Time to hang out the “Gone fishin’ sign once again
Last week, we were talking about having a soul-themed edition of Travelin’ Music, and I still think that’s a great idea. But not tonight. When we all step aboard the Soul Train, I want to be here. And tonight, I’m not.
In fact, as I mentioned in comments earlier, I’m not going to be around for the next two weeks. And unlike my recent cross-country “vacation,” this time I’m not bringing you with me. As Rick said to Ilsa, “Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of.” I’m headed out to the high desert of Oregon again for a couple of weeks of whitewater rafting, fishing and camping, and among that region’s many charms is the fact that cell phones and computers are utterly useless out there.
So for tonight, I’ll leave you with this, a piece that serves as the official theme song for the group of guys who have made this same trip annually for almost 20 years now. In fact, somebody at work asked me the other day whether I was ever going to get too old for this trip, given that we run the trip ourselves, without guides.
“Maybe someday,” I told her. “Someday when I’m dead and buried, that is.”
Be kind to each other while I’m gone.
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RW-(the original)
August 6th, 2010
10:38 pm
josef,
You can send her through the Lyly Lovett collection.
Mick
August 6th, 2010
10:42 pm
What are we, chopped liver?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jloZXseyYrI&feature=related
Kamchak
August 6th, 2010
10:45 pm
Chaka Kahn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U_hRJHc3eA
moonbat betty
August 6th, 2010
10:50 pm
This goes out to Scout:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRte0S2a_dA
Scout
August 6th, 2010
10:52 pm
I guess everyone knows (unless they were on Mars) that Lindsay Lohan (age 24) got out of jail this week and was sent to rehabilitation for her alcohol/drug problems.
Does anyone know what these guys did this week ?
Justin Allen 23,
Brett Linley 29,
Matthew Weikert 29,
Justus Bartett 27,
Dave Santos 21,
Chase Stanley 21,
Jesse Reed 26,
Matthew Johnson 21,
Zachary Fisher 24,
Brandon King 23,
Christopher Goeke 23,
and Sheldon Tate 27,
They are all soldiers who gave their lives for this country and freedom for others.
Our society is about a sick as it can get.
Oh, perfidious nation.
Scout
August 6th, 2010
10:59 pm
josef:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/08/06/donna-shalala-detained-interrogated-at-israeli-airport/
Mick
August 6th, 2010
11:03 pm
scout
It hurts to know that families are suffering while we seemingly, coldly go our way. What can one do? I say be a good samaritan and try to lend a hand to as many wounded, sick, and lost people you can.
All in their twenties – mere babes, we’ll keep you in are prayers..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WRoWPhLU2Q
Mick
August 6th, 2010
11:15 pm
Scout
The exact same thing happened to me when leaving israel in 1986. I was with a group and had to get back to the states early. On my passport picture I had a beard but shaved it off in israel. That and the fact I was travelling alone got me interrogated and strip searched along with three arab guys. In my opinion, the israeli security has adopted gestapo tactics in treating people – the irony. I had a marshall sit next to me all the way to rome and I looked as american as apple pie at the time. Eye opener..
Mick
August 6th, 2010
11:18 pm
Back to it, is there anybody out there?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDcHMYgW278
BADA BING
August 6th, 2010
11:24 pm
hey Scout…. those young kids are an inspiration. Do you know what I was doing at their age? I was happily married and a good husband, but I was just having fun, racing motorcycles, water skiing, hunting, camping. No real goal in life but to have fun. These young people will never know what it will be like to grow old. I will include them in my prayers tonight, while I go to bed safe, warm, dry, healthy, and fed, thanks to their efforts.
Scout
August 6th, 2010
11:33 pm
BADA BING:
Seriously, that’s why the older I get the more it bothers me and the angrier I get about those I left behind in Nam. Right now my year and a half old granddaughter is the joy of my life …………. and they missed it all.
Oh, perifidious nation.
Scout
August 6th, 2010
11:33 pm
Mick:
I hear you but when was the last time they had a hi-jacked aircraft ?
BADA BING
August 6th, 2010
11:35 pm
Big deal if Shalala (wasn’t that a 60’s singing group) was detained. Search me, search everybody. I will jump thru hoops as long as the plane doesn’t BLOW UP.
