That bird's in front of a tube, dude!

Run! Fly! Imminent danger... the wave is not your friend!

Ah, but that doesn't mean you don't have any friends...

Break out the Ventures!
Surf guitar, in white shoes!
LOL!

re: #1 Floral Giraffe

That bird's in front of a tube, dude!

Another night, another curlew.

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

Nicely played!

re: #4 Dark_Falcon

Another night, another curlew.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Its a good photo.

Nice "Pipeline" with Stevie Ray

re: #3 Floral Giraffe

Ahhh... The Ventures:

(* Yes, we only have 36 more shopping days left!!! *)

Great shot of the Giant Emu (I thought they were extinct?) and the Tsunami wave coming ashore.

/

re: #8 freetoken

STOP WITH THE DAYS UNTILL CHRISTMAS!

Please, I retired from a senior-ish management job in retail 3 years ago.
You know what?
I don't give a Flying F how the retailers do anymore.
It was VERY important to me, for most of my working career.
Now, ask me if I miss the freighting strategies of best sellers & how to get more into "my" stores in the next 45 days.
Am I even going into a store in the next 45 days?
Well, a grocery store.
The rest?
Well, let me give you shopppers a HINT in this economy.
What ever you want is gonna be40% off after Thanksgiving, unless it;s selling really well. And ALL OF IT is gonna be 50% off after Christmas. 'Cause this year is gonna be bad. So save your energy & pennies. Shop in January. Yes, there will still be a size selection that is good.

Yes, you gotta love a seasonal business!
(Crab mode, is now off!)

Spellcheck woulda been my friend...
Had I but asked...

re: #10 Floral Giraffe

For the crabby... more Ventures!

re: #10 Floral Giraffe

Except for cell phones. If you need or want a phone, get one from Sprint this Christmas Season. We've got some great new phones and our new 4G Wireless Aircards are the fastest mobile internet around by a long margin.

/end employer promo

re: #12 freetoken

No, I can't EVEN do a Ventures Christmas.

Thank you for trying.

Here's a fun negotiation, if you stop & think about the size and pricing power of the parties involved...

[Link: finance.yahoo.com...]

re: #13 Dark_Falcon

If I needed or heck, even wanted a phone.
You'd be my first call!
{{DF}}
May your season be profitable!

As Killgore would say...
Namaste...

Good Night, Dear Lizards!
May the blessings of all of this world, be upon you!

re: #14 Floral Giraffe

No, I can't EVEN do a Ventures Christmas.

The beatings will continue until morale improves:

As for the trouble in retail... yeah, the local Safeway brand (Von's) now is advertising triple coupon redemption (up to $1 value.) The very same store is one of the largest in the area, and yet they have fewer people all the time.

re: #16 Floral Giraffe

Goodnight long-necked fauna-floral hyrid:

Good night.

Whatever you do don't go to the Recovery dot gov website. It's depressing.

re: #13 Dark_Falcon

Except for cell phones. If you need or want a phone, get one from Sprint this Christmas Season. We've got some great new phones and our new 4G Wireless Aircards are the fastest mobile internet around by a long margin.

/end employer promo

Yeah, tell me all about AT&T's WiMax (4G Service). For some strange reason Alaska was the test area for WiMax. They were installing it in Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks. They were offering an WiMax unit for $20/month. Of course to get that price you also had to purchase local and long-distance service. Thought it sounded like a pretty good service as I could take the receiver with me when I traveled. But, when I visited the distributer of the WiMax units I found out they were way behind in building the necessary tower infrastructure. The service only works in portions in each city. My house was in a dead zone.

re: #19 Gus 802

Good night.

Whatever you do don't go to the Recovery dot gov website. It's depressing.

Did you notice the stimulus jobs "created or saved" in Arizona's 15th, Arizona's 86th, Connecticut's 42nd, and about a dozen other districts that happen to not exist?

re: #20 Cheechako

LOL!
Your house is ALWAYS in a dead zone.
That is my experience in California.
We're along the coast, so they blame the canyons & valleys of our area.
I hope you got a decent solution?

re: #22 Floral Giraffe

I hope you got a decent solution?

I get DSL from my phone company but I don't have a long enough cord to take it on the road.

Cause I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
And this bird you can not change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
Lord help me, I can't change.

re: #20 Cheechako

Yeah, tell me all about AT&T's WiMax (4G Service). For some strange reason Alaska was the test area for WiMax. They were installing it in Anchorage, Juneau, and Fairbanks. They were offering an WiMax unit for $20/month. Of course to get that price you also had to purchase local and long-distance service. Thought it sounded like a pretty good service as I could take the receiver with me when I traveled. But, when I visited the distributer of the WiMax units I found out they were way behind in building the necessary tower infrastructure. The service only works in portions in each city. My house was in a dead zone.

We already have our WiMax built out here in Chicago. But then again, Sprint already had more 3G coverage than AT&T, so there's no reason why we should not have more and better 4G coverage as well.

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

We already have our WiMax built out here in Chicago. But then again, Sprint already had more 3G coverage than AT&T, so there's no reason why we should not have more and better 4G coverage as well.

I love the Verizon commercials with the 3G maps.

AT&T really can't argue with something like that

re: #21 Raryn

Did you notice the stimulus jobs "created or saved" in Arizona's 15th, Arizona's 86th, Connecticut's 42nd, and about a dozen other districts that happen to not exist?

YEp, a lot of people noticed it today. And the Chicago Tribune noticed the statistical shenanigans weeks ago. bBama is shilling bullshit and its not even hidden.

re: #26 Raryn

I love the Verizon commercials with the 3G maps.

AT&T really can't argue with something like that

I love 'em too. It's nice to know I work for a company with a better network than AT&T and we have better plans to boot. AT&T sucks, except for the iPhone (though that is a very large exception).

re: #27 Dark_Falcon

YEp, a lot of people noticed it today. And the Chicago Tribune noticed the statistical shenanigans weeks ago. Obama is shilling bullshit and its not even hidden.

PIMF

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The free bird leaps
on the back of the win
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and is tune is heard
on the distant hillfor the caged bird
sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze
an the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

-Maya Angelou

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

As far as I know, AT&T is the only company to be offering WiMax service in Alaska. The major phone company, Alaska Communication Systems (ACS) has some kind of arrangement with AT&T for long distance in Alaska but it will not include the WiMax service. For WiMax you have to sign up for AT&T local and long distance to get the cheep WiMax rate. Overall, the total cost for local, long distance, and a high speed internet connection are very comparable. Within a few bucks depending on how many minutes of long distance service (both in-state and out of state) you wanted.

re: #31 Cheechako

As far as I know, AT&T is the only company to be offering WiMax service in Alaska. The major phone company, Alaska Communication Systems (ACS) has some kind of arrangement with AT&T for long distance in Alaska but it will not include the WiMax service. For WiMax you have to sign up for AT&T local and long distance to get the cheep WiMax rate. Overall, the total cost for local, long distance, and a high speed internet connection are very comparable. Within a few bucks depending on how many minutes of long distance service (both in-state and out of state) you wanted.

