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The Vancouver Canucks are like the Chicago Cubs of hockey. They always come close to winning the Cup, but never quite pull it off. To be honest, I don’t follow the NHA, let alone professional sports. But I saw these guys, and I had no idea that they had earned recobanition as a National Treasure of Canada.
Here’s another National Treasure of Canada -- The Overnight Open Thread!
[Updated this post due to an unforseen malware attack earlier. -- Bunk]
Tags: Canada, Canucks, Comedy, documentary, Fans, Green Men, hockey, Vancouver
greetings ya’ll
what’s the fallout from obamas speech today
just got home from work and have not had time to surf yet
ok, well looking around
think I’ll start with this
Palestinian Facebook Group Urges Rushing Israel’s Borders Tomorrow
They must feel even more emboldened after Obama just offered them Jerusalem on a platter.
Tomorrow they want to do it again.
Pro-Palestinian activists have formed a new Facebook group calling for mass marches on Israel’s borders this coming Friday.
The group – “Third Palestinian Intifada” – urges Arab activists in neighboring countries to storm Israel’s borders in reaction to the recent “Nakba Day” events and ensuing casualties.
Several Facebook groups urge a third mass popular uprising against Israel, and one of them sports a “Friday of response” page, bearing the date May 20. The page, which currently has 100,000 “Like’s”, does not however give any details on how or exactly when these marches should take place.
@ rain of lead:
How much do you want to bet that the asshats behind it are in London, or Detroit?
@ lobo91:
no bet
The fierce “digital mujahadeen”…
Read something earlier that Israel is already only what…eight miles wide? They want to push them to five miles wide. Then what? 4? 3? 2? You get the idea.
@ lobo91:
Is that like a keyboard warrior? That was great. I am gonna have to use that on facebook. lol
Well, I never knew where the Green Men started. There was a guy dressed like that at last years Fremont Summer Solstice Parade. He was mixed in with the naked bike riders…
lobo91 wrote:
keyboard kommandos…
@ NoThreat2U:
Hey Lady
how you doing?
Hanging in there
don’t worry, it don’t meam nuthin
the rapture is comming sat
so it’s all over anyway
/
@ rain of lead:
I forgot about that.
I guess the whole job thing doesn’t matter, then…
@ rain of lead:
I swear I giggled at the thought of that today. I was like…So I don’t have to see the liver specialist Monday? Cool! Hahahahaha But for now I am well and truly fucked. They cant take out the gall bladder…I WILL bleed to death due to the liver damage. Gonna have to see how to handle the blood disorder that caused the liver damage now. But what else can I do..shit happens. Hanging in there though.
I never watch hockey.
Humh??? A new sport to follow, The green men make it seem interesting enough.
@ NoThreat2U:
Whoa! I missed something somewhere. What’s going on? I am behind on your whole thing. Why can’t they remove your gall bladder? How bad of liver damage do you have? What caused it? Holy crap woman!
just found this bit of good news
Eye-for-an-eye filibuster stops Democratic nominee
If there’s one place where what goes around comes around, it’s the United States Senate. Goodwin Liu, the Berkeley law professor nominated by President Obama to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is the latest to learn that lesson.
Liu’s nomination was blocked by a Republican filibuster Thursday — the first successful filibuster against a judicial nominee since Democrats stopped all 10 of George W. Bush’s appeals court nominees from 2003 to 2005. Although no one back then could have predicted that today’s fight would be about Liu, everyone knew it was going to happen sometime. Once Democrats crossed the line to filibuster those Bush nominees, you could bet Republicans would strike back. And now they have.
@ NoThreat2U:
I guess a liver transplant is not in the picture
@ savages_girl:
I have a bad gall bladder. After more testing and scans, they found out that my liver is bad due to a blood disorder. The blood disorder damages the liver. Now they cant take out the gall bladder because I will bleed to death. Now, I just have to wait for the GB to shrivel up and shrink, and get the blood disorder under control…which is by monthly blood lettings.
