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Think I'll skip the week ahead in that case.
Large martini in a fish bowl please bartender.
I like your Christmas Tree avatar, BCWC. Been meaning to say, I like everybody's new holiday pics. I probably should change mine with the season, but I don't want anyone reading to be confused as to who I support!
Amy, just go to ... there are lotsa of pics with Obama as Santa.
www.google.ca/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1360&bih=642&q=obama+santa&oq=obama+san&gs_l=img.1.7.0l10.2048.6661.0.9649.9.7.0.2.2.0.148.887.0j7.7.0...0.0...1ac.1.4JbA-o4N5rI
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
So...Grover Norquist is un-civilized
Hey, blackcatwhitecat who says -
Sorry to remind you - bcwc - that - You plan means that you are having both 'death and taxes' -
1. Buying large martini, you pay sales taxes; for bartender, you pay taxes for his/her services.
2. Buying large martini...you are slowly killing yourself!!
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Sorry for telling you the truth
Pigotry,
Dude! Buzzkill!
Mark...I said 'sorry' already (#1.4). Do you have to kill buzz...or kill a dead pig.
Better a slow death by large martinis than roasting on a spit Pigotry. The truth will make your skin blister and crack.
Pigotry -
1. If BCWC is having that martini at the Dew Drop Inn, he pays no taxes. We ran them dang revenooers off years ago (I think one was named NoJoe).
2. We serve our martinis shaken, not stirred, a la James Bond; thus anyone who imbibes becomes virtually indestructible. (hey, if Bond could survive George Lazenby, he can survive anything!)
Pigotry,
Pardon the SoCal colloquialisms................you can take the surfer away from the surf but you can't take the surferisims out of the surfer, or something like that....
JoAnne,
I'll take one!
Hey, folks, it's hilario...when I say -
C'mon, it's a joke...just for the fun of it ...and it's weekend. Have a sense of humor ...it's harmless fun..
... or too deadpan?
Amy B. Portland, ME
I like your Christmas Tree avatar, BCWC. Been meaning to say, I like everybody's new holiday pics. I probably should change mine with the season, but I don't want anyone reading to be confused as to who I support!
Amy I found an avatar no one should be confused over; President Obama and Santa Claus. Although I may change it because the more I lok at it; the more it loks like no one will know it's our President.
Have a nice weekend
BCWC, I prefer the herb. Lets see, herb, check, rolling papers, check, lighter, check. Potato chips, check, remote control check. Chardonnay, check. Ok, ready for the week end. You all have a good one. Me I be grinning.
John, you are my sole mate... LOL
Lyn, I find medical marijuana medicinal. It is magic and cures a difficult day or week. Oh hell, it even makes a good week better.
Hey, John & Lyn ... if you want to get stoned, immigrate to Iran?
Let's all go over the cliff!!!!!!! Complete the Obama legacy. The progressives require that money to continue handing out the spending.
Have you ever seen a progressive who didn't want more money to hand out for votes?
Have a great weekend!!!! Find some great ways to Kill time.
Funnygirl, again not so funny, it is your borrow and spend republicans that are the problem here. They run up the bills but don't have any clue as how to pay for them. Have you ever seen a conservative that didn't sell their vote to big business?
Piggie, I just got to ask, why would I want to go to Iran to smoke pot when it is legal here? As Bob Dylan said, "everybody must get stoned."
John ... roll up some of that legal weed in a dollar bill and enjoy a fiscal spliff.
Iran has a law to stone people...the Iran government guarantees that you get stoned, when you sin.
Ok, now I get it piggie, I certainly prefer Michigan Basement stones over Iran's stones, thats for sure.
BCWC, Seems I do remember a rock concert in the 70's in Grass Lake Michigan that I took a couple of totes from a joint that was rolled using the Comic's from the Detroit Free Press.
Dang is it Friday already? Don’t time fly when you’re having fun?
