You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

Sometimes reality trumps fantasy.

Does this happen only in the U.S.?

Try this one on for size.

Senate Procures Influx Of Millionaires By Jennifer Yachnin Roll Call Staff Oct. 27, 2010, Midnight The Senate’s famed “millionaires club” is becoming a little crowded. According to a Roll Call analysis of Senate financial disclosure forms filed in 2010, more than half of the chamber’s membership, 54 lawmakers, reported a minimum net worth of more than $1 million. Another four Senators fell short of that mark by less than $100,000.
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/56_42/-51039-1.html?type=aggregate_friendly

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Sometimes reality trumps fantasy.

Does this only happen in the U.S.?

I despair that it has taken so long for an intelligent ex-Colonist to realise that the hill is a corporate club assoociation.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

I despair that it has taken so long for an intelligent ex-Colonist to realise that the hill is a corporate club assoociation.

And it only took him their entire history for that to happen

Some of us are slower than others of us.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1280554/The-coalition-millionaires-23-29-member-new-cabinet-worth-1m--Lib-Dems-just-wealthy-Tories.html

1: Lord Strathclyde: £10m
2: Philip Hammond: £9m
3: George Osborne: £4.3m
4: Jeremy Hunt: £4.1m
5: David Cameron: £3.2m
6: Dominic Grieve: £3.1m
7: Francis Maude: £3m
8: William Hague: £2.2m
9: Alan Duncan: £2.1m
10: Andrew Mitchell: £2m
11: David Willetts: £1.9m
12: Theresa May: £1.7m
13: Oliver Letwin: £1.5m
14: Caroline Spelman: £1.5m
15: Owen Paterson: £1.5m
16: Cheryl Gillan: £1.4m
17: Liam Fox: £1m
18: Grant Schapps: £1m
19: Michael Gove: £1m
20: Eric Pickles: £700,000
21: Andrew Lansley: £700,000
22: Peter Ainsworth: £700,000
23: David Mundell: £500,000
24: Chris Grayling: £500,000
25: Baroness Anelay: £500,000
26: Patrick McLoughlin: £250,000
27: Baroness Warsi: £130,000
28: Nick Herbert: nil
29: Theresa Villiers: nil 

A million ain't what it used to be.

I'm shocked that there are senators worth less than a million to be honest.

Originally posted by string:

A million ain't what it used to be.

Damned if I haven't noticed that!



Last week's grocery money.

Ok, so our senators are more successful than the marxists from some leftist dumps. This must be the last bastion of wealth in modern history, and this must be protected!

We should write blogs in our footie pajamas against the marxist hippies and rabble camping out in the cold, and against these leftist republicans that want to raise taxes for GE and friends with a flat tax of 0%!

Boo on you, sirs! etcetcetc

Royal Mail postman failed to deliver 30,000 items of mail 'Overworked' postman, who hoarded sacks of letters at home, gets community work sentence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/09/postman-failed-deliver-mail

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Royal Mail postman failed to deliver 30,000 items of mail 'Overworked' postman, who hoarded sacks of letters at home, gets community work sentence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/09/postman-failed-deliver-mail

So, it happens over there, too. Several years back we had stories in the Chicago papers about postal workers hoarding mail at their homes, in cars, dumping mail at forest preserves--- you name it. It was a big scandal. Because of the age of the stories I doubt that I can dig up links, maybe Google can turn up something in the archives--- if they haven't hidden it under the porch.

Edit, add-on: Google has something. Oh, boy, it's been going on a lot, all over the place-- any place you can have a postal worker who doesn't do his job and needs to hide the fact. Look under the porch...

Why did you miss out your old pal Tony Blair in the list Jaybro? He also has made a fortune running into millions (and it doesn't go down too well either) but why anyone would want to listen to him is beyond me. You should have been scrupulously fair Jaybro even if he is a pal? Naughty man.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Why did you miss out your old pal Tony Blair in the list Jaybro? He also has made a fortune running into millions (and it doesn't go down too well either) but why anyone would want to listen to him is beyond me. You should have been scrupulously fair Jaybro even if he is a pal? Naughty man.

He's not even an active politician anymore, is he? I agree that these days (and probably back then as well) he's saying nothing of value.

So what? He is active still in the Middle East where he is as much use as me in the Vatican. And he is still be listened to and being paid for that and also for giving political advice. You have been sleeping Frenzie. He is therefor entitled not to be missed from Jaybro's list of the rich.

Don't let this "bug" you!

’S HERTOGENBOSCH, the Netherlands —
Johan Van Dongen sells insects. A bright, engaging man, Mr. Van Dongen is head of the meat department at Sligro, a kind of Costco on the edge of this trim Dutch town. Besides steaks, poultry and others kinds of meat, he offers mealworms, buffalo worms, locusts and other insects, as well as prepared products containing insects like Bugs Sticks and Bugs Nuggets — not for pets, but as a source of protein for people.

Go here for more goodies...

In all fairness, bugs are eaten as sources of protein more or less everywhere but Europe and North-America. Even vegetarians can feel okay about eating bugs because they don't feel pain.

That said, I ain't eatin' no bugs!

My computer has bugs.

There's many options for eating bugs




Ummm, chocolate..



Or some nice crunchy Larvets available in BBQ, Cheddar Cheese or Mexican Spice

You have to remember the country is full of foreigners who hail from the ex-Dutch Empire so there will be scope for such non-Eiropean food tastes. On two visits over there I noted the large influx and districts of their own. Even many of the Dutch are geting fed up with it now bugs on the menu?!

Who'da thunk it?

"If one twin is a suspect and the whereabouts of the other twin cannot be determined, then the jury is often left without the ability to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt" in cases that rely on DNA evidence, says Frederick Bieber, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=identical-twins-genes-are-not-identical

If you have a twin, you might get away with murder.

How considerate of xyzoneon to be concerned about that crowd on the Hill having their wealth protected! I suppose the greedy are entitled to their place if you are talking about equality?! Between them the lobby mob and the corporate America has things well sewn up. However it has not always been so. But the place has been changed and all the guff about how equal it is has always been a myth. Might give that appearance on the surface but in relality not the case. Lack of control of the money barons misusing the system has seen America go from apositive country once with a credible enterprise culture and positive situation into one of total greed by the powerful.That the money launderers run the country and to Hell with anyone not of their ilk has emphasised that change I refer to. Give the crowd their voting system and let them think they are equal, democratic and have influence. Meanwhile the pwerful have over-ridden the democratical syste.