Scout
August 6th, 2010
11:35 pm
For those who never returned …………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IbsaZUs8Vw&feature=related
BADA BING
August 6th, 2010
11:37 pm
Scout, but for a high number in the Draft lottery, I would have been in Nam also. I was in college, but not real serious about it. The numbers fell my way. There but for the grace of God…….
Mick
August 6th, 2010
11:42 pm
Scout – no doubt about it, getting on an el-al flight is seven degrees of separation. A very paranoid existence but thats the price we all pay now.
BADA BING
August 6th, 2010
11:47 pm
Scout, i know how much c Tucker hates to see your name. I got kicked off twice. She just wants yes men, not really interested in debate is she?
BADA BING
August 6th, 2010
11:49 pm
I wonder if Michelle is proud of Spain for the first time in her life?
Don't Forget
August 6th, 2010
11:51 pm
Search me, search everybody. I will jump thru hoops as long as the plane doesn’t BLOW UP.
I have no problem with security either but if they ever make me sit on a tarmac for 8 hours for some non security reason, I’ll be ticked off.
BADA BING
August 7th, 2010
12:01 am
don’t forget, if I was on a jury and someone was arrested for raising hell for sitting on the tarmac for several hours, I assure you that I would hang a jury. No bathrooms, no food, or water. I would bust that place up.
BADA BING
August 7th, 2010
12:04 am
out…..to sleep, perchance to dream………..
Don't Forget
August 7th, 2010
12:06 am
BADA
I would too. I don’t see where they get the right to do that.
Scout
August 7th, 2010
12:27 am
Mick:
Neither she nor most of the libs. on here will debate.
Remember …….. liberals run on emotion. Conservatives run on logic.
Scout
August 7th, 2010
12:30 am
BADA BING:
Don’t feel bad about the Nam thing. It was one screwed up mess …………. ditto Afghanistan.
We never learn.
TAPS !
“And so he bowed.”
P.S.
Mommy, how much is our vacation to Spain costing the American taxpayer?
J-Bot
August 7th, 2010
7:42 am
Scout sure is monotonous.
stands for decibels
August 7th, 2010
8:03 am
With a spiritual leader like Reichsmarshall Limbaugh, it’s hardly a wonder so many righties have become such obnoxious, racist jerks.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008060038
If you thought Rush Limbaugh would simply be content to just echo his fellow conservatives in a misguided and counterfactual attack on Michelle Obama by comparing her to and calling her “Marie Antoinette” you would be very wrong. Today, he added to that smear the racially charged rhetoric that he’s employed for years.
As he referred to her as “Michelle ‘Antoinette’ Obama,” Limbaugh also claimed that the allegedly insensitive actions of the Obama family were taking place because they “look at it as if they are owed” these luxuries because of past racial discrimination. He added that they are “flying all over the country while everyone else is tightening their belts, ’cause they deserve it. This is owed to them.”
At this point it’s worth noting that press secretary Robert Gibbs explicitly said that “It’s a private trip and is being paid for that way,” but even so I don’t think anyone expects that any member of any first family should or would travel without a security detail and the standard staffing commensurate with what is, after all, the family of the American president.
But the introduction of the racial component went even further over the rails, when Limbaugh later said that “the media” feels Mrs. Obama “deserves” the trip because of America’s “slave past,” adding “It’s only fair that people of color get their taste of the wealth of America, too.” This has nothing to do with what has happened so far and is even more disconnected from reality than the initial charges of so-called elitism. It’s just the injection of the most divisive issue for no good reason.
In other words, another day on the radio with Rush.
SOUTHERN ATL
August 7th, 2010
8:08 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jePrWhT_tzY
larry
August 7th, 2010
8:17 am
In other words, another day on the radio with Rush.
I usually use Limbaugh instead of Rush, because when i read that it makes me think of the rock group.
I wish he would change his name, to like Jeff or Bobby. ” Here’s a man who i would not believe a single word he said, Jeffffffffff Limbaugh!!”
Rightwing Troll
August 7th, 2010
8:23 am
“Uh oh…No mention as to WHO?? will be the lucky one to lead the liberals here “through the wilderness”. Bookman will return to find his followers still clutching their keyboards in starvation and disgust, their bowed heads bobbing in tears and tragedy for two weeks.
Please, Bookman, at least send a few K-rations or something for the desperate. Have you no pity?. Has the Red Cross been notified?.”
