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  • Wednesday, 8 April 2009 at 08:24 pm

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Say, we do not have honesty yet do we?
[info]famulla wrote:
Sunday, 13 September 2009 at 01:02 am (UTC)
So, you think we are buying house honey. Think again. We have 17 kids, no insurances, no education, only tomatoes from the neighbors’ garden “borrowed” to eat, no ministers who will tell us where we are even with their GPS. No nothing. Let us sleep now here come near me then we think next year. What you say? Okay or no baby? Mr. Knan of IMF know no one knows.
The global economic crisis isn't over yet, despite positive signals from Europe's biggest economies, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned in comments published Saturday. More work also needs to be done on financial-sector regulation, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh Sept. 24-25. "In the minds of too many -- not only regular people but also top politicians -- the financial crisis is already behind us," Strauss-Kahn said, according to the report. "That way of thinking is dangerous," he was quoted as saying. "The global economic crisis continues despite the fact that Germany and France saw some positive growth figures for the last quarter." The two European heavyweights moved to modest growth in the second quarter. Regardless of that, unemployment will continue to rise for at least another year, Strauss-Kahn added.
Say, we do not have honesty yet do we?
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Firozali A Mulla
Damn the National Hospital nurse. She gave me sleeping pills instead of abortion of the labour.
[info]famulla wrote:
Monday, 14 September 2009 at 12:35 am (UTC)
Watch out here comes that crazy lady driver with her 1950 VW. Darling move faster, the white lines are turning red. Ooooh, my leg. Damn the National Hospital nurse. She gave me sleeping pills instead of abortion of the labour. Jack Straw Mr. stop pushing will yee?
Davis you are not from Israel . You are born, bread, buttered, jammed, educated, and milked from our tits. Please, please take out the few coins you have in he pockets so we toss to the crazy lady and she may, just may see these and slow down. I know this is bribery like lockbery and strawberry but what do I do in these hopeless roads with bicycles all over in the night and no lights.
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Remodeling of the roads and 10 Downing Street.
[info]famulla wrote:
Monday, 14 September 2009 at 05:08 am (UTC)
This is the work of fiction and does not relate to any person dead or alive. It is only coincidence that you are here.
Remodeling of the roads and 10 Downing Street.
The big Copper (traffic officer) 7 feet +, Darling is looking for the recruitments of the old but experienced man to keep the London Street free from the deaths like G20.
The applicants have the CVs ready and come one by one, as you see them here.
First one. David enters the room to be interviewed.

Darling “Yes, since when did we start talking good English?”
David, “1757 to 1857”
Darling. “Who was the Prominent in England when the World War II was fought?”
David, “Churchill”
Darling, “Is there water in Mars?”
David, “it is possible but the scientists have not been able to prove this.’
Darling” Next”

Brown meets David or the doorway and asks, “How was it?”
I do not have time but the answers are . “1757 to 1857”, “Churchill” and, “““it is possible but the scientists have not been able to prove this.’
Brown thank you man you saved my skin.

Darling, “Brown, When were you born?”
Brown, ““1757 to 1857”,
Darling, “What, What is your name”
Brown, ““Churchill”
Darling,” Do you have brains?”
Brown, “““It is possible but the scientists have not been able to prove this.”

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Firozali A Mulla
It is no use sucking the milk from the breast of woman, who is dead.
[info]famulla wrote:
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 01:39 am (UTC)
Mr. Brown relax. Let me explain the problem. Please. Even a dying man has a last wish. Then hang me but this. No No No No
You beat me this time. Friend from Japan Sukiyaki just called me to say, "We are coming out of recession as we are innovating games and more images for the table tennis games. In one game we break the table and my kids tried, the mom threw them out, now you try this. It is a good time pass to stay in the sun and watch the Sunday and Monday go by in open air" I am trying this. Want to join me?
Invest in yourself.
The child should suck milk of a woman who is alive. It is no use sucking the milk from the breast of woman, who is dead.
Ask a Correspondent - The Meaning of Life. The correspondents know what life is all about, but it would be dangerous to impart that wisdom to the public.
