“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’”
- Sam Levenson
Did anyone read on Drudge how Sen. McCain and Sen. Clinton got into a Vodka drinking contest and how McCain commented on how Mrs. Clinton was very engaging? I said it before that I think that during the day they make it look like they fight for their constituents and after work they slap eachother on the knee, saying how they once again fooled the voters? It seems all a game, with “we the people” as the losers.
You’d think with everything else going on in that part of the world, President Unpronouncable would have something more worthwhile to do than this:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as “pizzas” which will now be known as “elastic loaves,” state media reported Saturday. [...]
Among other changes, a “chat” will become a “short talk” and a “cabin” will be renamed a “small room,” according to official Web site of the academy.
I have it on good authority that with the Astros there is always next year or till they move out of town, which ever comes first. A little tune for you
Who\’s the losers of the league
That\’s made for you and me
H-O-U-S-T-O-N A-S-T-R-O-S
OH NO! there, OH crap! there, Oh hell! there
Get away from me
H-O-U-S-T-O-N A-S-T-R-O-S
Come along and sing this dirge
And join the misery!
H-O-U-S-T-O-N A-S-T-R-O-S
EDITED CAUSE THE REST REALLY SUCKED Just like the Astros
And up north, the Cowboys will once again wait til next year. Jerry Jones keeps putting all his eggs in the basket of always disgruntled players like TO. Keeshan never worked out either.
I freely admit that I am a fair weather fan with those guys. I just cannot get excited about watching them play ball.
I am still pi$$ed that the Oilers left, I did not transfer my allegiances to the Titans either.
As for the Astros, I luv to hate em. Then again I am more of a fan of baseball than a fan of any particular team. I much prefer watching highschool (Conroe), college (Rice) and minor league (Roundrock Express) baseball.
When Jones unceremoniously dumped Tom Landry I quit watching the Cowboys. Yeah Landry was on the outs and the team was in shambles but Jones IMO did not treat Landry with any respect.
Jerry Jones makes it hard to be a Cowboys fan. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t say that I am much of a “fan” of the current team, only the organization based on its history…
KRAUT
Oh the egos don’t bother me so much. Heck I have to deal with my own. LOL
I really lost interest in football when they went on strike.
I forgive baseball and their strikes because I have always been “just” a fan of the game. I’m that guy that goes to games and keeps a score-book and can congratulate the “other” team for a well turned double play.
Sorry, I am a lurker and not a blogger. I don’t know how to link.
By the power vested in me via my position as the all powerful, all seeing, all caring Moderator of Lonestartimes.com, I hereby promote you from merely lurking to blogger first class. You are now bestowed and entitled to all rights* and privalidges** that accompany your new rank.
Squawkbox
Moderator
Plumbers Helper
Handyman
and all round nice guy.
rights* and privileges**. See Matt \”Zilla\” Bramanti, CPO™ at the coat desk in the front foyer for what all that means.
Squawk is really good at being a plumbers helper with all the crap we give him around here. Don’t tell anyone, but I think he likes it. Attention I mean not crap…
Tonight I believe the Houston MoPar club is going to be there. There is a panther pink (moulon rouge) Challenger that might be there. It’s worth seeing by itself!
So, William F. Buckley has finally realized (admitted?) that Dubya is no conservative. Many of us have known that fact for several years now. Dubya is merely a lackey of the globalists and would sell out this country in a heartbeat. I wonder when the fundamentalist whack-jobs will figure out that Dubya isn’t much of a Christian either - but, perhaps, that’s too much to expect.
Wow, I am honored. Hey, I was shocked when my link worked. I’ve been lurking for a very long time. It is nice to be promoted…. Blogger first class, no less… THANK YOU!!
I am a Yankee fan. Always have been and always will be. Living down here watching the Astros reminds me somewhat of looking at porn. It is disgustingly fun to look at, but I would not buy any.
The French and Lebanese armies will take part in the multinational peacekeeping force expected to take position along the southern Lebanese border, it was revealed following a meeting between US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem.
Does this mean that surrender to the Hezzies will be imminent, as soon as the peacekeeping forces move in, or are my views unduly jaded by over-exposure to CNN and CNBC (my only two news channel choices while I was in San Franfreako!)?
“The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity’s foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl’s head, the police chief said Saturday”
What happened to Israel’s demand for NATO forces? The UN has been there for 28 years and has been unable to control a vegetable garden. Israel doesn’t need or want the UN as “peacekeepers.” It didn’t work before and it won’t work now.
That’s truly a shame. I have always considered Rolling Rock one of the best American light lagers. AB will surely run them into the ground (that’s their game plan – they want to sell Bud, not RR). There’s no way they can transplant the flavor of that beer to any other brewery. Fortunately there’s still a few good ones left like Shiner Blonde, Leinenkugel Premium, and Stevens Point Premium. One of the very best used to be Hudepohl 14K, but Schoenling bought them and then Sam Adams bought Schoenling. Now they don’t even make Hudy any more, and Schoenling Little Kings is brewed on the east coast (sacrilege!). Most of Sam Adams Boston Lager is actually brewed just west of Boston in a little suburb known as Cincinnati, Ohio (still very good beer though).
I have brewed my own beer for about 6 years. For about 30 bucks you can make 5 gallons which equates to 52 bottles. I make everything from Cerveza to India Pal Ale, to chocolate malted. I don’t drink a stitch of beer, never liked it. But my hubby and friends love it. I often make my own labels and call it SHEbrew. ..ther is a brand of HEBREW beer, but since I am a she, and a Hebrew…I call MINE…Shebrew Beer! lol!
A while back in one February, I had my beer carboy and my tomato plants starting under lights in my wash room. I needed a guy to come work on my washer…I was sure he must have thought I was up to no good!
There are many great home brew places and they are helpful.
Daniel James will not be happy to read the following. A border control agent arrested for smuggling illegals across the border. The agent is also illegal. Interesting. I thought it took several years to do background checks and train border control agents. We are told that is the hold-up in getting more agents on the border. This is a slap in the face of our good border agents.
Awesome! I’m a homebrewer myself, as is Maltboy! Last I talked to Matt Bramanti, he dabbled in it himself. I’ve got 5 gals of corriander hefeweizen in bottles right now conditioning.
You’re a good wife, brewing for your husband as you describe. Are you following in the tradition of the wife doing the brewing while the husband does the bread baking? Mrs. Dude doesn’t do any brewing; that part is up to me.
