Ah, isn’t it nice to be juxtaposed with Che Guevara on your left and Yassir Arafat on your right ? A charmed existence, to be sure. A man of leisure, above class distinction, a man beyond constraints of ethnicity and requirements of achievement and challenge….the age of the metrosexual messiah.
The ACLU says they’re keeping an eye on this situation in Memphis, where the head of the Police Department and City Attorneys have filed suit against AOL to learn the identities of bloggers who have been critical of the department.
Good. We obviously can’t trust any level of government to uphold the Constitution.
The lawsuit asks AOL to produce all information related to the identity of an e-mail address linked to MPD Enforcer 2.0, a blog popular with police officers that has been extremely critical of police leadership at 201 Poplar.
“In what could be a landmark case of privacy and the 1st Amendment,” the anonymous bloggers write on the site, “Godwin has illegally used his position and the City of Memphis as a ram to ruin the Constitution of the United States.
Some of the bloggers are apparently Memphis Police Officers, and the department claims it is concerned that information might be leaked that could threaten ongoing “investigations.”
From one of the recent front page posts:
Several female officers at the Raines Station have filed suit against the City and the Police Department. Female officers routinely get their breasts and ass grabbed by male officers. Female P2P’s were advised by their FTO to have sex with them or receive bad evals and termination. Raines Station Officers offered cash to female officers in exchange for sex. When the female officers complained they were advised to shut up or bid if they didnt like the working conditions. Law Suit is pending.
Can you say pay day!
It’s not officially Milton Friedman week yet, but as always, “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
It looks like 5 indictments have been handed down in the YFZ ranch case. Jeff’s and e others. Charges range from child endangerment, polygamy, to sexual assault of a child. Jeff’s is the only one named, at this point. They are all men.
Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, is fighting the border fence. He believes we need to develope the economy in Mexico. Guess what his ” other ” job is? Could it be Realtor, Developer? Surely this mayor would not want the border wide open so he could hire cheap labor for his home development. Why, that’s not what a citizen of this country, serving a public office would want, Is it?
Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster chairs the Texas Border Coalition, a group of mayors, county judges, and community leaders along the Texas-Mexico border. Foster and coalition members have repeatedly traveled to Washington, D.C., since 2006 trying to get congressional leaders and Bush administration officials to listen to their concerns over border policy, including plans to build a fence. “This fence will only detain an illegal entry three to four minutes, and we feel for $49 billion dollars we can do better,” Foster says.
Say lavish up your “funny” bone with “Obama Love” live at the Mc Cain! Please let me know what ya’ll think! Actually, this a wonderful opportunity to check out the latest enthralling commentaries (vis-a-vis video) critiquing the new failed surge in Iraq? Sad, but the “OB” guy can’t be serious?
Rush has 3 minutes of Obama’s interview from Monday night…….. stuttering. You think GW has a problem spontaneously speaking? Obama is right up there with uhhhh, uhhhh, mispronunciation, and imperfect Ebonics.
“Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), chairman of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, introduced legislation today to provide financial assistance to vulnerable Americans struggling to survive under crushing gasoline prices.”
“The Emergency Gasoline Assistance Act (H.R. 6561) would create a program to provide $5 billion to states as a one-time grant with the money designated to provide assistance to families of modest means to purchase gasoline. This program could provide every family that is currently living below the federal poverty threshold with $500 in assistance. State governors would have the flexibility to use the money to create programs that target the specific needs of their communities.”
Of course that means that these gals will finally be able to get off thier butts and get a job:
wagonburner - I have this one. I call it my Midtown shirt. Whenever I go down to the midtown pubs I wear it just to see the look on the rich, white liberals’ faces. One girl called me a Nazi one time. LOL! I can only assume she thinks commies ARE cool.
#11 - Obama stuttering. At least he’s contemplating his response, answering serious questions with serious, thought-out responses. Seriously, AW, we’ve been exposed to “Bushism’s” for 8 years and his spontaneity has given us a black-eye (”evil doers”, “Axis of Evil”, “bring ‘em on”, etc.) both with our allies and those on the sidelines. GWB, the annointed one, was raised is such wealth & promise, he’s always been able to say anything and there were enough grovelers & groupies in his entourage to agree. Now we’ve got someone who contemplates; not someone who opens mouth, inserts foot….. IMHO
GWB, the annointed one, was raised is such wealth & promise, he’s always been able to say anything and there were enough grovelers & groupies in his entourage to agree.
You have got to be kidding!!! Anointed??? Obama is seen as without sin by 40% of the voters and all of the MSM. We haven’t seen this many groveling groupies since the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show!
It’s going to be a long campaign season which is a bad thing for “BO”. His handlers can only protect him so much. It is obvious that “BO” is lost without his podium, teleprompter and a prepared text. He is a good orator but a lousy ad libber. The liberal media has made “BO” more narcisistic and it is showing as he acts like President already during his overseas trip which is suppose to be “fact finding” and not foreign policy negotiating. The overcoverage by the big three alphabet channels is their biased way of pushing their candidate. They are making news rather than reporting it but this is what liberal media does.
#13 - the demographics of those living in poverty include higher percentages of minorities, while those at the upper tiers of income are overwhelmingly “white”. So, it seems there is a systemic at play; minority = poverty; white = higher income. Why is that?
Reply to No. 23: How can you say “minority = poverty”? Don’t the “minority” have their share of “higher income” people like all professional athletes, entertainers and drug dealers? Each ethnic group has their share of rich, middle income and poor. Some groups get exploited more than others.
#25 liz
Not sure exactly, but there is a higher percentage of people with college degrees living in large cities, where the Dems do better. Higher ed. is also biased more toward the young. Many in my parents’ generation didn’t go to college at all, but either ran their own businesses or worked their way up through the ranks when college degrees were not a job requirement.
#23 stan
It’s a leftover from pre-civil rights days, compounded by the Great Society programs. Poor minorities, especially blacks, were essentially told by the Dems that they could not make it without help from the gov’t. When it became much easier to stay at home and get a check, many did. The gov’t giving more money to unwed mothers provided great incentive for these minorities to have more babies w/o benefit of both parents. This has destroyed the black family in the inner cities and has been compounded by more liberal policies that do not require self-improvement efforts on the part of the recipients.
See the Katrina leeches for a more recent example of this mindset.
Good morning all. Light rain at 5:30 and 74, progessing to moderate rain. Salvation for the yard and flowers since nothing is better than God’s rain.
Alaska continued: On the wilderness tour bus in Denali, sedately rolling along the paved park road just beyond the entrance, through the trees on the hillsides, steadily upward, sunshine casting mottled bright patches, we have no idea what awaits as this seems like any other exquisite northern forested park. Not so. And the naturalist/driver is preparing everyone for what lies ahead as well as describing what we pass through now. Our naturalist is a lady from Indiana who fell in love with the place 16 years ago and has been back every summer to indulge in the wonders of the place and be paid to boot.
The Preserve portion is Nature’s domain with minimal human interface. Physicists may posit that by merely observing something we change it. In this case by our observation it changes us. Pretty much everyone finds the experience awesome, a chance to see wonderful vistas and animals around every bend in the road. The park rangers survey regularly to determine which areas should be temporarily off limits to hikers/backpackers so as not to disturb resident animals or plants.
One such place so designated was a red fox den up on a hillside; the parents deserved privacy raising their kits without intrusion. Saw the fox and vixen stroll out of the den but no kits appeared while we stopped. Could not tell who was who at a distance; one was chestnut red and the other more golden with white-tipped tail. Coat colors vary, white-tipped tails are a constant. It is not certain if they mate for life, but they do remain a couple until the kits are grown an on their own.
On down the road and through a pass someone spotted movement high up on a ledge. Binoculars out, directions where to look, and the prize was a golden eagle regally surveying the road and bus. He/she blended with the background and was hard to see at first. After a few moments looking at us looking at him, he took off and flew in a graceful, lazy wide arc far above the bus, then landed on the ledge and resumed watching us. Off again and ever upward we rounded a bend and saw high on a hilltop (mountain top?) scattered white dots. Stopped to see what that might be. Snow patches? There were plenty scattererd about. A dot moved, then another. They were Dall sheep resting near the top in little flat spots on the impossibly steep slopes. The close-up view made us womder if only Velcro could anchor them there. But no, they balance on their own, and soon several got up and moved over the summit. They have curved horns and are often mistaken for mountain goats.
Moving on and around more bends, down in a green valley someone saw a honey-colored lump and a smaller brown lump following. It was a momma grizzly and her cub trailing behind. Mom was eating steadily and only occasionally raised her head as she moved along a small hill; baby periodically ran to almost catch up and then got distracted with something interesting. Mom disappeared over the hill and suddenly baby was serious about catching up. We wondered where a second cub might be, as there ususally are two born. No sign of another so perhaps something had happened to it.
Around Fairbanks we had seen bluebonnets growing wild; they were mountain lupine that look just like our Texas bluebonnets. In Denali the bluebonnets are arctic lupine and more lavender blue, taller and thinner with smaller blossoms that look less like bonnets. Beautiful indeed and easily identified as kin to ours, we had to linger over them at rest stops.
“In Denali everything is moving. Wind and water, flora and fauna, all seem to be engaged in a struggle to keep pace with each other–and with the seasons, which have the most restless spirit of all.” Source: Denali, A Living Tapestry , A Wilderness Tour Companion: Alaska Geographic in conjunction with the National Park Service, p. 27.
#24 - cute, hamous; surely you don’t really believe it..
#25 - the more educated won’t be bamboozzled by GWB’s ilk anymore…. John McCain’s morphed into GWB-Lite
#26 - cute, RobertM, but maybe a tad mean-spirited; entertainers, athletes & drug dealers make up the upper income tiers of minorities. Including drug dealers in the category tells me and others more about you than we might want to know. Even if you would have checked your tackyness at the door and only referred to entertainers and athletes as making up the bulk of minorities having wealth, why is that? Why are there so many minorities at the bottom of the income scale and so few at the top?
#28 - Could it be perhaps there’s a more prominent reason? With so few minorities (especially African Americans) in the top executive jobs (as well as mid-management), those 50, 60, 70 year olds, who worked on garbage trucks, janitorial and cleaning jobs, don’t provide the mentorship to influence the younger generation to join the system? On the other hand, does the system refuse to accept the non-conformity that many African Americans portray?
The system says: you must conform (college degree, right friends, right behaviour patterns, good family stock, etc.)
