I was reading through several accounts of the events leading up the the “protests” this past Tuesday. Here are some thoughts in no particular order:
1. The press is now, more than ever, fixated on shielding The One For Whom We’ve Been Waiting from criticism, going to ridiculous lengths to try to pretend that Romney’s criticism of the Cairo Embassy’s statement on the video was over the top, politicizing the violence occurring in the area, when the actual timing of the events fails to bear that out. In other words, Romney’s statement was worse than the deaths of four people and the destruction of an embassy and consulate.
2. The “senior diplomatic sources” who say that there was credible evidence 48 hours prior to the attacks that something was about to happen spoke out because: a. they personally knew those who were murdered and are outraged at the lack of effort taken to protect them; b. they genuinely care about the US and its interests and see the way the unfolding events of the recent past are unraveling the hard work they and their dead colleagues put forth; c. they realize that “there but for the grace of God go they” and have come to believe that they and their other colleagues are liable to be treated as unthanked cannon fodder; e. some combination of the above. Here is an article with lots of pictures of the aftermath of the Benghazi attack.
3. The media is schizophrenic in its reporting. On one hand, they report that the attacks were premeditated for days while also saying they weren’t “attack-attacks”; they were protests that got out of hand. JCS Chairman Gen. Dempsey is not helping matters when he personally calls the nut pastor in Crackerland to ask him to withdraw his support of the video blamed for the violence.
4. We are once again holding ourselves “hostage to the hurt feelings of those with perpetually hurt feelings” in the hope that they won’t cause more mayhem. If Catholics rioted at every slight given to symbols of our faith, including the image of God the Son on a crucifix and the Body and Blood of Christ by those who do not share our beliefs, the entire planet would be a cinder in orbit around the sun by now. It’s way past time that the President (whoever he might be at the time) simply says “We value the freedom of expression in this country, even if that expression may be distasteful to others. If you don’t like what someone says or does, then don’t look or listen.”
5. These events have the potential to be the defining moment of the Obama Presidency. As more and more information leaks into the public record, the Administration seems to be getting more and more nervous. Good. They need to be.
6. Did one or more of the Daily Security Briefs Obama missed in the past week mention the rising of tensions noted earlier? Did those rising tensions get missed because he didn’t read the book that (those) day(s)? How much of an impact did his campaigning have on the events in the Middle East and his response thereto?
7. Obama needs to stop reading books like the one by that plagiarizing hack Fareed Zakaria and start reading more by people like Caroline Glick. She set a new high water mark with this article. You should read it. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
8. Some Democrat Senators are now of the opinion that the “protests”, especially in Benghazi, were premeditated attacks
9. By all accounts, Ambassador Stevens was a very brave, capable, honest, smart, and caring man, as were those with whom he died. His death must not be in vain.
And may God rest his soul.
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You seem to imply that this state of affairs in the MENA is undesirable. As far as the One is concerned, it’s just another step toward Islamic takeover of the west which he deems desirable. He assumes that there will be a place for him at the table when he reports directly to the head Imam and receives his rewards for a job well done. Now if he can just stop those pesky Israelis from stepping in and saving the day, all will be well and he can golf in relaxed mode.
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CNN YesterdayCNN discussed the black flag carried by protesters that often is used to replace the US flag hanging over embassies when they are attacked. CNN said that the flag is “not an Al Qaeda banner” but the first pillar of Islam and merely “an affirmation of faith.”
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV?id={4B449FD8-2FB1-4877-B1C2-900D6A781E2A}&title=CNN-Black-Flag-Not-Al-Qaeda-Just-Affirmation-Of-Faith
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CNN October 2011Al-Qaeda Flag Planted On Libyan Courthouse…
By Sherif Elhelwa, Vice on Oct 29, 2011
According to multiple eyewitnesses – myself included – one can now see both the Libyan rebel flag and the flag of al Qaeda fluttering atop Benghazi’s courthouse.
Earlier this week, I went to the Benghazi courthouse and confirmed the rumors: an al Qaeda flag was clearly visible; its Arabic script declaring that “there is no God but Allah” -
You are now legally authorized to call him a b@$t@rd now
President Obama in Golden, Colorado
By Lauren Peterson on September 13, 2012 Campaign trail
“Let’s face it, a mixed kid from Hawaii born to a single mom is not likely to become President of the United States. But in America it can happen because of education, because somebody gave me opportunity.http://www.barackobama.com/news/entry/president-obama-in-golden-colorado
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Gandhi was a spiritual man. He also went on many hunger strikes, which left him weak and gave him bad breath. He usually walked without shoes, leaving his feet quite rough.
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Dropped in the old mail box; Obama Ate Snoopy?,…Heh
It’s Saturday!!
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R.R. Reno, editor of First Things, disagrees with Dinesh D’sousa’s premise In 2016: Obama’s America.
I happen to believe they are both correct, in that Barry was formed both by his father’s anti-colonialism and his commie mother and friends.D’Souza’s argument is not just unpersuasive; it is positively misleading. Obama is very much a man formed by American culture. He is, in fact, our first therapeutic president. He doesn’t so much have beliefs as critical perspectives, not convictions but instead expertise. He doesn’t confront our enemies, but rather tries to understand them, empathize, and gain their trust—perhaps in order to help overcome their fears and learn how not to hate . . .
Philip Rieff announced the triumph of the therapeutic nearly 50 years ago, so in a way it’s surprising that it took so long for us to have a president like Obama. But now we do, and it does us no good at all to imagine that his mentality comes from alien shores, as D’Souza suggests. On the contrary, Barack Obama strikes me as an intelligent, ambitious, and fully committed representative of the therapeutic American liberalism of our day.http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2012/09/2016-dinesh-drsquosouzarsquos-misguided-film
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Another favorite quote from the above mentioned piece…
At its worst it’s a smug liberalism that refuses to see itself as an ideology but instead postures as our national (and global!) guidance counselor, which explains why Obama can push for liberal policies while insisting that he is nonpartisan. The therapist, after all, has no “interests,” only “understanding.”
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I laughed out loud at that one.
Really? I groaned out loud.
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Excellent roundup of articles and viewpoints about the North African 9/11 debacle, Pyro. Here’s one more:
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How dare Romney run against our Half Nubian Prince!
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He is, in fact, our first therapeutic president. He doesn’t so much have beliefs as critical perspectives, not convictions but instead expertise. He doesn’t confront our enemies, but rather tries to understand them, empathize, and gain their trust—perhaps in order to help overcome their fears and learn how not to hate . . .
Yah. How’s that workin out for ya?
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I’ve noticed most women are not fans of puns.
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puns of steel seem to be popular around here lately. 😉
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Even the screeching Myna bird is uneasy with the Democrats’ all-out embrace of abortion as a right of passage for all women.
Democrats voiced their unequivocal support for abortion rights at the party’s convention in Charlotte, a sharp departure from two decades of modulating their views on the issue with the phrase “safe, legal, and rare.”
