1 Area Man Disappointed in Antiques Roadshow Appraisal of Nation's Founding Document

2 Another Aliens reference.  You're as  bad as my wife...............game over man, game over.

3

LOL, more good times and break out the popcorn:

 

Greenville Republican Party rebukes Graham

 

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The Greenville Republican Party has rebuked U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for what it calls his cooperation and support of President Barack Obama and the Democrats' liberal agenda.

The party said in a resolution on Monday that the South Carolina senator has voted for a bank bailout program that will increase the national debt, in favor of two of Obama's liberal U.S. Supreme Court nominees and has promoted amnesty for illegal immigrants.

It also says Graham has "repeatedly demonstrated contempt and arrogance" to GOP members who support party beliefs.

The party says Graham will no longer be invited to attend Greenville GOP meetings and events.

Kevin Bishop, a spokesman for Graham, issued a statement early Wednesday that said Graham believes it is "time for Republicans to pull together."

This is the fourth such a call down on Graham since he was reelected in 2008. What is remarkable about this one is that this is now in his own home territory.  Too bad there is no recall provisions for Senators. I firmly believe we could recall this SOB if there were. Hoever, if there were recall provisions the SOB probably would act more like a conservative rather than a RINO squish.

4

Coolest thing about getting up in the morning:

Turning on Bloomberg and letting Deirdre Bolton try to burn holes in my skull with her laser eyes. 

She almost succeeded a couple of times buy I miraculously resisted.

5

Over at Fox they have a story about putting TV cameras in the Supreme Court. It is something being pushed by that asshole Arlen “Not proven” Specter.

Momentum Builds for Cameras Inside the Supreme Court

Senator Arlen Specter, D-Penn., says he's moving closer to pushing through a law that would require television coverage from inside the Supreme Court.

"They like to run their own show and staying under the radar so to speak enables them to do pretty much as they please," Specter told Fox News. He thinks the court's rulings would better mirror public opinion if the outside world is able to watch the justices on a regular basis.  Specter notes that Congress has administrative oversight over the Supreme Court but acknowledges that the justices would have the final word if they declared the camera law unconstitutional.

Specter's bill passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this year and the outgoing senator says it will "soon" move to the Senate floor.

This asshole is about to disappear so he can be gone and take this shit with him. Not only do we not need cameras in the Supreme Court, we donÂ’t need them in the committee hearings either.

 

Cameras do NOTHING but allow the asshole politicians to get more free face time and preen for the camera. The committee hearings were already a joke before cameras come along and now they are totally worthless.

 

This is an idea who time has not come. Lets expedite Snarlen Arlen going out the door and tell him to take his shitty ass cameras with him.

6

Oh, and I had a coronal mass ejection last night that puts me in pretty good company.

http://tinyurl.com/398kb7g

Does that make me a star, or just a heavenly body?

7

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Consumer spending and personal incomes in the U.S. unexpectedly stagnated in June, showing a lack of jobs is hurting the biggest part of the economy.

The little changed reading on purchases followed a 0.1 percent gain the prior month that was smaller than previously estimated, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. Incomes didnÂ’t increase for the first time since September and the savings rate rose to a one-year high.

Recovery Summer!!!! The only thing that is expected is the unexpected.

Barry will have to go out and create invent some more new jobs.

8

Welllllll, the heat index is going to be around 109 again today.

Who wants to come visit?

9 nephilim grays nordics noah end times ufo antichrist great deception

10 Maybe we can build a campfire, sing some songs.

11 So Newsweek sells for $1 to a reliable liberal hack (Old Man Harman) after spurning a real offer from a conservative group (Newsmax)?

Three words: Shareholder Derivative Action.

12
What about Fannie and Freddie?

13 Don't be lulled into complacency by the 'scaled back' label on the Senate energy bill.

14

I understand that as a child, he wanted to be an exterminator.

http://tinyurl.com/28976rf

Some people just won't be deterred.

15

Kevin Bishop, a spokesman for Graham, issued a statement early Wednesday that said Graham believes it is "time for Republicans to pull together. stop holding him accountable for his quisling votes"

16 Y'all have a good morning. I want to post a link to a story about the local Tea Party making a difference but I gotta run. Managed to time a bunch of activities for the kids with the heat wave...not good, but at least these are indoor things.

17 They come mostly at night... mostly.

18 Posted by: Mama AJ at August 03, 2010 09:11 AM

Gonna be 106 here without any of that "heat index" stuff.

Unexpected. By me, anyway.

19

Listening to Ken Cuchinelli on Va radio. This guy's brain is hot.

Fighting with EPA, immigration wonks, and health care bill.

He's going after them on immigration too.

20 Don't be lulled into complacency by the 'scaled back' label on the Senate energy bill.

Posted by: Nash Rambler at August 03, 2010 09:15 AM (oZriO)

From that link:

Additionally, pages 264-265 require that any new construction or remodel of an existing structure must include the installation of proper hookups for charging an electric vehicle.

One wonders if the scaled back bill has the provisions in it like the House bill that requires a complete remodeling/rebuild of your house to CA "green" standards any time you do anything to it.

21 They mostly come at night ....

Same here.

22 Let's regulate (tax) dust!!!!  I'm so glad the EPA is looking out for us little people.

23 America Held Hostage:  Day 561

24 Hmmm.  Another Lebanese (aka Hezbollah)/Israeli war has been predicted for some time now.  Could this escalate?

'At least four Lebanese killed in border clashes'

25 Game over, man, game over!

26 Hmmm. Another Lebanese (aka Hezbollah)/Israeli war has been predicted for some time now. Could this escalate? 'At least four Lebanese killed in border clashes' Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at August 03, 2010 09:27 AM (9hSKh) If I were going to get into a fight with Israel, now a days, I would NOT do it before the Nov 2010 midterm elections. Obama and the democrats can not afford to look anti-Israel until after the elections. Not sure if Hezbellah looks at it that way?

27 nephilim grays nordics noah end times ufo antichrist great deception

Posted by: Ripley at August 03, 2010 09:12 AM (CDm+r)

Steve Quayle spam?

28

Crazy ass drunk communist atheist tells us that it takes on to know one:

http://tinyurl.com/2bcn6g4

 

29 29

Time again to All Hail the Glorious Bounce from the Passage of the People's Glorious Healthcare bill.

Ace already noted that Gallup gave the Repubicans an 5 point advantage on the generic ballot. Rasmussen came out yesterday as well and gave the Republicans an plus 8 on the generic ballot. And remember, if its Rasmussen, its Hitler approved.

Rasmussen also released a poll on the South Carolina governor race showing Nikki Haley beating her Democratic opponet and Sacred Honor by 14, 49-35. No word yet on whether Lindsey Graham wanted to reach across the aisle for Sacred Honor. Survey USA released one yesterday showing Congressman Heath Schuler (D-Interception!) ahead of his Republican challenger by 1, 45-44. This congressional race has always been rated a toss-up, and the fact that Schuler is stuck around 45 is a positive. Plus, according to political savant Nancy "Botox" Pelosi (D- Botox) all the Democratic Congresscritters were supposed to get a big bounce once healthcare passed.

Once again, All Hail the Glorious Bounce from the Passage of the People's Glorious Healthcare bill.