Minority system says: screw-you, you never helped my daddy, mama, grandfather, grandma, you ignore us, you talk ebonics to us, you never come into our neighborhoods….
Does the system inhibit minorities?
Do minorities distrust the system?
#33 - yes, kp59, there is a huge wall that’s growing taller between the have’s and the have-not’s. The median income is very low right now, which means more and more people are making less and those in the higher income percentiles are growing more distant from those with lesser incomes. Sort of like what’s been going on in Venezuela…… look what its done to that oil-producing nation.
But instead of singing kumbayah, why not something by Rick James?
#35 - Adee, 2 of the 3 fought for recognition, acceptance and justice. The 3rd is following the rules of our system and will either earn his position through the lawful electorial process or he won’t.
Che’s South American “revolution” was a response to some of the worst governmental oppression ever witnessed. Unfortunately, for us, our CIA was a little too close to the oppressors and we’ve had a black-eye ever since.
Arafat’s struggle goes back to the Arab seething of Great Britain & France allowing jewish refugees to establish a homeland and displace over a million Arabs. Sort of like the our forefathers did to the Indians. But our forefathers weren’t as politically correct as the Jews who occupied Arab lands. Our guys exterminated the Indians. By the time European diseases and muskets, cannons and tactics finished with the Indian’s, they were practically extinct. The Jews on the other hand tried to placate the Arabs, but this once proud people wouldn’t buy into it. So now they seethe. And the world is troubled.
#40, #41 #42 - I see the venue I’m in and I recognize if one is not a right-wing, religious right, Rush Limbaugh type, he/she will be less than welcomed on this forum. Watch out kp59. You’re much to the right of me, but your focus on feminine issues might get you in trouble here.
Its interesting that all of your responses poked fun (or minimized) my opinion and did not address any point or disagreement that you had with what I posted. That’s what I call a shallow debate.
#41, Adee, would you call Pinochet & Peron murdering thugs, or does it only apply to those with whom you disagree?
When I hear someone talking up Che, I tend to not react as quickly because he died 40+ years ago and a cottage industry has sprung up touting a fairy tale. I can see how a young person could be fooled by that and needs education.
I cannot for the life of me see how anyone could think that Arafat was a hero in any sense of the word. The man’s terrorism is still here today, killing people. He died only 4 years ago. I just don’t get that.
On the other hand, does the system refuse to accept the non-conformity that many African Americans portray?
Which non-conformity is this? The non-comformity that learning is “acting white”? The non-confirmity of calling each other the n-word and getting outraged when a white person uses a scientific term like black hole? Or is it the non-comformit of rap artists that sing about sodomizing the underage nieces of Al Gore and abusing women?
Are you actually telling us that society should accept such lunacy?
#43 - Basara, I never have posted here before. All of my post have expressed my feelings and beliefs. I’ve tried to do it in a polite way and stimulate debate, or to have fun. Do I make you uncomfortable because we may differ on our views of politics and religion? Should I be banned because you don’t like what I say?
Stan, you should read up a little more on native American history. White Europeans didn’t invent conquest. The Aztecs were brutal slavemasters. The Cherokee were slaveowners and sided with the Confederacy during the War Between the States. The Inca, Aztec and Mayans all practiced human sacrifice. The Arab Sudanese are as we speak are enslaving, torturing, and murdering black Sudanese on a horrific scale. The sins of men know no ethnic boundaries. It’s not just a white thing.
#38: “Arafat’s struggle goes back to the Arab seething of Great Britain & France allowing jewish refugees to establish a homeland and displace over a million Arabs.”
The palestinians had their chance and they rejected it. They appeared to have an all or nothing mentality. Surrounding arab states promised them that they would wipe Isreal out and the palestinians would have it all. As we know they were not successful. Besides supplying arms to the palestinians I have not seen much evidence of their arab brothers helping them out much. Too much victim rhetoric.
Arafat was not much different than Jesse Jackson and his type who make a career out of saying they are helping while actually undermining their people and keeping them down. Much of the systemic problems with blacks or palestinians not becoming successful can be traced to their own front door.
From Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
A Primer
By Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar
“On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and the other Arab. The UN partition plan divided the country in such a way that each state would have a majority of its own population, although some Jewish settlements would fall within the proposed Palestinian state and many Palestinians would become part of the proposed Jewish state. The territory designated to the Jewish state would be slightly larger than the Palestinian state (56 percent and 43 percent of Palestine, respectively) on the assumption that increasing numbers of Jews would immigrate there. According to the UN partition plan, the area of Jerusalem and Bethlehem was to become an international zone.
Most Arabs regarded the proposed Jewish state as a settler colony .
Publicly, the Zionist leadership accepted the UN partition plan, although they hoped somehow to expand the borders allotted to the Jewish state. The Palestinian Arabs and the surrounding Arab states rejected the UN plan and regarded the General Assembly vote as an international betrayal. Some argued that the UN plan allotted too much territory to the Jews. Most Arabs regarded the proposed Jewish state as a settler colony and argued that it was only because the British had permitted extensive Zionist settlement in Palestine against the wishes of the Arab majority that the question of Jewish statehood was on the international agenda at all.”
#34 stan
You have a couple of valid points, but the elder blacks lost their influence over the younger members of their society when the gov’t started paying single mothers to have more children. The basic family unit was destroyed by these gov’t programs.
Couple this with all the revolution BS that was happening at the same time (60’s & early 70’s) and you get a societal meltdown. You take a bunch of disaffected young men whose worth has been greatly diminished and see themselves with no opportunities because of the preaching of the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, et al. and what do you think you’ll wind up with?
These groups/people incited the blacks in the inner cities to riot. This ended up destroying the physical infrastructure of the cities. Business owners started moving away to safer areas, so what jobs were available went away with them. No jobs=no future. Gangs really started forming since they gave the young males a place where they felt they belong. Presto! you have today’s situation.
An aside: the business owners often lost everything or a substantial part of their investments due to the civil unrest. Read an insurance policy; most have explicit exclusions for war, civil unrest, and other breakdowns of society.
Che’s South American “revolution” was a response to some of the worst governmental oppression ever witnessed. Unfortunately, for us, our CIA was a little too close to the oppressors and we’ve had a black-eye ever since.
Yeah, the people of Cuba really threw off their chains with Fidel and his ax-man Che.
Havana used to be a true garden spot. A vibrant modern city. Now it’s yet another third-world hellhole.
To paraphrase Miracle Max in “The Princess Bride”:
“Look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here isn’t extinct. He’s practically extinct.”
You know, kinda like mostly dead, but not all dead. You know wagonburner, there’s only one thing left to do if you’re all extinct. Roll you over and look for loose change.
Leave Arafat alone. After all, he’s only murdering Jews. It’s not like he’s going after the poor or minorities. And he only exhales hydrogen, so he has nothing to do with Global Warming. And he doesn’t bathe, so he isn’t impacting our fresh water sources.
wagon, basara, hamous, you guyz at least have a sense of humor. We have that in common, although we disagee politically.
hamous, wagon was right; you’d have lost that bet. I am most proud of our country. I served 3-years in the US Army and my support for our GI’s burns strong and proud. I owe our country a debt of gratitude. Without the GI Bill, I would have never been able to afford my BS & MBA. Of course I’ve paid thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to taxing authorities of each and every kind, and I don’t moan about it too much. Give me my $50 hamous!
#55 - is your avatar airbrushed. I know one thing, kp59 isn’t airbrushed…
#52 - well, in spite of what we think are deplorable conditions in communist Cuba, the people don’t seem wont to throw off what we see as their oppressors.
#51 - do you really think you can trace the plight of African American’s whose high percentages of inclusion in poverty back to the Dem’s and US government. I guess Jim Crow wasn’t a factor……?
#50 - The reasons for the never-ending struggle between Israel & Palestine are unintelligible to me. Is it envy, is it religious, is it something innate, I have no clue. Most Middle East Islamist states openly or discreetly want to destroy Israel. Worse yet, because they see us as biased toward Israel, now they have the excuse that we’re Crusaders allied with the Jews in a holy war against Allah.
Choosing sides is deadly and damned. You can’t kill ‘em all and neither the Muslims nor the Jews are going to go away……
It goes deeper;….. but last night I swore off of posting religious stuff, so I’m out of answers on this one.
You guys are 2 much… now I’ve got to go to work; must earn capitalist dollars so I can pay my taxes…. Let’s see,…… how can I keep local government, LID’s, MUD’s, Counties, Schools, State, Fed’s with good revenues if I don’t pay my taxes… wait, there’s a solution. Let me call GOPs-R-Us….. have fun guyz…
kp59, your pic inspires me…….! where’s your poetry…?
#29 - Adee, on your Alaskan tour, if you can get to Cordova, that’s a magic place. I was there several times years ago. At the time you could only get to it by air or boat. It’s a old copper / silver mining / commercial fishing town that sprung up in the late 1800’s. Wooden sidewalks, false-front bldg’s, and a town full of people who would treat visitors like they owned the world.
Had the time of my life there. Had to chug-a-lug more beer (Oly & Ranier) with the residents than is humanly possible, but I survived and look back with much fondness to Cordova, Alaska.
Darn, I’m finding the tiniest excuse to detract me from doing my work. This is stupid. I must go to work. I will not even look at LST for at least 2-hr’s!
Reply to No. 32: “Even if you would have checked your tackyness at the door and only referred to entertainers and athletes as making up the bulk of minorities having wealth, why is that?” because of their high profileness. They flaunt it and get into more trouble from it. Just look at the tatooed athletes and all the trouble they get themselves into. I guess what gets me the most is when they asked others to give when they have more than they know what to do with and they earned it off the backs of other minorities.
” Why are there so many minorities at the bottom of the income scale and so few at the top?” because that’s pure economics, it’s a pyramid. If we had more rich than poor, wouldn’t that be socialism where there is a redistribution of wealth. But remember that would not stay that way. Eventually, some would make more with what they have, some would stay the same and some would just waste it and end up poor again. Put a Dimwit into office and we will have perpetual “socialism”.
Yes, only men were indicted. But you have to seriously question the parenting skills of mothers that allow their chidlren to remain in a place where they were participating in harboring a man on the FBI ten most wanted list.
Most mothers would what to remove their children from a place where child sexual assault was being permitted (even it was deemed at the direction of God by the prophet), especially when it was at the hands of a fugitive from the FBI. Apparently, the mothers at YFZ felt differently.
Thank you, Matt, for the explanation of what the new symbols above do. Guess that’s in tandem with adding them in the first place. Whee, italics workie.
