Much better is the White Trash Christmas.

http://www.twistedchristmas.com/

Without a WRT this is what weekends around here have come to!

There's always the dancing Bush! Dancing Bush

Oh thank you for that one - I needed a laugh today and finally got one!!! First time I've smiled all day ------>

Is it time to make Lcom a paid site so we can have a WRT. A boring Jets game, a nothing happening site, I will check later tonight, but I'm going cajun dancing.

Okay, okay, you don't think the singing horseys are funny. You got a better one? huh? huh? Let's see it. We're ready. We can take it.

I thought it was funny and cute.....but I still miss the WRT. Saturdays are such slow news days.

Lotsa giggles here..

Hmmmmmmm

Seriously (if one can grasp the moment) I cannot imagine ANY dummylib site providing this kind of weekend entertainment free to its posters.

Ya just gotta luv those scruffians doin' their weekend duty at our HQ . . . .

A mariner

You really have to be bored to watch this. Lol

Loved the singing horses. Scared the cr@p out of my dog though - she left the room when the first one started "singing".

I do miss the Slap Hillary web-site. It's too bad David Horowitz ''closed it''.

But here's
Baby Dance
Space Baby dance
Celebrity Drummers
MooMoo

Hey, staff, it was great. Thanks for the laugh.

Please don't bump me for a terrible pun, but I enjoy this kind of neighsayer.

Ok,

It's official. I need a life.

The facial expressions had me laughing like crazy.

The harmony on the other hand, needed a little work.

http://208.42.65.59/seasonsgreetings/flash.html

Sorry, I don't know how to do links, but this is a neat site.

Or you can always try:

For a virtual kitty:

Felix

or for virtual friends:

Politics & Friends

Since it is so quiet and dull here, this might liven things up:


Lady Liberty Fireworks

To post a link on Lucianne, type (A HREF=http-rest of link address)Name you want to call link (/a)

Now change all the parentheses to the appropriate less than/greater than caret over the comma and period.

Viola! Link posted.

You guys are soooo funny.
Not knowing what to expect, I clicked on the link you provided and I laughed and laughed. I needed that today.

You ain't seen NOTHIN until you see the
Viking Kittens

Go and see and come back and tell me this isn't as good/better :D

Cute, but my all-time favorite was "Hamster Dance".

I've gotta check out "Viking Kitten", though!

Thanks for the Viking Kitten. You know, I never did know the words to that song till now, LOL! I'd had no idea what i was singing.

I miss our WRT! Even though I don't post much, I love reading the WRTs!

For the truly bored--go in and browse around:

On Stagnant Pond

Or there's always the Insanity Test.

Or the ''my neighbors aren't so bad after all'' reassurance you'll have after you see Redneck Neighbor, especially if you look at the backyard accident.

and you thought bush and algore had no hip-hop cred:

http://www.jibjab.com/cartoons/raps/rp_MOVIE02.HTM

"kickin' dope rhymes in the style of a robot"
-- algore

Terrifyingly funny to realize I had been singing the Viking Kitty song all those years ago in ignorance of the actual lyrics. Oh dear lamented brain cells....

This is an oldie but a goodie.

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilm/people/people_index/0,4128,288623,00.html

Alien dancing to Gloria Gayner's, I Will Survive.

Just so you know a nutty sense of humor is genetic.......Viking Kittens happens to be the favorite of all time site of a certain editor at NationalReviewOnline. We bored slaves hold Viking Kittens sacred. It plays in a continuous loop as our screen savers - except for Igor. His screen saver is a single spot illuminated can of Spam.........okay, Igor - sorry........don't hit.

Really miss the WRT today, hope it wasn't because of last week. Just took one last peek at the news before picking up a book and I found Ms Lucianne starting something. Thanks, we needed that!

How about some minature golf:

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/flash/miniputt.swf

Art Frahm: a study of the effects of celery on loose elastic (keep clicking "next")
http://www.lileks.com/institute/frahm/art1.html

"art" by Art Frahm, text by James Lileks

The horseys sound like a do-wop group from South (dare I say it?) Filly.

Not everyone has Shockwave-Flash. I, for one, am still driving my old beat up 386-enhanced. It gets me around, but not very fast. Oh well, somebody will describe it to me. Maybe they'll send me a recipe to boot.

dot66 THANK YOU! I now have the 6 pack stomach I always wanted. I am crying I am laughing so hard on the redneck story.

