well now that we print the ballots in god knows how many languages, we need to put all documents at every government level in the same languages that we allow voters to vote in.
national house and senate bills
state house and senate bills
county documnets
city documents
that way those voters that do not speak english can read these documents in their own language and know who to vote for right?
things get funnier everyday - who are these stupidoos that come up with this $*it!!
Dow - gets scarier and scarier…..I came very close yesterday to hollering out “Speak English!!” in a store. You hardly ever hear your native tounge anymore.
I have been trying to get our Senior Management to make it the policy where I work that all employees must speak English except when dealing with a non-English customer. The main reason is that I work at a financial institution and I think it is a security risk to not know what your employees are saying. So far no one is willing to risk upsetting any employees.
I dislike Nuns due to the fact that I had one for a teacher in Kindergarten in Catholic School and she beat my nuckles with a ruler because I used my left hand and she insisted that the left was the hand of the devil. Therefore, I was forced to become ambidextrous and had to learn to write with my right hand while still preferring my left hand for other things and now I am an emotional wreck. This Nun reminds me of many unpleasantries from my school days (56 years ago).
At least I am not the only one ready to start screeming out - SPEAK ENGLISH OR GO BACK TO MEXICO!
I have boycotted walmart and written them a letter as to why. (spanish announcements, too many non-english speaking employees)
I will not go to Golden Coral for breakfast anymore - too many non-english speakers and thier brats destroying the place - Skeeters is 100% better food, service and attmosphere.
In fact there are a number of places I will no longer shop at or eat at because my lack of english metter is on FED UP.
It is time to VOTE OUT all those in office (local, state and federal) who refuse to fix this problem.
THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010 WHENEVER THEY COME UP FOR OFFICE.
SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU KNOW IN ANY OF THE STATES LISTED. THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEED TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION.
One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also.
But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.
He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly,” Yes, I always wear it and probably always will.”
The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son’s shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to
the Iraqi woman: “Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn’t need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I’ll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid.”
That has to be an urban legend. First of all the cashier was an American? With a flag pin? She spoke English? The woman in the burka didnt blow herself up? I dont buy it. Has to be an urban legend.
It is unlikely to be true because Iraqis are secular and most women don’t wear burkas. If you were to encounter one, you should also encounter her husband or a member of her family.
For those of you this weekend who blasted me on the religion as big business you need to read this. This aint your daddys church anymore. On Sunday The Kerry Shook ministries was on FOX and they had motorcycles jumping dirt ramps on stage in the church to signify teamwork and trust. JHTBSHHLYKW™.( Jesus had to be shaking his head like you know who.)
Don’t get me wrong - there’s a line somewhere with the whole expensive showiness thing that many churches have crossed, but how can you equate what’s going on in Stafford with FOTW’s big, expensive, productions?
Jimb,
According to the article the churches are opening up in Stafford because they have no property tax. 51? In addition to being income tax exempt that makes it very profitable to open a church in a strip center. Follow the money. I don’t doubt there is praying and soul saving going on. I just don’t like the business of saving souls the way its being done. I didn’t think you had to pay the concierge to get into heaven.
“It’s thrown everything out of balance, plus providing zero revenue. Somebody’s got to pay for police, fire and schools,” City Councilman Cecil Willis said.
Schools? What can that possibly mean?
I don’t see how more churches = more schoolchildren. And the City of Stafford isn’t responsible for schools anyway.
But Nilda Martinez, who owns a flower shop between two churches, has had enough. “The churches, they’re everywhere here,” she said. “There are too many; the city should control it. It hurts the city when you don’t have enough businesses paying taxes.”
There are too many churches…what an awful thing to believe. But if she really believes that, she should show it, by turning down the wedding and funeral business those churches provide.
SOB-Bone: Churches are exempt from property tax all over the place, not just in Stafford. But only the church is.
Here\’s an example. Let\’s say you\’ve got the Church of T-Bone, which owns a strip center. You occupy half the center as your church, and you rent out the other half to a dry cleaner. Only the church part is tax exempt. You still have to pay property taxes on the non-church portion.
Gregg - You know what? If Stafford doesn’t have a property tax and that attracts churches, that’s not greed in the church’s part, its probably just a bunch of small churches trying to stretch their dollars.
Churches that open up in strip centers tend to have small memberships and not all that much revenue from donations. This isn’t about “follow the money” as much as you think it is.
While we are mired down in civil war in Iraq, far more serious dangers conmtinue to grow.
“To maintain Pakistan’s support in its war on terror, the Bush administration has looked the other way while this dangerous nuclear development took place. That its man in Islamabad, Pervez Musharraf, was an assassin’s bullet away from handing Pakistan’s future to the very radicals the US is trying to eradicate does not seem to have mattered much in Washington.”
