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I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling
'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was
back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood.

Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I
felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my
colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an
internal organ.


On the subject of Colonoscopies...
Colonoscopies are no joke, but these comments during the exam were quite
humorous..... A physician claimed that the following are actual comments
made by his patients (predominately male) while he was performing their
colonoscopies:
1. Take it easy Doc. You’re boldly going where no man has gone before.

2. 'Find Amelia Earhart yet?'

3. 'Can you hear me NOW?'

4. 'Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?'

5. 'You know, in Arkansas, we're now legally married.'

6. 'Any sign of the trapped miners, Chief?'

7. 'You put your left hand in; you take your left hand out...'

8. 'Hey, Now I know how a Muppet feels!'

9. 'If your hand doesn't fit, you must quit!'

10. 'Hey Doc, let me know if you find my dignity.'

11. 'You used to be an executive at Enron, didn't you?'

12. Now I know why I am not gay.'

And the best one of all:
13. 'Could you write a note for my wife saying that my head is not up
there?'

This is very good! Not the type of redneck jokes we normally hear.





We have enjoyed the redneck jokes for years. It's time to take a reflective look at the core beliefs of a culture that values home, family, country and God. If I had to stand before a dozen terrorists who threaten my life, I'd choose a half dozen or so rednecks to back me up.
Tire irons, squirrel guns and grit -- that's what rednecks are made of. I hope I am one of those. If you feel the same, pass this on to your redneck friends. Y'all know who ya are.

You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, 'One nation, under God..'

You might be a redneck if: You've never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.

You might be a redneck if: You still say 'Christmas' instead of 'Winter Festival.'

You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.

You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand over your heart when they play the National Anthem.

You might be a redneck if: You treat our armed forces veterans with great respect, and always have.

You might be a redneck if: You've never burned an American flag, nor intend to.

You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren't afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.

You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and raised your kids to do the same.

You might be a redneck if: You'd give your last dollar to a friend.


God Bless the USA !

Quote of the day:


“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that will require every citizen to prove they are insured…but not everyone to prove they are a citizen!”

DoA.... I just hurt myself from laughing at the Dave Barry story. Thanks.

Which Commander-in-Chief are you talking about? Bush the Deserter from the National Guard?

If I'm not mistaken, "slick willie" also did some "fancy dancing" to avoid the draft.

No, you know who I'm talkin' about. The one that never held a real job. (I don't think "community organizer" qualifies.) The one that never sponsored a significant piece of legislation while in congress.

After reading these two articles, you have two choices. Pull your head out of the sand, or continue to look at the world through your rose colored glasses...

http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/?p=4138

http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/?p=4202

BTW, Heidi, Glad you liked Dave Barry. Reading his column used to be the highlight of my day...

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.

Something to think about! Received from a friend and I think very well done:

I remember the day I found out I got into West Point. My mom actually showed up in the hallway of my high school and waited for me to get out of class. She was bawling her eyes out and apologizing that she had opened up my admission letter. She wasn't crying because it had been her dream for me to go there. She was crying because she knew how hard I'd worked to get in, how much I wanted to attend, and how much I wanted to be an infantry officer. I was going to get that opportunity.
That same day two of my teachers took me aside and essentially told me the following: Nick, you're a smart guy. You don't have to join the military. You should go to college, instead.
I could easily write a tome defending West Point and the military as I did that day, explaining that USMA is an elite institution, that separate from that it is actually statistically much harder to enlist in the military than it is to get admitted to college, that serving the nation is a challenge that all able-bodied men should at least consider for a host of reasons, but I won't.
What I will say is that when a 16 year-old kid is being told that attending West Point is going to be bad for his future then there is a dangerous disconnect in America, and entirely too many Americans have no idea what kind of burdens our military is bearing.
In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years. In Vietnam, 4.3% served in 12 years. Since 2001, only 0.45% of our population has served in the Global War on Terror. These are unbelievable statistics.
Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered more and more of the burden and it is only getting worse. Our troops were sent to war in Iraq by a Congress consisting of 10% veterans with only one person having a child in the military. 7
Taxes did not increase to pay for the war. War bonds were not sold.
Gas was not regulated. In fact, the average citizen was asked to sacrifice nothing, and has sacrificed nothing unless they have chosen to out of the goodness of their hearts.
The only people who have sacrificed are the veterans and their families. The volunteers. The people who swore an oath to defend this nation.
You stand there, deployment after deployment and fight on. You've lost relationships, spent years of your lives in extreme conditions, years apart from kids you'll never get back, and beaten your body in a way that even professional athletes don't understand.
Then you come home to a nation that doesn't understand. They don't understand suffering. They don't understand sacrifice. They don’t understand why we fight for them. They don't understand that bad people exist. They look at you like you're a machine - like something is wrong with you. You are the misguided one - not them.
When you get out, you sit in the college classrooms with political science teachers that discount your opinions on Iraq and Afghanistan because YOU WERE THERE and can't

