PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (CNN) � House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, told CNN in an interview Thursday that the surge in Iraq “has not accomplished its goal,” and the first item on her agenda after the recess will be the war in Iraq
When the House reconvenes in September, Pelosi says Iraq will be “front and center.”
WASHINGTON (AP) - One senator said U.S. troops are routing out al-Qaida in parts of Iraq. Another insisted President Bush’s plan to increase troops has caused tactical momentum.
One even went so far on Wednesday as to say the argument could be made that U.S. troops are winning.
These are not Bush-backing GOP die-hards, but Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin, Bob Casey and Jack Reed. Even Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee, said progress was being made by soldiers.
The suggestions by them and other Democrats in recent days that at least a portion of Bush’s strategy in Iraq is working is somewhat surprising, considering the bitter exchanges on Capitol Hill between the Democratic majority and Republicans and Bush. Democrats have long said Bush’s policies have been nothing more than a complete failure.
Saying that the New Strategy is a failure a couple weeks after it’s started and more than a month before a report on it’s progress is shceduled to occur is, well, just plain mean.
Especially when you agreed to wait on the report, and especially when you’re running around saying that the President has no New Strategy.
These comments by Nancy so ignore the facts that they expose their merely political intnet.
I really do wish the Democrats would set aside thier quest for power and get down to helping us win this war instead of ignoring or lying about every sign of progress that rears it’s “ugly” head.
7. Butch, I went to the last Renegade Brewhaha and the only person I saw that looked as young as the folks in that picture was Tedtam’s college age daughter(very attractive young lady, I might add).
BTW - Lovely Daughter finally made contact with her new roommate by writing a letter asking her to call so they could discuss common roommate issues - who brings the fridge, that sort of thing. I am well known among family, friends, and students for my rather “unique” conversational style - rather offbeat. My daughter “pulled a Mommy” and thinks she might have scared her new roomie.
We’ll find out later today how she’s started off her new year.
it is obvious border patrol agents are not there to enforce our laws. Their mission is to offer assistance by providing water, directions, and emergency services when required.
Maybe we should take their guns away and replace them with coupons for McDonalds.
Morning everyone! Again, it was great to meet and see everyone at the Renegade BHH. Some who have never attended needs to know that we are good people. No need for bail money or weapons!
When I had 1st met Tedtam, I thought SHE was the lovely daughter! She truely does have a lovely daughter, BTW! /How am I doing?
If LST is the real “leading information source”, how come we haven’t heard about this here ?
“There were other competitions, including one to see which guy could throw an engine starter the farthest and a “Daisy Duke Show-Off” for women in cut-off blue jeans. Cash prizes ranged from $40 up to $200 per contest.”
Be glad and thank God every day that the Soviet Union failed! Watch this and know that this is why we should stop Socialism and Communism with every fiber of our being! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vZwONKshU
Hubby and I had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a “large” enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a ½ horsepower. He shook his head and said, “Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.” I responded that ½ was larger than 1/4. He said, “NO, it’s not. Four is larger than two.” We haven’t used Sears repair since.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: “Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.” From Kingman , KS
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IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE : My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for “minimal lettuce.” He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg. He was a Chef? Yep…From Kansas City!
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, “Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?” which I replied, “If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?” He smiled knowingly and nodded, “That’s why we ask.” Happened in Birmingham , Ala.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it’s safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, “What on earth are blind people doing driving?!” She was a probation officer in Wichita , KS
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IDIOT SIGHTING: At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker: She was leaving the company due to “downsizing.” Our manager commented cheerfully, “This is fun. We should do this more often.” Not another word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare. This was a bunch at Texas Instruments.
IDIOT SIGHTING: I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself, and for the sake of her own life, couldn’t understand why her system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriffs office no less.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. “Hey,” I announced to the technician, “Its open!” His reply, “I know - I already got that side.” This was at the Ford dealership in Canton , Mississippi !
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STAY ALERT!
They walk among us and they REPRODUCE!!
#36, they were saying that about kinky as well but look what we ended up with, because more people got afraid and ran back to the comforts of the “party line”
5 good looking girls, a bunch of beer, and only you and your wingman to keep them company…..
To bad for the guys though, because 2 of the girls have boyfriends, one is married, and the other 2 have girlfriends….. such is the way things happen these days…
A true cat story:
My ex had a cat. I had to take it to the vet. I tried to put the &^%$ing thing into a cat carrier. It refused to cooperate. I turned the carrier on its end with the opening facing up. I tried to force it in. It would spread its legs and grab the sides of the opening. While holding it with one hand, I was going to use the other to push it harder into the opening. The cat moved its tail and my thumb went inadvertently into a place my thumb should never EVER have went! That cat shot into that carrier like a rocket. It huddled nervously in the corner all the way to the vet. If it hated me before, it really hated me after that!
Hamous Says:
August 9th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
#111 And I wholeheartedly agree with that. But that was not dcgirl’s argument. Hers was that the simple fact that he had crossed the border illegally was justification to shoot him.