And now the very middle class that was always dutiful, loyal and industrious has seen more of their constituency fall onto the growing underclass of poor. What a tragedy and disgusting way for a people to be so treated?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

You have to remember the country is full of foreigners who hail from the ex-Dutch Empire so there will be scope for such non-Eiropean food tastes. On two visits over there I noted the large influx and districts of their own. Even many of the Dutch are geting fed up with it now bugs on the menu?!

Rj, our favorite observer.

Hear tell that some folks once ate haggis. Can you believe that?!

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

If you have a twin, you might get away with murder.

Only if you take out your twin first.

You can't convict a corpse in a Grand Rapids' court.

OP_ I doubt it exists only in the U.S. but "reality" is often interpreted in a subjective context.

Oh no. Favourite observor? I am in danger of being routine and just another nondescript?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Oh no. Favourite observor? I am in danger of being routine and just another nondescript?

Perhaps we'll get invited by the UN for monitor duty during the U.S elections?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Oh no. Favourite observor? I am in danger of being routine and just another nondescript?

Keep a bag of haggis affixed to your belt and you'll never be routine.

Problem with that advice....I don't like haggos.

Ok.

(I knew he was French)

Well these sad days it is perhaps even better being French the way the ex-Colonies are going? Give me a bowl of stew and beef savoury rice. Hhhm, even better than Grand Rapids on a nice day?

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Well these sad days it is perhaps even better being French the way the ex-Colonies are going? Give me a bowl of stew and beef savoury rice. Hhhm, even better than Grand Rapids on a nice day?

There is no such thing as a nice day in Grand Rapids. More snow later today.

BTW, who invented golf? Sadly, there is more stew in a bowl than Scots in professional golf.

And there's more in a McDonalds's meal than what the average Joe American knows about the world. So?

Well, sir, the Enlightenment didn't start in Glasgow. GR, either.

A but you are not as safe on that point Jaybro. What is known as the "Enlightenment" was a very active and well known fact in late 18th/early 19th century Scotland as any historian will tell you. Literary genius was to the fore. Whatever occasional worthies came along over the pond were lost in the ramatazz that passes for a society.

We are not a society; we are the future.

And blah, blah, blah.

I'm just a modest man from Grand Rapids who loves tending his grandboys, Mitchell and Miles.

Oops! And his new little cat, Echo.

take Nigeria for instant the top richest men in Nigeria are either politicians or associated with government embezzelment one way or the other. Its even more strange to know that a senetor in Nigeria earns far more than the king of spain. And our dear president Mr. Goodluck (now known as badluck) earns more than obama

Always the same when you get caught out here. Too factual and corect for you? Indeed you fall back into some odd way of satire rather than admit anything. Your travels from one end of the country to the other may be dislodging grey cells?

Lieberman: It's time to take action in Syria CNN's Ashley Killough (CNN) -- Independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut called Sunday for the United States to provide direct assistance to the Syrian people in their struggle to oust President Bashar al-Assad. "It's time to try to help the brave Syrian freedom fighters to carry out a fair fight," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."

Go away, Joe!

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

the Enlightenment didn't start in Glasgow. GR, either.

…that surely doesn't mean Greece? (Maybe Grand Rapids; but then he's being fuch-tard… (He does that, on occasion. He sometimes knows to whom he's talking.))

Originally posted by rjhowie:

A[h], but you are not as safe on that point, Jaybro.

Yes, he is, RJ: He's an American!

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Literary genius was to the fore.

And now rejected by those who think "literary" means "mindless pap"… (Excuse me: I mean those who require mindless pap reject anything that … ah. RJ, do you know whom you refer to?) Who among the Gaels would you refer to, RJ?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

I'm just a modest man from Grand Rapids who loves tending his grandboys […]

Jaubro , I tend too to two toddlers; they try my patience, test my limits, and make me reconsider every per-conceived notion I've ever held!
If there's any way I can help them lead better lives, I' d reject any political stricture…
I don't thikk Howie is unaware of this: But love does conquer all; well, almost all… And, except for the folk who have never assumed responsibility for others (specially, those wee ones), it's something that can hardly be explained.

[Drunk, but coherent; not unusual…eh? ]

Damn it. Sorry OakdaleFTL, I forgot that America was the self-appointed guardian of the world. As for the Gaels? I am a Lowlander and not of the heuchter- teuchter Highlanders mob so I let them babble away in a dying laguage. I also wear trousers.

Care to mention any of these Scots literary or scientific lights by name, RJ? (Or would you as I expect denegrate them…?)

You need to space out your tippling a bit more OakdaleFTL. What a daft thing to say that I would degenerate Scots who were notables?? I have in the past here actually pointed to them and their achievement but maybe you were doing a Rip Van Winkle? What does have a passing niggle is this daft Highland image for Scotland that even my fellow Scots have fell for. Kilts, tartan, bagpipes that kind of thing. These were all part of the Highlands NOT the Lowlands which fought against them often eeough and helped put down their 1745 Rebellion by joining the army. It was the uplifting of the ban on kilts in the 19th century and the commercials who jumped on a bandwagon. Indeed the Lowland Scot would often wear the hodden grey or dark clothes, knee breeches and a "bunnit". The hoodwinking is bemusing as many who have been brained into kilts would have been fighting against the wearers in the past.
However meanwhile, I will direct you to this link amongst others again......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scots

In yet one more WTF moment...

Mormon Baptism Of Wiesenthal Kin Sparks Jewish Outrage
Two decades of anger, apologies and agreements have failed to keep the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from ending posthumous Mormon baptisms of prominent Jews and holocaust victims. In the latest incident, the parents of the late Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of a Nazi death camp and an advocate for holocaust victims, were baptized in a Mormon ceremony.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

If you have a twin, you might get away with murder.

