Last night was fun, hanging out with my imaginary friends. AWTM and I were the last ones standing. She is a chatty drunk, stopping numerous times along the way home to tell random passersby to beware of the porn peddlers on the strip. And to tell several casino security guards they look like Reno 911.
Also, note to self: never drink rum & coke, wine, beers, amaretto sour, and gin & tonic all in the same night. And then get on a plane the next morning. After four hours of sleep.
But my drinking days are over, and they sure went out with a bang last night! I start fertility treatments in the morning.
Posted by: FbL at September 22, 2008 04:31 PM (HwqvF)
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Good luck with the treatments! Sending you prayers and lots of positive wishes!!
*mary*
Posted by: Mary at September 22, 2008 09:57 PM (3k4VW)
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The secret is: if you start out drinking rum & coke, wine, beers, amaretto sour, and gin & tonic, you have to stick with rum & coke, wine, beers, amaretto sour, and gin & tonic - changing to something else is risky.
Great to meet you at last!
Posted by: Greyhawk at September 23, 2008 11:37 AM (Q0N33)
HAVING FUN DOING NOTHING AT ALL
Either AWTM has been exaggerating her insomnia, or we've discovered the cure: gin and tonic.
Last night I got into Vegas and, after an annoying mix-up and no one calling me back to let me know where to meet them, I ended up just going to bed. AWTM rolled in in the middle of the night and fell asleep the instant her head hit the pillow.
I, on the other hand, only slept from midnight to 2:00 and then 5:00-7:00. Not good. The time change threw me all off.
As does the fact that I'm in the desert and my lips feel like they're going to shrivel and fall off.
But I'm sitting on a sofa beside Guard Wife, surfing the internet together. Sigh...heaven.
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Glad you're happy in heaven. Please keep sending posts down to us on Earth.
I'm singing your post title to the tune of this Air Supply song:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Love_out_of_Nothing_at_All
Posted by: Amritas at September 20, 2008 08:35 AM (HWSu7)
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I do not think drinking that amount of gin daily, would be condusive to much...other than sleep.
Sorry I passed out.
Posted by: AWTM at September 20, 2008 10:54 AM (SO66y)
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Cirrhosis of the liver, AWTM?? Maybe that's one other thing it would be conducive to?
Posted by: Guard Wife at September 20, 2008 01:30 PM (SO66y)
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Do not let Guard Wife fool you, she kept up ALL NIGHT, seriously.
A lot of Gin was consumed
not by me alone..
I do not want to look like a lush
Posted by: AWTM at September 20, 2008 01:38 PM (SO66y)
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Just remember how those desert dwellers react when they feel the South's 99% humidity for the first time... quite entertaining.
Oh yeah, I'm not dead.
Posted by: Green at September 21, 2008 04:29 PM (6Co0L)
VIVA LAS VEGAS
I'm on my way to Vegas today for the Blog World Expo. Don't worry, there will be plenty of internet connection.
I was joking with Guard Wife the other day that my favorite thing about my internet buddies is that I don't have to pretend I'm not glued to my computer all day long. When I hang out with people in the Real World, I have to pretend I'm not jonesing for a trip around the 'sphere. In contrast, when I went to visit AirForceFamily, all three of us adults sat around the kitchen table with three laptops and surfed the internet together.
Course, when I was a kid I used to play marathon games of solitare alongside my brother as well.
Come to think of it, I used to host BYOB parties: bring your own book. My friends and I would literally sit in a room and read together.
Apparently I really like to do solitary activities in a crowd.
Where was I? Right, Vegas. I'm headed to Vegas to surf the internet alongside some of my favorite people on this planet.
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Have fun and good luck with your panel! Thank goodness for imaginary friends!
Posted by: wifeunit at September 19, 2008 02:47 AM (J+xCo)
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Fine! Have fun without me. And have a little fun for me while I finish cleaning house and then driving back to C-ville. Sigh. I wish i could go with you all.
Posted by: Butterfly Wife at September 19, 2008 04:56 AM (62AAX)
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I cannot WAIT to see you.
I have a craft mission for you, if you choose to accept it.
Unfortunately, I read at AWTM's that her eye is better. Not that I'm not glad she's better, but she's likely not bringing the eye patch. Bummer. Looks like we're on our own for appropriate "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" wear.
