It's Friday - go drink
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Failing that, here's an open thread. Best participated in - of course - after you take the first piece of advice.
For your discussion, my favorite Mark Twain quote.
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
UPDATE [06/02/06 22:21:00 EST by Leon]: Sure, Dwayne Wade can ball, but can he do THIS?
H/t to MrsNachos, who digs up more than half the stuff on the internet.
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I've done a poor job at proof reading and correcting my posts today
Sorry, maybe I'll improve upon my return from the bar! ;0)
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. -- Mark Twain
Rep. Peter King from NY..
Who said:
"As far as I'm concerned, the Department of Homeland Security has declared war on New York."
regarding a reduction in federal anti-terrorist funds. Oink Oink
Is there any doubt that homeland security is now a pork project?
No landmarks in NYC?
of this that people haven't covered. Right after 9/11 there was a lot of work to be done in NY and DC so they needed a lot of money. Now maybe it is time to increase the funding in other places too. I am sorry that New York's cash cow gave a little less milk this year but the overall budget got cut and we have been neglecting security needs in other places. It might be time to pack off the portion of the funds that NY and DC get in order to spread some grants around to smaller cities so they can put some measures into place too.
NY in particular is looking like a serious crybaby on this one. It looks like this is what happened ... they get their grants and put in place ongoing programs that rely on those grants, then the grants get cut and some sacred cow is at risk of starvation. I don't think things were designed to be living off those grants. You use them for one-time things like getting a project off the ground initially but your ongoing funding should be from local taxes. Trouble is nobody wants to raise local taxes so they have their programs eat off the grant money. Grant gets cut off and they start crying like a baby that has just had a tootsie-pop pulled out of its mount.
so I guess I'll go have a chilled white zin and consider how many days it will be before I die from the ravages of global warming.
sorry, now I'm going to have to do it EVERY time I see you.
and I am tired. Physicly tired and emotionally wore out. Not a good condition to post in. So, I think I will go have that drink and maybe a few others and temporarily forget about being tired. Then I will sleep in late and start fresh in the morning. Yea, that's what I will do.
Oh yea, Republican does not equal conservative. I learned that today in the American Spectator web site. I think I will make that my signature from here on out.
Seems to me that these would come in-handy, should one be either a) too lazy or intoxicated to pry himself away from the bar, b) a busy guy-on-the-go who hasn't the time for the inconvenience of bathroom breaks, or c) a guy who thinks its pretty darn cool to watch the game, down a sixer, and relieve himself, all at the same time.
I ain't sayin' I'm that guy, I'm just sayin'.
That's the price of sucking from the federal teat.
not safe since my Legislature is still in session. But I'm going to try to sneak off on the boat for the weekend and PRAY that the Blackberry leaves me alone.
Let them take their troubles to Our Lady of Taxation
St. Hilary, they voted for her, now lets see what she can do for them.
A single malt scotch with just a dash of cola in the glass.
Water only, if anything at all, and not much of it. There's a bottle of Glenlivet down on my boat calling loudly for me, and I get off work in 20 minutes!
used to work in lower Manhattan.
The Feds have been very generous regarding funding for NY's security issues and I am very thankful (as I'm sure other New Yorkers are). Unfortunately, our politicians resemble actors from a Monty Python skit except they're not trying to be funny.
Additionally, I pay as much in state and local taxes as I do federal taxes - so there's plenty of 'local' tax money available. But that's another issue.
I like cola. Straight, or even watered scotch is a bit too much bite for me.
But its just like beer. Snobs will tell you all American Beer is bad, except some efeete micro brews. But I hate bitter, hoppy beer. So I drink smooth stuff like Coors.
Just a matter of taste.
for allowing the Death Exemption for public figure pseudonyms.
I am from NY and I didn't vote for Hillary! I want my pork now! Who are you to take away our stuff!
The worst single malt in the universe deserves better than to be mixed with cola. In Scotland they burn people a the stake for less :-)
.. if you find truth in wine, what do you find in Glenlivet?
at least that's the way I prefer to remember it.
a cola or other tonic and ice. I am not a scotch and water guy. However, a nice cold beer usually suits me fine. I like Sam Adams or Labbatts Blue (especially if I can get the good Canadian brew, not the import version).
They're not bitter, and they pack a lot of flavour.
Leon's recent Redhot posts, about various culture of life topics, end up driving me to drink.
I no longer know whether the bizarro world in which we live is like some mid-twentieth century dystopian fantasy, or some sci-fi world in which Old Paganism has, by some fold in space-time, been combined with technotopia, such that we get modernity mixed with the pagan notion of certain classes of human beings as things. Or was that the dystopia?
It's not true to say that the center no longer holds. That is to presuppose that there is a center.
I am going to drink something.
You could make a pretty solid case that NY'ers (who are Americans) should get a free pass on anti-terrorism politics. I remember feeling pretty connected to those NYers on a sept day a few years ago.
driving and drinking don't mix.
C'mon. Raise your hands! It's Friday night and our social lives consist of giggling on RedState.
It is an accidental account. Someone else created an account and I guess due to a typo, used my email address so I changed the password real quick and stole if from them. I never use it because that account has like two underage girls as "friends" in Pennsylvania and I couldn't quickly figure out how to "unfriend" them. I just posted in my profile that it's an accidental account. That is the extent of my MySpace existance.
