Hey, I’m hearing that Bob Eckels is going to be at the HREC meeting Monday evening supposedly to get input from the precinct chairs on picking his replacement. The skeptic in me says it will really be for him to try to push Ed Emmett down our throats and so he can claim to have discussed it with the grassroots.
So, what does the pajama blog crack research squad have to say on Emmett? What skeletons is he trying to hide? Who has pictures of him with a sheep? Is he a Perrysite? Joined at the hip to TxDOT? What bad (or good) legislation did he push when he was a state rep?
I’ve never been to Trinidad, bigjolly. I try to check out the local beers everywhere I go. That’s been a slight problem here in Saudi Arabia, though… less than a week to go, and I’m coming home!
Seeing the quality of Aussie beer is on question here…I am forced to post this here!! I wrote it a while back…but I’ve been placed in a corner here…and I need to fight back…kicking and screaming!! Enjoy! It’s not often I’m so generous of spirit!
“Fair Dinkum, Mate!
I just blew in from the back of Bourke, out west of Bullamakanka, way out the back of beyond. And struth! Who should I run into first off, but the town bike! She was looking a bit agro with her couple of ankle biters she had with her. Seems like she didn’t have a brass razoo to rub together and the biters were screaming for some lollies. She told them to cop it sweet or bugger off! I think she’s a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock, to be honest with you. I told her to turn it up and get her arse into gear. The kids were only being kids. She settled in for a bit of a chinwag but I was feeling a bit crook and wasn’t up for an ear-bashing. I’ve been flat out like a lizard drinking lately and feeling like a bit of a fruit cake. Thought I was going to cark it there for a while. I came a gutsa in the back yard and I got a gympy leg out of it. I might settle for a hair of the dog and get a full as a boot, I think! I’m on Shank’s pony, so she’ll be right. The booze bus won’t have Buckley’s chance with me!
So, I told the Sheila I’d choof off as I wanted to be on my Pat Malone while I went for a Bo-peep at the drongo…he’s a few tinnies short of a slab, as well. She waffled on a bit and started to get up my nose and threw a bit of a wobbly. Anyhow mate, she’ll be apples, I blew through. She’s too much of a wombat for me!
Strike me lucky! I think I might go and catch a few yabbies later, better than watching aerial ping-pong. I went bush-bashing the other day. You should give it a burl sometime or other.
Well, see yewse all…I’m going to go put the billy on. The tide’s gone out. Thanks for listening to my yarn.”
Sunny,
VB-Victoria Bitter? Something else to look for in Spec’s. The Foster’s we get here is bottled in Canada so I don’t think it counts as ‘real’ Foster’s. Coopers Ale, though, comes straight from down under. Even better, Coopers markets a line of home brew products carried here at the DeFalcos store and I make my own.
Wow did everyone wake up with a little energy this morning? :)) Mornin all and I will be off checking out the crowds today at the rodeo. Have a great day.
The worst beer I remember from my yoot: Iron City. It was bad enough that my parents had renamed it with an “Sh” in place of the “C” in “City” (and added an extra “t” but I won’t split hairs).
Last night it was Sierra Nevada Porter for me. That beer is anything but **itty. It certainly ain’t no sissy beer either.
The Dude
Iron City is nasty fo sho. Thye absolute worst beer I have ever drank is rauchbier. When I lived in the land of “1500″ beers (Germany) I probably tried 600 or so in a four year period.
This one http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html ranked on the bootom of my faves frankly because it tasted rank. Rauchbier or smoke beer is a heavy dark beer and tastes like bbq smoke smells. I did not destroy to many brain cells drinking that stuff, although it did cause me to have a hangover that hit a 9 on the richter scale.
Ugh, smokebeer. I’ve read about that one before and it doesn’t even sound appealing. Another one I did try that didn’t go over too well with me was a cerano pepper beer. I can’t remember the name of it, but it came from some place in New Mexico. I like peppers and I like beer, but I don’t like peppers in beer.
When I was stationed in Iceland, we had no draft beer. Beer was illegal in Iceland since Prohibition times and they never legalized it until 1989 or so. You could get $50.00 for a case of Bud or Miller off base, we paid about $5.00. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
Anyway, on the Navy base all we could get was bottled beer. They had a great variety in the package store, and this is where I was exposed to many German beers that I still love today. Being from here, I was suprised that there was more than Miller and Budweiser (Shiner being the exception). Finally, the enlisted club got draft beer and it was Bitburger. MMMMMM…Bitburger. I was introduced to some Czech Budvar (Budweiser) once when a P-3 full of mental case German sailors came over and we all went partying. I’m lucky to be alive! They had brought over a ton of the Budvar which is the original Budweiser. It was pretty good. American beers are weak and watery ever since tasting what beer is supposed to be. One of these days I’ll try to home brew!
I’m grillin’ some ribeyes and filets….. better get started marinating!
I’m very surprised to find no comments on the debacle going on at Walter Reed hospital.
Where’s the outrage at the way our military personnel are being treated?? I thought that 99% of the people on this site supported our troops or was that just lip service
I’m mad as hell and want more of the command staff to be relieved of duty.
Sunny, when I moved to Houston in ‘72 I had a friend from Sidney. We were both single and cruised the bars together. There was never a problem drawing a crowd of girls. All he had to do was start talking and they would gather around to listen to him talk. Best pick up line I ever saw, just let him start laying it on thick. I learned real quick to not call hime a limey.
I’m very surprised to find no comments on the debacle going on at Walter Reed hospital.
Welcome to the real world of the blogosphere and “Open Comments”.
Each person has their interests and issues they are concerend about at different levels. You just expressed yours.
I do not see any reason to be outraged.
SOMETHING IS BEING DONE to correct this outrage and it began with the firing of this clown. Now that the problem has been identified and brought to our attention I will be more outraged if this crap continues.
is the reason why I haven’t posted much this week is entirely false.
The Compound is in rosenberg, not California.
Now, the question is this:
Being as how we’re in Texas and NOT california, would finding a million rounds of ammunition on somebody’s property be reason for sending them to a psych eval, or awarding him with a medal for doing a Public service?
Ummm—-no reason—just asking….
/whistles as he walks away with his hands in his pockets, kicking at the dirt………
They plan on phasing our Reed anyway and using Bethesda Naval hospital from what I’ve read. It does look like they are addressing the problem. If they weren’t it would be a prob. It shouldn’t have gotten that way in the first place, but typical gov’t efficeincy is in effect… regardless of party.
Anyone Dhimmicrats that want the gov’t to take over health care might consider this on a national level.
