‘cuz the devil knows your weakness, son!

Colbert for Prez!!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/24/stephen-colbert-appears-capitol-hill-hearing-illegal-immigrants/

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Nice funky starter this afternoon, Jay.

Something decidedly more upbeat…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nu6XznDP3s

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AmVet
September 24th, 2010
3:58 pm

Giving my best “bandstand” impersonation…..I’ll give it an 85. It’s got a great beat and is easy to dance to.

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“Christine O’Donnell Says She’d Stop The Whole Country From Having Sex”, HP

A whole lot of Rosie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tCyJzI-6kc

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jewcowboy

In case you check in and want to know if any of us old f*rts know anything from this millenium…
This one jumped out and caught my undivided attention…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8FHwsATN0E

Hillbilly

was reading over the comments on this and your grandparents’….thought of this one…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRxCDOQfkw4

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aquagirl

This is Friday night at Jay’s place…save the sermons for Sunday…give us a music post if you’ve got a bone to gnaw on, let somebody else sing your song….okay?

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course the devil’s already been to the oval office…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5J6dvMDvQA

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AmVet

A MOT tune for ya in reference to our exchange last p.m. bear with the poor quality of the visuals, but given when this was recorded, well…just seems appropriate…

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

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some musings from Andre’s true better half….

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

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Hillbilly….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7hCuDL8j2M

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There’ sight and there’s insight….

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gotta make sure we get this one in…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MCHI23FTP8&feature=related

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Wow, Jay! Are you old enough to have seen Diane Shuur as a little girl in a club? Did you see her at the Jazz Festival this summer?

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O.K., before the music fest gets into full swing, I just wanted to clarify something. When Colbert’s testimony was mentioned earlier, I was thinking Keith Olbermann. I always get those two mixed up.

Colbert’s schtick certainly didin’t help the dem’s cause. They don’t have time to act on the the Bush tax cuts, but they’ve got time to entertain themselves with Colbert’s farse of a testimony.

That ain’t good.

Proceed.

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Just one little oversight with your selection, Jay. I think you needed a male singer.

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Aquagirl,

If you believe in evolution then you should blame evolution for evolving us to the point having religion. It’s not our fault. It’s obviously selected for some reason.

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

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josef

Thanks for the Mary Chapin Carpenter. It was a perfect fit, I remember Grandma saying, “Daddy held me up to the window and pointed it out to me.”

This one is for all our carpetbagger and scalawags friends from the previous thread.

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

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The real thang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm0lZR4uHIk

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXVMD1RNAW4

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UteEr4N7lv0

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Soames

Good, you’re here…caught your feeling homesick post the other night. Here’s to you! Durant?

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

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgYfys7vErI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRP7hNZ_cE8

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What is it with these sicko homosexual freak people, masquerading as a “preacher” so that they can molest little boys.

But, enough about Glenn Beck.

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josef

I was never much of a fan of Pam Tillis, until I saw her live. She’s quite good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FBFLMOrnw

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Will a time ever come in this country when the preachers and priests won’t be caught with their pants down?

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Jackie,

If you drop by that link you left me downstairs proves my point and disproves yours. Good job!

To recap, you claimed that children were being dropped from existing policies and I told you that wasn’t true. Companies were just going to stop offering children only policies.

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carlos
@ 6:02

Them, politicians and assorted others who make it their business to tell us how we ought to live…I have known some good preachers and priests…I’ve never known a good politician….

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Del:

Get your platoon over to Tucker’s thread most ricky-tick.

We got two Marines pinned down over there by a regiment of liberals.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE

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Speaking of….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4y5si8DGs

“Preacher man talkin’ on the TV,
He’s a-puttin’ down the rock ‘n’ roll.
He wants me to send a donation,’Cos he’s worried about my soul.
He said: “Jesus walked on the water,”And I know that is true,
But sometimes I think that preacher man,
Would like to do a little walkin’, too.”

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Bishop will continue to take advantage of the black community and he will have their support because the black community only believes that there is only one evil in this world and that is white people. It is a strange thing. The blacks refuse to critisize one of their own race even when that person is clearly a predator and abuser of them. It is almost as if the blacks are willing to be taken advantage by their own race as long as they think that they are sticking it to white people. It is a relationship akin to that of the Democrat party and the blacks of America. One party knows that it can screw the other over again and again and the that the victim party won’t do anything about it because they perceive a greater evil and in this case it is white people. Look at Obama’s and Holders refusal to investigate and prosecute the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. Obama is nothing but a puppet of his own ideology but he pretty much speaks for most blacks in America (thus their continued 95% approval rating of him). Everyone should read the Manchurin President. It is quite scary. First and foremost he is a communist/marxist and it started when he was 11 years old in a “Church” in Hawaii supported and attended by his terrorist buddy, Bill Ayers. Obama uses racism (blacks against whites”) only to further his socialist views. He doesn’t really care about anything or anyone other than his own socialist anti-American ideology. It is in his blood.

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Hey everybody, send me your email address and I will send you some pix of me in my muscle shirts. It is OK, I don’t mean anything by it. Honest.

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How could we left this one out!

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

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Gosh! Where’d everybody go?

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Don’t know if any of you folks listen to the public radio show about rock & roll and suchlike, Sound Opinions, but their topic this week sounds intriguing…

After every successful debut comes the dreaded “Sophomore Slump.” This week Jim and Greg highlight artists that managed to defeat this streak and release a “Sophomore Success”.

anyway, the podcast isn’t posted yet so I have no idea of which artists they’re going to highlight. I’m trying to think of second albums that were actually decided improvement over the debut, and for some reason I’m kinda stuck.

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j-nix, good sophomore pick.

I was thinking With the Beatles, while not necessarily more earth-shaking than their debut, is among those 60s lads’ most enjoyable.

(Of course most Americans heard it as “Meet the Beatles,” a rather different album.)

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now I gots to run myself. Later… maybe.

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This one goes out to the Boner. Maybe it’ll make him feel better. Debbie, Chrissy and Lizzie, how about you gals taking it easy on him. The Boner just can’t help himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN-4lX0QyZc

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Tan Line
@ 7:24

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For those who can’t let it go on Friday Night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMAv1n8ieWE

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Sufficiently Breathless was a damn fine second album.

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This guy has reinvented himself again. Amazing voice.

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

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGawnVcpzB4&NR=1

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv2sxujHcbI

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5uyackyLA

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh1BjmrufeM

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Well, that poor Preacher Long. Another one’s decided to kiss and tell. You can’t hardly trust nobody nowadays.

It just goes to show the truth of what Daddy told me before I left for the Army. He said, “Son”—he always called me Son—”don’t never mess around with the hired help.” Anyhow, I don’t need to worry about it down at the warehouse. All the women that work in the office look like the Pillsbury doughboy.

I hope the Rev. Long comes out on Sunday and says, “Yup, I done it. I sinned against thee, Lord.” Then everybody can send in a double donation and everything will be OK.

Anyhow, I think we need to take up a offering to pay for fixing all these gays. It can be reversed for the right price. It would be kind of nice to see all the gay men and the gay women on this blog dating each other.

