Beware the Ides of March.
For you illiterate hayseed hick rube philistines, the Ides of March is the day on which Julius Caesar got whacked by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and a whole bunch of their friends.
Et tu, Brute?
Tuesday Ides of March Open Comments
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First!
Boom! Winning.
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First!
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An explanation of the Texas Budget.
Some folks might not like the source, but it that won’t change the facts.
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An explanation of the Texas Budget.
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One of the reasons given for the budget shortfall:
PEOPLE ARE COMING TO TEXAS IN HUGE NUMBERS
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We will add approximately 160,000 new students for the 2012-2013 budget cycle, of which more than 50% are economically disadvantaged. This factor adds even more expense to our education budget. Growth also brings an increase to health services, demands for more public safety, roads, and other areas of government. Our population is expected to grow from 25 million to nearly 45 million in the next 30 to 40 years.
I’m no accountant, but it’s odd to me government is the only place where more customers is a problem.
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One of the reasons given for the budget shortfall:PEOPLE ARE COMING TO TEXAS IN HUGE NUMBERS
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We will add approximately 160,000 new students for the 2012-2013 budget cycle, of which more than 50% are economically disadvantaged. This factor adds even more expense to our education budget. Growth also brings an increase to health services, demands for more public safety, roads, and other areas of government. Our population is expected to grow from 25 million to nearly 45 million in the next 30 to 40 years.I’m no accountant, but it’s odd to me government is the only place where more customers is a problem.
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Looks like a bunch of LST’ers going after Sarge.
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Looks like a bunch of LST’ers going after Sarge.
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#4 Tim
government is the only place where more customers is a problem.
Walmart and Burger King have to make a profit. Government is increasingly run like a charity. A non-voluntary charity…
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#4 Tim
government is the only place where more customers is a problem.
Walmart and Burger King have to make a profit. Government is increasingly run like a charity. A non-voluntary charity…
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goat
If that was directed at me, I was not making any comment other than the one I made. During the property tax fights we had a few years ago, cost of infrastructure for a growing population was always sited as an excuse. Never mind all the new homes in new subdivisions paying 2-3000 dollars a year per unit in property taxes on land that was previously agriculture paying what, 200 bucks total?
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goat
If that was directed at me, I was not making any comment other than the one I made. During the property tax fights we had a few years ago, cost of infrastructure for a growing population was always sited as an excuse. Never mind all the new homes in new subdivisions paying 2-3000 dollars a year per unit in property taxes on land that was previously agriculture paying what, 200 bucks total? -
Morning, all.
Hi, Sarge!
Hi, GTO!
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Morning, all.
Hi, Sarge!
Hi, GTO!
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I get tired of the Republicans of today telling me to do something because the Republicans of yesterday did it.
It begs the question:
How’d that work out for you?
I get tired of pundits who tell me I should vote for Candidates because they’ll cut the budget, then spend the next two years telling me that its impossible to find the cuts.
Big Jolly sez we should spend $4 billion of the Rainy Day fund so we can go about the bidness of cutting $20 biliion out of the next 24 month budget.
Simple math sez that if you can find $4 billion in cuts in the last 6 months of this cycle, and don’t reappropriate it in the next 24 month cycle, your’re $16 billion ahead of the game. Find the cuts now and the job is easier in the future.
If the cuts are there in the next cycle, they are there in this one. Cut it now and save the rainy day fund for a natural disaster. Looking at Japan today, I see that $9 billion might come in handy of a force 5 hurricane visits Corpus Christi Harbor or goes up the Ship Channel.
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I get tired of the Republicans of today telling me to do something because the Republicans of yesterday did it.
It begs the question:
How’d that work out for you?
I get tired of pundits who tell me I should vote for Candidates because they’ll cut the budget, then spend the next two years telling me that its impossible to find the cuts.
Big Jolly sez we should spend $4 billion of the Rainy Day fund so we can go about the bidness of cutting $20 biliion out of the next 24 month budget.
Simple math sez that if you can find $4 billion in cuts in the last 6 months of this cycle, and don’t reappropriate it in the next 24 month cycle, your’re $16 billion ahead of the game. Find the cuts now and the job is easier in the future.
If the cuts are there in the next cycle, they are there in this one. Cut it now and save the rainy day fund for a natural disaster. Looking at Japan today, I see that $9 billion might come in handy of a force 5 hurricane visits Corpus Christi Harbor or goes up the Ship Channel. -
I’m no accountant, but it’s odd to me government is the only place where more customers is a problem.
That’s because we have a system where the customers in question aren’t contributing to the bottom line.
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I’m no accountant, but it’s odd to me government is the only place where more customers is a problem.
That’s because we have a system where the customers in question aren’t contributing to the bottom line.
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Confidence in US gov’t falls to a 35-year low.
Refresh my memory. What was going on then?
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Confidence in US gov’t falls to a 35-year low.
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#11 Pyro
What was going on then?
Jimmy Carter’s one term in office?
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#11 Pyro
What was going on then?
Jimmy Carter’s one term in office?
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#9 Sarge: If you insist on employing those antiquated notions of SOUND REASON AND LOGIC you are never going to swing the “enlightened” elitist jack-ass over to your position.
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#9 Sarge: If you insist on employing those antiquated notions of SOUND REASON AND LOGIC you are never going to swing the “enlightened” elitist jack-ass over to your position.
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Looks like a bunch of LST’ers going after Sarge.
goat
If that was directed at me, I was not making any comment other than the one I made. During the property tax fights we had a few years ago, cost of infrastructure for a growing population was always sited as an excuse. Never mind all the new homes in new subdivisions paying 2-3000 dollars a year per unit in property taxes on land that was previously agriculture paying what, 200 bucks total?
I doubt that the comment was directed at you. I believe goat was referring to some statements made this weekend and some folks playing childish games with the like/don’t like buttons.
FWIW, I don’t think the “button, button, I’ll hit the dislike button” game was played by any of the folks you’re referring to, but it was one or two of a very small group of idiot malcontents who have had a strong dislike for me from the very beginning.
As to the comments made, and what’s behind them, there are some of the “Old Gang” who regard themselves as Big Endians and me a Little Endian because I speak my mind, I’m an ignent peasant, and because I am not nearly as invested in maintaining the Republican Establishment as they are. The fact that I can usually come up with an argument they didn’t expect, especially moral arguments that the Poltical Class generally wants to shy away from, might have something to do with it as well.
I exclude Squawkbox from that above bunch. He and I have legitimate differences of opinion, and neither of us, I believe, thinks the other is in any way a lesser man or unworthy opponent.
A couple of the others are elitist gas bags who think they are better or smarter than the rest of us because they’ve occasionally had dinner with some folks who’s name we’d recognize. Its probably that they are pleasant folk who are redeemable if they’d just reflect on the attitude they’ve been taking lately, look at a couple of the comments made here regarding that, and do some good personal reflection on how they treat people.
/Leaves as the gas tossed on the fire burns.
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Looks like a bunch of LST’ers going after Sarge.
goat
If that was directed at me, I was not making any comment other than the one I made. During the property tax fights we had a few years ago, cost of infrastructure for a growing population was always sited as an excuse. Never mind all the new homes in new subdivisions paying 2-3000 dollars a year per unit in property taxes on land that was previously agriculture paying what, 200 bucks total?I doubt that the comment was directed at you. I believe goat was referring to some statements made this weekend and some folks playing childish games with the like/don’t like buttons.
FWIW, I don’t think the “button, button, I’ll hit the dislike button” game was played by any of the folks you’re referring to, but it was one or two of a very small group of idiot malcontents who have had a strong dislike for me from the very beginning.
As to the comments made, and what’s behind them, there are some of the “Old Gang” who regard themselves as Big Endians and me a Little Endian because I speak my mind, I’m an ignent peasant, and because I am not nearly as invested in maintaining the Republican Establishment as they are. The fact that I can usually come up with an argument they didn’t expect, especially moral arguments that the Poltical Class generally wants to shy away from, might have something to do with it as well.
I exclude Squawkbox from that above bunch. He and I have legitimate differences of opinion, and neither of us, I believe, thinks the other is in any way a lesser man or unworthy opponent.
A couple of the others are elitist gas bags who think they are better or smarter than the rest of us because they’ve occasionally had dinner with some folks who’s name we’d recognize. Its probably that they are pleasant folk who are redeemable if they’d just reflect on the attitude they’ve been taking lately, look at a couple of the comments made here regarding that, and do some good personal reflection on how they treat people.
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RE: the o/c pic: How long will it be until the foul “O” occupies the central figure and the D senators on the periphery? When will the lamestream media types wake up and join in the “perforating”?
WHO IS JOHN GALT?Careful there… [mod wb]
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RE: the o/c pic: How long will it be until the foul “O” occupies the central figure and the D senators on the periphery? When will the lamestream media types wake up and join in the “perforating”?
WHO IS JOHN GALT?
