Yikes!
SoCal teacher arrested in alleged drunken teaching

THERMAL, Calif. – A Southern California school teacher has been arrested for allegedly teaching while drunk.

Toro Canyon Middle School teacher Tonya Neff was taken to the Indio jail Tuesday afternoon and booked for investigation of felony child endangerment.

Administrators at Thermal's Toro Canyon Middle School told the Riverside County Sheriff's Department that the 47-year-old teacher was apparently intoxicated on campus.

Sheriff's Sgt. Mike Tapp says Neff had taken prescription drugs and alcohol and an alcoholic beverage was found inside a container.

Coachella Valley school district Superintendent Ricardo Medina says there was never a threat to Neff's seventh-grade students. Neff has been placed on leave.

Check out the booking photo.
My high school current events teacher was addicted to valium. She would show movies every day and nod off to sleep while they were running. The administrators apparently feel that this was dangerous although it wasn't conducive to a good learning environment to say the least.

Just some more Tori ;)

Goodnight, Lizards.

re: #2 LudwigVanQuixote

Just some more Tori ;)

[Video]

after about ten links...I get you are a fan
must be a record

re: #4 albusteve

after about ten links...I get you are a fan
must be a record

yes yes, always a good word from you stevo...

Goodnight, nocturnal hunters.

Good morning, Mandy. Congratulations on Saint Rose's love note to you after your love note to her. I know the Lady of the House of Wounded Feelings and her gallant swain, Defenseman, Lord of the Dead Blog, are grateful.

well if Cato's punching out...
I'm out like a curly lightbulb

re: #1 Shiplord Kirel

Yikes!
SoCal teacher arrested in alleged drunken teaching

Check out the booking photo.
My high school current events teacher was addicted to valium. She would show movies every day and nod off to sleep while they were running. The administrators apparently feel that this was dangerous although it wasn't conducive to a good learning environment to say the least.

She looks like Cindy Sheehan's slightly less hideous younger sister.

Loaded up the spin-offs with plenty of eco-links and sexual health links... ought to convince the Fox News viewer checking out LGF that this is a hotbed of communism.

Repost from the DT.

He was talking about TV back then. But the media is now the Internet. Regardless, the message is still germane

Good Night/Day Lizards. And may the Deity of your choice smile down upon you.

/Wether that smile is benevolent or not is between the two of you.

((Ladies))

I'm going to keep hammering on this point, Dominionist Christians are two-faced sacks of trash:

"The god of Judaism is the devil. The Jew will not be recognized by God as one of His chosen people until he abandons his demonic religion and returns to the faith of his fathers--the faith which embraces Jesus Christ and His Gospel."

-David Chilton, Christian Reconstructionist.

Don't be fooled amigos, when Ann Coulter says she wants Jews to be perfected, the implication is "or else." The Federal Express reference really isn't about the comparative ease of Christianity vs. Judaism, but about her God drop shipping their unrepentant asses straight into a lake of fire.

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

I'm going to keep hammering on this point, Dominionist Christians are two-faced sacks of trash:

Don't be fooled amigos, when Ann Coulter says she wants Jews to be perfected, the implication is "or else." The Federal Express reference really isn't about the comparative ease of Christianity vs. Judaism, but about her God drop shipping their unrepentant asses straight into a lake of fire.

I'm glad this country was founded in part by radical intellectual non-Christians who rejected this sort of nonsense out of hand.

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

Well, I've actually read Chilton's The Days of Vengeance, and pretty much concluded that, while it might seem strange to some modern American conceptualization of Christianity, historically speaking Chilton's positions weren't uncommon in the past.

There really is no logical reconciliation between classic Christian soteriology and non-Christian beliefs. Some modern practitioners of Catholicism try, I think, and the "mainline" Protestant churches have developed a much more loose interpretation of "salvation". Yet it is true that for 13 centuries, from Augustine through Calvin, the major Christian teachers were quiet adamant about the exclusivity of the claims of Christianity.

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

I'm going to keep hammering on this point, Dominionist Christians are two-faced sacks of trash:

Don't be fooled amigos, when Ann Coulter says she wants Jews to be perfected, the implication is "or else." The Federal Express reference really isn't about the comparative ease of Christianity vs. Judaism, but about her God drop shipping their unrepentant asses straight into a lake of fire.

I love it when she says all Americans should be Christian. That's... that's something all right.

re: #12 Tigger2005

I'm glad this country was founded in part by radical intellectual non-Christians who rejected this sort of nonsense out of hand.

Me too:

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen,—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

-Treaty of Tripoli

re: #11 goddamnedfrank

I'm going to keep hammering on this point, Dominionist Christians are two-faced sacks of trash:

Don't be fooled amigos, when Ann Coulter says she wants Jews to be perfected, the implication is "or else." The Federal Express reference really isn't about the comparative ease of Christianity vs. Judaism, but about her God drop shipping their unrepentant asses straight into a lake of fire.

Hold on a sec...
If I believe in all that stuff that was cut out of the Bible when the church "edited it" would that make me more perfect than Christians? Hmm.

OK Hot Air has come to quoting actual Nazi scum

This from their comments on Quotes of the day
POSTED AT 10:30 PM ON MARCH 25, 2010 BY ALLAHPUNDIT

LewRockwell.com -

Americans have every right to be angry at almost everything the feds do, and passions on both sides were strained as this epochal battle over health care reached the final vote. I look at the video linked in Cashill’s article, and I definitely do see anger. But no evidence of racism. What – were they supposed to stop their protesting and just smile and wave “hello” to these congressmen because they were black? That’s racism itself.

By the way, can anyone explain why the members of the Black Caucus were walking through the crowd? Where were they coming from? Since I didn’t watch the live coverage, I have no idea why they were there.

Congressmen usually take the underground Capitol Hill subway when going from their Senate and House office buildings (if that’s where they were coming from) to the Capitol for a vote. And if they are arriving by car, the car usually pulls right up to an entrance of the Capitol, so in that case they wouldn’t be walking a gauntlet through the crowd. Call me Mr. Suspicious, but it sort of looks to me like they wanted to provoke a reaction – not such a stretch for members of the Black Caucus. Call me Mr. Conspiracist, but I think I smell a set-up.

So, show me the videotape or recording evidence – not of vehemence, but of actual racism. If you produce it, I’m ready to condemn it. Short of that, I condemn the people who smear their opposition – without evidence – with such labels. That sort of group-smear may be politics as usual, but that’s why most Americans hate politics as usual.

A note to my liberal friends:

If you are uncomfortable with the vehemence of the protests, all I can say is, get used to it. It’s only going to get worse in the years ahead, on both the Left and the Right. As the nation heads toward bankruptcy, “entitlements” will be drastically cut and taxes will be drastically raised. There are going to be a lot of pissed-off people.

KentAllard on March 26, 2010 at 1:53 AM

re: #16 JasonA

Hold on a sec...
If I believe in all that stuff that was cut out of the Bible when the church "edited it" would that make me more perfect than Christians? Hmm.

I'm not a good judge of perfection, but thatwould leave one with a much better impression of Judas.

Send lawyers, guns, and money-- the shit has hit the fan:

Pope Was Told Pedophile Priest Would Get Transfer

MUNICH — The future Pope Benedict XVI was kept more closely apprised of a sexual abuse case in Germany than previous church statements have suggested, raising fresh questions about his handling of a scandal unfolding under his direct supervision before he rose to the top of the church’s hierarchy.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope and archbishop in Munich at the time, was copied on a memo that informed him that a priest, whom he had approved sending to therapy in 1980 to overcome pedophilia, would be returned to pastoral work within days of beginning psychiatric treatment. The priest was later convicted of molesting boys in another parish.

An initial statement on the matter issued earlier this month by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising placed full responsibility for the decision to allow the priest to resume his duties on Cardinal Ratzinger’s deputy, the Rev. Gerhard Gruber. But the memo, whose existence was confirmed by two church officials, shows that the future pope not only led a meeting on Jan. 15, 1980, approving the transfer of the priest, but was also kept informed about the priest’s reassignment.

What part he played in the decision making, and how much interest he showed in the case of the troubled priest, who had molested multiple boys in his previous job, remains unclear. But the personnel chief who handled the matter from the beginning, the Rev. Friedrich Fahr, “always remained personally, exceptionally connected” to Cardinal Ratzinger, the church said.

