Good AM, folks!
I'm not staying up long enough to capture the Journal's Saturday LTE's, as I must arise early to participate in the Habitat build tomorrow, and may not have time to post before leaving. So, use the Limb to comment on the LTE's after looking at the Journal's site. Or, someone can post the LTE's in the comments field, and I'll repost after I finish helping the Habitat folks.
Stab...good luck with the Habitat project. People always seem to not want my help building a house. Something about the house leaning to the right....
ReplyDeleteExcellent post whitewall....you're learning. Why be so serious all the time, right?
ReplyDeleteFor some reason going to right, always seems to be the right decision for me too.
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
ReplyDeleteOscar Wilde
:), Bucky, does that mean you against NASCAR?
Good one! If nascar had to do all right turns,all the front ends would fall apart and the drivers would have to apply extra padding on the opposite side of the seat.
ReplyDeleteNo...in fact I applaud the specific race drivers that blew off Obama. Why should they waste their time to make a visit to the White House. They've got more important things to do than sit around and chit chat with an ineffectual leader.
ReplyDeleteBesides, I'd bet Obama wouldn't get the same reception that Ronald Reagan got at a NASCAR race.
Bobby..I was on the Outserve Magazine Website. You know the one. The gay magazine geared for gays. Well, it seems it's all fluff for the time being. It hasn't gotten to the real issues that gay and lesbians service members want to know about. Like....can they leer at heterosexual service members' bodies while they are taking showers, and whether or not it would be improper, or in fact, illegal to slap a hetero on the old buttocks while they shower.
ReplyDeleteBut, I'm sure it will get there eventually. Here's the link: Outservemag.com
Oh well, I guess the morning levity ends. Easy come, easy go. 300 laps means 1200 left turns.
ReplyDeleteBob, I was afraid things would devolve too fast. They did.
ReplyDeleteBucky, you would know about fluffing.
ReplyDeleteIf Rush/Kit isn't going to use my moniker, I wish he'd give it back. I like 'ole Barney. There's nothing like listening to old, fat, gay, blow hard to get your day going.
ReplyDeleteHa, ha. Senor Buckman can't go five minutes without obsessing over his favorite obsession. It would be much easier for him to just open the closet door and walk out into the glorious sunlight that is America, but the poor little thing just can't quite do it.
ReplyDeleteAs to his stupid remarks about NASCAR, as usual, he knows nothing. I'm sure that the Buckaroo Kid thinks that NASCAR drivers sit around watching TV when they're not actually driving in a race, but they are among the busiest of professional athletes. All of the drivers who are going to the White House had to shuffle their schedules to do so. Four could not. Of those, three have already visited Obama there, so the Bucker's assumption that there is something political about this is nothing more than his usual blowhard BS.
As several of them said, they are grateful for the invitation. And they ought to be, seeing as how NASCAR is currently tied with the Southern Baptist church as the two most racist institutions in the country.
"If Rush/Kit isn't going to use my moniker, I wish he'd give it back."
ReplyDeleteWould someone like to take a "stab" at translating that into conventional English?
Whoops...I guess that was politically incorrect. Oh well....I hope that's covered under the opinion clause.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is getting ready to give a speech to the Tea Party. I'll bet that'll give the Democrats hemorroids.
I was unaware that you could get hemorrhoids from laughing.
ReplyDelete(Senor Buckman needs to use his spell checker)
You certainly can. That's why I don't watch Obama's speeches.
ReplyDeleteObama has been in office for 2 1/2 years. He's spent close to $1 trillion dollars in stimulus money, and the employment rate has gone up, not down. The deficit has increased more in 2 1/2 years than 8 years under Bush. Yet, he has the balls to ask the American people to be reelected.
ReplyDeleteStrangely, there are still these imbecilic people out there like Rush/Kit that are willing to vote for him. What's the world coming to?
FWIW, Junior Johnson's a Democrat.
ReplyDelete"If Rush/Kit isn't going to use my moniker, I wish he'd give it back."
