tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post9049531166221469137..comments2024-03-28T06:32:24.557-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Superbowl of US Embassy attacks was so exciting Sunday, the dumb part of FUKUS decided to keep them closed an entire week. I have a great idea: Let’s keep them closed permanentlyDeuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47718746418784707102013-08-06T05:39:24.981-04:002013-08-06T05:39:24.981-04:00Just guns and drugs? that's your MOJust guns and drugs? that's your MOWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-40389999854101400092013-08-06T00:05:14.146-04:002013-08-06T00:05:14.146-04:00NSA's Data<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64A1G7t9AA" rel="nofollow">NSA's Data</a>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-19780818758023087762013-08-06T00:01:10.996-04:002013-08-06T00:01:10.996-04:00Hold on, Holder's Comin!Hold on, Holder's Comin!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84719655563413441582013-08-05T23:59:39.734-04:002013-08-05T23:59:39.734-04:00"American special forces units overseas have ..."<i>American special forces units overseas have been on alert for the past several days for a mission to attack potential al Qaeda targets if those behind the most recent terror threats against U.S. interests can be identified as senior Obama administration officials.</i>"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-68802486046489550862013-08-05T23:39:30.453-04:002013-08-05T23:39:30.453-04:00American special forces units overseas have been o...<i>American special forces units overseas have been on alert for the past several days for a mission to attack potential al Qaeda targets if those behind the most recent terror threats against U.S. interests can be identified, a senior Obama administration official told CNN.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Three sources said the United States has information that members of the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are in the final stages of planning an unspecified attack.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83794982872200934032013-08-05T23:32:36.157-04:002013-08-05T23:32:36.157-04:00Shaq's a Hell of a lot funnier than Kobe.
......Shaq's a Hell of a lot funnier than Kobe.<br /><br />...and at least he paid for it.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46850967790389295352013-08-05T23:31:34.711-04:002013-08-05T23:31:34.711-04:00MAYBE delete Shaq:
"In 2003-04, Bryant was a...MAYBE delete Shaq:<br /><br />"In 2003-04, Bryant was arrested for sexual assault and also missed training camp due to a knee injury. O'Neal fired off the first shot saying that the Lakers had their whole team at training camp and seemed to imply that Bryant wasn't that important to the team. O'Neal also said that Bryant should be more of a passer until his knee injury fully healed. In an interview with Jim Gray, Bryant questioned O'Neal's leadership and suggested that O'Neal was fat and out of shape. The two stopped with their public war of words after this and the media coverage died down.<br /><br />Things took a turn for the worse between the two after the Lakers lost to the Pistons in the 2004 NBA Finals. Phil Jackson wasn't offered a new contract and after learning of the news by watching television, O'Neal asked for a trade. After the trade to the Heat, O'Neal also publicly called Kobe a "clown" and "punk". Bryant's police interview recordings were leaked to the public. In these recordings, Bryant suggested that he should have done what O'Neal did with women he allegedly cheated with by paying them up to $1 million in hush money. O'Neal denied the claims and said that he "wasn't the one buying love, Bryant was the one buying love." This was in reference to Bryant buying a multi-million dollar ring for his wife after he revealed his infidelity.<br /><br />The media considered the end of the feud to be on January 16, 2006 after O'Neal and Bryant shook hands before tip-off. O'Neal said that Bill Russell encouraged him to end the feud. During the offseason in 2007, O'Neal mentioned Bryant in a rap saying, "Kobe couldn't do it without me", referring to the Lakers loss in the 2008 NBA Finals. Another quote was "Kobe, tell me how my ass tastes." O'Neal blamed Bryant for his divorce. In November of 2008, O'Neal told reporters that the entire feud was the fault of Jackson but later retracted the statement and apologized."Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62440570467139330692013-08-05T23:04:49.030-04:002013-08-05T23:04:49.030-04:00A mere pittance.