The case of the German priest, the Rev. Peter Hullermann, has acquired fresh relevance because it unfolded at a time when Cardinal Ratzinger, who was later put in charge of handling thousands of abuse cases on behalf of the Vatican, was in a position to refer the priest for prosecution, or at least to stop him from coming into contact with children. The German Archdiocese has acknowledged that “bad mistakes” were made in the handling of Father Hullermann, though it attributed those mistakes to people reporting to Cardinal Ratzinger rather than to the cardinal himself.

Church officials defend Benedict by saying the memo was routine and was “unlikely to have landed on the archbishop’s desk,” according to the Rev. Lorenz Wolf, judicial vicar at the Munich Archdiocese. But Father Wolf said he could not rule out that Cardinal Ratzinger had read it.

re: #13 freetoken

Well, I've actually read Chilton's The Days of Vengeance, and pretty much concluded that, while it might seem strange to some modern American conceptualization of Christianity, historically speaking Chilton's positions weren't uncommon in the past.

There really is no logical reconciliation between classic Christian soteriology and non-Christian beliefs. Some modern practitioners of Catholicism try, I think, and the "mainline" Protestant churches have developed a much more loose interpretation of "salvation". Yet it is true that for 13 centuries, from Augustine through Calvin, the major Christian teachers were quiet adamant about the exclusivity of the claims of Christianity.

Which is why Thomas Jefferson believed that the deification of Jesus was a part of a historical power grab by the Christian Church. He regarded Jesus as a great teacher of universal ethics, and rewrote the Gospels to remove Jesus' miracles and claims of divinity.

He may have been somewhat correct, although it's more likely there was no historical Jesus at all...the Gospels are probably allegorical tales that people eventually came to regard as history, especially since they contained a couple of historical figures and are placed in identifiable locales. Christianity probably coalesced out of a bewildering variety of sects that had in common a belief in some kind of intermediary between God and man, who "saved" either by imparting spiritual knowledge or by "descending" through the heavens to a point close to Earth, taking on the likeness of flesh, and undergoing a death and resurrection. (Similar beliefs were held by the mystery cults that were popular at the same time Christianity was emerging.)

Christianity owes a great deal to the meeting of mystical Judaism with neo-Platonist philosophy.

re: #16 JasonA

Funny, because Islam sees itself as the "perfection" and "refinement" of the Christian belief and are preapred to accept jesus Christ as a phophet of God, just not The Prophet.

And Mormonism also sees itself as a further efinement of Christianity, revealing lost Scriptures.

So let this become a religious hymn for all those whose faith is short of achieving the Divine:

re: #19 Lidane

Send lawyers, guns, and money-- the shit has hit the fan:

Pope Was Told Pedophile Priest Would Get Transfer

Why bother? He's a head of state. Nothing to be done, apparently.
I have a better idea: stop giving people authority because they know the bible better than you do.

(Not you personally, of course.)

re: #21 ralphieboy

Funny, because Islam sees itself as the "perfection" and "refinement" of the Christian belief and are preapred to accept jesus Christ as a phophet of God, just not The Prophet.

And Mormonism also sees itself as a further efinement of Christianity, revealing lost Scriptures.

So let this become a religious hymn for all those whose faith is short of achieving the Divine:

[Video]

*shrugs* I'm a heathen. It would seem I have a whole bunch of hells waiting for me.

in dreams, I walk with you..........

In dreams.....

re: #12 Tigger2005

I'm glad this country was founded in part by radical intellectual non-Christians who rejected this sort of nonsense out of hand.

Well, regardless of what their personal beliefs were, they made a real breakthrough in relegating them to the status of 'personal,' and taking pains to arrange that the state would stay out of it's citizen's personal business to the largest degree possible and allow them to pursue whatever each individual's beliefs happened to be.

Of course, they were inspired to do so in part by direct experience with an intrusive theocracy, something few in the West have any first-hand contact with today.

re: #22 JasonA

I have a better idea: stop giving people authority because they know the bible better than you do.

(Not you personally, of course.)

Heh. I know what you meant.

To be honest, I gave the Church authority over that for 18 years, since I was raised Catholic. Walked away from it for a whole set of reasons that had nothing to do with all these molestation scandals, too. Basically, I just didn't believe in it anymore. I like the rituals of the Mass, I just don't buy into any of it, so I walked away. Haven't set foot in a church except for weddings, funerals or the occasional service when I visit my Mom in almost 20 years. These days, I'm an atheist.

The scope and breadth of all these scandals is mind-blowing, especially their direct connection to the Pope. I mean, a policy like shuffling these priests around had to start at the top, but having it all presented in such stark terms is what has so many people shocked by the story.

re: #26 Lidane

Andrew Sullivan had a nice post on this today.

[Link: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com...]

These men are too objectively disordered to run a church. They bask in self-denial, while they wage a culture war against gay men who have actually dealt with their sexuality, who have owned it, and celebrated it and even found ways to channel it into adult relationships and even civil marriage.

Times Online: Binyamin Netanyahu humiliated after Barack Obama 'dumped him for dinner'

For a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Binyamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.

After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Mr Obama walked out of his meeting with Mr Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and “let me know if there is anything new”, a US congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.

“It was awful,” the congressman said. One Israeli newspaper called the meeting “a hazing in stages”, poisoned by such mistrust that the Israeli delegation eventually left rather than risk being eavesdropped on a White House telephone line. Another said that the Prime Minister had received “the treatment reserved for the President of Equatorial Guinea”.

(snip)

re: #27 JasonA

Andrew Sullivan had a nice post on this today.

[Link: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com...]

Yeah, I just read that.

I feel for Sully. He goes off the reservation sometimes, like all his weird conspiracies about Sarah Palin, but at heart I think he's a good guy. This scandal has to be playing hell on him, just because he legitimately wants to stay Catholic, as he considers it the best reflection of his religious beliefs.

I couldn't imagine being a devout Catholic and seeing all this unfolding right now. In a way, I'm actually happier that I walked away when I did when I read about these scandals.

re: #29 Lidane

Yeah, his Palin stuff is out there, especially since I don't see the point. Even if he's right about it what has he gained?

I was raised in Catholic schools, too. Leaving it was very gradual and happened in bits and pieces. It's hard for me to imagine it, too. To get into that frame of mind again. Can't say I miss it.

Time for me to get some sleep. Have a pleasant night.

re: #30 JasonA

I was raised in Catholic schools, too. Leaving it was very gradual and happened in bits and pieces. It's hard for me to imagine it, too. To get into that frame of mind again. Can't say I miss it.

Yeah, can't say I miss it either. It's weird-- I just can't get into that frame of mind for any religion. I've tried, too. I just keep going back to my skepticism about all faiths and about any concept of a personal deity. I guess being an atheist is just my default setting. Heh.

Time for me to get some sleep. Have a pleasant night.

You too. In fact, sleep sounds like a great idea. G'night Lizards! :)

re: #21 ralphieboy

Funny, because Islam sees itself as the "perfection" and "refinement" of the Christian belief and are [sic] preapred [sic] to accept jesus [sic] Christ as a phophet [sic] of God, just not The Prophet.

Allowing for the plain fact that you were drunk when you typed this nonsense, it remains nonsense.

Islam sees itself as the original, pure religion of Adam and Noah, and Judaism and Christianity as the willful perversions of same.

Come back when you're sober and have read something on the subject. I suggest Bernard Lewis as a starting point.

re: #32 Cato the Elder

Islam sees itself as the original, pure religion of Adam and Noah, and Judaism and Christianity as the willful perversions of same.

Yet as a matter of faith Muslims believe that Jesus was born of a virgin Mary. The Koran takes great pains not to question one of the most obviously questionable aspects of the New Testament. Why bother doing this if the stress is on an original primacy of religious tradition?

Islam, may present itself as the pure religion of Adam and Noah, but it is also fully cognizant of the entire historical evolution of the various Abrahamic faiths, placing itself within and characterizing itself as the last, final, and only correct iteration thereof.

[Link: corner.nationalreview.com...]

"...Like it or not, between 2001 and 2008, the “progressive” community redefined what is acceptable and not acceptable in political and public discourse about their elected officials. Slurs like “Nazi” and “fascist” and “I hate” were no longer the old street-theater derangement of the 1960s, but were elevated to high-society novels, films, political journalism, and vein-bulging outbursts of our elites. If one were to take the word "Bush" and replace it with "Obama" in the work of a Nicholson Baker, or director Gabriel Range, or Garrison Keillor or Jonathan Chait, or in the rhetoic of a Gore or Moore, we would be presently in a national crisis, witnessing summits on the epidemic of "hate speech."