If you got high speed internet through somewhere else, could you get a VoIP service for phone service? Or would that not be cheaper.

re: #31 Cheechako

I remember when it was ATU (anchorage telephone utility) before ACS bought it. I also remeber back before we got the undersea cables to the lower 48 and everything went over satellite. You would talk into the phone and then hear your own voice as an echo a second later, followed three seconds later by the other persons reply. No internet up there in those dark days...

re: #32 Raryn

If you got high speed internet through somewhere else, could you get a VoIP service for phone service? Or would that not be cheaper.

No competition up there...one phone company, one cable company it is either one or the other and they both charge too much.

Hmm…

A poor Christmas retail season, unemployment at dangerous and unusual highs not seen in 26 years, a FED rate of 0.25% (effectively zero), government spending accelerating at alarming rates and the printing presses keep churning out dollars.

Even Bernanke [the jovial], warns that economic "headwinds" will restrain the pace of the U.S. recovery.

Yet the markets continue their weird bull rise since March, and crude oil keeps knocking at the $80 a barrel level.

Whatever is next?

re: #35 Bagua

Change!

re: #36 ausador

Change!

Disaster!

re: #36 ausador

re: #37 Dark_Falcon

Christmas!

The H1N1 vaccine proves safe as houses with 6.6 million vaccinations in Canada.

With adverse reactions right about as predicted and predominantly mild. Only 1 death attributed to the vaccine, contrast and compare with the more than 198 deaths due to the H1N1 flu so far.

Looks like another win for modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.

re: #32 Raryn

If you got high speed internet through somewhere else, could you get a VoIP service for phone service? Or would that not be cheaper.

Actually I can get phone and internet service from 2 companies. ACS, the communication company, and GCI, my cable tv supplier. When you can figure out the various packages (and they are very confusing) the cost for a comparable package is very close to each other. Throwing in the various cable tv offers makes it very mixed upre: #33 ausador

I remember when it was ATU (anchorage telephone utility) before ACS bought it. I also remeber back before we got the undersea cables to the lower 48 and everything went over satellite. You would talk into the phone and then hear your own voice as an echo a second later, followed three seconds later by the other persons reply. No internet up there in those dark days...

Just about every small village in Alaska has phone and internet service these days. Cell phones are a very valuable addition to the communication networks in the villages as they don't require a hard line.

Every now and then I still get hooked up through a satellite connection in a call to the lower 48. That 3 second delay drives me and the person i called nuts.

re: #39 Bagua

The H1N1 vaccine proves safe as houses with 6.6 million vaccinations in Canada.

With adverse reactions right about as predicted and predominantly mild. Only 1 death attributed to the vaccine, contrast and compare with the more than 198 deaths due to the H1N1 flu so far.

Looks like another win for modern medicine and the pharmaceutical industry.

And hopefully a shattering loss for the anti-vaxer nuts.

Boy, I wish the AP sent a shitload of people to fact check Sarah Palin's book. I guess they were too busy fact checking the stimulus bill, the health bills, cap and trade, the KSM trial setup, Obama's associations, et al

re: #31 Cheechako

As far as I know, AT&T is the only company to be offering WiMax service in Alaska. The major phone company, Alaska Communication Systems (ACS) has some kind of arrangement with AT&T for long distance in Alaska but it will not include the WiMax service. For WiMax you have to sign up for AT&T local and long distance to get the cheep WiMax rate. Overall, the total cost for local, long distance, and a high speed internet connection are very comparable. Within a few bucks depending on how many minutes of long distance service (both in-state and out of state) you wanted.

I'd be leery of AT&T they pulled out of Alaska once before, my ex-wife worked for them in Anchorage for about 18 months when they set up a wireless highspeed (local dish) internet service as a test market back around 1999-2000. They oversold the capacity of the system without adding to the infrastructure and then when people started complaining and dropping the service they canned the whole thing.

re: #42 TheMatrix31

Boy, I wish the AP sent a shitload of people to fact check Sarah Palin's book! I guess they were too busy fact checking the stimulus bill, the health bills, cap and trade, the KSM trial setup, Obama's associations, et al

Get with the program! Everything The One says must be taken as gospel. Sarah Palin however, is an evil conservative who the AP must stop before she activate her sekrit evil conservative plan.

/dripping

re: #43 ausador

I live in the Mendenall valley. AT&T just received permission to install two 120 foot towers for the WiMax service in the valley. One of the towers will be about 1/2 mile from my house. I should be able to see it from my back porch.
The towers were delayed 9 months by the local NIMBY's.

I've got get to bed. Goodnight, all.

re: #45 Cheechako

I live in the Mendenall valley. AT&T just received permission to install two 120 foot towers for the WiMax service in the valley. One of the towers will be about 1/2 mile from my house. I should be able to see it from my back porch.
The towers were delayed 9 months by the local NIMBY's.

Hopefully they have vastly improved their business practices since then, I hope it works well for you.

re: #46 Dark_Falcon

Goodnite DF

Nice to chat with everyone but I've got to hit the sack too.

re: #49 Cheechako

Goodnite to you too.

re: #44 Dark_Falcon

Get with the program! Everything The One says must be taken as gospel. Sarah Palin however, is an evil conservative who the AP must stop before she activate her sekrit evil conservative plan.

/dripping

Sarah Palin is funny and strange and attractive to many, many people. And that is why the media is magnetized to her. She sells magazines. She sells books. She sells cable news air time. I don't even understand why everyone on LGF does not understand this. She is a gold mine for all forms of media, the ultimate reality show.

Stimulus bills and health care legislation do not get up, walk around and say plucky weird things on Oprah. They do not look good in red and wear designer eyeglasses. The media is not a football game where one side is red and one side is blue. It's more like those plastic ball pits that children play in at a county fair. Red, blue, green, flourescent orange, and so on. It is way more random and craven, and it is never ever ever fair.

"And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
We call it Riding the Gravy Train."

/a man named Pink said that

re: #42 TheMatrix31

Boy, I wish the AP sent a shitload of people to fact check Sarah Palin's book. I guess they were too busy fact checking the stimulus bill, the health bills, cap and trade, the KSM trial setup, Obama's associations, et al

Probably a bit easier to factcheck Palin's book when her running mate (you know, that senator guy, he was in the navy and stuff) says she's lying and his campaign apparatus is cooperating with the media. Probably don't need a bunch of AP sleuths in that case.

Open your eyes and read the news! It tells stories, sometimes.

/sarcasm is totally awesome

re: #35 Bagua

Hmm…

A poor Christmas retail season, unemployment at dangerous and unusual highs not seen in 26 years, a FED rate of 0.25% (effectively zero), government spending accelerating at alarming rates and the printing presses keep churning out dollars.

Even Bernanke [the jovial], warns that economic "headwinds" will restrain the pace of the U.S. recovery.

Yet the markets continue their weird bull rise since March, and crude oil keeps knocking at the $80 a barrel level.

Whatever is next?

BHO himself is saying there could be a double dip recession.

re: #53 MandyManners

BHO himself is saying there could be a double dip recession.

Followed by a rocky road to recovery.

re: #54 lazardo

Followed by a rocky road to recovery.

