Rheo Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Join us daily to chat about news, post snippets, video's, what you heard on tv or at the grocery store. This is a no host thread so wash your cups when you are done and have a great day. Previous Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casino67 Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I guess by now you have heard that Christopher Hitchens died. Maybe now he will get the answer as to whether his religious beliefs were correct or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Two pointsA. The look on Newts face...priceless B. If you have to say you are a serious candidate....you might not be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I guess by now you have heard that Christopher Hitchens died. Maybe now he will get the answer as to whether his religious beliefs were correct or not. The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." Psalm 14:1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Geee! That was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Two points A. The look on Newts face...priceless B. If you have to say you are a serious candidate....you might not be. Yes, but she looked gorgeous last night. By far the best looking one at the debate. Does that count for anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Two points A. The look on Newts face...priceless B. If you have to say you are a serious candidate....you might not be. Yes, but she looked gorgeous last night. By far the best looking one at the debate. Does that count for anything? Oh I'm gonna get in soooooo trouble! She's got that whole sexy school teacher thing going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I guess by now you have heard that Christopher Hitchens died. Maybe now he will get the answer as to whether his religious beliefs were correct or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCTexan Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Oh I'm gonna get in soooooo trouble! She's got that whole sexy school teacher thing going. More the "Librarian" look me thinks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Oh I'm gonna get in soooooo trouble! She's got that whole sexy school teacher thing going. More the "Librarian" look me thinks... I'm a man, But I can change, If I have to I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 A Death in the Family Having volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist, the author measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's sacrifice. by Christopher Hitchens November 2007 A 21-year-old Mark Daily takes his oath as a U.S. Army officer during a commissioning ceremony at U.C.L.A. on June 25, 2005. All photos courtesy of the Daily family. I was having an oppressively normal morning a few months ago, flicking through the banality of quotidian e-mail traffic, when I idly clicked on a message from a friend headed "Seen This?" The attached item turned out to be a very well-written story by *Teresa Watanabe of the Los Angeles Times. It described the death, in Mosul, Iraq, of a young soldier from Irvine, California, named Mark Jennings Daily, and the unusual degree of emotion that his community was undergoing as a consequence. The emotion derived from a very moving statement that the boy had left behind, stating his reasons for having become a volunteer and bravely facing the prospect that his words might have to be read posthumously. In a way, the story was almost too perfect: this handsome lad had been born on the Fourth of July, was a registered Democrat and self-described agnostic, a U.C.L.A. honors graduate, and during his college days had fairly decided reservations about the war in Iraq. I read on, and actually printed the story out, and was turning a page when I saw the following: "Somewhere along the way, he changed his mind. His family says there was no epiphany. Writings by author and columnist Christopher Hitchens on the moral case for war deeply influenced him … " I don't exaggerate by much when I say that I froze. I certainly felt a very deep pang of cold dismay. I had just returned from a visit to Iraq with my own son (who is 23, as was young Mr. Daily) and had found myself in a deeply pessimistic frame of mind about the war. Was it possible that I had helped persuade someone I had never met to place himself in the path of an I.E.D.? Over-dramatizing myself a bit in the angst of the moment, I found I was thinking of William Butler Yeats, who was chilled to discover that the Irish rebels of 1916 had gone to their deaths quoting his play Cathleen ni Houlihan. He tried to cope with the disturbing idea in his poem "Man and the Echo": Did that play of mine send out Certain men the English shot? … Could my spoken words have checked That whereby a house lay wrecked? Abruptly dismissing any comparison between myself and one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, I feverishly clicked on all the links from the article and found myself on Lieutenant Daily's MySpace site, where his statement "Why I Joined" was posted. The site also immediately kicked into a skirling noise of Irish revolutionary pugnacity: a song from the Dropkick Murphys album Warrior's Code. And there, at the top of the page, was a link to a passage from one of my articles, in which I poured scorn on those who were neutral about the battle for Iraq … I don't remember ever feeling, in every allowable sense of the word, quite so hollow. I writhed around in my chair for a bit and decided that I ought to call Ms. Watanabe, who could not have been nicer. She anticipated the question I was too tongue-tied to ask: Would the Daily family—those whose "house lay wrecked"—be contactable? "They'd actually like to hear from you." She kindly gave me the e-mail address and the home number. (Snip) Go ahead try and read this without getting a lump in your throat...I dare you * note link not in original article Why I Joined Mark Daily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 What an excellent, excellent piece of writing. A poignant story, beautifully written. Thank you for posting it, Valin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'm the fourth best president in American history ~ Barack Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE&feature=player_embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'm the fourth best president in American history ~ Barack Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE&feature=player_embedded 4th? My my, someone has an overblown of his own self worth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollyannaish Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'm the fourth best president in American history ~ Barack Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE&feature=player_embedded Wow. That made both Mr. P and I gasp. Now we don't know whether to laugh or cry. My God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'm the fourth best president in American history ~ Barack Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE&feature=player_embedded Wow. That made both Mr. P and I gasp. Now we don't know whether to laugh or cry. My God. If you don't cry (that people don't really grasp just how truly wonderful St Barack is) then you are a racist. St Barack of Hyde Park Patron Saint of arugula pickers & community organizers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 I'm the fourth best president in American history ~ Barack Obama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxvSjDkF7HE&feature=player_embedded This HAS to be fodder for a Republican campaign ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 F-BOMB ALERT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepper Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 GROUNDHOG DAY 2012 In the coming New Year, 2012, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 GROUNDHOG DAY 2012 In the coming New Year, 2012, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog. All together now......GROAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandyM Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Unlike Bill Murray's movie, let's hope we don't have to relive the O's State of the Union address every day for the rest of our lives. If so, kill me now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Anybody who watched America's Most Wanted tonight saw John Walsh make a completely political speech at the end of the program. He went on about how the rich and rich companies should be paying more and that poor people and firefighters and teachers should not suffer in these bad economic times. He also said that teachers are on the bottom of the economic scale, mentioned Ohio and N.J. Sounded like he just came from an Occupy rally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Glad I missed it, Geee. Instead we watched the AFA Falcons squeak out a 64-60 win in basketball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted December 18, 2011 Share Posted December 18, 2011 Anybody who watched America's Most Wanted tonight saw John Walsh make a completely political speech at the end of the program. He went on about how the rich and rich companies should be paying more and that poor people and firefighters and teachers should not suffer in these bad economic times. He also said that teachers are on the bottom of the economic scale, mentioned Ohio and N.J. Sounded like he just came from an Occupy rally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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