yeah - especially my professor.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

— Richard Feynman

Once somebody figures it all out, it will up and change into something entirely different.

This has happened several times already.

/

It's true;

The closer we get to understanding how the fabric of existence really behaves on it's smallest level, we get more confused.

Oddly, I'm right in the middle of a book by Michio Kaku.

Just got home from work and was listening to John Bolton on Greta's show on the ride home. He said we should have congressional hearings to find out what pressure, if any, the administration put on scotland to try and prevent the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Can the Republicans force such a hearing, or does the Dem majority guarantee that they won't be allowed?

We're working on it, okay?!

re: #4 _RememberTonyC

Just got home from work and was listening to John Bolton on Greta's show on the ride home. He said we should have congressional hearings to find out what pressure, if any, the administration put on scotland to try and prevent the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Can the Republicans force such a hearing, or does the Dem majority guarantee that they won't be allowed?

Has there been any response from the people of Lockerbie?

Heh - my CB handle back in the mid 70s.
Quantum Mechanic - I never came across anyone who "got it".

re: #6 Soona'

Has there been any response from the people of Lockerbie?

I haven't really checked on that ... but I'm guessing that they're not happy. After all, 11 of their citizens died on the ground when the plane came down.

News Note:

Ny Governor David Patterson blames his woes on racism in New York.

[Link: cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com...]

What a sorry excuse for a "leader." After all, his dismal approval rating couldn't possibly be because of the poor job he has done. I hope the good folks in NY remember how their leader gave them the "murtha" treatment come election day.

re: #9 _RememberTonyC

News Note:

Ny Governor David Patterson blames his woes on racism in New York.

[Link: cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com...]

What a sorry excuse for a "leader." After all, his dismal approval rating couldn't possibly be because of the poor job he has done. I hope the good folks in NY remember how their leader gave them the "murtha" treatment come election day.

He's right on one thing. These are not "post-racial times". The zero and all the other race baiters are making sure of that.

re: #10 Soona'

He's right on one thing. These are not "post-racial times". The zero and all the other race baiters are making sure of that.

I'm really tired of this race baiting. Once Obama was elected, the people of America showed that they'd vote for a Black man if they thought he was qualified. But this country had made plenty of racial progress for decades, so the election wasn't some "shedding of our racism" as a country. I expect the next step will be widespread calls for reparations because of slavery. But I am totally against reparations. Living in this country instead of in Africa is a blessing for African Americans in the year 2009. Although their ancestors suffered in previous centuries due to slavery, would the subsequent generations prefer to live here or in Africa? Because as horrific as slavery was, today's Black Americans would be living in Africa if slavery never existed. Would the majority of Black Americans prefer that? I think not.

re: #4 _RememberTonyC

Just got home from work and was listening to John Bolton on Greta's show on the ride home. He said we should have congressional hearings to find out what pressure, if any, the administration put on scotland to try and prevent the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Can the Republicans force such a hearing, or does the Dem majority guarantee that they won't be allowed?

At this point, with the democrats having super majorities in both the house and the senate, the Republicans can do absolutely anything that they want, so long as they get the Democrats prior permission.

So in short, no hearings.

almost 3:00am in New England ... time to say goodnight!

have a great night, Lizard Nation.

re: #13 _RememberTonyC

almost 3:00am in New England ... time to say goodnight!

have a great night, Lizard Nation.

G'nite.

Are quantum mechanics the guys who fix nano-bots?

re: #13 _RememberTonyC

Sleep tight!

re: #15 suboptimal

The bots will rule us all!
Bwahahaha!
///

Just singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain!

Tap...Tap Anyone still awake?

re: #18 Floral Giraffe

Is it raining in your area? We don't have a drop.

re: #20 Pvt Bin Jammin

Is it raining in your area? We don't have a drop.

Hmm...I wonder if it's raining here.

Eh, too lazy to go outside.

re: #20 Pvt Bin Jammin

Well, I wouldn't call it rain, but it did spit a little tonight.
Warm, windy & humid.
Very odd, for So. Cal...

How are you?

re: #21 TheMatrix31

I just came in after food and and drinks. No rain here in the west SG valley, just kind of muggy.

re: #23 Pvt Bin Jammin

I just came in after food and and drinks. No rain here in the west SG valley, just kind of muggy.

I'll settle for a lightning show!

re: #16 Floral Giraffe

Sleep tight!

I thought you left for the night.

re: #22 Floral Giraffe

I can't complain. Who would listen? LOL I'm kind of wanting a rainstorm but it's not looking like it.

re: #24 TheMatrix31

I'll settle for a lightning show!

I love the lightning shows but then we'll get brush fires. We need the rain too.

re: #26 Pvt Bin Jammin

I can't complain. Who would listen? LOL I'm kind of wanting a rainstorm but it's not looking like it.

It's been kind of cool and wet here in Oklahoma this August. Highs today were only in the eighties. Cool tonight and then more eighties tommorrow.

re: #20 Pvt Bin Jammin

Is it raining in your area? We don't have a drop.

I just went out for a drive because I was going stir crazy at home. In San Diego it's sprinkling for a few minutes, then it stops, then it does it again a half hour later, repeat. All it's doing is getting things dirty.

It feels like its still over 80 out now too.

Embarrassing to have three posts in a row but I am a little beyond the Iron Fist rule. Just when we were leaving our restaurant some of our friends and family showed up. Hasta Manana, lizards. Love ya.

re: #29 ArchangelMichael

Kind of hot here too but no rain.

'Nite, Michael.

re: #29 ArchangelMichael

Warm & breezy here. I'm halfway from your SD to LA.
It'd feel good to have a REAL rainstorm.
But, it's August in California.
So, we wait...

re: #30 Pvt Bin Jammin

PBJ, sometimes you can just OWN a thread!

Sleep tight.
Enjoy your weekend!

Looks like one of those nights. I might check in later.

re: #27 Pvt Bin Jammin

I love the lightning shows but then we'll get brush fires. We need the rain too.

That's true. On my trip last week, I loved the rain in Kansas City and Chicago. It was welcome during the summer. Awesome.

Good Night, Lizards.
Stay Scaly!
Sleep tight on a nice, warm rock!

{PBJ}

There sits the posited reference that religion will understand exactly what science has been searching for...
once science can crest the hill

re: #36 Floral Giraffe

G'nite, cheery Chinchilla!

I's like being the last living cell in a dying body.

"I'm not dead yet...I just got here!"

re: #40 Fenway_Nation

"I'm not dead yet...I just got here!"

Is that a Monty Python reference?

re: #41 BatGuano

Sort of...I just ad-libbed the last part.

re: #42 Fenway_Nation

Excellent.You have fulfilled the Monty Python thread reference imperative.You may advance to the next level.

re: #4 _RememberTonyC

Just got home from work and was listening to John Bolton on Greta's show on the ride home. He said we should have congressional hearings to find out what pressure, if any, the administration put on scotland to try and prevent the release of the Lockerbie bomber. Can the Republicans force such a hearing, or does the Dem majority guarantee that they won't be allowed?

Without Democratic support, no hearing.

For what it's worth, the Administration apparently did bring a lot of pressure to bear in this matter, pushing for continued incarceration. Unfortunately, several blog comments posted here yesterday from Scottish sources indicate that this pressure, applied by both 0bama and Clinton, may have contributed to the release; a lot of Scots took it as an infringement of their sovereignty when the US started telling them how to run their court and prison system. The release may have been due in part to political backlash against what was perceived as ham-fisted foreign meddling.