So here we are with the age-old problem that once one destroys decorum for the sake of short-term expediency, it is very hard to restore it in any credible fashion on grounds of principle when the proverbial shoe is on the other foot. A modest suggestion: If the liberal community wishes to be more credible in its concern about contemporary extremist anti-administration rhetoric, then they might try the following: “Please, let us avoid extremism and do not fall into the same trap as Baker, Chait, Keillor, Gore, Moore, or Range when they either expressed open hatred toward their president, or speculated about the assassination of their president, or compared their president to a fascist. We must disown such extremism, past and present."

re: #32 Cato the Elder

not drunk, Cato, just pre-caffienated and getting out the door to work here in Old Europe.

The Koran even contains verses on the virgin birth, and is prepared to let Christians retain a lot of their faith as long as they accept Mohammed as the One and Only Pfrophet (sic, eh?)

re: #14 JasonA

I love it when she says all Americans should be Christian. That's... that's something all right.

There was a time that I supported Ann's "We should invade their countries... convert..." meme.

Posted it here (in my nascent lizardom), Charles deleted it. Was my first deleted comment at LGF...

Thought it thoroughly through (which is something that I wish that all fringies would do) and came up with this little brainstorm.

"WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?! WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO I WANT TO BE?!"

re: #36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I love people who toss bombs like that, left and right. Funny is funny.

Morning all!

re: #36 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

"WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?! WHAT KIND OF PERSON DO I WANT TO BE?!"

ummm ,,, lemme guess

Fat
a vegetarian
a bastard!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED !!

David Frum:

Plumline: David Frum: AEI Says They Didn’t Axe Me For Slamming GOP
[Link: theplumline.whorunsgov.com...]

and Bruce Bartlett's take:
[Link: capitalgainsandgames.com...]

Since, he is no longer affiliated with AEI, I feel free to say publicly something he told me in private a few months ago. He asked if I had noticed any comments by AEI "scholars" on the subject of health care reform. I said no and he said that was because they had been ordered not to speak to the media because they agreed with too much of what Obama was trying to do.

re: #34 Taqyia2Me

8 years of reagan the left acted like assholes. 8 years of clinton the right acted like assholes. 8 years of bush and the left acted like assholes. It's obama's turn. I'll take them all seriously right around....never.

"Why do they have to be so meeaan". Boo-Freaking-Hoo.

A civil rights injunction was obtained Wednesday against a white supremacist and his girlfriend, who threatened a Jewish man and prevented him from returning to his car at a Wareham supermarket.

The order prohibits Michael Watkins, of Greenfield, and Emily Putney, of Royalston, from violating the civil rights of any person in the state based on actual or perceived race, national origin or religion.

Violation of the injunction is a criminal offense punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and up to two and a half years in prison or $10,000 and up to 10 years in prison if physical injury results.

SNIP

Putney led police on a half-mile chase, during which Watkins threw a loaded large capacity shotgun from the passenger seat window, before pulling over. Watkins then charged at police, who were able to subdue and arrest Watkins only after administering a Taser on him twice.

Watkins pleaded guilty in Wareham District Court to criminal charges of civil rights violations, firearm violations and resisting arrest in connection with the incident. Watkins is currently serving an 18-month sentence for an unrelated incident in Athol and will serve additional committed time in jail for the firearm, resisting arrest and civil rights violations.

Someone Finally Takes Sean Penn's Advice
[Link: reason.com...]

So what does a squalid little autocracy do when faced with an increasingly angry opposition, irritated that a country of such massive oil wealth cannot keep the power on or the shelves stocked with meat or sugar? Well, don’t tell Sean Penn (he'll get a big head), but the Chavez regime has taken his advice; cracking down on free speech and the pesky, disorganized political opposition. First, it was anti-Chavez politician Oswaldo Alvarez Paz, who recently told a television interviewer that the well-documented charges emanating from Spain connecting the Miraflores gang to FARC and ETA could not be easily dismissed. The country’s reptilian Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami responded by throwing Paz in jail (on charges of “spreading false information”) and commenting: "Someone cannot stand up to defame, to lie, to manipulate in the media here and not have anything happen." It’s eerily reminiscent of Sandinista censor Nelba Blandon’s classic vulgarity, when asked why the government shuttered an opposition newspaper: "They accused us of suppressing freedom of expression. This was a lie and we could not let them publish it."

re: #41 MandyManners

A civil rights injunction was obtained Wednesday against a white supremacist and his girlfriend, who threatened a Jewish man and prevented him from returning to his car at a Wareham supermarket.

In the parking lot, Watkins shouted an onslaught of hateful speech at the Jewish customer, calling him a "white (n-word)" and saying, "we will kill you all" and "(n-word) will die, not whites." Out of fear, the customer returned to the supermarket, where employees called police. Watkins was accompanied by Putney during the incident, who also drove Watkins away from the scene.
.........
Watkins pleaded guilty in Wareham District Court to criminal charges of civil rights violations, firearm violations and resisting arrest in connection with the incident.

So, if he had threatened to kill him because he didn't like the shirt he was wearing that would have been ok?

re: #42 RogueOne

Someone Finally Takes Sean Penn's Advice
[Link: reason.com...]

Man, I really hate the fact that Sean Penn is an incredibly influential radio talk show host who reaches millions of homes each day and rakes in like a quarter of a billion dollar contract oh wait

re: #44 WindUpBird

Man, I really hate the fact that Sean Penn is an incredibly influential radio talk show host who reaches millions of homes each day and rakes in like a quarter of a billion dollar contract oh wait

Yeah ,,,excuse bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior

That's the way I would have gone also!

re: #43 RogueOne

So, if he had threatened to kill him because he didn't like the shirt he was wearing that would have been ok?

shirtist!

re: #41 MandyManners

A civil rights injunction was obtained Wednesday against a white supremacist and his girlfriend, who threatened a Jewish man and prevented him from returning to his car at a Wareham supermarket.

In the parking lot, Watkins shouted an onslaught of hateful speech at the Jewish customer, calling him a "white (n-word)" and saying, "we will kill you all" and "(n-word) will die, not whites." Out of fear, the customer returned to the supermarket, where employees called police.

The death threat, stalking and intimidation would presumably be grounds for criminal code charges. If so, I think I would have preferred that to the use of civil rights legislation.

re: #40 RogueOne

8 years of reagan the left acted like assholes. 8 years of clinton the right acted like assholes. 8 years of bush and the left acted like assholes. It's obama's turn. I'll take them all seriously right around...never.

"Why do they have to be so meeaan". Boo-Freaking-Hoo.

I don't ever remember the "left" during Reagan spitting on and threatening the lives of congressmen, screaming at disabled people, threatening to secede because a vote didn't go their way but maybe I just forgot my upbringng :(

Asshole (doesnotequal) wacko

re: #45 sattv4u2

Yeah ,,,excuse bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior

That's the way I would have gone also!

HAY I'M SATTV4U2 I HEARD OF THIS LIBERAL GUY WHO IS IN MOVIES HE'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE HE'S A LIBERAL AND I HATE HIM HE IS EXTREMELY INFLUENTIAL AND SIGNIFICANT AND WIELDS ENORMOUS POWER ON THE LEFT OR AT LEAST I WILL PRETEND SO BECAUSE IT MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE BETTER

Carry on :)

re: #48 WindUpBird

I remember lefties cheering when Reagan was shot.

You probably don't remember that.

re: #42 RogueOne

Someone Finally Takes Sean Penn's Advice
[Link: reason.com...]

The owner of a Venezuelan TV channel that takes a hard line against President Hugo Chavez has been arrested for remarks authorities deemed offensive, sending a powerful signal to government opponents that they should watch their words.

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pposition leaders and human rights groups condemned Thursday's arrest of Guillermo Zuloaga, the owner of Globovision, who was detained on a warrant by military intelligence agents and released hours later after appearing in court. Critics called the case a major setback for freedom of speech, saying it shows the government is growing increasingly intolerant and authoritarian as its popular support has slipped.

Zuloaga was detained while authorities investigate his "offensive" remarks against the president at an Inter American Press Association meeting in Aruba, Attorney General Luisa Ortega said. Zuloaga had joined other media executives at the forum last weekend in criticizing Chavez's government for limiting free speech and cracking down on critics.

