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- By Phillip Brownlee
- Posted April 8, 2006 at 12:07 a.m.
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I found this fact sheet on the homeless for 2005-2006. For me, it shows how the minimum wage is no longer a living wage.
actSheet.pdhttp://theroadhome.org/pdfs/HomelessFactSheet.pdf
The situation is bigger than we hear in our little backwater of civilization. The middle class is having to find a way to cope with foreclosures by moving into their cars.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/2/93415/04852
A nuclear bomb on Iran?What about the neighboring countries, do they have a say?How do we end a nuclear problem by dropping a nuclear bomb on a country?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060408/wl_mideast_afp/usirannuclearmilitary_060408061934;_ylt=AqlY12ndkAMMI.mG8QtKN2Ws0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-
When the NSA wiretapping issue first came out we Amerericans were assured that the program only affected data that came from another country with one foot in America.
Gonzales in the latest round of talk refuses to rule out that Americans are being spyed on when both sides of the conversation is on American soil.
There needs to be oversight and an understand on who the targets are.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060407/cm_huffpost/018664;_ylt=Ai0lXBWffl0PbaJMWFQS0zod6sgF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA–
Oh.. and here is a link to the AT&T whistlblowers statement about how AT&T are a partner in crime with the NSA in this illegal program.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70619-0.html?tw=wn_index_1
We need a break from seriousness …
Anger Management
When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don’t take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don’t know.
I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I’d forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying “Hello.”
I politely said, “This is Chris. Could I please speak with Robyn Carter?”
Suddenly a manic voice yelled out in my ear “Get the right f**in number!” and the phone was slammed down on me.
I couldn’t believe that anyone could be so rude. When I tracked down Robyn’s correct number to call her, I found that I had accidentally transposed the last two digits.
After hanging up with her, I decided to call the ‘wrong’ number again.
When the same guy answered the phone, I yelled “You’re an asshole!” and hung up. I wrote his number down with the word’asshole’ next to it, and put it in my desk drawer.
Every couple of weeks, when I was paying bills or had a really bad day, I’d call him up and yell, “You’re an asshole!”
It always cheered me up.
When Caller ID was introduced, I thought my therapeutic “asshole calling” would have to stop.
So, I called his number and said, “Hi, this is John Smith from the Verizon. I’m calling to see if you’re familiar with our Caller ID Program?”
He yelled “NO!” and slammed down the phone.
I quickly called him back and said, “That’s because you’re an asshole!”
One day I was at the store, getting ready to pull into a parking spot.
Some guy in a black BMW cut me off and pulled into the spot I had patiently waited for. I hit the horn and yelled that I’d been waiting for that spot, but the idiot ignored me. I noticed a “For Sale” sign in his back window which included his phone number, so Iwrote down the number.
A couple of days later, right after calling the first asshole (I had his number on speed dial) I thought that I’d better call the BMW asshole, too. I said, “Is this the man with the black BMW for sale?”
“Yes, it is”, he said.
“Can you tell me where I can see it?” I asked.
“Yes, I live at 34 Mow Bray Blvd, in Vaucluse. It’s a yellow house, and the car’s parked right out in front.”
“What’s your name?” I asked.
“My name is Don Hansen,” he said.
“When’s a good time to catch you, Don?”
“I’m home every evening after five.”
“Listen, Don, can I tell you something?”
“Yes?”
“Don, you’re an asshole!” Then I hung up, and added his number to my speed dial, too.
Now, when I had a problem, I had two assholes to call.
Then I came up with an idea. I called Asshole #1.”Hello.”"You’re an asshole!” (But I didn’t hang up.)
“Are you still there?” he asked.
“Yeah,” I said.
“Stop calling me,” he screamed.
“Make me,” I said.
“Who are you?” he asked.
“My name is Don Hansen.”
“Yeah? Where do you live?”
“Asshole, I live at 34 Mow Bray Blvd, Vaucluse, a yellow house, with my black Beamer parked in front.”
He said, “I’m coming over right now, Don. And you had better start saying your prayers.”
I said, “Yeah, like I’m really scared, asshole,” and hung up.
Then I called Asshole #2. “Hello?” he said.