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Female commentators who normally identify with the Democrats, like Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson and The Washington Post’s Melinda Henneberger, found the convention’s unrelenting focus on abortion rights off-putting for a party that claims a big tent. Cokie Roberts, appearing on ABC’s This Week, called the convention “over the top in terms of abortion…Every single speaker talked about abortion, and you know, at some point, you start to alienate people. Thirty percent of Democrats are pro-life.” -
It’s just that most wimmins I know can imagine far more productive use of the amount of time that particular pun must have taken to work out!
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I thought about writing down a few of my favorite puns. My four fingers are in favor, but my thumb is opposed.
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/ba dum bum
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#11 So Chrissy Mathews thinks that Romney is ARROGANT?!?! And his Savior isn’t?!
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I thought mharp maybe had come up with a new entry in urbanspeak with GOL or GMAO. Unfortunately it’s already taken with GigglingMAO.
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#17 😀
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Oh and wagonburner, your thoughts on the top of the page are well thought out.
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It’s just that most wimmins I know can imagine far more productive use of the amount of time that particular pun must have taken to work out!
Yeah, like bloggin’ and nappin’ and stuff.
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I was wondering when someone was going to question the wisdom of sending a homosexual diplomat to a muslim country. Here, we are told we’re evil because we don’t gladly accept their lifestyle as “normal”. Muslims murder them then sodomize their corpses. Yeah, our cultures are equal.
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#23 Tim!
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When I read the Gandhi pun to my wife, she too laughed out loud.
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Well at least SouthernTragedy is a fan of puns. Borrowed from her FB post:
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The first pun I remember “getting” was told by my grandfather with a bunch of old guys listening. I’ve long ago forgotten the set-up but I’ll always remember the punch line:
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But, I’ve always said she is a unique woman.
Guess she doesn’t spend all her time bloggin’ and nappin’.
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#24 Hammy
I think Islamists could sodomize a captured Westerner without having any clue that the man was gay. Didn’t Libyans sodomize Gaddafy before/during/after they killed him? That just seems to be part of who the Islamists are, when they are worked up into a murderous rage. -
When they try and start up the NAFTA superhighway again I know how to stop it dead in its tracks. Go up to the hill country, find a cave, gather up a few spiders (apparently, just one will do) and put them in the path of the highway.
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I was wondering when someone was going to question the wisdom of sending a homosexual diplomat to a muslim country.
I wasn’t wondering at all. Heck, the US has been known to send real women to Muslim countries, and people of the Jewish faith even.
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In both bathrooms is a stack of old First Things magazines. One of the more worn ones is the twentieth anniversary edition.
This morning I reread a June 1991 piece by Midge Dector, in which she says her farewell to the “women’s movement”. It is a timeless piece, especially in view of the endless “War On Women”.That was the good news. The bad news was that no one had ever lived with so many choices before—choices, after all, mean alternatives, and alternatives mean responsibility for outcomes—and there was neither benefit from the experience of the past nor any adequate current thinking to assist in the making of them. The primary appeal of the women’s movement, then, lay in the message that everything that troubled her was somebody else’s fault. How could any thinking or spiritual discipline designed to help her carry the burden of freedom stand against the siren song of her victimization?
The result of that question is history. There is no need to expand upon what everybody, most of all she herself, knows: a quarter of a century of agitation on her behalf has left her emotionally and intellectually worse off. Especially intellectually. All the demands for unneeded preference in admissions and hiring, all the absurd litigation, all the efforts at speech control and thought control, and most important, all the programs to manage and “improve” the behavior of the men in her life, whether husband, boss, roommate, or date, have left her more disaffected and more mentally self-indulgent than before.And…
This brief article will be my last on the subject—at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life’s blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America’s middle-class women.
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Here’s one woman who is profoundly grateful for ancestors in Europe that resulted in me being born in America, where around the time my mother was born, women became full-fledged citizens. Without the vote, that was not true.
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My original link in #33 was a “no follow” link.
This one ought to work….
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Furthermore, it is only during my own lifetime that certain liberties became available to women. I still remember the shock of being turned away from the library at a West Texas junior college because girls could not enter unless they were wearing a skirt.
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The result of that question is history. There is no need to expand upon what everybody, most of all she herself, knows: a quarter of a century of agitation on her behalf has left her emotionally and intellectually worse off.
The wimmins I work with don’t seem to be emotional or intellectual basket cases. Heck 25 years ago, I didn’t see women engineers much.
… along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America’s middle-class women.
I look forward to seeing that happen.
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And speaking of grammar nazis … it’s smackdown time:
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OBAMA FLASHBACK: The Day I’m Inaugurated Muslim Hostility Will Ease.
Man that is working out great!
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#30 mh42
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Mharper
My wife, who was born in 1940 and celebrates another birthday on Monday, has also witnessed the needed changes. But she hated the vacuous trivialization of issues by the so-called “women’s movement.”
In 1961 she was only eleven months from graduating with her RN degree, but was forced to leave school because they did not allow pregnant students.
In 1963, women generally were not allowed to have credit cards, so part of my mother’s divorce decree required my father to maintain some credit cards for her use.
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Ninja choreography
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Shamaal,
The linked article was written 21 years ago.
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But, I’ve always said she is a unique woman.
Guess she doesn’t spend all her time bloggin’ and nappin’.
/snitI think that’s code for “doesn’t make sammiches.”
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A verbing too far. Ha!
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#31 Hamous
But those are special spiders. They’rehandicappedhandicapabledisableddifferently ableblindvision impairedspecial! -
#43 Shannon
The linked article was written 21 years ago.
Uh, yeah, just like you wrote. It still doesn’t seem timeless to me.
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The article is timeless in that the vacuity of the “womens movement” – so obvious in 1991 – lives on in the tabula rasa of the idiots claiming there exists a “War On Women”.
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Absolutely fascinating video of the Mars landings in HD. Click the little box in the lower right corner to expand to full screen.
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The article is timeless in that the vacuity of the “womens movement” – so obvious in 1991
I can’t speak to your reincarnation, but I’m more inclined to believe there’s homeschooling involved.
However there is some vacuity involved.There is no need to expand upon what everybody, most of all she herself, knows: a quarter of a century of agitation on her behalf has left her emotionally and intellectually worse off.
BS in ’91 and BS now.
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BS in ’91 and BS now.
As uttered by the unquestioned champion of trollish BS, so it should know; being the purveyor of utter non-sense and lies that it is.
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/Good grief. Have I unknowingly been reincarnated as a teacher in a tenth grade classroom?
No, you’ve just fallen into the trap of responding to a person whose only purpose here is to annoy.
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In case the rest of you haven’t noticed, Shamola starts off with easy-to-ignore comments. When he doesn’t get his fix he elevates the tone of the comments gradually until they become so absurd someone will respond. That’s exactly what he wants. You’re just feeding his ego so he can go over to one of his “progressive” commie sites and brag about how he schooled the dumb conservatives again. Yeah, it’s a sad existence, but it’s what makes him feel important.
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Coming up on talk like a Pirate Day
We’re hoping for the best September 19th ever – and the fact that it falls midweek means you can celebrate the whole week long if you like! In fact, the first reported Talk Like A Pirate Day parrrrty of 2012 happened on Sept. 12, in Tasmania – and we’ve heard of festivities carryin’ on into October!!) Stay tuned, and subscribe to The Poopdeck, by email or via our RSS feed, for news as it develops! Meanwhile, check out the GooglyMapThing, below, or our calendarrrrr for events near you!