Have a good night everybody.

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I’m just a little bit surprised at the “hell” and “damn”. Reckon I’d better loosen up some.

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Palin took aim at critics who said Palin had no business supporting Handel, a woman she didn’t know personally. “Yes it is true that I live outside the perimeter, okay? Way outside,” Palin joked.

Palin praised Handel’s accomplishments, having come from a broken home and becoming Fulton County Commission chairwoman and later, Georgia’s Secretary of State. “She made something of herself because she didn’t blame her circumstances. She worked hard to get where she is today,” Palin said of Handel.

“Some say that I endorsed Karen just because she’s a woman. Now that is just so stupid. It’s just so passe,” Palin told the crowd. “We’re endorsing her because she’s the best candidate for Georgia.”

Say ‘no’ to King Roy, no to Deal Real Incompetent!

Write in Karen Handel.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

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Dianne Schuur, absolutely phenominal. My personal favorite by her would be “The Very Thought of you”.

Another Seattle girl…Nothing like the pacific northwest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70-1b9SCj0

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I thought for sure the Crazy World of Arthur Brown would ignite page 2, but I had no idea it would render everyone homeless

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NEW YORK — Iran would consider ending uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world powers send Tehran nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told reporters Friday. -Urinal

Oh yeah, a “medical research reactor.”

In other words, the ragheads ain’t having any luck spinning up their evil brew and need obozo to send them some good stuff so they can load it up and flame Israel.

And the AJC tries to hurry things along.

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Mexican workers suffer and have no rights in the US. The same deal they get in their own country.

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Completely off topic, but extremely telling:

Sen. John Kerry D-Gigolo, in an interview with the Boston Herald yesterday, finally admitted he figured out why Hope & Change got elected:

“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday.

Finally, a Democrat that can admit the truth!

(Actually, he was picking on the Tea Party, but don’t you know THIS quote is going to come back and haunt him in the next election?)

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So, Nathan’s News reveals even more unethical Deals. Who would ever thought. Then again, he is a Republican. And what was that little blurb from Phil Gingry and his denied request to add “bipartisanship” to that rehash of the GOP’s Contract on Americans.

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carlos

I’m no real fan of Sam Nunn, myself. His stands on gay things alienated me. I do think he fit the John Stennis mold of the Southern gentleman politician, all right and, as you said of preachers and priests, they can appear to be good. Mr. Nunn did have the good graces to exit the stage when he could no longer play the game with what was his version of a clear conscience.as we descended into this partisan bickering spiral. I do think he possessed something of a moral compass, but the same as the rest, he was not above forgetting that when it was in his best interest to do so, playing footsie with the money boys.

As for men and women of the cloth, the good ones I have known have seldom been connected with the institutional and theological heirarchies, but workers in the field.

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As some cynics had expected for 20 years, the State Road and Tollway Authority, led by Gov. Sonny Perdue, voted Friday to continue the Ga. 400 tolls until 2020. The vote flies in the face of promises made during the planning of the road that the tolls would come down once the bonds that paid to build it were repaid in 2011.

In order to satisfy the original promise that the tolls would come down in 2011, Perdue said, SRTA will see if it can suspend the tolls briefly in 2011. When they resume, he said, they would be a “new” toll.

Wow! Them Republicans sure is good at keeping promises. At least it’s not a tax. It’s a toll.

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And just think, Taxpayer, next year we will have toll lanes on I-85. Right there in place of the HOV lanes.

I-85 was paid for with our taxes
the HOV lanes were built with our tax money
and now the toll lane is being built with our tax money
And then we will pay to use it.

You can thank your local Republican for that. They are going to toll us to death.

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hillbilly

“Nathan Deal is a crook but don’t you reckon he was a crook back when he was a Democrat, too?”

Yep. The GOP just offered him a better deal.

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You can thank your local Republican for that. They are going to toll us to death.

It’s better than being taxed to death though, I think. Then again, a toll’s just like car insurance. You don’t have to buy it unless you want to get the benefits associated with it and that is in no way, shape or form even remotely like health insurance either. By the way, [Sarc]. Just in case.

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Sonny used to be a Democrat too. Then again, how many Georgia Republicans are not former Democrats. Actually, I think “Dixiecrat” is likely more technically correct. And Phil Gramm, the stepfather of the unregulated derivative (its true father was Enron and Phil was just given the written word to bring down from the mountain and claim as his own), was a Democrat that graduated from UGA.

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Well, lookie who’s here! And a cheery top o’the mornin’ to ye…

” And when they get caught taking what doesn’t belong to them, it’s government’s fault?”

Unmentionable says it certainly ain’t in the case when it’s the government doing it!

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‘You prefer to see the entire world through one prism: If something goes wrong, government caused it.”

That’s interesting Jay. For the past nearly 4 years with Democrats running Congress and nearly two years running the White house, all this time I thought it was Bush that caused things to go wrong. Oh wait, Bush WAS government.

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BOSCH

We’ve been on different schedules the last week or so…been having to check out a little early to keep up with the little bitty ones!

I can understand your point of view about evolution and all that, but I’ve already spent a lifetime waiting for the breeders to catch up!

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And Jay thought jt was stretching the yarn tight enough to play a tune on it:

For the past nearly 4 years with Democrats running Congress and nearly two years running the White house, all this time I thought it was Bush that caused things to go wrong. Oh wait, Bush WAS government.

On a side note, I would have gone for “Meet DePress”… unless you are simply depressed, of course.

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The Dixiecrat Party lasted part of one year in 1948. So it really has nothing to do with anything.

My condolences to them and their beliefs for dying off in one year like that. Come to think of it, didn’t the Republican party get started about the time that them Dixiecrats broke up and some went back to the Democrats.

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Although the Dixiecrats immediately dissolved after the 1948 election, their impact lasted much longer. Many white voters who initially cast Dixiecrat ballots gravitated back toward the Democratic Party only grudgingly, and they remained nominal Democrats at best. Ultimately, the Dixiecrat movement paved the way for the rise of the modern Republican Party in the South. Many former Dixiecrat supporters eventually became Republicans, as was highlighted by Strom Thurmond’s conversion in the 1960s.

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hillbilly

“No. It dates to the 1850’s.”

An outgrowth of the No Nothings But ssshhhh, we’re not supposed to talk about “all that!”

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It’s been very rainy as of late, so all outside activities are put on hold. Here’s an interview that can take your mind off politics for a bit. Sometimes getting sidetracked might be OK-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfBBBA12Vk&feature=related

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josef

And the current Democratic party claims to be the descendants of Jefferson and Jackson. They even have their Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner. But Jefferson and Jackson were two very different people, with differing views. So which group are the “real Democrats”, the Jacksonians or the Jeffersonians? And who is in charge of deciding that?

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Hillbilly

Even though I would like to think they are the descendents of Jefferson, sadly they appear to be more the descendents of Jackson. I get tickled with the Jefferson-Jackson dinner…then a quick jump a few decades, the party of Jefferson Davis, ya know…! They had a chance to combine all three with Harry S, but it seems he’s been rejected, too…but ssshhh DADT!

