Holy shinola, Batman! 3/16″?

BRING ON THE MORPHINE!

See #1…orale vato

It’s that special day that we honor those who put us here. We should only honor our mothers every day. 24/7

Ex was a tough old geezer who could lift a Buick. But a kidney stone knocked him to his knees and made him cry like a baby. Those things cause some serious HURT.

The kidney stone doesn’t seem like that big a deal. I am sure that ruler must have really hurt coming out.

OUCH! I think this picture is appropriate for Mother’s Day, if one sort of expands the thought and wraps one’s mind around it.

Here is an interesting article that says the big business Bush donors are shunning McCain…part of it is a great reason….. he can’t be bought, but the Bush donors are giving large sums to Hillary and Obama who can be bought!

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=anDWekGuCW8E&refer=worldwide

YIKES!

Mornin’ & Howdy All

#6 ROFL - so true!

A very Happy Mother’s Day Ladies

This will give everyone who has had heartburn over CNN bias ( the Clinton News Network). Lanny Davis is furious with CNN because of their bias towards Obama. OH these years I have wanted to throw something at the tv due to their bias towards liberals. It’s wonderful to have Lanny experience what conservatives have experienced from the beginning.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0508/Lanny_Davis_on_CNN_primary_night_Worst_experience_I_ever_had_on_television.html

This is a long and troublesome article about the non-merger of FBI and ATF that has been ordered. These two agencies are warring internally at out loss.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/09/AR2008050903096.html?hpid=topnews

*FIRST* vote cast at Taylor H.S.!!

OK you Clout trio - here’s hoping you prevail today and kick some tax wasting BUTTS!

Bad news, good news. The bad news is the white house is up to it’s tricks about the Merida spending initiative for Mexico. The good news is Senator JOHN CORNYN is very vocal about this, as it our tireless fighter Rep John Culberson. I am so pleased that Senator Cornyn is speaking out.

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/09/merida-initiative-update-white-house-sneaks-it-into-war-spending-bill/

Re: The Stone above–A lady I knew years ago had one and passed it; she also had previously birthed three babies. She said it was a toss-up as to which was more painful but gave the nod to the stone. The description of it being like passing a pineapple fits for either, she said.

Yea for Rep. Culberson and Sen. Cornyn. Giving $$$ to Mexico is nuts considering how rich in resources that country is. They can earn it– give us oil in exchange, at a favorble rate to us of course.

Math review…

If you divide any number or constant by itself, the result is 1.

Examples:

1/1 = 1

2/2 = 1

π/π = 1

0/0 = ?

∞/∞ = ?

(Well, most of the time anyway…)

Mornin’ Bob, good thinking problem–

0/0 = 0?
the last should be infinity still

Dance Dance Dance

http://ws.collactive.com/points/point?id=QwseBrgxHnv1

Good morning all. Not as mugly as it could be considering it was 73 at 6am. The birds are in good spirits and have an opera going in the neighborhood, the lead voice in our back yard belongs to Maestro Cardinal. The nuances of their messages are unknown to mere humans, but the delivery is wonderful.

Sunrise was shrouded as yesterday, with the occasional breakthroughs of filtered light playing faint shadows. A soft breeze pushes an ethereal mist about and disperses it so it is felt rather than seen. Clusters of pink primroses decorate the pastures still, their time to exit the stage has not yet come. In the yard many woodland violets display their tiny lavender faces here and there. These stalwart little fellows have graced the shady spots under the trees for years now, reminders of their cousins in the woodlands of the Great Lakes states. Thank you, Lord.

Did the kidney stone fairy only give him a dime for his efforts? Should have been more! My neighbor has had two of those stones pass and he said it brought him to his knees and tears to his eyes and he’s no pansy.

bob42: When you multiply any number by two the reult is twice the amount of the original number.
(That seems to work every time.)

malcolm: 2X infinity?

I have three answers:
1.You’d be back where you started! (my favorite)
2.Infinity isn’t a number.
3.I have absolutely no idea.

#19 Dov that is great! What talent

Look, the Kidney Stone Fairy left him a whole dime!

Matt: See my #21- Copy Kat!

“Infinity is a number, but not a constant number such as pi,” explained my calculus prof, after I sweated out two pages of equations that resulted in 2 instances of infinity above and below the division line, allowing me to cancel them out.
“Division by infinity is undetermined.”

Folks lots smarter than I am continue to theorize about the results of division by 0, which my prof said was officially undefined at the time. They may have figured it out by now, but I doubt it.

