The Conservative Thread: Back to Basics. Pass the Lasagna and Have a Flower!!

[JB111107]

I got this in an email today and thought it was kinda funny.....boy wouldnt THIS take the wind out of OS' sails if he ended up NOT being the "first african-american president" (which he is not but that's a whole other debate altogether):


News Flash:
Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of Bush
Administration" ... Drudge Report



To prevent this from happening, I offer the following scenario......

On January 15, 2009, George Bush resigns. Dick Cheney becomes president
and appoints Sarah Palin as VP.

On January 16, Cheney resigns and Palin becomes America's first female
president and immediately pardons all former, current, and future, Bush
administration personnel.

On January 17, Palin appoints Michael Steele, the first black Lt.
Governor
of Maryland, as VP.

On January 18, Palin resigns and Steele becomes America's first black
president. On January 19, Steele issues a pardon to Palin.

On January 20, Barack Obama, becomes America's second black president.

 

[nannerbadnanner]

Just checking in again! Thanks for all the prayers for my aunt! I really appreciate it!

 

[SorcererDonald16]

Just checking in again! Thanks for all the prayers for my aunt! I really appreciate it!

Hey nanner! We've missed you. How is she doing?

 

[blestmom]

Hey, you promised us a picture of Jack in his polar fleece!

PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES!!!!

And many degrees below zero are you tonight, brrrrr?

I'll try to get a picture of Jack in his polar fleece now...

 

[nannerbadnanner]

Hey nanner! We've missed you. How is she doing?

She came through surgery fine. They have her up and moving so we will see how her rehabilitation goes.

Thanks for asking! My DD loved the Donald pictures!

 

[SorcererDonald16]

She came through surgery fine. They have her up and moving so we will see how her rehabilitation goes.

Thanks for asking! My DD loved the Donald pictures!

Oh, I'm glad to hear that about your aunt. I was praying for her and will continue to do so. My grandfather broke his hip in 2001. It was not pleasant for him. So I know how scary that can be. He was in a different situation though because he was much older than your aunt.

Glad she loved the Donald pictures. You did get the second set, right?

 

[mfd25wife]

I forgot to tell you about DS car. He got hit last Sunday at Jack in the Box. They didn't stop. Exactly 1 week after he got the car for his 16th birthday. But I already complained about that part.

Thankfully we had put full coverage on it and our insurance is fixing it minus the $500 deductible. What I thought was just a bad scratch turns out to be a damaged tire, rim, side panel and door. The estimate was about $1500 in damage. (so much labor) I am just sick over it but we want DS to have the nice car he got for his birthday and he cannot drive it without the new tire and rim at all. Poor kid. State Farm says more and more people are leaving with out a note or anything. He is having as much trouble with the lesson about how people behave as he is that his car is damaged.

I hate that people are that way these days. But, I am glad you had State Farm. They've been great to us.

OH my gosh - I forgot to tell you all this....

Today I was reading our local paper and one of the headlines was "Norovirus confirmed as cause of Hope outbreak."

I found that to be so funny as I was thinking "Hope and Change" and the Obama campaign, not a college here in Michigan (Hope College).

And you all know what the norovirus causes....(if not - tummy aches and well....lots of #2). LOL!!! Perfect!

We've all been sick this week. I apparently gave it away at work, also.

I got this in an email today and thought it was kinda funny.....boy wouldnt THIS take the wind out of OS' sails if he ended up NOT being the "first african-american president" (which he is not but that's a whole other debate altogether):


News Flash:
Democrats prepare to move forward with investigations of Bush
Administration" ... Drudge Report



To prevent this from happening, I offer the following scenario......

On January 15, 2009, George Bush resigns. Dick Cheney becomes president
and appoints Sarah Palin as VP.

On January 16, Cheney resigns and Palin becomes America's first female
president and immediately pardons all former, current, and future, Bush
administration personnel.

On January 17, Palin appoints Michael Steele, the first black Lt.
Governor
of Maryland, as VP.

On January 18, Palin resigns and Steele becomes America's first black
president. On January 19, Steele issues a pardon to Palin.

On January 20, Barack Obama, becomes America's second black president.

I got the same one.

She came through surgery fine. They have her up and moving so we will see how her rehabilitation goes.
QUOTE]

I'm happy that she came through the surgery well!


I took the quiz, also. I'm a Sponge Bob, too.