While I have no proof, I bet many of these “churches” are nothing but fronts to launder money from some other enterprise the owner is engaged in.There is no leg business to having that many churces in that small of an area. They found a way to game the system by moving into Stafford. Back in the days of mobs there was a pizza parlour or Italian restaurant on every corner in the north east. The real business occurred in the back rooms.
Very good read. We live in a world of numbers so chew on these numbers.
Myth Debunked
The myth of the redemptive Hispanic is finally cracking. I wonder if these are just plain ole everyday hispanics (Americans) or illegals (non Americans)?
Are you worried we’re going to run out of internet? If it was you paying for the server space I guess you might have a point. As it stands, why not let those who do pay for the space make that call?
Was that you on Hendee’s show this morning? Whichever Willie it was, he said the money we’re spending to fight the war on terror would be better spent on paying slavery reparations. I couldn’t agree more. I think that each and every former slave should be compensated directly by those who owned them. As for the rest of us Americans, we should consider taking a road to prosperity that does not continually rely on government handouts, and adopt a cultural identity other than “entitled helpless victim”.
no not that i am aware of. sales taxes are all due on taxable items not what the biz makes or does not make. size of the biz does not matter only taxable items matter.
Looks like some kind of shooting around the corner about the
2500 block of Leeland. Must have been around noon. Lots of cops, street blocked off, some taking pictures, little A frames with numbers on them out in the street, etc. No broadcast trucks or ambulances I’ve seen so I guess no bodies. Wonder if it will make the news or if this sort of thing is too routine.
No one bit on the Mel Gibson piece? C’mon.
I expected quite a rally around the man who made us sit through hours of gratuitous torture scenes.
Where are the people who defended Mr. Gibson when he was labeled anti-semitic by the ADL and the media prior to the release of “The Passion of the Christ”?
You know who you are!
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — A Brazilian man was arrested on charges of practicing medicine without a license after a woman died during a liposuction procedure performed in the basement of a home, authorities said Monday.
I wonder why he is just being charged with practicing medicine without a license. Shouldn’t he be arrested for murder? Well, I guess that
Massachusets for ya.
Neocon
First the autopsy to determine if her death was caused by the “surgeon”. She could have died on the table form a blocked aorta or who knows what.
Sorry, but I have a superior claim for reparations. I’m a Christian, and our Christian ancestors were Jews. Africans (Egyptians) enslaved Jews for 150 years approximately 1400 BC to 1250 BC. That means I have 150 years of reparations coming with 3,256 years of interest (compounded of annually course).
If we take a standard slave wage of $1 a year with interest at 1 percent per year, people of African decent owe each Christian and Jew $117,596,131,790,631. Allowing for a similar deduction for the 256 years from 1609 to 1865, this reduces the amount of our individual claims to $9,115,908,852,662.84.
As a native American, I want reparations as well.
Let’s see…how much would one charge for the theft of one’s land? The mineral rights alone would be worth trillions.
Ooops, sorry. I made an error. I forgot to add a $1 per year for each year of the period of enslavement. The sum due each of us is $752,294,373,577,953.
No defense of Gibson here. I will say, however, that I watched “The Passion” and nothing in that film lead me to believe that it was advancing any theories that Jews were “to blame” for Jesus’ crucifixion…
Willie, sorry, there are no native Americans. They are immigrants from Russia. So called native Americans took away the land from the naturally occuring flora and fauna without any consideration for the well being of the buffalo, mastadons, and sabre toothed tigers. The “native Americans” massacred the mastadons and sabre toothed tigers and destroyed their environment with their full auto spears. Therefore, you are fined all of your reparations.
#88)jimb:
I also believe that there was no anti-semitism in “The Passion”. However, if his reported statements turn out to be true (and they probably are given his apology) then he sure did fool a lot of his supporters (who have fallen strangely silent today).
Go figure.
#89)Big:
I can hear it now, “Bring me wodka, Sitting Bullinskov”.
I guess we took the land from them because they were commies in addition to godless heathens.
We did used to refer to them as “REDskins”. Your theory throws the use of that word in a different light.
They were probably “illegals” as well.
I have nothing to indicate that they were commies or illegals, since there was no controlling legal authority (liberal phraseology). However, we do know that they were eco terrorists!
# 25 SOB
In 15th/16th century Europe if Christian churches did not agree with you they
burned dissidents alive in the market square.
Talk about tolerance in the name of Jesus.
I also did not see anti-semitism in “The Passion”. If…if the reports of Gibson’s arrest are correct, I don’t see how he or anyone else can hide behind the “I was drunk I didn’t mean it defense”. It may have loosened his tongue but the feelings were already there. Alcohol didn’t create those, it just knocked down the wall holding them back.
There were gallons of ink spent on telling the story of how Gibson spent a lot of time running the script and the early cuts of the film past Jewish scholars. Ultimately the film got a pass from 98% of them. Was he raised by a Nazi sympathizer? Yes. When blind drunk, does some of that come out when confronted? Probably.
