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and not much will change...

Happy Friday friends and foes! Wear a hat tomorrow, watch for planes dropping out of the sky!

  • 4 votes
#1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:13 PM EST

What’s Next … Downgraded

This is what happens when you cut too much too fast

Friday, February 22, 4:55 PM (just a week ago)

Credit ratings agency Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Britain’s government bond rating one notch from the top AAA to AA1, citing weaknesses in the economy’s medium-term outlook.

The British government is in the midst of a program of spending cuts designed to reduce the nation’s hefty deficit, but a flat-lining economy has led it to downgrade its own estimates of future growth.

  • 17 votes
#1.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:16 PM EST

Lil' Michelle ignorance is bliss, isn't it?

Too bad people with more education than you or I are staying awake at night, worried about the impact of sequester cuts on their research into cures for Alzheimer's, cancer and influenza.

"Medical research in America will be slowed by this, advances that could have happened sooner will happen later or perhaps not at all ... And this is what wakes me up in the middle of the night," Collins said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57571221/sequester-threatens-health-research-projects/

  • 17 votes
#1.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:21 PM EST

well Ames, I don't have a doctorate, I'll admit. Sorry you have to put up with lil ol ignorant me!

besides, that Alzheimers story is crap

  • 3 votes
#1.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:24 PM EST

On a brighter note, researchers at Harvard are near an extraordinary find. Using DNA extraction, they believe that they can turn H2O into a highly flammable source, by changing the DNA into the likeness of gasoline.

They say that necessity is the mother of all invention!

  • 3 votes
#1.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:27 PM EST

they believe that they can turn H2O into a highly flammable source

They have already been doing that for years... it's called FRACKING!

You're soo yesterday, junior!

  • 18 votes
#1.5 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:30 PM EST

No, feisty... actually turning water into fuel by changing the DNA structure. The process is involved, from what I hear, but changing 1 gallon is the same amount of work as changing a lake.

  • 1 vote
#1.6 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:34 PM EST

Waves to Feisty! I say we do all of us a favor and just ignore it.

I hope we are going to have a DJ at today's gathering! Some good music, some kick ass cocktails, and some of John's "medicine" and some good snacks is all that is needed to dull the week that is thankfully coming to a close!

Hi Amy!!! Hi Dennis!!

  • 17 votes
#1.7 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:35 PM EST

typical... same tactic as denial

  • 3 votes
#1.8 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:38 PM EST

That research is not crap, I have a relative who works at a research center that specializes in neuroscience and they are very much working on Alzheimer's and also Parkinson's diseases.......so don't be so dismissive of Amy. This is extremely important work that many will eventually benefit from.

  • 17 votes
#1.9 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:41 PM EST

Waves to Feisty! I say we do all of us a favor and just ignore it.

Hiya Alaska Girl!

Good idea, "it's" nothing but a buzz kill, begging for attention... ;o)

  • 15 votes
#1.10 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:41 PM EST

@GM, I understand that the research is great... but the funding side of it is crap.

  • 3 votes
#1.11 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:44 PM EST

Lil Michele Bachman, let's celebrate the National Pig Day together with me pigotry.

As the saying goes, pigs of a snout flock...or birds of a feather flock...? I forgot. Pardon my alzheimer's

  • 7 votes
#1.12 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:25 PM EST

Oink, I mean Ouch, you had to throw that Alzheimers comment in...

};~)

  • 1 vote
#1.13 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:29 PM EST

Lil: The separation of water into Hydrogen and Oxygen is very simple chemistry. The product of ignition is water.

DNA? They have been doing this long before Watson and Crick.

  • 10 votes
#1.14 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:32 PM EST

duh...

I'm talking about being able to "alter" the DNA of water... they have found out a way to replicate the DNA from gasoline, and copy that into the dna of water.

  • 3 votes
#1.15 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:47 PM EST

Lil Michelle,

This is a Friday afternoon joke, correct? There is no DNA in water.

  • 11 votes
#1.16 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:51 PM EST

Wow Lil if I can not hang with the 160+ IQ gang I will have to drift into the DDI. A little well mixed ethanol will always do.

  • 10 votes
#1.17 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:53 PM EST

Actually, I had it twisted, by replicating DNA they somehow can sustain it in H2O, was watching a program with the Harvard professor simplifying the whole process.

Yes, I know molecular structure and I have very little knowledge about DNA, but know that molecules don't contain DNA. I'm trying to find a link to the show that I was watching... but no luck so far...

  • 1 vote
#1.18 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:00 PM EST

lm . . .

. I'm trying to find a link to the show that I was watching... but no luck so far...