"Wall St. still operates on the principle of taking care of itself first, really big and important customers second, everyone else last." While Of course, by "everyone else," means you and me! Now please listen with eyes and see with ears.
America's best companies are thriving -- as reflected by a flurry of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, including Disney's $4 billion play for Marvel Entertainment.
Wall St. won't tell you about opportunities like Marvel
Wall St. Is DEAD!
(and we're dancing on its grave)
"The market for financial advice is in turmoil." -- Forbes
In the end, the US financial services industry was pulled down by its own arrogance and greed. "Hank Paulson and pals," as Charlton Heston cried in the 1968 blockbuster Planet of the Apes, "You blew it up!" What's left now are a few quasi-governmental institutions... an absurd bonus check or two in the mail... and maybe one last mother-of-all Ponzi schemes to unearth. But the trust is gone. And without it, millions of betrayed US investors (and our hard-earned money) can't be far behind. And good for us, too! By comparison, the company's closest competitor generates just In layman's terms... just like Dell did in 1990... this company has found a way to satisfy a consumer appetite while avoiding the onerous plant, equipment, and inventory costs that eat up its competitors' already razor thin margins. That's right, you don't risk a dime
You see in these times when we have no coin in the pocket we still have these from USA. Buy Buy Buy From Me. And we become the nuts and bolt for these. Fight after the mom is dead suck the milk. Now can I go to prison the Libya??
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Firozali A. Mulla
Labour wins the next election, it will have to make "cuts" to public spending. See I doing this live
[info]famulla wrote:
Tuesday, 15 September 2009 at 02:16 pm (UTC)
Cows bought mad cow illness, the swine and the cousin (Muslims are not allowed to eat both), brought the swine flue. This ass, I have to see what this ass will bring. I hope not the farting asses. Mr Brown on the TV SKY.COM. “We are proud that we supply the small traders with the health and all the other amenities. Remove these we will have more illiterates. We will not cut public spending. Can we assure that year by year that we choose the minimum wages that I will increase? We will not happen this ageing, for the first time the apprentice will be put to the high level. Let us remember the brave ones who are in Afghanistan. "The UK aid for GKN will boost research and development in the aerospace sector in Europe," EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement.
And how we did this, I am not telling. Gordon Brown has admitted for the first time that if Labour wins the next election, it will have to make "cuts" to public spending. The Prime Minister has avoided using the "c-word", trying to cast the Tories as the "slash and burn" party.
During Prime Minister's Questions in June, Mr Brown said: "The only party that's proposing a cut in public spending is the Conservative Party."
But in a speech to trade unions, he said: "Labour will cut costs, cut inefficiencies, cut unnecessary programmes and cut lower priority budgets.
But this ass has to go.
Imagination lit every lamp in this country, produced every article we use, built every church, made every discovery, performed every act of kindness and progress, created more and better things for more people. It is the priceless ingredient for a better day.
-- Henry J. Taylor
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Mr Brown, open your eyes slowly as there are some glass pieces on the eyes brows and brains.
[info]famulla wrote:
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 12:39 am (UTC)
cut cut cut action, light , cameras, cu cut cut action
Mr. Brown. relax. We still have to face the TV with all of those doors and Windows with not axe but vita. relax relax I said you will get high BP. relax now you are feeling groggy relax, now you are in command of your thoughts, relax and all will pass. My Dad, Your Dad they all are dead.
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Doris Lessing
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
Mr Brown, open your eyes slowly as there are some glass pieces on the eyes brows and brains.
Now tell me, how do you feel?
Cut Cut Cut Cut Cut Cut
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
The study, which examined the performance of House members between 1984 and 2004, found that women delivered roughly 9 percent more discretionary spending for their districts than men.
May be I am not reading this properly. These professions demand the biggest liars in the world and most politicians come after they are lawyers. Am I right?
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Incidentally, where is the fire?
[info]famulla wrote:
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 04:43 pm (UTC)
Incidentally, where is the fire?
pleiad
noun: A group of (usually seven) brilliant persons or things.
