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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
I,ve always wanted to say first.
Not at all cathartic.
Love this street art, amazing stuff!
Ever notice that the long haired thin skinned hippie says “Good grief” and so have many of the sycophants? Who do they think they are Charlie Brown?
FIRST! It is cathartic for me. I woke up this morning to find a Nobel Peace Prize under my pillow. Maybe the tooth fairy got the wrong pillow (my five year old is just down the hall) and hit me with the wrong prize. I will accept in on behalf of the 2.0 nation. There is bound to be someone here that merits the prize.
“Right now Kamdesh is under our control, and the white flag of the Taliban is raised above Kamdesh,” Mujahid said.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/09/the-white-flag-of-the-taliban-is-raised-above-kamdesh/
But according to Obama they are our allies now? No?
Choose Happiness
http://www.aish.com/sp/pg/62539102.html
re: #4 by Nevergiveup
I’ve never liked the word creep he uses often. It’s so Beaver Cleaverish.
re: #8 by Shakes Magee
More like Eddie Haskel–you can’t trust him
What? No rusty hinge?
One Nation Under God
re: #2 by Flyovercountry
Good. Hopefully people have gotten that out of their system.
Oh, F me:
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/10/membership-has-its-privileges.html
RedSkeltonPledge.wmv (4546.2 KB)
re: #6 by Nevergiveup
If they’d said that a year ago, of course, it would’ve been followed up with a 2,000 lb JDAM.
Our current White House, on the other hand, probably just forwarded the information to ACORN so they could update their mailing lists.
Claim: Letterman Brought Along Staff-Squeeze Stephanie Birkitt Along on Vacations… With Wife and Son
—Ace
http://ace.mu.nu/
Ya gotta love the hypocracy of liberals ha?
re: #14 by Shakes Magee
Guess that no worky.
Take this poll. Vote to bite our Nobel Prize winning g-d, Barack Hussein Obama:
http://www.animalsrule.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=35&Itemid=4
For Jews, tomorrow night is the beginning of Simchat Torah.
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/746747/jewish/Simchat-Torah.htm
Infinite Wisdom
The Torah… A Mitzvah that Unifies and Informs
http://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/749166/jewish/Infinite-Wisdom.htm
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“Deep Thoughts” by WrathofG-d
So in the car this morning I was pondering why the Jewish day begins and ends in the evening – why it begins in darkness, and ends in light.
Then it sort of dawned on me that this is a symbol/reminder of Creation. It was an earthly, yet highly spiritual re-telling/reminder of Creation. Everyday, like the world begins in darkness and promise. The human being is sleeping/dormant/non-existent, then only a short time later (but in the same day) he/she awakens/created and is filled with the promise of Creation/existence. How similar this is to the actual creation of the World!? First there was darkness……then their was light. There was nothingness then there was form. Yet it was all part of the same act, the same reason, the same “day”. What a brilliant reminder that like the Human, each of us is given daily “Creation” and renewal to make of it what we can. G-d gives us each day filled with darkness, but with unlimited light. Promise! Ability! Potential!
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re: #292 Fenway_Nation
Peacemaking nothing…the ‘I’m sorry I’m the President of such a bigoted, mean, shitty country’ World Tour probably appealed to them
Twice in two threads. The “great apologizer” canard is bullshit.
Who is this asshole.
OK. That’s so good, I’ll just copy the whole thing (credit: Iowahawk):
Thanks Wrath. That is beautiful.
re: #20 by Nevergiveup
We need Fenway_Nation over here.
If you’re reading this Fenway_Nation, scrape the shit off of your shoes and join us.
Your clock is ticking anyways.
re: #20 by Nevergiveup
I think Fenway is about to earn us all a couple of shots in the new LGF 1.0 drinking game.
re: #22 by Truck Monkey
Seconded.
re: #23 by Foghorn Leghorn
“We need Fenway_Nation over here.”