They'll just print more money at the mint.

re: #9 ausador

Great shot of the Giant Emu (I thought they were extinct?) and the Tsunami wave coming ashore.

/

Heh. It's all about scale.

re: #42 TheMatrix31

Boy, I wish the AP sent a shitload of people to fact check Sarah Palin's book. I guess they were too busy fact checking the stimulus bill, the health bills, cap and trade, the KSM trial setup, Obama's associations, et al

Morning Lizards. Quick response and then I've got to work,

James Taranto had a copy thoughts on the "facts":

It's said that Sarah Palin had help writing her new book, "Going Rogue." Not nearly as much help, though, as the Associated Press's Calvin Woodward had reading it. Woodward's byline appears on a Friday dispatch titled "FACT CHECK: Palin's Book Goes Rogue on Some Facts," but at the bottom we find the following:

AP writers Matt Apuzzo, Sharon Theimer, Tom Raum, Rita Beamish, Beth Fouhy, H. Josef Hebert, Justin D. Pritchard, Garance Burke, Dan Joling and Lewis Shaine contributed to this report.

Woodward, Apuzzo, Theimer, Raum, Beamish, Fouhy, Hebert, Pritchard, Burke, Joling and Shaine manage to find a grand total of six "errors," but some of them aren't errors at all. Example:

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.

THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard) for a five-hour women's leadership conference in New York in October 2007. With air fare, the cost to Alaska was well over $3,000.

So they begin by conceding the point that "she usually opted for less-pricey hotels," then come up with exactly one example to the contrary--which would have contradicted an assertion that she "never" stays in pricey hotels but is entirely consistent with the claim that she didn't do so "often."

Here's another example of Woodward, Apuzzo, Theimer, Raum, Beamish, Fouhy, Hebert, Pritchard, Burke, Joling and Shaine's work:

PALIN: Welcomes last year's Supreme Court decision deciding punitive damages for victims of the nation's largest oil spill tragedy, the Exxon Valdez disaster, stating it had taken 20 years to achieve victory. As governor, she says, she'd had the state argue in favor of the victims, and she says the court's ruling went "in favor of the people."

THE FACTS: That response is at odds with her reaction at the time to the ruling, which resolved the case by reducing punitive damages for victims to $500 million from $2.5 billion. Palin said then she was "extremely disappointed" and it was "tragic" so many fishermen and families put their lives on hold waiting for the decision.

Again, what's the contradiction? She was pleased that the decision finally came and that the plaintiffs got some relief but unhappy that it took so long and that the award wasn't greater.

The only case in which Woodward, Apuzzo, Theimer, Raum, Beamish, Fouhy, Hebert, Pritchard, Burke, Joling and Shaine's version of "THE FACTS" facially contradicts Palin's is the one in which she claimed to have "ended all such arrangements between lobbyists for an oil-pipeline deal and the governor's office," when according to Woodward, Apuzzo, Theimer, Raum, Beamish, Fouhy, Hebert, Pritchard, Burke, Joling and Shaine, "the leader of her own pipeline team was a former lobbyist for a subsidiary of TransCanada, the company that ended up winning the rights to build the pipeline."

One more:

Our favorite, though, is this one:

PALIN: "Was it ambition? I didn't think so. Ambition drives; purpose beckons." Throughout the book, Palin cites altruistic reasons for running for office, and for leaving early as Alaska governor.

THE FACTS: Few politicians own up to wanting high office for the power and prestige of it, and in this respect, Palin fits the conventional mold. But "Going Rogue" has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto, the requisite autobiography of the future candidate.

To be sure, the suspicion that Palin is more ambitious than she admits is an entirely reasonable one. But it's only a suspicion, not a FACT, unless the AP sent its reporters inside Palin's brain. And if Palin's brain is big enough to house Woodward, Apuzzo, Theimer, Raum, Beamish, Fouhy, Hebert, Pritchard, Burke, Joling and Shaine, she's a lot smarter than anyone knew.

For a less partisan take on Palin's book, see Melanie Kirkpatrick's review in The Wall Street Journal.

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re: #53 MandyManners

BHO himself is saying there could be a double dip recession.

He's not the only one. This article says we can look forward to European style unemployment as well.

[Link: www.dailyfinance.com...]

re: #59 soxfan4life

He's not the only one. This article says we can look forward to European style unemployment as well.

[Link: www.dailyfinance.com...]

Depressing.

re: #59 soxfan4life

He's not the only one. This article says we can look forward to European style unemployment as well.

[Link: www.dailyfinance.com...]

When they said America should be more like Europe, this wasn't exactly what they expected, was it.

re: #61 lazardo

Maybe that and having us shower less was exactly what they are after.

Maersk Alabama attacked again.

NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt, the EU's naval force said.

re: #62 soxfan4life

Maybe that and having us shower less was exactly what they are after.

Cradle to grave.

re: #64 MandyManners

Cradle to grave.

All those patriots who founded this nation and placed their own lives in jeopardy signing the Declaration of Independence would cringe to see how much like Europe we are becoming.

NJDhockeyfan posted this last night.

Jane Fonda: Obama Funder Jodie Evans Met With Taliban; Code Pink Gives Terrorists Direct Line to Obama

Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month. The meeting with the Taliban took place just weeks before Evans was videotaped directly handing to President Barack Obama a package of information about her trip to Afghanistan at a high dollar fundraiser in San Francisco.

The meeting with the Taliban was kept secret by Evans and her group Code Pink in reports she and the group posted from Kabul and in interviews with the media and bloggers about the trip. Fonda, a close friend of Evans, let the secret meeting slip in an account of her dinner with Evans at a fundraiser for the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles:

Last Saturday, My dear friends Jodie Evans and Max Palevsky, invited Richard and me to join them at their table at a fundraiser at the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood. It was a good evening for lots of reasons. I had never been to the museum and definitely want to go back. Clearly it is a courageous place, very cutting edge. Then, too, I saw lots of friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and I sat next to Jodie who told me a little about her recent trip to Afghanistan with an American delegation that included a retired colonel, and member the State Department (Army Reserves Col. (Ret.) and ex-diplomat Ann Wright). While there, she met with people ranging from the brother of President Karzai, Afghan members of Parliament, activists, to warlords and members of the Taliban (emphasis added.) Jodie is co-founder of the peace organization, Code Pink, and always willing to go to any lengths to try and find out what’s really going on. Bottom line: everyone she met with wants the U.S. Military out of their country. They feel our presence there has brought more violence rather than security. Please read a short article she wrote about the trip which is on the Women’s Media Center website.

SNIP

re: #65 soxfan4life

All those patriots who founded this nation and placed their own lives in jeopardy signing the Declaration of Independence would cringe to see how much like Europe we are becoming.

Spinning in their graves, they are.

re: #65 soxfan4life

re: #67 MandyManners

YOU SOUND LIKE BECK-WORSHIPING ZOMBIES.

