Texsox

I was just listening to the Eagles No More Cloudy Days and realizing how love songs that grab my attention change through the years.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 10:52 PM) The actual incredible statement was: Clearly, her lawyer has been watching way too many cinematic works of art of the Babes Behind Bars genre like “Chicks with Dicks” or “Caged Heat.” Were you looking at your video collection for those titles, or mine?

I wonder how the dad has visitation without any contact with the mom?

I guess only ugly women can go to prison. :headshake It would take too many pages to list how f***ed up that statement is. I wish I was amazed that someone with a law degree could be that stupid, but I'm not even mildly surprised.

QUOTE(Mercy! @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 05:40 PM) And some day if your gay or straight child asks you how you voted on the Texas referendum to codify this discrimination, what will you say? "I told everyone I was against it, even though I refused to vote against it"? Guilty as well, for about the same reason as Kap.

^^^^^^^^^^^ add me to the list

Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church ladies' group bake sale in Tuscaloosa, but she forgot to do it until the last minute. She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets she found a dusty old angel food cake mix in the back of her kitchen cabinet and quickly made it while drying her hair and dressing and helping her son Bryan pack up for Scout camp. But when Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She said, "Oh dear, there's no time to bake another cake." This cake was so important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church, and in her new community of new friends. So, being inventive and not wanting anyone to think she was not the perfect woman, able to handle all things at all times, or that God forbid, she was not participating in her church's bazaar, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake. Alice found it in the bathroom -- a roll of toilet paper. She plunked it in and then covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect! Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the minute it opened at 9:30, and to buy that cake and bring it home. When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found that the attractive perfect cake had already been sold. Amanda grabbed her cell phone and called her Mom. Alice was horrified ... she was beside herself. Everyone would know! What would they think? Oh, my she wailed! She would be ostracized, talked about, ridiculed. She would have to move! All night Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing their fingers at her and talking about her behind her back. The next day, Alice promised herself that she would try not to think about the cake and she would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a friend of a friend and try to have a good time. Alice did not really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at the fact that Alice was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa, but having already RSVP'd she could not think of a believable excuse to stay home. The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South....and to Alice's horror the CAKE in question was presented for dessert. Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake, she started to get out of her chair to rush to tell her hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, "What a beautiful cake!" Alice, who was still stunned and trying to formulate what words she would use to explain the situation, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, "Thank you, I baked it myself." Alice smiled and thought to herself, "There is a God".

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 01:18 PM) Classic. Attack the messenger, not the message. Tex should be along anytime now to mock you. ahem, thanks buddy?

See how great it is once congress gets involved? Gotta love the results of those hearings. I'm going to vote to reelect them all!

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 07:04 AM) I don't want to draw this out, but John Kerry was only in the position he was in because he was a "war hero"... he had NO ideas. That's why he lost. Not meaning to draw it out, but if you recall, Clinton's Vietnam era activities were deemed not important by Dems, and everything by the GOP. Then years later it was the GOP discounting and the Dems extolling the virtues. Tons of irony here. No consistency at all. Both sides should have been ashamed, but instead they just carry on with business as usual.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 07:02 AM) What I am implying??? Ah yes, I posted it so there must be some sinster evil conservative undertow that Dick Cheney told me to put there... Which side isn't seeing a slippery slope for abortion and which side isn't seeing the slippery slope for gun control? I'm not getting your point, and I assume it is a good one.

There's an awful lot of crap on both sides, I agree. What I always find surprising is the groups that generally don't want to deploy troops, and want them back the fastest, are painted as unpatriotic and not "supporting the troops". Those that seem to find body counts acceptable if the Commander in Chief says it must be, are patriotic and support the troops. I also found it insanely ironic that during the last election the Dems had a war hero and the GOP did not. All the rhetoric from prior elections went out the window as they met secretly one night and exchanged campaign scripts. All the same crap was said, but this time it came from opposite sides. They are all in the same industry and best practices tend to creep into every company in the same industry. When voters start to demand better from their own party, we will begin to take back our government. As long as voters will defend any crap as long as it comes from "their team" we'll have crappy government.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 22, 2005 -> 12:47 AM) Is this the same group of Ethiopians that staged a much larger protest outside the White House last week? How many groups of Ethiopian protestors can we have in this country? It's an epidemic

Sigur Ros lek Am I the last person to find this band? My son has amazing musical taste.

BTW, every President and every ex-President has protesters everywhere they go. It's the nature of the job. If they ever made an appearance and no protesters showed up, that would be news. Presidents bring cameras and a world audience.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 11:09 PM) Tex, I think both Rex and I traded a statement a while back that sums up alot of what we see today. manufactured outrage. It seems like each side is just waiting for something to get pissed off about, and when it happens, they go balls out trying to 'get' the other side. As to who started it first, kinda like the chicken and the egg argument. It would be great if there WAS some civility in politics. I always respected the Senators that seemed to rise above the politics. Congress was never all that civil, but has dropped to an all-time low. I've decided the first step is to quit defending any crap from the politicians I voted for. Somehow we got backwards and defend "our side" no matter what. We should be more embarrased and upset when it's "our guys".

I remember when George Sr. was speaking at Pan American in Edinburg, Texas last year there was about 200 protesters and no media reported it. I guess ex-Presidents aren't newsworthy. What was so stupid, IMHO, they were protesting current stuff, I think they can't read which George Bush was showing up.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:17 PM) you know, some where out there, there's a group of people, perhaps even a magazine, dedicated to mannequin f***ing.... :headshake wow I guess that would the NAMMLA subchapter, we should ask Jas

I just noticed he was busted for "trying to have sex with the mannequin", dude can't even score with an inanimate object. That boy aint ever reproducing.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 10:39 PM) Yes. Open mouth, insert foot. But what pisses me off, is the sharks jumping on her. The outrage was way out of scale for what she said. Each side looks for a small misstep and jumps with all feet. A simple statement, she's a moron would have been enough.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 06:36 PM) The Pentagon released a report recently saying that the civilian casualty toll was on the order of 26,000 since the start of 2004. I consider that to be a minimum number, given the amount of deaths which are likely handled by families or who's bodies are never recovered. What the maximum is, I'm in no position to estimate. Iraqbodycount.net, which only compiles press accounts of civilian casualties, puts the number recorded by the press since the start of the war at 26,000 to 30000. Again, same problem - if a guy gets gunned down in an alley, it probably won't m ake their count. Wow, how many do you think would be dying if the American miitary pulled out and all the terrorists stopped attacking US troops?

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 06:39 PM) I mean really, wtf? It's wrestling. Like we wouldn't want someone to have an unfair advantage.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Nov 21, 2005 -> 06:38 PM) My uncle shot it with a bow Saturday nite and tracked it til dark but couldn't find it. There was five of us who were out at 7:30 Sunday morning. We were ready to quit at 8:30 but I spotted it. My uncle finally got the deer at 12 or so. The deer was still alive the next day?