I’ve been sick, but I’m shocked no one posted this yesterday.

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Oh well, maybe it’ll make for their humiliating loss.

*runz*

or: why I live in The Country™

As much as it pains me to needlessly waste paper products, here are the suggestions I discussed at the annual shareholders’ meeting last week. I apologize for having spoken at such length; I’m just so incredibly excited about the idea of having our whole co-op reduce its carbon footprint.  ...growing our food in our own waste, powering our elevators with our StairMasters.

Allah

Edwards’ health care plan includes taxes

The four words that, when uttered by a Democratic presidential candidate, are most assured to tighten the colon of the average American voter are…

Hookay, John......now why don’t you join Joe there over on the bench.

bait

RIYADH, SAUDI - Arabia - A Saudi Arabian judge sentenced 20 foreigners to receive [an unspecified number of] lashes and spend [three to four] months in prison after convicting them of attending a party where alcohol was served and men and women danced…

The religious police, a force resented by many Saudis for interfering in personal lives, enjoys wide powers. Its officers roam malls, markets, universities and other public places looking for infractions.

raz0r

aaaaaaargh - it’s soooo violent!!!

*snerk*

[Hillary] truly is the K-Fed of politics...**

Colonel Jerry [holder of the patented HCINE©]

** ya know yer supposta *clicky*clicky* and read when it’s that color, doncha?  just a refresher....
/snark

As I sit here in my 57th minute on hold [having gone thru the same dam questions with 5 [five] different fools] I gotta ask:  when ATT says, “Thank you for being a loyal ATT customer,” are they simply being ironic or are they actually mocking me?

“We don’t care; we don’t have to.  We’re the phone company.”

........In an artist’s studio in downtown Tacoma, about 20 anti-war protesters were rehearsing a piece of street theater they were planning to perform at the gates of Fort Lewis.

David Solnit, 43, an artist who came from Oakland, Calif., to help make giant puppets for the rally............

This I gotta see....how innovative.

Cathy Crowley of Lewiston is easy to recognize. With her dark hair touched with gray, a generous smile and clothes that have seen plenty of wearing, she looks like many women you’ve stood behind in a checkout line at Wal-Mart.
In May 2004, however, Crowley went to Wal-Mart for a very different reason.
She wanted a store manager to introduce her to the sales clerk who, earlier that weekend, had sold a gun to her 18-year-old son ­ Laurier J. Belanger Jr. Belanger, dark-eyed and handsome, would not be coming in again. He had used the gun to kill himself.

Just when you thought it was safe to get out on the road…

Grandpa lets Connor drive.

Dozens of hoodwinked hunters bagged a measure of justice Friday in the case of the wilderness guide who set himself on fire when he couldn’t work a camp stove....

Consider the time that Jackson took clients into the woods and they reported that he couldn’t figure out the stove - ultimately breaking the outdoorsman’s first rule of safety by dumping fuel on a flame, troopers said.

“Mr. Jackson had no idea how to use the cook stove, and when he tried to he set himself on fire,” prosecutor Andrew Peterson told the judge during Friday’s hearing. That anecdote drew derisive laughter from the 17 victims who had phoned in to hear Jackson’s fate by conference call.

In the camp stove episode, the clients extinguished the flames, troopers said.

Once, according to the state, Jackson picked up an old pelvic bone from a moose and told clients who knew better that it was a moose skull.

Another time, Jackson met clients for a guided river trip and couldn’t figure out which end of the raft was the front, according to the state’s sentencing memorandum.

The trips occurred between 2002 and 2005, including after troopers began interviewing Jackson about complaints.

In several cases, investigators said, Jackson brought clients to remote destinations and then left them, claiming his mother had a stroke or that there was a murder in the family. The clients made their own way back or sought assistance.

and yet—no one will believe her...

EU Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstrom revealed the mindset of the European policymakers. “[Kyoto] is not a simple environmental issue where you can say it is an issue where the scientists are not unanimous,” she said. “This is about international relations, this is about economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world.” To the EU, Kyoto is about the United States’ “unfair tax competition,” its government consistently refusing to match the Europeans’ zeal for taxing energy use to modify behaviour, particularly repressing automobile use and population.