///

re: #66 MandyManners

Fucking disgusting.

re: #68 lazardo

*sniffle, sob*

I'm watching the surveillance video from the Mumbai attacks. One of the terrorists is wearing his baseball cap backwards and, except for his gun, he looks like a Bubba from around here.

re: #70 soxfan4life

*patpat*

re: #71 MandyManners

I used to like joking about how my driver's license and passport photos would have made me first in line for waterboarding.

re: #69 soxfan4life

Fucking disgusting.

BHO gave her a big hug.

There is no way he didn't know what she and her comrades were doing.

I wonder if his apologists will try to spin this to make criticism seem like a Beckian plot.

re: #73 lazardo

I used to like joking about how my driver's license and passport photos would have made me first in line for waterboarding.

The image just struck home for me the fact that evil doesn't wear a flahing neon sign.

re: #66 MandyManners

Top Obama donor and fundraiser Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan on a recent trip there, according to a report by Jane Fonda of a discussion she had with Evans last month.

Any more sources on this other than from Fonda?

re: #76 Varek Raith

Any more sources on this other than from Fonda?

Did you read the linked article?

re: #74 MandyManners

BHO gave her a big hug.

There is no way he didn't know what she and her comrades were doing.

I wonder if his apologists will try to spin this to make criticism seem like a Beckian plot.

They will just call racist or some other bullshit. Seems as though the Obama Administration is built on quite a foundation of bullshit. Overinflated numbers on uninsured, Recovery.gov, and open displays of acceptance of groups like this to name a few.

re: #78 soxfan4life

They will just call racist or some other bullshit. Seems as though the Obama Administration is built on quite a foundation of bullshit. Overinflated numbers on uninsured, Recovery.gov, and open displays of acceptance of groups like this to name a few.

I don't think it's bullshit. I think it's deliberate.

re: #75 MandyManners

Ah. Banal.

re: #80 laZardo

Ah. Banal.

It'd be nice if evil people looked like the monstrosity that is their heart.

Morning kids... Woo Hoo!

re: #82 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Morning kids... Woo Hoo!

Twinkie for breakfast?

re: #83 MandyManners

washed down with a Yoo Hoo!
!

re: #83 MandyManners

Twinkie for breakfast?

"...a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds..."

re: #84 sattv4u2

washed down with a Yoo Hoo!
!

FBV found out last night that his beloved Twinkie has beef fat in it.

re: #85 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"...a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds..."

What's the shelf life for that thing?

re: #86 MandyManners

Sigh...

re: #85 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"...a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds..."

"That's a lot of whipped beef fat." (Sorry to remind you)

re: #78 soxfan4life

They will just call racist or some other bullshit. Seems as though the Obama Administration is built on quite a foundation of bullshit. Overinflated numbers on uninsured, Recovery.gov, and open displays of acceptance of groups like this to name a few.

Failures of the past administration
Transparancy
Hope
Change
Bow
!!!

(can't I just eat my waffle)

re: #87 MandyManners

What's the shelf life for that thing?

Not sure, but I do know that the night the Titanic sank a passenger was just about to have on and put it down on a deck rail

It was discovered there when the Disciovery Channel went to look at the wreckage a couple of years ago!

re: #86 MandyManners

FBV found out last night that his beloved Twinkie has beef fat in it.

I used to work with a vegan, and I would ask that question all the time."What would you do if you found out Twinkies had animal fat in them?" pissed her off big time.

re: #91 sattv4u2

Not sure, but I do know that the night the Titanic sank a passenger was just about to have on and put it down on a deck rail

It was discovered there when the Disciovery Channel went to look at the wreckage a couple of years ago!

There were Twinkies back then?

re: #92 soxfan4life

I used to work with a vegan, and I would ask that question all the time."What would you do if you found out Twinkies had animal fat in them?" pissed her off big time.

I'd be tempted to call her up.

re: #93 MandyManners

There were Twinkies back then?

I think they prefered to be called gay!
//

re: #90 sattv4u2

He reminds me of Joliet Jake Blues, when he says "It wasn't my fault"

re: #77 MandyManners

Did you read the linked article?

Yes, and my question still stands. I like multiple, independent confirmation on stories such as this, especially considering its source.

re: #97 Varek Raith

Yes, and my question still stands. I like multiple, independent confirmation on stories such as this, especially considering its source.

Why would Fonda lie about her friend?

re: #86 MandyManners

FBV found out last night that his beloved Twinkie has beef fat in it.

...Really?! {{{FBV}}} :(

re: #97 Varek Raith

Yes, and my question still stands. I like multiple, independent confirmation on stories such as this, especially considering its source.

What was in the package that Evans gave Obama at the San Francisco fundraiser? She describes what she gave Obama in an article at the Huffington Post:

…we were careful to make the package very user and security friendly. It was filled with photos, quotes, thousands of signatures (on a petition against more troops for Afghanistan), a copy of Rethink Afghanistan and our 25-minute interview with Afghan MP Dr. Roshanak Wardak from Wardak Province, who is adamant that the U.S. should not send new troops and rather, must leave.

re: #100 MandyManners

and our 25-minute interview with Afghan MP Dr. Roshanak Wardak from Wardak Province, who is adamant that the U.S. should not send new troops and rather, must leave.

Clearly they picked a man of great political integrity to do their interview with.

/

re: #101 laZardo

Clearly they picked a man of great political integrity to do their interview with.

/

I wonder which Taliban met with them.

re: #100 MandyManners

Well if Code Pink doesn't want us to send more troops, then I guess it's settled.
/I fucking hate them

re: #102 MandyManners

Maybe they met Osama, who promised to stop his jihad against the West once the last American soldiers leave Afghan soil.

///

re: #103 Cannadian Club Akbar

Well if Code Pink doesn't want us to send more troops, then I guess it's settled.
/I fucking hate them

The whole article is nauseating. And, infuriating.

re: #102 MandyManners

I wonder which Taliban met with them.

The Taliban are very concerned about women's opinions.
/need I?

re: #104 laZardo

Maybe they met Osama, who promised to stop his jihad against the West once we sent him Jane Fonda in her Barbarella outfit the last American soldiers leave Afghan soil.

///

ftfy

re: #104 laZardo

Maybe they met Osama, who promised to stop his jihad against the West once the last American soldiers leave Afghan soil.

///

I doubt he would condescend to meet them. If he's even alive, that is.

re: #106 Cannadian Club Akbar

The Taliban are very concerned about women's opinions.
/need I?

I've a feeling some would do it in order to spread lies.

re: #99 Varek Raith

(Honestly, I've always been a "Little Debbie" guy. See #95)

re: #110 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

(Honestly, I've always been a "Little Debbie" guy. See #95)

I saw that movie

Little Debbie Does FVB!

re: #109 MandyManners

I've a feeling some would do it in order to spread lies.

Do ya think Code Pink has ever seen "Beneath the Veil", a documentary by Sariah Shah? (name probably spelled wrong)

re: #112 Cannadian Club Akbar

Is it about a deep-seated hatred against George Bush? If not, I'm guessing no.

Or is that seeded?

