Happy Veterans Day to all you Vets out there, and to anybody who gets a three-day weekend. I’m not off today, but I do get a day off to use later on. Nice to put another day in the bank.
Posted by pjsauter on November 12, 2007
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Happy Veterans Day to all you Vets out there, and to anybody who gets a three-day weekend. I’m not off today, but I do get a day off to use later on. Nice to put another day in the bank.
Is there a NASCAR for bus drivers? Because I think the guy who drove the route this morning is practicing for it. He was gunning it through the curves in the office park this morning doing at least 15 mph over the speed limit. In a BUS. Keanu Reeves, anyone?
There’s a young woman who rides on her way to tennis practice (I’m guessing, since she wears a sweatsuit and carries three tennis rackets). Tall, pretty, kinda looks a little like Michelle Wie. She was in danger a couple of times this morning of falling out of her seat and landing on me when the bus turned a curve. I must not think bad thoughts, I must not think bad thoughts. :hubba:
But at least it made the trip interesting. And it’s nice to not be whining about the bus being late. 😀
Cool, I didn’t know Michelle Wie played tennis. And I think she’s 18 now, Kev, so you’re all set.
Hey, Art, from last night, you should go to Lexmark’s website and see if they have Vista compatible drivers for your printer. Depending on how old it is, you might be SOL, though.
This was the first thing we tried (cause we couldn’t find the CD w the drivers on it). The Lexmark website had updated it April ’07 and had Vista listed as something it would be compatible with. It was telling us that it loaded but it wouldn’t print. Then we tried when we found the CD but still didn’t work. Customer Support was closed- I guess it was still sunday in India :tap:
Mrs A is going to try again this morning.
We’re hoping the Chinese-made Levono doesn’t contain some toxic substance- I told the Mrs not to lick it :rofl2:
Good luck with it.
Dear Mr. Bush,
Is Pakistan the role model you envisioned when enlisting allies for your “war on terror?” (Great campaign slogan, sir, but the follow-through hasn’t lived up to its hype. Something about that reality thing getting in the way?)
What might you have been thinking with Pervez Musharraf? Or had you forgotten he is a rogue general who placed himself above the law and toppled an elected Democratic government? I see as things deteriorate in Pakistan you have trotted out another vintage policy – stay the course. This time, though, mushroom clouds are a very real possibility. (Opps! There’s that reality inconvenience again!)
At least we can all see the light at the end of the tunnel now. January 20, 2009 will shine like no other date has since January 20, 2001, the day a darkness descended over planet Earth.
Ooh, NC Blue, nicely said.
Does Ron Paul have as many fans elsewhere as he does here in Phoenix? Either there’s a lot of them or there are a few very active people that spend all their time hanging signs and calling radio shows.
I noticed Jeff seems to get a lot of calls about Ron Paul. I don’t think he has much support up this way, but then we tend to like our Social Security and other government programs.
A shameful act
On Nov. 1, some students at Morton West High School in Berwyn held an anti-war protest at lunch time in the cafeteria. They didn’t throw food. They didn’t turn over tables. They linked arms and sang “Kumbaya” — “Kumbaya!” Doesn’t that just break your heart?
The District 201 school board waded into the situation like a bunch of blue helmeted Chicago cops swinging batons on Michigan Avenue in 1968, handing out five-day suspensions and 10-day suspensions, indiscriminately threatening expulsions for “gross disobedience and mob activity.”
:pup: Good morning from the dank left coast :doh: :penguin: :fire:
All the local hosts around here get Ron Paul calls. I like what came out of the New Deal too. I voted for him in the 90’s as a Libertarian but I don’t like the idea of voting for a Repug, even though he’s a libertarian at heart.
:yuck: :crap: :paranoid: :paranoid:
:doh: :doh: :doh: Whatever :sheep: le
School boards and school administrators are becoming more and more Reich wing.. They are out to prove government doesn’t work , to destroy the teachers union and privatize schools everywhere .. The voter in most places can recall their school board .. if .. they have a couple of hundred grand laying around they no other use for.
Vigilance committees :sheep: le Vigilance committees. :reaper: :reaper:
Ron Paul and the preselected IDIOT MORON elitists we think we elect to congress and state government would turn everything over to the private sector which if history is any indicator will make costs go up and things get mediocre. .. Paul is only running on the anti war platform because he sees the demodorps :yuck: in disarray.
Runaway capitalism is 👿
I dislike Ron Paul. I feel like he is ANOTHER Rethug Spoiler. My young friends in AZ are contemplating, but I have been offering facts to them regarding “Ron the attempt Spoiler”. First off, if you travel “anywhere” then he shows he is JUST ANOTHER LIAR and USES from others’ brilliance ( i.e. … ROADS). 🙄 I feel his supporters are ex-rethugs and ex-Nader-ites. But if My /Our Country wants failure for the future, then one is not “seeing” the fake-smiles everywhere, being generated (many levels btw “failure & “fake smiles”) :fustrate: A!I!V! :dancers: We Need Strong Dems not another Lying Republican (rethug) Twit, as Ron Paul. :tap:
I am good for a debate :slap: if anyone would like to debate my comments. 😉
Cool, I didn’t know Michelle Wie played tennis. And I think she’s 18 now, Kev, so you’re all set.
Comment by pjsauter — November 12, 2007 @ 6:53 am
To my surprise, Michelle Wie turned 18 in October. I’m not so sure about the tennis player on the bus, though. And she’s been avoiding me (as much as you can avoid someone on a bus with three passengers) since Halloween. Either she was really into the Irish vampire costume, or she is convinced I’m a freak. My guess would be the latter.
