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"People are saying what in the world is going on with North Carolina, we look like Mississippi." - NC Gov. Bev Perdue (D) on the passage of Amendment One, 5-11-12
Howdy
Just wanted to check in and say hello to everyone – feeling better at this point today but had the hunger pangs problem earlier this morning so it is touch and go. My visit to the doctor was a mixed bag in terms of what I felt was accomplished from it but I am back on the Prevacid thanks to the doc. writing a prescription for it that allows for two refills. I’m on my way to getting a handle on the problem, which in and of itself makes me feel better.
Taking the rest of the day to relax and make sure I’m feeling up to speed and then will return to work tomorrow. I’m looking fwd to it as I feel like this has been one of the most unproductive weeks in my entire life. I hate that! I’ll have a lot of work to catch up on Friday during the day but sometime tomorrow night or early Saturday I should be back to blogging as normal. I have missed it, along with chit chatting with all of you.
Thanks to everyone who has sent well wishes in email or posted them here. I have not had the chance to respond to each one personally because I’ve been trying to rest this week and do *very little* online – but I know the kind thoughts and prayers have definitely helped me feel better and stronger. God bless you. I have been at mom and dad’s most of the week for some extra TLC – there is nothing like the extra sweet care from your folks to help you get through times like this. I didn’t want to be alone considering how I was feeling (with sometimes feeling to weak to get a glass of water), so they invited me to stay with them and so I did 
The down side to that is that I’ve hardly seen my house this week – so it’ll be nice to return to my home tomorrow after work and get back into the swing of things.
To any radlib nutheads out there who might have been hopeful that I was leaving the blogosphere for good just because I’ve been gone for a few days, I’m not sorry to disappoint you 
Consider this a new open thread, and I’ll catch back up with ya’ll either Fri night or first thing Saturday. Lookin’ fwd to it!
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Good to hear from you ST! Keep pickin’em up and down, but don’t rush it. Good things take time and at your precious age, you’ve got lot’s of that.
Thanks to the folks, for being there for ya as well!
HEY LIBS – SHE’S BAAAAACK….
Seriously, though, ST – glad to hear you are feeling better. We sooooo missed you. Prayers still comin’ to you from this end… never can have too much of that ya know!
HOOOORAH!!!
Seriously, I am very glad you’re on the mend Sis.
Welcome back, we missed ya….even Steve.
A big welcome back!
Ya had me worried.
YAY!!!!
I am so glad you are feeling better Dear. 
It is so very good to hear from you. 
It is also good that you were able to be at your Mom and Dad’s. Another good side to that is, you got to spend some time with Miss Muffie LePurr, the prettiest kitty in the world. 
– Lorica 
Must be something going around-feel better, ST. You didn’t miss much anyway-Moussaui verdict, Russia/China blocking UN on Iran, Muslim terrorists in France blow up the Louvre…ooops! Last one not yet.
I think that if France does fall to Shariah/Muslim rule, I can’t see them leaving the greatest treasurehouse of Western civilization standing.
Woo hoo! My day is complete.
Sorry to get this off my chest:
This is what I’ve been saying all along. Bush has been too far to the LEFT in this war on terror. Trying to make nice and be diplomatic and only use enough force to try NOT to kill innocents. We could be using bigger bombs, killing the Zarqawi’s and NOT worrying about what leftists think. This war has dragged on and COST lives due to leftists. Bush on almost every issue has caved into leftists. He is left of center. First president to provide federal funding for stem cell research. Has increased federal spending on education more than Clinton and Bush Senior. Scaled down tax cuts and gave earned income tax credits (which give tax cuts to people who don’t pay taxes) to get people like Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe on board.
Leftists don’t realize how good they have it. We haven’t had a working majority of conservatives at the federal level. Leftists have ruled this country for over 6 decades. While government continues to grow and be worried about leftist nation opinions with respect to foreign policy for over 6 decades conservatives are attacked as if government is being cut (when it hasn’t) and as if the U.S. is so big bad and arrogant and ugly.
Shoot. If I was persident I’d show you big bad and arrogant and ugly. Leftists would have NO say anymore. And I consider my self a centrist conservative. I only want to see government keep current spending lvels for a decade while we reprioritize what we spend on, prepare for the baby boomers and invest in infrastructure and national defense and make it so that the safety net isn’t diluted for those who aren’t able-bodied and elderly but freeloaders thinking that government needs to provide the answer for all things. Martial law woudl’ve been imposed in Iraq. Only their oil money would be used for reconstruction (but we didn’t want to look like theives) and if someone rattled their fists and made threats and masterminded ambushes and IED’s they woud’ve been killed with as much FIREPOWER as it took.