I'd suggest you, your IQ of 162, and your knowledge of molecular structure lay off the LSD and quit posting your hallucinations as fact.

  • 14 votes
#1.19 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:04 PM EST

Layton: Good old vitamin L; lysergic acid diethylamide. But, still no DNA.

  • 11 votes
#1.20 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:14 PM EST

I dunno about LSD, but I hear Acid is full of DNA. I also hear heroine has x and y chromosomes, and can repair any chromosomal damage caused by doing to few drugs.

  • 11 votes
#1.21 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:33 PM EST

Mmmm....acid. I found some in a car battery once. Shot some up, and then felt the uncontrollable urge to listen to Hannity and holler "A-men, 'bro'". Then, I joined some outfit called the tea-bagEEs. Life's been pretty good since then.

  • 11 votes
#1.22 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:44 PM EST

Rumor has something similar happens on Crystal Meth. You suddenly have the urge to file for welfare, food stamps, unemployment, social security, medicare, medcaid, and a free Obamaphone, then vote a straight-up Tea Party ticket. On you way down from the high, one visits First Read and posts endless rants about all the freeloading libtards.

  • 11 votes
#1.23 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:04 PM EST

well Ames, I don't have a doctorate, I'll admit. Sorry you have to put up with lil ol ignorant me!

Hey wait a minute! Weren't you bragging about an IQ of 162 just last week? That's like genius level, right? Could it be your lying? OH NO SAY IT AIN'T SO!!! A teabagger that lies? My frikkin' god, what in the he double hockey sticks is the world coming to!!! I'm shocked beyond all comprehension.

  • 12 votes
#1.24 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:12 PM EST

"Rumor has something similar happens on Crystal Meth. You suddenly have the urge to file for welfare, food stamps, unemployment, social security, medicare, medcaid, and a free Obamaphone, then vote a straight-up Tea Party ticket.."

DYNAMITE! C'n you score me some???

Oh, wait- I think I can get the same effect by going to church and listening to preachers like Glenn Beck from my trailer....

  • 10 votes
#1.25 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:19 PM EST

When I was a kid, I remember traveling through Indiana, and seeing huge billboards saying "impeach Earl Warren". I didn't quite know what that meant or who this Earl Warren was, but now that I'm an old fart, I'm wondering why those billboards can't be brought back, with 'Warren' replaced with 'Scalia'??

  • 13 votes
#1.26 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:27 PM EST

Hey AG, sour diesel good enough, I can tell you this, we are going to need snacks. I think a nice warm glass of the warm and fuzzy, a muscatel or a Merlot would probably fit the bill with the sour one. Is it red for sativa, or is it white. I can smell spring around my house, weather guy said 50 toward the end of the week. Won't be long and I can put those garden plans to work. Growing ones own medicine is some how rewarding.

  • 11 votes
#1.27 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:35 PM EST

RedDev: ...and pot heads end up working for 40+ years, while fighting for their benefits.

  • 9 votes
#1.28 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:37 PM EST

Johntho;

Should had known you were a pot head. I was wondering what your smoking but now I know. Do you deliver to the rest of the lazy, mooching, fat, first read libs? I f so that would explain so much.

  • 2 votes
#1.29 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:43 PM EST

No sir, I am a valid medical marijuana patient, in the 70's I was a pot head, then we only smoked imported Marijuana. There was a long period of hard work that required me to abstain, driver, being tested and always came up clean. Then by the time I retired I had beat myself pretty good. Its called work. None of you really know what it is like to give a person 10 hours of work. So now I am a patient, I have some pain. But I don't let it get me down, I try to keep up and Medical Marijuana fits the bill better the Dr. Pushers pills do and I am not damaging myself doing it. So if it bleeds over to the D.D.I. a bit it is perfectly legal as long as I don't drive under the influence.

  • 9 votes
#1.30 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:53 PM EST

Sounds mighty fine, John! I do enjoy pairing it with a nice pinot grigio, or even just sippin' on some Jamison. I think a garden will be quite nice. There is definitely a satisfaction one gets to see the fruit of thy labor come to fruition. Oh, and John, ignore the @!$%# republiscum. They usually lose interest and move along. Hey, Republiscum, don't you have to cut off food to some poor children or something?! Kick a dog? Throw an elder into traffic?

Right on, John.

See what ya get, Republiscum, for stereotyping? What an @!$%#.

  • 8 votes
#1.31 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:54 PM EST

"... fat, first read libs?"

Y' know why they're fat? Because starch (think macaroni, spaghetti, spuds, etc...) are not only filling, they provide less useful calories than people like the Romneys eat.

At a price they can afford.