Demanding that 0bama do anything comes at the cost of 0bama not knowing how to do anything right, and falling back on his ample supplies of arrogance and ego to fill in the gaps. A recipe for foreign policy disasters like this one.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

"Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in Pre-war Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and army Commandant father. The family re-locate to the countryside where his father is assigned to commandeer a prison camp. A few days later, Bruno befriends another youth, strangely dressed in striped pyjamas, named Shmuel who lives behind an electrified fence. Bruno will soon find out that he is not permitted to befriend his new friend as he is a Jew, and that the neighboring yard is actually a prison camp for Jews awaiting extermination."--www.imdb.com

Tony.

re: #44 SixDegrees

Sounds reasonable to me. I am interested to know in what manner pressure was put on Scotland ie, was it in a "diplomatic" way or was it "ham-fisted"

Good morning good afternoon and good evening!

Fruitcup is now on the buffet --->

re: #46 BatGuano

Sounds reasonable to me. I am interested to know in what manner pressure was put on Scotland ie, was it in a "diplomatic" way or was it "ham-fisted"

Given past 0bama diplomatic exploits - a bag full of DVDs in the wrong format, an iPod, and so on - I'd lean toward "ham-fisted" myself. A goodly number of Scots seem to agree, if the postings yesterday are any indication.

re: #47 Fenway_Nation
Seriously, do you know why littleoldlady is not posting?

re: #49 BatGuano

No idea, to be honest...I've hardly been around this week myself.

re: #48 SixDegrees

I tend to agree (without knowing the particulars). Even our allies bristle when America infringes on their sovereignty.

*Turns over particle/wave.

Made in China.

*Turns back over

re: #50 Fenway_Nation

Yeah, Yesterday you came up on the MIA list by one of the posters. I don't want to speculate, just a little concerned about littleoldlady and gmsc.

re: #52 SasquatchOnSteroids

China is the new Japan.

re: #53 BatGuano

Well...the good news is that I have a job through the end of the month. The bad news is that the hours are crap-tastic enough to make me wish I was unemployed again...

re: #55 Fenway_Nation

Fenway, I'm glad you are employed. I also have such shitty hours unemployment sounds good. :)

re: #54 BatGuano

China is the new Japan.

Indeed ! My father told me a couple of years ago that the complaints about Chinese goods today are virtually the same exact complaints he remembers about the Japanese goods in the 50's.

re: #57 SasquatchOnSteroids

Even through the sixties "Made in Japan" was a joke; right up there with "Mickey Mouse", as in "this mickey Mouse piece of shit!"

re: #56 BatGuano

I know...I start in the late afternoon and if I head straight home, I'm in the door by 3 AM. My ability to find other or longer-term employment is hindered as long as I'm working this one...altho' all of my bills are taken care of for this month.

re: #57 SasquatchOnSteroids

Indeed ! My father told me a couple of years ago that the complaints about Chinese goods today are virtually the same exact complaints he remembers about the Japanese goods in the 50's.

Well, except for the wide variety of poisons China is shipping over here, yes.

Lockerbie Memorial.

re: #60 SixDegrees

Like I said when a Chinese manufacturer was making a serious bid for Hummer:

'They must've found a way to make cars run on tainted milk and lead toys'

re: #59 Fenway_Nation

That is quite a quandary; one I have faced many times. Your working hours conflict with you ability to secure new employment. In better times I have actually quit jobs (with two weeks notice) to search for other opportunities. I wouldn't dare do it now.

re: #60 SixDegrees

Like the farm raised fish and crustaceans that are shot full of antibiotics because of the polluted water they are raised in?

re: #59 Fenway_Nation

I've worked two days straight, with about three hours sleep, and not all at once. My job is supercraptastic, but I'm self-employed. Like, who am I going to bitch to?

Working sucks dick. I know, I've just stated the obvious.

re: #64 BatGuano

How do you give antibiotics to water creatures? Do they just does the water? Doesn't that eff up the water for everything else?

re: #64 BatGuano

Like the farm raised fish and crustaceans that are shot full of antibiotics because of the polluted water they are raised in?

Among many other things.

re: #66 theheat

How do you give antibiotics to water creatures? Do they just does the water? Doesn't that eff up the water for everything else?

Yes and yes.

Taliban militants cut off fingers of 2 Afghan voters

Two voters who had dipped their index fingers in purple ink — a fraud prevention measure — were attacked in Kandahar province shortly after voting Thursday, said Nader Nadery, the head of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan. Kandahar is the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.

Rumors that militants would cut off voters' ink-stained fingers spread before the vote. A Taliban spokesman had said militants would not carry out such attacks, but the Taliban is a loose organization of individual commanders who could carry out the threat on their own.

Total effing barbarians we are fighting.

re: #63 BatGuano

re: #65 theheat

Yes indeed, altho as much as I'd like to up and quit, I think the temp agency only has another week left for this place. I already outlasted 1/3rd of the temps they sent over.

re: #66 theheat

How do you give antibiotics to water creatures? Do they just does the water? Doesn't that eff up the water for everything else?

Beats the hell out of me, but in 2007 there was a ban on these Chinese products in this country. These were all farm raised creatures so they could have been individually treated but I wouldn't rule out dumping antibiotics into the cesspools in which they were raised.

re: #68 SixDegrees

We had farm raised salmon, and it tasted so bad we couldn't eat it. Mushy, salty, shitty. Compared to so-called wild salmon, the stuff isn't fit to eat. Maybe all the doctoring of the water had something to do with it. (I had no idea they actually did that.)

So, with all the environmental regulations, how do they get away with treating the fish and the water?

re: #64 BatGuano

Like the farm raised fish and crustaceans that are shot full of antibiotics because of the polluted water they are raised in?

Actually, a similar criticism can be lodged against American meat production, where sub-clinical doses of antibiotics are used to suppress diseases caused by overcrowding and the bizarre diet animals are fed. Aside from being unpleasant, it creates and absolutely perfect breeding ground for antibiotic-resistant bacteria to evolve and thrive.

China, however, is completely unregulated, and use haphazard amounts of questionable products, so you never know what the hell you're getting unless someone tests it (which will never happen in China) or you sprout a third arm.

re: #70 Fenway_Nation

Any chance of going permanent there, or are you beating the pavement again after this stint?

re: #69 SasquatchOnSteroids

Taliban militants cut off fingers of 2 Afghan voters

Total effing barbarians we are fighting.

For what it's worth, two doesn't indicate much strength. The Taliban have been threatening this for weeks, and it was supposed to be a widespread reprisal to voters. That they were able to mug a couple of people in an alley somewhere doesn't speak well for their actual power.

At least at the moment. I have a feeling this Administration will be crafting a hasty exit strategy soon.

re: #74 theheat

No way in hell I'm going permanent with this particular stint, since apparently the regular employees aren't paid much better than us temps and have hardly any benefits to speak of.

re: #72 theheat

We had farm raised salmon, and it tasted so bad we couldn't eat it. Mushy, salty, shitty. Compared to so-called wild salmon, the stuff isn't fit to eat. Maybe all the doctoring of the water had something to do with it. (I had no idea they actually did that.)

So, with all the environmental regulations, how do they get away with treating the fish and the water?

What environmental regulations? China has none worth talking about.

re: #73 SixDegrees

I wouldn't intentionally buy anything edible from China. Im pissed off as it is that so many of our food sources were contaminated with shit from China, and we didn't know about. Pet food, animal food, people food - the Chinese hit us from every direction.

And I'm quite aware of the factory farming aspect of America's meat sources. It's not only unhealthy, it's barbaric. I don't eat meat any more, and that's mostly why. I'm trying to get Mr. Heat to buy all organically grown local meat, butchered on-site, for just that reason.

Good Morning Lizards!
It's pool party day...When the hell is the Sun coming up? Lazy ass sun...*wink*

re: #75 SixDegrees

*sigh* Wasn't Afghanistan supposed to be the 'good' war?

/at least according to the left.

re: #68 SixDegrees

what about in the food they consume...granted some antibiotics etc would obviously dissolve into the water this way as well.

re: #78 theheat

I wouldn't intentionally buy anything edible from China. Im pissed off as it is that so many of our food sources were contaminated with shit from China, and we didn't know about. Pet food, animal food, people food - the Chinese hit us from every direction.