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Welcome Back Kotter…..err…ST!
I figured if I didn’t post while you were gone, maybe they think we eloped…
On a serious side, good to see you back in the saddle again, we were all worried. I thought we might have to break out search parties…
Though I think some of these wise guys would just love to have an excuse to come over to your house…
Mainly I just had a very sharing family, my daughter shared the flu with my son, who shared it with the wife, who shared it with me….unfortunately mine hit in the middle of a 12 hour midnight shift at work. No one to cover for me, so spent 7 hours in abject misery, quoting ‘europe’ alot. The rest of the week felt like someone kicked in my ribs.
The fun of being sick, literally sick, not a liberal I mean.
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That’s what I was saying. They made themselves known. Tyson and Perdue you better clean up your act or we’ll be cleaning it for you. You want illegl immigration cleaned up? Get a working majority of conservatives in office. We don’t have it now.
Why did the US Army dress up in radiation suits before going into battle in Iraq? Because we were firing depleted uranium shells into tanks. Thousands of uranium rounds were fired and the uranium is now leaching in the drinking water. If that is not a war crime, it should be. Peace
Seems to come down to feelings or logic.
We are made to feel bad in this PC time because someone came here illegally (though they never will say ILLEGALLY – don’t want to point out they broke the law), that they do the jobs no one else wants to (which is false also and proven to be false), that they came here to make a better life for themselves (playing on our feeling and the harp strings now).
While others feel that they are here illegally, they broke the law coming into the US, they are here taking money from our economy and sending billions into Mexico, they are a drain on our services both in schools and welfare. We see they have tried to bring up how much they contribute, but it will now start coming to light a comparison of how much they contribute vs how much they take (welfare, emergency services, schools, ect).
They have also made the mistake of trying to compare themselves to the Civil Rights Movement, which has angered black americans who feel they have no right to use nor try and compare what they went through to what illegal aliens are doing.
Needless to say, more Americans have been pushed away from support of illegals because of these actions, and as more signs of ‘this is our land’ and flying mexican flags over the american flag, and even more disturbing and distasteful things come up, more Americans will push their lawmakers to do something.
Instead of this being about the immigration bill, this was allowed to get out of hand, with ANSWER and MOVEON.ORG being backers of this, with radical groups marching inlcuded, Gay rights, black panthers, ect, just made this a three ring circus of the most disrespectful and distasteful kind.
When you have extreme liberal left groups supporting you, you know it will not turn out good.
Did you guys see that sheriff from Phoenix on FOX News? He’s actually enforcing the illegal immigration laws! What a concept. I bet he gets in trouble for it
Also, did you see the pro-illegal lawyer on Lou Dobb’s? He said that if an illegal was returned to Mexico, and arrested for being in the USA later the same day, then the illegal was being harassed! Doh. Dobb’s almost fell out of his chair
Get well soon ST! My father says prilosec is better than prevacid, but he has acid-reflux, so it may not be right for your ailment.
Will the media act like they did when Cheney had an accident (hunting)?
Steve, the army doesn’t have radiation suits, they have MOPP gear, a form of NBC protection. The times they had it on, it was because of the expected chemical rounds of the Iraqis. Only specific specialists have radiation suits, and they go along afterward to check the wreckage, if it’s necessary. At this point they usually collect the stuff for reuse or disposal. And by ‘usually’, I mean a majority of the time, as there are specialists who go behind and clean these things up.
In case you’re wondering, the difference between the NBC gear and a true ‘radiation suit’ is that the latter actual has a weave of dense substance (like lead) that can halt the more harmful forms of radiation (gamma rays and the like). NBC gear is just dense plastic with an absorbent charcoal layer. Any ‘radioactive’ emissions will be either alpha or beta particles (which are stopped by the plastic or even clothing, if I remember right, alphas are even stopped by human skin)) or the more rare Gamma variety (which is just nasty and will either be nonexistant or render you dead through the suit with no effort).
Also, as depleted uranium rounds are ARMOR PIERCING rounds, they are generally only fired at targets that have armor. I know it’s hard to fathom, but not many enemy tanks were sitting on top of wells, in the rivers, or in the middle of resevoirs. Most of them were encountered out in the middle of the desert where they were summarily destroyed. As well, in case you didn’t notice, most of the ‘drinking water’ doesn’t come from the middle of the desert. Most of it doesn’t come from directly beneath city streets, either.