So the Romneys can keep their tax breaks.

Y' fuggin bean-bag.

  • 11 votes
#1.32 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 8:08 PM EST

republican062578 . . .

Do you deliver to the rest of the lazy, mooching, fat, first read libs?

Why do you think pot smokers are fat? It's obvious you've never lit up. The sex is great, keeps us thin, and well, go back to your Bud Lite and Twinkies.

Alaska Girl, you are in fine form tonight! :)

  • 8 votes
#1.33 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 9:03 PM EST

@ Piggy

I missed this earlier in the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJrzj0H210

  • 1 vote
#1.34 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 10:23 PM EST
Reply

Well, the sequester is here, presumably to stay. The GOP first claimed it would ruin the economy, then once they realized they might be able to push the blame for a new recession on Obama, they all jumped on the Pro-Sequester bandwagon.

We also found out this week Bob Woodward is doing his best to sink the office of the President by claiming he was threatened with near-death, only to retract his words after emails showed a completely different story.

  • 15 votes
#2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:16 PM EST

source on the "near death" comment?

I didn't see the WH rebuttal, so I'm guessing his statement was true.

  • 3 votes
#2.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:21 PM EST

In honor of the sequester, I offer the following libation courtesy of the New Yorker.

Red Whine Sangria

1 bottle of crappy domestic Zinfandel
2 cups lemonade
2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons brandy
1 orange, thinly sliced
1 apple, cut into wedges
1/2 pint blackberries

Combine in a large pitcher and let it stand in the refrigerator for hours, leaving all the stupid ingredients in the cold, dark, oxygen-deprived space until they start working together.

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2013/03/five-cocktails-for-your-sequester-watching-party.html#ixzz2MKFaopS7

And in honor of Bob Woodwards nontroversy, I recommend the following slightly revised recipe, also courtesy of The New Yorker:

"Dimwitted-Woodward" Gin Fizzle

3 ounces gin
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons EXTRA SOUR lemon juice
1 tablespoon SUPER TART lime juice
club soda

Pour club soda into a cocktail shaker and leave it out on the counter for a few hours before your party begins, allowing its optimistic bubbles plenty of time to encounter bureaucratic inertia and lose all their energy as final hour draws ever nearer. Once the deadline has passed the party begins, add the remaining ingredients to your flat soda and shake vigorously. It won’t jolt any life back into the drink, but at least the gin will go down easier.

  • 13 votes
#2.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:28 PM EST

Red,

Those aren't going to "cut it" tonight for me - what's the "martuni" special? ☺

  • 11 votes
#2.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:32 PM EST

Those aren't going to "cut it" tonight for me - what's the "martuni" special?

Relax, I'm pouring it into the bathtub. One rubber ducky or two?

  • 10 votes
#2.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:38 PM EST

Relax, I'm pouring it into the bathtub.

BCWC,

Have I told you lately that I ♥ you... lol

I'll bring the straws!

  • 10 votes
#2.5 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:39 PM EST

BCWC, could I just have a mainline?! I like instant results! HA!

Three!

  • 11 votes
#2.6 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:40 PM EST

Have I told you lately that I ♥ you...

No, and Rod Stewart can't join us.

  • 12 votes
#2.7 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:42 PM EST

@Feisty - in honor of the victors that laid waste to all those fag bashers yesterday, this cocktail is on the house!!

FIRE & ICE MARTINI

Ingredients Weight Measure

Mango rum 12 oz.

Pineapple rum 12 oz.

Citrus rum 12 oz.

Pineapple juice 12 oz.

Grenadine 6 oz.

Original TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce 3 Tbsp.

Method

For each drink, combine in a shaker with ice 1 oz. mango rum, 1 oz. pineapple rum, 1 oz. citrus rum, 1 oz. pineapple juice, 1/4 oz. grenadine and 1 tsp. Original TABASCO® Pepper Sauce. Shake and strain into a martini glass.

Add another 1/4 oz. grenadine and do not mix.

Garnish with an umbrella, pineapple slice or orange slice.

http://www.tabascofoodservice.com/fs_recipe.cfm?ID=1514

  • 10 votes
#2.8 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:43 PM EST

in honor of the victors that laid waste to all those fag bashers yesterday, this cocktail is on the house!!

Red,

Now THAT'S more like it!

Salud!

and Rod Stewart can't join us.

&^%$#@)!!!!

One rubber ducky or two?

Well since Rod can't join us, make it two! lol

  • 9 votes
#2.9 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:45 PM EST

Yum!