And I'm quite aware of the factory farming aspect of America's meat sources. It's not only unhealthy, it's barbaric. I don't eat meat any more, and that's mostly why. I'm trying to get Mr. Heat to buy all organically grown local meat, butchered on-site, for just that reason.

It's a good plan, if you can find sources nearby. Have you read The Omnivore's Dillema, by Michael Pollan? If not, you ought to pick it up.

re: #76 Fenway_Nation

aren't paid much better than us temps and have hardly any benefits to speak of.

Sounds like if you worked for me ;-) I wouldn't do it if I had the choice!

Gotta go. Much remodeling work today, and The Borg (Home Depot) opens at 6:00, so I'm outta here.

re: #73 SixDegrees

I am against inhumane raising of farm animals.I haven't had veal since 2002. If a beef animal can so gracious as to let us slaughter it for our consumption the least we can is allow to exist in an environment where it is able to browse in dignity from the grasses of our fields. Penned up and corn-fed is not the life meant for a bovine. Certainly not as incubators for antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.

re: #84 SixDegrees

Gotta go. Much remodeling work today, and The Borg (Home Depot) opens at 6:00, so I'm outta here.

Have a great day!

re: #78 theheat

Havent gotten to it myself but it was recomennded to me
Poorly Made in China

re: #84 SixDegrees

G'night six.

re: #82 SixDegrees

"Eat food not too much mostly vegetables" i think that was his deal right?

re: #82 SixDegrees

No, haven't read it, but I've read several books over the years about factory farming, and being in the periphery of the ag business, I know a lot about the 'behind the scenes' stuff. Nasty, ugly, brutal, sickening, unhealthy, scary.

We have a couple sources of organic/homegrown beef within just a few miles of us, and that's where we go. I won't touch the crap from the chain grocery stores any more, and I'm highly skeptical about any of the big fast food chains.

re: #84 SixDegrees

'Night, Six. Nice visiting.

re: #78 theheat

Turns out lobster is a good buy right now.

/Much to the detriment of New England's lobster fishermen

re: #87 GOPManHatTanIte

I've read some stuff in National Geographic about the working conditions and factories in China. While I'm sure it only scratches the surface, it's all bad. Toxic, shoddy, the employees are horribly exploited, and they are a major global polluter.

But Wal-Mart sure digs 'em.

re: #92 Fenway_Nation

That's sad. Seems like they could manipulate the prices, or at least maintain them, same as a lot of other commodities. I don't mind paying more for lobster. It isn't like we'd eat it all the time, anyway.

re: #92 Fenway_Nation

If lobster prices are down, I'm gonna get me some tail.

re: #95 BatGuano

Wait, shit!

re: #93 theheat

Funny...there was some Discovery Channel miniseries on the climate change/global warming/whatever-the -fuck-they're-calling-it-this -week hosted by Tom Brokaw that peripherally acknowledged China's role as a major polluter, but blamed it not on the toxin-spewing Eastern-bloc type industrial infrastructure, but newly affluent Chinese seeking to emulate the American/consumerist lifestyle.
I shit you not...

re: #95 BatGuano

If lobster prices are down, I'm gonna get me some tail.

LOL
I have only had lobster once in my life...Nothing special...
Good Morning

re: #95 BatGuano

Look...you don't hear me bragging about that single mom who took me back to her place last month...

Oh wait...

re: #98 HoosierHoops

God morning Hoosier. I do love lobster tail, especially when I prepare it myself which is about once per year.

re: #97 Fenway_Nation

I don't know if the NatGeo Chinese factories photo essays made it online, but the evidence was right there before your eyes. It's gd filthy and sickening, and on such an enormous scale, it's mind-boggling. I believe if the rest of the world really cleaned up their act, China alone would pollute as much as all the other countries had, combined.

re: #95 BatGuano

If lobster prices are down, I'm gonna get me some tail.

I saw the biggest lobster tail I've ever seen in my life on the table next to us at Gibson's Steakhoue in Chicago last week. RIDICULOUS.

re: #100 BatGuano

God morning Hoosier. I do love lobster tail, especially when I prepare it myself which is about once per year.

Good Morning..ESPN is reporting the Cubs have been sold to a Billionaire..The Rickets or somebody? They will be dancing in the street in Chicago...Sale will take place after the season

re: #97 Fenway_Nation

Fenway, that is too convoluted to make up.I'm sure Tom Brokaw believes it. And it all comes back to the USA.

re: #102 TheMatrix31

It is now 3:17 am in California and I WANT LOBSTER TAIL!

Oh shit...this just in:

Argentines outraged as Ahmadinejad Taps '94 Buenos Aires Bombing Mastermind for Defense Minister

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) – Argentina expressed outrage over Iran's nomination of a man wanted in connection with a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing that killed 85 people as the next defense minister.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tapping Ahmad Vahidi for the post is "an affront to Argentine justice and the victims of the terrorist attack" on the Jewish community center, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

News of the nomination was received "with grave concern and deserves the most energetic condemnation of the Argentine government," it said.

In 2007, Interpol issued a warrant for the arrest of Vahidi, a former head of Al Quds, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

The July 9, 1994 bombing leveled the seven-floor Argentine Jewish Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and wounding 300. No single individual has ever been convicted for the bombing.

It was the worst terrorist attack in Argentina, which has the largest Jewish community in the Americas outside the United States, and the second large-scale anti-Jewish strike in Buenos Aires that decade.

In 1992, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was leveled in a bombing that killed 22 people and wounded 200.

In Washington, US officials reacted with concern.

"If this report is true and if this man is confirmed as a cabinet minister and is wanted by Interpol for his involvement in a terrorist act, of course this would be disturbing," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

Argentina's condemnation cast fresh doubts on Ahmadinejad's cabinet nominations, which face stiff opposition from Iranian lawmakers.

But Tehran brushed aside the criticism as part of a "Zionist plot."

"How come they didn't bring it up in the past?" asked Ahmadinejad press adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr, referring to the Argentine complaint.

"Mr Vahidi was a deputy defense minister and this is very senior political position," he told AFP.

"Therefore, it seems that this is a new trick being planned and is basically a Zionist plot."

Among the other Iranians also wanted by Interpol as part of its assistance to Buenos Aires in the case are Iran's former intelligence chief Ali Fallahian and the former head of the country's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei, as well as three Iranian diplomats.

Argentine prosecutors allege Iran masterminded the bombing in Buenos Aires and entrusted the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to execute it.

In November 2006, Argentine prosecutors issued arrest warrants against several Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati.

But Interpol's executive committee withdrew its warrants against Rafsanjani, Velayati and another Iranian.

/at least this is just in across my eyeballs

re: #105 BatGuano

ewww. A little too close to breakfast cereal time for seafood, isn't it? Bluck. Wouldn't a big bowl of Captain Crunch sound better?

Now I want Captain Crunch. ('Cept it always tears up the roof of my mouth.)

re: #105 BatGuano

It is now 3:17 am in California and I WANT LOBSTER TAIL!

Where are you at? I'm a California boy,,,Born and raised

re: #102 TheMatrix31

I saw the biggest lobster tail I've ever seen in my life on the table next to us at Gibson's Steakhoue in Chicago last week. RIDICULOUS.

We had dinner at The Black Pelican in Kitty Hawk last week while on vacation.
They had a tank with a claw (like those stuffed animal ones) with lobsters in it.
$2.00 to try and catch one with it. "You catch it we cook it". Kids were pouring money in that thing. They make some good bank on that machine, and not one of them even came close to catching one.
I was laughing my ass off, those Lobsters are probably older than me.

re: #103 HoosierHoops

What are the odds of a major league baseball team being bought by billionaire?

re: #110 BatGuano

What are the odds of a major league baseball team being bought by billionaire?