Ditto
re: #22 by Truck Monkey
re: #25 by Overlook
Thank you both…but, which part?
re: #20 by Nevergiveup
I think a she, but could be mistaken. hoofmaiden for assweasel slapper
re: #27 by WrathofG-d
Your thoughts on creation. I also like the Happiness article. We all need a little wake up call now and then.
re: #27 by WrathofG-d
I liked the video.
(but happy Simchat Torah)
Off to do chores…Great weekend to all!
re: #4 by Nevergiveup
Hmmm. Lucy always took the football away from Charlie Brown at the last minute. That ties into the football theme of his blog, too.
re: #29 by Truck Monkey
Thank you again.
As to “…a little wake up call..”; isn’t that true. Unfortunately most of our time today as a people is devoted to destruction and breaking down.
It might sound a bit hippy-esque to some, but imagine if instead we needed a “little wake up call” to be negative and destroy instead.
re: #32 by CloudyDay
True, I never thought about that.
re: #33 by WrathofG-d
The nature of man and all that. We have no idea what most of the world suffers through on a daily basis. I need reminding because I am human.
Another thread over at the hippie’s bashing presumeably the “right”. Ya know if he bashed both the right and left it would be one thing, but it is so obvious that he is out to ruin anything and anybody right of left. Putz
re: #36 by Nevergiveup
Schmuck is probably the better word.
re: #35 by Truck Monkey
I’m well aware that man suffers being a dentist and all. not to mention I married with children.
/ well the wife may be looking
re: #7 by WrathofG-d
On a somewhat related note:
FROG – fully rely on God
-scroll down that page, wait for the Flash file to download, and click on the triangle shaped button with the frog image on it.
Life Without Limbs (Nick Vujicic’s Site) >
Inspirational Articles
That site seems to be having technical problems; you might have to use the “refresh/ reload” button in your browser before those pages show up.
re: #37 by Truck Monkey
Chumsemack works for me. I hope that transliterated correctly?
Charles
Icewombat
Jummycrum
Ludiwigged
If you would come on over red diper doper babies and post on a free speech blog, I,,
taxfreekiller will buy you an early, early
ski lift ticket to arapahoebasin ski area.
http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ABasin/snow-conditions/web-cams.aspx
k?
re: #36 by Nevergiveup
Anything to the Right of Stalin is a Rightwing extremist to selrahC.
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Fri, Oct 9, 2009 1:15:50pm
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re: #12 erraticsphinx
Nooo , and you were being so good!
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my karma is getting dangerously close to going below -1000.
Yeah that says it all
Getting ready for the Yankee game. Having a drink or 2. Kim Jones on the YES network now- I think she is cute
re: #39 by CloudyDay
I know of Nick Vuhjicic. His attitude is amazing, and truly inspirational.
He proves that there is not such thing as just blaming “human nature”. If anyone has a “reason” to complain it would be him, but he refuses to do so, and with faith makes more than just “the best” of his life. He excelled!
Amazing.
re: #44 by Nevergiveup
I’m going to my bar to watch it!
Charles
I may need to bash MINE, not “my” into a wall to fix it.”
I know your into I, me, mine, myself, but it is just one more error.
k?
re: #39 by CloudyDay
F.R.O.G. – that’s so cute! love it! love those concepts which work for Jews and Christians simultaneously!
re: #43 by Nevergiveup
Spacejesus is potentially the biggest jerk over there. This guy really sucks. On a side note, he presented himself as a legal expert based on his two weeks of law school under his belt.
Others must have noticed the Rutters is no longer checking lfg .001 they are no longer
there, last time or two ZERO
Zero’s are not good things to report in the clear.
re: #50 by taxfreekiller
English?
I am betting Kilgore “N-word” Trout will not be commenting on the new thread up at LGF. LOL. I think Kilgore “N word” Trout should always be referred to with his middle name. We really shouldn’t let that shameful episode be forgotten or whitewashed.
Substantive thread up not Re: Obama’s Advisor who defends Sharia.