DOT 66 I've been thinking of you since all the Raelians (sorry, sp?) stories. You are the Star Trek expert in my book - were they on any of the Star Trek incarnations? Same name if not theology. It sounds stangely familiar.

Post #12: Celebrity Drummers site....Justin on the drums. I was hoping he would win over Kelly on American Idol after Tamyra Gray was voted off. I hope he finds a good recording contract with someone.
And that Lady Liberty fireworks site was great! Thanks.
(I'll never get that tree untrimmed...I'm back on the dang computer.)

Thought I might help out the LCom wire-service staff by moving a cutline for this graphic:

SEATTLE -- Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), right, with feminist advisors in a closed-door discussion of Osama bin Laden day care facilities. Sen. Murray and her colleagues reportedly talked themselves hoarse.

wvs548pst

Dot 66 -- thank you! I needed that! Kind of puts my neighbors in perspective (even the blockhead family -- I swear to God they all had block-shaped heads. It was unnerving).

Wolfie: HA!

Miss the WRT?

Go to:

Politics & Friends

OK, this is completely off-topic, but I have been wanting to ask you guys this and it's never in the news anymore to post anything about it. All during the holidays, I thought of poor Elizabeth Smart so much. Six months later, what is everyone thinking about this case? Was Richard Ricci the link to solving this case? Are there others out there? Are you suspicious of the family? Do you think Elizabeth will ever be found?

english..

you know one random thing that I learned when I was poking around on the web with regard to this case. . .

I found a site that seemed credible that said that Elizabeth Smart didn't look a thing like the photos posted of her on the family's site nor of those disseminated at the time she went missing.

According to this unverified, allegedly-in-UT individual's site - I can't recall where it is now, but I may peek around to see if I can re-find it - ES was in a bit of Goth phase: her hair was black, she was dressed, sorry, "sluttily", basically, this person contended that she didn't look a thing like the photos showed her to look. The underlying question was, given this (even hypothetically, but the source seemed semi-interesting/legit to me), why would her parents push forth the less recent photos that didn't really capture the current ES, current as to when she was abducted? Also, is it possible that there's a link between what appears to have been a rebellious stage that ES was going through & her disappearance?

Loved the Lady Liberty Fireworks, Joan. Loved it.

I e-mailed it to myself so I won't lose it.

I've been lurking around at P&F off and on all day, between naps. It's good and I've enjoyed the chat, but nothing will ever replace our Lucianne Wekend Roundtables.

englishleigh: I don't know that Elizabeth Smarts body will ever surface, but I feel confident she's dead - and probably was dead within hours after she was taken.

John Walsh vows that Ricci was responsible, and that he took the secret with him to the grave. I saw Walsh on something - can't remember if it was Larry King or Don Imus - or where, but he gave the entire background on Ricci's criminal history, and I can't remember all of it now (jeez, I must be getting old), but Ricci was a really bad actor.

I've never felt like the family was involved, and I think they took a lot of heat from people who downed them for their religion and their "strange" ways. There was an inordinate amount fo anti-Mormon sentiment expressed at times, and I just don't think their religion had anything to do with it.

I never had any particular feeling about Ricci - one way or the other - until listening to John Walsh, and now I wonder if Walsh isn't exactly right. It probably was Ricci.

Also, is it possible that there's a link between what appears to have been a rebellious stage that ES was going through & her disappearance?

Meaning, did she run away, or was she "done away with" because she was an embarrassment or would no longer conform to what was expected of her? Not necessarily killed, but perhaps forced into that so-called "pipeline" which was meant for young Mormon brides? Interesting thoughts.

P.S. I still can't believe that they couldn't get more from the younger sister.

under hypnosis or whatever

If the abductor was in the room for longer than fifteen minutes or even ten, wouldn't the sister's eyes have adapted (pupils dilated), wouldn't she have been looking at the abductor (if even covertly)?

I never saw any evidence that Ricci - bad actor that he was - had a criminal background with regard to women or anything beyond theft, and property-related crimes.

Also, wouldn't the younger Smart sister have recognized him? Unless he was acting in concert with another..

The advantage of a bit of time passing is that we can revisit this, the disadvantage is that I've forgotten the rebuttal to some of the arguments that still trouble me (like the one above about eyes adjusting etc.).

