
My initial reaction of, "Hey, you ripped off my picture without credit" was immediately transformed into "Thanks for linking to me!" when I saw they actually did link to my report, futher down in the post.
And upon additional reading, my feeling turned to satisfaction when I realized that my "Queers for Palestine" essay had played some small role in the political transformation a very perceptive and insightful former gay activist. In fact, the entire essay, by someone named Charles Winecoff, is about his moral awakening, from moonbat to lizardoid.
I've never heard of Charles Winecoff before, but I like his way of thinking!
The brilliance of Winecoff's essay cannot be denied. It is like slapping your flat hand against your forehead while stating...why didn't I think of that!
The whole process of awareness is not so much different for him as it for all of us who moved from the feel good aspects of liberal thought to the actual more conservative aspects of adulthood and reality. Special privileges for special groups often are in the all or nothing realm without the intervening steps of accomplishment and the eventual reseting of the goal posts.
He makes a very interesting argument that can be applied to other groups as well...
(the all or nothing approach to stimulating the economy for example)
One question that occurred to me...the case he made about QUIT being an example of the closed reality of those who accept every aspect of the liberal agenda and which echoed your own piece as well...was if their whole philosophy of life is based upon their rights in the here and now that results from the majority, at this point in time, not having children upon which to make them consider a generational future.
In other words, they worry only about themselves here and now and not how gays are treated in Palestine because they have no dog in that fight. The aspects of a different culture taking over their achieved liberal one would be an aspect of the future, not of now. Hence, they don't consider it. Their agenda is very personal and has yet to be removed from themselves.
Anti-war protesters often are those who don't like to consider having to fight or who see us as to blame. If we change our attitudes and behavior, violence will go away. This is a protection of us in the here and now--where the pain is likely to exist should we not change--rather then the consideration of the future. They judge success as not being killed. We judge success of having our thoughts not killed, our liberty intact.
Great article. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for all you do!
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:19:16am |
re: #566 vxbush
Why do you think they had someone called Jack Frost?
He was strictly responsible for the white stuff in December, January and February at the latest!
He had no say in the rest of the weather, and he allowed us to heat our homes with open coal fires and wood fires without any admonishments ...
Those were the days, sigh ...
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newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:21:24am |
Good morning you all.
{yma}
Prayers, prayers, and more prayers for you to make the correct decision. Listen to your 'gut'.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:21:24am |
re: #1 zombie
more truth to power from link:
The response to 9/11 left me feeling even more betrayed. Though there was a bona fide gay hero in the attacks - Mark Bingham, the athletic businessman who helped storm the cockpit of United Flight 93, throwing the Islamists’ suicide mission off course - he soon got brushed aside in favor of the Loose Change/neocon conspiracy/hate-Bush zeitgeist that was sweeping the Left.
Never would I have imagined I’d develop a social phobia about hanging out with other gay people - my purported comrades - but lo and behold, I did. Not long after I moved back to LA (a relocation that coincided with 9/11), it seemed to me the gay community was morphing into little more than an offshoot of MoveOn.org.
[Link: bighollywood.breitbart.com...]
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:22:36am |
re: #575 yma o hyd
Its a pity that Foggy Bottom seems to think this sort of 'new' Foreign Policy is actually what is needed.
While the Mad Mullahs' response was predictable - is there nobody who'd ask him how he'd feel if dinnerjacket were to address the American people in a similar fashion?
It seems those in power lack the understanding of how negotiation in the Middle East work.
You have to structure the starting point so that the end point both sides save face and can claim a win. In this case Obama is trying to start beyond the finish line, which means it's utterly doomed to failure.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:23:18am |
re: #570 realwest
Caught Rudy Guliani on Hannity last night before switching over to the Dog Wisperer, and Rudy said "the Fed is just gonna keep on printing money - hell even the Chinese Communists are telling him how to run a capitalist economy" because they are, obviously, afraid of the value of their investments in US T-bills dropping like a rock from what the Chinese Communists see as the inevitable 15% plus inflation rates over the next four years or so!
Hi Real. You got it.
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Ayeless in Ghazi Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:23:26am |
re: #580 taxfreekiller
The msm wants all of you, D's R's, Independents and Lup Nors, all to be the wage slaves keeping their private hog troughs full of pig slop.
Fight Back.
Heh. Same idea, different decade, different politics:
Redskins - Bring it down
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:24:27am |
re: #567 vagabond trader
Are you able to get a second opinion? Many people with Glaucoma are able to maintain their vision with more conservative treatment than surgery.Best wishes.
I've been on medication for 13 years - and thanks to the interweb I've been scouring the medical journals this last week.
Its being the NHS, the socialist state health service, you're on a conveyor belt - you're told this is what is going to happen - and you're out. Waiting room absolutely heaving with patients ...
So - I'm shelling out for a private consultation with that consultant. First, I was too stunned to think straight - but now, after some digging, I'm just cross. The side- and aftereffects of that operation are quite horrid, and I refuse to let myself be amde into a 'rpofessional' semi-invalid who has to spend every week at the eye clinic for the rest of my life!
Its ok when I'm over 80 and have nothing else to do - but not at effen 63!
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:25:07am |
re: #583 JCM
It seems those in power lack the understanding of how negotiation in the Middle East work.
You have to structure the starting point so that the end point both sides save face and can claim a win. In this case Obama is trying to start beyond the finish line, which means it's utterly doomed to failure.
Same thing with Asia. Saving 'face' is a huge issue and something westerners don't understand.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:26:25am |
re: #572 vxbush
For me, it's when the sun lines up with the driveway leading to the main road just at sunrise. I know we've hit the Vernal Equinox then!
Wow!
That is practically going back to prehistoric times - thats how thsoe people measured the Sumemr solstice (Stonehenge) or Winter Solstice (New Grange, ireland).
Its wonderful - aren't you lucky to possess such a driveway!
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:27:18am |
re: #565 rightymouse
Thanks righty! I just love this from your link:
Mr. Conyers, who is known for his drive to continue investigating the Bush administration, previously defended ACORN. In October, he condemned an FBI voter fraud investigation targeting the group. He questioned whether it was politically motivated to hamper a voter-registration drive targeting groups likely to support Mr. Obama's candidacy.But Mr. Conyers' shift was met by resistance from fellow Democrats on the committee, and it was unclear whether a hearing would be scheduled.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, New York Democrat and chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties that hosted Thursday's hearing, suggested there was not enough “credible evidence” to warrant a hearing focused exclusively on ACORN.
Rep. Melvin Watt said he would concede that ACORN and some of its members engaged in voter fraud. But he said voter fraud was already covered by existing law and Congress has not further role in the matter.
Methinks Rep's Nadler and Watt need to get their acts together.
In other words, it's all bullshit, though why Conyers would do this - other than shaking down ACORN for some of it's $4 Billion bucks in the Pork Stimulus package is beyond me.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:28:21am |
re: #587 rightymouse
Same thing with Asia. Saving 'face' is a huge issue and something westerners don't understand.
* * * *
"Sinverguenza" is the Spanish, perhaps islamic derived, concept of someone having no sense of shame. It's a huge insult, like saying "You're a disgrace" many times over.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:29:54am |
re: #576 Leonidas Hoplite
Hey - I'm not sure if you saw but in our brief discussion on Napoleon yesterday, I was wondering if you could recommend a book or two. I've already read How Far From Austerlitz by Alistair Horne, do you know of any others?
Not off the top of my head, I can't, sorry.
I know there is a brilliant biography of Wellington around - its somewhere upstairs in a huge pile of books, I got it from a bookshop, not amazon ... awww...
I'll try and find it sometime, and let you know next time I see you here!
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:31:17am |
re: #581 newsjunkie_ky
Good morning {newsjunkie}! Hope you're doing well today!
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newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:32:51am |
re: #592 realwest
Good morning {newsjunkie}! Hope you're doing well today!
Hey {realwest}, doing good. How about you? Was the Dog Whisperer good last night?
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:34:15am |
re: #3 Slumbering Behemoth
My arrogant opinion of the latest kerfuffle: Obama used special-needs kids/adults as a joke, and those opposed to Obama are using special-needs kids/adults as a political "gotcha".
It's exploitation, and I don't like any of it.
I think the special needs community has a right to defend themselves vigorously against this smear because part of their challenge is to deflect aggression away from their clients that are often targets. It was a slur against the handicapped.
Many on the right are strong advocates for the handicapped and their families.
This was a bully sticking his leg out as the handicapped kid walks by just to make his friends laugh. It was selfish and lazy coming from Obama.
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VegasRick Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:34:39am |
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
For all you folks thought we got screwed by AIG, well you are wrong, we got REALLY SCREWED.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:35:02am |
re: #587 rightymouse
Same thing with Asia. Saving 'face' is a huge issue and something westerners don't understand.
The west is goal oriented.
The east is process oriented.
Is another way to look at it.
You are absolutely corrected, we are very poorly equipped in understanding how to work in the mid and far east.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:35:23am |
re: #593 newsjunkie_ky
Oh, he was FABULOUS last night - and so was "Dogtown" an hour long show that follows his.
After Rudy said goodnight to Hannity, I just hadda switch back to the Dog Wisperer - he is THAT GOOD.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:35:36am |
re: #577 realwest
GACK {yma} - can you get a second opinon - oh, wait, you're under National Healthcare over there in Great Britain. Well can you afford to pay to get a second opinon? I've got two relatives who had that surgery and they did just fine, if that's any comfort to you, but they did them one eye at a time just in case.
{yma} prayers going up for you right now!
Thank you, {rw}!
I'm seeing that consultant privately - I'm pretty sure he has no idea what else is wrong with me!
It was very interesting to read all these scientifc papers, it gave me a very good idea about what questions to ask.
The one thing I'm really glad about is that they wanted to give me that operation thirteen years ago - without saying anything about people getting cataracts much much earlier, from after three years in some cases.
Sure - things may turn out ok, but after the operation is done its too alte for second thoughts!
If there is some nifty, hi-tech solution which is only available privately, with better outcome and no complications, then I shall kill my piggy bank and eat beans on toast for the rest of the year, to pay for it!
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:36:33am |
re: #595 VegasRick
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
For all you folks thought we got screwed by AIG, well you are wrong, we got REALLY SCREWED.
The screwing is the Billions that was funneled through AIG to other banks and entities, the bonuses are chump change.
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newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:38:29am |
The Patriot Post:
Rick asks, "How can you close me up? On what grounds?" Renault responds, "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!" (As Renault makes that faux pronouncement, a croupier hands him a wad of cash saying, "Your winnings, sir," and Renault quietly says, "Oh, thank you very much.")
Sound familiar?
If not, listen to all the Democrat remonstrations this week about the $165 million of taxpayer bail bonuses scheduled to be paid by AIG. They were so shocked by the discovery of this largess that they even passed legislation to slap a 90 percent tax on any TARP-supported bonuses, despite the fact that such a move would never pass the constitutional sniff test. Of course, mere matters of constitutionality have rarely stopped congressional Democrats.
To his credit, White House economist Larry Summers said, "We are a country of law. There are contracts. The government cannot just abrogate contracts." (Apparently he didn't get the memo from his boss.)
Also worthy of honorable mention, Demo Rep. Charles Rangel, the House's primary tax writer -- the one who's currently under investigation for "tax irregularities" -- insisted that the tax code should not be used as a "political weapon." Unfortunately, he's about 90 years too late with that proscription.
Leading the chorus of the "shocked and outraged" is Rep. Barney Frank (a.k.a. "Bonnie Fwank"), who, without so much as the aid of an Obamaprompter, protested (phonetically transliterated), "These bonuses are going to people who scwewed this thing up enawmouswy, who made tewwibew decisions." Fwank added, "In high school, they wouldn't have gotten wetention, they would have gotten detention." (When it comes to rhetorical poetics, Jesse Jackson has nothing on Bonnie.)
(read the rest)
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:39:29am |
If you got time, I urge you to read this essay, by my favourite Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks:
Morals: the one thing markets don't make
Here's a quote:
'Markets were made to serve us; we were not made to serve markets. Economics needs ethics. Markets do not survive by market forces alone. They depend on respect for the people affected by our decisions. Lose that and we lose not just money and jobs but something more significant still: freedom, trust and decency, the things that have a value, not a price.'
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:39:39am |
re: #594 DistantThunder
Good morning DT - I hope you're doing well today and I have to say I couldn't agree with you more. That's the real Barry Obama we saw on Leno - unscripted, running his mouth as if he was in a private group meeting of his supporters who'd laugh at anything he said - long as he made it clear that he thought it was funny - and he did. Watch the video.
I hope that everyone who refused to vote for McCain because he wasn't conservative enough is fucking happy now. (h/t, Mandy Manners).
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:39:56am |
re: #598 yma o hyd
Thank you, {rw}!
I'm seeing that consultant privately - I'm pretty sure he has no idea what else is wrong with me!
It was very interesting to read all these scientifc papers, it gave me a very good idea about what questions to ask.
The one thing I'm really glad about is that they wanted to give me that operation thirteen years ago - without saying anything about people getting cataracts much much earlier, from after three years in some cases.
Sure - things may turn out ok, but after the operation is done its too alte for second thoughts!If there is some nifty, hi-tech solution which is only available privately, with better outcome and no complications, then I shall kill my piggy bank and eat beans on toast for the rest of the year, to pay for it!
* * * *
Johns Hopkins University (in Baltimore, Maryland, USA) has the Wilmerding Eye Clinic which is world renowned. Maybe there is information about your condition available there.
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newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:40:24am |
re: #597 realwest
Oh, he was FABULOUS last night - and so was "Dogtown" an hour long show that follows his.
After Rudy said goodnight to Hannity, I just hadda switch back to the Dog Wisperer - he is THAT GOOD.
Never heard of 'Dogtown'. What is that about?
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:40:26am |
Hey all, Mr DT is slated to be on Carson Daly Show on Monday. That's the info I have right now. it's part of the publicity tour for his friend and client, Neill Strauss' new book Emergency:This Book Will SAve Your Life.
The book details Neill's journey to learn to be self-sufficient after growing up in a hermetically sealed apartment on the 72 floor. The book idea was spawned when he spent time with some billionaires who were preparing for these dark time - 3 years ago. Neill got dual citizenship in another country, he got a gun permit, and took shooting lessons, he trained as an EMT, he became part of a search and rescue unit, and he learned from MR DT how to evacuate a city, and shelter in place.
I do like the book, although it contains some adult themes and sexual content. Neill is also the author of The Game, and Jenna Jamison's bio.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:41:02am |
re: #581 newsjunkie_ky
Good morning you all.
{yma}
Prayers, prayers, and more prayers for you to make the correct decision. Listen to your 'gut'.
Hiya, {newsjunkie_ky}!
How are you, and how is Miss Ziggy?
Thank you for your prayers! My 'gut' is tending to say 'no' ...
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:41:18am |
re: #594 DistantThunder
Plus, the bulk of the criticism is coming from the "injured parties" themselves. It's Special Olympians calling Obama out, not pundits or politicians.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:41:31am |
re: #599 JCM
The screwing is the Billions that was funneled through AIG to other banks and entities, the bonuses are chump change.
* ****
That and that our debt is going to be 3.9 TRILLIONS. Weimar Germany had nothing on Obama! Way to go, Harvard brainiac community destroyer.
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:43:29am |
re: #603 realwest
Also, on Rush's website is a side by side video of Obama compared to Sarah Palin and comments about the special olympics. And the left thinks he is the classy one and she is the dolt.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:43:59am |
re: #609 alegrias
* ****
That and that our debt is going to be 3.9 TRILLIONS. Weimar Germany had nothing on Obama! Way to go, Harvard brainiac community destroyer.
You see the CBO numbers yesterday.
1 Trillion deficits a year for the next 10 years.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:44:31am |
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:44:32am |
re: #595 VegasRick
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
For all you folks thought we got screwed by AIG, well you are wrong, we got REALLY SCREWED.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:44:40am |
re: #610 Beach Lover
Also, on Rush's website is a side by side video of Obama compared to Sarah Palin and comments about the special olympics. And the left thinks he is the classy one and she is the dolt.
Obama is a Marxist.
Special needs individuals are not useful to the state.
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:44:48am |
re: #603 realwest
Good morning DT - I hope you're doing well today and I have to say I couldn't agree with you more. That's the real Barry Obama we saw on Leno - unscripted, running his mouth as if he was in a private group meeting of his supporters who'd laugh at anything he said - long as he made it clear that he thought it was funny - and he did. Watch the video.
I hope that everyone who refused to vote for McCain because he wasn't conservative enough is fucking happy now. (h/t, Mandy Manners).
And who is still buying his "stunned" didn't know routine. He lied about Ayers, he lied about Rezko, he lied about WRight - said he didn't know about all those people. Suze Orman was on Morning Joe, and she said "
I'm really confused. CNCB did a whole program on these bonuses back in January. How could all of us know, and the president claim to be Shocked/"
Some on the left are catching on.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:45:09am |
re: #589 realwest
Methinks Rep's Nadler and Watt need to get their acts together.In other words, it's all bullshit, though why Conyers would do this - other than shaking down ACORN for some of it's $4 Billion bucks in the Pork Stimulus package is beyond me.