Please knock your glasses together in saluting the worst Speaker of the House this country has the misfortune of witnessing on a daily basis! For you Mr. Weeper:

Agent Orange

1 oz Yukon Jack® Canadian whisky
1 oz Jim Beam® bourbon whiskey
1 oz apple schnapps
1 oz vodka
1 oz light rum
1 oz triple sec
1/2 oz grenadine syrup
2 oz orange juice

Have a hurricane glass filled with ice.

Add ingredients, and shake.

Cheers!

  • 9 votes
#2.10 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:50 PM EST

Alaska, if that cocktail is for the Grim Weeper, I suggest increasing those 1 oz. shots to 1 gallon. That Tangster thug is probably already on his 5th by now, so the 1 ouncers will be a buzz kill for him.

  • 11 votes
#2.11 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:57 PM EST

One of each, thank you very much. After this week of Congressional dysfunction, Friday at the DDI is mandatory.

Thanks to our excellent First Read hosts for giving us the things to talk about and a place to talk.

Have a great weekend!

  • 10 votes
#2.12 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:00 PM EST

RedDev . . . The descriptions on your cocktails are priceless.

Good job this week, Jody. Loved the wrap up this week!

Everybody really had some stellar comments this week woven between some of the most nasty posting I've seen in awhile. Nothing stirs up the tin foil hat wearers like guns and gay marriage. Good Lord! What a week!

I'm down for the straw and the bathtub by the way . . .

  • 10 votes
#2.13 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:13 PM EST

Love the plethora of cocktails, love the New Yorker, and love all of you.

Glad it is March and you know what day is coming down the road...

In the meantime, lets kick back and relax, enjoy the conversation, good humor and of course some nice appetizers.

Waiting for the music to start...

  • 7 votes
#2.14 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:34 PM EST

Hellzapoppin at the farm this day. Sey, my collie has his very best friend here to spend the weekend, and they have just TORN up the pasture, seeing who could make the circuit the fastest.

A good time was had by all, that is if I survive it.

What oh what did we learn? Well, I know what I learned. In the neighboring state of North Dakota, politics can be a fun past time, mainly because the legislator is over run by teanuts.

This week, they were debating the merits of a law to require that missing children have to be reported in a reasonable amount of time, dead children within 2 hours, or some penalty would be paid.

This didn't sit well with the teanuttiest of the nuttiest, a woman who has been pushing "personhood" legislation through. She loves her some dividing cells, but once there are real children with needs, votes against any support for them, including the state paying for their milk at school. She was particularly aghast at the missing children law. She could not be consoled. Her reason? And trust me you'll never guess. She could not figure out what would have happened to Mary and Joseph in the old days, when they lost Jesus for 3 days and later found the scalawag in the temple. Her worry? Gasp! Would they have gone to JAIL?!?! Yep, she is one color short of a rainbow!

A good weekend to you all, Mark, Domenico and First Read staff, thanks for the fun and giggles.

BCWC! I am assuming the bathtub martini is a bring your own straw party? Feisty, I am bringing a hot spinach dip and homemade french bread. Let's get this party rocking, got to get away from these silly dogs!

See you Monday!

  • 12 votes
#2.15 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:51 PM EST

Well, the sequester is here, presumably to stay.

And I feel so dirty, like I need a shower or something ;)

We also found out this week Bob Woodward is doing his best to sink the office of the President by claiming he was threatened with near-death, only to retract his words after emails showed a completely different story.

Well we all know that little turd has a thing for Presidents, right? I guess the Watergate buzz has worn off so now it's time to start a new one. Too bad this one didn't last overnight, lol!

  • 10 votes
#2.16 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:16 PM EST

"One bourbon, one scotch, one beer! Well I ain't seen my baby since the night before last. Set up bartender, I wanna get gassed. I'll say one thing that's perfectly clear. I want one bourbon, one scotch, one beer. One bourbon, one scotch, one beer!"

Okay, I'm not George Thorogood, but it sounds like a good combination after the week we've all been through.

  • 10 votes
#2.17 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:20 PM EST

In honor of the lately 'retired' Pope, can I get a dime on the Singing Nun, and "Dominique".

(if not, 's ok...)

  • 9 votes
#2.18 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:29 PM EST

In honor of the lately 'retired' Pope, can I get a dime on the Singing Nun, and "Dominique".

Uh, that would more likely be "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" by The Georgia Satellites.

  • 6 votes
#2.19 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 8:34 PM EST

I welcome Sequester and ten more like her.

    #2.20 - Sat Mar 2, 2013 10:28 AM EST

    Simple,

    Everyone including all of the Republican leadership call the cuts dumb so of course Tea People would be for them.