Hammie - I am really tired of you putting words in my mouth. I didn’t say that crossing the border illegally justified getting shot. I said it was a federal crime and that makes you a criminal. So Aldrete was a known criminal. I also said that I wanted people in elected office that frequented high-class call girls as opposed to street walkers. Again, what I said was that I would prefer, of course, that the elected official do what is right for American AND be lilly-white to his wife, but if I had to choose between someone that did what was right for America and someone that didn’t I would choose the former, even if he cheated on his wife.
#19 Tedtam - if you are down because your daughter is leaving for college I can relate. Am moving mine to Huntsville tomorrow. Sent my son off to the Marines 8 years ago at the ripe young age of 17, so even though this will be my daughter’s junior year (she did 2 a jr college and lived at home), and it is not as far away, it is still a little sad. Cheer up - the phone calls will come in whenever money is needed and Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach faster than we care to realize!
See where Cindy Sheehan is running for Speakerette Pelosi’s seat in Congress. Still looking for the address to send contributions. Question: Would we be able to tell the differrence?
The cat story reminded me of a vet story of my own. Our shop is an older tin structure, and our shop dog would push open a corner of a tin sheet in order to get inside, especially when it rained. The dog is a huge sissy when it comes to thunder and lightning.
DH called me one morning, and said I needed to take Rock to the vet. He had caught his face on the tin and literally ripped his skin - a perfect 90 corner and ripped back and down several inches. It was grotesque. Rock was understandably subdued, but not groveling in pain; just not as bouncy as usual, which surprised me. I got Rock in the back of my Suburban and drove the local vet’s office. I had to stop at a corner and a panhandler approached my car. Suddenly Rock got lively and began barking through the window at the strange man.
The panhandler took one look at the Frankenstein dog and backed away quickly.
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
tedtam, what was your vet question? I am not a vet, but I think over the last 20 years I have probably taken a cat to the vet for everything that can possibly afflict a cat.
As for funny stories, you haven’t had a good laugh until you have watched as your cat peed on the vet’s arm while he is examining her belly. The cat looked so ashamed, and the vet tried to be so nonchalant about it. I couldn’t help but laugh, and that just made the cat hang her head even more.
Wall Street skidded further Friday as investors again succumbed to anxiety over tight credit conditions even after the Federal Reserve said it would do all it can to “facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets.” The Dow Jones industrials came off of their lows after the Fed added a second dose of liquidity to the markets.
The market, which has been gyrating for weeks over fears that credit is drying up, began to pare its losses after the Fed’s latest injection of cash into the banking system Friday. The day’s declines, however, showed the depths of fear that have investors yanking money out of stocks.
The Fed added another $16 billion in liquidity to the market at midmorning Friday, supplementing the $19 billion added earlier in the day.
Then there was the time we took a new kitten to the vet for its first exam and shots. The cat was a beautiful fluffy tabby and white thing that all the techs oohed and ahhed about when we brought it in. On the form, we filled out that it was a female. After the vet did his exam, he turns to the three of us and says “everything is fine…but we are going to have to do a sex change”. Our jaws dropped and thoughts of “why could a cat possibly need a sex change?” flashed through our minds. Then the vet laughs and says “from now on we will be calling this one a male”. Turns out the important bits had been lost in the fluffy fur when we looked before. We always have a good laugh about it now, because the cat is 15 years old and people still think he is too pretty to be a male cat. I guess he knows how John Edwards feels.
I took a stray cat in for fixin. He/she had very long hair. I thought it was a she. The vet thoughty it was a she. After cutting her open he found out that she was a nuetered he.
#83, the fed is taking cash that it has in it’s reserve and basically releasing it to the market. Sort of like a company selling stock that it had bought back previously.
Yea DJ - I found homes for a litter of puppies and gave them to good families telling them the breed mix, sex, etc… Received a call from one puppy recipient (a man who I told was getting a girl puppy)a few days later who asked, “Do you hike your leg and pee standing up?”
My vet told me about a woman that came in upset because her baby chicks kept dying. The vet asked what she was feeding them. She replied - you mean they don’t nurse?
#91 Since credit is tightening, it is releasing case into the market to ease concerns about liquidity. It is a sort of a bailout of the credit market, if I understand correctly.
Sorta like the Aggie who decided he wanted to raise chickens. He bought 100 chicks, took them out back and planted them in feet first in rows. They quickly died. So he went and bought 100 more, decided to try it differently and planted them all head first in the soil. They too quickly died. Disgusted with his lack of success, he sent a letter to the college of agriculture at Texas A&M and explained his previous attempts and asked for advice. A few days later, he received a letter back that said “Please send a soil sample.”
I predicted last year as soon as the credit markets tightened the stock market and economy would start to tumble. I was basically called a heretic by some here.