I’m not really interested in chasing 18-year-olds, anyway. Adult women are much more fun to corrupt. :hubba:
Since no one has mentioned the writers’ strike yet today (and it sucked not having a fresh Bill Maher show Friday night)…
If the dog incident didn’t put you off Ellen DeGeneres enough, here’s another reason to not watch her show. Not that I do anyway.
http://tinyurl.com/3xu5d6
Nice to know that she treats dogs better than she treats her writers. The sad story about being legally obligated to perform smells like a convenient cop-out. Her attorneys couldn’t have made a legal challenge?
Bottom line is she crossed a picket line, period. Let’s see how she does without writers next time someone wants her to host an award show.
:fu:
Well I heard back from helpdesk company CAI. At this point we’re playing phone tag but I might hear back from someone today. I suppose I should be happy about a job, but I really don’t think I want to work there, except I’ll probably have to.
God I’m such a whiny bitch!
:pirate: :yippee: Andy aka Aquaman, Awww. You have the right to “bitch”, said from a Real Bitch, AT THE VERY LEAST, it is important to “bitch” (i.e. … vent) 😉 … if for no other reason, especially about a :crap: job. (I have had my share. 🙄 ) … :growl: :fist: A!I!V! :dancers:
Good news from (and FOR!) the folks at CREW. The White House is being required to save its e-mail correspondence. Trashing is now forbidden, at least for the duration of the lawsuit.
Hopefully Hartmann or Cenk will have Melanie Sloan on sometime this week to discuss. She was on the Young Turds show a few months ago, but I don’t think she’s been on since. Check out the new photo too… someone’s been to Glamour Shots. :hot: :hot:
http://tinyurl.com/g2mdq
:tommygun: hy PJ do you have gold saw you have orange box and i know you could host a not laggy game of team fortress 2
No, I don’t have gold. Probably sign up for it at some point, but I have to get to where I don’t suck before it’s worth it to me to play against other people.
I don’t think Ron Paul is going to be an issue. He doesn’t seem to be able to win the rethug nomination and I can’t see him running as a third party candidate. Even if he did run an independent campaign, it’s hard to see whom he would hurt.
His presence in the primaries is driving one more wedge through his party. A stake though the heart may be preferable, but I’ll settle for the wedge.
Sig Christenson, a founding member of Military Reporters and Editors who has worked five assignments in Iraq since the war began, reached back some 10 years for a Veteran’s Day piece that noted President George Bush’s early opposition to an Iraq invasion.
Christenson, who covers the military for the San Antonio (Tex.) Express-News, penned the piece for Sunday’s paper that cited Bush’s comments on Veteran’s Day 1997 as governor of Texas. He pointed to Bush’s defense of his father’s decision during the Gulf War not to remove Saddam Hussein.
“There are a lot of Americans (who say), ‘Why didn’t you go get him?'” Bush told the Express-News back in 1997, according to Christenson. “Well, I’m confident that losing men and women as a result of sniper fire inside of Baghdad would have turned the tide of public opinion very quickly,” Bush added.
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Later, Christenson points out that “Vice President Dick Cheney, in an April 15, 1994, interview…said Arab troops would have abandoned the coalition if the Americans had pressed on. U.S. forces would have stood alone in an occupation of Baghdad, he said, and seen greater casualties. ‘Once you got to Iraq and took it over, and took down Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to put in its place? That’s a very volatile part of the world and if you take down the central government of Iraq you can easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off,’ Cheney said in the interview, which was done by C-SPAN and surfaced last summer on YouTube. He added, ‘It’s a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq.'”
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003671351
So, they knew all along that Iraq would be what it is! Makes for some really scary thoughts about why they did it. Nauseating, too.
The U.S. effort to organize nearly 70,000 local fighters to solidify security gains in Iraq is facing severe political and logistical challenges as U.S.-led forces struggle to manage the recruits and the central government resists incorporating them into the Iraqi police and army, according to senior military officials.
Gen. David H. Petraeus and other top commanders have hailed the initiative to enlist Iraqi tribes and former insurgents in the battle against extremist groups, but leaders of Iraq’s Shiite-dominated government have feared that the local fighters known as “volunteers” — more than 80 percent of whom are Sunni — could eventually mount an armed opposition, Iraqi and U.S. officials said.
In some cases, the government has confined the fighters to their headquarters or local mosques. Nevertheless, the volunteers pour in by the hundreds every week, forming a massive but cumbersome force lacking common guidelines, status, pay or uniforms. The effort represents an opportunity to shore up local police and eventually relieve U.S. troops, but one that could prove fleeting or backfire if the volunteers are not organized quickly, officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/11/AR2007111101730.html?wpisrc=newsletter
A little unrelated, but this might be as amusing to the other comics geeks out there as it is to me. :banana:
Sue P., re Ron Paul BRAVA aka :pirate: :yippee: :banana: :nod: 😉 A!I!V!
then I have to read your others posts 😉
Moronqueen, I LOVE :love: IT. Hahahahaha :fist: :dancers: :pirate: I have to copy this one and the one on Sederville. :pirate: :dancers: :yippee: 8) … A!I!V!
I am running back and forth between Dancing with the Stars.
I am not use to Peter, Paul, and Mary’s song not normally heard on Malloy’s..
And now K-Ville… A!I!V! ………..
I heard that out of 126 iSCHOOLS left in New Orleans area — NOW ONLY 4 LEFT and 1/2 teachers are fired and the rest their salary was cut in half.