LOL
one in a million? LOL

re: #110 BatGuano

Slightly better than an NBA team being purchased by an unemployed/underemployed slacker?

Oh wait...there's always Mark Cuban,,,

re: #112 Fenway_Nation

Slightly better than an NBA team being purchased by an unemployed/underemployed slacker?

Oh wait...there's always Mark Cuban,,,

I don't like Cuban...But I wish I scored a billion dollars and went out and bought a NBA... I'd buy Golden State

re: #107 theheat

ewww. A little too close to breakfast cereal time for seafood, isn't it? Bluck. Wouldn't a big bowl of Captain Crunch sound better?

Now I want Captain Crunch. ('Cept it always tears up the roof of my mouth.)

It's been tearing up the roof of my mouth for forty years and I like it!

Any wonder why the NYT is a fucking joke ?
If you look at their homepage, it's all Bush, all the time.
Who is this Obama person which you speak of ?

re: #106 Fenway_Nation

"If this report is true and if this man is confirmed as a cabinet minister and is wanted by Interpol for his involvement in a terrorist act, of course this would be disturbing," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

Uh oh, another strongly worded letter on its way. Even during Bush's tenure, no one's figured out talking them to death and condemning their choices has accomplished nothing, other than posturing. So far, that's all anyone else in the world is prepared to do, except maybe Israel, because Israel has the most to lose.

re: #108 HoosierHoops

Where are you at? I'm a California boy,,,Born and raised

Currently, I am in San Jose, just across the Stevens Creek border where I want to return to Santa Clara.

Too bad I've prevented myself from eating lobster since I broke out eating it a couple times when I was a kid. Maybe I should try again? It's delicious.

If I had a billion dollars, I'd buy my Suns and rescue them from their miserable owner and general manager.

re: #117 BatGuano

Currently, I am in San Jose, just across the Stevens Creek border where I want to return to Santa Clara.

No shit! cool.. I'm from Napa but work in Silly Cone Valley...My Home office is on Central Express freeway in Santa Clara...
Transfered here...to the corn fields...weee!

re: #115 SasquatchOnSteroids

Let me guess...0bama's numbers are slipping again, so Pinchey figures us rubes need a reminder of how bad we had it under BushCo...

re: #118 TheMatrix31

The Phoenix Suns? All I know about them is their web site blows.

re: #121 theheat

The Phoenix Suns? All I know about them is their web site blows.

Steve Nash is a great point guard..I saw him live at the ReggieMiller retirement game...They blew the Pacers out..Nash was great that night...

re: #119 HoosierHoops

Hey, neighbor! The only cornfields I know around here are on Lawrence Expressway around Poincietta drive.But Lawrence intersects Central.

re: #118 TheMatrix31

Try it again.

re: #121 theheat

The Phoenix Suns? All I know about them is their web site blows.

LOL...eh, their site is ok.

re: #122 HoosierHoops

Steve Nash is a great point guard..I saw him live at the ReggieMiller retirement game...They blew the Pacers out..Nash was great that night...

He's the man on AND off the court, but I'm not too crazy about his politics.

re: #120 Fenway_Nation

As a matter of fact, Obama is sucking bad right now (per CNN yesterday), and far worse than Bush did at this stage of the presidency. At this rate, he could could poll even lower than Bush, and much sooner.

That's what happens when you drag your country, kicking and screaming, into debt that defies the imagination, and try to institute a nanny state right out of the starting gate.

A lot of people have made it clear they will not go quietly, and not just the nutters. I expect the Dems are going to lose some traction in 2010. It'll be a rude awakening for them.

Just out of curiosity, is Iran going out of it's way to piss off the world's breadbaskets? I guess Canada and the Ukraine are next (altho' I think they've been working on Canada for awhile- having some of their citicizens die in custody and whatnot)...

re: #120 Fenway_Nation

Let me guess...0bama's numbers are slipping again, so Pinchey figures us rubes need a reminder of how bad we had it under BushCo...

That or look ever there while your shit is stolen.
Either way, fishwrap is all it's good for.

re: #122 HoosierHoops

Well, with a name like Hoosier Hoops... I'm more of a baseball fan, if anything.

re: #123 BatGuano

Hey, neighbor! The only cornfields I know around here are on Lawrence Expressway around Poincietta drive.But Lawrence intersects Central.

I fly home a couple times a year...We'll have to get together...I drive up to Napa and say hi to my pops in Yountville and I have a girl at UC Davis...she lives in Vacaville ( dump)
I like going over to the pub at Santa Clara University and having a beer with the Seniors and watch sports on the big screen

re: #125 TheMatrix31

Don't know about Nash's politics but he is a great point guard. Stylistically he is up there with Bob Cousy and John Stockton. What was Mark Cuban thinking?

re: #131 BatGuano

Don't know about Nash's politics but he is a great point guard. Stylistically he is up there with Bob Cousy and John Stockton. What was Mark Cuban thinking?

He signed Erick Dampier instead, lol.

Nash + D'Antoni = perfect marriage.

re: #126 theheat

Those huge debt numbers are not yet realized because only a fraction of that TARP money and other FIASCO Funds have not yet been spent. If The People rise up now and prevent the rest of the money being spent on wild extravagances we may yet be able to bring this under control, but it will take some major convincing.

re: #130 HoosierHoops

I'm ashamed to admit that in the seventies, I used to go to Santa Clara University to score dope.

re: #134 BatGuano

I'm ashamed to admit that in the seventies, I used to go to Santa Clara University to score dope.

And in a nice little roundabout connective way, Steve Nash attended Santa Clara University.

re: #127 Fenway_Nation

I think they thrive on conflict, wherever and however they can get it. It's such an ordeal to truly wage war on another country, they're betting it isn't worth it to most countries to actually do anything, and they're right. A few dead foreigners - tourists, journalist, whatever - is a lot cheaper than a declaration of war by the offended country.

The knee-jerk days of kicking ass are long gone, and I don't see them coming back.

re: #134 BatGuano

I'm ashamed to admit that in the seventies, I used to go to Santa Clara University to score dope.

LOL
Did you wear a 3 piece white polyester suit strutting down the street...Staying Alive? You stud you!

re: #137 HoosierHoops

LOL
Did you wear a 3 piece white polyester suit strutting down the street...Staying Alive? You stud you!

2 piece 'lectric blue. Seems like a long time ago now.

re: #135 TheMatrix31

And in a nice little roundabout connective way, Steve Nash attended Santa Clara University.

I've seen passing in Basketball...His passing is so crisp and smart in his prime..
To see him live in full speed making the most beautiful pass to the open man is a thing to behold.

re: #133 UncleRancher

I've been somewhat surprised how Obama has reacted to the town hall meetings, alone. He's changed his tune, already, and has tipped his hand a bit. He's either a terrific poker player and he's baiting us playing possum, or he's truly rattled. I'm hoping it's the latter.

Bush went to sleep how many nights (?) knowing a great number of the people in the country hated his freakin' guts. Obama's only had a tiny taste of that kind of unpopularity so far, and he's already going sideways. He doesn't like being unpopular, and he doesn't seem to have much of a stomach for it.

re: #137 HoosierHoops

No, I was a tight blue jeaned white cotton shirt kinda stud. :) Clapton was my god.

Arab group republishes Shoah cartoon on website

Disgraceful Arab protest: The Arab-European League in Holland has republished a cartoon mocking the Holocaust three years after it has been removed from its website.

The move was aimed to protest the decision not to indict Dutch Lawmaker Geert Wilders over an anti-Islamic movie he produced.

OK, we're pissed at the Dutch.
Mock them Jooos !

In other New England lobster news...rare cobalt-blue lobster caught off of New Hampshire coast.

re: #135 TheMatrix31

Indeed he did!

re: #138 UncleRancher

2 piece 'lectric blue. Seems like a long time ago now.