    • 4 votes
    #2.21 - Sat Mar 2, 2013 11:18 AM EST

    Simple-ton appears to prefer life when the country is in a full blown depression. What better way to transfer any remaining wealth to the top 1%, and what better way to guarantee further indebtedness of the country.

    • 1 vote
    #2.22 - Sun Mar 3, 2013 1:39 AM EST
    Reply

    What will change? Absolutely nothing! We have a deficit, sometimes you need to make the tough choices and cut unneeded waste.

    • 5 votes
    Reply#3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:16 PM EST

    Whatever do you mean Bob-#####

    sometimes you need to make the tough choices and cut unneeded waste.

    but, don't cut the needed waste......like those TeaPeople Congressional salaries with benefits? There's a lot of waste right there..gotta keep that?

    • 12 votes
    #3.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:47 PM EST

    oh, forget it...

    • 11 votes
    #3.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:50 PM EST

    Federal spending is up, way up, time to trim the pig fat. Any body seen pig around here?

    • 2 votes
    #3.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:40 PM EST

    republican, where did you get the idea federal spending is up, way up?

    From the Wall Street Journal:

    Almost everyone believes that Obama has presided over a massive increase in federal spending, an "inferno" of spending that threatens our jobs, our businesses and our children's future. Even Democrats seem to think it's true.

    But it didn't happen. Although there was a big stimulus bill under Obama, federal spending is rising at the slowest pace since Dwight Eisenhower brought the Korean War to an end in the 1950s.

    Even hapless Herbert Hoover managed to increase spending more than Obama has.

    Over Obama's four budget years, federal spending is on track to rise from $3.52 trillion to $3.58 trillion, an annualized increase of just 0.4%.

    The 2009 fiscal year, which Republicans count as part of Obama's legacy, began four months before Obama moved into the White House. The major spending decisions in the 2009 fiscal year were made by George W. Bush and the previous Congress.

    Like a relief pitcher who comes into the game with the bases loaded, Obama came in with a budget in place that called for spending to increase by hundreds of billions of dollars in response to the worst economic and financial calamity in generations.

    _____________

    Jody, here's hoping you don't turn the tv on Sunday morning. Look at the tweet below. We've got all these Republican BS artists being interviewed by inside the beltway BS artists. They're all in over their heads. The GOP haven't a clue what to do, other than bow down to the tea party and take vacations. And then we have the interviewers themselves who haven't a clue how to frame it accurately.

    Hint to Republicans: President Obama is 1,000 x more intelligent than the tea party gang. Have you listened to them? They're clueless and have no idea how to govern or what's at stake.

    Why don't you work with your president and save us all a great deal of unnecessary worry & pain. Or better yet, if you hate government so much, get out. Give up your government paycheck & perks. We need responsible legislators. Something none of you are.

    Tweet/Bill, Portland, Maine, h/t ObamaDiary:

    This may be a record on the Sunday morning shows (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, CNN) 18 conservatives and 5 liberals on the guest/pundit list.


    • 6 votes
    #3.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 9:50 PM EST
    Reply

    Life after the sequester? Well Heaven has great views and Hell has great company.

    Bartender, I admit to having posted seven sails to the wind at times, but seeing that I am only tacking with three at the moment, I do believe a Yankee Clipper is in order. On the rocks please, as I will probably be landing there anyway.

    2 oz Jack Daniels Sinatra Select

    1/2 oz Amaretto

    1/2 oz armagnac

    Twist of lemon and lime and a squeeze of either.

    Take outside, face the wind and drink … after a few you can try flapping your arms.

    • 13 votes
    #4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:18 PM EST

    Now this is what I'm talking about! Wow, it was a downer seeing a certain F grade porno person, but anyway, it's FRIDAY on FR!

    Oh, BCWC, thank you for getting the party started!!! I would like to dedicate my first cocktail offering to Mr. Bob Woodward. To Bob: When excellent journalism was once synonymous with you:

    Deep Throat recipe

    1/2 oz Bailey's® Irish cream
    1/2 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur
    1/2 oz whipped cream

    Pour the Bailey's and Kahlua into a shot glass. Top with whipped cream, and serve.

    • 13 votes
    #4.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:27 PM EST

    touche' Alaska Girl!

    • 3 votes
    #4.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:32 PM EST

    Alaska, you are welcome. I am but here to strain the juices one desires into the appropriate vessel. (that wording should pass the censors)

    • 11 votes
    #4.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:34 PM EST

    Totally, bcwc!

    Anyone seen my "future husband" Mickey today?! LOL

    I don't care what the vessel is, just as long as it is full of alcohol! Love the avatar! You are so creative!