Looks like nobody will play with Andy when’s he’s plastered, and Dusty’s already going into withdrawals.
Things are normal around here…
HDB
August 7th, 2010
8:31 am
Safe travels, Jay….and try the Columbia Valley Riesling while you’re there!!
Scout
August 7th, 2010
8:31 am
J-Bot :
I have a simple solution for you. Don’t read my posts.
larry
August 7th, 2010
8:34 am
http://www.ajc.com/news/state-tax-collections-showing-586792.html
Finally some good news for a change……………….something must be working.
Mick
August 7th, 2010
9:05 am
**Remember …….. liberals run on emotion. Conservatives run on logic**
I find that comment to be illogical..
@@
August 7th, 2010
9:13 am
Lyly Lovett, RW?
Is that Lyle’s twin sister?
(ISH)
@@
August 7th, 2010
9:26 am
British doctor and nine others killed in Afghanistan ambush
It is understood that the victims were lined up, robbed and shot dead with AK-47 rifles. “Yesterday (Friday) at around 8am, one of our patrols confronted a group of foreigners. They were Christian missionaries and we killed them all,” said Zabihullah Mujahed, a spokesman for the Taliban.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/7931862/British-doctor-and-nine-others-killed-in-Afghanistan-ambush.html
The dead were believed to be medical workers on an eye care mission from International Assistance Mission (IAM), a Christian charity specialising in health and economic development.
A statement from IAM said: “We have been informed that 10 people, both foreign and Afghan, were murdered in Badakhshan.
“It is likely that they are members of the International Assistance Mission (IAM) eye camp team.
“The team had been in Nuristan at the invitation of communities there. After having completed their medical work the team was returning to Kabul.
Reprehensible!
J-Bot
August 7th, 2010
9:51 am
Scout,
A simple solution for you — don’t read mine, you monotonous fact-deprived conservative rightwing nut Republican.
Disgusted
August 7th, 2010
10:03 am
Reprehensible!
Indeed, but it’s to be expected when mercy mission teams like that ride around without armed escorts. Did they really think that the insurgents would respect the fact that they were unallied medical personnel? Anything or anyone with the word Christian in the name is going to be a target of Muslim extremists. If they’ll hang a 7-year-old boy, they certainly won’t hesitate to shoot adults.
Dave R.
August 7th, 2010
10:03 am
“Lyly Lovett, RW?
Is that Lyle’s twin sister?”
Hope not. That would be one, ugly dudette.
Normal
August 7th, 2010
10:13 am
@@,
“Reprehensible!” Agreed, but when you are dealing with people stuck in the seventh century, what can you expect. I heard on the news that the reason given was given was because they were pushing Christianity. The one survivor was screaming he was Muslim and quoted passages from the Koran. Ignorance and religion, a deadly combination…
Reminds me of Galileo and the Roman Catholic church when he proved the earth rotated around the sun and that the universe did not rotate around the earth as thought. The Church wanted to kill him too…
Don't Forget
August 7th, 2010
10:15 am
stands for decibels
August 7th, 2010
8:03 am
With a spiritual leader like Reichsmarshall Limbaugh, it’s hardly a wonder so many righties have become such obnoxious, racist jerks.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008060038
Rush is doing this because Michelle’s ratings are so high, higher than just about everybody. The racial angle is just a convenient attack point.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/141524/michelle-obama-outshines-others-favorability-poll.aspx
There is nothing new here. The desire to destroy someone at any cost was seen in the ’90’s with Clinton as well as is mentioned in Bob Inglis’s recent interview:
The religious right has not hesitated to speak out on things they disapprove of in the past. So where are they when “false witness” is made against their political foes. Morality is not selective. You don’t get to practice it just when it’s convenient or helpful to your cause and still claim the moral high ground. Their silence makes them as guilty and the liars themselves.
Soothsayer
August 7th, 2010
10:18 am
Despite Democratic majorities in the House and Senate and the ease with which Obama won the presidential election over McCain-Palin, the Democratic Party has totally collapsed.
The Democrats have abandoned every constituency. Democrats have discarded the American people. Democrats, in pursuit of campaign contributions, represent the moneyed interests on Wall Street, the munitions companies, the insurance companies, the agribusinesses that have destroyed independent farmers, despoilers of the environment, unaccountable police and the builders of detention centers. The exception is Rep. Dennis Kucinich.