Check back on my site in a few days (the one you get when you click on my name) and there will be a link you can click on to take you to my brew page. Right now the site is still under construction, so the brew link isn’t there. When I do get it there, I’ll have recipes and links to local (Houston area) homebrew shops. Happy brewing!
Had a good time at the Niftee 50ees http://niftee50ees.com/ cruise night on Spring Cypress. My first time there! They put on a good event every Sat night. It is well run and my hat’s off those running it and those volunteering to make it happen. It is a huge cruise nite and all kinds of cars there. Anyone going should go to the table and donate some $$ just a buck or two. This pays for Deputies. Tonight the Houston Mopar club was there with some NICE cars! Good representation by Mopar!
My favorite car (other that my GTX of course!) http://www.americanmusclegrafix.com/submits/challenger.jpg
Reading LST comments this morning I remembered I’ve been drinking RR since before I met my wife. Then I did the math and remembered my 23rd anniversery was last week. Guess I’m gonna be fixed for a while.
Back to beer.
When Shiner Bock was a seasonal brew the Weingarten’s in the Village would save a few cases for me when they got some. Now it is their flagship label and they don’t brew the original Shiner any more. Stock up on the real RR while you can. The immitation is coming next week and is going to cost 60 cents more per six pack.
Not much time this past two weeks, and probably the next two, to do much. Those of you who have been paying attention will know that my job sometimes gets to the point where I am not able to post with the usual frequency. Several of you will remember that there are happy Methodists in Jacksonville, and the little school children in South Santone who have been recipients of the fruits of that labor.
Right now, the Saber Air hangar in St. Lou is a week late, and I’m getting excuses from other folks working on it like “It’s raining and my windshield wipers don’t work.” I’ve had one Sunday off in the last three weeks, and I’m heading into work by lunchtime today.
No, the events in Iraq have not kept me from posting. They are exactly what I expected. Another week has passed since any attacks were made on oil pipelines, and only one has occured sine the end of May. There have been no attacks on infrasturcture targets such as eletricy generation, water pumping, and sewage treatment. The attacks being made are spectacular displays made to attract attention to a losing cause.
The only fighting that occurs, with the exception of those attacks in Baghdad, are those in which the coalition forces have been on the offensive. One big operation is occuring near Kirkuk as a result of a request by Sunni Leaders for the government to come in and clean out Al Queda forces that they have dropped a dime on. AQI has been rendered largely ineffective through a combination of good intelligence, well timed attacks, and rejection by the populace of an outfit the people see as being the bad guys…not a good place for a “popular insurgency” to be.
There are no longer any attacks designed to topple the government. What is going on is described as “sectarian violence.” That’s when members of one religous sect attacks members of another. The goal is to kill as many as possible. There is a cycle of revenge killings and retribution…none of it aimed at the government or coalition forces.
Coaltion and Iraqi forces are confronting both sides of these disputes through multiple and mobile checkpoints and cordon and search operations, the same tactics they have used to bring peace to most of the rest of the country. They are able to bring troops into Baghdad to do the job, because most of the rest of the country is peaceful.
We started by having to destroy an enemy Army. We then had to control a country. Then we had to set up an interim government, complete with police and military forces. Then we help these people hold elections so that they could write a constitution. And we had to to all these things while fighting people who did not want any of them to occur.
The government has been formed, the police and military forces are near 80% complete and are conducting operations completely on thier own. Entire provinces have been handed over to indigenous rule and have no Coaliton forces in them to keep the peace. as they are not required.
Those who tell you that “60 people died today, we’re losing” dont’t tell you the whole truth with glib statements like that. sounbites work well in the MSM, but I think bloggers want to be more fully and statements like that provide little information. The fact that people die in a war isn’t news. You need to know who, and why, and what it means.
The people dying these days are those that can’t fight back. They are being attacked by people who can’t fight people who can fight back. This is because they lose when they do.
In 2000, Liberal politicians from inside Isreal and the US, and the MSM told the Isrealis that being in Lebanon and having people die everyday meatn that they were actually losing thier war. The were told the entire enterprise was a fuster cluck and that they’d be better off leaving. Isrealis and Americans who said that Isreal should “Stay the course” were ridiculed, called war mongers, and told they didn;t understand the true situation…that the killings going on meant that they realy didn’t control that part of the country and that it meant there never really would. Those that said “We need to stay because we are winning” were made to look like fools.
We’re winning…get used to it. We’re winning because we’re fighting. When we stop fighting, we begin losing…or risk having to do it all over again.
Ask the Isrealis who said “Stay the course” in 2000.
And for those who tried to scare the 9876 out of us with the Mighty Mighty Taleban, who have called off thier “Summer Offensive” in the middle of July:
Having to pay people to fight in your “popular insurgency” means that it really isn’t that, uh, “popular”:
Apparently the Taliban has lost some 1000-1200 fighters killed in Afghanistan over the past 8-10 weeks. Despite this, there’s only been a slight dip in the number of attacks, mainly because there’s so much money being offered for those willing to fight. Apparently the Taliban recruited a lot of folks over the winter. Many Pakistani Pushtuns have been identified among the dead. Several hundred of these Taliban fighters have been captured as well, and some report that morale is getting shaky as the string of Taliban defeats continues. The most discouraging thing for these Pakistani Taliban is the hostile reception they often get from Afghans. Some remote villages show fresh graves indicating a recent firefight, as villagers who don’t want their school burned down, or daughters kept from learning how to read, will resist with force if they think they can muster sufficient numbers. Some of the tribes have agreed to tell the Taliban to stay away, or take on the entire tribe or clan. Since the Taliban have to operate in smaller groups (to avoid being detected by UAVs or Afghan army scouts), there are many more instances of local tribesmen mustering sufficient force to scare the Taliban away.
Yeah…the Mighty Mighty Taleben…
Please note that the same folks who tell you we are losing in Iraq have tried to covnince you that the Mighty Mighty Taleban is poised to wrench control of Afghanistan from us.
GWB has given Israel a timetable to cut and run from Lebanon. 100 people a day are getting killed in Iraq from insurgent violence not traffic accidents.
I remember watching the Oiler playoff game agaisnt Buffalo. Most people in Houston at halftime thought “we are winning, get over it”
GWB has insured there be no cutting and running for the near future by getting the UN involved in helping to decide what to do. It takes them three months to decide how to split the lunch check.
If all is going so well in Iraq, then how would one explain this?
Iraqi Member of Parliament Hadi Al-’Amiri, is warning of a possible military coup against the government of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Asharq Al-Awsat can reveal.