It's going to be interesting to see where this goes.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:45:13am |
re: #595 VegasRick
So it would appear, but the public's anger ought to be directed at Congress, and specifically Chirstopher Dodd and at Timothy Geithner (temp Secretary of The Treasury) and Nancy Pelosi who's staff wrote the bill and RAMMED it through Congress without giving congresscritters enough time to read it.
Remember - if you HATE the idea of AIG giving out those bonuses, the blame belongs on the DEMOCRATS Who wrote the legislation and then amended it to specifically allow AIG to pay those bonuses.
The talk I've been hearing and seeing by some dickheads about personally, physically attacking the individuals who received those bonuses is absolutely disgusting.
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:46:07am |
re: #608 Lincolntf
Plus, the bulk of the criticism is coming from the "injured parties" themselves. It's Special Olympians calling Obama out, not pundits or politicians.
Several handicapped are coming forward to say their bowling scores are higher than Obama's.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:46:31am |
re: #613 FrogMarch
Gibbs IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT, you don't stammer like that unless you are trying really hard not to let the truth slip out.
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jaunte Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:46:38am |
re: #610 Beach Lover
Thanks for recommending that. What a contrast.
[Link: www.rushlimbaugh.com...]
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VegasRick Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:46:40am |
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:47:33am |
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opnion Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:47:54am |
Good morning from Illinois, the national template for good government.
While driving around picking up supplies I heard the Dear Leaders Radio address. He was talking about education reform etc, but what got my attention was his comments about foreign oil.
He said, "We have to stop our dependence on DANGEROUS foreign oil"
He didn't sat that the dependence is dangerous , he said that the oil is dangerous! I will drain my car of that dangerous substance.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:48:00am |
re: #604 alegrias
* * * *
Johns Hopkins University (in Baltimore, Maryland, USA) has the Wilmerding Eye Clinic which is world renowned. Maybe there is information about your condition available there.
Thanks!
I shall look at their site and see what they have to say
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:48:00am |
re: #619 JCM
Gibbs IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT, you don't stammer like that unless you are trying really hard not to let the truth slip out.
Gibbs is the front man for a Political Predator Syndicate.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:48:46am |
re: #619 JCM
Gibbs IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT, you don't stammer like that unless you are trying really hard not to let the truth slip out.
uh uh uh uh... uh uh AIG had no choice... the blind leading the blind. They fake outrage, then like good Castro's - sweep in and tax AIG's bonuses at 90%. Hilarious theater.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:50:28am |
re: #619 JCM
Gibbs IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT, you don't stammer like that unless you are trying really hard not to let the truth slip out.
* * * *
Obama's White House Spokesman Gibbs has been Obama's Communications Director since at least 2005--so yes he knows what Obama really thinks.
(Gibbs is listed in the Congressional Directory of 2005 as Obama's Senate office Communications Director)
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:50:36am |
re: #626 FrogMarch
uh uh uh uh... uh uh AIG had no choice... the blind leading the blind. They fake outrage, then like good Castro's - sweep in and tax AIG's bonuses at 90%. Hilarious theater.
The AIG bonuses are annoying.
What is sickening is the Admin put them in the water like chum and media is in a feeding frenzy. And people who watch the GDMFMSM are buying it.
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VegasRick Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:51:02am |
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:51:32am |
re: #627 alegrias
* * * *
Obama's White House Spokesman Gibbs has been Obama's Communications Director since at least 2005--so yes he knows what Obama really thinks.(Gibbs is listed in the Congressional Directory of 2005 as Obama's Senate office Communications Director)
I made the point long ago about FCBBHO, he stammers because he has to filter his Marxist thinking to make it palatable for the masses.
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:51:51am |
re: #615 DistantThunder
We. Can. Only. Hope that is true.
But, just as he is all for "taking responsibility", he only says the words, but has no concept of the meaning. He doesn't have the "responsible" gene and certainly was never taught it by his parents or grandparents.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:52:30am |
re: #619 JCM
Gibbs IS A LYING SACK OF SHIT, you don't stammer like that unless you are trying really hard not to let the truth slip out.
The democrats sound much better after they gather behind closed doors with all of the various media/ Paul Begala/ Axelrod, Acorn/MoveOn group-thinkers
manipulating the deceptive speech that will sound good when read off a teleprompter.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:52:36am |
re: #596 JCM
The west is goal oriented.
The east is process oriented.Is another way to look at it.
You are absolutely corrected, we are very poorly equipped in understanding how to work in the mid and far east.
Public capitulation is seen as weakness and shameful, even though they respect strength in their adversaries. Iran is posturing. Nothing new there.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:52:49am |
re: #599 JCM
Good morning JCM! Uh, with all due respect, the billions "funneled" by AIG to banks - foreign and domestic is the business that AIG was in! American International Group, except for the Derivatives group (who's excesses are what brought down AIG) was in the business of issuing insurance to those banks based upon the supposedly secured sub-prime mortgage loans which those banks bundled into pools and then had their Investment branches use to sell bonds to an unsuspecting public.
In other words, it was AIG's NORMAL exposure and insurance coverage of those banks that led them to pay those billions to foreign banks.
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opnion Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:54:02am |
re: #626 FrogMarch
uh uh uh uh... uh uh AIG had no choice... the blind leading the blind. They fake outrage, then like good Castro's - sweep in and tax AIG's bonuses at 90%. Hilarious theater.
THe media seems to forget , that Obama was a part of the real estate scam when he sold influence to Rezko for a sweetheart deal on his house.
IMO Barry is exploiting & worsening the crisis to institute his vision of a Socialist Utopia.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:54:15am |
re: #628 JCM
The AIG bonuses are annoying.
What is sickening is the Admin put them in the water like chum and media is in a feeding frenzy. And people who watch the GDMFMSM are buying it.
* * * *
Joe Biden promised to wage Class War Fare in the US, and that's what we've got going on, straight out of the Clinton playbook of "War Rooms" against Republicans and other "enemies".
(Dems did not want to wage warfare against totalitarian dictators with whom they share tactics)
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Canadhimmis Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:54:23am |
Heh/....
As supreme leader, Khamenei makes major policy decisions for Iran, and so he will decide how the country responds to Obama's remarks.
There will be little change in relations between the two countries unless Obama makes major changes to U.S. foreign policy toward Iran, Khamenei said.
"They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in practice. We haven't seen any change," Khamenei said.
In his video, Obama expressed hope for improved relations while also warning that Iran's place as a respected member of the international community "cannot be reached through terror or arms, but rather through peaceful actions that demonstrate the true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization."
Khamenei objected to the fact Obama sent best wishes for the new year while also accusing Iran of supporting terrorism and procuring nuclear weapons. ,,,,[KHAM,,,dude. That's hope and change. Obama hopes you have a good New Year but wants you to change your policy of supporting terrorism. Hope AND change, not hope OR change.]
The remarks show that even Obama's rhetoric does not differ from his predecessor's, Khamenei said.
"He (Obama) insulted the Islamic Republic of Iran from the first day," Khamenei said. "If you are right that change has come, where is that change? What is the sign of that change? Make it clear for us what has changed."
Khamenei indicated that closer ties between the two countries could be achieved if a new tone is set by the Obama administration.....
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:54:45am |
re: #600 Beach Lover
Good morning {Beach Lover} I used to have a cocker spaniel - AKC registered as Town and Country Blonde - whom we naturally called Blondie! but that was a long time ago - I just like the Dog Wisperer because he's SO GOOD at what he does; he - as he puts it - rehabiliates dogs and trains the owners!
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:55:32am |
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:55:50am |
re: #629 VegasRick
Still "no longer available" for me.
The GDMFMSM thinks it's a big fucking joke. The media asks him a question, he says "From what I've seen in the paper."
Doesn't included the stammering.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:56:03am |
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:56:30am |
I'm working on a blog piece: What Beautiful Women know about Bad Men.
Attractive women are barraged by men, some of who lie in order to cover up who they really are. These women have to develop a talent for recognizing the "tells" of a manipulator, player and predator. Obama reveals himself repeatedly to be a political player, an operative willing to do and say anything to deflect attention, evade responsibility, and present himself as someone he is not.
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Mich-again Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:57:47am |
As far as Obama reaching out to the Mullahs with that pathetic ass-kissing suck-up speech he made the other day, the Head Mullah Who be in Charge responded by saying Obama is full of shit and his words mean nothing.
Iran's supreme leader dismisses Obama overtures
Khamenei asked how Obama could congratulate Iranians on the new year and accuse the country of supporting terrorism and seeking nuclear weapons in the same message.Khamenei said there has been no change even in Obama's language compared to that of his predecessor.
"He (Obama) insulted the Islamic Republic of Iran from the first day. If you are right that change has come, where is that change? What is the sign of that change? Make it clear for us what has changed."
Khamenei, wearing a black turban and dark robes, said America was hated around the world for its arrogance, as the crowd chanted "Death to America."
"They say we have stretched a hand toward Iran. ... If a hand is stretched covered with a velvet glove but it is cast iron inside, that makes no sense," Khamenei said.
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:58:06am |
re: #638 Canadhimmis
Heh/....
As supreme leader, Khamenei makes major policy decisions for Iran, and so he will decide how the country responds to Obama's remarks.
There will be little change in relations between the two countries unless Obama makes major changes to U.S. foreign policy toward Iran, Khamenei said.
"They chant the slogan of change but no change is seen in practice. We haven't seen any change," Khamenei said.
In his video, Obama expressed hope for improved relations while also warning that Iran's place as a respected member of the international community "cannot be reached through terror or arms, but rather through peaceful actions that demonstrate the true greatness of the Iranian people and civilization."
Khamenei objected to the fact Obama sent best wishes for the new year while also accusing Iran of supporting terrorism and procuring nuclear weapons. ,,,,[KHAM,,,dude. That's hope and change. Obama hopes you have a good New Year but wants you to change your policy of supporting terrorism. Hope AND change, not hope OR change.]
The remarks show that even Obama's rhetoric does not differ from his predecessor's, Khamenei said.
"He (Obama) insulted the Islamic Republic of Iran from the first day," Khamenei said. "If you are right that change has come, where is that change? What is the sign of that change? Make it clear for us what has changed."
Khamenei indicated that closer ties between the two countries could be achieved if a new tone is set by the Obama administration.....
The Iranians are masters of oppression - so they aren't going to play along with Obama. They have his number.
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opnion Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:58:21am |
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:58:34am |
re: #643 DistantThunder
I'm working on a blog piece: What Beautiful Women know about Bad Men.
Attractive women are barraged by men, some of who lie in order to cover up who they really are. These women have to develop a talent for recognizing the "tells" of a manipulator, player and predator. Obama reveals himself repeatedly to be a political player, an operative willing to do and say anything to deflect attention, evade responsibility, and present himself as someone he is not.
* * *
Hate to break it to you but American MEN fell for this "playa" who's not even an Alpha male, but a metrosexual wimp.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 7:59:30am |
re: #635 realwest
Good morning JCM! Uh, with all due respect, the billions "funneled" by AIG to banks - foreign and domestic is the business that AIG was in! American International Group, except for the Derivatives group (who's excesses are what brought down AIG) was in the business of issuing insurance to those banks based upon the supposedly secured sub-prime mortgage loans which those banks bundled into pools and then had their Investment branches use to sell bonds to an unsuspecting public.
In other words, it was AIG's NORMAL exposure and insurance coverage of those banks that led them to pay those billions to foreign banks.
It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full.
The money was supposed to make AIG solvent, instead it was passed right through AIG to other institutions that didn't need bailouts, or already had bailout money.
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DistantThunder Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:00:57am |
re: #648 alegrias
* * *
Hate to break it to you but American MEN fell for this "playa" who's not even an Alpha male, but a metrosexual wimp.
That's the point. Few men have to guard against this type of manipulation so they are inexperienced at detecting someone of this magnitude of charisma. The men and women of America - including Buckely and Brooks were seduced by Obama, and now they are licking their wounds, trying to figure out how they got scammed. They never saw the "tells."
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:00:58am |
re: #627 alegrias
well that explains the speaking qualifications! maybe Gibbs should get a teleprompter, too.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:02:35am |
re: #605 newsjunkie_ky
Dogtown is a place in Southern Utah which is a animal shelter (all types of animals, but the show focuses on dogs) that is apparently VERY WELL FUNDED by whom I don't know, that NEVER puts dogs down; they try their best to heal, rehabilitate and train dogs that they get from a variety of sources - some from Hurricane Katrina and some from a Navajo Reservation "only" about 100 miles away. They have full time, TRULY DEDICATED staff including Veterinarians, Vet Techs, Trainers and handlers and their sole purpose is to try to find folks to adopt dogs who've been abused or misused (I think their biggest source of unfortunate dogs is from dog hoarders - who just breed dogs, sell the puppies and when the dogs can no longer breed, they - the hoarders - kill 'em).
It's a truly GREAT show - folks who are almost "tree hugger" types as far as dogs go, but who go and do for minimum wage.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:03:27am |
re: #649 JCM
The money was supposed to make AIG solvent, instead it was passed right through AIG to other institutions that didn't need bailouts, or already had bailout money.
* * * *
Money laundering schemes--bubbles enabled by those mortgage backed securities and other government-mandated crappy "financial instruments" the government commoditized thanks to DEMS' ideas of what works.
These funny money schemes were bad news from the start.
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Mich-again Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:04:22am |
re: #649 JCM
Any parlor trick magician knows the key to the whole show is being able to divert the eyes of the audience away from the slight of hand. Thats what Bonusgate is all about. A diversion to keep the crowd's eyes away from the real trick. Bailing out foreign banks.
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ciaospirit Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:04:56am |
re: #614 JCM
Obama is a Marxist.
Special needs individuals are not useful to the state.
He didn't even give it a second thought until he was called on Air Force One and told he made a major blunder. Thus the apology. He acts like the American Idol president that he is.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:05:23am |
re: #610 Beach Lover
Well of course Sarah Palin's a dolt! She's a) republican - so the MSM is always gonna be against her and b) she is, from all accounts a successful governor of a state and c) never even attended, much less graduated, from Harvard!
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:06:16am |
re: #651 DistantThunder
That's the point. Few men have to guard against this type of manipulation so they are inexperienced at detecting someone of this magnitude of charisma. The men and women of America - including Buckely and Brooks were seduced by Obama, and now they are licking their wounds, trying to figure out how they got scammed. They never saw the "tells."
I think you got it there.
Unfortunately, too many wimmin might have seen the 'tells', but thought, wtf, he's sooo dreamy!
And that can often lead into an abusive relationship ...
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:07:49am |
re: #657 Mich-again
Any parlor trick magician knows the key to the whole show is being able to divert the eyes of the audience away from the slight of hand. Thats what Bonusgate is all about. A diversion to keep the crowd's eyes away from the real trick. Bailing out foreign banks.
* * **
Hey--who globalized the idiotic concept of "free" Habitats for Humanity, paid for by the rest of us, and profited on by smarties at "government-backed" organizations such as Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac?
US government people with help from financial wizards, invented this scheme to package mortgages as investments.
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jaunte Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:08:00am |
re: #661 yma o hyd
I never understood some folks' 'dreamy' reaction to Obama, or the talk of his charisma. He always seemed vapid to me, based on what he said and did.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:08:37am |
re: #623 opnion
Good morning opnion! "Good morning from Illinois, the national template for good government."
ROTFL! Updinged you just for that line!
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filetandrelease Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:09:45am |
Something is wrong. I have scanned headlines across the net, reviewed several blogs and have found no "o" faux pas, no "o" ignorant statement, no "o" thrown some friend or ally under the bus, this is a really strange day.
He must be really tired.
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ciaospirit Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:10:08am |
re: #596 JCM
we are very poorly equipped in understanding how to work in the mid and far east.
But Michelle gave that as one of B Hussein's strengths during the campaign. He understands because he lived in Indonesia. Nevermind he was about 8 years old. Except that we are supposed to remember that he was ONLY 8 years old when it comes to BO's buddy Ayers and his terrorist activities.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:10:18am |
re: #659 realwest
Well of course Sarah Palin's a dolt! She's a) republican - so the MSM is always gonna be against her and b) she is, from all accounts a successful governor of a state and c) never even attended, much less graduated, from Harvard!
* * * *
Plus, d) she's attractive, e) puts family first, f) and talks straight!
Oh, and Sarah Palin punctured Obama's celebrity balloon with great lines such as the one about the fake Doric Columns democrats rented for his convention speech. Unforgiveable to lampoon Comandante Obama, to the gulag with Palin!
| 668 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:11:23am |
Mornin' all, from a sunny but chilly Northwest.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:11:35am |
re: #663 jaunte
I never understood some folks' 'dreamy' reaction to Obama, or the talk of his charisma. He always seemed vapid to me, based on what he said and did.
Nor can I understand it - but if you're a female who's only been fed on 'feelings' and who has never been made to actually think for herself, and who has Hollywood Beauty and Americal Idol dinned into her as the only acceptable standard (as opposed to character, achievement, principles, never mind 'yoof' and looks!) - well, I can see how that worked for her.
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KenJen Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:11:54am |
re: #665 filetandrelease
Shhhhh. He's resting up for the b-balls games this weekend.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:12:02am |
re: #667 alegrias
I thought it was "Wal-Mart reeducation camps"?!