The Democrats have become Brownshirt Republicans.
The American people, except for the 1 percent of super-rich, have been abandoned.
This is called “trickle-up” economics. You tax the little guy and give the money to the armaments companies.
No truer words have ever been written. Your vote means nothing. No matter who you elect, the same people still control the country.
RW-(the original)
August 7th, 2010
10:54 am
Is that Lyle’s twin sister?
I’ve got really big hands so the “e” and “y” on my keyboard are nearly interchangeable.
(TMSAISTI)
popeye
August 7th, 2010
10:55 am
Soothsayer…”With the exception of Dennis Kucinich”. I would have to disagree, add Bernie Sanders, Anthony Weiner, Barbara Boxer, Amy Klobuchar, Peter DeFazio, Al Franken, Sherrod Brown, and Sheldon Whitehouse with Kucinich….and There maybe a couple of others but……
popeye
August 7th, 2010
10:57 am
In conclusion you are right that your vote means absolutely nothing!
In Hofe n Puff
August 7th, 2010
11:30 am
I’m glad we’re in the middle of this global cooling cycle. Otherwise, it might be hot outside.
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
11:31 am
Well, isn’t this a great morning.
@@ tells us about the MEDICAL TEAM killed in Afghanistan. Then we have two bloggers here explaining how it was just about OK because they were Christians. Ho hum etc…
The team killed were part of the International Assistance Mission which has been working in Afghainstan for several years. Part of their protocol includes that there is no proselytizing (preaching), They are like the good Samaritan. This team went to help the sick and blind in a part of the country that had to be reached on pack animals..
I begin to wonder when some start to rationalize why these ten should not have gone to help the sick of the world. They shouldn’t go because it is dangerous? They shouldn’t go because the team was probably Christians and therefore should stay home? Does that mean we should not go to certain doctors in America because they are MUSLIM and we are not? That the primary goal of any doctor is NOT to help the sick?
We who are blessed should not be demeaning those who will even give up their lives to help the helpless sick of this world. Those who dare to give and sacrifice are the givers of this world. If we cannot go outselves, at least we can support those who dare to do so. Remember Albert Schweitzer and Mother Teresa? Were they wrong to do what they did?
popeye
August 7th, 2010
11:37 am
Dusty … Kudos on your 11:31 post…Have you finally realized that on ones body the heart is on the LEFT!
Lloyd Blankfein
August 7th, 2010
11:41 am
Why can’t more of you be like me and do God’s work.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 7th, 2010
11:42 am
Well, old Nathan and this Handel woman sure are tearing each other up, and it looks like the Deal supporters won’t vote for Handel if she wins and the Handel supporters won’t vote for Deal if he wins. The latest poll shows them tied 46-46 with 8% undecided.
I might could be fun to watch King Roy battle with the legislature for four years. He won’t go along with the Republican plans to
stick it to wage earnersraise the sales tax and lower the income tax or keep laying off teachers. We might could have four years of vetos. It’s sure shaping up to be fun down at the statehouse. I can’t hardly wait. Nothing will get done down there and that’s just the way we like it.Have a good Saturday everybody.
Dave R.
August 7th, 2010
11:43 am
And the functioning part of the brain is on the RIGHT!
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
11:49 am
Popeye,
Thank you. But one’s “heart” is wherever it leads us. It might be right here at home. Doncha think so?
Disgusted
August 7th, 2010
11:53 am
Then we have two bloggers here explaining how it was just about OK because they were Christians. Ho hum etc…
Nobody’s saying that, Dusty. Too bad you never acquired reading abilities during your technical training.
It’s a deadly game over there. The battle is for the hearts and minds of the millions of villagers. The Taliban and their allies see mercy teams such as the one recently killed as countering the image they want to have the villagers form of the foreigners. It is indeed despicable to murder people who are trying to provide medical help to those who have had no access to it, and it is even more despicable to murder those people because they don’t share a religious faith with those conducting the killing.
The people who sent that team over there with no military protection may have had good intentions, but they were hopelessly naive to assume that the team’s safety would be assured by virtue of its merciful mission. I’ve seen no one on this blog attempt to justify the atrocious murders.