YOU WERE THERE and can't understand the macro issues they gathered from books, because of your bias. You watch TV shows where every vet has PTSD and the violent strain at that. Your Congress is debating your benefits, your retirement, and your pay, while they ask you to do more.
But the amazing thing about you is that you all know this. You know your country will never pay back what you've given up. You know that the populace at large will never truly understand or appreciate what you have done for them. He!!, you know that in some circles, you will be thought as less than normal for having worn the uniform. But you do it anyway.
You do what the greatest men and women of this country have done since 1775 - YOU SERVED. Just that decision alone makes you part of an elite group.
"Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few." – Winston Churchill
Thank you to the 0.45% who have and continue to serve our Nation, from someone who has "Been There" !!

Unfortunately, this list could go on and on.
Our world has been turned upside-down.
We are in distress. Where do we go from here?



'COWARDICE asks the question - is it Safe?'

'EXPEDIENCY asks the question - is it Politically Correct?'

'VANITY asks the question - is it Popular?'



'But the CONSCIENCE asks the question - is it Right?'



'And there comes a time we must take a position that is neither Safe, nor Politically Correct, nor Popular, but because it’s RIGHT!!'

I’m reaching out on behalf of a friend of mine who needs some help. He prefers to remain anonymous.

His wife told him to go out and get some of those pills that would help him get an erection. When he came back, he handed her diet pills.

ANYWAY, he’s looking for a place to live.

CAN YOU HELP HIM?

Departing from my usual pointed, political rants ~~~

THOUGHTS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY. (by the manager of a local Public Utility District.)

The year before I came to the PUD, I was teaching an Energy Systems course to Sr. level electrical engineering students at WSU Vancouver. One of the topics taught was Renewable Energy. I was surprised to discover that these engineering students, nearly ready to graduate with Bachelor of Science degrees, were not thinking critically (like engineers should) when we studied renewable energy. Instead they had accepted the view of renewable energy commonly portrayed in main stream media. They failed to question that perspective or to dig deeper.
Let me ask some questions that I asked of my students. Why do wind farms continue to require government subsidies in order for investors to continue to build them? Is an electric vehicle really a zero emission means of transportation? If solar energy is the next great renewable energy source, why don't you have a solar array on your roof today? One-liners won't do these questions justice but let me give you a flavor of what you will find if you dig deeper into and think more critically about renewable energy.
Some realities of renewable energy are:

Wind - Production wind turbines are very expensive to manufacture relative to the amount of energy they will produce in their mechanical lifetime. Wind farms require expensive power transmission lines to move the energy they generate from the wind farms to the cities. When government subsidies for wind are in question, new wind farm construction grinds to a halt.

THOUGHTS part 2

All-electric vehicles - Electricity is not the energy source of an electric vehicle. Electricity is merely the means to transfer the actual energy source that propels the vehicle. In 2011 about 68% of the US electricity was generated from fossil fuels. So, all-electric vehicles are primarily powered by fossil fuel.
Solar - Solar power does not yet stand as an economically self-reliant energy source; one reason for this is solar panels are extremely energy intensive to manufacture. Using today's technology, solar panels require about as much energy to manufacture as they will produce in their useful lifetime.