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Checkin my Alabama Redneckese Dickshunerry – I believe it’s ‘ignint‘
MEGASNIKKER™
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Checkin my Alabama Redneckese Dickshunerry – I believe it’s ‘ignint‘
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G’mornin’ all.
I received a pleasant surprise this morning. I stepped on the scale and I’ve dropped four pounds over the past few weeks. (A journey of a thousand miles, etc., etc.)
I read an article about cinnamon and decided to try it. I know that it’s been recommended for diabetes (it runs in my family), as it controls insulin spikes and helps prevent insulin spikes that create hunger. It’s amazing. I still eat, but sometimes I eat because either (1) I know I’ll be running errands and won’t have time to eat until I fear I’ll be starving, or (2) I know that it would be better for me to eat at home rather than on the road, or (3) I just figger that eating now is something I should do while my hunger is under control. I used to crave food all during the day, and the struggle was to eat foods that would be good for me, and I’d try to eat popcorn or granola bars or fruit (if the men in the house hadn’t cleaned me out). Half a peanut butter sandwich.
I don’t crave carbs anymore, and when I eat meals, the portion sizes are smaller. We had barbecue, potato salad, and green salad for dinner on Sunday. I ate two small ribs, a spoonful and a half of tater salad, and the remaining third of my plate was the green salad. I ate and was satisfied. I used to go back for seconds, even why my firsts were bigger.
Just ‘mazing!
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G’mornin’ all.
I received a pleasant surprise this morning. I stepped on the scale and I’ve dropped four pounds over the past few weeks. (A journey of a thousand miles, etc., etc.)
I read an article about cinnamon and decided to try it. I know that it’s been recommended for diabetes (it runs in my family), as it controls insulin spikes and helps prevent insulin spikes that create hunger. It’s amazing. I still eat, but sometimes I eat because either (1) I know I’ll be running errands and won’t have time to eat until I fear I’ll be starving, or (2) I know that it would be better for me to eat at home rather than on the road, or (3) I just figger that eating now is something I should do while my hunger is under control. I used to crave food all during the day, and the struggle was to eat foods that would be good for me, and I’d try to eat popcorn or granola bars or fruit (if the men in the house hadn’t cleaned me out). Half a peanut butter sandwich.
I don’t crave carbs anymore, and when I eat meals, the portion sizes are smaller. We had barbecue, potato salad, and green salad for dinner on Sunday. I ate two small ribs, a spoonful and a half of tater salad, and the remaining third of my plate was the green salad. I ate and was satisfied. I used to go back for seconds, even why my firsts were bigger.
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I guess the “I like” and “you suck” buttons are not going to be a part of our discussion anymore. I musta missed sumptin sumwhere . . . .
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I guess the “I like” and “you suck” buttons are not going to be a part of our discussion anymore. I musta missed sumptin sumwhere . . . .
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#12 mh42
and???Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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#12 mh42
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I went and looked at the viral bully video on The Blaze that was linked yesterday (I was out last night).
Priceless. I wonder how many punches the scrawny bully can throw, now that he’s hobbled?
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I went and looked at the viral bully video on The Blaze that was linked yesterday (I was out last night).
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Wagon comes out of the chute today calling me an illiterate hayseed. I am deeply offended.
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Wagon comes out of the chute today calling me an illiterate hayseed. I am deeply offended.
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The Hides of March are mostly pork.
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The Hides of March are mostly pork.
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#12 Mharper: We were in the midst of monetizing the debt, putting up road blocks to securing/drilling and efficiently exploiting our natural resources, hamstringing Israel into making suicidal deals with people who have sworn their destruction, throwing sand into the machinery of capitalism via moronic pseudo-eco-consciousness and basically embracing all that punish success and reward failure. I think the community re-investment act was being foisted on the American public as well, which falls into the above category.
All the above crapola resulted in 13-14% inflation and 18-20% interest rates.
THANKS JIMMAH CARTER YOU WISS-WAD! -
#12 Mharper: We were in the midst of monetizing the debt, putting up road blocks to securing/drilling and efficiently exploiting our natural resources, hamstringing Israel into making suicidal deals with people who have sworn their destruction, throwing sand into the machinery of capitalism via moronic pseudo-eco-consciousness and basically embracing all that punish success and reward failure. I think the community re-investment act was being foisted on the American public as well, which falls into the above category.
All the above crapola resulted in 13-14% inflation and 18-20% interest rates.
THANKS JIMMAH CARTER YOU WISS-WAD! -
#19 Chemtrails?
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#19 Chemtrails?
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G’Morning all
Death Knell: Online News Readership Surpasses Newspapers For the First Time
By Don Irvine | March 14, 2011The newspaper industry, which has been in decline for several years now, received more bad news with the release of the 2011 Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the Media report.
For the first time ever, 46 percent of respondents reported getting news online at least three times a week. This surpasses newspapers which came in at 40 percent and was down from 52 percent in 2008, underscoring the decline of the printed page.
This correlates with the continued decline in newspaper circulation, which the study found declined 5% in the year-over-year six-month period ending September 30.
Guess this will be their theme song
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G’Morning all
Death Knell: Online News Readership Surpasses Newspapers For the First Time
By Don Irvine | March 14, 2011
The newspaper industry, which has been in decline for several years now, received more bad news with the release of the 2011 Project for Excellence in Journalism’s annual State of the Media report.
For the first time ever, 46 percent of respondents reported getting news online at least three times a week. This surpasses newspapers which came in at 40 percent and was down from 52 percent in 2008, underscoring the decline of the printed page.
This correlates with the continued decline in newspaper circulation, which the study found declined 5% in the year-over-year six-month period ending September 30.http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/death-knell-online-news-readership-surpasses-newspapers-for-the-first-time/
Guess this will be their theme song
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Checkin my Alabama Redneckese Dickshunerry – I believe it’s ‘ignint‘
I say it with a New Hampshire accent.
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Checkin my Alabama Redneckese Dickshunerry – I believe it’s ‘ignint‘
I say it with a New Hampshire accent.
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Whoops! Maybe next time they should check things out first
Ed Schultz Leans Forward At a Non-Union Shipyard.
By Don Irvine | March 13, 2011Politico reports that liberal MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz shot a network promo at a non-union shipyard.
Workers at Colanna’s Shipyard in Norfolk, VA, which bills itself as the oldest family-owned, private shipyard in the U.S., were surprised to see Ed Schultz, Spike Lee and an entourage of about 50 people appear on site Wednesday to shoot the next set of promos for MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” campaign.
“We are not a union yard,” a shipyard executive told POLITICO. “Never have been. Don’t want to be…Ed Schultz and this shipyard just don’t match.”
Norfolk was chosen because it’s Schultz’s hometown. Other locations for the promo shoot included Schultz’s high school, a Ford factory that shut down a few years ago, and Doumar’s, an old-fashioned drive-in restaurant famous for its barbeque sandwiches and waffle cones.
According to local station WAVY-TV, the unscripted, documentary-style ads will focus on “jobs, outsourcing and unions.”
Tanya Hayre, director of media relations at MNSBC and NBC, said the crew was not aware of the shipyard’s union status.
“It was a last-minute decision to shoot at the shipyard and our crew was not aware of its employment policies,” she said.
The assumption being because it was a shipyard it must be unionized of course.
Somehow I don’t think that promo will actually make it on the air lest the non-union workers remind Schultz that they aren’t on the same political wavelength.
http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/ed-schultz-leans-forward-at-a-non-union-shipyard/
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Whoops! Maybe next time they should check things out first
Ed Schultz Leans Forward At a Non-Union Shipyard.
By Don Irvine | March 13, 2011
Politico reports that liberal MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz shot a network promo at a non-union shipyard.
Workers at Colanna’s Shipyard in Norfolk, VA, which bills itself as the oldest family-owned, private shipyard in the U.S., were surprised to see Ed Schultz, Spike Lee and an entourage of about 50 people appear on site Wednesday to shoot the next set of promos for MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” campaign.
“We are not a union yard,” a shipyard executive told POLITICO. “Never have been. Don’t want to be…Ed Schultz and this shipyard just don’t match.”
Norfolk was chosen because it’s Schultz’s hometown. Other locations for the promo shoot included Schultz’s high school, a Ford factory that shut down a few years ago, and Doumar’s, an old-fashioned drive-in restaurant famous for its barbeque sandwiches and waffle cones.
According to local station WAVY-TV, the unscripted, documentary-style ads will focus on “jobs, outsourcing and unions.”
Tanya Hayre, director of media relations at MNSBC and NBC, said the crew was not aware of the shipyard’s union status.
“It was a last-minute decision to shoot at the shipyard and our crew was not aware of its employment policies,” she said.
The assumption being because it was a shipyard it must be unionized of course.
Somehow I don’t think that promo will actually make it on the air lest the non-union workers remind Schultz that they aren’t on the same political wavelength.http://www.aim.org/don-irvine-blog/ed-schultz-leans-forward-at-a-non-union-shipyard/
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Another reason to not get my news from CNN.