The “dose of liquidity” just means that the Fed is making cash available for lending. With all the credit worries, companies and banks are scared to lend any more money to anybody. Without cash available for loans, deals don’t happen, credit lines can’t be accessed, homes don’t get sold, etc. So when there isn’t enough “liquidity” or cash available for lending, the Fed can step in and make cash available so that the credit market doesn’t lock up. Until all the banks, investment houses, and lenders figure our where they stand with regard to the value of their CDOs and subprime mortgage deals, they are going to be reluctant to make capital available to the credit markets.
Know I’ve said this before but it’s worth repeating if any of you want to retire, get a little place in the country and have roosters and chickens.
IT’S NOT LIKE IN THE MOVIES! Chickens are mean and dirty and roosters don’t only crow at sunrise but 24/7!
Basically the Fed controls how much cash is available for all markets, including the stock market.
Think of it like this…
Your salary is $2000 a month
Your bills each month are $1250
You put $250 in a 401K so you have $500 left each month.. of that $500 you put $200 away for emergencies or vacation or whatever. and have $300 left to party on.
The Fed has Billions of dollars that are printed but not in circulation. Basically like a huge national savings account. This allows them to tap that account and spend money, just like you would if you had a major car repair and took the money out of your savings account.
All the fed is doing is making more money available for banks to lend, people to borrow, or companies to use to buy back debt. That is all. Not a bail out.
Thank goodness there’s a finite amount of cat crap jokes
It reminds me of a song the next President of the USA will be played.
Run Ted Run
Well I don’t know where they come from
But they sure do come
I hope they comin’ for me
And I don’t know how they do it
But they sure do it good
I hope they doin’ it for free
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
The first time that I got it
I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next foor
I went and see the Dr. and
He gave me the cure
I think I got it some more
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
It’s nothin dangerous
I feel no pain
I’ve got to ch-ch-change
You know you got it when you’re going insane
It makes a grown man cryin’ cryin’
Won’t you make my bed
I make the pussy purr with
The stroke of my hand
They know they gettin’ it from me
They know just where to go
When they need their lovin man
They know I do it for free
#99 another way to describe it is to compare it to the strategic petroleum reserve. The government has big reserves of oil stored away, and when supplies get scarce, they can release some for sale. They don’t give it away for free as you would in a bailout. You just make the supply available for sale, which keeps the level of supply in line with demand. The fed does the same thing with cash for lending.
#105 No. Not very common. It is a sign that the credit markets are in trouble. Until companies figure out how much of their capital and investments are at risk in CDOs and mortgage backed securities, the credit market will be tight, and people are going to be investing in higher quality debt such as treasury bonds. The “flight to quality” takes cash that would have been available elsewhere in the credit market and locks it up.
Our cat is a Cornish Rex, which are very slender cats and have almost no fur. It’s very, very short and curly, so I don’t think it’s a furball type of problem. Miss Salem has always thrown up frequently, for as long as I can remember. We assume she has a sensitive stomach. We found one cat food that seems to help, but then she goes on hunger strikes and won’t eat. She’ll get very thin, almost starving. We’ve done things like adding ranch style bean juice to her food (no kidding) and she would start eating again. LD talked to someone at Petco and they recommended a new food, which she’s eating, but she’s throwing up again. I feel so bad for her, because she does this really sad meow before she upchucks and I can tell she’s in distress, but I don’t know what else to do. The cat is now about 9 years old, still active (as active as cats get), still very affectionate (sometimes annoyingly so), and appears otherwise healthy.
The study, called TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) Advanced 2008, measures how high-school seniors are doing in algebra, geometry, calculus and physics with students taking similar subjects around the globe. In the past, the American results have been shockingly poor. In the last survey, taken in 1995, students from only two countries—Cyprus and South Africa—scored lower than U.S. school kids.
#105, no it is not and it usually is not announced that X dollars are being released. Usually you hear that the Fed plans on having a tighter or looser money supply and that means that they are taking money out of the economy or adding it to the economy, however on those very rare occasions they will announce the amount that they are releasing…
Tedtam
We have four cats - two are 9 years old. These two do exactly what you describe yours as doing. I’ve tried every food on the market but have stuck w/ the indoor formulas for older cats. (Isn’t that cry they do before they throw up the most horrible sound? It breaks your heart.) It also appears to be seasonal as it is worse in the summer. But these are big, fat, neurotic, lazy cats and it doesn’t appear to be affecting their weight. (The oldest is driven insane by ballpoint pens and will carry them around and wail over them like they were her babies… We have to hide all the pens… Freaky…)
Pens?! How strange! Miss Salem likes those foam cloth-covered hair curler things, and the fuzzy ponytail holders. When she carries them around, she looks like she has a moustache.
I’ve also played with her head, which is always fun. She’ll curl up in my lap and I’ll play cat sounds on the computer. She gets real agitated. She used to walk around the computer trying to find the cats (the kitten sounds drove her nuts). Now she just looks at me weird, meows at me and goes away.