 

Posted by: Mallamutt at August 03, 2010 09:32 AM (OWjjx)

Wait til I drop 2,000 points on August 25th

30 Hugo Chavez, Communist Necrophiliac.

31 Arlen Specter is an asshole of the first degree. SCOTUS is not under the radar, their rulings are published as legal precedent and endlessly analyzed by lawyers and judges for years.
And their rulings should NOT be "mirroring public opinion" they should be based on the constitution and their own precedent. Why won't he just go away?

32

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner acknowledged that it is still a "tough economy" for most Americans, and warned it's possible the unemployment rate will go up for a couple of months before it comes down as more people enter the labor force.

"When they see a little hope that there may be jobs out there, they start to come back in again. And that can cause the measured unemployment rate to go up — temporarily,"

Yeah, and unemployment wouldn't go over 8% with the stimulus

33 Why won't he just go away? Posted by: real joe at August 03, 2010 09:37 AM (w7Lv+) He is going.

34 From the Slate article:

Chávez, in other words, is very close to the climactic moment when he will announce that he is a poached egg and that he requires a very large piece of buttered toast so that he can lie down and take a soothing nap

Hitchens is many things, but he can write! That right there is funny!

35 He is going.

Posted by: nevergiveup at August 03, 2010 09:39 AM (0GFWk)

Obviously he isn't going fast enough.

36

Wait til I drop 2,000 points on August 25th

 

do tell?

37 Obviously he isn't going fast enough. Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2010 09:43 AM (/jbAw) Yeah OK I'll give ya that one

38 The Ground Zero Mosque goes before the NYC Preservation Commission today for one of the final votes for allowing it to proceed.

Anyone want to bet that they will shoot it down?

39

Remember when passage of Prop 209 was considered the beginning of reversing the trend of 8(a) set aside contracts?

Didn't quite work out that way, did it?

40 6:  Was your dry spell as long as the sun's?

Meanwhile, under the heading "How hard can it be to maximize your irony points" for this morning, this from Hot Air made reference in the first sentence to an establishment (O'Gara's in St. Paul, MN) that I am actually familiar with.  That it was host to a conservative gathering wasn't the big thing, so much as the fact that it's just a few blocks from ultra-lib Macalester College (notable alumni include Walter Mondale and Khofi Annan).

You'd think they could have snarked on that at least once.  HA is really, really, really off what game it once had.

41

Wait til I drop 2,000 points on August 25th

Posted by: DJIA at August 03, 2010 09:36 AM (saDaV)

Alright, I'll bite.  What happens?

42

there is a report out that the BP leak released 4.7 million barrels of oil, can that be right?

i thought they said it was tens of millions while it was happening.

43 there is a report out that the BP leak released 4.7 million barrels of oil, can that be right?

1.  Obama has set the new tone of lying with no regard for consequences

2.  Obama has set the new tone of abject innumeracy

If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.

44 ÔÇÊ ÇáÑíÇÖ ÏÑÏÔÉ ÇáÑíÇÖ ÔÇÊ ÈäÇÊ ÇáÑíÇÖ æØä ÚãÑí ÔÇÊ ÊÚÈ ÞáÈí ÔÇÊ ÇáæÏ ÔÇÊ ÇáÞÕíã

45 The Ground Zero Mosque goes before the NYC Preservation Commission today for one of the final votes for allowing it to proceed.

Anyone want to bet that they will shoot it down?
Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2010 09:45 AM

My bet is that the approval for the Muzzies' playpen sails through, with a little push from Bloomberg and other self-hating squishes.

After all, the Islamo-spokesterrorists are crying "racism" and invoking the Constitution as the protector of their right to rub the ashes of 9/11 in our faces on a daily basis.

Interesting: it's the same argument used by Osama Obama and his fanboyz every time Americans show some sense and show resistance to his treasonous plans.

46 4

Coolest thing about getting up in the morning:

That first cooling beverage.  Takes the hangover right away.

47 And as post 48 shows us, we need a better class of spammer.

48

oh and in other great news, it looks like Charlie Crist will be winning in florida.

People of florida, what the hell is wrong with you. why would you elect an arlen specter in your state. the man has absolutely no principles.

49 _{Conor Friedersdorf Talks About His New Gig at Andrew SullivanÂ’s Blog}I hope no one posted this already, I knew you guys would be all excited about this!

50

Something tells me that Michael Bloomberg would ban a tea party building if there was an attempt to build such a thing.

what is it about becoming a billionaire makes people love facism. If you recall he tried to blame the time square bombing on anti health care advocates.

51 #18
Will the gates of hell (port holes/stargates) open on December 21, 2012?
This is the date the Mayan calendar ends.

We'll find out tomorrow when the sun spot hits earth. 

Might burn out our satellites.

Hope and Fucking Change!

52

Six Louisiana teens die in sinkhole in river.

Unbelievably sad.  The real tragedy?  They were all holding hands.  They walked near the sinkhole and one by one they fell in.  Why did they die?  Because they could not swim.

I denounce myself preemptively, but why are there still black kids that don't know how to swim.  It's 2010.  Are schools really that fucking useless, and summer vacations really so mind-numbing and indoor-focused that the old "blacks can't swim" stereotype is allowed to live on? 

I know the answer.

But why are our "education" dollars being spent for the featherbedding of public servants' retirement accounts instead of teaching basic drownproofing and water treading.

18 feet.  I could swim down 18 feet by age 10.  There were "teens"

Sad.

53 RIIIIIIP-LEEEEEYYY!!!!

54 Conor Friedersdorf Talks About His New Gig at Andrew SullivanÂ’s Blog

Did the beagles retire?

55 Prosperity More Dempresssion is just around the corner!

56 Posted by: s'moron at August 03, 2010 10:04 AM (UaxA0)

I had assumed that they were disabled teens.

57 43

Wait til I drop 2,000 points on August 25th

Posted by: DJIA at August 03, 2010 09:36 AM (saDaV)

Alright, I'll bite.  What happens?

Posted by: TomInKorea at August 03, 2010 09:47 AM (+gX1+)

It's already happened. The market has re-traced 62% from the down.

58

A golden egg of opportunity falls into your lap this month.

31-37-06-11-15-26

59

Only if by "disabled," you mean hobbled by the ignorance foisted upon them by society, curious.

A chain of 6 kids, sinking like a stone.  What, do they try to breathe underwater?

The seventh one almost went in, but someone saved her.

60 Posted by: s'moron at August 03, 2010 10:07 AM (UaxA0)

I couldn't read the story.  I've been weeping enough lately.  But something just doesn't sound right to me about this.

61 I say we dust off and nuke it from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.  

62

People of florida, what the hell is wrong with you. why would you elect an arlen specter in your state. the man has absolutely no principles.

 

Because most of them are libs from New York?

63 Bacco, tabacco e Venere riducono l'uomo in cenere

64

Perhaps Mata Hari would have been a more accurate comparison than Rosa Parks:

http://tinyurl.com/2dor7bm

Led there by instapundit

65 "Klinghoffer is turning heads for critiquing the state of conservatism in today’s society, namely the degree to which radical pundits have become the face of the conservative movement. " "or Klinghoffer, the landscape of today’s political discourse is populated by “potty-mouthed Internet entrepreneurs” like Andrew Breitbard who fail mightily to live up to such “iconic figures” of the political right as William F. Buckley Jr., Irving Kristol, and Father Richard John Neuhaus."