So, if that is what you wish to discuss…there it is…
Keep the Open stuff here though. PLEASE.
re: #14 by Shakes Magee
My family has a DVD of Red Skelton’s Christmas productions, and one of the special features on there includes his sketch on the Pledge of Allegiance. Beautiful sketch.
re: #51 by Nevergiveup
give it up
re: #55 by taxfreekiller
Ha?
Two questions:
1) What about LGF’s thread on the Nobel Joke (I mean uhhh…) Peace Prize?
2) How many of you wish you could’ve seen the end of Game 2 of the NLDS between the Dodgers & the Cardinals?
re: #57 by Morgan
I did see it
re: #58 by Nevergiveup
I didn’t (I wish I had). What an ending that was, a la Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
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re: #632 avspatti
The outrage is not only on the part of the right wing blogosphere. Any thinking person should be outraged…
Eh. I’m not outraged.
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[If A then B. If Not A then Not B.]
Why has no-one talked about a possible DeMint 2012 Presidential bid.
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/10/demint-2012-presidential-talk.html
re: #23 by Foghorn Leghorn
Fenway_Nation has been quite the liberal over there. i guess even he could not stand it anymore.
re: #43 by Nevergiveup
That Spacejesus is one little pos I’d like to take behind the barn. Course I would tie one hand behind my back so it would be fair.
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re: #342 aagcobb
The GOP may have to hit bottom and spend a decade or so out of power before it can recover. You can’t help an addict still in denial.
I don’t belong to any organized political party. I’m a Republican.
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re: #335 Old Guy
I’ll do you a favor and block your account so you don’t have to put up with the stupid comments and ignorant sycophants. No need to thank me!
re: #63 by Grimcargo
Spacejesus is in assweasel and jimmah territory for guys I’d like to dump a bucket of manure on.
re: #65 by Moe Katz
I posted that on another thread. The guy must have been one of the newbies.
re: #67 by Speranza
For a newby he was a quick study.
Sad for that moron coward Charlie Johnson because he cannot kiss up enough to persuade the other braindeads from Huppo and Kos to come over to his blog. They just won’t do it. And no way would THEY put up with that little gang of wretches. Sharmuta,the arab ho and Icethang.I thought Jimmah was a woman. I never saw a man spell his name that way. No matter what, they are losers.
DRINKING THREAD.
the bar is open.
martinis anyone?
Just a martinus. When I want two I’ll ask for two.
re: #71 by Moe Katz
martinii
LOL!
re: #71 by Moe Katz
i was using colloquial alcoholic, not proper alcoholic.
re: #74 by coldwarrior
How vulgar.
Hic!
I’m not an alcoholic, just an alcohol abuser.
I’ll have a Guiness, and this round is on me.
re: #77 by Daffy Duck
You’re either for us or you’re a Guinness.
re: #70 by coldwarrior
Anything shaken, not stirred will do.
Don’t want to derail the thread upstairs so I conjecture that Comment 13 by MO is KT from .01
re: #78 by Moe Katz
i like guinness. i got thrown out of st jame’s gate brewery on my 22nd birthday. they said i had had enough…upon further review, they were prolly right.
re: #81 by coldwarrior
Just as well, it makes one stout.
re: #67 by Speranza
Somehow, “Old Guy” is rings some bells, but maybe not. That’s such a generic nic.
I would love to join the drinking thread but I have to work for another 1.5 hours. It will be a Miller Genuine Draft for me thanks. Then the Angels Red Sox at 1830. Out here
re: #80 by CynicalConservative
it is some moron, i’m sure.
i glazed over it because i believe:
islam delenda est. i am not interested in talking to anyone who is a muslim, they lie in english and then preach/believe the opposite in the mosques on fridays when they think none of us are watching.
islam is not a religion, it is a political movement. besides, they arent allowed to drink alcohol.
now, my martinii…
re: #80 by CynicalConservative
Not smart enough to be Aisha. The dumb meter is reading pretty close to K “N-word” T, but I’m not going to make an idiot of myself talking about my tools, if you get my drift.
re: #86 by snork
Yeah, Aisha was cleverer.