Speaking of politicians not doing enough for the troops, we have pics of troops in iraq preparing to dio thier job with the equipment that the Deomcrat surrender monkies will be sending to Iraq under thier “slow bleed” policy:
The son of some friends of mine was wounded by an IED yesterday in Iraq. Details are still sketchy but the info so far is he lost his legs, a kidney, and has some pretty bad burns. He has apparently been flown to Germany and may be in San Antonio in a couple of weeks. Two soldiers and an interpreter died in the attack. Please keep these brave men and their families in your prayers.
They plan on phasing our Reed anyway and using Bethesda Naval hospital from what I’ve read. It does look like they are addressing the problem. If they weren’t it would be a prob. It shouldn’t have gotten that way in the first place, but typical gov’t efficeincy is in effect… regardless of party.
It’s the ultimate result of relying on a a “Big Government Program,” which brings with it poor spending policy, Poltically Correct hiring and firing practices, mis management brought on by Congressional meddling and bureaucratic maliase, and neglect and lack of funding that reflects an attitude that people who don’t give a rat’s ass about soldiers during peacetime, and are then shocked that we’re not “ready” when a war happens.
And anybody who thinks that we need Universal Health Care run by the gummint needs to take a close look at how the VA is run and the stu-freaking-pendous health care results they get.
First, the article is full of “What ifs?” but gives no proof.
I could just as easily have said:
What if those guns and stuff were going to be used to take over the Bluebell Factory so they could destroy all the Rocky Road?
The second thing is, I’m not all that impressed with those pictures. They pretty much look like the average Gun Show Dealer’s tables at the Reliant Center.
So how many rounds of ammo DOES it take to be in need of a psych eval?
That guy in California had to get one b/c he had a million rounds.
So, is it a million rounds, 500K, 100K–what?
His was also a mix of shotgun and “assault rifle” ammo—does that matter?
Or was it just the tunnel? Does digging a tunnel and then putting a million stuffed bears in it qualify? What if you have thousands of stuffed bears, but they’re not in a tunnel?
I am not sure if this has been posted since I have been mia. Its a Grassfire petition to remove Johhny Sutton.
++FireSociety petition to remove Johnny Sutton
++Exclusive interview with 4th Sutton victim
Daniel,
As you may know, the breaking news this week on the Ramos and Compean case is that Johnny Sutton intentionally withheld the fact that the drug smuggler got caught smuggling a second load of marijuana worth about $1 million right before this case went to trial. Grassfire is joining members of Congress in calling for a mistrial and the
immediate release of Ramos and Compean.
We also believe it’s time for Sutton to be removed. A Grassfire team member just started a petition on FireSociety.com that calls for
Johnny Sutton’s removal. There are only a few thousand signers right now, but I’d like to see that petition grow to the tens of thousands.
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AUSTIN — A protest against toll roads highlighted a rally on the Capitol steps Friday, but the Texas Independence Day holiday put folks in the mood to raise hell about other grievances as well.
Many also complained about a national animal identification tag. Some grumbled about the state’s loss of control of its borders. A few warned about the coming “North American Union.” And some excoriated the United Nations for wanting “to take your gun,” exhorting anyone within earshot to “get us out of the U.N.”
Americans for Better Immigration gives him the following grades for his time in Congress: Overall grade: D; Reducing Chain Migration: F-; Reducing Visa Lottery: F-; Reducing Unnecessary Visas: F-; Reducing Asylum Fraud: F-; Reducing Enticements to Illegal Immigration: F-; and Interior Enforcement to Reduce Illegal Immigration: D+. Other than some support for border control, Gingrich has failed America, and conservatives especially, on immigration.
What if the actual truth was far more ominous than that, and involved a military style, direct assault operation inside of the United States? Could the seizure of those weapons have preempted a large scale attack on a jail inside the US designed to free a Mexican drug kingpin? Americans might be surprised that the rural area of upstate New York and Vermont served as the staging area for a similar “rescue” attempt of the nephew of Pablo Escobar, jailed in Canada during the 1980’s.
Which is nothing more than “What if?” and the pics showed several weapons leaning against a wall and a bunch of empty magazines. It gave no good info on the type of weapons, just a scary scenario—with little or no fact to base that scenario upon.
Big frikkin whoop, says I.
You then send another that says:
Although the origin of the shipment is unclear, it is vividly obvious that areas along the U.S.-Mexican border are as much war zones as transshipment points. Matamoros has long been recognized as a vital choke point for the shipment of drugs, weapons and illegal aliens, including Islamic terrorists, into the United States from Mexico. Based on the sophistication of the weapons seized earlier this month, it is apparent that a battle is shaping up just across the border from Brownsville – one that will undoubtedly have ominous implications for those protecting our southern border.
I don’t dispute that, and did not—I just commented on the article—it gave no fact, only a scary “What if?”
Much better information.
Statfor gives us the best inforamtion, because it is both more creidble, and it gives us a credible analysis combined with credilbe information to shore up that analysis with:
The semi, which was registered in the United States, entered Matamoros from the south after having passed through both Ciudad Victoria and Valle Hermoso. It is unclear where the shipment originated, though it could have come from Central America, or even the United States along a circuitous route designed to avoid police roadblocks and other anti-smuggling measures. Putting soldiers on the streets of Ciudad Victoria, even for a few hours, might have been President Felipe Calderon’s way of telling the cartels that authorities know what is going on there.
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One indication of this is the type of weapons and equipment seized. The identical assault vests, load-bearing equipment and other accessories, along with the standardized nature of the rifles — exclusively variants of the M-16 — indicate the shipment probably was meant to equip or reinforce a single heavily armed unit rather than an unorganized gang. Therefore, the Zetas — former Mexican elite soldiers who work for the Gulf cartel as enforcers — stand out as the mostly likely intended recipient of these weapons. Given their military background, the Zetas would want to have a high degree of standardization in the weapons and equipment they use, and they also would be more comfortable with M-16s, which are standard issue in the Mexican army.
Matamoros is a vital transshipment point, or “plaza,” for the movement of drugs and other contraband into the United States from Mexico. From border towns like Matamoros that sit astride highways, high-ranking cartel members known as gatekeepers control the traffic of contraband across the border, collect payments from smugglers and oversee money-laundering operations for the cartels.
OK—
So Mexican drug gangs are gearing up to shoot each other—–a lot—-
BFD
It’s nothing more than SOS with those guys and I say good frikkin riddance.
Elizabeth
Will pick up the hottub this next week. Can’t wait.
