Rick Badie / My Opinion

By nana

November 11, 2008 9:01 PM | Link to this

I didn’t know about this and my husband is all about this kind of stuff. I’ll be sure to tell him about this and with this economy “free” is great. Thanks Rick.

By Pi$$onaDawg

November 11, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this

Now every person knows who to Honor & Celebrate, but the TRASH is who our real time is spent on celeberating. BRITT, LI LO, any #23 in b-ball, and TRASH WITH MONEY.

By Tom Becker

November 12, 2008 7:00 AM | Link to this

Today’s word, friends, is doppelganger: a dead ringer

It’s Veteran’s Day. My dad fought in 3 wars, as a pilot. Air Force. Spinning fools. Barrel rolls.

A story to inspire on Veterans Day? It came on a peacetime mission. It was 1959. My dad was flying T-33’s out of Lackland AFB in San Antonio Texas. San Antonio: (We visited the Alamo often, and I always stood in the spot where Davey Crocket died, and re-enacted his death over and over in the days leading up to and the days following our semi-annual visit.)

A routine flight was scheduled that day, my friends. My dad’s preflight was normal, but my dad remembers asking the sarge how the brakes were, who answered that he had checked them out just fine, despite the fact that the same plane had rolled harrowingly too far on the last landing.

So, of course, this solo ended up in the ditch at the end of the runway past all the safety barriers and warning buoys. In the hospital with a back injury, my dad languished for a week. I joined him in the same hospital room when I coincidently had my tonsils taken out. We temporarily even shared the same hospital bed, as they were booked solid for some reason, probably polio. It was the fifties, after all. Air Force doctors: Isn’t that an oxymoron? I remember that this one doctors stuck his head in my room and clacked together tongs in a joke about the coming extraction. I wasn’t amused and knew the guy was an idiot even though I was a naïve nine years old.

We have a photograph of that wrecked T33, it’s tail up high, it’s nose in the ditch. I know that I was overanesthetized during my operation and half my brain destroyed, (but fortunately for me, there are no visible side effects, nyegh nilly wiggy poodle pie)

Happy veterans day.

By dog

November 12, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Pi$$onaDawg must be a tech grad what with all the witty, intelligent banter.

By Bruce becker

November 12, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

I cant help thinking that its time to get back in line and vote again. This election is not over. Chambliss says he is the firewall. That means he intends to read the newspaper into the record while he ‘filibusters’ (talks about nothing) to stop the Senate from doing the business of the people to end the economic carnage the GOP has caused by ideology as policy. VOTE for Martin. Please take the time to make history.

By Cindy

November 13, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

No thanks.

Dec 2nd, Saxby(I)-YES.

By Michael H. Smith

November 14, 2008 1:20 AM | Link to this

I’m with you Cindy. The game has changed, so have the rules. I want Saxby to filibuster illegal alien amnesty until the lake of fire turns into an ice skating rink.

By Tom Becker

November 15, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

sAxBy: Healthcare for the sick? That’s like infrastructure for the crumbling. or education for the superstitious. or justice for the guilty. (in better words, “forget it, spanky”)

The Right came to power on an evangelical tide of a pendulum’s righteous-indignation backlash against executive branch sodomy. Now they blaspheme against God himself as they hold up God as the poor standard for the new president, (The One, The Messiah), and worse, they infer that The Messiah and Der Fuehrer and tyrant and Osama Bin Laden can be used interchangeably.

Forget about redefining conservatism, lets figure out who Jesus is first.

Has anyone seen the Republican Party in this kind of disarray in their lifetime?

By Airborne

November 17, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Seth weathers,you want to know why i waited so long to vote.well i made a vow to myself,when President Kennedy was assinated i was 18 years old,and i thought to myself,if this country can do that to it’s leader,and try to shift the blame on someone else,then we’re in a sad state.Every president after him, made promises that were’nt keep,so i waited for a change,and it happen and i voted.If you want to talk about race,no it’s not about race,it’s about integrity,a man who has been there and keep his cool while people like you tried to discredit him.I listened to all of his speeches and it was different from previous presidents.I believe President-Elect Obama will live up to his word with the help of us all.Another thing,why was saran pain,and john mckain so into wanting to know who was Obama? My thoughts were,who is sarah pain the moose hunter,and joe six pack hockey mom.What kind of speech is that to address to a nation,while runnning for office of the United States? If you paid any attention to the debates,she influenced mckain towards the racial thoughts,no wonder they both lost.Thats what happens when you bit off your nose to spite your face.Now do you see why i waited so long to vote? Don’t get me wrong i was in the military during the right to vote act was signed.Talk about racism,ha the military was full of it in a hidden way,just the way it is today.How ironic that Obamas mother is a desendant of Jefferson Davis,the first confederate president.You see how karma works,it was a change made and the desendant of a southern president from the civil war has come to the front.God is wonderful,that’s way i waited so long to vote, and i did with pride and patience.Now i can say i lived to see a change.Have a nice day.

By Airborne

November 17, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Seth weathers,you want to know why i waited so long to vote.well i made a vow to myself,when President Kennedy was assinated i was 18 years old,and i thought to myself,if this country can do that to it’s leader,and try to shift the blame on someone else,then we’re in a sad state.Every president after him, made promises that were’nt keep,so i waited for a change,and it happen and i voted.If you want to talk about race,no it’s not about race,it’s about integrity,a man who has been there and keep his cool while people like you tried to discredit him.I listened to all of his speeches and it was different from previous presidents.I believe President-Elect Obama will live up to his word with the help of us all.Another thing,why was saran pain,and john mckain so into wanting to know who was Obama? My thoughts were,who is sarah pain the moose hunter,and joe six pack hockey mom.What kind of speech is that to address to a nation,while runnning for office of the United States? If you paid any attention to the debates,she influenced mckain towards the racial thoughts,no wonder they both lost.Thats what happens when you bit off your nose to spite your face.Now do you see why i waited so long to vote? Don’t get me wrong i was in the military during the right to vote act was signed.Talk about racism,ha the military was full of it in a hidden way,just the way it is today.How ironic that Obamas mother is a desendant of Jefferson Davis,the first confederate president.You see how karma works,it was a change made and the desendant of a southern president from the civil war has come to the front.God is wonderful,that’s way i waited so long to vote, and i did with pride and patience.Now i can say i lived to see a change.Have a nice day.