66 #56

You are so right, when I went to college you were required to learn how to swim to graduate.  My roommate, a country boy, had to take swimming 3 times to pass and graduate.  The first day they made everyone jump in the pool and swim a lap, the poor guy begged them to just put in the class.  Nope he had to jump in, sank like a rock.  I think he was prouder of learning how to swim that getting a BS in Mech Engineering.

Can not do this now, Handicap law or something.  A kid actually drowned at a Frat initiation, he was a Junior, so everyone knew he had passed swimming.  They threw him in a pond and he drowned.

He as a transfer and hadn't taken swimming yet.  True, but sad story.

67

This liberal would be all about sociali-

...uh....um...

...taking over all happiness on the face of the planet and putting the Government in charge!

68 DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at August 03, 2010 09:46 AM

Kofi and Walter Mondale teach there but are not alumni.  I have spent numerous drunken nights at O'Garas in St. Paul.  Real nice laid back Irish pub. 

69 A golden egg of opportunity falls into your lap this month.  That was not chicken.

31-37-06-11-15-26

Posted by: fortune cookie at August 03, 2010 10:07 AM (8/oOq)

FIFY

70

You are so right, when I went to college you were required to learn how to swim to graduate.  My roommate, a country boy, had to take swimming 3 times to pass and graduate.  The first day they made everyone jump in the pool and swim a lap, the poor guy begged them to just put in the class.  Nope he had to jump in, sank like a rock.  I think he was prouder of learning how to swim that getting a BS in Mech Engineering.

at my highschool, you had to be able to swim two laps wearing a sweat suit. it seemed normal at the time, but in hindsight it seemed kind of odd.

71 I denounce myself preemptively, but why are there still black kids that don't know how to swim.

I read that article because they have recently formed a group here to concentrate on teaching black children how to swim. It seems that the statistics are really bad for black children drowning because they do not know how to swim.

What I found astounding about that article was that both families parents were there with their children.  To me taking your children to play in the RIVER when they do not know how to swim is the veritable height of stupidity!  Could this be the major contributor to the higher rate of drowning or is it this:

When I was a kid there were 3 public swimming pools in the town of about 5K people.  In that same town now with a population of 20K there are ZERO public swimming pools.  The lawyers have shut them down.

I am not saying this to bash lawyers, but the ease at which people can sue AND collect has made it impossible to open a public swimming pool anymore.

So people who can not afford the cost of a private pool, or who live in apartments are forced to swim in places like the river. Swimming in the river is inherently dangerous compared to a pool and it is the height of insanity when you can not swim at all.

72

For any interested, The Muqata is pretty current on the Israel / Lebanon situation:

http://tinyurl.com/29wylds

 

73

Drinking hits record high.

Last time America was this prone to swill straight from the bottle was during the Carter years.

Unprecedented.  And by unprecedented, I mean COMPLETELY PRECEDENTED.

74 I don't know why Beck didn't become a minister.

75

Any new mosque becomes a "waqf" or "holy" Islamic land which suggests every Muslim must wage jihad to defend it per sharia law.  This motivates jihadis globally, from Jerusalem or Thailand to Malmo or London.  Any land captured by Islam is theirs forever.  This is why HAMAS leaders occasionally talk about moving the jihad to Spain if Israel is destroyed.        

In addition, letting Muslims convert (da'wa) others while they threaten and actually kill apostates (again, per sharia law) is not very 'tolerant' as it turns out.  It's like setting up a giant Human (See: Roach) Motel and suggesting everyone needs to support it to prove their tolerance. 

Moreover, nobody seems to care about the source of the hundred million or so dollars required to fund the mega-monstrosity mosque.  Let me guess: starts with "Saudi" and ends with "Arabia".    

76


curious, the kids can't swim, and don't have teh slightest clue how.  It was an already old stereotype when I was a kid, but I can't believe there would be black kids like that nowadays, especially 7 of them together.  It is, in every sense of the word, tragic.




but to lighten things up,from Geraghty's morning jolt:

Look what Sydney Harmon found at the Dollar Store



(talking about Newsweek)

That made me literally LOL.



I bought Newsweek at the Dollar Store, ma! 

Oh, that's nice honey.  Which issue?

No, the entire company!

77 I am not saying this to bash lawyers, but the ease at which people can sue AND collect has made it impossible to open a public swimming pool anymore.

Same here.  There was a "private club" in town that anybody could afford to join.  My wife and I spent about every day there during the summers.  Gone now.  Big olympic pool and a 12 foot deep diving pool.  Heaven for a kid.  The only option now is $100 a month for the Y.

78 Posted by: s'moron at August 03, 2010 10:21 AM (UaxA0)

Does this whole scenario not sound right to anyone else?

79 I've got nothing.

80

I denounce myself preemptively, but why are there still black kids that don't know how to swim.

aside from the context which you gave this in which was extremely sad, i will admit, that it is one of the funniest stereotypes in America and we have a lot to choose from.

Its just so freaking absurd. I have no idea how it came about. Is there something in African American culture that shuns large bodies of water or the ability to traverse them without a boat?

81

They mostly come at night... mostly

and at dawn they sleep

http://tinyurl.com/yjsn2e3

 

82 The only option now is $100 a month for the Y.

That is the same here. I don't know what they are doing in my old home town. The Y gives swimming lessons but it costs. They do have a program for "underprivileged" children but even that still costs something.

That is why they have formed a "volunteer" group to teach black children to try to get the numbers down. I would have preferred they make it an "economic" group instead of by race but I guess you can't have everything. 

83 #8

Suffer, bitch.

It's 100+ here, with on again / off again rain.

But I live in the tropics - you, on the other hand, live in hell.

BWA-HAHAHAHAHAHA

84

"Swimming in the river is inherently dangerous..."

I'll say.  I got hit in the head with a floating vine of watermelons and damn near stepped on a waterlogged venomous snake in a river in Cherokee once. Never went in again. Floating fruit can kill, campers. Remember that.

85 @56
My husband (Frog-Wop) can't swim. 

'Not sure teaching kids to swim is a school issue.  For one thing, I doubt that the majority of schools have swimming pools.  Mine certainly didn't. 

Can you imagine the liability schools would incur if they put kids near water?  As it stands I'm amazed they still have kids climbing ropes and doing balance beams in standard gym classes.

Morning all!  We get a real bed delivered in a couple of days... which is good news as sleeping on these air mattress thingies is getting pretty old!

86 Ya know, Vic, I'm what? 20 years younger than you?  (I'm 40).

But growing up in the 70s and 80s doesn't sound any different from growing up in the 50s and 60s.  (I have several older brothers, so I at least have some idea).

What the hell happened in the last 25 years?  Is it a symptom of the total breakdown in society that we can all sense, but not quite put our fingers on, or is it something different?

87 83 I am not saying this to bash lawyers, but the ease at which people can sue AND collect has made it impossible to open a public swimming pool anymore.