How can any religion outlaw alcohol? It always brings out the best in us
re: #88 by Geogrunt
i can understand if a person, by himself, decides not to have a drink. that’s fine by me, some people cant handle it or dont want to drink. that’s cool.
but, i get very nervous when an entire political belief structure outlaws it. then it shows that the founders of that belief structure do not trust their own members.
no booz = splody dopes
(yeah, chuckie…remember splody dopes?)
Now, I’m not a huge Jerry Ford fan.
He was a pretty big RINO, and, in fact, when Agnew resigned, the Democratic leadership of the Senate informed Nixon that Ford was the only Republican they would accept as the new Vice President.
Of course, Nixon imposed wage and price controls, and promoted the formation of the EPA.
But, checking the interweb, Ford played on the line of two National Championship football teams when he was a Michigan Wolverine, and directed the Navy band to sometimes play “Hail to the Victors” instead of “Hail to the Chief” when he was introduced.
Not a big Wolverine fan, but they played Texas tough in the Rose Bowl five years ago.
Lt. Ford was onboard the light carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26) off the coast of the Philipiines when the 907 mb Typhoon Cobra struck in December 1944. During the storm, aircraft tore lose from moorings on the hangar deck, and started numerous fires. Ford led a fire fighting team that fought the fires for an entire day.
Typhoon Cobra, of course, plays an integral role in the fictional ‘Caine Mutiny’.
The Monterey was unable to serve for almost six months due to fire damage, and was sent to Seattle for overhaul, returning to the theater in time to participate in the Okinawa invasion.
Ford was transferred to St. Mary’s College in California, home of last years NIT team ‘The Gaels’, which played a game the same night in the NIT as ‘The Fighting Irish’ last March, which I thought was interesting.
Ford served as athletic coach for Naval officer trainees at St. Mary’s.
Interesting.
OK, Wiki gets criticized, but I never would have known all that before.
re: #84 by Geogrunt
Yuck! Why don’t you have a beer?
re: #90 by Ed Mahmoud
hi ed.
ford was screwed no matter what he did.
he did a good job with what he had
IMHO
re: #89 by coldwarrior
Problem is, Mo got drunk and killed somebody. So he went on the wagon. And if the most perfect person who ever lived can’t drink, nobody can (which kind of begs the question, how can he be so perfect if he can’t handle his liquor?)
Uh-oh. Ding fight:
Cuz the world revolves around dings, you dingbats.
Today’s Best of the Web: “Most embarrassing moment”
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
re: #93 by snork
indeed.
re: #89 by coldwarrior
It may have something to do with the civilisation / urban divide. Iraqis developed the world’s first alcohol-tolerance gene. They needed it to kill the bacteria in the crap that was in the water they had to drink.
In the desert, water is cleaner. So desert tribes didn’t get the gene.
My theory: When the Arabs traded in the Near East, they got into the local booze and got plastered. It was probably even a means by which Byzantines controlled the tribes – like how Americans got leverage over Indians, or (with opium) Britain in China.
re: #94 by snork
buncha ding-a-lings!
re: #97 by Zimriel
nice theory…
it could work.
Miller Genuine Draft doesn’t suck anywhere near as bad as the High Life.
The commercials where rich snooty people at the horse races are drinking the High Life is beyond comedy. It is one step up rom Milwaukees Best or MeisterBrau. I think I’d prefer Busch. I drank Buch when I got laid off in 1998, actually.
In the 1990s, I drank a lot of MGD back when I liked the Penske South Racing #2 Miller Genuine Draft Pontiac Grand Prix.
If the #2 car had been High Life, I would have been a Kenny Schrader fan, I guess.
Meanwhile at the funny farm, they’re arguing over…get ready…maps that show (with geometric logic) which parts of the country have the most racists.
I’m sure one of Queeg’s “tools” is his infallible racism meter. He can point it at you, and it will start flashing “racist” if you have secret racist tendencies.
