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Boo hoo ~
Submitted by GG_NB on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 10:02am.
MSU is out as well.
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
The Heels eeked that one out
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 10:11am.
The Heels eeked that one out over Ohio U. That should never have been that close. If they don't get Kendall Marshall back for the Kansas game they'll be on a plane bakc to Chapel Hiil. I forgot how many turnovers they had.
The NC State Wusspack is gone so the Heels are the only NC team left.
DAMN BROTHER DON'T BELIEVE i'D TOLD THAT!
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 10:08am.
Any fan of Lewis Grzzard heard his routine on Damn brother I don't believe I'd told that. Here is one of those Damn Brotehr moments
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/03/23/3120196/man-admits-to-molest...
You knew it was coming
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 12:58pm.
You had to know Jesse Jackson would HAVE to get his face in the fray regarding the Trayvon Martin case.
Regarding Jackson's comments...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:05pm.
I think blacks are under attack, by other blacks.
If more end up in prison, I'd say it's because there are to many daddies not taking responsibility for their babies. Think Jackson would have anything to say on that score?
➚ Probably not
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:09pm.
Jackson is still all butthurt that his most recent baby-momma didn't obey his demand that she have yet another abortion.
Then Jackson got caught paying off the baby-momma with Rainbow Push money.
It's getting so a race huckster can't even control his woman. Sarc.
Cool
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:29pm.
Apparently Jackson needs to buy a copy of that book of marital advice you linked on another thread. He's as much of a muslim as he is a Christian.
Jackson comments
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:29pm.
What floored me was this said by Jackson:
Jackson said that there is a mistaken assumption in some corners of America that all racial problems went away with the election of President Obama. "There was this feeling that we were kind of beyond racism," he said. "That's not true. His victory has triggered tremendous backlash."
So now we're told that the election of "The One" has done nothing to help heal racism in this country, in fact, it has made it worse????? WTH?
Seashell
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:36pm.
Some of us knew right away Obama's election made racism worse. The Black Panthers at the Philadelphia poling place was kind of a hint. Then there was the cop who arrested Gates who was said to have "acted stupidly" when BO didn't have the facts, there was the black woman showing up for her Obama money...
Jesse, we knew BO's election would only increase racism.
But, but,
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:50pm.
but we were told that with the election of Obama all ills would be cured. Yes we knew, and I find it funny that the likes of Jackson is admitting it now.
I think that statement from Jackson could perhaps come back to bite Obama in the fall.
BTW Rad
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:07pm.
I love me some Greg Gutfeld-so clever and funny!
~Classic example of the old saying..
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:48pm.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Tim Tebow Sandwich Coming To
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:47pm.
Tim Tebow Sandwich Coming To Carnegie Deli
Wow! $22.22
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:06pm.
I hope that is one hell on a sandwich!
All that's pretty cool I guess, but I just hope that Tim keeps a low profile and sticks to practicing football and seeing kids. Being in NY is going to be a culture shock for him in ways. Just hope he stays grounded. I think he will!! I for one can't wait for fall to watch how Ryan plays him. I have a feeling Tim will be out there a lot! Hope so.
Have you been reading the
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:37pm.
Have you been reading the stories about the redrawning of the NC/SC line? There is a guy that runs a little store just indise the SC line. Under the new boundry he will be in NC. He can't sell fireworks and gas is 30 cents higher. They should leave this alone. The boundary has been there for 100s of years. This is one of the dumbest things I've heard a government do.
Rick
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 3:10pm.
Careful, someone else in government might try to do outdo that stupidity. I have nO other explanation for the continuing stupidity of government other than its some kind of contest.
To paraphrase Lester Mattox, ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 3:41pm.
>>> former governor of GA, when the feds wrote a report saying that the Georgia prison system had a lot of crime inside the prisons, Lester said, "Yes, and we will continue to have crime inside our prisons until we get a better grade of prisoner."
Unfortunately, Rad, we will continue to get stupid crap from our government until we get less stupid elected officials and government employees working for us.
Good old NC elected the dumbest bunny in the hutch when they selected Dumplin' last election, but rumor has it she is a lot of fun after the lights go out around the capitol. I guess I can't knock her too much. It got Bubba Clinton all the way to the White House.
Here's another stupid one, Rad & Rick
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 3:54pm.
I was reading the local little mullet wrapper this a.m.
Seems the Feds are requiring ALL pool owners in multiple dwellings (apartments, hotels, etc.) to have mechanized pool lifts for the handicapped installed.....for each pool, hot tub, whirlpool, etc.
Because you know, little kids won't play on the pool lifts that won't be used, like that.
This is worse than the light bulbs, truly. Government needs to get out of our business.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Out of service
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 4:22pm.