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Okay everyone who’s jaw dropped at the news that the GA400 toll would be continued for another 10 years please raise your hands. Then put your dunce cap on.

Sort of like, when they originally sold the MARTA tax, it was to last 10 years. And I doubt if there is a county anywhere, that hasn’t reneged on promises to end SPLOSTs. That’s one thing that’s truly bi-partisan.

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Well, it’s only a matter of time before the cons try to con us with the notion that bedbugs are returning because of the ban of DDT. Might as well nip that one in the bud.

But long before the United States banned most uses of it in 1972, DDT had lost its effectiveness against bedbugs—which, like many fast-breeding insects, are extremely adept at evolving resistance to pesticides. “Bloggers talk about bringing back DDT,” says Bob Rosenberg, director of government affairs for the National Pest Management Association, “but we had stopped using it even before 1972.”

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/08/conservatives-blame-environmentalists-for-bedbugs.html

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“Well, it’s only a matter of time before the cons try to con us with the notion that bedbugs are returning because of the ban of DDT.”

Huh?

Yeah anyway, nothing like being “conned” with an $800 billion dollar “stimulus” bill of which such brilliance in money allocation spends on giving monkeys cocaine, giving money to a town in New York to study homelessness where there are no homeless people, money for building a guard rail around a pond in Oklahoma (except the pond was dried up decades ago), and one of the classics fit for a joke: money for a program to teach men in Africa how to clean their you-know-what after sex.

Now who are the “cons” again?

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Depressed

Where’s Senator Proxmire when you need him!

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Why don’t airplanes have toll routes.

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**Yeah anyway, nothing like being “conned” with an $800 billion dollar “stimulus” bill **

Man, you’ve got your head up your wazoo…in reality the stimulus created or saved between 2.5 to 3 million jobs. Think of everything just ONE person needs to consume just for our modern existence. This has a ripple effect throughout the economy. Each state was bailed out and given a chance to get their house in order. Biggest myth, the stimulus was a waste and didn’t do anything – BS….I’m saving the most important fact for last, at least all that money was spent or put into play here in the US – our money for us minus foreign wars, banksters….so to those who rail at the expense consider that the bailout put the money back to the people, private sector included. I have more problems with trillion dollar wars…..

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obozo said without Porkulus the unemployment rate would go up to 8% but when he got it unemployment went to 10%, and this is the story of how liberals define success, and they all lived happily ever after, duh.

Today, the wonder in awestruck stupidity why a candidate who owns an airplane would fly more than other candidates.

Probably makes them sleepy just contemplating it all.

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But… but… trillion dollar wars are what protect me from the terrorists that would otherwise come here and have their way with me and then cut off my head and live in my house and drink all my beer… and… .

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Hillbilly
Deluxe
re:”Wonder”…Indeed…we seem to focus on the negatives don’t we?This was great..Thanks

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CBO: Stimulus Lowers Jobless Rate By Up To 1.8 Points

“When the CBO, Congress’s top watchdog and an institution widely-respected on both sides of the aisle, says that because of the Recovery Act as many as 3.3 million Americans are on the job today and the unemployment rate is as much as 1.8 percent lower, it’s impossible for even the most cynical, bent-on-rooting-for-failure critics to deny,” said Biden.

Guess again Joe, the billionaire’s hand puppets don’t care about the facts.

The CBO paper also noted that the price tag for the stimulus plan has been revised to $814 billion from a previous estimate of $862 billion, projected in February 2010. That is still higher than the $787 billion cost assigned to the bill when Congress passed it in February 2009.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/08/24/cbo-stimulus-lowers-jobless-rate-by-up-to-18-points/

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Jay————————sorry for a belated retort. You asked.

“When someone robs a bank or steals a car, is that government’s fault too?”

I will answer.

When government TAKES OVER a bank or TAKES OVER a car manufactorer, then your results remain the same…..Grand Theft Production.

Furthermore, I like sardines.

You sir,……………. are living in a fantasy world if you think that government had nothing to do with the closing of the LAST SARDINE CANNERY in AMERICA.
The “free market” has nothing to do with the NOAA thugs, federal regulations, and at least 1 EEOC lawyer for every 3 sardine workers. This is called a “managed or centralized market”. Stalin or Castro can enlighten you.

A modern day Steinbeck would have wrote about “Poverty Row”.

Check THIS out……………….We are from the government and we are here to help. Evenb if we have to stomp your head into the ground.——————

NEW YORK (AP) – President Barack Obama’s $30 billion small community business lending program faces one big challenge: many of the community banks and businesses it’s supposed to help don’t want it.

Bank executives say their customers don’t want loans, even at low interest rates, because the sluggish economy has chilled expansion plans. Some say the federal money isn’t worth it because they fear it will come with too much regulatory oversight.

“We have taken a strategic decision not to have our primary regulator, the government, also be a partner in our bank,” said William Chase Jr., CEO of Triumph Bank in Memphis.”

I would bank with that guy. Hell, I would vote for him for president.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100925/D9IEME2G0.html

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Jay

You don’t “clean out” sardines. They come and go. I did’nt know you were such a marine biologist.

All I know, is that the next time that you are in the mystery meat section of your local market, and you reach for that can of double-layered goodness,……………..

be aware……………

it came from 10,000 miles away.

Thank your local lawyer, your local fully-costumed federal agent, your local democrat, and your local RINO.

I do suppose Monkfish have as much right to live as us.

Also watch the price.

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jt
Can’t recall the governor…who was it?

And Steinbeck’s solutions? The Short Reign of Pippin IV…I could be a contender!

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MICK

“I hate sardines and could care less where they came from now or then…”

I’m with you on that one…bleeech! Among our post nuptial agreements was that that so-called foodstuff would be consumed by him only on a fishbank, downstream and downwind from me!

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josef nix———-

Ask and you shall recieve. I didn’t know it either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJADponG3QY

Mick—————-

The cubanos know of this. You don’t know what you are missing. I them once in Miami. Mostly in Spain.

http://www.tasteofbeirut.com/2010/07/fried-sardines/

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Kamchak ———–

Can’t wait until the Tea Party/Republicans gain control.

That way, ya’ll can start biatching about the wars and gitmo again.

I believe that ya’ll will breath a big sigh of relief.

Default to a caring irrelevance.

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jt
@ 3.27

Now I know why my memory was being jogged…I didn’t know he was the only one…but I did know about his connection with Carthage…are you familiar with Belle Starr’s connection thereto?

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Just wanted to point out your comment was stupid. You are welcome.

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BTW

Does Hannity make the mistake “all the time” or “frequently and repeatedly?”

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josef nix

I am not familiar with Belle Starr’s connection.

Can you imagine Jesse James, Samuel Clemens, and the Fox being in the same pub at one time?

It could have happened. Samuel was a smart one. He got the hell out of there.

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Pennsylvanian

Someday, just maybe it will happen and you might rise above your immature manners.