@ rain of lead:
It MAY happen. If this specialist can get the blood disorder dealt with and it stops the damage I can live longer. If not, I will need a new one.
@ NoThreat2U:
no black humor here
I post this with tears in my eyes
this is now your offical theme song
@ NoThreat2U:
Wow, that is scary. I’m so sorry to hear that. I can’t believe that they can’t remove the gall bladder. I always thought that was a relatively safe surgery (I had mine out a couple of years ago). I guess in a sense it’s good they did further testing to find out about your blood condition so they didn’t just yank out your gall bladder and then have major issues. Wow, I’m really sorry girl. Is there anything we can do for you to help keep your spirits up?
Now I am crying. lol I will be OK. I aint ready to go yet. No need to cry for me…none of us will live forever. I’m good, really I am. I’m angry and sad but shit happens. Please dont cry for me. I have plenty of time to come down there and BBQ with you
Plus I am taking a Marine to my next doc appt…that oughtta scare my liver. lol lol
Take Our Poll: Do You Agree With the President on Israel?
@ NoThreat2U:
Haaaaayyyyy!
@ NoThreat2U:
hell yeah
I’ll cook for you any time!
@ savages_girl:
Just knowing that everyone here lets me whine and bitch about it keeps my spirits up. lol lol I just gotta see what this new doc suggests and take it from there.
@ Prebanned:
I’ll come to a BBQ at your place too!!! I am sooooo ready for a road trip!
@ rain of lead:
Looking forward to it. I love it down there!! I am gonna do the grand tour of the south!
@ NoThreat2U:
The girl has moxie!
And a sense of humor.
@ NoThreat2U:
have you seen the movie the bucket list?
very funny and uplifting movie
@ rain of lead:
NO, don’t agree with the president on Israel! The jackass…
@ NoThreat2U:
Well you whine and bitch all you want (everybody else here does!). Always here for ya girl! Whatever you need, just ask.
@ NoThreat2U:
you let me know when and we can get jacksontn to drop by…
and hey ironfist and his old lady are just a few hrs down the road
we can get them to come by…..shit that would be a party
@ NoThreat2U:
Well You are pretty ornery, plus everybody likes you
@ Calo:
@ rain of lead:
I haven’t watched it but know what it is about. I am working on my list right now. I aint going out with any regrets.
@ savages_girl:
Thank you for the kind words Sweetness. I hate bitching and whining, but it must be a girl thing. lol lol
@ rain of lead:
We will all be a feature in The Tennessean. lol lol
@ Prebanned:
Damn right I’m ornery. Normal is sooo overrated!
@ NoThreat2U:
You’re always welcome here for brisket, too.
@ Prebanned:
And I like yinz all too…except Dorian…when he is being passive aggressive. lol lol He’ll get me back for that one. lol
@ lobo91:
And we have fresh snow on Pikes Peak…in late May…
@ lobo91:
I probably could have hitched a ride out there with my friend Bonnie. She lives out your way and was just here last week!
NoThreat2U wrote:
nah, their reporters are allergic to gunfire
@ lobo91:
I heard yinz got hit by snow! This is some crazy weather we are all having.
NoThreat2U wrote:
what about when he is aggressivly passive?
@ rain of lead:
Bwahahahaha I can believe that actually. Their security guards aint worth a damn either. My bro in law was one. How, I have no idea. lol
@ rain of lead:
He’s never that!
NoThreat2U wrote:
They apparently got snow in Denver today. We just got more rain here.
But when the clouds cleared this afternoon, I saw fresh snow on Pikes Peak. It tends to be about 30 degrees colder up on top than it is here.
@ lobo91:
Sounds like yinz get a little bit of everything kinda like we do here.
Had virus software go off earlier that screamed
Trojan-BNK.Win32.keylogger.gen and shut down FireFox,
ruined some links as well. Hopefully I nailed it in time before it released an eggsac of malware.As a result, I had to forgo editing this post, and Rodan put it up on my behalf.