“Hello, asshole,” I said.
He yelled, “If I ever find out who you are…”
“You’ll what?” I said!
“I’ll kick your ass,” he exclaimed.
I answered, “Well, asshole, here’s your chance. I’m coming over right now.”
Then I hung up and immediately called the police,saying that I lived at 34 Mow Bray Blvd, Vaucluse, and that I was on my way over there to kill my gay lover. Then I called Channel 9 News about the gang war going down in Mow Bray Blvd, Vaucluse.
I quickly got into my car and headed over to Mow Bray.
I got there just in time to watch two assholes beating the crap out of each other in front of six cop cars, an overhead police helicopter and a news crew.
NOW I feel much better.
Anger management really works…
NEWS: Governor Sebelius signed SB 449 yesterday.PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Remember…FRIENDS DON’T LET FRIENDS SUBSCRIBE TO COX!!!
Ben, I laughed until I had TEARS in my eyes. Great post!
Sum1, as usual, you class up this blog. My only wish is that you would post more often :)
Mr. C, can you expound on this bill again?
River Festival is coming.
Would this be a good time for a meet up?
RD thought it an interesting idea.
What say you?
When is Riverfest for us non-Wichita residents?
Rage said the weekend. I sure would like to meet rage, so I am hoping for a weekend!
It would be nice to have lots of folks show up. If the fest people will let me, I’ll bring potato salad again… just in the interest of world peace you understand!
RiverFest is a 10-day festival 3rd week in May.
More fun …
An old couple was married for many years, even though theyhated each other. When they had a confrontation, their neighborscould hear screaming and yelling deep into the night. The oldman would shout, “When I die, I will dig my way up and out of thegrave and come back and haunt you for the rest of your life!”
Neighbors feared him. They believed he practiced black magicbecause of the many strange occurrences that took place in theirneighborhood. The old man liked the fact that he was feared.To everyone’s relief, he died of a heart attack when he was68. His wife had a closed casket at the wake. After the burial,she went straight to the local bar and began to party as if therewas no tomorrow.
Her neighbors, concerned for her safety, asked, “Aren’t youafraid that he may indeed be able to dig his way up and out ofthe grave and come back to haunt you for the rest of your life?”
The wife put down her drink and said, “Let him dig. I had himburied upside down.”
Quote of the Day:
All is relatively quiet in the West, for the work of maggots is not measured in decibels. — J.R. Nyquist
more fun…
Hypothesis: Liberals play great poker.
Proof: Sklansky’s fundamental theorem of poker states in essence that aplayer makes a mistake if he plays differently than he would have playedif he could see his opponent’s cards. In short, poker is all aboutdeception.
Liberals tend to be easily fooled. Therefore it would be reasonable toconclude that they would be poor players. But that would be wrong.Liberals also tend to be great at fooling others. When you aredeceived in poker you may lose the money you invested in the pot, but ifyou can deceive the other players, you may win the WHOLE POT. Thisgives the liberal a huge edge, perhaps as much as 4:1.
Add to that the fact that liberals tend to fool themselves. This can bea great attribute for a poker player. If you believe that your 72o isAA and play it that way, you are not going to be giving off any tellsthat could give your bluff away.
Conclusion: Liberal make great poker players.
If you are a liberal please tell me if you concur. And please let’s tryto keep this thread OT. Thanks.
J.A. Fish
Hey, I like silly jokes, too!
Q: What’s the difference between beer nuts and deer nuts?
A: Beer nuts are a buck and a quarter, deer nuts are under a buck.
HAH!
449 allows for competition in cable.And let me repeat: Friends don’t let friends sign long term contracts with Cox Cable.
River fest has two weekends. One at the start and one at the end.
There is no need for actual “involvement” with the Festival people. It just might be a time when folks are already going to be in town.
However: If folks get a taste of that tater salad you may have to open a booth in the food court KFG.
Sorry, I thought I posted the dates of RiverFest. I’m truly losing it.
May 12-20.
As I mentioned on the old thread to JR, please, please don’t choose the 20th. My oldest is already on my sh*t list for choosing that day/evening to get married. We’re going to miss the concert and fireworks that night–a family tradition. I’d hate to have to miss another WE blog get-together, too.