ReplyDeleteYeah...that's a sadlytrue level of clarity, there.
The truth may not always be pretty, but it's always the truth.
ReplyDeleteSenor Buckboard has problems with spelling AND vocabulary. I guess he thinks that the stupid picture of Barney Frank is a moniker, but it isn't.
ReplyDeleteA moniker is a nickname, like LG or Knothead or Chucklehead or any other sobriquet applied to the charming Senor/Senora Buckman.
I'm smart enough to know that Obama is a terrible president, unlike some idiots that post in here.
ReplyDeleteI wish Stab would go on a recruitment drive. This is becoming too easy.
I'll bet some of you like to get whipped during sex too. What else would explain why some you like to get obliterated on the issues surrounding Obama's presidency?
ReplyDeleteOver on the Journal LTE site today, in response to yet another of Deb Phillips' inane comments about evolution and science in general, our old colleague Anthony Vrsecky (formerly AJV) recommended a book for all to read.
ReplyDeleteIn light of certain comments on this site, I thought the book might help some to understand the genesis of those comments.
"Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free" by Charles Pierce
It was a 2009 bestseller, based on an article that Pierce wrote for Esquire in 2005. That article was inspired by Pierce's visit to the Creation Museum in Kentucky which displayed a dinosaur with a saddle on it. Apparently, Pierce was the only visitor that day who saw the absurdity of such a display (the Flintstones as science). Thus, "Idiot America."
Unfortunately, the public library has only one copy, at the Southside branch, which might just prove the thesis of the book. But Amazon will sell you a brand new hardback copy for only $15.95.
It is a very funny book, but it is also a very serious book. You might find yourself laughing and crying at the same time.
The book is better, but you can read the original article here for free: http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0207GREETINGS
And by all means visit the Creation Museum online at creationmuseum.org and take the virtual tour. It's worth a few laughs.
I'd love to actually visit the place, but I know that I couldn't resist laughing out loud at their portrayal of Adam & Eve as couple of white Anglo-Saxon hippies. Probably get me lynched.
Good evening, folks!
ReplyDeleteLong busy day, Habitat till mid-PM, then a shower and hitting some tennis balls with Mrs. Stab. Yes, I'm sore and tired.
Deb Phillips is a nice lady, and I of course agree with her "Journal" comments re unions, but she misses on evolution and Creation. When something is described as a theory, "theory" means an explanation. Many people equate the word "theory" with "supposition."
This can be erroneous: Einstein's Special Relativity and General Relavity are called theories. So is Quantum Mechanics. Both Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are probably the most stringently tested theories of all. They have never failed the test. They are facts, incomplete facts, but absolutely correct as far as they go. Evolution falls in that category.
The Creation of the universe, while not directly testable, of course, is also a fact. The universe in which we evolved was created about 13.7B years ago, but not something out of nothing, as Deb suggests is claimed. There was even a "Let There Be Light" time, which scientists call "The Recombination." This occurred about 380,000 years after Creation. Look this up on Wikipedia; this is not mumbo-jumbo out of the "Weekly World News," or an ad at the back of "Popular Science."
I wish conservatives were not so averse to science. I am in church 2-3 times a week, for either a service or dinner or choir practice. I have no problem with reconciling God to our study of His universe.
Hi Stab,
ReplyDeleteSounds as if you had a good day. I've built a few of those houses, so know that you may feel it tomorrow.
I tried to copy the LTEs over this morning, but for reasons unknown, they would not post.
Hello OT,
ReplyDeleteThank you for trying to post the LTE's. Since the Branch Office seems to be viable, I think I'm going to need a backup or two, so I'll probably be soliciting help offline.
As it stands, I'm not going to post the LTE's at this hour, will post tomorrow's, ideally before I creak off to church.
I really enjoyed being a part of Habitat's build, worked with some friends and with good folks whom I hadn't met before. I burn under artificial lighting (an exaggeration, but barely), so I am nicely sunburned at the moment, as well as sore. I will do help again when I don't need to be applying Habitat skills on my various home fronts.