SondraK, Lympian Slayer The official KisP footwear:
Heeeeeeee! Thanks, Claire!!! They’re um.....beautiful!
Quick question....what are the handles for?
clay pigeon… Trojan Horse… whatdahell’s da difference once da head’s blowed off...
Majority Leader Harry Reidd, D-Nev., said he would revive the bill to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants late this week....
Reid as early as Friday would launch his target - an amendment encompassing all 22 proposals - and shoot it into its component pieces. The Senate would then vote on ending debate on the immigration measure, which would take 60 votes and limit discussion of the bill to 30 more hours. After that interval, all 22 amendments would have to be voted on, with little opportunity for foes to interfere. ...
“It’s a brilliant way to gum up the works,” said Robert B. Dove, a Senate rules expert
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 06/19 at 06:26 AM •
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Can’t afford to lay out $2,500 for four wheels worth of shine? No credit? No problem. You can rent them, and eventually own them, sometimes for double the cash purchase price.
You live in public housing or a trailer park? You can’t make ends meet? You on food stamps? Got more collection notices than baby’s mommas? Then come on down!
It’s not uncommon for customers to come straight from an auto dealership to outfit brand new cars—from Jaguars to Dodge Magnums.
Others, like Javier Miranda, 24, hope chrome will add status to tired rides.
Miranda, a house painter with an 8-year-old Dodge Durango, picked out a rolling statement—gleaming wheels, bold and 22 inches wide—from a Rent-n-Roll showroom in a string of check cashing stores, pawn shops and discount merchandisers on Memorial Drive in Stone Mountain.
“He’s buying it cause he likes the girls,” said Miranda’s sister-in-law, Frances Uribe.
A 39-year-old housewife and mother of four, Uribe said she plans to buy a set of wheels for her husband’s truck so it will look good when she borrows it. “Girls like this stuff, too. We like to be cruising around.”
The price tag for Miranda’s wheels, tires and $13 a week in insurance fees: $2,319.76. That’s hundreds more than he makes in a month, he said. And it’ll cost significantly more if he doesn’t pay it off in the store’s 120 days, same-as-cash period.
Poor people stay poor because of stuff like this.
When Brian Steik lived on the streets, the government spent tens of thousands of dollars on emergency room visits and other services to keep the alcoholic alive.
Now social-service agencies are conducting an experiment: Offering Steik and dozens of other homeless drinkers subsidized apartments where they can keep boozing at a fraction of the cost.
“The average citizen who hears about this project probably is appalled,” said Bill Hobson, executive director of the city’s Downtown Emergency Services Center, which constructed the apartments.
“Their concern runs something along these lines: ‘Why do I want to spend my tax money on people who are not doing anything to help themselves?’ The answer to that is: You’re already spending it.”
The four-story $11.2 million building is one of few such facilities in the nation. Minneapolis has a similar program.
The Seattle apartments were built with taxpayer and privately donated dollars. The center expects to spend about $11,000 per resident to operate the building each year, less than 10 percent of the money chronic drunks would cost if left on the streets. Preliminary figures suggest the building will pay for itself in less than five years.................
Oh yea, it gets worse. But I would have had to excerpt the entire piece.
Blair’s real concern was that there would be ‘a knee-jerk reaction’ by the Americans...they would go thundering off and nuke the shit out of the place without thinking straight
Perhaps being what we should have done in the first place. Twice.
congrats, Neocon Express!!!
...don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again.
Ever.
As many of you are already aware, I am one of six siblings….I being the lone sister, along with five brothers.
A few years after my mother died, my father remarried a widowed woman with three children.
That marriage ultimately ended in divorce about 12 years later and by that time, I wasn’t exactly heartbroken over the news.
Long story short, I had come to despise my stepmother, brother and (two) sisters for many very personal reasons that I simply won’t get into here. Suffice to say that many family members and friends have validated those reasons.
However recently, I have been hearing about how some of my brothers are once again beginning to associate with “those people”, as I call them, and I find this revelation not only horrifying but also simply unacceptable.
But, seeing as how we are all adults at this point, I have tried to accept the fact that they have every right to see whomever they please. I have come to realize that it isn’t fair for me to demand that they not associate with “those people” if they so choose.
Though it is one thing to invite them into their own homes, it is quite another to invite one of “those people” into my dad’s house on, of all days out of the year, Father’s Day.
One of those very same ingrates who, along with their mother, chose to have their last name changed back to the original one after the divorce even though my dad was still paying alimony and child support at the time. One in the very same, had the goddamn nerve to show up at my dad’s house “unexpectedly for a “visit” on Father’s Day.
Normally, my father wouldn’t have anything to do with “those people”, but since Jean’s (his third wife) death last year, he’s more vulnerable to suggestion.
I guess you could say that I was more than a little upset to hear of this.
So today, I sent out a strongly-worded email to my brother’s informing them that…
A) I don’t want any of “those people” showing up “unexpectedly” at my dad’s house whenever I’m there visiting
…and…
B) I didn’t approve of hearing about how one of “those people” had actually set foot in my dad’s house on Father’s Day
Now I ask you, is it just me or have they forgotten the first rule of family?
Cause right about now, I feel like sending some Fredo’s to sleep with the fishes.
The Ugly American Dictators Fidel Castro of Cuba and Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus will be celebrating the UN Human Rights Council’s likely adoption tomorrow of a reform package that will see both regimes dropped from a blacklist, while Israel is placed under permanent indictment.
Contrary to all the promises of reform issued last year, the proposal released today by Council President Luis Alfonso de Alba targets Israel for permanent indictment under a special agenda item: “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories,” which includes “Human rights violations and implications of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and other occupied Arab territories”; and “Right to self-determination of the Palestinian people.” No other situation in the world is singled out—not genocide in Sudan, not child slavery in China, nor the persecution of democracy dissidents in Egypt and elsewhere. Moreover, the council will entrench its one-sided investigative mandate of “Israeli violations of international law"—the only one not subject to regular review after a set term—by renewing it “until the end of the occupation.”
When the first psycho blows himself up in the mall do you feel that it will be the beginning or the end?
Sondra K
I have been missing sharing with everyone as Cindy and I are in Texas visiting her “sweet daddy” for a few days here in the South-O’-Houston humididididtity. One of my wife’s (and over the years now mine) favorite places to eat is Hinze’s BBQ...real Texas, real good...mmmmmm.
So today we had a chance to have lunch with our own Elvis (he didn’t bring the dogs) at Hinze’s...that’s Elvis-N-yer’s truly pointing at the sign...and yes it’s our good side. Elvis is a really good man, and no suprisingly is a very well spoken gentleman as my Cindy said. Later this evening we will probably meet up for a beer and maybe an opportunity to meet Mrs. Elvis. While we were eating lunch my son son called to tell me that he leaves for the Navy on August 9th so if you would be so kind as to share this picture and quick note with everyone I would very much appreciate it and in the process let me say how much you are all thought of and if you would remember my son in your prayers I would be very much appreciatin’ it.
Sierrahome.
Check out my test flight under the fold. Oh, Sondra, Coach, and Cucheddie can come but not Steppes, she be dangerous on a plane.
Scorpius 
Anna Christie: Gif me a visky, ginger ale on the side, and don’ be stingy, baby.