LSD:

You know, I kinda always felt funny about Ricci once he surfaced as a suspect. You know the police always intimated that Mary Katherine recognized the abductor, plus he knew the house very well, and all the stuff that came out about that Jeep and the mechanic and all of that made me suspicious. John Walsh was probably correct, and Ricci was the man. I just wish they could find that child's body; I like you, sadly feel she is dead.

Englishleigh, strange that you should bring this up. I was thinking about this case the other day, too.

Eliza, wasn't one of the pictures of ES playing the harp taken just a few days before her abduction? In the picture I'm thinking of, she looked like an angel. Let us know if you find the site again.

Meaning, did she run away, or was she "done away with" because she was an embarrassment or would no longer conform to what was expected of her?

I don't know if I think this.

But, I do think this:
(a) if ES did NOT look like the photos circulated and did look how I heard described, then (b) the only reason that I can think of why her parents would have distributed the "older" photos would have been to deflect attention away from them or away from the possibility that she ran away or or or . . .

If the parents were totally innocent actors & ES did look Goth, then why wouldn't they have used the current photos? They didn't want people to see them having a wild looking daughter? Wouldn't you care much more as a parent about getting your daughter back than about if people thought you were bad parents b/c your daughter looked like trash?

Again. . no evidence that this information was correct. Someone or lots of someones in UT know about this much, though, for sure.

I am absolutely not convinced it's Ricci, then again I didn't see the special referenced by LSD.

The pictures of Elizabeth playing the harp were taken at a recital just three or four days before the abduction.

I don't know of any reference to the girl ever being anything other than what the family protrayed her as, but I also remember that there was a lot - and I do mean a LOT of stuff that ended up on the internet regarding Jonbenet Ramsey that turned out to be completely false.

There was one thing that always puzzled me, and it's never been cleared up in my mind.

Do you remember the "drifter" that ended up in a coma ni West Virginia? Supposedly, the authorities cleared him completely, and there was never any physical evidence found in his vehicle - and I can tell you from experience, the authorities took that car apart and went over it inch by inch with a magnifying glass and a fine tooth comb. If there had been any evidence that ES had ever been in that car, they would have found it.

But still, there has always been something slightly out of kilter about the "drifter". Why was he in that neighborhood? - and why was he there for so long before that girl disappeared? If you remember, he was even videoed at a candlelight service for ES.

I'm will never be convinced that he wasn't somehow involved.

There is one other thing that I know for sure: if the authorities had any suspicion - even the slightest, that the family - or any member of the extended family was involved, we would know it.

The media would be going after the family tooth and nail if the authorities suspicioned anyone in the family was responsible.

..and, I'll always have a big question mark in my mind about the "drifter".

48,

is this the harp photo that you mean?

According to CNN (and other sources that had this photo), it was taken in December, 2000.

I think her dad had left a garage door open or something b/c he was bringing in her heat-sensitive harp (from a recent concert), but the harp photo circulated was not from that concert.

Still searching..

No, it wasn't that picture I'm thinking of. I think she played the harp at her grandfather's (of grandmother's)funeral a few days before her disappearance.

***

Watching Fox News and I was wondering when they were going to call in the expert, Marc Klaas. There he is now.

Right #52. That's not the photo I'm thinking of.

There was something about a family member funeral and her playing the harp, but the photo I'm thinking of was of ES in a long black velvet dress, standing beside one of the siblings, and it was taken after a recita (I think - like I said, I'm getting old).

I suppose that anyone with the will could search the Salt Lake newspaper archives...I'm to tired and to sick to even think about it.

...and wasn't there another newspaper from out there where we were getting lots of articles about the case? Rocky Mountain News? I don't remember.

Birdsong--your linking Raelians to Star Trek seemed to ring a VERY FAINT bell, so I looked on Google. Haven't found any ACTUAL links, but a WHOLE LOT of people are blogging about the similarities. Interesting.... It's also ironic that I had just rented The 6th Day [cloning] shortly before we went to see Nemesis [cloning]. Yikes! Feeling kind of like it's the ''attack of the clones!''

Glad you enjoyed Redneck Neighbor. It does make us look around with thankfulness that ours aren't so bad after all. That is--after we pick ourselves up off the floor from laughing!

I don't know. . it's lost in the ether.

In any event:

(a) what motivation would Ricci have had? Would he have truly fancied himself able to pull off a kidnapping for ransom? That's the only motivation that I think makes sense - given his profile - for him to have had. He was a loser . . did he really think he would be able to pull off a kidnapping/abduction?

