Welcome to DU, abakan!

Glad you're here! This is truly hilarious! But then also a little pathetic - that this would gain wide acceptance and acknowledgement. And I would just LOVE LOVE LOVE to see President Obama do that! I truly believe some in this bunch are just looney enough actually to snip off their noses to spite their faces. Especially if this President said not to.

Exactly! Well-described!

I love to watch them groom. And it'll just be Mellow City for the longest time, and then all of a sudden, one of them explodes on the other and there is a brief, intense hissy-fit, and then everything subsides. Fascinating!!! When we first brought them home, they hid together, then ventured outward together, and now they just SO own the joint! And yeah, they take care of and entertain each other all day long, so you don't have to do as much. And when they'd curl up, upon and around each other, we'd often wonder if that's how they were in utero.

"They socialize one another in ways that you just can't." MAN! How true! How true.

Welcome to DU, Nuh Uh!

Glad you're here! What a SENSATIONAL point you make! The most exquisite of irony! Technically he short-sheeted his service time. Never served out all six years which had been the requirement - to which he signed his approval up front. But he weaseled out of more than half a year!

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On May 27, 1968, Bush signed a six-year obligation. That required him to complete "48 scheduled inactive-duty training periods" each fiscal year (typically consisting of four four-hour periods during one weekend each month), plus a minimum of 15 days of Annual Active Duty Training. For Bush, as a pilot, this was typically split into periods of duty of a few days each during the year.

The Boston Globe reported in September 2004 that "Bush fell well short of meeting his military obligation", citing examples of Bush failing to meet Air National Guard commitments in 1972 and 1973.[39] Bush's military records show that he was credited for attending Air National Guard drills during 1972 and 1973, but the time frame of these drills (see above) still left questions.[40]

On July 30, 1973, his last day of paid service in the Texas National Guard, Bush signed a statement that "I have been counseled this date regarding my plans to leave my present Reserve of [sic] assignment due to moving from this area. I understand that: a. If I disassociate from my current Ready Reserve Assignment, it is my responsibility to locate and be assigned to another Reserve Forces unit or mobilization augmentation position. If I fail to do so, I am subject to involuntary order to active duty for up to 24 months under the provisions of AFM 35-3, chapter 14."[39]

On September 5, 1973, Bush requested discharge from Texas Air National Guard service, to be effective on October 1. He wrote, "I am moving to Boston, Massachusetts to attend Harvard Business School as a full time student."[41] Jerry Killian recommended approval of the discharge the following day. Bush had completed five years, four months, and five days toward his six-year service obligation.


Our friend georgie-poo was honorably discharged from the Texas Air National Guard on October 1st 1973. The report goes on to say from there, junior was transferred to the inactive reserves in Denver Colorado. He was officially discharged from the Air Force Reserve on November 21st, 1974. So if you wanna split hairs and give him every benefit of every doubt, his final discharge was conveniently dated six-and-a-half years from May 27, '68. But there was also this:


In September 2004, Lawrence Korb, an Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, after reviewing the payroll records for Bush's last two years of service, concluded that they indicated that Bush did not fulfill his obligations and could have been ordered to active duty as a result.[42]




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_military_service_controversy

One of the best things we ever did was adopt two litter mates.

They cuddled together in the little pen while everybody else was wandering around. We realized that we really didn't have the heart to separate them, so we took them both home.

FABULOUS IDEA!!!!! One of our BEST EVER!!!!

They adapted so smoothly to their new surroundings. They had each other to keep cuddling with, to sleep with, eat with, bathe with, play with, kept each other company. They were inseparable and astoundingly fun to watch and to enjoy! DAMN were they cute! Now they're big and adult and plump - he's mellow as can be and she's boss o' the house. We think they're pretty well-adjusted, and they fit in with the rest of the menagerie. Nobody seemed homesick, either!

If they shit on it, can we have them arrested for vandalism?

FUCK. My boys are gonna be in Iowa City tomorrow night...

Ick. Chicago on Friday. Maybe it'll blow over somewhat by then?

One side stands for the right to vote. The other side tries to restrict that right.

One side believes in a woman's right to have the last word over what happens between her neck and her knees. The other side doesn't.

And in the other direction...

One side claims they don't know science and aren't scientists, but they sure do know all that dumb ol' evolution talk and climate change clap-trap comes "straight from Hell." The other side does not.

One side loudly hisses, boo's, and cat-calls a soldier LIVE FROM THE BATTLEFIELD IN IRAQ who says he's gay. And the other does not.

One side cheers and applauds a governor's prideful boast about lots of executions in his state. And the other side does not.

One side answers the "my brother's keeper-type" question - "well, what are we supposed to do, let 'em die?" with a full-throated, resounding, blood-thirsty "YEAH!!!!!" And the other side WILL NOT. NOT EVER.

The "Rhapsody in Lavender" is gorgeous!

Love all these! As usual, SCE!

And don't forget bush/cheney's meeting with the Taliban just four or five months before 9/11.

Promising them - what was it? We promise you "a carpet of gold," versus "a carpet of bombs"

Until now, says the book, ''the oil and gas reserves of Central Asia have been controlled by Russia. The Bush government wanted to change all that''.

But, confronted with Taliban's refusal to accept U.S. conditions, ''this rationale of energy security changed into a military one'', the authors claim.

''At one moment during the negotiations, the U.S. representatives told the Taliban, 'either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs','' Brisard said in an interview in Paris.

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=5166

And photos...

https://www.google.com/search?q=george+w+bush+meeting+the+taliban&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Q3aLU7ClI8X4oATM4oGACQ&ved=0CDIQsAQ&biw=1418&bih=673

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3618895

And that old for miss meGYN, too.

Her target demographic turns out to be a bunch of dirty old men! ROFLMAO!!!!!!! She gets the Desperately Seeking Cialis crowd! The DWINDLING Desperately Seeking Cialis crowd! Seems somehow a most fetching fit.