May the one who wants to be held accountable for his/her comments when drunk please step forward.
Have you ever made racist comments when you were drunk?
Have you ever said anything you regret when you were drunk?
Are you prepared to have everything you say when you are drunk to be held up as the “real you”?
I would love to look into the mental closets of some folks that are so quick to jump on someone when they fall. It would be real interesting to see their little hidden secrets.
Willie,
I can’t speak for anyone else, but my stance on the original claims that Gibson was anti-Semitic was that based on “The Passion”, I did not see any evidence that he was anti-semitic. So I don’t feel any need to defend his actions while drunk, though I think I will hold off on condemning him just yet.
I must admit I’m a little disappointed in Mel. There’s no excuse for the remarks if accurate. However, I’m not ready to throw him under the bus just yet. He has been a positive influence in Hollywood.
Every once in a while someone you admire disappoints you and you just have to deal with it. Hell, I’ve disappointed myself, from time to time.
Face it. On the tip of everyone’s tongue is a racial epitaph. You should see whats on my tongue. The booze just lowered his threshold of holding it in. Get over it. These things just sail right by me. Some people get all bent and that’s their problem. I have never been a Mel Gibson fan. Thought his movies sucked.
Although I liked the outfits in Mad Max. So he hates Jews. Big friggin deal. Bet his doctor, lawyer,manager and accountant are disappointed. Probably all Jews. Ha ha!
Its time we jump in and help Israel kill all those F’n sand farmers. We make that area the 51st state, make Mexico 52 and we are done. Whats wrong with a little land acquisition? Hell, that’s how we got America. We didn’t come here to teach the Injuns how to get drunk! Those Arabs have to be good for something. They make good signs,scream chants and seem to keep the robes nice and white. Print shops,cheerleading camps and dry cleaners.
No, I’m not condoning what Gibson did. It was pretty pathetic. I was and still am pretty impressed with the courage it took to make a film like “Passion”. This latest drunken episode, however, is shameful.
Alcohol is no excuse. I have said things I regret under the influence and yet I am still 100% the owner of those statements. Gibson owns his tirade whether he regrets making it or not. But that is a seperate issue from my support of “Passion”, which I do still support, BTW.
I need to take Smackie and Shakey out drinking. I have some things I need to say. I bet Mattzilla is speechless at this point in his life. He has used up all his epitaphs at the BHH.
Notably Mel Gibson has refused to say whether he agrees with his father’s views. “My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me,” Mel Gibson told Reader’s Digest in 2003. “The man never lied to me in his life.”
As Matt Damon said in Rounders, “I can go on bustin’ you up all night.”
The evidence is overwhelming, not just circumstantial.
Well, this has been a fun day. New Orleans crime to Mother Sheehan pretty in pink. Shakey is home, Matt is passed out, Hammy is..well doing something with shaving cream, Smackie is rubbing his wifes feet and all is well in the universe. I am going to bed but I need to leave you with this. Ahh, the golden age of film!
“They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war, and they claimed after the war there were 200,000 — therefore he must have killed 6 million of them,” he said. “They simply got up and left! They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles.”
He said concentration camps were merely “work camps.” Holocaust museums, he said, are “just a gimmick to collect money.”
For Jews, he said, “it’s all about control. They’re after one world religion and one world government. That’s why they’ve attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.” He added that “to a Jew a Christian commits idolatry every time he looks at a crucifix and says a prayer. You know they’re in control and they’re going to get in control the way things are going. Because they get all of our people.”
According to Mel, his father never lied to him in his life. His father taught him his faith. That’s not all his father taught him.
Maybe it was a typo but Ch 39 news at 9 reported Castro transferred control of Cuba to his brother due to some medical issue. Am I the only one to know about this? Could be nobody else cares, I suppose.
LGF and EU Referendum are having a lively discussion about whether the Qana deaths were set up by Hisballah, using corpses that were already dead. Very interesting stuff. I knew the bodies looked weird and it seemed that the same child was shown over and over. The “rescuers” as well as the bodies have no cement dust on them. Very interesting! The building is bombed at 1:00 a.m. and the rescuers show up at 8:00 a.m. just in time for the media. There is really something screwy going on here, IMO.
A follow up to my earlier post. According to Channel 2 an off duty cop working security stopped an attempted armed robbery. The perp was caught a few blocks down the road. If an HPD cop fired twice, according to the news, and missed, this has to be a record. For HPD. They never miss.
Shakey, I’m withholding my final opinion until there are solid facts. So far we don’t know all the facts. But, as I said before, I basically agree with you (can’t believe I just said that) when you say “A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.” I don’t buy the “I was drunk” defense when Teddy “Whaddya mean you can’t swim” Kennedy tries to use it and I won’t accept it if Gibson does. Alcohol doesn’t create those thoughts it just amplifies them. He can be forgiven, but it will take a lot of repentance on his part. We’ll see if he’s up to the challenge…if all this is true.