Is this part of David B’s latest hare-brained project that is turing out fabulously?
#25 & #27 - I’d take a ’street smart’ person’s opinion and knowledge in a heartbeat over many so-called ‘educated folks’.
Only example in mind for now was years ago when I was a kitchen manager at 18 yrs old. I couldn’t possibly count how many graduates of Hotel & Restaurant college courses I aced out of job opportunities (me with merely a GED)…………………I’m not discounting the inherent value of a college education - but a diploma does NOT = smart nor does it equal guaranteed capability to make the right or ‘best’ choices………….
#52 - well, in spite of what we think are deplorable conditions in communist Cuba, the people don’t seem wont to throw off what we see as their oppressors.
That’s what happenss under the bootheels of dictators. Pitchforks and machetes made from the rear leaf springs of a ‘48 Ford don’t do well against assault rifles.
#51 - do you really think you can trace the plight of African American’s whose high percentages of inclusion in poverty back to the Dem’s and US government. I guess Jim Crow wasn’t a factor……?
ok. Put “Jim Crow” in front of what I wrote earlier. btw - Jim Crow laws were a Democrat contrivance.
And why is it the more educated among the population are leaning towards Obama?
I’m not sure that’s true. He’s got a definite lead only among voters with a post-graduate education (going back to my socialist indoctrination in colleges comment earlier) but it’s a statistical dead heat among all others.
#78 katfish
I was speaking in sweeping generalities. There are always exceptions such as yourself. It also shows what a little hard work can do, which many of the youger crowd are loath to do.
The Washington Post is showing some initial signs of cluefulness in its lead editorial today.
THE INITIAL MEDIA coverage of Barack Obama’s visit to Iraq suggested that the Democratic candidate found agreement with his plan to withdraw all U.S. combat forces on a 16-month timetable. So it seems worthwhile to point out that, by Mr. Obama’s own account, neither U.S. commanders nor Iraq’s principal political leaders actually support his strategy.
I thought everyone was behind The Enlightened One and his judgment was impeccable.
[Obama] says that because Iraq is “a distraction” from more important problems, U.S. resources devoted to it must be curtailed. Yet he also says his aim is to “succeed in leaving Iraq to a sovereign government that can take responsibility for its own future.” What if Gen. Petraeus and Iraqi leaders are right that this goal is not consistent with a 16-month timetable? Will Iraq be written off because Mr. Obama does not consider it important enough — or will the strategy be altered?
Oh well, omelets, eggs, you know how it is. The area under bus is gonna really crowded with all of Iraq under it. Obama’s inflexibility is making Bush look like a reed in the wind.
[Obama] insists that Afghanistan is “the central front” for the United States, along with the border areas of Pakistan. But there are no known al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, and any additional U.S. forces sent there would not be able to operate in the Pakistani territories where Osama bin Laden is headquartered.
But he said he’d just go into Pakistan and get him or bomb those areas of Pakistan. Who’s the “cowboy” now?
Maybe the media is starting to realize how much like a bunch of lovestruck schoolgirls chasing after the teen idol of the month they’re starting to look like. We can only hope.
#16 Wagonburner……….. Nope the 7minute tape is from yesterday. The 3 minute tape is from Monday night, and there are no repeats in each tape. The man is an ummmmmer.
Injunction over Web libel sets precedent
IAN BAILEY
July 19, 2008
VANCOUVER — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has awarded an Australian man $180,000 for suffering linked to an Internet campaign by a Nanaimo resident in a case observers have deemed notable for such twists as a sweeping injunction that prevents the B.C. resident from any further comment on the plaintiff.
I think our elected officials need to be drug tested. Just got this in an e-mail:
Americans are looking to Congress to move America toward energy independence and what does Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid do instead? He schedules a vote on an $11 billion pork barrel spending package - with no offsets!
That’s right - another $11 billion added directly to the deficit. You won’t believe the story.
Anti-spending champion Senator Tom Coburn has used a time-honored Senate tradition to put “holds” on 36 different spending bills to prevent them from being passed without a full debate. Many of these bills are worthwhile, but others would, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, “enrich special interests and private developers at the expense of taxpayers.”
They would also fund such “critical” projects as a greenhouse in Maryland, studying historic shipwrecks, and the United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture. At a time when the costs of gas and food are skyrocketing, these are the wrong priorities.
Frustrated at Coburn’s holds, Reid rolled all these bills into one - cynically calling it the “Coburn Omnibus” - and plans to hold a straight up-or-down vote, no amendments. You can help stop this outrage!
Please contact your senators and tell them to oppose the “Coburn Omnibus.” They’ll know what you mean - and they’ll get the message.
LOL - ST
#107 is “Freedom’s Watch” a PAC based in DC? I get the distinct impression the Washington Post was not particularly referencing ‘reed’ in this context, am I right?
It is concerning to me, that an additional $11 billion is the new billion dollar figure to deficit? No, please tell me ain’t so…..
Well, I just made some money, some of which I’ll redistribute to about 100 taxing agencies. I don’t like it, but I treat it like a cover charge in a night club. If you want to dance to the music, you got to pay to the piper.
Only I wish some of my money wasn’t going to fund the $4B - $12B monthly price tag for Iraq. But, never would I desert the GI’s who are there.
But GWB must live and die with the superficial case he made for us invading Iraq. If he would have been more judicious and detailed, he could have easily seen that Iraq wasn’t connected to 9/11. Not only that, but evil Saddam held the Shiite Mullah’s of Iran in check. But cowboys have never been known for attentiveness to detail or looking beyond the next dust-up. Such a shame.
We’re at 4,123 GI’s dead and counting. For the families of those dear GI’s, plus the 30,000 maimed & wounded GWB’s chickens have come home to roost.
Iraq is to GWB what slavery was to Thomas Jefferson: “We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”[
OK, gotta go make some more money…… I love money, lots and lots of money…!
It is concerning to me, that an additional $11 billion is the new billion dollar figure to deficit? No, please tell me ain’t so…..
kp59, I pretty sure I heard on Fox and one of the network news programs last night, or read it just recently, that Iraq is costing us $12B a month. I had thought I’d heard before that it was $4B a month.
My hunch is the US deficit is much, much, much greater than $11B. Hmm, just think, in 2000 we had a surplus………..
Oh, well, no big deal, we also had a sticky blue dress….. much more important… ha ha!
#114 Stan,
I would like to know when the libs are going to get off the stump about it being about sex. It wasn’t about sex. It was about a sexual harassment lawsuit and the fact that Billy Boy didn’t want to lose the case. So when Monica surfaced he lied about that as well. That is called perjury and “regular” people go to jail for that. So it was actually about a felony, not about sex. And don’t get me started on those women that he raped and the mystery deaths of those that had bad info on the Clintons - can you say Vince Foster?
MOSCOW — A pack of enormous bears searching for food killed and ate two men at mines in Russia’s Pacific Kamchatka region and have kept hundreds of geologists and miners from reaching the mine, news agencies reported Wednesday.
A pack of up to 30 Kamchatka bears—which are similar to grizzlies—prowled around two mines of a local platinum mining company where they killed the two guards on Thursday, local officials were quoted by the Russian ITAR-Tass news agency as saying.
dcgirl, Bill Clinton committed treason, rape, sexual assault, indecent exposure, perjury, witness tampering, fraud, was impeached and disbarred. Libs love him because he’s just like them.
Continuation of #29, Denali wilderness tour.We’ve been on the gravel road for some time now, a bit narrower than the paved one but with room for two buses to pass each other and a bit left over at the edge, where it’s a long way down and no guardrails. Acrophobic tourists on that side are well advised to look straight ahead, straight out the window ,or up rather than down unless the bus is stopped for viewing something. At each successive scenic stop Denali comes closer, still free of clouds, and more majestic. Pictures taken in case the clouds start drifting in. At the farthest point in, it is about 32 miles distant. The bus parks and we and get out, Denali still shining unobstructed. It is smiling today, for which we are grateful.
A moose spotted down in a valley shows up nicely through the bus video camera on the screens that dropped down from the overhead racks. It’s a solitary female without calf. The tour companion book says only about 1 of 10 calves survive to adulthood, which seems shocking for such a large animal. The naturalist relates that park rangers found the skulls of two bull moose about 5 years ago, their antlers locked in rutting combat in a tragic and lethal embrace. Unable to separate, they could not eat or move much and were easy prey. The rangers left them as they found them, and last year our driver hiked to see for herself. She said it was quite sobering.
Moose are the largest of the deer family and kinda look like they were assembled by a committee working independently. But “Where can you find a 1,800 herbivore thal looks impossibly awkward yet vanishes into a meager stand of trees with quiet grace?” Denali: A Living Tapestry, A Wilderness Tour Comapnion, p.13. Visitors are well advised to keep their distance from moose, who do not have good vision and can mount an impressive and dangerous charge for no apparent reason. They are fascinating, and it’s too easy to think in terms of Bullwinkle.
Rounding a bend we came upon a tour bus stopped coming our way, a family of willow ptarmigan square in the middle of the road. We stopped also. Mom was trying to steer her 6 or 7 chicks across (not sure if we counted one twice), and they didn’t want to tend to business. She tried leading them and succeeded with several, but the laggards were too interested in exploring. Then she got behind them and tried urging them along, which worked with all but one. It discovered the rest were gone and wandered this way and that, with Mom trying to keep the others off the road and simultaneously attract the straggler. Whatever she said finally worked, and the road was clear for bus passage.
A bit father on two golden eagles were lazily drifiting high up and swooping down to look at something. Several snowshoe hares bounded into the low bushes and flowers beside the road. The name comes from their large hind feet that really do enable them to navigate heavy snow without sinking in. Around the next bend a small group of caribou down the hill (long way down, and we were on the outside looking down) were alternately grazing and lounging. They seemed to be a mix of adults and juveniles, no babies. We are reminded that caribou and reindeer are the same animal; reindeer being domesticated and caribou wild.
Brilliant magenta fireweed lines the road’s passage, looking for all the world like tongues of flame, their long thin stalks and petals stark contrasts against the green backdrop. Smaller wildflowers grow low to the ground, and blueberries are prolific on short bushes. The fruit is much smaller than blueberries grown much farther south but so sweet. Grizzlies love them.
We’ve been steadily descending and recrossing grayish rivers carrying glacial melt. Some streams cascading down the mountainsides are snowmelt and clear, shining in the sun. The air is fresh, the sun high, and clouds are forming. Looking back, the next view of Denali is partially obscured by clouds. Farther down at the following viewing opportunity it is fruther obscured. We were fortunate, and the afternoon tour groups will not have the view we had.
