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On Jan. 11, the story I have been waiting for finally broke on the CBS Evening News! It detailed how several members of the U.S. Congress went to the Climate Summit in Copenhagen in 2009. None of them had any impact whatsoever, and they should have known ahead of time that they would have no impact.
But here is what is really funny to me. The radio talk-show hosts made a big deal out of the Climate Summit and, as always, lambasted Al Gore, Jr. for his views. While doing this, talk show hosts such as Michael DelGiorno profusely praised Rep. Marsha Blackburn for attending the summit, stating that she was there to "keep an eye on Al Gore."
Never mind the fact that she, like all of the others, wasted an enormous amount of taxpayer money attending said summit. By the way, who were all the others there to keep an eye on?
And this week all one could hear on talk radio was the same stupidity out of them, especially Phil Valentine. Every single time it gets cold, [we] will hear him howl that it is some kind of proof that global warming, or climate change, isn't real.
You know, it's wonderful how intelligent he and others like him are. He is able to grasp the concept that the little warming spell that occured during the Middle Ages might be the result of a volcanic eruption. But he can't fathom the concept that humans are regularly putting almost exactly that kind of stuff up into the atmosphere on a continuous basis and that, because of this, humans really are causing a negative impact upon our climate.
No, for him, nothing humans do has any impact whatsoever so we should all just keep on doing exactly what we are already doing — polluting as much as we want to.
John Mark Browder, 37211
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I've been in lots of gay bars but I've never had the honor of seeing Neil Sedaka play in one. At least, not that I remember. I do remember going to the Cabaret and seeing the drag shows. I was about 15 or 16 at the time-fake id and all.
When I first started smoking, fags were about .45 cents a pack. I started with Eve's because they were "pretty." I've run the cigarette gamut from those Eve's to Camel non-filters, Kool's, Camel filters, and currently, Capri menthol ultra lights. This is going to be my year to quit though. Cold turkey. Yes, I will be one pure bitch until it's over with!
well, apparently she wore him out.
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
slacker, you better stop it, big boy...he'll scratch your g**damn eyes out...
LOL you guys! I didn't know I had a date with Cap'n Nemo but if I did, I would never kiss and tell!
Why quit now, I'm almost completely destroyed!
-Mama's good lung
Mama - you another Brenda Lee? - the gay crowd loves her to death!
pain, probably hit me with his boa.
I never said a thing. ;-)
Perhaps he meant when walking by a gay bar...
It's like me saying, Well, I'm suing the doctors since the hormone replacement therapy went horribly awry."
Hopefully, someone says, "What?"
I saw him once doing a gig at a gay piano bar in San Diego
I think I'm going to save that line for posterity - doesn't get any better than that!
Cheney - I saw him once doing a gig at a gay piano bar in San Diego
Rush - I saw him once doing a gig at a gay piano bar in San Diego
etc etc - cool!! :)
Lane Kiffin? I saw him once...
At a gay bar in so.cal.?
Maybe all "piano bars" cater to the gay population? When I go "Omar of Oxnard's" hair salon here in Nashville, I expect my stylist, "Brucie" to be gay. I'd be shocked and offended if a "Dick Butkis" washed my highlights out.
slack - cool!! Al Gore - really?
d7 - my hair stylist in Ohio was card carrying member of Hells Angels :) (truth)
Fox news spoted Limbugh and Cheney in a bathhouse in San Francisco. They did not report it because did not want to embarrass them or the network.
Dusty, not Brenda Lee, although I do have a bit of a gay magnet! And terrific gaydar! The gays term someone who hangs out with all gays a "fag hag." I wouldn't call myself that though. Not these days, anyway!
I thought Fox News was the bath house.
Kosh wishes he could take that one back. Same as Clinton when he said, "I did not have sex with that woman".....Does Nashville even have any "gay piano bars"? I know I could find a red-neck bar in less than 1 minute, but a "piano bar" that feature's gays? Now I'm curious.
LOL
I had gone to see Sedaka---what else. When you've got two gay siblings like I do......
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Capn
Faux News didn't report it because the embarrassing fact was that they had lain there spread-eagle all night long and had no takers.
My God, Dusty. I've had some bad haircuts, but I think I'd steer away from a Hell's Angel doing a "shag" on my head.
That one all most did me in Kosh. Careful I am a sick man.
Kosh, if one is female, we could set her up with my sister-in-law...
not that there's anything wrong with that.
d7 - no piano bars but Nash has more gay bars per capita than any other city outside of sanfran in US.
He was a big guy - around 350 lbs. Haircut paid for by my employer so was free to me. Dude had gentle hands though. Had done time for strangling another biker so had mellowed out quite a bit!
The Fifth Quarter has a piano bar.
House - don't know that one - gay?
just got bad news for me - aol turned down my article on space race - I'll post it to my blog when I have a minute - no sense in wasting 750 words.
Restaurant/bar, Dusty, not gay...not saying they're not welcome there...
I don't think we should be talking about this...
house - ok subject change - how about those titans? :)
there are a few redneck gay bars in town. seriously
blanket - redneck, goth, and several other varieties.
a goth gay bar?
Blanket, any bar where guys dress up like Garth Brooks is a gay bar...lol
gdia - true so very true :)
blanket - yep - there is a biker one too :)
I'll never forget about ten years ago when my best friend's fiance called from New Jersey. She wanted me to go downtown to pick him up at some gay bar. I was like, "what the hell was he doing at a gay bar"...she said he called her because he woke up in parking lot and couldn't remember how he got there.
I picked him up and never asked why...but I was never invited to the wedding...lol
Oh, he was a Titans fan...
lol, g!
gdia - all those guys on the field in tight pants - makes sense :)
I bet those gay rednecks have tidy trailers.
slacker, i doubt that. they're pretty skanky.
when i played fantasy football this year i called my team Men In Tight Pants
Blanket - cute :)
How did you do? The Titans/Pats game destroyed my entire season.
It is a good thing chief is not here or he would be thinking that you all were making a pass at him.
Change subject.
How about a UFO landing pad for downtown.
capt - sure in the middle of that big stadium that isn't being used for anything worthwhile :)
Tight Pants lol
Man, if the season extended to playoffs, I'd be pretty good...Romo at QB, Ryan Grant/Pierre Thomas at RB, Felix Jones at RB/WR, Fitzgerald/Colston at WR, Clark at TE. The only downfall was defense, had the Giants.
I just couldn't get them to perform evenly during the season...
nemo, already have one, on top of the Veridian.