Happy Mothers day to all ya’ll moms! Hey guys, looking for the gift that keeps on giving for that special lady? How about a Mobius Strip!

Now that’s what we all need to ponder. Infinity is a number that keeps moving/changing so no one knows what it is and you never can get an answer to your problem. One question pops up. “Who sets that number?” Way too much for this old brain.

Makes one ponder if you calculus prof was akin to our recent LST resident “you know who”. (tacky)

/going out to ride my lawn tractor/cut the grass or as they say in France “Mo-de-lawn”.

malcolm–thot that was coon-a++
Sorta like Count de Monet

i think a 1 dollar tax on gas would be good if the dems suggested it. it would certainly hurt their constituents harder.

we need to suggest to their candidates this action. i am still trying to figure out who is the worst candidate is so i can vote for that person.

if the people voted us to chose from this mess of crap cadidates then don’t you think they deserve the worst?

All this math talk is making my head hurt….

I’m still trying to verify the rumor that McCain and Obama are in a bidding war to see which one can get Hellary on their ticket as VP. Anyone know more about this?

(Caution: I may have just dreamed this up, but then again, I was first with reports of Karl Rove’s weather machine and Katrina.)

Kidney Stone Fairy - heh.

Good one.

Rastus–Wishful thinking Pipe Dream for the Left Coasties

Hold on a minute here - Mother’s Day is tomorrow. (Not that wishing us Mom’s a Happy Day need come only once a year…!)

Here’s the skinny from Wiki -

The United States celebrates Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May. In the United States, Mother’s Day was loosely inspired by the British day and was imported by social activist Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War. However, it was intended as a call to unite women against war. In 1870, she wrote the Mother’s Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament. Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers’ Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.
When Jarvis died in 1907, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother’s Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on 10 May 1908, in the church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught Sunday School. Originally the Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church, this building is now the International Mother’s Day Shrine (a National Historic Landmark). From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by some states beginning in 1912. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honor of those mothers whose sons had died in war. Nine years after the first official Mother’s Day, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of what the holiday had become. Mother’s Day continues to this day to be one of the most commercially successful U.S. occasions. According to the National Restaurant Association, Mother’s Day is now the most popular day of the year to dine out at a restaurant in the United States.

Among restaurant workers, Mother’s Day is infamous for being the absolutely WORST day to be scheduled to work. I had to do it many times and it was always a nightmare!

THe McClatchy papers led the MSM in it’s Anti-War depiction of Iraq as being a constantly losing battle, no matter what was being accomplished. The surge was a failure before it started. It killed al Queda in drves and captured it;s highest ranking personell, but political goaols were not reached. Anbar province becomes peaceful and the Sunni militias ther start hunting down al Queda and eleiminating them, but the marines had nothing to do with it. On and on.

Last month, the Iraqi Army enetered Basra to take on and eject Shia militants, especially Mooki al Sadrs Jaysh al Mahdi Army (JAM). The only things the media focused on, led by the McClatchy papers, was the few desertions and the difficulty of the early fighting (no US soliders were involved). After two days, they declared the Iraq Army effort a “Victory” for Mookie and JAM, and then stopped reporting on it. A week laer, Basra was pacified to the point where beer was once again be sold on street corners (the fundamentalist JAM would not allow the sale or consumption of cigarettes and alchohol).

Maliki and his Iraqi Army then turned on the toughest nut to crack: Sadr City. US troops geared up for the fight and had already cleared the edges of the slum populated by Sadr loyalists to the point where mortars and rockets could nop longer reach the Green Zone, setup check points and jump off areas, and closed Sadr City for all incoming aid.

You didn’t hear much about that, did you? Except perhaps the few American deaths that resulted from that offensive (And a couple of idiots on the internet telling you that we were in a “defensive posture” and our Rules of Engagement prevented us from taking on the bad guys.)

Here’s something else that, in 1945, would have been plastered on the front pages of every newspaper in the country in letters 3 inches high. You likely won’t see it on the network news tonight, and if it is in your paper, it will be in section “C.”

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/36530.html

BAGHDAD — Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad’s Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki.

In return, Sadr’s Mahdi Army supporters won the Iraqi government’s agreement not to arrest Mahdi Army members without warrants, unless they were in possession of “medium and heavy weaponry.”

snip

It also would be a startling turnaround in fortunes for Maliki, who’d been widely criticized for picking a fight with Sadr’s forces, first in the southern port city of Basra and then in Sadr City.

snip

A government supporter said the Sadrists were brought to the table by the anger of Sadr City residents. On Thursday, the Iraqi military ordered Sadr City residents to evacuate in apparent preparation for a major offensive push.