Out of the park and back at the lodge, we gather our water bottles for recycling and put trash in bags, then fold the boxes containing the lunches the tour suppled as they will be reused. It is nice to be back and take a nap before dinner.
The tour was worth every penny and minute spent.
#122 - In Seward, get them to tell you how all of the water emptied from Resurrection Bay during the earthquake of 1964. Also, I’ve ran a race up Marathon Mountain…. Beautiful country…. drank lots of Oly too!
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#117, #120 & #121- you guys are amazing. Here is my 2-cents worth. Your bashing of WJC and propping up of GWB likens you to the Confederacy during the Civil War. They hated Lincoln so much they fired on Fort Sumpter, but they knew what the war was all about was slavery, so they had to hold their nose and go to battle anyway.
If they’d have been astute, they would have condemned that sorry system and reformed themselves. But, it’s the wolf-by-the-ears again. You can’t stand GWB, but your hatred for Dem’s causes you to fight on for a losing cause. IMHO, worth nothing more than 2-cents……..
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Stan #126, that is some twisted thought process you got going there. Listing Bill Clinton’s crimes is akin to firing on Fort Sumter by Dems? By the way, it’s those same racist Dems today that continue to hold minorities in virtual economic and mental slavery instead of freeing them.
Who can ever forget this memorable quote by the senior Dem in the Senate:
“never to fight with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
#52 - well, in spite of what we think are deplorable conditions in communist Cuba, the people don’t seem wont to throw off what we see as their oppressors.
Nope;
They just build rafts out of milk cartons and swim across 90 miles of shark infested waters so that they can come here and tell us how great things are in Cuba.
I knew ole Robert-name-half-the-public-places-after-me-all-over-West-by-Gawd-Vriginia is a former KKK Grand Dragon - I had no idea he could be so eloquent AND such a defecatory orifice all in one paragraph!
I know this is OT, but I’ve been outta pocket the last few days and vewy, vewy busy with new house stuff.
Handsome Son is in Dallas to play basketball. It will be very lonesome without him. Lovely Daughter had great news for us yesterday - she received word from St. Mary’s that in addition to her original scholarship, she had received several departmental scholarships. After combining her resident advisor deductions, her tuition, room, and board for the coming semester is estimated between $2k and $3k. She will still be getting her stipends for being an RA and being the VP/Finance for a campus organization as well. Add that to her cash earned this summer, and we can take a huge financial breath!
Well the House and Senate passed the “Bail-Out the Leaches” bill, and “W” says he will not VETO it!! DANG DAMMIT!!! That means that I’m going to pay for this stupidity! Ya’ll too! The fact of the matter is that 99 & 44/100% of the folks that are being bailed out are either speculators that were flippin’ houses or IDIOTS that didn’t have SENSE enough to KNOW that they COULDN”T AFFORD THE DAYAAM HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t give me the CRAPO about the VULTURES that sold the loans, they’re hos! The buyer has to be smart enough to know about their own financial circumstance or they DESERVE what they get! BEAM ME UP Scotty,…Scotty,…Scotty,…are you still there?
In the early eighties I moved to the Houston area and bought a house for $87,000 (way too much by the way), the interest rate was 13.75 %, thank you Jimma’ Peanut–Head Carter, and the payment with escrow was $1380, a LOT of MONEY in those days. Anywho, within three years the HCAD appraisal was $56000 and the interest rate had dropped, so I tried to get it refinanced but the bank said that I couldn’t because they couldn’t loan me enough money because the house was worth less?!?! They had the damn note! There were about 100 houses in my neighborhood foreclosed on, if I was a Slug I’d just walked away, but that’s NOT how my Daddy raised me so I stuck it out and refinanced it two times in later years. If it were not for my raisin’ I’d just get in the damn wagon and let everyone else pull it. I’M TARRED of pulling the wagon!!
Well HAL ate my insightful comment but when I B!tched I saw the Click to edit! Man that’ll come handy, I always type faster than the Ole’ brain can think! ;=)
I like the buttons too, (b,i,bquote, etc), but I KNOW better than push buttons, I’ve always been a button pusher, never saw a button that I didn’t want to push, but it did get me fired outta’ that Missile Silo! ;=)
Thanks, HamBone, I ‘m not a fan of the word that you picked but I guess it is in the vernacular now. I don’t know what would be wrong with mine, it’s not vulgar, not a cuss word? HAL sure is strange.
Dave, I think its all about context. That version could be used easily in a derogatory manner, like directed at another commenter, so I’m guessing that’s why its in the filter list.
Dave: C’mon. Don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
I know Duhmoose is in the banking business, and I lubs him, but DANG, I’m being punished for stupid people? If Ida known that 4 years ago, Ida bought a bigger house like the realtor said I could afford as well. 1500 sq. ft on 4 acres? I NEEDED more house, but couldn’t afford it. I knew it. I didn’t listen to them.
The banking execs need to give up their millions in salary. Someone needs to be punished and it shouldn’t be the taxpayers…./spittles
Handsome Son’s basketball coach is a nice enough guy, and he’s taught HS a lot about playing, but I wonder about him sometimes. They are playing in a tournament in Dallas, and their length of stay depends upon how many games they win/lose. HS left his wallet in my car this morning, and I finally talked to the coach about how to get it to him:
Coach: “Let me find out where the nearest place is to get the money…” /obviously thinking of wiring the money, but HS may need his ID as well. Me: “Will ya’ll be there long enough for me to overnight it? Coach (voice wandering off a little): “I’ll ask where the nearest place is…” Me: “I can overnight it to the hotel.” Coach: “They can do that?!” Me: “Yes, they can deliver to the hotel. It won’t get there until Friday, though.” Coach: “It’ll take that long?” Me: “Yeeeess, if I go tomorrow morning and overnight it, it will take one whole day to get there. It can be there Friday morning.” Coach: “Well! Okay, then.”
Me: /banging head
Reminds me of the president of my company coming in to a new garage we had built. We had a panel van inside the garage and were loading up for a job the next day. He looked at the roll up garage door, looked at the van, looked back at the door, then said, “will that van fit through that door?” It was all my smart ass could to to keep from saying, “We’re not sure yet. They built the garage around the van.” Dumbass.
That reminds me of a story…ya know how we have those sayings for people who aren’t “all there”? They are legion: “elevator doesn’t go all the way up,” “one sandwich short of a picnic,” “one beer short of a six-pack,” “lights are on but nobody’s home”…
One year when I was volunteering as Youth Minister at our church, our service project got rained out. My backup was to have a lovely older couple come in to teach our kids how to make rosaries. They showed them how to tie the knots, how to place the beads, and - most importantly - how to quickly check to be sure that they hadn’t left any beads out, preferably before they connected the last knot.
One of my favorites, one of our “stick chicks” (I had two very slender girls, and this was a name they gave themselves) was part of the group that day. Stick chick had a great personality and a matching sense of humor. The group was having great fun, putting together their bead combinations and learning how to use the pieces of umbrella ribbing to tie the knots. Stick Chick was so proud of hers when she finished. “Miss Tedtam! Come see my rosary!” she called out holding it up. As she did so, her brow furrowed a bit and she put it back down on the table and I arrived at her side to admire her handiwork. I quickly saw what she had seen, and a new saying was created:
You sure can bet the good lord didn’t care. It was the thought that counted and he knew that young lady would always remember the bead she missed on the string as she now carried the missing bead in her memory with his name on it.
#167 Dang you Catholics are perfectionists and do things the hard way. While we (former) Episcopalians just got drunk and bought our religious symbols at James Avery jewelry stores.
Actually, I find making rosaries quite relaxing. They take about 1/2 hour to make, and I can get creative with the bead combinations. My rosaries don’t look like the usual ones you get at the Catholic bookstore. I can start and finish one while I’m watching TV. It reduces stress.
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First… Oh my this has never happened before!!!
Ah, isn’t it nice to be juxtaposed with Che Guevara on your left and Yassir Arafat on your right ? A charmed existence, to be sure. A man of leisure, above class distinction, a man beyond constraints of ethnicity and requirements of achievement and challenge….the age of the metrosexual messiah.
Finally, some much needed rain and a very decent light show to boot!
Didn’t the GyrOb basically say yesterday he would have been right about the Surge if it hadn’t worked?
The ACLU says they’re keeping an eye on this situation in Memphis, where the head of the Police Department and City Attorneys have filed suit against AOL to learn the identities of bloggers who have been critical of the department.
Good. We obviously can’t trust any level of government to uphold the Constitution.
Some of the bloggers are apparently Memphis Police Officers, and the department claims it is concerned that information might be leaked that could threaten ongoing “investigations.”
From one of the recent front page posts:
It’s not officially Milton Friedman week yet, but as always, “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
Mornin all, another day that God has given to us.™
Good Morning! Yes, much needed rain. Wheee.
It looks like 5 indictments have been handed down in the YFZ ranch case. Jeff’s and e others. Charges range from child endangerment, polygamy, to sexual assault of a child. Jeff’s is the only one named, at this point. They are all men.
http://www.chron.com/news/
This woman is so funny. ……….. Mrs. Hughs
This woman is hysterical.
YouTube - Mrs. Hughes Live at the Ice House
Comedian Mrs. Hughes performs her observational comedy live.
8 min -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrj9TaA0Mc
Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster, is fighting the border fence. He believes we need to develope the economy in Mexico. Guess what his ” other ” job is? Could it be Realtor, Developer? Surely this mayor would not want the border wide open so he could hire cheap labor for his home development. Why, that’s not what a citizen of this country, serving a public office would want, Is it?
Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster chairs the Texas Border Coalition, a group of mayors, county judges, and community leaders along the Texas-Mexico border. Foster and coalition members have repeatedly traveled to Washington, D.C., since 2006 trying to get congressional leaders and Bush administration officials to listen to their concerns over border policy, including plans to build a fence. “This fence will only detain an illegal entry three to four minutes, and we feel for $49 billion dollars we can do better,” Foster says.
Say lavish up your “funny” bone with “Obama Love” live at the Mc Cain! Please let me know what ya’ll think! Actually, this a wonderful opportunity to check out the latest enthralling commentaries (vis-a-vis video) critiquing the new failed surge in Iraq? Sad, but the “OB” guy can’t be serious?
Rush has 3 minutes of Obama’s interview from Monday night…….. stuttering. You think GW has a problem spontaneously speaking? Obama is right up there with uhhhh, uhhhh, mispronunciation, and imperfect Ebonics.