[Update:
NoThreat2U wrote:
If you want to experience the world’s climate, you can do it here. The only climate zone Colorado doesn’t have is rain forest.
@ Bunk X:
Hola!
savages_girl wrote:
Hola! Como te va? What’s the que paso?
@ lobo91:
Sounds like PA…without the snowcaps though. ALthough it does sound like New Hampshire. I’m thinking of selling everything I own and living out of an RV…..no permanent home.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I’ll probably be living out of my Hyundai, personally…
savages_girl wrote:
Mrs. Federalist had some very serious side effects from gall bladder surgery (the laperoscopic kind) several years ago. She became violently ill from the pain killers prescribed (vicodin type) so asked if she could use aspirin instead. The nurse said that would be fine. Apparently the combination of being ill from the pain killers and the aspirin caused lots of internal bleeding. She came very close to needing a transfusion. The purple stomach was kind of interesting though.
@ NoThreat2U:
You might want to ask 1389AD about that. It sounds kind of romantic at exciting but in reality… could be exciting… the traveling around thing. I’m kind of a homebody. Like coming home to the cats and fish and Mr Tortoise.
Of course, if you DO decide to go rumbling about the country in an RV, come visit me in WA!
@ AZfederalist:
YIKES! Glad she’s OK. I guess I’m lucky my surgery went well, although the doctor said my gall bladder “looked like a sewer”…
@ lobo91:
I dont want to hear that. If I gotta hang in there and hope for the best, you do too. Deal?
@ AZfederalist:
I wouldn’t have been a candidate for the laproscopic surgery anyway because my gall bladder is enlarged. Hence, the need for a full incision which would have cause the excessive bleeding. I cant take pain pills either, they make me sick, but aspirin after surgery is never a good idea.
@ savages_girl:
I will come and see you!! You got good fishing waters up there!
savages_girl wrote:
This was about 15 years ago. When the doctor saw her, he said, “Wow, I’ve done hundreds of these operations and I’ve never seen anything like this!”. Yeah, that made her feel good.
NoThreat2U wrote:
damn girl
you gots some miles to cover
@ rain of lead:
I love road trips!!!!! I don’t mind flying, but if I can drive and see all the sites…hell yeah! I still need a picture of me at the sign in LaRue KY where the time zone changes. lol
@ AZfederalist:
That, or “Oops” are probably two things you don’t want to hear from your surgeon…
@ NoThreat2U:
I think your chances are better than mine, honestly…
lobo91 wrote:
or
“Hey!, come look at this!”
@ NoThreat2U:
True about the fishing (I have friends who fish). I know more about the food! (Of course, this suprises no one)
@ lobo91:
At least you are guaranteed to be alive. Me? No such guarantee.
@ savages_girl:
I love to fish!
@ rain of lead:
LOL, that’s the truth!
@ rain of lead:
I always tell my students they can find thousands of videos online that illustrate how not to handle firearms.
They’re usually the ones that start with “Hold my beer and watch this”…
@ lobo91:
LOL Yeah that would suck out loud. lol lol
NoThreat2U wrote:
Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart are the two greatest standup comics ever…
Well I am gonna go relax. Yinz all take care through the nite. Talk atcha later. Thanks for listening guys and gals. {{{around the room}}}
lobo91 wrote:
yeah, a rednecks last words
@ NoThreat2U:
Night
@ lobo91:
Bob Newhart is badass. Check him out in The Librarian. He’s a former Marine who kicks some ass. lol Nite Lobo…hang in there with me.
NoThreat2U wrote:
I’ll put you on our prayer list!
Be sure to get another opinion…
@ NoThreat2U:
{NT2U}
Good night.
I’m turning in for the night too.
savages_girl wrote:
Full-timing in an RV isn’t necessarily an easy way to live – though if you know what you’re doing, it is fairly inexpensive. The RV lets me go wherever the work is (which currently isn’t much, but one can hope).