Whew. Was right the first time.

re: #112 Cannadian Club Akbar

Do ya think Code Pink has ever seen "Beneath the Veil", a documentary by Sariah Shah? (name probably spelled wrong)

Saira Shah, who also worked on Death In Gaza.

re: #113 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love how feminist are so fucking worried about women's rights and freedoms and how it stops at our borders. Fuck. Well, my blood got flowing pretty quick this morning.

re: #112 Cannadian Club Akbar

Do ya think Code Pink has ever seen "Beneath the Veil", a documentary by Sariah Shah? (name probably spelled wrong)

No but, if they did, they might rationalize it as a "choice" and a multi-culti issue. And, some might applaud it as a way to keep those nasty men-folk from ogling women.

re: #117 Cannadian Club Akbar

I love how feminist are so fucking worried about women's rights and freedoms and how it stops at our borders. Fuck. Well, my blood got flowing pretty quick this morning.

"America has to cure it's own evils and wrongdoings before we start imposing our will on other peoples cultures"

//Code Pink Mode

re: #117 Cannadian Club Akbar

I love how feminist are so fucking worried about women's rights and freedoms and how it stops at our borders. Fuck. Well, my blood got flowing pretty quick this morning.

I'm a feminist.

Not all feminists are alike. I rue the day that word became an epithet.

Pirates tried to hijack the Maersk again.

re: #98 MandyManners

Why would Fonda lie about her friend?

Look, I never take people like Fonda or politicians at their word. If this happened just a she said, then so be it (I couldn't possibly think any lower of her or CodePink). I'd just like more to go on. I'm very cautious, overly some would say, with trusting any story that has politics about it.
/cynic mode.

re: #119 sattv4u2

"America has to cure it's own evils and wrongdoings before we start imposing our will on other peoples cultures"

//Code Pink Mode

I guess. Maybe one day women will be able to vote, drive, hold jobs as leaders of industry.

re: #119 sattv4u2

"America has to cure it's own evils and wrongdoings before we start imposing our will on other peoples cultures"

//Code Pink Mode

For some reason that could actually be rationalized to justify attacking the Taliban through the line that "the CIA created them to fight the Soviets."

/goes to look up 'circular logic'

re: #117 Cannadian Club Akbar

Can't think of the "Pinkers" and militant feminists without thinking of this exchange from the movie "PCU".

Jock #1: [at a party] What's up, babes?
Womynist #1: Pack up your rape culture and take a hike!
Jock #1: [holds up a beer] You want a brewdog?
Womynist #1: We're not interested in your penis!
Womynist #2: Wait, wait, I think he's offering us a beer.
[turns to jock, speaks slowly]
Womynist #2: Um... Yes. We, would like, a beer.
Jock #1: Okay!
[turns around to get a beer]
Womynist #1: So it's like, if you're nice to them, they *bring* you things?
Womynist #2: Exactly.

re: #120 MandyManners

I'm a feminist.

Not all feminists are alike. I rue the day that word became an epithet.

Hell,,, I'M a feminist

re: #120 MandyManners

So am I Mandy.

Or is that like a Racist?

re: #120 MandyManners

I'm a feminist.

Not all feminists are alike. I rue the day that word became an epithet.

I'll use a different word or 2.
Extemist feminist.

re: #122 Varek Raith

Look, I never take people like Fonda or politicians at their word. If this happened just a she said, then so be it (I couldn't possibly think any lower of her or CodePink). I'd just like more to go on. I'm very cautious, overly some would say, with trusting any story that has politics about it.
/cynic mode.

From Huff-Po

What was in the package that Evans gave Obama at the San Francisco fundraiser? She describes what she gave Obama in an article at the Huffington Post:

…we were careful to make the package very user and security friendly. It was filled with photos, quotes, thousands of signatures (on a petition against more troops for Afghanistan), a copy of Rethink Afghanistan and our 25-minute interview with Afghan MP Dr. Roshanak Wardak from Wardak Province, who is adamant that the U.S. should not send new troops and rather, must leave.

re: #121 MandyManners

Pirates tried to hijack the Maersk again.

Link to article below,

re: #63 Varek Raith

Maersk Alabama attacked again.

re: #122 Varek Raith

It's not my job to convince you so, I'll drop the rope.

Linked in my No. 66.

re: #127 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

So am I Mandy.

Or is that like a Racist?

I think it's closer to Homophobe.

/

BEIJING, Nov 18 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.

Wish he would've asked me before the election.

re: #133 laZardo

I think it's closer to Homophobe.

/

That like two words that sound alike but mean something different?

re: #134 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

And now he's talking about ANOTHER stimulus package, labelled as a job package.

re: #133 laZardo

I think it's closer to Homophobe.

/

Well of course

You're conservative, so you MUST be a
Racist
Homophobe
Xenophobe
regard women as chattel
anti any governmnet
(feel free to add to the meme)

re: #135 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That like two words that sound alike but mean something different?

More like a made-up word that means one is scared of one's own kind.

re: #136 MandyManners

Think I should give him a call?

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Think I should give him a call?

While you're at it, tell him that my unicorn just pooped in my living room.

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Think I should give him a call?

I've already called him some things!

re: #136 MandyManners

And now he's talking about ANOTHER stimulus package, labelled as a job package.

The stimulus he put forward was supposed to keep unemployment at 8%. Guess his was a bit off. Oh, wait, things were much worse than we thought.
*spit*

re: #131 MandyManners

It's not my job to convince you so, I'll drop the rope.

So be it, then.

re: #137 sattv4u2

Well of course

You're conservative, so you MUST be a
Racist
Homophobe
Xenophobe
regard women as chattel
anti any governmnet
(feel free to add to the meme)

Imperialist, Glenn Beck-worshiper, neo-Fascist, Birther...

re: #139 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Think I should give him a call?

He'd be fine with that.

later kiddies

The daytime guy is here. Driving home and going beddy by !

re: #146 sattv4u2

Night!

Morning Lizards.

The place I will be soon working at got a write up in the local paper's buisness section today. Funny, last week I told the honcos at my new job to call my local paper and let them know the place would be opening soon. Weird how that works.

re: #148 thedopefishlives

Morning dope.

re: #150 laZardo

Morning dope.

not intended as an insult btw.

re: #150 laZardo

Morning dope.

Sure, I'll pass some along...wait, what?
///

re: #152 Varek Raith

Sure, I'll pass some along...wait, what?
///

Hillary Clinton arrives in Kabul to try and legitimize our pathetic puppet regime.

The U.S. will look back on Karzai continuing in office at this critical point with shame and regret.

Walter's probably been busy with his show and all, but I like it when he's here.

re: #155 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Walter's probably been busy with his show and all, but I like it when he's here.

He could be fighting armed bears as we speak.
/

re: #136 MandyManners

And now he's talking about ANOTHER stimulus package, labelled as a job package.

I call it a reelection package

re: #157 _RememberTonyC

Yup.

re: #157 _RememberTonyC

I call it a reelection package

I call it a "Keep the Democrats in power for the next 50 years" package. Not that they have to work terribly hard at that, given how eager the other side has been to simply give it to them.

Good morning comrades

Good morning, lizardia.

re: #157 _RememberTonyC

I call it a reelection package

I'm gonna created my own district and get me some money for jobs I will create that aren't real.

If someone's face is portrayed in the media too much I get sick of it.