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He wasn’t his mama’s only boy…..
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The strangest one, it seems…
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Yeah, whatever.
Speaking of pointless efforts …………………How do you pay a $137 traffic ticket in style? One man did it with 137 dollar bills folded into origami pigs.
The man, who goes by the YouTube moniker “Bacon Moose, posted a video to YouTube on Tuesday showing him bringing the intricately-folded swine into municipal court in two Dunkin Donuts boxes.Seems kinda risky carrying empty Doughnut boxes into a cop house.
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This is pretty surprising – Our HNP is only up by 13 points in the latest Illinois poll.
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#55/58
And to tie the themes togetherShiver me Timbers! Krispy Kreme is getting in on Talk Like a Pirate Day with a tasty grub giveaway. On Wednesday, September 19, any buccaneer who dares enter a participating Krispy Kreme location talking like a pirate gets one FREE Original Glazed® doughnut. Blimey you say? Well there’s more. To the lad or lass wearing full pirate attire goes a bounty of one FREE dozen Original Glazed® doughnuts.
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Romney will begin receiving daily intelligence briefings this week.
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The state’s escalated the purge of eligible voters issue with Harris County.
For those obtaining their news from the internet, Harris County will not purge their voters lists using the bogus data that the state got from the feds. The state has suspended the county’s financial account. Dallas County also refuses to violate folk’s Constitutional rights, but they have different demographics.Harris County election officials got a bit of a surprise Friday morning when they attempted to open the county’s spending account on the Texas Secretary of State’s office website and found their access blocked. State officials have temporarily cut off the county’s voter registration funding.
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Romney will begin receiving daily intelligence briefings this week [from the Obama administration].
And the jokes write themselves. 😉
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The German press is much more critical of black jesus than anything here short of that nitwit in Dallas.
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#66: I love the idea, but unless that thing has A/C I am not interested. I think a gas burning engine would be a nice addition as well so as to give the wissin thing some range. Have a battery pack and a small gen set so the thing can actually run an a/c, charge the batteries, and keep the gyros spinning.
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He supposedly knows his demographic
Rick Santorum tells the Values Voter Summit that the conservative movement will never have the media or the “elite, smart people” on its side, which is why it must rely on the church and the family.
Personally, I remember when elite wasn’t a pejorative; as in “The SEALs are the elite of the special forces organizations.”
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We have about fifty hummingbirds going through a gallon of “juice” a day.
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#41 Shannon
Your examples make my complaint seem trivial! But if you feel independent, then get kicked out of the library for showing up in jeans… Well, it’s a bummer. -
#44 Pyro!
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Most of the time there should be quotes around the word “elite”. As in “elite” media, Hollywood “elite”, East Coast “elite”, “elite” universities.
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#74 mh42
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I wait with bated breath for Katfishy’s comment on the weeble-cycle.
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But if you feel independent, then get kicked out of the library for showing up in jeans…
Seems pretty trivial to me, perhaps you were intending to read vacuously or peruse the card catalogue in a vacuous manner? 😉
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Guys, grab your sweetie, then play this song.
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Beaumont Independent School District about to get their pants sued off.
After more than a decade, the Adult Cosmetology class offered through Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center is closing. The reason, instructor Cequada Clark says, is that Principal Thomas Amons would rather close the program than admit a man Amons thought was gay after a brief encounter with the prospective student on the first day of class Sept 10.
“I don’t understand this. I really don’t,” Clark said. “(Amons) told me he would rather shut down the program altogether than to have ‘riff-raff’ like that in the program. The next day, he shut down the program.” -
Perhaps Riff Raff may not be such a good choice to represent cosmetology after all …………..
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A bit of fuel for the crazies on both sides of the Pond.
…Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”–and, by extension, its felonious producer–may be complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud, The Smoking Gun has learned.
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The video is a red herring.
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FALSE FLAG! FALSE FLAG!
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Hey Mittens…dump Karl Rove as a consultant and hire me.
Here’s how you handle the Prozac-press.
Fake reporter: “Do you regret your statement or tone at all concerning your comments about the attack on our embassy in Cairo? Did you jump the gun?”
Mittens: Not at all–Now Mr Fake Reporter, let me ask you a question. Do you regret the fact that journalism has died and all you folks in the Goebbels Streamed Media are nothing more than a a bunch of arse kissing, leg humping lap dogs for Obumma Sheist SuperFarce? -
#85 Phil: Well stated sir.
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Will any hint of murdered ambassador Stevens being gay, probably tortured and sodomized by Libyan Islamists, be revealed by the LSM?
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Dang, have y’all been outside? ‘Bout 86 here in Clear Lake and real dry, if you’re in the shade it’s quite tolerable. 😉
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Humor from my inbox:
Students at a local school were assigned to read two books, ‘Titanic’ by James Cameron & ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton.
One student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories!
His cool professor gave him an A+ for this report.
Titanic: cost – $29.99
Clinton: cost – $29.99
Titanic: Over 3 hours to read
Clinton: Over 3 hours to read
Titanic: The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
Clinton: The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
Titanic: Jack is a starving artist.
Clinton: Bill is a bullschizzle artist.
Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar.
Clinton: Ditto for Bill.
Titanic: During the ordeal, Rose’s dress gets ruined.
Clinton: Ditto for Monica.
Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit.
Clinton: Let’s not go there.
Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewellery
Clinton: Monica is forced to return her gifts.
Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.
Clinton: Clinton remembers Monica for the rest of his life.
Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen.
Clinton: Monica…ooh, let’s not go there, either.
Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death.
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There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that can’t be done in a hammock.
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#90 I’ll NOT even go there unless I have a little more info.
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This will be accessible only to those who have FB… AND it is NSFW.
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#90 Sarge
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The real problem is that there is a core of extremist Islam which wishes to impose its values on the West — and the whole world — and will continue doing so until they are either killed or discredited.
That’s a tough problem to solve. It’s certainly not going to be solved by preemptive surrender to the Islamists.
So what does Obama do?
He, and his media allies, redefine the problem. The problem is not, in their telling, that a vicious, murderous strand of Islam is in great need of serious pushback, discrediting, and ultimately reform. That’s difficult, that would involve unpleasant things like championing the ideals of the Enlightenment (which, it now turns out, are racist), and that certainly could not be accomplished on the 50 day schedule Obama needs it accomplished on.
So he redefines the “problem” to be something trivial. Something he could actually manage.
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I’m pro “skirts in libraries”.
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The real problem is that there is a core of extremist Islam which wishes to impose its values on the West — and the whole world — and will continue doing so until they are either killed or discredited.
The very idea that they could be discredited is ludicrous in the extreme. There is only one solution to the core of extremist islime and I think we all know what that is. The extremist core prolly represents 30+% in the MidEast and 10% in Indonesia, 40-50% in sub saharan africa. Until we in the west can get our hyper-emotional arms around the concept that 250 million people would rather die than stop trying to kill non mooslimes, we will not make any progress on the real problem.