Posted by: Guard Wife at September 19, 2008 06:43 AM (fPBAo)
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Who needs gambling when you can "surf the internet alongside some of [your] favorite people on this planet"?
Soon BYOB will mean 'bring your own blog'.
Keep us posted!
Posted by: Amritas at September 19, 2008 07:37 AM (+nV09)
WITH BOTH FINGERS
This is a week old, but it's too good not to point out. Rachel Lucas was on fire when she saw the silly British article that said that electing McCain is giving the rest of the world the middle finger. She starts with this:
In all seriousness though. I canÂ’t speak for any other Stupid American, but Europe and Rest of World? Wanna know why I donÂ’t give a toss what you think? Because youÂ’re doing it wrong.
YouÂ’re doing so many things wrong, in my view, that I want my country to be very different from yours.
And tears it up from there. With plenty of naughty language. Read it all.
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CALL ME A MORON
Don't you love when commenters rip on everyone else for being stupid...and then reveal their own shortcomings? I was watching a youtube clip of some Obama splices and saw this recent comment:
Hahahahaha.
If you believe this clip to show the truth about Obama, chances are good that your IQ is way below average.
The sheer amount of cuts mid-sentence in this clip is pretty much proof of that.
Besides, doesn't the US constitution explicitly encourage people to be critical about government and their own country? I guess morons just forgot that little tiny detail.
Maybe I am a moron, but I don't remember that "explicit" part of the constitution. Do you think he means the part of the Declaration of Independence about throwing off the despotism, or is he just running his mouth?
Or maybe he thinks that Thomas Jefferson really said that dissent was the highest form of patriotism. Heh.
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For another thing, statistics show that Europeans are not nearly as well traveled in America as Americans are in Europe. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, some 11.4 million Europeans visited the United States in 2007, which is roughly 2.5 percent of the European population. (By contrast, a record 13.3 million Americans visited Europe in 2007, or roughly 5 percent of the U.S. population.) The lack of firsthand knowledge of the United States is arguably the biggest reason why ordinary Europeans cannot discern fact from fiction when it comes to America.
From the comments section: "Some of my most heated conversations were with people who claimed to know everything about the U.S. even though they never came here. For example, did you know the U.S. has 52 states?" Ha, I had the exact same discussion in Sweden. A guy insisted that Puerto Rico was a state and refused to listen to me when I said it is not.
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You're welcome - I'm just glad I've got a friend to share with! (And yes, I know that's a dangling preposition. Oops!) My brother and I are having to be very careful when we hit the 'send' button in case we used a list that contains our two sisters. So, glad you're enjoying them, at least!
Posted by: Oda Mae at September 17, 2008 03:37 AM (6zvrq)
NEIGHBORLY
I caught parts of the Obama interview with Bill O'Reilly, but since I already know I'm not going to vote for him, I didn't go out of my way to hear what else he has to say. So I was surprised when Oda Mae sent me this Jacoby article with a quote I didn't hear the first time around.
Well, I guess I'm just not very neighborly.
"If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, I'm going to pay a little bit more? That's neighborliness." If that is Obama's rationale for making the tax code even more steeply progressive than it already is, it's no wonder voters are having second thoughts about his economic aptitude.
"Neighborliness." Perhaps that word has a nonstandard meaning to someone whose home adjoined the property of convicted swindler Tony Rezko, but extracting money by force from someone who earned it in order to give it to someone who didn't is not usually spoken of as neighborly. If Citizen Obama, "sitting pretty," reaches into his own pocket and helps out the waitress with a large tip, he has shown a neighborly spirit. But there is nothing neighborly about using the tax code to compel someone else to pay the waitress that tip.
Taxation is not generosity, it is confiscation at gunpoint. Does Obama not understand the difference?
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This comment would apply to either this or your last post. Many years ago we lived on a street in a brand new housing development. There were at least 4 young married couples, 6 of whom were junior officers in the Navy. Women weren't able to go on ships back then, but our men did. Two of the men were ship drivers, two were F-14 pilots who deployed on carriers, and Barb and I were general line officers. When a spouse was deployed, those remaining helped the others out, my veggie garden got rototilled when I was 5 months pregnant, the other three wives got help from my husband with their cars, and in general, we helped each other as needed. Making luck... neighborliness or both. Not coerced, but made for good friends that have stood the test of time.