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
11:59 am
Good one, Dave R! But…. we better get both sides of our brains working , right & left. I saw pictures of unemployed folks at work centers yesterday Some had been out of work for 99 weeks! Many were people in middle age.. Now that is TOUGH!!
Don't Forget
August 7th, 2010
12:04 pm
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
11:31 am
Well, isn’t this a great morning.
@@ tells us about the MEDICAL TEAM killed in Afghanistan. Then we have two bloggers here explaining how it was just about OK because they were Christians. Ho hum etc…
I don’t think they were saying that it was OK but I do think they were stupid posts because they were blaming the victims.
@@
August 7th, 2010
12:05 pm
Thank you, Dusty. You ARE a treasure to behold.
Normal:
The IAM had been operating in Afghanistan since 1966. Don’t you think if they’d been proselytizing, they would have been kicked out of the country…killed long ago?
I’m sure the work they were doing was far more important than getting their message of Christianity out to the people. They would have refrained from doing so in order to continue.
Sometimes, Normal, God can be seen in the work without any mention of The Word.
Choose to believe what you want. On this one, you’re full of crap!
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
12:11 pm
popeye….good for you (moving back to OR)!… I’m quite sure you’ll “appreciate” it even more then when you originally lived there. Tis’ always the case…. and yes…Talibangelicals will no longer be able to tell you that you can’t buy a bottle of wine or a six pack on Sunday (but still be able to drink and drive if you care for a sip or 10)…
Dusty,
Yes it’s truly sad what took place… for those who lost their lives trying to help. I’ve yet to see the posts of those who thought it was “okay”… only because I’ve not read all the posts just yet. Yet those lives were worth no more compared to the thousands of innocent citizens of Afghanistan that have died….nor are they worth even 1 penny more then the hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq….the 2 Million+ people who had to leave their homeland since we “invaded” it… know what? forget the rest I was going to say…. it will matter very little to you. Somehow this will (in YOUR mind) be Obama’s and the Dems’s fault (that these people died)…
wet wiccan
August 7th, 2010
12:12 pm
Looks like last night’s music party was kind of short. We had a spectacular electrical storm here last night, maybe some of you other folks did too.
Josef – Read your post last night about suggestions for country music. Here is my suggestion. She is from Monticello Georgia and was my sister-in-law’s college roomate, she even sang at her wedding, though it was in the 80’s and she hadn’t become famous yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zu2OAIYMDk&feature=av2e
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
12:13 pm
Disgusted,
My reading abilities are quite in order. So is my intuition. You don’t quite undstand the team that went to the mountains of Afghanistan and were killed.
They did not want the military with them so they would not be mistaken as militants. They did not preach because their mission was to heal. They did not go as enemies of the Taliban or anybody else. They went to help anyone who needed it and there were many who did..
Of course they knew there was danger. They did not EXPECT to be killed because their sponsor had been working in Afghanstan for many years without a problem.
We can say there is no justice. Perhaps the citizens of Afghanistan my perceive even better what has beset them in the way of the Taliban. People who give their lives for the good of others are the strongest.. That applies to our military also. They all sacrifice for others.
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
12:19 pm
Saul Good,
One of these days you will realize that everything in this world is not done for politics.
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
12:20 pm
Errr… Dusty and @@…feel free to EXPLAIN (from IMA’s website):
“International Medical Assistance hosts Christian medical mission trips and provides the opportunity to serve God by offering spiritual and physical …”
http://www.ima-missions.org/
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL TRIPS???
Glad they HELP those needing it most…but PLEASE refrains from saying they don’t dangle the “carrot on the stick” with WHO they ARE and WHAT they expect from those they help.
My own brother who adopted a girl from Cambodia years ago has his own foundation where they go and treat the orphans there… not done by a RELIGION… but more like Doctor’s Without Borders… they simply do free surgeries on the orphans…they also train the doctors and surgeons in many of their hospitals…
While IMA does MUCH good for many who NEED their assistance…that very assistance comes with “preaching” towards them.
Most of all…did they need to be killed? Absolutely not… but “perhaps” it had something to do with RELIGION… the “them against us and “us against them” kinda thing.
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
12:22 pm
No Dusty…you’re right…I’ll realize how MOST things are done because of HUMAN CREATED RELIGIONS/CULTS.
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
12:28 pm
Hi @@.
Thank you for the kind words.