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#54 – AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never in my 57 years have I witnessed so many fine folks wimp out on a TRIPLE DOG DARE
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#66 – multiple variations of that concept ‘enclosed bike’ have been around over a decade……………….and one of the ‘no fall down’ features (2 small wheels that hydraulically lower when speed degrades below 10mph) have been options on a few open bikes for a few years also…………
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Setup fer ya…
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#101, 102: Yes, discrediting to try and change the subjects outlook is about as worthless as boobies on a boar hog.
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Good afternoon Hamsters.
#97 Katfish
Well now the vigor with which that comment was made done chased the dust off my keyboard and monitor and ruffled some papers on the desk on the way through the room.
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I received this bumper sticker “I’m Catholic & I Vote” and offered to send it to a friend in Madison where I think it would do more good than in Texas. She declined saying they don’t put bumper stickers on their vehicles–which, sadly, there I can understand. But they have seen several of them on cars on their way up to their farm in Door County (thumb of Wisconsin sticking out into Lake Michigan). That is sane territory of course. Sad to think that the lunatic liberals around Madison are so warped that freedom of speech only applies to them.
The idiot Dane County liberal judge who just declared the state employee collective bargaining law unconstitutional has simply further movtivated the mainstream Badgers to go to the polls. Wonder when the recall petitions will start circulating to boot him out. Turn about an all that…. -
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Want to see what happens in what used to be free America when you do something our President doesn’t like, or more likely, needs someone to blame for his own incompetence.
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#107 EG
I figured it was just a matter of time before some pulled something off a blog and repeated it without reading it or engaging the gray matter. It’s interesting to note that there are no federal agents in the picture, just local constabulary. He was not handcuffed but you are correct however that LEO’s shirts are indeed brown.
He is on probation however for a federal crime of bank fraud, of which one of the provisos is staying away from computers and the internet. And after the somewhat blatant appearance that he has violated his parole, it seems reasonable for a fed parole officer to inquire regarding his recent activities. -
#107 EG: Hitlery is just as incompetent; she was caught completely flat footed. She actually thought that because we were nice to them and not nice to Israel, they would behave. Of course, every time they shout death to Israel they also shout death to America. They hate our way of life, our freedoms and our success, there is no amount of appeasement that will make them like us or stop trying to kill us. We need start by cutting off all funds to those countries that do not actively help promote our interests; Pahkeestahn, Egypt, Libya, and the Sudan come to mind right off the bat.
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Want to see what happens in what used to be free America when you do something our President doesn’t like …………………….
And we still have an island full of misfits left over from the last President’s temper tantrum. No American citizens, that we know of, remain locked up without due process though.
The “free America” that you speak of was stolen by the gang that put the last guy in office.
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Seeing as today is quasi vacuous women’s movement day and it’s difficult to get any more vacuous than our friends at the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, let’s see what’s going on at the Value Voters Summit.
Literature being handed out at the Values Voter Summit on Friday attacks women for being “immodest” and extolled them to “go home and put some clothes on!”
In flyers and brochures on display at Values Voters, the social conservative conference where Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan spoke, an organization called Modesty Matters criticized women for dressing “immodestly” at church, and blamed women for causing men to stare lustfully at them.I used to see these types of pamphlets handed out by the religious police in Saudi Arabia. It’s good to see cross pollination between the various religious
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Did anyone see the story about Caine’s Arcade? I thought I posted it earlier, but I don’t see it now, so I guess something distracted me. Probably something shiny. Or someone walked by my window with a really cool shovel or something.
Caine and Co. have now started a foundation encouraging innovation, imagination, and entrepeneurship, starting with cardboard boxes.
There’s a video in there somewhere, too, where Caine was invited to speak to a business school class about his business. I think this is so cool. -
SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!
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No American citizens, that we know of, remain locked up without due process though.
We know of at least one who was killed without due process, though, and at least another on a list to be killed.
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Phil Schaap on WKCR from Columbia University is on a roll tonight.
No sleazy, creepy jihadis allowed.
Just great American infidel jazz from the 30s and 40s.
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Just an dle question:
If your President is going to violate rights, and you could choose between two, which one would be worse: locking up some foreigners picked up on a battle zone for the rest of thier lives with at least some chance of being let go, or killing citizens without a trial?
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I’d have to go with due process. Any time Congress objects, they’re free to pass legislation. Oh yeah, they did, and this President had to threaten a veto to have American citizens removed.
And the courts are accessible, unless of course the President believes people can be locked up without habeas corpus.
So, are there any principles that conservatives actually hold, or are they all situational on the party running the government?
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And, as usual, a lttle truth tellingis in order:
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies escorted a man believed to be Nakoula Basseley Nakoula to an awaiting car. The man declined to answer questions on his way out and wore a hat and a scarf over his face. He kept his hands in the pockets of a winter coat.
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So I’m putting you down for Presidents killing citizens.
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#111 Shamaal
I used to see these types of pamphlets handed out by the religious police in Saudi Arabia. It’s good to see cross pollination between the various religious fanatics practitioners. All we need are some Hasidim throwing stones and we’ll have a hat trick.
Women die in Saudi Arabia for offending the religious police.
In America, they live long lives while irritating their parents and the old ladies down the street.
Huge difference, although, unsurprisingly, I assume it has passed unnoticed by you.
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Mark Steyn is awesome.
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Leftes have always told me that if I kept on voting for Conservatives, some day the government would start rounding people up to enforce the laws of a backward thinking science hating religion, restrict the practice of more liberal religions, kill ctizens without due process, and put a bunch of people in charge to run the show who showed disdain for the tax laws they force other people to obey and live like royalty while the majority of people suffered in near poverty.
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Actually, I need to amend tha tlast post.
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In case the rest of you haven’t noticed, Shamola starts off with easy-to-ignore comments. When he doesn’t get his fix he elevates the tone of the comments gradually until they become so absurd someone will respond. That’s exactly what he wants. You’re just feeding his ego so he can go over to one of his “progressive” commie sites and brag about how he schooled the dumb conservatives again. Yeah, it’s a sad existence, but it’s what makes him feel important.
It is also illustrative of some serious untreated mental illness. Kinda like wraslin with a pig in the mud, you get dirty and the pig likes it.
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So Hammy is testing us, to see if the Couch Crew can freeze that thing out by simply ignoring it. Guess everyone isn’t clear on the objective.
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Now here’s a story where Israeli officials were reporting signs of increasing Islamism in Northern Africa, which when passed along to the Obama State Dept, were simply pooh-poohed. One example: Tunisia recalled all females who were serving as its ambassadors, while male ambassadors were not being replaced. Israel Embassy in Washington reported this news to the State Dept, but no one there seemed to find it significant.
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So Hammy is testing us, to see if the Couch Crew can freeze that thing out by simply ignoring it. Guess everyone isn’t clear on the objective.
Well, sometimes there’s an opportunity to respond in such amnner that he an’t go to his lefty blogs and tell them how he pwned an ignent Conservative.
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So, in a very racist move, Obama and Hillary! blame a video for the turmoil in the Middle East because the inhabitants therein are all just a bunch of savages who are incapable of higher-order thought (about which I can find some common understanding, though much more limited in scope than that). It follows in their stellar logic that if the video goes away, then the violence will as well.