Posted by: HChambers at September 16, 2008 06:09 PM (Fo+sa)
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Well isn't that cozy? It's not crazy wealth
redistribution "...it's jist bein' neighbers!"
Please. Spare me.
Posted by: MaryIndiana at September 16, 2008 06:51 PM (fqMCt)
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It's a halo shot!
I like that picture of McCain. It makes him look ready to kick someone's ass.
Posted by: airforcewife at September 15, 2008 04:27 PM (mIbWn)
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It looks like a MAD magazine cover...Obama as Alfred E Newman...well, the back of his head...the dude has got a set of ears on him!
Posted by: CaliValleyGirl at September 15, 2008 05:57 PM (irIko)
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I had a 4 paragraph response before I just decided to put it on my blog.
That chick is a dumbass, her parents must be so proud.
Posted by: Mare at September 15, 2008 06:03 PM (APbbU)
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Think that one is OK? ? Check out the other shots of McCain on her website.
Posted by: sarah's pinko commie friend at September 15, 2008 06:08 PM (xAF2d)
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Yeah the ones she photoshopped are pretty awful. And not really very well done which speaks to how much her skill level sucks.
Posted by: Mare at September 16, 2008 03:37 AM (APbbU)
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Hubby showed me those pictures the other day. The magazine cover isn't so bad (though it's not as flattering as it could be), but her other ones - the ones she got in trouble for - are hurriedly done and very immature. Much of her other work is fantastic, so I don't think it's her skill level that's the problem; it's her maturity and professionalism.
I mean, seriously... if she wanted to make the bad-taste pictures for herself and to show just a few close friends (who share your politics), that's one thing. But posting them in your professional portfolio with all your other work takes a special kind of immaturity.
I hope she loses lots of business over this.
Posted by: Emily at September 16, 2008 08:33 AM (jAos7)
VISIONS
Read Jonah Goldberg's Very Different Visions. Yes, who indeed is speaking for the "indispensable left-handed Samoans living on fixed incomes in the increasingly gay suburbs around Cleveland?" Heh.
Best Mike Huckabee quote ever: "I'm not a Republican because I grew up rich," he proclaimed, "I'm a Republican because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life poor, waiting for the government to rescue me."
I didn't grow up rich and neither did my husband. We started our marriage with no income for four months and $200 to our name. But every day since we've come a little bit closer to our goal of being fat, rich, white Republicans.
And our vision is the winner vision.
UPDATE:
Dang, we lost like eight grand overnight. Stupid Lehman jerks.
THREE CHEERS FOR PRICE GOUGING
I admit that everything I know about economics I learned from Thomas Sowell, but this morning I feel like I know more than some folks on TV. I want to throw stuff at the screen when they start talking about gas price gouging. I just actually heard someone say, "The oil companies are making a profit and it needs to stop." Oh puh-lease. This can't be considered serious commentary.
What all this boils down to is that prices higher than what observers are used to are called "gouging." In other words, prices under normal conditions are supposed to prevail under abnormal conditions. This completely misunderstands the role of prices.
Why do prices exist at all? To cause things to be produced and made available to the public -- and to cause consumers to limit how much they consume. Why then do prices suddenly shoot up? Because there is either less of a supply available or more of a demand, or both.
Prices are not just arbitrary numbers plucked out of the air. Nor are the price levels that you happen to be used to any more special or "fair" than other prices that are higher or lower.
What do prices do? They not only allow sellers to recover their costs, they force buyers to restrict how much they demand. More generally, prices cause goods and the resources that produce goods to flow in one direction through the economy rather than in a different direction.
Plus a breakdown of why price gouging is necessary and helpful:
One hotel whose rooms normally cost $40 a night now charged $109 a night and another hotel whose rooms likewise normally cost $40 a night now charged $160 a night.
[...]
What if prices were frozen where they were before all this happened?
Those who got to the hotel first would fill up the rooms and those who got there later would be out of luck -- and perhaps out of doors or out of the community. At higher prices, a family that might have rented one room for the parents and another for the children will now double up in just one room because of the "exorbitant" prices. That leaves another room for someone else.
Someone whose home was damaged, but not destroyed, may decide to stay home and make do in less than ideal conditions, rather than pay the higher prices at the local hotel. That too will leave another room for someone whose home was damaged worse or destroyed.
