muff528

Wrong flick. Y'all ain't got no culture.

Goldfield, Nevada

6000

Juniper

Chrome fades sometime during the final 8th. If Ride On Curlin is in shape, he'll run Chrome down. Watch Commanding Curve, too.

New York City lawyer has had enough stress and decides to spend a couple of years in the wilderness of Minnesota to get away from the rat race and people for a while. He buys a cabin in the woods that is miles away from his nearest neighbor. Peace and tranquility reign for a few months and the lawyer is really feeling a sense of freedom and regeneration through nature's beauty and his labors. Then, one evening he is surprised to hear a knock at his door. No one around for miles ....who could this be? He opens the door and and the opening is eclipsed by a very big Swede in overalls and plaid shirt. His rosy face is framed with a bright red full beard and scraggily long red hair. He presents his giant, puffy hand to the lawyer and introduces himself. Hello, I'm your neighbor, Sven. I want to invite you to a party at my place next week. The lawyer thought to himself that he really is ready to mingle with people now and that a party might be a welcome change in his routine. "Yes, I'll be happy to come" he says. Sven says, "I just want to warn you that there might be some wild sex going on there." "No problem with that!" replies the lawyer. "There's probably gonna be a lot of drinking, carousing, scrapping and fighting, too", says the big Swede. The city boy says, "I can deal with that, too. I used to do a little boxing in the Navy." "OK, then", says Sven, "I'll see you next week". ...and he turns to leave. "Wait a minute!" calls the lawyer. "What should I wear?" "Doesn't matter, wear whatever you want..", says the big guy ..."just gonna be the two of us!"

Good one! gets you tossed out of the plane. That would be where I would be headed, anyway! I would have preferred a better spot. It might be a good idea to at least wait until the plane gets reasonably close to the DZ.

Good one! gets you tossed out of the plane.

Who is, Just about any lefty I have ever heard comment on the subject. By misrepresenting, mis-characterizing, mis-labeling, disparaging, misunderstanding, accusing, lambasting, disrespecting, denigrating, criminalizing, marginalizing, lampooning, personally attacking, generalizing, maligning, silencing, threatening, and generally caterwauling against anything and anyone who has anything to do with the so-called "tea party" "movement" ...or conservatism in general for that matter. (OK, I guess I was "generalizing" there.) The same thing can be said about the so called conservatives who label anyone not goose stepping to their fun little Christian identity wet dream... including other republicans who they lovingly refer to as RINO's as libruuls. Better pull that cedar log outta that RIGHT eye. See there!? you're doing it now! Some conservs do accept some Christian ideals and reject others. Some don't. Same for Jewish ideals. ..even Muslim, Hindu, atheist and others, too. Plenty of Dems of all religions (or none) too. Whether we admit it or not, the rules of western society are built upon 10000 years of Middle Eastern history and working out the hard way how to get along with each other. Still a long way to go. (another interesting topic, but not completely off topic here.) As far as RINOs go, they also believe what they believe with regards to running the gov't. I would rather have them voting for C ideals rather than L but some don't. If they don't follow the Republican Party line they are by definition RINOs. Some may be libs. Actually, I am a RINO "technically". But at least I now know that it is disparaging to call someone a "liberal". I'll use prog or commie from now on. Or maybe you could suggest a label. I'll play along.

I think you've confused yourself. I asked why you thought that "the left" was overreacting to a few hundred protestors - you've responded by talking about the tea party and conservatism in general. Do you think there are only a few hundred conservatives in the US? No ...but it does look like I've confused you. I do not think the left was overreacting to a few hundred protestors. What I'm saying is that the OP is saying that the appearance of a few hundred protestors proves that conservatives in the US are small in number. If so, then why all the caterwauling? The OP, in a backhanded sort of way, mocks the "tea-baggers" as over-estimated in number and relevance since the organizer of the march expected large numbers of folks to participate and only a few hundred actually showed up. My points were: (1) That even though many conservatives (if not most, at least to some degree) might agree with much of their "agenda", ... marches, sit-ins, protests, hashtag campaigns and ribbon-wearing are not tactics often used by conservatives. I realize that although these types of marches have been tried in the past, it's mostly a lefty thing. (2) many of these "outliers" might only in part share conservative interests. But we will take their votes just as the leftys will take the votes of greenies, commies, fascists, racists and "racialists" and other lefty outliers who only partly represent mainstream liberalism (as long as they are legal voters, of course). (3) So, given all the caterwauling, which is it? ... a few hundred or millions? Leftys will point to the "few hundred" and tag all conservatives as one and the same. Doesn't matter whether or not they actually believe it. It's a tactic that works with their voting base. The point is that some on the left will project the actions or words of even a single conservative onto conservatism in general. Just take a stroll through SC.

Who is, Just about any lefty I have ever heard comment on the subject. By misrepresenting, mis-characterizing, mis-labeling, disparaging, misunderstanding, accusing, lambasting, disrespecting, denigrating, criminalizing, marginalizing, lampooning, personally attacking, generalizing, maligning, silencing, threatening, and generally caterwauling against anything and anyone who has anything to do with the so-called "tea party" "movement" ...or conservatism in general for that matter. (OK, I guess I was "generalizing" there.)

OK, I just got home and was able to read the linked article. I have to agree with you & quade about these folks. IMO, their misguided notion that they represent conservatism as a whole is much the same as the commies' and progressives' beliefs that they represent liberalism and the majority of Dems. Then maybe this isn't .001% ...maybe a few hundred really is most of them. Maybe they are, as quade says, "overstated outliers". If so, the "left" is getting way too worked up over them. Or maybe community organizing really is a top-level skill and this group's organizer has only advanced far enough to earn his "rabble-rousing" merit badge.

probably couldn't get the day off.

Delta Tau Chi

pong

refining

I agree with the decision by this private business to mitigate the possibility of future suicides, or worse (and possible exposure to legal troubles) by effecting a policy that directly addresses a specific problem. He has actually used empirical data and statistical analysis and plain old walking-around sense to arrive at a policy decision that will probably get the targeted results. Now, ...if only TSA, DHS, Immigration, and other government "authorities" would use the same common sense approach with regard to the "war on terror", we might get the best bang for our (ostensibly) limited bucks.

egg cracker

NFC scout: "...He's tight, he's stiff and he's short."

Soooo ...you have asserted control over this "strange aversion" by choosing as your nomme de guerre, the name of a creator of little round holes?

PRNDL (you'll have to ask Eva Gabor how to pronounce it)

Harem

A. They would have to know about us. B. They would actually have to have the technology to make the trip. C. They would have to find us interesting enough, above all the other multi-billions of places in the universe, to use their space-travel resources to get here rather than Tatooine or Arrakis. Even if they have some kind of "warp" or "bridge" technology to physically make the trip, they might discover places they might want to visit by using old-fashioned light-speed telescopes or other similar detectors. If they are significantly distant, they might have "seen" our solar system as it was hundreds, or even many thousands of years ago. Even if they could somehow scan the universe in "real time", it might not be worth the trip for a discoverer that would have access to billions and billions of other places or civilizations in the universe that could be far more interesting or profitable. Either way, we are likely not interesting enough for an alien Isabella to finance the trip. If they exist, then there is nothing ruling out the possibility that millions or billions of other civilizations also exist. To a civilization that has "space-warp" technology, I doubt we, among all others in all the other galaxies, are special enough to visit. ....unless, of course, they have intercepted our broadcasts of "Dallas" or "Seinfeld".

Have you ever had a strange girl eat your extra olive? Cream Cheese again. Suzie