Al-’Amiri, who heads the Badr Organization, the military wing of the High Council of the Islamic Revolution said during a speech in the city of Najaf, “There are some who talk about toppling Al-Maliki’s government and replacing it with a national rescue government, which we call a military coup government.”
Such an act, added Al-’Amiri, would mean “the invalidation of the constitution and the results of the elections, as well as returning to the starting point.”
I guess you send in more troops because things have gotten better. 3 1/2 years and the capital of Iraq is not under control. Sounds like a stalemate at best. We are at a stalemate with dirty sandfarmers in robes. Get over it.
So it’s a “stalemate” and not “losing” is that correct?
How is this different from the “stalemate” that occured between Isreal and Hezbollah between 1982 and 2000?
If you choose to escalate the wr inton one that is not “so PC,” tell me what the mission and targets would be. Tell me exactly what “not so PC” looks like.
Cut with the soundbites and get to descriptive specfics
As to “more troops” You’ll note in that barticle that the military says this is to be expected. There is always an “overlap” period when one unit is rotated in to replace one that is being rotated out.
But, if we are sending in more troops into a region to fight people and gain control of a situation that is not the best, how does that mean we are in a stalemet? Logically, it would mean that we are taking measures to break a stalemate, and that we are powerful enough to do it.
the military wing of the High Council of the Islamic Revolution
is a private militia…like Sadr’s Mahdi Army or Hezbollah…not part of the Iraqi Army. They are exactly the people Malikis efforts are trying to disband.
Kind of puts a whole new spin on why this guy would be ratcheting up the rhetoric, don;t you think?
“Kenneth Pollack, a former US National Security Council official, said: “The numbers should probably be roughly double what they are. We are seeing the right plan but completely inadequate resources to make it work.”
Oh BTW, Squawker upgraded the blog with a new “Sarge control 2.0 feature”
He’s talking about troop levels in Baghdad to make mobile checkpoints and cordon and search operations effective. He leaves out the numbers of iraqi troops involved, or who can be potentially involved. The MSM like to leave us with the impression that we are the only troops available.
This tactic always requires adjustments, especially in the early phases, to not only get troop levels correct, but to get intelligence apprati in place and working effectively.
Ask Zarko how that works. Oooops…you cant, cuz he’s dead, along with his organization. That’s because the most successful tactics used in this kind of war are those that are not open and apparent…but continue nonetheless.
A guy who runs a militia that the Government is trying to disband says that if they don’t stop they are going to get the Army, which the government is using to get them to disband, to overthrow the government.
That question is surprisingly difficult to answer, above all because, during the Iran-Iraq war, millions (I say millions) of Iraqi Shiites took the Iranian side, and went to Iran, where they remained for the better part of twenty years. During that time a large number of them were recruited by Iranian intelligence, folded into the terror network of the Revolutionary Guards and the intelligence ministry, and placed under the command of the Badr Brigade of the SCIRI (”Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq) or other radical Shiite groups.
Badr and Sadr are the two biggest militias in Iraq. Both are Shiite. Both have bullseyes on them. Neither has the strength to win any kind of all out war on the government or MNF Iraq.
They will be loud, they will engage in killing civilians. In the end, they will lose, because they use the same tactics the others who have lost have used.
Sarge
Why would a member of Iraqi Memmber of Parliament issue a warning if the threat was not viable? What has to gain?
You sound like the rest of head in the sand group I hear all the time. Quickly dismiss the threat as just talk and that takes care of it. It is that same thinking that allowed 911 to happen in New York.
Troop levels were adequate…that is a myth floated by folks who want to get rid of Rumsfeld.
The mistake made was by Paul Bremer when he disbanded the Iraqi Army and Police force, and then began weekly TV addresses to the Iraqis. This made it appear to Iraqis that we wer occupiers, not liberators.
He did this against the advice of the CIA and the military commanders on the scene.
Bremer was pulled back by Bush and then wrote a book critical of bush and the military in order to redirect blame for his own mistakes.
I responded to #91 just now and it;s not posted.
Squawk;
Re-read my post…I’m not having it both ways, nor am I being critical of Rumsfeld.
The mistake was made by a civilian paperpusher who ignored the advice of the CIA and the Commanders on the scene.
He wrote a book that the left loves because it criticizes the “troop levels. Bascally he said that if there had been more troops there, then the mistakes he made wouldn’t have been a big deal. Of course, if he had listened to the advice he was given, then there wouldn’t have been a problem.
This is a case where if Rumsfeld had been listened to, we’d not be where we are now. We had plenty of troops, rumsfeld made the right decisions, and another guy made the screw up. As always, the military has to pay for the mistakes made by bureaucrats….who then blame the military.
The guy with the wiper blades won;t be working today…he doesn’t work weekend…whcih is why I have to…
Why would Hezbollah issue a warning to the Lebanese government in 1983?
Same answer, guy, same answer…
To scare the 9876 out of folks to get what he wants without having to fight over it.
Badr and Sadr cannot be allowed to become the Iraqi equivalent of Hezbollah. The Iraqi Army and MNF forces are taking steps to disarm them. Your’e getting the same reaction out of them that the Isrealis got out of Hezbollah in the 80’s.
If we don’t fight them until victory, then the outcome will be the same.
Winning or losing, we have to keep fighting in Iraq and elsewhere. There is no making peace with the fundamentalist Muslims … the great majority of them worldwide, by the way.
Maybe all we’ve done is choose a convenient killing ground. The jihadists are just a car ride from Paradise but a long, long way from the United States. That is good.
By the way, I laugh at the French jokes but I know this: There would not be a West without the Franks.
Look up the Battle of Tours, which occurred in 732.
In just 100 years after Mohammed died, the Muslims took Arabia, swept across North Africa, took almost all of what today is Spain, crossed the mountains, burned Bordeaux and were marching on Paris. (This war did not start with the Crusades.)
About 120 kilometers southwest of Paris, near a town named Tours, the Muslim army met the Franks, commanded by Charles Martel, granddaddy of Charlemagne.
Martel’s infantry stood up the the Arabian knights (really, they had stirrups and armor!) and defeated them.
Today, the Muslims claim their force was just a raiding party. However, their own historians at the time wrote about what a huge, horrible disaster this defeat was.
Viva the pre-French!
Not to mention that the Muslims (Turkish branch) sat outside Vienna for about 300 years, until the 1680s. They were beaten by Polish lancers. (2.5 centuries later, the Poles sent lancers against German tanks with much less success, but that’s another story.)
