Typhoid Harry

Don't apologize for creating a bit of drama when it is sorely needed for entertainment purposes, deadsox, now I have to consider doing something evil to Bruno for being thankful for the Titans' loss* just to keep it going. *I was counting on Detroit for that next weekend. Nothing like an undefeated team against a winless team for drama.

There are geese called "Canadian", regardless of where they are. I've shot many of them as a catharsis for my frustrations with our neighbors to the North. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Goose They tend to be large, though, and it would take quite the heft person to consider one for luncheon. I kill and eat lots of animals and am only saddened that politicians aren't more palatable.

/BUUUUUUUUURRRRRPPPPP!!!!! I'm not eating again for a week. I too am thankful for plastic storage and am adding the folks at Alka Seltzer to my Christmas card list. Oh, and I'm thankful for second chances and second helpings.

That particular breed is now extinct.

If the IP is to be believed, the language of origin would be Arabic. No wonder it makes no sense to infidels.

IP is not unique to this poster, there are four others, only one of whom has more than one post (2) so it's probably a bot. But it's an iiinnnnttttteeerrreeesssttttiiiinnnggg bot. Normally I would make it disappear, but since HCW didn't, and because it is entertaining, I'll leave it alone, too.

Took a dive, did he?

All suggestions are gratefully considered. I still think Castro is dead already.

Wrong Clive.

Okay, I need to go wash my eyes now...

When I was first called up taken advantage of I didn't even notice. Then, when I noticed I wrote a PM assuming it was a mistake. Too late. AtJ got "touched" at the same time, as I recall. There are some benefits, though, and I suggest anyone who treads less than lightly around me check their sig. I even got a fellow mod once.

No longer experiencing anything.

There was a massive sting operation to shut down a huge spam operation in San Jose, Ca recently (my home town) and apparently there is an attempt to fill the void.

First!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle5146531.ece There's video at the link. This broad was a piece of work. Nice rack, though.

Answer: I do! Edit: The last two options are redundant. I suppose I could fix that...

Should have used quotation marks for that, my bad. It was referring to something someone said about the anticipated redecorating of the White House. I was lampooning a rather racist remark and missed my mark.

Am I a figment of your imagination, or are you one of mine?

There isn't any real answer to that question. It could be twenty years-it could be fifty years. The significance in his election is that it triggers an awakening. This result triggers realizations in common life. I more the less view the changes in society as long term rather then overnight. The question is "how will it progress?"Will the progression of equality in America be similar to the rise in technology we saw from 1958 - 2008? Will it be that dramatic? I think Typhoid Harry feels .. like Obama will trigger some "Black power" movement. A vandalization of America where white people are now "second" in America according to the black people. Does anyone else feel this way? No, I don't feel that way, nor do I fear it, I just hope for the day when there is no difference between "white American culture" and black American culture". Black people here have been perpetrating a "separate but more than equal" mentality for many years. Rap music and Ebonics are the obvious examples, all meant to set up anyone who dares say, "Hey, that's just stupid!" as racist. It's crap. Ax me now questions, I be tellin' you no lies. Edit: Same thing applies for white people we regularly refer to as "white trash" (try calling someone black trash sometime) or "redneck"; if you sound like an idiot, people cannot be blamed for thinking you one.

This is interesting, and I hate Howard Stern. Note that they switch the policies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcHzUmVP5c (Had to watch it on my wife's machine. Wish the post delivered on Sunday.)

Damn, the graphics/video card in this computer is failing and I can't play Youtube at the moment. /frustrated Ordered a new one two weeks ago and hasn't been delivered yet.

I agree. Everything should "balance out now". A black man has been elected president and that certainly should change the way African Americans's view themselves. It's the 21st century now. As the years go by, we should have less use for people like Rev Al Sharpton. There might always be discrimination in this world but the election of a black man should signify a step forward for humanity. People bitching about their skin color is reaching the sunset of it acceptability. However, we aren't exactly there yet. I mean that as I say it. While President-Elect Obama's election is a significant step forward for American race relations, it by no means "balances out" everything and does not mean that African Americans need to shut up. Racism, while much less virulent in the last 30 years is still alive. I would only ask that if citizens resort to blaming their misfortunes on racism, they furnish specifics rather than the shop worn generalities used by people like Sharpton and Jackson. So when will it be "balanced out"? Would slave reparations do it for you? Institutionalized racism is dead with the election of a black president, should we outlaw personal opinions we find offensive? Would that make things finally "right" for you? What if we rewrite The Star Spangled Banner as a rap song and redecorate all government buildings with tacky "African" colors? Maybe if we finally declare an "official" American language and we all switch to "ebonics"? Why don't you say what you really mean? You want apologist bullshit guilt tactics to last as long as there's something in it for you, right? My personal message to black people in the United States: The jig is up, you've broken through the ceiling. You can't play the "poor me, the man is holding me down card" anymore; you are the man. Handout time is over, time to get off the dole and on the bus to school. It IS the majority of black* people in the US creating the stereotype. Stop it, you're embarrassing the rest of us. *I continue to say black because the overwhelming majority of black people in America have never even been to Africa, (hell, statistics tell us most Americans can't even find Africa on a map) nor even met anyone who has been there. The irony of this is that our newly elected president actually IS African American.

The issue was whether comparing Obama to a monkey would be racist if it wasn't to do so to Bush. I think it would be because of the context and history. "Context and history" are vague dodges to the blatant double standard being applied. My ancestors, Welsh and Irish, were subjected to terrible racism and discrimination in the US. In 1960 it was considered inconceivable that an Irish Catholic could be elected president, but Irish-Americans didn't run around defying and assaulting law enforcement officers when it happened. The comparisons of Bush to an ape (and don't get me wrong, I think the collage in question is hilarious; I'm as ashamed of that cretin as most Americans) were found to be offensive by many. Now that Obama has been elected president, I think the same standards should apply; he's fair game. I also think that all black people in the USA now have to STFU about racism and strive to achieve some fraction of the success of their hero. Edit: Oh, yeah, and Orca Winfrey needs to die. She promised.