I heard a rumor theres a town in Scotland that DNA profiling doesn't work in murder cases... they're all the same.

Inbreeding's a bitch!

And to think that some people still question our decision to bring freedom to Afghanistan. God bless our Afghan allies!
JFC

For Punishment of Elder’s Misdeeds, Afghan Girl Pays the Price ASADABAD, Afghanistan —

Shakila, 8 at the time, was drifting off to sleep when a group of men carrying AK-47s barged in through the door. She recalls that they complained, as they dragged her off into the darkness, about how their family had been dishonored and about how they had not been paid. It turns out that Shakila, who was abducted along with her cousin as part of a traditional Afghan form of justice known as “baad,” was the payment. Although baad (also known as baadi) is illegal under Afghan and, most religious scholars say, Islamic law, the taking of girls as payment for misdeeds committed by their elders still appears to be flourishing. Shakila, because one of her uncles had run away with the wife of a district strongman, was taken and held for about a year.
.....
“They put us in a dark room with stone walls; it was dirty and they kept beating us with sticks and saying, ‘Your uncle ran away with our wife and dishonored us, and we will beat you in retaliation.’ ”

Mormonism is of course created on shaky ground but there again Weisental is no paragon of purity either....

http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/wiesenthal.shtml

TIP #10A01-05
DATE ISSUED: June 15, 2010

Operators Must Change Vending Machine Notice
Effective July 1, 2010, the notice that MUST BE POSTED on ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDING MACHINES will change.

Operators must post the following statement on each machine:

NOTICE TO CUSTOMER:

FLORIDA LAW REQUIRES THIS NOTICE TO BE POSTED ON ALL FOOD AND BEVERAGE VENDING MACHINES. Report any machine without a notice to 1-800-352-9273. You may be eligible for a cash reward. DO NOT USE THIS NUMBER TO REPORT PROBLEMS WITH THE VENDING MACHINE SUCH AS LOST MONEY OR OUT-OF-DATE PRODUCTS.
......
In other words, write down the number and check other vending machines to see if the notice is posted on them.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/FileStores/Web/Statutes/FS08/CH0212/Section_0212.0515.HTM

Well there you go Jaybro - a cash reward. Could fill your time more productively perhaps?

All I can say is ONLY IN FLORIDA.

Only in American politics!

(CNN) -- U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is surging in public opinion polls, but will he be stopped by Satan? Santorum, a devout Catholic who is the most overtly religious candidate in the race, has startled many Americans with comments on matters of faith. "Satan is attacking the great institutions of America," he reportedly said in a 2008 speech that resurfaced this week. "This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: A good, decent, powerful, influential country -- the United States of America."

Unfortunately and sadly it is the case re your politics. Wish it was different but it is too well entrenched such oddballs? Powerful most certainly but equally sadly a chink of the decency and goodness is sorely infected by people such as his wont?

I don't even know what to say except that I'll be elected President before he will.
Jaybro For President!

Is it true that Rick's running mate is Nun oftheabove?

Harsh, Kahn, harsh!

Ha, ha, a touch of the un-subtle there tt92. Have had a lunchtime meal date with 2 youngish nuns (at different times). Interesting lassies (both amused at my background and me theirs) but not Vice-Presidential material I muse. I would think that jaybro is tight regarding his position in any election. The electorate will be helped if Santorum who is a bit bullish is dispensed with but they might be more puzzled having Jaybro. Certainly to be fair the much lesser of the two - nah won't say it that wouldnt be fair either?

Slovakia wants to name a bridge after Chuck Norris.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/27/slovaks-vote-overwhelmingly-to-name-bridge-after-chuck-norris/

It looks to me that the Republicans are conspiring to re-elect Obama, our local Kenyan.

The Republican candidates?

What a most brilliant assessment there Jaybro. 10 of of 10. Ha, ha. We couldn't imagine any of the real Stooges being President but their characateurs are trying?!

And with your local Kenyan a convoluted British connection. Get the Minutemen the British are coming. Couldn't get any worse if you had a Frenchman!

I swear, Rj, I'm going to write you in as my presidential choice!

Originally posted by tt92:

Slovakia wants to name a bridge after Chuck Norris.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/27/slovaks-vote-overwhelmingly-to-name-bridge-after-chuck-norris/

I understand that if the bridge is named after him, nobody will actually try to use the bridge. Nobody crosses Chuck Norris.

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

Originally posted by tt92:

Slovakia wants to name a bridge after Chuck Norris.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/27/slovaks-vote-overwhelmingly-to-name-bridge-after-chuck-norris/

I understand that if the bridge is named after him, nobody will actually try to use the bridge. Nobody crosses Chuck Norris.

Originally posted by tt92:

Originally posted by mjmsprt40:

Originally posted by tt92:

Slovakia wants to name a bridge after Chuck Norris.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/02/27/slovaks-vote-overwhelmingly-to-name-bridge-after-chuck-norris/

I understand that if the bridge is named after him, nobody will actually try to use the bridge. Nobody crosses Chuck Norris.

Why not, Simi Valley, Ca. named a library after Reagan and in Orange County, Ca. an airport after John Wayne!!
As it stands.... our most contemporary politicians have proven to be "BAD ACTORS" anyway.

You write me in Jaybro and you can pick the Cabinet job of your choice. No more military jamborees, free summer camps for the young, and then be able to dish out some apple pie and dremas, spend the money saved on the huddled masses - help them cross the tracks and so on. Maybe even a Department of fun and happiness and some old comedy black and whites thrown in for simple pleasures..........

UK: Population below poverty line: 14% (2006 est.)
US: Population below poverty line: 15.1% (2010 est.)
......
It ain't just here, but it's bad enough.

http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=us&v=69

Little Taiwan? 1.6%!

Jaybro, I wonder what are the criteria for that ranking where China has the second better place in the world with just 2%. Far ahead of poor Switzerland.

According your actual signature God doesn't like the Chinese...

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Jaybro, I wonder what are the criteria for that ranking where China has the second better place in the world with just 2%. Far ahead of poor Switzerland.

Well, it does say at the bottom that, "rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations." I think we all know what that means for China.

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Jaybro, I wonder what are the criteria for that ranking where China has the second better place in the world with just 2%. Far ahead of poor Switzerland.