The tool never lies. It’s all scientific and sciency and all that shit, y’know?
re: #101 by snork
they are too far gone to save.
It’s testable!
All we need is a volunteer to go to southern Iraq’s marshes, pull DNA, and find out which alcohol-tolerance gene arrived when. Then do the same among bedouins in Saudi Arabia; see if they contracted the gene later (or at all).
While we’re waiting for those results, a crack team of research assistants would hunt in the pre-Islamic literature for Arab-Byzantine and maybe Arab-Persian relations, to see how much alcohol made it from the Near East into the desert.
And were wines and/or beers ever fermented in the Hijaz or Yemen? That’s a job for the archaeologists maybe.
re: #100 by Ed Mahmoud
Problem is, MGD, Budweiser, Coors, etc. are not, in the technical sense, beer. This is due to their use of malted rice to reduce cost. They really are “malted beverages” and can only loosely be called “beer”
Related and interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
re: #101 by snork
Good lord, what is wrong with that blithering idiot?
re: #103 by Zimriel
and there is your PhD field work…
report back when yer done!
re: #105 by Foghorn Leghorn
that question would illicit a very long answer around here!
And then we have this:
Well, OMG ponies. There’s a guy! In Georgia!! And he owns a bar!!! And he said something dumb!!!! So the GOP is at fault, and Glenn Beck, and those climate deniers!!!!!
Man, he’s gotta climb way up that tree to get that cherry.
(Full disclosure: I didn’t watch the video for several reasons, but it doesn’t matter).
And on this anti-bigotry thread, we have this from Space “brown people” Jesus:
Drive-by fling my opinion on the wall:
Posting about LGF is like talking about the guy that walks down the street talking and yelling to himself. Amusing for a while, but damn, the guy is sooooooo pitiful.
Closure soon, I hope.
MGD is decent cheap domestic beer. I like it better than Bud, which we all drank in the Army cuz it was Red White and Blue
(seriously).
I do prefer lagers over the darker beers, and really enjoyed the microbrew’s of the Pacific Northwest when I can afford them. Great White from the Humboldt Brewery is good, as is Red Nectar and a few others. I also drink whatever is free if at a party, and occasionally like a martini (Vodka) with the Mrs once in a while. I have also been known to down a few Screwdrivers in my day. Damn, I still have an hour to go. Now I am thirsty.
re: #109 by snork
Talk about a fucking bigot.
re: #111 by Geogrunt
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I’m inhaling a Red Nectar as we type.
re: #110 by IslandLibertarian
I agree – respectfully
And this:
Anyone? Like Jesse Jackson?
re: #109 by snork
if i were as much a racist as space jesus, i’d be wearing a white hood and burin’ crosses!
re: #110 by IslandLibertarian
or its like dancing about architecture!
re: #110 by IslandLibertarian
I kind of agree. I’m still getting some giggles, but how many fish can you shoot in a barrel?
re: #94 by snork
That’s too funny and ironic.
I saw that stupid post over at 1.0 about the bar owner, sooo stupid. I could go into south central LA right now and find more offensive shit than that painted on every wall around the place, or in the inner city newspapers (have you guys ever read one? I saw some at the VA in Long Beach, almost puked they were so rascist/antiwhite. But our good ole’ Veterans Hospital had them right out front for everyone to read, still do. I need a drink.
Go ahead, and bash away. And mumble something while you’re at it. Something about “repent, Darwin is coming”.
A disturbance in the farce:
re: #120 by snork
That pencil-penis, limp-wristed, Nancy-boy metrosexual has some nerve calling Michelle Malkin a moron.
Give her a frontal lobotomy and she could still whup Nancy-selrahC in checkers.
On a happy note, the International Motorcycle show will be here in Long Beach, December 4-6.
I’ll be the the funny looking guy drooling at the models at the Ducati booth.
Re. Zimriel’s question for me on the “Islamist” thread upstairs…
Hi, Zimriel. I always got the impression at the other place that you didn’t like me. Are we starting fresh? That would be nice.