Furthermore, assuming somehow that particulates of the substance did manage to slip into the ground somehow, the density of the depleted uranium prevents it from mixing in with the water, as it is several times more dense than even rock. While it’s feasible it could mix for a couple of minutes, the movement of the water would deposit the substance as extremely dense sediment along its path, cleaning itself out. The fact that water also isolates and absorbs the errant alpha and beta particles that are emitted even prevents it from irradiating an area.
How the hell you can consider this a war crime, I don’t know. Personally, if I were looking for ‘war crimes’, I’d take a look at the jihadis.
Yes, the blogoshere is too small without you ST.
“Did you guys see that sheriff from Phoenix on FOX News? He’s actually enforcing the illegal immigration laws! What a concept. I bet he gets in trouble for it”
Yup. That’s our Sheriff Joe. He’s quite a character around these parts, and has made a name for himself as a tough-as-nails lawman that takes no guff from anyone. He instituted ‘Tent City’ for prisoner overflow (US Gov military tents erected in the desert surrounded by fence and barbed wire – cheap and effective), issues prisoners regulation pink boxer underwear (also available at retail stores for those who wish to make a fashion statement), denies Playboy or any porno mags to the prisoner population, and generally treats prisoners like, well – prisoners. He said yesterday on O’Reilly that he’ll put up tents “from here to Mexico” if that’s what it takes to control the problem.
The general consensus among those who have served time in Sheriff Joe’s jails is that they DON’T want to go back. What a concept… Joe is legend around these parts and has a lot of support. I just read today in the AZ Repugnant – er – Republic, that the Mexican government has hired a L.A. lawyer to sue Arizona and Sheriff Joe in particular for his ‘illegal’ detention of illegal aliens. They claim that only the U.S. Federales have the right to do anything about the current invasion from the southern border. Sheeesh.
Oh great, steve Edited. is onto the depleted uranium lie again, and demonstrating his massive ignorance of both military tactics and equipment and physics and chemistry at the same time, quite a feat!
DU is only very mildly radioactive, that’s why it’s called DEPLETED! Mainly an alpha emitter, with some beta. The major health hazard from DU is, get this, heavy metal poisoning, but even then, it’s significantly less poisoness than lead. The only people who have ever been documented to be suffering from heavy metal poisoning and any ill radiation effects are those that have ingested particles or vapor from when the round hit, and these people are the ones IN THE TANKS WHEN THEY WERE HIT!!! and were caught in the vapor and splatter.
Not many civilians inside armored vehicles. On top of this, recent documents translated and released from Iraq show that Hussein had done several nuclear experiments, from bomb tests to testing the effectiveness of nuclear materials as a poison and radiological bomb, the victims of these tests, and the resultant aftermath and cleanup, were cynically and specifically exploited by working with the various “human rights” groups to blame their radiation poisoning on the US and DU. But hey, it’s a lot more fun to kiss the ass of a genocidal tyrant like Hussein than to believe the facts presented by the US. I mean, c’mon, we all know the US is the ultimate evil in the world, and all the Hussein’s and Kim Jong Il’s are just loveable teddy bears who are misunderstood and driven to their excesses by the evil US.
Gag…there’s no shortage of idiots out there.
“The general consensus among those who have served time in Sheriff Joe’s jails is that they DON’T want to go back.”
unlike regular prisons.
There are plenty of people, andrew, that have no great fear or dislike of jail, it’s just a place to pass time until they get out again. That’s why I always beleived in corporal punishment, the kind of guy who wouldn’t think twice about doing something that would put him in jail for a month or three, would think twice if it meant he got 20 lashes with a bamboo cane.
BTW, why is it that liberals like you consistantly need to pick statements that are prima facia true and uncontroversial and come up with petty, petulant, little snide comments. I know, it’s far far easier than actually thinking a long, cogent argument through and all. Shoot from the lip…
Severian, your claiming that we did not use depleted uranium tipped shells in bush’s war on Iraqis? You and Tyrmadris need to do much more research because you both sound as incredible as bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld and Rice. We used them and they are exposing our own troops to constant radiation which is as much as 400 times normal limits. It’s time for our troops to come home. And it’s time for us to clean up Iraq’s enviornment. Peace
“”The general consensus among those who have served time in Sheriff Joe’s jails is that they DON’T want to go back.”
unlike regular prisons.”