In short, the new prices make as much economic sense under the new conditions as the old prices made under the old conditions.
Too bad few people on TV have any sort of economic sense.
So people who don't need to gas up their cars this week will wait for next week, leaving the gas for people who really need it right now. Duh, that's how the market works during a crisis. And gas station owners will have to replenish their pumps with more expensive gas, so they have to adjust now.
Really, if I can understand it, it ain't that complicated.
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I live in an area the storm was first predicted to impact. We had planned to leave on a trip to San Antonio and Austin and the Texas Hill country on last Thursday in any case. We have a travel trailer and needed to get away for a while. The rest of my family who live here weren't planning to leave but evacuated to San Antonio. We heard on the radio when we got there that outlying motels were full but that downtown were not PLUS if you were an evacuee be sure to let them know as they were GIVING DISCOUNTS to evacuees. Not price gouging, but helping. Good old American spirit of helping.
We didn't even get any rain until just now. (Sunday evening) I hope we get a lot as we really need it!
My daughter in Louisiana had Gustave's eye pass directly over her house and got gales and a whole lot of rain from this Ike. They had no real damage, a few trees down by Bayou Teche which they live by.
Posted by: Ruth H at September 14, 2008 03:02 PM (hBAQy)
Jonathan Haidt, an associate professor of moral psychology at the University of Virginia, argues in an essay this month, “What Makes People Vote Republican?”, that it’s liberals, in fact, who are dangerously blind.
Haidt has conducted research in which liberals and conservatives were asked to project themselves into the minds of their opponents and answer questions about their moral reasoning. Conservatives, he said, prove quite adept at thinking like liberals, but liberals are consistently incapable of understanding the conservative point of view.
I'm not even getting into the fact that the religious right teaches closed mindedness so it's almost impossible to gain new voters from their pool because people who disagree with them are agents of the devil.
Heh.
And a comment from the same post:
We remain a country of beer, bubbas, bibles and bigots, who are easily persuaded by a few billionaires to vote in the rich's best interests. It's inescapable.
Like I said, keep 'em coming, Left. Keep 'em coming.
Oh, and since I mentioned this to my mother when I was home and she had never heard of the elitist garbage that Michelle Obama has said, let me point out that she thinks $600 is chump change for buying earrings and that she complained to working women in Ohio that she spends $10,000 a year on her kids' piano and dance.
Honestly, I thought it couldn't get any better than when Teresa Heinz Kerry didn't know what chili was...but apparently it can.
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I'd like to point out to Michelle Obama that due to cost constraints in OUR family, I have to teach my kids piano myself.
She should try it. Then she'd only have to spend 7K a year.
Posted by: airforcewife at September 13, 2008 05:13 AM (mIbWn)
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I'd like to point out to Michelle Obama that she is truly one of the most pretentious twits to whom I've ever had the displeasure of listening.
Rule #1, Ms. Obama, KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.
Unfortunately, this couple likes themselves so much and thinks so highly of themselves, they can't imagine why anyone else wouldn't find them engaging, intelligent and enlightened.
By failing to even be able to play the game long enough to find themselves where they wish desperately to be, I question their collective smarts.
Teach piano? Herself? Oooo, noooo. That simply isn't done. Although, if Condoleeza Rice had children, she could certainly teach them--have you ever heard her play?
Posted by: Guard Wife at September 14, 2008 04:47 AM (F5iCn)
Hey media, feel free to keep stuff like this coming. It makes average Americans disgusted and happy to vote for the normal mom from Alaska who doesn't feed her kids brie for breakfast or fake a trip to Wendy's.
And by all means, keep helping Obama make fun of McCain for his war injuries. That plays really well too. Anything you can do to keep reminding people that John McCain gave so much for his country that he can't even brush his hair or type on a keyboard.
BLEH
Yeah, so I drunk snail-mailed my husband tonight.
It's like drunk-dialing, only it won't get to him for two weeks.
I pent up four months of dead babies and deployment and unleashed it all on 9/11 coverage. Not good.
UPDATE:
I hadn't mailed the letter yet, so I got up this morning and read it. Ha. Don't worry, I didn't write the letter about depressing stuff; that's just what prompted me to grab a pen. It seems I wrote about T. Boone Pickens and Band of Brothers. It's very rambling and ridiculous.