    • 11 votes
    #4.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:38 PM EST

    BC, I am pretty sure that the censors have all but given up censoring any language!

    • 10 votes
    #4.5 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:46 PM EST

    The Pope is now the vessel through which God watches games shows.

    Stephen Colbert

    • 9 votes
    #4.6 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:51 PM EST

    Something tells me after He watches one episode of Jersey Shores, He's gonna be pissed.

    • 8 votes
    #4.7 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:09 PM EST

    I'll have one of these drinks, too! Enjoy your weekend.

    • 10 votes
    #4.8 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:11 PM EST

    OMG! Red, I am sooo not gonna go there!

    • 8 votes
    #4.9 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:11 PM EST

    Here's to hoping that the economy doesn't:

    Crash & Burn

    1 small scoop ice
    2 counts blackberry brandy
    2 oz Rose's® lime juice
    2 counts light rum
    2 counts creme de noyaux
    3 1/2 oz orange juice
    2 counts dark rum (Myer's)
    2 counts triple sec
    3 1/2 oz pineapple juice
    2 counts Southern Comfort® peach liqueur
    1 oz grenadine syrup
    float 151 proof rum (Bacardi)
    2 counts banana liqueur
    2 oz pina colada mix

    Shake and pour into a large glass. Garnish with lime slices, orange slices and cherries.

    You may want to have a fire extinguisher handy, or 911 on the speed dial!

    • 8 votes
    #4.10 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:18 PM EST

    My fellow libtards, republicons, and everyone else (for better or worse - methinks better - we are, above it all, Americans),

    What a week in the political arena, and here at FR. Reading the comments this week, especially regarding issues like gay marriage and gun control, has severely tested my resolve to never put up posts that are anything but well reasoned, attack and insult free, with a dash of humor here and there. I think I stayed true to my code, but it was not easy. Take deep breath..............look away.............breathe.......

    The sequester hurts aviation. Period. The business of flying machines is hard enough without shyte like this. As it is Friday afternoon I shall give proper regard to the established tradition here of spooling down, except to say I am disappointed in both parties. The sequester was a massive gamble by both sides to force each other's hand, and they rolled snake eyes. We need intelligent spending cuts, not seemingly arbitrary across-the-board hacking in order to meet some meaningless number.

    I find in times like these it is beneficial to focus upon things you actually have control over.

    Bartender, I am feeling traditional so I'll stick to my favorite, the Aviation Cocktail - though some of the recipies posted here look mighty enticing. AlaskaGirl, I'll pass on the Crash and Burn!!

    • 9 votes
    #4.11 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:26 PM EST

    OMG! Red, I am sooo not gonna go there!

    It might cause Him to reconsider his position on that old Roman game show at the Colosseum involving lions.

    • 7 votes
    #4.12 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:26 PM EST

    Hi Mark! Totally agree on all counts! I myself was unable to squash my temptations at striking back, in some very harsh ways, I must admit.

    Yeah, no crash and burn, for our resident Aviator, I get that!

    From a Libtard to a Republicon I say:

    Cheers!

    • 9 votes
    #4.13 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:31 PM EST

    We need intelligent spending cuts, not seemingly arbitrary across-the-board hacking in order to meet some meaningless number.

    Cheers to Mark in SoCal - think we'll ever get there? I suspect not, and suspect we too will experience a bond rating decrease. Now, I'm just dying to know, are those Aviation Cocktails virgins, served by virgins, or am I at the wrong airline counter?

    • 8 votes
    #4.14 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:31 PM EST

    Red Dev,

    Love the Colbert humor about the pope.

    True story:

    An aged monk , would have communion brought to him in the community room rather than go to chapel to pray the divine office and attend Mass. The Abbott called him into this office, " You cannot not miss prayers, you are not sick, just old.

    Monk says," I have been praying all my life, I am done, I would rather watch "All My Children " in the community room."

    And he did....

    He did get his proper burial at the ripe old age of 89.

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    #4.15 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:46 PM EST

    Cheers back at ya, AG!

    RedDev - the cocktail is most definitely not virgin, but to be served by a virgin is desirable. For the sake of professional propriety I am unable to reveal the airline counter where such a delightful combination of virgin and violated can be found. Cheers back at ya, and to answer you question it is not a matter of will we ever get there. We simply must get there and in the spirit of Friday afternoon optimism, though the process will be undeniably ugly, we will get there. America is far from being destroyed.

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    #4.16 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:47 PM EST
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    After this week, here's what we all need...

