LenJayUS

Urban myth

Its rarely foggy - sometimes damp - but also sunny..but I have no doubt NC will be HEAPS warmer in summer - and have 'proper' deliniated seasons

Around here babe, it gets quite foggy in the morning and sometimes late evening :-)

And yeah, I'm a northerner... living down in NC. As far as living here goes, I do like it better... slower lifestyle and what not.. so my laziness isn't as apparant :-) The people on the other hand... some of them are bad apples, but you get that every where. I'm talking about the real redneck types - treat their women like they interpret the bible to say... they must submit to them, wait on them hand and foot.. etc... Out this way you have more country types then red necks though... so that's good.

OP - I know the feeling man. My soon to be wife treats me the same way... she abuses me, emotionally, physically, mentally.. you anme it. She forces me to work to pay HER bills. She kicks me out of my own bedroom so that her boyfriend can sleep with her. But, I just can't leave her or anything... with me not having a back bone or anything. So I just go around places to post some made up BS :-)

Don't feed the....

You Are 91% American

You're as American as red meat and shooting ranges.

Tough and independent, you think big.

You love everything about the US, wrong or right.

And anyone who criticizes your home better not do it in front of you!

How American Are You?

http://www.blogthings.com/howamericanareyouquiz/

that would be a patio...

:-)

Well, I'm sorta inbetween here... I have no problem with the torturing of known terrorists to a certain degree... having bad memories of the experience is fine... not being able to walk the rest of their lives is too far...

I disagree that what ever Bush is doing is being dictated out of fear. Really, what does HE have to fear at all? Not a damn thing. When 9/11 happened, it did not scare me one bit. It pissed me off. Call it revenge if you will, but taking the fight to them, instead of on american soil, is fine by me. They are the one's running scared... trying to do hit and run tactics.. not the large majority of us.

Human Rights is all well and good when everyone wishes to play by the rules. The terrorists don't, and they won't. Why are people not condemning them for killing kids and other innocent people? Isn't that worst evil when compared to some torture?

They have declared war on us... so it's okay for us to put a bullet in them, but we can't give them alittle encouragement to hand over their buddies and give us info to prevent more bloodshed?

I would of covered the "unfair treatment" compliant ahead of time... I would of had everyone read and sign an office memo (that's in ENGLISH) that on May 1st 2006, that if anyone called in sick that they would be required to bring in a Dr's note. If anyone was seen out participating in the protests, and they had a Dr's excuse because they were sick, they would be fired. They didn't get a dr's excuse... fired. When I call and show up at their house and no one answers... fired.

But... I'm mean, I know.

LOL!!

The train guy was pretty awful IMO but the others...*checks flights to Switzerland*

Before you fly, send me my stuff back would ya... don't think I'll get them back from you any other way :-D

Here's my tat, it's on my left shoulder blade....

It didn't hurt that much, when I got it... the only parts taht did was the outline he did while doing the tribal markings... straight, long lines SUCK. the Wolf and the coloring/filling it didn't hurt at all.

I went to visit my family in NC (was on emergency leave from the Army, stationed in Germany) because my sister had a brain tumor that they were taking out... she ended up being fine, it wasn't cancer. The day before we left to go back to Germany, me and the then so called wife of mine (the ex wife now :-D) both got inked. I think I sat alittle bit forward the whole time on the plane....

Arrived back in Germany that weekend, and come to find out, Monday we were going out to the field for a week for training... which meant wearing all my gear and stuff.. not the most hygenic and comfortable situations to be in with a new tattoo... had to have this senior NCO (Sergeant First Class for those that a have a clue about the army) female to put ointment on it each morning and night. Yeah, there was a few rumors about that lol.

*bump*

I havent seen this thread in a while and I miss it

Plus its of international importance

Oh yes it is

I guess I should start planning that duvet burning now I guess. Anyone got some marshmellows?

Alot of newbs at driving seem to bounce around in thier lane like they are stuck in a pong game... and that's usually from them over steering to stay in their lane. Look ahead a bit more, not dead in front of your car. As your hand and eye coordination gets better, you won't be going side to side as much.

Here's some advice, more so then a tip. It's not a law in most states, just a general rule of the road, that people around HERE seriously lack... When there are more then 1 lane going in one direction... the lane closest to the center is for passing. It's for those of us that like going fast. Even if your going the speed limit, and your not passing anyone in the right hand lands, please move over.. especially if you see someone coming up from behind you. That seriously irks me when people are in the fast lane and won't move over.