You can bet a lot of those pools will soon be filled in.
Yes Rick
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 3:38pm.
Yes, I have some family w/a place on Lake Wylie and they (while they won't be affected directly) are in an uproar about it. I think they know the guy with the store/gas station who depends on people from NC coming down to buy his cheaper gas-not to mention the firework sales. Yes, they should leave it alone. No offense, but those people aren't interested in being Tarheels! :)
I work only a couple of
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:39pm.
I work only a couple of blocks from the Carnegie Deli. I might have to check out the sandwich after I shed 30 or so pounds. I'll have one of them and a Crumbs cupcake or two. YUM!!! :-)
At least go take a picture of the menu board, Scoobs
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:54pm.
I'll put it on my blog!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I think The Sands in the Lehigh Valley
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 3:09pm.
Has a Carnegie Deli. Someday I want the old man out of the house I'll tell him about this. He'll be right on it.
Save Some Room For The Texas Ranger's
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 5:32pm.
$26 Hot Dog!
When you're done with that, come on over to Cleveland for The Melt Challenge. (See video on right hand side) Not sure how they did it but 2 skinny blond girls have done it.
If you're still hungry I'll take you to Slyman's for one of the biggest corned beef sandwiches you've ever had.
Bru~Or...
Submitted by GG_NB on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:50pm.
Way to mess something up that could have been good.
Wow, I am crabby today. Sorry, folks. ;)
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan
Where are the protests.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 1:53pm.
Read this morning that some guy shot four people in Durham, NC yesterday, killing two and putting the others in the hospital.
When are the Justice Brothers, Jackson and Sharpton, coming to Durham to protest that action? FYI, No white Duke lacrosse players, or black stripper baby-mommas were involved. Maybe it doesn't qualify?
Also, yesterday in good old Durham, NC, some wheelchair-bound kid was raising money so his wheelchair basketball team could bring their players to his elementary school for a game. Some citizen came along and stole his money bucket with the $250+ he had raised, and got away because the kid couldn't chase after him.
Maybe the Justice Brothers and the ADA activists can collaborate on demonstrations for those victims?
Yeah, Durham is such a diversely "rich" city. What was it? Oh they just had their SECOND DA in a row busted in court and kicked out of office. Sounds like a place just crying out for a Sharpton/Jackson solution.
BTW, I caught Sharpton's speech stirring up the FL crowds where he said: "Do dey thank we stoopid? Do dey thank we ig'nant?"
Al, don't know about anyone else in the crowd, but you answered your own question about yourself.
I think it was black on black
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 2:40pm.
I think it was black on black crime. That never brings out the race pimps. You hear people like Alan West crying out over things like this but the Unreverend Al nor Jesse will touch it. I think I heard David Webb commenting on the real issues in the black community that those two race whores will never touch.
Close, Rick.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 3:46pm.
The shootings were, but the kid in the wheelchair was white, and i won't mention that the guy who robbed him was black, because that might make me a racist. S you didn't hear it from me, bro.
To tell the truth, I'm not sure all the shooting victims were also black, since the paper never says anything that might imply that a black male would EVER shoot a non-black person. (see how sensitive I can be?)
i assumed that because Durham
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 1:00pm.
i assumed that because Durham is has a high population of blacks. I think it is the highest per capita in NC.
Why is Obama all over the FL shooting?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 4:23pm.
Here is my guess as to what the old RBFSOB is up to.
Carpe diem. Bambi is going to seize the day, and this shooting in FL may be his trigger.
Not long ago, the Congress, in their infinite wisdom, passed a provision in the National Defense Act that allows the indefinite detention of American citizens, no charges, no nothing. Ain't that a peach?
About a month ago, old Bambi wrote hisself a "Presidential decree" that says in case of war, or in time of peace if he, him, hisself, considers something a national emergency, he, him, hisself can nationalize all strategic industry and businesses. Of course he, him, hisself can say it is an emergency, and which businesses are strategic, and when he wants to do it! Congress and the Supreme Court can't say Shiite. Now that is really a peach, ain't it?
So here comes the FL shooting. He's got the Justice Brothers, the NAACP, the Nation of Islam, the Black Panthers, and every other bunch of thugs at his disposal stirring the pot for revenge, and payback to whitey. It will blow up, and soon, and the MSM is just adding heat to the stew with their coverage. This will not end nicely.
When the race wars start, and the cities are burning, our savior, DA ONE will step forward and declare that this is a peacetime "National Emergency," and we will be right where Nazi Germany was when Hitler took over.
He can seize any business or industry he please, nationalize the states' National Guard, mobilize the military against American citizens, and lock up anybody's ass he pleases, and keep them locked up as long as he pleases, and it will all be legal.