The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that prosecutors are investigating Zuloaga for violating a law prohibiting Venezuelans from spreading "false information through any medium," including newspapers, radio, television, e-mails or leaflets, "that cause public panic."

SNIP

re: #44 WindUpBird

Man, I really hate the fact that Sean Penn is an incredibly influential radio talk show host who reaches millions of homes each day and rakes in like a quarter of a billion dollar contract oh wait

Yeah. Otherwise who would care that he believes journalists should be jailed for not saying the correct things or that he supports an obvious thug/dictator-wanna-be.

re: #48 WindUpBird

Asshole (doesnotequal) wacko

But, often they go hand in hand...

re: #49 WindUpBird

re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I remember lefties cheering when Reagan was shot.

You probably don't remember that.

HAY, I'M WINDUP BIRD AND THE POTUS WAS SHOT AND ALL THESE PEOPLE WERE CHEERING AND EVERYTHING BUT MAYBE I JUST FORGOT MY UPBRINGING

re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I remember lefties cheering when Reagan was shot.

You probably don't remember that.

I bet I could go to a lefty site right now and, to this day, see someone still celebrating Reagan's death.

re: #48 WindUpBird

I don't ever remember the "left" during Reagan spitting on and threatening the lives of congressmen, screaming at disabled people, threatening to secede because a vote didn't go their way but maybe I just forgot my upbringng :(

Asshole (doesnotequal) wacko

Maybe you weren't around for the "reagan wants to destroy the world" good times, I was. I notice you didn't mention anything about the clinton years, would you carry your thought on to excuse the outrageous behavior during his terms?

I'm not running the "they did it too, meme". Just saying selective memory is dishonest.

re: #42 RogueOne

About Tareck El Aissami.

Mr. El – Aissami is a Venezuelan national of Syrian descent who, before becoming Minster of Interior and Justice, occupied the position of Deputy Interior Minister for Public Security. His father, Carlos Aissami, is the head of the Venezuelan branch of the Iraqi Baath political party. Before the invasion of Iraq, he held a press conference in which he described himself as a Taliban and called Osama Bin Laden, "the great Mujahedeen, Sheik Osama bin Laden." Tarek's great-uncle Shibli el-Aissami was a prominent ideologist and assistant to the party's secretary general in Baghdad during the Saddam Hussein regime.[1]

Venezuelan investigative journalist, Patricia Poleo, who escaped Venezuela and currently lives in Miami says that Mr. Aissami together with others affiliated with Hezbollah, such as Lebanon-born Gahzi Nasserddine, currently the Business Liaison at the Venezuelan embassy in Damascus, and his brother, Ghasan Atef Salameh Nasserddi, are in charge of recruiting young Venezuelan Arabs affiliated with the 'Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela' or PSUV (Chavez's Socialist Party), to be sent to South Lebanon for combat training in Hezbollah camps preparing them for 'asymmetrical war' against the United States. Once back in Venezuela, they are greeted by radical members of the Venezuelan Socialist Party affiliated with UNEFA (the university run by the Armed Forces) and the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela (Venezuelan Bolivarian University) and continue with their training in firearms, explosives and munitions. The training camps are located in the states of Monagas, Miranda, el Páramo, Falcon, Yaracuy, Yumare, and Trujillo and the districts of Maturin, Los Teques, El Jari, Churuguara and Sierra de San Luis. These groups and individuals are supervised by the Hezbollah Organization in Venezuela, along with al-Qaeda Iraqis currently living in the country and by the Palestinian Democratic Front, headed by Salid Ahmed Rahman, whose office is located in Caracas's Central Park.[4]

Since Chavez assumed the Presidency, Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda have used Venezuela as their bridge to other Latin American countries. There is information that a group of Iraqi activists belonging to al-Qaeda are currently in Caracas. Their names are: Mohammed Adnan Yasin, Falah Amin Taha and Muhi Alwan Mohammed Al Qaisi. They all arrived in Caracas with temporary visas granted and approved by the heads of Onidex (Cabezas and Aissami) and are believed to be very dangerous. They oversee the activities of these terrorist organizations in the tri – border region, and in Nicaragua and Argentina.[5]

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re: #57 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm not running the "they did it too, meme". Just saying selective memory is dishonest.

I keep saying this but no one ever pays attention....this has been going on since Washington. Washington was the one and only president we've had where the people gave him the utmost respect. Since then we've behaved like people behave, we're assholes.

re: #57 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm not running the "they did it too, meme". Just saying selective memory is dishonest.

My original point in #45 that WUB found so objectionable

re: #58 MandyManners

You still twirlin'?

re: #60 sattv4u2

My original point in #45 that WUB found so objectionable

I probably made the point better.
/

re: #43 RogueOne

So, if he had threatened to kill him because he didn't like the shirt he was wearing that would have been ok?

I"m not fond of hate-crime laws but, they do have their uses.

Wille on Morning Joe has put together a piece "Bidens Top 10 Moments". Hilarious!

re: #47 Spare O'Lake

The death threat, stalking and intimidation would presumably be grounds for criminal code charges. If so, I think I would have preferred that to the use of civil rights legislation.

I'm trying to figure out how the bastard knew that the victim was a Jew.

re: #59 RogueOne

I keep saying this but no one ever pays attention...this has been going on since Washington. (1) Washington was the one and only president we've had where the people gave him the utmost respect. Since then we've behaved like people behave, (2) we're assholes.

Not sure I agree with #1, but #2, now ,, YUP

Back to #1,,, I wonder if it's because he was in unchartered territory. Nobody knew what a POTUS should be!

re: #50 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I remember lefties cheering when Reagan was shot.

You probably don't remember that.

Only right-wingers can cheer violence, siwwy boy.

re: #61 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You still twirlin'?

re: #60 sattv4u2

I probably made the point better.
/

good point ,,, and if you wear a hat, nobody notices!

re: #64 MandyManners

I'm trying to figure out how the bastard knew that the victim was a Jew.

Maybe the "I'm a Jew!" t-shirt?

re: #65 sattv4u2

Not sure I agree with #1, but #2, now ,, YUP

Back to #1,,, I wonder if it's because he was in unchartered territory. Nobody knew what a POTUS should be!

That's probably part of the reason Washington got a pass. Once congress, the public, and the press got their feet under them it was all beating people with canes and shooting each other in duels. Good times, Good times.

re: #57 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I'm not running the "they did it too, meme". Just saying selective memory is dishonest.

Reagan was also regularly mocked by lefties for being a senile old fogie.

re: #61 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You still twirlin'?

re: #60 sattv4u2

I probably made the point better.
/

Sure am!

*twirrrlll*

re: #68 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Maybe the "I'm a Jew!" t-shirt?

Oh, you.

That thing, that thing, that thiiing~

Cantor and Weiner look close enough alike to be brothers. Separated at birth?

re: #70 Spare O'Lake

Reagan was also regularly mocked by lefties for being a senile old fogie.

I used to love that. I responded by saying "so your party got it's ass handed to them by a senile old fogie, huh?"

((used a slightly altered version when the Bush is an idiot crowd emerged))

"So you party lost not once, but TWICE to a complete idiot,,fascinating!!""

re: #55 Taqyia2Me

I bet I could go to a lefty site right now and, to this day, see someone still celebrating Reagan's death.

The cheering was cut off suddenly when Al Haig announced "I'm in control here!"

re: #76 ralphieboy

The cheering was cut off suddenly when Al Haig announced "I'm in control here!"

Same reason us on the right wish absolutely NO ill will towards Obama

Biden stands at the ready, and if not him, Nana P.!

More on the Chavez vs. the press crackdown:

[Link: www.latimes.com...]

Stepping up what opponents call a smack-down of opposition voices, the Venezuelan attorney general said Thursday that authorities had arrested the owner of the Globovision TV channel, one of the few remaining broadcasters critical of President Hugo Chavez.

Guillermo Zuloaga was arrested at an airport in western Venezuela as he was preparing to fly his private airplane to Bonaire, a Caribbean vacation destination, for Easter week. Venezuelan Atty. Gen. Luisa Ortega Diaz said Zuloaga was detained because he was considered a flight risk.
.......
Chavez has lashed out at journalists as he has come under increasing criticism from opposition figures for the high inflation rate, violent crime and what foreign diplomats and law enforcement describe as rampant drug trafficking.