Come on Rancher..It's cool..You can tell us..did you have a big floppy purple hat? *wink*

re: #139 HoosierHoops

I've seen passing in Basketball...His passing is so crisp and smart in his prime..
To see him live in full speed making the most beautiful pass to the open man is a thing to behold.

I wish I was alive to watch Pistol Pete.

re: #145 HoosierHoops

Come on Rancher..It's cool..You can tell us..did you have a big floppy purple hat? *wink*

Nope. Didn't need the hat. The rest of it worked just fine.

re: #143 Fenway_Nation

In other New England lobster news...rare cobalt-blue lobster caught off of New Hampshire coast.

Red Lobsters are oppressing me !

re: #146 TheMatrix31

Matrix, you are so wise beyond you years. Pistol Pete Maravich invented "show time" in the NBA. I was alive to watch him but did not have the opportunity to see him live.. It was a sad day when I read that he died of heart failure at the age of forty in a pick up game.

re: #146 TheMatrix31

I wish I was alive to watch Pistol Pete.

imagine being in college and the game of the week you have to guard pistol pete...That would suck knowing he was going to destroy you...
His cross over was under rated...He was so under rated with ball handling..When he was a kid his pops drove him around in a car and make Pete bounce the ball out the back seat window...Serious training...
Pete would go right around you and shoot beautiful shots.

re: #140 theheat

I've been somewhat surprised how Obama has reacted to the town hall meetings, alone. He's changed his tune, already, and has tipped his hand a bit. He's either a terrific poker player and he's baiting us playing possum, or he's truly rattled. I'm hoping it's the latter.

Bush went to sleep how many nights (?) knowing a great number of the people in the country hated his freakin' guts. Obama's only had a tiny taste of that kind of unpopularity so far, and he's already going sideways. He doesn't like being unpopular, and he doesn't seem to have much of a stomach for it.

Somewhere here I have an email from a friend in Montana who was around when Ear Leader was there for his "town hall". Everything right down to the last detail and everyone in attendance was completely orchestrated. They picked an empty hanger clear out of the public view for the venue when there are all kinds of rooms available in that college town of Bozeman.

re: #151 UncleRancher

AHA! I was just talking to my brother about that yesterday. I knew there was no way in hell he got the kind of positive response they reported in the news. It said about 1,300 people showed up, and the audience was overall "very positive" about the (vaguely) proposed health care plan.

I knew it was bullshit! There's no way you could get 1,300 Montanans at random that would view this plan positively. They had to dredge the Dem pool pretty deeply for the attendance.

re: #151 UncleRancher

Yea...Montana and Colorado kinda struck me as odd choices for a town hall venue for 0bama until I realized that he probably went out of his way to find blue enclaves in these red states.

My understanding is that the Bozeman area is a popular retreat for some of the rich and famous blue-state types in part because of it's proximity to the north enterance of Yellowstone. I've also heard Missoula being compared to Austin (very liberal college town in a state better known for rugged cowboy and ranching types)...

re: #149 BatGuano

Matrix, you are so wise beyond you years. Pistol Pete Maravich invented "show time" in the NBA. I was alive to watch him but did not have the opportunity to see him live.. It was a sad day when I read that he died of heart failure at the age of forty in a pick up game.

Seems like he would have been one of my favorite players ever. I love watching guys like Nash and Kidd for those same reasons. All are just magical on the court.

re: #150 HoosierHoops

imagine being in college and the game of the week you have to guard pistol pete...That would suck knowing he was going to destroy you...
His cross over was under rated...He was so under rated with ball handling..When he was a kid his pops drove him around in a car and make Pete bounce the ball out the back seat window...Serious training...
Pete would go right around you and shoot beautiful shots.

I'd probably piss my pants if I had the assignment to guard him. Didn't he average like, 44 a game in college?

re: #153 Fenway_Nation

One of the people I work with was in Yellowstone (*) at the time camping. When the motorcade came into Old Faithful area they just moved out of the way.

*- The Real Reason Ear Leader went to Bozeman

re: #150 HoosierHoops

I believe he still has the colege record for scoring 44 points per game. And if you're a defender, you have no idea where the ball is going. Also, he wore old baggy socks,

re: #154 TheMatrix31

I'd probably piss my pants if I had the assignment to guard him. Didn't he average like, 44 a game in college?

It would be hell..Pete's all around game was under rated..He scored a lot of points but was a true baller..
The best pure shooter I saw in College was Rick Mount...Just a beautiful stroke...

re: #154 TheMatrix31

See my number 156. You are right, 44.

re: #157 HoosierHoops

It would be hell..Pete's all around game was under rated..He scored a lot of points but was a true baller..
The best pure shooter I saw in College was Rick Mount...Just a beautiful stroke...

Heh...good thing they didn't call him Dick Mount.

re: #155 UncleRancher

You mean, they didn't hand Obama a dozen cupcakes, and suggest he make friends with the bears?

Yankees beats Boston 20-11 last night..
Damn Yankees

re: #161 HoosierHoops

Yankees beats Boston 20-11 last night..
Damn Yankees

WTF? I thought that was an NFL preseason game...

re: #161 HoosierHoops

Yankees beats Boston 20-11 last night..
Damn Yankees

And the Braves laid an egg against the Marlins in the opening game of a CRUCIAL series.

And the Rays beat Texas to move within 2 games of the wildcard.

Damn yankees!

re: #161 HoosierHoops

Damn Yankees!

re: #164 Cannadian Club Akbar

And the Rays beat Texas to move within 2 games of the wildcard.

Speed and power...Watch out...

re: #166 HoosierHoops

Speed and power...Watch out...

I got a Mowhawk last year before the playoffs started. I looked like my dad when he was in the Army.

re: #167 Cannadian Club Akbar

I got a Mowhawk last year before the playoffs started. I looked like my dad when he was in the Army.

LOL
we need pics!

re: #164 Cannadian Club Akbar

And the Rays beat Texas to move within 2 games of the wildcard.

It's still three :-/

re: #168 HoosierHoops
I have them!!

re: #169 TheMatrix31

I forgot we lost Thursday, rats.

Someone screwed up on the math...

Obama administration projects $9 trillion deficit over 10 years... a significant jump from the $7 trillion deficit that officials had projected at the beginning of the year.

And on that happy note, I need to get my butt back to work. It's been fun. 'Night, All.

re: #160 theheat

You mean, they didn't hand Obama a dozen cupcakes, and suggest he make friends with the bears?

..
Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out.
However, 1500 were printed at a Local printing shop per White House request..
Hmmm...900 tickets just DISAPPEARED.

This same morning someone called into the radio from the local UPS branch and said that THOUSANDS of Dollars of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation!!! And it would have been really wonderful to help out the local economy. Anyone heard of the Recession?? Just think...with all of the traveling the White House is doing. One can only imagine what else we are paying for.

On Friday ___ and I got out to the airport about 10:45am. The groups that wanted to protest Obama's spending and healthcare had gotten a permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be. A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal)and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man but they said they did not have the manpower to remove the SEIU crowd. The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30 and they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY made signs.

Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and Planned Parenthood folks were with them...professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs. (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area). Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man. So we had Montana folks from ALL OVER the state with their homemade signs and their DOGS with homemade signs. We had cowboys, nurses, doctors you name it. There was even a guy from Texas who had been driving through. He found out about the occasion, went to the store, made a sign, and came to protest.

If you are wondering about the press...Well, all of the major networks were over by that remote hangar I mentioned. They were conveniently parked on the other side of the buildings FAR away. None of these crowds were even visible to them. I have my doubts that they knew anything about the crowds. We did have some local news media around us from this state and Idaho.

Speaking of the local media...they were invited. However, all questions were to be turned into the White House in advance of the event. Wouldn't want anyone to have to think off the top of their head.