 

[mfd25wife]

I don't want to say what the problem is out here (PM me if you want to know if you pray for things specifically) but DSIL needs a lot of prayers right now.

I will be praying!

 

[nannerbadnanner]

Oh, I'm glad to hear that about your aunt. I was praying for her and will continue to do so. My grandfather broke his hip in 2001. It was not pleasant for him. So I know how scary that can be. He was in a different situation though because he was much older than your aunt.

Glad she loved the Donald pictures. You did get the second set, right?

I did!

Also, my best friend's cousin will be home next week for Thanksgiving! She and I are planning Operation Love Connection if he is interested! As far as we know, he is not dating anyone right now so we will see.

 

[SorcererDonald16]

I took the quiz, also. I'm a Sponge Bob, too.

I think we all need to start a chorus of "Oh..... Who lives in a pineapple under da sea?" right about now.

mfd25wife, how is the family who lost their son doing? They've been in my prayers.

 

[nannerbadnanner]

Looks like many of us need prayers. Please know that I am prayer for all the needs that I have seen listed here.

 

[wonderlanne]

The weather - we left last Wednesday from a chilly 48 in the 'burgh to a sticky 84 in Orlando. It stayed that way until Saturday. We had rain on Friday night but were still able to see the shuttle launch light up the night sky. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday highs were only in the mid-upper 60s but to this Pennsylvanian, it was very pleasant weather for November.

Xmas decor - MK was all decked out and WOW! It was neat! I wonder if the other parks do more decorating closer to Thanksgiving. Shop windows and stuff were done in the other parks. AK had some neat garlands up, Epcot had a neat tree right at the end of the bridge to WS and a pretty tree in front of the American Adventure. DHS had some stuff too, but none were to the scale of MK's Main Street. Resorts (Wilderness Lodge, the Contemporary, Grand Floridian & Pop Century are the only ones I saw) had Christmas merchandise displays in their shops, but no all out trees or what not. GF did have the gingerbread house though.

As for new stuff - My whole group agreed on this - Toy Story Midway Mania is fun! Two thumbs up, way up! I tried ToT for the first time and loved it. I even got myself a new pin to mark the occassion. We also got my 5 year old DD on Test Track and Soarin'. Mixed reviews - she hated TT (we got great video of her screaming on it) and loved Soarin'.
I did get to have my chilled strawberry soup - I specifically scheduled 1900 Park Fare so I could have that.

It was great!

sounds WONDERFUL!!!! thanks for sharing the details. didn't know about the chilled strawberry soup! do they serve it as an apetizer or dessert or....?

 

[Michelle67]

Disneycrazymom, I'm so sorry that happened to your son. My daughter called me today to tell me that someone smashed out the back window of her car. It was my husband's car, he basically gave it to her when he left for Iraq (she got to officially have it as soon as she could pay the insurance, so she's had it since August). Poor kid. She only his liability insurance because of her age...insurance is so screaming expensive. I feel awful for her. Of course, nice mommy that I am, I used to opportunity to reiterate my firm belief that they need to get OUT of the neighborhood they are living in.

OH my gosh - I forgot to tell you all this....

Today I was reading our local paper and one of the headlines was "Norovirus confirmed as cause of Hope outbreak."

I found that to be so funny as I was thinking "Hope and Change" and the Obama campaign, not a college here in Michigan (Hope College).

And you all know what the norovirus causes....(if not - tummy aches and well....lots of #2). LOL!!! Perfect!

I feel like he's looking at me through the computer screen and thinking "Give me a doggie treat! I look so adorable, you know you want to!"

Dogs are great. Like y'all were talking about last night, the furry children are great at weeding out human baddies for you before you even know it. I may go to the SPCA tomorrow just to look around. Can't adopt, but I can look.

Jack is so cute. And darn right about the smarts our furry friends have. My college room-mate and I used her pit-boxer mix as our screener. If Sarge didn't like someone, they were not allowed back to our house!

She came through surgery fine. They have her up and moving so we will see how her rehabilitation goes.

Thanks for asking! My DD loved the Donald pictures!

Glad the surgery went well. Prayers and positive thoughts for her recovery.

Tonight's news at my house is that we have the doggie geriatric club in residence for this week. We have a houseguest; our friends' old man doggie. He's some kind of bird dog (a rescue, just like our old man). He's a great dog, and our dog loves having sleepovers with him. We have him two or three times a year when our friends are out of town.