Looks like we’ve got the politics pretty well covered this week and I see that nobodies come to any permanent harm. Hope everybody takes the week end and rubs the bruises and scrapes a little and shows up bright and early Monday morning for another go round. Looks like it’s going to be an interesting week.
Just as sure as the Man Upstairs makes little Green Apples in the Spring Christmas is coming. I don’t give a rat’s patooty if you’re Democrat, Republican, Tea Party, Green Party or some semblance thereof. Don’t care if your Baptist, Atheist, Hindu or practice Confususism. Don’t really care if you say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas. It’s beside the point.
Tis the Season for thinking of your fellow man and especially children.
From what I can see some of us are doing better than we have been. That does not Negate the fact that our Charitable Organizations are still facing unprecedented need for those that aren’t. The only thing we can do is do what good folks do and that is step up and do our best. Folks you can’t Legislate it and you can’t Filibuster it and you can’t Veto it. The only thing you can do is Do It the best way you know how. We can argue about who did what and why come January. Let’s just do what we need to do now.
As always my thanks and appreciation to our hosts for their time, giving me a little place to stand, a subject to comment on, a forum to put it in, and their indulgence when I don’t quite get it right or get a little off subject. I purely do appreciate it. Hope you’ll have a fine weekend and good fun among folks that you know and love. To my fellow participants keep well, keep safe, and keep the faith. We’ll make it. See you’ll next week
Tunemiesters how about hitting B-16 which would be Old Bing warbling “I’ll Be Home For Christmas” and Barkeep set up a round for the house and let’s get this place to rocking so that you don’t have to make an excuse for Ol’ He Ain’t Here.
Tis the Season for thinking of your fellow man and especially children.
Amen!
I have been in the belly of the socialist beast - Europe - for the past five weeks and it has been interesting to watch US politics from across the pond. Really been paying more attention to the Middle East than the Decadent West.
A Republican in Europe.....I like it here.......go figure.........
Hope be home for Christmas.
As David W said regarding my weekly wrap, Friday is back in balance what with our Redneck Ace posting his Friday closing remarks! Well done with the perfect touch of humor, IR.
Thanks to our First Read hosts for their hard work and for giving us this great place to discuss their hard work!
Amy, ditto the Amen for that thought!
Mark, hope you get home for the holidays. Conservatives over there are a different breed than some of ours, a lot more normal.
Have a great weekend everyone. After "White Christmas", how about "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" sung by Buryl Ives.....then for TomasGrande who earlier mentioned it, "It's beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas".
Mark one of the prettiest Christmas's I've have had was in Austria. The folks lite actual candles on the tree for about an hour each evening and at midnight Christmas Eve in the village the Brass was set up in the Church Steeple to play Joy To the World which rang out clear and sweet all over the Valley. And it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Good. After my death, I don't have to pay taxes, and you all will get pork - it's a win-win.
Independent,
Enjoying the season in Switzerland - snow, gluwein, decorations, local food and traditions,etc. The consensus at my hotel is Mrs. SoCal ought to come over here for Christmas, of which she would not have great objection, but I have been home only two weeks since the start of September and Christmas in SoCal with the family right now just sounds glorious.
Uncle Redneck -
Here's your request for der Bingle, with an extra log on the fire at the DDI to go with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5XDm7P7nU0
And since our friend Drive-by hasn't been around to mind the old quarter machine lately, I was dusting off the Christmas collection recently and there was this horrible accident, and I'm sorry to report (well, not really) that the following selections are no longer available: Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad". "George Michael's "Last Christmas". Elmo and Patsy's "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You". And whoever it is that did "Dominic the Donkey" and "I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas". Anyone requesting these titles will just have to sit out in their car, where I'm sure they can find a station playing any one of them at any hour of the day.
Christmas in either Austria or Switzerland sounds lovely, but as long as you're with Miss Elly and Mark is with Mrs. SoCal, that's what really matters.