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In 1950, there were 46 sardine plants in Maine. Global competition, changing palates and production efficiencies have contributed to the fall of canneries, but hopes are high that baby boomers will take to sardines’ health benefits and pump up future sales. Most of the US supply is from domestic catches of Atlantic herring – 179.9 million pounds worth $14.1 million in 2004, and Pacific sardines, at 198.9 million pounds valued at $10.4 million, according to National Marine Fisheries Service date.

http://www.napoleon-co.com/pages/product_pages/sardines.html

Blaming the government for the industry decline is just another con from the conservatives.

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Penn…

Libs don’t what? Our President consistently uses the comparative and superlative of “unique.”

jt

Her family was burned out and several of her civilian relatives killed during the puniative attack on Carthage. Unbeknowst to many, she was a trained classical concert pianist, knew Greek, Latin and Hebrew, spoke French and Spanish and later learned Cherokee when she refugeed to Indian Territory and took up residence, and later citizenship, in the Cherokee Nation, having married into the Starr family. The Starrs were, and are, a prominent family of highly educated individuals. She took to her “life of crime,” so to speak, during the occupation in response to the draconian “reconstruction” measures being implemented against the Indians there which, in turn, gave rise to the federal genocide against the Western Tribes…

Have you seen “Ride with the Devil” or read Woodall’s “The Woe to Live On” on which it was based?

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I have not yet heard the Sound Opinions podcast about sophomore (2nd album) successes.

I did have about 20 hours since my last post on the topic, wherein I did some thinkin’.

Here is my submission for finest Sophomore Success: Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure lp, their second, and their last with Brian Eno. Here’s arguably the coolest track from the album, performed live live livety live:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykDr32qvmLg&ob=av2n

And yes, you get to see Eno soloing on synth. Along with all the rest of the Roxyies.

“learn from your mistakes is my only advise.”

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Pennsylvanian

Well, our President does seem to think he’s a Fierce Advocate! You did hear about the Mohawk tribal leader who was calling him Walking Turkey, didn’t you? Asked why, he said, that was his tribal name. Why that? “Oh, that bird’s so full of sh*t he can’t fly!”

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josef nix – Walking Turkey….. That is hilarious!

How about a Fierce Advocate Regarding Taxation?

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If scientists were to make FrankenSardines, then we would not run out so fast.

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Taxpayer – If you mean Al Franken sardines, nobody would buy them.

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eyes

Good to see you! Talking sardines? You just never know where “a little opinion about a lot of things” will lead, do ya?

SFD

Been giving that sophomore album a lot of thought…it does seem to be the case…I posted my own, but the more I looked at those I THOUGHT were, the more that point seems to be born out…so far the S&G is the only one I’ve found…

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josef,

Good to see you, too. It looks like Jay covered a number of subjects this past week including the good Georgia pastor. I had hoped t be around with Scout when that was discussed. The past two weeks the Friday Night music seems to have been in a slump. The hottest topic at home these days is the emergence of China as an economic bully. Hmmm. Has it really been so long that the “Ugly American” was written?

Penn,

Is Bada Bing on another South American sojourn?

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Pennsylvanian,

Actually, I was thinking about the FrankenSalmon that I saw on teevee.

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eyes

I didn’t get a chance to chime in much on the good pastor, but forget what Scout said, IR/YW was the fun one there! Kinda hard to Bible Thump and f*g bash at the same time! But, then, in case you missed it, he did come out as a lesbian!!

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Jay———-

Put your faith in a centralized authority. Washington.

I will put my faith elsewhere.

Time will tell, although history already has.

It is not as if I want the whole seas swept of every sardine. I trust the fishermen over bureaucrats.

Peace.

Dont let those federalies stress ya out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WEUesP0eZw&feature=related

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Kinda hard to Bible Thump and f*g bash at the same time!

I missed that too, but if anybody is capable of pulling that off, I’d put my entire fortune on him.

G’afternoon all!!

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josef,

lol. Well, I could have told you all along that he was a lesbian. No wonder I have a certain attraction to him.

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Jay

Until Saban takes off the Crimson and White, he’s my kinda guy. Think I’m gonna have to hit the liquor counter now.

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SoCo

A bumper sticker I saw once…
You can drive yourself TO drink, just make sure you have a designated driver FROM…

On Andy…
The Bruin is present and I don’t want to go messin with his plant… but then he knew I was going to say that…

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Jay

If that isn’t the truth!!!

josef

Why drive? Just set up your own bar at home. The worst that can happen is that I get a CWI (crawling while under the influence).

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yosef- It is rather easy to thump and bash at the same time, I think you might be confused, after all, I don’t remember the good Lord commanding us to go forth and play with other men’s thingies, just sayin…

Maybe that’s what happened to old fast Eddie, he was reading YOUR bible, hahahaha.

eewwwwwwwwwwww

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Like slimy boiled okra

(without the smile though)

Mick

He’s still St. Nick in Tuscaloosa, unless he loses to Auburn or this game today.

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“We’ve seen comments that people would not make in the public square or any type of civic discussion, maybe even within their own families,” said Dennis Ryerson, editor of The Indianapolis Star. “There is no question in my mind that the process, because it’s largely anonymous, enables people who would never speak up on Main Street to communicate their thoughts.”

At the newspaper’s website, moderators delete individual racist comments that are brought to their attention, and will take down a whole thread if such comments persist. On some stories that are expected to provoke racism, the entire comments section is disabled beforehand, a practice shared by a growing number of newspapers.

They must have been reading C Tucker’s blog recently.

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SC

He just came to miami then quit after one year. He made the right decision though, college ball was a better fit. However, people should credit mike shula for signing all those great players.

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Mick

I remember. I was mad at him for doing Miami like that, and I’m nowhere near qualified as a Miami fan. I’m wanting Saban to exact revenge for me and the Falcons today, but for some reason, the team doesn’t act like they want to remain #1 after today.

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josef nix – “But, then, in case you missed it, he did come out as a lesbian!!” I have to confess; I have lesbian tendencies myself. Gotta go walk the dogs. Bye, y’all!

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SC

The dolphins are king sport down here and as long as they beat the jets and pats twice this year, I’ll be happy…

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LEGUME LOVERS

If you’ve never had them, fresh shelled (not dried!) black beans are one tasty treat. I discovered them quite by accident…dropped a bag of dried ones on the porch and it broke…swept them off into the just planted flower bed…they came up too pretty to clear out, made a beautiful flower and then a nice little crop…on a whim fixed a pot of them and served as per above…the yard here doesn’t lend itself to them, but my niece grew some and we had them not too long ago…mmmmmm

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even our blog meister who still insists that the contracted second person informal pronoun is “ya’ll.”

Perhaps it’s forgiveable, since to him, it’s a second language?

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josef

I understand your thinking, but I believe there are times when posters go overboard. The extremely inflammatory stuff should be banned as I don’t think it serves a useful purpose in any dialogue. The reason I say that is because I feel some people post those things just to get a rise from others. I believe you can discern whether a person’s post is their true feelings as opposed to just some indescriminate rant.

Mick

King Sport??? You need to spend time in Alabama. The Tide and Tigers are religions!!!

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“finally, something of worth from that pack of malcontents…!”

Tell him I’ll try not to let it happen again.