 

[wonderlanne]

*whispering* Do you realize there are people who voted and are rabid obama fans that DO NOT know what his full name is? I could care less what his name is, too, but they're denying what it actually is!

oh gosh....where'd that emoticon o with the hands over ears...i think it was called "not listening".

 

[wonderlanne]

I cannot decide if I should find comfort in BO having Clinton people around him. They do know way more then he does. If I were Hilary right now I would be so angry. He wins and then uses all the experience from her husband.

Yes the Swan /Dolphin is just the best imho! We are staying at Music this summer because of the 7/4 deal, unless S/D comes out with an equal or better discount. Our last stay at the Dolphin DH had turned Diamond (or whatever they call the "I live in hotels" people) and we got an upgrade to a center club room. Watched the Epcot fireworks out the window. It was awesome!!!!!

i coordinated an engineering and technology conference at swan/dolphin quite a few years ago. with the rooms we paid for, we were given two amazing suites (not for me...for the two top execs). my favorite was over 2000 sq. ft., was two stories, gorgeously decorated, and it came with a butler! BEN THE BUTLER!!! ben collected antique eyeglasses and always had on a different pair. when he left work, he'd put on his leathers and hop on his harley to go home. the suite sits just above and in the center of the dolphin fountains you see on the outside facing the swan. it was kkkkeeewwwwllll.

as i learned more about that hotel, the more i fell in love with the architect who designed it...michael graves. there were so many whimsical touches in the details...depending upon which floor you were, the light sconces in the hallways were either images of waves or images of clouds, and same with the carpet...marvelous stuff. [heavy sigh]

 

[wonderlanne]

Don't take this the wrong way, but sometimes late at night, when no one is watching, I just love JAZZ HANDS!

 

[debbieandroo]

from Ann Coulter --

With Time magazine comparing Obama to Jesus, I guess we should be relieved that, this week, liberals are only comparing him to Abraham Lincoln.

The one thing every liberal on TV seems to know about Lincoln is that he put rivals in his cabinet, as subtly indicated in the title to historian and plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin's book: "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Like Lincoln, Goodwin is always open to contributions from her rivals, although Lincoln was better at crediting their words.

And hasn't Obama talked to former rival Hillary about becoming his secretary of state? Hasn't he had a sit-down with Sen. John McCain? Did I imagine this, or is he even now brokering peace talks between Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck?

Ergo: Obama is a genius.

Indeed, historians have just named Obama the best president-elect ever.

I don't recall the media swooning when President George W. Bush reached out to rivals, such as Sen. Teddy Kennedy, who was asked to co-write Bush's education bill. In fact, the way I remember it, Bush is liberals' most hated president ever (only because they can't remember George Washington or they'd hate him, too).

And yet no modern president has ever done more to bridge partisan divides and show respect to his opponents than George W. Bush. I do not say this with admiration; it is simply a fact.

Throughout the year and again in his convention speech during the 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. Bush bragged that he had "no stake in the bitter arguments of the last few years. I want to change the tone of Washington to one of civility and respect."

(As a side note: Bush would never have been elected president if not for the "bitter arguments of the last few years," in which Republicans exposed and impeached Bill Clinton, which then killed Al Gore's presidential ambitions. So you're welcome.)

But the point is: Bush was massively chummy with his enemies -- Democrats, communists and the Congressional Black Caucus. So chummy that even they began to wonder if he was a little daft.

In his first few weeks in office, Bush met with more than 150 members of Congress, half of them Democrats -- including five events with America's leading liberal menace, Sen. Teddy Kennedy.

Bush's very first social event at the White House was movie night with the Kennedy family to watch "Thirteen Days," a falsely heroic portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This suggests to me that Obama's first social move as president will have to be to invite Lindsey Graham over to a screening of "Larry the Cable Guy Saves Christmas."

Naturally, Bush also had primary rival John McCain and his wife, Cindy, over to dinner at the White House.

Bush was the first president in memory to attend the congressional retreats of the opposing party. After two weeks in office, a Wall Street Journal column noted that Bush's charm offensive was "disorienting the local Hatfields and McCoys." (Again: You're welcome.)

Bush even made a special point to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus upon taking office, which -- given their feelings toward Bush -- would be the equivalent of Obama holding a special meet-and-greet session with the upper management of the Ku Klux Klan.