Cheers, everyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xg-hVud3xU
There you go Mark. Old Perry Como singing "There's No Place Like Home For the Holidays" Hope it don't add to your homesickness. Whatever happens I hope to either you or Mrs SoCal safe travels and no worrys
Joanne I reckon I can stand most of all that except for Mariah and "All I want for Christmas is You" She's a right pretty thang and you wouldn't want to spoil the fantasies of a elderly gentleman now would you
Thanks, Redneck. No worries back at ya.
*Whew*
Good to see I'm not late to the party! ☺
Got stuck in traffic picking the FRAGILEE "leg-lamp" up out of storage...
I need a drink! lol
Have a great weekend preparing for Christmas. This old Boss fan will be playing Santa Clause is Coming to Town. Someday I shall find this DDI and buy a round. Peace ☺
Oh No's Betty not the notorious "Leg Lamp" . My recollections are somewhat fuzzy but I seem to remember that particular piece causing great consternation to somebody. Mostly because somebody was trying to get a shot of it..............Exito The Dew Drop Inn ain't hard to find. You just go down the road a piece and hang a left and you'll find it anywhere good folks get together to share a drink and a quick mostly peaceful conversation about life and enjoying every blipping minute of it.
Thank you.
OMH! No wonder I love you all!
Exactly!
And JoAnne,
Can I request Adam Sandler's Hannukah song? It always makes me giggle!
Happy weekend all!
All of you at First Read have a good weekend.
Haha hehe hoho,it's over the cliff we go,,
After that middle class tax cuts.
In 2014 another tea bagging shalcking
hey, we are near a cliff..let's take a giant step forward...not in stepping into a cliff, but in avoiding it.
If Romney got in Scrooge would be everywhere,mhaha hehe hoho
Ames that amen! Reminds me of another favorite Christmas song. The Hallelujah Choir doing "Joy To The World"
Dang Gremlins. Look down Ames
The,GOP hates Santa,,,looooooooosers
Christmas is over rated,,because of the commercialization of it.
Think big business,think greedy gop
Have a great weekend all! ;-)
Enjoy Lil.
bcwc...now U R a horny cat?
24-7 Pigotry.
Hohoho
It's,off the the fiscal cliff santa clause goes,,
Scrooge is alive,,think GOP,,lmao
humbug !!
Every day is the weekend for me,,I hate the normal weekend for the masses
The only 'death' hear is the GOP/Teabegger's politically. Everyone wave by as the GOP "Circus Elephants" are taking our nation over the 'fiscal cliff.'
The cliff is looming, because the Republican legislators are drones for the Koch Brother money that insures their re-elections. The Koch Brothers don't like mining regulations that protect a worker's safety, as shown by their failure to address the hundreds of safety failures, including installing mine ventilation fans ass-backwards!
The Koch Brothers make their money in coal mines and oil, and their daddy's patent on refining oil has made the Koch brothers billionaires. Instead of using that wealth to lift up Americans, it fights work safety legislation and attacks worker's rights. They spend 100's of millions of dollars a year to convince us to vote for the lackeys in the GOP! THe Koch Brothers have made the GOP their little slaves, dependent upon them for their candy!
The Koch brothers refuse to build new clean refineries for our petroleum products, because they can control the amount of gasoline in the market, keeping the prices high, while President Obama has more wells pumping in America than ever before. Why Republicans blame the President for high gas prices, when it is the Koch Brothers, with their fingers on the scales, is baffling!
Now, the financial cliff awaits America, because the Koch Boys want it that way. They seem to believe holding the nation hostage by the Tea Party House of Representatives is the only way to protect their wealth. The Koch Brothers would rather see the American economy take another credit hit, than to lose 4% of their billions in profits each year! Talk about greed! These boys set a new standard!
Losing a few million dollars is more important to the billionaire Koch Brothers than to help the nation that their daddy paid much higher tax rates in. Before Reagan, the taxes on the rich were as high as 90%, and their daddy was making oodles, while our Middle Class was growing and our government was buidling Interstates, and Dams, and Airports, and SeaPorts, and creating National Parklands, and protecting our forests and wildlife from polluters! Now, with the taxrates below 35% per cent, and with the tax havens that allow Romney, and his boys to pay less than 14% in taxes, the United States needs revenue, in the form of taxes to return us to those glory days, where we made stuff in America, not in Slave labor China!
