Thank you for this most welcome respite from the steady stream of negative news and partisanship that has become the focus of what passes for national debate these days. This post made me smile.
jr
· 1 year ago
Great roundup
Ksue
· 1 year ago
What a great post, AJ. Thanks so much for the brief respite from the usual crapola.
On a side note, we gifted our son-in-law with your book for his birthday present last week. He now thinks we're the coolest in-laws on the planet.
THANKS!
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
This is good news in light of the fact that Big Oil is claiming they need those billions in govt relief for research...hey, whatever happened to the "cost of doing business?" Guess it's just passed on to the taxpayers, after they get raped at the pump.
If they would pay their execs far less, they could probably save billions. Hey, plenty of us out here would do the job for far, far less...and think about the future of the country as well, not just our greedhead friends. Think of where this country might be today if we had all followed Carter's advice back in the 70s.
Live small, people, live small.
TomJoad
· 1 year ago
It is nice to know there is humanity in the world still, just localized. With the leeches we have in high power, it reflects down all the way, and brings out the worst in people. Makes the land meaner and greedier, and madder.
It's why the message of "hope" isn't something to be cynical about, and trounce on as "just words", we NEED hope. It's as essential as water to our lives.
We also need real leaders, not just folk that jut out their jaws and pretend to be leaders.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Here's more good news! Not all rightwingers love McCrazy...
There are 500,000 independent truck drivers in the US. Imagine a 5 or 6 day strike...
Charlotte is a very large trucking center. I can imagine the chaos. Lots of "student drivers" on the roads I use between my home and Charlotte. Guess the major companies are gearing up for it. So, beware--there may be lots of novice drivers out there soon.
TruthCounts
· 1 year ago
I'll never understand why Algore refused to endorse Obama. It seems his silence is being bought by the corrupt Clinton clan. If Gore tries to waltz in at the last minute as some kind of white knight, his reputation will be dirtied as much as Billary's. No one wants to return to the nightmare of the 90's.
tlsintx
· 1 year ago
ah. thank you AJ.
OlderAndWiser
· 1 year ago
Some light comedy on TV right now. Bottom of his Naval Academy class McCrazy is giving a "major speech" on education...heaven help us. Probably knows about as much about education as the economy...oh yeah, full of anecdotes about his school daze...no meat there, nothing to see, let's just move along.
ShirleyGoodnessanMercy
· 1 year ago
What does "God dag!" mean?
TomJoad
· 1 year ago
It means "Good day" in norwegian. Where did that question come from?
TomJoad
· 1 year ago
I was replying to the question "what does God dag mean?" thought if I hit "reply" it would actually place it under the original question I was answering. I am just not liking Disqus.
SINGING_TROLL
· 1 year ago
All this good news is a distraction! Soon to be followed by lower food&fuel prices! (sn)
-- "The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having "misspoken.") The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.
I remember disembarking at the Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992 after an agonizing flight on a U.N. relief plane that had had to "corkscrew" its downward approach in order to avoid Serbian flak and ground fire. As I hunched over to scuttle the distance to the terminal, a mortar shell fell as close to me as I ever want any mortar shell to fall. The vicious noise it made is with me still. And so is the shock I felt at seeing a civilized and multicultural European city bombarded round the clock by an ethno-religious militia under the command of fascistic barbarians. I didn't like the Clinton candidacy even then, but I have to report that many Bosnians were enthused by Bill Clinton's pledge, during that ghastly summer, to abandon the hypocritical and sordid neutrality of the George H.W. Bush/James Baker regime and to come to the defense of the victims of ethnic cleansing. http://www.slate.com/id/2187780
Thanks for some good news, AJ. Especially about the pets. I watched Primary Colors on HBO on demand last night. John Travollta is marvelous as the Bill Clinton character, and Billy Bob Thornton wonderful as Carville. The woman who played Hillary was excellent in the '90's version of Hill which was a much softer, nicer person.
vegasbaby
· 1 year ago
more good news....the guy who invented the segway has invented a water purifier that works on ANY liguid to make distilled water.....it's amazing...
here's dean kamen on the colbert report showing his water purifier invention....this machine can take any liquid and make distilled water...amazing stuff in light of how many paople die every day from water borne disease, etc.