Same here.  There was a "private club" in town that anybody could afford to join.  My wife and I spent about every day there during the summers.  Gone now.  Big olympic pool and a 12 foot deep diving pool.  Heaven for a kid.  The only option now is $100 a month for the Y.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 03, 2010 10:22 AM (h/zKr)

Seems like the only "companies" that can afford to advertise on TV are Lawyers suing drug companies, companies advising people how to avoid paying all their taxes and companies hawking gold.

All of them are a sad commentary on where this country is and where Barry is taking it.  No tort reform so the vultures are circling the carcass, people making money telling people it's ok not to pay their fair share, and people basically admitting that the dollar is worthless.

88 "Part of the reason we have such a gigantic economic mess on the way is because we have promised vastly more than we can deliver to future retirees.  When you closely examine the numbers, it quickly becomes clear that a financial tsunami is about to hit us that is going to be so devastating that it will change everything that we know about retirement."

89 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go

90 > 44 there is a report out that the BP leak released 4.7 million barrels of oil, can that be right? i thought they said it was tens of millions while it was happening. Posted by: Ben Reports are very loose in the way they mix barrels and gallons. 42 gallons to the barrel. The tens of millions number would be referring to gallons.

91

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- The number of contracts to purchase previously owned houses unexpectedly fell in June, indicating demand kept unraveling after the expiration of a homebuyer tax credit.

Aug. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Orders placed with U.S. factories declined more than forecast in June, a sign manufacturing will cool in coming months.

And I posted earlier that consumer spending and personal income were "unexpectedly" stagnate. Nothing about Recovery Summer is expected

92 Fucks News just announced that officials in NYC have caved in to the Muslims, and will allow the mosques to be built near Ground Zero.

Traitors, terrorists and self-haters who excuse anything in the name of "unity" are celebrating.

We have just officially surrendered to the Muzzies. They have the White House, and now a new Victory Center near the scene of their greatest achievement.

93 95 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw) And the slow-rolling suicide of the west continues.

94

Better keep Soetoro away from the pool.

 

wait

95 For a semester, I had to teach incoming freshman who failed the test to swim, almost exclusively black kids. It wasn't a lack of access to resources - I had to teach kids that went to pools all the time - but a real fear of deep water. I chalked it up to their lower body fat index - meaning they needed more basic instruction.

96 Ya know, Vic, I'm what? 20 years younger than you?  (I'm 40).

That's about right Herr.

But growing up in the 70s and 80s doesn't sound any different from growing up in the 50s and 60s.  (I have several older brothers, so I at least have some idea).

I think the break point started around 1965 with the Great Society and the welfare State. It started a generation of people who were raised with the mindset of "you are not responsible for your own actions" and "the government owes me a living".

Also, it was about this time that the liberals really began taking over the State legislatures and getting all these "make work for Lawyers" bills passed.

As that generation came of age in the 70s and 80s we can not see the huge impact.  

97 99 95 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go
Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw)

And the slow-rolling suicide of the west continues.

Posted by: joncelli at August 03, 2010 10:30 AM (RD7QR)

This was not classifying a building for historic preservation.

Never give up - never surrender

98 99 95 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go
Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw)

And the slow-rolling suicide of the west continues.

Posted by: joncelli at August 03, 2010 10:30 AM (RD7QR)

Our British cousins have been real groundbreakers in that department.

99 Blacks have a higher bone density and therefore don't float or swim as easily as Whites. 

http://tinyurl.com/l2y6a6

100

"Swimming in the river is inherently dangerous..."

I'll say.  I got hit in the head with a floating vine of watermelons and damn near stepped on a waterlogged venomous snake in a river in Cherokee once.

Heh.  I grew up right on the Little Miami.  Beautiful river, good fishing, but it will swallow you.  Deep holes and nasty hidden currents get a couple each year.  At least we don't have those damn cottonmouths.  Copperheads, yes, but they're kind of wimpy on the old aggressiveness front.

Now, on the "it only happens to Morgenholz front", I just found my wedding ring with a metal detector.  Yesterday morning the chickens were out and picking at bugs by the garden as Frau was weeding, etc.  When I went out to say bye before heading to work, I picked up one of said chickens, who got pissed and started kicking, thereby hooking a claw under the wedding ring and stripping it from my finger, flinging it into a stand of tall weeds.  Took me 45 minutes to find it in a 3X3 area.

101 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw) The only thing that happened to day is that the Landmark Committee in NYC ruled the old building that is there is NOT a landmark building so it can be torn down to build something else. They did not rule on whether to build a Mosgue or not. The Mosgue still does not have the money to be built and it still can be stopped

102 103 99 95 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw) And the slow-rolling suicide of the west continues. Posted by: joncelli at August 03, 2010 10:30 AM (RD7QR) This was not classifying a building for historic preservation. Never give up - never surrender Posted by: Quincy Taggart at August 03, 2010 10:33 AM (zqzYV) Do you really think it will be stopped at some other point? Our modern leftists are ashamed to be alive, they see the mosque as a symbol of a punishment they feel they deserve.

103 74 On the contrary, Mondale is '50 and Annan '66.

I know this because, to my eternal regret...I'm alumni, '92.

_{As you can see, I got better.}

104 Posted by: Jean at August 03, 2010 10:31 AM (3Ds00)

I raised the issue of lack of access to a pool by the children because that is exactly what the newspaper article said when they were discussing the statistics and the formation of the group to teach black children.

105 How are all you dumb proles enjoying the sizzling Obama Recovery Summer that my super-spectacular economic policies have created?  Love to hang around and chat, but Manchelle says that ball isn't going to drive itself.

106 Do you really think it will be stopped at some other point? Our modern leftists are ashamed to be alive, they see the mosque as a symbol of a punishment they feel they deserve. Posted by: joncelli at August 03, 2010 10:36 AM (RD7QR) I could think of a few ways to stop it

107 The only thing that happened to day is that the Landmark Committee in NYC ruled the old building that is there is NOT a landmark building so it can be torn down to build something else.

The NY Post article about the hearing today said it was one of the very last administrative obstacles they had to get by for building it. After that the only thing left was getting the money.

You know getting the money will NOT be a problem. It will pour in like water from the Saudis.

108 NGU, thanks for the clarification.

Nice sentiment.

109 I think the break point started around 1965 with the Great Society and the welfare State.

True.  You didn't have "Good Times" and such on the TV celebrating that culture.  (It wasn't allowed in my house).

I'm just so damned frustrated.  I think every parent wants to give their kids the good parts of what they remember growing up.  I was really lucky, coming from a large, very stable family that was at least well heeled enough that Pop could insulate us from the upheaval of the late 70s, etc. 

It's true that my kids aren't enjoying that same advantage. 

110 You know getting the money will NOT be a problem. It will pour in like water from the Saudis. Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2010 10:39 AM (/jbAw) Foreign money and further legal challenges is what just might stop this monstrocity

111 Now, on the "it only happens to Morgenholz front", I just found my wedding ring with a metal detector.  Yesterday morning the chickens were out and picking at bugs by the garden as Frau was weeding, etc.  When I went out to say bye before heading to work, I picked up one of said chickens, who got pissed and started kicking, thereby hooking a claw under the wedding ring and stripping it from my finger, flinging it into a stand of tall weeds.  Took me 45 minutes to find it in a 3X3 area.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 03, 2010 10:35 AM (h/zKr)

Herr did more than just "pick me up" IYKWIMAITYD. Please send help fast!