Oh, and I feel fine this morning, and really...could a super-drunk person have cleared through Level 23 on Dr. Mario? I think not. I can handle my wine.
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I really can't imagine sending anything BACK from a war zone--I would anticipate letters for WEEKS, which is how long they took to get to me when I was in the field.
Warning him about the content would not be a bad thing, though.
Sig
Posted by: Sig at September 11, 2008 06:14 PM (7CjcP)
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"drunk snail-mail"
Not a phrase I ever thought about before - but truly fitting.
Posted by: airforcewife at September 11, 2008 06:17 PM (mIbWn)
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Oh wait...I guess I drunk-blogged that post too. I didn't write about all that depressing stuff; it just prompted me to write a long mushy and rambling letter.
Posted by: Sarah at September 12, 2008 02:42 AM (TWet1)
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Sarah, I hope this means that you have recovered from your drunk-chatting session last night, too!
Posted by: Butterfly Wife at September 12, 2008 02:56 AM (p8HAO)
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Well, you know, the Army really CAN take the fun out of things...no drunk-dialing. Hmmm.
You can always assure your hubby that you have cyber cronies who keep you company (and actively participate) when you feel like getting your drink on.
Love you!
Posted by: Guard Wife at September 12, 2008 03:43 AM (F5iCn)
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Wow. Sounds like a fun night.
Have a good weekend!
Posted by: T at September 12, 2008 04:45 AM (KV0YP)
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S.
You drunk snail mailed your husband a letter about T. Boone Pickens!! I love it, I bet T. Boones ears are still burning!!!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Posted by: Pamela at September 12, 2008 08:48 AM (vsnFT)
Posted by: Lane at September 12, 2008 07:42 PM (/Tmo8)
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I've drunk emailed (after the NC SBL) but never drunk snail mailed. Interesting. Glad you can handle your wine though it doesn't surprise me.
Posted by: HomefrontSix at September 12, 2008 11:16 PM (4Es1w)
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HAHAHA!!! Right there with you. I was at an Advanced Estate Planning Class in Newport, Rhode Island at the Naval Justice School. (Boy, did I join the wrong service!) I was designated driver most of the week, but Thursday they talked me into letting loose and walking to the Officers Club for lobster and wine, then walking back to my room. Yes, I did not eat lobster, but I drank a lot of wine. Woke up at 0400 completely dizzy after having a radical dream about drinking four quarts of orange juice.
When I arrived at class - five minutes past the start time of 0730, how embarrassing - my compadre in crime whispered how dizzy she'd been when she got out of bed. "It must have been those cigars we smoked with the guys." Say what?
I also ordered a pizza when I got back to the room - as you do - and I must have spoken intelligibly, because I got what I wanted. I have a horrible feeling the pizza guys totally mocked me afterwards. SLOOOWW talker.
Posted by: Oda Mae at September 13, 2008 07:11 AM (YE92c)
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She plays Dr. Mario. We should totally hang out next time I'm in Carolina. Or, you know, visit Portland. It's pretty, if you can overlook all the anti-Bush stickers.
Posted by: Anwyn at September 13, 2008 07:41 PM (dzxw9)
WOW
This story made me laugh and cry: Disney motto helped dad, autistic son survive at sea
No matter what gremlins I battle this week, I won't have to tread water for 14 hours and drift away from my child.
There are sure some people out there who endure the worst.
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I can't even imagine. I would have been freaked out for certain. Sounds like one of those rip current thingies. I saw them talking about those on the news. They said you're supposed to swim to the side to get out of it--who remembers that when they are being swept out to sea?!?!
I'm glad they were able to find them both.
Posted by: Guard Wife at September 11, 2008 05:08 AM (F5iCn)
SAVIN' BACON
My husband will be proud of his business-savvy wife! I called to get the windshield fixed and got an estimate of $394. The man said that windshield must've been made of solid gold; it's the most expensive one he's ever seen. I called a couple other places, and his was the best price. Then, on a hunch, I called our car insurance company and asked them if they'd cover it. They don't, but they found a place to do it for $318. So I called back the original place to cancel my appointment, and they said they wanted my business and would beat the other offer and do it for $300.
So, I saved a hundred bucks! Funny how I feel excited about spending $300 but saving $100.
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Oooo, good job! Bring that $100 to Vegas and we'll double down, baby!
