None of us are perfect - though, there are some who would like to think so. We all could improve.

If you could change just one thing about yourself, what would it be?

Here's to honor.
Getting honor.,
Keeping honor.
And, if you can't come in her,
come on her.

Hi all,

I am little Frenchy living now in Texas. It took me some month to get used to my new life but now I enjoy it. I hope it is gonna be the same here (I am sure it will from what I have already seen).
Have a nice week-end evrybody,

Hi...I am new to this site and from what I see will be a fun site to be on. I already visited the chat rooms and found some very nice people.

I am am happily married but have a dwindling sex life. I would like to do something about that. Does anyone have some good advice? My wife as she gets older has less interest in sex. Yes we have chatted about it....but she has no interest in changing that.

Any help or suggestions....including the option of meeting a nice sane lady here would be very helpful.

If you see me around feel free to say hello.:dt

Despite its contentious history, most American voters appear to have made a positive judgment about the country's efforts in Iraq. Almost six in 10 (58 percent) voters think, overall, the United States "did the right thing" by going to war, according to the latest Fox News poll.

A little over one-third of voters (35 percent) take the opposite view -- that the U.S. "did the wrong thing" by becoming involved militarily in Iraq. From a partisan perspective, there is still division -- as 54 percent of Democrats think the U.S. did the wrong thing in Iraq, while only 14 percent of Republicans feel the same way. A slim majority of independents (52 percent) think the U.S. did the right thing in Iraq.

The national telephone poll was conducted for Fox News by Opinion Dynamics Corp. among 900 registered voters from September 1- September 2, 2010. For the total sample, the poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

An even larger share of voters (71 percent) expresses some level of agreement with the view that the Iraqi people are better off today because of the U.S.-led action, while 19 percent disagree.

There is somewhat less partisan difference on this issue, as 58 percent of Democrats agree Iraqis are better off after U.S. involvement. Both Republicans (91 percent) and independents (65 percent), express higher levels of agreement.

When the scope is widened to broader security concerns, about six in 10 voters (58 percent) agree the action made the United States and the world safer. Again, more than one-third (37 percent) takes the opposing view.

If Iraq is considered a success, who deserves the credit? Voters are pretty clear, as a 54-percent majority names former President George W. Bush as the person who should be acknowledged as most responsible for the success in Iraq. Some 19 percent think President Obama deserves the most credit. Some 14 percent volunteer the view that neither of the presidents, but instead the Iraqi people are most deserving of this accolade. Interestingly, Democrats are evenly divided on this question (34 percent Bush, 34 percent Obama).

In Obama's August 31 speech announcing the end of combat operations in Iraq, he did mention former President Bush. However -- by a two-and-one-half-to-one margin -- more voters feel he did not give Bush enough credit for "removing Saddam Hussein, helping Iraqis form a new government and creating the conditions that allowed for the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq" rather than too much credit (38-15 percent).

With regard to a projected timeline of U.S. military presence in Iraq, 44 percent think the U.S. should stay as long as necessary, while about one-third (36 percent) says a year or less.

All in all, voters seem to have moved past the divisions that formerly characterized the Iraq War debate and now judge the enterprise to have been -- overall at least -- a success.

This was a huge hit on another forum I post at...rules are simple: Someone posts a random picture, the next person posts a picture that has some association to the pic above, however loose the association may be. So for example, I start with this:



the next person can associate anything they want for the next pic...a white truck, a different store, the number zero, etc etc. Or everyone can just ignore this thread and let it die a quick death!

Big thanks to Lena for helping me get logged in finally! I've been reading the forums for two days now and you all seem like very fun people and the admins work hard to keep the bots out and even OMG participate! LOL

I've got big feet (size 13's) so bear with me if I step on any toes while I find my way about here.

About me... Well I'm a kilt wearing computer geek who lives in West Virginia. I have a couple tattoos and piercings. I enjoy the outdoors when I can, ride motorcycles (well when my antique bike is actually running lol) and work way too much lol.

So since it's fair game to mock the president for using a teleprompter (even though every president has used them since they came on the scene), then it's also fair game to mock someone who very clearly SHOULD have tried a teleprompter, right? Here is GOP Hero Gov. Jan Brewer of AZ trying to put a coherent sentence together during a debate. I'm L'ing My A off!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuttmYM6fZM

I just noticed we have the what are you listening to thread... but how about what are you watching?

Hmmm wonder if we will get anybody describing there sexuall encounter? hehe

Wow, I am just cruising with my posting these days. I am on the hunt for what thread I will create for my 4,000th posts... I am sure all you sexy and sarcastic peeps will come up with some clever ideas.... lets see what your ideas are.

A big Sexy Tiger kiss for all the crazy sexy gals in my M&F Jungle. :sng


A hardy handshake and a Tall class of Long Island Ice Tea for my Mates out there

A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning media operations is seeking videographers and bloggers who will search out "racism" and "extremism" among Tea Partiers.