Still, there was nothing anti-semitic in “The Passion”.
But Bone-spanker, how can you not like “The Road Warrior”? Its a freakin’ classic!
WOW, first!
2nd
# 1 & 2
WOW! very original. What did you win?
What is first and second prize?
Probably the mouse pad being used in the above photo…One has “1st” on it, while the other has “2nd”….
well now that we print the ballots in god knows how many languages, we need to put all documents at every government level in the same languages that we allow voters to vote in.
national house and senate bills
state house and senate bills
county documnets
city documents
that way those voters that do not speak english can read these documents in their own language and know who to vote for right?
things get funnier everyday - who are these stupidoos that come up with this $*it!!
#5 Dow,
Funny thing, before they let me into the country I had to read and write ENGLIH.
#6 kraut
my grandmother came from germany at 14 and was a housekeeper and cook for a family. she had to learn english as well.
even idiots could come up with better legislation than these elected officials we have today!
the folks in lebanaon are trying to break into the UN and US embassies. but they take the aid that has been delivered - boy are we smart!
Dow - gets scarier and scarier…..I came very close yesterday to hollering out “Speak English!!” in a store. You hardly ever hear your native tounge anymore.
God Bless Nuns the last of the true believers.
I have been trying to get our Senior Management to make it the policy where I work that all employees must speak English except when dealing with a non-English customer. The main reason is that I work at a financial institution and I think it is a security risk to not know what your employees are saying. So far no one is willing to risk upsetting any employees.
I dislike Nuns due to the fact that I had one for a teacher in Kindergarten in Catholic School and she beat my nuckles with a ruler because I used my left hand and she insisted that the left was the hand of the devil. Therefore, I was forced to become ambidextrous and had to learn to write with my right hand while still preferring my left hand for other things and now I am an emotional wreck. This Nun reminds me of many unpleasantries from my school days (56 years ago).
At least I am not the only one ready to start screeming out - SPEAK ENGLISH OR GO BACK TO MEXICO!
I have boycotted walmart and written them a letter as to why. (spanish announcements, too many non-english speaking employees)
I will not go to Golden Coral for breakfast anymore - too many non-english speakers and thier brats destroying the place - Skeeters is 100% better food, service and attmosphere.
In fact there are a number of places I will no longer shop at or eat at because my lack of english metter is on FED UP.
It is time to VOTE OUT all those in office (local, state and federal) who refuse to fix this problem.
THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010 WHENEVER THEY COME UP FOR OFFICE.
SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU KNOW IN ANY OF THE STATES LISTED. THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEED TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION.
Grouped by Home State
Alabama:
Alaska: Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Arizona: McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea
California: Boxer (D-CA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado: Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Yea Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Delaware: Biden (D-DE), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea
Florida: Martinez (R-FL), Yea
Georgia:
Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:
Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Yea Obama (D-IL), Yea
Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Iowa: Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Kansas: Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Kentucky:
Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Maine:
Maryland: Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts: Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota:
Mississippi:
Missouri:
Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Nebraska: Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Nevada: Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
New York: Clinton (D-NY), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:
North Dakota: Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Ohio: DeWine (R-OH), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma:
Oregon: Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania: Specter (R-PA), Yea
Rhode Island: Chafee (R-RI), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina: Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Tennessee:
Texas:
Utah:
Vermont: Jeffords (I-VT), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Virginia:
Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia: Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting
Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Wyoming:
This is an e-mail I receieved today!
One of my sons serves in the military. He is still stateside, here in California. He called me yesterday to let me know how warm and welcoming people were to him, and his troops, everywhere he goes, telling me how people shake their hands, and thank them for being willing to serve, and fight, for not only our own freedoms but so that others may have them also.
But he also told me about an incident in the grocery store he stopped at yesterday, on his way home from the base. He said that ahead of several people in front of him stood a woman dressed in a burkha.
He said when she got to the cashier she loudly remarked about the U.S. flag lapel pin the cashier wore on her smock. The cashier reached up and touched the pin, and said proudly,” Yes, I always wear it and probably always will.”
The woman in the burkha then asked the cashier when she was going to stop bombing her countrymen, explaining that she was Iraqi. A gentleman standing behind my son stepped forward, putting his arm around my son’s shoulders, and nodding towards my son, said in a calm and gentle voice to
the Iraqi woman: “Lady, hundreds of thousands of men and women like this young man have fought and died so that YOU could stand here, in MY country and accuse a check-out cashier of bombing YOUR countrymen. It is my belief that had you been this outspoken in YOUR own country, we wouldn’t need to be there today. But, hey, if you have now learned how to speak out so loudly and clearly, I’ll gladly buy you a ticket and pay your way back to Iraq so you can straighten out the mess in YOUR country that you are obviously here in MY country to avoid.”