In this thought process, it is clear that they must ask (thinly veiled demand more likely) that Google/Youtube pull the video from its websites, First Amendment notwithstanding. Never mind that content on the internet, especially once it’s become noteworthy, is the genie that cannot be put back into the bottle (viz. Effect, Streisand). Furthermore, by asking the video to be removed, Obama and Hillary! are simply setting up a perverse incentive system whereby nuts of various stripes can coerce the US to bend to their will simply by threatening violence. Finally, it is crystal clear to anyone who has taken even a cursory look at the reports of the foreign press that the video had nothing whatsoever to do with the violence other than to be used by the nutters as a pretext that Obama and Hillary! (along with most of the “elite” media) have swallowed whole.
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I haven’t watched the video, I’ll look for it tomorrow and give it a spin.
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Now if we need to pull that video from You Tube, don’t we also need to stop the release of the movie Killing Bin Laden later this year for the same reasons?
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131 wagonburner
Let’s see what the Secretary of State said:“Now I would note that in today’s world with today’s technologies, that is impossible, but even if it were possible, our country does have a long tradition of free expression which is enshrined in our Constitution and our law, and we do not stop individual citizens from expressing their views, no matter how distasteful they may be. There are, of course, different views around the world about the outer limits of free speech and free expression, but there should be no debate about the simple proposition that violence around free speech is never acceptable.
Neat, she pretty much said the same thing you said, only she said it first. One of you is reading each other’s blog.
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Hmmmmmm …………………………….
From Wagonburner’s linkUS officials said last night they believed the attack in Benghazi may have been planned some time ago and the protests over the film used as a cover.
I’m going to have to go with Hillary and Obama on this one. Feel free to exercise your fantasies though.
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Somebody has modeled a new company after Groupon, but focused on beer, wine and liquor deals at bars and restaurants. Great idea.
Right now they just rolled it out in NYC and plan to expand nationwide.
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A telling note in the ongoing financial meltdown in China.
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I’m not sure if I would call it a meltdown a meltdown, but it’s certainly a slowdown.
Retail sales in August rose just over 13% year-on-year, slower than the 17% climb in August 2011.
It appears that Home Depot misread the Chinese Market for do-it-yourself. KFC and Pizza Hut are still doing well. There’s going to be a point where the market saturates.
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G’Morning All
Mexico Independence Day
Diez y Seis de Septiembre
September 16, 1810
On this day in 1810, Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla’s grito de Dolores (“cry of Dolores”) at the village of Dolores, near Guanajuato, called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexico. On September 16, 1825, the Republic of Mexico officially declared September 16 its national Independence Day. In Texas, Diez y Seis de Septiembre has been celebrated in San Antonio for more than 167 years and in Goliad for 160 years. Along with Cinco de Mayo (Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza’s victory on May 5, 1862, over the French expeditionary forces at Puebla, Mexico), the holiday is one of the Fiestas Patrias celebrated by Mexican Americans throughout the Southwest. -
I believe I would assist him in standing, holding his hand over his heart and working his mouth to recite the pledge.
NPR White House Correspondent Doesn’t Stand for Pledge of Allegiance
by Warner Todd Huston 15 Sep 2012 59 post a comment
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Former West Point football player dies in accidental shooting at Connecticut home
Published September 15, 2012
FoxNews.com
A Connecticut community is mourning the accidental shooting death of a 22-year-old former West Point football player, whose life story, friends say, was extraordinary.
Marcus Dixon was once a homeless young teenager who made a “180-degree turn” when a family in Stamford, Conn., adopted him at age 17, the Connecticut Post reported. He went on to become the football captain at Stamford High School — where he graduated from in 2009 — before making it to West Point.
Dixon died shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday when he accidentally shot himself in the head with his .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol, according to local reports. Dixon was showing his gun to two friends at an apartment in Stamford at the time of the incident. He had removed the magazine from the pistol and, thinking it was empty, tried to show the gun was safe by pointing it toward his head and pulling the trigger, the newspaper reported. One round was hidden in the gun’s chamber.http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/15/former-west-point-football-player-dies-in-accidental-shooting-at-connecticut/?test=latestnews
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In 2008, Bill Maher released a movie that mocked all relgions. The last 20 minutes was spent on Islam. The poster and cover art shows a monkey wearing an Islamic crescent. Nobody burned any embassies or killed anybody back then. What has changed in the last 4 years?
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I’m delighted to find myself in 95% agreement with Lutheran Bishop Michael Rinehart.
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Well, sometimes there’s an opportunity to respond in such amnner that he an’t go to his lefty blogs and tell them how he pwned an ignent Conservative.
You think that’s gonna stop him??? Bwahahah.
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I have no accounts at any other blogs or forums, but if that’s important to you narrative carry on.
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METRO board member Christof Spieler focused on Houston’s need for a mature transit system, and later said that for Houston to get it, “someone would have to pay a lot more taxes.”
We want to be more like Chicago?
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You think that’s gonna stop him??? Bwahahah.
Did I SAY that it was gonna stop him?
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If you need a welder, here’s an ad that might attract your attention. Pretty good.
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For once, I agree with Rick Santorum:
Smart people will never be on our side.
Elsewhere in crazytown, Limbaugh resorted to cheerleading another conspiracy theory; that Al Queida “gave up” Bin Laden to boost Obama’s popularity.
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Good morning, Hamsterville. I never thought I would see a Leonard Pitts Jr editorial that I liked, but it has happened. (If he can see the problem with Islamism so clearly, why can’t he see how self-destructive black American culture has become, in so many ways?)
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Shamaal junior just bought me a Sears 220 piece socket set. Mrs. Shamaal buys me tools occasionally, usually the shiny crappy stuff from harbor freight. They’re good for a couple jobs, then then the ratchets or the sockets break.
What would be nice though, would be the plastic trays that the tools come in actually fit into the roll around tool carts.
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Barry is a visionary.
Europe and everybody’s happy.
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Did I SAY that it was gonna stop him?
Um yeah, you did, assuming that “an’t” is “can’t”.
Well, sometimes there’s an opportunity to respond in such amnner that he an’t go to his lefty blogs and tell them how he pwned an ignent Conservative.
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Good morning Hamsters. Missed rain yesterday other than a late evening sprinkle, and the only cluster anywhere near us dumped all over Fulshear and environs last night. today is supposed to bring widespread heavy rain intermittently well into night. Guess outdoor plans need to be adjusted accordingly.
#154 mharper42
Good question. The Pitts column glances at reality at last though does not understand it. But it is a start, even though it seems he’s likely been in the cooking sherry a bit before writing it. Kathleen Parker’s column today also caroms off reality but on a slightly different tangent. It focuses on the happnings and reactions on the American side, and as in the Pitts piece fails to see that acts of war and not protest really happened and lay the blame where it richly belongs–on the jihadists and their activities all over the world to mark the anniversary of 9-11. Make that their victory of 9-11. Neither Pitts nor Parker get it, in the safety of their offices or homes as they write. Sad and dangerous. 🙁
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Speaking of welding, I bet this would even help me make a pretty weld.