Another one: If there's more then one lane, again, and you see someone trying to pull out going your way, or coming onto the highway, and you can move over out of the right hand lane, please do it.

Yes, I'm a firm believer that accidents are caused by the slow drivers out there :-D

But she really isn't that good of a singer...Plus how can you stand her whole fake persona...I mean she flat out LIES about things...her experience, her past...

It's revolting that she is THAT desperate to be a star.

Also you thought she was the best during QUEEN week? That was the WORST Bohemian Raps. I have EVER heard. It was horrid.

I said she was one of the best singers they have... not that she's always singing the best each week. Definately not this week.

And fake persona huh? Where's your proof? Do you know her? I'm from NC, about 2 hours from where she's from... and they have things on the news here all the time about her, and how people from her home town say she is really like that... how she's naive and country. Who would I believe, people that out right hate her for some reason, or people from her home town that actually no her... hmmm.. hard choice.

She's got a country singing voice... and I think that's why alot of people don't think she can sing. Just my opinion.

Yes Pickler! Who votes for her??? Gawd.

I do.. why? because she's one of the best singers (with the exception of this week) of the group. So what she's a dumb blonde when she's not performing. This isn't about them doing interviews.

Unless your some rich family, with large incomes on both sides.. it's usually more beneficially to do it married filing jointly.

The standard deductions for jointly is the same if you add them together for two returns filing seperately.

Now if your doing an itemized return, or like I said... make alot where the combined incomes could push you both into a higher tax bracket, then filing seperately may be more beneficial.

I do taxes for friends and co workers, and those that are married with dual income (if only one person is working, just go with jointly) I do both ways on the computer to see which is cheaper. Everytime but once, doing it jointly was better. The one time it wasn't, they would of gotten 10.00 more back doing it seperately... but they'd would of had to pay the e-filing fee twice.. which was more then what they would of gained.

Playing devil's advocate here - Maybe because for some people, a wedding is the big ceremony usually in a church, people all dressed up, best man, maid of honor, etc... and going to a court house and having it done is more of a civil ceremony?

If she was thinking along those lines, and you said you had wedding photo's, and you showed her the one's you did, it caught her totally off guard because she was expecting something else?

Either way, she suffers from being tactful, that's for sure.

this kinda skewed off topic huh?

So..anyone think the Aussies are WRONG? Or right but a bit harsh about it? Or RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT?

I am gonna go for #2..but thats cos Im such a wuss about confrontation

The UK tends to be a bit of a melting pot - possibly due to our historical habit of absorbing other cultures - sometimes literally having conquered half the world - only to be made to give it back again when the natives realised what we were up to (meh, and we still have Gibraltar and the Falklands hidden in a safe spot, lol).

Now a lot of those previously annexed lands come and settle here - which is kinda karmic - cos we stripped their countries back in the day...

I'll take door number 3 please... I'm so sick and tired of governments trying to make everyone like them and not offend anyone. Makes me sick.

Here in the US, you have all these haters that demand that any kind of form of religion be totally removed from anything government related... you know.. christmas tree's and easter bunnies and then that scene of some kid in a barn with camels and wisemen all around....

I find it all quite ridiculous... and I'm not religious. Don't believe at all. I have no problem with people in the government celebrating things like that... they are not forcing me to believe in their religion... I can accept, and live quite well actually, with the understanding that this country was built by the founding fathers using christian ideals and the like.

If people come here (or any other country with a different foundation) and they can't accept it.. then sod off.

I wear what I wear in UK or in Spain where they are the norm - Lenny thinks the bottoms are a bit 'brief' for US styles (they don't fit my butt like panties might - kinda just the middle bit so you can see some cheek, but they arent thongs lol)..and apparently they got some 'looks' at the aquapark (I dunno why tho - they are far from thong-brief..).

Whatever tho - I don't care I wear what I feel comfy in - my bikinis and bathers aren't porno-like, and altho its a big pain I don't go topless Stateside (OK maybe I *have* a few times, but always on empty-ish beaches) so I see no reason to change - if they a 'bit brief for US styles' thats just too bad

*shakes head*

I told you I was fine with it... but you were in NC... Bible Belt central babe... lmao. that's why you got the looks from the older prudes.. the guys, well... your hot, so of course they were staring :-)

ick I hate Gap jeans they are SO bloody huge and they fit where they touch....what do they do? use weird sizes or what?