Thank you for sharing, Maggzey.

Related; Oregon Petition

JRs been able to float hope within me for the future of our country and my sadness of having no real leaders to look toward with the idea that some day those currently serving in Iraq will be home and from there we’ll get them…

Dear Mr. Limbaugh,

I am a soldier that was serving my second tour in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. May 7th of last year, my vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb; the explosion instantly severed both of my legs. I have been recovering and going through therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for almost 9-months.

Sir, I listen to your program everyday, I even try to schedule my therapy and appointments before noon, or after 1500 so I don’t miss any of it. On behalf of my fellow soldiers, and myself, I would like to thank you for standing up, and bringing THE truth to Americans. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your continued support of the ideas that are America.

Once I completed my therapy, and am medically retired from the Army, I am returning to my hometown of Clinton, Missouri. I will be running for State Representative in 2008, and hope that I can begin to bring the ideas and the morals that founded this amazing country, back to our elected officials.

Thank you for your time again sir, and please continue the amazing job. America is counting on you to continue bringing the truth to her people.

Your fellow American,
Christopher Rutter
SGT, United States Army

Any readers out there in Clinton, Missouri? Write down this soldiers name.

“If you’re going to sit and watch the game, you’re actually going to develop more muscular toning by sitting on a fitness ball rather than a couch,” he said.

“It’s really not as hokey as it sounds,” he added. “It would actually be a fun theme-party idea.”

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Rush Limbaugh

ToDAZED Crackpot Theory
striking a blow!!!

Stuart Elliot

No commercial that appeared last night during Super Bowl XLI directly addressed Iraq, ... But the ongoing war seemed to linger just below the surface of many of this year’s commercials.

More than a dozen spots celebrated violence in an exaggerated, cartoonlike vein that was intended to be humorous, but often came across as cruel or callous.

...one man beat the other at a game of rock, paper, scissors by throwing a rock at his opponent’s head.
...face-slapping replaced fist-bumping as the cool way for people to show affection for one another
...an astronaut was wiped out by a meteor
...two co-workers sought to prove their masculinity by tearing off patches of chest hair…

It was as if Madison Avenue were channeling Doc in “West Side Story,” the gentle owner of the candy store in the neighborhood that the two street gangs, the Jets and Sharks, fight over. “Why do you kids live like there’s a war on?” Doc asks plaintively. (Well, Doc, this time, there is.)

...The problem with the spot, created internally at Prudential, was that whenever the announcer said, “a rock” — invoking the Prudential logo, the rock of Gibraltar — it sounded as if he were saying, yes, “Iraq.”

So what ARE you reading?

Don’t ask me why I’m asking this.  Just felt like talking about it.

The last 3 books I completed were:
Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (for the first time!)
How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) by Ann Coulter
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

What I’m in the midst of reading:
Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
Slander by Ann Coulter (for the 3rd time)
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
From a Buick 8 by Steven King
Have a Nice Day by Mick Foley (for the 4th time)

What’s next on my list:
We the Living by Ayn Rand
1984 by George Orwell (for the 2nd time, last time was 1986)
I’m sure I’ll find others.  The new Harry Potter to be sure.

“In this case, the judge has already predetermined that he will not allow any evidence or witnesses to testify that the war is illegal or immoral. He has already predetermined that the order (to deploy) is lawful and, in a sense by charging me with missing movement, they are skirting the issue of the legality of the order.”

Just as Iraq wasn’t on the ballot last elections, this trial isn’t about the Iraq war.

He is being charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice [ that’s court martial, look it up ] with expressing contempt toward Bush, of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and purposely missing his unit’s deployment when it departed for the Middle East on June 22, 2006.

They have no future. And it’s just a matter of time before the state of Israel will be wiped off the face of the earth.

After 19 years on the run, German police arrest members of RZ group, which was involved in hijacking Air France plane with dozens of Israelis on board in 1976

~*~

The two were given a conditional release from custody but were likely to be charged with belonging to a terrorist organization, the spokesman added.