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:12:29am |
re: #666 ciaospirit
But Michelle gave that as one of B Hussein's strengths during the campaign. He understands because he lived in Indonesia. Nevermind he was about 8 years old. Except that we are supposed to remember that he was ONLY 8 years old when it comes to BO's buddy Ayers and his terrorist activities.
LOL!
If that is the case I question his ability to learn.......
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:13:10am |
re: #634 rightymouse
Hey righty - what is different is Obama - as I posted yesterday:
"I've mentioned before out here how I had the distinct privilege of meeting one of the former Iranian hostages (I cannot reveal his name) in a group of six people all of whom he KNEW were friendly to him and would literally have done anything at all to help or protect him.
And yet, throughout the entire meeting - lasting over an hour, his entire body shook like a leaf in a light breeze. Every Single Day one of his captors would come in and put a pistol against the back of his blindfolded head and say "Is today the day?" and pull the trigger on the empty chamber so he just heard the metallic "click".
I read the transcription above and couldn't watch the video.
I can't imagine how badly this fellow - and his surviving fellow hostages - feel this day. I'd guess
"let down" by the President of the United States and indeed their whole country for electing him would be too weak a description by far.
President Obama, you may have won the election, but I know you're not that former hostage's President, nor are you mine, in my heart.
And while I know it's not my place to do so, I offer my heartfelt condolences and sympathies to all of those former hostages and to their families for the actions and words of Barack Hussein Obama.
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:13:17am |
anyone see this article yet?
read it and weep...really ;-(
but then most of us here already knew this about him.
[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:13:19am |
re: #665 filetandrelease
Something is wrong. I have scanned headlines across the net, reviewed several blogs and have found no "o" faux pas, no "o" ignorant statement, no "o" thrown some friend or ally under the bus, this is a really strange day.
He must be really tired.
* * * *
Maybe Obama's busy dumping organic manure into his "Defeatist" (not Victory) Garden plot next to the Oval Office.
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revobob Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:14:05am |
re: #544 realwest
Well I sure hope you finish off that cold or whatever it is IMMEDIATELY if not sooner.
But, speaking of desert, I put this in the spin-off links this morning:
Y'all have to admitt that the Democrats - even while trying to destroy our Nation, can be (unintentionally) funny as hell sometimes.
I know this reply is an hour or so late, but I slept in this morning. This reminds of a good example of wise treatment of the desert.
Back in the day, I was a motorcycle racer. The Barstow-to Vegas race was at its peak, drawing about 1500 enthusiasts annually. Sierra Club, Earth First et al. decried the damage that all the bikes were doing to the desert and the tortoises. BLM responded by, effectively, shutting the race down. (They did it in increments, so it took a couple of years). Most of the race course was on federal land, much of which has since become a tank gunnery range. And the tortoises which are completely protected in California? On the Nevada side of the border people were encouraged to "adopt" them because developers couldn't do anything with privately owned land while there was a tortoise population. Your tax dollars at work!
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opnion Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:14:27am |
re: #659 realwest
Well of course Sarah Palin's a dolt! She's a) republican - so the MSM is always gonna be against her and b) she is, from all accounts a successful governor of a state and c) never even attended, much less graduated, from Harvard!
Good morning Real. During the campaign, a friend of mine pointed out that Palin attended too many colleges. He of course is a BHO supporter.
My respose was, "So what, she got into each one honestly without any preferential set asides. Bet even you don't believe that about Obama."
To his credit he conceded the point.
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funky chicken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:14:33am |
notutopia had this posted in the spinoff links. just ... sigh
[Link: www.foxnews.com...]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- California's Mojave Desert may seem ideally suited for solar energy production, but concern over what several proposed projects might do to the aesthetics of the region and its tortoise population is setting up a potential clash between conservationists and companies seeking to develop renewable energy.
Nineteen companies have submitted applications to build solar or wind facilities on a parcel of 500,000 desert acres, but Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Friday such development would violate the spirit of what conservationists had intended when they donated much of the land to the public.
Feinstein said Friday she intends to push legislation that would turn the land into a national monument, which would allow for existing uses to continue while preventing future development.
The Wildlands Conservancy orchestrated the government's purchase of the land between 1999-2004. It negotiated a discount sale from the real estate arm of the former Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad and then contributed $40 million to help pay for the purchase. David Myers, the conservancy's executive director, said the solar projects would do great harm to the region's desert tortoise population.
"It would destroy the entire Mojave Desert ecosystem," said David Myers, executive director of The Wildlands Conservancy.
snip
Greg Miller of the Bureau of Land Management said there are 14 solar energy and five wind energy projects that have submitted applications seeking to develop on what's referred to as the former Catellus lands. None of the projects are close to being approved, he said.
The land lies in the southeast corner of California, between the existing Mojave National Preserve on the north and Joshua Tree National Park on the south.
"They all have to go through a rigorous environmental analysis now," Miller said. "It will be at best close to two years out before we get some of these grants approved."
So 2 national parks aren't enough to keep solar panels from "destroying the entire Mojave Desert ecosystem?
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:14:57am |
re: #637 alegrias
Ah, "(Dems did not want to wage warfare against totalitarian dictators with whom they share tactics and philosopshy's)"
There, FTFY!
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:15:24am |
re: #675 alegrias
I got a kick out of that. Some poor schlub in the WH maintenance crew has already got his marching orders from Michelle.....It vill be a fantastic garden, or you're going to Gitmo.
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newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:16:00am |
re: #631 Beach Lover
We. Can. Only. Hope that is true.
But, just as he is all for "taking responsibility", he only says the words, but has no concept of the meaning. He doesn't have the "responsible" gene and certainly was never taught it by his parents or grandparents.
The way he 'took responsibility' was in a mocking way. He was trying to imply, it wasn't his fault but probably the previous adm.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:16:21am |
re: #671 pingjockey
I thought it was "Wal-Mart reeducation camps"?!
* * * *
Yes, you have a point the Dems are class warfare crazy snobs who'd rather buy clothes in Manhattan's designer trunk shows, or get them free from fashionistas such as those who dress Michelle Obama--who used to shop online for kids' clothes.
In Obama's country, Wal-Mart is the enemy!
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:18:00am |
re: #682 alegrias
Yeppers! Actually anyone who has their own job, not on the gov't tit is the enemy, anyone making over 40k a year is the enemy, capitalism is the enemy.
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abolitionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:18:30am |
re: #482 HoosierHoops
Good Morning Lizards..
How is everyone this fine day? I'm watching a really sweet movie this morning.
It's light fare but fun..Elizabethtown with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst..
Why I'm watching a chick flick we'll never know..But really.. When this movie first came out I told everybody back home..That small town in the movie is just like where we live now..You've got to come visit..check it out..
My daughter recommended Elizabethtown to me. Much better than Crybaby.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:18:58am |
re: #645 Mich-again
What a joke. Everyone thought that Obama could swoon the world in the same manner he swooned the American Left.
LOL.
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:18:59am |
He must be so exhausted! After the crueling week of flying all over the US and taping the Tonight Show. Good thing he has a nice little retreat to go for the weekend!
*spit*
[Link: www.google.com...]
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:19:05am |
re: #649 JCM IIRC (but who can really be sure with that 1300 page Magnum Opus) foreign banks were not given money under our bailout bill and it was AIG's business to make good on those insurance claims - otherwise they would have gone under and dragged not a few banks with them, in spite of the bailout money for the banks (the banks didn't include the money they exected and had contracted with AIG to receive when they came up with their bailout requests).
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VegasRick Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:19:12am |
re: #684 Iron Fist
re: #654 JCM
Yeah, I've been looking around a little just to finish crushing my hopes of ever owing such a thing. The slide, if you can find it is a $600-1000 part! Novack has one gun available for $3 grand. It isn't as pretty as the one in the picture.
I've also seen Damascus grips. I don't know that either does much more than set there and look pretty, but it's like with a georgeuos woman. What more does she need to do but set there and look pretty?
It is out of my price range, and probably always will be. If I had the money, I'd put it in to a semi-MG-42, PKM, H&K21 or the like.But damn if it ain't a pretty pistol.
Purty lips!
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:19:13am |
re: #680 pingjockey
I got a kick out of that. Some poor schlub in the WH maintenance crew has already got his marching orders from Michelle.....It vill be a fantastic garden, or you're going to Gitmo.
* * * *
"You VILL schovel the Organisches Scheisse, and you Will LIKE it, Mein Kapitalistisches Hund."
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:19:48am |
re: #683 ploome hineni
Joe Nocera writes the Talking Business column for The New York Times each Saturday. Mr. Nocera is also a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine. In addition to his work at The Times, he serves as a regular business commentator for NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon.
Before joining The Times in 2005, Mr. Nocera spent 10 years at Fortune Magazine, where he held a variety of positions, including contributing writer, editor-at-large and executive editor. His last position at Fortune was editorial director. He was the Profit Motive columnist at GQ until May 1995, and he wrote the same column for Esquire from 1988 until 1990. In the 1980's, he served as a contributing editor at Newsweek, as executive editor of New England Monthly and as senior editor at Texas Monthly. From 1978 until 1980, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly.
Mr. Nocera's column ranges widely over the world of business, covering everything from Home Depot's annual meeting to Boeing's comeback to his off-beat musings about his broken iPod. Slate magazine says that his column "demystifies the world of business with original thinking, brainy reporting and the ability to see around corners."
Mr. Nocera has won three Gerald Loeb awards, including the 2008 award for commentary, and three John Hancock awards for excellence in business journalism. His book, "A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class," (Touchstone, 1995) won the New York Public Library's 1995 Helen Bernstein Award as the best non-fiction book of the year. He anchored the 1997 Frontline documentary, "Betting on the Market," which aired on PBS, and in 2003, edited "The Smartest Guys in the Room," (Portfolio, 2003) the best-selling book about Enron written by two Fortune senior writers. His most recent book, “Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind The Scenes With The Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything In Between)” (Portfolio, 2008) was published this spring. He was a 2007 Pulitzer finalist.
Mr. Nocera earned a B.S. in journalism from Boston University in 1974. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island on May 6, 1952, and lives in New York City.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:20:55am |
re: #650 Iron Fist
Good morning Iron Fist! I'll say that's a beautful firearm ok, but for me there isn't a .45 in the WORLD that's worth $10,000.
Of course, if I were a Dem and had attended Harvard I might think otherwise!
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filetandrelease Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:21:12am |
re: #670 KenJen
Shhhhh. He's resting up for the b-balls games this weekend.
Ew ew ew, I wonder who he is going to pick! Not.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:21:23am |
re: #684 Iron Fist
re: #654 JCM
Yeah, I've been looking around a little just to finish crushing my hopes of ever owing such a thing. The slide, if you can find it is a $600-1000 part! Novack has one gun available for $3 grand. It isn't as pretty as the one in the picture.
I've also seen Damascus grips. I don't know that either does much more than set there and look pretty, but it's like with a georgeuos woman. What more does she need to do but set there and look pretty?
It is out of my price range, and probably always will be. If I had the money, I'd put it in to a semi-MG-42, PKM, H&K21 or the like.
But damn if it ain't a pretty pistol.
If I had more disposable income, I would be collecting.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:21:31am |
re: #673 realwest
Okay - that made me weep.
What I don't understand is what anyone who voted for Obama thought would exactly 'change'? That Iran would all of a sudden love America? They see him as a weak man worthy of contempt. Would not be at all surprised if they start ratcheting up the rhetoric.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:21:33am |
re: #687 FrogMarch
What a joke. Everyone thought that Obama could swoon the world in the same manner he swooned the American Left.
LOL.
* * * *
Those Mad Mullahs whom he wished a Happy Nowruz Mubarak have already told Obama where to put his change all right.
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:21:43am |
re: #689 realwest
JCM IIRC (but who can really be sure with that 1300 page Magnum Opus) foreign banks were not given money under our bailout bill and it was AIG's business to make good on those insurance claims - otherwise they would have gone under and dragged not a few banks with them, in spite of the bailout money for the banks (the banks didn't include the money they exected and had contracted with AIG to receive when they came up with their bailout requests).
That is absolutely true. They had to pay off on those credit default swaps or else go into default.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:22:10am |
Sheesh, the guy is Jimmy Carter.That homespun bowling crap on Jay Leno, followed by the turgid, teachy fiscal policy lecture, together with the hurt defensiveness (and bad script for it) that everybody in Washington “is Simon Cowell… Everybody’s got an opinion,” is pure I’m-in-over-my-head stuff. Even the idea of having to go on Jay Leno to rescue yourself from the AIG mess is lame. Be a man, man.
The guy just doesn’t know what to say. He can’t connect. Emotions are here, he’s over there. He can’t get the words to match the situation.
This began, I’d argue, from the first moment. He punted on the inaugural. Everybody ran around like crazy trying to praise it because if Barack Obama couldn’t give a speech then what?
But now, at week 11, we’re face-to-face with the reality, the man can’t talk worth a damn. . . . It’s instructive and humorous to remember that Carter ran a brilliant campaign that succeeded largely because his voice was new. Simple, direct, basic, human. And then, of course, he turned into a sad-sack twit.
(via insta)
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KenJen Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:22:33am |
re: #688 Beach Lover
He must be so exhausted! After the crueling week of flying all over the US and taping the Tonight Show. Good thing he has a nice little retreat to go for the weekend!
*spit*
[Link: www.google.com...]
He didnt want to get skewered at the Gridiron. Thats why he's heading to Camp David-not to spend time with the girls.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:22:43am |
re: #694 realwest
Good morning Iron Fist! I'll say that's a beautful firearm ok, but for me there isn't a .45 in the WORLD that's worth $10,000.
Of course, if I were a Dem and had attended Harvard I might think otherwise!
There's a lot of things to do with $10k. But if I had $10k with absolutely nothing better to do....
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opnion Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:23:55am |
re: #688 Beach Lover
He must be so exhausted! After the crueling week of flying all over the US and taping the Tonight Show. Good thing he has a nice little retreat to go for the weekend!
*spit*
[Link: www.google.com...]
Obama is a slacker, he has an aversion to work.
The book on him when he was an IL Senator is that he was lazy.
For that matter Michelle had a reputation as a lazy worker.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:23:56am |
re: #698 alegrias
Michael Medved ran the tape last night. What a buncha crap. Quoting some Persian Poet, speaking in Farsi, the mad mullahs WILL see this as weakness. I hope our Israeli friends are keeping a very close eye on those bastards in Tehran.
| 706 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:24:53am |
My country bonused me,
Great land of liberty
of thee I sing......
Connecticut AG says AIG documents show $218M, not $165M, paid in bonuses
Connecticut's attorney general says documents turned over to his office by American International Group Inc. shows the company paid out $218 million in bonuses, higher than the $165 million previously disclosed.
Pedestrians pass an American International Group office building Friday, March 20, 2009, in New York.Attorney General Richard Blumenthal's office received the documents late Friday after issuing a subpoena.
Blumenthal says the documents show that 73 people received at least $1 million apiece, and five of those got bonuses of more than $4 million.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:24:57am |
Oh, noez. The Kid just left on his trip to Denver. It's so quiet I can hardly stand it. My widdle boy is gone.
*whimper*
| 708 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:25:15am |
re: #698 alegrias
* * * *
Those Mad Mullahs whom he wished a Happy Nowruz Mubarak have already told Obama where to put his change all right.
He's Noorooz greeting is another faux paux that no one gets.
Noorooz is an ancient Persian holiday based in Zorastarianism that the Mad Mullahs have been trying to stamp out.
| 709 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:25:48am |
re: #707 MandyManners
Oh damn. What's young Mr. Manners going to Denver for?
| 710 |
Mich-again Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:25:54am |
I'd like to watch Reid, Pelosi, Frank and Obama sit down to play a game of Monopoly. I'm guessing that with that crowd there would have to be some rule changes before they could play.
First, the bank will need more money. $15,140 won't do. Better quadruple that amount and include a printing press to make more. As for the $200 for passing GO, make it $2,000. $200 is chump change.
Second, there needs to be a panel of lawyers to make sure no one gets discriminated against by ending up in jail for no good reason or getting charged too much rent.
Third, the houses should be free. Its not fair to have to actually buy a house.
Fourth, there needs to be some renaming of property. Martin Luther King Blvd. and a Rosa Parks Drive are the first two that come to mind.
And those dreadful game pieces. The cannon, battleship, car, iron, top hat, all symbols of repression.
And last, every turn around the board the people who gained money would have to give it back to the ones who lost it so that the stacks all stayed level. Have fun.
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filetandrelease Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:26:20am |
re: #675 alegrias
* * * *
Maybe Obama's busy dumping organic manure into his "Defeatist" (not Victory) Garden plot next to the Oval Office.
Yes, I can see where that might take awhile.
| 713 |
revobob Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:26:22am |
re: #650 Iron Fist
Is OR around? This is absolutely beautiful (safe for work). I bet it runs $8 to 10 grand, but it is gorgeous. I do believe it is the most beautiful .45 I've ever seen.
Caspian has been making and selling those Damascus slides for a few years now, and they make up into a beautiful gun. This 'un IS a beauty!
| 714 |
alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:26:29am |
re: #702 KenJen
He didnt want to get skewered at the Gridiron. Thats why he's heading to Camp David-not to spend time with the girls.