112 109 103 99 95 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go
Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw)

And the slow-rolling suicide of the west continues.
Posted by: joncelli at August 03, 2010 10:30 AM (RD7QR)

This was not classifying a building for historic preservation.

Never give up - never surrender

Posted by: Quincy Taggart at August 03, 2010 10:33 AM (zqzYV)

Do you really think it will be stopped at some other point? Our modern leftists are ashamed to be alive, they see the mosque as a symbol of a punishment they feel they deserve.

Posted by: joncelli at August 03, 2010 10:36 AM (RD7QR)

No, they will build it.

113 I'd like to see the trade unions in NYC refuse to build it. Yeah I know- fat chance? But ya never know.

114 Herr did more than just "pick me up" IYKWIMAITYD.

And for that, you are to be introduced to your new best friend: Noodle.

115 No, they will build it. Posted by: Quincy Taggart at August 03, 2010 10:41 AM (zqzYV) Maybe but things still go bang in the night ya know

116 You can't seriously tell me there aren't some, er, 'legitimate businessmen' who aren't taking an adverse interest in that whole affair?  Come on, somebody has to be waking up with a pig's head in their bed over this whole Charlie Foxtrot...

117 I'd like to see the trade unions in NYC refuse to build it.

In a way, it's shame that the Mafia has been nutted.  Slimebags? Yes, but damned patriotic slimebags.  They'd be all over this shit.

118

As it turns out, England my be at the forefront of western countries for fuckedupedness:

http://tinyurl.com/3a5bb5t

 

119 body fat or bone density - either way they have a harder time swimming and their parents need to ensure they get more instruction time. Unfortunately, many of the parents don't swim well either. A compounding factor is that urban pools are "waterparks" which means lots of fun, shallow water activities -- little deep water lap swimming or diving.

120 You can't seriously tell me there aren't some, er, 'legitimate businessmen' who aren't taking an adverse interest in that whole affair? Come on, somebody has to be waking up with a pig's head in their bed over this whole Charlie Foxtrot... Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at August 03, 2010 10:43 AM (IkEhE) 124 I'd like to see the trade unions in NYC refuse to build it. In a way, it's shame that the Mafia has been nutted. Slimebags? Yes, but damned patriotic slimebags. They'd be all over this shit. Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 03, 2010 10:43 AM (h/zKr) Yes there are drawbacks to having defanged the Mafia.

121 LOL Herr, I have to soak my hand in warm soapy water and work on it a long time to get my wedding band off.

That is what happens when you get old and fat after having been married for 30 years.

122 Maybe but things still go bang in the night ya know

Posted by: nevergiveup at August 03, 2010 10:42 AM (0GFWk)

Word!

123 122 No, they will build it.

Posted by: Quincy Taggart at August 03, 2010 10:41 AM (zqzYV)

Maybe but things still go bang in the night ya know

Posted by: nevergiveup at August 03, 2010 10:42 AM (0GFWk)

What really is pathetic, they will finish building it before they complete the building replacing the WTC.

I hope the construction workers bury pig bones in the foundation.

124 LOL Herr, I have to soak my hand in warm soapy water and work on it a long time to get my wedding band off. That is what happens when you get old and fat after having been married for 30 years. Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2010 10:44 AM (/jbAw) Just be happy it is western tradition to put the wedding band on your finger and not your....ah never mind

125 I am sure Nanny Bloomberg would have no problem with someone opening a pork BBQ across from the Victory Mosque.

126 What really is pathetic, they will finish building it before they complete the building replacing the WTC. I hope the construction workers bury pig bones in the foundation. Posted by: Quincy Taggart at August 03, 2010 10:45 AM (zqzYV) It ain't built till it builts

127 athletic-success-belly-button-placement

128 LOL Herr, I have to soak my hand in warm soapy water and work on it a long time to get my wedding band off.

Mine is actually broken.  We were broke when we got married, of course, and besides, I didn't want anything soft, so I got some Bangladeshi made 10K thing for like $25.00 from a pawnbroker I know. (Spent a lot more for the Frau's of course). It got caught on an engine part I was working on and snapped, it's so damned brittle.  Been that way for 7 or 8 years.  I had a jeweler look at it and he wanted $150.00 to fix it.  Frau said "No. It's fine, dear".

So I can honestly say I married a cheap woman.

129 132 I am sure Nanny Bloomberg would have no problem with someone opening a pork BBQ across from the Victory Mosque.

Posted by: real joe at August 03, 2010 10:46 AM (IpIBJ)

As long as there was no salt in the BBQ sauce.

130

Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never takes a long shower with him.

25-55-8-17-54-1

131 Re: Ground Zero mosque.

Why is there no public comment about the pig slaughterhouse that used to be on that site back in the 1810s? You'd think that the accommodating liberals of NYC would want the mosque proprietors to know about the unclean nature of the site.

132 137 So, my plans regarding Christina Hendricks are pretty much out of the question then...?

133 138 Re: Ground Zero mosque.

Why is there no public comment about the pig slaughterhouse that used to be on that site back in the 1810s? You'd think that the accommodating liberals of NYC would want the mosque proprietors to know about the unclean nature of the site.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 03, 2010 10:49 AM (P9+0W)

134 Why is there no public comment about the pig slaughterhouse that used to be on that site back in the 1810s?

And after that, the dog kennel.  What about the gay burlesque house in the 20s, huh?

(I like this meme.  This could go places).

135 Larissa Riquelme Robbed in Rio: phone stolen.

136 It's almost dark...and the gold trailing index is down 2%.  Net gain for last six months is 6.5%

137 My idea is to bribe a construction worker to bury pig bones in the foundation in 3 or 4 places.

Wait until the building is finished

Release one video

Wait one year

Release  second video

Wait one year

Release third video

138 After WW2, it was used as temporary synagogue by Holocaust survivors while their immigration paperwork was being cleared.

139 "They like to run their own show and staying under the radar so to speak enables them to do pretty much as they please," Specter told Fox News. He thinks the court's rulings would better mirror public opinion if the outside world is able to watch the justices on a regular basis.

A.  It's almost as if the Supreme Court belongs to another branch of government with its own article in the Constitution or something, Arlen.

B.  Deciding cases based on public opinion is one of the more idiotic things that I have ever heard proposed.  How confirming judges that will do so on the basis of what do you call it?  Law...that's it.

140 Any chance when they dig that they find an ancient Indian burial ground?

141 144 My idea is to bribe a construction worker to bury pig bones in the foundation in 3 or 4 places.

Hey!  Why should we suffer?

142

Why is there no public comment about the pig slaughterhouse that used to be on that site back in the 1810s?

Yeah, and my understanding that it was a really, really big site. Major expansions throughout the 1820's-1840's.

143 After WW2, it was used as temporary synagogue by Holocaust survivors while their immigration paperwork was being cleared.

Posted by: Jean at August 03, 2010 10:56 AM (yGYDb)

It's ironic they'd use an old bacon processing plant for that.  Real ironic.

144

Watch turnout in the Michigan Republican and Democratic primaries (today). 

Both parties have highly competitive governor's primaries (Hoekstra vs. Cox vs. Snyder, GOP;  Bernero vs. Dillon, DEM).