Point is: Every few centuries, we who care at all about freedom have to kill bunches of Muslims.
If there is a longterm, less bloody answer, it is two-fold:
Preach Christ and a certainty of salvation through him, not death in jihad, and
Raise the status of women in the Muslim world so nearly all of them can aspire to raising something other than suicide bombers.
Meantime, we have to keep killing them to preserve the possibility of progress and truth.
If we had not invaded Iraq and created this destabilization, we wouldn’t have the Badr and Sadr situation to worry about.
We are not winning a civil war we did not need to start. The invasion of Iraq (and this does not apply to Afghanistan) - as opposed to keeping the despot contained as he was - was a very poor decision.
Hamous has an excellent article posted on his blog that really debuncts the Palestinians claims’ to Israel. This is a must read about the history of that land.
To a great extent, Israel is the distraction used by the carnival guy. The corrupt leaders of the Muslim nations keep their ignorant people focused on Israel while they spend and screw up without anyone noticing much.
And the tenets and traditions of Islam foster that.
Imagine being directed by a tiny group of scholars who can read ancient Hebrew and koine Greek since they are the only ones allowed to interpret the Bible.
That’s the situation Muslims have with 7th Century Arabic and the Koran. They believe if you can’t read it in the original, you can’t really know or understand it.
So a lot of Muslims don’t read the Koran and/or defer to the interpretations of the ruling fundamentalist clerics. Those clerics can read 7th Century Arabic but they think in a 7th Century style too.
What happened is that after September 11, the Americans realized that dictatorial regimes in the Arab region produce terrorists who attack America and Europe. The entire world lives in fear of the terrorists these regimes produce. The Americans realize this. They do not want to establish democracy for our sake, but in order to defend themselves. If the Arab people has an opportunity to learn, to participate in the rule of its own land, and in building society, it will not destroy America and Europe.”“They do this for their own interest,” Othman went on, “but we have a genuine opportunity, an historic opportunity.”
We belong there and the battle aginst terrorism in Iraq is righteous. If you like $3.00 gallon gas now, let us pull out and you will love $10.00 gallon gas later.
dictatorial regimes in the Arab region produce terrorists who attack America and Europe.
Could those terrorists be acting out and attacking the US and Europe for more than 1 reason. I mean could the attacks also be a you of showing the anger at the lack of freedom that they have in their homeland as well as anger at the level of freedom we have here?
bweldon
This hatred has been “really” fomenting since the days of Ayatollah A$$aholla of Jimmy Carters days. One of the tools the whackos use is to blame all the problems of their society on the other guys. The other guys are us.
When the hitting finally catches up for the starting pitchers the relief blows it. When the relief is good the hitting sucks. So Samckie, me thinks the Astros are the Hoover Vacuum Cleaners of baseball.
Actually they are more like pinatas. Everyone beats them because they know there is a prize inside after they are broke.
No Smack - I was just asking. The latest reports on Soriano are that he may be sitting in the cat bird seat in Washington when all the dealing is done.
The Astros are making progress. The starting pitching went past 5 innings. We did score some runs. The insurgents on the other team are losing. If we arent losing we must be winning. The MSM is only showing the bad Astros plays and everyone thinks we are losing when in fact we are winning. This is from the Astro web site.
“The Astros really won the game”
I have confirmed from Sarge the Astros really did win the game and in fact are undefeated. The MSM just makes it seem they are losing because they are anti-Astro. The Astros are winning now and won the World Series last year. Get over it.
KRAUT,
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No - nor would I buy a used burro from him.
Mi cabra necesita su sangre.
“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’”
- Sam Levenson
I would before buying one from a democratic politician.
Does he do ‘work’ that regular Americans don’t do?
such as murder, rape, dismembering bodies, pillaging and maiming?
Taco-Squawko
Would love to see some more of your “birthday” pics! You look rather dashing in that sombero!
Well, that was weird . . .
Squawk, you are fixed.
Oh Gawduhhh I FIXED. Welp looks like my dog and I have something in common afterall.
Did anyone read on Drudge how Sen. McCain and Sen. Clinton got into a Vodka drinking contest and how McCain commented on how Mrs. Clinton was very engaging? I said it before that I think that during the day they make it look like they fight for their constituents and after work they slap eachother on the knee, saying how they once again fooled the voters? It seems all a game, with “we the people” as the losers.
I wouldn’t buy a car from him but I would buy him drinks.
Hope you day was a happy one.
#9 Squawk, that could leave a “general all around good guy” in a foul mood couldn’t it?
#10 Kraut, I wonder how many drinks it took for her to become “engaging”. Methinks alot.
SC
After being “fixed” I just don’t care anymore. Sigh
You’d think with everything else going on in that part of the world, President Unpronouncable would have something more worthwhile to do than this:
Saw it on Fox, please don’t let this be true.
Anheuser Busch has bought Rolling Rock and is closing
the Latrobe brewery.
NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
#16 - I saw that last night - said that Rolling Rock will now be produced in New Joisey.
So Robin Williams is selling cars huh. Or is it fajitas? I am looking for a 56 chevy and I hear that is pretty much all they have are old cars. I did see the McCain and Clinton story.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/washington/29rivals.html?ei=5065&en=c05eac31f4771d4a&ex=1154836800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
Look it is our hero CLAMBOY!!!!
#15 BSUE, I saw that. Presidential palace= rubble.
Emme
Robin Williams?!! LOL! Yeah, Squawk does look a little like Robin Williams!
I’m taking my mom and family to the Astros game tonight. She is a big fan not like that poser hamous. It would be nice to see them win for a
change.
Squawk if your fixed, I heard gregg was looking for some Viagra. Whatever you have left I’m sure
he will take it off your hands.
Smacktle
I have it on good authority that with the Astros there is always next year or till they move out of town, which ever comes first. A little tune for you
Who\’s the losers of the league
That\’s made for you and me
H-O-U-S-T-O-N A-S-T-R-O-S
OH NO! there, OH crap! there, Oh hell! there
Get away from me
H-O-U-S-T-O-N A-S-T-R-O-S
Come along and sing this dirge
And join the misery!
H-O-U-S-T-O-N A-S-T-R-O-S
EDITED CAUSE THE REST REALLY SUCKED Just like the Astros
I kinda have the feeling that the Texans will parallel the Oilers too!
And up north, the Cowboys will once again wait til next year. Jerry Jones keeps putting all his eggs in the basket of always disgruntled players like TO. Keeshan never worked out either.