President Obama would like to bring back those jobs from Communist China, while the GOP just voted against the bill that rewards the Romneys for shipping manufacturing jobs and American factories to China!
If there are communist sympathisers in our midst, it is certainly the Koch Brothers, and the GOP, who kneel at their altars of bigotry, hate, and greed, and their endorsement of slave labor, and low compensation for the masses in exchange for wealth and the wealthy men in their chateaus, who rarely visit them, but show off as trophies, while Americans beg on the on-ramps of our highways, living under bridges, after serving our country in fighting our wars, and getting little for their patriotism!
I see the libfest players are here, wheres ole fister? sitting on the dunnie with a douche bag operational and a bag o popcorn
Exactly correct, Kannin however the following helps explain a bit----------4ward
Very good definition, great new word. however low info. voters won't be able to spell it correctly & they will probably think it is a new Obama phone app.
I suppose we should just,
"Get used too it"
So libbies, one question ? with a premise of course.
After sequester and cuts to defense, and A raise in the debt limit, + possible down grade in our credit rating. Eminently, resulting in lost faith in the Us gov't bonds held by the various creditors/countries "China" in particular.
Here is the question.
What should we do when one morning, we awaken to 60+ Chinese aircraft carriers and support craft surrounding our country, and a delegation of oriental Ambassador's in Washington DC with a message from Beijing to transport All Of Our precious metals/gold from Ft.Knox to the port of New Orleans for shipment to China??? Shall we just nuke them? lol How many nuclear submarines do they have, built with American steel??? "Just Askin"
More conspiracy theories from low information people
China holds less than 10% of our 16 trillion dollar National debt. Our unions hold more of the US debt than China.
The very same thing was being said about Japan during the 90's.
China's Military is much smaller than ours and they spend $1 on their military for every $5 the US spends on our Military.
China's economy depends largely upon America's ability to buy their products. It is American consumerism that drives much of the world economy. This suggests that the pendulum of wealth distribution in the US needs to swing back towards the 98%.
If you want to worry about something, try an internal collapse of China's economy if it fails to keep growing at a minimum 5%. The resulting chaos may cause your next trip to WalMart to be fruitless as the doors will be boarded up due to empty shelves.
So libbies, one question ? with a premise of course.
After sequester and cuts to defense, and A raise in the debt limit, + possible down grade in our credit rating. Eminently, resulting in lost faith in the Us gov't bonds held by the various creditors/countries "China" in particular.
Here is the question.
What should we do when one morning, we awaken to 60+ Chinese aircraft carriers and support craft surrounding our country, and a delegation of oriental Ambassador's in Washington DC with a message from Beijing to transport All Of Our precious metals/gold from Ft.Knox to the port of New Orleans for shipment to China??? Shall we just nuke them? lol How many nuclear submarines do they have, built with American steel??? "Just Askin"
[...we awaken to 60+ Chinese aircraft carriers and support craft surrounding our country...]
Uhm, China only has ONE aircraft carrier, and it's not in service yet.
The general coastline of the United States consists of over 12,000 statute miles, and if you think that "60+" ships is somehow going to scare our government into giving up "All Of Our precious metals/gold", you really don't have a clue, do you? Over 5,000 vessels were used in the Battle of Normandy alone, and if you believe, for one second, that our military doesn't know when even ONE Chinese military ship leaves port, you are naive at best. China is going to need a hell of a lot more than "60+" ships, nuclear or not.
Oh, and here's a little peek into the Chinese Navy:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/25/world/asia/china-aircraft-carrier-landing/index.html
Notice the date of the article...November 26...2012.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_by_country#China
If there were a button to flag your comment for Ignorance, I'd use it.