I like mine 'painted on'

lol

I like yours painted on... or laying on my floor :-)

My SO emailed his senator along these lines (re: it 'seems' like illegals get all the breaks as far as new reforms go and legals, who do everything the INS ask for, are checked and obey the law, don't)..he's at work tonite but no doubt he'll show you what the reply was when he gets back in another 10 hours time (12 hour shifts, gotta love em eh? *sigh*)

Dear Mr. Murphy:

Thank you for contacting my office regarding illegal immigration. I appreciate you taking the time to share your views with me.

Recently I joined 70 other members of the U.S. House of Representatives in sending a joint letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) outlining fundamental principles of immigration reform and expressing grave concerns about some of the Senate's proposals.

Illegal immigration threatens our national security and strains our healthcare facilities, schools and social services. In December the House passed H.R. 4437, which is a strong bill that increases border security and takes amnesty off the table. Now, it's time for the Senate to respond to the growing problem of illegal immigration and do what's best for the citizens of this country.

Along with a number of Members who supported H.R. 4437, the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, we are concerned that some of the Senate Judiciary Committee's proposals are fundamentally incompatible with the House's actions and could doom any chance of a real reform bill reaching the President's desk this year. The letter to Senator Specter came on the same day that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) introduced an enforcement-only bill which will serve as a backstop in case the Judiciary Committee is unable to produce its own proposal that does not include amnesty.

While H.R. 4437 is an effective first step to eliminating the flow of illegal immigration and enforcing border security, I will continue to work to work with my colleagues to ensure that our citizens are protected and current laws are enforced. I do not support an amnesty of illegal aliens currently in the United States and believe that any amnesty would only reward criminal behavior and would encourage additional illegal immigration in the future.

Thank you again for contacting my office and expressing your concerns. It is an honor to serve as your United States Congressman. Your suggestions are always welcome, and if ever I may be of assistance, please do not hesitate to call me.

Sincerely,

Patrick McHenry

Member of Congress

it's a nice big crock of poo... conspiracy nuts.... *shakes head*

yes

Does anyone have any beer for me?

I'm watching this topic because for the past year or so, I've wanted to take a cruise with Jay... a chance for her and I to get away...

With our situation, we could probably actually do a cruise, just the two of us, during the summer months (not this summer unfortunately). We both have kids, and the other parent of them get them during part of the summer... if we can get it scheduled just right, we can enjoy part of our summer with just the two of us.

How expensive is it to do excursions and what not.. I take it it's not part of the cruise fee.. what about food onboard the ship.. is that part of the fee?

source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jh...09/ixworld.html

There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998

By Bob Carter

(Filed: 09/04/2006)

For many years now, human-caused climate change has been viewed as a large and urgent problem. In truth, however, the biggest part of the problem is neither environmental nor scientific, but a self-created political fiasco. Consider the simple fact, drawn from the official temperature records of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, that for the years 1998-2005 global average temperature did not increase (there was actually a slight decrease, though not at a rate that differs significantly from zero).

Yes, you did read that right. And also, yes, this eight-year period of temperature stasis did coincide with society's continued power station and SUV-inspired pumping of yet more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

In response to these facts, a global warming devotee will chuckle and say "how silly to judge climate change over such a short period". Yet in the next breath, the same person will assure you that the 28-year-long period of warming which occurred between 1970 and 1998 constitutes a dangerous (and man-made) warming. Tosh. Our devotee will also pass by the curious additional facts that a period of similar warming occurred between 1918 and 1940, well prior to the greatest phase of world industrialisation, and that cooling occurred between 1940 and 1965, at precisely the time that human emissions were increasing at their greatest rate.

Does something not strike you as odd here? That industrial carbon dioxide is not the primary cause of earth's recent decadal-scale temperature changes doesn't seem at all odd to many thousands of independent scientists. They have long appreciated - ever since the early 1990s, when the global warming bandwagon first started to roll behind the gravy train of the UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - that such short-term climate fluctuations are chiefly of natural origin. Yet the public appears to be largely convinced otherwise. How is this possible?

Since the early 1990s, the columns of many leading newspapers and magazines, worldwide, have carried an increasing stream of alarmist letters and articles on hypothetical, human-caused climate change. Each such alarmist article is larded with words such as "if", "might", "could", "probably", "perhaps", "expected", "projected" or "modelled" - and many involve such deep dreaming, or ignorance of scientific facts and principles, that they are akin to nonsense.