Yeah, unlike ‘regular’ prisons where the ‘prisoners’ get better food and nutrition than most of them got on the ‘outside’, free porno mags, free TV and movies, free use of the gym equipment, air conditioning, conjugal visitation rights, and lots of other bennies to help make their stay as pleasant as possible. Sheriff Joe won’t have any of that, and uses jail as it is meant to be – a deterrent to crime.
Tyrmadris, CZ, and Sev just told [steve]Edited. no less than three times the facts in DETAIL, regarding [his]Edited. inability to hear or see truths in reality form and still it rants on! If someone is near enough to [steve] Edited., could they read the big words for it. Edited. Read what people on this planet call facts Edited.[steve]!
Ahh – The ” The typing Telephone Poleâ„¢ ” is back on the job, with yet more proof he simply copies Libtard talking points he’s run across somewhere, bereft of the ability to even do a little google-time research.
- Steve-oh, your screed sounds really really good. Theres just one problem. Notice the word “Depleted”. Yes. That one. See the reason its called depleated is because the radiation levels it emits are lower than your computer monitor. The only thing left in that state is the hard, non-radioactive metel. Thats why its used. Density. Good for penetrating things. Even a skull as dense as yours. But I digress.
- The little fact you left out of your nonsensical story is that the troops that did wear anti-radiation suits, did so on occassion in anticipation of having to examine potential WMD processing sites that might actually have said high levels of radiation.
- So with that backdrop lets review. First you completely run afowl of any sort of factual information, choosing as the stereotypical moonbat you are, to steadfastly lie outright, except in this case I willing to believe you are that ignorant of the facts concerning DU*. Then you cap that off by intentionally miss-stating the purpose of the troops occassional required equipment.
- This constitutes a serious breech of debate ettiquette on several levels, as would be applied to normal people. For the unhinged left its business as usual.
- For the rest of us, as difficult as it is, we really must resist feeding the trolls, if not for ST, then for the sake of your own sanity. Pardon to sanity for the use of the handle. Liberty
*(No not that DU….those creatures are glowing with Bush Derangement syndrome…..)
- Bang
Steve, you either read on a 1st grade level, or you’re the most ideologically blinded moron I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a bunch.
Go back and reread my post and tell me where I ever say the US doesn’t use DU munitions…go ahead, we’ll wait the hour or three it takes you to read three paragraphs.
*yawn*…snooze…
Back? What I did say is that DU is not the screaming menace you hand wringing anti-US types like to make it, but thanks for demonstrating once again your total cluelessness and dishonesty. BTW, I’m typing this really slowly as I know you don’t read too fast. Dolt.
“There are plenty of people, andrew, that have no great fear or dislike of jail, it’s just a place to pass time until they get out again. ”
I’m sure. That’s why they don’t mind going in.
What the Flock of Seagulls is this????
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060504/ts_nm/forbes_rulers_dc_1
Sweet Mother of God!!!! HOW could Castro be so rich, and yet his people be so poor. I guess the HollyWierd Elitists Don’t know everything. – Lorica
Now now Lorica, I think it’s shameful that you accuse that noble man Castro of theft! He’s just holding on to that money for them until the communist workers paradise removes all of those evil capitalistic tendencies from the people so that they will not go wild with all that money and actually spend it. He only has their best interests at heart…
Mahwah is definitely right for most criminals. None of them want to go back to prison, but it’s not so bad that they’ll stop committing crimes. I would be very interested to know if recidivism is lower in your county Mahwah. It would be a powerful statement if it is.
Edie Hill said she reminded her of John Wayne. Heh.
- Lorica. How is this any different than the “Lemosine Liberals” of Hollyweird that pander to thier adoring moonbat public with all the usual hate-America speech, people that have to scrape by often times to make the rent or car payments, while the “stars” quietly line their own pockets with money from “The Man”. hipocracy knows no limits among the denizens of the left.
- Bang
Some history…
Saddam set hundreds of oil wells on fire and they burned for months. Saddam also uncorked tons of chemical and biological against on his own citizens and enemies.
Now let’s talk about a little depleated uranium, Steve. Steve?
Sev – Castro is no doubt following the example set by that other famous “terrorist banker”, Araflab, who when he died had 62 billion carefully salted away in various Fwench banks, “keeping it safe” for his starving people so they wouldn’t squander it on food and medicine at a time when they needed more bomb-belts to destroy those threatening Isreali Pizza parlors and shopping malls.
- Bang
- Hmmmm…..Perhaps Steve(TTP) is a bit overwhelmed with such a crowning achievement of making a complete fool of himself once again, and we should leave him in “Peace” to suck on his hukah for awhile.