#8 AW, Highly recommended!
Sure.
We absolutely have to have a Democrat President and a Democrat majority in Congress.
Why?
Gas Stamps, that’s why.:
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/269081.php
Of course that means that these gals will finally be able to get off thier butts and get a job:
http://lonestartimes.com/2008/07/19/hard-times-for-welfare-recipients/
Unless, of course, they feel they have to make a choice between gas and Twinkies.
I just can’t WAIT to see what kind of legislation Obama will sign.
Po folks will get gas assistance while the Deomcrat Congrees makes sure that gas prices stay high enough to change society.
I’m glad. I’ll be po folks soon enough from taxes and gas prices.
♬ Has anybody here seen my old friend Yasser? ♬
#4 gjt
Not sure about that part, but he did say that even knowing what he knows now, he would not have supported the surge.
The reporter had to ask him if he was sure that’s what he meant.
#11 aw
I think that was a montage or compilation of “um”’s. He later had one of his staff compile them all and it ran over 7 minutes.
#14 hamous
I want one of these.
wagonburner - I have this one. I call it my Midtown shirt. Whenever I go down to the midtown pubs I wear it just to see the look on the rich, white liberals’ faces. One girl called me a Nazi one time. LOL! I can only assume she thinks commies ARE cool.
#11 - Obama stuttering. At least he’s contemplating his response, answering serious questions with serious, thought-out responses. Seriously, AW, we’ve been exposed to “Bushism’s” for 8 years and his spontaneity has given us a black-eye (”evil doers”, “Axis of Evil”, “bring ‘em on”, etc.) both with our allies and those on the sidelines. GWB, the annointed one, was raised is such wealth & promise, he’s always been able to say anything and there were enough grovelers & groupies in his entourage to agree. Now we’ve got someone who contemplates; not someone who opens mouth, inserts foot….. IMHO
Good morning kp59!
#13 Sarge, sucks, don’t it?
Did it for 35 years and gave my all to change it… Somehow all this whining is just irritating at this point…
You have got to be kidding!!! Anointed??? Obama is seen as without sin by 40% of the voters and all of the MSM. We haven’t seen this many groveling groupies since the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show!
It’s going to be a long campaign season which is a bad thing for “BO”. His handlers can only protect him so much. It is obvious that “BO” is lost without his podium, teleprompter and a prepared text. He is a good orator but a lousy ad libber. The liberal media has made “BO” more narcisistic and it is showing as he acts like President already during his overseas trip which is suppose to be “fact finding” and not foreign policy negotiating. The overcoverage by the big three alphabet channels is their biased way of pushing their candidate. They are making news rather than reporting it but this is what liberal media does.
#13 - the demographics of those living in poverty include higher percentages of minorities, while those at the upper tiers of income are overwhelmingly “white”. So, it seems there is a systemic at play; minority = poverty; white = higher income. Why is that?
45 years of minorities living on the Democrat Plantation.
And why is it the more educated among the population are leaning towards Obama?
Reply to No. 23: How can you say “minority = poverty”? Don’t the “minority” have their share of “higher income” people like all professional athletes, entertainers and drug dealers? Each ethnic group has their share of rich, middle income and poor. Some groups get exploited more than others.
#25 liz
Not sure exactly, but there is a higher percentage of people with college degrees living in large cities, where the Dems do better. Higher ed. is also biased more toward the young. Many in my parents’ generation didn’t go to college at all, but either ran their own businesses or worked their way up through the ranks when college degrees were not a job requirement.
#23 stan
It’s a leftover from pre-civil rights days, compounded by the Great Society programs. Poor minorities, especially blacks, were essentially told by the Dems that they could not make it without help from the gov’t. When it became much easier to stay at home and get a check, many did. The gov’t giving more money to unwed mothers provided great incentive for these minorities to have more babies w/o benefit of both parents. This has destroyed the black family in the inner cities and has been compounded by more liberal policies that do not require self-improvement efforts on the part of the recipients.
See the Katrina leeches for a more recent example of this mindset.
Good morning all. Light rain at 5:30 and 74, progessing to moderate rain. Salvation for the yard and flowers since nothing is better than God’s rain.
Alaska continued: On the wilderness tour bus in Denali, sedately rolling along the paved park road just beyond the entrance, through the trees on the hillsides, steadily upward, sunshine casting mottled bright patches, we have no idea what awaits as this seems like any other exquisite northern forested park. Not so. And the naturalist/driver is preparing everyone for what lies ahead as well as describing what we pass through now. Our naturalist is a lady from Indiana who fell in love with the place 16 years ago and has been back every summer to indulge in the wonders of the place and be paid to boot.
The Preserve portion is Nature’s domain with minimal human interface. Physicists may posit that by merely observing something we change it. In this case by our observation it changes us. Pretty much everyone finds the experience awesome, a chance to see wonderful vistas and animals around every bend in the road. The park rangers survey regularly to determine which areas should be temporarily off limits to hikers/backpackers so as not to disturb resident animals or plants.
One such place so designated was a red fox den up on a hillside; the parents deserved privacy raising their kits without intrusion. Saw the fox and vixen stroll out of the den but no kits appeared while we stopped. Could not tell who was who at a distance; one was chestnut red and the other more golden with white-tipped tail. Coat colors vary, white-tipped tails are a constant. It is not certain if they mate for life, but they do remain a couple until the kits are grown an on their own.
On down the road and through a pass someone spotted movement high up on a ledge. Binoculars out, directions where to look, and the prize was a golden eagle regally surveying the road and bus. He/she blended with the background and was hard to see at first. After a few moments looking at us looking at him, he took off and flew in a graceful, lazy wide arc far above the bus, then landed on the ledge and resumed watching us. Off again and ever upward we rounded a bend and saw high on a hilltop (mountain top?) scattered white dots. Stopped to see what that might be. Snow patches? There were plenty scattererd about. A dot moved, then another. They were Dall sheep resting near the top in little flat spots on the impossibly steep slopes. The close-up view made us womder if only Velcro could anchor them there. But no, they balance on their own, and soon several got up and moved over the summit. They have curved horns and are often mistaken for mountain goats.
Moving on and around more bends, down in a green valley someone saw a honey-colored lump and a smaller brown lump following. It was a momma grizzly and her cub trailing behind. Mom was eating steadily and only occasionally raised her head as she moved along a small hill; baby periodically ran to almost catch up and then got distracted with something interesting. Mom disappeared over the hill and suddenly baby was serious about catching up. We wondered where a second cub might be, as there ususally are two born. No sign of another so perhaps something had happened to it.
Around Fairbanks we had seen bluebonnets growing wild; they were mountain lupine that look just like our Texas bluebonnets. In Denali the bluebonnets are arctic lupine and more lavender blue, taller and thinner with smaller blossoms that look less like bonnets. Beautiful indeed and easily identified as kin to ours, we had to linger over them at rest stops.
“In Denali everything is moving. Wind and water, flora and fauna, all seem to be engaged in a struggle to keep pace with each other–and with the seasons, which have the most restless spirit of all.” Source: Denali, A Living Tapestry , A Wilderness Tour Companion: Alaska Geographic in conjunction with the National Park Service, p. 27.
Denali wilderness tour to be continued.
45 years of socialist indoctrination in our colleges.
Waller County murder suspect back in custody
#24 - cute, hamous; surely you don’t really believe it..
#25 - the more educated won’t be bamboozzled by GWB’s ilk anymore…. John McCain’s morphed into GWB-Lite
#26 - cute, RobertM, but maybe a tad mean-spirited; entertainers, athletes & drug dealers make up the upper income tiers of minorities. Including drug dealers in the category tells me and others more about you than we might want to know. Even if you would have checked your tackyness at the door and only referred to entertainers and athletes as making up the bulk of minorities having wealth, why is that? Why are there so many minorities at the bottom of the income scale and so few at the top?
I’m starting to hear the echoes…
“Please tear down this wall Mr. Gorbachev!” Maybe we should sing kumbahya?
#28 - Could it be perhaps there’s a more prominent reason? With so few minorities (especially African Americans) in the top executive jobs (as well as mid-management), those 50, 60, 70 year olds, who worked on garbage trucks, janitorial and cleaning jobs, don’t provide the mentorship to influence the younger generation to join the system? On the other hand, does the system refuse to accept the non-conformity that many African Americans portray?
The system says: you must conform (college degree, right friends, right behaviour patterns, good family stock, etc.)
Minority system says: screw-you, you never helped my daddy, mama, grandfather, grandma, you ignore us, you talk ebonics to us, you never come into our neighborhoods….
Does the system inhibit minorities?
Do minorities distrust the system?
Charming portrait triumvirate in the pic at the top.
#32 Stan - Not only do I believe it but there is scientific evidence to prove it. Thomas Sowell has a nice summary.
#33 - yes, kp59, there is a huge wall that’s growing taller between the have’s and the have-not’s. The median income is very low right now, which means more and more people are making less and those in the higher income percentiles are growing more distant from those with lesser incomes. Sort of like what’s been going on in Venezuela…… look what its done to that oil-producing nation.
But instead of singing kumbayah, why not something by Rick James?
#35 - Adee, 2 of the 3 fought for recognition, acceptance and justice. The 3rd is following the rules of our system and will either earn his position through the lawful electorial process or he won’t.
Che’s South American “revolution” was a response to some of the worst governmental oppression ever witnessed. Unfortunately, for us, our CIA was a little too close to the oppressors and we’ve had a black-eye ever since.
Arafat’s struggle goes back to the Arab seething of Great Britain & France allowing jewish refugees to establish a homeland and displace over a million Arabs. Sort of like the our forefathers did to the Indians. But our forefathers weren’t as politically correct as the Jews who occupied Arab lands. Our guys exterminated the Indians. By the time European diseases and muskets, cannons and tactics finished with the Indian’s, they were practically extinct. The Jews on the other hand tried to placate the Arabs, but this once proud people wouldn’t buy into it. So now they seethe. And the world is troubled.
Very sad
Thanks hamous. Thomas Sowell is a great read!
“War on Poverty” says it all….
Actually, this day in history, a month away is LBJ Day … August 27th!
Let’s all remember Lyndon B Johnson born & bred in the USA (1908)
You know, Stan, anytime I see an Arafat apologist, I know I can dismiss any opinion they have.
Two of the three in the pic above were murdering thugs. Lipstick on a pig leaves it still a pig.
You hear that Wagonburner? You’re extinct!