In May 2007, Chavez denied the renewal of a broadcast license to RCTV, then the most popular network in Venezuela and also a staunch critic of the president.

Chavez has also forced the closure of 33 independent radio stations and clamped down on regional newspapers.

How much longer are people on the far-left going to continue to make excuses for this asshole?

Questionable Obsessions

In November, Jim Bartek, 49, of Maple Heights, Ohio, announced he was ending his streak of 524 consecutive days in which he listened to the album "Nostradamus" by the heavy-metal group Judas Priest. [Plain Dealer (Cleveland), 11-21-09]

re: #70 Spare O'Lake

Reagan was also regularly mocked by lefties for being a senile old fogie.

The real Reagan...

re: #77 sattv4u2

Same reason us on the right wish absolutely NO ill will towards Obama

Biden stands at the ready, and if not him, Nana P.!

Amen! Many times, every single day!

Ron Paul is on Morning Joe. I wish he weren't such a whack-o.

re: #80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The real Reagan...

I remember that bit. Funny!

Morning infidels.

re: #68 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Maybe the "I'm a Jew!" t-shirt?

Or maybe it was the "Israel Is Real" bumper sticker.

re: #80 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The real Reagan...

I so miss Phil Hartman too...

re: #78 RogueOne

More on the Chavez vs. the press crackdown:

[Link: www.latimes.com...]

How much longer are people on the far-left going to continue to make excuses for this asshole?

Forever.

re: #84 Cannadian Club Akbar

Morning infidels.

Did you decapitate those poor, widdle blades of grass yesterday?

re: #84 Cannadian Club Akbar

re: #88 MandyManners

Did you decapitate those poor, widdle blades of grass yesterday?

All I know is that he didn't come over to my house like he was supposed to!

re: #88 MandyManners

Did you decapitate those poor, widdle blades of grass yesterday?

No. I had to work. Had an associate do it for me. Bwhahahaha!!!

Cuba's Ladies in White, marching to the famed Malecón in Havana atthe same time as the masses in Miami, were harassed without violence by a mob of pro-government civilians, participants said.

Another group of the activists was reported to have marched in Matanzas, east of Havana, and a dissident charged that government supporters armed with sticks and steel bars attacked his home at the same time.

``We wanted to be on the streets simultaneously with all those [Miami] people who identify with our pain, and show that in a not too-distant day we will all be together,'' said Berta Soler Fernandez, a Havana member of the Ladies in White.

The women activists, all relatives of jailed dissidents, marched carrying flowers and Cuban flags to the Malecón near the Hotel Nacional and released a flock of white doves, Soler added.

A small group of pro-government university students harassed the women with chants of ``Viva Fidel!,'' and a larger group of security agents and civilians joined the counter-demonstration later but there was no violence, she reported.

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I reckon the government and its thugs figured the world was paying attention this time.

re: #86 Taqyia2Me

I so miss Phil Hartman too...

The greatest (not arguably, THE GREATEST) SNL Cast member ever.

My new electric bill is $23.00. But, that will change soon. About to get hot in a month or so.:(

re: #87 MandyManners

From that news-parody site you showed us a few threads back...

Kidnap victim Maria Angelica Guerrero got her kidnapper arrested by making him commit a "crime of opinion."

"It's the second time I was kidnapped and as the police never do anything in these cases, I thought that if the guy spoke ill of the president or some of his ministers perhaps they could finally get him," the victim said.

/deciphering google translate

re: #92 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The greatest (not arguably, THE GREATEST) SNL Cast member ever.

John Belushi
Gilda Radner

re: #91 MandyManners

Tens of thousands of Cuban exiles wearing white, and carrying gladioluses and flags marched for blocks along Calle Ocho with singer Gloria Estefan in support of Cuba's Damas de Blanco, Ladies in White, the peaceful dissidents who last week were attacked by government security forces in Havana.

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Gloria Estefan's famous husband, Emilio Estefan, agreed.

``We truly are in a new era and it's the young generation with blooming technology in an age of camera phones and Twitter,'' he said. ``There is no escaping the truth anymore. We have finally reached a turning point for Cuba, Miami, the movement. This is a turning point in history.''

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Pelaez took a quote from Orlando Zapata Tamayo's mother, a Dama de Blanco, and made it her Facebook status:

` ``They dragged me, I am all bruised. They beat me. They called me a n-----. They will know this mother's pain. When I get to my home town of Banes in my home province of Holguín they will have to bury me with my son. But my people will remember me. They will remember me. . . . The Castro brothers cannot be forgiven. They cannot be forgiven.'' No wonder Fidel is afraid.'

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re: #92 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

re: #95 Spare O'Lake

John Belushi
Gilda Radner

Eddie Murphy,

re: #94 laZardo

From that news-parody site you showed us a few threads back...

/deciphering google translate

Maybe Chavez will arrest her, instead.

India’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that unmarried couples have the right to live together after hearing a case involving a Tamil actress accused of corrupting young minds by promoting premarital sex.

The judges pointed out that even the Hindu gods, Lord Krishna and Radha, were co-habiting lovers rather than man and wife. “When two adult people want to live together, what is the offence?” they said. “Living together is not an offence. Living together is a right to life.”

The ruling marks a legal milestone in India’s sexual revolution as younger members of the urban professional classes slowly but steadily break down traditional taboos.

It is unlikely, however, to change habits among most Indians, who rarely indulge in premarital sex, let alone cohabit with lovers, and usually have their spouses chosen by their parents.

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re: #97 sattv4u2

Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris
The original cast was awesome.

re: #99 MandyManners

[Kamasutra joke here]

re: #95 Spare O'Lake

John Belushi
Gilda Radner

Nope. But, thanks for playing.
/

May as well start throwing the verbal bombs early, wake up people.

Zealots come out against HC mandate because the government shouldn't punish people who can't afford insurance:

and:

re: #100 Spare O'Lake

Dan Ackroyd, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris
The original cast was awesome.

We've romanticized the original cast. SNL was very hit and miss in the beginning. Phil was never hit and miss. He was "hit".

THE number of serious head and neck cancers linked to a virus spread by oral sex is rising rapidly and suggests boys as well as girls should be offered protection through vaccination, doctors say.

Despite an overall slight decline in most head and neck cancers in recent years, cases of a particular form called oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) have increased sharply, particularly in the developed world.

This growth seems to be linked to cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), the scientists said in a report in the British Medical Journal.

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re: #103 RogueOne

A guy I work with has been in the hospital since Sunday. He has a virus in his heart. The doctors won't release him. We have no insurance through my job. Weird.

re: #105 MandyManners

THE number of serious head and neck cancers linked to a virus spread by oral sex is rising rapidly and suggests boys as well as girls should be offered protection through vaccination, doctors say.

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B-b-b-but it's not really sex, Mandy, so how can I get an STD from it?/

re: #106 Cannadian Club Akbar

A guy I work with has been in the hospital since Sunday. He has a virus in his heart. The doctors won't release him. We have no insurance through my job. Weird.

My aunt has been in the hospital in Cincinnati for a month without insurance. They're trying to get her healthy enough for a liver transplant. They were supposed to do it over a week ago but ran into complications when they opened her up. She'll have to declare medical bankruptcy but at least she's getting very good care.

re: #107 thedopefishlives

B-b-b-but it's not really sex, Mandy, so how can I get an STD from it?/

I blame Bill Clinton.

re: #109 MandyManners

I blame Bill Clinton.

Y'know, as much as I despise the man, this is one guilt trip I really can't lay on him. I think his casual attitude toward sexual acts was more a reflection of the trend than a cause of it.

re: #109 MandyManners

I blame Bill Clinton.

I worked with a guy who said Clinton should have been charged with "obstruction of Monica's throat." Heh.

re: #109 MandyManners

I blame Bill Clinton.

Good morning. I wish Bill CLinton was president again. At least he attempted to balance the budget.

Palin takes off to AZ to help McCain:

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

PHOENIX — John McCain helped Sarah Palin launch her national political career two years ago. Now, she's trying to help McCain save his. The former running mates will campaign together Friday for the first time since losing the presidential race in 2008.

Palin was a first-term governor of Alaska when McCain plucked her from relative obscurity to be his running mate. She went on to become a conservative rock star and a key Republican critic of President Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress.

McCain is fighting for his political life. Fending off a primary challenge from the right, the four-term Arizona senator is facing the toughest re-election campaign of his Senate career.

re: #110 thedopefishlives

Y'know, as much as I despise the man, this is one guilt trip I really can't lay on him. I think his casual attitude toward sexual acts was more a reflection of the trend than a cause of it.