KRAUT
RE: Texans/Astros
I freely admit that I am a fair weather fan with those guys. I just cannot get excited about watching them play ball.
I am still pi$$ed that the Oilers left, I did not transfer my allegiances to the Titans either.
As for the Astros, I luv to hate em. Then again I am more of a fan of baseball than a fan of any particular team. I much prefer watching highschool (Conroe), college (Rice) and minor league (Roundrock Express) baseball.
Re: The Cowboys
When Jones unceremoniously dumped Tom Landry I quit watching the Cowboys. Yeah Landry was on the outs and the team was in shambles but Jones IMO did not treat Landry with any respect.
Jerry Jones makes it hard to be a Cowboys fan. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t say that I am much of a “fan” of the current team, only the organization based on its history…
#26 Squawk,
Might as well! Hate being disappointed year after year, but the main thing that ticks me off are the inflated egos of most of the pros.
I sort of quit on sports when Bum Phillips got the shaft. I met him long ago and he knew my Dad also.
Kraut, inflated salarys and high ticket prices have kept me away since.
KRAUT
Oh the egos don’t bother me so much. Heck I have to deal with my own. LOL
I really lost interest in football when they went on strike.
I forgive baseball and their strikes because I have always been “just” a fan of the game. I’m that guy that goes to games and keeps a score-book and can congratulate the “other” team for a well turned double play.
Squawk, is that a picture of you in the server room after you upgraded LSTimes to WordPress 2.0?
Wasn’t that hard was it?
Just made it to Knoxville. Next stop Birmingham.
What people don’t realize about that picture of Squawk is that he’s naked from the waist down. Smackie almost fell out of his high chair!
phil
There is always a party after a successful upgrade.
Mobile bivalve mollusk
Yeah that damn chair gave me splinters that I am still removing.
Anybody want to talk about religion,abortion or gun control?
Hey Clamburger,you must be driving 25 mph. You should have been back Thursday.
Hey, how bout Mell Gibson and his look alike. Apparently they have something in common. They hate F’ng Jews.
Here you go greg
http://www.coxandforkum.com/
Wow, we made the news at the Chronicle, or at least A.S.S.06 did. I didn’t see anything about KSEV or LST in this article.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4080254.html
So how were the oysters? I have to admit, your choice of headgear would look better on our current president’s cabeza.
Maybe we should build a s-load of liquor and convenience stores in the Middle East. That will give all the terrorists a job option rather than Jihad.
They are just bored. Its either Jihad or camel racing.
beccisue
You said in another thread
By the power vested in me via my position as the all powerful, all seeing, all caring Moderator of Lonestartimes.com, I hereby promote you from merely lurking to blogger first class. You are now bestowed and entitled to all rights* and privalidges** that accompany your new rank.
Squawkbox
Moderator
Plumbers Helper
Handyman
and all round nice guy.
rights* and privileges**. See Matt \”Zilla\” Bramanti, CPO™ at the coat desk in the front foyer for what all that means.
Squawk is really good at being a plumbers helper with all the crap we give him around here. Don’t tell anyone, but I think he likes it. Attention I mean not crap…
Going to the cruise night at Champions and stick a for sale sign in the GTX. C’mon by and say hi… I’m the pretty one…
http://www.popartuk.com/g/l/lgLP1031.jpg
http://www.americanmusclegrafix.com/images/New_Pics/71gtx1.jpg
Tonight I believe the Houston MoPar club is going to be there. There is a panther pink (moulon rouge) Challenger that might be there. It’s worth seeing by itself!
So, William F. Buckley has finally realized (admitted?) that Dubya is no conservative. Many of us have known that fact for several years now. Dubya is merely a lackey of the globalists and would sell out this country in a heartbeat. I wonder when the fundamentalist whack-jobs will figure out that Dubya isn’t much of a Christian either - but, perhaps, that’s too much to expect.
#41 Squawk
Wow, I am honored. Hey, I was shocked when my link worked. I’ve been lurking for a very long time. It is nice to be promoted…. Blogger first class, no less… THANK YOU!!
I am a Yankee fan. Always have been and always will be. Living down here watching the Astros reminds me somewhat of looking at porn. It is disgustingly fun to look at, but I would not buy any.
Made it to Birmingham.
Been wearing my Red Sox hat for 3500 miles. Astros suck. I told you so Smackless.
Wonder if crablegs is the type who thinks everyone should see his vacation movies.
#49 Tim
Only the ones from the nudist colony.
Does this mean that surrender to the Hezzies will be imminent, as soon as the peacekeeping forces move in, or are my views unduly jaded by over-exposure to CNN and CNBC (my only two news channel choices while I was in San Franfreako!)?
The question I have is will the French retreat into Israel or Lebanon?
#51
Great, now a whole new bunch of young girls get to be raped by U.N. “Piecekeepers”
More details on loser Islamic lunatic:
“The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity’s foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl’s head, the police chief said Saturday”
Michele Malkin is all opver it…read her blog
What happened to Israel’s demand for NATO forces? The UN has been there for 28 years and has been unable to control a vegetable garden. Israel doesn’t need or want the UN as “peacekeepers.” It didn’t work before and it won’t work now.
Gregg
#52
Or into the sea or into Syria? Doesn’t really matter where they retreat to, we know they will retreat. Always have, always will.
Google “French Military Victories” and hit “I’m feeling lucky.” Yeah, it is a joke, but it is so true.
#16 gtotracker
That’s truly a shame. I have always considered Rolling Rock one of the best American light lagers. AB will surely run them into the ground (that’s their game plan – they want to sell Bud, not RR). There’s no way they can transplant the flavor of that beer to any other brewery. Fortunately there’s still a few good ones left like Shiner Blonde, Leinenkugel Premium, and Stevens Point Premium. One of the very best used to be Hudepohl 14K, but Schoenling bought them and then Sam Adams bought Schoenling. Now they don’t even make Hudy any more, and Schoenling Little Kings is brewed on the east coast (sacrilege!). Most of Sam Adams Boston Lager is actually brewed just west of Boston in a little suburb known as Cincinnati, Ohio (still very good beer though).
16…57
I have brewed my own beer for about 6 years. For about 30 bucks you can make 5 gallons which equates to 52 bottles. I make everything from Cerveza to India Pal Ale, to chocolate malted. I don’t drink a stitch of beer, never liked it. But my hubby and friends love it. I often make my own labels and call it SHEbrew. ..ther is a brand of HEBREW beer, but since I am a she, and a Hebrew…I call MINE…Shebrew Beer! lol!