According your actual signature God doesn't like the Chinese...

Hell, I don't where bananas are manufactured, so you'll have to blame these folks for the stats...
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

Well your stats conveniently ignore we are a Welfaer State you aren't Jaybro. Tsk, tsk, when the teachers don't know where bananas come from then edyoukachin is on a downward spiral. I think they come from Edinburgh.

But —since you can't make this stuff up— check out any recording by Chanticleer… Simply marvelous on pre-Baroque stuff. (Not for Whitney Houston fans, though: They temper their virtuosity by reading the music….)

@RJ: What's a "Welfaer State" — besides illiterates on the dole unfortunately given the vote? (I ask, respectively…)

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Well your stats conveniently ignore we are a Welfaer State you aren't Jaybro. Tsk, tsk, when the teachers don't know where bananas come from then edyoukachin is on a downward spiral. I think they come from Edinburgh.

Look again. They aren't my stats.

If "edyoukachin is on a downward spiral," then it must be in most evident in Glasgow.

Everybody whose heart still beats knows that Scotland is a welfare state, a province of England, and the proud home of Edinburg. And, no, we aren't a welfare state, with a few exceptions...

In both Washington, D.C. and Mississippi more than a fifth of residents received food stamps — the highest recipiency rates of any state.

But, see...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9114326/No-more-languishing-on-the-dole-after-welfare-reforms-says-David-Cameron.html

Brits, too, have limits.

OakdaleFTL, you have no Welfare State yet look at the army of the lost you have. The percentages in jail (amongst the highest), tens of millions who cannot afford medical care, a million a year losing hmes through no fault of their own, trillions in debt but still creating wars to justify what? Kind of funny you criticise our Welfare State when you don't just have specs in your own eye but damn logs! Don't think we want to copy you lot!

Of course we have limits Jaybro it is not a free for all. In an economic climate and the mess left by the last government it is time to reign in expenditure by the present government coalition (couldn't happen in the ex-Colonies so learn from democracy when it comes), However not one political party from left to right (and our two wings are more normal than yours) is standing for a dissolution of Welfare, Social Security or the National Health Service may I remind. Even your own capital in the land of the free and home of the brave has a fifth in poverty. Bet they are mostly black too.

One of the weakness of education in Glasgow my dear Grand Rapidian retired teacher, is that the poor English teachers do their best but as soon as the "weans" are out of the class or school they resort to the gritty dialect of Glasgow. They gie the Gleca patter real laldy so they dae. Ra boys urr street-wise and plucky and the lassies are stoatirs so they urr.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

One of the weakness of education in Glasgow my dear Grand Rapidian retired teacher, is that the poor English teachers do their best but as soon as the "weans" are out of the class or school they resort to the gritty dialect of Glasgow. They gie the Gleca patter real laldy so they dae. Ra boys urr street-wise and plucky and the lassies are stoatirs so they urr.

Damn their little Glaswegian hides. Spare the paddle....you know the rest.

I'm sure it gets grittier by the day.

How BS can become Classic BS instantly!
Would anybody here trust a Chinese condom?

TWENTY-two years after Mike Godwin, an American attorney and internet pioneer, made himself famous by postulating a law of the proto-internet, Chinese propagandists have provided yet another data point suggesting he was right. Godwin’s Law states: “As an online discussion continues, the probability of a reference or comparison to Hitler or to Nazis approaches one.” And sure enough, on March 24th the government-run China Tibet Online went there. A lengthy and vitriolic commentary (in Chinese) attacked the exiled Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama, by comparing him to Hitler and his polices to those of the Nazis. “The Dalai Lama’s speeches can’t help but make people think of the fanatical Nazis during the second world war”, said the commentary, which was also carried by the official Xinhua news agency (which seems to have removed the English version of the article from its website). The screed accused the Dalai Lama of wanting to restore serfdom to Tibet, and it slammed his frequent warnings that the steady influx of ethnic Han Chinese migrants to Tibetan areas threatens the survival of the native culture.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/03/hitler-and-dalai-lama

Arrested drunk man breaks into a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody in the back of the squad car! I don't think that helped his case that he wasn't drunk...

http://knowyourmeme.com/videos/35679-freddie-mercury

Well Jaybro about twenty odd years ago we still had the "Tawse" here in Scotland. This was a short thick leather strap and commonly known to pupils as "the belt" or arra belt" in localese. One end was squared off and the other had lose ends to it. You could get anything from one belt and the maximum was six. Most as I recall as a boy preferred the short if albeit painful smack on the hand than some other punishment. The normal practice was to stick your two hands out one close below the other so they both felt it. Oddly enough most boys (can't recall any lassies getting it) regarded teachers with comments that "Mr McKirdy or whoever was good at the belt"!

Then in came the modernisers and do-gooding fraternity (one I am not in), and two parents complained regarding human rights to the European court lot. One of these boys was in a Secondary School not far from me and a right torag. The other mother took her son out the public authority school system and put him in a private school which at that time could still use the tawse. Time after time I got moaned at from parents who would warble "Whit did ye ever scrub ra belt furr?" Repeated groans from me protesting "It wasn't me dear". If the belt had to go I would have put the brats in the stocks and issued the rotten fruit for salvos.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Well Jaybro about twenty odd years ago we still had the "Tawse" here in Scotland. This was a short thick leather strap and commonly known to pupils as "the belt" or arra belt" in localese. One end was squared off and the other had lose ends to it. You could get anything from one belt and the maximum was six.

There was a teacher in my elementary school who had such a weapon, an eight inch length of industrial belt. I'd done some mischief and she took me into the hall for a "rebuke". After administering the punishment, she informed me that I'd been selected to go to a Detroit Tigers baseball game for my outstanding service as a safety patrol boy. My little brain reeled from the incongruity, as my hand burned from the punishment.

Here it was genrally accepted. If a boy puled a hand away it would mean an extra belt. If that still didn't get accepted then you were sent to the "Headie" (headmaster) and that was knee-shaking so most boys just got on with it. We just accepted it as part of everyday life and as I pointed out we often funnily commneted on teachers on how good they wer with the damn thing! In my day teachers were teachers and wore a black gown and like officers in the army. Even those "good at the belt" were held in regard and awe. Not that I got the belt much. In four years at Senior Secondary I can only remember three times as I was treated as the clas comic by teachers. Very subtle I was. However I do remember an incident were I felt injustice.

