Today's Headlines

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:30 am

Nah, nobody and nothing has me in a tractor beam. Not since I quit smoking (just days ago...look out.)

If that CNN dingbat (sent to the Tea Party) didn't study
"Watters-O'Reilly Ambush Journalism 101".....

I saw a moronic woman with a mic yelling at a man with a baby. Is that the cretin you refer to? Oh yeah, she needs an ass-whoopin'.

I know that there were good people involved in this protest from all walks of life. Besides, it is our American citizen right to peacefully protest, and that is a real reason for pride.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:41 am

Right on Owlie.

Congrats on giving up the smokes too.

That will keep some serious coin in your pocket.

I'm right behind you Bro.

I quit for a while and started back up after 2-1/2 years!

I was a dumbass. I admit it too.

I'll quit again, and when I do, your support would rock greatly.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:51 am

You got it!
Cold turkey, baby. And those over-excited, flushed, craving feelings are turned into motivation in my mind. No patches, no whining. Just laugh to yourself when the craving hits. It soon passes and you'll have a beaming sense of pride and accomplishment. For me, so far, so good.

Sir Myghin · Post by **Sir Myghin** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:10 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:You got it!
Cold turkey, baby. And those over-excited, flushed, craving feelings are turned into motivation in my mind. No patches, no whining. Just laugh to yourself when the craving hits. It soon passes and you'll have a beaming sense of pride and accomplishment. For me, so far, so good.

Way to go, the upside is you can yell at all the filthy smokers for poisoning your air and smelling bad afterward

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:16 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:You got it!
Cold turkey, baby. And those over-excited, flushed, craving feelings are turned into motivation in my mind. No patches, no whining. Just laugh to yourself when the craving hits. It soon passes and you'll have a beaming sense of pride and accomplishment. For me, so far, so good.

Cool. Hey, if it helps, I got over the cravings by taking Vitamin C and
Vitamin D complex.

The Vitamin D complex has all the D vitamins, especially B12, which, as
you may or may not know, is what they give folks in rehab to detox.

On the flipside, if you've quit for over a week, you're gonna be GOLDEN
Owlie! Rock on wit-cher-bad-self!

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:19 am

Sir Myghin wrote:
Big Blue Owl wrote:You got it!
Cold turkey, baby. And those over-excited, flushed, craving feelings are turned into motivation in my mind. No patches, no whining. Just laugh to yourself when the craving hits. It soon passes and you'll have a beaming sense of pride and accomplishment. For me, so far, so good.
Way to go, the upside is you can yell at all the filthy smokers for poisoning your air and smelling bad afterward

GAH! A "Smoke Nazi!" LMAO

I kid.

Good for you (for not smoking) too, Myg.

Sir Myghin · Post by **Sir Myghin** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:39 am

I don't mind smokers, I do mind assholes who sit on the bench beside me and light up.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 10:41 am

Scientist Stephen Hawking 'very ill'

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientist and author Stephen Hawking is "very ill" and has been hospitalized, according to Cambridge University, where he is a professor.
Stephen Hawking attends the Cambridge Honorary Degrees procession in 2008.

Hawking, 67, is one of the world's most famous physicists and also a cosmologist, astronomer, and mathematician.

Wheelchair-bound Hawking is perhaps most famous for 'A Brief History of Time.'

Hawking has Lou Gehrig's Disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS), which is usually fatal after three years. Hawking has survived for more than 40 years since his diagnosis.

On his Web site, Hawking has written about living with ALS. "I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many," he wrote.

He added: "I have been lucky, that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case. But it shows that one need not lose hope."

Hawking has been married twice. His Web site says he has three children and one grandchild.

Hawking was born on what turned out to be an auspicious date: January 8, 1942 -- the 300th anniversary of the death of astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei.

A Cambridge University spokesman told CNN: "Professor Hawking is very ill and has been taken by ambulance to Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge."
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Professor Peter Haynes, head of the university's department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, said: "Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague, we all hope he will be amongst us again soon."