Everyone within hearing distance cheered!
#14 That’s a great story. I’ll chip in for the ticket.
#14 WOO HOO!! Excellent!!
That has to be an urban legend. First of all the cashier was an American? With a flag pin? She spoke English? The woman in the burka didnt blow herself up? I dont buy it. Has to be an urban legend.
Gregg,
Here’s the scoop on this email from Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/lapelpin.asp
It is unlikely to be true because Iraqis are secular and most women don’t wear burkas. If you were to encounter one, you should also encounter her husband or a member of her family.
This picture of a nun needs a “Top Ten” list of captions, too. So here goes:
1) Let’s see, is it http://www.god.org or .com??
2) What’s God’s e-mail address???
3) Yeah!! I got the devil with that one!!!
4) Gosh!! This list of sinners is long!!
5) Oh, my God!!! The devil has his own website.
6) This is one hell, I’m mean, one heck of a game.
7) Are you sure you can order “peace” on this website??
9) Gosh!! God could have really gotten the word out if He had a computer.
10) Can I reserve my place in heaven thru the internet???
I hope everyone enjoys these.
I have become my father. I now bear the title “The most skeptical SOB on the planet”
I’m so skeptical I don’t think you even exist gregg!
#13 Blonde,
I’m with you all the way, if they don’t speak english I will not buy, be it a waiter or a salesman, or whatever.
Anyone heard from Clamstroker this morning?
Speaking of good catholics…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206312,00.html
Maybe there was something to the anti-semitic charges lobbed at Mr. Gibson prior to the release of “The Passion”?
For those of you this weekend who blasted me on the religion as big business you need to read this. This aint your daddys church anymore. On Sunday The Kerry Shook ministries was on FOX and they had motorcycles jumping dirt ramps on stage in the church to signify teamwork and trust. JHTBSHHLYKW™.( Jesus had to be shaking his head like you know who.)
#25) I always picture Jesus looking at what is done in his name and saying, “You guys got it all wrong”.
Playing “devil’s advocate” here: So it’s the Church’s fault that Stafford can’t attract businesses and other tax-revenue generating entities?
Don’t get me wrong - there’s a line somewhere with the whole expensive showiness thing that many churches have crossed, but how can you equate what’s going on in Stafford with FOTW’s big, expensive, productions?
Robert
Here is another one:
“Bingo on the Internet! Who would have thought?”
Jimb,
According to the article the churches are opening up in Stafford because they have no property tax. 51? In addition to being income tax exempt that makes it very profitable to open a church in a strip center. Follow the money. I don’t doubt there is praying and soul saving going on. I just don’t like the business of saving souls the way its being done. I didn’t think you had to pay the concierge to get into heaven.
Yeah, that’s such nonsense.
Schools? What can that possibly mean?
I don’t see how more churches = more schoolchildren. And the City of Stafford isn’t responsible for schools anyway.
There are too many churches…what an awful thing to believe. But if she really believes that, she should show it, by turning down the wedding and funeral business those churches provide.
SOB-Bone: Churches are exempt from property tax all over the place, not just in Stafford. But only the church is.
Here\’s an example. Let\’s say you\’ve got the Church of T-Bone, which owns a strip center. You occupy half the center as your church, and you rent out the other half to a dry cleaner. Only the church part is tax exempt. You still have to pay property taxes on the non-church portion.
Here\’s the law.
Gregg - You know what? If Stafford doesn’t have a property tax and that attracts churches, that’s not greed in the church’s part, its probably just a bunch of small churches trying to stretch their dollars.
Churches that open up in strip centers tend to have small memberships and not all that much revenue from donations. This isn’t about “follow the money” as much as you think it is.
While we are mired down in civil war in Iraq, far more serious dangers conmtinue to grow.
“To maintain Pakistan’s support in its war on terror, the Bush administration has looked the other way while this dangerous nuclear development took place. That its man in Islamabad, Pervez Musharraf, was an assassin’s bullet away from handing Pakistan’s future to the very radicals the US is trying to eradicate does not seem to have mattered much in Washington.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4807f4ba-1ff0-11db-9913-0000779e2340.html
While I have no proof, I bet many of these “churches” are nothing but fronts to launder money from some other enterprise the owner is engaged in.There is no leg business to having that many churces in that small of an area. They found a way to game the system by moving into Stafford. Back in the days of mobs there was a pizza parlour or Italian restaurant on every corner in the north east. The real business occurred in the back rooms.
Looks like the US Government doesn’t think we need NORAD anymore.
Forgot to say Hat tip Laurence Simon
Would you guys stop doing the first, second and other stuff like that, it was cool for awhile but it is boring and a waste of space.
Very good read. We live in a world of numbers so chew on these numbers.