(b) Ricci was old enough that if he were the abducting or abusing type, that'd probably, though not definitely, have crept up on his record previously.

(c) the little sister, why couldn't more be gotten from her? Why the delay in using a preeminent forensic artist (Boylan)?

That about sums up the existing open-ended questions I have on this case.

Also, FTR, I have zero anti-Mormon sentiments; the Ricci answer just seems too easy, too pat to me. It doesn't feel like enough of an answer - there's more to it.

Thanks for the Singing Horseys, LStaff. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it...and got good laughs.

I bet the singin' horsies was from Ms. Amy - thank you - they were hilarious!

Also loved the dancin' Bush - specially the split!

And looks like this thread has turned in to the weekend roundtable.

And last but not least - what a fabulous pic of Bush and the adorable baby whoses first words were "hooah"

Thanks Staff - have a suspicion you are waiting for the war to begin before resuming WRT.

One last thought on something I would try if I were tasked with solving this case..

infiltrating Ricci's wife (or was it GF?)

She claims he was home that night, IIRC.
try to get to her through a contact (via offering reward money to one of her "friends" - they did this with Ken Littleton in the Moxley case) and see if she knows something, anything

also, of note, if she knew of previous crimes Ricci had committed - thus establishing a pattern of whether or not he would have told her *anything*

Then, if anything good turns up, offer her immunity for spilling what she knows - while hooked up to a lie detector

It'd certainly be an angle I'd plumb.

The Elvis and Jack Nicklaus Mysteries

She was the wife, not girlfriend, and she admitted, all over the air waves, time and time again, that she took "sleeping" pills. I think the authorities established, early on, that she couldn't attest, one way or the other, as to whether Ricci was actually at home and in bed, or not.

I don't think she knows squat. Did you notice how much she looks like Jodi Foster?

John Walsh read from Ricci's rap-sheet, all of the charges and offenses, and there was something in what he read that made me think - for the first time - that I had finally heard something in Ricci's background that made me think he could have been responsible. I wish I could remember what it was I heard.

Whatever it was, it was the first time that I had ever thought Ricci might be the one, because I, like you, never thought Ricci had the "background" for this kind of a crime.

Ricci had an extensive illegal drug background, and so did the "drifter".

I think I'll go google some things and see if I can find anything.

Hello fellow WRT missers! Thanks to the Editor, now I have something really fun to read. But I cannot HEAR it. Big Moose "fixed" the audio that was not broken and he fixed it until it broke extremely well. So, until I can find someone to unfix it, I will just have to imagine the sound.
He fixed his laptop until he cannot use it at all. Honestly, this really happened. He is now reduced to doing the internet on a
Webtv receiver that I use whilst lying in my bed. I would laugh if this was not so serious. Unfixing all the computers in the house is VERY serious. He just pushed the chair from the office in the Moose Cave across the hall and into position in front of the very WEBTV I just mentioned. Now I will read and look at the pictures, and add my little bit to the Smart dilemma.

Hi, Fellow WRT Missers (WRTers Anonymous?)... Like mamamoose, I am without sound as computer update got stuck in midstream... Sent a lot of ecards over the holidays and had to hope that the music was appropriate as I couldn't hear a note. But those horses up above all look like Eleanor Clift and/or Matt Lauer to me.

Many thanks to eliza_dolot for posting that excruciatingly funny flamer website...

I have no theories on Elizabeth Smart, but have a struggle with the notion of any good family's doing away with their own child.

Oh bummer, mamamoose. I think sound is one of the most tempermental parts of computers. I've messed mine up again and again, either thru my own fault or because Real Audio decided to change my settings. Argh!! Somehow I always manage to fix it, but never by the most direct route. Fixing the sound is like going from LA to SF by way of NY. If you think it would help to tell us some particulars, maybe we can guide you through the fix.

I'm a Trekkie from way back and I don't think there's any Raelians (sp???) referred to but the suffix part (lians) does ring a bell which is probably what triggered the question. However, at the moment I can't put my finger on the particular word I'm thinking of. Will get back to y'all if I remember it. Oh, there was something like suralian brandy or something in the original Star Trek series. Now my head is really buzzing - gotta go think Trek for a while so I can not go batty all night trying to think of it!!

Gawd, I love it when you get bored.