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Well we went over to visit some old friends of ours late yesterday, my huntin’ buddy and his wife were also there. This couple used to live in the Hood but moved on up to a real nice place in Brook Forrest. The wife’s boy is the one that was an Honor Guard @ the West Wing. He’s out of the Marines now and he and his wife/baby have just moved down from Virginia and are living there until he can find out where he’ll be working. He has a job with a Gub’ment contractor that provides security to various Federal institutions. He’s in classes now and hopes he’ll get to stay in Houston or at least Texas. They have a real nice pool and I didn’t think about bringing my swim trunks so Bubba,…Yup that’s his name, loaned me a pair and since I have a 34” waist there was plenty of extra room in them. Anyway I laced them up as tight as they would go and almost lost them when I dived in. They didn’t come off but let’s just say that for a short time under the water there was a full moon rising over Clear Lake. I dang near drowned trying to pull them back up. That said, I didn’t dive in again. We had grilled chicken, poke chops and sausage with beans and taters. All in all I had a great time. And the weather was perfect. 😉
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It appears that Home Depot misread the Chinese Market for do-it-yourself
Or maybe not a market for cheap Chinese crap. 😀
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#161 Tim
Or a market for cheap Chinese crap
There is some truth to that, for sure. Couple years back, I was having my kitchen sink replaced and picked one out at H.D. It did not come with any faucet controls, so I looked around at the huge selection of kitchen faucets. As fate would have it, the one I liked best, a very plain and simple style, was probably the CHEAPEST one they had. Lesson Learned #1: Never buy the cheapest model of anything at a big box store. Lesson Learned #2: Pay attention to where stuff is made.
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This is what tyranny looks like.
Media endangers entire neighborhood to pursue thoughtcrime suspect
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#163 KatFish, Dayaam Scary!
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Geez we all need hip waders up to our collective necks for this flood of BPH !!
Rice: Benghazi attack was spontaneous; Libya: No, it wasn’t
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#144 OletimerLin
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138 shamaal says:
September 15, 2012 at 11:17 pm
Hmmmmmm …………………………….
From Wagonburner’s linkUS officials said last night they believed the attack in Benghazi may have been planned some time ago and the protests over the film used as a cover.
I’m going to have to go with Hillary and Obama on this one. Feel free to exercise your fantasies though.
Which story from US Officials are you going with?
That one, or this one?U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was not premeditated, directly contradicting top Libyan officials who say the attack was planned in advance.
“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo,” Rice told me this morning on “This Week.”So, I’m going to ask again:
Bill Maher did a movie in 2008 that mocked Islam that saw world wide release with a marekting campaign that saw movie posters that featured a monkey wearing an Islamic Crescent symb ol around his neck, and sold enough tickets that he was able to give $1 million to the Obama campaign. Its currently in rental release, saw airplay on cable, and he pimped it on his TV show for a year.
But there were no riots over that movie. Tne one they are killing peopple over isn’t even finished yet, its only a clip on You Tube with no marketing at all, and the first time anybody really heard about it was after the Administration blamed it for the deaths of four people.
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You know, we have no information to suggest that it was a preplanned attack. The unrest we’ve seen around the region has been in reaction to a video that Muslims, many Muslims find offensive. And while the violence is reprehensible and unjustified, it is not a reaction to the 9/11 anniversary that we know of or to U.S. policy.
The unrest around the region has been in response to this video. We do not, at this moment, have information to suggest or to tell you that would indicate that any of this unrest was preplanned.
Jake, again, what we have seen is unrest around the region in response to a video that Muslims find offensive, many Muslims find offensive.
we are working to ensure that our diplomatic personnel and our diplomatic facilities are secure as we deal with the response to this video, which we believe is offensive and disgusting….I think you have to understand what is happening currently in the region and what it is a response to.
The cause of the unrest was a video, and that continues today, as you know, as we anticipated.
we don’t have and did not have concrete evidence to suggest that this was not in reaction to the film.
These statements were all made in an official press briefing by the President’s own White House spokesman and all in the span of about 30 minutes,
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What Jay Carney said–“Jake, let’s be clear. This — these protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region” –
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#167 Serge
What changed between 2008 and 2012 that made such a response to an Islam mocking movie so deadly?
Sarge, you vote Republican. The reason is self explanatory – selective outrage. As you know, what strikes a chord with the populace is highly dependent upon circumstances and times.
And then there’s the agiprops searching for a pretext.
Interest free loans to buy houses?
Record Deficits?
Government buy out of industries?
Republican good – Democrat bad
So what changed in this situation? Previous governments kept their radical populations in check, whether it was Mubarek, Saddam Hussein, Shah of Iran. New regimes are still learning the ropes and old scores are being settled. Although I must say the protests in Tel Aviv didn’t get much press. More selective outrage.
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These statements were all made in an official press briefing by the President’s own White House spokesman and all in the span of about 30 minutes,
Sounds like he doesn’t know and doesn’t want to speculate until he knows some facts. Works for me.
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The cause of the unrest was a video.
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Neat.
Some Administration officials say it weas a premeditated attack.
Others say it was spontaneous because of a video on YouTube.
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Although I must say the protests in Tel Aviv didn’t get much press.
Because they’re not the “result of a video”? Because the protesters don’t go around sacking embassies, killing ambassadors, and dragging the body through the streets?
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Jake, let’s be clear. This — these protests were in reaction to a video that had spread to the region –
TAPPER: At Benghazi?
CARNEY: We certainly don’t know; we don’t know otherwise.Clearly folks are talking past each other. The White House is focusing on the dead ambassador and Libyan aatack, the press is attempting to conflate the other protests. It will straighten itself out in a few days.
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Because the protesters don’t go around sacking embassies, killing ambassadors, and dragging the body through the streets?
Neither did they in Egypt, Yemen, Iraq or Bengladesh.
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Musta been discussed in one of the daily security briefings he missed.
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The cause of the unrest was a video.
– WH Spokesman Jay Carney
Say all you want, but he and Obama and Hillary! are not equivocating in the slightest.
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Yes, he claims it was all done by outside agitators. No Libyans played a part.
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Clearly folks are talking past each other. The White House is focusing on the dead ambassador and Libyan aatack, the press is attempting to conflate the other protests. It will straighten itself out in a few days.
So;
Its the administration’s opinon that the protests were sparked by the video, but Benghazi wasn’t?
But:“Our current best assessment, based on the information that we have at present, is that, in fact, what this began as, it was a spontaneous – not a premeditated – response to what had transpired in Cairo,” Rice told me this morning on “This Week.”
Oh—I get it.
Benghazi wasn’t premediatated, nor was it caused by the video.
It was in response to the protests in Cairo.
Which were about the video.
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Say all you want, but he and Obama and Hillary! are not equivocating in the slightest.
Unruly mobs protesting a video don’t bring rocket launchers and grenades with them.Maybe they do.
If your Messiah helps them to overthrow thier government by sending them arms and has no plans at all to secure the arms inside the country after thier dictator is overthrown.
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The cause of the unrest was a video.
– WH Spokesman Jay Carney
Obama’s “foreign policy” is a massive charlie foxtrot. It exploded in his (and Hillary!’s) face, but it can’t be that his “policy” was wrong. It has to be something else that caused it.