Myth Debunked
The myth of the redemptive Hispanic is finally cracking. I wonder if these are just plain ole everyday hispanics (Americans) or illegals (non Americans)?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzkxMDk1MTQ3Yzg2MzdjZDA0NmFkODhiOWI1NjhjNjE
Are you worried we’re going to run out of internet? If it was you paying for the server space I guess you might have a point. As it stands, why not let those who do pay for the space make that call?
41st!
42nd!
Might that be “shamous”?
Or “no shamous”?
You can call me Hamous, or you can call me Bushbot, or you can call me Bafoon, but you doesn’t have to call me Johnson.
#38 JRB
FIRST!
http://www.cartingwithyourdog.com/
Pretty funny … coming from someone who publicly questioned the manhood of a war Vet because he disagreed with you.
#s 41, 42, and 46,
You all are sooooo boring… except for that dog cart thing. That’s pretty cool.
I knew a Hamous Johnson.
#46 - You are a bizarre individual Smackie. Where/how in the heck did you come up with that?
But did you know THE Hamous Johnson?
This ?man? is just sick sick sick.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/7/31/95321.shtml?s=icp
#50 hamous
I googled “what would Squawk do” and that came up.
I’d like to see the dog that could pull the cart that Squawk was sitting in.
No, this is a waste of space:
http://www.rock-on-rock-on.com/gallery-rock-balancing.html
#47
You obviously missed the humor. Sorry fot that.
Leave the war vet thing alone. It is long past history. Hanging on to it only hurts you. LOL
Willie,
Was that you on Hendee’s show this morning? Whichever Willie it was, he said the money we’re spending to fight the war on terror would be better spent on paying slavery reparations. I couldn’t agree more. I think that each and every former slave should be compensated directly by those who owned them. As for the rest of us Americans, we should consider taking a road to prosperity that does not continually rely on government handouts, and adopt a cultural identity other than “entitled helpless victim”.
I have a sales tax question for anyone that can answer. Is there an exemption for companies (service) that make under a certain dollar amount?
#56 - DJ, I must have. I apologize.
Hamous
#54
Ok here ya go.
http://www.cleanfunny.com/pics/animal-dog-rocket.jpg
#58
no not that i am aware of. sales taxes are all due on taxable items not what the biz makes or does not make. size of the biz does not matter only taxable items matter.
I found the dog.
Looks like some kind of shooting around the corner about the
2500 block of Leeland. Must have been around noon. Lots of cops, street blocked off, some taking pictures, little A frames with numbers on them out in the street, etc. No broadcast trucks or ambulances I’ve seen so I guess no bodies. Wonder if it will make the news or if this sort of thing is too routine.
55…waste of super-glue I’d say.
#59
You posted 41st right after the waste of space post. No shame?? Apology accepted.
No hamous, here is the dog needed to carry Squawk!
http://www.breaktaker.com/albums/pictures/transportation/DogTrain.jpg
Now I get it. We cool.
#61
I was almost sure I read that years ago. I thought in a service biz it was near $5000 but I may have misunderstood.
Do real Africans who choose to move here get reparations too? Reparations will be like this.
Back. Thank God!
#57) No, that was definitely not me.
I oppose any and all reparations for slavery.
#70 Welcome back. I thought I felt a certain wobble in the force.
Headshaker
Welcome Back! Glad you and your family are safely home.
No one bit on the Mel Gibson piece? C’mon.
I expected quite a rally around the man who made us sit through hours of gratuitous torture scenes.
Where are the people who defended Mr. Gibson when he was labeled anti-semitic by the ADL and the media prior to the release of “The Passion of the Christ”?
You know who you are!
HS:
Welcome back to God’s Country, also known as Texas (or Tejas)!
Wilkommen back Der Shakey kopf……..
http://www.yodajeff.com/multimedia/sounds/episode5/consume.wav
Well, this really sucks!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206400,00.html
I wonder why he is just being charged with practicing medicine without a license. Shouldn’t he be arrested for murder? Well, I guess that
Massachusets for ya.
Beware, Shakester. They’re talking about Hamous’ johnson.
Thanks everyone.
Hamous has a johnson?
Neocon
First the autopsy to determine if her death was caused by the “surgeon”. She could have died on the table form a blocked aorta or who knows what.
headshaker is back?
/big stretch and a yawn
Hell with all the posting he did as clamdiddle whoduh noticed he was gone?
Sorry, but I have a superior claim for reparations. I’m a Christian, and our Christian ancestors were Jews. Africans (Egyptians) enslaved Jews for 150 years approximately 1400 BC to 1250 BC. That means I have 150 years of reparations coming with 3,256 years of interest (compounded of annually course).
If we take a standard slave wage of $1 a year with interest at 1 percent per year, people of African decent owe each Christian and Jew $117,596,131,790,631. Allowing for a similar deduction for the 256 years from 1609 to 1865, this reduces the amount of our individual claims to $9,115,908,852,662.84.