    PAINKILLER

    2 oz dark rum
    1 oz cream of coconut
    4 oz pineapple juice
    1 oz orange juice

    Stir or shake ingredients and pour in tall glass over ice. Sprinkle fresh nutmeg on top and serve.

    Good luck with the Sunday talk-show circuit...I don't expect anything newsworthy...unless someone actually takes the bold step to say, "The Sequester was MY fault!"

    (Not bloody likely.)

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    Reply#5 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:39 PM EST

    After this week, here's what we all need...

    You sure got that right, Noid!

    Make mine a double, please!

    • 8 votes
    #5.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:43 PM EST

    Good one Noid! I almost used that one! That one should work nicely going into my mainline!

    • 7 votes
    #5.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:44 PM EST

    Mainline? We are talking fricking Alaska pipeline from what I read. Ladies and gentlemen, for your entertainment tonight, from north of the 48 ... The Gusher!

    • 8 votes
    #5.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:49 PM EST

    BCWC - are you suggesting we break into the chorus of "Slip Sliding Away".

    • 9 votes
    #5.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:05 PM EST

    Why do I feel things have moved to the "naughty"?!!

    • 5 votes
    #5.5 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:08 PM EST

    Naughty is right next door to where I live just on the other side of the track RedDev mentioned, Filthy.

    • 7 votes
    #5.6 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:13 PM EST

    Would that be on Deviant Ave.?

    Naughty boys and naughty girls! I like it!

    • 6 votes
    #5.7 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:14 PM EST

    DaNoid, now that is a Pain Killer; sounds good.

    Think I'll skip the Sunday talk shows especially MTP; afraid that watching Boehner could result in throwing something at him like a couple of shoes especially if Gregory gives him a free pass. Still Boehner isn't very good at questions so it might be interesting.

    • 9 votes
    #5.8 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:15 PM EST

    Ditto that, Jody! I am taking the weekend off from politics!

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    #5.9 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:19 PM EST
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    Well I'm not adventurous when it comes to liquor, I'll stick with my usual bourbon and soda but I'd like to hear a chorus of "Show me the Way to go Home" as I raise a glass to the ol' John Boehner, being Speaker is not all the fun its cracked up to be, right John?

    Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed

    Had a little drink about an hour ago

    And it went right to my head...........Maybe bcwc will fill in the rest of the lyrics

    • 9 votes
    Reply#6 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:52 PM EST

    One of the best scenes in Jaws, IMO!

    • 7 votes
    #6.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:57 PM EST

    GM, though the drink may not be adventurous may it lead to one.

    • 8 votes
    #6.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 4:59 PM EST

    And in honor of McConnell, we can sing a round of 99 waddles of beer on my balls...

    • 10 votes
    #6.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:02 PM EST

    I just lost a shot of Jamison to my screen!

    • 7 votes
    #6.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:05 PM EST
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    Lil Michelle

    DNA extraction?!? From water?! And from which molecule, the H or the O?? This really is groundbreaking research? Molecules contain DNA!

    • 3 votes
    #7 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:37 PM EST

    ... ya never Know. homeopaths claim that water has memory.

    • 6 votes
    #7.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:48 PM EST

    From what I understand, more like replicating the DNA strand, being able to attach or duplicate it into regular H2O, making the water as flammable as gasoline.

    I understand molecular structure, I just didn't want to go into that much detail... most would be bored to death!!

    • 1 vote
    #7.2 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 5:51 PM EST

    BCWC,

    What are your thoughts on homeopathic marriage?

    • 7 votes
    #7.3 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:02 PM EST

    most would be bored to death!!

    That would be different... how?

    Most of us are already bored to death with your brain dead ramblings...

    • 9 votes
    #7.4 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:03 PM EST

    Feisty: too true. I can't think why anyone wastes time with the creature's posts. I never read them, brain cells die if you do.

    • 9 votes
    #7.5 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:12 PM EST

    What are your thoughts on homeopathic marriage?

    Mark, I have never cottoned to the idea that dilution leads to potency, however, I hear the twins are beautiful.

    • 8 votes
    #7.6 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:12 PM EST

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Sorry, BCWC, I dozed off there contemplating the DNA structure of water and overlooked your post.

    • 7 votes
    #7.7 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:12 PM EST

    ... do not overlook evaporation.

    • 5 votes
    #7.8 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:28 PM EST

    I would NEVER overlook evaporation.

    • 5 votes
    #7.9 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:31 PM EST

    You four are wicked! I bow to your wickedness!

    • 5 votes
    #7.10 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:37 PM EST

    one day water will evolve ... and sing ... and

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOR1OkwiBCY

    • 7 votes
    #7.11 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:46 PM EST

    AlaskaGirl,

    From one Inquisitive Happy Heathen to another! Huzzah!