* * * *
Obama's enjoying the perks of power, but can't handle the (friendly) "heat" of the Gridiron Club.
Contrast with President Bush who strode into the lions' dens knowing the press was against him from the get-go. Like the real man Bush was, not this thinskinned wimp with a teleprompter who can't live without constant adulation.
| 715 |
opnion Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:26:52am |
See ya later Lizards. Day two cleaning up outside after our long Season of Global Warming.
| 716 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:27:08am |
re: #711 JCM
I'd love a slice of that bonus money.
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:27:18am |
re: #698 alegrias
* * * *
Those Mad Mullahs whom he wished a Happy Nowruz Mubarak have already told Obama where to put his change all right.
President Obama: UNCLENCH, LOVE ME OH MULLAS, LOVE MEEEEEEEE
Iran: Fuck you, death to America, Allahu Akbar, yadda yadda!
-WriterMom
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filetandrelease Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:27:33am |
re: #697 rightymouse
Okay - that made me weep.
What I don't understand is what anyone who voted for Obama thought would exactly 'change'? That Iran would all of a sudden love America? They see him as a weak man worthy of contempt. Would not be at all surprised if they start ratcheting up the rhetoric.
Umm, don't be, it has already begun.
| 719 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:27:44am |
re: #714 alegrias
GW was quick enough to give as good as he got. The one has no capability to take any jibbing.
| 720 |
Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:27:52am |
re: #704 opnion
not surprised in the least. He's "entitled" doncha know.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:28:19am |
re: #705 pingjockey
Michael Medved ran the tape last night. What a buncha crap. Quoting some Persian Poet, speaking in Farsi, the mad mullahs WILL see this as weakness. I hope our Israeli friends are keeping a very close eye on those bastards in Tehran.
* * * *
"As the iranian poet Saaaadi, said, blah blah blah."
Rashid Khalidi or some other Columbia professor jihadists are encouraging this geek to make an ass out of our country, and pin the tail on our donkey.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:28:31am |
re: #691 alegrias
* * * *
"You VILL schovel the Organisches Scheisse, and you Will LIKE it, Mein Kapitalistisches SchweinHund."
Excellent!
Just had to embellish it a little bit ...
| 723 |
rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:29:18am |
| 724 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:29:26am |
re: #709 pingjockey
Oh damn. What's young Mr. Manners going to Denver for?
Vacation with my dad. It's a "Man Trip".
| 725 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:29:26am |
re: #721 alegrias
He is getting very pro islam advice that is going to get U.S. citizens killed.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:30:15am |
re: #724 MandyManners
Going to Denver with grampa! Oh my! They'll have a ball.
| 728 |
jaunte Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:30:20am |
Caspian Arms: Swedish damascus steel, machined in the U.S.
[Link: www.caspianarms.com...]
[Link: www.thegunzone.com...]
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filetandrelease Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:30:24am |
re: #707 MandyManners
Oh, noez. The Kid just left on his trip to Denver. It's so quiet I can hardly stand it. My widdle boy is gone.
*whimper*
My olderst son, 19, was talking to me last night about moving to CO for a while. He loves to snow board and can continue his education on line. So sad.
| 730 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:31:06am |
re: #727 pingjockey
Going to Denver with grampa! Oh my! They'll have a ball.
I hope Denver will survive.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:31:38am |
re: #729 filetandrelease
My olderst son, 19, was talking to me last night about moving to CO for a while. He loves to snow board and can continue his education on line. So sad.
Strings and wings.
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:31:58am |
re: #714 alegrias
I bet it must drive Obama absolutely crazy that people around the country are criticizing him, and worse, laughing at him. He's never gotten anything but "atta boy's" his whole coddled life and now he's finally hearing from people who couldn't care less about hurting his precious feelings. I hope it eats him up inside that much of the country considers him a clown.
| 733 |
lawhawk Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:32:04am |
Phony outrage alert. Congress knew about the executive compensation issue, and did nothing. Actually, that's wrong. They did worse than nothing. They specifically authorized it and now claim outrage over the fact that AIG gets the bonus packages to the point that they're willing to pass confiscatory taxes to recoup the bonuses.
Congress knew how to prevent executive compensation packages. They demanded as much when they decided to give Citigroup a $20 billion bailout.
This Congress - and this leadership - knew. And chose differently.
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KenJen Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:32:15am |
re: #714 alegrias
Exactly. Plus Obama has no sense of humor. He just wouldn't get it and he'd more than likely stick his foot in his mouth. He's got to be sick of the taste of his shoes by now.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:32:25am |
re: #724 MandyManners
IIRC, your boy and mine are both 9. Grampas' and grammas' for that matter are no longer our parents. They are grandparents and such unrecognizable to us as the people who raised us!
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:32:49am |
re: #707 MandyManners
Oh, noez. The Kid just left on his trip to Denver. It's so quiet I can hardly stand it. My widdle boy is gone.
*whimper*
Embrace it, Mandy! Run around the house nekkid!
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:33:05am |
re: #730 MandyManners
Denver will, your dad may be a bit frazzled by the time they get back!
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ciaospirit Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:33:09am |
re: #674 Beach Lover
anyone see this article yet?
read it and weep...really ;-(
but then most of us here already knew this about him.[Link: www.americanthinker.com...]
And B. Hussein has a new circle of pastor friends. With this standout...Jim Wallis of Sojourners influencing BO on policy.
He and Sojourners have an anti-Israel animus -- just as did Pastor Wright. The magazine and church bulletins published under the aegis of Pastor Wright carried manifestos from a Hamas leader ; Sojourners magazine has also carried pro-Hamas pieces.
But Pastor Wright and Jim Wallis share much more: a stark anti-Americanism and a radicalism sharply at odds with the vast majority of religious figures in America.
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:33:26am |
re: #707 MandyManners
Oh, noez. The Kid just left on his trip to Denver. It's so quiet I can hardly stand it. My widdle boy is gone.
*whimper*
Awww - {Mandy}!
Mind - at least he won't scoff all your croutons today!
| 740 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:34:15am |
re: #736 Sharmuta
Mwahahaha! Mandy nekkid, running around whacking the tv, telling talking heads to piss up a rope, etc....
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:35:47am |
re: #735 pingjockey
IIRC, your boy and mine are both 9. Grampas' and grammas' for that matter are no longer our parents. They are grandparents and such unrecognizable to us as the people who raised us!
He's eight but, you're right about the grandparent thing. He's a different critter now.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:36:05am |
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jaunte Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:36:05am |
re: #732 Lincolntf
I bet it must drive Obama absolutely crazy that people around the country are criticizing him, and worse, laughing at him. He's never gotten anything but "atta boy's" his whole coddled life and now he's finally hearing from people who couldn't care less about hurting his precious feelings. I hope it eats him up inside that much of the country considers him a clown.
Sam Vaknin has some detailed writings about Narcisssism, for example: How narcissists react to criticism:
Pernicious or Passive-Aggressive (P/A)
.... They sabotage and damage the work and possessions of people whom they regard to be the sources of their mounting frustration.
[Link: www.narcissistic-abuse.com...]
Fits the Alinskyite template, too.
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:36:19am |
re: #738 ciaospirit
It's kind of funny that Obama has direct connections to so many people/groups that would be banned from respectable online communities.
The freakin' blogosphere has higher standards than the White House. Pathetic.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:36:42am |
re: #737 pingjockey
Denver will, your dad may be a bit frazzled by the time they get back!
Denver survived the DNC convention.
| 747 |
Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:36:46am |
re: #732 Lincolntf
which is why he is skipping the gridiron dinner tonight. He couldn't stand to be ridiculed in front of all those people! I hope they really pick on him for not being there. (I know, won't happen) Remember how the media used to say how lazy Reagan was?
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:36:46am |
re: #738 ciaospirit
Sojourners Magazine
Mission Statement
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Fucking Marxist Liberation Theology. Obama can't cut the Marxist ties.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:37:03am |
re: #732 Lincolntf
I bet it must drive Obama absolutely crazy that people around the country are criticizing him, and worse, laughing at him. He's never gotten anything but "atta boy's" his whole coddled life and now he's finally hearing from people who couldn't care less about hurting his precious feelings. I hope it eats him up inside that much of the country considers him a clown.
* * * *
While I don't want Obama to have a nervous breakdown, it would take a real man to say, like Reagan did, maybe these FDR philosophies and programs I've believed my whole life DON'T WORK.
It takes a real strong person to be humble enough to admit they (or their previous beliefs) are wrong, and to CHANGE COURSE. (like Bush did in Iraq)
Reagan threw his leftist beliefs under the bus and became an ardent freedom- pushing man, who really changed the world.
I pray for a SURGE of "awakening" & sense in Obama, and an administration full of democrats that decides to do a U-turn.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:37:10am |
re: #739 yma o hyd
Awww - {Mandy}!
Mind - at least he won't scoff all your croutons today!
I might make some just for the heck of it.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:37:13am |
re: #741 MandyManners
Knew they were close in age. My wife quotes a line by Bill Cosby...."Grandparents are old people trying to get into heaven".
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:38:02am |
re: #743 MandyManners
It's warm enough.
Go for it, Girl!
Seriously- have a week of spoiling yourself guilt free. Do what YOU want for a week!
| 754 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:38:21am |
re: #746 MandyManners
Hmmm...That is true. So I guess you don't need to warn the city that the dynamic duo is on the way!
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:38:40am |
re: #740 pingjockey
Mwahahaha! Mandy nekkid, running around whacking the tv, telling talking heads to piss up a rope, etc....
* * * *
Hoarding the croutons for her guests!
| 756 |
esch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:38:57am |
re: #743 MandyManners
It's warm enough.
Oh, so many possibilities.
/Do I feel like whackage? Naaaahhh...
| 757 |
Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:39:39am |
You have a week to be Mandy- not Mom. It's a rare and special treat, so enjoy it while you have it because you will be back to Mom before you know it.
| 758 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:40:00am |
re: #678 funky chicken
Good morning funky chicken - please see my #544 above.
The worse news is that Senator Dianne Feinstein is supporting the prohibition of using the Mojave Desert for Solar/Wind Power.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:40:39am |
re: #753 Sharmuta
That is a seriously good idea. I got my better half some aroma therapy candles and bath stuff. She goes in locks the door for like 3 hrs and hides from us for a break! Runs the water hot enough to boil lobster!
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redneckkahfir Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:40:42am |
re: #711 JCM
JCM, IIRC, you are a luthier (sp) correct.
Im not rich but I do have a guitar needing repair....
My nic is blue if you are interested.
| 761 |
alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:41:12am |
re: #742 Iron Fist
Realwest
Things like this are why I say I could drop $100 grand on guns and not come close to getting everything I want. I'm kind of like the Federal Government in spending: no matter how much I'm able to spend, there's still things taht are out of my price range. Only if I were the federal government, I'd come around sticking a gun in your face to take the money away from you to support my habit.
I chose those words carefully. Yes, I was intending to draw a parallel between the Federal Government and a herion junkie.
* * * * *
Watch ACORN thugs get detailed to become IRS Collection Agents, door to door.
Jeez, like in Spain when the communist & socialist thugs came around to our houses saying, we will take your houses, in the 1970s.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:41:28am |
re: #760 redneckkahfir
JCM, IIRC, you are a luthier (sp) correct.
Im not rich but I do have a guitar needing repair....
My nic is blue if you are interested.
Talk to Kilgore, he's the luthier! Do you need a circuit board designed?
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:41:37am |
re: #749 alegrias
I pray for a SURGE of "awakening" & sense in Obama, and an administration full of democrats that decides to do a U-turn.resign.
FTFY
| 764 |
pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:41:56am |
re: #758 realwest
Ya notice everytime some kind of alternate energy plant is proposed, no matter where it is, the donks are against it?
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ciaospirit Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:42:17am |
re: #733 lawhawk
Phony outrage alert. Congress knew about the executive compensation issue, and did nothing. Actually, that's wrong. They did worse than nothing. They specifically authorized it and now claim outrage over the fact that AIG gets the bonus packages to the point that they're willing to pass confiscatory taxes to recoup the bonuses.
Congress knew how to prevent executive compensation packages. They demanded as much when they decided to give Citigroup a $20 billion bailout.
This Congress - and this leadership - knew. And chose differently.
Not only that. It looks like the Government owes AIG 306 million dollarswww.nytimes.com...]> in tax over payments. Take a look at the protesters in the pic at the site. Says much as they stupidly help B Hussein keep the focus off the real problem of his insane policies.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:42:35am |
re: #747 Beach Lover
which is why he is skipping the gridiron dinner tonight. He couldn't stand to be ridiculed in front of all those people! I hope they really pick on him for not being there. (I know, won't happen) Remember how the media used to say how lazy Reagan was?
* * * *
Reagan took a bullet in his first 100 days in office, and nearly died. Yet Reagan despite his age and a bullet wound, and the ocassional nap, CHANGED the world!
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:42:52am |
re: #764 pingjockey
Ya notice everytime some kind of alternate energy plant is proposed, no matter where it is, the donks are against it?
They can live in the damn cave them, I'm not giving up heat or A/C.
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funky chicken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:43:59am |
Well, gotta go accomplish some stuff. Reading about Barry and his lovely group of "religious leaders" is depressing.
How on earth did people not see what the guy was and is?
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:44:06am |
re: #766 alegrias
That is because RWR had a solid foundation in his core principles and didn't waver. If obambi has any core principles it is socialism writ large.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:44:14am |
re: #766 alegrias
* * * *
Reagan took a bullet in his first 100 days in office, and nearly died. Yet Reagan despite his age and a bullet wound, and the ocassional nap, CHANGED the world!
And want was Reagan's response to being shot?
"I forgot to duck honey." and "I hope all you doctors are Republicans."
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:44:20am |
re: #748 JCM
Fucking Marxist Liberation Theology. Obama can't cut the Marxist ties.
* * * *
Worse, Obama now invites these people into the White House behind closed doors.
Dick Cheney wouldn't have met with such haters even in a non-disclosed location, much less the hallowed grounds of our President's seat of power.
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VegasRick Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:44:33am |
re: #764 pingjockey
Ya notice everytime some kind of alternate energy plant is proposed, no matter where it is, the donks are against it?
They suck.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:44:54am |
re: #767 JCM
You wait, they want to rip out the dams on the Columbia.
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pingjockey Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:45:36am |
BBIAB. Laundry, never ending. 3 boys doncha know!
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:45:37am |
Why the little people, the same people left-wingers find disposable, are better people - real people.
I work with special needs kids every day. During the fall we go bowling on Fridays. There is no doubt in my mind that many of these kids would destroy Barack in this sport. There is one difference though between these kids and the President. They wouldn’t laugh at him. They wouldn’t make fun of him. As a matter of fact, they would cheer for him every time he was lucky enough to knock down a pin, and pat him on the back when he didn’t knock down any at all.
[Link: pajamasmedia.com...]
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esch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:45:46am |
re: #732 Lincolntf
I bet it must drive Obama absolutely crazy that people around the country are criticizing him, and worse, laughing at him. He's never gotten anything but "atta boy's" his whole coddled life and now he's finally hearing from people who couldn't care less about hurting his precious feelings. I hope it eats him up inside that much of the country considers him a clown.
No mercy.
I'm waiting for the meltdown. Maybe then we can get back to business.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:45:57am |
re: #774 MandyManners
I'm cranking up the music now.
Everyone stand back! Mandy's going into self-indulgence mode!
/It's all good- she's earned it
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:46:53am |
re: #764 pingjockey
Ya notice everytime some kind of alternate energy plant is proposed, no matter where it is, the donks are against it?
* * * *
YES. And for some reason, libs & dems don't want to emulate the French when it comes to adopting nuclear power.
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Lincolntf Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:47:04am |
re: #764 pingjockey
Yup. They are anti-energy because energy means commerce and wealth. Plain and simple.
The snail darters, tortoises, etc. are just convenient justifications for their anti-progress agenda.
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lawhawk Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:47:06am |
re: #765 ciaospirit
To be fair, Obama's policies aren't that different than the policies first instituted by Bush, Geithner, and Paulson at the end of 2008. The takeovers and bailouts were bad policy, but Bush went ahead with them anyway because his economics team told him that inaction might lead to a complete freeze of the credit markets and a total economic meltdown.
Instead of limiting the bailouts, Obama has expanded them and continues throwing money at these companies. AIG is an insurer, and the money going to them is being used to prop up banks around the world and domestically beyond what TARP could achieve.
Oh, and Geithner still hasn't announced the plans yet for his latest move to fix and stabilize the credit markets (which is why the markets remain in a holding pattern and drop whenever Geithner speaks and doesn't announce the plan).
| 783 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:47:16am |
re: #697 rightymouse Let's hope the rhetoric is all they rachet up.
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Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:47:19am |
re: #766 alegrias
Oh how I miss Reagan!
Can there be any hope for us conservatives to find another one for this generation? Or are we doomed to the American Idol mentality?
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:47:45am |
re: #772 alegrias
* * * *
Worse, Obama now invites these people into the White House behind closed doors.Dick Cheney wouldn't have met with such haters even in a non-disclosed location, much less the hallowed grounds of our President's seat of power.
When the first words in a "christian" groups mission statement are "social justice" you know they aren't Christian. They are fucking commie bastards.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:47:45am |
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:48:34am |
re: #776 pingjockey
BBIAB. Laundry, never ending. 3 boys doncha know!