Charitable Project - Gaza Style
A Gaza charity linked to Hamas is offering $1.4 million to anybody who captures an Israeli soldier.
The Waad group sent an e-mail on Wednesday calling on people living in Israel to try take soldiers hostage.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

What a stinking Waad.

I watched the Sarah palin interview with Oprah on the DVR last night. My opinion of her remains the same.

Nice Lady
Well Intentioned
Not stupid, but not polished
Has potential as a regional force in the GOP
No shot at being elected POTUS ... ever

I was surprised that Oprah did not as a single question about Tina Fey and how much her "dead on" Palin impression damaged Palin's image as a serious candidate. I felt Fey's performances were at least as costly as the Couric interview.

re: #163 Ojoe

If someone's face is portrayed in the media too much I get sick of it.

Got someone in mind?

re: #166 Cannadian Club Akbar

Ms. Palin & BHO.

re: #167 Ojoe

Ms. Palin & BHO.

Was it my imagination or did his ears flap when he bowed?

re: #155 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Walter's probably been busy with his show and all, but I like it when he's here.

Hi, thanks. No, in a sense, I'm on a mini-vacation, since the Xmas show opened this past Friday, so, now that we are up and running, most of the craziness is over. I don't have to worry about the theatre until this Friday. We are doing 3 shows a week until the first week in December, and then we up it to four shows a week (Thursday-Sun).

And then we go dark for 3 weeks, new season starts in the middle of Jan. 2010.

re: #167 Ojoe

Ms. Palin & BHO.

I kinda figured that. I watch as little TV as possible. But then again, Fringe is on tomorrow night.

re: #159 thedopefishlives

I call it a "Keep the Democrats in power for the next 50 years" package. Not that they have to work terribly hard at that, given how eager the other side has been to simply give it to them.

at some point, the GOP will wake up. the problem is that they have yet to realize they're sleeping.

re: #171 _RememberTonyC

Nothing will galvanize the GOP like some good ol' fashioned apocalypse.

re: #158 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Yup.

Obama is in permanent campaign mode. He does it domestically by blaming Bush and pushing this disasterous health care program that will be an economy busting enterprise but will buy him votes. And he does it internationally by sucking up to bad guys and apologizing for this great country and it's "mistakes."

re: #172 laZardo

Nothing will galvanize the GOP like some good ol' fashioned apocalypse.

wow ... Coulter and Rush procreating ... I just hope their kid doesn't turn out like Ronnie Reagan, Jr.

re: #173 _RememberTonyC

You won't believe how much of an audience that can get him domestically.

On the other hand, this is the same audience known for their internet-grade apathy.

Good morning lizards.

I had a mouse in the kitchen for a few days. The cats failed to do their job so I fired them and got glue traps. This morning the cats were in the middle of the dining room standing over the mouse who was stuck in the glue. Problem solved.

personally I think too many people here are drinking the demise of the GOP kool aid...but if that is indeed true, then the entire federal govt is on the ropes...BO is slowly but surly tanking, the question is who's gonna go down with the ship?...

[Link: www.washingtonexaminer.com...]

[Link: blogs.suntimes.com...]

re: #175 laZardo

You won't believe how much of an audience that can get him domestically.

On the other hand, this is the same audience known for their internet-grade apathy.

true. the biggest "down side" to telling all those lemmings that the govt can solve all their problems is that they will come to depend on the handouts from Uncle Sam's treasury. They will lose any motivation they may have had because there is little incentive to pursue excellence and achieve anything above mediocrity. And once that mentality takes hold in the minds of enough people, we are utterly screwed. The expression "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" comes to mind.

re: #176 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards.

I had a mouse in the kitchen for a few days. The cats failed to do their job so I fired them and got glue traps. This morning the cats were in the middle of the dining room standing over the mouse who was stuck in the glue. Problem solved.

I got transfered to a brand new restaurant in the early 90's and a mouse snuck in. I had to kill it with a mop handle. I felt bad.

Lovely... this is the administration admitting that they are screwing up and wasting Medicare and Medicaid funds, and what is their solution?

THEY WANT GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE.

---

Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday.

Over half the mistakes were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and although some of the deterioration reflected stricter measurement, it also showed the need for healthcare reform, Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag told reporters.

---

[Link: www.cnbc.com...]

re: #179 Cannadian Club Akbar

I got transfered to a brand new restaurant in the early 90's and a mouse snuck in. I had to kill it with a mop handle. I felt bad.

not as bad as the mouse ...

re: #180 Walter L. Newton

"Most of the waste is caused by greedy lawyers and their insurance company masters. Eliminate them, eliminate most of the waste!"

/wait for it...

re: #169 Walter L. Newton

Well, Howdy.

govt has no problem feedings it's own...at your expense, and the pensions are enough to kill for...

[Link: www.washingtonexaminer.com...]

re: #177 albusteve

Moreover, who'll be the new captain? And what's not to say people will try to find someone even more radical for the helm?

re: #179 Cannadian Club Akbar

I got transfered to a brand new restaurant in the early 90's and a mouse snuck in. I had to kill it with a mop handle. I felt bad.

I used to work in a restaurant in Charlottesville. We had a rat living underneath the dumpster right outside the back door. It kept snapping mousetraps and taking the bait. I had to get one of those large mousetraps with sharp teeth to finally kill the damn thing.

re: #185 laZardo

Moreover, who'll be the new captain? And what's not to say people will try to find someone even more radical for the helm?

so you admit that BO is radical...within the confines of checks and balances I don't see much of a chance to hire anybody even more radical than BO...but anything can happen I guess

Speaking of rats, Jane Fonda & Jodie Evans suck.

re: #188 NJDhockeyfan

Speaking of rats, Jane Fonda & Jodie Evans suck.

We're gonna need a bigger trap.

re: #176 NJDhockeyfan

They said "We got it under control, Dad!"

Morning, lizards! Off to the hospital to wait out a bit of my good friend's husband's 14 hour surgery. Requesting any prayers and positive thoughts for John today. Thanks a million tiny green Geckos!

Obama says Israeli settlement building 'dangerous'

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama put fresh pressure on Israel on Wednesday to curb its settlement projects, saying continued building could lead to a dangerous situation with embittered Palestinians.

"I think that additional settlement building does not contribute to Israel's security, I think it makes it harder for them to make peace with their neighbors," Obama told Fox News.

"I think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous."

Clinton arrives in Kabul for Karzai inauguration

KABUL, Afghanistan — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Kabul under a hail of machine gun fire & exploding mortars on Wednesday to attend the inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a US embassy official told AFP.

The visit is Clinton's first to Afghanistan as secretary of state and comes with the capital locked down under tight security to prevent Taliban attacks marring the inauguration ceremony scheduled for 11:00 am (0630 GMT) Thursday.

Debbie Schlussel is going on about banning single moms from serving in the U.S. Military.

Some of her commenters are taking it a step further, suggesting that we need to turn back the clock and ban ALL women from serving.

Some of the comments are unbelievably misogynistic.

I'm thinking about my future daughter in law this morning a single Navy gal who is on her third deployment on the USS Nimitz. She's an outstanding sailor who does dangerous and difficult work to support our pilots 24/7... she's sets an outstanding example for her co-workers and as far as I'm concerned, she's a tremendous credit to the United States Navy.