Ya know this dang world is just too small not to care about folks we know, even if we disagree at times. You, Sarge and everyone else that I “know” here are precious to me. Well maybe not Smacktle. LOL.
I learned a long time ago not to allow disagreements to burgeon into ill feelings for other folks.
Y’all have a good day.
Spent a lot of time watching the races here. I was at Nellis AFB for two years.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway sits adjacent to the runways of Nellis Air Force Base, home of the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force’s Flight Demonstration Team. The Thunderbirds typically do the fly-over for Sunday’s ceremonies at the speedway, but those fans who opt to spend the whole weekend at the track are apt to see a copy of every type of aircraft in the U.S. arsenal.
Latest news on Mark - He is still in Germany. A team of doctors from San Antonio specializing in burns is being dispatched to Germany to bring him back to San Antonio probably sometime this week. Most of his family live in Lafayette, LA and will be here to give him all the love he will need during his recovery. He’s a good, strong kid and will be fine. He just got married last fall to a wonderful girl that will be by his side.
Thanks for all the prayers and don’t forget to keep the families of the three men who lost their lives in your prayers as well.
They are in my heart and in my prayers. May God hold them in the palm of his hand. That sounds trite even as I type it, but it is heart-felt. God Bless all who serve, from whatever country.
Ed Emmett served in the state house in the 80’s I think from round rock
He was on the Interstate Commerce Commission and until May 2003 President of the NITL
Here is Ed Emmett in his own words discussing rail mergers:
Edward M. Emmett, president of the National Industrial Transportation League, was a key witness, and he laid down four guidelines that he said NITL wanted written into the Interstate Commerce Act during the ICC sunset debate:
“1) Require that railroads compete with one another and not just with other modes of transportation. 2) Change the rail merger review process to focus on the anti-competitive aspects of a merger, and to provide the Department of Justice a more direct role in the rail merger process. 3) Require that any agreements between railroads regarding trackage rights, overhead rights, and haulage agreements be made part of the public record. 4) Require the proposed merger of the UP and SP to be conducted under these new guidelines.”
Emmett reiterated the League’s position that reviews of rail mergers should be transferred to the Department of Justice and made subject to “antitrust laws and not the current rail merger provisions of the Staggers Act.”
Ed Emmett has a long and honorable history of effectively representing the League’s shipper interests in Washington, and no one who has read the testimony at last month’s hearing can doubt that some shippers have some legitimate concerns
My prayers are with the troop for a complete recovery. My prayers are with the families that lost loved ones also.
On a higher note “WOW” I won a t-shirt in Wino’s blog giveaway, which by the way is a great site for some wonderful reading. It was great when neocon called me during my rodeo get away yesterday to let me know. I want to thank everyone for the votes. Now I can wear my shirt over to my sister’s house so she can be jealous because I have a cool shirt and she doesn’t. :)) Pig races here I come maybe Wino will want to celebrate a belated birthday. ;))
Everyone have a wonderful, safe and blessed day.
Posted this at an endless handwringing Conservative blog who is spending way too much time worrying about Ann
Bryan, Michelle
Politics has entered the serious stage, gone are the lightweight candidates like in Maryland and Virginia, gone are the gentle people who are going to debate “civilized” opposition who has supporters rioting in the streets and the net
Clue:
the opposition makes Huey Long look like a choirboy and they have delusions of grandeur.
Ann was just toughening up the room.
2008 nasty down and dirty - bring it on baby.
question are you on board? or we can continue this discussion in line getting our nationalized healthcare or filling up our “Greenmobiles” at the national oil company.
Big hint - you and Michelle are the first to go - you’ll be legislated right off the webpage if they have the golden three in 08.
The USA levies a $0.54 per gallon tariff on imported ethanol. Outfits such as Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill make sure they protect their wallets as well as those of farmers. I think it should be abolished and, guys, you will too after you see this protest video !
Ann Coulter could become the best fund raiser that the DNC can call upon, much like Hillary Clinton was once the best fund raiser that the RNC had for years. Just what the Republicans need at this time…Someone to rally the troops on the other side.
See how quick all three of the Republican front runners ran to her defense. Even Newt is remaining silent, but then again he has a gay sister and gasp! VP Cheney has a gay daughter. Her comments are what they are….tasteless and crude.
Tossing insults detracts from the serious philosophical differences and only appeals to the lowest common denominator.
Yes, many from the left do the same and worse, but getting in the mud to wrestle with a pig is a pointless exercise. You get really dirty before you realize the pig enjoys wallering in the mud. All you have to show for your efforts are dirty clothes and the need to take a shower.
Ann Coulter is a writer who has a conservative bent. As far as I know she has nothing to do with the Republican party. Thats like saying the late Molly Ivans was good for raising money for Republicans because she called us names and wrote nasty articles about Republicans etc.
I havent head anyone on the Dem side dispute the faggot claim. Just saying it shouldnt have been said.
#86 TexPat happy Sundee bubba - while I am in agreement on Ethanol - from this desk the jury’s still out on ethanol’s possible damaging qualities to many composite and rubber parts when used at the percentages widely proposed - and currently in use in some areas.
Maybe if we can’t get our resident DC thieves to rescind said tax - perhumps we can force them to use the proceeds only to accelerate development of the Alberta oil sands which could definitely put us in the position to tell the Saudi’s to DRINK their dang crude…….
Smell the coffee, John Edwards did not deny the charge.
Neither did anyone else
The Jersey girls comment was the same thing the most horrible act of mankind
They are now gone, totally discredited as the phonies that they were
Quit wringing your hands - its a fight -not a tea cup society john Edwards did despicable things in his legal career and said and did and organized some of the most vile assortment of human refuse to garner a stage - their fundraisers were replent with whacked out celebs encouraged to say the most vile things with nary a whisper
Faggot is a mild term, and to this point a poinant one.
#56 Squawk!
Thanks for more information, just wonder how many of those trailers are sitting in plain sight around the country? It’s been thought of before, and possible, keep your eyes open and know what’s going on around you!
Not to disparage Sarge here but what he missed is that it is not beyond the real possibility that those guys were preparing to come to Houston and try to spring that drug lord that is in jail there.
Sarge mentioned what ifs. Well what if there are more vehicles and weapons being prepared to be brought into this country for who knows what?
The story has further convinced me that it is no longer a question of if but when attacks that we see in Israel begin here in the states. There is no way possible to search every tractor trailer rig that cross the border. In California alone there are 7000 rigs that cross daily and that number is about to triple overnight. Less than 1 percent are searched at the border and less than 5 percent are searched by rolling weigh stations.
How do I know all this? I was a trucker for years.