Thanks for the Viking Kittens. What a blast!

Enjoy!

Anyone remember this site that was posted on Lucianne a while ago....I could not get the song out of my mind all day:
http://etrata.home.attbi.com/flash/banana.swf

DOT66, the Redneck Neighbor site is probably the funniest one I have ever read. I read every word and looked at every picture and plan to pass it along to friends. Only real life could be that funny. The man who wrote it has a wonderful sense of humor and must be an extremely patient man. Thank you.

There is so much to discover on this thread, I must continue.

If anyone is looking for a good rental this weekend, my kids and I just watched Barbershop. It was terrific. I recommend it highly.

I hate to be a party downer, but as a 1st responder on 9/11, I am overjoyed that there is no major news.

Unless it is political BS, news=people dying. Major news=many, many people dying.

Here's to CNN (and the others) being totally, totally bored.

--Waiting for the other shoe

Thank you, thank you, Sayhey. I would love to take you up on your offer, but I do not understand just what it is that he did. I know he was unhappy because he said he was getting monaural sound and it should have been binaural. He complained to Gateway and took the processor in to them. They supposedly installed the correct whatever.
When he got it home he found a floppy disc in the drive and installed something from it. The only sound that came out was if you cranked the audio all the way up and then it sounded like an old scratchy Edison gramophone like they play on those TV specials. So tonight he said he would fix it and he moved some cables from one set of posts to another and now it doesn't work at all. But thanks anyway. I will have to go to the geek store Monday I fear. Big bucks, they always charge Big Bucks.

I got the link to the Viking Kittens from the Shark blog.
Take a look at this one

Hug Unfortunately, you HAVE to have sound on this one.
MamaMoose, I wish I could send my 15 yos over! He's got his own biz building and fixing computers. He'd fix yours right up. You know any teen aged computer geeks?

You're welcome, mamamoose. Shimmer's right. A kid could probably fix it for the price of a pizza. Was the sound working before he installed whatever from the floppy disk? If so, it is probably a software problem. I always end up uninstalling and reinstalling the sound card software and update the drivers. See? I can't help myself. LOL, you just said you were going to take it in to be fixed so i should leave it at that. I guess I have a little bit of geek in me.

Shimmer and Sayhey, thanks you guys, from the bottom of my heart. Yes, the sound was fine before he took it in to be "fixed". You are probably also correct about it being a software problem.

But not to worry. I am saving all the wonderful links presented here tonight so I can really enjoy them when I get my ears back.

DEAR EDITOR: I understand what you mean. Far out senses of humor are definitely genetic. And they are God given and priceless. I sure wish I could hear the Viking Kittens tonight, but soon, soon. LOL

However, stepping off my SOAPBOX for a minute:

I have never, never, been serenaded by a quartet of horses before.

I am going to spend the rest of the night trying to get that damn tune out of my head. Kind of like Suzanne Vega. (Da Da De Da,Da Da Da De....)

#69
I never thought that I would have had anything to thank Sharpton and Jackson for. But I bought that movie yesterday, simply because they called for a boycott. I didn't even intend to watch it, but my Husband put it on after the kids went to bed, and it was funny. I really enjoyed it. The language got a little rough sometimes, but other than that it was really funny. I have to second that good movie review.

Thanks Lcomstaff! I think the horses are cute, neigh, adorable! Of course, I also thought Hamsterdance was fun, too. Man I need a life. Something about the Viking kittens calls to mind the Jackalope. Ack, I think it's time for bed... ;-p

Singing Horsies solve mystery!

now i know what Bjork has been doing...
--does she wear the swan suit in the
quartet?
still a mystery.

Mystery of clone reincarnation solved:

Mr. Rael w/ the top knot has to be a reincarnated clone of Paul Wellstone!
the resemblance is suuupernaturrrral

hope that's not too tacky and tasteless
an observation, even after the uh...
memorally service....
but, this Bored of Review does not appear
to be shaping up as an Emily Post-approved
soiree
--so why not 'let it rip'?
[to quote a horse-faced sing songy
ex-politico]

#22, #26,

You don't know the lyrics of a song? Nothing simple. Use Google and try for example: Led zeppelin lyrics. Here it comes:
http://www.led-zeppelin.com/lyrics.html

The "Viking Kitty" is Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" Album III

Thanks for the funny websites, fellow Ldotters. I needed some cheering up. My Army son just left for Afghanistan and I'm worried. There's a nice celebratory website at www.maylin.net/Fireworks.html. I hope we can soon celebrate victory in Iraq and Afghanistan.