    • 6 votes
    #7.12 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:54 PM EST

    Last time I "Copied a DNA strand" into water I pulled the handle afterward...

    • 7 votes
    #7.13 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:54 PM EST

    I recommend some jean-splicing for Lil to make room in her posterior to hold all that IQ being wasted atop her shoulders.

    • 7 votes
    #7.14 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:57 PM EST

    Lil:

    I understand molecular structure, I just didn't want to go into that much detail... most would be bored to death!!

    Most may be bored; so what I will be thrilled. Go on, please.

    chickBinder: It took a second, but that was nasty. ♂

    • 5 votes
    #7.15 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:59 PM EST

    What are your thoughts on homeopathic marriage?

    I'm against it - what's next, marriage to a naturopathic? It just isn't natural.

    • 7 votes
    #7.16 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:15 PM EST

    Okay, a little break in the man humor! I keep forgetting to "march" this sign around FR!

    Boycott SUBWAY Sandwich!
    Employees deserve a safe and healthy environment to work in!
    Customers should demand nothing less!

    • 5 votes
    #7.17 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:16 PM EST

    Alaska, Is there something wrong with the water?

    • 5 votes
    #7.18 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:19 PM EST

    Chick Binder - you better hope water doesn't have a memory, lest it dislike your gifts and re-gifts them back to you : )

    • 6 votes
    #7.19 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:20 PM EST

    No, please do continue! I just needed to get that out! Better now.

    • 6 votes
    #7.20 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:25 PM EST

    Boycott SUBWAY Sandwich!

    I NEVER eat their @!$%#ty sandwiches! I don't care how cheap they are, I prefer my meat to be fresh and not some strange shade of grey!

    3 hald slices of meat doesn't constitute a sandwich in my opinion!

    Where's the MEAT Subway?

    If you want a sub sandwich to die for, try a Jersey Mike's! They slice the meat and cheese right in front of you & it's served on a warm fresh French roll! YUMMM!

    • 6 votes
    #7.21 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:32 PM EST

    Oh, I despise Subway! Such a ripoff and yeah, gray meat doesn't do it for me, either!

    The co-owner, who is worth 2.4 BILLION is whining about environmental and health laws that he has to abide to in order that his employees and customers are safe. He's whining about the cost! What a pig!

    • 4 votes
    #7.22 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:44 PM EST

    Boycott SUBWAY Sandwich!

    Within a 100 mile radius of Philly why would anybody go there?

    • 5 votes
    #7.23 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:47 PM EST

    That would be different... how?

    Most of us are already bored to death with your brain dead ramblings...

    Oh jesus, lmao! I guess that shut the little tramp's mouth.

    • 4 votes
    #7.24 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 8:50 PM EST
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    • 4 votes
    Reply#8 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:27 PM EST

    That was fun to watch ... thanks BCWC!

    • 4 votes
    Reply#9 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 6:59 PM EST

    I actually watched a couple more after this one.

    • 4 votes
    #9.1 - Fri Mar 1, 2013 7:09 PM EST
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    Some of these comments about Lil Michelle seem to be over the top. She seems to be trying to put forth some ideas, as in, I would guess, using Hydrogen as fuel or to boost mileage. Something, that I have been doing for about 15 years with fair success. On my fuel injected MkVII, from 17 and 22, ultimately to 46 and 73. The non EFI vehicles, much less. ie. 72 Chev C20, with Circle Track 350, 9 gph up to 28. Furthermore, instead of messing around with all of the high costs of drilling, making ethanol, which causes the price of corn, beef and every thing else(including, 'White Lightening,' for all you boozers)to rise, we have unlimited amounts of Methane available for capture and use. Methane is a 'Green House Gas,' that can destroy the Ozone, but not IF it is burned. So, it can be used for heating, cooking, running any gasoline engine, that has been converted to Natural Gas or LPG. It has highest BTU/lb output NEXT to Hydrogen. It can also be converted to gasoline, but who would want to continue polluting the planet, with that garbage? And, into Methanol, which is easier(just add O)and run gas engines for a tenth of the cost of gasoline. In the future, it is possible that each house, or dwelling, including trailers, apartment and office buildings, farms, which are some of the first, and industrial complexes, will have their sewage turned into this usable gas. The waste water from bath, sinks, laundry, etc. can be used to care for plants and lawns, depending upon the types of soils. I guess my point is, that I would rather try and further folks, with Lil's enthusiasm and desire for such knowledge, than to put her down and call her names. I hope she continues to focus on these things, for the sake of the entire Country, except Texas, of course.

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