Conservative thread: We're still smiling!

[DisneyMomOK]

Nice. Not surprised Baba Wawa didn't say anything; she disrespects the men she's had affairs with.

Heavens, that is an awful thought before I go to bed!

 

[wonderlanne]

My DD has been flying a lot lately. Flew home from Hong Kong on Dec 22 and then went to Hawaii last week. I am so glad this happened after she got back.

That pilot deserves some kind of medal. My DH and I were talking about the folks on the flight and he thought he would feel conflicted, cursed for being there in the first place but lucky to be alive. Since I am one of those pre-destination persons, if I was a passenger, I would be feeling super lucky, buying lottery tickets, playing the slots and drinking a whole bunch of Pina Coladas!

the pilot who was on hannity said he went to the hospital to take clothing to people. amazingly, one woman went into labor on the plane and was having her baby at the hospital within a very short time. he also said he was telling the rescued passengers that this was probably their whole life's worth of bad luck, so they can get on another plane and never have to worry again.

kewl about all the boats going over to help too. WAY TO GO!!! HOORAY!!!

 

[debbieandroo]

So, Michelle [apologies if you've already said - I'm too tired to read back]

how many days?????

 

[DisneyMomOK]

the pilot who was on hannity said he went to the hospital to take clothing to people. amazingly, one woman went into labor on the plane and was having her baby at the hospital within a very short time. he also said he was telling the rescued passengers that this was probably their whole life's worth of bad luck, so they can get on another plane and never have to worry again.

kewl about all the boats going over to help too. WAY TO GO!!! HOORAY!!!

It is an absolute miracle that no one was killed. I heard of another plane that tried to do this and it did flips/cartwheels and half the passengers were killed.

 

[wonderlanne]

It is an absolute miracle that no one was killed. I heard of another plane that tried to do this and it did flips/cartwheels and half the passengers were killed.

ugh. i feel so pround for this pilot. i hope he feels really good about his skills.

 

[wonderlanne]

i visited the liberal thread. they were nice to me.

has anybody else noticed a slight change in the location of the smilies? hugs are in "more" now...stuff like that?

 

[Tasmen]

i visited the liberal thread. they were nice to me.

I saw that. The case of 'lurking libs' I got compelled me to go do a little lurking of my own. I'm sure some of them are rather nice people. Some of my best friends are diametrically opposed to me politically. Of course, the pictures likening folks on our side of the fence to peeps straight out of Deliverence USA truly warms the heart.

has anybody else noticed a slight change in the location of the smilies? hugs are in "more" now...stuff like that?

I haven't read the thread, but I think there is a thread going on now about smilies.

 

[wonderlanne]

I saw that. The case of 'lurking libs' I got compelled me to go do a little lurking of my own. I'm sure some of them are rather nice people. Some of my best friends are diametrically opposed to me politically. Of course, the pictures likening folks on our side of the fence to peeps straight out of Deliverence USA truly warms the heart.

those are some scary darned pictures!!!

I haven't read the thread, but I think there is a thread going on now about smilies.

ah...perhaps others see the same thing i do now. i'll check tomorrow.

 

[DisneyMomOK]

I saw that. The case of 'lurking libs' I got compelled me to go do a little lurking of my own. I'm sure some of them are rather nice people. Some of my best friends are diametrically opposed to me politically. Of course, the pictures likening folks on our side of the fence to peeps straight out of Deliverence USA truly warms the heart.



I haven't read the thread, but I think there is a thread going on now about smilies.

Don't you know: anyone who does not have the same ideological leanings as they, is either co-habitating with his or her mother/father, or sister/brother, or all of the above? In fact, we all keep farm animals in the house with us, since they are just like family, only closer...

I have had some good laughs tonight.

 

[Tasmen]

Don't you know: anyone who does not have the same ideological leanings as they, is either co-habitating with his or her mother/father, or sister/brother, or all of the above? In fact, we all keep farm animals in the house with us, since they are just like family, only closer...

I have had some good laughs tonight.

I guess it's comforting to live in a world where everything is so black and white. The world I live in is more of a grey hue -- and that's not just because I live in doom and gloomy Seattle

 

[studentmom]

Wowzers!! That sure is a lot of posts to catch up on. I'm getting ready for bed, but I just wanted to stop by.