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SoCo
I agree on the rant and going overboard…and, yes, the truly inflammatory…and when it comes to such, Ole Jaybird has a pretty good record on that one…have to hand it to him. Like I say, I’m not for banning any of it, but I’m lunatic fringe myself…

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SoCo
@ 6:41

That’s TOO good!

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lol @ Mick

At least you’re honest about it. The only think that’s missing from any football game in the state of Alabama, whether it’s high school, jv, or college, is the pulpit. If Saban runs the table again, he’ll be more powerful and important than the governor.

For all those military vets who poke fun at the Air Force, I think they pulled a fast one on you all. This has got to be the best recruitment tool ever used by any branch of the military!!!!

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I think people who take up serpents are taking a verse out of context but if that’s what they want to do, it’s alright with me.

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If this comes through, the rest of y’all ignore it… had a post held up elsewhere and it’s suspiciously intriguing.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jqje0lZZ0

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Howdy, gang. I’m back in Atlanta to finish packing and dropped by to say hi. The new job is going well, the owner already put my name on the door. All good news so far.

One great thing about Columbus is there are a lot of street musicians. I heard this song the other night, and it made me think of the blog band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJYREFafQ9s

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Congrats on the new job success, Bruno.

Keep you mouth closed when you’re outside and south of the gnat line.

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BRUNO

Friday’s missing you! Glad to know your name’s on the door!

Hillbilly
@ 7:44

I don’t care who you are, thass funny!

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Bruno

Look for a Greek place run by a Lebanese! Seriously, though, most of these mid sized Southern cities have some good Greek restaurants and if you’re in luck the owners fathers or grandfathers will have come from Turkey, Lebanon or Syria and sometimes have some of Mama’s food on the menu…

Best kebobs and humus I ever had were at an Italian place owned by Syrian Greeks in Paducah, Kentucky!

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Bruno

Thanks for the tought! Much appreciated…

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Bruno!!!!!!!

josef

It’s probably the government overregulating the church.

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SoCo

I think this is one of those places I’ll go for government regulation…I’m like the fellow in Hillbilly’s link…”yes, I would, but H- didn’t tell me to, so I ain’t!”

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I cain’t even schmooze in English!!

LOL @ HD. I’m sure you have your way with the mountain girls…….

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Just checked the scores, a squeaker by Alabama over the Razorbacks….. Arkansas looks pretty tough this year.

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josef

I was in tears listening to that…

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Bruno

Memorize some of these. And Shug Jordan is pronounced “Shug Jer-dun”.

http://www.quotemountain.com/famous_quote_author/shug_jordan_famous_quotations/

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Geez didn’t realize they only had the 1 quote.

I’m sure the most important quote is this one from Wiki:

“He was the head football coach at Auburn from 1951 to 1975, where he compiled a record of 176–83–6. He is the winningest coach in Auburn Tigers football history.”

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“Always remember, Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David”. Shug Jordan

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I don’t know if it’s still there, but there used to be a church on Emerson-Allatoona road up near Cartersville that advertised snake-handling services. I don’t know if my faith is that strong……

And speaking of snake-handling, what’s up with the Bishop Eddie Long???? That even made the news down in Columbus.

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what’s up with the Bishop Eddie Long?

Scroll down about 2 threads.

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BRUNO

Arkansas? Now practice…sooooeeeepigpigpig! I work with a very lovely and elegant Argentine lady who went to Arkansas…first time I asked her, she cut loose…should have seen the looks on the faces in the teachers’ lounge!

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BRUNO

What’s up with Long? So many lines and so little time!!!!

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WASHINGTON — Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republicans, using lawsuits, tax filings, reports from the Better Business Bureau and even divorce proceedings to try to discredit their opponents and save their congressional majority.

And in the case of the Georgia Governor’s race, the Urinal making up a story out of whole clothe and putting it on the front page.

Don’t worry Repugs, everybody snickered, just sayin…

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if evolution is real, “why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?

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Banana

Have you been following what’s going on with the baboons? Seriously…

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Sooth

That song has some of the best mood setting guitar and steel playing, I’ve ever heard.

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This is my all-time favority GL song. I’ve search high and low for a studio-quality version to no avail. I hope you enjoy this one.

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the eye shave it…..BADA BING watches….waits.

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Have you been following what’s going on with the baboons? Seriously…

Seriously!

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Friends, if you don’t believe in evolution, you need to come up to the Dawsonville Wal-Mart. We have all of the various stages of evolution on display for the edification of the scientific community.

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Sooth, or go anywhere around atlanta.

chillz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_3GVhfnwZI

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there is a new theory making the rounds that evolution is not so gradual as we previously thought, but comes in rapid spurts.

I wouldn’t call that a new theory, josef. The history of evolutionary changes has always been one of rapid development. The reason is that “evolution” is actually a teleological process, i.e. purpose-driven. While the mechanism for accomplishing that isn’t known completely, I strongly believe that it will be shown that it is directed by the epigenomes.

What has always frustrated me are the idiot “scientists” who try to claim that evolution is all one big happy accident, driven by random mutations or some other such nonsense. Anyone with a background in biochemistry and physics understands that the complexity represented by living organisms cannot be the result of any random process.

As I’ve stated to you before, my life goal has been to synthesize Science and Religion. Each on its own only tells half the story.

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j$

Around Atlanta…? Hell, go anywhere in human “civilization!” Or take a look in the mirror! I think the evolutionists are overly optimistic!

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I suspect that HD has taken some of my past “attacks” on religion in the wrong way, though he has never directly said that directly to me. Just to clear the air, I am very harsh on people who misuse religion, but only because it is such a serious matter. We all owe our existence to the Creator, to God. Without God in the equation, the equation is incomplete. What form God takes is very much open to debate, of course. Personally, I understand God to be a spirit, though the word “spirit” needs to be carefully defined so that it is consistent with Science. Over in the scientific world, the term “emergent properties” is synonymous with the word “spirit”.

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RW
We’ll get our evolution thread yet, won’t we? See my comment later to Bruno for clarification of what I meant by “new” theory…

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Well Bruno and RW are here and as much as I’d like to stick around and see where it goes, check out time is here…

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Well Bruno and RW are here and as much as I’d like to stick around and see where it goes, check out time is here

HBO doesn’t have any live boxing tonight so we’ve got to recreate it somewhere.

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See, Jay does know what I’m going to say…comes in on evolution just as I’m checking out…! RW has an inner Muslim and Andy’s a lesbian…damn, Jay, what else are we going to say that you’re keeping secret?

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Actually, Bruno, almost every evolutionary scientist will tell you that evolution is NOT a purpose-driven process. And many if not most have the very “background in biochemistry and physics” that you claim would preclude such a theory.

Which is why they are almost all full of sh*t, Jay. If you read carefully between the lines, however, they use “code words” like “survival of the fittest” and “emergent properties” to state what common sense alone will tell you. When pressed for details, however, there is a lot of hand-waving.

When you begin your studies with atomic physics, it is immediately apparent that the union of atomic particles itself is nothing short of miraculous. Schrodinger’s equations as applied to the union of two hydrogen atoms are enough to boggle the mind. If you try to apply those equations to anything more complex, then the world’s best computers are immediately overwhelmed.