It'll be interesting to see how many vote in both primaries.  A Hoekstra win will tell you that the West side of the state (conservative) turned out big time.  

Watch the Democratic turnout closely.  If Dems have a strong turnout, that could signal that the union-base of the Democratic party is going to be motivated to show up in November. 

145 Posted by: nevergiveup at August 03, 2010 10:41 AM (0GFWk)

There are a lot of new condos going up in NYC.  Work is even done on a Sunday.  Me thinks the weekend workers who work from early morning to into the next morning might not be union workers?

146 I'm confused.  When was Goldfein and Sons bank on this site?  I understand they had great interest rates!!

147 I was the first voter in my Missouri precinct this AM.

Voted 'yes' on 'C', the 'screw Obamacare' Initiative.

If that doesn't pass with 75%, I'll be surprised.

148 148 144 My idea is to bribe a construction worker to bury pig bones in the foundation in 3 or 4 places.

Hey!  Why should we suffer?

Posted by: pigs everywhere at August 03, 2010 10:57 AM (5ZZzF)

One word - Bacon. Now - "GET IN MY STOMACH"

149 Arlen's an idiot - the real sausage making at the SCOTUS happens in the discussions between the Justices and their respective clerks as opinions are written. Are we going to have one way mirrors and camera man following them around like a Real World First Street NE, maybe a silly contest or two to spice things up?

150

 When was Goldfein and Sons bank on this site? 

Somewhat after the Oscar Mayer bacon plant moved, I think.

151 119 109 103 99 95 Just in from Fox News -- Ground Zero Mosque is a Go
Posted by: NM Hick at August 03, 2010 10:28 AM (IzuWw)

A recent info email:

Joys of Muslim Women
by Nonie Darwish

In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as 1 year old and have sexual intimacy with this child. Consummating the marriage by 9. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the woman, to use her as a toy.
Even though a woman is abused she cannot obtain a divorce. To prove rape, the woman must have (4) male witnesses.  Often after a woman has been raped, she is returned to her family and the family must return the dowry. The family has the right to execute her (an honour killing) to restore the honor of the family. Husbands can beat their wives 'at will' and he does not have to say why he has beaten her.
The husband is permitted to have (4 wives) and a temporary wife for an hour (prostitute) at his discretion. The Shariah Muslim law controls the private as well as the public life of the woman.

In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.  It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.

152

"After WW2, it was used as temporary synagogue by Holocaust survivors while their immigration paperwork was being cleared."

That would only make it more desireable.

153 It's Tuesday, how will Prez Dickweed fuck us over today?

Just wondering.

154 nickless - how many times are you going to vote?

155

"Any chance when they dig that they find an ancient Indian burial ground?"

Could we hire an old midget to hang around & creep them out with ghost stories? She's gotta wear those big bug-eyed Jordache glasses or she won't be believable.

156
Burn it down.  Apply bacon.  Repeat.

157 160 It's Tuesday, how will Prez Dickweed fuck us over today?

Just wondering.

Posted by: mpfs at August 03, 2010 11:06 AM (iYbLN)

Hey, bitches! The fucking will continue until morale improves.

158 How stupid can one country be.

Heh.

159 nickless - how many times are you going to vote?

Considering I asked for a Republican ballot, I'm lucky they let me vote at all.

160 A.  It's almost as if the Supreme Court belongs to another branch of government with its own article in the Constitution or something, Arlen.



To be fair, Snarlin' Arlen is something of an expert of Scottish law. US law, not so much.

161

Could we hire an old midget to hang around & creep them out with ghost stories?

I was hoping for the Wolfen, myself.

162 it will be a wonderful place to set up a pulled pork sandwich cart and walk your defecating dogs...

163 162

Building the mosque doesn't suprise me.  After all, shortly after being attacked by people in the name of Islam, we elected a man with a muslim name to be President who's father and step father were muslim, raised a muslim as a child,  traveled to Pakistan with his muslim friends, attended a church which embraced muslims and has supported all things muslim.  How stupid can one country be.      

Posted by: polynikes at August 03, 2010 11:08 AM (m2CN7)

Well stated, and if you would have told people 40 years ago that this would happen, they would have declared you crazy.

164 ESPN reporting Favre to retire.

Again.

165

"I was hoping for the Wolfen, myself."

Now we just need a pet cemetery and an old guy to sing "[Allah] is in his Holy Temple" every half hour.

166 Don't forget the speakeasy and clandestine rotgut rum distillery that existed on the site during Prohibition.

I'm gaining a new appreciation for history.

167 Steve liesman basically just said that the FED makes money on the defaulted mortgages and when they retire.  He is very difficult to understand.  Know he is trying to get something across but not sure what.

168 "I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
-Whitley Strieber, Communion, p. 25-26

169 Steve liesman basically just said that the F E D makes money on the defaulted mortgages and again when they retire them.  He is very difficult to understand.  Know he is trying to get something across but not sure what.

170 I was the first voter in my Missouri precinct this AM.

Voted 'yes' on 'C', the 'screw Obamacare' Initiative.

If that doesn't pass with 75%, I'll be surprised.
Posted by: nickless

nickless, I'm on my way to give jugears the finger, and I'm confident that damn near 100% of the state outside of those two blue cess pools at each end of I-70 will do the same.

St. Louis and K.C. have fucked over the rest of the state before.

171

Hey, Whitley - you're just a pussy. I channeled Shirley MacLaine and that's what she said.

172 Article III, Section 1:

The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

173 172 ESPN reporting Favre to retire.

Again.

Expect him to do the Hokey Pokey on his career several more times before coming back this season.  This possibility, though, will likely force the Vikes to start looking at a more long-term solution at QB to prevent this annual drama queen BS from derailing their plans.

174 I grew up right on the Little Miami.

What part, Herr?  I grew up there too.  Went to Little Miami High School.  We were called river rats.  heh

175

Senator Arlen Specter, D-Penn., says he's moving closer to pushing through a law that would require television coverage from inside the Supreme Court.

Rotfl.. just what we need, the Supreme Court with their own reality show, and appoinments would probably become ratings based.

Justice Snookie.. yup, that should fix this whole problem in a heart beat.

176 I was for my retirement, before I was against it.

177

172 ESPN reporting Favre to retire.

Again.

Well, that's great news! Who's he going to play for?

178

56 Both of my teenagers are life guards. They cannot figure out why the african-americans can't swim. They have never had to jump in for anyone else. What they find most weird is that not only can they not swim, they go ahead and get in water over their heads and then "expect" to be saved. Then they do it again. Now the club has a wrist band policy for anyone under 18 where they have to pass a swim test to go past 4 feet. Only the adults who can't swim now get "saved". Why would you go off a diving board when you know you can't swim? It's like the "government" is responsible for your respiration.

You don't even have to know how to swim. You just have to know how to float. How hard is that??????

179 105 Blacks have a higher bone density and therefore don't float or swim as easily as Whites.

Sure, when I said this I got fired!

180 I was for my retirement, before I was against it.

Posted by: Brett Favre at August 03, 2010 11:25 AM (554T5)

Though you have always been for hideous across-the-body hurls into the middle of the field resulting in disaster.