It was very obvious that it was meant to be totally controlled by the White House. Everything was orchestrated down to the last detail to make it appear that Montana is just crazy for Obama and government healthcare. Even those people that talked about their insurance woes...the White House called our local HRDC (Human Resource and Development Committee) and asked for names. Then the White House asked those folks to come. Smoke and mirrors...EVERYTHING was staged!!! I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I was physically nauseous.

___ and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country. America needs your prayers and your voices. If you care about our country please get involved.

Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!! If they are willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY a small town one can only imagine what is going on in Washington DC.

Scary

re: #167 Cannadian Club Akbar

Believe it or not, Mohawks were popular among elementary students in 1961, in Eugene, Oregon.

re: #167 Cannadian Club Akbar

As long as it wasn't the 'Rawhawk' bikini wax...

re: #170 Cannadian Club Akbar

I have them!!

re: #169 TheMatrix31

I forgot we lost Thursday, rats.

I have a bit of a soft spot for the Rays. I love almost all of their players.

re: #174 BatGuano

Believe it or not, Mohawks were popular among elementary students in 1961, in Eugene, Oregon.

I wasn't thought of then

re: #175 Fenway_Nation

That name just hurts.

Yanks/Sox at 4 today and Bucs/J'ville at 8 tonight. I'm gonna need more beer.

re: #178 Cannadian Club Akbar

Enough of this NFL preseason crapola...wake me when the games actually count.

Good night, all.

re: #178 Cannadian Club Akbar

Yanks/Sox at 4 today and Bucs/J'ville at 8 tonight. I'm gonna need more beer.

Pool party and BBQ today at the hoopsters! I've been up for 2 hours...Weee!

Good night, BG!

re: #179 Fenway_Nation

Any football is better then none.

re: #181 HoosierHoops

And drinking beer since??:)

re: #179 Fenway_Nation

Enough of this NFL preseason crapola...wake me when the games actually count.

The new Colts defense just beat the living hell out of the bad ass Eagles...
We don't do that much cover 2 crap now...Big on the line to stop the run...Fast in the backfield...
The Colts now have a real defense to help Manning..
Ask the Eagles...They are in hot tubs this morning

I'm out too, later dudes.

re: #183 Cannadian Club Akbar

Any football is better then none.

re: #181 HoosierHoops

And drinking beer since??:)

Wink

re: #186 HoosierHoops

The Bucs already lost a starting safety for the first 4 games (substance abuse violation) and a starting corner got arrested Thursday night and I am sure Godell will give him a 4 gamer. Geez.

The Colts are the rare team n sports for the last decade..
The Character of the players and Dungy and his influence on this town..
Even if you hate the Colts when they play your team..Everyone secretly admires them and loves the team...A very special football team...

re: #183 Cannadian Club Akbar

The age-old equation has always been:
football(bad) - football(none at all) = football.
Come to think of it, that worked for beer too.

re: #189 Pullus Iulius

The age-old equation has always been:
football(bad) - football(none at all) = football.
Come to think of it, that worked for beer too.

Good morning
hope you are well today...

re: #188 HoosierHoops

I met Tony Dungy. Had him sign an old school Bucs Pennant. He signed the wrong side and graciously took it back and signed the correct side. And I do like the Colts. But I hate the freakin' Raiders. Hate. Red Hot Hate.

re: #190 HoosierHoops

Good morning
hope you are well today...

And to you, too. Thank you. Hangover from the football(bad), though.

Good Morning all from the triple H northeast

re: #183 Cannadian Club Akbar

Love me some NCAA football, too...

September 1, 2007 was a pretty good day for me. I blew off most of the college football games I could get on XM so I could listen to Buchholz throw his no-hitter against the O's.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

— Richard Feynman

Well, very few people understand economics, either. And nobody in Washington seems to.

Four more banks fail, with 2009 tally now at 81
Guaranty Bank of Texas joins list of biggest U.S. bank failures of all time

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday announced four more bank failures, including a Texas bank with total assets of about $13 billion, pushing this year's tally up to 81.

Guaranty Bank of Austin, Texas became the 81st bank failure of 2009 after it was closed by Office of Thrift Supervision, which appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. as receiver, the federal agency said late Friday.

Yep, that stimulus is sure working great.

re: #195 3 wood
the economic outlook just gets rosier and rosier don't it?

re: #194 Fenway_Nation

Love me some NCAA football, too...

September 1, 2007 was a pretty good day for me. I blew off most of the college football games I could get on XM so I could listen to Buchholz throw his no-hitter against the O's.

The week following 9/11 in 2001, baseball got pushed back. I saw the Rays/Yanks (only stayed 1 inning) went to Bucs/Packers, left there and saw the Lightning/Panthers hockey game. 1 day, 3 pro sport games.

Good morning, lizards.

re: #191 Cannadian Club Akbar

I met Tony Dungy. Had him sign an old school Bucs Pennant. He signed the wrong side and graciously took it back and signed the correct side. And I do like the Colts. But I hate the freakin' Raiders. Hate. Red Hot Hate.

LOL! I grew up in Northern California..I loved the Raiders with all my heart...When we were kids and the raiders were kicking ass we'd all run outside at halftime and play ball and kick the living hell out of each other..then run back for the game...
One time I was in Alameda and got into the practice field and watched Lester Hayes work out for an hour...What a monster! you would not want to meet up with him on the field of battle...
I will always be a Raiders Fan..My Childhood hero's

re: #195 3 wood

Hey! Just the lizard I was hoping to hear from.

I was just wondering why, despite some big gains on the NYSE this week, grocers like Kroger, SuperValu and Safeway were trading much much closer to their 52-week lows...was there any dismal earnings forecasts recently that I missed?

re: #198 Irish Rose

Good morning, lizards.

Good morning Irish..It's pool party day and it's colder than hell outside so far..high of 72 today...overcast...

Running out of gas
Consumers, auto dealers facing problems as 'Cash for Clunkers' comes to an end

You have just a few days left to trade in your clunker for up to $4,500 off the cost of a new, more fuel-efficient car.

But because of some potholes in the reimbursement process, you may find yourself facing off against the car dealer, consumer advocates say.

Some auto dealers are pressing consumers to sign agreements requiring them to pay back to the dealer the rebate of up to $4,500 -- or return the new car -- if the government doesn't approve the customer's clunker exchange.

But some say consumers shouldn't be on the hook to come up with the cash.

"You go in, you trade in your car and you think you're getting in on the cash-for-clunkers deal. But then the dealer tells you, 'Oops, it didn't go through. We need the money or the car back,'" said Rosemary Shahan, president of Citizens for Auto Reliability and Safety, or CARS, a California-based advocacy group.

"To be fair to the dealers, it's a new program, it's complicated. There are probably dealers who have made a lot of honest mistakes," she said. "The question is: Who should pay for that? We're concerned consumers are being pressured to come up with money that they really don't have."

Just project this situation onto your doctor.

Meanwhile, tired of doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of rebates to consumers without yet seeing a dime, in some cases, from the government, some dealers have stopped participating in the clunker program, according to news reports

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re: #199 HoosierHoops

I saw the Raiders in Tampa at the old stadium when I had season tix. Raiders fans everywhere. Cole Ford was attemting a 20 yard FG to win it. He missed. We ended up winning. Heh. But yes, old school Raiders were bad ass.

Good Morning LGF.

re: #201 HoosierHoops

Good morning Irish..It's pool party day and it's colder than hell outside so far..high of 72 today...overcast...

Ow, not a good day for a pool party.
Hope ya got lots of food ;).

You feeling better today?

re: #196 bbuddha

the economic outlook just gets rosier and rosier don't it?

There is a disconnect going on. The Obama worshippers including the MSM are trying to paint slowing destruction as economic growth.

Meanwhile, more and more people are losing their jobs, folks are running out of unemployment benefits, banks are still closing and the economy keeps contracting. All Obama and his worshippers can seem to do is demonize the opposition and talk about "hope".