A North Carolina jury has acquitted two PETA employees of Animal Cruelty and Obtaining Property By False Pretenses. Guilty verdicts were handed down for Littering, in connection with PETA employees Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook’s improper disposal of their furry victims’ bodies.

Stoo

The fierce internal clashes among Palestinian factions have shocked many Palestinians and Arab governments, who fear that the bloodshed is damaging the Palestinian case before the world, Palestinians say.

Even as the Bush administration moves to try to press for significant progress toward peace, Palestinians say their own infighting is making it too easy for Israel to argue that nothing needs to be done now to promote a Palestinian state.

Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have all intensified efforts to stop the fighting and push the warring Fatah and Hamas factions into a form of unity government, no matter how fragile. King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has called a meeting on Tuesday in the holy city of Mecca between the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and senior Hamas figures to try to restore at least the facade of Palestinian unity.

Somebody call Rep. David Wu!

A man dressed as Chewbacca was arrested after police said the street performer head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.

Frederick Evan Young, 44, of Los Angeles was booked Thursday for investigation of misdemeanor battery, police Lt. Paul Vernon said.

Police said the 6-foot-4 street performer was seen arguing Thursday afternoon with a tour guide who had expressed concern the Star Wars wookiee impersonator was “harassing and touching tourists” in violation of city law.

So LA has ordinances against fictitious furry aliens, eh?

The tour guide, Brian Sapir, told the Los Angeles Times that he asked the Chewbacca impersonator to stop harassing two young Japanese tourists when the actor exploded in anger.

“He said, ‘Nobody tells this wookiee what to do,’” Sapir said.

Sweet-toothed sheep are hampering attempts to defrost icy roads - by eating the sugar-based grit.

Flocks of sheep have been spotted licking the roads on Halkyn mountain, Flintshire, since the council began using a sugar base to help grit stick.

Local resident Elfed Evans said the animals were refusing to move for traffic as they tucked in to the treat.

Flintshire council said sheep were also attracted to salt grits, which are more corrosive than the new sugar variety.

The new type of grit is made from sugar, starch and cereal.

Resident Elfed Evans said he had spotted dozens of sheep licking the grit off the road during the recent cold snap.

He added: “As soon as the gritter goes past they converge on the road licking off the grit.

“The sheep seem to be addicted to the sweet salt and refuse to move when cars approach.”

Cost-effective

A spokesman for Flintshire council said they were aware of the situation.

He added: “The environmental advantages of using this product is that it is less corrosive to vehicles and the road infrastructure generally.

Since joggers and dog walkers tend not to snooze in flower beds, and because employees at the glittering office towers around Lake Eola don’t scrub laundry in park sinks, it’s clear, says Monique Vargas, at whom the notices are targeted.

“They’re talking to us, to the homeless,” says Vargas, 28, who says she has lived on the streets, in parks or under overpasses, since age 16. “It’s a way of saying, ‘Your kind isn’t wanted in our city.’”

it’s clearly a way of saying.......

DO NOT LIE OR OTHERWISE BE IN A HORIZONTAL POSITION ON A PARK BENCH ... DO NOT SLEEP OR REMAIN IN ANY BUSHES, SHRUBS OR FOLIAGE ... per city code sec. 18A.09 (a) and (o).

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BATHING AND/OR SHAVING IN RESTROOM IS PROHIBITED ... per city code 18A.09 (p) ... LAUNDERING CLOTHES IN LAKE EOLA PARK IS NOT PERMITTED.

Just for fun, let’s imagine I was one of those MPs, confronted by the media mob.

Media mob: “Mr. Goldstein, do you believe that increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are causing global warming?”

Me: “I beg your pardon?”

Media mob: “You heard the question, do you believe it?”

Me: “You’re not serious.”

Media mob: “You better believe we are.”

Me (Sigh): “Okay, get your tapes rolling. Ready? Here we go ...

FreeRepublic

The implementation of any anti-global warming “standards” lies in the premise that everyone until the end of time [ when will it ever end????] will adhere to the protocols forever.....and ever......and ever....with no one ever cheating.

[bwaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahah]

And who ever came up with the idea of Kyoto Kuntry Kredits.......