/spits
How can they live with themselves, sanitizing the brutal, premeditated, cold-blooded murder of a family, including a 3 month baby and 4 year old boy? And the Palestinians then celebrate the event? I’ve seen the article with the picture of a Palestinian offering sweets to police officers in honor of the massacre.
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Another reason to not get my news from CNN.
/spits
How can they live with themselves, sanitizing the brutal, premeditated, cold-blooded murder of a family, including a 3 month baby and 4 year old boy? And the Palestinians then celebrate the event? I’ve seen the article with the picture of a Palestinian offering sweets to police officers in honor of the massacre. -
Just received in an email:
A man walks into the lingerie department at Macy’s in New York. He tells the sales lady, “I would like a Southern Baptist bra for my wife, 34B.”
With a quizzical look the sales lady asks, “What kind of bra?” He repeats, “A Southern Baptist bra. My wife said to tell you that she wanted a Southern Baptist bra and you would know what she wanted.”
“Oh yes, now I understand,” says the sales lady. “We don’t get many requests for them as we used to. Most of our customers lately want the Catholic bra, the Salvation Army bra, or the Presbyterian bra.” Confused, and a little flustered, the man asks, “What’s the difference?”
The sales lady responds, “It’s really quite simple. The Catholic bra supports the masses, the Salvation Army bra lifts up the fallen, and the Presbyterian bra keeps them staunch and upright.”
He muses on the information for a minute and says, “Hmmm, I know I’ll regret asking, but what does the Southern Baptist bra do?” “Ah,” she replied, “the Southern Baptist bra makes mountains out of molehills.”
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Just received in an email:
A man walks into the lingerie department at Macy’s in New York. He tells the sales lady, “I would like a Southern Baptist bra for my wife, 34B.”
With a quizzical look the sales lady asks, “What kind of bra?” He repeats, “A Southern Baptist bra. My wife said to tell you that she wanted a Southern Baptist bra and you would know what she wanted.”
“Oh yes, now I understand,” says the sales lady. “We don’t get many requests for them as we used to. Most of our customers lately want the Catholic bra, the Salvation Army bra, or the Presbyterian bra.” Confused, and a little flustered, the man asks, “What’s the difference?”
The sales lady responds, “It’s really quite simple. The Catholic bra supports the masses, the Salvation Army bra lifts up the fallen, and the Presbyterian bra keeps them staunch and upright.”
He muses on the information for a minute and says, “Hmmm, I know I’ll regret asking, but what does the Southern Baptist bra do?” “Ah,” she replied, “the Southern Baptist bra makes mountains out of molehills.” -
#28 Tedtam
There was some blog yesterday that posted the pictures of the family. They were brutal beyond belief. I wouldn’t link to them they were so bad.
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#28 Tedtam
There was some blog yesterday that posted the pictures of the family. They were brutal beyond belief. I wouldn’t link to them they were so bad. -
#21 shannon
Wagon comes out of the chute today calling me an illiterate hayseed. I am deeply offended.
ok, pay attention now. I called you an illiterate hayseed hick rube philistine. “Hayseed” in this case is used as an adjective, modifying the noun “philistine”.
Do try to keep up with the tour group. 😉
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#21 shannon
Wagon comes out of the chute today calling me an illiterate hayseed. I am deeply offended.
ok, pay attention now. I called you an illiterate hayseed hick rube philistine. “Hayseed” in this case is used as an adjective, modifying the noun “philistine”.
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#23 bone
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#23 bone
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Indonesia’s volcano erupted following Japan’s earthquake while New Jersey flooded and the South endured tornadoes. Mother Nature is sending us a clear message.
She’s so constipated from the lack of oil drilling in the gulf she’s ready to explode.
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Indonesia’s volcano erupted following Japan’s earthquake while New Jersey flooded and the South endured tornadoes. Mother Nature is sending us a clear message.
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#23 Bones
Hey, I was working on my coffee at 7:28. Didn’t know a full exposition was required. I summarized, ok?
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#23 Bones
Hey, I was working on my coffee at 7:28. Didn’t know a full exposition was required. I summarized, ok? -
#33 Oletimer
😀
I just love your humor!
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#33 Oletimer
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#30 Oletimer
There was some blog yesterday that posted the pictures of the family. They were brutal beyond belief. I wouldn’t link to them they were so bad.
Yep, I saw the original stories, and the pictures were horrific. Today, I’m incensed over the CNN coverage. How can they dehumanize the family and try to justify such crimes against fellow man? They may be on opposite sides of a very huge fence, but nothing, NOTHING, justifies seeking out, targeting, and killing babies and little kids and parents who are doing nothing more than being parents.
CNN: Criminal News Network
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#30 Oletimer
There was some blog yesterday that posted the pictures of the family. They were brutal beyond belief. I wouldn’t link to them they were so bad.
Yep, I saw the original stories, and the pictures were horrific. Today, I’m incensed over the CNN coverage. How can they dehumanize the family and try to justify such crimes against fellow man? They may be on opposite sides of a very huge fence, but nothing, NOTHING, justifies seeking out, targeting, and killing babies and little kids and parents who are doing nothing more than being parents.
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When a woman reaches midlife, she goes through a variety of complicated
emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree
of the changes varies with the individual.When a man reaches his mid life crisis he buys aviator glasses,
a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for an
expensive foreign sports car.Except for me. I bought a new Stetson and a King Ranch pickup.
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When a woman reaches midlife, she goes through a variety of complicated
emotional, psychological, and biological changes. The nature and degree
of the changes varies with the individual.
When a man reaches his mid life crisis he buys aviator glasses,
a snazzy French cap and leather driving gloves, and goes shopping for an
expensive foreign sports car.
Except for me. I bought a new Stetson and a King Ranch pickup. -
Grammar Gestapo
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Grammar Gestapo
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CNN: Criminal News Network
NBC: Nothing Broadcasting Corp.
CBS: Communist Broading System
ABC: Awful Broadcasting System
PBS: Public Dole SystemFinisheditforyou
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CNN: Criminal News Network
NBC: Nothing Broadcasting Corp.
CBS: Communist Broading System
ABC: Awful Broadcasting System
PBS: Public Dole System
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Talk about really bad timing.
PIMCO, the world’s largest bond fund, made a big splash this weekend announcing they bailed on all dollar-denominated debt.
OPEC said they may abandon the US dollar.
Hmmm.
Yesterday, gold dropped like a rock as nations and private investors worldwide scrambled to buy US dollars.
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Talk about really bad timing.
PIMCO, the world’s largest bond fund, made a big splash this weekend announcing they bailed on all dollar-denominated debt.
OPEC said they may abandon the US dollar.
Hmmm.
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#32 Pyro: I was a sophomore in High School, couldn’t have cared less about school – other than the fact that there were lots of pretty girls there, weightd about 110 lbs and was under 5’5″. As I look back, Gerald Ford was POTUS, as the libterdnozzle Jimmah would not be elected until NOV of 1976, and.. . . . . . . . . . .
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#32 Pyro: I was a sophomore in High School, couldn’t have cared less about school – other than the fact that there were lots of pretty girls there, weightd about 110 lbs and was under 5’5″. As I look back, Gerald Ford was POTUS, as the libterdnozzle Jimmah would not be elected until NOV of 1976, and.. . . . . . . . . . .
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“David Min, of the Center for American Progress, has written “the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains the gold standard for mortgages throughout the world, offering superior stability for both homeowners and financial systems.” If this is true why is the U.S. one of only two countries in the world with this instrument (U.S. and Denmark)? And why is the U.S. the country most afflicted with a housing bust? Given the catastrophic condition of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it is clear that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is outright dangerous and not a gold standard. Perhaps his musing should be rewritten to say “the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains the fool’s gold standard for mortgages throughout the United States, offering superior stability for some homeowners and potential catastrophe for U.S. and global financial systems.”
An excellent post at Carpe Diem by Mark Perry on mortgages and how the 30-year housing loan came to be. It was the US government, not the private sector, that established it as the benchmark.
I’m not surprised.
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“David Min, of the Center for American Progress, has written “the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains the gold standard for mortgages throughout the world, offering superior stability for both homeowners and financial systems.” If this is true why is the U.S. one of only two countries in the world with this instrument (U.S. and Denmark)? And why is the U.S. the country most afflicted with a housing bust? Given the catastrophic condition of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it is clear that the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is outright dangerous and not a gold standard. Perhaps his musing should be rewritten to say “the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains the fool’s gold standard for mortgages throughout the United States, offering superior stability for some homeowners and potential catastrophe for U.S. and global financial systems.”
An excellent post at Carpe Diem by Mark Perry on mortgages and how the 30-year housing loan came to be. It was the US government, not the private sector, that established it as the benchmark.
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PBS: Permanently Brainless Suck-ups
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PBS: Permanently Brainless Suck-ups
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#20 TT: I just saw the video for the first time . . . WOW! As I see it, the little terd bully got off really easy. The kid who was attacked NEVER STRUCK HIM, he did body slam him into the pavement, but he never struck him. I would have thought a good stomp or 2 on the ribs would have made a better point or a stronger impression, if you will.