That reminds me: NO DRYER BUZZERS THIS WEEK!
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:48:38am |
re: #699 3 wood Hey good morning 3 wood - good to see you again. Yeah, that was AIG's business and they would have gone under if they didn't pay off those claims.
How are you doing today?
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:49:06am |
re: #774 MandyManners
I'm cranking up the music now.
bubble baths. don't forget bubble baths.
re: #765 ciaospirit
Not only that. It looks like the Government owes AIG 306 million dollarswww.nytimes.com...]> in tax over payments. Take a look at the protesters in the pic at the site. Says much as they stupidly help B Hussein keep the focus off the real problem of his insane policies.
those people aren't crazed conservatives.
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rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:49:10am |
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:49:12am |
re: #787 MandyManners
That reminds me: NO DRYER BUZZERS THIS WEEK!
Another good reason to go nekkid.
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funky chicken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:49:28am |
re: #758 realwest
Yeah, just unbelievable. The thing that got me the most was the hysterical claim that building the solar power plants would "destroy the entire Mojave Desert ecosystem" while there are already 2 vast areas of the Mojave that are national parks/preserves.
I really think CA is fucked...no oil, no coal, no nuclear, and now no solar or wind power because protecting 50% of the Mojave Desert from development is not enough?
I'm feeling quite a bit of despair today because voters keep falling for this crap, over and over again. SAVE THE DESERT! Dammit, they're already saving huge amounts of it, and those power plants would do a lot of good.
Argh. Time to log off and try to not think about Barry and his band of idiots.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:49:44am |
re: #779 Sharmuta
Everyone stand back! Mandy's going into self-indulgence mode!
/It's all good- she's earned it
I foresee a few long, long bubble baths.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:50:38am |
re: #700 Iron Fist That's about as cool a thing as I've read in a long time.
Too bad the 54 hostages didn't have firearms with them at the time.
For one thing, Little Shit would no longer be with us.
Thanks for telling me that my friend.
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Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:51:02am |
re: #793 MandyManners
Make some meals the Kid doesn't like but you love.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:51:03am |
re: #771 JCM
And want was Reagan's response to being shot?
"I forgot to duck honey." and "I hope all you doctors are Republicans."
* * **
The Ronald Reagan Emergency Center has been torn down at George Washington University Hospital. I pray for him when I walk past the now open pit construction site on which it stood.
GW built a new hospital across the street on 23rd St., N.W. in Foggy Bottom, a mile up from the State Department. I'll check to see it they still call it the Ronald Reagan Emergency Room.
| 798 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:51:09am |
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redneckkahfir Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:51:14am |
Kilgore, May I send you an email with the particulars?
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FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:51:46am |
re: #733 lawhawk
Phony outrage alert. Congress knew about the executive compensation issue, and did nothing. Actually, that's wrong. They did worse than nothing. They specifically authorized it and now claim outrage over the fact that AIG gets the bonus packages to the point that they're willing to pass confiscatory taxes to recoup the bonuses.
Congress knew how to prevent executive compensation packages. They demanded as much when they decided to give Citigroup a $20 billion bailout.
This Congress - and this leadership - knew. And chose differently.
Related: "Get the hell out of my way"
| 802 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:51:54am |
| 803 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:52:04am |
Protesters Clash with Police in France
| 804 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:52:19am |
re: #704 opnion Yep, and who can forget his little vacation in Hawaii during the bank/TAARP crisis?
When the going gets tough, Obama gets going......out of town.
| 805 |
newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:52:24am |
re: #782 lawhawk
Bush had a meeting with both presidential candidated in attendance. He listened to them. One of them was going to be the next POTUS and would be in charge of what happens next. Both the 0 and McCain wanted the bailout.
| 807 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:53:05am |
re: #782 lawhawk
To be fair, Obama's policies aren't that different than the policies first instituted by Bush, Geithner, and Paulson at the end of 2008. The takeovers and bailouts were bad policy, but Bush went ahead with them anyway because his economics team told him that inaction might lead to a complete freeze of the credit markets and a total economic meltdown.
Instead of limiting the bailouts, Obama has expanded them and continues throwing money at these companies. AIG is an insurer, and the money going to them is being used to prop up banks around the world and domestically beyond what TARP could achieve.
Oh, and Geithner still hasn't announced the plans yet for his latest move to fix and stabilize the credit markets (which is why the markets remain in a holding pattern and drop whenever Geithner speaks and doesn't announce the plan).
Yep, it seems that a lot of people forget that Bush and company were not exactly friends of capitalism, especially toward the end of his second term.
That's why I keep harping on the fact that it's not a Democrat versus Republican thing that we need to be supporting, but we need to look at ANYONE who is willing to take on the special interest plutocracy and the political kleptocrats in Washington.
Unless we start to under-mind the whole source of the problem, we are just doing their bidding. Right now the system is set up so that our support, Democrat or Republican, our support of anyone in those two parties simply helps keep status quo.
We are part of the problem until we start working against the established system.
| 808 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:53:14am |
re: #799 redneckkahfir
Kilgore, May I send you an email with the particulars?
You can post it here. Particulars about what?
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:53:32am |
re: #800 Sharmuta
You wild and crazy chick, you. ;p
Maybe I'll break out the Nag Champa. He hates that stuff.
| 810 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:53:42am |
re: #806 JCM
The French sure love to riot.
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funky chicken Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:53:47am |
The Wildlands Conservancy orchestrated the government's purchase of the land between 1999-2004. It negotiated a discount sale from the real estate arm of the former Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Railroad and then contributed $40 million to help pay for the purchase. David Myers, the conservancy's executive director, said the solar projects would do great harm to the region's desert tortoise population."It would destroy the entire Mojave Desert ecosystem," said David Myers, executive director of The Wildlands Conservancy.
snip
Greg Miller of the Bureau of Land Management said there are 14 solar energy and five wind energy projects that have submitted applications seeking to develop on what's referred to as the former Catellus lands. None of the projects are close to being approved, he said.
The land lies in the southeast corner of California, between the existing Mojave National Preserve on the north and Joshua Tree National Park on the south.
"They all have to go through a rigorous environmental analysis now," Miller said. "It will be at best close to two years out before we get some of these grants approved."
Again, WTF? Why do people believe this tripe?
See you guys later.
| 813 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:54:51am |
re: #810 Killgore Trout
The French sure love to riot.
Is this a riot because it was Friday Night at the Riots or was there a "reason."
| 814 |
FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:54:55am |
| 815 |
alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:55:13am |
re: #784 Beach Lover
Oh how I miss Reagan!
Can there be any hope for us conservatives to find another one for this generation? Or are we doomed to the American Idol mentality?
* * **
There's plenty of non-idolater, non-idols out there, running their states, cities, & neighborhoods.
We must get more Americans off their butts and into the voting booth next time.
| 816 |
jaunte Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:55:19am |
re: #777 FrogMarch
re: #804 realwest
Just now reading a spinoff link Five Signs of a Flailing Presidency, in which Fred Barnes writes:
"2. The president gets out of town."
..
"He was interviewed by a sympathizer on talk radio, then by Jay Leno, who invariably makes his guests look good."
Unless the guest is rendered tone-deaf by narcissism.
[Link: www.weeklystandard.com...]
| 817 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:55:50am |
re: #775 pingjockey
You wait, they want to rip out the dams on the Columbia.
But those are FDR's damns, and they love FDR!
| 818 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:56:25am |
| 819 |
subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:56:34am |
Morning all.
Yesterday I mentioned that I had to leave because the vet was coming to put down our 13 year old dog, Falstaff.
I just wanted to thank everyone who sent their best wishes. It was a terribly hard decision to make, but it all went about as gently as I could have wished. He went quickly and quietly, and his two pals, Henry and Cujo were with us as well.
I'd especially like to thank buzzsawmonkey (don't know if you're here or not) for the Kipling poems. Believe it or not, they really helped. You're a terrific person!
This blog, and the folks on it, can be a very special place.
Thanks again - to everyone!
| 820 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:57:56am |
re: #810 Killgore Trout
The French sure love to riot.
Can you quickly fill in the details. Rioting for what? Are they restive yooths, striking regular French citizens, students.
These sort of street demonstrations are normal in France. You don't know a riot without a program.
Input?
| 821 |
Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:57:58am |
re: #809 MandyManners
Maybe I'll break out the Nag Champa. He hates that stuff.
Do whatever the heck you want for a whole WEEK!
| 822 |
Bobblehead Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:58:10am |
Attention TOTUS blog readers:
He is thinking of offering TOTUS merchandise and using the proceeds for charity. There is a poll up with with a list of charities. I don't know about you, but I've love to have a TOTUS t shirt or bumper sticker.
| 823 |
goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:58:11am |
re: #819 subsailor68
Morning all.
Yesterday I mentioned that I had to leave because the vet was coming to put down our 13 year old dog, Falstaff.
I just wanted to thank everyone who sent their best wishes. It was a terribly hard decision to make, but it all went about as gently as I could have wished. He went quickly and quietly, and his two pals, Henry and Cujo were with us as well.
I'd especially like to thank buzzsawmonkey (don't know if you're here or not) for the Kipling poems. Believe it or not, they really helped. You're a terrific person!
This blog, and the folks on it, can be a very special place.
Thanks again - to everyone!
{subsailor68}
| 824 |
irongrampa Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:58:29am |
Good morning from the Adirondacks. Chilly right now, no wind, and it's 'sposed to get into the 50's later. Great Spring weather.
Talked to a guy yesterday, he wants to buy one of my charcoal burners. As opposed to the 4 that I shoot, this is an authenticated Navy Colt, .36 caliber, bought at a garage sale years ago. The sweet old lady i bought it from had no idea about it, just "some kind of old gun". It was wrapped in some type of paper, coated with preservative to the point that just what type weqapon was unrecognizeable.
Short story, after weeks of cleaning, a gunsmith tells me it's a real Navy Colt. Finally had it authenticated by Colt, and it's pretty valuable.
Kinda think I'll keep it, to have a bit of history to hold.
| 825 |
redneckkahfir Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:58:30am |
OK, Ill post the info here,,,
I have recently inherited a 1941 or 42 Gibson L-00. it is in good shape but has a crack halfway down the back. I have been told the guitar has "some" value but I don't know enough about guitars to judge.
I don't even know if its worth fixing.
thanks ahead of time for any info you have.
| 826 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:58:48am |
re: #819 subsailor68
Morning all.
Yesterday I mentioned that I had to leave because the vet was coming to put down our 13 year old dog, Falstaff.
I just wanted to thank everyone who sent their best wishes. It was a terribly hard decision to make, but it all went about as gently as I could have wished. He went quickly and quietly, and his two pals, Henry and Cujo were with us as well.
I'd especially like to thank buzzsawmonkey (don't know if you're here or not) for the Kipling poems. Believe it or not, they really helped. You're a terrific person!
This blog, and the folks on it, can be a very special place.
Thanks again - to everyone!
My condolences on your loss.
| 827 |
alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:58:59am |
re: #785 JCM
When the first words in a "christian" groups mission statement are "social justice" you know they aren't Christian. They are fucking commie bastards.
* * * *
Out of Christian charity, I'll call them useful idiots. Heaven knows they MEAN well, though they've been led far down the garden path.
Remember the twisted bumpersticker that passed as faux Biblical wisdom:
"Jesus was a (Palestinian!) community organizer; Pontius Pilate a (an evil empire) Governor" (like Sarah Palin)
| 828 |
yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:59:07am |
re: #810 Killgore Trout
The French sure love to riot.
You all watch out for the G20 meeting in Lunnon in April.
The Fwench will look like beginners - or so Scotland Yard fears:
Met: G20 protesters will stretch us to our limit
| 829 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:59:08am |
re: #820 Walter L. Newton
I think they're upset about the economy.
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MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 8:59:27am |
re: #819 subsailor68
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge.
When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge.
There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together.
There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent; His eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.
The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
| 831 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:00:11am |
Funny mugshot of me over at one of the stalker blogs.
| 832 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:00:12am |
re: #821 Sharmuta
Do whatever the heck you want for a whole WEEK!
I don't know if I remember how to do that.
| 833 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:01:02am |
| 834 |
subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:01:46am |
re: #830 MandyManners
Thanks Mandy! That's beautiful, isn't it?
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:01:57am |
re: #827 alegrias
* * * *
Out of Christian charity, I'll call them useful idiots. Heaven knows they MEAN well, though they've been led far down the garden path.Remember the twisted bumpersticker that passed as faux Biblical wisdom:
"Jesus was a (Palestinian!) community organizer; Pontius Pilate a (an evil empire) Governor" (like Sarah Palin)
I'm less kind. They reject the Word of God for a man made philosophy and wind of teaching, they lead others astray, and perpetuate spiritual, emotional and physical slavery.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:01:57am |
re: #761 alegrias
"Jeez, like in Spain when the communist & socialist thugs came around to our houses saying, we will take your houses, in the 1970s."
Oh so THAT'S where the IRS came up with that line!
I'm truly sorry to hear you had to go through that.
| 837 |
Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:02:08am |
re: #829 Killgore Trout
I think they're upset about the economy.
Well shit, that's been going on since WWII. You can't ever visit France with out getting caught up in a protest or strike about the economy. I have and it will happen again.
Those sort of demonstrations are basically harmless, no one gets hurt unless someone gets really stupid (or too drunk). The police don't even want to go through all the paperwork to arrest anyone. It's easier just to clean up the street later.
| 838 |
newsjunkie_ky Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:02:38am |
re: #819 subsailor68
Morning all.
Yesterday I mentioned that I had to leave because the vet was coming to put down our 13 year old dog, Falstaff.
I just wanted to thank everyone who sent their best wishes. It was a terribly hard decision to make, but it all went about as gently as I could have wished. He went quickly and quietly, and his two pals, Henry and Cujo were with us as well.
I'd especially like to thank buzzsawmonkey (don't know if you're here or not) for the Kipling poems. Believe it or not, they really helped. You're a terrific person!
This blog, and the folks on it, can be a very special place.
Thanks again - to everyone!
So very sorry. This helped me when Meggie passed last September.
Rainbow Bridge Video
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:02:52am |
re: #831 Killgore Trout
Funny mugshot of me over at one of the stalker blogs.
How did they get a picture of you? Would any picture of you be funny, or just this one? ;)
| 840 |
FrogMarch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:03:10am |
Don't forget, right or wrong, Bush and Paulson felt the need to inject the economy with money because of this. The pre-election gift from Soros to Obama.
| 841 |
Beach Lover Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:03:29am |
re: #819 subsailor68
oh no. Had similar situation with our 6 yr old golden in January. Did you get this one?
[Link: www.indigo.org...]
Sorry for your loss, {subsailor68}
| 843 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:04:04am |
re: #834 subsailor68
Thanks Mandy! That's beautiful, isn't it?
You're welcome. I wish I kenw who wrote it.
| 844 |
rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:04:32am |
re: #785 JCM
When the first words in a "christian" groups mission statement are "social justice" you know they aren't Christian. They are fucking commie bastards.
You got that straight!
| 846 |
rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:05:27am |
re: #835 JCM
I'm less kind. They reject the Word of God for a man made philosophy and wind of teaching, they lead others astray, and perpetuate spiritual, emotional and physical slavery.
A gazillion updings.
| 847 |
yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:05:30am |
re: #819 subsailor68
Morning all.
Yesterday I mentioned that I had to leave because the vet was coming to put down our 13 year old dog, Falstaff.
I just wanted to thank everyone who sent their best wishes. It was a terribly hard decision to make, but it all went about as gently as I could have wished. He went quickly and quietly, and his two pals, Henry and Cujo were with us as well.
I'd especially like to thank buzzsawmonkey (don't know if you're here or not) for the Kipling poems. Believe it or not, they really helped. You're a terrific person!
This blog, and the folks on it, can be a very special place.
Thanks again - to everyone!
{subsailor68}!
Its such a hard decision to make - but I'm glad Falstaff was surrounded by you all, and by his two pals. It really does help when they do their last steps in their familiar surroundings.
Here is the link to that wonderful Legend of the Rainbow Bridge
I'm certain that my Big Dog, and all the Lizard dogs who have gone there, were waiting to greet Falstaff with wagging tails!
Never forget - all the memories will live on in your hearts.
| 848 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:05:43am |
re: #825 redneckkahfir
OK, Ill post the info here,,,
I have recently inherited a 1941 or 42 Gibson L-00. it is in good shape but has a crack halfway down the back. I have been told the guitar has "some" value but I don't know enough about guitars to judge.
I don't even know if its worth fixing.
thanks ahead of time for any info you have.
Those are worth a couple thousand bucks. I'd guess maybe 2-$3,000 in good shape. If you have the money it would be well worth getting fixed up. I love those small bodied parlor guitars. I think they're really cool. If you just want to dump it and get some money you're best bet is to send it to an auction house like Skinner in Boston, they'll sell it for you an take a commision but you'll probably get a good price.
| 849 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:06:09am |
I'm watching some comedian on Comedy Central who's sipping booze and smoking a cigar.
| 850 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:06:27am |
re: #764 pingjockey
Oh yeah, especially the only alternative energy source that we know works and is safe and reliable, nuclear power plants.
