Politics and religion.

[RICHARD]

A few days ago the front of the El lay Daily News had a pic of BO and the Mayor of the town doing the 'fist bump'.

Because I know that no one on PT is "hood" or has street cred let me explain the other meaning of the fist bump.

On it's own, when one person makes that motion, it's an crude street signal meaning "procreation".

The FB is some kind of 'cool' greeting that you see on street corners and places where there is no formality.

I had to laugh when I saw the furor over the cover of the New Yorker.
You started the fist bump and the other problems for yourself, Yuk it up! The O's are looking for that little bit of cool that will endear them to everyman and everywoman.

When it shows up as "satire", the O's choke back any comments, instead leaving it to the handlers to be indignant. When you open up a door, always make sure you can get it closed, lest someone see where you hang out.

LOL, didn't people get upset when Mohammed was portrayed as a cartoon.
I think we have another uprising because a 'god' was depicted as a pen and ink caricature.....

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In another thread, its funny when you try to get a sewage plant named after a politician. But, when you hold the carnival mirror to another politico, their spleen bleeds and the leeches stuck to their shins start to complain.

It's racist, UnAmerican, hateful! It's the same freedom of speech we all freely love and flaunt-but you can't laugh about either idiot who wants to be prez.....

Get over your bad selves. 50 percent of the county will hate the person you vote for in November. I don't take it personally, but someone else will.

[Pam]

On it's own, when one person makes that motion, it's an crude street signal meaning "procreation".


Get over your bad selves. 50 percent of the county will hate the person you vote for in November.

To your first comment Richard - - -

And to the second - Ain't that the truth!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

It's racist, UnAmerican, hateful! It's the same freedom of speech we all freely love and flaunt-but you can't laugh about either idiot who wants to be prez.....

Get over your bad selves. 50 percent of the county will hate the person you vote for in November. I don't take it personally, but someone else will.

Um, we have another person who wants to be prez.... Bob Barr deserted the Rep party and has been popping up hither and yon running as the Liberitarian canidate. You remember them, they are the Ross Perot people.
I'm so fed up with both parties he's starting to look better all the time.

Silly me!!! I thought the fist bump was just something replacing the high five.
You know opening the entire hand is soooooo exhausting and all!!!

[Medusa]

Silly me!!! I thought the fist bump was just something replacing the high five.
You know opening the entire hand is soooooo exhausting and all!!!

So did I. Every day I discover that there's so much I don't know.

[lizbud]

So did I. Every day I discover that there's so much I don't know.

You guys don't actually believe Richard's explanation of the fist pound do you?

[momoffuzzyfaces]

You guys don't actually believe Richard's explanation of the fist pound do you?

With Richard, I never know what to believe!!!!

Been watching the news again. I really need to stop that. It's so bad for my blood pressure. I can't understand why it's so hard for congress to grasp the fact that we need to drill for oil here and we need to look for alternative sources too. Ok, so if it takes 5 years or more to get the oil we'd better get off our behinds and start NOW!!! What would we do if our forgeign oil suppliers decide to cut the supply off for some reason?

[Pam]

You guys don't actually believe Richard's explanation of the fist pound do you?

Why not, would Richard lie to us? He did say it is a form of "street talk" and I don't think either one of us is savvy in that area.

[RICHARD]

Why not, would Richard lie to us? He did say it is a form of "street talk" and I don't think either one of us is savvy in that area.

Come out and spend a week in da hood, ya know what I'm saying?
Any of you homies want to come out to the East Side and roll with the Rickster?

LOL, that sounded really stupid!


Seriously, I worked with a guy that had quite a few sales reps in to our office.
If a good looking woman came in he'd look over at me and do the 'fist pump' as a little sign of "female appreciation"!

When loading the gun in a tank, the loaders take the round, place it in the breech and use their fists to ram/seat it before the breech is closed.

"Ramming it home".

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There are some things that should remain mysteries to all of you upstanding, taxpaying citizens. And they are not suitable for print here.


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If anyone noticed the price of oil went down a few cents after the hated GWB announced that he'd lift the ban on drilling in the Gulf.

But good old NP will do her best to keep us all down. MORON.

[Edwina's Secretary]

If anyone noticed the price of oil went down a few cents after the hated GWB announced that he'd lift the ban on drilling in the Gulf.

But good old NP will do her best to keep us all down. MORON.

Interesting but totally wrong.

The stock market DID take a huge plunge -- closing at its lowest in two years -- and it was even lower earlier -- plunging afer GWB's pep talk on the economy this morning.

Here's the reason for the drop in oil prices (and it was dollars -- not a few cents...)

But crude oil abruptly fell under $138 a barrel on worries that a slowing U.S. economy would sharply curtail demand for gasoline. A similar concern was raised in a new forecast from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Just about as accurate as your explanation of the fist bump....

I see you are signing your post with a new name!

[lizbud]

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There are some things that should remain mysteries to all of you upstanding, taxpaying citizens. And they are not suitable for print here.

Oh Richard. The stuff you come up with.


The fist bump (pound,DAP) is just a informal form of greeting used instead
of the more formal(openhanded) handshake. It's not even a Black thing.
It's been used for years.

[Grace]

Um, we have another person who wants to be prez.... Bob Barr deserted the Rep party and has been popping up hither and yon running as the Liberitarian canidate. You remember them, they are the Ross Perot people.
I'm so fed up with both parties he's starting to look better all the time.

Silly me!!! I thought the fist bump was just something replacing the high five.
You know opening the entire hand is soooooo exhausting and all!!!

Ross Perot did not run on the Libertarian Party - in 1992 the Presidential candidate for the Libertarians was Andre Marrou.

Libertarians believe the answer to America's political problems is the same commitment to freedom that earned America its greatness: a free-market economy and the abundance and prosperity it brings; a dedication to civil liberties and personal freedom that marks this country above all others; and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace, and free trade as prescribed by America's founders.

It is the third largest political party in the United States.

My husband is a Libertarian. After watching Bob Barr on one of the Sunday talk shows, he doesn't look too bad to me. Certainly no worse than either of the other candidates.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Sorry the info I heard was wrong then. They said that Ross Perot was the first to run on the Libertarian Party ticket.
I just did a search and he ran on Reform Party, not Libertarian.
All I know for sure, is after he ran, we can no longer be Independents here in KS.
When I had to re-register after I moved, I could no longer be an Independent. This was in 2006. Now I am Unafiliated!
(i still consider myself as an independent no matter what my voter registeration card says)


By the way, who is this T. Boone person I keep seeing ads from?

[Grace]

Sorry the info I heard was wrong then. They said that Ross Perot was the first to run on the Libertarian Party ticket.
I just did a search and he ran on Reform Party, not Libertarian.
All I know for sure, is after he ran, we can no longer be Independents here in KS.
When I had to re-register after I moved, I could no longer be an Independent. This was in 2006. Now I am Unafiliated!
(i still consider myself as an independent no matter what my voter registeration card says)

By the way, who is this T. Boone person I keep seeing ads from?

I would be furious if I couldn't register as an Independent. Bet the ACLU could help with that.

T. Boone Pickens - Here You Go -