MrC, I’m not aware that there’s a long-term or any kind of contract with Cox. Elucidate, please. :)
Sum1, I saw that Iran link earlier. Scary, scary stuff. But I’m not surprised. We’ve been flying recon over Iran for a long time.
Anybody watch Bill Maher last night?
A Sunday would be good – a bit less hectic with everything else going on.
Cox is calling their customers, trying to get them to sign two or three year contracts.DON’T DO IT!!!!
At least that’s what I’ve heard… I got on their no call list a long time ago :)
Ben, I agree that Sunday would be good, but the only Sunday during RF is the 14th, and that’s Mother’s Day. Now, as a mother, I get to choose , and with the Art & Book Fair at Century II that day, I’ll be there anyway. But I know it isn’t that simple for everyone, especially the hubbies.
Thanks, MrC. I haven’t been contacted and hope I’m not. One contract for my cell phone is bad enough.
I’ve had good service with Cox. I know that doesn’t mean everyone has. My mom had SBC for a while, and it was a mess. I’m sure everyone’s experiences are different.
The quality of ATT’s new Lightspeed Video (and the upgrade of DSL) will make it worth the switch.Plus their attitude toward local broadcasters is SO much better than Demon Cox!
Okay, if Ben can, so can I:
Okay, so you’re really not interested in how we got our name, are you? Well sit your substantial derriere down, grab a keg and read on anyway, you frikin’ pig.
Sam’s the name, and playing bass is my game. I was looking to hook-up with a couple of like musicians, if any such existed, and form a band that specialized in playing a combination of Irish Dance and Punk Rock. Maybe we throw in a little bit of rap, just to piss off the listeners. Not that it would be necessary, mind you; the Irish dancers are so freakin’ protective of their music anyway, I figured every time we started playing madness would ensue, but isn’t that what punk’s all about?
Anyways, I placed an ad in the local paper that read, “I am looking for sick musicians. If you walk around with vomit on your shoes, if you look at people around you as flopping fish out of water, if your parents try to pass you off as a cloning experiment gone bad, and you can play an instrument, call me. 123-555-1234.”
I got a couple of promising returns the second day it ran. The first was from a guy who called himself, “Schnutz.” Why did he call himself that? Damned if I know. He was way too scary to ask. Just the type I was looking for.
Schnutz played the drums. Well, he didn’t really play them; it was more like smash them. This guy was huge, as in tree-big. When he threw his sticks out to the audience, people bled. Needless to say, he was in.
The second was from some bloke named, “Eric something.” This wad actually combed his hair for Christ’s sake. He said he used to play with dominoes or something like that. Frikin loser, if you asked me. Bet he probably ends up playing country . . . gag.
Now, Schnutz and I were really hard up to play, so we started out as a bass and drums gig. The first time we played, at some ignorant little dump on the eastside, we almost got thrown out. Schnutz, living up to his size, beat up the bouncer with his drum sticks, and they let us stay and finish our set: Frikin’ awesome, dude.
We were leaving the club, after promising not to return, when some guy, who’d been really listening to our impeccable rendition of “Carolan’s Concerto,” hailed us from about sixty feet away.
“Hey dudes,” he shouted. “That was an impeccable rendition of ‘Wooly Bully’. You ain’t going to pounce on me for asking if you need a guitar player, are you?”
Wooly Bully? Oh well, this guy had on a pair of jeans that was probably thirty years old, and four sizes too large for him. I wanted them; mine were wearing out.
“Hell no,” I shouted back. “I noticed . . . Schnutz, put the trash can down . . . I noticed you giving us a good listen. Think you can keep up with us? You gotta have an IQ or something. We gotta trade pants first, though.”
“I had a teacher one time who told me I got an IQ, and teachers know stuff like that. I gotta a guitar too,” he said defiantly. I liked that: A defiant guitar player. Who would of thought? “Sure, let’s trade now,” he continued.
Right then, some yahoos dressed up as cowboys came out of the club. They all jumped on our new guitar player, and proceeded to stomp him senseless. Why? Who knows; they were cowboys. Well, maybe the fact he was pissing on the tire of their truck had something to do with it.