Why worry?A mere pittance.<br /><br />Why worry?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-13925780848688561122013-08-05T23:03:56.874-04:002013-08-05T23:03:56.874-04:00"Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream?..."Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream?" the man on the street exclaims at the end of the 1990 movie "Pretty Woman," as Julia Roberts and Richard Gere kiss on the fire escape. "Some dreams come true, some don't. But keep on dreamin' -- this is Hollywood."<br /><br />Such brash commitments to hope and possibility were part of how Los Angeles broke from the trappings of its old Hollywood elegance, and differentiated itself from New York, its uptight older brother. They were part of why Buss became something of a folk hero in L.A.<br /> <br /><br /><br />"There's only a few cities that would accept my flamboyance," Buss said in a 2010 GQ profile. "I'm aware of that."<br /> <br /><br /><br />It worked for him because it never felt like Buss was showing off. Rather, he was inviting you into his world at the "Fabulous Forum," or inside his Pickfair Mansion in Beverly Hills with an amused look that suggested you'd live like him, too, if you could.<br /><br />Which is why despite the "Beat L.A." chants his team heard wherever they went, Dr. Jerry Buss was always one of the most popular owners in sports. People might root against or dislike the Lakers, but how many disliked him?<br /><br />Riley, Hazzard, Kareem, Magic, Shaq, Kobe, Phil, etc.<br />...not them.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34095638199882018772013-08-05T22:58:32.286-04:002013-08-05T22:58:32.286-04:00"Buss' intelligence was evident early on...."<i>Buss' intelligence was evident early on. Classmates recall him as a genius. In her autobiography, "Laker Girl," daughter Jeanie Buss wrote that he was "a wonder boy." He was so bright, he was entrusted to teach his high school chemistry class as a senior. He sailed through the University of Wyoming in 2½ years -- long enough to meet his first wife, JoAnn Mueller by borrowing his classmates' text books (he couldn't afford his own) early in the semesters before they needed them to study, remembering what he needed until the finals.<br />(I'd crack the books the night before finals)<br />...did outdrink Jerry, 'tho, I'll bet. <br /><br />He later earned a Ph.D in chemistry from USC, and was awarded an honorary doctorate in law from Wyoming in 2005.</i>"Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38659397042279610762013-08-05T22:48:15.766-04:002013-08-05T22:48:15.766-04:00I was going to make some sarcastic comment about w...I was going to make some sarcastic comment about whether Phil would wed Lakers Owner's daughter Jeanie or not, but after reading a bit about Doctor Buss, decided just to post this link:<br /><br /><a href="http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/8959319/los-angeles-lakers-owner-jerry-buss-had-vision-unlike-other" rel="nofollow">Quite a range, from Doctor Jerry's Beginings to today's celebrity-obsessed LA/USA</a><br /><br />LOS ANGELES -- The man smiling in all the pictures, the one in blue jeans and a casual shirt with a beautiful young woman on his arm, looks as though luck has smiled on him once or twice in his day.<br /> <br />And truth be told, Dr. Jerry Buss, who turned a $1,000 real estate investment into the keys to the Los Angeles Lakers, and went on to become one of the most influential and successful owners in professional sports, did get one very important break when Magic Johnson fell into the Lakers' arms the very same year he bought the team. <br /><br />But to chalk up his remarkable life to the whims of fate and fortune is profoundly shortsighted. <br /><br />It wasn't luck that brought Buss from a Great Depression food line in a frigid corner of Wyoming to the sun-kissed boulevards of Los Angeles and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<br /> <br />It was vision.<br /><br /><b>Buss, who has died of cancer Monday at the age of 80, first came to Los Angeles as a 9-year-old boy. He stayed just three years before being yanked back to a hardscrabble life of shining shoes at the old Kemmerer Hotel and working at a Union Pacific railroad station after his mother remarried a man from Wyoming. </b><br /><br />And yet somehow in that brief, youthful glimpse, he saw the sorts of beautiful things in Los Angeles that Randy Newman would sing about some 40 years later in his civic -- and now Lakers -- anthem, "I Love L.A."<br /><br />"<i>Look at those mountains, look at those trees. & Look at those women, ain't nothing like 'em nowhere."</i><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60151417639150445702013-08-05T22:44:39.274-04:002013-08-05T22:44:39.274-04:00On this day in 1861, a federal income tax was impo...On this day in 1861, a federal income tax was imposed by the government for the first time in U.S. history.samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18661797667905633122013-08-05T22:28:51.642-04:002013-08-05T22:28:51.642-04:00Police say two young boys are dead after they were...<i>Police say two young boys are dead after they were strangled by a python that escaped its enclosure at a pet store in Canada.<br /><br />Royal Canadian Mounted Police Const. Julie Rogers-Marsh said Monday the boys, aged five and seven, were sleeping in an apartment above Reptile Ocean Inc. when the incident occurred in Campbellton, New Brunswick. She says police arrived at the apartment around 6:30 a.m. and found the two boys dead.</i>samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856051164644278989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60366654842653573142013-08-05T22:24:46.978-04:002013-08-05T22:24:46.978-04:00STAPLES CENTER
Goes w/o saying.
