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Thank you, kindly, Gentle Stash. Warm regards to the mothers in your life, Sir.
Posted by: sillyblindharper at 11 May 2008@03:25:12 (5+XEL)
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I hope you have enjoyed your day Gentle Lady. You are one of the mothers in my life so regards and a big *SMISH* to you as well (DV8 can stand in for me, right?)
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 11 May 2008@18:55:45 (Q5ggV)
Glad she did. I got a little mad when I heard about what Planned Parenthood was doing, and anger being an extremely powerful force for creativity I kinda went a little overboard with my response.
I did eat some pretty big Nigerian shrimp yesterday which helped to calm me down a bit. I have a pic on the site of them, and trust you me they are the biggest prawns I have ever seen.
Posted by: Old Iron at 12 May 2008@07:06:30 (tD0Cq)
The Headline Tells More Of The Story Than It IntendedThis story's headline has the true plan. The story itself is just the cover. I don't want to insult your intelligence, so if you're really wondering what the key word is, mouse over click on the "show" button.
Did I really have to go there? You're going to make me say it? Fine. Race... his whole plan is about race. There, I hope you're happy now.
The article is over at Engadget, and the author thinks it's ugly. Most of the comments disagree and so do I. It looks just fine from here. I like the Nintendo simulation and the SD card slot, but why on Earth does it have a camera? They could have saved a lot of size by eliminating that.
The bulky PMP features a 4-inch 320 x 240 resolution display, support
for NES emulation and text viewing, a 1.3-megapixel camera, integrated
speaker / microphone, video output, USB 2.0 connectivity and
compatibility with a smattering of file formats.
Isn't It Time They Got A Real Job?
People must get addicted to protesting. Or it's a social function. Maybe just a mental illness. Whatever it is, they just can't seem to give it up.
"People walk past and say, 'I'm glad you're doing something,' " said
Marty O'Malley, a Forest Hills council member who has attended more
than 100 anti-Iraq war events, as he stood in front of Democratic U.S.
Rep. Mike Doyle's Downtown office last week with the small gathering of
activists.
"I want to shake them and say, 'Why aren't you doing something!?' "
Right back atcha Marty. There were only three of you and nobody remembered to bring the petition? FAIL!
"[The candidates] are talking about Iraq," said Tom Andrews, a former
Democratic congressman from Maine and the national director of Win
Without War. "Unfortunately, the press coverage seems to be more
focused on lapel pins than on the war."
That should tell him that the war is going very well thank you. If it wasn't, the media wouldn't let 30 seconds go by without saying something about it.
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"Support the Troops. End the War. Win NOW!"
Fixed that for her.
And I agree, we need a new President. Would have loved the entertainment value of Jeb running. Oh well, always 2012.
Posted by: EW1(SG) at 11 May 2008@19:50:21 (YcNsA)
Clerics To Ahmadinejad: "Umm.. Shut Up! M'Kay?" (Loose Translation)
Iranian clerics have told Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to stick to worldly matter and stop talking about the "hidden imam".
Two leading clerics retorted that
Ahmadinejad would be better off concentrating on Iran's social problems
-- most notably its double-digit inflation -- than indulging in such mystical rhetoric.
"If Ahmadinejad wants to say that the hidden imam is supporting the
decisions of the government, it is not true," sniped Gholam Reza
Mesbahi Moghadam, the spokesman of the conservative Association of
Combatant Clerics.
"For sure, the hidden imam does not approve
of inflation of 20 percent, the high cost of living and numerous other
errors," he said, according to the Kargozaran daily.
Ali
Asghari, a member of the conservative Hezbollah faction in parliament,
told the president not to link the management of the country to the
imam.
"Ahmadinejad would do better to worry about social
problems like inflation ... and other terrestrial affairs," Etemad
Melli daily quoted him as saying.
If you're familiar with the military, this is known as advice to "Stay in your lane", and WWE fans might remember the Rock saying, "Know your role, shut your mouth". Same thing. Did anybody else notice that the AFP was careful to link "conservative" to Hezbollah? That's their role I guess.
That's What They Can Prove Anyway
The Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates told Pentagon reporters today that between 5 and 10 percent of those released from Guantanamo return to the fight.
"I was told today that the recidivism rate ... those who
return to the battlefield, is probably somewhere between 5 and
10 percent -- maybe 6, 7 percent, something like that," Gates
said.
"We don't have a lot of specific cases. We're talking about
one, two, three dozen that we have data on," he told reporters
at the Pentagon.
"We do as careful a vetting job as we possibly can before
releasing these people," he said.
I think the numbers are much higher if you count planning and facilitating. These numbers only include those who have been captured, killed, or announced themselves in the media (yeah, it's happened). more...
This last one the blew himself up isn't the first one they've tried to claim that. There are at least a couple more "peaceful sheepherders" who turned to jihad because of their "torture".