Maybe you put your faith in some of these folks, but I don’t. Very few of them can see the forest for the trees. If an appeal to authority is enough for you, then I won’t stand in your way. I prefer to make my own judgments.

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But if you’re gonna take that stance, I don’t think it’s wise to claim that anyone who knows physics and biochem would agree with you. It’s based on something else.

I can’t claim to know the background of every evolutionist out there, but people who are typically drawn to the life sciences, e.g. biology, are usually weak in physics and vice versa.

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It’s getting lonely being the last man standing…..again.

For AmVet (George), wherever he may be partying tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWy9q24wfdU

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iybpptEnxqM&p=7D3D3289B25186DC&playnext=1&index=28

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Stimulus-funded jobs program may end
Thousands who worked again face unemployment. -Urinal

And now check out the only company “saved” by this mentioned in the story-

http://www.armstrongpie.com/

I wonder if our first lady, Idi Amin, knows what little fatties the gov is working so hard to create?

Or is she eating all of the product?

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I guess this is off-subject Sunday. Lindsay Lohan has so many mug shot pictures out, that somebody should make a multi-colored poster similar to Warhol’s painting of Marlyn Monroe.

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Good morning, blogging friends.

I was at the local Nebraska haunt last night watching an extremely uninspired Huskers effort. Jeez, just when I thinks are really starting to gel in Lincoln, the Jack Rabbits, of all teams, make us look like we’ve gone right back to the Callahan years…

I see that some tried to make Friday night less than special again. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, RW!)

An interesting discourse on sardines, in which one position was bolstered by facts and links and the other by demagoguery. (Sorry, jt, that’s just the way I read it…)

And an extremely interesting discussion on evolution and all that that entails. Brother B is more than just a master of things political, he is a true Renaissance Man in the breadth and depth of his intellect. And he makes me consider many things in a very different light.

Too bad it was all via the evil and liberal public education system in this country! (grin.)

And thanks for the George H. song. A timeless message that still needs to be shared today. Give me love, give me love, give me peace on earth…

And back at ya’ll on a fine fall morning…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWd3skb-Rw

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My bet is that it just proves baboons are smarter than even scientists realized they are.

And that task gets easier by the year as we continue down the path of de-education.

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What’s that on the back of my leg?

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“In our instant fix society, almost everything is distorted beyond it’s scientific”

Well, that’s mostly true…but the distortion of both evolution and relativity is a LOT older than just today’s society. The problem is that EVEN our as late as today, those distortions still exist.

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Well, as I have painfully discovered on this website, anyone who doesn’t accept the Bush/Cheney version of what happened on 9/11/2001, is subject to ridicule as a nutcase from both the left and right. I understand this because to admit otherwise is to admit that your government is just a vast criminal enterprise. For those with even a slightly open mind on the subject I invite you to read this article.

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josef

When Doggone’s talking about evolution, I think she’s referring to genetic evolution. That would be referring to last night’s 9:05pm post. That poster’s question is more related to genetic evolution as opposed to behavorial evolution. The process you described with the baboons sounds more like adaptation as opposed to evolution. That’s just what I think though, and we both know I’m not an esteemed member of the scientific community.

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Go figure. Yesterday I referenced the epic disaster of the “stimulus” bill and how much of a waste was in it. Today an article on Bloomberg references an author who wrote a book about it: Black Swan. Now that we know the Obama dream team is abandoning ship port and starboard, the truths are beginning to unravel:

‘U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration weakened the country’s economy by seeking to foster growth instead of paying down the federal debt, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan.” “Obama did exactly the opposite of what should have been done,” Taleb said yesterday in Montreal in a speech as part of Canada’s Salon Speakers series. “He surrounded himself with people who exacerbated the problem. You have a person who has cancer and instead of removing the cancer, you give him tranquilizers. When you give tranquilizers to a cancer patient, they feel better but the cancer gets worse.” Today, Taleb said, “total debt is higher than it was in 2008 and unemployment is worse.”’

Just wait until taxes get jacked back up and Obamacare kicks in (and some insurance premiums are already going up – I didn’t believe for one second they would not go up, counter to Democrat promises). And don’t even go there on what Cap & Trade will do. Change we can believe in!

And then we have the New York Times on the typical modus operandi of the Democrat Party: “WASHINGTON — Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republicans, using lawsuits, tax filings, reports from the Better Business Bureau and even divorce proceedings to try to discredit their opponents and save their congressional majority.”

Do they have anything positive to run on with nearly four years running both chambers of Congress? Didn’t think so.

But on a lighter note, last week a man in New Jersey was arrested after beating his girlfriend with a cat. Now that gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “pu**y whipped.”

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Just wait until taxes get jacked back up and Obamacare kicks in

Healthcare reform has already started, and insurance premiums were already increasing. That’s your free market at work. They are free to increase their premiums, and we have no choice but to pay them since we’ll soon be mandated to have coverage. It’s rather funny that most conservatives are so against this plan, when mandating coverage was originally a Republican idea. Go figure…

Also, unlike supply-side thinkers, I don’t think a 3% increase in taxes will hurt anyone who currently is working. Many who don’t have a job would more than likely rather have a 3% increase in something as opposed as to not having a job at all.

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Bruno, thank you for your introduction, at least to me, of this new concept regarding behaviorial evolution.
I have intuitively felt for awhile that the direction that we, collectively, wish to take our nation and world will effect the collective consciousness of society at large and, thereby, its evolution.
From the scanning that I have done in Wikipedia on the eginenomes you mentioned, it appears, in a brief, first reading, that societal changes (behaviorial) can, in fact, change the physiology of the DNA passed to future generations – and, thus, effect the course of evolution.

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If you seek an answer to that 9:05 post, then look no farther than the link in the 9:59 post.

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“Does this mean I may no longer use the term evolution in reference to societal change? The evolution of the capitalist imperialist system…the evolution of democratic self-rule? So, adaptation and change or not evolution, the “thing” did not evolve from a previous form? ”

Certainly you can still use it, you just aren’t using it in a Darwinian sense. That is evolution in the vernacular, not in the scientific and genetic sense.

“Then the Darwinian studies of the birds on the Galapagos are not really a study of evolution, but a study of adaptation?”

It was both. A species adapts to environmental changes. We can see adaptation happening all around us. It is evolution in the Darwinian sense when 2 separate populations of an originating species can no longer “go back” and interbreed because evolutionary (Darwinian) changes have made that impossible.

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What’d I Do

Deferring to a politician for an answer to a scientific issue is like going to your mechanic for open heart surgery. He may understand how systems pump fluids, but that’s about it. If that politician is a scientific expert, then there’s an exception for that.