Posted by: Guard Wife at September 10, 2008 12:05 PM (F5iCn)
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If you don't have USAA insurance, you should look at it carefully. It's always #1 or 2 in value in customer satisfaction and value. We've had it for 31 years. I reported 2 chips that occurred on a trip to the mountains a few days ago, they told me that chips are fixed for free, windshield replaced for $100 deductible if needed. Chips were repaired with a "lifetime" warranty (as long as we own our car)in our driveway. Good for you in saving $100 though!
Posted by: HChambers at September 10, 2008 01:50 PM (Fo+sa)
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If you have AAA they have a service where they'll literally come to your house and replace any windshield for something like $150. I am not sure of the details, but its worth looking into!
Posted by: TK at September 10, 2008 02:22 PM (A/2+g)
LIPSTICKGATE
I thought I'd weigh in on Lipstickgate.
Obama said, "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig." He was referring to how McCain is now also running as the candidate for change. Many folks are upset that Obama seemingly called Palin a pig.
Let me say, I thought it was the funniest, most clever thing to ever come out of Obama's mouth.
I mean, come on: that's a great comeback. I personally don't think it has to be taken as sexist. Palin used lipstick to get a laugh line and a round of applause; Obama turned the tables back at her with a well-known idiom.
I honestly thought it was the funniest thing Obama's ever said. But I'm nutty like that. People really seem to be freaking out about this and saying that it will cost Obama support. Hey, whatever makes people not vote for him...
But you know what's way more offensive than what Obama said? What Juan Cole said: "What's the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick." That article is just sick.
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you can also put an American flag pin on a socialist, and that does not make them an American...
Posted by: awtm at September 10, 2008 06:58 AM (R8+ZR)
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Gee, Tim, I guess I'm not as smart as you thought.
Dang.
Anyway, I never said that I didn't think the line was *intentional.* Of course it was! I just don't think it was sexist. I think it was in direct response to Palin's lipstick hockey joke, but I didn't find it overly offensive just because she's a woman. That's what I meant.
And I thought it was a snappy comeback. Score one for Obama's wit. And Guard Wife is right that a counter-attack on pork spending would be even wittier!
Posted by: Sarah at September 10, 2008 08:44 AM (TWet1)
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That phrase is used so often, I can't believe he used it to call Palin a "pig." I don't like Obama's positions on just about every issue, but I don't think he's looking to be intentionally cruel. I agree...he looked spontaneous on the stump when he said it...very unscripted. I don't think it was that bad...and I also agree that it's not in the McCain camp's best interest to pursue this...just move on.
Posted by: Nicole at September 10, 2008 09:47 AM (sBJ2p)
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I'm not offended by the joke. I didn't find it particularly witty, but I didn't find it sexist either. Meh.
Posted by: Lissa at September 10, 2008 09:48 AM (fHdl7)
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I donÂ’t think it was sexist either, I just think it was crude, rude and obnoxious. Pretty much par for the course form what IÂ’ve seen of Obama and his wife.
Let’s review; this a man who went to Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years, worked with Bill Ayers a Domestic Terrorist, came up through the corrupt Chicago political scene, accused the people from Pennsylvania of “clinging to their guns and religion”, threw his own grandmother under the bus as a “typical white person” while trying to condescendingly give us all a speech on race, not to mention numerous campaign speech gaffes and objectionable double meaning jabs clearly directed towards Hillary, McCain and now Palin.
And you want to give this man the benefit of the doubt that he was just jus being cute and funny, fine go ahead. His next line after the “pig” crack was just innocently referencing “fish” right? I’ll gladly side with the rest who think otherwise and from the looks of it I’m in good company.
BTW, my apologies, upon rereading my first comment I came on too strong, especially in regards to the “smart” crack. Sorry.
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First, go buy a six pack and swig it all down. Then, watch Ace Ventura. And after that, buy a Hard Rock Cafe shirt and come talk to me. You really need to lighten up, man.
--Sminklemeyer--
You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough they stop fighting --General Curtis Lemay--
If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained -- we must fight! --Patrick Henry--
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these principles. Every citizen must uphold them. And every immigrant, by embracing these ideals, makes our country more, not less, American. --President George W. Bush--
are usually just cheerleading sessions, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing but a soothing reduction in blood pressure brought about by the narcotic high of being agreed with. --Bill Whittle
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
--John Stuart Mill--
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, our flag will be recognized throughout the world as a symbol of freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other. --General George Marshall--
We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
--Buzz Aldrin--
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.