ETYMOLOGY:
After the Pleiades, the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and sea-nymph Pleione in Greek mythology. These seven sisters were Maia, Electra, Celaeno, Taygete, Merope, Alcyone, and Sterope. In one version of the myth, they killed themselves out of grief over the loss of their half sisters the Hyades, and were turned into a group of stars. In another version, they were placed among the stars to protect them from the hunter Orion, though he too became a star to continue to pursue them. Only six of the seven sisters shine brightly in the Pleiades star cluster. The other one is supposed to be Merope, hiding in shame for loving a mortal, or Electra, mourning the death of her son Dardanus.
USAGE:
"'The turbulent 1990s were a time of rapid change and bold, extraordinary people. ... Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, without any exaggeration, belongs among just such a pleiad,' Putin said."
Lynn Berry; Russian Leaders Honor Boris Yeltsin on 1st Anniversary of His Death; Associated Press; Apr 23, 2008.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Only the educated are free. -Epictetus, philosopher (c. 60-120)
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How would the president realise that he too is in the same line as the hackler. Part 1
[info]famulla wrote:
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 09:07 pm (UTC)
How would the president realise that he too is in the same line as the hackler. Part 1
Hey shorty, let us close the top with the condom as I have spoken harsh, very harsh words like, “Tell me what is the difference between Joe Wilson said Sunday, challenging Democratic leaders who want him to say on the House floor that he’s sorry for yelling “You lie! And “He’s a jackass,” Obama replies, which is met with laughter from several people.
The president seems to quickly realize he may have gone too far, and jovially appeals to those assembled that the remark be kept private. “Come on guys,” he says. “Cut the president some slack. I’ve got a lot of other stuff on my plate.”
Ron Ashkenas. Unless we challenge ourselves to become simpler and more transparent, we run the risk of contributing to another crisis.
U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s oldest son defended his father against a claim by former President Jimmy Carter that the congressman’s outburst during a speech by President Barack Obama was “based on racism.”
Responding to an audience question at a town hall at his presidential center in Atlanta, Carter said Tuesday that Wilson’s outburst was also rooted in fears of a black president.
How would the president realise that he too is in the same line as the hackler.
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How would the president realise that he too is in the same line as the hackler. Part 2
[info]famulla wrote:
Wednesday, 16 September 2009 at 09:11 pm (UTC)
How would the president realise that he too is in the same line as the hackler. Part 2
The Obama administration signaled Wednesday that it would scrap a controversial Bush-era rule that set stricter limits for smog but fell short of scientific recommendations. Smog is a respiratory irritant that can aggravate asthma and has been linked to heart attacks. The Bush regulation, announced in March 2008, was the subject of much controversy, although it was estimated that it would have prevented thousands of hospital and emergency room visits and 1,400 fewer heart attacks.
Leaving ACORN on one side, tell me, without you who would have told me the loss of the most precious commodity in the world?
LONDON (Reuters) – Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever, the United Nations relief agency said Wednesday.
The number of hungry people will pass 1 billion this year for the first time, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) said, adding that it is facing a serious budget shortfall.
To date the WFP has confirmed $2.6 billion in funding for its 2009 budget of $6.7 billion.
"This comes at a time of great vulnerability for the hungry," the WFP said in a statement.
Belgian farmers sprayed 3 million liters (790,000 gallons) of fresh milk onto their fields Wednesday, furious over the low milk prices they say are bankrupting farmers.
Milk farmers' groups said world prices had sunk so much they are having to sell milk at half their production costs, leaving more and more farmers unable to pay their bills.
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good communication can improve relationships, increasing intimacy, trust and support.
[info]famulla wrote:
Thursday, 17 September 2009 at 12:02 am (UTC)
Conventional wisdom (and research) says that good communication can improve relationships, increasing intimacy, trust and support. The converse is also true: poor communication can weaken bonds, creating mistrust and even contempt! Here are some examples of negative and even destructive attitudes and communication patterns that can really mess up a relationship. How many of these sound like something you’d do?
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OOOHHHH Lets Twist again now the time is near near near near near near
[info]famulla wrote:
Friday, 18 September 2009 at 12:12 am (UTC)
A CONVINCING ORATOR?