That's wher...STAPLES CENTER <br /><br />Goes w/o saying.<br /><br />That's where Nicholson and the Sheeple congregate to give head to Phil and the Powers that be in <br /><br />The LakersDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60223605205262594912013-08-05T22:21:57.501-04:002013-08-05T22:21:57.501-04:00Jimmy Buffet in Jiffy Lube Live in Bristol VA...
...Jimmy Buffet in Jiffy Lube Live in Bristol VA...<br /><br />wtf is THAT?Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84481750031474808852013-08-05T22:18:06.403-04:002013-08-05T22:18:06.403-04:00"say" it is.
What is, is."say" it is.<br /><br />What is, is.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62054996271143871592013-08-05T22:17:23.036-04:002013-08-05T22:17:23.036-04:00Rufus thinks "catastrophic" is whenever ...Rufus thinks "catastrophic" is whenever the boyz in DC and The Guys that are running the show says it is.<br /><br />A mere forward from the boyz and The Guys via GWB, and Rufie is convinced it's time to transfer MegaTrillions from the Taxpayers to The Guys.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-61488538197307401602013-08-05T22:12:15.286-04:002013-08-05T22:12:15.286-04:00It's 5 o'clock somewhere.It's 5 o'clock somewhere.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29353216126662416152013-08-05T22:10:36.032-04:002013-08-05T22:10:36.032-04:00We are here, indeed.
...and we are Queer!We are here, indeed.<br /><br />...and we are Queer!Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76607950858370659162013-08-05T22:09:49.825-04:002013-08-05T22:09:49.825-04:00Jimmy Buffet, or Bon Jovi?
...that is the questio...Jimmy Buffet, or Bon Jovi?<br /><br />...that is the question.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86168736226217259802013-08-05T22:09:21.717-04:002013-08-05T22:09:21.717-04:00Rand Paul Drops Acid, Scores Big!
"Imagine&q...<a href="https://www.scorebig.com/" rel="nofollow">Rand Paul Drops Acid, Scores Big!</a><br /><br />"Imagine"<br /><br /> Imagine there's no heaven<br /> It's easy if you try<br /> No hell below us<br /> Above us only sky<br /> Imagine all the people<br /> Living for today...<br /> <br />Imagine there's no countries<br /> It isn't hard to do<br /> Nothing to kill or die for<br /> And no religion too<br /> Imagine all the people<br /> Living life in peace...<br /> <br />You may say I'm a dreamer<br /> But I'm not the only one<br /> I hope someday you'll join us<br /> And the world will be as one<br /> <br />Imagine no possessions<br /> I wonder if you can<br /> No need for greed or hunger<br /> A brotherhood of man<br /> Imagine all the people<br /> Sharing all the world...<br /> <br />You may say I'm a dreamer<br /> But I'm not the only one<br /> I hope someday you'll join us<br /> And the world will live as one <br /><br />Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16770268554450465514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-20123262092098088362013-08-05T21:53:12.465-04:002013-08-05T21:53:12.465-04:00India, on the sub-continent of Asia, does not qual...India, on the sub-continent of Asia, does not qualify as "Western", either.<br />desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58902422026137726412013-08-05T21:51:35.800-04:002013-08-05T21:51:35.800-04:00Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan does not even qu...Jalalabad, in eastern Afghanistan does not even qualify as being in the "Western" portion of Afghanistan, let alone the whirled.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80391770495298999772013-08-05T21:44:20.279-04:002013-08-05T21:44:20.279-04:00It could have just as easily read ....
Jay Carney...It could have just as easily read ....<br /><br />Jay Carney declared the White House maintains plausible deniability concerning the linking of the current scare tactics to recent debates about the NSA's surveillance power in the US.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-38841043413856216902013-08-05T21:40:50.055-04:002013-08-05T21:40:50.055-04:00Bloomberg
President Barack Obama will call for ...<i>Bloomberg <br /> <br />President Barack Obama will call for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to be replaced with a government mortgage reinsurer that would sustain losses only in catastrophic circumstances.</i>desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.com