Coleman will lose the recount.  There are votes for Franken yet to be found.

Don’t jump.  Let me push you off instead.

I could not have said it better myself, ET.

Besides being off topic?

make that Harriet Tubman . . . sorry, din’t proof it

This is precisely the sort of pettifogging, whining, nagging, carping, quibbling, obfuscating balderdash we can expect from a society so wrapped up in guilt and political correctness that it has lost the ability to say something as simple as �Shit!� when it has a mouthful of it.

Liberalism�s primary goal is apparently to accelerate the dumbing down and polarization of what was once a proud, independent, productive, adventuresome culture.  Franken is a perfect example of the inflated and unwarranted levels of self-esteem mentioned here yesterday, and a direct result of the �I�m O.K.—You�re O.K.� myth today�s young adult generation was deceived by. 

Here we have the consequence of awarding passing grades for mere �effort� and shifting blame for individual shortcomings upon parents and �society.� The �alternative society� of the 60s and 70s where rules were abandoned and everything was free produced a crop of shitheads in our schools masquerading as educators who sowed their ideas and replicated themselves manifold in harvests of ignorant shitheads who are at this very moment planting the seeds for even more bountiful yields of air-headed surrender- monkey shitheads.

Loyalty, patriotism, self-sufficiency, modesty, respect, accountability, and honest labor are old-fashioned concepts, relics from a by-gone day when America was a coarse, brutal, unsociable, swaggering bully who became strong by subjugating poorer, less fortunate struggling nations.  Harriet Tubbs is FAR more important and germane than Thomas Paine.  Maya Angelou is FAR more insightful and pertinent than Shakespeare.  Martin Luther King is FAR more humanistic and profound than Thomas Jefferson.

Ah, well, as the Fwentch say, such is life.  But my take on it all is that we desperately need an emergency injection of the Samurai ethic.  Children need to hear about El Cid, not MTV; Siegfried, not the Chicago Seven; King Arthur, not American Idol; Teddy Roosevelt, not Che Guevara.

Socialism is here to stay, mes enfants.  The monumentally unaware majority has spoken, and what it wants is a plush recliner chair at the foot of the government cornucopia, a guarantee of total impunity for personal failure, and a national policy which will make everybody love us so that together we can solve all the world�s problems with biofuels and wind turbines and save the precious polar bears.

Well, bon chance, mes amis.  Send me a postcard from the 9th level.

It should have been tied into the bag!

That sign shouldn’t be in NYC but in Washington DC.

MiT, shouldn’t a highly educated Harvard elitist decide who that vote is for?  Clearly the person voting couldn’t follow instructions.

Looks like a vote for Norm to me.

Steppy, it is only going to get better.
Have you tried to Orville Redenbacher’s lime and salt popcorn?
It’s pretty good.

FORGER, it’ll be a cold day in hell before someone says something like that to my face without a strong rebuttal!
BTW, I’m liking the clue by four!

That made me laugh

Harry S Truman was a haberdasher.

P.S. What’s wrong with the above sentence? Tell me. I dare you.

I heard there was only a very small handfull of people who jumped from windows back then, and only one who did it on the actual Wall Street.

Of course, this isn’t counting all the people who made a big splash on Broadway during that same period.

Which reminds me of a song…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijhpDBgIPLg

Been more than once I’ve made a sign like that…

It was really funny Merovign. My assistant has never handled a gun. I grew up with revolvers, so I am working on getting a feel for my pistol.

The mailman had literally just delivered my package with the mags and new grips. I had just opened the box checking out the grips when the contractor came in with the box. He told me, I have something for you. My comment was… Does it shoot? He cracked up. As a matter of fact…

He and his wife are avid CCW folks. They are doing everything they can to encourage me.

DammitWoman, yes, we get the best of both worlds!
We can fondle the hardware and play with cuuute shoooz! BTW they pink over the knee boots came in, but the red ones haven’t yet ;)
When I went to Academy to pick up my rounds for the range, I was in my office clothes, high heels, skirt and jacket. The guy behind the counter asked if I was waiting for someone.
No, honey, just here for more rounds.
The look on his face!

From now on, all Space Scuttle pre-flights will include a briefing by a Maintenance Master Chief on the importance of Positive Tool Control.

One briefing/astronaut should be sufficient… for a lifetime.

Master Chiefs is eloquent.

I discovered this site from poll results-- Rodger’s, too.

So I went and voted early and often. I cast a few for mine, too, even though mine’s just embryonic. It won’t really get going until racing season starts up again.

Reminds me I need to get the latest SN, thanks, mech.

I only got 100rds 10mm auto and 100rds .45ACP, and a few reels of 12 gauge…

(reels? Yeah, I keep ‘em in 25-rd sling/belts… ‘cause they’re cool)

I have a couple more guns and a crapload of ammo to get before the end of the year, but I’m moving so I’m waiting until I know what the total will be.

Shockingly, I don’t even own a .22… I’m looking at a S&W;or Browning pistol and I haven’t picked a .22 rifle yet.

And Melissa, I LURV when some “innocent” gets interrupted by an ammo deal. The look on their faces is precious. :)