My life must be winding down. I actually sat here with headphones on at about 7 am on a Sunday morning listening to horses harmonize....for about 10 minutes. The scary part? I enjoyed it!

I've gotta get out more!

The horses are great! Very clever. Listening to them, I couldn't stop thinking "Barbershop Quartet" for some reason.

"Franky Valley and the Four Seasons" also come to mind, as does "Shanana."

Could this thread generate into a covert WRT?
The Mr. is gone for the weekend, icefishing, so I had a chance to lurk only to find the the WRT was suspended.
What happened? I haven't been able to read for about three or four weeks what with getting ready for the holidays and cleaning up afterwards. I see some comment about something happening last weekend and now the WRT is no longer available? One of my few sources of fun when the MR. isn't around.

LOL! Loved the singing horses.

I got the full chorus by having them on two screens !

So easily entertained am I.

Yes, #85 - and if you start them at slightly different times, you can create some very eerie, aural effects.
Now, if you have 3 (or more) screens going.....
PS: Also easily entertained.

This one isn't quite as good as the 'Singing Horses'. You may have to turn your volume up to get it all. Enjoy.

http://people.freenet.de/freeek/SajjadAli.swf

Go to http://www.smilepop.com. Click on the *Internet Soapbox* square.

Mea Culpa. Sorry L.dot staff. I forgot to say that I liked the Singing Horses I should have done that before posting the other sites.

That being said, Here's some more (Macro-media Flash Player Req'd):
The Saddam Palace Game
Michael Jackson Baby Drop Game (New Version)
The Horny & Freaky Mole SongWarning Rated-R, 18yo & UP

More in a few minutes...

No. 80,

Thank you for raising a son who sees his path to be in the service of his country.

I will keep him and you in mind.

Let us know and we'll celebrate his return.

All Dubya
Our President Needs Your Help Game Slightly Irreverent - but funny
A Message From Your President Rated-R(?), Don't know why
A Day In The Life Of President Bush Slightly Irreverent - but cute
It's Time To Smacky That Iraqi

The 1st 9-11 Divorce:

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Okay Guys,

I just KNEW there'd be some kind of weekend thread here - if for nothing else, just for us to get in a little wackiness. It worked!

Thanks Amy and Igor...and all you wacky posters...especially our King of the Wackos - Condor. Great posts ol' buddy.

It really is a shame that all of us are being deprived of our WRT fix for the likes of a 'few' selfish malcontents...but ain't it always the case the days. Tsk, Tsk, Tsk.

Warmest Regards to ALL...

Oh, BTW: J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets !! Go GIANTS !!

Is this what happened to Trent Lott and the Singing Senators?

Has it occurred to anyone that running a 48 hour weekend Roundtable means L.com Staffers have to work around the clock on a weekend?
I haven't heard a word about anyone taking any vacations at all over there for more than two years. I also recall that someone was manning this site on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's day.... Let's cut them some slack. We wear them out and there won't be any Lucianne.com and then where will be be? Lost, I tell you, lost and abandoned.

OK... I'm HERE!

I had given up on WRT, so I've been occasionally browsing the news stories (yawn), reading my new Cordon Bleu Cookbook and generally boring myself to death.

The ''Redneck Neighbor'' is my all-time favorite! I'm listening to a CD called ''be afraid... BE VERY AFRAID'' by Chonda Pierce. She's a Christian comedienne, and just hysterical!

Right now, she's talking about having hot flashes and how in the middle of the night when one attacks, the woman yells out, ''Whew!!!!! I'm burning UP!!'', and how mad it makes husbands.

She's really funny!

I'm so bored I named those four goofy looking horses. Guess what names I gave 'em?

A clean house is a sign of no WRT.

THE CREATION OF TEXAS

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the Archangel found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"

God breathed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards through the clouds, "Look Michael, look what I've made."

Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"

"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put Life on it. I'm going to call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."

"Balance?," inquired Michael, still confused. God explained, pointing to different parts of earth, "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth while southern Europe is going to be poor; the Middle East over there will be a hot spot. Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is a continent of black people," God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered in ice."

The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a large land mass and said, "What's that one?"