And he’s a Che apologist as well. That’s support for two of the worst thugs of the last century.
Stan’s outed himself quite well the past three days.
#40, #41 #42 - I see the venue I’m in and I recognize if one is not a right-wing, religious right, Rush Limbaugh type, he/she will be less than welcomed on this forum. Watch out kp59. You’re much to the right of me, but your focus on feminine issues might get you in trouble here.
Its interesting that all of your responses poked fun (or minimized) my opinion and did not address any point or disagreement that you had with what I posted. That’s what I call a shallow debate.
#41, Adee, would you call Pinochet & Peron murdering thugs, or does it only apply to those with whom you disagree?
Basara, I agree.
When I hear someone talking up Che, I tend to not react as quickly because he died 40+ years ago and a cottage industry has sprung up touting a fairy tale. I can see how a young person could be fooled by that and needs education.
I cannot for the life of me see how anyone could think that Arafat was a hero in any sense of the word. The man’s terrorism is still here today, killing people. He died only 4 years ago. I just don’t get that.
#42 hamous
I thought I just was’t feeling so well today. Guess it’s more serious than the flu.
Which non-conformity is this? The non-comformity that learning is “acting white”? The non-confirmity of calling each other the n-word and getting outraged when a white person uses a scientific term like black hole? Or is it the non-comformit of rap artists that sing about sodomizing the underage nieces of Al Gore and abusing women?
Are you actually telling us that society should accept such lunacy?
#43 - Basara, I never have posted here before. All of my post have expressed my feelings and beliefs. I’ve tried to do it in a polite way and stimulate debate, or to have fun. Do I make you uncomfortable because we may differ on our views of politics and religion? Should I be banned because you don’t like what I say?
Stan, you should read up a little more on native American history. White Europeans didn’t invent conquest. The Aztecs were brutal slavemasters. The Cherokee were slaveowners and sided with the Confederacy during the War Between the States. The Inca, Aztec and Mayans all practiced human sacrifice. The Arab Sudanese are as we speak are enslaving, torturing, and murdering black Sudanese on a horrific scale. The sins of men know no ethnic boundaries. It’s not just a white thing.
#38: “Arafat’s struggle goes back to the Arab seething of Great Britain & France allowing jewish refugees to establish a homeland and displace over a million Arabs.”
The palestinians had their chance and they rejected it. They appeared to have an all or nothing mentality. Surrounding arab states promised them that they would wipe Isreal out and the palestinians would have it all. As we know they were not successful. Besides supplying arms to the palestinians I have not seen much evidence of their arab brothers helping them out much. Too much victim rhetoric.
Arafat was not much different than Jesse Jackson and his type who make a career out of saying they are helping while actually undermining their people and keeping them down. Much of the systemic problems with blacks or palestinians not becoming successful can be traced to their own front door.
From Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
A Primer
By Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar
“On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish and the other Arab. The UN partition plan divided the country in such a way that each state would have a majority of its own population, although some Jewish settlements would fall within the proposed Palestinian state and many Palestinians would become part of the proposed Jewish state. The territory designated to the Jewish state would be slightly larger than the Palestinian state (56 percent and 43 percent of Palestine, respectively) on the assumption that increasing numbers of Jews would immigrate there. According to the UN partition plan, the area of Jerusalem and Bethlehem was to become an international zone.
Most Arabs regarded the proposed Jewish state as a settler colony .
Publicly, the Zionist leadership accepted the UN partition plan, although they hoped somehow to expand the borders allotted to the Jewish state. The Palestinian Arabs and the surrounding Arab states rejected the UN plan and regarded the General Assembly vote as an international betrayal. Some argued that the UN plan allotted too much territory to the Jews. Most Arabs regarded the proposed Jewish state as a settler colony and argued that it was only because the British had permitted extensive Zionist settlement in Palestine against the wishes of the Arab majority that the question of Jewish statehood was on the international agenda at all.”
#34 stan
You have a couple of valid points, but the elder blacks lost their influence over the younger members of their society when the gov’t started paying single mothers to have more children. The basic family unit was destroyed by these gov’t programs.
Couple this with all the revolution BS that was happening at the same time (60’s & early 70’s) and you get a societal meltdown. You take a bunch of disaffected young men whose worth has been greatly diminished and see themselves with no opportunities because of the preaching of the Black Panthers, Malcolm X, et al. and what do you think you’ll wind up with?
These groups/people incited the blacks in the inner cities to riot. This ended up destroying the physical infrastructure of the cities. Business owners started moving away to safer areas, so what jobs were available went away with them. No jobs=no future. Gangs really started forming since they gave the young males a place where they felt they belong. Presto! you have today’s situation.
An aside: the business owners often lost everything or a substantial part of their investments due to the civil unrest. Read an insurance policy; most have explicit exclusions for war, civil unrest, and other breakdowns of society.
Yeah, the people of Cuba really threw off their chains with Fidel and his ax-man Che.
Havana used to be a true garden spot. A vibrant modern city. Now it’s yet another third-world hellhole.
50 bucks says Stan thinks that’s our fault too.
That’s a sucker bet. No way I’m taking that one.
You sure you want to bet with someone who’s extinct?
btw - that portrait of The Enlightened One looks like it should be airbrushed on a ‘75 Chevy van. He needs to make the ears bigger.
To paraphrase Miracle Max in “The Princess Bride”:
“Look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here isn’t extinct. He’s practically extinct.”
You know, kinda like mostly dead, but not all dead. You know wagonburner, there’s only one thing left to do if you’re all extinct. Roll you over and look for loose change.
I’m only 1/4 extinct ; - )
All that’s missing from this picture is Che.
Leave Arafat alone. After all, he’s only murdering Jews. It’s not like he’s going after the poor or minorities. And he only exhales hydrogen, so he has nothing to do with Global Warming. And he doesn’t bathe, so he isn’t impacting our fresh water sources.
Don’t worry, Stan, I got your back.
#54 basara
Sure it’s not more like this?
#57 - And since he fancied the little boys he probably didn’t impact population growth as much as he could have.
Yassir didn’t really treat little boys well, did he? He either buggered them or killed them.
Or both.
wagon, basara, hamous, you guyz at least have a sense of humor. We have that in common, although we disagee politically.
hamous, wagon was right; you’d have lost that bet. I am most proud of our country. I served 3-years in the US Army and my support for our GI’s burns strong and proud. I owe our country a debt of gratitude. Without the GI Bill, I would have never been able to afford my BS & MBA. Of course I’ve paid thousands, if not hundreds of thousands to taxing authorities of each and every kind, and I don’t moan about it too much. Give me my $50 hamous!
#55 - is your avatar airbrushed. I know one thing, kp59 isn’t airbrushed…
#52 - well, in spite of what we think are deplorable conditions in communist Cuba, the people don’t seem wont to throw off what we see as their oppressors.
#51 - do you really think you can trace the plight of African American’s whose high percentages of inclusion in poverty back to the Dem’s and US government. I guess Jim Crow wasn’t a factor……?
#50 - The reasons for the never-ending struggle between Israel & Palestine are unintelligible to me. Is it envy, is it religious, is it something innate, I have no clue. Most Middle East Islamist states openly or discreetly want to destroy Israel. Worse yet, because they see us as biased toward Israel, now they have the excuse that we’re Crusaders allied with the Jews in a holy war against Allah.
Choosing sides is deadly and damned. You can’t kill ‘em all and neither the Muslims nor the Jews are going to go away……
It goes deeper;….. but last night I swore off of posting religious stuff, so I’m out of answers on this one.
#37
Yeah, it’s only the second highest in the world after Switzerland. I just don’t know how I’ll afford tomorrow’s Spam.
You guys are 2 much… now I’ve got to go to work; must earn capitalist dollars so I can pay my taxes…. Let’s see,…… how can I keep local government, LID’s, MUD’s, Counties, Schools, State, Fed’s with good revenues if I don’t pay my taxes… wait, there’s a solution. Let me call GOPs-R-Us….. have fun guyz…
kp59, your pic inspires me…….! where’s your poetry…?
Matt, you notice the clientel has changed a bit since the reformat?
#29 - Adee, on your Alaskan tour, if you can get to Cordova, that’s a magic place. I was there several times years ago. At the time you could only get to it by air or boat. It’s a old copper / silver mining / commercial fishing town that sprung up in the late 1800’s. Wooden sidewalks, false-front bldg’s, and a town full of people who would treat visitors like they owned the world.
Had the time of my life there. Had to chug-a-lug more beer (Oly & Ranier) with the residents than is humanly possible, but I survived and look back with much fondness to Cordova, Alaska.
Darn, I’m finding the tiniest excuse to detract me from doing my work. This is stupid. I must go to work. I will not even look at LST for at least 2-hr’s!
I still like the Charles Barkley quote: After 50 years of voting for Democrats the poor are still poor.
Is there a tutorial somewhere to show what the new buttons (b, i, link, etc.) do?
Not yet, dcgirl. Here is what you do in a nutshell!
First, type your text.
If you want to bold it, highlight it and click the ‘b’ button.
If you want to italicize it, highlight it and click the ‘i’ button.
If you want to add a link, highlight your text, a box will pop up, enter your link and click ok.
If you want to
something, highlight it and click the ‘bquote’ button.
If you want to
strikeyour text, highlight it and click the ’strike’ button.If you aren’t sure what a word means or if it is spelled right, highlight it and click the ‘lookup’ button.
And if you think one of your html tags could be left open, highlight all of your text and click the ‘close tags’ button.
Reply to No. 32: “Even if you would have checked your tackyness at the door and only referred to entertainers and athletes as making up the bulk of minorities having wealth, why is that?” because of their high profileness. They flaunt it and get into more trouble from it. Just look at the tatooed athletes and all the trouble they get themselves into. I guess what gets me the most is when they asked others to give when they have more than they know what to do with and they earned it off the backs of other minorities.
” Why are there so many minorities at the bottom of the income scale and so few at the top?” because that’s pure economics, it’s a pyramid. If we had more rich than poor, wouldn’t that be socialism where there is a redistribution of wealth. But remember that would not stay that way. Eventually, some would make more with what they have, some would stay the same and some would just waste it and end up poor again. Put a Dimwit into office and we will have perpetual “socialism”.
As is often the case with a moral imperative.
#7 -
Yes, only men were indicted. But you have to seriously question the parenting skills of mothers that allow their chidlren to remain in a place where they were participating in harboring a man on the FBI ten most wanted list.
