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Can you believe this?

October 19th, 2007 at 7:04 am . by nuke

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41 Responses to “Can you believe this?”

  1. comment number 1 by: Robert_D

    Harry Reid is trying to say what a good thing Rush is doing. A new Mr. Flip Flop? Rush is skewering him. It was on c-span, I’m looking for a transcript.

  2. comment number 2 by: no2liberals

    Rush played it on his show, so the transcript will be up in a couple of hours.

  3. comment number 3 by: Robert_D

    Ah, then you heard it already. Didn’t know where you were and wanted to get it down for later reference.

  4. comment number 4 by: Robert_D

    Here it is.

    Senator Reid: You Win, Rush

  5. comment number 5 by: Robert_D

    “An Inconvenient Truth” grossed about $50 million at the box office and millions more in DVD and book sales. Gore charges as much as $175,000 for an in-person presentation of his slide show that forms the basis for the film.

    Considering that a key 25 percent of “An Inconvenient Truth” is not true — and perhaps intentionally so — it seems only fair that Gore offer a refund to moviegoers, DVD/book purchasers and speaking sponsors. Where are the class action lawyers when you need them?

    Junk Science: Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund!

  6. comment number 6 by: Robert_D

    Junk Science: Hey Al Gore, We Want a Refund!

  7. comment number 7 by: no2liberals

    Well, he owes a bunch of folks a refund, but not me.
    I would just settle for his disappearance, voluntary or otherwise.

  8. comment number 8 by: Robert_D

    I’m with you on that one.

  9. comment number 9 by: no2liberals

    Well he has all of those awards, but he still needs one more, for his trophy collection to be complete….the pulletsurprise.
    /henh

  10. comment number 10 by: Robert_D

    Ahhh yess, the now famous pulletsurprise. :lol:

  11. comment number 11 by: SwampWoman

    I was talking to daughter over the phone about taking care of the grandkids tomorrow while she was at work, and Jake came out and said “Mommy!” She continued to talk. “Mommy!” She ignored him. “Mommy!” She asked me how my day was going. “Mommymommymommy!” “WHAT! Jacob, WHAT DO YOU WANT?” “Mommy, baby gots a pirate face!” and then he ran to his room and slammed and locked the door behind him, which mommies and meemaws know is not a good sign. She checked the baby. Jacob had taken her liquid eyeliner and carefully drawn a mustache and goatee on the baby. She reported that it was a pretty good effort considering that the budding pirate face artiste now locked in his room evading retribution is only 3.

  12. comment number 12 by: Robert_D

    What, no eye patch? The kid will never make it in the Bigs.

  13. comment number 13 by: SwampWoman

    Well, at least he didn’t try to shave off that beard and mustache.

  14. comment number 14 by: SwampWoman

    Yet.

  15. comment number 15 by: no2liberals

    Henh…well, at least the young man is now looking at his sib unit.

  16. comment number 16 by: no2liberals

    Swampie, did you see the tale of “Old Butch?”

  17. comment number 17 by: SwampWoman

    Yep, read it an enjoyed it immensely.

  18. comment number 18 by: no2liberals

    Hee-hee!
    I couldn’t stop laughing, when my bud sent it.
    Hadn’t seen you much, so wanted to make sure.

  19. comment number 19 by: SwampWoman

    Oh, yeah, he’s playing “catch” with the baby, too. Especially when daughter is on the phone and not paying close attention to him. “Oh, baaaaaby, catch the ball!” and I hear a “Waaaaaagh” from daughter, and spanks on the bottom interspersed with “You do NOT throw soccer balls at the baby!”

  20. comment number 20 by: Robert_D

    I borrowed it for future reference. I have to relearn this stuff every winter. (completely forgot about the clipboard easy stealer system)

  21. comment number 21 by: SwampWoman

    I read it at work at lunch, just can’t comment from there.

  22. comment number 22 by: no2liberals

    About work.
    Just what are you doing these days, Swampie?

  23. comment number 23 by: SwampWoman

    Workin’ in the public school system.

  24. comment number 24 by: Nuke

    it ain’t the pulletsurprise, but it’s pretty funny

  25. comment number 25 by: no2liberals

    There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had a few exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the Professor noticed one exchange student who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government.

    In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked, “Do you know how to catch wild pigs?” The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. “You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming everyday, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put
    up the second side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the
    last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

    Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for
    themselves and so they accept their captivity.