“It is not the government who pressured the Sadrists into entering this agreement,” said Ali al Adeeb, a leading member of the Dawa party. “It is the pressure from the people inside Sadr City and from their own people that will make them act more responsibly.”

Ladies and gentlemen, Mookie al Sadr has surrendered. Baghdad will be a good deal more peaceful this summer (and in the run up to the election, Mr. Obama). Where are the headlines?

And what about Basra?

In Basra, a city known for culture and music, Shiite extremists had taken control in late 2005 and began shutting down music stories and forcing women to cover themselves.

But after initially resisting Maliki’s offensive, the Sadrists ceded their areas, and the change in atmosphere has been palpable. An annual poetry festival, al Mirbed, resumed for the first time in three years, with male and female folk dancers performing in public and poets spouting their verses.

Beer on the street corner. Poetry and folkdancing in the park.

And we didn’t have to surrender to Baby Killers to make it happen. We made the Baby Killers surrender instead.

Not the way the Democrats would have had it turn out, folks.

Not the kind of foreign policy Barack Obama wants us to have.

Hey, where’s the infinity sign on my keyboard?

/going out to ride my lawn tractor/cut the grass or as they say in France “Mo-de-lawn”.

It thought it was “Cuh de Gras”

#19. Dov

Hey I liked those three honeys in the video. Makes me want to rethink the plural co-habitation thingy.

I once attended a lecture on infinity in 1977 given by Professor Hermann of the USNA. In effect, there are several “cardinalities” of infinity.

There are infinite numbers between zero and one. There are infinite numbers between zero and infinity. Both of these are the first cardinality of infinity. Now, if you were to raise these numbers to a power (for example, square them), you would end up with more numbers than you started with, since each of the real numbers have a square root, therefore, they would be part of the locus of both sets, along with the squares of the numbers in the second set; there must be more numbers in the squared set than in the non-squared set. He went on from there.

Anyway, theoretical mathematics has always had an interest for me. You cannot divide anything, even zero, by zero, as the result is undefined. However, if you use the calculus, you can approximate most undefined numbers by coming closer and closer to the “unusable” number, until the difference between your “usable number” and the “unusable number” is so small that its difference from zero is insignificant (hence the term “integral”; a smaller and smaller slice until its thickness is existentially zero). Therefore, zero divided by zero can be seen to approach zero as the denominator approaches zero.

Infinity, though, is undefined. Therefore, infinity divided by infinity is absolutely anything you would want to attribute to it. “17,” “3.14159,” or “dog” would all be acceptable answers. You could read it as “anything divided by anything.”

Perhaps duhmoose would like to chime in on this subject. I hope I didn’t give anyone a headache.

26: Ah nuts. That’s what I get for running my mouth before reading all the comments.

Anyway, well done, Redneck Neighbor. Before you know it, you’ll be passing half-inch stones.

The sky’s the limit!

Kidney stones are God’s way of showing men what child birth feels like. (maybe?)

#37 ShinerBlonde, every time they pick a spot on the keyboard to place the infinity key, it moves.

#40 Wino, sounds like a good lecture.

However, if you use the calculus, you can approximate most undefined numbers by coming closer and closer to the “unusable” number, until the difference between your “usable number” and the “unusable number” is so small that its difference from zero is insignificant (hence the term “integral”; a smaller and smaller slice until its thickness is existentially zero).

My calculus prof put it like this, “Let’s say you’re walking between classes and there’s a lovely young co-ed about 10 feet ahead of you. If every step you take reduces the distance between you by 10% from the prior step, you will never reduce the distance to zero, but you will definitely get close enough to ask for her telephone number.”

An interesting financial view of the oil price situation.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/76446-g-7-central-bankers-stymied-by-crude-oil-vigilantes

“Yet it’s increasingly obvious to most casual observers that the biggest culprit behind the historic rally in crude oil is the Bush administration itself, which has put enormous political pressure on the Federal Reserve to slash the federal funds rate by 325-basis points to 2% and crushed the value of the US dollar in the process. That’s unleashed the “crude oil vigilantes,” who have jacked-up “black gold” by $55 per barrel since the Fed’s rate cutting spree began last August.”

Bash Bush, Bash Bush–tooo bad he’s not running again–boo hoo, have to start all over unless the amazin’ Bam wins, then Hallelujah and GD America!! We can bees proud NOW! Yassuh! Uh huh, de “Bama gonna save us now! Testifyyyyyyy!