Most mothers would what to remove their children from a place where child sexual assault was being permitted (even it was deemed at the direction of God by the prophet), especially when it was at the hands of a fugitive from the FBI. Apparently, the mothers at YFZ felt differently.
“This has nothing to do with polygamy. It has to do with systemic rape, molestation and abuse of these children.”
I guess that’s why thousands of them get in rickety rafts and inner tubes to float the 90 miles to the United States every year.
Thank you, Matt, for the explanation of what the new symbols above do. Guess that’s in tandem with adding them in the first place. Whee, italics workie.
Is this part of David B’s latest hare-brained project that is turing out fabulously?
Thank you, Matt?
Matt?
Correction, turning
#25 & #27 - I’d take a ’street smart’ person’s opinion and knowledge in a heartbeat over many so-called ‘educated folks’.
Only example in mind for now was years ago when I was a kitchen manager at 18 yrs old. I couldn’t possibly count how many graduates of Hotel & Restaurant college courses I aced out of job opportunities (me with merely a GED)…………………I’m not discounting the inherent value of a college education - but a diploma does NOT = smart nor does it equal guaranteed capability to make the right or ‘best’ choices………….
That’s what happenss under the bootheels of dictators. Pitchforks and machetes made from the rear leaf springs of a ‘48 Ford don’t do well against assault rifles.
ok. Put “Jim Crow” in front of what I wrote earlier. btw - Jim Crow laws were a Democrat contrivance.
But going back to Liz’s question:
I’m not sure that’s true. He’s got a definite lead only among voters with a post-graduate education (going back to my socialist indoctrination in colleges comment earlier) but it’s a statistical dead heat among all others.
#78 katfish
I was speaking in sweeping generalities. There are always exceptions such as yourself. It also shows what a little hard work can do, which many of the youger crowd are loath to do.
Let’s see here…….I just couldn’t
resisttrying all of these buttons.BJ - I thanked you earlier but somehow it got eaten.
You’re welcome.
test
Oooo, that’s VERY nice.
If Big Jolly adds any more doodads to the comment section, there won’t be room for comments. Of course, that may be his goal after all.
The link button almost balances out the three-day gravitar insanity.
Almost.
Mmm,
That “Taste of Texas” Ad Sure Looks Scrumptious!
The Doodad: A Bedtime Story
what’s lonesartimes.com?
LOL, and you can edit your own posts for 2 minutes after you post them! Very nice!
How come I can’t get into my login/account information? I click on it, makes me sign back in to no avail….
Anybody else having problems?
#93: Yes. I wanted to change my website address and can’t get into it.
Try clearing your “cookies”. LST ModeratorNS
The Washington Post is showing some initial signs of cluefulness in its lead editorial today.
I thought everyone was behind The Enlightened One and his judgment was impeccable.
Oh well, omelets, eggs, you know how it is. The area under bus is gonna really crowded with all of Iraq under it. Obama’s inflexibility is making Bush look like a reed in the wind.
But he said he’d just go into Pakistan and get him or bomb those areas of Pakistan. Who’s the “cowboy” now?
Maybe the media is starting to realize how much like a bunch of lovestruck schoolgirls chasing after the teen idol of the month they’re starting to look like. We can only hope.
#76 reply, Sorry BJ
You are forgiven.
#16 Wagonburner……….. Nope the 7minute tape is from yesterday. The 3 minute tape is from Monday night, and there are no repeats in each tape. The man is an ummmmmer.
#30 That was my thought too Hamous. We’ve allowed the education system to be corrupted by liberalism. It’s sad.
#40 and #41 Well said both of you!!
I just saw the buttons! When were they added? I read about y’all experimenting but wasn’t sure what you were talking about. amazing
Thank you moderator.
BTW: 100!!!
DOH!
Now this is
scaryinteresting.read it all here http://www.reportonbusiness.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080719.SPEECH19/TPStory/?query=
There’s a reason we don’t want precedent set by foreign courts used invoked here in the USA…
I think the preview and post buttons ought to be swapped….
I think our elected officials need to be drug tested. Just got this in an e-mail:
I’m so tired of babysitting these people.
Hey - Do ya think Sarge can still mess up the blockquotes?/ducks and hauls butt
This is all part of the LST Help a Sergeant Out program. LST ModeratorNS
LOL - ST
#107 is “Freedom’s Watch” a PAC based in DC? I get the distinct impression the Washington Post was not particularly referencing ‘reed’ in this context, am I right?
It is concerning to me, that an additional $11 billion is the new billion dollar figure to deficit? No, please tell me ain’t so…..
Well, I just made some money, some of which I’ll redistribute to about 100 taxing agencies. I don’t like it, but I treat it like a cover charge in a night club. If you want to dance to the music, you got to pay to the piper.
Only I wish some of my money wasn’t going to fund the $4B - $12B monthly price tag for Iraq. But, never would I desert the GI’s who are there.
But GWB must live and die with the superficial case he made for us invading Iraq. If he would have been more judicious and detailed, he could have easily seen that Iraq wasn’t connected to 9/11. Not only that, but evil Saddam held the Shiite Mullah’s of Iran in check. But cowboys have never been known for attentiveness to detail or looking beyond the next dust-up. Such a shame.
We’re at 4,123 GI’s dead and counting. For the families of those dear GI’s, plus the 30,000 maimed & wounded GWB’s chickens have come home to roost.
Iraq is to GWB what slavery was to Thomas Jefferson: “We have the wolf by the ears; and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”[
OK, gotta go make some more money…… I love money, lots and lots of money…!
Could this replace toe sucking?
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/07/22/mcginty.fish.pedicure.wusa
Mom..HAL’s supressin’ my message again!
If you would have used the Sergeant’s link button, HAL wouldn’t have noticed. LST ModeratorNS
At least you haven’t been declared extinct.
kp59, I pretty sure I heard on Fox and one of the network news programs last night, or read it just recently, that Iraq is costing us $12B a month. I had thought I’d heard before that it was $4B a month.
My hunch is the US deficit is much, much, much greater than $11B. Hmm, just think, in 2000 we had a surplus………..
Oh, well, no big deal, we also had a sticky blue dress….. much more important… ha ha!
Sorry moderator. Not used to all the bells and whistles yet. LST is getting so classy, I may hafta start getting dressed to blog here.
#112: Yup.
It was chained. Where were the parents? Might not be able to blame the dog for this one.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,389482,00.html
#114 Stan,
I would like to know when the libs are going to get off the stump about it being about sex. It wasn’t about sex. It was about a sexual harassment lawsuit and the fact that Billy Boy didn’t want to lose the case. So when Monica surfaced he lied about that as well. That is called perjury and “regular” people go to jail for that. So it was actually about a felony, not about sex. And don’t get me started on those women that he raped and the mystery deaths of those that had bad info on the Clintons - can you say Vince Foster?
It just keeps getting worse.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,389623,00.html
#118 Can anyone say Bear B Que?
Fallacy after fallacy…
dcgirl, Bill Clinton committed treason, rape, sexual assault, indecent exposure, perjury, witness tampering, fraud, was impeached and disbarred. Libs love him because he’s just like them.
Continuation of #29, Denali wilderness tour.We’ve been on the gravel road for some time now, a bit narrower than the paved one but with room for two buses to pass each other and a bit left over at the edge, where it’s a long way down and no guardrails. Acrophobic tourists on that side are well advised to look straight ahead, straight out the window ,or up rather than down unless the bus is stopped for viewing something. At each successive scenic stop Denali comes closer, still free of clouds, and more majestic. Pictures taken in case the clouds start drifting in. At the farthest point in, it is about 32 miles distant. The bus parks and we and get out, Denali still shining unobstructed. It is smiling today, for which we are grateful.
A moose spotted down in a valley shows up nicely through the bus video camera on the screens that dropped down from the overhead racks. It’s a solitary female without calf. The tour companion book says only about 1 of 10 calves survive to adulthood, which seems shocking for such a large animal. The naturalist relates that park rangers found the skulls of two bull moose about 5 years ago, their antlers locked in rutting combat in a tragic and lethal embrace. Unable to separate, they could not eat or move much and were easy prey. The rangers left them as they found them, and last year our driver hiked to see for herself. She said it was quite sobering.
Moose are the largest of the deer family and kinda look like they were assembled by a committee working independently. But “Where can you find a 1,800 herbivore thal looks impossibly awkward yet vanishes into a meager stand of trees with quiet grace?” Denali: A Living Tapestry, A Wilderness Tour Comapnion, p.13. Visitors are well advised to keep their distance from moose, who do not have good vision and can mount an impressive and dangerous charge for no apparent reason. They are fascinating, and it’s too easy to think in terms of Bullwinkle.
Rounding a bend we came upon a tour bus stopped coming our way, a family of willow ptarmigan square in the middle of the road. We stopped also. Mom was trying to steer her 6 or 7 chicks across (not sure if we counted one twice), and they didn’t want to tend to business. She tried leading them and succeeded with several, but the laggards were too interested in exploring. Then she got behind them and tried urging them along, which worked with all but one. It discovered the rest were gone and wandered this way and that, with Mom trying to keep the others off the road and simultaneously attract the straggler. Whatever she said finally worked, and the road was clear for bus passage.
A bit father on two golden eagles were lazily drifiting high up and swooping down to look at something. Several snowshoe hares bounded into the low bushes and flowers beside the road. The name comes from their large hind feet that really do enable them to navigate heavy snow without sinking in. Around the next bend a small group of caribou down the hill (long way down, and we were on the outside looking down) were alternately grazing and lounging. They seemed to be a mix of adults and juveniles, no babies. We are reminded that caribou and reindeer are the same animal; reindeer being domesticated and caribou wild.
Brilliant magenta fireweed lines the road’s passage, looking for all the world like tongues of flame, their long thin stalks and petals stark contrasts against the green backdrop. Smaller wildflowers grow low to the ground, and blueberries are prolific on short bushes. The fruit is much smaller than blueberries grown much farther south but so sweet. Grizzlies love them.
We’ve been steadily descending and recrossing grayish rivers carrying glacial melt. Some streams cascading down the mountainsides are snowmelt and clear, shining in the sun. The air is fresh, the sun high, and clouds are forming. Looking back, the next view of Denali is partially obscured by clouds. Farther down at the following viewing opportunity it is fruther obscured. We were fortunate, and the afternoon tour groups will not have the view we had.
Out of the park and back at the lodge, we gather our water bottles for recycling and put trash in bags, then fold the boxes containing the lunches the tour suppled as they will be reused. It is nice to be back and take a nap before dinner.
