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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: _Schadenfreude_ on June 30, 2004, 12:51:55 PM
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http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087373345449&p=1012571727088
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/30/sports/baseball/30pins.html?ex=1089259200&en=76729296ebf968a8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
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Yeah, everytime I think of a supertanker called "Baracuda" I can't help but chuckle.
-Sik
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Ah well if that want does it for you glad to oblige, for myself the fact that Haliburton just ain't doing so well is just deserts and the fact that Americans take time out to boo Cheney at a baseball game is just the cherry on the top.
The times they are a-changing!!!!
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During the singing of "God Bless America" in the seventh inning, an image of Cheney was shown on the scoreboard. It was greeted with booing, so the Yankees quickly removed the image.
:lol :lol
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The funny part is the obsession with Cheney and Haliburton.
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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Ah well if that want does it for you glad to oblige, for myself the fact that Haliburton just ain't doing so well is just deserts and the fact that Americans take time out to boo Cheney at a baseball game is just the cherry on the top.
The times they are a-changing!!!!
I don't really find a few New Yorkers booing a Republican to be all that surprising or funny. Same goes for an American company that may have to lay off some workers. Guess humor is different where you come from.
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Cheney is the better half of the ticket imo.
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Yeager-- Cheney is the better half of the ticket imo.
We agree 100%.. By all means keep Cheney on the ticket.:rofl
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Originally posted by Yeager
Cheney is the better half of the ticket imo.
ouchies....if Cheney is the better half and he got booed, apparently by people who were singing The Star Spangled Banner, then imagine how bad it would have been if Dubya had been there instead!!! Things could have be thrown!!
Lots of luck with the whole landslide thing btw....but where I come from when sportsfans start booing your political leaders at public appearances it indicates there is a chance that they might not be winning any elections any time soon....
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BTW, is that the same New York Times that ran the story of Abu Gharib on their front page 47 times?
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Dunno - I saw both posts on Drudge and felt the need to share.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
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ouchies....if Cheney is the better half and he got booed, apparently by people who were singing The Star Spangled Banner, then imagine how bad it would have been if Dubya had been there instead
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I don't read nearly that much into it. That is just the way things operate in this politically polarized society of 292,724,282 people.
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Originally posted by Yeager
Cheney is the better half of the ticket imo.
(http://files.blog-city.com/files/aa/4776/p/f/evilcheney.jpg)
If by better you mean eeeeeeevil, then yes.
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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Americans take time out to boo Cheney at a baseball game
Don't look for that on the Fair and Balanced Network....LOL
OTOH< all those that booed should be tried and shot for treason...terrorist lovers...:mad:
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Even in the repub primary when Cheney was announced on the ticket I understood who was really going to be in charge.
If your going to be a conservative then you might as well be CONSERVATIVE muHAHAHAHA!!!:rofl
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TRAITARS!!!
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Originally posted by Red Tail 444
Don't look for that on the Fair and Balanced Network....LOL
Guess you would be wrong because they certainly have.
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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1087373345449&p=1012571727088
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/30/sports/baseball/30pins.html?ex=1089259200&en=76729296ebf968a8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
I laugh at you, the person who recently whined about finding a "European" BB because the members here upset you with all the talk about American topics. :lol
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sounds alot like post 9/11 firefighters booing hillary clinton off stage
truth is it happens
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lol yes I am laughing my arse off.
:D
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Originally posted by NUKE
I laugh at you, the person who recently whined about finding a "European" BB because the members here upset you with all the talk about American topics. :lol
Stupid people don't upset me Nuke - you run along and have a nice day now. How's that interest rate hike and those higher fuel prices working out for you anyway?
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1.95 a gallon in my town Schaden...
How's your... what's it about 4.50 / gallon ?
whats that... in the neighborhood of 0.65 to 0.75 lbs / litre?
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Originally posted by TheDudeDVant
During the singing of "God Bless America" in the seventh inning, an image of Cheney was shown on the scoreboard. It was greeted with booing, so the Yankees quickly removed the image.
Pathetic end to this is simple, 80% didn't know the words to God Bless America before 9/11.
Karaya
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Why would they? GBA is not the SSB.
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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
1.95 a gallon in my town Schaden...
How's your... what's it about 4.50 / gallon ?
whats that... in the neighborhood of 0.65 to 0.75 lbs / litre?
About $1.47 a liter for diesel here, gotta pay for people's healthcare and education - one of those needs of the many outweight the needs of the few things. I fill up every 3 - 4 months meself so it's really not a biggie $88.20 for a tank of 60 liters.
Course it helps that oil is sold in US$ and with £1.00 buying $1.82
USD it makes it a lot easier for us - thanks for letting your currency go down the toilet btw!! It's really appreciated!!
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in 1992 it was about 2.00 US / 1 UK
in 1981 it was about 2.50 US / 1 UK
in 1998 it was about 1.60 US / 1 UK
looks like 1.82 is in the ballpark, so no sweat Schaden.
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well... Im shocked... People in new york city booing a republican candidate for vice pres? next you will tell me they are liberal in san francisco.
lazs
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Recall the voice of Ray Charles
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O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
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The Star Spangled Banner
by Francis Scott Key
Try to remember the words next time....
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Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their lov'd homes and the war's desolation;
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Pow'r that hath made and preserv'd us as a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
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America
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My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills,
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
To thee we sing,
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light,
Protect us by thy might
Great God, our King.
Our glorious Land to-day,
'Neath Education's sway,
Soars upward still.
Its hills of learning fair,
Whose bounties all may share,
Behold them everywhere
On vale and hill!
Thy safeguard, Liberty,
The school shall ever be,
Our Nation's pride!
No tyrant hand shall smite,
While with encircling might
All here are taught the Right
With Truth allied.
Beneath Heaven's gracious will
The stars of progress still
Our course do sway;
In unity sublime
To broader heights we climb,
Triumphant over Time,
God speeds our way!
Grand birthright of our sires,
Our altars and our fires
Keep we still pure!
Our starry flag unfurled,
The hope of all the world,
In peace and light impearled,
God hold secure!
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Originally posted by _Schadenfreude_
Stupid people don't upset me Nuke - you run along and have a nice day now. How's that interest rate hike and those higher fuel prices working out for you anyway?
you mean the LOWER gas prices? just fell below $2.00 here.
And the "whopping" rate increase, what a disaster.
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goron was such a better veep than Cheney :rolleyes:
(http://store3.yimg.com/I/freedomhq_1799_257514)
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People don't know the words to the 'The Star Spangled Banner' because it's IMPOSSIBLE for the average person to sing!
If I were President the first thing I'd do is 'trash' that song and get something else. Anything else.....