- In the mean time heres a few laffs.
- Remember Komrads…A Century of Failure proves nothing!
- Bang
And Bang that is exactly the reason that the people of Palestine hadn’t seen Arafat’s wife for years inside the borders of Palestine. Then he dies and she finally makes it back to the “homeland”, for a week and flies back to Paris. Girls there is shopping to do and the hubby no longer controls the pursestrings. These people make me wretch.
Bang it is different, to a point. There are not suppose to be rich communists, the elitists in this country told me that. Now rich actors, hell if Sly could do it, Anyone can.
– Lorica
I see steve(FSMB) is still a Edited.. [He]Edited. knows nothing about DEPLETED Uruanium. Maybe the environment we need to clean up first is the Internet! Get the deluded misinformers and liars like steve(FSMB) off to clear the bandwidth for people to really share true facts.
Speaking of true facts, when are the Kennedys all going to be put into rehab permanenty? When are they going to be treated as the menaces on the road that they are? Patrick is as big a liar as his father. Both should be in jail for a long time for their crimes.
steve, you remind me of someone at a forum I post at who irritated the crap out of me and so many others – even on the left, for quite some time. The rules of the forum were clear as to personal attacks, but the person irritated me so much that I found I couldn’t help myself from taking verbal shots at this person every chance I got, in spite of the rule. You do that to people here and after thinking about it have come to the conclusion that you really aren’t interested in debating here – you are what I would consider a troll, just like the person was at the forum I post at. Not interested in debate but instead stirring the pot and adding literally nothing to the discussion. So steve, consider yourself on permanent break from this blog.
ST welcome back
Welcome back Sis and as one Chicago song said “Feeling Stronger Everyday” which I pray that you are.
I couldn’t agree with you more about Steve he adds nothing to any discussion but what scares me is that he might vote!
We are exposed to natural radiation everyday 365 days a year and here is a comparison:
One dental x-ray 4–15 mrem 0.04–0.15 mSv
One chest x-ray 10 mrem 0.1 mSv
One mammogram 70 mrem 0.7 mSv
One year of exposure to natural radiation (from soil, cosmic rays, etc.) 300 mrem 3 mSv
- Morning ST!….Welcome home…..
- Bang
Jim M: what are the figures for exposure to steve?
Welcome back ST! Hope you’re feeling much better…
- Altogether now: A one and a Two and a …..
Sen. Ted Kennedy has released the following to the press regarding the traffic accident in DC involving his son Patrick:
“Let every media outlet know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any relative, to assure the political survival and successful influence of our family.”
- You can get your “I’d rather be hunting with Cheney than riding in a car with a Kennedy” bumper stickers at a your neighborhood mall…..
- Bang
Dry land = no drowning victims and he stayed on the scene. Some might call that an improvement. But what is it they say about “it” skipping a generation?
Anybody notice how the question regarding special treatment wasn’t answered? The lips were moving…..
What does truly disturb me however, is his confused drug mixing excuse (on his way to vote?). How many votes have been cast while under the influence of drug mixing, in the uncaught version? Do they drug test the Senators and Reps, as is done in most of the working world?
Welcome back, ST. I hope you’re feeling better, and thanks for dropping steve like a bad habit. He never did add anything new or intelligent to any discussion here. I’m all for reasonable disagreement, but steve was just wasting valuable internet space.
And I always found it ironic when he added “peace” to the end of his post, as if that somehow it nullified the derisive comments he just made.
Forest LOL, Zip, Zero, Nada Steve has no gray matter to be exposed. I think he is the reincarnation of one of the three stooges “Curly” it was Curly that said “Hey Moe, I’m trying to think but nothing happens”.
Hi, ST!!!!
Glad you’re feeling better!
Jack.
I truly asked a serious question when I queried the drug testing policies of our Senate members. Is there a proper (as in unwarned or effective) procedure in place? Clearly, if triple S (Senator Swimmers Son) thought he was voting, there are additional reasons for a shakeup.
Breaking News – CIA Head Porter Goss has resigned, according to a White House spokesman. The announcement came at a press debriefing this morning and caught Washinton observers by surprise. What this means in regards to the ongoing shakeup withing the upper ranks of the CIA will be the subject of focus for sometime now. Whether the news recently of connections of the number three man in the agency having involvement with the Cunningham scandal, or the Mary McCarthy firing for alledged leking of agency secrets in meeetings with reporters is unknown. The President is posed to make the announcement momentarily on FOX in a live news conference.
- Bang