181 What part, Herr?  I grew up there too.  Went to Little Miami High School. 

Well, that's a small world.

Let me just say that a Spartan beats a Panther every time in the Kenton Trace Conference... ;-)

Depending on how old you are....

182 So, do we all pretty much agree that the DJIA will still be in four-digit territory on Dec 31?  Or could it go to three?

183 Richard Barf Cohen has a washpo editorial defending the mosque. I feel like writing him and explaining where he personally stands in the muslim view. I believe it is below "dog".

184
Favre just want's his own 1 hour special on ESPN.

185 You don't even have to know how to swim. You just have to know how to float. How hard is that??????

Funny thing about that, I could swim long before I could float.

186

"It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law."

At least they're not getting duped into the patriarchy of Judeo-Christianism!

187 After WW2, it was used as temporary synagogue by Holocaust survivors while their immigration paperwork was being cleared.

Posted by: Jean

 

Most recently, it was a clandestine transfats production and storage facility. Oh, and a gun shop. That should get Bloomberg to nuke the place.

188 Don't know if you're still in the area Lady in Black, but LM schools was just taken over by the state because their fiscal picture is so shitty.

189 195
Favre just want's his own 1 hour special on ESPN.

Posted by: Dang Straights at August 03, 2010 11:31 AM (fx8sm)

I don't know why you'd even say something like that!

190 Oh, and a gun shop that allowed smoking. That should get Bloomberg to nuke the place.

191

Funny thing about that, I could swim long before I could float.

Maybe girls have a floating advantage. Higher body fat ratio and natural upper body floaties.

192 And you wonder why we gave him the heave-ho...?

193 74 On the contrary, Mondale is '50 and Annan '66.

I know this because, to my eternal regret...I'm alumni, '92.

_{As you can see, I got better.}
Posted by: DarkLordOfTheIntarWebs at August 03, 2010 10:36 AM

I sit corrected.  I thought Walter Mondale was UofM.  St. Thomas College '87 myself.  Vince Flynn used to be my bartender.

194 Maybe girls have a floating advantage. Higher body fat ratio and natural upper body floaties.

I find your views intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.  The one with pictures.

195 Let me just say that a Spartan beats a Panther every time in the Kenton Trace Conference... ;-)

Depending on how old you are....

Lawdy, small world for sure.  I saw up thread you were 40, so I'm pretty much a geezer to you.  Graduated from LMHS in '81.  Put it this way, I don't even recall us every playing Turpin!

196 Whoopthie!

197

"it will be a wonderful place to set up a pulled pork sandwich cart and walk your defecating dogs..."

During the Thanksgiving / Christmas season, it would be a lovely place to sell highly fragrant baked goods...cookies and pumpkin pies and cinnamon breads...

^{Wait, what do you mean that it would coincide with the fasting of Ramadan?}

198 206 Yeah. My husband had been known to request "floating". Took me forever to figure out why as it seemed like a strange request.

199 Lawdy, small world for sure.  I saw up thread you were 40, so I'm pretty much a geezer to you.  Graduated from LMHS in '81.

Heh.  I graduated 88 from that little town upstream of ya.  Live over near Wilmington, now.

200 In the West World ( America ) Muslim men are starting to demand Shariah Law so the wife can not obtain a divorce and he can have full and complete control of her.  It is amazing and alarming how many of our sisters and daughters attending American Universities are now marrying Muslim men and submitting themselves and their children unsuspectingly to the Shariah law.

Posted by: sd at August 03, 2010 11:04 AM (cuz0U)

It's not going to get any better until we get smart and start deporting them (at least), and banning their BS religion.  Amend the constitution - single out Islam and all variants and define them as criminal organizations.  No more muzzies in, and all current muzzies out.  By whatever means necessary.  Every mosque should be seized with eminent domain, razed, and the land turned over for useful purposes.  Short of that, we're just waiting for them to finally figure out how to beat us.

201 Speaking of floating etc. back when my daughter was young and we had the pool she was always on me about allowing her to go to the pool and swim without either one of us parents being there.

I told her she first had to pass the Navy swim test I had in boot camp. Go off the diving board into the water feet first while fully clothed (long pants). Float on her back for 5 minutes. Then remove her pants and make flotation devices from them and float using them for another 5 minutes, then swim the length of the pool back and forth 3 times. 

She never did take me up on that.

202 She never did take me up on that.

Posted by: Vic at August 03, 2010 11:45 AM (/jbAw)

Not dissimilar to Lifesaving Merit Badge.  I did it.  Barely.

203 Short of that, we're just waiting for them to finally figure out how to beat us.

I believe they've already figured it out:  political correctness and candy ass politicians.  England and other countries have already been the canaries in the coal mine.  They know how to push and get what they want...and unfortunately, it has worked and it's working here.  I can't see our "leaders" putting a stop to this restructuring of our country's values.  Look what they've done to us so far.  Tolerance for all, even at the expense of our fundamental structure as an American society.

204 Ah geez Herr I'm older than you.

How is that possible???

205 can't swim, and not black.

almost drowned twice, but not because I "expected" to be save.

long stories.

206 Ah geez Herr I'm older than you.

How is that possible???

Posted by: mpfs at August 03, 2010 11:48 AM (iYbLN)

And I'm boyish looking!!!

At least I used to be before I got the permanent old-man scowl on my face.  And my beard started to turn gray...

It's ok dear... you're lovely.

207 Ah geez Herr I'm older than you.

How is that possible???

Posted by: mpfs at August 03, 2010 11:48 AM (iYbLN)

And I'm boyish looking!!!

At least I used to be before I got the permanent old-man scowl on my face.  And my beard started to turn gray...

It's ok dear... you're lovely.

Posted by: Herr

At least it's only 9 years so it's not really cougar territory... yet.

208 almost drowned twice, but not because I "expected" to be save.

I have had to pull people out of my pool twice who were about to drown and I couldn't even use the pole which is what you are supposed to use.

The reason they were going down is because they were so drunk they couldn't do anything.  Drunks and the water don't mix very well sometimes but boy we sure pushed that boundary a lot of weekends.  

209

"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."

_{And so then you voted for Obama?}

210 It's amazing I can swim 'cause you know, I'm a Jooo.

My people usually sink.

211 Herr, I had heard about Little Miami's financial woes.  Didn't realize it was so bad.  I live in SC now, but get back to Cincy a few times a year.  I'm going back this weekend, as a matter of fact.  Mr. Black is hoping to catch a Reds/Cards game while in town.  I know Wilmington quite well.  Nice area.  We had our high school grad ceremony at Wilmington College back when I graduated because our high school was so small.  

212 At least it's only 9 years so it's not really cougar territory... yet.

Posted by: mpfs at August 03, 2010 11:51 AM (iYbLN)

There is no cougar-thing going on when you both decide to nap at the same time.

213

For a summer camp in high school, in order to be allowed to do any of the water-based activities, you had to pass a swim test that included three laps of the cordoned-off swim area of the lake, and also treading water in your clothes for five minutes.

The laps wouldn't have been so bad if that test hadn't been after the five minutes of active treading.  Floating was not permitted, you had to tread.  That was way harder than I thought it would be.