I was kinda surprised (to put it mildly) that a Senator as astute as Dianne Feinstien would actually join in the chorus of people saying no to putting up Solar Power and Wind Power facilities in the damn Mojave Desert!WTF is wrong with these people? You want alternative energy that actually can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, the use of coal and other "horrible" things, GO WITH WHAT WE KNOW (and the French - who get 75% of all their electric power from nuclear power plants) WORKS NOW!
Shit.
| 851 |
Bobblehead Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:06:44am |
re: #819 subsailor68
Morning all.
Yesterday I mentioned that I had to leave because the vet was coming to put down our 13 year old dog, Falstaff.
I just wanted to thank everyone who sent their best wishes. It was a terribly hard decision to make, but it all went about as gently as I could have wished. He went quickly and quietly, and his two pals, Henry and Cujo were with us as well.
I'd especially like to thank buzzsawmonkey (don't know if you're here or not) for the Kipling poems. Believe it or not, they really helped. You're a terrific person!
This blog, and the folks on it, can be a very special place.
Thanks again - to everyone!
Oh my, it's so hard to lose a pet. So sorry.
| 852 |
Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:09am |
re: #832 MandyManners
I don't know if I remember how to do that.
You'll get into the swing of it just in time for the Kid to return.
| 853 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:14am |
re: #849 MandyManners
I'm watching some comedian on Comedy Central who's sipping booze and smoking a cigar.
George Burns!?
| 854 |
subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:15am |
This is the kind of thing that cheers me up:
Get a little tired of police-bashing - this kinda makes my day!
| 855 |
redneckkahfir Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:18am |
re: #848 Killgore Trout
Thanks for the lead.....ill go do some research.....
| 856 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:22am |
re: #684 Iron Fist
You were asking about the Murphy Man scam yesterday:
Murphy Man works like this. Hanging around a hotel bar, the Murphy Man (and for this con, the more of a low-life degenerate the operator looks, the better) approaches a guy in the bar. The mark has to have been seen obviously trying to pick up a lady and not meeting with a lot of success.
Murphy Man sidles over, has a beer, and talks with the mark about the situation, dropping hints that he's a pimp. But he's got to keep it light at first, see; he's not pandering, just making conversation.
He'll tell a few anecdotes, explaining that he frequently hangs out in places like this to try and find high-class customers for his business. He doesn't actually run hookers, see; he just finds and directs business to the place, is all.
If the mark seems even slightly interested, the Murphy Man will say, come on, let's take a walk. He leads the mark to an apartment building or another hotel nearby. They stop at the front door.
"Ok, bud, here's where we part ways. The room you want is (insert room number). Ask for Murphy. Then, take your pick of the girls there. That'll be (insert price here)."
Mark wants to know why he pays before he goes in. "You can't get caught for prostitution unless they can prove money changed hands. You never paid her, so you can't be charged, see?"
Mark pays up, and goes into the building, to knock on the door or ring the buzzer for a total stranger. Operator disappears around the corner, with the mark's money. A neat little scam.
Knew a fellow who used to run it. Worked like a charm, because the pigeon likes the idea that he's somehow connected up with real professionals of the underworld, folks who know how to avoid legal hassles.
Oh, and it rarely gets reported, because who wants to try to complain to the police that he got scammed trying to rent a lady?
Tell me that doesn't sound like Barry.
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alegrias Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:23am |
re: #836 realwest
"Jeez, like in Spain when the communist & socialist thugs came around to our houses saying, we will take your houses, in the 1970s."
Oh so THAT'S where the IRS came up with that line!I'm truly sorry to hear you had to go through that.
* * * **
Dear Real, I was a fortunate American teen visiting my relatives at the time--the same relatives who stood up to the Stalinist communists who'd tried the same takeover in 1936, then had to deal with Hitler's henchmen.
I was merely taking notes on what happens to good people when liberals take over.
| 858 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:07:44am |
re: #842 Sharmuta
Yeah, they always do that.
| 859 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:08:25am |
re: #850 realwest
Oh yeah, especially the only alternative energy source that we know works and is safe and reliable, nuclear power plants.
I was kinda surprised (to put it mildly) that a Senator as astute as Dianne Feinstien would actually join in the chorus of people saying no to putting up Solar Power and Wind Power facilities in the damn Mojave Desert!WTF is wrong with these people? You want alternative energy that actually can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, the use of coal and other "horrible" things, GO WITH WHAT WE KNOW (and the French - who get 75% of all their electric power from nuclear power plants) WORKS NOW!
Shit.
I want to go off grid.......
Personal nuclear reactor!
| 860 |
goddessoftheclassroom Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:08:43am |
re: #849 MandyManners
I'm watching some comedian on Comedy Central who's sipping booze and smoking a cigar.
George Burns?
/
| 861 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:09:17am |
re: #765 ciaospirit
ah ha ha ha ha ha! It looks sorta like AIG is like Timothy Geithner except in AIG's case it actually paid the taxes they owed, and maybe a helluva lot more!
Great comment and link!
| 862 |
3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:09:34am |
re: #788 realwest
3 wood Hey good morning 3 wood - good to see you again. Yeah, that was AIG's business and they would have gone under if they didn't pay off those claims.
How are you doing today?
Doing fine,took the Mrs. out dancing last night and then out for breakfast and shopping this morning.
Sorry for the delay, I was sending Jammie a long post for his blog. I've been doing lots of research into credit default swaps, figured them out, and sent him a long pice on how they (and short selling) have combined to melt down this market.
It's actually not all that complicated once you get past the jargon. Basically credit default swaps are like calling up your bookie and placing an over/under bet on a game. Then imagine that you can also rig the outcome of the game itself (that's where the short selling comes in).
That is what has been happening in the market.
How are you doing?
| 863 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:10:01am |
re: #855 redneckkahfir
If you decide to get it fixed take it to the best shop you can find. Crack repairs are tricky and a bad repair job will really screw up the instrument. I'd say keep it, those things are cool.
| 864 |
eon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:10:20am |
re: #781 Lincolntf
Yup. They are anti-energy because energy means commerce and wealth. Plain and simple.
The snail darters, tortoises, etc. are just convenient justifications for their anti-progress agenda.
Good morning, Lizards.
Actually, Feinstein's campaign against putting solar power units in one of the few places in CONUS where they would have a chance of producing enough kWh to pay for themselves is a significant event in the "greens'" progress. Kerry & Boxer are now demanding "cap and trade" for the expressed (by them) purpose of forcing us to use "alternative energy" sources by making conventional ones too expensive for us to afford- in short, they are no longer lying about how we'll be financially better off when it goes into effect. At the same time, Boxer's evil twin, Feinstein, is doing her utmost to block the development of the very alternative energy sources that the other two want to force us to use.
Does anyone here seriously believe that Boxer & Feinstein do not talk about these things? Not. A. Chance.
It's obvious to me the with the "deep-greens", the gloves and masks are coming off. They no longer have to even pretend they want a society that uses "clean energy"- they want one that uses no energy, at all, period. In short, back to the Stone Age.
As for the money they (the government) glean from "cap and trade", it will go to maintain our "enlightened leaders'" latte' lifestyles. While the rest of us freeze, and starve, in the dark.
It says a lot about the astounding ignorance and disconnectedness from reality of these bastards (and b***hes) that they are unable to grasp the fact that their lifestyle only exists because of the civilization they are obsessed with destroying to "save Holy Mother Gaia"- namely, the rest of us. It will be very difficult for them to go to Starbucks, or fly to Davos, when everything operates at the level of a rickshaw. (Ox-carts will be forbidden, of course, as "enslavement of animals".) And if they think that they, the "elite'", will still have their jets, and yachts, and electricity, when the rest of us are making fires with dried human dung, they need to read Connections by James Burke.
In any society, but especially a technological one, nothing exists in a vacuum. Everything is interdependent.
And if they think they'll "always have Paris", they're bigger f**king idiots than I think they are.
clear ether
/rant mode off
cheers
eon
| 865 |
ciaospirit Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:10:33am |
re: #806 JCM
Restive youts!
Coming to an American city near you. B Hussein wants to show off his diplomacy skills.
| 866 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:11:25am |
| 867 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:11:26am |
re: #862 3 wood
Doing fine,took the Mrs. out dancing last night and then out for breakfast and shopping this morning.
Sorry for the delay, I was sending Jammie a long post for his blog. I've been doing lots of research into credit default swaps, figured them out, and sent him a long pice on how they (and short selling) have combined to melt down this market.
It's actually not all that complicated once you get past the jargon. Basically credit default swaps are like calling up your bookie and placing an over/under bet on a game. Then imagine that you can also rig the outcome of the game itself (that's where the short selling comes in).
That is what has been happening in the market.
How are you doing?
Is it a wide spread general thing?
Or was it a coordinated thing, with a string puller that timed it?
A certain Hungarian immigrant comes to mind.
| 868 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:12:00am |
re: #852 Sharmuta
You'll get into the swing of it just in time for the Kid to return.
That's what I'm scared of.
| 870 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:12:52am |
re: #862 3 wood
It's actually not all that complicated once you get past the jargon. Basically credit default swaps are like calling up your bookie and placing an over/under bet on a game. Then imagine that you can also rig the outcome of the game itself (that's where the short selling comes in).
Sounds like the opening dialogue from Miller's Crossing; the whole question of ethics around a bookie double-crossing somebody who fixed a fight.
| 871 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:12:54am |
re: #866 Guanxi88
Whiff of grapeshot, anyone?
LOL! I was always partial to chained cannon balls......
| 872 |
3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:13:07am |
re: #782 lawhawk
Oh, and Geithner still hasn't announced the plans yet for his latest move to fix and stabilize the credit markets (which is why the markets remain in a holding pattern and drop whenever Geithner speaks and doesn't announce the plan).
Some is starting to get leaked out now:
Geithner Puts Finishing Touches on Plan to Revive U.S. Banks
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration put the finishing touches on a plan to remove troubled assets from banks’ balance sheets that will be unveiled early next week.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner intends to expand the Federal Reserve’s new $1 trillion Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility to buy frozen assets, according to people familiar with the proposal. The revamped Fed program will sit alongside the Treasury’s planned public-private investment funds, while the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s role will probably involve buying distressed loans, the people said.
“We’re going to move quickly to lay out a new financing program to deal with these legacy assets,” Geithner said in an interview with Bloomberg television at a meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers in Horsham, England, last weekend. “We have and expect to see a lot of support for this program.”
Geithner’s next step to cleanse banks’ balance sheets so they can start lending again will be crucial after the lack of detail in a rescue he outlined last month caused a sell-off in financial stocks. The initiative’s success will depend on the participation of financial institutions, some of whose leaders yesterday criticized congressional proposals to tax Wall Street bonuses.
Private investment managers would run the Treasury funds that purchase the toxic securities. The rollout of details on the toxic-asset plan slipped into next week as the Treasury Department grapples with the outcry over bonuses awarded by insurer American International Group Inc. AIG has received more than $170 billion in government aid.
Without dealing with the short selling, mark to market and credit default swaps out there, this is of limited value.
| 874 |
Sharmuta Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:13:25am |
re: #868 MandyManners
That's what I'm scared of.
Don't be- the Kid will bring you back to reality quickly enough. Enjoy your break and use it as a chance to recharge your battery and spoil yourself a little.
| 875 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:13:27am |
re: #871 JCM
LOL! I was always partial to chained cannon balls......
Good Lord! Do the youts have sails and rigging, too?
| 876 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:13:48am |
re: #801 FrogMarch
Hey there FrogMarch - great comment and link, thanks!
| 878 |
wrenchwench Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:14:12am |
re: #864 eon
I favorited that because I have a particular distaste for environmentalists. Nice rant.
| 879 |
avanti Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:14:23am |
re: #825 redneckkahfir
OK, Ill post the info here,,,
I have recently inherited a 1941 or 42 Gibson L-00. it is in good shape but has a crack halfway down the back. I have been told the guitar has "some" value but I don't know enough about guitars to judge.
I don't even know if its worth fixing.
thanks ahead of time for any info you have.
A few on ebay
| 880 |
Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:14:26am |
re: #872 3 wood
I'm pretty sure the uptick rule will be back in the next month or so.
| 881 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:14:27am |
re: #875 Guanxi88
Good Lord! Do the youts have sails and rigging, too?
No but a couple of shots like that down the street would take the wind out of their sails.
| 882 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:14:57am |
re: #878 wrenchwench
I favorited that because I have a particular distaste for environmentalists. Nice rant.
Watermelons.
Green on the outside.
Red on the inside.
| 883 |
Digital Display Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:15:14am |
| 884 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:15:23am |
re: #881 JCM
No but a couple of shots like that down the street would take the wind out of their sails.
True enough. My favorite way of putting down the hurt, though, at least for those times, has to be the grapeshot. Something seems so right about a shotgun that large, you know?
| 886 |
wrenchwench Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:16:18am |
| 887 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:16:20am |
| 888 |
KenJen Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:16:49am |
re: #849 MandyManners
I'm watching some comedian on Comedy Central who's sipping booze and smoking a cigar.
Are you sure the T.V.'s on and it's not just a reflection?
| 889 |
Digital Display Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:17:23am |
re: #887 MandyManners
George Burns never uttered these jokes.
It's Ron White Mandy..hope today finds you well
| 890 |
rightymouse Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:17:26am |
re: #858 Killgore Trout
Yeah, they always do that.
Gahhh...nic-jackers are lower than pond scum. So infantile.
| 891 |
subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:17:30am |
re: #862 3 wood
Hi 3wood! Hmm, great analogy. Thanks!
Quick question for ya: It's my understanding that the basic situation was something like this:
CRA (along with Fannie and Freddie) forces banks, etc. to make shaky loans.
Loans are bundled and sold as a product called Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS).
Companies like AIG create a product to "insure" these MBS - and call it Credit Default Swaps (CDS).
Loans default, MBS's include the "toxic" mortgages, and CDS's start to implode.
So, I guess my question is, if the loans hadn't been toxic, and the MBS's were solid, would the CDS's have been a legitimate product? Or, because of short selling, were they always gonna be a scam?
| 892 |
MandyManners Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:18:10am |
bbl I'm gonna' eat chili and chocolate for breakfast.
| 893 |
Bloodnok Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:19:08am |
| 894 |
realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:19:10am |
re: #816 jaunte
Hi juante! THANK YOU FOR THAT! It's so Spot on it's literally scary.
Great effin' comment and link!
| 895 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:19:20am |
re: #884 Guanxi88
True enough. My favorite way of putting down the hurt, though, at least for those times, has to be the grapeshot. Something seems so right about a shotgun that large, you know?
LOL!
In the case of a riot you need a bunch screaming in agony on the ground to break it up effectively.
You familiar with Chesapeake Bay goose guns? Mid 1800's hunters on the Chesapeake would build large shotguns, either big single barrel, or a spread of barrels with a single charge. They'd row up on a raft of geese, startle them into the air and blow the entire flock away with one shot.
| 897 |
eon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:20:32am |
re: #878 wrenchwench
I favorited that because I have a particular distaste for environmentalists. Nice rant.
Thank you. I normally reserve "clear ether" (born of E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman novels) for other sites, such as Pajamas Media, Cyber News Service, and RCP (yes, I'm "eon" on all of those, too), but this bunch of neo-Luddite, crypto-fascist, nihilistic nitwits is now, officially, seriously pissing me off.
cheers
eon
| 898 |
Dr. Shalit Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:20:59am |
Good Afternoon Everyone -
Been thinking about applying for some "stimulus" money as "Melech the Wonder Shepherd" reminds me that he can and does create a "Shovel Ready Project" every few hours. Any thoughts?
-S-
| 899 |
callahan23 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:21:00am |
Very good analysis of the Syrian nuclear reactor 'Intelligence Mess-Up'
by the former US-Ambassador to the un - John Bolten
in the Wall Street Journal.
Iran's Axis of Nuclear Evil
While President Obama's unanticipated Nowruz holiday greeting to Iran generated considerable press attention, his video wasn't really this week's big news related to the Islamic Republic. Far more important was that a senior defector -- Iran's former Deputy Minister of Defense Ali Reza Asghari -- disclosed Tehran's financing of Syria's nuclear weapons program. That program's centerpiece was a North Korean nuclear reactor in Syria. Israel destroyed it in September 2007.At this point, it is impossible to ignore Iran's active efforts to expand, improve and conceal its nuclear weapons program in Syria while it pretends to "negotiate" with Britain, France and Germany (the "EU-3"). No amount of video messages will change this reality. The question is whether this new information about Iran will sink in, or if Washington will continue to turn a blind eye toward Iran's nuclear deceptions.
That the Pyongyang-Damascus-Tehran nuclear axis went undetected and unacknowledged for so long is an intelligence failure of the highest magnitude. It represents a plain unwillingness to allow hard truths to overcome well-entrenched policy views disguised as intelligence findings. ....
.....The Nowruz video reflects the dominant view within the Obama administration that its "open hand" will be reciprocated. It's likely Iran will respond affirmatively to the near-plaintive administration request to "engage."
And why not? Such dialogue allows Iran to conceal its true intentions and activities under the camouflage of negotiations, just as it has done for the past six years with the EU-3. What's more, Iran will see it as confirmation of U.S. weakness and evidence that its policies are succeeding.