A Peruvian national in the U.S. illegally and who was previously charged with raping a 5-year-old pleaded not guilty Friday in the execution-style slayings of three young college students a day after surrendering
then there is this bit…
Immigration officials apparently were aware of Carranza’s illegal status since his prior arrests, according to Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura.
ICE knew he was illegal? but what did they do about it. Was he living in a sanctuary city?
Here is a more accurae description of the artificial devaluation of the dollar which is being caused by the Chinese and the UAE and Qatar - all three of these currencies are based solely upon the dollar and THEIR overspending and risky investments are also adding to the woes - its a little bit long but makes several great points
OH!™
(back to lurking)
What is an elected rino to you?
Smiles are back, and it’s Friday. Great combo.
HELP SEND OFF A LOCAL MARINE !!
Pfc. Justin Perez, USMC, will be leaving soon for his first tour in Iraq.
He will be leaving on August 13, to return to base for pre deployment training,
and his deployment date has been moved up to September 5.
Let’s give him a big, PGR send off this Saturday, Aug 11, 2007.
Let’s show Justin we care and thank him for his dedication and service.
staging info at:
http://www.fauxnews.org/blog/2007/08/10/pgr-send-off-mission-for-pfc-justin-perez/
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
If you haven’t seen this, well, you should. It’s a bit hard to explain so go watch. It’ll put a smile on your face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o&mode=related&search=
Nancy Pelosi still doesn’t get it:
http://www.kxmb.com/News/Nation/151037.asp
Saying that the New Strategy is a failure a couple weeks after it’s started and more than a month before a report on it’s progress is shceduled to occur is, well, just plain mean.
Especially when you agreed to wait on the report, and especially when you’re running around saying that the President has no New Strategy.
These comments by Nancy so ignore the facts that they expose their merely political intnet.
I really do wish the Democrats would set aside thier quest for power and get down to helping us win this war instead of ignoring or lying about every sign of progress that rears it’s “ugly” head.
linky for the second quote in the above:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QT56I80&show_article=1
Who had 5 days in the shakey returns pool
Hey Sarge: Don’t worry about Nancy Pelosi. Her days are numbered. Cindy Sheehan in running against her. Rumor has it that Cindy is a shoo-in.
HAND!™ /have a nice day!
Oh good……..a picture from the last BHH. Let’s see…..which one is Smacky…
Miss Neo - When you get on here…do you still have my email address? Lost yours when I went to XP. Mornin’ ST.
You cross illegally and pick up a rock and threaten border patrol agents… expect to be shot at.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292818,00.html
What I find funny is this statement
Ok then we need to sue the Mexican Government for failing to enforce their own border…. See how they like that….
This article just show that Texans can solve any problem if they really want to…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292809,00.html
Good morning ya’all……. Have company so a brief Hi. Enjoy your weekend.
7. Butch, I went to the last Renegade Brewhaha and the only person I saw that looked as young as the folks in that picture was Tedtam’s college age daughter(very attractive young lady, I might add).
#14 Lotro
Even a UH Cougar can do Aggie engineering!
#16 Lawrence
HI!
BTW - Lovely Daughter finally made contact with her new roommate by writing a letter asking her to call so they could discuss common roommate issues - who brings the fridge, that sort of thing. I am well known among family, friends, and students for my rather “unique” conversational style - rather offbeat. My daughter “pulled a Mommy” and thinks she might have scared her new roomie.
We’ll find out later today how she’s started off her new year.
BTW - I’m a little down today, if anyone wants to take on the challenge of cheering me up.
it is obvious border patrol agents are not there to enforce our laws. Their mission is to offer assistance by providing water, directions, and emergency services when required.
Maybe we should take their guns away and replace them with coupons for McDonalds.
tedtam.
A comic strip about lawyers that is spot on…
Enjoy
http://squawkboxnoise.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/fav_strip10.jpg
Morning everyone! Again, it was great to meet and see everyone at the Renegade BHH. Some who have never attended needs to know that we are good people. No need for bail money or weapons!
When I had 1st met Tedtam, I thought SHE was the lovely daughter! She truely does have a lovely daughter, BTW! /How am I doing?
#22 ST
Flattery will get you everywhere…
Tedtam
I am not a relative
#21
Blog Pimper
#24 epj
You don’t know HOW MUCH that cheers me up!
#25, nope not blog pimping just poining to uploaded file….
If you look it is simply an image…
If LST is the real “leading information source”, how come we haven’t heard about this here ?
“There were other competitions, including one to see which guy could throw an engine starter the farthest and a “Daisy Duke Show-Off” for women in cut-off blue jeans. Cash prizes ranged from $40 up to $200 per contest.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292674,00.html
Be glad and thank God every day that the Soviet Union failed! Watch this and know that this is why we should stop Socialism and Communism with every fiber of our being!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0vZwONKshU
You’re a good person you bring alot of joy to people you have never ever met with your poems and your stories
#28 tedtam I posted about the redneck games yesterday… or was it Wednesday…
#30
Thanks. /blushing
You guys help me get through the stress of my day. I appreciate you, too.