They are not names of bannees, they are names of online friends (and some are real life friends whom I have not seen since before their bannage).
Were you able to read the entire thread before the deletions? I was told they were unpersons who had been vaporized. Isn’t that strange?
I’d rather not discuss my motivations or mindset because they were attacked on that thread in a most vicious way.
Miller High Life is currently priced at $13.99
for 30 12oz. cans.
That’s funemployment!
Oops. Forgot to say Cheers and L’Chaim!
(Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA here)
L’Chaim, back at ya!
(tito’s vodka and tonic and lime)
When I was in Undergraduate Geology field camp, I would drink miller high life cuz it was about all they were selling in Keeler Calif. I drank it warm at the end of our mapping. It wasn’t too bad if you placed it in your cooler underneath a trauck in the shade. Air temp at Cerro Gordo Silver mine about 100 degrees F, beer temp about 86. It was almost refreshing. Yuck:-P
Sierra Nevada YUMM. The grad students would bring that out to us by the case/keg on our geology field trips, good times. Even music majors would come just to party with the geo’s.
re: #124 by Josephine
I acted abominably over there and I’ve been ladling out apologies here. I didn’t know you very well. I don’t remember lashing out at you; I hope I didn’t; I’ll assume I did, because that was the sort of thing I do when faced with a problem I can’t solve.
There are some expressions of religious belief that are problems I can’t solve. I’m currently learning to understand conservatism on its own terms (with mixed results).
LGF offered a way to “solve” these “problems” by acting out my frustrations. Wee! Another meltdown! Woohoo! HAMMER that ding button!
It wasn’t good for me.
Re: that thread in which you were blocked. I followed some of it through here. I haven’t the stomach for LGF these days. I get the impression that LGFers remaining are either in the secret police or else are communicating amongst themselves in code.
And Josephine, in case it wasn’t clear earlier, that was an expression of the deep shame I feel in being involved in that mess. An apology in short. Peace?
Tito’s vodka does have some compelling print ads. (It’s handcrafted!)
Never tried it, sure like to.
Whoo Hooo, its time to go home and crack a cold one. Cheer’s all.
re: #125 by bp_sf
I’m drinkiing Ballantine Ale tonight. I love this stuff
re: #120 by snork
That’s ‘art’ that’s just not my style. So much ‘modern’ art isn’t though.
My then-g/f & I were at a local art gallery about 5 years ago and they had a piece that was simply a hammer in a wooden box about 6″ wide by 14-16″ long. Title: ‘Hammer in box’. Our reaction: This is art? How about a series?! Nail in board. Bolt on nut…
re: #121 by snork
“A disturbance in the farce:”
re: #131 by Zimriel
Peace, Zimriel.
And thank you.
Speaking of drinking, I tried mead for the first time while on vacation this summer. I really liked it.
re: #12 by Speranza
True. I did it once. Got it out of my system. Mostly did it because I know Chaz hates it and he spends a lot of time peeping.
re: #120 by snork
Oh great. Now he’s an art expert.
Geez, is there anything this unemployed bass player doesn’t know?
re: #140 by Carolina Girl
Like most unemployed bass players, if they don’t know a song they will try to wing it. While one might get away with winging it in the music world, in the real world it just makes them look like a fool.
re: #141 by Bordm
You know, I think you’re on to something. He does his “science” like a jam session. If you don’t know it, fake it. And try to run with the cool kids.
That really explains a lot. The jam session paradigm, applied to everything.
re: #120 by snork
“…. that the Alma Thomas painting in the White House was “plagiarized,” but the whole concept is so stupid it paralyzed my brain.”
Actually, the real reason is that to even get started with something like that he’d have to know at least a few basic facts about the late career of Matisse and late starting autodidacts just don’t have that information. Should not have dropped out of school.
re: #141 by Bordm
We’ve already done the “When drums stop” right?
re: #141 by Bordm
We’ve already done the “When drums stop” joke right?