There is very little time for Mr. Obama to change course before he is committed to negotiations. He could start by following Iran's money trail.
Read the whole article....it's well worth it.
| 901 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:23:05am |
re: #888 KenJen
Are you sure the T.V.'s on and it's not just a reflection?
Just had a flashback to my wasted youth. Friend of mine, a school buddy, was showing off his latest work - some sort of hybrid spoken-word/video art deal.
Anyway, there's this under-tone of drunken ranting to the presentation. And I mean drunk, and I mean ranting, carrying on about how the only thing that keeps him from vomiting at the sight of most people ("dead-eyed human animals," he called them. "you can't really hurt them," he explained "like worms, they've got a primitive nervous system, but really don't experience pain like real human beings do.") was the certain knowledge that we were unable to track most of the earth-crossing comets and asteroids, and it was only a matter of time before the Almighty just sort of washed His hands of the whole lot of them and sent down a celestial fist to settle the score. Anyway, at one point, the screen shows this glassy-eyed drunk, and I see it's me.
That SOB had hit the switch on a camera during one of my gin-fueled furies and worked it into his project.
| 902 |
subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:24:49am |
re: #895 JCM
LOL!
In the case of a riot you need a bunch screaming in agony on the ground to break it up effectively.
You familiar with Chesapeake Bay goose guns? Mid 1800's hunters on the Chesapeake would build large shotguns, either big single barrel, or a spread of barrels with a single charge. They'd row up on a raft of geese, startle them into the air and blow the entire flock away with one shot.
LOL! Yeah, I remember reading about those. Aren't they similar to that humongous 8 ga. that Viggo Mortensen totes around in Appaloosa?
| 904 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:25:00am |
re: #895 JCM
LOL!
In the case of a riot you need a bunch screaming in agony on the ground to break it up effectively.
You familiar with Chesapeake Bay goose guns? Mid 1800's hunters on the Chesapeake would build large shotguns, either big single barrel, or a spread of barrels with a single charge. They'd row up on a raft of geese, startle them into the air and blow the entire flock away with one shot.
Punt guns, weren't they called?
Say, you ever hear of the silenced and accurized 10-22's used by the Israelis during the glory days of the intifada? "hush-puppies" Neat trick; pop a knee in silence and at a distance. Non-lethal wound, and the crowd just scatters when their leader goes splat for no good reason.
| 905 |
Peter_P3 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:25:04am |
Hii lizards,
Good news to be reported regarding pick for new secretary general for NATO. USA backs Anders Fogh Rasmussen. He is the prime minister of Denmark and has a good record in standing up against militant islam. He rejected a meeting with muslim ambassadors in the muhammed cartoon controversy and has shown leadership in sending a substantial number of troops from Denmark to fight in Iraq and Southern Afghanistan.
Hope Charles will do a piece about him once the pick is finalized come early april.
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:25:25am |
re: #867 JCM
Is it a wide spread general thing?
Or was it a coordinated thing, with a string puller that timed it?A certain Hungarian immigrant comes to mind.
Fairly widespread.
Read this:
Naked Short Sales Hint Fraud in Bringing Down Lehman
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- The biggest bankruptcy in history might have been avoided if Wall Street had been prevented from practicing one of its darkest arts.As Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. struggled to survive last year, as many as 32.8 million shares in the company were sold and not delivered to buyers on time as of Sept. 11, according to data compiled by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Bloomberg. That was a more than 57-fold increase over the prior year’s peak of 567,518 failed trades on July 30.
The SEC has linked such so-called fails-to-deliver to naked short selling, a strategy that can be used to manipulate markets. A fail-to-deliver is a trade that doesn’t settle within three days.
“We had another word for this in Brooklyn,” said Harvey Pitt, a former SEC chairman. “The word was ‘fraud.’”
While the commission’s Enforcement Complaint Center received about 5,000 complaints about naked short-selling from January 2007 to June 2008, none led to enforcement actions, according to a report filed yesterday by David Kotz, the agency’s inspector general.
Part of the problem is credit default swaps are unregulated, so they do not even have to be registered. and the insurance company that issues them does not have to set aside assets to cover the exposure.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:26:03am |
re: #845 Iron Fist
Yeah, Bro' I do think it would be frowned upon by LE, but just think of the impact on a jury! Out for 3 minutes, back with a "Guilty - hang the Badassmotherfucker"! LOL!
And thank you for the photo of that 444. Really something special and you're right - I don't think you could put a price on that.
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Pupdawg Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:26:36am |
re: #2 Buster Bunny
That Jefferson guy will go places .. I'm sure of it.
If only he or a leader of his caliber were around today in America!
Instead, we get Mr. T. Man, modern times suck!
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:27:22am |
re: #902 subsailor68
LOL! Yeah, I remember reading about those. Aren't they similar to that humongous 8 ga. that Viggo Mortensen totes around in Appaloosa?
Bigger!
re: #904 Guanxi88
Punt guns, weren't they called?
Say, you ever hear of the silenced and accurized 10-22's used by the Israelis during the glory days of the intifada? "hush-puppies" Neat trick; pop a knee in silence and at a distance. Non-lethal wound, and the crowd just scatters when their leader goes splat for no good reason.
Punt guns! That's right forgot that!
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subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:27:22am |
re: #906 3 wood
Part of the problem is credit default swaps are unregulated, so they do not even have to be registered. and the insurance company that issues them does not have to set aside assets to cover the exposure.
Hi 3wood. Forget about my question above. I think ya just answered it for me!
:-)
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:27:47am |
re: #899 callahan23
That article is indeed well worth reading - it shows how Biden even then pooh-pooh'd the existence of any syrian nuclear plans - and Bolton is spot on when he says that the IC ('Intelligence' Community) preferred to use personal views rather than even soft data for assessment.
And that stuff has been going on for years ...
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:27:56am |
re: #909 Iron Fist
Man, I wear earrings like the next guy, but I'm really not into piercing (I had a dancer that wanted me to get my lip pierced. Not happening :-). Chainbe balls? that has to hurt...
ROFLMAO!
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:28:05am |
re: #880 Killgore Trout
I'm pretty sure the uptick rule will be back in the next month or so.
And they need to enforce the naked short selling rule too.
Watch the market jump 500 to 1000 points when that happens.
Did you see the bullcrap that FASB (including my old "friend Robert Herz) came out with on mark to market on Monday?
Just as I predicted, the sum and substance was "use your judgement".
Spineless jerks.
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callahan23 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:28:39am |
re: #899 callahan23
Very good analysis of the Syrian nuclear reactor 'Intelligence Mess-Up'
by the former US-Ambassador to the un - John Bolteon
in the Wall Street Journal.
I am deeply sorry to have messed up his name. Kudos to him. My bad.
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subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:29:02am |
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:29:56am |
On my way back from town yesterday one of my neighbors gave me the 'hey, come 'ere' wave instead of the 'hey, how's it going' wave so I pulled into the drive to chat. We talked of this and that, primarily the disconnect between the price of feeder cattle and the price of store bought beef and how corn to finish off the cattle was costing him twice what it did.
He doesn't follow politics (I don't like to encourage other people's bad behaviour, he'll explain) but even he had heard of the AIG witch-burning. Asked me what was up with all that. I explained as best I could, given that I don't really get it, either, other than an example of misdirection. (Why worry about trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see; that feller over there is making a million dollars a year.)
"They're gonna tax those ol' boys at 90%? What am I gonna do if they get mad at cattlemen?"
I got nothing.
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Killgore Trout Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:31:10am |
re: #914 3 wood
I also strongly suspect that Glass-Steagall would have prevented AIG from running its hedge fund-like operation too. I haven't seen any serious talk of bringing back Glass-Steagall. I suppose they'll get to that eventually.
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callahan23 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:31:13am |
re: #912 yma o hyd
That article is indeed well worth reading - it shows how Biden even then pooh-pooh'd the existence of any syrian nuclear plans - and Bolton is spot on when he says that the IC ('Intelligence' Community) preferred to use personal views rather than even soft data for assessment.
And that stuff has been going on for years ...
It's frightening, isn't it?
We have been in a new age of Chamberlainism for way longer than we were led to believe,
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:31:33am |
re: #915 callahan23
I am deeply sorry to have messed up his name. Kudos to him. My bad.
We knew whom you meant!
There's only one moustache feared by all enemies of the USA!
;-)
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:33:05am |
re: #917 razorbacker
On my way back from town yesterday one of my neighbors gave me the 'hey, come 'ere' wave instead of the 'hey, how's it going' wave so I pulled into the drive to chat. We talked of this and that, primarily the disconnect between the price of feeder cattle and the price of store bought beef and how corn to finish off the cattle was costing him twice what it did.
He doesn't follow politics (I don't like to encourage other people's bad behaviour, he'll explain) but even he had heard of the AIG witch-burning. Asked me what was up with all that. I explained as best I could, given that I don't really get it, either, other than an example of misdirection. (Why worry about trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see; that feller over there is making a million dollars a year.)
"They're gonna tax those ol' boys at 90%? What am I gonna do if they get mad at cattlemen?"
I got nothing.
Well, tell him to hold on for a while, the administration will only be too glad to help him out with that...
(from Drudge)
"Obama will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of 'sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation', NY TIMES reporting Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE... Developing... "
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:33:18am |
re: #859 JCM
WooT! Course you know the LEFTIES would stop you from using that. Gotta protect the pigeon population in downtown Seattle or somesuch.
But what a great damn idea for small communities. The Town government can say FU to the environmental nazi's.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:33:47am |
re: #922 Iron Fist
One gauge shotgun. It really is basically a one pound cannon. I bet it's make Sarah Brady piss herself if she knew they existed :-)
Two questions:
1) Wouldn't that sort of cross over into the pure artillery category?
2) Where could I get one today?
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:33:53am |
re: #922 Iron Fist
One gauge shotgun. It really is basically a one pound cannon. I bet it's make Sarah Brady piss herself if she knew they existed :-)
Kinda of bitch to carry concealed........
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yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:34:21am |
re: #920 callahan23
It's frightening, isn't it?
We have been in a new age of Chamberlainism for way longer than we were led to believe,
What is even more frightening is that someone like John Bolton knew exactly what was going on - and was grilled for being too much of a badass!
How I wish he'd wield the iron broom either at Foggy Bottom or the IC generally ...
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:34:45am |
re: #926 JCM
Kinda of bitch to carry concealed........
Eh, seems to me that sort of weapon would be most effective out in the open. You sure as Hell wouldn't want to try your chances with a guy toting a piece of mule-borne artillery.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:34:51am |
re: #862 3 wood I'm doing ok, thanks - gotta hustle over to Jammie's place to read what you wrote - is it up yet, do you know?
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:35:18am |
re: #924 realwest
WooT! Course you know the LEFTIES would stop you from using that. Gotta protect the pigeon population in downtown Seattle or somesuch.
But what a great damn idea for small communities. The Town government can say FU to the environmental nazi's.
Roll a pickup down the street toward the rioters. Come to a stop, raise that spread cannon up over the cab.
Disperse or we fire.
10.... 9....
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lawhawk Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:36:07am |
OT:
What the frak was up with the Kara Thrace ending on BSG last night? I got the rest of it, even if I didn't totally agree with how it went (particularly Bill and Lee going their separate ways). But what the frak was starbuck?
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:36:29am |
re: #891 subsailor68
So, I guess my question is, if the loans hadn't been toxic, and the MBS's were solid, would the CDS's have been a legitimate product? Or, because of short selling, were they always gonna be a scam?
The CDS's were always going to be a scam. Several problems with them:
1. You do not have to have an insurable interest in a company to buy a credit default swap on them.
2. CDS's are not regulated, so they are not registered, the insurance company issuing them does not have to set aside assets to cover the exposure.
3. You get paid off on the CDS when the company you named in the contract defaults. Thus you have an overwhelming motivation to see the company default.
4. With the currently unfettered short selling capability out there, you also have precisely the tool you need to force a company into default. So you make money both ways, on the short selling itself and then again on the payoff of the CDES when the company defaults.
It's like betting on a horse race that you have rigged.
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subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:37:07am |
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:37:40am |
re: #917 razorbacker
"They're gonna tax those ol' boys at 90%? What am I gonna do if they get mad at cattlemen?"
Something stupid.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:38:09am |
re: #931 lawhawk
OT:
What the frak was up with the Kara Thrace ending on BSG last night? I got the rest of it, even if I didn't totally agree with how it went (particularly Bill and Lee going their separate ways). But what the frak was starbuck?
For the sake of all the Lizards who don't speak "whatever" you are speaking, what the fuck are you talking about? Speak?
So far, it sounds like something that happened last night in apartment 102, next to mine.
P.S. Er, Starbuck is a coffee place.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:38:11am |
re: #877 HoosierHoops
Bingo! Hi ya Hoops, how are you doing today?
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:38:27am |
re: #900 ploome hineni
g
uess his boyfriend at fannie stopped puttin out?
Yeah, now Barney is giving it to us instead of his boyfriend
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subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:38:39am |
re: #932 3 wood
Terrific information! Thanks so much - I think I've finally got it!
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callahan23 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:38:58am |
re: #921 yma o hyd
We knew whom you meant!
There's only one moustache feared by all enemies of the USA!
;-)
I have deep respect for this Moustache of a 'mensch' which is why I corrected my miss-spelling.
re: #918 ploome hineni
.... how Israel, in protecting herself, watches our back......
Second that. They are watching the backs of the whole western civilization.
....and is willing and able to take the heat...
DEEP BOW.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:38:58am |
re: #923 Walter L. Newton
Well, tell him to hold on for a while, the administration will only be too glad to help him out with that...
(from Drudge)
"Obama will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of 'sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation', NY TIMES reporting Sunday, newsroom sources tell DRUDGE... Developing... "
Yes, but when will he get around to doing something about the ruinous prices charged for millet and cornmeal? I mean, when can we expect to see de facto price controls and/or outright nationalization, ala Venezuela?
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:41:58am |
re: #923 Walter L. Newton
I am reliably assured that, while productive assets are limited, the supply of misery is infinite as far as can be ascertained.
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:42:16am |
re: #919 Killgore Trout
I also strongly suspect that Glass-Steagall would have prevented AIG from running its hedge fund-like operation too. I haven't seen any serious talk of bringing back Glass-Steagall. I suppose they'll get to that eventually.
Oh, I think it goes without saying that you will see Glass-Steagall redone, and then some.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:42:35am |
re: #942 Iron Fist
I really don't know how they'd classify it. If it were black powder it would be legal. You can buy real honest-to-god field artillery in black powder and the ATF won't even blink at you.
They might classify this thing as a destructive device. That wopuld put it in the same category as a 40mm grenade launcher or mortar, etc.
I don't have a clue where you'd find one. I've never even seen an 8ga. for sale (I've seen 8s and even 4s in museums). I bet if you could find one it woud cost a stone fortune.
And would be worth every penny. True, I'd forgotten about the whole work-around on destructive devices. Makes me long for a nice little hotchkiss 1". Magazine fed, top-loading, firing a 1" explosive shell. Just the thing for the fishing boat..
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:43:08am |
re: #931 lawhawk
OT:
What the frak was up with the Kara Thrace ending on BSG last night? I got the rest of it, even if I didn't totally agree with how it went (particularly Bill and Lee going their separate ways). But what the frak was starbuck?
Not having cable or satellite TV at the moment I had to read the summary on Wikipedia.
Did they just throw away millions of tons of refined metal? Technological and cultural databases? Advanced tools and power plants?
If they did how could they be so fraking stupid?
My theory on Kara Thrace was that she was an incarnation of a Lord of Kobol or the daughter of one.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:43:18am |
re: #940 Guanxi88
Yes, but when will he get around to doing something about the ruinous prices charged for millet and cornmeal? I mean, when can we expect to see de facto price controls and/or outright nationalization, ala Venezuela?
I've already said it, I don't like what AIG has done, is doing, and what they will continue to do if they find the chance and I way to do it, but, at the same time, I don't want our politicians to have their hands in the pie either. For me, I'd rather see AIG go down on it's own than to become some part of a plan to nationalize business.
Now, if I had the full-out ability to manage the AIG problem myself... hehehehe...
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subsailor68 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:44:02am |
re: #942 Iron Fist
I really don't know how they'd classify it. If it were black powder it would be legal. You can buy real honest-to-god field artillery in black powder and the ATF won't even blink at you.
They might classify this thing as a destructive device. That wopuld put it in the same category as a 40mm grenade launcher or mortar, etc.
I don't have a clue where you'd find one. I've never even seen an 8ga. for sale (I've seen 8s and even 4s in museums). I bet if you could find one it woud cost a stone fortune.
Well, here's one that was for sale (listing closed now - either sold or nobody bid on it):
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:44:22am |
re: #925 Guanxi88
1) Wouldn't that sort of cross over into the pure artillery category?
2) Where could I get one today?
A .416 Rigby ain't bad either.
I've hunted with that and a .50 Sharps.
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LindaMarie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:44:38am |
re: #732 Lincolntf
I bet it must drive Obama absolutely crazy that people around the country are criticizing him, and worse, laughing at him. He's never gotten anything but "atta boy's" his whole coddled life and now he's finally hearing from people who couldn't care less about hurting his precious feelings. I hope it eats him up inside that much of the country considers him a clown.