Not to disparage Sarge here but what he missed is that it is not beyond the real possibility that those guys were preparing to come to Houston and try to spring that drug lord that is in jail there.
I used Occam’s Razor, Squawk. The simplest and most logical explanation is usually the one that fits. A fight between Mexican Drug Lords is the most logical explanation.
Besides, there’s no need tosmuggle weapons, ammo, and gear into this country. Everything in that story but the weapons can be bought over the internet and delivered right to your door.
And the weapons, if limited to semi-auto, can be bought by any citizen.
Ask me how I know.
That’s why the fight between drug lords is the most logical explanation.
The Constitution of 1917 (Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos de 1917), the current constitution in force and heavily-amended, grants Mexican citizens (and, theoretically, perhaps, all inhabitants) the right to possess firearms. However, this right does not include military firearms suitable for use in a militia, unlike in the United States where the Second Amendment is often interpreted as only protecting arms suitable for use in militias.
In Mexico, thus, the likelyhood that weapons like these being smuggled INTO Mexico FROM the USA is much, much greater than it would be the other way around, simply becuase they are legal here, and not legal there.
Logic—it keeps me from having the bejabbers scared out of me.
Don’t worry be happy. the milblogs did not pick up on the story so we are all safe. George Bush is our hero and he would never let anything bad like drug gangs cross the border to set their leader free. And don’t worry terrorist would never think about using the holes in the border to bring weapons across to cause trouble here. The Mudville gazzette says so. Georgie has the border locked down. I mean lookie he created detention centers. That means there is no catch and release. Hail to the Chief rah rah rah. We all know that Bushco would rather prosecute Border Agents and Sherriffs deputies for doing their job while providing plenty of benefits to those that would testify against them.
#104 Yes I could - I had to get another cup of coffee before it dawned on me that what was left off, on the left, was continued on the right. It looks pretty sharp!
Don’t worry be happy. the milblogs did not pick up on the story so we are all safe. George Bush is our hero and he would never let anything bad like drug gangs cross the border to set their leader free. And don’t worry terrorist would never think about using the holes in the border to bring weapons across to cause trouble here. The Mudville gazzette says so. Georgie has the border locked down. I mean lookie he created detention centers. That means there is no catch and release. Hail to the Chief rah rah rah. We all know that Bushco would rather prosecute Border Agents and Sherriffs deputies for doing their job while providing plenty of benefits to those that would testify against them.
it’s already here in huge quantities and perfectly legal to buy and own.
If I wanted to smuggle in a bomb, I’d put it on a ship and then land it on a deserted beach on a rubber boat—or if it was a nuke, I’d just steam the damting into any port and set it off.
But like I said–
You scary story about a truckload of guns in Matomoros being there so they could spring a drug lord in Houston is the least likely scenario given the information available.
Don’t worry be happy. the milblogs did not pick up on the story so we are all safe. George Bush is our hero and he would never let anything bad like drug gangs cross the border to set their leader free. And don’t worry terrorist would never think about using the holes in the border to bring weapons across to cause trouble here. The Mudville gazzette says so. Georgie has the border locked down. I mean lookie he created detention centers. That means there is no catch and release. Hail to the Chief rah rah rah. We all know that Bushco would rather prosecute Border Agents and Sherriffs deputies for doing their job while providing plenty of benefits to those that would testify against them.
There isn;t a post that I could think of that would more mischaracterize my position than this one, BTW.
Debate and discussion should include logic and fact, not insult and mischaracterization.
What has the world come to, the modeling industry has made the Michelin man sick. Maybe it is the Hilton,Richey,and all the other pop culture girls sending him to rehab.
“And I would just tell my fellow Republicans who are concerned about border enforcement, you can’t enforce the border.”—-Spoken by The Insane Dr FrankenBush, the phony presidente who puts Mexico First.
Compare that to this.
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
—Teddy Roosevelt
Damn straight better be fire the grill tomorrow.
BTW, FIRST! Ha.
Well, well…look who’s first!
Ha, hello, down under! Just got back from Anderson Fair, you ever make there? I mean, when you were here, of course.
Third. Ha!
I’m gonna fire up the grill this weekend, too. Bought a gas grill for ZillaHQ a year ago and I still haven’t swapped out the dummy gas cylinder yet.
/shame
Aw hell.
Fourth. And fifth. Ha!
You’re fired, Bigjolly.
Ha, been there, done that! And still, the Bigjolly is Numero Uno!
Yeah baby!
Hey, I’m hearing that Bob Eckels is going to be at the HREC meeting Monday evening supposedly to get input from the precinct chairs on picking his replacement. The skeptic in me says it will really be for him to try to push Ed Emmett down our throats and so he can claim to have discussed it with the grassroots.
So, what does the pajama blog crack research squad have to say on Emmett? What skeletons is he trying to hide? Who has pictures of him with a sheep? Is he a Perrysite? Joined at the hip to TxDOT? What bad (or good) legislation did he push when he was a state rep?
Thanks to all in advance!
EDITORIAL FIAT TO BIGJOLLY: Fetch me a beer, NewGuy.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
Um, would that be a Foster’s or a Heineken keg can?
EDITORIAL FIAT CONTINUED: I don’t drink sissy-mary Eurotrash beer or savage Aussie piss! St. Arnold’s Spring Bock, dammit!
So hard to find good help these days…
You’ve obviously never had a Crown Lager. Now, VB is made from kangaroo piss.
Wino, you remember the name of that local beer in Trinidad? That was good stuff. A bit light but good.
I’ve never been to Trinidad, bigjolly. I try to check out the local beers everywhere I go. That’s been a slight problem here in Saudi Arabia, though… less than a week to go, and I’m coming home!
#11…How dare you, Wino!!!! VB is made by the same people who make Crown Lager! And you know how good Crown Lager tastes!
#10…Matt…there is nothing savage about our Aussie piss! It’s the best piss in the world!
I’m hurt to the core that you would think that way, Matt…let alone express those feelings in the written word!
You Americans are the sissys! You don’t know a good beer when you try one! You have ’sissy’ beer up there!!!!!!!!!!
And one last word on the subject (or words)…us Aussies are the best pisses in the world…we take the piss out of everyone! Hehehehe!
VB stands for “Very Bad,” Sunny. What they do is feed the Crown Lager to the kangaroos, then collect the kangaroo piss and put it in the VB bottles.
Chug-a-lug, everyone…have a great, celebratory weekend!
#16…well, crikey, mate…it comes out pretty bloody good at the other end!
Not a bad filter!