Maintaining and operating an RV is like maintaining a truck/bus and maintaining a small house, but the mechanical details are quite different from maintaining a stationary home. If you want to do that, I would suggest reading up on it, talking to other RVers, looking at a lot of RVs at a dealer or an RV show, and renting an RV for a road trip or two before you consider buying one for yourself.
@ lobo91:
*smack*
Stop whining.
You have a job in the works and a pup who loves you.
And a deadpan sense of humor.
I’m swooning for ya baby.
AZfederalist wrote:
Aspirin and NSAIDs are a no-no for anybody with bleeding problems. These days, they don’t prescribe them before or after surgery, AFAIK.
Vicodin contains codeine and acetaminophen. Acetaminophen does not cause bleeding, but too much of it can cause or aggravate liver damage. Incidentally, acetaminophen is violently toxic to cats.
@ NoThreat2U:
Damn NT2U. Here I am bitching about a computer virus and I come back to read this. You still have a chance to kick its ass, right?
@ Calo:
Nope. No job.
last post
wow
Islands in the stream: The extraordinary homemade dams holding back the Mississippi as desperate residents try to save their homes
We’ve all undertaken home improvements but these residents in flood-stricken Mississippi have had to embark on major construction projects just to protect their houses and livelihoods.
These homes in Vicksburg are all situated along the Yazoo River, a tributary of the overflowing Mississippi River, and their owners have surrounded themselves with tons of earth and sand.
With questions over whether the main levees that protect the area from floods would hold, these farmers took no chances and have so far saved their homes and crops from destruction.
@ lobo91:
Whaaat?
What did I miss these last few days?
Calo wrote:
Today, actually.
They decided that even though I can clearly do the job, they don’t think they can sell the Army on hiring me.
So that’s the end of that…
@ lobo91:
Lobo, I don’t know what to say.
It’s late in my end of the world, and tomorrow is another day.
Good night all.
@ Calo:
Night
Hamas to Obama: Not enough, dhimmi!
Israel expects Obama to take back ’1967 lines’ demand
@ lobo91:
That was the first comedy record to go gold, IIRC.
@ lobo91:
LOL!
@ NoThreat2U:
Will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.
lobo91 wrote:
Newhart is probably one of the most talented deadpan comics ever. His phone skits are legendary.
@ AZfederalist:
“I think our firing on Miami Beach can best be termed ‘Ill-timed’…”
lobo91 wrote:
Really sorry to hear that.
@ lobo91:
That’s great stuff. Hadn’t heard that one before.
Night all
@ AZfederalist:
Night
I’m out, too
lobo91 wrote:
Well, that’s crap-atastic! Did you ever think that you really are not supposed to be back in the Middle East? Heck, I know what it’s like to feel trapped and like you don’t have choices. fyi, I’ve read that New York and New Jersey have people living in houses where they’ve made no payments for up to three years. Banks don’t want to be stuck with even more empty houses. It may be that the VA will have to take that route as well. Cheer up. You have the world’s bestest dog and your health. That matters.
lobo91 wrote:
Night!
Not much cheer on this thread, I see. Sorry about the job, lobo. It’s always bad when you come that close and it vanishes from under you. Happened to me any number of times.
101
Bunk out.
@ lobo91:
I’m so sorry to hear about the job situation Lobo. Prayers…
God Morning All
prayers for yah Lobo
mawskrat wrote:
GOOD
Herman Cain will announce his decision regarding a potential White House bid on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at “High Noon” at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
@ mfhorn:
Awesome!
Setting aside his pro-Muzzie, anti-Israel disposition, ya gotta love Obama telling other countries where to establish secure borders!
Morning everyone. A little rushed, a little busy, and making myself go bald faster. Anyway, finally got my picture post up for the day. Should be an interesting weekend.
IF has lost weight….amazink news video
work is optional today…being
tomorrow is the end of the world/
@ mawskrat:
I keep hearing that rumour. Somehow I expect the world to be here on Sunday morning.
just in from High Command….all leave
is approved for today and drink is highly
recommended
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@ NoThreat2U:
About 9.3 miles or 15 kilometers at it’s narrowest.