Schnutz casually walked over, bopped the three dudes on the head, picked up “Pant’s,” as I named him, with one hand, carried him back over to where I was standing, and unceremoniously dropped him.
Approximately two minutes later, Pant’s jumped up and started swinging wildly, yelling, “I got em . . . I got em!”
Now Pant’s was a pretty skinny dude, and his belated display of chutzpah told me we could count on him in a crunch. Not much, but still . . . we did need a guitar player.
After we got him calmed down (which consisted of Schnutz grabbing his arms) we proceeded with the exchange of jeans.
It turned out, though, that the joke was on me. I shoulda had him turn around, as the jeans had no butt. But all good things, yadda, yadda.
Schnutz said the first words I ever heard him say, and understand, after Pant’s and I swapped: “Sam’s Butt,” he said, pointing and laughing like a freakin’ moron. So that’s what we started calling ourselves, Sam’s Butt.
The rest, as they say, is history: We’ve been kicked out of every bar in this town. Some people got no class whatsoever.
Heheh. Funny stuff Walker. I think that band may have played at my Volga German Wedding Dance. Something about flying dutchmen.
You guys want to play at the second annual Collyer Music and Food After Harvest Festival? We have a potato salad contest…
We need a little excitement out here. But please, bring your own water. heheh
All right, RD is making me feel guilty. If I absolutely HAVE to do a weekday, I suppose I can. But, as Bartleby the Scrivener said. . .
More on Iran. Is it the administration or the american people who are so stupid they can’t recognise the exact same is being used on Iran, that was used on Iraq.
IN 2002 Bush said: We don’t know how close he is today, but a Saddam Hussein with a nuclear weapon is a grave, grave threat to America and our friends and allies
IN 2006 Bush said: “Iran armed with a nuclear weapon poses a grave threat to the security of the world.”
Hans Blix in 2003 said: “We have now been there for some two months and been covering [Iraq] in ever wider sweeps and we haven’t found any smoking guns.”
Hans Blix in 2006 said” (AP) Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Iran is a least five years away from developing a nuclear bomb, leaving time to peacefully negotiate a settlement. [...]
“We have time on our side in this case. Iran can’t have a bomb ready in the next five years,” Blix was quoted as saying.
But Condi, she said it best, when she said in 2006:
“If you’re impervious to the lessons you’ve just come out of you’re brain-dead.”
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/4/3/143621/3020
I do not have as many good reasons as does RD, but a weekday would be better for me, also.
Rage, did you ever work in the EMCU? Does the state even have that any more?
Sum1,I read your links, too. I especially like when I have already read them — confirmation is a good thing.
No, and yes. The late Steve Oswald (whose wife had worked there) told me some “interesting” stories.
(moved from Barney Fife)ksfarmgrrl
You like to throw out the Byrd-Shepard-McVeigh-Rudolph thing. I dont know what your point is, I can only assume it’s you boilerplate ALLWHITECONSERVATIVEMENAREEVIL social statement. I was going to let it go but Damoon had to push it again. I simply laid out a little truth.
No I don’t hate gays, no AID’s is not a gay disease. It’s simply a matter of mechanics why drug shooters and gay men are more succeptable to it.
Let me lay out another little piece of truth about aids. Activists like to blame government and especially Republican controlled government for not doing enough about AIDS. The sad truth is they should be blaming gay activists and their political supporters on the left for millions of deaths in America.
If aids had been treated like any other epidemic it could have been nearly stopped in its tracks, at least in the U.S. , millions of live could have been saved. But the gay rights movement couldnt tolerate the steps that needed to be taken to stop the epidemic. The movement had to continue, to hell with people dying. So for the first time in a hundred years a health epidemic was treated like a political issue, not as a public health issue. AIDS activists and gay rights activists still like to blame the likes of Ronald Reagan and other Republican politicians for the spread of AIDS. They have only themselves to blame for millions of deaths in the U.S.
If you could get past your All White Conservative Males are racist-bigot-sexist-homophobes attitude we could probably have some pretty good discussions but until then it’s kind of pointless.
