2012.02.11
The wide OPEN yonder on the Saturday thread
Catawba, looking north on Va. 779 | Shot by Dan
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.”
Henry David Thoreau
(REPUBLICAN) REP. BACHUS FACES INSIDER TRADING PROBE: REPORT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, republican Spencer Bachus, who oversees the U.S. banking and financial services industries, is under investigation for possible violation of insider trading laws, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
The Office of Congressional Ethics began investigating Bachus, an Alabama Republican, late last year after focusing on a number of suspicious trades on his annual financial disclosure form, the Post reported, citing sources familiar with the case.
The Office of Congressional Ethics began investigating Bachus, an Alabama Republican, late last year after focusing on a number of suspicious trades on his annual financial disclosure form, the Post reported, citing sources familiar with the case. http://news.yahoo.com/rep-bachus-faces-insider-trading-probe-report-064356768.html
The ethically challenged Republicans…
Comment by Hillary — February 11, 2012 @ 11:14 am
“America is undergoing a spiritual revival. The young people are tossing the putrid values of the 60′s and 70′s in the trash heap where they belong. I’ve been to Virginia Tech recently. The students are far more serious-minded than when I was a student 30 years ago. I realize no libs in here know much about Tech students, but it’s those kinds of young people who embrace their faith that are going to lead the way in ridding us of the barbaric practice of destroying children in the womb.
I’m very optimistic.
Posted on February 10th, 2012″
I’m blown away that Screwzie was a VT student 30 YEARS AGO! That’s a mighty flattering profile pic for someone her age. And honestly, she writes like an under-30 WASP. Go figure.
Comment by Contrasuzie — February 11, 2012 @ 5:41 pm
She stole that picture of some poor unsuspecting college cheerleader. No surprise from a parrot though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=amanda+pflugrad&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS373&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qQc3T-L9MYbi0QHD783oAg&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1536&bih=1114
Comment by Sandi Saunders — February 11, 2012 @ 7:29 pm
most ill-informed posted the following on Feb 10, 2012
“America is undergoing a spiritual revival. The young people are tossing the putrid values of the 60′s and 70′s in the trash heap …
As always wrong…here’s the actual facts on that subject:
WHY YOUNG EVANGELICALS ARE LEAVING THE CHURCH
Highlights from the article -
• There is a 43% drop in Christian church attendance between the teen and early adult years
• They don’t appreciate being condemned for living with a partner, straight or gay, outside of marriage or opting for abortion to terminate an unplanned pregnancy.
• Jobs and higher wages are their priority just as they are for everyone else; the nominee who convinces the millennials (ages 13 to 29): that they’ll be better off financially will get their vote. But if neither party is persuasive, the former evangelicals may vote Democratic because of that party’s more moderate stance on social issues. Or they could simply sit out the election.
• Young Christians are as sexually active as non-Christians.
• 49% of Republican millennials support same-sex marriages
• According to a report in The Christian Science Monitor, three out of four say that wealthy corporations and financiers have too much power and that taxes should be raised on the very wealthy
• According to a report in The Christian Science Monitor most say that creationists’ view on evolution is outdated.
To read the whole article:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/16/opinion/stepp-millennials-church/index.html
Comment by Hillary — February 11, 2012 @ 7:56 pm
Contrasuzie@5:41
More like a 45 year old white male Grand Kleagle in a sheet with eyeholes and wearing a pointy hat.
Comment by dave — February 11, 2012 @ 8:37 pm
RIP Whitney Houston. Tragic life but magnificent voice.
Comment by dave — February 11, 2012 @ 8:38 pm
Happy Birthday Abe Lincoln!! Wish we had some leaders like you today.
Comment by Ron — February 11, 2012 @ 8:54 pm
Dan: Did you ride your bike on 779? Done that several times myself. Beautiful and challenging.
Comment by scott whitaker — February 11, 2012 @ 9:25 pm
“Whitney Houston Dead: Singer Dies At 48:”
http://www.examiner.com/volunteerism-in-cleveland/whitney-houston-dead-at-48
Another tortured soul finds rest. RIP Whitney
Comment by Cold n P — February 11, 2012 @ 9:26 pm
#2 Funny how she has this idea that all Hokies are conservative Republicans. I’ve heard the rumor that Frank is not. The irony is that my perception is that UVa is the more conservative of the 2 schools, that solely being based on who attends the schools, nothing else.
Comment by scott whitaker — February 11, 2012 @ 9:32 pm
Scott,
I’ve done that; not in a while, though. I’m gonna put it on the list of to-dos for Zach and me in the spring.
Comment by Dan Casey — February 11, 2012 @ 10:13 pm
Sandi @ #3:
Wow. Just…wow. That is some kinda sad on so many levels. And she picked a photo of such a fine Christian girl, too. Just sad.