Debbie Schlussel is an idiot.

re: #193 Irish Rose

Leave her a comment that women shouldn't be allowed to have their own blogs. That might trigger a response or 2. Heh.

re: #191 NJDhockeyfan

Obama says Israeli settlement building 'dangerous'

the palestinians have contributed so much on behalf of world peace that it's hard to see how they could be any more dangerous than they already are. and their biggest shortcoming is not realizing how they have been used by their arab brothers. the arab world really has no interest in a peaceful existence for the palestinians because it would remove the universal bogeyman (Israel). and once that happens, the fraudulent rulers across the arab/muslim world would have to answer to their own people. if Obama or any US President ever had the balls to make a speech on THAT topic, it truly would be an historic moment.

Honesty and transparency. Where is it?

Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
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Discrepancies on government web site call into question stimulus spending.

There's one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district in Arizona; the state has only eight districts.

oh wait- no big deal. Gotta get back to fact-checking Sarah Palin's book.

re: #187 albusteve

so you admit that BO is radical...within the confines of checks and balances I don't see much of a chance to hire anybody even more radical than BO...but anything can happen I guess

BO's a radical? I've hung with radicals, use to be a radical, done some pretty radical things, BO ain't no radical. You may not like his policies, style or substance, but in the context of American politics from Jefferson to Reagan, he's fairly middle of the road, and disappointingly so.

Just did a Wordle on lgf... interesting assortment of words:

[Link: www.wordle.net...]

i'm off to take a long walk on a chilly (40 degrees) new england morning ... catch y'all later

re: #187 albusteve

so you admit that BO is radical...within the confines of checks and balances I don't see much of a chance to hire anybody even more radical than BO...but anything can happen I guess

A radical departure from what America's used to anyway. Of course, that could be taken either way.

re: #195 _RememberTonyC

I cannot listen to anything BO says with a straight face...I'm completely fed up with his buffoonery...and his apologists are just as bad

re: #193 Irish Rose

Debbie Schlussel is an idiot.

You could've just said that right there, {Rose}, and been perfectly safe. I remember Iceweasel's comment from yesterday about the catfight she had with the shrieking harpy.

re: #197 Jeff In Ohio

BO's a radical? I've hung with radicals, use to be a radical, done some pretty radical things, BO ain't no radical. You may not like his policies, style or substance, but in the context of American politics from Jefferson to Reagan, he's fairly middle of the road, and disappointingly so.

Which road are you talking about?

re: #198 freetoken

Just did a Wordle on lgf... interesting assortment of words:

[Link: www.wordle.net...]

Greenland's American!? EAT THAT, DENMARK!

/ :B

re: #197 Jeff In Ohio

BO's a radical? I've hung with radicals, use to be a radical, done some pretty radical things, BO ain't no radical. You may not like his policies, style or substance, but in the context of American politics from Jefferson to Reagan, he's fairly middle of the road, and disappointingly so.

yeah sure, whatever you say...let's have a thread on the definition of 'radical'

re: #196 FrogMarch

Honesty and transparency. Where is it?

Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

oh wait- no big deal. Gotta get back to fact-checking Sarah Palin's book.

And the spin I am hearing about all these faulty stats and figures is that it's a problem on the local level, not the administration. Of course, the administration is allowing the figures to be posted on their website, they are using the figures publicly to support heir claims to increased job creation, but as soon as they come up against a kink in the figures, they throw it back down to the local level and deny that it's a administration problem.

What happened to "the buck stops here?"

Dan Gross: Hillary-Fabian: A love link

SOUTH PHILLY-BORN crooner Fabian Forte says it was "f--- incredible" that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a speech Friday in the Philippines that she'd had a crush on him.

According to NYMag.com, Clinton was asked, "If you had a crush, aside from Bill Clinton, who would it be?" She replied that "Many, many, many, many years ago, when I was young, there was a singer in the United States whose name was Fabian," and that she had been president of the Fabian Fan Club.

"I thought it was beautiful," Fabian told New York magazine's Dan Amira yesterday while cutting trees at his home in western Pennsylvania. "Being a politician, she got herself out of that one pretty good."

Fabian, who still performs regularly with Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell, must not have been offended by Clinton's statement that he was a singer, and says he's a fan of hers, too.

"The reason why I'm really a fan of hers is that with all she has been through, she comes out great . . . I mean, she's an incredible woman. You know, she's got bigger balls than most men out there," said the former teen idol.

re: #203 NJDhockeyfan

Which road are you talking about?

A metaphor for political centrism.

re: #203 NJDhockeyfan

The one that leads to Waynesboro, where I have to go AGAIN today...

re: #206 Walter L. Newton

What happened to "the buck stops here?"

It's been replaced with 'It's not my fault."

re: #203 NJDhockeyfan

Which road are you talking about?

One of the roads that a man walks down...

re: #209 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The one that leads to Waynesboro, where I have to go AGAIN today...

Try the pizza at Scottos. It's fantastic!

re: #197 Jeff In Ohio

BO's a radical? I've hung with radicals, use to be a radical, done some pretty radical things, BO ain't no radical. You may not like his policies, style or substance, but in the context of American politics from Jefferson to Reagan, he's fairly middle of the road, and disappointingly so.

What kind of "radical" were you? Just an everyday radical, or something special? Details?

re: #210 NJDhockeyfan

It's been replaced with 'It's not my fault."

We won!, but it's not our fault!

re: #210 NJDhockeyfan

It's been replaced with 'It's not my fault."

Or "the previous administration."

re: #208 Jeff In Ohio

A metaphor for political centrism.

If Obama is a centrist than I'm a Chinese astronaut.

re: #206 Walter L. Newton

And the spin I am hearing about all these faulty stats and figures is that it's a problem on the local level, not the administration. Of course, the administration is allowing the figures to be posted on their website, they are using the figures publicly to support heir claims to increased job creation, but as soon as they come up against a kink in the figures, they throw it back down to the local level and deny that it's a administration problem.

What happened to "the buck stops here?"

It's a stupid move on the admins part, but on the flip side, it seems like the stab at transparency that recvery.org represents is working. People are discovering the bullshit and holding their government accountable for it.

re: #213 Walter L. Newton

What kind of "radical" were you? Just an everyday radical, or something special? Details?

I was a radical...I smoked pot and had long hair...totally rad

I saw this headline, Six arrested over woman left to die in London street, and thought, "who could do such a thing?". So I clicked...

I got to the end of the first sentence in the story and it was clear.

Six men have been arrested over the killing of a woman who was found dying in a London street with one of her hands cut off.

Any guesses? Anyone?

Welcome to Londonistan.

re: #212 NJDhockeyfan

Thanks!

re: #206 Walter L. Newton

And the spin I am hearing about all these faulty stats and figures is that it's a problem on the local level, not the administration. Of course, the administration is allowing the figures to be posted on their website, they are using the figures publicly to support heir claims to increased job creation, but as soon as they come up against a kink in the figures, they throw it back down to the local level and deny that it's a administration problem.