Hope your daughter finally made it safely into the airport last night. Stormy weather it was. I thought my computer was “shot” but it is working today. (The Braves were not working too well last night !!)
I better get busy and get SOMETHING done here. Getting wayyyy behind!
RW-(the original)
August 7th, 2010
12:31 pm
Talibangelicals will no longer be able to tell you that you can’t buy a bottle of wine or a six pack on Sunday (but still be able to drink and drive if you care for a sip or 10)…
But if you’re a 7 year old with a lemonade stand you darn well better get a food service permit from those freedom loving Oregonians or they’ll shut you down.
popeye
August 7th, 2010
12:33 pm
Dusty…A war zone is an awful place (believe me I have been there) and no one (good guys…bad guys) give a whit about anything. Helicopters with big red crosses coming in to pick up the wounded, and dead would be summarily shot at and, downed…A war zone is not a place for the weak of heart. I actually enjoyed your piece, and I could sense your passion…But our so called enemy doesn’t care! They only look at who has invaded their soverign land, and take measures accordinly. Understand we are the bad guys in this non-sensicle war!
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
12:33 pm
Saul,
Go ask your brother why he does those things that he has chosen to do.
Southern Comfort
August 7th, 2010
12:41 pm
Dusty
I don’t think anyone insinuated that the killings were OK as you said. What most people don’t think about is the Taliban is more connected that what people perceive. If the IMA posts on their website that they sponsor Christian missions, is it not likely that the Taliban sees that group as a “Christian” group. They’ve already said they were looking over the Wikileaks stuff to see who were cooperating with the Americans, so that would lead one to believe they connect over the internet. As was stated earlier, it’s an “us versus them” situation over there. I would not have sent that medical team in there without protection. They may have been doing those missions for years and years, but things over there are not the same anymore. You’ve got a group that’s desperate to maintain power over the locals, and they’ve shown that they will kill their own to do that, so what would be any different or special about not killing outsiders?
I applaud any aid groups that go there to help people. I see them returning home from time to time. I just would not send anyone there without protection.
popeye
August 7th, 2010
12:44 pm
RW..Glad you’re keepin’ up on what’s going on in Oregon…I believe that this issue will quickly disappear. I remember as a little boy having my own lemonade stand! Those were some good times!
Southern Comfort
August 7th, 2010
12:48 pm
RW
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 7th, 2010
12:48 pm
Islamic lunatics attack Africans-
Mr Obama issued the personal warning to the continent of his father’s birth days after suicide bombers killed 76 in Uganda in an attack claimed by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab, which has links to al-Qaeda.
Mr Obama said terrorist organisations “do not regard African life as valuable in and of itself”.
Islamic lunatics attack Christians-
chirp
chirp
You look even better than I remember Blagovich, make me another drink, sweetheart. Say, somebody call the white house and make sure the pantry is fully restocked before Idi Amin gets back from Spain, I don’t need to hear that crap.
Mr. Daley, sir, can I go to Komunisky Field this afternoon and watch the Blackhawks play?
Please, bossman?
Just sayin…
I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm! Just sayin...
August 7th, 2010
12:50 pm
Now the Spanish really know what a fugly American is, just sayin…
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
12:52 pm
Dusty…he was an atheist WAY before I was (he’s 6 years older)… he adopted a child simply because it’s a “noble” thing to do… and to be honest…he’d simply SCHOOL you on the Missionaries he sees in Cambodia and the BS they pull.
Soothsayer
August 7th, 2010
12:52 pm
If there were no fermentable sugars in your diet, you would never get a single cavity.
This web site may gross you out but it is worth reading–especially if you have small children! Or if you suffer from dental problems.
popeye
August 7th, 2010
12:52 pm
I understand she will be selling tea at her next party…Sarah Palin,
Sean Hannity, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck all to make guest appearances!
RW-(the original)
August 7th, 2010
12:54 pm
SoCo,
I think the Oregon Lemonade Stand Patrol has to drive around in yellow VW Beetles so it isn’t without stigma.
midtownguy
August 7th, 2010
12:55 pm
Jay, that sounds like a week of pure hell to me. My idea of “roughing it” is having to stay in a hotel without room service and valet parking. But to each his own. Come back with spirit renewed to continue the good fight.