I could go on but I’ll spare you.
Have a great day.
Wow, looks like I missed some stuff while I was away at training.
For the get together possibly planned we could do it on Sunday 5/21 afternoon. There’s still some RF things going on but it’s pretty much over.I’ll make homemade brownies or cookies.
What are some of the really good but unknown restaraunts in Wichita?
For East Indian food, I’d go with Deshi Curry on 21st and Woodlawn in the strip mall west of Bradley Fair.
“Sichuan” used to have the most authentic Chinese food until they went “buffet” and changed owners. There’s a Hong Kong Dim Sum place at about 13th and Broadway that’s authentic but a little bit price-y.
Is there not one real French restaraunt in this town?
There’s a little lunch place in Delano that serves a few passable French dishes, mainly centered around croissants and desserts. The name escapes me, but it’s on the south side of Douglas just east of Seneca.
Price is right, too, if memory serves.
I don’t think there are any french restaraunts in Wichita, but there is a Kobe Steak of Japan. If they serve true Kobe steaks, there is no better steak in the world.
One interesting link under ethnic: http://www.hellowichita.com/YP/c_RESTAURANTSETHNICMISC.Cfm
Do ya think a certain part of the anatomy is foreign to Wichita? chuckle, chuckle.
Hmmm. I’ll concede a taste for that kind of ethnic “food.” ;-)
What training did you attend Julie?
Could it be Marine Reserve training? :)
Does anyone but me think heck wanted to move the thread here to change the subject?
Heck, the al cracker question was in response to my post about fear. I dont fear the terrorists nearly as much as I fear you and your ilk.
Perhaps it isnt fear as much as it is loathing.
Still no links heck? No facts, just opinions?
In San Diego, I ate at an Ethiopian restaurant a few times. Unbelievable food. Different curries, and flat bread that blows you away.
I also used to go to Tijuana with some friends to try different restaurants over there. There was a 5 star Spanish place that specialized in PAELLA, a saffron rice dish. It cost us about $10 each to eat there. The same dish stateside, if you could find it, would be over $50 per person. Awesome places over there, but you have to know about them.
Wichita could us some more continental cuisine. A taste of class would do wonders for the town. Couple it with Peerless Tower, and the city could step into the future.
IMHO, for Italian, you can’t beat Marchello’s at 31st and Seneca (well, maybe: I certainly haven’t tried them all!).
I walked away from a wonderful meal chocked full of fat,cheese, and seasonings, without my pulse pounding and feeling like I was going to die. How the hell did Marcello (yes, the owner also cooks, much of the time) do that?
“If you could get past your All White Conservative Males are racist-bigot-sexist-homophobes.”
Thanks for proving me right heck. Please, continue showing us how you are NOT all of the above.
Keep going, KFG. For me, he’s reached “beneath comment” territory.
I have yet to see any authentic Chinese restaurants in Wichita, anywhere. (if you’ve ever visited Guangdong province then I’m sure you know that the full range of dim sum dishes cannot possibly be offerred in Wichita as Wichitans won’t eat most of the ah, authentic meat choices available in HK ;))
I’m going to have to check out the dim sum restaurant on Broadway. I miss the devil out of having steamed pork dumplings for breakfast.
Sorry, couldnt resist one more before I leave to serve pulled pork to my guests.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cracker
A little more research for ya heck.
ksfarmgrrl
It’s kind of pointless talking to you, someone says something you don’t like and you just revert to your own hatefull form of bigotry.
You apply your blanket stereotypes to conservatives and when they respond with something you don’t like you just revert to hate. Everything I said was true, I guess the truth just pisses you off.
Food? Did somebody mention food?I know, I’m a heathen. I love the Oriental buffet! We tried that new place at 21st and Ridge Friday night. It was great (and crowded).
Israeli “terrorists” busy at work.
Increased attacks into defenseless refugee camps by Zionist shit-heads.
The Israeli army has killed 14 Palestinians over the past two days in the deadliest spate of attacks in Gaza for five months.On Saturday, eight Palestinian fighters were killed in two separate air strikes.
The Israeli army also killed five resistance fighters and the five-year-old son of one of them in a strike on a car in southern Gaza on Friday.