Two of my pals were in a clasrom playing cards (no money) just playing a simple game of Pontoons or "Pawnie". I was behind them as they say in thwee two seats and desks looking over their shoulders. Suddenly the door swung opn and there was the Deputy Head in his cloak streaming after him looking strident. "You three -upstairs...NOW!" We duly tripped after him nervously being 13 or 14 at the time.We were in the classrom during what we called playtime or the mid-morning break. Now he was of average height, slim and his face and rinmmles glasses made him klok like Himmler which made things worse. And he was Deputy "Heid" next to God. We got a lecture on cards then my two pals were to get 4 of the belt which they duly took waving their hands afterwards. I piped up that I hadn't been playing cards and had only been watching. My friends readily agreed but nope Mr Borleand was of the kind that I was almost as bad having watched so I got 2. The Avenue behind mine here where I live is called Boreland Drive and I always smile any time I walk it as it reminds me of the man but in a lesser way that he would want!

My own form master Mr McKirdy was a great teacher and he didn't keep his belt in the desk but under his jacket across his shoulder. On the very rare time he ever used it he would put his hand in and hold it then tell the miscreant to say "draw". Once done the belt came out fast and hit the hand. The clsas of boys would then nod to each other and whisper on how brilliantly fast he was. We were very taken on with Mr McKirdy and thought him brilliant as a teacher. Not that the tawse was used all the time and I would say far from it but a lot better than lines or being kept in, etc. It was a damn sight quicker and on a snowy day warmed you.

Now I've read everything. Naked governor almost eaten by a bear. Don't ask.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/13/naked-vermont-governor-almost-eaten-by-bears/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheRawStory+(The+Raw+Story)

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Jaybro, I wonder what are the criteria for that ranking where China has the second better place in the world with just 2%. Far ahead of poor Switzerland.

According your actual signature God doesn't like the Chinese...

This might explain it:

Definition: National estimates of the percentage of the population falling below the poverty line are based on surveys of sub-groups, with the results weighted by the number of people in each group. Definitions of poverty vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Well there you go Jaybro - a cash reward. Could fill your time more productively perhaps?

The latest reward is from your end of the pitch.

British Lord Nazir Ahmed put a £10 million ($16 million) bounty on both President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush Friday, according to The Express Tribune, an English language Pakistani newspaper. Nazir, who is of Pakistani heritage and a member of the British House of Lords, reportedly made the comments while at a reception in Haripur, a Pakistani city 4o miles north of Islamabad. Nazir told the audience that he was putting the bounty out for the capture of the American leaders in response to the bounty placed on Hafiz Muhammad Saeed by the United States.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Well there you go Jaybro - a cash reward. Could fill your time more productively perhaps?

The latest reward is from your end of the pitch.

British Lord Nazir Ahmed put a £10 million ($16 million) bounty on both President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush Friday, according to The Express Tribune, an English language Pakistani newspaper. Nazir, who is of Pakistani heritage and a member of the British House of Lords, reportedly made the comments while at a reception in Haripur, a Pakistani city 4o miles north of Islamabad. Nazir told the audience that he was putting the bounty out for the capture of the American leaders in response to the bounty placed on Hafiz Muhammad Saeed by the United States.

Would you like to extradite him?

Originally posted by string:

Would you like to extradite him?

Personally? I'm too busy planning dinner...my problem is that I have two beautiful steaks to grill, and the wind is howling and rain is falling. I'm sorta anti-extradition anyway. Maybe later, though.

What do Lords eat for dinner?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Originally posted by string:

Would you like to extradite him?

Personally? I'm too busy planning dinner........
What do Lords eat for dinner?

2 Steaks - don't invite him.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

my problem is that I have two beautiful steaks to grill, and the wind is howling and rain is falling.

Good cuisine is incompatible with American barbecues. No one goes outside to eat except for a picnic.
But eating steaks at a picnic seems to me a very strange thing to do.

I like picnics by the way and don't do any for a lot of years. A good picnic it's an art, not an informal thing. It seems to be but it isn't at all.

And another of those needing-to-be-watched Muslims. Elevated to the upper house by the Labour lot when in government to show how "inclusive" things are. He strongly denies and the Labour Party has suspended him for the matter to be properly investigated. I will be very interested to see if it is true or not. If true then something needs to be done about him.

During Prime Minister's Questions, Liberal Democrat MP Steve Gilbert asks the Prime Minister why pasties are to be subjected to VAT when caviar is exempt.
(source)

Chalk up another one to "our common language"…

[continued] The Prime Minister told the Commons he understood why “feelings in Cornwall run high on this” but insisted it was unfair that other takeaway food was covered by the tax while pasties were not.

His defence comes as Commons officials confirmed a rebel amendment to derail the tax will go before MPs later today.

(My apologies to Jaybro! I know he never expected to see such things in this thread… )

Nay, nay, good sir...pasties are quite popular here in Michigan.

See here.

Originally posted by Belfrager:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

my problem is that I have two beautiful steaks to grill, and the wind is howling and rain is falling.

Good cuisine is incompatible with American barbecues. No one goes outside to eat except for a picnic.
But eating steaks at a picnic seems to me a very strange thing to do.

You assumed too much. There was no picnic, no eating outside.

The steaks (very expensive ones) were grilled outside but eaten inside. Sadly, they were like rawhide. No more steak from that venue!

Originally posted by string:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Originally posted by string:

Would you like to extradite him?

Personally? I'm too busy planning dinner........
What do Lords eat for dinner?

2 Steaks - don't invite him.

Shucks, I didn't even invite my wife.

Cornish pasties are not so popular up here north of the Border. We instead have our own local savoury called a "Bridie" but no vegetables in it. And a Scotch Pie in gravy there's another treat, hhhhm.

In yet one more WTF moment, I came across the following:

Outrage as Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law' so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death:

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.