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#20 TT: I just saw the video for the first time . . . WOW! As I see it, the little terd bully got off really easy. The kid who was attacked NEVER STRUCK HIM, he did body slam him into the pavement, but he never struck him. I would have thought a good stomp or 2 on the ribs would have made a better point or a stronger impression, if you will.
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#41 bone
We abandoned Vietnam only to let them be taken over by Uncle Ho and the boys a couple years later. Nixon had just resigned in disgrace. After ill-conceived big-government efforts at price and wage controls (which always end up doing exactly the opposite of their intent), inflation was starting to get out of hand and the economy was slipping into recession. Ford (who got a bum rap over many, but not all, things) pardoned Nixon, which was really what should have happened, but proved to be hapless when it came to the economy. All of this was bad enough to beget Peanuts a couple years later…We’re living through the sequel now.
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#41 bone
We abandoned Vietnam only to let them be taken over by Uncle Ho and the boys a couple years later. Nixon had just resigned in disgrace. After ill-conceived big-government efforts at price and wage controls (which always end up doing exactly the opposite of their intent), inflation was starting to get out of hand and the economy was slipping into recession. Ford (who got a bum rap over many, but not all, things) pardoned Nixon, which was really what should have happened, but proved to be hapless when it came to the economy. All of this was bad enough to beget Peanuts a couple years later…
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One of the local radio news shows this morning was interviewing “experts” on something or another, and the question arose about the US supplying aid to its ally, Japan; and there was actually some bantering back and forth about how much, etc. Now maybe I’m missing something, but our largest creditors are the Federal Reserve Bank (phony money, printed but backed by nothing), then China, then Japan. Now where in the world would we go to get money to give to our good friends, the Japanese? Maybe we could ask them for a loan and in turn give the money back to them. I think China already has about all our debt they want, and of course, we could just print more phony money I guess to give to the Japanese. What gives with this house of cards?
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One of the local radio news shows this morning was interviewing “experts” on something or another, and the question arose about the US supplying aid to its ally, Japan; and there was actually some bantering back and forth about how much, etc. Now maybe I’m missing something, but our largest creditors are the Federal Reserve Bank (phony money, printed but backed by nothing), then China, then Japan. Now where in the world would we go to get money to give to our good friends, the Japanese? Maybe we could ask them for a loan and in turn give the money back to them. I think China already has about all our debt they want, and of course, we could just print more phony money I guess to give to the Japanese. What gives with this house of cards?
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#36 TT
CNN: Criminal News Network
Back when I was driving home during Dan Patrick’s afternoon radio show, he often referred to CNN as Chicken Noodle Network.
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#36 TT
CNN: Criminal News Network
Back when I was driving home during Dan Patrick’s afternoon radio show, he often referred to CNN as Chicken Noodle Network.
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#39 OTL
PBS: Public Dole System
That seems to be “PDS”.
Good enough for government work?
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#39 OTL
PBS: Public Dole System
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#29 tedtam 😀
Reminds me of the time my Bride got stopped doing 50 on El Dorado (35) and the policeman let her off with a warning after showing her the radar read out. She said that she was surprised, but I noted that she did have on her “Raw-Hide” bra. 😉
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#29 tedtam 😀
Reminds me of the time my Bride got stopped doing 50 on El Dorado (35) and the policeman let her off with a warning after showing her the radar read out. She said that she was surprised, but I noted that she did have on her “Raw-Hide” bra. 😉
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And when the Clinton was in office, Rush called ’em Clinton News Network.
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And when the Clinton was in office, Rush called ’em Clinton News Network.
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#42 TEXPAT: I do not believe that there is anything inherently wrong with the 30 year mortgage. That being said, forcing banks to grant 30 year loans to people who have never demonstrated any ability to repay any loan or even have a job is the most idiotic, bordering on suicidal, thing a government could do. If it were not for the community reinvestment act (or whatever it is called) that heavily pressured banks to make high risk loans to the protected classes, we would not have the real estate/mortgage problem(s) we have today. That does not imply that all the other financial woes would not be there as credit default swaps (investment loss insurance) represent a far larger liability. There was a time, not too long ago, that banks were prohibited from engaging in those types of highly risky investment vehicles. Those governmental bureaurocratic terds that were supposed to regulate the insurance industry got hoodwinked/bribed/corrupted/overwhelmed by incompetence in that they did not regulate the credit default swaps as the insurance product that they were.
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#42 TEXPAT: I do not believe that there is anything inherently wrong with the 30 year mortgage. That being said, forcing banks to grant 30 year loans to people who have never demonstrated any ability to repay any loan or even have a job is the most idiotic, bordering on suicidal, thing a government could do. If it were not for the community reinvestment act (or whatever it is called) that heavily pressured banks to make high risk loans to the protected classes, we would not have the real estate/mortgage problem(s) we have today. That does not imply that all the other financial woes would not be there as credit default swaps (investment loss insurance) represent a far larger liability. There was a time, not too long ago, that banks were prohibited from engaging in those types of highly risky investment vehicles. Those governmental bureaurocratic terds that were supposed to regulate the insurance industry got hoodwinked/bribed/corrupted/overwhelmed by incompetence in that they did not regulate the credit default swaps as the insurance product that they were.
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This came in the inbox from Honest Reporting about the murder of the Fogel Family: honestreporting.com
LA Times: Settlements Provoke Baby Killing
March 15, 2011 13:48 by Simon Plosker
The inhuman act of slitting the throats of a three-month old baby, two small children and their parents defies any understanding or justification for any political cause. But not for the LA Times, which contends that the brutal murder of the Fogel family are part of an ongoing “cycle of violence”:We’re currently witnessing the cycle in real time. On Saturday, five members of an Israeli family living in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near the Palestinian city of Nablus, were killed, including an 11-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy and an infant girl, presumably by Palestinian militants. In response to this brutal tragedy, the Israeli government announced that it would build 500 more houses in existing settlements in the West Bank. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Sunday that 500 was not enough and that Israel should build 1,000 new homes for every Israeli who is killed there.
Which is worse — stabbing children to death or building new houses in West Bank settlements? The answer is obvious. But that’s not the point. The point is that no matter how abhorrent the murders are, it serves no purpose to aggravate the provocation that led to them in the first place.
So according to the LA Times, baby killing is a natural response to an Israeli provocation, in this case the act of building houses. Is this any different to the vicious rhetoric of Hamas, which justified the murders?The LA Times asks:
How will building more houses for Israelis in the midst of the West Bank, in settlements that are almost universally acknowledged to violate international law, do anything other than keep the crisis going? Answer: It won’t.
Perhaps the LA Times should be asking how the butchering of babies, which is universally condemned, will do anything other than keep the crisis going? But instead, the paper cares little for placing responsibility for Palestinian actions on the Palestinians themselves let alone dealing with the very real issue of incitement in the Palestinian media and education system.As for the claim that this brutal act is simply part of a “cycle of violence”, this is a charge that has been employed on a regular basis by lazy media that cannot differentiate between Palestinian terror, Israeli self-defense or non-violent acts of building homes. The Jerusalem Post eloquently debunked this as far back as 2008:
In truth, however, there is no cycle of violence. There is no spiral of attack and counter-attack relentlessly unfolding here.
What we have, rather, on the one hand, is a sovereign nation’s desperate effort to live in its homeland, seek peace with those of its neighbors who will partner it, and defend itself against those who seek its destruction. And, on the other, we have the forces of militant Islam, firing rockets across Israel’s sovereign borders, murdering Israelis wherever they can be found vulnerable, indoctrinating their people with a vicious intolerance of Jewish historical rights in this region, and simultaneously spreading a perverted interpretation of Islam that purports to require each and every believer to carry out personal jihad in the name of God against the infidels – be they Jews, Christians or unbelieving Muslims.
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This came in the inbox from Honest Reporting about the murder of the Fogel Family: honestreporting.com
LA Times: Settlements Provoke Baby Killing
March 15, 2011 13:48 by Simon Plosker
The inhuman act of slitting the throats of a three-month old baby, two small children and their parents defies any understanding or justification for any political cause. But not for the LA Times, which contends that the brutal murder of the Fogel family are part of an ongoing “cycle of violence”:
We’re currently witnessing the cycle in real time. On Saturday, five members of an Israeli family living in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, near the Palestinian city of Nablus, were killed, including an 11-year-old boy, a 4-year-old boy and an infant girl, presumably by Palestinian militants. In response to this brutal tragedy, the Israeli government announced that it would build 500 more houses in existing settlements in the West Bank. Interior Minister Eli Yishai said Sunday that 500 was not enough and that Israel should build 1,000 new homes for every Israeli who is killed there.
Which is worse — stabbing children to death or building new houses in West Bank settlements? The answer is obvious. But that’s not the point. The point is that no matter how abhorrent the murders are, it serves no purpose to aggravate the provocation that led to them in the first place.