{{hug}}
#29 got to love the weave on the one guy…
For tedtam:
Subject: Fw: IDIOT SIGHTING
Hubby and I had to have the garage door repaired. The Sears repairman told us that one of our problems was that we did not have a “large” enough motor on the opener. I thought for a minute and said that we had the largest one Sears made at that time, a ½ horsepower. He shook his head and said, “Lady, you need a 1/4 horsepower.” I responded that ½ was larger than 1/4. He said, “NO, it’s not. Four is larger than two.” We haven’t used Sears repair since.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I live in a semi rural area. We recently had a new neighbor call the local township administrative office to request the removal of the Deer Crossing sign on our road. The reason: “Too many deer are being hit by cars out here! I don’t think this is a good place for them to be crossing anymore.” From Kingman , KS
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IDIOTS IN FOOD SERVICE : My daughter went to a local Taco Bell and ordered a taco. She asked the person behind the counter for “minimal lettuce.” He said he was sorry, but they only had iceberg. He was a Chef? Yep…From Kansas City!
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I was at the airport, checking in at the gate when an airport employee asked, “Has anyone put anything in your baggage without your knowledge?” which I replied, “If it was without my knowledge, how would I know?” He smiled knowingly and nodded, “That’s why we ask.” Happened in Birmingham , Ala.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: The stoplight on the corner buzzes when it’s safe to cross the street. I was crossing with an intellectually challenged coworker of mine. She asked if I knew what the buzzer was for. I explained that it signals blind people when the light is red. Appalled, she responded, “What on earth are blind people doing driving?!” She was a probation officer in Wichita , KS
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IDIOT SIGHTING: At a good-bye luncheon for an old and dear coworker: She was leaving the company due to “downsizing.” Our manager commented cheerfully, “This is fun. We should do this more often.” Not another word was spoken. We all just looked at each other with that deer-in-the-headlights stare. This was a bunch at Texas Instruments.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: I work with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself, and for the sake of her own life, couldn’t understand why her system would not turn on. A deputy with the Dallas County Sheriffs office no less.
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IDIOT SIGHTING: When my husband and I arrived at an automobile dealership to pick up our car, we were told the keys had been locked in it. We went to the service department and found a mechanic working feverishly to unlock the driver’s side door. As I watched from the passenger side, I instinctively tried the door handle and discovered that it was unlocked. “Hey,” I announced to the technician, “Its open!” His reply, “I know - I already got that side.” This was at the Ford dealership in Canton , Mississippi !
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STAY ALERT!
They walk among us and they REPRODUCE!!
#31 Hooked
It’s texpat. People get us confused sometimes. You can tell us apart because my moustache is bigger.
Ron Paul quietly converting GOP believers:
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/markets/marketfeatures/10372302.html
#34 Malcolm - you win! Too funny!
#35 Texpat - I have NO moustache! (I shave)
#37 follow up
I forgot to add -
#35, sorry texpat, have been busy at work and was in another train of thought and it apparently ran over me…
You are right tedtam is much better looking than you, at least in my eyes.
#36, they were saying that about kinky as well but look what we ended up with, because more people got afraid and ran back to the comforts of the “party line”
The picture is a college guy’s dream situation….
5 good looking girls, a bunch of beer, and only you and your wingman to keep them company…..
To bad for the guys though, because 2 of the girls have boyfriends, one is married, and the other 2 have girlfriends….. such is the way things happen these days…
Is anyone out there a veterinarian?
42
no, I eat meat
#37 tedtam
Tell me you didn’t laugh. Just tryin’ to cheer you up.
#43 Fasternu
I need some advice for WALKING meat. Cat, specifically.
#44 Texpat -yes, I did.
#42 tedtam
Veterinarians don’t post here. They are too busy with their investment advisors and having the Lamborghini tuned up.
#46
Damn! I knew I went into the wrong business!
Well it is nice to see that one country is still enforcing it’s borders…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292854,00.html
A true cat story:
My ex had a cat. I had to take it to the vet. I tried to put the &^%$ing thing into a cat carrier. It refused to cooperate. I turned the carrier on its end with the opening facing up. I tried to force it in. It would spread its legs and grab the sides of the opening. While holding it with one hand, I was going to use the other to push it harder into the opening. The cat moved its tail and my thumb went inadvertently into a place my thumb should never EVER have went! That cat shot into that carrier like a rocket. It huddled nervously in the corner all the way to the vet. If it hated me before, it really hated me after that!
#41, Nowadays a bunch of beer and two girls with their girlfriends would equal a wild college party.