Hawking has guest-starred, as himself, on Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Simpsons. He also said if he had the choice of meeting Sir Isaac Newton or Marilyn Monroe, his choice would be Marilyn.

schuette · Post by **schuette** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:34 am

he did well with his life...and I know he's not dead yet...but he has still done well

awip2062 · Post by **awip2062** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:42 am

And to last that long with ALS...way to go!

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:03 am

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/0 ... index.html

You know of all the things I read this morning this really scares me. With Pakistan being a nuclear nation and apparently ready to collapse under the Talban rebellion, how soon before a nuke falls into Bin Laden's hands?

I also feel that I am a pretty diverse person, but I just do not trust anybody associated with the Muslim religion. If you read the end of this article, the Taliban spokesperson, somebody who believes in strict Sharia law, lived in Boston MA as a painter for four years. He was one of us for God's sake!!! What makes you think that Ali the computer programmer that sits 4 cubes down from you is not a freaking terrorrist.

CygnusX1 · Post by **CygnusX1** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:17 am

Soup4Rush wrote:With Pakistan being a nuclear nation and apparently ready to collapse under the Talban rebellion, how soon before a nuke falls into Bin Laden's hands?

First off, if OBL so much as sticks his head out of a gopher hole,
someone's gonna blow it the fuck off. He has about as much chance of
getting his hands on one as you or I do.

Secondly, you watch too much CNN, Bro.

If you don't stop, you'll go blind, penniless and insane.

It's common knowledge that CNN is at the bottom of the news food chain.

Okay, I'm wrong. They're one rung above NBC.

What-evah.

Big Blue Owl · Post by **Big Blue Owl** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:18 am

I'm with you on this, Soup.

Control of the Buner district brings the Taliban closer to the capital, Islamabad, than they have been since they started their insurgency. Islamabad is 60 miles (96 km) from the district.

"Our strength is in the hundreds," said Moulana Mohammad Khalil, as heavily armed men openly patrolled the roads in pickup trucks, singing Islamic anthems.

The militants had taken control of the area to ensure that Islamic law, or sharia, is properly imposed, Khalil said.

The government called the advance into Buner a breach of a recently-signed peace agreement.

"Now Taliban are violating the peace agreement, and if they continue the government will take strict action and not allow the Taliban to create a parallel government in that area," said Mian Iftikhar, a spokesman for the regional administration in the North West Frontier Province, where Buner is located.

If we know where they are, why don't we simply fly overhead and obliterate this cancer? Come on, Barack. Let's get to the curin'!

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:33 am

CygnusX1 wrote:
Soup4Rush wrote:With Pakistan being a nuclear nation and apparently ready to collapse under the Talban rebellion, how soon before a nuke falls into Bin Laden's hands?
First off, if OBL so much as sticks his head out of a gopher hole,
someone's gonna blow it the fuck off. He has about as much chance of
getting his hands on one as you or I do.

somehow I doubt that, he is a hero in Pakistan.. I bet he walks around that country with no boundaries.. and I dont care who reports it, Pakistan is a real problem to our way of life.

Soup4Rush · Post by **Soup4Rush** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:35 am

Big Blue Owl wrote:I'm with you on this, Soup.

Control of the Buner district brings the Taliban closer to the capital, Islamabad, than they have been since they started their insurgency. Islamabad is 60 miles (96 km) from the district.

"Our strength is in the hundreds," said Moulana Mohammad Khalil, as heavily armed men openly patrolled the roads in pickup trucks, singing Islamic anthems.

The militants had taken control of the area to ensure that Islamic law, or sharia, is properly imposed, Khalil said.

The government called the advance into Buner a breach of a recently-signed peace agreement.

"Now Taliban are violating the peace agreement, and if they continue the government will take strict action and not allow the Taliban to create a parallel government in that area," said Mian Iftikhar, a spokesman for the regional administration in the North West Frontier Province, where Buner is located.
If we know where they are, why don't we simply fly overhead and obliterate this cancer? Come on, Barack. Let's get to the curin'!

My guess is we flew into Pakistan airspace, the UN and Pakistan would scream bloody murder.