Comment by Contrasuzie — February 11, 2012 @ 11:58 pm
“RIP Whitney Houston. Tragic life but magnificent voice.”
What did Billy Joel sing? She had a nice white dress and a party on her confirmation. . .
Comment by Dan Casey — February 12, 2012 @ 12:40 am
so sandi spends her time looking at cheerleader pics,
“She stole that picture of some poor unsuspecting college cheerleader. No surprise from a parrot though.
https://www.google.com/search?q=amanda+pflugrad&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS373&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=qQc3T-L9MYbi0QHD783oAg&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1536&bih=1114
Comment by Sandi Saunders — February 11, 2012 @ 7:29 pm”
Comment by pammala — February 12, 2012 @ 6:43 am
She stole that picture of some poor unsuspecting college cheerleader. No surprise from a parrot though.
This is from the person who actually thought I was Sandra Dee for awhile. Not surprising since she still thinks Tina Fey is Sarah Palin.
Those Oprah watchers. Gotta love ‘em.
Comment by Suzie — February 12, 2012 @ 9:09 am
The tragedy of Whitney Houston was her misspent life. She had such a great opportunity to influence young ghetto girls, and then she threw it away with her poor example, the booze, the pills, the coke, hanging onto an abusive cheating man. I hate to say it, but it’s the classic set of leftwing values.
Comment by Suzie — February 12, 2012 @ 9:14 am
. Just…wow. That is some kinda sad on so many levels. And she picked a photo of such a fine Christian girl, too. Just sad.
That’s pretty funny. Contradad outraged at the idea of a false identity.
Comment by Suzie — February 12, 2012 @ 9:36 am
@4 – That’s the work of Satan and his minions. The Good Lord will prevail.
Comment by mattyr — February 12, 2012 @ 9:48 am
What did Billy Joel sing? She had a nice white dress and a party on her confirmation. . .
Not sure what that has to do with Whitney.
I never got the Billy Joel thing. In his songs like ‘Uptown Girl”, and “Only the Good” he painted himself a a street tough chasing after the whitebread girl. But Billy with his 5’6″ stature and semi-wimpy demeanor doesn’t quite match up with that image. I guess that’s what “artists” do. Engage in fantasy as they would like things to be.
Comment by Suzie — February 12, 2012 @ 10:05 am
The Justice system found another live one. The story in the RT about the veteran who called for help in his lowest moment is awfully close to my comment a few days ago that attempted suicide should be a crime, punishable by death.
What will happen remains to be seen but will surely include court costs and fines. Perhaps Suzie will offer to pay this criminal’s bills. I guess it depends on whether or not he is forgiven by her for suicidal thoughts.
Some people are concerned about the USA becoming like those other people in places like Hungary. We are nipping at their heels, or is it the other way around. A very cold Winter in Europe has people dying on the streets from exposure. It’s a crime to be homeless and you can be fined for it.
Comment by Jeffrey King — February 12, 2012 @ 4:33 pm
Hillary is now providing links from CNN. Recall they’re the ones who reported with a straight face that Saddam had won re-election with 100% of the vote. No question about the authenticy, fixing, nothing.
Comment by Suzie — February 12, 2012 @ 6:12 pm
Oh good Lord, you’re such an idiot, Screwzie. I’m not ‘outraged’ at your choice of profile pic. I am stunned, astounded, in disbelief, etc., to learn that you are a 50-something adult female. As I said, you write like a WASP fresh out of college. It’s obvious to me now that you just desperately still want to BE that college girl, hence, your profile pic. Sad, sad, sad….
Comment by Contrasuzie — February 12, 2012 @ 6:14 pm
“pammalapdog says:
so sandi spends her time looking at cheerleader pics,”
No, what’s sad is a 50-something woman using it as her profile pic.
Idiot.
Comment by Contrasuzie — February 12, 2012 @ 6:17 pm
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” A. Lincoln
“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.” A. Lincoln
Comment by Ron — February 12, 2012 @ 9:36 pm
#19 “I guess that’s what “artists” do. Engage in fantasy as they would like things to be.”
Good lord, troll suzie isn’t aware that not only did Billy Joel chase Christie Brinkley around in the video, he caught her in real life. As well as Katie Lee. And dated Elle McPherson. Gorgeous women suzie is obviously enormously jealous of.
Could we find a more ignorant stupid troll than suze?
Comment by gdad — February 12, 2012 @ 10:46 pm
The tragedy of Rush Limbaugh was his misspent life. He had such a great opportunity to influence young whitebread-type folk, and then he threw it away with his poor example, the pain pills until he nearly went deaf and almost lost his gig, the addiction to tobacco, the smuggling, going through wives like you-know-what through a goose, pandering to the Republican party and willing to tell daily lies for a larger paycheck. I hate to say it, but it’s the classic set of rightwing values.
