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Perhaps one of us could come and help you look for it.

So one might imagine. In the day, however, I think I could have managed a quickie and half a ciggie ere the bunghole touched the foam.

My younger self likewise wriggled into a few tight spots in pursuit of a teenage quickie.

Having conquered a blown head under the hood, AdamSmith tackles another one in the back seat

Perhaps he will form a coalition government with the Republican Party. I think it will be some years before we get back our independent voice in the Middle East. Interesting that Saeb Erekat lost no time vowing to go to the ICC, which Palestine joins on April 1st. I was hoping Israel would get a Prime Minister who could make friends as well as enemies. Instead it looks like we're all in for another few years with the Big Cheese.

Feynman has been called the "Great Explainer". He gained a reputation for taking great care when giving explanations to his students and for making it a moral duty to make the topic accessible. His guiding principle was that, if a topic could not be explained in a freshman lecture, it was not yet fully understood. Thank you! Apparently, he gave a series of lectures at my alma mater intended to make physics accessible to all. Sadly, I think it was the semester I flunked out since physics had not been measurably accessible to me.

Probably not a good idea to give advice to folks I've never met but that's never stopped this ol' busybody before! First, I'd suggest counting your blessings: you have a loving heart, you have compassion, and you had at least six grand under your mattress. Lots of folks don't come close. Second, I'd ask myself if I wanted a happy life. Givers like yourself surrounded by other givers have a pretty good shot at it. Givers surrounded by takers are generally pretty unhappy. You're the only one who can choose and I've known a few unhappy people who, for their own reasons, wouldn't have it any other way. Third, if you do want a happy life, acknowledge that it's not likely to come attached to this grab 'n' go garoto. If you decide you want to give him one final chance, perhaps you could get his attention with an international Western Union. MY PSYCHIC JUST TOLD ME I WILL MARRY SOMEONE WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF ME AND GIVE ME EVERYTHING I WANT. STOP IF YOU ARE THAT PERSON PLEASE WRITE AND LET ME KNOW. STOP IF NOT DON'T TAKE ANY WOODEN CENTAVOS. FULL STOP

Why not help your pal become a charming deceitful older gay man? One more quickie, then I'm off to the bank!

π = 3.141592653 Twice today, morning and evening, the date and time will be: 3/14/15 9:26:53 Hope this special day finds you all rolling merrily along!

Hopefully a small price to pay. What's so bad about not using your insurance? It cost me thousands and I can't even catch a cold!

That's not defecating, that's diarrhea if not dysentery.

Speaking of truths we rarely question.

What should we give the Americans to invade Iran? . . . . . . . . I'll give 'em aggravation! It can't miss.

Probably even now spending some quality time with números dos, tres, cinco, siete, ocho, doce, trece, quince, dieciocho, veintiuno, veintidòs, veintitrès, veintiocho, y veintinueve. Then, after a suitable siesta, a caliente three-way with números cinco y dieciocho. And then a final magnifico with número cincuenta.

A bit embarrassed to admit that, when I saw the thread title, I thought the cook was using his grandmother's liver. Big as a dinner plate when she passed, and enough to feed a small army . . .

LinkedIn can be a pain in the ass. I keep getting "personalized invitations" from people I worked with long ago or from acquaintances who have me on some kind of email list. Apparently, when a new user signs up, they ask him not only for his email address but for his email password as well! Then LinkedIn goes into his email address book and sends out "personalized invitations" to "selected" folks inviting them to join their "old pal" on LinkedIn. I find it irritating as hell to get one of these "invitations". I used to feel guilty ignoring them thinking perhaps the person was inviting me personally and might feel rejected if I didn't "accept" the invitation. When I found out how LinkedIn did it, I started wondering about the judgement of the person who would open up his or her entire email address list to a company like that. LinkedIn doesn't stop if I ignore the first "authorized" invitation. A few days later, they send out a second invitation that makes it sound like the person is really waiting to hear from me, and then a third invitation making it sound like I'm really letting my "pal" down if I don't sign up. Apparently, they got sued for it too. But they're still doing it.

That's what I was beginning to think - that he's looking for a regime change in the U. S. I'm sure he'd like regime change in Iran, but I think he'll get it by seeing a saber-rattling Republican president elected in 2016. The guy who set up his speech to Congress is Israeli Ambassador to the U. S., Ron Dermer, who is pals with Sheldon Adelson. I think they all share an interest in getting a president elected who would 'advocate' regime change in Iran. Perhaps Netanyahu just wanted to start prising the saber out of the sheath.