Seeing the quality of Aussie beer is on question here…I am forced to post this here!! I wrote it a while back…but I’ve been placed in a corner here…and I need to fight back…kicking and screaming!! Enjoy! It’s not often I’m so generous of spirit!
“Fair Dinkum, Mate!
I just blew in from the back of Bourke, out west of Bullamakanka, way out the back of beyond. And struth! Who should I run into first off, but the town bike! She was looking a bit agro with her couple of ankle biters she had with her. Seems like she didn’t have a brass razoo to rub together and the biters were screaming for some lollies. She told them to cop it sweet or bugger off! I think she’s a few kangaroos loose in the top paddock, to be honest with you. I told her to turn it up and get her arse into gear. The kids were only being kids. She settled in for a bit of a chinwag but I was feeling a bit crook and wasn’t up for an ear-bashing. I’ve been flat out like a lizard drinking lately and feeling like a bit of a fruit cake. Thought I was going to cark it there for a while. I came a gutsa in the back yard and I got a gympy leg out of it. I might settle for a hair of the dog and get a full as a boot, I think! I’m on Shank’s pony, so she’ll be right. The booze bus won’t have Buckley’s chance with me!
So, I told the Sheila I’d choof off as I wanted to be on my Pat Malone while I went for a Bo-peep at the drongo…he’s a few tinnies short of a slab, as well. She waffled on a bit and started to get up my nose and threw a bit of a wobbly. Anyhow mate, she’ll be apples, I blew through. She’s too much of a wombat for me!
Strike me lucky! I think I might go and catch a few yabbies later, better than watching aerial ping-pong. I went bush-bashing the other day. You should give it a burl sometime or other.
Well, see yewse all…I’m going to go put the billy on. The tide’s gone out. Thanks for listening to my yarn.”
Sunny,
VB-Victoria Bitter? Something else to look for in Spec’s. The Foster’s we get here is bottled in Canada so I don’t think it counts as ‘real’ Foster’s. Coopers Ale, though, comes straight from down under. Even better, Coopers markets a line of home brew products carried here at the DeFalcos store and I make my own.
Good for you, Gto…keep buying Coopers and making your own! Sounds like a pretty good deal to me.
I don’t think the Canucks can bottle as good as we Aussies can!
VB beer.
http://www.fosters.com.au/enjoy/beer/victoria_bitter.htm
Click on the radio commercials, the leaf blower one is good.
Wow did everyone wake up with a little energy this morning? :)) Mornin all and I will be off checking out the crowds today at the rodeo. Have a great day.
The worst beer I remember from my yoot: Iron City. It was bad enough that my parents had renamed it with an “Sh” in place of the “C” in “City” (and added an extra “t” but I won’t split hairs).
Last night it was Sierra Nevada Porter for me. That beer is anything but **itty. It certainly ain’t no sissy beer either.
Well Lookie Here! Should we be expecting Katfish?
American Pig Race
Presents
Hawg Night
Friday, March 16, 2007
6:00pm-8:00pm
1918 Baker Rd.
Bring your biker club to support Craig Baker as
He “TAKES A STAND” for property rights in America
Special parking for bikers
Pig Racing Face Painting
Armadillo racing Pictures on Longhorn steer
Sausage on a stick DJ
Concessions Door Prizes
B.Y.O.B. Hayride
Have a great day to all! Off to work I go….
Bigjolly and Wino,
The beer’s name is Caribe. Pass the roti and chick peas.
Sunny is on a roll today! Now if we could just get a translation of her #18!
The Dude
Iron City is nasty fo sho. Thye absolute worst beer I have ever drank is rauchbier. When I lived in the land of “1500″ beers (Germany) I probably tried 600 or so in a four year period.
This one http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html ranked on the bootom of my faves frankly because it tasted rank. Rauchbier or smoke beer is a heavy dark beer and tastes like bbq smoke smells. I did not destroy to many brain cells drinking that stuff, although it did cause me to have a hangover that hit a 9 on the richter scale.
Ugh, smokebeer. I’ve read about that one before and it doesn’t even sound appealing. Another one I did try that didn’t go over too well with me was a cerano pepper beer. I can’t remember the name of it, but it came from some place in New Mexico. I like peppers and I like beer, but I don’t like peppers in beer.
Try Abita Beer from Abita springs
Its true horses can get diabetes
When I was stationed in Iceland, we had no draft beer. Beer was illegal in Iceland since Prohibition times and they never legalized it until 1989 or so. You could get $50.00 for a case of Bud or Miller off base, we paid about $5.00.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition
Anyway, on the Navy base all we could get was bottled beer. They had a great variety in the package store, and this is where I was exposed to many German beers that I still love today. Being from here, I was suprised that there was more than Miller and Budweiser (Shiner being the exception). Finally, the enlisted club got draft beer and it was Bitburger. MMMMMM…Bitburger. I was introduced to some Czech Budvar (Budweiser) once when a P-3 full of mental case German sailors came over and we all went partying. I’m lucky to be alive! They had brought over a ton of the Budvar which is the original Budweiser. It was pretty good. American beers are weak and watery ever since tasting what beer is supposed to be. One of these days I’ll try to home brew!
I’m grillin’ some ribeyes and filets….. better get started marinating!
Do we have anymore government sponsored anarchy today?
Anarchy baby!
Gonna grill up those fajitas and get ready for the North Amerikan Union.
Yeah man.
Embrace it…It wont be so painful and you can tell you grandchildren how little you fought. Now where talkin.
I wanna be the first person to say…I am a North Amerikan Citizen. I like the sound of that.
DogfishHead rocks.
I’m very surprised to find no comments on the debacle going on at Walter Reed hospital.
Where’s the outrage at the way our military personnel are being treated?? I thought that 99% of the people on this site supported our troops or was that just lip service
I’m mad as hell and want more of the command staff to be relieved of duty.
Sunny, when I moved to Houston in ‘72 I had a friend from Sidney. We were both single and cruised the bars together. There was never a problem drawing a crowd of girls. All he had to do was start talking and they would gather around to listen to him talk. Best pick up line I ever saw, just let him start laying it on thick. I learned real quick to not call hime a limey.
If you ever get to Belgium, try Grimbergen Tripel. That’s good beer.
Trivia: There are more breweries in Belgium than in Germany.
Welcome to the real world of the blogosphere and “Open Comments”.
Each person has their interests and issues they are concerend about at different levels. You just expressed yours.
I do not see any reason to be outraged.
SOMETHING IS BEING DONE to correct this outrage and it began with the firing of this clown. Now that the problem has been identified and brought to our attention I will be more outraged if this crap continues.