Please make your check payable to……..
Looks as if Mel is taking a page out of the Kennedy playbook:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/07/31/gibson.dui/index.html
Big45Iron
#83
Where does the line start? I could use some pocket change.
As a native American, I want reparations as well.
Let’s see…how much would one charge for the theft of one’s land? The mineral rights alone would be worth trillions.
Ooops, sorry. I made an error. I forgot to add a $1 per year for each year of the period of enslavement. The sum due each of us is $752,294,373,577,953.
No defense of Gibson here. I will say, however, that I watched “The Passion” and nothing in that film lead me to believe that it was advancing any theories that Jews were “to blame” for Jesus’ crucifixion…
Willie, sorry, there are no native Americans. They are immigrants from Russia. So called native Americans took away the land from the naturally occuring flora and fauna without any consideration for the well being of the buffalo, mastadons, and sabre toothed tigers. The “native Americans” massacred the mastadons and sabre toothed tigers and destroyed their environment with their full auto spears. Therefore, you are fined all of your reparations.
#88)jimb:
I also believe that there was no anti-semitism in “The Passion”. However, if his reported statements turn out to be true (and they probably are given his apology) then he sure did fool a lot of his supporters (who have fallen strangely silent today).
Go figure.
#89)Big:
I can hear it now, “Bring me wodka, Sitting Bullinskov”.
I guess we took the land from them because they were commies in addition to godless heathens.
We did used to refer to them as “REDskins”. Your theory throws the use of that word in a different light.
They were probably “illegals” as well.
I’m a native American. I was born here.
I have nothing to indicate that they were commies or illegals, since there was no controlling legal authority (liberal phraseology). However, we do know that they were eco terrorists!
Willie
#90
Never been falling down insane drunk have you?
I am not excusing his actions. However words are said that one does not mean once their tongue is loosened by booze.
Willie
Also I cannot help but notice that you made sure to post the story twice. (this past weekend and today). So waht is your agenda?
Mel is off the hook. Jews have bigger fish to fry and jobs. Now, if he said that about blacks,Mexicans,gays or transexuals he would be in deep sh**.
Gibson is anti-Semitic, just like his father. He can no longer distance himself from it.
prove it
Read the police report. That’s all the proof you need.
Funny thing about alcohol. It’s a lot like sodium pentathol, aka truth serum.
Headshaker
#99
That’s hogwash!
#100 neo
I’m very familiar with alcoholism. Let’s not get on that subject.
# 25 SOB
In 15th/16th century Europe if Christian churches did not agree with you they
burned dissidents alive in the market square.
Talk about tolerance in the name of Jesus.
100 Neo
Agreed. Buffalo biscuits.
There’s more than one skeptic cruising around here.
Headshaker
Proves nothing the man made statements under the influence which in a court of law is suspect as to truth or not.
That is bull cahcah too.
I also did not see anti-semitism in “The Passion”. If…if the reports of Gibson’s arrest are correct, I don’t see how he or anyone else can hide behind the “I was drunk I didn’t mean it defense”. It may have loosened his tongue but the feelings were already there. Alcohol didn’t create those, it just knocked down the wall holding them back.
There were gallons of ink spent on telling the story of how Gibson spent a lot of time running the script and the early cuts of the film past Jewish scholars. Ultimately the film got a pass from 98% of them. Was he raised by a Nazi sympathizer? Yes. When blind drunk, does some of that come out when confronted? Probably.
May the one who wants to be held accountable for his/her comments when drunk please step forward.
Have you ever made racist comments when you were drunk?
Have you ever said anything you regret when you were drunk?
Are you prepared to have everything you say when you are drunk to be held up as the “real you”?
Horse feces.
I would love to look into the mental closets of some folks that are so quick to jump on someone when they fall. It would be real interesting to see their little hidden secrets.
Talk about hypocritical.
Deletion/moderation acccepted. See you tomorrow.
shannon
Come back here! You are not allowed to self “Deletion/moderation acccepted”. Are you trying to put me out of job or what?
Willie,
I can’t speak for anyone else, but my stance on the original claims that Gibson was anti-Semitic was that based on “The Passion”, I did not see any evidence that he was anti-semitic. So I don’t feel any need to defend his actions while drunk, though I think I will hold off on condemning him just yet.
#107 Squawk
Are you sure you want to look in my mental closet?
It’s really dark in there.
I’m disappointed in Mel Gibson.
Smackie
My mind is a terrible place for even me to walk around in alone.
I am not dissapointed in Gibson. People do what people do. I hope the guy gets help.
I must admit I’m a little disappointed in Mel. There’s no excuse for the remarks if accurate. However, I’m not ready to throw him under the bus just yet. He has been a positive influence in Hollywood.