I think what Mandy is referring to is at the time the argument was that oral sex isn't really "sex"

re: #112 Jetpilot1101

Good morning. I wish Bill CLinton was president again. At least he attempted to balance the budget.

I wish Newt were still speaker of the house for the same reason!

re: #114 sattv4u2

I think what Mandy is referring to is at the time the argument was that oral sex isn't really "sex"

Which ties into what I said below, if you think about it.

BTW, I cannot wait for the Palin show on TLC. It's going to be a weekly head explosion for the haters. It's going to be fun to watch.

re: #112 Jetpilot1101

I miss 90s-Republicans.

New York City police believe that drug-gang hit man Hector Quinones, 44, shot three men to death in a high-rise apartment in December, but allowed a woman in the apartment to escape when he tripped on his own baggy pants while chasing her. As police arrived, Quinones climbed out onto the fire escape but accidentally fell off and broke his neck. [New York Daily News, 12-19-09]

well ,,,at least he was stylin' !!

re: #118 laZardo

I miss 90s-Republicans.

I miss the (early) 60's Dems !!

re: #119 sattv4u2

He should have been dressed for his age. Fashion no-no's are deadly.

re: #116 thedopefishlives

Which ties into what I said below, if you think about it.

Not really,,, He was more the horse, not the cart

re: #110 thedopefishlives

Y'know, as much as I despise the man, this is one guilt trip I really can't lay on him. I think his casual attitude toward sexual acts was more a reflection of the trend than a cause of it.

His statement that he didn't have sex with that woman certainly enshrined that notion.

re: #111 Cannadian Club Akbar

Ew.

A 36-year-old man drowned in Denville, N.J., in January during a friendly swimming competition with a pal, as they raced underneath a 30-yard long ice patch on partially frozen Indian Lake. [WINS Radio-AP, 1-4-10]

Darwin Award nominee

re: #112 Jetpilot1101

Good morning. I wish Bill CLinton was president again. At least he attempted to balance the budget.

Thank the Contract for America for that.

re: #117 RogueOne

BTW, I cannot wait for the Palin show on TLC. It's going to be a weekly head explosion for the haters. It's going to be fun to watch.

What?

re: #123 MandyManners

His statement that he didn't have sex with that woman certainly enshrined that notion.

No disagreement there, for certain.

re: #127 MandyManners

What?

She's going to have a reality show on TLC that starts later this year. Something about life in Alaska.

re: #126 MandyManners

Thank the Contract for America for that.

Good point. Do you suppose we might be able to get another one in November and have the politicians actually stick with it this time? As we drift closer to an entitlement state, my fear is that those wo suck off the government teat will continue to turn out in force and vote against any sensible politician who tries to balance the budget by cutting entitlements. Case in point: Sarkozy in France.

re: #129 RogueOne

She's going to have a reality show on TLC that starts later this year. Something about life in Alaska.

Will it be titled "How to kill Moose and Squirrel?"
/

Jesse James and the tattoo'd whore part 2:

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

Jesse James' ex-wife just gave an interview claiming he is a chronic cheater, and now another alleged mistress tells Star magazine that she and Jesse had a two-year relationship while he and Sandra Bullock were married.

Like Michelle McGee, the second mistress, Melissa Smith, is a stripper covered in tattoos and she met Jesse online and ended up having lots of unprotected and crazy sex with him. She was also jailed last year for beating up a cop and arrested for DUI.

re: #131 Cannadian Club Akbar

Will it be titled "How to kill Moose and Squirrel?"
/

On this week's episode, Sarah shows a greenhorn how to jump from a helicopter for a HALO knife attack on an unsuspecting pack of wolves.

re: #131 Cannadian Club Akbar

Will it be titled "How to kill Moose and Squirrel?"
/

No but you should send them an email to submit that title. It would definitely add to the humor level.

re: #128 thedopefishlives

No disagreement there, for certain.

One could say he erected a monument to oral sex not being sex.

re: #129 RogueOne

She's going to have a reality show on TLC that starts later this year. Something about life in Alaska.

Will she kill and dress something?

Look Mr. President, one of the worlds last surviving dinosaur communists with a really great medical system is your biggest fan. The Studebaker has been used as an ambulane for years

re: #130 Jetpilot1101

We have become a "Where's mine?" populous.

re: #130 Jetpilot1101

Good point. Do you suppose we might be able to get another one in November and have the politicians actually stick with it this time? As we drift closer to an entitlement state, my fear is that those wo suck off the government teat will continue to turn out in force and vote against any sensible politician who tries to balance the budget by cutting entitlements. Case in point: Sarkozy in France.

We need to get some FisCon Republicans in there.

re: #132 RogueOne

Jesse James and the tattoo'd whore part 2:

[Link: www.huffingtonpost.com...]

Why isn't James the "whore"?

re: #138 Cannadian Club Akbar

We have become a "Where's mine?" populous.

Do you know where mine is?

re: #135 MandyManners

One could say he erected a monument to oral sex not being sex.

*WHACK!*

re: #141 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Do you know where mine is?

I'm betting in the fridge.
/

re: #139 MandyManners

We need to get some FisCon Republicans in there.

Ms. Mandy, I would settle for FisCon democrats but I'm unsure if any actually exist.

re: #143 Cannadian Club Akbar

Not a bad guess..

re: #99 MandyManners

Was just listening to a BBC report on Hindu moral policemen who regularly harass and threaten interreligious couples, especially Musdlim males with Hindu girlfriends, accusing the men of stealing the women away from Hinduism by using the "love Jihad"

Love Jihad? Does that involve doing it five times a day while facing Mecca?

re: #140 MandyManners

Why isn't James the "whore"?

He's a man, it's implied.

re: #131 Cannadian Club Akbar

Will it be titled "How to kill Moose and Squirrel?"
/

Run, Bullwinkle! Run, Rocky!

re: #137 Jetpilot1101

On the one hand, Cuba was ranked 39th in the same repeatedly-quoted World Health Organization survey where the US ranked 37th.

On the other hand, I hope the embargo does get lifted so the classic car collector commandos can drop in and liberate all those poor 1950s gems that are somehow still running.

re: #140 MandyManners

He's the asshole.

re: #137 Jetpilot1101

Look Mr. President, one of the worlds last surviving dinosaur communists with a really great medical system is your biggest fan. The Studebaker has been used as an ambulane for years

ZING!!!

re: #142 thedopefishlives

*WHACK!*

Doesn't that knock it down?

re: #149 laZardo

Just hard for me to swallow the 37th in the world stuff. I'm sorry. Just can't swallow it.

re: #144 Jetpilot1101

Ms. Mandy, I would settle for FisCon democrats but I'm unsure if any actually exist.

They're probably scared by San Fran Nan.

re: #146 ralphieboy

Was just listening to a BBC report on Hindu moral policemen who regularly harass and threaten interreligious couples, especially Musdlim males with Hindu girlfriends, accusing the men of stealing the women away from Hinduism by using the "love Jihad"

Love Jihad? Does that involve doing it five times a day while facing Mecca?

Or, a splodey-dope hoping for his 72 virgins.

re: #153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Just hard for me to swallow the 37th in the world stuff. I'm sorry. Just can't swallow it.

Please don't talk about swallowing when Mandy's going on with the oral sex puns.

re: #149 laZardo

On the one hand, Cuba was ranked 39th in the same repeatedly-quoted World Health Organization survey where the US ranked 37th.

On the other hand, I hope the embargo does get lifted so the classic car collector commandos can drop in and liberate all those poor 1950s gems that are somehow still running.

NO WAY ,,, as long as they are confined to that island, my 57' Chevy Bel Air is worth more here! You release theirs and all of a sudden mines not as rare!!!

re: #157 sattv4u2

NO WAY ,,, as long as they are confined to that island, my 57' Chevy Bel Air is worth more here! You release theirs and all of a sudden mines not as rare!!!

Now we know who is agaist ending the Cuban embargo: classic car collectors!

re: #153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Just hard for me to swallow the 37th in the world stuff. I'm sorry. Just can't swallow it.

Spit?

*paging Dr. Freud*

re: #156 thedopefishlives

Please don't talk about swallowing when Mandy's going on with the oral sex puns.

D*MTA.