Hey, wonderlanne..I meant to ask you, I overheard some of the students at school talking, and they were mentioning that Californians will probably be getting their income tax refunds late, because of the state having so much debt? I haven't heard anything about this, so I thought I'd ask you about it.

GUESS WHO IS GLENN'S FIRST GUEST ON HIS NEW SHOW MONDAY?!?!?!?!?!?!

SARAH PALIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, awesome! What time will Beck be on Fox (pst)?

This poll is for the CONSERVATIVES only, no lurking libs please.

Who is planning on watching the inauguration?


My TV will be off that day.

Oh darn. I'll be in class, although I'm surprised that they didn't close the whole campus that day.

Whew....back.....

just laid DS2 down for bed.....but before he went down, we were watching Imagination Movers and......

(side rant, usually I like Playhouse Disney shows.....but this show gets under my skin......I wish I was in the room when they pitched the idea to Disney Brass........"Ok, dude.....we're like a buncha slacker stoner hackey-sack types who live in a warehouse with an old rat and jam our music and have ideas and whatnot you know"........)

anyhoo,

DS2 likes their music a lot and he always dances up a storm......the problem is, he dances like Axel Rose.....that whole hip swiveling snakey leg dance type thing.....

Is this a harbinger of things to come?

"Welcome, welcome to the Jungle......sha-na-na-na-na-na-na-nee-nee-nee....."

Guess I better accelerate the piano lesson timetable......

I had to laugh at that. I don't like that show, either. My kids don't ask to watch it, so I'm safe.

Hey there! I'm hanging in there. Been trying to fight through some stuff. In a mad frenzy testing phase to try and prove my Cushing's Disease so I can have my surgery on March 25th in Houston.

Please keep us posted on everything. We'll be thinking of you.

 

[DisneyMomOK]

I guess it's comforting to live in a world where everything is so black and white. The world I live in is more of a grey hue -- and that's not just because I live in doom and gloomy Seattle

You have to admit, jettisoning the populace that does not lock step with you into a cubbyhole one labels the Morbidly Stupid, makes life extremely uncomplicated. No need to ever bother to think outside your little box, because anyone who is not in there with you already is an uneducated imbecile.

Greys require an open mind and thoughtful reflection. When my Dad died at age 93, he still had that quality; it is one that will always garner my respect (and, hopefully, I have instilled in my children.)

 

[fishynancy]

hi.

 

[Michelle67]

So, Michelle [apologies if you've already said - I'm too tired to read back]

how many days?????

Three. We leave on Sunday. Although my husband sent me a text message a little while ago and said he is having travel issues and may be delayed a day. He has to take two or three hops to get to Kuwait to fly out, and since he is non-military he goes space available.

 

[Tink & Goofy]

hi.

Hi?

 

[JB111107]

Oh, awesome! What time will Beck be on Fox (pst)?

He'll be on at 4pm my time (CST) which would be around 2pm for you? I don't know if they will run on the same schedule out there. programming is weird sometimes. I don't know if you have cable or satellite or what, but I have DirecTV and the show is already on the on-screen guide if you move to Monday and have a look.

 

[Grog]

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=316912508889171#

Don't Believe Bush 43 Got It Right? Just Ask (Or Listen To) Obama 44

By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER | Posted Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman leaves office more unloved than George W. Bush.

Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama.

Vindication is being expressed not in words but in deeds — the tacit endorsement conveyed by the Obama continuity-we-can-believe-in transition.

It's not just the retention of such key figures as Secretary of Defense Bob Gates or Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner, who, as president of the New York Fed, has been instrumental in guiding the Bush financial rescue over the last year. It's the continuity of policy.

It is the repeated pledge to conduct a withdrawal from Iraq that does not destabilize its new democracy and that, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden said just this week in Baghdad, adheres to the Bush-negotiated status of forces agreement that envisions a U.S. withdrawal over three years, not the 16-month timetable on which Obama campaigned.

It is the great care Obama is taking in not pre-emptively abandoning the anti-terror infrastructure that the Bush administration leaves behind.

While still a candidate, Obama voted for the expanded presidential wiretapping (FISA) powers that Bush had fervently pursued. And while Obama opposes waterboarding (already banned, by the way, by Bush's CIA in 2006), he declined George Stephanopoulos' invitation (on ABC's "This Week") to outlaw all interrogation not permitted by the Army Field Manual.