For those of you who want to make the comparison to how the Left reported the run up to the Mookie al Sadr surrender and how disingeuosly it was being reported, right up until the time the surrender came, Ace puts up an excellent post here:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/262131.php

You’ll likely recognize the rhetoric in the subject post as being quite familiar, examples of which have been posted hre by at least three other commenters.

# 39 L2

Me also. They were real honeys

And Mike, if the Fed hadn’t slashed the Rate and we had a full fledged deep recession–it’d be Bush’s fault cuz he didn’t do anything to stop it. There no winning!

#45/48 -

Yeah, it is so shameful - those horrible devout capitalists dissing Bush.

CYA, man, CYA

Like I said, it’s a no win situation. I have never understood why anyone in their right mind would ever want to be pPresident–must be a masochistic thing.

Terror arrest in UK.

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1049118_man_held_in_antiterror_probe_

“Mr Butt, 31, is understood to have arrived at Terminal 2 and bought a ticket to Lahore, Pakistan, 45 minutes before the Pakistan International Airlines flight was due to leave.”

And reality, as always, is stranger than fiction.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iWZXcYDoSB3_wHJJSmD6MH__8OpQD90GASN02

“Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals”

“”It’s kind of weird. We’re coming over here to fight the Taliban. We see this. We know it’s bad. But at the same time we know it’s the only way locals can make money,” said 1st Lt. Adam Lynch, 27, of Barnstable, Mass.”

#40 mhmm and guys can’t figure out how to load and operate a dishwasher……. I knew y’all knew more than ya let on!

AW

A dishwasher maybe. Now the last time I loaded a washing machine I was banished from the laundry room.

Bubbles everywhere, steaming from the washer like ash from a volcano and all of the clothes turned a red color. I guess I should have color tested the towels before I loaded them with the rest of the stuff.

But being single again has it’s rewards. Send the laundry out to be done and leave the good dishes alone. When you get through eating cleanup is simple. Throw the plasting away.

plasting = plastic

In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day…

And Ron Paul, then a young congressman from Intercourse, Pennsylvania, roundly criticized the move stating, “The President had no constitutional authority to make such declarations. Mark my words. This will lead to blowback.”

Oh, had we only listened.

Valentine’s Day
Mothers Day
Fathers Day
Sweetest Day
Christmas in July
Secretary’s Day
Friendship Day
Sisters’ Day
National Day of Prayer
Cinco de Mayo
National Nurses Day
Grandparents Day
Patriot Day
Citizenship Day
Clergy Appreciation Month
National Children’s Day
Columbus Day
National Boss Day
United Nations Day
Groundhog Day
National Doctors’ Day

http://newsroom.hallmark.com/Holiday

We should withdraw from United Nations Day! Fire cain’t melt steel!

DJ You would be so proud of me… I tackled my front flower bed. It’s about 9×12 oval…. weeded, planted and mulched….. 4.5 hours … finished… wheeeeeeee

As an after thought I don’t know who is blackest, the flowerbed with the black mulch or me!

Iron, you can talk tough as much you want to, the truth is attack on Iran will not be a cake walk.
First of all Iran war will not be fought in Iran.
Yes, you heard me right!
US attack will be responded fiercly by Rusia, Red China and North Korea- all nuclear prowess.
These Nuclear giants have massive investments in Iran , don’t expect them to remain seated crossed leg and not protect their investments.
Any attack on Iran will be deemed as an attack on them also.
It is interesting to note that those people who took us to Iraq under false pretence are the same who want to attack.
Cheany, who has never served a day in the military is the champion to lead an attack on Iran from the comfort of his basement hide out!

Kent - Seeking Alpha is THE preeminent website when it come to the markets and economics. Unfortunately for you they are not ideologically driven cheerleaders who blindly support Bush no matter what. The rate cuts have not prevented a recession. But they have increased inflation. For all we know we may be in a recession right now.

I guess the truth hurts…

I wonder if the media is going to cover this as much they talked about Jeremiah Wright? Why do I get the feeling the answer is no?

“After John McCain nailed down the Republican nomination in March, his campaign began wrestling with a sensitive personnel issue: who would manage this summer’s GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.? The campaign recently tapped Doug Goodyear for the job, a veteran operative and Arizonan who was chosen for his “management experience and expertise,” according to McCain press secretary Jill Hazelbaker. But some allies worry that Goodyear’s selection could fuel perceptions that McCain—who has portrayed himself as a crusader against special interests—is surrounded by lobbyists. Goodyear is CEO of DCI Group, a consulting firm that earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients.

Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma’s military junta, which had been strongly condemned by the State Department for its human-rights record and remains in power today. Justice Department lobbying records show DCI pushed to “begin a dialogue of political reconciliation” with the regime. It also led a PR campaign to burnish the junta’s image, drafting releases praising Burma’s efforts to curb the drug trade and denouncing “falsehoods” by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.”

http://www.newsweek.com/id/136321

#63 Hoouston Dem–Ummm, Newsweek isn’t a member of the MSM?

Correction, Houston

#55 Dov

Dude you still using plastic? I use paper plates when for some reason I can’t eat directly from the container it came in. The only appliances I need are a freezer and a microwave. I do use plastic spoons or forks as I need them then toss them. My house guest gets hungry we load up and head to Maggyville for respite. I keep plenty of fresh fruit, bottled water, ice cream in those little 3 oz. containers, you know single servings. Before I moved to the woods I had a really nice Vietnamese chick that did my laundry. I would come home from work and all my laundry would be clean and folded in the proper place the house cleaned, the dog bathed once a week. When I was in the shower she would lay out my clothes on the bed in the order I would put them on. I even taught her how to clean my gun. She also shined shoes. She went and ruined it all by wanting to get married and have children, women can be so inconsiderate.

To all of the Mother’s out there..Happy Mother’s Day tomorrow!

25 REASONS WE OWE OUR MOTHERS.

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE .
‘If you’re going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning.’

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
‘You better pray that will come out of the carpet.’

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL .
‘If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!’

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
‘ Because I said so, that’s why.’

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC .
‘If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.’

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
‘Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident.’

7. My mother taught me IRONY
‘Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about.’

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
‘Shut your mouth and eat your supper.’

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM .
‘Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!’

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
‘You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone.’

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
‘This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it.’

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
‘If I told you once, I’ve told you a million times. Don’t exaggerate!’

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE .
‘I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.’

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
‘Stop acti ng like your father!’

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
‘There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do.’

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
‘Just wait until we get home.’

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING .
‘You are going to get it when you get home!’

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
‘If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way.’

19. My mother taught me ESP.
‘Put your sweater on; don’t you think I know when you are cold?’

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
‘When that lawn mower cuts off your f oot, don’t come running to me.’

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT .
‘If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up.’

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
‘You’re just like your father.’

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
‘Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?’

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
‘When you get to be my age, you’ll understand.’

25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE ‘One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.’

Regarding the O.C. picture, did anyone comment on the Center Point ruler? They have several scales. Is this a peak demand ruler, weekend rate ruler, off peak ruler, residential ruler, or etc. ?

And OK, a US dime is there for scale but is it adjusted for inflation? Is it a new ’steely’ ?

/back to the grill

#62 houstondem

There is nothing wrong with SeekingAlpha.com as a source to survey a variety of opinions on the financial markets. The website is a news and opinion aggregator for several hundred authors. You might, on Monday, find an article posted with an oppposing or alternative view of Gary Dorsch’s take on Bush monetary policy.

I think it is important to point out there is not a specific, reigning economic/political philosophy at seekingalpha that could be characterized as pro or con regarding the Bush administration. There has been, to be sure, abundant criticism of this administration there, but I don’t think it is fair to describe them as anything but a large crowd of financial pros expressing their widely varied opinions.

I don’t know what I’ve done to upset the powers that be on this site, but it seems to me that my last 3or 4 comments have disappeared. If you don’t want me, please email me and I’ll spread my brand of ’stream of consciousness’/ obtuseness somewhere else. I know I have a few people whe are civil to me. What’d I DO?

#68 gtotracker It’s a “Nubian Ruler”

american woman #14;

Senator Cornyn speaking out on something that’s anti-conservative is both good news AND a miracle. Culberson, however, is a true stellar representative.

Here’s the man that should be Israel’s next Prime Minister: “Authentic Jewish Leadership For Israel”

http://www.jewishisrael.org/

The Likud Party is headed for a major victory in the Knesset (Israel’s Parliament) and should prove a formidable roadblock to Bush’s suicidal “peace” policy for Israel (ergo; give everything to the Palestinians). About time.

How do you say “long live Israel” in Hebrew?

Darren

Please give us some examples of Bush’s

“Give verything to the Palestinians” policies.

sargevining;

I don’t know how to do multiple blockquotes so I’ll probably break them up into separate posts, starting with this one. I’m not spamming, I just want to emphasise certain events.