Teapartytracker.org will feature tweets, interviews with people at rallies, blog entries and a picture of a t-shirt they say someone spotted at a rally that reads "Blacks own slaves in Mauitania, Sudan, Niger & Haiti."

The site, sponsored by the NAACP, Think Progress, New Left Media and Media Matters for America, will monitor "racism and other forms of extremism within the Tea Party movement. We call on the Tea Party to repudiate extremists among their ranks and join in civil dialogue with all Americans."

The NAACP and other groups have accused the Tea Party of several instances of racism, including spitting on a black congressman on Capitol Hill as he went to vote for the health care bill.

The spitting incident, caught on tape, looked to be someone expectorating while yelling. Nonetheless, the narrative has remained a continuing theme of Tea Party critics.

The site's logo is also an old aphorism, apparently meant to suggest that monitoring the Tea Party will prevent the group from becoming more effective. "A watched teapot never boils," it reads.

The site's success will likely be measured in the "gotcha" moments it can accumulate that aim to embarrass or undermine the movement. The submissions will most often come from citizen journalists, who have grown in form and fashion since Sen. George Allen of Virginia was ousted from his Senate seat in 1996 after his "macaca" moment.

At that time, a videographer sent by his opponent's campaign caught Allen using what critics later explained was an obscure racial slur. Allen's campaign sank afterward as a result and Jim Webb, D-Va., won the seat.

The fear of gotcha moments most recently forced Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to try to close a Tea Party meeting to media in order to allow people to speak freely. But Tea Parties who attended the 90-minute event Wednesday in North Charleston City Hall told the Charleston Press and Courier that they were fine with media coverage.

"This stuff does happen, and it's stupid," Kelly McBride, a senior faculty member with the Poynter Institute in Florida, reportedly said. "Who isn't a reporter these days?"

The U.S. Justice Department sued Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, saying the Arizona lawman refused for more than a year to turn over records in an investigation into allegations his department discriminates against Hispanics.

The lawsuit calls Arpaio and his office's defiance "unprecedented," and said the federal government has been trying since March 2009 to get officials to comply with its probe of alleged discrimination, unconstitutional searches and seizures, and having English-only policies in his jails that discriminate against people with limited English skills.

Arpaio had been given until Aug. 17 to hand over documents it first asked for 15 months ago.

Arpaio's attorney, Robert Driscoll, declined immediate comment on the lawsuit, saying he had just received it and hadn't yet conferred with his client.

Arpaio's office had said it has fully cooperated in the jail inquiry but won't hand over additional documents into the examination of the alleged unconstitutional searches because federal authorities haven't said exactly what they were investigating.

It's the latest action against Arizona by the federal government, which earlier sued the state to stop its strict new immigration law that requires police officers to question people about their immigration status.

"The actions of the sheriff's office are unprecedented," said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the department's civil rights division. "It is unfortunate that the department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities."

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix and names Arpaio, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and the county.

Arizona's new law -- most of which a federal judge has put on hold -- mirrors many of the policies Arpaio has put into place in the greater Phoenix area, where he set up a hot line for the public to report immigration violations, conducts crime and immigration sweeps in heavily Latino neighborhoods and frequently raids workplaces for people in the U.S. illegally.

Arpaio believes the inquiry is focused on his immigration sweeps, patrols where deputies flood an area of a city -- in some cases heavily Latino areas -- to seek out traffic violators and arrest other offenders.

Critics say his deputies pull people over for minor traffic infractions because of the color of their skin so they can ask them for their proof of citizenship.

Arpaio denies allegations of racial profiling, saying people are stopped if deputies have probable cause to believe they've committed crimes and that it's only afterward that deputies find many of them are illegal immigrants.

One of the trapped Chilean miners is dreading his rescue after his wife met his secret mistress at the entrance to the San Jose mine, The Sun reported Thursday.

Yonni Barrios' wife, Marta Salinas, and Barrios' lover, Susana Valenzuela, were both holding vigils for him outside the mine.

Salinas was stunned when she heard Valenzuela shouting his name amid a crowd of miners' loved ones.

Salinas, 56, is said to be "horrified". However, she is determined not to give up her man to her love rival.

She told friends: "Barrios is my husband. He loves me and I am his devoted wife. This woman has no legitimacy."

But Valenzuela said the 50-year-old miner, who she met on a training course five years ago, was planning to leave his wife for her.

She said: "We are in love. I'll wait for him."

Drill baby drill!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion

Gulf oil platform explodes, burning off La. coast

GRAND ISLE, La. – An offshore petroleum platform exploded and was burning Thursday in [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]the [COLOR=#366388 !important]Gulf [/color][COLOR=#366388 !important]of [/color][COLOR=#366388 !important]Mexico[/color][/color][/color] about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site where BP's undersea well spilled after a rig explosion.
The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the blast, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the area Thursday morning. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The extent of the injury was not known.