I must be thinking wrong, because I can't imagine that pants would make a very good flotation device.  Assuming you got an air pocket in the legs and tied them off, aren't they still going to leak the air through the fabric?  Drop me some knowledge plz, Vic.

214 Sometimes I think pro athletes believe "retirement" is defined as "the off season."

215 I can't see our "leaders" putting a stop to this restructuring of our country's values.  Look what they've done to us so far.  Tolerance for all, even at the expense of our fundamental structure as an American society.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 03, 2010 11:47 AM (Zq7bR)

Sadly you're right.  Like almost every real improvement to America, it's a do-it-yourself project for the normal citizens.  It will be a challenge to get this done within the law.  But the consequences of failure are so extreme as to be unthinkable.  I feel well justified in my belief that nobody should be having kids these days - if we don't fix this mess, and quick, there will be no future worth living in.

Personally I suspect that the Left is, unwittingly, pushing us to civil war.  If so, a lot of clean up work can be done during the time of chaos.  I doubt that there will be well defined borders to the next fratricidal conflict, which means that opportunities for local action will aboud.  Those who are motivated to clean up their neighborhoods may be able to take effective action with nothing more than quality small arms and some basic organization.  After all, in occupied Iraq the muslims were able to do just that - killing off or driving out every Christian and Jew, while the soldiers were tied down elsewhere.

 

216 Didn't the Manhattan Indians set up a brothel at Ground Zero to fleece the Scandis of their shiny babbles and womens?

217 I must be thinking wrong, because I can't imagine that pants would make a very good flotation device.  Assuming you got an air pocket in the legs and tied them off, aren't they still going to leak the air through the fabric?  Drop me some knowledge plz, Vic.

You take the pants off. Tie the legs in knots. Make sure all the water is out of them, hold them open at the waste behind your back and then while holding them open, swing them over your head into the water in front of you trap air inside. Close them off at the waste and hold them closed next to the front of your body. They will slowly deflate but you can repeat the process and endless number of times.

It does work.  And believe it or not, the floating with that for 5 minutes gives you a chance to rest for the lap portion of the test. 

218 Note on the above instructions; in the Navy the pants were button up bell bottoms.  They should be either buttoned or zipped up.

219

229 While at Ft Story at Va beach I watched the army teach some newbies how to do this. My sons learned it in boyscouts when they were 9. One of the army water safety instructors said that she found out that some of the guys jumping into the water from helicoptors couldn't swim and had always depended on the life vest. It was her job to teach grown men who jumped into the sea with guns how to tread. Unreal.

Every week my lifeguard sons have to swim 500 yards without stopping. Sit on the bottom of the pool for a while and be able to pick up a 10 pound weight from the bottom of the 11 feet and then swim 50 meters with the weight. It's not the picking up that's hard, it's the swimming with one arm and the weight.

 

220 It's amazing I can swim 'cause you know, I'm a Jooo.

My people usually sink.

Posted by: mpfs at August 03, 2010 11:52 AM (iYbLN)

Or walk across Red Sea beds.

221

What the hell is wrong with us, that we haven't rebuilt the towers, ten stories taller and more fire resistant?

222 Richard Barf Cohen has a washpo editorial defending the mosque. I feel like writing him and explaining where he personally stands in the muslim view. I believe it is below "dog".

Posted by: dagny at August 03, 2010 11:30 AM (M8nTD)

Fresh off his Iranian-nukes-would-be-no-problem series.

223

What the hell is wrong with us, that we haven't rebuilt the towers, ten stories taller and more fire resistant?

Posted by: Cincinnatus at August 03, 2010 12:20 PM (TGmQa)

With a fountain on top featuring a statue of a pig with beer flowing out of its mouth.

224

You're 40 Morgenholz?

Kiddie!

225 I should write to Cohen and suggest that he write a book on American judism and its rejection of Israel. He obviously has a personal story he could relate and his perspective would certainly help those that don't understand how the American jew, hated by the Islamists, could hold so much affection for them.

226

I just picked up a book for my 10th graders honors english class in an expensive Catholic High School. "In search of Fatima" which I thought was about, you know, Fatima.

Instead the front of the book says, "It enables the reader to understand and to empathise with the psychological dislocation of exile that continues to fuel the Palestinian cause..."

WTF?? Oh, and the reviewer doesn't know the difference between empathise and sympathize. Idiot.

Now I'm going to have to launch into that bullshit to counteract the school's bullshit before it happens. It's a full time job to circumvent the indoctrination.

227 Obama is President and the Democrats control both chambers of Congress? Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

228 Black male sprays woman leaving a Maryland Giant Store with his semen. Nothing says "guess who" like that.

229 dagny, it sounds like a good book. Tail tales, there really are two sides on a coin.

An Arab-English Hybrid, December 10, 2002
By     Ronald Bleier "DESIP" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
This review is from: In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (Hardcover)

Ghada Karmi's book tells the dramatic story of her search for personal and political identity. Her family was forced out of their comfortable West Jerusalem home by Jewish attacks meant to rid the area of Palestinians beginning in January 1948. Finally the infamous Deir Yassin massacre of April 9, 1948 made them realize months and weeks after most of their neighbors that their personal safety was at risk. Since the author was a girl of 9 at the time she was young enough to be strongly influenced by English culture when their family finally landed in London about a year later.

Much of Ms. Karmi's book is devoted to the story of her bumpy and courageous journey to discover whether she is English, Arab or "some kind of hybrid." As devoutly as she wished to become English, events intrude on her in both personal and political ways. She loses out in a school speaking contest not on the merits but because the judges refuse to reward a prize to the "little dark girl," instead of to an English girl. The 1956 Suez War highlights for the teenage Karmi English discrimination and hatred toward Arabs and makes her an outcast at school. Another key turning point was the smashing Israeli victory in the 1967 war which plays a role in breaking up her marriage to an Englishman. The war once again makes her an outcast and forces her to recognize that she can no longer escape her Arab identity.

Among the treasures of this book are the glimpses we get along the way of buried historical events of special concern to Palestinians. For example we learn that it was the Iraqi contingent in the war of 1948 which saved Tulkarm, a town on the West Bank, from attacking Jewish forces; and she quotes an Israeli soldier who wonders why the Iraqis didn't proceed along the road to Tel Aviv which might have turned the tide of the war. We learn that the Israeli Knesset is built on the Palestinian town of Lifta and that the Holocaust museum also is built on confiscated Palestinian land.

Finally, surveying the wreckage that is the patrimony of Palestinians today, the author has the courage to raise the question of whether the Palestinian people will remain adrift as mere "flotsam and jetsam...the detritus of history...doomed to be fragmented and dispersed." Readers will have to decide such questions for themselves and Karmi's book provides them with a unique and marvelously told Palestinian story on which to base their judgment.

230 A million bucks for East African ants and the total stimulus for the Texas county I live in amounts to 50 cents per person.  We got the change, now where is the hope?

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Do the NYC blind clean up their service-dog poop in public or get tickets if not?

Disabled shopper banned from store after service dog poops in the aisle. That banning protocol had better apply to anyone who gets sick in the aisle or has a baby mess in the aisle.

It wasn't exactly the service dog that's banned. That dog is trained and ashamed to have made the mess. The disabled owner didn't give the dog its regular scheduled time to properly do his business, and didn't attempt to pick up after the accident.

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