Any rumors that this:
http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/ammo-weapons-tunnel-found-in-home/20070302184109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
is the reason why I haven’t posted much this week is entirely false.
The Compound is in rosenberg, not California.
Now, the question is this:
Being as how we’re in Texas and NOT california, would finding a million rounds of ammunition on somebody’s property be reason for sending them to a psych eval, or awarding him with a medal for doing a Public service?
Ummm—-no reason—just asking….
/whistles as he walks away with his hands in his pockets, kicking at the dirt………
They plan on phasing our Reed anyway and using Bethesda Naval hospital from what I’ve read. It does look like they are addressing the problem. If they weren’t it would be a prob. It shouldn’t have gotten that way in the first place, but typical gov’t efficeincy is in effect… regardless of party.
Anyone Dhimmicrats that want the gov’t to take over health care might consider this on a national level.
Speaking of politicians not doing enough for the troops, we have pics of troops in iraq preparing to dio thier job with the equipment that the Deomcrat surrender monkies will be sending to Iraq under thier “slow bleed” policy:
http://www.naturalfamilyblog.com/archives/000699.html
The son of some friends of mine was wounded by an IED yesterday in Iraq. Details are still sketchy but the info so far is he lost his legs, a kidney, and has some pretty bad burns. He has apparently been flown to Germany and may be in San Antonio in a couple of weeks. Two soldiers and an interpreter died in the attack. Please keep these brave men and their families in your prayers.
Hey Sarge
You really gotta be a little more safe with fire around that much ammo. Sheesh I thought we taught you better.
Sarge
Did you happen to see this story?
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/Matamoros030207
Scarey stuff here.
It’s the ultimate result of relying on a a “Big Government Program,” which brings with it poor spending policy, Poltically Correct hiring and firing practices, mis management brought on by Congressional meddling and bureaucratic maliase, and neglect and lack of funding that reflects an attitude that people who don’t give a rat’s ass about soldiers during peacetime, and are then shocked that we’re not “ready” when a war happens.
And anybody who thinks that we need Universal Health Care run by the gummint needs to take a close look at how the VA is run and the stu-freaking-pendous health care results they get.
I duuno Squawk;
First, the article is full of “What ifs?” but gives no proof.
I could just as easily have said:
What if those guns and stuff were going to be used to take over the Bluebell Factory so they could destroy all the Rocky Road?
The second thing is, I’m not all that impressed with those pictures. They pretty much look like the average Gun Show Dealer’s tables at the Reliant Center.
For your weekend viewing pleasure:
Oreilly bashes the Houston Chronicle and NY Times on his 3/2/07 show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3kv19oP9s
Oreilly again exposes the Houston Chronicle on his 2/8/07 show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZeYsN8Tp8M
So how many rounds of ammo DOES it take to be in need of a psych eval?
That guy in California had to get one b/c he had a million rounds.
So, is it a million rounds, 500K, 100K–what?
His was also a mix of shotgun and “assault rifle” ammo—does that matter?
Or was it just the tunnel? Does digging a tunnel and then putting a million stuffed bears in it qualify? What if you have thousands of stuffed bears, but they’re not in a tunnel?
Does this explain Headshaker?
#39…Hamous….how terribly sad and tragic for that brave young man. I’m so sorry.
#33…JRB…I bet you learned very, very quickly not to call him a ‘limey’…you would have only done it once!
I guess emmekelley went out before discovering she’d won Wino’s give-away!
#3…BigJolly…I’ve never been there…I’ve been here, though…but not there.
I am not sure if this has been posted since I have been mia. Its a Grassfire petition to remove Johhny Sutton.
++FireSociety petition to remove Johnny Sutton
++Exclusive interview with 4th Sutton victim
Daniel,
As you may know, the breaking news this week on the Ramos and Compean case is that Johnny Sutton intentionally withheld the fact that the drug smuggler got caught smuggling a second load of marijuana worth about $1 million right before this case went to trial. Grassfire is joining members of Congress in calling for a mistrial and the
immediate release of Ramos and Compean.
We also believe it’s time for Sutton to be removed. A Grassfire team member just started a petition on FireSociety.com that calls for
Johnny Sutton’s removal. There are only a few thousand signers right now, but I’d like to see that petition grow to the tens of thousands.
+ + Action Item: Sign petition to Remove Sutton!
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Sarge
Sounds like the man is getting prepared.
Now the gov and media can make him out to be a gun toting nut.
Bravo…great story.
Hamous
I will put your friends son in my prayers. Sorry to hear that.
Man it looks like Anarchy is catching on. Go freedom fighters!
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA030307.07A.Anti-toll_rally.365def9.html
Austin protest targets toll road ‘tyranny’
Web Posted: 03/02/2007 11:44 PM CST
Gary Scharrer
Austin Bureau
AUSTIN — A protest against toll roads highlighted a rally on the Capitol steps Friday, but the Texas Independence Day holiday put folks in the mood to raise hell about other grievances as well.
Many also complained about a national animal identification tag. Some grumbled about the state’s loss of control of its borders. A few warned about the coming “North American Union.” And some excoriated the United Nations for wanting “to take your gun,” exhorting anyone within earshot to “get us out of the U.N.”
Boy oh boy…looky what the kittycat drug in.
http://conservativetimes.org/?p=154
Americans for Better Immigration gives him the following grades for his time in Congress: Overall grade: D; Reducing Chain Migration: F-; Reducing Visa Lottery: F-; Reducing Unnecessary Visas: F-; Reducing Asylum Fraud: F-; Reducing Enticements to Illegal Immigration: F-; and Interior Enforcement to Reduce Illegal Immigration: D+. Other than some support for border control, Gingrich has failed America, and conservatives especially, on immigration.
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Regurgitated Butt Cheese!
sargevining
Yeah right. A gun show stash huh? Here is the original story.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/TamaulipasWeapons
You know what Sarge I was not going to be a smarta** with you today. BUT
Sorry my stories did not originate from your half arsed milblogs.
Sarge
And here is the same stroy from a more reputable “source”
http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=284451&selected=Analyses
Squawk:
Your first article said this:
Which is nothing more than “What if?” and the pics showed several weapons leaning against a wall and a bunch of empty magazines. It gave no good info on the type of weapons, just a scary scenario—with little or no fact to base that scenario upon.
Big frikkin whoop, says I.
You then send another that says:
I don’t dispute that, and did not—I just commented on the article—it gave no fact, only a scary “What if?”
Much better information.