--Dinesh D'Souza--
Recent anti-Israel protests remind us again of our era's peculiar alliance: the most violent, intolerant, militantly religious movement in modern times has the peace movement on its side. --James Lileks--
As a wise man once said: we will pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
Unless the price is too high, the burden too great, the hardship too hard, the friend acts disproportionately, and the foe fights back. In which case, we need a timetable.
--James Lileks--
I am not willing to kill a man so that he will agree with my faith, but I am prepared to kill a man so that he cannot force my compatriots to submit to his.
--Froggy--
You can say what you want about President Bush; but the truth is that he can take a punch. The man has taken a swift kick in the crotch for breakfast every day for 6 years and he keeps getting up with a smile in his heart and a sense of swift determination to see the job through to the best of his abilties.
--Varifrank--
In a perfect world, We'd live in peace and love and harmony with each oither and the world, but then, in a perfect world, Yoko would have taken the bullet.
--SarahBellum--
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. --Ronald Reagan--
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. --E.M. Forster--
Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will steal your HONOR. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse. --Mark Twain--
The Enlightenment was followed by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, which touched every European state, sparked vicious guerrilla conflicts across the Continent and killed millions. Then, things really turned ugly after the invention of soccer. --Iowahawk--
Every time I meet an Iraqi Army Soldier or Policeman that I haven't met before, I shake his hand and thank him for his service. Many times I am thanked for being here and helping his country. I always tell them that free people help each other and that those that truly value freedom help those seeking it no matter the cost. --Jack Army--
Right, left - the terms are useless nowadays anyway. There are statists, and there are individualists. There are pessimists, and optimists. There are people who look backwards and trust in the West, and those who look forward and trust in The World. Those are the continuums that seem to matter the most right now. --Lileks--
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
--Winston Churchill--
A man or a nation is not placed upon this earth to do merely what is pleasant and what is profitable. It is often called upon to carry out what is both unpleasant and unprofitable, but if it is obviously right it is mere shirking not to undertake it. --Arthur Conan Doyle--
A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself. --John Stuart Mill--
After the attacks on September 11, 2001, most of the sheep, that is, most citizens in America said, "Thank God I wasn't on one of those planes." The sheepdogs, the warriors, said, "Dear God, I wish I could have been on one of those planes. Maybe I could have made a difference." --Dave Grossman--
At heart I’m a cowboy; my attitude is if they’re not going to stand up and fight for what they believe in then they can go pound sand. --Bill Whittle--
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. --Alexander Tyler--
By that time a village half-wit could see what generations of professors had pretended not to notice. --Atlas Shrugged--
I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty. And he'd say, "That's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way too." --Alabama Worley--
So Bush is history, and we have a new president who promises to heal the planet, and yet the jihadists don’t seem to have got the Obama message that there are no enemies, just friends we haven’t yet held talks without preconditions with.
--Mark Steyn--
"I had started alone in this journey called life, people started
gathering up on the way, and the caravan got bigger everyday." --Urdu couplet
The book and the sword are the two things that control the world. We either gonna control them through knowledge and influence their minds, or we gonna bring the sword and take their heads off. --RZA--
It's a daily game of public Frogger, hopping frantically to avoid being crushed under the weight of your own narcissism, banality, and plain old stupidity. --Mary Katharine Ham--
There are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms
of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. --James Madison--
It is in the heat of emotion that good people must remember to stand on principle. --Larry Elder--
Please show this to the president and ask him to remember the wishes of the forgotten man, that is, the one who dared to vote against him. We expect to be tramped on but we do wish the stepping would be a little less hard. --from a letter to Eleanor Roosevelt--
The world economy depends every day on some engineer, farmer, architect, radiator shop owner, truck driver or plumber getting up at 5AM, going to work, toiling hard, and producing real wealth so that an array of bureaucrats, regulators, and redistributors can manage the proper allotment of much of the natural largess produced. --VDH--
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. --Marcelene Cox--
Unfortunately, I read at AWTM's that her eye is better. Not that I'm not glad she's better, but she's likely not bringing the eye patch. Bummer. Looks like we're on our own for appropriate "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" wear. 