The problem here is not that of climate change per se, but rather that of the sophisticated scientific brainwashing that has been inflicted on the public, bureaucrats and politicians alike. Governments generally choose not to receive policy advice on climate from independent scientists. Rather, they seek guidance from their own self-interested science bureaucracies and senior advisers, or from the IPCC itself. No matter how accurate it may be, cautious and politically non-correct science advice is not welcomed in Westminster, and nor is it widely reported.

Marketed under the imprimatur of the IPCC, the bladder-trembling and now infamous hockey-stick diagram that shows accelerating warming during the 20th century - a statistical construct by scientist Michael Mann and co-workers from mostly tree ring records - has been a seminal image of the climate scaremongering campaign. Thanks to the work of a Canadian statistician, Stephen McIntyre, and others, this graph is now known to be deeply flawed.

There are other reasons, too, why the public hears so little in detail from those scientists who approach climate change issues rationally, the so-called climate sceptics. Most are to do with intimidation against speaking out, which operates intensely on several parallel fronts.

First, most government scientists are gagged from making public comment on contentious issues, their employing organisations instead making use of public relations experts to craft carefully tailored, frisbee-science press releases. Second, scientists are under intense pressure to conform with the prevailing paradigm of climate alarmism if they wish to receive funding for their research. Third, members of the Establishment have spoken declamatory words on the issue, and the kingdom's subjects are expected to listen.

On the alarmist campaign trail, the UK's Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir David King, is thus reported as saying that global warming is so bad that Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century. Warming devotee and former Chairman of Shell, Lord [Ron] Oxburgh, reportedly agrees with another rash statement of King's, that climate change is a bigger threat than terrorism. And goodly Archbishop Rowan Williams, who self-evidently understands little about the science, has warned of "millions, billions" of deaths as a result of global warming and threatened Mr Blair with the wrath of the climate God unless he acts. By betraying the public's trust in their positions of influence, so do the great and good become the small and silly.

Two simple graphs provide needed context, and exemplify the dynamic, fluctuating nature of climate change. The first is a temperature curve for the last six million years, which shows a three-million year period when it was several degrees warmer than today, followed by a three-million year cooling trend which was accompanied by an increase in the magnitude of the pervasive, higher frequency, cold and warm climate cycles. During the last three such warm (interglacial) periods, temperatures at high latitudes were as much as 5 degrees warmer than today's. The second graph shows the average global temperature over the last eight years, which has proved to be a period of stasis.

The essence of the issue is this. Climate changes naturally all the time, partly in predictable cycles, and partly in unpredictable shorter rhythms and rapid episodic shifts, some of the causes of which remain unknown. We are fortunate that our modern societies have developed during the last 10,000 years of benignly warm, interglacial climate. But for more than 90 per cent of the last two million years, the climate has been colder, and generally much colder, than today. The reality of the climate record is that a sudden natural cooling is far more to be feared, and will do infinitely more social and economic damage, than the late 20th century phase of gentle warming.

The British Government urgently needs to recast the sources from which it draws its climate advice. The shrill alarmism of its public advisers, and the often eco-fundamentalist policy initiatives that bubble up from the depths of the Civil Service, have all long since been detached from science reality. Intern-ationally, the IPCC is a deeply flawed organisation, as acknowledged in a recent House of Lords report, and the Kyoto Protocol has proved a costly flop. Clearly, the wrong horses have been backed.

As mooted recently by Tony Blair, perhaps the time has come for Britain to join instead the new Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (AP6), whose six member countries are committed to the development of new technologies to improve environmental outcomes. There, at least, some real solutions are likely to emerge for improving energy efficiency and reducing pollution.

Informal discussions have already begun about a new AP6 audit body, designed to vet rigorously the science advice that the Partnership receives, including from the IPCC. Can Britain afford not to be there?

• Prof Bob Carter is a geologist at James Cook University, Queensland, engaged in paleoclimate research

another link about so called problems - http://www.cagle.com/news/GlobalWarmingSteigerwald/main.asp

my predictions for bottom 3 are - Chris, Ace and Bucky.... it's on now.. let's see

Buy a gun....

*note: this remark is made in humorous vein and in no way supports the use of firearms to blast the cr@p out of the nuisances*

use of a gun only makes more noise

So buy a silencer too...jeez work with me here!

I hear 2 Liter soda bottles and gallon milk jugs work good for that.....