From yesterday’s open comments
Hammie - I am really tired of you putting words in my mouth. I didn’t say that crossing the border illegally justified getting shot. I said it was a federal crime and that makes you a criminal. So Aldrete was a known criminal. I also said that I wanted people in elected office that frequented high-class call girls as opposed to street walkers. Again, what I said was that I would prefer, of course, that the elected official do what is right for American AND be lilly-white to his wife, but if I had to choose between someone that did what was right for America and someone that didn’t I would choose the former, even if he cheated on his wife.
Sorry - meant “I also NEVER said that I wanted people….”
#49, that is a story you should not have told us you cat molester….
#19 Tedtam - if you are down because your daughter is leaving for college I can relate. Am moving mine to Huntsville tomorrow. Sent my son off to the Marines 8 years ago at the ripe young age of 17, so even though this will be my daughter’s junior year (she did 2 a jr college and lived at home), and it is not as far away, it is still a little sad. Cheer up - the phone calls will come in whenever money is needed and Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays approach faster than we care to realize!
49
Some people have a green thumb and some….
News about a possible change in plan with regards to immigration..
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5043346.html
55
Depends on what you feed the cat…
See where Cindy Sheehan is running for Speakerette Pelosi’s seat in Congress. Still looking for the address to send contributions. Question: Would we be able to tell the differrence?
57
what do you call a proctologist who examines your cat with his right hand on the cats neck?
Left handed
#34
Worse than that, they vote!
I’m not so sure it was the thumb that bothered him as much as the hangnail…
61
It could have been worse - the cat could have smiled…….
Remember if this was a farm animal we’d have to report you
That was humor bad but humor
Squawks going to delete these posts anyway the catillian is advancing on his location
just as long as we don’t get flogged with a cat-o-nine tails.
this could be the start of a real cat-tastrophy….
I hope someone does not end up cat-a-tonic because of these jokes…
Thank goodness there’s a finite amount of cat crap jokes
#54 dcgirl That’s only part of it.
But the cat story has me laughing out loud!
Have ya’ll heard the story about the “dying” hamster? I’ve tried to search for a link to it, but haven’t found it yet.
FOUND IT!
http://www.transporting.to/CyberWoman/hamster.html
#68 ERIC
Who says?
Is ST in Conn.?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292833,00.html
Better an errant thumb than a CAT a pult!
The cat story reminded me of a vet story of my own. Our shop is an older tin structure, and our shop dog would push open a corner of a tin sheet in order to get inside, especially when it rained. The dog is a huge sissy when it comes to thunder and lightning.
DH called me one morning, and said I needed to take Rock to the vet. He had caught his face on the tin and literally ripped his skin - a perfect 90 corner and ripped back and down several inches. It was grotesque. Rock was understandably subdued, but not groveling in pain; just not as bouncy as usual, which surprised me. I got Rock in the back of my Suburban and drove the local vet’s office. I had to stop at a corner and a panhandler approached my car. Suddenly Rock got lively and began barking through the window at the strange man.
The panhandler took one look at the Frankenstein dog and backed away quickly.
Note to self: Wash hands after shaking hands with Faster…
I hope I don’t have this stuck in my head all day….
http://www.kessels.com/CatSounds/whatsnew.wav
Tolkien was right it is the ring that is the power…
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?081007/081007_re_power&Red_Eye&Power%20of%20the%20Ring&acc&Greg%20Gutfeld&-1&Opinion&152&&&new
#76 fater what about this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPp0g0A_6×8
Tedtam, That was funny. (Hamster)
78, linkey no wokie
try this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VVvKo9OTRY
tedtam, what was your vet question? I am not a vet, but I think over the last 20 years I have probably taken a cat to the vet for everything that can possibly afflict a cat.
As for funny stories, you haven’t had a good laugh until you have watched as your cat peed on the vet’s arm while he is examining her belly. The cat looked so ashamed, and the vet tried to be so nonchalant about it. I couldn’t help but laugh, and that just made the cat hang her head even more.
Can someone explain to me what a dose of liquidity is?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3683270/
Wall Street skidded further Friday as investors again succumbed to anxiety over tight credit conditions even after the Federal Reserve said it would do all it can to “facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets.” The Dow Jones industrials came off of their lows after the Fed added a second dose of liquidity to the markets.
The market, which has been gyrating for weeks over fears that credit is drying up, began to pare its losses after the Fed’s latest injection of cash into the banking system Friday. The day’s declines, however, showed the depths of fear that have investors yanking money out of stocks.
The Fed added another $16 billion in liquidity to the market at midmorning Friday, supplementing the $19 billion added earlier in the day.
Then there was the time we took a new kitten to the vet for its first exam and shots. The cat was a beautiful fluffy tabby and white thing that all the techs oohed and ahhed about when we brought it in. On the form, we filled out that it was a female. After the vet did his exam, he turns to the three of us and says “everything is fine…but we are going to have to do a sex change”. Our jaws dropped and thoughts of “why could a cat possibly need a sex change?” flashed through our minds. Then the vet laughs and says “from now on we will be calling this one a male”. Turns out the important bits had been lost in the fluffy fur when we looked before. We always have a good laugh about it now, because the cat is 15 years old and people still think he is too pretty to be a male cat. I guess he knows how John Edwards feels.