What happened to "the buck stops here?"

"The buck stops here" is so --- who needs it? /
If the administration fucks up - there's alwasy some lackey down stream who is willing to take the blame. Even Holder is now saying that the decision to bring KSM to NY was all his. Yeah - right.

re: #221 FrogMarch

"The buck stops here" is so --- who needs it? /
If the administration fucks up - there's alwasy some lackey down stream who is willing to take the blame. Even Holder is now saying that the decision to bring KSM to NY was all his. Yeah - right.

I think it was KSMs decision

re: #216 NJDhockeyfan

He is governing more centrist than I expected...

re: #219 CommonCents

I saw this headline, Six arrested over woman left to die in London street, and thought, "who could do such a thing?". So I clicked...

I got to the end of the first sentence in the story and it was clear.

Any guesses? Anyone?

Welcome to Londonistan.

Hare Krishnas?

re: #202 thedopefishlives

You could've just said that right there, {Rose}, and been perfectly safe. I remember Iceweasel's comment from yesterday about the catfight she had with the shrieking harpy.

I've got a post running about that on the blog.
Geller and Schlussel are both ego-driven, opportunistic prima donnas. Spencer made the mistake of defending the harpy on Schlussels' blog... Schlussel called them both out, and accused Spencer of being Pammies' lapdog.

I love a good catfight.

re: #224 NJDhockeyfan

Hare Krishnas?

Wow! First try.
/

re: #213 Walter L. Newton

What kind of "radical" were you? Just an everyday radical, or something special? Details?

Sure:
Age - Involvement
17 - Socialist Workers Party
19 -War Resistors League/Mobilization For Survival
20 - Earth First
22 - Yippees (hey, those guys could party!)
24 - worked with Liberation Theology nuns in NC
25 - disgusted and homeless

from there on I played music on the streets till I started in the clubs at 28 and jettisoned any interest in radical or 'middle of the road' politics.

49 - worked on the Obama campaign...oh, right, I said he's no radical.

btw - Regarding the civilian trial of KSM: Some lefty gal-hack on Huffington Post admitted that bringing the trial to NY is all about political payback for the Bush administration's Iraq war and their "torture" policies. So glad the people on the left are thrilled that they are politicizing 9/11 and the deaths of thousands of US citizens. Just sick.

re: #176 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards.

I had a mouse in the kitchen for a few days. The cats failed to do their job so I fired them and got glue traps. This morning the cats were in the middle of the dining room standing over the mouse who was stuck in the glue. Problem solved.

LOL!

re: #225 Irish Rose

I've got a post running about that on the blog.
Geller and Schlussel are both ego-driven, opportunistic prima donnas. Spencer made the mistake of defending the harpy on Schlussels' blog... Schlussel called them both out, and accused Spencer of being Pammies' lapdog.

I love a good catfight.

Indeed. Although it is pretty accurate to call Spencer a lapdog, since he and Pam are riding the same crazy train and seem to have the same "Us vs. the world" mentality.

re: #227 Jeff In Ohio

Pffft. I'm 22 and have been browsing 4chan for 2 years now.

/ ^-^

re: #227 Jeff In Ohio

Sure:
Age - Involvement
17 - Socialist Workers Party
19 -War Resistors League/Mobilization For Survival
20 - Earth First
22 - Yippees (hey, those guys could party!)
24 - worked with Liberation Theology nuns in NC
25 - disgusted and homeless

from there on I played music on the streets till I started in the clubs at 28 and jettisoned any interest in radical or 'middle of the road' politics.

49 - worked on the Obama campaign...oh, right, I said he's no radical.

You voted for Obama? hard to fathom.//

re: #219 CommonCents

She was a Sikh.

re: #227 Jeff In Ohio

Sure:
Age - Involvement
17 - Socialist Workers Party
19 -War Resistors League/Mobilization For Survival
20 - Earth First
22 - Yippees (hey, those guys could party!)
24 - worked with Liberation Theology nuns in NC
25 - disgusted and homeless

from there on I played music on the streets till I started in the clubs at 28 and jettisoned any interest in radical or 'middle of the road' politics.

49 - worked on the Obama campaign...oh, right, I said he's no radical.

Well that explains why you think he's a centrist.

re: #224 NJDhockeyfan

She was a Sikh.

re: #233 carefulnow

She was a Sikh.

I've seen hundreds of Sikh men in my life. Don't recall seeing a Sikh woman. Or are they less easy to spot than Sikh men?

re: #223 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

He is governing more centrist than I expected...

he is a centrist only in his own mind and that of his left wing minions

re: #217 Jeff In Ohio

It's a stupid move on the admins part, but on the flip side, it seems like the stab at transparency that recvery.org represents is working. People are discovering the bullshit and holding their government accountable for it.

Really. I don't see them holding anyone accountable. We have had the administration post job "creation/saved/made up out of whole cloth" statistics on the administration website, and as soon as they find out that they have fraudulent figures, they blame the locals.

They're transparent all right... I can see right through them.

re: #234 NJDhockeyfan

Well that explains why you think he's a centrist.

Yeah, especially since I'd voted Libertarian the previous 4 election cycles. Go figure, it was an inspring campaign, and I was proud to be a part of it.

re: #239 Jeff In Ohio

Yeah, especially since I'd voted Libertarian the previous 4 election cycles. Go figure, it was an inspring campaign, and I was proud to be a part of it.

two words
barf

re: #239 Jeff In Ohio

Seriously? Inspiring?

Gullible is not in the dictionary.

re: #227 Jeff In Ohio

Sure:
Age - Involvement
17 - Socialist Workers Party
19 -War Resistors League/Mobilization For Survival
20 - Earth First
22 - Yippees (hey, those guys could party!)
24 - worked with Liberation Theology nuns in NC
25 - disgusted and homeless

from there on I played music on the streets till I started in the clubs at 28 and jettisoned any interest in radical or 'middle of the road' politics.

49 - worked on the Obama campaign...oh, right, I said he's no radical.

And you voted for Obama? What's the matter, you couldn't write Hugo Chavez in on the ballot?

re: #220 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Thanks!

It's a family run Italian restaurant. Everything is wonderful and inexpensive. Don't forget a cannoli for dessert.

re: #236 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Really? The link I posted above has her picture and a description of the bangle Sikh women wear as a reminder of their faith.

re: #237 albusteve

he is a centrist only in his own mind and that of his left wing minions

Operative word there was "more" centrist than I expected.

re: #242 Walter L. Newton

And you voted for Obama? What's the matter, you couldn't write Hugo Chavez in on the ballot?

LOL!

re: #240 albusteve

sorry, I shouldn't make fun of what inspires you...Peter Pan has the same effect on me

bbiab

re: #242 Walter L. Newton

And you voted for Obama? What's the matter, you couldn't write Hugo Chavez in on the ballot?

Walter, I think this is one of the most awesome things I've ever heard you say.

re: #235 carefulnow

She was a Sikh.

Thanks for the link. That gives much more detail than the story I read.

Sihks come from the Greater Punjab which is part Pakistan and part India now, so my Londonistan is still applicable. Just not in the way I originally intended it.