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Presidential Trivia
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Feb 27, 2010 12:18 pm
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The post from Bondageboy8705 put me in the mood for a riddle.
What was the president's name in 1980?
Was it:
1. James E. Carter?
or
2. Ronald W. Reagan?
Maybe
3. Gerald R. Ford?
See first comment for answer.
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"It's 'My Health, it's My "Choice"
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Feb 26, 2010 7:43 am
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"We want to make available adequate, not top rate, gold plated, but adequate health insurance to all Americans."
President Obama at the Washington Health Care Summit, 25/2/2010.
The president didn't realize it, but that statement pretty much summed up why he can't pass the health care bill he wants.
They say there are 30 million uninsured in America. Most on the left, and right, agree; we would all like all Americans to have affordable health care coverage available.
What Obama and the 20 sobbing hacks he invited from his own party to the Health Care Summit do not realize, is that the great majority of Americans have the best health care and health care insurance in the world. Most of us have the so-called "gold plated" coverage he admits he won't offer.
Why would the ca 270 million adults, children and seniors who are covered, want to risk being thrown into the "adequate" pool with the presently uninsured?
Sure the president says everyone will be able to keep his current doctor and insurance. He says no one currently insured will be forced into his new scheme.
Oh, really?
Isn't it logical that companies now offering the "cadillac" plans would want to cut costs and dump those plans in favor of the Democrat "adequate" plan?
That would basically leave only the rich with the top rated health care coverage. We would be like say ummmm-------the Canadians.
In a recent post Oh (no) Canada I commented on how the Premier of Newfoundland/Labrador, Danny Williams, opted to go to the U.S. to get his heart operation.
He did not want his operation done in Canada.
"This is my heart, it's my health, it's my choice" said Mr Williams in an interview after his surgery.
Despite the ferocious Canadian attempts to spin this story, Premier Williams decided to follow the advice he received to go to the U.S. and then repair the political damage AFTER his surgery in Miami.
In an interview to the Toronto Globe and Mail he stated that he had "full confidence" in the Canadian health care system, but feared criticism for "jumping the line".
Seems he inadvertently admitted that there are waiting lists up in Canada that don't exist here.
Of course the proponents in Canada of public health care deny that, but there Mr. Williams was in his interview days after the operation, "the picture of health." as the Toronto newspaper stated, sunning himself in warm Florida.
But what about millions of normal Canadians who aren't millionaires, who can't opt for a top hospital in the U.S.?
Why do our neighbors to the north, one of the wealthiest nations on Earth, with their CanadaCare which virtually covers all 30 million citizens {1/10th of the U.S. population} ----just have "adequate" care for their people?
And where would WE Americans go for world class care once we got stuck in a Canadian-like "adequate" health care system?
Amazingly our Harvard professor, president doesn't understand any of this.
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The Way it Should be read
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Feb 20, 2010 5:45 pm
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Most of us know the poem from text books. It is graven on a tablet within the pedestal to the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired..."
The poem was written by Emma Lazarus for the statue that was to become one of our great national symbols.
Most know of course that the statue was a gift from France. But how many know the statue was meant to mock. Not us, but the continent from which she came.
The statue's designer famously said the statue to be placed in New York Harbor was to be the new Colossus of Rhodes.
But it was not to carry a quiver of arrows, but a tablet of ideas.
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How many of you know the left foot of lady Liberty tramples shackles?
The message of "Give me your tired..." is in fact still true but the entire message of that poem has somehow been forgotten. It more accurately explains the meaning of just we have room, send us the overflow of your people.
I ask you please to take a half a minute to read the poem in it's entirely to fully understand what was meant. It is still not a a long one.
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
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Best and Lamest Come On Lines
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Feb 16, 2010 1:20 pm
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We all know there is no such thing as the perfect come on line. If there were, the author could probably walk into a dentist's waiting room and pick up a guy.
We all know different people react to different approaches. Setting is important and whether the hottie of interest is alone or with his friends. Eye contact is very important.
On the other hand a lame pick up line can sink the ship before it's even gets under way. The following line:
Do you give head to strangers? No? Well let me introduce myself
would probably not go over well in a church pew.
For some of you the silent method works very effectively. If you get some by just winking and showing your penis you need not continue to read this post. God has already blessed you. LOL
Here are some come on lines. Which if any would YOU use. Which are lame?
1. Wazzup baby?
2. Are those fuck me eyes, or fuck you eyes?
3. If I was a skateboard I would grind you all night.
4. I'm like a snow storm, I'll give you 8 inches and keep you inside for the whole weekend.
5. I was told never look at a hottie in the eye because I will turn into a statue! In fact I can feel myself getting hard right now!
6. Dude, I would love to lick your belly button......from the inside!
7. I can't make a cherry pop, but I can make a banana cream.
8. Hi, I'm a birdwatcher and I'm looking for a Red Tailed Bed Thrasher, Do you know where I can find one?
9. If I flip a coin, what are the chances of me getting head?
10. Do you come here often? Because I'm about to come here right now.
What are some lines, good and bad YOU have used/been told?