Every once in a while someone you admire disappoints you and you just have to deal with it. Hell, I’ve disappointed myself, from time to time.
Face it. On the tip of everyone’s tongue is a racial epitaph. You should see whats on my tongue. The booze just lowered his threshold of holding it in. Get over it. These things just sail right by me. Some people get all bent and that’s their problem. I have never been a Mel Gibson fan. Thought his movies sucked.
Although I liked the outfits in Mad Max. So he hates Jews. Big friggin deal. Bet his doctor, lawyer,manager and accountant are disappointed. Probably all Jews. Ha ha!
Its time we jump in and help Israel kill all those F’n sand farmers. We make that area the 51st state, make Mexico 52 and we are done. Whats wrong with a little land acquisition? Hell, that’s how we got America. We didn’t come here to teach the Injuns how to get drunk! Those Arabs have to be good for something. They make good signs,scream chants and seem to keep the robes nice and white. Print shops,cheerleading camps and dry cleaners.
You guys and your alter moniker’s! Sheesh!
No, I’m not condoning what Gibson did. It was pretty pathetic. I was and still am pretty impressed with the courage it took to make a film like “Passion”. This latest drunken episode, however, is shameful.
Alcohol is no excuse. I have said things I regret under the influence and yet I am still 100% the owner of those statements. Gibson owns his tirade whether he regrets making it or not. But that is a seperate issue from my support of “Passion”, which I do still support, BTW.
I need to take Smackie and Shakey out drinking. I have some things I need to say. I bet Mattzilla is speechless at this point in his life. He has used up all his epitaphs at the BHH.
Record that conversation and sell it to the highest bidder here. All I ask is 10%.
Hey Smacktle
The L_Astros didn’t lose today. They didn’t play. But they didn’t lose either.
Squawker, if they didnt lose then they must have won. They are winning. Get over it.
Sargevining
Corporal Smacktle
and now
PFC gregg
Sometimes guilt by association is proven valid.
As Matt Damon said in Rounders, “I can go on bustin’ you up all night.”
The evidence is overwhelming, not just circumstantial.
Well, this has been a fun day. New Orleans crime to Mother Sheehan pretty in pink. Shakey is home, Matt is passed out, Hammy is..well doing something with shaving cream, Smackie is rubbing his wifes feet and all is well in the universe. I am going to bed but I need to leave you with this. Ahh, the golden age of film!
According to Mel, his father never lied to him in his life. His father taught him his faith. That’s not all his father taught him.
Maybe it was a typo but Ch 39 news at 9 reported Castro transferred control of Cuba to his brother due to some medical issue. Am I the only one to know about this? Could be nobody else cares, I suppose.
LGF and EU Referendum are having a lively discussion about whether the Qana deaths were set up by Hisballah, using corpses that were already dead. Very interesting stuff. I knew the bodies looked weird and it seemed that the same child was shown over and over. The “rescuers” as well as the bodies have no cement dust on them. Very interesting! The building is bombed at 1:00 a.m. and the rescuers show up at 8:00 a.m. just in time for the media. There is really something screwy going on here, IMO.
Neo, “corpses that were already dead”. You absotutley slay me. Funny stuff!
BarSinister
#126
Here’s the link:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206483,00.html
TMSSOBOTP™
LOL! I meant bodies already dead. Good catch. What about the substance? Even the Isralis think Qana may not have been their fault.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/744426.html
Here’s more:
http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/188571.php
TMSSOBOTP™
I know this may well be over your head, but it is worth a look-see.
A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.
HS
#132
Whatever!
LOL I love the responses (or lack thereof) when confronted with solid facts.
Going to bed. Nite all.
134 converted to text = NWOR or my time.
Headshaker
If I were confronted with solid facts, I, and many here, would respond!
Nite!
Hey Smacktle
From CBS Sportsline
Plenty of talk, but Soriano still with Nationals
Muhwahahahaha
A follow up to my earlier post. According to Channel 2 an off duty cop working security stopped an attempted armed robbery. The perp was caught a few blocks down the road. If an HPD cop fired twice, according to the news, and missed, this has to be a record. For HPD. They never miss.
Shakey, I’m withholding my final opinion until there are solid facts. So far we don’t know all the facts. But, as I said before, I basically agree with you (can’t believe I just said that) when you say “A drunk man’s words are a sober man’s thoughts.” I don’t buy the “I was drunk” defense when Teddy “Whaddya mean you can’t swim” Kennedy tries to use it and I won’t accept it if Gibson does. Alcohol doesn’t create those thoughts it just amplifies them. He can be forgiven, but it will take a lot of repentance on his part. We’ll see if he’s up to the challenge…if all this is true.
Still, there was nothing anti-semitic in “The Passion”.
But Bone-spanker, how can you not like “The Road Warrior”? Its a freakin’ classic!
Not just yet. Gotta hit Taco Bell first.