AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 690) [Remember the Trade Center!!]

Various News Sources and FReepers | December 11, 2002 | All of Us

[Chairman_December_19th_Society]

Quick start. Ice storm. Already lost power once and don't know how long it will stay on. Up to 1/4" on trees.

[Bitwhacker]

Lott's Strom Thurmond remark == Gerald Ford's "I don't think the poles consider themselves to be under Soviet domination" remark....So bone-crushingly stupid that you can see the balloon deflating even as everyone says it's still OK.

And Lott did it twice, 20 yrs. apart, same words. Only Dems can get away with something like that; Lott doesn't have an Eleanor Clift to spin for him on Capitol Gang....

[lysie]

Trust me...living 12 miles from Lake Ontario..we know ALL about lake effect.

Blizzard of '66.. produced a foot of snow at Albany on the 29th and 30th. The intense lake squalls that developed as arctic air streamed across Lake Ontario on the 30th and 31st. Oswego reported 75" inches, with some unofficial reports of around 100" in that vicinity. Rome, which is approximately 75 miles from Lake Ontario, received 41".

[kayak]

I'm going to state my case one more time and then shut up on the subject.

If Lott steps down as ML in the midst of all this hullabaloo, we will pay .... and pay ..... and pay. There will be all the appearance of us caving to the PC garbage and to the Sharptons and the Jacksons of the world. We will have taken the bait they're dangling in front of us ...... and we'll never manage to wiggle off that hook.

The next time it won't take something so obvious (even though this really isn't obvious ..... they're just telling us that it is and we're believing them) for them to demand that someone resign ..... and the precedent will already be in place.

I still think that any and all conservatives should respond by bringing up the name of one Robert Byrd ..... who said something far more blatant, on national tv, and wasn't joking.

[Bitwhacker]

So, all snow plows lead to Rome, as it were???

[Guenevere]

LOL, our dear son-in-law knew to ask hubby for daughter's hand.......

...so, he told hubby he would take him to lunch, and let hubby pick the restaurant :)

I think hubby wanted to give him a hard time, and picked a Mongolian Restaurant with very spicy food.

Hubby was chuckling later

.....he said during their conversation, young son-in-law to be was perspiring....

..and hubby didn't know if it was the 'occasion' or the hot food :))))

[lysie]

So, all snow plows lead to Rome, as it were???

Well...since the storm latest several days it wasn't built in just one.

[Bitwhacker]

Vidi, Visi, Slippery???

[lepton]

I have found out that the "yes, ma'am, "yes, sir" thing is Southern.

Most places with a military tradition.

[JRandomFreeper]

My NCOIC is a Texas girl. She outranks me by 4 stripes, but I am considerably older than she is. LOL! When she talks to me, she does the yes sir, no sir routine. It's a funny little social dance.

/john

[kayak]

That's interesting.

Apropos of nothing that anyone else has been talking about ......

..... there are still 127,000 people in NC without power from last week's storm.

Also, here's an fascinating bit of trivia ..... City of Charlotte spokesperson Julie Hill said a countywide estimate of debris equals about 750,000 cubic yards, enough to fill 22 football fields 15 feet deep .... and that's just one county!

One of the local tv stations is posting pictures from the storm that viewers send in. Here's a really neat one ......

[gulfcoast6]

In my 30's, my mother would say something that needed a yes answere and if I did not say 'yes mam' she would ask the question over and over agin till I answered 'yes mam'.

[gulfcoast6]

You would be proud of me tonight, I am doing my cook thing, meatloaf and all the trimmings, southern style. All the trimmings are mashed potatoEs, green peas, cornbread kinda mexican style, some hot peppers in it, buttermilk, pecan pie with ice cream. Going to surprised d when she gets home.

[gulfcoast6]

I know what it is, I know what it is, it is a 'see thru' mustard green leaf!!!!

[Utah Girl]

You can come and cook dinner for me any time. Yum.

[gulfcoast6]

There is nothing better I would like to do than get a whole bunch of us together and put on a big ole southern meal, me and my crockpot.

[lepton]

My NCOIC is a Texas girl. She outranks me by 4 stripes, but I am considerably older than she is. LOL! When she talks to me, she does the yes sir, no sir routine. It's a funny little social dance.

Yeah. It was really odd suddenly going from junior person on the ladder, to being in charge of others - all of whom were older (In some cases, older than my parents).

[JRandomFreeper]

That sounds like some really good food. I love meat-loaf.

I'm doing oxtails and polenta. Which is a fancy way of saying oxtails and grits.

It's funny, oxtail used to be a cheap cut of meat, but once the restaurant folks figured out how good the flavor is (better than mignon, in my opinion) it got expensive.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

It was really odd suddenly going from junior person on the ladder,

Yet, you might admit that being given the responsibility early was a great learning experience. Besides, leaders get created like diamonds, under great heat and pressure. ;>)

I went the opposite direction. In the corporate world, I hired and fired, had responsibility over large budgets. Now, as a lowly airman, I have very few responsibilities. In a way, it's a relief, but sometimes I forget, and start "organizing" a task. I had a Tsgt stepping and fetching for me for a short while this weekend. LOL!

/john

[Mr. Mulliner]

This job I took on delivering phone books may just be the craziest thing I've ever done. I just got back from my orientation and got about 600 of my total delivery order of almost 1,000 phone books in the back of my truck. Tonight I have to stuff them all in plastic bags and slip a piece of tape over each, then figure out where in the heck what my whole route looks like. I'm supposed to be done by noon on Saturday, but this is at least partially a rural route so right now it seems impossible.

I'll recruit my kids to help as much as possible, both bagging and delivering, and remind them that this money is to buy the goats and keep them from going to market.

I'm doing it for the goats. I'm doing it for the goats. I'm doing it for the goats....

[Dog]

LOL!

Forget the goats....get a lawn mower.

LOL!