    The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to
    America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments
    not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. While we continually lose our freedoms- just A little at a time.

    One should always remember “There is no such thing as a free lunch!” You can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.

    If you see that all of this wonderful government “help” is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to send this on to your friends.

    From a friend.

  26. comment number 26 by: no2liberals

    I didn’t no fo’sho, what you were doing, and at one point even thought you had taken that construction job, but I must have missed an important comment/clue.

  27. comment number 27 by: SwampWoman

    No kidding, wild pigs actually dug under the fence in the pasture to come in and join our domestic pigs at the feed trough. They domesticated themselves, though we tried to discourage them. They had to be killed because of their uncertain disease carrier status.

  28. comment number 28 by: Robert_D

    The Castle Doctrine at work Swamps? :wink:

  29. comment number 29 by: no2liberals

    Henh…and their still dominant ferral ways.
    I know people who trap them, and keep them penned up for a few months, before slaughtering them.
    I know of people who hunt them with pit bulls, and then attack the pigs themselves with knives…not guns.
    Strange.

    Got to go out for a while, check back in a couple of hours.

  30. comment number 30 by: SwampWoman

    *sigh* I accepted that construction job, but SwampMan had a fit and said I weren’t no spring chicken no mo’ and he was tired of paying my insurance, so I accepted a less strenuous job for the time being (this one is a 1-year only type job). Plus, I’m going to need to accompany mom to the doctor more and more often, and it is not a problem at this job.

    I’m kind of enjoying the idea of actually having a holiday with the family this year, because otherwise I’d be working through them.

  31. comment number 31 by: Robert_D

    Here’s some pictures from Zombietime:

    click here enjoy…..

  32. comment number 32 by: SwampWoman

    I felt real bad about having to get the wild hogs killed, Robert D. They would quietly sneak up behind me when I was feeding and sniff me and gently touch my legs with their nose. I was never worried about them attacking or anything like that, just about their disease status as perhaps brucellosis carriers.

    They were all head and appetite like most wild hogs.

  33. comment number 33 by: SwampWoman

    MEXICO CITY — The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore Friday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific Ocean.

    The corpses have not yet been identified, and officials said the government was searching the waters for more bodies around the coastal town of San Francisco del Mar, 200 miles up the coast from the Guatemalan border.

    Sergio Segreste, the Oaxaca state public safety secretary, said 24 bodies, all of adult men, washed ashore.

    “This morning, we got a report that a vessel carrying undocumented migrants had capsized or gone down,” Segreste said. “The assumption is that the cause of the accident was the rough weather.”

    If confirmed to be migrants, it could be evidence that smugglers are increasingly turning to boats to transport Central Americans through Mexico, avoiding highway checkpoints.

    Many illegal migrants have been stranded and looking for other ways north since service was interrupted this year on two railway lines they once used to hitch rides north on freight trains.

    In August, thousands of U.S.-bound Central American migrants found themselves stranded near the Guatemala border after Connecticut-based Genesee & Wyoming Inc. withdrew from a 30-year concession to operate the Chiapas-Mayab line. For decades, migrants had relied on the train to carry them from to the U.S./Mexico border.

    It remains unclear whether the closures will cause more migrants to hire smugglers, who often transport them in trucks, or to attempt risky trips in rickety and overcrowded boats.

    Kinda sounds like somehow the USA is supposed to be responsible for their safe transport to enter our country illegally.

  34. comment number 34 by: Robert_D

    I know Swamps, some things that have to be done are not pleasant.

  35. comment number 35 by: Robert_D

    Just to be clear, #34 is in response to #32!

  36. comment number 36 by: Robert_D

    Although…..capsizing the boat would fit that comment.

  37. comment number 37 by: SwampWoman

    Heh. Yeah, I figgered, Robert D.

    /Did you get a submarine for your birthday?

  38. comment number 38 by: Robert_D

    (just a small one) :wink:

  39. comment number 39 by: SwampWoman

    I figured!

  40. comment number 40 by: SwampWoman

    Well, I better call it a night since two tiny perpetual motion machines will be here for a visit in the way too early morning.

    It was great seein’ you again. Take care until next time.

  41. comment number 41 by: Robert_D

    G’nite Swamps. Have fun tomorrow gramma!

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