Bush invited the Democratic black mayor of the District of Columbia to the White House, attended a majority black District church service and appointed the first black secretary of state.

And that was all before Feb. 1, 2001. (By the end of his presidency, he would have appointed the first two black secretaries of state.)

Though it was small potatoes after all that palling around with Teddy Kennedy, this is the same George W. Bush who had Muslim "spiritual leaders" to the White House a week after 9/11.

Bush also famously said of then-Russian president, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin, that he looked him in the eye and "was able to get a sense of his soul."

(This made Bush's critics almost as apoplectic as if he had said, "I looked into Putin's eyes and, frankly, I just don't trust the guy." No matter what Bush did, liberals were incensed.)

As president, Bush scuttled the playing of "Hail to the Chief" in his honor and repeatedly reminded his staff to act humbly.

This is as opposed to Obama, who I believe is the first president-elect in history to have his own "Office of the President-elect" seal commissioned.

Like I always say, even if you don't like the current president-elect, you should still have some respect for the office of the presidency-elect.

 

[wonderlanne]

As I said, I know it's "just a hotel." There are many more important things to be upset about in life, and I'm sorry if y'all took it as I'm some spoiled brat. Y'all will have to please excuse my brief pity party on the matter. I used to love CBR, but it has been ruined for me now that it's been Nemo-ified. We all spend a lot of time in our Resort. Theme is very important to me, and they screwed that up completely for me at CBR (i.e. Australia is not in the Caribbean). A very unpleasant time in my life is associated with the last time I went to Riverside, and I do not want those memories to hit me in the face again. My family hates Coronado Springs and refuse to return there, and my dad does not like French Quarter at all. So that leaves Nemo rooms or bad memories. Neither are appealing to me.

We as a family are very tight with money. We give more money to charity and churches than we spend on our annual main vacation, which is how we think it should be. We spend next to nothing on ourselves the entire year, except during vacation. Even during vacation, we eat breakfast in the room all but 2 days, we split CS meals, and we usually just order an appetizer and dessert on the rare occasions we eat at a TS. We could not in any way shape or form afford a Deluxe again for the forseeable future, but with the 7 for 4 deal, even staying in WL we'd have paid roughly $1400 less than what we paid this year for our trip. That would put us right at the amount we almost always pay for our WDW vacation. So, I was let down that they don't want to go there.

And beyond that, this is likely to be my last Disney trip for the forseeable future. As long as I stay in the job I should be placed in next year around April-May, I will only get vacation time during part of July, and a couple days here and there for major holidays. I will get zero vacation days during the year otherwise. I cannot go to the World in July because I can't handle the heat. So, my family can continue going if they want to, but I cannot. This was my last chance indefinitely to either return to WL or try out AKL or even my dad's 30+ year pipe dream of the Poly. I'm lucky to have ever gone to WDW even once, but as I'm watching my vacation dreams fly out the window for 10 or more years, yes, I'm a bit down in the dumps.

1. you're not a spoiled brat
2. putting together all the information and doing all the research for the trip was a very sweet thing to do.
3. it is okay to feel disappointed...you wanted the trip to be special and different.
4. sorry you didn't like riverside
5. i hope you end up going and having a really wonderful time.
6. what is the job you have lined up? are you excited about it?

 

[blestmom]

Since Debbie requested...

Here is Jack in his polar fleece (which is needed, as it was -8 this morning)

...and "au naturel"...

Such a sweet face...

Now this next one needs some explanation...
We also have some rescue cats. The kids are always making 'cat houses' out of boxes...they make a huge 'cat condo' that they are always reconstructing. Anyway, when we got Jack, they took one of the boxes, and gave it to Jack for a temporary bed. He loved it, and now he tries to bring in this giant stuffed "Sully" that is over twice his size into the house...

 

[Michelle67]

SD, I don't think you're a spoiled brat either, and I'm sorry for your disappointment. For me, I do NOT spend a lot of time at a hotel or resort when I vacation: I'm out and about. So it's nothing but a closed door and a bed to me. Don't care about anything else as long as it is clean, etc. Just different vacationing styles, that's all. I hope you get a chance to have your dream vacation sooner or later, and that you have a great time.

Blestmom, Jack is just beyond cute in his fleece. I love him trying to drag Sully into his "den" too. That's a crackup.