I know how it is Ed. There are so many that even I am doing Chaha Chacha
Pushing for health care reform didn’t turn out so well for the last first lady in a Democratic White House. But with a retooled staff and an under-the-radar summer behind her, Michelle Obama plans a packed autumn that aides say will include a “dedicated focus” on health insurance reform — the same issue that brought such headaches to Hillary Clinton. She won’t get into the weeds on health care, pushing specific details or plans as Clinton did. Instead, she’ll make the soft, soccer-mom sell, highlighting the need to eat healthy, exercise and get preventive care. On Friday, Michelle Obama will appear at an event where women and families will talk about the health care system, and she will deliver remarks that will “amplify the president’s message on the need for health insurance reform,” according to the White House. And she’ll most likely have a receptive audience. Cadbury pursuit may test Kraft CEO's patience. Earlier this year, Irene Rosenfeld left no doubt, as to what she would do with Kraft employees who stubbornly resisted a new set of values at the company.
"You roll right over them," the chairman and CEO of the world's second largest food maker said.
Ed, with these what do you expect Obama to do. Many ladies and he only alone with the plenty men around shouting you are covered but we are not?
It is not Tango, that I confirm.
Why worry if they are sad let us be happy. After all not all can eat in plate.
According to excerpts of the book released to GQ magazine, Bush also made a highly derogatory remark about Hillary Clinton, said then-presidential candidate Barack Obama had "no clue" and was uncertain about the identity of Sarah Palin when Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) picked her as his running mate. The book is being published by Crown Publishing Group and is set for a Sept. 22 release. OOOHHHH Lets Twist again now the time is near near near near near near
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Firozali A. Mulla
Do you have the spray that makes flies sexy so you can kill three at a time? Go get that we need to
[info]famulla wrote:
Friday, 18 September 2009 at 01:15 am (UTC)
Wisdom
"Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration."
Stronger Dollar Impedes Gold's Glimmer
Trade concerns lift the dollar and pressure gold, but analysts see pricing supports ahead.
Why do you base India that has a panic button but millions who have never seen Gold in TV?
Do we assume they will but gold only and not land? They call the land as mother like the one we do. Gold will last Dollar is Going Going have you seen the death of the man in front of you? How he struggles for air and then dit dit dash dash out?
"The British have problems with that, like the Americans... (but) we are going to study the question," he added.
Juncker had earlier said Europe should act on bonuses "whether the Americans are with us or not."
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is driving efforts to see Brussels go further than the G20, adding that "more severe rules" on banks' capital ratios can be applied even if only within Europe initially.
Even British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said "there is no going back to the bonus structure of the past," admitting the issue had "angered the populations of almost every country."
A top US presidential aide has already ruled out fixed caps despite Obama lashing out at top Wall Street executives this week.
There was no breakthrough, however, on diverging views over the unwinding of massive government stimulus.
Ed, Ed, Ed, please no more fly soup. Do you have the spray that makes flies sexy so you can kill three at a time? Go get that we need to save lives to save democracy to save China, India , Iran, ….
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Firozali A. Mulla
Rogues' Gallery. Just a Trim
[info]famulla wrote:
Saturday, 19 September 2009 at 12:24 am (UTC)
Ha ha. Now to cut the UK in four economics. Scots, Wales, England, and Ireland. Do what you want to do but I have decided to be very open, naked, swear on the blades and blood of the UK politicians gone, gone for good, dead I am now coming to refresh the looks. Wall Street I come then for you. For now, you are down. I am also looking for the (Two weeks ago, Mr. Sumner’s group and the National Chicken Council joined other American food organizations in sending a letter to Ron Kirk, the United State trade representative, cautioning that action against Chinese tires could lead to retaliation. “For some, the Chinese market is the difference between profitability and possible bankruptcy,” the letter warned. Now that the Chinese are threatening retaliation, industry officials say they can only hope Chinese taste buds outweigh protectionist impulses. “It complicates the issue for the Chinese” because of their consumer demand for) American chicken parts.
Ha ha. Come you naked man from the dark. Your wife is the ransom. Wht is the club fee. Nakedness??
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you want to flood-to-flood to flood-to-flood, to flood-to-flood, to flood-to-flood London?