Ya’ll want a good cat story?
I took a stray cat in for fixin. He/she had very long hair. I thought it was a she. The vet thoughty it was a she. After cutting her open he found out that she was a nuetered he.
#83, the fed is taking cash that it has in it’s reserve and basically releasing it to the market. Sort of like a company selling stock that it had bought back previously.
The Frankenstein dog story still has me rolling… Bet that was one cheap wine hangover that panhandler will never forget!
Yao Ming drunk ?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/5043241.html
Yea DJ - I found homes for a litter of puppies and gave them to good families telling them the breed mix, sex, etc… Received a call from one puppy recipient (a man who I told was getting a girl puppy)a few days later who asked, “Do you hike your leg and pee standing up?”
My vet told me about a woman that came in upset because her baby chicks kept dying. The vet asked what she was feeding them. She replied - you mean they don’t nurse?
#86
$35 billion?
Is that like a bailout of the market?
#90 LOL! poor l’il chicks… Stupid woman….
#91 Since credit is tightening, it is releasing case into the market to ease concerns about liquidity. It is a sort of a bailout of the credit market, if I understand correctly.
Sorta like the Aggie who decided he wanted to raise chickens. He bought 100 chicks, took them out back and planted them in feet first in rows. They quickly died. So he went and bought 100 more, decided to try it differently and planted them all head first in the soil. They too quickly died. Disgusted with his lack of success, he sent a letter to the college of agriculture at Texas A&M and explained his previous attempts and asked for advice. A few days later, he received a letter back that said “Please send a soil sample.”
I predicted last year as soon as the credit markets tightened the stock market and economy would start to tumble. I was basically called a heretic by some here.
Ever have trouble with a roommate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrqSCn0sBPw
The “dose of liquidity” just means that the Fed is making cash available for lending. With all the credit worries, companies and banks are scared to lend any more money to anybody. Without cash available for loans, deals don’t happen, credit lines can’t be accessed, homes don’t get sold, etc. So when there isn’t enough “liquidity” or cash available for lending, the Fed can step in and make cash available so that the credit market doesn’t lock up. Until all the banks, investment houses, and lenders figure our where they stand with regard to the value of their CDOs and subprime mortgage deals, they are going to be reluctant to make capital available to the credit markets.
Know I’ve said this before but it’s worth repeating if any of you want to retire, get a little place in the country and have roosters and chickens.
IT’S NOT LIKE IN THE MOVIES! Chickens are mean and dirty and roosters don’t only crow at sunrise but 24/7!
#91, no not in the least.
Basically the Fed controls how much cash is available for all markets, including the stock market.
Think of it like this…
Your salary is $2000 a month
Your bills each month are $1250
You put $250 in a 401K so you have $500 left each month.. of that $500 you put $200 away for emergencies or vacation or whatever. and have $300 left to party on.
The Fed has Billions of dollars that are printed but not in circulation. Basically like a huge national savings account. This allows them to tap that account and spend money, just like you would if you had a major car repair and took the money out of your savings account.
All the fed is doing is making more money available for banks to lend, people to borrow, or companies to use to buy back debt. That is all. Not a bail out.
#68
EPJ
It reminds me of a song the next President of the USA will be played.
Run Ted Run
Well I don’t know where they come from
But they sure do come
I hope they comin’ for me
And I don’t know how they do it
But they sure do it good
I hope they doin’ it for free
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
The first time that I got it
I was just ten years old
I got it from some kitty next foor
I went and see the Dr. and
He gave me the cure
I think I got it some more
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
It’s nothin dangerous
I feel no pain
I’ve got to ch-ch-change
You know you got it when you’re going insane
It makes a grown man cryin’ cryin’
Won’t you make my bed
I make the pussy purr with
The stroke of my hand
They know they gettin’ it from me
They know just where to go
When they need their lovin man
They know I do it for free
They give me cat scratch fever
Cat scratch fever
98 liz…
Invest in a pellet gun.
http://www.airgundepot.com/eaa-drozd-kit.html
Wow I made 100.
It’s a terrible virus.
All blogs eventually become catblogs.
R.I.P LST.
:>)
#99 LotroMan
The problem is that all that “printed” cash is not backed by anything except debt anymore.
#99
Ok.
Is this common?
#99 another way to describe it is to compare it to the strategic petroleum reserve. The government has big reserves of oil stored away, and when supplies get scarce, they can release some for sale. They don’t give it away for free as you would in a bailout. You just make the supply available for sale, which keeps the level of supply in line with demand. The fed does the same thing with cash for lending.