A while back in one February, I had my beer carboy and my tomato plants starting under lights in my wash room. I needed a guy to come work on my washer…I was sure he must have thought I was up to no good!
There are many great home brew places and they are helpful.
Daniel James will not be happy to read the following. A border control agent arrested for smuggling illegals across the border. The agent is also illegal. Interesting. I thought it took several years to do background checks and train border control agents. We are told that is the hold-up in getting more agents on the border. This is a slap in the face of our good border agents.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673903/posts
#58 texaskaz,
Awesome! I’m a homebrewer myself, as is Maltboy! Last I talked to Matt Bramanti, he dabbled in it himself. I’ve got 5 gals of corriander hefeweizen in bottles right now conditioning.
You’re a good wife, brewing for your husband as you describe. Are you following in the tradition of the wife doing the brewing while the husband does the bread baking? Mrs. Dude doesn’t do any brewing; that part is up to me.
Check back on my site in a few days (the one you get when you click on my name) and there will be a link you can click on to take you to my brew page. Right now the site is still under construction, so the brew link isn’t there. When I do get it there, I’ll have recipes and links to local (Houston area) homebrew shops. Happy brewing!
Had a good time at the Niftee 50ees http://niftee50ees.com/ cruise night on Spring Cypress. My first time there! They put on a good event every Sat night. It is well run and my hat’s off those running it and those volunteering to make it happen. It is a huge cruise nite and all kinds of cars there. Anyone going should go to the table and donate some $$ just a buck or two. This pays for Deputies. Tonight the Houston Mopar club was there with some NICE cars! Good representation by Mopar!
My favorite car (other that my GTX of course!)
http://www.americanmusclegrafix.com/submits/challenger.jpg
Reading LST comments this morning I remembered I’ve been drinking RR since before I met my wife. Then I did the math and remembered my 23rd anniversery was last week. Guess I’m gonna be fixed for a while.
Back to beer.
When Shiner Bock was a seasonal brew the Weingarten’s in the Village would save a few cases for me when they got some. Now it is their flagship label and they don’t brew the original Shiner any more. Stock up on the real RR while you can. The immitation is coming next week and is going to cost 60 cents more per six pack.
Mel Gibson is anti-Semitic. He can no longer distance himself from his father.
Once again Pakistan - the only nuclear armed Islamic nation in the world - serves as the breeding ground for religion based terror.
“Suspects in Mumbai Bombings Confess Ties to Pakistani Militants”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/asia/28cnd-india.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin
Clamboner,
I guess all the talk about The Passion having anti-semetic undertones were true after all. The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.
Are we still winning in Iraq?
#65 - BoneLicker
We must be losing because sarge doesn’t have anything to post.
To quote Mark Twain:
“Reports of my death have been premature.”
Not much time this past two weeks, and probably the next two, to do much. Those of you who have been paying attention will know that my job sometimes gets to the point where I am not able to post with the usual frequency. Several of you will remember that there are happy Methodists in Jacksonville, and the little school children in South Santone who have been recipients of the fruits of that labor.
Right now, the Saber Air hangar in St. Lou is a week late, and I’m getting excuses from other folks working on it like “It’s raining and my windshield wipers don’t work.” I’ve had one Sunday off in the last three weeks, and I’m heading into work by lunchtime today.
No, the events in Iraq have not kept me from posting. They are exactly what I expected. Another week has passed since any attacks were made on oil pipelines, and only one has occured sine the end of May. There have been no attacks on infrasturcture targets such as eletricy generation, water pumping, and sewage treatment. The attacks being made are spectacular displays made to attract attention to a losing cause.
The only fighting that occurs, with the exception of those attacks in Baghdad, are those in which the coalition forces have been on the offensive. One big operation is occuring near Kirkuk as a result of a request by Sunni Leaders for the government to come in and clean out Al Queda forces that they have dropped a dime on. AQI has been rendered largely ineffective through a combination of good intelligence, well timed attacks, and rejection by the populace of an outfit the people see as being the bad guys…not a good place for a “popular insurgency” to be.
There are no longer any attacks designed to topple the government. What is going on is described as “sectarian violence.” That’s when members of one religous sect attacks members of another. The goal is to kill as many as possible. There is a cycle of revenge killings and retribution…none of it aimed at the government or coalition forces.
Coaltion and Iraqi forces are confronting both sides of these disputes through multiple and mobile checkpoints and cordon and search operations, the same tactics they have used to bring peace to most of the rest of the country. They are able to bring troops into Baghdad to do the job, because most of the rest of the country is peaceful.
We started by having to destroy an enemy Army. We then had to control a country. Then we had to set up an interim government, complete with police and military forces. Then we help these people hold elections so that they could write a constitution. And we had to to all these things while fighting people who did not want any of them to occur.
The government has been formed, the police and military forces are near 80% complete and are conducting operations completely on thier own. Entire provinces have been handed over to indigenous rule and have no Coaliton forces in them to keep the peace. as they are not required.
Those who tell you that “60 people died today, we’re losing” dont’t tell you the whole truth with glib statements like that. sounbites work well in the MSM, but I think bloggers want to be more fully and statements like that provide little information. The fact that people die in a war isn’t news. You need to know who, and why, and what it means.
The people dying these days are those that can’t fight back. They are being attacked by people who can’t fight people who can fight back. This is because they lose when they do.
In 2000, Liberal politicians from inside Isreal and the US, and the MSM told the Isrealis that being in Lebanon and having people die everyday meatn that they were actually losing thier war. The were told the entire enterprise was a fuster cluck and that they’d be better off leaving. Isrealis and Americans who said that Isreal should “Stay the course” were ridiculed, called war mongers, and told they didn;t understand the true situation…that the killings going on meant that they realy didn’t control that part of the country and that it meant there never really would. Those that said “We need to stay because we are winning” were made to look like fools.
We’re winning…get used to it. We’re winning because we’re fighting. When we stop fighting, we begin losing…or risk having to do it all over again.
Ask the Isrealis who said “Stay the course” in 2000.
Wow! Talk about timing!
And for those who tried to scare the 9876 out of us with the Mighty Mighty Taleban, who have called off thier “Summer Offensive” in the middle of July:
Having to pay people to fight in your “popular insurgency” means that it really isn’t that, uh, “popular”:
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htatrit/articles/20060728.aspx
Yeah…the Mighty Mighty Taleben…
Please note that the same folks who tell you we are losing in Iraq have tried to covnince you that the Mighty Mighty Taleban is poised to wrench control of Afghanistan from us.