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My training is as a linguist, so I’ll just stick to that great Yankee master in the field, and go with ole
Noah’s namesake’s definition sticking with the first three definitions and its Latin origins, leaving it to others to argue definition 4a…

EVOLUTION
1
: one of a set of prescribed movements
2
a : a process of change in a certain direction : unfolding b : the action or an instance of forming and giving something off : emission c (1) : a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state : growth (2) : a process of gradual and relatively peaceful social, political, and economic advance d : something evolved
3
: the process of working out or developing
4
a : the historical development of a biological group (as a race or species) : phylogeny b : a theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations; also : the process described by this theory
5
: the extraction of a mathematical root
6
: a process in which the whole universe is a progression of interrelated phenomena

From the Latin evolutio, unrolling, from evolvere, first known usage in 1622

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Stooges

Corporate evolution?

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SoCo

I worked for many years in automobile dealerships and I also knew a couple of doctors, who enjoyed working on cars, as a hobby. I found it very interesting talking to the doctors and listening to them talk about how similarly diagnostics work, in each field. (The doctors had taken some formal auto mechanics training, at night, in their spare time). They said that both the mechanic and the doctor approach the problem in the same way. You try to isolate the complaint, then you go through the possible causes and which systems are working when. By a process of elimination, some things can be weeded out. Of course, the two fields are quite different but I found their take on it very interesting.

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Y’all think I’m joking about 1:13, dontcha? Think about this, the family of monkies does all sorts of depravity, unrestrained by human morality, they kill and eat their young, masturbate in public, throw their feces around, shriek like idiots, surrender like monkeys, eat up all their bananas and then steal some from their fellow monkeys when they run out, it’s amazing how much liberals and primates have in common.

Except the primates aren’t weird enough to get queer with each other.

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Wow! Just look at what a snippy off the wall comment can evolve into!

All I set out to do was respond to the question ,“if evolution is real, why aren’t monkeys still evolving into humans?” by pointing out that apparently the baboons were catching up with the homo sapiens’ willingness to put the mothers and children at risk to get goodies and that that “evolution” was a matter of two or three generations.

And I see IR/YW is here to give us the baboon’s perspective…

I should have just followed Jay’s lead and stuck with abortion, the State of Israel and Palin!

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Mary Elizabeth

“If you remember that all of Williams’ men are really women, he begins to make a little sense.” Truman Capote

But allow me to say again that I long ago rejected the Blanche du Bois syndrome! I went with Stella, got me a Stanley (well, a refined one!) and have been happy ever since. BTW, I was blessed to have the chance to talk to Williams about this and it was kind of interesting to hear his comments on the interpretations of “what he was saying.”

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OOPS bad…real bad…
That should have been “if you remember that all of Williams women are really men…”

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Mechanic: I’ve checked the intake and exhaust and fuel flow and pressure and basically everything seems to be working properly. I’d say you’re good to go and I’ll go ahead and schedule you for your age 55 checkup. By the way, why do you come to me instead of to a doctor?

Car Owner: Well, you do the same thing for a lot less and you even give me a warranty.

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You bunch of evolutionaries,

I was merely posing an answer in the form of a question. It was not an issue to be paraded around a bunch of master debaters. Now pardon me while I sit a spell, on you. Where’s Sarah when I need her most.

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Bye Hillbilly,

ya’ll come back now, ya heah.

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“ya’ll come back now, ya heah.”

He will. Note the placement of the apostrophe!

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Advanced

Native speaker, er ya?

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My hope hath been rejuvenated. Ya’ll have a good day.

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“Whiner, your feces-flinging has ended.”

Killjoy!

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On the Dr.- mechanic theme…..A mechanic was trying to convince a Dr. that their work was similar. The mech stated that he diagnosed the problem with state-of-the-art equipment, planned a course of operation, and then skillfully fixed the problem. The Dr. agreed up to a point, then added “Next time you change a headgasket, try going in through the tailpipe while the engine is running”!

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From the scanning that I have done in Wikipedia on the epigenomes you mentioned, it appears, in a brief, first reading, that societal changes (behavioral) can, in fact, change the physiology of the DNA passed to future generations – and, thus, effect the course of evolution.

Mary Elizabeth–The specificity and rapidity of biological adaptation suggests to me that it is intelligent adaptation. The only structure in an organism which can coordinate such a rapid, intelligent change which leads to long-term genetic change is the epigenome. If Staphylococcus aureus, for example, had to wait around for a fortuitous random genetic mutation which conferred immunity to the effects of penicillin or methicillin to one or two individuals, they would have died out as a species. The fact is, whatever new drug we use to kill them, they develop immunity fairly rapidly.

But when circumstances change in the environment and those circumstances favor members of the species with a particular genetic mutation

Doggone–The “traditional” mechanism by which genetic change is supposed to occur is “random genetic mutation.” I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t pass the smell test to me. To believe that the incredible atomic/molecular complexity which is required for life to occur simply happened by accident is a leap of faith that I’m not prepared to make. The bottom line is that no one knows the answer, yet arrogant “scientist” claim they do and create paperwork which they give to each other to “prove” it.

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OT.

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Well, my 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms need to get back to packing. Catch you all later.

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Nice job Falcons. beating the reigning champs in their own house.

And the serially castigated whiner is consistent. Consistently wrong.

He reminds me of that poster where one arrow has split another but both are off of the target completely.

It reads, “Consistency. Its Only a Virtue if You’re Not a Screwup.”

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A great Falcon’s win. This win could spark some serious momentum through the regular season.

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Interesting poll here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39369615/ns/health-health_care/

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Interesting, but not surprising. There were many who opposed the health care bill. Most people took opposition at face value instead of digging deeper to find out why people opposed it. There were quite a few who opposed it because they didn’t like it, but I think there were just as many who opposed it because it didn’t do enough.

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Mary Elizabeth

If you’re still around, I’m sorry to not have gotten back more promptly. I have a student on Sunday afternoons and had to get ready for her.

There is, as always in such cases, a story behind the story in how it came to be I had the conversation with Williams relative to Blanche, Stella, and Stanley. Since it involves some people who were in the public eye at the time and some of them still are, discretion, not to mention time and space, prohibit a retell. Suffice it to say it had to do with a scandalous happening to which Williams had been witness in which a prominent Stanley had been met by a Stella armed for bear–literally! I was interviewing him after his lecture and, one sidelight leading to another, he invited me to go have a few drinks and he’d tell me, off the record, what really happened. It was indeed one whale of a tale, full of all that stuff Southerners love.

The conversation turned to Streetcar and the Blanche du Bois syndrome when I remarked that, as a young gay man, I rejected that kindness of strangers pathos that had us trapped into a mentality of self-hatred. He then asked me what I thought of our fascination with the Stanleys of the world, was that what Stella or Blanche that really wanted? Were we not, in our setting our sights on a Stanley, buying into that very syndrome? Did we not, in the long run, have to wind up “protecting” that very thing we were trying to escape, victim to what the straight world demanded we be? His conclusion was that if we were to ever achieve tolerance (acceptance not even at issue and equality an alien concept at the time) it would be the younger generation–myself at the time–rejecting the Blanche syndrome as well as the Stella, for it was they who made Stanley what he was. Stanley agreed and Blanche and Stella agreed.