So according to the LA Times, baby killing is a natural response to an Israeli provocation, in this case the act of building houses. Is this any different to the vicious rhetoric of Hamas, which justified the murders?
The LA Times asks:
How will building more houses for Israelis in the midst of the West Bank, in settlements that are almost universally acknowledged to violate international law, do anything other than keep the crisis going? Answer: It won’t.
Perhaps the LA Times should be asking how the butchering of babies, which is universally condemned, will do anything other than keep the crisis going? But instead, the paper cares little for placing responsibility for Palestinian actions on the Palestinians themselves let alone dealing with the very real issue of incitement in the Palestinian media and education system.
As for the claim that this brutal act is simply part of a “cycle of violence”, this is a charge that has been employed on a regular basis by lazy media that cannot differentiate between Palestinian terror, Israeli self-defense or non-violent acts of building homes. The Jerusalem Post eloquently debunked this as far back as 2008:
In truth, however, there is no cycle of violence. There is no spiral of attack and counter-attack relentlessly unfolding here.
What we have, rather, on the one hand, is a sovereign nation’s desperate effort to live in its homeland, seek peace with those of its neighbors who will partner it, and defend itself against those who seek its destruction. And, on the other, we have the forces of militant Islam, firing rockets across Israel’s sovereign borders, murdering Israelis wherever they can be found vulnerable, indoctrinating their people with a vicious intolerance of Jewish historical rights in this region, and simultaneously spreading a perverted interpretation of Islam that purports to require each and every believer to carry out personal jihad in the name of God against the infidels – be they Jews, Christians or unbelieving Muslims. -
I think this group is now defunct, which is a shame, but I love their t-shirts.
Especially the one “End the Unjust Jewish Occupation of Muslim Land”.
heh heh heh
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I think this group is now defunct, which is a shame, but I love their t-shirts.
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The story of what happened when Israeli model Orit Fox appeared alongside a snake on Spanish television is troubling for a number of reasons. First, because one of these creatures is getting groped and exploited, and it’s impossible to tell which. Next, because one silicone-laced bite of Fox’s breast was enough to poison a sizable reptile, yet she has two of those things floating atop her ribcage every day. But our deepest sympathy goes out to the dearly departed snake, who probably just thought he was fighting a mongoose.
Bonus point for any commenter that can translate the phrase shouted off camera after the snake latches on.
Content Advisory: Video may not be safe for work, unless you work in a really cool place.
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The story of what happened when Israeli model Orit Fox appeared alongside a snake on Spanish television is troubling for a number of reasons. First, because one of these creatures is getting groped and exploited, and it’s impossible to tell which. Next, because one silicone-laced bite of Fox’s breast was enough to poison a sizable reptile, yet she has two of those things floating atop her ribcage every day. But our deepest sympathy goes out to the dearly departed snake, who probably just thought he was fighting a mongoose.
Bonus point for any commenter that can translate the phrase shouted off camera after the snake latches on.Content Advisory: Video may not be safe for work, unless you work in a really cool place.
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#55 Bob: I can’t believe that those are not real, I mean don’t most women walking down the street have HHH sized b(o)(o)bs?
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#55 Bob: I can’t believe that those are not real, I mean don’t most women walking down the street have HHH sized b(o)(o)bs?
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#52 wagonburner
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Been pretty dang busy lately (thankfully)………so if this is a repeat hey don’t shoot the messenger?
“Bush said all the things you’d expect him to say” on oil and gas issues, said Jim Noe, senior vice president at Hercules Offshore and executive director of the pro-drilling Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition. But Clinton added, “You’d be surprised to know that I agree with all that,” according to Noe and others in the room.
Let’s hope we don’t get to the point where we’re missing …. Jimmy Carter
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Been pretty dang busy lately (thankfully)………so if this is a repeat hey don’t shoot the messenger?
“Bush said all the things you’d expect him to say” on oil and gas issues, said Jim Noe, senior vice president at Hercules Offshore and executive director of the pro-drilling Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition. But Clinton added, “You’d be surprised to know that I agree with all that,” according to Noe and others in the room.
Let’s hope we don’t get to the point where we’re missing …. Jimmy Carter
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They were not my ex-wifes panties. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
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They were not my ex-wifes panties. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
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I can’t help but wonder how the people of Nanking are looking at the tsunami. It was from Sendai, Japan that the troops came from that murdered 300,000 Chinese civilians in six weeks in 1937. Before and during WW2, Japanese units were made of troops who all came from the same area. That’s why they were called the Sendai Division. In my studies of the Far East Military Tribunals, I came across a news clipping from Sendai, Japan that spoke of a contest between two Japanese officers in Nanking who were having a contest to see who could cut off the heads of 100 Chinese the fastest.
Yet somehow Japan still can’t bring itself to apologize to the nations they brutalized, and for whom there are still living victims. The government will only say “mistakes were made.”
I realize the people who were not born during that time have nothing to do with all that. But they do have a duty and responsibility yet today to tell the truth and reveal all that history to the people of Japan.In 1992 at a dinner with Saburo Sakai, Japan’s leading fighter ace of WW2, he told us that he feared Japan had learned nothing from WW2. In 1993, a squadron commander from the Pearl Harbor dive bombers told my father, through his daughter, that he went all over Japan teaching people what Japan really did in WW2, and because of that he had been greatly ostracized. Fortunately my nephew from Japan who lives in Japan knows that it is not his shame, but it is his responsibility to not hide the history of that era.
His real name is Yasuki, but he goes by Yoski so people will think he’s Polish.
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I can’t help but wonder how the people of Nanking are looking at the tsunami. It was from Sendai, Japan that the troops came from that murdered 300,000 Chinese civilians in six weeks in 1937. Before and during WW2, Japanese units were made of troops who all came from the same area. That’s why they were called the Sendai Division. In my studies of the Far East Military Tribunals, I came across a news clipping from Sendai, Japan that spoke of a contest between two Japanese officers in Nanking who were having a contest to see who could cut off the heads of 100 Chinese the fastest.
Yet somehow Japan still can’t bring itself to apologize to the nations they brutalized, and for whom there are still living victims. The government will only say “mistakes were made.”
I realize the people who were not born during that time have nothing to do with all that. But they do have a duty and responsibility yet today to tell the truth and reveal all that history to the people of Japan.
In 1992 at a dinner with Saburo Sakai, Japan’s leading fighter ace of WW2, he told us that he feared Japan had learned nothing from WW2. In 1993, a squadron commander from the Pearl Harbor dive bombers told my father, through his daughter, that he went all over Japan teaching people what Japan really did in WW2, and because of that he had been greatly ostracized. Fortunately my nephew from Japan who lives in Japan knows that it is not his shame, but it is his responsibility to not hide the history of that era.
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Bonecrusher, Israel should put that wall on wheels. For every Israeli murdered, they should move the wall out one mile. Once the Palestinians are crammed into a shoe box, they might get the message.
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Bonecrusher, Israel should put that wall on wheels. For every Israeli murdered, they should move the wall out one mile. Once the Palestinians are crammed into a shoe box, they might get the message.
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#61 b45i
That may all be true, but how many people in Japan were around in the mid-1930’s and in a position to actually do what you describe? The current nation of Japan is not the same nation as in 1937, much as the nation of Russia is not the same as the Soviet Union of 1987, or the Russian Empire of 1916. -
#61 b45i
That may all be true, but how many people in Japan were around in the mid-1930’s and in a position to actually do what you describe? The current nation of Japan is not the same nation as in 1937, much as the nation of Russia is not the same as the Soviet Union of 1987, or the Russian Empire of 1916. -
#62 Big45: What Israel SHOULD DO is follow the original instructions given to Moses and drive them all off of their land. See #54 TT above; click on that link and scroll down to the t-shirt in question.
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#62 Big45: What Israel SHOULD DO is follow the original instructions given to Moses and drive them all off of their land. See #54 TT above; click on that link and scroll down to the t-shirt in question.
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Sign on the back of a “suck truck”
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Sign on the back of a “suck truck”
CAUTION:
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WB, 1992 and 1993 were not that long ago. To have two Japanese warriors of WW2 make those statements, and then to know that Japan does not teach the truth, indicates that perhaps the Japan of today is not so different.
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WB, 1992 and 1993 were not that long ago. To have two Japanese warriors of WW2 make those statements, and then to know that Japan does not teach the truth, indicates that perhaps the Japan of today is not so different.
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Is this still going on? I haven’t heard lately.
Oh, and BACON!
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Is this still going on? I haven’t heard lately.
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I see a hummer in the tree outside my office window. It’s time to find the feeders.
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I see a hummer in the tree outside my office window. It’s time to find the feeders.
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#66 b45i
How many southern crackers are still overtly racist these days? I’d wager there are many, especially around Vidor.How much has the prevailing view of race among the US population at large changed since the 1960’s & 70’s?