The tour was worth every penny and minute spent.
To be continued, on to Seward and the ship.
#122 - In Seward, get them to tell you how all of the water emptied from Resurrection Bay during the earthquake of 1964. Also, I’ve ran a race up Marathon Mountain…. Beautiful country…. drank lots of Oly too!
Ciao!
121 Big - You get an “A”.
Butch, libs probably give me an A too, but it’s not complimentary.
#117, #120 & #121- you guys are amazing. Here is my 2-cents worth. Your bashing of WJC and propping up of GWB likens you to the Confederacy during the Civil War. They hated Lincoln so much they fired on Fort Sumpter, but they knew what the war was all about was slavery, so they had to hold their nose and go to battle anyway.
If they’d have been astute, they would have condemned that sorry system and reformed themselves. But, it’s the wolf-by-the-ears again. You can’t stand GWB, but your hatred for Dem’s causes you to fight on for a losing cause. IMHO, worth nothing more than 2-cents……..
Ciao
#115
You teaser.
#117 - Don’t forget Ron Brown……………………
#115 - Get DRESSED???????????????
BLASPHEMY!!
GROOVY new buttons
Dude, you forgot to h/t the Sergeant for those buttons! LST ModeratorNS
I don’t see the SGT button on here do I need new glasses?
Send me a pic of the Sergeant and you never know what you’ll find!
bigjolly@bigjolly.com
I am practicing my new buttons
strikeOk, I have figured out strike but bold escapes me.
How so?
I ‘m not doing it right. Nothing goes bold
But you were so close! Try again! Your last one had the tags but nothing between them. Remember - highlight, then Click the ‘b’ button. You can do it! LST ModNS
OHHH highlight
Yippee, dippee, doodaa! You did it! LST ModNS
Stan #126, that is some twisted thought process you got going there. Listing Bill Clinton’s crimes is akin to firing on Fort Sumter by Dems? By the way, it’s those same racist Dems today that continue to hold minorities in virtual economic and mental slavery instead of freeing them.
Who can ever forget this memorable quote by the senior Dem in the Senate:
What a swell bunch of folks these Dems are.
Nope;
They just build rafts out of milk cartons and swim across 90 miles of shark infested waters so that they can come here and tell us how great things are in Cuba.
#137 Do I detect sarchasm in that yippity? Surely not! hehe
#123 - I stand to be corrected - but I do believe MsAdee is posting a MEMOIR of her Alaskan journey (she’s not THERE now)
#138 - WHOA there Big!
I knew ole Robert-name-half-the-public-places-after-me-all-over-West-by-Gawd-Vriginia is a former KKK Grand Dragon - I had no idea he could be so eloquent AND such a defecatory orifice all in one paragraph!
Ladies, you have mail. And if I missed somebody, I’m sorry, please pass along as you see fit.
BTW, whokeeps voting me in all the polls??? How do you know how I’d vote–believe that a Lefty/Kozak thing to be doing.
Out for now.
Mr. Obama;
Ms Reifenstahl on line 1.
BTW–
That’s the actualy poster being plastered on walls in Berlin this week, advertising the Rally—umm—I mean speech
144: Sorry, still here. One question, has anyone else noticed how so many of BHO’s posters hace the Russian Revolution/Communist look to them?
Gone
#144 Sarge: Apparently I’m not able to access your linkie. They’re supressin’ your message!!!!
I know this is OT, but I’ve been outta pocket the last few days and vewy, vewy busy with new house stuff.
Handsome Son is in Dallas to play basketball. It will be very lonesome without him. Lovely Daughter had great news for us yesterday - she received word from St. Mary’s that in addition to her original scholarship, she had received several departmental scholarships. After combining her resident advisor deductions, her tuition, room, and board for the coming semester is estimated between $2k and $3k. She will still be getting her stipends for being an RA and being the VP/Finance for a campus organization as well. Add that to her cash earned this summer, and we can take a huge financial breath!
Sarge, if that weren’t so sad it would be funny, but it’s dead on.
I uploaded the poster in #144 to this site so you can view it.
#148 Tedtam: You go girl! Hope HS wins! /no, not you, headshaker….
Headshaker never wins. The whole world’s against him, I swear to …
#152 hamous
I know, I got the memo, too!
Wow!
Sure is getting fancy-schmacy in here!
All these new
thingy-bobsgadgets is FUN!Well the House and Senate passed the “Bail-Out the Leaches” bill, and “W” says he will not VETO it!! DANG DAMMIT!!! That means that I’m going to pay for this stupidity! Ya’ll too! The fact of the matter is that 99 & 44/100% of the folks that are being bailed out are either speculators that were flippin’ houses or IDIOTS that didn’t have SENSE enough to KNOW that they COULDN”T AFFORD THE DAYAAM HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!! Don’t give me the CRAPO about the VULTURES that sold the loans, they’re hos! The buyer has to be smart enough to know about their own financial circumstance or they DESERVE what they get! BEAM ME UP Scotty,…Scotty,…Scotty,…are you still there?
In the early eighties I moved to the Houston area and bought a house for $87,000 (way too much by the way), the interest rate was 13.75 %, thank you Jimma’ Peanut–Head Carter, and the payment with escrow was $1380, a LOT of MONEY in those days. Anywho, within three years the HCAD appraisal was $56000 and the interest rate had dropped, so I tried to get it refinanced but the bank said that I couldn’t because they couldn’t loan me enough money because the house was worth less?!?! They had the damn note! There were about 100 houses in my neighborhood foreclosed on, if I was a Slug I’d just walked away, but that’s NOT how my Daddy raised me so I stuck it out and refinanced it two times in later years. If it were not for my raisin’ I’d just get in the damn wagon and let everyone else pull it. I’M TARRED of pulling the wagon!!
HAL?!?! What did I say?!?!
Well HAL ate my insightful comment but when I B!tched I saw the Click to edit! Man that’ll come handy, I always type faster than the Ole’ brain can think! ;=)
I like the buttons too, (b,i,bquote, etc), but I KNOW better than push buttons, I’ve always been a button pusher, never saw a button that I didn’t want to push, but it did get me fired outta’ that Missile Silo! ;=)
Dave - the word what got ya was a “wh” followed by “ore”. I took the liberty of changing it for you.
Thanks, HamBone, I ‘m not a fan of the word that you picked but I guess it is in the vernacular now. I don’t know what would be wrong with mine, it’s not vulgar, not a cuss word? HAL sure is strange.
Don’t know if it’s due to dial up or what - but when I “click to edit”, all I get is it loading for the entire time allowed.
Dave, I think its all about context. That version could be used easily in a derogatory manner, like directed at another commenter, so I’m guessing that’s why its in the filter list.
Dave: C’mon. Don’t hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
I know Duhmoose is in the banking business, and I lubs him, but DANG, I’m being punished for stupid people? If Ida known that 4 years ago, Ida bought a bigger house like the realtor said I could afford as well. 1500 sq. ft on 4 acres? I NEEDED more house, but couldn’t afford it. I knew it. I didn’t listen to them.
The banking execs need to give up their millions in salary. Someone needs to be punished and it shouldn’t be the taxpayers…./spittles
Stan #64, we don’t know how we can afford your BS either.
Handsome Son’s basketball coach is a nice enough guy, and he’s taught HS a lot about playing, but I wonder about him sometimes. They are playing in a tournament in Dallas, and their length of stay depends upon how many games they win/lose. HS left his wallet in my car this morning, and I finally talked to the coach about how to get it to him:
Coach: “Let me find out where the nearest place is to get the money…” /obviously thinking of wiring the money, but HS may need his ID as well.
Me: “Will ya’ll be there long enough for me to overnight it?
Coach (voice wandering off a little): “I’ll ask where the nearest place is…”
Me: “I can overnight it to the hotel.”
Coach: “They can do that?!”
Me: “Yes, they can deliver to the hotel. It won’t get there until Friday, though.”
Coach: “It’ll take that long?”
Me: “Yeeeess, if I go tomorrow morning and overnight it, it will take one whole day to get there. It can be there Friday morning.”
Coach: “Well! Okay, then.”
Me: /banging head
Reminds me of the president of my company coming in to a new garage we had built. We had a panel van inside the garage and were loading up for a job the next day. He looked at the roll up garage door, looked at the van, looked back at the door, then said, “will that van fit through that door?” It was all my smart ass could to to keep from saying, “We’re not sure yet. They built the garage around the van.” Dumbass.
Doncha just love it! Someone done went and sold a whole bunch of elevators cars to them folks what don’t have shafts to put them in.
#166 Nobody
That reminds me of a story…ya know how we have those sayings for people who aren’t “all there”? They are legion: “elevator doesn’t go all the way up,” “one sandwich short of a picnic,” “one beer short of a six-pack,” “lights are on but nobody’s home”…
One year when I was volunteering as Youth Minister at our church, our service project got rained out. My backup was to have a lovely older couple come in to teach our kids how to make rosaries. They showed them how to tie the knots, how to place the beads, and - most importantly - how to quickly check to be sure that they hadn’t left any beads out, preferably before they connected the last knot.
One of my favorites, one of our “stick chicks” (I had two very slender girls, and this was a name they gave themselves) was part of the group that day. Stick chick had a great personality and a matching sense of humor. The group was having great fun, putting together their bead combinations and learning how to use the pieces of umbrella ribbing to tie the knots. Stick Chick was so proud of hers when she finished. “Miss Tedtam! Come see my rosary!” she called out holding it up. As she did so, her brow furrowed a bit and she put it back down on the table and I arrived at her side to admire her handiwork. I quickly saw what she had seen, and a new saying was created:
One bead short of a rosary!
#167 tedtam
You sure can bet the good lord didn’t care. It was the thought that counted and he knew that young lady would always remember the bead she missed on the string as she now carried the missing bead in her memory with his name on it.
#167 Dang you Catholics are perfectionists and do things the hard way. While we (former) Episcopalians just got drunk and bought our religious symbols at James Avery jewelry stores.
Well its kinda hard to do a decade of Hail Marys if you only have nine beads!
Actually, I find making rosaries quite relaxing. They take about 1/2 hour to make, and I can get creative with the bead combinations. My rosaries don’t look like the usual ones you get at the Catholic bookstore. I can start and finish one while I’m watching TV. It reduces stress.
Of course, since I haven’t had time to make one recently…
#141 Katfish, you are correct that the Alaska trip musings are a memoir, and we’ve been home for about 10 days. More tomorrow.
G’night all.