I said I found my Stanley in a more refined version. By that I mean a man who is comfortable with his maleness, finds no need to apologize for it, and who is as comfortable gutting a deer as he is in a symphony hall listening to Sibelius. Stanley’s evolution, if you will, is the result of rejecting both Stella and Blanche’s version of what he should be and send them both packing into well-deserved oblivion. He had to quit buying into their game.

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On most days, there’s at least a second flinger hiding behind the Grassy Knoll, in here.

There’s also one that stands right on the street corner flinging at anyone that passes by with nary a peep about it. I suspect this banning was more about the pointing out of the abject bias in these pages and the colorful language just became the excuse. That and the host on a power trip.

Anyway, I’ve been getting progressively scarce here and I think that’s a good trend to continue.

Catch y’all later.

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“Interesting poll here”

The only thing interesting is the left wing spin. No, people reject Obama Care not because it didn’t go far enough, they reject it because of other reasons not least of which is its unintended cost consequence and concerns about potential degradation in the overall quality of this nations health care system.

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Del, there’s nothing factual in your statement. Did you run your own poll? Do you have polls that show a breakdown of what people are opposed to? Can you document the cost consequence’s you speak of? The CBO says otherwise. Can you provide any evidence of how or why this “degradation in the overall quality of this nation’s health care system” will occur?

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Tucker has gone off the deep end and will not be satisfied until whitey has been “overthrown” and the likes of Obama and whomever her other heros are have taken control and permanently in charge.

Its persons like her who would seek to subvert govt thru her “fairness” doctrine. She now is about to fall over the precipice and be lumped in with the likes of Cythia McKinney and Maxine Waters. Such a waste.

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Del

So what you’re saying is that the far left who wanted the public option liked what they got instead? I think not. I understand your view as a person who sees things from the right side, but you’re not completly correct because there were indeed people on the left who did not like the bill that was passed. And I honestly believe those on the left who did not like the bill were not in agreement with those on the right.

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Fruitcake mystery meat, brilliant posts at 8:59 and 9:04. You are a credit to the Klan. Good job…

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PS…Obama approval ratings now at 42%…down, down, down. I wonder whom he and Ms Tucker will blame for this latest decline.

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Watching the Reps dismantle this farce of an HCare bill will so entertaining. Something to wile away the cold winter months. Add to that the Blue Dogs current stance, who are fighting to save their necks, and we have a recipe for success…REPEAL!!

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Carrots and Raisins,

You have thrown in everything you have in this salad but the pineapple and the mayonaise. . What in the world upsets you so terribly? Tucker is but another liberal editor who follows the well known path of derogatory indictments of phony baloney to smear the political opponents of their party. .

I don’t care for her smear philosophy anymore than I care for Bookman’s not-so-subtle undercuts. But it is a very old method of character assassination and antiquated in its dismal direction.. Relax!

The one most harmed by such shenanigans is Mz Tucker herself. It shows her throwaway of jounalistic ethics for the political push.

Allow her to “hang” herself as the expression goes. But do not waste your bile or blood pressure because that is exactly what she wants. Don’t give her the satisfaction of public attention she so desires..

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Carrots and
Raisin ….. Are you for real? I cringe at your lack of appreciation for the various occupations in the society that we could not do without . In addition you are an out and out BIGOT!

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LOL…takes one to know one Paulo…LMAO!!

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Hopefully when the Reps take back the House this monstrosity named HCare can be tossed on the trashpile of History.

HCare…kinda like the mutant Sharktopus that got away.

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With the latest Unemployment numbers being at around 9.6% I guess the question is why Ms Nasty Pelosi isnt rumbling about those who have dropped off the headcount and/or those who have just given up.

As I recall, during the Bush years, Ms Pelosi was the first to come out screaming like a rabid banjee about same. Guess she must have now forgotten about all those poor lost souls. How sad…

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Do you see any difference in the writings of Kyle and Wooten as compared to Bookman and Tucker? I do.

No kidding.

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Saw her at The Ferst Center at GT. She brought the house down. The last one to sing of 4 amazing female singers. The woman has some pipes with a capital P.

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Please extrapolate on the reason you hate health care reform. Not just a generalized Rush parroting please. What is bad about getting rid of pre-existing conditions, extending coverage to 26 year old off spring and not being able to cancel someone when they actually need the coverage they paid for for many years?

If you really want something to rail on, try the fact that over 50% of Americans are obese. That is what keeps health care so expensive. Or as is recently reported that soon it will be 75%. Try making health care more expensive for the obese and smokers. Why should I pay for their bad choices? Hey I love brownies just as much as the next girl, but I choose to exercise and eat in moderation.

Insurance carries don’t hate the health care bill. It will give them MORE business when young people have to pay in.

Just maybe then young people will decide to not get fat in the first place.

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Sorry, that’s KFC with the Double Downer, I meant to type @ 8.00.

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SFD,

Yeah, there is nothing more masculine and sexier than a huge french fry beer gut. Well maybe a crazy sexy 44 inch waisted mullet wearer.

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G’ morning

dB

I don’t know either. Seems like he was being his usual self. I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary either, unless a post was pulled.

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young people will decide to not get fat in the first place.

Tamye, I could spend several hours getting into the weeds of this particular topic, but for now I’ll just say that while there are certainly personal choices and decisions involved, it’s not some weird collective character flaw that has so many USA-ians overweight and out of shape.

it’s a historical backdrop of postwar American incentives to develop unsustainably, where far-flung ‘burbs filled with landlocked subdivisions and no mass transit and no means by which children can get their butts to school under their own power… AND a filthy-rotten agribusiness and other business interests pushing garbage down our throats as well. Of course people have choices to resist, but like (say) religious beliefs inculcated at a very early age, these physicological settings can be unbelievably difficult to adjust.

(and I write this as someone who is probably a lot fitter than most of my own demographic group, so I’m not saying this to make any excuses for myself. Although I could be a lot faster/stronger than I am, actually.)

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Although I could be a lot faster/stronger than I am, actually

All it takes is to have a bad crash and let the government rebuild you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7zNY0I5JNI

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It’s ok, SoCo–you didn’t need an accompanying clip, I got it!

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sfd & Doggone,

It appears to have stemmed from the 1:13/1:20 stuff from yesterday that’s still posted. It’s pretty effed up that Jay B has everyone believing that if he bans someone then they must have said something else that was both deserving of a banning and also pulled down to spare the tender sensibilities of the rest of us.

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dB

No problem. I used to love that intro. I always wanted to run on a treadmill like that.

Paul

Who’s to say that the person would actually live a full four months when given the drug. On the opposing side, would limiting the treatment options (even if it is a fiscally responsible decision) be akin to making death panel decisions?

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Dang,I’m having techno problems this AM. Good morn all.

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Jay, like I say all the time, your blog, your rules–and I don’t read the personal comments people send you about this place, so I don’t know how much pushback you got from readers about IR/YW.

I didn’t really think his comments yesterday were especially stupid by IR/YW’s standards. If they were the straw that broke the camel’s back, hey, we all have our limits.

headin’ upstairs.

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Paul

Also, I think that question is best answered when it’s your own life on the line. Some people would choose to have the drug, and there would be some who would not want it. I think it’s all a personal choice. Either way, there’s no right answer.

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