Both Bush and Condeleeza said giving away the gaza Strip was “an important first step”.

On that:

Factional fighting in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 13 people, including eight in one incident when Hamas and Fatah gunmen clashed near a border crossing with Israel. Hamas militants also fired a barrage of rockets into southern Israel, wounding several people. VOA’s Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2007/05/mil-070515-voa03.htm

sarge;

JERUSALEM, March 30 — Prodded by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Israel said Sunday that it would remove about 50 roadblocks in the West Bank as it moves ahead with faltering negotiations aimed at reaching a peace deal with the Palestinians by the end of the year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/03/30/ST2008033001979.html

These roadblock removals began months before this article was written.

And has lead to things such as the following:

JERUSALEM – An Israeli-Arab terrorist group that says it works for Hezbollah has claimed credit for today’s mass shooting attack inside a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary that killed at least eight Jewish students.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58206

sarge;

DIVIDE JERUSALEM:

JERUSALEM – The United States, which has been mediating negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority here, has proposed a plan to divide Jerusalem, WND has learned.

The plan, divided into separate phases, among other things calls for Israel eventually to forfeit parts of the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=61197

sarge;

Affect of removing roadblocks (key in Bush’s “peace” policy)

Military authorities leading the campaign against Palestinian terror told DEBKAfile Monday, April 28, that the removal of the permanent roadblock at Asariya a-Shemaliya north of the West Bank town of Nablus lays the entire area including central Israel open to terrorist attacks which that very roadblock had long been a key element in frustrating…

Worried anti-terror planners offer dire predictions:

1. The roadblock’s removal enables a link-up between the terrorist strongholds of Jenin and Nablus and helps them strengthen their networks in both.

2. The intense security effort invested by the army and security service in building a counter-terror shield in this part of the West Bank is brought to naught. The sleeper cells of armed Palestinian factions long quiescent in Saida, Beit Iba, Deir Sharaf and Beit Lid between Nablus and Tulkarm will now have unimpeded access to weapons, explosives, reinforcements and an exchange of intelligence for their reactivation.

The murder of two Israelis at Nitsanei Oz across the border from Tulkarm on April 25 was the first sign of these terrorist cells are stirring. They will be further energized by the removal of the key roadblock Monday.

3. They will now have a clear path from the northern West Bank to the trans-Israeli Highway 6 and the Israeli heartland cities of Netanya, Kfar Saba, Rosh Ha’ayin and Hadera.

One military source said to DEBKAfile: “The countdown has begun for the next suicide attack in Israel.

So just let the terrorists right on in. kind of like our southern border, eh?

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5224

There’s more on how Condeleeza tooks sides with the Palestinians (calling them freedom fighters) against Eduh Barak, israel’s defense minister when Eduh decided to strike back at the Palestinans who have launched over 22,000 rockets upon Israel since the Gaza was given to them. Also, Bush, while saying Israel had a right to defend itself in its little war against Hezbollah, Bush moved to seek “peace” negotiations in that fight, bringing in the United Nincompoops to keep the “peace”. Since then the Palestinians have rearmed with more powerful and technologically advanced weaponry.

So according to my posts 75-78, do the Jews get half of Islams’ holiest site (if I’m not mistaken Jerusalem itself is to be divided with the Palestinians as well)? Do the Jews get to expand into lands currently held by the Palestinians? Are the Jews considered “freedom fighters” as well?

It’s give a Palestinians everything policy. That’s how liberal-lovin’ Bush seeks “peace”

Darren10, Glenn Beck replayed Netanyohu’s (spelling?) 2006 interview last night. He said that it is crazy to give anything up since Iran’s leader has stated he wants to wipe Israel off the map. ( He also said that a sane person would have lied to us, saying to Isarl, I’ll be your friend now and switch later.)… Makes sense to me. looks like the prophecies are getting closer; both here and there. Secret combinations anyone?

pimlico;

Yes, there’s plenty of evidence of secret combinations out htere (North American Union, favoring the buli up of the Satanic Death Worshipping factin of Islam, and others). The man I originally referred to in post #73 is Moshe Feiglin. He gave a very simple example of acheiving peace. He pointed to the southern border of Syria where there has been an extended amount of peace. Why? Because that land was used to launch attacks upon Israel and so israel took that land and subdeued the enemy there. There’s your peace process. It works.