I hope it eats him up inside that much of the country considers him a clown.
Be careful what you wish for. I have no respect for him but he is elected and can do much more damage if his precious feelings are hurt.
If he is "eaten up inside" there is a good chance that we all will suffer more as he "shows us and gets even"
I am not condoning what he is doing but, Once again - be careful what you wish for. And I don't think a bitter and or humiliated Pres will be in our best intrests.
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:44:50am |
re: #934 The Other Les
Something stupid.
Sorry. I read that as "what are they going to do..."
Even though I made a mistake the other side is still being stupid.
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Walter L. Newton Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:45:12am |
re: #947 The Other Les
Not having cable or satellite TV at the moment I had to read the summary on Wikipedia.
Did they just throw away millions of tons of refined metal? Technological and cultural databases? Advanced tools and power plants?
If they did how could they be so fraking stupid?
My theory on Kara Thrace was that she was an incarnation of a Lord of Kobol or the daughter of one.
WHAT?
I read Drudge all the time, and the BBC, NYT and a dozen other news sources. I never heard about this? What is this?
| 954 |
3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:45:13am |
re: #929 realwest
3 wood I'm doing ok, thanks - gotta hustle over to Jammie's place to read what you wrote - is it up yet, do you know?
I just sent it so I doubt it.
| 955 |
JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:45:38am |
re: #942 Iron Fist
I really don't know how they'd classify it. If it were black powder it would be legal. You can buy real honest-to-god field artillery in black powder and the ATF won't even blink at you.
They might classify this thing as a destructive device. That wopuld put it in the same category as a 40mm grenade launcher or mortar, etc.
I don't have a clue where you'd find one. I've never even seen an 8ga. for sale (I've seen 8s and even 4s in museums). I bet if you could find one it woud cost a stone fortune.
About 20 years ago I came across a guy with an 8ga goose hunting. William Moore IIRC.
| 956 |
yma o hyd Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:45:58am |
re: #946 ploome hineni
we are in this together, like it or not
I emember reading a post by a muslim who was complaining about the name "Israel"
he wrote, that just the name "Israel" gives the JEws an unfair advantage in the ME because of the hisorical roots of the name
lol
unBelieVable
Unbelievable indeed - because he acknowledges that there are historical roots!
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itellu3times Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:46:22am |
re: #862 3 wood
...I've been doing lots of research into credit default swaps, figured them out, and sent him a long pice on how they (and short selling) have combined to melt down this market.
It's actually not all that complicated once you get past the jargon. Basically credit default swaps are like calling up your bookie and placing an over/under bet on a game. Then imagine that you can also rig the outcome of the game itself (that's where the short selling comes in).
That is what has been happening in the market.
I agree CDS is bad finance, but on a more general basis. Even if there were no market manipulations as you describe, the whole idea of selling off risk as a financial, and not insurance, instrument - has now been proven to be the real toxic problem.
Democracy, finance, justice, baseball, billiards - each depends on some underlying laws. CDS breaks the most basic laws of finance.
I'm wondering if even MBO/CDO is a bad idea.
BTW, trying to get any finance professionals to seriously consider these ideas, is so far in my experience, fruitless. The idea that rocket science is good, and any instrument you can dream up must be financially acceptable, is awefully strong out there.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:46:55am |
re: #950 3 wood
A .416 Rigby ain't bad either.
I've hunted with that and a .50 Sharps.
A .50-90 Sharps would be high on my list if I had the money to collect.
| 960 |
debutaunt Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:47:07am |
re: #935 Walter L. Newton
For the sake of all the Lizards who don't speak "whatever" you are speaking, what the fuck are you talking about? Speak?
So far, it sounds like something that happened last night in apartment 102, next to mine.
P.S. Er, Starbuck is a coffee place.
It sounded like blatant spy-talk.
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The Other Les Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:47:10am |
re: #946 ploome hineni
we are in this together, like it or not
I emember reading a post by a muslim who was complaining about the name "Israel"
he wrote, that just the name "Israel" gives the JEws an unfair advantage in the ME because of the hisorical roots of the name
lol
unBelieVable
Never mind the advantage they get from imitating the vileness and violence of the False Prophet Mo'.
| 962 |
callahan23 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:48:57am |
re: #946 ploome hineni
we are in this together, like it or not
I emember reading a post by a muslim who was complaining about the name "Israel"
he wrote, that just the name "Israel" gives the JEws an unfair advantage in the ME because of the hisorical roots of the name
lol
unBelieVable
Their's is constant complaint, feeling wrongly victimized and throwing tantrums as a reaction - as a PROFESSION.
When your only achievement is to live on land that is endowed by a natural bounty, as a rule one becomes complacent and not INDUSTRIOUS..
| 963 |
Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:49:42am |
re: #950 3 wood
A .416 Rigby ain't bad either.
I've hunted with that and a .50 Sharps.
Eh, if you're going for shoulder arms, my favorite has to be the old workhorse .45-70. Kicks like a mule, which it can easily drop at quite some range, with a trajectory that looks like a perfect 75 yard football pass (sorta like a flattened rainbow). There were larger ones out there, but I always kinda like the old 45-70, obsolete though it may be.
Now, if we're to get into handguns, my favorite of all time is the 455 Webley, loaded with the old "man-stopper" rounds, pulled from Her Majesty's service not long after they were issued (the ammo, I mean) as being too gruesomely effective.
Point is, I love any weapon, in any calibre that starts with 4 or higher.
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eon Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:49:51am |
re: #922 Iron Fist
One gauge shotgun. It really is basically a one pound cannon. I bet it's make Sarah Brady piss herself if she knew they existed :-)
Most "punt guns" used a chunk of gas pipe for the barrel (actually, should be called a "tube", as we're really talking about a mounted piece of ordnance here). Average length, 8 feet, firing a load of about a pound and a half of "goose drops" (equivalent to about No. 4 shot- small, not "buck", they used to be two different things) in front of about 1/3 pound of powder.
When fired, the "punt" (boat) invariably went the other way, fast, in obedience to Newton's Third Law of Motion.
The idea originated in England, and was originally used by "market hunters" who harvested geese and ducks for sale. By the turn of the last century, this practice had been outlawed, along with the "punt gun". They were still used in the UK (illegally) until the 1950s.
I've often wondered how many "punts" were discreetly redeployed to cover likely landing sites for German Fallschirmjager during the dark days after Dunkirk. For certain, they'd have been an unpleasant surprise; a jump smock wouldn't be any defense against a cannon like that.
/Yes, I have a gruesome imagination- why do you ask?
cheers
eon
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debutaunt Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:50:10am |
| 967 |
Digital Display Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:50:41am |
re: #936 realwest
Bingo! Hi ya Hoops, how are you doing today?
Hi Real! Hope you are feeling well today..Watching the NIT's and blogging on some basketball sites..
| 968 |
Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:50:50am |
hey morning Lizard! It's bright in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland today.
I enjoyed Zombie's first post.
How are you-all and what are we talking about?
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:51:42am |
re: #938 subsailor68
Terrific information! Thanks so much - I think I've finally got it!
This is why financial companies have been so hammered by the short sellers. As compared to manufacturing firms, that have hard assets like pant and equipment behind them as assets, financial companies have paper assets. You can manipulate the market via short selling and rumor mongering among the dumb and useful idiots in the MSM to pound the value of those paper assetsintot he ground.
Especially if you have the idiocy of "mark to market" as the valuation rule. You destroy the market via manipulation, and then have a field day pounding the financial companies in the stock market.
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:51:59am |
re: #895 JCM
You familiar with Chesapeake Bay goose guns? Mid 1800's hunters on the Chesapeake would build large shotguns, either big single barrel, or a spread of barrels with a single charge. They'd row up on a raft of geese, startle them into the air and blow the entire flock away with one shot.
At deer camp one year the county sheriff showed me how to harvest ducks without that whole sportsman hassle.
Took a .22, taped a baby bottle nipple to the muzzle, cut an X into the nipple, and bellycrawled up to edge of a rice field. Headshot the ducks so they don't sink. Sent some available, impressionable young fellow wading out to pick 'em up. Returned to camp, gave ducks to drunken cajun camp cook and waited for a plateful of heaven.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:54:34am |
re: #970 razorbacker
At deer camp one year the county sheriff showed me how to harvest ducks without that whole sportsman hassle.
Took a .22, taped a baby bottle nipple to the muzzle, cut an X into the nipple, and bellycrawled up to edge of a rice field. Headshot the ducks so they don't sink. Sent some available, impressionable young fellow wading out to pick 'em up. Returned to camp, gave ducks to drunken cajun camp cook and waited for a plateful of heaven.
naughty, naughty! These sorts of things can get one in a lot of trouble, especially with the fed's!
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Gretchen G.Tiger Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:55:17am |
new thread? I haven't been here that long.
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:55:55am |
re: #971 Guanxi88
naughty, naughty! These sorts of things can get one in a lot of trouble, especially with the fed's!
What the feds got against babies?
Anyways, Willis is long dead, so he ain't worried.
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:55:57am |
re: #957 itellu3times
BTW, trying to get any finance professionals to seriously consider these ideas, is so far in my experience, fruitless. The idea that rocket science is good, and any instrument you can dream up must be financially acceptable, is awefully strong out there.
Everybody tries to get "known" in the field by coming up with some new complicated and profitable twist. It's like economists constantly trying to come up with their own little new graph or chart and naming it after themselves.
It's not enough anymore to just be a reliable pro in your field, I guess.
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realwest Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:56:17am |
Well y'all I gotta run - hope you all have a great day and that I get the chance to see you all down the road!
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3 wood Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:56:49am |
re: #959 JCM
A .50-90 Sharps would be high on my list if I had the money to collect.
I built mine from a kit. Saved a lot of cost.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:57:45am |
re: #973 razorbacker
What the feds got against babies?
Anyways, Willis is long dead, so he ain't worried.
You know perfectly well that a firearm as described in the anecdote would certainly be of interest to the boys at Booze, Smokes, and Guns. I'm not saying I didn't see or notice other variations on the trick over the years, but still, that's some dangerous stuff, legally.
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LindaMarie Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:58:25am |
re: #849 MandyManners
It might be iced tea, but then again not.
Don't remember his name. Hs is a shade "racy' like they all are but for sure funny,
He does 'man' jokes. Irony.
Oh to once again watch American TV! Some day - soon I think.
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Eclectic Infidel Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:58:31am |
re: #1 zombie
It is a well-written essay. I disagree with the author concerning marriage rights for gay and lesbian AMERICANS but that's okay. I am and have always been of the opinion that there is one thing and one thing only preventing state-sanctioned marriage for gays/lesbians: Prejudice. That said, the author is right that mainstream heteros will never truly accept the GLBT community as equals; the prejudice runs far too deep, thanks in no small part to religious beliefs. If civil unions are the way to go for the same rights granted to heteros, then so be it.
Of course, I think the best thing for all involved is to dissolve state-sanctioned marriage altogether and get the government out of the process of granting permission to legally consenting adults. I've always thought it to be a grand hypocrasy of conservatives and liberals alike who preach "less government" but are hell bent on making sure that the queers can't get married. I think the arguments concerning "the family" are just BS, as if heteros are the only ones capable of forming families.
I do appreciate that the author details the left-wing nuttiness that's so inherent in the gay community now, though. QUIT is truly a great example of cognitive dissonance. I'll look for them at the counter-protest today.
So Zombie, thanks for the soap box opp. :)
---
On a different note - the SFV4I will be in front of City Hall in San Francisco today at 12:30 counter-demonstrating against the anti-semitic nature of International ANSWER. Feel free to stop by - just look for the Israeli flags. As usual, you can bring your own signs, but please, nothing racist, as we are both a pro-Israel and pro-peace group.
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esch Sat, Mar 21, 2009 9:59:30am |
re: #977 Guanxi88
You know perfectly well that a firearm as described in the anecdote would certainly be of interest to the boys at Booze, Smokes, and Guns. I'm not saying I didn't see or notice other variations on the trick over the years, but still, that's some dangerous stuff, legally.
What would that do? Or would you rather not say?
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:00:07am |
re: #979 eclectic infidel
As usual, you can bring your own signs, but please, nothing racist, as we are both a pro-Israel and pro-peace group.
To my mind, there is no distinction - pro-israel is pro-peace, and vice versa.
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:01:08am |
re: #977 Guanxi88
I may have heard a some rumor or some such like that.
Hey, if someone doesn't tell you what you can't do, how you gonna know when to look ashamed?
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:02:11am |
re: #981 esch
What would that do? Or would you rather not say?
It quietly squirts milk from the muzzle.
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:08:22am |
re: #981 esch
What would that do? Or would you rather not say?
Well, I've heard that a similar effect can be obtained by building a small wooden box - this is for handguns, you understand - lined with fiberglass insulation and then a layer of foil or mylar. The lining needs to be exactly thick enough to more or less enclose the hand of the felon operating it and the handgun in use. At one end of this illegal device is a smallish hole, behind which is a larger tin can, also packed full of spun glass wool, with a small length of wire screen wrapped into a tube shape and affixed, by tape or otherwise, to the weapon in the box and held in alignment. The screen tube need not be bore-sized; it may be much larger, according to the felons who built this thing, but the key thing is it must be properly aligned and held in place.
(One felon I read about said the way to overcome that was simply to drill a series of small holes down the naked barrel of the weapon and dispense with the whole screen tube thing altogether. He said the same thing worked with rifles, too, only for them you then needed to wrap the perforated barrel with many windings of brass screen, which the then covered with fire and heat-resistant tape.) The gas bleeds out into the can with the glass wool, slowing it down and cooling it off, reducing the noise.
The back of the box is open for the operator's hand, to work the weapon; the extra fiberglass insulation is there to muffle the action of the weapon and catch any gas that might escape.
Anyway, that another way it's done; it's illegal, it's stupid, and it's pretty well-known in law enforcement and other circles. DON'T DO IT!
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razorbacker Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:09:57am |
The boss informs me that I have to hook up the media sound center in the bedroom because the daughter is coming out with some new vampire movie and they want to lay about and watch it with full special effects.
See y'all later.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:15:41am |
re: #985 Guanxi88
Well, I've heard that a similar effect can be obtained by building a small wooden box - this is for handguns, you understand - lined with fiberglass insulation and then a layer of foil or mylar. The lining needs to be exactly thick enough to more or less enclose the hand of the felon operating it and the handgun in use. At one end of this illegal device is a smallish hole, behind which is a larger tin can, also packed full of spun glass wool, with a small length of wire screen wrapped into a tube shape and affixed, by tape or otherwise, to the weapon in the box and held in alignment. The screen tube need not be bore-sized; it may be much larger, according to the felons who built this thing, but the key thing is it must be properly aligned and held in place.
(One felon I read about said the way to overcome that was simply to drill a series of small holes down the naked barrel of the weapon and dispense with the whole screen tube thing altogether. He said the same thing worked with rifles, too, only for them you then needed to wrap the perforated barrel with many windings of brass screen, which the then covered with fire and heat-resistant tape.) The gas bleeds out into the can with the glass wool, slowing it down and cooling it off, reducing the noise.
The back of the box is open for the operator's hand, to work the weapon; the extra fiberglass insulation is there to muffle the action of the weapon and catch any gas that might escape.
Anyway, that another way it's done; it's illegal, it's stupid, and it's pretty well-known in law enforcement and other circles. DON'T DO IT!
Far easier to just buy a silencer.
The purchase and possession of which happens to be legal in WA.
However using one is illegal.....
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Guanxi88 Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:18:14am |
re: #987 JCM
Far easier to just buy a silencer.
The purchase and possession of which happens to be legal in WA.
However using one is illegal.....
However, there are some folks (felons) who do not wish to have a record of their purchase or acquisition of such a device. And there's the whole matter of the federal side of it, as well.
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abolitionist Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:31:50am |
re: #738 ciaospirit
And B. Hussein has a new circle of pastor friends. With this standout...Jim Wallis of Sojourners influencing BO on policy.
Sojourners: History, Actvities and Agendas
“America,” he wrote, “is a fallen nation.” Giving bladed voice to his ministry’s revolutionary views, Wallis detailed the Sojourners belief that religion must be seen in opposition to all forms of state government. “For us,” Wallis wrote, “the modern state is the great power, the great seducer, the great captor and destroyer of human life, the great master of humanity and history in its totalitarian claims and designs.” To replace the state, Wallis called for “a radical nonconformist community in the present world system, refusing to live by the norms and assumptions that control the behavior of others.”Sojourners devoted much of the 1980s to living out this vision. The Sojourners community actively embraced “liberation theology,” rallying to the cause of communist regimes that had seized power with the promise of brining about revolutionary restructuring of society. Particularly attractive for the ministry’s religious activists was the Communist Sandinista regime that took power in Nicaragua in a 1979 revolution. The Sojourners community uniformly welcomed the Communists’ victory in the revolution.
Except for the religion thing, this sounds very much like the Weather Underground. BTW, the authors of Prairie Fire are listed as Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Jeff Jones and Celia Sojourn.
I've long wondered if that's a pseudonym of Kathy Boudin.
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JCM Sat, Mar 21, 2009 10:34:36am |
re: #990 abolitionist
As I pointed out up thread... Obama true to form. Hanging with Marxists.
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