Load of crap. (and dpud, I don't think that handle is going to raise my curse-o-meter rating up from zero. Just sayin'
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Posted by: Stashiu3 at 08 May 2008@19:49:02 (Q5ggV)
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Well, if you want help with that too, I'd be happy to oblige...
Posted by: doubleplusundead at 08 May 2008@23:38:30 (ZuzXA)
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I try not to curse very often (shhhh... it's a secret shame) but dpud knows it doesn't bother me when others do it. I don't have a problem telling someone to go "self-sooth" when it's called for, but it has more impact when it's something unusual.
You'll see it now and again here, from me and others, but probably not very often. I didn't even curse over at The Hostages... and they still treated me well.
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 09 May 2008@09:39:11 (Q5ggV)
Welcome Conservative Grapevine Readers!
How the hell did that happen? Welcome... take a look around, feel free to drop a comment or two, check the links... whatever, it's pretty relaxed here. (yeah, right... until a rant or meltdown occurs).
I've never been an "Of The Day" anything before... tastes like chicken. Just sayin'
I've been wondering lately if there is any event that the moronosphere has where everyone gets together in a real sense and do something, preferrably drinking and chasing women.
Has anything like that been thrown together before?
Posted by: Old Iron at 10 May 2008@08:02:50 (tD0Cq)
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 10 May 2008@12:17:30 (Q5ggV)
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There are a few meetings of the Morons over the course of the year, Ace usually holds the yearly Ace-a-palooza in NY in late summer or early fall, and sometimes meets up with morons at things he gets invited to like CPAC. IB had a pretty good get together last year, a few of the Hostages went too.
Rule Of Law
There are just too many unscrupulous people who use the Rule of Law as cover for their own greed, prejudice, or stupidity. Vicki No-Veil atThe Jawa Report notes the irony of Somalia complaining that France had no right to go after those Somali pirates last month.
"France and Somalia do not have an extradition treaty and French
laws are not applicable to crimes committed outside France," said
Hussein Mohamed Aidid, chairman of the Eritrea-based Alliance for the
Reliberation of Somalia (ARS).
"If the pirates were extradited illegally, like it happened in this
case, then they were kidnapped by the French special forces. If the
pirates acted against the law, the French should not have done the same.
Links Around The Moronosphere
Be sure to check out dpud and his daily collection of links. (not responsible for eye- or brain-damage caused by clicking eddiebear's link, or any other).
Thank You Ace
Welcome AceofSpadesHQ readers and thank you Ace for everything. Ace and Patterico are the two biggest reasons I started blogging. This has been a long, frustrating process and I was starting to get burned out. When doubleplusundead and others emailed and suggested asking for help, it was very difficult to do. The prayers, advice, and donations have all been overwhelming (in a good way).
We still have several months worth of paperwork to get processed and the attorneys we have now are (mostly) very good. Pursuing any redress from the original attorney is going to wait until DHS and ICE are happy. So far, they have been very understanding with extensions to our daughter's visas, but if that were to change our daughters might end up deported. Doing anything right now to complicate their applications would be unwise.
For those who are interested, the adoption is complete and has been for a long time. We have an adoption decree by the court. What we didn't know was that the first attorney had arranged for the girls to come here on a student visa and never prepared anything to get that status changed. This eventually caught the attention of the IRS because the girls were unable to get Social Security Numbers and we couldn't understand why. Trying to get all this sorted out since then has been nerve-wracking at times and we needed to go much farther into our financial reserves than we ever expected would happen.
Thank you all for taking the time to listen... your kind words and any donations will be passed forward when our own situation is stable again. I promise you that.
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Hang in there. It sounds like you are handling everything the best way possible.
Posted by: DRJ at 07 May 2008@20:44:29 (wE7Og)
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jb, The attorneys we have now are immigration lawyers and they're doing ok... better now that I shared my concerns with them about losing the birth certificate. We will probably look into getting another attorney after everything is complete to try and make sure that this doesn't happen to someone else.
DRJ, thanks as always. Your advice was particularly helpful (and timely).
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 07 May 2008@21:16:43 (Q5ggV)
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Well, I'm just as slow as molasses! I juuuuuust read about this at Ace's place, hope the bit Fatwa and I can do will be of some assistance.
Normally, I elect to donate as an anony-mouse, but I wanted for you to know your friends are solidly behind you.
Posted by: BrendaK at 08 May 2008@10:46:42 (vmv+h)
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Thanks BK! You and Fatwa are good gerbils and I'm very happy you like your new job so much. When's that Yankee sunovagun gonna make his move? (Location of course, he apparently has little problem with the other kind towards his BrendalambiepieK.)
Posted by: Stashiu3 at 08 May 2008@16:40:03 (Q5ggV)
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