Ok that was mean of me...I of course mean Steve Pence (KY Lt. Gov). On Wednesday, Lieutenant Governor Steve Pence (R) -- a former federal prosecutor -- announced he would not run for reelection in 2007 as indicted Governor Ernie Fletcher's (R) runningmate. Pence said he believed Fletcher was generally an "honest" person, but declined to offer any defense of Fletcher on the criminal charges related to state hiring practices. In response, Fletcher -- from his vacation in Florida -- initially issued a written statement: "I fully understand Steve's decision. This has been a tough work environment with or without [Attorney General] Greg Stumbo's relentless attacks." However, Fletcher apparently became livid when he later learned Pence pointedly refused to endorse Fletcher's reelection. On Thursday, Fletcher called Pence and demanded he resign immediately. "The Governor was not happy. There's still honor left in this business called politics," said Fletcher's spokesman, who confirmed the telephone call took place. Pence rebuffed Fletcher's demand, insisting he was elected in his own right and will complete the 18-months remaining in his term. "In politics ...nothing surprises me all that much, so I was probably prepared for things like this to come out," said Pence. Fletcher's spokesman said the Governor "has not made any decisions at this time" about removing Pence from appointed state panels, but added that isn't planning to give Pence any new official assignments. All this prompted Pence to open the door to a possible run against Fletcher in the GOP primary. Pence coyly told reporters he has "no plans" at this time to run against Fletcher, but added "I have to tell you this: When I became a candidate in 2003 for Lieutenant Governor, the month before that I had not planned on becoming Lieutenant Governor." Fletcher's meltdown with Pence took bad publicity and managed to make it even worse.
Courtesy http://www.politics1.com
Go to your "home," "my friends space," select the boxes next to their names and delete them. :) Then you can add cool people. Alternately, people like me and Leon who are losers.
I need your last name or email...message it to me...
me back, right?
You know you want to use yours for good and not "ebil"
here wouldn't respect or take seriously a thing i said if they saw that....
got to keep up appearances
It is just an empty page with two friends (last time I looked, I haven't logged into it in forever). I don't use it. There are no pictures, no information, nothing. It's blank. Get a brand new myspace profile and look at it, that's what mine looks like.
than I. I have "pimped" mine out.
kinda walked into that one eyes wide open
Ok I'll email you the link but remember its all for show...
time I spend on mine!
Since now I can put a face to yours and Leon's name, I feel like I should put up a picture somewhere.
Never tried that MySpace site myself, though I was talked into briefly trying out Orkut which is apparently the same kind of thing. I messed with it a few days, then just quit. I think I deleted the account, though, or I'd point you it.
Political 'tards...
Take the plunge it's fun for a day or two!
Are you going to make one I'm allowed to "friend?" I would hate to ruin your rep.
I've got a lot of different friends there put in a request
This little teapot is about to crash. Hope y'all have a wonderful evening and it's been lovely spending tonight chatting with you!
I tried, but all I get is this:
Sorry! an unexpected error has occurred.
This error has been forwarded to MySpace's technical group.
This is me, though. Just snapped this picture for this purpose. And wow, not only does it show that I've gone from 135 to 165 pounds in the last year, but I also look surprisingly like my father these days.
I might put this picture on my homepage at some point (the original Myspace kind of thing, heh), but we'll see.
but why not? - My crazy society drives me to drink, and I don't even have the decency to thank it.
we might as well take my ton truck, to thank it properly. You bring the Glenlivet...
to be able to download Jessie Adam Macbeth's falsified DD-214.
I'm 43, and I felt ancient browsing there (but I did find one guy who was one year behind me in high school.)
"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass." -- Mark Twain
One of my favorites.
Put your own guy in opposition.
:)
on the boat melted away overnight in 30 knot winds and pouring rain. So, I guess it is "honey do's" and Red State in my stolen moments.
Obviously hurt herself. Look at her holding the back of her head, grimacing, while her supposed friends whoop it up. Dumb.
No pain, no gain, yeah. She's among the immortals.
What is her name again?
according to the drunk woman at the pool memorial day weekend. Such is life. Try it again! I think it may have just been busy with it being a friday night!
bad name. It's been really helpful in finding old friends and the older friends I've found really enjoy it.
Because that's not unreasonable. Unlike, say.....that NY faxed its request rather than emailing it. Or NY doesn't have landmarks.
that those two underage "friends" in PA are really 50 year old undercover cops who will be knocking at your door ......right about....now!
The redstaters taking over myspace....
"what are we doing today, brain?"
"the same thing we do every day, pinky...planning to take over the world."
I always loved Pinky and the Brain....
but I bet I get kicked out after the first person views my profile. I'm not on their for work, just to keep up with friends and mess around and not act my age, which is fun occasionally.
It's 5am and I don't want to get banned for PWD so it's time for rack ops.
And I sent a message to the person I'm pretty sure is you, heh.
Had to get that Tom guy off of my friend list right away, what with his advertising for Al Gore's movie and all.
But the actions of the men involved are even more egregious. They risked serious (perhaps fatal?) injury to that young woman while assuming no risk themselves, and for what? Truly despicable.
Assuming this little video is not the result of some crafty digital editing...it is getting ever-harder to tell these days?
I've watched it a few times and don't think I believe it is real.
I don't see the girl knock her head (though that isn't a requirement to authenticate, she seemed to go fast enough that her head should maybe of jerked).
Something about the hoop swish sound seems out of synch with the visual too.
It also seems unlikely to me that the netting wouldn't catch.
I could be wrong, and I did enjoy the video. It just doesn't strike me as real. Just a feeling, no facts or anything.
SHOPPED
N00bs
Learn about rotating bodies.
is what I was going for I think. Drank too many sodas. :-)
(This was even my signature for about five minutes)