Statfor gives us the best inforamtion, because it is both more creidble, and it gives us a credible analysis combined with credilbe information to shore up that analysis with:
OK—
So Mexican drug gangs are gearing up to shoot each other—–a lot—-
BFD
It’s nothing more than SOS with those guys and I say good frikkin riddance.
#39 Hamous, Lifting your friends’ son and his family up in prayer. Please keep us updated.
From yesterday; Squawk, Hope you got the hottub. Beautiful weekend to get pleasantly pruney. Also, thanks for the kind words.
Elizabeth
Will pick up the hottub this next week. Can’t wait.
Ya know this dang world is just too small not to care about folks we know, even if we disagree at times. You, Sarge and everyone else that I “know” here are precious to me. Well maybe not Smacktle. LOL.
I learned a long time ago not to allow disagreements to burgeon into ill feelings for other folks.
Y’all have a good day.
Hamous, your friends son and their entire family are in my prayers.
62
Ditto for us
Me too, Hammie! Keep us posted!
Same here, Hamous. The ol’ Rosary will get another workout.
Hammie
#39
We got em in our prayers here.
Ramstein or Weisbaden both places in Germany have outstanding hospitals. I know that is not much comfort but he is in great hands there.
Spent a lot of time watching the races here. I was at Nellis AFB for two years.
Las Vegas Motor Speedway sits adjacent to the runways of Nellis Air Force Base, home of the Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force’s Flight Demonstration Team. The Thunderbirds typically do the fly-over for Sunday’s ceremonies at the speedway, but those fans who opt to spend the whole weekend at the track are apt to see a copy of every type of aircraft in the U.S. arsenal.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/03/nascar_aint_pc.html
The track hosted many events durring the year, and I was at most of them.
“A 32-year-old man trying to cross main lanes of the Gulf Freeway on foot early today died after he was struck by several vehicles.”
This HAS to be a record year for Frogger victims. Had he been more patient he’d have been around to experience this glorious day.
Southerntragedy…if you’re around…regarding the crock-pot recipes…they were back on 2nd November 2006.
Sorry…guys…not trying to turn LST into a cooking show!
Crock Pots ROCK!
HAL, Let’er pass. /Pun intended
Algoreaphobia (a poem)
Marsha Megehee
It’s said, I have Algoreaphobia.
I’m causing the Earth to get hot!
From the Gulf Coast to Zenobia, I
‘m giving it all that I’ve got!
First I’ll put corks in my cattle,
Think that would be a good start,
Should clear the air in Seattle,
Stop holes in the Ozone from fart!
Then I’d pay Algore a visit
Ask him what Al Gore would do?
Fill the sky with mirrors?
Plug elephants and Rhinos too?
Cool the hot air in Washington?
Where nothing ever gets done.
Or get a federal grant for the light bill
Of Tennessee’s favorite son?
Matt, just testing comments after the upgrade.
I know I know ‘lighten up Katfish it’s Saturday’
But I feel yall need to know what’s coming up……
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27162
Thanks Sunny! Muah!
Have a great evening to all!
Bsue, We expect photo’s of Squawk, in his speedo, in the hot tub…don’t let us down!
First of all Squawk has got to be wearing a speedo to get a picture of Squawk in a speedo. Bwahahahahaha
Your modest Moderator
Awww…come on, Squawk!
sunny
I make my living behind the camera and there is a very good reason for why that is not reversed.
Latest news on Mark - He is still in Germany. A team of doctors from San Antonio specializing in burns is being dispatched to Germany to bring him back to San Antonio probably sometime this week. Most of his family live in Lafayette, LA and will be here to give him all the love he will need during his recovery. He’s a good, strong kid and will be fine. He just got married last fall to a wonderful girl that will be by his side.
Thanks for all the prayers and don’t forget to keep the families of the three men who lost their lives in your prayers as well.
#76 Hamous
Consider it done - and continuing.
No takers on #7? Any input you all have on Ed Emmett would be appreciated.
#76 hamous
Let me know if there is anything the family needs.
Hamous
#39
They are in my heart and in my prayers. May God hold them in the palm of his hand. That sounds trite even as I type it, but it is heart-felt. God Bless all who serve, from whatever country.
#78
Ed Emmett served in the state house in the 80’s I think from round rock
He was on the Interstate Commerce Commission and until May 2003 President of the NITL
Here is Ed Emmett in his own words discussing rail mergers:
Edward M. Emmett, president of the National Industrial Transportation League, was a key witness, and he laid down four guidelines that he said NITL wanted written into the Interstate Commerce Act during the ICC sunset debate:
“1) Require that railroads compete with one another and not just with other modes of transportation. 2) Change the rail merger review process to focus on the anti-competitive aspects of a merger, and to provide the Department of Justice a more direct role in the rail merger process. 3) Require that any agreements between railroads regarding trackage rights, overhead rights, and haulage agreements be made part of the public record. 4) Require the proposed merger of the UP and SP to be conducted under these new guidelines.”
Emmett reiterated the League’s position that reviews of rail mergers should be transferred to the Department of Justice and made subject to “antitrust laws and not the current rail merger provisions of the Staggers Act.”
also comment on Emmett
Ed Emmett has a long and honorable history of effectively representing the League’s shipper interests in Washington, and no one who has read the testimony at last month’s hearing can doubt that some shippers have some legitimate concerns
#76
hamous
My prayers are with the troop for a complete recovery. My prayers are with the families that lost loved ones also.
On a higher note “WOW” I won a t-shirt in Wino’s blog giveaway, which by the way is a great site for some wonderful reading. It was great when neocon called me during my rodeo get away yesterday to let me know. I want to thank everyone for the votes. Now I can wear my shirt over to my sister’s house so she can be jealous because I have a cool shirt and she doesn’t. :)) Pig races here I come maybe Wino will want to celebrate a belated birthday. ;))
Everyone have a wonderful, safe and blessed day.
Posted this at an endless handwringing Conservative blog who is spending way too much time worrying about Ann
Bryan, Michelle
Politics has entered the serious stage, gone are the lightweight candidates like in Maryland and Virginia, gone are the gentle people who are going to debate “civilized” opposition who has supporters rioting in the streets and the net
Clue:
the opposition makes Huey Long look like a choirboy and they have delusions of grandeur.
Ann was just toughening up the room.
2008 nasty down and dirty - bring it on baby.
question are you on board? or we can continue this discussion in line getting our nationalized healthcare or filling up our “Greenmobiles” at the national oil company.
Big hint - you and Michelle are the first to go - you’ll be legislated right off the webpage if they have the golden three in 08.