(*Dirty)

I love mornings on LGF!

re: #159 MandyManners

I was waiting for Bill to get up with a diagram of a baseball diamond and explain in specific detail just what is meant by first, second and third base, respectively, and how although he rounded third, he never slid in at home base, and therefore it was still just "heavy petting", which is not the same as S-e-x.

re: #158 ralphieboy

Now we know who is agaist ending the Cuban embargo: classic car collectors!

Damn right!

(although, we do appreciate the occasional car hood that washes ashore passengers and all,, Good hard working wanna be citizens who escaped the asylum ,, ,,, and spare parts, ya know)

Happy Boy!

re: #161 Jetpilot1101

I love mornings on LGF!

Most had a good nights sleep, so we are less cranky.:)

Good, morning LGF!

First things first, Congratulations to my friend Anthony! He received a heart transplant one year ago today! (1 year ago last night, actually)

365 days and NO SIGNS OF REJECTION!

*Throws confetti*

re: #164 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Speaking of Oral sex...

re: #160 MandyManners

D*MTA.

(*Dirty)

My cousin, in our youth, approaching girls at a club

HIM
"wanna dance?"
HER
"no, thank you"
HIM
"then I guess a BJ is out of the question"

re: #166 SteveC

Good for him!! Now settle down. Don't get him riled up!!

re: #163 sattv4u2

They don't just wash up, this guy converted at 1947 buick into a boat-car...

re: #157 sattv4u2

ELITIST. >:I

/I have heard though that the Cubans have also somehow managed to keep them running by giving them transplants from the Soviet cars that often made its way to that island.

Sorry, here the link to the boat-car:

[Link: alongthemalecon.blogspot.com...]

Gotta' git.

re: #168 sattv4u2

The balls on that one. Most of the girls I know would've just kicked him in the unmentionables.

re: #165 Cannadian Club Akbar

Most had a good nights sleep, so we are less cranky.:)

Not me,,,, been at work since 9 last night (it's 8 a.m here now) and I still have two more hours to go !!

WWWHHHHAAAAA

re: #162 ralphieboy

I was waiting for Bill to get up with a diagram of a baseball diamond and explain in specific detail just what is meant by first, second and third base, respectively, and how although he rounded third, he never slid in at home base, and therefore it was still just "heavy petting", which is not the same as S-e-x.

Rounding third
and heading for home
it's a brown eyed handsome man
*CRACK!*
It's gone and you can tell that one goodbye!
Put me in coach!
I'm ready to play!

re: #174 thedopefishlives

The balls on that one. Most of the girls I know would've just kicked him in the unmentionables.

heh ,, he got a lot of face slaps,, but I must say, he also got a lot of bj's!

re: #173 MandyManners

Laters.

re: #153 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Just hard for me to swallow the 37th in the world stuff. I'm sorry. Just can't swallow it.

It's okay to spit it out. Many of the countries in the top 10-20 are actually quite small.

re: #40 RogueOne

8 years of reagan the left acted like assholes. 8 years of clinton the right acted like assholes. 8 years of bush and the left acted like assholes. It's obama's turn. I'll take them all seriously right around...never.

"Why do they have to be so meeaan". Boo-Freaking-Hoo.

False equivalence

re: #179 laZardo

It's okay to spit it out. Many of the countries in the top 10-20 are actually quite small.

I trust the WHO about as much as I trust the UN.

re: #170 ralphieboy

They don't just wash up, this guy converted at 1947 buick into a boat-car...

The man who built the boat car should be a US citizen by now. Even though he never made it feet dry, we didn't send him back to Cuba because the wonderful government there was going to throw him in jail for a long time. There was a deal worked out wherein he was able to live in a South American country until his citizenship was finalized. He was flown to the Bahamas and then to the country. I was the pilot.

re: #181 Cannadian Club Akbar

I trust the WHO about as much as I trust the UN.

No way! Pete is a stand-up guy, and so is Roger.

re: #181 Cannadian Club Akbar

I trust the WHO about as much as I trust the UN.

Not to wish Ill on anyone - even the UN - but the UN Drug agency in Brasilia Has shut down

The office of the UN Drugs and Crime agency in Brasilia has had to suspend operations today because of dengue. Six of its 20 officials have shown symptoms of the illness over the last ten days.

Gotta go aggravate some real world peeps.
Laters Gators.

re: #182 Jetpilot1101

Thai is cool.:)

re: #183 Spare O'Lake

No way! Pete is a stand-up guy, and so is Roger.

If we don't trust them, all the versions of CSI will go off the air!

re: #187 SteveC

If we don't trust them, all the versions of CSI will go off the air!

And that's what I would call...

[sunglasses]

...case closed.

Jimmy Carter is a Dbag.
[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

re: #189 Cannadian Club Akbar

Jimmy Carter is a Dbag.
[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

I would really like to see Charles make that a featured story but I won't hold my breath.

re: #189 Cannadian Club Akbar

He looks really pissy in that photo.

re: #180 garhighway

False equivalence

How do you figure? What's "false" about the party out of power acts like buttholes? Do you have any evidence to the contrary?

re: #189 Cannadian Club Akbar

Jimmy Carter is a Dbag.
[Link: www.israelnationalnews.com...]

He (Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh)urged Carter to pressure Israel to lift the security blockade which was imposed on Gaza’s border crossings to prevent weapons smuggling.

because ,, like , you know ,,,, we need the weapons that aren't getting smuggled in through

Jimmy Carter is a Dbag.
[Link: www.koreatimes.co.kr...]

OT Good News: Silverstein and the Port Authority have made a deal, so we'll see some more buildings go up at the WTC site.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

re: #195 garhighway

Thanks to the money they received by planning the inside job insurance fraud!

///read in Alex Jones' accent. Always makes me chuckle.

re: #194 Cannadian Club Akbar

Jimmy Carter is a Dbag.
[Link: www.koreatimes.co.kr...]

redundant!

re: #194 Cannadian Club Akbar

Jimmy Carter is a Dbag.
[Link: www.koreatimes.co.kr...]

He has always been an inept dbag. I bump him into my dnozzle catagory.

OfA fundraises off threats

The Democrats continue to take political advantage of reports of Republican vandalism and threats, with the head of the Obama campaign organization, Mitch Stewart, referring to the incident at Tom Perriello's brother's house in a fundraising appeal.

He writes:

"A conservative blogger posted the home address of Congressman Tom Perriello, urging tea partiers to "drop by." Other members have had death threats. Democratic offices have been vandalized.

Please chip in $5 or more to defend health reform -- and those in Congress who fought to make it possible."

(snip)

The threats are real, so no problem here, right?

re: #199 stayfrosty

OfA fundraises off threats

The threats are real, so no problem here, right?

Who here has supported any threats?

re: #196 laZardo

Thanks to the money they received by planning the inside job insurance fraud!

///read in Alex Jones' accent. Always makes me chuckle.

I love conspiracy theorists sometimes. They're almost always good for a laugh, especially when you get them all flustered because you've managed to prove them wrong on every point, and yet they KNOW they're right and there's got to be SOME flaw with your logic. (Here's a hint: There isn't.)

re: #195 garhighway

About time.

re: #201 thedopefishlives

I love conspiracy theorists sometimes. They're almost always good for a laugh, especially when you get them all flustered because you've managed to prove them wrong on every point, and yet they KNOW they're right and there's got to be SOME flaw with your logic. (Here's a hint: There isn't.)

Like the guys who made Loose Change vs. Popular Mechanics.

re: #200 Cannadian Club Akbar

Who here has supported any threats?

I'm referring to the fundraising, not the threats..

re: #198 Jetpilot1101

He has always been an inept dbag. I bump him into my dnozzle catagory.

Actually, I do give him props for the Israeli/ Egypt deal

That stated, he has to come to the realization that the Palis are way different than the Egyptians

re: #203 Cannadian Club Akbar

Like the guys who made Loose Change vs. Popular Mechanics.

The fun thing about conspiracy nuts is, after you've thoroughly debunked every talking point they've got, they go right back to the beginning as if you'd never debunked any of it. It's like riding a giant merry-go-round, really.

re: #201 thedopefishlives

I found Ron Paul an amusing sideshow when regular politics got boring.

Then he went mainstream.

/ >:%P%

re: #204 stayfrosty

I'm referring to the fundraising, not the threats..

There were 2 ways to take the statement. I realized that after I posted.

re: #200 Cannadian Club Akbar

Who here has supported any threats?