Israel has ratcheted up military attacks on Gaza since the new Palestinian government led by Hamas took power.
In other developments, a Palestinian teenager died of wounds after being shot in the head during an Israeli incursion on Thursday in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E4D19123-9DD3-11D1-B44E-006097071264.htm
All support for Israel should be discontinued.
Following up on something Sum1 posted, here’s something that ought to scare you to death. The Bush Junta is developing plans for a military attack on Iran. Think they won’t do it? Remember, there’s an election coming up. Nothing like a new war to rally patriotic Americans around a failed president and his party. Have these idiots considered that all this saber-rattling might be just the thing to trigger another terrorist strike against us?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/08/AR2006040801082.html
Keep kicking around those meet up ideas folks. We’ll reach some kind of concensus that works for everyone.
I have a personal request here. Most everybody knows I use webtv. I hope to switch to a computer soon as this would also help my son.
My question concerns service providers. My Mom is on AOL. My sense is that savvy computer users consider AOL a tremendous rip off. So tell me. What is a good ISP for utility vs. cost? Thanks in advance any info you can share.
And how exactly are they going to find more soldiers, or the money (oh, that’s right! Raise the debt-ceiling again!)
They’re crazy enough to do it anyway. Can you say 2007 DRAFT, kiddies?
Dial-up or Broadband?
PLEASE, tech staff! I forgot what my next post was (probably wasn’t important).
GET A NEW BOT FILTER! COLOR IS ACCEPTABLE! THEY’RE NOT THAT EXPENSIVE!
OH, AND TO MAKE SURE YOU SEE THIS. . .(Julie, move your kids from the computer! NOW!).
FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!
JR, Cox isn’t bad if you have Cox cable. They have a bundle package that puts broadband service in the “reasonable” price range.
The bill that’s in the legislature that MrC discussed may have a major impact….could be interesting to internet users.
Having started out on AOL, I have this to say:Putting AOL on your computer is like giving it cancer. AOL is the most invasive thing going. Yahoo instant messenger comes in a close second. I HATE when people bring me their computer to have AOL removed. It goes everywhere!
I was fortunate enough to get in on the beta test for Sprint wireless broadband. They don’t offer residential service now, but anybody who was involved in beta got to keep it. I’ve been using it for 5 years now. It’s lightning quick, dependable, and the customer service is great. They’ve replaced my moden and reciever dish twice at no charge. It’s a little pricey, but worth it.
Microsoft sucks for putting AOL on their operating systems.
Bush’s handlers do not care what the American People think. This small group on Neoconservatives are acting completely on their own, putting the Zionists first.
XXXDo you think maybe the industrial military complex might be fanning the “attack on Iran” thing? Just to keep it alive.
Thanks Harry TaylerNo imcombents
No, the Iran attack is all a part of PNACs Zionst world conquest plan. The attack would benefit the industrial military complex no doubt.
Wait until ATT Lightspeed launches in Wichita (hope to have info on this Monday).With the ramp-up of their new video service, ATT has to upgrade their DSL to where it will be 3-4 times Cox’s speed.
North Guy, I remember what the Military/Industrial complex did to us during Vietnam. That war would have ended 5 years sooner if it hadn’t been for the greed. General Dynamics, Mopar, Colt, et al, made a killing off that war.
But you know what bothered me the most? The gun stock on my M-16 was stamped “Mattel”. It just seems so wrong that a toy maker would have any part in the manufacture of something that kills.
“If aids had been treated like any other epidemic it could have been nearly stopped in its tracks, at least in the U.S. , millions of live could have been saved. But the gay rights movement couldnt tolerate the steps that needed to be taken to stop the epidemic.”
Heckler, I have a book (or a movie, if you prefer not to read) for you. AND THE BAND PLAYED ON. Read it/See it, and then come back and tell me that the spread of AIDS is the fault of the gay movement.
Ok I don’t normally shill a thread.
But something interesting is occurring on the “Those aren’t statues Dorothy, they’re buskers!” thread.
(I know that thread SOUNDS boring.) But it is worth reading through the posts there.
Tell ‘em J R sent ya.