I was somewhat skeptical of the Daily Mail story, but it was sourced…
What caused me the most puzzlement was this:

Two years ago, Zamzami [the same cleric who made these pronouncements] incited further controversy in Morocco when he said it was permissible for pregnant women to drink alcohol.
(from the al Arabiya article)

Intellectual ability is apparently to be abhorred and minimized even in utero?!

Jaybro, it is all part of the wonderful world of Islam. Women are treated as second-class in life and disgustingly (possibly) in death. Strikes me the brain dead will lap such abhorrence up. One hopes he is a lone wolf but.

There have been some protests.

Egypt has radical Muslims. We have Republicans. Scotland has you.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Jaybro, it is all part of the wonderful world of Islam. Women are treated as second-class in life and disgustingly (possibly) in death. Strikes me the brain dead will lap such abhorrence up. One hopes he is a lone wolf but.

...but you've already decided he's not?

Surprise, surprise, JSP!

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Jaybro, it is all part of the wonderful world of Islam. Women are treated as second-class in life and disgustingly (possibly) in death. Strikes me the brain dead will lap such abhorrence up. One hopes he is a lone wolf but.

...but you've already decided he's not?

Surprise, surprise, JSP.

Who'da thunk it?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

In yet one more WTF moment, I came across the following:

Outrage as Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law' so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death:

Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives - for up to six hours after their death. The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.

Twitter accounts claim this to be a hoax, fingering supporters of the former regime.

WORLD REPORT: EGYPT‘S PROPOSED ’FAREWELL INTERCOURSE LAW‘ DISMISSED AS ’COMPLETE NONSENSE’
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:30pm by  Madeleine MorgensternPrint »Email »
Comments (49)
Recent reports that Egypt’s parliament is working on a law that would permit husbands to have sex with their newly-deceased wives have been dismissed as “complete nonsense,” according to theDaily Mail.

Citing “sources inside the Egyptian Embassy in London,“ the Mail reported Friday the claims were ”completely false,“ ”forbidden in Islam“ and that those interviewed ”could never imagine it happening.” While not an official rebuttal, an embassy source told the site no such proposal had reached parliament, though acknowledged “it could be the work of an extremist politician.”

According to the journalism institution Poynter, reports of the “farewell intercourse law” first surfaced in an opinion piece published in Egypt’s state newspaper Al Ahram. It gained traction once it was picked up by the English-language Al Arabiya — which described it as “allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death” — and then quickly appeared in the Daily Mail, the Huffington Post, Andrew Sullivan’s blog and elsewhere.

The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday blasted the claims as “utter hooey,” stating, “inflammatory claims, need at minimum some evidence….The evidence right now? Zero.”

For those among us whose wives...never mind.

Man shoots himself and wife -- at gun safety class

Sounds like a bad joke, doesn't it? A man attends a gun safety class and accidentally shoots himself -- and his wife. It was no joke for Michael and Michelle Deel of Roanoke, Va., who both took a firearms safety class over the weekend. When the instructor left the room, Michael shot himself in the hand with a .45-caliber handgun. The bullet passed through his hand and struck Michelle, who was sitting next to him, in the leg. The couple was taken by ambulance to a local hospital and treated for non-life-threatening wounds. No word on whether they'll be taking a makeup class.

Kind of subtley says it all?

We in the West live in a bubble of good fortune, some more so, others less so, largely oblivious to the nitty gritty lives elsewhere. Years ago I visited the Philippines and witnessed the poverty that was everywhere...nothing like this, however.

Now, this is plain sad.

Kind of makes me want to repeat my last comment. Really very sad in these days?

First, let me state plainly that I don't believe much of the man-made global warming stuff that gets bandied about. I haven't really been convinced that we're capable of damaging the planet on the scale that some alarmists would have us believe. Having said that, though, I now present evidence that some from my side of the issue can take it over the top and do something remarkably stupid and damaging to the cause they claim to support. See link below.

http://www.suntimes.com/12340958-417/billboard-likening-believers-in-global-warming-to-criminals-pulled.html?print=true

A lot to be agreed with you there mjsmsprt40. This carbon ya-boo is yet another excuse to make money and add taxes. I am far from convinced the present situationis all man made. Even in Scotland all these muddled politicians are sticking wind farmsall over the dashed place to cut our carbon footprint. Our contribution is so tiny it is absurd. Cows produce more than we do so maybe we shoud do away with all cows?

iPad using orangutans?

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/09/us-orangutans-ipads/

The orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with computers and apes, letting its six orangutans use an iPad to communicate and as part of a mental stimulus program. Linda Jacobs, who oversees the program, hopes the devices will eventually help bridge the gap between humans and the endangered apes.

"Our young ones pick up on it. They understand it. It's like, `Oh I get this,'" Jacobs said. "Our two older ones, they just are not interested. I think they just figure, `I've gotten along just fine in this world without this communication-skill here and the iPad, and I don't need a computer.'"

Originally posted by Sanguinemoon:

iPad using orangutans?

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/may/09/us-orangutans-ipads/

The orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology..... I don't need a computer.'"

I gave my wife an iPad and she made soup out of it. I ate marshmallows and figs that night.

Originally posted by rjhowie:

A lot to be agreed with you there mjsmsprt40. This carbon ya-boo is yet another excuse to make money and add taxes. I am far from convinced the present situationis all man made. Even in Scotland all these muddled politicians are sticking wind farmsall over the dashed place to cut our carbon footprint. Our contribution is so tiny it is absurd. Cows produce more than we do so maybe we shoud do away with all cows?

Couldn't agree more.
See here for supporting evidence🇬🇧
And....

WEDNESDAY, 29 FEBRUARY 2012 Glasgow's Air Pollution Glasgow's air quality has further deteriorated in the last three years, amid increasing evidence of the damage this does to health. Microscopic particulates cause heart disease and strokes and are a factor in cancer. At the last elections my Green councillor agreed to pursue a "low emissions zone" in my area. Since then there has been little progress; all the council does is monitor the increasing pollution. Other cities have introduced electric taxis, parking penalties for high polluters, and pedestrian zones. But not Glasgow. The Greens seem more interested in independence other issues.

Damned Greens!

Furthermore...

