Displaying 451 To 480 Of 960 Comments Zoot, be nice to Hoosiers. Born in Indy and while the 500 is one of its major redeeming assets there are some really wonderful places there. The southern part is lovely. Northern, not so much. Indy when I was a kid was where the North and South collided. You’d hear southern drawl, hillbilly and “elitist” Midwestern proper talk. My dad was New England transplanted from Canada. My mom, southern. I studied the Civil war from the time I could read because it was played out every day in my home. Oddly my mom was the liberal non racist. My dad, he hated everything not WASP. Catholics the worst. Do you know where the term Hoosier came from? Have fun with that » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:48 pm Rosal. Welcome. Just jump when you get comfie. No counts, no mods, no one any more or less than anyone else. We are all equal, from dudes like me who wandered in from HP with battle wounds to people who’ve been here for months. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:41 pm Zoot, right with you on that one. If he’d done anything public he would have been hammered from one side or the other. Anyway, this wasn’t our fight, not that that’s ever stopped us before. But he stood back publicly and who can say what might have been taking place behind the scenes? Did we influence outcomes in ways we don’t even know? What happened from Thursday nights defiance of Mubarak to Fridays resignation? You know in your heart there was intervention somewhere. Noting the Swiss seized a couple of million or billion. About ten percent of what he’s rumored to have stashed. So they got him to leave by taking some obvious money but leaving him with money and his head still attached to his shoulders? Maybe some day we’ll get the whole story. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:38 pm Welcome, happy to see another POV. Hope you get settled quickly. Looks like about two to three days to shake off the HP cobwebs » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:32 pm Well, I think I am just going to say it. I think we (and POTUS) are getting jobbed by the MSM, both right and left, and to be honest even the centrists. I know it is their job to report sensationalism and create controversy and dialog. At least I think that’s what they intended – or does everything they do have a ratings agenda? – but what happened was a perfect storm. They polarized the country by reaching into our deepest fears and prejudices. The ratings grew but they didn’t see or care to acknowledge the vitriol brewing behind it and because the ratings grew they just kept ramping up the volume. How many times have we heard any commentator take a step back and say – “Wow, this is so wrong”? Hardly ever. Who can we name easily? Olberman stepped back and to his credit for unknown reasons I’ve heard Shep Smith call people out. But most of the time the interviewers sit liked stones and let the most egregiously incorrect statements stand without challenge or in other cases simply take it on themselves to report outrageous distortions or lies. And the public, increasingly less read and knowledgeable laps it up and it becomes fact – facts that pulls us apart further rather than seek to unite. We somehow need to get at that. Our country is teetering more than we can even admit most days. The vitriol directed at POTUS is wrong. Yes, he’s let us down in some ways but in other ways he’s held the ship steady and seems to be slowly righting it, even though the wind from his enemies continues to blow. We will never know what he might have accomplished if he hadn’t been stonewalled by a senate more focused on destroying his Presidency than working to solve the problems of the people who elected them. But that a whole ‘nother story. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 4:59 pm Cher We just did them and they actually put aside the Girl Scout cookies. Awesome and FASTER than real donuts. Did powdered sugar in a brown bag and shook them thick with it. Hot and dusty we are. Thanks again, new treats » Posted By jdmn17 On February 12, 2011 @ 5:58 pm We get six, freeze three and I parcel them out two cookies at a time like I’m running a methadone clinic. The kids hell, they are 19 and 22 – come running and stand there with their tongues hanging out. I’m glad and humbled they are still children a couple of times a year. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 12, 2011 @ 5:56 pm Of I could learn how to make Girl Scout Thin Mints I might never leave the house, or would that be I couldn’t get through the door? » Posted By jdmn17 On February 12, 2011 @ 3:39 pm Hydrox. I was raised on them, never ate an Oreo until my beloved Droxies went away. We got them last year for a month. We must have eaten a bag every other day. Then they were gone. So sad 🙁 » Posted By jdmn17 On February 12, 2011 @ 3:36 pm Cher I just ran that by my son, the living embodiment of cookies and a serious donut expert – at least at eating them. We are on our way to the grocery, I’ll keep you posted. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 12, 2011 @ 3:35 pm I suspect it was more about them having more oil than Egypt. I doubt we would have stood back and let it play out if Egypt was a major oil producer. We never let a good revolution go to waste without trying to control it and then step back and claim it was the people’s choice. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 1:13 pm WATCH LIVE: Mubarak Resigns! Egyptians Celebrate! Hey green coolaid, wondered if you were coming over » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 3:34 pm He for sure would have sent troops to “guard” the canal. What chutzpah we have at times. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 1:20 pm No kidding, type as much as you want, say what you want, no codes, symbols or misspellings, hit enter and poof! One thing I’ve noticed, in addition to the joy of rediscovery at the people filtering in here, is that posts can be longer and more in depth. I’ve learned more about several old HP posters in three days than I learned in almost two years. You had to watch carefully about posting anything personal there. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 1:19 pm I’m amazed the post that got you here was allowed to stay on. The mods must be getting weary or they wish they could come here so they are letting things slip » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 1:16 pm I used to try Southern Comfort. Bad headaches in the morning but the first few hits went down real smooooooooooth » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 1:15 pm kesmam, thanks for the welcome, starting to feel like home, I had some withdrawal symptoms from the HP. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 12:20 pm I know it’s not my place but snark isn’t really needed. If you want to make a statement about recent Nobel Prize winners then just say it. It sounds like an old HP post and I left there because I got tired of codes and put downs of a general nature to either party. Sorry, just had to say it. This is a day of joy, you made some good points in other posts about the concerns we now face regarding who will rule Egypt. Let’s stay with that please? » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 12:03 pm Sounds to me like things really starting moving when the guy from Google got there. I wonder what he promised them? » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 11:59 am Oh, I’d kick his meds up a notch, he’s obviously not at a therapeutic level » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 11:56 am NOW you tell us. I sat and listened to the WHOLE thing. Talk about ripping my heart out. The guy is really crazy. I never watch him, hear anecdotal stuff but that was really weird stuff » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 11:55 am Sabreen – you are talking about ALT… then I tend to agree. I went there first, lasted about four hours. Nothing special but nothing SPECIAL. Then I went back to HP and found the link to here. Been here since. Great place even for a low level dude like me. Some really good people here I’ve followed closely for a long time when I was back in what became a living hell » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 11:52 am I was trying to think of something really gross. I said beer with cereal the other day and had a Canadian write me back and dress me down. Apparently beer on Cheerio’s is a breakfast special when camping. The TV guys really flip me out. I’m from MN and we have the honor of having provided the world with Tammy Faye Baker. You wonder how we can shrug about Michele B » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 11:48 am Good to see you Annie. Everyone welcome here. Join the fun » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 11:45 am Let’s try to let this thing play. No one among us really knows what’s going to happen. It could be good, it good be awful but I have faith in the Egyptian people. They could have gone home a number of times but they hung in there. I’m with change and am hopeful the despots and fringe crazies don’t win out. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 10:54 am Do you remember Bishop Sheen? He kind of reminds me of a Sunday morning TV evangelist in a very scary way, his core must sit in hypnotic wonder eating Twinkies and drinking Rolling Rock » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 10:51 am I knew a guy in High School. Great friend. One of my top five. My g,f, dragged me to a “reunion” picnic last summer and I grudgingly went so she could see some of the names she often heard and read about (I write fiction and have characterized several of them and their antics in several stories). This guy came up and we hugged and talked for at least ten minutes before his wife came up and for a single moment I saw Sara Palin. My g.f. saw it better and asked her in a sort of joking way and the cork came out of the bottle and for the next five minutes they both went on without interruption from us about Sara this and that. The next couple of minutes were about the assholes who made fun of her, and disliked her and we both kind of backed up and escaped. He sent me a FB friend notice a few days later and had no locked his site so we sat down with a glass of wine and read it. I felt like I was looking at Sara’s home page. Photo’s, love cries, accolades and not so veiled threats against anyone speaking ill of her. I didn’t send the friend note back btw. Very scary people » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:18 pm Keith Ellison in my state (we do sometimes get it right, Michele Bachman and Tpaw notwithstanding). African American Muslim and one super smart, articulate man. And naturally he needs protection and gets death threats. If you can listen to him, very good thinker who, unlike a lot of the evangelists, doesn’t wear his religion on his sleeve. Yet I’ve heard people speak from fear he’s a terrorist fifth columnist for Al Q » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:07 pm Considering they hijacked the name without having a clue what it was really about should tell you a lot. I am proud to be a Midwestern “elite”. I love to read and read anything and everything. I think knowledge is about the only thing that separates us from the Wildebeest. And even at that I think they work better together at times than we do. If humans were Wildebeests we’d be shoving each other to the lions so often they lions would be too fat to hunt. » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 5:03 pm I keep waiting to wake up and have someone on HP tell me this place is all a joke and then slam me with snark. After four, almost five, days I’m thinking it’s going to be ok. And more of the people I fanned just keep coming » Posted By jdmn17 On February 11, 2011 @ 3:26 pmComments Posted By jdmn17
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