"Ah," said God. "That's Texas, the most glorious place on earth. There are beautiful lakes, rivers, sunsets and rolling hills. The people from Texas are going to be modest, intelligent and humorous and they are going to be found traveling the world. They will be extremely sociable, hard working
and high achieving, and they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of peace.

"Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What about balance, God?" "You said there would be balance!"

God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the idiots I'm putting around them in Oklahoma,
Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico."

Only someone who has grown up in Texas would post this!!

I liked the singing horses. Thank you.

CIRCLE THE SERVERS!
An Open Letter to our Lucianne.com Community

Well, Happy Epiphany, or Happy Twelfth Night, Folks, for those who celebrate either incarnation of the day.

The tree's down in the basement, The Missus and The Boy are down for a nap, and I'm down with a stomach virus that laid me out flat on Friday. Joyous end to the season, eh?

I'm happy beyond words to see that the L-dot staff has not succumbed to the efforts of the DU people, and allowed them to shut down the site. I am disappointed, however, that so many of us have suffered inconvenience because of the post-adolescent MTV/CNN junkies that have forced our fair hosts, including Madam Goldberg herself, to curtail some portions of our beloved town hall.

Since Nov. 6th, when the upset election returns came out, the Socialists have embarked on a smear campaign of vindictive revenge. How many of us remember a recent appearence by Madam Goldberg on C-SPAN, which devolved into a verbal stoning, condoned by the host and his staff? That was only one skirmish in the smear campaign, as you all can see.

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Now, I grant you, most of the beloved, eccentric colleagues I have come to know here, have at least as much, and in many cases far more, worldly experience than I do, and it shows in the posts, rants, and debate that occurs here. In past forums, the occaisional interlopers we have known as "site pests" have come to us in two forms: those who simply "throw a grenade" in the room, and leave; and those who, and I welcome, come forth in thoughtful difference to our views, and thereby force us (and me) to Check Six and make sure of ourselves.

I ask you all to note what's been happening in the past seven weeks. These guests to our forum have become more frequent, more vicious, and in several cases, have resulted in our esteemed staff having to take draconian action. Folks, this is how you lose! You are reacting to the foe, not making the foe react to you.

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Old Sarge, it seems to me since Ms Lucianne went on CSpan they've been coming out of the woodwork. I guess they didn't know wbout the site before.

Let this forum be designated as a rally point. Yes, we've had to circle the wagons (or in our case, the servers!), and fend off the hostiles. But just remember what the reason is, for all the attacks.

America is winning the war, not just overseas, where despotic rulers and Islamic extremists are now looking over their shoulders, listening for the drumming of American boots. It's here in our borders, as well. The forces of The Left have been smacked in the nose, and we who hold our nation and values dear have found voice and will, to dare to challenge the "glorious cause of World Socialism".

President Bush told us that "this war will be secret, even in success". You don't hear all the successes. You won't know all the places where the foe is being swept away. A Leftist media has determined that they know what's best for you, and that is, to only hear what will beat you into submission - a word which, ironically, translates into Arabic as "Islam". I know that this is not the path you wish to walk.

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DEMOCRAT

You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You vote people into office that put a tax on your cows, forcing you to sell one to raise money to pay the tax. The people you voted for then take the tax money, buy a cow and give it to your neighbor. You feel righteous. Barbra Streisand sings for you.


REPUBLICAN

You have two cows. Your neighbor has none.

So?


SOCIALIST

You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.


COMMUNIST

You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. By this time, it is expensive and sour.



(I think we're supposed to be doing "funnies", so I'm trying to stay on topic.)

Read the words of my comrades-in-arms, who I rejoice in welcoming to L-dot. Hear the confidence in the voices behind the words. There is a battle being fought that you aren't being allowed to see, both by we who wear the green and blue, and by those who embrace the red. The battle is being won, and lost, and we are slowly, relentlessly, gaining the victory.

I doubted before. I've seen too much, learned too much, to ever doubt again. I bid you, My Colleagues and Comrades-in-arms, circle the servers and man the trenches for now, but be ready to go over the top when the time comes.

I'll be there, too.

Yours 'til Next Mail Call,

"Old Sarge"

CAPITALISM - AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.


DEMOCRACY - AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both cows to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government


BUREAUCRACY - AMERICAN STYLE

You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.


AMERICAN CORPORATION

You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the second cow. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts, stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses. Your stock goes up.

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