Joel Pett for January 10, 2010

But the typical suicide bomber affecting U.S. folks is wealthy or upper middle class- educated- and well, a spoiled brat- just like your average texting infatuated, over-indulged U.S. teenager- the threat is within? Right, anorexia gets ‘em first.

go rad go…

what’s Ibex?

All of a sudden it hit them! They realized they could use backpacks instead of people! Wow it took long enough for them to figure it out!

Sooky Rottweiler says; That’s little league. I’m from a long family of cow-guarding dating back to the days my ancestor sniffed Samuel de Champlain’s ship’s poop deck from LaRochelle all the way to Port-Royal. I was born on a Dairy farm along the Miramichi river (Dairy county, NB, sort of). I can handle goats, they are smaller.

I pick up dog poop three or four times a day – should I take it to the poop deck?

some cats like dogs

I was darkly amused by that part:

|“In the Afghan culture, a man’s home is more than just his residence,” a draft of the new guidance said. “It represents his family, and protecting it is closely intertwined with his honor. He has been conditioned to respond aggressively whenever he perceives his home or honor is threatened.|

In AFGHAN culture? I’m sorry, in what culture is the act of armed people charging in your home at night NOT considered an attack on your family? I don’t think only Afghans are “conditioned to respond aggressively” in such cases.

Wow, people shooting at unidentified armed strangers who try to attack their homes in the dead of night. Who’d a thunk it! Next time there’ll be a manual saying “when shooting at armed people, be careful: they may shoot back!”

Sooky Rottweiler says; There are some cats I like. Buzz is cool when he’s not on catnip. Mittaines never touched catnip, but he’s a mean, condescending pain in the tail sometimes.

I’ll ask this again: Why don’t the Afghans burn the Canadian flag, the Swiss flag, or the Australian Flag?

BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT OUT THERE EFFING WITH THESE PEOPLE’S LIVES!!!! We leave them alone, they leave us alone. The reason Osama Bin Laden gets so much attention in the middle eastern world is because we Americans are doing exactly what he wants: bringing war and bloodshed to their side of the isle.

Uhh, Libbies…your rhetoric in ‘03 was “something has to be done in Afghanistan and we must never, never leave them hanging again”…Your meme was we are duty-bound to help Afghanistan pick itself up by their leggings… Libbies…full of eliminations.

Dear ET – where have you been? I’ve missed you. Perhaps you’ve been commenting on threads I haven’t checked.

Sometimes when I have two trains of thought I discover that they are on the same track but approaching from opposite directions.

_ET_, you’re pulling trains?

No, my secret identity is DrCanuck.

Bruce – watch your spelling – it’s “Wha’ chu talkin’ ‘bou’?”.

sorry, it was late, don’t know what happened to my mind. lonecat, I think you’re imagining things. Are you having visual or audio hallucinations? :-@ (sticking my tongue out at you, can’t figure out how to represent two hands waving from my ears, though)

I have the persistent feeling that I can communicate with people I’ve never met or even seen. And we all live in a two dimensional world of line drawings, sometimes with shading and shadows, and on a really bad day with parenthesis breasts. Is that a problem, Doctor BCS?

lonecat wrote: I have the persistent feeling that I can communicate with people I’ve never met or even seen.

Well, that’s not a hallucination, cause that’s what we’re doing! Seriously, my comment was merely a lighthearted response to one thing you said because I’m one of a (few) (several) (many) that knows who the conductor of the three trains is. (ET would note the awkward sentence construction.)

Do you know how to representing two hands waving from ears? You know, what kids used to do (or maybe still do) when they stick out their tongue?

good talking to you lonecat

Ooops – it was inadvertent. It’s always good to talk to you, BSC – you are certainly one (or more) of the nicest people in this little universe.

BCS is Primordial.

back to planet of the apes

thank you, lovely lonecat, thank you, primordial puppy, thank you awesome ahab. as you for, magnaut …..

but you didn’t compliment the gorilla, ET! … sigh, oh, OK …

endophyllous English Teacher

ET, wasm’t intended to offend, really! (being or formed within a sheath; derivative of endophyte, a plant growing inside another plant) I’m sure you get that, right?

however, to soothe your hurt feelings, here’s another: ebullient ET