Explained Obama: "Dick Cheney's advice was good, which is let's make sure we know everything that's being done," i.e., before throwing out methods simply because Obama campaigned against them.

Obama still disagrees with Cheney's view of the acceptability of some of these techniques. But citing as sage the advice offered by "the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history" (according to Joe Biden) — advice paraphrased by Obama as "we shouldn't be making judgments on the basis of incomplete information or campaign rhetoric"— is a startlingly early sign of a newly respectful consideration of the Bush-Cheney legacy.

Not from any change of heart. But from simple reality. The beauty of democratic rotations of power is that when the opposition takes office, cheap criticism and calumny will no longer do. The Democrats now own Iraq.

They own the war on al-Qaida. And they own the panoply of anti-terror measures with which the Bush administration kept us safe these last seven years.

Which is why Obama is consciously creating a gulf between what he now dismissively calls "campaign rhetoric" and the policy choices he must now make as president.

Accordingly, Newsweek — Obama acolyte and scourge of everything Bush-Cheney — has on the eve of the Democratic restoration miraculously discovered the arguments for warrantless wiretaps, enhanced interrogation and detention without trial. Indeed, Newsweek's neck-snapping cover declares, "Why Obama May Soon Find Virtue in Cheney's Vision of Power."

Obama will be loath to throw away the tools that have kept the homeland safe. Just as he will be loath to jeopardize the remarkable turnaround in American fortunes in Iraq.

Obama opposed the war. But the war is all but over. What remains is an Iraq turned from aggressive, hostile power in the heart of the Middle East to an emerging democracy openly allied with the United States. No president would want to be responsible for undoing that success.

In Iraq, Bush rightly took criticism for all that went wrong — the WMD fiasco, Abu Ghraib, the descent into bloody chaos in 2005-06. Then Bush goes to Baghdad to ratify the ultimate post-surge success of that troubled campaign — the signing of a strategic partnership between the U.S. and Iraq — and ends up dodging two size-10 shoes for his pains.

Absorbing that insult was Bush's final service on Iraq. Whatever venom the war generated is concentrated on Bush himself.

By personalizing the responsibility for the awfulness of the war, Bush did his successor a favor. Obama enters office with a strategic success on his hands — while Bush leaves the scene taking a shoe for his country.

Which is why I suspect Bush showed such equanimity during a private farewell interview at the White House a few weeks ago. He leaves behind the sinews of war, for the creation of which he has been so vilified but which will serve his successor — and his country — well over the coming years.

The very continuation by Democrats of Bush's policies will be grudging, if silent, acknowledgment of how much he got right.

© 2008 Washington Post Writers Group

 

[Mikelly1221]

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=316912508889171#

Love it! And so true!

 

[TeresaNJ]

Wow! This thread moves so fast! I would like to thank everyone for their welcomes! It's always good to find like-minded people.

There are so many things in recent posts I agree with (the stupidity of the Treasury Secretary nominee, the internal ugliness of the Obamas, Obama's crazy obcession with Lincoln, the overpriced party, etc) but what drives me the most nuts is the media. They had a field day when Joe the Plumber hadn't paid $1000 in taxes, but the future SECRETARY OF TREASURY who will be in charge of the IRS owed tens of thousands in back taxes. And it's not an innocent mistake when you haven't bothered to pay since 2000 but then suddenly do so before your announced. Where's the outrage? Where's the press? Oh, wait, they are busy praying to their Obama idols.

Just a quick reminder, Dr Martin Luther King Jr day is coming up and YES Dr. King was a Republican! Lots of great info on http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/ ...click on the history test link. I know the Chair(wo)man Frances Rice and she has great articles including the "Emancipation of White Guilt." These are worth reading and worth sharing.

So true, but don't you know, it was "just a little hiccup, an honest mistake", stated over and over by almost all of the MSM. By the way, "Welcome"!!!

 

[TeresaNJ]

she and caroline um ya know kennedy both walk slightly bent forwards with their feet fairly far apart. ick. i will say this, bho has excellent posture.

Yes, their walks are fairly similar, like they have something stuck where nothing should be stuck.