Does this mean renewable energy sources will never provide the majority of our energy needs? No! But forcing a transition to these sources faster than the scientists and engineers overcome the technical challenges has the potential to create economic and energy difficulties that we are beginning to experience already. Our present petroleum based energy infrastructure took a century to build; can we expect to make it obsolete in only a couple of decades? So when our government presses its renewable energy policies, I hope we will not just get excited about the advertised environmental benefits but also seriously consider the economic realities and technical hurdles facing today's renewable energy sector.

The Navy intercepted a boatload of people off the coast of CALIFORNIA today.

This placed the Navy in an awkward position, as the boat was not heading to, but away from the USA, towards Mexico.

Another surprise finding was that they were loaded with White Americans who were all seniors of Retirement / Social Security age.

Their claim was that they were trying to get to Mexico so as to be able to return to the USA as illegal immigrants.

And therefore be entitled to far more benefits than they were receiving as legitimate American Citizens on Social Security.

The Navy, it is believed, gave them food, water and fuel and assisted them on their journey.
I'm booking on the next boat out.

Let me know if you want to come.

A 94-year-old Prophecy is Fulfilled.

H.L. Mencken (born 1880 - died 1956) was a journalist, satirist, critic and
'old timey type Democrat.'

He wrote the editorial below while working for the Baltimore Evening Sun, which appeared in the July 26, 1920 edition.

'As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissistic moron.'

---H.L. Mencken, the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920

I, personally, think he ''nailed it''.

I just couldn't leave that astrology gibberish before me. That would just ruin my day. I had forgotten that by justifying the post with a comment, I was 'shooting myself in the foot'.

I know that the ladies of SA-11 will quickly reclaim there place at the top of the heap - and rightfully so.

Hmmm. It seems that someone has had their sensibilities offended. In the last week or two five posts have been remove from this forum Rather than posting an opposing view, or ignoring a post that doesn't agree with their view, an abusive comment report must have been generated. Maybe, even the 'Hall Monitor' thought he / she needed to justify her / his existence.

Censorship is alive and well on sudoku.com.au

CONGRATULATIONS!

'Je suis Charlie'

Latest spam attack is probably in response to your deleted comments DoA!

Never forget.... 'Je Suis Charlie'!!!

OK, time to 'stir the pot'.


Worth thinking about


A thought to remember, Marx said,

'Remove one freedom per generation and soon

you will have no freedom and no one would have noticed.'

There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had an exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.

The professor asked the young man what was the matter.

The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back.

He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime.

In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question.

He asked: 'Do you know how to catch wild pigs?'

The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line.

The young man said that it was no joke.

'You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground.

The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food..

'When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming.

When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence.

'They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side.

'The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again.

You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd.

'Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom.

They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught.

Soon they go back to eating the free corn.

They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.'

The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in N. America .

The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc.., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time.

One should always remember two truths:

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself.


If you see that all of this wonderful government 'help' is a problem confronting the future of democracy in N.America , you might want to share this with your friends.

If you think the free ride is essential to your way of life, then you will probably not share this.

BUT, God help us all when the gate slams shut!

Quote for today:

'Many problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who don't.'

OK, I've been quiet long enough. Time to 'stir the pot'.

Something to Think About!

Low military pay was not mentioned in the State Of The Union speech.
However, increasing the minimum wage was for those fast food employees
striking for $15 an hour. Let's do some math:

At $15 an hour Johnny Fry-Boy would make *$31,200* annually.

An E1 (Private) in the military makes* $18,378*.

An E5 (Sergeant) with 8 years of service only makes $35,067
annually.

So you're telling me, LaTisha McBurgerflipper, that you deserve as much as
those kids getting shot at, deploying for months in hostile environments,
and putting their collective asses on the line every day protecting your
unskilled butt!?

Here's the deal, Baconator, you are working in a job designed for a kid in
high school who is learning how to work and earning enough for gas, and
hanging out with their equally goofy high school pals. If you have chosen
this as your life long profession, you have failed. If you don't want
minimum wage, don't have minimum skills.

If you can read this, thank a teacher.

If it's in English, thank a Veteran.