I’m not making excuses for the Japanese Empire of the 1930’s; I’m simply pointing out that the portion of the population of the nation of Japan that holds those views today is likely vanishingly small and getting smaller by the day.
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#66 b45i
How many southern crackers are still overtly racist these days? I’d wager there are many, especially around Vidor.
How much has the prevailing view of race among the US population at large changed since the 1960’s & 70’s?
I’m not making excuses for the Japanese Empire of the 1930’s; I’m simply pointing out that the portion of the population of the nation of Japan that holds those views today is likely vanishingly small and getting smaller by the day. -
WB, they aren’t teaching the history of it today. They haven’t made restitution to the living victims. They can’t even say we’re sorry. Mistakes were made? That’s the best they can do?
How can you dismiss that attitude?Don’t we teach our citizens today in our schools about how evil slavery was? Do we just dismiss it as a mistake? Japan has to own up to the barbarism it committed, both to its own citizens and to the living victims. To fail to do otherwise is to admit the seed lies buried within. If you take the time to study the statements of the mayor of Tokyo, you might find what I’m saying is absolutely true.
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WB, they aren’t teaching the history of it today. They haven’t made restitution to the living victims. They can’t even say we’re sorry. Mistakes were made? That’s the best they can do?
How can you dismiss that attitude?
Don’t we teach our citizens today in our schools about how evil slavery was? Do we just dismiss it as a mistake? Japan has to own up to the barbarism it committed, both to its own citizens and to the living victims. To fail to do otherwise is to admit the seed lies buried within. If you take the time to study the statements of the mayor of Tokyo, you might find what I’m saying is absolutely true. -
Greenie finds out that becoming energy-independent through “renewable” means is a lot harder than he thought. His little experiment cost the State of California $10million and provides a trickle of power that is barely noticeable.
The problems with Eisenberg’s energy vision were fundamental. For starters, there simply wasn’t room on the campuses for all the generating equipment required to become self-sufficient. Some of the colleges wouldn’t come close to that goal even if solar panels, wind turbines and other devices were wedged into every available space.
Solar panels, etc. just are not that efficient, even in Southern California. Wind turbines are big structures and need (lots of) unencumbered wind flow.
Plans for large-scale wind power collided with the reality that prevailing winds at nearly all the campuses are too weak to generate much electricity. To date, a single wind turbine has been installed, as a demonstration project. It spins too slowly in average winds to power a 60-watt light bulb.
I’d bet that he could have found that out by simply reading the marketing glossy, checking the www for average windspeed in the area, and maybe checking with an engineering faculty member (or probably even one of the students), without having to shell out the bucks to a project that was obviously doomed from the start.
No matter how it was financed, the bill for all those solar panels and wind turbines would be huge. Eisenberg’s cost estimates for taking the nine campuses off the grid ranged as high as $975 million — this for a college system that in 2010 spent less than $8 million on power bills.
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An engineering consultant put the cost far higher: $1.9 billion. That number caught the attention of Marshall Drummond, then chancellor of the college district. It was enough to pay for several dozen new classroom buildings.Assuming zero cost of capital and no maintenance costs, that would take from 122 years to 237 years to pay back. Even if you were to quadruple energy costs, it would take between 30 and 60 years.
This is what P-BO wants for the entire country.
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Greenie finds out that becoming energy-independent through “renewable” means is a lot harder than he thought. His little experiment cost the State of California $10million and provides a trickle of power that is barely noticeable.
The problems with Eisenberg’s energy vision were fundamental. For starters, there simply wasn’t room on the campuses for all the generating equipment required to become self-sufficient. Some of the colleges wouldn’t come close to that goal even if solar panels, wind turbines and other devices were wedged into every available space.
Solar panels, etc. just are not that efficient, even in Southern California. Wind turbines are big structures and need (lots of) unencumbered wind flow.
Plans for large-scale wind power collided with the reality that prevailing winds at nearly all the campuses are too weak to generate much electricity. To date, a single wind turbine has been installed, as a demonstration project. It spins too slowly in average winds to power a 60-watt light bulb.
I’d bet that he could have found that out by simply reading the marketing glossy, checking the www for average windspeed in the area, and maybe checking with an engineering faculty member (or probably even one of the students), without having to shell out the bucks to a project that was obviously doomed from the start.
No matter how it was financed, the bill for all those solar panels and wind turbines would be huge. Eisenberg’s cost estimates for taking the nine campuses off the grid ranged as high as $975 million — this for a college system that in 2010 spent less than $8 million on power bills.
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An engineering consultant put the cost far higher: $1.9 billion. That number caught the attention of Marshall Drummond, then chancellor of the college district. It was enough to pay for several dozen new classroom buildings.Assuming zero cost of capital and no maintenance costs, that would take from 122 years to 237 years to pay back. Even if you were to quadruple energy costs, it would take between 30 and 60 years.
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#67 Tedtam: Nope. 🙁
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#67 Tedtam: Nope. 🙁
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Words elude me…
President Obama’s Trivial Pursuits
by Keith Koffler on March 15, 2011, 12:10 pmThe Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions.
The newly installed tandem of White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Senior Adviser David Plouffe were supposed to impart a new sense of discipline and purpose to the White House. Instead, they are permitting him to showcase himself as a poorly focused leader who has his priorities backward.
This morning, as Japan’s nuclear crisis enters a potentially catastrophic phase, we are told that Obama is videotaping his NCAA tournament picks and that we’ll be able to tune into ESPN Wednesday to find out who he likes.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/03/15/president-obamas-trivial-pursuits-2/
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Words elude me…
President Obama’s Trivial Pursuits
by Keith Koffler on March 15, 2011, 12:10 pm
The Middle East is afire with rebellion, Japan is imploding from an earthquake, and the battle of the budget is on in the United States, but none of this seems to be deterring President Obama from a heavy schedule of childish distractions.
The newly installed tandem of White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Senior Adviser David Plouffe were supposed to impart a new sense of discipline and purpose to the White House. Instead, they are permitting him to showcase himself as a poorly focused leader who has his priorities backward.
This morning, as Japan’s nuclear crisis enters a potentially catastrophic phase, we are told that Obama is videotaping his NCAA tournament picks and that we’ll be able to tune into ESPN Wednesday to find out who he likes.http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2011/03/15/president-obamas-trivial-pursuits-2/
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especially around Vidor.
Seenyore Incendiary Drayage Device………………..methinks your view is fairly limited in scope sir………..I can assure you that from East Texas all the way to the Atlantic Ocean – it ‘aint about Race’ nearly as often as it may be about “who are YOU / we do not KNOW you”.
One can be ANY ethnicity and wander down an unknown road only to find themselves rendered as gator bait – if the folks at the end of said road don’t know you OR did not know you were heading their way……………
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especially around Vidor.
Seenyore Incendiary Drayage Device………………..methinks your view is fairly limited in scope sir………..I can assure you that from East Texas all the way to the Atlantic Ocean – it ‘aint about Race’ nearly as often as it may be about “who are YOU / we do not KNOW you”.
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My #74 – From the “we don’t ‘cotton’ to strangers ’round heah” school-of-thought
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My #74 – From the “we don’t ‘cotton’ to strangers ’round heah” school-of-thought
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#74 kf
Point taken.Note I did not say all crackers are racist [posterior orifices]. I was merely attempting (poorly as it turned out) to point out that among that population there are likely many who are overtly racist. I mentioned Vidor specifically because of some news stories I heard a few years back about how that town was noteworthy for its backward thinking regarding race (I may have gotten the town wrong; if so, I apologize. I do recall it was in the “Golden Triangle” area somewhere).
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#74 kf
Point taken.
Note I did not say all crackers are racist [posterior orifices]. I was merely attempting (poorly as it turned out) to point out that among that population there are likely many who are overtly racist. I mentioned Vidor specifically because of some news stories I heard a few years back about how that town was noteworthy for its backward thinking regarding race (I may have gotten the town wrong; if so, I apologize. I do recall it was in the “Golden Triangle” area somewhere). -
#76 Pyro: I gonna hafta chime in here about Wiskerfish’s statement: If you only mention the KKK crackers in Vidor and not mention the racist wissin SOBs Luis Farrakhan-hole, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackass among others, you fall into the pc trap. Racism is foul no matter who practices it or why.
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#76 Pyro: I gonna hafta chime in here about Wiskerfish’s statement: If you only mention the KKK crackers in Vidor and not mention the racist wissin SOBs Luis Farrakhan-hole, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackass among others, you fall into the pc trap. Racism is foul no matter who practices it or why.
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Jeez.
It was only an example, not a comprehensive listing of every group that has or will ever spawn someone who has ever thought a racist thought.
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Jeez.
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WB, I’m still trying to figure out why you dismiss the fact that Japan doesn’t teach their citizens what their military did across the Pacific Ocean islands, and on the Asian continent?