Southern Comfort
August 7th, 2010
1:01 pm
RW
I figure that lil girl is likely a conservative for life. I don’t see her preaching the advantages of government intervention anytime in the near future.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
August 7th, 2010
1:04 pm
Well, it’s a shame the Towelheads shot the Christian Drs. like that.
I just don’t understand why they can’t act like good Christians.
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
1:07 pm
IR:
Yup… you’re right…only Muslims kill Christians… let me ask? Just WHERE did these former tribe members who had their own beliefs learn CHRISTIANITY or ISLAM from?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/01/23/nigeria.massacre.probe/index.html
“Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) — Reports of at least 150 Muslims killed in recent religious clashes in Nigeria should be investigated, a human rights group urged Saturday.
Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that armed men attacked Kuru Karama in central Nigeria on Tuesday, “killing many as they tried to flee and burning many others alive,” the international organization said Saturday.
The assailants targeted Muslims, reportedly killing at least 150, Human Rights Watch said.
Community leaders from Jos, a city about 19 miles north of Kuru Karama, and journalists told the organization that later in the week they saw dozens of bodies lodged in wells or sewage pits. The bodies of 121 people, including 22 children, had been recovered, the organization said. Most of the homes in the town were burned down, along with three mosques, the group said.”
RELIGION causes DIVISION among humans… that DIVISION “caused” by religion makes humans feel as if only THEIR cult-like beliefs are the ONLY “CORRECT” beliefs…
So sad that “GOOD” Christians did do enough to those in Africa when they took humans and made them slaves which they took to far away lands…. now they feel they that since they can’t have them as slaves any longer (slaves being something the bible condones)… they send humans there to tell them that THEIR beliefs are whacky… so they need to believe in OTHER whacky beliefs instead.
Leave them alone. Leave ALL those who are not Christians alone and let them “find” what ever beliefs they want to simply “believe” on their own… as if a “talking snake” is more believable compared to any of their own beliefs…..
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
1:10 pm
Redneck… and so just how them there “jews” fit in to tha eqasion? The ways I sees it…. It’s Easy to blame ‘um… most is since the christians be somekinda jew in da first is place!… just a jew wthout them pesky horns that always get in the way of the barber… or when putting dat lampshade on at the beauty parlor.
Normal
August 7th, 2010
1:11 pm
Dave R.
August 7th, 2010
11:43 am
Actuall yhr right side of the brain operates the left side of the body…left handed, right minded…
RW-(the original)
August 7th, 2010
1:13 pm
Time to run, but I’ll leave you with this clip from my favorite politician
It even fits the music theme.
Later
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
1:14 pm
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/africa/-At-Least-Four-Killed-in-Nigeria-as-Christians-Muslims-Clash-98413554.html
“Violence between Muslims and Christians in central Nigeria earlier this year left hundreds of people dead.”
So what GOOD comes of it? Which cult is better if both cults are killing one another?
Normal
August 7th, 2010
1:16 pm
@@,
It amazes me how much you can see with your eyes closed. I put down only what I heard on the news and the only opinion I gave was how that 7th Century thinking reminded me of how the Catholic Church treated Galileo. Ignorance and religion. The two don’t mix well…even in this day and age.
Normal
August 7th, 2010
1:17 pm
Dusty
August 7th, 2010
12:19 pm
THAT was a joke, right?
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
1:30 pm
Normal… it’s only a “Joke” for Dusty when it’s something she’s against…but she should explain the “joke” from yesterday…where she came off as basically saying that Cheney was a true American Patriot who’s served this country for so many years…. see that????
I guess when it was time for him to SERVE our nation..his 5 deferments were in the best INTEREST of this nation and just what he could do for it. Always easier to send other kids into battle…most of all when their not your own…and you’ve never seen the face of the one you need to shoot on orders….
Saul Good
August 7th, 2010
1:32 pm
Opps…I meant “they’re not” being typo king…
I forgot to add…how many of Cheney’s direct family served in Iraq or Afghanistan? It rhymes with “bun”….
@@
August 7th, 2010
1:43 pm
Normal:
You SAW something on the news that I’m not privy to?
AND…
Saul has a brother, who….?`
My church offered its facilities to Clayton County’s CHILDTECH program. It was made clear to all church members, that if they were on the premises (our facilities) there was to be no talk of religion in adherence to the separation clause.
Guess what? We never discussed religion when we encountered the toddlers or their teenage moms. It was more important that the program have a facility free of charge.