#85
DJ
Was the cat from New Orleans, off Bourbon street or maybe from the Montrose area. The transgender cat. ;)))
#105 No. Not very common. It is a sign that the credit markets are in trouble. Until companies figure out how much of their capital and investments are at risk in CDOs and mortgage backed securities, the credit market will be tight, and people are going to be investing in higher quality debt such as treasury bonds. The “flight to quality” takes cash that would have been available elsewhere in the credit market and locks it up.
#82 Bill F
Our cat is a Cornish Rex, which are very slender cats and have almost no fur. It’s very, very short and curly, so I don’t think it’s a furball type of problem. Miss Salem has always thrown up frequently, for as long as I can remember. We assume she has a sensitive stomach. We found one cat food that seems to help, but then she goes on hunger strikes and won’t eat. She’ll get very thin, almost starving. We’ve done things like adding ranch style bean juice to her food (no kidding) and she would start eating again. LD talked to someone at Petco and they recommended a new food, which she’s eating, but she’s throwing up again. I feel so bad for her, because she does this really sad meow before she upchucks and I can tell she’s in distress, but I don’t know what else to do. The cat is now about 9 years old, still active (as active as cats get), still very affectionate (sometimes annoyingly so), and appears otherwise healthy.
Any ideas.
#106 Bill
Again, the problem with that comparison is that the oil is actually worth something.
The “printed” money is worthless.
How sad is this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20205125/site/newsweek/
#105, no it is not and it usually is not announced that X dollars are being released. Usually you hear that the Fed plans on having a tighter or looser money supply and that means that they are taking money out of the economy or adding it to the economy, however on those very rare occasions they will announce the amount that they are releasing…
#110,
Then it is safe to assume that you are getting paid in Euros, or maybe gold?
the money is not worthless, granted it is not part of the gold standard that it once was, but it has a tradeable value with other capital markets.
I’m looking for a major correction before the end of the year, at which time I see the Dow leveling out at around 10,000.
#110, Oil is only worth what the traders are willing to sell it for, otherwise it is just as worthless as any other thing on this planet.
Items and resources only have value if there is a demand for them.. Eskimo Pie.
PS Welcome back shakey….
#113 LotroMan
Excuse me? It is not worth the paper it’s printed on. It is secured by debt, not gold or anything of value.
That makes it worthless, irregardless of it’s “trade” value, because anything it is traded for still means an increase in debt to secure it’s value.
#115 Lotro
Thanks.
Anyway, you’re comparing different things. Liquid assets and debt instruments are apples and oranges.
It would SURE be nice to know who-in-the-HECK-we-are-blogging-with without having to buy a program!
Can we have a “Friday of one simple name each” day? (and then maybe we could make that a trend! or even a movement! or better still a habit!)
Tedtam
We have four cats - two are 9 years old. These two do exactly what you describe yours as doing. I’ve tried every food on the market but have stuck w/ the indoor formulas for older cats. (Isn’t that cry they do before they throw up the most horrible sound? It breaks your heart.) It also appears to be seasonal as it is worse in the summer. But these are big, fat, neurotic, lazy cats and it doesn’t appear to be affecting their weight. (The oldest is driven insane by ballpoint pens and will carry them around and wail over them like they were her babies… We have to hide all the pens… Freaky…)
#116
first of all you should know that our money is not printed on paper. it is on a denim like fabric…
second…every single currency is the same way so based upon your POV then we are living on a global card house….
#118 whiskerfish…
Superman/Clark Kent - Headshaker
Hooked on LOTRO - bweldon
Voldemort - Jimb
I don’t think anyone else has changed names..
#120 LOTROman
Methinks you need to study up on world economies.
#119 Elizabeth
Pens?! How strange! Miss Salem likes those foam cloth-covered hair curler things, and the fuzzy ponytail holders. When she carries them around, she looks like she has a moustache.
I’ve also played with her head, which is always fun. She’ll curl up in my lap and I’ll play cat sounds on the computer. She gets real agitated. She used to walk around the computer trying to find the cats (the kitten sounds drove her nuts). Now she just looks at me weird, meows at me and goes away.
what other countries have their money backed by a physical asset?
#121
I’m so bad with names to begin with…I don’t even try to follow who’s changing names now.
I just blog in my own little world. Anyone who wants to come with me is welcome!
The Name Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1safp44V4
#124 LOTRO
None; but that wasn’t my point.
Here is a good article for you to read:
http://www.economic-data.com/currencies.htm
here we go more proof that our crime rate would be a lot lower if we just closed the f’n borders…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292717,00.html
then there is this bit…
ICE knew he was illegal? but what did they do about it. Was he living in a sanctuary city?
Shakey, one other question if our “money” as you put it is so worthless why do so many developing countries base their money off of ours?
Bweldon
Here is a more accurae description of the artificial devaluation of the dollar which is being caused by the Chinese and the UAE and Qatar - all three of these currencies are based solely upon the dollar and THEIR overspending and risky investments are also adding to the woes - its a little bit long but makes several great points
http://ask.metafilter.com/66862/Can-you-explain-the-dispute-over-Chinese-currency-valuation