The large amounts of methane produced by cows are now a cause of concern and the subject of much scientific research. Agriculture is responsible for an estimated 14 percent of the world's greenhouse gases. A significant portion of these emissions come from methane, which, in terms of its contribution to global warming, is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The U.S. Food and Agriculture Organization says that agricultural methane output could increase by 60 percent by 2030 [Source: Times Online]. The world's 1.5 billion cows and billions of other grazing animals emit dozens of polluting gases, including lots of methane. Two-thirds of all ammonia comes from cows. Cows emit a massive amount of methane through belching, with a lesser amount through flatulence*. Statistics vary regarding how much methane the average dairy cow expels. Some experts say 100 liters to 200 liters a day (or about 26 gallons to about 53 gallons), while others say it's up to 500 liters (about 132 gallons) a day. In any case, that's a lot of methane, an amount comparable to the pollution produced by a car in a day.

* For the uninitiated, that's farts.

It sounds like a science-fiction fantasy, but the company Mars One says it's for real—and that it will really establish a settlement on the planet Mars by 2023. The privately financed Dutch company has a plan. All it needs is a lot of cash, equipment and four Mars-bound astronauts who are willing to take a one-way trip to the red planet.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/mars-one-one-way-ticket-red-planet-192011042.html

Gee, they're not asking much, eh?

And Rj thinks that US corporations are dicey!

Should we take up a collection and fly Smileyfaze into the wild blue yonder and beyond?

(Just kidding, SF)

We can thank the Russians for the space station and now the Dutch getting in on the act. Gee the USA could end up a bit player if the Irish get their act together? Sending Smileyfaze into space say in a capsule is a positive direction. However i would add Jaybro that a note should be included warning any alien not to waken him as their civilisation could be in peril.

As for my hame here in Glesca' they are a wee bit stretching thr truth. The odd thing is that the monitoring boxes they set up only seem to be in the central area where all the heavy traffic is. Union Street is one of the busiest in Scotland especially rush hours and crammed full of bus companies. Once outwith the city centre it is sweetness and light especially where I live.

Here's an eye opener. My wife received the following email from my "sister".

I'm sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it's because of the situation of things right now. My family and i came down here to London,UK for a short vacation unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,All cash,credit card and cell were stolen off us but luckily for us we still have our passports with us. We've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and our flight leaves soon, but we're having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let us leave until we clear the bills,wondering if you could assist with me with some money and I promise to refund it to you as soon as I arrive back home safely.. You have my word!! I'm freaked out at the moment regards

Anybody else ever run into this scam.

Bet you paid it then came on here preteding to be miffed by such a scam.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Anybody else ever run into this scam.

Sadly, it's quite common. It's the new 419.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/distress/family.asp

Originally posted by rjhowie:

Bet you paid it then came on here preteding to be miffed by such a scam.

Originally posted by johnnysaucepn:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Anybody else ever run into this scam.

Sadly, it's quite common. It's the new 419.

http://www.snopes.com/fraud/distress/family.asp

It doesn't seem possible, though, since the message is so improbable because so specific. I mean, how could it resonate given all the particulars?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Sometimes reality trumps fantasy.

Does this happen only in the U.S.?

Yes it does!

South American states ban Falklands vessels from ports South American trading bloc has agreed to close its ports to ships flying the Falkland Islands flag. Mercosur, which includes Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, came to the decision at a summit in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo. But Uruguayan President Jose Mujica said British-flagged civilian ships that may supply the islands would still be allowed to use its ports. The Foreign Office said there was "no justification" for the action. The Falklands flag is flown by 25 boats, mostly fishing vessels operated in joint ventures with Spanish companies.

Free the Malvinas!

Nae chance.

The Falklands administration is now going to hold a referendum on citizenship and once that is held the South Americans can go kiss each other's backsides. We will then see how their democratic high principles hold out then. When I was in New York when a mob of the Argie clan held a protest I went down and heckled them.

While no great fan of abortion (I was aborted), I don't approve the below. If I had my way, Mississippi, the most benighted state in the Union, would be aborted.

JACKSON — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Monday signed a law that will put new regulations on the state’s only abortion clinic, starting July 1. The Republican said he’s not bothered by the possibility that the clinic’s owner will sue to try to block the new mandates. “If it closes that clinic, then so be it,” Bryant said during a bill signing ceremony in his Capitol office.

.....
You can't make this stuff up.

Mississippi is run by assclowns? News at eleven.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

If I had my way, Mississippi, the most benighted state in the Union, would be aborted.

Hey, hey, hey, don't abort the state, just abort the morons that run it.

Speaking of that recent law passed by the legislature, do you know that fascism has finally arrived in Mississippi?
This law was based off of Initiative #26, which was beaten at the polls by a 59% to 41% margin.

Additionally, the docs at the clinic have applied for admitting privileges to keep it open, as only one doc has them, but the hospitals are dragging their feet on this one.

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

If I had my way, Mississippi, the most benighted state in the Union, would be aborted.

Hey, hey, hey, don't abort the state, just abort the morons that run it.

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

Hey, hey, hey, don't abort the state, just abort the morons that run it.

Surely you mean Mormons?

Originally posted by banduser:

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

Hey, hey, hey, don't abort the state, just abort the morons that run it.

Surely you mean Mormons?

He said Mississippi, not Utah

Originally posted by Macallan:

Originally posted by banduser:

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

Hey, hey, hey, don't abort the state, just abort the morons that run it.

Surely you mean Mormons?

He said Mississippi, not Utah

There's a difference?

Originally posted by banduser:

Originally posted by Macallan:

Originally posted by banduser:

Originally posted by thedawgfan:

Hey, hey, hey, don't abort the state, just abort the morons that run it.

Surely you mean Mormons?

He said Mississippi, not Utah

There's a difference?

One has mormons, the other one has baptists
Utah usually doesn't get hurricanes

Originally posted by Macallan:

One has mormons, the other one has baptists

There's a difference?

Originally posted by Macallan:

Utah usually doesn't get hurricanes

I don't get them either.

Originally posted by banduser:

Originally posted by Macallan:

One has mormons, the other one has baptists

There's a difference?