When their own former warriors recognize the willing blind eye their own nation turns to the facts, should we be any less willing to talk about it? You didn’t happen to look up any of the statements the mayor or Tokyo has made, did you? If the people of Tokyo are willing to elect such a person, then it’s pretty much proof the Japanese people might not be so different as they were from 1933 to 1945. -
WB, I’m still trying to figure out why you dismiss the fact that Japan doesn’t teach their citizens what their military did across the Pacific Ocean islands, and on the Asian continent?
When their own former warriors recognize the willing blind eye their own nation turns to the facts, should we be any less willing to talk about it? You didn’t happen to look up any of the statements the mayor or Tokyo has made, did you? If the people of Tokyo are willing to elect such a person, then it’s pretty much proof the Japanese people might not be so different as they were from 1933 to 1945. -
Pyro: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
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Pyro: BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
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Ides of March. Proof you can’t trust your Italian friends….even if they’re the same race!
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Ides of March. Proof you can’t trust your Italian friends….even if they’re the same race!
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No, I didn’t. I’m taking your word for it.
The Rape of Nanking and other atrocities committed during WWII and the years prior to it should be taught in schools in Japan. Slavery is pretty universally taught as evil in just about every school in the developed world today, not just here.
If the people of Tokyo are willing to elect such a person, then it’s pretty much proof the Japanese people might not be so different as they were from 1933 to 1945.
That’s just a bit of a stretch. Politics is a strange and often chaotic (in the mathematical sense) enterprise. Various cities and states here have elected people of exceedingly low character as well for whatever reason. We don’t know all the facts.
I do have one question that you might not be able to answer, though. If what he did was so evil, why was he not tried at the end of the war as a war criminal?
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No, I didn’t. I’m taking your word for it.
The Rape of Nanking and other atrocities committed during WWII and the years prior to it should be taught in schools in Japan. Slavery is pretty universally taught as evil in just about every school in the developed world today, not just here.If the people of Tokyo are willing to elect such a person, then it’s pretty much proof the Japanese people might not be so different as they were from 1933 to 1945.
That’s just a bit of a stretch. Politics is a strange and often chaotic (in the mathematical sense) enterprise. Various cities and states here have elected people of exceedingly low character as well for whatever reason. We don’t know all the facts.
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#68 Bob
hummer in the tree
I only see hummingbirds starting in September, never saw one in Houston in the spring.
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#68 Bob
hummer in the tree
I only see hummingbirds starting in September, never saw one in Houston in the spring.
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Simple;
I enjoyed your comment over there. I’d love to respond to it directly, but I’m not allowed.
So please, Tea Party people, please help Republican legislators weather this storm because they cannot do it if you keep attacking them. They have enough to deal with from the left and the left controlled media.
Our primary motivation is in keeping elected Republicans feet to the fire, not in providing them with excuses and easy outs. The Left and the Left controlled media will always be there, they knew that when they took the job. If they need our help in dealing with them, they took the wrong dam job and perhaps should quit so we can elect somebody who is willing AND able.
One way to make thier job easier, though, would to not do crap that gets the Tea Party pizztoff.
Know why?
Because you’re going to have a hard enough time dealing with the left and the left controlled media.
Even us ignent peasants can figure that one out.
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Simple;
I enjoyed your comment over there. I’d love to respond to it directly, but I’m not allowed.So please, Tea Party people, please help Republican legislators weather this storm because they cannot do it if you keep attacking them. They have enough to deal with from the left and the left controlled media.
Our primary motivation is in keeping elected Republicans feet to the fire, not in providing them with excuses and easy outs. The Left and the Left controlled media will always be there, they knew that when they took the job. If they need our help in dealing with them, they took the wrong dam job and perhaps should quit so we can elect somebody who is willing AND able.
One way to make thier job easier, though, would to not do crap that gets the Tea Party pizztoff.
Know why?
Because you’re going to have a hard enough time dealing with the left and the left controlled media.
Even us ignent peasants can figure that one out. -
I only see hummingbirds starting in September, never saw one in Houston in the spring.
Saw one Sunday. But the two Great Blue Herons on the bayou were more impressive.
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I only see hummingbirds starting in September, never saw one in Houston in the spring.
Saw one Sunday. But the two Great Blue Herons on the bayou were more impressive.
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I saw a bunch of grackles and zillions of gray doves. Does that count?
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I saw a bunch of grackles and zillions of gray doves. Does that count?
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A couple of months ago, when we wanted to ditch Joe Straus and get someone who we could guarantee wouldn’t stab us in the back and even contemplate playing tricks like using the Rainy Day Fund instead of making the cuts they were given the power to do, these Establishment types called us nutcases and said that contacting our reps was despicable.
Now, they want our frikkin help.
Like they times in the past that they used the Rainy Day Fund to avoid the hard decisions, they treated us like they did in the past.
Which agaion begs the question:
How’d that work out for ya?
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A couple of months ago, when we wanted to ditch Joe Straus and get someone who we could guarantee wouldn’t stab us in the back and even contemplate playing tricks like using the Rainy Day Fund instead of making the cuts they were given the power to do, these Establishment types called us nutcases and said that contacting our reps was despicable.
Now, they want our frikkin help.
Like they times in the past that they used the Rainy Day Fund to avoid the hard decisions, they treated us like they did in the past.
Which agaion begs the question:
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WB, I never said he committed the attrocities. He was too young. 13 at the end of the war.
Shintaro Ishihara has been Governor (mayor) of Tokyo since 1999. He is VERY popular in spite of his remarks, such as these:In 1990, Ishihara said in a Playboy interview that the Rape of Nanking was a fiction, claiming, “People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie.” He continued to defend this statement in the uproar that ensued. He has also backed the film The Truth about Nanjing, which argues that the Nanking Massacre was propaganda.
Ishihara said in a 2001 interview with women’s magazine Shukan Josei that he believed “old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin,” adding that he “couldn’t say this as a politician.” He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by “tyrant” “old women.”
Now if a city of 12 million is not representative of much of Japan, and they elect a person such as this, what does that tell you about the Japanese as a whole?
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WB, I never said he committed the attrocities. He was too young. 13 at the end of the war.
Shintaro Ishihara has been Governor (mayor) of Tokyo since 1999. He is VERY popular in spite of his remarks, such as these:
In 1990, Ishihara said in a Playboy interview that the Rape of Nanking was a fiction, claiming, “People say that the Japanese made a holocaust but that is not true. It is a story made up by the Chinese. It has tarnished the image of Japan, but it is a lie.” He continued to defend this statement in the uproar that ensued. He has also backed the film The Truth about Nanjing, which argues that the Nanking Massacre was propaganda.
Ishihara said in a 2001 interview with women’s magazine Shukan Josei that he believed “old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin,” adding that he “couldn’t say this as a politician.” He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by “tyrant” “old women.”
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What does it say about a nation of 330million that it elected someone wholly unqualified as president who spent his formative years steeped in racist thought and among cold-blooded murderers?
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What does it say about a nation of 330million that it elected someone wholly unqualified as president who spent his formative years steeped in racist thought and among cold-blooded murderers?
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What does it say about a nation of 330million that it elected someone wholly unqualified as president who spent his formative years steeped in racist thought and among cold-blooded murderers?
Mistakes were made.
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What does it say about a nation of 330million that it elected someone wholly unqualified as president who spent his formative years steeped in racist thought and among cold-blooded murderers?
Mistakes were made.
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#90 Sarge
HUGE Mistakes were made.
fify
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#90 Sarge
HUGE Mistakes were made.
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84 Sarge,
We have had our differences, but when you are right you are right! I happen
to believe that you are right on this issue. The politicians are raiding the Rainy Day
Fund in Texas just like the US Congress raided the Social Security Trust Fund years ago.
Very few of them want to show some courage and take the hit by cutting spending.Ms. Simple and I had parents that lived thru the Great Depression. My mom’s folks had a “Grapes of Wrath” existence during the worst years and my Pops lived from day to day doing odd jobs, although he was a highly skilled chemist.
My wife’s parents has a similar experience. It was pounded into us to save for rainy days because they are going (not likely) to happen. We were also taught to live a frugal life style. My Pops came out of the depression and made a small fortune, which I was never aware of until I was in my late twenties. Our house and life style was modest to say the least.
Ms Simple and I have continued that modest lifestyle and we saved a healthy portion of our earnings. She is retired and I soon will be. I am cofident that we can live without being a burden on society or our children.
You and I may differ on other issues, but brother; I am with you on fiscal conservatism.
Simple
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84 Sarge,
We have had our differences, but when you are right you are right! I happen
to believe that you are right on this issue. The politicians are raiding the Rainy Day
Fund in Texas just like the US Congress raided the Social Security Trust Fund years ago.
Very few of them want to show some courage and take the hit by cutting spending.
Ms. Simple and I had parents that lived thru the Great Depression. My mom’s folks had a “Grapes of Wrath” existence during the worst years and my Pops lived from day to day doing odd jobs, although he was a highly skilled chemist.
My wife’s parents has a similar experience. It was pounded into us to save for rainy days because they are going (not likely) to happen. We were also taught to live a frugal life style. My Pops came out of the depression and made a small fortune, which I was never aware of until I was in my late twenties. Our house and life style was modest to say the least.