[info]famulla wrote:
Saturday, 19 September 2009 at 04:43 am (UTC)
You Boris. Not you Boris Baker, I mean you, the Mayor. You want the Thames back on the map. And you are on the bicycles. Look at the hair. They stand on the roots from teeth to ears, and you want the Thames back. Do you know wait I am proofed up walking. At he age of 56 and height 5 ⅝, belt of 54. Woo, yes. We have spent millions of pesos on printing the maps of the underground and over ground, roadmaps and plane maps; you want to flood-to-flood to flood-to-flood, to flood-to-flood, to flood-to-flood London?
Have you ever thought that my office, my dog, my house (Thank Allah it is with the banks) my rats will do?
Just for that, I am grinding my chopstick and I will cut your rails.
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Firozali A. Mulla

Is this true? Many a words were said in jest. David and Brown and we
[info]famulla wrote:
Saturday, 19 September 2009 at 10:57 pm (UTC)
Is this true? Many a words were said in jest. David and Brown and we.
Darling. We love you but…first thing first…Is Osama alive? Is Tony a rogue pirate? Is Obama really removing the health plan and the missiles from west and going from East? Tell me you have little time. I swear on this sharp little axe’s head it will not hurt as much as you feel. Damn it you will not feel anything…
Two old men, Abe and Sol, sit on a park bench feeding pigeons and talking about baseball. Abe turns to Sol and asks, "Do you think there's baseball in Heaven?"
Sol thinks about it for a minute and replies, "I dunno. But let's make a deal -- if I die first, I'll come back and tell you if there's baseball in Heaven, and if you die first, you do the same."
They shake on it and sadly, a few months later, poor Abe passes on. Soon afterward, Sol sits in the park feeding the pigeons by himself and hears a voice whisper, "Sol... Sol...."
Sol responds, "Abe! Is that you?"
"Yes it is, Sol," whispers Abe's ghost.
Sol, still amazed, asks, "So, is there baseball in Heaven?"
"Well," says Abe, "I've got good news and bad news."
"Gimme the good news first," says Sol.
Abe says, "Well, there is baseball in Heaven."
Sol says, "That's great! What news could be bad enough to ruin that?"
Abe sighs and whispers, "You're pitching on Friday."
So we spend spend spend but you told us and so did my draling save to spend Stupid maths but maths.
In a span of four days, Obama will plunge into the politics of the United Nations and host a summit in Pittsburgh on the world's wobbling economy. The international stage is coming to him, and no one standing on it with him will have higher stakes.
Obama is under pressure to push along stalled Mideast peace, prove the United States is serious about climate change and rally allies against the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea. Restless leaders in Europe and elsewhere are pressing Obama to reform risky U.S. financial behavior and get Congress on board.
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UK DAVID BROWN WE STIIL HAVE FAITH IN THE EAST HOLD YOUR AXIS OF EVIL @@$$$???
[info]famulla wrote:
Sunday, 20 September 2009 at 04:32 am (UTC)
IMF CAN HELP WITH UN IF WE HAVE OBAMAZATON IN CHINA
China's economy will be able to achieve a growth target of 8 percent this year, but the country should not rest on its laurels as problems remain, the statistics bureau's top economist was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Yao Jingyuan, chief economist of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a forum in Shanghai that the basis for China's economic recovery was still not stable, and many uncertainties existed.
"It isn't easy making the transition from the one being cared for to the one giving the care. "
HENNI FISHER, a Brooklyn, N.Y., clinical social worker, on the increasing financial burden that results from adults caring for elderly parents
WASHINGTON – Asian leaders gathering at next week's economic summit in Pittsburgh will be demanding a greater voice in the way global financial institutions make crucial decisions. Likewise, the world's established powers will have some demands of their own for the rising
If only you ask me, I do not understand either. Oil is 70 the costs go up. Oil goes down to 30 we are still broke. I see some futures but I .. oh well forget it .. but
Asian nations. will be demanding a greater voice will be demanding a greater voice
The Western countries who traditionally have wielded power at the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations will want Asia to cut greenhouse gases blamed for dangerous climate change and to slash barriers that prevent free trade. will be demanding a greater voice will be demanding a greater voice
You see all want to know where we screwed up all.