No one regardless of party.

re: #180 garhighway

False equivalence

I'm still waiting for you to explain how my statement equates to a false equivalence. The reason I ask is I keep seeing you use that phrase but I don't think it means what you think it means. It isn't part of the skeptics guide:
[Link: www.theskepticsguide.org...]
so maybe you have a different view of reality than I do, which is certainly possible.

Mornin'

re: #204 stayfrosty

I'm referring to the fundraising, not the threats..

Well then, I don't support fund raising for dems!!

//(sorta))

re: #195 garhighway

OT Good News: Silverstein and the Port Authority have made a deal, so we'll see some more buildings go up at the WTC site.

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

Yeah, but I want to see a 580 story skyscraper there. When are they building that?

re: #213 cliffster

Yeah, but I want to see a 580 story skyscraper there. When are they building that?

In this economy no one is building a skyscraper. The biggest buildings going up are Taco Bells.

re: #214 RogueOne

In this economy no one is building a skyscraper. The biggest buildings going up are Taco Bells.

Now you're making me hungry. >.>

re: #214 RogueOne

In this economy no one is building a skyscraper. The biggest buildings going up are Taco Bells.

heh ,,,, come to Atlanta ,,

The CDC is finishing up yet another building here

re: #24 windhorse

in dreams, I walk with you...

In dreams...

re: #214 RogueOne

In this economy no one is building a skyscraper. The biggest buildings going up are Taco Bells.

"We're going to Taco Bell?"

"Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars, John Spartan. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."

re: #214 RogueOne

In this economy no one is building a skyscraper. The biggest buildings going up are Taco Bells.

You want a double decker supreme? That's on the 35th floor.

re: #214 RogueOne

In this economy no one is building a skyscraper. The biggest buildings going up are Taco Bells.

Funny thing is, they just introduced Taco Bell over here. I suspect the meat quality might actually be better than the ones in the States.

re: #220 laZardo

Funny thing is, they just introduced Taco Bell over here. I suspect the meat quality might actually be better than the ones in the States.

Whoa!! They use actual meat?

re: #218 SteveC

"We're going to Taco Bell?"

"Taco Bell won the Franchise Wars, John Spartan. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell."

Updinged for the reference to one of my favorite Sylvester Stallone movies.

re: #220 laZardo

Funny thing is, they just introduced Taco Bell over here. I suspect the meat quality might actually be better than the ones in the States.

Taco Bell introduces the ContraceptiMelt

re: #222 thedopefishlives

Updinged for the reference to one of my favorite Sylvester Stallone movies.

There was only one worthy Sly movie ,, and that was in larger part thanks to Burgess Meredith!

re: #140 MandyManners

Why isn't James the "whore"?

Ha! I just noticed you down-dinged me for that comment like I was saying something bad about sluts. I'd never say anything bad about loose women. Any man who doesn't like sluts hasn't thought it through.

re: #222 thedopefishlives

Updinged for the reference to one of my favorite Sylvester Stallone movies.

You just like Sandra Bullock in tights!

//No problem with that, so do I!

Snow again... later today, tonight and tomorrow, 6-8 inches, on top of the 14 inches we have, snow, snow, snow...

re: #227 Walter L. Newton

Snow again... later today, tonight and tomorrow, 6-8 inches, on top of the 14 inches we have, snow, snow, snow...

Morning Walter

Did you get your supermarket call yesterday?

re: #226 SteveC

You just like Sandra Bullock in tights!

//No problem with that, so do I!

Don't say that too loud, the Mrs. Fish will hear.

/Hey, she has a crush on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, she can let me have my fantasies too

re: #209 Jetpilot1101

No one regardless of party.

Just walked in on this exchange. In my lurker year, I saw many LGF arguments that had nothing to do with politics, just the ambiguous nature of English. The "here" could easily be meant or taken as "in this situation" or "on LGF". Some of the battles got nasty.

Morning all. Is the rat still dead?

re: #229 thedopefishlives

Don't say that too loud, the Mrs. Fish will hear.

/Hey, she has a crush on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, she can let me have my fantasies too

(((old married couple after a round of sex))

"That was great,,, who were YOU thinking of !?!?!"

re: #230 Decatur Deb

Just walked in on this exchange. In my lurker year, I saw many LGF arguments that had nothing to do with politics, just the ambiguous nature of English. The "here" could easily be meant or taken as "in this situation" or "on LGF". Some of the battles got nasty.

Morning all. Is the rat still dead?

I think it was run over with a car. So, I'm betting yes.

Is the site "Classical Values" on the ok list? I ask because they have a good post on sheriff Joe that was linked to from another site that I'd like the self-professed republicans to read.

re: #228 sattv4u2

Morning Walter

Did you get your supermarket call yesterday?

I made the call. So, next Wed. and Thurs. I go in for two days of computer based training, and then the week after, they assign me to someone to shadow. Yes, I got the cashier job. Twenty hours a week minimum, more than 2 dollars over minimum wage, it will financially take care of my obligations for now, probably won't be saving much for any trips to Europe. And I probably will not see a first paycheck for a month.

re: #234 Walter L. Newton

Congratulations! That's wonderful news.

re: #230 Decatur Deb

Just walked in on this exchange. In my lurker year, I saw many LGF arguments that had nothing to do with politics, just the ambiguous nature of English. The "here" could easily be meant or taken as "in this situation" or "on LGF". Some of the battles got nasty.

Morning all. Is the rat still dead?

I always love it when the typo/ spelling police are out.

Like if I fat finger a word, that negates my ENTIRE argument

"you're wrong because you put a "E" at the end of potato"

re: #231 sattv4u2

(((old married couple after a round of sex))

"That was great,,, who were YOU thinking of !?!?!"

A woman gets up from her chair, walks over and slaps her husband. He says, "What was that for?" She says, "For 20 years of bad sex." She sits down and the husband walks over and slaps her. She says, "What was that for?" He said, "For knowing the difference!"

re: #234 Walter L. Newton

I made the call. So, next Wed. and Thurs. I go in for two days of computer based training, and then the week after, they assign me to someone to shadow. Yes, I got the cashier job. Twenty hours a week minimum, more than 2 dollars over minimum wage, it will financially take care of my obligations for now, probably won't be saving much for any trips to Europe. And I probably will not see a first paycheck for a month.

It's a step,, and as you stated, it will afford you enough time to keep looking while at the same time bringing in a few bucks

re: #230 Decatur Deb

Morning all. Is the rat still dead?

You'll have to be more specific ,, WHICH rat !?!?!

//

re: #235 thedopefishlives

Congratulations! That's wonderful news.

Thanks... I'm still going to continue (like I have been doing for 5 years) looking for a full time (or long term contract) programming job. Programming is what I do best, I literally get "high" when I'm into a really complex and challenging programming project.

re: #239 sattv4u2

Morning all. Is the rat still dead?

You'll have to be more specific ,, WHICH rat !?!?!

//

We were talking about fascism and the Generalissimo, right?

re: #238 sattv4u2

It's a step,, and as you stated, it will afford you enough time to keep looking while at the same time bringing in a few bucks

Right... and I can hone my "stand up cashier" routines.

re: #242 Walter L. Newton

Right... and I can hone my "stand up cashier" routines.

You're a horney stand up cashier!?!?

re: #243 sattv4u2

You're a horney stand up cashier!?!?

Ba dum bump

re: #234 Walter L. Newton

I made the call. So, next Wed. and Thurs. I go in for two days of computer based training, and then the week after, they assign me to someone to shadow. Yes, I got the cashier job. .....

Congrats Walter.

re: #240 Walter L. Newton

Thanks... I'm still going to continue (like I have been doing for 5 years) looking for a full time (or long term contract) programming job. Programming is what I do best, I literally get "high" when I'm into a really complex and challenging programming project.

I'm a lot like that myself. I'm one of those types that is motivated by the thrill of the challenge, I'm very competitive and very driven by difficult solutions. It's actually become somewhat of a problem here at work, because 99% of my job is mindless drudgery pseudo-programming, and I have a bad tendency to be lackadaisical when I'm not engaged in the project at hand.

re: #234 Walter L. Newton

Sounds like a step up from the thrift store, since the cost of the commute are less, IIRC.

re: #246 thedopefishlives

I have a bad tendency to be lackadaisical when I'm not engaged in the project at hand.

We're talking work, right? Not self ,, umm,,,, errr ,, nevahmind!!