Sarah Palin's extraordinary accomplishments as governor of Alaska.

[lawgator1]

Since when has Sarah Palin been considered a slut?

Around 1980 I think... It was when she was at, like, her fourth community college.

 

[Weezer]

gs, your posts entertain the hell out of me. You could probably publish a book with all of the short stories you've written on VN.

 

[UTRavens]

Since when has Sarah Palin been considered a slut?

Glen Rice? That's all I can think of.

 

[DjCrenshaw]

Palin is worthless

 

[gsvol]

gs, your posts entertain the hell out of me. You could probably publish a book with all of the short stories you've written on VN.

Thanks weezer, I'm thinking of calling my publisher any day now.

I wish the monitors thought the little interjections of humor via pics and toons were a good thing, I think it lends a little levity to the board, not an unneed quality around here, but evidently they think otherwise.

So your compliment reminds me of one time I was a deckhand on the Walter Stevens Cox for the Souix City and New Orleans bage lines.

We were accross the river from Cairo, Ill. on the south bank of the Ohio just where it empties into the Missippi.

We had tied off our tow on the west side of the Missippi and had to dig out one barge buried in the middle of about a hundred barges moored to the bank there on the Ohio.

There were some personality conflicts going, Captian Mac was trying to get the mate to back talk him so he could fire him and what we were doing was sort of dangerous.

I was working with a guy who was on his first trip, had been a high school English teacher who gave it up after his first year teaching.

I was sort of making amends because back when I was a junior in high school we tormented a rookie so bad that he quit after the first semester and said he would sell tombstones before he would ever teach again.

The the green deckhand's name was Truman and I kept showing him the ropes and how to do it safely. For instance, say you are tied to a barge and your boat is pulling it, you need three raps of the timberhead to hold it, now once you have it secured, don't stand in line with the rope to the barge, stand to one side, lines occasionally break and when one does it comes at you at about two hundred miles and hour, it can cut your leg clean off, I worked with one pilot who lost his leg that way, it can also decapitate you and that has happened more than once.

Anyway when we finally dug the barge out and were headed back accross the river he asked me about a plan for making a carreer of working on the river, I turned to him, took a long look and said; 'ch!t Truman, this is no carreer to me, I'm just gatthering material for a book.'

That was nearly forty years ago and I still havn't started the book and am not going to until I get at least a six figure advance.

 

[PKT_VOL]

Thanks weezer, I'm thinking of calling my publisher any day now.

I wish the monitors thought the little interjections of humor via pics and toons were a good thing, I think it lends a little levity to the board, not an unneed quality around here, but evidently they think otherwise.

So your compliment reminds me of one time I was a deckhand on the Walter Stevens Cox for the Souix City and New Orleans bage lines.

We were accross the river from Cairo, Ill. on the south bank of the Ohio just where it empties into the Missippi.

We had tied off our tow on the west side of the Missippi and had to dig out one barge buried in the middle of about a hundred barges moored to the bank there on the Ohio.

There were some personality conflicts going, Captian Mac was trying to get the mate to back talk him so he could fire him and what we were doing was sort of dangerous.

I was working with a guy who was on his first trip, had been a high school English teacher who gave it up after his first year teaching.

I was sort of making amends because back when I was a junior in high school we tormented a rookie so bad that he quit after the first semester and said he would sell tombstones before he would ever teach again.

The the green deckhand's name was Truman and I kept showing him the ropes and how to do it safely. For instance, say you are tied to a barge and your boat is pulling it, you need three raps of the timberhead to hold it, now once you have it secured, don't stand in line with the rope to the barge, stand to one side, lines occasionally break and when one does it comes at you at about two hundred miles and hour, it can cut your leg clean off, I worked with one pilot who lost his leg that way, it can also decapitate you and that has happened more than once.

Anyway when we finally dug the barge out and were headed back accross the river he asked me about a plan for making a carreer of working on the river, I turned to him, took a long look and said; 'ch!t Truman, this is no carreer to me, I'm just gatthering material for a book.'

That was nearly forty years ago and I still havn't started the book and am not going to until I get at least a six figure advance.

Why were you working that job?

 

[gsvol]

Why were you working that job?

Gee, where better to gather material for a book?

Besides, I didn't want to teach English.

 

[Carl Pickens]

I thought George W. Bush had a lower approval rating than Obama has ever had, but I could be wrong. Furthermore, if what you say regarding the highest unemployment rate since Roosevelt (and I assume you mean FDR) is true, then I find that intriguing. By many accounts, we are in the worst financial state since the Depression, although we have had some ups and downs over the years. A lot of this has to do with the fallout from the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage debacle. Truthfully, it is conceivable that a president could have created more jobs by this point; however, like with FDR during the Depression, I think people also need to back off Obama just a bit with the whole economy thing. He inherited an economy that was already in the crapper as a result of too few (and yes, I said "too few," and not "too many") regulations on big corporations and investment banks. It's kind of funny to me that neoliberalism got us in this mess and some people automatically think it is the answer for getting us out as well. Perhaps it is, but still a very ironic notion. Most intelligent economists and sociologists agree that no one financial crisis is the same and what worked in the past doesn't necessarily work again or in the future.

So, in closing, I think we need to contextualize this presidency a little more. I have maintained throughout the years that Bush was treated relatively unfairly by many for some of his actions after Sept. 11. We were a nation running scared under circumstances never really encountered before, at least by our nation. Of course, he did some inexcusable things as well, just as Obama has - each one arguably overstepped his executive bounds (Bush with the Patriot Act and Obama with mandated healthcare), challenging our very notions of living in a free society (although each obviously had to have help from Congress). However, getting back to the issue at hand, let's just keep in mind that Obama has had to work with the toughest economical situation since the Depression, a situation not of his own doing, and, in fact, created by economic principles he tends to be opposed to. Furthermore, whether it's Obama or Romney in 2012, let's judge the man and his presidency on its own merits, realizing that no one president ever has to face the exact same conditions as his predecessor.

I see your just another liberal educator determined to give the Dems a pass on everything.....

 

[Coach Grizz]

She screwed a black basketball player when she was a reporter.






















Just sayin..............

 

[volprof]

I see your just another liberal educator determined to give the Dems a pass on everything.....

Shhhhhh.... I don't want them to figure me out, comrade...I mean, sir.

 

[gsvol]

She screwed a black basketball player when she was a reporter.
Just sayin..............

So you say.

Where de white women main.

Shhhhhh.... I don't want them to figure me out, comrade...I mean, sir.