Come to think of it, our government’s thoughts on religion sound very much like the Taliban’s. Once a government sponsored program sets foot on OUR property, we have to keep our mouths shut. Same thing when they use it as a voting precinct. We’ve even been asked to remove all literature from the fellowship hall where the voting takes place.
No problem….it’s part of our civic outreach, not religious outreach.
@@
August 7th, 2010
1:50 pm
Another thing, Normal….as much as I love ‘em, we’ve got a few folks in our congregation who ain’t the sharpest tools in the shed. You might call ‘em ignorant, I call ‘em friend.
@@
August 7th, 2010
1:51 pm
AND………they’re not a threat to you.
Normal
August 7th, 2010
2:05 pm
No problem….it’s part of our civic outreach, not religious outreach.
Do you wear tee shirts with the church name on them or show up in a church van? Anything you do civically that has a church advertisement on it is religious outreach and don’t say it isn’t.
I don’t know where you came up with your 1:51, I don’t feel threatened by anyone, least of all members of your congregation. Live and let live, believe what you want to believe..Que sera sera…
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Saul,.
Who’s your brother, man?
Don't Forget
August 7th, 2010
2:24 pm
@@
Come to think of it, our government’s thoughts on religion sound very much like the Taliban’s.
No offense but that’s the most stupid thing I’ve heard all day. Sorry you’re so oppressed.
Lloyd Blankfein
August 7th, 2010
2:24 pm
@@ thinks that people in her congregation are dullards! I just do God’s work myself and try not to be judgmental.
Paulo977
August 7th, 2010
2:30 pm
Mick….Paula Abdul …cool coolcool!!
barking frog
August 7th, 2010
2:38 pm
wonder if Paula Abdul has trouble boarding planes?
@@
August 7th, 2010
3:03 pm
DF:
Did I say I felt oppressed, or did I say we went about our work in spite of….?
Lloyd:
@@ thinks that people in her congregation are dullards!
According to the majority of jay’s left-wingers, anybody lacking a college education is ignorant.
Some of the smartest people I know never made it past the eighth grade. My grandmother never made it past the third, but WISDOM and STREET SMARTS? She had those…a real survivor, she.
When talking about the “dullards” your word, not mine…I was thinking of two in particular…good people, one a very hard worker…both with college degrees…one a teacher.
Maybe Normal would like to give us his definition of ignorant. I don’t even consider the kids I’ve worked with over the years as ignorant…challenged maybe, but far from ignorant.
I don’t use the word, ignorant, to define people.
Paulo977
August 7th, 2010
3:07 pm
Barking frog ..Paula A … Why ?Do Jews have problems boarding planes?
@@
August 7th, 2010
3:39 pm
Dr. Karen certainly knew what politicians were all about:
Most of the time I listen to politicians on the TV with an autistic head on, you know the kind of head where you can instantly tell when someone is lying through their teeth or is simply delivering a foil of bullsh*t, liberally peppered with terms designed to disguise that there is absolutely nothing inside the hot air that they are spouting. If you squint your eyes a little and just listen to the words, the child or the dog inside you, the bit that is innocent and can still tell the difference, will raise it’s ears and say, “That person is offering me what looks like food but when I go to eat it they will grab me by the paws and squeeze me til it hurts, best I don’t listen to them”. So I am torn but find myself switching on the TV to listen to various puffy people talking sh*t.
http://explorerkitteninafghanistan.blogspot.com/
RIP Dr. Woo and all of those, with you, who cared enough…
Don't Forget
August 7th, 2010
3:45 pm
@@
August 7th, 2010
3:03 pm
DF:
Did I say I felt oppressed, or did I say we went about our work in spite of….?
NO, you said “Come to think of it, our government’s thoughts on religion sound very much like the Taliban’s.”
To say something like that, especially on a day when we learn that the taliban mercilessly executed a group of people for their religious beliefs, is repulsive and stunningly ignorant. Just admit you were wrong and move on.
Normal
August 7th, 2010
3:59 pm
@@,
When and where did I use the word “ignorant”? You are pretty good at putting words into other’s mouths to prove some obscure point.
I have better manners than to name call on a personal basis.
Have you been sampling the sacramental wine today?
Mick
August 7th, 2010
4:01 pm
I’ll try again – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16LI4TUucW4