Like a poorly-written and poorly-done video that absolutely nobody had even heard of until this past week.
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Its the administration’s opinon that the protests were sparked by the video, but Benghazi wasn’t?
The administration’s position is clear in the briefing, the protests in the region are a reaction to the video. The attack at Benghazi is under investigation.
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The video came out in July, the reaction has been fomenting for a couple weeks with the appropriate security alerts. Merely a pretext for an action, as my friend Sarge is attempting to point out.
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See:
If these were spontaneous riots over a movie four years after a similar movie with wider release didn’t result in riots, its because there are new governments there—-governments that Obama supported and helped come into being.
If the deaths in Benghazi were the reuslt of that video, its because normal citizens in that country have quick and ready access to infantry support weapons like machine guns, mortars, and rocket propelled grenades—after Obama sent them arms and had no plan to secure them after the change in government.
If they were a premeditated attack, then there was a failure of intellignece and security preparations for an attack on US personnel overseas on 9/11 after Obama and his cronies spiked the ball about killing Bin Laden the entire week before at their Convention.
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186 shamaal says:
September 16, 2012 at 12:43 pm
The video came out in July, the reaction has been fomenting for a couple weeks with the appropriate security alerts. Merely a pretext for an action, as my friend Sarge is attempting to point out.Nah;
According to Susan Rice, all the appropriate security precaustions were taken:“The security personnel that the State Department thought were required were in place,” Rice told ABC’s Jake Tapper. “We’ll see when the investigation unfolds whether what transpired in Benghazi might have unfolded differently in different circumstances.”
“We had substantial presence,” Rice said, “with our personnel and the consulate in Benghazi. Tragically two of the four Americans there killed were providing security. That was their function. And indeed there were many other colleagues who were doing the same with them. It obviously didn’t prove sufficient to the nature of the attack and sufficient in that moment.”So.
It has to be that the access that the civilian population in Libya has to infantry support weapons is so quick and easy that they are able to gather and carry them to the scene of spontaneous protests over a YouTube video that’s been out since July, and they have had training in thier use that they are able to spontaneously overcome a substantial security presence.
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Don’t be so harsh Shannon. 😉
Serge and company are attempting to spin with limited information a narrative that isn’t borne out by the facts.
Eventually a couple State Department Security people will be reassigned.
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Eventually a couple State Department Security people will be reassigned.
This will be over in a couple weeks when the new shiny object comes along.Yep.
This whole Middle East thing is just that easy. Arrest the guy responsible for a video, make sure the pictures get shown on Al Jazzeera, reassign a couple of State Department personnel: POOF! Instance peace. -
If they were a premeditated attack, then there was a failure of intellignece and security preparations for an attack on US personnel overseas on 9/11 after Obama and his cronies spiked the ball about killing Bin Laden the entire week before at their Convention.
.Wow, that’s a new one. It’s Obama’s fault because he killed Bin Laden and State failed to recognize that would inspire an attack in Libya under the guise of a video protest.
I can live with that. Let’s see if Romney mentions it. Maybe we can interview the former President.
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Dude;
Your contention is that these Islamic folks living in nations that barely have electricity after violent revolutions with new governments that lack sufficent control over them will react with violence because of a five minute YouTube video.
But saying that it might be a coordinated, premeditated attack in reaction to bragging about the assassination of our biggest enemy and their Hero is crazy talk.
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“Roll Tide”
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Reading Roger Kimball’s Fortunes of Permanence.
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The nescient ramblings of the resident troll inspire brevity.
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The nescient ramblings of the resident troll inspire
brevitya scroll of the mouse wheel.Just like poison ivy, irritated water moccasins and getting between a mother bear and her cub, the situation is best avoided.
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Let’s tee one up for two hunnert.
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#199 Back Attacha’ Bones!!
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I am a blessed man today! My employer of 5 years ( a very noble and successful man who has also employed my Aunt for the last 47 years) seemed to be on death’s door on Friday afternoon in the ER, this morning he was sitting in a chair, alert and lucid, and will likely go home tomorrow and prolly back to the office by Wed if not Tues.
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—either as a child, a wife, or a concubine—must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proseltyzing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science—the science against which it had vainly struggled—the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome. — Winston Churchill
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#201 Bones
That is good news. Although we all will die eventually, it is good to cheat death as long as possible. I am glad your employer has done so. -
Does anyone besides me find this ironic? Chicago teachers union to continue strike.
CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago teachers union decided Sunday to continue its weeklong strike, extending an acrimonious standoff with Mayor Rahm Emanuel over teacher evaluations and job security provisions central to the debate over the future of public education across the United States.
Union delegates declined to formally vote on a proposed contract settlement worked out over the weekend with officials from the nation’s third largest school district. Schools will remain closed Monday. -
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I have said nothing of the sort. The unrest in the region is using the video as the pretext. Folks who remember the ’79 attack in Karachi that killed Americans recall that was started by a rumor that Israeli and American paratroopers had seized the Great Mosque in Mecca. Some folks are easily excitable. Think of a society filled with Bonecrushers and El Gordos and actually possessing the character to act on their convictions.
For the last time, this is the story I hear from the administration is that the regional unrest was caused by the video, the anniversary of 9/11 probably provided an undercurrent. Protests occurred in Egypt, Pakistan, Israel, Yemen and Bengladesh. Once the President thought we were not getting the protection we deserved, he made some calls and the government troops turned out.
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#202 Hummus
But why stop there? The River War involved a false Muslim Prophet. The Brits assisted their Ottoman Turk/Egyptian friends in the occupation of the Sudan. Here’s another quote from the same book.… there are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile. To this end the Dervishes, from the Mahdi and the Khalifa downwards, have been loaded with every variety of abuse and charged with all conceivable crimes. This may be very comforting to philanthropic persons at home; but when an army in the field becomes imbued with the idea that the enemy are vermin who cumber the earth, instances of barbarity may easily be the outcome. This unmeasured condemnation is moreover as unjust as it is dangerous and unnecessary… We are told that the British and Egyptian armies entered Omdurman to free the people from the Khalifa’s yoke. Never were rescuers more unwelcome.
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Whiskerfish: Didja get to ride Gracie this weekend?
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#204 Super Dave
I don’t find it ironic at all.According to a CTU press release prior to the House of Delegates meeting, the proposed contract offers teachers a 7 percent raise over three years, with an option for a 3 percent raise in a fourth year if both sides agreed; does not include merit pay (which has repeatedly been shown not to work); includes the hiring of 600 art, music, language, and physical education teachers; and caps the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations at 30 percent, with 70 percent of evaluations being based on “teacher practice.” Additionally, it calls for students to receive textbooks on the first day of classes, and for nurses, social workers, and other wrap-around service providers to be hired if additional sources of revenue can be located.
Hmmmmm ……… textbooks on the first day of class. Clearly an extravagance that we don’t have even in Friendswood.
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Has anybody noticed that the stories from AP or NYT, when dealing with the subject of global warming, always state as scientific fact that smog and CO2 are responsible for global warming or are referred to as “greenhouse gasses”? Interestingly enough, they never seem to get around to mentioning the fact that the output from the sun is not constant, I wonder why that is?