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Firozali A. Mulla
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our fri
[info]famulla wrote:
Monday, 21 September 2009 at 07:21 am (UTC)
Sir
But but. We are in the middle of the desert and the palm trees. There are no bird or bananas. Please cut the fruits if you must but but
comstockery
PRONUNCIATION:
(KOM-stok-uh-ree, KUM-)
MEANING:
noun: Overzealous censorship of material considered obscene.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He crusaded against anything he considered immoral. Nothing escaped his wrath -- even anatomy textbooks for medical students and the draping of mannequins in public view in shop windows were obscene to him. He lobbied for laws against mailing any material that could be perceived as promoting immorality. He was appointed postal inspector and he seized books, postcards, and other materials by the boatload. He boasted that he had arrested more than 3,000 people and driven more than 15 to suicide. George Bernard Shaw coined the word comstockery after him when he attacked the American production of Shaw's play "Mrs. Warren's Profession". USAGE: "The language and thought police are hardly some Orwellian invention; America has been unusually susceptible to plagues of Comstockery and self-righteous tomfoolery."
Jon Newlin; Well, Shut My Mouth; Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana); Oct 13, 1996.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -J.K. Rowling, author (b. 1965)
An eagle swoops down from the sky and eats a mouse. Three hours later, while the eagle is flying, the mouse sticks its head out of the eagle's butt and asks, "How high up are we?""About 2,000 feet," the eagle replies.
The mouse replies, "You ain't sh*ttin' me, are you?"
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"TWO ANGELS SEEKING PETER -- $50.00."
[info]famulla wrote:
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 10:28 am (UTC)
That is definitely not the way we can ever share the same platform or even the plates. The Yogi and UK. No certainly not. But let us ask the policeman. He may have a better snaky preview as he sneaks on all.
Two prostitutes were riding around town with a sign on top of their car that said: "TWO PROSTITUTES -- $50.00."
A policeman stopped them and told them they'd either have to remove the sign or go to jail.
Just then, another car passed with a sign saying, "JESUS SAVES."
One of the girls asked the cop, "Why don't you stop them?"
"Well, that's a little different," the cop smiled. "Their sign pertains to religion."
The two ladies frowned as they took their sign down and drove off.
The following day the cop noticed the same two ladies driving around with a large sign on their car again. This time the sign read: "TWO ANGELS SEEKING PETER -- $50.00."
imprimatur
PRONUNCIATION:
(im-pri-MAH-tuhr, -MAY-)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Approval or authority; imprint.
2. A license to print or publish, especially one issued by a censor of the Roman Catholic Church.
ETYMOLOGY:
From New Latin imprimatur (let it be printed), from imprimere (to imprint), from in- (in) + premere (to press). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to strike) that also gave us print, press, pressure, compress, impress, express, and espresso.
USAGE:
"Under the new arrangement, the books will be published under the Anne Geddes imprimatur."
Lynn Andriani; Perseus to Distribute Photographer Anne Geddes; Publishers Weekly (New York); Jul 16, 2009.
"The fact that the answer has the imprimatur of Cabinet does not necessarily mean that the information is correct or relevant."
Julian Kenny; Of Sardines and Red Herrings; Trinidad and Tobago Express; Jun 30 2009.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. -Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955) ARE THESE THE 2 2 TOO
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Clegg or Cameron?
[info]thorntongate wrote:
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 10:51 am (UTC)
Cartoon captures exactly the extraordinary similarity between Clegg and Cameron.

Moral let the chairman say the first say.And the sooner the better
[info]famulla wrote:
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 02:51 pm (UTC)
The yogi and UK Let UK speak first or….
Once the junior clerk, the manager and the chairman were on the usual inspection when the usual jinnee comes out from the lamp and asked each to make a wish. The clerk said, “Oh I need the house and a ready made wife, with the cook and educated children” phewww the jinnee was gone. Tha manger asked for a trip to Honduras for a month with the girls in the Honduras. pheewwve the genie was gone. The chairman said, “I want both of these idiots in the office Monday morning at the desk.”
Moral let the chairman say the first say. You may win.