Hope does not pay the bills, and the world is quickly running out of patience with our profligate deficits spending.

With Smiles, Obama Leaves Capital Behind - having thoroughly wee-weed off the people of the US our Presidente does need a good vacation.

“He is a chess player in a town with a lot of checker players,” said David Plouffe...

...and the people are a bunch of stupid hick's incapable of playing checkers, let alone chess, huh Plouffe?

Mornin folks.

re: #200 Fenway_Nation

I was just wondering why, despite some big gains on the NYSE this week, grocers like Kroger, SuperValu and Safeway were trading much much closer to their 52-week lows...was there any dismal earnings forecasts recently that I missed?

Beware of the "big gains", it was on very light trading activity. I see a 5% pull back coming, at least.

Again, folks are out of work and running out of benefits and savings.

re: #202 3 wood

So the dealers ruin the engine of a car you trade in, then don't get their cash from the gubment, then want the new car back. Hmm. Sounds like everything is just ducky.
/

re: #206 3 wood

There is a disconnect going on. The Obama worshippers including the MSM are trying to paint slowing destruction as economic growth.

Meanwhile, more and more people are losing their jobs, folks are running out of unemployment benefits, banks are still closing and the economy keeps contracting. All Obama and his worshippers can seem to do is demonize the opposition and talk about "hope".

Hope does not pay the bills, and the world is quickly running out of patience with our profligate deficits spending.

Maybe it's time for the rest of the world to bail out the US for a change.
Fat chance.

re: #206 3 wood

Hope does not pay the bills, and the world is quickly running out of patience with our profligate deficits spending.

Sure it does! Ya just gotta BELIEVE.

Remember, if you don't believe in faeries, Tinkerbell will die. And you don't want to kill Tinkerbell, do you?

re: #206 3 wood

There is a disconnect going on. The Obama worshippers including the MSM are trying to paint slowing destruction as economic growth.

Meanwhile, more and more people are losing their jobs, folks are running out of unemployment benefits, banks are still closing and the economy keeps contracting. All Obama and his worshippers can seem to do is demonize the opposition and talk about "hope".

Hope does not pay the bills, and the world is quickly running out of patience with our profligate deficits spending.

No argument from me on that. He's big at projecting all the "evil" on the republicans. I heard him say that the republicans are blocking his healthcare "reform". conveniently leaving out the fact that if he had all of his pary on board he doesn't need any of those horrible R's

re: #197 Cannadian Club Akbar

Not bad...a couple of years ago, I managed to get to a day game between the Rockies and Padres at PETCO park- even tho' it went to extra innings, I still managed to walk to the Santa Fe depot in time to catch the train to Anaheim, where we showed up in time to catch the Red Sox taking BP at Angels stadium...(no football or hockey going on concurrently).

I also managed to get Bill Mueller (3rd baseman on the '04 Red Sox) and Teemu Sellane's autograph on the same day a little more recently...

re: #205 Irish Rose

Ow, not a good day for a pool party.
Hope ya got lots of food ;).

You feeling better today?

Life is sweet Irish...My boy comes home from the Marines at 4pm on the 27th.
Plenty of food and cold beer here...It's a cool day but the pool is warm..
I thank God for the grace God has shown my family...I can't wait to kiss my son on the cheek and shake his hand and thank him for his service to our country..And keep him home here forever...
I am very proud of him this morning..

re: #209 Cannadian Club Akbar

So the dealers ruin the engine of a car you trade in, then don't get their cash from the gubment, then want the new car back. Hmm. Sounds like everything is just ducky.
/

Good morning all. the Administartion is calling this failed program a success.
It's kind of like, "We do not know why Custer is unavailable for the victory parade."

re: #213 Fenway_Nation
I went to game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals in 2004 and got the ticket signed by the coach (John Tortorella) and the captain (Dave Andrychuck). Also got my pic with the cup and a pic with the cup and coach. My friend used to run a local ice rink, so I didn't do anything special 'cept answer my phone.

re: #214 HoosierHoops

Life is sweet Irish...My boy comes home from the Marines at 4pm on the 27th.
Plenty of food and cold beer here...It's a cool day but the pool is warm..
I thank God for the grace God has shown my family...I can't wait to kiss my son on the cheek and shake his hand and thank him for his service to our country..And keep him home here forever...
I am very proud of him this morning..

I am too Hoops, and please tell him that I said so.
Is he coming home for good?

We're both going to have our Marines home at the same time, btw... my son is coming home for leave on the 27th too.

Hows' that for coincidence?

re: #214 HoosierHoops

I'm happy for you that your son is coming home. Thank him for me too.

re: #214 HoosierHoops

Life is sweet Irish...My boy comes home from the Marines at 4pm on the 27th.
Plenty of food and cold beer here...It's a cool day but the pool is warm..
I thank God for the grace God has shown my family...I can't wait to kiss my son on the cheek and shake his hand and thank him for his service to our country..And keep him home here forever...
I am very proud of him this morning..

That is wonderful.

re: #206 3 wood

I see Bernanke announced that the economy was in the process of "leveling out." Trying to get us excited over setting the record for low altitude flight. Trouble is, you can only tie that record.

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about the Obama presidency is how a product of the most craven political machine in America could be packaged as "an outsider," a representative of new and principled governance. C'mon -- he inherited, but party fiat -- the Senate seat formerly held by Carol Mosely-Braun!

Much of Obama's trouble, methinks, derive from his Illinois experience. He isn't used to having to answer to anyone (least of all the public) aside from the small group of power brokers who decide who will get which seats from which districts before a vote is ever taken (remember that in Chicago, all that matters are the primary elections, and those are conducted along lines that would have made the Soviets envious). Now he actually has to face the fact that there is -- gasp! -- ANOTHER PARTY out there, and people who have the nerve to question the program he is fronting for.

That never happened in Chicago. And frankly, I think he honestly has no idea how to react.

re: #221 Lucius Septimius

One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about the Obama presidency is how a product of the most craven political machine in America could be packaged as "an outsider," a representative of new and principled governance. C'mon -- he inherited, but party fiat -- the Senate seat formerly held by Carol Mosely-Braun!

Much of Obama's trouble, methinks, derive from his Illinois experience. He isn't used to having to answer to anyone (least of all the public) aside from the small group of power brokers who decide who will get which seats from which districts before a vote is ever taken (remember that in Chicago, all that matters are the primary elections, and those are conducted along lines that would have made the Soviets envious). Now he actually has to face the fact that there is -- gasp! -- ANOTHER PARTY out there, and people who have the nerve to question the program he is fronting for.

That never happened in Chicago. And frankly, I think he honestly has no idea how to react.

But, but, but, he won.

re: #217 Irish Rose

I am too Hoops, and please tell him that I said so.
Is he coming home for good?

We're both going to have our Marines home at the same time, btw... my son is coming home for leave on the 27th too.

Hows' that for coincidence?

Whoa..that is weird...Is your son is the 3/5? Jordan is out for good..He is going to be a policeman...I saw a picture of your Marine on your website..nice looking young man..you must be very proud

re: #215 opnion

Good morning all. the Administartion is calling this failed program a success.
It's kind of like, "We do not know why Custer is unavailable for the victory parade."

AP -- Washington -- June 26 1876. The White House announced today a stunning success in the Montana Territory. General George C. Custer successfully diverted a large number of Indians from making indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets. Reports also state that in the aftermath of Gen'l Custer's campaign "The Indians are running desperately short of ammunition; their warriors are exhausted." A spokesman summed up the situation by saying "The success of this operation, distracting and disarming the opposition, is a clear indication of the success of our current policy."

re: #209 Cannadian Club Akbar

So the dealers ruin the engine of a car you trade in, then don't get their cash from the gubment, then want the new car back. Hmm. Sounds like everything is just ducky.