Sorry, Rage, I didn’t mean to make you feel guilty. :( OTOH, I didn’t want to get any of you guys in trouble. :)
Julie, I like the 21st idea. Sundays are often my only free day. Hmmmm, maybe I’ll be recovered enough from the wedding to take in an early matinee of the Da Vinci Code AND party. Daytime or early evening during the week is bad for me. But I’m far from the majority, so let’s keep hearing from others.
XXX–
Did your M-16 jam all the time?
What I heard was the M-16 was a finiky rifle that needed a premimum powder to stay as clean as possible.
The Olin company got the contract and churned out bullets with oily, tarry powder and the guns jammed like mad.
The Olin company is now a big funder of right-wing think tanks that directly affect neo-con policy.
It figures, doesn’t it . . .
TrueBlue,I was in Nam when the first M-16’s shipped over there. They were basically junk. They were an excellent flat shooting rifle, but get any dirt in them, they would jam. Just too tight of a tolerence for combat situations.
I think the later models had more tolerence for dirt, but they could never approach the M-1 or the M-14 for reliability.
JR
I have WichitaUsa at work and Pixius at home. Both broadband. Pretty happy with both of them. Friends with WichitaUsa owners, so I might get a little preferential treatment.
Love Pixius at the house, I pay for 512K download, but I’m only a couple of miles from the tower and I download at 1.4 meg. They don’t limit your upload and download speed. (yet)
I have no idea what it costs, I just pay my bill. I had some bad experiences with COX years ago, don’t remember why I’ll never do business again with them, just know I won’t!
Hank
Speaking of internet service. The following link portends some very scary stuff. If the government goes along with this, you might as well close the internet: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060213/chester
Scary stuff J Mthat link is worth a read and serious consideration
All the better reason to get the corporate puppet GOP out of power. The DNC has proposed making internet WI FI service universal in 5 years.
My concern asking about ISPs was cost.
The internet should be free.
Imagine the “information super highway” transformed to the “corporate conduit”.
TrueBlue,I didn’t get to Vietnam till 1971. By that time, the M-16 had the modified bolt (Monkey Mountian, many dead Marines with their M-16 bolts jammed to the rear). As Walker said, the tolerances were too tight. As an urban weapon, they were great. They sucked in the jungle. It’s not a clean environment, and an M-16 has to be clean to be reliable. And the ammunition had a bad habit of going in unexpected directions if it hit a twig, or anything else that might get in the way. I got rid of mine early on and carried something much more practical in a jungle environment.
By the way, the AK-47 was a much more practical weapon. It looks like a piece of junk, but it was reliable.
Re: MeetingM-Th is bad for me. Weekends are good.
When can the out of towners make it?(I think that might be a very important question)
Hank do we get more of your fabulous hank-burgers?
This must be some of that good news republicans are allways looking for. Looks like good news to me.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041000259.html
Thanks, JM and XXX. Appreciate your first-hand knowledge.
STRONG disapproval is likely to translate into DEM votes for Congress.
XXXI just saw on the news tonight, Bushytail saying he heard he was planning to attack Iraq. He said (now listen to this) that was ridicules.Do we believe him?
WASHINGTON – Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.
JR,If you just want a cheap reliable dial-up connection, I recommend Sysmatrix, a small family operation out of Silsbee, TX. $10 a month for unlimited access, big chunka webspace available (I’m thinking 25 meg), and Giganews to boot. They have a 250 hour/month limit on usage, but do the math–you’d practically have to live online!
http://www.sysmatrix.net
NorthGuy, I don’t believe anything that comes out of that peckerwood’s mouth. As I said in another thread, I expect the bombing to start late summer/early fall at a time to achieve maximum effect on the November elections. Maybe that’s easier than tampering with electronic voting machines.
PHELPS ALERT
Kansas’s official national embarrassment Fred Phelps, appeared tonight on Scarbourough Country. He went into his usual rant about smoke from the nostrils of God and yadayada. Apparently his website also claims the planes on 911 were “Gods fiery darts” of judgement against a nation that embraces gay rights. He would not let the host talk, and eventually his mike was cut. Fortunately, his connection to Kansas was not mentioned.