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#211 Bones
Whiskerfish: Didja get to ride Gracie this weekend?
I’m betting yes, but I rode the “Beast” up and down the pipe line after I installed my new rear view mirror and gun rack on it. I even took the little psychotic dawg for a ride. She loves the wind and all the smells but not the noise, the first time that I took her for a ride she was real apprehensive but she loves me and wouldn’t let me go without her. She’s a mess.
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I will check back sometime tomorrow. Sleep well y’all.
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SD: We need an updated picture of the psycho-dawg as well as the other small backup dawg.
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#216 OK, just use a sharpie to black out the white; Italian Greyhound.
I don’t know how to upload a real one, I used to use Webshots but now you can’t see a picture unless you’re on the friends list. 😉 -
For those avoiding the Magic Kingdom in Disneyworld because it is dry, Mickey Mouse has listened to the feedback.
Disney officials have confirmed beer and wine will be on the menu when the new Be Our Guest restaurant opens in November as part of the Fantasyland expansion.
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#211 & 214 – Nope – Gracie is down for as yet undiagnosed repairs – will learn more later this week
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#218, I don’t know about today, but back in the day 1989-2001 we made three seperate trips to the Mouse Kingdom and although we spent very little time @ Epcot, (that served spirits, I’m told), you could get beer at the BBQ near the “Bear Jamboree” and one other place, the sammich shop at the “Hall of Presidents” I think. Hey, a Red-Neck with kids will always find the beer, how do you think that I could have made so many of the birthday parties @ Chuck-E-Cheese, with their GAWD awful Pizza? 😉
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Buzzfeed’s reporting that Romney is giving up on the economy as a campaign theme and will switch to social issues. One would think that the economy and President Obama’s record should be sufficient to draw a contrast. But let’s face it, between the headliner and second banana they have taken every possible position and some of them twice. It’s tough to rail against deficit spending and bailouts when you voted for them. And Romney care is too ironic for words.
With the Governor’s record on social issues not being much better, I’m betting that they’re hoping for less flack from the fact checkers and perhaps goad the administration into saying something rude. There is some hope in Foreign Affairs though, Romney has little experience so can’t be faulted for flip-flopping.Mitt Romney’s campaign for president appears to have quietly abandoned its guiding assumption, that the election would center on the struggling economy, and has visibly begun to feel for a new message.
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Disneyland’s always had beer, Disney World for some reason didn’t. Mrs Shamaal and I honeymooned at Disneyworld in ’73 when they were still building the CB Jamboree. -
Republican are attempting to boost green card visas for 55,000 foreign born doctorates and such. The demand in the US is driving up labor costs that can be alleviated by hiring outsiders. The need is real, my company’s sucking on technically skilled workers along with those of the folks I see at the club in the morning.
We’re all waiting for the election to be over before hiring. No one wants to bring on folks now, only to return to the outsource policies of four years ago. In the meantime I’m putting in 60+ hour weeks. -
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#225 That’s not a Dawg, that’s a “Swiffer Dust Mop.”
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#227 same video as #225
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Tedtam, don’t you need a really neat little dawg, that weighs 4 Lbs, stands 11-12″ at the withers and can stand flat-footed and jump on the kitchen counter. Not to mention eat the foot rest offin’ a recliner? We’ve tried three times to give her away and she keeps getting sent back. That said, the little T#rd loves me and thinks that she is MY Dawg. One LQQk from those big brown eyes and you’d be history. 😉
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Speaking of Dawgs, my huntin’ buddy took his Lab over to the cook out last night and she had a great time in the pool, played ball for hours.
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231!!! The Federal hiway that kilt several of my dogs when I was small, about 500 yds from our house on the county road.
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It’s hard to keep that many three-legged one-eyed dawgs under the porch.
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#232 Iron Mary, not wishing to be rude, but you know nothing about Hound Dawgs,….just sayin’
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I can’t go back and find the video of the dog with dozens of tennis balls being dropped on the back porch. He was going nuts trying to catch them all. Darn!
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#My 235, wagonburner I DID have one three-legged dog, BUTT all the dogs had two eyes. 😉
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I grew up with a much-loved collie and although we lived in the country outside Midland, she was kept inside a fenced yard.
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Ole Dave growing up; Knock Him Out John…….Been there done that! 😉
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Ok, I have watched the 14-min trailer for the Mohammed video that has the Muslim world on fire, from Libya to Australia. It looks like a comedy to me.
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I had a pig once that had three legs. He was the family pet and everybody loved him—and he loved us right back. You could tell by the look in his eyes and the way he’d walk up and rub himself on your leg.
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They have roads in Alabama?
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#242 – don’t MAKE me sic the ‘Bama Belle on you Brother! 🙂
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We don’t talk about it much, but it’s a family secret that my great Uncle Luis Shamaalotega died after getting lost while immigrating north with my cousin Pepe Shamaalzcaal across the Sonoran Desert.
While wandering aimlessly and close to death they are close to just lying down and waiting for the inevitable, when all of a sudden…
“Hey Pepe, do you smell what I smell. Ees bacon, I is sure of eet”.
“Si, Luis, eet smells like bacon to meee”.
So, with renewed strength, they struggle off up the next sand dune, and there, in the distance, is a tree, just loaded with bacon. There’s raw bacon, dripping with moisture, there’s fried bacon, back bacon, double smoked bacon… every imaginable kind of cured pig meat you can imagine!
“Pepe, Pepe, we ees saved. Eees a bacon tree”.
“Luis, are sure ees not a meerage? We’ees in the desert, don’t forget”.
“Pepe, when deed you ever hear of a meerage that smell of bacon…ees no meerage, ees a bacon tree”.
And with that… Luis races towards the tree. He gets to within 5 metres, Pepe following closely behind, when all of a sudden, a machine gun opens up, and Luis is cut down is his tracks. It is clear he is mortally wounded but, true friend that he is, he manages to warn cousin Pepe with his dying breath.
“Pepe… go back man, you was right, ees not a bacon tree!”
“Luis, Luis mi amigo… what ees eet?”
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This is a very touching story, posted on FB by I am a Texan.
A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. “Your son is here,” she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times before the patient’s eyes opened.
Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw the young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man’s limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.
The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed. All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted ward, holding the old man’s hand and offering him words of love and strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and rest awhile. He refused.
Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her and of the night noises of the hospital – the clanking of the oxygen tank, the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries and moans of the other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son all through the night.
Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she did what she had to do, he waited.
Finally, she returned. She started to offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her, “Who was that man?” he asked.
The nurse was startled, “He was your father,” she answered.
“No, he wasn’t,” the Marine replied. “I never saw him before in my life.”
“Then why didn’t you say something when I took you to him?”
“I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed his son, and his son just wasn’t here. When I realized that he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me, I stayed. I came here tonight to find a Mr. William Grey. His Son was killed in Iraq today, and I was sent to inform him. What was this Gentleman’s Name? ”
The nurse with tears in her eyes answered, “Mr. William Grey………”
The next time someone needs you … just be there. Stay.
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OK, wake up slakers, we need a Monday thread.
Back to the salt mine.
Mornin’ Gang.
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