Here’s a direct link to Moshe Feiglin. The should be next Israel Prime minister (if only Duncan Hunter became our next President…aahhhhhhh…OK back to reality ). Believe me, Feiglin’s the man!!!

http://www.jewishisrael.org/jewish_leadership/meetmoshelong.htm

And my friend Cary Wesberry from Pat Gray’s site has done a thoroughly extensive research and posts on what’s happening in Israel. If *anything* has happened or is happening, Cary’s posted it. The drawback is that he has a Townhall.com site and it had a very poor seach abiity (OK, I’ve yet to find it at all on his site). So if you wat anything specific, you’ll have to scroll through it manually.

http://carywesberry.blogtownhall.com/

Darren, As Rush says, don’t placate your enemies (political or military) defeat them! It reminds me of the story of thelittle old lady in Chicago or was it New York, who walks around with 1000’s of dollars in her purse at night because: She’s the Mother of a Mafia Don who will most certainly recompense anyone foolish enough to abuse his Mother. ( sorry about the mixed metaphor from the last post, since by definition, Mafia IS a Secret Combo) Thanks for the elaborate details, I’ll work through them later.

Two more links to read up on Israel (just sent to me from Cary):

http://www.debka.com/ (Homepage)

and

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.aspx?GUID=59f03c00-4031-4eae-8b93-58def69a3fd2

Darren 10, My big thing right now is the urgency of blaming Congress for the Low dollar= high Oil price. I realize that there are other things at play but if we could rise up NOW during the election and put a large % of the blame on Congress for spending way too much I think it is the best opportunity for the next six months. In addition, Make them read every bill. Lobby for a LINE ITEM VOTE on all legislation. Give them a bigger staff if needed. No more ” …well it was a generally a good Bill but there were some things I didn’t like in it.” I’m going to keep pushing for these things I know it’s an uphill battle.

God night folks

#77 Darren10

I agree with much of what you say in all your Israel/Palestinian posts above. However, I have a real problem with Farah’s World Net Daily and the way they cite, or rather don’t actually cite, a supposedly key source. The Aaron Klein article claims WND has obtained the confidential US plan to divide Jerusalem and then does not quote one single sentence from said report. Nor does WND provide even anonymous sources for quotation or reference.

I was a fan of WND in the early days, but they lost my confidence long ago when they decided their authority exceeded their obligation to back up their claims. Aaron Klein is a remarkably hard working, persistent and very young journalist who comes up with some great original material, yet I’m disappointed he continues his association with WND.

Furthermore, I have been very disappointed in the direction Rice and Bush have veered into in the last couple of years with Israel, particularly since the electoral victories of Hamas in Palestine. The ramrod straight determination of George Bush in his first term has sadly faded in the second.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm

Good news on the global warming front. Check it out.

textpat #87;

Great points. I agree with your WND assesment and over recent months I too have decreased my confidence in ther reporting but the issue cited over dividing Jerusalem has been coorborated by other news reports.

Here’s one:

JERUSALEM — Israel’s new government is drawing up a blueprint for dividing the holy city of Jerusalem _ a once inconceivable notion _ giving the Palestinians nearly all the Arab neighborhoods while holding onto Jewish areas and disputed holy shrines.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/04/AR2006050400940.html

Not only have I been frustrated with Bush but I want him impeached. believe you me, if I had the power I’d have him walk before my court, shackled, and sentence him to prison until Ramos, compean, Aleman, Hernandez, Brugman, and the Pendleton 8 all unaminously, agree to his release. And what he’s doing to Israel in unspeakable dangerous. He’s the leader of the free world for crying out loud. Does he love freedom or doesn’t he?

pimlico # 85;

Line Item Veto? Absolutely yes.
Read the bills? Absolutely Yes.

Great issues to promote.

As for the dollar, yes, you can blame Congress (Dem-controlled) but Bush and the Repukecans are also to blame. The FED (Federal Reserve Bank - *NO* gov’t affiliation - officially) is also a huge, huge, HUGE, factor in devaluing the dollar.

Okay I am not impressed with the college’s way of handling elections…let me just say we should be very glad that the county handles most of our elections and not the people at the college. Wouldn’t you think that’s enough a reason not to give them any more money??? I’m too tired and disgusted to talk about it now but maybe by Monday I will tell you guys what I mean about missing supplies and such. I just thought I was gonna be excited to get the $10/hr over the county’s $7/hr…now I know it’s because of all the extra headaches involved.