Ms Simple and I have continued that modest lifestyle and we saved a healthy portion of our earnings. She is retired and I soon will be. I am cofident that we can live without being a burden on society or our children.
You and I may differ on other issues, but brother; I am with you on fiscal conservatism.
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#85 SC
Great Blue Herons on the bayou
Which bayou, if you don’t mind me asking? We see one occasionally on White Oak Bayou.
#86 Pyro
No.
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#85 SC
Great Blue Herons on the bayou
Which bayou, if you don’t mind me asking? We see one occasionally on White Oak Bayou.
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#88 Bigs
he believed “old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless
Ishihara sounds like a jerk.
Parenthetically, there is a theory in population biology that human females became menopausal as an evolutionary accident, but the trait had value and was retained. The value? Menopausal women would not die in childbirth, live longer than they otherwise would be likely to, and thus be around to apply their knowledge and experience for the good of the family and clan.
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#88 Bigs
he believed “old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless
Ishihara sounds like a jerk.
Parenthetically, there is a theory in population biology that human females became menopausal as an evolutionary accident, but the trait had value and was retained. The value? Menopausal women would not die in childbirth, live longer than they otherwise would be likely to, and thus be around to apply their knowledge and experience for the good of the family and clan. -
89 wagonburner says:
March 15, 2011 at 4:44 pm
What does it say about a nation of 330million that it elected someone wholly unqualified as president who spent his formative years steeped in racist thought and among cold-blooded murderers?Oh how I wish the LIKE button was still available for this one!
Although I guess his time in Hawaii probably wasn’t among cold-blooded murderers…
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89 wagonburner says:
March 15, 2011 at 4:44 pm
What does it say about a nation of 330million that it elected someone wholly unqualified as president who spent his formative years steeped in racist thought and among cold-blooded murderers?Oh how I wish the LIKE button was still available for this one!
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Glad to see those Like / Dislike buttons gone. They detracted more than they enhanced IMHO.
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Glad to see those Like / Dislike buttons gone. They detracted more than they enhanced IMHO.
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You and I may differ on other issues, but brother; I am with you on fiscal conservatism.
Sarge, you can count me as with you on that as well.
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You and I may differ on other issues, but brother; I am with you on fiscal conservatism.
Sarge, you can count me as with you on that as well.
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#96 AB
Glad to see those Like / Dislike buttons gone.
So you didn’t enjoy a week on Hammy’s Couch that was a lot like being back in high school? 😀
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#96 AB
Glad to see those Like / Dislike buttons gone.
So you didn’t enjoy a week on Hammy’s Couch that was a lot like being back in high school? 😀
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#7 GJT,
No, that was not directed at you or anything recent. Just my first thought at
the pic. Sarge has been voicing his opinions and defending them long before the Tea
Party ever existed.But on the recent Straus flap I do agree with him. There were very reasonable objections to Straus as Speaker. To be dismissed as not one of the ‘normal people rock’ crowd was silly.
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#7 GJT,
No, that was not directed at you or anything recent. Just my first thought at
the pic. Sarge has been voicing his opinions and defending them long before the Tea
Party ever existed.
But on the recent Straus flap I do agree with him. There were very reasonable objections to Straus as Speaker. To be dismissed as not one of the ‘normal people rock’ crowd was silly. -
hunnert
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Bonecrusher #15;
How long will it be until the foul “O” occupies the central figure and the D senators on the periphery
I hope and pray never for him or any future president.
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Bonecrusher #15;
How long will it be until the foul “O” occupies the central figure and the D senators on the periphery
I hope and pray never for him or any future president.
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Don’t exaggerate. It’s only 310 million. In 2008 approximately 231 million were eligible to vote. Of that, 129 million actually turned out, or slightly less than 42%, and only 57% of eligible voters. Now keep in mind they’re reelected the Tokyo guy twice. Whereas I think Americans in Nov 2nd, 2010 showed how they were inclined.
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Don’t exaggerate. It’s only 310 million. In 2008 approximately 231 million were eligible to vote. Of that, 129 million actually turned out, or slightly less than 42%, and only 57% of eligible voters. Now keep in mind they’re reelected the Tokyo guy twice. Whereas I think Americans in Nov 2nd, 2010 showed how they were inclined.
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Tedtam #20;
I wonder how many punches the scrawny bully can throw, now that he’s hobbled?
That was one awesome slam too, eh?
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Tedtam #20;
I wonder how many punches the scrawny bully can throw, now that he’s hobbled?
That was one awesome slam too, eh?
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101 Darren,
Our President, our Nation, and all the brave men and women in the Services.
Every day!
Our President’s failures become our own.
Simple
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101 Darren,
Our President, our Nation, and all the brave men and women in the Services.
Every day!
Our President’s failures become our own.
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Big Iron #66;
To have two Japanese warriors of WW2 make those statements, and then to know that Japan does not teach the truth, indicates that perhaps the Japan of today is not so different.
I beg to differ. Japan today is far different from Japan of decades ago. They are a great friend and ally to the U.S. and I wish they’d build themselves militarily to a superpower status.
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Big Iron #66;
To have two Japanese warriors of WW2 make those statements, and then to know that Japan does not teach the truth, indicates that perhaps the Japan of today is not so different.
I beg to differ. Japan today is far different from Japan of decades ago. They are a great friend and ally to the U.S. and I wish they’d build themselves militarily to a superpower status.
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Simple #104;
Let’s not literally stab him to death then.
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Drunken NY Riot Leads to Shocking Car-Beating Video
I wonder if these fine college students grew up being taught to listen to their parents and to respect authority. Or did they grow up to question authority?
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Drunken NY Riot Leads to Shocking Car-Beating Video
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I see that our new representative in CD 22, Pete Olson, voted in favor of the CR which insures there will be no effort to defund Obamacare. And silly me, I voted for him thinking he might turn out to be a real conservative – I guess DeLay really had me spoiled. Surely out there somewhere is a real conservative who would be willing to take the hard stand and do the right thing – plus Pete’s a Rice boy. I thought they had some distinguished folks over there, but that veneer is showing through also – but that’s another story.
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I see that our new representative in CD 22, Pete Olson, voted in favor of the CR which insures there will be no effort to defund Obamacare. And silly me, I voted for him thinking he might turn out to be a real conservative – I guess DeLay really had me spoiled. Surely out there somewhere is a real conservative who would be willing to take the hard stand and do the right thing – plus Pete’s a Rice boy. I thought they had some distinguished folks over there, but that veneer is showing through also – but that’s another story.
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Well we certainly haven’t wasted the nuclear plant crisis in Japan to terrorize a whole new generation of Americans on nuclear power.
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Well we certainly haven’t wasted the nuclear plant crisis in Japan to terrorize a whole new generation of Americans on nuclear power.
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#107 Darren, you’ve offered a false dichotomy.
I don’t think that questioning authoritah and respecting the property of others are mutually exclusive concepts. People do both. I have, and I’ve taught my daughters to do so as well.
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#107 Darren, you’ve offered a false dichotomy.
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What’s happening in Japan is beyond comprehension for most people. There are those who are saying this is punishment from God (similar to Katrina). Of course I don’t buy it, but certainly I pray that God gives the Japanese people the strength and will to get thru this.
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What’s happening in Japan is beyond comprehension for most people. There are those who are saying this is punishment from God (similar to Katrina). Of course I don’t buy it, but certainly I pray that God gives the Japanese people the strength and will to get thru this.
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I have started (re-)watching the BBC tv production of Hitchhiker’s Guide made in 1981 and am enjoying it again. My first exposure to H2G2 was the BBC radio series that was aired on the PBS radio station in Austin in 1981. I don’t think I ever read the novelizations.
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I have started (re-)watching the BBC tv production of Hitchhiker’s Guide made in 1981 and am enjoying it again. My first exposure to H2G2 was the BBC radio series that was aired on the PBS radio station in Austin in 1981. I don’t think I ever read the novelizations.
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I swear, libs are the worst of losers and the most despicable of players. When it comes to them, there are obviously no rules they’ll break (or felonies they’ll commit).
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I swear, libs are the worst of losers and the most despicable of players. When it comes to them, there are obviously no rules they’ll break (or felonies they’ll commit).
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One of the best comments ever:
There may be some blame for this incident but actually the plant did withstand the earthquake. However no one expected a tsuname of the size that hit.
I suspect that if a structure were built to withstand every possible situation; a meteor would collide with it and smash it to pieces. Then there would be many letters blaming everything about the structure. Actually it was the big guy showing us who really is in control. -
One of the best comments ever:
There may be some blame for this incident but actually the plant did withstand the earthquake. However no one expected a tsuname of the size that hit.
I suspect that if a structure were built to withstand every possible situation; a meteor would collide with it and smash it to pieces. Then there would be many letters blaming everything about the structure. Actually it was the big guy showing us who really is in control.
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