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A Tavern Closes
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Feb 11, 2010 1:33 pm
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"With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days will be as prosperous as your former ones have been glorious and honorable."
From General George Washington's Farewell Address.
With these words the now former president exited the tavern He silently passed a double line of light infantry. He walked onto Whitehall and entered a barge which ferried him From New York to Paulus Hook, New Jersey and the beginning of a long journey home.
The world famous Fraunces Tavern at 54 Pearl Street (corner of Broad Street) is expected to close this weekend. It has become a victim of the economic crisis.
Anyone can eat there. It's a fine dining restaurant in historic surroundings but there are much more expensive restaurants in Manhattan.
There is a museum that takes visitors to the actual "Long Room" where Washington spoke his farewell. But the museum can't begin to cover the costs of running the tavern.
Wall Street corporations and banks with their "fat cats" who normally filled the historic rooms of the tavern with booked meetings and company dinners, decided it is no longer a good idea to sponsor such public functions.
So Fraunces Tavern, the oldest tavern in America and a New York, no, an American landmark of the first order may soon no longer exist. The owners, Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York are now looking for new people to run the place.
Since boyhood I have been there and eaten there several times. I first remember going there on a school trip. When eating there I am much more fascinated by the surroundings than the food, although the food is pretty good.
But the musket collection, oil paintings of famous battle sites of the Revolution and the rooms with names of famous generals of that war always intrigue me.
As a person interested in history, the thought of sitting in a room whose walls once echoed with the voice of Washington and other Founding Fathers gets me every time, even thought the building has been heavily restored since the days of the Revolution.
The museum holds the cannonball from a broadside fired by the HMS Asia that smashed through it's roof.
Love it. lol
There are few remnants of 18th century New York remaining. It has long been a New York tradition, an American tradition, for good or for worse, to tear down the old and build bigger and higher. Fraunces tavern stands on some of the most valuable real estate on Earth.
But this is one of the major historic jewels of our history. I hope those responsible understand thisand save it.
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MISS ME YET?
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Feb 9, 2010 11:30 am
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"How's that hopey changey thing working for ya?"
Sarah Palin at last weekend's Tea Party convention
Question: Didn't the American people expect more from a president who was a Harvard law graduate? One who even taught law at harvard?
The last president was portrayed as dumb for his speaking gaffes.
But after 2 years of campaigning and 1 full year in office, the Obama gaffe record has become gigantic.
This is just his latest one:
Last week in a speech before thousands, a speech that was carried on national television, he referred 3 times to a Navy medical staff member on duty in Haiti as
"corpse man."
That's corpse man as in corpse, as in dead body. LOL
Hadn't the president ever seen any of those war movies when they holler for a corpsman?
Isn't he the Commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps whose combat first aid personnel are all Navy corpsmen?
You don't have to be an expert on the military to know that. But I know the average citizen knows the word corpsman is pronounced kôr′mən.
It's obvious that Obama feels as awkward as the commander of the Armed Forces as General Patton would have been at a hippie commune or a San Francisco transvestite convention.
Petty? Maybe, but I do remember reading many posts on this site where the Bush gaffes were listed with glee.
The pic below is from billboards that have appeared from Minnesota to Louisiana. You can look it up and see for yourself.
LOL It took people this long to figure this all out?
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Perloined Undies
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Feb 7, 2010 6:30 pm
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Some background information about an Undie thief..
Some months ago OUR group posted on our Discussion Board (found on our group main page) that we would have a cam event.
Another group had had their cam event on Thursday nights based on cammers who wear a thong.
In our post (which was posted on a Saturday) we planned our event for that Sunday night in a week in order to be able to get the word and and so it couldn't conflict with the other group's thursday event.
We indicated that we would name our event "Undie Sundie".
Lo and behold, the next morning the other group's moderator posted a blog advertising their group's "Undie Sundie" for that evening LMAO
When I e-mailed that group's moderator he said he had thought of the name Undie Sundie".
Right, and my mother is Lady Gaga. lol
That other group had never held any Sunday event before.
I let it all go because there was an unwritten truce between the groups.
We decided to still have our Sunday night events and called them the BVD Jamboree and we have been VERY successful.
Under the circumstances, we now feel free to use EITHER of the names we originally thought up.
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Having the Super Bowl Blahs? It's Undie Sundie @ T.W.I.N.K.S.
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Feb 7, 2010 1:39 pm
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Tonight at 9pm eastern (0200 GMT) We're throwing an Undie Sundie Party in T.W.I.N.K.S.
Twinks and friends of twinks are welcome.
Come in and show off your underwear, or just sit back and watch any number of guys showin' off.
Of course there are many interesting conversations to follow and even be a part of.
Easy guidelines for Undie Sundie
-ANYONE can join in and cam. This includes new members or non-regulars.
-NO ONE is required to cam. Members who normally do not cam can enjoy the group as they always do.
-Anyone deciding to cam DOES NOT have to cam in their underwear. Cammers themselves will decide what they will do and not do!
-There will be no chiding of cammers to do more than they wish.
-Remember Tdot is a safe zone from stalker, pervs, bullies and troublemakers.
Hope to see you tonight in 
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