Oh, oh, oh! The best part is, since he will be dealing with a National Emergency, he can just delay the 2012 elections until he decides that the emergency is over.
Want to bet when that will be?!? Anybody?
(posted earlier on another open thread - sorry for the repeat)
Cromartie
Submitted by Seashell on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 4:30pm.
So glad to hear that Cromartie has come around about Tebow. A--hole. I'm sure he really means it. /sarc
NB, Kuz, he got no traction with fast 'N fascist, gun exporting
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 4:51pm.
Waco style incrementalism is a democrat..DREAM..
Clinton's first term and during that time he lobbied for, and signed, two major pieces of gun control legislation, the Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban.
The race is on as to what will be first: An iranian nuk going off, or a 1,000 little wacos.
EARTHQUAKE..... SECONDS AGO lol small kind....
You Didn't Build That.
Yea, Here is a map
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 6:13pm.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/hv/60326516/us/index....
You Didn't Build That.
Ok, so now you're
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 9:43pm.
just trying to annoy me! Why does my account profile say 5 years 52 weeks? Why not 6 years?
Put in 6 years already!!!
Maybe their using the Canadian calendar?
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 9:45pm.
.
What else you gonna do up there,
Submitted by Boudin on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 9:47pm.
Freezing your fanny off?
Nah
Submitted by mandrake on Sat, 03/24/2012 - 9:53pm.
It's actually quite warm. But I do have an OCD which drives me nuts about some things, and time is one of them.
If Obama had a son
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 12:58pm.
this is what he'd look like
http://moonbattery.com/?p=9665
Baylor
Submitted by Seashell on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 2:20pm.
Thank God they are not wearing those neon jerseys for the game today. Don't know if I could stomach watching if they did.
Obama drunk
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 3:42pm.
comedy, libs. Just comedy.
~...
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 3:48pm.
He seemed almost human.
I suspect, Bru
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 3:52pm.
he's more of a coke
userdrinker.Argument against the individual mandate
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 3:53pm.
that I hadn't heard before. Contract law. I'd like to hear our resident liberals try to dice this one up.
bk, I always wanted to start a business where it was a crime
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 6:06pm.
if folks failed to buy my product. Oh things like...
Bike helmets,
smoke alarms,
ADA, list of crap.
Low flow toilets, faucets, shower heads....
Ethanol in fuel, that rots all rubber parts in fuel systems, from boats to old cars to weed eaters.
Curly blubs...
So it looks like that Contract law argument is one tired old Freedom loving antiquated law that will be going poof.
You see nothing is a right anymore, just a bunch of privileges (like driving, living in a house, riding a bike, taking a crap) rules rules ,all stuck together.
It will be so much easier to apply health care if one is warehoused in a jail.
I do like her argument tho, like maybe the Supreme Court may side with her.
I sure hope so, just doing my part and tiring to be optimistic... :-)
You Didn't Build That.
True on those ucw
Submitted by bkeyser on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 6:22pm.
with the only difference being that you can choose not to ride a bike; forgo the insurance payoff if your home goes up in flames; it's hard to get around ADA -believe me- but you don't have to renovate; and stinky isn't so bad, just ask OWS; etc. Democrats in this case want you to have insurance or... not breathe. LOL
Any time I see the media trying really hard to effect an outcome, I'm pretty sure they've got grave doubt it'll go their way. Re: the 2012 general election, and, Obamacare. My prediction: 6-3 it goes down with only women voting for it. New democratic/media narrative: "men wage war on health".
Black Panthers oversleep, miss their own Kill Zimmerman! rally.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 5:05pm.
LOL.
Local media report the sole attendee was a white person from Connecticut who claimed to be named after a famous porn star.
SOL
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 5:20pm.
Post of the day!
This is good news,
Submitted by Boudin on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 8:43pm.
Folks are sobering up
Got my "Breitbart is Here" t-shirt today
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 7:16pm.
It's rockin'!
So...porn star....I am not only a Breitbart Acolyte, I am now official! Take that, trolls!
WE ARE ANDREW BREITBART!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Sturm, Ruger & Co. has run out of guns
Submitted by Dave. on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 8:26pm.
Hmm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I think the right people
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 8:32pm.
are preparing for the future. Let's just hope they can get those guns made.
Check out RGR's stock chart...
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 9:52am.
RGR
and Smith & Wesson.
Nah, there's no class war coming.. as a certain prolific NB poster stated so eloquently, "Where does Barack pit one group against others?"
After the debacle of old man
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 1:08pm.
After the debacle of old man Ruger agreeing with 10 round magazines, the company had a lot of room for improvement. Obama's been their best merchandiser cause it wasn't that poc P85 (or the P line in general with Glock and Springfield Arms making great pistols).