Are you sure you're not thinking of Thai? I eat Indian every chance I get and don't recall peanuts. Dal is very common but that's other legumes, usually chickpeas. Sweets sometimes contain pistachios, and cashews are used in certain regions. No doubt there are some dishes with peanuts, but they're nowhere near as common as in Thai food. One of the best dishes I ever ate was an eggplant curry in a small remote Indian village, and I don't particularly like eggplant. But the women started cooking that dish three days ahead. The most time consuming thing they did, so I understand, was preparing the spices. Cardamom seeds, for example, need to be toasted to release the flavor and then blended with other spices, and then everything marinated and cooked with other ingredients for a long time so that the flavors are blended through and through. The way I separate a good Indian restaurant from a bad one is whether or not the spices are suffused throughout the other ingredients. If the inside of the chicken or lamb is flavorful, you've got a good dish. If the flavor coats only the outside, they've seen the last of yours truly. Like many other spicy cuisines, spice does not mean heat. An Indian host is like a Jewish mother when it comes to pushing helping after helping on guests. It's the polite and hospitable thing to do. The more heat a dish has, the likelier a guest will say he's had enough; and that's important when a host is of modest means. I tried cooking Indian at home once, and it was OK, but nowhere close to what a village woman can put on the table.

Oh, Darling, cheer up. Not every cynic will be a fan. He knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Unless maybe it's the day you can afford your first health insurance. Or the day you get coverage for a preexisting condition. Or the day you don't get kicked out of the army 'cause you're gay. Or the day you marry your boyfriend. Or the day you can finally understand your credit card bill. Or the day your minimum wage job pays a little better. Or the day you can stop dodging ICE. And maybe another day or two I'm forgetting.

Neither did I, MsGuy. Neither did I. I found it when I went a-googling to see if any other countries had an organization like AIPAC so effective at influencing U. S. foreign policy. I got sidetracked and have not got my answer yet. What I found instead was an example of how 'normal' it now seems for Israel to be actively shaping our policies in the Middle East. You speculated that the purpose of Netanyahu's visit may be to add a few seats for Likud in the Knesset, and I'm wondering if he might also be trying to add a few seats for Likud in the U. S. Congress.

How Gerald Ford did it, forty years ago: In the continuing Arab-Israeli conflict, although the initial cease fire had been implemented to end active conflict in the Yom Kippur War, Kissinger's continuing shuttle diplomacy was showing little progress. Ford considered it "stalling" and wrote, "Their [israeli] tactics frustrated the Egyptians and made me mad as hell." During Kissinger's shuttle to Israel in early March 1975, a last minute reversal to consider further withdrawal, prompted a cable from Ford to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, which included: "I wish to express my profound disappointment over Israel's attitude in the course of the negotiations ... Failure of the negotiation will have a far reaching impact on the region and on our relations. I have given instructions for a reassessment of United States policy in the region, including our relations with Israel, with the aim of ensuring that overall American interests ... are protected. You will be notified of our decision." On March 24, Ford received congressional leaders of both parties and informed them of the reassessment of the administration policies in the Middle East. "Reassessment", in practical terms, meant to cancel or suspend further aid to Israel. For six months between March and September 1975, the United States refused to conclude any new arms agreements with Israel. Rabin notes it was "an innocent-sounding term that heralded one of the worst periods in American-Israeli relations". As could be expected, the announced reassessments upset the American Jewish community and Israel's well-wishers in Congress. On May 21, Ford "experienced a real shock", seventy-six senators wrote him a letter urging him to be "responsive" to Israel's request for $2.59 billion in military and economic aid. Ford felt truly annoyed and thought the chance for peace was jeopardized. It was, since the September 1974 ban on arms to Turkey, the second major congressional intrusion upon the President's [foreign policy] prerogatives. The following summer months were described by Ford as an American-Israeli "war of nerves" or "test of wills", and after much bargaining, the Sinai Interim Agreement (Sinai II), was formally signed on September 1 and aid resumed.

One more reason Fuckefeller Rockefeller Center keeps its signage out of reach.

Interesting story, and it sounds like this thoughtful little girl is not the only one who has established a mutual gift-giving relationship with crows. I currently have a bunch of these bellicose black-bellied blighters being bothersome around my place and have been looking for something to give them too. They must have sensed my intentions as I came out yesterday morning to find they had beat me to the punch with a few little gifts of their own.