That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one’s happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
-- George Matthew Adams
This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant much at the time; it means much now and will continue to be the beacon of light and guidance for ourselves and of other nations. All that is good and practical and wise in the new developments can best be worked out under our form of government without destroying any of the basic principles upon which it rests.
-- Oscar S. Straus
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Obama joked with the hard-charging, headline-grabbing Andrew Cuomo, calling him "your shy and retiri
[info]famulla wrote:
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 10:07 pm (UTC)
Look, Abbas you have few to back you I have see see. Aso you stay put in ze wall while I mix the cement for the Glob Warming Bye?? Driver take me to Denmark.
Former President Bill Clinton weighed in Tuesday on the waning political fortune of New York Gov. David Paterson, saying he is "not in good shape now" politically.
On NBC's "Today" show, Clinton said he trusts Paterson ultimately will "make a good decision" in deciding whether to run next year.
The comment came after Paterson weathered a weekend in which veiled messages were sent to him from Washington Democrats to drop out of the gubernatorial race and make room for the more popular Andrew Cuomo to lead a critical 2010 ticket.
Then, on Monday, some of the veils appeared to be pulled away, but that only threw Paterson into even more uncertainty.
At an event just a short drive from the governor's mansion, President Barack Obama gave Paterson a cordial, almost perfunctory introduction, calling his Democratic colleague, the state's first black and legally blind governor, a "wonderful man." Nothing about leadership or accomplishment in the job Paterson inherited just 18 months ago when former Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal and a continuing fiscal crisis.
Then came Obama's near high-fiving of Cuomo, the state attorney general who has long eyed the office once held by his father, Mario Cuomo.
Obama joked with the hard-charging, headline-grabbing Andrew Cuomo, calling him "your shy and retiring attorney general."
We are having fun Abbas since 1950. Why you spoil these now?
But why now in my few days now and later??
While Brown is too hiding with David as LONDON (Reuters) - In a pinstripe suit, silk tie and polished shoes, David Rowe has all the trappings of a successful London city worker, except for one stark difference -- he is wearing a sandwich board that says "JOB WANTED." ME Or even bread daily will do.
As he walked down Fleet Street, home to legal firms and investment banks, the 24-year-old history graduate showed the human face behind the "lay-offs" and "recession" headlines.
I thank you
Firozali A. Mulla


cartoon
[info]jimfred wrote:
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 11:30 pm (UTC)
someone always gts fucked over.I have been on the planet 50 years,and this is has become deppressingly apparent to me.
You ask why, why we keep you safe? We need you devotion, emotions, lose motions, all obsessions.
[info]famulla wrote:
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 01:08 am (UTC)
You ask why, why we keep you safe? We need you and not anyone else as we have our devotion, emotions, lose motions, all obsessions. It is because I have just heard over the Morse code that Hillary has. dedee dummm deed dumm U.S. scientists in the Gulf of Mexico unexpectedly netted a 19.5-foot (5.9-meter) giant squid off the coast of Louisiana, the Interior Department said on Monday, showing how little is known about life in the deep waters of the Gulf.
Not since 1954, when a giant squid was found floating dead off the Mississippi Delta, has the rare species been spotted in the Gulf of Mexico.
You see. Now, you tell me, do you want to be like the prophet Jonah in The whale or Hitler blown…
With malice towards none and love for I am and
That was not to be. Despite months of effort, the sides remain far apart on a staunch Palestinian precondition for talks: that Israel halt all construction of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territory. Obama has publicly echoed that demand to Israeli leaders — though the Palestinians noted with displeasure that he used the word "restrain" on Tuesday rather than "halt" or "freeze."
I thank you
Firozali A. Mulla
spot on
[info]freedommonger wrote:
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 05:32 am (UTC)
Time for Obama and the US to force Israel to settlement, by ending all settlement now and a swift return to 1967 borders, secured by the UN. How? Total economic and military blockade if Israel don't. A friend can take a much bigger stick to someone who has lost their way. Now is the time. If they do, we should shower them both with riches. Its time this ended. Long past time.
Netanyahu looks a little too normal to me
[info]angrypancho wrote:
Wednesday, 23 September 2009 at 02:30 pm (UTC)
It would have been a little more honest if Obama had carried a trowel too.
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