EricPWJohnson on March 4, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Conservatives call the opposition names. Democrats eliminate anyone who can harm them. Stay away from parks, airplanes and mountainsides.
The USA levies a $0.54 per gallon tariff on imported ethanol. Outfits such as Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill make sure they protect their wallets as well as those of farmers. I think it should be abolished and, guys, you will too after you see this protest video !
http://www.setamericafree.org/wordpress/?p=301
Anybody see this?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4598770.html
texpat
#86
You are, as usual, spot on.
Eric,
Ann Coulter could become the best fund raiser that the DNC can call upon, much like Hillary Clinton was once the best fund raiser that the RNC had for years. Just what the Republicans need at this time…Someone to rally the troops on the other side.
See how quick all three of the Republican front runners ran to her defense. Even Newt is remaining silent, but then again he has a gay sister and gasp! VP Cheney has a gay daughter. Her comments are what they are….tasteless and crude.
Tossing insults detracts from the serious philosophical differences and only appeals to the lowest common denominator.
Yes, many from the left do the same and worse, but getting in the mud to wrestle with a pig is a pointless exercise. You get really dirty before you realize the pig enjoys wallering in the mud. All you have to show for your efforts are dirty clothes and the need to take a shower.
Simple
Ann Coulter is a writer who has a conservative bent. As far as I know she has nothing to do with the Republican party. Thats like saying the late Molly Ivans was good for raising money for Republicans because she called us names and wrote nasty articles about Republicans etc.
I havent head anyone on the Dem side dispute the faggot claim. Just saying it shouldnt have been said.
Hamous kneemail is headed yall’s way………
#86 TexPat happy Sundee bubba - while I am in agreement on Ethanol - from this desk the jury’s still out on ethanol’s possible damaging qualities to many composite and rubber parts when used at the percentages widely proposed - and currently in use in some areas.
Maybe if we can’t get our resident DC thieves to rescind said tax - perhumps we can force them to use the proceeds only to accelerate development of the Alberta oil sands which could definitely put us in the position to tell the Saudi’s to DRINK their dang crude…….
jes my .02 and worth at least 1 cent!
Katfish
Simple
Smell the coffee, John Edwards did not deny the charge.
Neither did anyone else
The Jersey girls comment was the same thing the most horrible act of mankind
They are now gone, totally discredited as the phonies that they were
Quit wringing your hands - its a fight -not a tea cup society john Edwards did despicable things in his legal career and said and did and organized some of the most vile assortment of human refuse to garner a stage - their fundraisers were replent with whacked out celebs encouraged to say the most vile things with nary a whisper
Faggot is a mild term, and to this point a poinant one.
#56 Squawk!
Thanks for more information, just wonder how many of those trailers are sitting in plain sight around the country? It’s been thought of before, and possible, keep your eyes open and know what’s going on around you!
Williebill
Not to disparage Sarge here but what he missed is that it is not beyond the real possibility that those guys were preparing to come to Houston and try to spring that drug lord that is in jail there.
Sarge mentioned what ifs. Well what if there are more vehicles and weapons being prepared to be brought into this country for who knows what?
The story has further convinced me that it is no longer a question of if but when attacks that we see in Israel begin here in the states. There is no way possible to search every tractor trailer rig that cross the border. In California alone there are 7000 rigs that cross daily and that number is about to triple overnight. Less than 1 percent are searched at the border and less than 5 percent are searched by rolling weigh stations.
How do I know all this? I was a trucker for years.
I used Occam’s Razor, Squawk. The simplest and most logical explanation is usually the one that fits. A fight between Mexican Drug Lords is the most logical explanation.
Besides, there’s no need tosmuggle weapons, ammo, and gear into this country. Everything in that story but the weapons can be bought over the internet and delivered right to your door.
And the weapons, if limited to semi-auto, can be bought by any citizen.
Ask me how I know.
That’s why the fight between drug lords is the most logical explanation.
Further reenfocing that is this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Mexico
crap—blockquotes got me again.
correction:
should read:
Rightoh Serge’
Don’t worry be happy. the milblogs did not pick up on the story so we are all safe. George Bush is our hero and he would never let anything bad like drug gangs cross the border to set their leader free. And don’t worry terrorist would never think about using the holes in the border to bring weapons across to cause trouble here. The Mudville gazzette says so. Georgie has the border locked down. I mean lookie he created detention centers. That means there is no catch and release. Hail to the Chief rah rah rah. We all know that Bushco would rather prosecute Border Agents and Sherriffs deputies for doing their job while providing plenty of benefits to those that would testify against them.
And most of all
Republican good democrats bad.
Let’s see if this gets any mention in the MSM.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/3/2/213330.shtml?s=al&promo_code=2EA8-1
Sarge and Squawk arguing again…YAWN
:))
100
Now quiet Smacktle they might hear you. LMAO.
Check out my new blog… still in the “test” stage, but up and running…
FauxNEWS
Wino - “we distort, then deride….” Touche’!
Glad you like it, BSue. Lee/Sunny and I talked that over a bit. It was the first one, and the one we ended up settling on.
Could you see the tiled background?
If not, the “home page” has a larger version:
http://www.fauxnews.org
#104 Yes I could - I had to get another cup of coffee before it dawned on me that what was left off, on the left, was continued on the right. It looks pretty sharp!
Yes, ditto from me, BSue. Thanks.
it’s already here in huge quantities and perfectly legal to buy and own.
If I wanted to smuggle in a bomb, I’d put it on a ship and then land it on a deserted beach on a rubber boat—or if it was a nuke, I’d just steam the damting into any port and set it off.
But like I said–
You scary story about a truckload of guns in Matomoros being there so they could spring a drug lord in Houston is the least likely scenario given the information available.
There isn;t a post that I could think of that would more mischaracterize my position than this one, BTW.
Debate and discussion should include logic and fact, not insult and mischaracterization.
#104
Wino
Site looks good. Ohhhhhh the Michelin man. :((
#109…an anorexic Michelin Man just doesn’t seem right, does it, emmekelley?
Congratulations on your being winner, btw.
Thanks :))))))
#110
sunny
What has the world come to, the modeling industry has made the Michelin man sick. Maybe it is the Hilton,Richey,and all the other pop culture girls sending him to rehab.
‘Tis a sad, sad day in the history of the world, emme…I do agree!
“And I would just tell my fellow Republicans who are concerned about border enforcement, you can’t enforce the border.”—-Spoken by The Insane Dr FrankenBush, the phony presidente who puts Mexico First.
Compare that to this.
“The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.”
—Teddy Roosevelt
Squawk doesn’t love me like the rest?! I