Welcome back Mr. Kott-air!
GWB has given Israel a timetable to cut and run from Lebanon. 100 people a day are getting killed in Iraq from insurgent violence not traffic accidents.
I remember watching the Oiler playoff game agaisnt Buffalo. Most people in Houston at halftime thought “we are winning, get over it”
#70
GWB has insured there be no cutting and running for the near future by getting the UN involved in helping to decide what to do. It takes them three months to decide how to split the lunch check.
OK Gregg;
you say we are losing.
Tell us why.
If all is going so well in Iraq, then how would one explain this?
I guess you send in more troops because things have gotten better. 3 1/2 years and the capital of Iraq is not under control. Sounds like a stalemate at best. We are at a stalemate with dirty sandfarmers in robes. Get over it.
Sue;
The politician in question provides no evidence, only a “warning’ that a “possible” military coup is in the works.
I think that the MNF Commander may know more about what the Iraqi military is doing than does a poltician in the parliament.
Gregg;
So it’s a “stalemate” and not “losing” is that correct?
How is this different from the “stalemate” that occured between Isreal and Hezbollah between 1982 and 2000?
If you choose to escalate the wr inton one that is not “so PC,” tell me what the mission and targets would be. Tell me exactly what “not so PC” looks like.
Cut with the soundbites and get to descriptive specfics
Sarge
Apparently your rose colored glasses prevented you from reading this in #72.
It seems to me that he just might know what he is talking about.
As to “more troops” You’ll note in that barticle that the military says this is to be expected. There is always an “overlap” period when one unit is rotated in to replace one that is being rotated out.
But, if we are sending in more troops into a region to fight people and gain control of a situation that is not the best, how does that mean we are in a stalemet? Logically, it would mean that we are taking measures to break a stalemate, and that we are powerful enough to do it.
#76
No…
dang…half the post is gone..
is a private militia…like Sadr’s Mahdi Army or Hezbollah…not part of the Iraqi Army. They are exactly the people Malikis efforts are trying to disband.
Kind of puts a whole new spin on why this guy would be ratcheting up the rhetoric, don;t you think?
Sarge, this is the money quote from the article.
“Kenneth Pollack, a former US National Security Council official, said: “The numbers should probably be roughly double what they are. We are seeing the right plan but completely inadequate resources to make it work.”
Oh BTW, Squawker upgraded the blog with a new “Sarge control 2.0 feature”
So you agree. Its a stalemate,get over it.
Sarge
And you don’t think that they just might have many members who are in the Iraqi Military?
Kinda lends credence to the man’s claims doesn’t it?
I have said this before and have yet to be proved wrong. These people’s allegiances sway with the winds.
He’s talking about troop levels in Baghdad to make mobile checkpoints and cordon and search operations effective. He leaves out the numbers of iraqi troops involved, or who can be potentially involved. The MSM like to leave us with the impression that we are the only troops available.
This tactic always requires adjustments, especially in the early phases, to not only get troop levels correct, but to get intelligence apprati in place and working effectively.
Ask Zarko how that works. Oooops…you cant, cuz he’s dead, along with his organization. That’s because the most successful tactics used in this kind of war are those that are not open and apparent…but continue nonetheless.
I dunno Squawk
A guy who runs a militia that the Government is trying to disband says that if they don’t stop they are going to get the Army, which the government is using to get them to disband, to overthrow the government.
Wow…shaking in my boots.
These people’s allegiances sway with the winds.
OK;
So you’re banking on “maybe.”
Here’s some info on the Badr rganization:
http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=421&highlight=badr
Badr and Sadr are the two biggest militias in Iraq. Both are Shiite. Both have bullseyes on them. Neither has the strength to win any kind of all out war on the government or MNF Iraq.
They will be loud, they will engage in killing civilians. In the end, they will lose, because they use the same tactics the others who have lost have used.
#8–this is not something knew. We knew troop levels were inadequate when we started the war.
Sarge
Why would a member of Iraqi Memmber of Parliament issue a warning if the threat was not viable? What has to gain?
You sound like the rest of head in the sand group I hear all the time. Quickly dismiss the threat as just talk and that takes care of it. It is that same thinking that allowed 911 to happen in New York.
One thing I do admire about Sarge is his willingness to stick with his argument even though he knows he is wrong
#86
Troop levels were adequate…that is a myth floated by folks who want to get rid of Rumsfeld.
The mistake made was by Paul Bremer when he disbanded the Iraqi Army and Police force, and then began weekly TV addresses to the Iraqis. This made it appear to Iraqis that we wer occupiers, not liberators.
He did this against the advice of the CIA and the military commanders on the scene.
Bremer was pulled back by Bush and then wrote a book critical of bush and the military in order to redirect blame for his own mistakes.
Yelllowdog;
I know that I’m right…that’s why I stick to my guns.
Time to head to work….
might not be on for a coupla days, guys…have fun
Can’t have it both ways Sarge. You yourself defended troop levels and Rumsfeild.
Sarge,
I hope the rain quits or that guy gets his wipers fixed.
Dam…where do those posts go?
I responded to #91 just now and it;s not posted.
Squawk;
Re-read my post…I’m not having it both ways, nor am I being critical of Rumsfeld.
The mistake was made by a civilian paperpusher who ignored the advice of the CIA and the Commanders on the scene.
He wrote a book that the left loves because it criticizes the “troop levels. Bascally he said that if there had been more troops there, then the mistakes he made wouldn’t have been a big deal. Of course, if he had listened to the advice he was given, then there wouldn’t have been a problem.
This is a case where if Rumsfeld had been listened to, we’d not be where we are now. We had plenty of troops, rumsfeld made the right decisions, and another guy made the screw up. As always, the military has to pay for the mistakes made by bureaucrats….who then blame the military.
The guy with the wiper blades won;t be working today…he doesn’t work weekend…whcih is why I have to…
toodles kiddies
#87
Why would Hezbollah issue a warning to the Lebanese government in 1983?
Same answer, guy, same answer…
To scare the 9876 out of folks to get what he wants without having to fight over it.
Badr and Sadr cannot be allowed to become the Iraqi equivalent of Hezbollah. The Iraqi Army and MNF forces are taking steps to disarm them. Your’e getting the same reaction out of them that the Isrealis got out of Hezbollah in the 80’s.