And this gang wants to take over your health care.

I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.women.

re: #222 Cannadian Club Akbar

But, but, but, he won.

Precisely. That should have settled the matter, right?

Daddy Daley would never have put up with these protesters -- he knew how to deal with uppity people carrying signs.

re: #210 Spare O'Lake

Maybe it's time for the rest of the world to bail out the US for a change.
Fat chance.

They have been buying our debt up, but that is coming to a halt. You will see interest rates climbing by the end of the year, I think.

re: #221 Lucius Septimius

The good news is that the "Obama" Senate seat is in serious jepordy.
The Dems look like they might have a divisive primary with the Tresurer Alexi Genulious, who funnled money to the mob from his family bank & Lisa Madigan the Attorney General.
Congressman Kirk will be the Repuiblican cadidate. He is a Reserve Naval Officer with recent active duty & squeaky clesn.

re: #225 3 wood

And this gang wants to take over your health care.

I don't see doctors very often. The last tme I did I got cholesterol medication and that put me in the ER (it was 1 AM, no walk in clinics open) I just don't want to pay for refusing gubment healthcare.

re: #220 Pullus Iulius

I see Bernanke announced that the economy was in the process of "leveling out." Trying to get us excited over setting the record for low altitude flight. Trouble is, you can only tie that record.

I think he was also telegraphing that he is out of bullets and will soon have to start raising the discount rate and turning down the spigot of money.

He has to, we won't be able to sell our debt if he does not.

re: #224 Lucius Septimius

AP -- Washington -- June 26 1876. The White House announced today a stunning success in the Montana Territory. General George C. Custer successfully diverted a large number of Indians from making indiscriminate attacks on civilian targets. Reports also state that in the aftermath of Gen'l Custer's campaign "The Indians are running desperately short of ammunition; their warriors are exhausted." A spokesman summed up the situation by saying "The success of this operation, distracting and disarming the opposition, is a clear indication of the success of our current policy."

See all is well.

Hey Hoops & Rose,

Thank you for yours for your families perseverance and, of course, the boys for their service.

Chicago Cubs Sold to TD Ameritrade’s Ricketts for $845 Million

The Chicago Cubs baseball team, which hasn’t won a World Series in more than 100 years, will be acquired by the family of TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. founder Joe Ricketts for $845 million.

The sale by Chicago-based Tribune Co., the newspaper publisher driven to bankruptcy last year by debt and falling ad sales, requires the approval of Major League Baseball’s owners and the court, the parties said yesterday in a statement.

They still won't win unless the ownership spends the money to develop a good minor league feeder system for the team and hire some more competent scouts.

And Wrigley is just too old and small to support that kind of an operation.

Time for breakfast. Later.

re: #223 HoosierHoops

Whoa..that is weird...Is your son is the 3/5? Jordan is out for good..He is going to be a policeman...I saw a picture of your Marine on your website..nice looking young man..you must be very proud

Yes I sure am.
He has a year left to go and is thinking he probably won't re-up, he wants to marry his best girl and get some schooling. And he misses the folks back home even more than we miss him.

I have him home for a couple of weeks, and then he's back out to San Diego. They may send him out again on deployment, they may keep him at Miramar working on the aviation team there until his stint is up - hard to know at this point.

U.S. National Debt Clock

Obama's aiming to double it. Add $2.5+ trillion for health care "reform" and cap & trade.

/this is easily the most serious threat to this country that I've seen in my lifetime

re: #233 aboo-Hoo-Hoo

Thanks aboo :).

re: #234 3 wood

Chicago Cubs Sold to TD Ameritrade’s Ricketts for $845 Million

They still won't win unless the ownership spends the money to develop a good minor league feeder system for the team and hire some more competent scouts.

And Wrigley is just too old and small to support that kind of an operation.

A new Cub ecxuse is born, they now have Rickets.
The cubs have a tradition of losing & their fans have embraced it, "loveable losers". They actually do not have to win, it goes beyond baseball, it is a cultural experience. They fill the park no matter what.
The White Sox on the other hand have been more successful in modern times but play second fiddle to the Cubs.

re: #236 Irish Rose

Here's hoping he gets to stay a little closer to home for his last year.

re: #237 Killian Bundy

Our share is $38,226.53 each. CHANGE!!! Pony up, lizards!!

re: #241 Cannadian Club Akbar

Our share is $38,226.53 each. CHANGE!!! Pony up, lizards!!

Pardon me, I think I'm going to add some booze to my coffee this morning.
BRB.

re: #242 Irish Rose

Pardon me, I think I'm going to add some booze to my coffee this morning.
BRB.

I love you.

re: #243 Cannadian Club Akbar

I love you.

Don't go all mushy on me now ;).

re: #244 Irish Rose

Booze at your house and Hoops is having a beer/BBQ/ pool party. Decisions, decisions.

re: #242 Irish Rose

Oohh that sounds like a lovely idea.

re: #245 Cannadian Club Akbar

Booze at your house and Hoops is having a beer/BBQ/ pool party. Decisions, decisions.

Cute girls in bikinis at 1 pm..please...

Rifqa Barry, the 17 year old convert to Christianiy from Islam is being granted foster homeing in Florida until things get sorted out.
She says that she left home because she fears an honor killing. Her parents say that they don not believe in that practice. Any thoughts?

Michigan Unemployment Remains Highest In The Nation

Michigan's unemployment rate remains the highest in the nation, despite a small dip in the jobless rate last month.

Official figure is 15 percent. When you factor in all of the people who have dropped off the rolls, we figure the percentage here in Michigan is closer to 25 percent, perhaps higher.

If you're a low income worker, or have a background in manufacturing, then you're pretty much screwed.

re: #249 Irish Rose

Michigan Unemployment Remains Highest In The Nation

Official figure is 15 percent. When you factor in all of the people who have dropped off the rolls, we figure the percentage here in Michigan is closer to 25 percent, perhaps higher.

If you're a low income worker, or have a background in manufacturing, then you're pretty much screwed.

Illinois has hit double digit unemployment. Illinois is considered a bellweather, so this can't be good

re: #242 Irish Rose

Pardon me, I think I'm going to add some booze to my coffee this morning.
BRB.

Help yourselves to a cup of joe

Morning Lizards. Enjoy. How's everyone this morning?

re: #248 opnion

If they (muslims) convert they are considered apostates, that is punishable by death. This religion seems to be of the thought that they must spill blood of the "offender" to preserve their honor.

re: #248 opnion

Rifqa Barry, the 17 year old convert to Christianiy from Islam is being granted foster homeing in Florida until things get sorted out.
She says that she left home because she fears an honor killing. Her parents say that they don not believe in that practice. Any thoughts?

IIRC, even if she was to go home, a judge there could have put her in protective custody. And I think she met the preacher guy through Facebook or something.

re: #188 HoosierHoops

re: #191 Cannadian Club Akbar

Colts have been my team from way back...I mean Johnny U, Lenny Moore, Ray Berry way back.

I hate the Cowboys...but not as much as I hate Jerry Jones.

Morning opnion. You have double digit #250s. Odd.

BRB laundry is ready to be hung

re: #248 opnion

Rifqa Barry, the 17 year old convert to Christianiy from Islam is being granted foster homeing in Florida until things get sorted out.
She says that she left home because she fears an honor killing. Her parents say that they don not believe in that practice. Any thoughts?

I don't often agree with Pamela because I tend to think she's a nutcase, but she is right on this one. The girl should not be forced to return home if she has any reasonable fear that her life might be in danger.

Our courts are simply not prepared for legislation in these matters and moving slowly on a final decision is the right thing to do.

I do however, think that it's important to take a hard look at the "pastor" who persuaded her to leave her family and harbored her. This is not the first time that he has done this sort of thing, and his integrity and motives IMO less than pure and rather suspect.