Aaron Klein;

Speaking of him:

Klein to discuss Obama-Hamas story on Fox

WND Jerusalem bureau chief broke story of terror group’s praise for Democrat candidate

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63977

Hopefully, Israel will be able to sort out its’ own political crisis in short time.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/10/israelandthepalestinians

Is it Offishully Mothers Day yet ?

we lost

Keyboard broken ! Back to bed ! Bah Humbug !

A lovely reminder of how Mother’s Day can be in the State of Texas if you wear clothes that just seem weird:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5770183.html

Well now that I’m a year older by the time I found vote counts from KISD school board election……….BUMMER - not one of the 3 CLOUT folks won dangit!

#96 Sheesh! This again???? It’s not about “funny clothes” - it’s about MOLESTING and impregnating CHILDREN! Why is this so hard to understand?

Shhhhh, myheadhurts! Can’t talk about that. Only certain people have rights and only certain others have the ability to understand the real issue. Who cares about the opinions of the MHMR professionals who were actually there? Probably just quacks, you know?

Hunnerth! Happy Mother’s day to all of you moms out there!

Good morning all. Honor to mothers and foster mothers today, those selfless souls who give all to guide, nurture, and protect their children. Not to forget Godmothers who take that honor seriously.
Thank you for them, Lord.

When I was growing up it was a lovely custom for women and young women to wear corsages on Mother’s Day, white flowers for those whose mothers had passed away and red for those whose mothers were living. Wonder if this was a Midwest custom or if it was obsesrved more widely. I’m sure it’s a relic now.

Restaurants will be jammed most of today. Bet many were very busy yesterday in rehearesal for today’s celebration.

A respite from the humidity flies in on gusty winds
this morning; the windchimes happily ring and sway. An audacious pair of Carolina wrens are comandeering a hanging basket for a home. What little rain there was missed us completely. Sigh.

Myheadhurts and BigJ, this was why I screamed so loud in the beginning. I am, however, going to not jump all over the ” I told you so ” thing, because this is just one article, and we have to wait and see.

But ( here’s the but monkey, as Laura would say) I heard a judge on Dan’s show state the things these women would need to do to have their children returned. If the chronicle article is true, and these women’s rights were abused, children were found to be healthy and happy, maybe these kids can be returned to their moms.

Adee I didn’t get enough rain to wet the ground, but it looks like we might still get some. The wrens are still taking suet, and my two blocks are only lasting about 3 days! I found out why, the doves could reach them….. so am moving them to make it more difficult. I cannot be buying suet block every 3 days! Greedy dove.

#104 Will trade you the greedy dove for whatever is living in my attic. Put out a cage trap but it steals the bait (peanut butter and crackers) and doesn’t trip it. It also makes one heck-uv-a noise around 4 AM.

Oh My Liz, it’s squirrels, racoons or rats most likey. Find the opening, but before you seal the opening, I was told put a radio up there and blare it to get them to leave. Then seal it up. Under my eaves , the mesh wire on some of the vents is missing, and that’s my entrance. I have the covers to seal the openings, but need the ladder and the man to do it! hehe

#100 - You are right about that. If you worship at something other than a state approved religious facility, look out. You could be burned alive or kidnapped by your government, and no one will come to your rescue.

Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
With it being Mothers Day, this goes out to all the moms and future moms…..

Before I was a Mom,
I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn’t worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.
Before I was a Mom -
I had never been puked on.
Pooped on.
Chewed on.
Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom,
I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests.
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom,
I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn’t want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn’t
stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom -
I didn’t know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn’t know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn’t know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn’t know that something so small could make me feel so
important and happy.
Before I was a Mom -
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache,
the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn’t know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a
Mom.

Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers (the maternal ones, not the others)

#107 - Another viewpoint of life in the religion of fundamentalist followers of Mormon’s Joseph Smith and Warren Jeffs.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/viewpoints/articles/0511vip-jessop0511.html

“Merril Jessop, my ex-husband - who is now the most powerful man in the FLDS and running the compound in Texas - said Harrison’s cancer was a sign that God was punishing me for my rebellion. He told me it was a waste of time to take Harrison to doctors and said God would heal him if I became more obedient.”

“I dreamed about what freedom would mean for my children. What I never imagined was the extraordinary gift freedom would give me: I would finally learn what it means to be a mother.”

#90 Darren 10, Your right, but the Congress gets away with it because THEY seen to be below the radar.

Potential political fallout from the YFZ raid.

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700224775,00.html

“”Unfortunately, the FLDS issue has probably elevated considerations about what Romney’s faith would do to the ticket,” said Kirk Jowers, director of the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics and an early backer of Romney’s failed presidential bid.”