If we don’t fight them until victory, then the outcome will be the same.
We only lose when we stop fighting.
We’re winnning…get used to it.
Winning or losing, we have to keep fighting in Iraq and elsewhere. There is no making peace with the fundamentalist Muslims … the great majority of them worldwide, by the way.
Maybe all we’ve done is choose a convenient killing ground. The jihadists are just a car ride from Paradise but a long, long way from the United States. That is good.
By the way, I laugh at the French jokes but I know this: There would not be a West without the Franks.
Look up the Battle of Tours, which occurred in 732.
In just 100 years after Mohammed died, the Muslims took Arabia, swept across North Africa, took almost all of what today is Spain, crossed the mountains, burned Bordeaux and were marching on Paris. (This war did not start with the Crusades.)
About 120 kilometers southwest of Paris, near a town named Tours, the Muslim army met the Franks, commanded by Charles Martel, granddaddy of Charlemagne.
Martel’s infantry stood up the the Arabian knights (really, they had stirrups and armor!) and defeated them.
Today, the Muslims claim their force was just a raiding party. However, their own historians at the time wrote about what a huge, horrible disaster this defeat was.
Viva the pre-French!
Not to mention that the Muslims (Turkish branch) sat outside Vienna for about 300 years, until the 1680s. They were beaten by Polish lancers. (2.5 centuries later, the Poles sent lancers against German tanks with much less success, but that’s another story.)
Point is: Every few centuries, we who care at all about freedom have to kill bunches of Muslims.
If there is a longterm, less bloody answer, it is two-fold:
Preach Christ and a certainty of salvation through him, not death in jihad, and
Raise the status of women in the Muslim world so nearly all of them can aspire to raising something other than suicide bombers.
Meantime, we have to keep killing them to preserve the possibility of progress and truth.
#94 -
If we had not invaded Iraq and created this destabilization, we wouldn’t have the Badr and Sadr situation to worry about.
We are not winning a civil war we did not need to start. The invasion of Iraq (and this does not apply to Afghanistan) - as opposed to keeping the despot contained as he was - was a very poor decision.
Get used to it.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54888&SelectRegion=Middle_East&SelectCountry=IRAQ
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0607300205jul30,1,6770855.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Hamous has an excellent article posted on his blog that really debuncts the Palestinians claims’ to Israel. This is a must read about the history of that land.
http://hamous.org/hambone/?p=343#more-343
#97 Thanks, Neocon. That’s really good stuff.
To a great extent, Israel is the distraction used by the carnival guy. The corrupt leaders of the Muslim nations keep their ignorant people focused on Israel while they spend and screw up without anyone noticing much.
And the tenets and traditions of Islam foster that.
Imagine being directed by a tiny group of scholars who can read ancient Hebrew and koine Greek since they are the only ones allowed to interpret the Bible.
That’s the situation Muslims have with 7th Century Arabic and the Koran. They believe if you can’t read it in the original, you can’t really know or understand it.
So a lot of Muslims don’t read the Koran and/or defer to the interpretations of the ruling fundamentalist clerics. Those clerics can read 7th Century Arabic but they think in a 7th Century style too.
Mike S
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-jklinghoffer033103.asp
We belong there and the battle aginst terrorism in Iraq is righteous. If you like $3.00 gallon gas now, let us pull out and you will love $10.00 gallon gas later.
Get used to it.
#99, Squawk, interesting quote.
Could those terrorists be acting out and attacking the US and Europe for more than 1 reason. I mean could the attacks also be a you of showing the anger at the lack of freedom that they have in their homeland as well as anger at the level of freedom we have here?
bweldon
This hatred has been “really” fomenting since the days of Ayatollah A$$aholla of Jimmy Carters days. One of the tools the whackos use is to blame all the problems of their society on the other guys. The other guys are us.
HEY SMACKIE
The Astros suck
When the hitting finally catches up for the starting pitchers the relief blows it. When the relief is good the hitting sucks. So Samckie, me thinks the Astros are the Hoover Vacuum Cleaners of baseball.
Actually they are more like pinatas. Everyone beats them because they know there is a prize inside after they are broke.
#58 texaskaz
How do I get my wife to make beer?
#102 Squawk
Help is on the way. Soriano is coming. The Astros have a flair for the dramatic. They are right where they want to be.
#104 Smackie
They want to suck?
One of you Moderator types needs to add this link to the Israel links page.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa
Scroll down and look at the slide shows and videos.
These folks are getting hit prety bad.
The cry of the fairweather fan. Wa wa wa, sounds like my 1 yr old daughter. You guys need some cheese?
No Smack - I was just asking. The latest reports on Soriano are that he may be sitting in the cat bird seat in Washington when all the dealing is done.
The Astros have a flair for the dramatic??!!???
They are right where they want to be?!!??
Oh I get it now. They are pulling the old rope-a-dope trick huh? Hmmm Ali did that too. Now he has permanent brain damage.
The Astros are going to the playoffs.
We are winning, get over it.
#110 - Smackie
That’s what Roger thought in the top of the 7th ;0)
Says Corporal Samcktle
marc
That official page is Benzion\’s babushka
I don’t understand??
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/babushka
Doll?
Marc, that’s likely a better guess than Benzion’s headscarf
He probably meant bambino or Pobracito.
babushka = Russian term of endearment not unlike darling, baby etc.
Not only I will not buy used car from this man, I will try to sell snake oil to him.
#60 Dude,
Is nothing sacred anymore? Coriander Hefewizen?
I want regular, old fashion Weizen BIER, what’s next, Raspberry beer?
#107 smack,
Astros, Oilers, always knocking on the door?
The Astros are making progress. The starting pitching went past 5 innings. We did score some runs. The insurgents on the other team are losing. If we arent losing we must be winning. The MSM is only showing the bad Astros plays and everyone thinks we are losing when in fact we are winning. This is from the Astro web site.
“The Astros really won the game”
The Astros will win another game,get over it.
#121 T-Bone,
I’m willing to bet a cold BIER on that!
I have confirmed from Sarge the Astros really did win the game and in fact are undefeated. The MSM just makes it seem they are losing because they are anti-Astro. The Astros are winning now and won the World Series last year. Get over it.
good! I won a cold BIER!
KRAUT,
The government has determined Bier is not good for you and makes unattractive women look attractive causing undue distress when the effects wear off. Therefore you must turn in your lager to Matt Bramanti or risk extreme fines.
Rahman
How much is your snake oil? I think Smacktle is ripping me off.