Comment by gdad — February 13, 2012 @ 8:19 am
Is Rush dead? For the sake of the dittoheads, I sincerely hope not. They’ll turn into zombies or something.
Comment by Dan Casey — February 13, 2012 @ 8:36 am
#27 Nah, not dead. But he doesn’t have to be dead to have a little fun.
Comment by gdad — February 13, 2012 @ 8:43 am
Just remember all of your “kind words” offered when someone you do like, respect or admire dies Suzie. You just keep your bile in mind when that happens and you try to “demand respect” for them.
Right on Gdad #26!
Comment by Sandi Saunders — February 13, 2012 @ 9:05 am
#27 Actually, Dan, just as with almost everything else she/he writes about, suzie’s broken record on the wasted lives of people with addictions is pitiful and misinformed (or misinforming). I’m not certain whether suzie is claiming that addiction is strictly a liberal thing (hard to do with Rush staring you in the face) or instead that conservatives CAN be addicts but only people with conservative values recover. I’m not certain whether she actually believes or is just pretending to believe that addicts stay addicts because they’re having so much fun and getting so much pleasure from it, which of course is a liberal thing. Does she really believe or is she just pretending to believe the idiocy that all that’s needed to be “cured” is more willpower?
Musically, I was never a Whitney Houston fan, but she set some amazing sales records and won 6 Grammys. May she RIP.
Comment by gdad — February 13, 2012 @ 10:53 am
#21 most ill-informed – as usual – you’re too lazy to actually READ the actual link [too many words for you?] – and if you had read the link you would have found this brief bio about the survey’s author.
” Laura Sessions Stepp is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, formerly with The Washington Post, who specializes in the coverage of young people. She has written two books: “Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both” and “Our Last Best Shot: Guiding Our Children through Early Adolescence.” She is a consultant to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
You continue to amaze with your ignorance and lack of a curious mind – trying learning something new even if it differs from your fact-less opinions – and hint: you should read something before you obfuscate [that's not a compliment - look it up]
Comment by Hillary — February 13, 2012 @ 11:52 am
Laura Sessions Stepp is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, formerly with The Washington Post
WaPo? Pulitizer? And that’s supposed to set the record straight that she’s credible? LMAO. You have a lot to learn, sister.
Comment by Suzie — February 13, 2012 @ 12:42 pm
Actually, Dan, just as with almost everything else she/he writes about, suzie’s broken record on the wasted lives of people with addictions is pitiful and misinformed (or misinforming).
Shh, Gdad. Most of Dan’s heroes were druggies/alkies. George Carlin, Root Boy Slim, Hunter Thompson, Jerry Garcia, Kinky Friedmann, and assorted musicians nobody’s ever heard of.
Comment by Suzie — February 13, 2012 @ 12:49 pm
I’m not certain whether suzie is claiming that addiction is strictly a liberal thing
Whitney was a big 0bama supporter. I’m sure he called to offer condolences. They were kindred spirits. From one cokehead to another.
Comment by Suzie — February 13, 2012 @ 12:54 pm
#34 I’m sure you called to offer condolences to pill popper Rash.
Comment by gdad — February 13, 2012 @ 1:13 pm
Whoa, Nelly! Back up the bus! Is Miss Suzie really 50 years old or so?! I agree with Contrasuzie. Profile photo notwithstanding, she expresses herself like a petulant child.
Comment by 13 Suns — February 13, 2012 @ 2:17 pm
#36 No one can really be sure how old troll suzie is. First, she’s told so many lies over her time here, it’s hard to trust anything she says. She won’t say but so much about herself, and what she has said obviously contains some untruths and misdirection. In addition to that, she made comments maybe a year or so ago that might have led one to believe she was in her mid-40s. And, yes, a recent post now has left readers with the impression that she’s at least 50. I don’t care how old she is, but she’s certainly having a a hard time keeping her stories straight.
Comment by gdad — February 13, 2012 @ 3:05 pm
gdad@3:05
The more obvious question is who really gives a crap? Stupidity is stupidity, whether you’re 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 or older.
Comment by dave — February 13, 2012 @ 3:44 pm
#38 Well, dave, as I said, I don’t care how old she is, but it’s always a tad amusing to keep track of her inconsistencies and some of her more outrageous lies.
Comment by gdad — February 13, 2012 @ 3:57 pm
I cannot take any credit for busting Suzie on the cheerleader pic, I had no idea who that was other than it was not her. Some astute male on the blog called her out on that one. She gets more call outs than the Bunny Ranch, albeit for very different reasons.