I will Al Gore would have put forth the effort to make people aware of what we are doing to our planet when he was the vice.
That is what I was hoping when I voted for Clinton/Gore.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Al Gore's daddy would roll over in his grave If Al and his cronies can't at least skim a hundred million out of the 3 hundred mil. Global warming is the new religion.
mirth
· 1 year ago
Happy April Fool's Day to everyone. :)
I'm liking this brief respite from a barrage of bad news. Here's my offering:
"Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
The excavation project, set to last until April 11, is designed to unearth materials that can be used to establish a firm date for when the first mysterious set of bluestones was put in place at Stonehenge, one of Britain's best known and least understood landmarks."
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On a side note, we gifted our son-in-law with your book for his birthday present last week. He now thinks we're the coolest in-laws on the planet.
THANKS!
If they would pay their execs far less, they could probably save billions. Hey, plenty of us out here would do the job for far, far less...and think about the future of the country as well, not just our greedhead friends. Think of where this country might be today if we had all followed Carter's advice back in the 70s.
Live small, people, live small.
With the leeches we have in high power, it reflects down all the way, and brings out the worst in people. Makes the land meaner and greedier, and madder.
It's why the message of "hope" isn't something to be cynical about, and trounce on as "just words", we NEED hope. It's as essential as water to our lives.
We also need real leaders, not just folk that jut out their jaws and pretend to be leaders.
http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh70/StopIns...
Enjoy!
Charlotte is a very large trucking center. I can imagine the chaos. Lots of "student drivers" on the roads I use between my home and Charlotte. Guess the major companies are gearing up for it. So, beware--there may be lots of novice drivers out there soon.
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"The punishment visited on Sen. Hillary Clinton for her flagrant, hysterical, repetitive, pathological lying about her visit to Bosnia should be much heavier than it has yet been and should be exacted for much more than just the lying itself. There are two kinds of deliberate and premeditated deceit, commonly known as suggestio falsi and suppressio veri. (Neither of them is covered by the additionally lying claim of having "misspoken.") The first involves what seems to be most obvious in the present case: the putting forward of a bogus or misleading account of events. But the second, and often the more serious, means that the liar in question has also attempted to bury or to obscure something that actually is true. Let us examine how Sen. Clinton has managed to commit both of these offenses to veracity and decency and how in doing so she has rivaled, if not indeed surpassed, the disbarred and perjured hack who is her husband and tutor.
I remember disembarking at the Sarajevo airport in the summer of 1992 after an agonizing flight on a U.N. relief plane that had had to "corkscrew" its downward approach in order to avoid Serbian flak and ground fire. As I hunched over to scuttle the distance to the terminal, a mortar shell fell as close to me as I ever want any mortar shell to fall. The vicious noise it made is with me still. And so is the shock I felt at seeing a civilized and multicultural European city bombarded round the clock by an ethno-religious militia under the command of fascistic barbarians. I didn't like the Clinton candidacy even then, but I have to report that many Bosnians were enthused by Bill Clinton's pledge, during that ghastly summer, to abandon the hypocritical and sordid neutrality of the George H.W. Bush/James Baker regime and to come to the defense of the victims of ethnic cleansing.
http://www.slate.com/id/2187780
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI
I watched Primary Colors on HBO on demand last night. John Travollta is marvelous as the Bill Clinton character, and Billy Bob Thornton wonderful as Carville. The woman who played Hillary was excellent in the '90's version of Hill which was a much softer, nicer person.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/technology/busi...
check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg1Hu0PMG0
That is what I was hoping when I voted for Clinton/Gore.
I'm liking this brief respite from a barrage of bad news. Here's my offering:
"Some of England's most sacred soil was disturbed Monday for the first time in more than four decades as archaeologists worked to solve the enduring riddle of Stonehenge: When and why was the prehistoric monument built?
The excavation project, set to last until April 11, is designed to unearth materials that can be used to establish a firm date for when the first mysterious set of bluestones was put in place at Stonehenge, one of Britain's best known and least understood landmarks."
http://www.happynews.com/news/3312008/archaeolo...