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Back To Jail

2008-05-14T20:41:00Z

Posted by Bisbonian
Private, “for profit” prisons are very lucrative.

Your Oldest Thing?

2008-05-14T20:37:31Z

Posted by Sheldon
I have an old beer can that had to be opened with a can opener.
I have an old Texaco sign from the 50’s.

War And Golf

2008-05-14T20:33:07Z

Posted by decibelcat
By wok:
We want Iraq’s industry up and cooking - and a large part of that is their oil fields! Which is why we’ve gotten a large amount of them running!

So where are your links, then?

Man With Itchy Back Shoots Self

2008-05-14T20:23:17Z

Posted by decibelcat
By KLAW:
I use a 10 inch Craftsman,it scratches all of my itches.

The German made WIHA will do a much better job.

Ex-Christians?

2008-05-14T20:19:08Z

Posted by decibelcat
Which man in his right mind would give up his life for a lie? All through history, for a lie?

Who said these men were all in their right mind?

War And Golf

2008-05-14T20:12:15Z

Posted by wok
Hunh? We want Iraq’s industry up and cooking - and a large part of that is their oil fields! Which is why we’ve gotten a large amount of them running! After Saddam and his ilk torched a bunch of them!

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T20:11:39Z

Posted by Gwenry
I have it on good authority that Edwards was offered - but did not accept- the Attorney General post.

Your Oldest Thing?

2008-05-14T20:09:36Z

Posted by decibelcat
I have some 18th century Chinese mother of pearl “Loo” chips, which were used as markers for gambling purposes. They are cut into shapes and inscribed like scrimshaw. I bought them at an antique show over thirty five years ago with the intent of possibly using them as inlays for a guitar. I might use them instead as inlays for a snare drum, as they do not lay flat, but still have a bit of the natural curve of the shells they came from.

Your Oldest Thing?

2008-05-14T20:06:16Z

Posted by ajos
I have some late Clovis style fluted bird points(thems arrowheads) that I found as a kid that date back a couple thousand years, and a Metate from roughly a thousand years ago.

Healing The Blind

2008-05-14T20:04:52Z

Posted by Blayne
I would imagine that there is quite a long line for the “Getting Your Vision Back” miracle.

War And Golf

2008-05-14T20:00:41Z

Posted by decibelcat
By wok:
Also, I asked if anyone could provide any links that show that we went to Iraq because of oil. Are ya’ll just forfeiting?

When you stop and think about it, it makes more sense that we went to war with Iraq to stop the flow of their oil, rather than take it for ourselves.
Saddam Hussein wanted to sell more oil and at a lower price than what OPEC quotas had set for him (and yes, the USA is a member of OPEC). Seeing as how Iraq was the second largest operating oil field in the world at the time, it was in OPEC’s best interests to close it down.

Simple supply and demand economics tells us that with that oil field out of service, that the price will rise.

Considering those facts, I’d say “Mission accomplished!”

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T19:59:12Z

Posted by J-Walk
You guys didn’t see the sign when you came here?

http://j-walkblog.com/images2/nogambling.jpg

Your Oldest Thing?

2008-05-14T19:57:40Z

Posted by hucktunes
Off hand I’d say my grand father’s old baroque clarinet. The 13 keys dates it back to before the 1840s.
http://blog.hucktunes.com/2007/03/baroque-clarinet.html

Spring Bags For Guys

2008-05-14T19:48:43Z

Posted by decibelcat
By another larry:
Right decibelcat, maybe an Inspector Gadget leg!

I forgot to mention that the socket of my prosthetic is made of a high tech combination of carbon fiber and epoxy. When struck with a drumstick, it makes a very nice cowbell, with nice tone and a good sustain, neither choked up or too “ringy”. I’ve already sampled it and used it on some Latin CD’s I recorded. The clients loved the way it sounded.

It’s real nice to know that when I go out to hear a band and they break into “Honky Tonk Woman”, “Mississippi Queen” or “Don’t Fear The Reaper”, that I can pop my leg off and play along.

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T19:45:30Z

Posted by wok
Huck, name your wager and I’m your man.

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T19:38:29Z

Posted by hucktunes
I predict Edwards as the VP candidate.

Big Moonshine Bust

2008-05-14T19:37:00Z

Posted by decibelcat
Moonshine is illegal because the government cannot collect the taxes on it.

There’s probably not enough uncollected taxes on those 30 gallons to begin to pay the salaries of the police officers who participated in the bust.

A real fine way to run a govvermint.

Who Is This Baby?

2008-05-14T19:34:40Z

Posted by El Duderino
It’s Jimi: http://blog.jimmyr.com/Celebrities_when_they_were_young_18_2008.php

Ants Invade Houston

2008-05-14T19:31:52Z

Posted by Mister E.B.
I’ll see your cicada and raise you a bloodsucking, Lyme disease carrying TICK. Area I’m working in lately is high plateau pine forest with grasslands, lots of deer, and ticks. Lots of ticks. Just guessing but probably a *million* ticks per hectare. Even thinking about it, I start getting phantom tick-in-hair syndrome.

Heard a great country song--well, entertaining, at least--on the radio yesterday. Chorus went (thanks to Google)…

Cause I’d like to see you out in the moonlight
I’d like to kiss you way back in the sticks
I’d like to walk you through a field of wildflowers
and I want to check you for ticks

Now that’s poetry. And eco-friendly.

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T19:31:22Z

Posted by decibelcat
I wonder what Obama offered. Probably not the VP slot.

Edwards, as a VP candidate in 2004, did not bring in as much of the Southern vote as was hoped he would.

50 Years Of Velcro

2008-05-14T19:19:36Z

Posted by Andie
Gee,
Velcro is younger than I am too

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T19:15:12Z

Posted by wok
Oh. Oh. That’s a heck of a thing to spring on someone. No way. Neither one of the Clintons would want it, and it wouldn’t ever be offered to them. It’s hard to grasp, I know, but they’re out for their bottom line. Literally causing all this commotion, in large part, to get bigger book deals and bigger speaking fees.

War And Golf

2008-05-14T19:13:07Z

Posted by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
And I also asked you to show links as to where the WMDs in Iraq are. And I also asked you what American oil companies are doing in Iraq, if they’re not interested in oil.

Mission? Job? Duty? As far as I know, Iraq is not part of the USA. Therefore, the US military has no mission, job, duty, or right to be in Iraq.

Edwards Hearts Obama

2008-05-14T19:07:08Z

Posted by Gary
wok, once Hillary gets what she really wants, a guaranteed Supreme Court nomination, she’ll campaign hard for Obama.

Spring Bags For Guys

2008-05-14T18:46:48Z

Posted by Volt
Does anyone know if Snag calls his bag Matilda? Does he dance with it?

Snag, you can tell us.