Comment by Sandi Saunders — February 13, 2012 @ 4:18 pm
When she first came on the blogs she was always moaning about her “charity work”, going to fix the heat for “Obama voters”, so I long ago guessed that the “engineer” she is married to is one who heads a Roanoke HVAC business. I still feel that is the correct “guess” and that her stories are just that. BTW, she has used that same “Sandra Dee” BS line before as well. I know Sandra Dee died trying to be a recovering alcoholic, but I never believed she had any connection to Suzie, Suzie is the one that said she had been told she looked like her, and even used her pic for a while.
“Cold n P.
It wouldn’t be that hard to pose as me. I’ve been told I look like a number of celebs. The one I’ve gotten most often through the years has been Sandra Dee. Not so much anymore because I’m not 25 anymore, and most people today don’t know who Sandra Dee was.
Comment by Suzie — August 7, 2010 @ 11:35 pm
BTW, one of the more interesting and challenging times in my life was breaking into a man’s field looking like Gidget. A couple of guys even called me that.
Comment by Suzie — August 9, 2010 @ 8:05 pm
I was talking about our busiest year in terms of helping the poor with their heating, in response to Sandi’s post.
Comment by Suzie — January 25, 2011 @ 11:20 am
The funny thing is, the majority of the 67 families we assisted with their heating bills or other repairs last year were black. But yeah, I’m racist because I related experiences of being treated rudely on the phone by black women at municipal offices.
Comment by Suzie — March 28, 2010 @ 9:05 pm“
Comment by Sandi Saunders — February 13, 2012 @ 4:56 pm
In addition to that, she made comments maybe a year or so ago that might have led one to believe she was in her mid-40s. And, yes, a recent post now has left readers with the impression that she’s at least 50. I don’t care how old she is, but she’s certainly having a a hard time keeping her stories straight.
I challenge you to find any consistencies about my age or anything else. You can’t because there aren’t any.
Comment by Suzie — February 13, 2012 @ 7:33 pm
The Great One had a debilitating back injury which caused Rush to get addicted to painkillers. That’s a far cry from a Houston or 0bama who were on coke just for kicks.
Please don’t embarrass people by comparing them to one of the greatest men the world has ever known.
Comment by Suzie — February 13, 2012 @ 9:11 pm
Consistencies or INconsistencies? Typo or Freudian slip? Or….finally an admission of fraud?
I’ve noticed that when Screwzie posts in the evening, she makes quite a few more typos and leaves out complete words at times. Might wanna refrain from buzz-posting. Those drinky-poos aren’t sharpening your written communication skills one iota.
Comment by Contrasuzie — February 14, 2012 @ 12:03 am
Some astute male on the blog called her out on that one.
Sandi thinks it’s astute to view the source of an image. LOL. Rube.
Congrats, hon. You and genius Scott have deduced I’m not a FOX Sports Reporter, nor am I Sandra Dee.
Comment by Suzie — February 14, 2012 @ 12:29 am
Gee. Gdad and Contra commenting on the same thing. How unusual they would be in the same place at the same time.
Einstein Sandi is thinking “But they couldn’t be the same person if they have different IP addresses”.
Comment by Suzie — February 14, 2012 @ 12:34 am
#42 “I challenge you to find any consistencies about my age or anything else.”
Quite a challenge, I’ll have to admit.
Comment by gdad — February 14, 2012 @ 10:54 am
#46 So let’s see, suzie, in your world 3:57 p.m. (my last comment before you posted) and 12:03 a.m. (Contra’s) are “at the same time”? Seriously?
And what are you doing posting at the “loser” (your word) time of 12:34 a.m.? You should have been in bed hours ago.
Comment by gdad — February 14, 2012 @ 10:59 am
For whatever reason, Sandi committed the grave oversight of neglecting to mention one of suz’s high water mark’s in grabassery when she claimed she knew the owners of La Cove restaurant and that hubbies firm did some ductwork for them when they had actually been closed for a year and a half.
How could we ever forget?
Good times…
Comment by Steve C — February 14, 2012 @ 11:48 pm
“I challenge you to find any consistencies about my age or anything else. You can’t because there aren’t any.” Rolling on the floor!!!
See, even your subconsciousness does not like you.
“Please don’t embarrass people by comparing them to one of the greatest men the world has ever known.”
No worries, we don’t. Your list isn’t even in the top million for people with normal brains.
Comment by Sandi Saunders — February 15, 2012 @ 7:53 am
#49 Steve, there are simply so many examples of troll suzie’s grabassery that it’s difficult to recall them all. Sometimes I wish I had started a file two years ago but it wasn’t worth the extra hard drive I would have had to have bought.
Comment by gdad — February 15, 2012 @ 9:13 am