How's the cooking coming along D? Lots of pot stirring but no-one eating the free soup.
I see Gath deleted your little Game of Spam (as you envisaged probably) along with the rest of the indian crud. About time too.

I take it you are bored too. Taken to stalking the hallowed halls of the sudokuaholics. Shame on you.

No Shame! No shame at all. Shameless person that I am, I just drift where 'er the current takes me. As for the SPAM, $%#**(_{_%@#$_+

AND just for the record, I don't 'stalk'. I slither.

Can't help myself...........

INTERESTING OBSERVATION
1. The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.
2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.
3. The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.
4. The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.
5. The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS.
And...
6. The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.
THE amazing facts are,

The higher you go in the corporate structure,
the smaller your balls become.
There must be a boat load of people in Washington playing marbles.

I've been good for over a month, so here goes.......

As they walk, they come across a sign:
'Beauty contest for the most beautiful woman in the world.'

'I am entering' said Snow White.

After half an hour she comes out and they ask her, 'Well, how did you do?'

'First Place,' said Snow White.

They continue walking and they see a sign:
'Contest for the strongest man in the world.'

'I'm entering,' says Superman.

After half an hour he returns and they ask him,
'How did you make out?'

'First Place,' answers Superman. 'Did you ever doubt?'

They continue walking when they see a sign:
'Contest! Who is the greatest liar in the world?'

Pinocchio says 'this is mine.'

Half an hour later, he returns with tears in his eyes.

'What happened?' they asked.

'Who is Hillary Clinton?' asked Pinocchio.

In light of the US supreme court (of idiots) recent decision I'm coming out.....


I Thought I was a Cowboy Until...

An old cowboy sat down at the Starbucks and ordered a cup of coffee. As he sat sipping his coffee, a young woman sat down next to him. She turned to the cowboy and asked, “Are you a real cowboy?” He replied, “Well, I've spent my whole life breaking colts, working cows, going to rodeos, fixing fences, pulling calves, bailing hay, doctoring calves, cleaning my barn, fixing flats, working on tractors, and feeding my dogs, so I guess I am a cowboy.”

She said, “I'm a lesbian... I spend my whole day thinking about women. As soon as I get up in the morning, I think about women. When I shower, I think about women. When I watch TV, I think about women. I even think about women when I eat. It seems that everything makes me think of women.”

The two sat sipping in silence.

A little while later, a man sat down on the other side of the old cowboy and asked, 'Are you a real cowboy?'

He replied, “I always thought I was, but I just found out that I'm a lesbian.”

Shirley you jest!

Sooo! Legally married. Legally divorced = more crap clogging up the courts. Good time to be a lawyer.

When two men or two women can reproduce without help from the opposite sex Then they can start to think they are equal! If I said what I really thought, the post would Shirley be considered abusive.

Things that I trust more than Hillary Clinton:

* Mexican tap water
* A rattlesnake with a 'pet me' sign
* OJ Simpson showing me his knife collection
* A fart when I have diarrhea.
* An elevator ride with NFL’s Ray Rice.
* Taking pills offered by Bill Cosby.
* Michael Jackson's Doctor.
* An Obama Nuclear deal with Iran.
* A Palestinian on a motorcycle.
* Gas station Sushi.
* A Jimmy Carter economic plan.
* Brian Williams news reports.
* Loch Ness monster sightings.
* Prayers for peace from Al Sharpton.

Bill Clinton - I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

This is one of the cleverest
E-mails I've received in a while.


Someone out there
Must be 'deadly' at Scrabble.


Wait till you see the last one!


It's going to be hard to top because
It fits to a “T'




PRESBYTERIAN :
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER


ASTRONOMER :
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER


DESPERATION :
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT


THE EYES :
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE


GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE
THE MORSE CODE :
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS


DORMITORY :
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM


SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME


ELECTION RESULTS :
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT


SNOOZE ALARMS :
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z'S


A DECIMAL POINT :
When you rearrange the letters:
I'M A DOT IN PLACE


THE EARTHQUAKES :
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE


ELEVEN PLUS TWO :
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE



AND FINALLY....
FOR THE GRAND FINALE :

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
When you rearrange the letters:
An Arab Backed Imposter