Technicalities. I think it's about coffee

Originally posted by Macallan:

Originally posted by banduser:

Originally posted by Macallan:

One has mormons, the other one has baptists

There's a difference?

Technicalities. I think it's about coffee

Oddly, that would make sense.

Americans drink too much of it. Maybe that's thr problem?

More info than I ever wanted!

NO SEX REQUIRED: WOMEN HAVE ORGASMS AT THE GYM So-called "coregasms"

Orgasms tended to occur after multiple sets of crunches or some other abdominal exercise rather than after just a couple repetitions. Exercise-induced orgasms may be one way for scientists, and women themselves, to learn about the process of orgasm. Despite attention in the popular media, little is known scientifically about exercise-induced orgasms. Women may not need a guy, a vibrator, or any other direct sexual stimulation to have an orgasm, finds a new study on exercise-induced orgasms and sexual pleasure. The findings add qualitative and quantitative data to a field that has been largely unstudied, according to researcher Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University. For instance, Alfred Kinsey and his colleagues first reported the phenomenon in 1953, saying that about 5 percent of women they had interviewed mentioned orgasm linked to physical exercise. However, they couldn't know the actual prevalence because most of these women volunteered the information without being directly asked.

Not so surprising really. A woman told me she could get orgasms by squeezing her legs together and even thinking about such could have her almost hopping without the exercise.And so many feign ignorance (wome I mean). Sneaky women.

Since none are posting here presently, I agree.
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ATTN: JBROTHERNEW37 MAY NOT HAVE MADE THIS POST

Originally posted by timesfreepress.com:

Gov. Bill Haslam is facing a tremendous amount of heat from Republican and tea party activists across the state. No fewer than five resolutions are currently circulating urging the Tennessee Republican Executive Committee to take meaningful action against the Haslam administration. A political organization plans to purchase ads condemning the governor. Some grass-roots activists are even calling for his resignation.

His crime? Hiring the most qualified person for a position.

The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development's new international director is from Waverly, a small town just west of Nashville. Most recently, she served as a White House fellow, one of our nation's most competitive and prestigious honors for a young professional.

She also worked as an associate attorney at Hogan Lovells, one of the most respected international law firms in the world. Before that, she clerked for a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She is a tae kwon do champion and a volunteer for the YMCA, AIDS efforts and an organization focused on addressing diabetes. Her bachelor's and law degrees are both from Vanderbilt.

She also happens to be Muslim.

This fact prompted the Center for Security Policy, a D.C.-based organization that likes to stick its nose in local issues any time a Muslim is involved, along with Republican groups in Stewart and Carroll Counties and the 8th District Tea Party Coalition, an umbrella organization of West Tennessee tea party groups, to pass resolutions urging Haslam to relieve the ECD's new international director of her duties.

The resolutions, which also condemn Haslam for allowing "open homosexuals to make policy decisions in the Department of Children's Services," declare that the governor's actions have caused a loss of "confidence in our Governor during an election year."

The Stewart and Carroll County resolutions call for the state's Republican leaders to take "appropriate action against the administration of Governor Bill Haslam."

Williamson County's Republican Party passed a more focused resolution criticizing the hiring of a Muslim in a position related to foreign trade.

Additionally, members of the 9.12 Project Tennessee, a Nashville-area group committed to "restoring constitutional values" claim they have raised money to purchase a half page ad in Friday's Tennessean condemning Haslam for hiring a Muslim, according to an email sent by the organization. I guess they forgot about one constitutional value: freedom of religion.

Full article here.
Welcome to Redneckistan

Originally posted by Macallan:

Welcome to Redneckistan

It's worse than you think.

June 1, 2012 In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins Highly religious Americans most likely to believe in creationism by Frank Newport

PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the origin of humans is essentially unchanged from 30 years ago, when Gallup first asked the question. About a third of Americans believe that humans evolved, but with God's guidance; 15% say humans evolved, but that God had no part in the process.

God bless the 15%...What did I just say!? God, who?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

God bless the 15%...What did I just say!? God, who?

Talking to yourself?

Something very funny just jumped up.

I was reading a report in the massive power outage in India and browsed readers' comments. One of tHem wrote that the outages were "Bush's fault".

Priceless!

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Something very funny just jumped up.

I was reading a report in the massive power outage in India and browsed readers' comments. One of tHem wrote that the outages were "Bush's fault".

Priceless!

Now that's nonsense. It's obviously Obama's fault

Originally posted by Macallan:

Now that's nonsense. It's obviously Obama's fault

Calm down! You're going through another one of your Faze* episodes.
.............
* For the uninitiated, that's Smileyfaze. And everything is Bush's fault.

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Originally posted by Macallan:

Now that's nonsense. It's obviously Obama's fault

Calm down! You're going through another one of your Faze* episodes.

You're trying to TAKE MY GUNS AWAY!!!!!!!eleventyone!!!!

Guns or glans?

Originally posted by jbrothernew37:

Guns or glans?

There's a difference?

On a more urgent matter...

"Indonesian official: 8 badminton players disqualified from Olympic doubles for trying to lose."

What's this world coming to!?

On an issue crucial to the survival of the country, this report from CNN...

Atlanta (CNN) --
Ordering lunch just got a lot more complicated than deciding how to answer, "Do you want fries with that?" Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy sparked reactions that were swift and strong after he weighed in on same-sex marriage by saying his company backs the traditional family unit. Politicians from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke up. Supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage protested. And suddenly, the type of fast-food bag you carry could reveal your views on a hot-button social issue that has split the country*. Some proponents of same-sex marriage have decried Cathy's comments and called for a boycott of the chain, which had annual sales of more than $4.1 billion last year and has more than 1,615 locations in 39 states and Washington, D.C., with the strongest concentration in the Southeast. Mayor: Chick-fil-A not 'Chicago' values Alderman defends Chick-fil-A position "How backward and ignorant ... how sad," CNN reader Joe Brown said. "No more Chick-fil-A for me. I am not in the stone-casting business as a Christian."

Me? I stand with both sides. Waffles are I.

* More a fracture than a split. CNN sometimes goes overboard for the sake of...for the sake of...Damned if I know.

Jaybro signing off.